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X^riday, November 7, yifK WLOT, a Paper Wtth Cfegacter, Aberdeen, North Caroliita PMce Slv# WOpen 20th For 19th Season ,.V- •; :?i,v iV, . . , INifli i; ffOTO Ihe Hig'hland Pines Inn, on Weymouth Heights, Southern Pines. m n m nuimmf 877,000 Children Now Enrolled in the Schools of North Carolina Re-elected Sheriff U, s. Senator Daily Attelndance Figures Also Show increase, Sayis State Superintendent JOSIAH WILLIAM BAILEY of Raleigh Lambeth’s Majority Nearly 12,000 Votes Largest Ever Received in Dis trict—Four Counties Carried by Spencer ....Walter Lambeth’s majority for Congi’ess from th-e Seventh district was about 12,000—the largest ever re ceived in this district, says the Rock ingham Post-Dispatch. The next larg est was by the late W. C. Hammer in 1924, when it was about 7,000. The ap proximate figures. Lambeth’s Majorities: Davidson 2250 Anson 2000 Davie 200 Hoke ..., 1000 Lee 1200 Montgomery 400 Moore ^^0 Richmond 2305 Scotland l^^OO Union 1800 Spencer Majorities: Wilkes Yadkin 700 Randolph ^55 Seaboard Finanical Problems Up Again New York Investment Houses Asked To Assist in Readjust ing Capital Structure Steps toward solution of the finan cial problems of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company through readjust ment of its capital structure were an nounced this week by W. H. Cover- dale, chairman of the board. He said Dillon, Read and Company and Ladenburg, Thalmann and Com pany, New York investment firms, had been invited to assist and would be in effect “readjustment managers’ in working out a plan in cooperation \vith the board of directors and com mittees representing the holders of th^ road’s stock and bonds. Some action was necessitated by the sharp drop in the income of the railroad, which operates 4,500 miles in the South. The business depression and general decrease in rairoad traf fic has resulted in such a shrinkage of revenues that the road expects to e nd the year with a substantial deficit after payment of fixed charges. It has a funded debt of $177,132,000, of which $11,406,000 in bonds and notes is due next year. The road passed the semi-annual interest on the 5 per cf-nt adjustment bonds August 1, and February and August, 1929, after failing to earn the interest. “Both enrollment and attendance in the public elementary and high schools of the State for 1929-30 show an increase over that of tWe preceding school year,” declared State Superin tendent of Public Instruction,. A. T. Allen in a statement to the press. “Although this year’s increase did not establish any new records, there sre a number of reasons for the im provement in this respect,” he con- tmued. Last year, there were 866,939 chil dren enrolled, or 11,057 more than the number for 1928-29. This year’s addi tion is less than half the increase oi 1927-28, when there was a gain of 24,627, a three per cent increase over the 1926-27 enrollment. The present total enrollment is di vided, according to the statement is sued by Supt. Allen, into 607,344 white pupils and 259,595 colored pupils. In other words, 70 per cent of the total school enrollment is white and 30 per cent colored. School attendance, or the average number of enrolled pupils attending school daily, has also increased. Dur ing 1929-30 there was an average daily attendance of 672,895 pupils, both white and colored. This number represented an increase of 28,140 over the attendance for the preceding year, and lacked only 714 reaching the rec ord year of 1927-28, when there was an increase of 28,854 pupils in aver age daily attendance. The annual per centage increases in attendance for the past several years are shown by Supt. Allen to be as follows: for 1925-26 1.6 per cent, for 1926-27 1.0 per cent, 1927-28 4.5 per cent, 1928-29 ,64 per cent, and for 1929-30 4.36 per cent. Attendance Good Out of every 100 pupils enrolled last year 77 were in average daily at tendance. This record, the highest yet made, is just 4 more than in 1924-25, or an average increase of less than half a pupil a year. Among the schools for white children the percentage in attendance is 80, and for colored pu pils it is 72; but the colored improve ment in attendance for the five-year period has been slightly greater than that for the white race. This increase in school enrollment arid attendance for 1929-30 is, ac cording to Supt. Allen, due to sever al causes: First, during 1929-30, there were fewer epidemics of contagious di seases than in previous years. During 1928-29 contagious diseases were prev alent in many sections of the State, and consequently the increase in school attendance for that year_was less than for 1927-28. Second, many counties for the first time operated a split term, closing the schools after running a month or six weeks to allow the children to help with cotton picking and other work on the farm, and then reopening them again after this work had been finished. In this way the number of absences were reduced, and as a con sequence a higher attendance was maintained. Third, in many systems a greater emphasis than ever before was plac ed upon the matter of improved school attendance. Many superintendents put on attendance campaigns, and the State Board of Charities and Welfare through its division of school attend ance stressed its importance. And lastly, the economic depression began to be felt and many of the older boys and girls who were former ly employed found themselves without jobs, and so returned to school. CHARLES J. MCDONALD of Carthage Ralph Ray, Colored, Killed on Route 50 Struck by Car Driven by Dr. Ed wards While Repairing Tire at Roiadside Ralph Ray, colored, of Aberdeen was killed last niigbt wly^n struck by a car driven by Dr. E. C. Edwards, of Pinecrest Manor, near the Johnson Slab Cabin on Route 50 between Southern Pines and Aber deen.' Ray was fixing a tire on his car alongside the road and is said to have suddenly stepped in front of Dr. Edwards’ car as it was about to pass. He was carried to the Moore County Hospital at Pinehurst, but died soon after arrival there. Ray v/as a part-time employe of the Southern Pines street department. Moore County Fair To Be Held Next Year Carthage Legion Post Votes To Again Sponsor Agricul tural Exhibits The success of its first effort in the way of staging a Moore County Agricultural Fair prompted the Jos eph G. Henson Post of the American Legion at Carthage to vote at its meeting last Saturday to sponsor a fair again next year. An armistice Day celebration next Tuesday was also decided upon at the meeting, and a committee was appointed by the post to arrange for the marking of all graves of ex-service men in the Car thage community not already suit ably marked. The new post command er, B. C. Wallace, presided at the meeting. C. L. Spence, chairman of the Moore county exemption board, was the principal speaker. A post auxiliary has been organized in Carthage with Mrs. John Beasley as president and Mrs. R. G. Wallace secretary and treasurer. MR. NEWCOMB IN CHARGE I take pleasure in announcing that Mr. A. S. Newcomb has been appoint ed as the new manager of my prop erty in Market Square, Pinehurst, N. C., effective November 1, 1930. —MRS, MYRTLE C. TAYLOR Adv. We guarantee to satisfy you when we ac cept your order for printing. Read the Particulars of The Pilot’s Big Christmas Club Campaign on Pages 4 and 5 of the Second Section in this Issue VIEW MAHUCY » s tt n tt tt }»:«««»
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