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Index
Books, 2-B; Church calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 7-11-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 5-6-C; Obituaries, 7-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-4-C; Social News,
2-6-A; Sports, lO-ll-A.
Vol. 56, Number 21
42 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, March 24, 1976
42 Pages
Price 10 Cents
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Carter, Ford Lead In Moore Voting
$2 Million Bonds
Get Council OK
Bond orders totaling $2,050,000
in general obligation bonds, for
sewer expansion both in and out
of town, also fire and recreation
facilities and public buildings,
with land acqidsition for all,
were approved by resolution of
the Southern Pines Town Council
in special meeting Monday night.
They are subject to a public
hearing, which the council setfor
8 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, and, if
public approval is forthcoming,
to a referendum on a date to be
set later.
The actions were taken to
expedite the long-planned
annexation of a large area south
of Southern Pines, which tiie
sewer expansion will make
feasible if all goes smoothly from
here on.
Town Manager Lew G. Brown
said he had submitted the
application for the bond vote to
the Local Government
Commission, and received word
that all was found to be “in good
order.”
Following approval of the
council at its March meeting, a
“Letter of Intent” had teen
published March 10, and Brown
said no objections had teen
received at the town office.
Mayor E.J. Austin and other
councilmen present said also
they had heard nothing adverse.
In fact, the mayor reported,
several residents of the area
involved had spoken to him with
approval of the move, and one
man had stated he had teen
looking forward for a long time to
becoming a citizen of the town.
Said the mayor, after the four
bond orders were approved, “I
believe this is a historic moment
for our town. We are embarked
on the first bond issue to be held
here in many years. We know
this is a good thing, and we know
we can afford it.”
Michael Smithson, youngest
and one of the two newest council
members, also expressed his
feeling that “this is a big step, to
keep Southern Pines a good town
and preserve its quality of life,
for many years in the future.”
Four bond orders were
approved, introduced separately
by the different council
members, and read in full by
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On Today Show
Sam Ragan, editor and
publisher of The Pilot, will
appear on the NBC “Today”
show for the second time Friday,
March 26 during the two-hour
salute to the Tar Heel State
beginning at 7 a.m.
Ragan is interviewed by NBC’s
David Brinkley in Greenfield
Gardens in Wilmington, where
Brinkley was reared.
Others appearing on the show
will be former Senator Sam
Ervin and Chief Justice Susie
Sharp, the cast of “Hot Grog”
from Chapel HiU, a group from
the N.C. School of the Arts.
Court Facility Goes On;
Drug Issue Before Board
The Moore County com
missioners, conferring Wed
nesday with architect E.J.
Austin, gave him the green light
to proceed with working
drawings of the new Courts
Facility, with only minor
modifications.
They also heard from Carthage
Mayor W.M. Carter, Jr., who
appeared with members of his
board, to urge establishment of
an independent law enforcement
squad to deal with drug offenses.
The go-ahead signal on the
Courts Facility was for the
building only, estimated to cost
around $1.5 million, with
prospects that bids can be taken
by early fall, with construction to
be completed within one and a
half to two years after that.
The connmissioners had teen
scared off by an estimate given
by Austin February 26, of nearly
$2 million for the comprehensive
job, covering the building, plus
furnishings, landscaping,
parking areas and other extras.
Their request that he work with it
further, to try and bring it down
to $1.5 or under for the whole
thing, had occasioned some three
weeks’ delay.
Accompanied by his associate
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Meet Set On Thursday
For Bicycle Race Plans
Bill Crawford, State chairman
of the United States World
Bicycle Race, will be in Southern
Pines on Thursday to establish
the race route through Moore
County and to discuss other plans
for the June event with
representatives on the Sandhills
Area Chamber of Commerce.
Floyd Sayre of the Chamber
said Tuesday that the $5,000
necessary for Moore County to
participate in the statewide race
has teen raised.
There will be a 36-hour
stopover in the Sandhills for the
more than 100 participating
cyclists on June 15-17, and many
local events are being planned in
connection with the big race,
including a lO^nile Moore County
bicycle race for which prizes of
$2,500 will be awarded.
Sayre said that any funds
raised beyond the $5,000 amount
will be used for the local events.
Jim Crosier and Bruce Cun
ningham are the local co-
chairman, and others will meet
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UNITED
STATES
WORLD
BICVCLE
RACE
BIKE RACE EMBLEM — This emblem will be used
for the United States World Bicycle Race to be staged
in North Carolina June 11-20, with a stopover in
Southern Pines on June 15-17.
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STATE CHAMPIONS — The Union Pines girls
basketball team, shown here with Coach Carl Salmon,
are the new State champions, winning the State finals
over Fred T. Foard on Saturday night. The
championship trophy, along with other trophies
captured during the season, were presented to the
school at a full assembly ceremony on Monday
morning. Members of the winning team, pictured
here, are Debbie Ring, Sharon Kelly, Sabra Simpson,
Carolyn Ellerbe, Kay Hampton, Peggy Smith, June
Doby, Mary McKeithan, and Charlotte Caster,
Manager. Not shown are Vanessa Jones and Frances
Tyson.—(Photo by Mildred Allen).
Lady Vikings Are State Champions
Moore County has a new State
chanq)ion-the Lady Vikings of
Union Pines High School.
A standing ovation greeted the
victorious girls basketball team
as they waUced down the aisle of
an early morning assembly at
Union Pines on Monday morning
after Saturday night’s win over
Fred T. Foard, 54-53, and the
capture of the 1976 NCHSAA girls
championship from the
defending cha^ions.
The excitement over the
victory in the State finals hit a
new Mgh as the girls strode on
stage amid the loud
congratulatory handclapping of
the student body, which
continued for five m^tues.
Cancer
Leaders
Coming
Three of the nation’s most
outstanding contributors to the
field of cancer research have
accepted invitations to attend the
fund-raising dinner for the Moore
County Chapter of the American
Cancer Society scheduled April 3
at the Country Gub of North
Carolina, beginning with a
reception at 7 p.m. and dinner at
8 p.m.
Dr. William W. Shingleton,
Director of the Comprehensive
Cancer Center at Dt^e, Dr. R.
Wayne Rundles, president-elect
of ^e American Cancer Society
and leading authority on
chemotherapy services, and Dr.
William G. Anlyan, Duke
University Vice President for
Health Affairs, will be guests at
the kick-off event braefitting
cancer research.
Elliot Richardson, Secretary of
Commerce, will be the featured
speaker.
The benefit dinner will be by
invitation. Persons invited to the
dinner will not be approached
again for contributions to the
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Flag Contest
There is only one week left to
design a flag for Moore County.
Entries are to be delivered to the
Moore County Bicentennial
Office in Aberdeen, or mailed to
Box 336, Aberdeen, N.C. 28315 by
March 31.
A flag raising ceremony is
planned for July 4. Perhaps a
locally designed flag will be one
raised over the county in this
Bicentennial year.
Sharing in the honors, of
course, was Coach Carl Salmon,
who knew from the first of the
year he had championship
quality in the girls with good
senior leadership.
After trophies were presented
to the principal and more cheers
and applause, the student body
was dismissed and Coach
Salmon commented on the
members of the winning team
and their season.
“First of all,” he said, “we had
the qualities a team has to have
for championship. In addition to
the senior leadership, we had
perhaps the quickest guards in
the state, Sharon Kelly and Mary
McKeithan. In order for a team
to move in this kind of
competition, you have to have
Moore Native To Become
Barber-Scotia President
Dr. Mable Parker McLean,
Moore County native, will be
inaugurated as the ninth
President of Barber-Scotia
College, Concord, on Friday,
April 2, at 2:30 p.m. in the
College Convocation Center. Dr.
McLean is the only black women
in the United States vidio is the
president of a senior literal arts
college.
Official delegates and
representatives from more than
125 colleges, universities,
learned societies, business
foundations, civic, religious, and
educational organizations will be
present for the inauguration and
will constitute the processional,
along with the Mayor of Concord,
representatives of the student
body and the alumni, the faculty,
the Barber-Scotia Board of
Trustees, and the inaugural
party.
Rresiding at the ceremony will
be Dr. Hielma Adair. In addition
Dr. Mable P. McLean
to being a member of the Barber-
Scotia Board of Trustees, Dr.
Adair is professor of early
childhood education at Queens
College of the Qty University of
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
CANDIDACIES - Now that the
presidential preference primary
is past North Carolina voters can
expect a flood of formal
announcements of candidacies.
A lot of candidates have let it
be known that they are running
but they have teen holding off on
formal announcements until
after the March 23 primary.
Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt, for
instance, is a candidate for
governor, as everyone knows,
but he has not made it formal and
will not do so until April 5, which
is also the first day on which
state and local candidates can
officially file for the August 17
party primaries.
FILING - Under the new State
election laws the filing period for
candidates begins at noon on
Monday, April 15, and ends at
noon on Friday, May 28. This
applies for congressional, state
and local offices.
Some of the candidates who
have teen testing the political
breeze will not get around to
officially filing, and there will be
some candidates getting into the
primary races who have not
made any public
pronouncements at all thus far.
It looks like all of the major
state offices will have contests in
the Democratic primary, and in
the Governor’s race there is
expected to be a heated
Republican primary among
four candidates.
GOVERNOR ~ Unless
something unexpected happens,
there wiU be four candidates
seeking the Democratic
nomination for Governor-Hunt,
Edward O’Herron of Charlotte,
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How Moore Voted
Democratic
Carter
2889
Wallace
1764
Jackson
219
Udall
102
Harris
41
Bentsen
8
No Pref.
238
Republican
Ford
1587
Reagan
1286
No Pref.
47
Hospital Amend.
For
4002
Against
3491
Industry Amend.
For
3956
Against
3465
UNC Bonds
For
4019
Against
3988
good guards for sparkplugs.
Kelly and McKeithan impressed
a lot of people-college coaches
and others-this year. The coach
for Fred T. Foard said after the
game Saturday night, they were
two of the fastest guards he had
ever seen. They really sparked
the team.
“Another thing, these girls are
very persistent. This team never
gives up regardless of odds. In all
my years of coaching. I’ve built
into the team that it’s not the
coaching, but the natural
qualities that count.
“Take June Doby, she’s a
tremendous basketball player.
She’s 6 feet 4 inches and really
handles herself well. She shoote
60 percent and played in a
conference against those equally
as tall and taller and heavier.
Saturday night she played
against a girl from Foard whom
a lot of folks considered the test
in the state. Both girls had foul
trouble in the second half, but
June out-played her. It ^dn’t
matter anyttoe how big they
were, she ^d her job and took the
challenge.”
“During that second half when
Doby was in foul trouble, Peggy
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Peaches
Suffer
Damages
1110 peaches in Moore County
were hurt by Wednesday night’s
freeze, but there are still “quite
a few” peaches undamaged by
that or last night’s 37 degree
temperature.
Garrace Black of the Sandhills
Research Center near Jackson
Springs said today that some 80
percent of the crop at the station
and among private peach
growers was lost by the cold,
when it was 26 degrees for a brief
time and freezing for some ten
hours.*
Trees located on high
elevations were those which had
the test chance of survival.
Some counties, such as Anson,
fared tetter than Moore, he said.
The earliest crop blooms last.
Black said, and the Whynot
variety, named for a nearby
community, will come in first.
This six-year-old variety is ex
pected to be harvested around
May 17.
Black said he checked on the
peach damage on Thursday, and
again this morning. A complete
view of the damage will not come
until harvest time, he said.
Sidneybrook
It looks like a record crowd this
year for the Stoneybrook Races
on Saturday, April 10.
Officials said this week that
more parking spaces were made
avaUable this year and they
expect all to be sold out by the
first of the week.
There will also be a record
amount of money for race pur
ses, including a $10,000 purse by
the Pepsi Cola Bottling Com
pany.
Jimmy Carter of Georgia
scored a whopping victory over
George Wallace of Alabama and
President Gerald Ford was
favored over Ronald Reagan by
Moore County voters in the
presidential preference primary
on Tuesday.
Forty-two percent of Moore’s
total of 19,689 voters went to the
poUs-a percentage much higher
than that for the state as a whole,
estimated at 35 percent.
The total number of votes in
Moore was 8,368.
Carter, former governor of
Georgia and the current front
runner in the Democratic
presidential sweepstakes, polled
2,889 votes in Moore. Governor
Wallace of Alabama ran far
behind with a total of 1,764.
Carter got 55 percent of the
Democratic vote in Moore.
In the state as a whole the
almost complete returns gave
Carter 320,433 votes-or 54 per
cent of the total-and Wallace
209,296 votes, or 35 percent.
Moore County went against the
State trend in the Republican
presidential preference primary,
choosing Ford over Reagan.
Ford received 1,587 votes and
Reagan 1,288.
In North Carolina as a whole,
holding its second presidential
preference primary (the first
was in 1972), Reagan polled
100,961 votes in almost complete
returns and Ford drew 88,224.
Reagan was credited with 52
percent of the total vote and Ford
with 46 percent.
Moore County voted for the two
Constitutional Amendments,
which passed in the state, and the
$43 million bond issue for the
University of North Carolina.
The vote for the hospital bonds
amendment was 4,002 for and
3,491 against in Moore. On the
tax-free industrial development
revenue bonds the vote was 3,956
for and 3,465 against. The vote on
the UNC capital improvements
bond issue was 4,019 for and 3,988
against.
In the Democratic presidential
preference primary, all of the
other candidates behind Carter
and Wallace received scant
attention in Moore.
Senator Henry Jackson got 219
votes (his total in the State was
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Riding Horses Is Hobby
Of Blind Social Worker
BY MILDRED ALLEN
There are those who have
called Debbie Sugg, 25-year-old
social worker for the blind, the
definition of determination.
There’s another one which
includes much more, for she is
surely the definition of one who
has discovered the wonderful
and absolute joy of life and its
fulfillment.
Her life, enriched by deter-
i\
mination and accomplishment of
goals she sets for herself,
overflows with an easy con
fidence, joy and helpfulness into
the lives of all who come in
contact with her — but especially
into the lives of clients and horse
people with whom she shares the
greater part of her time.
Debbie joined the Moore
County Department of Social
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COMMUNICATION — There’s a lot of communication
going on here between this six-year-old bay gelding
quarterhorse named Wimpy Blue Gold and Debbie
Sugg, 25-year-old blind Moore County social worker,
shown above at the Pinehurst Riding
Academy.—(Photo by Glenn Dickerson).