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Vol. 52-No. 44
28 PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1972
28 PAGES
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Attorney General
Morgan to Speak
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Robert Morgan
Ex- Sheriff
W.B. Kelly
Rites Held
The Carthage Presbyterian
church was crowded to capacity
Sunday afternoon for funeral
services for one of Moore
county’s best known and best
loved citizens, former Sheriff
Wendell B. KeUy.
The pastor, the Rev. B. E.
Dotson, conducted the service at
the church and in the cemetery of
Priest Hill Presbyterian church
near Carthage, where burial took
place in the rural section where
Sheriff Kelly was born and
raised.
Honorary pallbearers included
law enforcement officers of the
county, also members of the
State Highway Patrol on county,
district and state levels.
Tne present sheriff, C.G.
Wimberly, who like Kelly was
formerly a member of the State
Highway Patrol, served as an
active pallbearer with State
Trooper Tommy S. Clark of
Robbins and Irvin Priest, Brady
Prady Presley, C.M. Patterson
and Hugh Jackson, all of Car
thage.
Kelly was a member of North
Carolina’s first State Highway
Patrol class, which gradauted in
1929. He rose to the position of
Sergeant in charge of the
Fayetteville district, which at
that time included Moore
County. Following retirement, he
was elected sheriff in 1958, then
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Safety Course
Dr. John C. Grier, Chairman of
Safety Programs for Moore
County Chapter, announced this
week that a Multimedia In
structors Course will be given at
the Sandhills Community College
September 11 and 12 between the
hours of 7 until 10 p.m. The class
will be held in the Meyer
Building, room 216.
To be eligible for the class, the
individual who wishes t6 sign up
must have had previous in
struction in Standard
Multimedia.
Leon Lancaster,
Multimedia Instructor from
Fayetteville, will be here to
teach the class.
Those who wish to join in the
class are asked to notify the Red
Cross Chapter office, either by
telephone: 692-8571, or in person
at 244 S. W. Broad St. Southern
Pines, N.C.
Attorney General Robert
Morgan will be the speaker at the
Moore County Democratic fund
raising dinner on Thursday,
Sept. 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Whispering Pines Restaurant.
County Chairman Carolyn
Blue said that the Moore
Democratic Executive Com
mittee met last Thursday and
made plans for th6 dinner.
Tickets, which will sell for $10,
have been mailed to precinct
chairmen and members of the
executive committee.
Moore County has been given a
quota of $600 to raise for the
Vance-Aycock Dinner to be held
in Asheville on Sept. 30. Oiair-
man Blue said that she has
tickets for that dinner and they
are available at $50. The dinner
here on Sept. 21 is designed to
help meet the Moore quota as
well as to raise funds for the
Democratic party’s fall cam
paign in Moore.
A big party rally, at which all
candidates will be invited to
speak, will be held in mid-
October. Chairman Blue said
the time and place will be an
nounced later.
Sheffield
Is Named
Postmaster
J. W. Sheffield, acting post
master since January of 1966 of
Pinehurst, has been named
Postmaster, he learned Friday
by telephone, from toe.gistrict
office in Greensbofftr^^tJve
the next day. Sept. 2.
The other two first class
postofficers are still without
postmasters, according to
Lawrence McCrimmon, head of
the Southern Pines postoffice.
Aberdeen is also without a
postmaster.
A petition in Sheffield’s behalf
was circulated in Pinehurst and
various officials high in govern
ment circles were approached.
Veteran Dies
In His Auto
Harold Lee Robinson, 24, of 490
South Mechanic St., Southern
Pines, a Vietnam war veteran
and bridegroom of two months,
was found dead Wednesday
morning in his car parked on a
woods road off the Bethlehem
Church Road, in deep woods west
of Carthage.
(Coroner A. B. Parker, who
assisted Sheriff C. G. Wimberly
and Chief Deputy Albert Cole in
the investigation, ruled the death
a suicide, caused by carbon
monoxide poisoning. He
estimated Robinson had been
dead for about five hours.
The motor of the car was still
running when it was found about
11 a.m. by a New York couple
searching for an old cemetery
farther along on the forest road.
Parker said a garden hose had
been attached to the exhaust pipe
and run up through the floor
board into the passenger com
partment. A note was found in
the car in which Robinson
professed his love for his wife,
Diane, and declared, “I am lost
without her.”
The investigation revealed that
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Moore Spends $719.86
On Each School Child
Total per pupil expenditures
for Moore County amounted to
$719.86 during 1970-71 according
to a recent survey by the North
Carolina Association of
Education.
Of the total, $512.23 went for
administration and instructional
services. The balance of the
money spent went for operation
of plants, maintenance of plants,
fixed charged and auxilliary
services.
The county ranked 26th in total
per pupil expenditures and 37th
in instructional costs among the
141 school systems in North
Carolina.
The survey also exploded the
popular myth that rural school
systems have less money to
spend than urban ones, ac
cording to Dr. A. C. Dawson,
executive secretary of the
NCAE.
He says the survey shows the
two school systems which spend
the most and least per pupil for
instructional services and ad
ministration are both rural
systems.
“This is a paradox and shows
that there is no rhyme or reason
to comparison of educational
spending in this state,” Dr.
Dawson said.
The statewide average per
pupil expenditure for in
structional services and ad-
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fM
Board Cracking Down
On Welfare Chistlers
Former welfare recipient
Ethel McNeill of Aberdeen wUl
be tried tomorrow in Carthage
District Court on misdeameanor
charges brought by the
tiepartment of SociS &rvices.
She is charged with showing
false rent receipts of $800 over a
period of two years, after her
house was already paid for. Her
case was first set for August 24,
and when she didn’t appear, a
capias was issued and her bond
raised by the judge from $100 to
$600. However, when deputies
served the capias, they found
extenuating circumstances, and
cited her without demanding the
bond.
Mrs. Walter B. Cole said she
began charges as part of a drive
against welfare abuse when
Ethel McNeill declined to pay the
amount back over a period of
time.
A similar fraud case was nol
pressed, when Minnette Capel of
Southern Pines paid the $292 she
owed the Department and the
court costs of $16 before her trial.
Mrs. Walter B. Cole of the
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Whispering Pines Will
Have Bond Issue Vote
Registered voters in
Whispering Pines will have the
opportunity to vote on an $^,(X)0
bond issue to finance a new
municipal building in the
November 7 election.
Councilman Comptom Tim-
berlake said the Village Council
is now entering into agreements
with the State and Moore County
Board of Elections to hold the
bond referendum on November 7
using a special ballot.
He said a formal resolution of
the Council is expected soon
Keller Asks
Soil Tests
From Board
The possibility of securing a
federal grant for comprehensive
soil testing in Moore county, with
measures to prevent erosion and
other ecological deterioration,
was discussed by W. K. Keller,
county soil conservationist, with
the county commissioners in
regular meeting Monday.
While Moore county is in better
shape, in respect to erosion, than
many other North Carolina
counties, there are plenty of
places where strong preventive
measures are needed, and
scientific land use planning for
the future would pay off, said
Keller, who illustrated his talk
with a number of slides.
Taking part in the discussion
were Talmadge S. Baker, Ex
tension agricultural chairman;
Dr. A. G. Siege, county public
health director, and E. Floyd
Dunn, sanitarian.
W. S. Taylor, chairman of
county commissioners, agreed to
represent the board at a meeting
to be held next Monday night in
Keller’s office, to take initial
steps toward applying for the
grant.
A matter of erosion, in a
crucial stage, was brought
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calling for the referendum on
November 7. Several steps
toward holding the vote have
already been taken, including
publication of a Notice of In
tention and filing an application
to hold the election with the Local
Government Commission.
Chairman Angus M. Brewer of
the Moore County Board of
Elections said that the board
would conduct the bond election,
with Whispering Pines residents
voting at the Eureka polling
place on the issue.
The Council authorized the
bonds, subject to the approval of
the voters during its August
meeting, and a public meeting of
residents held to discuss the
matter August 17. Timberlake
said “the proposal seemed to be
well received at the meeting.”
The proposed municipal
building will provide a fire
station, police headquarters and
municipal offices. “This new
venture,” Timberlake said, “is
necessitated by the problems of
housing present fire and police
equipment.”
He urged all residents of
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
GALIFIANAKIS — Rep. Nick
Galifianakis, the Democratic
candidate for the U.S. Senate,
will spend the day in Moore
County on Friday.
Accompanied by his county
campaign manager, Dixie Hall,
Galifianakis will make a hand
shaking tour of Southern Pines,
Aberdeen, Pinehurst, Carthage
and Robbins.
He plans to return for a speech
making tour on Oct. 3.
Two other Democratic can
didates are also expected to be in
Moore on Friday. They are Jim
Hunt of Wilson, candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, and
Richard Clark of Monroe,
Four Were Killed
In Labor Weekend
Auto Accident Here
MODEL MECHANICS — Red’s Esso on S. W. Broad St. will never be the same
now that there are three high school girls working there part time. The girls say
they like the job and will be helping out on Satursays now that school is in session.
Here Sarah Wilier checks the oil on a customer’s car as Lisa Patnode (left) and
Pam Council (right) watch.
Red-Good Men Hard to Find
And Besides, Girls Work Better
If you stop by Red’s Esso on
S.W. Broad St. and find a girl
filling up your car or changing
the oil, don’t be too surprised.
Red Council, owner of the
station, has three high school
girls working there and says
“boys are hard to find and girls
do a better job anyway.” Two of
the three girls on the payroll,
Sarah Miller and Paiq Council,
have been working there all
summer. Lisa Patnode started
Thursday.
The girls pump gas, check
under the hood, change oU,
grease cars, wash cars, and do
other odd jobs associated with
working in a service station. All
of them say they enjoy the job,
but don’t plan to make a career
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Husom Has
Fund Drive
Beginning September 1 and
lasting two weeks, the Humane
Society of Moore County, Inc. is
conducting their Annual
Membership Drive.
Funds derived from these
memberships will be used as
operating funds for the modern
animal shelter that has just been
completed by HUSOM.
This shelter is the most
modern in the state and was
made possible by special gifts,
and donations secured during a
building fund drive last year.
Moore County has turned over
to HUSOM the animal control
program for the county and
provides about one third of the
operating costs. These county
funds go mainly for the support
of the County Dog Warden
functions and all other operating
costs must be provided through
membership and donations. All
funds contributed are income tax
deductible as HUSOM is a non
profit organization. Regular
memberships are $5.00 per year,
contributing $15.00, and sup
porting $25.00. Larger donations,
which are needed entitle the
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NYC Project
Offers Work
For 66 Here
Funds of $41,250 have been
provided the Sandhills Com
munity Action program in
Carthage to provide work op
portunities for 66 boys and girls
from poverty level families.
The federal funds have been
approved by the U.S. Depart
ment of Labor, regional Man
power Administrator William
Norwood said in Atlanta.
The program is a Neigh
borhood Youth Corps project.
Funded through May 18, 1973,
the project will serve the
Southern Pines, Carthage, Vass
and Robbins areas in Moore
County and surrounding areas of
Lee, Hoke, and Montgomery
County.
The Neighborhood Youth
Corps, established in 1964, under
the Economic Opportunity Act,
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Two Men
Charged
With Rape
Two Pinehurst men, Ralph
Parrish, 29, and Ivial Kennedy,
24, were arrested Tuesday by
Pinehurst police and are being
held in Moore County Jail at
Carthage without privilege of
bond, charged with rape.
Chief G. L. Wright said
warrants were sworn out by Miss
Ralricia Elizabeth Barry, a
visitor from New York City, who
is staying in an apartment at
Manly, and who was babysitting
Monday night at the home of the
T. G. Walraths on Dundee Road.
Miss Barry told officers that
she was watching television at
the Walrath home, and had left
the front door open because it
was warm in the room, when two
men whom she did not know
came in the door. She said both
raped her, despite her screams
and protests. The house is in a
wooded area and no one heard
her or came to help her, she said.
Chief Wright said the Walraths
drove up and the men left hastily
in a truck, but they were able to
secure the license number.
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Vass Reports
Two Wrecks
At 8:30 this morning Chief
James R. Grissom investigated a
two car accident at the in
tersection of Seaboard and Main
St. He said a car driven by James
Peterson of Vass pulled into the
side of a car driven by Jo Anne
Hipps of Vass.
She received only a slight
injury according to Grissom and
he charged Peterson with failure
to see before that a movement
could be made safely. Total
damage was estimated at $900.
Sunday evening at 8:30
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School Roll
Drops 242
Moore County schools had a
smooth opening last week, but
with enrollment figures of the
first full day totalling 242 less
than last year. However, said C.
Edison Powers, associate
superintendent, enrollment was
expected to return to its former
level, once the holiday was over.
In comparing the totals (9,297
this year, 9,539 last). Powers
noted that schools opened last
year on Tuesday, September 1,
and were well under way before
the Labor Day holiday in
tervened. This year. Labor Day
came earlier, after just a day
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Warren Bell
Bell Says
Underpass
Is Needed
Warren Bell, of Pine Needles
Lodges and Country Qub, said a
proposed underpass on NC 22
which divides his golf course had
been under study since the
Sanford administration because
it is “tremendously hazardous.”
Gov. Bob Scott was recently
quoted in the press as saying
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Clark Adds
Kay Miller
To Staff
Eighth District Congressional
candidate Richard Qark today
named a woman to the post of
news secretary for his campaign.
Miss Kay Miller, a well-known
North Carolina reporter, will
assume the post immediately.
Prior to joining the Clark
campaign, she was news
secretary for Lieutenant
Governor H. Pat Taylor.
Clark will be in Moore County
Friday, Sept. 8 from 9 to 5 on a
hand-shaking tour.
The campaign post involves
coordination between Qark and
the news media covering the
Eighth District race. Among her
duties will be writing news
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Four persons were killed in a
collision of two cars at 1:45 a.m.
Sunday at a rural intersection, a
mile and a half northwest of
Jackson Springs in the worst
highway accident in the state
during the Labor Day weekend.
Three were killed instantly, a
fourth dying Tuesday night.
David White, Sr., 22, died in
Memorial Hospital in Chapel
Hill, where his son, David, Jr.
remained in “poor” condition in
the intensive care unit.
Of six people in one car, all of
Eagle Springs Rt. 1, State
Trooper T.S. Clark identified the
dead as Julia Cole Person, 30, the
driver; her husband Jimmy
Charles Person,33, and a year-
old boy, Timmy Lee Smith.
Margie White, 19, mother of the
two young children, remained in
Moore Memorial hospital. Her
condition was described today as
“satisfactory.”
The other driver, Roger Vick
Atkins, 26, of Moncure, Rt. 1, who
was alone in his car, was
critically hurt and remained in
intensive care at Moore
Memorial hospital.
Clark said the car driven by
Mrs. Person ran a stop sign and
struck Atkins’ car broadside in
the middle of the intersection of
state roads No. 1126 and No. 1137,
between Jackson Springs and
Eagle Springs, close to the
Montgomery County line.
The cars came together with
violent impact, then sprang
apart, with all the occupants
pinned inside. It took officers and
two rescue squads. West End and
Sandhills (Aberdeen), till
daylight to remove the dead and
injured and clear the wreckage
away.
Coroner A. B. Parker, was
assisted Clark in the in
vestigation, said both Mr. and
Mrs. Person died of massive
head and chest injuries. The car
she was driving belonged to
Foster Williams, a sawmill
owner of the area who was
Person’s employer. Both cars
involved in the wreck were
demolished.
Clark said that Atkins, an
Army veteran and student at the
University of North Carolina,
was on his way to visit his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Atkins, for the holiday. The
accident occurred within a mile
or two of their home.
This was the second major
accident for Moore county in
about two and a half months,
thrusting the highway death toll
for the year up to 16.
OTHERS INJURED
Five more persons were in
jured in the 11 other accidents
investigated by Highway Patrol
officers in Moore County this
week.
Friday morning at 10:50 a car
driven by Robert Blue of Vass
ran a stop sign at the intersection
of rural roads 1001 and 2014 four
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Bulletin
There will be a special meeting
of the Town Council in the
Municipal Building September 7
(Thursday) at 2 p.m. for the
purpose of cohsidering bids for
street improvements.
Moore Schools State’s Newest Tree Farm
Officially Opened Friday
candidate for Ck)ngress from the
Eighth District.
HIGHWAYS — A complete
revamping of the State Highway
Conunission is in the worte next
year.
There is some talk of doing
away with the commission en
tirely and turning road-building
over to professional planners and
engineers. At the least, however,
much of the decision making
powers of the commission will be
taken away, and the present
powerful chairman’s position
will be a non-paying job.
The State Highway Com
mission is now a part of the
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Get $13,370
Federal Funds
Moore (bounty schools will
receive an additional $13,370 in
Federal assistance under the
Urban and Rural Grant Program
to help support new or expanded
projects for preschoolers and
youngsters in elementary school
during the 1972-73 school year.
One hundred and two urban
and rural school districts in
North Carolina, serving the
highest concentrations of
children from low income
families, will receive a total of
$1,259,588 under grant allotments
announced August 3i by the U.S.
Office of Education.
The awards are being made
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Scientific woodland
management in the Sandhills
took another step forward Friday
with the official opening of the
state’s newest tree farm.
The 348 tract is three miles
southeast of Derby on rural road
1003, and is owned by Voit
Gilmore and Virginia and
William Towell.
Gilmore is currently a Vice
President of the American
Forestry Association and
President of the N.C. Forestry
Association. William Towell is
the Executive Vice President of
the American Forestry
Association in Washington, D.C.,
and a former Director of Con
servation for the state of
Missouri.
It was their mutual interest in
forestry that led to the joint
purchase of the timber tract in
1971.
On hand for the presentation of
the emblem and certificate were
Gilmore; the Towells; George
Polk, the N.C. District Tree
Farm Committee chairman;
Whitt Stallings, the district
forester; and Fred Moehler, the
assistant regional forester.
The tract is being managed
using a Forest Management plan
prepared by the N.C. Forest
Service at the request of the
owners. Officials of the service
said similar plans are available
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