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Vol. 57, Number 40
52 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, August 3, 1977
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PAUL GREEN HONORED — The North Carolina Writers Conference
paid tribute to noted playwright Paul Green (center) at its annual
meeting in Asheboro Saturday night. Among those who spoke were, left
to right, Thad Stem Jr., Manly Wade Wellman, Walter Spearman
(seated), and Sam Ragan of Southern Pines, who was master of
ceremonies at the banquet. Others who spoke included Terry Sanford,
president of Duke University. —(Photo by Linda Walters). ,
Writers Back Weymouth;
Paul Green Is Honored
The North Carolina Writers
Conference this past weekend
adopted a resolution endorsing
and “strongly supporting” the
efforts of the Friends of
Weymouth to preserve the home
of James and Katharine Boyd in
Southern Pines.
Plans for the establishment of
a cultural center and an artists
and writers retreat at
Weymouth, where James
Boyd wrote his novels and many
famous writers visited, were
outlined at the annual gathering
of the Writers Conference at
New Country Club
To Be Built Here
Development is underway for a
“Private” nine hole country club
on Midland Road.
The “Private” country club
will be built on the Safford Estate
known as Midland Farm.
The new country club has 45
building sites surrounding the
golf course and clubhouse.
Golf course architect Tom
Jackson of Greenville, S.C., has
designed a unique and
challenging nine hole course
featuring 18 different tees.
The unusually large home of
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New Buildings Planned
" For Downtown Shopping
Construction is scheduled to
start in two weeks on an
additional building in a
four-building complex planned
on West Pennsylvania Avenue in
downtown Southern Pines by
FMC Associates.
The first building at the corner
of Pennsylvania and Bennett St.,
was completed some weeks ago
and is now occupied.
on the second
expected by
Michael Fiskin
Occupancy
building is
Thanksgiving,
said.
FMC Associates is comprised
of Fiskin, John May and Alfred
Carter.
The new building on West
Pennsylvania will be escavated
to street level, and will contain
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Asheboro.
The high spot of this year’s 28th
meeting was a banquet on
Saturday night in honor of Paul
Green, the Pulitzer prize
winning playwright of (^apel
Hill and a close friend of the
Boyds.
Among those paying tributes to
Green were Thad Stem Jr., of
Oxford, Manly Wade Wellman,
Walter Spearman, and Terry
Sanford. Stem and Spearman are
Colunmists for The Pilot, and
Wellman is a former resident of
Pinebluff.
Sam Ragan served as master
of ceremonies and led off the
tributes to Green, whom he
called “the preacher and the
keeper of the dream.”
A resolution was read as
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School Opening
The Moore County schools will
begin on Tuesday, Aug. 30, with
a htdf-day orientation.
No school will be held the
foUowing day, Aug. 31, when a
teacher’s workshop has been
scheduled.
Classes will resume on Sep
tember 1, but Labor Day will be
observed on September 5 when
no classes will be held.
A severe thunderstorm hit the
Southern Pines area today
around 4:15 a.m. and dropped 1.9
inches of rain, but did little
damage-and much good.
CP&L District Manager A.J.
Wooddy said some 700 power
customers were out of service
for about 45 minutes when light
ning hit two oil switches and
knocked out the Aberdeen
feeder, which serves Southern
Pines.
Almost no one was up unless
awakened by the storm, which
Wooddy called “severe” but with
surprisingly little damage.
He said in two other areas-in
Pinebluff and on US 1-there
were 25 customers out in
Pinebluff and four on US 1. This
was the only damage reported,
and it was repaired in quick or
der.
The Pinebluff Fire Tower
recorded 1.9 inches of rain this
morning, added to an inch which
fell Monday to give much needed
water to the area.
The rains this week eased the
Southern Pines water crisis
somewhat, but the need for water
conservation continues.
Although light and spotty, the
rain on Monday afternoon and
the light rainfall on Tuesday was
also beneficial to crops.
Most farmers agreed,
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Farmers Day
The 22nd annual Farmers Day
will be held at Robbins on
Saturday, Aug. 6.
Curtis Hussey, wagonmaster
for the wagon train which will
form at High Falls and move into
Robbins Friday night, will lead
off the parade on Saturday
morning.
There will be a street square
dance on Friday night, and many
other events on Saturday.
Wayland Kennedy is general
chairman of the parade, and the
Robbins Merchants Association
will provide trophies for parade
winners.
AUGUST MOON — There’s something special about the full moon of
August and Photographer Glenn M. Sides caught this special effect on a
recent night.
Camp Shutdown Protested;
State Is In Contract Deal
Young Man Is Killed
When Run Over Bv Car
A 20-year-old Lee County
native, who had been staying
with relatives on Carthage Rt. 4,
while working with a con
struction firm in Southern Pines,
was fatally injured late Sunday
night when he was run over by a
car while lying in a road near
Hillcrest.
Ricky Leon Venable had left
the home of his aunt and uncle,
Mr. and Mrs. Waylon Bailey, to
go for a walk with a young
visitor. The Bailey’s said they
did not see him again.
About 10:15 that night, a
security guard at Moore
Memorial Hospital, Pinehurst,
checking the park^g area on
Page Road, heard someone
talking and singing loudly. It
turned out to be a young fellow
walking alone in the middle of
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
HOLLERS-Martha Bennett
Hollers of Candor, one of the first
female Highway Commissioners
in North Carolina, was an
energetic supporter of Jim Hunt
in his campaign for Governor.
She and her husband, Russell
J. Hollers, an attorney in Troy,
organized the Montgomery
County Hunt for Governor
campaign, and worked closely
with Dr. David Bruton of
Southern Pines, who was the
“key” man for the region in the
Hunt drive for votes.
Mrs. Hollers, 36, was sworn in
last Thursday to represent the
Eighth Highway District, which
includes Moore County, on the
State Board of Transportation.
She is currently president of
the Montgomerv County Fine
Arts Council, an active member
of the Presbyterian Church
C^dor, and has been active
the Democratic party.
HIGHWAYS-The Hunt ap
pointments to the Board of
Transportation pleased a lot of
his supporters, but also
displeased many more.
In the Eighth District Mrs.
Hollers appointment was well
received, but in some other
districts there were complaints
that local Democrats had been
ignored. In some districts
campaigns for Other persons had
been under way, and Governor
Hunt had the difficult task of
calling them to say he was not
going to appoint them.
The Midway Commissioner
posts tra^tionally have been
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Phone Rate Hike
To Be Requested
The United Teleidione Com
pany will next week ask for a
rate increase, but the amount to
he requested will not he deter
mined until August 8.
United Telephone operates the
system in Southern Pines, and
the announcement that the
company will file a proposed rate
increase with the North Carolina
Utilities Commission was made
by Louis A. Coming III, vice
president for administration.
Joe Kimball, local manager of
United Teleidione, said Monday
that further information as to the
rate request will be available
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Samarkand Principal
Reinstated To Office
Stuart Macon has been rein
stated as principal of the school
at Samarkand Manor near Eagle
Springs.
A letter rescinding the
demotion of Macon, 51, from
principal to teacher was received
Monday morning.
It was signed hy William R.
Windley, director of the Youth
Services Division of the Depart
ment of Human Resources, who
had a few days ago demoted
Macon on a charge that he had
written a letter in which the word
“pass” was used instead of
“past.”
Macon said that was the only
reason given by Windley for the
action.
Before the letter came from
Windley, however, Macon had
been told that his demotion had
bem rescinded by Dr. Sarah
Morrow, Secretary of the
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WATER GETTING LOW — The picture shows how the water level is
dropping at the Southern Pines lake, the source of the town’s water
supply. On Monday the lake level was down three feet.—(Photo by
Glenn M. Sides).
The Carolina Boys Camp,
which has operated for nearly
seven years near Candor, is
being closed down on August 15
in a strange maneuver while the
state is secretly negotiating with
a private foundation in Florida to
give it $3.1 million to set up four
somewhat similar camps in
North Carolina.
In the maneuvering for a take
over by the Jack and Ruth
Eckerd Foundation, the director
of the camp near here. Jack
Gulledge of Pinehurst, was fired
by the head of the Learning
Institute of North Carolina,
which has operated the camp
from the beginning.
Protests by parents of the 24
boys, ranging in age from 10 to
17, now at the camp have been
Court Term
Scheduled
Next Week
The first criminal term of the
new court year will be held next
week, with Superior Court Judge
Harvey A. Lupton of Winston-
Salem replacing'Resident Judge
John D. McConnell on the bench.
Judge McCk>nnell, of Southern
Pines, is presiding jurist for this
half year, but because of a
conflict in his schedule. Judge
Lupton has been assigned to take
his place next week.
This will be the first of four
one-week terms to take place
during the period, starting
August 8, October 3, October 31
and November 28.
There will also be two civil
terms, including the regular two-
week term starting August 22,
and one week beginning October
17.
While District Attorney Carroll
Lowder and his assistants have
made a valiant effort to catch up
on Moore’s backlog of criming
cases, with just one courtroom
available this couldn’t happen.
Also, new cases piling up may
cancel out the gains. However,
with 60 cases on the trial docket,
38 on the warrant docket, the
calendar is in about as good
shape as it has been in years.
Some cases people might he
looking for aren’t on the calendar
this time, continued for reasons
not announced. One of these is
the murder and arson trial of
Henry Webster Turner of
Soutiiem Pines, whose trial last
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sent to Governor Hunt, Secretary
Sarah Morrow of the Department
of Human Resources, and At
torney General Rufus Edmisten.
Gulledge and some state
leaders in the field of education
on Monday were busy organizing
a non-profit corportation which
LPGA To Join Hall Of Fame Here
The Ladies Professional Golf
Association Hall of Fame, which
has been located in Augusta, Ga.
since 1950, is moving
permanently into the World Golf
Hall of Fame at Pinehurst, it was
announced by Donald C. Collett,
president of the Hall of Fame,
and Ray Volpe, commissioner of
the LPGA.
According to Collett, a portion
of the World Golf Hall of Fame
will be set aside for photographs
of LPGA Hall of Famers and
current stars, as well as for
valuable artifacts and
memorabilia. The official
transfer will occur on Monday,
August 22, as the kick-off to a
week of activities culminating
with the inaugural Colgate-Hall
of Fame Golf Classic, a $250,(X)0
PGA event.
Seven players are currently
members of the LPGA Hall rf
Fame ~ Patty Berg, Betty
Jameson, Louise Suggs and Bal»
Didrikson Zaharias (all named in
1951), Betsy Rawls (1960),
Mickey Wright (1964) and Kathy
Whitworth (1974). To become a
Hall of Famer, a woman must be
a member of the LPGA in good
standing for 10 consecutive years
and meet one of three criteria: 30
official toiu" event wins with
^dctories in at least two different
major championships; or 35
official tour event wins with at
least one major championship;
or 40 official tour event titles
without a major championship.
Going on display on August 22
will be historic photos of the
idayers already in the LPGA
HaU of Fame, plus selected
plaques and scrolls. As
additional items are collected,
they too will be exhibited in the
special LPGA wing.
“We are quite pleased and
will seek to enter the bidding
with Eckerd for the state con
tract to set up and operate four
“therapeutic camps” for boys
and girls with the $3.1 million
appropriated for that purpose by
the 1977 Legislature.
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Moore Road Jobs
Given Approval
The Moore -County Com
missioners, in a hearing Monday
with representatives of the
Eighth ffighway Division, ap-
{H-oved their work program for
construction and improvement of
secondary roads “as far as the
money will go” during the
coming year.
Henry Jordan, division
engineer, said the county’s
allocation for 1977-78 was
$278,200, which, less a 10 percent
reserve against contingencies,
left $250,380 available for
programming.
ifowever, the program of 22
projects which he presented, and
the commissioners adopted,
totalled an estimated $488,400.
The delegation, consisting of
Jordan, with Fred WhiteseU and
Bill Rosser of the engineering
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Gang War Arrests Made;
‘Pig-Picking’ Stabbing
A dozen more arrests, some on
felony counts, have been made
by Southern Ftoes police and the
Moore County Sheriff’s
Department, arising from a
“gang war” of Saturday night,
Jdy 16, which took place in
downtown Southern Pines.
The fracas sent three men to
the hospital for emergency
treatment, two with wounds from
gunshot pellets, one for the
results of a beating, and three
arrests were made hy Southern
Pines Police, who initiated an
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Man Slain In Shootout;
Harnett Resident Held
Dewey E. Suggs, Jr., 44, of the
Ashley Heights community on
Aberdeoi Rt. 1, was dead on
arrival at Moore Memorial
hosfdtal early Friday foUowing a
shooting at his home, and a
Harnett County man has been
charged with 1^ murder.
Suggs, who was employed by
the Carolina Galvani^g Corp.
at Aberdeen, himsdf made the
caU to Oie Aberdeen Rescue
Squad, which made prompt
response but could not prevent
his bleeding to death from a
gunshot would in the thigh.
Ai^arently there was an ex
change of shots, as the man later
arrested by the Hoke County
sheriff’s department for Suggs’
murder, Newbum Tyler, 47, of
Ullington Rt. 2, and Mrs. Tyler
both suffered superficial gunshot
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proud to be a part of the great
golfing heritage of Pinehurst,”
stated Volpe. “Although the
World Golf Hall of Fame does
have specific exhibits devoted to
women players, we feel the
addition of the LPGA HaU of
Fame wiU serve to expand golf
fans’ knowledge of the women’s
professional tour.”
The World Golf HaU of Fame
itself wiU hold its fourth annual
induction ceremony on Tuesday
evening, August 23. Those to he
enshrined include John BaU, Jr.,
Herb Graffis, Bobby Locke and
Donald Ross.
Mrs. Hollers Appointed
To State Roads Office
BY EDITH FALLS
One of the first women to be
appointed to the State Board of-
Transportation, Mrs. Martha
Bennett HoUers of Montgomery
County, was sworn into office at
Raleigh Thursday.
Mrs. HoUers, 36, was appointed
by Governor Jim Hunt for the
Eighth District, which includes
Moore County.
Around Candor, where she was
bom andreared, she is known as
Bennie Carlan HoUers. She at
tended Candor schools and
Wingate Academy. She also
attended Peace College and
graduated from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel HiU.
Her husband is RusseU J.
HoUers, a Troy attorney, and
they have three chUdren b^wem
the ages of six and twelve. She
has been active in sdiool affairs
and in community cultural
Martha C. Hollers
The thing that makes Mrs.
HoUers unique as a member of
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