Weather
Today is expected to be a real scorcher,
with a high of 95, the low tonight, 70, and
a 50 percent chance of rain. Last Friday
was the peak day for rain, with nearly
two inches.
PILOT
Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 8-11-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 6-7-C; Obituaries, 7-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Social News,
2-4-A; Sports, 4-5-C.
Economy Is In Comeback
Survey of Sandhills Shows
Officers Destroy
Two Plots of Pot
NEW PLANT OPEN— The new $2.5 million addition to Sandhill Division plant in
West End of Stanley Furniture Company is now in operation. In photo above, Don
Coughlin, personnel manager, looks over the 130,000 square feet building.
S2.5 Million Moore Plant
Is Open And In Operation
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The $2.5 million addition to the
Sandhill Division of the Stanley
Furniture Company at West End
has been completed and opera
tions are under way in the 130,000
square foot building.
Don Coughlin, personnel man
ager of the West End plant, said
production is being stepped up
and employment now is at 320
persons.
“We are about where we were
last November,” he said. Em
ployment had dropped to a low of
298, but Coughlin says “things
are picking up” and company
officials are optimistic about the
future.
The new addition to the plant
when full production is attained
will mean the employment of
about 75 more people. Full
production will call for between
400 and 450 persons. This would
also involve a night shift.
Construction on the new plant
was started in March 1974, and
although some equipment still
has to be moved in to complete
the expanded assembly faculties
Tobacco Prices Advance
On Two Moore Markets
Tobacco prices on Moore
County markets are sUghtly
higher this week, averaging
$85.97 per hundred at Aberdeen
Tuesday and $89.47 per hundred
at Carthage on Monday.
This is up from $M.71 per
hundred on Carthage’s opening
day July 15 and $86,70 on
Aberdeen’s opening day July 16.
Sales have been slightly
heavier this week too, totaUing
$106,825.82 at Aberdeen (up from
$77,282) Tuesday.
More tobacco, however, was
reportedly going to the Tobacco
StabiUzation Corporation at both
markets, averaging around 50
percent.
Hardee’s in Aberdeen reported
total sales of 18,310 pounds on
Tuesday for a total of $15,834,
averaging $86.48 per hundred.
This compares to 10,940 pounds
sold last Wednesday for a total of
$9,116.74, averaging $83.33.
Farmer’s in Carthage reported
total sales of 73,000 pounds
Monday for an average of $88.49
per hundred.
McConnell’s Warehouse in
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V
Rain Benefits Outweigh
Damages To Some Crops
Despite some damage to
tobacco crops due to heavy rains,
the benefits outweight the prob
lems, according to Moore County
Agricultural Extension Service
Agent Talmadge Baker.
Baker said the farmers needed
the rain desperately and that
even though too much water
caused problems, the rain ended
a long dry spell which would
have resulted in more serious
harm to crops.
Among the problems in
tobacco fields. Baker cited, are
plant suffocation due to too much
moisture around the roots, over
ripening and rotting of the lower
leaves of tobacco plants, and too
much water in the ground to
aUow farm equipment in the
fields.
While some farms in the area
•have as much as an acre or two
of damaged tobacco plants, other
crops have prospered as a result
of the several showers of rain
that have fallen since July 7.
Baker said that corn and other
grain crops easily survived the
water and are doing fine. He said
that peaches, pastures and
forests are also benefiting.
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it is now operational. Coughlin
said that some renovation work
remains to be done in the old
building.
The new finishing area is three
times larger than the old
finishing department, and the
rub and pack sections have been
doubled in size. There was a 120
percent increase in the size of the
cabinet department and ware
house facilities were increased
by 50 percent.
In the new building which
houses the newly equipped as
sembly line there is a modern
in-floor conveyor system, water-
wash spray booths to eliminate
air pollution, and a more effi
cient drying oven to cut the
drying time for furniture finish
es.
Coughlin said the new em
ployes to be added as business
conditions improve will mean
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Elections
Officials
Upcoming
New registrars and judges for
each of the voting precincts in
Moore County will be appointed
by the Board of Elections at a
meeting in Carthage on August 5.
The chairman of the Republi
can and Democratic parties have
been notified that they should
submit a list of five names for the
registrar and judges offices prior
to the meeting.
The Moore County Board of
Elections will appoint a registrar
and two judges for each precinct
from the list submitted.
J. Ed Causey is chairman of
the Democratic Executive Com
mittee and James Thomas is
chairman of the Republicans.
Because Republicans are in
control of the executive branch of
government at the state level the
usual breakdown of appoint
ments will be a Republican
registrar and one judge and one
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For the second time in less
than a week, Moore County of
ficers “lucked up” on small plots
of marijuana growing in
secluded wooded , areas,
destroyed the plants and are still
looking for their owners.
Monday, Sheriff C.G. Wim
berly and Pinebluff Police C^ief
Frank Swaim were together
searching an area south of
Aberdeen for a missing farm
tractor.
They had had a report that the
tractor, stolen from the (jozzi
turkey farm below Pinebluff
about June 1, had been aban
doned in a swampy area in the
woods. They found it stuck in the
swamp, close to a growth of
about 20 graceful plants with
feathery leaves, which they
recognized as marijuana. They
destroyed the plants, which
ranged from two to about seven
and a half feet tall, and had to
send another tractor in to pull the
stuck tractor out of the swamp.
It appeared, Wimberly said,
that the tractor, which had a
front-end loader for transporting
turkey manure, had been stolen
to perform this function for the
“pot” plants, but got stuck and
had to be abandoned.
Wednesday of last week,
Moore County ABC officers and
members of the sheriff’s
department found and destroyed
35 marijuana plants, from three
to about six and a half feet tall,
on a hidden site in the Deep River
area, between Glendon and
Putnam.
Tax Bills
Tax bills for the Town of
Southern Pines are going out and
there’s a 2 percent discount if the
bills are paid by the end of July.
In August the discount drops to 1
percent.
Mrs. Mildred McDonald, town
clerk, said that persons who may
not receive their bills in time and
still want to take the maximum
discount may come by the town
Hall anyway and pay their bills-
just so it’s done before Aug. 1.
She said she hopes, however, that
all bills can be put in the mail this
week.
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LEARN ABOUT HORSES —Children at Camp Easter
in the Pines learn about horses during the summer
sessions. Here Marylyn Meade, student counselor
from St. Andrews College, instructs Michael Register
on horse care. — (Photo by Mildred Allen).
They Learn New Skills
Rep. Auman Is Appointed At Camp Easter Groups
wnnvx a-r Y TnvT 'Riif fEoro 1C a Hiffprpr
To State Children Group
Rep. T. Clyde Auman has been
appointed by House Speaker
Jimmy Green to the. statewide
Conunission on Children With
Special Needs.
Others named to the com
mission by Speaker Green were
Rep. Vernon James of Elizabeth
City and Rep. Benny Swartz of
Witoington.
The commission was
authorized in legislation passed
by the 1975 General Assembly
which transferred the State’s
training schools, such as those at
Samarkand Manor and Morrison
at Hoffman, from the Depart
ment of Corrections to the
Department of Human
Resources.
The legislation also provided
for the re-establishment of a
commission to establish policy
and oversee the programs for the
training schools as well as other
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
ERVIN—Retired U.S. Senator
Sam Ervin will be honored with a
“Sam Ervin Night” on Friday at
the 102nd annual North Carolina
Press Association banquet at the
Pinehurst Hotel.
Ervin, long a champion of
press freedoms, will be present
ed a book containing letters of
appreciation from members of
the North Carolina press. He will
also speak at the banquet session
in the Cardinal Ballroom.
William Snider, editor of the
Greensboro Daily News and
Record, is president of the press
association and will preside over
sessions which will get under
way Thursday evening.
PRESIDENT — Both Pine
hurst and Fort Bragg are hoping
to have President Gerald Ford
for a visit in September.
Don Collett, chairman of the
World Open Golf tournament and
president of the World Golf Hall
of Fame, is inviting President
Ford to play in toe Pro-Am
celebrity tournament on toe eve
of toe World Open. President
Ford was in Pinehurst last
September for toe dedication of
toe World Golf Hall of Fame and
the boulevard leading from
Midland Road to toe hall is
named for toe President.
General Emerson, the new
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BY MILDRED ALLEN
The camp setting in toe piney-
wood lake and horse country of
toe Sandhills is like any other
camp.
Camp activities are toe same
swimming, horseback riding,
archery, games, fun and fellow
ship and life-long memories of
friends and counselors.
Sanford
Campaign
Organizes
Organization of toe campaign
in Moore County for Terry
Sanford for President is under
way.
Dr. Raymond Stone, chairman
of a committee appointed at a
recent meeting here to organize
a committee, said this week that
his group has held a meeting.
Plans were made to appoint a
steering committee of 18 per
sons, who will elect a chairman
and set up an organization.
Dr. Stone said that the steering
committee will be made up of all
elements in Moore County, and
that later it will be toe steering
committee’s responsibility to
establish separate precinct
committees.
He said that he has been ad
vised by Sanford that Senator
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But there is a difference-
a difference that has made
Southern Pines, as well as Camp
Easter, a household word across
toe State. You see, toe campers
are very special people-children
born with cerebral palsy, young
sters with muscul^ dystrophy,
teenagers with amputated legs
or paralysis, parents with mult
iple sclerosis, grandparents
learning to live and function
again after a stroke.
In toe midst of all toe fun,
children and adults learn new
skiUs not only in recreation, but
in personal care and how to live
in social groups. Family camps
are held in toe fall and winter
months for problem sharing and
professional counseling. Young
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Southern Pines and
surrounding areas seem to be
making a gradual but steady
comeback, from the worst
economic decline since toe Great
Depression of the 1930’s.
A survey of local businessmen
this week revealed a new and
“guarded optimism” about the
economy-a belief that toe in
flation rate is slowing down and
that people are regaining con
fidence in the economy.
Among those interviewed were
merchants, bankers. Chamber of
Commerce leaders, real estate
executives, construction con
tractors, service station
operators, hotel managers,
restaurant owners, automobile
dealers, food store operators,
and electrical contractors.
Most were optimistic, and
several resort operators
reported an exception^ly good
season.
However, the Employment
Security Commission reported
Monday that insured unem
ployment for Moore County is
still hovering around 8.6 percent
for the month of June and the
first two weeks of July. Around
982 workers in the county are
receiving unemployment
benefits, according to the
commission. Unemployment
peaked at 20 percent in January.
The North Carolina unemploy
ment figure reported this week is
9.2 percent.
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Ticket Sales
Up to 40 percent of advance
ticket sales for toe World Open
Golf tournament at Pinehurst
Sept. 11-14 will go for toe benefit
of handicapped children.
Chief benefactor of toe ad
vance ticket sales will be toe
Parents and Professionals for
Handicapped Children, and vol
unteers in toe organization were
emphasizing this week toe ad
vantages of buying tickets early.
“Those planning to attend the
tournament can get tickets at toe
same price as later and also help
greatly toe work with handi
capped children in North Caro
lina,” a spokesman said.
Tickets can be purchased at
several local banks and savings
and loan offices or by writing
World Open offices in Pinehurst.
Grand Week of Golf Here
Proclaimed By Governor
Governor James E. Hols-
houser Jr. has been named
Honorary Chairman of the
“Grand Week of Golf,” a
seven-day sports extravaganza
scheduled at Pinehurst in
September.
In accepting the position.
Governor Holshouser himself
designated the entire week of
September 8-14 “The Grand
Week of Golf” in Pinehurst in an-
official proclamation.
The week-long activities will
culminate with toe playing of toe
$200,000 World Open Golf Champ
ionship.
Holshouser said, “The Grand
Week of Golf festivities in
Pinehurst will focus a tremend
ous amount of attention on ovu"
great state of North Carolina,
and as Honorary Chairman of toe
week-long celebration, I extend
an invitation to all golf-minded
citizens to visit Pinehurst and
take part in the events there.”
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Hefner Is Busier But His Lifestyle Not Much Changed
COMMITTEE HEARING — Rep. Bill Hefner is a
member of three subcommittees. Here he listens as
lawyers argue over the meaning of a particular
phrase in a “mark-up” session of the Clean Air bill.
BY JIM BUIE
WASHINGTON-In one corner
of Room 1004 Longworth Build
ing on Capitol Hill, Congressman
Bill Hefner’s personal secretary
was simultaneously attempting
to answer a telephone inquiry
about the Congressman’s sche
dule, explain office procedure to
a visiting reporter, and wrestle
with the office phone bill.
In the opposite corner, his
legislative assistant was meticu
lously studying an environmen
tal proposal.
In front of him, one of toe
Congressman’s two young in
terns was filing away letters
while the other one furiously took
notes on something from toe
Congressional Record.
A few feet away from them, a
receptionist was welcoming a
continuous parade of visitors into
toe office.
Four other assistants had their
noses in documents, trying val
iantly to keep up with toe endless
stream of letters and papers that
pour into toe office daily.
Amid all this stood the Con
gressman, nervously puffing on a
cigarette, reading a sheet pre
sented to him by his legislative
assistant, and getting ready to
walk over to toe Capitol for yet
another meeting.
“I’ve been on Capitol Hill for 12
years, working for former
Senator Sam Ervin,” said legis
lative assistant Bill McEwen,
shaking his head, “and I don’t
think there has ever been as
much pressure up here. The pace
is just unbelievable.”
If you have any notion that
Congress is doing nothing, it
might be dispelled by a visit to
the office of Eighth District
Congressman Bill Hefner. The
Congress as a body may not be
responding so well to the crises
confronting the nation, but at
least most of them appear to be
working holes in their shoes.
For example, here’s toe sche
dule for Congressman Hefner for
Thursday, July 10: 8 a.m. -
Prayer breakfast at the White
House; 10 a.m. - three subcom
mittee hearings, aU meeting at
toe same time; 12:30 - luncheon
with other members of the N.C.
Congressional delegation for a
meeting with lobbyists for toe
breeder reactor as a solution to
the energy crisis; 1 p.m. -
personal dentist appointment; 2
p.m. - meeting of Health sub
committee to “mark-up” toe
Clean Air bill. Throughout the
afternoon. Congressman Hefner
was expecting to be called to toe
floor of toe house to vote on
amendments to toe Environmen
tal Protection Agency appropria
tions bill.
“We usually don’t leave the
Hill until at least eight o’clock
every night that we are in ses
sion,” said toe lean, somewhat
aesthetic-looking Congressman,
shrugging his shoulders.
Before there was time for a
follow-up question, he had pulled
out a schedule card from his
breast pocket. “Right now. I’m
supposed to be in the Capitol for a
conunittee meeting.”
The meeting was a “mark-up”
Health King
Michael Ritter of Robbins Star
Route was crowned North Caro
lina King of Health dmug toe
State 4-H Congress in Raleigh on
Tuesday.
Jennifer Cross of Reidsville,
Rt. 5, was crowned Queen of
Health.
The coronation came during
toe 4-H Health Pageant held at
the State Fairgrounds. Both
Ritter and Miss Cross will
receive expense paid trips to toe
National 4-H Congress in Chicago
in November where they will
compete for national honors and
$800 educational scholarships.
session in which members of a
particular subcommittee go over
a piece of legislation line by line
and offer amendments. Con
gressman Hefner shares this
subcommittee with fellow North
Carolinian Richardson Preyer
(D-Greensboro).
After the subcommittee hear
ing, in which Hefner asked
several clarification questions,
he and Preyer were summoned
by a buzz of the clock to the
House chamber for a quorum
call. Members of the public and
the press are not allowed on the
House floor.
“I’ll keep an eye on him,”
Preyer quipped to Hefner’s
constituents, “and make sure he
doesn’t go off and play pinball or
something.”
“You can observe us from the
gallery,” Hefner added.
Members swarmed around the
well of the House floor like bees
while Speaker Carl Albert
pounded a gavel for order, but to
no avail.
“How do you ever get anything
done in an atmosphere like
that?” one of the visitors asked
the Congressman as he left the
House floor.
“The work is not done in there.
We just go to the floor to vote and
occasionally listen to debate,”
responded the Congressman.
“Most of the work is done in
committees. We know we can’t
get anything done with 435 people
walking around the same room.”
From there, it was off to the
Senate for a TV interview on a
. bill the Congressman had recent
ly introduced to amend the Social
Security Act to help farmers in
the district. Social security and
health legislation are two of his
major interests.
It was not until the late
afternoon that Congressman
Hefner had enough time to sit
down for an interview.
Questions and Answers
Q. Do you find this job very
ego-boosting? I’m sure people
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