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Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, October 30, 1974
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Samarkand Manor at Eagle
Springs, a State school for girls
since 1918, will be turned into a
coeducational institution on
November 11, Dr. John Larkins,
director of the State Office of
Youth Development, said this
week.
The change-over had been
scheduled for the day after the
election on Nov. 5, but the date,
was changed this week.
The move to put boys and girls
together at the training school
follows an opinion issued on Oct.
3 by Republican Attorney
General James Carson that the
Department of Corrections,
headed by Secretary David
Jones and under which the
schools are operated, has the
authority to operate the schools
Vass Jubilee to Feature
Parade, Events Saturday
The fourth annual Vass
Firemen’s Jubilee, an all-day
event of Saturday, will from all
indications follow the traditions
set in previous years.
Since 1971 the first Saturday in
November has been set aside for
one of Moore County’s best
parties of the year, complete
with parade, politicians, good
things to eat, good fun and games
and numerous exciting events,
climaxed with the “Miss Flame’’
contest and a dance.
The Jubilee is sponsored by the
Vass Volunteer Fire Department
Auxiliary, ladies who exercise
their prerogatives by com
mandeering firemen to help in
every event. But the ladies do the
cooking which make luncheon
and supper such special treats.
The parade will start promptly
at 11 a.m. from Lassiters GriU on
South St., proceeding north on
South to Main, thence to
Seaboard, southward past the
reviewing stand and on to James
St., where it will disband at the
Angus Mills parking lot.
It will be the biggest and best
parade yet, with some 63 entries,
including campaigning can
didates, county officials, “Miss
Flame’’ contestants-numbering
26 at last count; fire trucks,
rescue squads, antique cars.
Smoky the Bear and a variety of
beautiful civic, commercial and
public service floats.
Highlights will include John
Ingram, State Commissioner of
Insurance, expected to be on
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on a coeducational basis.
There was a report that Car
son’s ruling reversed one made
earlier by the Democratic At
torney General Robert Morgan,
but aides in Carson’s office said
Monday they were not aware of
an earlier opinion.
Samarkand Manor has been
the center of troubles and tur
moil since the Black Friday of
Oct. 26, 1973, when Secretary
Jones masterminded a
helicopter blitzkreig to force out
Miss Reva Mitchell, the long
time director of toe school.
Agents from Jones’ office in
Raleigh descended on toe school
by helicopter and told Miss
Mitchell, who had been at
Samarkand Manor for more
than 40 years, that she was to
leave toe premises immediately.
Several otoers were ousted at toe
same time.
During toe past year there
have been numerous runaways,
an investigation by toe State
Bureau of Investigation, a
shooting in which a girl from toe
school was critically wounded,
reports of prostitution, assaults,
and further firings. The director
who succeeded Miss Mitchell
was replaced by another.
Dr. Larkins said this week that
he hoped the changes now
planned would greatly improve
toe State’s youth development
program.
Samarkand Manor will not
only become coeducational, but
will be limited to ages 10 to 13.
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Wife Held In Shooting
Of Husband At West End
THE
PILOT LIGHT
A 32-year-old farm worker of
West End was shot to death
Sunday afternoon and his wife,
mother of two small children, is
being held without bond in Moore
County Jail on an open charge of
murder.
Sheriff C.G. Wimberly said
Mrs. Martha Jeannette LeGrand
Baldwin, 22, admitted shooting
James Odell Baldwin in toe back
with a 22-caliber pistol following
an argument, toe subject of
which he did not disclose.
The shooting took place in toe
kitchen of the Baldwins’ home
near West End. Their children.
aged about one and three, were
in toe home at toe time. After a
member of toe family notified
toe law, Mrs. Baldwin waited
quietly for toe deputies to arrive,
told them what had occurred and
turned over toe gun to them.
They found Baldwin’s body on
toe kitchen floor, and near it the
bullet, which had passed entirely
through toe body, emerging from
toe chest.
Coroner A.B. Parker said an
autopsy performed Monday at
Moore Memorial Hospital
showed that the bullet had
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CONTRIBUTORS-In a report
' from Raleigh last week several
persons from this area were
listed as contributors to the
campaigns of candidates for the
U.S. Senate.
Listed as contributing to the
Republican candidate William
' Stevens were:
E. Earl Hubbard of Southern
Pines, $100; W. Calvin Howell of
Southern Pines, $250; Qyde L.
Sullivan of Southern Pines, $200;
G. David Miller of Southern
Pines, $100; E. Wilson Staub of
Southern Pines, $50; James A.
Tart of Southern Pines, $75; Col.
and Mrs. Hayden A. Sears of
Whispering Pines, $10; Gen. and
■ Mrs. Ira T. Wyche of Pinehurst,
$25; E.G. Christian of Pinehurst,
$10; Howard S. Muse of Whisper
ing Pines, $10; Dr. and Mrs. L.J.
Marchetti of Southern Pines, $50;
C.H. Steffe of Southern Pines,
$50; Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Stewart
of Carthage, $25.
Only three contributors were
listed for the Democratic candi
date, Robert Morgan. They
were: John L. Frye of Robbins,
$100 which with an earlier
reported contribution made a
total of $200; Forrest Lockey of
Aberdeen, $i^ which with an
earlier contribution brought his
total to $950; and Russell J. Tate
of Vass, $100 and a total of $125.
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Pinecrest, Union Pines
Bids Accepted by Board
The Moore County Board of
Education Tuesday night accept
ed low bids on the 10-classroom
addition to Union Pines High
School and the two-room West-
moore kindergarten building,
also, conditionally, on toe Pine-
crest High School gym-provided
some $30,000 could be wrung out
of toe total of over $1 million, to
bring it down within budgetary
limitations.
Tom Hayes, of Hayes-Howell
Associations, said he was sure
this could be done, as there were
several areas in which cuts could
be made. He wasn’t, however, as
sure about an additional $44,000,
which would have to be found
somewhere if toe lobby-also to
be used as a student com-
mons-were to be enlarged to its
original proportions.
The board authorized him to
work with the administrators on
changes to be made, and to
negotiate with the contractors
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Light Vote Predicted
For Election Tuesday
READY FOR HALLOWEEN — There are pumpkins pkins is Patty Horne, the eight-year-old daughter of
galore waiting for Halloween Thursday on this farm Glenn and Grace Horne.~(Photo by Glenn M. Sides),
near Carthage. Standing in this pile of golden pum-
Samarkand Changes to Coed Nov.ll
Another
Duncraig
Suit Filed
Mrs. Constance Matheson
Baker, through her attorneys
here, filed a complaint Tuesday
in Moore Superior Court, at
Carthage, seeking “declaratory
and injunctive relief” of toe
court against the Town of
Southern Pines, and two of
ficials, in the Duncraig Manor
matter.
Mrs. Baker, owner of Duncraig
Manor property and its lessor for
use as a Children’s Treatment
Center, alleges such relief,
authorized by statute, is “neces
sary and appropriate” because
of controversy existing between
herself and toe Town concerning
“toe validity and interpretation”
of toe town zoning ordinance;
and because toe issue presented
“does not involve a factual
dispute, but concerns solely a
question of statutory interpreta
tion and the constitutional
validity” of the ordinance.
She is challenging its con
stitutionality, based on both toe
14th amendment to the U.S.
Constitution and Article 1,
Section 19, of the Constitution of
North Carolina, and prays toe
court for summary judgment on
eight points on which she attacks
the zoning ordinance and her own
rights in relation to it.
Defendants are the Town of
Southern Pines, Mayor E. Earl
Hubbard, Councilmen E.S. Doug-
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Road Work
Announced
For Moore
(I!ontracts will be let this winter
for toe resurfacing of Moore
County roads at a total ex
penditure of $414,500, Cecil Budd
of Siler City, chairman of toe
State’s Secondary Roads
Council, announced here
Tuesday.
Budd also said that about 50
people attended a hearing at
North Moore High School on
Monday night and that he felt toe
questions about toe upgrading of
toe Robbins to High Falls road
have been resolved.
The road contracts which will
be let this winter calL for
resurfacing of several roads in
toe spring and summer.
Two primary road projects are
involved in toe proposed work,
including resurfacing of 2.5 miles
of NC 211 from toe Aberdeen
town limits to toe Hoke County
line. The other project seven-
tentos of a mile of US 15-501 from
Aberdeen to toe town limits.
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Given Award
The Pilot has been given a
State award by the North
Carolina Mental Health Associa
tion for its coverage of toe
Duncraig Manor controversy.
Presentation of the award and
an accompanying resolution
commending the newspaper for
“informing the general public of
the circumstances involved” was
made at the annual meeting of
toe association in Raleigh on
Friday.
Receiving the award on behalf
of The Pilot was Jim Sutherland
of toe newspaper staff.
BY HOWARD S. MUSE, JR.
If you had driven down East
Connecticut Avenue Extension
recently you might have seen a
crew cutting pulpwood in a pine
plantation south of toe Bethesda
Road intersection-a not un
common sight in a county that
produces more than 40,000 cords
of pulpwood a year.
■The cutting, however, took
place in the Weymouth Woods
Sandhills Nature Preserve, and
Foliow Logging at Weymouth Woods
more is to follow through the fall.
After toe cutters leave, toe
logging slash will be burned, and
elsewhere in Weymouth Woods,
the ground litter will be burned
away.
Just what is going on here? Is
this any way to run a nature
preserve? Have the paper
company boys and their pulp
wood cutters been allowed to run
sunuck in Weymouth Woods? Not
in toe least, says L.M. (Mac)
Goodwin, Jr., Weymouth Woods’
personable, young superinten
dent. It’s all part of a carefully
conceived and skillfully executed
plan to preserve toe essential
feature of the preserve—its
longleaf pine forest and the flora
and fauna associated with it-by
cutting portions of toe forest and
then burning away toe ground
cover and accumulated litter of
decades, some of it a foot thick.
It sounds paradoxical, doesn’t
it, for it goes against everything
that the North Carolina Division
of State Parks has stood for and
Smokey the Bear has preached
over the years. But is isn’t,
according to Goodwin. “We’re
trying to preserve a portion of
the pine forest and to return it to
its natural state as it existed for
thousands of years before man
came into the area by using fire
as a natural tool,” says Goodwin
on the afternoon of October 24, as
we walked through a thinned
pine plantation, one of two cut.
“What we’re after is to restore
the area, getting it back to a
semi-original condition, so that it
resembles toe virgin forest as
much as possible,” he says.
The rationale behind the new
policy is that fires started by
natural causes, such as light
ning, are part of the preservation
process. According to toe new
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Robert Morgan
William E. Stevens
Rufus L. Edmisten
James H. Carson Jr.
Vote On Beer-Wine Sale
On Ballot Next Tuesday
Moore County voters will be
asked to decide in a special
election Tuesday whether beer
and wine will be sold, or not, on a
county-wide basis rather than
only in certain towns, as is now
toe case,
They may vote for or against
both on-premises and off-
[X'emises sale of malt beverage,
and for or against toe off-
ivemises sale only, of fortified
wine.
An affirmative vote will give
rural merchants toe same right
to sell such items as their
counterparts have in six Moore
County conununities: Southern
Pines, Pinehurst, Aberdeen,
Carthage, Pinebluff and
Whispering Pines.
The referendum is sponsored
by a group of rural merchants.
who won the approval, though
not necessarily the support, of
toe county commissioners on
holding toe vote. Whereas it
formerly took a petition meeting
certain requirements, this can be
done now on toe commissioners’
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Full Moon
A second full moon this month
will shine down tonight as
Halloween approaches.
Mrs. James Billings of
Pinehurst called to tell us of this
unusual phenomenon.
She said toe first full moon was
on toe first of toe month and toe
other tonight. It is toe only time
this year that the moon will be
full twice full. In fact, it is rare
during any year.
Moore County voters will go to
the polls next Tuesday to elect
almost a full slate of local
officials and several for state and
national posts.
Pre-election predictions, how
ever, point to one of the lightest
votes in many years, as a general
apathy on the part of voters has
marked most of the fall cam
paign.
In last spring’s primary
elections only about one-third of
the eligible voters cast their
ballots in Moore. Votes in the
election on Nov. 5 are expected,
however, to be much higher than
that, but could still fall below 50
percent.
There are 18,439 registered
voters as of today in Moore
County-11,676 Democrats, 6,040
Republicans, 575 Independents, 5
American party and 193 regis
tered as “no party.”
Polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and
will close at 7:30 p.m. Curbside
voting for those physically
unable to enter the polling places
will be permitted from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Polling places in the 21 Moore
County precincts remain the
same except in Eureka Precinct
which has been moved from the
Farm Life School to the
Whispering Pines Municipal
Building.
The deadline for civilian
absentee ballots is 6 p.m. today
(Wednesday).
Mrs. Daisy Riddle, executive
secretary of the Moore County
Board of Elections, said yester-
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Bob Morgan
Addresses
Kiwanians
Robert Morgan, Democratic
candidate' for the U.S. Senate,
spoke to members of the San
dhills Kiwanis Qub at their
luncheon meeting at toe Holiday
Inn today.
Principal emphasis in
Morgan’s talk was on toe current
economy, especially in the
tremendous decline in home
building. Government spending,
he said, has helped to dry up
home loan funds, and he
proposed corrective measures to
bring more money into the home
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FHA Loan Sought To Develop
Little River Farm’s Complex
A request by Little River Farm
for a loan from toe Farmers
Home Administration to help
construct a $3,350,000 golf course,
tennis courts, swimming facil
ities and condominiums was
passed by the Pee Dee Council of
Governments October 23.
Adrian dePasquale of Little
River Farm said yesterday that
he is planning “a new atmos
phere and approach” to a
horse-golf complex.
His plan for his 850 acre farm
between highways 22 and 15-501
and between Southern Pines and
Carthage and two miles from
Pinehurst is at “the hub of toe
county,” he said yesterday and
will include in addition to golf
and equestrian sports boating,
fishing, swimming. There will be
27 holes of golf.
After talking with FHA of
ficials yesterday, he is enthus
iastic about toe possibility of his
big plan taking shape.
The whole complex, if FHA
approved, will be a new concept
in horse-country living, he said.
In addition to his already
substantial paddocks, he will
increase the horse facilities,
keeping the colonial atmosphere.
He plans to sell 250 three-
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DIAMONDHEAD CUP — Bagpipers piped the opening of play on Tuesday of the
Diamondhead Cup matches between U.S. and British golf club pros' at the
Pinehurst Country Club. The second annual event will be concluded on
Thursday.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).