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Clearing and cooler weather tonight
and Thursday wOl follow Tuesday
night’s heavy rain and thundershowers.
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tonight, whfle Thursday’s high will be
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IPILOT
Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 8-11-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-5-C; Obituaries, 8-A;
Pinecrest Page, 15-B; Pinehurst News,
1-2-C; Social News, 2-5-A; Sports, 6-7-A.
Vol. 55-No. 16
38 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, February^O, 1975
38 Pages
Price 10 Cents
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Sewer System Costs Rising
But Comity Pushing Ahead
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SHOW COMPETITOR — Joe Darby of Any Day Farm of Southern Pines, shown
here on W.R. Ballard’s “Serious,” will be one of the riders competing at the
Landmark Farms Horse Show on Sunday, March 2. The horse show is being given
for the benefit of the N.C. Veterinary Research Foundation.
‘Taylor Accuses Bar Group Head
With Unfair Pressure Tactics
W.S. Taylor, chairman of
Moore County Commissioners,
has accused the president of the
Moore County Bar Association of
pressuring the grand jury and a
superior court judge into calling
a hearing on the county’s plans
for new court facilities.
Taylor said at a special
meeting of the commissioners
last Thursday afternoon that he
had found it “very embar
rassing” that such a hearing was
ordered by Superior Court Judge
James M. Long of Yanceyville,
presiding jurist over the Moore
court for toe current six-month
period.
The chairman revealed to his
fellow conunissioners that he
and County Administrator Bob
Helms met with Judge Long in
chambers at Rockingham last
Tuesday, and reviewed toe “true
Free Lunches Up by 425
'With 53% Getting Them
The number of free lunches in
Moore County Schools has
increased by 425 since the first of
the year and more are expected
to be added to the list by toe end
of this month.
Mrs. Jessie Loving, director of
food services for the school
system, said that about 53
percent of the school children are
receiving free lunches this year,
as compared to about 49 percent
last year.
With more layoffs from jobs by
the heads of families, more
applications for free lunches are
expected.
Edison Powers, assistant
superintendent of schools, said
that all principals have been
instructed to follow up on unem
ployment and see that all
children entitled to a free lunch
receive it.
Mrs. Loving said that prin
cipals had been requesting the
free lunch forms last Friday and
she expected an increase to come
this week and next.
School lunches sell for 50 cents
and Mrs. Loving says she thinks
the quantity and quality of toe
meals makes it the best buy
(Continued on Page 10-A)
facts” about the commissioners’
progress toward providing the
needed new building, to contain
courtrooms and supporting
facilities.
“I told Judge Long I took no
exception to the grand jury’s
report, but that I felt that
neither he nor the grand jury
had been given complete infor
mation,” Taylor told his col
leagues, all of whom were in
attendance at toe meeting.
He said he and Judge Long had
reviewed “the entire chron
ology” of the county’s plans,
going back to April 1966, when W.
Lament Brown, then solicitor of
Moore recorder’s court, advised
of changes due to arrive with the
implementation of the new
district court in December 1968.
Brown had cited the ex
periences of other counties as
they came under the court
system and found new court
rooms were needed, and warned
that this would be happening in
Moore in toe foreseeable future.
As chairman of a special Bar
Association committee set up for
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BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
What inflation is doing to
Moore County’s 201 Factoties
Plan (the county-wide sewer
system); adoption of the first
comprehensive revision of toe
county’s zoning ordinance in nine
years; and an additional allot
ment of public service employes,
most of whom toe board decided
to turn over to the schools, were
some highlights of a special
meeting of Moore County
commissioners Thursday af
ternoon.
Words like “a million dollars”
or even $10 and a half million”
are tossed around so casually in
any discussion of the 201
Facilities Plan, that toe average
listener gets an unreal feeling
about it all; but Les Hall, project
manager with toe engineering
firm in charge, makes it all
sound reasonable and normal.
The commissioners looked
startled when Hall informed
them that the cost estimates of
the county’s largest business
transaction in history were
running about $1 million higher
now than toe last time they were
figured, but-Hall assured them-
this would be taken care of in toe
Step 3 grant application, which
they authorized him to make.
You just apply for more than you
believe you will need, which will
Hot Meals
The hot meals program for the
elderly will begin at noon on
Thursday at toe Senior Citizens
Center on North Saylor Street in
Southern Pines.
Fifty meals will be served to a
selected group, who were picked
because of age and who are
unable to prepare nutritious
meals for themselves because of
various reasons.
A social service program
relative to the needs of older
persons will also be offered each
day.
Volunteers are needed for
transportation, escort and other
assistance and any person in
terested in volunteering may call
Stan Williams, project director,
at 692-6060 after 5 p.m.
take care of things until toe grant
goes through, and in the
meantime you try to cut down
where you can-wito the chance,
also, that the economy will
“straighten out.”
With the financial summary,
or total project cost, now set at
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Tag Sales
Top Mark
Of 18,000
More than 18,000 motor vehicle
license tags were sold torou^
the auto license and title office on
U.S. Highway 15-501 from Janu
ary 2 through February 17, W.H.
(Bill) Bowen, manager of toe of
fice, wearily reported on Tues
day.
Last Monday, the 17th, was the
final day on which cars could be
driven displaying 1974 plates. As
a result, Bowen and his assis
tants were virtually swamped
with persons seeking plates on
that day.
But many applicants had no
renewal cards, so were required
to fill out various application
forms. This slowed license tag
sales so greatly that only about
800 persons were served, where-
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Music F&e
The Picquet Music Festival,
sponsored each year by toe
Kiwanis Club of toe Sandhills,
will be held on Friday, April 11,
at 8 p.m. at North Moore High
School.
President Richard Mangnim
will present at this time toe
Junior Builder’s Cup to toe
Moore County student chosen for
outstanding all-around achieve
ment.
Chairman of toe festival is Lou
Hicks. The event which has been
held for many years features toe
mixed choruses of Union Pines,
Pinecrest and North Moore High
Schools. The festival is named in
honor of toe late Charles Picquet.
N.C. LICENSE PLATE
AGENCY ,
TAGS, TITLES AND NOTARY
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LINES GOT LONGER — As the extended deadline for new North Carolina auto
license plates on Monday drew closer the lines of late-buying motorists grew
longer. W.H. (Bill) Bowen said over 800 plates were sold on Monday and more
than 18,000 have been sold since Jan. 2.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Samarkand Simmers Over Memo
But No Staffers Have Resigned
Diorama At Weymouth
Will Be Completed Soon
You’ll Lose An Hour OnSunday
Don’t Forget To Change Clocks
A hard line stand with tough
talk to staff members from
James F. Leathers, director of
Samarkand Manor near Eagle
Springs, has brought some ad
verse reaction from employes at
toe correctional institution but no
resignations as of Tuesday.
Leathers said yesterday that
he did not expect any
resignations, adding “I haven’t
asked for any.”
He went on to say that “Things
have sharpened up considerably
and have improved around the
campus.”
Leathers had issued a lengthy
memorandum which he headed
with the words “Disgusted!
Disgusted! Disgusted!”
Late last year Samarkand
Manor which had been ex
clusively for girls was changed to
coeducational status, with both
boys and girls between toe ages
of 10 and 13 sent there. As of this
week there were 90 boys and 30
girls on the campus, which last
year figured in an investigation
by the State Bureau of In
vestigation when reports of a
prostitution- ring and drug use
were made.
Leathers said this week, “It
'has been quite a change
requiring quite an adjustment.”
He did say that runaways are
still a problem, although it has
been reduced since last summer.
There were reports, however,
that there were 50 runaways
during January, and this number
probably accounted for the
strong memorandum from
Leathers.
He did say that the staff needed
to know immediately when a
runaway has taken place “so
that we can pick them up along
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Home of Council Member
Robbed of Coins, Jewelry
“The Diorama Exhibits at toe
Weymouth Woods, Sandhills
Nature Preserve Museum, will
be completed in toe next two to
three months,” says L.M. ‘Mac’
Goodwin, superintendent and
ranger at toe park.
Lynch Associates of New
Jersey have been working on toe
exhibits and installation of them
should begin toe middle of next
month. In toe 1973 Legislature
approximately $65,000 was ap
propriated for toe museum, but it
is now estimated that toe cost of
the exhibits will be $82,000.
The exhibits will be housed in
the first building of toe six-year
oldmuseum. “The purpose aif toe
museum,” said Goodwin, “is to
allow peoide to see thinra that
they couldn’t see, even^ toey
were at toe natural location. The
exhiUt will also tell toe story of
toe region and how man has
altered his en^onment.”
Included at the museum will be
a 3-D cross section of a
beaver pond area, water forms
and aniiiuds who live near water ,
such as snakes, ducks, turtles'
and fish in toe area. The water
plant specimens include water
lilies.
A mini-diorama of subterran
ean life will also be housed at toe
museum. Invertebrates such as
spiders, beetles, teraiites and
solitary wasps wW be seen in this
tunnel-like display. This display
will be particularly interesting to
toe children, for toey will ac
tually be able to crawl ttffough a
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Daylight Saving Time will go
into effect Sun^y in Moore
County and most of the 50 states.
Except for persons who may
forget to turn their clocks ahead
one hour, toe shift is expected to
cause little confusion. Schools
and business houses, for
example, will operate on toe
same “clock” time as before.
The official hour for toe change
is 2 a.m. Sunday, which becomes
3 a.m. under toe “spring for
ward, fall back” formula.
The switch to DST comes two
months earlier than usual as a
result of Congressional action.
Back in 1973 Congress passed toe
emergency year-round Daylight
Saving Time Act as an energy
conservation measure. This put
the nation on DST from January
6, 1974 to April 27, 1975.
But complaints that children
were going to school in toe dark,
causing considerable hazard,
and that energy savings were
miniscule, forced Congress to
repeal part of toe act. As a result,
toe nation returned to standard
time on Oct. 27, 1974, and
remains so until Sunday.
All or part of five states are
affected in differing ways from
the rest of the nation. They are
Arizona, Hawaii, Michigan,
Idaho and Indiana. Michigan and
Idaho voted to exempt the
easternmost zones of their states
from the 1973 law and said toey
would go on DST April 27, 1975.
The other three states have
exempted themselves from the
federal law establishing uniform
daylight savings time.
Historical Society Set
For Vanishing Past Talk
The regular winter meeting of
the Moore County Historical
Society will be held Wednesday,
Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. in toe lecture
hall, room A-111, at Sandhills
Community College and feature
a talk, “Visual Vestiges of toe
Vanishing Past” by F. Atwood
Whitman.
Whitman is a distinguished
Sustaining member of toe society
and is toe newly-elected second
vice president.
Tony Parker will give a brief
story of his amazing success in
locating and identifying over 300
old cemeteries in Moore County.
Plans will be announced for toe
18th Annual Antiques Fair to be
held on April 2, 3, and 4 at toe
National Guard Armory on
Morganton Road in Southern
Pines.
Membership dues for 1975 are
now receivable and may be sent
with additional contributions if
desired to Ronald J. Christie,
Box 686, Southern Hnes, N.C.
28387. Annual dues are $2;
Sustaining, $5, life, $50 and
Business, $25.
The new publication, “The
Story of Moore County,” by
Manly Wade Wellman is now
availaUe for $10 at the Coun^
Bookshop, 190 W. Pennsylvania
Ave., Southern Pines. It may also
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CANADIAN MONEY ACCEPTED — Shops and resorts in the Sandhills were
tested this week by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fisher (“Mr. and Mrs. Canada") to see
if they accepted Canadian money. Here the couple buy candy from Jean Price of
the Village Candy Shop on W. Pennsylvania Avenue-and, yes, she accepted the
Canadian currency. The Fishers were in the area Monday and Tuesday of this
week.
Warning
Motorists must remove their
out-of-date Southern Pines tags,
and must display toe new 1975
windshield stickers, Police Chief
Earl Seawell warned today
(Wednesday).
Display of expired tags is a
violation of the law. The new
stickers, costing $1, can be
purchased at the town hall. Cars
of motorists living in Southern
Pines are required to display the
new stickers. Chief Seawell said.
Lifestyle
Is Guide
To Attack
BY EDITH FALLS
Take a closer look at your
lifestyle. It is turning you into a
candidate for heart attack or
stroke?
Dr. E. Wilson Staub, a heart
surgeon of the Pinehurst Surgi
cal Clinic, and member of toe
board of the North Carolina
Heart Association, says that fhe
more than 880,000 deaths each
year from two of the nation’s
major killers-heart attack and
stroke-are proof that “too many
Americans are doing too little to
safeguard their hearts.”
He points out that scientists
have pinned down certain “risk
factors” that lead to heart
disease.
“By modifying some of these
factors, and minimizing the
danger of those we can’t
change,” he says, “our chances
of living longer, heart-healthy
lives are greatly increased.”
Dr. Staub, a specialist at
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Articles valued at several
thousand dollars were stolen
fi'om toe home of Southern Pines
Councilman C.A. McLaughlin,
150 Longleaf Road, Saturday
night.
, The burglary took place
sometime between 8 p.m. and
midnight. It was discovered by
Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin on
their return home after being out
for toe evening.
Taken were a coin collection, a
television set, jewelry and
money, according to police
records. Entry was gained Iqr
[vying open a side window.
McLaughlin said it was ap
parent the house had been
ransacked as soon as they
walked in. He said he left
everything as it was until police
arrived to inspect toe premises.
Bid Opening Scheduled
On Moore Road Projects
Bids on 12 highway resurfacing
projects in Moore County total
ing 25.8 miles of road will be
opened February 25 in Raleigh
by toe North Carolina Depart
ment of Transportation.
Assuming bids are accepted
and contracts let, work on toe
projects should be completed by
summertime.
Included are 11.01 .miles of
state highway resurfacing; the
rest of the work will be done on
secondary roads. Following are
the projects:
N.C. Highway 73, from N.C. 211
to U.S. 15-501, a distance of 7.6
miles.
N.C. 211 from Aberdeen city
limits to Hoke County line, 2.5
miles.
U.S. 15-501 from Aberdeen
limits to Secondary Road 2063,
seven-tenths of a mile.
N.C. 24-27 around the traffic
circle in Carthage east to N.C.
22, 0.21 miles.
S.R. 1805 from S.R. 1804 to Vass
city limits, 7.8 miles.
S.R. 1841 from S.R. 1831 to the
Whispering Pines limits, 1.3
miles.
S.R. 1841 from Whispering
Pines limits to N.C. 22, six-tenths
of a mile.
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
DEMOCRATS — A North
Carolina native who became a
U.S. Senator from West Virginia
and rose to the position of Senate
majority whip will be the
speaker at the North Carolina
Democrats annual Jefferson-
Jackson Day dinner.
Senator Robert C. Byrd was
born in North Wilkesboro and
was reared in West Virginia by
foster parents when he was or
phaned at an early age.
Known as an old-fashioned
stem-winder orator, he is also a
fiddler, and usually enlivens his
speechmaking with some
mountain runes.
The dinners will be held on
Saturday, March 1, at toe Royal
Villa just outside Raleigh on US
70 west. House Speaker Jimmy
Green is the chairman.
State Party Chairman James
R. Sugg, in announcing ap
pointment of Green and toe
selection of Byrd as speaker,
said that the theme of this year’s
event is “Unity For Victory in
’76.”
Moore County Democrats may
obtain tickets for toe Jefferson-
Jackson Day dinner from County
Chairman J. Ed Causey.
HEFNER — Eighth District
Congressman Bill Hefner has
been elected to three sub
committees of the House
Veterans Affairs Committee.
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