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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 9-15-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 6-8-C; Ohituaries, 8-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-2C; Sandhills Scene,
2-7-A; Sports, 10-12-A; Spotlight, 6-A.
Vol. 57, Number 43
48 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, August 24, 1977
48 Pages
Price 15 Cents
Golf Week Is Under Way
Classic Begins Tomorrow
Five Have Filed
For Council Jobs
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It’s the big week of golf in the
Sandhills, and the $250,000
Colgate-Hall of Fame Classic
will get under way Thursday,
with a record crowd expected.
Proclaimed North Carolina’s
“Grand Week of Golf” by
Governor Jim Hunt, the week’s
events began on Monday with
qualifying play for non-exempt
players, followed by two Pro-Am
tournaments and inductions into
the World Golf Hall of Fame and
the LPGA Hall of Fame.
Capturing attention on
Tuesday were a host of
celebrities and the top women
golfers from the LPGA, along
with several of the top men pros
and amateurs.
It was the World Golf Hall of
Fame Celebrity Pro-Am, which
was followed Tuesday night with
a banquet and induction
ceremonies at the Pinehurst
Hotel for four golf immortals.
They were Bobby Locke of
South Africa, a four-time winner
of the British Open; Herb
Graffis, noted sports journalist;
John Ball Jr., an eight time
winner of the British Open
between 1888 and 1912; and
Donald Ross, the “father of
American golf course
architects,” and designer of
Pinehurst’s famed No. 2 course,
over which the Classic will be
played. Locke and Graffis were
present for the event.
A second tournament - the
PGA Pro-Am-which included
PGA pros, celebrities and invited
guests was played today
(Wednesday).
Actually the “Grand Week of
Golf” got under way during the
past weekend when the World
Golf Hall of Fame National ^
(cettaMd on p.ge 16A) bummeF Commencement
Old Hangar Is Held By Sandhills
HE
Five candidates had filed
Tuesday afternoon for the
Southern Pines Town Council.
First to file was a first term
incumbent, Michael Smithson.
Second to file was Frank J.
(Jim ) Davies, who is reportedly
from one of the newly annexed
areas of the town.
Others seeking Council elec
tion are former member Charles
A. McLaughlin, a Southern Pines
merchant, incumbent Emanuel
S. Douglass, and Louise
Eckersley.
The deadline for filing as a
candidate is noon on Sept. 9, and
if there are more than 10 can
didates a non-partisan primary
will be held in October. The
general election is in November.
Other incumbent Council
members who are expected to
seek reelection are E. J. Austin,
the mayor, E. Earl Hubbard, a
former mayor, and Hope
Brogden, who was appointed this
year to the Council to take the
place of Sara W. Hodgkins, who
resigned to accept appointment
by Governor Jim Hunt as
Secretary of the Department of
Cultural Resources.
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All-Time High Hit
For Tobacco Prices
V
ASA? a
UNDER WAY — The Grand Week of Golf is
under way, and in Tuesday’s Pro-Am event
Actor Fred McMurray, noted movie and
television star, tees off at Pinehurst Country
Club with an interested group of on
lookers.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Tobacco prices hit an all-time
high on the Carthage market on
Tuesday, soaring to an average
of $119.36 per hundred pounds.
This was a $12 increase over
last week’s sales and Frank
Bryant, sales supervisor, said
“much better quality tobacco” is
showing up on warehouse floors.
A high of $1.42 per pound was
reported.
Carthage total sales on
Tuesday were 364,809 pounds
which sold for $435,467.25 for the
$119.36 average.
Aberdeen had auction sales on
Monday and reported a $1.42 per
pound high.
Monday’s sales at Aberdeen
totaled 328,199 pounds which sold
for $350,629.92 or an average of
$106.83 per hundred.
Mary Jo Faulkner, sales
supervisor, said better tobacco is
being offered for sale. The next
sale at Aberdeen is on Thursday.
Total sales at Aberdeen thus
far in the season amount to
1,561,430 pounds which sold for
$1,323,720.29 or an average of
$84.78 per hundred. This
average, however, reflects the
poor quality tobacco sold on the
early sales days.
Bryant said at Carthage many
(Continued on Page 14-A)
INDUCTION — The pipers play and Master of Ceremonies Don Collett
waits before the induction Monday evening of Sandra Haynie and Carol
Mann into the LPGA Hall of Fame in ceremonies overlooking the
Pinehurst golf course at the World Golf Hall of Fame.—(Photo bv
Emerson Humphrey).
Colgate Head Looks Forward
To Long Relationship Here
Goes Down
For New
Southern Pines Airport’s
largest hangar is being tom
down and a new one, completed
several months ago, is being put
to use, according to Airport
Committee Chairman Sid
Taylor.
“That hangar is very
dangerous,” Taylor said of the
39-year-old hangar on the south
west side of the airport. “It has a
lot of wind damage and the doors
have not been working right for
some time. It’s very expensive to
maintain.”
Taylor said two buildings near
the largest hangar will be moved
to the other side of the airport to
(Continued on Page 14-A)
The awarding of Honorary
Associate in the Humanities
Degrees to two members of the
Board of Trustees of Sandhills
Community College was one of
the highlights of the formal
commencement ceremony
August 19 in the Fountain
Courtyard on the campus.
Dr. W. E. Alexander of Rob
bins, who has served as vice
chairman of the Board since the
community college was
established in Moore County, and
J. C. Robbins, Aberdeen,
secretary of the Board since the
beginning, were the recipients.
Dr. Raymond A. Stone and H.
Qifton Blue, chairman of the
(Continued on Page 16A)
‘Cap’n Josh’ Dies at 93;
Was Big Tobacco Grower
800 Poor Seeking Help
In Fuel, Utility Bills
President Carter has
announced a nationwide Crisis
Intervention Program which
allocates monies to help eligible
persons to pay for outstanding
fuel and light bills from last
winter, according to Mrs. Irene
5.
-M,
Thomas, Program Planner for
Sandhills Community Action
Program.
Since August 1, 800 applicants
have been recorded in Region H
which includes Anson,
Montgomery, Moore and
Richmond Counties, she said.
To be eligible, an applicant
must meet federal poverty
guidelines and must show
receipts or other proof of
expenses. Also they must
produce a statement from their
fuel dealer and dates of delivery.
The program will pay for bills
dating October 1,1976-April 1977,
she said.
Monies allocated to the
counties in Region H included
Anson, $27,570; Montgomery,
$16,007; Moore, $36,809 and
Richmond, $45,391. 'These figures
are based on heating and cooling
hours and the low income
population of each county, Mrs.
Thomas explained.
For eligible persons 60 years
(Continued on Page 15A)
Joshua Lawrence Matthews,
93, of 160 Midland Road, known
throughout Moore county as
“Cap’n Josh,” died suddenly
We^esday afternoon.
Stricken at his home, he was
carried to Moore Memorial
Hospital, where he was dead on
arrival.
He was well known for his
many years in the county as a
farmer, merchant, builder,
humanitarian, supporter of
causes for the good of the com
munity and “checker champion
of Moore County ”-an honorary
title he relished to the fullest.
Funeral services were held
Friday at Yates-Thagard Baptist
Church of Carthage, Rt. 5,
conducted by the pastor, the Rev.
Edgar Dupree, with burial in
the church cemetery.
Despite his advanced years, he
had never entirely retired, and
though he had disposed of his
farming and business interests-
which, however, remained
within the family-he stayed
current with how they were
going, and his hand stay^ on the
helm.
His mind remained sharp, and
as late as 12 noon on the day of
his death, he was on the phone to
his grandson, C.W. (Wayne)
Matthews, for an update on his
(Continued on Page 14-A)
Is Your House Nvunbered
— If Not, Get One Free
Could your house be found in
case of an emergency?
The Southern Pines Junior
Woman’s C3ub in cooperation
with the Southern Pines Fire
Department, Rescue Squad.
Police Department and Town
Council is starting a community
service project to aid in locating
houses in case of emergency.
The Fire Department, Police
and Rescue l^uads have all
found the problem of precious
minutes lost in an emergency
call because many homes in the
area are inadequately numbered
- or not numbered at all.
Numbers should have
illuminated numerals visible
from the street night and day,
they say.
To help the public servants and
citizens get immediate
emergency service, the club
through the help of the Town
Council will be making house
numbers available to all citizens
of Southern Pines beginning
Friday, Sept. 2. If someone
(Continued on Page 15A)
BY ELLEN WELLES
Among the first to arrive for
North Carolina’s Grand Week of
Golf was David R. Foster,
Qiairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer of Colgate-
Palmolive Co., who flew in from
New York Friday afternoon
along with John Grimm, IH, Vice
President of Colgate-Palmolive
Co.
Foster will serve as general
chairman of the Colgate-Hall of
Fame Golf Classic to be held
August 25-28 on Pinehurst No. 2
course.
“We are extremely pleased
and delisted to become involved
Officers
Elected
By Fund
The new officers of the United
Fund were elected at the last
board meeting, and ten new
board members were appointed.
Past President Greg 0. Allen
handed over the reins to Henry
Oahmann, last year’s campaign
chairman, and customer service
reix'esentative at CP&L Co.
Wayne Robbins, attorney, was
elected vice president. Janice
Batchelor of Southern National
Bank was elected treasurer, and
Jane Willis was appointed
secretary for the United Fund.
In addition, new board
members were appointed to
three year terms. They are
Talmac^e Baker, Janice Bat
chelor, George Davis, Jean
Capel, Norris Hodgkins, Bob
King, Dick Knight, Larry
Marker, Walker Oldham, and
Doug Vinsel.
In other related activites, the
Board approved an additional
(Continued on Page 15A)
in a major PGA tournament on
behalf of the World Golf Hall of
Fame,” he said. “It is our hope
that Colgate-Palmolive, the Hall
of Fame and Pinehurst will have
a long and successful relation
ship.”
Foster and Grimm were
greeted at the Southern Pines
Airport by Donald C. Collett,
Tournament Chairman and
President of the World Golf Hall
of Fame and by renowned
(Continued on Page 16A)
Repair Funds Allocated
Winter Damaged Roads
Moore County sustained
$228,469 in damages to its roads
in last winter’s severe weather
and has been allocated $146,008 to
help with repairs.
'^is was reported this week by
the State Department of Tran
sportation following a survey,
which showed the winter damage
to roads statewide amounted to
$31,596,489.
Moore’s road damage was the
heaviest in the Highway
Department’s Division 8, wnich
also includes Chatham, Hoke,
Lee, Montgomery, Randolph,
Ridunond and Scotiand counties.
Total damage in the division was
$1,426,306, for which $541,190 was
allocated for repairs.
The winter damage estimate
includes damage to all systems,
secondary, primary and urban
roads, but the allocation of funds
is only for secondary roads.
(Continued on Page 16A)
Disease Control Plan
To Be Given By Agency
A 15-county plan, including
Moore County that places high
priority on control of dental and
oral) heart and venereal disease
will be recommended for the
approval of the Cardinal Health
Agency board of directors
meeting in Lumberton at 7
o’clock Wednesday night
(tonight).
The Cardinal Health Systems
Plan, eight months in
preparation, revised in response
to six public hearings in June and
July, wiU be offered to the board
for adoption by Planning
Committee Chairman Stefdien J.
Aragon of Bladen County.
Ten of the plan’s 36 goals have
been chosen for high priority.
These ten will be incorporated in
the agency’s first Annual Im
plementation Plan, the next step
in the health resource planning
and development process.
(Continued on Page 16A)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
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Reasons Vary For School Transfers
SHE WON — Cathy Reynolds exults as her putt
goes in the cup to win the 1977 Women’s Trans
National Amateur Championship at Mid Pines
Club on Saturday. Miss Reynolds defeated Beth
Daniel for the crown. See story Sports Sec
tion.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
The young mother lives in
Aberdeen, but works in Southern
Pines, usually in the late af
ternoons, sometimes at night,
and her babysitter lives in
Southern Pines.
Her young son will be starting
kindergarten this fall, and, she
told the Moore County Board of
Education Monday night,
“things will be much easier if he
can go to Southern Pines
Elementary rather than Aber
deen Elementary.” She said she
could provide transportation.
Another mother wants to keep
her two young daughters in
Robbins FYimary School. The
family has moved a little way out
of that area, into the West End
School attendance area, but the
mother works in Robbins, and
their grandparents also live
there. She has it all worked out
that she can take the children to
their grandparents’ each mor
ning, they can take the bus there
and go to Robbins Primary
School, and return by the af
ternoon bus to their grand
parents’ house, where their
mother will pick them up when
she leaves work.
Another mother wanted to
change her seventh-grade
daughter from one school to
another~and one attendance
area to another-because the girl
has emotional problems and ^es
not get on well with her
classmates. The mother had
requested she be separated firom
“a certain segment” of the class,
but the seventh grade is too small
for that. However, she feels that
a change of school and en
vironment will help the child.
These are samples of the
transer requests which are
coming more and more before
the board-though actually all
are different, and none allows for
a quick or easy judgement. The
board, committed to keeping all
the children of one attendance
area in that area, attending that
sdiool, is more and more having
to make exceptions, and
whatever they do, they are being
inconsistent.
Toughest problems are those
involving a transfer from one
county to another-nearly always
from Moore to Montgomery
County, in which the petitioners
usually live close to the county
(Continued on Page 15A)
AMENDMENT — Two for
mer Governors, Terry Sanford
and James E. Holshouser Jr.,
are forming what they call “a
bipartisan alumni association”
to promote the passage of the
Constitutional Amendment to
allow a Governor to succeed
himself.
Sanford, a Democrat, and
Holshouser, a Republican, have
called a luncheon meeting of a
group of citizens from across the
state for Monday, Aug. 29, in the
Greensboro-High Point area to
form a State Committee.
In letters to friends the ex-
govemors said they were going
on “the assumption that former
Governors have the right to form
a bipartisan alumni association
to comment on important issues
before the State.”
The Amendment to aUow the
Governor and Lieutenant
Governor to serve two successive
terms will be voted upon in
November.
GOVERNOR — Democrats
and supporters of Governor Jim
Hunt from the Eighth
Congressional District will be
special guests at the Governor’s
Mansion in Raleigh on Saturday,
Oct. 1.
R is one of a series of parties
n^ch the Governor is throwing
for supporters from all of the
congressional districts, and is a
fulfillment of an invitation ex
tended in the 1976 campaign for
the people to come calling.
' In charge of arrangements in
Moore County are Bob and
(Continued on Page 15A)