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Vol. 53-No. 28
36 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, May 16, 1973
Pages
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POT POT—It’s not an octopus, a snake, or a still. This involved brass container is
an elaborate way for law offenders to smoke marijuana. Or it was, until Southern
Pines police found it hidden in shrubbery near South East Broad and Rhode
Island and confiscated it. Here examining it at the police station are Chief Earl [
Seawell (left) and new policeman Randall Vest, who joined the force April 30.
Vest, who lives in Pinebluff, attended Aberdeen High School and Sandhills
Community College and was with the Sheriff’s Department for 18 months. He has
a wife, Lucy Ann, andsons four and five. (Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Young Wife Killed in Wreck;
Five Others Critically Hurt
A 16—year—old Robbins wife
was killed, her young husband
critically hurt and four other
persons hospitalized with
varying injuries as the result of a
collision between a car and a
half—ton pickup truck, at
Thomas Cross Roads southwest
of Carthage, Tuesday at 9:25
a.m.
This was Moore county’s 13th
highway fatality of the year.
State Trooper T. S. Qark said
that Mrs. Janice Freeman
Talbert died instantly when the
car her husband was driving,
struck by the truck in the middle
of the intersection, flipped over,
throwing its occupants out and
falling on some of them.
The car caught fire, but em
ployees of Dupree’s service
Aberdeen Adopts Budget;
Retains Same Tax Rate
A tentative budget of $308,400 -
an increase of $9,200 over last
year- was approved by the
Aberdeen Board of Com
missioners at its regular meeting
on Monday night.
Also tentatively approved was
a tax rate of $1.45 per hundred
valuation, the same rate as now
prevails.
The budget will be available
for inspection on May 24 and the
inspection period will be from
that date until July 9, when the
board will conduct a public
hearing on the budget at the town
offices at 7:30 p.m.
The meeting Monday night was
presided over by Mayor J. M.
Taylor, with Commissioners
William J. Bayliff, R. C. Tate,
Robert N. Page III, Vivian W.
Green and A1 Cruce present.
Mayor Taylor presented and
read sanitary sewer use
regulations, which had been
Shaw Heads
Music Body
For 73-74
The Sandhills Music
Association prepares to move
into its 25th year with a newly
elected group of officers and
directors.
At a meeting on May 13 out
going President John Hatcher
introduced the new slate of of
ficers, which includes Page
Shaw, President; Mrs. Ruth
Sinclair, Vice-President; Mrs.
Carolyn Hatcher, Secretary; and
Larry Wilson, Treasurer.
Members of the Board of
Directors for 1973-74 include Dr.
and Mrs. Daniel Qark, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Mitchell, Miss
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approved by the town engineers
and the town attorneys. These
regulations would control the
wastes being discharged into the
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station nearby put the fire out
before it could burn any of the
victims.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dupree, who
was pumping gas in front of the
station, told Clark that the car,
heading toward Pinehurst on
RPR 1210, ran the stop sign
directly into the path of the
truck, going toward West End on
RPR 1229. The impact sent both
vehicles angling off the road, the
car bouncing over onto its top,
throwing the passengers out.
Rescue squad workers had to
lift the car from the body of Mrs.
Talbert. Also, all or partly under
the car were her mother-in-
law, Mrs. Bertha Talbert, 42, of
Biscoe, and Tina Talbert, a
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New Air Service Slated
To Begin Here on June 1
Regularly scheduled airline
service from the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst airport is another step
nearer, and the date of the
inaugural flight should be an
nounced within a week.
Col. L. C. Burwell, chairman of
the board of Pinehurst Airlines,
Inc., announced this week that
Driver Ed,
The summer driver’s
education classroom work will be
at all three high schools, Pin-
ecrest. North Moore, and Union
Pines, beginning June 11, from
8:30 to 10:30 a.m., and be
completed on June 29, says B.C.
Scott, Driver Education
Supervisor for Moore County
Schools.
Primarily this course is for
dropouts under 18 years of age,
students who have been at
tending private schools, and
students who will have schedule
conflicts next school term.
Scott says, “There is no charge
for this instruction.’’ Students
should report to class at the
above starting date and bring
their birth certificates with
them.
Per Pupil Spending More
Than State Average Here
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Page Shaw
Moore County spends $82.07
more per pupil for public
education than the State
average, a recent survey by the
State Department of Public
Instruction revealed.
The report for the year 197r72
showed that North Carolina
spent an average of $719.19 per
pupil (an increase of $56.38 over
the previous year), as compared
to $801.26 spent per pupil an
nually in Moore.
Out of a total of $7,323,519.22
spent in 1971—72 in Moore
County’s public education
program^ a total of $4,515,291.41
or 61.7 percent came from State
funds. Federal funds accounted
for $1,402,446.81 or 19.1 percent,
and local funds amounted to only
slightly more at $1,405,781.00 or
19.2 percent.
The total expenditure for the
year for current operating ex
penses ;ln the State was
$778,618,231.39. Of this amount
66.8 percent was provided by the
State, 15.2 percent came from
federal funds and 18 percent was
provided by local governments.
Federal funds for Moore in
cluded $46,479 for impacted area
designation. The county is
scheduled to lose this amount,
along with a major portion of
other federal funds, under the
proposed budget of President
Nixon.
By far the largest amount spent
for public education in Moore—a
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Schools, Pollution, Zoning
Among Major Problems
Beck Will Seek Hearing |
On Police Force Firing |
the 27-passenger DC-3 plane,
bearing the insignia of the new
airlines, is now completing the
required 50 hours of proving runs
with representatives of the
Federal Aviation Authority on
board to obtain FAA cer
tification.
The Pinehurst Airlines plane
has been flying the scheduled
routes to Charlotte and the
Raleigh-Durham airports.
Indications are this final step
prior to certification will be
evaluated by the government
this week, and this would permit
the beginning of scheduled
flights before June 1.
Schedules for the hew airlines
have been printed and
distributed and all arrangements
made with connecting airlines at
the two terminal points to permit
interline transfer of passengers
and baggage.
At the start there will be three
round-trip flights daily, except
Tuesday. Flights to Charlotte
will leave here at 7:05 a.m. and
11:54 a.m. There will be one
flight to Raleigh-Durham,
leaving at 4:30 p.m., making
connections with six outbound
flights from that terminal.
Ex-Sergeant L. D. (Dan) Beck
said Tuesday that his out-of-
town attorneys would appeal
within the next few days—
possibly today—for a hearing
before the Town Council on his
dismissal by Police Chief Earl S.
Seawell.
He says he feels there were “no
grounds” for his firing and that
he will be “completely vin
dicated.”
Chief Seawell fired Beck M^y 9
after conferring with Aqt^g
Town Manager Mildred Mc
Donald and with her permission
to handle the situation as he felt
best.
Chief Seawell says he let Beck
go for “dereliction of duty and
insubordination.”
The Police Chief said he asked
Bike Trails
Proposed
By Auman
A resolution calling for a study
of the need and feasibility of
establishing a statewide system
of bicycle trails was introduced
in the General Assembly this
week by Rep. T. Clyde Auman of
Moore.
Rep. Auman said that the
resolution calls for the Depart
ment of Transportation and
Highway Safety and the
Department of Natural and
Eonomic Resources to make the
study and report back to the 1974
session of the Legislature.
Such a study, Auman said,
looks toward the drafting of
legislation setting up a bike trail
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New Map
The Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce now has available the
new Sandhills Area and Moore
County map which is sponsored
by the Carolina Bank, First
Federal Savings and Loan
Association, First Union
National Bank, Southern
National Bank and the
municipalities of Aberdeen,
Pinehurst, Southern Pines and
Whispering Pines.
This is an updated version of
the map printed by the Chamber
about three years, _ago. In ad
dition to listings oJ street and
road names, the map also carries
listings of emergency telephone
numbers, utilities, hospitals,
schools and points of interest, as
well as a tx-ief description of the
area.
Anyone with a need for such a
map may obtain one by calling at
the Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce offices on the corner
of East Pennsylvania Avenue
and South West Broad Street in
Southern Pines.
ror Beck’s resignation and Beck
refused to give it. Only after that
did he take the action. Chief
Seawell said he asked Beck to
resign after an investigation of
citizens complaints of their
treatment by Beck, dating over a
long period, and culminating in
an incident the previous week.
Both Mayor Earl Hubbard and
City Attorney W. Lament Brown
felt that further information
should not be revealed, pending
the BQesible heiPing> whieh
would probably be in executive
session of the councU. Patrolmen
Robbery
Four bold bandits robbed
Perkinson’s Jewelers, Inc. in
Town and Country Shopping
Center of several valuable
diamond rings Tuesday shortly
after noon.
Two women clerks were on
duty when the robbery took
place, according to Manager R.
S. Trudell.
The black men engaged the
women in conversation while one
was sneaking the diamonds, he
said.
The Aberdeen Police Depart
ment is investigating the rob
bery. An estimate of the stolen
jewelry is not yet available.
Budget Meet
The Moore County com
missioners will meet at the
courthouse in Carthage Thur
sday at 7:30 p.m. for further
work on the new budget.
Most all of the departments of
county government have sub
mitted their budgets. Still to
come are budgets from the
Department of Social Services
and the Health Department.
The commissioners expect to
provide for budget increases
from the increased property
valuation ^now estimated at
I $195 million and to be able to
retain the present tax rate of
$1.25 per $100 valuation.
Deputies
Appointed
By Sheriff
Two new deputies, replacing
two who have resigned, were
announced this week by Sheriff
C. G. Wimberly.
Jerry A. Dowdy, 24, of Car
thage is a new black deputy,
replacing James F. Kearns of
Eastwood, also a black. Kearns
was one of Sheriff Wimberly’s
original contingent, sworn in
with him in December 1971.
Dowdy, who has been em
ployed in the repair and service
department of Sanford Motors at
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
EDUCATION The
educational budget public
schools and higher education
fared better at this session of the
General Assembly than it has in
a long time, but it was not
because of any special political
clout but because the money was
there to be spent.
There was a record surplus left
over from the Scott ad
ministration and this coupled
with an upward revision of
revenue estimates gave
legislators a lot more money to
appropriate than they had even
dreamed of before the session
started.
As a result school teachers got
a big boost in pay, plus an extra
month’s salary beyond the
teaching year. More teachers
will get jobs because the
Legislature appropriated a big
Jesse Person and James Ritter
have been named Acting
Sergeants, to assist the existing
Sergeant, Joe Davis.
Sgt. Beck joined the Southern
Pines police force in November
of 1956, after being district agent
for Taylor Biscuit Co., in
Aberdeen for four years. He is a
former shore patrolman in the
Navy.
Chief Seawell has also been
with the force since 1956,
heppiTHng officer in (^grge in
1961 following the fatal scooting
of Chief C. E. Newton. A native of
Rockingham, he served in World
War II in the Army and re—
^ enlisted in the Navy during the
' Korean conflict. Before he came
to Southern Pines, he was
assistant manager of the
Western Auto store in Aberdeen.
He became chief in 1961.
Taws Host
Fiesta Here
For Scouts
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Taws,
Jr., will be hosts Sunday af
ternoon to about 150 especially
invited guests from the 11
counties of the Occoneechee
Council, Boy Scouts of America.
The occasion will be their
second Boy Scout Fiesta, a social
gathering, entertainment and
benefit affair for which guests
will pay $100 per couple-the
funds to go in their entirety
toward camp development
within the Council.
For their contribution, the
guests will see demonstrations
put on by selected Boy Scout
units on one part of the gardened
Taws estate, and enjoy an
elegant outdoor party and lun
cheon on another. Eagle Scouts
will act as guides. Special en
tertainment will include a per
formance by the Charlotte
Scottish Pipers Band and folk
singing by a talented group
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Chicken Feed
Sunday is the day of the annual
“Chicken Feed” of the Moore
County Law Enforcement Of
ficers Association, which
generally draws well over 1,(X)0
hungry diners and friends of the
association to its Leo Lodge, off
US 15-501 three miles south of
Carthage.
Fried chicken and all the
trimmings, to eat in the open
pavilion on the Lodge grounds, or
packed “to go,” will be served
from 11 a.m. to around 7:30
p.m.—“as long as the food
lasts,” said A. B. Parker,
president.
This is the association’s only
fund-raising event of the year,
with proceeds going mainly to
upkeep of the lo^e, grounds and
fishing lake.
SPEAKER—Ja mes
Ramsey, Speaker of the
l^.C. df
Representtftives, will
make the address at a
Moore County Democratic
rally dinner at the
Whispering Pines
Restaurant on U.S. 1
Friday, May 18, at 7:30
p.m.
Dimes Club
Is Raided
At Closing
The Dunes Qub, raided in
Otober 1971 by SBI agents, who
confiscated gambling devices
found there, was the object last
week of a state ABC raid, which
was followed by five arrests.
Pleading holo contendere
Thursday in Moore District
Court to charges of aiding and
abetting in the illegal sale of
taxpaid liquor, also possession of
gambling devices, were James J.
Dunn, 35, club manager, his
mother Mrs. Marguerite Helen
Dunn, 55, Karl Andrews, 72, and
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What are the major issues or
[H*oblems in Moore Coiuity?
Sixty three county leaders and
decision makers were in
terviewed by the staff of the
Moore County Agricultural
Extension Service during the
week of Feb. 12, and the five
most frequently mentioned
problems were:
-Schools (capital im
provement).
-Water and Sewer systems.
-Housing for low to middle
income families.
-Land use planning and
control.
-More job opportunities and
the need for new industries.
The next five more frequently
mentioned issues and problems
were:
:;Ppi|g and ^ug
probleim.
-Land fills for solid waste.
-County-wide police protec
tion.
-Shortage of skilled labor,
such as carpenters, secretaries,
etc.
-Taxes.
Other issues and problems
mentioned more than one time
included a more enriched
curriciilum and more extensive
vocational training in the
schools, a county-wide water
system, public transportation,
new or renovated court house,
better law enforcement, lack of
good roads, full-time paid
firemen for town and country,
equality of opportunities among
the races, race relations (white
racism), environmental
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Index
Bible Lesson-3-B
Books-2-B
Classified-1,2,3,4-C
Editorials-l-B
Obits-7-A
Pinehurst News-l-6-C
Social News-2-5-A
Jaycees Make Awards;
Install New Officers
Larry White has been installed
as president W the Southern
Pines Jaycees.
Other officers were also in
stalled at the annual installation
and awards banquet held at the
Southern Pines Elks Country
Club.
Winning the Jaycee of the Year
award was Harold Cameron.
Other officers installed were:
Vice Presidents Bill Short, Jim
Whitlock and Gregg Allen;
Secretary, Phillip Pearsall;
Treasurer, Phillip Jackson;
State Director, Joe McMillan;
Directors Dickey Cagle, Carlin
Bunnell, SherriU Harris, Bob
Hunt, Howard Lowdermilk and
David McRae; Chairman of the
Board, Don Hill. George W.
Little, Jr., member of the local
club and Administrative
National Director of the North
Carolina Jaycees conducted the
installation.
Awards were presented to
Harold Lowdermilk as the
Outstanding New Jaycee,
Cameron as the Jaycee of the
Year, Phillip Pearsall as the
Outstanding Director of the year.
Presidential Awards of Honor
were presented by President Don
Hill to Larry White, Bill Short
and Gregg Allen for their out
standing contributions as club
officers for the past year. A life
membership in the Southern
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chunk of money to reduce
classroom sizes and a statewide
kindergarten program was
funded.
The Board of Governors for the
University system got just about
everything tiiey asked for, and
even though the Community
College requests were trimmed
the system will still get some $25
million for capital improvements
plus another big budget item for
an increase in vocational
programs.
TAXES^—There were no big
demands from the public for tax
reductions at this session, but
many legislators feel that* such
demands will be stronger next
year and with 1974 being an
election year those demands are
more likely to be heeded.
It is almost safe to predict that
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\
AT MIDDLE SCHOOL—Fire that broke out at
Southern Pines Middle School around 10:40 today was
immediately brought under control by Southern Pines
firemen. The fire broke out in the auditorium and
damaged the stage curtain, the Fire Department said.
—(Photo by V. Nicholson).
Dr. Erbie Medlin
Dr. Medlin
Is Honored
By Society
Dr. Erbie Medlin of Aberdeen
was honored Sunday evening at
the first general session of the
117th annual convention of the
North Carolina Dental Society at
Pinehurst when he was
presented an award for 51 years
of outstanding service to his
profession and to society.
Dr. Ralph Coffey of Morganton
presented the silver tray to Dr.
Medlin and lauded his
achievements. Dr. Coffey is
Speaker of the House of
Delegates of the Dental Society
and is chairman of the society’s
delegates to the American
Dental Association.
“In just 24 hours from now a
courageous and dedicated
member will retire from active
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