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I Papre Four- High Property Valuation and Low Tax Rate, or Vice Versa, Question THUJ PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, January 9, 1931. County Commissiners Consider Plans for Revaluing Property To Meet Fiscal Needs Court House News By Bion H. Butler The new board of commissioners of Moore county in session last week faced the most serious proposition be fore it and took the matter in hand in intelligent fashion. This is the question of revaluation of property in the county, which is a possibility of the new four-year assessment of real pro-perty that comes with 1931. Wilbur Currie had already gone over county affairs carefully, and he came to the meeting with much informa tion on the subject, from which those who dropped in at the session have concluded that the new board is going to give an unusually good ad ministration. The tenor of the dis cussion that arose covered the essen tial points of county administration, the financing and the expenditure of the county revenues, and the imper ative requirements as well as those that are less grave in their charac ter. One thing that stood out in the ex amination of the situation is that the ' chief cost of county operation is not the current expenses but interest on bonded debt along with the sums nec essary for the sinking fund to retire the debt from year to year. Bonds have been issued for different pur poses, court house, school and road bonds being the particular burden on . the county. It is these that take the big end of the money collected in taxes, and it is these bonds that say what the annual tax collection must be. Next after the imperative de mand of the bonds and interest comes the school and the roads. We cannot cut down on interest and bond re demption, but the schools and th;> roads are more or less the sayso of the people. It was developed that the actual cost of government is small, and that any saving that can be made by reducing salaries of officials will signify but little in the total outlay of county money. The old story was in evidence, that while the people Clamor to cut down taxation they likewise clamor for appropriations, and one thing that came out of th3 meeting last week was this fact— that if to 'pay taxes is unpleasant taxes may be lessened by asking few er appropriations from the county funds. There is one things that the commissioners have encountered for generations. The commissioners have just as much of a task in denying money from the county treasury for schemes of all sorts as they have in getting money to meet the innumer able demands. From listening to the discussion ot matters at the commissioners’ office it is apparent that the bonded debt is riveted on the necks of the people of the county. There is a long job ahead in paying the debt and the in terest, and it will cost more in in terest than the face of the bonds, for the interest comes every year and stays until the bonds are redeemed. Road costs aie to be what the peo ple make them from now on. It is the same with the schools. If roads ai'ii to be built and maintained monoy must be forthcoming to pay the bills. If schools are to be carried on teachers must be paid, school busses must be paid if they are operated on the same broad basis, and with every thing else the county does, we must - pay if we continue to carry on as we are. That brought the board to face the second phase of the situation. If the county is going to be required to pay in the days ahead as we have been paying in the immediate past the whole proposition turns on the sum of money required for ^the work. We must have enough to meet the fixed bonded debt with interest, enough fco run the courts and the county gov ernment, enough to maintain the roads, the schools, the county char ities and public development work, and the other claims that we accept. Only one place can be found from which that money can come and that is the whole people. This being the year of the new assessment of prop erty the question came up of lower ing or readjusting^values of property. That met with this plain fact. If values are lower a higher rate on the dollar will be necessary to provide the money needed. If the rate on the dol lar is to be lowered a higher valua tion win be required. If we require $400,000 in taxes and determine to make the rate a dollar on the hun dred of valuation we will require $40,- 000,000 valuation in the assessment. But if we make the assessment ,$20,- 000,000 v.'e will require a valuation of two dollars on the hundred. It is as broad as it is long, and that is one thing the board discussed, and witn getting anywhere, because there is but one place to start. That is the amount of money to be collected, and Real Estate Transfers The following transfers of real es tate have been recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Moore county: John R. Neal and wife. Mamie M. Neal, and H. W. Ehrhardt, A. P. Thompson and I. C. SIedg«, Trus tees of Presbyterian Church, to Pine- hurst Community Church, Inc.: land in Pinehurst. Marriage licenses have been is sued to the following during the past week: Jesse James and Flossie Mae Mari - ess, both of Glendon; H. C. Lambert and Lydia Caviness of Bennett, and Cary L. McLeod of Vass Route 1 and Rozella McCallum of Carthage. P. F. Buchan and Helen Buchan, his wife, and J. N. Powell and Georgia Powell, his wife, to Amelia McCarr: property in Sandhills township. Nathan Foster and Ammie Foster, his wife, to Algie Ganes and Henrietta Ganes, his wife: property in Sandhills township. Isham C. Sledge and Blanche Mc Neill Sledge, his wife, to Frank G. Taylor: property in Mineral Springs township. of Mrs. O. B. Welch. Those enjoying Miss Campbell’s hospitality were Miss Mildred Campbell of Sanford, Miss Willis, Mesdames O. B. Welch, L. R. Sugg, D. N. Carter, and Misses Margaret McLeod, Annie McKeithen, Judith Wainer, Louise Williams, Johnsie Redding, Eliza Green and Mary Currie. Personals Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Shaw and Miss Netta Poplin of Rockingham visited Mr.~ Shaw Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Miller of Aberdeen visited friends in Carthage Sunday. Mrs. C. E. Osborn of Lexington and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur McLean Osborn of Portsmouth, Va., visited Mrs. A. P. Shaw Friday. Mrs. Gilliam Brown has returned home after a visit to friends in Charlotte. Mrs. William Reed and Mrs. Harry Ward spent last Tuesday afternoon of Miss Mary Hendrix this week Redin Barefoot of Burlington spent Christmas with his iparents on Route 1- Wayland^'Wilson of Boone Trail and Harvey Hawley of Campbell College were guests Saturday of Misses Lola and Ruby Thomasson. Typhus Rogers of Campbell College was guest of Miss Grace Womack last week-end. The Woman’s Club met New Year's day in the club room. In the absence of the president, Mrs. W. G. Parker, vice-president, presided. The program was in charge of the Literature and music department, Mrs. Stanley Gra-- ham, Tchairman. An interesting con test was held, and Miss Margaret Gil christ was winner. She was present ed with a charming prize in a witty speech by Miss Lillian Cole. The club wrote some splendid New Year reso lutions, pertaining chiefly to the club- work for the year. The following congenial party of “crack-shots” were duck shooting •• ♦♦ FOR BETTER MEATS AT LOWER PRICES H ft COME TO SANITARY CASH MARKFT Aberdeen, South Street E. B. Maynard, Mgr. ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ n ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ t: ♦♦ in Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Hoyle and Morehead GRANDMOTHER'S BREAD doz. Sc Full Pound Wrapped ■ lioaf 7c Pan RoUs family of Sanford, were the Sunday dinner guest of Misses Nellie and Nannie Hoyle. Mr. and Mrs. B. Cross and daught er, Alice have returned to Eastern, Pa., after visiting Mrs. Stead. Mr. and Mrs. Commodore Muse have returned to High Point aft^r spending the hclidays with Mrs. Muse’s mother, Mrs. R. G. Frye. Miss Elizabeth Willis, who has been the attractive house guest of Mrs.* I Muse. City last week: John Davenport, J. I C. Pittman, Dr. Archie McJPeithen of Louisville and Leightoti McKeithen i of Cameron. They bagged a quanti ty of duck, Leightor^ McKeithen brought a dozen home with him. j The Rev. M. D. McNeill filled his i regular appointment here Sunday a. m. at 11 o’clock. Mrs. Loula Muse left Tuesday for Henderson, to visit her spn. Dr. John' PEANUT BUTTER 23c 1 U>. Jar or Pail lb. Marriage Licenses The following have obtained license to marry from the office of the Moore county Register of Deeds: Milton Arthur Brooks of Roxbury, Mass. and Henrietta Fisher of New York; Charlie Green Cummings of Lakeview and Ollie Lelia McCrimmon of Vass; James Harrison Hartsell of Jackson Springs and Estelle Alice Mc Donald of Jackson Springs. there is no place to stop because low valuation means high rate and low rate means high valuation. So it all comes back to the begin ning which is how much money the people are going to demand of the board for the coming year, and much of that answer will come from the action of legislation at Raleigh in the next two months. Considerable com ment on the situation has been heai’d, but with the rest is the opinion that the new board is taking hold of the matter with much judgment and care. The limitations of their power is freely discussed, and the conclusion heard in different directions is that the board has on its hands a grave task inherited from the last twent.y years or even more when the crude methods of the past are considered, but that the upheaval of the last few months has impressed everybody with the severity of the -present crisis, and that the people are beginning to see the absolute necessity of econ omies all along the line. There aie those who predict that the coming legislature will provide some laws that will clarify the air still more in county government following the legislation of the past few years which has enabled the retiring board of commissioners to bring the county to the excellent condition in which it is. Taking the conversation that has been encountered regarding the meet ing last week it is believed that the r^eople are more ready to stand by th row commissioners and to really help put the county on the best bus iness basis possible than ever in the county’s history. The advantages of good government are gradually be coming apparent, for better laws have made better government possible, and the general tone about the coming year is one of hopefulness and a willingness to back the new adminis tration patiently in its difficult job. 0. B. Welch, has returned to Salem College. Miss Mildred Campbell of Sanford spent part of the holidays in Car thage with her sister. Miss Willa Campbell. Mrs. John Tyson of Vass is visit ing her daughter, Mrs. L. C. Wallace. The following have returned to school after spending the holidays at home: Miss Rozelle Williamson to Greensboro College, Ruth Lang to N. C. C. W. Otis Baker, Union Spence to the University and Clement Barrett to Wake Forest. Mr. and Mrs. U. L. Spence and i Mesdames Leighton McKeithen and Jewell Hemphill were dinner guests Wednesday of Mrs. Alfred Graham of Route 1. Mrs. K. Foushee of near Sanford was in town Friday calling on Mrs. A. J. McRae, who is now making her home with her mother, Mrs. Loula Muse on Carthage street. Miss Mollie Reed left for the Moore County Hospital Monday, where she will do general nursing. Truett Jones, having served his time with the U. S. Marines is at home with his father, C. C. Jones for a shoi’t while. Miss Aileen Thomas had the mis- F ancy California PRUNES y.iwia Beans 31ns 25e Sunsweet Prunes 23c i XX Whole T^filb Held Finest Compound A&P Cheese LARD OATS ♦» II lb. 25c lb. lie 3 p^» 25c daughter, Mary Worthy left Monday! fortune to fracture an ankle bone for Raleigh. j last Saturday night as she was leav^- | Mrs. C. M. Nicoll and R. J. Hart ‘ J- Phillip’s store. She was car visited relatives in Aberdeen last to the hospital for examination. but is recuperating at home now. W. D. BUIE IN AUTO WRECK WHICH COSTS TWO LIVES week. Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Grier of Shel ter Island, New \ ork are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Greorge Graves. Ml. and Mrs. C. G. Spencer and family returned Sunday from Apal- brother-in-law of Mrs. achacolia, Fla., where they spent the I 1^- W. McNeill of Cameron, had a holidays. j narrow escape from death in an au- Miss Nellie Graves returned to I tomobile accident which took two Chapel Hill Saturday after spending lives in South Carolina during Christ- the holidays with her parents, Mr. week. Mr. Buie was driving n and Mrs. G. C. Graves. i\Iiss Isabella Morton of Petersburg, truck when a coupe, driven by James Ford, of New York city, collided with \ r • Va., spent last week with Mr. and I him. Ford’s sister and a young man, Mrs. E. H. Morton. CAMERON Mrs. said to have been her fiance, were killed and Ford injured and rushed to a hospital. Mr. and Mrs. McNeill spent New PEACHES 23c Red Circle Coffee lb. 29c Mello Wheat Farina pkg. 19c FLOUr. : . 241b. bag Meal or Grits Loose lb. Sc Palmolive Soap 3 cakes 19c BANANAS, 4 lbs 25c ORANGES—APPLES FATBACK, lb. 11c BEEF ROAST, lb 25c CiRCAT Atlantiic & Paciihc Ed Mann and son of Boon- 1 ^ ^ ville spent the holidays with her par- i ents, Mr. and Mrs D J Pierce I ' ' Prof. J. Clyde Kelly ami Mis.'Kel-1 - recovering from his in ly and children of Harmony spent I the week-end with his brother, Ever ' sisters. Kelly of Route 1. They were in town Friday and their many friends were wishing them a happy New Year. Mrs. Royal Jones and Tom Jones of Fayetteville were guests Friday of | C. C. Jones and daughters on Route * 1. Tom Jones spent his boyhood in ! cameron and he has a warm spot in the hearts of the people. Mrs. Flora Buchanan of Louisburg :: It TEX CiOt PUNCTUALITY PROMPTNESS PRECISION . I Another year has .past. Unless all signs fail nineteen-thirty is visiting Mrs. D. W. McNeill and | ‘"'iH long be remembered as the be- CARTHAGE Misses Nellie and Nannie Hoyle en tertained Friday evening at a dinner at their home. The home was decor ated for the occasion with Yuletide colors. After dinner a table of bridge and rook were enjoyed. Mrs. F. II. Underwood won the bridge prize and Miss Mildred Sinclair the rook prize. The guest were Mesdames H. G. Poole, F. H. Underwood, J. P. Sin clair, J. V. Williamson, S, H. Shields, J. M. Lane, Misses Mildred Sinclair and Maida Jenkins. On New Year’s Day, S. R. Hoyfe was the host to a number of friends at a twelve o’clock dinner at his home on Sanders street. The house was decorated with Christmas colors. The guests were U. L. ^pence. Judge George H. Humber, H. Lee Thomas, H. F. SeaweU, Jrv, M. G. Boyette, John Willcox and Sheriff C. J. Mc Donald. Miss Willa Campbell was hostess to her bridge club Thursday ever>- inc". After several progressions it was found that Mrs. L. R. Sugg held I'i'^h score. Guest 'prize was given to Miss Elizabeth Willis, house guest her niece, Mrs. Ada McNeill. Mrs. M. McL. McKeithen was on the sick list a few days last week. J. C. Bruton, Sr., and J. C. Bruton, Jr., of Columbia, S. C., were week end guests of Miss Mamie Arnold and Mrs. McD. Mclver, the latter return ed to Philadelphia where he holds the Chair of Law in the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Tally returned from Buffalo, N. Y., Saturday. They spent the holidays with their son, J. B. Tally. Mrs. Julia McDougald, who has been visiting her son, Arch McDou gald, of Hamlet, returned home Sat urday. Mrs. W. G. Parker has a slight case of influenza. Little Pattie Ruth Lewis is much imnroved. ginning of the end of an extraordi nary era in United States history. As the years from eighteen ninety to nineteen hundred are satirically and antithetically called **the gay nine ties,” so the decade ending with nineteen thirty may become derisive ly known as the “dull twenties.” For it has been far from dull. We are apparently entering a per iod of readjustment during which the nation and its individuals must strug gle manfully to catch up with the bewildering multitude of new discov eries, devices and systems that have in more senses than one, carried us off our feet. Probably economic depressions are necessary to compel such readjust ment, for as long as credit is plenty and business is easy, men have time and means to devote to the perfeC' Mrs. Thad Omohundro and daught-1 tion and introduction of innovations er, Annie, of Greensboro are visiting | and will continue such work until such a pace is reached that the econ omic structure breaks down and de mands a respite. But there is consolation in the fact that we have now descended,, from our wild flights into unexplored spaces with grim determination to master these Juggernauts and so Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Loving this week. Mrs. O. F. Taylor and son, Ray, ac companied by Misses Elizabeth Ray and Margaret McLean returned to Winston-Salem Sunday. Mrs. D. S. Ray spent Sunday in Asheboro with her son, Ervin L. Ray. Rev. Mr. Hen*ing, a retired mis- j guide them that they will no" longL sionary of Fuquay Springs, preached | crush their devotees when they throw in the Baptist Church Sunday even- j themselves under the wheels, but will ^ . I be controlled and made of lasting ben- Misses Annie H. Jones and Ellen | efit to mankind. Royal Jones returned to Meredith! So come on now, a long puli’- a Monday Mary Hendrix and Bill Turn- strong pull, and a pull altogether! .ey to Mars Hill Monday. BANK OF PINEHURST, J. T. Fox of Wake Forest was guest ■ Pinehurst, N. C. 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