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Book Page, 2-B; . Editorials, 1-B;
Church Calendar, 3-B; Classified Ads,
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Society, 2^A; Sports, 12-14-A.
Vol. 56, Number 51
48 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, October 20, 1976
48 Pages
Price 10 Cents
Rezoning
Bid Stalls
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
The Moore County Citizens for
Better Zoning, turning out some
45 to 50 strong last Wednesday
afternoon for a special meeting
of the Moore County Planning
Board, found that they might as
well have saved their time and
strength.
The three members present in
the commissioners’ meeting
room in the courthouse-Leonard
Tufts, chairman, Jere
McKeithen of Aberdeen and Bill
Gentry of Southern Pines--
listened attentively during the
meeting of nearly three hours to
their protests against the
Pinehurst, Inc., zoning amend
ment proposal, but apparently it
did not change their minds a bit.
The proposal was to rezone,
some 1,600 acres, now in “R-A”
(Residential - Agricultural
District) stretching for nearly
three miles along US 15-501, witti
51 acres on the northeast corner
of the traffic circle to be placed
in the B-1 (Neighborhood
Shopping) district, the other
1,550 in R-10 (lots of 10,000 square
feet).
Though Jerry Slade, new
president of Pinehurst, Inc., had
told the group at a public hearing
October 4 that there were “no
plans for a shopping center, and
in fact no immediate plans at
(Continued on Page 9-A)
Candidates Give Views
On Zoning, Tax Issues
Whether it was the chill
weather, political apathy or a
preponderance of meetings in
town Tuesday night, “Can
didates Night” at the Municipal
Building drew-in addition to the
six Moore County candidates-an
audience of only about 15 people.
These included the two
members of the sponsoring
Council on the Status of Women,
Mrs. Gladerine Dean and Mrs.
Lynn McIntyre, who led the
meeting.
Mrs. Dean admitted later, she
was so disappointed she almost
“just thanked folks for coming.
and told them to go home,” as it
was too hard on the canddates,
so late in the campaign, to give
up a whole evening for so -small a
turnout.
But she didn’t, and when the
meeting broke up two and a half
hours later, she said she was
glad, as everyone had a good
time. With so few, it was very
informal and friendly. The
candidates swapped views with
the people, talked with each
other and even a couple of times
got provoked with each other.
After the introductory session, in
(Continued on Page llA)
Impressions By RUDAT
With Forum Advocated
The RUDAT (Rural Urban
Development Assistance Team)
report, “Talking Sense About
Moore County,” contains several
findings, along with impressions,
and some choices which may be
made for the future development
of the area.
In the next few issues of The
Pilot selections from the RUDAT
report will be presented.
This first presentation is called
“Impressions of Some Itinerant
Observers,” and a proposal for
the establishment of an En
vironmental Forum.
“The impressions we expected
to have upon coming here were
misimpressions.
“We expected a visible and
severe impact from the presence
of the military bases...
“There is some of that, but far
less than we thought there
would be.
“We expected vast bland mills,
plastered across the landscape...
“And, indeed, there was some
of that, but not vast, not so bland,
and not across the landscape.
“We expected a despoiled
landscape, the trees carelessly
bulldozed...
(Continued on Page 16A)
Flu Shots
Underway
Seidman
Airs View
On Economy
William Seidman, Assistant to
the President for Economic
Affairs since September 1974,
and also executive director of the
Economic Policy Board
established by President Ford by
executive order soon after he
took office, was guest speaker
Friday at a breakfast meeting
held by the Moore County
Republican executive com
mittee.
Due to speak to the N.C.
Securities (Commission at the
Mid Pines Club later in the
morning, his time was short and
he was the only speaker on the
program, though other special
guests were recognized by
James R. Thomas, Republican
county chairman, presi^ng.
These included Carl Eagle of
Salisbury, Republican nominee
for Eighth District Represen
tative; George Little, Southern
Pines native now in Raleigh as
Secretary of the State Depart
ment of Natural and Economic
Resources; Mrs. Vivian Harris,
Eighth District party chairman,
(Continued on Page 16A)
PREPARING FOR HUNT SEASON — Wiffi Smith opening of the 1976-77 fox hunting season here on
says love is basic in the training of the Moore County Thanksgiving Day. See story on Page 13-A . —(Photo
liounds. Here she pauses for a bit of conversation with Mildred Allen),
her charges as preparations are being made for the
Preservation Of Boyd Estate Plea
Is Made At Foundation Board Meet
Members of the Sandhills
College Foundation met at the
Boyd House this past week to
hear a plea that the estate given
for the benefit of the college by
Mrs. Katharine Boyd be
preserved.
Dr. R.M. McMillan, chairman
of the board of directors of the
Foundation, presided.
Howard Muse, chairman of the
Sierra (Club here, spoke of the
Chamber
Directors
Announce(J
New directors for the Sandhills
Area Chamber of Commerce for
the coming year were announced
at a meeting of the Board at a
luncheon meeting at the Holiday
Inn on Thursday.
They are Don Hill, John Mc-
Phaul, Joe Montesanti, Joe
Kimball, Jerry Slade and Bob
Murphy.
President William Hollister
also appointed a conunittee for
the nomination of Chamber of
ficers.
The Board approved a report
by James Gambrell of the
Business Development Com
mittee on the future status of the
committee now that an
Economic Development office
has been opened in Moore
(County. The report called for the
Chamber committee to work
with the office and provide
(Continued on Page 16A)
desires to see the stand of virgin
longleaf pine preserved and
protected.
Julian Long, executive
director of the Sandhills Arts
Council, expressed the hope that
the Boyd House, known as
Weymouth, be used for cultural
purposes and as a conference
center.
Sam Ragan, a member of the
Foundation, also expressed the
hope that Weymouth could be
preserved and said that its use as
a conference center should be
considered. He said that Mrs.
Boyd and members of the Boyd
family had hoped that this could
be done.
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There have been recurring
reports that the college wants to
sell the property ard use the
money for building purposes at
the Sandhills campus, but
Foundation members were told
there have been no serious offers
to purchase.
A petition has been circulated
in the area calling for the
Weymouth estate to be preserved
and not sold.
Dr. Raymond A. Stone,
president of the college, gave a
brief history of Mrs. Boyd’s
interest in the college during her
lifetime. As one of the charter
members of the Sandhills College
Foundation when it was
i The Sandhills
of ]>^rth Carolina
World’s Most Eunons
Birdie Sanctnafj
'Birdie Sanctuary’ New
Ad Slogan For Sandhills
established to benefit the
development of the conununity
college, Mrs. Boyd, several
years before her death, had
conferred with Dr. Stone on the
possible uses that could be made
(Continued on Page 8A)
Zoning
Case Set
For Trial
The zoning suit filed last
February by a group of Midland
Road property owners, seeking
to protect their residential area
from expanding commercial
development, is expected to be
tried starting Monday in Moore
Superior Court at Carthage.
It is first on the trial calendar
for next week’s civil term,
preceded only by several
motions, two of them made by a
defendant, Leaverne Maness,
and related to the case.
Other defendants are the
(Continued on Page 7A)
Young Man
Is Killed
In Wreck
Lester Wayne McCrimmon, 24,
who made his home with his
parents at the N. C. Forest
Service tower on Morganton
Road, was killed late Friday
night when his car went out of
control and overturned on Lake
Bay Road, off US 1 north of
Southern Pines.
He was the son of Vernon E.
McCrinunon, assistant Moore
County ranger, and Mrs. Mc
Crimmon, who is the tower
operator.
State Trooper W. D. Waters
said his car, heading toward US
1, went off the road on a curve,
traveled 255 feet on the right
shoulder, crossed over and went
55 feet on the left, jumped a ditch
and turned over three times in a
field. The driver was thrown out
and the car landed on its wheels
on top of him.
McCrimmon had been to the
Moore County Fair at Carthage
that evening with his brother
Grady and several of their
cousins. Leaving about 11 p.m. in
Lester’s car, they went to the
Skyline Service Station on US 1,
where a crowd of young people,
(Continued on Page 16A)
The Moore County Health
Department is continuing its
distribution of the “swine flu”
vaccine with full force this
week, scheduled to vaccinate
employes of United Telephone in
Southern Pines today (Wed
nesday) and the employes of
Stanley Furniture Co. in West
End on Friday.
In addition there will be
regular distribution at the clinic
in Carthage on Tuesday and
Thursday. Vaccination plans
extending through next week
include distribution at the
Southern Pines Community
Center on West Pennsylvania
Ave. from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on
Wednesday, Oct. 27.
The Health Department
reports that close to 1,000 doses
of the “swine flu” vaccine have
been given out at the health clinic
in Carthage since the start of the
program on Tuesday, Oct. 12.
In addition, accor^ng to Dr.
A.G. Siege, public health director
for Moore Ctounty, an unknown
amount of the 1,000 doses given to
local physicians has been given
out, noting that some of the
doctors have requested more of
the vaccine.
The vaccine was given out on
Tuesday and Thursday af
ternoons at the health clinic, with
the number dropping shai^ly
Thursday because. Dr. Siege
believes, national news coverage
and headlines reporting deaths of
recipients had scared off many
(Continued on Page 8A)
Truck-Train Collision
Fatal For Moore Man
Larry Eldon Hussey, 29, of
Robbins, Rt. 1, was instantly
killed Wednesday about 7:40
a.m. in Carbonton near the Lee-
Chatham line when the White
tractor trailor loaded with logs
he was driving ran into the path
of a Southern Railway freight
train.
Rescue Squad members
worked two hours to remove the
body.
State Highway Patrolman J.L.
Franks, who investigated, said ’
that Hussey was going east on
NC 42 when he ran at about 35
miles an hour onto the tracks of
the oncoming train, which was
going about 25 miles per hour.
The right side of the truck was
struck, and damage to the
trailor-truck, belonging to J.T.
Brewer Jr. and Bill Brewer, of
Eagle Springs, was damaged
around $3,000 and train damage
was estimated at $3,500.
Among Hussey’s injuries were
those to the head. He was
pronounced dead at the scene by
(Continued on Page 16A)
Whispering Pines Quiet
With New Thunder Bridge
BY BETSY UNDAU
The Sandhills Birdie signals a
fresh new slogan for North
Carolina’s Sandhills, “World’s
Most Famous Birdie Sanc
tuary.”
The Birdie made its debut in
Atlanta, on October 12, perched
in its nest on top of a display
stand at an Eastern Airlines
International Sales Meeting.
It was hatched by the ad
vertising agency of cin - Allen -
Smith for Par Travel Council of
the Sandhills Area (Chamber of
Commerce and will be featured
in all of Par’s area advertising
and promotion.
“We’re planning to advertise
in a number of newspapers and
magazines this year and the
Birdie will be featured in every
one of the ads,” says Don Calfee,
manager of the Southern Pines
Sheraton and chairman of the
Travel Council’s advertising
committee.
(Continued on Page 16A)
United
way
1977 Goal: $106,000.
Received to Date:
$61,091.
BY PETER S. WONDOLOWSKI
It has been two years since
“thunder bridge” etched its last
growl across Thaggard Lake of
the retirement village of
Whispering Pines when it was
closed to traffic.
Its nickname “thunder
bridge,” aptly describes the low
rumble sound of thunder that
reverberates over the lake
whenever a car passed over the
wooden road bed of the steel
girdled bridge. The span crosses
over Little River where it
broadens into the lake.
Whispering Pines, a com
munity of about 475 families, is
built around three championship
golf courses and five scenic lakes
of which Lake Thaggard is the
largest.
Over a decade ago, when the
land developer, A.B. Hardee
dedicated the roads and bridges
to the newly incorporated
village, (the only incorporated
village in North Carolina)
“thunder bridge,” on South
Lakeview Drive, was spanking
brand new.
In early 1974, the Village
Council became increasingly
concerned over the safety of the
three ton capacity bridge. It
(Continued on Page 16A)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
FALL SILHOUETTE — The leaves are gone but the walnuts still cling to the
tree’s branches in this fall silhouette in downtown Southern Pines.—(Photo by
Glenn M. Sides).
CARTER - Some 40 Moore
County Democrats boarded a bus
and cars Tuesday to go to
Winston-Salem and a rally for
Jimmy Carter, their cancUdate
for President.
(Chairman Ed Causey and Mrs.
Causey said there were 34 on the
bus. Among others who made the
trip were Bessie Beck, Theresa
Heflin, Dr. Raymond Stone and
daughter, Sally Beth, Clifton
Blue, J.W. Causey, Frank and
Hubert McCaskill, Mr. and Mrs.
C.E. Darnell, Hilton Kelly and
Allan Denny.
Causey said it was an en
thusiastic gathering and
“Jimmy looked great.” He said
the Civic Center in Winston-
Salem was overflowing. “We had
to stand and there were crowds
in the street,” he said. Carter
went outside to mingle with those
who could not get in.
MORGAN — Questions have
been raised here whether or not
Richard Morgan, the Republican
candidate for the N.C. House of
Representatives, would be
allowed to serve should he be
elected in the Nov. 2 election.
North Carolina statutes state
that a candidate for the
Legislature must be a resident of
the county for a year before
election.
Morgan, although a former
resident of Moore County, was
registered in Wake County,
where he was employed in the
Holshouser administration, until
he switched his registration to
this county in August. Along
about the same time he was
selected as the Republican
candidate by the county
executive committee of the
(Continued on Page 16A)
QUIET WATERS — Only the ducks show movement on the quiet waters of this
lake in Clarendon Gardens, one of the Sandhills area’s most noted beauty
spots.—(Photo by Alvin Davis).