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FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, January 16, 1931.
FIVE CENTS
CHEAP SCHOOLS A
WASTE OF MONEY,
SAYS LEE THOMAS
PuDils Repeating Grades Thru
FaUure Cost $119,000 a
Year in County
long term schools best
H. Lee Thomas,
County Superintendent of Schools
The Moore County Board of Edu
cation expended $413,000.00, outside
the charter districts of Aberdeen,
Carthage, Southern Pines and Vass-
Lakeview, during the last five years,
reteaching: children who had failed to
gain promotion. In 1925-26, the en-
roUment in the rural schools of the
county vwis 4,738, with 2,894 or 62
per cent, coming over as repeaters
from the previous year. The total
rural school cost for that year, in
cluding all expenditures, except
money derived from long term loans,
was $147,000.00. Of this sum $91,-
000.00, or 62 per cent, was spent in
ir;structing the 2,894 children fail
ing of promotion, in exactly the same
subject matter which they had at
tempted to take the year before.
In the scholastic year 1926-27, the
enrollment in the, rural schools was
4,633, including all grades- and races.
Of this number 2,488, or 52 per cent,
were repeaters brought over from the
Car Confiscated by Aberdeen Police
Stolen in Night From Station House
Liquor-Laden Vehicle Captured
After Chase, Mysteriously
Disappears
When the Aberdeen police confis
cate an automobile full of liquor af
ter a merry chase through the village
streets, they like to have it stay con
fiscated until they determine what to
do with it. But the best plans of mice
and men sometimes go askew.
Day before yesterday a car sus
pected of containing beaucoup liquor
tore through the town and the police
gave cliase. They cornered it when ij
attempted to leave the municipality
via Saunders’ tobacco warehouse
little knowing that the street leading
to said warehouse comes to a blind
end. When the driver had gone down
as far as he could, he deserted his
craft and took to his heels. And his
heels were fleeter than those of the
officer. He got away.
The police seized the car. It was
well stocked with material outlawed
in this state for many long years and
in tli#»se United States since one An
drew Volstead served as chairman of
the Judiciary Committee of the House
of Representatives some dozen years
ago. He took the car over to head
quarters and put it safely away in
front of the fire truck. That is, he!
thought he put it safely away. 1
But it didn’t stay put. Sometime
Tuesday night someone entered the
year before. The total expenditure for ' firehouse, pushed the apparatus out
schools that year w^as $175,000.00, in the street, stepped on the starter
$94,000.00 of which was made nec- of the confiscated car and drove it
Paving For U. S. No. 1
Highway Board To Improve
Stretch Between Sandhills
and Sanford, is Rumor
Rumor has 4t that work is to be
gin shortly on U. S. Hig'hway No.
1 between Cameron and Sanford,
that five miles of the unpaved por
tion of the road'is to be completed
this summer. The State Highway
Commission has made a call for
its share of Federal aid and is
setting about arranging contracts
that will absorb the entire $4,000,-
000 available in order to keep
construction work at the peak dur
ing the year, and provide employ
ment where it is sorely needed.
This stretch is one of the fev/
unpaved between Maine and Flor
ida, the only piece of unimproved
i^ad on U. S. 1 north of the Sand
hills.
BARNSDALL BUYS
WINTER HOME IN
KNOLLWOODIIGTS.
Leader in Oil Industry Acquire.s
N ewjcomb-Joihnsoil-T|ufts
House on Grove Drive
I
Honored
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION
TAX APPRAISERS
ASK REAL ESTATE
TAX REDUCTIONS
The Knollwood section has been
the scene of remarkable activity in
the past two or three weeks, the re
sult being a pronounced stimulus of
good feeling as to the prospection in
that quarter, and a definite guaran
tee that the future of the Midland
Road from Southern Pines is all that
anyone cares to predict.
The latest transaction, coming close
on the heels of the sale of the Don
ald Ross house, is that in which
Shields Cameron has sold to T. N.
Bamsdall, of Bradford, Pennsylvania,
that fine Knollwood home built by the
Newcomb-Tufts-Johnson group, on
the east side of Grove Drive, facing
the No. 1 Fairway of the Pine Needles
golf course. This building was erect
ed as an fnvestment by the builders,
and promptly rented as soon as com
pleted. This year it was rented again
through the Biddle agency at Pine-
I hurst, but before the tenant* could take
posses.sion Mr. Barnsdall dropped into
Southern Pines and there through Mr.
I Cameron secured the Hutt house on
Ridge street. This did not appear to
SANDHHIS ONE
.'RESORT IN LESS
^ ^'HAN 25 YEARS
Richard Tufts Sees Pmehurst
and Southern Pineis Grow
Together
HON. UNION L. SPENCE
Local Legislator Named Chair
man of Most Important Com
mittee of the House
^sary by the reteaching of the 2,-
458. or 52 per cent, who had failed
in their studies the previous year.
The number of unpromoted children
in 1927-28 was reduced to 2,112, or 46
percent, of the total enrollment. That
year it was necessary to expend $81,- |
000.00 of the $177,000.00 total school;
fund to meet the cost incurred by
teaching the repeaters. There were
4.821 children enrolled that year, with ■
a promotion total of 2,885. The rec-'
away. Stole tlije darn thing right
away from the police.
Beat that.
Board PaBses Resolution Callins-- ’f‘T ^’ ticularly important at this time with
^ ” ..... X 4 needs and he asked Mr. Cameron tor
for Drastic Action bv County „.• ^ i.
' somethmg more roomy, and when
Legislators
FAVOR A LUXURY TAX
Shields showed him the Knollwood
cottage he did not argue but at once
Cameron Pleads For
The widespread grievance against
closed the deal, and with the Pii''-' m. Johnsor., of Aberdeen, was
immediate possession. Thii^ Lieutenant Governor
hig-h taxes on real estate in North arrangement with the Fountain to the chairmanship of the
Fair Tax AODraisal ■ Carolina found - definite shape in P''®vious renter who was so we!' i Committee on Claims and to mem-
■ Moore county or Monday of this vseek !>'«“"•'th the demand for homes ■ following committee>-
County Supervisor Has Worked i "hen the following resolutions were
Out Basis of Equality For passed by members of the Board ot
Revaluation ' ^ Appraisers of the county at a
meeting held in Carthage:
“We, the Board of Tax Appraisers
T. N. Barnsdall is a name closelv
ords for^ the year 1928-29 show an | “We are planning to get personal
126 AT C. OP C. BANQUET
‘*Twenty-five years ago there were
two struggling resorts wholly and
completely separated the one from the
other. Less than 25 years from now
there will be only one great resort;
we shall be wholly and completely
united, the one with the other,” Rich
ard Tufts in speaking of Southern
Pines and Pinehurst told members
and guests of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce at their an
nual banquet last night. One hundred
and twenty-six persons gathered a-
round the festive board at the Sou
thern Pines Country Club to hear the
annual reports of the commerce body,
to elect directors for this year and
to listen to an array of talent seldom
gathered together on one occasion m
the Sandhills.
Dr. L. B. McBrayer, retiring pres
ident of the Chamber of Commerce
presided. Shields Cameron, secretary,
read the treasurer's report showing
a balance of more than $500 after the
year’s work. Dr. McBrayer reviewed
the accomplishments of the year in
his annual report. Dr. George Herr
conducted an open forum for discus
sion of problems confronting the com
munity, during which Dr. James W.
Dickie^ S. B. Richardson and Frank
Buchan spoke briefly; George W.
Case spoke for the city administra
tion, thanking the chamber for it.s.
whole-hearted cooperation with the
town authorities, after which the
meeting was turned over to the toast
master, James Boyd.
James Boyd Toastmaster
„ , Mr. Boyd introduced Mrs. Charles
dicial Districts, Fedeia e a Whitaker, who expressed the ap-
Union L. Spence of Carthage, Moore
county’s representative in the Gener
al Assembly at Raleigh, was assigned
the coveted post of chairman of the
Finance Committee of the House, the
most important committee of that
body, by Speaker Willis Smith on
Tuesday. Mr. Spence was also made
a member of the second most impor
tant committee, that of Appropria
tions, and is a member of the Com
mittee on Congressional Districts, par-
the redistiicting of the state neces
sary to provide an additional mem
ber of Congress.
Moore county’s new Senator, Mur-
in Knollwood that he allowed his i Senate: Appiopriations, Judi-
claim to be cancelled and took a house 2, Banks and Banking, Mil-
in Pinehurst. Mr. Barnsdall was giv- ./^ffaiis, Trustees of State Col-
en immediate possession. ' , welfare, Courts and Ju-
r-ov associated with the development of t javc rnQnnA A«5vlum and Ca?- I - ^ ,
Moore County m session at Cai- a . • t - I ‘ I • Laws, insane Asyium ana women of Southern
P«- cent repeating. The county spent; on the list this year, and we hope that | A " i ' Roh^e.rr Pate,”'former member cln!mel‘tnd”'f^d1ometM^^^^^^^
accomplishments of the womem them
selves, through the Civic Club, in
enrollment of 4,846, with 1,926 or 41 i property and intangibles of all kinds
' TUflB-P IX. I-.. LHIS Llie XiiLIl Uii.V
ee quarters of a centuiy ago M/.; Robert N. Page, former member
$178,000.00 for schools that year and ! the people in general, out of a , BarnsdalFs grandfather commenced i Congress, president of the Page
S73,000.00 reteaching the failures. In of fairness, wiil cooperate with the that we respectfully operation up on Oil creek just out- j T,ust Company, was granted the
petition our Representatives in tV i Titusville, in Pennsyh;ania, | p,ivilege of the floor in the Legbla- eivic bet-
State Legislature to use every effort, ^ or ^ perhaps from the Drake|t„,e at the opening session of that | « projects in the town. Ralph
to redress the common grievance of ‘ «h>ch was the beginning of the | b„ay. ' ^ p ^ J Aberdeen talked a bit
high taxes on real estate in North i industry. His ventures were quite ;
Carolina and especially in Moore
appraisers in giving full information
on all these points,” said A. B. Cam-
1929-30 the county paid out $177,-
000.00 on the rural schools. The en-
rollm'^r.t that year was 4,725 chil- j eron, recently elected tax supervis-
dren. Of this number 1,889 or 42 per | or for Moore county, in speaking of
cent were receiving instruction in the | the work of revaluation which got
same subjects as the year before. This
entailed an outlay of $74,000.00 for
reteaching.
36 Per Cent Repeaters
under way on Tuesday. ,
Mr. Cameron, since his election, has ^ County, and to_ this _end^ b^ it furthe.
been busy formulating plans for the
woik with a view to equalizing values,
Duiing the scholastic year 1929-30 j getting a corresponding valuation on
the charter schools of the county, in- j corres*ponding property in the dif-
“Resolved, that we favor a sales
tax on luxuries, to lelieve the situa
tion.
olutions be
successful from the first. When the
Bradford field was opened the Barns-
dalls were pioneers up in that section.
The Kendall Refining Company, fa-
I miliar to the old timers, earned a
Resolved, that a copy ot these res-! reputation for good patroleum prod-
furnished the Moore I and Kendall Refining is a good
fenresentative. I name today.
of the elder
Relief Body Provides
$5,000 in Jobs Here
Unemployment Committee
Southern Pines Arranges
Work for Needy
in
about banking problems and offered
a constructive suggestion for ad
vancing the cause of credits in the
Sandhills, and Struthers Burt sound
ed a note of optimism in his remarks.
Dr. Arthur Fleming, Louisburg, en
tertained the crowd with amusing
stories. The Club Skyline orchestn
^^ty nine, or 35 per cent, were re-1 stances it has been too high. Build
peatino* their giades. These schools 1 ings
expended that year, not
nioney derived from long term loans,
000.00, of which $57,000.00 went
ii^to the inj^ti’uction of the 1,079 chil-
every effort to secure the reduction
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including cost minus depreciation, and ten dol- j taxpayers.”
Relief for the unemployed of South-
he was said ! ern Pines is already in sight as a le-
•11 1 1 J J. ' in cost of operation of the State and
will be valued at the replacement > ^ ^ .
to have been the largest individual
. ^ County government, so as to assist “'I operator on the globe. The Barns-
lars per acre has been set as the min-
imum price for land with more added ^ ^ Reynolds,
■ding to the location, proximity , ^ S >
, - m^Liucuon 01 me acco—-s .... ^^ Brady, K. L.
«ren retained in their grades. Consid-. to churches and schools, and state of i ^ j Finison W. A. Clark, W.
ei-mg :he rural and charter schools, fertility. A basis for all kinds )f ■ ^ \y Blue, P. Bullock,
a unit, the total enrollment in aH | property has been worked out and , • 'Wiicox D A. Patterson, W.
sch uis of Moore county in 1929- Mr. Cameron hopes that a more sat-j * • ^ Brown J'. B. O’Quinn, . *:
^0 was 7,803, of which number 2,82.5 isfactory valuation than the existing
' g' c HuLucker. F. w’. VanCamp, W. | Major Operationb Performed on
one may be made. He feels that he , • . ^ McDonald, A. A. Me- County Physician, Nurse
has a group of pod men m each town- ^ Harrington. W. E.
Mtrs HP nditure of $119,000.00 for ship as appraisers who wilt be g geith, J. W. Pickier, B.
heir m^tiuetion for that year alone, i to both the individual and to t e, ^ Cameron.
it is apparent that'much money | county.
^as been expended on the schools of ' List Takers
The document is signed by the fol-.
Is
Frank Brady, E. L
dall interests spread all over the
(Please turn to page 4)
Moore County Farmer
Dies of Knife Wovnds
(Please turn to page 5)
Health Dept. Salaries
Submitted to Knift-
ov /A) j (r cent, were repeating their
prades. Th-)se repeating required an
extra
their
suit of the efforts of the recently or
ganized Committee on Unemploy
ment and Relief in that town.
nouncement was made yesterday o* |
! securing of over $5,000 in work for j mtlg of White Hill Killed
I local labor and the development of j Nicholson, Says
' several projects to employ a large
amount of common labor.
The employment committee of the
and Board Clerk
Coroner’s Jury
organization, of which S. B. Rich
ardson is chairman, held a meeting
Ira Little, 40, substantial farmer
of the. White Hill section, died Sun-
’ day in a Sanford hospital from knife
Tuesday afternoon at which time tha j alleged to have been inflict-
securing of the $5,000 job for a large j Nicholson, 28, on January
number of men out of work was an-1
. . U ^ MRS. MARK ELECTED HEAD
^ne county in reteaching children who j The correct^al list of list takers ana HOSPITAL ‘AUXILIARY
reason have failed to be | appraisers is as follows, the first i
, . , J . hV Nicholson. It is said that when
. , , , through the pushing forward of pro-
noriored by regular promotion. Wheth-1 named in each group being the hst: Pinehurst Chapter of the Moore and reorganized the Moore County i jects slated for later in the year. ^ because of
W. H. Currie, chairman of the
board of county commissioners, H.
Lee Thomas, county superintendent
of schools, and J. E. Mirse, mayor of
Carthage, met on Monday afternoon
nounced. Some fifteen prominent bus-
Mr. Little had gone to the honif,*
it ^ Xf X1 • *1C4.C1
iness men and contractors of Sou- ^
them Pines attended ‘^'s "leet’ns U,esumably having been called there
and discussed plans for labor reiiw».J
*r this '>,vas a needless waste of funds,; taker:
County Hospital Auxiliary held its
agree. Every
matter
citizen | Carthage township, W. A. Stuart, monthly meeting Wednesday,
January 14th, at the Community
will not ^
should o-ive the matter sufficient] W. E. Kelly, John A. Fry.
to foj-m an opinion, and be able | Bensalem township, B. Deaton, E.' church, elected officers for the com-
^ render assistance in solving the ; L. Kelley, J. D. Mclnnis. _ _ ^ ing year and adopted the Constitu-
Expei-ifnce has shown that it has
heen possible in any public
*choo] System to reach one hundred
P^r cent promotion, and at the same
maintain a high standard of
achievement. The $413,000.00 cost of
^eteaching the failures over a five*
^^r period in Moore county was
^fttirely too much, but seems to have
the only thing to do under the
^ ^^nistances. The average percent-
of the total enrollment repeating
1a ^ period was slightly
«en\ Approximately ten per
this estimate may be account-
as unavoidable. In the first
Sheffields township, W. J. Dunlap, by-laws. The followjng offi-
E. R. Brown, Curtis Hunsucker. ^gj.g elected: Chairman, Mrs. M.
Ritters township, N. I. Finnison, ^ Marr; First Vice-Chairman, Mrs.
Lendon Reynolds, Frank Brady. i E. B. Chapin, Rev. T. A. Cheatham
Deep River township, George Wil-1 MacLeod. Secretary,
cov, J. E. Shields, W. A. Tyson. j ^^'3 ^ g Keith; Treasurer, Mrs.
Greenwood, P. Bullock, E. B. Har-1 Dana,
rington, D. McDonald.
Board of Health by reelecting Dr. I More than fifty leading citizens trouble they had had the year
J. F. Davis of Highfalls and electing | have accepted a membership on van- '
Dr. J. S. Millikin of Southern Pines 1 ous sub-committees of the Committee
to membership.
A quorum being (present, the board
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McNeills township, F. W. Van
Camp, Will McC. Blue, N. L. Gibbon.
Sandhills township: A. A. McKeith-
en, Jim O’Quinn, J. W. Pickier.
Mineral Springs township, L. A.
Pender, W. A. Clark, T>. A. Patterion.
BANKS CLOSED MONDAY
Banks in the Sandhills will be clos
ed on Monday, the anniversary ei iU
birth of Robert E. .
With the arrival back in Pinehurst
of Harry V. Maxwell of Spring Lake,
N. J., yesterday, the Sandhills polo
club is arranging for an important
game Saturday in which two crack
army players from Fort Bragg, Capt.
P. C. Fleming and Capt. D. L. Crane,
will take part. Vemer Z. Reed, of
Pinehurst, W. Vivian Slocock of Dar
ien, Conn., Aldo R. Balsam of New
Tork al«o will participate.
proceeded to seize the shears used
last week by the commissioners and
to prune the salaries of those* coming
under their jurisdiction. The salary
of the health officer. Dr. Symington,
was cut ^ronf $3,600 to 3,300 and his
traveling expense allowance from
$600 to $300 per annum. He was re
elected, his term having expired this
month. The traveling expense of the
c’bunty health nurse. Miss Ollie Sea-
groves, was reduced from $600 10
$300 per year, and her salary was al
lowed to remain at $1,500 on condi
tion that she do all urgent cases of
welfare work. The salary of Miss
Ariel Shaw, clerk in the office of
the Board of Health, was cut from
$780 to $6CK) per year.
Mr. Little and Nicholson went oud-
side and the conversation ther# ^ras
on Unemployment and Relief, of
which M G. Nichols is chairman. > ^
* J , . , , ^ I not heard by witnesses in the hoXise,
Funds at-e already being sent to the : ^ j , , j.
i it is said. It is thought that the ^i»-
comtnittee, as well as offers of em
ployment. The first donation came
from the Kiwanis Club, which hand
ed over a check for $250, remaining
from its Christmas Daddy fund af
ter the cases reported to the Daddies
for spreading Christmas cheer and
relief had been cared for. This was
followed by a gift of $100 from W.
C. Arkell of Southern Pines, to ba
used for employment of men in pro
jects for the benefit of the town.
Other cheks have also been received,
Mr. Nichols reports.
The Sandhills Daily News is the
smallet newspaper holding member
ship in The Associated Press.^
:ute arose over things alleged to have
been said by Nicholson about Little’s
wife.
A ^coroner’s jury held an inquest
yesterday morning after the death of
Little and .found that he had come
to his death as tlm result of knife
wounds inflicted by a knife in the
hands of John Nicholson.
At last reports Nicholson could not
be located and no one seemed to know
of his whereabouts.
Information received from one who
viewed the body is to the effect that
Mr. Little was very badly cut up, the
wielder of the weapon seemingly Bt-
ing bent of finishing the job.