Index
Book Page, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-
B; Classified Ads, 9-16-C; Editorials, 1-
B; Entertainment, 4-5-C; Obituaries,
13-A; Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Sandhills
Scene, 1-8-A; Sports, 1(1-12-A.
LOT
Weather
Schools are closed today because of
the snow and ice and the high today is
expected to be 37 degrees. The
temperature today was 24 degrees at
11 a.m. and the chance of further
precipitation is 20 degrees today, 0
tonight, and 20 tomorrow.
Vol. 58, Number 17
44 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, February 22,1978
School Tests Start
In Moore Next Week
Sewer System Expense Up;
$3 Million Loan Is Sought
44 Pages
Price 15 Cents
It’s going to cost more to
operate the Moore County
Regional Sewer System and
customer costs may also go up.
That was learned on Monday
night when the Moore County
commissioners, meeting in
Carthage, were presented an
dperating budget by Parker
Lynch.
The budget showed operation
and maintenance expenses going
from $229,955 this year to $485,645
in fiscal year 1979 and to $548,671
in 1980.
An increase in costs of
chemical for wastewater
treatment will account for a
sizeable part of the budget
increase.
At the same meeting the
commissioners, presided over by
Hoke Plant Closes;
Over 400 Jobless
The Summerfield plant of
Raeford, formerly Knit-Away
owned by Richard Bruce of
Southern Pines, was closed
Monday and has no plans for
reopening.
Some four hundred to five
hundred workers are without
jobs.
Bob Hughes of the accounting
department would only refer to a
prepared statement that said;
“Market conditions for
primary products, double-knit
fabric, have been getting worse
and worse, while the cost of raw
material-yam and other items-
as well as other expenses have
increased substantially.
“As a result, we now find
ourselves in a position that
makes us unable to continue
business profitably.
“In recent months we have
explored avenues of mergers
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Chairman W. S. Taylor,
approved a resolution requesting
a loan of $3 million from the
Farmers Home Administration.
The loan application was raised
from an earlier figure of $2.6
million, with the difference to
reimburse the county for tax
revenue expended on the project.
The commissioners also
adopted resolutions pledging
equal opportunity and non
discrimination in employment or
service.
Budget estimates on income
for the Sewer System will exceed
operation and maintenance
expenses and also allow for
repayment of loans and
interests. Income for 1978 is
estimated at $379,219, for 1979,
$670,614 and for 1980, $794,680.
This income will come primarily
from the towns of Aberdeen,
Pinehurst and Southern Pines,
municipalities served by the
system.
For example income from
Southern Pines this year is
placed at $87,097, increasing to
$288,394 in 1979 and $324,396 in
(Continued on Page 15-A)
Anxious Moments For Patrol
Before False Alarm Sounded
It turned out to be a false
alarm, but there were some
anxious moments for the State
Highway Patrol or, US 1 Monday
night.
It all began at 8; 18 p.m. when a
call came into Patrol offices at
Raleigh that a white tractor-
trailer truck bearing a sign on
the rear warning of radioactive
material was leaking.
The truck had been sighted
near Cary and the person who
spotted it relayed a description
Young Man Kil|ed
In US 1 Gar Wreck
Alvin Orlanda (Sonny) Garner,
Jr., 25, of Aberdeen died in
surgery Monday at Moore
Memorial Hospital after a car
accident near Pinebluff.
Funeral services were held
today (Wednesday) at 11 a.m. at
Bethesda Presbyterian Church
with Dr. W.C. Neill officiating.
Burial was at Bethesda
Cemetery in Aberdeen.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
0. Garner of Aberdeen, Garner
Jr. was a student at Sandhills
Community College and lived
with his wife and two children at
402 N. Poplar St., Aberdeen.
The State Highway Patrol said
Garner was driving a ’72 Ford
Pinto north on U.S. 1 about two-
tenths of a mile south of
Pinebluff at 10:10 a.m. Monday,
went off the road to the left for
157 feet and struck two trees in
the median.
The Aberdeen Rescue Squad
took him to Moore Memorial
where he died at 1:05 p.m. during
surgery.
Coroner A.B. Parker said
cause of death was massive and
traumatic injury resulting from
an automobile accident. Gamer
'Continued on Page 16-A)
and also a license number.
Messages went out on the State
Highway Patrol radio to be on
the watch for the truck and to
stop it, but not near any water
which might become con
taminated.
Meanwhile, the state’s
radioactive team, a special unit
created some time ago, was
notified in Raleigh, and within an
hour the truck’s owner, the
Shamender Junior Trucking
Company of Pantego had been
contacted.
It turned out that the truck had
been purchased recently from
another trucking firm and the
new owner had not removed the
radioactive warning sign from
the truck. The truck in question
was loaded with pine shavings
and was en route to a plant at
Moncure.
It w’as all over by 9; 12 p.m., but
in the meantime the Highway
Patrol along US 1 and US 64 were
on the alert to what could have
been a serious danger.
More than 4,(X)0 Moore County
students will begin taking state-
mandated tests next week-but
the first series of tests will be a
dry run.
The trial run of the State
Competency Test Program will
be for approximately 700 juniors
in the three high schools.
They will begin at Pinecrest on
Tuesday and the 11th graders at
North Moore and Union Pines
will take the tests on the
following days.
Actual testing in five other
grades-one, two, three, six and
nine-will be held between April
4 and 19, with between 3,500 and
4,000 students taking these tests.
Results of these tests will be
made known to the parents
before the end of the school year.
Some time in the summer the
public will be informed as to test
results by classes and schools.
The trial run next week of the
test in which high school
students will have to
demonstrate “minimum
competency”, in the basic skills
in order to receive a high school
diploma in 1979 will last about
five hours in a two-day period.
In Moore County the 11th
graders will not be tested on all
skills, however. There will be no
(Continued on Page 18-A)
Town Medal
Approved
By Council
For the first time since the
Town of Southern Pines was
chartered in 1887, the Town
Council has adopted a resolution
authorizing the agents of In
ternational Systems, Inc., to
produce a limited number of
official historical medals for the
Town.
'The obverse of the medal
recreates the sculpture’s model
of the historic Shaw House, built
in.the 1830’s on Charles C. Shaw’s
2,500 acre plantation. Travelers
found shelter there as they
journeyed the Morganton Road
from Winston-Salem to
Wilmington. The reverse of the
medal portrays the famed
Southern Pines official seal,
which points out that Southern
Pines is a Mid-South resort with
tennis, golf, and horseback
riding.
ISI has designated that East
Coast Coin Exchange of Atlanta,
Georgia, be the official director
and distributor of the medals.
East Coast Coin Exchange has
been designated not only the
distributor of the official North
Carolina Bicentennial medals
authorized by the Governor but
also the distributor of the official
(Continued on Page 15-A)
” . ■. Vi”" • ^ *
I
MAGNOLIAS WITH SNOW — The magnolias
which line the railroad tracks in downtown
Southern Pines had a new look this morning as
the first real snowfall came
Sandhills.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
to the
Farmer’s Market Approved
But Water Slide Is Denied
In a special meeting of the
Southern Pines Town Council
Thursday night approval was
given to a zoning amendment
which will allow a Farmer’s
Market in town when operated or
sponsored by a governmental
body in the Public and Con
servation Zoning districts.
No objections from residents
were heard, and Town Manager
Mildred McDonald spoke for the
amendment, saying, “I would
like to see this done because I
would hate to go back to the
county and say no.”
In December the town council
had tentatively approved the
idea of the Farmer’s Market
which will be located at the
garage site on West Penn
sylvania Ave. The garage will be
empty when the public works
center is completed.
The county is backing the
Farmer’s Market and the town
has said it will lease the site for
$1 a year with an option to con
tinue the lease after a year.
Marvin Collins, Southern
Pines’ development director,
said the town decided to amend
the zoning ordinance rather than
Pinehurst
Petition
Is Filed
A petition for the incorporation
of Pinehurst has been filed with
the State Municipal Board of
Control and a hearing on the
issue is expected to be held
within a few weeks.
Rodney Robinson, attorney for
the Pinehurst Civic Group, which
initiated the petition, said the
procedural steps involved have
been started.
Among these steps is the
publication of a legal notice with
the metes and bounds of an
(Continued on Page 16-A)
rezone the garage site to a
conunercial district.
The councU turned down a
rezoning request which
would have allowed a water slide
to be located on U.S. 15-501
between Murray Hill Ave. and
Morganton Road.
Mrs. Allie M. Davis was the
purchaser under contract of the
lot who made the request to
change the zoning from
residential ~ agricultural to
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Airport Federal Grant
Is Announced By Hefner
Congressman Bill Hefner
announced today that an airport
development grant has been
approved by the Federal
Aviation Administration for the
Southern Pines-Pinehurst Air
port.
Hefner informed W.S. Taylor,
chairman of the County ^m-
missioners, that the grant of
$183,540 had been awarded for
the airport to acquire land for a
clear approach zone and for
relocation of buildings con
stituting obstructions.
A state Airport Aid Grant to
assist with the project was ap
proved by the North Carolina
Department of Transportation in
November. Formal grant
agreement papers for the federal
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Fox Furs Fashionable
And Animal In Danger
BY EDITH FALLS
The fox is in danger again.
While ecologists have been nod
ding, the demand for natural furs
has been making a comeback.
Wildlife Enforcement Officers
of this area, which includes
Moore, Richmond, and Anson
counties, report that taking foxes
by illegal methods is on the in
crease.
- Fur buyers in Hoke County are
offering up to $45 for red fox pelts
in prime condition.
It is not illegal to buy these
hides, not if they have been taken
legally. Taken legally means
hunted with gun and dog in
daylight and in season.
Also legal is cross-country fox
hunting so fashionable in Moore
County. This traditional sport, as
mannered and stylized as a
ballet, involves magnificent
horses and hounds, but has
minimal effect on wildlife.
Legal methods can be
supervised carefully and their
restrictions can be adjusted to
keep the animal population in
balance.
As for illegal methods-foxes
and other game animals may not
be trapped. Nor may they be
hunted at night. But the number
of traps confiscated, the number
of ni^t hunters, and the quan
tities of frozen pelts of foxes and
racoons going south fortell
trouble ahead for wildlife.
Night deer hunting, on the
other hand, is not on the in-
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Sandhills
Visited
By Snow
The first real snowfall of the
winter came to the Sandhills
Tuesday night.
It amounted to from one to two
inches in most places and caused
schools to be closed.
A freezing rain which
preceded the snow caused many
roads to be icy early today and
driving on them was hazardous.
The snow, which had been
forecast to arrive around noon
on Tuesday, did not come until
night time. Around 7 p.m. rain
started falling and soon
thereafter there was hail and
freezing rain.
The snow came in flurries. The
first fall was around 8 p.m., and
then it stopped. But it started up
again around 11 p.m., and soon
covered the, ground.
The snowfall here was part of
a storm which came out of the
southwest.
The sun broke out soon after 9
a.m. today, and the snow was
not expected to last long.
There had been traces of snow
on two earlier occasions this
winter, but hardly enough to
measure.
Historical Meet
The winter meeting of the
Moore County Historical
Association will be held Sunday,
Feb. 26, at 4 p.m. at Weymouth
(the Boyd House).
Mildred McIntosh, librarian at
Given Memorial Library in
Pinehurst, will talk on what the
library is doing to bring
Pinehurst history to life.
Hounds Birthday Slated;
Biddle Is Special Guest
THE
PILOT LIGHT
DEATH CAR — State Highway Patrolman fatally injured in a wreck near Pinebluff
Myron Gay (left) inspects the car in which Monday morning.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Alvin Orlanda Garner, Jr., 25, of Aberdeen was
VASS-Plans are being made
for a petition to hold a referen
dum this spring in Vass to
legalize the sale of beer and
wine.
A request has been made of
Mrs. Lane Bullock, chairman of
the Vass Board of Elections, for
the legal forms for filing a
petition for an election.
Circulation of the beer-wine
referendum petition is ejqjected
to be started within a few days.
Moore County as a whole is
legally dry, but beer-wine and
ABC referendumsmay be held in
municipalities.
HODGES-Some changes in
campaign personnel have been
announced by Luther Hodges, a
Democratic candidate for the
U.S. Senate.
V.B. (Hawk) Johnson, who has
traveled extensively with Hodges
since he started his campaign
last summer, has quit the
campaign to return ter North
Carolina National Bank, where
he was public affairs officer.
Taking his place is Mrs. Becky
Kirby of CJiapel Hill and Dwayne
Walls of Pittsboro, a former
newspaper reporter and author,
who has been working part-time
in the campaign. They will
assume responsibility for the
statewide campaign
organization, Hodges said.
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Weymouth, the object of a
preservation campaign for
present and future generations,
will harken back to its colorful
past this week.
. It was back in 1914 that James
and Jackson Boyd founded the
famed Moore County Hounds at
Weymouth, the family home with
its surrounding, unique
woodlands.
And, the Hounds will meet at
Weymouth on Thursday mor
ning, Feb. 23, to commemorate
the founders and masters-the
Boyd brothers and W.O.
“Pappy” Moss. The colorful
attire of the riders will prevail.
Then, following the hunt, Mrs.
T.T. McLane will sponsor the
Hunt Breakfast by invitation at
the old Boyd house which will be
in honor of James Biddle,
president of the National Ti-ust
for Historic Preservation,
Washington, D.C.
Weymouth’s historical
significance is recognized by the
federal government through its
inclusion in the National
Register of Historic Places. The
Nature Conservancy and Friends
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James Biddle