MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 12, NO. 33.
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ClRCn.ATlON &
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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
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Aberdeen and Southern
North Carolina, Friday July 15, 1932.
FIVE CENTS
Hoyle Details I
Expenditure o(
County Taxes
Attorney Sees Regulation School
Terms as Greatest Oppor
tunity for Saving
“REPEATER” COST GREAT
Samuel R. Hoyle, county attorney,
gav« members of the Kiwanis Club'
V. clear and detailed picture of county ,
finances at the club’s meeting Wed- j
nesday noon in the Community
Church at ’’inehurst. Mr. Hoyle was i
introduced to the club by Dr. E. M. |
Medlin of Aberdeen, chairman of the,
Program committee, who asked him
to speak at this time because of the
club’s study of county income and
outgo and its interest in the organi
zation of a league of taxpayers. Mr.
Hoyle’s talk follows:
In discussing county finances, it
■would seem that the first step would
be to “take stock” of County assets
and liabilities. They are
Fixed Investments—Court
House and fixtures.
County Home and fix
tures $ 227,000
Improved Roads—(turned
over to the State for up
keep 574,000
School Properties — other
than Special Charter
Dist. approx. cost 600,000
Greek Meets Greek
And McLeod and Butler Agree
Aberdeen Awnings Are Too
Low for Them
Di'. A. H. McLeod and Bion But
ler met each other near Aberdeen’s
postoffiie Wednesday, and each
bcvx-d to the other. The bows were
not gracious, however. In fact as
each came up he looked as if he
wanted to swear.
“What are we going to do about
this?” Dr. McLeod asked.
“Well, over in Southern Pine.-s
I raised a kick and they made them
raise them so a lengthy cuss like
you and me could walk along the
street without .stooping,” Butler re
plied.
Yes, they were talking about
those low awnings overhanging the
sidewalks of Aberdeen’s thorofare.
Dr. McLeod saj'-s he’s going to do
ivhat Bion Butler did—ask the town
commissioners for an ordinance to
keep awninas a reasonable height
from the sidewalk.
NEW YORK BANKS
DEMAND STATE
BALANCE BUDGET
Must Reduce Cost of Govern-1
ment Fully $7,000,000, Stead- I
man Tells Governor
Free Hitting and Loose Fielding " >inniin|i Rait
Feature Week’s Baseball (James'*^ ♦ UCIUII UUy ^
5hot, Beaten;
Left (or Dead
Good Record
Vass and Aberdeen Continue To!
Win.—Big Scores in Most !
Contests
MAY CUT SCHOOL COSTS
Total $1,301,000
Indebtedness; (Other than
Special C'.arter and Lo
cal Tax Dist.)
County Bonds—(including
Court House bonds) 192,000
Highway Bonds 335,000
School Bonds 79,000
Total ? 60(),000
The county’s in<lebtedness was re
duced last year by $40,000 principal,
o? which $20,000 was Court House
bonds.
No county under the State law is
permitted to legally incur indebted
ness exceeding 10 per cent of the to
tal property valuation. Many of the
counties of the state have “gone the
limit” and have outstanding indebted
ness of approximately 10 per cent of
their total v.'iluation. But Moore
county’s total bonded indebtedness is
about 2 percent only, or about l-5th
of that of many counties.
Our sinking funds accumulating to
pay off bonds is $33,600, consisting
of cash’ except $9,000, which i.s fully
.secured and protected by first mort-
jraces on real property.
It is gratifying to be able to state
that our county has never defaulted
on a county obligation. And while
sister counties in many instances have
BURGLAR SHOT BY
VASS BOYS AFTER
LOOTING GROCERY
John P. Stedman, treasurer of the
State of North Carolina, revealed this
week the contents of a letter he has
written Govei'nor O. Max Gardner
demanding a curtailment in the cost of
Ihc State government of “fully $7,-
OGO.OOO” for l')32-33.
‘‘The idea of drastic economy is
no longer a theory but a fact,” Sted-
nian said. “Unless we take inmiediate
action we shall be veiy much emhar-
tassad and will ijrobablf,- have “to
suspend payment of salaries and cur-
lent expenses in the early part of
this fiscal year.”
Stedman’s warning that expenses of
the state must be reduced $7,000,000,
following close on the heels of word
from Henry Burke, assistant director
(.f the budget, that general fund ex
penditures this fiscal year must be
$3,000,000 below those of 1931-32.
Siedman’s figures cover all state
funds, while those of Burke applied
only to the general fund.
The letter to the ,governor was
.SCHEDULE
Fri., July 15th—Carthage at
Thomastown; Cameron at V'ass.
Sat., July Ifith,—Southern Pines at
Pinehurst; Cameron at West End.
Wed., July 20—Cameron at South
ern Pines; Vass at Aberdeen; Pine
hurst at West End.
Thurs, July 21—Southern Pines at
Carthage.
(AHacked in W<M)ds .’Monday. He
1 Succeeds in Stumbling and
i Crawling Home Wednesday
I ACCl SEI) PAIR ARRESTED
j Shot with a pistol at least twice,
once in the chest and again in the
Thurs, July 22-Aherdeen at Thom-
astown; Carthage at West End.
Sat., July 23—Thomastown at Vass
STANI)IN(; OF CI.L'BS
NEILL SMITH
Formerly of Vass, Now' Farm Agent
of Onslow' County
1
Won
Lost
' \ ass-Lakeview
11
2
' Aberdeen
9
3
1 Thomas:town
5
f)
Pinehurst
6
6
1 Southern Pines ....
5
7
! Cameron
3
5
1 Carthage
4
7
West End
3
10
until his bruises lat-.-r made him ap-
I>ear more like a colored man than
£• white, and left in the dense woods
of the Beaver Cieek section presum
ably for dead, Leonard Cameron, af
ter suffering agony that beggars de
scription through the hours from
except when
P. C
.846!
.750 j
.500 !
.500 to Wednesday
Negro Fails To Halt When Leav- also sent to the council of state and
e and I ‘
Hospital
One county faim agent who is not
going to lose his job for he is making
times easier is Neill Smith, formerly
of Vass, who operates in Onslow
county and whose record may be dupli-
Free hitting, loose
sided baseball games
fielding
featured
.417
.375
.363
.230
one-
unconscious gave him relief at inter
vals—finally made his way across
the mile and a half stretch from
where he fell to his grandfather’s
home where he resides, and is still liv
ing to tell an experience equally as
the horrible as any that can be brought
weeks play in the Moore County Lea- f,oni anv battlefield. Young Cameron
gue, the only surprise of the week be-, ^ p,andson of Neal '‘Beaver” Cam-
, ing the defeat of Southeni Pines by
cated to some extent by farm agents | ■ ection of
int. SforP nnrf land^ in I u ,• . * u r .v. |victory over the .strong Aberdeen team
ing more ana lianas in |believed to be one of the reasons the Charlotte Observer. The report on
vhy the council was invited to sit Smith’s work is interesting as re-1
I two days before. Vass-Lakeview con
tinued its winning streak and I'emains
BREWER & FURR CAPTORS'
with the pvernor and advisory bud- vealing the character of service the j
get commission Tuesday to study the (farm agent can render. At a mass
I state’s fiscal condition. I meeting of men and women farmers, i
hf* wp*^ \TcDprrtiott ® ^ a i l ^ i- oa ' » » •»» n « ' Ptiinpf to i€rn&in ill SGcono pl&c6«
.-\s ne WPS. iea\mg .vicuermott. , ^ sal.Try cut of perhaps 20 per, at Jack.sonviHe, called to urge contm-
Grocery Store in Vass which he bad seeded jn store for all state em- uation of the agricultural extension i .. p- v
forcibly entered and robbed between | ,,.„yees. jv.ork in Onslow county, J. W. Fountain ^
and 3 o clock last Friday morning, ] Stedman’s proposal to the govern-1 told of what Smith has been doing.
deen adding two victories to its j
a Negro who gave his name as John: council of state suggests a
Henry Meeks and his addres.s as 1 25 per cent in highway
tonia was shot by Lewis Turr I yp^.^
Tom Brewer, local young men. He was | .^ 2q pj>i' cent in public school
carried to the Moore County Hospital I ^ curi\iiment of lU
per cent in general fund expenditures
where his wounds were dre®sed and i
where he is still confined in custody of, ^^e general fund, and
the sheriff. ; jj. },gg already
McDermott’s store is located in the | 22 ppj. cent,
building known as the Dr. J. A. Les-'
lie store building, near the upper lail-
road bridge. Mrs. Stacy Brewer, who
lives in the E. D. Byrd house near
the store, heard unusual noises and
aroused othei’ members of the family.
Tom Brewer notified Lewis Furr, who
had
cut of
Believes in Slhools
Saying he is a great believer in
both schools and highways, Stedman
says he believes the schools will “fare
far better” knowing they will actual
ly obtain 80 per cent of their appro-1
Moore county.
Cameron left his home on Monday,
the 4th, and nothing was heard of
him by his family until they came in
from their work in the field about
six or seven o’clock Wednesday even-
, ing and found him there.
Aberdeen ran away from Pinehurst,
last Saturday to the j beaten on Monday, of his efforts to
tune of 12 to 4, bunching hits and ^lawl to the swamp for water, of his
woTk ’ of wild throws to 1 pejraining consciousness at times when
I pass ihe re.'^orters alter they had tak- would be shining and again
en the lead in the opening in. Yow
This farm agent began his
there in the Spring of 1928 and since
that time hogs fed and sold accord-' bairfor"Aberd"een
ir.jr to thv demonstration plan have
netted owners $I00J7r».H8. In addition
smith has vaccinated 7,400 hogs for n^n^Maurer’s clever pitching,; also able to'tell officers
immun,.at.on from cholera. During , j 3
the period Irom .Maj' 1, 1930, to May
-Aberdeen played the tail-end West
Enders Wednesday and won handily
when everything was dark, of his ef
forts to get to .his feet, sometimes suc
ceeding and making some step.s, then
stumbling and continuing by crawl-
where his time was spent, and they
I. ,031. Ihc valuatfon of liv.,took i», ">
the county increased by $29,253.,
Nearly h,),000. j their batting eyes with them. Purvis
Mr. Foutnian pointed out that perree led the hitting with three out
843 pounds of poultry has been sold ,
co-operatively and a mutual exchange : Aberdeen attained a safe
I doing $30,000 worth of business from Manager William Maurer gave
March 20. 1931, to June 1, 1932, has; substitutes a chance in
acts as niitht watchman for the Furr' priation than if the full appropriation! . ortrmized
store and the two young men, armed 1 is allotted for the first few months 1 countv is more nearly liv-i jra>iie, John Dune .McLean going
with shot guns, stationed themselves “w’hen in my opinion, it is very doubt- ‘ , timo icatcher, George Martin at first,
on the railroad bridge and waited, ful that we can continue to make such j 1 .; .i,!, crnim have Keith at right field, Ralph
payments. This action is absolutely > ^ ' th center and Mnckie Caldwell
been increased, he cont.nue(K The bee-, Aberdeen bunched hits and
keeping industry as a side l«ne to, advantage of errors in the third
farming has been developed and 4-H ;
Club work has been organized. ^
Presently a man came out from the
store through a front window. They
called to him to halt, but instead of
obeying the command he proceeded in
their direction, %vhereupon they open
ed fire. The Negro ran along the rail
road hank for about a quarter of a
mile before he decided to give up. He
then called for the “white men” to
“come and get me.” By this time other
men of the community were awakened
fcxtreme difficulty in marketing bonds,] and joined the boys in their effort to
that Moore county has always found
a ready market for her bonds at
par, often at a premium. While in
vestors holding bonds of sister coun
ties have in numerous instances had
their bonds offered in the open mar
ket at below par, none of Moore j
county’s bonds have been so offered.
May I suggest that this is largely
caused by the fact that Moore county,
years ago, long before the Local Gov
ernment Commission was set up by
the state, set up a modern accounting
system, which is now in operation and
which kept the county’s finances on
a business basis, properly allocating
and distributing the revenue raised by
taxation, and promptly paying or fi
nancing the county’s obligations when
due. In this way securing at times a
premium for bonds when sold, and by
the practice of economy the county tax
rate which reached the high level of
$1.18 in J927 has been gradually but
consistently reduced. The 1927 tax
rate was made up of the following
items;
County Genl. fund 15
County schools 61
Eureka—Vocational 02
Court house bonds 05
Highways 25
Highway Bonds 10
This was reduced in 1928 to $1.15,
in 1929 to $1.08 and in 1930 to $1.05,
and in the year of 1931, when the
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capture the intruder. He was assisted
‘o a waiting car and carried to the
hospital whei'c it was found that shot
had entered his chest and ankles.
Officers searched the man and found
«pveral keys, one of which was fash
ioned from a spoon handle, several
rings and articles taken fi'om the local
tore. I
The sheriff is trying to get informa
tion about two class rings found on
him. He has received word from the
principal of the New Salem High
School, Route 2, Marshville, stating
that from the description given he
felt sure the ring was the property
Miss Cleo Baucom who is now' in
Jacksonville, Florida; that he was
writing to her and would write the
sheriff again after he received a re
ply. Sheriff McDonald has not heard
from the person to whom he wrote in
regard to the other class ring. He
thinks perhaps he will be able to con
nect the iTian with robberies at these
other places.
Varied Loot
Meeks was very persistent in his
efforts to enter the store. He pried
loose part of a wooden shutter which
covers the rear window, only to find
that iron bars were there to hinder
his entrance. Going to a side door, he
knocked out two panels, but found
that the inside of the door was cover
ed with a layer of sheet iron. He next
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necessary.
Stedman’s letter outlines the diffi
culties he met with in New York re
cently in renewing a note issue of
$2,502,371 for the State.
“The position of the New York
banks is this,” he said: “While we
have cut our appropriations, we have
not yet balanced the budget: our rev
enues are steadily declining, and that
it is necessary for us to get immed
iately our house in order. It is a pol
icy of all well managed banks to in
sist that loans be curtailed and paid.
The banks in New York take the po
sition that the State of North Caro
lina should not be an exception to this
requirement.”
Stedman said before he could se
cure a renewal of the notes he had
“to agree to curtail our notes due
November 25 and all further obliga
tions.”
j he had crawled around on the ground.
Young Cameron named Tom Doug
las and Turner Cameron as his as-
ailants and they were arrested and
placed under bond, that of Douglas be
ing fixed at $2,000 and Cameron’s at
!?1,000. Douglas and Turner deny hav
ing knowledge of the deplorable af
fair. The hearing is scheduled for Re-
corder’.< coui’t on next Monday.
It is rumored that Leonard Camer
on and Douglas had had some trouble
D short time ago and that liquor was
the cause of it.
Cameron is in the Moore County
Hos,i'tal and will probably recover.
Peaches on the Move;
Growers Optimistic
Negro Shot Trying
To Evade Arrest
Vass Still Winning
Vass-Lakeview /defeated Southern
Pines, crippled by lack of pitchers, in
; a free-hitting and far from errorless
Hileys lirinffing $1.75 and up game Wednesday afternoon on the
Here as Season Gets Southern Pines diamond, the final
Under Way i score being 17 to 12. Vass started with
! its heavy artillery and put across ten
The Sandhills 1932 peach crop, es- ^ runs in the first two innings, but
timated as high as a million dollars | from then on it was a fight and
in value, has started moving. Pack-1 wound up with an exciting final frame
houses became beehives of activity in which Southern Pines threatened
this week at orchards bearing early j to climb up even, but failed by five
fiuit. Railroads are hauling refriger- | runs.
ator cars, trucks are scurrying back j £), Bowers, Southeni Pines pitcher,
and forth and it looks like old times 1 ^as injured while climbing a tele-
around here. Many who haven’t had | graph pole last week and will be out
jobs in months are busy among the | of the game for several weeks. Its
trees or crates; storekeepers are re- other boxman. Smith, is out of town,
porting better business. g. Bowers started the game for the
The peach growers themselves are 1 home team, but w'as too free with his
optimistic. So far the prif;2S have I passes to first and Wilson went on
been well up. Hileys are being ship
TOWNSHIP TAX DELEGATES
TO MEET ON JULY
23 D,
Isaiah McNeill, colored, a local I’ail-
road section hand, is in the Moore
County Hospital suffering from a bul
let wound inflicted by a highway pa
trolman on Federal Route 1 near the
railroad underpass in the southern
limits of Vass Sunday night.
The report id that McNeill and a
girl from Lakeview were driving
along the highway with one light and
as the patrolman trailed him the
girl was seen to throw something
supposed to be a jar of liquor from
the car. The patrolman stopped the
car, it is said, and told the woman
to get the object which had been
thrown out and while this was going
on, McNeill ran. The patrolman, ac
cording to the report, ordered the
fleeing man to come back and when
he failed to do so shot him.
ped this week, carload lots down to
small truckloads. They ar ebringing
$1.75 up per bushel on the ground,
end even culls are selling around $1.40.
Carmens will follow the Hileys, then
off go the prize Elbertas, and the
Georgia Belles, to the northern mar
kets.
The July 1st State-Federal Crop
Report says:
“North Carolina has a considerable
shortage in all kinds of fruits. The
exception to this is in the Sandhill
area where the commercial peach crop
ir good. With the exception of hail
damage, the shipments from this area
will probably be more than last year.
The condition of the State’s crop of
peaches is 58 percent as compared
with 80 last year. The commercial
crop will probably average above 70
percent.”
Jame.=i Tufts of Pinehurst, selected
by the recent meeting at Carthage to
formulate a committee of taxpayers
for the purpose of organizing a Tax-
j.fcyers’ League in the county, sent out
letters this week to representatives in
each of the townships for a meeting
to be held in Carthage on July 23d
when the.se delegates will discuss the
situation and set in motion the organ
ization machinery.
L. S.
NO. 1 ASSOCIATION
IN SESSION AT RALEIGH
the mound. He lasted until the third
when Tom Vann replaced him and
finished the ga.ne, keeping the Vass
hits well scattered. Vass had its star
brother battery worsing, C. Wilson
pitcher and D. Wilson catcher. Tom
Millar shone for Southern Pines both
in field and at bat.
Other Games
Southern Pines lost a game to West
End at West End last Thursday, 5 to
2.
Vass-Lakeview won two games
from Carthage during the week, tak
ing the Saturday game at Vass 6 to
1 and the Monday game at Carthage
12 to 6.
Cameron defeated West End at
Cameron, in a close 3-2 game Satur
day, Thomastown took Pinehurst into
camp to the tune of 10 to 1 on Wed
nesday.
A special meeting of the U. S. No.
1 Highway .Association was held at
the Carolina Hotel in Raleigh yester
day at 1 o’clock.
The association was incorporated
icoently under the laws of North Car
olina. It has members in cities and
towns along Route No. 1, which ex
tends from Maine to Florida.
Dr. L. B. McBrayer of Southern
Pines is president of the association.
HOLD CLINIC IN ABERDEEN
EACH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
There will be a public health clin
ic at .Aberdeen at The Spinning Wheel
in the rfear room commencing Wednes
day afternoon, July 20th at 3:30
o’clock. The clinic/ will be continued
each Wednesday afternoon until com
pleted.
Vaccination against typhoid fever,
diphthei-ia and smallpox will be giv
en.