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)L. 61, NO. 24
72 PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA 28387 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1981
72 PAGES
PRICE IS CENTS
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40,000 Are Expected Here
For Races At Stoneybrook
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CLYDE AUMAN HONORED — Former Rep. T. Clyde Auman and his
wife Sally listen with appreciation to the words of Betty McCain, former
state Democratic chairman, at a dinner honoring Auman Thursday
night—(Photo by Florence Gilkeson).
\uman Roasted, Toasted-
(^ith Over 500 At Dinner
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
The honoree bobbed about
nong the guests as if they were
saches, and sometimes his hosts
lad trouble finding him at the
ght time.
Finding anyone was a major
idertaking Monday night when
more than 500 people turned up at
the Sheraton Convention Center
to pay tribute to T. Clyde Auman,
peach farmer, humanitarian, and
former legislator.
It was a light-hearted occasion
marked by anecdotes about the
legislature, peach orchards, and
Board Puts Clincher
3n Communications
ist to make sure the county
jrgency communications
EU'tment was really dead, the
»re County Board of Com-
sioners on Monday knocked it
n and stomped it good,
gain on a 3-2 vote, the board
!d to abolish the department,
time in an apparent effort to
le any loopholes left in the
action taken at the March 16
meeting.
The motion passed over the
protest of the two Democratic
conunissioners, who asked for a
delay until members of the
volunteo* fire and rescue groups
can present additional facts to
the board.
(Continued on Page 9-A)
Viiss Stinson Recipient
Df Junior Builders Cup
le Kiwanis Club of the
dhills has awarded the
ior Builders Cup and
)larship to Suzanne Stinson,
ghter of Mr. and Mrs.
mas Stinson of Whispering
!S.
le award was presented to
s Stinson by Howard
ughton, chairman of the
or Builders Cup Conunittee,
eremonies conducted at the
annual Picquet Festival held this
year at North Moore High School
Friday night. Miss Stinson will
graduate from Wallace O’Neal
Day School this spring and plans
to attend Princeton University.
Invitations to nominate a
candidate were extended to all
public and private high schools
serving Moore County: Big Oak
Christian Academy, Calvary
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PRESENTED CUP — Suzanne Stinson of
Whispering Pines is presented the Kiwanis
Junior Builders Cup by Howard
Broughton.—(Photo by Judi Kelly).
Moore County people and jokes,
some on the Republicans and
many at the honoree’s good-
natured expense.
The night, officially named T.
Clyde Auman Appreciation
Night, was so carefree that
Auman finally quipped that “I’ve
decided it’s more fun to lose than
to win.”
If there were problems with the
dinner, it was a case of suffering
from too much success. The
Friends of Moore, who made the
arrangements, had no expecta
tion that attendance would be so
heavy, but almost everyone in
vited accepted.
At one point the line of guests
extended outside the entrance of
the convention center into the
parking lot and around the cor
ner. The banquet room can seat
about 400 diners, and the
Sheraton opened adjacent con
ference rooms to accommodate
the overflow. When it was time
for the program, everyone
brought chairs into the main
room.
“If you think the last campaign
was a disaster, just wait till we
get through with you tonight,”
joked the master of ceremonies,
attorney James R. Van Camp.
Auman, the West End farmer
(Continued on Page 15-A)
Man Dies
In Fire
At Home
A Southern Pines man died
Thursday afternoon when he
apparently dron;)ed a cigarette
he was smok^ in bed and
caught the bed on fire, Ck)roner
A.B. Parker reported.
Holly Faison, 41, of 1153 W.
New Hampshire was found on the
floor of his bedroom near a
window at about 2 p.m. when
Southern Pines Fire Department
responded to the fire call.
Parker ruled that cause of
death appeared to be smoke
inhalation. Parker said Faison
had no contusions or bruises, but
that there were some third
degree burns on the body.
The bedroom door in the
Faison house had been closed
when the fire broke out, and
there was no damage to the
house other than smoke in the
bedroom and the burnt bed.
Southern Pines Fire fighters
stayed at the fire for about an
(Continued on Page 6-A)
BY LIZ HUSKEY
The horses are out of the pad-
dock and walking toward the
post.
The bugler plays “Call to the
Races.”
Spectators stop chatting with
their friends, take bites of
chicken and sips of their drinks
and (most of them) crane their
necks to see the horses.
Stoneybrook.
For Sandhills residents and for
thousands of others around the
state and country, the annual
Stoneybrook Steeplechase held at
the Walsh farm on Youngs Road,
is an event long-anticipated.
One of the first rites of spring.
Fashion parade. Cocktail party.
And, oh yes, the horses...
For (he seven children, 27
grandchildren and one great
grandchild of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael G. Walsh, the event is a
family reunion, hard work, a
time to see some of the country’s
best horses compete in toe
steeplechase.
A sell-out crowd is again ex
pected this year, which means
there will be upwards of 40,000
spectators here Saturday, accor
ding to Frank Brawley, vice-
chairman of toe event.
Fifty-seven horses are ex
pected for toe six races, and
three of those will be Walsh-
owned horses, ridden by Michaei
Walsh III.
Nine horses will be featured in
the Pepsi-Cola Sandhills Cup with
a $15,000 purse, and ten horses
are expected in the $6,000
Stoneyborok, sponsored by Mr.
and Mrs. Werner B. Thiele.
Other sponsors are Vision
Center, Inc.; Joseph M. Bryan
Jr. of Sandy Lane Farm;
Pinehurst Hardware and Supply
Co., Inc.; and the Friends of
Stoneybrook.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Schools Targeted
In Budget Crisis
Postmaster Griffin
Griffin
Is Named
Postmaster
Peter A. Bernard, Jr., Sec
tional Center Manager-
Postmaster of Fayetteville, has
announced toe appointment of
James C. Griffin as the new
Postmaster at Southern Pines, ef
fective Saturday, April 4.
Griffin, 46, a native of Per
quimans Ck>unty, has been toe
Postmaster in Farmville since
April, 1978 and has been em
ployed by toe U.S. Postal Service
for the past 16 years.
Postmaster selections for of
fices of this size are made on toe
basis of merit from a list of
qualified candidates submitted to
the Regional Management Selec
tion Board. The bo^, composed
of a representative of toe United
States Civil Service Commission,
a Postal District Manager and
two postmasters, selects and
recommends to toe Postmaster
General toe best qualified person
for appointment to each vacancy.
Griffin began his postal career
in 1965 as a distribution clerk and
carrier in toe Elizabeth City Post
Office. He transferred to toe
Rocky Mount Post Office in 1972
as a distribution clerk. In 1973, he
was appointed postmaster at
Merry Hill. In 1975, Griffin was
appointed Postmaster at Colum-
(^ntinued on Page 6-A)
Faced with a continuing
financial crisis, the Moore
County Board of Commissioners
on Monday agreed to ask the
school system to use $250,000
from its unrestricted fund
balance to meet school expenses
between now and the end of this
fiscal year.
Later in the day the board
admitted that it is considering
combining some jobs as a cost
saving measure.
The board also voted to ask
Sandhills Community College to
help bail out the troubled
county financial boat, by another
$50,000.
By Tuesday, however, there
was some question whether the
schools or the college would
agree, to .the arrangement or
could legally do so.
Robert E. I.ee, superintendent
of the Moore County Schools,
denied that the school system has
any “surplus” money.
“We do have what we call a
cash flow, but this money is
needed to pay our bills from
month to month,” Lee said.
Lee said the school system
spends about $900,000 monthly
for payroll and other expenses.
“That sounds like a lot of
money,” Lee said. “But it isn’t
when you consider the size of our
operation. We have a $20 million
budget, we have 1000-plus
employes, and own $40 million
property on 20 sites.
“If they take that much money
away from us. I’m not sure our
checks would be good.”
Lee said the cash flow money is
needed to pay salaries, for which
toe system is later reimbursed
by the state and federal
governments, and to meet other
expenses. He explained that
the system will need to spend
large sums in toe summer for
painting and other maintenance
work which cannot be done
during the school year. He added
that the system occasionally
needs money on hand to pay
unexpected expenses, such as a
sudden shortfall in food service.
The John C. Muse Co., which
audits school finances, “looks
over our shoulder,” according to
Lee, who said the state
recommends a cash flow of five
to 10 percent at all times.
Also taking exception to
statements made at the
Monday meeting was Dr.
Raymond A. Stone, president of
Sandhills Community College.
Stone expressed dismay over a
comment attributed in a daily
newspaper to Kai Nelson, the
new county finance officer, about
the college’s financial reporting
practices.
In a statement issued this
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Phone Rate
Hike Given
Approval
It will be at least two weeks
before rate increases can be im
plemented here by Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany.
A three-member hearing panel
of toe North Carolina Utilities
Commission issued an order Fri
day granting toe telephone com
pany authority to increase its in
trastate operating revenues by
$18,398,691.
This is approximately three-
fourths of toe $25.5 million in
crease requested by toe company
in its application to toe conomis-
sion last August. The company
has indicated that it may return
to toe commission at a later time
with another rate increase re
quest.
Stan Stone, commercial
manager for toe Southern Pines
district, told The Pilot that a new
rate schedule must be worked out
by the company before the rates
can be implemented. He
predicted that toe changes will be
relatively minor for customers in
(Continued on Page 14-A)
An administrator, a course ar
chitect and three outstanding
players are the first honorees
chosen to be inducted into toe
newly-formed Carolinas Golf
Hall of Fame.
Administrator Richard S.
Tufts, who died last Dec. 16 at 84,
and golf architect Donald J.
Ross, who died in 1948, both of
Pinehurst, and living players
Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel
Hill, Billy Joe Patton of Morgan-
ton, and E. Harvie Ward Jr., of
Foxfire, a native of Tarboro, will
be enshrined in appropriate
ceremonies Monday night, June
1, at toe Southern Pines Elks
C3ub.
They were chosen from ah
original list of 35 nominees in
balloting by members of toe
Carolinas Golf Reporters Assn.
Jack Horner of Durham,
secretary-treasurer of toe group,
revealed toe results of toe voting
at a press conference Thursday
at Forest Oaks CC. He said toe
Hall will be established at Seven
Lakes CC, near Wert End, where
Pete Tufts is a co-owner.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Illegal Trash Dumping Is Problem
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Against toe blue sky on a clear
day, toe pines mark their delicate
outline, but here toe beauty of the
scene ends.
When the eye strikes the
ground, toe atmosphere is no
longer euphoric, for this is a
dunq), not a legal dump, but
private property which has been
misused by industry, business,
and individuals.
This particular location, of all
the illegal dumping sites in
Moore County, represents a par
ticularly gross irony, for one mile
away is toe county landfill, which
is open five and a half days a
week and is available free of
charge to individual and industry
alike.
“Are we bringing tourists into
our community to show them this
trash?” asked an angry Coolidge
Thompson, a member of toe
Moore County Board of Commis
sioners, during a recent tour of il
legal, and legal, dumping sites.
Trash collection is becoming a
major problem in some areas of
toe county, and toe county is
threatening to take people to
court to make a point. Both the
sheriff’s department and the
county inspectors have been
alerted to take action against
violators of toe county’s stringent
sanitation ordinance.
County Administrator Larry
Moubry last week went on record
asking Moore residents to
cooperate by keeping their eyes
open and reporting violators to
his office, or toe office of Floyd
Dunn, head sanitarian, in toe en
vironmental health division of the
health department.
“If you don’t know their name,
get the license number, or toe
name of a company on toe door of
a truck,” Moubry said. “We’ll
(Continued on Page 10-A)
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AT STONEYBROOK — The horse looks over the
fence in the bright sunshine on the eve of the
annual Stoneybrook Races at the Mickey Walsh
farm. Upwards of 40,000 are expected for the big
day on Saturday.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Redistricting Hearing
Set Here Thursday Night
A public hearing on
Congressional redistricting will
be held in the Memorial Room of
the Kennedy Building at San
dhills Community College
Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Senator Robert B. Jordan III
will serve as chairman of the
hearing.
Other members of the
Legislature expected to attend
include Rep. R^ph P. Edwards,
Rep. Dennis A. Wicker, Rep. J.P.
Huskins, Senator Helen R.
Marvin and Senator Glenn R.
Jernigan.
The hearing here will be in
relation to redistricting the
TTiird, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth Districts. Moore
County is in the Eighth District.
Senator Marvin and Rep.
Huskins are the chairmen of the
Congressional Redistricting
Committees of the Senate and the
(Continued on Page S-A)
$17 Million In Building
Permits Issued In Moore
Tufts, Ross, Ward Named
To CGA’s Hall Of Fame
Since toe first of Julyi Moore
County has issued 335 building
permits for projects estimated to
cost $17,092,000. (Df this number,
249 permits were issued for con
struction of new homes.
Building Inspector Elwin Blue
told The Pilot that new construc
tion has generally kept pace in
the past eight months, although
there was toe usual slowdown
during the winter months.
The number of permits has
dropped slightly in toe past two
years, although toe dollar value
of toe projects has remained little
changed, the result of price in
creases in most segments of the
economy.
Blue expressed the opinion that
many people are making the
decision to go ahead with building
projects because of indications
that building costs will continue
to ciimb, rather than the reverse.
In February 33 building per
mits were issued, including 27 for
(Continued on Page 16-A)
TKE
PILOT LIGHT
HEFNER-Eighth District
Congressman Bill Hefner, D-NC,
will hold an old-fashioneid town
hall meeting Thursday, April 16
in Southern Pines.
Elvin Jackson, of Carthage,
Hefner’s District Administrator,
said the meeting will begin at
7:30 p.m. in the Town Council
diambers at 145 S. East Broad
Street.
Hefner is also scheduled to toiu*
the Milliken and Company Plant
in Robbins at 9:30 a.m. Friday
AprU 17.
He will meet management and
onployes at the plant. Officials
of Milliken plan to present
Hefiier a rug with the design of
the North Carolina state seal.
The public is invited to attend
the town hall meeting in
Southern Pines.
He&ier said, “I want to hear
what the citizens of Moore
County have on their minds at
the meeting. I’m going to listen
and not give a speech.”
Hefner is also scheduling town
meetings in April in Hamlet and
Salisbury.
WALKER-At the Clyde
Auman Appreciation Dinner
here Thursday night State
Senator Russell Walker told the
people of Moore County that it
look^ like Samarkand Manor and
MriCain Hospital will be spared
> Continued on Page 16-A)