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Books, 2-B; Carthage News, 1-4-D;
Church News, 3-B; Classified Ads, 5-
15-D; Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment,
4-7-C; Obituaries, 13-A; Pinehurst
News, 1-3-C; Sandhills Scene, 2-11-A;
Sports, 8-11-C.
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VOL. 61, NO. 27
72 PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA 28387
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1981
72 PAGES
PRICE 15 CENTS
Pinehurst Votes
On Liquor Issue
Pinehurst is going ahead with a
referendum on liquor-by-the-
drink on Tuesday, May 5,
although there is a strong belief it
is not necessary.
Polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and
close at 7:30 p.m., and voting will
be at the polling places in two
precincts, East Pinehurst and
West Pinehurst, although only
eligible voters residing within the
corporate limits of the village can
vote.
There are 1,380 eligible voters
in the two precincts-668 in East
Pinehurst and 721 in West
Pinehurst.
Doris Fucjuay, executive direc
tor of the Moore County Board of
Elections, pointed out this week
that absentee voting is permitted
in the referendum, but the
deadline for casting absentee
ballots at the Board of Elections
office in Carthage is 5 p.m. on
Thursday, AprU 30.
The special election was called
by the Moore County Board of
Elections at the request of the
Pinehurst Village Council and
will be conducted under a state
law which permits incorporated
municipalities to seek such elec
tions.
Pinehurst already has legal
liquor-by-the-drink sales follow
ing voter approval in a special
township referendum act passed
in 1979 by the state legislature in
a bill introduced by former Rep.
T. Clyde Auman. Under the
Auman bill Mineral Springs
township, in which Pinehurst is
located, and McNeill township
could call elections on the mixed
drink question. At that time
Pinehurst was not an incor
porated municipality.
What prompted the Pinehurst
Village Council to seek next Tues
day’s election, however, was a
bill introduced on the first day of
the present legislative session to
repeal the Auman bill. The bill
(HB-1) was introduced by Rep. A1
Adams of Wake County who said
the 1979 bill was passed “because
we respected Clyde Auman,’’ and
since Auman was defeated in
1980-by Republican James
Craven-this indicated that the
people in that area (Mineral Spr
ings) did not want mixed drtak
sales. Therefore, Adams said, the
Auman bill should be repealed.
The Adams bill had been sent to
the House ABV Committee and
last Thursday a hearing was held
on it in Raleigh. Rep. Adams
repeated earlier statements, but
speaking against repeal of the
bill were Rep. Craven, who de
nied that liquor-by-the-drink was
an issue in teh campaign in
which he defeated Auman, and
H. Qifton Blue of Aberdeen, for
mer Speaker of the House in the
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Democrats Pick Van Camp;
Back Tax To Help Roads
BY WOODROW WILHOIT
The Moore County Democrats
at their convention held Saturday
in the courthouse at Carthage
elected Southern Pines attorney
Jim Van Camp as chairman.
Van Camp, who was
unanimously elected, succeeds
Phillip Jaefoon, also of Southern
Pines.
In his acceptance speech, the
new chairman said, “We have a
great challenge, we have lost the
courthouse and the sheriff’s
office. But with this challenge we
have the opportunity to come
back strong.
“This party has character, and
we can never let what happened
last fall happen again. We’ll
change that next year and the
next tw9 years.’’
He sounded a theme of
togetherness, saying that “with
good organization, i and working
together we will go forward and
whip the Republicans.
“We are a party of the people
an(i for the people; we stand for
the rights and dignity of the
people,’’ he declared.
Van Camp declared that new
ideas and new tactics would be
carried out in meeting the
diallenge of the Republicans.
“Some (d the old ways will have
James Van Camp
to be discarded, as the party
moves forward.”
When he came to the rostrum
to make his remarks, Van Camp
called outgoing Chairman
Jackson to the front and the two
put their arms around each other
in calling for “togetherness” in
the campaigns ahead.
Van Camp’s name was put into
nomination by Dr. David Bruton
of Southern Pines, who is also
chairman of the State Board of
Education. He pointed to the
qualities of leadership by the
Southern Pines attorney, and to
some of the committees he
serves on in the state and at the
county level and some he has
headed.
Bob Hunt of Pinehurst
seconded the nomination.
Since no other names for
chairman were made from the
floor Van Camp was
unanimously elected.
Other officers elected were Jan
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Resort Says Golf Courses
Are Appraised Too High
Pinehurst, Inc. top officials
think their prestigious golf
courses may be over-valued in
the latest appraisal of Moore
County property.
A financial analyst appeared
before the Moore County Board of
County Commissioners Monday
night to ask for what amounts to a
second opinion on the valuation of
the resort corporation’s golf
courses, lakes, and other recrea
tional facilities.
John Simpson, the financial
analyst, declined to reveal the
evaluation which the Pinehurst
officials regard as more
reasonable.
Tax Supervisor Dewitt Purvis
told The Pilot that the Pinehurst
golf courses are valued at about
$7500 an acre, with an average
value of $30,000 per hole for the
108 holes. That brings the total
value of the golf courses alone to
$3.24 million. The lake property is
valued at about $500 an acre, and
there are approximately 200
acres of lake property.
Pinehurst, Inc. property has a
total valuation, for tax purposes,
of $88 million.
Simpson told the board that the
Pinehurst officers have had some
questions about the evaluation
placed on certain parcels of land,
particularly the golf courses.
Commissioner Lee Williams
pointed out that the latest reap
praisal in Moore County was car
ried out in 1979 and was not im
plemented until 1980. Since that
time a new management team
has been employed to oversee the
Pinehurst property.
Simpson said the management
team, his employer, feels that
there may be some basic
peculiarities about the Pinehurst
courses, a factor which the
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BIKE RACERS — More than 80 bicycle racers are at the starting dred turned out to see the races which drew a record number of en-
liriefor the 50-kilometer Men’s Criterium held in downtown Southern tries from the U.S. and Canada.—(Photo by Glenn M. Sides).
Pines on the final day of the two-day Tour de Moore. Several hun-
Canadian Bikers Dominate Tour De Moore
BY LIZ HUSKEY
The Quebec Cycling Team
dominated the sixth annual Tour
de Moore bicycle race Saturday,
with three Canadians finishing in
the top five.
Daniel Therer won the tough
100-mile race in 4.05.36, fighting
with the field of 200 riders
against winds gusting to 35 mph,
slowing this year’s time by
13 minutes.
The race took cyclists on a tour
of Moore County, and throughout
the countryside Moore County
residents turned out to wave at
the riders and to offer cheers of
encouragement in their long
ride.
Sponsored by Carolina
Galvanizing Corporation, this
year’s race was the Southern
qualifying race for the National
Sports Festival to be held in
Syracuse, New York, in August.
The purse, donated by Carolina
Galvanizing, was upped to $3,400
for the men’s and the women’s
races, and all profits from entry
fees is donated to the Moore
County Children’s Center.
Riders coming from all over
Management Study
Is No Witch Hunt
Pinehurst people think should
reduce the corporation’s tax bill.
Purvis said the Pinehurst
courses are rated higher than any
others in Moore County, with the
possible exception of the Country
Club of North Carolina facilities.
The tax supervisor reported
that he has already call^ Bill
Connelly, an appraiser in the
state Ad Valorem Division, about
making a study of the situation.
He quoted Connelly as expressing
willingness to visit Moore County
for that purpose.
Commissioner Coolidge
Thompson made a motion
authorizing Purvis to ask Connel
ly to study the Pinehurst evalua
tion situation to determine if
there are discrepancies and to
report the results back to the
board. Williams made the se
cond.
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A four-man volunteer commit
tee of management experts went
to work Thursday on a com
prehensive study of Moore Coun
ty’s organizational set-up.
Headed by J.A. (Pete) Perkins,
the conunittee met Thursday
afternoon with County Ad
ministrator Larry Moubry in the
first step in the survey.
The management organiza
tional study, which will cover
analysis and review of ail aspects
of county administration, is ex
pected to culminate in a recom
mendation that the county enter
into the county manager system
of government. •
In a presentation to the Moore
County Board of Commissioners
on Tuesday, April 21, Perkins ex
plained that his group does not in
tend to evaluate the performance
or effectiveness of individual
county employes.
Perkins told the commissioners
that it is important for county
employes to understand this. He
offered a copy of a letter which he
proposed to send to each employe
explaining the purpose of the pro
gram.
“We need to assure the
employes that this is not a witch
hunt,” Perkins said.
Perkins is a retired partner in
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co.,
one of the largest certified public
accountant and consulting firms
in the country. 'The firm handles
management studies and related
analyses for state and local
governments, school districts,
and public junior colleges.
Now living in semi-retirement
at Country Club of North
Carolina, Perkins remains active
as a management consultant. His
work has included surveys for
New York City, the state of
California, and, in North
Carolina, for Transylvania Coun
ty, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Coun
ty, the Department of Public In
struction, and the Local Govern
ment Commission.
He is a member of the county’s
new finance and advisory com
mittee.
While a partner with Peat,
Marwick, Mitchell and Co.,
Perkins was based in
Washington, D.C. with the com
pany’s management consulting
division.
Perkins and the three other
members of his committee are
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Rciin Need
Is Seen
For Crops
Dry conditions in Moore County
are not delaying the planting of
an estimated 3600 acres in flue-
cured tobacco.
“But we need rain, rain, rain,”
emphasized Charles Hammond,
chairman of the Moore County
Agricultural Extension Service.
Hammond said that about 40 to
45 percent of the crop has been
planted in the past two weeks. He
expects the remaining 2000 or
more acres to be planted within
the next two weeks.
“Dry weather is really serious
now, and we do need rain,” Ham
mond said.
The farm agent said that few
farmers have been using irriga
tion while planting, and he does
not reconunend thiat they start
this untU absolutely necessary,
largely because “irrigation runs
the cost of production way up.” A
few farmers used irrigation to a
limited degree prior to setting out
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the eastern United States and
Canada praised this road race as
being one of the finest in the
country, because of its
organization and safety.
Therer, in an interview after
the race, said, “what they did
Saturday was the best. There
is no way they can do better. All
the riders were safe, no one
missed the road.”
He especially praised the EZ
Riders Motorcycle Club, who
marshaled the races on
motorcycles, blocking off
intersections, leading the pack
around comers and carrying
racks of spare wheels for the
dozens of blowouts during the
day.
Also assisting in marshaling
were members of the Kiwanis of
the Pines, Moore County and
Southern Pines Recreation
Departments, the Highway
Patrol, Southern Pines Police
and Rescue Squads in several
towns. Kiwanis members swept
sand off the roads, put down
arrows, served as judges, rang
bells at the ends of laps during
the Sunday criterium. Bruce
Cunningham was the event
director and coordinator.
The race was an extremely
safe one, with only one bloody
nose and no bad crashes the
entire day. Therer gave credit to
the close marshaling as keeping
the race safe for everyone.
Bemie Seagle of Norfolk said
the race was kept safe because
the racers “were doing some
very good bike handling.” Most
of the “near crashes” came
duringi periodic gusts of wind
coming across the road, causing
the riders who were clumped
close together in the pack to
bump against each other.
Teamwork was the main*
element in the Canadian’s
victory. The group stayed close
together, providing wind breaks
for each other, preventing other
riders from passing the pack,
and then, with 35 miles to go,
they went ahead, to catch a
“break away,” or small group
which had taken the lead.
With about 25 miles to go, three
riders broke out of the pack.
Barney Baxter, Doug Schapiro,
the Olympic Time Trial winner;
and Boyd Fasick, winner of
Sunday’s criterium, took the lead
and then Baxter broke away on
an uphill stretch in Jackson
Springs.
The sprint was to be Baxter’s
demise, and it wasn’t long before
the ten leaders behind him
caught up and absorbed him into
the pack.
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$5.9 Million Moore Budget
Is Presented For Schools
The Moore County Board of
Education did its first work on
budget requests for the 1981-82
school year Monday night and
with inflationary increases
projected for line budget items,
the expected cost of operation
next year is $5,969,994.
“These are actual needs,
there’s no fat in the budget,”
Superintendent R.E. Lee told the
boiu-d of the first draft which was
presented by Finance Officer Joe
Vaughn.
The board met for over three
hours, going over each item in
the proposed budget. No action
will be taken until the board
meets at least once more to give
board members time to review
the proposals. There will be a
work meeting to discuss the
budget again at 5 p.m., May 4 at
Finecrest High School.
The budget total reflects the
following breakdown in ex
penses : current expense
requirements, $4,774,855; capital
improvement costs, $716,139;
and the five year, long-range
plan to do improvements on and
additions to, Cameron, West
End, Robbins and Pinecrest
schools.
Increases over last, year’s
approved budget of $4,106,000,
wMch was lower than the board
had requested, reflect a five
percent one-step salary in
crement increase as recom
mended by the state Board of
Education, a 10 percent increase
to cover projected inflationary
increases in building materials,
and to cover projected increases
obtained from a survey of utility
companies, many of whom
projected increases as high as 30
percent.
There will also be a $31,000
increase over last year’s budget
to help gradually eliminate
student fees. If the item is ap
proved, student fees next year
will be only $62,000, compared to
$93,000 total this year. The board
is attempting to gradually phase
out student fees in three years,
by replacing the revenue
generated by student fees with
county appropriated funds.
In other items include
notification of appointment to the
county Board of Alcohol Control.
The school board is expected to
make a joint appointment with
the board of conunissioners, and
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Peebles Stores Assume
Collins Ownership Here
Peebles Department Stores, a
31-store chain with headquarters
in Lawrenceville^ Va., assumed
ownership of The Collins Com
pany this week.
W.S. Peebles III, president,
and M.W. Peebles Jr., vice-
president, met with other
management officials of the two
companies at the Holiday Inn
here Tuesday.
Peebles acquired the Charlotte-
based Collins corporation for an
undisclosed cash sum.
Expressing satisfaction over
the acquisition, W.S. Peebles III
this week said that his company
plans to continue to operate all of
the Collins stores in the same
locations with essentially the
same staffs.
“The similarities between the
two organizations in terms of
store sizes, merchandise and
locations are ideal,” he saM.
Irvin Hubbard will remain here
as manager of the store located in
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TKE
PILOT LIGHT
LIQUOR BILL-The scenario Republican who defeated Auman
Moore Road Work Limited As More Funds Needed
One new road and one widening
project are the only major
highway improvements which
Moore County can afford with the
$107,696 remaining in the bond
fund for secondary road work.
At the close of the annual coun
ty highway hearing Wednesday
night, April 22, the Moore County
Board of Commissioners voted to
adopt a resolution authorizing the
expenditure of these bond funds.
As recommended by local
highway officials, the ordinance
calls for the allocation of $10,000
to build the access road to the
ARO plant, off U.S. 1 north of
Southern Pines, and the alloca
tion of $35,000 for the widening
and strengthening of State Road
1239, near Seven Lakes.
Another $41,156.80 was set
aside for spot stabilization work,
school bus safety programs, im
proving intersections, spot align
ment, erosion control and smaU
projects which may come up dur
ing the fiscal year.
Twenty percent, or $21,539.20,
of the total allocation to the coun
ty for 1981-;82 was set aside for
small projects which may
develop during the year, such as
road additions, property owner
participation projects, volunteer
fire department and rescue
squad drives, project overruns,
and similar things. That left only
$86,156.80 for programming.
Martha C. Hollers of Candor,
who represents the Eighth Divi
sion on the North Carolina Board
of Transportation, told the
gathering that the roads body
must wait until the General
Assembly acts on the highway
budget before a decision can be
made on the expenditure of state
gas tax funds in the new year. An
increase in the state gasoline tax
has been proposed as one means
of beefing up the badly depleted
state highway improvement
fund, reduced because of infla
tion and energy saving measures
taken by the public.
The paving of the ARO plant
access road represents
something of a trade-off between
the county and the owners of the
property on which the new in
dustry was established, who
agreed to pay for the paving of
another leg of the road. The ac
cess road will run from Service
Road 2089 to a dead end and is on
ly one-fifth mile in length. »
The widening and strengthen
ing project will improve State
Road 1239 from N.C. 211 to SR
1229 and will im[»'ove alignment
at the intersection of SR 1239 and
SR 1229. The road will be widened
two feet on each side. It is
presently 18 feet wide.
Five Speak
Five citizens of the county,
most from the northwestern sec
tions, addressed the county com
missioners and the highway of
ficials during the hearing held in
the courtroom of the old cour
thouse in Carthage.
The speakers included Jerry
Homer, Kerns Morton, Wayman
Marsh, James Marley and Mack
Beck.
Among their concerns were
changes in the priority list
adopted annually by the commis
sioners and procedures followed
by highway crews in making
repairs.
Their remarks often reflected
frustration that dirt roads in front
of their homes have never been
paved, although they see other
roads, with what they regard as
less traffic, which have been pav
ed and improved.
“I’m wondering if I’m going to
have to open a liquor still and sell
liquor to the public to get more
traffic on my road,” commented
Marsh, who asked why SR 1640,
which was once 57th on the priori
ty list, is now 107th. He pointed
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may already be written for the
Rep. A1 Adams House Bill No. 1 to
repeal the mixed drink act which
was adopted in 1979 after a bill
was introduced by former Rep. T.
Clyde Auman.
There is a good chance the
Adams bill will be reported out of
the House ABC Committee and
wiU be approved on first and se
cond reading in the House before
being sent back to the committee
where it will be buried.
Even if it should pass the
House, it is almost certain to be
killed in the Senate at the request
of Senators Russell Walker and
Charles Vickery.
CRAVEN-At last Thursday’s
hearing on the bill in Raleigh
Rep. James Craven, the
last November, had to come out
and say he was in favor of Jiquor-
by-the-drink sales.
Rep. Craven, who said he was
a non-drinker, said he supported
the present mixed drink law and
would have introduced such a bill
as Auman introduced if Moore
County residents had asked him
to do so. “I have no objection,”
Craven said. “If these people
want to drink, they can drink.”
LESSON”Some veteran
legislative leaders think there is
a lesson for voters in the liquor-
by-the-drink bill which Auman in
troduced and the repeal bill pro
posed by Rep. Adams.
At last week’s hearing Rep.
Bertha Holt, D-Alamance, said
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