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Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 8-15-A; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-7-C; Obituaries, 9-A;
Plnehurst News, 1-3-C; SandhlUs Scene,
2-7-A; Sports, 10-13-A.
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Treatment
Of Cancer
Approved
Radiation therapy for cancer
patients in Moore, Anson,
Montgomery and Richmond
counties at Moore Memorial
Hospital in Hnehurst has been
approved by the Cardinal Health
Agency Inc.
Use of a cobalt machine to cost
$58,000 is awaiting review by the tS 1VJL GGt
Barbecue
Will Host
State Health Planning and
Development Agency.
The only such machine now
available in the 15-county Area 5
is at New Hanover Memorial
Hospital in Wilmington.
The Agency calls directing a
beam of x^'ays or gamma rays
into the body “one of three
widely used and effective
treatments for cancer.” This can
be done by the machine.
Cancer is the second leading
cause of death in Health Service
Area V. For the period 1973
through 1975, the dealth rate
Jrom all cancers was 142 per
100,000 population in the area.
_]The rate for new cases of cancer
detected each year is more than
twice that; 300 cases per 100,000
population. With improvements in
radiation therapy, plus surgery
and chemotherapy, the prognosis
for cancer patients is improving.
A public hearing on the draft
'{dan for radiation therapy ser
vices will be held in the Cardinal
agency’s Lumber ton office
(Continued on Page 16-A)
The sixth Annual Cteltic Con
ference sponsored by the Harnett
County Historical Society opens
at 10 o’clock on Saturday, March
18, at historic Barbecue Church.
Several Moore County per
sonalities will speak on the day
long program.
Tony Parker, Moore County
Commissioner, will speak on
“Genealogy and Graveyards.”
Following Parker, the
Malcolm Blue Historical Society
members have chosen the topic
“The Bethesda Community and
the Malcolm Blue Farm.” Ms.
Qaudia Blair will present a slide
program. Lo Juanna Blue and
Lee Clayton will tell the
gathering about the Malcolm
Blue Junior Historians and their
involvement in preservation.
Also attending the conference
will be Mrs. Doris Blue and Mrs.
Martha Clayton, president and
former president of the Malcolm
Blue Historical Society. Ten
members of- the Junior
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Antiques Fair
The 21st Antiques Fair sponsored by
the Moore Historical Association is
open at the National Guard Armory
Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and
Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Preview
party tonight at 6:30. Benefits
Weymouth.
Safety
Is Delayed
ByCouncil
GOLF COURSES FULL — The many golf of Spring, came to the area. Here is a scene on
courses in the Sandhills were full this past the West Course of the Whispering Pines
weekend as warm, sunny days, the fore-runners Country Club.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Snow Days Make Up Set Mar. 29-31;
Advisory Council Members Named
Death Rate For Infants
Is High In Moore Coulity
The infant death rate in Moore
County is 24.5 per 1,000 births,
compared to a 20.9 rate for the
state as a whole and for Health
Service Area 5, 22.2.
This was announced in a
current publication of the Car
dinal Health Agency Inc., which
gave the infant mortality rate for
1971-1975.
“There is genuine cause for
concern in Health Service Area
V, especially in the discrepancy
in death rates between white and
non-white infants,” the agency
said.
Moore County infants die at the
rate of 35.4 among non-whites
and 18.9 for whites.
“The rate for deaths among
non-white infants in these 15
counties (of area V) is 28.6 and
two counties, Montgomery and
Harnett, have a non-white infant
death rate over 40,” the Agency
said.
The rate should not .exceed the
state total, according to the
agency goal. There should be
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Moore County Public School
children will make up missed
snow days March 29, 30 and 31,
the Weihiesday, Thursday and
Friday at the end ot Spring
Break, it was decided at a
meeting Monday of the Moore
County School Board at Southern
Pines Middle School.
If the second alternative had
been chosen, with snow days at
the end of the year, the last day
of school would have been June
14.
Renovation of the old gym at
the Pinckney High School in
Carthage will begin within 60
days and is to be done by E.J.
Aiutin Associates. This gym is
being used now by persons in the
area, but is in ne^ of repair for
further area use. No completion
date has been set.
The Board decided that instead
of selling the old Robbins
Primary School to John L. Frye
Company, the highest bidder at
$50,000, they would have
Superintendent Robert E. Lee
negotiate with a lawyer for the
school system to sell the property
on its own. The appraisal value
on the property is $101,800 and
the Board hopes to sell it for
more than the $50,000 bid by the
John L. Frye Co.
It was decided that since the
school system’s present
Computers for testing and use in
the schools have been operating
at capacity for some time the
school system will lease
Isaacs Gets Top Post
With NC Teacher Group
fp^hy Irish Eyes Are Smiling—
It Was Doing Of St. Patrick
BY MARGARET McMAHAN
A saint named Patrick was the
cause of it all. And he wasn’t
even Irish.
He was a Scotsman who
brought Christianity
enlightenment and good cheer to
the Emerald Isle when the rest of
the world was still in the Dark
Ages (432). His teactungs made
the people happy, the sl^ bluer.
the grass greener, and the soil
richer so that the whole land was
vitalized. He even banished
snakes and other varmints from
the land and made it a “little bit
of heaven.” Why shouldn’t Irish
eyes smile?
Patrick tells how it all came
about in his “Confessions” and at
the same time teaches us a
lesson in living for all the ages.
He came from a religious
family who lived near Glasgow.
His father, Calpumus, was a
deacon and his grandfather,
Potus, was a priest. A band of
pirates (Gaels) seized him in his
16th year and sold him as a slave
to a chief of Antrim, in Ireland.
For six years he tended the
chieftain’s sheep. While roaming
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Lloyd S. Isaacs, a former
teacher and principal in Moore
County Schools, has been named
the new executive secretary of
the North Carolina Association of
Educators.
Isaacs will succeed A. C.
Dawson Jr., a former teacher,
principal and superintendent of
the Southern Pines schools, who
announced his retirement
several weeks ago.
Isaacs was elected Saturday on
a secret ballot ot the 22-member
Board ot Directors ot the NCAE
at a meeting in Raleigh. He will
direct the organization, which
has 50,000 members, and a staff
of 64. He has been serving as
assistant executive secretary for
information services.
A native of Boone, Isaacs holds
bachelor and nuisder degrees
from Appalachian State
University. He taught for three
Road Closed
North Carolina Department of
Transportation officials will
close to through traffic Leach
Road (Secondary Road 2014) in
Moore County starting this past
Monday.
Closing of the roadway, just
east of Vass, is required to allow
maintenance crews to replace a
Ix-idge over Oains Creek.
Work on the bridge
replacement project is scheduled
to be completed by mid-May.
Trough traffic during the
construction period will be
detoured on Watt-Blue-Walnut
Grove Road, Byrd Bridge Road,
Byrd Road, and Lobelia Road.
years at Robbins, was principal
of the Carthage schools and is a
former president of the Moore
County NCAE chapter. His
master’s thesis was on the
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Pinebliiff
Chiirches
Vandalized
Pinebluff’s churches were
vandalized in the last few days
and its post office building
bothered by litterers and
loiterers in its lobby after dark.
Believed to be children by
church officials, the vandals
damaged the organ in the Ives
Memorial Baptist Cliurch by
scratching the console and ripp
ing off the cloth netting on it.
In the Methodist Church no
damage was reported by its
pastor, the Rev. Lester C.
Bissette, who said “They just
pushed things around.”
The vandals made their en
trance into the churches, both of
which have their front doors
open.
At the U.S. Post Office,
Postnriaster Robert Buff has
lasted a warning that unless the
littering problem is solved he will
be forced to close the post office
lobby after hours. “We did this
once before and the people didn’t
like it. However, if littering and
loitering continues I shall be
forced to resume the closing.”
(Continued on Page 16-A)
additional equipment which will
update their system. This will
provide more service to the
schools and will allow an
expansion of the computer
program the students are taking.
In other action the Board
decided to nominate Sandhills
Community College Trustees and
County Board of Alcoholic
Control members in May and to
elect them in June. This will give
them 30 days to consider the
nominations before the election.
The present Sandhills
Community College Trustees
appointed by Moore County
Board of Education serving
eight-year terms are: Norris
Hodgkins, Sr., Dr. Francis
Owens, Dr. A. A. Vanore and
Jere N. McKeithen.
Trustees appointed by the
Moore County Boards
Commissioners are: Dr. W. E.
Alexander, J. E. Causey, L.L.
Marion and J. C. Robbins.
Those Trustees appointed by
the Governor are: H. Clifton
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Water Plan
Study Set
By State
A recommendation that the
water study for Southern Pines,
Aberdeen and Pinehurst' be
continued will be made Thursday
at a meeting in Raleigh of the
Environmental Management
Commission.
A preliminary report on a
capacity use investigation of the
Drowning Creek and Little
River basins will be presented at
the meeting.
The study has been requested
by the Southern Pines Town
Council, which is looking to other
water sources in its plans for the
future.
A regional water system which
would serve the three larger
towns and smaller communities
in the Sandhills area has been
discussed for the past year. An
environmental study is
necessary before further plans
can be developed.
The preliminary report of the
EMC staff is teat Drowning
Oeek and JLittle River are the
two major drainage basins in the
(Continued on Page 16-A)
The issue of making railroad
crossings in Southern Pines safe
got snarled up in some confusing
discussion and action at tee
Town Council meeting Tuesday
night.
The Council voted to leave the
New York Ave. railroad crossing
closed, to close the New
Hamp:teire Ave. crossing at tee
time the new fire station is
completed and to leave bote
crossings closed for six months
while a traffic count is made on
the crossings left open.
Included in tee proposal was a
provision to stop tee planning
already in progress to signalize
tee New York crossing with
lights and gates and to ask that
these plans be made for tee
Illinois Ave. crossing instead.
Before making this decision
tee Council had word from Town
Manager Mildred McDonald teat
plans for signalizing tee New
York Ave. crossing had been
expedited so teat construction
would begin in two weeks, and
that tee town had agreed to go
ahead.
The proposal to delay tee
safety program again was
advanced by Earl Hubbard, who
will shortly be leaving the
Council. The motion was made
by Michael Snathson.
The Council decided that it felt
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Acting Chief Commended
By Board At Aberdeen
The Aberdeen Town Board
commended Acting Police (Thief
Edward L. Rose and his
department for “excellent
service” during tee past 30 days
at a meeting Monday night in tee
Town Hall.
Chief Rose has served since
(Thief Jerome Whipple was fired
because of his filhig for sheriff
and having “problems in tee
police department,” according to
tee Town Attorney.
A delegation from tee Berkley
Section asked tee Board for
better town services in sewer
service, streets and housing. One
spokesman, Preston Reaves,
reported residents were applying
for a $750,000 block grant to help
improve their area. The Board
promised to support the grant.
The Board appointed Special
Projects Director Gary Mofield
to look into the complaints and
report his recommendations to
tee Council.
Speaking on the Berkley
situation were, in addition to
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Board Delays Decision Again
In Midland Road Zoning Issue
BY ELLEN WELLES
The County Commissioners in
a hearing session Thursday night
decided to postpone making a
zojiing change decision
concerning the property of
Leaveme Maness on Midland
Rd. until a decision is handed
down from a previous court case
involving the Maness’ property.
Maness has requested that 2.95
acres of his land on the south side
of Midland Rd. that has 200 feet
of frontage on the southern right
of way of Midland Rd. and is 500
feet deep running along Thomas
Rd. beside his motel be changed
from residential-agricultural to
B-2 highway commercial so that
he can expand his business.
A head count of those attending
the hearing showed three were in
favor of the change and 32 were
against.
Several persons voiced
opposition to the change
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
OFF TO HUNTER TRIALS — John M. Seabrook, owner and whip of
this Coach and Four, or Four-in-Hand, called at Landmark Farm on
Saturday to carry Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Firestone to the Hunter
Trials. With them are Mrs. Hugh Hunter and Richard Webb (guard),
sounding the coaching horn. Seabrook is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.
Moss of Scotts Corner.—(Photo by Emerson Humphrey).
DEMOCRATS—^Moore County
Democrats will hold precinct
meetings Thursday at 7:30 p.m.,
with tee election of delegates to
tee county convention on tee
agenda.
Chairman J. Ed (Tausey also
announced that Moore County
has a quota of 28 tickets for tee
annual Jefferson-Jackson Day
Dinner to be held in Raleigh on
April 1. Tickets may be obtained
by calling Causey.
HEFNER—Several from
Moore County attended an ap
preciation dinner at Pfeiffer
College on Saturday night for
Congressman Bill Hefner.
Rep. Jim Wright of Texas, tee
House Majority leader, was tee
principal speaker. Governor Jim
Hunt was a special guest.
Among those from Moore
attending tee event were Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Causey, Voit Gilmore,
E.J. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. John
McPhaul, Tony Parker, Elvin
Jackson and Sharon Fratepietro.
SCOTT—Former Governor
Robert Scott should know within
tee next three weeks whether he
will be appointed Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture.
Scott’s name, along with four
others, is being sent to the White
(Continued on Page 14-A)
ZONING CONFERENCE — Moore County Commissioners and
Southern Pines town officials examine a map showing zoning areas
requested by Southern Pines Thursday night. Those shown are Carolyn
Blue and Arthur Purvis, Commissioners, Dr. Louis J. Marchetti,
chairman of the Southern Pines Planning Board, Lee Williams,
Commissioner, Marvin Collins, Southern Pines Town Developer, and
Commissioners Tony Parker and W.S. Taylor, chairman.—(Photo by
Ellen Welles).