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4.1 Page 2--The Robesonlan, Tuesday, September 12.1972 News Briefs Heat Helps V.L Fugitives CHRISTIANSTED, St. Croix V. I. (AP) Sweltering heat and scratchy, tangled hillsides are helping five fugitives elude FBI agents and police who have struggled with machetes for almost a week to hunt them down. The five are charged with killing eight persons during a robbery at the Fountain Valley Golf Course clubhouse last Wednesday.

Two other men already are in jail facing charges in connection with the slayings. Since shortly after the bloody robbery, FBI agents, police and U. S. marshals have hacked their way step by step over rugged terrain separating them from the desperadoes, believed still holed up within sight of the golf course. Humidity of 80 per cent and 90-degree temperatures have slowed the operation.

Bench warrants have been issued for the fugitives. Planes Patrol Olympic Closing MUNICH (AP) The 1972 Olympic Games, bloodstained by murder, rocked by political strife and disaster in competition to many United States athletes, ended on another bizarre note. As the Olympic flame was extinguished and the Olympic flag came down before a capacity 80,000 at Olympic Stadium Monday two West German fighter planes patrolled the sky overhead. They had been sent aloft after Olympic officials received an anonymous telephone call that a stolen airplane would be used to bomb the closing ceremonies. Radar screens showed an airplane headed in the direction of the stadium, but it developed the plane was a DCS charter plane of Finnair, the Finnish airline, which had strayed off its course.

Police said later that no plane had been stolen. They termed the anonymous caller "a madman intent on causing further disturbance." The fighter planes patrolled over the stadium for two hours, but nothing happened and final ceremonies continued without interruption. Importation Ban Hits Poultry RALEIGH (AP) Because the dread exotic Newcastle disease is raging in some parts of the country, state Agriculture Commissioner Jim Graham Monday slapped a ban on the importation of poultry or other birds into North Carolina for shows or exhibits. The ban is effective today and will last through Nov. l.

This will make it necessary that the State Fair and other fairs in the state this fall show only North Carolina grown birds. Graham said it would be "disastrous to our poultry economy if it (Newcastle disease) gained a foothold here," Graham said. 'Bomb' Device Proves Harmless SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) A device, found Monday in a suitcase in a bus depot here, had all the makings of a bomb and more, police said. Some 40 persons were evacuated from the depot, while the suitcase--ticking ominously-was transported to a remote island in the Spokane River.

When disassembled, the device was found to contain copper wire connected to 12 highway flares, a timing device, all wrapped in friction tape around a Bible. The device was harmless, police said. Actidii tine (Continued From Page 1) people. I can't believe this is true in this All America City! Can Action Line give some clarification on this matter? T.M.V. When Lumberon Senior High School was built there wasn't a football stadium.

Interested people got together and decided to build one. This was accomplished by donations. Those who donated $100 were given reserved seats. A section of the football stadium is reserved for these people but they still pay for their tickets. Anyone wishing to have a reserved seat may have one by donating $100 to the Lumberton Senior High School Athletics Program.

I would like some information on the position of a head of a county health department such as: who, how he is appointed, salary, tenure, how he is evaluated, who he is responsible To? S.C. The head of Robeson County Health Department is M.B. Pate, M.D., Health Director. To qualify for appointment as a county health director it is necessary to be certified as a public health physician by the personnel department, State of North Carolina. To be certified it is necessary to pass an examination and or to submit sufficient evidence that one is qualified by training and experience.

The county board of health appoints the health director from applicants certified by the personnel department, State of North Carolina. The county health director is not authorized to release information regarding salaries of county employees. However, this information is on public The resinous extract from the flower heads of Indian hemp plants is five to 10 times as potent as unrefined marijuana. record and may be obtained from the county manager. Tenure is at the pleasure of the county board of health.

The county health director is evaluated by the county board of health and is responsible to it. Additionally, the director has reponsibilities perscribed by law and by the state health director. BIGGS FUNI8ALJME Phone 738-2211 Amtwlofiee service Schedule Mr. Rufus Sampson 4:00 p.m. Wednesday Deep Branch Baptist Church Church Cemetery Mr.

Herbert Stlckney Funeral Plans Incomplete W. Lumberton Continued From Page a i renewable by councils, rather than putting it on a continuing year-to-year basis. The council acting on the recommendation of the mayor, also named George Lesane of 2108 Nevada to the city personnel board to replace W. L. Rose, who is leaving the city.

TRAFFIC LIGHT City Councilmman E. B. Turner brought up two South Lumberton traffic matters, but no action was taken. In the first instance, Turner said he had received a lot of complaints that a traffic light was needed at the intersection of Fairmont Road and Page Ave. (Kenny Biggs Road).

"I know it's a state road and that the state traffic county does not show a need for the light, but I'd like for us to see if a light can be installed," Turner said. "We have a lot of women drivers who won't come out into the Fairmont Road until it's clear for miles," he said. SPEED BUMPS In the other matter, Turner asked the city attorney to explore the possibility of the city installing speed breakers (bumps) in the streets in the Sunset Heights subdivision. "They're using those streets for race tracks on Friday and Saturday nights and there are a lot of children in the Sunset Heights area," he said. Councilman Harry Ivey said State Highway Commission District Engineer Billy Dees told him that such speed bumps were not allowed by the state.

Turner also requested that City Manager Joe Hendrick get some more speed limit signs installed in the area and have the police enforce the speed limit with more vigor during the weekend periods. iHEKOoc-sONIAN ESTABLISHED 1870 PubllshefDally Monday (o Friday and Sunday In Robeion County 121 W.Sth Street l.umtx-rton. N. C. PhAnecDay 734-4322, iniwerlng Item 73M32S.

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2S3SC Bloomindale Church Building Committee are, from left, Jesse D. Pittman, chairman, William W. Barnes, Mrs. Jack Brumbies, Mrs. Forester Barnes, and Wendell Rhodes.

Bloomingdale Church Holds Special Service The congregation of Bloomingdale Baptist Church held special services in their newly a church auditorium with its added new facilities Sunday. The auditorium has a new pulpit, a new choir loft, a new baptistry with a Jordan river scene which was painted by a Kuel of Modern dressing rooms have been built on either side of the baptistry, a new lighting system has been installed, and the sanctuary floor is covered with wall to wall carpeting. An expensive outsiQe bulletin board has been constructed. The $21,000 project was directed by the church building committee, Jesse D. Pittman was chairman, and serving with him was W.

W. Barnes, Wendell Rhodes, Mrs. Jack Brumbies, and Mrs. Forester Barnes. The Bloomingdale church was constituted in 1890, and the first building was constructed the same year.

The church was rebuilt in' 1952. The present pastor is Rev. George H. Wallace of Lumberton. Deaths and Funerals MRS.

BERNICE B. GORE MAXTON Funeral services for Mrs. Bernice Bundy Gore, 55, who died Sunday, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Maxton Pentecostal Holiness Church by the Revs. Robert Miles and L.

J. Young. Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery in Laurinburg. i i her husband, Lonnie Gore; a daughter, Mrs. Burl Koehler of North Hampton, a sister, Mrs.

Reedy Barfieid of McColl, S. two brothers, Jasper H. and Eugene Bundy of McColl; her mother, Mrs. Lessie Bundy of McColl; four grandchildren. MRS.

EMMA D. CLARK LAURINBURG Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Driggers Clark, 53, of Rt. 3,. Laurinburg, who died Sunday, will be held at 2 p.m.

Wednesday at Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church by the Revs. Carl Hunt Jr. and Purcell Locklear. Burial will be in Hillside Memorial Gardens. Surviving: her husband, Daniel Clark; three daughters, Mrs.

Albert Draughon and Mrs. Harold Johnson of Fayetteville and Wilber Merrin of Red Springs; a son, Daniel Clark Jr. of Laurinburg; four sisters, Mrs. Eugene Paul and Mrs. C.

B. Winborn of Laurinburg, Mrs. Katherine Mehn of Laurel Hill and Mrs. Louis Norton of Cleveland, Ohio; two brothers, Kenzie of Charlotte and Matthew Driggers of Baltimore, two grandchildren. JACK E.

CAULDER Funeral for Jack E. Caulder, 76, who died Saturday, was conducted Monday in Asbury Methodist Church by the Rev. Robert Warren, the Rev. Joseph Pope and the Rev. H.

R. Heath. Pallbearers were Raymond Caulder, Barney Summersett, bill Ivey, Wenworth Fields, Johnnie Davis, and Billy Byrd. Flowers were arranged by Mmes. Pearline Davis, W.

M. Pentross, Edison Britt, Mary Watts, Ciola Simpson, Mary Lanier, Janie Biggins, Lula Britt and Wenworth Fields. RUFUS SAMPSON Rufus Sampson, 50, of Route 4, died Monday in Duke Hospital as a result of injuries in a fall from a ladder at the FCX facility in Sanford on Friday. Mr. Sampson was an employe of FCX here and was on a job for his company in Sanford.

He was a veteran of World War II and a member of VFW. The body will be at Biggs Funeral Home until an hour before the funeral at 5 p.m. in Deep Branch Baptist Church. Conducting the rites will be the Rev. Roy Jaycee Farmers (Continued from Page to insure the safety and well being of participants of the fair and he urged those who plan to attend, to pay strict attention to rules governing the fair.

Opening day, the annual Hog Carcass Show will be held, and area farmers have been grooming their prize animals for (he occasion. Weighing in of the animals will take place between 1 and 5 p.m. on that day. This show is open to all Robeson swine producers, both junior and senior, with each individual showing or entering only one hog. Hogs weighing less than 180 and no more than 230 will not be allowed in the show, according John Richardson, who will be managing this show.

Richardson said that hogs with a length of less than 29 inches from the base of their heads to the root of their tails and with a backfat thickness of more than 1.5 inches plus a loin eye of 4.1 square inches or less won't qualify for final competition in the carcass portion of the show. The show will have live, on- hoof competition during the evening of the fair's opening day where trained experts will judge the entries for visual qualities. Following, the animals, will be transferred to the Scottish Packing Company here to be slaughtered and measured for their lean cut percentages. Parasite and disease inspection wHHbe conducted on car4 cass by government inspectors" artd-lnformation regarding this; inspection will be returned to the producer. Richardson says that this is vital information that can be used by the farmer to improve' his herds' quality, particularly, in the parasite inspection.

By knowing what types of parasites have their animals, farmers can treat their pig pens and hog lots according to recommended practices and rid their herds of these parasites. Richardson said that parasite and disease infestation should not be a worry of the consumer since those parts of the animal which are infested will be thrown away and the effect of the animals infestion does not effect on the quality of the animals meat only on the animal's feed conversion ability. For the second year, tobacco growers will get a chance to compete for awards. Growers, with high quality leaf will place this Igaf on display and this leaf will bje judged for quality in six May nor, the Rev. T.

M. Swett, the Rev. Prather Sampson and the Rev. Bobby Burns. Military rites will be conducted in the church cemetery.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Merlene Sampson; his daughters, Wanda Gail of the home; his brothers, James of Lumberton, Carlie of Route 6, and Chason Sampson of Wilmington; his sisters, Mrs. Carrie Emanuel of Route 1, Mrs. Lettie Emanuel and Mrs. Nollie Mae Jacobs of Lumberton.

A I MURDOCH FURMAGE ST. PAULS-- Funeral services were held Thursday at 4 from the First Baptist Church for Daniel Murdock Furmage, 61, retired carpenter and World War II veteran! Conducting the service was the Rev. John Wallace, pastor. Burial was in Oak Ridge Cemetary. Pallbearers were Thomas Newton, Dr.

Douglas Jackson, Paul Jernigan, David Odom, John Lowery, and Lenwood Davis. Music was by Mrs. John Wallace, organist. CARY M. PARNELL Funeral for Gary M.

Parnell, 55, who died Friday in Asheboro, was conducted Monday in Biggs Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Charles Hester. Burial was. in Oak Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers were Milburn Ellis, Raymond Ellis, Albert Davis, James Prevatte, Alton Prevatte and J.

D. Barker. Flowers were arranged by Mmes. Ruby Ellis, Margaret Bruce, Esta Bruce, Theone Tyner, Lorona Tyner, Gussie Tyner, Belle Tyner and Ola Mae Jackson. different catergories.

Growers are urged to take one pound of their leaf, eigher wrappers, leaf, cutters, smoking leaf, lugs and bulk cured leaf and place this tobacco in a plastic container, bag and leave it at the county agriculture building. County tobacco specialist, Earl Swann will tag this leaf and place it on display at the fair growers. Those whose tobacco is judged to be high quality and win in their respective categories will be honored and given awards at the Robeson County Crop Promotion Association's awards banquet to be held later this year. Swann said a the association's participation in this tobacco awards program could not have been possible without the support offered by Ray Morrow, an official of the association. The agent said that Morrow was asked last year for his help in seeing that tobacco growers were recognized for their efforts and Morrow gave his support and was responsible for awards being given to growers last year.

The agent also said that this program was picked up by the association this year and was considered a being worthwhile. As a tribute to senior citizens of the county, all senior citizens are invited to participate in a day of.fun and fellowship. county residents are in' I'u' mitvt corfipetiipn will be held beginning aj 3 mnvi5iH sa'ay, September 28, at the fairground picnic area. All entries must be 60 years of age or older. will include such contests as, the woman with the longest hair, man dressed the loudest, oldest hat worn by man, hog calling and man with the largest foot.

Cash prizes will be given to winners. The non-commercial booth competition is open to all organizations and groups in Robeson County in the following classifications: Home demonstration clubs, home economics clubs, elementary school classes, senior 4-H and Jr. 4-H, Scout troops, vocational groups, public and non public organizations, and others all commercial and non-commercial groups which wish to display their wares are urged to contact Jerry Barnes, at 738-2801 prior to September 20. Floodwater (Continued From Page i away and we have recovered only 1,005." Mayor Ernst Bascomb said cleanup crews, hired by the Army Engineers, found bodies, caskets and gravestones everywhere, and used trucks, helicopters, cranes and even horses to gather them up. Those cadavers and skeletons that have been found were reburied, at least temporarily, in the Memorial Shrine Cemetery in Carverton, eight miles north.

Only 30 were positively identified, Schooley said, because they were picked up intact in marked vaults or caskets. About the missing 1,000, 1,200 or maybe 1,500 bodies? "They're probably gone, God knows where," Schooley said. The cemetery association, determined not to forget them, hopes to determine who was buried in the destroyed section, but it won't be easy. Records in the tiny office 150 yards from the river here inundated, and now are being freeze-dried. The 16-acre nonsectarian cemetery was begun in 1777 by the 44 settlers who built a fort near the river--giving the town its name.

The rampaging river washed out nearly five acres of graves. General Clinics Are Suspended Due to the fact that Robcsoti County Health Department is changing its record system, there will be no general clinics held through Friday of this week. This means there will be no morning immunization clinics, X-rays, skin test or blood tests given at the health department this week. screening, family planning and maternity clinics will be held. Clinics will resume regular schedule next Monday.

Five New Roving Registrars Named Garbage Continued From Page 1) trash, refuse, and rubbish but not "garbage." According to the county board of health (whose definition Judge McKinnon accepted in the Lafayette suit), "garbage" is "putrescrible solid wastes" -that is, animal and vegetable matter that will rot and decay. Under this definition, paper, bottles, cans, tree limbs, etc. are not "garbage." "They call me the 'trash- man' affirmed Cooper Logan, who said that less than 10 percent of his pick up consisted of "garbage." Rabon also agreed that no more than ten percent of his pick-up included "garbage," and, when questioned, said that he did not think there was enough "garbage" involved to make it practical to separate it from the remaining solid wastes. Although the franchises issued to Porter and Sanitation Services, specify "trash and the N.C. law authorizing the franchises mentions only "garbage." AWARDING THE FRANCHISES Whether the garbage franchises were awarded after due notice was given was also an issue in yesterday's session.

Cooper Logan testified that he attended the advertised hearing on the garbage problem in April, 1971, but knew nothing more of the franchises until they were awarded in December of 71. He said he understood from the hearing that the county would be divided into districts and that the man already operating in that district would have first option on the franchise. Rabon also testified that he was. would be districts. asked if he would be interested in a "garbage franchise," Rabon very quickly said "No." He said that he would be interested in a "solid waste franchise," and added: "If I couldn't haul off anything but garbage, I'd quit." IRONIC TWIST There was an ironic twist in yesterday's episode of the continuing drama of the county's garbage franchise.

It turned out that W. Earl Britt, attorney for James Porter, is purchasing the services of Suburban Sanitation, the company Porter is suing. "Is Earl Britt one of your customers?" asked Charles Nye, a Durham attorney representing Rabon. "Yes," answered Rabon. "Mr.

Britt is part owner of the Ped- dlar Steak House," he added, explaining that the restaurant was one of his regular customers. GRANGE TO MEET The Robeson County Pomona Grange will meet tonight (Tuesday) at 8 o'clock at the Army Reserve Center on Carthage Road in Luraberton. Lambert Lewis of Pembroke is the new master of the Pomona Grange. It is expected that resolutions will be presented at the meeting to be submitted to the North Carolina State Grange at its annual convention to be held in Durham in late October. Your Happy Shopping Store (Downtown Lumberton For More Shopping Convenience use a Belk credit card Farther Whan You Shop I BRITT'S Super i Open 7 Days I 7 til 11 Mr.

4 Mn. 2O2OW. BRITT'S LAUNDRAMAT Wash oftd Dry HOT LUNCHES And Qvlkloui Sandwiched The Robeson County Board of Elections named five new roving registrars all Black at Monday's regular board meeting. The five new registrars raise the county's total to 10 roving registrars, who are empowered to register prospective voters "any time, any place." The five, Mrs. Hallie Mitchell of Red Springs, Mrs.

Annie Gerald of Lumberton, Mrs. Landa Gaddy of Fairmont, Mrs. Catherine Bonner of Rowland, and Mrs. Ruth Ingram of Maxton, join five other registrars who worked during the primary election--period. The existing registrars include two Indians Mrs.

Brenda Brooks of Pembroke and Miss Mary Loeklear of Rowland -and three whites Mrs. Melba Melcher of Red -Springs, Mrs. Lottie Shaw of Parkton, and Mrs. Doris Suttori. Mrs.

Joyce Loeklear, executive secretary of the board, said Monday's meeting was "one of the best meetings we've ever had." "Anytime a resident of the county wants to register, he simply has to contact one of the 10 voter registrars. You can even drop by their home," she said. The roving registrars can go all over the county and are not bound in any way by precinct lines, according to Mrs. Loeklear. The matter of a possible change of the polling places in Panama (Continued From Page 1) rent would let "the entire world know that this strip of Panamanian land known as the Panama Canal Zone has not been purchased, or conquered, or annexed, or ceded, or rented, or its sovereignty been transferred by the Republic of Panama to the United States, but that it has been occupied arbitrarily as the result of a unilateral application and interpretation of the 1903 treaty which is annoying to national dignity." MEETING CANCELLED A meeting of the association of retired teachers, scheduled for Thursday afternoon at the county Board of Education building has been cancelled.

A new date will be announced. the Raft Swamp and the Rennei precincts was taken unde formal consideration at Mot day's session. Mrs. Loeklear also won Ui approval of the three-man boar of elections for the hiring of full-time clerk to assist her i her duties. The matter must be approve by the Robeson County Board Commissioners, howevei before the actual hiring coul take place.

Mrs. Loeklear said she he someone in mind to recommen for the job, but would rather reveal the name at this time. Presently Mrs. Pearlea Revels of St. Pauls is workin part-time in the elections boar office.

"We've got such a growin work load, we just have to ha another full-time person," Mr Loeklear said. "There someone down here registerin all the time." Concert (Continued From Page 1) The drive headquarters located in the First Unh National Bank branch buildii across from Biggs Park Sho ping Center. 20TH YEAR Earlier in remarks by Mr Lauder, it was pointed out thj the Lumberton association now going into its 20th yea although there was a six-yei period some time ago durir which the association wa inactive. In addition to Presidei Cheek, officials and committc chairmen are Harry Paul, vie president, Miss Lillian Beaslq secretary, Miss Alice Kellj treasurer, Mrs. Elwood membership chairman; Mn Horace Baker and Mn Coble D.Wilson, membership chairmen; Mrs.

David Cross an Mrs. Worth Womick out-rt town membership chairmen Mrs. Courtney Sharpe Ward, Di Colin Osborne and Le Hamilton, co-publicity chair men; Tom Long, industria chairman; Mrs. Hecto: MacLean, patrons chairman j-. Robert Holloway, concert chairman; Mrs.

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