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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, S-ISC; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-7-C; Obituaries, 12-
A; Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Sandhills
Scene, 2-6-A; Sports, 8-10-A.
Vol. 58, Number 23
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Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387
Wednesday, April s, 1978
60 Pages
Weather
The mercury will drop to a cool 46
degrees Wednesday night, the
Southern Pines Forest Tower predicts.
The high today (Wednesday) is
expected to be 85 and tomorrow, 73.
High Tuesday was 88 and (ow, 67.
Price 15 Cents
High Rise Protests Made;
Council Acts For Future
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Lake spectacular display of sun and clouds over Mid Pines
Land Use Hearing Slated
By County Board May 11
The (bounty Commissioners in
their regular monthly meeting
Monday set a date for a public
information hearing to present to
the county citizens all available
maps of present county zoning
and to concentrate specifically
on what type of zoning to have in
the land surrounding the Village
of Pinehurst.
All interested were urged to
come voice their opinions at 7:30
p.m. Thursday, May 11, in the
court room at toe Courthouse in
Carthage.
Commissioner Tony Parker in
Scanner, Mental Health
Given Agency Approval
The Cardinal Health Agency
Board of Directors approved
$489,218 in grants for Sandhills
Mental Health Center and
installation of sophisticated new
diagnostic equipment at Moore
Memorial Hospital in Pinehurst
at their meeting in Lumberton
Wednesday night, March 29.
Responding to the
recommendations of the
(Ordinal Evaluation committee,
developed in a public hearing
Wednesday afternoon, toe full
board also approved
construction of a new wing on toe
North Carolina (Oncer Institute
in Robeson County. COst of toe
project is set at ^00,(X)0.
The purpose of Cardinal
review is to assure that federal
funds are not used to support
unnecessary expenditures for
health care facilities and
services.
The two grant applications
must also receive approval from
state officials and the
Department of Health, T TV/T
Education and Welfare (HEW) if All IVxOOr©
they are to be funded. As a
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particular said he hopes this will
lead to toe development of a
county-wide land use plan
eventually.
“A lot of things have happened
in toe last two or three years
that have made people realize a
land use program is important,”
Parker said. “If more people
would understand that zoning
will upgrade communities but
will not make you spend money
you don’t want to spend...Zoning
makes newcomers conform to
what’s zoned and not encroach
on your farms. Then you won’t
have toe type of problem you
have with Foxfire now.”
Parker suggested toe county
planning board draw up a land
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Jobless
At 4.8%
THE
PILOT LIGHT
HODGEIS—Attorney Sam Poole
of Southern Pines has been
named to a statewide steering
conunittee for the U.S. Senate
campaign of Luther Hodges.
Poole is a former president of
the North Carolina Young
Democrats and was manager of
Terry Sanford 1976 presidential
campaign.
He was one of 39 persons ap
pointed by Hodges to the com
mittee. Others included several
former legislators, former
Chancellor John Caldwell of N.C.
State, Chancellors Dean Colvard
of UNC-Charlotte and English
Jones of Pembroke State
University, Attorney Heman
Clark of Fayetteville, and former
first lady, Jessie Rae Scott.
BOYLES“More than 30
Raleigh persons are sponsoring
an “Appreciation Dinner” for
State Treasurer Harlan Boyles in
the new Raleigh Qvic Center on
April 26.
Dinner tickets will be $50 a
person, and toe sponsors are
hoping for an attendance of 500.
Boyles has an outstanding debt
of more than $50,000 from his 1976
campaign for State Treasurer,
and toe dinner is to help raise
funds to pay off toe debt.
HODGKINS-Secretary Sara
Hodgkins of toe Department of
(Mtural Resources left Sunday
with Governor Jim Hunt and
others for a two-week industry
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With toe spring opening of
more tourist hotels and
restaurants, jobs went in
February to 4.8 percent of toe
labor force, as compared with a
7.4 rate for January.
The figures were announced by
toe Carthage Office of Frank
Burch of the Employment
Security Ckimmission.
His office said that of a labor
force of 21,230 in Moore County,
20,220 were employed, leaving
1,010 or 4.8 percent unemployed.
Clean-Up
An appeal was made this week
for a last minute clean-up of
ywds and streets in Southern
Pines on toe eve of toe annu^
House and Garden Tour on Anril
12.
The Town of Southern Pines is
making a special effort to collect
all yard debris placed at street
side.
Proceeds from toe House and
Garden Tour are used for town
beautification projects.
As protests mounted this week
to a high rise building toe
Southern Pines Town Council
moved to prohibit such
structures in toe future.
Several organizations and
more than 200 persons registered
their objections to toe Council’s
action last week in approving an
eight-story residential building
at Midland and Pee Dee Roads.
It is not in keeping with toe
I Sandhills area and tends to
I destroy the image of this resort
and retirement community was
toe tenor of toe objections.
Town officials contended,
however, that they had no choice
but to approve toe plan of Robert
Kramer of toe Pinehurst Area
Realty Company as present
building ordinances permit high
rise buildings.
At toe same meeting at which
toe high rise was approved last
week the Council also voted to
amend toe ordinance to prohibit
My hidings more than 35 feet
in height in toe future. The
ordinance will require a public
hearing before its final adoption.
MeanwhOe, toe developer said
that toe building he is planning is
Moss Leind
Is Given
-Eor Public
Approximately 1700 acres of
the k^e-Away Farms land now
forms the base for The
Waltoour-Moss Foundation.
From toe W.O. Moss estate,
toe land is located north and west
of Youngs Road outside of
Southern Pines.
The Walthour-Moss
Foundation, a charitable
organization, holds the property
for the public’s use for
conservation and equestrian
activities.
It is to be preserved as open or
“green” space. To maintain that
aim, no picnicking will be
allowed and toe land is closed to
motorcycles, motor bikes or to
any other motor vehicle.
still being studied for its
feasibility and it will be several
months before actual
construction can be started.
Kramer said that it will take
from three to six months to get
architectural and working pi«n,«»
drawn. Moreover, he said that
his company plans to sell toe
units, or at leak a major portion
of them, before any construction
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Man Dies;
Run Over
By Roller
Grover Lee Harris, 71, main
tenance man for Lee Paving
Comimy of Sanford, died of
massive body trauma Monday at
an intersection near Pinehurst
when he was hit and run over by
an asphalt roller.
His left foot was caught by toe
roller when it was backing in a
semicircle and he was instantly
kiUed in toe accident, according
to Coroner A.B. Parker.
There were several eye
witnesses to toe accident, which
happened at toe intersection of
RR 1210 and RR 1211. The State
Highway Patrol and other
officers are still investigating.
The Pinehurst Rescue Squad
was on toe scene in five minutes
and tried to revive toe man
without success.
The roller, which weighed
between 12 and 14 tons, belonged
to toe Lee Paving Company.
Witnesses said the driver and
Harris were back-to-back, and
ai^arently failed to see each
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Forest Fires Flare Here;
Burning Warnings Issued
Weymouth Gift
A gift of $5,000 to toe Friends of
Weymouth from toe Mary Biddle
Duke Foundation was announced
this week.
The gift was specified for toe
Boyd House in toe Weymouth
Center, which toe Friends of
Weymouth plan to establish for
toe arts and humanities.
Sayre Resigns Position
With Sandhills Chamber
Forest fires, fed by high winds
and dry conditions, have hit
Moore Ck)unty hard this past
week, burning over between 150
and 200 acres of land.
On Monday there had been 15
fires in toe five previous days,
six of them coming within a few
hours of each other on Saturday.
Luckily no lives nor houses
have been lost in the fires and
Robert Edwards of toe North
Carolina Forest Service cretoted
toe fire departments in toe
county for keeping damages
down.
“The fire departments in toe
county have done a tremendous
job,” Edwards said.
One of toe most damaging fires
occurred Saturday afternoon in
Highland Trails when about 18
acres were burned in the vicinity
of toe home of Johnny Hall, who,
along with several others, was
overcome by smoke and had to
receive medical treatment.
Southern Pines firemen l»ttled
the blaze for some time before
bringing it under control, but the
Hall residence and garage
sustained some damage. “Both
were scorched,” Fire Ofief Pete
Rapatas said.
The largest area bumed-about
50 acres-was in toe Lobelia area.
Edwards said toe fires this
week were widely scattered,
most of them believed started by
debris burning which got out of
control because of gusty winds.
He said there have been five
fires in toe Eagle Springs area,
four in toe High Falls-Robbins
area, three in toe Vass-Lobelia
area, two at Crestline, two at
Aberdeen, and one each in
Sioutoem Pines and Pinehurst.'
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Weymouth Friends Get
Buy Option Extension
The resignation of Floyd M.
Sayre, Jr., as Executive Vice
President of toe Sandhills Area
Qiamber of Commerce, was
announced this week by
Chamber President W. Lamont
Brown, to become effective on
April 30.
Sayre has accepted the
position of Executive Director of
toe (infractors Association of
West Virginia, with offices in
Charleston.
“We accept Floyd’s
resignation with mixed
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emotions,” says Brown. “We
are, of course, pleased for him
that he has this outstanding
opportunity in his home state of
West Virginia, but, from our
point of view, we regret his loss
to toe Chamber and toe area. We
have been fortunate to have him
here during the Chamber’s first
eleven years during which toe
Chamber has matured into an
extremely elective tool through
which business and professional
leadership is coordinated.”
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Zoning
Richard E. Behrman, chair
man of toe Whispering Pines
Village Council, called yesterday
to clarify information on the
public hearings to be held Aprfl
13 on zoning in toe Village.
He pointed out that a tract near
(^p Easter will be included in
toe hearing, but not for purposes
of annexation. This tract is to be
included in toe exfra-territonial
boundaries, and not proposed to
be annexed.
The Friends of Weymouth now
has until fall to raise toe funds
necessary for acquisition of toe
house and property of novelist
James Boyd which it plans to
develop as a regional cultural
center for the arts and
humanities.
This development in the
campaign came on March 29
when the Sandhills College
Foundation’s board of directors
approved a six-months extension
of toe purchase option, held by
the Nature Conservancy on
behalf of the Friends of
Weymouth.
The original one-year option,
providing that $700,000 be paid
for toe property with its 214
acres of unique woodlands,
expired March 31. The extension
until toe end of September was
granted by the Foundation’s
Board with no imposition of
penalty.
“There was a warm spirit of
cooperation between the
Sandhills College Foundation
Board and the Friends of
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What Would It Be Like
Without This Program?
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It may shock you to learn that
about 2,000 dogs were euthanized
last year by toe Humane Society
of Moore (bounty.
But it should shock you even
more to learn that if those dogs,
most of which were homeless and
unadoptable, reproduced
unchecked fw five years there
would ha-ve been literally
thousands or possibly even
millions more roaming the
county.
And, whichever extreme you
choose, that’s a lot of dogs to be
at large considering the
problems toe county is having
now with wild packs killing
sheep, goats and calves. The last
count shows nine goats, six
sheep, two new bom calves and
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Tax Collector Resigns;
Richardson Appointed
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VOICE OF THE TURTLE—The Clarendon Gardens’ turtles are usually
Q shy lot,^ but this one is rather ifidoletit, perhaps because of the
season’s first extended warm spell. So photographer Bob Rufa was able
to get within twelve feet of the armored reptile before it decided to seek
sanctuary in the lake.
Moore County’s Tax Collector
for toe past 10 years, Roy
Wallace of Pinebluff, resigned as
of March 31 due to health reasons
and on toe advice of his doctors.
Wallace was appointed in
March, 1968, to fill toe unexpired
term of Douglas David who died
suddenly. Since then, Wallace
has been reappointed each year
by the Ck>unty Conunissioners.
Before becoming tax coUector,
he served with toe county for
seven years.
Appointed to take his place is a
24-year-old paduate of Elon
College, David Richardson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Richardson of Carthage. He wiU
leave his position as recreation
supervisor, at too Grey-CMbreto
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Hearing Slated
A public hearing has been
tentatively set for May 15 on a
request of Pride-’Trimble (Dorp.,
to discharge fully treated
electroplating waste into a
tributary of McDeeds (Dreek.
Jim Thompson, president of
Pride-Trimble, said that toe
state Division of Environmental
Management is looking for a
place to hold toe hearing and will
puUish a public notice of toe
time and place within a few days.