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Vol. 58, Number 33
SO Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387 Wednesday^ June 14, 1978
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PRICE 15 CENTS
Majority Favors Liquor-by-the-Drink In Poll Here
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
A majority of those questioned
in a random-sample street poll
Monday afternoon favored the
legislature’s approval of local
option liquor-by-the-drink.
Before the measure passes
both chambers of the state house
North Carolina and Oklahoma
were the only two states that did
not irovide some sort of local
option.
UTTLE'CRANEI
CREEK J
Israel
Chaltas
The state Senate voted Monday
night to concur with three House
amendments, but Lt. Gov.
Jimmy Green ruled the measure
be put to further votes yesterday
and today. However, all votes
are expected to pass this af
ternoon.
Counties and municipalities in
North Carolina that have ABC
stores may then hold a
referendum to determine
whether restaurants, clubs and
other establishments may sell
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Betts
Berry
alcoholic beverages.
Here are some of the responses
to Monday’s question;
Mac Israel, Southern Pines,
“Yes, I favor it. I know it will be
good for the area. It’ll put
bootleggers out of the business.”
Olethia Crawford, Southern
Pines, “Yes, I think it will help
some. It’s better than brown-
bagging.”
Tom Chaltas, Southern Pines, ^
“it will bring more revenue to
the area.”
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Young Fitzpatrick
Joe Rowel, Southern Pines,
‘‘You get a better variety of
drinks.”
Floyd Ray, Pinehurst, “I sure
do think it’s a good idea. I think it
will boost the economy and be
good for a resort area.”
Steve Homer, Eastwood, “I
thiiA it vnll help out the tax
situation.”
Odessa Williams, Candor, “I
believe I’m against it. I’m a
church member.”
Glenn Miller, “I’m originally
Ray
Callaway
from Tennessee and it’s helped in
(Continued on Page 16-A)
WRECK SCENE — Here is the scene of a wreck when a truck and car
collided on US 1 at Cameron.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Two Hurt
In Crash
At Bridge
A tractor trailer full of
cucumbers and a car collided
Sunday morning on U.S. 1 with
both vehicles landing in the
creek.
Both drivers were injured and
taken to Moore Memorial
Hospital, the Highway Patrol
reported.
The tractor trader, driven by
Vance Ledford of Gibson,
was traveling north on U.S. 1
when a 1969 Ford car driven by
Howard Cain of Vass pulled out
into his lane from Rural- Paved
Road 1007. The truck swerved
but still hit the car on the right
side and took it down with it into
Little Oane Creek, the Patrol
man said.
The accident occurred at 9:45
a.m., but it took until 8:15 p.m. to
cleaii up the mess.
The truck, loaded with 370
bushels of cucumbers, was en
route to New York. The car was
totaled and the truck had several
thousand dollars worth of
damage, it was reported.
Coimty Budget Increased
But Tax Rate Still 75'
The Moore" County Com
missioners Wednesday set a
tentative budget for 1978-79 at
$9,795,466 reix'esenting a 6.25
percent increase over last year’s
budget.
They were able to balance the
budget without raising taxes
over the present 75 cents per $100
valuation.
However, in order to do this,
the Commissioners were forced
to dip into the county’s general
surplus fund to the tune of
$441,000. An additional $20,000
came from the sewer fund,
$66,000 from the revaluation
fund, $42,000 from Social Ser
vices and $24,613 from revenue
sharing, for a total of $594,348.
The Commissioners were
working from a tax base of $570
million. Finance Officer Mrs.
Estelle Wicker said.
Mrs. Wicker denied recent
claims saying she refused to
reveal the amount remaining in
the surplus fund. She said a
certain amount must be left over
to pay the county’s July bills and
the rest is used to bail out ailing
Airman Honored At State
For Center Contribution
Moore County Rep. T. Clyde
Auman and four other major
donors to the develoixnent of &e
Jane S. McKimmon Center for
Extension and Continuing
Education at North Carolina
State University were honored at
a recognition luncheon by
Chancellor Joab L. Thomas
Wednesday (June 7) at the
Center.
Each of the donors has a room
in the McKimmon Center named
for him in recognition of con
tributions to the facility,
Honored were;
—T. Clyde Auman of West
End, state legislator, farmer,
agricultural organizations
leader, and long4ime siqiporter
of NCSU foundations and idumni
(Continued on Page 16-A)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
AUMAN-Rep. T. Clyde
Auman of Moore (bounty voted in
favor of the bill calling for a local
option vote on the sale of
liquor-by-the-drink.
It was a position consistent
with a stand Rep. Auman has
taken on the issue since it first
came before the North Carolina
General Assembly.
A personal dry, Auman has
supported the right of the people
to vote on the question and at the
same time has contended that
mixed beverage sales provide
better control than
brown-bagging.
INGRAM-Dianne Buchholz of
Southern Pines has been working
in the headquarters of John
Ingram since his campaign for
the U.S. Senate began.
Formerly with the office of
Attorney General, Miss Buchholz
played a key role in Ingram’s
successful campaign for the
Democratic nomination. In the
campaign for election in the fall
she will serve as campaign
director for Ingram.
KATSOS"Tim Katsos, a
Carthage restaurant operator,
has been approved as an
“Unaffiliated” candidate for
Moore County commissioner.
(Chairman Angus M. Brewer of
the county Board of Elections
said that the names of Katsos’
petition have been checked and
that Katsos will be on the
November ballot as a
commissioner candidate from
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Early Vote Expected Here
After Liquor Bill Passage
programs during the years.
“I won’t know how much
siuplus we have until June 30
when the audit is made,” she
said. “You can’t keep it a secret,
it’s in the audit.”
Mrs. Wicker said what is left in
the surplus depends on bills yet
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Aberdeen
Man Dies
In Wreck
Roger DeU Chambers, 29, of
Aberdeen, Rt. 1 was killed in a
traffic accident Thursday at 8
p.m., the N.C. State Hi^way
Patrol reported.
Chambers reportedly lost
control of his 1974 Honda while
traveling north on U.S. 1 four-
tenths ^ a mile south of the
Moore County line and the
motorcycle slid on its side into
the path of a tractor trailer
traveling south near the
Drowning Creek bridge. ,
James Kerr of Petersburg,
Va. was driving the 1974 white
tractor trailer owned by Allied
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Weymouth
Gets Grant
Of $10,000
A $10,(X)0 contibution from the
Smith Richardson Foundation,
Ihc., of Greensboro toward the
drive to acquire the Boyd
property has been received by
the Friends of Weymouth.
“This is an important step
forward in our fund raising
efforts which are making slow
but steady progress,” Admiral
I.J. Galantin, president, said in
announcing the action. “The
Friends of Weymouth is indeed
grateful for this support of our
plans.”
The foundation, incorporated
in 1935, gives special considera
tion to supporting selected
imaginative programs from
North Carolina. H. Smith
Richardson Jr., is chairman of
the board and is the father of
Mrs. Adele (Richard S.)
Richardson Ray of Southern
Pines and Mrs. Page Richardson
Johnson of Chapel Hill.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr. a
Friends of Weymouth director,
handled the negotiations with the
Greensboro-based foundation
which led to the contribution,
Galantin said.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Market
To Open
Tuesday
The Farmer’s Market will
open Tuesday, June 20, at 10 a.m.
at the old Southern Pines
maintenance department at 500
W. Pennsylvania Ave., Ex
tension Chairman Talmadge
Baker announced yesterday.
Sellers are urged to bring
vegetables, crafts and hanging
baskets on Tuesdays, Thurs^ys
and Saturdays in June from 10
^.m. to 5:30 p.m. In July and
August, tentative days are
Monday, Tuesday, Thurs^y and
Friday from 9:30 to 5:30,
Saturday from 9:30 to 3:30.
Baker said although the
maintenance equipment should
be out by the end of the week, if it
is not, some people may be
selling in the shade of trees.
Sellers will be charged from $1
for a pick-up truck to $5 for a
tractor-trailer to use the
grounds. Buyers are encouraged
to take advantage of the fresh
vegetables for s^e.
Moore Takes Bike Route
Instead Of Youth Homes
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
The North Carolina General
Assembly recommended over a
year ago in House Bill 456 that
group homes for juvenile status
offenders be created as a sub
stitute for training schools. With
this kind of constant care and
attention, it was hoped many
status offenders-those not
convicted of a serious charge-
would benefit.
Moore County, while
recognizing the attractiveness of
the proposal, has been forced
through lack of funds to take less
expensive routes, including a
sometimes ~ controversial
counseling and recreation
program using minibikes.
The program is NYPUM,
National Youth Project Using
Minibikes. First developed in
California in the 1960s, the
project has ardent siq>porters,
including the YMCA, which co
sponsored the plan in conjunction
wiui me Honda Company.
In the system, Honda donates
minibikes to municipalities using
the program, charging only
handling costs. Therapy for
status offenders is based around
riding the minibikes as a reward,
sponsoring fellowship with other
youngsters from 10 through the
middle-teens in the process.
Status offenders who use the
NYPUM program are not the
serious delinquents. Status ot-
fenses are classified as behavior
reprehensible only because the
child is under legal age. Status
offenses would not be a crime if
committed by someone over the
age of 18.
Status offenses include
truancy, running away from
home, sexual conduct, drinking,
and even something as minor as
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Town Budget Hiked;
Tax Rate Is Same
Salary Raises Included
In New Aberdeen Budget
The Aberdeen Town Council
adopted its budget for next year
without raising its $1 per $1(X)
valuation tax rate at the monthly
meeting Monday night.
Expenditures for next year will
total $796,350 and include an
average six percent salary in
crease in most department.
The largest esqienditures will
be the $180,000 in sewer service
purchased from the new waste
water treatment plant, $163,800
for general government and
$122,350 for law enforcement.
With the $50,500 received in a
federal revenue sharing grant
and the interest from it, the town
planned to buy a sanitation
truck, new water and sewer
iines, build a new fire station
and a street sweeper.
Expenditures in the general
fund total $438,750, up slightly
over last year’s $4^,145. In the
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The Southern Pines Town
Council unanimously approved
the preliminary budget in last
night’s meeting after its
$2,825,669 total was not seriously
questioned.
The balanced budget reflects
an increase of $187,864 or 7.1
percent over the budget for
fiscal 1977-78. The General Fund
budget totals $1,620,520, an
increase of almost $45,000.
The tax rate remains the same
$1 per $100 property valuation.
One of the largest increases
was for the Water and Sewer
Fund budget, which totals
$811,030, some of which will be
used to make payments to the
Town of Carthage and the
owners of the Butler well.
suplemental suppliers to what, in
recent years, has been a
dwindling sununer water supply.
Other large allocations are to
the Public Works Department,
which will receive the proposed
sum of $520,145; the Police
Department, receiving a slight
increase to total $316,836 in order
to hire an additional patrolman
and buy two new patrol cars.
The estimated balance as of
July 1 (the exact figure awaiting
audit) is $422,000, not completely
to be treated as surplus.
Councilman Earl Hubbard
pointed out “We budget to have
undesignated funds. That’s part
of the budget.”
The complete budget is
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Southern Pines is expected to
call a referendum on Uquor-by-
the-drink a^ soon as possible-
between the dates of Aug. 22 and
Sept. 19.
W. Lament Brown, president of
the Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce and town attorney for
Southern Pines, said Tuesday, “I
hope Southern Pines can vote on
it in that time.”
It appeared this week,
however, that Pinehurst will not
be able to hold a referendum
unless it is incorporated or
special legislation is passed.
Under the local option bin
passed by the Nortti Carolina
Legislature at this session (final
action by the Senate was ex
pected today) “any county or
city where ABC stores have been
established” can call a
referendum on whether to allow
restaurants and clubs to serve
liquor-by-the-drink.
Southern Pines, which has an
ABC store and is incorporated,
can call a referendum.
Attorneys who have studied the
ABC laws said that Pinehurst,
which was defined as a
“municipal corporation” under a
special act of the Legislature,
does not meet the statutary
definitions of a “city.” It could,
however, qualify should voters
approve incorporation in a
special referendum which is
tentatively planned for some
time in September.
Brown said that the Southern
Pines Town Council can call a
referendum here, and it is ex
pected that they do so within
a short while. A resolution in
support of the local option bill
was passed unanimously by the
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Ingram Tells Firemen State
Fire-Rescue First In Nation
Drowned Soldier’s Body
Recovered From River
The body of a Fort Bragg
soldier who had drowned was
found early today after a three
day search involving 11 rescue
units including the army, the
Moore County Sheriff’s
Department reported.
I^ce Gillin of Company B 4-68
Armor drowned Sunday
afternoon in Little River at the
Sand Pits area near Lobelia.
The body had drifted two miles
down the river and was found at
8:15 this morning up against a
log at the dam, the Sheriff’s
department reported.
It was reported the victim and
some friends were swinuning at
a point in Little River at the
Cumberland County—Moore
County Line which often is a
gathering place for groups of
friends, and he dived off a
make-shift diving board and
(Continued on Page 13-A)
Over 200 firemen who belong to
the 17-county Sandhills Fire
Association met in Southern
Pines Saturday to tour the new
fire department, play games and
listen to Insurance Com
missioner John Ingram, a
candidate for the U.S. Senate,
speak.
Fire Chief Pete Rapatas said
firemen came from as far as
Sanford, Fayetteville, Whiteville
and Wadesboro for the day’s
convention.
Ingram, who spoke as a
member of the Firemen’s
Association, said “North
Carolina’s fire and rescue ser
vice is first in the nation. In 1973
one of my first acts was to
reorganize the Insurance
Commissioner’s Office to
establish the Fire and Rescue
Services Division as a separate
division. This reorganization has
meant better protection of lives
and property.”
Afternoon competition had 76
people registering for various
(Continued on Page 16-A)'
K Mart Will Open Here
In US 15-501 Facility
K mart Corporation has signed
a lease for the construction of a K
mart discount department store
in the Sandhills.
The announcement was made
in Troy, Mich., by John P.
Johnson, vice president of real
estate for K mart.
The Aberdeen K mart, on the
west side of U.S. 15-501, north of
U.S. 1, is part of K mart’s
programmed expansion of its
discount department stores in
North Carolina. Thirty-four K
marts are now operating in the
state.
The new K mart here will be a
55,552 square-foot unit and will
employ more than 60 local
residents in permanent positions.
The department store will
provide parking for 492 cars on
the five-acre ate.
Landlord-developer for the K
mart is 501 Associates of
Charlotte.
The new K mart is expected to
open late this year.
A K mart store features one
stop family shopping. Under one
roof shoppers can find a
complete assortment of
department store merchandise
at discount prices.
K mart (Corporation, founded
in 1899, had 1,367 K marts in
operation in the United States,
(Continued on Page 13-A)
INGRAM SPEAKS HERE — John Ingram, State Insurance
Commissioner and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was in
Southern Pines on Saturday to address a convention of firemen and
carry on his campaign for the Senate.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).