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Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, September 15, 1976
48 Pages
Index
Books, 2-B; Church calendar, 2-B;
Classified Ads, 11-15-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-5-C; Obituaries, 7-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Social News,
2-4-A; Sports 8-10-A.
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WINNER OF $40,000 — Raymond Floyd, a Fayetteville native, holds his $40,000
first prize check and trophy after winning the 1976 World Open at Pinehurst in a
sudden death playoff with Jerry McGee. William Bru, president of Diamondhead
Corporation, is at left—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Taylor’s Resignation Is Asked
By Republican Commissioners
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Two Republican Moore County
commissioners, Fioyd Cole and
John B. Womack, last Friday
issued a joint statement con
demning the recent use of a
county-owned vehicle for social
purposes by the Interim County
Administrator, W. S. Taylor, and
calling for his resignation from
the appointive post.
They are not suggesting that he
resign as a member of the board
of county commissioners, which
he continues to serve as chair
man, since this is an elective
Why German Firm Here
Is Told At Dedication
For those who want to sell,
America rejM’esents the quality
market of the future.
So said Wolfgang Gloger,
president of How Enterprises
Ltd. and George W. Little of
Southern Pines, N.C. Secretary
of Natural and Economic
Resources at the dedication
Friday of the big 5 million dollar
textile plant in Aberdeen.
“Labor costs, social climate,
political reasons and confidence
in your stability have sent in
dustries ‘Westbound’,” Gloger
said.
“The real international
political and business leaders
know that the United States
continues to be a primary force
in the world market,” he con
tinued. “If anything, there seems
to be promise here for a
resurgence...perhaps even un-
paralelled growth in your
country...The real buying power
is here in America.”
The textile role of North
Carolina, the process of the
company which leads to adap
tation here, and the cooperation
of state government were in
strumental in bringing the West
German plant here, Gloger said.
“We are proud to follow in the
long line of Europeans that have
come to America to seek this
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HOW — They cut the ribbon. How Enterprizes, Ltd.,
represented by Wolfgang Gloger, President, left, and
George Little, N.C. Natural and Economics Resources
Secretary, of Southern Pines, cut the ribbon at the
dedication Friday of the German textile plant on
Taylor .Street in Aberdeen.
office in the hands of the people.
However, this dual public
office-holding, though sanctioned
by North C)arolina law for county
government, has played a part in
the people’s being disturbed over
the situation, since it appears too
much power may have been
placed in the hands of one in
dividual, they said.
The commissioners appointed
Taylor to the administrator’s
post April 1, at a salary of $18,480
a year.
Cole and Womack said that, in
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Candidates
To Speak
At Formn
Candidates seeking important
county and state offices in the
November 2 General Election
will discuss critical issues at a
public meeting to be held at 8
o’clock on the evening of Wed
nesday, September 29 at the
Southern Pines Civic Club on
Ashe Street at Pennsylvania
Avenue.
The following candidates have
accepted the Civic Ciub’s in
vitation to participate. Seeking
places on the Moore County
Board of Commissioners are
A.E. “Tony” Parker (Dem.),
Southern Pines; John B.
Womack (Rep.), Southern
Pines; Mrs. Carolyn Blue
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Aberdeen
Numbering
Requested
The Town of Aberdeen is
launching a drive to get all
houses in the town numbered.
The matter was brought before
the meeting Monday night of the
Board of Commissioners and
commissioner Ciiff Blue Jr.,
presented the request from the
police and fire departments and
rescue squad that houses in the
town limits be numbered so that
they can be quickly identified in
case of emergency.
The board instructed the town
office to send letters to all home
owners stating that an ordinance
requires numbers, and the letter
will give the number assigned
each house so that owners can
proceed with the plan.
In other action the Com
missioners appointed Mrs.
Barbara Jean Gay as assistant
town clerk to succeed Mrs. Ann
S. Pigg, who submitted her
_ resignation as of Sept. 10.
(Continued on Page HA)
Moore County voting dropped
to 26 percent in Tuesday’s second
primary, but in most instances
voters foUowed the statewide
trend in their ballots.
David Flaherty, the front
runner in the first primary on
August 17. won handily over
challenger Coy Privette for the
Republican nomination for
Governor, polling 992 votes to 229
for Privette.
Jimmy Green was the winner
over Howard Lee for the
Democratic nomination for
Lieutenant Governor, with 2,483
votes to 1,664 for Lee.
In the race for the Democratic
nomination for State Auditor the
incumbent, Henry Bridges edged
out challenger Lillian Woo by
2,001 to 1,938 votes.
Jessie Rae Scott again proved
popular in Moore, polling 2,291
votes to 1,609 for John Brooks,
who won the Democratic
nomination for Commissioner of
Labor in the statewide runoff.
Mrs. Scott had been the leader in
the first primary.
Chairman C. Coolidge
Thompson of the Moore County
Board of Elections said the ballot
counting was over shortly after 9
p.m. He said the total vote was
5,388 out of more than 19,0(X)
eligible voters in the Democratic
and Republican primary.
Complete returns in Raleigh
this morning, with all 2,345
precincts reported showed the
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WORLD OPEN RECORD CROWD — It was a record
crowd for the Fourth Annual World Open at Pinehurst
and here’s a part of the more than 25,000 persons who
turned out Sunday for the tournament finals. Director
Lou Miller estimated the crowd for the week at
65,000.—(Photo by Emerson Hymphrey).
Record Crowd At ’76 World Open;
August Date Sought Next Year
It was a record crowd-an
estimated 65,(X)0 for the week
end a movie script finish, but it
appeared this week that if the
World Open is to return to
Pinehurst next year another date
Council Defers Decision
On TV Rate Hike Request
Discussion of the request from
the Sandhills Community An
tenna Television Corporation,
asking the Town Council to
amend the Company’s franchise
to allow them to increase their
monthly service rate to $8 and to
increase the charge for ad
ditional outlets to $2 per month
ended with a motion, passed by
the Council Tuesday night to
defer the decision until the
next regular meeting.
Mayor Pro-tem Emmanuel
Douglass suggested the Council
“discontinue discussion, since it
cannot be decided intelligently at
this time,” after more than an
hour had been spent reviewing
the problem, with no obvious
solution in sight.
A representative of the
(Company, J. E. Dootlitte, was
(x-esent at the meeting to present
some of the facts requested by
the Council at the August
meeting, at which time they
called the public hearing on the
request held last night.
Doolittle admitted that the
company is not in a bankrupt
situation, and that they even
made a profit this year, “but we
lost money in previous years,”
he said.
The request, rejH-esenting a 14
percent increase, is needed, said
Doolittle, because of rising costs
involved in providing the service,
coupled with the low density
(potential customers per mile) of
Southern Pines. The density of
Southern Pines is estimated at 37
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People Learning To Read
Through Laubach Method
BY PALMER HILL
Moore County citizens who
want to help “save the world” or
just make life a little more en
joyable and easier for a few
people in it could do so by
becoming tutors of the Laubach
Method of teaching reading and
writing.
The Laubach Method, which
was designed for adult pupils
rather than children, was in
vented by Dr. Frank C. Laubach
who as a young ordained
minister taught the Moro Tribe
in the Phillipines to read.
When Dr. Laubach had to leave
the islands he told a Moro
chieftain to have each student
teach another person, so that his
efforts could be continued in his
absence. The chieftain vowed
that anyone who had been taught
and di^’t share his knowledge
would have his throat cut. Thus
“Each one teach one” became
the by-word of the Laubach
Literacy Program which was
founded in 1950. Through his
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
LIQUOR-There is no
organized effort to get another
liquor-by-the-drink b^ for Moore
C!ounty, but it looks like another
attempt will be made by
Mecklenburg County in the next
General Assembly.
Rep. Carl Stewart of Gastonia,
who is expected to be the next
Speaker of the House, said last
week he is “confident there will
be a local option liquor-by-the-
drink bill” introduced in the next
Legislature.
Five of Mecklenburg County’s
nine legislators say they hope a
bill will be passed.
Mecklenburg voted for such a
bill by a good margin at the same
time it was being turned down in
Moore County. In the statewide
referendum in 1973 a bill
providing for local option was
defeated.
DEMOCRATS - Eighth
Congressional District
Democrats will officially kick off
the 1976 general election cam
paign with a rally at Catawba
College in Salisburg on Saturday,
Sept. 18, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Congressman Bill Hefner and
Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt will head a list
of Democratic candidates, with
Council of State and several local
office candidates expected to be
on hand.
Tony Parker of Southern
Pines, Hefiier’s Moore County
campaign manager, said he and
several others from the county
are planning to attend.
Party officials said it would be
a fun affair at no cost to anyone.
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will be required.
Pinehurst and tournament
officials hope to know in two
weeks if there will be a fifth
annual World Open.
But they couldn’t have been
more pleased with the way the
Fourth Annual tournament
turned out.
As Lou Miller, tournament
director, expressed it, “The
weather was outstanding, the
play was good, there was a movie
script finish and the crowd was
terrific.”
RUDAT
Visit Set
For Oct. 9
A special planning study with a
report makfrg recommendations
for future develoixnent will be
made of Moore County and the
Sandhills on October 9-10-11 by
RUDAT (Rural Urban
Development Assistance Team)
of the American Institute of
Architects.
Announcement of the for
thcoming visit by the team was
made this past week by Voit
Gilmore to the Sandhills Area
Chamber of Ck)mmerce. Gilmore
and E. J. Austin and co-chairman
of the special committee for the
study.
Committees have been ap
pointed for the visit which will
see an intensive study of all
aspects of life in the area.
Members of the RUDAT group
will include architects, city
planners, sociologists,
Economists, and others who will,
in Austin’s words, help us plan
for the future.
At Thursday’s meeting of the
Chamber of (Commerce Board of
Directors, it was also reported by
Dick Davenport that the Par
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V andalism
Reported
Rampant
“Management, instead of
making six or seven thousand
dollars each year lost $28,000 last
year (at half-way houses on the
East and West courses at
Whispering Pines).”
“New insurance rates are
higher than those of a neuro
surgeon with a tremor-and are
prohibitive.
“Vending machine companies
will no longer install coin
machines, they must be bought
and are uninsurable.”
So says F.A. Ruoff, member
of the Board of Governors in the
current issue of the Whispering
Pines Pitch.
The blame?
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More than 25,000 were on hand
Sunday when Raymond Floyd, a
Fayetteville native, came from
behind to win the $40,000 prize for
first place in the $200,000 tour
nament.
Again it was a sudden-death
playoff-the third in a row-with
Floyd winning over Jerry
McGee, who collected $22,800 for
his runner-up finish.
Finishing third was (George
Burns, the rookie and former
North-South champion here who
had led the first three rounds of
the 72-hole event, but who
droi^ed to a 73 on Sunday to
finish with a 275. Burns won
$14,200.
William Bru, president of
Daimondhead Corporation, the
owners of the Pinehurst resort
and tournament sponsor, called a
press conference to announce
that they had hoped to have an
announcement about next year
but Deane Beaman, the com
missioner of the PGA’s tour
nament player division, had been
ordered to bed because of an
illness and could not be present.
“We are very excited by the
gallery this year,” Bru said. “It
shows we can get a gallery. We
are looking for an August date,
before the football season when
we can get national TV.”
Pinehurst is hoping fur a late
August date which might be
vacated by the American (jolf
Classic at Firestone in Akron.
Bru would like that, or a spring
date.
Tlie contract with the PGA has
expired.
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Ninth Grade Going Back
To Pinecrest Next Fall
BY CRAIG LAMB
In a special meeting that lasted
nearly two hours, the Moore
Ck>unty Board of Education on
Tuesday voted to move the ninth
grade class in Area III (Southern
Pines, Pinehurst, West End and
Aberdeen) back to Pinecrest
High School and also move the
fourth grade back to the
elementary schools, effective in
the FaU of 1977.
The special meeting was called
at the request of three of the
board members to discuss the
reorganization of Area III. Since
it had recently been revealed
that there are adequate facilities
at Pinecrest now to ac
commodate the ninth grade, and
with enrollment totals at other
schools supporting the reports of
over-crowded conditions some
board members thought it
necessary to reopen the question
of transferring the ninth grade
back to Pinecrest.
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Old Bethesda
Old Bethesda Homecoming
will be held on Sunday, Sept. 26,
with service beginning at 11:15
a.m. More details next week. Old
Bethesda Church is located near
Aberdeen.
Hartshorne Dies At 78;
Funeral Slated Thursday
James Hartshorne, 78,
Southern Pines Realtor, was
dead on arrival at Moore
Memorial Hospital Tuesday at
6:30 a.m. after being rushed by
the Rescue Squad there following
a heart attack while working as a
precinct judge at the North
Southern Pines polling place at
the Fire Station.
A funeral service will be held
at Emmanuel Episcopal Church,
of which he was an active
member, Thursday at 11 a.m. by
the rector, the Rev. Mr. (George
R. Laedlein. Burial will be in
Bethesda Cemetery in Aberdeen.
Mr. Hartshorne was a colorful
man of many interests.
Born in a suburb of
Philadelphia, the son of an
Episcop^ minister, he came to
Southern Pines in October, 1950
as manager of the Highland
Pines Inn, a training hotel for
Navy officers. After the hotel
burned, he joined the staff of
Resort Realty and Development
Company, and later formed the
Hartshorne Realty. He is a past
president of the Moore County
Realtors.
He and his wife made their
home at 245 East Vermont
Avenue. He was active in civic
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