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Vol. 53-No. 18
56 PAGES
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, March 7, 1973
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$9 Million Sewer Project
Set to Get Started Here
Vote in October
Seen for Schools
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BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
A bond issue for $5 million, to
take care of present and
foreseeable future physical
needs of the Moore County
schools, would be paid off in 20
years at a cost to the taxpayers
of 15 cents per $100 property
valuation.
This figure, obtained from the
Local Government Commission,
was cited Monday night by Lee
Williams, a member of the
county commissioners and also
of a Friends of Public Education
steering committee, at a public
meeting sponsored by the FPE
which filled the county cour
troom to overflowing.
It was the first time in years
any cause had brought such a
crowd to the courtroom, with
standees all across the back. The
mood they showed was serious
and concerned. In brief talks,
some showed they sensed a crisis
situation and were ready for
action, while others evinced a
cautious “wait and see” attitude
James VanCamp, steering
committee chairman, calling at
the end of the meeting for a show
of hands from those who would
“support and vote for” such a
measure - a 15-cent tax rise for
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New Bank is Sought;
Hearing on March 21
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CAMERON SCENE — Flowers were blooming and there was a feeling of spring
in the air last week when Pilot Photographer Bryan Green paid a visit to
Cameron. His photographic report is on Page lO-A.
End of OEO Could Cancel Work
Of Community Action Programs
Establishment of a new bank in
Southern Pines is being sought
by First-Citizens Bank & Trust
Company of Smithfield.
Application has been filed with
the State Banking Commission to
establish a full-service bank
here, and a hearing on the ap
plication has been scheduled for
March 21 before the Banking
Commission in Raleigh.
Two vice presidents of First-
Citizens Bank and Trust Com-
pany-W. Donald Brewer and
Ernest L. Hicks-were in
Southern Pines this week.
They said that if the ap
plication is approved by the
Banking Commission and the
FDIC that work would start
immediately on construction of a
new bank building. An option on
a tract of land in Southern Pines
has been taken.
In announcing the bank ap
plication, G.R. Smith, senior vice
president and regionad super
visor for First-Citizens, indicated
that Southern Pines and Moore
County are progressive and
expanding areas of the state.
This was a major factor in the
bank’s decision to file application
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BY BRYAN GREEN
The elimination of the federal
^ Office of Economic Opportunity
could easily turn out to be the
straw that breaks the back of
community action programs in
the Sandhills.
Jim Fout, executive director
of the Sandhills Community
Action Program, says the
January 29 Nixon announcement
that OEO will be dismantled has
turned the situation into com
plete chaos.
The abolition of OEO, serious
as it may be, is only one of
several related problems facing
Fout. OEO actually provides
only 40 per cent of the funding for
the Sandhills prograii), but the
type of money it provides is even
more important than the
14 Charged With Fraud
Now Re-Paying Welfare
Moore County now has 14
persons repaying the agency for
fraud, Mrs. Walter B. Cole,
Director of (he Department
Social Services told the Board of
Directors at a meeting last
% Wednesday.
She said that of two cases
brought to court, one did not
appear and will be summoned to
come later. The other agreed to
pay, and is paying monthly.
Mrs. Cole told the board that
$2,406.91 from fraud cases has
already been collected.
Mrs. Joann Pritchard, Social
Worker with Adults for the
Department, appeared at the
meeting and said that an in
creasing number of elderly
citizens of Moore County are
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
amount, Fout says.
The Ilepartments of Labor and
HEW, which finance the Head
Start, New Careers, Neigh
borhood Youth Corps and family
planning programs, provide
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Crusade
Leaders
Appointed
Henry G. Harper, Crusade
Chairman and President of the
Moore County Unit of the
American Cancer Society, this
week announced community
chairmen and quotas for Moore
County as follows:
Aberdeen, Mrs. V.U. Grose,
$1,300.
Cameron, Mrs. Wade Collins,
$160.
Carthage, Mrs. L.L. Marion,
Jr., $800.
Eagle Springs, Mrs. Carolyn
H. Blue, $160.
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Miss Newton is Retiring
After 21 Years at Pilot
HUNTER CHAMPION — Kittle - Hill, by
William C. Boren HI of Sedgefield, was the winner of
the championship at the 41st Moore County Hounds
Hunter Trials held at Scotts Corners Saturday. Mrs.
M.G. Walsh is shown presenting the Stoneybrook
Perpetual Trophy to Noel Twyman, the rider. More
than 1,000 turned out on a rainy day for the annual
event. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey).
New Waste Disposal Plan
Is Considered by Moore
Miss Mary Scott Newton, office
manager and head bookkeeper
for The Pilot, is retiring after 21
years of service with the
newspaper.
She will be honored at a lun
cheon at The Golden Door
tomorrow at 12:15.
Miss Newton is a native of
Southern Pines, whose family
built the Shaw House, now a
historic shrine, where she lived
as a girl.
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A graduate of Southern Pines
High School, she began her
business career as a clerk in
Mack’s Variety Store. Later, she
was a teletype operator with the
Army Air Forces Technical
Training Command at Knollwood
Field here; with the Air Force in
Fort Worth, Texas, and then in
Shreveport, La.
She returned to Southern Pines
in 1946, working with what is now
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The Moore County com
missioners received information
Monday which may change the
whole direction of their r ecently-
completed solid waste disposal
system.
They also began strongly to
consider the use of a private
collection firm.
Only last summer, they saw
the opening of their Sanitary
Landfills No. 3 and 4, serving the
High Falls - Robbins and West
End areas, under supervision of
the county Department of Public
Health.
The year before. Landfill No. 2
had opened to serve Carthage
and the area south and east of it.
Landfill No. 1 had opened in 1966,
between Aberdeen and
Pinehurst.
The new trend, however, ac-
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Choice, Inc. Drug Work
Endorsed by Commission
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Miss Mary Scott Newton
Mrs. Gloria Fisher
The county conunissioners in
regular session Monday took an
almost unprecedented action -
they committed themselves to
their first budget appropriation
for the coming fiscal year, about
three months before budget
making tinxe, without taking the
request “under advisement” or
seeking to have it reduced by one
dime.
This was for $10,000 for Choice,
Inc., the conununity-based drug
abuse program, whose request,
incidentally, was the first to be
received for an appropriation for
1973-74.
The request was submitted by
Dr. R.B. Warlick of Southern
Pines, chairman of the Choice,
Inc., executive committee, and
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Work is expected to begin later
this year on a $9 million Sandhills
region-wide waste disposal
system.
Moore County Planner Bob
Helms went to Raleigh on
Tuesday to submit a draft
proposal of the project to the
Local Government Commission.
He expressed the belief that
the sewer system which would
serve Southern Pines, Aberdeen,
Pinehurst and Pinebluff would
get under construction soon.
Financing of the project, with
cost ranges from $6 to $9 million
overall would be primarily from
federal funds and Moore
County’s share from the North
Carolina “clean water” bonds
approved by the voters in a
special referendum.
“Very little local money”
would be involved. Helms said.
About 15 percent of the cost
would be borne by local govern
ments.
Special legislation is being
sought by the Moore County
commissioners to establish an
agency-a commission, board or
council-to plan and supervise
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Robbery
Thwarted
At Vass
The man who tried to rob Ed
Oldham’s jewelry store in Vass
Tuesday morning made the
mistake of being “a little too
close to the counter,” according
to Oldham, who grabbed the
barrel of the shotgun with one
hand and called the police with
the other.
Oldham, whose shop is located
on Seaboard Street, said three
young people—two men and a
woman—came into his store a
little before 10 a.m. and looked
around a while. A short time
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Key-73 Set
March 11-13
By Churches
The first cooperative “Key-73”
program in Southern Pines will
take place at 7:30 p.m. on March
11, 12, and 13.
Those three evenings many of
the churches of Southern F^es
will co-sponsor a preaching
mission at the Church of Wide
Fellowship (United Church of
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Train Stops
Amtrak notified the Chamber
of Commerce by letter today that
beginning April 29 there will be
regular stops in Southern Pines
for Trains 81 and 82. A schedule
will be announced later.
Sanatorium Points to 65 Years of Service
DEMOCRATS—Moore County
Democratic Chairman Carolyn
Blue said this week that 10
tickets have been sold for the
Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at
Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh
on March 24.
Arkansas Governor Dale
Bumpers will be the speaker.
Moore’s quota is 14 tickets.
Those who have bought tickets
thus far are Rep. T. Qyde
Auman, Senator W.P. Saunders,
Voit Gilmore, Forrest Lockey, T.
Roy Phillips, Tommy Phillips,
Charles McLeod, James R.
VanCamp, Dock G. Smith Jr. and
H. Clifton Blue.
BOWLES—Chairman Carolyn
Blue and six other Democratic
county chairmen met today with
Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles at
the Heart of Albemarle Motel in
Albermarle for a discussion of
plans forejuvenating the
Democratic party.
This was one of a series of
meetings which Bowles, who lost
to James Holshouser for
Governor last November, is
holding with party leaders and
officials across the State.
Other counties represented at
the Albemarle meeting were
Anson, Richmond, Hoke, Mon
tgomery, Stanly and Union.
AUMAN—Rep. T. Clyde
Auman of Moore County says the
’73 session of the General
Assembly is moving along so
well that an adjournment date of
May 7 is now being considered.
The Legislature would adjourn
until next January, as annual
sessions now seems to be an
accepted fact.
Rep. Auman, who is chairman
of one of the Appropriations
subcommittees, said that budget
hearings will be completed next
week and that a report to the full
committee should come by
March 27.
“That $300 million surplus wUl
not come close to meeting all of
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BY HELEN PARKS
From humble beginnings, the
history of the North Carolina
Sanatorium at McCain reads like
a medical rags to riches success
story.
Through the arduous efforts of
Dr. J.E. Brooks of Greensboro, a
bill was passed by the North
Carolina legislature in 1907
appropriating money for the first
state-supported sanatorium for
the treatment of tuberculosis.
The sanatorium which opened in
1908 was the third such in-
Bloodmobile
The American Red Cross
bloodmobile will be at the
Procotor Silex, Corp. on
Tuesday, March 13, from 11 a.m.
until 4 p.m.
“Blood is urgently needed in
this area,” the Red Cross said.
“Your donation could very well
save someone’s life. If you can,
please give. Someday you may
need some.”
stitution in the United States.
Whereas years later, various
towns and communities vied to
get the Western and Eastern
sanatoria, no commimity wanted
the first one in the state. A tract
of land isolated from any towns
or communities and on a high hill
was found and bought at the
sanatorium’s present location,
eight miles east of Aberdeen in
Hoke County.
Dr. W.J. Steininger, medical
director of the sanatorium since
’ 1969, recalls having heard stories
about local residents considering
the hospital on the hill to be a
“pestilence house” during the
first days of the sanatorium.
“People would ride past the
hill in their buggies with han
dkerchiefs over their mouths,”
he said.
An engineering gain may have
been an aesthetic loss when a
new highway was built a few
years ago behind the sanatorium
which detoured traffic from
passing in front of the hospital.
The spacious lawn and the
variety of trees, bushes, shrubs,
and flowers add beauty to the
sanatorium’s sloping hillside
throughout the year.
Education Edition
The Pilot’s annual Education
Edition is contained in this issue.
The 24-page supplement
contains special reports and
features on more than two-dozen
North Carolina educational in
stitutions. There’s also a report
on the State’s University system
and the outlook for the future.
Seniors seeking education
beyond the high school, or those
interested in private school
education, will find much of
interest in this edition. Extra
copies are being distributed to all
the high schools in this region.
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The widow of Dr. Paul McCain,
a memorable and beloved
medical director of the
sanatorium, delivered a history
of the sanatoriurn at the in
stitution’s 50th anniversary
celebration at McCain, April 23,'
1958. In it, she described the six
cottages which made up the first
unit. Her description is a far cry
from the present day modern
consolidated sanatorium. Shortly
after Dr. McCain’s death, the
name of the sanatorium site was
changed in 1947 from
Sanatorium, N.C. to McCain,
N.C.
As treatment for tuberculosis
has changed and evolved through
the years, so have the physical
facilities, says Ralph Dodge,
associate administrator of the
sanatorium.
“There is no part of the
sanatorium which has not been
renovated in the past twelve
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STATE SAl^ORIl^^
Opened in 1908. First |-
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North Carolina for
treating tuberculosis.
Sponsored by Dr. J. E.
Brooks of Greensboro.
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