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High temperature in the Sandhills for
the past week was 96 degrees on
Tuesday. It was 93 on Monday. Low was
63 degrees Sunday. Rainfall was 1.06
inches, .91 inches on Thursday and .15
inches on Monday. Outlook is for partly
cloudy, with 30 percent chance ot rain
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IPILOT
Index
Books, 2-B; Church calendar, 3-B;
Classified, 12-15-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 10-C; Obituaries, 9-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Society, 1-4-A;
Sports, 10-11-A.
Vol. 54-No. 32
40 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, June 12, 1974
40 Pages
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Stormy Session Produces
New Duncraig Ouster Date
POPULAR PASTIME — Golf may be a prime passion in the Sandhills but water
sports are becoming more and more popular in the summer. Here’s a sailing
scene on Whispering Pines’ Spring Valley Lake. — (Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
13 Men, Women Are Chosen
For Golf’s Hall of Fame
Two women and 11 men golfers
have been chosen by the Golf
Writers of America for induction
into the World Golf Hall of Fame
here when it opens on Wednes
day, September 11, President
Donald C. Collett announced
today.
Those elected are Patty Berg,
Walter Hagen, Ben Hogan,
Robert T. Jones, Jr., Byron
Nelson, Francis D. Ouimet, Jack
Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary
Player, Sam Snead, Gene Sara-
zen, Harry Vardon, and Mildred
“Babe” Zaharias.
Richard S. Taylor of Southern
Pines, secretary of the Golf
New Water Taps Halted
In Area by Town Council
Information that the fast-grow
ing residential area south of
Southern Pines is about to
outstrip its water supply im
pelled the Town Council Tuesday
night to put a stop to new water
taps in that area, except for new
homes already under construc
tion, until plans are completed
for improvement and expansion
of the distribution system there.
Developers of the already
established Highland Trails and
Sandhurst subdivisions and the
projected new James Creek
subdivision, concentrated along
East Indiana Ave. Extension
near the Fort Bragg Road
intersection, about a mile and a
half south of town, will have to
work with the town manager and
water engineers" in a coopera
tive plan, in which they will
share costs.
Under various options laid out
by Town Manager Lew G. Brown
under the ordinance, the Town
can participate financially in a
project of this size, and may be
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Six Horses Are Killed
By Swamp Fever Disease
Swamp fever has killed about
six horses in Moore County this
spring out of some 40 that have
died over the state, a local
veterinarian confirmed this
week.
He agreed with the observa
tion of Dr. Thomas F. Zwei-
gart. North Carolina state
veterinarian, that the infestation
in Moore County is no worse than
the statewide average. The large
number of horses in the county
naturally resulted in more
instances of the disease here.
Swamp fever is more correctly
called equine infectious anemia
(EIA), and is carried to horses
by mosquitoes. There is no cure
for it, but it is not necessarily
fatal, the veterinarian explained.
What it may do is make the
infected horse so anemic that it
succumbs to some other disease,
(Continued on Page 11-A)
NEV: BUILDING — Steel was going up this week for
the new building for Winn-Dixie in the Town and
Country Shopping Center. Several other new buildings
are planned for the center.-(Photo by Glenn M.
Sides).
Writers Association of America,
in reporting the outcome of the
ballots of more than 200
American and foreign writers,
noted the writers showed an
exceptional interest in the
voting, which required a player
to be named on 75 percent of the
votes cast in order to be elected.
Taylor, who is editor of Golf
World, said many writers ac
knowledged the difficulty of
having to limit their selections on
this first ballot which was made
up of golf immortals through the
ages.
It is believed that all eight
living inductees will be present
for the dedication of the new
multi-million dollar shrine now
nearing completion near the
traffic circle off Midland Road,
overlooking the fourth green of
(Continued on Page 12-A)'
McCutcheon
Is Leaving
For New Job
Joseph B. McCutcheon, presi
dent of the Sandhills Area
Chamber of Conunerce, has
accepted a position in Richmond,
Va., and will submit his
resignation to the chamber board
of directors on Thursday.
McCutcheon, who is a practic
ing accountant here and former
treasurer of Pinehurst, Inc., will
become treasurer of the Chester
field Land Corporation in Ches
terfield County, Virginia, and
plans to begin his new duties next
Monday.
“I hate to leave the Sandhills
but this was too good an oppor
tunity to pass up,” McCutcheon
said.
John Bigbee, president-elect,
is expected to be named as
president of the Chamber of
Commerce to succeed Mc
Cutcheon.
McCutcheon said his wife and
family will continue to live here
for the next year. One son is a
rising senior at Pinecrest High
School and another is scheduled
to graduate from Sandhills
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Vass Rate Up
The tax rate in Vass will be
increased by 16 cents per $100 of
valuation in the coming year,
under terms of the 1974-75 town
budget presented at a meeting of
the Town CouncU Monday night.
The new rate will be $1.00 per
$100 of full valuation. The old
rate was $1.40 per $100 based on
60 percent of vfduation - which is
equivalent to 84 cents per $100 of
full valuation.
Seniors Fair
The Moore County Senior
Citizens Spring Fair will be held
Saturday, June 15, at the
Southern Pines Armory from
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A variety of crafts, art works,
baked goods, flowers and plants
will be on e^ibit and for sale.
John C. Frye, Moore County
Senior Citizens coordinator, said
that consignments of articles for
sale will be accepted for display
Friday from 4 to 8 p.m., and
again at 8 a.m. Saturday.
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
The Southern Pines town
cbuncil in special meeting
Thursday voted unanimously to
extend the deadline for the
closing of the Children’s Treat
ment Center at Duncraig Manor
to August 27.
Their vote included acceptance
of a written commitment secured
from Dr. Eugene Douglas,
regional director of the State
program under which the Center
operates, that it would be
relocated and the seven children
residing there removed on or
before that date.
However, the unanimous vote
of the four councilmen present
was achieved only after a stormy
two-hour session which included
accusations of one councilman,
C.A. McLaughlin, of a “secret
meeting illegally held” by the
others; apologies from those
accused (Mayor Earl Hubbard,
E.J. Austin and A. Reynold
Tucker), with pleas; that “we
look to the future and not to the
past”; a surprise tie vote which
could have thrown the town into
court action to enforce its zoning
ordinance; and appeals from
several of the citizen groups who
had turned out for the early-
morning meeting that an accord
be reached, “for the good of our
town.”
The “secret meeting” as
described by McLaughlin, in the
course of reading a five-page
prepared statement, had, it
came out, been a lunch date of
the previous Friday, initiated not
by Mayor Hubbard as McLaugh
lin stated, but by James Van
Camp, attorney for the Center
and for Mrs. Connie Baker,
owner and lessor of Duncraig
Manor, to follow up exploratory
talks he had begun with town
attorney W. Lamont Brown,
seeking a compromise which,
hopefully, might find acceptance
by both sides.
Van Camp included Hubbard
in the conference, notifying him
shortly before it was to be held,
and the mayor, who first had to
attend his own Rotary Club
meeting, asked that Austin and
Tucker be present also, since at
the May 22 special meeting,
called to consider a time
extension (from May 30), they
had indicated they would favor
(Continued on Page 12-A)
NC Groups
To Resist
Removal
Two statewide organizations,
meeting in recent days, have
voted to resist the removal of the
children from Duncraig Manor,
as ordered by the Town Council
of Southern Pines.
Meanwhile, a hearing has been
scheduled in federal court in
session at Durham on Thursday,
June 20, for the civil action filed
in which the owner of Duncraig
Manor, Mrs. Constance Baker,
contends that the Children’s
Treatment Center does not
violate the town’s zoning ordi
nances.
At a special called meeting on
Friday in the office of Attorney
General Robert Morgan, the
board of directors of the North-
Carolina Association for Emo
tionally Troubled Children unan
imously passed the following
resolution: .
“Be it resolved that the Board
of Directors for Emotionally
Troubled Children commits itseft
to supporting Duncraig Manor
and the community of Southern
Pines in keeping these children
(Continued on Page U-A)
Pinebluff
Tax Rate
Unchanged
Pinebluff’s general tax levy
will remain unchanged for the
coming year if the tentative
budget adopted last Thursday
night by the Town Council
becomes final.
The tax rate will be 96 cents
per $100 of valuation, with all
property assessed at 100 per
cent. This will produce the same
return as the former tax rate of
$1.60 per $100, based on 60 per
cent of valuation.
Public hearing on the proposed
budget will be held June 24.
The Council also approved a
$15,679 revenue sharing budget.
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Morgan to Make Address
At Fourth in Aberdeen
The Aberdeen July Fourth
Celebration Committee met last
week and mapped plans for the
community’s 10th annual In
dependence Day Celebration.
A parade beginning at 10:30
a.m. will mark the beginning of
the day long celebration.
After the parade will come the
formal speaking program at
11:30 with Attorney General
Robert Morgan heading the list
of speakers. Congressman Earl
Ruth has also been invited.
The afternoon will feature a
Hollerin’ Contest and those in
terested in entering are
requested to notify General
Chairman H. Clifton Blue. Prizes
will be given.
There will also be the greasy
pole with the money on top, an
old time fiddlers convention and
group singing. All are welcome
to enter.
At 8 p.m. in the evening the
Jaycees Beauty pageant will get
underway at the Aberdeen
Middle School auditorium.
Fireworks at 10 p.m. over the
Aberdeen Lake will bring the
Independence Day celebration to
a close.
The Pinecrest High School
band will participate in the
parade as will the Morrison
Training School Drill Team, and
(Continued on Page 12-A)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
..CARSON - The man who is
getting the appointment had told
everybody about it several
months ago but on Monday
Governor Holshouser made it
official - he’s going to appoint
James H. Carson Jr., 39, of
Charlotte to the office of
Attorney General when Robert
Morgan resigns in September.
The Governor announced the
decision in Raleigh and said he
has written all members of the
State Republican Executive
Committee and asked that
Carson be chosen as the nominee
for the office.
Carson, a former legislator
and now a judge on the N. C.
Court of Appeals, has said he will
resign from the court in order to
devote full time to his campaign.
In fact, he told a reporter last
week that though he will go
into the Attorney General’s office
by appointment he doesn’t
expect to do much there during
the fall campaign.
Governor Holshouser said that
in order to present a united party
front he had conferred wift
Senator Jesse Helms, Congress
men James Broyhill, Earl Ruth,
Wilmer Mizell and James Martin
before making public his choice.
DEMOCRATS - Meanwhile, at
least a dozen Democrats have let
it be known that they would like
to succeed Morgan as Attorney
General, and most of them are
busy going about the state
shaking hands and writing
letters to Democrats they think
will be elected to the State
Executive Committee.
(Continued on Page 12-A)
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^ Richard Lee Johnson, 28, chef at the Pinehurst Hotel, was
feilled in this collision on U.S. 15-501. Johnson was riding in this crumpled
Volkswagen and his body had to be cut out of the wreckage.-(Photo by Glenn M
Sides).
Looking at Wife’s Picture Led
To His Death on Highway Here
A 28-year-old Lee County man,
driving home Thursday from his
work at Pinehurst, became
Moore County’s third highway
fatality of the year Thursday
afternoon, when he was killed in
a colUsion near Carthage.
State Trooper C.A. Todd said
Richard Lee Johnson, of Carr
Creek, on Sanford, Rt. 7, a chef at
the Pinehurst Hotel, crossed the
center line and hit an approach
ing car on US 15-501, alraut six
miles north of Carthage.
Paul Douglas Hylton, 25, of Mt.
Driver Dies
When Truck
Overturns
James T. Capel, 30, of Eagle
Springs was killed Tuesday
morning when the logging truck
he was driving overturned,
pinning him beneath the load.
The truck was traveling east
on highway 73 approaching U. S.
Highways 15-501 at Eastwood
when its brakes apparently
failed, according to State High
way Patrolman Tommy Clark.
The vehicle went through the
stop sign at the intersection,
crossed the road and overturned.
It took nearly two hours’ work to
remove his body from the
wreckage, Clark said.
The fatal accident was also
investigated by Moore County
Coroner A. B. Parker.
Coroner Parker said Capel
died instantly of massive head
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Gilead, Rt. 3, driver of the other
car, told Todd he came over the
crest of a hill near the RPR 1663
intersection to see Johnson’s 1970
Volkswagen “drift” toward him
across the line and, though he
tried to avoid the impact, he
could not do so and they hit
nearly head-on.
He said the VW appeared to try
to swerve out of the way at the
last second, but it was too late.
Knocked 13 feet, it flipped over
and landed upright, wi^ Johnson
pinned inside. It took the
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Property Tax Brings In
Under Half of Revenue
So you think the general tax
levy provides the money used to
run Southern Pines government
and services.
You’re wrong.
That levy provides less than
half the $1,068,961 estimated to be
needed for town purposes in the
1974-75 fiscal year. The rest
comes from 29 other sources, a
study of the town’s preliminary
budget discloses.
It’s all spelled out on page 5 of
the reconmiended budget, pre
pared by Town Manager Lew G.
Brown and now open to public
inspection. Public hearing on the
budget will be held after June 20
and before June 30, with the
Town Council expected to adopt
the budget by July 1.
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Bike Limits Ordinance
Approved In Aberdeen
Use of motorbikes motor
cycles, trail bikes or minibikes is
prohibited “on or upon the Town
of Aberdeen property or public
parks within the Town limits,”
under terms of an ordinance
adopted Monday night by
Aberdeen Board of Com
missioners.
The town’s existing concrete
street markers are going to
receive baked enamel name
panels, the Commissioners
decided. Cost will be $1.33 per
panel. Commissioner A1 Cruce
was authorized to spend up to
$2,000 for this purpose, and to
report back to the Iward if more
than that sum is needed.
Carolina Power & Light
Company was authorized to
install 16 street lights from the
intersection of U. S. Highway 1
and Highway 5, at the stop light,
south to the city limits. The cost
wiR be $76 per month.
Acting on complaints of
several householders about
muddy water, the Board
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DRIVER KILLED —The driver of a loaded log truck, James T. Capel of Candor,
was killed Tuesday morning when the truck overturned at the intersection of
Highway 73 and US 15-501. It took two hours to remove the body from the
wreckage. Coroner A.B. Parker is shown above at the scene of the fatality.-
(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).