Friday, January 3, 1036.
THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Page Sevea
The Week in Aberdeen
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STRAKA’S BILLIARD PARLORS
7:30 P. M. Friday Night, Jan. 3rd
Over 100,000,000 Acres of Farm
Land Better Suited for Forestry
Kenneth Keith, who has been 111
in the Moore County Hospital is
somewhat improved.
Miss Eloise Lineberry of Raleigh
has been the guest of Miss Mabel Be-
thune for the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Murdoch M. Johnson
of Camden, S. C., were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. 1. A. Thompson on Christ
mas Day.
Miss Frances Howie of St. Pauls
has been the guest of her aunt, Mrs.
Fred Blue for the past week..
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith and son,
Jack, Jr., spent the past week-end
at New Bern visiting relatives.
Miss Katharine Melvin, student
nurse at the James Walker Memorial
Hospital in Wilmington, spent a few
days here last week visiting her
parents.
Miss Grace Bradshaw has accepted
a positicn in Columbia, S. C.
Mr. Brooks of Plttsboro has been
the recent guest of his daughter, Mrs.
A. K. Pennington.
Mrs. Henry C. Riddle of Clover, S.
C., has been the guest of her mother,
Mrs. Lizzie The mas during the holi-
I days.
! Mrs. Storey has returned to her
; home in Savannah, Ga., after spend
ing the Chrfstmas holidays in .AJber-
j d en with her husband, who is a lieu-
, tenant at one of the local C. C. C.
camps.
I Mrs. Katie B. Shear and daughter.
Miss Katie Lee, spent a few days here
\ last wiek visiting Mrs. Ella Juat and
j Miss Bessie Bethune.
I Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wiley are
j returning this week from St. Peters-
I burg, Florida, where they spent the
Resettlement Administration and other conservatlonal purposes I Christmas holidays.
Would Turn 650,000 Farms
to Tree Production
Approximately 650,000 farms, com
prising more than 101,000,000 acres
of land could be used to better ad
vantage for forestry, stock ranching
rather than continued crop produc-
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Maurer left last
Tuesday for Richmond, Kentucky
tlon, according to reports cf state land ] ^here Mr. Maurer has a position In
planning specialists attached to the ! the. tobacco markets.
NEW
Aberdeen
Theatre
ABERDEEN
Monday, Jan. 6th
“Coronado”
with Johnny Dowiio, Betty
Burgess and Jack Holly.
Also Good Short Subjects.
Tuesday, Jan 7th
“It’s A Great Life”
with Joe Morrison, Paul Kel
ly, Charles “Chic” Sales.
Wednesday, Jan. 8th
“Another Face”
with Wallace Ford.
Thursday and Friday
Jan. 9, 10
“Broadway Hostess”
with Wini Shaw, Phil Regan,
Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins.
Saturday, Jan. II
Wheeler Woolsey .
m
u
Rain Maker”
Shows 7:15 and 9=15 p. m.
Saturday Continuous 3 to
11 P. M.
Prices: Adults 35c
Children, 10c.
Division of Land Utilization, Resettle
ment Administration.
These estimates are based on farm
by farm surveys of problem areas In
Melvin Creel Is working In Raeford
this week relieving the agent at the
A. & R. railroad depot.
J. E. McKeithen, who is associated
with the tobacco markets at Asheville,
each state. For the states of North ^ spent the Christmas holidays at
home.
Miss Helen David of Charleston, S.
C„ was the Christmas guest of her
mother, Mrs. Mary Trueluck.
Mrs. Harris of Durham with her
granddaughter spent the holidays In
Aberdeen visiting her daughter, Mrs.
E. B. Maynard.
Miss Bessie Gunter and her broth-
Carollna, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vir
ginia and West Virginia this work
has been carried out under the super
vision of the Regional Office of the
Resettlement Administration at Ral
eigh.
In announcing these figures. Dr. L.
C. Gray, Assistant Administrator Id
charge of land utilization, pointed out
the extensiveness of the problem they
indicated. ;
“All farms in the United States
cover approximately 987 million acres |
of land,” he said. “Thus for more Former Executive vice President
er, Grover Gunter, have moved to At
lanta, Georgia, and have rented their
home hre to Mrs. W. C. Mclnnis and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilder of
Charleston, S. C., are visiting the T.
B. Wilders and the E. T. McKelthens
duilng the holidays.
Mrs. Nellie Wright of Raeford and
Miss Nora Norris cf the Blind School,
Raleigh, were guests of Mrs. W. C.
Mclnnis for Christmas.
Chase Cameron of New York City
was the Christmas guest of Mr. and
Mrs. S. L. Windham.
A number of Aberdeen people at
tended the funeral of Register of
Deeds W. J. Harrington held in Car
thage last Friday.
Edwin McKeithen, Jr., of New York
City spent the holidays in Aberdeen
visiting his parents.
In the Christmas Out-Door contest
put on by the Home and Garden Club
Mrs. B. G. Peterson received the first
prize for the most attractive out
dcor scene and Miss Sarah Weaver
the first prize for the prettiest out
door Christmas free.
Mrs. Reid Page sang a solo at the
exercises in connection with the un
veiling of a portrait of Cd. Thomas
Lee Craig at Gastonia on December
12th.
Among Aberdeen boys and girls
home for the holidays are Misses
Gwendolyn and Theresa Zimmerman
of N. C. C. W., Greensboro; Misses
Kate and Lena Stewart, Betsy Jean
Johnson, Mabel Bethune and Fran
ces Wimberly of Flora Macdonald Col
lege, Red Springs: Marcella Folley
and Dee Batchelor from Peace, Ral
eigh; Frances Jean Freeman of
Meredith College, Raleigh; Miriam
Johnson from Randolph-Macon Col
lege, Lynchburg, Va.; Katherine John
son and Margaret Rice, from Win
gate Junior College; also Fred Wea
ver and J. Vance Rowe, Jr., from N.
SC. University, Chapel Hill; Henry
Wilder from State College, Raleigh;
Glen Caviness and Charlton Huntley
from Presbyterian College, Clinton, S.
C.; John Edward Pleasants from the
Atlanta Dental College; Leland Mc
Keithen and Billy Bowman from Duke
University, Durham; Jerry McKeith
en from Citadel, Charleston, S. C.;
June Campbell from Ellse High
School, Hemp, and Lawrence Farrell,
Sidney Taylor and Harry Dumeer
from Elon College.
John Nichols Settles
Page Trust Co. Debt.
to Pay $5,536, Court Rec
ords in Carthaffe Reveal
than ten percent of our total farm
land, thera is a need for working out
means of converting it to uses that
will be economically sound and deslr- The $184,505.35 indebtedness ot
able both from the public viewpoint John G. Nichols to the Page Trust
and that of the individual families Company has been settled on a basis
concerned.” ! of $5,536.16, a record of the transac-
In this number are included all |John Willcox,
farms which over a long period ot ° ^ Moore county Superior
time will have to be used for some I
other purposes than the cultivation ot! ° with the t ederal
crops. The present land purchase pro- i Corporation of the
gram cf the Resettlement Adiminis-! treasury Department, was exe-
tration Is limited to approximately *ve vice president of the now de-
9,900,000 acres, on which 22,000 fam- Company which had
branches In Aberdeen, Carthage, Al
bemarle. Apex, Hamlet, Liberty Rae
ford Raleigh Ramseur Sanford, Siler
public purchase are expected to bring
about the Improved use of most of the
101,000,000 acres.
ReasoHH For L'nfltness
Evidences of the unsuitability ot
these lands to arable agriculture in-
Clty, Thomasvllle Troy and Zebulon.
The settlement Is payable $1,200 In
cash and the balance In a note for 12
months.
Mr. Nichols is a former Charlotte
PROFITABLE
>4.COWS%>
■ ^ J,./ ■•v*'
■
Dairymen ,every>vhere
are finding the Purina
Cow Plan thesiire Way to
cut dowj^ ,CQw troubles
and to biiiidjtip I'a^^cow’s
net profit. jCome in and
We’ll tefl-ypM all aii^ut
what, others are doing
to make their cows real
money-makers.
dude: considerable abandonment of j banker and was at one time a State
farms; Inability of farmers to support | bank examiner
themselves; chronic tax delinquency
and extreme poverty. Erosion and ex
haustion of the soil, as well as insuf
ficient moisture and unfavorable phy
sical characteristics are among the
causes of these conditions.
All except about 10,000 of the In
debtedness represented an assess
ment on the stock In the Page Trust
Company either held by Mr. Nichols
personally or as trustee.
In the eastern portion of the wholesale application.
United States, most of the farms in-
‘‘Prlvate enterprise, backed by nor-
cluded In this list would probably be ^al economic influences,” Doctor
used for forestry or recreation (in-1 Q^ay said, “will bring about the
eluding summer homes) In the future, change in the use of much of this land
In the future, as It has to a certain
extent In the past. The principal role
of the government In this regard is to
encourage trends that contribute to
the sound use of land, and to carry
out certain preventive and corrective
work that Is beyond the scope of pri
vate land owners. For example, sev
eral Wisconsin counties are encourag
ing the proper use of land by zoning
rural areas—a method already widely
used in cities. The blocking together
of large areas for administration as
forests and parks Is another activity
provided the obstacles standing In the
way of such shifts are not too diffi
cult. In the grass country of the west,
most of the lands would probably be
utilized for cattle ranches.
“The use of this poor, land tor
farming,” said Doctor Gray, “has a
threefold evil effect. It contributes
to the existence of farm surpluses, al
though the families operating these
farms do iiot make a satisfactory liv
ing thereby. Second, the occupation
of many of these lands by poor fami
lies embarrasses local governments
because of tax delinquency, and exces- , in which public action is bound to be
sive costs for schools tmd roads. Fin- I extensive.”
ally, the continued cultivation of a | Various means of promoting better
large part of this area will bring land use. other than through public
about a further deterioration of the i acquisition, are being studied by the
land and decrease Its value for any land use planning section of the Re
purpose whatsoever.” j settlement Administration. Revised
U. S. Sets Example | taxation systems to encourage con-
Although the public purchase of i servatlon, the development of county
land by both state and federal gov-1 zoning programs, and the prosecution
ernments is now going on, partly to of sound vigorous policies In regard to
act as a demonstration of how poor! tax-delinquent land are among the
land can be converted to better uses, j matters of policy which are now be-
this method is not advocated for | ing Investigated.
PURINA
COW
CHOW
McNeill and Company
Feed and Seed Stores
Southern Pines, Phone 6245
Fayetteville, Phone 455
Af
>«NU(E ECONOMY RUUr
’ShandmDihuiii
WHOLE WHEAT
BREAD 8c
_ SQUARE ROLLS doz. 5c
RED RIPE
TOMATOES 5 Tns 29c
Case (2 Doz.) $1.35
SW.tFT’S
JEWEL 8 lb. Carton $1.00
IONA
FLOUR Plain or Self Rising—24-lb. Bag 90c
IONA PREPARED
SPAGHETTI - Can - 5c
ENCORE
MACARONI or SPAGHETTI 5c
SUNNYFIELD
PANCAKE
SUNNYFIELD
BUCKWHEAT
FLOUR FLOUR
3 2iOc 3 !"<(’ 20c
LOG CABIN OR VERMONT MAID
SYRUP — 12-oz. Bottle — 19c
GUARANTEED
EGGS — dozen ^ > 29c
MELLO
WHEAT Breakfast Cereal — pkg. 15c
3 Small Packages 25c
.SUNSWEET TENDERIZED
PRUNES-2 Packages 27c
(jiuld Medal 2 Pkgs.
Wheaties 23c
lii.staiit 4 oz. Can
Postum 25c
Sivansdown Pkg.
Cake Flour 29c
Cluster < Pkgs.
Raisins 25c
Urandiuother’8 1 lb.
Fruit Cake 39c
London Layer lb.
Raisins 10c
Cream or Gum
Drops, lb 15c
Bon Bons, lb. ... 15c
stick 2 lb. Box
Candy 25c
Smelts, lb.
29c
Fillet Sole, lb
39c
Fillet Haddock, lb.
39c
Salmon, lb.
39c
Squabs, Lobsters, Ducks, Roasting Chick
en, Turkeys; Jones Sausage and Phila
delphia Scrapple.
The Hollywood Hotel
Corner Federal Highway No. ^ and New York Avenue
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Rooms are Large,
Verandas Suniay;
Rates Moderate.
Call, write or
wire
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SOUTHERN PINK
Southern Pines,
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