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For this week is on the Richard
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Index
Books, 2-B; Church calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 10-15-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-6-C; Obituaries, 9-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Social News,
2-7-A; Sports, 8-9-C.
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Use Too Much Water
Storm Damages
Come With Rain
STORM DAMAGE — A small tornado struck in the Niagara area Saturday
afternoon, causing extensive damage to trees at several homes and on the Hyland
Hills golf course. The storm cut a swath through the golf course, with damages
such as that above.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Construction Here Up 75%
Mostly In Commercial Area
Construction in Southern Pines
is up 74.9 percent over last year
with a bulk of the increase in the
commercial area, according to
town developer Marvin Collins.
In a comparison of con
struction done in the first six
months of the year, Collins said
his statistics show that total
value from January through
June of 1976 was $1,436,553, and
for 1977 it was $2,512,035. Broken
down into categories, this figure
means a 25.9 percent increase in
residential construction, a 797.0
percent increase in commercial,
industrial and public and an 86.3
percent increase in alterations
and additions.
“Southern Pines has had in the
(^past a lot of growth in the
number of people living here,”
Collins said. “Now there is an
increase in the number of
commercial establishments to
provide for the needs of these
additional people.”
An additional comparison
shows that of the alterations and
additions, more were
nonresidential than residential in
1976 and the opposite in 1977.
“This is an indication that the
cost of construction is making
businesses add on rather than
build new structures and also
that businesses are satisfied with
their locations and the trade they
are in,” Collins said.
Another noticeable difference
in the types of construction is
that of the residential. There
were more single family units
than multi-family units built in
1976, and they were almost equal
in 1977, Coltas pointed out. This
is evident in the number of
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An inch and three-tenths rain
fell Tuesday afternoon to relieve
parched Southern Pines. The
Elagle Springs area suffered on
without any rain.
It felt like the bottom dropped
out, but only .2 of an inch of rain
fell here Saturday around 3 p.m.
and it did drop the temperature
from a sweltering 103 degrees
Thursday and Friday to 90 on
Sunday.
This was the report at the
Southern Pines Fire Tower,
where the theromometer
climbed back to 94 on Monday.
There was scattered rain
across the county, with Niagara
in the path of a tornado, and
there was heavy rainfall both in
the Lobelia section and at Harris
Crossroads near Robbins.
Ed Hitchings, in charge of
customer service for the
Carolina Power and Light
Company, said few lights were
affected by the storm, with most
of the damage occurring for
about twenty minutes on the
Laurinburg Road out of Aber
deen.
In his home area of Highland
Trails, he saw some tran
sformers knocked out by light,
ning-which happened to some
degree in all sections, but caused
no serious shortages.
The small tornado which
touched down in Niagara and
Skyline twisted off many trees on
the Hyland Hills golf course and
blew down a fence around the
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Community Watch Plan
Being Developed Here
Sewer Line Grant
Made For Region
BY ELLEN WELLES
Several community watch
programs have been established
in the area recently to combat
home burglaries.
Aberdeen Does Not Act
Because It Wasn’t Asked
j The Aberdeen Town Board
took no action on a proposed
connection of Southern Pines to
the Aberdeen water system
Monday night, because, they
said, they had received no formal
request from Southern Pines for
the action.
Mayor Pro-tern Lloyd Harris,
presiding in the absence of
Mayor J. M. Taylor, presented a
letter for the Southern Pines
Engineers Henningson, Durham
and Richardson wjiich gave
alternatives they had evaluated
for such connection.
Drainage problems took much
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The Moore County Sheriff’s
Department and the Southern
Pines and Aberdeen Police
Departments have set up or are
in the process of organizing
systems of community watch in
which people report suspicious
looking persons or cars in their
neighborhood.
Southern Pines Police Chief
Earl Seawell said he is planning
to expand the National Neigh
borhood Watch Program which
the Kiwanis Club set up in the
KnoUwood section last year.
With this program, printed
material will be distributed
either by hand or by mail to all
Southern Pines residences. It
will explain what to do if
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A grant of $551,825 Ja\ federal
funds was announcedrais week
for the Moore County regional
sewer system.
Announcement of the grant
from the Environmental
Protection Agency was iqade by
the office of Senator Robert
Morgan.
The gTMt will be used for the
construction of the Southern
Pines interceptor line to serve
the newly annexed Indiana
Avenue area.
Parker Lynch of the Moore
County plannirig office, who has
been supervising the regional
sewer system, said that bids will
be sought and contracts awarded
within the next three months and
construction should be com
pleted within a year.
The regional sewer system is
scheduled to be placed in
operation in September when the
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WAS IT THAT HOT? — On Friday the temperature
gauge at First Security Savings and Loan in Aberdeen
hit 111 degrees. Officially the high for the day and the
heat wave was 103 degrees in the Sandhills.
see Wins Money Issue ;
Won’t Have to Pay Back
Womack Resigns Position
On Moore Election Board
Davises-Father and Son Win
Top Builder, Design Awards
A prominent Southern Pines
contractor, William P. Davis,
has been named “Builder of the
Year” by the North Carolina
Home Builders Association. The
award is the highest honor given
by the statewide Association.
Presentation of the award was
made at the Awards Banquet
during the organization’s 14th
Annual Convention Saturday
night at M3Ttle Beach and was a
surprise.
His son, Jon Christopher
Davis, president of Sandavis,
I _»was a Grand Award winner in the
•'Outstanding Design Awards
Competition of the association
for “Village in the Woods.”
Chris, 24, is the youngest
member of the association.
William P. Davis was chosen
from a wide field of professional
’ builders in a major industry. He
John B. Womack, only recently
a{^inted as the Republican
member of the Moore County
Board of Elections, has resigned.
“Personal and business con
flicts” were cited as reasons for
the resignation of Womack, a
Southern Pines man who serves
as business manager of the
Pindiurst Medical Clinic.
George Little, chairman of the
Moore County Republican
Executive Committee, said
Tuesday that the State Board of
Elections will appoint a
The State Board of Education
last week approved the action
taken by the Trustees of San
dhills Community College
last year to settle the claim by a
released instructor.
The Board, by an 8 to 4 vote,
sanctioned the use of $9,000 by
Sandhills of state allotted funds
to pay former instructor Russell
Franklin for the time interval
between his release and the end
of the appeal process.
Dr. Raymond A. Stone,
president of Sandhills Com
munity College, reported on the
action upon his return from
Asheville last Thursday where
the State Board of Education
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replacement for Womack,
although he has not heard from
them. He said two other names-
Ken Smith and C. CooUdge XV7 . T • r¥^ a x -•
water Line To Aberdeen
presumed the appointment
would come from those two.
Thompson was a long-time
member of the Moore County
Board of Elections and had
served as chairman untd the
recent reorganization when his
position was taken by Womack.
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Given Council Approval
THE
PILOT LIGHT
William P. Davis
was the first major builder in the
Sandhills, beginning with the
Sandavis residential area in 1959
after a successful career in
J. Christopher Davis
transportation. He is Qiairman
of the Board of Sandavis Con
struction and Development Co.
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COLLEGES—Sandhills and
other community colleges are
faced with $7.5 million cuts in
state funds for the coming school
year even though many of them
are showing increases in
enrollment.
It’s because of a change in the
formula for allocating funds for
instructional purposes.
Dr. Raymond Stone, President
of Sandhills, said that the
allocation formula is on the hasig
of four quarters, including the
summer quarter which is usually
far below the enrollment of the
other three.
As it stands now. Sandhills will
get some $300,000 less than last
year and Dr. Stone said the
college is faced with dropping 15
to 20 teaching positions.
Sandhills has shown a six
percent increase in enrollment.
OTHERS-Other community
colleges, such as Central
Piedmont at Charlotte and
Gaston CoUege, are faced with
even larger cuts in state funds-
over $2 million for the Charlotte
school and $700,000 at Gaston.
The Gaston cut aroused House
Speaker Carl Stewart of
Gastonia this week and he has
called on Governor Hunt to see
what can be done ad-
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“Some good news and some
bad” in regard to Southern
Pines’ continuing water
emergency was reported to the
town council in regular meeting
Tuesday night, along with the
possibility of a pipeline being laid
between Southern Pines and
Aberdeen, through which water
could flow either way as needed,
to benefit both towns.
Town Manager Lew G. Brown
said he had talked with Aber
deen’s Mayor J. M. Taylor, who
said hb felt his town board would
be receptive, and engineers for
the two toWns were already
conferring on a design for the
project.
Estimates had been made.
Brown said, of a total cost of
$42,(X)0 using a smaller pipe size,
and $54,000 for a larger, which he
noted, “we don’t have, unless we
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For Beer, Wine
Foxfire voted overwhelmingly
for beer and wine sales in a
special election Tuesday.
The vote for on and off premise
sale of malt beverages was 39 for
and 7 against. The vote for wine
sales was 36 for and 9 against.
A total of 47 out of a total of 58
eligible voters cast ballots in the
referendum which was
authorized by the recent N. C.
Legislature, which also approved
incorporation of Foxfire as a
village.
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
A prolonged hot dry spell
which not only caused the level of
stored, treated water in the town
tanks to drop to a dangerous
level, but also lowered the sur
face of the town reservoir
several feet, last week thrust
Southern Pines into its third
water crises of the summer, with
an ordinance adopted by the
Town Council to restrict
residential water use.
The Council in called meeting
Friday afternoon adopted an
ordinance declaring a state of
emergency to exist with respect
to the town’s water supply and
treatment system, and setting
restrictions on the excessive use
of water for non-essential pur
poses, with penalties for
violation of the restrictions.
These were mostly residential
in nature, without directly af
fecting the commercial areas, as
Town Manager Lew G. Brown
told the Council he believed that,
with strict water economy being
exercised in every home, the
supply would be adequate for all.
However, on proposal by
Councilman E. S. Douglass, the
ordinance was amended to give
Mayor E. J. Austin authority to
extend the restrictions to
commercial • users in his
discretion, without calling
another meeting of the Council.
The emergency declared in
mid-May, and the second in mid-
June, had been alleviated each
itime by prompt voluntary
cooperation of the citizens, plus a
good rain that fell within a day or
two.
This time, however. Brown
said, the situation was more
desperate and stronger
measures were required.
Assisted by Dallas Monroe,
water plant superintendent.
Brown showed on charts that the
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Dry Wells
Bringing
Help Calls
The water shortage has caused
an increasing number of wells to
go dry in Moore County recently,
according to County Ad
ministrator Sidney Taylor.
The Southern Pines Town
Council has passed an ordinance
restricting the use of water, and
other sections of the county are
asking for conservation.
Taylor said he receives about
four or five calls a day but that he
only takes water to those in an
extreme emergency.
“Since the fire department is
too busy to take care of it, the
county has been taking water to
fill wells for the past year or year
and a half,” he said. “We only
take it to people who are in ex
treme emergencies. If they have
able bodied men and a truck or
tank of some sort, we have to
turn them down because we are
limited in men and carrying
capacity.”
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Moore’s 20 Reading Aides Are Not Enough
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
Seven out of Moore C!ounty’s 11
elementary schools will receive
additional money from the state
this fall to hire reading aides.
In these seven schools, only
one classroom in each grade-
^ades 1-3 will get a reading aide
lor the school year 1977-78.
Twenty elementary
classrooms scattered about
Moore County will have full-time
reading aides as part of the
reading awareness program
passed by the N. C. Legislature
as part of Gov. Jim Hunt’s
package.
The reading program was
allocated a total of $45,(X)0,0(X) for
the state as a whole for the
purpose of hiring a permanent,
full-time teaching aide to assist
selected first, second, and third
grade teachers in the public
schools with their planned course
in reading.
Moore County has been
allocated $116,980 to hire aides
for the coming school year,
based on average pupil daily
attendance. Moore County is
classified under Region 4 of the
state’s multi-county divisional
system for the new reading plan.
Shirley Owen, Regional Read
ing Consultant, is based with an
office in Carthage but serves 11
counties and 18 different ad
ministrative units to get the new
reading aide program under
way. She is working with a total
$15,000,000 budget for the
entirety of Region 4.
Worliig with the reading aides
for Moore County’s individual
program is Mrs. Lorna
Livengood. She helped to eiqdain
why the reading aides are so
desperately needed.
“The Southeastern region of
the United States had reading
achievement at the very bottom
of the nation. The Southeast also
is on the bottom of the amount of
money funded to education.”
Gov. Hunt, who was just
elected chairman of the Southern
Regional Education Board, has
made reading one of the primary
focus points of his plan to im-
Iffove the welfare of North
Carolinians. He launched
surveys to find how the state’s
students were performing on
standardized teste, as compared
to the rest of the nation.
One survey released last
month shows that ninth graders
in North Carolina were five
months behind the national norm
in reading skills, including
vocabulary and comprehension.
The reading program using
classroom aides has been
launched as part of an effort to
lick this problem at its source:
when the children first learn to
read. “It’s very hard to band-aid
the children once they’re
grown,” said Mrs. Livengood.
“This program is a giant move
in the program level,” she
continued. “Except for the
kindergarten program, this is the
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BEATING THE HEAT — These young people found a way to beat the heat on
Sunday afternoon on the dam at Thagard’s Lake at Whispering Pines. The dog
also was enjoying the cooling waters.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).