MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 13, NO. 33.
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION^ &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Tejb?'^v^ *v of North Carolina
Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday July 14, 1933.
TO LET CONTRACT
SOON FOR U. S. 1
SOUTH OF HERE
Stretch from Aberdeen to
Drowi\ing Creek Among First
Jobs to Be Awarded
Waring Residence at Pinehurat Sold
LONG FIGHT AT AN EN'D
Word conies to The Pilot from Ral
eigh to the effect that the pavinu of i
U. S. Highway No. 1 from Aberdeen
to Drowning Creek will be among
the first projects let by the new
State Highway Commission.
This is the stretch of road for which
the entire Sandhill section from San
ford to Roockinghani has been fight
ing to have improved for several
years, being one of the very few sec-
tions along Route 1 from Maine
to Florida which is not concreted.
Delegations have visited Raleigh in
numerable times urging the improve
ment, have returned empty handed or
with vague promises. Now, with fed-'
eral funds available and with the dire
need for employment projects in this
section, the new commission has, it
is understood, agreed to|let the contract
for almost immediate construction. It
is understood that local labor will be
employed insofar as possible. i
Members of the Committee on Roads
of the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen
waited on the commission at Raleigh
on Tuesday and made another plea
for the letting of the work. Those who
made the trip were Gordon Cameron
' nwinsi w'
SCHOOL COST PER
PUPIL REDUCED
$14. IN 3 YEARS
This Despite Increased Enroll
ment of 94 Pupils, Southern
Pines Report Shows
FIVE CENTS
REGISTRATION IS HEAVY
In its desire to set forth facts to
Local School Tax
Would Be Hardship
Says Van Camp
Relief Provided by State Leg
islature Comes at Most Op
portune Time, He Writes
i XLSE ECONOMY,
SAYS BOARD OF
8-MONTH TERM
Southern Pines Commissioners
Adopt Resolution Heartily En
dorsing Nine-Month School
SAY TAX WILL BE LESS
In a resolution adopted at tis reg-
New Home Acquired by Mrs, Isabelle C. McMullen
Mrs. R. W. McMullen Buys Waring
Property in Pinehurst for a Home
Editor, The Pilot: i
While there has been much in the
papers in the past few weeks in refer-■
ence to the school situation there have
been very few facts set forth that in
aid residents of the Southern Pines' the taxpayer in deciding ular meeting this week, the Board
School District in deciding pro or con should vote in the coming spec-'of Commissioners of Southern
the important question of an eight election to determine whether it endorsed the nine-months school year
months school term with State sup-':"’*'' to accept the prescribed a® necessary fo rthe maintenance of
port and county control or a nine uniform eight months term guaran- the city’s “present enviable reputation
months term under its own adminis-’ to all schools of the state with- as a place of residence.” The resolu-
tration unit and with local funds tOiO^*- I’ecourse to tax of any kind on tion reads as follow;!:
supplement State funds. The Pilot this} estat«, or whether to surrender
week asked R. L. Chandler, secretary | relief and give our school board
of the School Committee of Southern authority to levy additional tax to em-
Pines for a statement of operating additional teachers and to pay
costs for the past three years. A ta
ble’ containing itemized figures ap
pears on page eight of this issue.
“I have not included debt service
and capital outlay requirements,’”
said Mr. Chandler, “as those items
would have to be taken care of,
whether we had six, eight or nine
all teachers larger salaries than pre-
Resolved that the Board of Commis
sioners heartily endorses the plan for
a nine months school in Southern
Pines for the following reasons:
• 1 , , i. ] *. general welfare of the
scribed bv the State, and to pay the o n- i. i i- i j
.. . .... , Southern Pmes school district depends
principally upon the trained intelli-
*-
months school terms. I have confined
the figures to operating expenses
onlj'.
“I desire to call your attention to
entire expense of our additional month
of school.
This is the question the taxpayer
is asked to vote upon.
It will be seen at once that it is
a question concerning which the vot-
One of Largest Real Estate
Transactions of Year Record
ed at Carthage
Over 200 Members
Moore County Hospital Birth
day Club, But a Month Old,
Proves Great Success
One of the largest real estate deals
of Pinehurst, chairman of the commit- Sandhills was con-
tee and a member of the Board of: suminated this week with the record-
County Commissioners, J. Talbot ® County Clerks
Johnson of Aberdeen and Sheriff former residence of the „ , o-..u.
Charles J. McDonald of Carthage. So G. Waring to Mrs. Isabelle C. County Hospital Birthday Club,
Rpcrptivp wprp tJiPv nhniif nf I McMullen, for many yeajs a winter founded in Southern Pines by Mrs. M.
their expedition to the capital The!of Pinebluff and Southern g. Nichols, already numbers more
Pilot suspected something had trans- The attractive ^Saiing home- hundred members. The two
pired. They refused to be interview-' ®tead on Linden Road, Pinehurst, and hundredth enrolled ieveral days ago,
ed. But The Pilot has its own corres-, acres of well landscaped property swelling so rap-
pondent in Raleigh and leai-ned from are in\olved in the jjjy there is no telling how many more
gence of its people. With an eight
months school dependent entirely on
State funds teachers would be drop
ped, class rooms would be overcrowd
ed, building and equipment would de
teriorate, important extra-curriculum
activities would be eliminated and the
whole staniiard of the school would be
lowered. The net result would be a
generation of young people leaving
school imperfectly equipped to meet
Barely a month old, the Moore
er is entitled to definite information
on both sides before he can be ex
pected to make an intelligent decision.
Naturally the voter, especially if he
a few facts in connection with these that must shoulder the addi-
costs. First, here are the figures re- tional tax to pay the added expense,
lating to enrollment and average daily ‘s going to ask what special advan- materiaVand spiritual problems of
attendance for the three school years: tap;e it is going to be to pay all these
1930-31 Enrollment, 1,01 i, -Vttend- extras, which leads him to ask what
ance, 811. l^i^d of a school does the State pro-
1931-32 Enrollment, 1,040; Attend- P°se to give us if we elect to abide
ance, 926. by its provisions. I shall first endeav-
1932-33 Enrollment, 1,108; Attend-to tell as briefly as possible what
ance 933. the State proposes to give us and,
“Larger daily attendance and 'en-|to be more easily understood, I shall the country and can contin-
rsllment necessarily increase expenses.; fonfine my reference mostly to the without loss of time
“The average cost per pupil based white school as the colored school will efficiency, a school offeiing full
on average daily attendance for the'be provided for fully as well as the pieparatory wor - for those
desiring it. Lacking this we shall lose
three years was as follows: ; ''niie. .
1930-31, $48.C3; 1931-32, $36.50;’ The State proposes to furnish an ^ome of our most valued present wm-
an age demanding a higher degree of
intelligence than any in the history
of the world.
2. Our winter residents demand a
school equal to the best; a school
which can take a child froin any other
1932-33, $33.59.
eight months term entirely at State
ter residents. Others w ho might other
wise establish winter homes here will
most reliable sources that the long transaction. The price paid was not joined at the time The Pilot goes' “I might mention that in 1932-33' expense and it is for this purpose that j
fight is about over. ; announced but is said to have run press. | figures are included one new truck the much discussed sales tax has been . ^ ^
In addition to the Kiwanis Club the ’’^to large figures. everyone, and costing $1,050 as this was a replace- levied. The number of teachers is ^onTmurdtv^^Tt^'win also mean
Southern Pines Chamber of Com- A year ago the Niagara Spray & there is no initiation fee, no dues, j ment truck and was charged to oper- determined by the average daily at- g^ali lose a rou i of hi'»hly
merce, civic bodies in Aberdeen, San- Chemical Company of Middleport, none of the responsibilities usually at- ations instead of being capitalized. ; tendance, each teacher throughout the , , i.
ford, Rockingham and other points New York took over the property and tendant upon joining a club. All onej Supplemental Funds state being expected to teach the to contribute
along U. S. No. 1, and the U. S. No. after reconditioning the house, furn- (j-oes in “signing up” is to promise “You will note that in each of the same number of pupils, known as the _<■
1 .\s.sociation itself have been en- ishing it throughout from the stock to remember the Moore County Hos-j three years in question it was nec- teacher load, and to receive a uniform
gaged in the effort to have the Aber- of the Pinehurst arehouses and with pjtal with some gift, whatever one essary to supplement State funds to salary according to his grade and
deen-Drowning Creek stretch paved.' Philadelphia decorators, placed it on afford, on his or her birthday. * operate the constitutional State term yt'fu's of experience. On the basis our
Other projects sought for Moore the market. Mrs. McMullen^ who has since the club was founded early in of six months, and that the State does school will be entitled to four teach-
county include the paving of the road leaseil houses both in Pinebluff and June a number of birthdays of mem- not pay all the operating costs for the
from Carthage to the junctiolJ of U. Southern Pines since the burning of hers have occurred, and more than'six months term.
S. No. 1 between Cameron and San- her own home in the former village $30.00 has already been received for “We have every reason to believe
ford. some time ago, recently looked over the institution. Think of what it isUhat the apportionments for the com-
the property, was delighted with both poing to mean when 1,000 members ing eight months term will be ap-
house. grounds and location, and the have enrolled, as they undoubtedly proximately the same as were allow-
purchase resulted. R. F. Potts, Jr., of will by the end of the year. Should ed for six months last year, there-
the average gift be one dollar, the fore it would appear imperative that -•^nn Currie, who died at the Moore
hospital treasury is enhanced by a State funds be supplemented for the County Hospital on Sunday. July 2d la'orable
thousand dollars a year, which in eight month.' term the coming year, were held at Bensalem Church on
turn means a thousaml patient days “Figures for the school year 1933- Monday at 11 o clovk, conducted bj
for charity cases. 34 are not available at the present the pastor. Mr. Newton, assisted by
Mi"s. Nichols, who conceived the time as the State School Commission the Rev. Lacy McDuffie,
idea for the club, is the secretary has made no apportionments for the The deceased was 82 years and six have always insisted on the mainte-
;ear, has established no sal- months old and had lived all her long' nance of the highest possible stand-
sclK*dule, neither has it estab- useful life in the Curriesville com- ards in our school. e should en-
brick warehouse which he operated spanning the Hudson rolled in this worthwhile organization, lished the teacher load for the com- numity. i^he was the widow of the late deavor in every possible ^^ay to raise
and to her should be sent the gifts on ing year. Dr. D. A. Currie and before mar- these. To lower them is out of the
your birthdays. Vice president of the' “A maximum local levy of 30c on riage was Miss Margaret Ann Mc-
club is little Miss Ann Reed Perkin- each $100.00 of valuation is asked Kenzie.
son, aged three, for one of the pri- but a levy of only a sufficient amount Sjrviving are two daughters. Miss
mary purposes of the birthday club to operate the schools will be levied. Ursula Currie of the home, Mrs. Ful-
is to interest the rising generation in' (‘There will be a substantial reduc- ler Munroe, Curriesville and four
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SKHVICES AT F5EXSAI.EM FOR
MRS. MARGARET ANN CLKRIE
Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret
Southern Pines acted as agent for
Mrs. McMullin in the transaction.
To Maintain Stables
Mrs. McJIullin is the wife of R.
W. McMullin, prominent engineei who
enjoys a national reputation. He re
educated, enlightened people who are
of and willing to contribute
to the spiritual life of the community
—people interested not only in our
outdoor sports but in our library, the
churches, the civic club, our mu.sical
activities, etc.
3. A special tax required to sup
plement State standards and term
will be somewhat less than the spec
ial school tax paid during recent
years. Last year the tax was 33 cents.
This year owning to economies ^n op
eration it will not exceed 30 cents. A
vote, therefore, does not
mean increased taxes.
4. Our community owes its pres
ent enviable reputation as a place of
residence largely to the fact that we
question and would be false economy
on the part of the tax payers.
Both Warehouses Here
To Operate This Season
Saunders Back at Old Stand,
Roberts & Cozart in Aberdeen
Warehouse
B. B. Saunders will be back in ^ ^
Aberdeen again at his old stand, hav- cently supervised the construction of treasurer. To her should be sent coming y(
ing signed a contract for the big one of the country s largest bridges, persons desiring to be en- ’ary scliec
■ spanning the Hudson River in New
every year since Aberdeen has been ^ ork state. Mr. and Mis. McMullin
a tobacco market, except last season, and their family of sons and daught-
The Aberdeen Warehouse, where ers have been coming to the Sandhills
Mr. Saunders was located last year, for many years. They spent their sum-
has been rented to Roberts & Cozart, mefs at Hyannisport, Cape Cod, Jlass.
who are well known to all the far- The children are all athletic c.ithu- ..
mers of this section, and will be op-; siasts, interested in sports w-hich pre- ^heir hospital. A large percentage of tion in the amount of taxes levied for sons, Donald Currie of Pinehurst,
erated by them here the coming sea-^ '’ail here, especially equestriam They members are children, and a spec-' school purposes, as the levy made last Leon and Tucker Currie, also of the Cantaloupes were scattered all over
ial effort is being made to enroll as year in this district was 33c per h( me and the Rev. Grover Currie, pas- ^^he place when a huge truck upset
many children of the community as $100.00 valuation for operating ex- tor of the first Presbyterian Chui'ch ^t the intersection of the Aberdeen-
assigned to the Aberdeen market, and The property^ is just one mile from possible in the club. pense, while the maximum that can of Mullins, West Virginia. A host of Raeford and the Aberdeen-Laurinburg
except for one or two changes the the Carolina Hotel and has long been So far Southern Pines has the only be levied under the proposed new plan relatives throughout the county also roads late last Saturday night. The
line-up will be the same as last year.' a showplace along Linden Road with branch of the birthday club, but other is 30c per $100.00 valuation, and be-' survives.
With a much better prospect in this | its picturesque avenue of magnolias villages of the county are planning sides this reduction the County Com- . :
immediate territory, and the market | leading for about 100 yards to the to establish branches in the near fu- missioners have made a reduction in NO DECISION ON IN.ll NCTION
opening September 19th, only four entrance to the house. ture. j valuations on real estate of 25 per-' IN GL’^.AR.ANT^ BANK CASE
weeks behind South Carolina and bor-1 Another real estate transaction | cent which will give us a substantial
der markets, Aberdeen should have during the past week is reveal- MOORE FARMERS LOATHE TO i reduction in taxes as compared w'ith; No decision has as yet been render-
most successful season, both as to the office of the County Clerk in ^
the transfer of title to property in ^ . i
Pinehurst from one of the heirs of the I Up to the first of the week only j commissions, etc., in 1930 amounted to. prevent the organization of the newl
late M. B. Johnson to two other 162 acres of the 1,137 due to be aban-; 10 percent of the total levy and in Guaranty Bank from the Page Trust'
CANTALOUPES FLY WHEN
TRUCK UPSETS IN ABERDEEN
son.
A
! plan to maintain private stables on
full corps of buyers has been their newly acquired estate.
pounds sold and the market average.
PEACHES BRINGING GOOD
PRICES; CULI^ OVER 80c
driver, approaching from Laurinburg,
put on power to take the grade ap
proaching the Raeford road, not know
ing his road ended there. The truck
hit the ditch on the north side of the
Raeford road and up-ended, hurling
ABANDON COTTON ACRE.\GE past years. : the injunction proceedings entire cargo of crates of melons
I find that reliefs, land sales, brought last week in Charlotte to jj^to the air. The driver was uninjur-
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The peach market has been active |
all week, with prices running all the RICHARD TUFTS ELECTED
way up to $3.50 and culls bringing
over 80 cents a bushel. Shipments have
been mostly by truck, few orchards
having enough fruit ready as yet for
carload lots. Some good sales were
reported during the week by A. Bur-
ker and others
by Charles A. Sheffield at State Col-
BY CAROLINA GOLF ASS’N. lege revealed. In the state as a w'hole
I over 100,000 of the 363,000 acres as-
Richard S. Tufts of Pinehurst was, signed North Carolina for abandon-
elected secretary and treasurer of the ment had been pledged to the federal
Carolina Golf Association at the an- program. Less than 30 percent of the
nual tournament held in Linville last state’s 90,000 cotton growers
week. Paul Haddock of Charlotte was signed contracts on Monday,
doned in Moore county in the cotton 1931 to approximately 20 percent of. Company, the North Carolina gnQTT WIN
reduction program had been signed the levy, Settlement has not been & Trust Company and the Indcpend-
up for destruction, figures released made for 1932 therefore I cannot give ence Trust Company of Charlotte. Or-'
YADKIN CLUB TOURNEY
For the week ending July 8th the
you figures for that year. | ganization plans are continuing and
“I might mention that during without legal entanglements the new , ^ ^ u
school years 1930-31, 1931-32 sixteen bank is expected to get under way in the Yadkin Cu
teachers in our schools were paid sup-' the coursc of the next few weeks. j ® ^ t^o
schedule ] won by Dr. J. Symington of Carthage
plements to State salary
and George W. Scott of Star with a
test ball of 60 net.
while during school year 1932-33 only i COTTON PRICE SOARS
had four teachers were supplemented in' Farmers are much encouraged over
with their salaries. It should also be noted I the cotton crop prospects, with the The very interesting part of this
Urge shipments of cantaloupes and | elected president, Julian Morton of Wednesday night set as the end of the! that each year apportionments from staple closing on the market in Char-1 Pjay ^as the way in which they pair-
watermelons hate also been made; Linville first vice-president, and Paul reduction campaign. County workers the State have decreased, with in-jlotte on Wednesday at 11:65 cents ® ® > J- yming on a a ne w le
from the Sandhills during the past! Cushman of Greenville, S. C., sec- have put in a bitsy week trying to^ i pound, the highest since early March, j Mr. ^ott took 7 strokes net, yet
end vice-president. i sign up more farmers. (Please turn to Page 5) 11931. 1 together they negotiated a CO net.
week.