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Index
Boot^ "age, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-
B; Clt g^ified Ads, 9-15-C; Editorials, 1-
B; Ef (^rtaimnent, 4-7-C; Obituaries, 7-
A; PB||^urst News, 1-3-C; Sandhills
Scene,\2^; Sports, 10-12-A.
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Weather
Partly cloudy with a chance of
afternoon and evening thunder
showers through Thursday.
Temperature, 90 today, 72 tonight.
Chance of rain, 30 percent today, 20
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Vol. 58, Number 41
48 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina 11387
Wednesday, August 9, 1978
48 Pages
PRICE 15 CENTS
Sides Are Quiet
uor Issue Vote
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M^hess
Denied
Rezoning
The Moore County Com
missioners have denied
Leaverne Maness’s request to
change the zoning on his land on
Midland Road from RA
(Residential Agricultural) to
Highway Commercial in light of
recent evidence that the deed
restrictions have strict
regulations which have
precedence over zoning.
Maness wants to change the
zoning so he can expand his
motel and build a swimming
pool, but he has been opposed for
some time by the Moore County
Qtizens for Better Zoning which
wants to keep Midland Road the
way it is.
All four Commissioners voted
in favor of the motion made by
Conunissioner Tony Parker and
seconded by Commissioner
Arthur Purvis which stated, “I
move that we deny the request of
Leaverne Maness as long as the
restrictions on the property
remain. If and When the
restrictions are removed, we will
reconsider it.”
When Commissioner Lee
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Pinehurst
Has Many
Undecided
Pinehurst, Incorporated,
announced today it will launch an
informational campaign on the
facts of incorporation, because
survey results show that 40
percoit of Pinehurst’s voters are
undecided on how to vote con
cerning incorporation of
Pinehurst.
Jerry Slade, President of
Pinehurst, Incorporated, said 440
homes were visited during the
survey July 25-27, and that out of
the 179 voters interviewed, 72 of
them or 40 percent had not yet
decided how they would vote
(Continued on Page 15-A)
THE MOON AND VENUS—Photographer
Glenn M. Sides thought the sky was unusually
beautiful and took this shot Monday night. A
call from The Pilot to Astrologer Allen Clarke
of the Sandhills Observatory verified this. The
close conjunction of the plant Venus with the
Moon was awaited eagerly by readers of “Sky
and Telescope,” scientific journal, because on
August 7 a “spectacular narrow miss” would be
seen east of the Mississippi River and in
Hawaii, the planet would disappear completely
behind the moon. A partial occulation of Venus
was also visible in Mexico and Texas.
Both the pro and anti-liquor-
by-the-drink forces have talked
about organizing prior to the
September 12 election on the
issue in Southern Pines, but
neither group has made any
decisive action.
The deadline for registration to
vote in the election is August 14.
The election is only open to
residents within the town limits
of Southern Pines.
A hearing, presided over by
former Governor James
Holshouser, got under way at 2
p.m. today. A second hearing by
the special committee on liquor
sale regulations will be held
tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the
Town Hall. The public is invited
to attend and comment.
Lamont Brown, president of
the Sandhills Area Chamber of
Conunerce, said that a Mixed
Beverages Committee is in the
process of being formed for the
purpose of pushing a pro vote for
liquor-by-the-drink, but it will not
be a Chamber of Commerce
action per se.
“The Chamber represents the
whole area and Southern Pines is
where they’re having the vote,”
Brown said. He said George
Little, Chamber vic&i>resident
for conununity development, is
helpng with the drive.
Citizens opposed to liquor-by-
the-drink met in the Town H^
Monday night where the decision^
was made to hold another
meeting Thursday, Aug. 10, due
to the small numbers who came.
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AN AUGUST AFTERNOON—Summer clouds
rolled over the Sandhills this past week and
Photographer Glenn M. Sides caught this
afternoon
farm.
display at a Southern Pines horse
Scores By Schools Are Reported;
Variances Difficult To Interpret
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
The Pilot ran a story last week
preceding the state’s release of
test scores which concern all the
state’s public school children in
rri n T Tobacco Prices Move Up
Manager To Move to $123.72 At Carthage
From City Hall
The offices of the Town
Manager, Town Planner and
Assistant Manager will be moved
to the new town building complex
near the US 1 bypass as a result
of action taken by the Southern
Pines Town Council Tuesday
night.
Town Manager Mildred Mc
Donald, in explaining this move
said “Tiiat building seemed like
it had an awful lot of space to
house one public works direc
tor.” Presently, only Bill Wilson
has offices in the new building.
The action, however, serves a
double purpose as the move ivill
allow the police department, now
cramped for space, to expand
into almost all of the present
town office space, leaving room
only for the Water, Tax and
Accounting Departments in the
municipal bulling.
The police department earlier
this summer had received ap
proval from the Council to ex
pand in its present location. With
the new arrangement, the town
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Candor Man Caught In Chase
After Hold-Up In Pinebluff
An armed robbery occurred at
the Country Cubbard Con
venience Store in Pinebluff
Thursday afternoon, and
Alexander Ingram, 27, of Rt. 2,
Candor, was arrested and
charged with the hold-up.
According to Pinebluff Police
CSiief Frank Swaim, the robber
entered the convenience store
about 4 p.m. and walked back to
where the beer was once sold.
The employe in the store at the
time, Steve Bennett, said the
man walked back and asked
where the beer was now. When
he came back with a six-pack,
the man reportedly pulled out a
gun and told Bennett to put the
money from the cash register in
the paper bag he had out to put
the beer in.
Then, Bennett told Swaim, the
man told him to go in the tock
room. At this point he ran out the
door and to a neighbor’s house.
Chief Swaim arrived just after
the call was placed and put out
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Tobacco prices moved upward
on one Moore auction market
this week, but dropped on the
other.
On the Carthage market
Monday the average price was
$123.72 per hundred pounds with
total sales of 361,805 pounds and
total money of $447,626.07.
This is an increase over
opening day.
The majority of the offerings
was considered fair to good
quality priming with prices good
on the medium grades but
weaker on the better grades.
“The quality on the floor this
year is good,” said Frank Bryant
of the Farmer’s Cooperative
Warehouse. “The offerings are
good to excellent and much
better than a year ago. Most of
the farmers spirits are up but
Monday’s prices dimmed them a
Memorial Mass
A Memorial Mass in honor of
Holy Father Pope Paul VI will be
given at the regular Saturday
evening Mass at 5 p.m. at Sacred
Heart Cathedral with Father
Donahue officiating.
Another Mass in honor of the
late Pope Paul VI will offer pray
ers at 6 p.m. Saturday and at
usual services Sunday at 9 and at
11 a.m. at St. Anthony’s Catholic
Church by Father Waters.
little because even though we got
a top price of $1.55, it took better
quality of tobacco to get than it
did on opening day.”
Bryant said a very small
percentage of baskets went to the
Stabilization Corporation (the
price support organization),
probably less than four percent
and one from his warehouse.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Katsos
Ruling
Is Given
Moore County Republicans will
not be able to vote a straight
ticket and for “Unaffiliated”
Tim Katsos at the same time in
the November election.
Katsos is a candidate for
county commissioner from
District One, and will appear on
the ballot as “Unaffiliated” with
either party.
Republican officials have
endorsed Katsos, however, and
had asked the Moore County
Board of Elections if a straight
ticket vote could be made and a
vote cast for Katsos. There is no
Republican candidate for
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grades one, two, three, six, and
nine.
Moore County’s students on the
whole scored poorly on this test,
already called the North
Carolina Annual Testing
Program by its designers,
though 1978 was its first year.
Results are now available for
individual schools and in several
cases are quite remarkable.
Particularly interesting for those
Tobacco Safe
Daily showers have not hurt
the local tobacco crop, Extension
County Agent Talmadge Baker
said Tuesday.
Because of the sandy soil here,
the rains have quickly sifted
through the soil, he said. Other
areas of the Piedmont had
reported damage from rain and
wUt.
Tobacco harvest is about half
complete.
'The only crop threatened by
the rain is the young soybean.
Baker said, where fertilizer has
been leach^ from the soil.
in the Southern Pines area is the
fact that students tested in
grades one, two and three at
Southern Pines Elementary
score below the county’s own
poor average-only to rise after
attending Southern Pines Middle
School for fifth grade and most of
sixth.
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Nature Conservancy
Playing Major Role
BY HOWARD S. MUSE JR.
“It’s a georgeous tree,”
exclaimed Tom Massengale of
Chapel Hill, 30, Director, North
Carolina Nature Conservancy, as
he examined the state champion
longleaf pine for the first time on
the Boyd Estate one day
recently.
For those not familiar with it,
the Nature Conservancy is a
national conservation
organization committed to
preserving natural diversity by
protecting lands that contain the
best components of the natural
world.
Here in the Sandhills, the
Nature Conservancy is best
known for providing the $20,000
down payment which
Friends of Weymouth is using to
buy the Boyd Estate. Yet,
through its North Carolina office,
which Massengale established in
October, 1976, the Nature
(Conservancy has so far been
responsible for preserving about
35,000 acres worth $12-14 million.
It’s an impressive record, and
much of the credit should go to
Massengale, whose job calls for
him to be equal parts fund raiser,
administrator, naturalist,
(Continued on Page 15-A)
More Leaving Than Coming In
On Amtrak’s Three Trains Here
Amtrak passenger service,
which provides train connections
all over the country but actually
stops in very few places, has
three trains daily arriving and
departing from the downtown
Southern Pines train station.
Southern Pines is a midpoint
on the north and south line, which
reaches from Canada to southern
Florida. For many years,
tourists to the Sandhills relied on During the rest of the year,
the train. about 350 to 400 people both
Today, station agent Wayne arrive and depart.
(3uinn says that more people (Juinn said two trains a day go
depart on Amtrak than come in, north, stoj^ing along the way at
during the summer months. In points like Raleigh, Richmond,
June, July and August about 500
to 550 passengers per month
leave from the Southern Pines
station, while approximately 320
come in.
Washington, Baltimore, New
York and small towns in
Massachusetts on the way
through New England to Mon-
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
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STORE ROBBED—Steve Bennett of Pinebluff described the armed
robbery of the Country Cubbard to Sgt. Lawrence Poindexter of the
Moore County Sheriff’s Department. Bennett was alone in the Pinebluff
store when the hold-up took place.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
REGISTRA'nON-The regis
tration of new voters for the
Sept. 12 referendum in Southern
Pines on the liquor-by-the-
drink issue has been slow.
Only 24 new voters were
registered during July in the
four Southern Pines pre-
cincts-Knollwood, Pinedene,
South Southern Pines and North
Southern Pines. The total voter
registration this week is 3,468.
The deadline for registering to
vote in the referendum is August
14.
LEGISLATURE-Even though
state revenue collections are
continuing to climb and a
sizeable surplus seems assured
the big issue at the 1979 session of
the State Legislature will still be
money.
The reason is that hefty
increases are being sought for
schools and in every other area
of state spending.
Governor Jim Hunt is sticking
by his pledge of no new taxes and
will hold to it during the
legislative session.
On the other hand, if the
surplus is large there may be a
move toward legislation to
refund some taxes.
MORGAN-Senator Robert
Morgan has taken the leadership
in a move to return the Postal
Service to the concept of public
service and place it under the
control of Congress. In a
statement issued this week,
Morgan said:
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WAITING FOR TRAIN — A group of passengers sit outside on a
summer night to wait for the Amtrak train to come and take them
away.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).