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hurch News, 3-B; Classified Ads, 6-
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g-E; Obituaries, 13-A; Pinehurst
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^OL. 61. NO. 25
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SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA 28387
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1981
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BY VALERIE NICHOLSON
Race fans betting on
■ecognized favorites in the
)restigious Sandhills Cup at
Jtoneybrook Saturday had it
•ough at the upset finish.
Codicioso, native of Chile,
snatched a last-second victory
)ver a field which included three
)f the country’s top
[noney-winning steeplechasers,
jne of them a previous Sandhills
Cup winner. Second place went to
Un Adios, also from Chile and a
stablemate of Codicioso.
A crowd of 40,000 saw the
$15,000 feature race, as beautiful
to look at as exciting to watch,
saw Un Adios grab the lead at the
start, Codicioso trailing. Un
Adios, a 10-year-old bay gelding,
held the lead and extended it,
coming round the bend on the
second circuit, he was five
lengths ahead of his nearest
competitor.
This was I.eaping Frog, 1979
Sandhills Cup winner, who
seemed determined to get it
again, but Romeo Lima, another
big money-winner, came
pounding past. All six strung out
in a spectacular procession-Un
Adios, then Romeo Lima,
Leaping Frog, Running
Comment and Down First, all
Long Delayed MurderCase
On Court Slate Next Week
The murder charge against
Irover Eugene Harris returns to
he trial calendar next week,
(Then a criminal session of Moore
-aunty Superior Court is schedul-
xl.
Court will convene Tuesday
noming because Easter Monday
s a state holiday. Judge William
H. Helms of Monroe will preside.
The murder case has b^n con
tinued since Harris was arrested
in late September and charged
with the bizarre slaying of a Car
thage naan, 64-year old Earl C.
Stutts.
Harris is presently serving a
prison sentence of from six to 10
Easter Holidays Bring
Many Office Closings
state, county and municipal of
fices will be closed Monday for
the Easter Monday holiday.
North Carolina was the first
state officially to adopt Easter
Monday as a holiday. It is also
observed as a holiday by Moore
County and the Town of l^uthem
Pines.
For the public school system
next week will be an entire vaca
tion week. Friday, April 17, will
mark the end of classes prior to
the Easter holiday, and classes
will not be resumed until Mon
day, April 27.
A week of superior criminal
court is scheduled for Moore
County next week, but the session
will not convene until Tuesday
because of the Easter Monday
holiday. The clerk of court offices
and other state offices will be
closed Monday.
Because Monday is a holiday,
the Moore County Board of Com
missioners postponed the mid
month board meeting until Tues
day night, April 21.
Easter Monday is also a bank
holiday.
Not observing the holiday will
be federal employes and people
working in most retail stores.
The Southern Pines Post Office
will be open for business as usual
Monday, and there will be the
regular window hours and
delivery service.
The Pilot will be closed for the
Easter Monday holiday. Persons
with news items or adver
tisements are requested to place
them in the front door slot.
years which was imposed in
March on a charge of first degree
sexual offense. The homosexual
assault on a fellow inmate
reportedly took place while Har
ris was being held without bond in
the county jail in Carthage.
Although the murder case has
not come up for trial, the file is
still quite active.
Motions for continuance were
made by both the defense and the
state in February, and the trial
was continued until the March 23
term of court. In March the
defense attorney, Bruce Cunn
ingham, made a motion for conti
nuance until the April term
because he needed more time to
prepare his case.
The Harris file is thick with
papers filed by the state and the
defense. An order signed Feb. 12
by Judge Helms orders the defen
dant’s transfer to the North
Carolina Department of Correc
tion “for safekeeping’’ because
“on three different occasions the
defendant has tried to commit
suicide while in custody.’’
Judge Julius A. Rousseau Jr. of
North Wilkesboro in Dwember
signed an order conunitting Har
ris to Dorothea Dix Hospital for
an examination to determine his
mental competency. The
hospitalization period was not to
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two lengths apart-with Codicioso
bringing up the rear.
With a quarter mile to go,
Codicioso suddenly
surged ahead, drawing on
powerful reserve strength to
sweep past one after another, his
rider James Maloney, Jr.,
arched high like an alpine bridge
as the six-year-old chestnut took
the ninth and last fence
rieck-and-neck with Un Adios,
then ran on well into the clear.
Time for the grueling two-mile-
and-a-quarter race over fence^
four minutes and 20 seconds.
Of the six entries. Leaping
Frog was named third in this
year’s official list of the
country’s leading money-
winners, with $60,795;
Running Conunent was fourth.
with $36,845, and Romeo Lima
ninth, with $24,900.
Other races of the six-race
card were unrolled in sequence,
each drawing its crowd of
spectators to the rail to cheer
them on. While many of those
attending were there just to
enjoy the picnicking and
promenading, and to be with
congenial company in the
relaxed atmosphere, others had
come to admire some of the
finest horses and riders of the
east, and to learn from the care
and skill of the owners and
trainers who had developed these
fine specimens.
There were no spills or other
untoward events, other than a
minor happening in the first
race. The Yadkin, for horses
just beginning their
careers-“maidens three years
old and up.” One four-year-old,
Youthful Attempts, apparently
didn’t care for the career and
wouldn’t live up to his name,
departing from the track on the
back stretch. This, naturally,
disqualified him and his rider
dismounted—then the horse
quickly perked up again, perhaps
thought better of the whole thing.
got back on the track and came
in riderless.
It was a p^ect.day of crowds,
sunshine and horses—typical
Stoneybrook weather, though the
day turned out not to be a typical
spring day but rather a day
misplaced from mid
summer,with temperature up in
the high 80s. The summer
costumes, with lots of shorts and
cutoff jeans, and many bearded
youths bare from the waist up,
exposed much skin for a
beach-like effect-without ocean,
but plenty of sunburn.
Everywhere you looked, you saw
skin turning unexpectedly
ominously red.
UNCBand
Pre^'ace music was provided
by the UNC Pep Band, a lively
group of boys and girls, most of
(Continued on Page 16-A)
More Shake-Ups In Works
By Republican Majority
Zoning Ordinances
Called ‘Too Cloudy’
BY LIZ HUSKEY
The Southern Pines Town
Council’s concern over too much
subdivision, and the
discrepancies over which ones
they approved came to a head
Tuesday night, after Council
Member Louise Eckersley
moved to send the town’s zoning
ordinances affecting PUD,
subdivisions and site-plans back
to the Town Planner for review.
The board voted unanimously
in favor of the action.
Mrs. Eckersley said the
ordinance was “too cloudy” and
that there were not “clear cut
guidelines” by which council
members could decide which
requests to approve.
“I don’t feel comfortable as a
council member in interpreting
what these guidelines are
saying,” she said.
Suggesting that the ordinance
be sent back to Town Planner
Marvin Collins to be reviewed,
she added, “we need to remove
all the fine lines and the trash,
and establish clear cut guidelines
in the ordinance.”
After a lengthy debate over
how much work needed to be
done on the ordinance and how
long it should take, Collins said
(Continued on Page 14-A)
TKE
PILOT LIGHT
Volunteers Launch Drive
Armed with a petition and a
goal of 10,0(X) to 15,(X)0 signatures,
Moore County rescue and fire
volunteers this week launched a
new campaign to persuade the
three Republican commissioners
to change a recent decision to
abolish the emergency com
munications department as an in
dependent agency.
The goal represents about two-
thir^ of the registered voters in
Moore County.
An attorney who has been
working with fee volunteer group
joined a gathering of supporters
Monday for an informal news
conference in the Carthage
Rescue Squad building.
Channel 2, Greensboro,
covered fee news conference.
Asked if he thinks fee petition
will work, David Cummings
responded; “Sure. Otherwise, it
would be like playing a ball game
and expecting to lose.”
(Cummings, captain of fee Vass
Rescue Squad, has been serving
as spokesman for fee organiza
tions representing fee rescue and
fire volunteers. He heads fee
Moore County Rescue Squad Cap
tains Association.
“We’re not going to strike, no,”
Chimmings said in response to
another question.
His answer led attorney Bill
Bost to conunent that “obviously,
these people do care about Moore
County.”
Volunteers began circulating
fee petition late last week and by
Monday had secured between
1000 and 1500 signatures. A more
accurate estimate was not
available because of fee large
number of petitions scattered
across fee county.
Friday at 5 p.m. is fee deadline
for signing fee petition. Cunun-
ings said feat would give his
group ample time to prepare fee
petitions for presentation to the
(Continuedon Page 15-A)
GOVERNOR-A delegation
from Samarkand Manor called
on Governor Hunt last week and
got some strong assurances feat
fee training school near Eagle
Springs will remain open.
Senator Bob Jordan of Mon
tgomery (bounty accompanied
fee group on fee visit wife fee
Governor. Those in fee group
included Hosea Brower, director,
Johanna Hancock, assistant
director. Dr. Talmadge Lan
caster, principal of the school,
and Betty Owen.
Hiey said Governor Hunt was
fully informed of fee role of
Samarkand Manor and was
much interested in fee work it is
doing.
POULTRY-A poultry testing
laboratory at Robbins will
continue to receive a state ap
propriation of $50,000 annually
under a vote last week of the
House-Senate Base Budget
CJommittee.
A subcommittee had recom-
moided that fee appropriation
for the laboratory be dropped,
but fee full joint conunittee had
heard fee pleas of poultry far
mers and voted to continue fee
service.
REGISTRATION - Following
fee purging of 1,654 names from
fee registration books fee Moore
County Board of Elections
reported feat as of March 31 fee
total registration in fee county is
22 751.
Of feat number 13,504 are
registered as Democrats, 8,289 as
Republicans and 958 as unaf
filiated. There are 19,732 white
voters and 2,990 black voters.
The North Southern Pines
precinct, wife 1,725 voters, is now
fee largest in fee county.
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BY FLORENCE GBLKESON
A Republican appointee to fee
position of tax supervisor is
expected this summer when fee
present two-year term of Dewitt
Purvis expires.
Dr. Charles Phillips, chairman
of fee Moore County Board of
Commissioners, confirmed this
and other personnel changes
which may take effect in coming
months, perhaps as early as fee
Tuesday night board meeting.
Phillips also said that the
position of Tax Collector Don
Richardson will come up for
review this summer. The
position of tax collector is based
on a yearly appointment.
Budget or personnel changes,
or both, are similar by expected
in other departments, such as
economic development,
recreation, and administration.
The position of Gary Mofield,
who was employed on a six-
month probation basis as a tax
appraiser will not be continued.
Dr. Phillips confirmed.
Phillips said that fee board
had not planned to make these
announcements so early, but
rumors had been circulating as
fee result of information leaked
from a recent executive (closed)
session held by the
commissioners.
Asked about the Purvis
position, Phillips said: “We do
not have an announcement at
this time. The tax supervisw is
an appointive position, for a two-
year period, and when this
period is up in July, we will
consider appointing a
Republican to the position. I
think feat makes good sense.
This is why the people elect five
conunissioners.”
The board chairman said feat
rumors about the abolition of fee
economic development program
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Rep. Hefner Will Meet
With Voters Thursday
Eighth District Congressman
Bill Hefner, D-N.C., will hold an
old fashioned town hall meeting
Thursday (April 16) in Southern
Pines.
Elvin Jackson of CJarfeage,
Hefner’s district administrator,
said fee meeting will begin at
7:30 p.m. in the Council
(Chambers at 145 S.E. Broad
Street.
Hefner also is scheduled to tour
fee kfilliken & (Company plant in
Robbins at 9:30 a.m. Friday,
April 17. He will meet with
management and employes at
fee plant.
Officials of Milliken plan to pre
sent Hefner a rug wife a design of
fee North (Carolina seal.
The public is encouraged to at
tend fee town hall meeting in
Southern Pines.
Hefner said, “I want to hear
what fee citizens of Moore County
have on their minds at fee
meeting. I’m going to listen and
not to give a speech.”
On Friday morning. Con
gressman Hefner will join
members on fee Chamber of
Commerce and interested guests
for an exchange of thoughts on
governmental issues of concern
to fee business conununity at a
7:30 a.m. breakfast at the
Sheraton (Convention Center.
“In this time of sweeping
changes, it is vital feat we
citizens and our representatives
maintain clear lines of com-
(Continued on IPage 15-A)
Officials Visit Samarkand
The fate of Samarkand Manor
was still unresolved Monday
after a legislator and three top
state officials toured fee facilities
of fee training school.
“It won’t work as a woman’s
prison,” said Rep. Wilma
WoodaM, chairman of fee House
(Committee on Corrections.
Rep. Woodard cited two
reasons: fee large area which
would require heavy security ad
ditions and fee isolated location
which would make work release
conditions difficult to implement.
The visitors were warm in their
praise of what they saw during
fee twofeour visit, although most
were non-committol when asked
specifically about the
institution’s future as a training
school.
The four arrived by state
helicopter at 10 a.m., a source of
excitement among the 184
students. They left about two
hours later, bound for nearby Mc-
(Cain Hospital in Hoke (County.
Rep. Woodard told The Pilot
feat Samarkand is still among
fee facilities tagged for possible
closing in a major economy move
by fee state. She added, however,
feat its status is third in line, and
it is possible feat other economy
measures can be taken which will
lessen fee danger to Samarkand.
McCain Hospital received
another two-year reprieve last
week, when fee joint House and
Senate Appropriations (Commit
tee reached a compromise. Both
Mc(Cain and Samarkand were in
itially tagged for closing.
Citizens in Moore (County have
been battling against any change
in fee two facilities, which pro
vide an income for numerous
residents of fee area. Samarkand
is located near Eagle Springs in
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