Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 9-15-C; Editorial, 1-B;
Entertainment, 6-8-C; Obituaries, 13-
A; Pinehurst News, 1-4-C; Sandhills
Scene, 2-7-A; Sports, 8-10-A.
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Square Dance
See Page 3-A.
Foxfire Sold, New Owners
Discuss Expansion Plans
LONESOME TRACKS — Wildflowers grow alongside the tracks of the
Norfolk Southern Railroad which cuts across northern Moore County,
serving such places as Spies, Robbins, Parkwood, Putnam, Glendon and
Haw Branch. The trains still run, hauling freight, but it has been a long
time since passengers traveled this route.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Jogger Finds Dead Woman
But Death Said Mystery
The death of Mrs. Christine
Willie Uoyd, 50, of 890 West
Indiana Avenue Monday will
remain a mystery until the N.C.
Medical Elxaminer’s office in
Chapel Hill reports back on blood
tests.
^ Acting Coroner James E.
Andrews, just named by Coroner
A.B. Parker to the job, stood by
Tuesday as Dr. James E.
Laningham performed an
autopsy, and said his ruling was
still pending.
Andrews said a son of Mrs.
Lloyd, Frank Lloyd, had not seen
his mother since she came home
from work at 10:30 a.m. Monday
from Moore Memorial Hospital,
where she worked in the
laboratory. Uoyd told the acting
coroner ttet his mother had left
Boy Killed When Struck
Riding Bicycle By Car
Seven year old Kindrick
Lamont Ross, 7, of 1000 S. Hardin
St. was killed Friday afternoon
when his bike was struck by a car
driven by Dan Eugene Johnson
of Niagara.
According to witnesses, the
Ross boy was riding on the front
of a bike, steering his cousin
diaries Ross, also seven years
. old.
The boys were riding on S.
Mechanic Street, and ran into the
car at the comer of S. Mechanic
and W. Illinois Avenue. Johnson
had fte right-of-way on the road.
and did not even have time to put
on his brakes before the children
came throu^ the stop sign and
ran into the car, Southern Pines
Police reported.
Both boys were taken by the
Rescue Squad to the hospital.
Charles Ross received a bad cui
on his forehead.
Kindrick Ross had been living
with his grandfather, Thomas
Ross. His faOier is stationed
Germany and his mother at the
time of the accident was
reportedly at the beach.
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for the nearby Brown’s Grocery
on Gaines Street.
Her whereabouts were
unknown until her body, stripped
of some underclothing, was
found by jogger BUI Tighe, on a
dirt road off Midland Road, near
Radio Station WEEB, around
6:45 p.m.
Tighe called the Sheriff’s
department and Sgt. Poindexter
did the preliminary
investigation. The body was
taken to Moore Memorial
Hospital by the Southern Pines
Rescue Squad.
Investigating officers have
questioned a man, who they said
admitted going with the woman
to some woods near where the
body was found. Clothing
believed to be that of the woman
was found in the woods.
(Ckmtinued on Page 14-A)
Error Delaying Release
Of School Tests Results
Moore County will have to wait
another few weeks to find out
how its students averaged in
basic skUls tests that were given
to grades 1,2,3,6 and 9 state-wide.
Although school ad
ministrators had planned to
report results to the Board of
Education Tuesday night, they
were halted by word from
* Raleigh that the data was in
correct.
The tests are called the North
Carolina Annual Test of Basic
Skills, although this is the first
year they were issued.
Parents received test scores
for their chUdren just before
school was out this spring, but
comprehensive data for in
dividual schools, counties and
even the state was delayed for
further computer processing.
Dr. W.C. Walton and Mrs.
Glenna Brenddl, who directs
testing for the Moore County
Schools, said they received a
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Jobs Wanted For People
Having To Leave Moore
^ Sanford native Homer Faulk
began work January 1 as Moore
County’s new Economic
Development director.
Faulk comes to Moore Ounty
after 10 years with the N.C. In
dustrial Development Com
mission and says the county is
fortunate to have 65 indusMes
that employ 6,000 county
^ residents, but he is concerned
^ about those who go out of the
county to work.
“Approximately 2,500 people
leave the county every morning
to work in other areas (such as
Sanford, Fayetteville and
Rockingham), and over 2,000 oi
these are blue collar workers,
mostly male,” Faulk said. “It’s
> my suspicion these are some of
our more skilled people. I’m not
saying everybody who lives in
Moore County should work here,
but I’m saying they should have
the (^>portunity to if they want
to.”
Figiffes show that some 1,000
industrial workers come into the
3. \
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The new owners of Foxfire
Golf and Country C3ub have
assumed management of the
resort community and are
making plans for expansion.
Sale of the 1,785-acre resort
conq)lex to a New Jersey part
nership for “an amount ex
ceeding $2 million” was an
nounce this week.
’^e new owners are Marcus H.
Russell, president of the civil
engineering firm of Russell and
Russ of Toms River, N.J., and
the Terrax Corp., an investoent
Arm headed by Henry D. Mayer
of the Citizens State Bank of New
Jersey.
Russell said Tuesday that he is
now in residence at Foxfire and
will run the i^oject.
All employes of Foxfire are
remaining on the job, he said.
Tom Porter is the manager of
the club and Harvie Ward is the
golf inro. Wayne Maples is the
golf operations numager.
Russell said that the golf ar
chitectural firm of Reece-Jones
has been employed to make a
feasibility study on e]q>anding
the 27Jiole golf course. It may he
nine holes or 18 holes, he said.
A master plan for development
of a “Country Club Village” is
also being developed, and the
Homer Faulk
county every day, but these are
mostly women in low-paying
jobs, he said.
Faulk said people tend to see
Moore County mainly as a resort
and retirement area and
althou^ these are important
parts of the economy, indust^
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new owners plan to build and sell
from 25 to 50 homes a year.
No lots without homes will be
sold, Russell said. “As soon as
the first model for viewing is
built, we will start selling the
new homes,” he said. He
estimated that it could be from
three to six months.
Foxfire is an incorporated
village, with about 100
homeowners now living at the
resort.
RusseU is a consulting civil
engineer and a specialist in
“leisure technology.”
Foxfire is in western Moore
County near Jackson Springs.
Russell will be in charge of
marketing and sales with an
office at Foxfire.
Drug Arrest
The Moore County Sheriff’s
Department arrested Robert Lee
Chalmers, 37, of C!ameron, Rt. 2
Monday on drug charges.
Chalmers was arrested at 9:30
p.m. and charged with two
counts of possession of heroin
and two counts of possession for
sale, it was report^.
He is in jail under $4,000 bond
and court ^te is set for July 20.
Cases Grow But Court
Doesn’t Use Full Time
Schools
Leaders
Take Trip
Twenty-one Moore County
school principals and in
structional supervisors,
superintendent Robert E. Lee
among them, returned Saturday
from UCLA where they attended
a two-week course on clinical
supervision and at Tuesday
night’s Board of Education
meeting they gave a report.
School Board Chairman Mrs.
Lou Frye called the occasion “a
great hour for Moore Ck>unty and
a real landmark for our
children,” after comments were
made by William C. Walton,
assistant Superintendent and
three principals who attended.
The trip was funded totally by
Federal and State grants. No
local fimds were lued. After
receiving a State Title IV-C grant
to send four principals and five
staff members, the Board was
able to obtain funding under
ESAA, a federal project which
paid expenses for five more
people. Title I, which paid for
three and Title VI which paid the
way for four more. Several
administrators took family
members along at their own
expense.
Philip McMillan, principal at
Pinecrest High School, said he
was impress^ with the teaching
strategies and instruction im
provement methods of the in
structor, Dr. Madeline Hunter,
principal of the Demonstration
School at UCLA.
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Road Funds
Moore County has been
allocated $255,533 for secondary
road work by the State Depart
ment of Transportation.
The allocation is based on
219.73 miles of unpaved roads as
of last Jan. 1.
Division Eight of the Departs
ment was allocated a tot^ of
$1,648,547 out of $23,327,785 for
the entire state. There are seven
other counties in Division Eight.
Moore County has had an in
crease of civil court cases that
remain pending, eight cases that
took up to four years from filing
time to ordering of a disposition,
and one case from 10 to 20 years
old-yet the county only uses 42
percent of the civil Superior
Court time allotted it by judicial
district.
This observation and numy
more comes not from court
watchers but from actual
statistics—compiled in a 200 plus
page ^ok, the “Annual Report of
the Administrative Office of the
Courts.”
Statistics for each of the state’s
100 counties for 1977 are
available in this extensive
survey of judicial proceedings.
Other statistics for Moore
(bounty show that its increase in
pending cases is 107, the hipest
by far in the judicial district of
Anson, Moore, Richmond, Stanly
and Uiiion counties. The number
of pending cases involving
“special proceedings” have ^o
gone up; special proceedings
being any action that is neither
criminal nor fitting with general
civil (sroceedings, often handled
by the Clerk of Court.
Felony cases in Moore County
likewise are higher than other
district counties. Of the total 473
felonies tried in the district, 147
were in Moore, an increase of 48
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College Gets More Funds
For Extension, Salaries
The budget for Sandhills
Community College, which
became effective July 1, will
result in $445,000 more for
extension programs and salary
increases than the meager
budget passed by the General
Assembly for 1977-78.
However, it is not the large
budget hop^ for.
Last year, the Legislature used
a formula to determine how
much money schools could get
that was biased against
community colleges, said Dr.
Raymond Stone, president of
see. The Legislature during the
summer’s short session
continued to use this formula,
which is based upon full-year
enrollment.
Dr. Stone said it is the
recommendation of Dr. H. David
THE
PILOT LIGHT
STEWART-Speaker of the
House Carl Stewart is gearing iq;
to seek statewide office in 1980,
and what office he seeks depends
upon what Governor Jim Hunt
decides to do.
If Hunt seeks reelection, as he
can now do under a new con
stitutional amendment, Stewart
wUl likely run for Lieutenant
Governor. If Hunt decides one
term is enough Stewart will
probably seek the Governor’s
job.
Recently Stewart, ac
companied by Russell C^y and
Sid Eagles, attended a political
seminar in Oiicago.
As of now Stewart, of Gastonia,
will likely break precedent and
become Speaker of the House two
sessions in a row when the
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LAW OFFICES BURNED — Southern Pines firemen look over
damages to the Van Camp and Gill law offices on South East Broad St.
which were hit by fire Saturday night. Arson is suspected. Firemen
pictured are, left to right, Bobby Overton, Bob Ryder and Julius Fore.
Arson Suspected In Blaze
Which Gutted Law Offices
Bruton, chairman of the state
Board of Education, that only
figures for the fall, winter and
spring quarters should be used.
Because Sandhills submitted
enrollment figures which
included the meager summer
term, it was forced to fire some
14 persons last year.
“Universities use only fall and
spring figures,” Stone said, “Our
problem thus far is we’ve had to
use those summer figures.”
Last year the legislature
reduced enrollment estimates
upon which the budget was
made. Stone said these were not
true estimates, that they “had
gotten out of kilter during the
years, but we’d been living on
those estimates. We had been
under-funded. The community
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A fire that gutted the ground
floor of the law offices of Van
C^anq), Gill and Grumpier at
about 10:15 Saturday night is
believed to be arson by persons
concerned.
The fire apparently started in
the back porch area of the red
brick building at 245 South East
Broad Street.
CSiief Earl Seawell of the
Southern Pines Police Depart
ment said that there are “in
dications the office had been
brdeen into and the fire set by the
entrance at the back door.”
James Van Camp, principal
attorney in the firm, said that he
and his partners have been able
to reconstruct the records and
cases contained in the building’s
files.
Van Camp said he has no clue
as to who would want to set the
Andrews Named
Moore County Citoroner A.B.
Parker has named James E.
Andrews of Carthage,
Democratic candidate for
coroner, as assistant coroner.
Andrews has acted as coroner in
Parker’s place in recent county
incidents.
Parker said that Andrews is
“very interested in learning the
position before the election. I told
the Reupblican candidate he
could do the same thing but he
hasn’t shown any interest.”
fire. Minor vandalism to his car
and the office has occurred
within the past six months,
however.
Oiief Seawell and Detective
Harold Hunley of the Southern
Pines Police Department and
Bob Adams, State Bureau of
Investigation officer who works
out of Southern Pines, are all
working on the case.
DetH'is from the fire has been
taken to the crime lab in Raleigh
for testing. It has not been
determined how the fire was set.
Smoke damage was a factor all
over the first floor, but the iqq)er
floor and basement were not
damaged, according to
spokesmen. One room was
completely gutted, and the firm’s
Xerox machine was destroyed.
The Southern Pines Fire
Department stayed with the
building until about 4 a.m. Van
Camp said he was not notified of
the fire until about 11 p.m., when
a friend called to tell him his
building was burning down.
The law offices have tem
porarily re-located on the second
floor of the First-Citizen’s Bank
building, where Van (]amp had
had his phone lines rechanneled
by Monday morning.
Council Hears Criticism
On New Area Sewer Work
An item not technically on the
agenda drew the most comment
from the many citizens of
Southern Pines who attended the
Town Council meeting Tuesday
night.
The citizens, who live roughly
in the eastern part of town, are
concerned that sewer lines teing
installed by Dickerson, Inc. are
not being properly put in.
Mildred McDonald, town
manager, noted that she
received a petition from the
loosely organized group too late
for inclusion on &e meeting’s
agenda.
However, Mayor Emanuel S.
Douglass recognized many when
they requested to speak,
including John Ponzer, Mrs.
Ponzer, John Bell, Stuart
Higginbotham, Ellis Hawthorne,
Eleanor Carter, General William
Yarborough and representatives
of the companies whose work
they were criticizing-Dickerson
Construction Co. and Hennings,
Durham and Richardson, Inc.,
the engineering firm.
Hawthorne began the citizens’
complaints by noting a petition
has been sent to the Towji
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Quality Growth Seen As Goal
By Chamber’s New Executive
General Assembly convenes in
January.
WALKER-Senator Russell
Walker, of the 16th District has
been appointed by Lt. Gov.
Jimmy Green to the newly
established Intangibles Tax
Study Clommission.
Walker was the sponsor of the
intangibles tax study resolution
in the State Senate. During the
past session of the General
Assembly he served as vice
chairman of the Committee on
Insurance and the Conunittee on
Wildlife.
Other members named by
Green to the commission are
Senator Marshall A. Rauch of
Gastonia and Waverly F. Akins
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BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
The new executive Vice
President of the Sandhills Area
(Chamber of Commerce has had a
varied career, aspects of which
evidently pleased the search
committee when they set about
to replace Floyd &yre, who
returned to his home state of
West Virginia.
Ed Robbins, Jr. has been on
the job just a couple of weeks, but
has already met many peome in
the area. He and his wife Eflen, a
native of Tennessee, with their
son Sam came down a week early
in order to “get acquainted with
the area and the people.”
Robbins came to the Sandhills
from Oossville, Tenn., where he
spent the past few years heading
the Chamber there. “Crossville
is very similar to this area,”
Robbins said. “The town is about
the size of Southern Pines, and is
a resort area with the county’s
population clustered around it.
Land sales and tourism are
Ed Robbins Jr.
important money-making
sources.
“For years their C3iamber was
basically a tourist bureau, void
of industrial growth. They
wanted someone who could bring
in industry without upsetting
local, existing industry. To some
extent my experience there
qualified me for this job.”
Before accepting the position
at Oossville, Robbins worked in
diverse capacities in Knoxville,
North Carolina and Florida. A
native of Greensboro, he at
tended Elon College and received
his Master’s Degree from UNC in
conununications.
For several years Robbins was
a teacher, working in Green
sboro and Lee CJounty, where he
taught English, speech, drama,
debate and radio sl^ and
Florida Southern (Allege, where
he was assistant professor of
conununications and organized
the debate team there.
Eventually Robbins moved
back to Greensboro, where he
opened a recording and
I^otographic studio. The studio
specialized in multimedia
presentations for companies,
producing radio spots, television
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