Friday, March 2, 1934
THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina
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R. A. W ARREN
For Fine Repairs
Watches—Clocks—Jewelry
West Broad Street
’ Southern Pines
:APITAL
NOW OPEN
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i»outhrrn ]9inrs, N. €.
Mrs. Millicent A. Hayes, Principal
A COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL FOR
BOYS AND GIRLS
KinderG;arten through the 8th year
¥ USIC—ART—LANGUAGES
TuturiiiK Arranged for Older
Groups
Limited ALCommodations for
Boarders
) Hy M. II. I)unnaj;an. The Pilot’s Kaleigh Correnpondvnt
The N. C. Highway and Public to save your public schools in the Violation of the letter and the
I Works Commission is knowingly and present crisis. _ ^ .spirit of crop reduction contracts,
deliberately violating the express “Also, I will appreciate any sug- especially that for tobacco, is appar-
work and spirit of a statute enacted gestions you care to make concern- ently being violated in .some North I
1 by the 1933 General Assembly to ing the best method of reducing tax- Carolina counties, specifically by land- ! *
j prevent it from doing exactly vv-hat ation costs. ; lords cutting off tenant farmers they !
I it is doing spending money for "con- ^ “We are considering legislation for apparently will not need as a result |
I struction” of highways in the state. the purpose of federal aid to educa- i of the reduction of acreage for next i
But the commission is spending tion and many of us feel that be- | year, Capus Waynick, federal reem- 113
^ probably a quarter of a million dol-' tore we authorize the appropriation ployment director for the State an
I lar.s in order to secure about $10,-' of much money for education, we ^ nounces.
j 522,000 in federal funds, .59,522,000 ot - should iTiake a careful check-up ot '
it from the NRA funds and about the possibility of much of it t)emg
I Pinehurst, Paul P. Brown, secreUry, i
: announces. Details of the program j
will be worked out, but the bankers’ ' |f
‘ code and service charges under it and
j the new insurance of deposits, as
well as other new developments in
I the banking field will be considered.
Will be in his office over th«
Post Office, Sanford, N. C., erery
Wednesday, from 10:00 s. m. to
S:00 p. m. Don’t fail to see him if
your «y«i are WMk.
, it is not considered likely that any- essentials."
! one will bring it to account for this
Silk
Sport
Dresses
A fine assortment of new silk dresse.<.
The patterns are unusual and the styler<
are the latest from New York. Sizes run
from 14 to 44.
$4.50
W. Duncan Matthews
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SOUTHERN PINES
Veterinary Hospital
DR. J. I. NEAL
Pinehurst Race Track
E. V. PERKINSON
General Contractor
An earlier statement of that nature
........ * J . *^y Mr. Waynick brought a protest,.
$1,000,000 m regular federal aid. And i wasted m fmancmg educational non- . ... • . . .
. ’ .... and a denial, .<k) Mr. Waynick a.sked {j
a few of his county directors to send ' |l
, him names of any such droppings they ■ £
j violation. The commission must d^. A. T. Allen. State superintend- i might be familiar with. One county I
, spend three oi four per cent ot the i ent of public schools, and Jule B. i director aent him a list of about 50 •
■ total expenditures in order to survey i Warren. secretary of the N. C. Edu- I names of tenant farmers and land-
roads and make other preliminary i cation A.ssociation, have been in lords where such had happened in
preparations before the federal mon-. Washington with educational forces the one county. Landlords are per- ! ll
ey can be secured and spent, and i relative to appropriation of federal | mitted to fire one tenant farmer and ' --
this is classed as “construction" costs, f.mds for public schools, both as a ‘hire another, and some of these may
Up to February 15 the State had relief measure and as a permanent ■ be of that nature. Mr. Waynick said '
I placed under contract enough high- ^ policy. Dr. Allen thinks the State ; He pointed out that the money paid '
way worked to utilize $5,069,296.53' has a good case, but is not sure of | hy the government for crop reduc- ■
of that ten and a half million dollars, j the results. , contemplates using the full num-
H.482.016.22 « It NRA fund., and I to of tenant f.mera on the reduced ^
$587,280.30 from repilar federal aid ^he North Carolina Bankers As- i acreage, and that it is so stated in '
funds. Another letting set for Feb- sociation will meet in 38th annual , the contract. The plan seeks to pre-
ruary 28 still utilize close to .'5455.000 convention Thursday and Friday, ' vent a flood of unemployed tenant
more of the total fund, maki. 'ihe April 26, 27. at the Carolina Hotel, | farmers, Mr. W’aynick pointed out.
I total through February $5.?14,0<^t’ or , . ^
some more than 50 per cent of the
total federal allotment to this State.
Pinehurst Dept.
Pinehurst, N. C.
Store
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The Week in Vass
"Promoting World Friendship children of Hamlet and Edward Grif-
Among the Children" w-as the topic ' fin and Gordon Harmon of Sanford
of the February meeting of the were Sunday guests of Mr. abd Mrs.
Methodist Auxiliary at the home of ' q. W’. Griffin, Richard Griffin. Jr..
Mrs. Alex Smith on Wednesday even- I remained vith his gr.indpar«nts for
ing with Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Holli- ; a longer visit.
field Fry as joint hostesses. Mrs. H. j ^r. and Mrs. Robert Moore and
A. Borst, introduced the topic with
an instructive talk on the methods
used in bringing the youth of var
ious nations in closer touch and this
was followed by talks by Mrs. C. L.
Ty.son and Mrs. W. C. Leslie and a
prayer-poem by Mrs. S. R. Smith.
1 Mrs. W. .1. Cameron conducted the
I Hope is expressed that contracts will
; be let to utilize the entire amoimt in
two or three months.
I The emergency money is divided
' into three cla.sses, to be used on pri-
, mary. secondary and municipal high
ways. Belief is that probably 80 per
cent of the primary and secondary
j funds allotted have been utilized,
! while probably not more than 30 per
j cent of the municipal funds have
Souiliern Pines, N. C. Tel, 5033, taken up. This is due to two things
I first, that the commission wished to
7stnt^ and M
* j as possible and the municipal projects
Certified Public Accountants I are subject to too many delays, and
Sanford. N. C. Greensboro, N. C. | ' ^ibie study from Luke.
j on the projects contemplated. i •'
J. C. Mnse, C. P. A., Resident Partner; of the $2,300,000 allotted for mun- j Saturday was a red letter day for
1 icipal w’ork in this state, at least a . Marie T>’son. In the morning, "Old
I million dollars of it is tied up in | Happy" of Raleigh donned his
[ larger cities, six or eight of them boots and with a hoi^t of birth-
' because street car tracks, telephone , children paid her an imaginary
poles, sewer and water lines, and i and in the afternoon she en- , ^ ^ McKay, at Buie's
J other troubles that have to be adjust- j Pertained eleven very real children at
' ed. John D. Waldi^op, chief engineer. ^ very real birthday party at the
i states. These are being ironed out j of h®*" parents. Mr. and Mrs.
j rapidly now. however and the muni- ■ in celebration of her ar-
Eaal Broad St., Southern Pines projects, many of them in ,at the advanced age of eleven
1 small towns and for small amounts., After numerous games there | Ganiev Sunday
“jwill be under w'ay soon, he said. refreshments of ice cream and ‘
• • I a birthday cake, and the presents
' f^iriGlllirSt i Urging national legislation to pro-' just nght. roller skates and
J. N. POWELL, INC.
Undertaking:
Embalming
Ambulance Service
family and Charles Brooks, all of Me
Farlfind, spent Sunday with Mr. and 1
Mrs. John Gaddy. Miss Cornelia Har. |
ri.s of Carthage was a caller In the i
afternoon.
Rev. C. A. Lawrence w£is a busi- '
ness visitor to Hemp on Monday. !
Misses Ruth and Elizabeth McNeill
and Ernest McNeill spent last week- '
end with their sister. Mrs. Glee Al
len. at her home in Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Cameron and
family were week-end visitors at the j
ho(me lof Mrs. Cameron’s parents.
Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Lawrence and
family were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Scott Newton of Southern
Pines following the preaching service
I tect merchants and state treasuries | everything. Marie s guests were Sara
f \r J lof sales tax states against advantages K^ith Matthews. Margaret Bettina.
EjULlHUCr I aFdS for non-sales tax states. Governor Marian McMillan, Mary Mae Scott,
.Ehringhaus has written to Senator i Hendricks, Juanita Thompson,
Dealers in Lumber of All Kinds, gailey and Reynolds and the 11 N. and Hugh McLean, Cur-
Millworlr, Sheetrock, Rockiath, j q congressmen to support a bill Bettina, Lawrence Furr and A.
Celotex, UpaOT^Board, Shingles,| Jrawn by Director Harry McMullen'Mac Cameron.
' and adopted by the National Asso-! Among those from out of town
I ciation of State Tax Administrators here to attend the funeral of little
] in Indianapolis this week, to .support Martin Spencer Simpson on Thurs-
' the measure at this session of Con- day of last week were Mr. and Mrs.
gress. 1 J. H. Simpsson. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe
"The bill, as you will observe, ap-! Simpson, Miss Nancy and Paul Simp,
plies the principle of the Wilson and | son and N. Ponds, all of Ansonville;
Etc.
PINEHURST, N. C.
Miss Exie Beasley spent last week
end at her home in Apex.
A. M. Cameron and C. L. T>’son
were Raleigh visitors Friday.
W. H. Keith spent Wednesday in
Raleigh.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Ponish of Max-
ton spent Friday night in town as
the guests of Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Ros
ser.
The singing class from the Metho
dist Orphanage in Raleigh will give
a sacred concert in the Vass Meth
odist church at 7:30 o’clock this Sun
day evening, March 4. The public
IS cordially invited to attend.
The regular first Sunday morning
preaching service will not be held as
NIAGARA
.1. A Blue and party motored to
Rotkingh^i and returned one day
the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan J. Maddock
PIANO TUNING
E. S. VanAlstyne
I'uniog; — PIANO — Voicinj? 1 Webb-Kenyon bills to sales by out- j Mr. and Mrs. Will Simpson and Mrs
Residence Phone 6063 ! S'de merchants of merchandise for | J. Bullins of the Mount Pleasant sec- | Aberdeen and Vass exchanged serv-
P. O. Box 1615—Southern Pines i'lse in North Carolina by making i tion of Hoke county. | order that the lo-
— - — I them subject to sales taxation adopt- | Mrs. Walter Moore and little : cal church might have the pleasure
j ed by the General Assembly exactly “Sonny" Moore are spending some of having the singing class here, and
las intra-state transactions are liable.” time with relatives in York. S. C. * Mr. Ball will preach at Aberdeen at
I Governor Ehringhaus wrote, ‘‘Its mer- Willard Sledge went to Raleigh ! the morning hour,
jits, it seems to me, will appeal both Saturday to visit his father who is [ _
I to those states having at pre.sent a i m,
sales tax as well as those which do Horton Keith and “Ike" Smith of
not have it but which of necessiity! Durham were supper guests of Hor-
must face the possibility of such a i ton’s parents, Mr. and Mr.s. W. H.
i tax at all times. In your own state 1 | Keith Wednesday evening. •
I believe that both advocates of and! Miss Berths, Carperon of White
objectors to the ^les t^ will ap- Hill spent thle week-end with her sisl „^^j,or. Me., arid Mr.
prove for the bill, if adopted, wil ter. Mr*. Calvin Crabtree. i p. Gillis were call-
obviate the disadvantages now most 1 Miss Neolia McCrummen and Johnj„^ ^ome of Mr. and Mrs. H.
I seriously urged by objectors.' iMcCrummen spent last week-end with' ^tanyan the past week wl^ile en-
their parents near West F^d. *
North Carolina’s plan of shifting! Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Buffalo And ^ p,,,/ connected with the feastem
! the burden of taxes from land and j daughter. Bobbie, of Durham were steamship Company. ‘
‘at the same time carrying on more j v,eek-end guests of Mr. and Mr.s. T. and Mrs. L. D. Williams motor-
extensive functions, including schools.' J- Smith, . Greensboro and returned Sun-
and with all of its balancing the bud- i Mrs. A. G. Edwards and “the ‘ night.
get. has been heralded through the j twins.” Max and Baxter, visited rel- j windmill for the town has been
nation, evidence this time being the j atives in Raleigh from Thursday un- erected over a deep well and it is
request of Congressman Brooks I til Saturday of last week. ! expected that the townspeople will
^ Fletcher of Ohio to Governor Ehring- Misses Beulah McLean, Lois Buch^ using this pure water,
j haus that he tell how it is done. anan. Katharine Graham and Eliza-' j^^y gmith and party motored to
! “I am informed that your state, b^th Cobb spent Saturday in Raleigh, returned, on Monday.
I North Carolina,, is^ the only state tha».' Miss Vera ffewton 6f StonevUle^ a | ^he ontiertQlnment at the .CnurCh
has completely overhauled ita system former teacher in the local school, i Friday night proved quite In-
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TAILORING, DRY CLEANING | taxation, lifting the inequitable | visited friends at Hotel Charmella an ,eresting and a"" neat little sum was
I burden from land, centralizing respon- evening last week. • 'collected for church purposes.
■ sibiiity and cost of education, econo- Mrs. O. M. Spurlin of Sharon, S.
1 mizing drastically, but saving the , C.. Mrs. Seth W. Lassiter and daught- ; fi\RI> OF TH\NKS
i public schools,” Representative 16rs of near Smithfield and Miss Jew-: _____
Fletcher writes the Governor. j ell Edwards of Lucama were week- We wish to thank our many friends
“Next week we are beginning a se-' gxiests of Mrs. Mary E. Edwards.! for the kindness shown us during the
ries of hearings before our education Mrs. W. D Matthews. Mrs.. C. J. I sjckness and death of ouk) ''Httle son
committee in Congress, and being' a; Temple, Mrs. H. A. Borst, Mrs. O. and grandson, also for the i>eautiful
member of this committee I am anx- i L. Tyson. Mrs. S. R. Smith and Joa-! floral offering.
eph Matthews were Sanford visitors —MR. and MRS. T. C. EVANS,
Friday attemofon i> -^MR. and MRS. J. B. EVJtNS,.^.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Griffin and i Vnss. N. C.
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6 East Conn. Ave.
Southern Pines, N. C.
NEW HOUSE FOR SALE
Good locality, high grounci, beautiful outlook, artistic shrubbery,
hot-water, oil heat, electric range, automatic refrigerator and
water heater. Everything up to date.
..... Will sell c'irect or through broker.
AND^W L SHERMAN ^UTUERN PINES