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UN. d CAROLINA ROOM the news-weekly OF MOORE COUNTY THE LOT FIRST IN NEWS AND ADVERTISING Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of No VOL. 9, NO. 11. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929 Bill In Legislature For CIVIC BODIES TO IFAMOUS RADIO Reduction In Local Taxes! ASK PLAYGROUND I ARTISTS COMING VASS, N. C. U. L. Spence Offers Measure to Fix Salaries of County Officers and for Bridge Repairs on County Roads. ADDITIONAL TAX ON GAS WILL HELP The Pilot has the following docii- debtedness, the levy of road taxes ment from Hon. U. L. Spence, repre-jfor maintenance shall be correspond- sentative in the Legislature: ; ^^'gly r^diiced so that the taxes levied I for roads in the future cannot be in- I am enclosing you copy of bill 11 creased. am introducing, which fixes the sal-{ It so happens that if the general aries of the Sheriff, Recorder and So- road bill already passed by the house is enacted into law, as it will he by BEAUTinCAWON Joint Committee of Chamber of Commerce and Civic Club to Wait on Board TO AID HOSPITAL Benefit Concert for New Moore County Institution Arranged for March 7th A proposition to beautify the public playground in Southern Pines, making | the plaza more of a landscaped park, i with restful benches amang the trees' and shrubs, was presented to the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce AT PINEHURST THEATRE Heitor of the Recorder’s Court of Moore County. Under the existing law, these salaries are required to be ceive from the additional tax on gas According to an announcement made jointly Monday by the committee in charge of the campaign for raising funds for the new Moore County by a committee of the Civics Club of!Hospital in Pinehurst and by Charles that town at the weekly meeting of i Picquet, manager of the Carolina the Chamber of Commerce directors I Theatre, residents and visitors here the senate, Moore County will re-{Tuesday noon at Jack’s Grill. The i are to have the rare privilege of hear- fixed by the board of County Com missioners, and it is the wish of this board that these salaries he definite ly determined by law and this seems to be the opinion of everybody. These are elective offices and it seems but fair that it be known in advance by persons seeking these offices and by oline each year over $30,000, which committee of the Civics Club appear ing before the Chamber directors sum will be applied to county roads i comprised Mrs. Charles R. Whitaker, to be gradually taken over by the ■ Emerson Hayes and Mrs. Charles Stale or to the paymeiit of ifoad j Durgin. bonds of the County as may be deter-1 Whitaker pointed out that in mined by the Couniy authorities, and Peaces of the type of Southern the taxes in the County on land and especially in Florida, the parks personal property must be reduced ^ activities, ^ the people just what the salaries will' correspondingly. It will result, there- meeting place, and the place where whose names are familiar to radio be. I fere, that even with this issue of are: Genia Zieliinska, The salaries of County Recorder these biidge bonds, our taxes will be ~ ing four famous stars of the National Broadcasting Company, appearing in person, on the evening of March 7th. The occasion will be a concert to be given for the benefit of the hospital, now in process of construction on the Carthage road just outside of the village. Tne natioanlly known artists, all so- (Please turn to Page 4) and Solicitor are named in this bill at the amounts now being paid and| these amounts seem to be reasonable and generally satisfactory. *11/1AA01? PAITXITV I have found more difficulty in de- iTHIt yli ri 1 1 termining what ought to be paid toj the Sheriff and his deputies. The; commissioners have heretofore allow-i ed a salary of $3,000 to the Sheriff! in addition to fees for service of pro-j cess and $1,500 to the first deputy, I prano; Giusseppe Di Bendetto, tenor; Acadie Birkenholz, violinist and Lolita RATE FOR TAX COLLECTING LOW Cl- a bench with a book and read while fretting the benefit of the sun. The piesent “Central Park” of Southern ^ • , . . . , , , j - Cabrera Gamsborg, pianist. The con- Pmes is now solely a playground for , , , , , . , ^ . children, and not a park at all, it was!:""' ^hea- stated. But with a little effort and a ’ Pmehurst at 8:30 o clock at a real plan, this playground can be made advance over prices which a great asset to the town, and a great Payi^g into the attraction to visitors. Mrs. Hayes! office of this poTJular playhouse Record Field HHhts Fox As Horse Colony Grows Sandhills Attracting Large Numbers for Riding, Forty-Nine Following Hounds Last Monday MANY ESTABLISH HOMES, STABLES SPECIAL KNOLLWOOD SECTION WITH THIS EDITION OF THE PILOT The Pilot takes pleasure in pub lishing this weiek a special supple ment devoted to the development of Knollwood Heights which appears as the last four pages of this edi tion. This section is profusely il lustrated showing the new| Pine Needles Inn, the Mid Pines Club, scenes on the golf courses and the many homes that have ’ een built in the last year. Five thousand copies of this supplement are be ing printed for distribution to those interested in the growth of Knoll wood. SOUND MOVIES FOR THEATRE IN ABERDEEN There were forty-nine in the field following the Moore County Hounds on last Monday’s fox hunt, the record number for this season and the great- est number for this time of year since James and Jackson Boyd started their pack in Southern Pines. The height of the season comes around Wash ington’s birthday, when the fields have numbered more than fifty riders, and with nearly fifty out already, there is no doubt that another week or two will see the all-time records for followers of the local hunt broken. That Southern Pines is rapidly be coming one of the leading horse cen ters of the country in winter is al ready acknowledged wherever horse people gather. Those who come here for the first time to ride recognize the reason for its growing popularity. It is, they say, an ideal country for hacking and hunting, with its sandy trails through the long leaf pines, its varied scenery its accessibility for those who can spend but a short time here, and its climate. There is sel dom a day when the horse lover can not comfortably take his horse out, and rarely a scheduled hunt day when poke of the early efforts of the | considerably less than prices paid | — j Civics Club to beautify Southern ®^sewhere for grand opera talent. All' Rosser Announces InstaHa-! cannot safely follow the drag Pines, work now mostly done under Proceeds over and above actual ex-1 tlon of “Movietone Next | pursue the fox. i the auspices of the Chamber of Com- Ponses involved in bringing the ar-1 Week • Famous Horseman Here hut there have been varying amounts j Rank^ Eighth of 100 Counties in merce, and of the willingness of the^ists here go into the general fund' I 'This is meaning much to Southern Civics Club to aid in the present ^or the new hospital. The theatre ist R. B. Rosser, owner and manager whole section. Each project. being donaied for the occasion, and!of the Dixie Theatre * horseman or horse- or expenses for automobiles, gasoline and perhaps a final elimination of these expenses. There has been like wise the question of allowance for' one office assistant. By adding j $"00.00 to the salary of $3,000 to the! Sheriff, making his salary a total ofj State With $1.12 Per Hundred McLEAN JUSTIFIES JOB Visitors Need Park. i Steinway Company is sending Mrs. Durgin referred to the need of ^ special concert grand piano for Last week The Pilot orinted an ^ visitors to event. 1 fK ^ r +4^ fv, Southern Pines hotels and boarding Seats go on sale February 22nd at tide on the delinquent taxes of the , _ ^ _ a ~ uua u ^ in Aberdeen, an- , ... . . ! woman deciding on this vicinity as a nounces the installation next week of ! place to establish a winter or all-3>'ear talking -picture equipment in the round home. One of the leading theatre, the first to be installed in; horsemen in America, James S. Wads- any theatre in the Sandhill Section, i worth, of Geneseo, N. Y., master of tfie famous Geneseo Valley Hunt, ' " ~ • t 4.- ^ 4. 1. T_ • I. houses who have now no place to Carolina Hotel and the Caroling , . ^ . S3,500 and making- provision ° ® " owing t a ’ Pharmacy, Pinehurst, and the Broad machine, a Movietone, is in f th fi t this shall include expenses of every i ‘ " leaders in e i pharmacy, Southern Pines. •ansk to Aberdeen and will be in-,eame here a year ago for the first . , *1 M . ccllectint? tne taxes assessed. Tne rpv -r-,. ^ . stalled ininiediatelv on its arrival intending^ to lemain but a lew na;ure. It occurs to me that this,It-,. . . (Please turn to page 5) The Finance Committee of the “ He stayed the balance of last ^ ^ information came from the University uation is met fairly to the Sheriffs i i ^ , i - [News Letter, which in turn depends o ice an to e i^ope. on the State Auditor's office for its ClailllS Freight RatC Rural Policemen have heret^ore & been en^plo\ed by t e county. Comment, one letter suggesting that have performed their duties, as this collection in Moore are Mooie County Hospital Association Thursday nieht of next we°k Feb winter, purchased lane along the Be comprises Simeon B. Cnapin, chair- ^nu^-sdaj mgnt ot next wes.k, i<eb- -jj. X A man; John D. Chapman, and Paul Hurts hand (company Dana, Pinehurst; Jackson H. Boyd, been negotiating for ^ hunters and Struthers Burt, Paul T. Bainum and purchase of this equipment for ^ ' thesda road near th^ Lemons place, and is breaking ground for stables act provided, independent of the't^,, ^jgh. Fortunately on* this sub- of Aberdeen Argues S B. Richardson, Southern Pines, and'»<^™ial weeks and has had the plan The hunting attracted Miss Harriet Sheriff’s office. Necessarily law en-, another clip sheet comes from forcement can be better secured by University, which shows that operation under one directing head, county has a strikingly low! and this work has been transferred' for collection of taxes. ! by this bill to the Sheriff’s office and jn the 100 counties Moore ranks Mileage Case Before Com mission at Raleigh Claiming that the 3.3 miles Randleman loop on the High Point, can be done by deputies appointed by eighth in the smallness of its percent- j ; Randleman, Asheboro and Southern the Sheriff, acting under his control, age of costs. The cost in Moore county hut no deputy can be appointed with was 1,12 per cent of the levy, or $1.12 ; Railroad is causing his company to; lose large contracts, Henry A. Page ^ 1. J J J 11 11 ^ J T iOf the Aberdeen Sand Company ap , pay from the County unless it is ap- on the hundred dollars collected. Lee before the Corporation Com- Plan for Campaig^n proved by the County Commission- county paid 1.4. to have its taxes c^- ers and the salary of the additional lected, Randolph 2^5.% Harnet 3.(W, maintains that this' Directors to Meet Monday Night deputy can in no case exceed $100 Scotland 3.62, Cumberland 3.89, Wake ^ot be included in mileage i to Discuss Proposed Ex- per month, and this can be stopped at; 4.03, Montgomery, our neighbor to freight over the railroad’s i pansion Program anytime in the discretion of the Com-j the west, 6.17, and Jones, down in thej^^^^ charged, inasmuch as the Wilbur H. Cuirie, Carthage. consideration for three or four hire. She is a regular mem- The forthcoming event, besides be- Movie one is a trad2 with the Boyd hounds, ing the artistic event of the season similar to the names of several year Miss Ogden and her mother of the jp Pinehurst, affords an opportunity,^ sound-pictuie machines, and Mr. decided to establish a home hers and Rosser chose this machine after hav- purchased the attractive cottage they ing seen and heard several others. now occupv on the Midland road. “xt represents,” said Mr. Rosser,” I The land purchased a few winters considerable outlay of money but I aro by B. A. Tompkins, Frederick W. feel justified with the expenditure Ecker and Mrs. Landcn K. Thorne, of since it is virtually certain that the New York, some 140 acres covering pecple of the Sandhills will appreciate the Hamlin, Maples and Yeomans h5Jving sound picture equipment here, farms, was the direct result of the Only recently has it been possible for punting colony and the riding here- t le small theatre to secure a satisfac-’ This land has now been de- (Please turn to Page Four) Aberdeen Club to missioners. eastern part of the state, runs up to; tracks circle the town and rejoin the It does not seem to be generally IP-61. almost nine times as much as known that there has been a substan-; Moore countv is that ^ claims, some- tial saving to the County by reason j about Moo e c unty s ^ i . ^„kes as much a<; 10 cents ner . . . the really direct cost of collecting | maKes as mucn as lu cents per of the act requiring the appointment ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ „ i ton difference in the freight rate on The Aberdeen Commercial and '"“chine but the veloped and is being further devel- Agricultural Club directors will meet' Dixie will now have one of ihe ^ center for the visiting the taxes for the year referred to was only 1.03 per cent, but added to this sand from the Aberdeen Sand Com- of a tax collector. The audit of tbs County's finances shows that if is’.09'per cent which is charged I Pa"y. ‘hat this differential had •Sheriff had collected the taxes of, ^ to lose a 1927, he would have received as com-|.^ bor-1 “"‘’•a*'* “t College. There was missions for this service under thei ^^^ja spirited argument ^tween the general law $11,638.85. The salaries! , Aberdeen attorney and Charles Clark, of the Sheriff and tax collector were getting the taxes in cost the 1 Atlanta attorney representing the paid for that year wHh a saving m I county that nine cents on the hundred J^ilroad, at the Rale'^h hearing, the this amount of over $2,000.00 to the charged to costs of col- "" County as shewn by the audit. j lection. Twelve of the counties did The salary fixed for the Sheriff resort to this method of antici- and his deputy under the Wll intro-1 p^ting their tax collections, but some duced by me will enable the County j b^n-owed go much money while wait- to continue this saving. The question of replacement of bridges washed out by the floods is one that must be solved. The people cannot do without these bridges, or some of them, and they cost money. Taxes are already too high, but the situation, nevertheless, must be met. latter maintaining that the Randle man loop is not a spur track but a portion of the main line. The com mission has not made public its de cision. Herbert Vail House at Knollwood Leased ing for their taxes to come in thati the interest charges were enormous. Jones topped the list with 6.55 per cent, or |6.55 on tfhe hundred dol- ) ————— i= Available Residences Ti, M I ft ho a lono+hv nr I Spoken for Almost Before The News Letter has a lengthy ar-1 tide on the costs of collecting thej " If a man’s house bums down or t?.xes but as the portion referring to cashes away he must have another in some way, and such a situation confronts the County as to bridges. To pay for th«se bridgies in one year taxation would impose too heavy a burden on the people. There has been a demand for the issue of bridg« bonds in the sum of $100,000.00 for *’«is purpose, but after going: ome the situation carefully, I came to the conclusion that the County can go very ^r toward these replacements with ?50,000, and I have introduced a bill the issue of bridge bonds in this amount, but I have provided in the bill thiat to the extent that it is nec- ®**8ary to levy taxes to repay this in- Moore county is covered by the one statement that the percentage of cost was 1.12 it is hardly necessary to go further into the matter, as Moore represents one of the cleanest sheets in all of the hundred counties of the state. Much discussion of the crea tion of the office: of county tax col lector has been heard since that step was taken a few years ago, but it ap pears that the results justify the of fice. Mr. McLean has proceeded with his work from year to year, meeting the difficulties that he has encoun tered, but in the showdown be has secured a low rate of collection that (Pleafe tarn to page 6) On Tuesday Mason & Gar^dner leased to Mrs. Mary Nichols, of Rye, N. Y., the Vail cottage at Knollwood. The Vails had intended to occupy the new house themselves, but Mason & Gardner asked for it for Mrs. Nichols, and Mr. Vail consented. This is the last house on Knollwood Heights that is finished, and it is promptly taken, as all others have been as soon as ready to occupy. Either owners, buyers or lessees liave taken the new buildings as soon as ready. The Donald Rom house is stOl to finish, and the Olmstead hoiiw on Fairway 18 is pushing aloiic* Everything else Is in the hands of occupant!. at the call of President Murdoch machines made and I feel sure: ® Johnson in Aberdeen next Monday the public will thoroughly approve orses over a vane yo night to further discuss plans for A complete talking program, ^uh »P«" /'f the exception of the news reels and Tompkins has just completed a pri- , -ii u J* 4. J rru J J.U vate stable for sixteen horses, where tables, will be featured Thursday, the , ^ ^ . • ui. ^ • .L mi and his winter guests have their opening night of the Movietone. The . , * mi. , , . ^ ... , hunters stabled this season. These ff-aTure picture, “Alias Jimmy Valen-i , , 4. n j mounts a year ago were stalled with making the organization of greater benefit to the town. There has been much informal discussion during the past week over proposed expansion commercially and agriculturally in Aberdeen, as recited in last week’s Pilot, and plans along these lines are to be discussed when the directors gather Monday evening. There is also to be some talk of planting and beautification* and a dis- tine,» with William Haines in the role ^ Laing at the Halcyon Hall sta- of Jimmy is vastly entertainng. It ^les. but despite their transfer to i3 taken from the O. Henry story of their own hone on the old Hamlin the same name and it does credit to f^rm, Mr. Laing still has more horses both its author and its producers.! ^his winter than he can care for in Jimmy Valentine, an amusing young hi.s two stables and has some quar- man with a propensity for opening'tered downtown. There are more cussion of what the club can best do other peoples safes by a delicate sense I horses today in Southern Pines than to aid in increasing, the scope of the touch, goes to a small middle wes- j there have ever been since the de- Aberdeen tobacco market, it is said, tern town with two of his pals for | velopment of riding here started. The From the talk The Pilot has heard, purpose of cleaning out the local i growth has been consistent each year, bank. But the atmosphere of the j and there is no reason to believe that town, the friendly banker and his j it will slow up. Private owners are pretty daughter caused a hitch in his i already seeking stalls for their horses plans. A metropolitan detective adds for next winter, and one local resident there is no doubt of the impet’is be hind the aggressive campaign the clulb is launching to make Aberdeen the commercial center of the Sand hills, and one director predicted yes terday that in a very short time new industries, probably of a textile na ture, will he brought there, that Aberdeen has ever3rthing to offer which northern manufacturers are looking for in the south, and more than most towns have to offer in convenience of location, climate, ac cessibility, home life and proximity to America’s winter playgrounds. That tiie next few years will see marked changes and great progress in Aberdeen seems to be the consenus of opinion not only among members of the Ck>mmercial and Agricultural club, but among the citizens in gen eral, and the program of expansion is to be mapped out at regular meet ings of the club directors from now on. interest and suspense to the picture and a “dumb Swede” and a confirmed crook, in church lor the first time, furnish much that is really amusing, t'.ven the most critical theatre-goer will find the picture well worth see ing (and hearing) and the last rjel furnishes a remarkably thrilling c'i- max. The last three reels of the picture are in dialogue, adding immensely to its entertainment value. As an addi tional sound attraction the manage ment has secured an act made up of eight Victor recording artists among them Billy Murray and Henry Burr, and entitled **Bube Minstrels.” The scene is a country theatre and the en tertainment of dialogue and song Is a riot of good humor. has been commissioned to build a new stable for one group which comes here for the hunting every season. New Stables Built Thomas A. Kelly has just completed the remodeling of a section of his ga rage into stables for four horses, and has four hunters, the property of Mr. and Mrs. Hostetter of New York, al ready quartered there. The Hostetters are new comers to Southern Pines, leasttng the Magnolia cottage, adjoin ing Mr. Kelley’s residence, for the remainder of the season. Among other developments in the local horse world is the completion during the week of the new brick stables for Augustine Healy, at his Firleigh Farm. Mr. Healey has a modem, fireproof stable for five hunt-
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