Weather
Rain totalled 2.22 inches at the weather
station during the past week. High
temperature was Saturday with 68
degrees, plummeting to a cold 20
degrees Tuesday night. A high of 40 is
predicted today, and a low of 19 with no
more rain. Warmer tomorrow.
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Books, Church caleudar 3-b-
Classified Ads, 13-15.A; Editorials, l-B-
Ente^lnment, 6-7-A; Obituaries, 12-a’
^ehurst News, 9-ll.A, Social News.
2-5-A; Sports, 5-8-A.
Vol. 55-No. 11
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Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, January 15, 1975
32 Pages
Price 10 ( cuts
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Big Building Project
Gets Under Way Here
Jobless Rate Hits 8 % Mark;
Plant to Resume Operation
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CONDOMINIUM SITE CONSTRUCTION— Workmen
are shown putting the finishing touches on a
three-tenth mile long wall which will enclose a new
multi-million dollar condominium project now under
way on Morganton Road opposite the Country Club of
North Carolina.-(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Fund Gets
Only 87%
Of Goal
Robert L. Royster, president of
the United Fund of Moore
County, Inc., has reported that
they have completed their
campaign with donations and
pledges totaling $92,209.50.
This is 87.8 percent of their
goal of $105,000.
Royster said that he was
disappointed that the total goal
had not been reached. He
attributed not meeting the goal to
the loss of jobs in the County and
a general uneasiness about the
economy for 1975.
Royster pointed out, however,
that the total amount of money
raised by Campaign Chairman
Emerson F. Gower, Jr. and his
many campaign workers was
actuaUy about the second largest
sum ever raised in the county by
the United Fund. The final
division totals by the campaign
chairmen were as follows:
Special Gifts, $31,850.49; In
dustrial, Dave Leary, $38,945.87;
Commercial, Walter Holden,
$6,147; Professional, Larry New-
some, $5,919; Public Employes,
Gregg Allen, $4,572.14; Banks,
BUI Toney, $4,038; and Federal
Employes, Robert Peale, $662.
Royster and Gower both
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Petition
A petition requesting the N.C.
Fields, Lees, Kittredge
Win Pinehiu'st Election
One incumbent led the ticket
and another was defeated by Just
four votes Tuesday in an
eight-person race for three seats
on the Pindhurst VHlsge CouncU.
Leading the field was J. Ellis
Fields, Jr., with 209 votes.
Next came John T. (Jack)
Lees with 174, and Wheaton
Kittredge with 172. Both are
newcomers to local government.
Wesley R. (BUI) ViaU, Jr., the
other incumbent in the race, was
apparently eUminated with 168
votes. The taUy is unofficial.
Other also-rans and Aeir totals
were Ralph (Bud) Struck, 142;
David Fields, Jr., 133; Jessica W.
Shearwood, 79, and R. AUison
Page, Jr., 13.
Unless there is a change in the
count, J. EUis Fields, Jr., Lees
and Kittredge were elected to
serve three-year terms.
Fields, ViaU and Mrs. Marian
Smith, wdio did not run for
reelection, won one-year terms
last year when Pinehurst held its
Urst election of a fuU VUlage
CouncU.
Previously, the majority of
members had been appoint^ by
Pinehurst, Inc., which operates
the vUlage for Diamondhead
Corp. Though Pinehurst is not a
mmcipaUty, a citizens group,
suing in a class action, last year
won the right for a democratic
election, along with other con-
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Holdup, Thefts Probed;
Two Nabbed in Robbery
An armed robbery in Southern
Pines, two arrests on a previous
holdiq> in Southern Pines, a
break-in and fire in Jackson
Hamlet and three unsuccessful
break-ins in Aberdeen occiqiied
Sandhills area law enforcement
officers over the past week.
For the second time in a Uttle
over three weeks the Short Shop
at 367 N. Bennett St. in Southern
Pines was robbed by a lone
bandit about 10:20 p.m. Saturday
night.
Store manager Larry Bruce
AN w asanasA y XJA UvC
Legislature to {x-ohibit the use by was on duty when the robber
(^olina Power & Light Co., of entered, tx-andished a handgun
the fossU fuel adjustment clause and made off with about $600. He
to raise power rates is being was described as being a^ut six-
circulated in this area. feet two, weighing about 200
Russell Ayers of Whispering pounds, and wearing a blue
Pines said that 500 copies of the toboggan cap, purple wind-
petition are being circulated
pen completed the petition wili
be presented to Rep. t. C3yde
Auman with the request that
proper legislation be introduced.
breaker and plaid pants.
The previous robbery occurred
December 19 about 8:45 p.m. It
took place a few hours after two
men robbed the Jean Scene, 250
West Pennsylvania Ave.,
escaping with about $500.
Last weekend two men
charged with the Jean Scene
robbery were arrested by
Southern Pines police. They are
being held in Moore County jail,
Carthage, under $10,000 bonds
for preliminary hearing January
31 in Southern Pines District
Court.
Arrested last Friday was
Edward Cain, 20, of Aberdeen.
His alleged accomplice, James
W. Chambers, 25, also of
Aberdeen, was arrested
Saturday.
Police Chief Earl Seawell said
the arrests resulted from a
cooperative investigation of his
department with the Moore
County Sheriff’s Department and
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Fire Zone
Request
Is Made
A request that the Town &
Country Shopping Center be
traced in the fire zone of the
Town of Aberdeen was presented
to the town’s Board of Com
missioners Monday night.
If this were done, the shopping
center’s buildings would be
subject to stringent construction
requirements of the type that
would increase resistance to
fires. At the same time, fire
insurance rates would be
reduced.
Action on the request, sub
mitted by the Storey Cor
poration, was delayed so the
town attorney could contact
officials at the Mid-Town and
Center Park Parking Centers, to
see if they also wish to have their
properties included in the
Aberdeen fire zone.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
A multi-million-dollar condo
minium project is planned for a
36-acre tract on Morganton Rrad
facing the Country Club of North
Carolina, The Pilot has learned.
Preliminary work already has
begun on the site, including
erection of a brick wall on
Morganton Road and clearing
several pieces of land, one of
them being the planned en
tranceway directly across from
the CCNC access road.
There will be 240 condominium
units in the project, when
completed, according to Timothy
O’Leary of Chevy Chase, Md.,
who wi& Thomas H. Pritdiard of
the Country Club of North
Carolina, is its sponsor and
developer. It is to tw known as
Golf Vistas.
At an estimated cost of $52,000
to $64,000 per unit, this would
bring the dollar total of the
project to something over
$15,000,000.
Units will be available with
two, three and four bedrooms. A
single building, resembling a
conventional house, will contain
four such units, each with its own
double garage. Two-bedroom
units will be one-story high;
three- and four-bedroom units
will be two stories.
Each unit will be complete
down to color television, trash
compactor, micro-wave oven
and similar appliances and
facilities not nornudly included
in residential buildings.
Model units will be completed
for showing around mid-March,
O’Leary said.
Eventually an exclusive tennis
club will be located on the prop
erty, O’Leary said. Member^ps
will be available to residento of
the area as well as to those living
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Unemployment in Moore
County reached a peak of ei^t
percent in December, the highest
in years, and is now seven-and-a-
half percent, Robert
Mooneyham, District Officer for
the Employment Security
Commission, estimated Monday.
In October, he said, it was only
five percent, growing to seven
percent in November.
However, there are bright
spots in the picture.
Proctor-Silex, maker of
electrical appliances, will ten
tatively beghi operation with
about 400 of its former 456 em
ployes on Feb. 3, according to
Manager R.J. Parkent.
As to the gas situation, the
coiiq)any is looking at putting in
alternative sources, Parkent
said.
He sees no up-swing in
business for the first quarter of
the year, but looks for an in
crease in the summer.
He hopes for the President’s
tax bill to pass and increase the
cash to be spent.
The Gulistan Carpet Division
of J.P. Stevens and Co. Inc. is
now running at 90 percent of
capacity and sees no threat from
the limited natural gas supply.
Marvin Crow, executive vice
president of the company, told
The Pilot that some of the some-
700 employes of the plant are on
“short time” but there are no
layoffs.
Work at the plant was curtailed
during Christmas week and
earlier.
However, Crow believes that
the ix-esent slump will bottom out
at the end of February or March,
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Moore Is Given Only 18 Jobs
In Public Works Aid Program
The first federal-funded public
works program to combat
unemployment has been ap
proved for Moore County, with
$57,702.02 allocated for 18
woricers over a six Tnnnths
period.
The second six months
allocation of funds will be
released later and will be based
on the county’s unemployment
rate at that time.
County Administrator Bob
Helms met on Monday with a
representative of the North
Carolina Manpower Council and
Region H Council of Government
officials with the fund allocation
being announced following the
meeting.
Attending the meeting were
representatives of municipal
governments in Moore County,
and six towns have been alloted
funds for public works.
Five of the 18 workers will be
Council OKs Public Jobs
Citizen Community Plan
Patrons who paid in advance
for “The Story of Moore
County,” the new history by
Manly Wade Welhnan, may still
pick up their copies at the office
of The Pilot.
A pre-Christmas notice that
the books were available was
published and many Patrons did
call at the newspaper office for
them. Other copies remain, how
ever, to be claimed this week.
People Used Mail Less
During Christmas Time
BY JEANNETTE
McClelland
There were fewer Christmas
cards and packages moved
through the Southern Pines Post
Office this year than last year,
says Postmaster Robert Peele.
Sales during the Christmas
season were also down, about 5
percent from last year.
“It is easy to point to the ten
cent stamp for the answer to this
drop in holiday mail,” says
Peele, “but I believe that this is a
reflection of inflation as a whole,
not just the increase in postal
rates.”
Holiday mail was just one
more area where peo^e were
curtailing expenses this year.
“Christmas cards are not
necessary expenditures,” Peele
pointed out, “and fewer Southern
Pines residents sent Christmas
cards to their friends in town.
Most Christmas mail this year
was for out of town.”
As a result of the response to a
(Continued on Page 16-A)
The Southern Pines Town
Council in regular meeting
Tuesday night approved recom
mendations of Town Manager
Lew G. Brown for the four
positions allotted the Town under
the Public Service Employment
Program, and authorize him to
seek applicants at once.
Brown said that he and SheUey
Williamson, intern assistant on
the administrative staff, had had
official word of the allocation at a
meeting Monday at Carthage,
and recommended the positions
be filled as follows:
(1) One buUding inspector,
annual salary $7,380, to work
with the town building impector
in a concentrated program in
substandard areas indentified in
the Town’s proposed Community
Development Program. He
would aiso assist citizens in
appl3dng for FHA home improve
ment loans, as another facet of
the Community Development
program.
(2) One three-man general-
purpose maintenance crew, con
sisting of one labor foreman
(annual salary $6,372), one motor
equipment operator (annual
salary $5,700) and one laborer
(annual salary $4,908;, to work
under the assist^t street super
intendent on certain specific
duties.
Brown advised that, if the
Town wished to take advantage
of the program, it should act at
once, and fill the positions as
soon as possible-wMch was not
necessarily as easy as it
sounded.
On a suggestion of one
councilman, C.A. McLaughlin,
that an electrical inspector for
the Town might be hired. Brown
said would hardly be possible.
Even in the face of mounting
joblessness, it would be next to
impossible to find a person
qualified as an electrical inspect
or who was unemployed, and who
would work for tiie modest pay
offered.
The electrical inspector pro
posal came during a discussion
as to whether or not the Town
wished to avail itself of the
county’s electrical inspection
program, which the commis
sioners recently opened up to the
municipalities on the same basis
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Duncraig Cases On Docket But Trial Unlikely
employed by the county, whi(di
will receive $18,738.64 to pay
them.
Southern Pines will get four
workers with its $12,894
allocation.
Other towns allocations were
as follows: Carthage, one
worker, $3,307; Robbins, one
worker, $4,340; Vass, two
workers, $6,065.72; Pinebluff,
two workers, $5,080.80; Aber-
deoi, three workers, ^,075.86.
Southern Pines Town Manager
Lew Brown said he hopes that the
four workers here will include a
building inspector and three for a
work crew. The work crew would
be assigned to improvements on
parkways and storm drains. The
town had submitted an ap
plication for seven jobs, but only
four were approved.
Requirements for filling these
public work jobs is that the
person employed must have been
out of work for at least 30 days.
Preferences will also be given to
war veterans. The public works
jobs will be good for only one
year.
In respect to easing unem
ployment, Brown said that the
jobs to be filled “wiU be only a
dropi in the bucket.” There is a
possibility, however, that more
public works programs will be
authorized by the new Congress.
Meet Thursday
Because it was unable to finish
with all matters before it at the
regular meeting on Monday, Jan.
6, the Moore County com
missioners will hold a special
meeting in Carthage on Thur
sday at 2 p.m.
Among the matters for
discussion is the county’s par
ticipation in the Public Service
Employment Act to help ease the
unemployment situation.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
LEGISLATURE - The North
Carolina General Assembly
convened its 1975 session at noon
today with money on their mint^
and hold-the-line as the rallying
cry.
Opening day saw legislators
ceing sworn into office and the
Section of legislative officers.
^ Rep. Jimmy Green of Bladen
^unty is the new Speaker of the
louse and following the opening
leremonies a luncheon in his
lonor was held at the Hilton Inn
tt 2 p.m.
The usual sparring is expected
or the next few weeks, but
everal legislators are anxious to
et down to business. Over-riding
U talk at this time is the state of
oe economy and that will have a
bearing on just about every act of
the Legislature at this session.
Legii^tors are expected to be
hard-nosed not only about
requests for extra money for
state programs, but they will be
taking a close look at ex
penditures for past programs.
TAX REFORM — Lt. Gov. Jim
Hunt is one of those who thinks
the revenue estimates will be on
the high side.
Those estimates will not be
officially known until the
Governor (x-esents his budget but
the word is that a 11 percent
growth above present revenues
will be predicted.
Hunt says legislators will
closely scrutinize the “con-
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Judge James M. Long of
Yanceyville has been assigned as
regular judge of Moore Superior
Court during the first half of the
new year, and will preside over
the regular civil term next week,
also the regular criminal term
starting Monday, January 27.
Next week’s calendar is a full
one, with 18 motions in pending
cases due to be heard Monday,
and 27 cases listed for trial
Monday through Tliursday. Of
these, it is expected only a few
will be tried while most will 1»
settled or continued.
In positions No. 24 and 25,
highly unfavorable for trial at
this term, are the two pending
Duncraig Manor cases-Town of
Southern Pines vs. Dr. Jack
Mohr et al, requiring a jury trial,
and Constance Matheson Baker
vs. the Town of Southern Pines,
for declaratory judgment.
Batteries of lawyers are
named to serve in both cases,
including, in the second one, the
State’s Attorney-General for the
defendant, but seniority of other
cases has pushed these down to
the fifth and sixtii spots on
Thursday.
It is apparent that together, the
two cases will take several ^ys
to try, and it seems more likdy
they will turn up in a special
term already set for catch-up
work, starting Monday, Feb
ruary 17.
Current information is that
Robert L. Gavin of Pinehurst,
newly appointed as a special
Superior Court judge by Govei>
nor Holshouser, and sworn in
January 6 at Raleigh, will
preside over the spechd term.
However, Charles McLeod, clerk
of Moore Superior Court, said
this has not yet been officially
confirmed.
Judge Gavin, who was the
Republican candidate for gover
nor in 1960 and 1964, moved a few
years ago from Sanford to
Pinehurst, and has nudntain^
law offices in both towns. His
appointment made Moore one of
the very few counties, probably
the only non-metropolitan
county, to number two Stqierior
Court judges among their resi
dents. The other is Resident
Judge John D. McConnell of
Southern Pines.
Gavin was one of three new
special judges sworn in by the
State’s brand-new Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court, Judge
Susie M. Sharp. As “specials,”
they are subject to weekly
assignment anywhere in the
state by the Administrative
Office of the General Court of
Justice. They have, however, the
same rank and $30,^ salsuy of
the resident judges, who are
elected and travel on a six-month
rotation basis from one judicial
district to another.
Cases listed for trial next week
are subject to the two-day rule,
meaning if they are not called the
day they are calendared, they
may be called the next, but if not
called in two days, they are
continued. They are:
MONDAY-Julian Autry vs.
Paul Hunsucker & wife Mollie
Hunsucker; John Foster Faulk
vs. Mt. Olive AME Zion Church
(3 hrs., non-jury, suit for
architect’s fee); BP Oil Corp. vs.
Noah H. Key, Account and
Counter-claims (jury, 1 day);
Town of Carthage vs. N.A.
McLeod & wife (jury, 1% to 2
days); Town of Cfu4hage vs.
EmUy Lee (jury, 1% to 2 days).
Tuesday—Julian t. Roswr,
admr. Est. of Atlas Gerald
Rosser vs. SCAP, Inc., and John
A. Chambers (jury); Doahr,
Lacher St Berk vs. Little River
Farms, Inc. (non-jury, % day);
Archie F. Ray vs. Penn Brower
(jury, 1 day); Mary Best Murrill,
admrx, Est. of Romulus T. Best
vs. Dr. Ralph Dunn, Jr. (jury, 2-3
days); Richard E. Richardson et
ux vs. Suburban Rulane Gas Co.
of N.C. (jury, 1% days); James
P. Foushee vs. David Junior
Holder (non-jury, % day);
Gouger & Veno, Inc. vs.
Diamondhead Corp. (jury, 2
. days).
WEDNESDAY-Kevin Charles
McCarthy vs. Joanne Polhemus
St Robert Wilford Pratt (negli
gence action for damages-auto
accident (jury, 1 day); A.P.
Johnson vs. Richard A. Banks &
wife, Mary A. Banks (jury, 2
hrs.); Felix Baker St wife Mac D.
Baker vs. Lewis G. King St wife
Janet C. King, defts., vs. Foster
McCrary and wife Audrey
McCrary, Third Party defts., and
Sandhill Production Credit
Assn., Third Party defts. and
Mosley G. Boyette, Jr., trustee.
Third Party Deft.; Martin W.
Niessner et ux, Annie Mabel
Edwards Niessner, vs. Emery
Smith, Jr., et ux, Alice S. Smith
(line dispute, real estate-non
jury, 1 day); John A. Smith,
individually and as admr. of Est.
(Continued on Page '16-A)
SPEAKER — Phil Kirk,
administrative assistant to
Governor Holshouser,. will
be the guest speaker at the
annual banquet of the
Jaycees at the Southern
Pines Country Club
Tuesday night when the
Distinguished Service
Award, Young Educator
and Boss of Year awards
will be presented.