uor Sales
FALL DRAWS NEAR — Fall is a week away
but there are signs of the season everywhere,
such as this scene of riew-style hay bales on a
farm near Southern Pines. —(Photo by Glenn
M. Sides).
Schools Will Set
Promotion Policy
Southern Pines voted over-
whelmingly—by 78 percent—in
favor of liquor-by-the-drink on
Tuesday.
With a 58 percent turnout of
eligible voters the results were
1,577 for and 435 against.
Approval of the mixed drink
plan under the local option law
enacted by the North Carolina
General Assembly this past
spring means that qualified
restaurants and private clubs
can start serving liquor-by-the-
drink within the coming weeks.
They will have to wait until the
State Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board approves a set of
regulations on the sale of mixed
drinks. That approval is ex
pected some time in October,
paving the way for the first
cocktails to be sold in late
November.
The vote by precincts in
Tuesday’s referendum was:
Knollwood—201 for and 61
against.
Pinedene-346 for and 73
against.
North Southern Pines-614 for
and 167 against.
South Southern Pines-416 for
and 132 against.
It was a stronger vote on
Tuesday in favor of mixed drinks
than in two previous votes here
on the same issue.
In 1971 when Moore and
Mecklenburg counties voted on
the question under special
legislation on the vote in the four
Southern Pines precincts was
1,714 for and 520 against. In 1973
when a statewide election was
held on whether to adopt the local
option plan the vote in the same
four precincts was 1,651 for and
821 against. In both of those
referendums Moore County as a
whole voted against liquor-by-
the-drink.
There were 3,468 voters
eligible to cast ballots in
Tuesday’s referendum.
Prior to Tuesday’s election
both proponents and opponents of
liquor-by-the-drink had
organized and conducted
campaigns which were devoid of
emotionalism, name-calling or
recriminations. Citizens opposed
to mixed drink sales had
pointedly tried to avoid some of
the tactics used by dry forces in
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Sandhills Among Leaders
In JVC Growth Of Tourism
A recent article by Craig Webb
of United Press International
cites the Sandhills region as one
of six tourist attractions in North
Carolina showing the greatest
increase in travel business in
1978.
Webb writes: “Advertising
appears to be making the dif
ference between record crowds
and sharp attendance drops at
tourist sites across North
Carolina Uiis year.’’
He also quotes Bill Arnold,
state director of travel and
tourism, as saying, “Nine times
out of ten, you can trace it (at
tendance) back to the amount of
promotion.’’
Par Travel Council of the
Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce has, for the past two
years, promoted the Sandhills
Area as “The World’s Most
Famous Birdie Sanctuary.”
Advertising funds were first
allocated to the C!ouncil by the
Moore County Ck)mmissioners in
fiscal year 1976-77 and its ad
vertising campaign actually got
under way in January, 1977.
“Our advertising immediately
brought a great many responses
from interested people,” says
Melvin Nelson, Chairman of the
Travel Council. “Better yet, the
year broke all existing records
for travel and tourism in Moore
C!ounty. Of the last nine months
only two. May and July, failed to.
break records. May barely miss
ed but July was pretty dismal-
not as bad as it was in 1970 when
only a fourth of our hotel-motel
rooms were filled on the
average.”
The Travel Council bases its
figures on local hotel and motel
occupancy rates which rose by 7
percent in 1977 for an estimated
$6 million increase over 1976.
Nelson estimates that if July, ’77,
had held at the level of June and
August it would have created
$700,000 more than it did in travel
expenditures.
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EARLY VOTER — Fran Douglas was one of
the early voters at the South Southern Pines
Precinct in the local option liquor-by-the-drink
referendum on Tuesday.—(Photo by Glenn M.
Sides).
Pinehurst Votes Against Incorporation
The highlight of a routine
business meeting by the Moore
County Board of Education
Monday, held at the West End
Community Center, was a
^ decision to set a policy on
promotion and detention in the
entire school system.
This move, which could have
far-reaching effects, was
introduced by Superintendent
R.E. Lee, who said there had
been discussion in the
administration of the schools of
setting such a policy. The
/ upcoming competency test has
sparked state-wide discussion
about promotion.
Lee explained that for the past
ten or fifteen yearej the decision
whether to promote or hold back
a child was usually made by the
child’s classroom teacher. “If
there’s a question or an
exceptional case the principal
comes in,” Lee said.
“We want to spell out a policy
for the classroom teacher as
much as anything else.”
Lee requested of the Board
that the administration draft a
policy which will affect all
grades. Kindergarten through
12. The board briefly discussed
social promotion, which
sometimes results in Wade
Owen’s observing, “You don’t
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BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
Incorporation, which has
divided the Pinehurst Village
Council and many throughout
the unincorporated village, will
no longer be an issue, at least
for the time being.
Village residents, given the
chance to decide the issue in a
referendum Tuesday, voted
almost two to one against
incorporation, which many
thought would result in
increased taxes and more
control in other facets of life.
Pinehurst will remain
unincorporated, as it has been
since the 1890s.
Sixty percent voted against
incorporation.
The 431-284 vote represented a
heavy turnout for Pinehurst,
which has a single precinct.
There were 1,020 eligible to vote
Hubbard Leaves Council;
Vacancy Will Be Filled
Pride-Trimble Granted
Special Waste Permit
Southern Pines Town
(Councilman E. Earl Hubbard
has resigned as of August 31, it
was announced at the regular
monthly meeting of the Council
Tuesday night, held at the
Community Services Building.
He transferred some time ago
from Southern National Bank
here to the bank headquarters in
Lumberton and has been
commuting. Now he is moving
to Lumberton.
A councilman to take his place
will be appointed by the
remaining Council members. ,
The town offices will be closed
at 4 p.m. today (Wednesday) to
allow town employes time to
prepare for their first annual
employe picnic to be held at 5
p.m. today.
In (Council action Tuesday
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Covut Facility Space
Agreement Is Reached
The Moore County
Commissioners in special
meeting Monday night
Q unscrambled a space problem at
the new court facilities building
brought up by (Clerk of Court
(Charles McLeod at last Tuesday
night’s meeting.
Discussing the plans with
Southern Pines architect E.J.
Austin, the Commissioners
decided to revert back to the
original plans and have two
magistrates’ offices and a
waiting room on the middle
(main) floor.
The four adult probation
officers and the two juvenile
probation officers (one is part
time) will have separate offices
for each officer on the same floor
and there will be a separate
waiting room for adults and one
for juveniles.
The Commissioners could not
remember having changed from
the original plans in the first
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Lt. Gen. George P. Hays
Gen. Hays
Dies at 85
At Home
Lt. (Sen. George Price Hays,
who received the (Congressional
Medal of Honor during World
War I and served in World War n
through the Battle of the Bulge,
died Thursday at his home in
Pinehurst. He was 85.
A funeral service was held
Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Village
Chapel with Chaplain Henry C.
Duncan and the Rev. Dr. Chiles
W. Lowry officiating.
Graveside services, with full
military honors, were held
Monday at 11 a.m. in Arlington
National (Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife,
Gladys F. Hays of Pinehurst; one
son, George James Hays of
Baltimore, Md.; one dau^ter,
Mrs. James H. King of Beaufort,
S.C., and nine grandchildren.
Upon his retirement from his
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Despite overwhelming citizen
disapproval at a public hearing
in mid-May, the Department of
Natural Resources and Com
munity Development has issued
a permit for Pride-Trimble to
construct an electroplating
waste treatment facility.
According to the department’s
findings, the waste facility
planned by Pride-Trimble met
ecological criteria and would not
damage Crystal Lake in
Lakeview, as residents con
tended.
A.F. McRorie, who heads the
office of enforcement for the
department, told The PUot of the
decision yesterday, when it was
made in Raleigh.
When informed of the state’s
decision, Pride-Trimble’s
president Jim Thompson said he
was pleased but “we have no
immediate plans for using it.”
The department made the
decision to allow the treatment
facility’s construction with slight
modification. The modification is
in a “reopener clause,” which
will allow the matter to be
reconsidered if certain con
ditions develop.
McRorie said if stream
classifications change or effluent
levels in the affected water
change, the issue could be
reopened. “A substantive change
in water quality standards is
what we’re talldng about,” he
said.
Other, minor changes due to
typographical errors were also
made in relation to the final
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
TAYLOR-The reception for
Elizabeth Taylor at the
Pindiurst Count^ Club has been
changed from Sept. 23 to Oct. 7,
Republican Chairman George
Little announced Tuesday.
Miss Taylor is reported
suffering from an eye injury
received Monday night when she
was eating at a Richmond, Va.
pizza restaurant and a metal
fragment became lodged in her
right eye.
The reception, hosted by
former Governor and Mrs.
James Holshouser, is being held
for the benefit of Roger Austin,
the Republican candidate for
Congress from the Eighth
District.
CARTER-President Carter is
coming back to North Carolina
this week, this time to take part
in a big fund-raising event for
John Ingram’s campaign for the
U.S. Senate, at BUtmore near
Asheville.
Governor Jim Hunt will be on
hand to welcome the President
and take part in the event,
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Tuesday. Approximately 70
percent voted during the twelve-
hour polling period at the
Pinehurst Community Center.
The vote represented a
triumph for the Pinehurst
Conservators, a group headed by
Micajah (Mike) Wyatt, a
GOP Candidate
Howard T. McNeil of Robbins
has filed as a Republican
candidate for the office of Moore
County Conunissioner District 3.
McNeil was appointed by the
Moore County Republican
Executive Committee following
the sudden withdrawal of
Frankie Trotter McClaskill from
the race. He is married and the
father of two children and is a
life-long resident of Robbins.
McNeil was a Republican
candidate for County
Commissioner in 1962.
Aberdeen
Gets Water
Requests
A group of firemen appeared
before the Aberdeen Town Board
in the interest of CETA employes
and a delegation of citizens
aski^ the town to supply water
service for the Midway area
were heard September 11 at the
regular meeting of the Board of
Commissioners.
Citizens from the Midway
Section of Aberdeen heard
Mayor Taylor explain that
Mdway is not within the town
limits and the town could not pay
for water lines. He said that the
town would cooperate and of
fered the services of Gary
Mofield, Director of Special
Projects, to get in touch with
Martin Criscoe, Asst. Co. Ad
ministrator, to see if grant
money is available to help with
the project.
Those appearing were Carl L.
Love, Ro^yn Downs, Mary A.
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member of the Village Ck>uncil
opposed to incorporation.
Another group which developed
earlier during controversy on the
issue was the Pinehurst Civic
Group, a pro-incorporation
group headed by Tom Hope.
The majority of the present
Town Council indicated they
favored incorporation by filing
for a second referendum election
which was held in conjunction
^ith the actual incorporation
vote.
If incorporation had passed in
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Impact Study To Be Made
On Little River Bridge
The state Division of
Environmental Management
will make a decision on or before
September 25 as to the feasibility
of upgrading state road 1861
west of Vass by the construction
of a bridge over the Little River.
The bridge would replace two
smaller, existing bridges, which
assistant division engineer Fred
Whitesell called “substandard.”
The Department of
Transportation has proposed to
replace the two existing bridges
at the Little River Crossing by a
single bridge spanning both river
channels, a distance of 180 feet.
The construction will require
the excavation of a minor
channel change in the western
most river channel. Whitesell
said that any construction done
in North Carolina along live
streams has to have an
Environmental Impact study
done.
Because of the minor channel
change, the Department of
Transportation has indicated it
will be necessary to widen the
existing approach fills. This
work will result in the placement
of approximately 360 cubic yards
of fill material into the waters of
the Little River.
Whitesell said the road in
question is used by Lakeview
and Whispering Pines residents
when they travel toward Vass. It
comes out near the Vass-
Lakeview School.
He said the dirt road is “low-
lying and floods several times a
year.” However, if the new
bridge is constructed, he said the
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Tufts Tells Of Pinehurst Operations In Early Days
illCHARD S. TUFTK our nfirsnnal viawk! anH intorosfc: Uio ^ *
BY RICHARD S. TUFTS
to the residents of the Village
of Pinehurst:
This brief review of the
development of our village is
being written before the results
^ of the referendum on September
12 can be known. My purpose is
to appeal to all those who live in
Pinehurst or who are concerned
in its future, to accept the results
of this vote and to do all we can
to live and work together
harmoniously and to lay aside
our personal views and interests
in the common purpose of
building here the ideal, peaceful
haven of rest which the founder
of Pinehurst came here to
establish.
I will condense what I have to
say by starting with the
inheritance on February 2, 1902
by my father of a resort which
was a complete monopoly. On
this date my father was happily
employed in his lifetime work
and had no experience with
resort operations. His interest in
Pinehurst was at first casual but
the losses were considerable and
in the fall of 1904 he decided to
spend the winters in Pinehurst,
and soon decided to make the
resort his permanent occupation.
About 1906 he started to sell a
few lots and it was soon after
this that he asked me to join him
on his visits to other resort
hotels. On these visits he always
alerted me on the weak and
strong features of each operation
and I look back on these trips as
the start of my education.
What impressed me most was
that each visit usually ended up
in a conference in the manager’s
office during which one question
was invariably raised by the
manager or owner of the hotel
we were visiting. This question
was: why was Pinehurst selling
lots to its best hotel customers
and encouraging those who
worked for us to establish their
homes in the village. The opinion
was that this policy of father’s
created a dangerous conflict of
interest. My father’s answer was
that he felt any resort could
operate more successfully from
a permanent base composed of
those who had a personal
interest in its success. The
argument that he was losing his
own best hotel customers to
homes in the village, and
building an obligation to provide
employment to those who
worked and lived here, left
father cold. He soon even
encouraged competition within
the village from other operators
in a number of the various
businesses he was then
conducting. In the great
depression of the thirties many
of the resorts he had visited with
me failed, but with the loyal
support of those who worked
here and had established their
homes here, and the sound
advice and financial assistance
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BRIDGE PROJECT — The State Department
of Transportation plans to construct a new
bridge to replace two across Little River on
State Road 1861 between Lakeview and Vass.
However, before work can be started an
environmental impact hearing must be held.
The above picture shows recent flooding on the
road.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).