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"Pollution Hotline" number to call with complaints, toll- free to the Air Pollution Control in Raleigh is 1-800-662-7308. Uiqhtall! Glendon ©mcuyond ^ k Cameron pll . , Vifa^tnd l.ak«vi«v'VaSs Jackson Pm&luYf erucen M HP I LOT Piedmont Airlines will discontinue service here for the season early Sunday morning, April 30, when daylight saving time begins. Vol. 52-No. 21 30 PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1972 30 PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS Travelers Here Spend e $12 Million Travel expenditures in Moore County were $12,140,000 ac cording to figures published in the 1971 North Carolina Travel Survey. The survey is published annuity by the Department of Natural and Economic Resources’ Travel and Promotion Division. » Total state expenditures were * $850 million and $549 million of this total was spent by out-of- state visitors. The 1971 survey has a new look. Through pictorial and graphic interpretation, the travel in- dustiy in North Carolina is presented is easy to evaluate fashion. The survey was done by Lewis and Leona Copeland of the a Department of Statistics of the ^ University of Tennessee. Layout and ideas for easier interpretation were created by Charles Heatherly, Publications Editor of the Travel and Promotion Division. Art work was by Gay Brantley of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources. There are 15 black and white ah photos and both front and back covers are full color. Copies of the booklet will be distributed to news media, chambers of commerce, the Travel Council of North Carolina members, and those persons interested in travel in North Carolina. TTie first copy (Continued on Page 10-A) ^ John Lang Takes Oath Of Office A large delegation of Moore County people was on hand Tuesday afternoon in Raleigh as Carthage native John A. Lang Jr. took the oath of office as 1*1 Secretary of the Department of Military and Veteran Affairs. Lang, who has been serving the past year as vice president in charge of external affairs for East Carolina University, was appointed to the position by Governor Bob Scott. Governor Scott presided at the ceremonies Tuesday in the auditorium of the State Archives H and History-State Library Building. Justice Dan K. Moore of the North Carolina Supreme Court administered the oath. The invocation was by the Rev. B. E. Dotson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Car thage. Governor Scott spoke briefly, welcoming Lang to the ad ministration and saying that I Lang was the last of the Secretaries to take office under the State Government Reorganization program. The Governor outlined the aims of (Continued on Page Ifr-A) To Aid Sowers Two Southern Pines young men, Tony Parker and Charles Clinton, have been named to head Roy Sowers’ campaign for young voters in Moore County. Sowers, of Sanford, is running on the Democratic ticket for Lieutenant Governor. “I encourage people in all walks of life in all age groups to get involved in this year’s campaigns. I urge our people not to give up and not give in to the relentless pressures attempting to beat you and your per sonalities into submission to computer sterility”, Sowers said. ■ ^ mA I - EARLY EASTER BUNNY—The snow bunny in the top picture was made by Gina Tucker, Greg Tucker, and Robert Burroughs helped by the dog. Dribbles. In the lower picture, Saturday’s surprise snow flurry caused this early-blooming jonquil to hang its head. Many buds were nipped by the snow. Mass Measles Vaccination Begins Here on April 17 School children ages six through 12 in Moore County will participate in a mass im munization program for German and Red measles during the week of April 17-21, Superin tendent of Schools, R. E. Lee and Health Director, Dr. Alfred Siege announced this week. Forms for parental consent will go out the week after Easter and should be returned as quickly as possible. The 1971 General Assembly made the immunization a requirement for admission to school next year and children in this age group will be denied admittance next fall if they have not complied with the law. This is a new vaccine and has never been given in the county schools before. With one in jection children can be protected from two diseases, the Red (7 day) measles and the German (3 day) measles. According to the State Board of Health, the im munization gives lasting protection. Children who have already had the Red measles vaccine but have not had immunization against German measles should have the shot. Very few children have been immunized against both diseases. Those who had Red measles vaccine will not suffer any ill effects from having the vaccination over again. The after-effects of having Red measles often handicap a child for life. Girls, who in later years contract German measles during (Continued on Page lO-A) Easter Rituals Planned Moore families will gather this weekend to rejoice in the risen Christ, with most churches planning special services. School children will observe the Easter vacation through Monday, returning from ^ring Holidays for the remaining 46 school days Tuesday. Stores will be open during Friday and Saturday. As usual in North Carolina, Easter Monday will be a holiday for offices, institutions, and most stores in Southern Pines. However, stores in Town and Country Shopping Center plan to remain open Monday. Religious observances for some churches will begin on Maimdy Thursday, tomorrow. At St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, Holy Week services begin "^ursday with the litany of the Holy Eu^arist at 8 pin. A Good Friday service will include a Good Friday Litany at 5:30 p jn. There will be a Vigil Mass of Easter Saturday at 8 pm., and Easter Masses Sunday morning. A silent Breakfast Saturday morning will be held for the first (Continued on Page 10-A) Baptists Set Easter Revival An Easter Revival this weekend is planned by the First Baptist Church in Southern Pines, the Rev. John Stone, pastor, has announced. Good Friday services will be held Friday at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday at 7:30 pm.; Easter Sunday at 11 a.m. and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The Rev. Jack Partain, missionary to Tanzania will be guest speaker, and guest congregations and pastors from West Southern Pines will be special guests. “For ttie past ten years. Jack has lived among, loved, and learned from the Black People of Africa, as he has endeavored to share Christ with them,” says the Rev. Mr. Stone. “We feel excited joy and natural brotherhood in Christ in the action of inviting the Black congregations of Southern Pines to be our special guests for this revival.” A native Texan and graduate of Baylor University, the Rev. Mr. Partin has been resident minister in Kanya, and now teaches at the Baptist (Continued on Page 7-^A) Two-In-One Neither Carlos or his wife Betty Ennis of Benson, formerly of l^uthem Pines, have any trouble remembering the ages or birthdays of their fathers. They are exactly the same age and were bom on the same day. Betty’s dad is Jay Therman Barbour of 275 W. Vermont Ave. and Carlos’ is Wilburt Ennis of Benson. Both men were 56 on March 25 and the families have been holding a joint party for the past four years. The location of the party alternates between Southern Pines and Benson. Mr. Barbour said 63 friends and relatives attended this year’s event. “It’s just chance,” he said when asked about the coincidence. Betty is also his oldest daughter and Carlos is Ennis’ oldest son. P$1 t m ti'kiv HOST CHURCH—Here is Emmanuel Episcopal Church, in the snow which remained Sunday, as Palm Sunday crowds come out. This church will be host Friday to a community Good Friday service. (Photo by Bryan Green) Emmanuel Church Hosts Area Good Friday Service The Southern Pines Com- mimity Good Friday Service wUl be held again this year at Em manuel Episcopal Church from noon until three in the afternoon. Tlie traditional “Preaching of the Passion” includes meditations on Jesus’ seven last words from the cross, hymns, psalms, a periods for quiet contemplation of the meaning of Christianity’s most solemn Holy Day. 'The Reverend John McDowell and the Reverend Fred Pace, assistant ministers of the Episcopal Church will preside. The meditations will be given by the Rev. John Stone of the First Stoneybrook Ticket Sales Running High “There are only a few days left to make reservations for the 25th Anniversary running of the Stoneybrook Race Meet on Saturday, April 15,” warns William H. Frantz, chairman. From its modest beginning in 1948, when the Walsh family did all the work of preparing the track and jumps, Stoneybrook has grown to be one of the four or five outstanding sports events of the state, with attendance in creasing steadily each year. Most people who attend the races find it more convenient to reserve parking space on the hill above the track from which they may picnic while they watch the races. The demands for reserved parking grow with the at tendance. Spaces are being assigned at the Stoneybrook offices this week and will be mailed out March 31st. All those interested in securing parking spaces, racing memberships and tickets for the Race Ball should make their (Continued on Page 10-A) in Of Easter Flovyers in Church Linked to Sandhills BY MARGARET McMAHAN The most cherished Easter custom in modern times, flowers in church, is in terestingly linked to North Carolina. E. J. Hale, Jr., son of the famous and long4ime editor of the Fayetteville Observer, Edward Joseph Hale, Sr., prized the story of the custom’s origin. A copy of it, cut from an 1897 edition of the New York World, was found in his notes. Jessie Benton Fremont, daughter of distinguished statesman, Thomas Hart Benton, and wife c* John C. Fremont, the notable “Pathfinder,” according to her own account, began the beloved custom. m her vivid and charming account she refers to “Mr. Gales of the National Intelligencer.” This Mr. Gales, as we know, had as his associate on the National Intelligencer, the first Edward J. Hale. The two young men would be life4ong fiiends. Another allusion in Jessie Fremont’s account links the first-time flower event to the old North State. The “Lieutenant Gillis, a naval officer in charge of the National Observatory,” referred to, was a connection of the Gillis families in Moore and Cumberland counties. In ante-bellum days Jessie Benton Fremont was one of the reigning beauties of Washington and known as a “connoisseur of beauty.” She basked in the reflected glory of both her father ; and her husband. They were' Southern bom, but before the advent of Qvil War in 1861, they were already aligned with Northern interests. Benton, bom in Hillsborough, N. C., March 14, 1782, had been aide-de-camp to Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. Afterward, he moved to Missouri, founded the “Missouri Enquirer” and became renowned as a power in print. Chosen United States Senator in 1820, he soon became a power in politics. His speeches on currency and the money question are considered among the best ever delivered in the Senate. Jessie inherited her father’s intellectual gifts, her mother’s artistry. Natural talents were augmented by association with the savants and the social leaders of the day. She is said to have graced her father’s drawing room with all the charm and savoir faire of a queen or a princess. Fremont was a handsome adventurer, bom in Savannah, Georgia, January 31, 1813, and educated at Qiarleston College, South Carolina. Upon graduation he received an appointment as teacher of mathematics in the navy. While serving in the Corps of Topograidiical Ekigineers, he explored the great western basin of the United States and discovered a pass to the Pacific (In time it would lead to the acquisition of California by the United States). IBs dramatic deed fired the imagination of Benton and stirred romantic impulses in Jessie. Her dreams were not idle nor her thinking merely wishful. She married her dynamic hero in 1841. When the CivU War began, Fremont was made Major- General of Volunteers and given command of the Western Department with headquarters at St. Louis. The very gifts that made him a marvel in ex- ploration-his love of action and unrestrained liberty-made his performance as a soldier less fiian commendable. His military exploits were called “brilliant” in theory, but “giddy and fum bling” in execution. His exuterant temper kept him in constant difficulties with his superior officers, and once the beauteous Jessie vainly pleaded Peach Crop Is Damaged By Snowfall Baptist Church, the Rev. James Dellert and the Rev. William Edwards of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church, Father John Harper of St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church, the Rev. Leslie Wicker of the United Church of Christ, the Rev. Mark Johnson of Our Saviour Lutheran Church, and the Rev. Philip Brown, a Methodist minister who is Administrator of The Bishop Penick Home. At five4hirty on Easter Eve at Emmanuel Church the brief service of Evensong and the Lighting of the Paschal Fire will be observed. On Easter Day there will be three celebrations of the Holy Eucharist. At eight o’clock there will be a celebration with simple hymns and a brief address; at nine- thirty a song Family Service with hymns and music by the Children’s Choir; and at eleven o’clock, a Festival Eucharist with choral and instrumental music and a sermon by the Rector. Band Wins The Union Pines High School Band traveled to Greensboro Saturday to participate in the North Carolina State Band Contest. In the contest Union Pines received a rating of Superior, the highest rating that can be awarded. The Union Pines Band, undgr the direction of Mr. Charles R. Oonham, performed the following selections: National Emblem March by E. E. Baglet, Variations on a Theme by Prokofieff (from the Lt. Kije Suite) by Hugh StuartXhonham’s High School Band Director, and Kensington Overture by Paul Whear. The State Band (Contest began last Tuesday and continued through Saturday with ap proximately 200 bands per forming. Only 20 bands in the state received a Superior rating. Plan Made To Help Schools BY VALERIE NICHOLSON Leadership of the Sandhills Area Chamber of Commerce offered to the Moore (hunty commissioners and board of education in extraordinary session Thursday night a plan for the joint setting up of a special committee which would ob jectively determine the financial needs of the schools, and devise a i)rogram by which toey might be met. The meeting was held at the School Administration Building near Carthage at the instance of the Chamber, which had gone before both boards to present a “policy statement” calling for the completion of Pinecrest High School and proper maintenance of all schools of the county system-at present, a $5 million logjam which has accumulated over nearly a decade. The Chamber had offered its services, and the support of the business community, in securing effective communication bet ween the county boards, with the object of Ixeaking the logjam. The. specific..:i»tnposal, as presented by Jim Harrington for the Chamber’s Senior Council, called for the setting up of a seven-member committee, to (Continued on Page 10-A) Chappell Buys Inn Robert M. Chappell, a lifelong native of Montgomery County, has Durchased the Holiday Inn of Southern Pines from Byron Nelson and Associates, Inc., of Norfolk, Virginia, March 20. Mr. Chappell is a prominent peach, tobacco and cotton grower of Candor, and has also developed interests in Florida and South Carolina in citrus groves and peaches. He has various business connections in the hosiery and oU industries. He serv^ in the United States Marines during World War H. He has served on boards of many community and civic activities in past years. He has been on the Board of Directors of the Candor Savings & Loan Association for 15 years, and is presently Vice- President. For 15 years he has been on the Board of Directors and serves on the Executive Committee of Sandhill Production Credit Association. He is a municipality represen tative of Montgomery County on the Board of Directors of the Pee Dee CouncU of Governments, and a member of the Congress of Delegates of the organization. He is presently Mayor of Candor. He is married to the former Eleanor Fitzgerald of Candor, and has three daughters, Mrs. William Harris of High Point, Mrs. John Albert Trotter of San (Continued on Page 7-A) A surprise late-spring snowstorm, coming on the exact anniversary of one last year, blanketed the Sandhills with three inches of fleecy white Saturday afternoon, while temperatures, dipping low on two successive mornings, did considerable damage to the peach crop. The cool spell and snowfall followed unusually mild March weather which had brought a rush of bloom, and observers were treated to the sight of jonquils, hyacinths, redbud, yellowbells and forsy^ia in full blossom, also pink and Same- colored azaleas just bursting into bloom, amid whirling snowflakes. The weekend had been billed as the peak for peach blossoms, though actually, according to T. C. Auman, veteran West End grower, the two or three cool days immediately preceding the snow had held back many blossoms and may have saved the crop. Following a spot check of the orchard areas Monday, Auman reported that all the blossoms which had opened up were killed, but many had not opened, or had barely opened, and were (Continued on Page 10-A) Tornado Season Is Ahead The Moore County Civil Defense Agency announces that tornado season is ahead and reminds that when a tornado approaches your immediate action may mean life or death. The agency offers these suggestions for office buildings, factories, homes, mobile homes, schools and persons out in open country. IN CITIES OR TOWNS In office buildings—stand in an interior hallway on a lower floor, preferably in the basement. In factories—on receiving a tornado warning, post a lookout. Workers should move quickly to the section off the plant offering the greatest protection in ac cordance with advance plans. In homes—the basement usually offers the greatest (Continued on Page 10-A) Exceed Quota Pinebluff under the leadership of Mrs. G. P. Greene and Hillcrest, chairmaned by Mrs. R. L. Frye have succeeded in ex ceeding their quotas in the 1972 Moore County Cancer Crusade, joining Whispering Pines which went “over the top” two weeks ago, now having reached 125 percent of its quota. Pinebluff has made 117 percent of its quota while Hillcrest rang up 126 percent, according to Henry G. Harper, President of the Moore County unit of the American Cancer Society. Donations should be mailed to the Society at Box 32, Southern Pines, N. C., 28387. THE PILOT LIGHT his case, in a stormy interview with President Lincoln. When Stonewall Jackson outmaneuvered Fremont (an achievement which caused his transfer to Virginia), Fremont resigned and took no further active part in the War. But he continued to be a colorful public figure. From 1878-1881 he was Governor of Arizona, later practiced law in New York and was engaged in writing and railroading. Jessie polished his works and aided him in becoming a literary light of the day. His chief publications, “Memoirs of My Life,” “Fremont’s Explorations,” and “Reports of the Exploring Ex peditions to the Rocky Moun- (Continued on Page 10-A) COLLEGES—Some questions are being raised around the state over the new trends being taken in the Department of Community Colleges which operates under the Department of Public In struction. The new trend is a heavy emphasis on academic structure and the development of a “degree conscious” hierarchy. The Director of the Depart ment is now President and his assistants are vice presidents. Unit heads are “Deans” and there’s a new insistance that they have doctoral degrees. Some of the questions being raised include the one on whether the entire concept of the com munity college and technical institute is being changed. PORTRAIT—The artist Daniel Greene who was selected to paint the official portrait of Governor Scott spent some time studying his subject at work and with his family last week. Greene had dinner with the Scott family at the Governor’s Mansion and then accompanied the Governor on a visit to the family farm at Haw River. Later this summer the Governor will be in New York for several sittings with the artist. Greene has painted the por traits of at least two other North (Continued on Page 10-A)