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tour of the Southern Pines Garden Club
April 12 will bring visitors to see
residences in Southern Pines,
Pinehurst, and the Country Club of
North Carolina.
Vol. 52-No. 22
28 PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1972
28 PAGES
PRICE 10 CENTS
Dumping
Is Called
Problem
BY V. NICHOLSON
The partial lifting of the hog
cholera quarantine in Moore
County, and the problem of
“malicious dumping” of dead
hogs and poultry in woods
throughout the county, were
topics of immediate importance
discussed Tuesday by tiie Moore
County commissioners.
The matter of the dead hogs
and poultry being dumped by
unknown persons was brought tq>
by E. Floyd Dunn, county
sanitarian, and was discussed
also with Sheriff C. G. Wmberly.
Public Help Asked
Dunn said the health depart-
ment had investigated numerous
recent instances of such law
violation, and felt the public
should be alerted to the practice,
and help with the apprehension
of the violators.
Wimberly also said in
formation was needed from the
public, as such culprits were
notably hard to catch, and it was
very much to the interest of die
puldic to have them caught and
the dumping practice ended.
He agreed with the com
missioners that “a few arrests,
and convictions would be very
helpful as a deterrent,” and said
he and his department were
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Winners Named
» In T&C Show
The Town & Country Shopping
Center art contest for Moore
County school children last week
produced 28 honor awards and 83
merit awards.
More than 500 paintings,
sketches, sculptures and han
dicrafts were entered by children
of all ages in public and private
schools.
“We were pleased by the great
interest in this second annud art
competition and we thank all the
artists, teachers and parents
involved,” said Don Moore of the
Moore County school system, one
of the judges. Other judges were
Mrs. Dai^ Devins and John
Foster Faulk. Mrs. BiUiegene
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Fiskins Open
Fiskin and Fiskin, goldsmiths
and gemcarvers, opened this
morning in Town and Country
Shopping Center, after a
champagne preview last night
for some 100 persons celebrating
the opening.
The Fiskins-Michael M. and
Diana P.- moved here from Los
Angeles in October, 1971. They
are staying with Mrs. Fiskin’s
mother, Mrs. Annabelle Pearson
at 480 East (Connecticut Ave.
while looking for a house of their
own.
They have displayed the
jewelry at Midland Crafters for
the past six months, and “having
fallen in love with this location,”
have decided to open up a store
and make this their permanent
residence.
All items m the shop are
desired and handmade by the
Fiskins. They will specialke hi
custom designing wedding
bands and in redesigning settings
for the customer’s stones.
Budgets
Talked
By Board
The budget-making season was
initiated Tuesday for the Moore
County, commissioners with the
presentation of the public
assistance budget estimate by
Mrs. W. B. Cole, county social
services director; the Civil
Defense budget request of Col. A.
M. Roster, county CD director,
and a “money talk” with leaders
of the Humane Society of Moore
County.
Mrs. Cole, accompanied by
three members of her board, Ben
Wicks, chairman, Mrs. C. B.
Brooks and Roy Swaringen, is
presenting their estimate of the
county’s share in public
assistance programs fen* 1972-73.
This was the first of two
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READY FOR KILN—Jugtown and its intern program is showing profit again,
and the centuries-old craft of pottery-making is taking on new life. Here are some
of the clay products, waiting to be fired at high temperatures.
Jugtown Making Money,
As As Pots And Jugs
BY MARJORIE RAGAN
“If several hundred years of
North Carolina pottery traditions
are to develop and continue in the
Piedmont area, an ap
prenticeship program like that
at Jugtown is necessary,” Ralph
Carter Rinzler of the
Smithsonian Institution says.
Rinzler is President of Country
Roads, Inc., which operates
Jugtown under Director Nancy
Sweezy, who has just completed
her thii^ year at the pottery.
“How much more bnportant it
is to support the continuing of an
entire craft tradition rather than
to collect and catalogue the
tools and products of the craft
smen only to place them in a
glass case.”
Economist - author John
Kenneth Galbraith added, “I
seem to be associated with a near
success. An eager market has
developed for Jugtown
products.”
Sales amounted to $45,676.48 at
the pottery this past year, up
$15,000 over the previous year.
But more working capital is
urgently needed in restoring
Jugtown, Galbraith said, and
contributions, tax-deductible,
may be sent to Country Roads,
Inc. Jugtown Pottery, Seagrove,
N. C.
President Rinzler remarked in
his letter;
“This program must be un
derstood in the context of the
world crafts movement. While
potters to a significant degree.
Britain’s Bernard Leach have
succeeded in focusing in
ternational attention on the folk
pottery of their own countries,
American contempory potters
have not penetrated the rich
grass roots traditions of folk
potters to a significant degree.
“Through Jugtown’s ap
prenticeship program, an im
portant and vigorous strain of
earthenware and stoneware
forms, glazes, and techniques
will make their way into the
mainstream of contemporary
creativity. This infusion is long
overdue and sorely needed.
“A core of people has sup
ported Jugtown since it was
purchased and restored three
years ago. The moderate sup
port of those who understand the
importance of its programs and
continued development will
assure the growth and impact of
this vitally needed institution.”
Mrs. Sweezy says Jugtown,
one of ten potteries in the area,
has flowered this year because of
the spade work of the two prior
years.
“During that time, the plant,
including living and working
quarters, was repaired and
enlarged; the pottery-making
equipment repaired and added
to; production problems solved
or brought toward solution until
the pottery reached a new
fineness of form and glaze; the
teaching program initiated and
defined; the team of four
producing and teaching geared
to an efficient, cooperative
unit,” Mrs. Sweezy continues.
“Through newspaper articles
and talks, and most importantly
to word of mouth, it became
widely known that Jugtown
flourishes again. The results felt
during the year of this report
have been unusual whole^e
orders, a growing stream of
visitors to see the pottery works,
a flood of requests for ap
prenticeships, and for the first
time, cost lower than income.”
Government investigation of
leachable lead caused Jugtown
as well as many other potteries
to move eating utensils to a
higher firing range.
“In the midst of these changes
we undertook to fill two unusual
wholesale orders; one for the
Blue Ridge Parkway Con
cessions; the other for American
Heritage’s catalog as they
uutiate a program of selling
crafts made today in addition to
reproductions. We also began to
supply in lesser volume but
repeatedly the United Nations
Gift Center and a pottery shop on
Oie Historic Trail in Yorktown,
Virginia.
“The enormous efforts in
volved in these orders (the one
for American Heritage required
the largest tractor-trailer made
to haul it to New York) have
increased our wholesale to 44 per
cent of total sales. Hiis has been
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Town Board
Buys Land
The Southern Pines town
council in special meeting
Wednesday morning voted
unanimously to purchase a 92-
acre wooded tract, adjoining the
Chandlers Pond property off NC
22, at a cost of ^,000.
The purchase from Mrs.
Margaret J. Doffermyre of Dunn
will be made, subject to a title
search by the town attorney, with
funds remaining from the water
bond issue of some two years
ago. About $45,000 remains on
certificate of deposit-enough, it
was determined, to swing the
deal.
The purchase price will include
$1,500 option money, paid by the
council early this year. The
cation was about to expire, which
was the reason for the special
meeting.
The action was taken as future
insurance to meet emergency or
long-range water needs, the
councilmen said. The property is
bisected by a stream. Chandlers
Pond, owned by the Town of
Carthage and serving as its
water source, currently loses 19
miUion gallons a day, according
to an engineering estimate-
water which would back up on
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Absentee
Voting
Explained
The adjourned session of the
1971 General Assembly passed
an act of limited duration to
permit absentee voting by
civilians in the 1972 in-imary
election.
The Moore County Board of
Elections has completed ad
ministrative details to comply
with this law, and with the rules
and procedures of primary
election absentee voting adopted
by the State Board of Elections.
Qualified registered voters
may make a written request for
an application form for absoitee
voting in the May 6th primary
under the following conditions;
(1) A voter vdio e3q)ects to be
absent from the county of his
legal residence during the entire
period that the polls will be open
on primary election day. Polls
will be open 6:30 am. to 7:30
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Carolina Bank
Will Expand
^plication for changing the
midtown branch of The Carolina
Bank between Aberdeen and
Southern Pines from a teller
branch to a full-service office has
been made. President L. B.
Oeath of the Carolina Bank of
Sanford has announced.
“This will expand our services
to full-service banking for people
in file area,” he said.
The bank has also applied for a
branch office in SQer City,
Oeath said. The closest Carolina
Bank to Siler Qty is in Goldston,
he said, formed in 1969.
Both applications will be heard
at the regular meeting of the
State Banking Commission in
Raleigh May 24 of this year.
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CAMPAIGNS HERE—GOP gubernatorial hopeful
Jim Gardner is welcomed to Southern Pines by A. B.
Cozzens as Other supporters watch. Gardner told
about 30 followers gathered at Cecil’s Steak House
Friday morning the ‘‘state needs a businessman as
governor since government is a business and the
people are the stockholders.” He also predicted
‘‘Nixon will help carry North Carolina Republicans
into office this year.”
STEVENSON—Senator Adlai
Stevenson III thinks the
Democrats have a good chance
of winning the presidency in
November “if they don’t kUl each
other off before July.”
The personable young Senator
from Illinois and his wife Nancy
and their four children spent the
Blaster holidays with his aunt,
Mrs. Ernest Ives, at her Paint
Hill Farm here.
Young Stevenson, who has
many of the attributes of his
fam^ father, has been at
tracting considerable attention
even as a freshman Senator in
Washington. He is being talked
as a vice presidential candidate,
but Stevenson isn’t encouraging
the talk.
He is very much interested in
his present office, but admits to
some frustrations in dealings
with the federal bureaucracy as
well as a slow-moving Congress.
Senator Stevenson is sup
porting Senator Edmimd Muslde
of Maine for the Democratic
New Ruling Means
Voters in Moore
May Reach 17,000
JIM GRAHAM, AUCTIONEER—Michael Curry of
First Union National Bank watches the action in the
sale ring as Jim Graham coaxes ‘‘just a little bit
more” from buyers at the Moore County Junior Beef
Club sale at the Carthage Fairgrounds Wednesday
afternoon. Club members purchased the steers last
Fall and spent over six months feeding and training
the animals.
Pinecrest Steer G^s
Record Pay
From Bank
Parents
To Meet
All parents of students uho will
attend Pinecrest High School
next year are asked to attend a
meeting to be held at the school
at 7:30 pm. Thursday, centering
around registration [xrocedures
and how parents, advisers and
students may work together to
see that ea(^ student gets the
courses to fill his particular
wants and needs.
Dr. Guy T. Swain, principal,
will explain the registration
which will take place later in the
spring, and department heads
describe courses which will
be availaUe, or are being con-
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BY BRYAN GREEN
The Carolina Bank set a Moore
County record Wednesday when
they purchased the champion
steer of the Moore County Junior
Beef Oub for pound, ac
cording to auc
tioneer for the event and N. C.
Commissioner of Agriculture.
The eleven boys and girls in the
club purchased steers last Fall
and have been “fitting” them for
over six months. They fed and
trained the animals for this show
and sale on a daily basis and
showed their pride in the steers
at the event.
Although the Moore County
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Moore Farms Now 1,306,
Census Bmeau Reports
Moore county showed a total of
1,306 farms in the 1969 Census of
Agriculture, according to figures
released by the U. S. Department
of Commerce’s Bureau of the
Census, a part of the Depart
ment’s Social and Economic
Statistics Administration
(SESA).
In the last previous Census of
Agriculture (1964) the number of
farms reported in the county was
1,493.
Of the county’s total farms in
1969, 869 are reported as selling
$2,5()0 or more of agricultural
products in the year, as com
pared with 933 in 1964.
Tte report also shows average
farm size in the county was 108.3
acres, and average value of these
farms (land and buildings) was
$31,871.
Other figures from the report
are:
1. Value of all farm products
sold in 1969, $23,026,562; in 1964,
$16,273,500.
2. Value of all crops sold in
1969, $4,941,612; in 1964,
$6,007,851.
3. Value of all livestock,
poultry, and their products sold
in 1969, $17,924,054; in 1964,
$10,094,136.
Reported for the first time in
an agricultural census is in-
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nomination for President. “I
think he’s our best hope for
unifying the party and winning in
November,” he said. He was
interested in the campaign of
Duke president Terry Sanford
and expressed the belief he
would get a good vote in the
North Carolina preferential
primary.
VISIT—Senator Stevenson and
his family had hoped to visit
IredeU County, the home of his
ancestors, during this visit to
North Carolina, but bad weather
on their drive from Illinois forced
a change in their plans. They
returned to Washington on
Monday.
He said they hoped to return
later this year for a longer visit
in the State.
No stranger to the Sandhills, as
he had virited here many times
earlier with his father. Senator
Stevenson expressed a great
fondness for the area. Several
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Bill Klaess
Gen. Bill Yancey
First Double Header Golf
Set at CCNC in August
The $250,(XX) Liggett & Myers
Open and U. S. Professional
Match Play Championship has
set its task force to prepare for
the events the week of August
2ajd at The Country Qub of
North Carolina.
William J. Klaess, who is
Manager of Corporate Ad
vertising and Promotional
Services for Liggett & Myers
Incorporated, is the tournament
director for golf’s first
doubleheader. Klaess is no
stranger to golf promotion,
having been responsible for
creating IBM’s mobile golf
scoreboard, which was a fixture
on the PGA tour for several
years.
To aid Klaess in the myriad
tournament duties, L&M has
acquired the services of Bill
Yancey, a retired Air Force
Gener^, who administrates The
Bob Hope Classic. General
Yancey, a native of Arkansas,
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Moore County’s registered
voters are expected to top 17,0(XI
this week, with Friday, April 7,
being the last day for
registration or party Ganges
before the May 6 Primary.
Angus M. &ewer, chairman of
the Moore County Board of
Elections, said that the office will
be open until 6:30pm. on Friday
for registrations.
A ruling last week by the At
torney General which eliminated
the one-year residency
requirements for registering to
vote in state elections is espected
to bring out a large number of
new voters in Moore.
Any person i^o will have been
in the county for 30 days iH'ior to
the May 6 primary will be
eligible to register and vote,
according to the ruling by At
torney (General Robert Morgan.
The ruling followed a recent
Supreme (fourt decision in a
Tennessee case which voided the
one-year residency
requirements.
(Chairman Brewer said that he
had received the new ruling and
instructions from Alex K. Brock,
director of the State Board of
Elections, and that they are now
in effect.
The Moore County Board of
EHections was open last Saturday
and on the Easter Monday
holiday in order to accomodate
the new registrations. As of last
week the total registration had
gone past the 16,000 mark, and
Brewer said that both he and
Mrs. Daisy Riddle, executive
secretary of the Moore Board,
expect the total registration to go
beyond 17,000 by Friday night.
B'ewer said that the young
voter registration campaign had
beoi quite successful. He noted,
however, that many of the young
voters who had registered as
“Independents” have been
coming in and changing to either
a Democratic or Republican
party affiliation after they
realized that an “Independent”
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Come See em
This being an election year you
better believe there will be
politicians galore at the 25th
Anniversary running of the
Stoneybrook Races, on Saturday.
AprU 15.
According to William H.
Frantz, chairman, many of the
politicians turn up without
notice; however, among those
who have been invited as special
guests and ^o have indicated
that they will be here, are three
Democratic gubernatorial
candidates.
Pat Taylor, Hargrove
“Skipper” Bowles and Dr.
Reginald Hawkins will all be at
Stoneybrook for the biggest race
day of all.
Frantz reminds those planning
to attend that reserved parking
^aces are almost gone and they
should check inunediately with
the Stoneyteook offices in the
Campbell House, telephone 692-
8000. Offices are open from 10:00
am. to noon and 2:00 to 4:00pm.
Shelter Moved
To Carthage
The animal shelter of the
Humane Society of Moore County
was moved Friday from the
Maple Lawn Animal Clinic at
Vass to the site of the former
county dog pound near the in
tersection of Routes 22 and 15-
501, south of Carthage.
Col. Daniel Adams, HUSOM
president, said the new location
is temporary, pending com
pletion of the Piety’s large,
modern shelter now under
construction on county-owned
property adjacent to the old dog
pound. HUSOM’ lease on the
Vass shelter has expired, Adams
said.
The telei^one number at the
temporary shelter is 947-2631.
The operating hours are 2 to 5
p.m., as they were at Vass.
HUSOM is retaining its ad
ministrative office at the
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