THE FOR*AH COMPAHY KONUOUTH, ILL. 61462 What Do You Do With An 8-Year-Old Law Breaker ? Editorial Correspondence S. Hunter. Rev. A. J. Jenkins and Although the 13-year-old was juvenile probation officers to work The judge ordered that the boys, society s safety, few meaningful By TOM DAVIS Rev: W. A. Johnson. 'jailed three weeks ago, his parents with these youngsters and no long haired, get hair cuts, attend options face a jurist sentencing Creation of a type oi juvenile had never visited the boy in jail. provisions for fOB tor home care in school and work if they could find Georgetown County youth. the jurist referred the criminal court system in Georgetown Judge Kpps was told. event the children lack suitable jobs. If you were a judge in the "big indictments to the Probate Judge County was strongly urged by homelile or parental guidance. court-' of Georgetown County, of Georgetown County, who by law 'They're so small. I don't know He suggested to parents that Judge Frank Epps in the Court of what would you do with an eight- can handle juvenile cases. He also what to do with them.'' Kpps ob­ In referring juvenile cases to the I inner discipline and greater General Sessions Tuesday after year-old boy charged with urged the Georgetown County served. He finally ordered they be Probate Judge and requesting the supervision at home could help *epeatedly confronting the housebreaking, larceny and Welfare Department to im­ sent to the state evaluation center Georgetown County Welfare keep the youngsters from reap­ problem of what to do with juvenile receiving stolen goods? mediately check on parents of the lor 45 days for study and coun­ Department to investigate home pearing again the the county's high offenders. young juveniles to see if parental seling. hie and prepare a case study, Jude criminal court. Send him to the county gang, the The problem surfaced with two responsibility had been violated. A family-juvenile court system is Kpps appeared to be tilling a Two other teenagers, both age 15, state pen, a state industrial school, little boys nine and eight years old, NO parent accompanied the badly needed to cope with such critical court gap in Georgetown were sentenced for shoplifting. A a fledgling juvenile rehabilitation who broke into Bynum Elementary youngsters to court. cases in Georgetown County. Jude County by marshalling the only 14-year-old pleaded guilty to center? School scarcely big enough to see Kpps said, noting that the high governmental services available shoplifting. A 16-year-old girl got a If you are a judge and you care, over the top of a desk. The juvenile The same situation arose with a criminal court is not the place to on a local level. suspended sentence, also for you have precious few options. offenders were so young there is no i:i and 14-year-old boy. who broke try such cases. shoplifting. Georgetown County is charging ,^tate institution to commit them to, into the First Baptist Church and Georgetown County not only Another case involving boys 14, Other juvenile cases, involving at a pace that almost baffles the Judge Epps noted. stole $«0. One of the youths also lacked a juvenile court system, it IS and 1(1. who stole a hog and boys 17 and 18 years old, arose imagination. Our county needed a Judge Epps turned the was charged with breaking into the has no facilities for detailing young .barbecued it, also touched on the from narcotic violations. juvenile court structure a decade youngsters over to a group of Pittsburgh Paint Store on Church lawbreakers except to place them same problem. A three year As Judge Epps noted, with un­ ago. Ten years ago it was foresight. Negro clergymen attending circuit Street. in the countv jail. There are no suspended sentence was imposed. derstanding but concern for Today it is a necessity. court, Rev. A. W. Holman, Rev. J. $ t&t®tl0ton intrs ESTABLISHED 1797 1 Year In County $4.00 1 Year In State $5.00 Georgetown, S. C. 29440 Thursday, March 22, 1973 Vol. No. 177 - No. 19 „ 1 Year Out of State 16.00 Inlet Dredging Indictments Returned Planned Congressman Ed Young an­ nounced this week that On Drug Law Charges emergency dredging will be done at Murrells Inlet during the month of April that will make the Fifteen indictments for drug channel there navigable during law violations, involving a total of any tide condition. 28 counts of breaking state drug y Work is planned to begin in the laws, have been returned by a first week of April by the Corps of grand jury in the Court of Engineers and it will take ap­ General Sessions. proximately a month to complete A jury acquitted Luke Gamble, the effort that will make it Jr 23. of Georgetown of two possible for the boats operating charges of violating drug laws. there to be able to come in and He -tatd been charged with out during low tide instead of possession of marijuana with having to wait for high tide intent to sell and possession of periods. heroin with intent to sell and COMING ALONG—The new bridge under construction at Browns Ferry is beginning to Young began work in getting distribute. show considerable progress. Piling is in process of being driven at the western bank and a.slp for the Murrells Inlet area Gamble denied selling mari­ work on either approach is being done, L. K. Ambrose, resident bridge engineer with the S. during his campaign for juana or heroin to a Sumter Congress last fall, arranging for C. Highway Department said. The bridge flanking the crossing will replace the old bridge. man who came to Georgetown to a visit to the South Carolina help the Georgetown narcotics coastal area by Undersecretary squad. Gamble also denied any of the Army Kenneth Belieu. involvement with drug traffic. This emergency dredging to be New Bridge Construction Judge Frank Epps of Green­ done in April and a study to ville, in other drug cases, sen­ develop a program that should tenced Tommy Blake, 20 and an provide a permanent solution to 18-year-old boy to five years, the problem there are by­ suspended upon service of one ; products of these efforts. year or payment of a $1,000 fine. '.' • tiVv'«$Kfc Money has been recommended Slated For Pawleys Island A 17-year-old Andrews boy, - • > -. v»t* TS-r. in the president's proposed By ETHI.YN MISSKOON L. Hodges, resident maintenance siderable wear and invasion by- charged with possession of ••* mi ^ • 'vaT^ budget for the coming year for engineer with the Conway office, marine life, still have held up marijuana with intent to ' . L i ' *i ' »'«USL IE*. The usual flood of house-party- in charge ol construction this permanent program study. pretty good' since they have distribute, was first sentenced DIKES A dragline is erecting dikes around a site near the Pee Dee River bridge in ers that converges on Pawleys at Bowles said that Hodges and Meanwhile, the emergency been in use over 25 years. under the Youthful Offender's Georgetown where a shopping center is to be built by the Belser Corporation. Sand will be Easter-time may very well tread his crew of bridge construction dredging will be done by the A basic figure lor the bridge Act not to exceed five years. This dredged from nearby rivers and Winyah Bay and pumped into the site. Corps of Engineers equipment where they never before have men had done several bridges in top components would run sentence was later changed by and personnel. A side-casting trod the county around (10,900, it was estimated the court to five years, suspended dredge, the Merritt, has been The much anticipated bridge The bridges will consist of pre­ and labor plus foundation might upon service of one year or assigned to Murrells Inlet for the improvements to the south and cast concrete sections, 31'j feet hike the cost to around $20,000. payment of a $1 .ooo fine, to match •April dredging. north causeways are due to begin wide, 15-loet long and weighing A problem of the construction the same sentence imposed on a Three Stranded Boaters Corps of Engineer officials say within two weeks. Jack Bowles, several thousand tons per unit. will be disposal of dirt excavated friend ol the boy. for the same that the April date was decided resident engineer with the South Eighteen 35-ft. specially at the new bridge site. offense upon after consultation with Carolina Highway Department's treated piling to give added Bowles said that good dirt The friend, James A. Vasques, Wildlife authorities and land local office said. resistance to weather and water would be used to build up High­ 24, originally from California, people The work will include a new 75- action will be used in the south way 17-A shoulders while till not was discharged from the Navy in Rescued On Pee Dee River "We are pleased that we are foot bridge lor the south causeway bridge. Bowles said. suitable for road work, might be Charleston. He lived in Mc­ Causeway and a KO-foot extension getting some immediate relief The new bridge will be located used to fill nearby areas. Clellanville for a while and then Three Georgetown residents asked the names of the stranded Meanwhile, a 16-foot Thun- ot the existing north causeway and are particularly looking approximately 750 feet east of the Widening ol the causeway with moved to Andrews where he was and their small sons were cast boatmen.