The Mercury
jumped up and down last week, from a
low of 30 to a high of 79, according to
official weather reports here.
LOT
Louis Prima
the famous bandleader, will have two
shows at the Carolina Hotel in
Pinehurst Friday night.
Vol. 52-No. 18
FIFTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1972
FIFTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE 10 CENTS
John Lang
Is Named
Secretary
Gov. Scott today appointed
John A. Lang, native of Car
thage, Secretary of Military and
Affairs for North Carolina. Lang,
now a vice president of East
Carolina University, is the ninth
and last secretair to be ap
pointed under the state’s re
organization plan.
The new Secretaiy is a former
^administrative assistant to the
Secretary of the U. S. Air Force,
with a long record of
distinguished service. His recent
job in Greenville was Vice
President for Ebctemal Affairs.
He is a UNC-CH graduate and
has graduate education there
and at Mercer University.
4*lant Tree
Arbor Day,
s Scott
Sayf
Governor Robert W. Scott has
proclaimed March 16th “Plant a
Tree For Tomorrow” day and
has urged North Carolinians to
Observe the 100th anniversary of
Arbor Day, March 17th by
planting a pine seedling.
Phil Godwin, leaker of the
1971 North Csffolina House of
Representatives, read the
proclamation during co'emonies
in the Legislative building in
Raleigh. Officials from First
Union National Bank,
Weyerhaeuser Company and the
^y Scouts of America, the
sponsoring organizations for
“Plant a Ttece For Tomorrow”
day, were present at the
ceremonies.
Weyerhaeuser, a forest
products company, is providing
more than 15(Mhousand year-old
pine seedlings for the program.
The tiny trees will be packaged
by Boy Scouts in Charlotte, a^r
^hich the seedlings will be
distributed to First Union
National banking offices across
the state. The seedlings will be
available, one to a person, at
First Union offices on March 16th
and 17th.
The seedlings were taken from
Weyerhaeuser’s seedling nur
sery near Washington, N. C. and
are superior trees which were
developed through the com
pany’s High Yield Forestry
program. Weyerhaeuser, udiich
has a policy of reforesting
timberlands within eighteen
months after harvesting, grew 22
million seedlings in North
Carolina last year. First Union
National Bank is involved in the
program because of its interest
in the environment and ecology.
kf.
HORSE BLESSING—The first annual blessing of horses took place at The Village
Chapel on a recent Sunday following a special service for horse lovers. Dr.
Charles Wesley Lowry, pastor, presided. Note the horse in the center with bowed
head. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Recent Warm Spell
Germinates Tobacco
The spring planting season is
rapidly advancing in Moore
County and crops planted last
fall and winter are responding to
the warmer weather.
Seeds have germinated in
tobacco beds and the plants are
starting to come up. Tobacco is
the largest money maker in the
county, bVi million dollars last
year, and 3,357 acres were
planted in 1971. Talmadge Baker,
Moore County extension
Pinecrest Patriots
Runnersup in Finals
The Pinecrest Patriots came
within 11 points of becoming
i State champions two years in a
'jow.
• In Saturday night’s finals of
the 3-A High School Basketball
Tournament at Durham the
Patriots were toppled from the
championship by the Hen
dersonville Bearcats. The score
was 74-63.
Coach Roger Paschal had
steered the Patriots to the
I championship with an un
defeated season last year. This
^ear they wound up wiOi a record'
of 23 victories and five defeats.
Pinecrest had reached the
finals with a close 71 to 69 victory
over seventy First High School
of Cumberland County on Friday
night.
In that game Pinecrest had to
fight off a fierce 71st rally in the
last quarter after leading by as
much as 20 points. The 71st team
had pulled to within one point
with 119 seconds left, but sub
stitute Teddy Hancock in
tercepted a pass, was fouled and
made a free throw with only
three seconds showing to give
Pinecrest the victory.
(Continued on Page 8-A)
OFFICERS ELECTED—From left. Bob Helms,
secretary-treasurer of reorganized Moore County
Industrial Development committee; L. L. Marion,
longtime chairman of the old committee, who will
continue working with the new; Burt Grant, president,
and Wilton Brown, vice-president.
(Photo by V. Nicholson)
chairman, expects the present
crop of tobacco to be set in late
^rU.
Baker said the small grains
planted last fall are growing now
and should be harvested in late
May or early June. About 10,500
acres of three major grains were
planted in 1971. Most of the rye
and oats grown in the county are
used for farm food, but much of
the wheat is for commercial use.
Baker noted the grains are about
a foot high and will be three to
four feet tall at maturity.
Both corn and soy beans are
expected to be planted near the
end of April. Baker said soy bean
production in the county has been
increasing over the past few
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Gilmore Wins
Peter Gilmore, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Voit Gilmore, has been
named a Morehead Scholar, it
was announced by Henry and
Gladys Graves, following a letter
from Executive Director Roy
Armstrong.
Runnerup Hubert Morris
Caddell, Jr. has been offered a N.
C. Merit Tuition Scholari^ip by
the John Motley Morehead
Foundation.
Education
Edition
The annual Education Edition
of The Pilot is a separate tabloid
section with this week’s issue.
The 24-page edition contains
messages in advertisements and
news stories from more than two
dozen educational institutions. In
addition there are several
special feature stories, including
articles by Dr. John Corey of the
State Board of Hgher Education,
Nancy Duckett of the Depart
ment of Community Colleges,
and the Southern Regional
Educational Board.
Theme of this year’s edition is
“The Great Adventure of
Seeking Knowledge.”
Copies of the Pilot’s Education
Edition are being made available
to seniors in the high schools of
Moore, Montgomery, Lee, Hoke
and Richmond counties.
"Bill” Fry
Bill Frye
Is To Try
For Board
Bill Frye of 1205 Midland Road,
Southern Pines has announced
that he is a candidate for County
Commissioner from District No.
4.
Mr. Frye is a native of Moore
County, having been raised on a
farm near Pinehurst. He
graduated from Pinehurst High
School in 1947, and served six
years in the United States Air
Force, serving overseas during
the Korean War. He later at
tended U.N.C. at Chapel IBll on
the G. I. Bill, and was a Pre-Law
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Cholera
Hits Hogs
In Moore
BY BRYAN GREEN
Cases of hog cholera have
Iroken out in Moore and three
other counties and may spread to
others.
State Veterinarian Dr. Thomas
F. Zwiegard said Monday that
the cholera, first found in Hoke
County, has now been discovered
on farms in Moore, Johnston, and
Robeson Counties.
The Moore Ctounty outbreak is
presently confined to the farms
of Russell Maness and his son A.
T. Maness near High Falls. The
virus was discovered after the
farmers called the State
Diagnostic Lab in Raleigh on
Friday and requested an on-farm
investigation for the disease. The
two Moore County men had
reported several sick hogs
almost two weeks ago, but tests
at that time indicated no
detectable cholera present.
Dr. James R. Miller, state
veterinary supervisor for this
area, said about 700 hogs are
involved on the two farms in the
county. He noted “the animals
were killed to prevent the spread
of the virus to other farms.
Operation of slaughter houses
and packing plants in the county
is expected to continue since
state inspectors thoroughly
check each animal for several
possible diseases at all times.”
Dr. Miller said the origin of the
cholera is still unknown, but
several farmers with sick pigs
made purchases at a February 4
sale at the Pembroke Feeder Pig
Market. All purchasers on that
date are being checked to
determine if hog cholera is
present in their swine.
Miller continued that state
inspectors are present at all hog
markets, but “the cholera would
not have been advanced enough
in early February to be detected
at the sale.” Dr. Zwiegard said
checks are also being made at
other livestock markets in the
state.
North Carolina is presently
under a hog quarantine udiich
became effective at midnight
Friday after the cholera was
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Democrats
All Democratic candidates
have been invited to appear for
brief remarks to the Moore
County Democratic Executive
Committee, in the County
Commissioners room of the
Courthouse Thursday night at
7:30 pjn.
After hearing the candidates,
the Committee will have an
executive session, Carolyn Blue,
Chairman, has announced.
Reelected
All members of the Moore
County Board of Elections were
sworn in at high noon Monday,
following certification by the
State Board of their ap
pointments.
Officers are Angus (Mack)
Brewer, chairman; Jim
Pleasants, secretary; and
Coolidge Thompson, third
member.
The swearing-in was done by
Qerk of Court Charles McLeod.
Judges and registrars will be
selected on March 18 at 11 ajn..
Brewer said.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
CAMPAIGN—There are eight
weeks remaining in the political
campaigns before the May 6
party primaries, and Tar Heels
can expect the pace to pick tg} in
the days ahead.
Up to now there has been very
little excitement in the campaign
and, in fact, some random
surveys show a large percentage
of the people still do not know
who’s running and for what.
The “recognition factor” is
still something to contend with
by several candidates, even
though they’ve been courting
voters and trying to make their
names known for many months.
Saturday’s big gathering of
Democrats in ^eigh for the
Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner
was the last big sparring session
for the candidates before they
get down to the heavy business of
tieing down votes.
SURVEYS—Those people
knowledgeable about politics are
not putting much stock in a lot of
the surveys being made of voter
sentiment these days. They know
that polls paid for by candidates
are often far from reliable, and
they also know that many of the
casual man-on-the-street sur
veys do not reveal uhat will
happen on voting day.
A man from Asheville said this
past weekend that he considered
the poll of county Democratic
chairmen the poorest of the lot.
“County chairmen are often the
last people who can accurately
judge voter sentiment,” he said,
“and if they do know they ain’t
going to teU you.”
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Get Right Answers
Is Hope of Taylor
For Joint Meeting
$
IN THE BAG?—Nick Galifiiankis hopes so, as he
brings his campaign against Sen. Everette Jordan in
the Democratic primary to Moore County. Here he
acts as bag boy for a customer at the Winn-Dbew in
Town and Country Shopping Center. His busy schedule
included Foxfire, the Moore Bar Association, and the
Sandhills YDC Monday night and Cecil’s Steak House
and Pinecrest school Tuesday. (Photo by Bryan
Green)
Ernest L. Ives Dies
At Paint Hill Farm
Ernest Linwood Ives, retired
American Foreign Service Of
ficer, died Saturday at his
counter home. Paint Hill Farm,
after several years of failing
health.
A private memorial service
was held Sunday at the
residence, conducted by the Rev.
Arthur L. Thompson. Graveside
services and burial were held
Monday in the Stevenson family
plot in Evergreen (Cemetery in
Bloomington, Ill.
Mr. Ives was bom in Norfolk,
Va. on Oct. 17, 1887, the son of
Eugene and Sarah Read Ives.
His family received land grants
in what is now Norfolk and
Princess Aiine Counties in 1637,
and have owned farms in those
counties since that time.
He was educated at the Norfolk
Academy, Virginia Military
Institute, and V^am and Mary
College.
In 1909, he entered the
American Foreign Service and
served as a Consular and
Diplomatic Officer in Germany,
Hungary, France, Egypt,
Turkey, Denmark, Union of
South Africa, Algeria, Sweden,
and Northern Ireland.
Ernest L. Ives
Area Meeting
Moore County conunissioners
will join those of seven other
counties this afternoon in San
ford for the district eight meeting
of the North Carolina Association
of County Commissioners.
Items on the agenda will in
clude briefings on school
finances and social services
administration, especially
background on the ‘clean water’
bond issue on the May 6 ballot.
Commissioners will also be
asked for recommendations on
the structure and administration
of local government in the state.
The association is collecting
suggestions for the Local
Government Study Conunission
which is scheduled to report to
the 1973 General Assembly.
Lee County Commissioner
Frank Wicker is the district
director. Other counties at
tending the annual conference
are: Chatham, Hoke, Lee,
Montgomery, Randolph, Rich
mond and Scotland.
He retired after thirty years of
service in 1939, and on his return
to the United States took up for
the duration of the World War H
took up the management of his
farms near Norfolk, and when
not travelling divided his time
between Norfolk, Southern Pines
and Bloomington, Ill.
In 1927 he married Elizabeth
Davis Stevenson of Bloomington,
ill. at Naples Italy, whom he had
met in Switzerland. After Con
stantinople, they were in various
posts including Paris and
Belfast. His wife survives him,
as does a son, Timothy Read
Ives, of Bloomington.
A dedicated Democrat, he was
a devoted helper and siq)ported
of his brother-inJaw, Adlai E.
(Continued on Page 8-A)
A delegation from the San
dhills Area Qiamber of Com
merce appeared Monday before
the Moore County com
missioners to offer the services
of their organization in behalf of
a necessary construction
program, adequately financed,
for the Moore County schools.
The visit backed up their
“statement of policy” already
sent to the individual com
missioners, urging that plans be
worked out witii the Moore
County board of education for the
completion of Pinecrest High
School, with recognition of the
needs of other schools, and the
development of a sound finan
cing program for which the
Chamber would do its best to win
public support.
Serving as spokesmen were
Jun Harrington of Pinehurst and
Bill Gentry of Southern Pines,
past presidents of the Chamber
of Conunerce and members of
its senior council, which they
said had authored the policy
statement. Later approved by
the full board of directors, it also
won, Harrington reported, a
“tremendous affirmative
response” from the individual
members, to udiom it was sub
mitted by mail.
It had also served as basis for
an approach to the county board
of education at its meeting of
February 29, vdien that board
had agreed to a Chamber-
sponsored meeting with the
commissioners to try and work
out the plans seen as urgent and
crucial.
Harrington said, “We
recognize the different areas of
responsinility of both the boards
and aren’t trying to tell either of
them what to do, but we feel
there are ways in udiich we can
be of help.”
Gentry said there was also
much concern about the main
tenance of the school, buildings,
and that several members of tee
Chamber had been on a Sunday
afternoon inspection tour in Area
HI the day before, to see for
themselves.
“WISHFUL THINKING”
He said there was in Area III a
“feeling of discouragement”
about tee incomplete Pinecrest
(Continued on Page 8-A)
^ Four Charged
In Drug Cases
Southern Pines police have
charged four persons with drug
law violations.
Early yesterday morning,
police conducted a raid at 141 E.
Pennsylvania Ave. in Southern
■Pines and two men were
arrested. Officers charged Lee
A. Merrick, 19, with possession of
hashish and a hypodermic
syrenge. Norman D. Burrwell,
22, was charged with possession
of hashish. Officers participating
in tee raid included: Don Davis,
Deputy Sheriff Charlie Watkins,
Sgt. L. D. Beck, Marshall Lewis
and James Ritter. Merrick and
Burwell were released under
$500 bond each and are scheduled
to appear in Southern Pines
District Court on March 24.
Friday afternoon Tom Allen
Elderidge, 22, of Carteage was
charged with possession of
marajuana. Police Chief Earl
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Storey’s Opening
Set For Saturday
The area’s newest store for
women, men and children.
Storey’s at Town and Ctountry
Shopping Center, opens Satur
day.
lYite 5000 square feet of sales
space and more than 50 well-
Imown national brands of mer-
ch^dise. Storey’s will be a
major specialty store for tee
entire family.
The store’s bate and bed shop
will feature Fieldcrest, Martex
and Carlin products. Giftware
will include Dansk label glass
and wood products from Scan-
danavia. Norte Carolina labels
will be prominent in all apparel
departments.
General manager of Storey’s is
Charles P. (Dole. Managers of
women’s and men’s departments
are Mrs. Charles (Dot) Patch
and Jim . Reid, Jr. Operating
hours will be 10-6 each weekday
except 10-9 on Thursdays and
Fridays.