Golf Edition
ItTliis issue of The Pilot contains the
32-page tabloid Golf Edition, which
contains news and features of the World
Open and related events.
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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 3-4-C; Obituaries, 14-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-2-C; Social News,
2-6-A; Sports, 12-13-A.
Vol. 56, Number 44
72 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday,.
1976
72 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Town Annexation Upheld;
Appeal Delay Halts Service
'Grand Week Of Golf Is Sept, 6-12;
Bigger Crowd Expected For Open
The Southern Pines annexation
action has been upheld in
Superior Court but an appeal to a
higher court has delayed the
effective date for the town’s
action.
Efforts to reach a compromise
agreement with the 13 dissidents
who brought the court action
broke down on Tuesday, leaving
the town and the residents in the
annexed areas in a quandary.
Mayor E.J. Austin issued a
statement Tuesday night in
which he said the effective date
of the annexation wUl be delayed
until the Supreme Court makes a
^decision on the appeal. That is
^ not expected until January 1 or
later.
“The Town regrets that the
action of the petitioners will
result in the termination of
services to the annexed areas as
planned until this matter is final
ly resolved,” Mayor Austin’s
statement read. “All additional
services provided to the four
^^exed areas since June 30,
1976, will be terminated effective
at midnight, September 15,
1976.”
; Mayor Austin said that efforts
will be made, however, to
provide some of the services
(garbage and trash collection,
for instance) on a contractural
basis with the town.
(The complete statement of the
Mayor is on Page 16)
The Town Council had
proposed to the dissidents that
taxes would be delayed until Oct.
1, but the group, meeting in a
closed session on Monday night,
rejected the proposal and held
out for a Jan. 1 tax date, but with
all town services provided in the
meantime. An appeal was
authorized and the group’s
^attorney said on Tuesday that it
^ould be made.
Judge Harvey M. Lupton had
r'lled last Thursday that the
town’s position was corre t on all
counts, and on Tuesday of this
week in Fayetteville he had set
the date for annexation as of
August 31. His order, however,
was being typed and will not be
signed until Thursday.
In the meantime, it was
reported that the judge is giving
the petitioners 35 days in which
to file an appeal. James Van’
Camp is the attorney for the
dissident group.
The hearihg m Moore County
Superior Court had lasted for two
days.
Judge Lupton, stating he would
return Tuesday to sign the for-
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Court Facility
Moore County commissioners
met this (Wednesday) morning
in the office of ArcUtect E. J.
Austin in Southern Pines to look
over drawings for the new Court
Facility.
Approval has been given to the
plans for the long delayed new
Hall of Justice, but the
conunissioners were interested
in seeing how the exterior looked.
Contracts are expected to be
let in mid-November, with
completion scheduled in
mid-1978.
North Carolina’s “Grand Week
Of Golf” gets imder way at
Pinehurst next Monday and will
continue through Sept. 12 when
the winner of the World Open
Championship will be crowned.
This year’s crowd is eiqpected
to exceed last year’s record
42,500.
Earlier this year Governor
James Holshouser proclaimed
the week of Sept. 6-12 as the
“Grand Week Of Golf,” and an
entire week of activities has been
scheduled.
Jack Nicklaus, the winner of
the 1975 World Open, will be
returning to defend his cham
pionship, and the field of 156
players will include the top
professionals from the United
States and several foreign
countries.
They will be conq>eting for
$200,000 in {X'ize money, with the
winner receiving $40,000.
Another highlight of the week’s
activities will be the induction of
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five golf immortals into the
World Golf Hall of Fame next
Wednesday.
This will be preceded by the
Hall of Fame Celebrity Pro-Am
Tournament, which will be
played on Tuesday at the
Pinehurst Country Club and the
Country Qub of North Carolina.
Many celebrities fi’om the en
tertainment and sports world
will be participating.
Governor Holshouser will be
among those taking part in the
Pro-Am.
There are 68 business firms
which are serving as Patron
l^nsors of the “Grand Week Of
Golf” this year, and each of them
was given 600 tickets.
Cki Monday there will be play
by non-exempt players for
positions in the World Open.
Among this year’s top money
winners, aside from Nicklaus,
who are committed to play in the
World Open are Ben Crenshaw,
Dave Stockton, Hubert Green,
Hale Irwin, A1 Geiberger, Jerry
Pate, J. C. Snead, Mark Hayes
and many others.
All of toe World Open will be
played on toe No. 2 course, which
has been restored to toe original
-947-2911-
Remember That Number;
Call It In An Emergency
947-2911-That’s the number to
remember.
A new radio system is
operating in Moore County.
It is toe Emergency Medical
Communications System
provided by toe Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation grant to toe
Pee Dee Council of Govern
ments. The system design was
made by the Region H
Emergency Medical Services
Advisory Committee and is
approved by toe North Carolina
Ctffice of Emergency Medical
Services and the Federal
Communication System.
The base radio units are
located in toe Sheriff’s Depart
ment Communications Center
and in Moore Memorial Hospital.
Sheriff C.G. Wimberly has
cooperatively provided space
and dispatcher time to the
system. It is the Sheriff’s
Department which will answer a
call for assistance if 947-2911 (toe
county emergency number) is
dialed. The Sheriff’s dispatcher
will radio toe ambulance or
rescue squad needed. Actual
members of toe squad, at home
or at work, will hear toe call on
desk or pocket monitors making
their response time shorter in
answering a call for help.
Once a victim of an accident or
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Most of Moore County will
close down Monday in ob
servance of Labor Day.
All federal, state, county and
municipal offices will be closed
for toe day, as will toe banks and
most stores.
Some stores will remain open,
however.
The Post Office will be closed,
observing its normal holiday
schedule.
The PUot will be closed on
Monday in observance of Labor
Day.
Schools, which opened for
orientation on Tuesday, are
observing the holiday, but will
resume classes on Sept. 7.
The Moore County com
missioners, who normally meet
on toe first Monday of each
month, will hold their regular
meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 7.
No major holiday events are
scheduled in the Sandhills,
although several clubs and
organizations ^fe planning
picnics and other entertainment.
Edward L. Powell,
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles,
today reminded North Carolina
motorists that the official
observance period for Lator Day
Weekend, begins at 5 p.m.,
Friday, ^ptember 3, and ends
midnight Monday, September 6.
(Continued on Page 16A)
Old School Is Converted
Into Community Center
Man, 74, Dies In Crash
Of Autos On Highway 1
Wallace Hartsell Hendrick, 74,
of Cameron, Rt. 1, died Friday
afternoon at Moore Memorial
Hospital of injuries suffered in a
head-on collision about an hour
and a half before.
State Trooper W.D. Waters
said that Hendrick, driving south
on US Highway 1 about two miles
north of Vass, for some un
determined reason got into the
wrong lane and came over toe
crest of a hill, directly in front of
an oncoming car.
The other driver, William
David White, Jr., 39, of
Pineywoods Apartments,
Southern Pines, told toe trooper
there was a truck behind him, he
was heading over toe hill and
“had no place to go.” The impact
demolished both cars.
Hendrick suffered massive
chest injuries, with every rib
broken, it was learned from
Coroner A.B. Parker. Both
drivers were carried by toe Vass
Rescue Squad to toe hospital,
where Hendrick died soon after
admission. White, who sustained
only minor injuries, was given
(Continued on Page ISA)
The extensive renovation of toe
old Our Lady of Victory Catholic
school building on Pennsylvania
Ave., which is now toe Southern
Pines Community Center, is near
conq)letion, according to Town
Manager Lew to-own.
Personnel from the Moore
County Social Services Dept, are
expected to move in this week,
but it will be at least another two
weeks before toe renovation
work is completely finished.
“The center will have two
main uses,” Brown says, “toe
{rimary being as a satellite
center for all of Moore (bounty’s
social services, including those
offered by toe Health Depart
ment and toe Welfare Depart
ment, as well as Social Services
Dept, programs. This is in
response to toe needs of nuuiy
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Two-Year Colleges Draw
More Of Students Here
BY PALMER HILL
In 1975 more high school
graduates in Moore County went
to community colleges, technical
institutes, and trade sttoools than
to four year Colleges (30.6
percent as compared to 25.5
percent) and in toe state almost
as many went to two year
institutions as to four-year ones
(24.2 percent as compared to 31.8
percent).
Moore County high school
guidance counselors and
economic planners attribute toe
recent surge of interest in
two-year colleges to students
practicality in toe face of a
flagging economy.
“After two years of training at
a school in Quu-lotte, an R.N. can
make ten to twelve thousand
dollars,” said Fred Carter,
school counselor at Union Pines
High School.
As Kathie Stalling, also a
school counselor at Union Pines,
pointed out, “Today a degree
from a four-year college doesn’t
guarantee you a job, and it costs
over $10,000 to attend.”
“I thiito kids are getting more
practical,” said Laura Bailey,
Administrative Assistant to toe
Moore County Economic
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1
concepts of designer Donald
Ross.
Following 36 holes of play on
No. 2 toe tournament field wto be
reduced to 70 players, udio will
compete for toe prize money.
Director of toe World Open is
Lou Miller, who is also director
of golf for Pinehurst.
Mickey Wright, the fifth
woman elected to toe Hall of
Fame and one of toe five to be
enshrined, will be on hand for toe
induction ceremonies. She will be
inducted by Patty Berg, who was
one of toe first to be voted into
toe hall.
Others to be inducted are
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Offices, Stores Closing
In Labor Day Observance
PINEHURST NO. 2 — This will be the scene next week of the World Open
Championship. The famed No. 2 course at Pinehurst has been restored to its
original concept by designer Donald Ross and is rated in top condition for the
$200,000 tournament.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides),
Post Office Committee Asks
Renovations At Present Site
The ISroember Post Office
Site Study committee, appointed
by Mayor E. J. Austin to probe
into toe matter of a site for toe
proposed new Post Office,
reported its choice' Friday
morning to the Southern Pines
town council in special session,
through its chairman, CSiarles
Sullivan.
The committee’s recom
mendation, arrived at after
much study of available sites,
Samarkand
Will Host
Commimity
Samarkand Manor will host a
Conununity Day on Saturday,
September 4, with everything
from swimming and ball games
to an old fashioned pig picking.
The day’s events will begin at 1
p.m. with swimming at both toe
lake and toe school pool, boat
riding, softball, volleyball, and
various outdoor games. During
this time, two pigs will be
roasting at toe> lake behind
Carroll Cottage.
At 3 p.m., toe Green Beret
Parachute Gub will jump onto
toe Samarkand Canq>us. The pig
picking will begin at 4:30 p.m.
and last until all toe food is gone.
Samarkand is extending an
invitation to all families in the
area to come out and see what
Samarkand has to offer its
students and toe families in the
community.
and talking with a large number
of citizens, was that toe present
Post Office Building continue in
use, expanded and updated
through acquisition of toe ad
joining property (Carter’s
Laundry).
Sullivan said the members
were, one and all, opposed to toe
former Hollywood Hotel site
(Pottle (ffoperty) favored by toe
postal authorities, because it is
too close to toe municipal park,
with its activities and
playgrounds in use seven days a
week; too close also to toe Middle
School, with children going to
and from school daily; that
traffic would be perilous to toe
children on both counts; ana toat
toe streets, both front and side,
are too narrow for toe traffic.
and would have to be widened.
They had satisfied themselves,
in conferring with Southern
Pines Postmaster Robert M.
Peele and Hugh B. Hicks, of toe
real estate division with the
Postal Service at Atlanta, Ga.,
who returned here specially to
meet with them, and the present
facility is greatly overcrowded
and needs to be updated and
enlarged.
They requested that the
council asked Don Burch,
regional supervisor at
Giarlotte,, to reactivate their
site search committee.
Sullivan said toat toe members
had reached their conclusions
after three meetings, August 2,
12 and 16, comprising ap-
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
DEMOCRATS - For toe first
time in many years the
Democrats in North (Carolina are
running a unified campaign this
fall.
Jim Hunt, toe Democratic
nominee for Governor, had
aligned himself with Jimmy
Carter, the candidate for
President, and this past week the
Carter campaign had its state
representative in Raleigh to
mesh plans with the Hunt
organization.
^e resignation of James R.
Sugg as State Democratic
Chairman gave Hunt toe chance
to place a long-time friend and
co-manager of his campaign,
Betty McCain of Wilson, in toe
top spot.
There was criticism in 1972
that the various Democratic
candidates waged their own
campaigns separate from State
headquarters or anyone else.
This year they are all working
together as one.
REPUBLICANS — The State
Republican Executive Com
mittee met on Sunday and picked
two candidates to fill vacant
(Continued on Page 15A)
Commissioner Profile: Most Are Conservative
HE’S A SWINGER — The last days before school opening this week offered a time
for more play in the Southern Pines park and this swinger makes good use of the
playground.--(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
BYBILLNOBLITT
A county commissioner in one
of North Carolina’s 1(X) counties
is most likely a middle-aged,
conservative member of toe
establishment who has been
there a long time, and isn’t going
anywhere.
The commission is more apt to
be interested in day-to-day
routine such as paving roads,
putting in a sewer line, ot cutting
the budget rather than looking to
the future with vision.
That less than flattering
composite of a county com
missioner was produced by a
statewide survey carried out by
Laurel Gooch of toe School of
Public Health at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
And Ms. Gooch chose toe
annual meeting of the North
Carolina Association of County
Commissioners at Pinehurst to
unveil the survey results,
drawing some rebuttals from toe
local officials who disagreed with
her findings.
“I’m sure aU of you will say
that doesn’t apply to me...some
other commission, maybe, but
not me. But you wUl get a good
composite picture of udiat a
North Carolina County Com
missioner is like,” she told toe
opening session of toe con
vention.
That composite is based on
lengthy interviews with 56
commissioners in 12 counties
supposed to be broadly
representative of the state
geographically, politically, and
socially. In addition, county
managers, social services
directors, mental health leaders,
and public health officers were
also questioned.
None were under 30 years old;
ludf are over 50; all but one is
married and all but two have
children, although most of those
are grown children. One fourth
are college graduates, whUe a
fourth have only a hi^ school
diploma or less. Over 70 percent
are Democrats; 63 percent were
bom in toe county where they are
commissioners and 75 percent
were raised in toe county if not
bom there.
On toe social scale, toe com
missioners rated themselves
either conservative (44 percent)
or moderate (44 percent) with
only seven percent seeing
themselves as liberal.
The typical commissioner,
then, says Ms. Gooch, is a
Protestant member of the
establishment, a pillar of the
community type, not quick to
jump on new ideas or programs;
tight with money; a solid county
resident; older and stable; a
joiner in various civic and social
clubs and endeavors; who has
lived in the county a number of
years, and plans to remain there.
Over half say they will run for
re-election to the Board of
County Commissioners, and a
mere handful indicate interest in
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