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Index
Book page, 2-B; Churches, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 7-8-9-10-11-C; Dear
Abby, 8-B; Deaths, 11-A; Editorials,
1-B; Entertainment, 10-A; Pinehurst
News, 1-2-C; Social News, 1-2-3-4-A;
Sports, 8-A.
LOT
The Governor
and Mrs. Holshouser will host the
annual N.C. Symphony Ball Saturday
night at the Country Club of North
Carolina. Springtime in the Sandhills
will be brought inside for the formal
affair.
Vol. 54-No. 25
40 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, April 24, 1974
40 Pages
Price 10 Cents
M
Loan Rates Up By 1% ;
Demand Continues High
HALL OF FAME—The $2.5 million World Golf Hall of Fame is fast rising just off
The Circle at Pinehurst, and Photographer Robert Puckett caught this con
struction scene this week. The Hall is scheduled to be ready for the first in
ductions in September.
Board Prepares for Elections
With 18,055 Eligible Voters
With a new set of precinct
election officials, the Moore
County Board of Elections made
preparations this week for the
May 7 Primary.
A total of 18,055 persons are
registered to vote, but
registration books are now
Scout Leader Found Dead
Near High Falls Campout
*
A Cub Scout leader on a
weekend campout with his
Webelo Scouts was found dead
Saturday morning in his sleeping
bag by his 10-year-old son, in the
lean-to the boy and his dad had
Bishop to Speak
On Sunday, April 28, the West
End United Methodist Church
will be host to Bishop and Mrs.
Robert M. Blackburn of the
North Carolina Methodist
Conference in observance of
Homecoming Day.
This date also marks the 60th
anniversary of the founding of
the local church. Dr. Blackburn
will preach at the 11 o’clock
worship service and friends of
the congregation are extended an
invitation to come and share
what promises to be a red letter
day in West End Methodism.
Following the service a picnic
dinner will be served on the
church grounds.
built together the afternoon
before.
John William Spears, 31, of
Carthage, Rt. 3, died in his sleep
of a massive heart attack, ac
cording to Coroner A.B. Parker,
who set the time of death at
between 12:30 and 1:30 a.m. He
said Spears had no previous
history of heart trouble.
Spears was one of five adults
on the campout with 10 Webelo
Scouts, boys 10 and 11 years of
age just emerging from Cub
Scouting, and preparing to enter
the Boy Scouting program. It
was their first campout.
Members of Cub Pack No. 811,
sponsored by the Church of Wide
Fellowship of Southern Pines,
they were joined by several Boy
Scouts of Troop No. 811, when
they arrived at the campsite, on
a bend of Deep River in a wooded
area about five miles north of
High Falls.
They pitched in together to
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
closed for the Primary.
In order to acquaint registrars
and judges with election laws
and procedures the Board of
Elections is holding a seminar at
the courthouse in Carthage
Thursday night at 7:30, with H.
R. Tiu-nbuU of the Institute of
Government in Chapel Hill
present to make the ex
planations.
Mrs. Daisy Riddle, excutive
secretary of the board, said this
week that the total of 18,055
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Jaycees
Form Unit
At Prison
A charter was presented and
officers installed Tuesday night
for the newest Jaycee chapter in
Moore County.
It’s an institutional chapter
sponsored by the Southern Pines
Jaycees at the Carthage unit of
the State Department of Correct
ions—Camp No. 0430.
There are 36 members of the
chapter, almost one-third of the
men housed at the Carthage
corrections unit.
Speaker for the occasion
Tuesday night was James Hast
ings, State president of the
Jaycees. Others on the program
included John Campbell, state
coordinator for institutional
chapters, and the mayor of
Carthage.
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Candidates
Give Talks
At Meeting
Nearly two dozen candidates
and spokesmen for candidates
got a chance to make statements
to a select group of doctors,
lawyers and dentists at the
Country Qub of North Carolina
last week.
The meeting which was
unannounced publicly was
initiated by the Moore County
Medical Society. About 150
persons were present.
Two candidates for the U.S.
Senate - Republican William E.
Stevens of I^noir and Democrat
Troy Johnson of Wilmington-
were present to speak on their
own behalf. Ajuenifeer of the
staff of Nick Galifianakis spoke
Tor her candidate, and Mrs.
Robert Morgan and Mrs. Fred
Chandley spoke on behalf of their
husbanc^, who are candidates
for the Democratic nomination
but who were luiable to attend
because of previous com
mitments at other places.
Bill Heffner, the Democratic
candidate for Congress from the
Eighth District, attended but had
to leave before he had a chance
to speak because of a com
mitment in Rockingham.
All of the candidates for the
State Senate were present. They
were Democrats Joe Monroe,
Russell Walker, Dr. Benjamin
Swalin, Carl Smith, Dewey
Lambert and Charles Vickery,
and Republicans “Tam” de St.
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Music Fete
On Friday;
Award Set
Choruses from three Moore
County high schools will be heard
Friday night at the annual
Picquet Music Festival, at which
the Junior Builders Cup will also
be presented by the Sandhills
Kiwanis Qub.
The festival will be held in the
Cardinal Ball Room of the
Pinehurst Hotel, beginning at 8
p.m.
Five students have been
nominated for the Junior
Builders Cup. They are James
Andrew Belle and Nicholas
Josei^i Picemo of Union Pines
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Shrine Parade
Is Scheduled
For Saturday
On Saturday of this week Oasis
Shrine Temple of Charlotte, in
conjunction with Moore County
Shrine Club, will hold a Parade
and Ceremonial in Southern
Pines.
It is expected that there will be
several hundred Shriners from
all sections of North Carolina
here for the Ceremonial.
Oasis Temple is led by William
L. Isenhour, Jr., the Potentate
for the year 1974. Mr. Isenhour
will bring with him the following
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WRECK AT VASS — This is the scene at Vass following the collision of two
tractor-trailer trucks at the intersection of US 1 and Main Street. Damage to the
trucks was placed at $45,000. The two drivers were only slightly injured,
however.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Trucks Wreck At Vass Crossing
Causing Damages of $45,000
A collision of two tractor-
trailer trucks at the intersec
tion of U.S. Highway 1 and Main
St. in Vass Thursday caused
damage estimated at $45,000 and
sent the drivers of both vehicles
to Moore Memorial Hospital for
treatment of minor injuries.
One truck, driven by Roger C.
Pinyan of Cleveland, Ohio, and
loaded with crushed glass, was
headed north on U.S. 1. As it
approached the intersection,
Pinyan attempted to slow down
behind three cars, the first one of
which was halted preparatory to
making a left turn off the
highway and onto Union Church
Road.
The brakes on Pinyan’s truck
locked, causing the vehicle to
jacknife. It skidded across the
southbound lane and into the
Schools
Spending
Is Given
Moore County public schools
spent a total of $7,471,730.71
toward the education of the
average daily attendance of 8,952
students, the State Department
of Public Instruction says,
during the school year ’72-’73.
Of this amount, $4,737,755.92
was in state funds; $1,172,493.79
federal funds; and $1,561,481
local funds.
Instructional services cost the
largest amount, $4,848,535, the
report said.
A total of $834.64 per pupil was
spent in Moore.
North Carolina’s public schools
cost the State a total of
$844,274,831.59 in current expend
itures during the 1972-73 school
year.
Current expenditures are all
expenses incurred by a school
unit except those for repayment
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path of a southbound truck
driven by Wayne E. Frye of Vass
and loaded with wood chins. The
resulting impact virtually des
troyed the vehicles.
Pinyan was cited for driving
with inadequate brakes. Both
drivers were released from the
hospital after treatment.
(Continued ori Page 12-A)
Mystery Ball No Mystery
According To Local Man
The 1974 General Assembly
removed the 8 percent ceiling on
home loans, but mortgage rates
have increased only from one-
half to one percent in the
Sandhills area.
Under the law there is now no
ceiling on home loans, the law
going into effect on April 3 and
scheduled to expire on June 30,
1975.
There is a general feeling that
the new home loan rate will settle
around 9 percent.
The demand for loans contin
ues high here, but more money
has become available for home
mortgages, although there is
some uncertainty about availab
ility in the face of inflation and
the record-high climb of prime
interest rates with all of the
nation’s banks.
W.E. Samuels of First Federal
Savings and Loan of Moore said
this week that his association is
making home loans at 9 percent
now and “We are able to handle
most of the loan demand.”
He went on to say that “The
buying public has not been
slowed down because of interest
rates.”
As for deposits, Samuels says
there was some slowdown in
savings during April.
Aberdeen Savings and Loan
Association expects its next
home loans will be at 9 percent.
Bill Womble of First Federal
Savings and Loan of Sanford said
they are making home loans at
8.5 percent on 80 percent or less,
and 8.75 percent on uninsured
loans. He said the demand “is
greater than we can take care of
right now.”
Womble said that with the
great growth in the Sandhills and
the potential growth he does not
anticipate any lessening of
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As far as W.C. Tinus is con
cerned there is no mystery at all
to the “Mystery Bsdl” found a
few days ago in Florida and
examined at length this past
weekend in New Orleans by five
science professors.
“I can tell you where it was
made and how it probably came
to be in Florida,” Tinus said.
UntU a year ago when he
retired and moved to his new
home on Pine Lake Drive in
Whispering Pines, Tinus was an
engineer with Bell Telephone o . J
Laboratories, engaged in radar ^3.tlirCl3.V
development work at Whippany, J
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Fair, Show
By HUSOM
Mrs. Holshouser Keynotes
Girl Scout Meeting Here
Mrs. James E. Holshouser Jr.,
North Carolina’s First Lady, will
be keynote speaker on “The Role
of the Volunteer” at a meeting
Thursday of some 300 delegates
and visitors to the Pines of
Carolina Girl Scout CouncU - and
during her speech. Gov.
Holdup
An armed bandit held up the
night clerk at Holly Inn in
Pinehurst about 3:30 a.m. Sun
day and escaped with an
estimated $1,600 in cash, police
said.
Clerk Joseph Brien was on
duty behind the desk when the
bandit, wearing a kerchief over
his face and displaying a hand
gun, entered the lobby. He tied
and gagged the clerk, then
scooped up money from the cash
drawer and departed, Brien said.
Brien was able to release
himself quickly and sounded the
alarm; but no trace of the culprit
was found, according to Pine
hurst Police Chief James Wise.
Holshouser is expected to an
nounce that she has been ap
pointed Chairman of a Com
mission on “The Role of the
Volunteer in North (Carolina.”
The meeting, to be held in The
Pinehurst Hotel, is the first ever
to be held outside the Raleigh
area. The Council comprises 20
counties.
Mrs. Holshouser’s speech is
slated for 1:30 p.m. Her
husband’s announcement is
expected at 2 p.m. in Raleigh.
Mrs. Holshouser is also one of
the nominees for the Pines of
Carolina Board of Directors. As
wife of the Governor and as a
proponent of volunteerism, she
has special interest in mental
health and church volunteer
work. Pat and husband, Jim,
have a Girl Scout daughter,
Ginny, age 10.
Also nominees for the three
year term of 1974-1977 are Mrs.
William R. Bonsai, III, Mr. P.
Wayne Robbins, and Mrs. Martin
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The Country Fair and Pet
Show sponsored by the Humane
Society of Moore County will be
held at Sandhills Community
College Saturday, April 27, from
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
A full day of a variety of en
tertainment is scheduled.
Preceeding the Fair a parade
will be staged in Pinehurst and
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Employes
Get Raise
From Town
The Southern Pines town
council covered a lot of ground in
a short time, in a special session
held at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, one
major step being approval of
recommendations of Town Man
ager Lew Brown for an im
mediate 5 percent cost-of-living
pay increase for town employes,
along with revisions and up
dating of the town pay plan for
more equitable compensation all
along the line.
They also approved a pay
range for the. town recreation
director, a new full-time job
since the pay plan was adopted
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POSTERS — Southern Pines
has an ordinance against posters
but some candidates have been
V putting them up anyway, nailing
them not only to telephone and
light poles but to trees.
Police Chief Earl Sea well said,
however, that “We’ve been
tearing them down almost as fast
as they are put up.”
He said that he had warned at
least one candidate about the
ordinance, and said he hoped
others will abide by it.
' HOLSHOUSER — Governor
James Holshouser is resuming
his “People’s Day” program,
with a session scheduled at
Fayetteville on Tuesday, April
30, in the Cumberland County
courthouse.
The Governor will be available
to any citizen from 10 a.m. to
noon and from 1 to 4 p.m.
Interviews are limited to five
minutes, and people will be given
numbers as they arrive. When
their number is called they can
go in and see the Governor in
private.
This is the first “People’s
Day” in the Fayetteville area.
Others have been held in various
parts of the state.
CAMPAIGN — In the last two
weeks of the campaign before the
Tuesday, May 7, primary elec
tions, the candidates in several
races are hoping to strike some
sparks and dispel a noticeable
voter apathy.
This is especially true in the
race for the Democratic nomina
tion for the U.S. Senate. Front
runners such as Bob Morgan,
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Deep River Park Now Dead Issue;
Forests Gone on Adjacent Lands
BY HOWARD S. MUSE JR.
No one would claim that the
Deep River valley in northern
Moore County has the grandeur
of Yosemite, the splendor of
Yellowstone, or the misty allure
of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Yet, there is the House in the
Horseshoe, broad pastures, deep
woods, and five miles of winding
river that was a thoroughfare for
the Indians and the avenue along
which the first settlers located in
Moore County.
It is no wonder that when the
-North Carolina Division of State
Parks cast about for a park site
in the Sandhills region, it settled
on this 5,000 plus acre site,
announcing its choice in Decern -
ber, 1972, at a meeting of the
Sandhills Chamber of Com
merce, and assigning the area
top priority for acquisition.
State Parks Superintendent
Thomas C. Ellis called it a “first
class site.” Division Landscape
Architect Allan R. Eakes des
cribed the river front as “quite
scenic and in a pretty natural
state.” The park would be large
enough, he believed, to encom
pass boating, fishing, hiking,
camping, picnicking, and nature
trails, and still leave most of the
land in its natural state.
It had almost become a cliche
that North Carolina needed more
state parks—1970 statistics
showed the state to rank 36th in
total acres devoted to state
parks, 46th in per capita park
expenditures, last in acreage per
capita, and last in money spent
on land acquisition. Practically
all of North Carolina’s state
parks have been acquired by
donation, but acquisition by this
means has all but ceased. Last
year, however, the Legislature
appropriated $11.5 million for the
purchase of park land. The
prospects for a Deep River State
Park could hardly have been
brighter.
Historic Country
The Deep River Bend is
historic country. The first white
settlers in Moore County, John
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CUT-OVER LAND — This is a scene in northern
Moore County where large areas near the proposed
State Park have been cut-over and stripped of nearly
all trees. —(Photo by Howard S. Muse).