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work had beginning at Farm
Life school in 1924. See Page 2,
Section III.
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VOL. 49 — No. 48
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1969
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Merger of Town Services
Recommended in Report;
Pubiic Hearings Slated
C &D Industry Group
To Meet Here Monday
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PARK FLOODED — Shamburger Park was a shambles
Thursday when rain dumped on the recreation center al-
m.ost buried it under swirling waters. The on-lookers are
Mike Terrell and Jeff Lambert of Aberdeen.
— (Photo by Marjorie Ragan)
Three Moore Men Die
In Car - Truck Crash
Three Moore County men
were killed Monday .evening,
eight miles south of Aber
deen, when the' station wa
gon in which they were rid
ing reportedly failed to stop
at an intersection, drove in
front of a tractor-trailer and
was cut in two.
Dead in the Hoke County
accident were Gilbert Grier
Cockman, 44, and two bro-
Chamber Meet
Set Thursday
To Plan Goals
Members of the Sandhills
Area Chamber of Commerce
have been invited to attend
a meeting at the Holiday Inn
Thursday at 7:30 p. m., at
which time a program of
work for the coming year
will be planned.
President James Harring
ton, Jr., said that the first
part of the meeting will be
taken up with reports from
various committees as to ac
complishments the past year
and what they would like to
see done in the future.
The second part of the
program will be open for sug
gestions from members for
projects and priorities for
1970. Such suggestions will be
considered by the Program of
Work Committee and put in-
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thers, Raymond Anderson
Lawson, 27; and Junior Lee
Lawton, 25, all of Niagara.
Rated “in fair condition”
at Moore Memorial Hospital
was Morris Moore, 27, of
Laurinburg, driver of the
truck, owned by Maxton
Cotton Co. of Laurinburg.
Moore suffered severe head
and chest injuries.
The accident occurred at
the intersection of US 15-501
and the Camp Mackall Road,
in the small corner of Hoke
County lying between Moore
and Scotland counties.
State Trooper C. E. Ben
nett of Raeford said eye-wit
nesses told him the 1963
Ford Fairlane station wagon,
owned and driven by Cock-
man, heading west on the
side road, failed to stop at
the highway and drove di
rectly into the path of the
southbound truck, which
severed it in two parts.
The big tractor-trailer
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Fair Dates
Dates for the annual
Moore County Agricultur
al Fair have been changed
to Oct. 20-25.
The Fair, sponsored by
the Carthage Jaycees, was
moved up one week from
the originally sciheduled
time of Oct. 27 to Nov. 1.
Preparations were un
der way this week for
Fair exhibits, shows and
other entertainmeait.
FLOOD AT ABERDEEN—Police, firemen,
and members of Rescue Squad No. 4 stood
by Thursday as waters of the Aberdeen
municipal lake overflowed the banks and
swept into the streets. Citizens armed with
shovels and a dump truck were unable to
contain the waters, which covered Sham-
butger Park, flooded the Rescue Squad
grounds, and inundated the Taylor and
Moore Motor plants. Seen in the picture
are sandbags and tires placed on the banks
to try to keep the water back.
(Photo by Marjorie Ragan)
Heavy Rainfall Causes Flooding
In Sandhills With Much Damage
A 6.05-inch rainfall here
last Wednesday night and
Thursday morning washed
out one highway and caused
considerable flood damage in
Southern Pines and Aber
deen.
For several anxious hours
it was feared that the dam
at the Aberdeen lake would-
give way.
Flood waters poured over
the dam and spillways and
flowed across the banks.
A small dam on a fish
pond broke arid washed out
Highway 22 between South
ern Pines and Carthage, just
north of the water plant, and
the- highway was closed
from Thursdy afternoon un
til Saturday about 4 p.m.
Traffic was routed onto
the . Airport Road, Niagara
Road and George Blue Road,
.-naking an extra five and a
lalf miles driving distance
between the two towns.
iState Highway officials
said that thousands of dol
lars of damge was done to
other roads in the area, and
that it will be several days
before repair work is com
pleted. No other roads were
made impassable, however,
except for a short time dur
ing the height of the flood.
In Southern Pines Town
Manager Bud Rainey said
that there were several
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Work Begun On New Guest Villas
In Village of Whispering Pines
Construction on a project
embracing eventually eight
villas to accommodate 252
overnight golfers and guests
was begun yesterday at
Whispering Pines.
The Whispering Pines
Realty Co. is building the
Byrd Will Open
Music Season
Here on Nov. 15
Guitar virtuoso Charlie
Byrd leads off the 1969-70
Sandhills Music Association
season On November 15, with
,a concert at the Town and
Country Cinema.
Byrd, a student of classi
cal guitarist Andres Segovia,
was inspired to become a
jazz musician by his meeting
in Paris with Django Rein
hardt during World War II,
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villas in conjunction with a
recently completed Terrace
Room, which will accommo
date groups for conventions
and business meetings.
They will be located be
tween the Terrace Room and
Thagard Lake.
A. B. Hardee of the Real
ty Firm said the villas are
expected to be completed by
next March 1.
The first phase of the pro
gram will accommodate 120
persons. In the meantime,
until the rest can be com
pleted, the villas will be
supplemented with a pro
gram. using private homes.
The villas were designed
by Morris Lapidus Associ
ates of Miami and New
York, and are a duplicate
design of the villas con
structed at the Paradise Ho-
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The Governor’s Committee
on Industrial Development,
headed b.y Charles Bradshaw
of Raleigh, is expected in
Southern Pines Monday at
the invitation of committee-
member Felton Capel.
Conservation and Devel
opment Director Roy Sowers
Jr. of Sanford said yesterday
that he hoped to be present
for the meeting to hear
problems affecting industrial
development in the area.
Sowers told The Pilot in a
telephone interview from his
Raleigh headquarters that
the committee will make
definite plans Thursday for
the Southern Pines visit
next week and also a trip to
Lumberton in nearby Robe
son County. He said Thurs-
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Zoning Case to Come
Before Boards Oct. 14
The Moore County com
missioners, meeting Monday
with Leonard Tufts, chair
man of the county planning
board, tentatively set Tues
day, October 14, at 3 p. m.
for a joint meeting with the
planning board and county
board of zoning adjustment,
to discuss a zoning violation
case and clarify various areas
of responsibility of the three
boards in regard to zoning.
Leaverne Maness, owner
of a motel which was deter-
miried to have been built in
Officers Investigate Robbery
By Two Masked Men of Home
Ray Sees LINC as Bridge Builder
Southern Pines native Dr.
Richard S. Ray is building a
bridge.
As director of the Learning
Institute of North Carolina,
Dr. Ray is attempting to span
a number of gaps in the edu
cational system of North Car
olina.
He wants to bridge the gap
between educators, parents,
and students; between con
ventional classroom methods
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum
temperatures for each day of
the past week were recorded
as follows at the US Weather
Bureau observation station a-i
WEEB on Midland Road.
Max. Min.
October 1 75 58
October 2 80 58
October 3 81 62
October 4 85 58
October 5 68 56
October 6 74 52
October 7 83 59
Rainfall — 6.05 inches was
recorded from October 1
through October 7.
of teaching and potential for
creativity; and between the
conomically and socially dis
advantaged and better learn
ing programs.
“A bridge is harder to con
struct than a wall. A wall is
easier to build, but a bridge
is necessary to bring people
together,” Dr. Ray told his
Doard of directors.
Dr. Ray is the son of the
ate Dan S. Ray who worked
or The Pilot for 40 years, and
Mrs. Dixie Ray, who also
worked for the Pilot for many
.rears until her recent retire-
School Meet
Dr. Craig Phillips, State
superintendent of public in
struction, will be the
speaker Monday might at a
meeting at North Moore
High School of the Moore
County school advisory
committee.
The meeting will begin
with a dinner in the school
cafeteria at 7 p.m.
krnold Swindell is chairman
of the advisory committee.
nent.
With an increased budget
his year — from $180,000 in
68 - ’69 to $330,000 in ’69-
70, — LINC has an ambitious
program .
Not only better classroom
'echniques, and better learn
ing experiences, but new ad
vantages for disadvantaged
children, as well as ways to
help races live together in
;chool and out are some of the
Dbjectives, Dr. Ray says.
“If better materials and
ways of teaching children in
he classroom setting are to
be part of LINC’s concern,
then those social forces which
affect the whole child must
be equally LINC’s concern,”
he says.
“It must also help identify
the causes of student unrest,
disruption of school activities,
distrust of blacks for whites
and whites for blacks, and re
sultant breakdown of com
munications among school ad
ministrators, faculties, stud
ents and parents of the local
community. It needs to find
ways to make that communi-
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Officers this week were in
vestigating a robbery at the
home of Mrs. John R. Drexel
on Pee Dee Road late Friday
night when two masked men
entered the home, tied up Mrs.
Drexel and left with her car
and a few pieces of jewelry.
The car was found Saturday
afternoon not loo far away
near Knollwood Village.
Moore County CID Director
Herman Grimm is in charge
of the investigation.
Mrs. Drexel said that her
dog started barking around
10 p.m. Friday, and that short
ly after 11 p.m. she had opened
the door to let the dog out
for a walk and two men wear
ing masks grabbed her and
forced her back in the house
where she was tied to a chair
and her head covered with a
piece of clothing. They had
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
37.5 Percent
R. Allen Jolly, chairman of
the current campaign of the
United Fund of Moore Coun
ty, reported last night that
$30,521 has been raised in
the first week of the drive.
This amount is 37.5 percent
of the goal of $81,329 for the
county.
Jolly said that he was
pleased with the initial re
sponse and is confident that
the United Fund will make
its goal during this month.
violation of the zoning law,
and for which the adjustment
board has declined to grant
a variance, had appealed to
the commissioners to amend
the law in his favor, but they
said they weren’t sure of
their responsibilities or pow
ers in the matter.
Tufts told them they could
amend or change the law
which they enacted in 1966.
There was some discussion
about “spot zoning” and its
dangers.
The commissioners took
under study a proposal tew
hire a building inspector who
would issue permits within
the framework of the law, so
no building could be built in
violation, and needed vari
ances could be asked for in
advance.
They said they also want
ed a detailed map to show
what has been zoned so far,
and where, and Tufts said
such a map is in preparation,
as part of the ordinance, and
would be ready for the joint
meeting.
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A sludy of the situation on
Highway 1 between Aberdeen
and Southern Pines shows that
it would be less expensive for
both towns to coordinate the
provision of services along this
Highway, regardless of which
town annex' s the area,” a gov
ernment report said yesterday.
Discussion of the matter was
in a report for the Town of
Southern Pines prepared by
the N. C. Department of Local
Affairs.
The report was presented t®
the Town yesterday by Com
munity Planner Thomas Lofft.
“A program of coordinated
services would primarily focus
on cooperation in providing
water and sewer service, but
could be extended to other
services such as garbage col
lection, fire protection, and
even police protection, the
report continued.
A public hearing on annexa
tion of the area will be held
by Aberdeen October 13 at
7:30 p.m. and by Southern
Pines on October 20 at 8 p.m.
“Aberdeen has proposed to
install a booster pump in their
water line extending north
along Highway 1 to provide
adequate pressure to the limit
of their proposed annexation
area,” the report continued.
“This would also have the
effect of more water being
used in this area after the
pressure was increased.
“Aberdeen has had water
supply problems in the past
and may face them again even
though its present wells are
providing adequate supplies.
“If Southern Pines connected
its water lines to the Aberdeen
lines at the edge of the annex
ation area, Aberdeen could
save the money needed for a
booster pump and would have
a connection to an auxiliary
water source to alleviate em
ergency shortages in the town
as well as in the annexation
area.
“Since the proposed South
ern Pines water lines drop
over 100 feet from Morganton
Road to Highway 15-501 in-
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Saunders Makes First DDD Call;
United Sets $1 Million Program
Senator W. P. Saunders,
with a call to Harry West-
cott, chairman of the North
Carolina Utilities Commis
sion, made the first direct
dialed telephone call from
Moore County last Friday.
The occasion was a lunch
eon by United Telephone
Company to kick-off direct
distance dialing for Southern
Pines.
The service began for the
general public at 2:01 a. m.
Sunday.
Joe R. Kimball, district
manager for United Tele
phone Company, welcomed
Moore County leaders to the
luncheon at the Holiday Inn.
He said DDD was “a mile
stone in communications that
will give Moore County mo
dern up-to-date long distance
telephone service.”
Senator Saunders, after
talking with Chairman West-
cott and hearing Westcott
praise DDD as “another for
ward step for Moore County,”
said that he could remember
the first dial telephones in
the county and now he was
able to dial anywhere in the
United States without the
assistance of an operator.
It was announced at the
luncheon that the new DDD
service in Moore County was
costing the telephone com
pany more than one-quarter
million dollars but United
Telephone plans to spend more
than $1 million for new con
struction to provide “the best
possible service within the
county during 1970.”
J. B. Teal, vice president of
United, explained the reason
for Southern Pines beginning
direct distance dialing before
other exchanges within the
county. He said it was felt
that by pushing up the date
for Southern Pines, pressure
on the operators could be re-
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AUMAN — Governor Bob
Scott has added Robert M.
(Bob) Auman to his staff in
Raleigh.
Auman, 29, son of Rep. and
Mrs. Clyde Auman of West
End, will serve as a research
assistant in , charge of drafing
speeches.
A graduate of Davidson Col
lege, he attended law school
at the University of North Car
olina in Chapel Hill for a year.
He worked for a short time
on The Raleigh Times and for
the past few years has been
agriculture editor of the
Greensboro Daily News. He
and his wife have moved to
Raleigh and Auman began his
duties last "Thursday.
SCOTT — Governor Scott
replied to Senator Julian Alls-
brook’s call for a special legis
lative session to repeal 1969
imposed taxes by refusing, of
course,, but in his four-page,
letter to the Halifax senator
he gave a detailed breakdown
of the budget to refute charges
of a huge “surplus” in State
funds.
There is no surplus in fact.
But because the law requires
a balanced budget in North
Carolina — a rare requirement
among American states—there
is always a carry-over of funds
because of the conservative
nature of the budget makers.
These carry-over funds go into
the next biennum budget.
Scott had hit back at Re
publican critics, ■ as well as
such Democrats as Allsbrook,
in a speech at a state Co-Op
Month breakfast in Raleigh
last Thursday morning.
The Governor said the sur
plus now stood at $27 million,
but the heavy spending
months — teachers salaries,
for example —- are ahead in
the fall and winter. There will
be a good balance when the
1971- General Assembly con
venes, but inflation and other
factor's rnay reduce' it to" sirial-
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FIRST DIRECT DIAL CALL — Senator
W. P. Saunders is shown making the first
direct dial call to Chairman Harry West
cott of the N. C. Utilities Commission in
Raleigh. Shown with him at a United Tel
ephone Company luncheon are seated, left
to right: Mayor E. Earl Hubbard of South
ern Pines, 'Vice President Jennings B. Teal
of the telephone company, and Rep. Clyde
Auman; standing, left to right, are: Sid
Taylor, Floyd Cole, Jack Taylor, Joe Kim
ball, Robert Ewing, and Charles Weather-
spoon. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)