Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 8-11-A; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-5-C; Obituaries, 6-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-2-C; Social News,
2-5-A; Sports, 7-A.
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Weather
Brrr-It’s been cold and it will continue
to be for the rest of the week.
Temperatures are expected to rise
from mid-30s to mid-40s on Thursday.
Rain today may possibly turn to sleet in
late afternoon.
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, January 7, 1976
36 Pages
Midland Property Rezoned
Despite Strong Protests
SPOT TORNADO AT MID-PINES — These trees were uprooted by high winds on
New Year’s Eve at the Mid Pines Golf and Country Club. Apparently the unstable
weather conditions^fostered a small tornado dip in this one spot, uprooting 18 pine
trees.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Power Cut Off, Trees Down
When High Winds Strike Area
High winds, following an af
ternoon of tornado warnings for
the area, caused power cut-offs
for residents in several areas of
Moore county.
“We were pretty lucky in the
Southern Pines district,” Warren
Teal of the Carolina Power and
Light Company told The Pilot,
“The Maxton and Rockingham
districts had some real trouble.”
An unrooted tree caused a
power cut-off for 40 residents in
the Niagara area Jrom 4:10 p.m.
to 5:30 p.m. One other large tree
was reported uprooted on the
Union Church Road, near Car
thage, cutting off electricty for 15
homes for a brief period.
Power went off on several
small tap lines for a short time
involving five homes on Highway
22 near Carthage, three on
Horseshoe Road off Highway 22,
three at Aberdeen, including the
A&R Railroad office and one at
Builders Organize Here;
Outline Housing Roles
Jay Klutz of Charlotte, North
Carolina’s Builder of the Year,
and Nick DeMai of Raleigh,
executive vice president of the
North Carolina Builder’s
Association, were on hand
Monday night to install officers
and directors and to present tlie
official charter to the Moore
county Builders Association
meeting at the Lob-Steer Inn.
The forming of the new
organization was seen as a real
economic boost for the area by
both men and the local builders
were reminded of |heir
Lakeview.
Quiet followed the high wind
and driving rain storm in the
Southern Pines area, sunlight
breaking through and causing a
vivid rainbow to arch across the
downtown area.
Apparently the unstable
weather conditions fostered a
small tornado dip at the Mid-
Pines Golf and Country
Club, uprooting 18 trees in the
woods near the club building and
golf course.
Manager Dick Davenport told
The Pilot the only damage was
destruction of the Score Board,
located at the club building, and
two trees fell on the golf course.
No other reports of similar spot
damage were received.
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
The Moore County com
missioners by a 3-2 vote Monday
granted the petition of Leaverne
Maness to re-zone property he
owns on the Midland Road from
Residential-Agricultural to
Neighborhood Shopping.
Public hearing on the petition
was held last October 16, filling
the commissioners’ meeting
Bank
Robbed
An all points bulletin was
issued in Moore and surrounding
counties this morning following
an armed robbery at the
Carolina Bank in West End at 11
o’clock.
Three white males were
reported involved in the hold-up,
leaving in a “greenish-blue” four
door Ford traveling toward
Jackson Springs. The car bore
out of state tags.
The Moore County Sheriff’s
Department, the Highway Patrol
and all law enforcement officers
in the area were alerted
immediately following the
hold-up. The FBI in Charlotte has
been notified.
Two men weiit into the bank
and one waited in the get-away
car.
Mrs. Elizabeth Pusser is Vice
President in charge of the bank.
room with Midland Road
residents, all opposing the
change. All, that is, but one. On a
show of hands requested by the
commissioners, Maness was the
only person there who was for it.
The board postponed a
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Council
Supports
Airport
The Southern Pines Town
Council, in special meeting
Monday morning, spent 45
minutes going over the proposed
inmprovement program for the
county airport before giving it
their unanimous vote of endorse
ment.
In the 45 minutes they brought
out, in explanations from Bob
Helms, county administrator,
and questions asked by the four
council members present, that
the program actually included
only the physical upgrading of
the airport as it now stands, with
the addition of safety factors
looking toward continued service
for the same planes it is serving
now.
The endorsement came in a
resolution, offered by new
(Continued on Page 6-A)
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CLOSED FOR BOMB THREAT — Aberdeen authorities are shown roping off
parking areas for the Kubbard and Little Giant foodstores on Sunday afternoon
following the third in a series of anonymous phone calls warning of bomb
placements in the Aberdeen area over the weekend. Aberdeen police have offered
a $1,000 reward for clues leading to the arrest of the anonymous caller.
Bomb Threats Close Stores;
Reward Is Offered For Clues
professional responsibility for
the future planning process for
the county, referring specifically
to their role as consultants in
area growth, zoning and utility M0J][lOCr3.tS
needs.
Offices installed after nine O "I 1 |
months of organizational J^CJl0Cllll6
leadership by retiring president
Bob Page were W. P. Davis,
president; Bob Page, vice
president; Tom Tomlin,
secretary, and Bernard Alder,
treasurer. These men will serve
on the board of directors along
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Further Steps Are Taken
In Regional Sewer System
Seminar
Stamp Shortage Develops
With Postal Rate Hike
There is a stamp shortage in
the Southern Pines Post Office.
“It’s abnormal,” says
Postmaster Robert Peele talking
about the changes in the post
office since the increase in the
postal rate. “There are more
people here than there were
during the Christmas rush,” he
continued.
Although the increase was
expected and the local branch
was prepared, the demand for 3-
cent stamps came as a surprise.
The 50,000 stamps which were
expected to last through the
transition period, were sold
during the first week of January.
Besides the shortage in 3-cent
stamps, the 1-cent stamps have
also been completely sold.
Another shipment of stamps was
expected yesterday.
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Hodges Will Be Speaker
At Chamber Annual Meet
Luther H. Hodges, Jr.,
chairman of the board of North
Carolina National Bank and 1976
president of the Charlotte
Chamber of Commerce, will be
the featured speaker at the
Annual Meeting of the Sandhills
Area Chamber of Commerce.
This annual function will be
held on January 28 at the
Southern Pines Elks Country
Club, according to Hubert
Luther H. Hodges Jr.
Ellison, Jr., chairman of the
committee in charge.
“We are extremely pleased to
have such an outstanding North
Carolinian as our featured
speaker and are sure that the
Annual Meeting will be an oc
casion all Chamber members
will remember,” Ellison said.
Hodges, who joined NCNB in
1962 was named to Time
magazine’s 1974 list of 200
emerging leaders in America.
He does not confine his ac
tivities and interest to the
banking and business world,
although he serves on the boards
of at least four major cor
porations, including Burlington
Industries and J. B. Ivey &
(Company.
He is also a director of the
Research Triangle Foundation,
the North Carolina Citizens
Association and the Associated
Council of the Arts.
Other affiliations , include
serving on the board of gover
nors of the University of North
Carolina, the board of trustees of
Johnson C. Smith University,
and the Central Selection
Committee for the Morehead
Foundation.
Hodges is a native of
(Continued on Page 8-A)
J. Ed Causey here announced
that the Moore County
Democratic Executive Com
mittee will hold a meeting on
Tuesday, January 13, to conduct
an educational seminar for
Democratic precinct officials.
The meeting is scheduled for 7
p.m. at the Courthouse in Car
thage.
“This meeting is part of an
educational process set up by the
State Democratic Executive
Committee to make the precinct
officials throughout the State
aware of changes made in the
Plan Organization,” said
Causey. “We will also be ex
plaining the procedure on how to
become a delegate to the 1976
Democratic National Convention
and notifying the precinct people
of the dates of the meetings of the
Party organization from the
precinct meetings to the State
Convention.”
“Under the revisions of the
Plan of Organization the
selection of delegates to the
County, Congressional District,
State and National Ck)nventions
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Stickers
Sticking
OK Here
Edward L. Powell,
Comissioner of Motor Vehicles,
has announced that there have
been problems with the new 1976
validation stickers for renewal of
automobile license plates.
Powell said complaints coming
to his attention have revealed
instances where the stickers
have been torn and citizens are
unable to use them.
The local licensing office in
Aberdeen has had little trouble
with the bad stickers.
Mrs. Bob Nines, who operates
the license office located in
downtown Aberdeen, said she
has checked the stickers she has
for issue and removed the faulty
ones.
She cautioned customers to be
careful, though, when removing
the paper backing from the
(Continued on Page 8-A)
The Moore County Com
missioners in regular session at
Carthage Monday moved several
steps ahead of their regional
sewer project:
(1) by adopting the bond order
approved by the Local Govern
ment Commission; (2)'
authorizing Chairman W. S.
Taylor to enter into a contract
with the engineers to construct
an outfall line, and interceptor
line to,tie into it, serving the area
east and south of Southern
A weekend of bomb threats - all
hoaxes - for Aberdeen and Moore
County has resulted in the
posting of a $1,000 reward by
Aberdeen Town Commissioners
for clues leading to the arrest of
the culprit.
An additional reward by the
Pines; and (3) authorizing Bob
Helms, county administrator, to
proceed with advertising and
screening applicants for the
newly created post . of public
works director.
The post was created on
recommendation of Helms, who
said a qualified person should b® . "m /r XX
employed as soon as possible to A f- A/| j" 1-1 iXXkp
fill it, to handle the business of
the new county utility and to be
paid with administrative funds of
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Patterson
Is Buried
County Commissioners was
discussed Monday afternoon, but
no action was taken.
The series of threats began at
3:35 p.m., Saturday, when an
unknown person called Rose’s
store manager at the Center
Park Shopping Center and told
him a bomb would go off in 30 or
40 minutes. A second call said it
was set for 5 p.m.
Aberdeen’s police, fire and
rescue forces were alerted and
arrived at the scene to evacuate
all the buildings in the Center
Park Shopping area.
“A check was made of the
building occupied by Rose’s and,
not finding the bomb and not
knowing quite how to take this
thing,” Aberdeen Police
Conunissioner Cliff Blue, Jr.,
said, “we advised the stores to
close for the remainder of the
day.”
Other stores affected by the
bomb scare were Big M grocery
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Lose Weight, Make Money
Among 1976 Resolutions
BY CRAIG LAMB AND
ANN MYERS
After the hats, homs, and
hoopala are over, new year
thoughts turn to making
resolutions.
The variety. of these
resolutions range from losing
weight to making money. While
all are made in good faith, the
problem seems to be in keeping
them.
On a recent sunny afternoon,
people in downtown Southern
Pines were asked what
resolutions they have made for
the New Year and their success
after a week. Many felt making
them led to breaking them and
ignored the custom. But those
who didn’t had this to say:
Ceil Trimm, Southern Pines:
“Yes, I make one every year-not
to make New Year resolutions.”
Glenn Miller, Southern Pines:
“Home is Tennessee and I want
to get back to Knoxville.”
Heidi Hall, Paris, France:
“Just keep on doing what I’m
doing.”
(Continued on Page 8-A)
First Baby
Kevin Joel Holder was the first
baby born in 1976 at Moore
Memorial Hospital. His parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Franklin J.
Holder of Rt. 1, Cameron.
Born at 2:07 a.m. New Year’s
Day, the boy weighed 8 pounds,
1% ounces, according to Judy
Honeycutt, hospital public
relations staff member.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
CARTER—Former Georgia
Governor Jinuny Carter, who is
waging an around-the-clock
campaign for the Democratic
nomination for President, is
expected to formally enter the
North Carolina presidential
preference primary.
He is delaying an an
nouncement, however, until after
a series of meetings of sup
porters this coming weekend.
The first of the meetings will be
held in Raleigh and Greensboro
on Saturday, followed by two
others in the western part of the
state, one at Charlotte, on
Sunday.
Carter is still a bit uncertain
about challenging Terry Sanford
on his home ground, but some of
his backers are urging him on,
saying that he nee^ to make a
showing in North Carolina.
HOLSHOUSER — Governor
James Holshouser knows quite
well that the fate of the
Republican party in North
Carolina rides on what the party
does in the nation.
That is the way he got into
office and he thinks any success
a Republican candidate for
Governor has this year is
dependent on how well a
Republican does in a race for
President.
Holshouser is strong for Gerald
Ford, and believes that he will be
nominated even if he does not
win some of the early primaries.
HUNT—Supporters of Jim
Hunt for Governor are getting an
organization under way in Moore
County, with a meeting of a
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Graveside services for Bynum
George Patterson, 38, of
Stamford, Conn., formerly of
Southern F*ines, who was killed in
last week’s tragic bomb ex
plosion at LaGuardia Airport,
New York City, were held Friday
afternoon at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Officiating were the Rev.
Martin Caldwell of Southern
Pines and the Rev. Louis C.
Melcher, Jr., of Raleigh.
“B. G.,” as he was known to
friends during his growing-up
days here, had spent the
Christmas weekend with his
mother, grandmother and
younger brothers at Raleigh, and
had taken the Monday evening
flight to New York, where the
explbsion occurred at 6:45 p.m.
in the midst of the crowd of
holiday travellers.
He had left the Eastern
Airlines section, and was stan
ding near the TWA section,
waiting to take the limousine to
Connecticut, when the bomb
went off in a compartment of
rental lockers. Eleven people
were killed, more than 50 in
jured, as the explosion shattered
windows, walls and equipment
within a radius of some 600 feet.
Patterson and a fellow Tar
Heel, Enoch (Nicky) Stamey,
vdio was also returning to New
York after visiting relatives in
Raleigh for Christmas, were
killed instantly together. While
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Bloodmobile
The American Red Cross
Bloodmobile will make it’s first
visit of 1976 next week.
It will be at the J. P. Stevens
plant located on Rt. 5 between
Aberdeen and Pinehurst on
Thursday, January 15. The hours
for donating will from 8 a.m.
until 11 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m.
until 4 p.m.
“Let’s start the new year off
right by turning out for this
event,” a Red Cross spokesman
said. “If you are 18 to 66 years of
age you are eligible. If, for any
reason, you should not give blood
at this time the doctor on duty
will tell you.”
Joy Johnson Seeks Title
Of State’s Junior Miss
Joy Johnson is on her way!
In fact, Joy Johnson is in the
midst of things this week on the
Duke University campus and all
of it leading to the big night and
the big hope for the title of North
Carolina’s Junior Miss for 1976.
Joy, 17-year-old Pinecrest
senior, is Moore County’s first
Junior Miss, winning the title last
May in competition with nine
other talented students. The
pageant is sponsored by the
North Carolina Heart
Association, along with the
prizes of a full scholarship,
clothes and a trip in May to the
National Finals in Mobile,
Alabama.
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Ilf
STATE TITLE CONTENDER
big day with growing excitement, Jo|
of the Moore County Junior Mii
photographed in downtown Southcl
made last minute preparations^ fo^
schedule of events iij,kliiP North
finals on the Duk^