Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 7-11-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-53C; Obituaries, 7-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-2-C; Social News,
2-6-A; Sports, 12-13-A.
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PILOT
Weather
The temperature rose to 58 this
morning at 9:15 and is expected to be in
the 70’s later. Today and tomorrow will
be partly cloudy and windy with a slight
chance of rain. High in the 60’s
Thursday.
Vol. 56. Number 15
40 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, February 11, 1976
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DEDICATION SUNDAY — The new Pinecrest gym (shown above) will be the
scene Sunday for the dedication ceremonies of Pinecrest High School. The first
game will be played in the gym Friday night. Principal speaker on Sunday will be
Dr. William C. Friday (left) and Supt. R.E. Lee (right) will preside.
Friday To Speak Sunday
At Pinecrest Dedication
Pinecrest High School, which
opened in 1969 as the result of a
merger of seven high schools in
the southern part of Moore
County, will be formally
dedicated Sunday afternoon,
with Dr. William C. Friday,
president of the University of
North Carolina, as the speaker.
All this week open house is
being held at the school, with
student displays and guided
tours.
The first major event of the
week’s dedicatory program is
the first basketball game in the
new gymnasium, with the
Pinecrest Patriots meeting
Scotland Highland High School of
Laurinburg.
Stoneybrook Set Apr. 10;
Purses Above Last-Year
The annual Stoneybrook Races
will be held this year on Satur
day, April 10.
Ranked as one of the major
sports and social events of North
Carolina, the races are run for
the beneRt of St. Joseph Hospital
under the sponsorship of the
Stoneybrook Hunt Racing
Association.
A crowd of 25,000 attended last
year’s races and this year’s
event is expected to attract an
equal number.
This will be the 29th running of
the Stoneybrook Races, and
Michael G. Walsh, chairman of
the association and on whose
farm the races are run, said the
the total purses this year will be
$22,500, an increase of $2,000 over
last year.
Walsh said the Pepsi Cola
Company will sponsor the
fe^ure race of the the day, the
Sandhills Cup.
The purse structure is ex
pected this year to draw the best
of the Steeplechase horses from
prominent stables in New York,
Virginia, Maryland, Georgia,
North Carolina and South
Carolina.
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GOP Registers Voters;
Voter List Record High
Republicans of Moore County
have had a registrar at their
headquarters the past two
Saturdays, and Chairman C.
Coolidge Thompson of the Moore
County Board of Elections said
this week that the practice
“might be questionable but is not
Ulegal.”
The special effort of having a
registrar at the Republican
headquarters on US 15-501 for
three hours on Saturdays has not
produced any big results,
however.
There were nine persons
registered on the first Saturday
on Jan. 31 and only seven this
past Saturday.
The deadline for registering to
vote in the March 23 primary is
Feb. 23.
Mrs. Doris Fuquay, executive
secretary of the Moore Board of
Elections, said this week that
registration has been picking up
in recent weeks and the total
number of registered voters in
Moore County hit a record high of
10,011 on Jan. 31.
There have been several party
switches, most of them to the
Republican party, in recent
days, she said.
^ regard to the placing of a
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GOLF COURSES BUSY — All of the 24 golf courses in the Sandhills have been
busy this week. Even though the weather has been chilly the sunshine has brought
out the golfers from far and near. This was a scene Tuesday at
Pinehurst.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Airport Is Called Adequate
With Planned Improvements
Results Are Same
In Aberdeen Vote
Saturday is Homecoming Day
for all of the former high schools,
with reunions scheduled and a
series of basketball games
between alumni that night.
Sunday afternoon’s dedication
[H-ogram will begin at 3 o’clock,
with Supt. R. E. Lee of the Moore
County Schools presiding.
Sam Ragan, editor of The
Pilot, will introduce President
Friday.
Philip McMillan, principal of
Pinecrest, will give the welcome
address, and Principal William
E. Simmons of Pinehurst
Elementary School, will deliver
the prayer of dedication. Mrs.
John L. Frye, chairman of the
Moore County Board of
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Break-Ins
Plaguing
Coimty
The theft of a motorboat and
trailer, valued at $6,450, from a
Pinehurst home, a break-in at
Dr.- C. H. Steffee’s country
cabin at Eastwood and the re
arrest of a youth out on bond for
breaking, and entering and
larceny, on two more counts of
the same, were among Sheriff C.
G. Wimberly’s crime notes for
this weekend.
Search is under way for the
light blue boat, described as a
1973 “Skeeter Hawk” bass boat,
taken from the grounds of the
Robert P. Kelly home on Linden
Road sometime between 4 p.m.
Saturday and 10 p.m. Sunday, by
someone who apparently just
drove onto the yard, hooked up
the trailer and i-ove off with it.
Gone with the boat and trailer
were valuable accessories-
motor, batteries, radios, etc.,
along with tackle boxes and other
fishing equipment.
Allen Wayne Chriscoe, about
23, of Carthage, Rt. 2 made $4,000
bond Wednesday night to get out
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Aberdeen voters were fewer
the second time around, casting
a total of 530 votes Tuesday in
stead of the 629 of last November
4, but they elected the same five
men to the town board as they
had before.
With some added registration,
the total was 54 percent, as
compared with 71 percent in
November.
With the previous vote voided
by the State Board of Elections,
which ordered the new one to be
held, the five winners and six
losers all received fewer votes
than before except for one in
cumbent, Lloyd Harris. After
coming in fifth in November with
289 votes, he gained 42 to leap
into second place this time.
The tie which in November had
landed Floyd Fritz and W. J.
Bayliff together in sixth place,
just one vote off the winners’
circle, was resolved Tuesday
with Fritz coining in sixth,
Bayliff seventh.
Bayliff, who had brought about
the new vote through contesting
the previous one because several
persons ineligible to vote had
done so, not only lost his seat on
the board, but received fewer
than half the votes he got before.
Tuesday’s winners were
Robert Veasey, who remained
the top vote-getter, with 334;
Lloyd Harris, just three votes
behind, with 331; Cliff Blue, Jr.,
299; Joe Singleton, 289, and Hugh
Styers, 279.
, In November it had been
Veasey, 391; Blue, 330;
Singleton, 307; Styers, 300, and
Harris, 289.
The three top winners, Veasey,
Harris and Blue, won four-year
terms, Singleton and Styers two-
year terms, in a staggered
sequence leading to a four-year
rotation of all members.
The losing candidates came
out as follows: Floyd Fritz, 221;
W. J. Bayliff, 132; Ray TyndaU,
96; Bill Marts, 84; Lee Cole, 67;
and Cecil Hutchinson, 47.
The lineup was only slightly
different from the way it was
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Request Will Be Made
For More Police Here
The Southern Pines Town
Council, in regular meeting
Tuesday night, learned from
Town Manager Lew G. Brown
that the town’s population is now
estimated to be between 6,700
and 6,900; that standards of the
International Association of
Chiefs of Police indicate a
community should have from
two to two and a half police
officers per 1,000 population; and
this means that, at a minimum,
Southern Pines should have
approximately 14 policemen.
Thirteen sworn officers are
now authorized, with 12 actually
on the payroll.
Brown asked authorization to
submit a grant request, already,
prepared with assistance of the
Pee Dee Criminal Justice
Planning Agency, to the Law
Enforcement Assistance
Administration (LEAA) for two
additional police officers.
The request calls for a first
year grant of $28,745, for salaries
for two patrolmen, with the usual
benefits; the purchase of one car
and mobile radio, and operating
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Precinct Meets Slated
By Democrats Thursday
Moore County Democrats will
hold precinct meetings on
Thursday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m..
Chairman J. Ed Causey has
announced.
The meetings here are similar
to those being held in all
precincts of the State by the
Democrats on the same date.
Meetings will be held at the
regular polling (voting) places.
The purpose of the meetings is
the election of five officers to the
precinct committee, followed by
the election of five other active
Democrats to the precinct
committee.
Delegates to the County
Convention will also be elected at
the precinct meetings, and this
week State Democratic Party
Chairman James R. Sugg said
that it will be necessary for any
individual who wishes to become
a delegate to any county, district
or state convention to give a
written declaration of their
presidential preference—or
“uncommitted” status-at the
precinct meetings Thursday
night.
It is expected that several
seeking delegate selections will
be declaring themselves,
although some party officials say
they expect most will go
“uncommitted.”
Chairman Sugg said that the
rule change was required so that
North Caroiina’s deiegate
seiection pian wouid be in
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
HUNT-Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt wiii
be the guest at a dutch iuncheon
by Friends of Jim Hunt at the
I/)bsteer Inn on Tuesday, Feb.
17.
Hunt will be in Pinehurst
Tuesday morning for an address,
following which he will visit
Sandhills Community College
prior to the luncheon.
Sara Hot^kins and Dr. David
Bruton said that anyone who
.wished to meet and talk with the
Lieutenant Governor is invited
to the luncheon.
GILMORE-Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines has been named
a member of the North Carolina
Jackson for President Steering
Committee.
A former State Senator and
director of the U.S. Travel
Service, Gilmore was a can
didate for Congress in 1968.
A Jackson for President
headquarters has been set up in
Raleigh, with State Senator
Renfrow of Johnston County in
charge of the office. Former
House Speaker James Ramsey of
Roxboro is chairman of the
North Carolina Jackson effort.
HAPPY VALENTINE — The Pilot’s Happy Valentine
day greeting is appropriately presented with the
current Miss Southern Pines-Miss Margaret
Leatherman.
Madrigals To Love
On Valentine’s Day
BYTHADSTEMJR.
George Meredith’s (1828-1909)
aphorism, “The sentimental
people fiddle on the string of
sensualism,” may be valid 364
days in the year. But St.
Mail Holiday
The U. S. Postal Service will
operate on a holiday schedule
Monday, February 16, the
Federal observance of George
Washington’s birthday.
There will be no regular
residential or business mail
deliveries on the holiday. Mail
will be collected from U. S. mail
boxes designated with one or two
white stars as late in the day as
possible to meet established
first-class mail service stan
dards. Collections will also be
made from most residential
boxes.
Lockbox service will be
available on a Sunday schedule
and special delivery service will
be available in some areas on a
holiday schedule.
Valentine’s Day, February 14, is
the unaffected open sesame for
all the rampant lyrical
emotionalism the austere mind
dams up in tKe heart the other 364
days.
Betimes, the tongue may be
twisted into a tone-deaf
honeysuckle vine, but on
February 14 that same tongue is
a lithesome, rhapsodic bird
traversing the ends of rapture to
pour out gladsome, infectious
madrigals to love.
There have been several
thousand abler poets and
tunesmiths than old Will Rositer,
but he really laid it on with an
impassioned trowel when he
exulted:
‘Td love to live in love-land.
With a girl like you.
Where everyday’s a holiday.
And sky’s are baby blue.
Where roses bloom forever.
And sweetheart’s are always
true.
I’d love to live in loveland
With a girl like you.”
Our present feast of love, or
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The Southern Pines-Pinehurst
Airport meets the present and
immediate future needs of the
community, but work should
proceed on a proposed half
million dollar improvement
program.
That is the position taken by
the Airport Committee and the
Moore County Commissioners
following studies and a master
plan presentation and a public
hearing on the plan held on Dec.
18.
The position paper issued this
week said that there is a
projected decrease in air travel
and stated that before any other
improvements, other than those
now under consideration, the
master plan would have to be
updated.
W. Sidney Taylor, chairman of
the Airport Committee and the
county commissioners, said that
there is an application for
Federal funds wldch would in
clude:
(1) Resurface and strengthen
the runway and taxiway with no
increase in size;
(2) Enlarge the apron so that
aircraft will not have to be
parked on grass or bare dirt
surfaces;
(3) Improve safety at the
airport by: (a) The replacement
of the median intensity runway
lighting system, (b) Install
taxiway and apron edge lights,
(c) Install visual approach slope
indicator system at each end of
the runway;
(4) Seek reimbursement for
county funds already expended
on the purchase of land around
the airport;
(5) Clear the runway ap
proaches (i.e, tree tops etc.) for
proper safe clearance for air
craft landings and take-offs;
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Water Plans
The Moore County com
missioners will meet in special
session on 'Thursday, Feb. 19, at
2:30 p.m. for a presentation of
plans for a regional water
system.
A study a few years ago
recommended a county-wide
water system, and preliminary
plans are to be taken under study
by the commissioners. Among
these plans is a proposal for the
construction of a water reservoir
lake on Drowining Creek.
Peach Growers Prepare Trees;
Auman Planting New Orchards
BY MILDRED ALLEN
The Sandhills peach crop is on
the move. Not to market yet-
that’s June 15 to September 15-
but now is the busy time for
peach growers who are
expanding orchard acreage with
the planting of new trees and
pruning the old ones.
As for the trees themselves.
they’ve had sufficient cold hours
to allow complete rest and they
are ready to go to work as soon as
an extended warm period comes
along.
“Hopefully, not too early,”
Clarence Black, Superintendent
at the Sandhills Research
Center, tells us, “but even so, the
danger of a freeze during the
blooming season doesn’t mean
total crop loss, sometimes only
one variety. We’ve had a late
freeze the past two years and
somewhat short crops, but it’s
been financially rewarding for
the growers.”
It’s no longer a total loss when
a late freeze comes along
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PRIVETTE-The Rev. Coy
Privette of Kannapolis, president
of the Baptist State Convention ”
and former Wake Forest College
football palyer, aims to set up an
organization in each county in his
campai^ for the Republican
nomination for Governor.
Best known for his work in the
campaign against the “liquor-by-
the-drink” referendum, Privette
as the then president of the
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MORE PEACHES AT WEST END — Thirty-five acres of new peach trees were
planted at Clyde Auman’s West End peach orchard last week. Similar expansion
is underway for most established growers in the area, looking to a continued
upswing in the peach industry and a good market.—(Photo by Mildred Allen).