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Winter “Winter is icumen in” as the poet put it. Official time for winter to arrive this year is Thursday at 1:13 p.m. LOT Amtrak information may be obtained by using a toll-free line to Jacksonville, Fla. The number is 1-800-874-8410. Vol. 53-No. 7 4 8 PAGES Southern Pines, North Carolina WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1972 48 PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS ■•‘W Hospital’s Expansion Annoiuiced MOORE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — At Pinehurst will look like this scale model when a planned major ex pansion and modernization program is completed in 1975. A new wing will be built at the rear of the present hospital and will have a new entrance and lobby. It is shown at the back of this photograph. The original Churches Plan Many Services During Season Churches in Southern Pines and Pinehurst have announced special Christmas services to be held for the remaining part of the Christmas season. The Emmanuel Episcopal Church will have a Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, Sunday, December 24. Music will be played beginning at 10:30, prior to the 11 o’clock service. Most of Moore Closes Both Monday, Tuesday As Christmas fast approaches, Moore County families ate gathering to celebrate the most joyous event in Christian religion, the birth of Christ. Most places will close Monday and Tuesday. Gifts, in memory of those to the infant Jesus from the Three Wise Men, are being wrapped, and eager children await the visit Petition Protests I New Road Leonard Mr. Joe Singleton, Mr. J.C. Robbins and Mr. Leon Wilson appeared before the Aberdeen Board and presented a petition signed by property owners on Poplar Street and in this vicinity, Monday requesting the Board to rescind the action taken at the last Board meeting, recom- • mending to the State Highway Commission that N. Poplar Street be extended to connect with S. Broad Street from Southern Pines. After this was discussed, (Continued on Page 6-A) I \ HONORED — Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Womack were honored by the Town of Carthage Sunday at the last meal at noon at The Carthage Hotel. The Rev. B.E. Dotson and O.D. Wallace, in behalf of the Mayor, presented them with an engraved silver tray. The Carthage Hotel, an institution in Moore County, has been sold to a bank. (Photo by Valerie Nicholson). wing, built in 1929, will become the rear of the hospital. It is shown in the center foreground. The new wing will be roughly the size of the existing hospital in terms of square feet of space. This model was built by the hospital’s chief engineer, Rufus Mahaffey, whose hobby is woodcarving. (Photo by Geoffrey Hall). St. Anthony’s Catholic Church will have Confession Services Friday, December 22 in the af ternoon from 4:30-5:30 and in the evening from 7:30-8:30. A Midnight Mass will be held on December 24 at midnight. Prior to the mass carols will be sung, beginning at 11:30 p.m. Christmas morning masses will (Continued on RagDilfeA) from Santa and the following feast. Shoppers filled the streets of the towns this past week, with several stores so crowded that it was almost impossible to shop with ease. Although there are three days left of Christmas shopping, preparations are being made for a shutdown of activities (Continued on Page 8-A) Paige Asks To Close NEW PRESIDENT—Dr. John R. Haserick was elected president of the American Academy of Dermatology at its 31st annual meeting recently in Miami, Florida. A prac ticing physician at the Pinehurst Medical Clinic, Dr. Haserick is also Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Duke University School of Medicine, and is known for his studies of lupus erythematosus. He makes his home on Grove Avenue. Commissioner James M. Paige of Youth Development an nounced today at noon that he will recommend to the General Assembly that the Samuel Leonard School be closed. Possibility of the closing was recently predicted in The Pilot. Recommendations will be made that staff members be placed in other schools within the system. He also said he would ask for a diagnostic center be placed in the Rocky Mount School. {Continued on Page 8-A) RESIGNS —Police Officer Glen Wilson, shown here, has resigned from the Southern Pines force ef fective Dec. 30, and is slated to the new Police Chief of Pinebluff. He replaces Chief Gene Talent, who lasted only briefly. Month’sTax Is $80,983 In Moore Moore County’s one percent sales tax netted $80,983.26 in November, State Commissioner of Revenue G.A. Jones Jr., has reported. The local sales and use tax is distributed according to a determined formula among both county and municipal govern ments. The sales tax is a fairly good baromer of general economic conditions as it represents retail sales. In Moore the sales tax collection has shown a steady increase from month to month. In neighboring counties the November one percent sales tax was as follows: Montgomery, $25,390.33; Rich- (Continued on Page 8-A) Bethesda Dedication Is Planned The Dedication and Corner stone Laying for Bethesda Presbyterian Church on North Sandhills Boulevard is scheduled for Sunday morning, December 31 at 11 o’clock. The preacher for the occasion will be Dr. Ben Lacy Rose, Professor in Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va., and immediate past Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. An Organ Concert has been planned for the evening with Allen R. Mills of Miami, Fla. at the console. The hour for the concert will be announced in the paper next week. The public is invited to share in these services. Post Office The Southern Pines Post Office will operate a reduced schedule of services for the Christmas Holiday this year. Postmaster Robert E. Peele, announced today. “On Saturday, December 23, window, delivery, and collection services will remain on their regular schedules. “On Sunday, December 24, normal lockbox and collection service will be provided. Special Delivery and Perishable mail will be delivered. No window service will be provided on the 24th. “On Christmas Day, all Post Offices will be closed so that postal employees may enjoy the holiday with their families. “The employees of the Southern Pines Post Office have done an outstanding job in delivering the heavy volume of Christmas mail this year, many of them working long hours. I want to thank each one, and our customers for their cooperation in making this the smoothest Christmas ever in our office. “The employees of the Southern Pines Post Office take this opportunity to wish the people of Southern Pines the merriest of Christmases, and the happiest of New Years.” Amtrak Stopped In Town! Amtrak changed its timetable December 15, and for this reason, the first possible con ditional stop here was on Saturday, rather than Friday, The Pilot has learned. According to the source, conditional stops may be made every day until April 29 either to let off five persons from Washington and the North or take on five passengers for Jacksonville, Fla. Latest schedule shows that the Southbound “Vacationer” will make conditional stops at 5:10 a.m. The Northbound Silver Star will make such stops at 8:10 a.m. Only if reservations are made and tickets are already pur chased will the stops be made. Shearwood Travel Agency in Pinehurst is handling Amtrak tickets, officials there say. (Continued on Page 8-A) R.R. “Bob” Brookshire Brookshire New Owner Of Marsden The sale of Marsden Motors to Robert R. (Bob) Brookshire by Ed Marsden was announced today. The firm will be called Brookshire Motors, Inc. Brookshire, a former banker with North Carolina National Bank in Greensboro, has already taken over temporary quarters in Southern Pines. He will be associated in the business by Garson Rice of Rice Auto Sales in Greensboro, who, he says, sells more Toyotas than anyone in the world. Rice also owns a business in Greenville S.C. After attending North Carolina State University and High Point College, Brookshire attended the University of Virginia School of Banking. He is married to the former Doris Hancock, and has a 10 year old daughter, Kimberly. The (Continued on Page 8-A) Moore Memorial Hospital has launched a $2,000,000 public campaign to help support the largest expansion and moder nization program in its history. Board Chairman Dr. E.M. Medlin announced. The Board of Directors named Mr. Robert S. Ewing, publisher to be general chairman of the campaign. More than $250,000 has already been pledged, Ewing said. The Woman’s Auxiliary of the hospital pledged $150,000 and the hospital employees $50,000. The remainder has come from other friends of the hospital. A cam paign among all employees with a challenge goal of $5O,0OO was overscribed by $253 with pledges still coming in. It is the largest fund-raising effort ever un dertaken by the employees and the highest total ever subscribed. The campaign was headed by (Continued on Page 8-A) James Rohr Is Injured By Gunshot A 27 year-old Aberdeen man, James F. Rohr, was released from Moore Memorial Hospital yesterday morning following treatment for gunshot wounds received Monday night. Rohr api«ently shot himself behind the Service Distributing Company service station on US 1 in Aberdeen about 5:00 p.m. Monday. No motive for the shooting had been given late yesterday, and Aberdeen Police Chief Jerome Whipple said he would have no comment until he concluded his investigation, which is still in progress. Rescue squad member Glen Garner, who answered the shooting call, said Rohr had a bullet wound when they found him, and that the bullet appeared to have entered above the heart (Continued on Page 8-A) Town Asks Renewal THE PILOT LIGHT HUNT — Even though the Lieutenant Governor’s office becomes a full time job in January, the man who wUl fill it, Jim Hunt, will not be moving to Raleigh. He plans to commute from his farm home near Rock Ridge, about 40 miles away. Hunt and his wife and their four children moved back to the farm from Wilson last year, and he would like for the children to have the advantages of farm life. Since the election the new Lieutenant Governor has been busy rearranging his law practice and also working full time on plans for the 1973 General Assembly. He hopes to be able to announce all of his Senate committee assignments on the opening day of the session on Jan. 10. MERRY Christmas from the mayor — And his family. The Hubbards, staying home this Christmas, say they wish everyone in Southern Pines a wonderful Christmas season. Shown here with a tree decorated by members of the Junior Woman’s Club, are Mayor E. Earl Hubbard, back center; Mrs. Hubbard, left, and three of their five children: Paul, Leta and Laura. Cindy was away at college and Ed ward playing basketball when the picture was taken by Bryan Green. Youth Charged In Atta(^-Of Local Girl A Southern Pines girl living in Raleigh who was stabbed, raped and left for dead in her sister’s apartment there December 12, was described by Wake Memorial Hospital as in “fair” condition yesterday. A Raleigh youth, free under $25,000 bond in a rape-assault case of last September, was arrested and jailed by Ralei^ police later that day. Susan Hunter Reaves, 24, was carried to Wake Memorial Hospital in serious condition, with stab wounds which punc tured both her lungs, but was reported this week by her father, Hallie C. Reaves of 280 Hillside Road, to be out of intensive care and in a private room. He said Susan Hunter Reaves (Continued on Page 8-A) Of Plant The Southern Pines town' council in a brief special meeting Tuesday morning adopted a resolution necessary for renewal of its permit to continue operation of the town sewage treatment plant. The resolution contained also the status of their plans for upgrading the sewage facilities, and a four-year time-table for construction of a new plant, which must be done unless a county wide system is established. (Continued,on Page 8-A) Big Golf Tourney Moved From CCNC to Cary Site The U.S. Professional Match Play Championship, which had its ^ginning here two years ago and was joined last year by the Liggett & Myers Open, is being moved next year from the Country Qub of North Carolina to McGregor Downs at Cary. The $250,000 Golf Doubleheader will be held August 23-26 at the com paratively new country club south of Raleigh. Announcement of the change in sites was made last Friday, and Milton E. Harrington, president of the sponsors Liggett & Meyers, said the switch was being made in the hope of getting a bigger attendance, especially from the Raleigh and Durham area. “We have nothing against the Country Club of North Carolina,” Harrington said. It has been known for several months that the sponsors were (Continued on Page 8-A) INGRAM — The new State Insurance Commissioner, John Ingram, will not be moving his family from Asheboro until after the current school term is over. He does plan to take an apart ment in Raleigh for the first half the year, but will spend as much time at home as possible. Ingram is optimistic about getting his promised insurance reforms through the Legislature. There will be a revamping of the assigned risk auto liability in surance plan, if he has his way, and some form of “no fault” auto insurance is expected to ho adopted. Retiring Insurance Com missioner Edwin Lanier plans to continue living in Raleigh. As for other plans for the future his only CHRISTMAS PARTY—Santa visited the Episcopal Day School yesterday, and one of those receiving gifts from him was the Rev. Martin Caldwell, pastor of Emmanuel Church. He is holding.Dee Grady. (Photo by Bryan Green)
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