MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 12, NO. 33. ^\^a«thaoe ILAKEVIEW MANLtV SOUTMCRN JACKSOH SPPIhOd PtHCS ASHuey MKtCHTS PINEBLUPP ini^s. PILOT riRST L\ NEWS, ClRCn.ATlON & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina .Vo 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 inear 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 (Please turn to page 8) 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 Please turn to page 5) 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.