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VOL. 15, NO. 37.
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CIRCULATION &
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of the Sandhill Territory of Nof^ «^olina
Southern Pines and Abtrdeen, North Carolina, Friday. Auj-ust 10, 1934.
IVE CENTS
BUDGET ESTIMATE
INDICATES A TAX
RATE OF 70 CENTS
County Board Meets To Consid
er Budget and Sets Sept.
3rd for Tax Sale
ACCEPT PINEBLUFF LAND
Little Man, What Now?
A 70-cent tax rate for Moore coun-
ty, the same as a year ago, appears
as likely from the budget estimate,
published in this week’s Pilot.
The Board of Commissioners met
on Monday in regular session with
all members present. Several mat
ters of importance were to be consid
ered, among them being the budget
for next year, and it was necessary to
meet again on Tuesday to complete
the business. The summary of the
uniform budget estimate tentatively
fixes the tax rate at 70 cents.
It was ordered that the real es
tate of the delinquent taxpayers who
have failed to pay the taxes for the
tax year of 1933 be sold on the first
Monday in September, 1934 at 12
o’clock noon at the court house door
in Moore county and that said salai
be advertised as provided by law dur
ing the month of August.
It was ordered that the county pay
to the Federal Emergency Relief
fund the sum of $250 per month be
ginning as of July 1, 1934 and contin
uing until June 30, 1935 for the relief
work in Moore county upon condition
that said Federal Emergency Relief
Administeration take over and as
sume the entire list of the persons
drawing relief from Moore county
known as the outside poor list., both
monthly and quarterly. ,
The present appropriation for the
purpose of continuing the policeman
in the town of Hemp was ordered con
tinued through July, August and Sep
tember.
The Board voted to accept a deed
from J. H. Suttenfield for building
lots Nos. 1. 2, 3, 4. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 22. 23 and 24 in the town of
Pinebluff and the alleyways located
between lots 10 and 11 and 22 and
23 in Block A-4, the same to be used
for 4-H club work in the county.
Local Chamber to Hear
Official of U. S. Body
Manager of Southern Di>ision
Will Address Southern Pines
Group Next W'ednesday
Owing to the absence from town of
so many of the officers and directors
the Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce did not hold its regular bi
weekly meeting on Tuesday, but will
meet instead on Wednesday noon of
next week to hear a talk by L. P.
Dickie, manager of the Southeastern
Division, Chamber of Commerce of
the United States. Mr. Dickie will
discuss economic problems and the
Chamber’s attitude toward President
Roosevelt’s recovery program.
Efforts are being made to have the
Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen meet
jointly with the Chamber of Com
merce officials at this meeting next
Wednesday to hear Mr. Dickie.
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GIRL HITCH HIKER
ASSAULTED: TAXI
DRIVER ARRESTED
—Pram iht Uontrtat Star
Who Knows? That Look May Be Occasioned by the Sight of
Another Pail, Labelled “$232,000 Bond Issue,”
in Dhe Offing
FOUR CANDIDATES
FOR COMMANDER
OF SANDHH.L POST
NORTH CAROLINA
NOT GOING INTO
COAL BUSINESS
Buckingham, Stephenson, Sin- Not to Work Newly Acquired
clair or Hemmer Will Be Elect- I Moore County Mines
ed at Meeting Tonight | Unless Forced To
FULL SLATE ANNOUNCED SO SAY STATE OFFICIALS
FREIGHT RATES ON COAL
TO N. C. LOWERED
The North Carolina Corporation
commission today won another impor.
tant victory in its efforts to secure
lower railroad rates tor Western
North Carolina industries when the
interstate commerce commission or
dered that carload rates from Vir-
ginia. West Virginia, Tennessee, and
Kentucky into the state over all
routes be the lowest rate over any
route, on the basis prescribed by the
commission in the case recently won
by the commission against the Aber.
deen & Rockfish and other railroads.
The decision was based on a peti
tion of railroads running into North
Carolina, which asked relief from the
long-and-short-haul provisions of the
interstate commerce act. The commis
sion thereupon put the Aberdeen de
cision’s lowest rates into effect on all
routes for 90 days, with instructions
that the carriers meanwhile make ap
plication for establishment of new
rates, and, failing this, the rates now
ordered are to continue until further
notice.
Sandhills Post No. 134 of the Amer- j
ican Legion, the Southern Pines post, |
will elect its new' slate of officers to- *
night, Friday, at the meeting to be i
held in the Civic Club building. There i
are four candidates for post comman-!
der and it is anybody’s race. The sue- i
cessor to the present incumbent, May- :
or J. Vance Rowe of Aberdeen, will |
be one of these: L. C. Buckingham '
of Pinehurst, John H. Stephenson of |
Southern Pines, J. F. Sinclair of West ;
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End or John Hemmer of Pinehurst. |
The candidates for 1st vice-com-1
mander are F. M. Dwight of Lake-
view and Ernest' Wilson of Manly;
for 2d vice commander, Charlie
Fields and Dan Horner, both of Pine
hurst and N. E. Andrews of Manly.
Candidates duly nominated for oth
er posts are as follows; Chaplain, The
Rev. A. J. McKelway of Pinehurst;
Sergeant at Arms, Raymond Burk-
man of Pinehurst; Historian, R. E.
Denny of Pinehurst; Finance Officer,
L. V. O’Callaghan of Southern Pines;
Publicity Officer, Nelson C. Hyde,
Southern PineST Service Officers, L.
L. Wooley, Southern Pines; D. C. Rit
ter, West End; R. E. Denny, Pine
hurst, J. Vance Rowe, Aberdeen and
T. M. Edwards, Pinebluff.- The adju
tant will be appointed by the newly
elected commander.
Post officers are anxious to have
a big turn-out for tonight’s meeting,
which opens at 8 o’clock. In addition
1.0 the election of officers much bus
iness is to be transacted.
COUNTY MUST FORECLOSE ON
DELINQUENTS AFTER SEPT. 1
Attention is called to a notice to
delinquent taxpayers which appears
elsewhere in this paper. Property
owners who have not paid their taxes
for the years 1927 through 1931 may
still do so before September 1 and
avoid foreclosure proceedings. Fore
closure proceeding3 are not left to
the will of the commissioners, but
they are required by law to abide by
the rules laid down for them to fol
low, and September 1 has been des
ignated as the time for foreclosure
proceedings to be instituted.
The State of North Carolina has
no intention of going into the coal
business, even though it has just pur
chased a farm in Moore county with
some million or more tons of coal
under it. State officials said this
week. On the other hand, if the next
legislature should cut budgets to the
point where the State could no lon
ger afford to spend $750,000 a year
for coal, most of this amount going
to West Virginia coal mines and to j
the railroads for hauling it, it could j
still manage to keep the inmates of i
its institutions warm with this Moore I
county coal, it is admitted.
There are no plans being made
now for either the mining or use of
this coal, so far as can be learned.
But it is admitted that the time may
come when this coal may come in
handy etiher for actual use in State
institutions or as an ace up the sleeve
of the State in dealing with coal com
panies if and when coal prices ever
get down on a competitive basis
again. At the present time all coal
prices are virtually fixed by the coal
code authority in Washington. But
if coal prices ever get back on a com
petitive basis again, this State coal
farm may help the State in getting
better prices than it otherwise might,
it is agreed in Raleigh.
Approximately 1,000 acres in the
"Horseshoe” section north of Car
thage were acquired by purchasj by
the State as reported in last week’s
Pilot.
Negro Captured by Aberdeen
Posse is Held Without Bail
on Serious Charge
SAID TO HAVE CONFESSED
Melvin McLaurin, 25, Negro taxi
driver of Gibson Station, arrainged
on Monday in Recorder’s Court, was
ordered held for Superior Co .rt with
out privilege of bail after a prelim
inary hear’ng on a charge of crimi.^
nally assaulting Ina Catharine Jor
dan. 19, of Greensboro. The case was
tried before Vice-Recorder S. R.
Hoyle.
Ina Catharine and her 17-year-old
sister, Mary Elizabeth Jordan, claim
ed that they had been to Fayetteville
to sell handkerchiefs they had made
and were hitch-hiking on the F<<.y-
etteville-Aberdeen highway last Sp.t-
urday night, hoping to make their
way back to Greensboro that night.
Near a filling station about four
miles from Raeford they stopped a
car and asked the driver for a ride.
They asserted that they withdrew
their request for a ride when they
found the driver was a Negro, but he
assured them he was a taxi-driver
from Sanford and that he woi’ld be
glad to bring them 18 miles on their
way home.
Near Aberdeen, according to the
girls’ story, the Negro turned off the
main highway and forced them out of
the car at the point of a pistol, com
mitting a capital crime against the
older. They were then ordered into
the car again, and after driving down
the Laurinburg road several miles, the
Negro again attacked the older girl,
it is said. He then carried the girls
to a point near Aberdeen and after
many threats to kill them if they told
what had happened he put them out,
the girls stated.
The girls hunted up Officer Dees
in Aberdeen about 2:30 Sunday morn
ing and told him of the occurrence
and he and a pos.se found McLaurin
some two miles from town where his
car had stalled. He is said to have
confessed to the crime after having
been lodged in jail. He was not plac
ed on the stand at the hearing, but
entered a plea of not quilty.
The Misses Jordan stated that they
were daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Adam
Walker Jordan of Greensboro.
GEORGIA TOBACCO PRICES
HIGHER THAN L.\ST YE.4R
Sales on the Georgia tobacco mar
kets continue in fair volume with
prices generally about twice as high
as last season’s average, although the
first dissatisfaction of the year was
reported from Moultrie, where there
was a drop of six to eight cents un-
der Monday’s high.
The farmers were said to be “jubi
lant’ ’over the prices, but, after the
decline today, there w’as some dissat-
isfaction with the money offered by
»the buyers.
Tifton said offerings there this
week seemed to be of a higher grade
than the leaf sold during the first
week of the season.
New Bridge Over S. A. L.
Tracks Here Completed
Traffic Opened on Tuesday on
Span Which Provides Saf
ety for Pedestrians
The new concrete bridge over the
tracks of the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way at the southern end of Southern
Pines was opened to traffic on Tues
day and local citizens have been ad
miring the structure since. The bridge
was built by the Hobbs-Peabody Con
struction Company of Charlotte for
the State Highway Department, the
result of efforts of the local Cham-
ber of Commerce to have a wider span
with provision for pedestrian as well
as motor traffic replace the old
bridge, never safe for the pedestrian.
Detour signs which carried traffic
through the heart of the business sec
tion of tovra during construction work
on the bridge were removed on Tues
day. The guard rails on either side of
Morganton Road leading to the bridge
from east and west have yet to be
put in place but this work is expect
ed to be completed by the forepart
of next week.
MERRILL AND OVERTON TO
OPEN NEW DRUG STORE
$342,380 Increased
for Taxpayer if New School
Bond Issue is Approved
Register Tomorrow
Saturday Final Day For Vot
ers t« E)nroll for School
Bond Election August 25
Pilot Presents Figures from
County Audit for Considera
tion of Voters on Aug. 25
BOOKS CLOSE SATURDAY
Tomorrow, Saturday, is final reg
istration day for the special School
Bond Issue election on August 25th.
The following are the duiy appointed
officials in the various election pre
cincts:
EAST CARTHAGE PRECINCT:
Registrar—P. H. McDonald,
Judges of Election—Wilbur
Shields, John Fields.
WEST CARTHAGE PRECINCT:
Registrar—C. C. Muse,
Judges of Election—H. H. Frye,
L. C. Wallace.
BENSALEM PRECINCT:
Registrar—Alex Brewer,
Judges of Election—Carl Monroe,
E. W. Bost.
HEMP PRECINCT:
Registrar—A. H. Bray,
Judges of Election—Marvin Rit
ter, C. C. Hunsucker.
SPIES PRECINCT:
Registrar—W. J. Baldwin,
Judges of Election—Fulton Mon
roe, Turner Brown.
SPENCERVILLE PRECINCT:
Registrar—Willie Dunlap,
Judges of Election—D. A. Dun
lap, Milo Hussey.
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C. E, PLEASANTS,
LEADING CITIZEN
OF ABERDEEN, DIES
Born in Cary He Moved to
Moore County in Early
Life
As briefly as possible The Pilot
pre.sents the question on which the
residents of Moore county will be call
ed upon to vote on August 25th, (reg
istration for which closes tomorrow,
Saturday) as follows:
PROPOSAL — County to borrow
$166,000 from U. S. Public Works
Administration and $66,000 from State
Literary Fund, a total of $232,000.
To shift burden of taxation from
School Districts to County, making a
uniform .45 cent rate for schools in
debtedness in all tow'nships regard
less of present rate, thereby raising
some rates, lowering others.
PROGRAM—To carry out the fol
lowing school construction program:
Group A—New Buildings
8 new classrooms, aud. and
fum. Carthage colored .. .$ 25,750
10 new classrooms, aud. and
furn., Sheffield Township . 34,000
10 new classrooms, aud. and
furn., at Highfalls 34,000
10 new classrooms, aud. and
furn., at Eureka 34,000
10 new classrooms, aud. and
furn., Bensalem Township 34,000
8 new classrooms, aud. and
fum.. Southern Pines 34,000
8 new classrooms, aud. and
furn., Aberdeen, colored 25,000
$221,500
Less 30 percent Grant .... 65,000
Earl E. Merrill and J. -T. Overton,
until the past week employes of
Throwers Pharmacy, have leased the
store adjoining the new A. & P. Store
in the McBrayer Building on West
Broad street. Southern Pines, and
plan to open a drug store on the first
of September. The store is now be
ing remodeled for the purpose, with
E. V. Perkinson, contractor, in charge
of the work. This will give Southern
Pines three drug Stores.
LEAVES LARGE FAMILY
Charles E. Pleasants, one of Aber
deen’s oldest and most highly respect
ed citizens, died at his home on Be-1
thesda Road at 2 o’clock on Tue.sday!
morning after a long illnest;. He was
74 years of age.
Mr. Pleasants was born in Cary but
moved to Aberdeen in early life. He
devoted himself to many civic inter
ests, playing an important part in
the development of the community.
He was a member of the Page Memor
ial Methodist Church, During the last
few years of his life he was the cus
todian of old Bethesda Church and
of its large and historic cemetery.
He is survived by his widow, who
was Miss Belle Blue before her mar-
riage, and eight children, Mrs. Ruth
McLeod, of Carthage; Mrs. Laura
Hausman, of New York City; Mrs.
Pattie McAninch of Chicago; Mrs. W.
D. Caviness, of Aberdeen, and W. K.
Pleasants, of Hamlet; Charles Pleas
ants, Jr., Malcolm B. Pleasants and
Francis Pleasants of Aberdeen; four
sisters, Mrs. N. A. McKeithen of Car
thage and Mrs. Lura Ray of Niagara;
Mrs. Zadie Leach of Aberdeen and
Mrs. Rena Simms of Winter Garden,
Florida: and one brother E. L. Pleas
ants of Aberdeen.
One of the largest funerals held in
Aberdeen in some time was conduct
ed by Mr. Pleasants’, pastor, the Rev.
W. C. Ball, assisted by the pastor of the
Bethesda Presbyterian Church, the
Rev. E. L. Barber ,in the old Bethes
da Church at 3 o’clock on Wednesday
afternoon. Prominent men in all
warks of life in the community at
tended. Among the honorary bearers
were G. C. Seymour, J. T. Harrington,
John D. Mcl.«jan, J. W. Graham, T.
M. Sharpe, J. K. Melvin, T. S. Melvin,
Dr. H. E. Bowman, Dr. Alex H. Me-
Leod, M. H. Folley, T. D. McLean,
J. R. Page, Henry A. Page, Sr, C. M.
Wilson, C. J. Johnson, J. G. Farrell, C.
L. Guion and David S. Knight, Sr.
The active bearers were grandsons
of the deceased, John Edward Pleas
ants, Bradford Pleasants, Bobbie
Pleasants, Glen Caviness, Archie Mc
Leod and Curtis McLeod. Mr. Plea.s-
ants was laid to rest in the family
plot in the old cemetery grounds di
rectly opposite the church.
Total Loan $166,000
Group B—Additions to Old Buildings
Pinehurst, White, Repairs $ 4,000
Pinehurst, Col., Auditorium.. 6,000
Pinehurst, Co., Seats 1,500
.\berdeen White, Auditorium 8,500
Aberdeen. White, Seats 1,800
So. Pines. Col., 4 rooms 8,000
So, Pines, Col., Seats 1,000
West End, 6 rooms 12,000
West End. Seats . 1,200
Hemp, 6 rooms 12,000
Hemp, Seats 1,200
Carthage, 4 rooms 8,000
Carthage, Seats 800
Total
$ 66,000
166,000
Grand Total $232,000
SCHOOL DEBT—The present out
standing school district indebtedness
is as follows:
Bonds and State Loans $ 443,325
Present Property Valua-
uation of County 20,096,146
Total Tax Requirements
necessary to retire pres
ent outstanding bonds
and State loans 610,259
Total Tax Requirements
necessary to retire Pres
ent and Proposed Indebt
edness on County-wide
plan 952,639
Increased load for tax
payers 342,380
County’s Finances
The above is the picture of the
School P*?bt situation now and as
proposed. To properly weigh the ad
visability of adding to the burden of
the taxpayers the picture should also
include the Consolidated Financial
Balance Sheet of Moore county in
cluding all county-wide funds except
ing the school funds, and The Pilot
herewith presents the last audited
statement made by ETverett, Zane &
Vluse, certified public accountants,
same being for the year ending June
30, 1933:
Assets:
Treasurer: Current Ac
count $ 7,82631
Savings Account 4,475.89^
Page Trust Company (Un
available Account) 934.62
1932 Taxes (Including un
remitted tax collections
of $6,549.31 on deposit In
Page Trust Co., clos
ed) 38,954.83
Sundry Receivables 1,635.36
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