THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1965
THE PIIXDT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Raleigh Report
BY STATE SENATOR VOIT GILMORE
(Editor's Note: Mr. Gil
more, p. resident of Southern
Pines, was elected last No
vember as one of two sena
tors representing the 18 th
district—Moore, Lee, Hoke,
Harnett and Randolph Coun
ties. The Pilot expects to
publish his "Raleigh Report"
each week.)
Budget Requests
If a wife planned a new $3,000
wing on the house to help con
tain the growing family and if
her husband said, “Here’s $1,000
—make it do,” there would be
words. That’s just like the drama
unfolding last week in Raleigh:
state agencies asked for $440 mil
lion to make capital improve
ments to schools, ports, hospitals,
parks and the like in 1965-67.
The Advisory Budget Commis
sion allocated only $129 million,
two-thirds less than the requests.
Before the General Assembly’s
appropriations committee there
now begins the parade of parti
sans to plead for their projects.
H you thing the girls at Samar-
cand Manor need a swimming
pool ($64,000), if you think the
work release center should be
built at Harnett County Prison
($165,000), if you believe Hoke
County should have a 120-foot
steel fire tower ($15,000), if you
consider a Department of Motor
Vehicles office building in Ashe^
boro desirable ($63,500), if you
want to stand up for the nature
have recently become available,
-gel
“Our intent two years ago was
to see Sandhills College get the
$500,000, provided that Moore
County raised its matching funds
and regardless of whether income
came from other sources,” said
Tom White of Kinston, chairman
both in 1963 and 1965 of the pow
erful Senate Appropriations
Committee. His plea for the col
lege was seconded by 1963 Sen
ate President Clarence Stone and
Representative David Britt, 1963
Chairman of the House Appro
priations Committee.
College President Raymond
Stone explained to the State Ed
ucation Board that Moore Coun
ty has come through with its $1
million and that every dollar
from whatever source is needed
to get the school open on sched
ule. College trustees Clifton Blue
and Ed Causey and C&D Direc
tor Bill Saunders backed his case
while Senator Robert Morgan
and I and Representative Clyde
Auman sat in the hearing room’s
amen corner.
Sandhills College got its $500,-
000.
No Time Wasted
Herbert Hyde, the new Senator
from Asheville, got a telegram
from home on the second legisla
tive day. It read, “Two days al
ready gone. What have you ac
complished? Collect reply unac
ceptable.” Among the wire’s
preserve interpretation center at | signers was Hyde’s predecessor,
the state’s new Weymouth Woods -- --- - —-=i—i—-i-—
Park near Southern Pines ($64,-
000)—then start packing to come
to Raleigh. All these projects and
hundreds like them bit the dust
as the budget makers last fall
trimmed requests to fit predicted
state revenues.
Both Senator Morgan and I,
representing the 18th District, are
on the Appropriations Commit
tee and are scheduling several in
tensive weeks of reviewing the
state’s $2 billion biennial budget,
a colossus thicker than the New
York City phone book.
IN ADDITION TO BOND ISSUE FUNDS
County School Needs Estimated
West End, $20,000; Aberdeen,
$75,000; Berkley, $50,000; Vine-
land, Elementary, $10,000 addi
tional buses, $12,000.
The board of education had
previously requested that bond
issue payments be deferred until
two full capital outlay appropri
ations could be made from coun
ty funds.
A plan listing total estimated
needs of the kjoore County
schools for the next five years,
for which capital outlay appro
priations will be asked in addi
tion to funds from county school
bonds, was presented to the coun
ty commissioners last week by
Jere McKeithen of Aberdeen,
chairman of the county board of
education, and Robert E. Lee, su
perintendent of the county school
system. This system includes all
schools of the county except
those in the separate Southern
Pines and Pinehurst districts.
They emphasized that the plan
was a tentative one, with costs
conservatively estimated not of
ficially approved nor to be con
sidered a request of the board of
education, but prepared only to
give the commissioners an idea
of long-range needs as currently
foreseen.
The needs, also the estimated
costs, can undergo revision, and
some decisions are yet to be
made, the schoolmen said. How
ever, most items on the list were
said to be basic needs, not inclu
ded in the bond issue program.
It would take two full capital
outlay appropriations, plus addi
tional partial future appropria
tions, to pay for them, McKeith
en estimated.
The needs were specified as
follows under area designations:
AREA I—Farm Life remodel
ing, $5,000; Vass-Lakeview re
modeling, $7,000; Cameron re
modeling, $5,000; Pinckney (Car
thage)—trade and industrial arts
shop, $50,000; auditorium, $100,-
000; enlargement of cafeteria,
$35,000; library, $25,000; physical
$15,000; admin-
and guidance.
education field,
istrative office
$25,000.
AREA II—North Moore (for
items not covered by bond issue
funds), $130,000; Highfalls, $20,-
000, Westmoore, $20,000; Davis
Elementary, $20,000; Robbins Ele
mentary, $150,000; three addi
tional buses, $12,000.
AREA III—A number of basic
decisions must be made before
definite plans or estimates can be
made, some of them dependent
on results of the survey to be
completed by February 15 by Ed
ucational Research Services, Inc.
It is anticipated that Area III
consolidation (West End and
Aberdeen, as it now stands) may
take $400,000 above available
funds. Other items listed: Eagle
Springs Elementary, $5,009;
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Applause-—Most and Least
In this first speech to the Gen
eral Assembly, his so-called “Leg
islative Message,” Governor
Moore got the most applause in
his references to continuation of
North Carolina’s emphasis on
better education. He drew the
lease applause in his recommen
dation of a compulsory auto.mo-
bile inspection law. Yet legisla'
tors generally agree on the neces
sity of bold new action to stop
our highway death toll.
College Funds Assured
Heavy political artillery zeroed
on the State Board of Education
last week to make sure that
Sandhills Community College at
Southern Pines got the full $500,-
000 of state funds allocated to it
by the 1963 legislature. A ques
tion had developed as to whether
state funds could properly go to
the new college now that federal
funds of more than a half million
Senator Jim Strikeleather.
Byerly Nominated
My maiden speech in the State
Senate was enjoyable. It was to
nominate S. Ray Byerly of San
ford for the post of Principal
Clerk of the Senate. Ray, now 61,
has supervised the record-keep
ing of the upper house for thirty
years. It takes him almost a year
to prepare for, then complete the
documentation of, each senate
session. Between times he lives
alone at his home in Sanford and;
practices law there.
As Byerly watched the nip-
and-tuck race for President Pro
Tern last week between Senators
Dallas Alford and Robert Mor
gan, he recalled the C. V. Hen-
kel-Robert Morgan fight for the
same job a few political seasons
ago. However, Henkel’s opponent
was from Shelby and this year’s
Morgan is from Lillington. In
each contest Robert Morgan won.
And up from Harnett County last
week to congratulate "the new
Senate President Pro Tern came,
yes, another Robert Morgan. This
one, no relative, is judge of the
Recorder’s Court in Lillington.
Now Is The Time
Attention, County Commis
sioners, Mayors and Town Coun
cils: Now is the time for you to
advise us in the legislature of
bills you wish enacted. These are
the best days for consideration of
such matters as zoning, schools,
annexation, elections, etc., before
the spring legislative log jam sets
in.
FLOWERS don’t have calories . .
they just say
‘‘I LOVE YOU”
Sweetly
5 Moore Students
Nominated For
Scholarships
Eleven district committees of
alumnae of the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro are
meeting this month to study the
nominations of 274 high school
seniors in the third annual state
wide competition for Katharine
Smith Reynolds Scholarships.
Each district will nominate two
students and two additional nom
inees for a special chemistry
scholarship will be chosen.
The 24 finalists will meet the
central committee at UNC-G on
March 5-6 which then will name
12 winners each of whom will re
ceive $1,200 for her freshman
year at the university beginning
in September. The scholarships
are renewable for four years.
There are now 24 Reynolds
Scholars at UNC-G and eventu-
i ally there will be 48 holders each
year. The scholarships were es
tablished by the Z. Smith Rey
nolds Foundation of Winston-
Salem in honor of the wife of the
founder of the R. J. Reynolds To
bacco Company. She was a Wom
an’s College Alumna.
Each nominee was chosen by
her high school on the basis of
scholarship, character, capacity
for leadership, and promise of
success in college work.
Following are nominees from
District 8:
Stephanie Sarah Pollock of
Southern Pines High School,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. F.
Hoke Pollock of Southern Pines;
Deborah Marion Prince of Pine
hurst High School, daughter of the
Rev. and Mrs. Roscoe L. Prince;
Sandra Aliene Hartsell of West
End High School, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. M. Hartsell.
Also, Ruby Jewell Cockman,
of Elise High School, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Cockman of
Robbins; Julia Elizabeth Lnihan
of Aberdeen High School, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Lathan
of Pinebluff.
District 8 is made up of Anson,
Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg,
Montgomery, Moore, Richmond
and Union counties.
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Samples Can Be
Collected When
Soil Still Wet
According to F. D. Allen,
County Extension Chairman,
Moore County, it is best and easi
er to sample soils when they are
dry enough for tillage operations.
However, reliable samples can
be collected from wet soil if ad
ditional care is taken.
Mr. Allen states that the best
tool for sampling wet soils is a
soil tube. These can frequently
be borrowed locally, or if you
wish to buy one, write the Soil
Testing Division, N. C. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Raleigh, for
a list of the manufacturers that
make sampling tools.
The procedure for sampling
wet soils is generally the same
as that for sampling soils with
normal moisture content with one
or two modifications. Fifteen
cores to plow depth should be
taken from each area to be rep
resented by one sample. 'The soil
cores collected should be placed
in a clean plastic bag.
The next step in collecting wet
samples is to empty each bag of
soil onto a sheet of waxed paper
to dry. Then mix the soil
thoroughly and transfer a por
tion to a soil test carton. Your
samples are then ready to send to
the soil testing laboratory along
with a properly-filled-out infor
mation sheet, Mr. Allen said.
EASING OUT
Easing yourself out of ice or
snow—in second gear in a stand
ard transmission car, for example
—will save you time and pa
tience, declares the North Caro
lina Department of Motor Ve
hicles. Trying to power your way
out, spinning your wheels, just
makes matters worse.
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Dividends
A Year
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SAVINGS
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Current
Dividend Rate
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205 S. E. Broad Street
Telephone 695-6222
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