Checking for Glaucoma and other ailments
The Raeford Lions Club sponsored a Glaucoma screening two weeks ago that brought a good crowd to the
Raeford Methodist Church. According to a spokesman for the club 290 people attended the clinic and 54 were
referred for various reasons to other doctors. The clinic was a very worthwhile project, the spokesman said.
Visitors Nailed For Speeding
Visitors traveling on Hoke
County highways faired poorly
this week in District Court by car
rying the brunt of the judgements.
District Court Judge Joseph
Dupree handed down these
sentences to the out-of-towners:
-Herbert H. Adkins Jr., High
Point, exceeding a safe speed, cost.
? Lannes D. Carter, Red
Springs, speeding (46-35), prayer
for judgement upon payment of
cost.
--Jackie Gene Clark, Wagram,
driving with a blood alcohol level
of . 10*7o or more by weight, 60
days suspended for 12 months,
surrender license for 12 months,
$200 and cost.
-Carlton Holmes Colson Jr.,
Maxton, speeding (70-55), S10 and
cost.
--Mark Dixon Dehaven, Fayet
teville, speeding (75-55), 30 days,
$35 and cost.
-Margaret Hargrove, Clinton,
exceeding a safe speed.
--Herbert Theodore Walton,
Lumberton, speeding (69-55), $10
and cost.
-Ralph Vincent Wilson Jr., Ft.
Bragg, driving without due caution
and circumspect and at a speed so
as to danger persons and property,
60 days, $50 and cost.
-Kenneth Neil Lossman, Laur
inburg, driving with a revoked
license and speeding (66-55), six
months suspended for two years,
$200 and cost, not operate a motor
vehicle for two years except as pro
vided by law.
--Reginald Douglas Murphy,
Red Springs, speeding (45-35),
prayer for judgement upon pay
ment of cost.
Judge Dupree also handed down
the following judgements against
Hoke County residents.
--Robert Arthur Billinger, 412
E. Donaldson Avenue, driving
after consuming a sufficient quan
tity of alcoholic beverage as to
directly and visibly affect the
operation of his vehicle, 60 days,
$100 and cost, enroll and complete
the alcohol and drug abuse school
within 90 days.
--Eric Daniel Cobb, Rt.3,
Raeford, speeding (46-35), prayer
for judgement upon payment of
cost.
-lsiah Decarlo Jackson Jr.,
1210 Stewart Street, damage to
personal property, prayer for
judgement upon condition (hat
defendant pay S50 and cost of the
action.
-Vernetta Leak, Rt. 2, Raeford,
speeding (51-35), prayer for judge
ment upon payment of cost.
? Elaine Lowery, Harmon
Heights Trailer Park, driving
under the influence and driving
without being a licensed operator,
90 days suspended for 12 months.
SI 50 and cost, not operate a motor
vehicle for 12 months.
-Sharman Lowery, Rt. 4,
Raeford, DUl and permitting a
motor vehicle owned by him to be
driven by an unlicensed person, 90
days suspended for 12 months,
SI 50 and cost, surrender license
for 12 months.
--Robert Palmer Wilcox Jr.,
careless and reckless after drink
ing, $100 and cost, enroll and com
plete the alcohol and drug abuse
school within 90 days.
-Sharon Elizabeth Berry, Shan
non, simple worthless check (t*o
counts) and drawing a worthless
check on a closed account, no less
than 90 days, no more than 90 days
suspended for 18 months with
supervised probation for 18 mon
ths, S30 restitution and S20 restitu
tion.
Madison Arrives
For Korean Duty
Staff Sgt. Robert G. Madison,
son of Mary H. Patterson of Rural
Route 3, Raeford, has arrived for
duty at Osan Air Base, South
Korea.
Madison, a security supervisor
with the 51st Tactical Fighter
Wing, was previously assigned at
Altus Air Force Base, Okla.
His wife. Hazel, is the daughter
of Rosetta Crockett of Rural
Route 2, Altus, Okla.
The sergeant is a 1971 graduate
of Hoke High School, Raeford.
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| Two Spring Lake Men
I Charged For May Rapes
by Pal Wilson
Spring Lake police recently ap
prehended two men who have been
charged with the rape of two
Raeford women, according to Spr
ing Lake Police Chief Don
Latham.
The women said they were ab
ducted at gunpoint from the
Dragon Club parking lot at Fort
Bragg, taken to a wooded area off
Elliott Bridge Road by two male
abductors, forced to strip and
raped at gunpoint.
The two women, ages 23 and 25,
were left nude. They walked to a
nearby home and asked for help,
according to a police report.
The incident allegedly occurred
the night of May 29.
The two men apprehended by
Spring Lake officers on June 1 are
Eugene Weldon Sadler and Ken
neth Earl Belton, Latham said.
Sadler was being held Tuesday
in Cumberland County jail under
$185,000 bond and Belton was also
being held under $125,000 bond, a
Cumberland County Sheriff's
Deputy said.
They are charged with two
counts of first degree rape and one
count of crime against nature, ac
cording to Harold Little of the
Sheriff's Department.
Details were sketchy at press
time but the men are also charged
with two counts of armed robbery
and two counts of auto larceny
Little said.
The investigation is continuing
Little said.
All Citizens Have Duty
To Report Child Abuse
By Ken L. Witherspoon
Child abuse and neglect is a
growing social problem nationwide
which affects thousands of
children and families each year.
Not only is this a problem na
tionally, it affects a growing
number of families in Hoke Coun
ty. From July 1, 1982 through
April 30. 1983, there were child
abuse and neglect reports involving
86 families and 137 children in this
county.
Every citizen has a duty to
report suspected cases of child
abuse and neglect in order to pro
tect the children of Hoke County.
In 1971, the General Assembly
of North Carolina enacted a man
datory Child Abuse Reporting
Law, which places a legal respon
sibility on professionals as well as
lay citizens to report cases of child
abuse or neglect.
The law is codified in the North
Carolina General Statutes,
Chapter 110, Article 8, Sections
110-115 to 122.
The statute defines "an abused
child" as one who is less than 18
years of age whose parent or other
person responsible for his care:
(a) Inflicts or allows to be in
flicted upon such child a physical
injury by other than accidental
means which causes or creates a
substantial risk of death or
disfigurement or impairment of
physical health or loss or impair
ment of function of any bodily
organ.
(b) Creates or allows to be
created a substantial risk of
physical injury to such child by
other than accidental means which
would be likely to cause death or
disfigurement or impairment of
physical health or loss or impair
ment of a function of any bodily
organ.
(c) Commits or allows to be
committed any sex act upon a child
in violation of law.
"A neglected child" is any child
less than 18 years of age who does
not receive proper care or supervi
sion or discipline from his parent,
guaTdian, custodian, or other per
son acting as a parent, who has
been abandoned, or who is not
provided necessary medical care of
other remedial care recognized
under State law, or who lives in an
environment injurious to his
welfare, or who has been placed
for care or adoption in violation of
the law.
Reports of child abuse or neglect
should be made to the Director of
Social Services in the county in
which the child resides or is found.
The report need not be made to
the Director but to a designated
member of his staff.
In Hoke County, reports should
be made to the Services Unit In
take Worker.
The report may be oral (in per
son or by telephone) or written.
Reporters may remain
anonymous if they so choose,
however, by doing so they waive
rights to reports of findings.
According to the statute, the
report shall include such informa
tion as is known to the person
making the report including: The
name and address of the child. The
name and address of the child's
parents or other caretakers. The
age of the child. The present
whereabouts of the child if not at
the home address. The nature and
extent of the child's injury or con
dition resulting from abuse or
neglect .
Any other information which
the person making the report
believes might be helpful in
establishing the cause of the in
juries or the condition resulting
from abuse or neglect.
Upon receipt of a report of child
abuse, the Department of Social
Services has 24 hours to respond
and in cases of neglect, the Depart
ment has 72 hours to respond.
The person making the report
may request a report of the in
vestigation or may elect to waive
the right to a report.
The reporter will be notified on
ly whether the report is substan
tiated or unsubstantiated.
Specific information regarding
the investigation will not be releas
ed as all information in a client's
record is confidential.
Any person who makes a report
of child abuse or neglect is advised
that if the report should result in
court action that he or she may be
subpoenaed to testify in court.
Therefore, the reporter is given
the option of making an
anonymous report to relieve
themselves of further involvement.
According to the law,
anonymous reports must be
responded to just as reports where
the reporter is identified. *
The reporting law does not state
whether the County Department of
Social Services may release the
name of a reporter of child abuse
or neglect to the parent or other
caretaker who have been reported.