Index
Bible Lesson, B-3
Editorials, B-1
Book Page-B2
Entertainment, C-5
Pinehurst, C-1-2
Social News, A-2-3
Sports, A-:7-,C-4
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cloudy skies, with a chance of afternoon
or evening thundershowers, he sayS.
Vol. 5^No. 43
32 PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1972
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Telephone
Rate Hike
Is Upheld
Rate increases by United
Telephone Company which went
into effect last December have
been upheld by the State Court of
Appeals.
In a decision last week the
appeals court ruled that there
was no error in law in the State
Utilities Commission order
allowing the hefty rate increase.
The increase in rates in
Southern Pines ranged up to 50
per cent of phone rates formerly
in effect. In some areas the in
crease for private residential
service rose from $6.25 to $11.50
per month.
Assistant Attorney General I.
Beverly Lake Jr. said that the
Attorney General’s office was
considering an appeal to the
State Supreme Court. He said
that he was not greatly surprised
by the appeals court ruling.
Lake had filed the appeal from
the order of the Utilities Com
mission several months ago,
opposing the higher rates
granted to United Telephone on
the grounds that the company
was providing poor service. He
said that any further court action
would continue to lay stress on
the service aspect.
The Assistant Attorney
General said this week that it
would be several days before a
decision on an appeal, or other
court action, would be reached.
He said that he wanted to confer
with Attorney General Robert
Morgan and also study further
the appeals court ruling.
United Telephone Company
has headquarters in Southern
Pines and serves subscribers in
Moore County, and in other areas
of Wake, Harnett and Chatham
counties and in the town of
Kernersville.
Convention
Went Well,
Says Helms
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DoubleheaderCrowds
Reach High of 25,000
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CROWD — at the fifth hole in the finals Sunday at CCNC. Emerson Humphrey photo
Postal Service Promises
Better Service for Area
The newest innovation of the
United States Postal Service-
Area Mail processing-is to be
installed at the Fayetteville Post
Office on Saturday Sept. 2,
serving among others, Aberdeen,
Southern Pines and Pinehurst.
This was announced today by
Carl C. Ulsaker, Regional
Postmaster General, Southern
Postal Region, which covers the
Southern United States from
Texas to Florida.
“The program is intended to
speed the ultimate delivery of the
mail and to gain maximum ef
ficiency and economy through
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Boosters
The Boosters Club of Area III
has already received $5,100 in
their “Sponsor an Athlete”
program. Chairman Bill Gentry
said this morning.
The club is attempting to raise
$30,000 for athletics by spon
sorships of $50 from individuals
or firms. This is the only money
making program of the Boosters,
and is being tried for the first
time this year.
AT THE CAROLINA — Glenn Campbell performs during the celebrity dinner at
the Carolina Hotel. The dinner was part of the festivities connected with the
Liggett & Myers Open and the U.S. Professional Match Play Championship here
this week. (Photo by Nan Riley.)
School Starts Tomorrow
For Some 10,000 Pupils
BY KAY PERKINS
“Everything went real
smooth,” said Paul Helms, a
Robbins resident who was an
alternate delegate to the
Republican national convention
in Miami last week.
According to Helms everything
was planned well and everything
went as planned, with no real
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It will be the same thing all
over Moore county Thursday-
but with something new added,
too, in Area IH.
In the county’s 19 schools in all
three areas, nearly 10,000
schoolchildren will be reporting
to their new classrooms, getting
acquainted with their new
teachers and marking their first
assignments in their new books.
It ^^l be a half-day only of
“Pupil Orientation,” followed
Friday by the first full day of
school.
Around 6,500 students will be
riding 122 school buses, most of
them in the familiar orange hue
but about 25 bright yellow, the
“now” color for school buses on a
nationwide scale.
In Area HI, the high school
freshmen won’t go to the high
school, by car, bus or any other
means. They’ll go to the middle
schools instead-the same ones
they attended as eighth graders,
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Mr. Poole
Died Thursday
Of Wounds
John Clark Poole, 56, of West
Maine Avenue, was found dead in
Poole’s Antique Shop of pistol
wound to the right temple which
(Coroner A. B. Parker ried were
self-inflicted.
“I can’t take it any 'moreI,”
Mr. Poole said in a note to Mrs.
Roy Rounds, volunteer helper in
his store who discovered the
body. Another note was left to his
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Increase
The monthly report of the
Board of Social Services showed
an increase in services to
children, an increase in Medicaid
and an increase in Food Stamps
applications.
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Same Man,
Same Site,
Two Wrecks
BY BRYAN GREEN
Nine persons were injured and
one car destroyed by burning in
the 13 accidents investigated by
Highway Patrol officers in
Moore County this week.
Two of the accidents were in
the same location, less than
seven hours apart, and involved
the same driver. They happened
Monday on rural road 1001
(Lobelia Rd.) six tenths of a mile
east of Vass, according to
trooper W. M. Gay.
He said Archie L. “Billboy”
Blue of Route 2, Vass wrecked a
1971 Chevrolet pickup in the spot
sometime between noon and 1:00
p.m., but did not report the ac
cident.
At 7; 20 p.m. that day. Blue was,
driving a 1971 Chevrolet 2 ton
truck in the same area when he
ran off the right side of the road,
lost control, skidded 501 feet
along the shoulder, and over
turned in the same spot as
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Tobacco
Crop Down
BY BRYAN GREEN
The yield from the tobacco
crop in Moore County this year
will be down from last year’s
crop, according to Walter Fields,
executive director of the Moore
County office of the ASCS.
He said the crop will vary
depending on a grower’s
location, since part of the county,
has had a good crop while
tobacco in other areas has not
fared as well. He estimated there
are about 1,500 farms in the
' county which can grow tobacco,
but thinks it is planted on less
than a thousand of them this
season.
Fields predicted about 1,900
pounds of tobacco will be sold
from the 3,000 acres grown in the
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Scores. Money in L & M Open
SIGN — This sign is a warning to alert motorists to
drive with extra care in school areas and near school
buses this week and in the weeks to come. Chief Earl
Sea well displays it with Sharon and Vic Bennett,
children of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Bennett, 550
Bennett St.
Lou 6ra1iain. $20,000 ....71-74-80-70-285
Hale Irwin. $7,733 70-72-71-72-285
David Graham, $7,733 72-72-68-73-285
Larry Ziegler. $7,733 70-72-70-73-285
Charles Coody, $3,850 69-74-73-70—286
Doug Sanders, $3,850 73-73-73-69-286
Bobby Greenwood. $2,625 ..69-76-71-71-287
Mason Rudolph. $2,625 ....71-73-69-74—287
J.C. Snead, $2,625 70-73-70-74-287
Ken Still. $2,625 71-70-72-74-287
John Schlee, $2,625 71-72-72-72-287
John Schroeder $2,625 69-72-75-71-287
Dan Sikes, $1,650 69-72-75-72-288
Byron Comstock, $1,650 ...73-71-71-73—288
Homero Blancas, $1,650 ...72-74-69-73f-288
Jim Ferriell, $1,650 72-72-71-73-288
Jerry McGee. $1,650 71-69-72-76-288
Joe Porter. $1,650 75-69-72-72-288
Roy Pace. $956 71-73-72-73-289
Jimmy Wright. $956 75-72-69-73-289
Don Iverson, $956 ....72-71-72-74—289
Bob Wynn. $956 74-70-72-73-289
Dick Lotz. $956 69-72-73-75-289
Jim Jamieson, $956 73-73-71-71—289
Dwight Nevil. $956 73-70-75-71-289
Ralph Johnston, $956 73-73-74-69-289
Charles Sifford, $956 . ..71-72-76-70-289
John Mahaftey, $956 75-72-74-68-289
Ed Sneed, $629 72-74-74-70-290
Jim Wiechers. $629 72-69-72-77-290
Joe Carr. $629 ....74-71-69-76-290
Bobby Cole, $629 72-72-74-72-290
Ed Moehling, $629 70-74-70-76-290
Ralph Baker. $629 71-73-74-72-290
Ken Fulton. $629 72-71-72-75-290
Steve Melnyk. $520 70-74-72-:^291
Gary Groh, $520 70-75-72-74-291
Richard Karl. $520 65-81-74-71-291
Jim Jewell. $363 72-71-71-78-292
Tommy Aaron. $363 73-70-73-76—292
Bob Charles. $363 70-76-71-75-292
Tom Shaw. $363 72-74-72-74-292
Bob Smith. $363 73-71-74-74-292
Dick Crawford. $363 74-70-74-292
David Glenz, $363 72-71-76-73-292
THE
PILOT LIGHT
CRIME — Attorney General
Robert Morgan reported this
week that the past month showed
a record number of murders in
North Carolina and that the week
before last showed a record
number of bank robberies.
Morgan said that the State
Bureau of Investigation had
worked on 35 murder cases in the
one month.
Dale Douglass, $363 72-74-76-70—292 “Control of crime still remains
Richard Bassett, $363 73-73-76-70—292 in the hands of local law en-
Dave Eichelberger, 71-70-76-76—293 forcement officers,” Morgan
Ron Gerrudo. $220 71-76-71-75—293 said. One of his goals as Attorney
George Knudson, $220 73-73-77-70—293 General has been the upgrading
Dave Hill. $143 73-74-69-78—294 of local law enforcement.
Ken Ellsworth. $143 76-70-71-77—294 SCHOOLS — Enrollment in
Jack Ewing, $143 74-71-74-75—294 North (Carolina’s public schools
Billy Ziobro, $143 ..73-71-75:75—294 is still dropping and Dr. Craig
Chuck Thorpe, $143 68-76-75-75—294 Phillips, Superintendent of
Mike Wynn, $143 71-73-76-74—294 Public Instruction, says it’s
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WINNING FORM -r- Jack Nicklaus follows through on
one of the spectacular drives that helped him win the
U.S. Professional Match Play Championship held at
the Country Club of North Carolina this weekend. He
defeated Frank Beard on the 17th hole of the final
round Sunday to win the $40,000 first place. by
Bryan Green.)
New Flue-Cured Tobacco
Loan Program Annoxmeed
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture has announced an
interim price support loan
program for the 1972 crop of flue-
cured tobacco stored on farms.
The program is designed to
provide flue-cured tobacco
growers cash needed to complete
the harvesting and curing of
their crops and to facilitate or
derly marketing. Department
spokesmen pointed out that
because of the general rush to
market many producers are
having difficulties obtaining
space on the warehouse floors.
Loans under the program will
provide immediate cash even
though the tobacco is not sold
until a later date.
Under the program the grower
may request a farm storage loan
on flue-cured tobacco at his local
ASCS county office in the same
manner as for farm storage
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School Lunches Up 5',
Education Board Says
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
School lunches will go up this
year by five cents each, to 40
cents in the elementary schools
and 45 cents ip the high schools,
under new federal guidelines
setting conditions for maximum
reimbursement for the free,
lunches served to « majority of
the children.
The raises were reluctantly
approved Tuesday night by the
Moore County board of education
on information from Mrs. Jessie
T. Loving, school food services
director, that they were
necessary to secure the reim
bursement.
Without the raises, she said.
“we would be losing five cents
per plate, and would have to cut
down on either the quality or
personnel.”
She said word from Ralph W.
Eaton, state school food services
director, was that maximum
reimbursement rates set by the
Department of Agriculture for
this year would appear to be
eight cents for paid
(reduced price) lunches, and 48
cents for free lunches, provided
the rates of reimbursement do
not exceed the paying child’s
payment. This woidd hike the
price of a fully-paid lunch to 40
cents in the elementary '^ools.
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Some 25,000 fans came to the
Country C3ub of North Carolina
this weekend to see the
Doubleheader at the (^untry
Club of North Carolina, won by
Jack Nicklaus and Lou Graham.
William J. Klaess, tournament
director, made the estimate
yesterday and said he was happy
that everything went so well and
that “the cooperation of the
people here was fantastic.”
The visitors saw just about
every top golfer in the country
and money is still pouring into
the coffers for the Shriners
Hospitals for children, which
received all benefits from the
tournaments.
Klaess said Honorary
Chairman Milton Harrington,
President of Liggett and Myers,
which sponsored the event, was
also pleased with the way things
went.
Don Provost of New York could
not be reached for comment of
whether the tournament,
golfing’s first doubleheader, will
be played again next year.
Jack Nicklaus carried home at
least three reminders of his stay
in the Sandhills and victory in the
U.S. Professional Match Play
Championship Sunday.
Harrington gave the 32fyear-.
old champion the winner’s check
for $40,000, a trophy, and threw in
a pack of L&M-made cigarettes
for good measure.
The victory was Nicklaus’ 43rd
since he joined the pro tour in
1962. He has entered 16 tour
naments this year and brought
onto the faiways of the Country
C3ub of North Carolina a 1972
tour background of five victories,
three seconds, and ten finishes in
the top ten of other tournaments.
This year he won the West
chester Classic for the second
time, the llnited States Open for
the third time,the Masters for a
record-tying fourth time, the
Crosby, and the Doral-Eastern
Open where took over the all
time career winnings lead.
The winner’s check and the
$66.66 he picked iq) in the Pro-Am
boost his 1972 earnings, to
$280,482.61, and give him a
career total of $2,004,062.29.
Arnold Palmer, golf’s previous
moneywinner, has taken home
$1,525,251.84 during his career,
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Speaker
Praises
Schools
“During the last ten years
North Carolina has taken a
major step toward showing
concern of the citizen-with the
development of a statewide
system of community colleges
and technical institutes.”
So said Dr. Gerald B. James in
his address to the graduating
class of Sandhills Ck)mmunity
College Wednesday evening in
the moonlit fountain courtyard
on the campus.
Dr. James, distinguished
scholar and educator and
president of Rockingham
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because of a “leveling off of the
birth rate.” Total enrollment in
North Carolina school is ex
pected to be about 12,000 less
than last year.
There are indications, Phillips
said, that some students who
were attending private schools
last year are returning to the
public schools. Several new
private schools will open this fall,
but Phillips said that there are
“as many closings as openings.”
About 750,000 students ride
10,500 buses to North Carolina
schools, he said, and he
estimated there are between
75,000 and 85,000 people em
ployed in the State’s public
schools.
In regard to teachers, he said
there are now more teachers
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TOPS — Robert Antuna, right, of Spring Lake, was the recipient of the
President’s Award for the highest academic standing of the SCC class at the
graduation excercises Wednesday evening. Dr. Raymond Stone, left, made the
presentation. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey.)