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B; Classified Ads, 9-15C; Editorials, 1-
B; Entertainment, 6-7-C; Obituaries, 7-
A; Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; SandhUls
Scene, 2-6-A; Sports, 8-9-A.
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Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387 Wednesday, July 5, 1978
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Moore Celebrates Fourth With Parades
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CARTHAGE PARADE — Here’s part of the
Fourth of July parade staged in the county seat
of Carthage. It was a parade which featured
several horse-drawn wagons and
riders.—(Photo by Ellen Welles).
FLAG AT ABERDEEN — This lad in kilts
carries the flag in the Aberdeen parade, which
had more than 100 entries, including many
floats, antique cars, dignit''.ries and
horses.-
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(Photo
by
Glenn
M.
6.25% Inetrease In Budget
The Moore County
Commissioners approved the
firial budget of $9,795,466 at a
special meeting Thursday
afternoon.
Working with a ^70 million tax
base, the Commissioners were
able to set this budget which is a
6.25 percent increase over last
year’s without raising the 75 cent
tax rate.
According to Finance officer
Estelle Wicker the cushion left
over for July bills and
emergencies is “as close shaved
as it’s ever been since I’ve been
here.”
After some misconceptions
Town-County Talks Held
On Sewer System Dispute
BY ELLEN WELLES
The Town of Southern Pines
may get some financial
assistance to demolish its old
sewer treatment plant, it was
decided at the end of an hour and
a half meeting attended by
Moore County Commissioners
and reix-esentatives of Southern
Pines and Aberdeen Town
Councils last Thursday af
ternoon.
Held at the courthouse in
Carthage, the meeting had been
called to clear up a controversy
in which Southern Pines felt it
had been treated unfairly.
When the regional waste water
treatment plant at Addor was
built, Aberdeen was given
$210,000 for its relatively new
sewer plant and Southern Pines
was not given any compensation
for its old plant.
After much discussion, the
Commissioners said there was
“some sympathy” to try to find
some funds to help Southern
Pines pay the debt it still owes
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Tobacco Market Opening
Recommended For Aug.l
The opening of tobacco
markets in Moore County, along
with Border and Eastern auction
sales, has been recommended for
August 1.
The Flue-Cured Tobacco
Advisory Ck)mmittee met on
Thursday and made the
recommendation. The final
decision on tobacco market
openings will be made by U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland, but he is expected to
accept the reconunendation of
the 40-member committee.
Moore County auction markets
are at Aberdeen and Carthage.
Ellerbe’s market is usually
served by the same set of buyers
assigned to Aberdeen and
CarUiage.
These markets are in Area C.
Georgia and Florida tobacco
markets (Area A) will open on
July 19, and growers here can get
an idea of how prices will be from
these early auctions.
The tobacco crop is maturing
slightly later this year because of
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were cleared up by Wayne Hyatt,
director of ADAP (Adult
Developmental Activities
Program), the Commissioners
decided to fund his program with
$7,000 and take it out of the
contingency fund.
The money was not provided in
the original budget because the
Commissioners thought ADAP
had been remiss in paying its
bills, but Hyatt told them his
program is up to date on its hills
and that it needs the $7,000.
“The $7,000 is desperately
needed if we are to be an entity
next year,” Hyatt said. “It we
don’t get the $7,000 from the
county we don’t get as much
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Home Plans
Minority
Program
In an effort to better serve
minority people at the Episcopal
Home for the Aging in Southern
Pines, a special committee from
the Home’s board of directors is
holding meetings and
assembling ideas to make the
Home “a viable option for older
people of racial minority
groups.”
The committee’s conclusions
will be given to the full board in
the form of recommendations for
action.
Called the “Title VI
Committee,” after the federal
government’s program
operating under the “Title VI”
designation, the Episcopal
Church group is seeking to
cultivate interest in the Penick
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MISS ABERDEEN —
Alisa Goodman is the
new “Miss Aberdeen. ’’
Mrs. Cole
Retiring
This Year
Mrs. Walter B. Cole, Director
of Social Services in Moore
County, announced Monday she
will resign December 31.
Mrs. Cole, a native of Rich
mond County, has held the post
for 36 years and made the an
nouncement at the monthly
meeting of the Moore County
(Commissioners.
She was Supervisor of Social
Work for five years in Richmond
County before she came to
Moore.
“I decided to retire since I am
approaching retirement age, but
I have enjoyed working in Moore
(County,” she said.
Several persons in the
department are eligible to hold
the Director’s post, but these
individuals have said they would
rather remain and work directly
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ABERDEEN SPEAKER — John Ingram, Commissioner of Insurance
and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was the principal
speaker at Aberdeen’s Fourth celebration. General Chairman H. Clifton
Blue is seated at right.
One Highway Request Here
-Four-Laning Of US 1-N
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
A public hearing for North
Carolina’s Highway Division
Eight, held in Southern Pines last
Wednesday, featured Secretary
of Transportation Thomas
Bradshaw, district represen
tative fdartha C. (Bennie)
Hollers, and over 75 citizens,
many from Laurinburg.
Among the Moore County
residents attending were Rep.
Clyde Auman, Mayor E. S.
Douglass, Town Attorney
Lament Brown, County (Com
missioner Tony Parker, San
dhills Area (Chamber of Com->
merce employe Betsey Lindau,
Sam Poole, George Little, Cliff
Blue, Linda Lewis, and Vass
clerk Irene Mullinix.
The Moore (County residents
were concerned with one thing;
the area of U.S. 1 near Vass; a
stretch of the road north of
Lakeview that continues into Lee
County to Quail Ridge golf
course.
Carters’
Home Burns
On Sunday
The stately two-sbry home of
Russ and FranceriJr^s Carter
of the Pinehill
munity Aberdeen,
destroyed by fire Sunday^mor
ning between seven and eight
o’clock following an electrical
storm.
(Carter, an employee of the
State Highway Department,
Aberdeen, estimated his loss at
$1(X>,000. A state car, which Mr.
Carter used in his work, was
completely destroyed.
At the time of the fire, Mr.
and Kfrs. (Carter and daughter
Brooks were in Southport where
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
Hospice Movement Begun Here
As Natural Route To Death
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
The walls are the same, always
the same. For the past few
months he has lain prone in this
room or another, but they all
look alike. The Hallmark cards
face him like pockmarks from an
institutional drescer. He will not
“get well som.” The aides cenne
in his room without knocking and
greet him more familiarly than
his granddaughters, who don’t
know what to say. They busy
their hands- around him, one
more body in a long hall of
rooms. Less than a year ago he
would not stand for his own wife
to baby him so. He is dying.
In another area of the country,
another man is dying. He too,
had been an active man,
prominent in conununity affairs.
Unlike the first man, he remains
active in his family at home and
tells them though he is dying he
still has plenty to say. He will die
in his own bed.
There is a movement under
way in this country that the
family of the second man
espoused early on in his illness.
The trend toward hospice care
stresses as natural a route to
death as to birth, treating death’s
primordial occurance as one of
life’s special stages.
Since 1977, North Carolina now
has its own Hospice
headquarters, directed by Carl
Whitney in Winston-Salem. This
is the only state thus far to jive
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HOLSHOUSER - Former
Governor James E. Holshouser
of Southern Pines has been
named chairman of a bipartisan
conunittee to advise the state
ABC board on establishing
regulations for the sale of liquor-
by-the-drink.
The a{^intment was made by
(Governor Jim Hunt and Board
Chairman Marvin L. Speight.
Four public hearings will be
held across the state by the
committee which will then make
recommendations to the ABC
board. Governor Hunt said the
commijttee “must make a
balancted approach toward
developnng an effective system of
controll”
Other members of the com
mittee include:
Bill element of Durham,
retired president of North
Carolina Mutual Insurance Ck);
Mrs. Robert Andrews of
Wilmington, past president of the
N.C. Medici Auxiliary; W.T.
“Bill” Harris, past chairman of
the Mecklenburg County Board
of Commissioners and a
prominent Baptist layman; John
Belk, former mayor of
CSiarlotte; State Rep. Hartwell
Campbell of Wilson; State Sen.
William Smith of Wilmington;
Gene Ochsenreiter, former
mayor of Asheville; A1
Lineberry, a Greensboro
businessman and prominent
Baptist layman.
SAMARKAND-A report that
Norman Camp of the state Child
Advocacy office will be coming
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Oddly enough, though
representatives from the Town of
Sanford had several requests for
highway improvement, not one
concerned the widening of US 1
in the southern part of their
county. It was the role of La
ment Brown, pinch-hitting for
Sandhills Chamber of Commerce
transportation secretary Bert
Grant, to point out the myriad
reasons US 1 needs to be at the
Moore County celebrated the
fourth of July with formal
celebrations in several towns,
and family picnics and parties
everywhere in between.
Highlights of the day were
festivities in Aberdeen, including
the Miss Aberdeen pageant, a
parade in (Carthage, boat races
on Lake Pinehurst, and
fireworks at Aberdeen Lake,
Seven Lakes and the (Country
Qub of North Cktrolina.
Politicians and beauty queens
Were the order of the day, with
batds, clowns and hot dogs
accompanying. The most
celeWted politician was John
Ingraik, who spoke at Aberdeen,
and by the night’s end the
master of ceremonies. Bob
Pearse, announced a new Miss
Aberdeen, Alisa Kay Goodman.
Miss Goodman, 21, a native of
Rockin^am and graduate of the
University of South Carolina with
a degree in elementary
education, won over five other
girls with her talent, a rendition
of “I Can’t Smile Without You.”
She wore a white dress studded
with rhinestones for the evening
gown competition, the dress she
had on when she accepted the
crown from outgoing queen Joy
Johnson, who also performed,
singing three songs.
Dawn Lee DePencier,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob
DePencier of Pinehurst was first
runner-iq), with her talent a
dance. She performed a tap
top of any highway improve- routine to “Dipsy Doodle.
ment list.
“I wish I could impress upon
you how badly we need what I’m
goii^ to ask you for today,” he
began. “You can leave Southern
Pines and go all the way to
Staniford, Conn, on US 1 and the
only town you have to go through
is Vass.
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Moore Drama Will Open
For New Season Tonight
“The House In The Hor
seshoe,” Moore County’s
comedy-drama about local
Revolutionary times opens a
seven-week run tonight (Wed
nesday) at the site where the
action of the play actually
hai^ned back in 1781.
'The drama is staged on the
grounds of the Alston House
where Tory David Fanning at
tacked Patriot Philip Alston.
Performances will be held
Wednesday through Saturday
nights at 8:45 p.m. The Alston
House is a State Historic Site and
can be found on all road maps. It
is located 17 miles west of San
ford and 10 miles north of Car
thage.
Reservations are not required
for the natural amphitheatre and
patrons usually bring lawn
chairs or blankets. Gate prices
are $4 for adults and ^ for
children.
“Angels” groups have half
price tickets for sale through
July 17, however, and a list of
these clubs may be obtained by
Second runner-up and Miss
Congeniality was Jaime
Elizabeth Zickl, a recent
graduate of Pinecrest High
School, who performed a ballet.
A parade, preaching, speaking
and a variety of gan-es were part
of the show in Aberdeen, as
citizens from all over the county
gathered for the 14th year oi
festivities, organized annually by
H. Clifton Blue. Partly-cloudy
skies replaced the forecast of
rain, and the streets of Aberdeen
were packed well before the
parade, scheduled to begin at
10:30.
The parade, which began at the
intersection of Aberdeen’s Pine
and Main Streets, looped around
town and was the largest yet,
with the floats ending at Aber
deen’s Shamburger Park for
judging. Frank McNeill
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writing the drama headquarters IVT£\\at Pi o n
at P.O. Box 324, Southern Pines, -L * ^ VV X ICtll
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On Aging
Presented
28387. The headquarters
idione is 692-9611 and the
office i^one at the site is 947-
2051.
This is the third season for
“The House In the Horseshoe,”
written by Joseph Simmons and
produced by the Moore County
Historical Association.
Sanford Man Is Drowned
At Thurlow Lake Outing
William Henry Tripp, Jr., 25,
of Sanford, drowned Tuesday
morning while swinoming after a
beach ball in Thurlow’s Lake,
Moore County Coroner A.B.
Parker reported.
Parker said friends and
relatives watched as Tripp
swam out about 175 feet, stopped
to rest and after swimming 25
feet further, went under.
Thurlow’s Lake is outside Vass
on Union Road and is open to the
public on a free basis..
The funeral will be held at 2
p.m. Thursday at Miller Funeral
Chapel with the Rev. Robert
Yandle and the Rev. Darrell
Sauls officiating. Burial will be
in Grace Chapel Cemetery.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Kitchen; a sister,
Mrs. Deborah Washburn of
Sanford; a brother, John Tripp
of Broadway; grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. R.O. Rambeau of
Spring Lake and Bill Kitchen of
Black Mountain.
The family will be at the
funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m.
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A public hearing on a new state
plan for older Americans was
held in the Southern Pines
Middle School Auditorium
Friday morning, with an
audience larger than expected by
the conducting agency of the
state Department of Human
Resources, the Division of the
Aging.
Mrs. Madeline Jones of
Hamlet, a member of the State
Advisory Council, presided over
the hearing with Nathan H.
Yelton, himself a proud “older
American” and assistant
secretary of the Division of the
Aging.
Yelton said he had heard Dr.
Alex Comfort, noted
gerontologist, tell a group of
senior citizens to stop letting
people tell them they were no
good and could not do anything.
The audience applauded when
Yelton said “There are over
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Dr. Bowen, Mrs. Andrews Get
Four-Way Test Rotary Award
Dr. James P. Bowen and Mrs.
Doris B. Andrews were honored
by the Southern Pines Rotary
Club Friday night at a dinner at
the Country Club of North
Carolina. They were named the
recipients of the club’s annual
Four-Way Test awards.
These (H-estigious awards have
been presented for the past seven
years to a man and woman in the
community who exemplify in
thought, word, and action the
four concepts of truth, fairness.
good will and friendship, and
benetit to all concerned.
Quoting Edgar Guest, “I’d
rather see a sermon than hear
one any day,” Rotarian Philip S.
Brown gave the highlights of the
Four-Way Test. He explained the
club searches the connmunity for
people who live their creeds,
people whose leadership is
gained by perfomuuice and the
^rtue of their qualities, people
who share in the social structure
of the community.
Dr. Bowen, a semi-retired
physician who at 75, still
maintains a private practice in
Aberdeen and is a member of the
staff at Moore Memorial and St.
Joseph’s Hospitals, was
presented the award by W. Burt
Grant.
Describing him as a doctor
“who still makes house calls and
doesn’t play golf on Wed
nesdays,” Grant said Dr. Bowen
came to Moore Memorial in 1930
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