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Index
Books, 2-B; Carthage News, 1-3-D;
Church News, 3-B; Classified Ads, 6-
IS-D; Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment,
4-9-C; Obitnaries, 13-A; Pinehnrst
News, 1-3-C; Sandhills Scene, 2-9-A;
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VOL. 61, NO. 23
78 PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA 28387
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1981
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PINEHURST RACES — More than 1200 persons turned out for the year after a lapse of several years. Hundreds of horses train at
annual running of the Matinee Races at the Pinehurst Racetrack on Pinehurst and soon will be leaving for northern tracks.—(Photo by
Sunday. Maxima, with Mark Wren as driver, was the winner of the Glenn M. Sides),
first race shown above. The harness racing event was resumed last
Assassination: Mixed Views On Gun Control
Sandhills residents, like most
of the country, reacted with
shock to the assassination at
tempt on President Ronald
Reagan on Monday, but
curiously many of them are
opposed to gun control laws.
A man who had the respon
sibility of protecting the lives of
several presidents—retired
Secret Service agent John E.
Campion-is convinced, however,
there should be “real tough laws
on carrying handguns.”
Campion, of 495 Crest Road in
l^uthern Pines, thinks the Secret
Service performed “ex
ceptionally well,” in the attempt
of the life of the President and
the shooting of three others on a
Washington street Monday
afternoon.
“You can only protect a
President so far,” Campion said.
“This is a democracy and tliey
like everyone else should be able
to move about freely. But there’s
always an element of risk and
chance.”
Gen. Leonard Heaton of
Hospital Signs Contract
For Mental Health Plan
Moore Memorial Hospital’s
newest contract with Sandhills
Mental Health Center is no “do-
goodism on our part,” said Derry
Walker, hospital public informa
tion officer, in an interview last
week.
“It is a serious attempt to
rescue troubled employes.”
He was talking about what the
mental health center calls the
EAP - Employe Assistance Pro
gram.
The program name does little
to explain what EAP can mean to
employes and hospital manage-
Festival Set
The annual Picquet Music
Festival, sponsored by the
Kiwanis Club of the Sandhills,
will be held at North Moore Hi^
School on Friday night.
Highlighting the festival will
be a performance of
“Brigadoon” by the North Moore
Drama and Music department.
The Kiwanis club also will
present its annual Junior
Builders Cup at the festival at
7:30 p.m., following a dinner in
the cafeteria at 6:30.
ment alike and how its
significance can and will affect
the patient.
Dr. John McBride, EAP consul
tant and manager for Sandhills,
calls it an extra management tool
dealing with non-productive or
troubled employes.
“It’s the humanitarian ap
proach, because it tries to
salvage the employe rather than
terminate his job,” Dr. McBride
explained.
Then it has the side effect of
saving the hospital money.
Employe benefits include:
dealing with problems in a dif
ferent way, a reversal of the old
approach of using stern
disciplinary action; because the
company, in this case the
hospital, is providing the pro
gram, the employe has the
benefit of having no initial cost,
and if treatment becomes
necessary, there is less cost than
there wodd be otherwise because
most, perhaps all, of these ex
penses will be paid by the com
pany group insurance; and final
ly, under EAP, family members
are also covert.
Through an EAP contract San-
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TKE
PILOT LIGHT
AUMAN-More than 400
persons will be on hand at the
Sheraton Convention Center here
on Thursday night to honor T.
Clyde Auman, who served 16
years in the State Legislature.
Among those coming for the
Clyde Auman Appreciation
Night banquet will be two
busloads of ^ate legislators and
other officials from Raleigh.
James VanCamp, Southern
Pines attorney, mil serve as
master of ceremonies, and ten
persons have been chosen to
make remarks of three minutes
each.
The jazz band of the North
Carolina School of the Arts in
Winston-Salem will entertain.
SAMARKAND - Supporters of
Samarkand Manor near Eagle
Springs and nearby McCain
Hospital got assurances from
some high placed members of
the Legislature this week that the
two facilities will not be closed,
at least not this year.
The assurances came from
Appropriations committee
members who usually carry a lot
of weight.
Officials at both Samarkand
Manor and McCain, however,
had been concerned about a
scheduled helicopter visit to the
two facilities this past Monday
by Secretary Sarah Morrow of
the Department of Human
Resources and Secretary
Woodard of the Department of
Corrections, along with
three members of the
Legislature. The visit was
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Pinehurst, a physician who at
tended President Dwjght D.
Eisenhower, called the action of
the Secret Service men “cer
tainly heroic in the real sense of
the word.” He called attention to
their prompt protection of the
President and fee -bravery, -m
particular, of Timothy Mc
Carthy, the agent who caught a
bullet in his own body.
The retired gener^ said he
could vouch for the quality of the
United States Secret Service and
of the care the President is
receiving at George Washington
Hospital.
“I know those people at George
Washington, and he is in ex
cellent hands. His prognosis is
excellent,” he said.
Heaton explained that the
hospital is the closest one to the
area where the shooting took
place and was the best and ob
vious place to take the injured.
Asked about a need for han-
Womein, 31
Succumbs
In Fire
Lillie May Wright, 31, died in
her Berkley home early Satur
day morning when a fire
destroyed the house.
Aberdeen fire officials do not
know what caused the fire, but
said it was completely under way
by the time they received the call
at 4:47 a.m.
A spokesman for the fire
department said the roof and
w^ had collapsed by the time
fire trucks arrived on the scene.
They were assisted by Crestline
and Pinebluff Volunteer Fire
Departments.
County Coronor A.B. Parker
said the woman died of smoke
inhalation.
She was the daughter of A.B.
and Mamie Wright who owned
the Berkely home.
Funeral services were held at
Pugh Funeral Home Tuesday at
2 p.m. Burial was in ^e
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dgun control, Heaton described
the assassination attempt as “a
gross example of the misuse of
handguns.”
“It’s an example to all of us
that something should be done
about this situation,” Heaton
said. “When you try to take the
life of the President of the United
States, something should be
done.”
Several persons had the same
viewpoint as Campion about the
need for better gun control, but
others took an oi^site view.
A concern for national at
titudes cropped up in the com
ments of several persons polled
by The Pilot.
Campion served with the
Secret Service White House staff
from the days of Franklin D.
Roosevelt until the late 1960s in
the term of President Lyndon B.
Johnson. He said he and his wife
Georgia watched everything
about the assassination attempt
on television and had read the
reports, and he thought the
Secret Service reacted well to the
shooting. He said that in a
situation such as that on the
Washington street anyone can
get near the E*resident because
you cannot clear the streets of
everyone.
As for the prior arrest of the
accused assassin, John Hinckley,
Jr., in Nashville last fall on
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Long Prison Terms Given
Trio On Break-In Charge
Sentences ranging from 25 to 35
years were meted out last week
in Moore County Superior
Criminal (Tourt to tivee men who
pleaded guilty to five counts each
of breaking and entering.
Defendants Robert Lynn
Holder, Randolph Clay Holder,
and Thomas Paul Dowdy were
each sentenced five to seven
years in each case, the sentences
to run consecutively.
Judge Robert D. Rouse Jr. of
Farmville added a special condi
tion to the sentences, in the event
they are allowed to serve the
sentence under work release edn-
ditions, or parole. If either is
allowed, the defendants must pay
restitution to the individuals and
Stoneybrook
Another sellout appears likely
for the annual Stoneybrook
Races on Saturday, ^ril 11, and
those wishing parking spaces
should make reservations now.
The Stoneybrook office is open
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
through Friday and the tele
phone is 692-8000. Parking spaces
are $25 and general admission is
$5.
Upwards of 40,000 are expected
for the races this year.
corporations damaged in the
break-ins.
Other cases involving the trio
were voluntarily dismissed.
Long prison sentences also
went to two men who pleaded
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Man Killed
James Calvin Stutts Jr., a
67-year-old Star resident, died
last night when his automobile
traveled off a highway near High
Falls and struck a pine tree head-
on.
Trooper E.E. Vuncannon of the
State Highway Patrol said Stutts
was dead on arrival at Moore
Memorial Hospital. Death was
attributed to massive chest in
juries.
Scene of the accident was
Rural Paved Road 1461, better
known as Howard’s Mill Road.
The trooper estimated the time at
9:25.
Vuncannon said Stutts drove
the 1980 Ford off the road to the
left in a slight curve, traveled
some distance along a ditch and
into a yard before striking the
tree.
It was the first highway fatality
of the year.
Robbins Group Home Planned
A third group home for mental
ly retarded adults is in the mak
ing for Moore County.
To be developed in Robbins,
this home will be the second such
project undertaken in the county
with funds from the federal
Department of Housing and Ur
ban Development.
Tracy Browq, group home
specialist with l^ndhiils Human
Resource Center (formerly men
tal health), said the sponsoring
Moore (IJounty Group Homes, Inc.
expects the building project to
begin next year. Plans call for an
architect to study lots under con
sideration in Robbins and to
begin the home design in the near
future.
Ms. Brown said represen
tatives of Group Homes, Inc. will
soon appear before the Robbins
Town Council to explain the pro
ject.
The private, non-profit cor
poration was successful in its se
cond application fof HUD funding
and has sent a letter of intent,
along with the $2500 seed money,
to HUD. The seed money was bor
rowed earlier this month from
the county and is to be repaid in
early sununer.
Once the house is erected, it
will become home to five persons
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
Dr. Charles Phillips, chairman
of the Moore County Board of
Commissioners; says he is
working toward expansion of the
county conununications advisory
committee in response to a
strongly-worded request from
the fire and rescue
organizations.
Phillips indicated that he does
not expect the board to change
the action taken March 16 to
abolish the communications
department as an independent
agency and turn its management
over to the sheriff’s department.
“We have carefully considered
this and have already voted on it.
We’U give it a trial,” Phillips
said.
Such an effort is not expected
to satisfy the county’s two major
volunteer groups, which want the
communications center to
remain independent and to be
managed by a control board with
hiring and firing authority.
The matter has not been placed
on the agenda for the Monday,
April 6, board meeting, but
Phillips expressed the opinion
that the subject will arise during
the day.
David eXunmings, captain of
the Vass Rescue Squad and
spokesman for the fire and
rescue leaders’ associations, told
The Pilot that he asked for a
place on the April 6 agenda and
was turned down.
“My own feeling is that the
commissioners will be happy to
enlarge the conunittee to provide
better representation, but I don’t
think they will change it back to a
control board because that takes
away the responsibility of the
commissioners, which is
basically to hire and fire. It
should be managed by an elected
official, either the com
missioners or the sheriff,”
Phillips said.
In a lengthy letter, the fire and
Weymouth Meet
The Friends of Weymouth will
hold its annual membership
meeting on Thursday afternoon,
Aix-il 30, at 4 o’clock, at the
Weymouth (Center.
The purpose of this annual
meeting is the election of
directors for the coming year,
and presentation of reports on
Weymouth activities of the past
year.
All members who have ex
pressed financial interest in
activities during the calendar
year 1980 and 1981 have voting
rights. All other persons who
have been members in earlier
years and who would like to
renew their interest are invited
to attend with a tax deductible
contribution of $10 or more.
Membership in Weymouth is in
no way restricted.
rescue people last week asked
the connmissioners to reconsider
the March 16 decision and to
restore the communications
center to independent control.
The group proposed that the
center be returned to the
management of a control board,
to be conqwsed of 13 members.
Such a board would have
authority to hire, fire and direct
the staff.
The controversy, which has
been simmering almost two
months, came to a climax at the
March 16 meeting, when the
conunissioners voted 3-2 to turn
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Rate Of Jobless
Drops To 6%
Moore County’s unemployment
rate dropped 1.5 percent to 6.0
percent in February.
Reflecting a return of the
resort season and overall
economic improvement, the
February rate is still a long way
from the 4.4 percent rate
reported for February, 1980. For
this year, the improvement is
considerable, for the January
figure was 7.4 percent, which
was 0.1 percent higher than the
state average.
This latest report from the
state Employment Security Com
mission ifeows that Moore County
dropp^ well below the state
average of 7.2 percent in
February. The national unad
justed unemployment rate was
8.0 percent.
ESC statistics assign to Moore
County a labor force of 21,830, an
employment force of 20,520, and
1,310 persons unemployed in
February. The labor force
represents those persons who are
working and those members of
the labor force currently without
jobs.
The ESC report shows that 29
North Carolina counties reported
unemployment rates of more
than 10 percent in February.
Unemployment was up in 44
counties, down slightly in 50 coun-
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Voter Lists Are Purged
Of 1654 Names In Moore
The Moore Ctounty Board of
Elections has announced that
1654 names have been purged
from the voter lists comprising
959 Democrats, 551 Republicans
and 144 Unaffiliated.
Total number has 1419 whites
and 235 blacks purged.
The total registered voters as
of Tuesday was 22,704.
According to Mrs. Doris
Fuquay, executive director of the
elections board, some 2300 cards
were mailed out requesting the
recipients to return the card if
they wished their names to
remain on the books.
Purging of the voter
registration books consisted of
names of persons who had died,
moved away or did not vote in the
past two general elections.
Broken down by precincts the
number purged was as follows:
East Aberdeen-Democrats 50,
Republicans 15, West Aberdeen-
Democrats 111, Republicans 46;
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Gill Named President
Of Arts Council Here
Douglas Gill, a Southern Pines
attorney, is the new president of
the Sandhills Arts Council.
He was elected Thursday at the
Council’s annual meeting to
succeed Phillip Brown, who has
served as president the past two
years.
Other officers elected at the
meeting were: Patsy Tucker,
first vice president; Milton Sills,
second vice president; Katherine
Ewing, third vice president;
Cleon Hayes, secretary; Ed
Pace, treasurer.
Elected to the board of
directors for three-year terms
were: Glenn Brillhart, Nancy
Mason, Anthea Tate, Sam
Ragan, John McPhaul, Gray
VanderVoort, Dr. Charles
Phillips, Pidgie (Tiapman, Emily
Hewson and Emanuel Doulass.
Outgoing President Brown
gave a report on the development
of the Arts Council in the
Sandhills and its aims and
purposes.
Executive Director Caroline
Hodgkins reported on activities
of the past several months and
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18 years old and older who are
mentally retarded but able to
help take care of themselves. The
home has the advantage of
removing these adults from
public institutions and allowing
them to live in a more normal
home atmosphere, where they
may learn additional skills.
The other two group homes are
situated in Southern Pines.
Sixty percent of the funding
comes from a grant from the N.C.
Department of Human
Resources, while the remaining
40 percent is paid by the clients
through the benefits they collect,
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FIRST DOGWOOD — Among the first white dogwood spotted in bloom
in Southern Pines was this tree in the yard of Haynes Britt on Ashe
Street. — (Photo by Glenn M. Sides). ,