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Classified Ads, 10-15-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-5-C; Obituaries, 13-A;
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Vol. 57, Number 28
48 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, May 11, 1977
48 Pages
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Annexation Is Upheld
Effective On May 24
Council Hears Arguments
On The Election Of Mayor
COOL WATERS — On a recent hot day the cows Cameron. The pastoral scene caught the eye of
gathered close to the cool waters of a farm pond near Photographer Glenn M. Sides.
Morrison School Closing Proposed
But Governor Hunt Delays Decision
It appeared likely this week
hat Cameron Morrison School at
learby Hoffman in Richmond
;k)unty will be closed as of July 1,
dthough the Governor’s office
»id no decision has been made.
The plans being discussed are
for the training school to be
transferrred from the Depart
ment of Human Resources to the
Department of Corrections, with
the facility to be converted into a
Hospital Is Accredited
By National Commission
Moore Memorial Hospital has
been accredited by the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of
Hospitals, according to Ad
ministrator J. Crenshaw
Thompson.
It is not legally necessary for a
lospital to be accredited, but
Moore Memorial and many other
lealth care facilities have sought
accreditation because it
■epresents a benchmark of
mality that is higher than
jovemmental licensure alone,
Thompson said.
The chief aim of the Hospital
Accreditation Program, one of
four such programs under the
JCAH umbrella, is to help
hospitals in their pursuit of ex
cellence and thereby jx-ovide a
higher quality of care to patients.
The program also seeks to
recognize, and to identify for the
public, those facilities which
meet its standards.
The Moore Memorial ac
creditation, which is effective
from January, 1977, to January,
(Continued on Page 16A)
prison camp for youthful of
fenders.
Dr. Sarah Morrow, Secretary
of the Department of Huipan
Resources, said in Pinehurst on
Friday that “the prison depart
ment is in such dire straits” the
transfer has been talked about
but “there has not been a firm
decision.”
Gary Pearce, press scretary
Foxfire Vote
An election on the sale of beer
and wine in the newly in
corporated Village of Foxfire has
been scheduled for July 12 by the
Moore (bounty Board of Elec
tions.
The election was authorized at
a meeting last week of the board
on petition of the Village Council
of Foxfire.
An estimated 50 to 60 persons
are eligible to vote in the
referendum.
for Governor Jim Hunt, said this
week “It’s a possibility and may
happen, but no decision has been
made.” He added, however, that
a decision would probably be
(Continued on Page 16A)
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Mrs. Hope Brogden was sworn
in Tuesday night as the newest
member of the Town Council, at
a meeting which turned out to be
a rather drastic initiation.
It lasted until midnight,
starting with a lehgthy
discussion of whether or not to
change the form of town
government; and continuing
through a half-dozen public
hearings and other involved
matters, many dealing with
zoning, some of them con
troversial.
There were some bright spots,
one of them the warm applause
which te-oke out in the council
chamber, crowded with people
there for the public hearings,
after Mrs. Brogden had been
administered the oath of office
by Mrs. Mildred McDonald, town
clerk.
Another was the presence, for
the first items on the agenda, of
Mrs. Sara Hodgkins, former
member of the council, whose
unexpired term Mrs. Brogden
had been chosen to fill. Mrs.
Hodgkins, who resigned to
Draft Not Needed Now
Gen. Emerson Declares
Dr. Stone Says He’s Puzzled
By Charges Against College
Lt. Gen. Henry Emerson,
commanding general of Fort
Bragg, does not think the draft is
needed.
“Right now I don’t think we
need it. We are doing well
without it,” Gen. Emerson told
the members of the Kiwanis Club
of the Sandhills at their luncheon
meeting at the Holiday Inn
Wednesday.
General Emerson, who will be
retiring from the Army at the
end of June, says he plans to live
in the Fayetteville area.
Most of his talk to the
Kiwanians concerned what he
called “Pro Life” pro^ams at
Fort Bragg, programs in which
he said emphasis is made on
“what we are for, not what we’re
against.”
He said that under the
volunteer program the Army is
getting young men and women
with a great deal of innate ability
“but what is missing is a pattern
of achievement.” He said the
Army has a responsibility to
provide this pattern, to fulfill
promises of education, but also to
make training “hard and tough.”
He also said much emphasis is
being given to sports, especially
combatitive sports such as
boxing.
At Fort Bragg “we start the
(Continued on Page 16A)
Dr. Raymond Stone, president
of Sandhills Community College,
said Monday that he was
“puzzled and perplexed” by
charges published in recent days
about irregularities in testing
and a salary payment to a
discharged former instructor in
the college’s learning lab.
Dr. Stone plans to go before a
legislative conounittee and the
State Board of Education for a
complete airing of the charges.
“We haven’t tried to hide
anything,” he said.
He insisted that everything
done in connection with the case
of the discharged instructor,
Russell M. Franldin of Aberdeen,
has been above-board and on the
best legal advice available.
It was reported in The News
and Observer on Friday and
Saturday that Franklin had
written a letter to a member of
the State Board of Education
alleging that Sandhills Com
munity College had paid him
$9,000 as an inducement not to
push charges about
irregularities in the testing
program in adult education.
The letter, however, had not
been made public on Monday and
the charges had not been brought
before the State Board of
Education.
“The News and Observer
placed Sandhills Community
College 70 miles east of
Raleigh,” Dr. Stone said.
“That’s somewhere between St.
Lewis and Conetoe, and that’s
just about how far off base The
News and Observer is.”
Dr. Stone said the Franklin
(Continued on Page 9A)
State Alumni
Chancellor Joab L. Thomas
will address Moore County
alunuii of N.C. State University
at Seven Lakes on Tuesday, May
17.
The alumni meeting will open
with a social hour at 6 p.m.,
followed by a pig-picking at 7 in
the Seven Lakes recreation area.
Reservations may be made by
calling Mike Busby at 692-8807 or
Chris McDonald at 692-2715.
Parents Told No Closing
At Pinehurst Is Planned
become Secretary of the State
Department of Cultural
Resources, had been the first
woman to serve on the council.
Mrs. Brogden is the second.
Another bright spot was the
presence on the de^ in front of
Telephone
Inquiries
Will Cost
Telei^ione users here will soon
have to start paying extra for
directory assistance.
On May 16, United Telephone
Company of the Carolinas
operators will begin asking
customers for their telephone
numbers when they call
Directory Assistance. The new
procedure is the first phase of a
plan to begin charging for
Directory Assistance service on
June 6.
The North Carolina Utilities
Commission recently ordered all
telephone companies in the state
that are not charging for
Directory Assistance service to
begin doing so on that date.
According to Joe Kimball,
United’s Southern Pines District
Manager, the Directory
(Continued on Page 16A)
Sales Up
Retail Sales were up a
whopping 29.1 percent in
Felruary in Moore County.
The Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce reports that sales in
Fetwuary, ’77 were $11,382,696,
compared to $8,814,454 for
February ’76.
Sales were down 10.2 percent
from January, when they
totaUed $12,682,331.
Electric meters totalled 15,718
for February, up 3.2 percent
from the year before and
telei^ones reached 20,475, over
seven percent more toan Feb.
’76, and 43.7 percent more than
February, ’72.
Mrs. Brogden-where she took
her place with the other mem
bers after being sworn in-of a
(Continued on Page HA)
M
Sec. Thomas W. Bradshaw
Managers
Meet Here
This Week
The annual meeting of the
North Carolina City and County
Management Association is
being held this week in Southern
Pines at the Mid Pines Club from
Thursday, May 12, through
Saturday, May 14.
The North Carolina City and
County Management Association
consists of 217 members
including City and County
Managers and their assistants
from across the state. Some 200
persons are expected for the
meeting.
Southern Pines’ Town
Manager, Lew G. Brown, is now
serving as Secretary-Treasurer
of the Association. Bruce
Boyette, City Manager of Wilson,
is President.
During the conference,
members of the association will
discuss matters of common
(Continued on Page 16A)
The North Carolina Court of
Appeals, in a unanimous decision
of three judges, has upheld the
trial court on every point in the
suit filed June 30, 1976, against
the Town of Southern Pines by a
group resisting annexation.
The case, up on appeal
following a hearing last August
31 in Moore Superior Court at
Carthage, was argued April 14 at
Raleigh by James Van Camp and
Bruce Cunningham for the
petitioner appellants and by W.
Lament Brown and W. Daniel
Pate for the Town.
Town Attorney Brown was
notified Tuesday by the clerk of
the Court of Appeals that the
decision, handed down May 4,
will be certified May 24 to the
superior court, and the an
nexation will become effective on
that date.
There is no automatic right of
appeal. Brown said, though a
(Continued on Page 9A)
More Annexed
Southern Pines grew last night
by 467.54 acres, which on a map
displayed at the town council
meeting looked about the same
size as the entire community of
West Southern Pines-maybe
even a bit larger.
This was the extent of an area
annexed on petition of the owner,
Voit Gilmore, and consisting of
his well-known tree farm, central
lake and additional acreage, with
boundaries generally near
Midland Road on the north,
Morganton Road on the south, US
Highway 1 on the east and US 15-
501, on the south-directly ad
jacent to the town limits along
Pine Street, in West Southern
Pines, for 1,757.64 feet.
Champion Back
Amtrak is bringing the
Champion back to Southern
Pines for the overnight trip to
New York on the train.
The announcement was made
by the Sandhills Area Chamber
of Conunerce.
Effective now, the schedule is;
arrive Southern Pines at 9:35
p.m., arrive New York 9 a.m.
The Silver Star leaves New
York at 10:10 a.m. and arrives in
Southern Pines at 9:30 a.m. The
Silver Star will go on to St.
Petersburg, Fla., arriving at 1:15
(Continued on Page 16A)
BY CRAIG LAMB
A light agenda led to a short
meeting - under two hours - of
the Moore County Board of
Education at their Tuesday
meeting.
Three Pinehurst residents, and
later a fourth, appeared before
the board at the begirajihg of the
meeting to express their concern
over rumors liiat have circulated
that Pinehurst Elementary
School will be closed in a con
solidation plan. Jesse Fuller,
Floyd Ray, and Mrs. Vera Birch
all supported the school and told
the board they would “hate to see
it close.”
The rumors have appeared
since a group of parents ap
peared before the board in
protest of a ruling which stated
that all students living in the
Pinehurst school district would
be required to attend the
Pinehurst schools next year.
(Continued on Page 16A)
Jobless Down
Unemployment is down to 6.3
percent for March, against 7
percent for February, toe office
of Frank Burch in Carthage has
announced for the Employment
Security Commission.
Burch said that a labor force of
18,670 had 17,490 persons
employed, leaving 1,180
unemployed at the end of March.
Aberdeen Votes To Join Study
For Four-Town Water System
Aberdeen Town Com
missioners voted Monday to take
part in a study for a possible
water system for the four towns
of Aberdeen, Southern Pines,
Pinehurst and Whispering Pines.
The study would be made by
William Freeman Associates of
High Point and would cost
Aberdeen $1,000.
Mayor Jack Taylor reported
that this group. Town Engineers,
had met with him and were
making a report of the water
system of Aberdeen and needs in
the future. He said toe feasibility
study was recommended by toe
Engineers.
Move to ihake the study was
made by Commissioner Hugh M.
Styers. It was seconded by
Commissioner Cliff Blue Jr. and
passed.
The Board discussed a budget
estimate and approved it with
some changes and set the Public
Hearing on the Budget for June
13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Of
fice. the tentative tax rate will
be $1 per $100.
The Board voted to have a
Public Hearing June 13 at 7:30
p.m. at the Aberdeen Municipal
Building on a Thoroughfare Plan
for Aberdeen and Southern Pines
jx'oposed by Glenn 0. Orlin,
Transportation Planner of the
N.C. Department of Tran-
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Bloodmobile To Visit
Pinecrest On Monday
THE
PILOT LIGHT
NAMED The Reverend
Mr. Clyde G. McCarver
has been named District
Superintendent of the
Sanford District of the
United Methodist Church,
which includes Moore
County. He comes from the
Rockingham District,
where he has been Super
intendent. He is a graduate
of the University of
Georgia and Duke Divinity
School, ordained in 1946.
For toe first time in Moore
County the Red Cross
Bloodmobile will visit a high
school.
On Monday, May 16, from 9
a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the
Bloodmobile will be at Pinecrest
High School, and Chairman
William F. Scott said that plans
are to schedule visits to the other
high schools in the county-Union
Pines and North Moore.
The entire program at
Pinecrest will be handled by the
students under toe supervision of
Mrs. Phyllis Brock, student
advisor. They will do aU the work
normally done by toe regiilar
volunteers, including the
recruiting of donors in the 17 and
18 year old bracket.
The 17-year-olds must have
parental consent, Scott said, on
toe approved Red Cross form.
Eighteen year olds may donate
without consent of parents.
Those under a 110-pound weight
limit are not allowed to donate.
Chairman Scott urged students
who are unable to donate blood to
provide a substitute, such as
their parents.
“This program has proved
very successful in othdr counties
in North Carolina,” Scott said.
“It very well may be the answer
in eliminating the deficit
between the blood collected in
Moore County and the needs of
(Continued on Page 16A)
BRUTON—Dr. David Bruton
of Southern Pines appears
assured of election as chairman
of the State Board of Education
when the board holds its next
meeting in June.
There are 13 members of toe
board, including toe ex-officio
members of the Lieutenant
Governor and State Treasurer,
and toe office of Governor Jim
Hunt says there are seven votes
assured for Bruton.
It was also learned this week
that Bruton may pick up two or
possibly three more votes.
Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green is now
serving as interim chairman,
following the resignation of
Dallas Herring, and Green had
said he would like to be toe
regular chairman. Dr. Bruton,
however, is Governor Hunt’s
announced choice for that
position, and he has lined up toe
votes to see it happen.
SCHOOLS—Governor Hunt
has not gotten himself involved
to any great extent in toe Youth
Services Division and the
training schools the state
operates now at six places.
His office, however, is aware of
a morale problem in toe division
and toe schools and some of toe
Hunt people see toe problems
stemming from some p^wple put
into positions during the
Holshouser administration.
Just what will be done about it
(Continued on Page 16A)
PEANUT MAN—The peanut man was popular at the Crafts and Skills Festival
held Friday and Saturday at the Malcolm Blue Farm near Aberdeen.