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Vol. 57, Numbter 23
52 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, April 6, 1977
52 Pages
Price 15 Cents
Court Hall Bids Set;
New W ater Issue Look
Governor Selects Bruton
For State Education Post
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Dr. H. David Bruton, 42, of
Southern Pines was appointed
Tuesday by Governor Jim Hunt
to the North Carolina State
Board of Education.
Dr. Bruton, a former vice
chairman of the Moore County
Board of Education, was named
to a full term on the 11-member
board and is expected to move
into a place of prominence on the
public education policy making
body.
Dr. Dallas Herring, the long
time chairman of the State Board
whose term expired on Tuesday,
was not reappointed by Governor
Hunt.
The Governor’s appointees to
the board are subject to con
firmation, by the General
Assembly. The board will elect
its chairman.
Confirmation procedures are
expected to get under way today.
Dr. Bruton and the three other
new appointees will attend a
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Dr. H. David Bruton
meeting with the State board on
Thursday to get acquainted with
other members.
A long-time advocate of quality
education in the public schools.
Dr. Bruton also strongly backs
Miss Harbour Is Winner
Of Junior Builders Cup
Anne Marie Harbour, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes L. Har
bour of Cameron and a senior at
Union Pines High School, was the
winner Friday night of the
coveted Junior Builders Cup of
the Sandhills Eiwanis Club.
The calling forward of the five
nominees by Howard Broughton,
the club’s chairman for the
project, his introduction of them
all as very special young people.
and Jiis presentation of the
handsome .silver jcup to Anne
Harbour highlighted a
memorable and exciting
program:
It drew an unptecedented
capacity crowd of 2,000 to the
huge, teautiful Pinecrest gym
for an evening filled with
thrilling moments - not only the
16th annual Junior Builders Cup
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Schools, Others Taking
Easter Season Holiday
Easter Monday, which is a
legal holiday only in North
Carolina and the Virgin Islands,
will be observed here on AprU 11.
Moore County schools will be
closed.
In fact, the schools wUl begin
their Spring vacation on Friday,
April 8, and continue throu^
Wednesday, April 13.
Supt. R.E. Lee said the schools
are now in the seventh month of
the school year and when
students return on Thursday,
April 14, there will be 41 days
remaining, as the ninth month
ends on June 10.
All municipal, county and state
offices will be closed for the day
on Monday.
The U.S. Post Office will be
open.
Moore County offices in
Carthage, and town offices in
Southern Pines and other
municipalities will be closed all
day. Among state offices closed
is the Department of Motor
Vechicles driver’s license
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TAR HEELS SYMBOLS — The red cardinal and the
white blossoms of the dogwood are symbols for Tar
Heels. The cardinal is North Carolina’s State bird and
the dogwood is the State flower. Photographer Glenn
M. Sides caught this picture on a recent day
Southern Pines.
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Governor Hunt’s proposals now
pending in the Legislature for
pupil testing and the Community
School Act which seeks greater
involvement at the local level in
the schools and with greater use
being made of school facilities by
local conununities.
“We need very much to get
people behind the schools
again,” Dr. Bruton said Tuesday
ni^t.
Dr. Bruton has been a strong
supporter of Hunt since the
(jovemor first ran for public
office. He supported him in his
campaigns for Lieutenant
Governor and during the 1976
gubernatorial campaigns was a
“Key” worker for Hunt on both
the regional and state levels.
Other appointees of the
Governor to the Board of
Education are Dr. John L. Tart,
49, president of the Johnston
Ck)unty Technical Institute; Dr.
Ben H. Battle, 53, director of
student teaching and teacher
placement at Western Carolina
University in Cullowhee; and the
Rev. C.R. Edwards, 52, a black
Baptist minister from Fayet
teville.
Dr. Bruton will replace Mrs.
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Excavation
Shocking
To Board
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
A horrifying sight for the
Moore County Board of
Education, visiting Robbins’
Elise Elementary School
Tuesday, was a steep cliff and
huge hole adjoining the campus,
where half of a wooded hillside
had been cut away..
Bulldozers had been at work
leveling the hillside, leaving the
red brick school buildings and
wooded campus appearing to
cling to the top of a cliff more
than 20 feet hi^, curving across
the back of the enormous ex
cavation, which fronts on NC 705
some 500 feet away.
Assistant Supt. Gene A. Riddle,
finding out what was happening
just a few days before, had
swiftly had 125 feet of a six-foot
metal link fence erected along
the lip of the cliff to keep the
school children from falling off.
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Moore Gets
Day Care
F unding
Moore County has been
allocated $102,821 in 100 percent
federal funds (no matching funds
needed) under the Title XX
program-for Day Care Services
for children. Social Services
director Mrs. W. B. Cole told the
Moore County commissioners
Monday.
Mrs. Cole said she hoped to use
the funds for establi^iment of
Day Care Centers at the Davis
School and West End School
plants, with renovation of space
in the two former school plants,
which have b^en turned over to
. the county for use as community
service centers.
They would be added to Day
Care Centers already estaUished
at Southern Pines and Pinehurst,
for a much wider service to the
county.
The funds, as requested and
approved by the State Division of
Social Services, will cover two
staff positions, a county coor
dinator and a social worker;
$80,000 for the expansion, pur-
diase or provision of services
under guidelines already set
under Title XX; and a AFDC
staff grant for $5,000, for one
position.
(Continued on Page 12A)
The Moore County
commissioners, disappointed
over the defeat of the water-bond
issue last week, made
preparations this week to launch
a new project-the long needed
new Courts Facility.
Climaxing years of hopes,
frustrations and changing plans,
the commissioners will meet at 3
p.m. Thursday at the Carthage
Elementary ^hool auditorium
to supervise the opening of bids
on the new Courts Facility
Building by architects E. J.
Austin & A^ociates.
With about $650,000 on hand
toward construction of the $1.5
million building, bids have b^n
advertised with various
alternatives, in hopes that
contracts may be left for the
basic structure, with additions to
be made during the new budget
year and later.
The holding of the bid opening
in the school auditorium points
up one great need for the new
building. With a large number of
contractors’ representatives
expected—more than the
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WEYMOUTH OPTION — A check for $10,000 for a
one-year option to purchase Weymouth (the home of
James and Katharine Boyd, in background) for the
price of $700,000 is presented by Thomas M.
Massengale (third from left) of the Nature
Conservancy to Dr. Raymond Stone, president of
Sandhills Community College. Admiral I. J. Galantin
(left), chairman, and Stanley Cohen (right) of the
Friends of Weymouth, Inc., were present for the
occasion. - (Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Weymouth Nominated For Register;
Former Governors To Aid Campaign
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COMING HERE — Perry
Como will be here on May
27-28 for the second annual
Tar Heel Sports Celebrity
Golf Tournament, along
with many other stars in
the sports and
entertainment world. (See
story qn Sports page).
Weymouth, the James Boyd
House in Southern Pines, has
been nominated for inclusion in
the National Register of Historic
Places by Larry E. Tise, State
Historic Reservation Officer.
The Register is described as a
national list of distinctive
properties worthy of preser
vation because of their historical
or other cultural value.
Meanwhile, this past week the
Nature Conservancy and the
Friends of Weymouth, Inc.,
signed papers and turned over a
dieck for $10,000 to the Sancfliills
Community College Foundation
for a one-year option to purchase
the Boyd estate from the
Foundation for $700,000.
The Friends of Weymouth
organization immediately
started preparations for a fund
raising campaign.
On Tuesday Mrs. Elizabeth
Ives, Admiral I. J. Galantin,
Stanley Cohen and R. J.
Reynolds III of the Friends of
Weymouth met with Former
Governors Terry Sanford and
Robert Scott and with Paul
Chamber Industry Goals
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Jim Willis Dies at 110;
Leaves Many Descendants
James (Jim) Willis was 110
years old March 22 and received
congratulations from the
President of the United States
before he died three days later.
Eulogistic services were held
Tuesday, March 29 in the First
Missionary Baptist Church in
Southern Pines with Dr. W.J.
Haire, pastor, officiating. In
terment was in Woodlawn
Cemetery.
Bom March 22,1867 in Robeson
County, he had lived in Southern
Pines since 1924 as a widely
known horse trader and farmer.
He built his home at 1860 West
New York Avenue more then
fifty years ago and lived many
years with his daughter, Mrs.
Mary Smith, there. His wife, the
former Betsy A. Bethune, died in
1966.
He had four children, 13
grandchildren, 42 great
grandchildren and 50 great-great
grandchildren.
He had lived in St. Paul,
Raeford and Vass during hi^
early years, and in 1975 was
given a 108th birthday party at
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James (Jim) Willis
THE
PILOT LIGHT
ELECTIONS-The Moore
County Democratic Executive
Committee has recommended
three names to the State com
mittee for appointment by the
State Board of Elections to the
county board.
Those recommended are
Angus M. Brewer of Carthage,
present member and former
diairman of the Moore County
Board of Elections, Felton J.
Capel of Southern Pines, and
Mrs. Daisy M. Riddle of Car
thage, former executive
secretary of the board.
With the change in ad
ministration from Republican to
Democratic, two of these will be
appointed, to constitute a
Democratic majority on the
three member county board.
Chairman George Little of the
Moore Republican Party said
this week that his committee has
not made any recommendations
as it has not received any notice
to do so.
Chairman J. Ed Causey of the
Democrats said that following
party precinct meetings on May
4 a list of recommendations for
Democratic registrars and
judges will be compiled for the
county board.
HEFNER-Congressman Bill
Hefner will send two of his staff
members to Southern Pines on
Thursday, AprU 14 to make
themselves available to any
citizen of Moore County who has
a problem which they feel the
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Regional headquarters offices
and research facilities of major
corporations are the types of new
industry which the SandhUls
Area Chamber of Commerce
think would be most desirable
for the region.
Such “new industrial citizens”
would be “compatible with our
resort and agricultural interests
in appropriate areas of Moore
County,” the Chamber stated in
its published Program of Work
for 1977 this week.
President Edward T. Taws
said that the RUDAT study
which was made here in 1976 was
incorporated in the Chamber of
Commerce’s goals and
guidelines.
There is a strong emphasis on
maintaining “our quality of life”
in the program, which also in
cluded many other goals, such
Revaluation
Contracts
Studied
The Moore County com
missioners,, meeting Thursday
in special session over the
opening of bids on the county’
octennial revaluation, found that
a lot of things had changed since
the last contract was let in 1971.
Not only have the costs
mounted impressively, but
computerization has added new
aspects which had to be con
sidered, even though the county
is not going on computers at this
time.
The new complications made
the six bids differ from each
other to the extent that it was
hard for the commissioners to
compare them, and see which
offered the best deal for the
county.
DeWitt Purvis, county tax
appraiser and assistant tax
collector, opened the bids before
a crowd of contractors’
representatives which nearly
filled the meeting-room, and who
discussed the bids and answered
questions, of which the com
missioners asked many.
The bids and bidders:
Automated Valuation Services, a
Pennsylvania firm with a
Raleigh office, $370,000, not
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Green, their honorary directors.
The meeting was held in
President Sanford’s office at
Duke University to discuss plans
for Weymouth.
The Honorary Directors were
pleased. Admiral Galantin said,
to learn of the progress to date on
the preservation of the estate and
especially of the fact the Nature
Conservancy has joined with the
Friends of Weymouth in ob
taining the option to purchase.
At the meeting Paul Green
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Easter Services
Set By Churches
Churches throughout the
Sandhills and Moore Q)unty have
scheduled special Easter ser
vices this week, and in Southern
Pines a community-wide Good
Friday service is planned at
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
from 12 noon to 3 p.m. on April 8.
At a new church in Southern
Pines-the First Baptist- ser
vices will be held for the first
time on Easter Sunday, April 10,
at 11 a.m.. Pastor John Stone
announced.
Earlier the same morning at
9:30 a.m. the Youth Choir of First
Baptist will present a 15-minute
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EASTER SYMBOL — The Cross—the traditional
symbol of Easter-is a noticeable feature in the new
sanctuary of the Southern Pines First Baptist Church,
which will be used for the first time on Easter Sunday.
The striking new church has a seating capacity of 400,
with space for an additional 75.