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Review of news events in Moore County month by month in 1970. Pages 7 and 11-B. Pinehurst in other days are recalled in special feature by Alleetah Hllton.-Page 6-A. Vol. 51-No. 8 TWENTY-TWO PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.—WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30,1970 TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS Housing Top ‘71 Problem For Chamber The Directors of the Sandhills Area Chamber of Commerce have put housing at the top of their list of community problems that the Chamber will work on in 1971, according to Dr. Walter 0. Dow, incoming president. As recommended by the Chamber’s Program of Work Committee and approved by the 1971 Board of Directors at its December meeting, the Program of Work will serve as a sort of road map to specific goals that Chamber committees will at tempt to reach during the year. The Chamber concerns itself with many areas of community life where it may be most useful (Continued on Page 8-A) Pinehurst Sought by North Carolina National Bank has applied to the U. S. Comp- troUer of the Currency for per mission to establish an office in Pinehurst. Approval of the application would give NCNB its first office in Moore County in the Sandhills area of the state. Youths Held In Robbery With Gun Frank James Smith, 17, of the Midway section, Pinecrest student, will receive a preliminary hearing Thursday on armed robbery charges of the Howard Johnson and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. The hearing will be held in District Court in Carthage. A juvenile only 14 also im plicated in the felonies has been turned over to juvenile (Continued on Page 10-A) Office NCNB Luther H. Hodges Jr. of Charlotte, executive vice president in charge of NtTNB’s city offices in 30 North Carolina conununities, said an office in Pinehurst would make it possible for NCNB to offer full banking services to its existing trust (Continued on Page 8-A) First Snow Falls Here; Continued Cold Forecast A light snow began falling this morning about 10:30, the first snow of the season. Forecast for the weather in the Sandhills for the next few days is continued cold. Temperatures during the day will range from the thirties to the forties, going down to a chilly twenty at night. • Weather in recenf Says Fas been extremely cold, changing from a sunny pre-Christmas to a bracing one. Rains beginning on December (Continued on Page 8-A) Sermon Seeks to Define True Meaning of Life Responding to the agonized cries of the troubled around us is the true meaning of life as revealed through the life of Qirist, two ministers here agree. ,“We hear the cry of our brothers at hand. And respon ding to their cry, we find the life the seekers sought. “Thus the incarnation of God in Christ becomes for us the Banquet Set For Tuesday By Chamber Ticket sales are going well for the Annual Meeting of the San dhills Area Chamber of Com merce, according to Harris Blake, chairman. Next Tuesday, January 5, Chamber members and their wives and guests will gather at The Carolina in Pinehurst for a (Continued on Page 10-A) significant answer.” This is the message of a moving sermon prepared as a joint effort between the Rev. James Dellert of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church and the Rev. Riillip Deese of Our Savior Lutheran Church, based on a John Masefield poem. The poem is “The Kings at Midnight.” The sermon has been presented three times during the (Christmas season in Southern Pines-at Brownson Memorial, at Our Savior Lutheran, and at the Sandhills Kiwanis Club. “The power of the poem lies in its unique manner of portraying the hidden action of God taking place in ordinary events-in this case the very thing the seekers were looking for is cursed as an insignificant disturbance,” the ministers say. In the poem, seekers in the night were looking for a sign that humans are Divine. They had preconceived ideas concerning (Continued on Page 8-A) THE PILOT LIGHT McLEAN—Malcolm McLean, the Maxton native who last week became the new owner of Pinehurst, Inc., is expected to take an active part in the operation of the famed resort. A frequent visitor to the San dhills, McLean has a home in New Jersey but spends most of his time in a New York hotel Ip apartment. A friend said this week that he will probably build a home in Pinehurst. The friend described McLean as “quiet and unassuming” and a “very good businessman” who can be expected to improve Pinehurst facilities and to promote them. McLean, who started the McLean trucking Company with one truck which he drove htoself, is the principal owner of the Diamondhead Corporation. His brother James McLean heads the resort facility at Point Clear, Ala., which has been described as one of the finest in the country. Diamondhead, of which Pinehurst, Inc., will be a sub- NoPlansNow To Call Vote On Sales Tax New Year’s Observance Quiet Here It’s almost 1971. New Year’s Day will arrive Friday to find most Moore County residents at ease with friends and relatives. Municipal, County, and Federal offices, including the Post Office, will be closed, and most stores, with the exception of Family Dollar and Big Star, will take a holiday. Stores will be back in business Saturday, except for some closed for inventory. This includes Sir Richards and Franjeans, which are among those closing. There will be holiday parties Thursday at the Southern Pines Ck)untry Club and other places, including the big New Year’s Eve Ball in the Cardinal Ballroom of the Carolina Hotel Thursday Continued on Page 4-A) The Moore County com missioners have no plans at the present time to call for another election on the one-cent local • -ition sales tax. lirman W. Sidney Taylor said that the board is inclined to ‘wait and see what the I.egislature does” in regard to the sales tax. There has been a proposal that the General Assembly raise the sales tax to four cents, with the additional one cent being returned to the counties and municipal governments. “It would be nice to have an extra $300,000, and I would like to see the schools finished, as well as a start on the county-wide water system,” Taylor said. He referred to the fact that some schools, notably Pinecrest, have not been finished as far as building is concerned. Pinecrest does not have a cafeteria or a gynmasium, for example. Hie county-wide water system was proposed following a special study two years ago and has (Continued on Page 8-A) Water Tests Planned By Ecology Club Here ■ All streams flowing out of Moore County will be tested for pollution in a special project this weekend by toe newly formed Sandhills Ecology Qub. Spearheaded by Richard Leids, a teacher at Pinecrest High-&hool, the cliib was formed to not only devdop £ui awareness of tl(e environment but to un dertake projects for preserving it. Club members and volunteers will gather Saturday, Jan. 2, at 9 a.m. at toe Southern Pines water plant and will proceed to test all all streams and other bodies of water in the eastern, southern and western edges of Moore (Continued on Page 10-A) Dark-Haired Male Guest Good Luck for New Year toe belief is very much a part of North Carolina’s history, so don’t let your non-believing friends put you down. Miss Duncan, who is from Winston-Salem, cites the following “first foot” customs in toe fall issue of toe journal, which is published by the N. C. Folklore Society: “It is good luck for a black headed man to visit on New Year’s Day.” “To insure good luck throughout toe year, let a man BY JOHANNA GRIMES Want to insure a touch of good luck for 1971? Then invite a dark-haired male over for an early, visit on New Year’s Day. And bar toe door until he arrives. The custom is cited in an ar ticle written by University of North Carolina senior Gwyneth Duncan for “North Carolina Folklore.” Superstition? Perhaps. But Auto Plates Go on Sale Progress Report of Past Year in Moore 0*^ Monday ^ 10T1 txrVii BY VALERIE NICHOLSON This is the time we look back over the year, and, while acknowledging that not everything went right-which never happens-we take account of the many things which did, adding up to progress in Moore County. There were many such milestones in 1970, heartening in view of the fact that it was a year of economic gloom in many places in North Carolina, and in general throughout the nation. (See monto-by-monto break down of news events on Pages 7 and 11-B.) Employment remained relatively stable in Moore, with no industry closing for any period of time for economic reasons, and joblessness standing at about 4 per cent as opposed to toe national figure of about 5.8 per cent, according to Employment Security Commission reports. New construction continued at its usual rate, with about 200 new properties, approximately toe average of recent years, to be added to next year’s tax rolls. One new industry, Aberdeen Tricot, on which construction began in 1969, opened last spring and has been running six days a week, while, also at Aberdeen, a new building has been completed by Ceralon Manufacturing Corp., which will go into the production of plastics soon after toe first of Continued on Page 4-A) The 1971 green and white automobile license plates will go on sale on Monday, January 4. The local license agent is Mrs. DEC. 22 N. A. McGill and Moore County DEC. 23 residents may obtain plates from DEC. 24 her at the Farmers Supply DEC. 25 Company, 103 East Main Street in dEC . 26 Aberdeen, Monday through dEC.27 Friday and from 9 a.m. to 12 noon DEC. 28 (Continued on Page 8-A) (Continued on Page 8-A) THE WEATHER Maximum and minimum temperatures for each day of toe past week were recorded as follows at the US Weather Bureau observation station at WEEB on Midland Road. Christmas Cards Colorful and Original UJK O • sidiary, also owns other resort properties in toe United States. McLean also started toe Sea- Land Company following toe purchase of a Mobile, Ala., steamship line but later sold Sea- Land to Reynolds Industries for $65 million. Pinehurst, Inc., was sold to Diamondhead at a reported cash price of $9 million. Details of the transaction are still being worked out, but Diamondhead will take over as of Dec. 31. McLean plans to be in the State around Jan. 20. POLITICS—There will be no formal announcements until possibly next fall but 1971 will be almost as much a political year as 1972 will be. At least two all-but-announced candidates for Governor—Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor and Senator Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles-will be busy with public point making as well as lining up support. At least two others will be testing the winds. They include Attorney (Continued on Page 8-A) BY MARJORIE RAGAN Ctoristmas cards this year were unusually colorful, unusually beautiful, and unusudly original. Or so it seemed. They fell into four main categories: reproductions of great works of art of toe Madonna and child; family greetings with pictures; traditional messages, with maybe an added note; and originals. The originals included the surprise announcement of toe December marriage of Libby Waugh of Raleigh, toe writer, and Ed Ruggles, retired longtime boss of agriculture extension at North Carolina State. “Dears, here it is in boldface,” Libby wrote. “And you two know what a charmer he is so I’ll just wish you two the best Christmas ever?” The Paul Greens as usual sent one of the songs from an outdoor drama. This time it was an Old Indian Carol from “Trumpet in toe Land,” which he wrote. 11 included: “The woodland children heard the song And through the forest wild They sought, till in a hut close by They found the holy child.” Then there was the card of Caldwell and Sallie Nixon with her poem, “Nightwatch”: All of what I must in this starry chorus know, I do, and take in with certainty the sharp of snow-night breath, and the ache of crystal silences breaking.” The card was a grey-blue pastoral scene with cows. The Woodrow Prices of Raleigh said-“1970-a year doing our thing(s).” These, they said, included breadwinning, homemaking and getting educated, mail clerking in London, illustrating a book for the N. C. archives, restaurant Bloodmobile The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at the Proctor-Silex plant on Wednesday, January 6, from 1 to 5:30p.m. A plea for donors has been made by the local Red Cross chapter. cashiering, a national award for electric walker design, and being hijacked to Cuba. “Our MAIN thing (and now) thing is to wish you a Merry Christmas,” they said. The Thad Stems had a colorful hand-done design of a candle surrounded by Chinese words. Inside they declared that “Even in Chinese it still comes out ‘Merry Christmas’ ”. Sally Buckner of Raleigh had a handmade “Joy” with the “0” carrying a peace sign. June, Johanna and Betsy Grimes of Chapel Hill signed their card so that the J in June, the O in Johanna, and the Y in Betsy stood out. “Peace on Earth” seemed particularly appropriate this year. May Bell of Rocky Mount had a cutout of a dove in a free form design. Others with in teresting Peace cards were Mary Jane Ward of Houston, Jim Hunt (whose card represented a contribution to the Associations for Retarded Children), Jim and Janey Chaney, the Charlie Clays of Fayetteville, a beautiful medallion from Oakie Mitchell, toe Hardy Berrys of NCSU, and Jim and Ardis Kimsey (she’s toe poet). A Spanish tile design of a ship was printed in l^ain for George Mallanee to wish his friends well. Vic and Greta Hackler (he’s the former AP executive) had a special star and ship design to support the rehabilitation Center of Southern Fairfield County in Connecticut. A star-spangled card in royal blue came from the Bill Hills (he’s an editor with the Washington Evening Star) which secreted a turntable which you could spin to have your fortune spelled out in stars inside. Miles and Lib Hughey (you will remember him as newspaper man and her as State lilrarian before they moved to Washington) had toe Christmas Story as it first appeared in print in toe Gutenberg Bible five hundred years ago. Tbe Manly Wade Wellmans, fondly remembered here as former Pinebluff residents, (Continued on Page 10-A) U) uXcA/ POET'S CARD—Poet Jean McCamy of Wake Forest surprised everybody by coming up as an artist as well. Inside the card the answer to the owl’s question, of course, is “We do.”
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