1972
Heavy Rains
reached 11.63 inches in September
according to Howard Ulsh, former
weatherman now living here. Heaviest
downpour was on Sept. 29, when 3.25
inches fell and Sfept. 30, when he
recorded 2.48 inches. Town Manager
Rainey says street damage will take
three weeks to repair.
LOT
Last Day
to register for the 1972 genctral
election is Monday, Oct. 9. The Movore
County Board of Elections office in tthe
Currie Building in Carthage will be
open daily through Saturday from 9 to 5
a nd Monday, from 9 to 6:30, according
ti) Angus M. Brewer, Election Board
Clhairman.
Vol. 52-No. 48,
38 PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1972
38 PAGES
PRICE 10 CENTS
$693,092 WindfaU
Slated for Moore
If Congress gives final ap
proval this week, Moore County
will get a $693,092 windfall this
year.
This will be the county’s total
allotment for the calendar year
1972 from the federal revenue-
■w sharing measure which has been
talked about for several years.
Under the formula already
approved the county government
will receive $402,635.
Southern Pines will receive
$152,863. It is the only town above
2,500 population in Moore.
Other municipalities in the
county would receive a total of
$137,595. No breakdown as to how
it would be divided among them
was given in the dispatch from
Washington.
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Humane SocietyCampaign
Reports Membership Lag
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IN 1922— The freights were already running in Southern Pines, which was built
up around the railroad tracks for the convenience of tourists, but there were
passenger trains, too. This early picture, taken in January, 1922, is by courtesy of
the Department of Archives and History. Notice that it was made before the
magnolias and other trees were planted along Broad Street.
New Train
May Stop
Here Soon
Reports that a new train,
similar to the Silver Star which
now breezes through Southern
Pines without stopping; wUl give
New York .service “at a con
venient hour” to a stop here
could not be confirmed in a
telephone call to Amtrak in
Washington Friday.
Local train officials say they
have nothing to do with Amtrak.
According to the report, the
train would begin operations in
December.
The Pilot called Harold L.
Graham, head of marketing for
Amtrak, but could not reach him.
The call was transferred by his
assistant, who said she knew
nothing about the matter, to
Public Reltions Chief Edwin
Edel, who also was unavailable.
Someone in his office said he
would return the call, which he
has not done at the time this is
written.
Service at the Southern Pines
depot is devoted to the some
dozen of freights which pass
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8 Named
To Agency
By Board
The Moore County com
missioners in regular meeting
Monday made appointment of
eight new members to the South
Central Comprehensive Health
Planning Council, Inc., on
request of Dr. A.G. Siege, county
public health director and the
commissioners’ representative
on the council.
Dr. Siege said the ap
pointments were necessary to
meet new federal guidelines
calling for each participant
county in the regiond project to
provide eight new members in
four classes, including one
“producer” and one “consumer”
of health services for terms from
one to four years in length.
Appointed were the following
(“producer” named first,
“consumer” second in each
class); Class 1 (one year). Dr.
Donald K. Wallace and Mrs.
Antoinette Rogan, Sandhills
Community College director of
nurse training; Class 2 (two
years). Sister Elizabeth Waters,
head of the Home Service
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The membership campaign of
the Humane Society of Moore
County, Inc. has reached just
about one half the goal. Proceeds
from this campaign are the only
source of operating funds for the
modern animal shelter recently
completed by this organization.
Husom, in cooperation with the
County Dog Warden, serves
Moore County in the operation of
the County Animal Control
Program. Without the support of
the public this program cannot
operate. Husom is a non-profit
organization and all mem
berships and donations are tax
deductible funds. The regular
membership is only $5.00 per
year. Other memberships such
as sustainingvetc. are $10.00 and
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CHATTING briefly before attending church services
in Montreat on Sunday (Oct, 1) are Democratic
nominee for Governor Harerove "Skipper” Bowles
and Dr. Billy Graham. Bowles, his wife and two
daughters visited the internationally known
evangelist at his mountaintop home before worshiping
together. Bowles and Graham are longtime friends.
Man Killed
In Wreck;
One Charged
A Chatham County man was
charged with drunken driving
and manslaughter, also public
drunkenness, following an ac
cident of Sunday afternoon on US
Highway 1 near Southern Pines,
in which his own brother-in-law
was killed.
State Trooper Jim Alexander
identified the victim as Billy Joe
Beal, 26, and the driver as Jesse
Wayne Mashburn, 23, both of
Goldston, Route 1.
This was one of six wrecks
which injured two others.
Alexander said the car driven
by Mashburn, northbound at an
apparent high rate of speed, went
out of control a short distance
north of the Southern Pines town
500 Elks
Expected
For Meet
More than 500 Elks are ex
pected for the annual N. C.
Convention here, hosted by the
local Southern Pines Lodge, with
Grand Exalted Ruler Francis M.
Smith, of Souix Falls, S. D.
present.
John Sullivan is State head of
the Elks, and a member of the
Southern Pines Lodge. He says
Past Grand Exalted Ruler John
Walker of Roanoke, Va. and
Doral Irwin, Director of the
National Elks Home in Bedford,
Va. will also attend the con
vention.
Grand Exalted Ruler Smith
will arrive at the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst Airport at about 3:30
p.m. Friday and be greeted by
the host group.
Smith, the chief executive of
the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks is a prominent
attorney in Sioux Falls.
He believes firmly in Elks
Lodges maintaining strength
from within through wise
selection of dedicated officers,
attention to sound business
practices, and adherence to “the
legacy of Elkdom-Charity,
Justice, Brotherly Love, and
FideUty.”
He is pledged to carry on the
battle against drug abuse, and to
see that the order continues its
youth programs, scholarship
assistance, aid to the han
dicapped and veterans and other
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National Newspaper Week
Is Set for October 8-14
Mrs. T. James Metcalfe
(Photo by Mike Valen).
Mrs. Metcalfe
Is Promoted
At The Pilot
Mrs. T. James Metcalfe, the
former Fray Parris, will become
Advertising Assistant of The
Pilot Monday replacing Mrs.
Verlin Coffey, who resigned after
four years.
Mrs. Metcalfe has been with
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A resolution proclaiming
October 8-14 as Newspaper Week
’72 and October 14 as Newspaper
Carrier Day was introduced
jointly into the Congress by Sen.
Sam J. Ervin, Jr. of North
Carolina and Congressman
Qarence J. Brown of Ohio.
The resolution set forth a
number of reasons for setting
aside a week to recognize and
appreciate the vital role played
by newspapers in a free society.
It follows:
JOINT RESOLUTION
Designating October 8-14,1972,
as “Newspaper Week” and
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
J
CHARGE — Democratic
candidate Richard Clark
charged yesterday that his
Republican opponent. Rep. Earl
Ruth, received $4,000 to his
campaign from Med-Pac, the N.
C. organization that raised a flap
in the Nick-Jesse contest.
“Med-Pac is the N. C.
organization affiliated with Am-
Pac, the national organization
which contributes to political
campaigns.
“Historically, Am-Pac has
opposed social security,
medicare, medicade and other
legislation which has benefited
ordinary citizens.
“I have been reliably informed
that only one-third of N. C.
Physicians contribute to Med-
Pak of course the surest way
for Med-Pak to influence health
care legislation is to bankroll
their candidates into Congress.
Apparently, Med-Pac is con
vinced that my opponent, Earl
Ruth, would be their man in
Congress
“I’ve made it clear that I will
not accept campaign funds from
any such pressure groups,
because I want my only
obligation in Congress to be the
ordinary citizens.”
RUTH—Republican Rep. Earl
Ruth has been strangely quiet in
his campaign for reelection to
the U. S. House;
He has filled the roadsides with
his signs but up to now he has
made no speeches or made visits
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limit, and skidded broadside into
the rear of another car.
The second car was driven bv
Mrs. Janet M. Street, about 36, of
Niagara, who had given a right-
hand turn signal to enter to rural
road No. 2088, and had slowed but
had not yet gone into her turn.
Alexander said Mashburn’s
car was out of control for 320 feet,
then following the impact spun
about a couple of times and
wound up off the highway against
an embankment. Mrs. Street’s
car also was knocked off the
road.
Both drivers escaped injury,
while Beal, carried to Moore
Memorial Hospital by the San-
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TWO INJURED — Two persons received injuries from this accident Thursday at
the intersection of W. Vermont Ave. and N. Saylor St. The investigating officer,
Sgt. L. D. Beck, said the Buick at the left of the photo wan cm Vermont Ave. and
struck the Ford in the center of the intersection, causing it to overturn on the rain-
slick street. Both drivers, James Gaddy of Raeford and Cynthia Taylor of
Southern Pines, were charged with unsafe movement. Hurt were Cynthia Taylor
and Henry Sutton, both of Southern Pines. (Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Fund Drive Old Blue Blouse
Kicks Off
BY BETSY LINDAU
The United Fund of Moore
County kicked off its fall cam
paign Oct. 1 in a flurry of pam
phlets, meetings and letters, with
an enthusiastic force of volun
teers under Campaign Coor
dinator George Little—and a
clean slate for the coming year.
“Every effort will be made to
reach every citizen of Moore
County in this campaign,” says
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Fire Fatal
To Man
In Carthage
Claude (Red) Alton Simmons,
47, of Carthage Rt. 2, died
Tuesday in flames which com
pletely gutted his mobile home,
west of the rural White Hill
section close to the Lee-Moore
county line.
The new and modern trailer
home, destroyed with all its
contents, replaced a house on the
same site the Simmons family
formerly occupied, which burned
down about three months ago.
Tuesday’s fire was spotted by
the nearest neighbor, Mrs. Joe
Simmons, who saw the smoke
from a quarter mile away and
called Tramway for help. The
Tramway volunteer fire
department found the structure
engulfed in flames, but firemen
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New Building
The law firm of Seawell,
Pollock, Fullenwider, Van Camp
and Robbins of Southern Pines
and Carthage is building a
$98,000 office at the corner of
Ashe and May streets in
Southern Pines.
The film filed for a building
permit Monday, and no com
pletion date was given.
At Old Bethesda
To Be Restored
Bids Let
Lee Paving Co. of Sanford was
apparent low bidder in two
contracts received by the State
Highway Commission involving
Moore. They will be reviewed in
a meeting in Kannapolis Thur
sday, Oct. 5.
The first was for- $143,425 for
21.95 miles of sand and asphault
and bituminous concrete surface
for resurfacing two sections of
primary roads and 20 sections of
secondary roads.
The second involves Scotland,
Moore and Hoke, for 31,76 miles
of sand and asphalt and
bituminous concrete surface for
resurfacing 8 sections of primary
roads and seven sections of
Secondary Roads for $196,963.56.
Democrats
Gut Ribbons
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
The red ribbon was cut,
opening Moore County
Democratic campaign
headquarters here Tuesday,
after a luncheon rally held on the
town park honoring Nick
Galifianakis-all without benefit
of the star performer. Nick just
couldn’t get here.
He had an able pinch-hitter,
though, in his pretty dark-haired
wife, the former Lou Cheatham
of Southern Pines, who, in a
smart salt-and-pepper tweed
pantsuit, met and greeted old
friends and new as they waited
for Nick to arrive from
Washington by air.
The event-billed by Mrs. Dixie
Hall of Southern Piircs, Nick’s
Moore County mabager, as
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BY BRYAN GREEN
The historic Neill Blue farm
house near the Aberdeen city
limits find long identified with
nearby Old Bethesda
Presbyterian Church may not
fall victim to a bulldozer.
A group of Aberdeen residents
led by Mrs. Grant Clayton is
determined to form an
association and restore the old
farmhouse.
They won’t have much trouble
acquiring the property since its
present owner, A. P. Johnson,
has offered to donate the house
and an acre of land if it is to be
restored.
The building rests at the edge
of a new housing development
under construction by Johnson
and would eventually be
destroyed if not renovated,
according to Mrs. Clayton. She
said it is one of the few old houses
in Moore County, and is of the
same era as the Shaw house in
Southern Pines.
The soft spoken Aberdeen
woman says she has been in
terested in the house for several
years and says “we know we will
save it, but we aren’t certain just
now hdw we will go about it.” *
One possible route toward
saving the house, she says, is for
the Moore County Historical
Society to spon.sor the restoration
under their name and then
delegate responsibility for work
and maintenance to the Aber
deen group.
She added that there is a
possibility the society will decide
to take the home in and handle
the entire project themselves.
Mrs. Clayton said that this route
seems rather remote since most
of the society’s efforts are
presently tied up with the Bryant
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TO HELP — These are some of the persons who have set up a meeting Thursday
night at 8 o’clock in the Aberdeen Municipal Building to help restore the Old
Blue House. Standing on the porch of the house are Mrs. Grant Clayton, Mrs.
Ned Thompson, Mrs. Charlie Pleasants, Mrs. Don Everett, Mrs. Make Pleasants,
Mr. Francis Pleasants, Mrs. Francis Pleasants, Mr. Richard SchlOegl, and Mr
Make Pleasants. All interested persons will be welcome, particularly members of
the Moore County Historical Society.
(Photo by Bryan Green).