Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Oassified Ads, 9-15-C; Dear Abby,
14*B; Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment,
6-9-C; Obituaries, 11-A; Pinehurst
News, 1-4-C; Sandhills Scene, 2-7-A;
Sports, 8-10-A.
ILOT
Public Speaking
Letters on a variety of subjects are on
Page 3-B today.
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Town To Get
More Water
This Summer
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Southern Pines got assurance
O this morning that when the long
hot summer comes there will be
plenty of water.
Meeting in special session
today (Wednesday) the Town
Council awarded contracts
totaling $418,972 for
improvements to the town’s
water supply, including a line to
Nicks Creek.
Construction will begin by May
1 and the project should be in
operation by late June or early
July, Town Engineer Les Hall
said.
Bids were received for the four
separate contracts that comprise
the project.
Low bidder for contract No. 1
was Heater Well Co. in Cary who
bid $132,796 to develop two new
wells.
Low bidder for contract No. 2
was Carolina Well and Pump Co.
in Sanford who bid $29,636.95 to
further develop the Paul Butler
well.
Blue Contract Co. of Sanford
made the low bid on the last two
contracts. It bid $89,980 for the
recycUng facility for backwash
at the water treatment plant and
$98,906.50 for the raw water line
from Nicks Creek.
Total cost for the project will
be $418,872, slightly over the
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Hearing
Planned
On Grant
Moore County is planning to
make an application for a
Community Development grant
and wants comments and
proposals from the public on
projects.
A public hearing on proposals
will be held in the Moore County
courthouse on Tuesday, March 7,
at 7:30 p.m.
Martin L. Chriscoe, assistant
county administrator, said the
application which calls for 100
percent funding will be made to
the Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD).
In announcing the hearing,
Chriscoe said:
“The primary objective of the
Community Development Block
Grant Program is the
development of viable com
munities through the provision of
decent housing, economic op
portunity and suitable living
environment principly for
persons of low and moderate
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Crossings
Safeguard
Expedited
THE CALL OF SPRING — This is the month of
Spring and these two fishermen couldn’t resist
the sparkling waters at Lakeview in the Spring
like weather of Saturday in
Sandhills.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
the
Sewer Lines Being Taid
For December Completion
Over Half MiUion Will Be Spent
On 1978-79 Moore Road Projects
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Work on sewer lines in four
sections of the Town of Southern
Pines is expected to be com
pleted by May 31 by Dickerson
Inc., of Monroe, Public Works
Director Bill Wilson said
yesterday as residents faced
torn-up streets.
Work on streets in Weymouth
Heights, Hill Road and Indiana
Avenue areas; the Kenwood
Subdivision near the Town Water
plant; in Knollwood, and the
West Pennsylvania Avenue-
West New York Avenue part of
Southern Pines is underway.
Construction of the sewer lines
to replace septic tanks for an
estimated 1,000 people in some
250 residences in December is
going on. It started in Sep
tember, and had reached
Weymouth Heights by the
middle of November.
Most of the areas will tie onto
lines already established by the
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Visits Here
Louise Jordan Smith, wife of
the U.S. Senate candidate in the
Democratic primary in May,
N.C. Senator McNeill Smith, was
in Moore County today.
In the morning, she visited
The Pilot, Town Manager
Mildred McDonald, Mayor
Emanuel Douglass and former
Senator Voit Gilmore, and was a
The Department of Tran
sportation and Moore County
commissioners have reached an
agreement on secondary road
improvements for the 1978-79
fiscal year.
There is a total of $578,226
available for road projects-
$252,940 from regular allocations
and $325,286 from the state road
bond issue.
In a resolution adopted last
week the commissioners voted to
retain 10 percent, or $57,822.40
for small projects which may
come up during the year, such
projects as road additions,
property owner participation
projects, volunteer and rescue
squad drives, project over-runs,
etc. This leaves $520,403 for
progranuning.
Priority projects established
by the commissioners in the
SR 2017 (McGill Road) from
SR 2021 to SR 2018-0.4 mUe,
estimated cost, $18,000.
SR 1103 (Sand Pit Road) from
SR 1102 to Dead End-0.6 mile,
estimated cost, $20,000.
SR 1267 (Frog Garner Road)
from NC 705 to NC 705-1.5 mile,
estimated cost, $60,000.
SR 2013 (Vl^te Rock Road)
from SR 1001 Southward 1.0 mile
(Vass End of Loop)-1.0 mile,
estimated cost, $45,000.
SR 1284 (Will Brown Road)
from NC 27 to Dead End-1.0
mile, estimated cost, $45,000.
SR 1283 (Taylor Town Loop)
from SR 1210 to SR 1210-0.18
mile, estimated cost, $8,000.
SR 1868 (Bibey Road) from SR
1831 to SR 1802—1.3 miles,
estimated cost, $52,000.
Edmisten To Speak
At Chamber Seminar
guest at the Kiwanis Club
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luncheon at the Hobday Inn at resolution were as follows:
1 j ^ . New construction:
Me ^nn^ to go to Aberdeen sR 1151 (Community Center
and Carthage during the Road) from SR U18 to SR 117-0.1
afternoon. miles, estimated cost: $3,000.
Benefit Horse Show On Easter
To Be Held At Landmark Farm
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Firestope of Ohio and Southern
Pines have once again donated
the use of their Landmark Farm
for the Annual Horse Show for
the Benefit of the Humane
Society of Moore County
(HUSOM) Ekster weekend.
Since it is the Humane
Society’s major fund-raising
event of the year, Mrs.
Firestone, along with the Mid-
South Horse Show Association
and the Humane Society, is
working hard to insure this
year’s three-day event has the
greatest participation and at
tendance possible.
Expecting horses and rmers
from all over the state, as well as
many on their way north from
the Florida shows, HUSOM
members and friend are pit
ching in to see that everything is
in readiness for Easter Weekend.
The show begins Saturday,
March 25, at 9:30 a.m. with
schooling in both divisions. At
1 regular Schooling Classes
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Rufus L. Edmisten, Attorney
General of North (Carolina, will
be the featured speaker at the
Business-Consumer Relations
Seminar on March 8 at the Elks
Club.
“We are determined to make
this seminar a first class event
and the fact that our eminent
Attorney General has consented
to join us indicates the
importance he puts upon it,”
says Bob Brookshire, chairman
of the Special Programs
Committee of the Business-
Consumer Relations Council.
The Council is a part of the
Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce and its chairman is
Felton Capel.
During his first team as State
Attorney General, Edmisten
introduced broad innovations in
the North Carolina Department
of Justice. Beginning with a
general re-organization of the
Department during his first year
in office. Attorney General
Edmisten made his staff more
responsive to direct input from
the people.
SR 2020 (Wooten Road) from
SR 1001 to SR 1001-1.3 miles,
estimated cost, $58,000.
SR 1259 (Jeffers Road) from
SR 1200 to Dead End-0.4 miles,
estimated cost, $16,000.
SR 1839 (No Name) from SR
1838 to Dead End-^.8 mile,
estimated cost, $32,000.
SR 1481 (0. Maness Road)
from SR 1479 to Dead End-1.1
mile, estimated cost, $49,500.
Other projects include existing
paved roads, to widen and
strengthen, with the roads to be
considered as follows:
SR 1229-Strengthen existing
road from SR 1210 to SR 1239-2.4
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Schools
Get Word
Of Money
The lack of money is neither
pleasant nor surprising news to
the Moore County Board of
Education since the schools seem
to be forever in short supply of
money. But what about a
hint-almost a promise-of a
large federal grant?
That kind of “money” news
made members of the education
board prick up their ears for a
few minutes at the regular
monthly meeting Monday night.
Later in the meeting, however,
they received some bad news
about money when architects
explained that building costs for
the renovation of offices at the
Education Center had exceeded
the $120,000 set aside in the
budget for that purpose.
The good news about money
came in a report from Supt. R. E.
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Congressman Bill Hefner has
advised town authorities that he
has been working with federal
authorities and the Seaboard
Coast Line Railroad to expedite
the project to improve the safety
at the accident-plagued New
York Avenue crossing in
downtown Southern Puies.
In addition, the State Depart
ment of Transportation this week
advised Mrs. Martha C. Hollers
of Candor, member of the Board
of Transportation, that it has
requested the railroad company
to “expedite the New York
Avenue design and to include the
crossing with the work
authorized in November 1976.”
Congressman Hefner’s office
said it had been assured the
flashing and gate installations
will be completed in June.
W.F. Caddell, Jr., chief of
planning with the State
Department of Transportation,
wrote Mrs. Hollers that “in
cluded in our Highway Im
provement Program are projects
to improve the safety of the rail-
highway crossings at Vermont
Avenue, Connecticut Avenue,
New Hampshire Avenue, Penn-
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Stoneybrook’s Schedule
Announced For April 15
The Stoneybrook Race office,
in the rear of the Campbell
House, officially opened this
week to take reservations for the
1978 Steeplechase Races
scheduled for Saturday, April 15.
llbere will again be six races
this year, with total purses of
$23,500. The feature race will be
the Pepsi-Cola Sandhills Cup.
The Stoneybrook Ball will be
held the previous night, April 14,
at the Country Club of North
Carolina. The cocktail party
after the races will be held at the
Mid Pines Meeting House.
The invitations to those with
standing reservations, were
mailed today, March 1, ac
cording to Marion Walsh, and
anyone else wishing a reser
vation can either come by the
office or call 692-8000. Due to the
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Hunter Trials Weymouth Preservation
Urged At Hounds Meet
Rufus Edmisten
He and his wife, Jane, are both
natives of Boone and both
attended the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and the
George Washington University
Law School where both served on
the Law Review and both
received the Doctor of Jurispru
dence degree.
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
HUSOM BENEFIT — Mrs. Raymond Firestone holds the Foxhunter
Challenge Trophy to be awarded at the Humane Society of Moore
County Benefit Horse Show at Mr. and Mrs. Firestone’s Landmark
Farm in Southern Pines Easter Weekend.
INGRAM — John Ingram
brought his campaign for the
Democratic nomination for the
U.S. Senate to Moore County
Tuesday afternoon, and
promised to be back later in the
spring.
The State Insurance Commi
ssioner expressed confidence in
the outcome of the Democratic
primary on May 2. He was even
talking about winning the
nomination without a runctff.
“The people know what I have
done as Insurance
Commissioner,” Ingram said,
“and I’m counting on them
believing I can do the same
things in the Senate.”
One of the things in which
Ingram sees the need for change
is in the Social Security laws.
Later in the spring Ingram
plans a dinner for supporters in
Moore County.
POPULATION — Moore
County’s population in 1980 has
been estimated at 45,500.
This week the Division of State
Budget and Management re
leased population projects, on
which many state and federal
programs are based, for two
years from now.
The next U.S. Census will be in
1980, although the population
figures will not be known of
ficially until some time in the
following year.
The 1970 census showed Moore
with a population of 39,048, and a
1976 estimate places it at 42,400.
HUNT-Governor Jim Hunt
this past week pledged in a letter
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The annual Hunter Trials are
set for Saturday, March il at
Scott’s Comers beginning at 10
a.m.
Entries close this Saturday,
March 4 for this event to be
judged by Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Dole of Lynville, Tenn. and
T.A.G. Moore of Ottowa. Entry
fees are $5 per class for seniors
and $3 per class for juniors. To
enter, call or see Mrs. W.O. Moss
at Mile-Away Farm, 692-7252.
General admission will be
charged and a few parking
spaces have not yet been taken.
Those interested are asked to
contact Mrs. Moss concerning
these spaces.
Proceeds from the food that
will be available on the grounds
will go to the Pinecrest High
School Band.
Flag Stop
Announced
By Amtrak
Jack Younts, chairman of the
Transportation Committee of the
Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce, has been in com
munication with Amtrak
headquarters in Washington and
informed that a directive has
been issued making Southern
Pines a flag stop on the nor
thbound Silver Star which comes
through Southern Pines at 6:35
a.m. and arrives in New York at
6:53 p.m.
The southbound Star has a
regular stop leaving New York at
9:15 a.m. and arriving here at
8:30 p.m. The northbound Cham
pion also stops at Southern Pines
at 11:50 p.m., arriving in New
York at 11:45 a.m.
New Amtrak schedules took
effect on February 26 and not all
offices had received this
directive as of Feb. 27.
There was a glimpse of both
the past and future at Weymouth
as efforts to conserve the stately
old house and grounds drew the
praises of a national preser
vationist and a Pulitzer Prize
winning playwright.
The scene was the spacious
main room of the home of James
and Katharine Boyd where about
100 people gathered, some in
colorful hunting attire, on
Thursday to conunemorate the
founding of the Moore County
Hounds there some 64 years ago.
It was a hunt breakfast hosted
by Mrs. T. T. McLane after a
scheduled hunt by the famed
Hounds-founded by Boyd and his
brother, Jackson in 1914-had to
be cancelled because of adverse
weather conditions and frozen
ground.
But the riders came once again
to Weymouth, just like they did in
days of yore, before they
disbanded and returned later for
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AT WEYMOUTH—Among those present at the
Weymouth hunt breakfast to honor the founders
of the Moore County Hounds were Mrs. W.A.
(Ginny) Moss (left),^ master of the Hounds, and
Nancy Boyd Sokoloff, daughter of James and
Katharine Boyd.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).