I, 1977
is not
is not
there
.0 help
; get a
•e in
Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 9-15-C; Dear Abby, 12-
B; Editorial, 1-B; Entertainment, 4-6-
C; Obituaries, 8-A; Pinehurst News, 1-
3-C; Social Scene, 2-6-A; Sports, 1-4-D.
ILOT
Page :t-A
Voss Jubilee
Will be held Saturday by the Vass F'ire
Department and Miss Flame will be
named. Story and pictures. Page 9-C.
Town Votes Tuesday;
Other Elections Set
Five inciltnbents and five
challengers will be on the ballot
for the Southern Pines Town
Council in next Tuesday’s
i'' election.
^ The voter turnout is expected
to be higher than in the primary
election on Oct. 11 when the field
of 14 candidates was narrowed to
10.
Primary issues in the
campaign for the Council have
been the performance of the
present Council, a program of
planning, annexation and the
^ need for a better water system.
The candidates in Southern
Pines are:
E. J. Austin, incumbent and
present mayor; Hope M.
Brogden, incumbent; Jack F.
Carter Jr., Jerry D. Daeke,
Frank J. (Jim) Davies, Emanuel
S. Douglass, incumbent; Louise
Eckersley, E. Earl Hubbard,
. incumbent; Charles A.
■ McLaughlin, and Michael L.
Smithson, incumbent.
Municipal elections are being
held in seven other Moore County
towns on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Vass
held its election on Oct. 11.
All of the elections, except
Vass, are being conducted by the
Moore County Board of
Elections.
Polling places will open at 6
W a.m. and will close at 7:30 p.m.
Other elections are as follows:
Aberdeen
J. M. Taylor is unopposed for
Mayor. Two conunissioners wiU
be elected from the following
four candidates: Larry Boles,
James 0. (Joe) Singleton Jr.,
Hugh Styers and Ray Tundall.
Cameron
In Cameron there are two
§ candidates for mayor-Robert B.
^ Laubscher and James E.
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Market Survey
In order to determine the
feasibility of a Farmer’s Market
in Moore County, the Farmer’s
Market Study Committee
recently appointed by the Moore
* County Commissioners is
^ conducting a survey.
According to S. R. Ransdell,
Jr., of Aberdeen and Nelson Blue
of West End, co-chairman of the
committee, the survey is very
important in order to make the
determination. They encourage
Moore County residents to
complete and return the survey
form as soon as possible. Once
I the survey forms are received,
they will be compiled arid a
decision will be made.
A copy of the survey form can
be found on page 8-B of this
paper. Also ad^tional copies can
be secured from the Moore
County Extension Office in
Carthage.
Five State Amendments
Bond Issues On Ballots
A vote on two State bond issues
totaling $530 million and on five
proposed Constitutional
amendments will be held on
Tuesday, Nov. 8.
The largest bond issue is $300
million for highway construction.
The other is for $230 million in
state clean water bonds.
State officials, including
Governor Jim Hunt and
Treasurer Harlan Boyles, have
assured voters that no increase
in gasoline or other state taxes
will be necessary to pay off the
rionds, which have won
widespread endorsement from
local government organizations.
All counties will share in the
bond money.
Another Gar Hit
At Same Crossing
A car was hit by a train
Saturday night at the New York
Avenue crossing where there are
no flashing lights, the Southern
Pines Police Department
reported.
Lewin Mack Blue, 17, of Vass
was driving west on New York
Ave. about 10:30 p.m., started to
cross the tracks and reportedly
was hit in the front of the car by a
Seaboard Coast Line train out of
Beer-Wine Vote
A vote on legalizing the
off-premise sale of beer and wine
will be held in Cameron on
Tuesday, Nov. 8.
The vote on the question of
allowing off-premise sales only
was authorized in special
legislation passed by the 1977
General Assembly.
Hamlet, conducted by William E.
Graham, which was traveling
south.
The two passengers in the car
were Kenneth Ring, 12, and
Rosser Blue, 15, both of Vass. All
three sustained minor injuries
and two were taken to Moore
Memorial Hospital, the report
stated. The car was knocked off
the tracks and about 10 feet down
the tracks.
Mrs. Blue, Lewin’s mother,
said all three said they heard no
horn blow and saw no lights.
They said they did not know what
hit them.
This is the third car that has
been hit by a train in less than
two months. The others occurred
on Sept. 7 and 12, one at the New
York crossing and one at the
Illinois crossing. Neither cross
ing has bells or flashing lights to
warn of approaching trains.
Of the five proposed
Amendments to the State
Constitution the one receiving
the most attention has been No.
3, which would give the right to
the voters to elect a Governor
and Lieutenant Governor to a
second successive term.
Amendment No. 3 has
bipartisan endorsement, as weU
as bipartisan opposition. It is
supported by Governor Hunt and
former Governor James
Holshouser, as well as many
other state leaders, including aU
of the living former governors.
Among state leaders opposing it
are former Senator Sam Ervin
and former Treasurer Edwin
GUI.
The other amendments to be
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Schools
MEETING ON WEYMOUTH - Officers of the
Friends of Weymouth, Inc., met this week with
Governor Jim Hunt (right) to talk about the
preservation of Weymouth, the home of novelist
James Boyd and Katharine Boyd. From left are
Stanley Cohen, vice president, Tom Massengale
of the Nature Conservancy, Admiral I.J.
Galantin, president, Sandy Babb of the State
Department of Natural Resources, Mrs. Ernest
L. Ives, vice president. Secretary Sara W.
Hodgkins of the Department of Cultural
Resources and Governor Hunt. —(Photo by
Walton Haywood).
Get Bomb Weymouth Drive To Begin Friday;
Daniels Says Place Will Bless All
Threats
Sewer Rates Are Lower ;
Water Prices Adjusted
A moderate downward ad
justment in the town’s new sewer
rate, also a concession in the new
water rate for the largest in-town
users, were approved by the
Southern Pines Town (TouncU in
special meeting Thursday
morning, on recommendation of
Mrs. MUdred McDonald, interim
town manager.
To reach reductions in rates
which many users had found
upsetting, Mrs. McDonald said
she had checked with In
ternational Systems, Atlanta
consulting firm which had made
the rate analyses on which the
charges were based; the Local
Government Commission,
consulting water engineer Les
HaU and “our own budget,” to
see where the possibilities might
lie.
In the sewer rate, which was to
go up to $1.25 per 1,000 gallons on
the towns joining the new
wastewater treatment system, a
temporary reduction was made
possible by the fact that com
pletion of the regional system
was delayed three months,
leaving that much longer the old
town rates would be in effect.
Taking in account also that debt
service charges on town bonds
issued in connection with the
local sewer expansion need not
(Continued on Page 12-A)
The West End School received
two bomb threats last week, and
Pinehurst Middle received one,
according to Bob Dalton,
Attendance and Information
Director of Moore County
Schools.
Last Wednesday afternoon
about 2:30, a man called and
said, “There’s a bomb in that
buUding, you better get out,” and
hung up, Dalton said. The school
followed normal fire drill exit
procedures and sent the children
home since it was about time to
leave. They searched the
building but found nothing.
(Continued on Page 12-A)
82% Of Goal
When the reporting was
completed on Monday, the
United  Fund campaign had
reached $94,467.80 or 82 percent
of the campaign goal.
Monday was the expected
campaign closing date, but the
campaign drive has been
extended to November 10.
The two divisions still leading
the campaign are the Industrial
Division where John Jackson
reported $43,830 or 92 percent of
his goal, and Special Gifts where
Tom Ardis reported $34,625 or 95
percent of goal.
Jonathan Daniels, long-time
North Carolina editor and
author, believes preservation of
novelist James Boyd’s home
would provide “a scene for
refreshment of the hearts and
minds of men.”
The statement of Daniels,
editor emeritus of the Raleigh
News and Observer who now
lives on Hilton Head Island, S. C.,
was released by the Friends of
Weymouth almost on the eve of a
special luncheon Friday which ^
will launch a drive to acquire the
historic home here.
“As I drove up the long drive to
Weymouth (the Boyd home)
when Jim Boyd was alive and in
the years after when Kate Boyd
presided alone there, I always
approached the beautiful house
with the certainty that I would
find sustenance for the spirit,”
Daniels said. “A few of the others
who I knew came with that sense
were Tom Wolfe, Paul Green,
and Adlai Stevenson. My hope in
Weymouth Gift
A $5,000 contribution to the
Friends of Weymouth for the
drive to acquire the Boyd home
and property and turn it into a
cultural center has been
approved by the Moore County
I&torical Association.
Capt. Sherman Betts,
president, in announcing the
action, said his historical group’s
board of directors adopted a
resolution which states:
“Highest priority should be
given to the support of the
Friends of Weymouth. A
donation of $5,000 should be made
now and further donations should
be considered when appropriate,
recognizing the deadline for
exercising the purchase option.”
the plans for the preservation of
Weymouth lies in my faith that it
may always be such a scene for
refreshment of the hearts and
minds of men.”
Daniels, who first joined the
Raleigh newspaper in 1925 and is
the author of more than a dozen
books, called Weymputh an
historic house.
“In the Sandhills it marked a
special place where the best of
the North and the South could
come together in creative
comradeship,” the Daniels
statement said. “And, though
few may recall it now, it was a
house in which the so-long
literary silence of North Carolina
was broken, when Jim, in 1925,
published his great novel
‘Drums.’ Certainly in this day
of the liberation of women, it
should be remembered as the
house also of Kate Boyd who, as
editor and citizen, brought a
hard head and a warm heart to
the welfare of all about
her-never handicapped by her
femininity nor the great
(Continued on Page 12-A)
U.S. Senate Candidates
Coming Here For Caucus
11 Morehead Nominees
Tell Of Aims At Meet
All Democratic candidates,
announced and unannounced, for
the U.S. Senate are expected for
the annual North State Caucus to
be held at the Pinehurst Hotel on
Saturday, Nov. 12.
Chairman Willis P. Whichard,
State Senator from Durham,
announced details of the Caucus
this week.
The highlight of the day’s
activities will be the evening
banquet session set for 6 p.m. in
the Crystal Room of the
- . t;
FALL IN THE VINEYARD — The yellow western Moore made this appealing picture at a
leaves on the grape vines on a sunlit afternoon, vineyard near Samarkand.—(Photo by Glenn
a weathered barn and the sweep of hills in M. Sides).
BY ELLEN WELLES
The Morehead Foundation has
placed more emphasis on
character this year than ever
before, Moore County Committee
Chairman Henry Graves told
guests and this year’s nominees
at a dinner meeting last Wed
nesday night.
Principals and counselors of
the three high schools and
Wallace O’Neal Day School plus
Turner
Case Again
Continued
The re-trial of the Jordan
Calvin Mercer case was ex
pected to start at 9:30 a.m. today
(Wednesday), the Henry Turner
arson and murder cases were
continued and the wind-up of the
Carlie Tart larceny case
Tuesday was just about as
puzzling as the whole case had
been, from its inception last
August.
These were highlights of the
first two days of the criminal
term now under way in Moore
Superior Court, with l^cial
Judge Robert L. Gavin
presiding.
Resident Judge John D.
McConnell had been scheduled to
preside, but the two Moore
County jurists swapped
(Continued on Page 8-A)
other county education officials
and the Morehead Committee
met Oct. 26 at the Pinehurst
Hotel for the annual presentation
of the high school seniors who
have been nominated for a
chance to receive the full four-
year scholarship to the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill provided for by John Motley
Morehead.
Moore County’s Morehead
Foundation Committee, com
posed of Chairman Henry L.
Graves, C.E. Powers, Floyd T.
Cole and Dr. John Monroe, will
choose two out of the 11 nominees
to go on to the district interviews
after November 15.
Each of the nominees spoke on
“Why I Would Like To Be A
Morehead Scholar.” Most
mentioned that the scholarship is
an honor that would follow them
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Pinehurst Hotel.
The candidates, who will
address the gathering at the
banquet include State Senator E.
Lawrence Davis of
Winston-Salem, Joe Felmet of
Winston-Salem, Insurance
Commissioner John Ingram of
Raleigh, Luther Hodges, Jr., of
Charlotte, David McKnight of
Fayetteville, and State Senator
MacNeill Smith of Greensboro.
Each candidate is expected to
(Continued'on Page 12-A)
Samarkand ‘Open House’
Has Big Crowd Sunday
Crowds visited Samarkand
Manor for an open house to the
tune of ghosts and goblins
Sunday afternoon.
Legislators and
representatives of the Youth
Services Division central office
were among those who went to
learn about the programs and
see the campus of this
60-year-old State Training School
for Juveniles near Eagle
Springs.
Director Hosea Brower said
people seemed impressed with
what goes on and sensitive to
what the school needs.
“I invited the public to come
share a day with us to let them
see what we are trying to do and
to make them feel a part of
(Continued on Page 12-A)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
Jobs Up
Unemployment in Moore
County dropped to 3.9 in
September, the office of Frank
Burch of the Employment
Security Commission said
Monday.
This compares with 4.3 persons
unemployed in August, and 5.9 in
September, 1976.
While the office was elated
with the low unemployment, it
could give no reason for it.
The labor force totalled 20,770;
19,950 persons were employed,
and 820 were without jobs.
MORGAN — Senator Robert
Morgan will speak at Sandhills
Community College on
Thursday, Nov. 10, on the
Panama Canal.
The Morgan address is being
sponsored by the Moore County
Chapter of the American
Association of University
Women. The time is 7 p.m. and
the public is invited.
SUCCESSION — Several
political observers are of the
opinion the gubernatorial
succession amendment will be
close in the voting next Tuesday
and whether it passes will
depend on how well the
proponents can get out the vote.
Supporters of Jim Hunt are
pushing for passage and also on
the side of succession are former
Governor James Holshouser and
many of his chief lieutenants
such as Phil Kirk and George
Uttle.
Opposing the amendment,
however, are such old-time
politicians as former Senator
Sam Ervin, former state
Treasurer Edwin Gill, and
Edward O’Herron, who lost to
Hunt in the 1976 Democratic
primary.
POLL — A recent statewide
(Continued on Page 7-A)