Weather
Below-freezing temperatures blanket
ed the Sandhills on five of the past
seven nights. Tonight’s low is expected
to be in the 30s. Outlook is for
considerable cloudiness with 10 percent
chance of rain tonight, 20 percent on
Thursday.
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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 12-15-A; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 12-B; Ohituaries, 6-A;
Pinecrest News, 13-B; Pinehurst News,
7-8-A; Social News, 2-5-A; Sports,
10-11-A.
Vol. 55-No. 12
32 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, Jannaiy 22, U7S
32 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Pair Held
In Murder
Two Southern Pines men and
one from Jackson Hamlet, near
Aberdeen, are being held in
Moore County Jail without bond,
after being charged last weekend
with murder in two separate
shooting incidents.
One of the Southern Pines men
also is charged with two recent
armed robberies in Pinehurst,
while the other is accused of
being his accomplice in one of the
Pinehurst crimes.
The Southern Pines pair are
accused in the pistol slaying of
John Henry McCaskill, 56, in the
course of an armed robbery
January 6 at the small rural
store he operated on NC 211 near
West End.
Sheriff C.G. Wimberly said
Willie Edward McZom, 24, of 525
West Connecticut Ave., was
arrested shortly before midnight
Saturday, and Joseph J.
Cauthen, 24, of 500 South Hale St.,
was arrested Sunday afternoon.
Both arrests were made in
West Southern Pines with
cooperation of Southern Pines
police, following intensive in
vestigation by the sheriff’s
department, with SBI assistance.
McCaskill was shot in the left
side of his face by one of two men
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Sales Up
Here Over
’73 Mark
Retail sales in Moore County
during December were 6.9
{U'ecent above sales in the same
month in 1973.
Sales tax collections, regarded
as the best economic barometer
in the state, showed Moore
continuing at a high level during
the past month.
A total of $79,012.90 in the one
percent local option sales tax
was collected during December,
1974. For the same month in
December, 1973, the one percent
sales tax collections amounted to
$73,934.
Secretary J. Howard CoUe of
the State Department of Revenue
issued a report this week on local
sales tax collections.
The one percent collections in
neighboring counties were as
follows: Hoke, $17,506.55; Lee,
$68,866.36; Montgomery,
$24,450.07; and Richmond,
$79,441.32.
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SPECTACULAR WRECK— A 1972 International Transfer truck was totaled on
Thursday at 8 a.m. at the Pinehurst traffic circle on 15-501. The truck, driven by
John Henry Evans, Jr. of Rt. 1, Morrisville, is owned by Forbes Transfer Com
pany of Wilson. Evans was pinned in the truck for 30 minutes following the
overturn. The truck carried building materials and damages amounted to $18,000.
In an interview the Highway Patrol expressed its appreciation to the Pinehurst
Fire Department for clearing the road.
Mental Health Clinic Offers
Walk-In Service For Citizens
Town Gets State Grant
To Expand Water Line
itself, either at the clinic or in
Raleigh.
“It is very rare,’’ said Cul-
breth, “that someone is detained
involuntarily. The important
point is that anyone can get
in-patient treatment any time he
likes, but may be turned away if
the treatment is not needed.’’
The town of Southern Pines has
received a $23,675 grant from the
North Carolina Department of
Human Resources to apply
toward the cost of constructing a
12-inch water line on Indiana
Ave. from Valley Road to Fort
Bragg Road.
Estimated total cost of the
project is $94,700, according to
City Manager Lew Brown. Real
estate developers in the area
served by the line are being
asked to provide about $45,000 of
the total cost, with the city
providing the remainder.
The l^nch line would replace
an existing six-inch water line.
which is adequate for current
needs but has no reserve
capacity to meet future growth
needs, Brown ex|dained.
The $23,675 grant was part of
$5.6-million allocated to 36 local
governments in the State to aid in
Snancing improvements in their
water supply systems.
The fun^ come from the $150-
million in clean water bonds
approved by voters in a 1972
referendum, $70-million of vdiich
was awarded for water supply
systems, .^plications for the
grants were approved in ac
cordance with the state’s Qean
(Continued on Page 16-A)
BY KAY PERKINS
“We deal with problenos on the
full range of the spectrum,’’ said
David Culbreth, area director of
the Sandhills Mental Health
Clinic, “from severe to minor.”
Just what can a person expect
when he comes to the Mental
Health Clinic?
The major thing is attention
and service. No one on a walk-in, o 11 *11 11 o
sandhills College Sets
‘Open House’ For Feb. 9
Sandhills Community CoUege buildings, as will the students in
will hold an “Open House"
Runaway Boys Retiuned
To School at Samarkand
Eleven young boys ran away
from Samarkand Manor Monday
evening but were returned to the
training school campus within a
few hours.
James Leathers, the school
director, Ix'ushed aside any idea
that trouble might be flaring
again on the campus.
He said there had been a
number of runaways since early
last summer, that they were not
related to any new problem at
the school and were diminishing
in number.
Leathers said the boys left the
campus in three groups about 7
p.m. Staff members picked iq) 10
of them thumbing along the high
way, and they were returned to
the school by 9 p.m., with the 11th
returned about two hours later
by law enforcement officers.
He said three or four of the
boys were segregated for the
ni^t and the others were given
extra work to do Tuesday by way
of discipline. This in
volved moving some desks
from a warehouse.
Segregation means being
locked in a room about 9 by 12
feet, with staff members
checking every 15 or 20 minutes
to make sure the pupil is all
(Continued on Page 16-A)
he or die widies to teBc to
someone and tbe reeeptkmist
then asks tbe nature of tiie
problem. The person does not
have to tell the receptionist any
information unless he desires.
A social worker, psychiatrist
or psychologist then talks with
the person in complete privacy.
They discuss present problems,
personal history and family
background. The disposition at
this point depends on the severity
of Ae case. Medication and
another appointment may be
needed, or it may not.
A person may be told that he
doesn’t need treatment and sent
home, or it might be suggested
that he remain in the hospital
Stoneyhrook
The 28th running of the
Stoneyhrook Steeplechase Race
event will be held on Saturday,
April 12, Chairman William H.
Frantz of the Stoneyhrook Hunt
Race Association announced this
week.
The Steeplechase Ball will be
held on Friday, April 11.
Those wishing to make res
ervations should contact the
Stoneyhrook office at the Camp
bell House, 482 East Connecticut
Ave., telephone 692-8000. The
office will be open beginning
Feb. 1 from 10 to 12 noon and 2 to
4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Sunday February 9 between 2
and 5 in the afternoon and the
public is invited.
The theme of the gala is
“Students at Work,” and visitors
will see classrooms in operation,
art students working on paint
ings, pottery and crafts, hear
student musical groups perform
ing in the lounge, and can tour
the library and ^ other facilities
on the campus.
The landKape gardening stu
dents will be “doing their ti^g”
in Heutte Hall, the horticulture
the automotive buQding display
ing their skills in repairing
en^es and motors. The labora
tories in the Mary Luman Meyer
building will have students
working on TV and radio units,
chemistry students juggling
vials and bottles. In fact inters
can enjoy campus life and
observe first-hand teachers
teaching and learners learning-
just what Sandhills College is all
about.
The Open House is being
planned by special committees of
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Set Up by State Group
Duncraig Defense Fund
Moore Trying To Do Something
About Why Johnny Can’t Read
BY DIANE HOGG
There is a general concern
today about the inability of a
large number of children to read
and Moore County schools are
trying to remedy the problem.
“Back to the Basics” is a plea
heard frequently from parents
and educators. Mrs. Lorna
Uvengood, Director of Instruc
tion for Moore County, insists
however, “We have never left the
basics and reading is a top
priority.”
Federal funds have provided
for supplementary reading in
struction such as the Title I
program. Kirby Watson, Title I
Director, declares “We are
teaching more children to read
better.” Each Title I reading
center works with 50 students
who have shown the greatest
need for reading skills.
Watson says “Our objective is
to improve children on the
average of one year and two
months in a nine month period.”
About 850 children or 9 percent of
the total number of children in
The establishment of a Dun
craig Manor Defense Fund to
support the legal battle against
the eviction of the children from
the treatment center here has
b^n announced by Mrs. R.H.
Livermore Jr., of Lumberton,
president of the North Carolina
Association for Emotionally
Troubled Children.
Mrs. Livermore issued a
lengthy statement in support of
the Duncraig Manor center and
asked for financial support in the
court action which has been
instituted by the Town of
Southern Pines.
The town contends that the
children’s center is in violation of
zoning laws.
Meanwhile, the two Duncraig
Manor cases calendared for the
regular civil term of Moore
Superior Court, under way this
week at Carthage with Judge
James M. Long presiding, have
been continued.
They now appear on the
preliminary calendar of the
special term set for February 17.
Originally set for Thursday of
this week, the two civil suits are
among a number which were
continued as it became obvious
they could not be reached at this
term.
With 18 motions in pending
suits taking up most of the
court’s time on Monday and
Tuesday, judgment was handed
down in only one case out of 12
listed for possible trial on those
days. This was the case of BP Oil
Corp. vs. Noah H. Key, Account
and Counter-Claims.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
AT LIBRARY — Gaston Matthews and Tracey
Mclnnis, first graders at Southern Pines Elementary
School practice reading skills at the library. Their
teacher is Mrs. Patricia Williams.
Moore County public schools are
in the Title I program.
The Title I program is a
welcome addition which focuses
on individual attention and “tries
to make success for every child.”
At Pinehurst Elementary, Mrs.
Lee Medlin, Title I reading
teacher, says “they love to come
(Continued on Page 16-A)
AUMAN — Expressing concern
over rising electricity costs. Rep.
T. Clyde Auman said this week
that several bills relating to
public utilities already have been
introduced in the General Assem
sembly and “I hope we can come
up with something that will
benefit the consumers.”
Auman pointed out that con
trary to some reports the fossil
fuel clause under which Caro
lina Power & Light Co., has been
increasing its rates each month
was not from action of the
Legislature but on authority of
the State Utilities Commission
under its regulatory powers.
The Legislature did enact a
law last time which would permit
utility companies to use future
cost projections in their rate
increase requests. Auman is of
the opinion, however, that this
law which has come under attack
will repealed at tiUs session.
Rep. Auman said he has
requested from the Utilities
Commission a comparison of
electric rates paid in North
Carolina with other states but
has not as yet received the
information.
Among the bills introduced this
far is one by Senator Russell
Walker of this district calling for
the election, rather than the
appointment, of members of the
Utilities Commission.
FOOD TAX — Rep. Auman’s
reaction to Governor Holshous-
er’s call on Monday night for
repeal of the sales tax on food
effective July 1, 1976, was “If
relief is needed it’s needed now.”
He said 18 months away for
repeal is too far distant to be of
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Courts Facility
Land Is Bought;
Study Approved
Once a person has vounteered
himself into the hospital, he can
at any time volunteer himself out
with a 72 hours notice. There is a
fee for in-patient treatment,
which is set up by Moore
Memorial Hospital. According to
Culbreth some insurance com-
(Continued on Page 16-A)
The Moore County Commis
sioners, meeting Thursday,
reached an agreement on its
final-for now-real estate deal in
downtown Carthage; set up a
two-man commission to study
the county’s government and
recommend ways to improve it;
appropriated funds for a fire
truck for the Eastwood Volunteer
Fire Department and a jeep for
the Carthage Rescue Squad, and,
after 35 years, gave back a piece
of land to the Village of
Pinehurst.
It was a busy special meeting
lasting more than three hours,
winding up with a brief closed
session with “Monk” Womack,
owner of Monk’s Cleaners, in
which they reached a compro
mise figure for the purchase of
his business place on Dowd St.
This was the final property,
and the fifth one they have
acquired, to provide a site and
accessory areas for the proposed
new courts facility, for which
architectural drawings are al
ready being made.
The commissioners had held
an option on the Womack lot at
$22,000 for a year, while they
were making up their minds
what direction they wanted to go.
They dropped it, then later, when
they wanted to pick it up again,
Womack had upped his price to
$26,000. At last week’s meeting
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Petitions
Petitions to the North Carolina
legislature to prohibit the use of
the fossil fuel allowance by which
power companies raise tiiefr
rates are available in all parts of
Moore County, Russell Ayers of
Whispering Fines said this week.
The deadline for returning the
petitions is Feb. 6.
Ayers said the petitions are
available at most of the locally
owned stores, restaurants, bar
ber shops and beauty shops in
business districts and rural
neighborhoods.
DSA For 1974 Awarded
To Van Camp By Jaycees
The Distinguished Service
Award for 1974 has been awarded
by the Southern Pines Jaycees to
James R. Van Camp, attorney of
Southern Pines and Carthage.
Presentation of the award was
on Tuesday night at the annual
Awards and Bosses Night
Banquet of the Jaycees at the
Southern Pines Country (Sub.
Lamont Brown, town attorney,
made the iresentation on b^r^
of the Jaycees.
The award cited Van Camp for
his “meritorious service to the
Sandhills.”
. Principal speaker at the
banquet was Phillip J. Kirk, Jr.,
administrative assistant to
Governor James Holshouser.
Wiimer of the Outstanding
Young Educator Award was
Mack Douglas Jackson of
Cameron, a biology teacher at
Aberdeen Middle School.
Presenting the award to Jackson
was Bob Royster of the Southern
XT
James Van Camp
Pines office of Carolina Power
and Light Co., which co-sponsors
the Young Educator Award with
the Jaycees.
Walter Harper, division
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Heavy^Docket Next Week
For Criminal Court Term
The grand jury will have its
work cut out at next week’s
criminal term, with 46 cases to
be considered for bills of
indictment.
It’s the longest warrant docket
for the Moore court in many
terms, and could be longer if
District Attorney C.M. Lowder
decides to seek bills against
three more defendants, newly
charged with murder and being
held without bond. He may
bypass the preliminary hearing
procedure, if he feels it will serve
the ends of justice in effecting
speedier trials.
Superior Court Judge James
M. Long of Yanceyville wiU
preside over the term, for which
87 cases are listed for trial in
addition to those for grand jury
action-133 in all.
So far, no murder case appears
on the warrant docket and only
one on the trial docket," that of
Mrs. Martha Jeanette LaGrand
Baldwin, 22, accused in the
shooting death of her husband
James Odell Baldwin, October 27
at their home at West End.
The only other defendant
accused of a capital crime is
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Pilot Wins Three State Awards
For News, Editorials and Ads
Three awards - two first place
and one third - were won by The
Pilot in the 1974 contests spon
sored by the North Carolina
Ifress Association.
The awards for excellence
were presented Thursday night
by Governor James Holshouser
at the annual Press Institute of
the association at Chapel Hill
First place was awarded The
Pilot staff in the News or Feature
Series for its coverage of the
Duncraig Manor issue.
First place was awarded Sam
Ragan, editor of The Pilot, for
the best editorials of the year,.
Third place was awarded The
Pilot advertising staff for the
best advertising.
Associate Editor Marjorie
Ragan accepted the placque for
the best news series. This
category was judged by Dr.
Bruce M. Swain of the University
of Kentucky Sdiool of Jour
nalism, and of The Pilot series he
had this comment:
“The Pilot’s coverage of the
Duncraig Manor controversy
was weekly journalism at its
best-tenacious, thorough, and
always highly readable. The
paper kept stride with the issue
from the start and was careful to
report the views of opposing
factions. In what must have been
a very emotional period in
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PILOT PRIZE WINNERS — Receiving awards from Governor James
Holshouser (center) at the annual North Carolina Press Association Institute in
Chapel Hill are, left to right, Sam Ragan, editor and publisher of The Pilot;
Marjorie Ragan, associate editor; Charles Weatherspoon, advertising manager;
and Fray Metcalfe, assistant advertising manager.