MOORE COUNTY'S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
Vol. 13, NO. 36.
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Aberdeen and Southern Pines, Norlh Carolina, Friday, August 4, 1933
FIVE CENTS
MANYSIGNN.R.A.
Aberdeen Tobacco Market Plans
Stimulate Confidence in Growers
Mayor Stutz and Dr. Herr Heard
Committee to Back President’s
Program 100 Percent
ABERDEEN ORGANIZES
Return of Saunders To Old Stand
and Good Crop Prospect Ex
pected to Spell “New Deal”
With Mayor D. G. Stutz and Dr.
George ^ G. Hern*, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, as chairman,
and a committee representing civic
bodies, womens clubs and church or
ganizations in the process of organi
zation, the machinery to put Southern
Pines one hundred percent on the
N.R.A. map was set in motion here
this week.
The N.R.A. signs, issued to those
who have signed the agi-eenient to
support the National Industrial Re
covery Act at the solicitation of Presi
dent Roosevelt, are already appearing
plentifully in windows throughout the
community. Up to noon yesterday
twenty-five employers of labor in
Southern Pines had turned in their
signed agreements to Postmaster P.
Frank Buchan. The big emblem with
the NRA and picture of the eagle are
issued to those signing the code when
their slips are handed to the post
master.
The following have already signed
up in Southern Pines;
Mack’s 5-10-25 Cent Stores, Hos
kins’ Motor Service Company, Colton’s
Garage, Clark’s Garage, Page Motor
Company, D. Pender Grocery Com
pany, P. T. Barnum, Inc., Lorenson
& Company, Baker’s Food Store,
McNeill & Company, W. H. Mumford,
electrical contractor, Ed’s Cafe, Broad
Street Pharmacy, Dr. W. C. Mudgett,
J. N. Powell, Inc., The Great Atlantic
& Pacific Tea Company, Mrs. Hays’
Shop, C. L. Hayes’ Sandhills Book
Shop, C. T. Patch Department Store,
The Valet, Inc., V'ermont Mai’ket,
Highland Hardware House, Throw
er’s Pharmacy, Southern Pines The
atre Company and The Family Laun
dry.
A number of others have signed
but have not as yet turned their
slips in to the postmaster. Some have
signed under certain conditions, cases
where the trade of which they are a
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Citizen Wins Whether
School Vote is Yes or No
Cut in Valuations and County
Tax Rate Mean Saving This
Year, Anyway
Pretty much has been printed from
various writers concerning the pro
position to be voted on by the people
of the Southern Pines school district
at the coming election, but the figures
below from Ralph Chandler, secre
tary of the school board, probably tell
the situation as concisely as anything
can. They compare the two years
1932 and 1933, with their taxes as
they were and as they will be
•whether the thirty-cent levy carries
or not.
As an illustration a piece of pro
perty is assumed as worth $1,000.
In 1932 the taxes on that property
at 71 cents county and 55 cents special
school totaled $1.26 on the $100, or
$12.60 on the $1,000 valuation of the
property, $12.60
In 1933 the valuation of the proper
ty has been reduced twenty per cent,
making it $800.
This year the county tax is 68
cents and the special school tax to
apply on bonds is 22 cents, a total of
90 cents which on the valuation of
$800 is a total of - $7.20
If the proposed tax does not carry
the reduction of the school tax in the
district this year as compared with
last year is .— _...$5.40
This is a reduction of 43 percent.
Now the board is asking a levy of
30 cents to carry on the extra month
of school which the State does not
provide for and to help pay the extra
teachers that the State does not allow,
■which on the $800 valuation would be
$2.40 cents. This added to the $7.20,
which is this year’s tax on the new
valuation of $800, makes a total of
$9.60, as compared with $12.60 on
the same property last year, which is
23 percent of a reduction from last
year, Mr. Chandler says possibly the
full 30 cent levy will not be neces
sary, in which event the outlay would
be less than thirty cents.
By Bion H. Butler
The announcement that Banks Saun
ders is coming back to Aberdeen for
the tobacco marketing season, and that
Cozart and Roberts will be runners up
at the other w'arehouse will stimulate a
new confidence in the prospect for
the tobacco farmer. The markets open
September 19, with Saunders in his
old buildings, the brick warehouses,
which he built and operated and back
ed to the extent that over its counters
hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been paid to the farmers of the sec
tion tributary to Aberdeen.
When Gales Johnson some twenty-
odd years ago came to Raeford to un
dertake to introduce the growing of
tobacco he brought with him a young
ish chap as field marshal B. B. Saun
ders. Things rolled high for a brief
period, and then the war in Europe
broke and the United States had a
temporary fit of insanity when cot
ton, tobacco and all other American
products went flooey over the inter
rupted commerce. Johnson became en
tangled in the disruption, but Saun
ders, not having the financial respon
sibility that Johnson carried, was
passed in the storm, and emerging
with some of the fragnients in his
hands he set about to continue in the
path Johnson had outlined. He encour
aged a new industry which has brought
vast sums of money to the Aberdeen
country, and although the recent de
pression has had its severe effects,
Saunders comes back again to grab
prosperity as it appears over the hori
zon. It looks as if he will be a figure
in restoring to this section the better
conditions that prevailed in the past.
It is my conviction that if Saunders
is backed by the people of this field in
the efforts he is making he will, with
the new deal that is now appearing in
sight bring prosperity here on a scale
bigger than before.
The tobacco situation has changed
in the last two or three years and the
results are now becoming apparent. In
the past year the acreage crop ef
bright leaf has doubled in this section,
and the crop is one of the best made
in years. Very little damage of any
kind is reported from disaese, from
weather from second growth leaves,
the crop being of excellent quality
even to the ground leaf. Last year
about two million pounds was sold at
the Aberdeen market. “Judge” Avery
says he would not be surprised if that
figure is doubled here this year, and
he is a pretty close observer.
Weather and crop conditions have
been more than usually favorable in
making a crop of quality. Mr. Avery
says the tobcco in this territory is the
best he has ever seen here, and that it
has but little to rival it in any other
section he has seen this year. “It is
more suitable for cigarette type than
ever,” he said, and fortunately for the
tobacco grower the cigarette trade at
this time is booming. The trade reports
say the cigarette production in May of
this year reached 13 billions, which is
the record for all time, even includ
ing the wild production of war days.
The tobacco companies have been
carrying on extensive advertising
campaign until they have almost
reached the girl babies in the cradles,
and the cigarette output is taking to
bacco. Last year made the smallest
crop 'since 1924, while this year the
clearing financial sky is helping to in
crease consumption of tobacco, and it
looks as if the demand will be good if
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LOCAL TRUCK OFF FOR
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
Lloyd Clark’s fleet of trucks set
sail on Tuesday for long voyages.
Laden with cotton laundry bags and
cotton cloth from the Laurinburg
Mills one truck in the care of Wal
lace Johnson and Clark Daugherty is
bound for Chicago, and will have a
return cargo of Swift’s pork end
beans for Rocky Mount. Two trucks
are bound for New .York, one in
charge of Herbert McKenzie and A1
McNeill, and the other in charge of
Jack Phillips of Cameron.
KIWANIS AT CARTHAGE
The weekly meeting of the Kiwanis
Club of Aberdeen was held in the li
brary at the Courthouse in Carthage
on Wednesday.
Cosmopolitan
Forty-three States and For
eign Countries in School
District Registration
Forty-three states and foreign
countries '■ are represented on the
registration books for the forthcom
ing school referendum, D. Al. Blue,
in charge of the registration tells
The Pilot. North Carolina leads, of
course, with Pennsylvania second
and the following states in order:
New York, New Jersey, Connecti
cut, Massachusetts, New Hamp*
shire, Vermont, Michigan, Rhode
Island, Virginia, Ohio, Illinois,
West Virginia, Indiana, Maine,
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Texas, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Geor
gia, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland,
Nebraska, California, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Minnesota and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Eleven foreign countries are rep
resented as follows: Canada, 8;
England, 6; Italjs 4; German,
Greece and the Argentine two each;
Ireland, Scotland Denmark, Japan
and Switzerland, one each.
1,000 SEE VASS
BEAT ABERDEEN
IN TEN INNINGS
League Leaders Tie' Count
Last of 9th But Lose in
Extra Period
SCHOOL QUESTION
TO BE SETTLED AT
POLLS WEDNESDAY
Registered Voters of District to
Decide Fate of Nine Months
Term Here
NO REDRESS POSSBLE
In one of the most thrilling games
ever played in the M.iore County
League, V^ass trimmed the leading
Aberdeen team by 7 to 5 in ten in
nings on Wednesday. The contest was
staged before a crowd of approximate
ly 1,000 on the Aberdeen field
Going into the ninth inning Vass
had a 4-2 lead, but in the last of this
frame Aberdeen staged a lally off of-
the tiring Court Thomas, who, up to
this point, had been exceedingly stingy
with his hits. With men on second and
third Mackie Caldwell was sent in to
hit for Pitcher Bill Yow and he
promptly singled over second, both
runners scoring to knot the count.
Ab-erdeen failed to bring Caldwell
around and the game went into the
first extra inning. Dave Wilson was
first up for Vass and he greeted Relief
Pitcher Ralph Leach with a rousing
triple. Joe Matthews laid down a bunt
which scored Wilson and when the
play was made at the plate he went
to second, and scored on Tyson’s sin
gle with what proved to be the win
ning run. Tyson also scored in this in
ning to make the score 7-4.
In the last of the tenth Ab-erdeen
threatened but failed to bring more
than one runner across the plate.
Thomas was plainly tired, but he re
ceived good support and received a big
hand when he whiffed Upchurch for
the second out with ninners on second
and third.
Thomas pitched all the way for
the winners while Yow, Leach and
Martin went into action for Aberdeen.
Kenny Keith and Max Folley were the
fielding stars.
Southern Pines received its Wed
nesday game by forfeit when the Cam-
etron team failed to put in an appear
ance. Fifteen extra minutes were al
lowed, but at 3:45 Umpire Walters
called the game.
Southern Pines Loses
Last Thursday afternoon Vass trim
med the Southern Pines outfit on the
Southern Pines field. The score was
10 to 6.
Vass jumped into an early lead and
were never headed. At one time they
had the score 10-1 in their favor, but
Southern Pines rallied in the last three
frames to make the score look a little
more respectable. The contest w'as
halted four times because of show,
ers.
Tew was on the mound for the los
ers, but W’as relieved in the sixth by
Millar. Worth McMillan pitched for
Vass until the ninth when Court
Thomas went in. Tew got four singles
in five trips to lead the hitting, while
Tyson featured with a long home run
WhethiV or not Southern Pines
will continue to offer a nine months
school course to its children will be
settled at the polls next Wednesday,
August 9th.
Only those who have specifically re
gistered in the School District will
be eligible to vote. Absentee ballots
will not be counted under a ruling by
Attorney General D. G. Brummitt.
The polls will be open all day in
the Municipal Building on East
Broad street.
Those who are in favor of a special
tax to supplement the State fund,
that Southern Pines may operate its
schools an additional month and pay
its teachers more than the State al
lowance, as it has done for some time,
will vote a ticket on which will be
printed the words, “For Local Tax.”
Those who oppose same will vote a
ticket on which will be printed the
words, “Against Local Tax.”
At the close of the election the re
gistrar, D. Al. Blue, and the poll
holders, A. S. Ruggles and S. B.
Richardson will “count, canvass and
judicially determine the result of
said election and make return there
of to the Board of Commissioners of
Moore County.”
Decision is Final
Citizens should understand before
casting their ballots, that there is no
redress from the decision of Wednes
day’s referendum. Should the majority
of the ballots say “Against Local
Tax,” the local school must operate
entirely under State allotment of
funds, an amount for eight months of
operation equal to or less than the
amount formerly allowed for six
months. No other referendum may be
held in the matter this year. South
ern Pines High School ceases to be a
fully accredited school.
The local tax to be voted upon to
Dr. McBrayer Sponsored
Resolution Last March for
Nine Months School Here
In Thick of Fight
J
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MAYOR I). G. STUTZ
SHOULD NOT VOTE
ADDITIONAL TAX,
SAYS McBRAYER
Can Get Better Teachers for
Less Money, He Says in Dis
cussing School Question
We should not vote a 30c tax, says
Dr. L. B. McBrayer in a statement to
The Pilot, for the following reasons:
Because the proponents will not
come out in the open and tell us in
detail what they intend to do with this
large amount of money.
Because many of the statements
made by proponents are misleading
and are not based on facts. Because i
permit supplement of the State funds j the Negroes have been led to believe, |
is not to exceed 30 cents on each $100.1 so I am informed, that they will not |
valuation of taxable property in the j 'pay any of the 30c tax, but will get j
school district. The legal notice of the | the advantage of a nine months school,
special election in this regard reads:
* * “to supplement the funds pro
vided by existing law for the eight
months public school term for said
school district so as to provide a suf
ficient fund for the maintenance #hd
operation of said school in said dis
trict for said eight months school
term and likewise provide for an ex
tended term of public schools in said
district, not exceeding nine months or
180 days during each year and for
the purpose of operating schools in
said district of a higher standard
than those provided for by State sup
port, as prescribed by existing
law ♦ * .”
Week Sees 1933 Peach
Season About Ended
Demand at Candor Slow
Market Dull.—Some Growers
Made a Profit
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This week practically wound up the
1933 peach season. Demand at Can
dor was low and the market dull.
Elberta bushels in carload lots
brought 80 to 85 cents, Georgia
Belles 55 to 60 cents. Two hundred
and sixty-three cars moved out of
North Carolina the first three days of
this week, making a total for the
season up to Wednesday of 629 car
lots. A large percentage of the crop
this year was moved by truck, how
ever.
A few local growers report to The
Pilot that they made some money on
the 1933 crop. Others broke even, a
few lost money.The fruit was of high
quality but the demand was not as
grreat as hoped for. There is still
some local fruit available.
H. F. SEAWELL JR. \I1NS
YADKIN CLUB EVENT
Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., of Cdrth-
age won the Swatfest, last week’s
Yadkin Club tournament on the Pine-
hurst Country Club course, surviv
ing the ordeal to the 14th hole. Others
in order were Vail, J. Bowman, Whit
ney, Currie, Ferree, McCaskill, Du
pont, Symington, Scott, Black, E.
Bowman, Hagood anJ Adcox.
while the opposite is true. The Ne
groes will pay the 30c tax on any real
ty or personal property they may own
and will only get an eight months
school, judged by last year. This the
State will furnish them without any
tax on property.
It is reported that a village about
a mile from the schol house has been
promised that their children will be
tarried to and from school on a bus.
The State will run the eight months
school and pay all expenses connected
therewith. A law passed by the last
legislature, see section 28 of the
School law provides for “the transpor
tation of all school children who live
more than two miles from the school
house by the nearest traveled route.”
Our School Committee could not if
they would transport the children
j within the two mile limit, and I am
^■nd j sure they would not attempt to re
peal or set at naught a law passed by
our General Assembly.
Section 26 of the School law passed
by the last General Assembly says:
That from and after May 1, 1933 the
control and management of all facil
ities for the transportation of school
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LINDSEY SHEPARD OF
PINEBLUFF DIES SUDDENLY
Lindsey R. Shepar*^, prominent
and popular young man of Pinebluff,
died suddenly last Saturday night.
Though ill for several months his
death came as a great surprise and
shock to his many friends in Pine
bluff and throughout the section. Mr.
and Mrs. Shepard had made tbeir
hon^e in Pinebluff the past two years,
during which time Mr. Shepard has
been U. S. Mail messenger between
Aberdeen and Pinehurst and, in the
winter season, a member of the staff
of the Sandhills Daily News.
He is survived by his wife, his par
ent, Mr. and Mrs. Green S. Shepard
of Rockingham two brothers and
three sisters. Funeral services were
held Sunday afternoon at the home
of the parents in Rockingham and
were largely attended by a h(«t of
saddened friends.
Mayor Stutz, Chairman Herr and
Secretary Chandler of School
Board Answer Arguments
SET FORTH FACTS, FIGURES
That Dr. L. B. McBrayer, one of
the opponents of the nine month
school term in Southern Pines, him
self sponsored a resolution urging the
General Assembly to authorize a spec
ial tax to continue such a term as
recently as March of this year is the
salient point brought out in a com
munication received by The Pilot this
week.
The communication, signed by May
or B. G. Stutz, Chairman George G.
Herr of the School Board, and Ralph
L. Chandler, secretary of the board,
terms statements made in the press
last week by Dr. McBi>iyer “mislead
ing and do not present the facts,” and
endeavors to present to these who will
vote at next Wednesday’s referendum
the true situation as it exists in regard
to the local schools.
The statement reads:
On the 7th of March, 1933, Doctor L.
B. McBrayer wrote the following res
olution, which was submitted to the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com-
mei'ce by the ''ommittee of which Doc
tor McBrayer was a member and Mr.
P. Frank Buchan was chainnan, and
which was unanimously adopted by
the Chamber:
“WHEREAS, Southern Pines spec
ial school district is composed to a
large extent of citizens that have
moved here from other states, and are
able to and do not object to paying ad-
valorem special taxes for schools, and
WHEREAS, many families spend
tbe^nvinter here who patronize our
schools and add much to the taxable
value of our property, and
WHEREAS, for these and other
reasons we are desirous of'maintaining
our school at or above present stand
ards,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,
that we request our Representative
and Senators in the General Assem
ble to . . . provide that the Sout^iern
Pines school district be authorized to
levy a special tax to continue a nine
months school of present standard or
better, and add such additions to our
equipment as may seem desirable to
us.”
(Signed: P. Frank Buchan, Chair
man, Walter Gilkyson, Rev. J. Fred
Stimson, D. D. S. Cameron and DR.
L. B. McBRAYER.)
To judge from his letter published
in the la«t. number of The Pilot, Doc
tor McBrayer has changed his mind
since last March. Why?
Tiie scatements made in the Doc
tor’s letter are very misleading, and
do not present the facts. From what
he says, one would infer that the
State intends to appropriate as much
money for an eight months school
next year as the total amount ex
pended for nine months school last
year: and that, in consequence, $2,-
000.00 more would give us a nine
months school. This would be very,
very nice: but it is not true.
The Actual Costs
Actually, the total cost of South
ern Pines schools, white and color
ed, was $31,158.46, which is not far
from Doctor McBrayer's figures:
BUT, the State paid only $16,917.05 of
this sum, and the school district paid,
from local taxes, $14,241.41 ($4,614.35
to supplement the State’s allowance
for six months, and $9,627.06 to pay
for the additional three months of the
nine months term.)
Now, for the coming year, the State
proposes to pay, for an eight months
term, LESS than the State paid last
year toward the six months term.
That is, if we depend on the State
alone, we shall have about $16,000.00
IN ALL, to operate schools which cost,
last year, $31,999.64.
Again, Doctor McBrayer figures the
yield of the proposed special tax of
30c on the ♦lundred dollars upon the
assessed valuation of 1932. He forgets
that the assessed valuation of the
county was reduced by 20 percent thig
year: so that now, instead of the $5,-
521,581.00 he speaks of, the assessed
value is only $4,400,000. Allowing for
the shrinkage which invariably occurs,
a 30c tax cannot be expected to yield
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