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Phone 692-7271 For News, Advertising, Circulation. Index LOT Books, 2-B; Church News, 3-B; Classified Ads, 9-15-C; Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment, 4-8-C; Obituaries, 14-A; Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Sandhills Scene, 2-7-A; Sports, 8-11-A. Vol. 59, Number 40 64 Pages Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387 Wednesday, August 1, 1979 64 Pages PRICE 15 CENTS Resort Business Booming •. * - :• k'^4 ' SANDHILLS BECKON — Such scenes as this—a flowering crepe myrtle on the sixth tee of the No. 5 golf coarse at Pinehurst and golf every day-is one of the many attractions for the Sandhills area which is enjoying a good tourist season this summer.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides). October Start Up Set By Industry Arthur C. Richards, Jr., Executive Vice President of Michigan-based Brooks & Perkins, Incorporated, has announced the purchase of the Twin Lakes manufacturing facility in Aberdeen from Key Homes, Incorporated, of Greens^ro. The plant is located on An derson Street. The company, of Southfield, Mich., will consolidate its Materials Handling Division, presently located at Cadillac and Plymouth, Michigan, in the 68,000 square-foot facility. This division manufactures and markets various industrial and materials handling prodacts Youth Killed Sleeping On Street In Pinebluff A 16-year old Hoffman youth, sleeping in a Pinebluff street with his mother and brother, was run over and killed by a car before dawn Monday. Pinebluff Police Chief Frank Swaim said David Clybum was struck on the head \^ile he lay asleep in the northbound lane of Currant Street. Lying nearby, but uninjured, were the victim’s mother, Frances Gillespie, and his brother, William Clybum, 15, both also of Hoffman. Chief Swaim reported that he was notified of the bizarre accident at 5:35 a.m. by a motorist who spotted the three figures in the street. The motorist, who was not identified, ' told the chief that she stopped just in time to avoid strUibg THE PILOT LIGHT SCOTT-Former Governor Bob j Scott celebrated his 50th bir- diday a few days ago and told friends, and later newspaper reporters, that he is “leaning against’’ running for any political office in 1980. Scott and his wife, Jessie Rae, were just back from a two-week trip to the southwest during wMch they talked about the 1980 political races. The former Governor said Jessie Rae didn’t want him to hin and he also realizes that most of his supporters 10 years ago are today supporters of Jim Hunt, the incumbent Governor who is making plans to seek reelection. BY FLORENCE GILKESON Tourist and resort business is booming at most places in Moore County this summer, scares about a gas shortage and rumors of a slowdown to the contrary. Ask a resort operator about business, and the answer is enthusiastic and apt to include a travelogue extolling the virtues of the Sandhills. If anything, the gas shortage may be having some reverse benefits here, because it is en couraging North Carolinians to take advantage of attractions within driving distance of home. There is evidence that resort real estate is going well as property owners opt for leisure living opportunities away from the heavily-traveled beach and mountain resorts. Most persons interviewed by The Pilot last week were caut ious about predicting coming seasons, because they are aware the full effect of the energy crisis is yet to be felt. Nevertheless, all said fall bookings are either better than ever or at least as good as they were last year. “Moore County has about anything to offer that you can find anywhere in the world, and I’ve been all over the world,’’ said an elated Fred Lawrence at Seven Lakes. “The fishing is good, the hunting is good, and we have the best climate in the world. When it rains a lot, like it has lately, the water just runs off. There’s something about the sand and the pines that grows on you.’’ Lawrence, a transplant from Lee County, called business “super” and said he recently on one day sold three lots and a house. “Business has far ex ceeded what I expected. So far we have seen no slowdown because of gas or the economy,” he continued. Don Calfee at the Sheraton Inn was probably the most en thusiastic of all. “I’m tickled to death” is the way he expressed it. Calfee recalled that not too many years ago business was so slow in the summer that the Sheraton could close up June 1 and save money. Now the June and July months are so good that he woiUdn’t dream of closing, and the prospects for August and September are just as good. The Sheraton is already getting bookings for December business, usually a slack season too. “I am N)oming. We’ve got all the business we can handle right now. We haven’t had an empty room in two weeks,” Calfee said. The business is miscellaneous- banquets, parties, the lounge, as well as the conventions and meetings, many of which are booked a year in advance, and there is a good bit of much- appreciated local business. Commercial business has held up well, but the tourist business has been “not so great,” Calfee added. He reporting sending some customers to other lodging places on numerous occasions because the Sheraton was full. The Sheraton recently opened its new convention center. Liquor-By-Drink Calfee doesn’t ^nk that liquor by the drink has had any major impact on business althoui^ obviously drinks are being sold and the business is profitable. “You build a restaurant because you need a restaurant, not to seU liquor. I never said liquor by the drink would make or break us, but it does help,” Calfee said. At the Holiday Inn A1 Trotter was singing a similar song of satisfaction for summer business. He reported a room Tobacco Prices, Quality Improve For Second Week P Quality and prices improved as the Sandhills Tobacco Market moved into its second week. The Aberdeen market reported an average of $123.17 per 100 pounds for yesterday’s sale, when 370,365 pounds sold for $465,170.68. For the Carthage sale on Monday the average was $125.11, with 350,462 pounds going for $438,456. Sales are scheduled today and Thursday in Carthage. Although prices were still not up to expectations, they were comfortably higher than the averages on opening days last week. The average at Aberdeen last week was $118.79, while the Carthage average was $120.23. “It’s going to get better all the time,” said a spokesman for the Aberdeen Market. Frank Bryant of Carthage said such as loading dock equipment, lifting and moving devices, non- powered floor trucks and dollies, and containerization and storage items. These are marketed through a nationwide network of over 900 distributors. C.D. (Chuck) Fayling has been appointed General Manager of the operation with offices at the new facility. He joined Brooks & Perkins in February, 1979, as a corporate staff assistant. Prior, Fayling was head of a manufacturing division of a Cleveland-based Fortune 500 company for three years and before that was ten years at Rockwell International, Pitt- (Continued on Page 16-A) Coroner Nominee Slated By Democrats Thmsday anyone, then turned her car around and went to the nearest telephone. Dr. James Laningham, a medical examiner, declared the youth dead at the scene and authorized removal of the body to Moore Memorial Hospital for a more thorough examination, according to Chief Swaim. Tests are to be made but Swaim was advised it will be a few days before the results are available. The chief expressed the opinion that the death was unavoidable since the youth’s body was lying in the travel portion of the street. However, he added, the driver should have reported the accident immediately. Swaim said his (Continued on Page 16-A) Emerson Humphrey Emerson Humphrey Dies Here Top photographer Emerson Humphrey, former official photographer for the Town of Southern Pines and for Pinehurst, died Tuesday night at his home at 530 North West Broad Street in Southern Pines. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Emerson Humphrey was a professional photographer with studios at 159 New Hampshire Avenue. He had photographed Presidents Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford, as well as other dignitaries. His pictures of Gen. and Mrs. Marshall at a reception in his honor just after the Malta conference was widely circulated. He won many prizes for his ohotographs,. of steeplechases, golfers, and portraits from the Carolinas Press Photographers Association. His picture of L.P. (Junebug) Tate and Ann C^aimon Reynolds received wide circulation with the cutline, “Heiress Weds Childhood Sweetheart.” Emerson Humphrey was a native of Georgia, but left there at the age of 15 and finished high schodl in Fayetteville. He began taking pictures in high school. (Continued on Page 15-A) A recommendation for the office of county coroner is ex pected to emerge when the Moore County Democratic Executive Committee meets Thursday, Aug. 2. (Chairman Phillip Jackson says the committee is expected to make a recommendation to be presented to the Moore County Board of Commissioners at the commissioners’ Aug. 6 meeting. The Democrats will meet at 7:30 tomorrow night at the courthouse in Carthage. At their July meeting the commissioners agreed to ask the Democrats to make a recom mendation of a person to be appointed to fill the coroner’s office, left vacant by the resignation of James Andrews. When the Democrats met in July, however, they did not make a recommendation but decided to ask the commissioners to con duct a study to determine if a coroner is actually needed in Moore County. “We never decided not to make a recommendation,” Jackson said this week. “We just thought the county commissioners should have some time to study the need. The law says we ^ould (Continued on Page 16-A) Moore Tax Supervisor Man Who Loves Work Moore County property- everything from real and per sonal property to business in- ventories-now falls within the purview of DeWitt Purvis, a soft- spoken High Falls native who says he has never faced a truly unreasonable taxpayer. “I try to keep good public relations; that’s the secret,” Purvis said. As tax supervisor, Purvis declared that he intends to be fair and “to treat everyone the same.” In his 23 years in the tax office he has talked with hun dreds of people with questions about their property tax and has “never had a problem I couldn’t handle.” Purvis explained that most people are reasonable and , especially so when someone takes time to explain the property valuation process. Purvis became tax supervisor on July 1, succeeding Estelle Wicker, who relinquished these duties to concentrate fulltime efforts on her other job, that of county finance officer. ^praisal and tax listing are the major duties of the tax supervisor. These duties include appointment of list takers, their instruction, and general supervision of the property listing process. The tax supervisor is em powered to correct errors in tax listing, as long as any changes: made are wi&n the bounds of the law. Although property values cannot be changed, he can authorize a change if an omission has been made, as an example. “I love the work,” Purvis said. “I’ve enjoyed working in the tax office. Moore County as a whole is full of nice people to work with. (Continued on Page 16-A) Scott doesn’t want to get in a race with Hunt. He said, however, that he is keeping his options open for 1984, although he recalled that Terry Sanford (quoting Thomas Wolfe) had said, “You can’t go home again.” HODGKINS-Sara Hodgkins is back from an exciting five-day trip to Germany where she represented the state as Secretary of Cultiu-al Resources at perfomoances of a symphony ordiestra from the N.C. School of the Arts. She said the student musicians (Continued on Page 15-A) Birdie Festival Winners Enjoy Weekend BY BETSY LINDAU The Sandhills Area Chamber of Commerce must have found the Weather Button at last because the rain held off at all the crucial times during the Birdie Festival last weekend. Fourteen winners of the Birdie Festival golf tournament, who played here during the spring and early summer, were guests of Par Travel Council of the Chamber. All evidence is that they thoroughly enjoyed their weekend. Mrs. Dorothy Damon of Westlake, Ohio, was last heard planning a reunion of the group that included winners from Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Florida. A winner from (ieorgia and one from Virginia were unable to attend. One guest was heard to say, “I thought it was going to be one of those deals where they hand you a book of coupons and then you’re on your own.” Chamber members and others involved in the Festival were with the group throughout the weekend. The winners were particularly pleased to be guests of the Chamber at the Chamber’s Summer Outing which gave them an opportunity to meet many local people. The Summer Outing was held Saturday at Seven Lakes with a golf tournament in the afternoon and picnic on the beach area below the pool. In spite of the conflict with the Jaycees’ big Easter Seal tour nament, so many men and women signed up for the Chamber’s tournament that the last golfers didn’t get off the course until nearly 8 p.m. By the time the last half of the field had showered and driven over to the Chamber’s Summer Outing picnic, approximately occupancy rate seven percent higher than that of July last year and said business has been good all summer. Trotter believes Holiday Inn’s gas alert system, tied in with its Holidex reservations system, has helped to ease the anxieties of travelers by providing in formation about the availability of gas across the nation. “That’s been a help, because tourists can plan their travels better,” Trotter said. Another advantage has been Moore County’s location as a com fortable midway stopping point (Continued cm Page 14-A; Hefner Will Meet Citizens Tuesday he expects quality to continue to improve since the rains of the past two weeks. “Those rains made a few million dollars in Moore County,” Bryant said from Cooperative Warehouse in Cartilage. He said there might have been too much rain in a few isolated places in the county, but he thinks most farms could stand istill another inch of rainfall. The rainfall is making tobacco “green out” and become heavier, it was explained. (Continued on Page 14-A) F armer’s Day Slated At Robbins The annual Farmer’s Day celebrations will be held Saturday in Robbins, beginning at 10 a.m. with a large parade. The parade wiU feature horses and mules pulling all types of buggies, wagons and carts which met in High Falls Thursday evening to drive together in a procession. Ciu'tis Hussey, one of the founders of the Farmer’s Day celebration 24 years ago, will drive a covered wagon in the parade. Wagonmaster Hussey said the parade wUl be the biggest yet. A crowd of thousands is expected from Moore and surrounding (Continued on Page 16-A) Arts Gathering More than 100 artists-in-schools participants will be in Southern Pines on Thursday and Friday for program planning for the coming year. The meetings and workshops will be at the Sheraton Motor Iim, with registration set for 9:30 a.m. Thursday, followed by a general session at which Mary Regan, director of the North Carolina Arts Council, will speak. The popular artists-in- the schools program is sponsored by the N.C. Arts Council. Among the artists will be dancers, poets, painters, musicians, film makers, architects and folk artists. Eighth district Congressman W.G. (Bill) Hefner will hold an old-fashioned town meeting in Carthage Tuesday night. The August 7 meeting will begin at 7:30 at the Carthage Town Hall. Hefner said, “I feel our citizens should have more chances to tell their elected officials how they feel about the problems and issues facing our nation. “Just going to the polls every two years isn’t enough.” Hefner continued: “That’s why I’ll be at Carthage, to listen to what the people say-not to give a speech.” Hefner has held previous town meetings in Albemarle and Concord and will hold one Monday in Monroe, prior to coming to Moore County. The following day, Hefner will be the guest speaker at the Rep. Bill Hefner Sandhills Kiwanis Club, at noon at the Holiday Inn here. Congress is in recess for the rest of August. Drug Cases Dominate Court Term Next Week Forty-four drug charges dominate the docket for the Aug. 6 criminal session of Moore County Superior Court. Three murder cases are also named, along with two involuntary manslaughter cases. Ju^e Charles T. Kivett will (X'eside for this first superior court session in the county’s new $2 million courts facility. (Tourt wiU convene at 10 a.m. Monday and at 9:30 other days. Ninety-one persons have been summoned for jury duty next week. From this number nine will be selected to join nine hold over members of the Moore County Grand Jury and will serve a 12-month term. The remaining jurors will be available for trial cases. Most of the drug charges stem from a massive “drug bust” conducted by the sheriff’s department early in June. The grand jury will be asked to hear evidence on 85 cases, in cluding the 44 drug charges and one of the murder cases, that of John Henry Furr. If the jury finds a case to be a “true bill,” then a bill of indictment is issued, and that case is added to the trial docket, which contains cases held over from previous court terms and the misdemeanor cases appealed from district to superior court. Furr, 36, Pinebluff, is charged in the June 10 slaying of Charlie Ashley Batchelor, 34 Southern Pines. Defendants in the murder cases already listed on the trial docket are Nealy J. Leslie and Phyllis Morrison. These drug cases are listed on the bill calendar for the grand jury: Bobby Brewer, two drug (Continued on Page 14-A) /■ half of the more than 100 pic nickers had already left, many of them to attend the dance at the Sheraton. Although their day began at 10:30 a.m. with a tom- of the Hall of Fame, followed by a lavish buffet at the Pinehurst Country Club, the Summer Outing Tournament and picnic and the dance, all of the Chamber’s guests were full of praise and enthusiasm for the Chamber’s efforts. The Chamber Tournament winners, announced at the pic nic, were Dottie Lynch and John (Continued on Page 16-A) MINI FESTIVAL — Mark Lawrence of Southern Pines makes bullets for the muzzle- loader at his side as part of the Malcolm Blue Farm Mini Festival which concluded the Sandhills Birdie Festival on Sunday.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
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