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4^ Weather Indian Summer days are in the San dhills, with clear and sunny skies seen for the next couple of days. The high temperature today will be 85 and a low of 55 is forecast for tonight. \\u //// . \ 'tLr. liptnn^ tOvdChCtfL yiftti irdna LOT Index Book page, ^B; Church calendar, 3-B; Classified Ads, 12-15-C; Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment, 8-9-C; Obituaries, 7-A; Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Social News, 2- 6-A; Sports, 8-9-A. Vol. 55-No. 50 44 Pages Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, October 15, 1975 44 Pages Price 10 Cents Candidates Forum Slated " Here Oct. 27 0 A candidates Forum will be held in the Southern Pines Town Hall on Monday, Oct. 27, begin ning at 7:30 p.m., and all of the nine candidates for the Town Council are expected to be present. Candidates will be given the opportunity to make brief statements and this will be followed by a question-and- answer session. Lynda 0. Lewis, who is organizing the Forum, said that it is designed to provide an op portunity for the citizens of Southern Pines to meet the candidates and get their views on municipal issues in Southern Pines. There is a total of 3,155 registered voters who are eligible to vote in the November 4 election. Broken down by precincts they are: Knollwood, 370; Pinedene, 209; North Southern Pines, 1,424; South Southern Pines, 1,152. Registration for the municipal elections closed on October 6. Mrs. Doris Fuquay, executive secretary of the Moore County Board of Elections, said there were 179 new registrants between Oct. 1 and 6. The new registraton for that one week period showed 105 Democrats, 60 (Continued on Page 12-A) Council Sets Church, Sign Hearing Here Youth Dies In Wreck Of Auto A Lee County youth was killed last Wednesday night, and another young man was injured, when their car hit the abutment of the small bridge over Cranes Creek on US Highway 1, about a mile and a half north of Vass. State Trooper G.L. Hoyle said Michael Roland Martinez, 18, of Courtland Acres, on Sanford, Rte 1, was dead on arrival at Moore Memorial Hospital following the 11:30 p.m. accident. He was a first-year student in the college transfer program at Sandhills Conununity College. William Neal “Tino” Freeman, Jr., 22, of Cameron, Rte. 2, identified by Hoyle as the driver of the car, was hospitalized over the weekend for injuries reported not serious. The victims were carried to the hospital by the Vass Resciie Squad. Hoyle said the 1971 Volkswagen, heading north, went (Continued on Page 10-A) Xi CHEER FOR PATRIOTS — Their regular role is to cheer on the Patriots athletic teams, but last Saturday Sue Barnes and Judy Maples (above) led the Pinecrest cheerleaders in competition with 126 schools at Carowinds. Others participating in the two-state event were Becky Broado, Linda Goins, Aretha Jones, Romella Hainesworth, Annie Stanback and Diana Sisk. Mrs. Scottie Currin is the faculty advisor for the Pinecrest squad.—(Photo by Mildred Allen). Training Schools Needs Are Said To Be More Discipline, Education Fimd Drive Under Way For Rescue Squad A campaign to raise funds to establish a Rescue Squad in 'S' Southern Pines got under way this week. One of the chief money-raising events is a car raffle. Brookshire Motor Co., is providing a Toyota at cost and tickets will be sold for the new car. Mrs. Delores Flynn, who has been one of theose spearheading the efforts to get a Rescue Squad s here, said it is hoped that the car can be given away on November 12. Final plans for the drawing have not been made, however. A headquarters for the cam paign is being set up in the building formerly occupied by McAllister and Hobbs on North East Broad Street. Merchants in town are providing gifts to be given away in the raffle along with the car. The two leaders in the cam paign, Mrs. Flynn and Mrs. Cathy Overton, also have been assisted by Robert Patterson and Mrs. Sam Poole. Mrs. Flynn said that both the Southern Pines Elks Club and the Country Club of North Carolina have offered their facilities for other fund raising events. It has been estimated that (Continued on Page 12-A) Schools Tour Scheduled; Board Gets Zoning Issue (*> , The county commissioners will have a full day Thursday, starting with a morning tour of school construction projects, and an afternoon special meeting containing some controversial zoning rnatters. They will meet at 9:15 a.m. at the courthouse to leave for the tour as guests of the school administrators, with County Administrator Bob Helms and Finance Office Estelle Wicker also participating. Mrs. John L. Frye, chairman of the Board of Education, and a® many members of her board as can take the time will also join the tour, which will take them to Pinecrest High School, the Southern Pines Middle School (where an extensive renovation program has taken place in “Building B”) and Union Pines High School, where they will have lunch. They will visit Sandhills Farm Life School on their way back to the courthouse. Hosts will be Supt. Bob Lee, Associate Supt. C.E. Powers and Assistant Supt. Gene A. Riddle, in charge of building and maintenance. In the special meeting, starting at 2 p.m., the annual school audit will be presented, and the commissioners will preside over (Continued on Page 12-A) Education and discipline should go hand in hand at the state’s two training schools in the area, as “without them rehabil itation cannot take place,” was the opinion of one speaker at the public hearing held Monday night by the Youth Services Commission in the Southern Pines Muncipal Building. In fact, declared Mrs. Joanna Hancock, former secretary to the principal at Samarkand Manor, Eagle Springs, “you can’t have one without the other, and all three are of one piece.” The other facility in the area is Cameron Morrison Training Boy Dies From Dive In Creek Tommy Lee Reynolds, 18, of Carthage, Rte. 3, died Thursday inn Moore Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient for about a month, foUowing a crippling accident and severe illness. On an outing with boy com panions Saturday afternoon, September 13, at a favorite “swimming hole” on Cranes creek in the rural area east of Vass, he dived from a small bridge into water that proved to be too shallow. Stuck head first in the muddy bottom in water a couple of feet deep, he was pulled out by his companions, one of whom ran to summon help. The Vass Rescue Squad found him lying on the bank, conscious and able to talk, but unable to move, and with no (Continued on Page 10-A) school at Hoffman. Of about 65 people attending the hearing, most were staff members of one of these schools or the other, or were associated with them in other ways, past or present. William Sheffield, chairman of the Conunission, who presided, said series of hearings-of which this was the third-are being held following the recent transfer of the Division of Youth Services from the Department of Corrections to that of Human Resources, because “we are new to all this and we have a lot to learn.” He said the Commission members “need to get a feel of the schools, the communities in which they are located, and to hear from the people who work with and in behalf of them. They need to know that com- Letters Will Cost 13' In New Rates Dec. 27 munication is open all the way, that we will listen to them and take what action we can.” The transfer had been effected, he said, “because our depart ment is closer to agencies which mesh together better than those of Ck)rrection, to help solve the problems of the training schools.” One member, Rep. Roy Spoon of Mecklenburg, recognized a colleague in the audience, Moore (Continued on Page 10-A) Tax Relief Of Elderly Is Coming Additonal property tax relief for elderly and permanently disabled persons with limited income was approved last spring by the State legislature and will be effective with property tax listings beginning January 1, 1976. The $5,000 property tax break is now available on incomes up to $7,500 for persons 65 years or older and for disabled persons. Exactly who is eligible and how the tax break may be ob tained was explained to The Pilot by Dewitt Purvis, Assistant Tax Supervisor for Moore County. The tax break must be requested. Forms will be available at the County Tax Office after January 1, 1976, and also may be obtained from the county tax listing office in each community of Moore County. They may be completed (Continued on Page 12-A) The council chamber was overflowing with men, women and children of the Calvary Memorial Church and school for the regular meeting Tuesday night of the Southern Pines Town Council, at which an accord reached on the drainage prob lems of Calvary’s property fronting on Bennett St. between Indiana and Massachusetts Ave. was formalized with the setting of a public hearing. The hearing, to be held at the council’s next regular meeting November 11, will be on the “undedication” of portions of Page St. and West Indiana Ave., which dead-ends on Calvary’s land, making possible the ex tension by the Town of a pipeline to extend entirely across the property, to carry storm waters off to the confluence of two small creeks beyond. This was part of a proposal presented by the Rev. Kent Kelly, president and pastor of Calvary Memorial, in a letter he read which he said had been approved in a congregational meeting Sunday night. The proposal would include perpetual easement rights to be given by the church for the drain, with agreement that no structure (Continued on Page 12-A) Jefferson Inn Here Sold By Long-Time Operators The U. S. Postall Service has announced temporary postal rates-including 13 cents for a first class letter-will become effective Dec. 28, 1975, in the event new permanent rates have not been recommended by the Postal Rate Commission prior to that time. The Postal Service said the major difference in the tem porary rates, in comparison with the rate proposal filed Sept. 18 with the Post Rate Commission, will be in the price of a postal card. The temporary rate for a postal card will be 9 cents. In its Library Facts In 1849, March 4th fell on a Sunday and Zachary Taylor refused to take his oath of office until Monday, March 5. James Polk’s four-year term of office constitutionally ended at noon on March 4 and Vice President George Dallas resigned as president of the Senate on Friday, March 2. Thus many believe that David Rich Atchison of Missouri, president of the Senate pro tempore, was Presi dent of the United States for a day.—Southern Pines Public Library, Sept. 18 proposal, the Postal Service asked for a 10 cent postal card. However, the Postal Service cannot raise rates on a temporary basis by more than one-third of the present 7-cent permanent rate. Major rate changes which will affect the general public are first class, from 10 to 13 cents for the first ounce and from 9 to 11 cents for each additional ounce of a letter, from 7 to 9 cents for a postal card, and from 13 to 17 cents for the first ounce of air mail. Parcel post rates will be increased an average of 10 percent. The Postal Service has stressed it expects to have completed upgrading of first- class mail to airmail status by Oct. 11, and it will be of no ser vice advantage after that date to put airmail stamps on domestically destined letters. The USPS will not issue a new 17 cent airmail stamp. Rates to be affected by the Dec. 28 change include the rates for which Congress authorized appropriations so that they could be phased-in over a period of years. Phased rates now at the Step 4 level of the schedule will (Continued on Page 12-A) Unlbed way 1976 GOAL: $96,000 TOTAL TO DATE; $18,594 The Jefferson Inn, widely known for its Southern decor, food and warm hospitality during 24 years of operation by Oscar and Mattie Belle Holtzclaw, has been sold to Charles W. and Mary E. Artman. The Artmans, who came to Whispering Pines a year ago from Parkersburg, West Va, plan to retain the antique decor and Southern atmosphere which has given the inn a unique reoutation over a long life span. The cafeteria style dining room wU be continued. The only changes to be made, Artman commented, will be exterior and other basic imporvements. The new owners took charge of operations on October 1. The Holtzclaws always have been interested in the preser vation and promotion of the Sandhills area. They will reside at 200 N. Bennett St. where they have been in the process of restoring and remodeling one of Southern Pines’ oldest homes for more than a year. They will remain at the Inn until com pletion of their new home. The former owners of the Jefferson Inn stated they wished to thank their many friends who have been loyal supporters over the years. The Jefferson Inn, now three structures joined together, was (Continued on Page 12-A) Their Wives Sit Home and Wait While Highway Patrolmen Serve BY MILDRED ALLEN What is it like to be married to a Highway Patrolman, someone constantly exposed to high risk situations? Vickie Speas gave her answer to that question when in terviewed Sunday evening at her home in Aberdeen’s Country Estates. “I’m sorry,” she said, “but there’s only one word for the adjustment that has to be made - HeU.” “It’s something you never get used to,” she added, “but you do adjust to it. I try not to worry too much, but it’s there. I can go to bed at night and supposedly sleep. When he doesn’t come home on time, I just wait until he comes. Then I know he’s okay.” Patrolman Steve Speas did not arrive at home on time Sunday morning. He was due at 2 a.m. and arrived at 6 a.m. He had been involved in a high speed chase at speeds up to 105 miles per hour. The driver resisted arrest and Speas then became involved in a scuffle with three men. One man was shot. It had been a rough night. Mrs. Speas said simply, “I’m just grateful he’s alive.” The Speas have a 4-month old daughter, Kelly. “This concerns me most of all. She does need a father and I worry about the time when he just may not walk through that door. There are so (Continued on Page 12-A) THE PILOT LIGHT U 1 I . HORSE SEASON — Horses which have been competing on northern tracks last sumnier are returning to the Sandhills, and the hunt season will soon get under way here. The above picture was made in Pinehurst by Glenn M. Sides. SANFORD DAY~A Terry Sanford Day will be held in his home town of Laurinburg on Nov. 13 and the organizers of the event plan to invite people from neighboring counties to join with them in honoring a native son seeking the Presidency of the United States. The day was initiated by the Scotland County Democratic Executive Committee and D.J. Sinclair Jr., was appointed coordinator of the event. “We hope to use this occasion as an appreciation day honoring a native son whose successes have gone above and beyond the call of duty to his state and nation,” Sinclair said. “We want everyone to understand and appreciate the enormous ac complishments of Terry San ford.” Sandord’s mother, Mrs. CecU Sanford, is a retired teacher who still makes her home in Laurinburg. SALES TAX—A move by county commissioners in Cumberland County to get legislative approval for the addition of another one-cent sales tax to the present local levy has met with a cool reception from the county’s legislators. That doesn’t mean, however, that an effort will not be made at the next legislative session to increase the local ootion sales tax to two cents. It is doubtful, however, that the General Assembly will react favorably to the request. EDMISTEN - Attorney (Continued on Page 12-A) if- PARTING WORDS— “Be careful,” Vickie Speas cautions her husband. Highway Patrolman Steve Speas, as he leaves home for night duty on the highways. “There’s not a day he puts on that uniform I don’t say, be careful. Not only the night shift, but the day shift, too.”