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tobacco SALES OPEN — Prices were
considerably higher on opening day auction
sales Tuesday at Carthage over the 1977
opening, with an average of $122.40 per hundred
pounds recorded for tobacco offerings. A total
of 273,668 pounds were sold Tuesday at
Carthage. Opening day sales begin today
Aberdeen.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
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Opening Tobacco Sales Is $122;
Quality Much Better Than In ’77
BY ELLEN WELLES
The 1978 Tobacco Season
opened Tuesday at four
warehouses in Carthage with
prices averaging $122.40 per
hundred pounds on gross sales
totalling $335,064.43 and a total of
273,668 poun^ sold.
Growers were pleased at the
big jump from last year’s for 40 years.”
opening day average of $79.89 per
hundrfid£
According fff FFaflk Bryant of
the Farmer’s Cooperative
Warehouse where sales began at
9 a.m., “This was the best and
cleanest opening sale I’ve seen,
and I’ve been working tobacco
Sales opened this morning on
the Aberdeen market with the
New Aberdeen Warehouse prices
ranging from a high of $1.55 to 90
cents per pound.
Liquor Hearing Aug. 9;
Some Issues Advanced
Major questions in regard to
regulations on the sale of mixed
beverages were announced this
week on the eve of a public
hearing in Southern Pines.
The date for the hearing has
been changed from Tuesday,
Aug. 8, to Wednesday, Aug. 9.
Two sessions-at 2 p.m. and
7:30 p.m.-will be held in the
Town Council chamber at the
Southern Pines Municipal
Building.
Former Governor James E.
Holshouser, Jr., said that a
switch in the hearing dates was
made between Southern Pines
and Wilmington because of a
conflict with the Southern Pines
Town Council’s regular meeting
on Tuesday night.
Holshouser emphasized that
all citizens, including
consumers, potential sellers,
local ABC officials, enforcement
agencies, liquor industry
representatives, are invited to
attend the hearing and offer
comment.
Holshouser was appointed by
Governor Jim Hunt as chairman
of a special conunittee to conduct
the hearings and make
(Continued on Page 14*A)
It was estimated the three
warehouses in Aberdeen would
sell 250,000 pounds today at an
average of $123 per hundred. The
second sale was held at Planter’s
Warehouse and the third was set
for Galimore and Lambeth.
At press time this morning, the
high at Planter’s was $1.55 also.
Others agreed with Bryant and
Moore County Agricultural
Extension Agent Talmadge
Baker called the tobacco quality
excellent.
Both attributed the rise in
{K-ice to the favorable growing
season, the efforts of farmers
and the quality of tobacco. A
number of farmers are leaving
the lowest and most undesireable
leaves on the stalk.
At Cooperative Warehouse, the
prices ranged from 92 cents to
$1.55 for an average of $125.95 per
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Grant Received By Vass
For Recreation Facility
Citizens Meet Monday
For Liauor Vote Talk
A group of citizens composed
of some local churchmen and
others has called for a public
interest meeting of persons
opposed to liquor-by-the-drink in
the forthcoming referendum vote
on Sept. 12.
The meeting will be held in the
Southern Pines Municipal
Building next Monday, August 7,
at 8 p.m.
Presently, there is no
organization of citizens
promoting opposition to liquor-
by-the-drink, nor is there any
current plan to form such an
organization, a spokesman said.
“The single purpose of the
August 7 meeting is to determine
how much public interest there is
toward the goal of presenting to
the Southern Pines conununity
fair and clear arguments in
opposition to liquor by the
drink,” it was announced.
A $51,446 recreational
development program is under
way in Vass.
Town CHerk Irene Mullinix
.reported this week that Vass has
received a $25,723 grant from the
state for the development of an
eight-acre recreational complex
at the intersection of US
Highway 1 and the Carthage
Road.
This amount had to be matched
by the Town of Vass and the town
council already had
appropriated its share of the
funds.
A special recreation
committee composed of the Rev.
J.C. Parker, Joseph Frye and
Dr. Russell Tate was instructed
to begin work immediately on the
project.
The land had been cleared
earlier through donated funds
and construction can be started
on a series of recreational
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
The results of a testing
program planned for state-wide
release tomorrow were obtained
early by The Pilot-and show that
Moore County students perform
below the state average in every
case.
In each criteria, students
tested in every grade in the
county scored below the state
average.
However, this does not mean
individual scores were all low.
Parents of those tested received
their child’s scores in May, and
many were quite high.
The test is called the North
Carolina Annual Testing
Program, although this is the
first year it was used. Students in
first, second, third, sixth and
ninth grades were tested in
reading, math and a battery of
other sl^s.
As in the state-wide
competency tests, which
beginning next spring will help
determine status for graduation,
Moore County was linked with
surrounding counties and school
districts in “Region Four.”
Regions One and Four scored
the lowest in the state in the
Annual Testing Program.
However, within the
boundaries of Region Four,
Moore County did a little
better-scoring not up to the state
average but at least a little better
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Robbins
Industry
Is Sold
The sale of one of Moore
Countys major industries-
Mansion Homes of Robbins-to a
Georgia corporation was an
nounced this week.
The sales price was reportedly
in the range of around $3 million.
James A. Hutchinson Jr.,
president of Brigadier Industries
Corporation, Thomson, Georgia,
and A. Allan McDonald,
president of Mansion Homes
Corporation, Robbins, jointly
announced the acquisition by
Brigadier of the mobile home
manufacturing business of
Mansion for cash effective July
31.
The acquisition will involve no
management changes at Man
sion Homes.
Charles R. (Dick) Davis will
continue as executive vice
president and general manager,
George F. Heatwole will continue
as vice (x'esident and sales
manager and A. Allan McDonald
will continue in his capacity as
consultant to purchasing for
lumber and plywood. It is an-
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Pinehurst Survey Begun
On Residents Attitudes
A survey is underway on the
attitudes of residents of
Pinehurst about the present and
the future as weU as their
opinions on the “quality of life”
in the village.
Jerry Slade, president of
Pinehurst, Inc., this week issued,
the following statement about the
survey:
“Pinehurst, Incorporated, has
hired a team of graduate
students from North Carolina
State University to survey
facilities.
These facilities will include a
lighted baseball and softbaU
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Youth Dies
In Cycle
Accident
Thomas Andrew Coffey, 18,
died Friday in a motorcycle
accident on the base at Fort
Bragg. He was a member of
Company A, 407 S and S
Batallion, U.S. Army, and a
graduate of Pinecrest High
School.
Graveside services were held
Tuesday at 2 p.m. with military
honors at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Robbins Farmer’s Day
Will Be Held Satiu*day
The annual Robbins Farmer’
Day festivities are set for
Saturday, and the crowd
promises to be one of the biggest
yet to see Grand Ole Opry stars
and Curtis Hussey’s wagon train.
Vernon Myrick, chairman of
the Robbins Merchants
Association, said he expects
more than the 20,000 who lined
the streets of Robbins during the
first weekend in August last
year.
There is some debate which
anniversary this is for the
Farmer’s Day, which has been
held the first weekend in August
for either the past 24 or 25 years.
Curtis Hussey said that the fir:rt
year didn’t really count, because
there were only a few wagons,
but if the occasion dates from
that time, this is the silver
anniversary.
The “doings” will begin Friday
morning, when the wagon train
commanded by Hussey leaves
the High Falls Elementary
School. Arrival time in Robbins
is scheduled for noon, and the
wagons can begin to set up camp.
. During the afternoon people
will set up booths alot^ the
streets of Robbins, aU of which
turns out for the annual gala. By
sundown the streets are rolled
not up but out, and are the site for
singing and dancing that won’t
be seen again for another year.
(Continaed on Page 16-A)
Kelly: Schools Reject State Offer
THE
PILOT LIGHT
PRESIDENT - President
Jimmy C^ter is coming to North
C^arolina on Saturday to help
boost the U.S. Senate campaign
of John Ingram, but state
Democratic leaders are hoping
he will be back in the fall for
another appearance.
The President’s visit to Rocky
Mount and Wilson is also seen as
backing of the tobacco support
program, and while here Carter
will talk widi tobacco leaders
and visit a warehouse.
Such backing is seen as
beneficial to Ingram’s campaign
in Eastern Carolina.
Democrats have talked about
holding a party fund-raiser and
campaign gala in the fall and
hope to persuade President
Carter to come back as the
headliner for that event.
REPUBLICANS - Former
Governor Jim Holshouser and
(jieorge Little of Southern Pines
have been appointed to a Board
of Advisors for the North
Carolina Federation of College
Republicans.
Rudy Ogbum, chairman of the
group, said that the board
members will be used in an
extensive membership drive this
faU.
A number of Republican of
ficials and leaders were named
to the board.
Little is chairman of Moore
County Republicans and is
former Secretary of the
Department of Natural
(Continaed on Page 16-A)
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
Kent Kelly, the well-known
pastor of Calvary Memorial
Church in Southern Pines,
revealed over the weekend that
his opponents in a court suit
about the rights of church and
state offered to grant the church
schools everytWng they asked
for in an effort to stay out of
court.
The unpublicized compromise
ai^ars to be not really a
compromise but a gift-lawyers
from the state Attorney
General’s office offered the
church school defendants a
stipulation saying they would
resolve their differences.
However, the stipulation did not
offer the thing the Christian
schools want most: recognition
that they are an entity with no
reason to be governed by secular
educational criteria.
“They were giving us
everything we were asking for
except for the recognition that as
church schools we had First
Amendment protection,” Kelly
said. “Mr. Ball said the
stipulation demonstrated how
badly they wanted out.”
Mr. Ball is William Bell, a-
celebrated Pennsylvania lawyer,
who has tried several cases of
this type successfully, one all the
way to the Supreme Court. He
has defended the right of the
Amish to educate their children,
and according to Kelly “...has a
mind like a computer. It’s easy to
see from the logic he derives to
constitutional cases.
“Mr. Ball says there’s no
question whether this will go to
(be Supreme Court. He calls
ours a ‘first impression’ case.
This is the first time a state
government has ever claimed
total power-there are no
provisions on what they can’t do.
“This is the first time there’s
been a suit against a movement,
a group of schools, rather than an
individual.”
Kelly is referring to the class
action suit brought by the state of
North Carolina against eleven
Christian schools, of which
Calvary is not included.
However, Kelly said there are 51
other schools that could just as
easily have been named.
“There are 62 Christian
schools that are concerned with
this, and we’re all in this
together. We’ve all agreed to go
to jail if it comes to that.”
Would Move
Kelly added: “My church
members have agreed with me to
close the school and move to
another state if we are forced to
recognize state laws.”
Superior Court Judge Donald
Smith, who tried the case last
week in Raleigh, determined at
the recess Thursday a ruling can
be expected no later than Sep
tember 1. Kelly said Saturday
that Calvary and the other 61
schools cannot be closed down by
an unfavorable ruling, but he and
residents of Pinehurst about
their attitudes on the present and
future of Pinehurst and the
quality of life enjoyed here.
“The results of this survey
conducted by these unbiased
young ladies can help Pinehurst,
Incorporated, determine how its
future operations can answer the
needs and wishes of the
residents.
“As has been stated
previously, Pinehurst, In-
(Continued on Page 16-A)
WRITERS SPEAK - The North Carolina
Writers Conference held its annual gathering in
Southern Pines this past weekend and on
Saturday night at a banquet at the Sheraton Inn
paid tribute to Jonathan Daniels, noted editor
and writer. Paul Green is the speaker, and at
left are Dr. Lewis Patton, Mrs. Greene and
Sani Ragan.—(Photo by Linda Walters).
Writers Support
Weymouth Effort
Enthusiasm for future plans
and pledges of support for the
preservation of Weymouth were
expressed here this past
weekend by members of the
North Carolina Writers Con
ference.
More than 100 writers from all
parts of the state attended the
29th annual gathering of the
Writers Conference.
It was the first of what the
Friends of Weymouth hope will
be many future meetings of
similar groups at the home of the
late novelist James Boyd and
Katharine Boyd.
The Conference opened Friday
afternoon at the Sheraton Inn
and a central theme of the formal
program and informal
workshops was a growing in
terest in the short story.
(Continued on Page 14-A)
Conventions Important
For Sandhills Resorts
The convention and meeting
business is becoming more and
more important in the Sandhills.
Those who visit in Pinehurst
during the summer after many
years away are often stunned by
the change. Once a winter resort,
Pinehurst and the rest of the
Sandhills now attract golfers and
tourists throughout the year.
In fact, many hotels cite
summer as the fastest-growing
season for new business.
Kurt Gary at Mid Pines said
“Generally speaking the big
convention months are April and
May, but June is coming up
there.
“We call conventions anything
from a group of 25 to a full house,
which is 200 and includes the
Golfotel and cottages.
“Looking back, I see we had 18
conventions in May, the majority
being North Carolina-based
organizations. April is a large
package-plan month-the last two
weeks in April all the groups
were state-based.”
Don Calfee at the Sheraton
Motor Inn said April and May
were especially big months. The
Sheraton attracts many large,
(Continued on Page 16-A)
other ministers can be jailed for
contempt.
“I’d a lot rather go to
Mississippi or Florida than go to
jail.' Florida has a strong
Christian school lobby.
California has no requirements
of any kind. I think the majority
of my congregation would move,'
too, because of the principle
involved. We’ve talked about it.”
Kelly’s congregation of over
220 include many who are
parents of the 120 students
enrolled in Calvary Christian
School or its day care center,
which cares for 55. About half of
those enrolled, however, are
children of people who do not
worship at cialvary. “They just
want a good Christian education
for their children,” Kelly said.
Kelly ’s definition of a Christian
education includes all of a
school’s instruction. “We say
everything we teach is religious
instmetion. Therefore the state
(Continued on Page 7-A)
KELLY IN RALEIGH — The Rev. Kent Kelly
is shown talking with reporters during
proceedings involving Christian schools and the
State of North Carolina. —(Photo by Cooper
Francis).