Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 9-15-C; Editoriais, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-7-C; Obituaries, 9-A;
Pinehurst New, 1-3-C; Sandhiiis Scene,
2-7-A; Sports, 1-4-D.
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Clean-Up
Southern Pines has designated the
weeks of March 27 through Aprii 7 as
Ciean>Up Weeks, and aii residents were
urged to do their inside and outside
Spring Cieaning.
Southern Pines, North Caroiina 28387
Wednesday, March 22, 1978
County-Town Zoning
Agreement Reached
Phone Rates Go Up
With United Order
EASTER FLOWERS — The fresh, bright faces
of Tom, left, Leigh, center and Walt Morris,
surrounded with azaleas, hydrangeas,
chrysanthemums and Easter lillies from the
Southern Pines Florist, bring the message of
Easter to life. Tom, Leigh and Walt are the
children of Dr. and Mrs. Walter
Morris.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Special Easter Services Slated
A special 24-hoiir Prayer Vigil
will begin Easter Observance in
Southern Pines today (Wed
nesday) at Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church, as Holy
Week continues.
^ ' The service will be conducted
by the Rev. Harold E. Hyde,
, minister. Volunteers from the
congregation will hold the vigil
until its conclusion Thursday, at
7 p.m., when the church will
observe Maundy Thursday.
^ Maundy Thursday, com
memorating Jesus’ Last Supper
and the washing of the feet of his
disciples, will be observed by a
number of local churches.
A service of Holy Communion
will be conducted in Reeves Hall
of the Southern Pines United
Methodist Church during Holy
Week Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The
service is open to the public.
Participants will be seated at
tables, and arriving on time is
important.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
on Massachusetts Avenue will
hold a Good Friday service from
noon until 3 p.m.
Southern Pines United
Methodist Church will hold a
service of worship for the first
time on Good Friday, at 7:30
p.m.
Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church will hold
two services on Easter Sunday,
at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.
A dramatic Tenelffae service
is being planned at the Vass
United Methodist Church. Mrs.
David Nivens, assistant choir
director at the church, and David
Nivens, lay speaker, have been
working with the choir for about
a month preparing the service
commemorating the suffering
and death of Christ. It will be
held on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Easter Egg Has Long History
L With Many Cultures Of World
According to the pastor, the
Rev. J.C. Parker, who will sing
in the choir at this service, it will
“involve the singing of hymns
and extinguishing all candles
with only one remaining burning
on the altar, leaving the church
in darkness.”
Those who attend - and all are
invited - will leave quietly at the
closing of the hymns.
An Easter Sunrise Service
that’s unique and impressive is
being planned at ^ulah Hill
Baptist Church near Pinehurst.
At 6 o’clock Easter Sunday
morning a soul-stirring pageant
“The Easter Story,” wiU be
acted out in a realistic setting on
the hillside adjacent to the
church parking lot.
As the Biblical account of the
unusual events which occurred
on the first Easter morning are
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The Moore County Com
missioners in regular meeting
Monday night relinquished from
the county all the areas in the
Southern Pines one-mile extra
territorial zoning jurisdiction
requested by Soutoern Pines
except for four areas.
These were the RA (residential
agricultural) district owned by
Diamondhead Corporation, the
Pinecrest High School property,
the RA district below Pinecrest
owned by Diamondhead and
adjacent to Southern Pines town
limits and the L.P. Tate property
on Midland Rd.
A zoning decision will be made
on these areas at the Monday,
May 1 meeting of the Com
missioners to give time for the
Pinehurst Village Council to
study the proposed change.
These areas were agreed upon
only after much discussion and
confusion between the Board and
Rod Robinson, an attorney
there to represent the
citizens of Pinehurst. The
Commissioners questioned ndiy
he asked that the Commissioners
delay relinquishment of the
Pinecrest High School site and
the small RA section. Southern
Pines serves water already to
Pinecrest and absolutely noOiing
will be changed concerning
zoning there. The RA district in
question is almost completely
surrounded by Southern Pines
zoning and is adjacent to the
town’s limits.
Robinson, who admitted he
was not very familiar with'
county zoning policies, said he
wants the citizens to have a
chance to decide whether to
include this area if and when
Pinehurst Village is in
corporated.
Several members of the Board
said there was a slim chance the
area would be included in
Pinehurst property if it is in
corporated, and Robinson
agreed.
L.P. Tate, whose property on
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BY PATSY TUCKER
Little girls in fluffy bonnets
and ruffled dresses dashing
around madly, looking for color
ed eggs means Easter.
They run about in shiny Mary
Janes with white socks trimmed
in lace and carry a very special
basket decked out in ribbons and
flowers. They are joined by little
boys in neat suits with white
collars turned out and more
shiny shoes.
Pungent, white, waxy lillies
standing tall and trimmed with
dark green pointed leaves, point
to heaven as if in wait of the
great happening.
Easter means coming out of
the dark days of winter and
looking for the new, fresh life of
Spring. It means a time of
celebration in churches and
homes across the land.
It means the most important
holiday of the Christian religion.
One long awaited during the
somber days of Lent.
Some believe in much earler
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Hearing Requested
On Waste Proposal
Rescue Squad Hikes Program
With 10-23 Member Increase
BY MARJORIE RAGAN
Rescue Squad No. 8 has beefed
’up its memtership from 10 to 23,
increased its programs to in
clude scuba divers and more
members with emergency
medical training, and plans to
ask the Town ^uncil Monday,
April 11 for the old Fire Station
building for a permanent
headquarters.
Two Patrolmen with the
Southern Pines police, Lavern
Marsh and Charles LeRoy, have
joined the Squad as well as David
Duffer, trained scuba diver who
is qualified to teach others, and
Martin Dowd, Ft. Bragg employe
who works at night and is free to
answer Squad calls in the
daylight hours.
Among the newcomers who
have volunteered hours to the
Squad recently are Marilla
Russell, who works with her
husband. Bob, on their farm off
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A public hearing this week
appeared likely on the proposal
of Pride-Trimble Corp., furniture
manufacturers on YaUdn Road,
to discharge fully treated
electroplating waste into a
tributary of McDeeds Creek.
In last week’s Pilot there was a
news story that the State
Environmental Commission has
Mrved notice of its intention to
issue a permit for the discharge
to the company.
The commission invited
comment and said a public
hearing might be held if the
director of the Division of
Environmental Management
found a significant degree of
public interest.
There was a quick response to
the news story, with several
people calling "Town Manager
Mildred McDonald and the
newspaper seeking more
information.
Mrs. McDonald said that a
letter went from the town this
week requesting the commission
to proceed with the public
hearing, and she expects an
announcement within two weeks.
Jim Thompson, president of
Pride-Trimble, said this week
that even if the state commission
does not hold a public hearing
that the company will have a
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Robbins
Property
Is Sold
The Moore County Board of
Education in a special meeting
Tuesday accepted a bid of $60,000
from Mr. and Mrs. M.G. (>aft of
Robbins for the old Robbins
Prunary School site.
The only other bidder was the
John L. Frye Co. which had bid
$50,000 for the 3.84 acre site.
TTie Crafts hope to renovate
and convert the building into a
sewing plant, the Board was told.
First Federal Savings and
Loan had appraised the property
at $101,000, a figure some
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
SQUAD PRACTICE — Sunday afternoon Rescue Squad 8 held a
practice session for emergencies in afield off Youngs Road, to be better
prepared to handle emergencies at horse shows and elsewhere. Size of
the squad has almost doubled in number of volunteers this
Spring.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
TAR HEEL — The magazine
Tar Hed is featuring Southern
Pines in its April 1 edition which
went on newsstands and to subs
cribers this week.
An illustrated feature by Helen
G. Huttenhauer details the
founding of Southern Pines in the
1880s. Titted “Patrick’s FoUy,”
the article says that “the
founding of Southern Pines took a
dreamer’s vision and a pioneer’s
zeal.” The magazine also calls it
“a gamble ^at worked.” A
picture of present day downtown
Southern Pines and many old
pictures from the 19th century
illustrate the article.
There’s an accompanying
story by Howard Muse Jr., on
Weymouth, the James ^yd
estate, and the drive now under
way to save the mansion and
“the last of the longleafs.” Muse
describes the stand of virgin
longleaf pines at Weymouth.
DEMOCRATS — The
“People’s Day” format
introduced by Jim Hunt will be
used again this year for North
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Telephone rates will be going
up for residents of Southern
Fines and other Moore County
towns served by United
Telephone Company.
The N.C. Utilities Commission
on Tuesday granted rate
increases amounting to $1.4
million to United, and the rates
will go into effect inunediately.
It was the full amount
requested by the company last
August, although Jim Thomas of
the Southern Pines office of
United said apparently there was
some shifting of rates by the
commission.
Thomas said this morning that
the company has not received a
copy of the order as of today and
he know the details later this
Dedication
Set Apr. 16
At College
The Audrey Kennedy
Memorial Building on the
campus of Sandhills Community
College will be formally
dedicated in an impressive
ceremony at( 4 o’clock Sunday
afternoon April 16.
Former North Carolina
Governor, James Holshouser
will be the featured speaker.
Other program participants
will include dignitaries from the
Kennedy Foundation in Boston,
H. Clifton Blue, chairman of the
Board of Trustees of Sandhills
Community College, Dr.
Raymond A. Stone, the president
of Sandhills, and other persons
influential in securing the
magnificent building for the
Moore County college.
A feature of the program will
bd the unveiling of an oil portrait
of Mrs. Kennedy, the work of
Beth Turner, well known artist
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week.
In Southern Fines the one
party residential rate will go
from $9.40 per month to $10.65, an
increase of 13.2 percent. The rate
for business phones will go from
$17.65 to $26.20, an increase of 48
percent.
Thomas said the residential
rate increase in Southern Pines
was lower than that requested,
which was from $9.40 to $11.45.
Rate increases vary from town
to town.
In announcing its approval of
the United request, the Utilities
Commission said that the case
was “essentially uncontested”
and that even with the increase
United would “earn something
less than a fair and reasonable
rate of return.”
It was the first rate increase
requested by United in several
years.
Rate increases approved by
the (^mmission for other towns
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Holiday Closings
North Carolina and the Virgin
Islands are unique among the
states and territories-they are
the only ones which observe
Easter Monday as a holiday.
It is not a national holiday, so
the Post Offices will be open.
All town, county and state
offices will be closed for the day.
It is also a bank holiday.
Moore County schools will be
closed on Monday and Tuesday,
but they will reopen on
Wednesday to make up the days
lost because of closings because
of snow.
Food stores in the Sandhills
will be closed on Sunday but will
be open on Monday.
Most stores in Southern Pines
and the nearby shopping centers
will be closed, but some of the
department stores in the centers
plan to be open for business.
The PUot be closed all day.
Persons with news or advertising
material are asked to drop it
through the slot in the front door.
Moore County Schools are now
in their seventh month of
operation. When the students
return on Wednesday, March 29,
there will be 53 school days
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New Watch Program Gets
Quick Results In Theft
The Neighborhood Watch
Program has produced results,
the Moore County Sheriffs Office
reported.
The office received a call
Wednesday morning, March 15,
from a member of a
Neighborhood Watch who said
they had seen a suspicious
veMcle in the Roseland area and
had taken down the license plate
number.
An officer was alerted and
Calvin Derrick Rush, 24, of Rt. 2,
Rockingham was arrested and
charged with breaking, entering
and larceny, it was reported.
He was charged with breaking
into the home of Louise P. Layton
of Rt. 1, Jackson Springs, four
miles below Foxfire on the West
End-Hoffinan Rd.
Deputies recovered a 22
automatic rifle, an electric clock
radio and one 12 gauge shotgun,
but the owner still is missing a
second shotgun, the officer
reported.
Entry was made by breaking
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Body Scanner Project Planned
For Moore Memorial Diagnosis
One of the newest medical
tools~the body scanner-is
expected to be inkalled at Moore
Memorial Hospital soon.
An application to acquire and
locate a Computerized
Tomographic Body Scanner has
been made to the Cardinal
Health Agency by Fayetteville
Neurodiagnostics, Inc.
The total initial year project
cost has been placed at $475,159.
The proposed project and
application will be reviewed by
the Cardinal Health Agency’s
evaluation committee at 11:30
a.m. on March 29, and the Board
of Directors of the Agency will
meet at 7:30 p.m. on the-same
date to act on the conunittee’s
recommendation.
Under the proposal,
Fayetteville Neurodiagnostics,
Inc., would lease space from
Moore Memorial Hospital and
operate the body scanner on a fee
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ZONING PLAN — Marvin Collins (left) Southern Pines Town
Developer, explains the town’s zoning request to the Moore County
Commissioners Monday night as Rod Robinson (right) an attorhev
representing Pinehurst and Commissioner Tony Parker (middle rear),
look on.—(Photo by Ellen Welles).