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Books, 2-B; Church calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 11-15-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-5-C; Obituaries, S-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Social News,
2-7-A; Sports 8-A,
Vol. 56, Number 48
44 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, September 29, 1976
X.
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Hunt-Flaherty Debate Set
At Pinehurst On Tuesday
9th Grade Moving
Protest Is Heard
V
SIGNS OF FALL — Signs of fall in the Sandhills are the persimmons ripening on
trees which are bare of leaves. This year’s persimmon crop appears to be a big
one.-(Photo by Mildred Allen).
Airport Action Set Today;
Applicant Heard For Post
The Moore County commis
sioners will meet in called
session this (Wednesday)
afternoon at 3:30 to take action
on airport projects and possibly
to vote on the employment of a
county administrator.
Bids have been opened on
paving of the runways and
access strips at the l^uthem
Pines-Pinehurst Airport, and the
meeting today was called
because action needs to be taken
before an Oct. 1 deadline.
Members of the commission
were to attend in a body the
funeral of Mrs. Floyd T. Cole,
wife of Commissioner Cole, and
then to meet afterwards.
Ninety percent of the airport
improvement funds are to be
provided by the federal govern
ment, with the remainder
coming from state and local
sources.
It had been anticipated the
grant offer would be for $495,(XK),
covering the low bid of $463,971
submitted by Lee Paving Co. of
Sanford, for re-paving the apron
and taxiway, plus new lighting
systems, but later Information to
Vass Junior Unit Wins
Trophy In State Meet
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Though rain was dripping all
around, smiles shone like sun
shine on the faces of 11 happy
teen-agers as they drove up in
their ambulance to the Vass
Rescue Squad hut about 4 p.m.
Sunday.
They were greeted by more
smiles, along with hugs and
hand-shakes, from auxiliary
members and other friends and
Dog Ordinance
A public hearing on a proposed
dog ordinance for Southern Pines
will be held at the next regular
meeting of the Town Council on
Oct. 12.
A complete text of the
proposed ordinance is published
in today’s Pilot of Page 14-A.
relatives gathered under a sign,
“Welcome Home, Champs!”
The boys-junior trainees of the
Vass squad (Moore County No.
2)-4iad brou^t home the State
championship trophy in first aid,
for their first participation in the
annual competition of the N.C.
Association of Rescue Squads,
held at Asheville.
In so doing, they had followed
the trail blazed by senior squad
members over a 10-year period,
dimng which they had brought
h^e at least one, usually two,
state troirfiies annually, also
winning the world championship
in heavy rescue in 1971.
Rescue and first aid are the
two competition categories.
The senior group arrived home
about two hours after the juniors
(Continued on Page 16A)
W.S. Taylor, chairman of the
county airport committee, was
that the amount would be only
$466,000.
With little time to waste, since
a state grant of $27,500 must be
“under contract” October 1 or
revert to other uses, Taylor said
some cuts had been made in the
planned improvements which
would, however, not greatly alter
the basic work. Part of the apron
has been cut out, a parking area
eliminated and one of four new
lighting systems, designed for
various types of land assistance,
has also been cut off, or deferred.
Acceptance by the commis
sioners will meet the con
tractual requirements, Taylor
said, and lead to a pre
contract conference to be held
next week.
(Continued on Page 9-A)
Southern
Mrs. Mary Jane Knight of
Southern Pines headed a small
but dedicated group of parents,
which confronted the Moore
County Board of Education
Tuesday night to protest not only
the decision to return the ninth
grades to Pinecrest High School,
but the manner in which it was
made.
This was done at a called
meeting on the afternoon of
Tuesday, September 14, of which
no public announcement had
been made, on a 4-1 split vote.
One member failed to attend,
another had to leave after two
hours, before the vote came up
and another “postponed” his
vote to a regular meeting.
Mrs. Knight, in what Board
member Jack Reid later termed
“a wonderful demonstration of
democracy in action” since she
was able to speak her mind
freely, and the members listened
and responsed-presented in
detail the feelings of her grotq>
that an explanation of the
Board’s action was in order.
While obviously opposed to the
action, and the complexities
which will follow in its train-the
removal of the ninth grades from
the middle schools for example,
presaging that of the fourth
grades from the elementary-the
discourse contained few
criticisms or proposals for an
opposite course, but was mainly
limited to questions, with
recommendations.
Questions posed by Mrs.
Knight concerned the lack of a
public announcement; the lack of
notice to concerned principals, or
other representatives of the
various schools, who might have
wished to be present; the
(Continued on Page 9-A)
US 1 Work Completed;
Road Funds Allocated
A project for resurfacing four
miles of U.S. 1 in Moore County
from SR 1825 to the Lee County
line is among 13 projects of 15.12
miles costing $223,778.25 for
Moore, Lee and Hoke to be
finished today.
The contract was let to the Lee
Paving Co. of Sanford by the
State Highway Commission, says
Dick Wright of the Aberdeen
office, who is in charge of paving.
Other Moore projects already
completed totalled .89 of a mile
and were on SR 2103, .1 mile from
15-501 to the Hoke line; U.S. 1
from SR 1103 to SR 1155 near
Pinebluff and N.C. 24-27 from SR
1802 to the Carthage city limits.
Traffic was delayed and
backed up for periods while the
work was going on during the
past week. One side was finished
in the Cameron area during the
weekend. The project itself was
delayed by rain.
Chairman of the Secondary
Roads Council, CecU Budd of
Siler City, has announced that
(Continued on Page 16A)
‘Miss Southern Pines’
Of Schools Pageant Set Here Nov. 6
TViis CmitViorn 'Motinnal Ronlr’c
THE
PILOT LIGHT
REGISTRATION - The
deadline for registering to vote in
the general election on Nov. 2 is
next Monday, Oct. 4, at 6:30 p.m.
Mrs. Doris Fuquay, executive
secretary of the Moore County
Board of Elections, said that
persons may register at the
board’s office in Carthage, at the
homes of registrars and judges in
each of the county’s 21 precincts,
or at the public libraries.
There are now more than
20,000 voters in Moore County
and the last minute registration
is expected to add 200 or more
voters to the books. Persons who
also have changed precincts
should have their registrations
transferred.
DEMOCRATS - The fund
raising deal which former State
Democratic Chairman James R.
Sugg made with a Texas-based
firm is not setting well with rank-
and-file Democrats in North
Carolina.
Under the agreement the
Texas firm would solicit funds
for the party and after deducting
expenses (estimated at $50,000 or
more) would then take half of
what was collected or pledged.
It is known that Jim Hunt and
(Continued on Page 16A)
The Southern National Bank’s
bid for the exclusive handling of
the Moore County Schools’ bank
account of approximately $5
million per year was approved
Tuesday ni^t by the county
Board of Education in regular
session.
The period covered by the bid
will be the 12 months starting
December 1, and ending
November 30, 1977, when it is
anticipated bids will be sought
again as the schools shop around
for the best offer from local
banks.
The action was taken in ac
cordance with the state’s new
Fiscal Control Act, taking effect
July 1, which gives the schools
authority over their own funds,
formerly the responsibility of the
(Continued on Page 12A)
Forum Tonight
A public forum for candidates
from Moore County in the Nov. 2
general election will be held
tonight (Wednesday) at the
Southern Pines Civic Club
(Pennsylvania Ave., and Ashe
St.) at 8 p.m.
Questions on such issues as law
enforcement, zoning and other
matters will be submitted to the
candidates for answers.
Miss Southern Pines, Margaret
Leatherman, will relinquish her
crown on Saturday evening,
November 6, when the Southern
Pines Jaycees hold the tenth
annual Miss Southern Pines
Pageant.
She is the daughter of the Rev.
and Mrs. Harold F. Leatherman
of New Bern. She is a graduate of
Kinston High School and the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. Presently, Miss
Leatherman is employed as a
Music Specialist with ^e Moore
County Schools.
Since her crowning last
November, she has traveled
many miles around the state
reix'esenting the Sandhills in
pageants, festivals, parades, and
other functions. She, of course,
represented Southern Pines in
the Miss North Carolina Pageant
in Winston-Salem the second
week of June. This summer was
spent in part as a singer with the
Lake Junaluska Singers and the
remainder of the time in further
(Continued on Page 16A)
New Restaurant To Open
On Historic Site Here
BY MARJORIE RAGAN
On the site of one of the oldest
residences in Southern Pines,
Clieese ’n Things will open
Thursday (tomorrow) in a brand
new building at the corner of
Bennett Street and West Penn
sylvania Avenue.
The restaurant, of rustic brick
and panelled and beamed inside
with a sidewalk cafe outside, has
shot up since the property was
bought by Mr. and Mrs. Mannie
Shaw from Carter’s Laundry and
Cleaners Inc. June 1.
Of 3,000 square feet in size, the
restaurant, formerly in Town
and Country Shopping Center,
will be open from 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. offering gourmet sand
wiches, New York style, plus
homemade soups, chef’s salads,
all soft drinks as well as beer and
wine, pastrami, turkey. Black
Forest ham, Hoagie Fan-
tastiques, Baklawa Greek pastry
as well as gift items, a selection
of wines, cheeses and other
gourmet foods.
(Continued on Page 16A)
Jim Hunt
David Flaherty
Democrats Open Office;
Hunt Here On October 8
Moore County Democrats have
launched a campaign for the
election of the entire ticket on
Nov. 2.
A county headquarters office
was opened Monday night in
Carthage in the old Phillips
Motor Company building. Mrs.
Daisy Riddle, former executive
secretary of the Moore County
Board of Elections, will be in
charge of the office through
election day on Nov. 2.
A county-wide rally will be
held at the Vass-Lakeview School
cafeteria on Friday, Oct. 8, at
7:30 p.m. Local candidates will
be introduced, but the principal
speaker will be the Democratic
nominee for Governor, Jim Hunt.
A rally for Rep. Bill Hefner,
seeking reelection to Congress,
will be held at the Union Pines
school on Oct. 16.
Plans also have been made for
a Democratic party booth to be
opened during the Moore County
Fair on Oct. 11-16.
These and other events in the
fall campaign were made at a
meeting last week of the Moore
County Democratic Executive
Committee, of which J. Ed
Causey is chairman.
Candidates jointly cut the
ribbon at the door of the
headquarters building, the
Ex-Judge
To Write
For Pilot
Former Military Judge
Colonel(Ret.) Peter S. Won-
dolowski, who took part in the
Mylai trials, has come to Moore
County to live, and will be a
writer for The Pilot during a
course in journalism at Sandhills
Community College.
Col. Wondolowski, a former
resident of Springfield, Va.,
ruled in the court-martial of 1st
Lieut. James B. Duffy of
Claremont, Calif, that he could
not be considered innocent on
grounds that he was simply
following policy laid down by
superior officers when he ad
mitted execution of a Viet
namese prisoner.
He also dismissed a false-
swearing charge against Col.
Oran J. Henderson in a similar
case in the 1968 Mylai massacre
but let othqr counts against him
(Continued on Page 16A)
former Phillips Motor Co. office
building on Monroe St., just east
of the stoplight.
On Causey’s request, owner T.
Roy Phillips, who is lending his
(Continued on Page 12A)
North Carolina’s candidates
for Governor will meet in face to
face debate at Pinehurst next
Tuesday, Oct. 5.
Jim Hunt, the Democratic
candidate, and David Flaherty,
the Republican nominee, will
conduct their debate at a con
vention of the North Carolina
Association of Broadcasters
meeting at the Pinehurst Hotel.
The debate will be taped and
recorded for a delayed broadcast
over television and radio
Tuesday night. The statewide
network of WUNC-TV will carry
the debate at 7 p.m.
The debate was first suggested
by Hunt some weeks ago and
accepted by Flaherty shortly
afterwards. Both candidates
have agreed on the Pinehurst
confrontation, which is now
scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
Nominees of other parties
whose names will be on the ballot
in the Nov. 2 general election will
not be involved in the Pinehurst
debate.
The two candidates for
Lieutenant Governor-Jimmy
Green, the Democratic, and
William Hiatt, the Republican,
(Continued on Page 15A)
Fire Escape, Red Ball
Projects Planned Here
BY ROBERT PATTERSON
Chief, Fire Prevention
If you woke up in the darkness
tonight, what would you do? You
may face the most frightening
thing that could happen in your
life. Fire can occur anywhere at
anytime. It has no respect for a
persons life or his property, and
is terrifying when it involves
one’s own family.
EDITH - (Exit-Drill-In-The-
Home) prepares people to cope
with tires in the home at night to
the best of their ability. It is a
family plan for Fire S^ety and
night time Fire escape planning.
It could save you and your family
from being trapped in a home
fire if you take time to set up the
plan and practice.
On October 7, at 8:00 p.m. the
Fire Department will blow the
siren for about l¥i minutes.
When you hear it we want you
and your family to stop and think
of how you would escape from
(Continued on Page 16A)
OPEN HEADQUARTERS — Three Democratic
candidates in the Nov. 2 general election cut the
ribbon to open the Moore County Democratic
headquarters in Carthage Monday night. Left to right,
they are, A.E. (Tony) Parker and Carolyn Blue,
candidates for county commissioner, and Rep. T.
Clyde Auman, a candidate for reelection to the State
House of Representatives.—(Photo by Valerie
Nicholson).
Ford-Carter Debate Is Called Draw With Little New Disclosed
BY CRAIG LAMB
National surveys seem to
agree that the delate aired on
television last Thursday night
between Democratic
presidential candidate Jimmy
Carter and Republican
presidential candidate Gerald
Ford was a draw.
Neither man was an obvious
winner, most people said, and the
people of Southern Pines agree
with that on the whole, but most
had more to say about the debate
than who came out on top.
Of approximately 50 people
polled on Friday, 30 (or 60
percent) did not watch the
debate. Following are the
comments of some of those who
did:
Cynthia McFadden, Southern
Pines, Democrat-"! was hoping
for a lot more. I remained
undecided. I’ve talked to a lot of
people since the debate, and they
seemed to feel the same.”
Susan Dohrmann, Southern
Pines, not registered-“It was
about what I expected. Carter
sounded like a Democrat and
Ford sounded like a
Republican.”
David Gamer, Southern Pines,
Republican-“It was so-so. I
thi^ Ford might have come out
ahead.”
Nicholas Chaltas, Southern
Pines, Independent-“It was dis
appointing. There were not
enough fireworks. Carter made a
couple of interesting points, but
both were pretty dull.”
Teresa Heflin, Aberdeen,
Democrat-“It was pretty much
a draw. I was hoping they would
be interesting, but it was boring.
There were too many statistics
for most people to understand.”
(Note: Teresa was a delegate to
the Democratic National
Convention).
Mrs. James Bengston,
Pinehurst, Republican-"! was
more impressed with Ford’s
sincerity. I don’t see how Carter
can do what he wants without
rising inflation and taxes-and I
don’t want either.”
Mrs. Frank Sohme, Winston-
Salem, Republican-"! think it
turned out well. It was probably
a draw.”
Jim Bedsworth, Southern
Pines, not registered-‘Tt was
inconclusive, didn’t swing me
one way or the other. It didn’t do
that much for Ford. The debate
was all repetitious.”
Susan Garrison, Southern
Pines, Democrat-“They didn’t
say any more than they did at the
conventions.”
William Stancil, Southern
Pines, Democrat-“it was very
interesting, but for the questions
asked, there was not anything
said that I really hadn’t heard.”
Sid McLaughlin, Southern
Pines, Democrat-“It was a good
show, a little better than Kojak-
but as far as a debate, it was not
a debate at all. They did not
answer the questions asked
them. It sounded like excerpts
from a speech. I don’t think
either one came out ahead. I
think they should give a simple
question and let them give direct
answers.”
Don Moore, Southern Pines -
“I think some good can come out
of it - people will get impressions
of the man as a man. Both
conducted themselves very good,
and sounded good.”
Edward Caropreso, Southern
Pines, Democrat-"! liked Frank
Reynolds best-his speaking
ability was much better. The
debate was a battle of statistics.
The questions were basically
logistics. It was more of a
performance than anything else.
It was worthwhile because it put
them on the spot. I was more
impressed with Carter. He
seemed more assured with
himself, and he didn’t seem to do
as much name calling.”
J.D. Hobbs, Southern Pines,
Democrat-“It was a waste of
television’s time. They didn’t say
anything they had not already
said. However, I think both came
over very well. I respect and
appreciate the way they spoke
out, but they said nothing new. It
would not have influenced my
Vote at all.”
Steven Hallack, Southern
Pines, Republican-"! thought
they were really able to answer
the questions quite well. It didn’t
change my mind-I had already
made my mind up before the
debate.”
Mrs. Mildred Anderson,
Southern Pines, Democrat-"!
thought it was grand! Carter had
his answers-as if it were cut and
dried. He told us something. For
a man to be known so well in such
a short time as he has-he must
have something in his pocket.”
Jerry Hardister, Southern
Pines-“I didn’t watch it all, but I
thought Carter was nervous to
begin with. Both handled
themselves well. The debates are
worthwhile because we have to
see what they are saying. I had
made up my mind before.”
(Continued on Page 16A)