North Carolina Newspapers

    Friday. Aguust 10, 1934.
THE PILOT, Southern Pinea and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Page Fiv*
Public Schools of
County Open Sept. 10
List of Adopted Texth(»oks For
Term Announced by
Sch(M>l lioard
Tobacco Men in Section Well
Pleased With Outlook for Crop
The public schools of Moore coun
ty will open for the fall term on Mon
day, September 10th. For the bene
fit of the patrons of the schools, a
list of adopted textbooks for 1934.
35 was announced this week by the
County School board, as follows:
Itotail
Grade Text Price
Reading
Newson Readers (Newson).
1 Primer—Playtime $ .36
1 Book One -Good Times .40
2 Book Two- The Open Door .44
3 Book Three—Storyland 51
Story and Study Readers (John
son).
1 Primer—Playfellows 31
1 First Reader — Friends to
Make .31
2 Second Reader — Trips to
Take 41
3 Third Reader—The (Treas
ure Box .48
The Study Readers (Merrill).
4 Fourth Year Book .67
5 Fifth Year Book .68
6 Sixth Year Book .68
Boys’ and Girls’ Readers,
(Houghton).
7 Seventh Reader .67
Snf'lltns:
Tthe McCall Speller (Laidlaw)
2 Second Year .10
3 Third Year 10 ]
4 Fourth Year .10 j
5 Fifth Year .10!
6 Sixth Year .101
7 Seventh Year .11
Language
The Open Door Language
Series (Houghton).
3 Third Grade .36
4 Fourth Grade .37
5 Fifth Grade 37
6 Sixth Grade 37
7 Seventh Grade .42
4-5 Book I .44
6-7 Book II .51
The New Arithmetics (Mer.
rill).
3 Third Year .31
4 Fourth Year .31
5 Fifth Year .31
6 Sixth Year .31
7 Seventh Year 37
Americanism
6-8 Our Dual Government
(Rand).
Drawing
1-7 Industrial and Applied Art
Books (Mentzer), ea. ..
Health
4 Boys and Girls of Wake-Up
Town (Ginn)
Malden Heilth Series—
(Heath).
5 Health
6 Cleanliness and Health
7 Building Sti'on.ij Bodies—
(Houghton)
<«eogrHphy
Barrows-Parker Series,
(Silver)
4 Journeys in Distant Lands
5 United States and Canada
6 Europe and Asia
7 Southern Lands
Writing
Zaner Writing Method—
(Zaner).
1-6 Each Book
7 Seventh Grade
MuhIc
Progressive Music Series,
(Silver).
2-3 Book One .59
4-5 Book Two .63
6 Book Three *>6
7 Book Four 94
2-7 One Book Course .66
Social Science
5 The Story of our Nation,
(Row) 65
6 A Young People’s History of
N. C. (Willioms) 70
6 Our Beginnings in Europe
and America (Winston) .60
7 American History for Young
Americans (Allyn) 1.00
8 Cooperative Citizenship—
(Row) .98
9 Man’s Advancing Civiliza
tion (Rand) 1.47
9 Man’s Achievement, Vol. 1
(Ginn) 1 63
10 History of the U. S., Revis
ed (Macmillan 1.35
10 Modern History (Silver) 1.73
11 Modern History (Silver) ... 1.73
11 Everyday Economics (Sil- 1.31
ver) 1-31
11 Civic Sociology (World) .... 1.38
11 Everyday Problems of
American Democracy,
(Houghton) 1-21
Busy Relief Office
Pastures Approved for Cattle;
New Jackson Springs Can
nery Runs Full Time
A number of pastures in Moore
county have been approved for use in
pasturing relief cattle, and Mias Head
has been notified that a shipment of
50 cattle has been approved for Car-
thage. These will be sent to a 350-
acre pasture furni.shed by W. J. Har
rington.
The Jackson Springs cannery is
now running on full time. Canning
on halves for the Samarcand Manor
is now being done, the Manor furn
ishing the peaches and sugar and the
relief office the cans and labor.
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A shipment of 150 cases of roast |
beef with 24 cans to the case and one
and one-half pounds to the can, a to-'
tal of 5,400 pounds, and 33 cases of
salt pork averaging around 100
pounds to the case have been receiv
ed. These surplus commodities will be
used in the relief work. j
The county relief office has receiv-'
ed a cash allotment from the State
Rural Rehabilitation Fund for use in
buying peaches for the Jackson
Springs cannery. All peaches bought
with this money will be the property
of the relief office. John McCrummen
of West End is to contact the grow
ers.
Perhaps the largest “pea patch” in ^
the county is one planted by the re- j
lief forces near the Thaggards com-1
munity between Clay Road and Nia- ■
gara. It contains fifty acres. Relief ^
families will pick the dry peas on a
cooperative basis and the vines will'
be left on the ground for the bene- i
fit of the land owner. ‘
Harve.sting of Acreage Will Fol
low Peach Season in Keeping
Many Employed
Tobacco men are well pleased with
the outlook for a crop and for good
prices this season. Harvesting is un
der way, with the leaf in good shape,
and a fairly large acreage. With a
hopeful crop of good quality the far
mers are employing hands to carry on
the harvest and stimulating further
the employment situation, which has
been much livened up by the good
peach crop and the good prices.
The peach harvest is nearing a
clo.se, and as the end approaches the
demand improves as Georgia has fin
ished and the North has very little
to offer. This has had the effect of
sending to North Carolina an unpre
cedented lot of trucks looking for
peahes. The truck trade has had a se
rious effect on the railroad traffic,
so much so that the refrigerator cars
are seeing much of their business tak
en from under their noses. That in
turn has had an effect on the ice de
mand.
More or less talk is heard of new
orchards again in this section, but
what will come out of it is specula
tive. Old timers remember that one
good crop does not pay for developing
an orchard, and they caution against
any hurry to get a foot in the tar
barrel. However, up the Candor way
many young trees are coming on, and
it is evident that peach growing will
be an industry in the Sandhills for
many a day, even if in modified form.
The corn crop over the surround
ing territory is reported good. Canta
loupes and watermelons did not make
the growers rich this summer. Eggs
are scarce for this season. Wheat has
made a right fair crop. Fall feed
crops are promising. The man with a
garden is finding something to eat
nearer home than the grocery. Can
ning has been active and is still in
progress.
First Million of New Carolina
Stamps Now Being Distributed
Carolinas, Inc., Opens Campaign
to Tell the World About
Opportunities Here
Delivery of the first order of 1,-
000,000 Carolina Crusade stamps, de
picting hLstoric and scenic spots, as
well as agricultviral and industrial op
portunities in North and South Car
olina has been made to The Caro
linas, Inc. and distribution is now un
der way. The Carolinas. Inc., a non-
p-ofit, nonpolitical group of out
standing citizens of the two states,
was recently organized to attract in
creased tourist travel, home-seekers
and industrialists through an inten
sive program to adequately portray
scenic and climatic advantages and
the points of interest and natural re
sources of the Carolinas.
While the stamps will in themsel-
ves provide valuable advertising for
the Carolinas when attached to sta
tionery, envelopes, packages, ct cet
era, they are the means to an end
of financing the broad program of
advertising which will be modelled
along the lines of the New Fngland
Council, Florida and Californians,
Inc. Publication of authentic and ac
curate data in various forms of liter
ature, national magazines, metropoli
tan newspapers, radio and other ad
vertising rae-.ii'i w;’! be financed by
the sale of stamps;.
The first series of stamps is a sheet
of 25 different svbject.?, printed in
one color with a wood type effect,
with four colors to tne sheet. Each
stamp carries th^* words "See the
Carolinas” acro.ss the ’op. They will
be distributed by worthwhile chari
table, benevolent, fraternal and civic
organizations and will sell for one
cent each. It is planned to issue a
new series of 25 stamp.s '’ach month
and a total distribution of 40,000,000
within two years is the minimum goal
of the organization.
<Jovernors Endorse Plan
Gov. J. C. B. Ehringhaus, of orth
Carolina, and Gov. Ibra C. Black
wood have heartily endorsed The Car-
olinas. Inc., and both serve as hon
orary presidents. Dr. L. B. Morse is
president and Coleman W'. Roberts is
executive vicepresident with general
headquarters at Charlotte. Dr. W .C.
Mudgett of Southern Pines in on the
Board of Directors.
The 25 designs in the initial series
include Grandfather Mountain (N. C.)
street scene in Charleston, S. C.;
Monument to Wright Brothers at
Kitty Hawk, N. C., the birthplace of
the aeroplane; Memorial to Devoted
Women of the Confederacy, Columbia,
S. C.; tobacco field (N. C.-S. C.); polo
players (N. C.-S. C.); Blowing Rock
Mountain, N. C.: monument at Guil
ford Battleground National Park near
Greensboro, N. C.; Linville Falls, N.
C.; workman in furniture factory
Television
Miss Lenora Riggan Seen and
Heard on Screen at Chic
ago World’s Fair
While at the Chicago World’s
Fair last week Miss Lenora Rig-
g:an of Southern Pines appeared be
fore the new television projector at
the television headquarters on the
grounds and her appearance and
conversation was transmitted on
the screen to a large number of
persons gathered in the auditori
um.
Asked where she lived. Miss Rig
gan said ‘‘Southern Pines.”
“Where is that?” she was ask
ed.
‘‘What, you don't know of South
ern Pines, in the Sandhills of North
Carolina, the paradise of the golf
er in w’inter,” she replied, and went
on to give this section a little pub
licity for the benefit of those see
ing and hearing her on the screen
Two Billion Gallons of Gasoline
.Motorists of North Carolina Have Used That Much—and More
—in Last N'ine and One-Half Years, and Paid State
Over $110,000,000 Tax On It.
Citizens of North Carolina have
consumed nearly two and one-fourth
billions of gallons of gasoline, on
which they paid the State a gallon-
age tax of more than 110 millions of
dollars in the last nine and one-half
years, according to figures compiled
in the office of L. J. Sears, in charge
of this tax collection during practical
ly all of that period.
Figures show that in the nine and
one-half years 2,238,651,986 gallons
of gasoline have been consumed in
North Carolina, subject to slight cor
rection due to overlapping of dif
ferent rates on the gallon, when new
rates would become effective, and
that the tax on that gasoline has
been collected to the amount of
$110,255,.568 during that period.
During the eight years and nine
months in which Sears has been col
lecting the gasoline tax, the amount
has totaled $106,320,124, and of that
amount he has collected $106,092,794,
or collections have been 99.78 per
cent of the amount assessed, the loss
.so far being .22 of one per cent, and
Sears believes he will finally get half
of that balance. Some of it is now
tied up in closed banks, while there
are a few accounts that arc delin
quent.
The tabulation shows that the high
peak in gasoline consumption was
re.ached in 1929, in which year tax
was paid on 270,938,321 gallons. Since
then there has been a decrease,
I amounting to 2.85 per cent for 1930,
2.95 per cent for 1931 and 7.91 per
cent for 1932, while 1933 showed a
slight upward turn,' showing an in
crease of 1.16 per cent over the pre
vious year.
Increase This Vear
During the first six months of
this calendar year, to June 30, the
increa.se has been 15 per cent over
the first six months of last year. The
increa.se during the next six months
over the same period in 1933 is not
expected to maintain the same per
centage, since the New Deal was op
erating the la.it half of last year.
However, even a fair increase will
cau.se this year to take its place close
alongside 1929 in the consumption the
last six months was 125,476.103 gal
lons, a gain of 16.338,917 gallons over
the 109,137,186 gallons on which tax
was paid in the first half of 1933.
The more thaiT 125 millions of gal
lons consumed the fii.st six monthJi
of this year give promi.se that the
full year's consumption will reach the
263 millions of gallons consumed in
1930, and may even come close to the
nearly 271 million.s consumed in 1929.
The last half is always far ahead
of the first half, due to the increased
use of trucks for marketing products
and inclusion of the tourist and va
cation con.sumption in the last six
months.
In only one year, 1932, is there
shown a decrease in the amount of
, money collected on the gasoline tax,
due to the gradual increase in the
rate from three cents up to April,
1925, four cents from then until June,
1929 five cents until May, 1931, and
I six cents since that lime. The slight-
; ly more than six millions collected
‘ in 1925 had grown almost to 15 mil-
j lions in 1933.
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(N. C.); game birds plentiful (N. C.-
,S. C.»: Caesar's Head Mountain, S. C.;
I equestrian scene (N. C.-S. C.); Ve-
I nus Fly Trap Carniverous plant (N.
C.); Kings Mountain Battlefield (N.
C.-S. C.); fishing (N. C.-S. C.); Bilt-
more House, Geo. W. Vanderbilt es
tate, Asheville, N. C.; magnolias (N.
C.-S. C.): moss draped roadway (N.
C.-S. C.); cotton (N. C.-S. C.); power
dam and lake (N. C.-S. C.); Cypress
Gardens, S. C.; typical seashore (N.
C.-S. C.»: Chimney Rock, N. C.
Scores of suggestions for stamp
subjects have been received at head
quarters of The Carolinas, Inc., and
in the initial orders now being filled
are many requests from stamp collec
tors and from native Carolinians
throughout the nation.
WON’T PAY T.WES TNTIL
OLD ONES ARE COLLECTED
A demand that Robeson county col
lect its back taxes before increasing
its tax rate this year was made upon
the county commissioners of the
county Monday by E. J. Britt of Lum-
berton, farmer, attorney and former
county attorney.
Mr. Britt declared he has several
clients who have said they will not
pay the increased levy the commis- ■
sioners have made this year of 33 1-3
per cent, from 60 to 80 cents on the
$100, with such a large amount of |
back taxes uncollected until they have ,
been told to do so by the courts. He |
stated he had been instructed to en-j
join the board from collecting the
taxes.
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houses we can probably give you as good prices and a
much better quality of printing.
When you are in the market for any of the follow
ing let us quote you:
Salesbooks of all kinds
Bank Deposit Slips
Duplicate and Triplicate forms and
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All kinds of Printed Forms in larg-e
quantities
Foldpack Forms and Roll Form's for
any kind of Autographic Register
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We will also be glad to have your orders for the
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as is consistent with the proper observance of our code.
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