Antiques Fair
opens tonight at seven with a preview at
7 p.m. and will continue Thursday from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. sponsored by the Moore
County Historical Association.
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Books, 2-B; Classified Ads, 8-9-10-11-C;
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Speaking, 1-B; Entertainment, IZ-C;
Pinehurst News, 1-2-C; Social News,
2-3-4-A and Sports, 10-11-A.
Vol. 54-No, 21
48 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, March 27, 1974
48 Pages.
Price 10 Cents
Walkathon Raises $25,000
As Over 1,300 Take Part
Tobacco Quotas Up;
Growers Uncertain
WHO, ME? — A startled William “Bird" O’Keeffe eyeballs the camera as Glenn
M. Sides snaps the shutter in Duffy’s. “Bird" is a student at Sandhills Community
College.
GOP Takes Over Elections
Voting Machines Planned Sunday Gas Sales Figure
In Tourist Session Talk
Moore County’s tobacco allot
ment is 10 percent higher than
last year but uncertainty over
fertilizers, fuels and labor makes
it questionable if full quotas will
be planted this spring.
Walter J. Fields, executive
director of the Moore County
ASCS office, said the Moore
County allotment is 4,817 acres
and 8,325,212 pounds.
Fields said, however, “How
much will be planted would be a
wDd guess.”
At the present time some
fertilizers are not available, he
said. Nitrogen is in short supply.
Farmers have been assured of
fertilizers as well as fuels for
tractors and curing of tobacco,
but they are not certain it will be
available when needed. Large
farmers who have storage tanks
are able to buy gasoline and fuel
oil in bulk, but many small
farmers do not have such
facilities and are dependent upon
neighborhood service stations for
their supplies.
Fields said tobacco growers
can also expect an increase in
support prices from the govem-
ment-the expected increase to
be from a 76-cent per pound
average to 83 cents per pound.
In respect to acreage planting.
Fields said that because of the
poundage allotments many
farmers are trying to increase
their yield per acre and may
plant less &an their acreage
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Republican control of the
Moore County elections organi
zation was completed last week
with the appointment of regis
trars and judges by the Board of
Elections.
Changes were made in all but
two of the 21 voting precincts.
Two Democratic registrars
were retained-L.E. Bambauer
in East Carthage and Miss Grace
Tillman in West Carthage. All
other registrars are Republican.
The change follows political
custom and with the election of a
Republican governor, James E.'
Holshouser, the State Board of
Elections is now controlled by his
party. Two of the three Moore
County Board of Elections
Seven Lakes Offers
Recreation Variety
Tennis, anyone? Or golf,
riding, sailing, boating, hunting,
pool-shooting, sauna bathing,
basketball, football, baseball,
swimming, card playing, or
picnicking? They will all be
available at Seven Lakes.
Twenty-three homes are under
construction in one of the
newest developments in the
Sandhilis-Seven Lakes-and the
saie of lots in the family-oriented
Seven Lakes North-division has
been “highly successful” accord
ing to W.R. Makepeace HI,
company official who is already
making his home there.
Located on SR 1232 off
Highway 211 two miles north of
West End, the new facility is split
down the middle by the road. The
north side of some 1200 acres will
be devoted to family living, and
the south side of about 600 acres
to a Country Club area.
An 18 hole golf course has
already been laid out by Peter
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members are Republican-Chair
man C. Coolidge Thompson of
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Nine Named
To College
Foxmdation
Nine prominent citizens of the
area were named to the Board of
the Sandhills College Foundation
by the Trustees of the college at a
meeting last week, according
to H. Clifton Blue, chairman of
the Trustees.
New members are Sam Ragan,
editor and publisher of The Pilot;
Mrs. Kathy Gilmore, a teacher in
the Moore County Schools;
Norris L. Hodgkins Jr., Banker;
and the Rev. Martin Caldwell,
rector of Emmanuel Episcopal
Church, all of Southern Pines.
Also L.L. Marion, businessman
of Carthage; J.C. Robbins,
Aberdeen businessman; Paul
Dickson, publisher of the Rae-
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Freed of federal restraints on
Sunday sale of gasoline. Sand
hills area service station opera
tors this week expressed varying
opinions regarding resumption of
Sunday operations.
Some said they would reopen
on Sundays if they “had enough
gasoline” to do so.
Others said they’d prefer to
wait tili they were sure of more
gas than they’re now getting -
because of the “headaches”
involved in being open one
Sunday and closed the next.
And one operator asserted he
found it “so nice to be off one day
a week and able to go to church
again.”
Only a very few stations in the
area were open for business last
Sunday, the first day on which
Sunday openings were permissi
ble. The apparent reason was
that stations had insufficient
gasoline to do so, and r still
continue operating the rest of the
week.
The problem of Sunday open
ings was veiy much in the minds
of persons attending the regional
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Cancer Crusade Opens
With Goal of $12,000
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Moore County residents have
contributed some $4,000 to the
1974 Cancer Crusade during the
first 10 days of the drive, ac
cording to Lt. Gen. William P.
Yarborough, campaign chair
man.
Goal of the county-wide
crusade, which started March 15
and will continue through April,
is $12,000. It is conducted by the
Moore County Unit of the North
Carolina Division of the
American Cancer Society.
General Yarborough is president
of the county unit.
He stressed that 40 per cent of
the money raised will come back
to the county for such purposes
as aiding needy cancer victims.
The rest goes for cancer
research at the national level.
The initial effort was the
mailing of letters to 4,800 county
residents explaining the purpose
of the drive and the needs that it
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Cafeteria at Pinecrest
Inspected and Approved
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
The Moore County board of
education Thursday afternoon
inspected the new Music and
Food Service Building at
Pinecrest High school, accepted
it from the architect (wift a
small checklist of minor items ^
be completed) and turned it over
to Philip L. McMillan, principal,
telling him in effect, “Get it into
full use as soon as you can!”
McMillan said this would
[X'obably be about April 1, when
it is expected that some 850 of the
school’s 1,100 students will start
having lunch daily in the big,
bright cafeteria, and music
students can start working
regularly with their teachers in
the specially designed band and
choral instruction rooms. In
these rooms, wide wooden risers
[ffovide plenty of room for in
struments and players"
something the music students at
Pinecrest have never before had.
The tables and chairs had
arrived just that morning for the
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
GOLF BALL — What is probably the largest golf ball in existence is this one at
Seven Lakes. It is actually the 150,000 gallon water tank for the big new
development near West End. (Photo by Alvin Davis).
ENROLLMENT — Most of the
four-year universities and col
leges, as well as the community
colleges and technical institutes,
are expecting a drop in enroll
ment for next fall.
Several reasons for the decline
are being given. One is the fact
that the big baby boom has
passed and population growth is
leveling off. Another is the end of
the draft has also ended the
appeal of college for many young
men. That, at least, is the opinion
of some college administrators.
Some colleges are resuming
recruitment campaigns, and
others are taking a look at their
programs to see if they can’t
develop more courses with
greater student appeal.
North Carolina continues to
rank near the bottom in the
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FIRST TO FINISH — Pat Hargrove, a junior at
Pinecrest High School, was the first to finish the
Southern Pines Elks Lodge Walkathon for Cerebral .
Palsy victims on Saturday. He ran the entire route and
is shown here as he neared the finish line at the Elks
Club.
Culdee Church Damaged
By Fire Tuesday Night
Fire Departments from all
over the county battled a fire that
broke out around 7 p.m. Tuesday
at Culdee Presbyterian Church
and had it under control by 11
p.m., but not until an estimated
$45,000 in damages had been
made to the educational building.
The Rev. W.K. Finch, pastor,
said that services would be held
Sunday at the church despite
severe smoke damage and that
“we may get dirt on our clothes.”
He had high praise for the
firemen from West End, South
ern Pines, Pinehurst, Carthage
and Aberdeen who fought the fire
and stood by almost all night to
Big M Opens
Occupation of the Center Park
Shopping Center at the in
tersection of U. S. 1 and U. S. 15-
501 was completed this week with
the formal opening Tuesday
morning of the Big M Discount
Food Store.
On hand for the ribbon-cutting
and ceremonies were President
Hugh Ashcraft and other officials
of Big M, a division of the Harris-
Teeter food, chain.
Charles Ferguson is manager
of the store here, and Mike
Shelton is co^nanager.
see that it didn’t break out again.
He said there was heavy smoke
damage to all parts of the
church, including the sanctuary.
The fire apparently started
from an “electrical problem” in
the ceiling of the basement. The
church is located on Highway 73,
the Eastwood-West End Road.
The loss was covered by
insurance.
82nd Band
Will Play
For Races
The 82nd Airborne Division
Band will open die ceremonies at
the 28th Annual Stoneybrook
Hunt Races on Saturday, April
13, it was announced Monday by
Chairman William H. Frantz.
The Union Pines Band will also
be on hand to play between
races.
It has been some years since a
Ft. Bragg Band has played at
Stoneybrook and those who
remember their concerts will
welcome them back this year.
The Airborne Band’s appearance
at Stoneylx-ook was arranged by
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percertage of its young people
who go to college.
ISSUES — At least one
candidate for the State Senate
from the 16th District is taking a
stand on issues. He is Charles
Vickery, young attorney from'
Hillsborough, who is seeking the
Democratic nomination, along
with five others, in the May 7
primary.
Vickery, who was in Southern
Pines last week, said that he is
against capital punishment, he is
for an ethics law for legislators,
and he stands behind the Board
of Governors in policy making
decisions for the University of
North Carolina system.
Meanwhile, in the U.S. Senate
race, Henry Hall Wilson has
charged that the other candi-
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Some 1300 walkers set a new
State record here Saturday by
raising nearly $25,000 in the Elks
Cerebral Palsy Walkathon.
C.W. (Red) Smith, exalted
ruler of Southern Pines Elks
Lodge 1692, which sponsored the
Walkathon said it was “a
complete success.”
Between $24,500 and $25,000 in
pledges and donations Were
received and Smith said, “this
means that we of this area have
broken the State record for
Cerebral Palsy Walkathons by
more than $4,000.”
The 1300 walkers, ranging in
age from 10 on up to Senior
Citizen class, found the day
perfect for walking, and only 40
failed to complete the entire 20
miles of the route, which began
at the Southern Pines Elks club
and went by Aberdeen to
Pinehurst and back along Mid
land Road.
The walk began at 8 a.m. and
Pat Hargrove, a junior at
Pinecrest High School who ran
all the way, was the first to finish
at 11 a.m. The final three walkers
got a late start and came in at
4:30 p.m.
Smith served as chairman of
the Walkathon, with Charles
Ruptic as coordinator, assisted
by all Lodge officers who served
as vice chairmen and heads of
various committees.
In announcing the results of the
Walkathon, Smith said, “We
would like to thank the hundreds
of walkers and thousands of
sponsors who really opened up
their hearts to make life better
and brighter for the Cerebral
Palsy afflicted of North Carolina.
The money will be contributed to
United Cerebral Palsy for its
continued care of the more than
25,000 afflicted people in North
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Rev. Forbes
To Preach
At Revival
The Rev. James A. Forbes, Jr.
will be the guest preacher for
revival services at First Baptist
Church, 200 E. New York
Avenue, Southern Pines, Pastor
John D. Stone has announced.
The Rev. Mr. Forbes will
speak Friday, April 5, at 8 p.m.;
Saturday, April 6, at 8 p.m.; and
Sunday, April 7, at 11 a.m. The
public is invited to attend.
The Rev. Mr. Forbes is
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Pupil Holiday
Moore County students will
receive a holiday Friday, March
29.
Friday is one of the six and a
half days of this school year’s
calendar that were designated as
teacher work day in Moore.
County Schools.
Teachers will observe the
regular working day, however,
students will not report to school
in order to give teachers an
opportunity to spend time plan
ning, scheduling and grading.
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UNWELCOME SPRING VISITOR — This was a scene in the Sandhills Monday
morning when following rain and hail ice started forming on trees, such as this icy
cluster on a pine. It was soon over, however, and the normal Spring scene of
flowering dogwoods and peaches was unmarred by winter’s last (?) fling. -
(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).