Vol. 53-No. 49
32 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, October 10, 1973
32 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Pinehurst Issue
Settlement Near
SLAIN POLICEMAN—Leo White is pictured above
with wife Janet at left and daughter Camille at right in
a photograph taken on the night of his daughter’s
graduation from high school in June, 1973.
NY Slain Policeman
Negotiations are under way for
an out-of-court settlement of the
Pinehurst dispute which was
first aired in Moore County
Superior Court in September.
Attorneys for Pinehurst, Inc.,
Diamondhead Corp., the Village
Council and the Concerned
Citkens of Pinehurst have been
meeting for the past couple of
weeks to work out a negotiated
settlement, and an agreement is
expected soon.
In a ruling handed down on
Sept. 29, Judge A. Pilston Godwin
had temporarily enjoined
Diamondhead and Pinehurst,
Inc., from certain building
practices, but declined to
restrain the Village Council in
carrying out its functions.
Judge Godwin also set Mon
day, Oct. 15, when he will be
holding court in Monroe, for the
hearing of motions in the case. It
is expected that attorneys for the
various parties involved will be
present for the hearing.
Boom, Boom
If sonic booms and artillery
barrages disturb you this week
and next don’t worry.
It will not be an invasion but a
Joint Forces Exercise being held
at nearby Fort Bragg.
The public information office
at Fort Bragg called Tuesday
morning to report that the
exercises were getting under
way, and will last for three days
this week, and again on Oct.
15-19.
The Pinehurst Village Council,
with B. W. Bogan as president,
met for most of the day on
Tuesday. Budget matters were
discussed, along with matters
concerning the proposed set
tlement.
No details of the negotiated
settlement have been released. A
joint statement is expected to be
made, however, once details
have been worked out and ap
proved by the court.
The civil action had been
brought in Moore Superior Court
by a group of Pinehurst residents
known as the Concerned Qtizens.
In their complaint they had
charged Diamondhead and
Pinehurst, Inc., with violating
recognized zoning provisions,
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Was Native of Area State School Bond Issue
Not to Affect NC Taxes
Approximately 500 people
mourned the fatal shooting of
New York (3ty policeman Leo
White, a native of Southern
Pines, at a memorial service in
New York Friday.
Colleagues from the city police
and sanitation departments
turned out for the largest service
ever held for a sanitation em
ploye, White’s father said.
Policeman and friends from
A personal emissary from New the Southern Pines area attended
York City’s Mayor John Lindsay,
and the union president from the
New York S^tation Depart
ment, where White was formerly
employed, were among the city
officials who paid tribute to the
45-year old slain policeman.
the family funeral held at the
Missionary Baptist Church here
Sunday afternoon.
Leo White was shot while off-
duty when he tried to stop a hold
up in a Brooklyn bar last
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Golf Pros Will Compete
In Tourney Next Week
The vanguard of 360 golf
professionals, competitors in the
Sixth Annual PGA Club Pro
fessional championship, will
arrive at Pinehurst this week
end. This large field will compete
in the 72-hole $110,000 tourn
ament beginning on Thursday,
October 18.
Approximately 200 of the pros,
coming from all sections of the
U.S., will team with a like
number of amateurs in the
pro-am preliminary to the
championship.
This event this year will be
played over four of the five
Pinehurst courses on Monday,
October 15. Play will be
conducted in two-man teams and
the low scoring team from each
of the four courses will meet in
the grand final pro-am playoff on
Tuesday, October 16. The pro
fessional member of the winning
team on Tuesday will receive a
new Lincoln Continental auto-
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Aberdeen Has Lake Deed;
Ex-Mayor Is Thanked
The deed to the Aberdeen Lake
property, with an appraised
value of $200,050, is now held by
the Town of Aberdeen, Mayor
Robert N. Page, III reported at
the Board of Commissioners
meeting on Monday night.
Half of this amount. Mayor
Page said, was given to the town
by former Mayor Jack M. Taylor
and Mrs. Taylor, with the other
half or $100,025 coming from a
federal grant.
Mayor Taylor had resigned
prior to the land transaction but
at the recent Town Caucus he
was nominated for election again
on Nov. 6.
The commissioners voted to
ask the town attorney to draft a
resolution of appreciation to Mr.
and Mrs. Taylor for “their
generous gift to the town.’’
The board also adopted an
amendment to the town budget to
use $46,620 of revenue sharing
trust funds as expenditures for
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BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Passage of the $300 million
school construction bond issue,
on which North Carolinians will
vote November 6, will not in
crease state taxes, nor would its
defeat cause them to be reduced,
Moore Rep. T. Clyde Auman told
the county-wide Friends of
Public Education, meeting
Monday night at the Carthage
Elementary school.
Actually, Auman declared, the
amount it would take to pay off
the bonds over a period of years
would be so small in relation to
the total state budget, it wouldn’t
mean a thing to the taxpayers
one way or the other.
But what it would mean to the
schoolchildren, in terms of new
and improved buildings can’t be
overestimated-and this means
today’s children, who would be
Airline
Gets Mail
Contract
Announcement was made this
week of the awarding of a
three-year, one million dollar
contract by the U.S. Postal
Service to the locally-based
Pinehurst Airlines, Inc.
The announcement was made
by Peter Garrich, head of the Air
Transportation eastern region of
the Postal Service.
The contract calls for Pine
hurst Airlines to fly the mail
nightly between the cities of
Newark, N.J. and Baltimore,
Md., hauling 6,000 lbs. of mail
each way. An airplane and crew
will be stationed at each terminal
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Korean Tells of Experiences
With Moore Summer Ministry
“How do I preach to my people
a new day is a gift of God?”
questions a young Korean in soft-
spoker English. The intensity of
the question is in his eyes and
expressed with his hands as he
tells of his vision for the people of
his native land.
This summer Young Chan Ro,
a 1973 Union Theological
Seminary in Virginia graduate
with a Master of Theology
degree, found new ways of
dealing with the question. The
question symbolizes his
dedication and dream of
somehow intermingling
Christianity and Western op
timism with Buddhism and the
Oriental philosophy that “life is a
burden.” This summer Young
Chan Ro worked as
assistant minister to
Dawes B. Graybeal of Bensalem
Presbyterian Church, Eagle
Springs.
Bensalen is a rural community
church rich in history from
colonial days when Scots first
settled the area between 1770-80,
according to the pastor. Elders
and lay workers in the church
today still bear the names of
Monroe, McLean, Lewis and
Morrison—as direct descendants
of those Presbyterian Scot set
tlers. “They consider the church
the center the community both
spiritually and socially,” adds
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Index
MOORE EXPERIENCE—The Rev. Dawes Graybeal
(left), pastor of Bensalem Presbyterian Church, talks
with Young Chan Ro about his experience in Moore
County this past summer.
Books, 2-B; Church news, 3-B;
Classified ads, 4-7-C; Editorial,
1-B; Entertainment, 8-A; Obi^
uaries, 7-A; Pinehurst, 1-4-C;
Society, 2-4-A; Sports, 9-A.
able to use them now, when they
are so badly needed. Said
Auman, “We see the needs all
around us, and we know we
would be building for 50 years.”
However, to say that the
budget wouldn’t be affected
doesn’t mean the citizens would
be getting something for nothing,
or could be conned into thinking
so.
It means, Auman stated, that it
would take at most $19.5 million
per year to retire the bonds-
about two per cent of the state’s
general fund. And the percentage
could be considerably less, as the
general fund is growing larger,
^so the bonds would not all be
sold at once, or paid off that way.
There would probably be a two
to five year spread between the
time the first and the last bonds
are sold, and before all the
money could be put to work, in
the state’s 100 counties.
Moore’s Share
The money would be prorated
to the counties under a formula
which sets $2,485,702 as Moore
County’s share-just about half
the present capital outlay needs.
Auman reminded that the
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Police Probe Robberies;
Two Men Arrested Here
Birthstone rings, men’s and
ladies’ watches and other
jewelry amounting to $1620
worth, were stolen from the
Little Flea Market at 260 W.
Pennsylvania, Saturday night or
Sunday morning.
The robber broke into the store
through a window, Southerni
Pines police said. The case is still
under investigation.
Two robberies at the 19th Hole
Lodge of Pine Needles have been
retried in the past week. Last
Friday, October 5, William Dale
Ely of Rutherford, New Jersey,
reported that an Omega man’s
watch and $125 in cash had been
stolen from his room at the lodge
the day before.
The second robbery was
reported by Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Fullerton of Haddonfield, New
Jersey, guests at the same lodge.
The couple saw a man enter their
room Tuesday morning while
they were outside watching the
green being cut. The man took a
woman’s pocketbook and an
address book from the room.
George Cornish of 290 S.
Mechanic Street has been
arrested by Southern Pines of
ficers Marshall Lewis and Jesse
Hough and charged with both
larcenies.
A log thrown through the
window of a room at the
Sheraton Motor Inn allowed a
robber to enter and steal a
woman’s pocketbook Monday
night.
The robber entered the room of
Mr. and Mrs. John Crocker of
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Bus Service is Planned;
Fraud Cases Reported
A public bus service is to be
started in the lower end of the
county, Mrs. Walter B. Cole,
Director, informed the Moore
County ^ard of Social Services
at their September meeting.
She said Mr. R. C. Rawlings,
Sandhills Stage Lines, is now in
the process of getting his route
planned and an opening date of
operation.
Mrs. Cole discussed with the
Board the need for transporta
tion in the County Seat of
Carthage, not only for Social
Services interviews and applica
tions, but for Health Ghiics,
Library Meetings, voting for
Agricultural and all County
Offices, paying taxes, and a lot of
other needs.
“We especially find with low
income people, they are not as
financially abled to pay the taxes
or even for someone to bring
them for $3 or $10,” she said.
Mrs. (^le asked the Chairman of
the Board, Mr. Wicks, if he would
talk with Mr. Rawlings and see if
there could be a route to the
Couny Seat during the day.
It was also discussed that
Moore County was one of the
forty-one Counties listed as
failure to feed by the Department
of Agriculture. This means that
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FIRE PREVENTION WEEK—Firemen Joe Rorie of the Southern Pines Fire
Department stands with a special exhibit in connection with Fire Prevention
Week.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
-Reach Out to Help-
Firemen Work Emphasized
In Fire Prevention Week
BY MARJORIE RAGAN
The fire alarm sounds at 2 a.m.
The telephone rings.
In two leaps, George Wentland
is out of bed, in his pants and on
his way to the fire station, before
the alarm stops.
His wife doesn’t move. She’s
afraid she’ll get run over.
Volunteer Chie^ Wentland of
Southern Pines is one of some 250
volunteer firemen in Moore
County who, at risk to their own
lives, saves lives of others and
millions worth of property each
year.
One of them got a face of
battery acid when he tried to put
out a car fire.
Another cut his hand on broken
glass.
Others have stepped on nails,
and been overcome by smoke.
Old Firm
Gets New
Owner Here
One of Moore County’s oldest
business firms-Mrs. Hayes’
Shop-changed ownership this
week.
Founded in 1902 by Mrs.
Claude Hayes, the new owner
and operator of the North West
Broad Street store in Southern
Pines is Ruth Sayre of 205 North
Ridge St.
Mrs. Sayre, wife of Floyd M.
Sayre, Jr., executive director of
the S^dhills Area Chamber of
Commerce, purchased the shop
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Named to REA
Governor Jim Holshouser has
announced the appointment of
Robert G. Holden of Route 2,
Robbins, in Moore County to a
four-year term on the North
Carolina Rural Electrification
Authority.
Holden is general manager of
the Randolph Telephone Mem
bership Corporation. He is
president of the Carolina-
Virginia Telephone Association,
a member of the North Moore
High School Advisory Council
and chairman of the administra
tive board of Smyrna United
Methodist Church in Robbins.
He is married to the former
Maxine Hussey. They have four
children.
An old apartment house at 55
West Connecticut Avenue took
the longest time to control.
Firemen battled it for 4% hours.
About four years ago, during
an ice storm. Southern Pines
firemen had to get down on their
hands and knees to drag hose to
the Hubert Watson house on
Valley Road-but they saved it.
This week, firemen will speak
in public schools in observance of
Fire Prevention Week, carrying
a fire truck, which enchants
children.
There are volunteer fire
departments in 13 areas of Moore
County: Aberdeen, Carthage,
dameron, Crestline, West End,
High, Falls, Whispering Pines,
Pinebluff, l^uthern Pines, Vass,
Pinehurst, Robbins and Eagle
Springs.
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NCNB Files for Permit
To Open Local Branch
North Carolina National Bank
has applied to the U.S. Comp
troller of the Currency for
permission to open a full service
branch office in Southern Pines.
Approval of the application is
expected in about 90 days and
construction of a new building
wUl begin immediately.
James B. Gambrell Jr., assist
ant vice president and NCNB city
executive in Pinehurst, said the
bank is looking toward beginning
operations here in June, 1974.
The new building will be
located on the southwest comer
of the intersection of old U.S.
Highway 1 and Morganton Road.
The bank has purchased what is
known as the Fields property.
Bob’s Pizza place is now on the
site.
“We believe that the establish
ment of an office in Southern
Pines would enable us to more
effectively serve the banking
needs of all citizens in the
Sandhills area,” Gambrell said.
Plans call for the construction
of a 3,500 square foot building,
with all full service facilities,
including at least two drive-in
windows. There will also be
ample room for parking, Gam-
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Adams to Begin Nov. 1
As First Fire Marshal
The Moore County com
missioners Monday adopted the
new State Fire ciode and em
ployed the county’s first full-time
paid fire Marshal. He is Joseph
W. Adams, 44, longtime member
and former chief of the Pinebluff
volunteer fire department, who
will start his new work
November 1 at a salary of $8,800.
Adams, who was one of six
applicants for the position, was
recommended by the Moore
County Fire Officers association,
which initiated the request for a
full-time fire marshal a year or
so ago, again last spring urging
this move on the commissioners
as vitally necessary, in view of
the continued increase in
population and property in the
county.
Adams, who has served for the
past five years as coordinator
with the Fire Officers
association, will become in effect
the county’s coordinator of fire
services, working with all the
fire departments, in particular
those participating in the rural
fire protection program, with its
11 county-owned trucks and other
costly equipment.
He will act as liaison between
the commissioners and the
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
Transportation kack Hits Hard
(Second in a Series)
BY SARAH GLAZER
The lack of public tran
sportation in Moore County ties
poor people to the home and
keeps them from making con
tacts with others who might give
them information about assist
ance.
Since most poor rural families
cannot afford a car, they rarely
go to the public centers where the
welfare department has put up
posters about food programs.
Every time Mrs. Brown goes to
Carthage to talk to the Welfare
department, she must pay
someone $2 to take her, a
sizeable chunk fjom her $80
a month income.
Every week sle muist pay
someone $1.50 to carry hei • heavy
groceries home froirn the
supermarket.
Mrs. Thomas has dept^nded
on her social worker to drive her
to Carthage when she needted to
fill out papers and consult with
an eligibility worker about ihow
much she could receive.
“Some of these elderly people
have to take a taxi from (^uthe rn
Pines to Carthage which co.sts
them $10 in order to get $5 worth
of food stamps,” Mrs. Walter
Cole observed from her social
services office in the Carthage
Community Services building.
“When they get here they tell
us they have to rush right out
again because they’re paying the
taxi to wait, and we don’t get a
chance to tell them about their
medicaid,” she complained.
In Lee County, Moore’s next
door neighbor, the director of
social services. Mack Worley,
ascribes his greater success in
finding food stamp recipients to
size and demography. The
county is one of five that reached
over 40 percent of those eligible.
“We’re a small county. It’s
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SPEAKERS—Both the
Governor and Lieutenant
Governor will be among the
speakers at the 64th annual
convention of the North Carolina
League of Municipalities
meeting at Pinehurst this week.
Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt will speak at
the League luncheon on Friday
and that night Governor Jim
Holshouser will address the
expected 1,000 city officials.
Others on the speaker list
include Secretary Jim
Harrington of the Department of
Natural and Economic
Resources and John Morrisey,
executive director of the N. C.
Association of County Com
missioners.
Among subjects to be
discussed, both formally and
informally, are the impact of
federal revenue sharing funds on
municipalities and whether or
not town and city governments
will continue their support,
which was frequently reluctant,
of the regional councils of
government.
The convention opens Thur
sday at the Pinehurst Hotel and
will end on Saturday.
LICENSING—When the State
government reorganization
study commission was meeting
in 1970 it kept skirting around the
question of licensing boards. The
commission’s final report made
only one mention of these boards,
and that was on the insistence of
a few members of the com
mission. The report did carry a
recommendation that a special
study be made of the boards with
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