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Index
Book Page, ^B; Church Calendar, 3-
B; Classified Ads, MihC; Editorials, 1-
B; Entertainment, 4-7-C; Ohituaries, 9-
A; Pinehurst News, 1-3C; Sandhiiig
Scene, 2-8-A; Sports, 10-15-D.
Vol. 58, Number 24
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Southern Pines, North Carolina 28387
Wednesday, April 12, 1978
Over 30,000 Expected Here
For Stoneybrook Saturday
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Weather
A brief shower Tuesday night settled
the dust and weather today is sunny.
Cloudy Thursday, with a 20 percent
chance of rain. It has never yet rained
on the Stoneybrook races.
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More than 30,000 people are
expected here Saturday for one
of North Carolina’s most colorful
events-the 31 annual running of
the Stoneybrook Races.
Rated as one of the top sports
events in the state, the
Stoneybrook Steeplechase is
more than a sporting event-it’s
a social gathering which draws
people from all over North
Carolina and all parts of the
Atlantic seaboard.
There will be entries in the six
races from all parts of the
country, and the six events
carry a purse of $23,500, one of
the largest on the Dixie Circuit.
The top race event is the
Sandhills Cup, which has a purse
of $10,000 given by the Pepsi-Cola
Company. This will be the 38
running of the Sandhills Cup,
which had its beginning in 1935
before this annual event was
moved to the Stoneybrook Farm
of famed horse trainer Michael
Walsh.
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Weymouth Friends Reelect
Officers, Set Fund Goal
Council Defers Action On Zoning
In Retirement Complex Request
The Southern Pines Town
Council meeting in its regul^
monthly session Tuesday night
decided to defer action until its
May 9 meeting on a requested
zoning change which would allow
the development of a retirement
center on the northwest comer of
Pee Dee Road and Midland
ft partners Hawkins and
The Council plans to approve Harrison requested that the
changes in the Southern Pines zoning be changed, from RA-
zoning ordinance at its May 9» Residential Agricultural to RSD-
meeting and feels it wise to Residential Single-Family
that
Several of the Walsh horses,
and horses trained by Walsh, will
be competing in Saturday’s
races.
One of them is Red Brick
House, which is leading at this
time for the Rebel Yell award on
the Dixie Circuit, and expected to
ride this top entry is Walsh’s
grandson, Michael Walsh III,
who is also the top rider in p(dnts
thus far in the 1978 steepledliase
season.
Last year the Stoneybrook
Races drew a crowd of 30,000.
This year more parking spaces
have been added at the track,
and all of them have been sold.
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postpone any further zoning
changes until after the ordinance
is changed.
Developer Jules Jernigan and
Pinehurst Hauls Water
In Meeting Emergency
Pinehurst had a water
emergency this past weekend
and had to call on the National
Guard and neighboring towns to
bring in water to ease the
shortage.
Restrictions on water use were
imposed Friday afternoon and
were lifted Sunday morning.
Hearing Set
A new well is expected to go
into operation later this week,
and another is being planned.
The water shortage was
brought about by a combination
of things, one being the lack of
rain for some weeks. There was
also a breakage and leakage of
pipes carrying water to village
residents and people outside
Pinehurst. Water consumption
also has been very high because
An environmental question
involving treated industrial ^“?try Qub
waste wiU be aired at a public “ P“®hurst places,
hearing on May 15, at 7 p.m. in Water was hauled in by a 1500
Diversified.
Jernigan’s company,
Americare, Inc., proposes a
development called Sandhills
Villa, housing 450 residents at the
most with low level group care
homes on Midland and Pee Dee
Roads, so as to retain Southern
Pines’ low level look, two-story
condominiums behind them and
if needed in the future, a health
care facility.
Pizzuto
Jernigan explained
because of the rising number of
people over age 65, Medicare and
Medicaid are not able to tnkp
care of all of them and he is
[K'oviding a place for those who
do not need to be in a nursing \V7’*4.l_
home but have no other place to J- v O W W 1 iri
go. The group homes would rrii
house eight persons with a live-in I np
couple supervising. The health
center, if built, would have a
minimum of 75 day workers
trained in health fields.
Those at the public hearing
who questioned the building of
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Admiral I.J. Galantin was re
elected president of the Friends
of WejTOOuth as the organization
took aim on an October deadline
for raising funds to buy the home
and property of novelist James
Boyd.
Galantin and other officers, all
of whom also were re-elected for
another one-year term,
acknowledged that progress
toward reaching the goal had
been slower than originally
hoped but expressed confidence
that it would be achieved.
The Sandhills College Foun-
Candidates
A “Meet the Candidates’’
^ogram has been scheduled by
the West Southern Pines Qvic
Club for Monday, April 17, at 8
p.m. at the Community Services
Building on W. Pennsylvania
Ave. The public is invited.
dation’s board of directors
recently agreed to a six-month
extension with no imposition of
penalty in the originsd one-year
option to buy the property with
its 214 acres of unique woodlands
for $700,000.
The Nature Conservancy holds
the option on behalf of the
Friends of We3miouth.
The property was left in trust
for the benefit of the college
when Mrs. James Boyd died
in 1974. The new deadline is Oct.
5.
In addition to Galantin, other
re-elected officers who were
chosen at a board of directors
meeting following the annual
meeting, are:
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, Stanley
Cohen and Raymond A. Kotrla,
all vice presidents; and
Raymond E. North, secretary-
treasurer.
The size of the board of
directors was increased from 21
to 25 at the annual meeting.
Board members who were re
elected, in addition to the five
officers, are: Sherman W. Betts,
Mrs. Heman R. Oark, Robert W.
Drummond, Mrs. Murdoch
Edwards, William H. Frantz, Sr.,
Norris L. Hopkins, Jr., E. Earl
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Hall Of Fame Selects
Crosby And Six Others
Help For Robbins Girl
Sought By Her Pastor
Lecture Room A-111, Ad
ministration Building, at
Sandhills Community Ciollege.
The North Carolina en
vironmental Management
Commission has called the
gallon tanker from Ellerbe, three
milk trucks from a dairymen’s
cooperative in Greensboro and
the local National Guard unit.
The water tanker of the
Pinel^urst Fire Department also
lias Gaiiea me *^cparimem ais(
hearing on the request of Pride- busy bringing in water.
Trimble Corp., to discharge fully Arrangements were made with
treated electroplating waste into of Aberdeen for the
a tributary of McDeeds Creek, tuuker from Ellerbe to collect
Several persons, especiahy in from them. When the
the Lakeview area, had sought National Guard was called in,
> the hearing. (Continued on Page 11-A)
Retired Engineer Here
Howard N. Butler Dies
A funeral for Howard Nathan- -s,
iel Butler, 81,, retired engineer
who was Glonsulting Engineer for ^
the Southern Railroad, was held
Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Brownson
Memorial Presbyterian Church
with the Rev. Harold Hyde and
the Rev. George Miller of
ficiating. Burial was at Bethesda
Cemetery at Aberdeen.
Mr. Butler died Saturday in a
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida hospital.
He was the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Bion H. Butler, who
came to Southern Pines in 1902
and bought the farm on
Morganton Road which they
named Valhalla. His father was
the first editor of The Pilot in 1920
and was a widely known jour
nalist.
He was a grandson of Col.
Cyrus Butler, an officer in the
A 12-year-old member of the
Robbins Baptist Church is sick
and her pastor is trying to help
her.
Amy McNeill, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jerry McNeill, looks
“like an angel,’’ writes the
Greensboro Daily News. And she
is a “lovely person,’’ says her
minister, the Rev. Gene Booker,
who is trying to help her.
Amy hM been in pain for four
years with kidney disease. She
Aberdeen
Names Rose
As Chief
Edward Leroy Rose, acting
chief, was appointed Chief of
Police for the Town of Aberdeen
Monday night by the Town
Board.
A move by Commissioner
James 0. Singleton for his ap
pointment to replace fired chief
Jerome L. Whipple was seconded
by Conunissioner Lloyd Harris
and unanimously carried.
Former Chief Whipple was fired
when he entered the race for
Moore County Sheriff on the
Republican ticket some weeks
(Continued on Page 13-A)
h^ been sick since she was
eight, and has been in and out of
the hospital since. She has fought
and conquered congestive heart
failure three times.
Her only hope is a kidney
transplant. Her mother gave her
one last year, but her body
rejected it two weeks later.
While she waits, she undergoes
dialysis treatment at Duke
Hospital. This machine clarifies
her blood on Mondays and
Thursdays. On other days, she
usually can go to school.
The Rev. Mr. Booker’s church,
the First Baptist Church of
Robbins, has collected about
$3,000 to help her with the ex-
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Marjorie Pizzuto of Southern
Pines, has joined The Pilot as
Advertising Assistant replacing
Fray H. Metcalfe, who has
resigned after six-and-a-half
years to go with her husband,
Thomas James Metcalfe, to
Clarksville, Va.
The new Advertising Assistant
is experienced in both news and
advertising and is a B.S. in
Journalism graduate of Kent
(Continued on Page 12-A)
Hospital
Gets Fimds
From Duke
Trustees of the Duke En
dowment announced last week
that Moore Memorial Hospital
will receive an additional
$250,000 for the hospital’s $16
million expansion program
Billy G. McCall, excecutive
director of the Duke Endowment,
told of the latest appropriation in
a letter to Moore Memorial
Administrator J. Crenshaw
Thompson and said that the
funds were “for additional
assistance in the construction
and equipment of additions and
alterations to the existing
facility.’’
The costs of the 149-bed ad
dition exceeded the estimates
made when the final plans were
drawn.
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Two tournament founders
whose innovative ideas placed an
imprint on the game everywhere
it is played and two greats of the
Pre-Modern Era have been
elected to the World Golf Hall of
Fame at Pinehurst.
Financier Clifford Ro’oerts,
who with the late Bob Jones was
co-founder of the Masters, and
H^ry L. “Bing” Crosby, who
initiated the Crosby Pro-Am in
1937, were elected in the
Distinguished Service category
by a special committee of the
Golf Writers Association of
America.
The two guiding geniuses, both
of whom died in 1977, will be
rashrined at formal ceremonies
in the Hall of Fame in Pinehurst,
August 22 during the playing of
the Colgate-Hall of Fame Golf
Classic.
Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe
and Harold Hilton, both multiple
champions fi-om Great Britain
(Continued on Page 13-A)
School Board To Seek
More Money Next Year
BY ELLEN WELLES
The Moore County Board of
Education will meet with the
Moore County Commissioners
tonight (Wednesday) to present
its proposed budget for the 1978-
79 year, it was decided at the bi
monthly meeting of the Board
held Monday at North Moore
High School.
The Board considered asking
the commissioners for a 10
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percent increase over last year’s
budget, although some Board
members felt they should ask for
^ percent more to account for
inflation and the many im
provements that schools have ,
requested.
The 10 percent increase would
mean they would ask for $350,000
more than the $3.5 million budget
of this year.
(Continued on Page 13-A)
Marjorie Pizzuto
the
PILOT LIGHT
Rounds
Howard N. Butler
Northern Army during the CSvil
War, and a descendant of Capt.
(Continued on Page 13-A)
Glen Rounds, the artist who
always covers the Stoneybrook
races for The Pilot, is in Moore
Memorial Hospital recovering
after surgery Monday.
He is believed to be doing well
in the intensive care unit, where
he is a patient of Dr. William p.
Hollister.
DAVIS- Lawrence Davis
brought his campaign for the
Dmocratic nomination for the
U.S. Senate to Moore County this
past week and he expressed
confidence in being in a second
irimary.
He’s certain that with eight
candidates in the race there will
be a second primary and he says
that his campaign is timed to see
that he is in it.
Davis, a State Seijator from
Forsyth County, spoke to the
Kiwanis Club of the Pines at a
brealrfast meeting on Thursday
morning and then spent a couple
of hours visiting in Southern
^es, passing out canyiai^
literature and bumper stickers.
He was accompanied by Alan
Butler, a member of his finance
committee. A Moore Ctounty
Parker Wants Public Program
To Combat Drugs,Other Crime
campaign manager is eiqiected
to be announced next week.
REGISTRATION-Moore
County has a total voter
registration of 19,360.
That’s what the figure stood at
when registration books for the
jrimary on May‘2 were closed
on Monday, April 3.
Of the total there are 12,017
Democrats, 6,524 Republicans,
and 819 who are unaffiliated with
any party.
White voters total 16,798 and
there are 2,551 black voters.
The largest precinct in the
county is Pinehurst, with 1,965
registered voters. Second largest
is North Southern Pines with
1,514.
(Continued on Page 13-A)
A.B. Parker says there is a
serious drug problem in Moore
County and “We are not doing
enou^ to cope with it.”
The Vass businessman, who is
rounding out eight years as
coroner for the county, is a
candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Sheriff.
When he announced for the
office he said, “I’m not running
against anybody. I’m running for
the office of sheriff.”
He still says the same thing,
but he has some definite ideas on
^w law enforcement in Moore
County can be improved, and he
feels that greater cit^en in
volvement in a crime prevention
program is one of the ways in
which it can be done.
He and incumbent Sheriff C.G.
Wimterly share the same en
thusiasm for the community
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A.B. Parker
watch program, but Parker
declares, “Just setting it up is
not enough. We need to keep up
with it and motivate people.”
“Community involvement” is
a key approach which Parker
would take in law enforcement
Md he believes that “The better
informed the people are the
better it will!».”
Parker pointed out that the use
of marijuana is still illegal-“and
as long as it is illegal the law
should be enforced.”
The way to combat the drug
problem in Moore (tounty is to
“cut down on distribution” and
Parker thinks that can be done
with better law enforcement. He
also advocates an informational
and ^ucational program for the
public on the types of illegal
drugs, how to identify them, and
the symptoms of the drug users.
A program for the public to
make them aware of the things
they can do around their homes
(Continued on Paee 13-A)