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Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, June 13, 1973
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Mayor T aylor
Resigns Post
At Aberdeen
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Mayor Jack M. Taylor of
Aberdeen resigned his office at
^ the regular Town Board meeting
Monday night, saying that he
cannot complete the Aberdeen
Lake transactions while being an
official of the Town.
The gift of land surrounding
the Town by the ex-mayor will
match a $100,025 grant from the
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation to
pay for other such land he owns.
^ The letter of resignation was
addressed to The Commissioners
and Citizens of Aberdeen and
said;
“Dear Folks:
“Regretfully I submit my
resignation as Mayor of the Town
of Aberdeen, effective im
mediately. This is necessary as I
cannot complete the Lake
transactions while I am an of-
ficial of the Town.
“I offer any assistance that I
can to the Conunissioners and
your new Mayor; both on items
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Gasoline
Supplies
Allocated
Allocations of both gasoline
and fuel oil are being made in
Moore County, according to Mrs.
L.A. McLeod of Page and
Shamburger Oil Co. of Aberdeen,
which distributes to 14 service
stations.
This comes as Carolina Motor
Club Official T.E. Pickard says
that only 60 percent of stations in
the Southeast United States
report normal operations. After
surveying 1,400 stations around
the country, he reported that the
Southeast and the Northwest
have the tightest gasoline sup-
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Brings Also a New Name
The grand old Victorian lady,
once known as “the Queen of the
South,” ’'as a new dress—and
now a new name.
The Carolina Hotel, in its 73rd
year of existence, will hereafter
be known as the Pinehurst Hotel..
Remodeling and modernizing
the 310 room structure began
more than two years ago and
with the opening of the new
public room, the H.M.S. Bounty,
all major removations on the
hotel are nearly complete.
“The decision to change the
name of the Carolina was not
made hastily,” said Don Collett,
president of Pinehurst, Inc. “We
recognize that to many people
the names of Pinehurst and
Carolina are synonomous. But to
many others, there was an area
of uncertainty or erfeirtSOnfusion
that we feel, in time, will be
corrected by the name change.”
As an example, Collett men
tioned that recently Executive
Chef Sture Anderson and The
Carolina won first prize in a
(Continued on Page 12-A)
HISTORIC PLACES—These original etchings by Artist Anita Jones Stanton are
on sale in the Sandhills area to raise money for the restoration of the Malcolm
Blue farm on *Bethesda Road. The Bethesda Farm is shown at top and Old
Bethesda Church nearby is shown by the artist at bottom. An open house and art
exhibition is planned at Bethesda Farm on Sunday, June 24.
Deadlines Given for Filing
In Town Elections on Nov. 6
Bega
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Fatal Auto Wreck
In Hoke, Ended in Moore
A South Carolina man was
killed Wednesday night in a one-
car accident about three and a
half miles south of Aberdeen,
which began when his car went
into a skid in Hoke County, and
ended when it hit a tree broad
side in Moore.
State Trooper Jim Alexander
said Josep Hulin Vuncannon, 37,
of Andrews, S.C., was traveling
north at a high rate of speed in
heavy rainfall on US 15-501 when
he lost control of the car. It
crossed the highway, went off on
the left and traveled 99 feet on
the shoulder, crossing the county
line, and crashed into a smsdl
patch of woods.
The car wrapped around a
large oak tree, pinning the driver
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Municipal elections, shifted
from May to November this
year, will be conducted on
Tuesday, Nov. 6 and the filing
period for candidates is from 12
noon on Sept. 14 to noon Oct. 12.
In Moore County all municipal
elections are non-partisan, with a
plurality required to win.
All but one municipality in
Moore have designated the
Moore County Board of Elections
to conduct the elections. Vass
chose to hold its own, but even in
their case all registrants must be
certified vioth the county board.
Recently the county Board of
Elections received a notice from
the State Board of Elections
outlining the four types of
elections each municip^ty in
the State can hold. Mrs. Daisy
Riddle, executive secretary of
the Moore board, and Chairman
Angus M. Brewer said that the
municipalities in this county will
be under Type 1 (non-partisan
decided by simple plur^ty).
Southern Pines, however, may
be under both Type 1 and Type 3
(where both a non-partisan
election and non-partisan
primary are held). It all depends
upon the number of candidates
seeking office on the Town
Council.
If a primary is held in Southern
Pines it will be on Oct. 16, with a
registration deadline of Sept. 10
and a filing period of from noon
on Aug. 17 until noon on Sept. 14.
The registration deadline for
Type 1 elections is Oct. 8.
Mrs. Riddle said that
municipalities have adopted
resolutions indicating whether
they would conduct their own
elections or request that it be
done by the county board.
Transfer of registraion books
from the municipalities to the
county board are under way,and
in the future there will be only
one set of voter registrations,
that held by the county.
In the case of Vass, Mrs.
Riddle said that the county board
must certify all registrants. In
other words, a person cannot
register in the town of Vass
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Teachers Conduct Vote
On School’s Calendar
Students Stage ‘Walk for Joe’
Give Funds to Ill Schoolmate
Union Pines students “walked
for Joe” and last week they had
$1,058.66 for their efforts.
Joe is Joe Williams of
Cameron, a freshmen at Union
Pines Hi^ School this past year,
who is the victim of kichiey
disease and is being kept alive by
an artificial kidney machine.
He became ill during the
spring term of school and was
hospitalized at Moore Memorial
Hospital until his illness became
so critical and required his being
moved to North Carolina
Memorial Hospital at Chapel
Hill.
He finally returned home but
has to return to the hospital twice
a week for use of the machine he
cannot afford. A kidney tran
splant is needed, but a com
patible kidney has not yet been
found.
Last week his schoolmates
went to his home and presented
him with the check raised with a
“Walk-A-Thon” and by other
solicitations.
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A 1973-74 school calendar
which calls for classes to start on
August 29 and end on May 31 has
been approved by a vote of 314 to
196 by Moore County school
employes.
TTie proposed calendar will be
subject to approval by the Board
of Education at its meeting on
June 26.
Under the calendar teachers
will begin work on August 14 and
will end their work on June 5,
followed by vacation leave from
June 5-13.
A calendar committee,
representing the professional
organizations and different
levels of the profession, worked
on two calendars, each of which
conforms to regulations issued
by the State Board of Education
calling for 10 calendar months of
employment, 180 pupil at
tendance days, one pupil-
orientation day, annual vacation
leave, legal holidays, and ad
ditional days of employment.
Noticeable changes compared
to last year’s calendar is the
provision this year for 16 ^ work
days for employes when students
are not in attendance. Moore
School Supt. R.E. Lee said, “We
involved representatives from
the different levels of the
profession who were affected by
the calendar in devising one that
fits the needs of the students and
employes and conformed to state
regulations.” Citing the im
portance of giving employes a
vote in the process pf adopting a
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THE
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THEY WALK FOR JOE—Students at Union Pines High School have raised more
than a thousand dollars with a “Walk-A-Thon” and other methods in an effort to
help a schoolmate, Joe Williams of Cameron, stricken with a serious kidney
disease. In the above picture President James Belle of the Student Council, leads
walkers from the school on to Vass.
SWITCHES-Republican
party officials admit that their
campaign this spring to get
Democrats to change their
registration to Republican has
been a flop.
Party switches have been few.
State Elections Board officials
estimated that in the State as a
whole no more than 200 had
changed party affiliations.
In Moore County there had
been only one party switch as of
June 7. An office to promote
party switching had been opened
on Board Street in Southern
Pines for several weeks.
Several Republican leaders
said privately that the Watergate
exposures had definitely had an
effect on the campaign, and
some Democrats are expecting
party switches in their favor as
Pinehurst Body
Adopts Change;
Veto Retained
Beck Told to Seek
Redress in Courts
The Southern Pines Town mayor’s pronouncement in
Council is not empowered to silence,
interfere in an employe’s Police Chief Earl S. Seawell,
discharge, and L.D. Beck, for- who had fired Beck May 9, giving
mer ^Uce sergeant who had (Continued on Page 12-A)
protested his firing, and was
given a hearing before the
council May 30, was advised
Tuesday ni^t to seek redress
through the courts.
Mayor E. Earl Hubbard,
speaking for the council in
regular session, said it was their
finding that this was the only
recourse open to an employe who
believes he has been un
justifiably discharged, other
than the town manager himself.
Beck was present with his
attorney and a number of
friends, including former local
police officers. They received the
Gave Up
Eight runaways from Cameron
Morrison Training School
surrendered to Sheriff’s officers
and Vass Police Chief James R.
Grissom Monday around six p.m.
p.m.
Chief Grissom said the boys,
14 to 16 years old, said that they
had run away from the school at
Hoffman Sunday night around 10
p.m. and were tired and wet
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Vass Keeps
Tax Rate;
Names Body
The Town of Vass-only
municipality holding its own
election this fall-Monday night
named Frank Farrow chairman
of the board of elections, and
other members Marian Irby and
Col. R.G. White.
The three were sworn in by
Mayor D. Hugh McLean as
permanent members after the
resignation of interim appointees
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Mac Ausbon
Mac Ausbon
Appointed
ToCi&D
Lawrence M. (Mac) Ausbon of
Southern Pines has been ap
pointed by Governor James
Holshouser to the State Board of
Conservation and Development.
His appointment continues a
long line of Moore County
representation on the C&D
board.
Serving for the past four years
have been Felton Capel of
Southern Pines and Fred Taylor
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Pinehurst is going to get a
“more democratic” govern
ment, but there are still strings
attached.
At a special meeting on
Tuesday the Village CouncU
unanimously adopted several
amendments to the Revised
Town Plan which provide for
broader powers for a nine-
member elected Council.
In a statement issued following
the Council meeting, there was a
proviso, however, which said:
“The Council cannot, however,
enact or enforce any regulations
that would have a “negative
economic effect’ on Pinehurst,
Inc., and the Corporation stiU
reserves the right to adopt,
create, and carry out its own
rules of operation and its
development activities within
Pinehurst.”
The Tuesday action followed
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Vass Youth
Is Killed
In Robeson
A young Moore County man—
James RusseU Hardy, 18, of
Vass, Route 2—was killed last
Thursday in a car-truck collision
in Lumberton.
Hardy died in Southeastern
General Hospital in Lumberton
Thursday night following the
accident at 3:10 p.m.
Lumberton city police said the
investigation showed that Hardy
was a passenger in a 1956
Chevrolet driven by Charlie
Duncan Blue of Rt. 3, Carthage.
Police said, the Blue vehicle,
traveling east, was leaving the I-
95 exit and was attempting to
make a left turn on to NC 211
toward Red Springs when it
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Miss Powell Vies Tonight
In Jaycee Talent Contest
On Sunday afternoon when
Miss Southern Pines, Marian
Powell, left for the Miss North
Carolina Pageant in Charlotte
this week with her chaperone.
Harmony Preservation
Harmonizing for fun is the
object, with all proceeds going to
local charities, as the first local
chapter of the Society for the
Preservation an Encouragement
of Barbershop Quartet Harmony
has its first regular meeting
tonight.
An organization meeting with
McKellar Isreal, of the music
faculty of Sandhills Community
College, who will direct the
group, was held June 6.
“Any man who likes to sing” is
invited to the meeting tonight
(Wednesday ) at the Emmanuel
Episcopal Church Fellowship
HaU at 7:30.
SPEBSQUA expects to become
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Mrs. Wayne Hicks, Jaycee
President Larry White and
Mayor Earl Hubbard were on
hand to wish her luck.
There was also a large group of
Jaycee and Jaycette well
wishers present to see her off.
Marian is 19 years old and is a
student at Sandhills Community
Coliege. For her talent, she will
sing “Cry Me a River”. The
arrangement and orchestration
for this was done by Charlie
Sanders and Bill Peed of
Knoxville, Tenn.
After registration on Sunday
and a Minday mid-day rehears^
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the Senate hearings continue.
UNIVERSITY-Several
states—Louisiana, Missouri and
Wisconsin among them—are
watching with considerable
interest to see how the new
University of North Carolina
system works out. These states
are aiso considering restruc
turing of higher education and
are iooking to North Carolina as
a possibie model to follow.
President William C. Friday of
the University of North Carolina
said that he was weii pleased
with how the system fared in the
recent General Assembly in
respect to appropriations and
aiso in the tendency to leave
educational decisions to the
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STILL STILLED—This 280 gallon liquor still and its contents were blown up by
ABC and Sheriff’s officers shortly after this picture was made Tuesday. Two men
were arrested at the site near Mt. Pleasant Church.