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For Moore’s Schools
Easter
Services
Announced
Holy Week services leading to
Christendon’s joyous Easter Day
began in Southern Pines Monday
at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
with mass at 6:30 p.m. and
continued last night with the
opening of an Easter Revival at
the First Baptist Church.
Preaching at the first of five
services he will conduct was the
Rev. Jack Mansfield, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of
Raeford. He is a graduate of
Mercer University, and
Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminary and received training
degrees from The Bowman Gray
School of Pastoral Care and the
Billy Graham School of
Evangelism.
“Jack is already acclaimed for
his excellent work in biblical
preaching, youth revivals, and
liay Evangelism,” says the Rev.
Mr. John M. Stone, pastor of the
church.
“The highest tribute to Jack is
the heavy involvement of youth
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EXCITING FINISH—Here’s the finish of one of the rider, pulling ahead of Selkirk. The Dooley Adams
more exciting races Saturday-the Stoneybrook Open trained horse won the $5,000 purse.-(Photo by
Hurdle, with Jay’s Trouble, with Mike Adams as Emerson Humphrey). Other pictures Page 6-D
25,000 Attend Stoneybrook Races;
Metello Winner of Sandhills Cup Reading
Is Choice
Of Board
A record crowd of 25,000 turned
out Saturday in bright April
weather to see some of the best
races ever run in the annual
Stoneybrook event.
, ^ It was the 26th annual
Stoneybrook Races and the
festive crowd came from all
parts of North Carolina and the
Eastern seaboard.
Rider Clay Brittle rode three
winners and another horse which
finished in a dead heat to steal
the show.
Brittle, riding for trainer W.B.
Cocks, won the feature race, the
a, Sandhills Cup, with $12,000 purse,
aboard Milton Ritzenberg’s nine-
year-old bay gelding Metello.
Amarind, with Jerry Fishback
up- the winning combination in
last year’s Sandhills Cup-led off
at the start, and showed the way
for more than half the gruelling
two-mile test over nine brush
jumps. About the sixth jump,
Metello came up from the crowd
.ji' and started pressing hard. For a
while the two bit steeplechasers
pounded along neck and neck,
then Metello surged ahead over
the final jump to win by a length
and a half.
It was a splendid race to
watch, each horse and his rider,
\ in colorful silks,standing forth in
clear visibility, as they lined up
EXCITED FAN—A car top fan yells on her horse in a
race at Stoneybrook on Saturday. More than 25,000
turned out for the 26th running of the Sandhills event.-
(Photo by Bryan Green).
about a length or a length and a
half apart throughout most of the
run. moving at nearly equal
pace, with no spills or other
untoward events.
Before the Sandhills Cup, third
MOST OUTSTANDING SENIOR — Martha Ann
Morgan of Union Pines High School receives Junior
Builders Cup from committee member Robert S.
Ewing. At right. Dr. William F. Hollister, president of
the Sandhills Kiwanis Club, sponsor of the award,
which includes a $500 scholarship.-(Photo by V.
Nicholson).
Miss Morgan Is Winner
Of Junior Builders Cup
A Union Pines student who
happened, through error, to have
been omitted from the program,
and for whom, consequently, no
certificate had been prepared,
Friday night became the
recipient of the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club’s Junior Builders
Cup as Moore County’s most
outstanding senior.
Martha Anne Morgan,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.J.
Morgan of Vass, was selected
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race of the day. Brittle had
ridden to first-place wins in both
the first and second races-in the
first, the Yadkin Hurdle, aboard
Mrs. Miles Valentine’s Baba
Mist, and in the second, the
Arts Council
Plans Formed
At Meet Here
The first steps for the
organization of a Sandhills Arts
Council were taken at a meeting
in the Southern Pines Municipal
Building Monday night.
A steering committee, ap
pointed by Mrs. John McPhaul,
will meet at 5 p.m. today
(Wednesday) to draft a charter
and nominate officers for the
Council. The meeting will be held
at the Southern Pines Library.
Members of the committee are
Mrs. McPhaul, Mary Evelyn
DeNissof, Howard Broughton,
John Faulk, Mrs. Reynold
Tucker, Page Shaw, Mrs.
Juanita Dawson, Billiegene
Garner, Larry Johnson, and Bob
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Index
Book Page-2-B
Editorials-l-B
Eiitertainment-3-D
Obits-7-A
Pinehur.st-l-2-C
Social News-l-2-3-A
Sports-2-D
Stoneybrook pictures-6-D
Want Ads-8-9-10-ll-D
Sandy I.ane Farm Plate, a flat
race, on Didn’t Show-which did-
also owned by Mrs. Valentine.
In the sixth and last race. The
Tanglewood, on the turf, Brittle
rode George P. Greenhalgh’s
Clear I.anding to a dead-heat
victory-the first recalled in
Stoneybrook history-with A.
Smith Bowman’s El Kuntilla.
The judges took a long time to
reach this consensus, while the
crowd waited in suspense. It
meant the purse was split down
the middle, the two horses
sharing both first and second
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Three Charged
In Drug Case
At Pinecrest
Three Pinecrest High School
students were arrested Friday
by Sheriff’s officers and charged
with misdemeanor marijuana
possession at the school.
Sheriff C.G. Wimberly iden
tified them as Lisa C. Dahl, 18 of
Murdocksville; Barbara A.
Hodges. 16, of Saunders
Boulevard; and Robert H. Craig,
16, of Delaware Avenue in
Southern Pines.
The arrests were made, the
Sheriff said around noon after a
call from school officials.
The three will be tried May 10
in Carthage District Court. Each
is out on bond of $300.
The Moore County Board of
Education, meeting Tuesday
night with seven of the eight
members present, faced a
choice--between reading
teachers or kindergartens in the
schools next year.
They chose the reading
teachers as basic to education at
all levels, and in faith the State
will make a start this year
toward broadening its kin
dergarten program.
The choice-“like choosing
between your right hand and
your left,” said Supt. Robert E.
I.£e-was forced upon them by
the cutting of Title I funds from
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Easter Holiday
City and County offices will
observe the Easter Monday
holiday by closing. Banks will
also be closed, the Sandhills Area
Chamber of (!;ommerce reports.
Most stores will be closed.
Some of the exceptions are
Sullivan’s Footwear, Inc., The
Salem Shop, and The Town and
Center Pharmacy.
The Pilot will be closed for the
Uay. Material for publication
may be placed in the slot in the
front door.
About the only offices open will
be the Post Offices, as Easter
Monday is a statewide, and not a
national holiday.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
LEGISLATURE — The joint
appropriations subconunittee,
which in actuality make the
decisions on the State budget,
began this week its line-by-line
look at budget requests.
It became obvious this week,
too, that there is little chance of
any tax repeal at this session of
the General Assembly, and
Governor Holshouser, who had
come out for a repeal of the soft
drink tax, admitted as much on
Monday.
Moore Rep. T. Clyde Auman,
who serves on the appropriations
subcommittee, also said that he
did not think any tax repeal is
likely, adding, “If there is one it
will be more likely in the sales
tax on food.”
Rep. Auman said the demands
for services and additional ap
propriations are heavy,
especially in the areas of school
and education in general.
“There’s not enough money
available at present to meet all
the demands for services,” he
said.
HOLSHOUSER — Governor
James Holshouser didn’t make it
to the Stoneybrook Races but he
did get into Southern Pines late
Saturday afternoon in time for a
party and dinner in his and Mrs.
Holshouser’s honor at Pinehurst.
Several leading Republicans
from across the State were
guests, along with the Governor
and his wife, of Attorney and
Mrs. Robert Gavin.
Gavin, twice a Republican
candidate for Governor himself,
was at Stoneybrook with
Secretary David Flaherty of the
Department of Human
Resources.
Others at the dinner-party in
Pinehurst included Congressman
Earl Ruth and Secretary James
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P
PHIL HARRIS FIRST — Entertainer Phil Harris flew
to Pinehurst this week to announce his entrance as the
first celebrity in the World Open Pro-Am. Harris
stated that many of his celebrity friends will be joining
him for the November event. Pictured at the left is
William H. Maurer, President of Diamondhead
Corporation.
Harris Is First Celebrity
For Pro-Am in November
William Maurer, president of
Diamondhead Corporation,
announced Monday at a news
conference in Pinehurst that
ground-breaking on the World
Golf Hall of Fame is only a few
days away ahd that Phil Harris
has become the first entrant in
the World Celebrity Pro-Am.
Harris has for several decades
been one of the featured
celebrities in golf’s traditional
pro-amateur events and said he
was “honored to be the first so
called celebrity to enter” the
event which precedes the 1973
World Open in November on
Pinehurst’s number two and four
courses.
“Phil has been abig attraction
at many pro-anf¥t%nts,” said
Maurer, “and we are very
pleased that he agreed to come to
Pinehurst and to bring many of
his friends to play in the World
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Robbins Man Is Killed
In Auto Accident Here
Jerry Michael Maness, 24, of
Robbins was killed Friday
evening when his speeding car
went out of control and struck a
car parked on the shoulder of NC
22, one and one third miles north
of Southern Pines.
The accident, which also in
jured a Sanford woman, oc
curred about 9:15 p.m. on the
downhill slope between the
airport intersection and the
Southern Pines water plant, near
the entrance to the Poverty Hill
nursery and trailer court.
This was the third successive
weekend on which Moore County
tallied a fatal highway ac
cident. Maness’ death was the
11th for the year, the last seven
resulting from three wrecks on
the weekends between March 31
and April 13, with high speed
reportedly involved in all three.
State Trooper Jim Alexander
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Moore County’s school dropout
rate continues high~37.1 percent
of the ninth graders being lost
before graduation.
These and other statistics are
contained in a Survey of 1972
High School Graduates con
ducted by the North Carolina
Department of Public In
struction. Results of the survey
were released this week and
contain a breakdown for the
State as a whole.
Moore Superintendent Robert
E. I.^e said that in comparison
with other school systems in the
State, Moore is about in the
middle in regard to dropouts.
The figures for Moore show
that of 922 ninth graders enrolled
in 1968-69 there were 580 who
graduated from high school, with
.342 dropouts. This is a 62.9
percentage for graduates.
The survey showed that for 860
fifth graders enrolled in 1964-65
there were 67.44percent who did
graduate from high school, with
a dropout percentage of 32.50.
In survey figures released by
the State department in Raleigh
the North Moore graduates were
not included, thus the State chart
was inaccurate in that respect
for Moore. Supt. Lee provided
the corrected figures and per
centages.
As for education beyond the
high school, the survey showed
22.6 percent of the Moore
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Schools
Will Get
Holidays
The Board of Education has
ruled that it would not be
necessary to make up days lost
due to inclement weather.
Moore County School
Superintendent R. E. I^ee said,
“'[jiis means we’ll revert to the
original calendar. Students’ last
day before Spring Holidays will
be April 20 with school reopening
April 30.”
He stated that “students’ last
day of school this year is June 5,
and teachers’ last day is June 7.”
The Board’s action was based
on a statute amendment by the
General Assembly of North
Carolina which permits
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Forest Fire Flare-Up Destroys
Timber in Several Moore Areas
Five forest fires were reported
in Moore county this week, one of
which killed timber on an almost
60 acre tract, according to
Robert Edwards of the Forest
Service.
The timber killing fire came
Thursday afternoon and started
north of the traffic circle on US
15-501. It spread southeas.t
toward Monroetown and b’actors
and a spotter plane, had to be
called in from district
headquarters in Rockingham
since two other fires in the
county were tying up all
available equipment.
Edwards estimated about 60
acres of timber were killed by the
blaze which he said probably
started from a cigarette thrown
by a passing motorist.
At the same time as the
Morristown blaze, forest rangers
were fighting a fire on
Diamondhead property in
Pinehurst near the Girl Scout
camp. Edwards said about three
acres were burned and at
tributed the cause of the fire as a
fallen power line in a con
struction area where a new lake
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FOREST FIRE — Sixty acres of timber were destroyed by this forest fire
Thursday near Monroetown. The blaze began near US 15-501 and was probably
caused by a cigarette butt thrown from a car, according to Robert Edwards of the
Forest Service.-(Photo by Bryan Green).