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VOL. 38? No. 20 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933 YEAR LEGISLATURE WOB OVER AFTER PERK NEARLY SIX MONTI Many New Bills Written Ii Statutes of State By General Assembly SALES TAX AND SCHOOL MEASURE BIG FEATUR Tax Penalties Reduced; S aries Cut To New Low Levels RALEIGGH, May 17? After days of effort, making its sess the second longest in history of 1 state, the legislature adjourned 5:29 Monday afternoon. A total 1,408 new laws were written ii the statutes of North Carolina sir the General Assembly began work on January I Some of the more outstandi accomplishments of the genei Assembly that adjourned Mond are: It balanced the budget, th safeguarding the credit of t state, by enacting a revenue b that will yield sufficient reven with which to meet the appropri tions of approximately $25,00< 000 from the general fund. It established a state supporti eight months school term, witho any prpperty tdxes therefor thus removing from the proper owners more than $8,000,000 year in ad valorem taxes. It reduced the cost of maintainir the state departments and institi tions approximately $10,000,000 year by adopting an appropriatior bill calling for a total outlay of onl $41,000,000 a year instead of $52 000,000 a year as adopted in 1931. It reduced the salaries of all stat officials, from the governor on dowi by 15 per cent and the salaries c all state employes 32 per cent beto the 1931 salary schedule. It adopted a 3 per cent genera <ales tax on retail sales, with basi foods exempted, in order to ge enough revenue to provide the $16, 000,000 for the support of the eight months school tertn and thus balanc the budget. It raised the franchise tax on th gross income of the power com panies, railroads and other larg< corporations in order to recapturi the greater part of the property taj reduction they received from the re moval of the property taxes foi ( Continued on Back Page) GALLOWAY IS AGAIN ELECTED CHAIRMAN New Members of Board Edu cation Assume Duties at Meeting Monday J. M. Galloway, of Rosman, for the past four years chairman of the county board of education, was re elected to this post at the meeting of the new board held here last Monday when Mrs. Flora Holliday and L. E. Bagwell assumed office. Among the business transacted by the board at its meeting Monday was to reject all bids proffered for the Calvert school property, and it is expected that the sale will be made privately provided adequate price is offered. Contract was entered into by the board with the R. Emmett Smith auditing company of Asheville to make the 1932-33 audit, subject to i approval <of the Local Government J Commission. The contract was made on a per diem basis, total fee not to exceed $300. l K SUPERINTENDENT K )D BE CHOSEN JUNE 511 Office of County Superintend j ent To Be Separate From nj0 j the Brevard School i : Announcement is made by th. ' county board of education that Hon Iday, June 5, has been set as the datt I for election of a county superinten ?g : dent of public schools, the term t .begin on July 1, this year, tenure o) ? 'office being for two years. Salary of county superintendent for Transylvania county and othei counties of like size or population has been set by the General Assem 132 'My at 51400. ion j The board in its meeting specifi' the cally stated that no consideration at 1 will be given to any candidate whose of I qualifications do not conform with ito'the regulations of the 1933 Machin ice ery act. its ' It was the unanimous opinion of I the county superintendent and the ng I beard in meeting Monday that it ' would be to the best interest of the schools of the county to have a city superintendent separate from the of fice of the county superintendent/ v g J and this idea will be put into effect in electing a county superintendent,! providing it does not conflict withj the machinery act. Professor J. B.l j*. Jones is at present county and city '".superintendent. I edt COOKING EXPERT WILL uelj BE HERE THIS FRIDAY | ty ; . , a I An announcement of especial in-j jterest to the ladies of the communi ^ ty is that being carried by the Southern Public Utilities company jjiin the advertising columns of this ' paper. Miss Dorothy Covert, of the Kel vin-Kitchens, Detroit Michigan, will give a demonstration of food preser e vation and modern methods of cook 1 i ing at the S. P. U. show rooms on f Friday afternoon of this week, be ^ ginning at three o'clock, to which all I ladies are invited. sPISGAH GARDENS IN :i FINE CONDITION NOW One of the finest sights that can be found in the entire county is at Pisgah Forest, where there are more gardens than have ever before been sien in that little village. In the back yards, back lots, in! J the front yards and everywhere onej eoes in the village there are gardens, small, triangular, oblong, and most any shape, but all thriving and show ing promise of bringing in the re turns that will be a joy to the j owners and pride to the entire ; community. I Seed and fertilizer for the garden I plots have been furnished through I the Welfare Board, and Randall Ly ' day, who has charge of relief gar dens in the Pisgah Forest section states that people who have taken advantage of the liberal offer made by the Welfare organization are showing their appreciation by-making their garden_spots all they should be. M. W. GALLOWAY HOME ! FROM THE LEGISLATURE Representative M. W. Galloway returned to his home in Brevard on Tuesday night of this week, after having spent the past five months in Raleigh where he represented Tran sylvania county in the General As j sembly. Mr. Galloway stated that while he 'did not get all the bills passed that he would like to have, that he "had done the very best he could under the circumstances." ] I h< cr< oi h< pl of bj ca w. be fo m in, or cil ch of ve Reforestation Camp At John's Rock Will Be Occupied By Large Number at an C01 of su Tr Plans are going forward for es tablishment of the reforestation camp at Johns Rock in Pisgah Na tional forest, army officials being Sunday and Monday on an inspection tour and report favorably on the" site at Johns Rock. Bids for materials to be used in construction of the camp have al ready been sent out by the purchas ing department of the army, local lumbermen receiving outlines of materials. Capt. F; E. Kaufmann, of Fort Bragg, who will be in charge of the Johns Rock camp, was delighted with the section surrounding his lo cation and expressed the wish to bring his family .here within the next few days, and will in all proba bility live in Brevard. Two hundred and twenty men will be stationed at the Johns Rock camp, together with officials and twenty or ! more foremen. The men will live in) army tents or barracks, being under) supervision of the army while in! camp and under supervision of the forestry division while on duty in the forest, Ranger Duncan states. It is not known just where the seventeen young Transylvania men will be stationed but will in all probability be located within the Pisgah Forest division. The men were given preliminary examina tions in Asheville Monday and were sent to Fort Bragg for two weeks conditioning. , Those going from Transylvania jM? county were: Orville Long, Jack Loftis, Wood row Fisher, Olen Conner, Wilton Ar rowood, Alden Hubbard, Joe Brack en, Clifford Gravely, Robert Leath ers, Walter O'Shields, Lester Cox, Monroe Holtzclaw, J. T. Owen, New ton Teague, Elwood Thompson,, Ho mer Manly, Robert Whitmire. In addition to the seventeen men between the ages of 18 and 25, forty five older men will be selected from the county by the Welfare organiza tion, these men to act as foremen or supervisors in the forests. This last named quota are expected to be call ed within a few days. bo i wo an; bei nol in ] nig del Ha to FI ] sou by fer daj Osl Be i but for sai< typ | Bank Off-Set Bill Passed By Legislature During: Last Day Much interest is attached to the l'act that the bank deposit offset bill affecting nearly half the counties of e the state, was passed by the General - Assembly on Saturday and was lati : fied. The bill, patterned after one in ) troduced early in the session by Rep r rcsentative Wallace Galloway of Transylvania county, as a statewide ; measure and killed in the senate] ? committee after it had passed the lower house, provides that persons fraving deposits in a closed bank mayj sell them to other persons owing the j bank, the deposit to be applied j against the purchaser's indebtedness j at face value. The measure was fought through out the session by Commissioner (Gurney P. Hood, who lined up his 3 influence in the Senate, but failed to* have enough strength to down t! persistent Biily Sullivan, of Ash vil'.e, who had the original bill pas ed. at. a night session, the Franc and Dunagar, amendment addir pother counties soir.ing later. It is expected chat the Supren .Court will rule within a short tin jon the measure as to its eonstiti tion&lity, no instructions being sei out from the office of the state con mi3sioner of banks, in the meantur to accept deposita as set out in th bilS. W. Pat Kimr.ey. in charge of 1 quidation of the Brevard Bar.kin company states that he is awaitin instructions from the banking d< partment, and that in his opinion i the bill is called constitutional b the Supreme Court that the letter o the law will be obeyed. (AUXILIARY TO MEE1 i IN SESSION HERE A t ST. PHILIPS CHUR( Fifty Representatives Are I pec ted To Attend Meet Here This Friday Fifty or more representatives fr parishes in the district are expec to attend the Woman's auxiliary the Western Carolina diocese of 1 Episcopal church in a one-day s sion at St. Philips Episcopal chui in Brevard on Friday of this we Mrs. D. B. Tabor, of New Yc city, field worker of the natioi council of the Episcopal church, v preside over the meeting. Delegates are expected from Hi tlersonville, Saluda, Tryon, Bat Ca' Franklin and Highlands. Disc) ?ion of problems relating to auxilia and church work will feature t Dne-day session. The opening s< trice Friday morning at 10 o'clo .vill bje a communion service condu :c<l by the St. Philips rector, t Rev. Harry Perry. Luncheon will be served at l:i j'clock at the rectory by ladies he local church. f IB. I. COMMENCEMENl T EXERCISES WILL BE IHjSTARTED ON MAY 28 Lx- j Annual Sermon To Be Deliv' ered At Methodist Church On Sunday Morning om | Annual commencement exercise ted i cf Brevard Institute will begin 01. of Sunday, May 28th, and continue :he through the following Thursday, ac es- cording to announcement of Mi.- ? ?ch Daisy Ritter, superintendent. The commencement sermon on ll'^ Sunday morning at the Methodist church will be delivered by Rev. D. H. Rinehart, pastor of the Metho dist church at High Point, and the :n-j literary address to the graduates /e, j on the following Thursday, June 1st, is- , will be delivered by Rev. R. L. ry ' Alexander, pastor of the Brevard he ? Presbyterian church. il|" | Further exercises of commence c'?]ment week will be given in detail in l?' next week's paper. "c| Plans now call for closing of the 'Institute on July 28th, the property 90 being offered to the educational board of1 of the Methodist church as site fori j the Weaver-Rutherford college. MANY APPLICANTS II FOR JOBS WITH CIT1 Vo Action Taken By Board C Aldermen as To Changes In Town Personnel The new board of aldermen i heir first regular meeting held Moi ay night at the city hall, ha( mong other things to consider, 'hole bevy of applications for vj ious positions with the city. Five people, including one lad\ iade application for the city cler nd treasurer position, now bein; sld by Harry H. Patton. Two appli itions were read for the positioi : vvater shed patrolman, now beinj aid by James. P. Deaver. Two ap ;icants were asking for the plac night policeman, now being fillei l Church C. Morris. Two appli mts had filed for the position o: ater superintendent, the place nov ing filled by Winston Ashworth. One enterprising gentleman aske< r any job in the city personnel thai ight be open at a later date, he be g willing to tackle any of the jobs positions now being filled by i :y employe, and his stipulated arge for these, or rather, any om these services was placed at s ry low figure. No action was taken by the board their meeting Monday night on y of the applications, it being the nsensus of opinion that no action this nature would be taken until ch a time as Alderman A. A. antham, who is out of town for ,'eral days, could be present. No intimation was made by the ard as to when the applicants uld be voted upon, nor was there y expression of opinion by mem :s of the board as to whether or t there would be any changes made the personnel. Present at the meeting Monday ;ht were Mayor J. C. Wike, Al ?men Ralph Duckworth, A. H. .rris, R. P. Kilpatrick and S. M. tcfie, with Harry Patton as clerk board. NE COMEDY TO BE ON AT CLEMSON THEATRE 'lenty of laughs, even for the ;rest of grumblers, are promised the Clemson Theatre in tlieir of ing for this Friday and Satur r, when Jack Oakie and Vivienne jorne will be featured in "Sailor Good." Another equally attractive picture,, of a different order, is scheduled the following week ? "Kongo"? J to be a thriller of extraordinary NjGOLF TOURNEY WILL V BE PLAYED BY CLUB j Brevard and Hendersonville Kiwanians Will Mix On I { Two Golf Courses i nj Plans are being made by the Br?'! l-jvard Kiwanis club and the dub at J I i Hendersonville to stage a golf tour-j ' ney, with a team from Henderson-) jville competing here with members l*lof the Kiwanis within the next i couple of weeks, and a return game ..{to be played immediately following k opening of the Hendersonville course g ! there. [. | H. Walter Fuller, chairman of the n' sports committee of the Henderson' j;ville club, expresses the hope that . several of these tournaments can be staged this summer, probably to i | broaden out and include visitors in -i the two towns taking part during !* | the summer. ,1 ; MUSIC PUPILS TO GIVE i RECITAL ON MAY 25TH i! ' ? ! Pupils of Miss Sattie Parker will > ! give a music recital at the gram 1 ' mar school auditorium on Thursday 1! evening, May 25, at 8:15 o'clock. !l A varied program on pianc, 'j string and wood instruments will be presented. The public is cordially I invited to attend. A silver offering i ] will be taken for the benefit of the. j welfare fund. p i At Lyday Hospital! i Patients confined in Lyday Mem iorial hospital were reported by hos pital authorities on Wednesday morning to be improving or to have been able to return to their homes. > B i The following were reported to bt! j oi 'doing nicely: Mrs. L. H. Wilson, of;C i Robbinsville, a son, David Scott, : IV jborn Saturday -night; Mrs. O.lki Downs, appendicitis operation two weeks ago; Jim Dischman Rosman, knife wounds; Coy Hogsed, injuries in accidental shooting. Little Inez ? Reid, who has been in the hospital , ^ some time suffering from burns, was j, able to return to her home Wednes- ' day. FIRST JACK CAUGHT { BY ORVILLE SIMPSON To Orvilie Simpson goes laurels for landing the first "Jack fish" or musky, from the French Broad riv !cr, Mr. Simpson making his catch ! last week. i This particular fish did not map ' nify in size on account of its be 1 ing the first one of the season, Mr. ; Simpson's catch measuring only 26 (inches in length. tl A se m it ? m cc rt m eh ~e m lii s FUNERAL RITES ARE HELD FOR VETERA Jesse C. Scruggs Succumbs Long IKness; Dies In Oteen Hospital Funeral services for Jesse Scruggs were held at the home Tu day morning at eleven o'clock, w the Kev. J. K. Henderson in char Interment was made in the Glazei cemetery. Mr. Scruggs, aged 37, died at Ote hospital, Asheville, early Sund night where he hac been a pati< for less than one week, although had been in ill health for sevei months. Members of the American Legi "(acted as pallbearers at the burial :"|Mr. Scruggs, paying their last i ?ispects to a "Buddy" who had aerv ^ i this country well in time of ne< 1 J who had made a record for faithft I ness in service. Pallbearers wer ' ? Dr. Carl Hardin, Verne Clement, "P. Ward, Orville Simpson, Jas' Huggins and Ralph Duckworth. K Patrick Funeral home had charge arrangements. Ranking as sergeant in the Ame ican Expeditionary Forces, the Br ?-?ard man saw action at St. Di Meuse and Argonne, having spent vear in France. Discharged afti neace had been declared, Sergeai ? / Scruggs returned to Brevard who i he has been employed at the Trai ? sylvania Tanning company unf: j several months ago when his healt ?failed him. | Surviving are the wife who ws I before her marriage Miss Ianth ! Brown and three small childre ? Nelle, Carl and Carolyn. The pai ?frits, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Scrugg! I six brothers and one sister, also sui Ivivp. the latter being: Charli< | Frank, Hampton and Robc-r I Scruggs, of Brevard; Henry Scrugg ? of Texas; Thomas Scruggs of Cin jcinnati, Ohio, and Mrs. Flare Hoi den, Pisgah Forest. PUREBRED BULL ON WHITHIRE FARM W, T. Whitmire of. Cherryl'ielt section, has purchased a fine pure 'bred Hereford bull from the Hickorj I Nut Gap farms in Buncombe. th< 'splendid animal having already beer brought into the county. Mr. Whitmire, already has cjuitt a large herd of beef cattle of the grade type, and hopes to build up a herd of higher type through pur chase of the blooded animal. Twelve Pound Boy Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Hardin of the Quebec section, announce the arrival of a son, James Barry, who weighed twelve and one-half pounds on his birthday date. Aside from be ing a healthy youngster, young Hardin also bears the distinction of being the first grandson of Prof. M. D. Hardin. Siniard Re-Enlists ASHEVILLE, MSjy 17? Gaston Siniard, Seaman First Class, U. S. Navy, was a visitor at the Navy re cruiting station, Abbeville, Friday )n his way to his ship at Phila Jel- 1 Dhia. Siniard formerly lived at Bre-! (?ard, and his parents still live there. Siniard has ju3t reenlisted for four Tears for the U. S. S. Fairfax and vas granted thirty days leave to risit his parents. Scout Leaders at Rosman RCSMAN, May 17? Miss Jean ictte Talley and party of Penrose, vere in Rosman the first of the i-eek in interest of the Girl Seoul novement. A group has recently ?een organized here under the lead rship of Mrs. J. I. Cline. : GRL SCOUT PLAY TO iN; BE GIVEN ON FRIDAY to| AT HI AUDITORIUM i _ Fime Entertainment Promised t j To Those Who Attend ns- ; Camp Fund Event ith I ge. CAMPJLLAHEE OFFERED HI ier> FOR TEN-DAY OUTING ;?"!Cash Prize Bern# Offered To fntj Person Selling Most Tickets To Play With a cast that within itself Is a drawing card, "The Importance of Being Earnest," Girl Scout benefit play to be given at the Brevard high school auditorium Friday night promises to be an event of in'.erest and entertainment. Appearing in the play will be Hinton McLeod, Jr., as John Worth ington; Earle Fullbright as Aleger non Moncrieff; Fred Miller as of Lane the manservant; Jack Tran tham. as the Rev. Canon Chasuble; r*jJchn Verner as Merriman the but ?";ler; Mi-ss Lilian Jenkins as Lady Brackwell; Miss Sherill Bromfield a as Hor.. Gwendolen Fairfax; Miss 5r ! Ethel McMinn as Cecily Cardew; "iand Miss Alberta Jenkins as Miss ?e ; Prism the governess. ? j! Rehearsals have been going 1*1 for ;; 1 several weeks with Miss Beulah Mae 1 Zachary as director. Pro.ffessov Ed ?'wir. Wike will act as stage manager; ? 1 Miss Dorothy Fetzer as makeup I artist, with furniture to be used in . i the three scenes of the play fur ,* nished by Farmers Supply Co. !j Advance ticket saies indicate that ;.|a iarge attendance will be noted, 1 1 character of the play, the strong s'cast, and purpose for which the en . 1 tertainment is being staged all com , ' bining'to make the event worthwhile. J Funds to be derived from the play I will go toward helping defray ex i penses of a ten day summer camp j for the Girl Scout troops in Tran isylvania county. I! Camp Illahee and equipment have I been offered to the Girl Scouts anJ I their leaders by Mr. and Mis. Ilin i ton McLeod, without charge, Mr?. : r McLeod, herself an interested scout "j leader, to be in charge of the camp, ri together with a complete staff of ! competent instructors and councilors. !j A prize of $2.50 to the person who ' sells the most tickets to the p'ay is ' being offered by the C ommunity 1 1 Committee, which is causing several j young people of the town to become 1 doubly interested. MISS PATTON WILL | BE REPRESENTATIVE i ? ( Many People Plan To Attend Cotton Ball In Greenville { On Thursday Night Miss Charlotte Patton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Patton. will represent this community as "Miss Brevard" at the Cotton Bat to be given at Greenville on Thur - i day evening of this week. A grand ball will be feature of th ? I Thursday evening program, a nu- - | ber of Brevard people having be* m i invited to attend the event, at whic '> [Miss Patton will officially repreee". the town. National Cotton Week is bsinir observed in Greenville through -this week. Henderson Lectures ROSMAN, May 17? Prof. T. C Henderson, of Quebec, gave a vert interesting lecture at Mt. Moriali church Sunday night under auspices of the B." Y. P. U. Woman's Exchange and Information Bureau Opened On East Main Street The . Woman's Exchange and ureau of Information was opened n Monday of this 'week in the eld hamber of Commerce rooms on East tain street, with Miss Lilian Jen ins in charge. It is the aim cf the Women's Civic ub, which organization is in charge ' the Woman's Exchange and the ureau of information to operate >th units together in order to cut tkti overhead expenses. With Miss Jenkins in charge of ie Bureau of Information and Miss lma Trowbridge, for several years ?cretary of the Chamber of Com- j erce taking care of correspondence,! is the aim of the Civic Club to! irry on the work in as efficient nnner as possible at 8 very nominal ?st. Membership in the Woman's Ex lange. is open to the entire com-! unity, a fee of _ fifty cents beir<r iarged for membership, with a per- 1 nlage ol' receipts as reimburse- j ent to the club for work of hand- 1 jg th?r .sales. Everything from i "raspberries to a piano" were soI<l 'successfully at the Exchange daring jthe past summer, and it is the pui (pose of the Civic Club to enlarge > j their program this season, carryir.;: I a wider range of articles for sa'; . j Of espccia! interest will be t> ? j antique department of the Exchang . this being added at request of many of the tourists who widely pat ronized the Exchange the past sum mer. It is pointed out that there- arc are any number of valuable an tiquas in the county that will prove ivory attractive. to tourists, a, id invi tation is extended by the Exchange for such pieces to be placed on sue. ROSMAN SCOUTS CAMP AT LAKE CHERRYF1ELO ? ? ? ? - ? ? ? ? r P.OSMAN, May 17? The Crow patrol, local Boy Scout organ ii; tion. left Jwre Monday aect>mpsi>.ieil by their scoutmaster, Rev J. V. Hall. for Camp Cherrytieid. where they will enjoy a few da^' outlntT ??jg$ arvl take tcout tests.
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