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Vol. 59, Number 4
60 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387
Wednesday, November 22, 1978
60 Pages
PRICE 15 CENTS
Holidays
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Thanksgiving will mean two
holidays for many Moore County
residents who work in public
offices.
This evening (Wednesday), the
Fellowship of Southern Pines
Churches will host a Community
Thanksgiving Service at the
Church of Wide Fellowship
(Bennett at New Hampshire).
The worship will begin at 7:30
p.m. All community residents
are invited.
The public school system will
be closed Thursday and Friday,
in keeping with tradition.
Also taking two days are most
county, municipal and state
employes, who are substituting
the Memorial Day holiday for the
Friday after Thanksgiving Day.
They worked on Memorial Day in
order to get the two days for
Thanksgiving.
Post offices will be closed all
day Thursday, when the usual
holiday schedule will be
followed. There will be no rural
or city delivery, nor will there be
window service in post offices.
All will reopen for the regular
schedule on Friday.
Many retail businesses will be
closed on Thursday, and the
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Young Man
Is Killed
In Wreck
A former Pinecrest High
School athlete died early
Thursday morning in a motor
vehicle accident on N.C. 211
bypassing Eagle Springs.
Darval Ray Locklear, 23,
played on the football and
wrestling teams at Pinecrest,
where he graduated in 1974. He
later joined the wrestling team at
the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. Locklear had at^
tended Sandhills Community
College for the past two years
and also worked with his father
for Williams Lumber Co.; Eagle
Springs.
Trooper Howard Higgins of the
State Highway Patrol said that
Locklear was operating a 1971
Chevrolet Blazer, which swerved
into the path of an on-coming
tractor-traUer rig at 1:30 a.m.
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Alert Men
Save Life
Of Woman
THANKSGIVING — Members of the three-
year-old class at the Wide Fellowship School
have been preparing for Thanksgiving and are
shown here wearing their handiwork and sitting
in front of the tepee and totem pole which they
helped to make.
Seven Places Start Liquor Sales
Under New Local Option System
Seven Southern Pines
establishments will begin
serving liquor-by-the-drink
today.
Out of ten who made
applications seven received their
licenses from Marvin Speight,
chairman of the State ABC
Board, at a meeting in Sanford
Tuesday morning.
The first drink to be served
was scheduled for 2 p.m. today
(Wednesday) at the Sheraton
Motor Inn, with Mayor Emanuel
Douglass, W. Lamont Brown and
James Godfrey invited by
Manager Don Calfee to take part
in the ceremonies.
Brown is president of the
Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce and a long-time
advocate of the local option
mixed drink plan. Godfrey
headed up the drive which led to.
Next Week’s Court Term
Has Heavy Case Docket Holiday Deaths
One Hurt In Explosion
At Plant In Pinebluff
A docket heavily loaded with
break-in and larceny, forgery,
embezzlement and (^g-related
cases awaits action in Moore
County Superior Court next
week.
Judge Robert L Gavin of
Pinehurst will preside for the
one-week criminal session,
which convenes at 10 a.m.
Monday. Court will open at 9:30
a.m. on the following days.
Seven cases will be presented
to the grand jury for possible
return as bills of indictment.
Those cases which are found to
be true bills of indictment may
be tried during the week.
On the bill calendar are:
Gerald Wayne Nunnery,
manufacturing marijuana;
Oiarles Ray Pope Jr., assault
with deadly weapon attempting
to inflict serious injury and
assault with deadly weapon
inflicting serious injiiy; Wayne
T. Sanders, embezzlement,
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Sixteen persons could lose
their lives and approximately
1,000 injured in traffic accidents
in North Carolina over the long
Thanksgiving holiday weekend,
the N.C. State Motor Club has
estimated.
The state will count its toll over
a 102 hour period beginnii^ at 6
p.m. today (Wednesday) until
midnight Sunday, November 26.
Last year 15 persons were
killed and 982 injured on Tar Heel
highways during a similar
period.
An electrical equipment
explosion seriously injured the
electrician and resulted in the
evacuation of the Pinebluff
Industries plant Thursday
morning.
Ed Wicker, the electrician,
suffered bums to his head, face
and chest in an explosion which
occurred whUe he was installing
a piece of electrical equipment at
the plant, according to Moore
County Fire Marshal Joe Adams.
The electrician was putting in a
breaker fuse and something
shorted, the fire marshal
explained.
Wicker was reported in
satisfactory condition at Moore
Memorial Hospital on Tuesday.
Pinebluff Fire Chief Roland
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Property Bids Are Made
In Foreclosure Action
overwhelming approval of mixed
drink sales in a special
referendum on Sept. 12. Mayor
Douglass and the l^uthem Pines
Town Council had requested the
referendum and given
unanimous endorsement to the
plan.
Other establishments which
received the state licenses to sell
mixed drinks were Pine Needles
Oub, ^d Pines Club, the Elks
Lodge and Country (Hub, the
VFW John Boyd Post, the
Sheraton and Holiday Inns, qnd
the JFR Bara, a restaurant.
Three other places had
applied, but action on their
applications were deferred. The
Canopy, which will be known as
the Village Shed, told ABC
officers they were not ready for
an investigation, and the
Sandspur and Damn Yankees
were investigated but no action
has been taken on their license
request.
Each applicant had to pay an
initial $500, which is not
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Christmas
Parade
Set Dec. 16
The 1978 Southern Pines
Jaycee Christmas Parade will be
held on Saturday, December 16,
beginning at 9:30 a.m. Parade
Chairman Bud Byrn announced
today.
“By making this years parade
a day time event the entire
community should benefit,” said
Byrn.
“The aim of this years’ parade
committee is to attract the
TTiaTimiim participation from the
Southern Pines areas as well as
surrounding counties. The
committee has invited as many
as 14 area marching bands from
Gkimberland, Hoke, Richmond,
Montgomery, Lee and Moore
counties. We also expect 8-10
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BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Smoke and fire belched out
whra three young men kicked in
the door of a burning farmhouse
near Carthage early Thursday
morning, but the rescuers
plunged into the collapsing house
and pulled a woman to safety just
as the walls were falling in.
“The walls and ceilings were
popping and crashing down just
as I pulled her out of the house,”
said David Talbert of Aberdeen,
one of the three rescuers.
Talbert stated that he pulled
Mildred Blue Hall across the
floor because the smoke and fire
were no more than two feet off
the floor. He explained that he
crawled on hands and knees to
the point where she had fallen,
thra dragged her across the floor
to safety.
Mrs. Hall’s husband, William
Edison Hall, 61, died in the fire,
although no one knew it at that
time. His body was found at the
rear of the house, where he had
fallen while attempting to escape
through a screen door from the
porch.
“There’s no doubt in my mind
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Aberdeen Annexes Store
In New Shopping Center
Lynn Morrison, 17, Is Chosen
As Moore County Junior Miss
Lynn Morrison, 17, a girl whose
happiest moments are “dancing,
sharing thoughts and good
times” with friends, is the 1979
Moore County Junior Miss.
“I’m shocked!” Her voice
quavered. “I just can’t believe
it...” Her poise momentarily was
shattered.
First runner-up in the Moore
County Junior Miss Pageant,
held Saturday night at the
Pinehurst Middle School
Auditorium and sponsored by the
Pinehurst Lions Club, is Bonnie
Clark. Bonnie and Lynn are
seniors at Pinecrest High School.
Second runner-up was Marva
Hogan of Wallace O’Neal School.
Lynn Morrison won an
additional honor for being
selected for the “Spirit of Junior
Miss” award by the other girls in
the pageant.
Lynn, as Moore Couny’s Junior
Miss, represent the county in
the State Junior Miss Pageant;
which will be sponsored for the
second time by Greensboro
Jaycees and Jaycettes.
The Junior Miss Pageant is not
a beauty contest. Contestants are
judged on scholastic
achievement as well as poise and
appearance, youth fitness,
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Two high bids totalling $400,000
were received Friday in a
foreclosure sale of Whispering
Pines property, coming in the
wake of a second foreclosure
action against property
controlled by A.B. Hardee,
developer of the Lake Surf resort
property as well as Whispering
Pines.
The Lake Surf property is
valued at $2.5 million.
Southern National Bank, the
high bidder at the public sale,
was also the holder of the
Whispering Pines notes, on
vriiich foreclosure notices were
fUed early in October. The bank’s
bids were for $3^,000 on the
property covered in an original
note for $652,000 and $12,000 on
the property covered in the
$76,500 note.
S^es will not be final until 10
days have elapsed, during which
time the bid may be raised by
another party and upset the SNB
bid. In such an event, the matter
must be readvertised and bids
again received. No such bids had
been received by late Tuesday.
The debt for Lake Surf, Inc. is
owed to G.M.R. Properties of
Jacksonville, Fla., formerly
known as Gulf Mortgage and
Realty Investments, with W.
Harry Fullenwider as substitute
trustee. The Lake Surf note
covers 2,649 acres.
Filed in the office of the Moore
County clerk of superior court on
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Aberdeen moved into satellite
annexation Monday night by
annexing a portion of the
property at K Mart Plaza on US
15-Ml which will house the new
Big Star Super Market.
The action was taken at a
called meeting and the vote to
annex the Big Star store was
unanimous, despite several
protests from citizens at the
meeting.
Among those protesting was
the Aberdeen Merchants
Association in the downtown
area.
The motion to approve the
ordinance of annexation was
made by Commissioner Hugh M.
Styers and was seconded by
Commissioner Cliff Blue Jr.
Others at the meeting were
Mayor Jack Taylor, and Com
missioners Uoyd Harris and
James 0. Singleton, Jr.
Mayor Taylor said the meeting
was called to act on the an
nexation ordinance involving
property held by 501 Associates.
Tlie new K Mart Plaza shop
ping center was opened recently
and the Big Star Super Market is
scheduled to open in early
December.
Among those present, several
of whom spoke in opposition,
were Betty Mofield, Carl
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Role Of Research Discussed
At Meet Of Educators Here
A group of 50 top educators,
journalists, business and in
dustrial leaders gathered at the
Pinehurst Hotel for two days this
past week to discuss the place of
research universities in ^e state
anti to plan for the future.
Principal speaker at the
Pinehurst Conference was Dr.
Qiarles Frankel, president and
director of the National
Humanities Center in the
Research Triangle Park
In preparation for the con
ference a special committee of 12
faculty members from UNC and
N.C. State had prepared a
“working statement,” in which
they declared the goal of North
Carolina’s state research
universities should be:
“To maintain and develop
further North Carolina’s
Triangle area as a research and
educational center of national
and international excellence and
thereby to advance North
Carolina, the region and the
nation.”
The conference had been
planned by Dr. E.M. Adams,
chairman of the UNC faculty,
and Dr. Roger C. Fikes of the
N.C. State faculty. Dr. Adams
presided at the session at which
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JUNIOR MISS — Lynn Morrison is shown being crowned as the new
Junior Miss from Moore County by Julia Metcalfe, the 1977-78 Junior'
Miss, at Pinehurst Saturday night. Bonnie Clark, first runner-up, is at
left, and Marva Hogan, second runner-up, is at right—(Photo by
Emerson Humphrey).
PINEHURST-There are
reports that Pinehurst will seek
special legislation at the 1979
session of tiie General Assembly
to allow the unincorporated
village to vote on the sale of
liquor-by-the drink.
Under the present local option
statute Pinehurst, although it has
an ABC store, is not eligible to
vote on mixed drinks because it
is not incorporated, and in a
September vote the residents of
the village voted against in
corporation.
Tliere’s a belief that Qie ’79
Legislature will be highly
reluctant to bring up the liquor-
by4he-drink issue, even with a
local special bill.
Moreover, Pinehurst’s heavy
Republican vote on Nov. 7 is not
likely to help it in a heavUy
Democratic legislature. Both of
the State Senators from this
district-Charles Vickery and
Russell Walker-lost by big
margins in Pinehurst precinct,
and even Rep. T. Clyde Auman
trailed the Republican candidate
C. Coolidge Thompson, by 44
votes there.
TAXES-It’s beginning to look
'like Governor Jim Hunt’s pro
posed tax rebate will not come to
pass at the next legislative
session.
It was, nevertheless, H popular
IH'qMsal when it appeared the
state might come up with over
$100 million in surplus revenues,
and the prospect of a $50 tax
rebate was meeting with wide
ai^roval.
^me cautious revenue esti
mates (or next year and expres
sions of favor for other forms of
tax relief, such as repeal of the
sales tax on food, have
slowed the tax rebate talk. It
is now evident that there will be
demands for state spending far
beyond not only surplus funds
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FATAL FIRE — One person died and another was injured in the fire
which destroyed this old homeplace off N.C. 22 near the Sandhills-Farm
Life School. Mildred Hall was rescued from the burning home early
Thursday morning, but her husband, William E. Hall, died. The
farmhouse was the Blue homestead, where Mrs. Hall was
raised.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).