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May 6, 1981
THE PILOT-Southern Pines, North Carolina
At the recommendation of the
county inspectors, the Moore
County Board of Commissioners
last week approved changes in
the fee schedule for electrical and
building inspections.
The changes, including in
creases in some fees, will go into
effect July 1.
Swimming pools were added to
the list of structures for which an
electrical permit and inspection
are required. Inspection will
cover underwater lighting,
grounding and related work.
Electrical Inspector Ben
' Cooper expressed concern about
the number of pools being built
throughout the county and the
danger when lights are improper
ly installed.
After July 1, any individual or
contractor installing a pool
within the county’s jurisdiction
must first obtain a permit. A fee
of $10 wiU be charg^, payable at
the time the permit is secured.
The fee will cover the permit and
the inspection.
Electrical inspections are
presently made for all areas of
the county except the Towns of
Aberdeen and Robbins. By the
time this regulation goes into ef
fect, the Town of Southern Pines
will also be doing its own elec
trical inspections.
Changes in the electrical in
spection fee schedule which were
adopted include: construction
site pole (temporary service),
$10; residential - 0-100 amps, $28;
150 amps, $31; 200 amps $35;
above 200 amps, $35 plus 15 cents
per amp; commercial, 20 cents
per amp; mobile home, $15;
change of service only, $15; addi
tional work with change of ser
vice, $10; other, $15; after heat
inspection, $10.
Also at Cooper’s request, the
board voted to adopt the National
Electrical Code for the county.
This too will become effective Ju
ly 1.
Cooper explained that the State
Building Code Council, at a
December meeting, voted to
adopt the National Electrical
Code as the state code. He asked
that the board adopt this code to
bring Moore County in line with
the state and national codes.
One fee was changed at the re
quest of Building Inspector Elwin
Blue.
This fee affects multi-family
dwellings, such as duplex apart
ments, other apartments and
condominium units. The county
has been charging a $25 flat rate
per unit for multi-family dwell
ings. Under the change, multi
family units will be treated the
same as single family dwellings.
The board declin^ to make
building inspections mandatory,
and it was noted that in 1982 state
law will require mandatory in
spections, b^ause the county’s
population climbed above the
50,000 point in the 1980 census.
For the past four years the
county has offered a permissive
inspection system, whereby the
property-owner may waive a[n in
spection. Increasingly, however,
more and more people are asking
for the inspection as a safety
measure. Blue has asked the
board to implement a mandatory
inspection program annually
since inspections were begun in
1977.
In other business the board ap
proved the renewal of ABC
licenses, a request from the fire
marshall to authorize the N.C.
Department of Transportation to
pave the driveway at the new
West End Fire Station, approved
the transfer of a $3558 check from
United Parcel Service into the
ARO fund to reduce the county’s
capital debt on the sewer line pro
ject to the ARO plant (UPS is
building a facility which will tap
onto the line), and four ’’just
compensation” appraisal mat
ters for the airport project.
The board voted to appoint
Charlie McGugan, a member of
the airport commission, to serve
as negotiator in the airport pro
ject, which involves securing
right of way, easement and land
acquisition needed to improve
runways and landing instrumen
tation.
McGugan will succeed W.
Sidney Taylor, a former county
administrator and commission
chairman, who, according to
Board Chairman Charles
Phillips, “wants to give up the job
as negotiator.”
Know Your Name
MacLeod
Power Concentration Possible
Under Redistricting Proposals
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RETIRES — Mrs. Catherine P. Morrison, plant
clerk with Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
Company in Southern Pines, retired April 17
with over 30 years service. Joe R. Kimball,
disrict plant manager, is shown above, right
presenting a monetary gift, in addition to a
retirement ring, in honor of the occasion.
Family and friends attended a retirement tea
for Mrs. Morrison April 17 in the C.T.& T.
Conference room.
Inspection Fee Changes
Are Approved For County
BY BILL NOBLITT
If the General Assembly of
North Carolina is supposed to be
the peak of representative
government, it falls considerably
short of the mark.
Students of the legislative
process are now satisfied that
the federal mandate fit “one-
man, one-vote” which was
supposed to make the
Legislature more truly
representative of the state as a
whole has to come considerable
degree had the opposite effect.
Geographically, North
Carolina is a sprawling state
ranging hundreds of miles from
mountains to foothills to
Piedmont to Sandhills to Coastal
Plains to soundsides and the
coast.
It is the only place in the Union
in which one can travel from
West Virginia to Mississippi and
never cross a state line. The
people who live in those diverse
places are different, and their
unique needs are just as
different.
But the power in the General
Assembly is gradually
concentrating in the hands of the
more affluent, thickly populated
sections of the state-extreme
eastern and western sections are
being left out.
The redistricting process
currently underway in the
General Assembly as a result of
the 1980 Census will do nothing to
change the situation. In fact, it
will only make the lack of direct
representation worse in some
areas because the thrust will
continue to be districts of
roughly the same numbers of
people from which state senators
and representatives are elected.
Fully one third of the counties
(34 out of 100) now have neither
a senator nor a member of the
house of representatives.
Only 39 of the state’s 100
counties have a senator. There
are 50 senators. In the House of
Representatives only 62 counties
have direct representation in the
120-seat body.
The matter of direct
representation is managed on a
strictly informal and unwritten
basis in some sections of the
state where political leaders
attempt to spread the local
delegation out fairly. And when
a vacant seat occurs, an effort
may be made to rotate the place
of residence of the lawmaker. In
other places, though, the centers
of population fight bitterly to
take and keep all the power
while outlying sections get
nothing.
Two measures currently under
study in the General Assembly
would only serve to worsen the
situation as to direct
representation. Both would
require amendments to the State
Constitution.
One proposal would reduce
membership in the House of
Representatives to 100. Districts
would be allowed to cut across
counties without regard to
county lines. The result would be
an increase in numbers of
counties without direct
representation, and even more
confusion about who is “our
representative.”
The other measure would
extend terms in the Legislature
from two years to four years
which could only mean that,
once seated, a member would
remain longer thereby denying
for longer periods of time the
opportunity for “unrepresented”
counties of a district to secure
representation.
Meanwhile, a subtle change in
makeup of the urban delegations
from heavily populated
Piedmont countries is booming
noticeable. When as many as
three state Senators and eight
house members can concentrate
in one county, those elected
become “delegates” rather than
legislators. There is more
caucusing to attain unified
action, and more block voting
and power brokering.. Individual
delegates, too, tend to be elected
from special interest groups
rather than from the county as a
whole. For instance, a typical
“big city” delegation in the
59% Of Tar Heels Favor
Federal Gun Control Law
BY J.C. DOWNING
The Scottish surname.
MacQoud, MacLeod or Macleod
was spelled Mac Leoid in Gaelic
and meant “son of Leod.” Leod
is from a Norse personal name
LJOTR, or LJOT, meaning
“Ugly.” It is most likely that'
LJOT(R) was the first element
in a double-stemmed name such
If: as LJOTULF (ugly-wolf).
Northern coasts of Scotland had
m^y Norse settlements from
which the name could have
come.
Gillandres MacLeod was one
of a group on a border jury in
1227. Torquil M’Leoid de (of)
Leohus witnessed a grant of
lands in Badenoch in 1338.
Gilbert or Gilreid McGloid was a
tenant in Tiree in 1541. Murdow
McCloyd lived in the Hebrides
in 1600. Sir John MacLeod, bom
1782, became a noted surgeon
and traveller.
The MacLeods are divided into
two branches: Macleod of
macleod and Macleod of Lewes.
Burke’s General Armory
describes the nine different
Macleod arms.
In Virginia, John Macloode
obtained a 220 acres grant in
Surry County in 1682 for paying
the passage of five new settlers
to the colony. Daniell Mackloud
held land in Nansemond County
prior to 1686. Thrunoch Mackloud
was a headright in a 1693 Essex
County land grant and
Alexander Maclood was a
headright in a 1730 Accomack
County land grant.
Mordecai Maclood, his wife
and two children were killed by
the Indians in Massachusetts in
1675.
There are some Irish McLeods
or McClouds in this country, but
they were originally MacGlews
or they were Scottish settlers in
Northern Ireland (Ulster) who
later came to this country as
Scotch-Irish.
LIMIT MH-30
Tobacco growers are being
urged to keep applications of
MH-30 within acceptable limits
or face either the possible loss of
important U.S. tobacco markets
or a more strick certification
and compliance program. Many
countries have complained about
the level of MH residue in U.S.
grown flue-cured tobacco. West
Germany has told U.S. tobacco
interests their government may
adopt 80 parts per million as a
legal limit if tobacco imports
continue to exceed that level.
This could pose a very serious
threat against U.S. produced
tobacco in Germany as well as
other Western European
countries.
A majority of North Carolina
residents polled recently favor a
federal . law requiring
registration of handguns,
according to the Carolina Poll, a
statewide telephone survey
sponsored by the School of
Journalism of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
When asked in late February
whether they favored or opposed
such a federal law, 59 percent of
the 782 adults randomly selected
for the survey said they favored
the law. Another 32 percent said
they opposed such a law, while 9
percent weren’t sure.
The survey was conducted
several weeks before the
attempted assassination of
President Ronald Reagan by an
assailant armed with a handgun.
The attempt on Reagan’s life
already has generated new calls
for passage of a stronger federal
law on gun control.
No federal law requiring
handgun registration is currently
on the books. However, a
comprehensive restructuring of
the nation’s 1968 gun control laws
had been proposed in Congress
before the Reagan shooting by
two Democi'ats, Sen. Edward
Kennedy of Massachusetts and
Rep. Peter Rodino of New
Jersey. The Kennedy- Rodino
proposal includes a provision
that would establish a nationwide
21-day waiting period between
purchase and delivery of
handguns, allowing time for
eligibility checks by authorities.
North Carolina does have a
state law requiring that a person
buying a pMol obtain a permit
from the county sheriff. Critics
describe the state law as weak
and ineffective, and attempts to
strengthen the law in recent
years have failed.
Support for a federal
regii^ration law was highest
among North Carolina
minorities, women and adults
under the age of 35, in that order.
Mountain residents favored the
law by the narrowest margin of
any geographic group, while
coastal residents gave the
highest level of support.
The Carolina Poll results show
that fewer North Carolinians
support a handgun registration
law than Americans in general,
according to the latest Harris
Survey on the subject. A
November 1980 Harris Survey
using the same question found 67
percent of Americans in favor of
such a law, 32 percent opposed
and 1 percent not sure.
Nationwide support for the
concept of handgun registration
has reached levels as high as 84
percent in polls dating back to
1938, when the Gallup
organization first asked its
question on the subject. Although
the nationwide level of support
has declined in recent years,
surveys conducted since the
attempt on Reagan’s life have
shown an upsurge in support for
stricter handgun controls.
The Carolina survey showed
that North Carolinians tended to
divide more sharply in their
support for the law on the basis of
racial background than any
other characteristic. For
example, minorities favored the
handgun registration law by
more than 4-to-l (74 percent in
favor, 18 percent opposed).
White respondents supported the
law by a narrorer 3-to-2 margin
(56 percent in favor, 35 percent
opposed).
Adults under 35 showed the
next highest level of support for
the law, with two of every three
younger adults favoring the law
(66 percent in favor, 27 percent
opposed). Adults over the age of
35 were less Ukely to support t^e
law (55 percent in favor, 36
percent opposed).
Women supported the law by
nearly 3-to-l (65 percent to 23
percent), while men favored the
law by a narrower ration of 5-to-4
(53 percent to 43 percent).
Women were much more likely
to be undecided on the question,
however.
Other results of the poll show
that:
-Education and annual income
apparently made little difference
in terms of support for the law.
Educational groups were equally '
divided on the issue, while only
one income group-those with
incomes more than $20,000 per
year-showed significant opposi
tion to the law (40 percent of the
latter group were opposed).
-Place of residence in the state
was more of an apparent factor
in determining degree of support
for the law, with coastal and
Piedmont residents favoring the
law by margins of about 2rto-l.
Mountain residents, in contrast,
divided more closely, with 52
percent in favor and id percent
opposed.
The Carolina Poll was
conducted Feb. 22-25. A
random-digit-dialing method
was used to contact state
residents older than 18. This
method allows survey-takers to
reach unlisted numbers and new
residences. Homes without
telephones were excluded, which
tends to under-represent rural
residents, blacks and those with
lower incomes.
Results of a survey of this size
are accurate to within 3 to 4
percent in 95 surveys out of ever
100.
General Assembly will be one
black, one woman, one lawyer,
one retiree, one businessman,
and-if there is room-one
working person.
Some interest is being
expressed in changing the
Senate to 100 members; one
elected from each county.
Interest comes mostly from
unrepresented counties,
however, so action is uncertain.
Mrs. Bibey
Plans May
Art Show
A one-woman show by Sandra
Bibey of Carthage will be
exhibited at the Moore County
Library through the month of
May. The show opened with a
reception on May 3.
Five different mediums will be
shown-pen and ink, pencil,
pastels, charcoal and oU.
Mrs. Bibey developed her
talent through Sandhill
Community College courses. She
has drawn since i^e was a child.
Many organizations such as the
scouts and schools have called
on her talents. A major project
she undertook was to do
charcoals of all the ministers of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Carthage. She also used her
talents to decorate store
windows in Southern Pines
during the Christmas seasons.
Mrs. Bibey is the former
Sandra Oldham of Sanford. She
and her husband have been
living in Carthage for eight
years. They are living in an
older home in Carthage. Mr. and
Mrs. Bibey and their two sons
have done extensive remodeling
in their home.
Pinecrest
Is 20th
In Contest
On Thursday, March 26, five
Pinecrest students participated
in the annual Campbell
University Math Contest.
Results from this contest have
just recently been received by
the participating schools. Out of
over 50 schools involved,
Pinecrest High School placed
20th. Chapel Hill Senior High
School won first place.
The Math Department at
Pinecrest sponsored the team,
and Jerry Darnell was the
advisor. The students who made
the trip to Campbell were
Juniors Brad Brechtelsbauer,
Jerry Stuber, Paula Sykes and
Seniors, Deana Watkins and
Clint Weathers.
Pinecrest students have
participated in this contest each
year since 1972. The test consists
of 40 multiple-choice questions
involving problems from
Algebra, Geometry, and
Analysis. The test began at 1
p.m. and lasted an hour. After
the testing the students enjoyed
a social hour in the cafeteria.
Campbell University is one of
the regional testing centers for
North Carolina mathematics
competition. The top 14 students
in this contest will represent this
district in the state math contest
in May. Next year a test
involving ninth grade students
will be held. This will help to
build interest and enthusiasm in
mathematics.
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