V
Weather
The drought in the Sandhills continues
with sunny skies today and the high 70,
the weatherman says. Clear and cooler
tonight, in the upper 30’s. Tomorrow,
zero chance of rain is forecast and
highs in the upper 60’s.
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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 10-15-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-5-C; Obituaries, 7-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Social News,
2-6-A; Sports, 10-11-A.
Vol. 56, Number 26
48 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, April 28, 1976
48 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Mills Make
Pay Hikes
Burlington Industries, the
nation’s largest textile operation,
and J.P. Stevens, second largest,
both with Moore County
management as well as
employes, have announced
^ upcoming wage increases.
According to Jack Brafford, of
Southern Pines, manager for
Burlington Industries’ Raeford
plant, a 10 percent increase for
all its textile employes will be
effective June 16 and will be
received by an estimated 50,000
wage employes at various plants.
Burlington Industries is now on
a seven day, four shift operation
at its Raeford plant.
Marvin B. Crow, executive
vice president at the J.P. Stevens
Aberdeen carpet plant, said his
Gullistan operation was planning
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Nurse Dies
In Wreck
Of Auto
Miss Shirla Kay Lantz, 23,
registered nurse who worked in
the operating room at Moore
Memorial Hospital, was killed
Friday when the car in which she
was riding collided with a trailer
tractor at the intersection of N.
C. 20 and N. C. 71 at Lumber
Bridge around 5 p.m.
Also killed in the wreck was
David Sprague, 23, of
Providence, R.I., who was driver
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Sandhills Hurt
By Budget Cuts
Three Candidates File
For Commission Posts
Deer Invasion Causing
Peach Orchard Problem
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Peach grower Clyde Auman of
West End is having a deer
problem.
In fact, the deer are causing so
much havoc in the Auman peach
orchards they are having to stay
up nights to try and keep them
out.
So far, Auman said, between
500 and 750 young peach trees
have been severly damaged by
marauding deer herds.
The deer come in at night and
eat the tops out of young peach
trees, and the Aumans have been
using spotlights and firing off
guns in an attempt to keep them
out of the orchards.
“The problem has been
growing steadily worse the past
three years,” Auman said.
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Pine On Boyd Estate
Declared A Champfion
Three candidates filed
Tuesday with the Moore County
Board of Elections for the
Democratic nomination for
county conunissioner.
Two of the candidates-E.O.
Brogden and Leaveme Maness-
filed for the commissioner’s seat
from McNeill Township.
Carolyn Blue of Eagle Springs,
immediate past chairman of the
Moore County Democratic
Executive Committee and
presently vice chairman, is a
candidate from Bensalem and
Mineral Springs townships.
Brogden, a Southern Pines
attorney, has been active in
Democratic party affairs for
many years.
Maness operates an oil
company, a motel on Midland
Road and four food centers.
Democratic leaders said they
expected at least one other
candidate to file from McNeill
Township.
Two incumbents have fUed for
the Republican nomination , for
county commissioner-Floyd
Cole of West End, and John
Womack of Southern Pines.
Among other filers is Jack
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McPherson Dies at 67;
Memorial Services Held
BY HOWARD S. MUSE, JR.
There are taller, larger, and
older trees in Moore County:
Loblolly pines touching the sky at
upwards of 125 feet, and oaks
around old home places more
than a yard wide and well into
their fourth century of life.
But commanding a mixed
stand of longleaf pines and
hardwoods several hundred
Sales Tax
Sales tax collections in Moore
County jumped to $92,150.47
during March, according to a
report by Secretary J. Howard
Coble of the State Department of
Revenue.
Collections of the one percent
local sales tax in neighboring
counties were as follows: Hoke,
$24,734.18; Lee, $73,477.56;
Montgomery, $32,619.26; and
Richmond, $80,699.16.
yards from the main residence of
the Boyd Estate, which is now
the property of SandhiUs Com
munity College, in Southern
Pines, is a longleaf pine that you
could consider a great American
survivor as well as a Sandhills
landmark.
It stands 92 feet tall, has a girth
of 104.4 inches, and an average
crown spread of 42 feet, ac
cording to measurements taken
last fall by J. Thomas Morgan of
Southern Pines, a Service
Forester with the North
Carolina Forest Service. And
when these measurements were
plugged into a mathematical
equation that the North Carolina
Forest Service uses to determine
whether or not a tree is the
largest of its species in the state
this longleaf pine emerged as
North Carolina’s champion
longleaf pine with a point score of
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BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION — Moore County launched its Bicentennial
celebrdtidti with a ribbon cutting at the Village of Yesteryear at the county
fairgrounds (top) with Chairman W.S. Taylor of the board of commissioners
(left), H. Clifton Blue, chairman of the Bicentennial Committee, and Uncle Sam
(Sidney Hodgin) of Sanford. At bottom young people play recorders during the.
Bicentennial parade in Carthage on Saturday.
Yesteryears Relived As Moore
Opens Bicentennial Observance
Fred Garland McPherson, 67,
active in the business and civic
life of the Sandhills for the past 30
years, died Saturday morning at
North Carolina Memorial
Hospital in Chapel Hill.
Mr. McPherson, of 430
Crestview Road in Southern
Pines, underwent a minor
operation at the hospital on
Thursday and developed a heart
involvement which claimed his
life.
He had previously willed his
body to the UNC Medical School.
A memorial service was held
Monday at 11 a.m. at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, of which he
was a member, attended by
members of his family and a
large body of friends, including
many from out of town.
Representing the North
Carolina Press Association at the
service were A. Howard White of
Kannapolis, president of the
Association; Dr. John Adams,
dean of the UNC School of
Journalism; and Sam Ragan of
Southern Pines.
Mr. McPherson was a former
business manager of the
Burlington Times-News and the
brother of Holt McPherson, long
time editor of the High Point
Enterprise and president of the
North Carolina Journalism
Foundation.
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Big Increase Is Noted
In Moore’s Auto Sales
BY MILDRED ALLEN
The sound of the blacksmith’s
anvil, the smoke of the soap-
maker’s pot, the mule-power^
gristmill, the partying and the
work of an old-time corn-
shucking, the quilting frames
and weaver’s looms once more
were the center of community
life for three days of history re
lived at the Village of Yesteryear
this week in Carthage.
Demonstrations of old-time
ways of life, many of those ways
Reeves Bequests Include
Colleges And Hospitals
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CHAMPION TREE — Robert Edwards (left), Moore
County Forest ranger, is shown presenting a
certificate attesting to the champion longleaf pine at
Weymouth to James Halstead, assistant to the
president of Sandhills Community College. Jay
Carter, naturalist at Weymouth Woods Nature
Preserve, is at right.—(Photo by Howard Muse Jr.).
The will of John Mercer
Reeves, prominent industrialist
and former chairman of the N. C.
State Ports Authority, shows him
to be generous in death, as he
was in life, toward certain good
causes and institutions which
were close to him.
Reeves died March 16 at his
home in Pinehurst at the age of
88. His will, probated in the office
of the Moore County Clerk of
Expansion
Planned
By Plant
The Carolina Galvanizing
Corporation is leasing, with
option to buy, seven acres and a
70,000 square foot building from
the Wickes Corporation of
Wheeling, Ill., says real estate
broker Louis (Lou) Oberly of
Aberdeen.
The property, formerly a
mobile home operation one mile
south of Aberdeen on Highway
211, contains the building which
will be used for expansion by the
company, which has another
building nearby.
No new employees will be
hired immediately, but even
tually the expansion will
probably hire more people.
James M. Craven of ^ebluff
is an official of the galvanizing
company, which now works wiOi
steel but may branch out into
other fields.
A letter from the Wheeling
Wickes Company, signed by the
general engineer for real estate
development to Max Oberly
recently said:
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Court, includes a listing of assets
of his estate totaling $4,289,000.
Specific charitable bequests-
though without any
specifications as to their use-
include $125,000 to the Medical
Foundation of North Carolina,
less any gifts he might make to
the Foundation after the date of
the will, and prior to his death;
$30,000 each to Oak Ridge In
stitute and Wofford College,
Spartanburg, S. C., and $15,000
each to the Southern Pines
United Methodist Church, the
Pinehurst Community Foun
dation, Inc., and Centenary
College for Women at Hackett-
stown, N.J.
Following payment of these
bequests and several of a per
sonal nature, to individuals, with
all tangible personal property
and rights and title to toeir two
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continuing into more recent
years for Moore County’s rural
and historic culture, official
ceremonies of the American
Revolution military in full
authenticity of dress and
firearms were climaxed what
has been declared to be the
county’s largest and the
Bicentennial’s most successful
event.
Groups and individuals from
all areas of Moore County par
ticipated in the demonstrations
and exhibits at the Village of
Yesteryear and every com
munity participated in the
Bicentennial Parade on Satur
day.
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Historical Meet
The Moore County Historical
Association will hold its annual
meeting at the
Bryant-McLendon place on
State Road 1210 on Sunday, May
2, at 4 p.m.
Following annual reports and
the election of directors there
will be a talk by Mrs. Ernest L.
Ives.
After the regular program
there will be a reception in honor
of Mrs. Flossie Bryant Davis, the
donor of the Bryant House
property to the association.
Car sales in Moore County
have increased tremendously
this spring, and dealers say they
are “quite excited.”
Wicks Chevrolet Co. of
Aberdeen says, through its
president, B.W. Wicks, “We are
ahead 69 percent through the
months of March in the year to
date, and look forward to a good
April. Now is a good time to
trade.”
Brookshire Motors is up some
50 percent during the past two
months and advertised in The
Pilot for five new salesmen.
Brookshire deals in General
Motors cars, including Buick,
Oldsmobile, and Pontiac, where
intermediate, family sized cars
are going fast.
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Ford Has Delegate Lead
With Moore Republicans
President Gerald Ford, who
carried Moore County in the May
23 presidential preference
primary, got the bulk of the
delegates from Moore County at
the Republican county
convention in Carthage on
.Saturday.
There were 36 delegates and 36
alternates elected to the Eighth
District convention to be held in
Salisbury at the Rowan County
courthouse on May 29.
Moore County Chairman
James R. Thomas said that the
Moore delegates were divided.
with 75 percent for Ford and 25
percent for challenger Ronald
Reagan.
At the district convention three
delegates and three alternates
will be elected to the National
Republican Convention at
Kansas City.
Delegates elected from Moore
will also attend the State
Republican Convention at
Greensboro on Saturday, June
19, beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the
Greensboro Coliseum.
Thomas said the county
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Sandhills Conununity College,
faced with a $250,000 cut in state
appropriations for next year,
may have to eliminate 20
teaching positions or cut out one
entire quarter of instruction.
President Raymond Stone said
this week that the action of the
legislators in cutting the budget
in order to give teachers and
other state employes a pay raise
will have “drastic reper
cussions” at Sandhills.
He said he will be in Raleigh
this week when the Joint Ap
propriations Committee is
meeting to try to point out the
serious effects the budget cuts
will have on the college’s
operations. He said he has talked
with Representatives and State
Senators from this area, but does
not know if anything can be done
to restore the funds.
Dr. Stone said that some
faculty and staff members have
resigned and “we are waiting on
replacements to see if we will
have the money.”
“With $250,000 less money to
spend in the next fiscal year we
may have to cut out 20 teaching
positions,” Dr. Stone said.
Among other alternatives is the
elimination of one quarter of the
school year, along with in
creasing class size.
Dr. Stone said that ap
propriations are based on
enrollment and enrollment in
crease. Sandhills has had a 300
student increase, the 1975
calendar year showing 1,660 full
time students.
On a statewide baSis the
community college system has
shown a 30 percent increase in
enrollment over projections, and
other colleges and technical
institutes also are concerned
about the budget cuts. At
Fayetteville Technical Institute
the decision was made to
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Flu Shot
Program
Planned
Moore County Health Officer
Alfred G. Siege will meet Friday
to plan the county’s participation
in the massive swine-like flu
inoculations to be given nation
wide with a representative of the
regional Health Office in
Fayetteville.
Information on a state and
national level will be discussed.
Dr. Siege said Monday that the
vaccinations will probably take
place in Moore County in
September and he advised the
people to take advantage of the
protection.
However, deaths from flu, such
as occurred in the early part of
the century when a vast
epidemic occurred, were usually
caused by complications, he
said, which could now be
controlled by antibotics
discovered since that time, he
pointed out.
Flu is caught by person-to-
. person contact. Dr. Siege said.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
LEGISLATURE—The General
Assembly will convene in
Raleigh next Monday and if
legislative leaders have their
way they will be adjourning and
going home by the end of the
week.
There will be two items bn the
agenda-an appropriations bill
and legislation dealing with
medical malpractice suits.
The Joint Appropriations
Committee is meeting in Raleigh
this week in an attempt to have
an appropriations bill, which will
include a pay raise for teachers
and other state employes, ready
by Monday.
Rep. T. Clyde Auman, who is a
member of the committee, said
early this week, however, that
there is some doubt the ap
propriations work can be
finished before the weekend. He
still thinks it’s possible though
for the Legislature to finish up its
work in one week’s time.
HUNT—On Monday of this
week Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt called bn
the Legislature to give the
teachers and state employes a 6.5
percent pay increase.
Most legislators had been
thinking in terms of a 5 percent
pay raise, which would cost the
state an extra $70 million. The
Hunt proposal would cost
something over $90 million more,
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HIGH JUMP — This horse and rider chose the broad jump over the fan fence, and
the horse is shown at mid arc and at full length. Action came at the special horse
show here last weekend. See story in Sports section.—(Photo by Mildred Allen).