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Vol. 57, Number 46
50 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, September 14, 1977
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HIT BY TRAIN — The VW Rabbit was totaled Wednesday night when
hit by the train. Sgt. Marshall Lewis of the Southern Pines Police
Department looks on as Rescue worker Bobby Overton reaches into the
car. —(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Two Autos Hit By Trains
At Unlighted Crossings
Two cars were hit by trains
this week in Southern Pines at
crossings where there are no
flashing signal lights.
The young woman hit Wed
nesday night and the couple hit
Monday night were only slightly
injured but both cars were
damaged severely.
An investigation revealed that
the town has made previous
attempts to make the railroad
crossings safer and that only
recently has some action been
Bond Issue Means
Extra Money Here
Moore County will receive
$324,000 extra for secondary
roads in the next two years from
the $300 million road bonds if
they are approved by North
Carolina voters in the
referendum on Nov. 8.
"nie allocation for secondary
roads is based on unpaved road
miles, of which Moore has 222.02
miles. _
Henry Jordan, Division Eight
engineer for the State Highway
Division, said that Moore has
638.68 paved miles.
The $300 million road bond
issue would be divided up as
follows: $175 million for primary
roads, $75 million for secondary
(Continued on Page 10-A)
Store Manager Injured
In Armed Robbery Here
An armed robbery Tuesday
morning took place shortly after
10 o’clock at the Tops, Bottoms
and Souls store in Center Park
Shopping Center.
A young man pulled a gun on
the manager, hit him on the head
and took an unknpwn amount of
money, according to the Aber
deen police, who are in
vestigating the case.
Store Manager Nathanal
Malloy had just come to open the
store, had turned on the lights
and turned off the burglar alarm
when a young man came into the
store, the Aberdeen police
reported. The man walked to the
back of the store and Mr. Malloy
asked if he could help him. When
the man asked what the back
room was, Malloy said it was for
storage and the man pulled a gun
on him and told him to lie down
on the floor in the room. Then he
hit Malloy on the head.
Aberdeen police said Malloy
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50 Pages
Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 10-15-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-5-C; Obituaries, 9-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Sandhills Scene,
2-4-A; Sports, 6-7-A; Spotlight, 4-A.
Price 15 Cents
14 Candidates For Council
Force Primary Here Oct. 11
taken.
Most of the crossings have
flashing lights, but two. New
York and Illinois, have only a
railroad sign to warn motorists,
according to town developer
Marvin Collins.
“I think lights should be put in
at the crossings,” was his first
reaction when told about the first
car being hit. After studying the
problem, he said, “It’s Ibeen
talked about for some time, but
there was a question of who was
responsible for paying for the
improvements, the state or the
town. We are looking into ways to
fund it now. We will check with
the state and there’s a possibility
of federal assistance.”
Interim town manager Mildred
McDonald said the situation is
very bad and should be changed.
“The New York crossing is bad
because people stopping at the
Post Office are zooming out of
there all the time. The Illinois
crossing is even worse because
there is a curve there and you
can’t see the train until the last
minute.
“It’s so expensive, though. The
town is trying to see how to pay
for lights at the crossings.”
Collins said a parking and
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Aberdeen
Rezoning
Discussed
A Public Hearing for property
on the northwest area of High
way 15-501 and Johnson Street to
be changed from Residential to
Neighborhood Shopping was
authorized by the Aberdeen
Town Board Monday night.
The Town Attorney was to be
called and a hearing “as early as
possible” was to be provided in
the action.
A request from Mr. Bill
Seymour had been heard Sept. 6
by the Planning Board for the
change for Highway Commercial
District, so he could build a
shopping center on the property.
The Board decided the Neigh
borhood Shopping change would
be better.
Mr. Robert Page and his
daughter, Ms. Johnsie Page,
presented their findings on the
Robert Farrell property on US 1
South and adjoining property. No
action was taken.
The Board also answered
questions about zoning from Mr.
(Continued on Page 10-A)
Fourteen candidates, including
all five incumbents, have filed
for the Southern Pines Town
Council.
A primary will be held on
Tuesday, Oct. 11, and the 10
highest vote getters will go on
the ballot for the election on
Nov. 8.
Among the last to file for
reelection were Mayor E.J.
Austin and former Mayor E.
Earl Hubbard.
Other incumbents are
Emanuel S. Douglass, mayor
pro-tem, Michael L. Smithson,
and Hope M. Brogden, who was
appointed earlier this year to fill
the unexpired term of Sara W.
Hodgkins, who was appointed
Secretary of the Department of
Cultural Resources.
Other candidates are former
Council member Charles A.
McLaughlin, Frank J. (Jim)
Davies, Louise Eckersley, Fred
M. Morgan, Jerry D. Daeke,
Marquita K. Daniels, John
(Jack) Dibb, Jack F. Carter Jr.,
and Charles A. Rose.
The deadline for registering
for the primary was on Monday
of this week, but persons may
register for the November
election up to Oct. 10.
Southern Pines is the only
Moore County municipality wiOi
provisions for a primary. Other
towns, except for Vass, will hold
elections on Nov. 8. Vass will
(Continued on Page 10-A)
Governor
Talks Here
On Friday
Governor Jim Hunt will visit
Southern Pines on Friday.
He will speak at 10 a.m. at a
statewide meeting of United Way
at the Sheraton Motor Inn,
where a meeting of officials of
the organization will get under
way at noon on Thusday.
Governor Hunt will talk about
the volunteer movement with
which he and his administration
is involved, and will proclaim
the United Way month, during
which various communities in
the state will launch united fund
raising campaigns which will
seek to raise $25 million in
contributions for primarily
volunteer agencies.
Roy Parker, Jr., editor of the
Fayetteville Times and
President of the United Way,
will preside at Friday’s meeting.
Ashley Gayle of (Charlotte will
preside Thursday afternoon at a
meeting of planning board
representatives who will discuss
volunteer agency work,
legislative and other matters. A
reception and dinner will be held
(Continued on Page 10-A)
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FALL FORAY — There was the feeling of Fall in the air this week and
this squirrel was making an early morning foray for food when
Photographer Glenn M. Sides caught him on the move.
A Runaway Train Engine
Caught After Chase Here
Thoroughfare Plan
Is Again Delayed
The Town Council chamber
was crowded again Tuesday
night for further discussion of the
controversial Thoroughfare Plan
- again reaching no conclusion -
and the audience also heard with
interest of some important
matters set for public hearing at
the next regular meeting, in
October.
However, the next meeting will
not be on the second Tuesday, the
regular night, but on that
Thursday, October 13, as
Tuesday will be the primary
election day for the council.
Mrs. Mildred McDonald,
interim town manager, said the
Moore County Board of Elections
had request^ they change their
meeting night, as for them to
meet there routinely would cause
some administratiVb, and maybe
even legal problems.
The council chamber is the
polling place for the South
Southern Pines Precinct, and
talking of votes is expected to go
on until fairly late on the primary
night.
The council members-^U of
them candidates-seemed glad to
make the change, but did not
include in their motion a similar
change for Tuesday, November
18, the final election date.
The council had postponed a
decision on the Southern Pines
part of the Southern
(Continued on Page 10-A)
Town Notes Authorized;
Sewer Work To Proceed
The Southern Pines Town
Council in a brief special
meeting Monday authorized the
mayor and administration to
sign for the sale of $1,100,000
worth of sanitary sewer bond
anticipation notes, and in the
same motion, unanimously
passed, authorized the admini
stration to proceed with the
sewer improvements for which
the proceeds of the sale will be
used.
The $1.1 million in town notes
were sold on Tuesday at a rate of
3.3568 percent interest. The
Local Government Commission
sold the notes to Wachovia Bank
and Trust Co., of Winston-
Salem.
Bonds authorized by the voters
in a referendum in May 1976 will
be sold in the spring to pay off
Uie notes.
Mayor E.J. Austin, presiding,
explained that the Town had
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House Numbers
Free house number signs are
available at the Southern Pines
Fire Department, the Junior
Women’s Club has announced.
The signs are being given by
the Town to residents so that any
place can be found immediately
in an emergency.
Cooperating in the project of
the Junior Women are the Fire
Department, the Rescue Squad,
. the Police Department, the Town
of Southern Pines and the Post
Office. The community service
project is co-chaired by Mary
Aim HaU and Linda Fowler.
It was the engine that could -
until it hit the hill between
Aberdeen and Southern Pines.
There another engine caught it.
The engine had slipped,
unmanned, from the Hamlet
Terminal and balled the jack for
30 miles, while helpless railway
officials stood by anxiously.
No feared disaster happened.
The runaway train engine
was caught Monday at 9:25 p.m.
by a second engine, when
Engineer Dab Craddock coupled
the eight-unit runaway to his
engine just north of Aberdeen,
after the 30-mile chase.
HUSOM
Campaign
Under Way
The Humane Society of Moore
County, handling more animals
than ever before at its shelter
and facing increased costs, has
launched its annual membership
drive with a record goal.
Miss Mary Kate Bonds,
membership chairman, said the
1977 goal from Moore County
residents is $15,000.
“This is our biggest
limdertaking but we need this
level of support from our
memberships in order to
continue handling the number of
animals we have been at the’
shelter and to meet the higher
costs brought on by inflation,”
Miss Bonds said in annoimcing
the campaign.
The drive is keyed to the theme
that the more memberships and
gifts, trusts and bequests,
memorials, adoptions and
spay-neuter programs there are
the fewer animals that will be
abandoned, abused, neglected
and piit to sleep in the county.
HUSOM raised about $12,000
through the membership
campaign last year, reaching its
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The diesel engine runaway
took off from the Hamlet
Seaboard terminal about 8:45
and puzzled officials called the
train to ask where it was headed
and why. Nobody answered.
Startled railway officials
realized about four minutes after
takeoff that the engine was
alone, and Terminal
Superintendent E. L. Cook of
Hs^et said a dispatcher in
Raleigh immediately halted all
trains on the track to the
sidelines.
Fortunately, the eight-unit
assembly was on low throttle and
was going only about 25 miles per
hour when it escaped the
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Vass Election Oct. 11
For Mayor And Board
Two candidates for mayor and
nine for town commissioner have
filed in Vass for the election to be
held on Tuesday, Oct. 11.
The candidates for mayor are
John T. Richardson, the
incumbent, and the Rev. Jesse
Mansfield, a Baptist minister
and teacher at Sandhills
Community College.
Three incumbent
commissioners are seeking
reelection. They are Joseph
Frye, A.G. Edwards, Jr., and
Roy Jackson.
Other commissioner
candidates are Dr. Russell Tate,
Arnold Futrell, James Key,
Wendell Enzor, Jesse Coore Jr.,
and N. C. Parker.
Two incumbents, JoAnn Hipp
and Buster Jessup, did not seek
reelection.
The filing deadline was Friday.
Vass conducts its own election
while all other municipalities
in Moore County have their
elections conducted by the Moore
County Board of Elections. Other
towns also hold their elections in
November, but Vass chose Oct.
11 as its election date.
Prison Unit At McCain
Gets New Construction
Construction on 144 single
inmate cells at McCain Prison
between Southern Pines and
Raeford will begin by November
23, Lieutenant-in-Charge J.L.
Sams has announced.
The cells are being built with
$3.3 million in federal grants to
relieve crowded conditions at the
prison, he said.
Chief Engineer R. J. Korstian
of the Department of Corrections
is in charge of the building, and
contract letting dates will be
announced later.
The renovations will include
water, heat and electrical work
and may have food service
areas, some office space, and
classroom areas in addition to
the single cells.
At present, the prison has only
ten single-inmate cells. The new
unit is expected to relieve
overcrowding and to isolate
problem prisoners.
Odom I^ison near Jackson will
also be expanded through federal
funds of over $3 million.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
Dates For School Events Are Announced
ROBBERY SCENE — Detective Rickey
Whittaker of the Sheriff’s Department and Sgt.
Eddie Rose of the Aberdeen police department
move in at the scene of a Tuesday morning
armed robbery at the Tops, Bottoms and Souls
store in Center Park.
In the public interest the
following dates have been
announced to aid parents and the
public in general by the Moore
County Schools:
The first school month will end
on October 3. A school month
consist of 20 week days.
The District NCAE meeting,
scheduled at Scotland Hiiii
School in Laurinburg, is set for
October 21, and on t^t day all
Moore County Schools will be
closed in order that local
members of the professional
organization may attend. The
secund school month will end on
November 1.
Wednesday, November 23
marks the last school day before
Fall holidays, (Thanksgiving)
with students returning on
Monday, November 28. Friday,
December 16 is the last day
before the Winter holidays
(Christmas), with students
returning on January 2.
Friday, January 27 has been
designate as a “Teacher Work
Day,” and students will not
report to school.
Friday, March 24 is the last
day before the Spring holidays
(Easter), with students
returning on April 3.
Board of Education
Meeting dates for the Moore
County Board of Education are
set in advance with the next one
scheduled for September 26 at 8
p.m. in the Board Room at the
Schools Administration Building.
Other meetings are scheduled for
the second and fourth Mondays
of each month. Generally the
meetings on the second Monday
are held in a school at 12 noon.
Advisory Councils
The Advisory Councils of the 18
schools meet and select their own
meeting dates. The councils
meet jointly three times a year
with meetings set for October 3,
1977, January 16 and May 1,1978.
Officers of the county-wide
council are Talmadge Baker,
President; Charles Shamberger,
Vice-President and Mrs.
Barbara Blake,
Secretary-Treasurer. There are
172 members serving the 18
schools. They offer suggestions
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GOVERNOR — A committed
advocate and supporter of the
Volunteer movement. Governor
Jim Hunt will spend the coming
weeks promoting the idea across
North Carolina.
He has been doing that since
the Legislature adjourned, and
he’s convinced that it is the way
North Carolina can advance,
with people helping others in
volunteer work.
The Governor himself is a
volunteer. He supported and took
part in the WRAL televised
Volunteerathon on Sunday and
on Monday he started doing his
own volunteer work by serving
as a reading aide at the Emma
Conn School in Raleigh. He will
keep on doing it on a regular
basis at the school.
Governor Hunt estimates that
volunteers are contributing $2
billion a year in services now and
he would like to see it doubled to
$4 billion. “That’s equal to our
state budget,” he says.
FRIENDS DINNER — The
Friends Dinner for Eighth
District Democrats to be held at
the Governor’s Mansion in
Raleigh on Saturday, Oct. 1,
from 4 to 8 p.m., has more than
125 from Moore County signed up
to attend.
The dinner on the Mansion
grounds fills a promise Governor
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