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degrees to a low of 46. Average for the
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Vol. 5^No. 33
44 PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1972
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PRICE 10 CENTS
Y. E. S.
Choice
Helps
Citizens of Southern Pines
have taken some positive action
in the fight to combat drugs.
The Youth Employment
Service, which is a sub^vision of
Choice, Inc., officially opened its
new office Thursday, June 15.
The location of Y. E. S. was
moved from the Campbell House
to a downtown location over
Theodota’s on Broad Street in
Southern Pines. Y. E. S. now has
a more stable and centralized
location. Its office hours will be
Monday through Friday from 3 to
5 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 to
12 noon.
The purpose of Y. E. S., which
was begun in January, is to help
find jobs for the young people in
the community. It will be of
particular service to young
people within the ages of 13 to 17.
Since its conception, Y. E. S.
has received applications from
75 youngster. Well over half of
these applicants have found
some sort of job. Many have
found full time employment
through Y. E. S. while others
have obtained part-time or one
day jobs, such as baby sitting.
John Brown, Youth Em
ployment Service Project
Director, said Thursday that
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Aberdeen
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IT'S DAIRY MONTH—These infant heifers, although
separated from their mother at two or three days of
age, will receive constant care as they grow into high
milk-producing adults. These baby Jerseys on a North
Carolina State University research farm will not only
spend their lives producing milk, but will benefit all
humans by research projects.
Plans Big
July 4th
Aberdeen’s Eighth Annual
July Fourth Celebration will be
held this year on Tuesday, July
fourth.
Democratic and Republican
candidates for U. S. Senator,
Governor and Congressman
have been invited.
The Hollerin’ Champions from,
Spivey’s Corner—H. Dewey
Jackson, the event’s first
champion and his brother, 0. B.
Jackson who last week was
judged the World Champion
HoUerer will both be in at-
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23 Courses
Moore County will have at
least 23 golf courses by 1975, the
Sandhills Chamber of Commerce
says.
Present courses number 18.
Both Foxfire and Whispering
Pines will open new nines this
year, along with the first 18 at
Lake Surf, in addition to the Old
Yadkin Country Club recently
announced which will have the
first 18 in 1973 and the second in
1975.
ABC Raid
Nets Two
Accused
State ABC agents ac
companied by two sheriff’s
deputies conducted a raid in Vass
Friday evening and seized about
four gallons of homemade liquor
in plastic milk containers.
Agent Johnny English, who led
the raid, said two men were
charged with possession of non
tax paid liquor. They are James
Sherman Stuart and Hector
Bess, both of Vass.
Both men are currently out on
bail and trial date has been set
for July 6 in Carthage.
Participating in the raid were
ABC agents Johnny English and
Ed Floyd as well as deputies
Albert Cole qnd Dalton (3heek.
Cameron Charged
In Shotgun Death
Oris E. Brady, 61, of Carthage sheriff C. G. Wimberly said
Star Route, was fqi^y»-shot -^^irs. Brady, who witnessed the
Saturday about 6:461^^m., and his shooting, told him her brother
brother-in-law John Marsh
(Cameron, 67, has been charged
with his murder.
Blasted at close range in the
lower jaw and neck with a
shotgun loaded with (X) buckshot,
Brady was carried by the rescue
squad to Moore Memorial
hospital at Pinehiu-st, where he
was pronounced dead on arrival.
had shot her husband, after an
argument broke but between the
pair while they were preparing a
cookout supper.
Cameron, unmarried, lived
with the Bradys at their home off
the Glendon road, about three
miles north of Carthage.
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Black Says
Peach Crop
Is Short
The peach crop in the Sandhills
this year will be about 40 per cent
of a full crop, according to
Clarence Black, head of the
Sandhills Research Center.
Black said peaches will
definitely be in short supply and
blamed the sudden freezes after
a warm spring for the shortages.
He said a number of trees and
blossoms were killed and that
some varieties of peaches will be
in shorter supply than others.
He predicted a full crop of such
types as Candor, Red Haven and
Georgia Belle and feels the
quality in all the peaches will be
good. Most of the peaches grown
in the area are handled by chain
stores through brokers, Black
said.
Black is optimistic about the
future of peach production in the
Sandhills and says the total
acreage has been increasing
during the last few years and
should continue to expand.
He says the research i station
presently conducts the largest
breeding program in the world.
!’t mainta^s a variety bloc of all
varieties of peaches ^at may be
profitable to growers. The bloc
may contain as many as 250
varieties at one time according
to Black.
He said the station, working
with plant pathologists and
horticulturists, has been
responsible for the introduction
of ten new varieties, including
the popular C^andor peach, and is
presently working on others.
The station maintains the bloc
as a service to the growers so
they can examine a particular
variety before spending money
and placing it in their orchards.
Black notes that a number of
growers use the program.
He feels the peach growers
need a good marketing
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SKY HIGH—The new Cablevision tower is up in the
vicinity of the National Guard Armory on Morganton
Road. The tower is over 400 feet tall. Operation of the
system is expected to begin soon. It will be operated
by the American Television and Communications
Company of Denver and the local franchise is owned
by the Sandhill Community Antenna Corporation.
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Sixth Death
F rom W recks
Is Girl, 19
SUMMERTIME—It’s splashdown for Ashley Assad at
the Southern Pines Elks Country Club, as summer
officially begins. (Photo by Bryan Green.)
The Rev. Wicker Resigns
To Accept College Post
The Rev. Leslie Wicker has
offered his ' resignation as
Minister of the Qiurch of Wide
Fellowship to accept the position
of Dean of Student Affairs at
Greensboro CoUege in Green
sboro.
29 House
Summer Here Project
Begins
To many campers and beach-
goers, it may seem that summer
is late in arriving this year.
But, as usual, it began right on
time; at 3:06 a.m., today
Eastern Daylight Time, an
nounced Richard Knapp,
Assistant Director of the
Morehead Planetarium.
As summer begins in the
Northern Hemisphere, days are
longest and nights are shortest of
the year.
Earth people are fortunate in
that their planet is tilted on its
axis of daily rotation with
respect to its yearly orbital path
around the sun, thus providing
the changing seasons. We do not
feel this tilt but notice its in
fluence through the greater and
lesser elevation of the noonday
sun as the seasons pass.
During winter, the northern
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Construction has started on
the first new subdivision for
Southern Pines since Khollwood
Fairways, according to Budding
Inspector Arthur Tener.
He said the development is
located south of Mt. Hope
Cemetery and will consist of 29
homes in the $18,000 to $21,000
price range. The subdivision will
be called Holiday Town and is
near the Holiday Town apart
ments now being built.
E. N. Richards of Raleigh is
the developer of the homes. Ids
developments across the state
include the North Hills Shopping
Center in Raleigh. Security
Construction Company of diapel
Hill is the prime contractor for
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Rev. Leslie Wicker
The office of Dean of Student
Affairs at Greensboro College is
structured to assist students in
their search for personal iden
tity, in their attempt to un
derstand the meaning of com
munity living, and in their desire
to achieve a well-balanced set of
personal values.
The Rev. Mr. Wicker has
served as Minister of the Church
of Wide Fellowship for the past
two years. While here, he has
served on the Executive Board of
the Eastern North Carolina
Association of United Churches
of Christ, been a member of the
Rotary Club, and a member of
the Jaycees. Prior to his coming
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Difstaff 1973
Approved
Moore County Differentiated
Staffing has been approved for
federal funding during 1973, The
Department of Public In
struction has announced.
The State Board of Education
recently approved the con
tinuation of federal funds in 39
systems in the state that have
projects funded under Title HI of
the Elementary and Secondaiy
Education. The Moore project is
among them.
The funding of these 39
projects represents over
$2,800,000 of federal money being
used for experimental education
in the public schools.
The local program is receiving
part of this money and using it to
find ways of improving the
education of Tar Heel children.
One Percent
Sales Tax
Over $68,000
Local 1 percent sales and use
tax collections in Moore County
for May amounted to $68,294.19,
the State Revenue Department
reports.
This was ahead of Richmond
County’s $60,032.32 and Hoke’s
$11,786.12 but w;di .^)elow big
Cumberland’s $2w,3M.46.
Total for the state in such
collections $5,901,160.29. G. A.
Jones, Jr. State Revenue
Commissioner said.
Heart Fund
To date, $4,512 in receipts for
the Heart Fund have been
reported from the Women’s
Titleholders Championship Golf
Tournament held at Pine
Needles May 26-29.
The figure was released in the
weekly report of W. James
Logan, Executive Director of the
fund. He said total attendance for
the four-day tournament was
estimated at approximately
5,500, one of the largest galleries
on the women’s tour.
The Executive Committee of
the tournament has met with
members of the North Carolina
Heart Association staff to review
the results of this year’s event
and make preliminary plans for
the 1973 tournament, to be held
May 25-28.
The sixth victim in a series if
three one-vehicle wrecks in
Moore County this week died
yesterday in Memorial Hospital
in Chapel Hill, when Miss
Patricia Culler, succumbed to
injuries.
The 19-year old resident of
Ellerbe was injured in a wreck
Friday near West. End. Trudy
Ann Rush, 19, also of Ellerbe was
killed in the same accident.
Also dead are IVfrs. Marie
Willis Maness, 36, of Robbins;
Randy Wayne Maness of Rob
bins, Route 2 (no relation);
Johnny Ray Smith, 19, of Car
thage, R. 1. in a wreck near
Clarthage; and Christy Mauldin
Tucker, 22, of Troy, in a
motorcycle crash.
Memorial Hospital said today
that Richard (Easley, 17, of
Eagle l^rings, R. 1, remained in
intensive care at the hospital.
In the wreck which killed three
persons, a fourth escaped
practically unhurt, in a one-car
accident about 1:15 a.m.,
Saturday on the two-mile stretch
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Bishop Coming
To Pinecrest
As New Coach
Charlie Bishop will be coming
to Pinecrest this Fall as the new
track and basketball coach,
according to Edison Powers,
associate superintendent of the
Moore Chunty schools.
Powers said Bishop agreed to
accept the teaching and coaching
position several weeks ago. He
will be teaching social studies in
addition to his coaching duties.
Bishop is presently living in
Hamlet, where he led their Red
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Safety Award
Southern Pines has been
recognized for not having a
pedestrian death in four years.
The town was given the
citation as a part of the 1972
American Automobile
Association Pedestrian Safety
Inventory, sponsored by the
Carolina Motor Club.
Southern Pines was one of 49
cities in the two Carolinas to
receive one of the citations.
The Southern Pines Police
Department has received many
such awards for outstanding
safety records.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
Police Leave for Promotions,
Not For Money, Manager Says
TRUSTEES-Within the next
couple of weeks the powers of
loc^ boards of trustees in the
State’s University system will be
spelled out. In fact, a draft of the
duties and responsibilities has
been prepared by the Board of
Governors and is now being
circulated.
For the most part the local
boards will retain the powers
they formerly held, except in the
very important area of budgets.
Local boards, for example, will
make decisions on buildings once
the big board has given ai^roval
to budget requests and ap
propriations have been made by
the Legislature.
Faculty employment and other
matters pertaining to ad
ministration-faculty relation
ships will be the responsibilities
of local boards, subject to review
by the statewide Board of
Governors.
There will be adjustments
from time to time in the trustees
policy statement, but decisions
on the working details have been
made, and the issue which once
was expected to stir considerable
controversy has been, it appears,
quietly worked out.
REORGANIZATION State
government reorganization is
moving steadily forward and the
new administrative structures
should be in full operation before
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Southern Pines City Manager
“Bud” Rainey said Thursday
that the salaries of town
policemen “are ahead of
everybody else in the county,
including the sheriff’s depart
ment.”
He noted that the present
starting salary for a patrolman is
$450 a month, well above the
average in North Carolina for
cities this size, and that a 5^ per
cent pay raise will go into effect
on July 1.
In addition to the checks,
Rainey feels the fringe benefits
Pitch In Program Plans
To Help Stop Littering
That’s the State’s answer to the donated by N. C. Beer
ugly problem of litter on the wholesalers will be installed with
Highways. appropriate ceremonies with
In this area, a “Pitch in” in- Highway Commissioners and
stallation will take place just donors present to acquaint the,
over the county line on US 220 public with the new trash con-
north of Ellerbe. tainers and encourage their use.
One of 250 “Pitch In” cans (Continued on Page 12-A)
offered by the town are im
portant and are better than those
offered elsewhere in the county.
The town offers a two per cent
Christmas bonus, unlimited
uniform laundering, free life
insurance, a substantial
retirement plan, an initial two
weeks of vacation which goes to
three weeks after ten years
service, a hospitalization plan,
and a full year’s salary in ad
dition to the life insurance if a
policeman is killed in the service
of the town.
Rainey noted that both of the
recent resignations in the police
department have been to accept
chief’s jobs elsewhere in the
county and said “money wasn’t
the reason.”
At 16, He’s a Dealer - And Asks Reporter “Don’t You Want to Turn On?”
BY KAY PERKINS
“I don’t have to pay anything
now for drugs because I’m a
dealer.
“Don’t you want to turn on?”
This was the frank talk of an
attractive 16-year old white boy
to The Pilot Friday night in a
secret interview. He has been on
drugs since he raided the family
medicine cabinet for an initi^
experiment with amphetamines
when he was 14.
A dealer sells enough drugs to
support his own habit.
Because his first experiences
with drugs were enjoyable, he
decided to try otiier drugs. He
found out who some of the
pushers were in town and bought
some marijuana. From
marijuana he has gone on to
mescaline, L.S.D., cocaine and
heroin.
Most of the drugs that he deals
with he gets from Fayetteville,
from other drug dealers and
from people who bring them
from the North. He said that it
was easy to peddle drugs after
fellow drug users know about
you.
For a long time the user said
that he was hooked on L.S.D. A
good ‘trip’ on L.S.D. causes him
to “feel high and see everyone
like comics.” Also when he takes
drugs, he sees a lot of patterns.
At one point he was taking L.S.D.
every two days.
Once he was also hooked on
speed. He reached a point that he
was able to sit still and enjoy it.
Usually speed causes one to be
very energetic, then a person
builds a tolerance to it, and is
able to sit still. Of all the trips
that he has been on, he has never
had a bad trip. “All of my trips
have been happy, I laugh and
laugh and enjoy it,” the boy said.
Heroin is the only drug which
he has tried that he said he will
never use again. The reason he
gave was that, “heroin is bad for
the entire body system.” He
doesn’t feel that drugs cause any
real damage to the body, except
that sometimes he forgets things.
Also he has had flashbacks, or
reoccurrences of trips, because
of his taking of L.S.D.
Most hard drug trips last from
10 to 12 hours, depending on what
kind of drug it is. The boy says
that he usually takes hard drugs
at people’s homes, or out in the
country. He finds that in the
Southern Pines area that most of
the people who take drugs are not
teenagers, but are young adults
in the 20’s and 30’s age
bracket. How did his parents
react to his taking drugs? “My
parents don’t like for me to take
drugs at all,” he said. They found
out that he was using drugs when
he was arrested for the
possession of heroin. He said that
his mother tried to talk him out of
taking drugs, but he said that his
parents can’t tell him what to do.
The boy’s immediate plans are
to continue taking drugs.
Presently he takes one drug of
some type a day. Although he
would rather smoke marijuana,
he does continue to use
chemicals, or hard drugs. From
his own experience he feels that
it was not marijuana that caused
him to take the harder
drugs. Someday, in his opinion
marijuana will become legal.
When asked about the value of
drug rehabilitation centers, or
halfway houses, he said that he
did see the value of them. And he
thinks that they are needed and
are a good idea.
Taking drugs to this young
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