Index
Books, 2-B: Carthage News, 1-3-D:
Church News, 3-B; Classified Ads, 5-
15-i): Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment,
6-lO-C; Obituaries, 13-A; Pinehurst
News, Sandhills Scene, 2-11-A;
Sports, 11-14-C.
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BEAUTIFICATION — Miss Mildred Womble, a
first grade teacher at Vass-Lakeview School,
ond organizer of^ the school grounds
beautification project, supervises while
students water some of the thousands of
plantings on the school grounds. The project is
great education for the students, said Miss
Womble, and she invites everyone to drive
through the school driveway and see the many
azaleas, dogwoods and other flowers in bloom
now. —(Photo by Liz Huskey).
Once Ufifliest Is Now Beautiful
BY LIZ HUSKEY
To see the flowers, shrubs and
other plantings along the
entrance of Vass-Lakeview
School, all in splendid color this
spring, nestled amid grassy
lawns and forest, it’s hard to
imagine that it was once “one of
the ugliest school yards in the
county.”
Until about nine years ago,
that is, when a spunky, never-
say-die first grade teacher
named Mildred Womble got a
hold of it.
Miss Womble steered the
energies of many willing
teachers, students, parents and
interested citizens in the
direction of the beautification
project of Vass-Lakeview School.
In nine years, they gradually
turned hard dirt and eroded
grounds around the school into
Moore Democrats Meet
At Carthage Saturday
Moore County Democrats will
meet in county convention in the
courthouse at Carthage Saturday
at 1 p.m..
New officers will be elected
and installed.
Phillip Jackson of Southern
Pines has announced that he will
not be seeking reelection as
chairman, and the only an
nounced candidate for the office
is James Van Camp, a Southern
Pines attorney.
Jackson said that he expects a
good attendance, and he urged
all Democrats to attend the
convention and participate in the
party business. “This is an
important meeting and I hope all
precincts in Moore County will be
represented,” he said.
Precinct meetings have been
held earlier, with new precinct
officers elected. The new
p-ecinct officers will be an
nounced at Saturday’s con
vention.
It is expected that several
resolutions will be offered for
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beautifully-landscaped gardens.
With the help of contributions
of plantings and some PTA
funding and with the input of
over 800 man hours each year,
the project won them the
Beautification Award presented
to county schools last year, and
they are hoping to win the award
again.
In spite of having taken many
groups on tours around the
school the past three days, Miss
Womble insisted on going around
once more, pointing out various
flowers, and with disbelief at my
ignorance, spelling out the
names carefully.
At the entranceway in the
school driveway, she pointed out
the landscaping that they had
spent hundreds of hours
planning, then, planting.
Lined with old railroad ties,
and filled with wood shavings,
the entrance area boasts 20 new
azaleas, donated by a former
teacher’s son, dogwoods, a
Kwansan Cherry tree in full
bloom with its pink buds, Foster
Holly Number Two, geraniums,
marigolds, blue ageratum, red
sage, blue rug junipers...
Asked when they began the
Poultry Is Mainstay In Moore;
Boone Farm Provides Example
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Four days old, they form a soft
yellow design in the chicken
house on the Hugh Boone farm.
Today the downy baby
chickens are the picture of gentle
innocence. In seven weeks they
will be broilers on the market in
stores and fast food restaurants.
Boone, who has raised chickens
since childhood, admits that he
sometimes becomes attached to a
chick, because it’s hard not to
like them. But after all, this is his
livelihood, and he can’t afford to
keep them as pets.
“Yes, you have some pets.
Every now and then there is one
that’U follow you the whole length
of the house, just seems sort of at
tached to you,” Boone said in an
informal interview at his farm in
the Bensalem community. The
occasion marks local observance
of April as Poultry Month.
It takes skill and loving care to
raise the chicks, but the job is
fulltime, seven days a week, day
and night, all year long. And the
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entrance way landscaping. Miss
Womble turned to school
secretary Marilyn Gschwind and
asked, “What year was it that I
almost got fired?”
She pointed out a huge pine
tree to the left of the circular
driveway, and explained that
when they decided to pave the
driveway, the engineers wanted
to have tee tree cut down.
Miss Womble was delegated to
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School Fund Surplus
Denied By Supt. Lee
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Stacks of petitions on the
communications controversy
and a lengthy debate about
school financing shared the
attention of the economy-minded
Moore County Board of
Conunissioners Tuesday night.
Both items have figured
heavily in the board’s
considerations of methods to
save money, not in the next
budget, but to find ways to make
ends meet before the current
fiscal year ends on June 30.
R.E. Lee, superintendent of
the county schools, promptly
advised the board that “there
has been some real
misunderstanding about the
school surplus,” a subject
mentioned at the last board
meeting on April 6.
“There is not Mie dollar of
suplus in the school fund,” Lee
said.
Lee informed the board that
the school system does have
$282,000 at present in what he
described as “working capital,”
and he argued that the schools
need every penny of it to
maintain a normal cash flow to
pay routine bills. He called this
figure, which is about two
percent of the system’s total
budget, “too low, dangerously
low.”
The superintendent said he
would feel more comfortable
with a five percent cash flow.
“When we write checks, I just
want them to be good,” he said.
In spite of Lee’s insistence that
the schools have no money to
spare, the county’s new finance
officer, Kai Nelson, stuck with
Whispering Pines Nears
Goal Of Club Ownership
The Country Club of Whisper
ing Pines, Inc., the new corpora
tion formed to administer the
community property of the
resort, is a mere 51 subscribers
short of its 375-member goal.
Early this week the corporation
acknowledged 324 subscribers, at
$5000 apiece, for the purchase of
the property, which includes the
three golf courses, villas. Ter
race Room restaurant, ad
ministration building, swimming
pools and all other recreation
areas.
Rodger Mueller, who is handl
ing public relations for the
Whispering Pines arrangements,
said the new corporation’s board
is confident of securing the 51 ad
ditional subscribers needed to
purchase the property.
Such an act is ne^ed to free
the resort property from court
actions pending because of
bankruptcy proceedings, to clear
the title and insure the type of
operation and ownership clearly
desired by the residents of
Whispering Pines.
In spite of the optimistic
outlook, the conuniuiity is not
over the legal hump. The court
extension granted to Lowell
Newmyer, owner of the corpora
tion which purchased the
bankrupt Whispering Pines, Inc.
last fall, expires on May 13, and a
decision alraut the disposition of
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Ms. Monroe
Spelling
Champion
Cindy Monroe, eighth grader
at Pinehurst Middle School,
spelled “exhilarate” correctly,
then tossed off “facilitator” to
become the winner of the Moore
County Spelling Bee, held
Wednesday morning at the
Moore County Schools
Administrative Building.
Anna Dillon, Southern Pines
Middle School sixth grader, had
missed “exhilarate” which,
under rules that came into effect
only when two contestants
remained, then went to Cindy. If
she had missed it too, the match
would have continued with both
students staying in. As it was,
Cindy correctly spelled the
missed work, and then another to
win the match, a $^ check and
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his original recommendation
that the schools temporarily
forego some of the county funds
paid monthly, a measure which
would enable the county to meet
its financial obligations.
Nelson also proposed that in
the future the board work out an
agreement with the schools
whereby such a fund transfer
can be made automatically.
Lee pointed out that the
schools represent big business
with a total budget estimated as
high as $20 million, if all funds,
federal, state and local, are
included. He pointed to a
number of unmet needs, such as
six or seven school buildings with
leaky roofs. Lee noted that the
school system has already had to
use most of its current expense
contingency fund just to pay the
excess in fuel bills, an account
which was underbudgeted for
1980-81.
“If we have surplus money,
and I let the roofs go unrepaired,
then I ought to be fired. You’re
saying we’re sitting on surplus
funds. That would be
irresponsible,” Lee asserted.
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Tour de Moore Bike Race
First Of Two-Day Event
For first time this year, Moore
County residents and others
coming in from around the state
will be able not only to watch
some of the best bicycle racers in
the country, but race against
them as well.
Coming on the heels of the
sixth annual Tour De Moore
bicycle race, to be held Saturday,
April 25, will be a day full of bike
races for all ages Sunday, April
26.
Topping off the Sunday races
will be a 30-mile race, in which
most of the same
national-caliber racers will
compete. The race offers those
more serious bicycle-racing
locals who are licensed Senior I
and II an opportunity to pit
themselves against the best.
Also featured Sunday will be
an 18-mile race for women, a
15-mile loop for Senior III and IV
licensed cyclists, and various
shorter bike races for children of
all ages, including a 100-yard
tricycle race for children five
and under. There is no entry fee
for these races and ribbons will
be provided for all the winners.
It will be family day in the
Southern Pines park all
weekend, as the festive occasion
brings in hundreds from around
the country.
This year’s Tour De Moore will
be the Southern area selection
race for the National Sports Fest
ival in Syracuse, N.Y. in August
and the top three winners will
automatically receive places on
the Southern team.
The top racing magazine in the
country. Veto News, has called
the Moore County event the best
road race in the United kates,
because it is so well organized
and managed.
That organization is provided
by a fleet of more than 250
volunteers from the Kiwanis
Club of the Pines, Carolina
Galvanizing Corporation, the E-Z
Riders Motorcycle Club,
Southern Pines police and rescue
squad and the N.C. Highway
Patrol.
The chairman of the races this
year is Bruce Cunningham, a
Southern Pines attorney who has
worked with the festival for six
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15-20 Years Given
In Carthage Murder
Injured
Dana Clark, a student at
Pinecrest High School, and the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Daniel
Clark, is in the Robins intensive
care unit at Moore Memorial
Hospital for treatment and
observation following a car
wreck in Anson County Tuesday
night.
The driver, 18-year-old Albert
Hammill of 200 Golf Crest Lane,
Southern Pines was also injured.
John Frank Caudle, 44, of
Wadesboro was the driver of the
second vehicle, and was killed in
the head-on collision on Highway
74 West.
Grover Eugene Harris was
sentenced Tuesday to not less
than 15 nor more than 20 years in
prison for the Sept. 18 slaying of
Earl C. Stutts.
The 22-year old defendant
entered a guilty plea to the
charge of second degree murder
Tuesday morning when a
criminal term of Moore Ctounty
Superior Court was convened in
Carthage.
Judge William H. Helms of
Monroe ordered that Harris be
allowed to serve the sentence
concurrently with any other
sentences he is serving. He also
gave Harris credit for time spent
in jail awaiting trial, which
means that about six months may
be deducted from his overall
sentence.
Harris was charged with
murdering the 64-year old Stutts
by cramming dirt and small
stones into his mouth. The body
was found later on the same day
in a church cemetery in (Dar
thage.
Dr. Alfred Siege, medical ex
aminer, determined that death
was caused by suffocation. The
body also contained two stab
wounds in the tower abdominal
section, which were not con
sidered serious enough to have
caused death.
Investigators reported that the
body was nude except for one
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Budget And What’s Being Cut
Main Issues In Hefner Queries
BY PATSY TUCKER
Congressman Bill Hefner, the
only North Carolina Democrat on
the House Budget ([tommittee,
met with interested Moore
(bounty citizens on Thursday
evening at the Town Hall.
After a brief address, Hefner
answered questions from the
group of almost 100 people whose
main concern appeared to be
budget and how it affected them
or their businesses personally.
In his opening talk he stressed
the fact that “the people in this
country should cooperate and
woric closely together on the
things that should be done. It’s in
everybody’s best interest. It
takes everybody working
together to get the country
straight.” He went on to say, “I
intend to do what I think is right.
We are not a second rate country
and I have great hopes for this
country. Incidentally,” he added,
“the people of Moore CJounty
write more letters than those of
any other counties. I want to
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THOUSANDS OF CHICKS — Pauline Boone fills a water fountain in the
chicken house, where 17,500 biddies were delivered early last week.
About 70,000 chickens, in all stages of development, are being raised on
the Boone farm most times of the year.—(Photo by Florence Gilkeson)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
GOVERNOR~On Monday
ni^t at 7 o’clock Governor Jim
Hunt will make a statewide
presentation on public television
(Channel 4) of his recom
mendations for revenues to
bolster the ailing highway fund.
There has been speculation
that the Governor will propose a
two-cent additional gasoline tax,
plus additional taxes on beer,
wine and liquor. Also expected is
a recommendation that support
of the State Highway Patrol be
transferred from the highway to
the geno-al fund, which would
mean an extra $45 million
available for highway main
tenance.
Governor Hunt also is
proposing a tightening of high
way spendii^, saying instead of
“Cadillac hi^ways” the state
has to go to “Chevette” roads.
A special blue ribbon com
mittee has reported that $200
million will be needed to bolster
highway funds in order to con
tinue minimum maintenance of
roads.
LEGISLATURE-State Sena
tors Russell Walker and
Charles Vickery from this
district met the deadline for the
introduction of local legislation
from Moore County by filing a
“Moore County act without
provisions” bill on April 2.
The bill was sent to the
Conunittee on Rules where local
legislation which may be
requested can be attached if the
ne^ arises.
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HEFNER HERE — Congressman Bill Hefner is shown speaking to a
group at the Town Hall about present issues. In the background are
Town Manager Mildred McDonald and Mayor Hope Brogden.—(Photo
by Patsy Tucker).