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Continued clear, cold weather is in
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Sunday. Rainfall Saturday night and
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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar 3-B;
Classified Ads, 12-15-C; Dear Abby,
8-B; Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment,,
7-C; Obituaries, 10-A; Pinehurst News,
1-3-C; Social News, 2-6-A; Sports,
12-13-A.
Vol. 55-No. 5
56 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, December 4, 1974
56 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Ewing Resigns Office;
Womack Is Appointed
Bis
HUNT SEASON OPENS — The Hunt Season opened
with the traditional Thanksgiving Day event when the
Moore County Hounds met at 10 a.m. in Kaylor’s
Field. The hounds are shown moving off with the staff,
W.O. Moss, master of hounds, in center; Mrs. Moss,
secretary and first whip, at left; Richard D. Webb,
joint master, and Wiffie Smith, whip, at right. There
were more than a hundred riders in the field and even
more spectators in cars following along the roads to
get a glimpse of the hounds running the drag line,
which was laid for the benefit of the spectators as well
as riders. Following the event a hunt breakfast was
held at the Meadow Fox Inn.-(Photo by Emerson
Humphrey),
Christmas Parade Here Thursday
With Queens, Bands, Santa Claus
Marching bands, beauty
queens and dozens of special
units and floats will be in the
annual Southern Pines Christ
mas Parade Thursday night.
Jaycees, sponsors of the event,
are ptajTtirfoi’ Ibttd westhfer."
The parade will begin at 6
p.m., starting at Broad St., at
East Massachusetts Ave., and
Ip^roceeding along East Broad to
East Vermont Ave., where it will
cross the railroad tracks and go
down East Broad to West Mass
achusetts Ave., where it will
disband.
Parade participants will in
clude Miss North Carolina, Susan
Lynn Griffin of High Point; Miss
Southern Pines, Julie Ann Kick-
lighter of Raeford; the Miss
Southern Pines queen’s court;
and several visiting queens from
neighboring towns and counties.
Special groups will include the
Pershing Rifles of North Caroli
na State University, the Ray-of-
Hope Majorettes from Fayette
ville, the Pinecrest ROTC
marching unit, the Cameron
Dr. Jones Dies at 78;
•Funeral Service Today
Dr. Galen Jones, 78, retired
educator of international renown
and president of the Moore
County Historical Association,
died suddenly Monday of a heart
attack.
He was stricken at the
Southern Pines Country Club and
was rushed to Moore Memorial
Hospital, succumbing a short
time later. Dr. Jones lived on
Becky Branch Road in Southern
Pines.
Widely known in the field of
education, Dr. Jones had held
Hall of Fame
Over 13,000 visitors have gone
* through the World Golf Hall of
Fame in Pinehurst since it
opened two months ago, a Hall
spokesman announced last week.
The bulk of this visitor traffic
toured the Hall during the first 30
days it was open, but the influx of
tourists into Pinehurst to view
the golf shrine is still steady and
is averaging about 200 a day
since November 1.
The Hall is now fully opera
tional after having the Shrine
room closed down for two months
for minor repairs and permanent
installation of the player pla
ques.
Morrison Drill Team from Hoff
man, and marching bands from
Pinecrest and North Moore high
schools.
Others in the parade will
include members of the Southern
Pines Town Council, the fire
departments, business floats,
antique cars, clowns and a
special guest, Santa Claus.
There will be no parking along
East and West Broad streets, the
parade route, after 5 p.m.
The Jaycees had requested and
the Town Council had approved a
no-parking ban for the duration
of the parade, and police will be
asking all motorists to move
their cars after 5 p.m.
Business and organizational
floats will assembly at Memorial
Field and persons riding on the
roads have been requested to be
there by no later than 5:30 p.m.
when the floats will move out to
the parade starting point.
Southern Pines Jaycees have
been getting ready for the
Christmas season, and this past
Sunday hung decorations in the
downtown area. Assisted by the
Watkins Electric Service the
Christmas lights will be turned
on at 5 p.m. and dimmed at 10
p.m. through Christmas.
Terry Hill is Jaycee chairman
of the parade and Michael C.
Yovanovich of Carolina Power
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Board Tells
Town Body
Of Plans
Mayor J.E. Riley, Jr., and
members of the Carthage Town
Board appeared Monday before
the county commissioners to ask
about their plans for the court
house, and to express concern as
to what their current land
dealings and negotiations might
mean to the business district of
the county seat.
Clint Campbell, acting as
spokesman for the town board,
told the commissioners, “Rum
ors are flying, and people are
putting a lot of pressure on us to
find out what is happening.
Things are just about to get out of
hand.”
He added, “We know you can’t
tell us everything in an open
meeting and risk sending up
property values, but we’d like to
meet with you and learn as much
as we can.”
Before the delegation left,
arrangements had been made for
the boards to meet jointly at the
Carthage municipal building at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, December
11. This will be a closed meeting,
though Commissioner Chairman
W.S. Taylor admitted, “I don’t
believe we have any secrets any
longer.”
For about a year and a half, the
commissioners have held closed
sessions from time to time in
regard to the acquisition of land
in the courthouse area, and in
accordance with architectural
plans for remodelling the court
house, also its environs for
landscaping and parking purpos
es.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
LIGHTS GO UP — Christmas lights in downtown
Southern Pines went up on Sunday ahead of the annual
Jaycee-sponsoted Christmas parade which will be
held tomorrow (Thursday) at 6 p.m. Installing the
lights in above photo are Doug Wilkes, on pole, and
Dennis Kunce.-(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Two Armed Men Hold Up
The Manor at Pinehurst
The Moore County commis
sioners took part Monday in two
oath-taking ceremonies in the
office of (Carles McLeod, clerk
of court-the first about 9:45 a.m.
when McLeod swore in the three
re-elected Democrats, W.S. Tay
lor, Lee Williams and Arthur
Purvis; and the second about 20
minutes later, when John Wo
mack of Southern was sworn in
as successor to Robert S. Ewing.
The exchange was made fol
lowing Ewing’s resignation in the
first term of business before the
board, in a move designed to
retain two Republicans on the
five-member body.
Ewing had accepted last July 1
a State position at Raleigh, that
of director of community assis
tance in the State Department of
Natural and Economic Resour
ces. It requires him to travel
extensively about the State and,
he said in his letter of resig
nation, “precludes full partici
pation in county affairs.”
He actually resigned as a
county commissioner last week
in a letter to the county
Republican executive commit
tee, and Floyd Cole, his colleague
on the board, who is also
chairman of the county GOP
committee, handed the letter
Monday to Chairman W.S. Tay
lor, who read it to the board.
Cole also reported on the GOP
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Missing Former Student
Is Foxmd Dead in Woods
Dr. Galen Jones
such posts as director of the
Council for the Advancement of
Secondary Education, chairman
of the U.S. delegation to three
sessions of the International
Council of Public Education in
Geneva, Switzerland, and mem
ber of the U.S. National commit
tee to UNESCO (United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cul
tural Organization.
Dr. and Mrs. Jones moved to
the Sandhills on Aug. 1, 1967.
Retiring to Southern Pines, he
(Continued on Page 16-A)
L.F. Johnson
Dies at 57;
Rites Held
Lindsay Franklin Johnson, 57,
of Ridgeview Road, in the
Weymouth Heights section, died
Saturday at Moore Memorial
Hospital after six months’
illness.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church, conducted
by the pastor, the Rev. Hal E.
Hyde, with burial in Pinelawn
Memorial Park.
A native of Greensboro, who
became an eminent figure in the
nation’s mining industry, he
retired in 1970 as president of the
New Jersey Zinc Co., with main
office in Bethlehem, Pa. He and
his wife had their home in
Bethlehem and an apartment in
New York City, dividing their
time between the two.
Following retirement, he
(Continued on Page 15-A)
An autopsy report has not yet
been returned in the mysterious
death of David Michael Webb, 20,
former Sandhills Community
College student who was found
dead last week in a wooded area
near his home.
The young man was reportedly
missing from his home in Ashley
Heights since November 19. His
body was found on the following
Tuesday, and he was buried on
Thanksgiving day.
Hoke County Coroner’s office
said yesterday that the body had
been sent to Chapel Hill to the
N.C. Medical Examiner’s head
quarters for the autopsy.
Webb had finished the high
school equivelency test at SCC,
and continued there for two
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Four Nabbed in Burglary
Of Meat From Restaurant
Two masked men with hand
guns held up the desk clerk of
The Manor at Pinehurst about
8:30 p.m. Friday, and made off
with something over $500 in cash.
In the process one of them fired
off his gun, apparently by
accident, the bullet burying itself
in the front counter.
It all happened within the
space of a couple of minutes,
according to Pinehurst Police
Chief James Wise, who is
heading the investigation, assist
ed by the Moore County sheriff’s
department.
Wise said the two men,
wearing some sort of face
covering, with eye holes, came
into the main lobby at a time
when it was nearly deserted.
with some of the guests still in
the dining room, and others in
the bar nearby.
(Continued on Page 15-A)
Reelected
Mrs. John L. Frye ot Robbins
was unanimously reelected
chairman of the Moore County
Board of Education at a brief
reorganizational meeting Mon
day morning after new board
members had taken the oath of
office.
This is her fourth term as
chairman. Harris Blake of Pine
hurst was elected to his first
term as vice chairman. Seven of
the eight board members w.ere
present.
Four young men charged with
burglarizing the JFR Bam rest
aurant early Monday morning
were arrested in Pinebluff
Monday evening and most of the
loot-steaks, chops, ground beef
and an electronic calculator-was
recovered.
The restaurant is located on
U.S. Highway 1 service road
south of Morganton Road. The
break-in occurred between 1
a.m. Monday, when the last of
the night crew left, and 8 a.m.,
when the first of the day crew
arrived.
Value of the items taken was
set at $560, of which some $430
was meat of various cuts.
Acting on a drug warrant,
Moore County deputy sheriffs
and officers from the Southern
Pines police department went to
a cottage on U.S. Highway 1 in
Pineblidf and arrested the four
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Man Dies Of Injuries
In Head-On Collision
THE
PILOT LIGHT
Nutrition Program For Elderly
Being Planned in Moore County
A nutrition program which
would provide 50 hot meals once
a day for needy elderly citizens
of Moore County is being planned
by the Pee Dee Council of
Government.
An application for $111,000 to
finance the program for a year
has been made to the Governor’s
Coordinating Council on the
Aging in Raleigh.
If approved the meal program
will be started around Jan. 30. Of
the total amount 91 percent will
come from federal funds, with
the county providing the other
nine percent.
Under the proposed plan two
places will serve as the meal
sites. Twenty five hot meals
would be served, beginning at
11:30 a.m., at the First Baptist
Church in Southern Pines, and
another 25 meals would be
served at either the First Baptist
Church or the First Presbyterian
Church in Carthage.
There will also be meals
served to persons who are
homebound and unable to go to
the churches.
The Pee Dee Council said that
volunteers will be needed to
make the program effective and
that letters are being sent to
churches civic groups and others
seeking volunteer help.
In Moore County the nutrition
program is being assisted by
John C. Frye, coordinator of the
Senior Citizens activities pro-
(Continued on Page 16-A)
DEMOCRATS — Two men
from Southern Pines are in
Kansas City this week for the
Democratic Party’s mini-con
vention at which upwards of a
dozen candidates for President
are sparring for attention.
Attorney Sam Poole left
Sunday and will be busy all week
as the national liaison man for
Terry Sanford, who at this stage
can be considered a candidate
for the presidential nomination
although he doesn’t plan to fully
make up his mind until after the
first of the year.
Dr. H. David Bruton, a dele
gate from the Eighth Congres
sional District, will leave tomor
row for the convention, at which
the main business w^ be the
adoption of a party charter.
Sanford is serving as chairman
of the charter commission and
thus will be playing a leading
role at the convention.
CANDIDATES — Dr. Bruton
said that he has been receiving
letters and campaign material
from a niunber of the potential
candidates for the Democratic
nomination for President.
Among those writing him was
Senator Fritz Mondale, who took
himself out of the campaign on
Nov. 20. His letter to Bruton was
dated Nov. 18, and Dr. Bruton
isn’t sure that Mondale is not just
slowing his campaign down a bit
and is still hoping for a draft.
Others writing include Rep.
Morris Udall, who has formally
announced, and Governor Jim
my Carter of Georgia. Dr.
Bruton said he was impressed
with the Carter material.
TOBACCO — Agriculture
(Continued on Page 15-A)
A young West End, Route 1,
man died in North Carolina
Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill
on Sunday from injuries received
early Friday night in a head-on
collision.
Allen Raymond Mclnnis, 27,
suffered extensive head injuries.
He was rushed from the accident
scene by members of the Rescue
Squad to Moore Memorial
Hospital and from there by
helicopter to Chapel Hill.
The State Highway Patrol
reported that the collision
occurred about two-tenths of a
mile west of West End on NC
Highway 211. Mclnnis was
driving a 1956 model Chevrolet
truck and collided with a 1969
Chevrolet car driven by William
David White Jr., of Aberdeen.
The accident occurred at 6:15
p.m.
White was taken to Moore
Memorial Hospital where he was
treated for lacerations and
released.
The Highway Patrol said that
White has been charged with
driving left of the center line.
Funeral services for Mclnnis
were held Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
COMMISSIONER — John
Womack is the new county
commissioner from Mc
Neill’s Township, having
been appointed on Monday
to succeed Robert Ewing,
who resigned.
Pinehurst
Election
Set Jan. 14
The Pinehurst Village Council
will hold an election January 14,
1975 to elect three persons for
three-year terms on the council.
The election will be held in the
community house next to the fire
station.
Candidates will have until 5
p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10 to file for
office. A $15 filing fee must be
paid to Town Clerk Mrs. Mary
John Homer prior to that time.
Absentee ballots can be obtained
from Mrs. Homer not earlier
than Dec. 20 nor later than Jan.
10.
Residents within the town
limits of the Village of Pinehurst
are eligible to vote if they are
registered. Registration will be
held through the County Board of
Elections in Carthage through
Dec. 31.
‘The Economy’ Hovering Over
Legislature Convening Jan. 16
BYBILLNOBLITT
“The Economy.”
With those two words, a shake
of the head, a nibble at the upper
lip, and a shmg, a cross-section
of state political leaders sum up
what’s likely to happen when the
1975 General Asembly convenes
January 16.
“It’ll be a hold-the-line situa-
tion..don’t rock the boat,” says
State Senator Russell Kirby of
Wilson, chairman of the finance
committee, and of a tax reform
commission which has spent the
sununer and fall wrestling with
tax-cut questions.
That group last week put off
any decisions; choosing rather to
pull into a single booklet all the
data available on revenues, and
suggestions for cutting taxes, so
the full legislature will at least
have a.shot at the ideas
generated.
Grasping their last are such
ideas as major tax reform:
repeal of the sales tax on food, or
income tax relief for low income
people.
Beyond the tax matter, how
ever, a variety of state activities
will be viewed with an eye to “the
economy.”
Budget Cut
The Advisory Budget Commis
sion has about finished its
closed-door probing of budget
requests and has put its stamp on
Gov. James E. Holshouser’s
1975-76-77 budget.
(Continued on Page 16-A)