Friday, August 5, 1931.
THE PILOT, Aberdeen and Southern Pine?8, North Carolina
Page Five
By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspomlent
Collection Costs Down
A new low record of cost of col
lecting State revenues was establish,
ed both in the general and the high
way funds during the past fiscal
year, ended June 30, Commissioner
of Revenue A. J. Maxwell shows, in
reporting that July general fund col
lections were $1,328,552.35, as com
pared with $1,288,325.38 for July last
year, and highway fund revenues
dropped to $1,258,800.54 the pa.st
month, as compared with $1,541,-
966.52 for July of last year.
Inheritance taxes of $51,556 the
past month were twice those of July
1931; license taxes amounted to only
$365,863, as compared with $651,776
a year ago; intfome taxes dropped
from $71,346 a year ago to $63,802
the past month, while franchise
taxes the past month were $847,330
and $560,876 a year ago. Rates of
some were increased, other differen
ces being due to heavier payments
one month in some taxes and lighter
in others.
For the, first time on record, gas
oline taxes were lower the past month
than for the corresponding month a
year before, due in part to the one-
cent increase which became fully ef
fective a little more than a year ago.
Gasoline collections the past month
were $1,122,520, or $215,680 less than
the $1,338,201 in'July, 1931. Title
fees were off nearly $4,000 and li
cense fees $63,508. For the calendar
year to July 31, license plate fees are
off $827,680, being $5,172,331, as com
pared with $6,000,011 at the same
time last year. Of this decrease, Mr.
Maxwell figures $254,000 is due to
lower plate rates, economic conditions
being held responsible for the remain
ing $573,000 decrease.
Cost of general fund collections the
past fiscal year was 1.18 percent of
the collections, as compared with
1.74 the year before and an 11-year
average of 1.77 percent; highway
funds cost 4.59 pei'cent to collect in
1925, but have been reduced each
year to 1.73 percent last year and
from 2.19 percent the year before.
Maxwell shows.
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Highway Funds Available
North Carolina had a balance of
$3,728,867.35 available in Federal-aid
funds July 1, about $‘4)800,000 of
which will be used with a like amount
from the emergency Federal-aid in
the next 11 months, the Bureau of
Public Roads reports. The Federal-
aid projects under way then were 77
percent completed, including 72.6
miles of new roads and five miles
being reworked, at a total estimated
cost of $1,152,326. Fifteen miles more
had been approved for construction
on that date, to cost $800,312. The big
program will start after August 16.
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Farm Ownership Increasing
Tenants still till more than half
of the cultivated lands in North Car
olina, but the tendency toward in
creased farm tenancy has been halted
and owners have been increasing the
number of acres they cultivate dur
ing the past three years, figures furn
ished by the State Department of
Agriculture show.
i Owners cultivated 2,927,204 acres
I in 1931, increased from 2,835,920 in
11930 and 2,830,332 in 1929. Tenants
I cultivated about 3,101,000 acres in
1929, which increased to 3,128,576 in
11930, but decreased to 2,886,988 acres
I in 1931, Home gardens cultivated in
11931 covered 83,000 acres, it is shown,
j Cattle increased from 458,069 to 508,-
j 408 in two years, up to 1931, milk
cows increasing fi\>m 275,299 in 1930
^ to 289,033 in 1931, beef cattle increas
ing from 182,406 in 1929 to 206,759
; in 1930 and 219,375 in 1931 in the
1 State. While the United States saved
I 7 per cent fewer pigs last season than
in the season before, North Carolina
, saved 13 per cent more. This state
1 saved 544,000 pigs last spring and
, farrowed 93,000 sows, 15 per cent
i more than the season before, the
I Federal-State crop reporting service
j shows.
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I Hunting License Ready
Sixty wild turkeys, 150 quail and
300 rink-n^ck pheasants were dis
tributed last week, the first of the
season, from the State Game Farm at
Asheboro to a dozen game refuges in
several counties and National Forest
acres, Game Warden Charles H. Eng
land announces. These game birds
were well matured and will be able
^ to live and thrive in their new sur
roundings, the game warden believes.
While the main hunting seasons, for
quail, rabbit and wild turkey, do not
open until November 20, the season
for squirrels opens Sept. 1 and runs
until Dec. 31. The season for buck
deer opens in the east Sept. 15, and
in the west November 1. Doves may
be hunted through September, with a
closed season until November 20,
when the second part of the dove
season opens.
Licenses have been distributed and
are now ready for sale by the selling
agents, Mr. England stated. The li
cense fees are as follows: hunting,
county resident, $1,25; State resident.
WHERE ECONOMY
And Quality Join
There is no economy in buying
foods that are cheap in quality
—low price means nothing un-
le.ss it is backed by quality as it
is here always.
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
MEATS
SANITARY CASH MARKET
Aberdeen,
North Carolina
MAyFLOWERs.
Wdshinston i Finest HoteJ
An initltutlon in keeping
with the beauty and srandfur
of the t^ation'i Capital
^ngi# Rooom from $4
Double i^ooms froM $6
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CONNEOiCUT AVEKUE AT L ftim
$3.25; non-resident, $15.25; trapping,
county resident, $2.25; State resident,
$3.25; combination hunting and trap
ping, county resident, $3.00; and
State resident, $5.2.'); combination
hunting and fishing. State resident,
$4.50.
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Hoover and Roosevelt Invited
President Herbert Hoover and Can
didates Franklin D. Roosevelt have
both been invited to attend the meet
ing of the National Grange in Win
ston-Salem November 16-24, at which
5.000 to '10,000 delegates will be in
attendance W. Kerr Scott, Master,
North Carolina, State Grange, an
nounced while in Raleigh making
preparations for the first meeting
the Grange has held in the South in
42 years.
Governor R(|osevelt has been a
member for 20 years, Mr. Scott said.
Governor Gardner, who will take the
seventh degree during the meeting,
will head the reception committee.
Thirty-four states are expected to be
represented at what is expected to be
the largest gathering of farmers any
where in the nation this year. The
rational membership is composed of
600.000 farmers, Mr. Scott stating
there are 7,000 North Carolina mem
bers, which he expects to reach 10,-
000 by November.
L. J, Taber, Columbus, Ohio, Mas
ter of the National Grange, after vis
iting 20 states from California to the
East and South, said on the occasion
of his visit to this State recently that
North Carolina was in the best shape
of any Southern state and that Gov
ernor Gardner seemed to have a bet
ter understanding of the agricultural
and economic conditions and needs and
remedies than any Governor of the
states visited, Mr. Scott .said, adding
that “It was a voluntary statement
of Mr. Taber and was extremely com
plimentary to North Carolina and to
its chief executive.”
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Insurance Rate Hearing
A hearing on rates to be suggest
ed by the N. C. Rating and Inspec
tion Bureau for workmen’s compen
sation insurance will be held in the |
office of Insurance Commissioner I
Dan C. Boney on Friday of this week. |
The new rates are expected to be in-1
creased over present rates. Commis- j
sioner Boney has the right to ap-!
prove or disapprove the rates sug-1
gested, but he is calling in industrial |
leaders and employers to labor to get j
their views before making a decision j
on the rates. |
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Recommended for Job I
I
0. K. LaRoque, in charge of the j
Building and Loan division of the!
State Insurance Department, has |
been recommended by Governor Gard-
ner and many others to President j
Hoover as a suitable and competent;
member of the commission of five |
members to handle the home loan
funds recently provided by Congress.!
Mr. LaRoque is considered one of the !
ablest building and loan men in the j
South.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
The following transfes of real es
tate have been recoreded in the offic
of the Register of Deeds of Moore
counay.
Page Trust Company, Trustee, to
Moot-e Cbunty Secureties Corpora
tion: property in McNeill township.
Page Trust Company, Trustee, to
Moore County Secureties Corpora
tion property in Mineral Springs
township.
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SandhiU Awning Co.
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Awnings and
Waterproof Covers
East Broad St.,
Southern Pines
MATTHEWS FAMILY HOLDS
REUNION AT LEMON SPRINGS
A delightful family reunion was
held on W'ednesday, July 20, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J, Carlton Mat
thews at Lemon Springs, honoring
their cousin. Miss Kate Matthews of
Fayetteville who was their house
guest. Dinner was served from a long
table placed beneath the trees on the
lawn, following a most appropriate
invocation by Miss Matthews, the hon-
oree.
The host and hostess and the guest
of honor at this reunion have remark
able records. Miss Kate Matthews was
lor twenty-four years a teacher in the
Fayetteville schools. Mr. and Mrs.
Matthews are enjoying splendid health
at the age of eighty-three years, have
been manned sixty-three years and
reared a family of nine children and
so far there has never been a death
if. the family.
Relatives present for the day in
cluded Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Matthews,
Miss Ruth Matthews and Miss Mar
gie Matthews of Sanford route 4; Mr.
and Mrs. E. B. Harrington, Miss ^lary
Maude Harrington and C. B. Barring,
ton of Carthage; Miss Vera Harring
ton of Durham; Mr. and Mrs. T. F.
Matthews and JLynn Matthews of
Lemon Springs; Misses Sadie, Addie
and Mary Kate Matthews, Mrs. T.
M. Cox, Misses Pauline, Ruth and
Sadie Lou Cox and James Cox of
Lemon Springs; Misses Gwyn and Mo-
zelle Cox of Sanford; Mrs. R. H. Mof-
fitt and Misses Rebecca and Eleanor
Moffitt of Fayetteville; Miss Juan-
iat Moffitt of Sanford; Mrs. Jane
Keith and Aubrey Keith of Cameron;
T. J. Keith of Fort Bragg; Miss Min
erva Thompson of Lemon Springs;
Mrs. R. E. Patterson of Manley; Mrs.
Bertie L. Matthews and Mrs. George
W. Brooks of Vass; and Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Atkinson of Southern Pines.
Friends in attendance were Charlfes
Robert Layton of Goldsboro; Miss
Dorothy Hatch of Durham and Miss
Ada Rabey of Southern Pines.
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