Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified ads, 9-11-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 6-7-C; Obituaries, 6-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-2-C; Social News,
2-5-A; Sports, 8-C.
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Weather
Rain on Tuesday has a 60 percent of
continuing through today, the forecast
says. Temperatures will range from the
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Vol. 56. Number 9
34 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, December 31, 1975
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WINTER SILHOUETTE — Privacy is lost for the Sandhills squirrels when the
trees are stripped bare of leaves and their silhouettes are seen scampering from
limb to limb, or, as in this case in a still moment enjoying a winter hickory nut
meal.
Full Calendar In January
Several events are on the
calendar for the Sandhills during
January.
They begin with the 59th
annual Pinehurst Field Trials
scheduled for January 2-6.
Others include Tar Heel
Brittany Field Trials at Hoffman
January 16-18; Mid South Junior
Horse Show at Southern Pines
January 18; Southeastern
Brittany Field Trials at Hoffman
January 23-25; Mid South Horse
Show at Southern Pines January
25; and North Carolina Amateur
Stakes at Hoffman January
30-February 2.
January starts the year of the
Bicentennial celebration in the
United States, and North
Carolina’s calendar will be full of
related events during the year.
The first mondi of the year is a
fine one for the Tar Heel,
traveler.
Near Hertford, the Newbold-
White House, built about 1725 or
earlier, and declared by the
Department of Cultural
Resources as probably the oldest
house in the state, has been
restored. The opening is
scheduled for January 2. A
museum, visitors center, and
takehouse will also be open.
A Bicentennial religious
heritage celebration involving all
Patterson
Is Victim
Of Blast
Friends here learned this
morning that among the 12
persons killed Monday night in
the explosion at LaGuardia
Airport was Bynum George
Patterson, grandson of Mrs.
Dorothy Moore, former resident
of Southern Pines.
Young Patterson was the son of
Mrs. Dorothy Cash, now living in
Raleigh. He had been living in
New York City.
Burial will be in Southern
Pines, although there were no
details on funeral services.
Patterson had been visiting his
mother and other members of
the family in Raleigh over the
Christmas holidays and was
returning to New York when he
was caught . in the bomb
explosion.
A graduate of Southern Pines
High School in 1956, he attended
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, and was employed
as a purchasing agent with
Bloomingdale Department Store
in New York City.
His grandmother, Mrs. George
(Continued on Page 7-A)
churches and synagogues will be
held in Charlotte on January 2,
The conrununity of Rodanthe on
the Outer Banks will hold their
annual Old Christmas
Celebration on January 3. An
oyster shoot and oyster roast are
planned. Old Buck, a mythical
Christmas bull that legend says
came ashore off a wrecked ship,
will put in an appearance.
An antique show is scheduled
in Winston-Salem January 8-10.
An Eighteenth Century
Decorative Arts Exhibition
(Continued on Page 7-A)
The last three days of the year
are the biggest days for tax
collections and Mrs. Estelle
Wicker, Moore County financial
officer, said it would be after
Wednesday before they would
know how this year’s collections
have been.
She thinks, however, that
collections will be good.
Listing for taxes will begin on
January 2 and continue through
January 31. Places for listing
have been published in The
Pilot.
Mrs. Wicker pointed out that a
new law in respect to homestead
exemptions for persons over 65
years of age goes into effect in
the coming year.
There is a $5,000 exemption
from taxes on a house and lot, not
exceeding one acre, but persons
seeking the exemption must
apply at the time of listing. There
is a one-page form which must be
filled out, and Mrs. Wicker said
that her office will be glad to
assist anyone in filling out the
form. Further information may
be had by calling 947-2326.
Persons applying for the
exemption must have total
income not exceeding $7,500 a
year, and this income includes
all persons living in the house
hold.
Mrs. Wicker said that there is
no property in Moore County
which comes under the farm-use
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Awards Night
Attorney General Rufus Ed-
misten will be the guest speaker
at the annual awards banquet of
the Southern Pines Jaycees at
the Lobsteer Inn here on Jan. 21
at 6:30 p.m.
Awards to be presented are the
Distinguished Service Award,
the Outstanding Young Educator
award, and the Boss of the Year
award.
Winners of each award are
selected by a special committee
which receives nominations from
Jaycees, employes and
educators.
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A NEW YEAR TRADITION — Friends of Micajah Wyatt will gain the promise of
folklore for $1 per pea enrichment during the New Year at his traditional noonday
fare of blackeyed peas, hog jowls and Fish House punch on New Year’s Day.
Wyatt is seen above stocking up at a local grocery store to assure plenty of good
luck and increased fortune for the 200 or more persons who usually show up for
lunch at his home in Pinehurst.—(Photo by Mildred Allen).
Wyatt Has Plenty of Peas
It’s an old Southern tradition
that if you start the year out
eating humble food that things
are bound to get better and for
every blackeyed pea someone
eats, it’s a sign they will get
another dollar not other wise
expected.
Micajah Wyatt, Pinehurst
resident and history instructor at
Sandhills Community College,
believes in tradition. He also
believes in taking advantage of
any opportunity to enrich his
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Tractors Are Taken
From Fair Grounds
THE
PILOT LIGHT
Five International tractors,
valued at more than $10,000,
were stolen from the Carthage
Implement and Tractor Com
pany warehouse at the Moore
County Fair Grounds sometime
last week.
The major theft was
discovered Christmas Eve by
Qinton Campbell, owner of the
Carthage company.
Campbell said he went out to
the warehouse, which they had
rented for storage of equipment,
and when he started to enter the
building, he discovered the lock
was missing and then found five
tractors had been removed.
apparently by loading onto a
large truck.
Missing equipment included
one International F-140 tractor,
one 1250 Interntional Cadet, two
1200 International Cadets and
one 1000 International Cadet.
The gates of the fairgrounds
were unlocked and entry was
made by breaking the lock on the
warehouse door. Sheriff, C.G.
Wimberly said. He added that he
had not been aware that the
building was being used as a
warehouse and routine checks
had not been made by his
department. The tractors
(Continued on Page 10-A)
Work Program Approved
By New Chamber Officers
The 1976 roster of officers of
the Sandhills Area (Chamber of
Commerce was completed at a
December 18 Board meeting
when incoming President
William F. Hollister presented
the names of Voit Gilmore, Sam
Ragan, James B. Gambrell and
Ellis Fields to serve as vice
presidents. They were
unanimously approved by the
directors.
The other officers for the
coming year are: President-
Elect Edward T. Taws,
secretary Marie McKenzie and
Treasurer Tommie Jessup.
Gilmore will be serving his
second year as a Chamber vice
president. According to
Hollister, he was asked to con
tinue as vice-president in charge
of problem study and analysis in
order to follow through a wide-
reaching community study
begun last summer.
The meeting was held jointly
by the 1975 and 1976 Boards, with
retiring President E. J. Austin
presiding over the first part of
the meeting to conduct the final
business of 1975.
Before turning the meeting
over to Hollister, Austin praised
the 1975 officers and directors
and thanked them for their help
and guidance during the year.
Retiring officers are: vice
presidents Harry J. Barnes, J. E.
Causey and Robert S. Parkent;
Secretary Dewey S. Mims; and
Treasurer James B. Gambrell.
Among other business the 1976
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DAM FUNDS-Two flood
control projects in this area will
receive funds in the $9.3 billion
appropriation bill signed into law
last Friday by President Ford.
They are part of the $23 million
earmarked for North Carolina
projects.
The Howard’s Mill lake on
Deep River on the Moore-
Randolph county line was
allotted $150,000 and the Ran-
dleman lake, further upstream in
Randolph County, receives
$180,000.
KIRK-While Phil Kirk, ad
ministrative assistant to
Governor Holshouser, is taking
himself out personally from any
political campaign in 1976 he has
pledged himself to campaign for
all Republican candidates after
the primary next August.
As expected, Kirk said he will
“actively support President
Gerald R. Ford because I believe
he represents the soundest
choice the Republican Party can
offer to the people.”
Governor Holshouser is the
Southern coordinator for the
Ford campaign.
NEW PANEL-Thomas T.
Hayes Jr., Southern Pines,
member of the architectural
firm of Hayes-Howell and
Associates, AIA, has been named
by Governor Jim Holshouser to
an 11-member Advisory Panel on
Design and Construction
(Continued on Page 7-A)
New Year's
Town, county and state offices
will be closed on New Year’s
Day, but several stores will be
open.
The Post Office and banks will
be closed.
The Pilot will be closed
Wednesday and Thursday.
Ice On Roads Cause
Of Many Accidents
Icy roads and high speed were
the major causes of thirteen
accidents occuring in Moore
Ctounty over the long holiday
weekend, according to Highway
Patrol reports.
Five early morning accidents
on Christmas Day were at
tributed to ice and sleet con
ditions, including one double
accident.
Annie Taylor Womble of Rt. 1,
Robbins, was traveling south on
N. C. 22 about five miles north
of Robbins when she lost control
on the icy road and ran into a
guard rail on the right. Damages
to her 1973 Pontiac were
estimated at $800. After Mrs.
Womble’s car had hit the guard
rail, Johnny Dale Frye, Rt. 4,
Carthage, attempted to miss the
wrecked car, crossed the road
and struck a bridge. Damages to
his 1975 Ford were estimated at
$1200. Patrolman T. F. Qark
investigated both accidents.
There were no charges. Both
accidents occured around 10:30
a.m.
Barbara Ann Clegg of Rt. 1,
West End, was injured and
carried to Moore Memorial
Hospital after her car hit on N.
C. 24, about five miles west of
((Continued on Page 7-A)
Bost Says Terry Sanford
Will Meet Primary Test
on
Post Office Vandalism
Is Reported To Police
The usual “all quiet” on the
Southern Pines Police scene was
broken over the holidays with
repeated vandalism at the
United States Post Office and
possible confiscation of mail and
four reports of larceny.
Patrolman Joe Davis
discovered glass windows broken
on three postal boxes at 3:10
a.m., Friday, December 26,
and Postmaster Robert Peele
said a fourth box was found
vandalised on Sunday.
Names of box renters were not
given while the case is under
investigation, but box numbers
on police records were 226, 287,
546 and 669. It has not yet been
determined if mail was taken.
Chief Earl Seawell and Post
master Peele said.
Other incidents under in
vestigation by the local depart
ment involve larceny of a CB
Cobra 23 channel radio from a
car owned by William W. Sauter
(Continued on Page 7-A)
Terry Sanford will face his
first national test with the voters
of New Hampshire on February
23, and Bill Bost of Pinehur^
thinks he will meet the test well.
Bost, who is directing the
Sanford campaign in New
Hampshire where the nation’s
first presidential preference
primary will be held, was home
for three days during the
Christmas holidays, but he
headed back over the weekend
for New Hampshire to plunge
again into a campaign he calls
exciting.
The young Duke graduate, who
himself was a candidate for the
State House of Representatives
in 1974, says Sanford has strong
backing from the school teachers
of New Hampshire.
Seven of the nine members of
the state executive committee of
the teachers organization are
committed to Sanford, he says,
and the organization is doing
some hard campaigning for the
man who was known as North
Carolina’s “education Gover
nor.”
It’s door-to-door, person-to-
person campaigning, Bost says,
of the New Hampshire primary
drive, and the campaign is being
pitched on the slogan of “the
candidate who listens to the
people.” In door-to-door polls
persons are asked what is
bothering them, what are the
issues as they see them. Each
person polled is getting a follow
up letter acknowledging his
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friends with the possibilities of
richer and better things if an old
Southern tradition can bring
about that happy twist of fate.
For 25 to 30 years now (he’s
lost count at this point) he has
been serving hog jowls,
blackeyed peas and Fish House
Punch to his friends - first in
Norfolk, then in Paris, France,
Honolulu and for the last ten
years in Pinehurst. Wyatt claims
it has grown bigger and better
every year. This year he sent out
300 invitations, involving about
450 people, but h6 is expecting
about 200. The invitations are
substitutes for Christmas cards,
he says.
It’s the Fish House Punch
which takes on special
signifiance this New Year’s Day
1976. Quoting from Trader Vic’s
Book of Food and Drink, written
many years before the first
Bicentennial committee was
formed, these “instructions” are
given for proper enjoyment of
the drink originating in pre-
Revolution times on the Boston
waterfront: “Any dumb bastard
who tosses this stuff off without
due regard for its historical
significance should be made to
stand in the corner for one hour
(Continued on Page 7-A)
Bus Costs
Are Lower
In Moore
The cost of transporting North
Carolina’s one and a quarter
million children to school
increased during the 1974-75
school year by more than $5
million over the previous year,
according to annual audit figures
released by the State Board of
Education.
A total of $35,638,577 was spent
to transport children in 1974-75 as
compared with $30,525,509 spent
in 1973-74. That represents an
average cost to the State Public
School Fund of $49.92 per child
transported in 1974-75, an
increase of $6.71 per child over
the previous year.
Moore County spent $53.68
transporting each child to school.
Some local money was used for
transportation. The State
average was $58.77.
Of the children who attended
school in 1974-75, 70.5 percent
rode the school bus, 3.2 percent
more than the previous year. The
total number of students
depending on buses to get to
school each day has increased
(Continued on Page 10-A)
Here’s What Made Headlines In Moore County During 1975
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
JANUARY
McKenzie Building, Southern
Pines, entered through office of
Resident Judge John D. Mc
Connell, ransacked and rob
bed....’Vandals uncap seven
water hydrants at Aberdeen,
draining new watei^ storage
tank; more than 20 hydrants
opened in Southern
I^es...Robert Reynolds home
near Robbins robbed of $20,000 in
savings bonds...Southern Pines
Citizens Conunittee for Com
munity Development adopts
program tor council approval
and grant application in sum of
$254,000.
John Henry McCaskill, 56,
slain by masked hold-up men in
his country store near West
End...Eleven persons arrested in
raids on Sandhills night spots
received fines and suspended
sentences; Dunes Qub closed for
three years by court or
der...County commissioners
approve purchase of com
prehensive liability insurance for
law enforcement officers and
themselves...Weymouth Estate
turned over officially to Sandhills
Community College Foundation
as bequest of Mrs. Katharine
Boyd.
Construction of “(5olf Vistas”
condominium project, to cost
some $15 million, gets under way
near Country Club of North
Carolina...J. Ellis Fields, Jr.,
Jack Lees and Wheaton Kit-
tredge lead field of eight to win
seats on Pinehurst Village
Council...Nine cases of dynamite
stolen from Glendon Pyrojrfiillite
Mine building at Glendon.
Commissioners buying land on
Dowd St. as site for proposed new
court facilities building...W. E.
Parfitt is new president of
Pinehurst Village Coun
cil... Willie Edward McZorb,
Joseph James Cauthen charged
with murder in the shooting of
John Henry McCaskill...James
Van Camp is winner of Southern
Pines Jaycees’ DSA award;
Archie Kelly is winner in Car
thage...Mann Drug Co. broken
into second time in seven days.
Southern Pines police spot
armed robbery in progress in
Short Shop on South East Broad,
rescue hostage and nab Hoke
County man as he tries to flee in
stolen auto...Pinecrest Principal
P. L. McMillan suffers attack of
two students, who are expelled;
board of education supports the
move, denies appeal of father of
one youth to give him another
chance for education...Sam H.
Poole is new president of
Pinehurst Forum.
FEBRUARY
Work starts on construction of
Pinecrest gym, to cost $1,070,000
- part of $5 million school
building and renovation
program, to take four years to
complete...Superior Court Judge
James M. Long sets May 1 for a
hearing on Moore County’s need
for additional courtroom
facilities, and what the com
missioners are doing about
it...Sheriff Wimberly reports new
jail already crowded...Norris L.
Hodgkins, Jr., heads 1975 United
Fund.
Skeletal remains found in
Little River in Cumberland
County identified as those of
Gene Kanouse, soldier lost in
river from old power dam and
subject of long, futile search two
years before..;Town of Aberdeen
plans annexation of two more
areas, comprising 170.6 acres of
residential and commercial
properties...Town Manager Lew
G. Brown said Southern Pmes
need for low to moderate priced
housing is critical...Carthage
Rotary Club purchases property
on Saunders Street for a park.
W. S. Taylor, chairman of
commissioners, accuses James
Van Camp, president of the
Moore County Bar Association,
of bringing pressures to bear
causing the grand jury and
Judge Long to prod the com
missioners along on the court
facilites building...Com
missioners adopt comprehensive
revisions of zoning ordinance
prepared by the planning
board...Inflation adding millions
to cost of regional sewer system,
now up to $18,744,567 (from $12.5
million three years ago).
Walter Nelson, proprietor of
Sandhills Carpets, W. Penn
sylvania Ave., stabbed with
scissors by robter who only got
$2...Two Asheboro men wanted
for murder in Montgomery
County arrested on US 1 at
Aberdeen a short while after
APB was flashed, through fast
communication and alertness of
officers...Representatives of
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