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Vol. 59, Number 21
62 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387 Wednesday, March 21, 1979
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GOLF WEATHER — The early Spring days of the past week have been
ideal for golf and the more than two dozen golf courses in the Sandhills
were crowded with golfers. Here is play at the Southern Pines Country
Club on Monday. —(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Grant Asked For Shelter
For Battered Spouses Use
Application for a grant for
funds to provide a shelter for
battered partners and children
has been made for Moore
County.
Amy Garber, child services
social worker for the Sandhills
Mental Health Center, said the
county has applied for $146,000 in
federal fun^ to the Law En-
Bus Drivers Paid More;
Safety Record Is Good
The training of Moore County’s
school bus drivers is a major job,
and has resulted in the
employment of competent
drivers to transport
approximately 6,500 of Moore
County’s 10,000 pupils on a
regular basis.
The county employs Dale Frye
of Carthage to train prospective
drivers in all phases of
classroom and manual bus work.
Gene Riddle, an administrator
with the Moore County schools, is
in charge of transportation.
Riddle said “We’ve got a
system of bus driver’s training
that’s really organized by the
state. Our representative here is
Dale Frye. He is the man who not
only gives^the classroom but the
driving work. Once they’ve done
the classroom work, Mr.
(Tommy) Cockman checks the
driver out-so he is really
checked out two times.
“We don’t doubt that Mr. Frye
(Continued on Page 16-4)
Spring Comes-Sandhills
Prepares For Visitors
Spring came to the Sandhills
today, in bursts of blossom and
continuing warm sunshine.
Temperatures remained in the
70s, and the weather is expected
to remain fair through Thursday.
Yellow jonquils have already
tnunpeted the coming of spring,
and forsythia and camellias have
spread their bright colors
everywhere.
Hundreds of visitors are
expected for the Moore County
Historical Association’s Antiques
Fair opening tonight with a
preview in the Armory in
Southern Pines, and many more
are looking forward to the House
and Garden Tour April 11 and the
Stoneybrook Steeplechase the
day before Easter, which is April
15.
Young people are flooding the
riding stables, golf courses and
tennis courts on their spring
break and Sandhills Community
College is looking forward to an
Easter gala as well as an Easter
sunrise service.
The winter is over after many
weekends of snow and ice. At
leai^,. so says the calendar.
Scanner Latest Diagnostic Tool
Put To Use At Moore Memorial
Area physicians, hospital
trustees, and administrative
personnel gathered at Moore
Memorial Hospital Sunday af
ternoon to see the latest in
diagnostic X-ray technology, the
CT Scanner.
CT ( computerized
tomography) scanning involves
a $700,000 instrument which
some physicians are calling the
most revolutionary development
in X-ray history.
“Every day something is seen
on a CT scanner that can’t be
picked up with other diagnostic
techniques,” says Dr. C.G. Coin,
Director of Sandhills
Diagnostics, the medical group
which operates the equyunent
and provides the CT services
through an agreement with
Moore Memorid.
Doctors from Moore and
surrounding counties were
shown examples of the detailed
cross-sectional images produced
by the CT scanner, which not
only provide better information,
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6
Liquor Tax Split 50-50
Under Compromise Plan
forcement Assistance Ad
ministration.
She spoke at a meeting of the
Sandhills Chapter of the
American Association of
University Women at the Car
thage Library Saturday mor
ning.
Funds of $15,000 are expected
to be given by the state.
If the application is granted, a
shelter would be placed in Moore
Memorial Hospital in former
nurses’ quarters. The shelter
(Continued mi Page 16-A)
In a surprise move Monday
night the Moore County Bosu'd of
Commissioners approved a
compromise proposal which, if
passed by the North Carolina
General Assembly, will give the
Town of Southern Pines 50
percent of the liquor by the drink
special tax and the towns of
i^uthern Pines, Aberdeen and
Carthage 25 percent of the ABC
store retail sales profits.
The towns presently get 10
percent of the profits.
Commissioner Carolyn Blue
was the diplomat who brought up
the subject, which was not listed
on the agenda. Her motion was
seconded by Commissioner
Arthur Purvis, and approval was
unanimous.
The measure is to become
effective July 1.
Southern Pines town officials
told The Pilot Tuesday that they
were unaware such action was
pending until after the board
meeting.
“It’s a pleasant surprise,” said
Mayor Emanuel Douglass. “I
hope this means we have reached
a truce. It’s a step in the right
direction, and I’m very happy
they (the commissioners) saw fit
to reconsider.”
Douglass added that the action
should stop “a lot of division in
the community.” He said he was
in the process of notifying other
council members to determine
their reaction.
Town Manager Mildred Mc
Donald said she was “certainly
pleased,” and Lamont Brown,
town attorney, called It “a good
comi»-omise.”
The commissioners ,do not
ej^ct any difficulty in getting
this particular piece of loc^
legislation through the General
Assembly, althou^ the deadline
for local bills has passed. It was
noted that the previous effort to
introduce a bill for Southern
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Budget
Increase
County Rolls Back Rural Land Tax;
Personal Property Value Rate Cut
After a 45-minute executive
session called to discuss
personnel matters, the Moore
(^unty Board of Commissioners
voted unanimously Monday to
adopt a land-use schedule of
values for agricultural,
horticultural and timber lands.
When the board reopened the
meeting, no reference was made
to the subject of personnel.
Instead, (Commissioner James
Bike Race
Set Here
April 28
The Tour de Moore, Moore
County’s annual bike race, has
been scheduled for Saturday,
April 28.
Women racers will leave the
Campbell House at 8:45 a.m. and
will arrive at the Carthage Court
House at approximately 10 a.m.
The men’s race will start at the
(Campbell House at 9 a.m. and
will finish at the Southern Pines
Amtrak station at approximately
1 p.m.
The Tour de Moore is one of
those races used to select the
American Pan American team,
and this year’s event is expected
to attract participants from
(Continued on Page 16-A)
DuPont
Is Seen
Moore County school
administrators are busy working
on the budget for next year, but
as of yet nothing has been put
down on papelr, one source said.
However, an increase of about
ten percent in the current
operating budget is expected,
said Joe Vaughn, budget (Urector
in the school system. He said
general inflation is the reason for
this increase.
“In the past few wedts I’ve
sent out letters to different
companies we do business with,
asking them to indicate what
they foresee any increase will
be,” he said. Their answers
caused Vaughn to estimate an
eight to ten percent increase for
expenses such as utilities bills
and supplies.
The operating budget,
composed of county funds,
totaled $2,738,005. for fiscal year
1978-1979. This figure will
probably increase by about t«i
percent, said Vauglui, in next
year’s budget, which is due
before the Board of Education in
(Continued on Page 16-A)
;imistic
For Party
The Moore County Republican
Party held their first Lincoln
Day Dinner on Friday evening at
the Southern Pines Country (Sub
with Gov. Pierre duPont TV of
Delaware as their guest speaker.
“I think the Republican Party
has a better opportunity than
ever in 1980 but it’s one thing to
have the opportunity but yOu
must make it work. Come 1980
we can do the job,” he told the 280
persons who attended.
“We must build the party
because we have to start a turn-.
around,” he continued. “We in
the Republican Party have a
good crop of young men coming
dong and we need to start at the
bottom of the pyramid and woric
with helping the local people win
first.”
Gov. duPont stressed that he
would.be spending as much time
as possible helping candidates on
the local level. “You’ve just
elected your first Republican
Sheriff,” he said. “That’s where
we start.”
At the reception held before the
fund-raising dinner Gov. duPont
talked with a number of people
and shook a large number of
(Continued on Page 16-A)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
CT SCANNER ARRIVES. — Dr. C.G. Coin, Director of Sandhills
Diagnostics, points to part of the computerized tomographic scanner in
a demonstration of the new equipment Sunday afternoon at Moore
Memorial Hospital. Without slicing the watermelon (center) the
scanner produced cross-sectional images of its interior, which is
impossible by conventional diagnostic X-ray methods. The low dosage
X-ray instrument, combined with a computer, was described as “the
most revolutionary development in X-ray history” by Dr. Coin.
AUMAN“The credit for
working out the compromise on a
more equitable division of liquor-
by-the-drink taxes between
Moore County and the Town of
Southern Pines goes to Rep. T.
Qyde Auman.
Rep. Auman did not support a
{H-oposed bill to set up a separate
ABC System for the town, but he
promised to see if a compromise
could be arranged.
On Monday night the county
commissioners voted to divide
the $9 per gallon tax from mixed
drinks on a fifty-fifty basis with
Southern Pines. In addition they
voted to increase the share in
profits for the municipalities
with ABC storek from 10 to 25
percent.
Auman said Tuesday that he
hopes the compromise “will be
satisfactory” to all concerned.
He also said that if Pinehurst
should get mixed drink sales
imder another bill he has in
troduced at this session of the
Legislature they should share in
the tax ftmds on the same basis.
DEER BOLL-Rep. Auman said
that he has been getting op
position to a bill introduced last
week to prohibit the hunting of
deo* with a larger caliber rifle
than a .22 in Sandhills and
Mineral Springs townships.
He said that he had expected
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Craven immediately offered a
motion to adopt the land use
values for 1979.
The board’s action has a
“rollback” effect on certain
rural properties, which might be
taxed at a higher rate because of
a variety of urban influences.
Also contained in the motion
are a reduction in the personal
property tax percentage and
elirnination of all road frontage
values.
The land use values adopted by
the board are: $650 an acre for
cropland; $450 an acre for
pasture and open land; $250 an
acre for woods land. The motion
provides that seven percent of
house value will be used to tax
household and kitchen furniture.
This is down from the 10 percent
previously followed. However,
this does not change the tax rate
applied to motor vehicles, which
are also personal property.
Board members then approved
a provision to remove aU road
frontage values, a new aspect of
the county-wide property
reassessment project. In taking
this particular action, the board
emphasized that this is for tax
purposes only.
Assistant Tax Supervisor
Dewitt Purvis has explained that
the land use value schedule was
recommended to bring real
property values, for taxation
purposes, in line with the actual
use of the property. For
example, land being used for
crops, pasture, or timber may be
situated near ah industrial area,
a factor which might tend to
raise its valuation for tax
purposes. The board’s action
means that the valuation will be
rolled back to the figures
designated for different types of
land.
If the property is used to raise
crops and is valued at $10(X) an
acre, then the property-owner
will be taxed at $6^ an acre.
Property taxed less than $650 will
not be affected.
These land use values are not
automatically in effect, and
property owners must apply to
the county tax office to establish
the actual use of the property.
April 19 is the deadline for these
applications.
Closed Session
When the board voted to go into
closed session shortly before 10
p.m., Purvis and (^unty Finance
Officer Estelle Wicker remained
with the board. Before calling for
the executive session. Board
Chairman Lee Williams said the
board would be discussing a tax
matter, including a personnel
question.
In other action the board voted
to hold a public hearing on
Wednesday, AprU 11, to consider
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Distress Aid Asked
For Mental Health
Sandhills Mental Health
Center has applied for a $253,000
Distress Grant from the federal
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
If approved, the grant will pick
up some of the cost of providing
mental health services to adults
and children in the counties of
Anson, Hoke, Montgomery,
Richmond and Moore, according
to Dr. Steven Dingfelder,
director of the center. The grant
would cover part of the cost
taken by the HEW staffing grant
which the agency has been
awarded for the past eight years.
Dr. Dingfelder told The Pilot
that his agency is no longer
eligible for tiie HEW staffing
grant, which cannot be renewed
after the eighth year. He added
that the Distress Grant win not
(Continned on Page 10-A)
Parking For Stoneybrook
Changed For This Year
Preparations were under way
this week for the Stoneybrook
Races on Saturday, April 14, with
an announcement that changes
have been made in parking
arrangements.
Because of the overflow crowd
in the general admission parking
area last year which resulted in
some spectators being imable to
get into the parking area,
allotted, general admission park
ing has been moved to two fields
on Youngs Road.
The new areas will ac
comodate large crowds and will
eliminate any overflow parking
on adjacent roads.
Notice was also given of
restrictions on parking on roads.
There will be no parking on
Youngs Road, Sheldon Road,
Yadk& Road or May St. These
roads will be patrolled.
Spectators were requested to
purchase parking spaces by
contacting the Stoneybrook pf-
fice at the rear of the Campbell
House or by phoning 692-8(X)0.
General admission price is $4
per person^ children under 12
(Continued on Page 16-A)
F unctional
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Disposing of human waste is an
ttnglamorous occupation, but the
$17.5 million Moore County
Water Pollution Plant is one of
the most sophisticated and
functional Such facilities in North
Carolina.
In fact, the plant is ecologically
effective to the point that its
effluent~or final product~is
actually a higher quality water
than that already found in the
receiving creek.
The site is 66.77 acres in size,
and the rolling grassland
stretching about the maze of
buildings, basins, and multiple
receptables has the appearance
of a golf course. The comparison
may not be so odd after all; one
day it may be possible to use a
by-product o^ the plant to
fertilize, golf coursq grass.
“We’re a part of life that no one
cares about,” admits (^ary
Frick, plant superintendent since
1977.
“Something has to happen
between the toilet and the
washing machine end that
natural stream where you pull in
(Continued on Page 11-A)
b
READY FOR THE CREEK — Gary Frick, superintendent of the Moore
County Water Pollution Control Plant, shows a sample of the plant’s
finished product, known as effluent. Once raw sewage, this water has
been treated and cleansed of pollutants and is ready for discharge into
Aberdeen Creek. The equipment is an automatic sampler which scoops
up a tiny cup of water every five minutes for continuing monitoring.