Pictures
of all county high school graduates,
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Official
election returns from each precinct,
Page 12-A.
Vol. 52-No. 31^
32 PAGES
SOUTHERN PENES, NORTH CAR0L04A
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1972
32 PAGES
PRICE 10 CENTS
Thousand Acre Development
Is Annoimced by Tufts Here
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COUNTRY CLU0 /'
MA«T«W
NEW COUNTRY CLUB—Shown above is a
preliminary master plan for the Old Yadkin Country
Club, as portrayed by Lewis Clarke Associates. En
trance to the new club development is from US 1 at the
Town and Country Shopping Center (at right). The
plan shows the areas designated for the golf courses,
the club house area, lakes, condominiums and
residential lots.
Alcoholism Abuse Control
Will Be $2 Million Study
Fifty states will send two
persons to Pinehurst ae;iU week,
for training in a fSm^ttsiHoUar
■*/r 1 . program, federally funded, in
iVl3.K0S V>OmiI161lt alcoholism abuse control in
government and industry.
The training program was
described to The Pilot in a
telephone interview with Tommy
J. Payne, information speciMisl
for the National Institute of
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
J. C. Robbins
Following Saturday’s Runoff, J.
C. Robbins of Aberdeen made the
following statement:
“The primaries are now over
and we can proceed with other
matters. I do want to take this
opportunity to express my deep
appreciation and thanks to those
devoted friends who supported
me in the primary. To ^e 2543
voters who subscribed and voted
for my platform and philosophy I
give my heartfelt thanks and
appreciation and assure them
that their loyalty will always be
remembered.
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Updated
Alton Cockrell, employment
interviewer for the Employment
Security Commission, revealed
Friday iq)-dated figures showing
Moore County unemployment
rate now at something less than
four per cent.
He said figures he gave The
PUot last week were for the last
third quarter of 1971, the latest he
had at that time. They showed
unemployment, at 5.2 per cent.
“The preseht rate of em
ployment has improved con
siderably”, he said.
The program, which will in
clude four seminars for two
trainees selected by state
Governors or Mental Health
officials, will be one of four
“National Occupational Training
Institutes”, to be held about the
country.
Fifty thousand doliars has
gone to each state under a federal
appropriation for salaries and
other expenses. In this state.
East Carolina University has
been granted $295,000 for a
twelve month’s program, Payne
said.
The Institute at Pinehurst will
last from June 11 to June 30 and
will be staffed by professionals.
Persons selected for the
program are working in two
fields: alcoholism in industry
and alcohol in Government.
Payne said a recent govern
ment study on “Healfii and
Alcohol” showed that $10 billion
was lost each year through
employes troubled with
alcoholism.
by Mary Evelyn de Nissoff
Peter V. Tufts and his father,
Richard S. Tufts of Pinehurst are
two of the principal
stockholders in a planned $3
million golf development to be
built on 1,000 acres of land bet
ween Southern Pines and
Aberdeen.
Incorporated under the name
Yadco of Pinehurst, hic., with a
proposed clubhouse to be called
the Old Yadkin Country Qub, the
develoixnent adjoins holes four,
five and 11 of the Country Qub of
North Carolina course.
Included in the property but
separate from the country club
and golf development, are two
subdivisions, Pine Valley
Estates a mile north of US High
way 1 between Southern Pines
and Aberdeen, and Qearwater
Properties in Aberdeen off NC
Highway 5.
The names Yadco and Yadkin"
were selected by the principals
because of the old Yadkin Road
in Pinehurst which, according to
Moore County historian, and
former civil engineer for
Pinehurst, Rassie E. Wicker, is
the oldest in Moore County and
possibly, in the State of North
Carolina.
Other stockholders in the
newly-formed corporation, vdio
will meet today (Wednesday) to
elect officers, are: Jack R.
Morris, real estate broker and
builder of Southern EHnes; J. P.
Riddle, President of Riddle-
Floyd-Godwin Co. of Fayet-
tevUle; H. S. Fioyd, President of
H. S. Floyd Construction Co. of
Fayetteville; C. Thomas Wood,
EYesident of King Model Ifomes,
Lewis Clark of Lewis Clark and
Associates of Raleigh, land
planners, whose largest and best-
known projects to date are
Palmetta Dunes on HUton Head
Island, S. C.  and the Henry Ford
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Board
Slashes
Budget
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
The county commissioners in
special budget session Thursday
took the Moore County Schools’
budget proposals apart, then put
them back together minus a
crucial $371,543.
Total of the reductions af
fecting all three of the estimated
budgets—current expense,
capi^ outlay and supplemental
tax-amount^ to around 15 per
cent of the entire sum requested.
The county board of education,
meeting in special session
Monday night, to assess the
damage and see what might be
done, found their greatest con
cern fastened on the sup
plemental tax, and the grave
threat to the music program,
among other things.
They plan to meet at 2 pjn.
Thursday with the com-
(Continued on Page 10-A)
TOTALED—This 1959 Ford was a total loss after a right front tire blew and the
car swerved into the Hick’s Creek Bridge just off US 15-501 between Pinehurst and
Carthage. Sylvia Lynn Black, 16, of West End, Route 1, was the driver and was
taken to Moore Memorial Hospital with injuries believed to be slight. Highway
Patrolman W. S. Speas investigated the accident Tuesday about 11:30 a.m.
(Photo by Bryan Green).
“DAY OF THE LOCUST"—That buzz you hear is the
mating "song” of the Cicada, commonly known as the
17-year Locust, which emerged from underground last
week and will be soon gone. This particular speciman
was discovered by David Drexel on Glendon Road.
The insect appears about every 13 years, and does
slight damage, as its life is over in about three weeks.
Cicadas were used for food as early as the time of
ancient Greek culture. (Photo by Bryan Green).
Biggest Drug Raid Made
In Moore .County History
Sheriff’s officers have made
the largest drug raid in the
county’s history.
Four persons are out on $4,000
bond after a raid in Southern
Pines by Sheriff’s officers vdiich
they said netted a stash of 11
bricks of marijuana worth $3500
in a room at Braebum ^art-
ments.
Charged with felonious
possession of marijuana for the
purpose of distribution are:
James Howard MonrOe,22, of
Laurinburg and James Randol{di
Glover, 21 ^ former Sandhills
student also of Laurinburg, vdio
were renting a room at the
Braebum i^artments. Sheriff C.
G. Wmberly said; ^ot Tom
Bass, m, 23, of 330 N. Bennett St.
in Southern Pines; and Linda
Frances Cruce, 19, of 600
Pinehurst Street, Aberdeen.
All four were held in the
Carthage jail before making
bond for a preliminary hearing in
Carthage Ekstrict Court June 15.
The raid took place at 9:30 p.
m. on the night of May 30, the
Sheriff said. He said he believed
none of the accused was em
ployed.
The Sheriff said Bass is
already under bond on charges of
felonious possession of 167 “hits”
of LSD. He said Bass was
arrested in October, but the case
has not beefi tried.
Largest previous haul was
ei^t pounds.
School Out
For 10,000
School is out for the year 1971-
1972, and summer is on for some
10,000 school childroi in Moore
County. School ended yesterday,
and ^r teachers, June 8,
Thiffsday.
The school calendar for 1972-
1973 has already been voted on,
and the following dates are
already provided for the next
school year: Teachers will report
to work on August 29, with E^il
Orientation Day on August 3.
The first School month begins
Friday, September 1, with
Monday, September 4, the Labor
Day Holiday during which
schools will be closed. Wed
nesday, November 22, is the last
day of school before fall holidays,
and Monday, students report for
the first day after fall holidays,
November 27.
December 18 is the last day
before winter holidays, with 10
days schedtded for schools to be
closed, and children reporting
back to school on Tuesday,
January 2,1973 for the first day of
school after winter holidays.
.^ril 13, 1973 is the last day
before spring holidays, with a 6-
day vacation scheduled and
children reporting back to sdiool
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Miss McLean
Dana Scholar
Martha McLean of Southern
Pines has been named a Dana
&holar for the 1972-73 academic
year at Queens College.
Miss McLean is the daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. C. C. McLean of P
0. Box 369. She is a rising junior
at Queens.
The scholarships are awarded
annually to sophomores, juniors
and seniors with superior
academic records and demon
strated leadership capacities in
the college and conununity.
About 15 students from each
the three upper classes are
chosen each year.
Miss McLean, a biology major,
has been on the Dean’s List. She
is a member of the German Qub.
$9,000 Minute
I
Henry L. Graves, Chairman of
the Moore County Morehead
Committee, said that at
the Pinecrest High School
Awards Presentations, Monday
morning, he was allotted one
minute to present to Peter
Gilmore a Morehead Award.
He said it was not possible to
mention Peter Gilmore's many
achievements in this short time.
Henry was disappointed that a
$9,000.00 award only rated one
minute. He said that Moore
County had received over one
hundred thousand dollars of Mr.
John Motley Morehead’s money
and led in all one hundred
counties per piq)il.
This year’s quota for the high
schools in North Carolina was 66;
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
ELECTION—Hie light turnout
of voters in Saturday’s second
primary election disappointed a
lot of people, including some of
the candidates.
Alex Brock, executive
secretary of the State Board of
Elections, saw the light vote,
however, as a defeat for the
democratic processes-too few
people taking part in decisions
affecting their lives.
Brock had predicted more than
a million votes in the
Democratic primary on May 6
but had scaled his prediction
down to 600,000 in the runoff. The
total vote went a few thousand
beyond that figure.
The turnout in the Republican
runoff for Governor was a big
disappointment to .fim Gardner.
He had counted on a big vote
from Extern Carolina to put him
across, but it was li^t and
Gardner was bitter.
In a television appearance late
Saturday night he said, “I
wonder if the Republicans really
want to win the governor’s office.
I wonder if they really want to be
a strong party in North
Carolina.”
The total Republican vote was
around 140,000, less than one-
third of the registration.
The Democratic turnout was
only a little better-slightly more
than 40 percent of the total
registered Democrats.
Alex Brock said, “When you
consider that only 60 percent of
the eligible voters are even
registered, the light vote is
definitely a defeat for the
(Continued on Page 10-A)
Auman, Williams
Win Runoff Here
Around 8,000 Moore County
voters turned out Saturday for
five statewide and two local
runoffs, in which six out of seven
candidates held their first-place
positions, with only one being
dislodged the second time
around.
This was Pat Taylor, who lost
the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination in Moore as in the
state, where “Skipper”
Hargrove Bowles scored a
commanding victory.
Moore Democrats, in fact,
followed state trends across the
board, not only for Bowles but for
Nick Gaiifianakis for U. S.
Senate, John Ingram for in
surance commissioner and W. C.
(Bill) Creel for labor com
missioner.
Moore Republicans, however,
with just one second primary,
that for their party’s nomination
for governor, again accorded
Jim Gardner a nearly 2-to4
victory over Jim HoMouser,
who was the statewide winner by
a narrow margin. Republicans
voting totaled 2,220. While
Asheboro lawyer John Ingram,
led the Democratic ticket with
3,261 votes, highest total for one
contest was 5,711 in the Auman-
Robbins race for the State House.
This was won by incumbent T.
Qyde Auman with 3468, over
2,543 for the challenger, J. C.
Robbins-a spread of 625 votes,
(Continued on Page 12-A)
CASTING VOTE—Mrs. Will Pait emerges from the
voting booth at Pinedene precinct Saturday, ballots in
hand, as her sons Bruce and Russell, learn about
voting.
Blue Mold Fund Names Mac Ausbon
Foimd Here New Promotion Planner
In Fields
A small amount of blue mold
has been discovered in the
tobacco fields of Moore County,
according to Talmadge Baker,
the county extension chairman.
Baker said the “extent is not
too great although there has been
some damage to tobacco.” He
said that once the mold is in the
fields there is little the farmer
can do about it other than hope
for good weather.
It takes four or five hot, dry
days combined with warm nights
to kUl the mold once it has gotten
into the fields. Baker was op
timistic the weather would
change before any serious
damage to the tobacco crop had
taken place.
He noted that the recent rains
had caused some bleaching of
nitrogen from the tobacco fields
and farmers around the county
have been busy adding more of
the chemical to the fields.
Baker continued that most of
the planting in the county is
almost through with the ex
ception of soybeans and that it
should be completed within the
next week.
He said the agriculture in the
county is doing well considering
all of the rain in the p^t few
weeks.
Col. DuBSift
Is Chairman
Of Red Cross
E. W. DuRant has been
reelected chairman of the Moore
County Qiapter of the American
Red Q"oss.
Other officers reelected at a
meeting of the board of directors
on May 31 at the Golden Door
Restaurant were the Rev. Martin
Caldwell, vice chairman; Earl
Hubbard, treasurer; and Mrs.
Alfred M. Koster, secretary.
The board regretfully accepted
the resignation of two volunteers
and each was cited for their
contribution to the services of the
(Continued on Page 12-A)
DEADLINES
The following deadlines are in
effect at The Pilot:
All social and civic news must
be in by Tuesday at 5:30 p. m.
All letters to the editor must be
in by Monday at 5:30.
All want ads must be in by
Tuesday at noon.
The only exception to the
Tuesday deadline is spot news of
great value to the public, which
will be taken until noon on
Wednesday.
The Board of Directors of the
IMted Fund of Moore County
met on May 24th to plan a
stepped up campaign for funds in
the fall which it is hoped will
make up the 1972 deficit of almost
$30,000 and provide for the 1973
needs of the Fund’s participating
service agencies.
Meeting with the Directors was
Dwyer C. Sump, Executive
Director of North Carolina
United Community Services,
who spoke on the United Way of
establishing, promoting and
funding organizations to meet
community needs.
Lawrence M. Ausbon was
named chairman of a new
committee on programming and
promotion. Its purpose will be to
inform the citizens of Moore
County on the need of a United J
Fund and how it is used to ^
provide services. Ausbon’s
committee will use films and
literature to help tell the Fund’s
story.
Michael B. Currie, First Vice
President of Moore County
United Fund, will be responsible
for working with participating
service agencies to help plan
budgets. Among the agencies
that receive a substantial portion
of their operating funds from U.
F. are the Rescue Squads, the
Boy Scouts and the Red (fross.
(Continued on Page 12-A)
WEIGHING IN—The scale shows that this part of the material identified by the
Sheriff’s Department as marijuana weighs two pounds. The entire stash picked
up in a drug raid weighed 11 pounds, the officers said. Four persons were arrested
in Southern Pines in the raid at the Braebum Apartments.