Fall Back
Daylight Saving Time will end this
year on Sunday, October 30,
Postmaster Robert Peele of Southern
Pines says. “Fall back in the fall,”
when you set your clock Sunday after
next, putting it back one hour. In the
spring, it “springs” forward an hour.
LOT
Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 6-11-C; Editorials, 1-B.
Entertainment, 6-8-D; Obituaries, 10
A; Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Socia
News, 2-7-A; Spotlight, 4-A; Sports, 1-
4-D.
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48 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, October 19, 1977
48 Pages
Four Plans Submitted
In Area W ater System
Leaders Invited To Launch
Weymouth Drive Nov, 4
DEATH CAR — A young soldier was killed in
this automobile wreck on East Connecticut
Avenue early Saturday morning. His body is
still in the auto as Patrolmen Myron Gay and
Howard Higgins (above) work to get it free.
The driver, a fellow soldier, was
injured.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Candidate
Has Not
Paid Taxes
One of the ten candidates for
the Southern Pines Town Council
has not paid taxes on his business
for the past three years.
Charles A. McLaughlin owes
town taxes for 1974,1975 and 1976
on his business, the Style Mart
Store, located at 125 S. West
Broad St., records at the town
tax office reveal.
McLaughlin has paid
residential property taxes.
A check of Southern Pines tax
records made Friday of all the
candidates revealed this
information.
The other candidates for the
Town Council in the Nov. 8
election are: E. J. Austin, Hope
M. Brogden,'Jack Carter, Jerry
Daeke, Frank J. Davies,
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ChamberEndorses Soldier
Two Bond Issues
The Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce has endorsed the
upcoming $300 million road and
$230 milUon water bonds on the
recommendation of former
North Carolina Governor James
E. Holshouser.
Gov. Holshouser made the
recommendation in favor of the
bond issues at a Chamber
luncheon last Thursday at the
Pinehurst Hotel.
He did so, he said, because he
felt that North Carolina needed
the $300 million in road money
just to keep pace with inflation
and the water bond money which
wiP greatly aid local
governments in taking care of
water and sewer needs sfliee tfte
state will use me money as
matching funds for local
governments.
Holshouser, a member of the
Chamber’s legislative
committee, said the $300 million
road bond issue, if passed, will be
spent over a 5-year period at
about $60 million a year. No
specific county quotas will be
included in the bond money, he
pointed out, but under existing
laws, each county would get
a share for secondary roads in
addition to money to be spent on
the primary systems throughout
the state.
He also noted that the 1965 $300
million road bond issue money
was running out and that needs to
be replaced. The highway costs
in the state have doubled since
1967, he said.
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Dr. Bello Is New Director
Of Vet Research Foundation
The North Carolina Veterinary
Research Foundation has a new
director.
Dr. Thomas Bello began work
in the first week of September,
taking the place of Dr. Fred
McC^shin who was director from
the time the foundation building
was built in 1971 until July 1 of
this year.
The North (Carolina Veterinary
Medical Association organized
the research foundation in 1958 to
promote educational and
scientific research in veterinary
medicine and to sponsor
fellowships for pre-veterinary
students and continuing
education programs for
veterinarians. Responding to the
vocal need of horsemen and
veterinarians in the state, the
N.C.V.R.F. built a faciUty to
serve as an equine referral clinic
and research laboratory on land
given by Mr. and Mrs. W. 0.
Moss on U.S. 1 just north of
Southern Pines.
Dr. Bello has been doing
equine research for the past 17
Black Writer Gets Term
On Drug Sales Charges
Wiley Owens, 42, of Robbins,
who, according to his lawyer, is a
published novelist, with another
novel recently accepted, pleaded
guilty to four hard drug offenses
at the October 3 criminal term,
and drew an active sentence of
five years, with work-release
recommended.
He was charged with two
counts of possession of heroin
with intent to sell, and two of sale
of heroin, which, according to
testimony, had resulted last
April from an undercover
investigation by the SBI. Two
agents were reported to have
arranged to buy the drug in two
separate incidents, at a total cost
of $550.
The sentence was handed down
by Special Judge Robert L.
Gavin despite the impassioned
plea of defense counsel Bill Ray,
a young Greensboro attorney
who said he entered the case
through the intercession of
friends of the defendant in
Greensboro. It appeared Owens
had lived at one time in that city.
Ray said that Owens, a former
Marine who had seen combat in
Korea and Vietnam, had been
wounded and still had shrapnel in
his head, was on a strict regimen
of medication and had to visit the
VA Hospital at Durham once a
month.
He had started a writing
career after being invalided out
of the service, had sold stories
and articles and had one novel to
his credit, called “White Man,
Black Man,” published by
Prager Publications, a CBS
subsidiary.
Living in New York at that
time, he had served six years as
an e^torial assistant with CBS,
then moved south with his wife
and children, taking a house just
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years and comes to Southern
Pines from his position as
Professor of Veterinary Science
at Louisiana State University
and visiting Professor of Large
Animal Surgery and Medicine at
Auburn University.
He plans to continue the
clinical research and to expand
formal research programs on
horses and small animals at the
foundation.
“This includes contract
research with pharmaceutical
companies on experimental
drugs, antibiotics, topical
treatments on horses and dogs
and other research related to
internal medicine and
lameness.”
Dr. Bello is expanding the
physical facilities to maintain
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School Holiday
Moore County public school
students will receive a holiday on
Friday, October 21.
All County schools will be
closed in order that teachers
may attend the District 8 North
Carolina Association of
Educators meeting which will be
held at Scotland Senior High
School in Laurinburg.
Approximately 2,(X)0 teachers,
principals, coaches, siq>ervisors
and administrators are expected
to attend the professional
meeting. They are from Anson,
Lee, Montgomery, Moore,
Randolfii, Richmond, Scotland,
Stanley and Union Counties.
The next scheduled school
holidays are for Thanksgiving,
November 24 and 25.
Is Killed
In Crash
A 19-year-old Fort Bragg
soldier was killed and another
soldier, driver of the car, was
injured early Saturday morning
as they were returning to the post
after spending the evening in
Southern Pines.
State Trooper Howard Higgins
identified the dead youth as
David G. Hahaj, of Hq. & Hq.
Div., the injured as Thomas G.
Burzynski, 20, of A. Company,
both of S & S Bn. of the 82nd
Airborne.
The young soldiers were from
neighboring towns in Indiana.
Hahaj from Granger, Burzynski
from South Bend, and enlisted
together at South Bend 15 months
ago.
The one-car accident occurred
at 12:05 a.m. on East Connecticut
Ave. Ext., 1.2 miles east of the
Southern Pines town limits, and
about the same distance from the
entrance to the reservation.
Higgins said BurzynsM’s car, a
1975 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, hit a
curve at excessive speed, went
off on the right and was out of
control for 221 feet before
striking a stop sign, then
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Farm Lands
62 Percent
Of Total
Sixty-two percent of Moore
County’s 385,211 acres in area is
in farm land, but only 6 percent is
in harvested cropland.
These and other facts are
shown in a 1976 land utilization
and crop acreage report released
this week.
The report was compiled and
released by the North Carolina
Crop and Livestock Reporting
Service and the board of county
commissioners.
Forest land makes up more
than one-third of the total
acreage in Moore-a total of
154,864 acres of forests.
Corn is the leading crop in
acreage amount-8,019 acres, or
34 percent of total crops
harvested.
Tobacco, of course, is the
leading money crop, with 4,315
acres harvested, or 18 percent of
the total.
Small grains made up 22
percent of the crops
harvested-920 acres of wheat,
792 acres of oats, 209 acres of
barley, 2,908 acres of soybeans,
and 3,325 acres of other small
grains.
There are only 271 acres of
cotton harvested in Moore and 44
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A galaxy of state and national
figures will be on hand when the
Friends of Weymouth launch a
drive to acquire the home of
novelist James Boyd at a special
luncheon next month.
Admiral I. J. Galantin,
president, in announcing this
today, said the star-studded
affair will be held at 12:30 p.m.
on Friday, Nov. 4 at the
Pinehurst ciountry Qub.
He said those invited include:
Gov. James B. Hunt Jr.; Sen.
and Mrs. Adlai E. Stevenson, D-
111.; U.S. Senator Robert
Morgan; William Johnson,
chairman Board of Governors of
UNC; William Friday, president
of the University of North
Carolina; U.S. Secretary of
Commerce Juanita Dreps, a
former Duke University
economist; Rep. Bill Hefner, D-
N.C.; Mrs. Sarah Hodgkins,
Secretary of Cultural Affairs in
North Carolina; Dr. Benjamin
Jayne, dean of the Duke Forestry
School; playwright Paul Green;
Mrs. James Semans of Durham;
Mrs. Dan Moore and Mrs. Bob
Scott, wives of former North
Carolina governors and Mrs.
Nancy Boyd Sokoloff, daughter
of the late James and Katharine
Boyd.
Fund Mark
Now 45%
Of Goal
The United Fund held its
weekly report luncheon on
Monday with contributions of
nearly $52,000 representing 45
percent of the total goal of
$115,000.
The reports from the Industrial
Division and Special Gifts
Division showed the largest
dollar figure. The Industrial
division has collected $27,545,
and Special Gifts reported
$20,250.
Mitt Younts reported that the
(Commercial division had begun
the county-wide canvas of all
businesses and hopes for a good
reporting next Monday. Anybody
who operates a business in the
(County that has not yet been
contacted by one of our volun
teers was urged to call Mitt
Younts at Radio Station WEEB
or the United Fund Office at 692-
2413.
Also those who have been
contacted and intend to make a
pledge were encouraged to
return the pledge card as quickly
as possible.
file annual drive is scheduled
to close on Nov. 1.
“This luncheon will serve as
the formal kickoff of our project
through which we hope to save
this special place in the rolling
sandhills of Southern Pines for
present and future generations,”
Admiral Galantin said.
He outlined the two main
purposes in acquiring the Boyd
property this way:
—Preservation of Weymouth’s
unique woodlands and protection
of its colonies of the red cockaded
woodpecker, an endangered
species.
—(Creation of a center for the
arts, for intellectual pursuits, for
social and educational op
portunities and related ac-
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Zoning Matters
Occupy Council
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
A meeting of the Southern
Pines Town Council Thursday
night continued to the
unprecendented hour of 2 a.m.,
mainly because of several public
hearings on zoning matters, two
in particular, which brought
forth lengthy discussion.
One involved a proposed
ordinance, establishing a
Highway Corridor District, or
“green belt,” along US 1 and US
15-501, requiring compliance
with certain site development
standards, also site plan
approval by the planning board
and town council.
Another was on a proposed
zoning amendment allowing
expansion of the town’s extra
territorial, jurisdiction, since
recent annexations have
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New Phone Directories
Ready Here Next Week
Southern Pines residents will
begin receiving new teleidione
directories the week of Ortober
24, according to Jim Thomas,
Southern Pines District com
mercial manager.
The coming issue of United
Telephone Ck). of the Carolina’s
directory has a new name and a
new look. “The Phone Book”
places special emphasis on the
human side of communications.
“The Phone Book” features a
portrait of a mother and her baby
and carries a thoughtful message
about the nature of com
munications. “The abilities to
understand, to reason, to com
municate are the things that
separate human-kind from all
other forms of life,” reads the
cover.
On the back cover, the theme
of communications if further
developed with a photo montage
featuring people of all ages.
The new Southern Pines
dL*ectory will become effective
November 1, according to
Thomas, and will include listings
for Southern Pines, Aberdeen,
Carthage, Pinebluff, Pinehurst,
Robbins, Vass and Whispering
Pines; also High Falls and West
End.
He said customers should
begin using their new directories
as soon as they become effective,
instead of dicing for directory
assistance.
More than 10,500 directories
will be mailed from the printer
and more than 2,800 will be hand-
delivered to residence and
business customers.
“Customers who don’t receive
their directories during the first
few days of delivery should not
think they have been forgotten,”
Thomas said. “It will take
several days to get around to
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Les Hall, consulting engineer
with the Charlote firm of
Henningson, Durham &
Richardson, met Wednesday
night with the Southern Pines
Town Council and Thursday
afternoon with the Aberdeen
town board, to present the results
of water feasibility studies his
firm had been working on for the
past three months.
With charts, he showed plans
of four proposed distribution
systems, complete with capital
costs estimated at today’s prices
designed for the communities of
Southern Pihes, Aberdeen,
Pinehurst and Whispering Pines,
each entitled Sandhills Regional
Water Supply.
Each design incorporated five
phases of development, to take
place up to and including the
year 2020, with estimated costs of
each phase as of today.
To the Southern Pines Town
Council, he showed seven
additional plans designed to
serve that community alone,
each one in three phases, to be
used in the event for some reason
the cooperative venture could not
take place.
In addition to the distribution
systems, complete down to the
size of each pipe laid, and the
capital and developmental costs.
Hall also gave quantities and
production costs for each,
estimated by the millions of
gallons per day.
He advised that development
could proceed at a slower or
faster rate, depending on
whether or not population
projections over the next 25
years are fulfilled; and warned
that, in considering and
comparing costs of the various
plans, they should take into
account an inflation rate
presently estimated at 8 to 10
percent a year. This is better, he
said, than three years ago, when
it was 15 percent.
Many questions were asked
and points discussed, including
methods of financing (general
obligation bonds, which require a
vote of the people, and revenue
bonds, which do not, but cost
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the
PILOT LIGHT
HEFNER—Back in June Rep.
Bill Hefner sent a questionnaire
to voters in the Eighth
Congressional District asking
llieir opinions on a variety of
questions pertaining, to the
energy problem.
This week he released the
results of the survey and some of
the answers were surprising to
him. Many answers confirmed,
however, what he had thought.
For instance, 72 percent think
energy should be our nation’s top
priority, and 58 percent think the
federal government should take
the lead in dealing with it.
ANSWERS — As expected, 82
percent don’t think the threat
of a gasoline tax would make
people conserve on gasoline and
72 percent do not think such a
tax is a fair way to promote
conservation.
In fact, by a vote of 52 and 48
percent of the voters of the
Eighth District think more
emphasis should be placed on
increased production.
A big majority of the voters, 73
percent, are opposed to higher
prices, saying the high prices
place the greatest burden on the
poor, the elderly and those living
on small, fixed incomes. Many
said high prices now are as big a
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m
TOUCH OF FALL — The boat at dock,
silhouetted in the still waters, and the turning
leaves on the shore line gave a special touch of
fall to this scene at Whispering Pines last
week.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).