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Vol. 57, Number 5
60 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, December 1, 1976
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Fire Service Affected
By Annexation Delay
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DRAINED LAKE — This is one of the two lakes at the
Country Club of North Carolina that were drained to
aid in construction of the regional sewer system. This
lake beside US 15-501 will be refilled later this month
but the other will remain dry until the completion of
the project in April.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Beauty Queens, Bands Are Featured
In Christmas Parade On Thursday
Bands, clowns and colorful
floats will make up the annual
Southern Pines Christmas
Parade which will be held
Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
There will also be many in
dividual entries, including an
tique cars, horses and riders, and
special music.
The parade units will form at
Memorial Field on Morganton
Road, beginning at 5:30 p.m.,
and the route for the parade will
be down East Broad Street and
back along West Broad.
Miss Southern Pines will serve
as grand marshal for the parade,
and a special guest will be Miss
North Carolina, Susie Proffitt.
Several other queens will also
be present, including the
homecoming queens from
Knecrest and Union Pines High
schools. Miss Flame from Vass,
and Miss Aberdeen.
Among the marching bands
will be Pinecrest and North
Moore high schools.
The Pinecrest Color Guard and
ROTC unit will lead off the
parade, and among those riding
in the parade will be members of
the Southern Pines Town
Council, the Moore County
commissioners, and Rep. T.
Qyde Auman.
Eight floats sponsored by local
business firms will be mingled
among the various marching
units.
. Winding up the parade will be
Santa Qaus on the Jaycees float.
The parade is sponsored by the
Southern Pines Jaycees, with
Chuck Maness and McNeill
Chestnut as the co-chairmen.
There will be special music by
Russell Powell and his Pinedene
Symjrfiony.
In addition to others taking
part there will be represen
tatives of the Boys and GirLs
Scouts, the^l^£S>8roiip, the Royal
Ambassadors of the First Baptist
Church, the Fire Department
and Rescue Squad and the
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
There will be candy for
youngsters watching the parade.
The Jaycees said that with fair
weather predicted they are
expecting a record turnout for
the parade.
When residents of four areas
supposedly annexed June 30 by
the Town of Southern Pines went
into court to protest the action,
the annexation was found to be of
no force and effect, pending an
end to the litigation.
Town Manager Lew G. Brown
told the Town Council in special
meeting Tuesday night that he
had thought that, at the same
time, the residents had remained
in the rural fire district where
they had been for a year before
June 30, but he had found this
was not the case.
He said the county, which
administers the fire districts,
billing the property owners for
the annual assessments charged
in each, had sought advice from
the Institute of Government,
which found the county could not
properly bill the residents for the
fire service, since the area had
been annexed and was now the
subject of litigation.
Brown said he differed
strongly with this interpretation,
which left the property owners
high and dry, without the town or
fire district responsible for their
protection.
He had sought advice from the
Attorney General’s office and
found this office “reluctant to
take a stand’’-unwilling to make
a commitment one way or the
other. In the meantime, he said:
“We have provided fire service
to the areas, and will continue to
do so7 even though at this point it
is without any remuneration.’’
However, he felt the situation
could have “a bad impact’’ on
Town Will Receive Grant
For Recreation Program
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Mayor E.J. Austin of Southern
Pines announced today that the
Town has been notified by
officials of the State Department
of Natural and Economic
Resources that its application for
a grant from the Bureau of
Outdoor Recreation has been
approved.
The grant request is for a total
of $85,000 to be matched by an
equal amount of Town funds for
use in developing the
recreational facilities to be
located on property adjacent to
Memorial Field on Morganton
Road.
The Town’s share of this grant
will be provided by the
recreation bond funds which
were approved by the voters of
Southern Pines in a referendum
last May 22.
The recreational facilities to be
developed include four
all-weather, lighted tennis
courts; one multi-purpose
outdoor court providing facilities
for basketball, handball, and
racquet ball; a children’s play
ground area; access road,
parking lot and storm drainage
facilities. Purchase of the
land-about 4.2 acres-is also
involved in the cost of the
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Karl Andrews, 77, Dies;
Fimeral Is Held Sunday
IN PARADE — Miss North Carolina, Susie Proffitt,
will be a special guest in the Southern Pines Christmas
Parade Thursday evening.
Referendum Scheduled Dec. 16
To Continue Tobacco Program
Karl Arthur Andrews, 77, died
suddenly Thursday at his home
on NC 5 south of Pinehurst,
adjoining the Sandhills Nursing
Center, of which he was the
founder and owner.
Graveside service was held
Sunday afternoon at Mt. Hope
Cemetery, conducted by the Rev.
Robert Field, pastor of the
Pinehurst Community Church.
A native of Canadaigua, N.Y.,
he came south about 50 years ago
and was employed in Atlanta,
then Durham, before moving to
Pinehurst in the mid-1930’s.
He bought the Hotel Chalfonte,
a small elegant hotel south of
Pinehurst, then suffering from
dejs-ession troubles, and bought
it back to life with operation of a
popular supper club.
The onset of war brought new
troubles to the resort com
munities and he leased the
Chalfonte to a group of Army
staff officers “for the duration.’’
It was this building which,
following the war, he converted
to a nursing home, out of which
grew the new and modern
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fire insurance rates in the areas
in question.
An “out” was seen in the
Town’s oid “fire contract”
ordinance, under which the fire
department served persons with
whom they contracted for
service-a system in effect for
many years until the fire district
(Continued on Page 16A)
Flu Shot
Requests
Increase
“Swine” flu innoculation in
Moore County is on the upswing,
according to Health Director, Dr.
A.G. Siege.
The flu shot program “ex
perienced a slight upward trend”
last week, said Dr. Siege, due to
national coverage of a case in
Concordia, Missouri reported to
be “swine” flu. That report,
followed by another that some
twenty or more people in the
Missouri town who were tested
showed evidence of some sort of
flu virus, have caused a suf
ficient scare to increase the
number here wanting the shot.
The reports turned out to be
false alarms, the flu was not
clearly identified as “swine” flu,
but Dr. Siege credits the
coverage with an increased
interest among people to get the
vaccine.
Dr. Siege reported that 3,850
people, or 15 percent of the ap
proximately 25,000 eligible in
Moore County, have received the
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Weather
Freezing weather will continue
for the next few days, with a high
of 40 degrees in the daytime and
25 degrees at night, the
weatherman says.
There will be little chance of
rain tonight. The temperature
today at 10 a.m. was a chilly 34
degrees.
NER Board
Meets Here
This Week
County revenue bonds and the
state’s target industries program
will be among subjects discussed
at a meeting of the Board of
Natural and Economic
Resources in Southern Pines on
Friday and Saturday of this
week.
The series of meetings will be
held at the Sheraton Motor Inn,
beginning at 9 a.m. on Friday.
The two - day meeting will end
at noon on Saturday following a
report by Secretary George
Little of the Department of
Natural and Economic
Resources on accomplishments
under the administration of
Governor James Holshouser.
Other subjects to be discussed
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
Approximately 2,(K)0 persons
•here are eligible to vote in the
referendum called for Thursday,
Dec. 16, on whether marketing
quotas and price supports will be
continued on flue - cured tobacco
for the next three years.
In referendums held in past
years the tobacco support
program has been over
whelmingly endorsed by growers
- usually by a margin of 90
percent or more.
The law requires that two -
thirds of the growers voting must
favor quotas if the program is to
continue.
The last referendum in which
the quotas were approved for a
three - year period was in July,
1973.
Walter F. Fields of the Car
thage office of the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Conunittee of the U.S. Dept, of
Agriculture said on Monday that
the polling places for the tobacco
referendum will be announced
next week.
He said that notice has been
received this week that there will
be an approximately 12 percent
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Historic Swearing-In Set
For Carthage On Monday
It will be a historic swearing-in
Monday at 10:30 a.m. for the
Moore County commissioners,
who will have two new members-
-one of them the first woman
commissioner for Moore County.
She is Carolyn Blue of Eagle
Springs, who with her
Democratic colleague Anthony
E. (Tony) Parker of Southern
Pines, will replace two
Republican members, Floyd
(Tole and John B. Womack, whom
they defeated November 2.
After the oath-taking,
traditionally held in the office of
Charles McLeod, clerk of court,
the members will go to their own
meeting-room for their
organizational meeting.
Other members of the board-
now all-Democratic for the first
time in 10 years-are the present
chairman, also interim county
administrator, W.S. Taylor; Lee
Williams, current vice-
chairman, and Arthur Purvis.
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GILL — Edwin Gill, who is
retiring in January as State
Treasurer and after nearly 50
years of state service, was
honored Tuesday night at the
new Jane S. McKimmon Center
in Raleigh in an event sponsored
by the North Carolina Bankers
Association.
It was a star-studded affair,
with leaders from all walks of life
attending from across the state.
Among those paying tribute to
Gill were President William C.
Friday of the University of
North Carolina, Former
Governor Dan K. Moore, Archie
Davis, Mary Semans, Edwin
Pate of Laurinburg (Gill’s
hometown) and Chancellor Joab
L. Thomas of N.C. State
University.
It was also announced that the
bankers of the state have raised
more than $100,000 to estaUish
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A WINNING TEAM — Grandfather and grandson,
Michael Walsh, Sr., and Michael Walsh III, are a
winning team on the steeplechase circuit with young
Walsh completing the 1976 season as one of the leading
steeplechase jockeys and winner of $90,000 in purse
monies. Mike is back at Pinecrest with a brief respite
from some of the training at Stoneybrook. Mickey and
wife, Kitty, left yesterday for Ireland for a two week
visit. See story on Sports Page.
College Boards To Get
Boyd Estate Proposals
A proposal which would
preserve the Boyd Estate of
Weymouth will be presented to
trustees of Sandhills Community
College and the directors of the
College Foundation at a meeting
on Monday night. Sept. 6, at 7:30
p.m.
The joint meeting of the
trustees and Foundation
directors will be held in the
college conference room.
The proposal to be presented is
that the Boyd Estate be used as a
conference and cultural center, a
use which was envisioned by the
late Katharine Boyd who
bequeathed the estate for the
benefit of Sandhills Community
College.
Invited to appear before the
joint meeting will be Charles
Phillips, director of the Quail
Roost Conference Center north of
Durham, a somewhat similar
estate which was given to the
University of North Carolina.
Phillips who has visited
Weymouth and discussed its
potential as a conference center
with Sandhills President Dr.
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Phillips Will Address
Educators Meeting Here
Index
the Edwin Gill Professorship in
Business Management at N.C.
State.
Among those attending the
banquet from Moore County
were George Little, Mr. and Mrs.
H. Clifton Blue and Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Ragan.
HUNT — The first ap
pointments to be announced by
Governor-Elect Jim Hunt will be
some of his key staff members.
That announcement is expected
between now and mid-
December.
Before (Christmas, however,
there should be announcements
of three or four of his Cabinet
choices.
The Governor-elect is taking a
great deal of care in the selection
of secretaries to head the various
departments of State govern-
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Books, 2-B; Church Calendar,
3- B; Classified Ads, 11-16-C;
Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment,
4- ^; Obituaries, 7-A; Pinehurst
News, 1-3-C; Social News, 2-6-A;
Sports, 12-15-A.
State Superintendent Dr. A.
Craig Phillips will be the keynote
banquet speaker at the first
annual two - day fall conference
of the North Carolina Association
of School Administrators
(NCASA) to be held today and
Thursday in Pinehurst at the
Pinehurst Hotel.
About 700 are expected to
attend.
Now in its sixth month NCASA
has a membership of over 600.
Members include superin
tendents, associate or assistant
superintendents, principals and
assistant principals, staff
supervisors, directors of in
struction, State and Regional
Departments of Instruction
personnel, personnel from
Universities and colleges
engaged in preparing ad
ministrators and supervisors
from all eight educational
districts across the state.
The main purpose of the
Association, which was
organized this past June, is to
help meet the needs and con
cerns of the public schools in
North Carolina.
In keeping with the theme
“Challenges in Educational
Administration,” Elam Hertzler,
special assistant to the U.S.
Commissioner of Education of
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Hearing Held On Town’s Bid
For Community Projects Funds
The Southern Pines town
council met in special session
Tuesday night at the new
Conununity Services Building-
the old Our Lady of Victory
School on West Pennsylvania
Ave., handsomely renovated and
modernized inside and out as
part of the town’s first Com
munity Development project.
It was the first time in memory
the council had met away from
its own Municipal Build^g, or
town hall, but it was a singularly
appropriate setting, as a public
hearing on a proposal for a new
Community Development grant
was the first item on the
evening’s program.
Guidelines call for two public
hearings to be held, to gain
community input for the
proposal, which is 1(K) percent
federally paid. The council had
hoped that holding the first
hearing on the west side would
bring out more interested
residents, as the proposal cen
ters on that area. About 30 people
attended, from both sides of
town, listening with interest to
the tentative program presented
by Town Manager Lew G.
Brown, asking a few questions
but apparently happy with what
they heard, as they made no
further suggestions.
The first CD project, for which
application had teen made for
$254,000, had teen funded in
August 1975 in the sum of
$248,500-one of only 28 funded in
the state, out of 91 applications.
With less federal funds available
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