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Friday, April 3, 1931.
THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Caroliiia
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APITAL
Page Three
To Hard Surface 50
To Moore Co. Line
By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Ralei^rh Correspondent
Old Higrhway Board Retires by
Law After Letting Number
ot Cwitracts
Sales tax or no sales tax has been den from the big property owner to
the all-absorbing problem in the
General Assembly for a week, partic
ularly in the House of Representa
tives side. The question of, if a sales
tax, then which, was answered by the
House committee and later by the
House, as a committee of the whole,
in favor of the general sales tax as
against the so-called luxury tax, by
^he close margin of four votes.
This vote, of course, was not de
cisive. In fact, proponents of the lux
ury tax, in some instances, voted for
-ke general sales tax, with a sort of
reservation that they would re-intro-
duce it when it comes to a final vote
in the House, or that the Senate,
•when the Revenue hill reaches that
^ody, would substitute the luxury
sales tax and send it back to the
House for concurrence.
Lines established when the so nam-
%d MacLean bill was enacted to re
quire State support of the six montiis
school term, and when the later John
ston—Jolly bill, providing machinery
for operating the six months terni,
was passed in the House, both by
overwhelming majorities—^these lines
are all broken up over methods of
financing the term. It might seem
that the legislators would incline to
ward the luxury tax on tobacco pro
ducts, soft drinks, cosmetics, playing
his employers. They pointed to the
lining up of Mr. MacLrean, supposedly
representing the small landowners
and home owners, with the Forsyth
representatives, referring to it as not
a legalized marriage, but a compan
ionate marriage. The tax proposed is
one per cent, which, it is pointed oot,
is five times larger th^n any general
sales tax in any other state. The
case of running across a state line
to make purchases to avoid the tax,
with the accompanying loss to mer
chants at home and thus to the com
munity, was stressed.
Those favoring the tax said it was
fair and just, that all receive aid
from the government and all, rich
The old State Highway Commis
sion has held its last meeting. It went
out of office on Wednesday April
1st, after letting some final con
tracts.
The members of the commission
whose terms expire under the new
road law are: R. A. Dou'ghton, chair
man; F. C. Kugler, Washington; C.
R. Wheatley, of Beaufort; W. A. Mc-
Girt, of Wilmington; John Sprunt
Hill of Durham; J. Flwood Cox, of
High Point; J. L. McNair, of Laurin-
burg; Alex S. Hanes of Winston-Sa
lem; A. M. Kistler of Morganton and
J. H. Stikeleather of Asheville.
Governor Gardner has given no in
timation as to the personnel of the
new commission of seven members.
Several of the members of the pres
ent board are expected to remain, in-
and poor alike, should help support it
The $3 a year average would work no I Mr. McNeir, who Governor
hardship on the poor, they argued. i Gardner appointed to succeed the late
j W. C. Wilkinson of Charlotte.
lie i|c 4t I
i Others mentioned as possible sue-
Great pi essure is being brought to | cessors to themselves are C. R.
bear on the legislators from home to i Wheatley, and J. Elwood Ck>x of
support the MacLean measure, but | High Point. The new law requires
great pressure is also brought against one member of the niinority party
the sales or luxury tax. It is not con
sidered improbable by close observers
that the efforts to raise about $13,-
000,000 additional revenue will fail
and the result will be increased equal •
izing fund. That fund of $10,000,000,
will really bring .more relief than
on the commissio*.
Among final projects let were the
following of local interest:
No. 6670, Richmond county, $138,-
201.40, by R. G. Lassiter and Com
pany of Raleigh, for 8.68 miles of
hardsurface on Route 50 from the
•nrds; automobiles and other articles i complete operation of the six months ......
•ards, automoDiies ana otner articles | j ^ | ^oore county Ime to intersection with
term, if the sales tax accompanies it,
they argue.
listed as non-essentials. Instead, they
have tuiTied to a tax on general sales
whick would be collected by mer
chants on all articles sold to all kinds _ , ... , ,,
. 'The revenue bill will probably come
0 peop e. I House early in the
If the general sales tax finally gets i ^nd may reach a vote in the
k) the Senate, it is freely Wedicted
that it will meet death there. In fact, t -.j. Appropriation
lielief is that the Senate will not adopt which will consume several days,
any form of sales tax, general or, q£ important measures,
luxury. A poll of the members in , j;]^ose proposed by Governor Gardner
that body is said to show 26 mem- among them, are still to be consider-
bers opposed to all forms of sales ! houses. Reorganiza-
tax. If so, then the sales tax is doom- Agricultural and Labor de
ed. If the general sales tax had been pai*tments, establishing of personnel
passed in the House by a good ma- purchasing departments, are not
Route 204.
No. 6813, Scotland county, $199,-
193.50, by Blythe Brothers, of Char
lotte, for 16.61 miles on Route 241
from Hoke county line to Laurin-
burg.
New Congress District
Created by Assembly
North Carolina Now Divided into
Eleven Parts to Provide
Extra Representative
H
jority, the force of that larger vote
niav have carried it over in the Sen-
finished, although t he last two have
passed, lacking only minor concur-
ate, but, with a majority of only four, : j.0^00 Two weeks more will probably
*>) Senate is expected to take the po- | required before the General As-
♦ition that the small majority can ^ gembly can adjourn,
fee overcome and thus vote it down. i
Several factors have entered into
this apparent change in line-up and
breaking away of the earlier support
ers of the MacLean act. Governor
Gardner appeared before a joint ses
sion of the two houses last week and
North Carolina now has 11 Con
gressional districts, to take care of
the extra representative allotted this
state under the 1930 census reappor
tionment.
The redistrictinig bill which has
passed the Senate, was approved by
the House without debate. An amend
ment by Representative Crudup of
Vance to number the new district the
New bills are dwindling, only about
50 having been introduced the past
week, bringing total introductions to i eleventh and for all other districts to
about 1665. Ratifications so far this retain their present numbers was
session have reached 700, about 40, ■vvithdra^\^l.
resolutions and 660 The new district-part of the old
save strong opposition to the sales li^-local and private. In 1929 1104 bd s, | fifth”—will be composed of
tax as being uneconomically sound, a including 34 resolutions, were ra i- Alamance, Orange and Dur-
fied. The number this year is decreas- :, ,.
^ rni I ham counties,
ed in one important respect. 1 here
have been few local bond and indebt- I
edness validations. These are taken ^
care of largely in general laws.
tex on poverty and should not be ini-
]»osed except as a last resort. His
speech, said by many to have been the
Ibest he ever made, had sound logic
*nd carried conviction to many of
those formerly supporting the tax.
Representative A. D. MacLean,
sponsor of the six months bill and
general sales tax, characterized one
part of the speech by saying that the
Governor must be a “damned ass or
'hinks you ape one.” It has caused
•luch comment and not a little criti
cism.
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Opponents of the general sales tax
trgued that it is shifting the tax bur-
The most important bill enacted last
week was for consolidation of the Un
iversity of North Carolina, State Col
lege of Agi’iculture and Engineerimg
and N. C. College for Women into one
institution, to be the University of
North Carolina. Only slight changes
were made from the original bill, one
providing larger representation from
the institutions on the committee,
another postponing actual consolida
tion until 1982.
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PfNEHURST LUMBER YARDS
Pinehurst, N. C.
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PINEHURST LUMBER YARDS
Pinehurst, N. C. |
The 11 districts follow:
First—Camden, Chowan, Currituck,
Beaufort, Dare, Gates, Hertford,
Perquimans, Pitt, Pasquotank, Hyde,
Tyrrell, Martin and Washington.
Second—Bertie, Edgecombe, Hal
ifax, Greene, Lenoir, Northampton,
Warren and Wilson.
Third—Carteret, Craven, Duplin,
Jones, Onslow, Pender, Pamliso,
Sampson and Wayne.
Fourth—Franklin, Johnston, Nash,
Wake, Chatham, Randolph, and
Vance.
Fifth—Caswell, Forsyth, Granville,
Person, Rockingham, Stokes, and
Surry.
Sixth—Alamance, Durham, Glilford
and Orange.
Seventh—Bladen, Brunswick, Co
lumbus, Cumberland, Harnett, New
Hanover and Robeson.
Eighth—Anson, Davie, Davidson,
Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Rich
mond, Scotland, Union, ^Wilkes and
Yadkin.
Ninth—Ashe, Alleghany, Alexan
der, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Iredell, Row
an, Stanley, and Watauga.
Tenth—Avery, Burke, Catawba,
Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Madison,
Mecklenburg and Yancey.
Eleventh—Buncombe, Clay, Graham,
Cherokee, Henderson, Haywood, Jack
son, Macon, McDowell, Polk Ruther
ford Swain and Transylvania.
MRS. ELDER AND MISS ABEL
SLIGHTLY INJURED IN WRECK
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Shortly before 12 o’clock Sun
day morning a Packard sedan driven
by 'Mrs. V. C. Taylor of Pinehurst
passing up Connecticut Avenue in
Southern Pines grazed an Essex pass
ing through Ashe street and this car
driven hy Mrs. Robert Elder, a win
ter resident of Southern Pines, swerv
ed into the curb and turned over.
Mrs. Elder and Miss Alice Abel were
carried from the bftdly vn*ecked car
.into the home of Mrs. Smiley where
they received surgical attention. Alice
having sustained numerous cuts and
bruises. Both cars were proceeding at
a slow speed, the accident being
caused, it is understood by misunder
stood signals.
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