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Friday, November 6, 1931. ^ifeCAPITAL the PiL6*iP, a Paper With Ch^acter, Aberdeen. North Carolina Page Three By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspondent “Special session” talk continues to be lOne of the main considerations in Raleigh and over the state, but the trend has been changed as a result of the action of Governor Gardner to ward a conference of the governors of four principal bright tobacco states, along with three or four agricultural figures, to see if uniform action can be taken toward relief for the to bacco growers from low prices and restriction of acreage to prevent fur** ther overproduction next year again. The plans under way call for a meeting of Governor Pollard, Virgin- ia; Giovernor Blackw\)od, South Caro lina, and Governor Russell, Georgia, with Governor Gardner, probably in (■'harlotte on Friday of this week, to onsider joint action on the tobacco •situation. Three or four others inter- .-^ted in tobacco and agriculture gen erally, to "be named by the 'Governors, would be asked to the conference^ While legislation might result, it is not thought this method would be agreeable. Just what form the ac tion would take is problematical. Fully 500 messages, letters, tele grams and calls, had come to Govern or Gardner’s office during the last ^e\v days and up to Saturday, Secre- ta y Edwin Gill reported, saying these ini?f;sages had not been tabulated and it is impossible to say how many are lor and how many against the spec ial session of the General Assembly. Belief was expressed that the major ity were against the Governor’s call ing the legislature together for cot ton and tobacco acreage reduction. The messages are being tabulated and 'classified. ^ * Governor Gardner’s message earlier •n the week that no power or influ ence could force him to call a ses sion and that no power or influence could force him to refrain from call- •ng one, depending upon his own con- ictions as to whether it would be or would not be desirable from the point j of view of the people of the state, has | brought forth many forms of com- I ment. Approval of the sentiment was I given in an editorial by Josephus i Daniels, \vho brought .out that Gov- 1 ernor Gardner should not be influenc ed by the opposition to the special session, as expressed by Norman A. Cocke, head of an industrial group. Mr. Daniels is given credit for being the greatest proponent of the special session movement, and of promoting the movements seeking to influence Governor Gardner to call the session. * ♦ ♦ Tobacco products took the lead in ■ the value of manufactured goods in North Carolina in 1929, going ahead 'f textiles which had held the su- i premacy for several years, figures | c ompiled in the 1930 census and an nounced by the Department of Con- 'iervation and Development show. Cigars and cigarettes manufactur ed in 1929 were valued at $480,038,- 850, or more than $80,000,000 more than the value of the same products in 1927, two years before, which was $392,050,130. Smoking and chewing tobacco and snuff are not included in these figures, which w.ould carry the total considerably above the half a billion mark. In 1927 all tobacco prod ucts were valued at $413,274,113, at which time the textile products were Talued at $425,437,522, but in 1929 the textile values had increased to only $452,000,000. Values of textile products increased almost^ 10 per cent from 1927 to 1929, while tobacco prod ucts increased approximately 20 per fent in the same two-year period. Wage earners in cigar and ciga rette making numbered 14,081 in 1927 and had decreased to 13,778 in 1929, but wages paid increased from •$11,F42,745 in 1927 to $11,783,472 in 1929. Costs of materials, supplies, fuei aad purchased electric current in creased from $177,565,177 in 1927 to !^139,G13,094 in 1929. These costs do ^ot include the approximately $250,- 000,000 paid for government stamps, but this cost is computed in counting value of manufactured products 'Uiich it is seen that raw material processing of tobacco products constitute more than half of the value of the finished product, exclusive of I Assembly, the big jumps having been I in public utilities, more than doubled i so far, telephone companies, also ! doubled, and railroads, almost doubled. I License taxes showed some inci*ease, while inheritance and income taxes decreased. Marriage license taxes con tinue to decrease 10 to 12 per cent. Gasoline consumption showed an increase the last four months over the same period last year, giving an in crease in all automobile taxes for road operations fr^m $4,722,653 fo^r the first four months of last fiscal year to >$5,902,749. The gasoline tax in creased some above the one cent addi tional per gallon levied by the last General Assembly. License taxes, on the same basis, showed a l&ir gain, which dropped some in October, while title fees showed a decline. Collec tions on 1930 licenses to October 30 reached $6,689,359, but collections on 1931 licenses to that date were $6,- 209,884, a decrease of nearly half a million dollars, $479,475. * -«i« * Employees in the Motor Vehicle Bu reau .of the Revenue Department are having to work two hours a night for four nights each week, and without extra pay for overtime, in order to get ready for the license plate sales ! which begin next month for the year i — : 1932, The General Assembly changed | Dowdy & Butler Have Contract the basis from horsepower to weight | for Deep Well in Eastern Sec- .of automobiles, necessitating a com-1 tion and Start Work Soon plete change in the system, the long i session further delaying the start to-1 North Carolina is to have another ward getting ready for the sales. ; attempt to determine whether the ^ ^ % , ■ state has any oil territory. B. E. Thirty alleged liquor law violators t , . 1 1 t 4- ^ ! Lamb> manager of the Pamlico Oil in Wake, Johnston and Granville Local Concern Engaged by New York Interests to Drill for Oil in State Golf Driving Range Opens on Midland Rd. New Clubhouse Soon To Be Ready, and Ligrhting Equip ment to Follow * reach the crystaline rock which is the ^ final bottom of all oil-bearing terri-1 tones. It is hoped that the first of i the year will see the first hole pretty | ^he new Midland Golf Driving well on its way to the bottom. The j utfit which Dowdy & Butler have! Range, on the Midland road between , counties were arrested last Friday, and several warrants were still to be I served by Federal prohibition officers, ; cooperating with sheriff and police i forces. The arrests followed some ' weeks of work by “under-cover” men Company, holoing 270»000 thousand acres of leases in the eastern rart of the state, has contracted with Dowdy & Butler, local drillers, to drill .one or more wells on the territory. The taken down to the new field is one of i Southern Pines and Pinehurst, is open, the largest an,d most powerful ever j aiid golfers and embryo golfers al- opferated in this, state. ready trying to improve their tee Mr, Lamb says this is purely a bus- ^ shots and irons from the 16 tees that .ne^s search for oil. it is financed by 1 ^re already available. You get 4d some New York men of means who i i, • j n j j • 4-u , 1 J ^1. , , , , balls for half a d<ollar and drive them have leased the acreage of the land i mentioned in such sections as looked while they last, and you don t promising. With the modern instru- liave to worry about chasing them or Some of the old offenders are includ- Pamlico, Craven, Samp- ments employed by the best oil geol-1 losing them. This helps you keep your ogists the field has been covered with eye on the ball. It isn’t your ball and months of work. Dr. H. N. Coryell, you can forget everything except your ed in the list, while several new al- ^^^'teret, Lenoir, Bertie, Chow- leged violators were under arrest. ’ and Peiquimans counties, Mr. , Trials are scheduled to be held during ' l^amb was in Southern Pines in the I the term of Federal Court beginning*- ! days arranging some of the 1 November 9, with Judge L M. Meek’- ^ operations ^nd detail, ms, presiding. Dowdy & Butler have moved their largest machine down to Oriental, in I COTTON GINNINGS IN MOORE Pamlico county, and on a tract of WELL UNDER YEAR AGO thousand acres they have bull: a derrick 84 feet high, 24 feet square j Cotion ginnings in North Carolina at the base and this week are string- prior to October 18th aggregated i ing up their tools and expect any day 453,527 bales this year as compared to i^tart the drill. They will put down with 464,794 bales to the same date a hole eighteen inches in diameter, last year ,according to the Census Mr. Lamb hopes to find oil or gas bureau. | within a thousand to fifteen hundred The M.oore county figures show, for feet, but says the company plans to i 1931, 931 bales; 1930, 1,443 bales. I g.o five thousand feet if necessary to r.re of the best authorities on the stance and direction and distance and study of underground conditions, has the thousand and other things that put in considerable time tracing out ^ pro told you to remember, the irregularities of levels of the deep- ^ Xhe new* ciubhouse isn’t up yet, er locks and has helped to determine i but the lumber is on the job and soon the selections chosen for drilling. ! there’ll be a 12x20-foot house with a Mr. Lamb says his associates be- ^ fireplace at one end and a spacious lieve there is oil in the state. If they ; veranda on the tee side. Lighting are, correct, they will have a field | equipment will be installed in the convenient to tide water, in easy near future for night driving and reach by water and rail of the large practice. Willis H. Haines, who oomes consuming centers of the east. If they from Kingston, New York, where he find nothing it will be their hard' operates a driving course, says the luck, but the prospects lo,ok so good i Midland range will be open from day- to the company that they are willing light till dark until the lights are in- , to venture their money. i stalled. th stamp tax cost. ▼ State general fund revenue collec tions for the first four months of this fiscal year are about a million and a quarter dollars ahead of collections for the same period last year,^ or $6,- 264,820.89 for four months tHis year, compared with $5,004,957.09 for same period last year, the October report of Commissioner -of Revenue J. Maxwell shows. The increase almost the amount of franchise increases made by the General Jn’t tell I«e RESH mm in nature’s way Camels are never parched or toasted t ffBESHNESS and flavor in a cigarette trace right bad& to natural moisture. If you overheat or process tobacco so harshly as to ilry out all natural moisture you drive out fresh ness and flavor too* Camel never parches or toasts the fine Turkish and ^Id Domestic tobaccos it uses—they are naturally smooth, cool, mellow, with natural moisture retained. ' A. J. Rj^notds Toboicco Company** CotuMo-Cocut Radio Progranu That’s why the Camel Humidor Pack proves such a blessing to Camel smokers—it brings them a fine c^arette fresh to start with, and fresh to smoke. If you don’t realize what natural moisture means in freshness and flavor, switch to Camels and see. Try this mild, slow-burning, throat-friendly favorite for just one day—then leave it, if you can! R. JL aEYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winston-Salem, IS. C. camel quarter hour, MMton DoirMy, T«b7 W«ds, aad Caacl OrcIiMtra, direetioa JacqoM WLmmmeA, «r«iy alsia czccpt Sondar* Golnmbia Broadcasting SyMrafe PRINCE ALBERT QUARTER HOIJR, Alice J«7. ^*01d Himcli,** and Prince Albert Orchestra* diMction Pan! Van Loan, ercrj aiglit eK.ept Suday, N. B. C. Red Network See local paper for time AMELIA 3iade FRESH ^Mept FRESH Doft’l remove the moisture-proof wrapping from your package of Camds after you openii. The Camel Humidor Pack is protection against sweat, dust and germs. In offices and homes, even in the dry atmosphere of artifi^ cUd heai, the Camel Humidor Pack delivers fresh Camds mnd ke^ps them right untU the last one has been smoked SntcAe l=AESH
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