As a native of Moore County and former newspaper reporter, I read The Pilot with considerable interest.

Two issues arrived yesterday. The June 26 issue had Steve Bouser’s column, “What’s News? We Know It When We See It,” and the July 5 issue had Tia Wallman’s letter, “A Disturbing Chapter Of Pinehurst’s History.”

When I was a reporter in Greensboro in the late ‘60s, city editor Irwin Smallwood occasionally reminisced about how much he had, in years past, enjoyed covering golf in Pinehurst.

He also recounted, to my surprise, how Sports Illustrated once published a disturbing report about anti-Semitism in Pinehurst. According to him, the magazine wrote that the village’s real estate covenants would have made Hitler blush.”

The Wallman letter is the first time I have ever seen anything published about these shameful deed restrictions, and I encourage The Pilot to produce and publish a lengthy, detailed account on this disturbing episode.

“That’s a good story,” to quote Mr. Bouser’s column.