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15-D; Editorials, 1-B; Entertainment,
5-8-C; Obituaries, 14-A; Pinehurst
News, 1-4-C; Sandhills Scene, 2-9-A;
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VOL. 61, NO. 30
68 PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA 28387
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1981
68 PAGES
PRICE 15 CENTS
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PRESENTED AWARD — T. Clyde Auman (left) of West End is shown
being presented the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award from Associate
Dean Robert Anderson (right) at the St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Commencement on Sunday. Mrs. Ann McLean (center) accepted the
award made posthumously to her husband, Dr. David A. McLean.
Auman Given St. Andrews
Award With McLean
T. Clyde Auman, former
member of the North Carolina
House of Representatives from
West End, was presented with
the prestigious Algernon Sydney
Sullivan Award at the May 16
commencement of St. Andrews
Presbyterian College in
Laurinburg.
The Sullivan Award is
conferred in recognition of
spiritual and humanitarian
quaUties practically applied to
daily Uving.
Another Moore County native.
Dr. David A. McLean, was
posthumously honored with the
same award. His widow, Ann
McLean, accepted the award.
Auman is a peach farmer and
an active member of the West
End Presbyterian Church.
St. Andrews President Alvin P.
Perkinson, Jr. met Auman five
years ago, and has high praise
for the former State
Representative.
“Clyde Auman is an unusually
fine person, a strong churchman
and a first-rate human being. If
anyone deserves this kind of
recognition, he does,’’ said
Whitaker Quits SCS
For Regional Office
Charles L. Whitaker, conserva
tionist with the Moore County Soil
Conservation District since 1978,
has resigned in order to accept
the position of resource conserva
tion and development coor
dinator for Region H Council of
Governments.
Whitaker will assume his new
duties on June 1.
In his new position the career
conservationist will be coor
dinating RC&D activities in the
counties of Richmond, Mon
tgomery, Anson and Moore.
Region H was designated an
RC&D area in February by the
North Carolina Soil Conservation
Service, an arm of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Major objective of the program
is prudent use, management and
protection of natural resources
with consideration given to social
and economic benefits to the peo
ple. The seven active RC&D
areas in North Carolina are
among 194 across the nation
which share in some $32 million
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Summer Music Program
Is Coming To Sandhills
There will be a new sound
among the pines and greens of
Pinehurst this sununer.
For one month beginning June
26,80 musicians handpicked from
the conservatories and univer
sities of this country will attend
master classes, rehearse and
perform in preparation for a four
week tour of Germany and Italy
as part of the 15th Internationa
Music Program of the North
Carolina School of the Arts.
This means that everyone
within driving distance of the
Sandhills has access to a month
long music festival with a variety
of musical events akin to that of
the Spoleto Festival in
Charleston, which proceeds it a
few weeks.
In keeping with the musical
festival spirit there will be music
everyydiere. Full orchestral con
certs in the Cardinal Ballroom of
the Pinehurst Hotel, Chamber
Music in the pillared lobby of the
original Pinehurst Country Club,
outdoor jazz concerts by the
gazebo at the hotel swimming
pool, plus a free concert in the
(Continued on Page 11-A)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
LIQUOR BBUD-The folks in
Pinehurst got the word from
Raleigh last Friday that Rep. A1
Adams has withdrawn HBl from
the ABC committee where it had
languished and worried resort
operators in Mineral Springs
Township since the first day of
the 1981 legislative session.
Adams’ bill would have
repealed liquor-by-the-drink
legislation for the township,
which includes Pinehurst, the
Couptry Club of North Carolina,
Foxfire and Seven Lakes.
Adams’ explanation was that
since the people in the township
voted against Rep. Clyde
Auman, who had introduced the
bill allowing the mixed drink
vote, they really didn’t want
liquor-by-the-drink sales.
In the meantime, however, the
now-incorporated village of
Pinehurst called a new
referendum on mixed drink sales
and the proposal passed
overwhelmingly.
People knowledgeable in the
ways of the legislature knew, of
course, from the beginning Biat
HBl was not going to be
approved by the legislators.
GUN BILL-Senator Charles
Vickery last week introduced a
bill in the State Senate that would
prohibit any person convicted of
a crime in North Carolina or any
other state from obtaining a
permit to purchase a pistol.
Vickery’s bill also would
outlaw the possession, sale or
manufacture of cheap handguns
known as “Saturday night
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Some Budgets Approved
But Schools ‘Awe’ Officials
Perkinson.
An awards committee
spokesman described Auman as
a person of “nobility and
unselfish service to his fellow
man.
“Auman’s qualities have
expressed themselves in every
facet of his life-family man,
peach farmer, church leader,
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Memorial Day
Some offices will close and
some will not in observance of
Memorial Day on Monday, May
25.
State and federal offices will be
closed, as will the Post Office.
The banks will also observe the
hoUday.
Schools will be open and so
will county and municipal
offices.
In Southern pines the Veterans
of Foreign Wars Post 7318 will
hold Memorial Day services at 3
p.m. on Sunday at Mt. Hope
Cemetery. The public is invited
to attend.
Dr. Bruton
To Speak
At Finals
The chairman of the North
Carolina State Board of
Education will be the main
speaker at the 31st
commencement at Sandhills
Community College May 29.
Dr. David Bruton, a Southern
Pines pediatrician who has been
head of the state education
board since 1977, will bring the
conunencement message to the
250 graduates at 7:30 p.m. in the
courtyard of the college.
J. Edwin (Tausey, chairman of
the Sandhills Board of Trustees,
and Dr. Raymond A. Stone,
president, will preside at the
ceremonies. Several awards will
be given out during the evening.
Parents and the general public
are invited to attend.
The evening service will follow
an afternoon nurses’ dedication
seiYice at the Village Chapel in
Pinehurst. The 30 candidates for
graduation will hear an address
by Dr. Charles A.S. Phillips, a
Moore County surgeon who is
also chairman of the Moore
(Continued on Page 16-A)
BY FLORENCE GILKESON
In a surprising show of
unanimity the Moore C!ounty
Board of Commissioners agreed
Monday night to approve a series
of budget proposals, including
the coroner, the Cameron school
project, social services, and the
fire service districts.
The board also voted
unanimously to approve a
wastewater treatment budget
which will mean a 92-cent rate
for Southern Pines, Pinehurst
and Aberdeen. The rate, which is
charged per 1000 gallons,
represents an increase of more
than 10 cents.
Recreation and youth services
budget requests were presented,
but no action was taken.
Thursday, May 28, was set as
the date for the presentation of
the budget message by Ck)unty
Administrator Larry Moubry.
The meeting will be held at 4
p.m. in the courtroom of the old
courthouse in Carthage and will
be devoted only to the budget
message, which will be a
summary of county
departmental needs and other
budget-related matters.
Amid speculation that the
board might abolish the
constitutional office of coroner
simply by eliminating the
coroner’s budget, the board went
ahead and approved a $4,230
budget request from Coroner
A.B. Parker. This budget, one of
the smallest in the county, has
been separated this year from
the larger budget covering the
expenses of the medical
examiner system, which
includes the $50 fee paid per case
to medical examiners, set by
state law,and autopsy expenses.
Dr. (diaries PWlIips, board
chairman, expressed himself in
favor of abolishing the office
altogether but commended
Parker for his work.
“The reason we keep the
coroner is because of the fine
work of A.B. Parker. He’s worth
every penny and is to be
commended for his work and this
budget,’’ Phillips said as the
board approved the budget.
The coroner pointed out that
Moore Group Backs
Good Roads Program
Proponents of Gov. James u.
Hunt’s highway improvement
program are becoming more
vocal as they boost legislation
which includes, among other
things, a three-cent gas tax in
crease.
A Moore County delegation
went to Raleigh Thursday for a
rally of the North Carolinians for
Good Roads.
Headed by Bob Hunt of
Pinehurst, the Moore countians
learned that without additional
funds from some source, this
county will face long delays in
completion of popular highway
projects.
At the top of this list is the long-
awaited four-taning of U.S. 1
from Vass to Sanford, a 12-4nile
stretch to cost an estimated $20
million.
Moore Delegation
Among the Moore countians at
tending the rally in the Rale^th
Civic Center, in addition to Bob
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Memorial Day Death Toll
Of 16 Predicted For NC
The N.C. State Motor (Hub,
estimating 16 people could lose
their lives in traffic accidents on
North Carolina streets and high
ways over the long Memorial
Day weekend, urged motorists to
drive with care during the
holiday period.
The state will count its toll over
a 78-hour period from 6 p.m.
Friday, May 22, untU midnight
Monday, May 25.
Last year 17 fatalities and 817
injuries were recorded for a
similar period of time while 18
died in 1979.
Crime Control and Public
Safety Secretary Burley Mitchell
has announced that North
Carolina will again join 47 other
states this Memorial Day
weekend in implementing
Operation CARE (Combined
Accident Reduction Effort).
Mitchell said, “Memorial Day
unofficially marks the beginning
of sunimer and brings with it
heavy holiday traffic. The recent
Easter weekend, in which the
number of traffic deaths were
less than half the number killed
during the same weekend in 1980,
proves that with the cooperation
of the motoring public and the
hard work of the Highway Patrol
(Continued on Page 16-A)
Japanese Educators Pay
Visit To Region Today
A group of six Japanese pre-
fectural education leaders will
visit the Sandhills today
(Wednesday).
In October of 1980 a United
States education delegation that
included State Superintendent A.
Craig Phillips and State Board of
Education Chairman H. David
Bruton visited Japan.
This return visit is sponsored
by the Japan-United States
Friendship Conunission, the Na
tional Association of State Boards
of Education, the Council of Chief
State School Officers, and the Na
tional Congress of Parents and
Teachers (PTA).
Their hosts and hostesses.
Chairman H, David Bruton,
Southeastern Regional Educat
ion Center Director Mrs. Gladys
Britt, Moore County School
Superintendent R.E. Lee and
Moore County School Arts Educa
tion Director Mrs. Billiegene
Gamer have planned an i^or-
mative and representative tour of
the Sandhills for the distinguish-
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Water Mystery In Village
The water situation at Whisper
ing Pines has cleared up, but
Carolina Water Service, which
owns the village water system,
apparently is no closer to solving
the mystery of how chlorine
showed up in the golf course
sprinklers.
CWS has sent letters to the ap
proximately 650 customers
rescinding an earlier order call
ing for the boiling of drinking
water.
(^emical and bacteriological
tests of the water system have
revealed no evidence of con
tamination, according to one
spokesman for Clarolina Water
Service. With the tests showing a
consistent lack of contamination,
the Moore County Health Depart
ment has advised CWS to
withdraw the “boil water” order.
Dave Demaree, CWS vice-
president, has said that his com
pany will continue to test the
water in an effort to solve the
mystery.
The “boil water” order came
about the same time that the
village was faced with a drou^t
crisis in which an odd-even
sprinkling schedule was authoriz
ed. This was in early May.
However, the chlorine mystery
and the drought crisis are not
regarded as related.
CWS issued the “boil water”
order on May 1 because of
evidence the sprinkler system
had leaked into the drbtking
water system.
For two weeks the company
tested and dug holes in golf
courses, only to find no intercon
nectors between the two systems.
At no point throughout the testing
period did any of the tests in
dicate contamination.
In late April CWS noticed what
(Continued on Page 16-A)
the budget does not incluae
payments for trips to testify in
court, covering his time and
mileage, nor does it include the
camera which he owns and uses
to take photographs at death
scenes. He does charge the
county for the film and other
expenses for the photography
work. Parker explained that the
old camera own^ by the county
is no longer usable, and he
bought one of his own to use in his
work. The pictures are needed by
hospital pathologists in certain
death cases.
The $4,230 budget includes
$3,260 in death call fees and
operating expenses. The coroner
is paid a set fee of $35 per death
call.
Parker reported that he has
answered 93 death calls,
including 50 natural deaths, 23
accidents, 13 homicides, and
seven suicides.
(Continued on Page 13-A)
County Refuses To Pay Bill;
Carthage Board To Retaliate
BY WOODROW WILHOIT
The Carthage Town Board at
their regular meeting Monday
night unanimously voted that
beginning July 1 they would cut
off the street lights around the
Moore County Courthouse, stop
garbage pickup at the county
buildings, and unless the
remainder of the costs for the
current year is paid fw these
services then court action would
be instituted to collect it.
It was also voted that since the
new Court Facilities Building is
not owned by the county but the
private Pioneer Corporation tliat
an appraisal be made of the
building and taxed in accordance
Farmers Market
The Moore County Farmers
Maricet will open on June 2 at the
same location as in previous
years in Southern Pines.
The hours of operation will be
from 9-5 on Tuesday and
Wednesday, 9-6 on Thursday and
Friday, and 8-2 on Saturday.
The venders will have an
opportunity to rent seasonal
spaces this year. If venders are
interested in renting seasonal
spaces, they should be at the
Farmers Market meeting at the
local on Friday, May 29, at 10
a.m.
E.T. Baker has been employed
as manager of the market. The
rules and regulations have been
revised by the Farmers Market
Advisory Ck)nunittee which was
appointed by the Moore County
of County Commissioners. For a
copy of the Rules and
Regulations, persons may
contact the Moore County
Extension Office at 947-5371.
with state statute.
The move by the Carthage
Board resulted from a letter
received last week from the
County Administrator to Town
Oerk, Mrs. Waitsel Deese, in
which he stated that the county
would not pay for these services
any longer and that the
remainder owned for this fiscal
year 1989-81 would not be paid.
The county has been paying
$6,987 annually for various
services, Mrs. Deese stated.
Mrs. Deese said that before
Mrs. Estelle Wicker retired as
County Finance Officer that she
sent a check to the town for
$3,500, and a week ago she, Mrs.
Deese, sent a statement for the
remainder for the period Jan. 1
through June 30 of this year.
Then last Thursday morning,
Mrs. Deese stated that she
received the letter from County
Administrator Larry Moubry
saying that the county would not
pay for these services.
The text of Moubry’s letter to
Mrs. Deese, dated May 13, reads
as follows:
“I am in receipt of your
invoice of May 8, 1981
concerning payment for services
from January 1, 1981 through
June 30, 1981. The Board of
County Commissioners in the
general cutbacks last month
decided not to pay the towns that
we are in contract with at this
time for services which have
(Continued on Page 11-A)
Step Taken On Manager ;
Abortion Issue Delayed
On a 3-2 vote Monday night the
Moore County Board of Commis
sioners took the first step toward
establishing the county manager
form of government.
The action may have the effect
of abolishing the position of coun
ty administrator, presently held
by Larry Moubry.
Conunissioner Tony Parker
brought up the subject near the
end of a five-hour meeting and
asked if other conunissioners
were interested in pursuing the
county manager form of govern
ment.
At 12 midnight Parker also ask
ed for passage of a resolution sup
porting the abortion parental
notification bill which has been
introduced into the legislature.
Action was not taken because this
matter had not been included on
the agenda, and it was deferred
until the June 1 board meeting.
On the county manager matter
Parker made a motion to instruct
the county attorney to draw up
the necessary papers and to pro
ceed with a statewide advertising
schedule seeking qualified ap
plicants. Conunissioner Ckwlidge
Thompson seconded the motion.
When it came time to vote,
Conunissioners Lee Williams and
Arthur Purvis cast no votes, and
the chairman. Dr. Charles
Phillips, broke the tie with a yes
vote.
The board’s action precedes
the completion of a study being
conducted of county government
by a team of volunteer manage-
(Continued on Page 10-A)
Pinecrest Senior Is Killed
When Thrown From Auto Here
A 17-year old Pinecrest High
School senior died late Thursday
morning when she was thrown
from the vehicle she was driving
on Morganton Road near the
school.
Kelly Dawn Anderson jvas
taken by the Southern Pines
Rescue Squad to Moore
Memorial Hospital, where she
was pronounced dead on arrival.
She resided at 110 Montford St.,
Aberdeen.
Trooper J.T. (Covington Jr. of
the State Highway Patrol
reported that Miss Anderson ran
off the road in a sharp curve and
struck an embankment, traveling
625 feet before overturning
another 175 feet. Her body was
thrown some 48 feet from the
vehicle.
Death was attributed to a
broken neck and massive head in
juries.
The patrolman said that the
driver was headed west on
Morganton Road in the direction
of U.S. 15-501 and was traveling
at a high rate of speed. He ex
pressed the opinion that she pro
bably would have survived if her
seat belt had been fastened.
Scene of the 11:30 accident was
0.2 mile east of the Pinecrest
High School Road.
The Volvo stationwagon was
described as a total loss.
(Continued on Page 16-A)
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DEATH VEHICLE — Southern Pines Patrolman Ronnie Atkins and
Trooper Ted Derr of the State Highway Patrol investigate the vehicle
which crashed Thursday on Morganton Road, causing the death of 17-
year-old Kelly Dawn Anderson of Aberdeen.—(Photo by Glenn M.
Sides)