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Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387 Wednesday, October 11, 1978
56 Pages
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 10-15-C; Editorial, 1-B;
Entertainment, 6-8-C; Obituaries, 14-
A; Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Sandhills
Scene, 2-6-A; Sports, 1-3-D.
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Group Home Is Delayed
By Council After Hearing
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Southern Pines Town Council
members will study additional
details about a proposed group
home for mentally retarded
adults before making a decision
to amend the town’s zoning or
dinance, they agreed Tuesday
night. Their plans include a visit
to a similar group home being
operated in Hamlet.
On a unanimous vote, the
council decided to postpone a
decision until the next meeting.
The Council also postponed
again the appointment to fill a
vacancy on the Council caused
by the resignation of E. Earl
Hubbard.
Action to postpone the group
home decision came at the close
of a public hearing, in which no
formal opposition was expressed
by visitors. It was an obvious
. disappointment to the contingent
of more than 25 persons present
to support the facility, to be
operated by a private, non-profit
corporation known as Moore
County Group Homes.
Charles Stephens, an official of
the Sandhills Mental Health
Center, warned that if the matter
is delayed much longer, this area
is in danger of losing the funding
for the {x-oject. He pointed out
that the Moore organization has
been working toward establish
ment of the home for about 15
months and has been unable to
overcome such hurdles as this
one.
Stephens said the Moore
County Group Homes, Inc. ex
pects between $50,000 to $60,000
to operate the home in the first
year but cannot prepare a
budget until a site can be
secured. The location cannot be
nailed down until the zoning
details are worked out, he
added.
Mayor Emanuel Douglass
hinted at the possibility of ap
proval, however, as the group
home supporters were leaving
the council. He advised Wayne
i- Hyatt, chairman of the cor
poration’s board of directors, to
get to work on a budget proposal,
(Continued on Page 13-A)
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MEET THE PRESS — ER abeth Taylor Warner, Roger Austin, and
former Governor James Holshouser prepare to answer questions from
the press. Miss Taylor appeared on behalf of Austin who is a
Republican trying to unseat Congressman Williarr^ Hefner. A $100-
couple reception was held at *he Pinehurst Country Club followins the
press conference Saturday.
Actress Plugs Candidate;
To Collect 40% Of Take
BY MARJORIE PIZZUTO
Elizabeth Taylor Warner
denied she was being paid $5,000
for her appearance Saturday
night at a $11)0 a couple reception
at the Pinehurst Country Club for
Republican candidate Roger
Austin.
Austin of Monroe is running
against Congressman Bill Hefne’
(D-N.C.) in the Eighth District.
Miss Taylor made the denial at
a press conference held prior to
the reception. She was asked the
question as the conference was
winding down and after Miss
Taylor answered it, former
Republican Governor James
Holshouser said no more
questions.
According to Lindsay Swida,
Austin’s campaign manager,
after expenses, 40 percent of the
proceeds from the event would
go to the Virginia Republican
Fund Bank System for all the
candidates in Virginia. Miss
Taylor’s husband, John Warner
is the Republican candidate
there for the U.S. Senate.
Warner had originally planned
this appearance after he lost the
primary race and had a large
campaign debt, but when the
candidate was killed in an
airplane crash, Warner was
chosen to carry the party banner.
Miss Taylor has been keeping
these appearances for her
husband. She said she is no
longer Miss Taylor, the movie
star, but a wife, Mrs. John
Warner.
The world-renowned beauty
appeared in a violet gown with a
black and silk violet caftan
capelet. Some of her famous
jewels dazzled the eye, but it
couldn’t be seen if she was
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Road Funds
Received
By Towns
Moore County municipalities
this week received a total of
$248,114 in state Powell Bill road
funds.
The Powell Bill fund is in
reference to a legislative
measure introduced by Rep.
Junius Powell of Columbus
County several years ago
providing for a portion of state
gasoline tax money to be
returned to municipalities in
North Carolina.
Distribution of funds is based
upon both population and the
amount of paved roads and
streets within a town.
Southern Pines received the
largest amount of any Moore
County town~$120,460. Town
Manager Mildred McDonald said
that the Town Council, in an
ticipation of the fun^, had
budgeted $119,506 for street
work.
Funds received by other Moore
municipalities were as foUows:
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Candidates Night
The West Southern Pines Civic
Club will host a Candidates
Night at the regular monthly
meeting October 16 (Monday) at
8 p.m. at the Community
Services Building, 1195 West
Pennsylvania Avenue, Southern
Pines.
All Moore County candidates
with opposition in the November
7 election have been invited to
make statements and respond to
questions.
The public is invited~and
urged-to attend.
LONG SHADOWS - The afternoon October sun casts long shadows but
the open road is inviting and a boy on a bicycle cannot resist the call
^^°^°Srapher Glenn M. Sides caught this camera study on Youngs
Road in Southern Pines.
Meet Set For Sanford Nov. 2
To Take Drink Sale Requests
New Town Complex Housing
Several Offices And Services
Aberdeen Official Dies
With Funeral Satiu-day
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Space to administer, plan,
operate and just plain work is the
secret of Southern Pines’ new
municipal complex. Its success
is something of a Cinderella
story.
Originally designed to ac
commodate the fire, public
!*■ works and recreation depart
ments, the facility became home
for the town adniiinistration and
planning offices as well-but
almost by accident.
The new complex off
Morganton Road was occupied
by the fire and public works
departments in mid-summer,
and that’s when everyone
discovered there was plenty of
room to accommodate the town
manager, the town planner and
their staffs. Public Works
Director Bill Wilson was pleased
with all that space, but it was
obvious he and his staff would
rattle around in the large office
building.
Town administration officials
were persuaded to authorize the
move because of the congestion
in the older building downtown.
The police department needed
more space, and an addition to
that building had in fact been
planned.
Town ^anager. Mildred Mc
Donald decided the simple
solution would be to move ner
office, the assistant town
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Wild Dogs Raid Center;
Small Child Is Bitten
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SPEAKER — State
Treasurer Harlan
Boyles will be the
speaker Saturday night
at a Democratic rally
and fund raising dinner
at Union Pines.
Police and Humane Society
officials have issued an alert for
a small child who was attacked
by a pack of wild dogs in the
Town and Country Shotting
Center Sunday afternoon.
If the dog was rabid, the child
should receive immediate
medical treatment against
Pottery Month
The Moore County Com
missioners on August 14,
declared October as “Moore
County Pottery Month” stating:
“Whereas the pottery of Moore
County is created from its soil,
water, trees, and hands of its
people and whereas pottery
demonstrates the arts of the old
world brought to new fruition by
the resourcefulness and .skill.«i (rf
Moore County’s early settlers
and whereas the pottery of
.Moore County is (rf .singular
beauty and craftsiiianship, the
Moore County Board of Com
missioners do hereby declare the
month of October, 1978
‘Traditional Pottery Month in
Moore (bounty.’ ”
rabies, according to the Aber
deen Police Depvtment and
Moore County Aninoal Control
Officer Bill Kennedy.
The alert was issued within
minutes after, the Aberdeen
police received the 2 o’clock call
to the Town and Country Shop
ping Center, where the dogs had
gatiiered. A concerned citizen,
identified by police as Mike
Kelly, called for help after ob
serving the animals’ behavior.
Before help arrived, however,
the injured little girl was
whisked away by her mother,
who was heard to declare that
she was taking the child to the
hospital.
A call to Moore Memorial
Hospital revealed that the
emergency room had received no
such patient. Aberdeen police
then called other hospitals in the
area, including the Cumberland,
Lee, Richmond, and Mon
tgomery County institutions. Not
one of these hospitals had
received a dog bite victim
Sunday afternoon, a spokesman
for the Aberdeen police said.
In spite of a radio alert, the
(Continued on Page 16-A):
G. Tommy Gschwind, 53,
member of the Aberdeen Town
Board and civic leader, died
Thursday at Moore Memorial
Hospital in Pinehurst after an
illness that had lasted since the
first of the year. He lived at 1307
Poplar St. in Aberdeen and was
a jeweler who owned The Glitter
Box until recently.
The funeral was held Saturday
at Page Memorial United
Methodist Church, where he was
a member, with the Rev. Robert
Pullman and the Rev. John D.
Stone officiating. Burial was in
Bethesda Cemetery.
He was a director of First
Security Savings and Loan
Association and active in The
Aberdeen Merchants Association
and the Bethesda Cemetery
Association, as well as Page
Memorial United Methodist
Church.
The State Board of Alcoholic
Control is expecting 40 ap
plications for mixed beverage
sales from Southern Pines, and
all licenses will be issued at the
same time.
A meeting has been scheduled
for Nov. 2 with applicants from
Southern Pines and Sanford in
Sanford at which time the board
will explain administrative
regulations and statutes con
trolling liquor-by-the-drink sales.
The meeting is also for the
purpose of receiving license
a[^lications.
The State ABC Board met
Friday and decided to issue
mixed drink licenses en masse to
successful applicants in the
order in whidi their locales
approved liquor-by-the-drink in
referendums.
Since Mecklenburg County was
the first, a meeting with ap
plicants, expected to be 250 from
Mecklenburg, will be held Oct.
31.
Regulations governing the sale
of mixed drinks will be adopted
on Monday, Oct. 16, and will take
effect on Nov. 1, at which time
(Continued on Page 13-A)
Adequate Hospital Beds Seen
To Meet Needs Through 1983
The combined total of 392 acute
care beds in Moore Memorial
Hospital and St. Joseph of the
Pines will be more than adequate
to meet anticipated need
projected through 1983, ac
cording to a draft Short-.Term
Acute Care Plan prepared by
Cardinal Health Agency.
C. Tommy Gschwind
He and his wife, the former
Marjorie Smith of Cameron, had
owned and operated The Glitter
(Continued on Page 16-A)
A public hearing on the draft
plan will be conducted here at the
Cardinal office at 10 a.m., Oc
tober 18.
Moore County has a projected
need for 306 short-term acute
care beds by 1983, according to
the draft plan. These include 17
obstetric beds, 17 pediatric beds.
Get Ready For Big Guns
As Firing To Begin Soon
THE
PILOT LIGHT
HOLSHOUSER~A building
named for former Governor
James E. Holshouser Jr., of
Southern Pines will be dedicated
at the State Fair grounds on the
opening day of the 1978 Fair on
Friday, Oct. 13.
The dedication of the
Holshoiiser budding is scheduled
for 3 p.m.
Earlier, at 1:30 p.m., there wdl
be a dedication of the Jim
Graham Building at the fair
grounds.
DEMOCRATS—Chairman J.
Ed Causey of the Moore County
Democrats is looking for a big
crowd at Union Pines High
School on Saturday night.
It’s a fund raising corner and
raUy, scheduled for 6 p.m. in the
school cafeteria.
State Treasurer Harlan
Boyles wdl be the main speaker,
but ad Democratic candidates
from Moore County are expected
to be present and will be
recognized for brief statements.
Causey said that the dinner
will officially kick off the
campaign for the Democratic
Party in Moore County.
“We are very fortunate to have
Harlan Boyles as our featured
speaker. He has close famdy ties
to Moore County and we always
enjoy his visits to the Sandhills,”
Causey commented.
“If anyone wants tickets to the
dinner (hey should contact their
precinct chairman or stop by our
booth at the Moore County Fair
this week,” he said.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Residents of Southern Pines
should get prepared to become
ad shook-up in the coming weeks.
Fort Bragg wdl be test firing a
new long range 155mm cannon
and it wdl be close to the town on
the nearby reservation.
From Oct. 16 to late January a
total of 17,500 rounds wdl be
fired,, and' an announcement
from Fort Bragg frankly
declares, “Due to the increased
range capability, noise and
vibration levels are expected to
exceed those caused by present
artdlery and aircraft Ufe fire
exercises.”
The new weapon is the M-198
Howitzer and Fort Bragg has
been selected by the Army as the
test site. The Army claims that
the M-198 Howitzer adows U.S.
forces to out-range dke-caliber
weapons of any potential ad
versaries. It stdl must be tested
and given Congressional ap
proval, however.
The 1st BattaUon, 73d Field
Artdlery, 18th Field Artdlery
Brigade, has been chosen as the
test unit for the Department of
the Army-directed Force
Development Testing and Ex
perimentation and Follow-On
(Continued on Page 13-A)
School Holiday
Moore County public school
students will get a holiday
Tuesday, October 17, as school
wid be closed for one of the 16V&
teacher workdays in this year’s
school calendar.
Most of Moore County’s
teachers wdl be attending the
District 8 North Carolina
Association of Educators
meeting which is being held at
Union Pines High School this
year. Those not attending the
meeting wdl be working in their
respective schools.
Approximately 2,000 teacher,
principals, supervisors and
administrators are expected to
attend the {X'Ofessicnal meeting.
and 248'medical-surgical beds.
Moore Memorial has capacity in
excess of all three projections: 24
obstetric beds, 20 pediatric beds,
and 24 medico-surgical beds.
The draft plan projects a need
for 24 psychiatric beds. There
are now only 20 psychiatric beds
at Moore Memorial. The plan
recommends conversion of four
beds to psychiatric services.
St. Joseph of the Pines
operates ten medical-surgical
beds and 75 skided nursing beds.
The 75 skided nursing beds are
counted in Cardinal’s draft Long-
(Continned on Page 16-A)
GOVERNOR TO
SPEAK —\ Governor
Jim Hunt wUl speak to
the Annual Meeting of '
the N.C. Forestry ■
Association Friday at \
4:30 p.m, at Mid Pines '
Club in Southern Pines.