MOORE COUNXrS
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15, NO. 35
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, July 27, 19.34.
FIVE CEN'TS
Seaivell Sees Big Job Ahead
For Next State Legislature
Most Important Problems Relate
to Public Debt and Tax
ation Methods
SUGGESTS CURES FOR EVILS
In a statement given The Pilot
this week Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., ot
Carthage points out what he sees to
be the job ahead for the 1935 Legis
lature, for which he is a candidate
from Mopre county. He places re
adjustment of the public debt and re
arrangement of ta/cation methods on
the forefront of our problems, and
suggests gome cures for present evils.
Says Mr. Seawell:
"Many grave problems, closely link
ed to the welfare and betterment of
the people, will confront the 1935
Legislature. It will require and de
mand of Legislators a clear head, a
clear eye and sober and concentrated
thought and effort. In 1932 the elec
tion centered on national affairs,
most people were too tired and too
sorely afflicted with thoughts of re
lieving depre.ssion, to give any serious
thoughts to conditions locally.
“Great economic problem.^ over
shadow all other issues just at this
time. Can we readjust our public
debt and re-arrange our method ot
taxation without impairing our gen-
oral governmental agencies and ae-
partments devoted to upbuilding and
aiding our welfare, good health and
education. The first great economic
problem to confront the Legislature
will be the tax situation. Collection of
adequate taxes is an unquestioned
necessity for maintainance of the
government. Excessive and oppres-
sive taxation, however, will destroy
the peace and contentment of the
people and overthrow government it
self. History proves that any govern
ment whicb collects rast sums from
the people and spends tlie same ac-
cording to the whims of its politicians
and beneficiaries will speedily become
corrupt. It will destroy the liberty
of the individual, create favored
classes and favored families and re
duce the general masses of people
to serfdom.
“Duplication and multiplicity of of
fice holders is contrary to the gen-
ious of a free and self governing peo
ple and ought not to be tolerated. We
now come face to face with what is
not a necessary governmental
agency. A man sometimes takes dope
until he actually believes that it is
necessary to his existence. Decen
tralization of administrative agencies
may be a very difficult task for the
Legislature, as some of our many
Boards and Bureaus in a new and
modern world seem very essential.
We should determine beforehand the
amount of revenue obtainable by just
and rasonable taxation and gauge ex
penditures to come within that
amount. This proposition may lay
pretty heavily on the heart and mind
of some politician who has political
debts to pay.
Law of Diminishing Returns
“An excessive and oppressive tax
often results in collection af less rev
enue. We then come to the rule of
The Law of Adminlshing Returns.
To sell a man’s home for taxes and
let the County buy same is a waste
of time and money and results in
his neighbor letting his house also
go for sale to the County. Which
sale, of course, is not a sale but
just a sort of vain procedure. When
there is no incentive for a man to
own his home, government is on the
verge of a collapse. When a great
percentage of homes in thin rjunty
are sold for taxes and bought in by
the County the situation is very ser
ious. There must be a remedy pre
scribed and all old tax matters in
the county must be adjusted. There
then should be between the governing
authorities in the county, County
Commissioners, and whoever repre
sents this county in the 1935 Legis
lature cooperation and endeavor to
adjust this situation. Every time a
business transaction is taxed it tends
to put a restraint on trade. The
method of collection of taxes must
be made simple and easy, but before
this can be brought about there must
be re-adjustment.
Readjtutaneot Must Come
“In readjusting our affairs and
setting our house in order, we should
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DR. BOUM.AN AND SON
WIN MED.VL TOURNEV
Dr. H, E. Bowman and Bill
Bowman of Aberdeen won first
place in the Total of Pair Medal
Tournament of The Yadkin Golt
Club of Pinehurst with a net score
of 141.
O. C. Adcox and D. A. Currie, of
Pinehurst were second with a net
score of 146
Gordon Keith of Aberdeen and
Dr. Shepard of Southern Pines
took third place with a net score
of 150.
Peach Season Now
in Full Stride
i Fruit Reported of Fine (Juality
and Price Outlook Is
EncouragiRi!:
The peach sea.son in the Sandhills
is at last in full swing. The Georgia
Belles are moving this week and next
and the Elbertas will begin to move
before the end of next week, the
peak of the Georgia Belle movement
to be reached probably about the
middle to last of next week with the
Elbertas beginning to move rapidly
the following week, the Hales coming
just l eliind the Elbertas.
A spirit of optimism pervades the
orchards. The Georgia and Arkansas
crops are reported to have fallen some
what short of the earlier estimate,
and weather conditions have retarded
the ripening of the North Carolina
crop to such an extent that the bulk
of the Georgia crop is expected to be
well out of the way by the time the
main movt-ment here gets underway.
Albert Burker, commission mer
chant operating out of Pinehurst, re
ports that in the orchards he has
contacted the fruit is of the best
quality in five years, with the condi
tion of the Elbertas being worth
special notice. Prices are improving.
Quotations Thursday were: Georgia
Belles, $l.lJi-$1.40; Elbertas. $1.35-
1.50. F. O. B.
Up until Thursday noon approx
imately 125 cars of North Carolina
peaches had cleared through Aber
deen, 85 of these coming out of Nor
folk-Southern territory. Besides this
there has been a heavy truck move
ment, much of the early crop having
been shipped by truck due to the fact
that it ripened too slowly to permit
carload shipment in many instances.
The orchards report a lively de
mand for the lower grades and culls
and prices for them have been very
satisfactory.
GEO. B. COX DIES IN
MOORE COUNTY HOSPlT.\L
KIWANIS HEARS
ABLE ADDRESS BY
I MRS. IV. BLUE
“■ - I
, Paints Clear Picture of What
I She Found in Survey of
2,300 Homes in County
FAVORS EXCHANGE PLAN
By Howard Burns
Mrs. Z. V. Blue and Mrs. J.
H. Satterfield, representatives of The
Federal Bureau of Home Economics,
] gave a very clear picture of the find-
' ings of many of the farm homes of
' Moore County in an address Wednes-
I day to the Aberdeen Kiwanis Club,
I Mrs. Blue said that out of a survey of
j twenty-three himdred homes it was
found that 78.4 percent of them were
I occupied by white farmers of which
^ t)0 percent owned their home, t’he re-
' niaining 40 percent were rented or
I owned by others than the family oc-
I cupying the house. Mrs. Blue stated
1 of the twenty hundred homes 83 per-
I cent were badly in need of painting
I and 55 percent had leaky roofs, need
ing repairs or replacements. Twenty-
two percent of the houses had only
one room. In the survey it was found
the sanitary conditions were bad, and
many of the families were getting
their water from creeks for drinking
and cooking purposes. There were
only 5 percent of the houses that had
running water. It was found that 87
percent of the kitchens needed kitch
en sinks and 90 percent of the to
tal number of houses were lighted
with kerosene lamps and heated from
open fire places.
Mrs. Blue in conclusion said that
she did not recommend farmers bor
rowing money for improvements if it
could possibly be avoided due to the
uncertainty of crops. She thought
possibly a plan might be worked out
for the exchange of the crops of the
farmer for finished lumber and the
repairs be made by the farmer. She
stated she had been able recently to
exchange surplus farm produce for
finished lumber and for other things
needed on the farm. She further
stated she would like to see a plan
worked whereby the farmer might
sell his surplus crop to the govern
ment for the army, the navy, and gov
ernment hospitals. Unless something
of this kind can be worked out many
of the farmers are hopeless, she con
cluded.
SOUTHERN PINES
AND ABERDEEN i
WIN FROM VASSi
Bond Issue
An^lization Will
Affe^T)istrict Finances
West End Still Holds to Top
Position by Defeating
Aberdeen 3 to 2
GAME HERE TODAY
ST.VNDING OF C LI B-S
Through Game of \V«>dne«lay, July 25
Club Won Lost Pet.
West End 8 3 .727
Aberdeen 8 4 .667
Vass 4 7 .364
So. Pines 2 8 .200
George B. Cox, agen 58 years, died
in the Moore County Hospital Satur
day morning, July 21st, having been
taken there for treatment on Wed
nesday. Funeral services were held in
the Baptist Church on Sunday after
noon, the pastor, the Rev. J. Fred
Stimson officiating, and at the grave
in Mt. Hope cemetery by members
of the Jr. O. U. A, M.
Mr. Cox came to Southern Pines
from Asheboro, some 25 years ago
and was in business as a plumber
Surviving are a widow ,and two
daughters, Mrs. Ted Farmer, of Pine
hurst, and Miss Lucille Cox, of
Southern Pines, and a brother. N. P-
Cox, of Asheboro.
JR. O. U. A. M. STARTS HERE
WITH OVER FIFTY ON ROLL.
An organization meeting of .the
Junior Order United American Me
chanics was held in the Masonic Hall,
Southern Pines, Thursday night. July
19, for the purpose of applying tor
a charter for Southern Pines Coun
cil No. 76, and the election of offi
cers for the proposed council. Some
35 were present. Following this meet
ing another was held in the same
place, 53 being present, on the fol
lowing Monday night. When the coun
cil was formally Instituted, the degree
work being put on by Aberdeen
Council No. 193.
A meeting of the council is set for
Wednesday nlgnt, August 1. P. P.
Buchan Is councillor of the local
V 'oy.
Officer Newton Gets
Man Wanted in S. C.
Acts on Tip from W. E. Blue,
Who Became Suspicious of
Man on His Porch
Shortly before 11 o’clock last
Thursday night W. E. Blue, manager
of the Pender Store, heard a noise on
the porch of his home on South Ashe
street. Upon asking what was want
ed, he received the reply, “It Is all
right, just seeking shelter from the
rain,’ but as the rain had ceased
some two hours before. Mr. Blue
thought the matter required Inves
tigation, and came down town for
officer Newton who soon located a
stranger in the Seaboard depot. When
the man gave eyasive replies to
questions, Newton arrested and
searched him finding several old rail
road passes: isjued to J. E. Buster,
of Columbia, S. C. A further search
of his baggage revealed valuable
jewelry, a typewriter and a camera.
A wire to Columbia brought Mr.
Buster to the telephone with a de
scription of the grip, typewriter,
camera and jewelry, and the prison
er, who called himself Kenneth Lane,
was imprisoned in the locnl jail un
til Friday noon when Chief of Police
McAllister of Columbia came up and
escorted the prisoner homeward
charged with forcible entry and theft
from the Buster home on Monday
night.
Schedule of Gunip»> for Cuming Week
This afternoon, Friday, Southern
Pines tackles Vass on the Southern
Pines field as the locals try to rack
up their second win in succession. On
Saturday afternoon Southern Pines
journeys to W'est End to take on the
league leaders in a contest. The only |
game schedulud for next W'ednsday I
afternoon brings the same two teams '
together, thi.s time on the Southern
Pines field. i
Be Sure to Register
Books Open Tomorrow for
School Bond and Debt
Equalization Election
Beginning tomorrow the regis
tration books of the county will be
open in the various precincts each
Saturday until August 18. for the
purpose of registering the voters
of the county for the election on
;he proposed bond issue and equali
zation of the county school debt.
A new registration has been or
dered and j'ou cannot vote unless
you register, as the vote will be
against the registration.
The books in the Southern Pines
precinct will be at the municipal
building'and the registrar is J. M.
Windham.
Figures Submitted by County
Superintendent Show Amounts
of Increase or Decrease in
T^x Burden for Each Dis
trict in the Countv.
TOTAL INCREASE $232,000
HAIL STORM DAMAGES
CLAY ROAD CR04*S
A hail storm in the Clay Road com
munity on Monday morning did con
siderable damage to crops. The big
farm of J. L. Matthews seemed to
be in the center of the storm and
com and tobacco there were badly
tom by the large hailstones.
On Saturday afternoon Southern
Pines journeyed to V'ass and came
through with its second win of the
season and its first tl:is month in
the wildest, weirdest game ever play
ed in this section. The final score was
22 to 20.
Under a scorching sun, and with no
breath of air stirring to relieve the
heat, the two teams battled for
three hours and ten minutes before
the nine innings were completed. The
first inning alone consumed fifty-
five minutes.
Southern Pines jumped on Flem and
his successor, Dave Wilson, for six
runs in the opening frame. As wild
ness and a sore arm bothered Park,
starting pitcher for the locals, Vass
came up to tally one less. Park was
replaced in this frame by Humphries,
who labored on the mound until two
were down in the ninth.
After this big first inning Southern
Pines continued its slugging, while
Humphries kept Vass fairly quiet. In
the sixth the winners sported a lead
of 17 to 6.
Alton Matthews replaced Wilson
on the mound and in turn gave way
to Court Thomas.
Vass came to life in the seventh for
four runs, got two more in the eighth.
Then in the ninth errors and some
heavy hitting gave them eight runs
before anyone realized what was hap
pening. With two down Millar was
rushed to the box and he retired Mc-
Innis for the final out.
"Red” Kennedy, backstop last year
with Pinehurst, caught for Southern
Pines and led the hitting parade with
five hits in seven trips. He had a
triple and double included. Harris got
four knocks to rank next. A triple by
Court Thomas, of Vass, was the
longest hit of the day.
The winners gathered 18 safe blows
to 16 for the home team. Vass helped
the locals considerably by committing
11 misplays.
Several arguments between players
and umpires further enlivened the
game, and a hot time was had by
all!
On Wednesday afternoon the
Aberdeen team downed Vass in a fast,
snappy ball game in which Brad
Pleasants outpitched Howard Calla
han to win by 3 to 1. A crowd of about
500 saw the game, which was played
on the Aberdeen field.
Callahan had all the better of the
argument on paper, but Pleasants,
while not appearing so effective, was
invincible in the pinches and really
pitched beautiful baseball. He yield
ed eight hits, but scattered them ef
fectively. Callahan allowed only three
hits and fanned 10, but in the fifth
Park was hit by a pitched ball and,
with two down, Ferree came through
with a long single to score Park with
the only earned run of the game. In
field errors accounted for the other
tallies.
In the first inning Vass threatened
and continued to hit throughout the
game, but in the pinches they could
hit only weak rollers or pop flies.
They made a serious threat in the
ninth when they scored their only
run, but with two down and the ty
ing runs on base, Mclnnis lined out
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j Responding to the somewhat ur
gent plea for information on the part
of the general public as regards the
issues at stake in the coming special
election on the school bond question,
The Pilot presents herewith some
figures from the office of H Lee
Thomas, county superintendent of
schools, which purport to show just
how the propo.sed bond i.ssue and
equalization of the school debts of the
various districts will affect the fi
nances of each area involved.
From the.se figures it will be seen
that Southern Pines. Pinehurst, find
Mineral Spiings (outside Pinehurst
and West Endi will all pay more un
der the county unit system, as will
also what is termed the “non-exist
ing special district area.” The :iis-
■ twricts of Cameron. Vass-Lakeviaw,
Becomes Bride of .Joseph I. Carthage, Aberdeen, West End, Eu-
Chandler, Jr., in Private Cere- ^agle Springs, and Hemp v/*i
mony at Historic Church i P^>'
- - i noted that Piuehu.-st,
The historic Old Bethesda Presby-1 Southern Pines and the "noii-exist ng
terian Church was the scene ot a, special district area are to receive
beautiful and impressive wedding last j some new construction, but not in
Saturday evening at six o’clock, when i any instance is this ne'v construction
Miss LaNilta Wimberley became the equal to the increases in tax burden.
Miss LaNilta Wimberly
Weds at Old Bethesda
bride of Joseph Ingram Chandler, Jr.,
in a private ceremony, the Rev. Ern
est Lowry Barber, pastor of the
church, officiating.
Miss Vanessa McLean rendered the
nuptial music. The wedding march
from “Lohengrin” was played for the
processional and Mendelssohn’s march
for the recessional, McDowell’s “To
a White Rose’’ was softly played dur
ing the ceremony. Prior to the cer
emony, Miss Nancy Wimberley. sis
ter of the bride, sang “I Love You
Truly,’’ The altar, before which the
vows were spoken, was banked with
long leaf pines and southern smilax,
intermingled with crepe myrtle and
trailing ivy. The bride was attrac
tively dressed in white crepe with
matching accessories and wore a
shoulder corsage of talisman roses and
swansonia.
Immediately after the ceremony Mr.
and Mrs. Chandler left for a trip to
South Carolina beaches and Charles
ton. After August 12th they will be
at home at 235 1-2 North Green
Street, Greensboro.
Mrs. Chandler is the eldest daught
er of Mr. and Mrs. J, D. Wimberley
of Aberdeen. She received her musi
cal education at Flora Macdonald
College and her business training in
Durham. For the past two years she
has been State Publicity and Publica
tion Superintendent for the Christian
Endeavor, and has many friends
throughout the Carolinas. A series
of parties has been given in her honor
throughout the State,
The bridegroom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Ingram Chandler ot
Charleston, S. C. He haj» made his
home in Jacksonville for the past
two years, but was transferred to
Greensboro, where he is connected
with the Studebaker Agency, Mr,
Chandler commands a wide circle of
friends throughout the two Carolinas
and Florida.
■\MERICAN TENNIS PLAYERS
STAGE GREAT COMEB.ACK
Frank Shields, a Sandhills favorite
after many appearances on Pinehurst
courts in North and South tourna
ments, won the deciding match for
the United States on Wednesday in
the final round of the 1933 Davis Cup
competition America lost Ifhe last
two singles matches to Australia last
Saturday," won the doubles Monday
with George Lott and Lester Stoeffen,
and came from behind to win Wednes
day when Sidney Wood defeated
Crawford and Shields trounced Mc
Grath in straight sets.
The United States meets England
in the challenge ro«.d starting to
morrow. Three of the American team.
Shields, Lott and Stoeffen, played here
in April.
Some of the districts will receive no
benefit other thaji the scaling down
of their taxes, while others will re-
ceive not only an appreciable scaling
down of their tax burden but mucli
new construction as well.
Mr. Thomas’s figures follow:
Southern Pinra
According to a statement furnish
ed by our county auditor, John C.
Muse, the outstanding district in
debtedness of the Southern Pines Dis
trict, maturing after June 30, 1934, is
$50,000 and its property valuation for
the year 1933 is $4,422,595. The val
uation is 22.072 per cent of the coun-
tys total, 520,096,146. The total re
quirements necessary to retire this
old indebtedness of the Southern
Pines district is $68,243.75, The pro
posed indebtedness for new building
and rooms for this district is $43,-
000. The total tax requiremenLs nec
essary to retire the old indebtedness
plus the proposed or new indebtedness
on the district plan (if district plan
of repaying proposed indebtedness
were possible) is $119,419.77. The to
tal tax requirements necessary' to re
tire the old plus the proposed indebt
edness, as above stated, on the county
wide plan is $209,649.23, or $99,629,46
more than on the district plan.
Pinehurst
The outstanding indebtedness of
the Pinehurst School District matur
ing after June 30, 1934 is $97,019.75
and its valuation $4,486,968 or 22,3275
per cent of the $20,096,146 total coun
ty valuation. The total tax require
ments necessary to retire the old d's-
trict indebtedness is $111,890.34. The
proposed indebtedness for new audi
torium and repairs to grammar school
is $11,500. The total tax requirements
necessary to retire this old indebted
ness plus the new or proposed indebt
edness on the district plan (if district
plan of repaying proposed indebted
ness were possible) is $125,920.14.
The total tax requirements necessary
to retire the old Indebtedness plus the
new or proposed indebtedness, as
above stated, on the ccuinty wide plan
is $212,700.53, of $86,780.49 more
than on the district plan. The county
has assumed future requirements of
Pinehurst of $4,720.
Mineral Springs Outside Pinehurst
and West End
The outstanding indebtedness of
Mineral Springs Township outside
Pinehurst and West End districts,
maturing after June 30, 1934, is $4,-
619.25. The property valuation is
$358,472., or 1.7838 per cent of the
county total. The total tax require
ments necessary to retire this old in
debtedness on the district plan is
$j,366,08. The total tax requirements
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