Christmas Parade
ill Southern Pines draws crowd of
10.000. Stories and pictures on Page 7-
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Jackson Springs
including famed mineral spring sold to
Ashton Richardson and Associates.
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lAmtrak Will Begin
Stops Here Friday
Fund Drive
Nears Goal
The Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce says it has received
word from Congressman Earl
Ruth’s office that the Amtrak
passenger trains will begin
stopping in Southern Pines on
Friday.
As of Tuesday afternoon, of
ficials of the Seaboard Coast Line
in both Hamlet and Jacksonville,
Fla., say they know nothing
about any such service to
Southern Rnes.
The Chamber information says
one northbound and one south
bound train will begin stopping
Friday on a trial basis. Ac
cording to the trial conditions, at
least five persons must get on
or off the train each time. In
addition, boarding passengers
must ride as far as either
Washington or Jacksonville.
Trains stopping here will be
•The Vacationer”, tentatively
scheduled here at 6:35 p.m., and
the Silver Meteor. Northbound.
If the Amtrak train does stop,
it will mark the resumption of
passenger service to Southern
Pines after many months ab
sence.
Service at the Southern Pines
depot is now devoted to the some
dozen of freights which pass
through each day, and in
formation on where trains may
be boarded.
Local residents may presently
catch a 4:40 p.m. Silver Star in
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In Moore
Reported contributions and
pledges in the Moore County
United Fund Drive are “still
hovering around the $85,000
mark,” says President Mrs. Ida
Baker Scott.
“When all the pledge cards are
turned in, we believe that we will
reach our goal of $98,000, and end
the campaign this week,” she
said.
This is the fifth campaign of
the United Fund here which was
established in 1968 through the
efforts of the Sandhills Area
Chamber of Commerce.
In recognition of the Cham
ber’s part in establishing the
Fund, Mrs. Scott asked William
H. Gentry, Jr., 1968 Chamber
President, to meet with Fund
officers and representatives of
some of the participating
agencies for presentation of the
final checks for 1972.
On the occasion Gentry
remarked that the establishment
of a united fund was one of the
first projects undertaken by the
Chamber under its first
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Revenue Sharing
Is Bringing Towns
More Than Hoped
Former Resident Found
Murdered Near Atlanta
PROPOSED PARK— This map shows in the darkened area near the center the
proposed site for the Deep F.iver Park. Mostly in Moore County, it also is partly in
Lee and Chatham.
Town Coimcil Asks County New State Park is Proposed
In Moore’s Deep River Bend
To Conduct it’s Elections
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
The Southern Pines town
council Tuesday night
unanimously adopted a
resolution requesting that the
county board of elections conduct
all its municipal elections in
future, and authorizing the town
manager to negotiate with the
county board on the costs of such
service, any agreement they
reach to be subject to approval of
the council before taking effect.
W. Lamont Brown, town at
torney, explained that this was
one of only two courses open to
them under new election laws,
with the choice having to be
made before December 29. They
could choose either to have the
county board run their elections
or do it themselvesj^jeltipg up
their own election board to
function for the town just as the
county board does for the county,
with year-round operation to be
financed entirely by the town.
Brown gave his view that it
would probably cost less, be less
trouble and cause less confusion
to let the county board do the job
than for the town to go into the
election business itself, an en
tirely new municipal activity.
He said also that it would make
no difference that the county
board is set up as a partisan
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BY BYRAN GREEN
After four years of studying the
eleven county Sandhills region,
the Division of State Parks has
finally selected the site for what
it hopes will be the next state
park.
The proposed location is a
large wooded area along both
sides of the Deep River ten miles
north of Carthage. It is primarily
in Moore County, but spills over
into a small portion of Chatham
and Lee. The area includes five
Parade Success
A crowd of 10,000 persons lined
both sides of Broad St. Wed
nesday evening as the Christmas
parade officially brought the
holiday season to town.
The parade began promptly at
6:30 when the Pinecrest color
guard and drill team stepped off
from Memorial Field, leading
the 65 entries in the annual
caravan.
The event was sponsored by
the Southern Pines Jaycees, and
Jaycee President Don Hill
estimated that it took at least 45
minutes for the entire parade to
pass any given point on the route.
Spectators and participants
alike were calling the parade a
success Wednesday evening, and
the Jaycees seemed especially
proud everything had gone ac
cording to schedule, including
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WINNING FLOAT — This old shoe, stuffed with
children, was a favorite with the crowds who watched
the annual Christmas parade Wednesday evening.
Entered by CP&L, it won second place in the floats
category. (Photo by Bryan Green).
Riley Is
Low Bidder
On Paving
Bids on more street im
provements were opened
Thursday at the town office, and
the Southern Pines town council,
supervising the opening, ap
proved the letting of contracts to
the Riley Paving Co. of Car
thage, low bidder with a total of
$47,786.
Four bids opened by Robert F.
Ruffner, engineer with the
Raleigh consulting form of L.E.
Wooten & Co., showed a spread of
$2,549 between the high and the
low, the other totals being as
follows: Lee Paving Co., San
ford, $48,410; Southeastern
Asphalt, Rockingham, $49,345;
and Crowell Construction, Inc.,
Fayetteville, $50,335.
The projects include the
paving and curbing of Midlothian
Drive, and re-paving of a number
of streets in that general area,
from the Sandavis subdivision to
streets branching out on either
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Man Killed
In Accident
Vardell Brown, 49, of Jackson
Springs Rt. 1, died Friday af
ternoon of injuries suffered when
a maintenance vehicle over
turned, throwing Brown and two
other employees to the surface of
a paved road on the Foxfire
property.
Jeffrey Campbell, who was
driving the lightweight gasoline-
powered Cushman pickup, said
he swerved to avoid a washed-out
place in the road, and that
Brown, falling out, landed on his
head, but did not seem to be
badly hurt.
The three men—Brown,
Campbell and Bruce Mabe, all
members of the club’s main
tenance staff, were carried to the
office of Bill Upchurch, golf
course superintendent, where
first aid was administered for
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miles of river frontage and
touches the House in the Hor
seshoe property at one point.
Announcement of the site was
made by State Parks Superin
tendent Tom Ellis Friday during
a luncheon meeting of the San
dhills Area Chamber of Com
merce. He said the area is a
“first class” site and that parks
officials logged over 4,000 miles
of travel in the region during the
search for a suitable site.
I Another parks official who
accompanied Ellis, Division
Landscape Architect Alan
Eakes, said the proposed park
has been mapped out to include
3,500 acres, but that 2,000 acres
would be a minimum figure for
getting the new park underway if
everything is approved.
Eakes said the park will be
able te offer the full range of
park services. These would in
clude boating, fishing, hiking,
camping, picnicking and nature
trails. He noted that as planned,
the area is big enough to provide
room for all these activities and
at the same time, leave a large
portion of the park in its natural
state.
The land is described by parks
officials as being a fairly large
expanse of woodlands divided by
the Deep River. The several
thousand acres of forests are
situated on a “gently rolling to
rugged terrain, and consist
upland pine-hardwoods, pine
plantations and bottom land
hardwoods.
“Wildlife appears to be quite
abundant and the river is
navigable from the southern end
of the site to within a few hun
dred feet of the western boun
dary.”
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Moore’s Buses Travel
Nearly Million Miles
A former Southern Pines girl
living in Atlanta, Ga., married
less than a month, was found
murdered Saturday afternoon
about 30 miles from Atlanta after
having been missing for two
days.
The former Rhonda Jean
Carter, 19, married November 17
to Wade Bevier, was found in
rural Forsyth County off a dirt
road, on the edge of some woods,
badly beaten about the head and
strangled to death with a heavy
cord, which was still knotted
about her neck.
Officers said she was not raped
or robbed, and was fully clothed
when found.
Information received here by
her grandmother, Mrs. T. T.
Ward of 560 North May St., was
that she missed her usual bus to
work Thursday morning, and
told a friend she would walk to
work. Officers said she is
believed to have thumbed a ride.
She was not seen again by family
or friends.
All law enforcement agencies
of the area are cooperating in the
search for her killer, headed by
the Georgia DOI (Department of
Investigation).
The daughter of Wilmer A.
Carter of Washington, D.C., and
Mrs. Joe Batcho, she moved to
Atlanta last year with Mr. and
Mrs. Batcho but did not live with
them, taking a separate apart
ment.
A native of Southern Pines, she
attended local schools until her
sophomore year at high school,
Santa Visits
Santa Claus will make his
annual visit to Southern Pines
this weekend, sponsored by Elks
Lodge No. 1692.
Ralph Martin, Exalter Ruler,
says Santa will be at the Masonic
Lodge building in West Southern
Pines, corner of W. Mass, and S.
Gaines streets, from 2 to 5 p.m.
on Saturday Dec. 16, and on
Sunday Dec. 17.
Santa will be at Southern Pines
Elks and Country Qub from 2 to 5
p.m. All children 10 years old and
younger are invited and Santa
will have a bag of goodies for
each child.
Rhonda J. Carter Bevier
when she went with the Batches
to Lakeville, Ind., her step
father’s home town, and at
tended high school there. The
following year they all came
back to Southern Pines, and she
graduated in 1971 from Pinecrest
High School.
At Pinecrest, where she
worked during her senior year in
the office of (then)' assistant
principal P.L. McMillan, she was
described as “friendly, pleasant,
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Federal revenue-sharing
checks arrived Monday for the
County of Moore and seven of the
eight county municipalities, with
only one—Whispering Pines—
left still watching for the
mailman and wondering why its
check hadn’t come.
The amount received by the
county was somewhat less than
had been anticipated, while for
the towns, even without
Whispering Pines, the total ran
considerably more.
The county’s check was
$152,947; that of the Town of
Southern Pines, next largest,
$63,613.
TTie others: Aberdeen, $16,830;
Robbins, $13,556; Carthage,
$13,236; Vass, $10,228; Pinebluff,
$4,978; and Cameron, $610.
Since the measure as enacted
last month by Congress was
retroactive for the year the first
checks are for the first half of
1972, and others of like amount
are expected soon after January
1, 1973, for the last half of this
year.
Consequently, to figure the
amounts available for Moore and
its towns, in the very near future,
just double the sums listed
above.
For the county, this comes to
$305,394, where, according to one
of several recent estimates
received by Bob Helms, county
planner, $402,455 had been ex
pected. This means a dif
ference—downward—of $96,061.
For the towns, a total (without
breakdown) had been estimated
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School Board To Meet
To Discuss School Needs
Superintendent R.E. Lee says
that the Moore County Board of
Education will meet in an
unprecedented afternoon and
evening sessions, December 13 at
the Administration Building in
Carthage to hear long-range
capital outlay needs of the 19
schools, with the chairman of
each advisory council
spokesman for each group.
Beginning at 1 p.m. each
school will have 20 minutes in
which to lay before the board
what they, with the help of the
principal, the students, faculty,
interested parents and citizens,
have determined to be the needs
of their school according to
priority. Cameron Elementary
has the first slot, with the
Education Center winding up the
sessions that night at 9:20 p.m.
The board plans to adjourn only
once for dinner.
On three consecutive Sunday
afternoons, the Board met to tour
various parts of the county for an
on-the-site appraisal of what the
county needs in terms of long-
range capital outlay. The board
did not visit all sites, since many
needs at the school were common
to those of another area.
In order to give every school an
opportunity to be heard, the
afternoon and evening session
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It cost North Carolina tax
payers 18 cents a day to tran
sport a child to school during
1971-72.
Sixty-six per cent of the public
school chil^en rode the bus to
class during the year, a total of
722,714. That’s an increase of
nearly seven per cent over the
previous year.
The figures are from the 1971-
72 statistical report on tran
sportation prepared by the State
Board of Education.
The average school bus carried
67 pupils each day and made 1.75
trips per day.
The average bus traveled 38.9
miles per day for a yearly total of
7,058 miles. The total annual
mileage for all buses was
73,614,515 miles.
There were 10,430 school buses
operated in North Carolina
during the year and slightly
more than 97 per cent of the
students who were transportated
to school rode the bus.
The cost for this transportation
was $24,411,000, including con
tract transportation and
replacement buses. The average
cost of transportation was $2,225
per us for the 181 day school
year. This breaks down to $12.29
per bus per day, $33.04 per pupil
per school year, and 18 cents per
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Kiwanis Celebrates Anniversary
The days of flappers, drugstore
cowboys and Annie Oakley at the
Pinehurst gun club were vividly
recalled Saturday night as the
Sandhills Kiwanis Qub gaily
celebrated its fiftieth an
niversary at Ladies’ Night at the
Country Qub of North Carolina.
The program was printed in
gold, and it was a golden evening
for the some 300 membtfs and
their guests.
President William F. Hollister
presented Master of Ceremonies
Voit Gilmore, who called on Lt.
Gen. Richard C. Mangrum,
(USMC-Ret.) to lead the pledge
of allegiance. The invocation was
by Dr. R. Bruce Warlick, who
turned out to be the Kiwanian
born nearest the birth of the club.
Dr. Warlick’s life was
described by four doctors as
epitomizing toe spirit of Kiwanis,
and he was presented a “this is
your life” drawing done by Glen
,Rounds by Dr. R.M. McMllan.
A hit of the party was a flapper
Charleston done by Carlyn
Anderson, Pete Broughton,
Doodle Poole, Peggy Schnedl,
and Jan Staub under direction of
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
HOLSHOUSER— Governor
Bob Scott was the teacher early
this week when Governor-elect
James Holshouser went to school
for new governors at Annapolis,
Md.
The school is sponsored by the
National Governors Conference
and was held last year at Pine
Needles in Southern Pines. It is
designed to help new governors
in the organization and conduct
of their offices.
Governor Scott spent Monday
as an instructor at toe school.
Prior to going, Holshouser said
of the school, “I really can’t
spare toe time, but I can’t afford
not to go.”
The Governor-elect said he had
been up untU 4 a.m. the night
before. He was being interviewed
by Ivey Qayton and Bill Arm
strong of the North Carolina’s
Citizens Association for a cover
story in the January issue of the
organization’s magazine.
PACE — When Dr. A.C.
Dawson, executive director of
the North Carolina Association of
Educators, .spoke to the winter
conference of school superin
tendents in Durham last week he
made a strong appeal for support
of PACE, toe political action arm
of NCAE.
Dawson disclosed that PACE
had contributed $8,000 to toe
Republican primary campaign
of Jim Holshouser and also $8,000
to the general election campaign
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FLAPPERS-A hit of the evening when the Sandhills Kiwanis Club celebrated its
50th anniversary was this dance sketch by Carlyn Anderson, Pete Broughton,
Doodie Poole, Peggy Schnedl, and Jan Staub under the direction of Pat Starnes
Logue. (Emerson Humphrey Photo)