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s <br />f/,�y 3 -y 9/ <br />2303 St. Mary's Road <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />March 3, 1991 <br />Mr. Moses Cary, Chairman <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />East Margaret Lane <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />Dear Chairman Carey: <br />Old customs die hard! Coming from small town and small <br />farm Tar Heel families for several generations, my sympathies <br />are with "The Man With Its Hoe" and all other fellow underdogs, <br />(I rood _ for Clemson and Georgia Tech against the world.) <br />And, recalling well the deep swamps and vast forests of 60 <br />years ago, interspersed with isolated farms, small hamlets, <br />and a few huge cities of 30 thousand souls, I appreciate <br />and retain myself many of the thought patterns, customs, <br />and hatreds of my people, transmitted through generations. <br />(Pale perhaps against the thousand year old feuds in Mid-- East.) <br />So I resent and resist change as much as anyone in the <br />South and begin to understand how the inhabitants felt when <br />the Normans came, imposing "French customs and French vices" <br />upon a more basic culture of simpler people. We have a com- <br />parable Invasion here today. <br />But, if we are to outgrow our backwoods beginnings and <br />cowboy culture and be prepared to enter the 21st Century on <br />equal terms of education and productivity with the emerging <br />new "One Woi:ld" the time is now to abandon some old customs. <br />A lawman told me recently that he is now arresting the <br />children of the fathers he was arresting 20 years ago. Some <br />of the Poachers I have asked politely to leave my land have <br />had young teenagers- -some only 11 or 12 - -in whom they are <br />instilling a contempt for the Law and Rights of Private Pro- <br />perty. .Those youngsters probably account for the wounded <br />deer I've seen limping through (and would be the ones to kill <br />us or our children or grandchildren with a hasty or ill - <br />considered shot that goes astray or ricochets). <br />Sheriff Pendergrass is quoted in media as receiving about <br />300 complaints about this subject this season. His office <br />responded promptly when we phoned but the criminals escaped. <br />They don't hang around long after they shoot. (10:30 p.m. <br />Mar 2, 191) interrupted by several shots on my land near Eno <br />River. Dialed 911 and met officers at scene. Quick response <br />time, but no luck. The lawbreakers escaped. <br />The Poachers' Season starts on my land (on Lawrence and <br />St. Mary's Road divided by Eno River) on October 1 each year <br />and runs through September 30, day and night, Sundays included. <br />Weekends non -stop. Week divided 3 shifts 4:00 a.m. -9:00 a.m.; <br />4:00 p.m.- 9:OOp.m.; and 9 :00 p.m. -4 :00 a.m. <br />