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O Vol. 55-No. 45
40 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, September 10, 1975
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NineC andidates
In Coimcil Race
Four of the incumbents on the
Southern Pines Town Council are
seeking reelection in the
municipal election on Nov. 4.
Council Member A. Reynold
Tucker, who is completing his
^ third term in office, not file
for reelection.
Only nine candidates filed by
deadline at noon on Friday and
thus there will be no primary on
Oct. 7.
Incumbents seeking reelection
are Mayor E. Earl Hubbard,
Mayor Pro Tern Emmanuel
Douglass, C.A. McLaughlin and
E. J. Austin. Hubbard and Austin
have served three two-year
terms, Douglass, who was first
appointed to the Council to fill a
vacancy caused by the
resignation of Felton Capel, has
served two full terms, and
McLaughlin is a veteran of five
terms or 10 years.
Tucker, who did not file for
reelecition, said his work as
division personnel manager with
SBI Probes Runaway
Of Duncraig Girls
Attorney General Rufus Ed-
misten said Tuesday that in
vestigation of the runaway of
three white girls from Dimcraig
Manor August 20 and their
involvement with National
Guardsmen from Alabama was
continuing by the State Bureau of
Investigation and the FBI would
be consulted and information
turned over to it because
crossing of state lines is
involved.
The girls-two 15 years old and
one, 16-were reported missing
when they failed to show up for
dinner August 20.
An SBI investigation shows
they were picked up by two
National Guardsmen-who had
completed their training at Fort
Bragg August 9-and stayed with
them for two days at local
motels, including the Holiday
Inn. Other guardsmen were
reportedly with them.
On August 22, two of the girls,
one 15 and the other 16, went with
“unknown” individuals to Myrtle
Beach, S.C. The 16-year-old
turned herself in to police there
on August 23, and the other was
picked up on August 24.
One 15-year-old is still missing.
She was last seen on August 21 or
22 in Southern Pines at the
Holiday Inn in the company of
two Alabama Guardsmen, ac
cording to the SBI. She was
reported seen at Myrtle Beach on
August 23. The investigation
showed that she has a history of
runing away from home, but had
said she liked Duncraig and was
“getting hold of herself.”
The father and mother, names
unrevealed because of their
daughter’s status as a juvenile-
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Girl’s Finger Caught;
Squad Comes to Rescue
Some rescue jobs are big, some
are small-as small as a tiny
girl’s little finger. But to the
rescuemen, all are equally
important.
Saturday, the Vass Rescue
Squad answered a call to the Ray
Smith farm, in the Lakeview
section, where they found a
three-year-old girl with her arm
stuck down a small hollow post in
the body of a pickup truck.
Mr. and Mrs. Junior Tumley
said they had left their daughter
Janice asleep in the bed of the
truck, while they worked in a
field nearby, helping Smith to get
his tobacco in. They heard Janice
crying and found her with her
arm in the post.
Investigation revealed that the
little girl had stuck her finger
through a hole at the bottom of
the post. It had swollen and
couldn’t come back out of the
hole. After efforts proved futile,
someone called the rescue squad.
Two members came with the
ambulance and studied the
problem, as they have studied
other complex problems posed
them in state and international
competition, in which the Vass
teams have been winners for a
number of years.
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Clubhouse, Second Course
Under Way At Lake Surf
A new clubhouse and a second
IS-hole golf course are the latest
^ projects being added to huge
Lake Surf, the A.B. Hardee
development six miles east of
Vass.
The 1130 acre lake was formed
by damming both Crane’s Creek
and Juniper Creek, and the
vegetation left on the bottom feed
the myriad bass that lure
fishermen.
The second 18 will be in play by
1976, and is 50 percent com
pleted, spokesman Bob Sheahan
says.
The clubhouse will have both
tennis courts and a swimming
pool, adding to the water sports
already taking place and the
golf. Boating is dready popular
at the Lake. A double4ized
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LAKE SURF — Gail Brooks and Victoria Blackburn enjoy the sun and "surf” at
the development rapidly being completed six miles east of Vass.—(Photo by
Glenn M. Sides).
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CP&L is keeping him in
creasingly out of town, that he is
in other counties of the 11-county
division the better part of four
days every week, and is unable to
fulfil the duties of the elective
office as he would like to do.
Others who have filed for the
Council are Sara Hodgkins,
Dante Montesanti, Robert Stone,
Michael Smithson and Bill Bass.
If more than 10 candidates had
filed a primary would have been
required. Now the nine candi-i
dates will run for the five Council
seats.
As of Aug. 31 there were a total
of 3,123 registered voters eligible
to vote in the Nov. 4 municipal
election. Broken down the voters
are as follows: Knoll wood
precinct, 362; Pinedene, 205;
North Southern Pines, 1,412;
South Southern Pines, 1,144.
Hubbard is a banker, Austin an
architect, McLaughlin is a
clothing store operator, and
Douglass is a teacher in the
Morrison Training School at
Hoffman.
Mrs. Hodgkins is the wife of
former Mayor Norris Hodgkins,
Jr., and has been active in civic
and cultural affairs; Montesanti
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Aberdeen
Will Get
Housing
MayOT J.M. Taylor was auth
orized to work out an agreement
with Weaver Construction Co.,
owner of fifty proposed multiple
dwellings for elderly and handi
capped persons on Magnolia
Drive, and the Sandhills Shop
ping Center on what assistance
the town can give in the expense
of running water and sewer lines
to the property.
“It is understood that (the
dwellings) will be petitioned to
come in the town limit by the
owners,” said the report.
Mayor Taylor led a discussion
on extending of the water and
sewer lines.
The Board approved an ord
inance that prohibits any busi
ness from selling any alchoholic
beverage within 150 feet from
any church building inside the
corporate limits of Aberdeen, the
town attorney to draw up the
ordinance.
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POPULAR AT PRO-AM — Comedian Don Knotts was one of the more popular
celebrities at Tuesday’s World Golf Hall of Fame Celebrity Pro-Am Tournament
which launched the “Grand Week of Golf” at Pinehurst.—(Photo by Glenn M.
Sides).
Big Golf Week
UnderWayHere
North Carolina’s Grand Week
of Golf got under way at
Pinehurst this week and will
culminate on Sunday with the
crowning of the 1975 World Open
champion.
Early this (Wednesday) after
noon induction ceremonies were
held at the World Golf Hall of
Fame, with three of the five
living inductees on hand for the
enshrinement.
On Tuesday the first annual
World Golf Hall of Fame
Celebrity Pro-Am Tournament
was held, with a good-sized
crowd on hand to watch 50 of the
top pros, dozens of amateurs and
many celebrities from the enter
tainment world play in a fun
event, about which most of them
were deadly serious.
Among those playing was
Governor James Holshouser,
who had proclaimed this as the
“Grand Week of Golf” and also
served as honorary chairman for
the week’s event.
The team of pro Buck Adams,
Malcolm McLean, Richard
Urquhart and James K. Glenn
was the winner of Tuesday’s Pro
Sign Ordinance Revived
After Strong Requests
marina takes care of the boats.
Some 730 lots have been sold,
many to out-of-state persons.
Twenty-six residences are now
occupied, including the unusual
surf siders that stand in the water
on stilts.
Riding trails have been set up
and huge stone pillars mark the
entrance. A security guard is on
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A sign ordinance which ap
peared dead was brought back to
life by the Southern Pines Town
Council Tuesday night after a
request had been made by the
Beautification Conunission that
it be approved “without fmther
delay.”
The Council voted to send the
ordinance back to the Planning
Board, where it had originated,
asking that board to work out
certain details with the town
attorney as a preliminary to
another public hearing on the
matter.
Mayor Earl Hubbard, who had
not been present at the August
meeting, to which a public
Tobacco Up
Tobacco prices on Moore
County auction markets con
tinued upward this week, rising
to a new high at Carthage on
Monday.
Sales at Carthage on Monday
were 354,060 pounds, which sold
for $377,675, or an average of
$106.75 per pound.
On Tuesday sales at Aberdeen
totaled 355,536 pounds, which
sold for $360,038, or an average of
$101.27 per pound.
Warehousemen said better
grades were appearing on the
floor, and bidding was stronger.
hearing had been continued from
July, declared he had been at a
loss to understand what had
happened to the ordinance at that
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Overton
Rites Set
Thursday
Mrs. Sarah Isabelle Terry
Overton, 71, homemaker, died
Tuesday morning at Moore
Memorial Hospital after a short
illness.
The funeral will be held
Thursday at 10 a.m. at the
Church of Wide Fellowship by
the Reverends James
Humphries and Martin Caldwell.
Burial will be at Old Bethesda in
Aberdeen.
Mrs. Overton was a native of
Rockingham, the daughter of the
late Raiford and Eugenia Legg
Terry.
She was married to J.T.
Overton in 1925 and lived in Mt.
Gilead before moving to South
ern Pines in 1929.
She was a member of the
Church of Wide Fellowship
(Congregational) and spent
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
WHICHARD-Terry Sanford’s
state campaign manager.
Senator Willis P. Whichard of
Durham, is regarded as one of
the bright young men of the
North Carolina Legislature.
Whichard, 35, is a native of
Durham and a Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of the University of
North Carolina, where he also
earned his law degree. He served
as a clerk to Chief Justice
William Bobbitt of the N.C.
Supreme Court before starting
his own law practice.
He served two terms in the
State House of Representatives
(1971-73) before being elected to
the Senate. In the House he was a
leader in securing the enactment
of the Coastal Land Management
Act. He is a Baptist.
JORDAN"Rep. John M.
Jordan of Saxapahaw wants it
understood that he is a full-
fledged candidate for Lieutenant
Governor in the 1976 Democratic
primary.
Jordan, 39, an Alamance
County textile manufacturer and
son of the late U.S. Senator B.
Everett Jordan, wrote Pilot
Light when his name was not
listed among announced can
didates. He said, “After the
General Assembly recessed I
simply delivered a statement to
AP and UP that I would be a
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor if Bob Scott didn’t
run...Now that Bob Scott has
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Am, turning in a 17-under par
total of 54. Adams is the head
professional at the Country Club
of North Carolina, of which
Urquhart of Raleigh is president.
McLean is the chairman of the
board of Diamonhead Corp.,
owners of Pinehurst, Inc. Adams
collected $1,000 and the others
received prizes and trophies.
The Adams team led the teams
of pros Danny Edwards and John
Mahaffey by three strokes.
Edwards and Mahaffey collected
$750 for second place. Winner of
third place was the team of Billy
Casper, who received $600.
Following him were Bruce
Crampton, Peter Oosterhuis,
Jerry McGee and Art Wall, Jr.
Governor Holshouser played
with the Casper team. Others in
the foursome were entertainer
Dennis James and John Parker.
Play in the $200,000 World Open
gets under way tomorrow
(Thursday), with a classic
international field of 156 of the
world’s greatest golfers playing
for the third World Open champ
ionship crown and the prize
money, with $40,000 going to the
champion.
Following the first two rounds
of play in the 72-hole event, the
field will be reduced to the 70 low
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HUSOM
Lavmches
Fund Drive
The Humane Society of Moore
County has launched a mem
bership drive through which it
hopes to raise about $12,000 to
help meet an increasing work
load in the coming year.
“We are appealing to aU
citizens of Moore County for help
because the services we provide
play a beneficial role throughout
the area,” Mrs. Stuart Paine,
HUSOM president, and Miss
Mary Kate Bonds, membership
chairman, said in announcing the
drive. “We provide helping
hands for homeless animals.”
HUSOM hopes to reach the
membership goal through tax
deductible contributions in these
membership categories:
regular, $5; contributing, $15;
supporting, $25; and patron, $50.
Funds in between these figures
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Enrollment Up
Students in public schools
totalled 8,893 Monday, the fifth
school day, an increase over the
opening day of 259. A still larger
enrollment is expected, ac
cording to Bob Dalton, public
information officer for the
schools.
This does not include the 548
kindergartners or the 35 Head
Start pupils, 17 at Southern Pines
Elementary and 18 at Vass-
Lakeview. There are still a few
openings in kindergarten, Dalton
said.
GOVERNOR READY — Governor James Holshouser,
who is serving as Honorary Chairman for the “Grand
Week of Golf,” gets ready to play in the Celebrity
Pro-Am Tournament.
Town Council Delays
Annexation Request
The Southern Pines Town
Council in regular meeting
Tuesday night honored a faithful
public servant whose work
sometimes brought him more
wrath than thmiks; rejoiced with
Police Chief Earl Seawell on the
“litter clean-up” prevailing
around town; and decided that,
in regard to a “satellite an
nexation” nearly two miles
away, they’d better find out a lot
more about costs before making
a move.
Joe C. Thomas, who recently
resigned after 25 years of service
on the zoning adjustment board,
most of that time as chairman,
was present with his wife by
special invitation of the council,
to receive a framed copy of the
resolution the council adopted
last month in appreciation of his
work.
Mayor Earl Hubbard, making
the presentation, spoke for the
council in acclaiming a man who
“has served faithfully to maxe
our town the fine place that it is,
and to keep it so, despite the fact
that some of his decisions
weren’t compatible with all, and
sometimes brought down wrath
on his head.” To Mrs. Thomas, in
reference to the great amount of
time it all took the mayor said,
“Thanks-for sharing him with
the Town.”
Despite the occasional
“wrath,” Thomas said later he
was proud that, with aU the
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Belks Slates Opening
In Big Store Sept. 18
The Grand Opening of the big,
expanded and redecorated new
Belks will be held Thursday,
Sept. 18 at 9:30 a.m.
Belk-Hensdale Company is
increasing its size by 125 percent
by the remodeling and addition
of the old Collins store to its
present location at 116 W. Main
Street in Aberdeen.
H.G. Crissman, Manager of the
store for the past eight years,
says the new store will en
compass some 16,000 square feet,
with a bright new, coordinated
color scheme, allowing the
addition of 16 new departments
and the display of many new
lines of merchandize.
Both buildings are being
completely redecorated.
Five fulltime employes and
three partime ones have been
added to the staff.
Hours for the store will be
Monday through Wednesday
from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.;
Thursday and Friday, 9:30 a.m.
to 9 p.m.; and Saturday, 9 a.m. to
6 p.m.
The new telephone will be
944-7688.
The present store was es
tablished in 1955 at its present
location.
Mrs. Hollister, 61, Dies;
Funeral This Afternoon
Mrs. Arthealia Mitchell
Hollister, 61, died Monday
around 5:30 p.m. at her home in
Pinehurst of a heart attack.
Funeral services will be held
today at 3 p.m. at Powell Funeral
Home Chapel by the Rev. Martin
Caldwell.
A native of North Carolina, the
daughter of a minister, Mrs.
Hollister was a graduate of the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, with a BS in Home
Economics. She worked several
years as a staff dietitian at Duke
Hospital. She was also head
dietitian at Emory University
Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. during
the war years.
She received her Masters
degree at Duke, and as a golfer,
was a member of the Silver Foils
in Pinehurst.
She had been a Sunday School
teacher, served as treasurer and
secretary of Moore Memorial
Hospital Auxiliary, president of
the Moore County Medical Aux
iliary, local chairman of a cancer
drive and the first chairman of
the annual Antiques Fair. She
also worked with the Sandhills
Music Association, and as vice
president and program chair
man of the SouOiern Pines
Garden Club.
She is believed to be the first
woman to nm for the office of
Moore County Commissioner.
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Mrs. Wm. F. Hollister