Index
Book Page, 2-B; Classified Ads, 4-8-C
Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment, 7-A
Obituaries, 8-A; Pinehurst, 1-3-C
Social News, 3-A; Sports, 9-A.
PILOT
Weather
will be partly cloudy through Thursday,
with a 20 per cent chance of scattered
showers. The outlook for the rest of the
week is clear to partly cloudy, with
warm days and cool nights.
Pinehurst Order Restrains
Certain Building Practices
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Diamondhead Corp. and
Pinehurst, Inc., were tem-
. porarily enjoined Wednesday
from certain building practices
by Judge A. Pilstom Godwin,
presiding over a special term of
Moore Superior Court at Car
thage.
The judge refused an in
junction against the Village
Council, upholding the right of
the Council to function.
His ruling came at the end of a
three-day showcause hearing
preliminary to trial of a civil suit
filed by Concerned Citizens of
Pinehurst against the owning
and developing corporations and
the Pinehurst Village Council.
I
W. T. Covington, Charlotte
attorney, said for the defendant
corporations that an appeal
would be filed as soon as
possible. After consultation with
the lawyers for both sides. Judge
Godwin set bond for the plaintiffs
at a total of $110,000, a legal
formality to assure payment
should the plaintiffs fail in their
suit, and damage result.
William Naughton, of Moun
tainside, N. J., vice^jresident
and controller of Diamondhead,
whose corporate officers are
there, had testified for the
defense that the preliminary
injunctions would cost
Diamondhead $400,000 to $500,000
if sutained for as long as 90 days,
and could cost $1 million or more
if sustained much longer than
that.
However, he said these losses
could be regained in increased
construction, if and when the
injunctions should be lifted.
Allowing 60 days for filing the
appeal, and 20 days for plaintiffs
to respond. Judge Godwin said he
felt it was of the upmost im
portance for the case to be
resolved quickly, and he hoped to
see it reach trial before the
appeal gets into court. With the
next regular civil term in Moore
not due until January 21, and
with this case likely to take up a
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Mental Health Home Here
To Be State Pilot Project
also be located in the home,
which is owned by Mrs. Leon
Baker.
The home will serve children
who for the most part are living
in their home communities but
can benefit from more intensive
treatment than fan be obtained
on an outpatient basis. The
length of a child’s stay will
depend on the individual
situation, with
PERRY COMO — The noted singer and TV star was a
visitor Tuesday at the World Golf Hall of Fame in
Pinehurst, where he was also reported to be pur
chasing property.--(Photo by Robert T. Puckett).
Moore To Be Interested
In NC Medical Training
The Sandhills area has been
selected as the first site in what
may become a statewide mental
hesdth program for children.
Duncraig Manor, a residential
treatment facility for children
with emotional problems, will
open in Southern Pines in Oc-
tob6r«
The home, one of three such
projects funded by the General
Assembly, will operate under the
auspices of three mental health
centers: Sandhills Mental Health ^
Center in Pinehurst, Cumberland 11 U-■ M
County Mental Health Center in i v W Cl J. 111
Fayetteville, and Southeastern ^ •
Regional Mental Health Center w UTiHg iTlVftTl
in Lumberton. The second and UllHO x v ^xx
third homes will open in
Fayetteville and the Lumberton
area later in the year.
Nine children will live in the
Southern Pines home on East
Connecticut Avenue. Offices of
the director and other staff will
Moore Memorial Hospital will
be interested in participating in
the State-supported program of
physician training if the
statewide plan submitted to the
UNC Board of Governors last
week is adopted.
Dr. William F. Hollister, chief
of staff at Moore Memorial, said
this week that the hospital
“would be very much in
terested” in taking part in the
educational program outlined in
the 285^)age report.
Dr. Hollister thinks, however.
that “we should get our ex
pansion program underway”
before moving into a full-scale XXOITlBCOIIllIlg
clinical training and hospital
residency program.
In his opinion a full-time
medical director will be
needed to direct an educational
program and, in fact, will be
required under any accredited
program. He also thinks a 400-
bed hospital is needed for such
training.
“We must develop a different
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Set Sunday
At Bethesda
For Streets
Powell Bill money for street
work totaling $192,340.20 will be
coming into Moore County towns
this week.
It’s a record amount, not only
for Moore but for the entire
State-$29.2 million in North
Carolina as a whole.
Under State law one cent of the
State’s nine cents per gallon
gasoline tax is distributed to
municipalities on a basis of
population and street mileage
within town boundaries which is
not a part of the State system and
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Hodgkins Returns Here
Waste Disposal Program
Gets Under Way in Moore
The annual homecoming for
historic Old Bethesda Presbyter
ian Church located near Aber
deen will be held Sunday, Sept.
30.
Dr. Ben Lacy Rose, a past
Moderator of the Presbyterian
General Assembly and pastor of ^TT* "D 1
the Wrightsville Beach ^esby- With I* IfSt UniOIl Oank
terian Church, will be the
homecoming speaker at the
service beginning at 11:15 a.m.
Following the homecoming
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The placing of 100 solid waste
containers around Moore County
began on Monday and the county
commissioners hope that they
will go a long way toward
cleaning up the area.
It was also announced by the
Miss Glazer
Is Reporter
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County Planning Office that
beginning Oct. 1 the use of land
fills operated by the county will
be free to all citizens of Moore for
domestic and conunercial waste.
The commissioners have
contracted with Liebers
Sanitation Service to place the
four cubic yard containers and
operate the waste collection
service. The containers are to be
used primarily for household
garbage.
Bob Helms, County Planner,
said that the dumpster type
containers had arrived and will
be placed at a^iroved sites
scattered throughout the county.
Jerry Vest, supervisor of the
County’s solid waste program,
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Sarah Glazer, formerly of the
Anniston (Ala.) Star and
reporter for Ralph Nader’s
Congress Project, has joined the
staff of The Pilot as a reporter in
the editorial department.
Miss Glazer, 22, is a native of
New York and a graduate of the
University of Chicago with a B.
A. in History. She won honors in
History, was named to the
Dean’s List, and was a History
Exchange student to the
University of Warwick, England.
More recently she was a
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Sarah Glazer
Show Drop
In Students
The 10-day attendance figure
of the Moore County schools, the
first official figure to be sent to
Raleigh for statistical purposes,
was 9,537—506 more than on the
opening day August 27, but 70
less than for the equivalent date
of last year.
The number includes 3,006 high
school students and 2,973
elementary students.
Non. of the figures can be
compared with exactitude to last
year’s, according to Associate
Supt. C. E. Powers, as the actual
attendance figures, rather than
average daily membership, are
used, producing slightly different
results.
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Oil Crisis
Will Last
Some Time
Two major oil dealers in Moore
County say the present fuel crisis
will last many months; but that a
mild winter can be easily sur
vived without undue discomfort.
Ralph Chandler of Sandhills
Oil Co., has just returned from a
N. C. Oil Jobbers convention in
Williamsburg, Va., where a top
official of Amoco and another
from Union Oil were speakers.
Chandler said both men
predicted a continuing energy
shortage for many months.
Both he and Chris Shamburger
of Shamburger Oil Service
pointed out that even if the
Alaska pipeline is okayed, it will
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Air Service
Will Resume
On Oct. 15
When Pinehurst Airlines
resumes scheduled operations on
Monday, October 15, there will be
the three previously scheduled
weekday flights between
Southern Pines-Pinehurst air
port and the two nearest prin
cipal gateway stations of
Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham.
Plans are in progress to add to
this schedule non-stop service to
Washington’s National Airport,
with the expectation that this will
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Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr. will
assume the position of city
executive for First Union
National Bank in Southern Pines
on October 1, according to an
announcement made today by
Bruce W. Riley, Regional
Executive Vice President.
Hodgkins will replace Michael
Curry who will become city
executive for First Union in
Burlington-Graham-Mebane.
Hodgkins has been serving as
city executive for First Union in
Durham since February, 1969.
Prior to that he had been city
executive for First Union in
Southern Pines from the time of
its merger with the Citizens
Bank & Trust Company of
Southern Pines in September,
1967.
Hodgkins is a native of
Southern Pines and is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. N.L. Hodgkins, Sr.
Norris L. Hodgkins Jr.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
provisions for emergency and
short-term care as well as long
term treatment. Fees will be
based on family resources, and
no child will be refused ad
mission for financial reasons.
Applications to the home will go
through the mental health
centers involved, and will be
screened by an Advisory Board
composed of two staff members
from each center.
The Sandhills representatives
are Dr. Don Schulte, area
director, and George Barbour,
psychologist.
Mrs. Russell Livermore of
Lumberton, whose dedication
and hard work were directly
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Vass Election
Mayor D. Hugh McLean and
other incumbents on the Vass
Town Board are running
unopposed in the only town
election not held by the county.
Voters in Vass will go to the
Fire Station to cast their ballots
October 9. All other town elec
tions will be held Nov. 6.
The incumbents include Mayor
McLean, G. M. Blue, A. G.
Edwards Jr., James Key, C. P.
McMillan and C. L. Tyson.
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Js iWISSiKWk'-
TRAVEL COUNCIL PARTY—Food took precedence over tourist talk at this
party for the North Carolina Travel Council which met at Pinehurst this past
weekend. Shown, left to right, are John Hemmer of Pinehurst, Miriam Rabb of
the National Historic Trust in Virginia, and Hugh Morton of Wilmington and
Grandfather Mountain.—(Photo by Emerson Humphrey).
Council Supports Option Plan;
Endorses N.C. Wilderness Area
of 305 North May Street. He is a
1947 graduate of Duke University
and had lived in Southern Pines
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Members of the North Carolina
Travel Council, meeting at
Pinehurst the past weekend,
reaffirmed their support of the
mixed beverage locjd option plan
and adopted a resolution in favor
of the Joyce Kilmer Forest-Slick
Rock wilderness area.
Some 120 members of the
Council registered for the two-
day convention, which opened
Friday and closed with a
“Carolina Moon Party”
Saturday night.
President Arthur M. Flynn of
Greensboro presided over the
meetings, which heard
discussions on how best to
promote tourism and Tar Heel
travel promoters were told how it
is done in Virginia, South
Carolina and Alabama.
Putting themselves on the
side of the environmentalists in
the controversy over the
wilderness area, the Council
went on record as favoring the
15,000-acre area in Western
Carolina. In endorsing the
Western Wilderness Bill, it
pointed to the need for more open
spaces for recreation and urged
the State’s senators and
representatives in congress to
support the bill.
At the present time the bill has
the support of Senator Sam
Ervin, but is opposed by Senator
Jesse Helms.
At the Friday night dinner
meeting John Ryan, chairman of
the N. C. Citizens for Choice and
Control said tourism in this State
has not reached its potential and
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United Fund Goal Set;
Connolly Heads Drive
REPORT—When the statewide
plan for medical education
comes up for a vote Thursday by
the Board of Governors of the
University of North Carolina it
will not be unanimously accepted.
A divided vote is expected, but
a majority will probably vote to
accept the report of the special
consultants, and there isn’t much
doubt that University officials
will be authorized to proceed
with implementation of the plan.
A counter-attack from East
Carolina University partisans is
also expected, but some of the
ECU supporters in the General
Assembly seem to be backing
away from what appeared to be a
well-oiled plan to establish a
four-year medical school at
Greenville.
It’s entirely possible, of course.
that a new medical school may
eventually be established at East
Carolina, but the belief is that the
priorities and timetable ad
vanced in the special report will
be followed.
REFERENDUM — Persons
working for the N. C. Citizens for
Choice and Control say they are
having a hard time getting
across the fact that people will
not be voting for or against
liquor-by-the-drink in the Nov. 6
referendum.
The issue is whether local
option will decide the mixed
drink question.
“It’s simply a matter of
allowing loc^ communities to
decide for themselves,” a
spokesman said. “But the dry
forces are making it an issue of
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Donovan
Quits Post
At Foxfire
Gen. Joseirti N. Donovan an
nounced that he has resigned as
President of the Foxfire
Development Corporation and
Foxfire Golf and Country Club
today.
He stated “It is with deep
feeling of personal regret that I
leave Foxfire, its fine employes
and my personal friends and
. majority stockholders of Foxfire,
Mr. Roland McKenzie and Mr.
Dan Thomason.”
General Donovan is joining
Riddle Industries of Fayetteville
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Three Nabbed
In Break-In
Of Offices
Quick work by sheriff’s of
ficers this past weekend resulted
in the recovery of more than
$3,000 worth of equipment stolen
from the new Dental Office
building on Highway 15-501 and
the arrest of three persons on
charges of breaking and entering
and larceny.
Sheriff C.G. Wimberly said
those arrested on Sunday and
being held under $3,000 bond
each for appearance in District
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Thomas Connolly will head the
1973-74 United Fund campaign in
Moore County, which will be
launched Oct. 15 and has a goal of
$100,115, Michael B. Curry,
president of the United Fund of
Moore County, announced this
week.
The campaign is conducted to
provide the funds needed to
operate 23 public agencies
serving various needs of Moore
County residents during 1974,
Curry explained.
Contributions and pledges will
be sought from individuals,
commercial and industrial
organizations and other sources.
Long active in civic and
community affairs, the new
United Fund campaign chair
man is a 20-year resident of
Pinehurst and is vice president of
the Carolina Bank.
“Mr. Connolly now is com
pleting his staff on volunteer
workers for the campaign,”
Curry said. “His experience in
such activities as the Heart Fund
and as head of the Athletic
Booster program at Sandhills
Community College make him
eminently qualified to direct this
worthwhile effort.
“And his work with the San-
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Ewing Elected Chairman
Of Moore’s Republicans
The new chairman of Moore
County Republicans is Robert S.
Ewing of Southern Pines, a
county conunissioner and editor
and publisher of the Moore
County News at Carthage.
He was elected at the county
convention held Saturday in
Carthage. There were two other
candidates, one of whom was
David Drexel of Southern Pines,
but both withdrew and Ewing
was elected unanimously.
Ewing has served as county
chairman before and also has
been State Treasurer of the
Republican party.
Other officers elected to the
executive committee were
Dawn Leland of Whispering
Pines, vice chairman; Garda
Simpson, secretary ; and M. C.
Conway of Whispering Pines,
treasurer.
The convention also voted to
increase the executive com
mittee from five to seven
members, and those elected by
acclamation were Mac Ausbon,
C. C. Thompson, Harris Blake,
Floyd Cole, Bill Bowen, Paul
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Robert S. Ewing