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IFILOT
Index
Books, 2-B; Church . Caiendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 11-15-C; Editoriais, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-6-C; Obituaries, 7-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-20; Social News,
2-6-A; Sports, 8-9-A.
Vol. 56, Number 47
44 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, September 22, 1976
44 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Airport Work Bids Opened;
Paving, Lighting Planned
FALL IN THE SANDHILLS—Bright yellow daisies flood the Sandhills landscape
as fall arrives, and Photographer Glenn Sides caught this butterfly feeding away
on a sunny afternoon.
Robbins Quiet After Violence
In Youth Battles Over Weekend
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Fighting which erupted among
a few black and white youths in
Robbins Friday night was
followed by several violent in
cidents in the Robbins vicinity
over the weekend, but by
Tuesday things appeared to have
quieted down.
However, tension hung over
the town “so thick you could cut
it with a knife,” one resident
said, noting that “you just can’t
tell what’s going to happen
next.”
One black, Tyrone Davis,
landed in Moore Memorial
Hospital Friday night with
gunshot wounds in the chest and
shoulder, while a white, Robert
Woods, received emergency care
for stab wounds Friday night,
and on Saturday was carried
back to the hospital after having
been severely beaten with gun
butts, and with a possible bullet
“crease” in his scalp.
Woods told a rescue squad
ambulance att^idant he had
been shot but later, at the
Dog Ordinance Hearing
Is Slated Here Oct. 12
hospital, denied to a deputy
sheriff that there had been any
shooting.
In, an incident possibly
unrelated to the others, a family
living near the scene of the
Saturday afternoon fighting was
terrorized early Sunday morning
by the burning of their car,
parked behind the house, in a
“ring of fire” indicating arson.
While several warrants had
reportedly been drawn up ready
to serve, by Tuesday afternoon
only Two were known to have
been served.
One was served on young
Wood, 19, who was released
Sunday from the hospital, and
who was charged by Glenn Reese
Maness with “assault by pointing
(Continued on Page 12A)
A new strict dog ordinance is
under consideration by the
Southern Pines Town Council
and a public hearing has been
scheduled at the next meeting of
the Council on Tuesday, Oct. 12.
The ordinance is aimed at
prohibiting dogs from running at
large or becoming a public
nuisance.
It provides for fees for
impoundment and penalties on
conviction of a misdemeanor of a
fine up to $50 or imprisonment up
to 30 days. Another provision
calls for the destruction of dogs
which are “dangerous, fierce or
vicious.” Unclaimed or infected
dogs will be turned over to the
Animal Shelter operated by the
Humane Society of Moore
(bounty.
The ordinance defines the
terms such as “at large” to mean
“off the premises of the owner,
and not under the control of the
owner or a memter of his
(Continued on Page 12A)
Petitions Oppose Change
In Boyd Estate, Preserve
Petitions protesting the con
struction of a maintenance
facility at the Weymouth Woods
Nature Preserve, in support of a
wildlife and forestry
management program at the
Sandhills Game Land, and in
opposition to any sale of the Boyd
Estate for private development
purposes are being circulated in
Moore County.
The petition in respect to the
Sandhills Game Land was
promoted by the Sierra Club here
and others and has been sent to
the N.C. Wildlife Resources
Commission after 194 names
were signed.
The petition regarding con
struction at the Nature Preserve
was signed by 168 persons and
has been sent to the N.C. Parks
Service.
Still being circulated and not
yet presented to the Sandhills
Community College trustees and
Foundation, to which the Boyd
Estate was willed, is the
following petition:
“We, the undersigned con
cerned citizens of the Sandhills,
request that the Sandhills
Community College and its
Board of Trustees employ every
means at their disposal to use the
(CoiRiinied on Page 12A)
Bethesda
Homecoming
Is Sunday
Homecoming will be held at
Old Bethesda Presbyterian!
Church on Sunday, Sept. 26, withi
the worship service beginning at
11:15 a.m.
The Rev. James MacKenzie,
pastor of Elise Presbyterian
Church in Robbins, will be the
homecoming preacher. The Rev.
Mr. MacKenzie is regarded as
one of the outstanding authorities
on Presbyterian history in
(Continued on Page 12A)
$1.20 Average
Tobacco prices moved upward
to around $1.20 per pound on the
Carthage market on Tuesday
after some slackening of demand
the latter part of last week.
Frank Bryant, sales super
visor, said that averages had
been above that early last week,
and that demand was stronger
yesterday. He said offerings
were of fair to good quality.
Sales are being held today and
Thursday at Aberdeen, but there
was no report on prices.
The Moore County com
missioners will meet 'Thursday
afternoon for two main purposes,
to consider three bids received
last Wednesday for immediately
needed improvements to the
county airport, and to interview
a candidate for the position of
county administrator.
They are expected to approve
the low bid submitted by Lee
Paving Co. of $463,971.50 for a re
paving project to strengthen
existing facilities at the airport,
and which will also cover im
provements and modernization
rf the existing lighting system.
W. S. Taylor, chairman of the
county airport committee and
interim administrator, this week
expressed delight in the Sanford
company’s bid, which he said
was “better than had been ex
pected” and brought the paving
project down within the boun
daries of the federal funding.
While this had been originally
estimated at a total of about
$731,(K)0, the FAA had reduced
the requirements, and also the
Fund Drive
Launching
Is Tonight
The United Fund of Moore
Ck)unty will kick off their 1976-
1977, campaign with a meeting
toni^t (Wednesday) at 7:30 p.m.
at the Southern I^es Elemen
tary School Auditorium.
The meeting, a general
orientation for campaign
volunteers, will start with a
special song by the Bluegrass
Tar Heels from Moore County.
This song will be heard on radio
spots throughout the campaign
here.
There will be a general
meeting, then divisional
meetings. During the refresh
ment period there will be booths
set up for each one of some 14
(Continued on Page 12A)
funding prospects. They had
approved the use of a lighter
pavement than was originally
required, on the basis of an en
vironmental impact statement
and of the airport’s present
needs. The lighter pavement, to
be used for strengthening the
(Continued on Page 12A)
Escapee
Wounded
At Prison
An inmate at the State Prison
Unit at Carthage was shot and
wounded during an escape at
tempt Sunday night.
Leon Yow, superintendent of
the unit, said that Joseph Pen
nell, 24, of Clayton was lotted
climbing over the fence by the
officer at the back tower, Daniel
P. Priest, who fired one warning
shot.
Pennell continued over the
fence and ran across the field at
the back of the prison. It was
th^ that Priest fired four times.
The man stopped and surren
dered, and was taken to Moore
Memorial Hospital where it was
found that five shotgun pellets
had struck him. He was given
emergency treatment and
moved to the Central Prison
hospital in Raleigh where his
condition on Monday was
reported as good.
Penndl had been at the Car-
(Continued on Page 12A)
Schools Meet
The Moore County Board of
Education will hold its regular
monthly meeting at the Schools
administration offices at Car
thage Tuesday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m.
Several persons in the Area IH
schools have indicated they will
attend to protest last week’s
board decision to return the ninth
grade, now in the area’s middle
schools, to Pinecrest High
School.
m.
GATHERING COLORS — Carla Butler is shown gathering wildflowers and
others of nature’s plants for the colors she used in the dyes for her hand-woven
materials. See story Page 3-C.—(Photo by Mildred Allen).
Pinehurst Council Is Against
Incorporation At Present Time
C.W. Whittemore Dies;
Author and NLRB Judge
(Charles Willard Whittemore,
author, artist and veteran Ad
ministrative Law Judge with the
National Labor Relations Board,
died Tuesday night at his home,
245 North Ashe St., Southern
Pines after an illness of several
months. He was 82.
He served with the NLRB from
1937 to 1965, when he retired but
continued on a part-time basis
until 1969 when he and his wife
moved to Southern Pines.
Vigorous and active untU his
recent illness, he had continued
writing and pursuing a hobby of
wood-carving and gardening.
Many of his articles and bo^
reviews appeared in The Pilot,
and in his artistic wood-carvings
he specialized in recreating in
another dimension persons from
famous paintings.
He Was the author of many
short stories which were
published in Century, Transition
and other magazines.
(Continued on Page 12A)
C.W. Whittemore
THE
PILOT LIGHT
SKIING AT LAKE SURF — Fall arrived today but the summer sport of water
skiing is still being practiced at Lake Surf.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
RUNOFF VOTE - The voter
turnout was as predicted much
lower in the second (primary than
the first.
A report from the State Board
of Elections showed around a 29
percent turnout by Democrats as
compared to 38 percent in the
Aug. 17 primary, and a drop fi’om
18 to 11 percent for Republicans.
“Eleven percent is about as
low as you can get,” Alex Brock,
executive director of the board,
said.
HARTSHORNE - When the
Moore County Board of Elections
met last Thursday to canvass the
second [X'imary vote the officials
and registrars fi*om the county’s
21 precincts stood for a moment
of silent prayer in tribute to
James Hartshome.
Hartshorne had served for
many years as an election judge
in the North Southern Pines
(X'ecinct. He died suddenly of a
heart attack while at the polls on
the morning of Sept. 14.
Chairman C. Coolidge
Thompson of the Board of
Elections paid tribute to Hart
shome. “He was very dedicated
and never missed a meeting. He
was dedicated to the electoral
Iffocess.”
The official canvass of the vote
showed no change from the
unofficial report reported in last
We^esday’s Pilot.
AUSTIN - Mayor E. J. Austin of
Southern Pines is serving on a
Mayors Committee for Jinuny
Carter in North Carolina. He
attended a recent organization^
meeting of Mayors for Carter in
(Continued on Page 12A)
By Mary Evelyn deNlssoff
After nearly an hoiff of lively
discussion, questions and an
swers and challenges regarding
the economic feasibility of in
corporating the Village of
Pinehurst, an SRO crowd of long
and short-term residents of this
resort at Monday’s Pinehurst
Village Council meeting almost
unanimously turned down the
incorporation issue.
Council President William
Parfitt ix-esiding at the meeting,
which opened with reports from
the other councilmen, after
saying that he would issue a
statement at a later meeting,
finally came out with the
statement: “I am not in favor of
incorporating at this time.”
He then polled each of the
councilmen-^n. L.D. Heaton,
Micajah R. Wyatt, Gen. G.R.
Mather, Bevins Cameron,
Wheaton Kittridge, J. Ellis
Fields and Jack Lees (Coun-
Candidates
Questions
Are Posed
Candidates participating in the
public meeting to be held at the
Southern Pines Civic Club on
Wednesday, September 29 at 8
p.m. will address their remarks
to the following questions.
Mr. A.E. Parker (D) and Mr.
John Womack (R) seeking a
place on the Moore County Board
d Commissioners from District
No. 2 and Mrs. Carolyn Blue (D)
and Mr. Floyd Cole (R) con
testing for the spot from District
No. 4 will respond to these
questions:
“The Sheriff’s Department is
responsible for law enforcement
in the greater part of Moore
Ctounty. In your judgment does
the Sheriff’s Department, as
presently constituted, {wovide
adequate protection? If not, what
are your recommendations? And
do you consider the present
(Continued on Page 12A)
cilman B.W. Bogan was not
present)-who were unanimously
in agreement with the president.
General Mather added he
didn’t feel the Council had been
remiss at all in waiting to make
this disclosure “prior to taking
the pulse of the people.”
Earlier in the meeting.
President Parfitt explained in
answer to questions specifically
from Raymond North, Walter
Bennett and Reginald Arm
strong:
“We have an opinion of the
Council...! have my ovm personal
opinion; I haven’t canvassed
(Continued on Page 12A)
Recreational Complex
Planned For Sandhills
Plans for a recreational
complex and campsite, locale for
sports and sporting events ex
pected to draw attendance from
a wide area, were revealed last
Thursday morning at a te-eakfast
meeting of the promoters with
local leaders at the Holiday Inn.
Peter Franzen, of Vineland, N.
J., was presented by Ernest
Almond, Aberdeen land
developer, as the motivating
factor in the plans now being
made for 1,825 acres now in
process of being transferred.
Also presented was Paul
Russell, Montgomery County
industrialist, from whom it was
reported Franzen is purchasing
the acreagennostly forest, with
some open fields and an 8^cre
lake-fronting on NC 73 at the
intersection with the Taylortown
Road.
The property has about a mile
frontage on both roads, ac
cording to Almond, who has been
quietly working toward
acquisition of the land by
Franzen, and will be an associate
(Continued on Page 12A)
Reading Week
A Declaration proclaiming
Sept. 19-25 as the Week of
Reading in Moore County has
beai issued by the Citizens
United for the Improvement of
Reading.
Organizations and individuals
have been urged to hold book
exhibits, Read-Ins, a
“Read-a-Thon,” to visit
libraries, and promote other
activities which tend to improve
reading.
The public schools and
libraries, as well as several other
organizations are joining in the
week’s observance.
Housing
A land use and housing survey
has been completed for Moore
(bounty and the rest of Region H
by the Pee Dee Council of
(iovernments.
Results in Moore were as
follows: standard housing units,
11,362; deteriorated, 2,465; and
dilapidated, 896.
The PDCOG staff will soon be
in touch with local governments
to assure their participating in
and imderstanding of the plar
ning process.
BUSY BEE — With fall here the bees are busy in the
few days left for nectar-gathering. Photographer
Glenn M. Sides caught this busy bee at work in a
pumpkin blossom.