In Celebration of Fourth
Services Are Held in Carthage
For Moore Native John Lang
N.C. ZOO BENEFIT— The North Carolina State Zoo will receive 50percent of the
proceeds from the sale of tickets in the “Super Tiger Club" for the World Open
Golf Championship at Pinehurst in September. Shown above following a meeting
on ticket sale plans are, left to right, Don Collett, president of Pinehurst, Inc.,
William Hoff, Zoo director, Mrs. Eva Ross, Dr. Clement R. Monroe, James Van
Camp, Mrs. Cecil Neville, Mrs. William Clark and Mrs. Bruce Warlick. —(Photo
by Glenn M. Sides).
New Director Named
iicket bale
A.t03,1113,rk3,Il(iJVI^lIlor Benefits
BY JIM SUTHERLAND
James F. Leathers, a former
principal at the Polk Youth
Center in Raleigh, Monday was
appointed director of Samarkand
Manor, the girls’ training center
near Eagle Springs.
His appointment was an
nounced to Samarkand staff
members by David Jones, Secre
tary of the North Carolina
Department of Rehabilitation
and Control, at the annual
Service Awards Day program.
Jones also revealed that “as of
today”-meaning July 1-the
statewide Board for Youth
Development has been abo
lished. It will be succeeded by a
new nine-member board whose
function will be entirely to make
recommendations regarding the
various State youth development
centers. Jones said he will be
chairman of the new board,
whose other members Governor
Holshouser will announce within
a few days.
These two developments were
the latest in a series of events
that have kept Samarkand
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Woman Dies at Orchard;
'^ Poisoning Is Suspected
Mrs. Dorothy McMillan, 33, of
Laurinburg, was dead on arrival
shortly after noon Saturday at
Moore Memorial Hospital and
Hoke County Chief Deputy
Sheriff Harvey Young who in
vestigated said she was found
under a peach shed at Hawley
:■) Poole’s Peach Orchard near
*tcCain and rushed to Moore
lemorial Hospital, possibly with
nsecticide poisoning.
Mrs. McMillan was found
unconscious by her husband,
Jack McMillan, and taken to the
hospital by the Raeford Am
bulance Service.
An autopsy was performed,
and samples sent to State
Medical Examiner Page Hudson
in Chapel Hill. Deputy Young
said parathion may have been
responsible for her accidental
death, which is still under in
vestigation. He said a report
from Chapel Hill was expected in
about 10 days.
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Swaringen Elected Head
Social Services Body
Roy Swaringen of West End
has been elected chairman of the
Moore County Board of Social
Services to succeed Benjamin
Wicks of Southern Pines, whose
term has expired.
The new member of the board,
appointed by the State Social
Services Division to succeed
Wicks, is John Sledge of Southern
Pines, who was also recently
elected to the Moore County
Board of Education.
Both Sledge and Swaringen,
who will be serving his second
term on the board, will be sworn
into office on July 31.
Swaringen is a member of the
United Methodist Church of West
End, and is chairman of the
Administration Board for the
church. He graduated from
Catawba College at Salisbury,
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Organization of a “Super Tiger
Club” for the sale of season
tickets to the World Open Golf
Championship in September with
50 percent of the proceeds going
to the North Carolina State Zoo
was announced Saturday at a
meeting at the Pinehurst Hotel.
Arranged by Dr. Clement R.
Monroe and Don Collett, presi
dent of Pinehurst, Inc., the
meeting featured a slide and
sound presentation by William
Hoff, Erector of the Zoo at
Purgatory Mountain near Ashe-
boro. Dr. Monroe is a member of
the N.C. Zoological Authority.
Various women’s organiza
tions are taking part in the ticket
sales, and a county-by-county
organization has been set up by
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Building
Planned
At see
H. Clifton Blue, chairman of
the Board of Trustees of San
dhills Conununity CoUege, and
Dr. Raymond A. Stone, the
president, have announced the
selection of Hayes-Howell and
Associates, architects of
Southern Pines to design and
supervise the construction of a
major new building on the
campus.
The Hayes-Howell firm
designed the original three-
building complex of the college
which was completed in the fall
of 1966 in time for the second
year of operation of the com
munity college. The design of the
administration building. Student
Union and the science building,
later named for Mrs. C. Louis
Meyer who gave land for the
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Ewing Appointed to State Job;
Will Not Resign County Post
Robert S. Ewing of Southern
-dnes began his duties as the new
director of the Division of
Community Assistance in
Raleigh on Tuesday.
Ewing, 54, was appointed last
week to the new agency by
lames E. Harrington, Secretary
T* V -
Robert S. Ewing
of the Department of Natural and
Economic Resources, and for
mer president of Pinehurst, Inc.
Ewing said that he is not
residing as a county com
missioner and will continue to
hold both offices. He also plans to
continue his i-esidence in
Southern Pines.
He did resign as chairman of
the Moore County Republican
Executive Conunittee and has
been succeeded as chairman by
Floyd Cole, another county
commissioner, who was selected
at a special meeting of the
Republican conunittee.
The Division of Community
Assistance is a new agency
created under a reorganization
of the management structure of
the Department of Natural and
Economic Resources, as one of
seven major divisions under
Secretary Harrington. Ewing’s
difvision will administer such,
programs as community plan
ning assistance, some local grant
programs, and community
development assistance. Ewing
said he was pleased that
recreation programs will be
under his administration as this
is an area in which he has long
been interested. There are also
plans to transfer the Law and
Order Division, now in the
Department of Administration,
to the new division.
Ewing said that much of his
programs will be handled by
seven field offices, located at
Asheville, Mooresville, Winston-
Salem, Fayetteville, Raleigh,
Wilmington, and Washington,
with a sub-office in Morehead
City. Moore County pro^ams
will come under the Fayetteville
regional office.
Ewing’s position dealing with
local government makes his
experience in that field valuable,
Harrington said. Ewing was a
member of the Southern Pines
Town Council and Mayor of
Southern Pines from 1958-60. He
has been a county commissioner
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BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
John Albert Lang, Jr., one of
Moore County’s most
distinguished native sons as well
as one of the most beloved, died
unexpectedly Thursday night at
Pitt Memorial Hospital in
Greenville of complications
following surgery. He was 63.
He was the State’s first
Secretary of Military and
Veterans Affairs.
His brilliant career took him
high in State and federal
government, in the military and
in education, and in all of these
worlds the shock of his death was
deeply felt, as well as among his
friends of all ages and levels in
his home county.
A funeral service was held
Saturday at the First
Presbyterian Church in
Greenville, where Lang had been
serving as Vice Chancellor for
external affairs at East Carolina
University.
John A. Lang Jr.
Sunday afternoon, a memorial
service was held at the Carthage
Presbyterian Church, the church
of his childhood, with the pastor,
the Rev. B.E. Dotson, officiating.
The church was filled to over
flowing. Burial was in Cross Hill
Cemetery beside his parents,
with full military rites, with an
Air Force chaplain presiding. A
salute was fired and taps were
played.
Both services were crowded
with friends and colleagues,
many of whom had come long
distances. Pallbearers at the
Greenville service were Attorney
General Robert Morgan, former
chairman of the ECU board of
trustees and a close friend; Dr.
Leo Jenkins, ECU Chancellor,
R.L. Jones of Raleigh, Vice
Chancellors Robert L. Holt, C.G.
Moore and Edwin Monroe, Henry
Oglesby of Grifton and Jack
Spain of Greenville.
At the Carthage service, a
planeload of about 25 govern
ment and military officials from
Lang’s life in Washington shared
the sorrowful occasion with local
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Democrats Name Causey Head;
Brown Elected to State Group
J. Ed Causey of Lakeview was
elected chairman Of the Mocre
County Democratic Executive
Committee at the biennial county
convention, held Saturday at the
courthouse.
While at least two other
leading party members had
expressed interest in the office,
no contest developed. Nominated
by Wiley Purvis of Robbins as a
sign of unity of both parts of the
county, with seconds from his
home precinct of Vass, among
others, Causey was swept into
office by acclamation.
Mrs. Carolyn H. Blue of Eagle
Springs, completing her first full
term as chairman (after a period
as acting chairman) was
ineligible for reelection, but was
returned to the county com
mittee as first vice chairman.
J. Ed Causey
Others elected were: Mrs.
Lauraellen Douglass, Southern
Pines, second vice chairman;
Town Budget Approved;
Water Rate Study Is Set
The Southern Pines Town
Council in special session last
Wednesday night officially
adopted its budget for 1974-75,
totalling $1,619,921, with a few
minor changes, but only after a
long discussion of the proposed
new water and sewer rates as
they apply to Proctor-Silex, the
town’s largest user.
It was decided to re-study the
entire water rate structure, and
possibly make revisions later.
The preliminary budget had
been tentatively adopted two
weeks earlier, with proposed
revisions, and confirming the
new tax rate at 90 cents per $100
property valuation, at 100 per
cent assessed evaluation.
Last week’s meeting was set as
a public hearing on the budget
ordinance as required by iaw,
but no one appeared to question
or protest the budget or any of its
provisions, other than Robert J.
Parkent of Proctor-Silex and
W.H. FuUenwider, the corpora
tion’s local counsel, in regard to
the water and sewer budget only.
FuUenwider protested that the
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Tommy PhiUips, Carthage, third
vice chairman; Tony Parker,
Southern Pines, secretary, and
Mrs. Rachel C!omer, Cameron,
treasurer.
Several contests enlivened the
elections, which produced a
lineup of reconunended com
position - the sexes alternating;
one black (Mrs. Douglass), and
one under-30 (PhiUips).
Mrs. Blue won the first vice
chairmanship in a contest with
Mrs. Douglass, then Mrs.
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Chamber
Promotion
Plan Made
State funds of $12,0X) are being
requested on a matching basis by
the Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce for area-wide
promotion of the S^dhiUs as a
year round resort with at
tractions for aU ages and tastes.
The promotiontd program, to
be entitled “The Best Kept
Secret,” is designed to reach
people who know nothing of the
SandhUIs or know it only as a
golfing center, and to increase
the numbers of visitors to the
area in the off-seasons by at
tracting grotq) meetings, couples
and famiUes with chUdren.
“Most of our businessmen are
aware of the importance of the
travel dollar in our local
economy,” says John Bigbee,
President of the Sandhills Area
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Robert Morgan
Gen. Barker
Dies at 84;
Rites Held
Maj. Gen. Ray W. Barker, 84,
USA ret., of Crest Road,
Knollwood, died Friday at
Womack Army hospital at Fort
Bragg after ttmee weeks’ illness.
Funeral seiwices were held
Monday at Emmanuel Episcopal
church by the rector, the Rev.
Martin Caldwell, followed
Wednesday by graveside service
with fuU miUtary honors in
Arlington National Cemetery,
Arlington, Va.
His distinguished Army career
included service in three wars,
the Mexican confU^ and World
Wars I and H. On retirement in
1947 he was appointed
superintendent of the ManUus
School, Manlius, N.Y., from
which he retired and moved to
Southern Pines in 1964.
A native of Elmira, N.Y., he
enlisted in the U.S. Cavalry in
1911, was conunissioned in 1913
and in 1916 served as a troop
commander under General
Pershing on the Mexican border.
On this country’s entry into
World War I he transferred to the
Field ArtiUery, serving as a
battaUon commander in France,
where he was wounded by
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Moore County wiU close iq)
shop and celebrate the Fourth of
July Thursday with parades,
speeches, contests and
fireworks.
Aberdeen will be celebrating
its tenth annual Independence
Day festival, beginning with a
parade at 10:30 a.m., followed by
a noon-day speech by Attorney
General Robert Morgan.
In other towns-Carthage,
Whispering Pines, and
Pinehurst-parades and other
events will be staged.
Most retail stores will be
closed for the day, although some
wiU be open on a limited
schedule.
AU town, county, state and
federal offices-including post
offices-wiU be_closed.
The Pilot will also be closed on
Thursday.
The Aberde'^ parade wiU be
led by the Pinecrest High School
band which wiU include a color
guard from the Southern Pines
Unit of the North Carolina
National Guard; also a color
guard from Harnett and Cum
berland counties representing
the Second N.C. Regiment
Foot, Revolutionary War.
There wiU be dozens of other
entries in the parade including
the Rev. James MacKenzie of
Robbins and Timothy Cole of
Southern Pines with their
bagpipes.
Beauty pageant entries wiU
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Weather
Independence Day is going to
be hot in the Sandhills area, with
a chance of showers, the weather
man says. The mercury may hit
93 under partly cloudy skies both
today and Thursday.
Chance of precipitation is 30
percent this afternoon, 20 per
cent tonight and 30 percent
again on July 4.
High temperature for the past
week was 92, recorded on
Tuesday, whUe the week’s low
was 57 degrees Friday night.
RainfaU for the week amounted
to .80 inches, received in smaU
amounts spread over the four
days of June 26 to 29.
New Jail Is Approved
Following Board Tour
The Moore County com
missioners, inspecting the new
Moore County Jail during their
regular meeting Monday, for
mally accepted be building from
the contractor, subject to several
minor corrections and finishing
touches, which they listed.
The one-story brick building of
fortress-like design, one block
from the courthouse, has been
under construction for nearly
two years. Contracts totalling
$443,393 were let in September,
1972. Numerous delays have
since pushed the completion date
far past the originad target of
November 1, 1973.
Hiere were delays caused by
material shortages, and in
scheduling the work of sub
contractors. One source of
problems in grading and con
struction was the site, on con
stricted space on the same lot as
the old county jail, squeezed in
between it and the Carthage
Rescue Squad hut, which the
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Index
Books, 2-B
Church Calendar, 3-B j
Classified Ads, \2,-\5-A
Craft Comer, 5-A
Editorials, 1-B
Entertainment, 8-A
Obituaries, 7-A
Pinehurst News, 13-15-B
Social News, 1-^A
Sports, 10-A
THE
PILOT LIGHT
VASS — Democrats of Vass
hosted a breakfast for Robert
Morgan Monday morning and
more than 50 turned out for the
occasion.
The party’s candidate for the
U.S. Senate, who will resign as
Attorney General on August 26,
spoke briefly, and newly elected
Moore County Chairman Ed
Causey said that what Morgan
warned about should be heeded.
Morgan warned about apathy,
saying it was the worst enemy
the Democrats have to face in the
November election.
Organization of the Morgan
breakfast was spearheaded by
Russell Bullock, but all of the
Democrats of Vass precinct
pitched in to do honor to a neigh
bor.
COCHRANE — William
Cochrane, who served as an aide
for many years to Senator W.
Kerr Scott and his successor B.
Everett Jordan, was in Carthage
Sunday to attend the funeral of
John A. Lang.
He is now serving as ad
ministrative aide to the Senate
Rules Committee and said that
since moving to the post he’s
been involved in several matters
of national importance.
One was a key role in the
second inauguration of President
Nixon last year. “I felt a lot of
sympathy for him, he looked so
worn, tired and worried,”
Cochrane said. “It was not until a
lot later I found what he was
worried about.”
SANDERS — John Sanders,
the former director of the In
stitute of Government who now
serves as vice president of the
University of North Carolina,
represented the University
system at the Lang funeral.
He said that a great deal of his
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TURTLE CROSSING — There’s a memorable passage in John Steinbeck’s “The
Grapes of Wrath” about a turtle crossing a road. Here Photographer Glenn M.
Sides catches a turtle in a similar act, a precarious journey across a Sandhills
road.