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Vol. 58, Number 49
82 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387
Wednesday, October 4,1978
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FESTIVAL SINGER — Congressman Bill
Hefner joined the Blue Grass Tar Heels band,
headed by Wayne Livengood, to sing Saturday
night at the Malcolm Blue Crafts and Skills
Festival,
persons over
Short).
which attracted more than 8,000
three days.—(Photo by Hurley
Farm Festival Draws Over 8,000
BY PATSY TUCKER
The threat of rain did not keep
the crowd of over 8,000 away
from the Fifth annual Malcolm
Blue Historic Craft and Skills
Festival this past weekend.
On Friday over 1200 school
children viewed the skills used in
how life was in the 1800s.
Exhibits were set up throughout
the house and the founds.
On Saturday visitors watched
as members of the Malcolm Blue
Junior Historians washed clothes
in steaming, black pots over an
open fire and demonstrated other
skills used in that day and time.
Other exhibits included
Southern Bar Meet Set
At Pinehurst This Week
Bar leaders from 18 Southern
states will gather in Pinehurst
for a three-day conference,
beginning Thursday.
Heading the list of speakers for
the conference will be S.
Shepherd Tate of Memphis,
Tenn., the president of the
if American Bar Association, who
will speak at a black tie dinner at
the Pinehurst Hotel on Thursday
night.
Lawrence McN. Johnson of
Aberdeen, who has been making
arrangements for the con
ference, said 160 are expected to
attend.
Hie Conference of Southern
Bar Presidents will be made up
of the presidents, presidents-
elect and executive directors of
state bar associations.
Woodrow Teague of Raleigh,
president of the N.C. State Bar,
and Clarence W. “Ace” Parker
of Charlotte, president of the
North Carolina Bar Association,
will be present.
Business sessions are
scheduled for Friday and
Saturday mornings, and among
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spinning and dying wool, grin
ding corn from the rejuvenated
grist mill, rug hooking, the work
of a tinsmith and leaded stained
glass window ornaments. A
covered wagon pulled by a mule
gave youngsters a ride around
the grounds and the youth of the
First Baptist Church in Aberdeen
entertained others with a puppet
show, the Muppets.
The whine of bagpipes added to
the background of the area,
settled by the Scots so many
years ago, and the smell of
barbecue mingled among the
visitors.
Saturday night as interested
people lined up for a dinner of
fre^ cooked barbecue, baked
beans, cole slaw and hush-
State Votes To Acquire
Boyd Land For Preserve
Democrats Will Gather
At Union Pines Oct. 14
The North C^olina Council of
State in Raleigh on Tuesday
ai^roved the acquisition of the
Weymouth (Boyd Estate) forest
lands as an addition to the
Weymouth Woods Nature
Preserve.
Approximately $400,000' in
federal American Heritage
A Democratic fund-raising
dinner and rally will be held at
Union Pines High School on
Saturday, Oct. 14.
(Chairman J. Ed Causey of the
Moore County Democratic
Executive Committee said that
* all candidates of the party from
I the coimty will be present and
will be introduced.
The speaker for the dinner will
be State Treasurer Harlan
Boyles.
(3ausey said candidates will be
invited to make brief remarks.
and he
turnout.
The price for the party fund
raiser is $10 per person.
“Our campaign is under way
for all the candidates of the
Democratic party and we are
calling on all Democrats to turn
out and vote in November,”
Clausey said.
Causey also announced that an
Eighth District Democratic rally
will be held the following
Saturday, on Oct. 21, at South
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j^Elizabeth Taylor Comes
To Pinehurst Saturday
Actress Elizabeth Taylor will
be in Pinehurst Saturday evening
for a Republican fund-raising
event.
The wife of John Warner, the
Republican candidate for the
.jU.S. Senate in Virginia, will
arrive at the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst Airport Saturday
afternoon just prior to a press
conference at the Pinehurst
Hotel at 6:30 p.m.
The fund'Taising reception for
Roger Austin, the Republican
candidate for Lkingress from the
Eighth District, wdl be hosted by
former Governor and Mrs.
James >E. Holshouser Jr., at 7
p.m.
Miss Taylor, Holshouser and
Austin will be present for the
iwess conference.
Warner will not accompany his
wife here.
The fund-raising event had
been originally scheduled for
is looking for a good 2^011111^
Hearing
Scheduled
A ps'oposed zoning ordinance
amendment to allow establish
ment of a group home for
mentally retarded adults is
among the zoning matters to be
discussed in public hearings
which will open the Tuesday
night meeting of the Southern
Pines Town Council.
The meeting will open at 8
o’clock in the coimcil room.
During the hearings a request
from the Town of Southern Pines
will also be considered. The
municipality has requested a
conditional use permit in order to
rent the upstairs area of the old
fire station building as an
apartment.
Bids for a replacement truck
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Jobs Up Here
The unemployment rate
dropped in August to 3 percent,
the office of the Employment
Security Commission in
Carthage said Monday.
The Moore County labor force
of 22,170 had 21,500 persons
enqiloyed and only 670 without
T71’ u 4-1. T I work, Frank Burch said.
Elizabeth Taylor unemployed rate dropped
from 4.9 percent in July, 1977
Sept. 23 but was postponed until to 4.4 percent in July, 1978, he
Oct; 7. said, because plants are not
Tickets for the reception will having layoffs and students in
cost $100 per couple, and can be the labor force are back in
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Taxes, Zoning Views
Aired By Candidates
Schools Short Changed’
By County, Lee Declares
puppies, others were wandering
around the grounds, getting the
feel of the past that was being
commemorated.
Following dinner, the Blue
Grass Tar Heels entertained the
guests with lively country music
and were later joined by
Congressman Bill Hefner who
gave a short talk and treated the
group to several blue grass and
gospel songs, showing an
amazingly good voice. This was
followed by music by the San
dhills Blue Grass band and
dancing of the much enjoyed
Sandhills (loggers.
A group of dancers from the
Southeastern Community
College of Whiteville demon-
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BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Food tax versus tobacco tax
was matched by another
controversial subject-county
wide zoning-last night
when the Southern Pines Civic
Club staged a candidates’
meeting at the club building.
More than 125 persons crowded
into the meeting rown to hear 10
local and area candidates
express themselves on questions
posed by club members.
Although the moderator, Mrs.
Franklin W. Campbell, cautioned
everyone that the occasion was
not to be a debate or a
confrontation between
candidates, the forum did at
times become spirited, involving
audience as well as speakers.
Candidates for State leg
islature, coimty conunissioner,
and sheriff were heard
during the evening. Each
was asked to take no more than
five minutes to answer a question
prepared by the club. At the close
of their answers, the club opened
the floor for questions from
guests-for a 30-minute period.
Briefly, here are the questions
and the answers:
Legislature
Candidates for State Senate
and State House of
Representatives were asked
their opinions about eliminating
the state food tax and raising the
tax on tobacco products.
Russell Walker, Democrat and
incumbent senator for the 16th
District, , pointed out that he has
advocated elimination of the food
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Service funds are involved in the
acquisition.
'^at amount makes up a large
portion of the Friends of
Weymouth campaign to raise
$700,000 to purchase the Boyd
Estate from the Sandhills
(Community College Foundation.
A second extension of six
months has been granted by the
college foundation in order for
the Friends of Weymouth to raise
the balance of the funds
required. About $160,000 has been
raised as of Oct. 1.
The preservation of Weymouth
had the full support ctf Governor
Jim Hunt and Secretary Howard
Lee of the Department of Natural
Resources and Community
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Tobacco Record
Tobacco prices hit a new high
on the Carthage market Monday
with an average of $147.93 per
hundred pounds.
A total of 352,964 pounds were
sold for $522,143. The average
was an all time record at C^-
thage.
Aberdeen did not hold a sale
this week.
Florence Gilkeson
Gilkeson
On Staff
Of Pilot
Florence Williams Gilkeson of
Laurinburg, who has been with
The LaurinWg Exchange for 24
years and has been managing
editor for the past three years,
joined The Pilot staff Monday. “
Mrs. Gilkeson was bom in
Beaufort (bounty in 1932 and grew
up on a tobacco farm. She was
graduated from Washington
High School, attended East
Carolina College (now
University) and is a graduate of
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill as a BA in
Journalism, class of 1954.
She will commute each
weekday from Laurinburg,
where her husband, the Rev.
Howard Gilkeson, is pastor of the
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
REGISTRATION-The dead
line for registering to vote in the
November general election is
Monday, Oct. 9, at 5 p.m.
Persons not registered can do
so at the Moore County Board of
Elections in Carthage or at the
public libraiies here and in
Carthage.
VOTER LIST-Gene Ander
son, a Southern Pines
advertising agency executive,
has requested a list of white only
registered voters from the Moore
County Board of Elections.
Anderson specified white only
voters in the four Southern Pines
BY ELLEN WELLES
Superintendent of Moore
Ctounty Schools, Robert E. Lee
charged Monday that the schools
have been “short changed” in
the distribution of county funds
in the last two years.
Meeting in regular monthly
meeting, the Moore County
Commissioners listened as Lee
cited figures showing the schools
were given only a 3 percent in
crease in 1977 and a 5 percent
increase in 1978.
“We asked for a 10 percent
increase to coincide with the 10
percent rate of inflation,” Lee
said. “But we didn’t get it and
what we’ve had to do is to cut out
our capital outlay budget.”
Lee said he is grateful to the
county for the financial backing
in the past. “We have been
Two Hurt
In Robbins
Shooting
Two Robbins men remain in
serious condition at Moore
Memorial Hospital following a
Sunday night shooting at an
eating establishment.
Officer Darrell dieek of the
Robbins Police Department
identified the injured men as
Earl Spivey, 27, and Trubie
Allred, 31.
Cheek said that details of the
shooting are not available, but
the investigation is continuing
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Raleigh
Pair Buys
Club Here
The Hyland Hills Golf and
Country Club on US 1 at Skyline
has been sold to Maurice
Brackett and Bobby Pipkin of
Raleigh for ai^roximately $1
million.
Final signing of papers is
scheduled to take place next
week.
The purchase was made from
the Wachovia Bank, which had
taken over the property in May of
1976.
Brackett, the head golf pro at
the Ralei^ Golf Association
course for the past 23 years, will
operate the course and club and
serve as head ih'o here.
Don Horak, has served as
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treated well in the past and we
have just as good school
buildings as anyone else, but
these things need to be kept up.
The improvements that need to
be made are just getting more
expensive.”
Lee pointed out that the
recreation department had
received a 100 percent increase
this year and a 67 percent in
crease last year. But Chairman
W. Sidney Taylor responded that
since the Board had pumped so
much money into the schools in
past years, it felt it could let up
for a while and give more at
tention to the recreation
department which has had very
littie backing in recent years.
Assistant Superintendent
Edison Powers was also present
and said the schools have had to
increase services to take care of
893 exceptional children. "Hiese
required new teachers with a
ratio of about one teacher to five
students. Soon the schools will
have to provide also for the blind
and hearing impaired, he said.
Over the next five years the
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Council Member
Will Be Chosen
A new councilman will be
chosen at the next monthly
meeting, October 10, the
Southern Pines Town (iouncU
decided Thursday at a special
meeting.
The new councilman will fill
the spot held by E. Earl
Hubbard, whor'esigned effective
August 31.
The Council members are
looking for someone willing to
take the job and hope those
interested will contact them.
They said they will not
necessarily go by the vote getters
at the last election, but instead,
“will try to find the best person to
fill the spot.”
Town Council members said
they were shocked to find a front
page story in The Pilot last week
stat^g the CouncU was “red
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County Fair Will Open
At Carthage On Monday
The 32nd Annual Moore
County Fair gets under way in
Carthage next Monday, Oct. 9
and continues throughout the
week ending on Saturday night,
Oct. 14, under sponsorship of
the Carthage Jaycees.
Everything is in readiness
and the Jaycees are looking for
another large attendance
record if the weather is good.
This year’s big fall attraction
is about a we^ earlier than a
year ago.
The fair will offer a wide
array of exhibits, displays by 4-
H and extension groups,
homemakers, school classes.
Scouts and many others. .
This year, premiums worm
over $4,000 are being offered to
winners in various exhibits and
displays.
Gates are scheduled to ^n
on Monday at 5 o’clock, and
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First Policewoman Sees
Job Here As Challenge
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Southern Pines law
enforcement officers became
policepersons Saturday-the day
when the first woman joined the
Southern Pines pQlice force.
Women’s lib has little to do
with the employment of
20-year-old Kelly Elizabeth
Ashey, however, for the new
patrolman (person) sees her job
as a challenge to help people
rather than any breakthrough for
the cause of feminism.
“I like the thought of helping
the public. It’s something I’ve
always wanted to do,” she
explains simply.
Miss Ashey is working the
third (11:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.)
shift this month. Until she is
enrolled in the basic criminal
justice training course, probably
at Richmond Technical Institute,
the young officer will be getting a
full dose of on-the-job training
while working beside more
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precincts and in Pinehurst and
Eureka precincts.
Anderson has been involved
with several Republican
campaigns in the past.
UNIVERSITIES-A confer
ence to explore the mission of the
Research Triangle research
universities in fte fields of
research and education will be
held at the Pinehurst Hotel on
Nov. 16-17.
The Joint Faculty Committee
said that the exploratory
conference has the full support of
Chancellors Ferebee Taylor of
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CROSSING SAFETY — The long delayed work of making the
dangerous New York Avenue railroad crossing safer got under way in
Southern Pines this (Wednesday) morning. It is expected to be
completed in a couple of weeks. The project was expedited through the
efforts of Congressman Bill Hefner.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).