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The Peach Crop
was cut at least 15 per cent by 28 degree
temperature Sunday night and growers
still face damage for the next four
weeks, Clarence Black of the Sandhills
Research Center says. Five per cent of
the trees were lost, he said.
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Index
Books, 2-B; Classified ads, 7-8-9-10-11-
C; Editoral page, 1-B; Deaths, 7-A;
Entertainment, 12-C; Pinehurst News,
1-2-C; Social News, 2-3-4-A; and Sports,
10-11-A.
Vol. 54-No. 20
40 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, March 20, 1974
40 Pages
Price 10 Cents
DESTRUCTION FOR PROGRESS—This block in the center of West End was
demolished last week to make way for the addition of a two and a half million
dollar expansion of the Sandhills Division of the Stanley Furniture Co., a Mead
concern. The ground breaking is Thursday.
Stanley Clears West End Block
In $2.5 Million Expansion Job
A block of stores in West End
has disappeared to make way for
the two and a half million dollar
expansion of the Sandhills
Division of the Stanley Furniture
Company.
A ground-breaking ceremony
for the 120,000 square feet ad
dition will take place Thursday
at 3:45 p.m., with officials of the
Stanley Furniture Co. and its
parent concern. Mead Corp.
present to do the honors.
A new finishing and packing
system and an addition to the
present warehouse will fill out
the “L” shape of the present
building arid go all the way from
the plant to the red light in the
center of West End, according to
Heriry Barnes, plant manager,
and Don Couglin, personnel and
public relations manager. A new
water tank will be added.
A second shift will be added to
the furniture company, expected
eventually to employ an ad
ditional 100 persons. Conveyor
lines will mean that more em
ployes will not be needed
following the expansion.
This first phase of the ex
pansion is the third in eight
years, and is expected to be
completed in Fetouary, 1975.
The addition to the warehouse
will be three stories tall next to
Highway 211, officials said.
The plant specializes in a
painted line of youth-oriented
furniture, taking it all the way
from rough lumber until it is
ready for stores.
Stanley Furniture Company
purchased the plant in 1965 and it
was merged with Mead Coi*p. in
Use of Absentee Ballots
For Primary Explained
Applications for absentee bal
lots in the May 7 primary voting
are now being accepted by the
Moore County Board of Elec
tions.
Board Chairman C. Coolidge
Thompson this week issued the
following statement in regard to
absentee voting:
“Any qualified registered vot
er in Moore County may cast his
vote by absentee ballot in the
1974 Primary on May 7th, if he
will be absent from the county
the entire period the polls are
open on election day. Absence
from the county for only part of
the primary day is not sufficient
to warrent use of the absentee
ballot. The right to vote absentee
on May 7th is also extended to a
registered voter due to sickness
of physical disability, or incar
ceration as a misdemeanor,
will be unable to travel to the
voting place in the precinct in
which he-she reside. Inconven-
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Husband-Wife Team See Dream
Come True in Village Green
Bill and Billy Davis are seeing
their big dream come true.
As sales hit a million and a half
at The Village Green, they find
their greatest satisfaction is
having created a community of
congenial people comfortably
living high on a hilltop, nestled in
pines, with carefree living in
homes of high quality and
privacy.
Bill, the president of Sandavis,
Inc. who built the Village Green,
is William P. Davis. Billy, Mrs.
Davis, is responsible for Sandav
is Interiors, which custom
designs each house to the*
owners’ taste.
The Davises now have 35
occupied condominiums in The
Village Green, five more sold,
and are planning construction on
20 others.
The Davises planned their
project for four years before they
actually began it three years
ago.
They decided on the style of
their development as “clean,
crisp, and right for our times.”
And as proof of their taste, they
received the North Carolina
Home Builders Association 1971
Grand Award for Condominiums
for professional achievement in
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Resort Area Optimistic
On Tourist Trade Ahead
November 1969.
Officials who wiU be present to
the ground Ix-eaking Thursday
include Jim Van Bleck,
President of Stanley Furniture
Co.; Warren Batts, President of
Mead Corporation; Bill
Womack, Vice President of Mead
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United Fund
Dinner Set
For Awards
The United Fund of Moore
County will hold its annual
Awards Dinner on Thursday,
March 28, at which time new
officers will be announced and
installed, according to Mrs. Ida
Baker Scott, 1973 President.
With $92,000 contributed or
pledged as of March 15, the Fund
is almost within sight of its goal
after getting off to a slow start
last fall.
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Horse Show
A Horse Show will be held at
the Raymond Firestones Land
mark Farm off Youngs Road on
Sunday, beginning at 1 p.m. for
the benefit of the Moore County
Humane Society.
There is no admission charge
but donations will be accepted
for HUSOM, with all proceeds
going for the operations of the
Society.
Optimism prevailed this week
among resort operators of the
Sandhills, with many of them
reporting business ahead of last
year.
There have been concern and
many questions about what the
gas shortage would do to the
tourist business, but except in a
few cases there has been no
decline in visitors.
In fact, things are looking up,
and Floyd Sayre of the Sandhills
Area Chamber of Commerce
said this week, “We are in for a
real good season if the gas
situation holds up.”
At Pinehurst, Don Collett said
“we are very pleased and
optimistic.” The president of
Pinehurst, Inc., said that
business in the first two and a
half months has been “above
growth projections. ’ ’
“It looks like it will be a great
spring and a good year,” Collett
said.
Foxfire Golf and Country Club
reported that its business is
ahead of last year’s by 20
percent. Melvin Nelson, general
manager, said that he is looking
forward to a further increase in
business after Foxfire opens its
third nine holes of the golf course
in April.
At Whispering Pines Country
Club, William Shore said that
busiriess was ahead of last year.
Group meetings are running
about five percent above this
time in 1973, he said. “I don’t
think we will have any
problems,” Shore added, al
though he said it was dependent
upon the gasoline situation
remaining as it is or improving.
Shore said that development of
Lake Surf is progressing. The
lake is filled and much building is
underway.
Warren Bell of Pine Needles
Club said that business this
month is off about 15 percent,
(Continued on Page 7-A)
Tourism
Meet Set
Tuesday
A series of 11 “Tourism and the
Energy Crisis” meetings have
been announced by James E.
Harrington, Secretary of the
Department of Natural and
Economic Resources.
The first meeting was in
Waynesville. Representatives of
the State Division of Travel and
Promotion, local members of the
General Assembly, and persons
directly involved in the travel
business attended.
During the next two months,
other meetings will be in the
Boone - Blowing Rock area,
Winston-Salem, Greensboro,
Southern Pines, Raleigh,
(Continued on Page 7-A)
Trainer Given Fine
In Dog Killing Case
Jack Myrick of West End, Rt.
1, well known in the Sandhills as
a breeder and trainer of hunting
dogs, also as manager of the
Pinelake Shooting Preserve, was
convicted Thursday in Moore
District Court of failing to bury
domestic animals within 24 hours
after death, in violation of a
North Carolina public health law.
He was fined $100 and costs by
District Judge W.M. Lampley,
with a warning not to be
convicted of a similar offense
Hospital Addition Bids
Will be Opened in June
“Construction of the new
power pilant is on schedule, and
perhaps a little ahead of
schedule,” said Moore Memorial
administrator Crenshaw
Thompson in a talk given to the
Pinehurst Lion’s Club last week.
Thompson added that the bids
for the new 149-bed additions
would be opened in June.
“Hopefully, we have made ac
curate considerations for in
flation in our fund-raising ef
forts, and can begin construction
of the new wing without delay.”
Thompson presented color
slides of current hospital ac
tivities and gave some statistics
on health care delivery by Moore
Memorial. “You may be in
terested to know,” he said, “that
approximately half of our
THE
PILOT LIGHT
SHOWS THE WAY—This recently erected sign on Midland Road marks the road
by a lake to The Village Green, prize-winning condominium residential
development of the William P. Davises.
PROMOTION—A biU of much
interest to the Sandhills Area
Chamber of Commerce is the one
calling for an appropriation of
$300,000 to be aUocated among
chambers of commerce in North
Carolina for the promotion of
tourism.
Introduced by two mountain
Representatives, Ramsey and
Messer, the $300,000 would be
turned over to the Department of
Natural and Economic Re
sources to be distributed on a
matching doUar-for-dollar basis
for tourist promotional activ
ities. No grant would exceed
$25,000 to any one chamber.
The bill was referred to the
appropriations committee where
its fate depends upon how much
money is available under new
revenue estimates.
REGISTRATION - The dead
line for registration for voting in
the May 7 party primaries is 6:30
p.m. on Monday, April 8.
Registration at the Moore
County Board of Elections has
been light in recent weeks but is
expected to pick up in the
remaining time between now and
the deadline.
VICKERY - Young Charles
Vickery of Hillsborough, a )aw
partner of retiring State Senator
A.B. Coleman Jr., was in Moore
County last Thursday in behalf of
his candidacy for a State Senate
seat from the 16th District.
There are four candidates
from Orange County in the race,
one from Randolph and one from
Moore. Two candidates will be
chosen in the Democratic pri-
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SPRING IN SANDHILLS — Flowering trees and greening woods with golfers
caught in this special frame are part of the Sandhills Spring which comes this
week. Resort operators are looking for an upswing in tourist business with the
warming days.-(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Contract Awarded for Diorama
In Weymouth Woods Museum
within the next five years.
The case grew out of the
discovery in late January of what
appeared to be a canine
execution ground, in an isolated
wooded area between West End
and Carthage, where two young
boys out hunting found the
skeletal remains and rotting
carcasses of 42 dogs. All had
been tied to trees and killed with
one or two pistol shots to the
head.
(Continued on Page 12-A)
patients come from outside of
Moore (bounty. We are now, and
have been for some time, a
regional hospital.”
Among the statistics that
Thompson gave for the 1973
fiscal year were these:
Admissions: Over 10,000
patients were admitted to Moore
Memorial. This, according to
Thompson, required the delivery
of over 76,000 days of care for
inpatients.
Emergency Room: Over 26,000
patients were seen in the
emergency room. The ad
ministrator commented that
these patients were treated in the
three available treatment rooms,
and the new emergency room
facilities included in ^e ex-
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Lynch Associates of New
Jersey has been awarded the
design contract for Diorama
Exhibits at the Weymouth Woods
Sandhills Nature Preserve Mu
seum.
Letting of the contract for the
design was announced here
following the visit of Parks
Superintendent Thomas Ellis
Friday.
Money for the design will come
from part of a $65,000 appropri
ation by the 1973 Legislature.
Construction of the museum is
expected to take less than a year
to complete.
The Dioramas will be designed
under directives of Bryan J.
Taylor, Chief Parks Naturalist,
and H. Scott Bolin, Museums
Curator of the State Parks
Division of the Department of
Natural and Economic Resour
ces.
Purpose of the Museum Dio
ramas will be to portray an
interpretative representation of
the natural and historical conti
nuity within the ecological
boundaries of the Sandhills
region and to relate and depict
the story of the Sandhills.
Audio-visual equipment, photo
graphs, preserved and modeled
specimans, reproductions of
house-t^es, building types, hu
man figures and tools, and
background detail in painted and
raised relief will be used to tell
the story.
The design will utilize walls,
changes of level, changing light
and sound patterns, such as the
music of the times and natural
sounds, expected to provide a
dynamic and unlimited number
of views and experiences.
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Construction is Begun
On New Bank Building
A ground-breaking was held
Tuesday morning to open the
construction of a new North
Carolina National Bank building
at the corner of May Street and
Morganton Road.
James B. Gambrell Jr., vice
president and city executive,
said that NCNB has received
approval from the U.S. Comp
troller of the Currency to open an
office in Southern Pines.
The office here, which will
front on Morganton Road, will be
the main office for the Sandhills
area. The Pinehurst office on
Chinquapin Road will continue to
serve the bank’s Pinehurst
customers.
Construction will begin im
mediately, with completion
scheduled for Sept. 1.
The building will be a single
story, 3500 square feet facility,
with a large parking area and
two drive-in windows.
The office here will offer
full-service banking including
trust services.
((Continued on Page 7-A)
Near 2000 To Take Part Here
In Cerebral Palsy Walkathon
A Walkathon for the benefit of
Cerebral Palsy victims will be
staged here Saturday, March 23,
by the Southern Pines Elks
Lodge No. 1692.
Between 1500 and 2000 are
expected to take part in the
sponsored walk. Sponsors will
pay each walker various
amounts for each mile walked,
with all proceeds going to the
(^relx’al Palsy Fund.
The “Happiness Walk for
Cerebral Palsy” will get under
way with registration at 7:30 at
the Elks Club. The walk will
begin at 8 a.m. and will cover 30
miles over a planned route from
the Southern Pines Elks Qub to
Aberdeen, Pinehurst and return.
All funds go to United Cerebral
Asks Help
Police Chief Earl Seawell has
asked the public to help locate a
blue Maverick about four years
old that crashed into and
demolished a car Sunday around
3:10 a.m. and knocked down a
light pole.
He said the hit and run driver
of the car totalled a parked car
belonging to Alice Roseborough
parked at her residence at 150
North Leak St. and then headed
north on Leak. Damage was
estimated at $2,000 to the 1972
Mercury.
Any information furnished the
police will be held in confidence,
he said.
Palsy to support treatment and
training programs, education of
professional people to work with
the cerebral palsied and
research into causes and
prevention of this crippler.
(Cerebral Palsy is the nation’s
No. 1 child crippler with ap
proximately 25,000 babies bom
each year with this disease which
results from brain damage. In
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Diana Moon Is Presented
DAR Good Citizen Award
Miss Diana Moon of Aberdeen
was awarded the N.C. Good
Citizen Award at the annual state
convention of the Daughters of
the American Revolution in
Wilmington last week.
She had been chosen District
winner from the Alfred Moore
Chapter over 45 girls earlier and
now will compete for the DAR
CSiampionship whose winner will
receive a $1,000 scholarship.
The DAR also presented its
DAR medal of honor for the first
time in the state to Editor-
Publisher Sam Ragan of The
Pilot, expressing their “profound
gratitude to a man who has
helped this state walk proud,
secure and determined in its
efforts to build a better nation.”
Ragan addressed the group
Tuesday night.
Miss Moon is the first can
didate from Moore County to win
the State award.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lynwood Moon of Aberdeen
and is an honor student at
Pinecrest High School, where she
is a senior.
Miss Sadie Diane Goldston and
Miss Moon both received District
7 Good Citizenship awards from
the DAR’s Alfred Moore
Chapter, whose chairman is Mrs.
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Diana Moon