Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 7-12-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, t-'fi-C; Obituaries, 6-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-2-C; Social News,
s-A; Sports, 8-A.
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, July 7, 1976
LOT
Weather
Light rain today is expected to end this
afternoon, with sunny skies tomorrow,
and a 10 percent chance of rain. In the
80’s during the day, the 60’s at night.
40 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Annexed Areas Served
Court Action
i Despite
The Town of Southern Pines
annexed 1,026 persons Thursday TT^
the dam at Aberdeen Lake as part of the Fourth of
July festivities at Aberdeen on Saturday.—(Photo by
Glenn M. Sides).
(Ongest Parade, Many Candidates
Feature Aberdeen’s 4th Festival
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Aberdeen’s Fourth of July
celebration-which is becoming
more and more each year a
celebration for a large part of the
'♦ate-fitted easily and happily
Saturday into the general
framework of the Bicentennial
observance.
As the nation, marking its
200th birthday, seemed to be
trying everywhere to get back to
grassroots activities and
homespun ways, the big Aber
deen Fourth, with its parade,
political speeches, waving flags,
family gatherings and frolicking
children, was right in tune with
the times.
The Bicentennial promotion,
setting this holiday off as
something special, had much to
do with the fact that the local
observance was the biggest and
best since it all started 12 years
ago.
Also, each year, just about the
same local committees run it
just about the same way, and
they’ve got so they know just how
to do it in homely and hospitable
fashion.
Then this year is a political
year, and this turned out to be the
place for aje_.candidates to see
and be seen.
Whatever the reasons, H.
Clifton Blue, general chairman,
said it seemed to him the best,
and “there were more people
here, from more different places,
than I’ve noticed here before.”
Frank McNeill, parade
Winslow Award Winner
In Bicentennial Contest
Dave L. Winslow, 15, of
Southern Pines, is the fourth
place winner of a $1,000 cash
award in national Bicentennial
awards program sponsored by
the Wells Fargo Bank in
cooperation with the
Smithsonian Institution.
He is the son of Major (USAF,
Ret.) and Mrs. Dolan Winslow of
1210 East Massachusetts
Avenue, and a rising junior at
Pinecrest High School.
The winners in the “Toward
Our Third Century” awards
program were announced on
July 4 by Richard P. Cooley,
president and chief executive
officer of Wells Fargo Bank, and
S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the
Smithsonian.
Winslow’s essay deals with the
pollution of our environment. He
offers several solutions.
There were more than 7,500
entries in the national contest,
which was divided into three
categories; essays by those
under 18, essays by adults, and
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chairman, reported that the
parade had around 150 entries,
whereas “usually, up to now,
we’ve had about 75.” By dint of
moving along at a brisk pace, the
parade got by in two hours, in
stead of running twice as long as
the hour and a half it formerly
took. Even so, the afternoon
schedule had to be pushed back a
little bit, because of the extra
timing.
There were the same floats,
fire trucks, old cars, prancing
houses, marching units, beauty
queens and candidates, but this
time there were just “more of
everything,” McNeill said.
There were some parade
surprises, such as a marching
group of grey4iaired ladies, who
had come in a bus with others of
their Senior Citizens program
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and inunediately began services
to the new areas, despite a civil
action fUed We(taesday at 4:28
p.m. that asked that the court
find annexation contrary to
statute and unconstitutional.
Both Mayor E.J. Austin and
Town Manager Lew Brown said
they had not been notified of the
action filed in Moore Si4>erior
Court and that they would
(X’oceed under the assumption
that the annexation was valid.
All services are being
provided, they said, including
fire and police protwtion, gar
bage disposal and street
maintenance, as well as going
ahead with the surveying by
Henning er, Durham and
Richardson of Charlotte for
[X’oposed sewerage construction.
Pride-Trimble, furniture
manufacturer, claimed in the
action that it located here in Area
1 with assurances that an
nexation would not be made.
Brown said that no formal com
mittment had ever been made to
the company; that simply an
industrial committee with the
mayor and a council member
present in a “living room”
suggested informally that the
area would probably never be
annexed. Such a statement does
not commit future Councils, the
Manager held.
According to him, the court
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Drama Will Open Tonight
With Run Through Aug, 14
'Ve
DRAMA PREMIERE — Opening tonight at the
historic Alston House north of Carthage will be “The
House In the Horseshoe,” the emblem of which is
shown above.
“The House In the Horseshoe,”
Moore County’s Bicentennial
Drama by Joseph Cole Simmons,
will open at the Alston House, a
State historic site north of
Carthage, tonight (Wednesday)
at 8:45 p.m.
A reception dinner for special
guests and patrons will precede
the drama opening at 6:30 p.m.
The drama depicting the
divided loyalties of the early
settlers of Moore County is being
presented outdoors on the site pf
a Revolutionary War skirmish
between Patriot forces led by
Col. Philip Alston and Briti^
Loyalists led by the notorious
David Fanning.
Playing the leading roles are
Robert Bloodworth as Philip
Alston, Dan Westbrook as
Fanning, and Christine Murdock
as Temperance Alston.
The drama, based on historical
facts and legends, will be given
on Wednesday, Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday nights at 8:45
p.m. from July 7 through August
14.
Friday night of this week has
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At Olympics Kinff Npw DlfPCtor Tag Office
r. Fred McCashion, head Of 1^11 North Carolina E
Dr. Fred McCashion, head of
the Veterinarv Research
Foundation, of Southern Pines,
will accompany the U.S.
Equestrian Team to the Olympic
Games in Montreal, Canada,
going July 14.
Dr. McCashion joins the
jumping team at Lake Placid,
N.Y. where the horses are
competing in a horse show. He
will serve as doctor to the 22
competing horses in the Olym
pics.
He was team vet to the Pan
American games in Mexico last
fall.
Of Samarkand Manor
Trouble-ridden Samarkand
Manor near Eagle Springs has a
new director-a 41-year-old
retired U.S. Army major, Fred
King.
King was promoted from the
position of community support
coordinator, a position he has
held with the State Youth
Services Division in the south
eastern division since last
November.
He started work on the campus
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The North Carolina Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles License
Tag Division Office in Aberdeen
has been temporarily closed.
A new office for the division is
projected to open July 19, in a
separate office connected to the
Diamond Tire Co., building at
106 E. Main St. in Aberdeen,
under the direction of Mrs. Ann
Jordan.
Moore County Flag Dedicated
With Ceremonies At Carthage
Vass’ Garbage Problems
Taken To Coimty Board
Joy Hussey Is A’warded Crown
As ‘Miss Aberdeen’ At Pageant
A light drizzling rain early
Sunday afternoon did not keep
some 100 people from gathering
on the front lawn of the Moore
County Library for the
dedication and raising of the new
Moore County flag.
Some carried umbrellas, and
many, including several
children, were in colonial
costume for the occasion.
The timing was beautiful.
Following a brief ceremony with
prayer, speeches and poems, the
flag started on its way up the tall
flagpole just as church bells
began pealing, a fire siren
sounded and from a distance
came the sound of ceremonial
gunfire-aU part of the nation
wide Bicentennial birthday
salute at 2 p.m.
The rain also chose that
moment to cease, and a faint
light struggled through the
clouds, perceptibly brightening
the occasion.
Actually, the new flag was one
of four raised, two at a time, on
the Library’s two flagpoles, by
Major Richard Barnes and a
color guard of the Pinecrest High
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Garbage problems brought a
delegation from the Town of Vass
to the county commissioners’
regular meeting Tuesday, for
what was jx'obably the most
interesting moment in a long dull
day in which there was little
action of any kind.
Honored
Gov. James E. Holshouser has
announced “a very special
awards ceremony” in Raleigh,
Monday, July 12 at 10:30 a.m.
“honoring Mrs. Constance Baker
and Mr. Larry Marchese for
their work with the han
dicapped.”
The ceremony will be held in
the Governor’s Press Room in
the Administration Building, 116
West Jones Street.
There could be none in the
morning, as only two com
missioners were there-Vice
Chairman Lee Williams,
presiding, and Arthur Piuwis.
For the afternoon session
starting at 1:30 p.m., when the
Vass delegation arrived. Com
missioner John B. Womack was
there to make three present, and
a quorum.
Mrs. Irene Mullinix, Vass town
clerk and accountant, with
Mayor J.P. Richardson and
Town Attorney Joe Monroe, said
they were much concerned
because, with the closing last
year of the county landfill
nearest to them, they were left
with no place to deposit the town
garbage with ease and economy;
that they had understood the
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Joy Victoria Hussey, 21, of
Robbins, Rt. 1, a graceful blue
eyed blonde, won the title and
crown of “Miss Aberdeen”
Saturday night in the Jaycees’
preliminary pageant, cliniaxing
the community’s July Fourth
celebration.
She also shared with another
contestant, Fran Summerford,
18, of Aberdeen, the “Miss
Congeniality” award, for which
it was announced a tie vote had
been cast.
First runner-up was Christina
Rose Halgrimson, 20, of Rob
bins, and second runner-up was
Sue Anna Barnes, 18, of Southern
Pines.
They were chosen in a slick
threeJiour production which, in
highly professional style,
showcased the beauty and
talents of seven outstanding
young women, and which, with
other entertainment features,
held spellbound the large
audience, nearly filling the 1,000-
seat Aberdeen Middle School
auditorium.
Adding to the sparkling show
were the new “Miss North
Carolina,” Susie Proffitt of
Rutherfordton, Jeannie Swanner
Robertson--“Miss North
Carolina of 1963”-as mistress of
ceremonies, and numerous
visiting queens, including former
“Miss Aberdeens.”
Variety was the keynote in the
swimsuit, evening gown and
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
MOORE COUNTY FLAG — Ceremonies Sunday in Carthage marked the
unfurling of the Moore County Flag, shown above, which was approved by the
county commissioners following a contest conducted by the Moore County
Bicentennial Committee. Commissioner John Womack is at the lectern.—(Photo
by Valerie Nicholson).
VICE PRESIDENT-Some of
the people close to the Carter
camp are betting that Jimmy
Carter’s choice for vice president
will come from the U.S. Senate
and will be either of two men-
Senators Walter Mondale of
Minnesota or John Glenn of Ohio.
In the North Carolina
delegation in Congress there is
support for Adlai Stevenson IH,
and Stevenson is believed to be
among the top five now under
serious consideration by the man
who is scheduled to become the
Democratic nominee for
President at the National Con
vention in New York next week.
STRICKLAND — Tom
Strickland, who is running for the
Democratic nomination for
Governor, feels there’s a “new
spirit” rising among Tar Heel
voters, a spirit which he sees as
one of idedism.
The Wayne County senator was
in Aberdeen on Saturday for the
Fourth of July celebration and
spoke briefly about his cam
paign. He said that after a period
of disillusionment, followed by
apathy, he senses a reawakening
of the people, with a return to
traditional values in American
democracy.
POLLS-Senator Strickland’s
views are in contrast, however,
to some recent polls which
showed a greater apathy on the
part of voters than candidates
like to see.
It is this apathy which has
many candidates worried-that
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NEW MISS ABERDEEN — Joy Victoria Hussey is crowned the new “Miss
Aberdeen” by the outgoing queen, Mary Margaret Sawyer, as the new Miss North
Carolina, Susie Proffitt (right rear) looks on. At nght fronti^^^jjist runner-up,
Christiana Halgrimson, and at left is .^e.^
runner-up.—(Photo by Emerson HumphreyL