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PILOT
SELL YOUR
TOBACCO ON THE
ABERDEEN MARKET
Aberdeen, North Carolina
of the Sandhill ry of North Carolina
Friday, September 11,1931.
FIVE CENTS
Receiver for Seaboard
Looks for Season Here
as Good as Last Year
*
L, R. Powell, Jr., Thinks Busi-
ne^^ Gradually Getting on
Better Footing
SCORES BUS COMPETITION
“Bus ness with the Seaboard ap
pears to be growing more stable, but
The Cost of Smoking
Interesting Facts and Figures
Gleaned from Internal
Revenue Reports
TAX RATE FIXED
AT 73 CENTS BY
COIMISSIONERS
Budget Adopted by County i
Board Based on a Val- I
nation of $26,000,000 i
RATE LAST YEAR $1.05
no indications of pronounced immed-
The following figures from reports
of the United States Commissioner of
iate revival are noticed,” said L. R. ^ Internal Revenue are of interest:
Powell, Ji’.j owe of the receivers of | In 1930, 6,730,660,719 cigars were
the Seaboard Air Line Railway, who 1 niade and consumed,
was in Southern Pines with the golf- Cigarettes made and consumed last
ers in their week-end tournament. | totalled 119,944,475,002.
•The prospect in the Sandhills sec- i Smoking and chewing tobacco con-
„ n ;ooks good as far as we can tell, j last year totalled 333,845,754
r' h promise that it will equal last I
ytai. Pown the road conditions are] The total tax received by the gov-
better, as Florida has a gopd citrus' ernment on cigars, cigarettes and to
bacco in 1930 was $450,339,000.
North Carolina grew 508,060,000
crop along with other favorable con
ditions. The road is practicing the
closest economies allowed by good
railroading, and getting good results.
The tendency is steadily toward more
efficiency in railroading, but it is
not to be denied that the competition
of automobiles^ and trucks on the
highway is cutting into the railroad
revenues.”
When questioned as to the prob
able outcome of the truck and bus
competition Mr. Powell said he
thought that before long such com
pounds of tobacco in 1929; Kentucky
was second among the states with
361.845.00 pounds, Virginia third with
118.320.000 pounds. •
The North Carolina leaf crop in
1929 was valued at $93,991,000, pro
duced on 764,000 acres.
North Carolina has 14 tobacco fac
tories with 14,081 employees earning
$11,582,745 and an output valued at
$392,050,1^ (1927 figures).
Because of the tobacco taxes, North
BANK OF VASS
CLOSES DOORS
TEMPORARn,Y
Directors Vote Closing for Pro
tection of Depositors.—Re
sources Total $174,735
BLAME LOW CROP PRICES
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D. C. Thomas Dies at
Home Near Aberdeen
petition would have to be brought, Carolina ranks second to New York in
u? 1 r the jurisdiction of the laws and , total taxes paid annually into the
for several reasons. The wear on federal treasury.
State-built highways, but for the use
and comfort 'of the taxpayers whose
money built them, will in due season
require repairs and ultimately restor
ation after long heavy traffic has!
been wearing them down, and where !
the money to rebuild is to come
from will be a problem, as most of ;
the cost of building roads as they j
are now is yet to be paid. That the
taxraver will look with favor on fur- ;
1
ther taxation to provide roads to |
carry heavy and continued traffic on I
a commercial basis may be doubtful, |
a willingness to a further drastic I
and even if the taxpayer should evince |
turden of taxes it is a question wheth- ^
ei the increased taxes necessary to ^ appearing on the
door yesterday morning informing de-
^ positors that it wag closing for the
I protection of depositors.
In its statement of June 30th, 1931,
the Bank of Vass showed total re
sources of $174,735.40. Its loans and
discounts totalled $148,937. Cash in
vault and amount due from approv
ed depository banks was given as
$17,697.67. Deposits subject to check
totalled $64,157.12, and savings de
posits $66,233.75. The statement
showed $5,000 of bills payable. The
capital account showed $20,000 cap
ital stock paid in ,a surplus fund of
$7,500 and undivided profits of $1,-
602.61.
The officers of the bank are the
following: J. A. Keith, president; W.
D. Smith, vice pesident; D. A. Mc-
Lauchlin, cashier and Jesse H. Gard
ner, assistant cashier. Directors, in
addition to the above, are P. L. (Gard
ner and A. D. McLauchlin.
Statement by Cashier
D. A. McLauchlin, cashier of the
Bank of Vass, said yesterday that the
movement was one to protect the de
positors, as the closing by the direc
tors was ordered before any condi-
The budget for Moore county adopt
ed by the County Commissioners at
their meetings on Monday and Wed
nesday indicates a tax rate of 73
cents this year on a valuation of about
$26,000,000. This compares with $1.05
last year, which with the lessened
valuation, will materially reduce the
amount called for from each tax
payer. These figures do not include
the levy in the special districts which
will be as before, except that the les
sened valuations will make the total
of the special tax somewhat smaller.
The total amounts indicated for the
various purposes are as follows, the
first figure being the fund awarded
by the budget for the purpose named,
the second the tax levy to raise the
money, and the third the rate on the
$100 valuation. The total for schools
is seen to be 28 cents on the hundred,
for roads 14 cents and for general
county purposes 31, making the total
of 73 cents.
Schools
Current Expse $40,780
Capt’l. .Outlay —. 16,381
Debt Service 11,221
County
General .. $48,100
Poor 18,100
Health 5,000
Funding. Bonds.. 5,000
Ct. Hse. Bonds .. 34,500
Highway
Debt Service $34,182
Aberdeen Tobacco Narket\ us Sept. 22;
Bright Prospect for Record-Breaking Season
*TWO WAREHOUSES
PREPARE FOR BIG
SANDHILLS CROP
The Story of Tobacco
Production, Marketing, Taxation and Consumption of Crop Run
into Billions of Dollars Annually.—^North Car
olina Leads World in Growth of Leaf
By Bioti H. Butler
With the tobacco market opening in
Aberdeen in a few days it may be of
interest to those who have to do with
tobacco to know something about^the
figures of production, colnsumption
and marketing. Tobacco is a crop of
world-wide production and use. It is
the most generally used sedative
known to mankind, and of wider gen
eral use than any other habit forming
drug. The world’s crop of tobacco
planted in a strip across the United
States, would cover a belt from Nor
folk to San Francisco three miles
wide, and give a harvest of 100,000
car loans of 25 tons to the car. That
is what the tobacco farmer has to deal
with.
Tobacco is grown commercially in
every quarter of the world, not less
than 50 countries raising it on a
large scale. While North
Represented Throughout
Season Here
tion of the production. North Caro
lina is the great producer of bright' All Leading Companies To Be
leaf tobacco. It grows a fair share of
the cigarette tobacco, but Kentucky
and Tennessee are also great cigar
ette tobacco producers, and North
Carolina has the Iceenest competition
in the cigarette field as well as the
competition of all the rest of
8,000,000 POUNDS GOAL
With a stimulus seldom before griv-
the en it, and with bright prospects for
world in other fields for which our to- the biggest year in its history, the
bacco is suitable. | Aberdeen tobacco market will open
The cigarette trade by no means de- , on Tuesday, September 22d. Both
pends on North Carolina bright to- | large warehouses here will be in oper-
bacco, as not much more than a third | ation, and all the first line companies
represented on the floor.
Two large and enthusiastic meet-
$40,780
16,381
11,221
$34,375
12,100
5,000
5,000
14,500
of mir crop goes to the cigarette fac
tories. The ^port trade of North
Carolina is enormous, and thajt means ! ings of business men and citizens of
our leaf is in direct competition with | Aberdeen have launched this year’s
the leaf of the whole world. And that ^ market in a most enthusiastic manner,
is what makes the price of North Through funds raised by popular
Carolina tobacco. Much complaint is ' subscription the benefits of the Aber-
heard about the prevailing prices of i deen market to the tobacco grower of
Caroling | tobacco, but if We go back through a ' this section are fo be advertised as
raises more tobacco than any other j period of forty years it will be seen . never before* in the 12 years history of
section of the globe, at home or i that tobacco at the present is selling j tobacco dealing here. No stone will be
I abroad, the acreage of this state and for more than an average price.
] its production compared with that of In 1890 the average price of the
all the world, is small, about a tenth
of the acreage and a similar propor-
.05
.15
.06
.022
.02
.06
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$32,582 .14
Masonic Past Masters
Honor J. McN. Johnson
COUNTY WHI NOTi COUNTY TAX SALE
TAKE OVER SPECIAi;i POSTPONED MONTH
SCHOOL DISTRICTS’BY COMMISSIONERS
All Surviving Past Masters of
Roman Eagle Lodge At
tend Memorial Service
Affectionately Known as “Uncle
Dock,” He Had Resided Here
About 30 Years
D. C. Thomas, aged 61, died at his
home near Aberdeen last Sunday af
ternoon, September 6th, at about 2
o’clock, the end coming peacefully
after a lingering illness of heart trou
ble and complications.
Mr. Thomas was affectionately
known to his many friends in Aber
deen as ^‘Uncle Dock,” and was a
man greatly loved by all who knew
him. He was a consistent member of
the Aberdeen Methodist Church, of
sturdy Christian character and devot-
d to his family.
Mr. Thomas came to Aberdeen from
Sanford about thirty years ago, and
was master mechanic at the Aber
deen Sash & Blind Company until it
was burned in 1910, after which he
established a furniture and wood shop
n the present site of the Franklin I tion arose that made it necessary for
Sales Company. When his health be- the state to take any drastic action,
i-’-an to decline he moved to his farm | Thfe statement shows the bank to be
^'ar Aberdeen, where he was residing j financially solid. The only difficulty
Past masters of Roman Eagle
Lodge, A, F. & A. M., of Aberdeen
held a memorial service in honor of
the late Past Master J. MacNeill
JoHnson of Aberdeen at Masonic
Hall here last Thursday evening. The
Rev. E. L. Barber of Aberdeen pre
sented the resolutions on the death
of Mr. Johnson, and James A. Lin^
berry gave the response.
All ten of the surviving past mas
ters of Roman Eagle lodge were in
attendance, David Knight, M. H. Fol-
ley, E. J. Bethune, W. J. Butler, J. L.
Rhyne, G. A. Charles, D. I. McKeith-
en, J. A. Lineberry, John G. Sloan
and C. M. Wilson. The last three were
presented their past master aprons by
Past Master F. M. Pinnix, editor of
the ‘‘Orphans’ Friend,” the Masonic
publication.
All offices were filled by past mas
ters of Roman Eagle Lodge, and a
number of visiting past masters and
members were present. The grand jur
isdictions of New York, Maine and
Florida were also represented at the
meeting. Past Master C. K. Proctor,
superintendent of the Oxford Orphan
age, was the principal speaker. G. A.
Charles of Aberdeen had the program
in charge.
Ralph Hendren, Eagle
Springrs Boy, Drowns
at the time of his death.
The funeral services were conduct-
at his home on Monday afternoon
y the Rev. E. L. Barber pas-
of the Aberdeen Presbyterian
^ hurch, who officiated in the absence
f rhe Rev. W. C. Ball, the Methodist
minister, away on his vacation. The
i mains were carried to Shallow Well
'^'harch near Jonesboro for inter
ment, followed by a long procession
loving friends and relatives who
remain to mourn his loss.
Mr. Thomas is survived by his wid-
‘W, Mrs. Margaret Thomas; two
daughters, Mrs. Dwight Troutman
and Miss Mary Thomas, and five sons,
Glen, Watson, Junior and Robert, all
Aberdeen, and Worth Thomas of
Oregon.
was that the payment of loans has
been slow, which Coupled with the
small returns on peaches, dewberries,
melons, etc., from which the people
had planned to pay their loans, made
it necessary for withdrawals from de
posits, and especially from savings
accounts, and the usual sources froin
which the bank drew temporary
funds at this season could not sup
ply the money without demanding
such volume of securities as to be a
doubtful measure. So the directors
determined to close the bank tempor
arily until funds begin to come in
from cotton and tobacco, when it is
hoped that loans outstanding will be
paid and the bank’s fluid assets will
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Falls from Boat While Fishing
with Party from Sandhills
at Minnesott
left unturned to attract the grower
of bright leaf to the floors of the lo
cal warehouses.
Aberdeen has been steadily gr#'" ’
as a tobacco center since it
warehouse opened in 1919.
cne or two exceptions the
price paid for tobacco on t?
floors has advanced eaci^ _
v.;ilhout exception the prices paid for
leaf here have exceeded the average
in North Carolina. With but one ex
ception sales have increased each
year. Sales last year totalled 5,291,-
000 pounds. Those close to local con
ditions predict a total of close to
8,000,000 pounds this season. Tobac
co is both plentiful and high grade
. I throughout this section.
The time for the sale of land for ; Since last season the larger of the
1930 taxes by Moore county was two local warehouses has changed
postponed for one month by the hands, B. B. Maurer and Dr. A. H.
Board of County Commissioners at McLeod purchasing the# interest of
the regular monthly meeting on B. B. Saunders in the former Saun-
Monday. According to the hew order.. ders Warehouse, now called the Sand-
their separate authority to the county the advertising will begin the first hill Tobacco Warehouse. Mr. Maurer
the county commissioners would ac- week in October and the sale will be has been affiliated with this ware-
cept the districts as factors of the held on the first Monday in Novem- house since 1923, is well known to
county unit, to be cared for by the j ber. . | and popular with tobacco growers
county in all ways. The school board’s : Applications for license for a pool ^ throughout this section. His personal
resolution read as follows: room and a bowling alley in Hemp popularity and knowledge of the to-
Aberdeen Alone Votes For Pro
posal To Surrender Educa
tional Control
Advertisiing To Beg!in October
1st—$11,000 Tax Anticipa
tion Notes Authorized ‘
XOOK AFTER OWN DEBTS ROAD CHANGES ASKED
T^he county school situatioTi has
settled itself by staying where it was.
Last week the school board prepared
a proposition to the county commis
sioners providing that if the separ
ate districts wanted to surrender
“Be it resolved the debt service re
quirements of all school districts of
Moore county be taken over by the
were rejected by the commissioners. ^ bacco business are expected to at-
It was unanimously carried and or- tract a record business this season to
dered that the board make application his floor,
county Board of Education and in- to the local advisory committee to Eowarcls, Williams and Lewis,
eluded in the county school budget ^ authorize the issuing of two notes of ^ leading warehousemen of Dillon, S.
for 1931-32 under the provisions of! the county for $11,00*0 in anticipation j C., will again operate the Aberdeen
section 179 of the Public School Code I of* taxes, dated September 25, 1931, j Warehouse. The business of this ware-
of N. C., provided a majority of the one for $5,000 payable in four months | house has steadily grown since these
special charter districts of Moore and one for $6,000 payable ifi six men, among the best known of the ex
county shall petition the Board of , months, and W. H. Currie, charman | tensive tobacco territory around Dil-
Education to take over and assume ; of the board, was authorized to exe- j Ion, came here three years ago, and
they are entrenching themselves in
this section as firmly as they have in
said debt service, provided further i cute said notes aggregating $11,000
that the Board of County Commis- [ in the name of the county,
sioners of Moore county shall ap- j It was ordered that, the Board of j their home bailiwick. Neill McKeithen,
prove the action of taking over said Commissioners recommend to the , their local representative, predicts a
debt service. State Highway District Engineer big season for this warehouse and
In view of the fact that only Aber- j that the road between Lake Dunlop | for the Aberdeen market,
deen endorsed the proposal, the Board ■ and the new road to Fort Brag, a dis- j Familiar Faces
of Education submitted the school tance of a little (Tver a mile, the Vick i Eugene B. Maynard will be the auc-
roa d from near W. L. Blackman’s to ' tioneer at the Sandhills Warehouse,
the Old Deep River Road and the new | All the leading tobacco companies will
road built by the county from Lake- bg represented on the floors of both
view to the Seals Road be taken over
by the State and placed upon the map
budget for 1931-32 in the usual form.
Lively Session
So it appears that the districts
are isolated as they have been, tak-
' Ralph Hendren, young son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. L. Hendren of the Eagle
Springs section was drowned while
fishing at Minnesott Beach on the
Neuse River Wednesday evening of
this week. Up to the time The Pilot
went to press the body.had not been
reported as found.
Young Hendren was one of a party
of boys from this section which went
on a camping and .fishing trip to
Minnesott early'this week. Billy Bow
man of Aberdeen was in the party.
The boys were out fishing Wednes
day night, and in some manner Hen-
dron fell overboard from' the boat.
Because of th© darkness efforts to
save him were ^in vain. •
local warehouses by men who have
become tobacco season fixtures in
Aberdeen. “Judge” Avery will again
Commissioners. j look after the buying for the Export
Mrs. Lizzie Allred, Sheffields town- Tobacco Company, M. A. Landis for
ing care of their own special debts, v xi. ox 4.
^. , . . , ^ J XL 4. for upkeep by the State Highway
'tii.Gir spocistl tOrXCSj 3.ricl _ * *
the portion of the county that never
formed special districts has no occa- , - i w a
sion to thinlt about the debts the other ship, was allowed $15 per month for the Imperial W. A. ^e for t e
districts owe. It was a right lively ' September, October, November and . American Tobacco people and N. B.
period while the question was under ' December; Riley Funderburk, McNeill ^ Stovall for tReynol^. The Liggett
discussion, but until something else, township, was allowed $10 per month company has not yet announced who
is brought up quiet will reign again., for support; Mrs. Dewit Short, $15, will be sent here to represent them.
Incidentally it is remarked by I per month until further notice; and : L. I. Bass_ ^11 do the »uymg for a
some of the observers that transpor-i Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, Steeds route 1, group o m epen ' .
tation and the care of children in was allowed $5.00 for supplies. : Elhngton and a number of others fa-
the special tax districts coming from C. E. Pleasants, Frank Shamburg- ^ m.har to residents of Aberdeen _
districts that have made no prepara- er and T. B. Creel were appointed as! Aberdeen busmess men and resi-
tion for their children in their own appraisers to investigate the damage j dents plan a cordial reception for t
districts will afford further sub- | done by dogs in killing chickens own-; ^siting farmers this season A num-
jects for talking later on, as will the ed by J. V. Free of Aberdeen, and ber of entertainments are to be ar-
LcciM. need of more new school Walter McCaskill, Thaddeus Blue and;ranged, and a sincere effort made to
Charlie Deaton are to report the j get acquainted with the tobacco
amount of damage as a result of the growers of this section, both fo^brt-
possible need of more new
houses in the coynty.
Miss Natalie Wheeler left for Bos- | killing by dogs of nineteen young tar- ^ ter fellowrfiip and better acquaint
ton Tuesd&v night where she will en- keys, a gobler and a hen, property 11 e growers wi er een an e
'of Mrs. Ida Blue. I Sandhills.
ter Simmons College.