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Vol. 59, Number 6
88 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387 Wednesday, December 6,1978
88 Pages
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Sheriff, Board Clash
On Communications
Williams Named Chairman
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Of Moore Commissioners
Lee Williams was elected
chairman of the Moore County
Board of Commissioners as the
board opened a new term
Monday morning.
Williams formerly served as
vice-chairman under retiring
Commissioner Chairman W.
Sidney Taylor, who is county
administrator.
Arthur Purvis was elected
vice-chairman, and Estelle T.
Wicker was reelected as clerk to
the board. Mrs. Wicker is county
finance officer.
Mrs. Wicker presided for the
brief reorganization election,
and all of the votes were
unanimous. The new board
member, James M. Craven, was
not present. He is out of town on a
government-business trip to the
Middle East and will be sworn
Chairman Lee Williams
into office on Dec. 18. Williams
and Purvis, who were reelected,
were swom-in by the clerk of
court about 10 minutes before the
Mental Health Offers
Service For Industry
Businesses and industries in
Moore County may soon benefit
from, a new merdal in^th -ser
vice designed to help employers
cut down on such problems as
Planning
Board Meet
Is Tonight
The Southern Pines Planning
Board will meet tonight
(Wednesday) in the Municipal
Building Council Chambers at
7:30.
Included on the agenda will be
the request for a conditional use
permit to allow the development
of a group home for mentally
retarded adults at 340 E. Penn
sylvania Ave.
The Town Council has already
given tentative approval for such
(Continued on Page 15-A)
employe turnover, absenteeism,
and reduction in productivity.
..4‘lt(&.^e8|>eDttve .to tr^:new
emidoyes, and companies can
save money by hoping then-
people work through some of
their problems,” says V. Paul
McDonald, manager of the
Moore County unit of the Sand
hills Mental Health Center. Mc
Donald added that companies
also benefit when employes are
happy and better able to produce
and work compatibly widi fellow
workers.
Known as the Employe
Assistance Program, the new
service will eventually be offered
to all businesses, industries and
other organizations in Moore
County. It is strictly a voluntary
matter, and only those com
panies interested in the service
will be expected to participate.
The Employe Assistance
Program basically is aimed at
helping employes at all levels
(Continued on Page 15-A)
board convened.
In routine business the com
missioners heard a request from
Dr . Alfred G. Siege for em
ployment of an additional
sanitarian for Moore County
Health Department. The healdi
director stated that his depart
ment recently lost a secretary
who was employed through the
Comprehensive Employment
Training Act (CETA). Dr. Siege
said that he has found another
person who is qualified as a
sanitarian and who could handle
secretarial duties as well. He
asked the board to consider
hiring such a person.
Widi fringe benefits included,
it was estimated that it would
cost about $12,000 a year to
employ a sanitarian-secretary
for the department.
On behalf of the Friends of the
Library, Dr. Siege also asked the
conunissioners to consider in
stallation of a communications
system in the bookmobUe. He
reported that it has been called to
their attention that the young
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Decisions
Are Made
One rezoning request was
denied, one was approved with
amendment, and one was ap
proved as requested following
public hearings conducted by the
Moore County Board of Com
missioners Thursday night.
An estimated 15 persons
showed up to protest a zoning
change requested by Edna M.
Cooke to allow development of
multiple family dwelling
buddies in the historic Midland
Road area.
This request, to change ap
proximately 1.65 acres from RA
to RM district, was previously
denied by the Moore County
(Continued on Page 19-A)
Youth, 15, Killed In Collision;
Driver’s Parents In Other Car
Fifteen-year old Gary Franklin
Thompson became the 11th
traffic fatality in 1978 on Moore
County highways in a head-on
collision Monday morning.
Troo|Mr W.D. Waters of the
State Highway Patrol stated that
the youth from Candor, Rt. 1,
died instantly in the 11:30 ac
cident on N.C. 73 about two-
tenths of a mile west of Jackson
Springs.
Thompson was a passenger
with James Ray Lynthacum, 21,
Jackson Springs, Rt. 1, who was
injured along with the other
driver, Roger Ado Brown, 28,
Biscoe, Rt. 1, and Brown’s
passengers, Mary C. Lyn
thacum, 37, and Curtis Lyn-
thqcum, 43, both of Jackson
Springs, Rt. 1.
Curtis and Mary Lynthacum,
riding with Brown, are the
parents of the other driver. They
suffered broken ribs and
multiple injuries and were ad
mitted as patients at Moore
Memorial Hosintal. The two
(Continued on Page 11-A)
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BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Republicans and Democrats
clashed Monday in a dramatic
series of events which reached a
climax when newly swom-in
Sheriff Jerome Whipple filed a
temporary restraining order
barring the Moore County Board
of Commissioners, county em
ployes, and the Moore ^unty
Communications Control Board
from implementing a change in
the communications systems
authorized by the commissioners
at a special Thursday night
meeting.
The confrontation came
shortly after the county com
missioners convened for their
regular December meeting at 10
ia.m.
First on the commissioners’
agenda. Sheriff Whipple, a
Republican, made a plea for the
commissioners to reconsider
their action of the previous
Thiu-sday night, when they voted
to transfer the county’s
Emergency Communications
Center from the jail-and the
sheriff’s control-to a new
location. (The measure passed 2-
1 with Commissioner Tony
Parker casting the dissenting
vote on the grounds that he had
not had time to study the matter
and that the subject had not been
placed on the agenda for that
night and the pubUc had not been
given adequate advance notice.
Commissioner Lee Williams was
not present at the Thursday
meeting).
WMi^le declared Monday that
operation of the Police In
formation Network (PIN)
machine is illegal unless
operated under the control of a
criminal justice agency. The PIN
equipment is considered a part of
the communications center.
“If I do not have conqdete
control, it’s not legal,” the new
sho-iff said, citing terms of the
agreement contained in a PIN
user contract.
The civil sunomons calling for
(Continned on Page 16-A)
Stand Pat
Position
Asserted
In a called meeting Tuesday
night the Moore County
Communications Control Board
reviewed its controversial
situation and “we feel as
strongly as ever” that a
county-wide communications
system is needed, reported
County Commissioner Carolyn
Blue. Mrs. Blue serves as
chairman of the conomunications
board.
The communications board
met with Moseley G. Boyette,
county attorney, to decide the
next step in the wrangle between
the board, the county
commissioners and Republican
Sheriff Jerome Whipple. Original
plans to meet last night with
Whipple, Boyette, and James E.
Holshouser Jr., Whipple’s
attorney, did not matei^lize,
because Whipple and Holshouser
were not available.
Representatives of various
(Continued on Page 16-A)
A
CAUCUS — County Commissioners Carolyn
Blue, Tony Parker, Arthur Purvis and Lee
Williams, chairman, occasionally went into a
huddle Monday to discuss, in whispers, their
problems with a communications system
change. County Administrator W. Sidney
Taylor, former board chairman, eyes the
informal caucus from a distance. Taylor’s
successor on the board. Republican James
Craven, was not present to be sworn into office
or to participate in the December board
meeting.—(Photo by Florence Gilkeson).
Emergency Number Of 911 Is Goal
For Moore In Board Unified Plan
Moore County’s Communica
tions Control Board was
capturing little attention
until controversy erupted
Monday in a meeting of the
county commissioners.
What many Moore Countians
do not realize is the fact that the
communications group has
existed since 1973 when the
commissioners adopted the
Moore County Emergency
Communication Standard
Operating Procedures Manual.
This action provided for the
establishment of the control
board, composed of
representatives of all emergency
service agencies in the
county-law enforcement, fire
departments, rescue squads, the
hospital, etc.
In 1977 a member of the board
of commissioners, Carolyn Blue,
was appointed to serve as
chairman of the control board.
Ultimate aim of the
communications control board,
aside Trbrh ' the generalities
contained in the phrase
“comprehensive county-wide
communications service,” can
be summed up in three digits:
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Weymouth Making Plans
For Christmas Program
Moore’s Audit Showing
Over $10 Million Spent
Moore County had general
government funds expenditures
exceeding $10 million for the
year ending June 30, according to
an audit review presented to the
county conunissioners Thursday
ni^t at a special board meeting.
The auditors presented a
summary showing that by the
end of the last fiscal year, Moore
County collected $9,522,032 as
general government funds
revenue (inclu^g transfers)
and spent $10,063,724. Never-
theless,there was a fund balance
at the end of the year when the
year’s revenues and ex
penditures were combined with
fund balances at the beginning of
the year.
Three auditors. King Moore
Willis, H.A. Brogden, and Roger
Sitnmons, from the John C. Muse
(Continued on Page 10-A)
There’s going to be a Christ
mas season at Weymouth this
year the likes of which the stately
old home hasn’t seen in a long
time..
Moore County school students
will put on the programs of
Christmas music in a house
decorated for the holidays by
other classmates.
It all will be open to the public
at no charge.
“We would like all of you to
come out to Weymouth and enjoy
the spirit of the holiday season
with us,” Admiral I. J. Galantin,
Friends of Weymouth president
(Continued on Page 10-A)
Mrs. Frye Is Reelected
As Head Of School Board
Full Calendar Slated
For Civil Court Term
Court officials face a heavy
docket, including 22 cases for
trial and 62 “clean-up” cases,
for the Dec. 11 civil term of
Moore County District Court.
Judge D.R. Huffman will
preside.
Cases on the “clean-qp”
docket will be called and either
dismissed or set for trial at the
discretion of the judge. Jurors
called for service next week will
report for duty at 2 p.m.
Monday.
The calendar prepared for this
court session indicates that a
jury will be required for trial of
these cases: Kaiser Agricultural
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DEATH SCENE — A head-on collison on the shoulder of N.C. 73 near
Jackson Springs broug'ht death to a Candor teenager Monday morning.
Trooper W.D. Waters (left) investigated the accident:—(Photo by Glenn
M. Sides).
INGRAM--A movement is
under way to restore rate
making powers of Insurance
Commissioner John Ingram
which were taken away by the
last Legislature.
Under the 1979 legislative
action insurance companies are
empowered to go ahead and put
rate increases into effect even if
the Commissioner has refused
them, pending an appeal to the
courts.
Recently Senator John Henley
of Cumberland County said that
the action stripping the
Insurance Commissioner was a
mistake. He indicated that he
would not vote to rescind the
action.
Several other legislators have
expressed the same view, and
reports from Raleigh are that
Ingram will press for restoration
of his powers soon after the
Legislature convenes in
January.
HUNT-Governor Jim Hunt
will lead a delegation of North
Carolina Democrats to the
National Democratic Party mini
convention in Memphis, Tenn.,
this weekend.
The convention will open on
Friday and continue through
Sunday.
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Chemicals, a Division of Kaiser
Aluminum and Chemical Sales,
Inc., versus Don Traylor, Carl
Allred, and Robert Henderson,
doing business as Seven Lakes
Orchards; James R. Callicutt
versus Jimmy D. Frye and wife;
Ambalal R. Patel (Raymond
Patel) versus Perry Brothers
Tire Service; Olin Tree Service,
Inc. versus Albert W. Moss;
Willie Lee Richardson and wife,
Betty Richardson, versus
William Richard Viar, Ryder
Truck Rental, Inc. and Sav-a-
Stop Services, Inc.
Other jury cases listed on the
calendar are: Steva Snead
versus Bill D. Jones; Oliver
Goode (Sr.) versus Edmond
Johnson, executor of the estate
of Willie J. Lindsey; William
Maurer versus J.A. Richar(%n,
R.P. Brim Jr., Calvin Bi ^e
Jr., doing business as Richmond
County Warehouses; North
Carolina National Batdc versus
James 0. Spradley, Horace
Mann Mutual Insurance Co., and
Clark Chevrolet-Cadillac, Inc.;
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Liquor License
The eighth establishment in
Southern Pines received a mixed
drink license this past week.
Latest to start serving
liquor-by-the-drink is the
Sandspur night club on South
May St.
Moore County ABC officers are
investigating other applicants
and a report is expected soon.
Following the ceremony held
at the Clerk of Court’s office in
Carthage where Mrs. Lou Frye,
Drewry Troutman, John Sledge
and Vernon Davis were sworn in
as members of the Moore County
Board of Education, the board
met for their regular meeting a
week early.
Robert E. Lee, Siqierintendant
of the Moore County Schools,
presided over the meeting.
Drewry Troutman immediately
nominated Mrs. Frye for the
position of chairman of the
board. She was unanimously
reelected by the board and
presided over the meeting.
After a few opening remarks
(Continued on Page 16-A)
SILHOUETTES OF SEASON - A lute
afternoon sun is reflected on railroad tracks
leading south from Southern Pines. The
Sandhills Shopping Center water tower looms
on the skyline.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).