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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 7-11-D; Editorial, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-7-C; Obituaries, 9-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Sandhills
Scene, 2-7-A; Sports, 1-2-D.
Vol. 59, Number 10
64 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387
Wednesday, January 3,1979
64 Pages
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FIRST BABY FOk ’79 — Pepper Dawn Kirk, seven pounds, five and
one-half ounces, arrived at 11:30 q.m. on January 1 at Moore Memorial
Hospital. She is the daughter of Ronald and Gay Kirk of Hamlet, Rt. 3,
and was the first baby born at Moore Memorial in 1979. —(Photo bv
Derry Walker).
Father, Son Plead Guilty
In Burning, Theft Cases
An Asheboro man must pay
$6,200 in restitution for damage
to an uninhabited house which
was burned in September. For
that crime and a break-in carried
out jointly with his father,
William T. Brower was
sentenced to 10 years as a
committed youthful offender and
was placed on probation for five
years.
Brower and his father, William
J. Brower, 36, also of Asheboro,
pleaded guilty on Tuesday in fitie
opening session of a criminal
term of Moore County Superior
Court. Judge Ronald Bartee of
Greensboro is presiding.
The son pleaded guilty to
burning an uninhabited house
and to breaking, entering,
larceny and receiving. His father
pleaded guilty to felonious
larceny. The break-in took place
at a Robbins school building,
where $449.79 worth of building
and maintenance materials were
stolen. The house which was
burned was located on Glendon
Road, Carthage.
Young Brower was also
ordered to remain either
gainfully employed or in school.
He is to obey the law and be
Theft Ring Has Links
With Moore And Others
Moore County is cooperating
with eight other North Carolina
local law enforcement agencies
in cracking what has been
described as a major theft ring
spanning an area extending from
Hoke County to the Virginia state
line.
Sheriff Jerome Whipple told
The Pilot that the Moore County
Sheriff’s Department is
cooperating as a link within the
investigation but emphasized
that this county does not
represent a major factor in the
“ring.” The sheriff said his
department has been busy
working on some old break-ins
and larceny cases but relatively
few new cases have been
reported in recent weeks.
Taking part in the
investigation are sheriff’s
departments in Alamance,
Randolph, Lee, Guilford,
(Continued on Page 12-A),
Hayes Named By Hunt
To State Crime Body
Governor Jim Hunt has named
Thomas T. Hayes, Jr. of
Southern Pines to the St^ate’s
Crime Prevention and PubUc
Information Committee.
Hayes is president and
treasurer of Hayes-Howell and
Associates, Architects. He is also
a Fellow in the American
Institute of Architects, ex-
Director of the N.C. Arts Council
and a past president of the N.C.
Design Foundation. He is also a
member of the Governor’s
Advisory Panel on Design and
Construction Practices and
president of the N.C. Chapter of
the American Institute of
Architects. He is president of the
N.C. Association of Architects.
The Committee is an adjunct
committee of the Governor’s
Crime Commission and is
responsible for advising the
Commission on the most
(Continued on Page 12-A)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
LEGISLATURE-The 1979
session of the North Carolina
General Assembly will convene
next Wednesday, Jan. 10, and
even though state leaders are
expressing the hope that the
session will last no longer than
four months that hope is not
likely to be realized.
For one thing legislators will
not know what the revenue
prospects are until around May 1
and there will be at least another
month of wrangling with the
budget and other matters.
Governor Jim Hunt is
scheduled to address the
legislature in joint session on
*’Jan. 15.
BRADSHAW-Youthful and
able Tom Bradshaw is itching to
run for public office and may
well depart the cabinet of
Governor Hunt in 1980 to do just
that.
Right now Bradshaw,
Secretary of the Department of
Transportation, is giving some
thought to becoming a candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, hut the
former mayor of Raleigh is also
getting some encouragement to
run for Congress from the Fourth
District. He is seen as a strong
candidate against the incum
bent, Rep. Ike Andrews.
SCHOOL-Govemor Hunt has
appointed a blue-ribbon board of
trustees for the new science and
mathematics high school which
is scheduled to be set up in an old
hospital building in Durham next
year.
Not everybody, including
many top educators across the
state, is happy with the
decision to establish a state high
school for boys and girls with
talents in science and math,
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Electrical Permit System
Given Approval By Board
Sen. Morgan To Introduce
Mrs. LBJ At Lunch Here
fingerprinted for the State
Bureau of Investigation and is
likewise to reimburse the state
for his court-appointed
attorney’s fees.
The father was sentenced to
five years, suspended five years
under probation conditions,
including payment of a $250 fine,
costs, and restitution to the
county. He too is to remain
gainfully employed and is not to
violate any laws.
David Jerome Ross, 17,
Aberdeen, who pleaded guilty to
attempted armed robbery with a
dangerous weapon, was
sentenced from 10 to 30 years as
a regular youthful offender.
Judge Barbee announced that he
had determined the defendant
would not benefit from the
designation of committed
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Patrol Car
Wrecked
In Chase
Deputy Thomas Lee Cox and
Sgt. James Jackson of the Moore
County Sheriff’s Department
escaped injury Sunday morning
when their patrol car was
wrecked while they were
pursuing a speeding vehicle near
Robbins.
Deputy Cox told The Pilot that
he swerved the patrol car to
avoid a collision with the car
being operated at a high rate of
speed by David Franklin Key, 18,
Robbins. Key was treated at
Moore Memorial Hospital and
released.
Key has been charged with
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Grand Opening
A champagne reception to
celebrate its grand opening will
be held by Sandhills livings and
Loan in its new building at
Morganton Road and Bennett
Street on Thursday from 6:30 to 8
p.m.
As a part of its grand opening
Sandhills Savings and Loan will
hold a drawing for prizes which
include a set of golf clubs and
bag, an English saddle and a
Judy Leslie original oil painting.
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
A3 of Feb. 1, a permit system
will be in effect for all electrical
contractors or other persons
doing their own work on any
electrical installation in Moore
County-before starting an
installation.
The Moore County Board of
Commissioners took this action
Tuesday at the request of Ben N.
Cooper, county electrical
inspector.
Cooper told the board of
numerous problems encountered
with unlicensed persons
undertake such work, often at
risk to the health and safety of
the people living in the building
where the work is undertaken.
He also proposed a written
examination of not more than 10
questions which must be passed
by anyone seeking such a permit.
TTie board declined to include
this provision, but allowed all
other provisions of Cooper’s
request.
Action followed a vigorous
period of questioning by Tom
Purvis of High Falls, who pointed
out the difficulty many people
have when they try to secure the
services of a licensed electrician
to handle simple items at home,
on the farm or in their business.
Although Purvis agreed that
many people do electrical wiring
who “don’t have any business
doing it,” he pointed out that it
would take as many as three
days just to get a permit for a
simple job which could be
accomplished in five minutes.
Speaking in favor of the
request was a private contractor,
Harold Fowler, who explained
some of the problems involved
with non-professional homestyle
electricians.
Noting that the permit system
would not pnean any more
business for him personally,
Fowler recalled that while he
served as fire chief several
years, he heard a number of
people express favor for a permit
system-after it was too late to
help them.
(bounty Commissioner Tony
Parker argued that the permits
should be issued in the interest of
saving lives and protecting the
general welfare of the citizenry.
Parker reported seeing “a lot of
do-it-yourselfers who could cause
a county-wide problem.”
Chairman Lee Williams
proposed that the permit
arrangement be carried out in
diplomatic and sensible fashion
with some leeway allowed for
emergency situations, and
Cooper agreed that this is
needed. ,
Commissioners Carolyn Blue,
Arthur Purvis, and James M.
Craven concurred. Mrs. Blue
said she does not think permits
(Continued on Page 8-A)
Revaluation
Property revaluation notices
go into the mail today.
Moore County Finance Officer
Estelle T. Wicker advised the
county commissioners shortly
before the January meeting was
adjourned Tuesday afternoon.
The revaluation study of
property for tax purposes has
been underway through most of
1978. Such revaluations are
required by state law every eight
years.
61 CETA Workers Face
Work On Two-Week Basis
For Moore County’s 61 CETA
workers, continuing employment
is an every two weeks affair and
will remain that way until the
end of March.
It’s mostly a red tape tie-up
and should have little personal
effect on the individual
employes, says Tony Carlyle,
who directs the CETA program
for Moore County.
CETA-for Comprehensive
Employment Training Act-is a
federal program instituted in
1973 to help retrain people who
were losing jobs because of an
economic recession.
Since Oct. 1, CETA programs
have been operated under an
extension of last year’s contract
with administrators regularly
signing two-week extensions, and
this business of signing an
amendment to the contract every
two weeks
Sen. Robert B. Morgan
(D-N.C.) will introduce Mrs.
Lyndon B. Johnson when the
nation’s former first lady speaks
here next week in support of the
Friends of Weymouth drive to
preserve the Boyd estate
woodlands and to develop a
regional cultural center for the
arts and humanities.
“We are very pleased that
Senator Morgan can be with us
when Mrs. Johnson comes to the
Sandhills to help us meet our goal
of acquiring and preserving this
unique area,” said Mrs. Ernest
L. Ives, Friends of Weymouth
vice president, in making the
announcement.
Mrs. Ives, sister of the late
Adlai E. Stevenson, is serving as
chairman of the $50-d-plate
fund-raising luncheon to bolster
the Weymouth drive which will
be held at 12:30 p.m., Friday,
January 12 at the Pinehurst
Country Club.
Morgan, of Lillington, was
elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974
after serving in the state
legislature from 1955-57, 1959-61
and 1963-68, as co-chairman of
North Carolina Legislative
Research Commission and as
North Carolina’s Attorney
general from 1969-74.
Mrs. Johnson, known for her
work in beautification,
preservation and restoration
programs, has numerous other
interests and projects but her
work in beautification remain
high on her list of priorities. Her
philosophy is that “America Can
Be More Beautiful-with your
help.”
Mrs. Johnson, who at an early
age became known to her family
and friends as “Lady Bird,”
spends a good deal of her time
Senator Robert Morgan
Public Affairs on the University
of Texas campus. The former
president died on January 22,
1973.
She continues' to maintain her
residence at the LBJ Ranch near
Stonewall, Texas, even though
the ranch house and surrounding
property were given to the people
of the United States as a national
historic site in December of 1972.
Mrs. Johnson, author of “A
White House Diary,” a record of
her activities, during the years
her husband served as president,
noted her first public
participation in the
beautification of America back
in 1%4. She became chairman
the next year of a Committee for
a More Beautiful Capital.
Things did begin to happen
after she came on the scene. Soon
10,000 azalea plants lined
Pennsylvania Avenue; huge
numbers of daffodils and tulips
were planted near the
Washington and Jefferson
Memorials; work began to plant
the hundreds of small traffic
circles and triangles; planters
and two new malls appeared in
the downtown area; a number of
school grounds and parks
appeared with multiple planting
and bright and colorful
playground equipment. Work to
carry on the beautification of
Washington, D.C. continues
today.
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Mental Health Awaiting
Audit Spending Report
continue until April That supporting the activities of
mhor, Doi^i.,1, /-.TTi-TA -M.-T~^he Lyndou B. Johnson
Presidential Library and the
when the Raleigh CETA office
says a new contract can be
signed, according to Carlyle.
Congress was slow in
completing the 1978 bill, which
was then turned over to the
Department of Labor for
allocation to the states. Moore is
one of 88 North Carolina counties
which operate CETA programs
under contract with the state.
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Lyndon B. Johnson School of
Sandhills Mental Health
Center has done its part of the
work and is awaiting a final
report from state auditors
concerning a funding regulation
misunderstanding with the State
Department of Human
Resources.
Sandhills is one of perhaps 23
mental health centers across
North Carolina which may owe
money to the state. A state audit
of mental health management
practices has found that many
local expenditures of state and
federal funds to not comply with
regulations. The audit was
initiated in 1976 and is about half
complete.
Dr. Steven Dingfelder, director
of Sandhills, told The ^ot that
untU his center receives a final
report, he has no way of knowing
“what we owe or don’t owe.” He
thinks there is some possibility
Sandhills may not owe the state
anything at all, rather than the
$39,941 figure mentioned in one
recently published newspaper
account.
“It’s really not clear what they
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Building Repairs, Insurance
Among Matters Before Board
Transportation Costs
More For NC Schools
Moore County transported
6,354 students in 123 school buses
daily in 1977-78, according to a
report this week from the
Division of Transportation of the
State Department of Public
Instruction.
Moore ranked 37th in number
of vehicles and 42nd in average
number of pupils transported.
It was 23rd in the state,
however, in the average number
of miles traveled per day per
vehicle, with 49 miles.
It was 61st in number of pupils
per vehicle, with an average of
52.
According to Louis Alexander,
director of the Division of
Transportation, the 11,910 buses
in the state that operated during
1977-78 traveled 96,860,630 miles.
The average bus traveled 44.9
miles each day carrying an
average of 61 students. The
average number of students
riding buses has declined, noted
Alexander, to 66 in 1972-73 to 61 in
1977-78.
Annual audit figures released
by the State Board of Education
indicate that the cost of
transporting the public school
students during the past school
year increased by more than $5
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Building improvements may
be in the future for the Moore
County Health Department.
Similarly there may be some
changes in the Farmers Market,
which closed a successful season
two weeks ago.
These proposals met with the
general approval of the Moore
County Board of Commissioners
at the regular January meeting
Tuesday, an all-day affair which
continued until after 5:30.
At the same meeting the board
took action to provide insurance
assistance for Moore County’s
approximately 200 rescue squad
members and passed a motion
officially appointing the present
members of the Airport
Committee.
The board also accepted the
resignation of county attorney
Moseley G. Boyette, who is
retiring, and welcomed a new
department head aboard, Calvin
Underwood, director of the
Moore County Department of
Social Services.
Mike Wilson, county
maintenance supervisor, advised
the board to consider major
renovation for the health
department building, which “is
in pretty bad shape.” He
mentioned such things as flaking
plaster walls, rotten wooden
doors in the trailer office,
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Judge Crutchfield Is Honored
Attention was turned toward
Judge E.EI. Crutchfield at the
beginning of a half-day civil
session of Moore County District
Court on Friday, Dec. 22.
Judge (Crutchfield, who retired
at the end of December, was
presented the “Book of (Cour
thouses” as a gift of appreciation
from the Moore County Bar
Association. John M. May,
Association president, made the
presentation.
The volume, a pictorial history
of courthouses in the United
States, has been signed by all
members of the local bar, many
of whom were present in the
courtroom.
Crutchfield has served as a
district court judge for 10 years,
since the system of district'
courts was established under the
Court Reform Act. The 20th
District encompasses Moore,
Anson, Richmond, Stanly, and
Union counties.
An Albemarle resident, the
judge is a Stanly county native
and a graduate of the Wake
Forest School of Law.
Most of the court’s time was
devoted to the disposition of
uncontested divorce cases.
Divorces were granted in these
cases: Guinevere Ferguson
versus Walter Ferguson; Mary
Sue Harrelson Britt versus
K«nneth Ray Britt; Charles
Edward Dutton versus Kay
Parker Dutton; Carlos Mendoza
Diaz versus Blanca Iris Men
doza; Archie Ray McKenzie
versus Michaella Ann Graham
McKenzie; Gerald Lee Stutts
versus Francis Ritter Stutts:
Sherie McLaughlin Chavis
versus Floyd Lynn Chavis; Tony
Curtis Hancock versus Pamela
Gail McCall Hancock.
A default judgment was issued
in the case of Southern National
Bank of North Carolina versus
(Continued on Page 12-A)
BY ANY NAME — Questions about the official name of the local airport
arose at a recent county commissioners’ meeting. Here’s the answer:
Knollwood Airport is the name on the stone marker. Although the
airport is usually called the Southern Pines-Pinehurst Airport, some
commissioners expressed the opinion its official name should be the
Moore County Airport. —(Photo by Florence Gilkeson).