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BY VALERIE NICHOL^N
Chancy April weather did little
or nothing to cut down the size or
enthusiasm of the crowd which
cheered the races — including
Jive’s great Sandhills Cup vic
tory — Saturday at Stoneybrook.
The acres of parking — with
additional spaces sold this year
in the infield and outer r ims—
appeared to fUl up as fast and as
far as in former years, with the
conservative estimate on at
tendance still standing “around
25,000.”
They flocked in from all over
North Carolina and some other
states to watch the six-race
program unfurl in alternating
sun and showers —
playing, picnicking and
promenading when it shone,
making for their cars or bun
ching up under camper-awning
shelters when it rained.
Definitely a “first” for
Stoneybrook was a “light and
sound spectacular,” when one
race, the fourth, was run off in
pouring rain, complete with
thunder and lightning — which,
however, were quickly gone.
This was the first time it had
rained on a Stoneybrook race
meeting in well over 20 years,
since the event became affiliated
with the National Hunt Racing
association and was moved from
mid-March to mid-April. In the
early years, when it was held on
or about St. Patrick’s Day, it
wound up a couple of times near
dark, amid cold wind and rain,
with most of the cars already
driven off and hardly anyone but
the officials — and this reporter
— remaining.
This time they stayed to the
last, enjoying every minute.
Sides were overcast but no rain
fell as the crowds clung to the
rail, shouting themselves hoarse,
in the running of the Sandhills
Cup.
Surprise Winner
Jive, owned and ridden by
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JIVE IS WINNER— Jive, with Chris Elser as owner and rider, sails over the
hurdle in front of the judge’s stand to win the $10,000 Sandhills Cup, the feature of
the annual Stoneybrook Races.—(Photo by Emerson Humphrey).
Penick Home to Observe
10th Birthday Saturday
The 10th anniversary of Penick
Home, operated here by the
North (Carolina diocese of the
Episcopal church, will be ob
served Saturday, April 20, with a
planned jM'ogram event followed
by an open house.
The principal speaker at the
program will be Dr. Eric
Pfeiffer, M. D., professor of
psychiatry and associate
director of programs at the
Center for the Study of Aging and
Human Development at Duke
University. Mrs. Paul Dana of
Southern Pines, president of the
Episcopal Home for the Aging, of
which Penick Home is a part,
will preside over the event.
Philip S. Brown is executive
director of the Home. Bishop
Thomas A. Fraser, Jr., head of
the diocese, will be on hand.
Dr. Pfeiffer has done extensive
writing in the geriatrics field,
with numerous articles and six
books.
The Penick Home was opened
in April, 1964, as a residence for
the aging. Later the St. Peter’s
Nursing Center was added at the
same location, for persons
needing nursing care. The two
comprise the Episcopal Home
for the Aging. A current ex
pansion program will provide
additional rooms and cottages.
Music Fete
The annual Picquet Music
Festival, sponsored by the
Sandhills Kiwanis Qub, will be
held in the Cardinal Room at the
Pinehurst Hotel on Friday, ^ril
26.
The Junior Builder’s Cup
award will also be presented at
that time.
THE
PILOT LIGHT
Skies were partly cloudy today with
temperatures in the upper 50s.
Thursday will be partly cloudy and
warmer, with some showers expected.
Play is moderate on all Sandhills golf
conrses.
40 Pages
F ull Grant Made
For Sewage Job
25,000 Turn Gut For Stoneybrook ; Jive Wins
Tradition
Is Broken;
Spirit Not
The tradition of “It never rains
on Stoneybrook” was broken
Saturday-but nobody seemed to
mind.
All the trappings and the frills
of a tradition^ Stoneybrook day
were present, with a little
something extra-a panorama of
colorful umbrellas when the
rains did come.
There were people from all
over North Carolina and from
most of the Atlantic seaboard
states and the socializing and
picnicking seemed to have an
extra zest. When the sun came
out just before the first race
there was a loud cheer, and when
the rain poured during the fourth
race the umbrellas flashed and
there was a scurrying for cover.
The races, of course, were
among the best run in years, but
not everyone looked. 'They were
too busy talking, or drinking, or
eating, and just plain enjoying
the day.
Sheriff C.G. Wimberly said it
was a good-natured, well-
behaved crowd, and he was
certain there were more people
present this year than last year
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Moore county will receive $7.8
million for construction of a
sewage treatment facility-the
full amount of the federal grant
for which the county made ap
plication last May.
While there are several
procedural steps to be gone
through before final approval,
the real obstacles have all now
been overcome and “from here
on, there should be no
problems,” said Bob Helms,
county planner.
Helms said he had had
unofficial reassurance as to the
status of the grant, but no new
information until the State Office
of Water and Air Resources, in a
news release last Thursday,
presented its proposals for
spending $70 million for sewage
treatment plants.
The Moore County project is
second on the list of 14 next to the
top $12.6 million, earmarked for
the City of Concord. The third
biggest chunk-$2 million-will go
to the Town of Red Springs.
The State Board of Water and
Air Resources will meet this
Thursday, hopefully to approve
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Record High
Moore County sales tax collec
tions soared to a record high in
March.
The total for the one percent
local sales tax was $111,610.70,
which was some $20,000 higher
than in any previous month.
The sales tax is regarded as
the best economic indicator in
the state.
One percent sales tax collec
tions in neighboring counties for
March were: Hoke, $15,028.61;
Lee, $67,752.65; Montgomery,
$20,653.17; Randolph, $86,521.09;
Richmond, $64,402.25.
Griffith Gets
National Merit
Moore Schools Get Large Grant
For Student Math Lab Program
Moore County Schools have
been awarded grants totaling
$235,441 under the federal Emer
gency School Aid Act (ESAA) for
the next school year.
The two grants will continue
and expand the math lab
program for students in grades
3-7 needing mathematics help
and will help to organize a
volunteer tutor program in the
county. Both programs will be
under the direction of Charles V.
McKinley.
In addition to the present math
lab centers at Aberdeen Middle
School, Carthage Elementary
School, Elise Elementary School,
Pinehurst Middle School, South
ern Pines Middle School and
West End Middle School, centers
will be set up at Vass-
Lakeview School and Cameron
School. Also under the program,
tutors will be provided to help in
math at schools without math
centers.
Math labs are centers where
children needing help in basic
arithmetic can come, on a
supplementary basis, and
“play” at math. Center activities
stress games and activities that
are both fun and instructive.
Each center has a teacher and an
aide to assist the children.
The second project funded
under ESAA is the V.I.P.
(Volunteer Instruction Pro
gram). V.I.P. will recruit volun
teers who wish to help children in
need of tutoring. Most volunteers
will be needed at the lower
grades and will tutor in basic
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LIQUOR BILL—Not too many
people were pleased and most
were downright angry at
Republican Senator Michael
Mullins almost successful sneak
bill to permit liquor-by-the-drink
in his home county of
Mecklenburg.
It was later learned that the
sneak bill would also allow liquor
sales by the drink in Guilford
County.
Even two of the Mecklenburg
delegation, both Democrats,
were highly incensed at the
tactics of Mullins, who had
tacked a liquor amendment on to
a local tree commission bill.
What other legislators were
angry about was Mullins violated
the unwritten rule that all local
bills be fully explained on the
floor.
Someone caught the bill before
it was signed into law and
Senator Charles B. Deane Jr., of
Rockingham got it recalled and
killed.
Rep. T. Clyde Auman of Moore
said that if the bill had been
Mrs. Holshouser To Visit
Moore For Heritage Week
Mrs. James E. Holshouser Jr.,
will visit Moore County during
Heritage Week, spending an
afternoon here on Friday, April
26.
The Moore County schools
were among the North Carolina
schools chosen to host a visit
from the wife of the Governor.
Mrs. Billigene Garner,
director of cultural activities for
the school system, said that Mrs.
Holshouser will visit the High
Falls School from 1 to 2 p.m. I%e
will see displays of an old home
kitchen and farm, old cars and a
buggy.
Fropi 2:30 to 3 p.m. she will
visit the school’s administrative
offices in C^thage and will see
two old restored school houses.
Mrs. Holshouser will go from
there to the Town and Country
Shopping (Tenter where from 3:30
to 4 p.m. she will award prizes to
the winners in the annual Town
and (Tountry Art Show for Moore
County school children.
Other activities are being
planned in Moore schools for the
observance of Heritage Week.
This year, the week of April 22-
28 has been designated North
Carolina Heritage Week.
According to Melvin Good,
Heritage Week coordinator for
the Department of Public In
struction, communities have in
Bobby an(i ‘Babe’ Lead
Hall of Fame Nominees
enacted into law a special session
would have been cjdled to repeal
it before any liquor could have
been sold at bars in (Tharlotte.
STATION — Senator Bill
Staton of Sanford, who has been
mentioned as a possible can
didate for Attorney General
should Bob Morgan win the
Democratic primary for the U.S.
Senate, worked hard to get his
coastal land management bill
passed.
He had to agree to' several
amendments which weakened
the bill, but he feels this had to be
done if any law at all was passed,
and he thinks North Carolina at
least has a start now on land use
policy.
Station feels now that the
annual session experiment was
too hard on most legislators.
SAMARKAND — The girls
school at Samarkand which
underwent considerable
upheaval last year when the long
time superintendent Reva
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Scholarship
Barry M. Griffith of 313 Selkirk
Trail in Southern Pines has been
awarded a National Merit
Scholarship for four years by
SCM Corporation for 1974 pre
law study.
A student at Pinecrest High
School, he is a member of the
National Honor Society, was 1973
School Marshal, is on the Quill
and ScroU staff, the school
newspaper staff, and a member
of the Spanish (Sub.
SCM, which awards six
scholarships, is a leader in the
manufacture and sale of Smith-
Corona typewriters, Marchant
calculators, SCM office copiers,
Glidden coatings and chemicals,
Durkee Foods, Proctor-Silex
electrical supplies and a wide
range of other products.
Council Meet
James Harrington, Secretary
of the Department of Natural and
Economic Resources, will be ttie
principal speaker at the annual
meeting of the Pee Dee Council
of Ck)vernments at the East
Montgomery High School at
Biscoe on Tuesday, April 30, at
7:30 p.m.
He will speak on the role of the
regional council as it relates to
state planning and local
government.
There will also be en
tertainment at the dinner.
Eighteen golfers have been
nominated for the World Golf
Hall of Fame, and Don Collett,
president of Pinehurst, Inc., says
he expects 12 of them will be
inducted at the opening of the
$2.5 million Hall in September.
Nominees must receive 75
percent of the votes cast by
members of the Golf Writers
Association of America.
Heading the list of nominees
thus far are Bobby Jones and
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who
won a total of 19 major events
between them.
Jones was the king of golf for
his era. He won the “grand
slam” in 1930 by capturing the U.
S. and British (^ns and the U. S.
and British Amateur cham
pionships. Jones captured 13
major championships before
Weiskopf First to Enter
September’s World Open
Mrs. James E. Holshouser
past years set up folk festivals,
drama and dance concerts, arts
and crafts displays, and special
contests in the schools.
Businesses have promoted North
Carolina products, set up
displays in shop windows, and
sponsored arts and crafts
exhibits. “The number of special
activities that can be planned is
almost limitless with the rich
heritage from which we have to
draw ideas,” noted (5ood.
The Department of Public
Instruction sponsors Heritage
Week each year to provide
schools and communities an
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quitting the game when only 28
years old.
Mrs. Zaharias, one of the
greatest American woman
athletes of the century, won two
U. S. Opens, the U. S. Amateur
and three Western Open titles.
She won 17 tour events and was
named Woman Golfer of the
Year in 1948 and 1951.
Other nominees include Jack
Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary
Player, Sam Snead, Gene
Sarazen, Bryon Nelson, Ben
Hogan, Walter Hagen, Glenna C.
Vare, Patty Berg, Tommy Ar
mour, James Braid, Tom Morris
Jr., Francis Ouimet, J. H. Taylor
and Harry Vardon.
The Golf Hall of Fame is now
under construction just off of The
Circle at Pinehurst, and Collett
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Tom Weiskopf, the British
Open champion, is the first of
ficial entry in the $300,000 World
Open GoK Tournament which
will be played at Pinehurst Sept.
9-15.
Announcement of Weiskopf’s
entry was made last week by
Deane Beman, commissioner of
the Tournament Players
Division of the Professional Golf
Association. He said he had
Weiskopf’s application and entry
check.
The World Open is one of three
new designated tournaments in
which leading golf professionals
are required to play. Back in
January Weiskopf had said he
was not certain he would play, an
action which could have resulted
in a fine or suspension by Beman.
“I am hopeful this will lay
aside any speculation con
cerning Tom Weiskopf and the
World Open,” Beman said.
Andre Roos, director and
general manager of the World
Open, said in Pinehurst this week
that following Weiskopf was an
application and entry check from
CJiarles Sifford. He expects other
entries each week from now on
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Top Court Frees Moore Man
From Death Penalty Sentence
Samuel A. Poole, 31, of Rob
bins, Rt. 1, an inhabitant of North
Carolina’s Death Row since
August 1973, will probably be
home today.
His conviction of first degree
burglary reversed by the State
Supreme Court, last Wednesday
in a 4-3 vote, he was retained in
prison over Easter by procedural
matters attendant on his release
— but in any event, is out from
under the shadow of the gas
chamber.
His attorney was in Raleigh
Tuesday, and Chief Justice
William Bobbitt ordered his
immediate release. The attorney
said he had confirmed that there
were no other charges pending
against him.
On his conviction by a Moore
(Tounty jury August 17 after a
two-day tri^, the death sentence
was mandatory under the law as
it then stood, and Judge E.
Maurice Braswell of Fayet
teville, presiding over the
criminal term, set his execution
date for September 7. It was
delayed by the normal appeal
process, pursued by his court-
appointed counsel, P. Wayne
Robbins of Southern Pines.
The majority opinion in the
case, however, written by (Thief
Justice Bobbitt, was that it
should never have gone to the
jury at all, but should have been
thrown out because of in-
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