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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 10-15C; Editorial, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-7-C; Obituaries, 8-A;
PinehurstNews, 1-3-C; Sandhills Scene,
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Vol. 59, Number 13
60 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387
Wednesday, January 24, 1979
60 Pages
PRICE 15 CENTS
I
Water Issue Is I
Hearing Set Jan
Two Girls Killed In Fire
Which Destroys Home Here
Sharon Yevette Anderson, age
13 and Valerie Graham, age 22
were killed Saturday morning
when their wood-frame house at
148 S. Glover St. burned to the
ground.
According to Coroner James
Andrews, the younger girl died of
smoke iiihalation and the other
girl died of burns.
Policeman Joe Levine
discovered the fire while on his
way home from working the
ni^t shift.
At the same time nei^bors
Rose and William Person were
alerted by the barking of their,
dog, as was another neighbor
Halbert Kearns. They quickly
went over to the house and
Pilot To Get Three
First Place Awards
The Pilot has won three first
place awards in the annual
competiton sponsored
North Carolina
Association.
First place awards are for
news writing, editorials, and
advertising.
Announcement of the awards
was made this week on the eve of
the presentation by Governor
Jim Hunt at the annual Press
by the
Press
Institute in Chapel Hill tomorrow
(Thursday) night.
Jennifer Caldwell won first
place in news writing in the
Weekly newspaper division with
a news story on women in the
work force of Moore County.
Charles Weatherspoon,
advertising manager of The
Pilot, won first place in
advertising. Awards in
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McPhaul, Lockey Given
High Boy Scout Awards
John A. (Jack) McPhaul of
Southern Pines and Forrest
Lockey Jr. of Aberdeen have
been honored as recipients of the
Silver Beaver Award for their
outstanding service to scouting
and their community.
The Silver Beaver Award is the
School Holiday
Students of the public schools
of Moore County will get a
holiday Friday, January 26, as
that day has been designated as
one of the 16% Teacher Work
Days of this year.
Teachers-will be working at
their regular assigned schools
Friday grading papers and
working on their records as
semester examinations are being
given this week.
The next scheduled school
holiday is the Winter Break
beginning on March 9.
highest form of recognition the
Occoneechee Council can bestow
on adult volunteers.
These citizens received their
awards at the annual Boy Scout
banquet held Monday night at
Meredith College in Raleigh. The
Occoneechee Council, which
serves over 21,000 scouters and
volunteers in a 12-county area,
awarded 15 Silver Beavers.
McPhaul, 545 Country Club
Dr., has been involved in the Boy
Scouts as an lydult volunteer for
18 years. He is a Century
Member of the Occoneechee
Council and has also served as
district chairman, been a
member of the council executive
board since 1973 and received
several citations for his service.
McPhaul is a vice president with
Wheat First Securities, Inc. in
Southern Pines.
Lockey, of Aberdeen, achieved
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knocked the door down with an
axe and dragged the younger girl
out of the flames, and carried her
to their house, hoping that she
was still alive. According to Mrs.
Person, who is a nurses aid, she
thought she heard a heart^at,
but later discovered the girl was
dead.
The house belonged to Sallie
(Pat) Lawhorne, the girls’
grandmother who is a private
duty nurse and was out on a case.
A fund is being raised to help
her replace some of her
possessions. Anyone who would
like to donate should get in touch
with Mrs. Jean Capel or call the
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Vass Votes
Against
Beer, Wine
The voters of Vass over
whelmingly rejected the
proposed off premise sale of beer
and wine in a special referendum
on Tuesday.
The vote for beer sales was 89
for and 153 against.
The vote for wine sales was 74
for and 162 against.
More than 79 percent turned
out for the referendum. There
were 315 eligible voters and 249
voted.
Moore County is legally dry,
but beer and wine sales, both on
and off premises, are permitted
in several municipalities,
including Southern Pines.
Cameron was the ^ last town to
vote approval of beer and wine
sales.
Sandhills
Will Sell
Property
Sandhills Community College
will sell to the highest bidder at
auction February 10 a parcel of
valuable property on Bennett
Street in i^u^em Pines.
The lots are on the eastern
border of Bennett Street between
New York Avenue and
Massachusetts Avenue and were
given to the college some ton
years ago by Mr. and Mrs.
William Matchett.
The property to be sold
includes a two-story stucco house
on the comer of Bennett and
Massachusetts known as “the old
Hayes’ home” where Mrs.
Matchett’s parents lived for
many years. Mrs. Matchett, the
former Mary Dell Hayes, grew
up in Southern Pines but has
lived many years in New York
and California.
Mrs. Matchett gave the
property to Sandhills (Community
College with the stipulation that
it would not be sold during the
lifetime of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Sadler who lived on the second
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BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Water.
It’s the big word for Southern
Pines and will remain one far
into the 21st century.
A source of water must be
found within the next few years,
whether the area undergoes
extensive growth or remains
about the same size, and the
town has proposed to withdraw
water from Drowning Creek,
upstream from U.S. 1.
The Division of Environmental
Management, an arm of the
North (Darolina Department of
Natural Resources and
Community Development,
recently completed a Capacity
Use Study to determine if the
proposed withdrawals would
justify designating this a
“Capacity Use Area.”
More simply put, such a
designation would place
Southern Pines and the area it
serves imder additional controls
by the State, according to Town
Manager Mildred McDonald.
The Environmental
Management Commission will
host a public meeting to discuss
the matter on Wednesday, Jan.
31, at 7:30 p.m. at Pinecrest
High School. It will not be a
public hearing, which is a legal
requirement, biit will serve as a
time to expl^ the situation and
to receive response from the
citizenry.
Attendance is important, Mrs.
McDonald emphasizes. “It’s the
biggest issue facing us in this
part of the county. Whatever
decision we make, we’ll have to
live with it for a long time, and
it’s important that we make the
right one,” she said.
Long a controversial subject,
the question of where the
Southern Pines area will get
water for the future remains a
keen one. An Environmental
Impact Study of the area
commissioned by the
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Phone Program
Carolina Telephone Ck)mpany
today announced plans for
spending $1,223,000 in Moore
County in construction and
expansion in 1979.
The spending here will be for
outside plant facilities and
central office equipment and will
be part of an $87.7 million
program for the Carolina
system.
Town Plein
Proposed
For Funds
Following public hearings on
the plans for ttie federally funded
$1.6 million Community
Development Program that will
revitalize a large area in West
Southern Pines, the Town
Council voted to authorize the
submission of the proposal.
The plans have to be submitted
to U.S. Department of Housing
and Development, the State
office of Management and
Budget and the Pee Dee (Douncil
of (jovernment for their ap-
{x-oval.
Town Planner Marvin Collins
went into great detail explaining
exactly what would be done to
improve the area. The plans
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WINTRY LANDSCAPE — Clouds like
windrows on a country horizon and the barren
fields of the Sandhills combine to provide this
winter landscape which caught the eye of Staff
Photographer Glenn M. Sides this past
weekend. The scene is off Thunder Road.
New Sheriff Tells Moore Board
Equipment Missing From Office
Disappearance of key pieces of
equipment from the sheriff’s
department prompted Sheriff
Jerome Whipple to appear before
the Moore Ck)unty Board of
Commissioners Monday night to
seek help in its recovery.
Unless the equipment is
returned, the sheriff said, his
only recourse is to notify State
Bureau of Investigation agents
for an investigation and possible
indictments against persons who
removed the equipment. Whipple
estimated that several thousand
dollars worth of equipment may
be missing-including four or five
walkie-talkies, two mobile
radios, firearms, handcuffs, first
aid kits, badges and a bugging
device.
Board chairman Lee Williams
pledged his assistance in
wort^g with Whipple and for
mer dupties in recovering the
equipment. Williams asked the
sheriff for a list of the equipment
believed missing and promised
to meet with him the next day.
“Provide me with a list of what
you have and what is missing,
and I’ll try to do something about
it this week. Then you won’t have
to go through the indictment, and
we can save some more of the
sheriff’s time,” Williams said to
Whipple. llie board chairman
promised to work toward
resolving the matter before the
next board meeting on Feb. 5.
Whipple told the board that he
had worked several 16-hour days
trying to get the department
organized, trying to find all
equipment, and figuring out the
inventory. He complained that
papers were found showing
purchases and grants, along with
serial numbers, for equipment
which is not accounted for at the
department. Other papers came
to light which were not signed
and did not bear serial numbers
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Two Murder Cases Slated
At Court Term Next Week
Athletic Boosters Seek
Help In Reducing Debt
BY PATSY TUCKER
William (Sentry represented a
large group of Pinecrest
Boosters at the Moore County
Board of Education meeting on
Tuesday night, held at the Ad
ministration Building in C!ar-
thage.
In a plea to the board Gentry
stated that the Boosters Club had
done “a inarvelous job” in
raising money for the athletic
{x-ogram, but that the club was
now $13,000 in debt and had no
possible way of raising that
much money by the end of tiie
year.
“We start off each year in
debt,” he explained, “and face it,
nobody likes to donate to an
organization when their donation
goes to pay old debts. It’s ex
citing to contribute to something
when you know it’s going for a
certain project.”
He explained that each coach
gives a detailed report of every
penny they spend and that the
Boosters Qub had raised $8,000
this year and has one more large
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Two murder cases are
docketed for some type of action
next week in a criminal session
of Moore County Superior Court.
Judge Harvey A. Lupton of
Winston-Salem will preside for
the term, which opens Monday
at 10 a.m. Seventy-three persons
have been summoned to serve as
jurors.
A bill of indictment charging
murder was issued against
Phyllis Morrison on Jan. 9 but
has not been returned by the
grand jufy as a “true bill” of
indictment. The case is listed in
the calendar for next week’s
court session for an order of
arrest.
Morrison is charged in the
Nov. 24 death of (3iarles Edward
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CP&L Expansion Plans
To Exceed $4 Million
Fire Response Is Slower
With Move To New Site
BY MKE SALEEBY,
JIM SOMERVILLE and
CHRISTIE THOMPSON
What’s a day like in the life of
a fireman on the Southern Pines
Fire Department?
According to Fire Chief Pete
Rapatas, the day starts at 7:30
a.m. with equipment, oil, water,
and pump checks on the fire
You Happy?'
CONVERSATION — These two ducks at a
Clarendon Gardens lake appear to be in
conversation about the weather which was
damp and foggy following the second
appearance of ice this winter.—(Photo by Jim
Kirkpatrick).
Dr. Jonathon Freedman, in his
recent book “Happy People,”
observed that some people have
what he calls “a talent for
happiness” that others lack.
“They enjoy life more than
others, make the most of what
they have, see the world throu^
rose-colored glasses, while
others are exactly the opposite,
always complaining, never
seeming to experience joy,
looking at the sour side of
everything.” How many people
possessed this “talent” remains
to be seen.
The Pilot conducted a survey
at a nearby shopping center and
came up with tiie following
answers to the question “Are you
happy?”
“Yes, I’m happy. I have good
health, good friends, and my
children are doing well.’’-Mrs.
Don Traylor, Southern Pines
housewife.
“Yes, I’m as happy as I can be
with old age. I’m 89 years old and
I’ve learned that Almighty God
will bless all the families in the
future.’’-Sylvester L. Johnson,
retired Southern Pines resident.
“Yes. Lots of things. Good
family, nice husband, good
home, and
experience
my Christian
’’—Mrs. Gordon
Skoog, Pinehurst housewife.
“Yes, being alive and not
having any problems. Being able
to walk and run and play
sports.”—Ashley Beal,
Elementary School student.
“Very happy. It’s
unbelievable. Regardless of
weather or whatever. I’m
thankful every morning that I get
up. I have a wonderful husband.)
My mother is 82 years old and
doing well. I’m very optimistic.
Things can go wrong, but I’m
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engines, and washing and
cleaning of the fire trucks and
bay floors. Chief Rapatas said
about the engine inspection, “If
you don’t come out here once a
week and do it you’ll forget
how.”
After the equipment is
checked, the firemen train for
one and a half to two hours. Then
the fire inspector goes to inspect
buildings while those left on the
shift clean up. Fire hydrants are
also checked daily.
Once a week there is a floor
testing, which is pulling the
vacuum on a piunp to see if it’s
tight. The afternoon is used to do
whatever is necessary. After 5
p.m. fire calls are awaited. The
firemen watch TV, read, relax,
or exercise. There is an average
of two to three rescue calls per
night.
“A lot of nights the men don’t
even get to bed,” says Rapatas.
There are 10 full-time paid
firemen, three of whom work
eight hour days, two working 24
hour shifts with 48 hour breaks
in between. There are 23
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Running out of space because
of “growing pains,” (Carolina
Power and Light Co. wants to
initiate a 10-year division
headquarters relocation
program, representing a capital
investment in excess of $4
million.
By 1988 the* utility hopes to
relocate its Central Regional
Division office on a 40-acre tract
of land located about a mile from
its present site on N.C. 5 near
Aberdeen.
Principal obstacle to the plan
at this point is a delay in a
rezoning request before the
Aberdeen Town Board of
Commissioners, under whose
extraterritorial jurisdiction the
property lies.
After area property owners
expressed opposition to the
proposed zomng change at the
January meeting, the Aberdeen
town conunissioners voted to
defer action until their February
meeting. The subject was
discussed again last week at a
called meeting.
Ed Dorsett, division operations
manager, told The I%ot that
CP&L has an option on the
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
LEGISLATURE-The fact that
conunittees for both the House
and Senate were announced on
the opening day of the 1979
session of the General Assembly
has enabled the legislature to get
to moving quickly on the
business at hand.
In fact, the joint ap
propriations committee has
completed work lor one
department of state government
and has moved on to another.
A large number of bills have
beai introduced in the first days
of the session, and House and
Senate leadership are still saying
the session can be completed in
four months.
Because revenue estimates
will not be coming until after
income tax returns are studied
aftffl* .(^ril 15 a four^nonth
session may not be possible.
However; some legislators are
(X’edicting adjournment around
the first of June.
GOVERNOR-Heads of
department in state government
are saying CStOvernor Hunt is firm
in his insistance that no new
employes are to be added to the
payrbU.
There are some exceptions, of
course, in the few new programs
or expanded programs which the
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