for the Pinehurst Page, C-1; Bible
Lesson, B-3; Editorials, B-1; Social
Activities, A-2; and Want Ads, C-9, 10,
Harrington
to play for N. C. Symphony Ball on
April 22 at the Country Club of North
Carolina; was here last year for Sap
phire Ball.
Stoneybrook Races Have
/ \
Celebrate
Horses
Voters
Number
17,503
BEE-UTIFUL—Even the bees are enjoying the results of the beautification
project sponsored by the Southern Pines Garden Club, Beautification Committee,
and the Town of Southern Pines. If this bee could speak, he might well thank these
clubs for making the areas around the library, post office and beside the Western
Auto Store more beautiful this Spring. PHOTO BY BRYAN GREEN
Moore To Get
,000 Grant
If Clean Water Bonds Passes
Angus “Mack” Brewer,
chairman of the Moore County
Board of Elections, said
yesterday that 702 new voters
were registered during the first
seven days of April.
This brings the new
registration total for the county
to 17,503 as opposed to 16,801 on
March 31. Registration for the
May 6 Primary closed last
Friday.
As of March 31, registered
Democrats outnumbered
Republicans in all but three of
the 21 precincts in the county.
At the end of March here are
the registration figures by
precincts, with the first number
being the Democrats, the second.
Republicans and the third. In
dependents: East Aberdeen, 521,
94, 11; West Aberdeen, 865, 242,
11; Bensalem, 338. 508. 51-
Cameron, 534, 151, 18; East
Carthage, 556, 118, 16; West
Carthage, 994, 165,23.
Deep River, 115,33,5; Eureka,
309,393, 19; High Falls, 246, 147,
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IRST STONEYBROOK—For 25 years, horses have raced around the track at
Stoney^brook Farm. The anniversary of the first Annual Race Meet is April 15
and Kitty Walsh and their family were almost the entire crew
on with Charlie Harr, exercising the horses
on the day before the exciting first Stoneybrook. (Emerson Humphrey Photo).
I V
BY BRYAN GREEN
Moore County and its towns
will be eligible for $577,500 in
matching state water and sewer
grants if the proposed “Qean
Water” bonds are passed on May
6, according to Bob Helms,
Moore County planner.
Helms said the $577,500
($385,000 for water and $192,500
for sewer) is the county’s share
of the $75 million of bond funds
that will be allocated on a
population basis.
pother $70 million of the $150
million issue would be made
available on the basis of need.
Southern Pines is planning to
construct a new sewage treat
ment plant, so the bond issue is
especially attractive to local
officials. The plant cost is
estimated at $1.5 million by aty
Manager Bud Rainey.
Helms said the Federal
(government will boost its share
on sewer projects from 33 to 55
percent if state funds are
available, thus bringing the
federal-state share of such
projects to 80 percent of the total
cost.
On water projects the Federal
Government wiU presently pay
50 percent of the costs and the
state grant would be added to
this, leaving only 25 percent for
the local governments to pick up.
The North (Carolina League of
Municipalities notes that federal
Parking Places For Races
At Stoneybrook Explained
BY BETSY LINDAU
Reserved parking for the 25th
Anniversary running of the
Stoneybrook Race Meet on
Saturday, April 15, is already
sold well ahead of last year , on
the day of the races, according to
James Hartshorne, Parking
Marshal.
“To avoid delay and confusion
on race day,” Hartshorne ad
vises, “all those with reserved
parking spaces should take
careful note of the entrance
number and gate number on
their stickers, particularly since
a new reserved parking gate has
been added.”
The map on another page in
dicates the entrance gates to the
different areas and will be ex
plained in detail below.
All entrances may be reached
from North May Street (old U.S.
Highway No. 1) “As you ap
proach the entrances, please
moisten one or two comers of
your parking sticker and place
on your windshield at the bottom
left side,” the Parking Marshal
says. “This will make it easier
for the Jaycees directing traffic
to move you quickly into your
proper place.”
Now, about the new gate for
reserved parking. All those with
spaces in Rows A-H and numbers
grants for water supply systems
have beai and are still available,
but many local governments can
not presently afford their share.
A 1971 survey by the State
Board of Health and the
Department of Water and Air
Resources estimates $697 million
will be needed in ,the state for
adequate public facilities for
sewage collection and treatment
systems and public water supply.
Of that total, $360 million will
be needed for water pollution
control facilities and $337 millinn
for water supply systems. This
includes the nee^ for new
facilities, improvement or
enlargement of existing ones and
replacement of outdated plants.
The 1971 General Assembly
recognized that local govern
ment cannot finance these needs
from revenues currently
available from all sources. The
assembly also recognized the
state’s responsibility in making
certain all areas of North
C^olina have safe and adequate
supplies of water. As a reshlt, it
enacted the $150 million Qean
Water Bond Act to provide state
grants to local governments for
this need.
Funds Divided
The bond proceeds, if the vote
is successful, will be ^vided into
((Continued on Page 12-A)
Man Found Dead Town Slows
At Club Tuesday Trains
Ctounty Coroner A. B. Parker ^
Richard S. Clark
Democrats
Will Meet
19
April
High Light
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Historical Association
Is Meeting April 26
r
i
The annual meeting of the
Moore County Historical
Association will be held in Shaw
House on Wednesday, y^ril 26, at
5 pm.
A Director’s Meeting for the
election of officers will be held
immediately following the an
nual meeting. E. Earl Hubbard is
president of the Society.
Membership in the Moore
Ctounty Historical Association is
open to anyone interested in
restoring and preserving places
of historical significance in
Moore Ctounty, according to Mrs.
Ronald J. Christie, membership
chairman.
“‘This should certainly include
all natives of the county, indeed
all Tar Heels as well as many of
the fine people who have chosen
this county as their home,” Mrs.
Christie said.
“The Association wishes to
stress that no special invitation
to join is necessary because a
recent effort to enlist new
members has revealed that
many potential members had
only been waiting to be asked to
join.
“It is with thanks and delight
that the Association has
welcomed 78newmembers in the
past month.”
Anyone interested is asked to
call Mrs. Christie at 692-6184.
North Carolina retail
customers of Chrolina Power &
Light C3o. have begun paying 8.75
per cent higher rates for electric
service effective with bills
rendered April 1.
Sherwood H. Smith Jr., senior
vice president and general
counsel of CP&L, says the
company received approval of
the increase by the Price
(fommission.
The 8.75 per cent increase is in
addition to the interim increase
of 5.63 per cent placed into effect
July 1, 1971, making the total
increase of 14.38 per cent
authorized by the N. C. Utilities
Commission in February, sub
ject to r^ulations of the Price
commission. Based on the test
period, the 14.38 per cent in
crease will add 10.18 per cent to
the company’s total system
revenues.
The typical monthly bill for
CP&L residential customers last
year was $15.51. The 8.75 per cent
increase will add approximately
$1.30 to this average bill.
Statewide Candidates have
been invited, and ticket sales are
going well for the Moore COunty
Democrats’ meeting ^ril 19 at
7:30 in the Southern Pines Elks
country Qub, COrolyn Blue,
county chairman, says.
The main speech of the evening
will be by Richard S. Oark of
Monroe, Democratic candidate
for Congress, but aU candidates
will be given an opportunity to be
recognized, Mrs. Blue added.
Clark is unopposed for the
Democratic nomination to
congress.
county coroner A. B. Parker,
Jr., said laie this morning he has
I tentatively identified a man
found dead yesterday on the
grounds of the Country aub of
North Carolina as Oeophus
“Mood” Randle of 326 Moore St.
in Sanford.
Parker said the business card
fi’om Hoke Television Repair
with a 1959 calendar on the back
had enabled him to get in touch
with Randle’s sister in Spring
Lake.
Parker said Randle was a
recipient of public assistance in
Lee county and officials of the
Social Services Department
there described him as having
“health and mental i^oblems.”
coroner Parker, investigating
the death, said it apparently
occurred some time Tuesday, of
natural causes. An autopsy was
to be performed this morning at
Moore Memorial Hospital,
Pinehurst.
Only clue to his identity was a
Social Security card found loose
in a pocket.
Other items in the pockets
included an empty billfold, two
one-doUar bills and a business
card of the Hoke Television and
Radio Service of Sanford, Parker
said. Also, his cap was stuffed
with a fragment of a Sanford
Herald dated Felruary 2.
The body, found about 5 pjn.
by J. A. Lawrence, security
guard at CCNC, was that of light-
complexioned Negro about 50, by
the coroner’s estimate, five feet
10 inches tall, weighing around
The Southern Pines town
council in regular meeting
Tuesday night enacted an or
dinance setting a speed limit of
35 miles per hour on trains, their
engines or any other part, when
passing within the town limits.
Councilman C. A. McLaughlin,
who had initiated a study of the
trains’ speed through town, and >
the move to curb it, noted that “if owned by Alfred
Creophus Randle
150 pounds and wearing dark
green wash-and-wear trousers, a
white long-sleeved sweatshirt
and a Ix-own suit-type coat. He
wore white socks, black wingtip
slippers, size 8, and a black and
white checkered cap.
Six Hurt
Saturciay
In Crash
THE
PILOT LIGHT
FOR MUSKIE-Former
Governor Luther Hodges says he
is supporting Muskie for
President because of Muskie’s
honesty and integrity.
At a mansion luncheon and
presentation of the Queen
Elizabeth portrait painted by Joe
King, Holies recalled that he
and Muskie were governors of
their states at the same time, and
that he later knew Muskie as a
senator in Washington when
Hodges was Secretary of
(fommerce.
He also believes that the
McGovern support may go in the
Democratic scramble at the
convention to Senator Kennedy.
I BESS-Aisked why, as one of
the best-known women in the
state, she has never run for
public office, Bess Ballentine
laughed and said she had rather
be asked why she didn’t run than
why she didn’t win. She is the'
widow of the late Secretary of
Agriculture, L. Y. BaUentine,
and a prominent worker in the
Democratic party.
(CHILDREN—Mrs. Robert
Scott, wife of the Governor,
wants more school children- to
visit Raleigh and become better
acquainted with State govern
ment, but she thinks state
agencies can do a better job of
welcoming the young visitors.
Recently she invited a group of
State officials to the Governor’s
Mansion for a luncheon-meeting
and a discussion of ways to
improve the tours of school
children to the capital.
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Twelve people were injured,
six in one accident, in the four
wrecks investigated by Highway
Patrol officers in Moore Cbunty
this week.
Saturday afternoon a car
driven by Barbra Odom Wright
of Aberdeen was headed south on
rural road 2075 w*en it ran off the
right side of the road, swerved
back to the left side and ran off
the right side again into a groig)
of trees. Six persons in the
vehicle, all of Aberdeen, were
injured and taken to Moore
Memorial Hospital.
Those hurt are: James (Talvin
McNeil, 28; Raymond Gerald
McNeU, 25; Portia Dixon, 18;
Benita Odom, 16; Elizabeth Rice,
3; and the driver, Barlx-a Odom
Wright, 23.
Patrolman J. W. Alexander
said the accident took place two
mUes south of Southern Pines
and charged the driver with
careless and reckless driving.
Four persons were injured in
an accident at 11:40 pjn. Friday
on NC 22. A car driven by frene
Sehan Wliamson of Robbins,
Route 2, was going north,
braked, lost control and struck
another vehicle in a service
(Continued on page 7-A)
the engine speeds up once it gets
outside of town, cars which are
still in town are still subject to
the law.”
The ordinance was made ef
fective May 1, to allow time for
the Seaboard Chast Line to
receive proper notice and to pass
the word along to its employees
on the trains, who would be
subject to the law and its penalty.
Violation is a misdemeanor,
carrying a penalty set by statute
of a fine up to $50 for each of
fense, and-or imprisonment up to
30 days.
A letter secured by Town
Attorney W. Lament Brown from
William G. Guy, of the legal staff
of the League of Municipalities,
read at the meeting, informed
the council that a number of
municipalities have adopted
such ordinances, with a wide
range of speed limits set-15 to 50
miles per hour. Guy provided as
a model a copy of an ordinance
recently passed by the Town of
Hot i^rings.
Information of the council was
that trains going through
Southern Pines sometimes hit
speeds of 50 or 55 miles, or
higher, though many do not.
Southbound “down the hill,” they
go much faster, generally
speaking, than northbound, when
only passenger trains can get ig)
(Continued on Page 12-A)
More than last year’s
estimated crowd of 20;000 fans
are expected Saturday as the
Stoneybrook Race Meet
celetxates its 25th Anniversary
at Mickey Walsh’s Stoneybrook
Farm.
Six races, starting with The
Diamondhead Plate at 2 pjn. and
ending with The Miss MorgUl
Memorial, are slated, with
larger purses than ever.
The fifth of the six Dixie Cir
cuit steeplechase meets to be
held this year, the Stoneybrook is
expected to have such horses as
Somaten, trained by M. G. Walsh
Jr., who won the feature race at
Tryon April 8; Shadow 2nd,
owned by Raymond Guess, and
winner of the big race at Atlanta
in March. VWnner of the Carolina
Cup at Camden, John U. is owned
by Harry J. Nesbit of Southern
Pines. Other horses running well
this season are Antigua Star of
Coventry Rock Stable, v(ho won
the big race at Aiken and Kalola
Hill, owned by Alfred Smith of
Maryland.
hi Saturday’s Carter P. Brown
race at Tryon, which was split
into two divisions, two Southern
Pines trainers, Mickey Walsh
and Bill Bolick, each took a
second, Bolick -with Baringer,
owned by Charles L. Haywood of
Morganton and ridden by Noel
Twyman of Orange, Va., and
Southern Pines; Walsh with
Monsieur LeDocteur, owned by
Jerome M. Torsney of Clifton, N.
J. and ridden by Leo O’Brien.
Among the favorites that have
not won a race so far are
Amarind, owned by Forsyth
Stable, trained by J.V.H. Davis;
Full Ifrince, owned by Charles
Bird, Jr. and trained by Mrs.
Bird of Aiken; and Shod Over,
Smith of
Branchville, Maryland and
trained by Ronnie Houghton.
Gerry Goswell of Ekigland was
aboard Shod Over in the Block
House at TY-yon and in the lead
when his mount took a fall and
gave the win to ‘lazy” Somaten.
By the way, Somaten has been
out of racing for a couple of
seasons with leg trouble. The
Block House was his second race
in 1972.
Profits from the Stoneybrook
go for the benefit of St. Joseph’s
Hospital in Southern Pines. The
gala Stoneybrook Race Ball will
be held on Friday night, and a
buffet at the Country Qub of
North Carolina Saturday will be
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Taylor Coming
Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor will come
here tomorrow at 10 a.m. on his
hectic itinerary in his campaign
for Governor. He will tour the
downtown section of Southern
Pines and talk to the people.
Taylor will come here from
Morganton where he is having a
rap session with students at
Western Piedmont Community
Chllege tonight.
Following his appearance
here, he will go on to have lunch
at Rebel’s Barbecue Lodge on
Highway 74 between
Rockingham and Hamlet.
Moore Rescue Squads See
Mobile Unit Dedication
De^cation riites held Monday
morning on Capitol Square at
I^eigh, centering around a big
piece of automotive-electronic
equipment, marked the
fulfilment of a dream of several
years’ standing of North
Carolina rescuemen in general .
and some in Moore County in
particular.
Moore was one of a dozen
counties represented in the
crowd of rescuemen, public
officials and other interested
people crowding around the big
white van parked in front of the
Old Capitol Building.
The uniquely designed vehicle
was the new Mobile Com
munications Command Center of
the N. C. Association of Rescue
Squads, Inc., puichased through
an appropriation of $40,000 made
by the 1969 General AssemUy-
which, however, because of later
inflation, turned out to be not
quite enough-it will be used in
rescue work, natural disaster
and large-scale emergency
wherever needed anywhere in
the state.
Presiding over the brief
dedication ceremony was Chuck
Campbell of Salisbury, a past
state Association commander,
sharing honors with A. B. Parker
of Vass, another past state
commander, during whose ad
ministration the movement for
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