Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 10-15-C; Dear Abby,
8-B; Editorial, 1-B; Entertainment,
4-6-C; Obituaries, 10-A; Pinehurst
News, 1-3-C; Social Scene, 2-7-A;
Sports, 8-9-A.
Weather
Increasing cloudiness today with a
chance of showers (30 percent) tonight
and temperatures in the sixties today,
the forties tonight. Chance of rain
tomorrow, 60 percent.
GIFT TO CHILDREN — The plantation home of John B. Cameron
(shown above) and 900 acres of land, four miles from Vass, has been
given by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Read of Vass to the Baptist Children’s
Homes of North Carolina. The house is more than 100 years old.
Cameron was the grandfather of Mrs. Read.-(Photo by Glenn M.
Sides).
Land, Home Given
For Children’s Use
A gift of 900 acres of land and a
plantation home more than 100
years old has been made to the
Baptist C3iildren’s Homes of
North Carolina, Inc., by a Vass
couple, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L.
Read.
The property is the plantation
home of Mrs. Read’s
grandfather, John B. Cameron, a
veteran of the War Between the
States who died in 1929. It is
located four miles from Vass.
The Baptist Children’s Homes
Austin Leaving Office
But Urges Water Plan
In a letter to The Pilot this
week Mayor E. J. Austin, who
was defeated for reelection to
the Southern Pines Town Council
last week, emphasized his belief
that a regional water system
makes “economic sense” and
that “controlled growth” is in
the best interest of all.
Mayor Austin thanked those
who worked for his reelection
and declared, “It has been a
great privilege to serve the
citizens of Southern Pines. I will
continue to work for the good as
I understand it in my new
capacity as a concerned
citizen.”
Mayor Austin’s letter was as
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Sandhills Now Getting
An Extra Mail Service
Postmaster Robert E. Peele
has announced that an additional
dispatch of mail is being made
out of Southern Pines, Pinehurst,
and Aberdeen daily.
This added dispatch, which has
just begun, leaves Aberdeen at 2
p.m. Pinehurst at 2:15 p.m. and
Southern Pines at 2:30 p.m.
daily, Monday through Friday.
This new dispatch of mail will
move up the dispatch of first
class and priority mail, by as
much as four hours, if deposited
at the local office 15 minutes
prior to the dispatch time listed
above. Thiff means that any
person or firm must carry his
first class or priority mail to the
local Post Ctffice, and deposit
inside, or in box located in from
of the office, 15 minutes prior to
the new dispatch time.
All Northbound Air Mail and
Priority Mail, will meet a 6 p.ip.
flight out of Fayetteville, which
will advance this type of mail
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Candidates Present Views
On Unseating ‘Senator No’
plans to use the Cameron
homestead, farm land and
forests in its wilderness and
outdoor therapeutic camping
activities and educational
programs.
Dr. W.P. Wagoner, president
of the child care agency, which
has children’s homes at Kinston,
Thomasville and Pembroke,
accepted the gift from Mr. and
Mrs. Read, and said:
“This is one of the largest gifts
ever received by the Qiildren’s
Homes. Mr. and Mrs. Read will
be privileged to see boys and
girls benefit from wholesome
outdoor life and training at that
location.”
Mrs. Read said that was one of
the reasons they decided to make
the gift now in their lifetime.
“We looked around to see what
would make us happy and also
serve other people,” she said.
“We hope to see these children
benefiting from it while we
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Fund Goes
Over Goal
Third Time
At the Awards Luncheon on
Thursday, the Moore County
United Fund went over the top
for the third year in a row.
Doug Vinsel, general
campaign chairman reported
contributions of $119,731.22 with
still more to come.
The goal was $115,(KK).
Chief budget buster this year
was John Jackson of the
Industrial Division, with a final
total of $54,274.50, 115 percent of
his goal.
Tom Ardis also went over the
goal in the Special Gifts Division
reporting $39,685 or 109 percent
of his goal. The special
Industrial Division award went
to Carolina Galvanizing for
reaching $11,384 for 161
employes.
Henry Oehmann, president of
the United Fund, praised the
efforts of all the Campaign
Volunteers for their successful
work and also pointed out the
great support given by residents
and supporters of the United
Fund as contributing to the
success of the campaign.
BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Big, shaggy-haired Joe
Felmet sang a song, young,
cheerful David McKnight played
his violin, and McNeill Smith, a
Greensboro lawyer and long
time state senator, recalled his
native county of Robeson where
“there are four ethnic groups
and everybody in the county is
in a minority.”
The other guests, Lawrence
Davis and Luther Hodges, Jr.,
also had a few quips to differ,
though without songs or musical
instruments, and all five men
buckled down seriously to their
speech-making, tackling the
issues head-on in their different
ways.
For they were very different,
though with one big thing in
common: they were all
announced—or just-about-to-
announce candidates (Smith
announced Monday)-
for the Democratic nomination
for the U.S. Senate seat now
occupied by Republican Jesse
Helms.
The five men starred as guests
and speakers at the “get-
acquainted” party and dinner
meeting, held Saturday evening
at the Pinehurst Hotel by the
North State Caucus.
It was a fund-raising event for
the Caucus, a statewide
Democratic organization of
younger men-lawyers, bankers,
politicians-with party unity as
its objective, which provides a
forum for candidates and a
means of communication
between candidate and voter.
This was the second such
event for the Caucus, and the
second to be held at Pinehurst.
The first, in the summer of 1976,
an election year, brimmed with
candidates in many races. This
time, it was different-not only
was it not an election year, but
there had been insufficient
advance notice given and there
were several conflicts including
the Moore Memorial Hospital
Benefit Ball, held in the Cardinal
Ballroom in the hotel, that same
night, and attended on long
standing commitment by most of
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Young
Mother
Is Killed
A young mother was fatally
injured Sunday evening, and her
two young children were also
hurt, in a head-on collision at 6:30
p.m. on a rural paved road about
five miles north of Carthage.
Mrs. Elizabeth Key Spivey of
Eagle Springs, Rt. 1, was
admitted to Moore Memorial
Hospital, and died while
undergoing surgery a short while
later.
Melissa Faye Spivey, aged five
was also admitted, with a broken
jaw, along with her sister,
Oystal Renee, aged four, whose
leg was broken.
State Trooper W.M. Gay said
Terry Malone Brunson, 20, of
Cameron, Rt. 1, driver of the
other car, had been charged with .
driving on the wrong side of the
road, driving under the influence
and manslaughter. He was given
first aid treatment for a minor
injury and placed in Moore
Ctounty Jail, where he remained
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CANDIDATES HERE — These candidates for the Democratic
nomination for the U.S. Senate were present for the North State Caucus
at the Pinehurst Hotel Saturday night. They are, left to right, Lawrence
Davis, Joe Felmet, Luther Hodges Jr., and MacNeill Smith.-(Photo by
Emerson Humphrey).
Rabid Bat Is Found Here;
Dr. Siege Gives Warning
$1.5 Million Is Coming
To Moore Each Month
Social security benefits were
being paid to residents of Moore
County at the rate of $1,487,611 a
month at the start of 1977, a
spokesman of the Fayetteville
social security district office
said.
Social security benefits can be
paid to retired persons age 62 or
over, to workers who become
severely disabled before age 65,
and to survivors of deceased
workers, also to certain
dependents of a worker who has
retired, become disabled or died.
Of the 8,509 social security
beneficiaries living in Moore
County, 4,456 are retired workers
and 675 are disabled workers.
Another 877 persons are
receiving benefits as the wives
or husbands of retired or
disabled workers. Widows,
widowers and dependent parents
of deceased workers number
1,115.
In Moore County, 3,240 people
under age 65 and 5,269 people
age 65 and older are receiving
monthly social security benefits.
Of total beneficiaries, 2,941 are
men, 4,183 are women and 1,386
are children.
Statewide, 389,951 retired
workers receive an average
monthly benefit of $200.49. For
every 1,000 persons aged 65 or
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Hearing Set Tuesday
On Future Of McCain
A hearing on the future of
McCain Hospital will be held at
McCain by a Task Force of the
N.C. General Assembly on
Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 2:30 p.m.
Rep. T. Clyde Auman of West
End is a member of the Task
Force which already has held
hearings at two other specialty
hospitals at Wilson and Black
Mountain.
John Watson of McCain said
that invitations have been sent to
health departments in 30
counties inviting them to be
represented at the hearing, and
he also expects many private
citizens and organizations, as
well as former patients, to
attend.
The hearings were authorized
at the last session of the
Legislature and followed a
recommendation of the Base
Budget Committee that the
hospitals at Wilson and Black
Mountain be closed, but that
McCain be kept open.
Dr. Sarah Morrow, Secretary
of the Department of Human
Resources, later requested the
legislative appropriations
committee, of which Rep.
Auman is chairman, to defer
action until further study could
be made. The Task Force was
appointed to make such a study
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Dr. A.G. Siege, Moore Ctounty
health officer, this week urged
residents to be careful around
bats after a rabid bat was found
here last week.
“This is the very first case of
rabies in Moore County that I can
remember,” Dr. Siege said.
He went on to say that if
anyone sees a live bat they
should be careful. The rabies
virus, he said, can be
transmitted to any
warm-blooded animal.
Four boys at Southern Pines
Middle School were known to
have handled the bat which was
found to be rabid, but none of
them was bitten and none had to
take the shots for rabies.
Dr. John T. Freeman, a
Town Meet
Is Called
For Nov. 22
The Southern Pines Town
Council has called for a special
town meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 22 in the Council
chamber of the Municipal
Building so that the students and
faculty of the School of Design of
N. C. State University can
present the results of a nine
month study concerning the
issues and problems of
downtown Southern Pines.
Everyone is invited.
A model of downtown Southern
Pines is on display at the Public
Library. It was made by the
students of Peter Batchelor,
Professor of Urban Design at N.
C. State’s School of Design. The
model does not represent a
specific recommendation but
simply one proposal. Spurgeon
Cameron, with the Center for
Urban Affairs at State, also is
involved in the project.
The Sandhills Area Chamber
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veterinarian with the State
Division of Health, called Dr.
Siege after the dead bat was sent
to the state labs. He advised Dr.
Siege that the bat had rabies.
The bat was found by a sixth
grader on Tuesday of last week
under the overpass bridge on US
1 at Midland ^ad.
Robert B. Lyne of 23
Castlewood Lane said a Smith
boy found the bat and captured it
by throwing his coat over it. He
took it to school in a paper bag.
Lyne said, “He gave it to a Reid
boy, who sold it to a Martin boy
for $2.50. The Martin boy sold it
to my son for $2.60 and he
brought it home.”
By noon on Wednesday the bat
was dead and Lyne took it to the
Animal Shelter near Carthage
where Mrs. (^tharine Kennedy
packed it in ice and sent it by bus
to Raleigh.
Dr. Siege said they should have
notified the Health Office and he
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Schools’ Money Short;
Ask County For More
With operation and
maintenance funds for the
schools running out because of
budget cuts last June, the Moore
County Board of Education in
regular meeting Monday
afternoon unanimously approved
an amendment to appropriations
in their current budget, to be
submitted to the county
commissioners.
Supt. Robert E. Lee told the
board that “we are now running
up utility bills we cannot pay,”
with the gravity of the situation
ahead dependent largely on the
severity of the weather.
The amendment is for
restoration of a number of items-
which were cut from their
budget request for 1977-78. The
total as presented by Joe
Vaughn, finance officer, was for
$601,000 in both current expense
and capital outlay, toward
payment of which Vaughn listed
the foUowing assets: $170,000 in
contingency funds, $150,000 in
budgeted surplus, and $250,000 in
new surplus, committed by the
commissioners to be paid “when
available,” expected to be
around the^ middle of the school
year.
The assets total $570,000, and
Supt. Lee told the board, “If the
commissioners fulfill their
pledge, I believe we can get by.”
Otherwise, he said, they faced
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Arts Grant
The Sandhills Arts Council has
received a $4,000 challenge grant
from the North Carolina Arts
Council.
The grant and 70 others
totaling $124,840 to various
organizations in the state were
announced on Monday by
Secretary Sara Hodgkins of the
Department of Cultural
Resources.
Challenge grants are made to
stimulate local fund-raising
activity and must be matched by
the local arts council.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
75 % Have No Choice For Senate
TOLL OF FALL — Only a few leaves remain on
this chinaberry tree near Roseland as fall has
taken its toll. An old bird nest remains firmly in
place, however.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
Three-fourths of the
respondents in a random-sample
poll of North Carolina’s adidts
were not able to indicate any
choice for their U.S. Senator in
1978.
Journalism students at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill asked 477 people the
following question: “Next year.
North Carolina will elect a
United States senator. Right
now, who would you like to see
elected?”
Seventy-three percent could
not answer the question. Of the 27
percent who specifically
responded, 14 percent said they
favored the incumbent. Sen.
Jesse A. Helms, R-N.C. The
remaining 13 percent was
divided between a host of
Democratic candidates and
other people.
The results of the poll
demonstrate that North
Carolinians are far from
decided on the 1978 Senate race.
Typical of many respondents
was the woman in Cumberland
County who answered all the
Carolina Poll questions until the
one on the Senatorial election.
“Well,” she hestiated, “I don’t
know. Who is running?”
Officially five candidates have
announced their campaign for
the Democratic nomination.
Luther Hodges, Jr., a Charlotte
businessman, E. Lawrence
Davis, state senator from
Forsyth County, David
McKnight, a newspaperman
from Fayetteville, and Joseph
Felmut, another ex-joumalist
from Winston-Salem.
State Senator McNeill Smith
is the latest to become a can
didate. Smith has set up cam
paign headquarters in
Raleigh in addition to his
Greensboro offices, and has
employed both a campaign
manager and press secretary.
Another name frequently
mentioned is State Insurance
Commissioner John Ingram. Lt.
Gov. Jimmy Green has taken
himself out of the race.
The Carolina Poll, taken the
week of Oct. 16-21, indicates that
none of these individuals has yet
attracted a large following. The
poll was taken before Luther
Hodges began frequent television
advertising, and before Davis
announced his candidacy.
Already one candidate,
Raleigh lawyer Hugh Cannon,
has withdrawn from the race,
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CANVASS—There were no
changes in the official canvass of
votes in the municipal election in
Southern Pines and other Moore
County towns when the Moore
Ck)unty Board of Elections met
last Thursday.
In Southern Pines four
incumbents won, with Emanuel
S. Douglass, the present mayor
pro tern, leading the voting.
Others winning were Hope M.
Brogden, Jerry Daeke, E. Earl
Hubbard and Michael Smithson,
E.J. Austin, the present mayor,
was defeated in his bid for
reelection to the Town Ck)uncil.
It has been customary in most
instances for the top vote getter
to be elected mayor by the Town
Council. However, last year this
was not the case. Sara W.
Hodgkins was the top vote getter
and Austin was in second place.
Austin was elected on the basis of
previous service.
MORGAN—Senator Robert
Morgan, who spoke at Sandhills
(College last Thursday night, and
his wife, Katie, are building a
new home at Buies Creek.
The site is adjacent to the
Campbell College golf course and
on the river. It’s the community
in which Morgan grew up.
Morgan, who spoke on the
Panama Canal and the proposed
treaties, was subjected to a
barrage of questions after his
talk, but most observers said he
handled them well.
AUMAN—Rep. T. Clyde
Auman of Moore Ck)unty was
awarded a Citation of Merit at a
Tri-County Industries for the
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