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Vol. 59, Number 7
64 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387
Wednesday, December 13, 1978
64 Pages
PRICE 15 CENTS
Pinehurst
Restrained
By Order
A temporary restraining order
against the hiring of a town
manager has been served on the
Pinehurst Village Council.
The order signed by Judge F.
Fetzer Mills on Dec. 7, is
scheduled for a hearing before
the judge in Wadesboro at 10
a.m. on Dec. 18.
Plaintiffs in the action are
James F. Thompson , A. Parker
Hall, C.R. Mclver, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Fisher and others, and
they contend that the Council
does riot have the authority to
hire a town manager.
The temporary restraining
order was served on the Village
Council and its members, G.
Bevins Cameron, Ellis Fields,
Jr., Kathryn M. Galiher, George
R. Mather, Micajah Wyatt,
James R. Wicker, Wheaton
Kittredge, William F. Scott, and
William Parfitt. Other defen
dants are Pinehurst, Inc., and
Diamondhead Corporation.
Attorneys for the plaintiff
are James R. Van Camp
and Douglas R. Gill. The
defendants are represented by
Joseph Monroe, attorney for the
Village Council.
The Village Council approved
the hiring of a town manager at a
regular meeting in August and
funds were allocated in the
Council’s regular, budget for
(Continued on Page 7-A)
Airport
Receives
NC Grant
North Carolina Secretary of
Transportation Tom Bradshaw
has announced that an airport
grant totaling $5,800 has teen
approved by the State Advisory
Budget Commission for
development of the Southern
Pines Pinehurst Airport.
“An increasingly important
function of the Department of
Transportation is administering
the state’s airport aid program,’’
Secretary Bradshaw said.
“Providing sufficient state
funds to allow needed tran
sportation projects to get un
derway is an important factor in
developing a comprehensive
transportation system to im
plement the Governor’s balanced
economic growth policy for this
state,’’ he said.
The North Carolina
Aeronautics Council, chaired by
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Communications Argued;
Hearing Slated Thursday
,r
COMING HERE — Invitations were sent this
week for a luncheon at which the nation’s
former first lady, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, will
speak at the Pinehurst Country Club on
Ffiday, Jan. 12. The luncheon is being held for
the benefit of Friends of Weymouth.
Annexation Plans
Heard By Council
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
In a meeting marked by citizen
participation and laced with
humor, the Moore County
Communications Control Board
and the Board of Commissioners
aired community concern about
a central communications
system Friday night.
Questions about haste,
financing and partisan politics
were debated, but everyone
present spoke out strongly in
favor of an improved
communications system for
Moore County, including
Commissioner Tony Parker, who
has teen the chief critic-from
the board of commissioners-of
the manner in which the matter
was handled at a special meeting
on Nov. 30.
Sheriff Jerome Whipple, who
has filed a restraining order
against the two boards, was not
present at the Friday night
meeting in the conference room
of the Moore County Library
building in Carthage. Nor were
Whipple’s attorney, former
Governor James E. Holshouser
Jr., and Moseley G. Boyette,
county attorney, in attendance.
Christmas Parade Set Saturday;
Miss N,C, To Ride In Carriage
BY PATSY TUCKER
In the regular meeting of the
Southern Pines Town Council on
Tuesday night, Marvin Collins,
the Town Planner, p-esented a
report on the study prepared by
the Planning'-Department on the
feasibility of annexing the area
from the town limits between
Highway 22 and Fairway Drive
including the Town Reservoir
and the remaining portion of
Kenwood subdivision and
Hunters Glen Apartments oh
Highway 22.
The area is 322 acres and has 33
resident homes. It meets the
General Statute requirements.
Collins said that the area could
easily be covered by police and
fire protection and recreation
(Continned on Page 7-A)
Aberdeen Board Selects
Robbins To Fill Vacancy
Aberdeen’s Town Board of
Commisssioners elected a new
board member, apppinted a new
fire chief, scolded Southern
Pines for an annexation action,
and eyed additional annexation
for itself Monday night at the
regular December meeting.
J.C. Robbins was elected to the
board in a 3-1 vote to succeed the
late C. Tontuny Gschwind.
Robbins was nominated by
Commissioner Hugh M. Styers,
who voted, along with Com
missioners James 0. Singleton
Jr. and Cliff Blue Jr., for Rob
bins. Commissioner Lloyd Harris
cast his vote for Linda Boles, the
only other name placed into
nomination. Other persons
considered for the office in
cluded Lee Buchan, Floyd Fritz,
and Glen Matthews.
In another personnel action
Monday night the Aberdeen
board ai^inted Art Parker as
chief of die Aberdeen Volunteer
Fire Department, succeeding
Lawrence Wicker, who has
(Continued on Page 15-Al
Moore County officials will
defend their stand on a
communications system befpre
Superior Court Judge John
McConnell in the Union County
courtroom in Mpnroe tomorrow
morning. Represented by
Moseley G. Boyette, county
attorney, they will ask the judge
to lift the restraining order
issued last week by Sheriff
Jerome Whipple.
Expected to join Boyette at the
10 a.m. hearing are Martin
Chriscoe, assistant county
administrator. Commissioner
Carolyn Blue, who is chairman of
the Communications Control
Board, Southern Pines Fire Chief
Pete Rapatas, Southern Pines
Police Chief ^rl Seawell, and
Sanford H. Smith, the consultant
who prepared the
communications plan adopted by
tile communications board and
the county commissioners.
Rapatas and Seawell are board
members.
At the special meeting on Nov.
30 the commissioners voted to
transfer the day-to-day
operation, management, budget,
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Christmas
Col. Koster Named Recipient
Of ’78 Kiwanis Builder’s Cup Trees Used
Downtown
Col. Alfred M. Koster of
Southern Pines has been
awarded the Builder’s Cup for
1978 by the Kiwanis Club of the
Sandhills.
Presentation of the
(X'estigious award was made
Wednesday night at the annual
Ladies Night of the club at the
Pinehurst Country Club.
Col. Koster was honored for a
distinguished military career
and for his service of nearly 15
years as director of Civil Defense
(later known as the Office of
Civil Preparedness) for Moore
County.
With him when he accepted the
award was his wife, Leone, who
has teen director of public in
formation for Sandhills (Com
munity College since its foun
ding.
Kemp W. Reece, president of
the Kiwanis (Club, presided at the
banquet session, and the
[x-esentation of the Builder’s Cup
was by Dr. R.M. McMillan,
chairman of the special .selection
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Live Christmas trees are
decorating the streets of
downtown Southern Pines this
season as a replacement for the
old-style street lights.
A project of the Southern
Pines Jaycees, the trees were
distribute to downtown mer
chants late last week. The
merchants may decorate the
trees as they wish. Lij^ting and
style of decoration are deeikons
being left up to the merchants,
according to James E. Rhodes,
who, as Jaycee external vice-
president, is Ui charge of the
((Continued on Page 16-A)
Santa (Claus comes to town
Saturday, when he will be joined
for the Southern Pines Christmas
parade by Sara Hodgkins, North
(Carolina Secretary of Cultural
Resources, and Debbie Shook,
the reigning Miss North
(Carolian.
Mrs. Hodgkins, whose home is
in Southern Pines, will serve as
grand marshal for the festive
event.
Sponsored by the Southern
Pines Jaycees, the parade will
begin at 9:30 a.m. and will travel
both sides of Broad Street in the
central downtown business
district. Pinecrest High School
band, professional and
homemade floats, public
officials, marching units, Clouts,
clowns, horses, the Moore
County Hounds, and many other
engaging features will comprise
the parade.
The Jaycee-sponsored Santa
Claus float, complete with sleigh,
reindeer and gifts, will bring up
the rear.
Bud Byrn is Jaycee parade
chairman and is being assisted
by David Allen, in charge of float
sales, and Sandy Mclver, in
charge of bands and marching
units. The project falls within the
purview of James E. Rhodes,
Group Home
Gets Board
Approval
The Southern Pines Planning
Board met on December 6 in the
Municipal Building Council
(Chambers to consider several
requests or changes in the town
ordinances.
Dr. Louis Marchetti presided.
The most lengthy discussion
concerned the opening of a group
home for mentally retarded
adults.
Marvin Collins, the Town
Planner, explained that the
location in question is 340 E.
Pennsylvania Ave. The house,
now vacant, met all of the
physical specifications required
by the town with the possible
exception of an alley ttet runs
between this house and an ad
joining house. There was a
question as to who owned the
ix-operty or if it belonged to the
town.
One requirement the groiq)
home must comply with is the
availability of off street parking
and access to it, which is now by
way of this alley. The alley now
serves as the access to parking
for the house next door.
Charles Stevens representing
Moore County Group Homes
Inc., followed Collins (vesen-
tation with an explanation to the
board and others present just
what a group home was and its
purpose. He explained that the
object of opening group homes in
(Continued on Page 10-A)
k
Debbie Shook
Jaycee external vicei)resident.
Parade participants will
assemble on S. West Broad St. at
the Indiana Ave. intersection.
The parade will follow a nor
therly route up Broad as far as
Connecticut, where it will
reverse directions, returning
southward to Morganton Rd. The
parade will break up at
Memorial Field.
Parade planners expect the
procession to last from one hour
to an hour and 15 minutes.
Miss North Carolina will be
riding in an antique horse-drawn
carriage furnished by Pinehurst,
School Holiday
All Moore County Schools
students will be dismissed at 1
p.m. on Monday, December 18.
The early dismissal is in order
to allow all teachers, aides,
principals and (hntral Office
staff to attend an in-service
workshop on improving in
struction being held at Union
Pines High School.
Schools will observe their
regular, schedules on Tuesday
and Wednesday. The Christmas
Holidays will begin with the close
of school on Wednesday,
December 20. Classes will
resume on Tuesday, January 2.
Sec. Sara Hodgkins .
Inc.
Miss Aberdeen and the
Moore (hunty Junior Miss have
also teoi invited to ride in the
parade, along with the Southern
Pines mayor and town council
members, and county com
missioners who live in this area.
Debbie Shook, the 1978 Miss
North (hrolina, is a rising junior
at Western (Carolina University,
where she is majoring in political
science. She has worked as a
legislative assistant with the
North Carolina General
Assembly in conjunction with the
National Science Foundation.
The 22-year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Shook of
SjM-uce Pine, the five foot, six
inch beauty was sponsored by the
Spivey’s (Corner Jaycees in the
Miss North (Molina Pageant
last siunmer. She has held
beauty titles since she was six,
when whe was selected Little
Miss Mountain Laurel. Other
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Santa Claus Is Getting
Letters From Children
Moore County youngsters are
writing Inters these days-to
Santa Claus in expectation of
receiving a call from the jolly
fellow one night next week.
Larry Moubry, director of the
Moore County Recreation
Department, says he has
received about 60 such letters
already, and he expects at least
200 by the time Santa gets around
to callling his young friends.
The recreation department has
made special arrangements with
Santa on behalf of the Moore
County boys and girls, who were
invited to mail their names and
telephone numbers to the
department if they wanted a call
from Santa. Moubry said that
Santa has agreed to call these
children on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday nights before
bedtime.
Recreation personnel keep the
letters in a holiday-decorated
box in their (jarthage office. Its
contents will be turned over to
Santa in time for the calls.
(Continued on Page 7-A)
Chamber Meet
Something different is planned
for the 1979 Annual Meeting of
the Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce on January 17.
Chairman Edward T. Taws
announced on Tuesday that his
committee has made
arrangements for special en
tertainment at the annual event.
It will be held at the Pinehurst
Hotel with a reception at 6:30
p.m. and banquet at 7:15 p.m.
Tickets are available from
CJiamter directors or by calling
the (Tiamter office, 692-3926.
Serving on the committee with
C3iairman Taws are Harris
Blake, Lament Brown, Dixie
Hall, Wayne Robbins, Barbara
Bowles, Jim GambreU and Nick
Carrado.
Grand Piano Given Weymouth
By Opera Singer Jean Tennyson
When Mrs. Ernest L. Ives was
in Florence, Italy, this past
summer one of the many persons
she talked to about the efforts to
preserve Weymouth, the home of
the late novelist James Boyd,
was Mrs. Ernest M. Boissevain.
“We need a piano,” Mrs. Ives
said.
“I’ll give you one,” replied
Mrs. Boissevain.
And this week the grand piano
on which Arturo Rubinstein once
played, was delivered to the
Weymouth Center in Southern
Pines from Mrs. Boissevain’s
home in Brattleboro, Vermont.
It will be used in a special
Christmas caroling, a tradition
at Weymouth, on Thursday, Dec.
21, when a poetry reading will
also be presented.
Mrs. Boissevain, who also has
a home in Italy, is the noted
opera singer Jean Tennyson.
She was married in 1931 to the
famous scientist. Dr. Camille
Drefus, who died in 1956, and in
1958 to Mr. Boissevain.
(Continued on Page 15-A)
BUILDER’S CUP — Col. Alfred M. Koster holds the Builder’s Cup,
presented to him by the Kiwanis Club of the Sandhills, by Dr. R.M.
McMillan (second from left). President Kemp W. Reece is at left and
Mrs. Koster is at right.—(Photo by Emerson Humphrey).
THE
PILOT LIGHT
LIQUOR-The first assault on
the state’s new mixed drink regu
lations came in Mecklenburg
County last week.
Judge William T. Grist ruled in
Superior Court that a state ABC
Board regulation requiring a 30-
d’:y waiting period for mem
bership at places seeking liquor
Ucoises as private clubs is
‘‘unreasonable and
discriminatory.”
teven Mecldenburg night club
owners had brought suit when
they were denied licenses to
serve liquor-by-the-drink, and
Judge Grist ordered that they be
given administrative hearings on
their request as soon as possible.
State ABC regulations had
exempted veterans clubs ffom
the 30-day waiting period.
HOLSHOUSER-Former (lov-
emor James E. Holshouser Jr.,
of Southern Pines will receive the
first copy of the book containing
his addresses and public papers
from Governor Jim Hunt in a
ceremony at the State Archives
(Continued on Page 7-A)
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GIFT TO WEYMOUTH — This grand piano, which was given to the
Weymouth Center by Mrs. Ernest M. Boissevain (the noted opera
singer Jean Tennyson), was delivered this week. Shown here at the
keyboard is Jane Clark.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).