Index
Books, 2-B; Carthage News, 1-3-D;
Church News, 3-B; Classified Ads, 6-
15-D; Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment,
5>9-C; Obituaries, 14-A; Pinehurst
News, 1-4-C; Sandhills Scene, 2-11-A;
Sports, 10-13-C.
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VOL. 61, NO. 33
64 PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA 28387
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1981
64 PAGES
PRICE IS CENTS
Citizens Win
On Garbage;
Tax Rate Up
BY LIZ HUSKEY
V. Ninety people showed up at the
Southern Pines Town Council
meeting Tuesday night, said they
did not want to have to carry
their garbage to the curb, and the
council voted unanimously to
raise the tax rate four cents to
accommodate backyard garbage
pickup.
The action rejected the
proposed curbside pickup system
: trecommended by Town Manager
Mildred McDondd, which would
have allowed the tax rate to
remain the same as last year.
With the backyard pickup
service included in the budget,
the tax rate increases to 74 cents
per $100 valuation, putting the
total budget amount at $3,827,428.
Mrs. McDonald has proposed
the curbside pickup service in
order to keep the tax rate at the
same 70 cents level as last year.
The town’s contract with
Leibers’ Sanitation, which
expires next year, is going up,
and the same backyard pickup
service the company has
provided will cost an extra
$30,000, or an additional 3.6 cents
on the tax rate.
In spite of much public opinion
against the proposed curbside
'pickup, Mrs. McDonald
recommended that the town go to
the system, to provide reduced
service for those who cannot
afford to pay extra taxes. Others
who wanted thn increased,
backyard service, could pay an
additional amount to the
company, but this way, she said,
the town would be supplying a
: base service.
But those attending the
meeting Tuesday night did not
want to hear of it.
The public hearing on the
budget lasted an hour and was
I spent entirely on hearing views
about the garbage pickiq). Only
one man, a resident of KnoUwood
Village, said that where he
came from they had always had
,3urbside service and that he
didn’t mind having to carry
I garbage to the street.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
I Presbyterians Select
Moore Native For Post
In its annual meeting at Mon-
I treat last week the Presbyterian
I Synod of North (Carolina voted to
appoint a Moore (bounty native.
Dr. John Daniel MacLeod Jr., as
I synod’s general secretary.
MacLeod is preseiltly serving
las executive secretary for
I Westminster Presbytery in the
iTampa-St. Petersburg area of
iFlorida. He will assume his new
■duties in synod’s Raleigh office
I on July 1.
The MacLeod family was
■visiting his sister, Martha
jMacLe^, near Pinebluff, last
■week. Miss MacLeod is employed
Iby Bethesda Presbyterian
|church, Aberdeen.
Macl^od will succeed Vemol
PRobert Jansen Jr., who resigned
THE
PILOT LIGHT
BRUTON-Dr. H. David Bruton
I of Southern Pines has been
[reelected to his third term as
■chairman of the State Board of
(Education.
At a meeting in Raleigh Thurs-
Iday Dr. Bruton was elected by ac-
Iclamation on a motion by Lt.
|Gov. Jimmy Green.
Dr. Bruton was appointed to
Ithe board in 1977 by Governor
IJim Hunt. The board elects its
(chairman for a two-year term.
After the election Thursday,
|Dr. Bruton talked about goals for
Ihis term, among them expanding
Icommunication with the various
■school superintendents,
■strengthening the teacher and
puid£mce counselor corps, and
developing a strong and influen-
al lobby for public schools.
Budget Slashed;
' Rate Held
Two-Time
Escapee
Captured
Sheriff’s deputies thought they
had nabbed a latter-day Houdini
Sunday morning when they learn
ed that the man they had arrested
is a two-time prison escapee.
James Willie McCormack, 49,
was apprehended when officers
answered an alarm to the PCX
building at Ciarthage, it was
reported by Sheriff Jerome Whip
ple.
McCiormack first told Detec
tive Ralph Simmons, Deputies
Garland Whitaker and Tommy
Handy that his name was Ace
Wilson. A check with Detective
Sgt. Arthur Frye and the State
Bureau of Investigation revealed
not only his real name but the in
formation that he answers the
description of a man who escaped
from Oie N.C. Department of Cor
rections on March 14, 1969.
The sheriff said that his of
ficers also learned that McCor
mack escaped from a South
Carolina prison unit in
September, 1980.
McCormack was serving time
in North C^acoJiaaiiar safecrack
ing and was serving a 25-year
sentence for a series of breaking,
entering and larceny charges in
South Carolina.
The Moore County Sheriff’s
Department charged him with
two coimts of breakiiig, entering
and larceny, one of (^^piracy to
commit burglary, aM one of car
rying a conceal^ weapon.
WMpple said the suspect broke
into the rear of the PCX building
with an ax and a hatchet. When
apprehended, he was carrying a
25 automatic pistol. McCormack
is also charged with breaking into
(Continued on Page 16-A)
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FARMERS MARKET — Peaches, cantaloupes and a great variety of
vegetables are now available at the Moore County Farmers Market on
West Pennsylvania Avenue in Southern Pines. Trading has been brisk in
early morning hours this week.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides)
637 To Graduate Friday
From Moore High Schools
in January to accept a staff posi
tion with Gov. James B. Hunt Jr.
Jansen held the synod position for
almost eight years.
Bom in Robbins, MacLeod was
a son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
John D. MacLeod. His father was
associated with Elise Academy
when he was a child. The elder
MacLeod later moved his family
to Red Springs, where he served
as bursar for Flora Macdonald
College. In retirement the
MacLeods lived at their nual
homeplace near Aberdeen.
The new synod general
secretary attended Pfeiffer Col
lege and graduated from David
son. He earned his Bachelor of
Divinity degree at Union
(Continued on Page 16-A)
For many of the 637 graduating
high school seniors in Moore
County, Friday, June 12 will not
come soon enough. For others it
will mean having to say goodbye
to many wonderful years.
These students ^ proceed
across stages in the three county
high schools, they wUl receive di
plomas or certificates and they
will become high school gradu
ates, culminating 12 or more
years of schooling aimed at this
moment.
Of the county total, 10 students
will receive certificates of
completion, having failed one
or more sections of the
competency test adnoinistered to
high school juniors and seniors.
Students must pass the
competency test before being
allowed to receive a diploma.
Dr. Richard Ray, Director of
the schools Psychological
Services, said all of those 10
students who failed the test are in
exceptional education classes,
including nine who are in the
Pinecrest self-contained class for
New Methodist Minister
Coming To Church Here
Two Moore County Methodist
ministers will be transferred to
other appointments effective
June 18, and the new pastors are
scheduled to preach June 20 at
Southern Pines and Pinebluff
United Methodist (Churches.
The transfers of more than 750
Methodist ministers were an
nounced at the North Carolina
Annual Conference at Methodist
College in Fayetteville held June
7-10. Approximately one-third of
the men and women serving the
United Methodist Cburch are ap
pointed to a new church, mission
or teaching position every year.
The Rev. W. Edward Privette,
now of Apex Church, Apex, has
been assigned to the Southern
Pines Church, and the present
pastor, the Rev. C. Franklin
Grill, will be moving to Christ
Church in FayettevOle.
The Rev. J.B. Helms, Jr.
transfers to Community, Hoff
man and Pinebluff diurches,
coming from Four Oaks C3turch
in Four Oaks. He is replacing the
Rev. Lester C. Bissette, who is
going to Pee Dee CJiurch in Rock
ingham.
During the four-day con
ference, Bishop William E. C^-
non delivered the State of the
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Schools Baffled
Over Budget Cuts
aiERIFF-The race for sheriff
in Moore Ck>unty in 1982 may at
tract several candidates.
Sheriff Jerome Whipple, the
first Republican sheriff in this
century for the county, will be up
for reelectim, and among those
who may contest for the office
within his party is Willie Hill,
chief of police at Robbins and an
active native Republican.
More than one candidate may
be seeking the Democratic
nomination for sheriff. A.B.
Parker of Vass, the present cor
oner who came close to defeating
CXr. Wimberly for the nomina
tion in 1976, is very much
interested in ^e office.
One candidate, Dave Levine of
Pinehurst, already has announc-
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Whether the World Golf Hall of
Fame Tournament will be held at
Pindiurst in September will be
determined in tte next few days.
Michael Dann, executive
director of the Hall of Fame, said
Tuesday that he is optin^tic that
the necessary funds for the
$250,OOC PGA tournament will be
raised in time.
“We are less than $170,000
away from the goal now,’’ Dann
said, adding that he has been
encouraged by the responses to
an ai^eal sent out in 220 letters
by Governor Jim Hunt a few
days ago.
The letter went to industries in
the state or to those who have
branches in North Carolina
asking them to help keep the
tournament going.
Dann said, that in addition to
the $250,00 prize money, other
funds are needed to have a
break-even budget.
The PGA requires that a
tournament have all prize money
in escrow iH*ior to an event, and
Dann said that a deadline is
nearing when a decision will
have to be made.
“The PGA and Deane Beman
(PGA commissioner) have been
generous with us,’’ Dann said.
“Beman doesn’t want to lose the
tournament. But we do have a
deadline to meet. We need the
additional money within the next
10 days, and to do it, we’re
making a public appeal.
Dann said there are 35
volunteers in the Sandhills who
are calling upon individuals and
business firms to become either
Patron Sponsors or join a new
program of “Day Sponsors.”
Last year’s tournament money
came from 100 Patron ^nsors
who put up $4,000 each. A
(Continued on Page 16>A)
Baffled about the task of
cutting $864,000 from the 1981-82
budget, the Moore County Board
of Education met last night
(Tuesday), discussed budget
problems for more than an hour
and a half, then adjourned
without reaching a decision.
Making the necessary cuts and
court action were among the
options argued during the
meeting, hut none of the school
board members expressed
interest in following either
direction.
“They’re (the county
commissioners) are saying, in
effect, that they don’t think we
should educate our children as
well as we’ve been doing,”
commented Board Member
Drewry Troutman.
Added Board Member Debbie
Williams: “Education is
obviously not a high priority
with the county commissioners.”
The two boards will meet
jointly Monday night in an effort
to resolve some of their
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Aberdeen Asks Craven
To Expedite Local Bill
the trainable mentally
handicapped (TMH).
These students are not denied
an opportunity to take the test,
Dr. I^y said, because the school
administrators feel that would be
denying them a chance to receive
a diploma instead of a certificate
at graduation.
This is the second year
students are required to have
passed the competency test to
receive a diploma. Last year,
five Moore County seniors were
given certificates instead of
diplomas at graduation.
Students who do not pass the
test may take it any time it is
(Continued on Page 14-A)
Vass Man
Is Killed
In Wreck
A 43-year old Vass man was
killed instantly this morning in an
automobile accident on Long
Point Road near Vass.
Trooper W.D. Waters of the
State Highway Patrol said Ed
ward Clark Patterson Jr. was
killed when his 1974 Ford truck
ran off the road in a sharp curve
and traveled a considerable
distance before striking a tree.
The 4:30 a.m. accident took place
(Continued on Page 16-;y
The Aberdeen Town Board of
Conunissioners voted Monday
night to ask State Representative
James M. Craven to expedite ac
tion on the town’s annexation biU.
Senate Bill 428, entitled An Act
to Annex a Described Area to the
Town of Aberdeen in Moore C^oun-
ty, calls for the annexation of the
triangle property between North
Poplar Street and the U.S. 1 in
tersection.
The Aberdeen commissimiers
also asked Rep. Craven to advise
them on the bill’s progress.
In other business the board
held a public hearing on the pro
posed annexation of property
owned by Erma C. Prodor and
located on the west side of U.S. 1
contiguous to the town’s northern
boundary.
No objections were voiced, and
the board voted unanimously to
approve the request. An or
dinance will be adopted to show
approval of this annexation.
A five-member recreation com
mittee was appointed: Sandy
Marts, Bruce Monroe, Steve
Moss, Gary Mofield, and Robert
Morrison. CHnmissioner Linda
Boles will serve as ex-officio
member.
At the request of the police
department, ^ board approved
a no parking zone at the entrance
to West (Thapin Road from West
Elm Street, behind Aberdeen
Middle School, and to begin at
Elm Street on the right side and
(XI the left, to begin in front of 317
West Cbapin Road and to con
tinue through the curve to the in
tersection of West (Thapin and
West Montford Streets in front of
319 West Chapin. Both sides of the
street will be no parking zones,
and signs to that effect will be
(Continued on Page 16-A)
BY FLORENCE GELKESON
With a warning letter in hand
from the Local Government
Commission, the Moore County
Board of Commissioners on
Friday knifed the 1981-82 budget
to a point where the 50-cent tax
rate is retained.
To do so the commissioners
cut another $200,000 gash in the
school current expense budget,
eliminated the position of youth
services director, reduced the
contingency fund, eliminated a
$200,000 capital reserve fund,
and trimmed miscellaneous
items from several budgets.
They also beefed up the revenue
side of the ledger.
The proposed $11,198,580
budget which was tentatively
approved will be open to public
scrutiny through Monday, June
22, when the board hol^ the
required public hearing.
If the citizens think more
money is needed. Board
Chairman Charles Phillips
suggested that the county
consider calling a referendum to
add another penny to the present
local sales tax.
The question of whether the
Local Government Commission
can demand a tax rate increase
to improve the county’s cash
flow arose during the meeting.
The commission’s letter
expresses great concern over the
county’s financial crisis but does
not specify that such an action
could be t^en.
Commissioner Tony Parker
cast the one dissenting vote
when the board tentatively
accepted the budget. Although
Paricer had vigorously agreed
with most of the cuts made in the
budget, his vote reflected
disagreement over the inclusion
of employe pay raise provisions
approved a few minutes earlier.
As proposed, the budget
includes: $3,668,520 for the
Moore County Public Schools,
$700,000 for Sandhills
(Continued on Page 14-A)
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Tourney Hinges On Money
LOOK DOWN, LOOK DOWN — These railroad tracks are an inviting
but lonesome road as the sun threatens to break through the clouds
hovering overhead in this June scene in the Sandhills.—(Photo by Glenn
M. Sides)