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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, Au^st 13, 1937.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE P1IX)T, Intorporated,
Southern Pines, X. C.
NELSON C. HVDE
Editor
Ben Bouden, Katharine Boyd,
Helen K. Butler, Jean Edson, Charles
Macauley, O. D. Park, Daii S. Ilay,
BesMie C’ameron Snilth, Associate«.
Subs<-ription liates:
One Year $2.00
Six Months $1.00
Three Months .50
Entered at the Postoffice at South
ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail
matter.
THE INCREASE IN'
COUNTY TAX RATE |
The blow that stunned prop- j
erty owTiers in the county in the i
announcement last week of a ten i
cent increase in tax rate is not |
as stunning as it appears, ac- j
cording to Wilbur H. Currie, j
Chairman of the Board of Coun- j
ty Commissioners. i
It seems that while the tenta
tive budget for 1937 calls for an
increase of ten cents in
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THE EDITORS OF CARO'Cfti^PHiCS iNVltC YOU TO SewO IfHlfTeflesrUlO FACT* AOOOT Y'* •'» roMrtONITY •
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have never seen so much to-
tho ! bacco and not in a long time so
county-wide rate, many taxpay- ’ many people and for a change
ers will actually enjoy a lower so many satisfied tobacco grow-
rate than they did last year on ; for in the twelve warehouses
account of reductions in their , "’e visited we saw but one turn-
special school tax levy, Mr. Cur-' ed ticket which means that hun-
rie said. dreds of farmers were satisfied
The Social Security program with the prices they received
necessitated an increase in the , for their golden weed and we
county-wide rate, as was set should think they might be for
forth last week, and on account i it w’as the best opening day in
of the new school building now , many a year and also the buyers
being erected in High Falls, an ; seemed satisfied for the tobacco
increase in the school capital was high m quality and appar-
outlay was called for. However, ^ ently exactly what they wanted
only a small part of the increase for domestic cigarettes and
in this item will go to High when they find what they want
Falls. Each school district will' the representatives of the big
receive its per capita, and this | companies appear willing to pay
will result in decreased special, a fair price consistent with
school debt serxice levies. ; their manufacturing costs and
This is how it works. Last j Uncle Sam’s tax which is about
year, Cameron had a special: equal to the price of the tobac-
school tax of 75 cents in addition ; co plus the manufacturing cost
to the county-wide rate of 79 j and makes it nice for everybody
cents, making a total of $L54 on I all around for if the government
the $100 valuation. This year, j didn’t get so much out of cigar-
the special school tax levy will ^ ettes our income taxes would be
be 58 cents, 17 cents low’er than I higher and we’d all be broker
last year’s, thus resulting in a j and as we said at the start of
net decrease of seven cents. this diatribe business is pretty
Aberdeen’s special school tax | quiet,
levy last year w'as 65 cents, and
Grains of Sand
Watch your step today. It's Fri
day the 13th.
i Sanford Herald Host as
i New Plant is Christened
Editor “Bill” Horner Greeted by
Dignitaries of Politics,
I’ress and Public
East Broad street is enjoying a
boom. It has a new building going
up. with both stores leased; it has
another store doubling its space by
acquisition of the adjoining store,
acquisition of the adjoining ston»;
it has a garage and filling station un
dergoing remodeling, and now it's
rumored that a new store- -another
grocery at that—is to open in the
store now being used by the Curb
Market.
Over on West Broad a furniture
store will open this fall in the Ar
cade Building.
Some of the boys around town
don’t like Jim Farley’s newest post
age stamps. They can tell him about
it to his face next Tuesday if they
want to. He'll be right here in town.
this year it will be 40 cents or
25 cents less than last year’s.
This, with the county-wide in
crease of 10 cents, will give the
Aberdeen district a net reduc
tion of 15 cents.
Vass-Lakeview^’s will remain
the same. Her per capita will
! “Judge” Avery, who knows a
I heap about tobacco, thinks Ab-
' erdeen has a fine opportunity
■ for a big market this season.
I Much of the tobacco is ripening
' late and will be ready for w’are-
I house floors just about the time
1 the local market gets under
give a decrease of ten cents in ! Judge is an optimist
the school tax, which will just I
off-set the county-wide increase
of ten cents.
West End will have a 20-
cent net reduction and Carth
age will pay seven cents less
than last year.
Exact figures of the Southern
Pines situation are not at hand,
but Mr. Currie explained that
^hile Southern Pines will get
the same per capita as the other
jlistricts, its rate will not be de
creased due to the increase
which the district assumed for
extra curricular activities.
These are tough days for the par
ents of small children. With Corn
Flakes running adventure stories on
the box covers. Puffed Wheat tell
ing you that Shirley Temple loves it,
Wheaties featuring leading baseball
players, and Shredded Wheat pack
ages enclosing a series of Mother
Goose rhymes and pictures, the
youngsters cry for all of them and
keep a poor papa broke.
After not quite six years of con
stant growth in a basement comer of
the Masonic Temple Building in San
ford, The Sanford Herald, published
by Representative W. E. (Bill) Hor
ner, last night proudly went to press
ner, proudly went to press Monday
night before the eyes of hundreds of
guests in its own new home, right
across the street from where it suf
fered its growing pains. Present for
the occasion of this housewarming
were newspapermen from surround
ing and nearby counties and loyal
advertisers and subscribers to the pa
per.
Barbecue, of course was the sub
stance served in Sanford's Legion
Hut by P>ublisher Bill Homer to
about 250 of Bill's frientis and pa
trons prior to the formal inspection
of his new plant. With the Rev. G. T
Adams, whose tall bent figure and
black coat is one of the most famil
iar sights on Sanford’s streets, pre-
^ A complaint was filed by H. G.
Poole, tuading as Model Laundry,
versus Pinehurst, Inc., on August 7th,
asking judgment for damages sus
tained by reason of the alleged pur
chase of a boiler for use in the laun
dry which was represented as be
ing in good condition and which was
condemned by State authorities as
unfit for use before Mr. Poole had
used it any.
He asks judgment of $200 paid for
the boiler and for the return of a
$200 note and for damages in the
sum of $300 by reason of the repre-
1 sentations of the defendant to the
plaintiff.
siding at the dinner, many of Bill’s
contemporaries wished him Godspeed
and blessings in his new building.
Mayor Wanen Williams welcomed
the guests and rare one-minute
speeches were delivered by O. J. Cof
fin, professor of journalism at U. N.
C., who steered young Horner to
Sanford back in 1930 and has since
sent him four young men to help him
get out the paper; Charlie Parker,
city editor of The News and Observ
er; John Park, publisher of the Ral
eigh Times; Thad Eure, Secretary
of State; Representative Fred Thom
as of Harnett County; Representa
tive Oscar Barker of Durham; Wade
Lucas, managing editor of the Ral
eigh Times; J. L. Oliver, publisher of
papers in Siler City and Pittsboro;
Louis Graves, editor of the Chapel
Hill Weekly and W. Joyner Mac-
farlan, head of the Associated Press
bureau in Raleigh.
The real occasion was inspection
of the recently completed building,
the result, Publisher Horner admitted,
of a series of “building pages,” h«
has beon running the past couple of
years. But more than this is behind
the new home of the Sanford Herald.
Seven years of drive, during which
he fought the worst years of depres
sion, are behind Bill Homer’s pro
gress from a six-column, six-pag(*
semi-weekly to — commencing ne.\t
week—a tri-weekly, running eight
columns and eight to who knows how
many pages.
JOHN \V. WATSON HEKE-
John Warren Watson of Philadel
phia is spending some time in South-
era Pines and is stopping at the Bel
vedere Hotel
Reshade now
for years
to come
with
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MRS. Z, V. BLUE
Carthage. N. C.
WOMEN WHO HOLD
THEIR MEN
NEVER LET THEM KNOW
No matter how much your
back aches and your norvoa
Bcreaaj, your husband, bocauso ho
is only a man, can never ujider-
Et^d why you are so hard to livo
with one wtiek in every month.
Too often tho honeymoon ex-
pres.s is wrecked by tho naggin^r
touKue of a tlmMj-quarUT wife. The
wlso woman never lets her husband
know by outward sign that sho is
a victim of pejlodic pain.
For t hri«t' generations one woman
has told another how to go ‘•smil
ing through” with Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound. 16
helps Nature tone up the system,
thus lessening the dismmforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the threo
ord(!aIs of life: 1. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pro-
paring for motherhood. 3. Ap
proaching “middle age."
Don’t be a three-quarter wife,
take LYDIA E. PINKHAM’3
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go “SmiHnp Through."
Remember The Pilot when you
need printing done. Phone 7271.
Morganton Road?
What has ever become of the
guard rails the State Highway De-
,, , . „ , .. partment promised us leading to the
he makings of a rea competl- bridge over the Seaboard tracks on
tor for other big market towns,'
and cites the experience of Lum-
berton. Lumberton was a small
market up to a few years ago—
did not sell as much tobacco as
Aberdeen. Then the business
men got together, engaged a
good live wire secretary for
: their Chamber of Commerce,
started advertising, started
I talking up Lumberton among
the farmers, and if you’d been
there on Tuesday you’d have
I seen the result^s. Seven ware-
I houses, chock full of leaf; the
' town so overrun with people and
i automobiles it was well nigh
EDITORIAL
RAMBLINGS
Business is pretty quiet in the impossible to drive about. In a
newspaper field and it seems, brief period it has jumped from
like a good time to get away so j ^ small market selling not much
when this is read we shall be en- over a million pounds a year to
route north to look into the ; with a million pounds on its
prospects for next winter’s sea-j tloors on opening day.
son so it really doesn’t matter j. * —N.C.H
much what we write this week
as it will be all forgotten when; increases quota
we get back unless we put our^ At gist enlistments
foot in it again like we did last | word has been received by the
week when we innocently touch- ! u. s. Navy Recruiting station, lo-
ed upon the rivalry between two cated in the Post Office building at
Aberdeen business women Greensboro that the quota for ec-
which it appears is keener rival-; listnaents during the month of Au-
ry than we had realized for we | gust has been increased from 70 to
have received a letter from one i g2 apprentice seamen and eight mess
of the parties who disapproves attendants.
of what we said and asks us to
say that she does not copy any
thing the other lady does be
cause she was first in the field
and has always—but here is
what she asks us to print in re
buttal which of course we arc
glad to do because we never
meant any harm in the first
place and just thought we were | attend n.^tional youth
doing everybody a good turn
with a little free advertising for
two most attractive tourist
homes:
Mrs. R. G. Farrell wi.shes to
say that all her ideas of operat
ing her business at Lloyd Hall
Inn are original.
We spent Tuesday attending
the tobacco market ■openings in
liUm][}e]rton and Fairmont and
This quota is second largest in the
United States and offers splendid op
portunities for young men between
the ages of 17 and 25. The Navy Re
cruiting jptatijBns located in North
and South Carolina are striving to
stand first in the number of enlist
ments in the near future.
CONFERENCE AT LAKE GENEV.A
We congratulate the Sanford Her
ald on its 32-page special edition
commemorating the opening of its
handsome new building in the heart
of Sanford. Incidentally, the Herald,
formerly semi-weekly, is to be pub
lished three times a week, starting
next week—a good indication that
our neighboring town is growing and
prospering.
NOW IS THE TIME TO SELECT YOUR WINTER RESIDENCE
for Next Year
Why Not
Southern Pines
During the months of January
through July, 34,259 new cars and
9.703 new trucks were sold in North
Carolina as compared with 28,067
cars and 8,879 trucks sold in the
same period last year, the Motor
Vehicle Bureau reported.
However, the 5,500 new cars soli
in July fell short of the number sold
in the same month a year ago whe*:
6,036 car sales were made. Truck
sales amounting to 1,169 were also
below the 2,067 sales made in the
same month last year.
CHURCH NOTES
This garden spot of the Sandhills offers to dis
criminating people an ideal winter home, with every
possibility for healthful recreation a^^d sport.
The Rev. and Mrs. Ernest L. Bar
ber of Aberdeen will chaperone a
•party of four young people from
Aberdeen and Pinehurst to the Na
tional Youth Conference at Lake Ge
neva, in Wisconsin, leaving tomorrow
for two weeks. In the group are the
Misses Lena Stewart and Marcella
Folley of Aberdeen, and W. P. Mor
ton, Jr. and Ellis Fields of Pinehurst.
At the Christian Science Church
this Sunday morning the subject of
the lesson-sermon will be “Soul.”
"The Cure for Atheism” will be the
subject of the Rev. J. Fred Stimson’s
sermon at the Baptist Church in
Southern Pines on Sunday morning
at 11:00 o’clock.
Albert Buchanan will be in charge
of the morning service at the Church
of Wide Fellowship, Sunday. Mr.
Buchanan is a Senior in Oberlin Col
lege. He has served the Congregation
al Church Extension Boards as d
student pastor for the past two sum
mers. He comes to Southern Pines
from Asheville where he served the
jMerrimon Avenue Congregational
Church as supply pastor during the
month of July. He had previously
served the United Church of Raleigh.
Mr. Buchanan’s home is in Lewis-
town, Pa. The theme of the morning
message is "Will Spirit Win?” The
Community Vespers in the Garden
at 7:00 p. m., led by the Young Peo
ple. Mr. Buchanaa will speak.
To those seeking Residential Properties, Cot
tages, Furnished Apartments or Rooms for the Winter
Season in Southern Pines we offer the facilities of our
Organization. We have a Complete Listing of Avail
able Accommodations for Lease ... A number of At
tractive Town and Country Sites for Purchase.
F*aul T. Oarnum
REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE
Bank Building
Southern Pines