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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 11-12-13-14-15-C; Editor
ials, 1-B; Entertainment, 7-C; Obitua
ries, 8-A; Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Social
News, 2-6-A; Sports, 11-A.
Weather
Temperatures reached 87 degrees
Friday in the Sandhills for the high of
the week, with a minimum of 52
Tuesday night. Rainfall on Thursday,
Saturday, and Monday totalled 2.38
inches. The thermometer was at 72
today around 11 a.m.
House,Senate
RunnoffVote
Set Tuesday
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A runoff election for one House
and two Senate seats will be held
in Moore Couny next Tuesday in
a Democratic party second
primary.
Rep. T. Clyde Auman of West
End, who lacked only 16 votes of
polling a majority in a four-man
race on May 27, is being
challenged by Dock Smith of
Robbins.
Auman, who is in his fifth term
as a State Representative from
Moore, received 2,393 votes in the
first primary. Smith, a lawyer,
received 1,660 votes.
There are three candidates
seeking the Democratic
nomination for two State Senate
seats.
Charles Vickery, a Chapel Hill
lawyer, led the sk-man field in
the first primary with 9,125
votes. In second place was
Russell Walker, Asheboro
businessman, with 9,103 votes.
Carl Smith, a Chapel Hill
businessman, polled 8,829 votes.
No new issues have arisen in
the second primary campaign,
which so far has been confined to
personal visits with the voters by
the candidates. Last week all of
them admitted that their biggest
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Cyclist
Is Killed
By Train
Samuel Japheth Wicker, Jr.,
40, of Fayetteville, a native of
Moore County, became this
county’s second highway fatality
of the year when his motorcycle
collided with the engine of a
Seaboard Coast line freight
train at 6:15 p.m. Saturday on the
edge of Pinebluff.
State Trooper W.M. Gay said
Wicker, riding east of RPR 1105,
from Pinebluff take to US 15-501,
headed onto the railroad crossing
about 1000 feet beyond the lake
just as the northbound train
pulled into sight.
Three men fishing at the
bridge above the lake told Gay
they heard the train blow and
tried to shout and flag the
motorcyclist down, but he was
not aware of his danger until too
late.
Gay said marks showed he
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Court Action
Is Scheduled
F or Duncraig
WHERE FOUR DIED — Bodies of four men were
found in and scattered about the wreckage of this
small plane which was found late Friday near Park-
wood in Moore County after being missing for almost a
week. Police Chief Coy Warf of Robbins surveys the
(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
scene.
Lost Plane With Four Dead Found;
Moore Sheriff Is Critical of CAP
Schools Will Graduate
539 On Tuesday Night
Commencement exercises at
Moore County’s three high
schools will be held Tuesday
night, with a total of 539 seniors
scheduled to receive diplomas
of graduation.
Largest graduating class will
be at Pinecrest High School with
272 graduates. Union Pines will
present diplomas to 141 and
North Moore will graduate 126.
In 1973 there were 493
graduates in Moore high schools.
J. Paul Essex of Raleigh,
administrative assistant to Lt.
Gov. Jim Hunt and former
newspaperman, will be the
commencement speaker at
Pinecrest.
Dr. Amos Abrams, editor
emeritus of the NCAE magazine.
North Carolina Education, will
make the address at North
Moore.
At Union Pines the com
mencement will follow the usual
custom of having outstanding
seniors as the speakers. This
year’s student speakers will be
Denise Epps, Alice Hyman,
Deborah Wallace and Mitchell
Frye.
The baccalaureate address at
Pinecrest will be held in the
school courtyard Sunday at 8
p.m., with Liston Peebles,
Greensboro Young Life director,
as the speaker. He will be in
troduced by Wilson R. Bruce,
president of the Senior Class.
Essex will be introduced by Neil
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BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Moore County officers and
hundreds of volunteers took part
for several days last week in an
intensive search for a lost plane,
which was found late ^iday
afternoon in deep woods nor
thwest of Carthage, with all four
occupants dead.
Brothers
Charged
In Assault
Two brothers of Seagrove, Rt.
1 made bond of $10,000 at the
Chatham County jail Tliursday
on charges of assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill
brought by Sheriff’s officers in a
beating of Jerry Kidd of
Seagrove, Rt. 1.
They are Lacy Edward Man-
ess, 22, and Bobby Manford Gale
Maness, 17.
Kidd remained in serious
condition at N.C. Memorial
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First word of the loss of the
plane Saturday night. May 18, en
route from Myrtle Beach, S.C., to
Burlington-or rather, the
Crescent Beach airport to that of
Whitsett, in Alamance County-
indicated it might be down “in
the, Pinehurst area,” later
changed to the Glendon-High
Falls area, with the search,
headed by the State Civil Air
Patrol later moving into other
Convention of Firemen
Planned Here Satmday
Between 500 and 600 are
expected here Saturday for the
'47th annual Sandhills Firemen’s
Convention, which will feature a
parade, demonstrations and a
street dance at night.
Chief Peter Rapatas of the
Southern Pines Fire Department
said that more than 40 fire
departments will be represented.
The Sandhills convention will
draw units and representatives
from as far north as Sanford, as
far west as Monroe and east to
Whiteville.
Registration will get under
way at 8:30 a.m. in the downtown
Southern Pines Park, followed by
demonstrations in the park from
9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The parade
will be held in the downtown area
at 11 o’clock, followed by lunch
from 12 to 1:30, when a business
meeting will convene, lasting to 3
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Degrees Are Awarded to 243
At Sandhills College Finals
Farmers Appeal Delays
Opening Of Fall Schools
A total of 243 Associate
Degrees were awarded at the
formal commencement
ceremony at Sandhills Com
munity College Friday evening,
one of the largest graduating
classes in the history of the
school.
The exercises began with the
traditional academic parade of
members of the Board of
Trustees, «^aculty, staff and
graduating class. They marched
into the Fountain Courtyard to
music by the Sandhills Com
munity College brass ensemble,
directed by Marion Rogers.
Following the singing of the
National Anthem, the Rev. Hal
Hyde, Jr., minister of Brownson
Memorial Church in Southern
Pines, gave the invocation.
H. Clifton Blue, chairman of
the Board of Trustees, welcomed
the several hundred spectators
and Dr. Raymond A. Stone,
president of Sandhills, in
troduced the speaker, a
distinguished graduate of the
college.
Harry L. Jones received an
Associate Degree from Sandhills
in 1968 and earned a Bachelor’s
Degree at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A
student leader while in the
Southern Pines High School, at
Sandhills, and on the Chapel Hill
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The Moore County Board of
Education in regular meeting
Tuesday night ran counter to the
advice of Sup. Robert E. Lee in
changing the 1974-75 school
calendar to suit the needs of
tobacco farmers.
David Comer, president of the
Moore County Farm Bureau,
headed a group of members
urging that the opening dates of
the fall term be changed to
Thursday, August 29, for Pupil
Orientation Day (from August
26) and Tuesday, September 3,
for the first fuU day of school
(from August 28).
They said the farm children
would be needed at home to work
in the crop for that last full week
before Labor Day, and it would
be harder on them if schools
were opening that week and they
had to choose whether to miss the
opening days.
It was an old conflict of school
and farm, quiescent for the past
several years, during which the
opening of school was arbitarily
set for September 1, up until last
year.
With the extending of the
teachers’ employment to 10
months, said Supt. Lee, nearly
two weeks have had to be added
at each end of the school year,
and once the teachers have
arrived and started preparatory
work, they have to be continuous-
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counties.
Moore County searchers,
organizing under the sheriff’s
department, set up headquarters
Tuesday at the Glendon
Christian Church, going out on
night-and-day missions to comb
woods and streams of upper
Moore County. They worked in a
systematic pattern, their
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Poppy Day
All day Friday, May 31st, and
Saturday morning, June 1st,
members of Sandhill Unit 134,
American Legion Auxiliary,
Southern Pines and their assist
ants will be on the streets of
Southern Pines to distribute the
memorial poppy. Headquarters
will be in the Arcade ne^ to the
First Union National Bank.
The red poppies are made of
crepe paper, by hand by disabled
veterans in hospitals and poppy
workrooms. The workers receive
pay for each poppy made, the
materials being furnished free.
All monies in exchange for the
poppies go toward the rehabil
itation of disabled veterans, for
their families and the families of
deceased servicemen.
Big Grant
Is Given
To Council
The Pee Dee Council of
Government has received a
grant of $244,090 from the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation for the
establishment of a regional
Emergency Medical System in
the four-county area of Region H.
It is expected that the Council
'Will receive matching funds from
the State to bring the total
available for the program to the
requested amount of $395,190.
An organizational meeting of
the Advisory Council made up of
representatives from the four
counties of Moore, Montgomery,
Anson and Richmond was held
Tuesday night in Rockingham.
Primary aim of the regional
system is the upgrading of
medical services, with special
emphasis to be given to im
proving communications bet
ween ambulances and hospitals
and emergency rooms them
selves.
Mrs. Betty Cox of the Pee
Dee Council said the application
for the grant had been made
some time ago to the foundation,
and that plans are well under
way to put the Emergency
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The Duncraig Manor issue is
headed for the courts.
Mrs. Constance Matheson
Baker, owner of the Southern
Pines residence in which the
Children’s Treatment Center is
located, announced today that
she has directed her attorney,
James R. Van Camp, to institute
legal action.
The purpose of the litigation,
she said, is to interpret the
zoning ordnances of the Town of
Southern Pines as they relate to
the use of her property at Dun
craig Manor.
Duncraig Manor is a 17-acre
estate lying just outside the Town
of Southern Pines. Since Sep
tember of 1973 it has been used as
a non-institutional community
based home for a maximum of
nine socially deprived children.
The children live in the home “as
a family” and attend the local
public schools.
Mrs. Baker said, in making the
announcement that court action
will be sought, that she does hot
want the matter to become a
political issue or to be “tried by
the news media.” She said she
feels that the matter of in
terpretation of the zoning or
dinance should be settled by the
court.
Thursday is the deadline which
the Town Council, meeting on
May 14, gave for the Children’s
Treatment Center to vacate the
premises. The Council voted to
uphold a decision of the town
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Were Coiirthouse Thieves
Looking For Documents?
Thieves who may have been
looking for legal documents of
some sort broke into the offices
of the Moore County sheriff,
county magistrates and county
attorney in Carthage last
Wednesday evening.
As far as could be determined,
all they got was three cheap
handguns and a small amount of
cash from the sheriff’s office, $21
from the magistrates’ office, and
a little cash from a secretary’s
desk in the county attorney’s
office. But papers on several
desks were strewn about and
there were indications that file
cabinets had been rifled.
The sheriff’s and magistrates’
offices are in the (^urthouse;
that of the county attorney is in
the Lee Building, across the
street from the Courthouse.
The same person or persons
are believed to have broken into
the Mack’s Variety Store on
Courthouse Square in Carthage
while on their burglary spree. M
that was taken there was a tape
player, which was found
discarded behind the store.
The break-ins occurred bet
ween 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Wed
nesday, according to Carthage
Police Chief Allan Benner. It was
at that time that Kin Suggs,
magistrate on duty that evening,
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Ben Owen Pottery Exhibition
Opens Sunday at N.C. Museum
THE
PILOT LIGHT
A collection of more than 200
pieces of Ben Owen pottery will
go on public exhibit at the North
Carolina Museum of History on
June 2.
The exhibit, part of the
personal collection of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Owen of Seagrove will
be on temporary exhibit at the
Museum in the Archives and
History-State Library Building
through July 15.
A reception honoring Mr. and
Mrs. Owen will be held Saturday,
June 1, with Owen officially
opening the exhibit. Invited
guests for the 8 p.m. opening
include members of the Owen
family, various potters and
craftsmen from around the
State, and state officials. A
private dinner for immediate
family members will precede the
reception.
The exhibit, which consists of
various pieces of pottery as well
as graphic scenes of Owen at
work, includes pieces from Ben
Owen’s specialities, including
glazes that finish in “tobacco-
spit” brown, buff, bright orange,
salt glaze, opaque white, “frog
skin” green, and mirror black.
The new exhibit will focus
primarily upon Owen’s pottery
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SANDHILLS GRADUATION — Suzanne VonCanon Riley of West End receives
the congratulations of President Raymond Stone after receiving the President’s
Award for being tops in the 1974 Sandhills Community College graduating class.
She also won the top award in nursing. Looking on at right is Charles Yarbrough,
dean of students.-(Photo by Emerson Humphrey).
DEMOCRATS — It hasn’t
surfaced yet but some behind-
the-scenes jockeying already is
under way for membership on
the State Democratic Executive
Conunittee.
One reason for this is the fact
that the Executive Committee
will have the responsibility of
choosing the Democratic nom
inee for Attorney General.
Robert Morgan is expected to
resign as Attorney General in
late August before he gets his
campaign for the U.S. Senate
into high gear shortly after
Labor Day.
Several candidates for the
Attorney General nomination
will be trying to get their
supporters named to the State
committee.
In several counties also there
are contests shaping up for
county chairman. Tliere will be a
big turnover in county chairmen
as a majority of them are in
eligible for another term.
In Moore County, Carolyn
Blue will be stepping down as
chairman at the Democrats
county convention in Carthage on
June 29. Precinct meetings will
be held all over the State on the
same date of June 18.
TAYLOR — The Chatham
News reports that posters for Pat
Taylor are still up in downtown
Siler City two years after his
primary campaign for Governor.
In some parts of the State there
are campaign signs for candi
dates as far back as 1966. Among
the older signs are those for
Shallcross who ran for the
Republican Senate nomination
back in the 1960s.
There has been talk of a law
which would require candidates
to see that their ^sters are taken
down after campaigns or pay a
fine for each violation.
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BEN OWEN AT WORK — An exhibition of Ben Owen pottery will be displayed at
the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh on Sunday. The noted potter is
shown above at work at his pottery in the Westmoore community.