Art Show ?Pr , At Sandhills The Sandhills Community College Spring Art Show, for the exhibition of work* by students, will be held May 7 - 9, featuring craft demonstrations, refrerfiments and music. The hours are from 9 - 9 the first two days, and until S pjn. An Friday. Prison Wrong Place For Many, Judge Hobgood Declares Half of those now serving terms in prison ought not to be there at all, Superior Court Judge Hamilton Hobgood told lawyer's wives at a 12th Judicial District Legal Auxiliary meeting here Thursday. "We need alternatives to prison within the community," Judge Hobgood said. Hobgood said building community facilities would be no more costly than maintaining the present 12,500 prison population. Hobgood has been active in prison reform since 1970 when he was appointed to a state bar association penal study commission. Since then, he said he has devoted most of his weekends to the project. He spoke to lawyer's wives from Cumberland and Hoke Counties at a luncheon held in the fellowship hall of the Presbyterian Church. Hobgood cited the changes made in the juvenile detention system since the commission study "As the Twig Is Bent" was published several years ago. "In 1970, we had 2,200 children in eight training schools," he said. "Since then, we have taken half of those out and we now have fewer schools and 1,100 children in training school" Hobgood said children are not being sent to training school for such things as missing school or running away from home. 'Those who are in training school now, for the most part, are those who would be subject to a prison term if they were 16 or over," he said. There is only one women's prison in Sr. Citizens To Meet The Raeford Senior Citizens Friendship Club will have a covered dish luncheon at the Raeford United Methodist Church May 6 at 12:30. Members are asked to wear hats they have made from flowers and foliage. First, second and third cash prizes will be given for the most outstanding millinery. Mrs. Carson Davis Jr. will present a program on the Bicentennial and Mrs. Oscar Maxwell Sr. will present musical entertainment. Several door prizes will be distributed. Homecoming Homecoming service will be held Sunday, at the Church of God on Green Street. Dinner will be served at 1:00 followed by a singing at 2:00 . the state, Hobgood noted. "If you want to learn how to sew or do laundry, it's a good place to go," he said. Then there are 78 other prisons in the state, holding 12,500 prisoners. "That's a lot of prisons," he remarked. Hobgood estimated that of the men serving prison terms, "500 are brutes. They are dangerous not only to society but to themselves. They'll kill each other." Of the remaining 12,000, he estimated that 6,000 diould not be in prison. "But we don't have any community alternatives," he noted. Hobgood told of some of the problems within the prison system and some of the changes that have been made. "Last night, and every night a bunch of young boys are sexually assaulted in prison. They can't get away, they're locked up," he told the lawyer's wives. "We didn't send them there as animals." He blamed public apathy for not dealing with the problem. "Have you ever been in one of those dormitory prisons. You have 50 beds this close together on each side. You've got a lock on the door and one guard outside. He can't go in there, he'd be signing his death warrant. You've got maybe four guards out around the place and a sergeant of the guards. "They just contain the prisoners. They don't look after them," the judge said. However some improvements have been made, he said. "We've Anally gotten two camps for the retarded. Lots of prisoners have IQs of 50 or 60. Put them in with others and some of the prisoners will stick cigarettes all over their bodies just to hear them holler." The new facility at Morganton is a great improvement, Hobgood said. There, men are housed in individual rooms that can be locked at night. "Only the guard can get into them," he said. One of the recent innovations the judge cited is a student release program under which 125 prison inmates have enrolled in colleges across the state. Hobgood blamed the post-war baby boom and permissive society for the large number of persons in prison. "But I have great hope for the future," he said. "I'm not pessimistic at all because though we're taking short steps, if we keep going, maybejwe can take giant steps in the future* ** Ken's Carpet And Interiors One Stop Decorating Service . Complete Line Of High Quality Glidden Paints Fine Wall Covering, Draperies. Carpets and Other Decorating Needs Midtown Shopping Canter ? Southern Pines - Aberdeen ? Ph. 692-7427 2508 Raeford Rd. - Fayetteville - Phone 494 7961 SUNRISE TOWNACOUNTHV CINEMA w? t cant same tana w wwnw samea fob St?rtlFrid?y 5/2 -7 D.y? ? 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Cain of Elizabeth town, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. B.B. Cole. Mrs. H.E. Stinchcomb of Black Mountain, has been visiting Mr. and M rs. R.H. Morris in Fayetteville and Mrs. JX>. Tapp, Mrs. Luther Tapp and other relatives and friends in Raeford. She came to Fayetteville by plane and Mr. and Mrs. Morris took her back to Black Mountain on Tuesday. College News Ken Davis, a senior music major from Raeford, was the featured soloist at the East Carolina University Chorale spring concert Monday. Davis sang Charles Ives' "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven." McLean - McLamb Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cartyle McLean of Morehead City, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Kristina Faye, to Samuel Lee McLamb of Fayettevltte, Tenn. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Lee McLamb of Four Oaks, formerly of Raeford. A June wedding is planned. Personals Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence McNeill spent several days the first of the week at Topsail Beach as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Younger Snead. Mrs. Lena Terrell is staying with her daughter, Mrs. Leo Parker of Hon College, while recovering from injuries sustained in a fall three weeks ago. .js;