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Vol. 55-No. 44
68 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, September, 3, 1975
68 Pages
Price 10 Cents
NEW COUNTR Y CL UB — Seven Lakes is planning this clubhouse of 16,000 square
feet, designed by Pate-Mullins Associates of Sanford. It will be built of glass,
cedar and stone.
.Seven Lakes Is Expanding
With New Center, Homes
BY MARJORIE RAGAN
Rolling hills, dotted by longleaf
pines and carpeted by emerald
grass and cooled by gentle
breezes from numerous lakes are
the scene of 50 rustic houses, 48 of
them occupied, at Seven Lakes,
the resort started three years
ago just outside West End.
“West Moore has been dor
mant too long,” says Longleaf
President Fred R. Lawrence.
“In ten years, it will be
populated with families to sur-
Court Facilities Plans
Presented by Architect
A three-kory building, com
prising space of some 2^30,000
square feet, with cost tentatively
estimated at from $1,250,000 to
$1,500,000, was envisioned at the
county commissioners’ meeting,
late Tuesday afternoon, when
first tentative plans were
revealed for the new Court
Facilities Building.
This was in the form of an
outline only, presented by E.J.
Austin of Austin Associates,
Architects, comprising
suggestions for the com
missioners’ reaction.
They had waited patiently for
him at the end of a long meeting
day, when he was upstairs
getting some first-hand
knowledge of the courts himself,
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' County Industry Hunter
Voted By Commissioners
The Moore County Commis
sioners, in regular meeting
Tuesday-postponed from “first
Monday” because of the Labor
Day holiday-voted unanimously
to hire a full-time industry
5* hunter, at a cost of $25,000 for
salary and expenses for the first
year.
They did not specify just where
the money was to come from,
where and how the man they
wanted would be found, or what
type of program would be set up,
but agreed that “the man we
want will not be found among the
unemployed,” as Chairman W.S.
Taylor said.
They thought, though, a secre
tary might be provided through
public service employment
funds, and believed office space
could be found somewhere in the
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Grey Is New Director Injiu'ies
c For Samarkand Manor
Thomas T. Grey, 45, of 180
North Ridge St., Southern Pines,
is the new director of Samarkand
Manor, State juvenile training
school near Eagle Springs, in
western Moore County.
Thomas T. Grey
Grey’s appointment, made
Friday, effective September 1,
was announced by William R.
Windley, regional director for
the Division of Youth Services of
the N. C. Department of Human
Resources.
The school, with others of the
state’s juvenile training system,
was transferred by action of the
1975 General Assembly from the
Department of Corrections to the
Department of Human Re
sources. Grey, a former public
school guidance counselor, suc
ceeds James Leathers, who
resigned in July.
Well aware of problems of the
school’s recent history. Grey
said he hoped to let the past stay
there, “in the past,” making a
new loginning at this point, and
building toward a new future.
He said the departmental
changes stressing rehabilitation
over correction augiu'ed well for
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Edward Walter Ewing, 55, of
Jackson Springs, Rt. 1, was dead
on arrival at Moore Memorial
Hospital after a fatal accident
Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.
The wreck occured, according
to investigating officer
Patrolman James, after Ewing
ran a stop sign on the Sandpit
Road at the intersection of R.R.
1103 and 1112, and his ’65
Chevrolet was involved in an
accident with a car driven by
Timothy Mclnnis, 21, driving a 68
Volkswagen.
Trooper James said Ewing
died of body injuries.
Both vehicles were thrown off
the road in demolished condition,
and Ewing was thrown from his
truck. Both drivers were carried
by the Sandhills Rescue Squad to
Moore Memorial Hospital,
Ewing, who suffered massive
head and chest injuries, was
dead on arrival. Mclnnis was
admitted to the hospital and
today (Wednesday) remained in
intensive care. Investigation is
continuing.
Thousands Expected Here
For Grand Week of Golf
Town Asks League
To Join In Action
pass the east. I’d bet money on
that.”
The five-million dollar facility
is starting a shopping village
adjacent to Seven Lakes soon,
patterned after Williamsburg,
with single building stores and a
park area with grass instead of
concrete. The first store will be a
convenience market. Others will
follow. Architects are Pate-
Mullins Associates of Sanford.
Seven Lakes is also ready to
build a Country Club on the south
side. The club will be 16,000 ft.
square of glass and cedar and
stone. Peter Tufts, Alan Shaw
and Longleaf Inc., are included
in the country club planning.
Seven Lakes Vic^Presidents
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Tobacco Up
Tobacco prices went above the
dollar a pound mark for the first
time this season on the Carthage
auction market on Tuesday.
With stronger bids on most
grades, the Carthage market
reported total sales of 381,748
pounds for a total of $397,147, or
an average of $104.03 per
hundred pounds.
Last Thursday the Carthage
market sold 350,806 pounds for
$332,499 or an average of $94.75.
Man Dies
Of Wreck
The Town of Southern Pines
has requested participation of
the N.C. League of
Municipaiities in its appeal of a
Superior Court ruling in the
Duncraig Manor case, in which,
on June 26, Judge James M. Long
upheld three defense points, in
order to reach a summary
judgment of dismissal.
At a special meeting held
Friday morning the Town
Council also voted to seek
$110,000 in federal emergency
employment funds.
Tiie Town filed notice of appeal
in the Duncraig issue and later
moved to proceed with perfection
of its appeai and was granted an
extension of time in order to do
so.
Town Attorney W. Lamont
Arts Festival in Park
Slated Here Sept. 26-27
On September 26 and 27, the
Sandhills Arts Council will hold
its second annual Festival in the
Park at the town park on South
East Broad Street in Southern
Pines.
Preparations are under way
for a variety of festival activ
ities, to include drama, music,
and arts and crafts demon
strations and displays.
On Friday night, September 26,
the festival will present “Stephen
Vincent Benet’s Stories of Amer
ica,” a bicentennial drama
incorporating five of Benet’s
More Bids Are Opened
For New Sewer System
The Moore County conuniss-
ioners in special session Friday
morning opened bids on the
electrical contract for the count
y’s regional sewage treatment
plant, and tentatively approved
eight low bids in all, totalling
$13,961,996.20, for construction of
the plant and four interceptor
lines.
They also accepted the Step 2
grant of $104,000 from the State
on the sewer lines. This step
(completion of plans and specifi
cations) is now well in the past,
but payments of state and
federal agencies come some time
after the fact, when final bills are
all in and approved, so further
adjustments need not be made.
In other business, the comtti -
issioners reappointed Roy L.
Rippey of Whispering Pines for
another two-year term to the
Moore County Jury Commission,
and named C. H. (Pat) Blue to
the Southern Pines extra-
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
HEFNER-Congressman Bill
Hefner said this week that he will
vote to over-ride President
Ford’s veto of the 1975
Educational appropriations bill.
The U.S. House of Represen
tatives is scheduled to vote on
over-riding the veto on Sept. 9.
Hefner voted for the ap
propriations bill when it was
originally passed by the House.
He said this week, “In my
opinion, it is imperative that
Congress over-ride the veto of
this vital legislation.” He said
that he had been contacted by
parents, teachers and schools in
the Eighth District during the
recent recess and was told tha
that the schools would have to cut
back on programs if this money
was not made available.
“The education of our children
is one of the most important
tasks we have,” Rep. Hefner
said, and “and it is our
responsibility to see that they
have quality education.”.
POLITICS-Even though the
party primaries are a year away
there is a geat deal of politicking
going on in North Carolina-a lot
of it out in the open and a lot of it
below the surface.
In almost any gathering of
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Brown told the council in special
meeting Friday morning the
general counsel for the league
was ready to petition for entry
into the case as “amicus curiae”
(friend of the court), but that the
Town Council first had to request
their participation.
They said that, on approval of
the League’s board of directors
and in view of the statewide
interest in the case and the
importance of the zoning issue,
they would be happy to file a
brief in support of their position
on this issue.
Councilman E.S. Douglass
noted at once that he took the
position he “would welcome the
entry of the League,” while
Mayor E. Earl Hubbard, who
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Don Knotts
Dennis James
Hubbard Is Candidate;
Seven Now Have Filed
best-known stories of persons
and places of American history,
adapted for the stage by F.
AnA'ew Leslie. Produced as part
of the summer theatre program
sponsored by the Sandhills Arts
Council and the Southern Pines
Parks and Recreation Dept., the
play will be staged outdoors in
the park and will begin at dusk.
Saturday, September 27, will
present arts and crafts displays
from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Demonstrations are planned
throughout the day in various
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Mayor E. Earl Hubbard filed
for reelection to the Southern
Pines Town Council this mor
ning, bringing to seven the total
number of candidates now in the
race.
Only one other incumbent
Council member, Emmanuel
Douglass, had filed for reelection
at 10 a.m. today (Wednesday).
Douglass is currently serving
as mayor pro-tem.
The other candidate who filed
since last Wednesday was Bill
Bass, who will be making his
second try for the Council. Bass
is president of the local post of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Filing earlier were Dante
Montesanti, Mrs. Sara Hodgkins,
Robert M. Stone and Michael
Smithson.
If more than 10 candidates file
for the five Council seats a
primary will be held on October
7. If there are no more than 10
candidates their names will be
listed on the ballot in the election
on Nov. 4.
Hubbard has served three
terms on the Council and as
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Moore Coiinty Is Trying
To Get Extra Magistrate
Charles McLeod, clerk of
Moore Superior Court, said this
week that, while a minimum of
five magistrates was set for this
county some years ago, with
maximum of six, the maximum
was raised this year to seven by
the General Assembly, which,
however, failed to provide any
funds for additional salaries.
Three conditions must be met,
McLeod said, to get additional
magistrates-(l) the need has to
be established; (2) it must be
approved by the Chief District
Judge, who is the “boss” of all
the magistrates; and (3) there
must be available funds to pay
them.
As for the action taken by the
Southern Pines Town Council
last week to try and get another
magistrate appointed, with
Enrollment
In Schools
Is Lower
Enrollment for the Moore
County Schools Tuesday, opening
full day, was 8,634, Bob Dalton,
information officer, announced
today.
TWs is slightly lower than the
8,976 for last year’s first day.
However, by the tenth day last
year the figure had jumped to
9,204, and this increase is also
expected this year as many
children are still working in
tobacco fields, Dalton said.
For the high schools, Pinecrest
had 1,030; North Moore, 635; and
Union Pines, 833.
Other schools were as follows:
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Mayor Earl Hubbard authorized
to take what steps may be
necessary, McLeod said the need
is certainly there. Chief District
Judge F. Fetzer Mills has ap
proved it and has already been
working on it.
However, said the clerk, “I
have been in touch with him on
this subject within the past two
weeks, and he told me he had
learned from the Administrative
Office of the General Court of
Justice at Raleigh that there are
no funds available.”
If there were funds, and the
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Thousands of golf fans will be
flocking to the Sandhills next
week for the “Grand Week of
Golf,” which includes the second
induction into the World Golf
Hall of Fame, a Celebrity Pro-
Am and four-day third annual
World Open Championship.
There’s a $200,000 purse, with
$40,000 for the winner, in the
World Open, which begins on
Thursday, Sept. 11, on
Pinehurst’s famed No. 2 Course,
and ends on Sunday, Sept. 14.
The entire British Ryder Cup
team of 12 will compete in the
tournament, which is also
drawing the top golfers from the
U.S. and the world.
The week-long festivities get
under way on Monday with
practice and qualifying rounds
for non-exempt players, but the
real kick-off comes on Tuesday
with the first annual World Golf
Hall of Fame Celebrity Pro-Am
tournament.
Fifty of the top professional
golfers and 150 amateurs, in
cluding many celebrities from
the entertainment world, will
play in the Pro-Am.
Among those playing in the
Pro-Am will be Governor James
Holshouser, who issued the
proclamation designating this as
the “Grand Week of Golf” in
North Carolina. Governor
Holshouser is also serving as the
Honorary Chairman for the
Week.
Among celebrities coming for
the event are actor and comedian
Don Knotts, Actor Dennis James,
Claude Akins, star of the
television series “Movin’ On;”
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Harry Truman
Folks watching the Celebrity
Pro-Am tournament at Pinehurst
next Tuesday will swear they are
seeing Harry Truman playing
golf.
What they will be seeing is Ed
Nelson, the actor who is playing
the role of the President in the
movie, “Give ’Em Hell, Harry.”
Nelson, well known as a TV
actor, will be playing in the
tournament, and he’s a ringer for
Truman.
As Don Collett, director of the
Pro-Am and World Open, says,
“We’re going to have a President
here, after all.”
Caldwell Resigns Post
As Church Rector Here
In a letter received this
morning by members of his
congregation, the Rev. Martin
Caldwell, Rector of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church in Southern
Pines and Dean of the Episcopal
Diocese of North Carolina, an
nounced his resignation.
Now on vacation during the
month of September, the Rev.
Mr. Caldwell said that the
resignation would be effective no
later than March 31,1976, twenty
years to the day after his arrival
in Southern Pines.
Between the end of September
and the end of March he “will be
on a six months’ sabbatical for
study, refreshment and
evaluation.” The services in
which he participated last
Sunday were therefore his last in
Emmanuel Church.
“Twenty years,” the letter
said, “are long enough.”
The Rev. Mr. Caldwell said
that he would likely remain in
Southern Pines for several
months to come and would
possibly fill in as supply
minister on Sundays for chur
ches without a clergyman. He
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The Rev. Martin Caldwell
American Music-How Ragtime, Jazz, the Blues Were Bom
BY’IHADSTEMJR.
The music in “The Sting,”
flowing with the zing of salt
spray amid a Dog Day’s torpor,
and the recordings that followed
the movie rekindled interest in
ragtime. (While ragtime is a
distinctive entity, the same as
Joe Tinker, it is joined seman-
tically with jazz and the blues as
inexorable as Tinker is with
Johnny Evers and Frank Chance
to project throughout the 20th
century that secular trinity.
Tinker to Evers to Chance.)
The word ragtime was derived
from the clog-dancing of
Southern blacks who called this
spirited dancing “ragging,” and
that enduring euphemism, “light
a rag,” comes from the same
source. Ragtime music was (is,
hopefully) stamped by vigorous
syncopations in the treble, or, in
other words, making a weak beat
strong, or a strong beat weak, as
the bass maintained a rigidly
even rhjdhm. Syncopation, but
not ragtime, had surfaced in
such pre-Civil War minstrel-
show tunes as “Old Dan Tucker”
and “Zip Coon,” and the yeasty
implications of ragtime marked
the cakewalk, a dance that at
tained fantastic popularity via
the minstrel-shows of the early
1880’s.
Yet, the consummate ap
plication of syncopation against
a steady bass rhythm did not
come until 1897 when Kerry Mills
wrote “At A Georgia Camp
Meetin’.” This ebullient rag is
known to several generations of
school children by dint of the
substituted lyrics, “Our boys will
shine tonight, our boys will
shine,-The sun goes down, the
moon comes up, our boys will
shine,” sung at ten million chap
el programs to greet visiting
luminaries, to herald the exploits
of local athletes, debater, and
spelling champions. But the
original lyrics tell about a
clergyman at a Georgia camp
meeting who is castigating er
stwhile worshippers who are
doing an exuberant cake-walk on
the camp-meeting grounds.
Ultimately, the compelling
music and the winging dancing
ensnare the minister. He grabs a
girl and his dexterous high
idckings win him a cake.
Scott Joplin
Two years later ragtime found
its laureate when Scott Joplin, a
black pianist who played in the
honky-tonks of St. Louis and
environs, wrote “Maple Leaf
Rag.” (At the moment, Joplin
was playing piano in the Maple
Leaf Club at Sedalia, Missouri.)
Joplin wrote many other
delectable rag, an instruction
book called ‘‘School of
Ragtime,” and even a ragtime
opera,“A Guest Of Honor”
(1903).
Almost immediately, the
ragtime professor, a sort of
Johnny Appleseed of the ivories,
electrified the saloons, political
clubs, whorehouses, and silent
movie theaters. And the ef
fervescent new American music
produced a chain of new
American dances, many named
for animals,- the Turkey-Trot,
the Bunny-Hug, the Crab, the
Camel et al. And until the advent
of ragtime, dancing, save for the
formal cotillion (originally a
petticoat) was socially
anomalous.
But ragtime induced an
epidemic of dancing that rivaled
the fervor of 19th century
evangelism. Albeit, some ruses
were necessary to placate the
austere establishment. Thus, the
late afternoon tea dance
emerged. Parents of young girls
decided it was seemly for dan
cing to occur at an afternoon tea,
and, for a while, hot tea was
actually served at !»me of the
ragtime dances.
Origins of Jiizz
However, ragtime was in the
process of evolution in New
Orleans even before Kerry Mills
and Scott Joplin composed their
bona fide classics. The street and
funeral procession bands, and
the small orchestras that played
in saloons and in sporting-houses
had an irresistable habit of
“ragging” traditional melodies
with extraordinary improvisa
tions. This “ragging” was
achieved in so many ways, and
for such amazing periods of time,
listeners were said to be “left
limp with emotional fatigue.”
The indigeneous, spontaneous
music made in New Orleans
compared to music prevalent
elsewhere about as the wild,
luxuriant growth of jungle
compares to the products of a
greenhouse. The early New
Orleans music was jazz,
although this term attained
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