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Index
Books, 2-B; Church calendar, 3-B;
Classified, 7-11-C; Editorial, 1-B;
Entertainment, 9-A; Obituaries, 8-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Society, 2-5-A;
Sports, 10-11-A.
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Weather
Rainfall totaling .31 inches fell June 3
for the only precipitation of the past
week. The week’s high was 90 on May
31, the low 57 on May 29. Forecast is for
partly cloudy with 20 percent chance of
rain tonight, 30 per cent Thursday. High
will be in the 80s, low in the mid-60s.
Vol. 54-No. 31
40 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, June 5, 1974
40 Pages
Price 10 Cents
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Auman, Walker, Vickery Win
In Democratic Runoff Election
Town Budget Up;
Tax Rate Same
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YOUNG FIREMAN — Jonathan Rorie, son of
Southern Pines Fireman Joe Rorie, was all dressed up
in his own fireman’s uniform as he watches the parade
of some 600 firemen and their wives at the 47th annual
Sandhills Firemen’s Convention here Saturday.—
(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Budget at New ffigh
75c Tax Rate Is Set
BY JIM SUTHERLAND
Southern Pines’ general tax
levy will remain unchanged for
the fifth year in succession, but
water and sewer charges will be
increased by one third under the
preliminary 1974-75 budget sub
mitted this week to the Town
Council by Town Manager Lew
G. Brown.
The preliminary budget totals
$1,619,921, an increase of
$340,821, or 26.6 per cent over the
1973-74 budget. Brown noted. The
difference represents adjust
ments such as higher water
rates, transfer of unexpended
balances from previous years,
reduced debt service costs and
lower revenue sharing fund
receipts.
State law now requires that
property be assessed for tax
purposes at 100 per cent
valuation. For this reason, the
recommended tax rate is 90
cents per $100 valuation - which
is equivalent to the present tax
rate of $1.50 per $100 on a 60 per
cent valuation.
The budget will remain on file
for public inspection for 20 days
and a public hearing, as required
by law, will be held after June 20
and before June 30, with the
Town Council expected to adopt
the budget by July 1.
The proposed overall budget is
divided into four categories:
general fund, water and sewer
fund, debt service fund and
revenue share fund.
The general fund covers such
functions as administration, fire
and police, building inspections,
recreations and public works. Its
recommended budget is
$1,068,961, an increase of 27.4 per
cent over 1973-74. This increase.
Brown explained, is due in part
to a $125,690 appropriation from
the funds left over from the
previous budget. And it now
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Rep. T. Clyde Auman
Russell Walker
Charles Vickery
Duncraig Test Suit Filed;
Plan to Move Announced
The Moore County commis
sioners in special session Thurs
day made tentative adoption of a
proposed 1974-75 budget totalling
$8,584,462—at the same time
setting the tax rate at 75 cents
per $100 property valuation.
In a budget meeting practi
cally every request, including
the schools, this may seem a
strangely low rate, though a
welcome drop from the $1.25 in
effect for the past several years.
It is, however, actually un
changed in effect, since, under
the state’s new Fiscal Control
Act, taxes will be assessed in
every county on 100 per cent of
“fair market value,” instead of
on varying ratios as set by their
commissioner boards.
Moore County’s assessment
ratio for a nuniber of years has
been 60 percent. The new rate, on
the new assessment, will produce
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Donald Kennedy Dies;
Active In Area Affairs
New Head of Choice, Inc.
Says Drugs Not So Open
Drug use by young people of
Moore County is not as open as it
once was but Cynthia Thacker,
the new head of Choice, Inc., is
not sure that it is any less.
The young psychology
graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
who has been appointed com
munity programs coordinator to
succeed Ron Gringle, talked this
week about some of the new
directions which the drug action
organization is taking.
One of these is in the field of
sexuality, in which counseling
service is given, especially in the
matter of treatment for venereal
disease.
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Donald Davidson Kennedy, 73,
of 140 Valley Road, died suddenly
Sunday at Moore Memorial
Hospital, following a heart
attack suffered Saturday - a day
which happened to be his 20th
wedding anniversary.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, with the Rev.
Fred C. Pace officiating,
followed by burial in Mt. Hope
Cemetery.
He was owner-operator for
some 50 years of one of the
leading boys’ camps in the
country. After moving to
Southern Pines in 1953 he was
active in many community af
fairs and special events, and was
chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Vardell Hall, a girls
preparatory school at Red
Springs, which he actively
served during its nine years of
existence.
Storm Causes Heavy Damages;
650 Acres Tobacco Flattened
A severe hail and wind storm
which cut a two-mile swath
across Moore County late
Saturday afternoon left con
siderable damage in its wake.
An estimated 650 acres of
tobacco was left riddled and
beaten to the ground, Tom
Colson, assistant Extension
agent, reported.
Many gardens were prac
tically wiped out, as were fields
of corn and other grain.
High winds - of almost tornado
proportions in some sections -
knocked down some sheds and
many tree limbs. A few trees
were twisted off. A porch on a
mobile home was reported blown
away.
The storm hit suddenly about
5:30 p.m., beginning in the
Harris Cross Roads section.
Colson said it swept on over the
Summer Hill Church and Farm
Life School areas and into the
Vass-Cameron areas.
Colson said that in some
tobacco fields the plants were up
to 18 inches to two feet high, and
had been “laid by.”
A tobacco specialist from N. C.
State University visited Moore
County following the storm and
recommended to tobacco
growers that it is better to try
and save the present plants
rather than replant this late in
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Donald D. Kennedy
In 1955-56 he was a hard
working co-chairman (with Dr.
R. M. McMiUan) of the-finance
committee of the local
movement to secure the
proposed new Presbyterian
College (St. Andrews) for
Southern Pines, and in that
capacity visited many com
munities in Moore and
surrounding counties.
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GOP Gathering
Governor James Holshouser
headed a Republican fund
raising recreational outing in
Pinehurst Saturday and Sunday.
Coordinated by Pinehurst attor
ney and former gubernatorial
candidate Robert Gavin, the fete
drew approximately 150 party
members from across the State.
There had been no public-
announcement of the meeting in
advance.
Friday night, the group partic
ipated in a barbecue cookout at
Little River Farm. Saturday,
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A civil suit testing the con
stitutionality of a Town Council’s
eviction order against children at
Duncraig manor has been filed in
Federal court, but authorities in
charge o£ the Children’s
Treatment Center say they are
going to move out anyway as
soon as they can find a place to
move.
The court action brought by
Mrs. Constance M. Baker
against town officials was filed in
the U. S. Middle District court in
Greensboro on Monday.
A hearing on the action is
expected to be held before a
Federal judge in Durham on
June 20.
It was disclosed yesterday,
however, that a search is under
way for. a new location for the
Center in the Sandhills area, and
State officials say they expect to
be out of Duncraig Manor by
August 27.
Mayor E. Earl Hubbard said
this morning that he is calling a
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Bud Rainey
Scholarship
Is Awarded
Two Pinecrest students were
announced this week as the
winners of the Francis F. Rainey
Memorial Scholarship.
They are Tommy Craven of 710
North Leak Street, and Valerie
Patricia Graham of 148 South
Glover Street.
The $500 scholarship awards
were announced Monday at the
Pinecrest Awards Day
ceremonies.
It was also announced that the
first recipients of the Rainey
scholarships - Phyllis Diane
Leslie and Mark Allen Pate - will
again receive $500 from the
foundation. They were awarded
the scholarships last year.
The scholarships were
established in memory of the late
Town Manager of Southern
Pines, Bud Rainey, and go each
year to two students. Eligible
students must reside within a
one-mile radius of Southern
Pines.
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HAIL FLATTENS CROP — A crowd gathered in the tobacco field on the farm of
Johnny Harris following the sudden hail and wind storm Saturday afternoon to
survey the damage. Hail and wind flattened the tobacco plants which were from
18 inches to two feet tall.
HOLSHOUSER — Governor
James Holshouser is taking on an
increasingly active role in
national Republican politics, and
in the back of the mind of some of
his supporters it could lead to a
vice presidential nomination in
1976.
The Governor’s chief political
lieutenant. Gene Anderson, who
has a State job as assistant to the
governor, is spending a lot of
time pushing the governor on the
national scene.
Last week Governor Hols
houser made another in a series
of out-of-state speeches to Rep
ublican groups, this time in Ohio.
This week he is chairing a
session of the Republican gover
nors at a national meeting in
Seattle. At week’s end he will be
hosting Vice President Gerald
Ford in Raleigh.
DEMOCRATS — There are at
least 10 candidates for the
Democratic nomination for At
torney General and all of them
are very much interested in who
will be elected to the State
Democratic Executive Commit
tee.
The committee of 260 will be
elected at the various county
conventions on June 29. Precinct
meetings will be held on June 18.
Moore County will elect two
members to the State com
mittee.
Moore County Chairman
Carolyn Blue said that letters
have been sent to all precinct
chairmen requesting them to
hold meetings for the election of
delegates to the county con-
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DUNCRAIG OWNER — Mrs. Constance Baker, owner
of Duncraig Manor, is shown above during her visit to
Southern Pines last week.-(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Dr. Heinitsh Succumbs;
Leader In Conservation
Dr. George Heinitsh, died
Sunday at Memorial Mission
Hospital at Asheville, after
suffering an attack while visiting
a friend in the mountain area.
A graveside service was held
Tuesday in Old Bethesda ceme
tery, with Dr. Cheves K. Ligon of
Winston-Salem, a former pastor
of Brownson Memorial Presby
terian Church here, officiating.
Dr. Heinitsh was an early
conservationist of the Sandhills,
was president of the Moore
County Wildlife Club for two
terms, starting in 1960, and also
in that year was elected
president of the North Carolina
Wildlife Federation, a state
organization which at that time
had more than 7,000 members in
100 affiliated clubs. He was
presiding officer of the Federa
tion’s 1961 State convention, held
at the Holly Inn, Pinehurst.
He was an active outdoor
sportsman, a hunter, fisherman,
expert marksman and collector
of firearms. A former golf
enthusiast, he gave up golf in
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‘Miss Southern Pines’
Heads For NC Pageant
Ingrid Trotter of Robbins -
Miss Southern Pines of 1974-
will leave Sunday for Charlotte
where she will compete next
week for the title of Miss North
Carolina.
This past Saturday she spent
what she described as “one of the
most exciting days” of her life
when she toured downtown
Southern Pines, the Town and
Country Shopping Center
Pinehurst meeting people
receiving a variety of gifts from
merchants.
and
and
C. Wayne Hicks of the
sponsoring Southern Pines Jay-
cees said the Jaycees and
Jaycettes “wish to thank the
following merchants for the gifts
as listed:”
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Recreation Program Set
For Town This Summer
A full schedule of summer
activity has been announced by
the Southern Pines Recreation
Department.
The municipal pool in West
Southern Pines opened on
Sunday for the entire summer.
The pool will be closed on
Mondays, but open from 12 noon
to 7 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday, and from 2 to 8 p.m. on
Sundays.
Johnny Williams, recreation
director, said all programs and
activities are open to all
residents of Southern Pines and
Veteran Moore County legisla
tor T. Clyde Auman of West End
won renomination to the State
House of Representatives, and
political newcomers Russell
Walker of Asheboro and Charles
Vickery of Chapel Hill were
nominated as the Democratic
candidates for the State Senate in
Tuesday’s second primary.
Auman defeated Dock Smith,
Robbins attorney, by a 739-vote
margin-2,013 to 1,274.
In the four-county two-seat
16th State Senate District,
Walker led the ticket, polling a
total of 7,554 votes. Vickery won
the other seat’s nomination with
6,339 votes.
Carl Smith of Chapel Hill who
had called for the runoff election
after running third in a six-man
field in the first primary on May
27 polled 5,701 votes.
In Moore County’s single seat
House of Representatives race.
Dock Smith had called for a
runoff election after coming in
second in a four-man field in the
first primary. He had trailed
Auman by 733 votes in the first
primary. Auman had lacked only
16 votes of having a clear
majority on May 27.
In the second primary, as well
as in the first, Auman carried 15
of the county’s 21 precincts,
rolling up his biggest majority in
the southern end of the county in
such precincts as North and
South Southern Pines, Pinedene,
Pinehurst, Knollwood and his
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Two Nabbed
In Robbery;
One Sought
Two youths were arrested this
week charged with staging the
May 12 armed robbery of the
Kentucky Fried Chicken
restaurant, in which some $2,400
was taken.
One arrest was made Tuesday
night when Moore County
sheriff’s deputies picked up Sean
Sullivan, 18, of Pinehurst at
commencement ceremonies at
Pinecrest High School. Sullivan
was a graduating senior.
Earlier in the week Aberdeen
police arrested James A. Logue,
16, of Southern Pines, on armed
robbery charges. Logue is being
held in jail in Carnage under
$10,000 bond. Sullivan now is in
jail in Southern Pines, but will be
transferred to Carthage if bond is
not obtained. A warrant for a
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Methodists
To Get New
Minister
The Rev. John Sidney Paschal
has been assigned to the
pastorate of the Southern Pines
United Methodist Church, effect
ive Thursday, June 6.
Bishop Robert M. Blackburn
will make the official announce
ment when he reads the 1974
appointments at the end of the
North Carolina Annual Confer
ence in session this week in
Fayetteville.
He succeeds the Rev. Vergil E.
Queen, who is retiring after
serving here the past four years.
The Rev. Mr. Paschal comes to
Southern Pines from the First
United Methodist church of
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are regularly supervised.
Some programs for the
summer got under way this week
and others will commence on
Monday, June 10.
Tennis instruction, with Dick
Kobleur as instructor, will start
Monday at the municipal courts.
There is no charge and the
schedule calls for instcuction at 9
a.m. for adults, 10 a.m. for
beginners and 11 a.m. for in
termediates on Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday.
Arts and crafts instruction by
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Rev. John S. Paschal