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SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1972^
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PRICE 10 CENTS
500 Architects
To Hear Senator
At Convention
The South Atlantic Regional
Convention of the American
Institute of Architects wUl meet
in Pinehurst Sept. 27-30, with a
Raleigh Little Theater
production of the “Thurber
Carnival” set for the opening
night, and Sen. William Prox-
mire speaking at a Saturday
Senator Proxmire
luncheon.
Registration for an expected
500 architects will begin at The
Carolina Hotel Wednesday, Sept.
27.
Arrangements for the con
vention will be made by Thomas
T. Hayes of Southern Pines,
member of the AIA.
The Raleigh Section of the
North Carolina chapter, AIA,
will be hosts. Gene W. Jones of
Raleigh is general chairman and
William A. Carlisle of Columbia,
S.C. honorary chairman.
Keynoting the convention will
be Cliff Cameron, President and
Board Chairman of First Union
Bank.
Co-chairmen of a golf tour
nament with ten flights for the
men and eight for the ladies at
the Pinehurst Country Club are
E. J. Austin of Southern Pines
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Sandhills Is Still First
For A New State Park
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Efforts to locate a State Park
in Sandhills area continues.
This statement is especially
encouraging to the people of the
Felton Capel, C and D Board Sandhills area, because the
member says.
The latest meeting of the North
North Carolina State Parks and
State Forests Study Com-
Carolina Board of Conservation mission Report, January 1969,
and Development, held in
Asheville, on August 17 - 19,1972,
was an encouraging one for the
Division of State Parks.
Dr. Arthur W. Cooper,
Assistant Secretary for Resource
Management of the Department
of Natural and Economic
Resources,
designated
Department of Conservation and
Development, addressed the full
Board at the Friday morning
general session.
He stated that the State Parks
System will receive top priority
when the Department of Natural
and Economic Resources (in
cluding the Department of
Conservation and Development)
Budget requests are made to the
Advisory Budget Commission in
September.
identifies the “Sandhills” as the
number one priority region for
the establishment of a new North
Carolina State Park area.
After the consideration of the
Jackson Springs area the
Division of State Parks has been
involved in a continuing in-
and recently, vestigation of the SaP^hills
Director of the region, with the objective of
finding a prime site which would
fulfill the requirements for the
establishment of a new State
Park.
Alan R. Eakes, Landscape
Architect for the Division, made
further investigations in the area
during the middle of September.
“We are hoping that this phase
of the proposed project will be
completed by October meeting of
C & D Board in Raleigh,” Capel
says.
WHO’S ZOO?—Nobody’s. This zebra is one of several of the exotic animals on a
farm in Eastwood. A new baby zebra is shown at mealtime with her mother on
another page.
Election Board Registers Voters
In Precincts Beginning Sept. 30
Bowles to Help Tourism,
Mrs. Bowles Tells Press
BY KAY PERKINS
“My husband decided to run
for Governor because he felt that
there are so many things that
need to be done in the State,”
said Mrs. Hargrove (Skipper)
Bowles, whose husband is the
Democratic candidate for
Governor.
Mrs. Bowles was in Moore
County Friday campaigning on
behalf of her husband. During
her stay she visited the local
newspapers, the radio station
and had coffee hours at the
Holiday Inn in the morning and
at the Carthage Hotel in the
afternoon.
While at The Pilot, Mrs.
Bowles said that some of the
areas which her husband wishes
to concentrate are education,
agriculture, and the tourist trade
in the State. According to Mrs.
Bowles the agriculture in the
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Registration of voters in the
Precinct will be open in Moore
County on Saturday, September
30, 1972, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00
p.m., it was announced this week
by the Board of Elections.
All precincts will not be open
but a Central Registration office
will be in Aberdeen at the
Municipal building will serve the
East Aberdeen and West
Aberdeen precincts. In Southern
Pines a central registration in
the Municipal building will serve
for reigstration of KnoUwood,
North Southern Pines, South
Southern Pines and Pinedene
Precincts. In Carthage the
County Board of Elections office
will serve for registration of
East Carthage and West Car
thage precinct and for citizens
throughout the county who pre
sent themselves for registration.
In the following precincts
registrars will be on duty to
register all qualified voters;
Bensalem, Cameron, Deep
River, Eureka, High Falls, Little
River, Pinebluff, Pinehurst,
Ritter, Robbins, Vass, West End
and Westmoore.
Required public meetings of
the Moore County Board of
Elections will be held on Monday
and Friday of each week at 10:00
o’clock a.m. beginning the week
of September 25th, 1972, and
closing on Wednesday,
November 1,1972. The purpose of
Juvenile
Charges 3
With Rape
Three Eagle Springs youths
are being held witoout privilege
of bond in the Moore County Jail
charged with the rape of a
juverile girl of the Robbins
Community, according to Sheriff
C. G. Wimberly.
Wimberly said the girl told the
Sheriff’s Department the youths
forced her into compliance at
knifepoint Sunday afternoon in a
wooded area near her home.
In jail are James R. Cole, 21,
Lester Spencer, 16, and Ronzel
Spencer, 17, all of Eagle Springs.
A preliminary hearing on the
capital charges has been set for
Thursday in the Moore District
Coimt in Carthage.
the meetings is to pass upon
applications for absentee ballots.
Applications for absentee
ballots may be made in person or
in writing to the Ch^man,
Moore County Board ofElections,
at Carthage. Application for
absentee ballots may be made
beginning on Septemter 23,1972.
Procedure at required
meetings: Making deter
mination: At each public
meeting of the County Board of
Elections the Chairman shall
present for consideration and
the board shall pass upon, the
validity of all applications for
absentee ballots received since
its last preceding public meeting
held "for that purpose. In con
nection with each application
received by mail the Chairman
shall present the container en
velope in which the application
was received.
The Board of Elections office
in Carthage will be open Monday
through Saturday from 9:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. through October 7th
for voter registration, transfer of
registration, change of party
affiliation, change of address or
name. Registration for the 1972
General Election will close at
6:30 o’clock p.m. on Monday,
October 9, 1972. For further in-
formation concerning
registration or other election
matters telephone the Boards
office in Carthage 947-5467.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
GOVERNORS — The gover
nors at the Southern Governors
Conference at Hilton Head, S.C.,
had a good time at the recent
gathering, but several said to
David Murray, “We’d rather be
at Southern Pines.”
Murray, aide to Governor
Scott, said most of those at the
ocean resort had also attended
the Governors Conference held
at the Pine Needles club here last
year. “They were still talking
about the wonderful hospitality
at Southern Pines and how they’d
like to come back,” he said.
ROADS — Moore County
received a total of $164,000 from
the “unappropriated highway
fund” allocated by Governor
Scott in 1970 and loh.
The first allocation was in
October, 1970, and was for $37,000
to pave a section of State Road
1281. The second was in Sep
tember, 1971, for paving State
Roads 1642 and 1616.
Last week Governor Scott
released a list of all road {rojects
approved from unappropriated
highway funds from July 1,1969,
to Sept. 1, 1972.
The Governor defended the
allocations he had made and also
reported that State Highway
Commission members are
provided with funds from the
unappropriated account “for
them to program highway
projects in those counties
having the greatest need.” This
year $11.5 million was tran-
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Girl Dies After Wreck;
Highway Death Toll 17
Goldwater
Says Race
Is Crucial
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
The Country Club of North
Carolina was a glamorous set
ting Wednesday night for a
brilliant gathering of
Republicans—and some
Democrats leaning that way-
with U.S. Senator Barry Gold-
water as the stellar attraction.
The occasion was a $100-a-
plate dinner held in behalf of the
candidacy of Jesse Helms of
Raleigh for the Senate seat now
held by Everett Jordan,
Democrat.
Senator Goldwater arrived,
fresh off the plane which had
brought him from Washington, in
a balmy September twilight as
crowds were pouring in from all
over the state. The informal
reception spilled from the
clubhouse onto the patio and
lawn as Senator Goldwater and
Helms were interviewed out
doors for television, then set up
their receiving line under the
trees, to meet and greet a
seemingly endless line of ad
mirers.
Handsome, dapper and tanned,
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Storm Hits
On Weekend
The “most severe storm this
year” hit Moore County Satur
day and Sunday, with a thun
derstorm that caused serious
damage in Southern Pines, Vass,
Aberdeen and Pinebluff.
The storm started Saturday at
four o’clock, with lightning
knocking out five Carolina Power
and Light transformers.
It struck again Sunday night,
hitting 2 more transformers and
leaving the area in a 6 p.m.
blackout.
A primary insulation was hit
by lightning at the Municipal
Building, and trees fell on New
York and Vermont Avenues.
At the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Hopkins of 355 E.
Vermont Saturday, lightning
struck a tree, traveled into the
house on a telephone wire,
burned out a television set, a
washer and several other ap
pliances.
One of their sons received an
electric shock and had to be
treated by a physician. He went
back into mild shock again
Sunday and the entire family was
shaken by the experience.
When lightning went into the
telephone, it gave off showers of
sparks “like fireworks,” the
family said. There are still black
spots on the living room rug.
Cliff Puryear, service
manager for Carolina Power and
Light, said his crews were out
until midnight Saturday and
Sunday repairing the damage.
By that time, all service had
b^n restored.
Strangely enough, the San
dhills Research Center at
Jackson Springs was untouched
by the storm. Rainfall there was
only .7 of an inch.
During the week, a high
temperature of 91 degrees was
recorded there on September 15,
with the low of 60 degrees on
September 13.
Other temperatures were Sept.
14, high 90, low, 68; Sept. 15, hi^,
91, low 68; Sept. 16, high 85, low
67; Sept. 17, high, 88, low 69; and
Sept. 19, high 81, low 68.
Chamber
Nominates
Directors
Six new directors have been
nominated for the Sandhills
Chamber of Commerce,
President Voit Gilmore has
announced.
They are: James Van Camp,
Carthage Attorney; Don Collett,
President of Pinehurst, Inc.;
Mrs. Buck Adams, Country Club
of North CaroHna; James L.
Shaw, J.P. Stevens Co., Aber
deen; Mrs. John Buchholz,
Salem Shop, Southern Pines; and
D.J. Rector, Fletcher’s Bar
becue, West End.
Holdover Board members are
Arnold Bohren, William 0.
Bryant, Felton Capel, Michael B.
Curry, Dr. William Hollister,
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Bond Made
In Mmder
Case Here
A young brother and sister
have been charged with murder
in the death of a 63-year-old West
Southern Pines man, whom
Sheriff C.G. Wimberly said they
admitted having beaten up,
apparently in resentment over
the man’s attentions to their
mother.
Alonzo McMillan, of 443 South
Hardin St., died last Wednesday
in Memorial hospital. Chapel
Hill, where he was carried
Sunday night, September 10, in
critical condition, with massive
head and face injuries.
Fred Ruth, 18, of “Lost City,” a
small isolated community on the
outskirts of West Southern Pines,
and his sister Mrs. Debris
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Road Funds
Come Here
Moore County towns will
receive record amounts of
money next month from passage
of laws last year doubling the
amount of money from the
gasoline tax to municipalities.
Tlie amounts of the total
$27,024,222.30 of Powell Bill funds
allocated statewide will brmg the
following cash here, according to
the State Highway Conunission:
Aberdeen, $21,864.22.
Cameron, $3,375.70.
Pinebluff, $11,358.13.
Robbins, $15,515.97.
Southern Pines, $82,715.47.
Vass, $13,863.83 and
Whispering Pines, $14,077.03.
Funding is based on a formula
under which population counts 75
per cent and street mileage not
on the state system, 25 per cent.
The new allocation is one cent
per gallon.
The $27,024,222.30 in Powell
Bill fun^ was more than double
last year’s allocation of $12.5
million, which was the largest
previous total for the state.
Reason for the giant mcrease
was the passage of legislation by
the 1971 General Assembly which
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Verona Anne Cole, 17, of West
End, a senior at Pinecrest High
school, died Monday at Memorial
hospital. Chapel Hill, of injuries
received Sunday afternoon in a
collision on US 15-501.
State Trooper Ted Derr said
the accident occurred about 5
p.m. in a heavy rainstorm, when
Miss Cole, driving her 1972
Chevelle toward Eastwood, a
short distance below the NC 22
intersection, applied brakes and
went into a skid which carried
her into the side of an ap
proaching tractor-trailer truck.
A passenger in the car, Sandra
Diane Burwell, 17, of Carthage,
was admitted to Moore Memorial
hospital with injuries not im
mediately determined. The
Carthage rescue unit carried the
two girls to the hospital, when it
was determined Miss Cole’s
injuries were critical, and
carried her on to the Chapel Hill
facility.
Derr said Joseph Thomas
James of Columbia, S.C., driver
of the truck owned by L. G.
DeWitt Trucking Co. of Ellerbe,
had his right4iand wheels en
tirely off the highway trying to
dodge the skidding car, but was
unable to do so. No charges were
preferred against James, who
suffered only minor injury.
Surviving Miss Cole are her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Everette
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Drexel Chooses Gangarosa
New Campaign Manager
Dave Drexel, State Senatorial
Candidate announced today in
Chapel Hill the appourtment of
Raymond Gangaro^'^w Atlanta,
Ga. to serVe as Campaign
Manager in the District which
includes Moore, Chatham,
Randolph, and Orange counties.
Mr. Gangarosa will be staymg in
Chapel Hill.
Gangarosa, 21, is a recent
psychology graduate of Emory
Univesity. His hobbies mclude
reading, music, and diving. He is
interested in a career in mental
health research.
Drexel has long been an active
worker in the fields of ecology,
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Raymond Gangarosa
Stanley Furniture Trains
42 Under Federal Program
Stanley Furniture Company of
West End is one of eight North
Carolina firms that will be
participating in a federally
sponsored training program
called JOBS.
The furniture company will
hire and train 42 participants in
the occupations of wood turning,
lathe operator, spray pabter,
shaper operator, and assembly
wood variety saw repariman.
Don P. Coughlin of the firm
will coordinate the training for
periods of up to August 13, 1973.
The federal cost is $55,928, ac
cording to the Department of
Labor.
The JOBS program is a joint
effort of the U. S. Department of
Labor and the National Alliance
of Businessmen to hire and train
the disadvantaged jobless.
Under the program, the
Secretary of Labor has
established procedures to enlist
the resources of private industry
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HOMECOMING —Old Bethesda Presbyterian Church
near Aberdeen will celebrate Homecoming Sunday
with the Rev. Charles W. Worth, former minister of
the church, delivering the address. Homecoming will
start at 11:15 a.m., and after the sermon, a picnic
dinner will be held on the grounds. The church was
organized in 1790 by early Scottish settlers and the
present pastor is The Rev.W.C. Neill. Clifton Blue is
chairman for the event and Jack McN. Johnson, vice
chairman.