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I-agre Sour. the pilot, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, October 24, 1930. 21 Golf Tournaments on Pinehurst Schedule Season Calls for Largest Num- ber of Events in 35 Years of Country Club History The Pinehurst Country Club opens its thirty-fifth season next month with the greatest golf schedule in its long- history. Climaxed by the North and South championships in early April in which the leading profession als and amateurs will compete, the schedule will occupy a full six months from the opening event starting Nov ember 3, the twenty sixth annual au tumn tournament. The five courses of the country club, and the near-by Pine Needles course, which has three tournaments sche duled, will be at capacity for the greater part of the season. The professional stars will visit Pinehurst next month for the annual Mid-South event to comnete for $2,- 500 prizes. Last year Willia Klein took the bulk of this from a field which in cluded five former national open champions. The professional talent will enter Pinehurst again in large numbers for the North and South which offers a sum of $5,650. ^ The amateurs throng Pinehurst all season but the best player i will com pete in the midwinter and spring tour naments, in addition to the North and South, which last year went to Eugene Homans, national amateur Tunner-up. Three Townships Carry County’s Tax Burden (Continued from Page 1) roalroad taxpayers of the county would like to see taxes reduced some. Possibly Pinehurst nriight not be crazy about tax reduction, although I do not know, for Pinehurst pays out so much money here and there to help along with things where tax money is not sufficient that it looks as if that corporation appreciates what the county gets for the money paid. This is only opinion'. It may be an incorrect one. Yet as the Pinehurst corporation pays more taxes than either Bensa- iem, Greenwood, Sheffields, Ritters or Deep River township it is to be re membered that ^reductioJn in taxes w’^ould be noticeable in the affairs of that big corporation, and possibly wel come. CONGRESS FIGHT WAXES WARM IN HOME STRETCH (Continued from page one) boast—but so far the campaign inso far as Moore county is concerned seems to be conducting itself on a high plane, and with pretty much the entire electorate i interested beyon*i the average local political scrap. AIR MAIL SERVICE FOR WINTER MONTHS SOUGHT of Vass and other corporations pro- poitionate excess above the regular assessed figures of property. The-50 figures began to show me | that the folks who are developing the lower townships of the county are of some value to the county, and that it is worth while to encourage more of them to settle in the territory, and to do some more development. Where the Money Goes Having traced out the origin of the large proportion of the money that comes to the tax collector in Carthage a curiosity led me to look into what becomes of it. This is easily seen by anybody who will look on the back of the tax receipt which Duncan Mc- Leai^ is sending out now as fast as the citizens pay their taxes. For county-wide purposes a levy of $1.05 is laid against each hundred dollars of property. Of that dollar-five cents a division is made in this way. Two cents goes to outside poor, two cents to health, two cents to county bonds, five cents to courthouse bonds, 15 cents to the county general fund, which pays the county general ex penses; and then the big sums come, £nd 23 cents goes to the roads and 56 cents to the schools, or 79 cents of the total to roads and the schools. As Pinehurst and the railroads have no children themselves in school they pay a fourth of the school taxes of the county general school fund, re lieving the parents of the children of the county of that much cost of the education of the youngsters. Other large taxpayers in the three lower townships, who have no children in the public schools, contribute in large proportion to the public school fund, which means that the public schools receive from the three lower town ship's a large slice of money for county distribution to the schools. These lower townships also pay a big S'pecial tax that is used only in their own districts. Inexpensive Education The amount of the county-wide tax that goes to the country schools is fifty-six cents of each $1.05, or de cidedly more than half the county- wide total tax. The importance of this was brought to me by a little conver sation between two men. One was complaining of his taxes. The other asked him how much his statement called for. He replied, “Thirty dol lars.” He was asked how many chil dren he had in school and he answered three. “Then,” said the inquirer, “leaving eveiything out of the ques tion you are getting your children edu cated at a cost of ten dollars each for the money you pay in taxes.” The .man saw the point, and figures now that he gets value for his money. When you start out on a thing of Ihis sort you never know where you are going to land. Probably the rail- loads would be willing to see taxes 1 educed, as their tax burden is trem endous. My curiosity led me to look into the taxes railroads pay in this country, and I find that that groiip of leading roads distinguished as Class I roads paid in the first eight months of this year two hundred and forty- four million dollars in taxes, which was tw^enty-five millions less than ffir the same period last year. For the month of August alone the tax bill of these Class I roads was almost thirty- two million dollars or over a million dollars a day. So, no doubt the two Democratic element using every pos sible element to discredit his adminis tration. No administration can be successful, Mr. Spencer says, if the Congress will not back the President and cooperate with him for the good of all. Has National Backing It is understood locally that the Republican National Committee, real izing the large vote received in this district by the President and candi date for Governor in 1928, is strong ly supporting Mr. Spencer’s cam paign. There is even a rumor current that Vice President Curtis may come into North Carolina before the cam paign closes. In any event, the campaign seems to be warming up considerably and there are thousands of folks who aren’t say ing which way they are going to go a week from next Tuesday. Both State headquarters are claiming substantial victories for .their respective candi dates for United States Senator, Pritchard and Bailey. There is plenty of talk, plenty of (Continued from Page 1) But there is said to be a very g;ood prospect of securing ail mail here if all the towns desire it and make the necessary petition to the Post- office Department. The matter has been discussed for several years lo cally, but has not before come to a point of joint discussion on the part of the several towns involved. Secretary Shields Cameron of the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce was instructed at Tuesday’s meeting to again make application to postal authorities for a closed pouch servica this winter on the “Carolina Golfer,” the New York-Pirehurst crack winter train, thus affording much improved mail service during the rush season over the remainder of the year. JACK’S GRILL TO OPEN ORANGE ROOM WEDNESDAY THREE PINEHURST RENTALS REPORTED BY NEWCOMB Ashley Jackman, propiyetor of Jack’s Grill in Southern Pines, an nounces the opening of his new Or ange Room next Wednesday, October 29th. This room on the second floor of tile restaurant is to be conducted along the lines of a Night Club. It is attractively decorated with orange the predominating color. Small tables are arranged about the dance floor, and music will be available for dancing from 2.00 o’clock in the afternoon un til two in the morning. Back of the Orange Room on the same floor are eevey^al private dining rooms, <also attractively redecorated for the win ter season. A hostess is to be in charge of the activities, in true New York Night Club form. A. S. Newcomb, Realty, report the lease of the “Chatham,” owned by | Mrs. E. C. Bliss to E. P. Merwin of Stockbridge, Mass., and the “Linden,” the property of C. M. Williams to*G. H. Betts of New York and Spring Lake, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Merwin occupied the “Chatham” last season and the an nouncement of their contemplated re turn will be read with sincere pleas ure by all those who are fortunate enough to be remem.bered in their wide circle of friends. | Mr. and Mrs. Betts and their {’aughter, Betsy, while well known in Pinehurst, especially at the Carolina | where they have spent many seasons, | have never before occupied a home i here, and they, too, will b cordially' welcomed into the “cottage colony” j g1 the “model village.” j Norfleet P. Ray, who has conduct ed a ladies’ and gentlemen’s furnish ing store in Pinehurst for many sea sons, has leased the store in the Market Square building left vacant by Mr. Conant, the shoe dealer when he moved to another location in the f^ame building. Mr. Ray had his place of business in the Carolina last sea son, but will soon open in his new lo cation with fresh goods and a larger stock. WINTER MEANS II ♦♦ OVERCOATS § Overcoats meaais this store. 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