Morehead
nominees are honored-12 of them from
Moore Schools--at dinner in
Pinehurst.-Page 14-A.
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Index
Books, 2-B; Church. Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 11-15-C; Editorials, 1*B;
Entertainment, 4-6-C', Obituaries, 7-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Social News,
2-5-A; Sports, 8-9-A.
Vol. 56, Number 49
52 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, October 6, 1976
52 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Pinehurst Rezoning Plan
Draws Strong Opposition
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SYMBOLIC OF FALL — A lone horseman against the sky appears symbolic of
Fall in the Sandhills. This picture by McKenzie-Dickerson was made at Little
River Farm.
AIA Study Team To Visit
Moore Area This Weekend
BY BETSY LINDAU
If by chance you should notice
a planeload of strangers circling
over Moore County between 9
and 10 a.m. on Friday, October 8
- or, perhaps a little later in the
morning, a troop of strangers
driving, maybe even waling,
our streets and roads with
critical eyes - you need to know
Morrison
Gets PTA
Citation
Robert E. Morrison, principal
of Aberdeen Middle School, was
honored at the State PTA Con
vention held September 30-
October 2 in Charlotte. He
received the distinguished
“District 10 Educator of the
Year” award in recognition of
his contribution to education in
his community.
This was the first presentation
of such an award for District 10,
which comprises Cumberland,
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that they’re invited, they are
heartily welcome, and they’re
here to help, ,* ‘
For no pay - Just expenses,
paid for with both public and
private money.
That’s RUDAT, the Regional-
Urban Design Assistance Team
of the American Institute of
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Swine Flu
Shots Now
Available
The Moore County Health
Department will receive its first
shipment of the “swine flu”
vaccine today (Wednesday)
from the State laboratory in
Raleigh.
The first shipment will consist
of only one-tenth of the number of
doses expected. The rest is to
arrive in later installment
shipments.
Private doctors will be
receiving a portion of the ship
ment, including both the bivalent
and monovalent vaccine. The
bivalent vaccine will be
available to those 60 years of age
and older, and those chronically
ill or those with heart, lung, or
kidney problems, and diabetics.
Both vaccines will be available
at the Health Department
starting October 12, to be given
out Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 1 to 4 p.m., as long as the
supply lasts.
“Due to the limited amount of
the first shipment, it will be
given out on a first come, first
serve basis,” a spokesman for
the Department said. Parts of
the shipment will also be taken to
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BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
A proposal of Pinehurst, Inc.,
to amend the county zoning
ordinance by re-classifying
extensive acreage along US
501 and the Mi^and Road ran
into a buzz-saw of opposition at a
public hearing held Monday by
the county conunissioners in the
course of their regular meeting.
Many of the same residents
who had waged battle over
recent years to defend the
character and beauty of the
Midland Road, between Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, from
commercial encroachment, had
again sprung into action, with
some new recruits.
It was “standing room only” in
the commissioners’ small
meeting room in the courthouse
as the crowd of some 40 to 45 men
and women overflowed into an
adjoining office, unable to wedge
themselves into the meeting
room, much less find a seat.
They were objecting not so
much to the proposed re-zoning
from Residential-Agricultural to
Residential-10 of a large parcel
of some 1,550 acres, stretching
from the Pinehurst Campsite to
Pinecrest High School, a
distance of some three miles on
the east side of the highway; but
they were bitterly o^qwsed to a
proposed change of 51 acres, just
off the traffic circle at the junc
tion of 15-501 with the Midland
Road, from R-A to Business-1
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Nigerians Visit Area;
Plan NC Fish Exports
Towns Receive $200,000
In NC Street Aid Funds
Three Nigerian import-export
executives visited Moore County
this week and said Monday that
they were “very satisfied” with
this resort area and excited
about the fact that they felt their
company could supply needy
Nigeria with over-produced fish
at a plant in Wilmington or
Morehead City.
Thomas Degarr, official of
Fortuna Holdings Inc. in New
York, said he was planning to
confer with George W. Little of
Southern Pines, Secretary of
Natural and Economic
Resources, about his Tar Heel
plant.
Mr. Degarr is married to the
former Miss Europa Gay, vidio
runs the Raspberry Boutique in
Town and Country Shopping
Center as part owner and is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thaddeus Gay of 955 Michigan
Avenue in Southern Pines, and
visited them while here.
With him were two executives
of Tropical Fisheries Nig. Ltd.,
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Revamped Jefferson Inn
Had Beginning In 1898
Almost $200,000 in Powell Bill
State Street Aid funds has been
allotted to Moore County as its
share of the annual allocation.
The Powell Bill returns to
qualified municipalities one cent
of the eight-cent State tax on
gasoline and requires that these
funds be disbursed by no later
than October 1.
The actual figure of Moore’s
share is $195,59L37. Southern
Pines, largest town in the county
with a population set by the
Transportation Department at
7,950, gets $103,720.88.
Other towns in Moore get as
follows; Aberdeen, $29,426.02;
Cameron, $3,579.34; Carthage,
$15,798.63; Pinebluff, $12,761.61;
Robbins, $16,002.92; Vass,
$15,132.50 and Whispering Pines,
$18,530.81.
Governor James E.
Holshouser has announced that
R.E. Morrison
With Award
BY MARJORIE RAGAN
The Jefferson Inn, which
joined three buildings, one of
which dated back to 1898, is
continuing its long occupancy
with a new owner, a new dining
room manger, a new lounge, and
an old affiliation with the house
of the James Boyds in a new
revolving art display.
The display pictures of the
Boyd House, Weymouth, the
Shaw House (circa 1830) and the
Blue Farm, as well as the Putter
Boy, famous Pinehurst symbol,
are at the instigation of Fran
Writing, dining room manager.
The art is by the classes of
Danila Devins, who started the
first class from Sandhills
Community College, she says, at
Weymouth stable when ^s.
Boyd left the property to SCC.
On the wall of the dining room,
the display will be a permanent,
revolving exhibit. A fox by Glen
Rounds, local artist, is also
shown in the new lounge, which
was remodeled from the former
TV room for occiq)ants and
guests since the Inn was sold to
Cliarles W. Artman of Newtown
Square, Pa. The dining facility is
now The Plantation Room, and
has expanded into the lounge.
There are rooms at the Inn for 16
permanent residents and 12
transients.
The first building to be in-
cluded.in The Jefferson Inn was
the Hayes Bookshop and News
Depot of Mr. and Mrs. Claude L.
Hayes, according to Mrs. 0. W.
Holtzclaw, who owned the Inn
with her husband from Aug. 8,
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
HUNT - It was short notice, but
County Manager Sara Hodgkins
and area coordinator David
Bruton were able to get out a
motorcade for Jim Hunt when he
arrived at the Southern Pines -
Pinehurst Airport Tuesday
morning for his debate with
gubernatorial opponent David
Flaherty at the broadcasters
convention in Pinehurst.
After the debate between the
Democratic and Republican
candidates for Governor, Hunt
stoi^ed over briefly for a quick
lunch at Cheese ’n Things in
Southern Pines.
He was accompanied here by
aides Peter Gilmore and Gary
HUNT-FLAHERTY ‘DEBATE’ — This was the scene at the Pinehurst Hotel
Tuesday as the “debate” between Jim Hunt and David Flaherty, the first in
modern times between two candidates for Governor, took place. Wally Ausley
(center) is the moderator, the candidates are on the left, and the panel of
questioners on the right.—(Photo by McKenzie-Dickerson).
Debate By Hunt, Flaherty
Shows Issues Difference
It was more of a formal press
conference than a debate, but
both of the candidates for
Govemor-Jim Hunt and David
Flaherty-made points and
differences did emerge in the
publicized confrontation at the
Pinehurst Hotel Tuesday.
Staged by the North Carolina
Association of Broadcasters, the
“debate” was heard by a large
crowd in the Cardinal Ballroom
and was televised statewide
Tuesday night.
Both Hunt, the Democratic
candidate, and Flaherty, the
Republican nominee, agreed
there would probably be a $147
million surplus for the next
administration, and both agreed
that pay increases for school
teachers and state employes are
high on their priorities liks.
There were disagreements,
however, on:
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Candidates Give Views
On Law Agency, Zoning
446 N.C. municipalities will
receive a total of more than $30
million.
Department of Transportation
Secretary G. Perry Greene said
that his staff prepared the checks
on the allocation formula
prescribed by the Powell Bill,
which takes under consideration
the population of the community
and its local street mileage.
“This year’s sum of more than
$30 million is the largest amount
ever returned to N.C. com
munities under the Powell
provisions,” he said. He added
that this year’s total is nearly
$1.4 million more than last year’s
ksbursement.
The allocations are to be used
for the maintenance, con
struction, and reconstruction of
local city streets.
The first State Street Aid
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UnIbed
way
1977 Goal: $106,000.
Received Through Monday:
$23,321
BY CRAIG LAMB
A Candidates Meeting,
sponsored by the Southern Pines
Civic Club was held Wednesday,
Sept. 29 and included candidates
for County Commissioner, State
House of Representatives, and
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
The meeting began with
moderator Mrs. Ronald J.
CSiristie outlining the purpose
and rules of the meeting, “not a
debate, but a chance for the
candidates to answer to the
issues,” with each candidate
allowed eight minutes to answer
the pre-disclosed questions.
The first to speak were the
candidates for the Moore County
Board of Commissioners. The
questions posed were: “The
Sheriff’s Department is
responsible for law enforcement
in the greater part of Moore
County. In your judgment does
the Sheriff’s Department, as
presently constituted, provide
adequate protection? If not, what
are your recommendations? And
do you consider the present
county zoning law adequate to
insure the orderly development
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republican
HEADQUARTERS
Pearce.
Hunt will be back in Moore
County on Friday ni^t for a
Democratic rally at the Vass-
Lakeview school.
FLAHERTY - Republican
candidate David Flaherty is not
only proposing a Constitutional
Convention for North Carolina
but a legislative initiative plan
similar to that in California.
Under the plan the people iqwn
petition of 10 percent of the
voters could vote on proposed
legislation in a statewide
referendum.
In a speech in Charlotte on
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REPUBLICAN^ OPEN HEADQUARTERS — With Gubernatorial Candidate
David Flaherty (center) on hand for the ceremonies, the Moore County
Republicans opened their campaign headquarters in the Town and Country
Shopping Center Tuesday morning. Taking part in the ribbon-cutting, left to right,
are Floyd Cole and John Womack, candidates for county commissioner,
Flaherty, James Thomas, party chairman, and Richard Morgan, candidate for
N.C. House.—(Photo by Emerson Humphrey).
Juveniles: What Happens When They Get Into Trouble?
BY PETER S. WONDOLOWSKI
What happens to the 15 year old
youth down the street who gets
into trouble with the law?
Many concerned citizens don’t
know because they had always
felt that there was a
secretiveness in court
proceedings involving juvenile
delinquents. To a great extent
this is true.
The obvious reason for this veil
of secrecy lies in the fact that the
spirit and intent of the law
governing juvenile offenders is
designed to shield the delinquent
child’s identity from the general
public. The basic aim of the law
is a good one; it allows the youth
ful offender to enter the main
stream of life as an adult, un
scarred by what might be
described as a rash indiscretion
committed at a time and age of
immature judgement.
Jimmy K., a lad of 15 years of
age and a soi^omore in high
school in Carthage, was caught
breaking into a store at 2 o’clock
in the morning. The arresting
officer brought him to the
police station in Carthage and
immediately notified his parents.
His distraught parents, un
certain of the future of their son,
appeared at the station and
Jimmy K. was released into their
custody. He was not detained or
jailed by the police because he
did not fall under the category of
the emergency cases requiring
detention.
This is about the last of vtiiat a
citizen might learn about Jimmy
K. in Carthage. Sure, there might
be some local gossip and rumors
among friends and neighbors;
and a small news story may
appear in the local paper about
the burglary. The identity or
address of the youthful offender
is not revealed, but the news
article may hint that a juvenile
was involved.
No mystery appears, however,
in the bold print of the statutes
pertaining to the handling of
juvenile delinquent children in
the courts of North Carolina.
Because Jimmy K. had not
reached his 16th birthday, he
falls squarely under the juvenile
delinquency laws of the State.
Over that age he would be con
sidered an adult and proceeded
against in the regular criminal
courts.
The paternalistic philosophy of
the juvenile delinquency laws is
succinctly set forth at its very
beginning. Its purpose, the
statute provides, “...is to provide
the procedures and resources for
children which are different in
purpose and phUosoidiy from the
procedures applicable to
criminal cases involving adults.”
In touching upon the intent of the
legislature in the enactment of
these laws, the Court of Appeals
of North Carolina once said that
the intended scheme of things
was to give delinquent children
the control and environment
which may lead to their refor
mation and enable them to
become law-abiding and useful
citizens-a support and not a
hindrance to the state.
Let’s get back to Jimmy K.
Later that morning the
arresting police officer filed a
petition with the clerk of superior
court. He set forth the facts of the
burglary; Jinuny K’s name and
age; the names and address of
his parents, and the names and
addresses of witnesses to the
burglary, if any. The petition is,
in effect, a request to the judge of
the district court to take
jurisdiction of the case under the
juvenile delinquency laws of the
state.
The clerk of superior court
then issued a summons to the
parents, directing them to report
before the court with Jimmy at a
specified time and date. On that
^te the district court judge will
conduct a juvenile hearing in the
case of Jimmy K.
The district court (the lower
trial court of the State’s two trial
courts, the other being the
superior court) has been given
the original and exclusive
jurisdiction over juvenile
delinquents. In other words, the
law vests the district court judge
solely with broad and
discretionary powers in ad
judicating and disposing juvenile
delinquent cases.
Jimmy K. and his parents are
now before the district court
judge who will hear the case and
determine Jimmy’s fate. The law
has placed a very special trust on
the judge. He must do his utmost
to bring the delinquent child back
into the folds of the orderly life of
society, through the exercise of
his judical wisdom and with the
use of the resources made
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