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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS- WEEKLY TT11X¥j 1 Jrx£/ A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding ^^ARTHAOe VASS ^'^'/lakeview MANI-E> aouTMCRN JACXSOH SPRIMOS AeEROE.EH I ^PINeBLUPF PIT flT Jr JL uvr JL FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCUI.ATION & ADVEKTISLNG of the Sandhill Terr^«^*' '^f North Carolina VOL. 18, NO. 5. Aberdeen and Southern Pinwi, North Carolina, Friday Dec cemher 30, 1932. '%X * FIVE CENTS McNAIR ABANDONS PLAN TO BUILD PROPOSED ROAD Christmas Week Bi ing-s Battle of the Year Wherein Mule Proves No Match for Pig (iory Encounter Takes Place at Alex Blue’s Place Hut Judgment on Slayer is Passed by Sag e of ValhalLi with (he Aid of Nautical Almanac CUTTING UTILITY I Heads Sentinel Group I JNTLEY MAKES RATES NO SAVING, SAYS FINANCIER Hy Hion H. Butler Highway Commission Accedes to Wishes of Majority in High- _ way Matter Because I am old, baluhi'aded, and pig with his hirpd le'4’ u - - whiskered, and have lived for the The I'ig was not in t MEETS mule resented. The mule reached for ind connect- the mood to Will Result in Increased Taxes and Merely Shift Burden from Investor to Taxpayer SI P RimiNFSS MEN of ^ generation in the life time much debate so soon after * ’ of men at Valhalla, which in mythol- ^ hristmas, and he showed his tushes, KIWANIS HEARS McLELLAN I The saving to the consumer in re ductions licing demanded in light and State Highway Commissioner James ‘'By the home of the righteous men ''hich are about three in.hes long, for McNair dropped into Southern Pines "’ho have joined the gods, some of he i;, a big pig, and of .some age. last Thursday afternoon and conferred ‘he older inhabitants among the col- Those of us who have in boyhood power rates will be more than offset with busine.ss men there on the sub- people attribute to me some of days studied the liberal arts in the l.y increases in his taxation, Ross .1. ■■ ■ ■ V 1. -T , ... utility jest of the proposed new highway *he traits of Odin, the ruling spirit jerusal ot Robin Hood and kindred McLellan, New York public utilit from Southern Pines to Aberdeen. -Mr. Valhalla of yore. So they come to (.lassies knew the boar in field sports financier told members of the Ki^vani McNair informed those at the gath- "’’th the troubles that beset them, wa.s a lusty bird, while the old Scotch Club of Alwrdeen at their weekl ering that with so much opposition to ^ sti-aighten out some of the ir ..iiis com ' '' •• ” - ' it, that he had no desire to injure the troubles an 1 hoodoo some of the rest the native the road he would not further sponsor t>y to persuade happiness and depending ering that with so much opposition to ^ straighten out some of the ir .iiis community likewise recall that meeting hold on Wednesday in the! ’’ 1.1 -j- X. . . .u pjg, generations of Community House in Aberdeen. i on himself in the woods Mr. Mrl.clian briefly leviewed tluM property of the Southern Pines Coun- ‘'omfort to perch on their banners. range was a most formidable antago- history o: public utilities and their try Club nor to go against the wishes' Thus it came that Alex Blue, a col- nist. Ale.\'s pig came of pretty fair part in thi growth and prosperity of | of the majority as expressed in the living on Rockfish near the modern stock on his father's side, but the country, touching on the develop-' overwhelminfr vote recorded at the <’’aHe'y place sent a messengei- on his mothers for generations had been ment of iiulustries in North Carolina: ■ks Wednesday morning to tel! me of an lazorhatks and pineywoods rooters, and explaining how this had been | ailventure that has a strange flavoi' t'nd the blood-taint of war was in his made possiliie by money from outside | of ancient days. .Alex is, as I write, veins. The mule kicked, the quarry the state. Attempts to finance pow- the owner of a large bla.k boar lUshed the mule, and felt a slit about er plants in the state with local cap-. BALANCED RETURN FOR 1931 TAXES Tax Collector Submits Report on .S321,07(i Levy to ('ounty Commission LAM) SALES TOTAL .S72,347 I*. FRANK BICHAN MEN’S BRANCH OF THE SENTINEI.S IS mass meeting held some two *wee ago. If( later on, the funds are avail able, Mr. McNair intimated that he would cooperate in any plan South ern Pines might project looking to ward the construction of a road from U. S. Highway No. 1 at Manly running through the business section of the town and rejoining No. 1 at the County Tax Collector W. T. Hunt ley has submitted to the Board of County Commissioners his return of taxes and shows a balanced statement as a result of his first year in charge of this important depart ment of the county government. Tho report covers the year up to the sale for county taxes held in Carthage on December 5th. Mr. Huntley’s return reveals cash colk\tions of of the $324,- 070.07 levied for ad valorem and poll taxes. The balance is covered by re ceipts for land bid in by the coumy at the tax sale, •S7J.347.91, and “re liefs," which is money paid back to ^ taxpayers on erroi s and proj)erty il- which at times has a vagary of tem- a foot long in his belly. They danced ital failing, the largo utility concerns Scope of Organization Founded legally listed or doubly listed. There per. He was until this adventure took around the lot, the pig getting the took over the plants sucli as those of ip This Congression'ill District fin item of .?798.08 for dis place, also the owner of a fine bay i etter of the encounter because the the Cape P'ear an:l Feeder companies Widened counts, money saved by taxpayers by mule, which is now a memory. On mule offere.i many times as much and with the additioral car ital which paying their taxes in .«<'vance. Tuesday night the mule was wander- space to the pig as the pig offered they weio able to furnish developed The founders of Tho Sentinel> an- The return shows S2,r22.U!» in “dis ing about in the feed lot intent on to the mule. Those long murderous the great utilities which now serve nounced this week that tho organiza- coveries,” tax money recevied from V• , *r. paying attention to his ow'n business, tushes ri ■ southern limit of town, which would ‘ , , , , . , , . , , . . . . f,- 1 4. The pig was also wandering about, his legs, m his thigh, up i nthe give tourists traffic an optional route ' . , , , „ , . , . , . , i'l parently without aim or concern, rel of his chest, and had tl <• He approached the mule, and from counter been offered in Russia some rude thing to the mule which the give tourists traitic an optional through either the May street resi dential section or the business part , ,, , , of the village. This is a road which Alex tells me the big pig said many of the business men of South ern Pines desire as an aid to busi ness from motorists who now pass only through the residential section. Because of' Mr. McNair’s decision to drop the road pi'oject from South ern Pines to Aberdeen the mass meet ing w'hich was to have been held in Abei’deen after t’v first of the year to register further objections to tho road will not now be held. Please turn to page 5) Thieves Visit Sandhills V ll'sge Filling Station Operator Assaulted Covington Hit Over Head With ! Hotde While Bending Over Safe to Change Bill Mrs. Majerffie Cameron Passes Away, Aged 82 I Aberdeen and Southern Pines were the scenes of two daring robberies in this vicinity during the past week. The Southern Pines thieves successfully I mat!e their escape, but in the Aber- Lifelong Re-sident of Cranes the three « „,en ^ Creek Section Was Member i" ^he safe from the Farrell Ice of IVominent Family it'-ating the crime. Funeral services for Mrs. Maggie ; hold assault and robbery was per- Cameron, aged 82, who passed away j P«^trated upon IVIercer Covington in at her home n, the Cranes Creek sec- charge of the Standard Filling Station tion three miles from Vass at 5;4r, on West Broad Street, Southe- Pines, o’clock Christmas morning, were Monday morning. Two young conducted from the Vass Methodist to the station about Church, of which the deceased had alighted and asked for long been a member, at 11 o’clock two bulbs, tendering a twenty dollar Monday morning by the pastor, the payment and Covington, oper- Rev W. C Ball of Aberdeen. Pall the safe for change, was .struck bearers were three grandsons. Horton the head with a ginger ale bottle Keith, Vick Koith and Thompson and rendered unconscious in whi:h Braddy two nejihews, .1. I). McLean i condition he was found more than an and n'. N McLean an'i Aubrey Keith, hour later by John Tilghman and E.l- The funeral was one of the most ''a^d Davis. Dr. Walter McLeod was largely attende.l ever held there. In- called and the injured man was re- termeiit was in .Johnson’s drove cem-, "^oved to his home on Connecticut av- ^tery beside the grave of the hus-.enuo but was unable to give any de band, who passedl on twenty-three , ^^^’’'Ption of the bandits or their car. I Fragment.s of tho bottle found on the floor of the office were taken to At a luncheon given yesterday by years ago. Mrs. Cameron was born and rear-, _ , , . , ^ ed within less .han a mile of her mte ^«''thase later in the day by Chief Gar- home, a daughter of Gar.ett Thomp-j that Deputy son both in th< thf^ter in''vming^vomanhood'she the car they were driving Stutz of Southern Pines, to Frederick if he saw them again. He stated al- ')ackso:i, of Boston, ^Massachusetts. pod hoifs in tl’.e nui>, <m North. Carolina industry with i ower -.ieii will no longer be confined exclu- la inder-Vixed or r< t \a;;.d at all bar- and tho homes o fthe state with liglit. sively to women. Last v.-eok they de- 'vhcn i shoul have bion p.rd which eii ■, “E/ery >'.illion investeil by jiublic ' cided to permit men to tal;e I'art in M . fU ntley 1 r,s .'^ucci'vde.i ;n collect- utilit OS is f.)!lowcd Ifrom live to he effort to dispel the atmosi here of ing. He also collected over •''1,100 from ten million dollars of businc-^ thve!- 'i^nr and favor that pervades our I filling stations, ^lot machines, etc., opment in tiie community served,” halls of legislation. The men’s listed as Schedule B taxes, an item Lellan said. “Fifty million !ol- branch will have its own officers and in the report much larger than on lars has been invested in North Car-1 wi!l operate as a separate and distinct previous returns. Penalties on taxes (lina by Carolina Power & Light imit. The two branches will, for pur- not paid on time total .‘?2,.'j71.34. Company alone,” he said, “the lion’s poses of economy and co-operation, Three-quarters of the State’s ad \'a- share of this money coming from employ so far as possible the same lorem ta;; has been paid over to the or-tside the state while the resultant secretary in each political subdivision State from the S247,44.').88 deposited development accrues to the benefit of and the gathering and dissemination during the year in the Bank of Pine- the people of the state.” of political information will be han- hurst, the county depository. The re- Discouraging Capital led by one agency. port shows cash on hand of .$.3,518.44, He said that tho attacks being The men’s branch in Moore county this amount being on deposit in the made against rates would militate will be directed by an Executive Com- Page Trust Company at Carthage, against the inflow of this capital, that n’ittee consisting of Frank Buchan of temporary repository for the county, investors are not going to continue Southern Pinos, chairman, I). D. i\Ic- at the time of making the report. The to put their money into public utili- <'rimmon of Hemp, Moses C. McD m- item, “Commission Retained.” is five ties when they see their bonds and r!d of West End, Hugh P. McPhprson per cent of the Schedule B taxes col- stocks, with the return on their in- Oi’ Cameron.-lames Tufts of I’inehur.-t k\ted, which accrues to the collec- vestment, liropping down. This will and G. C. Seymour of Aberdeen. tor over and above his salary of $1.- mean only one thing, governient own- Jr commenting on the creation of 8u0 a year. ership, and governient ownership will a men’s branch of The .Sentinels Mr. Mr. Huntley's figures as submittevi moan increased taxes to sup. ort tho Ruchan said: “Tho objects and pur- to tho County Commission are as fol- plants, instead of support by the na- poses of this oruaniza'ion are, in my lows: tion s investment public. < pinion, ideal. It aims to iiremit tho / d X'aloi’em and Poll Taxes •'?M24,07(1,07 “The cut in rate means but a few repvbli.an firm of govornnuMit, Discoveries 2.122.'.Mt pennies a day in saving to the indivi- vhich is guaranteed to the Const Pu- Schedule B (Filling Sta- dual. but it means everything to the tion to each state, to function rrop- tions. i^Iot .Macl'ines. etc.) 1.000.IS utility companies. It means the cur- erly. The very serious situation which Penalties 2,571.34 tailmenl of development ahmg all our coutnry is in can be corrected only lines.” He spoke of the huge taxes if our representatives give thoiv best Total .$32;i,77()..'>8 pa (I into the State by the utility com- judgment to every one of the difficult Discounts 708.08 panies, taxes which would have to be problems that must !e soK'ed. They (Errors and Re made up by the individual taxpayers nnst act without tear or favor. They fun 's) .S.riL'i.iJH should the rate .structure of the pow- can do this unly if their constituents Receipts on hand covering er companies be reduce I to a point y-ivi' them protection against the in- Cash Collected 2.11,014,08 where they could not j)ay their way. luimerable strong lobbies that beset land (>7..'>3;t,.^,'> The earning.s of the ('arolina Power all legislatures. They must have as- K<>t'oipts on hand covering ^ Light Company are at present surance that their constituents will land (Insolvents) 1,808.3<> Daughter of .Major of Southern down to a point where the company stand ba k of them for honestly fol- is unable to attract outside capital lowing the dictates of their own best $329,77t>.r)K for further development in the state, judgment. But voters have not been cVsh Collected .'?2’il.014.(i8 he said. Busy Shoppe Cupld-Harrington, Inc., En joys Rush of Business Over Christmns Holiday The annual Christmas rush was On in the Marriage License Shoppe n Carthage last week and the shop keeper, W. .1. Harrington, has tho names of the following new cus tomers entered in his lodger: Louis Akar and Frances ^lurdoch Lummis, both of Washington, D. C. I. Allred and Mary Britt, both of Hemp; Arthur L. Lineborry and Cassic Kennedy, both of Spies; Hughio Keniicdy and Elizabeth Smith, both of Hemp. MISS ALICE STUTZ Pines To Wed Frederick ,lack- son, Boston Banker and are not <ioing this. The .Sentinels Deposited “W hat those people who are yell- propose to correct this condition b\ Treasury Mrs. Millard H. '’'■irner at her home ing for decroa.ses in rates are doing is following every set of their reprosen- fash with Countv on hand ained !47,44.'..88 3,.^.18.44 50.3fl erriipt Nice Chrivstmas Vacation was united in marriage to Norman i Cameron of Harnett county and they:*’® ^hat the safe contained about S200 Mjs established a home which throughout; the bandits entered the years was a happy meeting place for the young people of the conimun-1 Mr. McLellan, who has spent a Tho Sentinels are affiliated with no lifetime in the development of public other org^mizations. They will never — Stutz Avas raduated from utilities in various capacitie.s and foster any kin<l of legislation. They Man of Many Aliases. (lUe^t at Highland Pines, Wanted in Washington. D. C. the University of North Carolina at throughout the country, spoke again will never express an opinion on Aberdeen Burglary Chape] Hill, w’here she was an honor i^^teiday noon at a public meeting any matter of logislation. They will Three youths, two of them from student, last June. She is one of the hy the Southern Pines Cham- only pass judgment on the fitness of ity. Mrs. Cameron was a good neigh-1 P'nehurst, were captured within an most popular members of the young- Commerce and hold at the ^heir legal representatives. A man of many aliases who the au- bor'and was held in high esteem by all hour after stealing a safe from Far- er social set in the Sandhills. Mr. ^°u"try Club. He stre.ssed many of. From the headc]uarters of the wo- thorities say is one of the slickest with whom she came in contact. cell’s Ice and Coal plant in Aberdeen Jackson is an alumnus of Dartmouth and discussed other; men’s branch of The Sentinels in “hotel beats” in the country came to Surviving are four daughters, Christmas Eve. College at Hanover, New Hampshire I’hases of the fight against utility Moore county comes the announcement ignominious grief while a guest at Misses Sallie and Bessie Cameron who | The youths, Dan McDonald, 19, of and is at present connected with W. h«'fore a sizeable crowd which; that a temporary Executive Commit- the Highland Pines Inn la.st week. It lived with their mother and daily be-[Jackson Spriiig.s, Robert Hunt, 22, of H. Coburn &. Company, investment luncheon at tho clubhouse be-! tee has been appointed. It consists of ^ came about this way: stowed upon her the most faithful 1 P'nehurst, and Ike Hunt, 18, of Pine- bankers, in Boston. For the past the meeting. j Mrs. George II. Maurice of Eagle j Chief of Dotoctive Burke of the and tender care throughout her long | hurst, were taken to Carthage for three years he has held the outboard ~~ : Springs, chairman; Mrs. Robert N. Washington, D. C., police telegraphed illness; Mrs. R. D. Braddy of Rock-{a hearing before Judge George Hum- motorboat championship of IMaine, HERBERT VAIL ASSl'^lES ; Page of Abei'deon, Mrs. Leonard gouthern Pines police on December fish, and Mrs. W. II. Keith of Vass. |ber on charges of breaking and enter- spending hi.s summer vacation in KIWANIS F’RESIDENCV Tufts, of Pinehurst, Mrs. Herbert F. 23rd the description of a man wanted One sister, Mrs. Janie Muse of Cam eron, survives, also.' Four half-sis ters and brothers died within one month of diphtheria during the terri ble epidemic that visited this section in the seventies. ing an office and larceny of a safe. Maine each year and being a devotee. Seawell of Carthage and Mrs, J. S, skipping a sizeable board and room As always, the Christmas tree at The Community Church was a source of delight to many girls and boys and to the older ones as well. Santa was there in p''vson showing no syni- toms of the depression or weariness of the busy season. McDonald is out on $.500 bail bond, of the motorboating sport. ' The reins of the Kiwanis Club of Milliken of Southern Pines. Group.s bill at the swank Hotel Mayflower in the Hunt brothers in jail a%vaiting The date of the wedding has not Aberdeen for 1933 were turned over | of Sentinels will be organized in all| Washington. Chief Gai-gas of South- trial. If convicted they face terms of been set. to Herbert V’ail of Pinehurst, newly i the townships of this congressional ern Pines took a look over the guests three to five years. Those attending Mr.'s. Turner’s ■ *^'^ected president, at the club’s meet-! district as rapidly as possible and at the inn on Weymouth Heights and The arrests were made by Police- luncheon in addition to Miss Stutz in- Wednesday in the Community meetings will shortly be started to,found a handsomely dressed and im- man Dees of Aberdeen, who took up eluded Mrs, Jack Coursey, Miss Wally Aberdeen. Mr. \'ail succeeds .study the important legislation that | maculately groomed individual thor- the trail of the young men within a Flachslaender, Miss Katherine AViley, ‘'^'^'son C. Hyde. Arthur Newcomb is now' under discussion in Congress. | oly enjoying his Christmas holiday few minutes after the alleged crime Mrs. Henry M. Dingley, Jr., Miss h®*^ been appointed club secrcta»i for was committed. William Byrd, a negro Dorothy Pottle, Miss Enply Richard-!”®’^* year, succeeding Mr. \ail. who operates a grocery store near bon, Miss Lenora Riggan, Miss Dor the ice plant, saw a station wagon othy Stutz, Miss Emily Mae Wilson, Miss Fay Shulkin, Miss Elsie Chandler (Please turn to page 5) and Mrs. D. G. Stutz. Communion service wi be hed in the Aberdeen Presbyterian Church 11:15 o’cock Sunday morning. there. On Friday afternoon Officers Gar- NO RECORDER’S COURT No Recorder’*-, Court was held on j gas and Newton paid a more official Monday of this week as the members | visit to the hotel and completely up- at j of the court house staff were enjoy- linp a holiday. (Please turn to page 8)
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