State Bar
to discuss pre-paid legal services at
Pinehurst convention Oct. 25-26.—Page
7-A.
Education
Week will be observed in Moore County
schools Oct. 21-27.—Page 7-C.
Vol. 53-No. 50
36 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, October 17, 1973
36 Pages
Price 10 Cents
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TOUCHDOWN BOUND — Small Fry football (ages 7-
8) has attracted about 75 boys to this first year activity
of the Southern Pines Recreation Department at the
Campbell House meadow. Tuesday is practice day
and games, such as the one shown above, are on
Thursday. Recreation Director Johnny Williams is
assisted by Larry Solomon in the program. —(Photo by
Glenn M. Sides).
Pinehurst Issue Settled;
Agreement on 22 Points
Details of an agreement on the
Pinehurst dispute were an
nounced today in a joint
statement.
The settlement agreement,
approved by all parties, was
temporarily approved by Judge
E. Pilston Godwin, holding court
at Monroe, on Monday, subject to
a public hearing to be held in
Moore County Superior Court on
Monday, Dec. 3.
There were 22 points in the
negotiated agreement, including
specifics relating to the Village
Council election and its powers,
and restrictions in the building of
further condominiums by
Diamondhead Corp., at Pine
hurst.
Pinehurst, Inc., and Diamond-
head also agreed to abide by
provisions of the Moore County
Zoning Ordinance when adopted.
A request already had been
made by Pinehurst, Inc., to be
included in the zoning ordinance
and this is expected to be made
applicable at an early date.
The court action had been
brought by the Concerned Citi
zens of Pinehurst, Inc., and
yesterday the organization sent a
letter to all Pinehurst residents
giving a resume of the principal
points contained in the settle-
Chamber Endorses Bonds
New Directors Selected
Moore Gets No Roads
In Plan of Governor
Index
Books, 2-B; Churches, 3-B;
Classified, 8-11-C; Entertain
ment, 8-A; Dear Abby, 4-C;
Obituaries, 6-A; Pinehurst news,
1-2-C; Society, 2-4-A; Sports,
10-11-A.
The $300 million statewide
school bond issue to be voted
upon on Nov. 6 has been endorsed
by the directors of the Sandhills
Area Chamber of Commerce.
Action was taken at meeting on
Oct. 11, at which time six new
directors of the Chamber were
elected by acclamation.
Joseidi B. McCutcheon is the
incoming president and he and
the new directors will take office
on Jan. 1. A meeting has been
called for Nov. 8 at which time
new officers-a president-elect, a
secretary and toeasurer-will be
elected.
In endorsing the bond issue,
the Chamber directors noted that
if passed this bond issue will
provide moneys to Moore County
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Legislators Visit Pinehurst
In Probe of Children Program
BY SARAH GLAZER
A group of legislators from the
state’s Joint Legislative Com
mittee on Exceptional Children
of North Carolina paid a visit to
Pinehurst Middle School Friday
to see how retarded, disabled and
gifted children can be taught in
the same classroom with regular
students.
The six members of the special
19-member committee were in
their third day of visiting a wide
range of North Carolina in
stitutions for children.
Representative Clyde Auman,
chairman of the committee, was
accompanied by Senator
Coolidge Murrow, Represen
tative Vernon James, Rep.
Francis Tomlin, Rep. Marilyn
Bissell, and Rep. Benjamin Sch
wartz.
“Kids can be found in all kinds
ment agreement. The letter was
signed by Stuart R. Paine,
chairman, and Edward H.
Stringer, vice chairman.
The text of the joint statement
was as follows:
“It was announced today by all
parties to the recent action filed
in the General Court of Justice,
Superior Court Division of Moore
County, North Carolina, that a
proposed Settlement Agreement
executed by all of the Plaintiffs,
Erie G. Christian, Ervin P.
Edmunds, Casilear Middleton,
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Six Towns
Have Races
On Nov. 6
The Friday noon filing
deadline, looking toward
municipal elections to be held
November 6, found only one
candidate for mayor of a Moore
County town facing opposition
(in) Rnebluff) and five women
running for commissioner seats
in two towns (Robbins and
Cameron).
In Aberdeen, J. M. Taylor, who
resigned as mayor last June, is
running unopposed to get his old
job back. He took time off in
order to make arrangements for
the transfer of property he owned
to the Town, which was done
partly throu^ the assistance of
federal funds and partly through
his gift of the land, which con
tains the Aberdeen park and
iake, a transaction wM^ could
not be handled legally uhe were
in the mayor’s job.
All incumbent town com
missioners are running—William
(June) Byliff, R. C. (Rank) Tate,
Vivian W. Green, A1 Cruce and
Hugh Styers. Styers, a former
commissioner, was appointed to
the board in September to fUl out
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Ervin Coming
Senator Sam Ervin will be the
speaker at the Moore County
Democratic Rally at Union Pines
High School on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m.
^airman Carolyn Blue said
that ticket sales are “going well’
for the major party event.
Tickets are $10 each.
Rufus Edmisten of Boone,
deputy counsel to the Senate
Watergate Committee, will
accompany Senator Ervin here.
Carolina Power & light Co.,
plans to seek a rate increase
within the next 30 days.
This was revealed here
Monday night by Sherwood H.
Smith, Jr., senior vice president
and general counsel for the
company.
The amount of the rate in
crease to be requested in ap
plication to the State Utilities
Clommission has not been finally
of institutions, not just those for
children,” explained Ray
Shurling, staff member from the
legislature’s Fiscal Research
Division as he reeled off the
committee’s varied visiting list.
The committee visited the
Western Correctional Center in
Morganton, “which has con
victed felon^s-some only 12
years old,” Shurling said. The
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Republicans Show Gains;
Registration at New Top
Despite the Watergate and
Agnew scandals and other
troubles the Republican party in
Moore County is gaining in
membership.
As of this week the Republican
party showed a total of 6,081
registered voters, a gain of 162
since Oct. 9, 1972.
On the other hand, the
Democratic Party reports a loss
of 49 members in the year, with a
total registration of 11,920
members now as compared to
11,969 in 1972.
Chairman Angus M. Brewer of
the Moore County Board of
Elections reported that Moore
County re^stration is now at its
highest point in history, with a
total of 18,798 registered to vote
in the county’s 21 precincts.
The two largest precincts are
North Southern Pines with 1,674
registered and Pinehurst with
1,635.
lliere are 613 registered as
Independents, five American
party, and 179 listed as “no
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LEAGUE SPEAKERS—Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt (left) and
Governor Jim Holshouser (right) were among the
speakers at the convention of the North Carolina
League of Municipalities in Pinehurst last week.
Top Officials Talk Here;
Hubbard Named to Post
The Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, as well as other top
State officials, spoke at the
convention last week of the North
Carolina League of
Municipalities in Pinehurst.
Mayor E. Earl Hubbard of
Southern Pines was elected to the
board of directors of the League,
which elevated Luther M.
Cromartie of Wilmington to
president.
The “new Federalism,” in
which revenue sharing is a big
item, was the subject of con
siderable discussion at the
convention, which was attended
by some 1,000 delegates from
municipalities across the State.
Increased powers and
responsibilities for local
governments were seen by
several speakers as a result of
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Moore County struck out
completely in Governor Hols-
houser’s new seven-year high
way plan.
“There are no projects show
ing in Moore,” Ted Harrison,
information officer for the
Department of Transportation,
said this week.
This means that there will be
no new road construction for
seven years if the Governor’s
plan stands up.
Even projects which had been
approved—such as the No. 1
by-pass of Vass—have been
cancelled by the Republican
administration.
In fact, U.S. Highway 1 was all
but ignored entirely by the new
highway plan, with nothing
planned for improvements on
the historic highway before 1979.
That is the year when improve
ments on the Sanford by-pass are
scheduled to start.
Survey work had been made on
the Vass by-pass, but that along
with many other projects ap
proved during the administration
of Democratic Governor Bob
Scott were junked. In all about $9
million worth of preliminary
work in the state was cancelled.
Rep. T. Clyde Auman, com
menting upon the Holshouser
highway plan unveiled last
Friday, said there will be “a lot
of unhappy people.” He quest
ioned the validity of the Govern
or naming plans beyond his own
administration. He also said that
he was sure the General
Assembly will take up the
question of the Holshouser plan
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Council Candidates Give Views
On Town’s Issues and Problems
CP&L to Seek Rate Hike;
Energy Crisis Detailed
determined.
Smith spoke at a regional
meeting of newspaper editors
and publishers at ^e Holiday
Inn, outlining plans of CP&L to
expand its facilities to meet
power demands.
Smith said that the energy gap
between supply and demand will
continue to widen, even more so
in this region because of the
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BY SARAH GLAZER
Whiie most candidates for the
Southern Pines Town Council
interviewed this week stressed
sewage, annexation and traffic
problems, a few candidates
brought up some unexplored
areas—job training, housing and
the town’s personnel policy.
Challenger W.H. Bill Bowen, a
local businessman, proposed that
financial reports on town serv
ices should available in simple
language to citizens and that the
salaries of public officials should
be available to the public on
request. He urged greater job
security for town employes than
the council is now providing.
Bowen also criticized the
accesibility of council members,
saying “People have complained
bitterly about trying to get hold
of a" council member. They get
hold of the manager, he says get
hold of the mayor; he says get
hold of the council and they can’t
get hold of anyone.”
Incumbent Emmanuel Doug
lass urged the council to
recognize the concerns of the
poor and minorities in the areas
of housing and jobs. He urged
that the town participate in
on-the-job training programs and
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Questions Asked
Five questions were submitted to the ten candidates for the
Southern Pines Town Council, and their replies are in the first part of
a series on the upcoming election in today’s PUot.
The responses and statements of five candidates are presented in
today’s issue:
The questions aske4, were:
1— What are the major problems facing the town in the next five
years?
2— What are the major needs of the town not now being filled?
3— How can the town be made more attractive?
4— ^How can the Town CouncU help to revitalize the downtown
business area?
5— Should the town limits be extended?
Man is Killed by Auto;
Youth Held for Hit-Run
A 24-year-old man was run
over and killed Sunday evening
on State Road 1116 between NC 5
and Jackson Hamlet, and
another youth later gave himself
up and was arrested for felonious
hit and run.
State Trooper W.M. Gay said
Jefferson David Thomas of
Aberdeen, Rt. 1, was run over
about 9 p.m., as, wearing dark
outer clothing, he lay in the
middle of the road almost in front
of his home.
Gay said also that Joseph
Locklear, 18, of Jackson Hamlet,
who acbnitted he was the driver
of the car that hit Thomas, later
returned to the scene and
surrendered himself to the in
vestigating trooper.
Locklear, who had had Robert
Clifton Dawkins and Terry
Patterson of Jackson Hamlet in
the car with him, said he didn’t
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VISIT PINEHURST — Legislators pose with faculty at Pinehurst after viewing a
fifth-grade class that includes exceptional children. From left to right. Rep. T.
Clyde Auman; Mike Preslar, Principal; Mrs. Ruth Sebrell, fifth grade team
teacher; Rep. Marilyn Bissell; Miss Jean Jackson, resource teacher; Rep.
Benjamin D. Schwartz; Sen. Coolidge Murrow; Rep. Vernon James and Rep.
Francis Tomlin.
ROADS—Rep. Clyde Auman
thinks there may be less money
than presently anticipated for
road building. His reasoning is if
the energy crisis gets worse and
there is less gasoline then
naturally the taxes from gas will
be less.
There may even be a demand
for an increase in the gasoline
tax in order to carry out the road
building plans outlined last week
by Governor Holshouser.
Auman is also sure that
legislators whose areas were left
out of building plans will be
raising many questions about the
Holshouser program. Among
those is Rep. Jimmy Green of
Bladen County, the current
chairman of the House Roads
Committee and slated to be the
next Speaker of the House. Green
is a member of the Tran
sportation Commission and
voted against the ad
ministration’s road-building
plan.
MUST REPORT—Leaders in
both camps of the local option
liquor referendum on Nov. 6 will
be required to report all con
tributions to Secretary of State
Thad Eure.
Eure received a ruling last
week from the Attorney General,
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KILLED BY CAR—Coroner A.B. Parker and State highway patrolmen kneel over
the body of Jefferson David Thomas, 24, of Aberdeen, Route 1, who was killed
when run over by a car near his home.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).