V MOORE COUNTY’S leading news weekly T'XJT7 X xlX!/ A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 11. NO. 10. HAHUCY PlNEBLUFF PILOT FIRST IN NEWS AND ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territoi * ^j.r-^^Torth Carolina Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, February 6, 1931. FIVE CENTS SCHOOL BILL MAY REDUCE TAXES IN COUNTY 40 CENTS Six Months Measure Will Not Affect Management, Says H. Lee Thomas Sandhills To See Return of Stage Coach Webster Knight, Son-iii-Law of Vice-President Curtis, an En thuisiastic Horseman, To Revive Ancient Sport.—Buys Estate on Weymouth Heights TOBACCO MARKET aOSES AFTER A RECORD SEASON 31 ST A REVENUE SHIFT The McLean bill, making- it manda- ill the State to maintain the six months school term from sources other than ad valorem tax, as passed bv the General Assembly last week \\ith overwhelming majorities, will havA little effect on the organization and management of the local schools, / tamp< had been left in the office in Deposits in Annexing Stanly Institution of Car, Which Turns Over Three Times Confidence in the future of North j Losing control of their Ford road- Carolina and her citizenry was evi- j ster in an attempt to pull back on the denced in the announcement this week j hard surface after one of the wheels of the acquiring of another bank by ' had slipped off the shoulder of the the Page Trust Company of Aberdeen, i highway, two young men, Hirsh Le- —iiciu utjcii .c.u the Stanly Bank & Trust Company of ! vow and Nicholus De Carlo, of New fluvint.; the week-end, and the loss to | Albemarle. It is getting so the taking i York, were killed when their car up- tne iostal department was negligible. | over of banks by the Page Trust Com. I set and turned^ over three times neai Robeson county officers are con ducting a search throughout that sec tion for Booker T. Currie, colored, charged with shooting N. N. McDon ald of Aberdeen with a shotgun last Saturday. McDonald is in the Baker sanatorium in Lumber with some sev enty five shot in his right thigh. His condition is regarded as very serious. The shooting followed an alterca tion between McDonald, who is a sub contractor at a school building being etrected at Orrum, and the Negro, a laborer. It is said they fought dur ing the morning and had to be (parted and that McDonald was throwing bricks at the Negro at the time of the shooting. NEW FERTILIZER MIXING PLANT FOR ABERDEEN ; at $5,000 as the amount of monjy | competing unfairly with the railroads that will be required to relieve the and should come under the same re- quirements and regulations as do the railroads. Advertising* signs would be taxed and censored under the terms of the demands made upon the Assembly by the Chamber of Commerce. The resolutions call for a board of cen sorship and control over the road signs, a boaid comprising men and Aberdeen is' to have a new industry Hnwtver, ciuite a bit of personal prop- 1 pany is ceasing to be news. It is al- the Carolina Power and Light Com- ; in the form of a fertilizer mixing ■itv belongin.. to Mrs. Bertie L. Mat- ! most a weekly occurrence. The lo- pany sub-station between Pinehurst | plant, according to announcement th™,. the postmistress, was stolen, i cal institution has already tak.n , and West End, on Route 70, Tuesday | made during the week by G Ober & Tho robbery was discovered at 4:30 | charge at Albemarle. ! afternoon. The men, both about 20 | Sons, of Baltimore. The Ober con- ^londay morning when J. M. McMil Ian and his son. Worth, who carry iiiail from the postoffice to the '•atif went in to deposit the mail an early train. They found that the doo! s had been opened and fume The Stanly Bank and Trust Com pany was organize^.in 1904 with the years of age, were on their way from jcern, well known in the fertilizer field. New York to Florida. Levow died on ! will establish a plant about one and ao V/x .A** late J. R. Price as president and J. ; the way to the Moore County Hospi- i one-half miles from the town on the M. Peeler as cashier. A. C. Heath | tal, De Carlo about three hours after | Aberdeen & Rockfish railroad, near succeeded Mr. Price and when Mr. reaching the hospital. Relatives from the old Blue Fertilizer plant. Heath died in January 1930, E. E. New York claimed the bodies at the ’ It is understood that a new build “c naa oeen upuneu axiw neani uicu m ^ i • ^ i ^ m ’ f ni , . -oiycerine which was used in | Snuggs became president. A. R. Hav- ; Powell undertaking rooms in Southern mg will be erected, To be about 50 oy ' Pen’iifj the safe were still strong. McMillan promptly notified Matthews and upon her arrival " f >i nd things in a state of general u: .on. The safe door was open and mr.TK-y order books, insurance pol- and other valuable papers were around on the floor, but th-: y V ' t e not damaged. A watch, sev- ■ ’ a pif f*es of jewelry and other arti- ‘ - ' herished keepsakes of Mrs. 'Matthews, were missing. cash and stamp drawer had forced open and was considerably "Hniaged. The thieves did not both- the few stamps that were in the flvawer, but they removed the small change that had not been deposited on Saturday. Sheriff C. J. McDonald and the pos tal authorities were notified and Sher ris became cashier' in 1913 and de- { Pines on W^ednesday. posits of the institution had increased ! from $100,000 at that time to more HOME OF E. L. PLEASANTS than $600,000 at the close of busi ness December 31, 1930. Addition of the Albemarle branch, 60 feet in size. The output will be ’ 100 tons per day, and it is hoped to : have the plant in operation by Feb- DESTROYED BY FIRE j ruary 16th. B. B. Saunders, head of I the Saunders Tobacco Warehouses The residence of E. L. Pleasants on ' here, will be in charge. whiclT wm be operated in the Stanly ; Bethesda Road, Aberdeen, was prac- bank building gives the Page organ-! tically completely destioyed by fire j INTERNAL REVENUE MEN ization 14 banks extending from Ze- | early yesterday afternoon. Fire is be- j TO ASSIST TAXPAYERS bulon in the east to Albemarle in the j lieved to have originated around the , , west. Combined assets of the banks | fireplace chimney. The furniture on I are given as being more than $6,000,- | the ground floor was saved, but the (Please turn to Page 8) 000. i loss upstairs was complete and the Representatives of the U. S. In ternal Revenue Department will be in Aberdeen next Monday, February 9th, house will have to be completely re- j to assist taxpayers in filing their BURT MADE HONORARY | built. MEMBER OF KIWANIS j Struthers Burt was honored by the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen when it.^ Board of Directors elected him an honorary member at its monthly meeting held Tuesday night at the Pinehurst Country Club. Marriage License License to marry has been issued to Wm. Claudius Ferguson, Manly and Miss Mary K. Phillips, Manly. Both are popular young people of Moore county. Federal income tax returns. Those desiring to avail themselves of their assistance should take their blanks with them to the Postoffice. These government officials will also be in Carthage on February 16th. Res idents of the lower end of the county should call at Aberdeen the 9th, those in tet upper end at Carthage the 16th. condition that is now existing among i the laboring class of people. To date j 272 people, including both men and ^ women, have registered at the em- ■ ployment office in the Bernstein Build- j ing on East Broad Street. The larg- ' {er number of those registered are I negroes, however there are a few 1 white men that have applied for; , , . , I work. The work of beautifying the : women who desire to preserve and ! highway is now well underway and a . Promote the natural beauty along the I force of men, in co-operation with : highways, the town are busily engaged fillin/j ^ Copies of the resolutions Passed a. in parkways and cutting underbrush. | the meeting, which was held at the Teams and drag pans are cutting; Southern Pines Country Club on down the sandbanks and filling in tho ^ Tuesday noon, are to be sent to th.. i low places. The construction of dii’t. President of the State Senate, .he ; sidewalks will start in a short tim’?. i Speaker of the House, Senator M. ^ E Morell, who is in charge of the Johnson and Representative U. . i planting for the Chamber of Com- j Spence, the latter representing Moore ' merce, expects to start setting out, “ the two brancnes of the i shrubbery within the next few days General Assembly. ! along the parkways that have been ‘ The squabble at the meeting arose j completed. I Teams and a large force of men are j going ahead with the extension of I the lower end of Pennsylvania' Ave- j nue. The work on the avenue is pro- giessing very rapidly at the present I and the grading on the east side of McDeeds Greek is making a big 'change in the appearance of the street. , The town has received plans for the ! construction of a concrete culvert I and it is expected that a contract will^ I be let an early date. The street will ! connect West Southern Pines and will open a new short route to Pinehurst. lows: It will run near the greenhouses of WHEREAS, the State of Nortn Judge William A. Way. Carolina is now in the throes of the To date 63 men have been given greatest financial depression that has work on the highway and Pennsyl- visited it in many years; and vania Avenue. This represents 63 fam- WHEREAS, the General Assembly ilies or 308 people who have been pro- in session at Raleigh, N. C., is concern- vided with food and other necessities ed in reducing the expenditures of our of life. There has been a total of 88 i state and county governments and in men given jobs since the work was finding new sources of revenue in or- first started ten days ago. This inr , der that the overburdened land-own- eludes men that have been employed | ers of the state may be benefitted at the Country Club and with private | thereby; and families. All of these people were! WHEREAS, many proposed meab- without funds and many of them in ures have been and will be presented almost destitute circumstances. I to the General Assembly, proposing The extension of Pennsylvania Av- i new sources of revenue for the pur- over whether the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce shouli not stick to matters w'hich are purely lo cal in character, rather than enter in'^' into -sffairs of state government ard attempting to influence legisla tion. Those opposing this idea main tained that matters of state taxation vitally affected the residents of Southern Pines and that the matter v.’as therefore one properly before the house. The Resolutions The resolutions adopted were as fol- (Please turn to Page 8) (Please turn to page 4) /