Weather
More hot weather is in store for the
Sandhills area, with a projected high of
95 through Thursday, sunny and hot.
The projected low Wednesday night is
65, with a 10 percent chance of rain
through Thursday evening. Tuesday’s
high was 92, low 68.
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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 8-11-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-5-C; Obituaries, 7-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-2-C; Social News,
2-5-A; Sports, 6-7-C.
Vol. 55-No. 33
36 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, June 18, 1975
Bill Gives
120 Jobs
In Moore
Moore County will get funds to
provide 120 jobs for young people
this summer under a bill signed
on Monday by the President.
The Summer Youth Em-
ployment program is being
directed here by the Sandhills
Community Action Program,
and Tom Potts said that he has
’ been accepting applications for
jobs over the past month. He is
still taking applications for jobs
which will become available
later in the summer.
The young people will work 35
hours per week at $2.10 per hour
mostly in public service tasks.
The jobs begin on June 23 and
will last for nine weeks.
Under the overall ad
ministration of the Office of
Manpower Services in Raleigh,
the summer youth employment
program is coordinated by the
Pee Dee Council of Govern
ments. A total of $326,569
providing for 458 jobs in all has
been assigned to Region H, which
includes Moore, Montgomery,
Richmond and Anson counties.
I Meanwhile, County Ad
ministrator Bob Helms is hoping
that Congress will come up with
another measure which will
continue the temporary em
ployment program, under which
80 people are employed by
county and municipal govern
ments in Moore County.
Present available funds will be
used up by July 1. Congress had
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Aberdeen
Planning
For Fourth
Preparations are underway for
Aberdeen’s 11th annual July
Fourth Celebration.
Democratic and Republican
leaders from the State and
national governments are being
invited.
Hollerin’ champions from
Spivey’s Corner are also being
invited.
A large array of entries have
been received for the parade
which will start at 10:30 a.m.
with the formal speaking pro
gram at 11:30 a.m.
A full afternoon of special
events including bands and
singing under the direction of
Brady Jones will be on the
program.
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Cancer Crusade
The Moore County Cancer Cru
sade for 1975 reported this week
total contributions of $12,316.
Miss Blanche Monroe of West
End reported contributions
above those of last year. She has
been assisted by Mrs. Roy
Persons, Mrs. Jack Goins and
Mrs. Leola Smith.
Richard Highland of Taylor-
town area reported contributions
equal to last year.
Although the Crusade is draw
ing to a close, contributions may
continue to be made to the
American Cancer Society, Box
951, Southern Pines.
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Schools Transfer Bill
Gets Senate Approval
ON THE BEACH — This beach scene is close by-at Lake Pinehurst, which is
developing into a popular summer recreation spot. Playing in the beach sand,
with sailboats in the background, are Tiffany Foster, Brittany Foster, Jena Bru
and Mike Levi.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Two Face Trial On Charge
Of Choice Fund Embezzling
The bill to transfer the State’s
training schools, such as those at
Samarkand Manor and Morrison
at Hoffman, from the Depart
ment of Corrections to the
Department of Human
Resources was passed by the
Senate Tuesday by a vote of 31 to
17.
The measure was sent to the
House by special messenger for
concurrence in Senate amend
ments and that was expected
immediately.
6ne each for six years. After
these terms expire all ap
pointments will be for six-year
terms. Senate and House ap
pointments will come from the
legislative membership.
In addition to the appointive
membership, there will be two
ex-officio members of the
commission, the director of the
.Administration for the Courts
iand the Superintendent of
Public Instruction.
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Robert Stewart (Ron) Gringle,
of Durham, former director of
Choice, Inc., drug control
program, of Southern Pines, and
Billy G. McKenzie, Jr., of
Pinehurst, former vice-president
of the Carolina Bank at West
End, are both under charges by
Sheriff Provides Answer
On Damage Suit Charges
Moore County Sheriff C.G.
Wimberly, filing an answer last
week to William Ashworth’s
$100,050 civil suit against him in
Moore Superior Court, denied,
first, that any proper claim for
damages had been stated; then
denied responsibility for the acts
complained of; then followed
with the statement that, if there
were personal injury or property
damage as claimed, it was slight,
unintentional and largely due to
actions of the plaintiff himself.
In his suit filed April 21
regarding an incident of last
December 6, Ashworth through
his attorneys had asked recovery
of $250 for'injury to property (his
1965 Ford Fairlane car), $300 for
lost wages and $89,500 for
“mental anguish, pain and
suffering.”
Wimberly, replying, stated
that “if plaintiff received any
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Town Budget Given
Tentative Approval
The Southern Pines Town
Council, in special meeting
Tuesday night, made tentative
approval of their preliminary
budget for 1975-76, pending a
pubUc hearing to be held at 8
p.m. next Tuesday.
At that time it is expected that
formal adoption will be made of
the new budget, totalling
$1,806,454, with tax rate standing
unchanged at 90 cents, and
property valuation estimated at
$55,536,916.
Town Manager Lew G. Brown
told the council that, in view of
the town’s financial situation as
projected over the next few
years-when, at the present rate,
expenditures will be catching
up and passing revenues, unless
sound preventive measures are
taken-two “mutually support-
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the North Carolina Drug
Authority for alleged misuse of
funds allocated to Choice, Inc.
The arrests made in May came
to light when the cases-which
appear on the surface to be
unrelated-were calendared for
preliminary hearing last
Thursday in Moore District
Court. They were continued to
July 10 by the State so that
witnesses might be subpoenaed.
Two warrants against each
man have been filed at Carthage,
all sworn out May 12 by Bobby B.
Coats, investigator with the N.C.
Drug Authority, 222 North
Person St., Suite 208, Raleigh.
(Continued oh Page 8-A)
Bloodmobile
The American Red Cross
Bloodmobile will be at the Bap
tist Church in West End on
Friday, June 20. The hours will
be from 11 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
People eligible to donate are
those from 18 to 66 years of age.
“The doctor on duty will tell you
if there is any reason why you
should not give at this time,” a
Red Cross spokesman said. “We
are in great need of more donors,
so if you can possibly give at this
time please do.”
In addition to the transfer, the 1\/TOTP T' 1P K G*
legislation calls for the estabUsh- -■-'-'A ^
ment of a Comirission on Youth
Services, which is to be made up
of nine members-l've appointed
by the Governor and two each by
the president of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House.
The transfer bee mes effective
on July 1.
Under the new**"aw the com
mission will recoSfmend to the
Secretary of the department of
Human Resources the ap
pointment of a director of Youth
Services, with the director to
serve at the pleasure of the
Secretary and upon majority
vote of the Commission.
The measure calls for the
Governor to appoint three
members of the Commission for
two years and two for four years.
The Senate president and the
House Speaker will appoint one
member each for four years and
Governor Here
Governor James Rhodes of
Ohio was in Southern Pines on
Monday to present a bid from the
city of Qncinnati for the 1980
NCAA basketball finals to the
conunittee meeting at the Pine
Needles Lodges and Country
Club.
The Governor made his pitch
and returned to Columbus, Ohio,
late Monday.
The National Collegiate
Athletic Association basketball
committee and the national
coaches association are holding a
four-day meeting here, there was
a lot of basketball talk, but also a
lot of golf saridwiched in between
sessions.
Reported
In Moore
An unusual number of ticks
have been reported in Moore
County.
Many dogs have been brought
in to the animal shelter operated
by the Humane Society of Moore
County suffering from tick
paralysis. Don Adams of HUSOM
said most of the dogs had to be
destroyed.
Adams said he had heard
reports, too, of a large number of
people-32 cases in North Caro
lina, according to reports-
suffering from Rocky Mountain
spotted fever which is caused by
tick bites.
Last week, Adams said, there
were 22 tick-infested dogs
brought to the animal shelter. He
said the symptoms of tick
paralysis in dogs indnde weak
ened hindquarters.'
In humans the symptee^ of
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Peaches
Available
Poole Leaves NC Post;
Set Longevity Record
Choice Seeks Volunteers
To Offset Budget Cuts
Choice House, Inc., the drug
abuse and general counseling
center in Moore County, is facing
a cutback in services unless it
can enlist enough volunteers at
recruitment meeting tonight.
Kent Thompson, Education
Coordinator for the center, said
this week that services would
have to be cut down to only 12
hours a day. Choice now operates
on a 24-hour basis.
Thompson said volunteers of
all ages are needed to participate
in the counseling program, from
young teenagers to elderly
adults. Each will perform a vital
service to Choice House, he said.
The need for more volunteers
results from a reduction in
matching federal grants. The
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J. Hawley Poole, recently re
tired from the North Carolina
Board of Agriculture, was hon
ored in Raleigh at a banquet by
his fellow board members.
The West End peach grower
was presented a framed resolu
tion, proclaiming his 38 years of
“loyal and constructive service
to the people of North Carolina
through agriculture,” by Com
missioner of Agriculture Jame.s
A. Graham.
The Commissioner hailed
Poole as “a model citizen whose
dedication is unlimited. He is a
gentleman with an unmatched
record. I cannot thank him
enough for his assistance to me,
the board and agriculture.”
Poole was first appointed to the
board in 1937 by toe late Gov
ernor Clyde R. Hoey. He repre-
J. Hawley Poole
sented fruit and vegetable
interests.
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In Area
The peach season is under way
in the Sandhills.
Although running about five to
seven days late, the marketing of
peaches is rapidly catching up to
last year’s schedule.
Clarence Black of the Sandhills
Research Station at Windblow
says that this year’s peach crop
is about 30 percent greater than
last year, and toe quality is good.
There was some damage from
wind in the thunderstorm which
hit toe area Sunday night. Some
peaches were knocked off toe
trees and a few tree branches
were broken. “Luckily we didn’t
get any hail,” Black said.
Early peach varities are those
on sale now. Sales of Candors and
Cardinals are about wound up.
Black said, and this week Ruby
Reds and Dixie Reds are being
harvested.
Bill Reece, associate Agricul
tural Extension agent of Mont-
gomery;,County, gave a report for
the Sandhills peach area, as
follows:
Candor area-Volume will be
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FLAG DAY JUMP — Thomas H. (Shag) Mattocks
prepares to land in a sky-diving demonstration which
was a part of the Flag Day observance at the Southern
Pines Elks Club on Saturday. On the ground to assist is
Leland (Smiley) Strother.
Most Welfare Charges
Don’t Stand In Probe
BYJIMBUIE
Welfare people are cheats. The
welfare rolls are full of able-
bodied loafers. Once on welfare,
always on welfare. Give them
more money and they’ll spend it
on drink and big cars. Most
welfare chUdren are illegitimate.
Welfare’s just a dole, a money
handout. Most welfare families
are black. Welfare families are
loaded with kids-and have more
just to get more money.
How often have you heard one
of these stereotypes?
You may think you can cite
many examples of totally un-
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Vickery Defends Budget
Adopted By Legislature
State Senator Charles Vickery
(D-Orange) told the Southern
. Pines Rotary Qub Friday that
despite a poor economic
situation, the General Assembly
has approved a budget that is
“both forward looking and
progressive.”
Vickery, one of two state
senators from this district, told
toe club that the legislature had
been “fiscally conservative and
responsible.”
“We had to leave out many
worthy items,” Vickery said,
“but on the whole I think we’ve
done a good job.”
He cited the allocation of $38
million for a state kindergarten
system which allows 75 percent
participation of all eligible school
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GOLF VISTAS — Construction of condominiums in the multi-million dollar Golf
Vistas development off Morganton Road, across from the Country Club of North
Carolina, is well under way. A white brick wall along Morganton Road encloses
the development where 240 condominiums with pwimming pool and tennis courts
are planned.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
RESOLUTIONS — Resolutions
in honor of toe late George Ross
and Franklin Correll were in
troduced in toe House of Rep
resentatives by Rep. T. Clyde
Auman on Monday.
Ross, a former legislator,
agricultural official and director
of toe State Department of
Conservation and Development,
toed at his home in Jackson
Springs last year.
Correll was a leader in toe
development of several peach
varieties and was well known in
the peach industry.
LEGISLATURE — Adjourn
ment is still targeted for Friday
of this week by toe North
Carolina General Assembly, al
though differences in toe House
and Senate appropriations bills
are still to be worked out.
There are several other bills
calling for special appropriations
which are ^fore one or both of
the houses, toe bills calling for
total spending of $200 million.
Available for spending is about
$5 million.
NEXT YEAR—It’s a foregone
conclusion that the General
Assembly will be back in session
next year, but legislative leaders
hope it will be for short duration.
House Speaker Jimmy Green
would like to see toe appropria
tions and finance committees go
to Raleigh about toe first of May,
with toe rest of toe members
coming in about ten days later.
He thinks toe session should not
last any more than three weeks.
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STONEYBROOK CHECK — The Stoneybrook Hunt Racing Association’s
chairman, W.H. Frantz, and Vice-Chairman, Thomas E. Morton, presented a
check in the amount of $5,289.62 which was the net proceeds from the 1975
Stoneybrook Race Meeting. Frantz stated that it was only through the combined
efforts of the various community organizations, the town of Southern Pines and
our sponsors that “we were successful in raising this amount of money.” Left to
right are Msgr. MeSweeney, hospital administrator; Chairman Frantz, Mrs.
Betty Wegner and Morton.