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IncumbentsWin
Bonds Favored;
Liquor is Loser
Incumbents for the most part
won reelection in Moore County
municipal elections on Tuesday.
School and water bonds were
favored by an overwhelming
majority, and the local option
liquor-by-the-drink issue was
rejected by a margin of almost
two to one.
In Southern Pines all five
members of the Town Council
won, with Architect E. J. Austin
the high man in the balloting with
1,020 votes. In second place was
Mayor E. Earl Hubbard was 998
votes, followed by Emanuel S.
Douglass with 912, C. A.
McLaughlin with 892, and A.
Reynold Tucker with 845.
The vote for the challengers
was: John Tierney, 540; Robert
M. Stone, 463; W. H. (Bill)
Bowen, 473; Bill Bass, 354; and
Joseph Duffield, 290.
On the statewide issues, the
$300 million school bonds for con
struction and the amendment to
the clean water bond act were
approved by North Carolina
voters. The liquor-by-the-drink
plan was voted down by better
than two to one in the State.
The vote in Moore County was:
3,587 for the local option liquor
plan and 6,541 against; 7,021 for
school bonds and 3,103 against;
8,053 for water bonds and 1,969
against.
Six of the 21 precincts, all in the
southern or resort area of the
county, voted in favor of the
mixed beverage option plan.
They were Knollwood, Pinedene
Pinehurst, Eureka, North
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Seniors Fair
The Moore County Seniors
Citizens Handicraft and Hobby
Fair will be held on November 9
and 10, Friday and Saturday, at
the National Guard Armory in
Southern Pines.
Opening will be at 2 p.m. on
Friday and remain open through
8p.m. It will reopen at 10 a.m. on
Saturday, and closed at 4 p.m.
The fair will include han
dicrafts of Senior Citizens from
Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Rich
mond and Hoke Counties.
Firings Challenged
In Court Action
A suit was scheduled to be
filed in Wake County Superior
Court today by the Attorney
General to test the authority of
the Board of Youth Development
in the matter of hiring and firing
of directors of training schools.
Several career employes, in
cluding Miss Reva Mitchell,
superintendent of Samarkand
Manor, and school principals
were dismissed in a helicopter
blitzkrieg by officials of the State
Department of Social Rehabili
tation and Control on Oct. 26.
Last Friday the board, of
which Rep. T. Clyde Auman is a
former chairman and long-time
member, met in Raleigh and
voted to reinstate the fired
employes.
Secretary David Jones of the
department is challenging their
authority, but Andy Vanore,
assistant attorney general, and
his office were planning to take
Jones to court to settle the
dispute over authority once and
for all.
On Monday of this week,
several of the former training
school employes and officials
were called and told to go back to
work. Among them was Henry
Parker, director of the Samuel
Leonard School at McCain. A
couple of hours later, however,
they were called again and told
to stay home.
At the meeting last Friday the
Board of Youth Development had
secured an opinion from the
Attorney General’s office that
the law vested in them the
authority to hire the Commis
sioner and directors of the
schools.
Attending the meeting briefly,
Jones declared he saw no point in
anyone’s “getting emotional
over these people’s jobs, when I
have seen children being mis
treated.” However, he was not
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W orld OpenGets
LFnderway Here;
Celebrities Play
VETERAN PRACTICES—Veteran golfer Sam Snead
gets in some practice shots at Pinehurst before the
beginning of play in the $500,000 World Open Golf
Championship on Thursday.
Stars, Pros Try Out
Game at Pinehurst
Restaurant Padlocked
Under Order of Court
In a complaint and padlocking
procedure heard Monday in
Moore Superior Court at Carth
age, Resident Judge John D.
McConnell ordered the Golden
Pizza, 270 South West Broad St.,
in Southern Pines to be padlock
ed by the sheriff.
James Van Camp, defense
counsel, gave notice of appeal,
and Judge McConnell on Tues
day set bond at $10,000 to stay the
order pending appeal.
Prosecution witnesses includ
ed Sheriff C. G. Wimberly,
Detectives Charles Watkins and
Don Davis of his department.
Southern Pines Police Chief Earl
S. Seawell, Mayor E. Earl
Hubbard and John Buchholz,
chairman of the Moore County
Chapter, American Red Cross,
BY SARAH GLAZER
Pink sweatered Hollywood
stars swung their clubs next to
grim-faced professionals.
Sunburned Latin American
golfers joked with their op
ponents in Spanish as they teed
off for a practice game. Young
lean Frenchmen in bright cash-
mere sweaters and continental
hairstyles posed elegantly,
leaning with a casual air on their
wood clubs.
On different knolls of the
Pinehurst Country Club’s
renowned course, spectators who
had the credentials to make it
past the “Welcome Booth” could
view a variety of celebrities
trying out their skills at one of
the most popular sports in the
country.
A frost the night before gave
Tuesday morning a cold bright
sun, lighting up the golfer’s
outfits against the manicured
greens.
On the practice green a score
of actors and golfers stood in a
row, swinging at one ball after
another, often sending inor
dinately large clods of earth
flying to the heavens.
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which has its headquarters
nearby.
Buchholz said the gathering of
disreputable-appearing young
people and the littering with
empty beer cans and other refuse
had become intolerable.
Watkins and Davis both de
scribed the Golden Pizza’s ^ ^ |» O •
reputation as “not go^," and (Jjj 5(J Y eOTS OI OerVlCC
that it was reputed to be a
Boyette Honored by Bar
haven for drug users and
pushers.” Both said they had
been in the pizza house “40 or 50
times” over the past couple of
years, and Watkins said that on
at least five different occasions
he had smelt the unmistakable
odor of marijuana inside.
Sheriff Wimberly, Chief Sea-
well and Mayor Hubbard testi-
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Miss Beauchamp Awarded Title
Of Miss Flame at Vass Jubilee
They were all very hot stuff—
“Miss Flame” and two runners-
up, “Miss Blaze,” “Miss Torch,”
“Miss Ember” and “Miss
Spark,” all winners in the
pageant climaxing the all-day
Vass Firemen’s Jubilee Satur
day night.
Before a cheering crowd which
filled the Vass-Lakeview School
Auditorium, the coveted crown of
“Miss Flame,” the top winner,
was placed on the blonde head of
Georgia Ann Beauchamp, 16, of
Lakeview, by last year’s winner,
Martha Morgan of Vass.
Georgia Ann, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lofton Beauchamp, is a
junior at Union Pines High
School, which all 33 of the con
testants attend. First runner-up
was Connie Hoyle, of Lakeview,
15, and a freshman, while second
runner-up was Beth Edmisten, of
Vass, 16, and a junior.
The three next winners were,
in effect, third, fourth and fifth
runners)ups—Sherry Brewer, 15,
“Miss Blaze”; Donna Cain, 14,
“Miss Torch,” and Donna
Howell, 16, “Miss Ember”—all
winning their positions through
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Mosley G. Boyette, Ibngtime
county attorney, retired district
solicitor and former State Bar
councilor, was honored Monday
by the Moore County Bar
Association for 50 years of
distinguished service to his
profession.
The ceremony occurred on the
Zoning Hearing
The Planning Board of Moore
County will reserve most of the
Meeting Time on November 21,
at 4 p.m. for hearing any and all
pertinent proposed changes to
the Subdivision Ordinance as it
already exists in Moore County.
The Planning Board will make
its recommendations to the
Board of County Commissioners
for the extension of the Subdivi
sion Ordinance of all of Moore
County, after this hearing.
“No matter how small your
objection to any particular
items, please bring them for
ward,” say Leonard J. Tufts,
chairman, Moore County Plan
ning Board and Bruce Yarring-
ton, assistant to the County
Planner.
Golf’s richest tournament in
history—the $500,000 World Open
Championship—gets underway
Thursday at the Pinehurst
Country Club.
In the words of John Derr,
“Stars fell on Pinehurst this
week.”
Thousands began flocking to
the Sandhills today as the Joe
DiMaggio World Celebrity Pro-
Am Tournament got underway
tois morning.
Celebrities from the worlds of
entertainment, sports, business
and the professions started
arriving in Pinehurst ovw the
past weekend. A special plane
brought in a large contingent
from Hollywood Monday night.
The Celebrity Pro-Am was the
kick-off for golfdom’s most
spectacular event. Qualifying
rounds had been held on Monday
and Tuesday, of course, but the
play for the big money starts
tomorrow.
All that the World Open had
been forecast to be developed
when early morning visitors
Tuesday ambled around the
practice area and watched
golfers like Gary Player, Billy
Casper and Sam Snead hitting
balls to perfection. And golfers
like Bing Crosby, Fred Mc-
Murray, Dennis James, Tige
Andrews and Joe DiMaggio
hitting balls like celebrities.
The Di Maggio Pro-Am,
opening event in the series of 1973
World Open events, held center
stage on Wednesday as the
prelude to the scramble of 240
pros for the winner’s share of
$100,000 in the $500,000 event,
which runs on Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday of this
week and resumes with Round
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Holly Closing
The Holly Inn, oldest hotel in
Pinehurst, will close for the
winter season this year.
Don Collett, president of
Pinehurst, Inc., announced today
that after Nov. 19 the Holly Inn
wUl be closed until March 1, and
that these new closing dates will
be in effect yearly on a con
tinuing basis.
The Pinehurst Hotel and the
Country Club will continue as
usual on a full 12-month
schedule.
WORLD OPEN
STARS GATHER—Stars of the entertainment world
and the world’s golf courses gathered yesterday at the
Pinehurst Country Club for some practice rounds
prior to the opening of the World Open.—(Photo by
Jim Reid).
Carthage Woman Killed
In Midland Road Crash
opening of the regular superior
court term, with Resident Judge
John D. McConnell presiding.
W. D. Sabiston, Jr., immediate
past president of the North
Carolina State Bar, presented
Boyette with a silver loving cup
and paid him eloquent tribute on
behalf of the association, of
which Boyette is the senior
member still actively practicing.
Boyette, who would observe his
71st birthday the next day, but
looking as trim and dapper as he
did 25 years ago, expressed
himself as “overwhelmed” by
the surprise tribute, and grateful
for the opportunities for service
his years in Moore County had
brought him. He declared, “I’ve
had a wonderful life.”
That life began November 6, tj •
1901, in Duplin County, according jjV JCjWlIlfif
to Sabiston, who said that after » O
graduation from Wake Forest
College and its law school,
Boyette became, at 21, the
youngest licensed attorney in
North Carolina. Actually this
was in 1922, a little more than 50
years ago, but he did not start
practice until 1925. He
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A young Carthage woman was
killed and a Carthage youth
critically injured when the car
he was driving went out of
control and crashed at high
speed into a pine tree on Midland
Road about 9:45 Friday night.
Dead at the scene was Mrs.
Barbara Diggs Davis, 20, of
Route 1, Carthage.
Taken to Moore Memorial
Hospital and still under intensive
care five days later was Anthony
C. Sullivan, 19, also of Route 1,
Carthage.
Warrants charging careless
and reckless driving and man
slaughter have been issued
against Sullivan, according to
Southern Pines Patrolman Jesse
Hough, the investigating officer.
Hough said the car was
traveling west on Midland Road
at about Leak St. when it went
into a skid, traveled 238 feet off
the road to the left, caromed off
a small pine tree and skidded
another 343 feet before striking
another pine tree on the right
side of the road.
The car, a 1968 Chevelle owned
by Mrs. Davis, was a total loss.
Coroner A. B. Parker of Vass,
called to the scene, determined
that Mrs. Davis had been killed
instantly. Neither occupant was
thrown from the car. Officer
Hough said it had not been
determined where the couple had
been prior to the accident. Mrs.
Davis was an inspector for the
Ithaca-Robbins hosiery plant.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Davis were held Sunday at the
Gospel Chapel in Carthage.
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SADA Awards Presented
At Union Pines Banquet
Nevs Sold
To Journal
Judge Office Provided;
Home Funds Plea Made
VASS JUBILEE—There were day-long festivities Saturday in Vass as the annual
Firemen’s Jubilee got under way with a parade, with Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt as
marshal. Red Overton, Southern Pines druggist, is shown in his antique car just
behind the lead car.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Monday wasn’t a day of great
action for the Moore Coimty
commissioners, but several
achievements were chalked up in
certain areas of progress and
service.
They agreed to provide an
office for Resident Judge John D.
McConnell of Southern Pines,
which is customary among many
counties of the State. Judge
McConnell has hitherto had no
office than in his home. A new
office will be furnished for him
and a secretary in the McKenzie
Building at Southern Pines.
They authorized Bob Helms,
county planner, to establish an
office on the third floor of the
courthouse for two new county
employes, Ben Cooper, who last
month became the county’s first
salaried building inspector, and
Joe W. Adams, who went to work
November 1 as the first full-time,
salaried fire marshal.
Both men were present Mon
day, Cooper to present his first
monthly report on building
inspections, and Adams to
discuss various matters of
interest to the conunissioners,
including the possible setting up
of some new fire districts. There
are so far only two.
Freeman Home
W. Lament Brown, chairman
of the board of the Freeman
Home, and Mansfield Elmore,
bookkeeper—both serving in
volunteer positions—came to
request the commissioners for
all, or as much as they could
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The sale of the Moore County
News, published weekly at
Carthage, to the Richmond
County Journal Co., of
Rockingham was announced this
week.
J. Neal Cadieu, owner and
publisher of the Richmond
County Journal Co., publishers of
the Daily Journal and the Anson
Record of Wadesboro, made the
announcement.
The sale was completed last
Thursday between Cadieu and
Robert S. Ewing of Southern
Pines, owner and publisher of the
Moore County News. Ewing is
chairman of the Moore County
Republican party, and is a
member of the Moore Comity
commissioners.
Cadieu said that no changes
are planned in the News staff
personnel.
The sales price of the News
was not disclosed.
In a statement on the pur-
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Some 250 community leaders
from the five-county region of the
Sandhills Area Development
Association gathered at Union
Pines High School Monday night
for the annual awards banquet.
Five Moore County citizens
received leadership awards.
Two communities—Aberdeen
and the Green Clovers 4-H Club—
were given Superior rated
certificates.
Five communities—Addor,
Cameron, Robbins, Jackson-
Hamlet, and the Eagle Extension
Homemakers Club—received
Excellent rated certificates. The
Pee Dee Community Club of
Moore was given a Good rated
certificate.
President Bill Phillips
presided, and the principal
address and presentation of the
awards was by Sam Ragan of
Southern Pines. He was assisted
in the presentation by John C.
Frye.
New officers of the Association
were elected and installed. They
are Gordon Ross, president; W.
B. Hill, first vice president; John
C. Frye, second vice president;
and Karen Scarborough,
secretary.
In his remarks, Ragan said
that the awards represented
recognition of what can be ac
complished “by people working
together, of communities
working together, to improve the
quality of our lives.” He went on
to say “There are tangible
benefits which all can see in
community improvement
programs, but there are also
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
Index
Books-2-B, Classified Ads-8-ll-C,
Editorials-l-B, Entertainment-
12-C, Obits-5-A, Pinehurst News-
1-C, Social News-2-4-A, Sports-6-
7-A.
HUNT — Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt
says the recent wave of firings by
the Holshouser administration
has brought morale to a low point
among State employes.
He said that the special
committee he appointed to in
vestigate the firings will begin
holding public hearings soon, and
State officials will be given an
opportunity to explain the mass
firings. He also said that persons
who were fired may also appear
before the committee to give
their side.
In all likelihood new legislation
will be introduced to provide
greater security for career
employes of State government,
with workers at least given prior
notice as well as the right to
answer any charges brought
against them.
“This will be a fact-finding
committee and it wUl proceed
judiciously,” Hunt said.
The Lieutenant Governor was
in Vass on Saturday to serve as
marshal for the Firemen’s
Jubilee parade.
REPUBLICANS — It will take
some time. Republican leaders
feel, for the rift between Frank
Rouse supporters and the
Holshouser wing to heal, but they
expect the new party chairman
Tom Bennett to work hard at
conciliation.
At any rate, they are pleased
with the large turnout for the
State convention and point to it
as evidence the party is growing
and will be stronger as a political
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