Weather
Increasing cloudiness with near zero
chance of rain through Thursday is the
weather outlook for the Sandhills.
Tonight’s low will be around 38,
Thursday’s high about 60. Freezing
temperatures were recorded on five
nights during the past week.
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Index
Books, 2-B; Chureh calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 13-15-A; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 8-9-A; Obituaries, 12-A;
Pinehurst News, 7-A; Social News,
2-5-A; Sports, 10-11-A.
Vol. 55-No. 18
56 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, Mareh 5, 1975
56 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Hearing Set
On Services
For District
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The Moore County commis
sioners took action Monday
toward establishing a “county
services” district for the purpose
of fire protection, for the area
around Southern Pines; and also
studied a proposal by which they
would reimburse the Town of
Carthage for municipal services
rendered.
For Southern Pines, they
adopted a resolution setting a
public hearing for 2 p.m.
Thursday, April 17, on whether
or not to establish such a district
under the statute, as explained
by Joe W. Adams, county fire
marshal.
Adams, who has been working
on the proposal for some time
with Southern Pines officials,
was present with Fire Chief Pete
Rapatas to give full details.
The proposal is a development
of the original idea of a fire
district, to be served by the
Southern Pines Fire Department
with the same quality of service
for all residents of the district, as
is given the residents of Southern
Pines.
It would get the Town into a
position of rendering real service
to its peripheral areas, for a tax
assessment which would be
approximately the same as ,the
cost to town taxpayers, and
would supersede the present
contract system of service,
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Miss Smithson Is Killed
In Desert Cycle Mishap
A tragic accident of last
Thursday at Tucson, Arizona,
took the life of Terry Marie
Smithson, 28, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lee K. Smithson of
Southern Pines.
Miss Smithson, a research
chemist at the University of
Arizona, was a passenger on a
motorcycle driven by a friend, on
a ride along a desert highway
near Tucson, when the vehicle
went out of control, skidding
underneath a car in an adjoining
lane. Both she and the driver
were instantly killed.
She left Southern Pines about
two years ago, to accept the
position at the University of
Arizona.
A graduate of St. Anthony’s
parochial school and Southern
Pines High School, she won her
B.S. degree as a chemistry
major at the University of North
Carolina then worked for two
years in the laboratory of a
pharmaceutical firm in New
York. She then returned home
and was employed in the lab of
Moore Memorial Hospital,
working at the same time at the
Pinecrest Inn, for another two
years before going to Tucson.
Requiem mass was held
Monday at St. Anthony’s Catholic
Church, conducted by the pastor.
Father Edward Waters, with
burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Surviving are her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lee K. Smithson of
Knoll wood Heights; one sister,
Mrs. Simon Auckland, a resident
(Continued on Page 16-A)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
FREE ENTERPRISE —
Teachers and education officials
were strangely quiet last week
when the State Senate passed a
bill which would require the
teaching of the “Free Enter
prise” system in North Caro
lina’s public schools.
There hadn’t been anything
like it since the 1920s when a bill
was introduced to forbid the
teaching of evolution. That was
during the time of the “Monkey
Trial” excitement in Tennessee.
Some leading educators of the
State, notably Dr. William
Poteat of Wake Forest College,
went before the Legislature and
rallied forces to defeat the bill.
This time the State’s educators
were too fearful of acting
because they don’t want legis
lators to cut back on their pay
(Rebates Aid
^ Auto Sales
Uptiim Here
Commuter
Air Plan
Offered
BY PAGE SHAMBURGER
On the last day of February,
E.J. Austin, President of the
Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce, and Sidney Taylor,
Chairman of the County Com
missioners rode the special
Resort Commuter flight from
Southern Pines - Pinehurst to
Raleigh. Jack Daley, Airports
Services Manager of Eastern Air
Lines in Raleigh, led the EAL
well-wishers to the new “feeder”
airlines.
Starting March 16, Resort
Commuter Airlines, a branch of
Resort Air Service in the aviation
business at Southern Pines -
Pinehurst Airport for the past 23
years, will start a much needed
connecting schedule with the
Raleigh airlines. The new
Airlines will leave Southern
Pines - Pinehurst twice per day,
at 12:30 and at 3:40, returning
from Raleigh at 2:55 and 6:15
every day except Saturday.
With the government approval
of the Civil Aeronautics Board
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MID SOUTH-SHOW— Patty Heukeroth takes a jump N.C. Veterinary Research Foundation here. A record
in Sunday’s Mid-South Horse Show held at the number of spectators and exhibitors participated
Firestone’s Landmark Farm for the benefit of the despite the chilly weather. (See story on Sports Page).
raises and other appropriations
requests.
The fight against requiring by
law the teaching of a course,
which was not defined, was led
by a handfull of Senators,
including two teachers-Senator
Sebo of Guilford County and
Senator Mary Odom of Scotland
County. Senator Ralph Scott
voted against the bill, as did two
or three others.
It’s not that anybody is against
“free enterprise”-apparently
everybody is for it-but this was a
new venture into legislating
school subject matter by law,
and a lot of educators didn’t like
it but they were too scared to
object.
INQUIRIES — Betsy Lindau
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Symposium
Takes Look
At Future
A Symposium titled a “Dialog-
The Year 2000” involving prom
inent educators and humanists
from North Carolina will be held
March 24 and 25 at the Student
Hall, Sandhills Community Col
lege.
The two-evening conference
has as its general theme,
“Today’s Youth-Tomorrow’s
Leaders-A Look at Traditions in
Transition.”
“Dialog, The Year 2000,” will
be concerned with the three
themes. Physical Growth: Pro
jections for the South, Changing
Social Family Patterns; and
Future ’Trends in Education, all
lending themselves to the over
all theme.
On Monday evening, March 24
at 8 p.m., David E. Gillespie,
Administrative Director of the
Southern Growth Policies Board
at the Research Triangle, will be
commenting on the film, “The
Future of the South,” which will
be shown that evening. Gillespie
will talk on the effects future
growth will have on our quality of
Ufe.
Sam Ragan, editor and pub
lisher of The Pilot, will also be
featured with comments con
cerning Moore County as a rural,
non-agrarian county. In addition,
several prominent community
leaders have been invited to
express their reactions and to
invite comments and discussion
from the audience. The reactors
include: E.J. Austin, architect;
Mrs. Hope Brogden, Political
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Crime Class
At the request of the Southern
Pines Retail Council, the
Southern Pines Police Eiepart-
ment will sponsor a conference
on crime prevention with the
main emphasis being robbery
prevention.
Jesse Hough of the police
department will be the con
ference leader.
The meeting will be held at the
Southern Pines Municipal
Building Courtroom tonight
(Wednesday) at 7:30 p.m. and
will last one hour.
The Southern Pines town
council, in an “earlybird”
special meeting at 7:30 a.m.
Friday, discussed several im
portant matters and took action
on a few.
It voted to request that the
county conunissioners include an
interceptor for the Indiana
Avenue Extension area, in their
request for the funding of Phase 1
of the regional sewer system.
An engineering study recently
completed has revealed that the
interceptor will be necessary if
sewer service is to be provided
by the Town to this fast-growing
area, including several
residential subdivisions,
southeast of Southern Pines, and
between Southern Pines and,
Aberdeen.
The council authorized Town
Manager Lew G. Brown also to
request two additional positions
in the next funding of the Public
Service Employment program.
The county is acting as fiscal
agent for the program.
The two positions are: (1)
Library Aide, salary $5,200 to
provide general assistance in the
town library, also permitting
opening the Ubrary on weekends
and during evening hours, for
which present personnel is in
sufficient; and (2) Firefighter-
Driver, $7,032, permitting
release-time for one of the
Town’s current firemen to
concentrate on fire prevention
(Ck>ntinued on Page 16-A)
Snows of Yesteryear
When Spring blossoms burst
forth in mid-February and bright
warm days spilled over the
Sandhills just about everybody
took it for granted, but a few with
long memories are keeping their
fingers crossed.
It was 48 years ago this week
that the heaviest snowfall on
record hit this area. Weather
records show that the snowstorm
dumped 26 inches of snow on the
Sandhills, but the late Rassie
Wicker of Pinehurst, a surveyor
and Moore County historian, said
it measured a full 36 inches in
many places. He wrote a piece
about the snowstorm for The
Pilot a few years ago.
Howard Ulsh of Southern
Pines, a retired U.S. Weather
Bureau official, is compiling a
history of Moore County weaker
and has almost completed his
research. He is still filling in
some gaps, however, and last
week he was trying to search out
verification of a big snowstorm
which came to the Sandhills as
late as April 3.
That was in 1915-65 years ago
come April-and he has heard
that it measured 10 inches in
depth. .He has is.sued an appeal
for anyone with old records of
letters with any mention of this
snowstorm to get in touch with
him.
Some times Winter has a last
fling in March, and that’s why a
lot of old timers are not being
completely lulled into euphoria
by the early signs of Spring.
Education Edition
The annual Education Edition
of The Pilot appears with this
week’s issue of the newspaper.
Twenty-four universities,
colleges, community colleges
and technical institutes are
represented with news, pictures
and advertisements in the 24-
page tabloid size edition.
The theme of the edition is
“Learning to Live... and To
Make a Living.”
An index of the institutions
represented in The Pilot
Education Edition may be found
on Page 2 of the section. All
sections of North Carolina, with
some out-of-state schools, are
represented.
Through special arrangements
The Pilot has arranged for copies
of the edition to be made
available to high school seniors
in the six counties of Moore,
Montgomery, Richmond,
Scotland, Hoke and Lee. Extra
copies have been printed and are
available at The Pilot.
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Council Makes Sewer Request;
More Public Works Jobs Asked
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PARK POPULAR — Despite recent chilly days the
sunshine brought swarms of children to the downtown
Southern Pines park and this slide is a popular place
for the kids.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Golf Greats
Nominated
For Hall
Seven golfing greats have been
nominated for the World Golf
Hall of Fame af Pinehurst, and
the members of the Golf Writers
Association of America will
select three for the second
induction on Sept. 10 prior to the
World Open Golf Tournament.
The nominations were made by
the Modern Era Nominating
Committee of the Hall of Fame at
a meeting last week.
The Hall of Fame was opened
last September with an initial
induction of 13. With new
procedures this year, six pre
modern era players already have
been elected by a select
committee and there possibly
will be four more to be inducted
from a new Distinguished Serv
ice Category for a total of 13 for
the class of ’75.
Nominated were Mickey
Wright, LPGA star all but
semi-retired now; Louise Suggs,
in the same category; South
Africa’s Bobby Locke; active
players Peter Thomson of
Australia and Billy Casper of the
American tour, and the late
Lawson Little and Tommy
Armour. The latter selection
straddled the pre and modern
eras and since most major
triumphs occured from 1930
onward, he was put in the
modern era.
Miss Wright, 39, dominated the
women’s tour, winning 82 tour
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Peaches Safe
Sandhills peaches have not
been hurt by the cold. Director
Clarence Black of the Sandhills
Research Center said Monday.
Increased acreage of peaches
have been planted in the area
since the development of new
varieties and increased know
ledge of resetting. Black said.
Only three percent of the trees
are in bloom, and Black is
“optimistic” about prospects of
a good crop this year.
However, he reminds the
public that there are six weeks to
go before the danger of a kill like
last year, when an April freeze
cut 80 percent of the crop.
Trial Opens
In Holdup
Murder Case
Testimony started Tuesday
afternoon in Moore Superior
Court in the trial of Willie Ed
ward McZorn, 24, of West
Southern Pines, charged with
first degree murder and armed
robbery.
The jury selection process took
up much of Monday afternoon
and all of Tuesday morning,
when a special venire was
brought in as the reserve of
jurors became depleted.
This trial, and one other,
completed Monday, have taken
up all the time, so far, of the
current criminal term, over
which Special Judge Robert L.
Gavin is presiding.
Acquitted Monday was Nelson
R. Flynn on a charge of driving
while his license was revoked.
In the McZorn trial, conviction
will mean a mandatory death
sentence for the husky young
black defendant.
He and another West Southern
Pines youth, Joseph James
Cauthen, also 24, are accused in
the murder of John Henry Mc-
Caskill, 56, West End store
operator. In the course of an
armed robbery at the store,
Honeycutt’s Grocery, January 6.
McZorn was arrested January
18, Cauthen January 19, and both
have been held in Moore County
Jail, without bond, but are
having separate trials. It is
(Continued on Page 16-A)
BY MARJORIE RAGAN
The six-weeks rebate program
ending Friday was “highly
successful” according to Moore
County automobile dealers and
was looked on as the beginning of
an upward trend in the business
community as a whole, a survey
Tuesday showed.
Bill (5lark, president of Clark
Chevrolet in Pinehurst, said
Cadillac sales were up 100
percent over last year, and
Chevrolets, 50 percent.
“Things are stablizing out,” he
said “because of a renewed faith
in government.”
The rebate program was
“excellent,” he said, and worked
out well.
Both luxury and economy cars
sold well here.
Jack Bennett, sales manager
for Ford dealer Jackson Motors
Inc., said sales were five to seven
percent over last year this time,
and during the rebate period his
showroom was “overrun with
traffic.”
Bennett said that at a recent
Ford meeting of the Charlotte
District, all dealers reported an
upswing.
Bob Brookshire of Brookshire
Motors, dealer for General
Motors cars, says his company
has been doing “real good
business” mostly in small cars
but some in luxury models. Sales
compare well wito last year, he
says, when the industry wasjji^t
a little by the energy crisis.
Bill Kurdian of Kurdian AMC-
Jeep Inc., who sells for American
Motors, said there was a
“flurry” of buying near the end
of February.
“The rebates have helped
some,” he said, but added that he
saw increased sales more in
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Rescue Squad 4 Delivers:
Baby Makes Sudden Birth
“We haven’t lost one yet,”
said Captain Frank Smith of
Rescue Squad No. 4 Tuesday,
after delivering a son at 4 a.m. to
Mrs. Geoffrey Hall of Pinehurst
at her home.
The baby came before the
mother could be placed in the
ambulance.
It was Capt. Smith’s third
delivery during his seven years
on the squad, but the first for
Squad Member Glenn Garner,
who has served for three years.
A young lady and the child’s
father were on the scene. It was a
second son for the Halls.
As soon as the baby was
delivered and started crying, the
mother and child were rushed to
Moore Memorial Hospital.
The Rescue Squad is trained
and equipped for such emer
gencies.
Mother, child and the Rescue
Squad members were reported
“doing fine” this morning.
Hunter Trials Satiu-day
To Draw Record Entries
The Forty-third Annual Moore
County Hounds Hunter Trials
this Saturday, March 8, has over
150 entires, the largest ever. The
Trials, with horses ridden by
juniors and by adults over a
variety of fences, starts at 10
a.m. with a junior class for riders
13 years old and under.
■niis is the only opportunity for
the public to really see what fox
hunting horses are capable of
doing. Each entry is a qualified
hunting horse, the fences are
typical of those back in the woods
and used by the Moore County
Hounds all winter.
The classes will immediately
follow each other with the first
adult class starting about 11 a.m.
Breakfast, lunch, and snacks wiU
be available on the grounds with
all proceeds benefitting the St.
Anthony Church building fund.
Judges are Frances Rowe,
Richard Kelly, and J. Arthur
Reynolds II. A very few reserved
parking spaces are available for
$15 or $20 and include admission
for all car occupants. General
admission is $1 per person. Post
entries or requests for parking
spaces can be made through
Mrs. W.O. Moss at 692-3347 or
Page Shamberger at 944-1193.
The Hunter Trial course is at
Scotts Corners out Youngs Road,
Southern Pines.
Three Towns Require Auto Tags
In Other Places It’s Voluntary
if
BY JIM SUTHERLAND
If you’re a resident of Southern
Pines, Aberdeen or Robbins,
you’re required to carry a town
license tag or sticker on your
car; failure to do so carries
penalties ranging up to $50.
That’s because those three
towns have compulsory motor
vehicle registration ordinances.
Other towns in Moore County
have no such requirements, but
most of them do sell tags which
can be purchased voluntarily.
This enables car owners to
display the name of their home
town on their vehicles.
One town, Carthage, once had
a motor vehicle registration
ordinance, but repealed it as
being unenforceable-a fact that
officials of other towns concede
to be true in their communities.
In all towns except Southern
Pines, the 1975 tags are metal
plates carrying the town’s name.
Southern Pines had metal plates
up to this year, but switched to a
windshield sticker because metal
plates are expensive and
deliveries were slow. But car
owners here can leave their 1974
metal plates on their cars if they
wish.
In several towns where pur
chases are voluntary, proceeds
of the tag sales go to the local
volunteer fire department. But in
Robbins, one of the three com
munities having compulsory
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