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Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, March 21, 1973
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Lois Kathleen Cowan of
Pinebluff, who had doffed her
title of “Miss Southern
Pines” just four weeks earlier,
Saturday night at Hamlet won an
exciting new one-that of North
Carolina Peach Queen for 1973.
Her official task was to preside
as reigning beauty over the
Carolina 500 races Sunday af
ternoon at the Rockingham
Motor Speedway.
Her coronation was the climax
of the Peach Queen pageant,
sponsored annually by the
Hamlet Rotary Club in
cooperation with the North
Carolina Peach Growers Society.
Wellman Talk
Noted author Manly Wade
Wellman will be the speaker at
the mid-season meeting of the
Moore County Historical
Association on Thursday, Mapeh
29, at 8 p.m. in the Southern
Pines Municipal Building.
Wellman will report on the new
Moore County History on which
he is working for the Association.
There will also be reports on
various restoration projects in
which the Association is in
volved.
Another highlight of the program
was the selection of Rosellen
Rankin of Jackson Springs,
“Miss Aberdeen” of 1971-72, as
“Miss Photogenic.”
They were selected from
among 12 contestants, most of
Diirham Firm Planning
Building Program Here
Bobby R. Roberts of Roberts
Construction Company in
Durham is planning a building
program of at least 100 units in
the Southern Pines area in the
near future, and says “it will
bring home ownership into the
reach of thousands of working
people who could not otherwise
afford it.”
Roberts plans to build a series
of subdivisions one of them here,
where the buyer is offered a
complete living package of
home, lot , furniture and land
scaping for one price. He
estimates the price of the units at:
between $13 and $15 thousand.
The lij^uses will be produced in
assembly-line fashion similar to
mobile homes, but will be per-
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OLDEST STRUCTURE? — This cabin, the kitchen of James McLendon, built in
1760, is one of the oldest, if not THE oldest, structures in Moore County. The late
Rassie Wicker identified the cabin, near Harris Crossroikds on the Pinehurst-
Robbirts Road as possibly the oldest in Moore County. It was given to the Moore
County Historical Society along with the nearby home of James Bryant several
years ago. Harris Blake, a director, was chairman of an ad hoc committee which
has obtained old boards to repair the Bryant House, repaired a sagging chimney,
and boarded it up for protection. One of Mr. Wicker’s dreams was restoring what
he called a “fine example in an almost perfect state of preservation" after 200
years. McLendon’s mill stood nearby, and was an early settlement of Scotsmen.
(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Peach Crop Looking Good;
Labor Shortage is Serious
PEACH QUEEN — Lois Cowan was crowned as North Carolina Peach Queen
Saturday night. Here she poses in an appropriate setting of peach blossoms. —
(Photo by Bryan Green).
Lois Cowan Wins Peach Crown;
Rosellen Rankin iMso Honored
Prostitution
Operations
Disclosed
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Wiley Eldon Carrico, 42, and
his wife, Faye Frye Carrico, 49,
were found guilty Tuesday by a
federal jury in Rockingham of
transporting women to Pinehurst
for purposes of-prostitution.
Carrico, who is already under
suspended sentence in Moore
District Court for aiding and
abetting in prostitution, was
convicted specifically of tran
sporting Shirley May Prater
from Bennetsville, S.C., while his
wife was convicted of tran
sporting Charlotte Jean Leitos
from Macon, Ga.
Both women testified for the
government, as did a third
woman, Donna Craig, who was
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Five Face
Marijuana
Charges
Arrest of five youths on nar
cotics counts, and the reported
break-in and robbery of the
Adder family home place Addor,
kept the sheriff’s department
busy over the weekend, and
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WOUNDED KNEE MEMENTO — There’s a special significance for Mrs. O.A.
Dickinson of Southern Pines in Wounded Knee, S.D., much in the news in recent
days. It was there in 1890 when her uncle. Col. Henry LeRoy Hawthorne (then a
lieutenant) was wounded in the last big battle with the Indians. He was dragged
behind a fallen horse by Buffalo Bill. This spoon was given to Col. Hawthorne by
his three neices, Mrs. Vincent Elmore, Mrs. Frank Wells and Mrs. Dickinson.
Million Loan Approved
For Moore Memorial Work
them from Richmond County.
Lois was the only entrant from
Moore, and the first Moore
County girl to win the title since
the Hamlet Club took over
sponsorship five or six years ago.
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manently placed on brick
foundatons with porches, patios
and other extras added. The lots
will average a half-acre in size in
the event the owners want to
construct a larger home in the
future, Roberts said.
Long term conventional
financing has been arranged
through the company to assure
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smee.
Arrested on felony counts of
possession of marijuana with
intent to distribute were two Fort
Bragg soldiers, names and home
addresses given as David Gerard
LaChance, 18, of Riverside, R.I.,
and Paul Francis McDonough,
20, of North Weymouth, Mass.
Sheriff C.G. Wimberly said they
were arrested as they were
driving out of the old Cum
berland Gravel Pit area in Little
River Township, in a 1957
Volkswagen which was seized.
Bond was set at $5,000 each,
which they did not immediately
make, for preliminary hearing
Thursday in district court at
Carthage.
Arrested Saturday night in
Southern Pines was Fred
Baldwin, 17, of 609 Glover St.,
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Moore Memorial Hospital has
received approval from the
North Carolina Medical Care
Commission of an $8 million loan
from Hill-Burton Act funds for
the hospital’s modernization and
expansion program.
Total cost of the hospital
project is estimated at hi-5
million, with $3.5 million to be
raised in a local fund-raising
campaign now underway.
Trustees of the hospital met
Tuesday to hear the report from
the Medical Care Commission,
and Chairman Robert Ewing
said, “'This is what we had been
waiting for, and we are very
encouraged now for the success
of the total program.”
Plans are being made to begin
construction in May on a new
boiler plant. It will take about
seven months to complete, so the
hospital does not plan to start
borrowing construction funds
until December or January.
Jim Kluttz, assistant ad-
minstrator of the hospital, said
that Moore Memorial had been
expecting to receive a $1.5
million grant, in addition to the
loan guarantee, but that
President Nixon has killed the
Hill-Burton Act in his budget
proposals. There is a move on in
Ck)ngress, however, to preserve
Hill-Burton, and Kluttz said that
by December “we should know if
Congress has been successful.”
Under the $8 million loan
approved by the Commission on
Friday, the federal government
guarantees the loan and also
pays up to 3 percent of the in
terest.
Kluttz said that before con
struction could start on the new
boiler facility that a financial
feasibility study has to be made
by the HEW office in Atlanta. He
said , however, that since the
Medical Care (Commission has
approved the hospital’s program
and is recommending it to HEW
that no difficulty in getting ap
proval from the Atlanta office is
expected.
(Chairman Ewing reported that
he is pleased with the progress of
the fund-raising campaign thus
far, and that Phase Two of the
drive will get under way in early
April.
At its quarterly meeting in
Raleigh on Friday the Medical
Care Commission approved a
total of $12 million in new
hospital and nursing home
construction, with Moore
Memorial’s being the largest. A
$200,000 grant was made to Pitt
County Memorial Hospital, along
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BY BRYAN GREEN
If the weather continues to
cooperate with the growers, the
Sandhills could have its first full
crop of peaches in several years
this summer, according to
Clarence Black, supervisor of the
Sandhills Research Station near
Windblow.
He said the cold snap and
winds this weekend took some of
the pedals off the trees, but
resulted in no damage. Even
Monday morning’s 31 degree
reading at the station was not
harmful to the blosssoms, which
were in full bloom at the time.
The next five to six weeks will
be the critical period for the
peaches as far as the weather is
concerned. Black said, and
temperatures in the 20’s are the
greatest potential damage to the
crop now. Even a single night
with a reading in the 20’s might
be enough to cause problems, he
said.
Black predicted the first crop
of peaches, which includes the
Whynot variety, will be har
vested in the Sandhills about
June 1, with the popular Candor,
Sun High and Redskin varieties
coming later in the summer-long
season.
He sees the labor shortage as
the most serious problem facing
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Horse Show
Freeman Seeks Funds Slated Here
For Fellowship Home
Horse Owners Are Urged
To Test for Swamp Fever
Horse owners are being urged
to give their animals tests for
Equine Infectious Anemia,
generally known as Swamp
Fever, because of outbreaks of
the disease in three areas of the
State-Knightdale, Roseboro and
the Wilkes-Winston-Salem area.
No new cases have been
reported in the famed horse
country of the Sandhills,
although Dr. C.C. McLean said
that it is not an epidemic-type
disease and that carriers of the
disease can be “perfectly normal
BY BILL LINDAU
Vernon Freeman is looking for
$80,000.
He needs it to pay for con
struction of a Fellowship Home
for men and women who want to
recover from drinking problems
and can’t do it in their own home
communities, either because
they’ve no place to live there any
more or because the situation
makes it virtually impossible for
them to quit drinking.
The Felloship Home was
opened in May 1971, in a two-
story frame house at 260 E. New
York Ave. Southern Pines.
The house is owned by the First
Baptist Church, whose building
is right next door, and the church
has been letting the Fellowship
Home administration use the
house free of charge.
But now. Freeman says, the
church needs the building for
Youth Work
church piuTWses. Freeman is the
manager of the home.
In recent months, however, the
Board of Moore (bounty (Com
missioners came through with a
big part of the solution to the
problem: The board leased four
acres of county-owned property
adjoining the land containing the
now-closed County Home for
indigent senior citizens.
How much rent do the com-
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The annual Horse Show for the
benefit of the Humane Society of
Moore County, Inc., will be held
Sunday, March 25, at the Land
mark Farm of the Raymond
Firestones, just off Youngs
Road, Southern Pines.
Gate will open at 11 a.m. and
events will be held continually
from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
A canteen will be open starting
at 11 a.m. serving hot and cold
drinks, home made sandwiches,
cakes, etc.
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Moore Couple’s Daughter
Starring in Movie Here
horses.”
He described Swamp Fever as
similar to malaria in humans
and he said the state Dept, of * Ul Ull O
Agriculture is encouraging
owners to make use the Ck)ggins
Test, developed only about two
years ago, to locate all carriers
of the disease.
Dr. Mcl.£an said that stan
dard-bred races and shows are
now requiring the testing of all
hunters and trotters, but that
thoroughbred owners are not at
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
BUDGETS — The Moore
County dtommissioners, as in
other counties, will begin work
on new budgets with a watchful
eye on what takes place in
Washington and Raleigh.
What budgets will be adopted
and what the new tax rates will
be are very much dependent
upon whether Congress goes
along with President Nixon in
federal budget cuts and on what
action is taken on pending
legislation in the General
Assembly.
Bills to repeal the sales tax on
food and other items at the State
level will also effect the one-cent
local sales tax and the revenue
derived from that.
Another big question is federal
revenue-sharing. Most county
commissioners say they cannot
count on that as a permanent
thing.
Counties may also be
requested to take over programs
largely financed up to now
through federal and state funds.
If so, this could have a big impact
on county budgets.
In Moore County the Board of
Education has decided to post
pone any plans for a bond issue
for school building and
renovation until they see what
the Legislature does about
providing State funds for such
purposes. Two bills for State aid
to schools are now pending.
ERVIN— When l^nator Sam
Ervin was in the State recently
he confided to friends that his
age will be the big factor in his
decision to seek reelection to the
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Are Sought
BY MARJORIE RAGAN
Would you like to help a young
person in trouble?
Over 50 percent of the girls and
boys in nearby correctional
institutions are there because
their families put them there for
skipping school or similar
delinquencies of a minor nature,
says Bill Brown of N.C. Youth
Development.
Brown wants to take some of
these carefully screened young
people and have them visited by
families on a one-to-one basis.
Then he would like for the
families to take out the young
person on a pass for dinner. And
maybe other outings. And for
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Antique Fair
The 16th annual Antique Fair
of the Moore County Historical
Association opens tonight at 8:30
with a Champagne Preview
party at the Southern Pines
Armory.
The Fair will be open from 10
a.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday and
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday.
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives is
honorary chairman of the Fair
and Mrs. Carolyn Scott is the
general chairman.
Pamela Sue Martin, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Tom D. Martin of
Whispering Pines, is starring in
Irwin Allen’s production of “The
Poseidon Adventure” starting
today at The Town & Country
Cinema.
Miss Martin slid into movie
making pretty much in the
tradition of Lana Turner, who,
either in fact or fiction, was
“discovered” at the soda
fountain of a Hollywood
drugstore.
Without any dramatic training,
experience or even ambition, she
practically fell into the leading
role of Columlua’s “To Find a
Man,” which found the approval
of most critics and audiences. On
the basis of this first essay,
producer Allen signed her for
“The Poseidon Adventure,” a
sea-adventure tale in which
Pamela Sue displays an un
derstated infatuation for Gene
Hackman, the current “Best
Actor” of the Academy Awards.
A graduate of Saples High
School in Westport, Conn., Miss
Martin was in her junior year
there when she was working at a
hamburger place for $1.40 an
hour so she could buy a motor
cycle. A friend of hers was
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Miss Pamela Sue Martin