Weather
A combination of clear skies and low
temperatures may bring freezing
weather to the Sandhills tonight. Ex
pected low is around 30, with Thur
sday’s high around 60. Chances of rain
are near zero through Thursday. The
past week’s rainfall totaled about an
inch.
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Index
Antiques Fair, 3-A; Books, 2-B;
Classified ads, 8-9-10-11-C; Editorial
page, 1-B; Deaths, 9-A; Entertainment,
8-A; Pinehurst News, 1-2-C; Social
News, 2-6-A; and Sports, 10-11-A.
Vol. 55-No. 21
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Tornado Hits At West End;
Damage Heavy, No Injuries
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THE EASTER LILY — This floral symbol of Easter will decorate homes and
churches of the area this weekend as the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ
is observed. This display was photographed at Southern Pines Florist by Glenn M
Sides.
Holy Week Services Announced
By Churches of Sandhills Area
Holy Week, the most solemn
week of the Christian year, will
be observed in special services at
many Southern Pines churches,
beginning tomorrow with
Maundy Thursday communion
and culminating in the joyous
Easter celebration on Sunday.
Maundy Thursday services,
commemorating Jesus’ last
supper with His disciples, will be
held at 7:30 a.m., 10 a.m. and
5:30 p.m. at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, at 6 p.m. at St.
Anthony’s Catholic Church, at 8
p.m. at Southern Pines United
Methodist Church, at 7:30 p.m. at
Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church, and at 7:30
p.m. at Our Saviour Lutheran
Church.
On Good Friday, a community
service commemorating Christ’s
Crucifixion, will be held from
noon to 3 p.m. at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church. Ministers
participating are the Rev.
Martin Caldwell, the Rev. James
Manion and the Rev. Fred Pace
of Emmanuel, the Rev. John
Stone of First Baptist Church,
the Rev. John S. Paschal of
Southern Pines United Methodist
Church, the Rev. Joseph Johnson
of Trinity A.M.E. Zion Church,
the Rev. Mark Johnson of Our
Saviour Lutheran Church, and
the Rev. Harold Hyde of
Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church.
There will be hymns and
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A sudden storm with at least
one tornado hit Moore County
Monday afternoon causing
considerable damage but with no
reported injuries or lives lost.
Strong winds were felt in all
parts of the area and torrential
rains caused some flooding.
The tornado lashed down at
2:45 p.m. from a churning black
sky in an area we^ of West End,
which reported the worst
damage.
In that area, the mobile home
of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Southard,
on NC 211 four miles west of West
End, was tom from its foun
dation and rolled over and over
several times, turning to
splinters as it went.
Mr. and Mrs. Southard, with
their baby, had taken refuge just
minutes before in the Citgo
service station near their trailer,
crowding into the restroom as
apparently the safest spot in the
structure.
This judgment turned out to be
right, as the roof was blown off
the station, and parts of the walls
were tom off, but the restroom
remained intact and the
Southards were unhurt.
Five brooder houses, of
capacity ranging from 6,500 to
14,000 chicks, were destroyed on
the nearby farm of Carlton
Smith, but no poultry was in
them at the time. While the
buildings, with controlled
heating, automatic feeders and
other equipment, represent a
considerable investment. Smith
declined to estunate his loss,
pending the insurance in-
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Library Hours
Beginning tonight (Wed
nesday) the Southern Pines
Library will be open until 8 p.m.
on Wednesday nights. Miss Deah
Straw, librarian, has announced.
The lUx-ary opens at 9 a.m. and
will be open continuously until 8
p.m. Regular library hours
during the week are 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
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■ TORNADO DESTRUCTION — The mobile home of
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Southard was destroyed in the
tornado which hit down near West End Monday
afternoon. The family had fled to safety in a nearby
filling station. Wreckage scattered over a wide area
can be seen in above picture.—(Photo by Glenn M.
Sides).
Schools Take Holiday;
Easter Monday Closings
Planning, Human Values
Stressed At Symposium
Easter Monday, a legal holiday
only in North Carolina, the
Virgin Islands and Canada, will
find town and county offices,
schools, banks and some busi
ness houses closed.
The March 31 closing, how
ever, will not affect the U.S.
Postal Service; post offices and
mail service will operate on a
normal schedule.
Both public and private schools
will be closed for the usual
Easter or spring vacation week.
Classes will be held as usual on
Friday, March 28, and students
will return to school on April 7.
Sandhills Community (College
will be closed from March 28
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Canaday Named Director
Of Recreation In Moore
Oliver L. Canaday, a native of
Four Oaks, has been appointed
Recreation Director for Moore
County.
The position of Recreation
Director has been funded from
Public Service Employment
Funds, provided by the Federal
Government under CETA (Com
prehensive Employment Train
ing Act) Title VI.
Canaday is a graduate of Four
Oaks High School and a recent
graduate of Pembroke State
University where he received a
B.S. Degree in Physical Educa
tion and Recreation. He served
with the United States Marine
Corps from September 1964, until
December, 1970. He is currently
a staff non-commissioned officer
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The need for planning which
will emphasize human values
and the quality of life as well as
idiysical growth was emphasized
at the Moore County Humanities
Symposium held at Sandhills
Community College on Monday
and Tuesday nights.
The overall subject of the
symjposium is “Dialog-The Year
2000.”
At Monday night’s session,
devoted to exploring the subject
of “Physical Growth-
Projections for the South,”
David Gillespie, administrative
director of the itouthem Growth
Policies Board with offices in the
Research Triangle, showed a
movie on “The Future of the
South.”
He explained the background
of the organization of the board
and projected growth figures for
the region, citing the need for
planning to meet the growth.
Sam Ragan, editor of The
Pilot, discussed growth in Moore
County, and also called attention
to the need for county-wide
zoning and a land use policy. His
emphasis, however, was on
human needs and the quality of
Ufe, saying that the area will
grow but that greater in
volvement of citizens is needed in
political decision-making in
order that certain qualities may
be preserved. These qualities
were listed as neighborliness,
civility, graciousness, and a
freedom of choice for individuals
in both leisure time and in ear-
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Mrs. Baker
Makes Gift
To Center
The Southern Regional Mental
Health Center at Lumberton has
announced the receipt of “a large
and substantial contribution”
from Mrs. Constance M. Baker,
owner of Duncraig Manor in
Southern Pines.
This gift is to support the
continued work in the three
Children’s Treatment Centers
located in Southern Pines
(Duncraig Manor), Fayetteville
(Cumberland House), and
outside of Laurinburg (Scotland
House). The Children’s Treat-
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Last Chance
Tonight will be the last chance
for basketball fans of this area to
see David Thompson and other
N.C. State seniors in action.
The State seniors will play the
Moore County All Stars in a
game sponsored by the Vass-
Lakeview PTA at the Union
Pines gym tonight (Wednesday)
at 7:30 p.m.
Thompson will be joined by
seniors Monte Towe, Mo Rivers,
Craig Kuszmaul and Mark
Moeller. The Moore AU Stars will
be made up of players from
Sandhills College, coaches and
other leading players of the area.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. and
the admission is $2. There are no
advance ticket sales.
Architect Gathers Data
For New Court Facility
Plans are going forward to
begin construction of the new
Moore County court facility in
Carthage around the first of the
year.
Architect E. J. Austin of South
ern Pines said this week that he
is spending this month gathering
data from judges, bar associa
tion members, the clerk of coiu’t
and others preparatory to plan
ning the hall of justice.
A public hearing on much-
needed new courtroom facilities
has been ordered by Superior
Court Judge James Long and will
be held at 2 p.m. on May 1 in the
courthouse.
County commissioners were
asked by the judge to appear at
this hearing to present plans for
the facility, and Austin said that
he would be prepared to present
preliminary sketches and some
details on the building at that
time.
Property for the facility has
been purchased in the area
between the present courthouse
and the new jail and other county
buildings.
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Young Mother Is Freed
In Slaying Of Husband
Inflation Hits Budget
For Schools Next Year
The Moore County Board of
Education, in monthly meeting
Tuesday night, spent a long work
session studying the first draft of
a proposed budget for the schools
for 1975-76.
Working until considerably
past midnight, they went over
the 20-page document line by line
with business manager Joe
Vaughn, finding plenty of bad
news, but also discovering that it
wasn’t all that way.
The bad news was the effect of
inflation in items on every page,
especially the utilities. The in
creased cost of electricity, plus
more facilities to be cooled and
heated, with possible elimination
of state funds which have
hitherto helped meet these bills,
resulted in an estimate of
$213,202 in county funds for
lights, water and power-more
than double the $104,723 budgeted
for this year.
Fuel costs, set at $63,060 for the
current fiscal year, are up to
$81,978 in the new budget, an
increase of 30 per cent estimated
by oil distributors. Even
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W • ^
SPRING SIGNAL — Since the robin is a year-around resident of the Sandhills he
is not the harbinger of Spring as he is supposed to be in other parts of the country.
But this one appeared ready to signal Spring’s arrival here last week.—(Photo by
Glenn M. Sides).
A 22-year-old mother of two
young children was acquitted
Tuesday at Carthage in the pistol
slaying of her husband at their
mobile home near West End last
October 27.
The jury took only 40 minutes
to bring in a vercUct for Mrs.
Martha Jeanette LaGrand Bald
win, who testified that she shot
James Odell Baldwin because he
had beaten her, threatened her
and ordered her out of their
house, causing her to fear for her
life.
Though she had been indicted
for first degree murder. District
Hearing
Scheduled
On Grant
A public hearing will be held on
the Community Development
plan for Southern Pines April 3 at
2 p.m.
A preliminary godhead on the
plan has been received by the
Town, Town Manager Lew
Brown said Monday, and South
ern Pines is “potentially
eligible” for federal funds for the
project.
At the time of the public
hearing, the application and
purposes for which the grant is
requested will be discussed, and
interested citizens may be heard.
A second public hearing will be
held on April 8, Brown said.
Before the hearing, questions
may be made to the office of the
Town Manager, 692-7021, and
copies of the preliminary ap
plication will be available for
inspection between 8:30 and 5
p.m. Monday through Friday.
Attorney Carroll M. Lowder
announced at the start of the trial
Monday that he would seek a
verdict only of murder in the
second degree.
Special Judge Dennis J. Win
ner, presiding, charged the
jurors they had the option of four
verdicts-second degree murder,
voluntery manslaughter, in
voluntary manslaughter and not
guilty.
Even though she had shot her
husband in the back as, accord
ing to her testimony, he was
reaching for a knife, the jury
apparently gave Mrs. Baldwin
full credit for acting in self-
defense.
She said her husband had been
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Council
To Meet
Thursday
A special meeting of the
Southern Pines Town Council to
deal with matters relating to the
sewer system expansion plan has
been called by Mayor E. Earl
Hubbard for Thursday at 7:30
a.m.
On the agenda for the special
meeting are the following
matters:
Consider a resolution
authorizing the Town Manager to
execute and file on behalf of the
Town an application to the State
and any Federal agency for a
grant to aid in the construction of
the sewerage system in the In
diana Avenue area.
Authorize the Mayor to sign an
affidavit certifying that the Town
has substantially complied or
will substantially comply with all
Federal, State and local laws,
rules, regulations and or
dinances applicable to Southern
Pines’ Sewer System Expansion
and to Federal^tate grants and
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Sales Tax
Local one percent sales and
use tax collections in the county
amounted to $66,318.07, the
Department of Revenue has
reported.
This figure was for the month
of February. Other counties
nearby had: Hoke, $16,944.32;
Montgomery, $22,925.25; Rich
mond, $78,623.55; Harnett,
$65,576.41 and Lee, $60,820.62.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
:R — In a report this
week sent through the mails to
all of his constituents in the
Eighth District, Congressman
Bill Hefner reported his position
and votes on several measures
and issues before the current
Congress.
He co-six)nsored a resolution
opposing the President’s
proposed limits on Social
Security increases this year and
he is also sponsoring a bill which
would allow Social Service
recipients to earn more and still
retain their benefits.
At a present time recipients
cannot earn more than $2,520 a
year and retain benefits, but
under the Hefner bill persons
could earn an additional $90 a
month or up to $3,500 a year and
still get full benefits under Social
Security.
Rep. Hefner said he also
supported the tax reduction act
passed by the House “because I
believe it will provide a needed
stimulus to the economy and will
particularly aid those most hurt
by our economic difficulties.” He
also said the act will help small
business.
He has also joined in the
Congressional move for lower
interest rates and has taken a
stand against further military
aid to South Vietnam and
Cambodia. Hefner wrote: “Many
people in the 8th District have
been writing me about their
opposition to President Ford’s
request to the Congress for over
$500 million in supplemental
military aid for South Vietnam
and Cambodia. While I have
great sympathy for the people of
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