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pwm&p; .rtf r A i > ’ P ' SANFORD The Fastest Growing Town , FOREMOST IN CHARACTER and circulation In Central Carolina VOLUME 47, Num^r 24, SANFORD, NORTfrCAROLINA, JANUARX 26,1933. ,« Published WEEKLY. ' .A . few chronic grouches may belly ache over the fact that the Town of jSanford borrows $46,000 from the Reconstruction finance Corporation for the purpose of installing .a , new water plant. >. ■ V: .v Constructive-minded add clear thinking people, however, will laud Mayor Williams’ skill in furthering ,the project. The realization of a new water plant, to take the place of what ■*" State College professor intimated might be a cesspool of infection, will, we believe, stand out as a major ach ievement and perhaps the most con structive accomplishment of the Wil liams: administration. The fact that Mr. Williams „w«* . able t0 convince the overlords of the R. F. C. that Sanford heeded this money and could make the project a self-liquidating one, is a tribute_to his wizardry at logic and his finan cial sagacity. Pure water is as necessary for adults as pure milk is *r babies., the Mayor plainly played a humanitarian Mayor Williams is a man of the pre oepta of Old Davy Crockett. Said Old Davy, when he learned his friends were subjecting him to criticism: “This rule to pll when I am dead; Be sure you are right, .then go ahead.” Said Jots Caldwell, the brilliant edl tor of the Charlotte Observer, when he was told that he was bitterly cri ticised for bolting Bryan and the free unlimited coinage of silver, in 1896:, “Now, Mr. Bryant, reach up there ' and get the Bible, and open it at the Acts, Chapter 20, verse 24, and r^ul what Paul said when warned that .enemies were threatening.”. “Red Buck” Btyant, to whom Mr,: Caldwell was talking, soon saw the: point: That verse reads: “But none of these things move me.” Sincere and honest in his convic tions, that goes for Mayor Williams too. V. . . ........ 1 Speaking of Northern: Moore coun-1 E. M. Underwood, came, the Pinehurst Outlook observes: In the northwestern corner of the county we find Black’s mill and lake; Carthage; Deep River; Governor Wil liams’ burying ground and homestead ; the Phillip Alston house, scarred with Revolutionary bullet holes; Mr. Julian T. Bishop’s hunting lodge and quail farm;' the only snown hard coal mine in the south, and the old tale mine. In the section centered around Car thage, one finds an old mill-stone factory and deserted village; the high covered bridge; the county gofd mine, the Quaker School, where spinning and weaving are carried on as in Colonial times; the petrified wood area; the old cotton mill and dam at High Falls, and Taylorsville, the colored settlement. Those who followed the fortunes of ' the Hon. O* Max' Gardner in the gubernatorial primary in 1920 may be interested in the following, contri buted by a friend of The Express: A political query: What difference, ’ if any, is there between "The Orga nisation” and “The Machine”? '.Answer: „ - The only distinction, :beyond any dOUbt, . r l -„...... Is whether a fellow’s “in” office or - “out” To one who is out why, it is “The Machine”; ■ ” " Obnoxious, tyrannical, sordid and ■I'imean. To one who holds office—whatever the station— •* - It’s properly known , as “The Organ!* fgl|y zation.” * r. - * We know a great statesman who . ,.» fought ‘‘The Machine,” • ■ : is : i Long and hard as £n out, but when - - he got in, /Then, presto 1 a quick and complete transformation,. He’s now a “big chief” in “The Or ganization.” . ' So the only distinction, beyond any doubt, Is whether a fellow's an “in,” or an • “out” Observes the Lumberton Robesonign —Senator Cross wants to cut auto license taxes in half and thinks his bill, if passed, will*not lose a dollar for the State. ' We' hope it passes ,9s Auto license taxes’ are scandalously high and work a TiardshlpV on thou . —j_ .-—*-autos «f^«f **4# ai bag,:* a dairfw mt ciwjirtr - 'v* ' leston Wakefield J. $ Coggins, nAy Telephon tcPhail’s >«!•** i: OBSERVERS SEE ' - 7 BIGHT BREWING FOR LOCAL JOBS Williams’ Reticence Complicates Speculations of Local Poli tical Dopesters. ,s; GOSSIPING IS RAMPANT With a score or more can didacies mentioned for the positions of mayor and al derman the intervening: months from now until next May are expected to turn in their full share of the year’s * quota of local color and drama. No less than twenty .. three persons, are report® to be receptive toward muni • cipal honors. ' 1 The most attractive of the two post pone is apparently the office of ma yor for at least ten possible contend ers for this place have been suggested. I- Will Williams Run? |, In the sub-conscious mind of every (possible aspirant, for the mayoralty ship is the ^question; Wilt Williams again make the race? < A statement from this dipper tit le man, now. founding out his^third term as mayor, and perhaps at the! height of his popularity, in words like these. “I do not choose to run,” should bring out a whole regiment of candidates. | Bub—on the otherfiand—if he should announce that he is a candidate, for a fourth term, then those whose sin ews are unaccustomed to the rough and fumble of political warfare, may look askance upon a tilt with the in cumbent. . '■ * vV -Until he makes a statement that j will either project him in the race] for a fourth term or a’gipfy his in- j teptions of retirement the local poli tical situation will be clouded by con jecture. " • ;; .Looks Like Scramble. _ ' Mentioned as likely aspirants iot the mayoralty, are: W. Banks Wilkins, 25-year-old mem her of the board of aldermen, an alum MONEY FOR REHABILITATION tf>CAL | WATER SYSTEM RECEIVED YESTERDAY After negotiations covering some three months with -the au thorities in Washington, Mayor W. R. Williams informs The Ex-/ press that the $45,000 loan from the Federal government to ex* . tend and rehabilitate the jSan-' : ford water system, is now in hand. - - ' The money was received pester- ' day and is now1 ready for use. ■ A force of some 40 or 50 hands , "have been busy for the pastfew weeks clearing the land and mak ing the necessary excavations for the( construction work. About all the contract work has been let. A building will be constructed | for the new filters that will be installed to take the place of , those that have become obsolete. Piping will be. Urge earthen . about a mile fi pUint to hold a . of water for - Urge steam si for moving the will be building the lal Much of the and other thini the system have and shipped in for use. Mayor The Express t] calls for the co * system by the' should the wi It is believed pleted by that ...t: down and a constructed the present •US supply ergencies. A will be used of dipt that to handle in Iding'material ' :onhected ■ with - ’ >n purchased I is how ready I Williams tails the contract jletloa, of the i it. of May and r be favorable it can be com ANNOUNCE CUT IN UTILITY RATES „ '- ' -t. —hi{ , V v Patrons of Carolina Power and Light Company Po Save A y j Total of $120,000. : It is stated from Raleigh that elec tric utility rates ; in North Carolina have, been" reduced to effect a saving of $1,367,000 to the consumers by hearings held by the State Corporation Commission. The changes were made by the four major electrical utilities to the State,, The (annual reduction to rate revenue by .companies were listed as follows: Duke Power Com pany including SoutheA Public Utili ties Company, $957,000; Durham Pub lic Service Company, $65,000; Caro-, lina Power and Light Company, $120, 000; and the Tide Water Power Com pany, $25,000. Prior to this reduc tion in rates were made to approxi mate $200,000. Just W much reduction in rates this means to the people in Sanford SNIPES AND GAVIN, LATE HEADS OF BANK, ARE HEAVILY ASSESSED Stockholders of BANK ORDERED TO > PAY ASSESSMENT Directed By banking:- ?, Commis sioner To Pay Assessment On Stoclf Held. GAY LIQilJtiATHtNG AGENT Almost the very week that H. C. Newbold, .the , defaulting: cashier of the defunct Peoples Bank, who was. paroled alter serving: a term in the StateiPri son, comes a notice; from Gur ney P. Hood, State Commissioner of -Banks, >to the stockholders of the bank directing;, them to make payment of an assessment equal to the stock they ..had in the bank to Charles S. Gay, liquid ating agent, Sanford. This assessment was rnade accord ing to law. . The directors were d>; rectod to make payment by the 25th ot January, which was yesterday, and that their failure to do so would make it necessary to docket the assessment in the office of .the Clerk of the Su perior Court of Leei county for ac tion m the court. The Express is in formed that only one stockholder made payment in time to keep the assessment from being docketed. The assessment js, docketed against the property of the stockholder and af ter it is thus docketed, has the force and effect of a judgment of the Su perior Court. \ - . The Express: is Informed that there are 52 stockholders of this defunct hank. Prank Snipes, president, and & L. Garin, vice-president, carried the largest amount of stock of any two stockhoMwj , (h-the, bank. The inforcement 'ot 'thvjveYder issued by Guemey P. Hood is going to work a great hardship on some of the stock* holders. Some , of these stockholders dm widows and should the law be carried out they, will probably be stripped of all their holdings. Some of the stockholders are able to pay while others am. without means of >my kind and will be unable to pay the smallest amount. It is thought tSat eventually another small*divi dend Will be paid the depositors if a ef the stockholders will be ;:.x GOOD SHOWING IS I MADE BY BUILDING & LOAN BUSINESS Higher Rate of Interest Paid In 1932 Than During Preced ' ing Year MANAGEMENT IS LANDED Nineteenth Series of Building & Loan Shares Will Mature February First. Increased earnings over the previous year, were revealed in the annual report of J. B. Brinn, secretary-treasurer of the San ford Building and Loan Associa tion, to the directors and st5ck- " holders of the organization last Thursday. The earnings during mu, it was pointed out by Mr. Brinn, were in ‘excess of seven per cent as compared ,to an approximate earning of 6.86 ■ per cent in 1931. Directors and. stockholders were much gratified at ; the report, attributing the fine show ing to the far-sight and efficiency of the management. 'Another Series Matures. . Approximately $6,000 will be paid out in cash, and $8,000 devoted to {the cancelation of home mortgages held by the association when the | (Continued On Page Eight.) TANTALIZE!? The letters in the lines below properly arranged spell the names of two persons in San ford. . If the persons whose names are represented by the group of letters decipher their own names and bring copies of this paper to The Express Office before next Wednesday night, to each of them will be given a free ticket admitting them to the show at the,Temple Theatre Thursday night, .,' . j. This weekVfWitalfeerj*'^ i ULAP EfclAGNRRR ! > UJSUU ANLE ' BUI Major Edwin Garin CLUBOBJ ARE DISC(JSSEI)AT KIWAN1 Eighteenth: ternational Kf nization HUSKETH IS ersary,of.jln iranis Orga-„ ( ' er^d. - ■„ , -j SPEAKER Kiwanians Fail When Huge “ Out To B< The Sanford Kb regular weekly me night at the Carolii ed the eighteenth birth of Kiwanis. “Lick Chops? ake” TiimsJ * * FalteT vv _nis Club m - ^ fcng last Friday a Hotel eelebrat* nivereary. of the In the business ■ t ing the club vote« hold the meetings Hotel. The fotlowis appointed by JPresi to draw up res&Sutli the memory of Mrs. wife of Kawania"!' $) St. Clair, if, U. . • t».. Sowers. ffh. of the • meet* | to continue to I if the C irolina committee was fnt J. F. Foster is of respect to Rives, deceased,' Ri Biv - - • ' ■ V.. -rud sita ■ 2i_lil. <X iHwnmd ”'.d£ .tteegwaiiii program committee. u K. Wamc gave a brief history', of Kiwanis In- I ternational, which. Was organised on December 8, 19)14, There are now i 18,000 Kiwanis clubs in the United! States and Canaan, with 82,500 active' members,' - The membership has fal-| len off to some extent during the past few months due to the depres sion, notwithstanding last year, was one of (hie most; active years in the . history 6f some saf the Clubs. . S. J. Husketh made an interesting j and instructive talk on the objects and objectives of Kiwanis. He gave | the inspirational side of Kiwanis and said that service! was tne keynote of this great international 'organizat on. ‘‘It teaches relativity of the value of things In life,*’ said the speaker. Chairman- Pittman told of the sec- < tions and divisions of Kiwanis. ^ i A beautiful birthday cake was then I, brought in covered with'snow white j. Icing and topped with 18 candles. Inf blowing out the candles Miss Louise Futrall missed one. Brinn, who had - the cake in charge, .insisted on all : assembling around President Foster ■ while.he with a. long carving knife carved the cake. There were 25 , members present and it was decided ; that it should be cut' into 25 pieces of equal size. All stood ready to "call down” President Foster should' he show partiality in the division of the cake. Their eyes glowed with de lightful anticipation” like the horse’ when he enters the pasture for the| first time and sees the many good things which he is about to devour. ■ But a disappointed expression was seen on every face when President , Foster brought the knife down with j a flourish on the cake and found that ; it would not cut. One caii now al most feel the effects of that knife as i it rasps and slips on that “cake”I which turned out to be a tin pan. This 11 was one of the best; jokes ever palled off in the history of the Kiwanis Cub. A joint debate wilibe held by■ the club {Friday night. NEW SPRING GOODS ARE AT EPIRD’S DEPARTMENT STORE I*rgie shipments of new spring merchandise have been end are. arriv ing dally ah EfirtTa department store. Ladies' coats, dresses and Inillinery, ; in all tl>e season’d latest Btyles and colors, make Efird’g store a panorama of fashion. And the line .of ladies* new spring shoes*- too, 'is most com- 1 plete. Farferery premier of Uie fanv ily, mother, father.adn,- daughter and NEW FARM LOANS SOON AVAILABLE FOR LEE FARMERS E. P. Welch, Field Agent IfdSr •r-.i Credit Corporation, Con-' feps Here Tuesday.... LOANS OF FOUR TYPES Necessary Committees For The Handling of Local Appli cations To Be Set Up A number of farmers are inter ested in the new type crop produc tion loans which will be available tide year through the Regional * Agricul tural Credit Corporation of Rale gh John P. Steadman, former State trea surer, is executive vice -president of the Raleigh institution. The bank, or Corporation, * is already functioning and expects to be able to take care of -the legitimate requirements ot farmerar this year.' Mr. E. P. Welch, Field Agent foi the Oorporatioh, was in the count; Tuesday and conferred with some o: our local people relative to settinf up the necessary committees fo 'handling, applications in Lee Cbunty «Loans of 4 types are availabli through this concern to farmers wh< have other’‘security to offer with t crop lien. These are crop production, livestock, poultry and commodity loans. . These loans are intendedrfor people who ordjnarily could obtain a loan from a bank. A rate of 5 1-2 per cent interest is charged, plus one per cent inspection' cost and other in ridental expense for preparing the papers, preparing the title and re gistering, total cost of which, it is estimated, will not exceed 7 1-2 per cenfc as compared.: to 10 .to 11 per rent for the cost of leans obtained through the Intermediate'Credit Cor poration. 4 .' . > *• > Based On Four Points. All loans mast be fully and ade quately secured,, and the loan to the individual is based Am 4 considera tions: 1, character of the borrower; 2, collateral—livestock, farming im plements or other things’ to niake e Wan liquid: at maturity regard t fee outcome of the crop; 3; merution of the borrower—experierie 1 -> ’*< ■ le - ’ 4 t.i;p!„ x (Continued On Page Eight.) 'bankrupt sale of coal -1 j PROPERTY WEDNESDAY Pfloperty'of tfit Carolina Coal and By-Products Co, consisting of approximately 850 acres of J land in fee simple on both sides of Deep River in Lee and Chat ham counties and tbs mineral rights on approximately 3,800 acres contiguous and adjoining ' ssW property, housing, facilities, machinery and equipment, a small. ■ locomotive, three miles of. railroad : end office furniture and fixtures, i will be auctioned, under bank ruptcy proceedings, at Cumnock at twelve o’clock noon Wednesday, D is ! understood that several • parties are interested in pur chasfhg this mine with a view to the resumption of operations. ! The Goldston Twins, of Siler :) City, famed auctioneers, will be . 1 in charge of the sale; it: "■ •PREDICT HEAVY TOBACCO CROI McMahan Says . Much More Seec Being Cleaned By Him; . Than Year Ago. . The farmers fin upper Harriett coup ty seem to be preparing for an unusu ally large acreage. in tobacco this year. The farm agent in that conn ty has recleaned tobadfco seed for mure than 300. farmers during the past few days and .the job seems to be just beginning. County Demon stration Agent E. 0. McMahan, of this county, has up to this* time clean .ed more seed than”' he cleaned to .Jhhs nfete last year, but be-thi :,{8 that fa because the farrtiers want to make sure of having plenty- of plants and .not because they expet to put out « greater acreage than last year. Some i planters; have already put out their tobae&j beds. Some planters ex i«xpeci to sow at intervals of about 5 3503 weeks, "By' talar-g these proe SELECTION OF NEW POSTMASTERS MAY FALL ON LOCAL LEADERSHIP SEED LOAN BILL PASSES CONGRESS Sill Introduced By Representa tive Lindsay Warren, of North Carolina. It will be of interest! to the farm ers of this section to learn that a I seed loan bill for 1933 was passed in ;he lower House of Congress last veek, an4 it is expected that it will iass the Senate and be sent to the ’resident for his signature within the I lext few days. The bill, introduced; >y Representative Warren, of this State,""who said that failure to pass; he bill would mean disaster for the , armer. “ -He asserted that the new -egional agricultural credit corpora tions were almost worthless under the ruling prescribed by the Reconstruc tion Corporation and that no average farmer could secure loans from them m account of the security demanded. Much land that was under cultiva tion in Lee county a few years ago is low idle due to the depression that las hit agriculture, as well as all i ither interests a hard blow. A cit- | zen of this county says he can cover , i distance of eight miles in one direc ion to Sanford and continue to walk ] n sage fields the entire distance. i LEE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE HEADS HAVE MUCH POWER Chairman Hoyle and Executive Committee Will I Have Big Say In Patronage. COMPOSED OF TWELVE MEN Twelve men, composing the county Democratic executive committee, will have a great deal to say about the dispensa tion of federal patronage in Lee county, according to the opinion ■>f informed sources here. These men are: K. R. Hoyle, chairman Lee county Democratic executive committee; J. W. Stout, Sanford; S. A. Wicker, Sanford; It L. Gunther, Cumnock; H. E. Boyd, Deep River; T. L. Perry, Greenwood No. 1; J. W. Walker, Greenwood No. 2; J. A. Dalrymple, Jonesboro; W. Carl Buchanan, Broad-., way; T. H. Yarborough, Gum Springs; J. M. McPherson, East Pocket; R. L. Cole, West Pocket. I Under the present arrangement for dispensing federal patronage in North Carolina, Senators Bailey and Rey lolds will name the federal court at omeys and assistants, marshals and (Continued On Page Eight.) STOCKHOLDERS OF UNITED BANK, IN ANNUAL MEETING, ELECT DIRECTORS Expressions of hopefulness over the 1933 outlook for the Un'ted Bank & Trust Co. foynd. hogany table at which stock holders and directors of the in stitution sat in the first meeting of the year, held in Greensboro last week. Stockholders were present from the four units of the bank, Sanford, Greensboro, ’.eidsville and Burlingt<nj;'y The' stocT&plderS' unanimously reelected the general board of directors for the coming year. Their names,, as. follows: OyF^ Makepancc, of this cityj frequency around Col. F. P. Hobgood, Hafrry Bar ton, A. L. Stockton, J. C. Wat W. Staples, John K. Voehringer, C. L. Weill, Claude Kiser, L. Homer Hole and J. Frank Harrison, of Greensboro; Ben V„ May and R. A. Maynard, of Burlington; and W. B.'Kiker, of Beidsville. _ , - c* O. P. Makepeace, J. R. Ingram, George T. Chandler and.j. H.,; , Kennedy, members of the local board, were reelected. Charles L. Abercrombie is ' cashier of the local unit and Ernest Kennedy, assistant SOLON PROPOSES RADICAL CHANGE * SCHOOL SYSTEM Double-Barrelled Attack On Pre sent Set Up Launched In A' 1 General Assembler, < WOULD REDUCE EXPENSE It is stated from Raleigh that a double- barrelled attack on the present set-tip of public school administration in North% Carolina's 100 counties was launched in the General Assembly on iTuesday. Senator Ingram, of Ran dolph and Representative O. P» Make peace, of Lee, introduced identical I bills in the House and Senate- to abolish the office of county superin tendent of schools, county boards of education, and rural supervisors *Jn each of the counties. Their proposal would substitute 8flt*di vision boards of education and 30 division superin few special charter school districts, including the State’s larger cities, would be left as they npw are. ^ I The Ingram-Makepeace measure, which calls for abolishment of all county superintendents and sujkAP' visors, substituting therefor -30 superb iiitendents and supervisors within a, like number'-fgf distr cts, is estimated ■by its authors1 to** provide a saving of ' $429,392 per year. h «*■’ JTotal Costs ' The present total cost , of public ' school supervision according to fig by Senator urea read toHhe Senate Ingram, m $714,041.96 while under 'the ■ district, plan the cost ig estimated tit $311,649.54:,■'• fr*-5’: V vi $311,649.54; j The author of the school economy plan in a statement said, “It is be lieved that without savings effected by this act, along w th proposed and talked of economies in school admini jStration, it wilt be impossible to pre vent drastic cuts ih the salaries of lelassroom teacher#. The. pvovitiif,tits of :t weet ihevw^Uinvead dc V ,v,-hr»f 'to f The reorganization b‘11 would nbt touch the salaries of teachers or effect in any way the teacher-load in class rooms. I Under provisions of the Inpram bill, which would become effective April lv of this year, Division Boards of Education would be 'named “in the same manner as now prescribed by law” and would elect a Division Su perintendent of Schools, subject to the approval of State Board of Equali zation. The Superintendent of each district would organize his office with an assistant and ^sufficient clerical assistance” also subject to the State Board of Equalization. Expense Schedule. salaries or me inirry superintend ents would range from $2,150 to $4,500 according to the size of the district and would total $94,900. Salaries of the ’thirty assistants’ would range from $1,500 to $2,300 and would total $48,500. Clerical expense is also graduated to a total of) $76,000. There is a travel allowance for superintendents and assistants of $37,200 and per diem and travel of division boards would approximate $12,032. Office relit and expense make up the balance of the $311,649 total estimated by the Randolph Senator. The bill provides that the charter systems of Asheville, Durham, Win ston-Salem, Gastonia, Greensboro, High Point, Rocky Mount and Ra leigh “shall have authority to con tinue their operation as at present maintained.” Terms of district superintendents would run for a period of two years and offices would be centrally located from the standpoint of highway ac cessibility, but "shall not be located in any county courthouse.” I This new school bill sets territorial divisions for establishment of each ,of the thirty districts. Division No. !l4 will be composed of Lee, Moore and Chatham. SUPERIOR COURT Although court will open as sche duled Monday, with Judge Thomas J, Shaw, of Greensboro, presiding, the presence pf the jurymen, who had previously been notified to appear ..not be required before Tuesday*. snpnqpced Clerk of Court. W. Gputer Walton this morning.’ f. Sheriff Ehnest ’ White was "busily gjiged in so notifyihg' the jurors this morning. Matters for which a jury'ft if ed Md" 16e odhsider- - - ..... .i.
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