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Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387
Wednesday, August 23, 1978
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CASPER INDUCTED — Billy Casper was inducted last night into the
World Golf Hall of Fame in ceremonies at the Pinehurst Hotel. From
left to right are Bud Palmer, TV personality who served as master of'
ceremonies, Don Collett, president of the Hall of Fame, Casper, and
Mrs. Collett—(Photo by Emerson Humphrey).
Army Engineers Hold Meet
On PCB Dump Near Here
Army Engineers met Monday
and Tuesday at Fort Bragg with
Environmental Protection
Agency officials from the
regional office in Atlanta, Ga.
and the state office in Raleigh to
discuss the fate of the PCB
deliberately dumped on King
Road near Southern Pines.
By this morning, nothing had
been decided, according to
James Strickland, of the Public
Information Office at Fort
Bragg.
The other spills, estimated at
some 15 along about 270 miles,
were considered the
responsibility of the State of
North Carolina. The local one is
the responsibility of the federal
government, it is reported, as it
is on a federal Army reservation.
Town Clerk Mildred McDonald
has received no word concerning
the toxic material, she said late
Tuesday. PCB is an acronym for
polychlorinated biphenyl, used in
electrical transformers.
^ County Board Delaying
Action On Town Issue
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The Moore County
Commissioners in special session
Monday night decided to wait a
while longer before taking any
more action to get Southern
Pines to pay what it owes on the
debt service for the Regional
Waste Water Treatment Plant.
Southern Pines has refused to
pay both the June and July bills
of $3,570 each for its share of the
debt service because it is
protesting the fact that the
county paid Aberdeen $210,000
for its old sewer plant and
Southern Pines received nothing
for its plant at the time it was
decided the towns would join the
system.
“I hate to take any drastic
moves,” said W. Sidney Taylor,
Chairman of the Commissioners.
“I really don’t know what to do. I
Tax Discount
August 31 is the last day for the
2 percent discount on Southern
Pines tales. Town Manager
Mildred McDonald said this
week.
Mrs. McDonald said that taxes
paid through that date will get a 2
percent discount and after that
date the full amount will be due.
have not suggested it would go to
court. That wouldn’t help the
county’s or Southern Pines’
image.”
Commissioner Carolyn Blue
said, “It’s the Town Council that
soimds off key to me. It seems
like the rest of Southern Pines
thinks they ought to pay.”
Commissioner Tony Parker
agreed and said, “They seem to
realize they will have to pay in
the end because they signed the
contract, but they haven’t come
around yet. I think what we need
to have is just a heart-to-heart
talk with them and they’ll see it
in a little different light than a
month ago.”
After mention was made that a
news reporter could not find any
mention of the purchase of the
Aberdeen plant in the
Commissioners minutes after
digging back to 1974, Finance
Officer Mrs. Estelle Wicker said
it was handled in the Farm Home
Administration Loan.
Commissioner Arthur Purvis
said, “I distinctly remember
(Bob) Helms (former County
Administrator) telling me they
had worked out a deal with
Aberdeen and it was in the
(news) papers.”
(Continued on Page 12-A)
An alert citizen, who perferred
iD'Ot'to be identified, thought he
saw a truck pouring suspicious
material on Highway 5 near the
J.P. Stevens plant Monday. He
reported it to officers including
Sheriff C.G. Wimberly, who
immediately called out all
available cars and notified police
departments throughout Moore
County.
It was discovered to be another
false alarm by officers, who
converged on the truck in
Montgomery County near
Candor.
Material the truck was
carrying was found to be liquid
Nylon, they said. Involved in the
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Schools
Begin Fxill
Day Sept. 5
Moore County students will
have a half-day of school next
Thursday, August 31.
“Pupil Orientation Day” will
be held in all Moore County
Schools followed by the first full
day of school on Tuesday,
September 5.
On “Pupil Orientation Day” a
half-day of school, buses will run
their regular schedule routes,
but cafeterias will not be open as
the children will be home for
lunch. During the morning they
will get acquainted with their
new teachers and classrooms,
and receive their books and first
assignments.
Tuesday, September 5, school
will be underway in all it’s
aspects.
The teachers reported for work
on August 21 and have been
preparing for school opening
along with attending various
inservice workshops ^oughout
the County.
A record crowd topping last
year’s 60,000 is expected here
this week for North Carolina’s
“Grand Week of Golf,” which got
under way on Monday.
Donald C. Collett, president of
the World Golf Hall of Fame and
tournament chairman, said
another “great tournament” is in
the offing for the Colgate-Hall of
Fame Classic, which gets under
way tomorrow (Thur^y).
Ticket sales on Tuesday were
running considerably ahead of
last year, which led to
predictions of tournament
officials of a crowd exceeding the
more than 60,000 vtiio came for
last year’s Classic, which was
won in a record-setting
performance by Hale Irwin.
Irwin’s 264 for the 72^iole
stroke play tournament was 20
under par on the famed
Pinehurst No. 2 course. Irwin is
back to defend his title.
A revamped course is expected
to make play much tougher and
more challenging, and
Tournament Director Lou Miller
has predicted that eight or ten
under par will be enough to win
this year’s championship and the
$50,000 first prize.
Total prize money for the
(lassie is $250,000.
Monday and Tuesday were set
aside for practice rounds and for
qualifying by non-exempt
players on the PGA tour. '
Tuesday night was a special
night~the annual induction
ceremonies for the World Golf
Hall of Fame, and on hand for the
induction was Billy Casper, the
only modem era golfer selected
this year. Casper ^ also play in
the tournament.
Others inducted into the Hall of
Fame Tuesday night were Bing
Crosby and Clifford Roberts, for
Distinguished Service, Harold
Hilton and Dorothy Campbell
Hurd Howe, from the
pre-modem Era golfers.
The induction Tuesday night
was the fifth annual ceremony
and was held at the Pinehurst
Hotel, with TV sportscaster Bud
Palmer as master of ceremonies.
Invocation was by Paul H.
Dunn and Collett paid tribute to
the members of the Hall of
Fame. Opera Star Dorothy
Kirsten sang, and Foster made
remarks. Featured on the
program was Joey Bishop.
Collett made the presentation
of the Hall of Fame plaque to
Caster. Willie Mays accepted for
Bing (Trosby, Sandra Hurd for
Mrs. Hurd, and Jerome Franklin
for Hilton and Roberts.
(Continued on Page 12-A)
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EVERYBODY’S HAPPY — Andy Bean (left)
and Tom Watson (with microphone) get smiles
from the onlookers at a Junior Golfers clinic
Tuesday afternoon at the Pinehurst Country
Club. Both will be playing for the $50,000 first
prize money in the $250,000 Colgate-Hall of
Fame Classic which gets under way Thursday
morning.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
School Officials Talk About Tests,
Decide To Concentrate On Basics
Discussion of the state testing
program and the Iowa Basic
Skills were the major topics in
the meeting of the Moore County
Board of -Education Monday
night.
Mrs. Glenna Brendell, who
directs testing for the schools,
and Dr. W.C. Walton, assistant
superintendent of curriculum
presented the results to Mrs.
John Frye, chairman, and the
school brard.
Results of the Annual Testing
Program have already been
covered by The Pilot. The Iowa
test results were given after a
preface by Walton, who said
“We saw the need in 1972 to
begin gathering some baseline
data on test scores.
“The last time I talked to you
about this I said beware of
anyone who claims to be an
expert on testing.” However,
Walton said the most qualified
people were consulted and the
recommendation was to utilize
the Iowa Test of Basic Skills to
all children in grades one
through eight.
“It’s probably the broadest
test there is in that it covers
several study areas,” Walton
said. There was some feeling
THE
PILOT LIGHT
REGISTRATION-A total of
3,636 persons is eligible to vote
in the Southern Pines
referendum on the sale of
liquor-by-the-drink on Sept. 12.
There were 192 new
registrations in the four Southern
Pines precincts-Pinedene,
KnoUwood, North Southern Pines
and South Southern Pines-in the
weeks before the closing of
registration on Aug. 14.
JONES-Pat Jones writes from
Charlotte that in the recent
Spotlight feature on Ed Causey,
chairman of the Moore County
Democratic party, we neglected
to point out that he is also
president of the Sandhills Chitlin
and Choral Society.
“Ray Stone is vice president of
that great organization,” Pat
writes. In addition. Dr. Stone is
known as a chitlin cooker.
Causey annually hosts a group
of friends for a chitlin strut at his
cabin near Lakeview.
SHERWOOD-William I.
Sherwood of Trypn has
announced that he is a “write in”
candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Attacking the “vested interests
(Continued on Page 11-A)
among Moore County educators
that the Annual Testing
Program, administered by the
state, was not reflective of a
student’s skills in that it tested
only reading and mathematics.
Walton said that the Iowa tests
were given to the greatest
number of students, and that
“We were told Iowa scores lower
than other tests.”
Walton also pointed out that
the scores could be considered
low because they were
administered during the seventh
rather than the eighth month of
school, to coincide with the
Tobacco
Prices
Move Up
Tobacco prices were higher
than tiiey’ve been since the
market opened in Moore County
in sales Monday and Tuesday.
The average on the Carthage
market jumped from $119.01 last
week to $126.31 per hundred in
Tuesday’s sale with a total of
373,999 pounds sold at $472,425.27.
Although the floors were fairly
fidl, they were not quite as full as
last week when 395,695 pounds
were sold at $470,909.
According to Frank Bryant of
the Farmer’s Cooperative
Warehouse, prices have been
picking up and there are more
cutters (leaves further up on the
stalk) and good lugs, but the
majority of the sale still consists
of poor primings and nondescript
grades of leaves.
“The farmers had a mixed
reaction to the sales,” Bryant
said. “We were real optimistic so
some farmers were disap
pointed, but then some were real
haM>y with the prices.”
Bryant said approximately 11
percent of the sale went to the
Stabilization Corporation (the
price support organization), up
from last week’s figiu*e of 2
(Continued on Page 12-A)
testing dates for the statewide
battery.
The national norms used the
eighth month as their average
figure-i,e« a.fifth grader would
score, on the average 5.8 across
the nation, a sixth 6.8, etc.
However, this month’s
difference was only in effect for
the most recent testing period,
1977-78, and have no reflection on
Moore County’s scores for other
years, which in many cases were
not as good.
As in the Annual Testing
Program, Moore County
students began the Iowa tests
according to national (or state)
averages, but their scores soon
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Federal Funds Used Here
For Network, More Staff
Governor Jim Hunt testified in
Washington last week on the
need North Carolina and other
states still have for LEAA (Law
Enforcement Assistance
Administration) funds to flow in
from the federal government for
the hiring of law enforcement
personnel and the
implementation of projects
various towns and law
enforcement entities mi^t not
be able to afford otherwise.
In the past few years LEAA
funds have established one
unified communications network
in Moore County, which before
had law enforcement agencies
with radios on diverse
frequencies as well as funds to
boost law enforcement staff by
the hiring of additional
personnel.
Vernon Peebles has been the
LEAA planner for Region H,
which includes Moore,
Richmond, Montgomery and
Anson counties since 1971. He
said “The idea of LEAA is to
start new types of programs and
if they work, local officials can
pick them up and continue
them.”
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Sandhills Grads Urged
To Assume Active Role
Dr. Raymond A. Stone,
president of Sandhills
Community College, presided at
the formal summer
commencement ceremony in the
Fountain Courtyard Friday
evening.
The traditional program
opened with a procession of
members of the graduating
class, the Board of Trustees and
the faculty to the stirring
“March” by Purcell played by
the Sandhills Conununity College
Brass Ensemble, directed by
Marion Rogers, chairman of the
department of music.
Everyone joined in singing the
Nation^ Anthem and remained
standing for the invocation given
by the Rev. C. Gene Booker,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Robbins.
H. Clifton Blue, chairman of
the Board of Trustees since the
college was established in Moore
County, welcomed the several
hundred visitors to the 13th
summer graduation exercises of
Sandhills.
Dr. Stone introduced Emanuel
Douglass, the Mayor of Southern
Pines, who gae a challenging
address. A native of
Winston-Salem, Douglass was
graduated from A&T University
where he was an outstanding
football and baseball player and
was elected to the I^Mrts Hall of
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41% Of Moore Work Force Is Female But Few Hold Top Positions
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
Little girls are sugar and spice
and grow up to be librarians,
first-grade teachers, and are
always there in white to hold
your hand. Right?
The stereotype has remained
alarmingly true in Moore
County, where forty percent of
the work force is female, em
ployed generally in low-authority
positions in the area’s industries,
governmental sectors and school
systems.
Although women’s
organizations abound on the
national level. Southern Pines
and Moore County are noticeably
short of a multi-faceted ^oup
such as the National
Organization for Women (NOW).
Women’s groups with the ex
ception of the AAUW (American
Association of University
Women) and professional
businesswomen’s or teacher’s
organizations run to flower
arranging or bridge.
There has been no move in
Southern Pines to merge the
Jaycees and Jaycettes, and the'
Kiwanis and Rotary clubs
remain bastions of the anima.
The local Little Leaguer is still
likely to be Jimmy rather than
Jane, and the crowd is heavy
year after year for Miss Southern
Pines and Aberdeen.
The crown that the young
women wear is the same sort of
symbol as the roses that appear
in offices around the nation
during National Secretary’s
Week. A morning’s worth of
phone calls to the top executives
in Moore County will show the
exec is usually a man; and the
person who can answer your
questions best is his “right arm”-
-a secretary.
Women, on the whole, do not
hold top-level positions in this
area. Of course there are notable
exceptions-Sara Hodgkins, Lou
Frye, Mildred McDbnald, Betty
Martin, Wanda Hunt, Jane
McPhaul, Irene MulUnix and
others, through the different
types of county jobs, including a
Presbyterian minister, Mary
Johns.
But in all too many cases
women constitute the great
majority of assembly-line
workers without having a single
representative in the offices
where the decisions about their
production is made.
Nowhere is this so evident as in
the Moore County schools, where
the average student will have a
female teacher in the primary
grades and will encounter male
teachers as a surprise in Sep
tember several years later. This
tendency to have male teachers
increases with every educational
advancement, until most
university professors are male.
All the way through twelve
years of school, the average
Moore County child will have a
man as a principal, in the
position of authority for the
immediate school. This principal
will have as his superior the
Moore County School Board,
chaired for many years by a
woman but compost mostly of
men, and seven administrators
(including superintendents), all
of whom are men.
CMdren might well be con
ditioned to believe teachers are
women and principals are men.
Evidence against this comes only
in junior high, when educationtd
psychologists suggest more
males as role models should be
steered..
Although there are three times
as many women as men em
ployed by the Moore County
sdwols (6(X) to 223) none of the
administrators is female and of
the 18 princ4>als, only one is a
woman, Betty Martin at
Pinehurst Elementary.
There are prescribed places
for women, according to
statistics from the school’s
central office. Women ap
parently give good advice: eight
of the county’s guidance coun-
sdors are women, one is male.
They apparently can cook and
clean: 1% of the county system’s
service workers are women, 24
are men.
One man works in a secretarial
position for the schools; he joins
37 women. There likewise is one
male teacher’s aide. There are 72
women.
A curious category called
“other {H-ofessional staff” has
more m^es at 5 than women at 2.
There are nine male technicians,
three times the total of their
female counterparts.
There is only one male
librarian, opposed to 18 females;
but there are six men acting as
non-teaching assistant principals
and zero women. Moore County
(Continued nn Page 11-A)