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Vol. 59, Number 24
64 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387
Wednesday, April 11,1979
64 Pages
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STONEYBROOK—More than 35,000 are
expected here Saturday for the 32nd running of
the Stoneybrook Steeplechase Races at the
Stonevbrook Farm track, shown above in an
aerial view. The Stoneybrook Races has
become one of the major sporting and social
events of the year in North Carolina and the
Sandhills.
Town Is Given Tentative Approval
For $750,000 Community Project
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Warmed by tentative federal
approval, elated Southern Pines
town officials are plunging into
the details to polish off their
final application for $750,000 to
launch the first year of a
complex Community
Development program.
The block grant will come
^ from the Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
Both Town Manager Mildred
McDonald and Town Planner
Marvin Collins are optimistic
that the second year of their
proposal will be funded,
completing an overall bid for
$1.4 million to carry out multiple
improvements in an 18-block
section of West Southern Pines.
'0 Final approval of the first
phase is expected. All that
remains to be done to attain that
approval is a refinement of the
application, with more details
filled in by the mid-July
deadline. If all goes smoothly,
the town should initiate the
project by Oct. 1, according to
ColUns, who formulated the plan
and prepared the application.
Featured in the proposal are
housing rehabilitation, removal
of dilapidated structures,
improvements of streets, water
lines, and sidewalks, along with
land acquisition and
redevelopment. Park
development will highlight the
second year’s work, if, as
expected, the grant is renewed.
“We’re mighty excited about
it,” said Mrs. McDonald last
week shortly after the town
learned the good news from the
office of Congressman Bill
Hefner. “If all goes well, we’re
in an excellent position for
renewal.” She was advised that Target area for the two-year
HUD is reluctant to. commit project is bordered by U.S. 1 on
funds for a second year until the the east, Glover and Carlisle
department determines the streets on the west,
results of the first phase. (Continued on Page 12-A)
Old Terminal At Airport
Will Be Demolished Soon
A contract to rear down the old
airport building will be signed
this week, according to Moore
County Administrator W. Sidney
Taylor, who is a member of the
airport committee.
Taylor, who said the building is
“eaten up with termites,”
reported Aat everything has
been moved into the new ter
minal building or the hangars.
Mary Stone Is Awarded 1979
Kiwanis Junior Builders Cup
Tile Kiwanis Club of the
Sandhills awarded the Junior
Builders Cup to Mary A. Stone on
Friday night at the annual
Picquet Music Festival held at
the Pinehurst Middle School
auditorium.
Mary is the daughter of the
Rev. and Mrs. John D. Stone of
Southern Pines and a senior at
Pinecrest High School.
Active in sports, Mary has
participated in basketball and
volleyball and served as co
captain of the Varsity Volleyball
Team during her sophomore,
junior and senior years and was
named All-Conference this year.
She has also participated on the
Varsity Softball Team and this
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year was selected as the Most
Improved Player on the
Volleyball Team. She is on the
track team and was selected the
Shot-Put Intramural Silver
Medalist.
She is currently the President
of the Student Council at
Pinecrest and has been a
member for four years. She is a
member of the Moore County
Recreation Committee and a
member of the Parent-Teacher
Student Association.
Mary is also active in the
Daughters of the American
Revolution having served as
Assistant Secretary, a member
of the Nomination Committee
and the Executive Committee.
She received the Citizenship
Award at Pinecrest and is a Red
Cross Blood Drive Volunteer.
Mary belongs to the French
Club and was selected
Homecoming French Queen and
is a member of the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes. She is
currently serving as Vice
President of the National Honor
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Stoneybrook Crowd
To Set New Record
and as soon as the final lighting
equipment is transferred,
everything will be in readiness
for the demolition contractor,
Ernest Black, to begin work.
Among the items moved from
the old buUding were tran
sformers and an emergency Civil
Defense hospital. Resort Aviat-
tion, which has a 30-year lease on
the airport property, has already
occupied the new terminal
facility.
Under the proposed contract.
Black will be paid a $2000 fee to
clear the old building from the
site within 120 days. Black also
gets to keep any salvageable
materials, but he will forfeit part
of the fee if the site is not cleared
within 120 days.
The emergency hospital,
provided some years ago through
federal Civil Defend funding, is
(Continued on Page 12-A)
The largest crowd ever-over
35,000 people-are expected to
attend IJie 32nd annual running of
the Stoneybrook Races at the‘
Stoneybrook Farm of Michael
Walsh.
The Stoneybrook Races have
become one of the top sporting
and social events in the state and
the Dixie Circuit of steeplechase
races.
Total purses for the
Stoneybrook event is $28,500, one
of the largest of the circuit.
Entries for the six races in-^
dude some of the country’s top
horses and riders. Among the
horses that are entered in the
steeplechase events are Straight
and True, Don Panta, Martie’s
Anger, Tall Award, Leaping
Frog and Michael Walsh’s Red
Brick House.
The featured race is sponsored
by the Pepsi-Cola Company and
carries a $15,000 purse.
Last year the races drew a
crowd of 35,000. Even more are
expected this year, said Frank
Brawley, who makes many of the
arrangements for the
Stoneybrook Steeplechase. Due
to changes in parking, more cars
can park to watch the day’s
events.
The first show of the day will
begin at noon, when the 82nd
Airborne Division Band will
perform. The Band is composed
of 40 enlisted members and one
warrant officer, all selected on
the basis of their musical
background. A choral group
from the band and a color guard
will also entertain.
At 12:30, the “Golden Kni^ts”
parachuting team will jump
from the skies in conjunction
with the raising of the American
flag on the racetrack grounds
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Easter Holiday
Easter Monday will be a
holiday for most public offices
and for a number of businesses in
the Sandhills.
The Monday holiday has
moved the county
commissioners’ meeting to
Tuesday night at 7 o’clock.
For the Moore County Schools
the season will mean a three-day
holiday. Schools will be closed
Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday with classes
resuming on Thursday.
Closed on Monday will be all
state, county and town offices,
the banks and some stores.
Easter Monday is not a federal
holiday, so the post office and
other federal agencies will be in
operation as usual.
The Pilot will be closed for the
day.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
LIQUOR BILL-A bill which
would permit Pinehurst to vote
on the sale of liquor-by-the-drink
remained in the House A^C
Committee this week.
Introduced by Rep. T. Clyde
Auman of Moore County, House
Bill 631 ran into opposition on the
floor last week but Auman
■ succeeded in getting it referred
back to the same committee
which had approved it earlier.
This week Auman said that it
would remain there until
questions raised about the
measure were answered.
GUN BIU^Another bUl by
Rep. Auman which would place
limits on guns used in deer
hunting in Sandhills and Mineral
Springs townships also was being
held in committee this week.
Auman had introduced the bill
to prohibit the hunting of deer in
these two townships by rifles of
greater than .22 caliber and it
was referred to the Wildlife
Conunittee.
Several people who have
written or called Auman about
the bill have pointed out that high
powered rifles fired in open
country could endanger lives.
People on golf courses would be
vulnerable, as well as anyone out
in the open.
(Continued on Page 11-A)
$2.2 Million Renovation
Is Planned For Hospital
Moore Memorial Hospital’s
Radiology Department, which
missed out in the recent $16
million addition, will undergo a
todly-needed renovation if state
^d federal approval is given to
the formal application filed April
5.
The proposal calls for
renovation of the existing
department and replacement of
radiographic x-^-ay equipment.
Scheduled for completion in
November, the project is ex
pected to cost $2,289,979.
J. Crenshaw Thompson,
hospital administrator, filed a
notice of intent to incur a capital
expenditure, a step now required
for all major hospital im-
(vovements.
’79 Peach
Crop Looks
Very Good
“It looks wonderful,” says
Clarence Black of the 1979
Sandhills peach crop.
Black, director of North
Carolina State University’s
Sandhills Research Station near
Jackson Springs, said the
temperature dropped no lower
than 36 degrees at the station
during the weekend. It would
have taken temperatures in the
twenties, over a period of a few
days, for damage to occur, he
explained.
“We’ve got a pretty crop
coming up,” he said.
Black al^ said that the windy
weather over the weekend had
the beneficial effect of drying out
the young peaches.
A full crop is expected, and this
will require thinning, he said.
Thinning by the grower is
preferred to that thinning which
occurs with frost damage.
The research director did have
a-word .of caution, however; he
feels no relief about frost
damage until the weekend after
Easter. Nature has a way of
providing a cold spell during the
Easter season, no matter how
late it may come, he said. For
this reason he won’t breathe
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Schools Hearing
A total of $10 million in capital
outlay for Moore County Schools
will be discussed tonight
• (Wednesday) in a public hearing
called by the county com
missioners and the school board.
The hearing will begin at 7:30 in
the courtroom.
The school board has
requested $10 million for capital
improvements at school facilities
throughout the county. At the top
of the list is a new building for
Cameron Elementary School,
estimated to cost $715,000. Other
improvements are needed at
Robbins, Elise, and Westmoore.
In addition to the need for these
improvements, it is expected
that much of the discussion will
center on the means of fun(^g:
whether to call a bond issue
referendum or to take the “pay
as you go” route.
Renovation of the Radiology
Department was included in the
original plans for the latest
addition, but this aspect of the
project was eliminated because
funds were not available at that
time, according to Derry Walker,
hospital director of development
and public relations.
“Now we’ve reached the point
Do Patrolmen Go Easy On Women ?
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WINNER—Mary A. Stone, a Pinecrest senior
and daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. John Stone
of Southern Pines, is presented the Kiwanis
Clulf Junior Builders Award by Durward
Grady, chairman of the committee.—(Photo by
Emerson Humphrey).
BY JENNIFER CALDWELL
A little voice in the back of my
mind told me I’d heard this one
before. I was on my tardy way
with a friend to Raleigh. We were
due in fifty minutes. “You
drive,” he said. “They won’t pull
a girl.”
Do highway patrol officers and
policemen really ticket women
less often? No, say officers in
Moore County. In fact, said
patrolman Russell Shepherd,
“The high percentage of the
drivers I ticket are women.”
Shepherd said men are usually
arrested for drunk driving
offenses, but women are often
cited for normal traffic
violations. He said “very few
times do you get a woman to
protest a traffic citation. They
want to pay it off to keep their
husbands from finding out or to
hush it up. Men will fight it even
if they’re dead guilty.”
Howard Higgins, another
highway patrol officer, said.
“Men probably get more tickets”
and that both men and women
try to get out of them. He
explained the feminine flattery
toward police officers as such:
“The kind of people that are
police officers to begin with kind
of like to be looked at and
admired. Sometimes when a
young lady has something going
for her and can say something to
an officer just the right way or
look at him a certain way he’ll be
a little more lenient.
where we can’t wait any longer,”
Walker said. He explained that
equipment used in the Radiology
Department has an average age
of 18 years, although the life
expectancy for such equipment
is about 10 years.
“It’s a cost factor now. There’s
a lot of down time for this
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Sunrise Services
Set At Sandhills
The area’s first ecumenical
Sunrise Service will be held on
Easter morning at Sandhills
Community College at 6 a.m.
The service will be held on the
lawn at the rear of the Student
Union Building. In the case of
rain it will be moved inside of the
Student Union.
The service is sponsored by the
Sandhills college Campus
Ministry and the Moore County
Ministerial Association and wiU
be conducted by the Rev. Dr.
John K. Bergland, Associate
Professor of i^Ugion at Duke
University and a member of the
faculty of Duke Divinity School.
Julian Long, Jr., Choir director
of Emmanuel Episcopal Cliurch
will direct a choir made of choir
members from all the churches
in the county.
Refreshments will be served
before and after the service in
the student cafeteria.
The collection will be donated
to the Moore (bounty Ministerial
Association.
Beginning on Wednesday,
Brownson Memorial Church will
(Continued on Pag^ 12-A).
Town Votes To Pay Debt
Owed To Moore County
The Town of Southern Pines
after months of discussion and
argument voted to pay a debt
service payment to Moore
(k)unty after being in arrears for
the past nine months.
Four of the Council members
voted to pay the sum of $58,265,
which includes the current fee
and sewer treatment costs.
The Council voted to pay this
sum after the County
Commissioners demonstrated
how they devised the debt
service fee. One Council
member, Mike Smithson,
thought the formula was unfair
and voted against payment.
Mildred McDon^d, Southern
Pines Town Manager, said
negotiations are still going on to
determine whether the county
will help Southern Pines defray
part of the costs in the demolition
of its old sewage treatment plant.
The Council also dealt with two
services of immediate concern to
all town residents-sewer
assessment and solid waste
collection. In the first instance
several citizens were in the
Council chambers to voice their
opinion or ask questions about
the methods used by the town in
making sewer assessments,
either for recently annexed areas
or areas already in town that
have not been joined to the sewer
system.
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“I’ve been on the patrol for six
years and I’ll listen to all the
flattery then go ahead and write’
the ticket and listen to them
change their tune.
“Women are basically more
cautious drivers...sometimes to
the point that they’re dangerous.
The last two fist fights I’ve been
around were started by women.”
Higgins said men tend to bribe
more often and that he’s often
asked to see a driver’s, license
(Continued on Page 11-A)
QUIET BEFORE RACES—This quiet scene on
Yadkin Road, with the Stoneybrook race track
in the background, will be quite different on
Saturday when thousands come here for the big
event.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).