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THE HOKE; COUNTY NEWS
VOLUME XXVII—Nlmber 15
RAEFORD, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 17th, 1931
THE HOKE COUNTY^OR^L
SI.50 YEAR IN AD /AMCE
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lI'WEEyiL INFEI!rA110N WAIRMELON OUT-
mOFERTV KEO IN WE VERY EIGHT EOOK BRIGHT HERE
Changes In School And Road
Legislation Brings Much
Relief To Property Owners
In Some Sections,
Farmers Have Kept Army
Killed Down By Use Of
Poison; Burton Does Some
Counting.
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A net reduction of $12,161,845
from- the 1930 property tax levies
for the six months school term and
county roads will be realized by-
North Carolina taxpayers as a re
sult of the school and road legis
lation of the 1931 General Assem
bly.
Figures ^o^piled and just releas
ed by the , ante Tax Gommission in
dicate that a saving of nearly
twelve and a quarter million dol
lars from the actual 1930 levies
will accrue to the owners of prop
erty from the passage of the admin
istration road litw under which the
state takes over the entire main
tenance of county roads^ and the
Weevil infestation In the county
appears to be unusually light, ac_
cording to reports coming in and
to some counts made by County
Agent Burton this week.
In one field • countedi which had
been’mopped with a molasses pois
on one time, Mr. Burton found an
Infestation of 15 per cent, the
highest that he found. In another
field on the same farm that had
been mopped twice the count
showed four percent and in another
field on this farm that had been
mopped three times the infestation
was only two percent. On other
farms inspected "that had beep mop
ped consistently the ipfestatlon was
Advices From Northern Mark
ets Indicate Good Prices;
Hoke Countjy Crop Is A
Good One.
McLean school law under wbich'^alBMWt nothing and (Mr.. Button , feels
that the Weevil is well under control.
Conyer^tU^na. with, varfous Jarm*
AWtbe state takes over the entire
- j .^.maintenance of the six.- months,
'‘4* school* term and reduces the levies
on property for school support to
IS cents,
, The net reduction from the 1939
'V , levy for the six menths 'school terpi
is $9,652,491. and for roads, $,515,-
358. 'The average reduction in rate
for schools is 32 cents, and for roads
9 cents.
The actual levy for county and
township road maintenance in 1939
was $5,252,113, none of which Is^M-
^ he levied in 1931. The counties wiffl
have to asi^me additional respon
sibility thl^j," year, hqkever, in the
*4 amount o#$2,736,765 for the pay
ment oi. coUnty road debt service
which .last year was paid out of
state i^d appropriated to the coun
ties. 'This leaves a net reduction
from the'1930 actual levy of two
f and one half millions.
■While tire twolve and one-quarter
million dollar decrease from the
actual levy 'in 1930 is the biggest
total reduction in profterty taxes
T'V ever ^^tuated at one time in the
history of North Carolina—a re-
I ductioni of more than twenty per
eent of the total taxes levied
property, county, municipal, and dfa-
trict, for all purposes—the reduc
tion itself would be $000,000 bigger
if every county bad levied, in 1930,
as much as it actually spent for
road maintenance that year.
A number of counties have been
■o spending a great deal more for
road maintenance than they have
been levying. For example, BuU-
combe county spent $327,000 in the
year ending June 30, ,1930; but
in 1930 Buncombe county levied a
rate of only five hundredths of one
cent—or $819—^for roads. If Bun.
combe county had raised its road
maintenance funds from taxes it
4, would have bad to levy twenty
cents.
S Fn the same year Craven County
spent $81,257, and levied a rate
of three-tenths of one cent which
produced $807. It spent nearly $80,.
EOOO more than it levied, and would
have found it necessary to le'vy a
^ c rate of thirty cents for roads if it
' had met its road, expenditures out
of road tax levies.
The average state-wide reduction
J^for roads and schools combined is
41 cents. The twelve counties re
ceiving the greatest reduction are
lead by Rutherford with an even
$1.00, followed by Dare with 77 cents,
Columbus 69 cents, 'Vance 68
cents, Nash 67 cents, Currituck 64
cents, Pitt 64 cents, Scotland 64
cents. Union 62 cents, Davidson 61
cents, Greene 60 cents, and Cam
den 60 cents.
The county receiving the lowest
reduction from the 1930 levy for
schools and roads is Clay, which
^ould not receive a large reduction
HOED MEETING
ft '
Hear Complaints From' Tax
Payers On Valuations Set
Upon Property; Tax Sales
Postponed Until October.
ers shoWs very few .complaints; from,
this pest this year and a marked
improvement oyer, preceding years,
though if is possible for considerable
damage to to done yet.
The cotton crop In Hoke county
is one of the prettiest this . year
ever seeii 'by old farmers. Hhile
planting was a little later than nor.
mal, the crop seems to have gotten
off to a good start and made rapid
]progreB8. In many fields it is meet
ing in the rows and is fruiting
-beautifully. The weather hatf" been
Ideal with enough dry wreatber to
make fruiting rapid and check the
work of the weevil. - i i
Former Member of Handing
. ,.,;jCk|>met Assigned After Day
ItfAdded to His Sentence;
Term To Begin Spon.
Trom last year’s rate, because it
levied only $10,500 for-^roads and
schools combined.. When it again
Kssumes the payment of its road
debt service charge, for which it
received last year $10,000 of state
p aid, its tax rate will actually be . In
creased 13 centk. This county levied
only $3,377 for roads last year, but
N it actually spent twice this amount.
The true net result of the opera-
k tlon of the scbopl and road law will,
therefore, leave Clay county with
approximately the same rate in
1931 as in 1930. This county inci.
dentally has a high total county
tax rate for the reason that its
^ debt service needs (not operating
costs) for roads and schools require
a levy of $1,39.
Other counties that will redpive,
.il|hpAll reductions as a result ot the
'^ad and school laws are ' Macon
^ 6 cents, Brunswick 7 esnts,. Asiie
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Washington, July 15. ^ Albert
Bacon Fall, secretary of the Inter
ior in the Harding administration,
will serve his sentence of a year
and a day in the penitentiary at
Sante Fe, New Mexico,, his home
state.
-ffhe New Mexico prison was chosen
today by Attorney General Mitchell
after Justice Bailey of the District
of Columbia Supreme court had
added a day to his jail sentence of
a year.
The change was made to enable
the attorney general to choose a
prison more suitable to the health
of I the former cabinet officer than
the District of Columbia jail.
Fall is expected to go to the
penlteUtiacy as soon as the warrant
tor his committment is sent to a
United States marshal or prison of
ficials.
He served as senator from New
Mexico before becoming secretary
of the Interior and was a territorial
judge before New Merlco became
a state.
Fall was convicted in October,
1929, of accepting a bribe from Ed
ward L; Doheny, oil operator, for
the lease of the Elk Hills, Calif.,
naval oil reserve to a Doheny com
pany.
The sentence was changed
Justice Bailey on motion of Prank
Hogan, attorney for the former
secretary of the interior.
Justice Bailey last wVek in de
nying Hogan's request for a sus-
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8 cents, Randolph 17 cents, For
syth 19 cents, Watauga 22 cents,
Yadkin 23 cents, Avery 25 cents,
Alleghaney 27 cents, X^ucey 27
cents, Swain 27 cents.
On the whole, the eastern part
of the state will receive a larger
reduction in rate than Uhe central
or western. The average reduction
of the counties in the Coastal Plain
is 52 cents, and the- Tide-Water
Section 41 cents. On the other
hand, the Piedmont counties re
ceive a reduction of 39 cents, and
Mountain counties a reduction of
33 cents.
Two counties will each r6''eJve
more than a 70 cent reduction in
tax rate, eleven will, receive be
tween 60 and 70 cents, eighteen be
tween 6jk' and 60 cents, twenty-
ndne between . 40Q and . 50, twenty-
seven between 30 and 40 cents,
seven between 20 and 30 cents, and
aix bfllovr . 2h cents.
. Advices Jroin tbs Northern mark
ets indlc^e tkht' watermelons will
bring a good priM this_8ea8on and
latest vq^tatlont^/^eceJvqd by
County Agent Burton are mrat eii-
eouraging. A letter from a New
York brokerage firm, mailed on
Mon?’ay. quotes the following prices
on tracks in that citv for Watsons:
34—36, $420 to $475.
32-34, $375 to $400.
30—32, $320 to $345, •
28—30, $290 to $315.
26—28, $250 to $275. ^ .
24—26, $210 to $235.
22—24, $176 to $200.
Dixie Belles: 24—26, $210; 22—21,
*200. , ,
-. There are ..approximately,, two
thousand a,cre8 planted in melons
in the coilnty .and Mr. Burton- esti
mates ths number of cars .of nice
hie'ons u be shippcl at six hun
dred. Shipments are just beginning
and it is impossible to give any
returns at this writing on any
shipments but the next few days
will see the heavy movement get
under way. The condition of the
crop is • reported by Mr. Burton as
good and if the prices continue as
favorable as now seems likely, quite
a neat sum will be reall'zed by
growers from this year's crop.
Commenting on conditions in New
York on Monday, besi-.les stating
that the weather was terrifically
hot, this firm had the following to
say: ^;;--
Liberal arrivals coupled with
slow movement on Saturday allow
ing 99 carloads to be carried over
from previous receipts helped make
the heavy declipe in prices realiz
ed today. However, weather con
ditions are excellent, terrifically hot
and this coupled with low prices
ruling today should help move
holdings On track into consumption
freely.
As shipments reported are very
light it would not surprise uS to
see our market react very favor
ably about Wednesday. Should yon
be interested in making shipments
at that time or after that time
please be good enough to telegraph
us for spot market condiUons. We
can then advise you whether or not
such shipments should be made.
TONSli CIMH; IS
DECIHED SUCCESS
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Twenty-four Children
Tonsils Removed; Cfinics
Becoming Popiilar In Hoke
County,
The board of^'commissioners . met
Monday in an all day session, sit
ting as a board of equalizatien to
hear complaints from tax payers on
the valuations set upon their prop
erty. All members were present ex
cept (Mr. N. P. Watson, who was
preventend from attending by sick
ness. ^,
Quite a number appeared in per
son and Bonie wrote letters asking
for reductions in values placed upon
their property. Except in cases where
buildings had been destroyed or
built, very few changes were made
in the figures from last year.
The commissioners re-considered
a former' action with reference to
the ^proprlation -for a«fire and
game \j^den, 'bnt found that since
this o^pe. bias already be«r' con
tracted for that they could^ do noth
ing but continue it for the ensuing
year. * ’ ,
They ordered the sheriff to with
hold the advertising of lands for
1930 taxe^ until Septenfber and
that the sale not 'be held until the
first Monday in October. It has been
customary for the lands to be ad
vertised In May and sold in June
heretofore, but last year the sale
was deferred until October in an
effort to assist the tax payers and
it Is hoped by the commissioners
that putting it off this year will
assist many people to pay qp and
avoid the embarrassment' and ex
pense of having their lands adver
tised. October is the latest that
they can put it off. In fact, it
works something of a hardship ou
the sheriff in that it makes him
late closing his books for 1930 and
In getting his hooks for the 1931
taxes. Towever, if the action en
ables many tax payers to meet
their . .taxei} _wiQwqL ..^vertisement
it is felt *’(^a^ the inconvenience is
welKworh while.
A budget for the year 1931-32 will
be adopted by the commissioners
on the third Monday in August. It
is not knowm now just what ths
rate for this year will be but it
is believed that a substantial re
duction will be the outcome;' Sala
ries have been cut recently, the
school term has been shortened in
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SEN. GEORGE Fmi
TARIFF REDUmON
Says U. S. Should Abandont
Embargo Tbewy ,Mid Adopt
More Liberal Trade Policy $-
Commends Moratonuni-
A tonsil and adenoid clinic wa
held in the basement of the Pres
byterian church last Thursday auO
twenty-four . children, coming from
various parts of the county, were
successfully operated on.. Dr. Mc
Kay, of FayettevUle, performed the
operations and was assisted by
Miss Smith, operating nurse. Dr.
Williams, of the Sanatorium staff,
and Dr. R L. Murray, Coufaty Phy
sician. The clinic Was held under
the ausplcee of the county Parent
Teacher Council, and Mrs. H. A
Cameron, the chairman, asks that
the thanks of the council be ex
tended to all who so graciously as
sisted in making the clinic a suc
cess.
Clinics have been held from time
to time for a number of years and
haive proven quite beneficial an^l
popular. They enable parents to
get accomodations for their child
ren at greatly reducqd(, cost and
right at home, and therefore much
more conveniently. They are put
on under the direction of the St^te
Board of Health and only experi
enced surgeons and nurses are used.
Their^ record -of success is one of
whicr any state should feel proud
and the work that these clinics are
doing are of inestimable benefit to
the people.
DRY FORCES BEGIN
BUSINESS BETTER
Upebureb Milling & Storage
Company Drawing Custom
ers From South Carolina
And Coast Of N. C.
Business is better with the . Up.
church Milling & Storage Company
than it has 'been since 1919, ac
cording to the manager, Mr. H. A
Cameron, who has been with this
company for all these many years.
Last fail this company installed feed
mills and began the' manufacture
of all kinds of feeds, either on a
toll basis or for cash or furnishing
part of the ingredients and using
atever the customer brought for
the^alance. This service has prov
en immensely popular and ^ people
are comirf^ from distant points in
order to get the benefit of this ser
vice. Last’ week customers came
from points in South Carolina and
from counties on the coast in this
state. Many customer^ have been
using the flour mill of this com
pany for years and coming from
adjoining counties in whiph mills
were to be found simply because
they liked the service here better.
With the addition of the feed grind
ing and mixing machinibry they
find a service now that is not a.
vailable in many places and^ the
increasing volume of business be
ing done by this company Is evi
dence that folks are waking up to
the benefits to be derived from this
servlcei'
This paper pointed out the sig
nificance of thds enterprise last
fall and it is gratifying, to see the
warm reception given it in so short
a time. It is bringing people to
RaefprC frpVlit .v,aifli: -^yer increasing
distance and' PhtMid be a materi^
faetolr in mPklii; Raeford' a largar
ahopOidi;' c'PtftPIf.
335 New Men To Be Placed
Washington, July 15.—Recognizing:
tariff barriers as a serious hind
rance to the 'restoration of inter
national trade," Senator George, oT
Georgia, member of the senate fi
nance committee,' in a statement
issued Monday declared that down
ward revision. of tariffs here anil
abroad may well be expected to
hasten the return of normal con
ditions. He said:
“The President’s proposal Co suh—
pend for one year the payment of
inter-go vemmental debts Bn*?
received cordial assurance of snp^
port by representatives of botlx>
political parties. The ultimate value ;
of the moratorium lies in ttia use '-
we shall make of it
“If we shall indicate by: oar a'a--
tions- the purpose^ to abaaddn; the*
embargo theory of tariff and to
adopt a more liberal trade policy,
the history of tariff making in Eu
rope justifies the belief that Eu
ropean nations may eliminate - mwy-'
of the trade barriers erected A by;
them against other natlonsv includ
ing the United States, thereby stet-t'
ting in normal motion the currents,
of world trade.
“In 1925 and^, 1926 there wasr
marked upward revisions of the
tariff in 16 European countries.
This tendency was apparently
checked by the bankers’ manifesto
of 1926, the report of the world
economic conference in 1927, and
other statements from the leading
financiers and industrialists of the
world.
“In 1927 upward rerision of tha-
tarift occurred in only 10 EuropBaa-
' countries; in 1928 five, and in 19-29'
probably only two countries contin
ued the policy. In 1929 Congress was
called in extraordinary session and
invited to make a limited revision
At Work In Several Di»t- ' of the tariff in the interest of agri-
ricts; 16 Sent To Territory' culture and a few industries matt-
I -I. j:— ering from insurmountable foreign
Including North l PoUtirsI necessity and
competition. Political necessity and
expediency, however, led to a genr-
Washington, July .15. — Federal gj-ai revision of the tarifL
prohibition
enforcement crlets “The result is the Smoot-Hawley
were prepared tonight for the big- act. The further result is the
gest campaign in dry law history erection of retaliatory tariffs by many
with tomorrow set as the zero • countries of Elurope, by some conB.*t
hour. i tries in this hemisphere and BPr-
This was the word given out at tests from every quarter. Fteastic -
the prohibition bureau, aftere the reductions in foreign commertr,,
receipt of information that the 33.>!both exports and imports, has foL -
NOW ON
Sapp McLeod Secures Agency
For Hoke County; Results
Guaranteed So Long As
Sapp Remains Awake.
Some Mutt once remarked that
there was nothing new under the
Sun, but if he had tried to steal
a watermelon from the patch of
Harry Greene any night recently lie
would have had an experience new
to him anyway. Thieves had been
entering this said patch and not
only stealing melons but cutting
and breaking green ones and doing
a world of unnecessary damage.
Mr. Green secured the services of
Hoke County’s most versatile man
and none other than the redoubt
able Sapp McLeod was employed to
.'guard the patch, the guarding be
ing done in regulation sentry style
with a double barrel shot gun. It
has also been rumored that the
government was assisting in’ the
guarding, though this has not been
confirmed.
' Saturday night a little war oc
curred over at the patch when Mr..
McLeod heard some would-be ro
gue on the outskirts of the field
of battle. He was heard to let go
both barrels in rapid succession,
though no casualties have been re.
ported thus far. Mr. Green wanted
and tried to go to the scene of
hostilities to render first aid, if
necessary, but his nerve failed him
when he approached the field of
battle and he sickened with fear
when the thought occurred to him
that Sapp was no respector of per
sons in the dark and that he, Mr.
Greene, might be the recelpient of
some little shots Intended for the
thieves. Hdwever, he conceived the
idea of using his young son as a
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new dry agents had or would com
plete within 24 hours their inten
sive enforcemeent training. By to
morrow night most of them will
have reacher the posts assigned to
them.
Howard T. JoYies, acting prohi
bition administrator, said he did
not anticipate, however, any imme
diate upward leap in arrests and
seizures.
Just as a policeman breaks in on
a new boat, he explained, the new
agents will work for some time
with men who have been in the
service for a year nr more. Later
they will be put more on their own
and the force of the new drive is
expec^d^ to be more apparent. ,
Jon^ pointed to the record of
the prohibition bureau, during the
past month as evidence of the re
sults obtained by the addition of
165 new agents earlier in the year.
The arrests of more than 7.000
violators was reported, with seizur
es of nearly 500.000 gallons of beei-
lowed. This decline is due* iit-great
part to the world depression,:, but
exports from the United States felli
approximately 21 per cent during,
the first si^i months of 1930; while:
British exports declined, about
per cent; Italy about 11 pet cent"
and France about 5.5 per cent.
“Excess European tariffs Haxe: ,
most certainly contributed fof th'a;
general depression and ve have not -
of course escaped the consequences»
of that depression. The president’s
views regarding the tariff are
known. He himself recognized in
equalities in the present tariff-
Upon his insistence the executive
flexible provision was retained fa
the act. It is not necessary that
the president invite a congressional
revision of the tariff. With the as
sistance of the tariff commission he-
may eliminate those linwarranted
and especially burdensome duties
on the trade and commerce of so
many of our best customer-natians.
“President Hoover properly recog
nizes that military and naval dis
and 157,000 gallons of spirits, a armament must come by interna
tional agreement; likewise economic
disarmament.
“There is not the slightest dispo
sition to criticize or embarrass the
efforts thus far made by the Presi
dent to stabilize -world conditions,
and a downward revision of tariffs
NSjt well be
expected to hasten matwally the
return of normal conditions.”
record considerably above that of
May. The corps of agents he refer
red to was part of the new force
of 500 authorized by Congress.
Meanwhile the prohibition bure
au made public the final distribution
of the 335 agents who started their
training in impromptu schools in a i here and in Ehirope
dozen cities July 1.
Thirteen will work in the first
prohibition district, comprising New
Hampshire, Main, "Vermont, Massa
chusetts, Connecticut and Rhode
Island: 65 will be sent into the
second district, consisting only ot
New York; 50 will go to the third
which encompasses Pennsylvania,
Delaware and New Jersey; 16 will
work In the fourth, Maryland,' Vir
ginia, West Virginia, North and
South Carolina; 28 have been as
signed to the fifth, Florida, Georgia^
Alabama, Louisiana and Teka^ 27
into the sixth, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Ohio and Michigan; 57 into tre
seventh, Indiana, Illinois and "Wis
consin; 28 into Hie eighth, loVa.
Minnesota, Nebraska,' North and
South Dakota.
A1 Smith is said to act the plays
that he sees after he returs home.
We bet his wife kept him from,
seeing “Hell for Sartin.”
NATURE’S ICE BOX
Refrigerating problems do not ex
ist for housewives in north-eastern
Siberia, -where the thermometer
frequently takes a dive to 95* de
grees below sero. Keeping the food
stuff^ fresh is a simple matter of
hackmg or btuming a six w seven
toot pit in thh' frtaen soil amd plac.
ing the edtblds within. No ice 'box or
frtlilaira can with thia ar
rangement ta triptity.