Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 7-11-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-5-C; Obituaries, 7-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-2-C; Social News,
2-6-A; Sports, 7-8-A.
LOT
Reviews
Of the drama, “The House in the
Horseshoe” by Sam Ragan, page 4-C,
and Valerie Nicholson, page 11-A are
given in this issue.
Vol. 56, Number 37
40 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, July 14, 1976
40 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Tobacco
Sales Set
Tobacco will be unloaded
Friday as Carthage and Aber
deen markets begin pr parations
for the first tobacco auction sales
of the season.
Middle Belt tobacco sales wUl
begin Tuesday, July 20 and
continue until around the first of
November. Warehouses in both
Aberdeen and Carthage are
preparing to open.
Fentress Phillips of Planter’s
on the Raeford Road at Aber
deen expects prices to be around
95 to 96 cents a hundred pounds
on the opening day of the sale,
about five cents above last year’s
first day.
There is a “better crop” than
there was last year, he said
yesterday.
Prices are expected to in
crease after opening day, he
continued. His warehouse will
hold some 250 piles, which varies
from five to fifty sheets per
grower.
The warehouse has hired 24
people who have already cleaned
up the place for the Friday
unloading looking toward
Tuesday opening sale.
Walter Fields, of the
Agricultural Stabilization Board
said that recent rains had not
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Democrats
Caucus Set
On July 24
The four Democratic can
didates for Governor and all of
the party’s candidates for
Council of State offices are
scheduled to be in Pinehurst on
Saturday, July 24.
Their appearance will be
before the annual meeting of the
North State Caucus, which was
formed following the 1972
general election for the sole
purpose of promoting a unified
Democratic party.
Each of the candidates will
make a presentation to the
Caucus and will be expected to
pledge their support to the
party’s nominee for the position
they seek and to the Democratic
ticket.
The meeting will be held at the
Pinehurst Hotel, beginning at
2:30 p.m., when the Democratic
candidates for the Council of
State offices will make their
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"O
P'.
Pinehurst To Get
New Telephones
patrons preceding the opening of the play on the
thfdrnlin of grounds of the State Historic Site.—(Photo by Carla
the drama, The House In the Horseshoe,” with a Butler).
reception and buffet dinner for special guests and
Party Precedes Drama’s Premiere
At Historic House In Horseshoe
On Saturday morning, July 17,
at 2:01 a.m. United Telephone
Co. of the Carolinas will put into
operation new switching
equipment in the company’s
Pinehurst office, which will
require some changes in
customer dialing patterns.
Joe Kimball, United’s
Southern Pines District
manager, said more than $2.5
million has been invested in the
project to expand Wd .upgrade
service in the^^ehurst area.
But, he added, customers will
have to change some of their
dialing habits for the equipment
to function properly.
The electronic switching
equipment“NX-lE, as it is
technically called-will require
Pinehurst customers to dial all
seven digits of a local telephone
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Two Residents Are Cited
For Handicapped Efforts
BY PALMER HHX
Governor Jim Holshouser
honored Constance Matheson
Baker arid Larry Marchese of
Pinehurst in a special awards
ceremony on Monday in
reco^ition of their work with the
handicapped.
About 30 friends of the
honorees and members of the
press attended the ceremony.
which took place in the Gover
nor’s Press Conference Room in
the State Administration
Building in Raleigh.
Before presenting the awards
the Governor recognized
Caroline Livermore, President of
the North Carolina Association
for Emotionally Disturbed
Children, and Earl Hubbard,
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BY MARJORIE RAGAN
A lush lawn circled by
marigolds and zinnias ringed the
House in the Horseshoe Wed
nesday night as the Moore
County Historical Association
greeted guests at an opening
night party. Skies were clear as
the sun dropped behind the house
and the stage at back.
A highlight of the evening
came when a portrait of Mrs.
Ernest L. Ives was unveiled by
former president E. Earl Hub
bard and presented to her for her
dream of restoring historic
Alston House and dramatizing
the events that took place during
the Revolutionary War. Portrait
painter William Fields and
Society President Capt. Sherman
Betts escorted Mrs. Ives to the
stage during intermission.
The play by Joseph Cole
Simmons was well received by a
gaily dressed audience,
Aberdeen
Annexing
More Land
Annexations by the Aberdeen
Town Board of three areas were
accepted Monday night and
another requested was delayed.
The annexations were from
Mr. and Mrs. James WUson
Wise, from J.C. Robbins to annex
a street owned by him in the
Town and Country Shopping
Center and one from Sandhills
Housing Associates, all
ix-esented by Rodney Robinson of
Johnson Poole Associates.
The other proposed annexation
was requested by a delegation of
some 15 persons, among them
Preston Reaves and Soloman
Gillis. Necessary steps were
voted to be made to work with the
citizens in the Berkley and
Cabbage Hill areas to annex the
areas. The delegation presented
a petition with 78 names of
persons in the area requesting
annexation of one square mile
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especially the climax which
showed the battle between
Phillip Alston and David Fan
ning on the actual porch of the
House where the battle took
place and in its yard. Tem
perance Alston (Christine
Murdock) walked dramatically
into the battle to surrender if
Fanning would promise Uiat no
one would be harmed.
Applause sounded frequently
as the play unfolded.
The party started at 7 p.m. and
arrivals admired the grounds
with their old boxwood and the
house with its authentic fur
nishings. In the dining room, a
red, white and blue blue buffet
was served after punch on the
porch.
The menu included downeast
fish stick corn bread, historic
ham-sausage biscuits, new world
Region Study Planned
By AIA In September
An intensive four-day study
designed to provide directions
for future growth and develop
ment will be conducted in Moore
County by a specialized team
from the American Institute of
Architects on Sept. 17-20.
Architect E.J. Austin, who
conceived the idea for the study
some two years ago, announced
plans for the visit by the Rural-
Urban Design Assistance Team
(RUDAT) at a meeting of the
Sandhills Chamber of Commerce
board of directors on Thursday.
Austin, who with Voit Gilmore,
has headed a special Chamber of
Commerce committee planning
for the RUDAT visit and study,
said that the team will be headed
by Jules Gregory, an architect
from Princeton University.
Gregory has made a prior visit to
the area, and members of the
team will have made an ex
tensive preliminary study of
various statistical information
before they come here on Sept.
17.
The team will be made up of
architects, city planners,
sociologists, humanists and
others.
They will tour the Moore
County area, with special em
phasis on the Sandhills, and will
conduct extensive interviews
with a variety of residents, also
meeting for group discussions
with citizens of the area.
Land use planning is involved,
but Austin said the team will not
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
REGISTRATION — Monday,
July 19, is the deadline for
registering to vote in the August
17 party primaries, and in Moore
County it appears that the total
registration will go above the
20,000 mark.
The total registration as of
June 30 was 19,806, and Mrs.
Doris Fuquay, executive
secretary of the Moore County
Board of Elections, said the
office has been busy in recent
days putting new voters on the
books.
In reminding residents of the
re^stration deadline she also
said that anyone who has moved
to another precinct must also get
an official transfer.
The first day for application
either in person or by letter to the
Board of Elections for an ab
sentee ballot is July 18, and the
last date for such an application
is Aug. 11.
Of the total registration at the
end of June there were 12,289
Democrats and 6,649
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‘Pond Man ’ Reports 1,500 Of Them
MRS. BAKER HONORED — Mrs. Constance
Matheson Baker, owner of “Duncraig Manor” here, is
presented an award by Governor Holshouser in
ceremonies in Raleigh on Monday for her work with
the handicapped.
BY CRAIG LAMB
There is a newly constructed
farm pond on the Archie Kelly
farm in Carthage. The bulldozers
sit on one side of the earthen
bowl, and the pond is already
collecting water, although it will
be months before the water level
is up to its projected height.
This is perhaps the newest of
some 1,500 farm ponds that have
been constructed in Moore
County during the past twenty to
twenty-five years.
Most of these ponds, at least
two-thirds, have been con
structed with the help of the Soil
Conservation Service in Car
thage, and more personally
with the help of Willard K.
Keller, who has been the District
Conservationist for this area for
(the past 22 years.
Known affectionately as “the
pond man” around Moore
County, Keller and the Soil
Conservation Service have
engineered the construction of
most of the ponds in the county.
There is also a new Dam Safety
Law which involves Keller in the
inspection of many ponds
around the county. Any dam over
15 feet high which impounds over
10 acre feet of water and costs
$5,000 or more, must have a
permit from the Department of
Natural and Economic
Resources.
Ponds around the county range
in size from less than one acre to
300 acres or more, but most of the
ponds are under 15 acres,
residential ponds averaging
about 5 acres. The ponds are
used for many purposes, from
fishing and recreation to farm
irrigation and spraying. Multiple
uses of ponds are encouraged by
the SCS.
Keller has seen many ponds
built around the Sandhills and
has been active in the con
struction of most of them, in one
way or another. The SCS can
provide engineering services to
anyone wishing to build a pond oa
their land, provided the Hann
height for tiie pond does not
exceed 25 feet. “Over 25 feet and
we have to have State approval,”
explained Keller, “so it is usually
more convenient for someone
with a job of that size to go to a
private engineer.”
In a survey done by Keller
between 1955 and 1965, he
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PO Denied
Rezoning
Thomas Out
Of House
Race Here
James Thomas of Southern
Pines has withdrawn as the
Republican candidate for the
State House of Representatives.
Chairman C. Coolidge
Thompson said Monday that
Thomas’ withdrawal has been
accepted by the Moore County
Board of Elections.
He also said that a letter has
been sent to the Moore County
Republican Executive Com
mittee notifying the committee
of the withdrawal and that the
committee may now appoint a
candidate to take the place of
Thomas on the ballot.
Thomas is chairman of the
Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee may
choose to select a nominee but
does not have to do so.
Chairman Thompson said that
Thomas gave family and
business reasons for his with-
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The Southern Pines Town
Council in a public hearing
Tuesday night, in the face of
numerous citizen protests,
declined to re-zone the old
Holl}Tvood Hotel site for possible
construction of a new post office,
but instead passed a motion to
“encourage the Postal Service to
pursue further the object of
finding a suitable location,” also
to ask the mayor to appoint a
conunittee to “work with them
toward this goal.”
However, Hugh B. Hicks, real
estate specialist with the Realty
Management Division of the
Postal Service at Atlanta, Ga.,
had already warned the council
that, if the desired site wasn’t
cleared for the purpose, “we will
eventually come back to it, since
it is the only one we want.”
Though Hicks had got in late in
the site selection, most of the
work on which had been done by
a predecessor, Joe Praeger, who
is no longer in the Division, he
said analysis had been made of
all the sites in or around the
downtown area, and there were
various reasons why none of the
others would do-either they
weren’t large enough (an acre
and a half is a “must”), or the
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beef-kidney pies, cinnamon
apple wedges, molasses cookies,
old graham bread with barn-
aged cheese, apple cider, iced
tea and coffee.
Many of the guests were in
festive red, white and blue
dresses and many were from out-
of-town, including Rep. Lura
Tally of FayetteviUe and Mr. and
Mrs. Heman Clark, Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Wyim and many others of
Chapel Hill, and antique lovers
from as far away as Toxobel in
Bertie County.
At the premiere were Cultural
Resources Secretary Grace
Rohrer; Edgar Marston and
Ardath Goldstein of Raleigh
and Mark Sumner of the Institute
of Outdoor Drama of Chapel Hill,
as well as Dick Ellis of the N.C.
Bicentennial Commission, and
Peter Breck, TV actor of “Big
VaUey” fame.
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Youth Dies
In Cycle
Accident
Richard Louis Bates, 18, of
Vass, Rt. 2, died early i^turday
at Moore Memorial Hospital of
injiffies suffered in a motorcycle
accident at Lakeview a short
while before.
State Trooper John W. Smith
said the accident occurred about
2 a.m. Saturday when Bates, one
of a group of young people
gathered in front of the store
beside the dam over Crystal
Lake, borrowed another boy’s
motorcycle and went on a short
run.
Dennis Epps of Cameron,
owner of the machine, told Smith
that Bates had asked to borrow it
and Epps refused, saying he had
only about enough gas to get
home. Bates jumped aboard
anyway and took off, riding to the
top of the hill to a street in
tersection, where he turned, and
rode back down.
Nearing the foot of the hill, he
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Governors Gather
Here In Autumn
Governors from across the
country rigriln be coming to
the SaridllmS tms fall.
Governor James Holshouser
will be host to a conference for
newly elected governors to be
held in Pinehurst in November.
Sponsored by the National
Governors Conference, the
orientation workshop has been
tentatively scheduled for the
weekend of November 13-15.
Governor Holshouser said details
will be announced later.
This is the second time a
national governors conference
has been held here. In 1970
Governor Bob Scott hosted a
similar conference, which was
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Train Platform Extended
For Passengers Benefit
The Amtrak station in
Southern Pines has extended its
passenger platform one block in
both directions, extending now
from Pennsylvania Ave. to
Vermont Ave.
With the new extensions, trains
will only stop once to discharge
passengers or allow them to
board. Previously several stops
were necessary to line up all
sections of the train next to the
single block platform.
The new sections of the plat
form will be lighted, but will not
be under cover, as the present
platform is, according to Wayne
Quinn, the Southern Pines
Amtrak official. A public address
system will also be installed.
Eventually the length of the
platform will be zoned into areas,
to direct passengers on where to
board individual cars.
The Amtrak office in Southern
Pines is open from 6 a.m. to 2
p.m. every day, and opens one-
half hour before scheduled train
arrivals at night. They offer
complete baggage and express
service for shipping trunks or
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PASSENGER PAVEMENT — This newly installed
pavement will make it easier for passengers to board
and leave the trains at the Southern Pines Amtrak
station.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).