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Vol. 53-No. 52
36 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina
Wednesday, October 31, 1973
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Price 10 Cents
DEMOCRATIC SPEAKER—Senator Sam Ervin was in Moore County Friday for
three speeches, winding up that night at Union Pines where he addressed a rally
of Democrats. He is shown above at the rally with Mrs. Elizabeth S. Ives (center)
and Mrs. Carolyn Blue, chairman of the party.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Ervin Has Day in Moore;
Will Push for Prosecutor
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
U.S. Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.,
as calm as the traditional eye of
a hurricane, spent most of
Friday making speeches and
holding a press conference in
Moore County, on a day of
climactic and historic
significance. '
“Senator Sam,” in the
limelight as chairman of the
Watergate committee over the
past several months, watched
President Nixon’s televised
press conference at Union Pines
High School, before making the
address at the Moore County
Democratic Rally, and, after the
supper and rally, reacted
dramatically in a press con
ference of his own.
To the President’s declaration
that he had asked Acting At
torney General Robert H. Bork to
appoint a special Watergate
presecutor, to succeed Archibald
Cox, whom Nixon had fired one
week before, and that the new
Fall Foliage
Persons interested in a fall
foliage trip may try the Sunday
afternoon nature program at
Weymouth Woods-Sandhills
Nature Preserve.
Weymouth Woods opens at
noon on Sundays. At 3:30 a
naturalist presents a slide
program covering the plants,
animals, and natural features of
Weymouth Woods. Learn about
the snake that protects himself
by playing dead and the pine tree
that looks like a clump of grass.
A guided nature walk leaves
from the interpretive center at
3:30 to explore some of the trails
in the Preserve.
Special programs can be set up
by writing Superintendent-
Naturalist, Weymouth Woods-
Sandhills Nature Preserve, Box
1386, Southern Pines.
man “would be fully independent
and receive full cooperation of
the Administration,” Ervin
responded, “We have heard all
that before.”
As one of 53 co-signers of a bill
introduced in the Senate only
that day, which he said he felt
sure would pass, and that a veto
would be overridden—“We are
going to find vetoes more easily
overridden now than in the
past”—he would push for a
special prosecutor to be ap
pointed under its provisions, by
Chief District John J. Sirica, to
whom he would be responsible.
He could be fired only by Sirica,
“for specified misconduct.”
The firing of Cox and
resignations of both Attorney
General Elliott Richardson and
Assistant Attorney General
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Two Projects in Moore
Get Humanities Grants
Two Moore County projects-
plus four more in this area-^ave
been awarded grants by the
North Carolina Committee for
Continuing Education in the
Humanities.
Receiving $5,000 for a project
titled “Women: Reflections and
Opportunities” is Sandhills
Community College in a program
of 10 segments developed by Mrs.
Jane H. McPhaul.
Awarded $1,600 for a study of
“Implications of Aging in the
Modem Rural Community” was
the Sandhills Regional Library
System, with the project to be
carried out in Moore County by
Mrs. Diana Tope as director
during January, February and
March.
The Hoke County Forum was
awarded a grant of $3,000 for a
project titled “A County Faces
the Future.” Sponsored by the
Raeford Women’s Club, headed
Index
Books, 2-B; Classified, 9-11-c;
Editorial, 1-B; Entertainment,
7-A; Obituaries, 6-A; Pinehurst
news, 1-2-C; Society, 2-5-A;
Sports, 8-9-A; Sunday School
Lesson, 3-C.
ERVIN — Senator Sam Ervin
sat eating barbecue and listening
intently to what the President
was saying. Only twice did he
make a comment.
Once when President Nixon
used President Thomas Jef
ferson as an example for his plea
of executive privilege in refusing
to release documents to the
judiciary, Ervin turned to a
reporter seated nearby and said,
“■There’s no truth in that.”
Later at a press conference
following his t^k to Democrats
at Union Pines, Senator Ervin
elaborated on the Jefferson in
cident. Thomas Jefferson, he
said, not only provided the letter
requested in the trial of Aaron
Burr but went further to say that
if additional information was
needed he would be glad to make
a deposition.
“I know,” said Ervin,
“because I looked it up and read
the letter in Jefferson’s own
handwriting.”
Ervin said there was no
executive privilege in such
matters as those before his
Senate committee and the
judicial proceedings in the
Watergate case. He said other
Presidents-Abraham Lincoln,
U.S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt-
had cooperated with the
Congress and the courts in such
investigations. Teddy Roosevelt
even asked to testify before a
congressional committee, he
said.
LONG DAY—It had been a
long day for Sam Ervin. He had
arrived in Pinehurst the night
before (Thursday), held an in
formal press conference late that
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Firing Blitz Hits Moore;
Miss Mitchell, Beck Axed
Toum Elections Tuesday;
Votes on Liquor, Bonds
Voters will go to the polls next
Tuesday, Nov. 6, to vote on three
statewide issues and in seven
municipal elections in Moore
County.
The statewide issues are:
-The issuance of $300 million in
North Carolina pubUc school
facilities bonds, which if passed
will result in Moore County
receiving $2,485,702.05 for renov
ation and construction of school
buildings.
-Providing for local option on
the sale of mixed beverages in
counties which have ABC stores.
-An amendment to the Clean
Water Bond Act of 1971 which
would free upwards of $50 million
now frozen because of the
wording of a referendum in
ivhich the bonds were approved.
In the seven municipal elec-
tions-Southem Pines, Aberdeen,
Pinebluff, Cameron, Carthage,
Robbins and Whispering Pines-
officials elected will be sworn
into office for two-year terms at
the first meeting of the governing
bodies in December.
The governing bodies they will
replace will have served the
longest of any in recent history-
two and a half years, because of
a change in the statute which
threw the municipal election
date from May to November.
The eighth municipality, Vass,
the only one to establish its own
board of elections instead of
going under the county board,
jumped the gun by electing its
mayor and five commissioners,
returning all incumbents to
office, in a town vote October 16.
The largest town. Southern
Pines, elects a five-man council,
which chooses its mayor. Ten
candidates filed, precluding a
primary (which would have been
held had there been more than
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Celebrities Coming
For Pinehurst Play
A host of celebrities from the
entertainment, sports and bus
iness world will be arriving in
Pinehurst this weekend for the
Joe DiMaggio World Celebrity
Pro-Am which is the opening
event in the World Open golf
tournament.
Play is scheduled to begin next
Wednesday.
Arriving by chartered plane
from Los Angeles at the
Fayetteville airport Monday at 4
Two Persons Are Killed
In Accidents Near Here
by Mrs. R.G. Townsend, the
project plans to examine the
quality of life in the county and
such things as land planning,
race relations, recreation, in
dustrial growth, and the role of
the family.
Richmond Technical Institute
received a grant of $8,000 for a
project titled “Richmond County
Directives,” in which an “in
tellectual in residence” will be
brought on the scene to lead
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Election
Officials
Announced
Registrars and judges of
elections for the elections on
Tuesday, Nov. 6, have been
announced by Chairman Angus
M. Brewer of the Moore County
Board of Elections. Other
members of the board are J. M.
Pleasants and C. Coolidge
Thompson.
The first name in the precinct
listing is the registrar, the
second name is the Democratic
judge and the third is the
Republican judge.
The list is as follows:
East Aberdeen— S. R. Ran-
sdell, Jr., Mrs. Jane S. Everett,
Mrs. Delores Ann Reynolds.
West Aberdeen— Miss Martha
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Two auto accidents about six
hours apart, Sunday night and
early Monday morning, took the
lives of two young men, Ronald
Gillespie, 21, of Carthage, Rt. 1,
and Cliff Leonard Delapp IH, 24,
of Lexington, an employe of the
Pinehurst Hotel at Pinehurst.
It was a busy night for the
Sandhills rescue unit, which
transported Gillespie from the
accident scene in Hoke County to
Moore Memorial Hospital, where
he was pronounced dead on
arrival, and removed the
charred body of Delapp from the
car he had been driving, which
was totally burned, about 12:10
a.m. in Pinehurst.
While Gillespie’s death will be
listed as a Hoke County fatality,
the Moore County coroner was
called and handed down a ruling,
based on the investigation of
State Trooper C.A. Bennett of
Hoke County, that the death was
due to an accident caused by
improper passing.
Bennett said Gillespie, driving
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p.m. will be such people as Bing
Crosby, Fred McMurray, Rich
ard Arlen, John Agar, Dennis
James, Phil Crosby, Alan Hale,
Lee Majors, Robert Sterling and
many others.
Other celebrities include Pat
Boone, James Gamer, James
Caan, Hugh O’Brien, Andy
Griffith, Don Knotts, Jack
Carter, Bobby Goldsboro, Greg
Morris of Mission Impossible,
Frank Cady of Green Acres,
Richard Long of Big Valley and
the Ghost of Mrs. Muir, Tige
Andrews of Mod Squad, Buck
Taylor of Gunsmoke, David
Huddleston, Jim Nabors and
Jonathan Winters.
Tournament officials in Pine
hurst said that people from the
Sandhills are invited to meet the
plane arriving in Fayetteville
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Reva Mitchell
Awards
By SADA
Monday
The annual banquet and
Awards Night of the Sandhills
Area Development Association
will be held Monday at 7 p.m. in
the cafeteria of Union Pines High
School, with Bill Phillips, direct
or of SCAP, Inc., president,
presiding.
Leadership awards for in
dividuals, jEuid community de
velopment awards, will be
presented to winners in the five
SADA member counties, Moore,
Montgomery, Lee, Richmond
and Hoke. TlUs will constitute the
program for the evening.
Making the presentations will
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Schools Adopt Measures
To Save on Short Fuel
Hubbard Sees Europeans
Turning More to America
For years American business
has gone abroad to take ad
vantage of the cheap labor and
low cost of living in European
countries.
This year, however, the tables
are turning on the once limitless
American economy. North
Carolina workers may soon be
working for European com
panies in their own state at
cheaper wages than foreign
companies would pay at home.
That is the prospect brought
back by Southern Pines Banker
E. Earl Hubbard after a four
week trade mission to such
countries as England, Germany,
Switzerland, Austria and Italy.
Hubbard, vice president of
Southern National Bank, was one
of 12 North Carolina buinessmen
who visited Europe last month
soliciting foreign industry to
settle here. The trip was
arranged by the state’s Division
of Commerce and Industry at the
same time as Governor
Holshouser’s economic trip
abroad.
More than 100 of the 150
businesses called on during the
visit are committed to come to
North Carolina between now and
June in order to discuss moving
possibilities, Hubbard said.
In a recent interview with The
Pilot following his return from
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Tutens Leave
The members of Ives Mem
orial Baptist Church in Pinebluff
have invited all friends and
ministers in the area to an Open
House for the Rev. and Mrs.
Gene Tuten. The Tutens are
leaving to accept a ministry in
Madison.
The Open House will be held in
Ives Memorial Educational
Building November 11 from 4
until 6 p.m.
The Tutens have been in
Pinebluff for the past five years.
Facing a drastic cut in fuel oil
for the schools this winter, down
to 60 percent of the amount used
last year, the Moore County
Board of Education Tuesday
night approved a number of
recommendations for conserving
heat, and adopted stringent
regulations limiting the use of
school facilities in after-school
hours.
Capital
Cases Set
For Trial
The felony backlog is mounting
again, after having been whittled
down pretty low for a while, with
85 dases set for trial and 3 for
grand jury action at next week’s
term of Moore Superior Court.
Resident Judge John D. Mc
Connell will preside.
A good many cases were bound
over for grand jury action at
preliminary hearings in the
Moore District Courts last week,
and presumably these will be
added to the warrant docket.
The 38 cases listed are against
only 21 defendants, several of
which face multiple charges.
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Gene A. Riddle, assistant
superintendent for maintenance,
said he had met with the
maintenance committee October
17, that they had figured ways to
save perhaps 15 per cent over
last year, and with a very mild
winter might make it 25 per cent,
but “we just don’t see how we
can bring it down to 60 per cent.”
He had checked just that day
with Raleigh to see if the
allocation couldn’t be raised a bit
and was told, “Not a chance.”
With the tanks of all the schools
holding about 250,000 gallons,
while it normally takes about
500,000 to get through the school
year. Riddle said, “only about
170,000 gallons has been comput
ed as our allotment for the rest of
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Two helicopters bearing high
officials of the Republican
administration of Governor Hols-
houser dropped down on Moore
and Hoke counties on Friday and
abruptly fired several State
career workers.
Among those discharged were
Fred H. Beck, district highway
engineer, and Miss Reva Mit
chell, superintendent of Samar
kand Manor, who was forced into
early retirement.
A shock wave quickly spread
across Moore County when word
of the abrupt firings were
reported, and among those
speaking out was Rep. T. Clyde
Auman who said the actions by
the Holshouser administration
were “shocking” and without
justification.
Miss Mitchell had 41 years
service at Samarkand Manor
and she was a recognized pioneer
and national leader in enlighten
ed methods of juvenile correc
tion.
Beck, who had 28 years service
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Gambling
Raid Made
By Agents
SBI agents, raiding two room
rented as an office, or offices, in
the old Sandhill Citizen Building
on Knight St. in Aberdeen about
noon Tuesday, seized a mechan
ical gambling device and quan
tities of gambling paraphernalia.
They arrested Louis Raymond
Rupp, 59, of P. 0. Box 616,
Aberdeen, on charges of posses
sion of punchboards, and keeping
and possessing slot machines
and devices, it was learned from
Charles Dunn, SBI director at
Raleigh. Rupp made bond of
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Dry Month
Only .16 of an inch of rainfall
has been recorded here for
October, as compared to a
normal 3.09 inches for the month.
Howard Ulsh, a retired
weather bureau official here who
keeps measurements and other
data, said that there has been, in
fact, a deficiency in rainfall since
July.
September with a recorded 4.61
inches was slightly above the
normal of 4.04 inches, but August
with 1.59 inches was below the
average of 5.74 and July with 2.67
inches was far under the 6.90 inch
average.
average year, Ulsh
the rainfall in the
Pines area is 49.22
In an
reported.
Southern
inches.
North Moore Students
Are Morehead Nominees
Hunt to Lead Parade at Vass Jubliee;
Firemen’s ‘Miss Flame’ to be Picked
Clifton Frank Marley and
Michael G. Purvis are the 1974
Moore County Morehead
nominees.
“These two young men
represent the best in character,
leadership, academic ability and
achievement, physical vigor,
motivation to excell, and ability
to project from the ten out
standing seniors nominated by
the three high schools,” Henry L.
Graves, chairman of the com
mittee, said.
Both nominees are from North
Moore High School. The two
young men will advance to
District III competition where 60
North Carolina finalists will be
selected from the ten districts in
the State to go Iol, Chapel Hill.
Approximately two-thirds oi the
nominees will receive a
Morehead award valued at
$10,000. All state finalists are
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Hundreds of people are ex
pected to show up for the third
annual Firemen’s Jubilee in the
town of Vass on Saturday.
The day-long schedule of
events will get underway at 11
a.m. with a parade featuring
marching bands, floats and
dozens of “Miss Flame” con
testants.
Lt. Governor James Hunt and
his wife are among the invited
guests who will see the parade
from the reviewing stand. They
will also attend the formal
program following the parade. ’
Hunt will serve as grand
marshal of the parade, of which
W.B. Frye is chairman.
The parade is expected to
exceed last year’s 45 units in
length, with three marching
bands, two famous drill teams,
many other marching units,
floats galore-including one filled
with .36 beautiful girls, can
didates for “Miss Flame”-VIP
cars, and, of course,--plenty of
rolling stock from thev local and
neighboring fire departments.
The bands will include the 82nd
Airborne Band with color guard
from Fort Bragg, the Union
Pines band and another high-
stepping high school band from
Fayetteville. Also from
Fayetteville will come one of the
drill teams, also one from
Morrison Training school at
Hoffman.
The parade route, changed this
year, will start on South Street
east of the bridge, near the Grill.
Passing over the bridge, the
parade will turn on Seaboard
Street, then at the Angus Mills
intersection and wind up on the
school campus.
The Rev. Jesse Mansfield will
be master of ceremonies for the
Miss Flame event, of which Mrs.
Joseph Frye is chairman.
Mrs. Billy Jessup, Auxiliary
president, is general chairman of
the Jubilee, with all events in the
hands of special committees,
drawn not only from the
Auxiliary and Ore department,
but the entire community. It is
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Clifton F. Marley
Michael G. Purvis