Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified, 12-15-A; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 6-7-A; Obituaries, 8-A;
Pinehurst News, 9-ltt-A; Social News,
2-3-A; and Sports, 11-A.
LOT
Weather
Hot and hazy weather is expected to
coptinue through Thursday, with an
expected high of 93 and a 30 percent
chance of afternoon and evening
thundershowers. High this week was 93
Tuesday. An inch of rain was recorded
during the week.
Vol. 54-No. 43
32 Pages
Sonthem Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, August 28, 1974
32 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Federal Sait
On Duncraig
Is Withdrawn
A suit against the Town of
Southern Pines by Mrs. Con
stance M. Baker appealing
zoning laws which would oust
children at Duncraig Manor,
treatment center for the
emotionally disturbed, was with
drawn in U. S. District Court in
Greensboro Monday Mrs.
Baker’s attorney, James Van
Camp, reported.
Papers to that effect were
signed by Van Camp and Special
Counsel for the Town, W. B.
Sabiston of Carthage.
Mrs. Baker will request that
she become a party to the
dependents in another suit to be
brought by the Town against
Southeastern Mental Health
Center, operator of the Duncraig
Manor Center. This suit will be in
Moore County Superior Court.
“We are glad that the Town
has brought this matter into the
State courts. It is time it be tried
on its merits,” Van Camp said.
“We are very happy with the
merits of our position.”
He said three state
organizations who have retained
Wake Representative Howard
Twiggs as their lawyer are ex
pected to ask permission to
defend the Duncraig position.
Dismissal of Mrs. Baker’s suit
will mean further consultation by
Town Attorney W. Lament
Brown and Counsel for the Town
W. B. Sabiston of Carthage,
Brown said yesterday. He
planned a conference with
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Samarkand
Troubles
Continue
Troubles at Samarkand Manor
continued as Director J.F.
Leathers of the Girls’ Ck)rrec-
tional School took out warrants
for four youths charging them
with aiding and abetting in the
escape of three girls.
Being held also on littering
charges in Montgomery County,
the four are Melvin Ellerbee, 22,
of Hamlet, Rt. 1; Russell James
Anderson, 22, Hamlet; Charles
Eugene Copeland, 16, Eagle
Springs; and Eugene Lynn
Brown, 17, of Rockingham, Rt. 2.
One of the girls involved is
Debra Anne Cooke, 16. The other
two are juveniles.
The warrants were drawn by
Magistrate J.H. Allen and trial,
on aiding escape charges will be
in Moore County. All four
charged are black. Two of the
escapees are white and one is
Indian.
Meanwhile, Bobby H. Moore of
Candor has been found guilty in
Montgomery County by Judge
Thomas Seay Jr. of assault with
a deadly weapon and sentenced
to five to ten years in prison in a
jury trial growing out of the
shooting of Patricia Diane
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Opening Set
For Schools;
Cost Is Up
25,000 MILES A WEEK — Moore County’s 121 school
buses will be on the roads tomorrow transporting
about 7,000 children over routes totaling 25,000 miles
each week. The fleet of buses, shown at school
headquarters at Carthage, were turned over to drivers
yesterday and today.—(Photo by Alvin Davis).
They Roll 25,000 Miles Each Week
Homebound Service Set
By Library For Moore
A “Homebound Service” for
senior citizens has been an
nounced by the Sandhills Re
gional Library System, which
services the counties of Moore,
Montgomery, Anson and Rich
mond.
The project is in cooperation
with the Pee Dee Council of
Governments (Region H)
through funds provided by Title
III of the Older Americans Act.
On August 19, Mrs. Foye Lowe
Ray of Wadesboro, joined the
System staff to implement the
program under the general
supervision of Mrs. Diana Tope,
Regional Library Coordinator.
The program is intended to
reach as many of the 3,790 people
in Region H, 60 years or over who
are not able to avail themselves
of library services because of
lack of transportation or who are
physically unable to get out of
their places of residence.
Mrs. Ray will visit these
homebound persons and offer
them the standard public library
services including borrowing of
books and materials, reference
service and adult programming.
Mrs. Ray said she would
greatly appreciate the help of the
people in the counties in locating
these homebound persons. If you
know of someone in the age
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School bus routes this year will
be basically the same as last
year, it was reported this week
as the 121 buses of the Moore
County fleet were turned over to
drivers for their first runs
Thursday.
Approximately 7,000 Moore
County children will ride the
buses this year. Gene Riddlle,
assistant superintendent, saiid.
The buses will travel aboout
25,000 miles a week. A majoriity
of the bus drivers are studenlts,
but about 30 percent are adullts.
“We hope Uiat everybody will
become conscious of the big
buses again being on the roads
and will watch out for them,”
Riddle said. “Moore County has
a good safety record witti its
school buses and we want to keep
it that way,” he added.
Even though a new State law.
passed at the last session of the
Legislature, requires that every
student riding a bus shall have a
seat there will still be some
students who will have to stand.
because funds have not been
provided for the extra buses
needed to meet the law
requirements.
'The maximum number a bus
Hall of Fame Resolution
Labor Day
Moore County, with the ex
ception of some department
stores and grocery stores, will
close up Monday to celebrate
Labor Day.
The Post Office, Municipal
offices. County Offices, and
banks will all be closed.
The Pilot will also close for the
day. News and ads may be
dropped in the slot in the front
door.
Special sales will be held
■a number of stores.
A resolution commending
Pinehurst and calling attention
to the dedication of the World
Golf Hall of Fame has been
adopted by the Moore (tounty
commissioners. It was as
follows:
“The Chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners would
like to commend the Diamon-
dhead Corporation and the
Pinehurst (immunity for the
outstanding success it is enjoying
in Moore County. The (tounty
Commissioners would like to
thank the officers and directors
of the World Golf Hall of Fame
for locating in Pinehurst.
“We look forward to the First
Annual Enshrinement
Ceremonies on September 11 at
the World Ctolf Hall of Fame.
Such a national event including a
commemorative stamp is indeed
an asset to the County of Moore.
We would like to ask the Citizens
of Moore County to join in whole
hearted support of this festive
occasion making all visitors to
Moore County feel more than
welcome.
“To the outstanding officers,
directors and honorees of the
World Golf Hall of Fame, we look
forward to a long association
through an ever increasingly
successful museum.”
Retail Sales in Moore
At $107 Million Point
at
Many Free Clinics in Moore
But Often People Don’t Come
Gross retail sales of
$107,325,671 for the fiscal year
1973-74 has been reported by
Secretary J. Howard Coble of the
State Department of Revenue.
The total three percent sales
tax collected in Moore for the
year ending June 30 was
$2,519,033.61. This does not in
clude the Moore County one
percent sales tax.
Southern Pines retail sales
were reported as totaling
$26,338,473, with State sales tax
collection of $646,792.98.
Food sales made up the largest
volume in Moore County, with a
total of $38,518,434 reported.
Automotive retail sales
amounted to $16,186,667, and the
two percent tax levy applying to
auto, planes and boat sdes of
$9,0%,494. General merchandise
with total sales of $15,227,254 and
unclassified with $15,230,139
were the next largest group.
Apparel accounted for
$3,438,461 in retail sales and
furniture totals were $3,262,342.
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can carry is 65 passengers, but
Riddle said that seating capacity
is only 48 to 54-which means that
from 10 to 15 students must
stand.
The State has said that Moore
is entitled to six additional buses.
Under the law the county must
first buy the buses, but after that
the cost of replacing them is
borne by the State. Moore school
officials plan to submit budget
requests for three more buses
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Street Work
South West Broad St. was
partly closed to the public the
first of the week, as State High
way Department resurfaced the
portion from Massachusetts
Avenue to Morganton Road.
The Broad Street project cost
$12,000, and an additional
resurfacing on Morganton from
the intersection with Broad to the
Town limits was completed
yesterday at a cost of $8700,
Information officer Greg Allen of
the Highway Commission said.
Lee Paving Company had
received the contract for paving
the street, designated as
Secondary Road No. 2035.
Money for the project came
from maintainence funds out of
Carthage, Bill Rosser, District
Engineer, said Tuesday.
Tourism
Has Moore
In Top Ten
Moore County is one of the 10
counties in which $550 million
was spent by tourists in 1973.
A survey made by the
Research Triangle Institute for
the State’s Travel and Promotion
Division shows that tourism is
close to a billion dollar business
in this state.
The estimate on tourism
spending in North Carolina
during 1973 is $955.5 million.
The other counties in the top
ten in tourism spending are
Mecklenburg, Guilford, Durham,
Buncombe, Wake, Dare, New
Hanover, Cumberland and
Forsyth.
Most of the spending-$611
million-was by out-of-state
visitors, with a large proportion
of these visitors coming from
neighboring states of South
Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee
and Georgia.
The report breakdown on the
visitors showed most vacationers
earned between $10,000 and
$15,000 annually and almost two-
thirds spent their time visiting
relatives and friends. Scenic
attractions rated high with 37
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Uniform time schedules have
been adopted for the daily
opening of Moore County high
and elementary schools, and—
with some variation still possi
ble—will go into effect Thursday.
This will be Pupil Orientation
Day, a half-session, with the first
full day to be held Tuesday of
next week.
In previous years, opening
hours for each school, while
pretty close, were determined by
the principal of each school.
Starting this term, the three
high schools will open at 8:40
a.m., with the elementary
schools having a basic opening
hour of 8:20.
Where the variation may come
in will be at some of the
elementary schools, depending
on transportaion factors, a main
one being the use of the buses in
some places to shuttle students
from one school to another.
However, in no case is it
anticipated school will open later
than 8:30.
Another change affecting most
of the students will be a 5-ceni
increase in the price of school
lunches, from 45 to 50 cents in the
elementary schools and 50 to 55
in the high schools. This has been
a necessary concomitant of
current inflationary costs.
Cafeterias will not be open
Thursday, when the children will
return home by noon. Friday will
be a work day for teachers, and,
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Town Audit Is Outlined;
Water, Sewer Plan Given
The Southern Pines Town
(Council, in special meeting early
last Thursday morning, learned
a lot about new accounting
methods from two experts in the
field and also approved two steps
toward effective participation in
the “201 Planning Area”-the
county-wide sewer system to be
completed in 1977.
T. N. Brafford, a partner in the
Raleigh-based firm of Ernst &
Ernst, which has done the town
audit and supervised its ac
counting for about 20 years, and
J. L. Feagans, a supervisor with
the firm with the speciality of
municipal accounting, presented
the annual audit with an ex
planation of numerous changes.
The new procedures, Brafford
said, are in accordance with new
regulations of the Local Govern
ment Commission and the new
guide of the American Institute
of Accounting, representing the
composite work of the Institute
and cooperating authorities.
A major change was noted in
the water and sewer department,
where the funds are set up as
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Only Four Old Covered Bridges
Now Remain in North Carolina
County health departments
offer more services than people
realize.
Mrs. Kinny Poe, head nurse at
Moore County Health Depart
ment, confirms that statement.
“We’re not getting* as many
people as we should be,” she
said, “mainly because they don’t
know exactly what we can do for
them.”
The department has five
nurses, four sanitarians, a part-
time family planning nurse and a
full time doctor, along with
several other doctors who handle
special clinics at the center.
A schedule is followed each
week and people may come on a
first come-first serve basis.
General clinics are held every
Tuesday afternoon and all day on
THE
PILOT LIGHT
CANADIANS - Bill Green, the
Duke University news director,
was in Canada recently and said
he found the favorite subject for
Canadians to talk about is the
weather. “But when I mentioned
pf that I was from N orth Carolina,”
he said, “they started talking
about Pinehurst and Southern
Pines.” He said they all seemed
to know about the Sandhills.
HUNT — Joe Grimsley, who
managed the campaign for lieu
tenant governor for Jim Hunt,
has resigned his job with the
State Department of Adminis
tration to join the Hunt staff as
an administrative aide. This is a
sure sign that Hunt is beginning
to make plans for a 1976
campaign for governor.
SANFORD — Duke President
Terry Sanford was not too
perturbed about the factional
split which erupted the other
weekend in Kansas City when the
Democratic Party Charter Com
mission, which he heads, met to
discuss the commission’s party
rule changes.
When the liberal faction staged
a walkout after blasting attempts
to wipe out party reform
measures, such as restoring the
old unit voting rule, Sanford
calmly closed the meeting,
saying there was a lack of a
quorum.
He’s confident, however, that
the Charter Commission report
will be adopted at the mini-
convention scheduled for De
cember, with most of the reform
measures intact.
HEFNER — Tony Parker,
Moore County manager for Bill
Hefner in his campaign for
Congress, said his candidate will
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Thursday. Services offered in
these clinics include im
munizations of all kinds, AFDC
programs for children, TB skin
tests, blood tests, chest X-rays,
urinalysis, as well as tests for
diabetes, tuberculosis, venereal
diseases, high blood pessure and
allergies. Maternity and family
planning clinics are held every
Friday afternoon.
Other programs offered are
pap clinics, pediatric nurse
screening clinics, pediatric
supervisor clinics, orthopedic
clinics and glaucoma and eye
clinics. Four times each month a
clinic is held in Southern Pines on
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Record High
Tobacco prices climbed on
Moore County auction markets
this week, with sales at Carthage
setting a new record high of
$103.95 per hundred pounds on
Monday. A total of 412,613 pounds
was sold for $428,901.
Sales were under way at
Carthage today.
Aberdeen’s two warehouses
had sales on Tuesday and will
sell again next Wednesday, Sept.
4. Hardee’s reported a total of
137,228 pounds sold for $135,560.56
or an average of $98.79 per
hundred on Tuesday.
Aberdeen on Tuesday sold
357,476 pounds for $352,170 or an
average of $98.52 per hundred
pounds.
Social Security Paying
Nearly Million a Month
Social security benefits were
being paid to residents of Moore
County at a rate of $921,000 a
month at the close of 1973, W.W.
Thomas, social security
manager in Fayetteville, said
today.
Of the social security
beneficiaries living in Moore
County, 4,550 are retired workers
and their dependents. Another
1,885 are receiving benefits as
the survivors of workers who
have died, and 825 are getting
benefits as disabled workers or
their dependents.
He pointed out that although
most social security
beneficiaries are older people,
about one out of every four is
under age 60. In Moore County,
1,970 people under age 60 are
collecting social security
payments each month. Nearly
1,()60 are under age 18, receiving
payments because a working
father or mother has died or is
getting social security disability
or retirement benefits. Most of
the 200 beneficiaries in Moore
County between 18 and 22 years
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BY HOWARD S. MUSE JR.
As a nation Americans have
spent a disproportionate amount
of time destroying the remnants
of their architectural past.
A good case is the covered
bridge. Covered bridges were
once sprinkled across North
Carolina from the Coastal Plain
to the Blue Ridge. North Carolin
ians, unfortunately, have always
been casual about their covered
bridges. ’They built them, used
them, and then casually tore
them down. No one knows for
sure just how many there were,
but they must have numbered in
the hundreds.
Moore County had a large one
at High Falls over the Deep
River. All that remains are the
stone pillars.
Today only four covered
bridges remain in North Car
olina—the Pisgah and Skeen’s
Mill bridges in neighboring
Randolph County, the Bunker
Hill Covered Bridge near Clare
mont, Catawba County, and
Rascoe’s Mill Covered Bridge,
Bertie County.
If the covered bridge in North
Carolina is almost extinct, it is
an endangered species through
out the rest of the country. A1954
census revealed 1,617 covered
bridges in the United States.
Nine years later the number had
dropped to 1,342. That same year
there were 456 covered bridges in
Canada.
It is possible that millions now
living in the United States have
never seen a covered bridge, but
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Stevens Says He’s Happy
Ford Picked Rockefeller
Republican Senatorial candi
date William Stevens spoke to
reporters concerning both state
and national problems at a news
conference at the Sheraton Inn
here last Wednesday.
Stevens expressed his pleasure
with President Ford’s nomina
tion of Nelson Rockefeller as vice
president. He said that he
admired Gov. Rockefeller’s
handling of legislative, political
and social matters in New York,
where the pressures for govern
ment solutions to the people’s
problems are particularly great.
“I feel that he has reacted to
those pressures with responsible,
level-headed judgment,” Ste
vens said. “I think that his good
judgment can be of particular
value to the people of America in
these trying times.”
Describing himself as a “fiscal
conservative,” Stevens said that
he has been campaigning for the
senatorship since February,
when he resigned as a member of
the State House of Represen-
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ENDANGERED SPECIES — This is one of the two covered bridges left standing
in Randolph County. Out of the hundreds that once dotted the North Carolina
landscape only four remain.—(Photo by Howard S. Muse Jr.).