Temperatures
will remain mild in the Sandhills
through the rest of the week, with the
highs in the 80’s and the lows at night in
the 60’s. Variable cloudiness is ex
pected.
■LOT
Fish Fry
will be sponsored by the volunteer
Carthage Rescue Squad Friday, Sept.
29, at 5 p.m. in the Rescue Squad
Building in Carthage. The squad is
financed by donations only.
IT’S AUTUMN — Fall officially came to the Sandhills this weefe, and with it the
annual chore of leaf raking arrived. These leaves on the sundial in front of the
Church of Wide Fellowship are just a few of the ones that will find their way into
piles along the streets.
Don Davis Joins Sheriff Holes-In One
Two holes-in-one were mad(
In Fight Against Drugs
I Donald E. Davis, 38, narcotics
officer with the Southern Pines
police department for the past 11
months, has joined the Moore
County sheriff’s department as
member of a plainclothes in
vestigative unit, serving the
county and its municipalities
alike.
He is working with Detectives
J.E. Cockman and Charles
Watkins in various types of in
vestigations, with emphasis on
the war against drug abuse. In
this he will continue to work
closely with Watkins, who is also
Road Bids
Bids may be let soon on the
proposed road through Carthage
on McReynolds street. Cartilage
Mayor J.L. Riley says.
He says he feels there is less
hostility toward the project than
there has been in the past.
A.J. Hughes, district highway
engineer, says another project
which would provide easy access
to the Lake Surf area from Vass
is in the advanced planning
stage, and no action is likely for
some time because of other more
urgent tasks before the planners.
He added that the construction
project at the point where US 1
and US 15-501 divide in Aberdeen
should be completed by
November 1.
a special officer in this field.
Sheriff C.G. Wimberly said this
wefek he is “very satisfied" with
the new arrangement, det^s of
which were worked out earlier
this month by Southern Pines
town manager Bud Rainey and
himself, and were approved last
week by the Southern Pines town
council and county com
missioners.
Under the cooperative
arrangement, the county has
bought the car Davis was ireing
from the TWn of Southern Pines,
and will replace the town-oWnqd
radio with one to be provided by
the county. Special etpiapnent is
also being furnished by the
county.
TheTownkwill corttinue, for the
rest of this fiscal year, to pay a
share of Davis’ salary, of which
the larger part is currently being
paid with LEAA (state-federal
law enforcement) funds. LEAA
participation, however, which is
for new staff additions, continues
for only three years, diminishing
year by year, and it is an
ticipated that, if the present set
up works out well, a cooperative
arrangement of town and county
will be agreed on for the future.
Wimberly said it was con
sidered best all around for the
unit to optisrate as part of his
departmorit, but it will work all
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Precinct Registration
To Be Held Saturday
Registration of voters in the
Precincts will be held in Moore
County on Saturday, September
30, 1972, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00
p.m., Angus M. Brewer, Election
Board Chairman, says.
All Precincts will not be open,
but a Central Registration office
will be in Aberdeen Municipal
Building to serve East Aberdeen
and West Aberdeen Precincts,
with Miss Martha McLeod,
Registrar.
In Southern Pines, a Central
Registration office in the
Municipal Building, will serve
for registration of Knollwood,
North Southern Pines, South
Southern Pines and I^edene
Precincts, with Mr. David Page
as Registrar.
East Carthage and West
Carthage qualified voters will
register at the Board of Elections
Office and for all other citizens
throughout the County who
present themselves for
registration.
The following Registrars will
be on duty at their respective
polling place to register all
qualified voters:
Bensalem Precinct-Mrs.
Pauline S. Martin, Cameron
Precinct-Mrs. Mary Louise
McKay, Deep River Precinct-
Mrs. Bronnah C. Flinchum,
Eureka Precinct-Mrs. Buna B.
McLeod, High Falls iSPrecinct-
Mrs. Evelyn Upchurch, Little
River Precinct—Mr. E. B. Blue,
Pinebluff Precinct-Mrs. Madge
P. David, Pinehurst Precinct-
Mr. Daniel P. McDonald, Ritter
Precinct-Mr. Dewitt Purvis,
Robbins Precinct-Mr. J.E.
Muse, Jr, Vass Precinct-Mr.
Ben H, Wood, West End
Precinct—Mrs. Ellen W.
Thompson, Westmoore Precinct-
-Mrs. Betty Jean Maness.
Two holes-in-one were made on
Southern Pines Country Club
Course during the week, both on
the No.3 hole.
Vesta Bigbee said it was once-
in-a-lifetime thing.
She made a hole-in-one on the
No. 3 hole, 146 yards long, with a
7 wood Friday at the Southern
Pines Country Club course.
Playing with her were Louise
Piestrak, Cynthia Bruce, and
Jenny Struber.
Charles Mumford got his hole-
in-one Monday morning playing
with Tommy Thomas, Bill
Foulks and Carl Cramer. He
used a 3 wood on the hole, for
which; 3 is par.
HEW Grant
Of $55,550
Made Here
Moore County will receive a
$55,550 grant from HEW to
maintain the staff and essential
activities of special school
desegregation programs of the
school system and community
groups, according to the
Department’s regional office in
Atlanta.
The grant is an extension of
last year’s Emergency School
Assistance Program and will
provide funds for the local
program through January 31,
allowing the program to continue
in the absence of fiscal year 1973
appropriations for the purpose.
In announcing the FY 73
grants, Herman R. Goldberg,
Associate Commissioner of
Education for Equal Educational
Opportunity, stated that it is
expected that current ESAP
districts will apply for funding
under the new and broader
authority of federal
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Education
Meetings
Are Slated
The Moore County board of
education, in regular session
Tuesday night, approved a
schedule of meetings for the 1972-
73 “Budget Planning Process
Cycle” which will involve the
Friends of Public Education at
the various schools during the
coming months.
The group includes members
of the school advisory councils
and numerous others interested
in the public schools, willing to
put their time and energy on
helping with the budget planning
tasks, while at the same time
they learn of school financial
problems and needs.
Bob Hunt, director of computer
services, explained the many
services now being provided to
the Moore County schools by its
computer, also to other schools,
for which they pay. Though a
long way from becoming self-
sustaining, the computer,
located at the Moore County
Education Center, is providing
invaluable service, including
instruction to high school
students, and introductory data
processing for those of the
middle schools.
Joe Vaughn, business manager
of the schools, explained that the
payroll of more than 800 em
ployees is being progranuned, a
process which started last
spring, has taken more than 320
man-hours to date and is ex
pected to go into operation for the
first time next month.
Supt. Bob Lee presented to the
board the concern of some of the
principals in that some members
of the school advisory councils
fail, from the start, to attend
meetings. While many memliers
are faithful, and hard-working,
others are not. The principals,
who serve as secretaries of their
school councils, sought to find
some way to replace members
who aren’t interested, with
others who are.
After some discussion, the
board adopted a policy that
initial appointments to the board
should be for terms of one year
only, instead of three as is now
the case; and that the one-year
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New Shopping Ce
Here Will Feature
BigNe
Low Bids
Are Let
On Jail
The Moore County com
missioners met briefly Thursday
for one purpose, the letting of
contracts for the new Moore
County Jail.
Total bid costs for the building,
due for completion within a year,
are $443,393.
Low bidders and their contract
amounts:
General Contract—L.P. Cox
Co., Sanford, base bid $249,000,
plus $8,500 for additional
retaining walls, total $257,500; to
be completed within 315 working
days.
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Mrs. Moore Says Mansion Choice, Inc.
Could Well Be Remodeled
JNew Director
DEVELOPERS — Bill Seymour, formerly of Southern
Pines, and Henry Faison, shopping center develop
ment, make plans for the new shopping center at the
intersection of US I and 15-501.
“Instead of thinking in terms
of building a new Governor’s
residence which would involve a
great outlay of tax dollars, let us
consider doing to our Mansion,
which was completed in 1890,
what has been done to the White
House, constructed at a much
earlier date.”
This was the proposal of Mrs.
Dan K. Moore,* speaking
Pinehurst luncheon at
at a
The
Langevin
Buys Vass
Drug Co.
J. Conrad E. Langevin ^ the
new owner and Pharmacist of
Vass Drug in that town.
“J.C.” as he is known, is a
graduate of the University of
Jaycees Dedicate Pier
At Samuel Leonard School
Sunday the Southern Pines
Jaycees dedicated their Pier
Bidlding Project that began nine
months ago.
On hand for the dedication
where officials from state
government, the United States
Army, State and area Jaycee
officials, school officials and
others.
Some of those present were
James M. Paige, Conunissioner
of the North Carolina Depart
ment of Youth Development;
Clyde Auman, Chairman of the
Board of Youth Development;
James C. Jones, Vice-Chairman
of the Board of Youth
Development; W.R. Collins and
Perry Leazer of the .State Ad
visory Board; Walter Oxendine,
National Director of the East
Central Region; and George
Little, Administrative National
Director of the North Carolina
Jaycees.
After remarks from President
Don Hill thanking all who had
helped make the jffoject a suc
cess, and introduction of Special
Guests by project Chairman,
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James W. Howard has
resigned as general manager of
F’inehurst, Inc. hotels and will
assume his new duties as
manager of the Oakbrook Hyatt
House in the Oakbrook com
munity 20 miles from Chicago,
October 1.
The announcement was madfe
last week by Eddie Susalla, vice
president and director or resort
activities for Pinehurst, who said
“We hate to see him leave but
this is a wonderful opportunity
for Jim.” He said Howj^d’s
duties here would be divided
between Bill Hall and himsqlf
until a successor is employed.
Howard, who has been here
just a year, also said he had
mixed emotions about leaving
Pinehurst where he and his wife,
Pat, had made some wonderful
friends. However, the new job
offered him ancfihis family such
a fine opportunity, he felt he
couldn’t afford to turn it down.
He arid Pat and their sons, J.W.
and Bo hope to be returning here
for vacations, Jim said.
Mrs. Dan K. Moore
Carolina Hotel for Independent
Telephone Companies Tuesday.
The former Governor’s wife
said that “because I have spent
four of the happiest years of njy
life in that beautiful old brown
house at 200 North Blount and
because of the handmade rose
brick and profusion of turned
wooden posts and railings camot
speak for themselves, I should
like to be their spokesman to the
Executive Residence Building
Commission, composed of six
knowledgeable North
Carolinians, in addition to their
chairman.”
She continued, “First of all,
there is no way to reproduce the
detailed elegance and beauty of
the first floor, which serves so
magnificently as a place for
State functions as well as private
entertaining.
“In order to provide more
modern and private living
quarters for the Governor and
his family, space now not utilized
in the basement, served by an
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Choice, Inc., has a new full
tinae director. ; .
Rob Gpingle is tW^nao* and. he
begins work Monday forming
drug abuse programs for Moore
County. His office will be located
above the First Union National
Bank in downtown Southern
Pines.
Gringle was hired at a Sep
tember 19 meeting of Choice’s
Board of Directors at Sandhills
Community College. The group’s
recruitment committee
recommended him to the board.
The new director is no stranger
to the field of drug abuse
prevention. For the past year he
has worked in Fayetteville for
the Cumberland County Mental
Health Center. Initially he did
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Democrats Cluster
To Hear Morgan
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
“If voters will take time to
check oiw achievements, it will
mean a Democratic victory in
November,” Attorney General
Robert L. Morgan told a
gathering of Moore County
Democrats and special guests
Thursday night.
Recent years tell a story to
make any Tar Heel proud, he
said.
Extra tables and chairs had to
be crammed into the banquet
room of the Whispering Pines
Restaurant to accommodate the
crowd of 190 at the $10-a^late
THE
PILOT LIGHT
t : ' I
J. C. Langevin
Rhode Island and is licensed to
practice pharmacy in Rhode
Island, Florida, and North
Carolina. Upon his licensure in
North Carolina in July 1970 he
accepted employment in Samp
son County, where he resided
until his purchase of the Vass
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PICK NICK — Dixie Hall, who
is campaign manager for Nick
Galifianakis in Moore County, is
using a play on words for a rally
for her candidate when he comes
to the county on October 3.
There will be a picnic in the
Southern Pines municipal park,
and Mrs. Hall is promoting is as
“Pick Nick in the Park.”
The $1 dinner is designed to
contrast with the $100 dinner held
at the Country Club of North
Carolina recently for
Galifianakis’ opponent in the
U.S. Senate race, Jesse Helms.
Mrs. Carolyn Blue said Rep.
Nick Galifianakis will also be
present for the formal opening of
Democratic headquarters in
Southern Pines at 161 North East
Broad St. at 2:30.
DOCTORS — The “Med Pac”
of Pinehurst which was listed as
a big contributor to the campaign
of Helms, the Republican
nominee for the Senate, has been
identified as a group of doctors
(names not listed) who work
undqr the banner of a self-
designated “Political Action
Committee.”
It was “Med Pac” which
contributed heavily to the
campaign fund of Earl Ruth, the
Republican congressman, who
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fund-raising dinner.
They came from all comers of
the county-candidates, office
holders, family groups, old-line
Democrats and new young
voters, to share a warm
camaderie in the party tradition,
and prove once again that
“Democrats enjoy their politics
more than anybody.”
Mrs. Carolyn Blue, Moore
County party chairman,
presided, and W.S. Taylor,
chairman of county com
missioners, presented Morgan as
speaker of the evening. A highly
popular figure in Moore, “Little
Bob” was accompanied by his
wife Katy and nine-year-old
daughter Mary.
He cited advanced in
education, prison reform, crime
detection and law enforcement,
the fight against drug abuse,
consumer protection and
preservation of the environment
as areas in which significant
legislation has been passed and
implemented by the General
Assembly with expanded
budgets. In most or all of these
areas, Morgan said. North
Carolina has assumed a
leadership position among
states.
He cited also as a historic
Moore County ranks 22nd in the
state in personal per capita in
come, according to a recently
released survey by the U.S.
Department of Commerce.
The survey estimated the
county’s population on the basis
of the 1970 census at 39,069 and
placed total personal income at
$126,577,000, averaging $3,240 per
person. This is $32 above the
statewide average, but falls
below the county averages for
nearby Lee and Randolph.
Lee ranked 20th with $3,290 per
person and Randolph was 21st
with $3,275 a person. Four other
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Store
A new regional shopping
center will be built at the in
tersection of U.S. 1 and 15-501
between Southern Pines,
Aberdeen and nor far from
Pinehurst.
The announcement was made
today by Henry Faison and Bill
Seymour of S.W.F. Associates.
The center will consist of over
100,000 square feet (over 2 acres
of sales area) with free parking
for over 600 cars.
The site will be carefully
engineered to save many of the
trees that presently exist; and
the architect. Little & Associates
of Charlotte, is designing an
architecture that will tie into that
of the Sandhills.
Included will be a half-million
dollar Rose’s store.
S.W.F. Associates is a part
nership between Masten-Faison-
Weatherspoon, a Charlotte-based
realty firm, and John, William,
and Richard Seymour. The
Seymour brothers, originally of
Southern Pines, now live in West
Palm Beach, Florida, Charlotte,
and Boulder, Colorado.
Bill Seymour commented that,
“Although we are living
elsewhere, my brothers and I
still mamtain close personal and
business ties to the Sandhills.
“We are vitally interested in
the future of this area and are
attempting to develop this center
in such a way that it will be a
complement to the Moore County
Community. In order to do this,
we have joined with Henry
Faison and Van Weatherspoon,
shopping center developers who
are recognized as leaders in their
field, having been responsible for
30 shopping centers in the
Carolines since 1960.”
Plans for the 45,000 square foot
Rose’s Store in Moore County
were announced by Mr. L.H.
Harvin, Jr., of Rose’s Stores, Inc.
Mr. Harvin states that, “This
new store will be one of the
largest and most complete units
operated by the company, and
will bring to Moore County
Rose’s new concept in depart
ment store operation. With all of
its sales area on the ground floor,
the new Rose’s Store will have a
frontage of 300 feet and will
represent an investrhent on
behalf of Rose’s in excess of one-
half million dollars.”
T. B. Rose, Jr., Chairman of
the Board and brother of the late
Paul H. Rose, who founded the
company in 1915, notes that
Rose’s has grown from the first
small store in Henderson to an
operation with total sales of over
225 million dollars in 1971. He
further states, “along with this
growth, the nature of the stores
has change^ completely, with the
format varying from place to
place according to the demand of
each location.” L.H. Harvin, Jr.,
President of Rose’s Stores, Inc.
states that “management has
always followed and plans to
continue to follow a policy of
complete flexibility in ^th store
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Traylor Is Head Of Drive
Working under the direction of
White Cane Chairman Don
Traylor, the Southern Pines
Lions Qub has begun its annual
drive for funds to aid the blind
and work for the prevention of
blindness.
The campaign will be carried
out by letters of solitation mailed
to friends in the community and
by sidewalk solicitation at stands
throughout the business area.
White Cane contributions are
to be used to operate the N.C.
Eye and Human Tissue Bank;
eye research at N.C. Memorial
Hospital; Glaucoma-diabetes
advance Governor Scott’s detection ;buying Braille reading
reorganization of the state material for blind
along with many other needs of
the blind or visually handicapped
person.
government, fully backed by the
General Assembly, which has
reduced the number of depart
ments from about 317 to 17,
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students;
operating Camp Dogwood for the
Blind; Lazy Eye Screening
progranis; Duke University
laser equipment; White C^e
walking sticks for the blind,
Don Traylor