Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1957-06-19
Heat Temporarily off Sheriff's Dept.

CATION Of alleged misconduc. !.
cHcerned with agents enro,lcr
in a special course Of instruct Oh
for a few days.
The no preSentment" act'Cr
of the Horny Grand Jury two
weeks ago took away some oil
the immediate heat from the
officers under scrutiny and this
weeks inactivity of ATU agent /:
further relieves the situation.
Developments associated with
TIE investigation that occurred
last week included the intro
duction of Sheriff John Het,cy
and Deputy Mack Booth in thu
House OF Representatives by
Rep. Lloyd B. Bell, of Horny, a.
"two outstanding officials o
Horny County" The officers
both under federal indictment
We're given a round OF applause
B. Frank Boyd, who was nam.
ed by Bob Spivey IN the oper
cC"rt in Conway two weeks az,
as the man whom he made q
weekly payoff for the sheriff:
deputies to, gave notice in the
Columbia, S. c. daily newspaper
that he and d. L. Boyd were
applying to the South Carolir.
Tax Commission for a license 10
operate a retail LIQUOR store mt
the location now occupied by D.
L. Boyd on highway 9O4, il
LoriS. Spivey was indicted on
pcgury charges following his
sworn statement of the payon.
To date, no action has been TAX
en- against the individuals whom
Spivey charged with forcing him
to payoff or get out of his STATE
line area business.
w. Horace Carter, who setoff
the Horny investigation wl.h
charges of misconduct by some
members Of the sherIff's depart-
hE!t. said this week, Now that
the local Grand Jury has closed
ITS exhaustive" Investigation, all
that the sheriff's force has 10
worry about is the ATU, the FPI
and the Intelligence Department,
investigating income tax cases
One lawyer says the invcStiga-
ton has really made this a good
year for him already with sever.
al income tax fraud cases re-.
Sulting."
one daily newspaper report
er commented after the federal.
Grand Jury returned indictments
against the sheriff md eight de
puties for violations of human
rights as guaranteed by the Con-
stitution, thai the Investigation
of misconduct ha6 taken a.
weird turn. Now after hearing
the report of the Horny Grand
Jury. we are inclined to CON-
mcht, as did Alice in Wondev- /
land, the case gets 'curiouser
and curiouser,' Carter said.
One of this newspapers in
formants heard a fellow at the
courthouse ,emark during the
recent session Of the Grand JLry
that if any of his friends were
indicted. he would really fix
EN-. He won't have to worry
now about that Grand Jury o.:
did he?
Although not the goal of our
campaign, one of this newsps D.
er'S reporters made the rounds
of the resort area and observci ,
first hand the hundreds of law
violations for which persons in
other sections of Horny are be-
ing sent to the Changing. It b.
comes more apparent that Ho-ry
is a county divided and what Is
winked at on one hand results in
ia con the other. There's simply
something wrong with a situa-
ton that is so totally Indifferent
to one law breaker and so dead
set on falling another for a sim
liar or lesser offense," Carter
said.
Remember the Huckleberry
Finn and Tom Sawyer story q,
how Tom was given the chore
of whitewashing the fence a
rocod the house and he fig
urea out how to get out OF the
work by making IL look like ,
fun, then charging the othc:-
kids for the privilege OF doi.iq ,
the WHITEWASHING for hir?
Well, 1t looks 10 us like some ,
influential persons have been
reading this Huck Finn story.
Some appear to know how to
get the dirty work done by 9th
ers and still get paid for dong
1T. 3ou really gotta hand it 10
some folks. They have il all fig
ured out" Carter said.
There are a lot Of folks who !
sincerely doubt that any mis- ,
conduct is present among any Of
the officers associated with the
sheriffs department.. This is o
situation that only time and test
imony will change. We believe q
that our charges are we'll found
ed and hope the citizenry gem
er, ~ will Remember that old
adage-There are none so bliril,
rs those who will rot see" l.
I'm the face of much criticism
In a variety OF ways over .Ns ID