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Index
Books, 2-B; Church Calendar, 3-B;
Classified Ads, 11-15-C; Editorials, 1-B;
Entertainment, 4-6-C; Obituaries, 7-A;
Pinehurst News, 1-3-C; Social News,
2-6-A; Sports, 10-11-A.
Vo|; 56, Number 23
46 Pages
Southern Pines, North Carolina Wednesday, April 7, 1976
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Stoneybrook Saturday;
Over 25,000 Expected
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STONEYBROOK TRACK—Thousands of race fans
will crowd this scene on Saturday for the 29th running
of the Stoneybrook Steeplechase Races, one of the
major North Carolina sports and social events. This
aerial view by Mildred Allen was made recently
before race hurdles, judges’ stand and other
preparations had been made. Inset is a scene from a
Stoneybrook race.
Board Rejects Separate Drug Unit;
Will Support Sheriff In His Efforts
The Moore County Com
missioners, in regular meeting
Monday at Carthage, said they
had no intention of setting up an
independent drug enforcement
unit outside the sheriff’s
department, but instead would
give Sheriff C. G. Wimberly all
^e support they could to help
him do the best possible job.
The alternate route, of a
separate unit answeraUe only to
the commissioners, composed of
one or more officers assigned
full-time to drug enforcement
duty, had been proposed last
month in a special meeting by
Carthage Mayor W. M. Carter,
Jr., and members of his town
board, in deep concern over a
grim picture they had received of
drug traffic in the county.
Only four commissioners were
present Monday morning, as
Vice-Chairman Lee Williams had
to be absent much of the day, but
Chairman W.S. Tayjor said the
board members had discussed
the matter among thonselves.
Forest Fires Hit Area;
Over 2,000 Acres Burn
In the wake of three major
fore^ fires over the weekend,
one of them burning 2000 acres in
the Lobelia area of Moore and
Cumberland Counties, all bur
ning permits have been can
celled in eastern and central
North Carolina by the State
Forestry Service.
A fire in Bladen County
destroyed 6,200 acres and the one
in Columbus County swept
through 1,000 acres. All fires
were incendiary, or deliberately
set fires, according to the State
Forestry Service and were
swept quickly into major
proportions by dry tinder un
dergrowth and wind, in spite of
recent rains.
The Lobelia fire, beginning
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Richardson Says Role of U.S.
Humanitarian And Not Military
“It is my conviction that today,
and increasingly in the future,
America’s responsibilities in the
world must be defined primarily
in terms other than military,’’
Secretary of Commerce Elliot
Richardson said Saturday
night, addressing the 160 guests
at the Cancer Benefit Dinner
held at the Country Qub of North
Carolina.
“In this Bicentennial year, as
we seek to identify the goals of
the Republic into its third cen
tury, we must especially place
greater emphasis on our
humanitarian goals,” he said.
“Just as the Declaration of
Independence lit the torch of
fireedom for men everyudiere 200
years ago, so might a new
American commitment to
humanitarianism help rekindle
the hopes of today’s world.”
A highlight of the evening was
the presentation of a
Distinguished Service Award
fi-om Duke University to Miss
Betty Dumaine, honorary
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and found they were all of the
same mind.
Taylor said he had received a
few letters and phone calls,
“some of them anonymous,” and
had made reply that “I telieve
the commissioners don’t want to
start anything outside the
sheriff’s department.”
Expressing appreciation for
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Damages
From Wind
Reported
Two properties were badly
damaged by separate twisters
occurring during a wind storm on
Sunday afternoon and power for
900 residents in the Weymouth
Road area was cut off by fallen
trees, according to reports
received in the POot office.
A feed bam on the farm of
Harry Teal at Ashley He^ts
was badly damaged Sunday
afternoon by a twister that hit his
place at 4:30 o’clock. Teal said
the twister was like a black cloud
right on the ground. He had
never seen anything like it. The
wind also blew down a shelter in
his pig pasture.
There also were reports that
some trees in the area were
twisted in two by the winds.
Poul Grav and his fiancee,
Rebecca Going, feel lucky to be
alive after a ti^er tore the roof
off a five room, douUe wide
trailer home at Murdocksville,
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It’s Stoneybrook time~and
more than 25,000 persons are
expected here Saturday for the
29th Steeplechase Races, which
has become one of the major
q>orts and social events of North
Carolina.
A total of $22,500 in purse
money will be presented wiraers
in the six races sponsored by the
Stoneybrook Hunt Racing
Association for the benefit of St.
Joseidi’s Hospital.
The top purse is $10,000 con
tributed by the Pepsi Cola
Company in the 36th running of
the San^ills Steeplechase Qq),
the feature race of the day.
Stoneybrook officials say that
requests for parking places at
the track of the Mickey Walsh
farm have far exceeded any
other year. In fact they were sold
out almost two weeks in a^ance,
and that’s why the prediction has
been made for a record crowd on
Saturday.
Gates will open at 11 a.m. and
the first race will be at 2 p.m.
In between there will be
several other events, including a
flag-raising ceremony and a
concert by the 82nd Airborne
Band of Fort Bragg at 12:30 p.m.
Top horses who have been
competing in the Dixie Circuit in
recent weeks will be running in
the Stoneybrook event. These
include Tall Award of the
A^ustin Stable, which was the
winner of the feature races at
Atlanta and Aiken and is ahead
now in points; Casamayor of tl)e
Powhatan Stable, who won the
feature race at Camden;
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Republican
Precincts
Meets Set
Republican Precinct meetings
will be held throughout Moore
County on Saturday, April 17, at
7:30 p.m. at the regular polling
places, with the chairmen
presiding.
The County convention will be
held at the courthouse in
CJarthage on Saturday, April 24,
at 3 p.m.
James C. Thomas of Southern
Pines, Chairman of the Moore
County Republican Executive
Conunittee, notified all precinct
chairmen, and said the sole
purpose of the meetings will be to
elect delegates and alternates to
the county convention.
The County convention will
elect delegates and alternates to
the District convention and State
convention, which will be held for
the purpose of electing delegates
and alternates to tte National
Republican convention in Kansas
City.
Thirty-six delegates and 36
alternates will be elected to the
District and State conventions at
the County convention.
Thomas said the procedure is
in accordance with the North
Carolina Republican Party Plan
of Organization and follows
instructions from Bob Shaw, the
state chairman.
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THE
PILOT LIGHT
VERY SPECIAL EVENING—It was a special evening for Miss Betty Dumaine,
honorary chairman of the Cancer Benefit Dinner on Saturday night. She is shown
above seated with Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson, her godson (left)
and Dr. William W. Shingleton, Director of the Comprehensive Research Center
at Duke, co-sponsors of the evening event. In a ceremony following, she was
presented a Distinguished Service Award from Duke University in recognition of
her efforts to promote better health care in the United States and Thailand.
O’HERRON - Edward
O’Herron of Charlotte, a
candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Governor, will be
in Moore County on April 14 and
will speak at a luncheon meeting
of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club.
He will attend a breakfast
meeting of sujqrarters at the
Holiday Inn from 7:30 to 8:30
a.m., and then will tour
Aberdeen, Southern Pines,
Pinebluff and (Tarthage in the
morning. He will also speak to
the Women’s Council in the
afternoon.
Mrs. O’Herron will also be in
the county and plans to make the
Southern Pines Home and
Garden Tour that day.
blue;—House Speaker Jimmy
Green has picked a former
Speaker of the House, H. Clifton
Blue of Aberdeen, to serve as his
statewide finance chairman in
the campaign for Lieutenant
Governor.
The Aberdeen puUisher and
the Clarkton tobacco
warehouseman have been
friends since legislative days in
the 1960s. Since serving as House
Speaker, Blue has himself sought
the office of Lieutenant
Governor, losing to Bob Scott in
1964. He also ran for Congress
but lost to the incumbent
Republican Earl Ruth.
making the announcement.
Green said, “Cliff Blue is a man
of unquestionable integrity, and
we know his association with my
campaign wiU be a tremendous
asset.” C. Kitchin Josey of
Scotland Neck is Green’s State
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Forrest LockeyDies At Age 76;
Funeral Services On Thursday
Forrest Lockey, 76, of Aber
deen, retired president of the
Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad
long prominent in State politics
and in affairs of his county and
community died Tuesday at
Moore Memorial Hospital after
an illness of several weeks.
Funeral services will be held at
3 p.m. Thursday at Page
Memorial United Methodist
CJiurch, conducted by the pastor,
the Rev. Wilbur 1. Jackson, with
burial in Bethesda Cemetery.
He retired April 2, 1975, as
president of the Aberdeen &
Rockfish, while remaining on the
board of directors and main
taining his office in the A&R
headquarters building in
Aberdeen.
He had been with the railroad
for 57 years, after a career which
was a true American success
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Forrest Lockey Sr.
story. He got his first A&R job in
1918 when, only 18 years old, he
applied for the position of station
agent at Raeford, and got it.
He had taken business courses
at the Athens (Ga.) Business
College and at the University of
Georgia, and for a short time
headed a business school at
Americus, Ga., all of which stood
him in good stead with the A&R.
His secretarial skills tx-ought
him to the attention of John Blue,
the founder and president, u1k>
made use of them, advancing his
career. Moving up the executive
ladder, Lockey moved to
Aberdeen, where in the late
1940’s and early 1950’s he served
as mayor.
Bom at Shelby, the son of a
textile plant superintendent, he
grew up in various places, at
tending school at Shelby,
Laurinburg, Raeford and in
Georgia, then moving back to
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Council Approves Bonds ;
Vote Is Set For May 22
The Southern Pines Town
Council Tuesday night formally
approved bond orders for capital
needs totalling $2,050,000, subject
to a public referendum for
which they set the date of
Saturday, May 22.
The four orders were adopted
separately, each by unanimous
vote, following public hearings
during whiBi each was explained
by Town Manager Lew G.
Brown, assisted by diagrams and
charts, also, in the case of the
sanitary sewer bonds, by Les
Hall, consulting engineer.
They will also be voted on
separately in the referendum.
Brown said, as follows: Ex
pansion of the sewer system at
bur points in town, and
throughout a large area on East
Indiana Avenue Extension south
of town, $1,300,000; public works
center for vehicle maintehance,
storage facilities and needed
offices, $285,000; expansion of the
fire-fighting system with con
struction of a new fire station,
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Musselman Is Hired By County
For Economic Development Job
The Moore County com
missioners, in regular meeting
Monday at (Carthage, approved
the employment of Charles W.
Musselman, 30, as executive
director of the Moore County
Economic (formerly Industrial)
Development Committee.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., of
Southern Pines, ^airman, and
Tom Prickett, of Carthage, a
member, appeared on behalf of
the committee to present
Musselman’s name and
qualifications, and recommend
Uiat he be employed in the newly-
created county post, effective
May 1.
A Hi^ Point native, \rtio has
been serving for the past three
years as executive director of the
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Charles W. Musselman
Allendale-Hampton Industrial
Development Commission, they
said he had been screened out
from a number of excellent
applicants on the basis of
qualifications and personal in
terviews by the committee.
Not only were the
commissioners eager to welcome
him, but they had already
acquired a new office to serve as
his headquarters in the county
seat. Finding no suitaUe space
available in the courthouse, they
had looked outside. Chairman W.
S. Taylor was able to report
Monday that the Fidelity Bank
had accepted the county’s offer
of $2,500 for the handsome trailer
just a half-block away, which the
bank vacated last month to move
into its new building.
Located on the old Carthage
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READING WEEK—Moore County Commissioners Vice-Chairman Lee Williams
(seated) makes official the proclamation declaring April 4-10 as “Moore County
Reading Week." Shown left to right at the proclamation signing are William G.
Bridgman, Director of the Sandhills Regional Library; Mrs. Lorna Livengood,
Moore County Schools K-12 Reading Coordinator; Commissioner Williams, and
Mrs. John L. Frye, Chairman of the Board of Education and Co-Chairman with
Sam Ragan of the Citizens United For The Improvement of Reading.