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Only Newspaper Pub isjied In Transylvania County THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County An Advertising Medium Of Exceptional Merit VOL. 38 ? No. 27 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA? THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1933 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.00 PER YEAR SPIRITUAL LEADERS COMING TO BREVARD FOR 3-DAY SESSION | Methodist Ladies To Meet At Brevard Institute On July Fourteenth j Brevard Institute will be host to the third annual Spiritual Lite Re- j treat which will convene in the In stitute chapel in a three-day session, July 14, 15 and 16. The Retreat will be conducted by the spiritual life committee of the Women's Mission ary Council of the Methodist church, South, with Miss Daisy Davies and Miss Estelle Haskin, of the Council staff in charge of the conference. Fifty or more delegates are ex pected to be in attendance, including women from all over Southern i Methodism. The number of those I who may attend is limited to ICO, ' but it is not now thought that manyl more than half that number will bo] enrolled. I Leaders cf the retreat will be D?. j Fletcher S. Brockman, who spent j several years in the Orient, Dr. ' Lavens Thomas, of Emory Univers- ' ity, Miss Mable K. Howell, of Scar- j ritt college, Mrs. W. A. Newell, Miss Davies and Miss Haskins, of the f Counci'. Those attending thje session will ; stay in the Institute dormitories, all ! meetings being held in the school j chapel. j SEEKS COMPLETION OF PISGAH HIGHWAY Resolutions Sent Jef fress And Miller In Regard To | Surfacing 284 Brevard Kiwanians in their meet ing Wednesday at noon adopted reso lutions to be forwarded to Chair man Jeffress of the state Highway Commission, and Commissioner? Frank Miller of Waynesvi'.le, asking! that highway 284 through Pisgah | National Forest be surfaced from, federal funds for highway construc-,' tion al'otted recently to North Caro lina. It was pointed out at the meeting that 284 is one of the principal feed er routes into the Great Smoky Mountains National park, and fur-' ther that it would be an ideal route for tourists in general who would like to drive through Pisgah National park. Connecting with highway 28, at. Brevard which has been designated i as a link of federal route 64, reach ing from coast to coast, the high-, way across Pisgah, will when com-j p'eted be an outstanding attraction, to motorists who come into Western i North Carolina. Completion of the Greenville high way over a year ago gave Brevard fine connections with southern and eastern routes, paved roads con necting Brevard with U. S. route 1 at Augusta, Batesburg and Columbia by way of Greenville. ALL SUMMER CAMPS OPENING THIS WEEK i Hundreds of Boys and Girls j Here For Several Weeks; Many Parents Here All summer camps of the county will be in operation this week, with hundreds of boys and girls from all ! i sections of the country attending, j 1 All camps report an exceptionally I fine enrollment, averaging far in I advance of that of last year. Coming of the numerous boys and girls who make Transylvania's eleven summer camps their home for several weeks each summer, natural ly comes a large number of parents and friends of the campers, who like- 1 wise make annual trek to this sec-j tion. j Brevard and surrounding commun-j ity always takes on new life with I coming of the campers and their! friends, this spirit having already! taken effect here. Houses are being j rapidly filled, apartments taken, and , otherwise a general air of a great! season is seen. i ALEXANDER SPEAKS j AT WOMEN'S MEET Featuring the regular meeting of the Women's Civic club held Mon day afternoon in the Exchange rooms was a talk by Otto Alexander, county clerk of court, on affairs of county government. ? Mr. Alexander's talk, which was appropriate in view of the nearness of the time to the Fourth of July, was both interesting and instructive. Many members present expressed themselves as having become better informed as to the affairs of county government after hearing his re marks on the subject. He discussed! the matter from the standpoint of the duties, powers, qualifications and salaries of the different county of ficers of Transylvania county, as well as touching on governmental conditions and proposed reforms in government in North Carolina and a few other states. The club meeting, presided over by the president, Miss Florence Kern, included discussion of the club's beautification program and the flower show to be staged on August 18, and other matters of routine business. EXTRA TOWN CARRIER | NOW DELIVERING MAIL Edwin English has been p'aced onl the city delivery force of the local ' postoffice, having taken up his du-' ties on Saturday of last week. For several months Gerald Sitton has handled all city delivery, making on ly one round per day in some parts of the town. With the addition of Mr. English, who was on the force for some time prior to cutting off all departments by the national postal authorities, mail will be delivered to all parts of the town twice daily. Mass Meeting To Be Held Here For Discussion of Bond Acceptance Act The county commisisoners are call ing all tax payers of the county to come together at the court house on Saturday afternoon, July 15, at which time the bill relating to ac ceptance of bonds in payment of debt service portion of taxes will be gone into. j The measure, known as House Bill llSw, was introduced and passed in the last legislature by Represent ative Wallace Galloway, and sets forth that the county commissioners may accept county bonds that are due, past due and to become due within the fiscal year as part pay ment of taxes, or that portion of the taxation set apart for debt service. Following minutes were recorded at the meeting of the commissioners held on Monday calling for the mass meeting: "It appearing that there has been considerable discussion as to the ac ceptance of past due county bonds becoming due during the current year in payment of debt service por tion of the taxes and it further ap pearing that there was considerable misunderstanding among the taxpay ers of the county as to the provisions of the bill authorizing the acceptance of said bonds in payment of said portion of tax. "The following resolufion was in troduced by Commissioner Henderson and seconded by Commissioner Sig mon and unanimously adopted: "WHEREAS, the Legislature en acted a bi'l authorizing the Commis sioners in their discretion to accept past due County bonds maturing during the current year in payment of the debt service |??riion of taxes and said bill applying to all current and past due taxes, and "WHEREAS, the commissioners desire and intend to do what is best for the taxpayers of the county in all matters, and "WHEREAS, said bill is not thoroughly understood by the people of Transylvania county, "NOW THEREFORE, Be It Re solved that the Commissioners pub lish a noiice in The Transylvania Times ca'ling a mass meeting of the tax payers of Transylvania county to meet at the court house at 1:00 o'clock Saturday, July 15, 1933 for the purpose of discussing the said bill and all matters concerning same. "The following being the notice to be published: "The taxpayers of. Transylvania county are respectfully called to meet at the Court House in Brevard | on Saturday, July 15, 1933 at 1:00 I o'clock p. m.. then and there to dis cuss house bill 1156, said bill being las follows: H. B. 1156 j "An act to allow the commission ; ers of I Transylvania county . to ac cept county bonds in payment of certain taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That the County Com missioners of Transylvania County! are hereby authorized to accept ] County bonds that are past due, or i which become due within the fiscal year, in payment of the debt-service portion of past due or current tax es. Section 2. That the Tax Col'ectot for said County is hereby author ized to accept any such past due bonds in payment! of the debt-ser vice portion of such taxes and not otherwise; and when such bonds have been so accepted by such Tax Collector he shall be allowed full credit therefor in his settlements with the County Commissioners on such taxes. Section' 3. That all iaws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are here% re pealed: Section 4. That this act shall be in full force and effect from and af ter its ratification. In the General Assembly, read three times, and ratified this the 10th day of April, Budget Estimate Sets Tax Rate At $1.89 On Hundred Dollar Valuation Property Owner Will Not Pay As Much Tax Under New Rate As Last Year ? School Levy Cut Added To Saving ? Valua tions Lowered By Board To Greatly Effect Total Tax. With a lowered valuation of( around 47 per cent due to real prop- ; erty values being cut in half at la^l j listing, Transylvania county's bud-; get estimate as submitted to the board of county commissioners at their meeting Monday by County Accountant L. V. Sigmon is set at, $1.89% on the hundred dol ar valu-, ation. I Final adoption of the budget will | be made by the commissioners in | their meeting on the first Monday in) August, with an intensive study of j the budget estimate as presented by j Mr. Sigmon being made in the mean-; time. The commissioners have the ! right to lower or raise the rate if they see fit at their August meeting. ? Figured on a basis of the newi rate, a tax payer who listed ai house last year at 51,000, and wasj assessed $16.50 for taxes, wi 1 this I veav on the same property pay OTily > $9.47%, the property being on ihej tax books this year at one-half ofj last year's valuation. Then too, the county school sup-j plement, estimated at 76 cents last j year is cut this year to 50 cents,; while the state school levy of 16 :ents last year, is not levied. I Debt service fund requirements are raised this year, $1.00 being set in the estimate Against 51 cents last year. County health 3nd poor re quirements call for 22 li cents this year against 5 cents last, while the general fund was left at the same figure, 17 cents. Taken on a whole, a tax payer owning real property is given a big: relief, while those who own only per-) sonal property for taxation will I find their rate s'ightly higher. Several people who made calcula tions on the approximated valuation of the county since the horizontal fifty per cent reduction in realty values, had anticipated an estimate of over $2.00 on the hundred dollar I valuation. I In making presentment to the com missioners of the estimated budget, it was pointed out that every econo my possible had been taken into con sideration, and it is very doubtful if the rate can be cut anyT>y the board. Last year's rate, regarded as very low, was set at $1.65. Estimate as presented to Vie commissioners by i Mr. Sigmon will be carried in detail, in next week's is,;ue of The Times. NUMEROUS PEOPLE ARE PAYING THEIR j SUBSCRIPTIONS; OTHERS ASK FOR TIMEj Numerous Times subscribers have come into the office and others have mailed checks and money orders, paying up their subscription at the urgent re quest of the management. Still others have written cards requesting that an extension of from a week to a month be ex tended, stating that things have not been so well with them dur ing the past several months, and that it is next to impossible to remit at this time. However, all these who have written are fee' ing better, and have a brighter outlook on conditions in general, and assert that they will remit at an early date. We are glad that our readers feel this way toward the paper, and that they enjoy reading it sufficiently to write or call and ask for an extension of time. Needless to say, extension in such cases has been granted. Again attention is called to the fact that the paper cannot ! continue to go on and on with out collecting from its subscrib ers. Operating a p'ar.t suffi cient to publish The Times each week runs considerably more than a hundred dollars per week and when several subscribers fail to pay promptly upon noti fication it. naturally works a hardship upon the management. However, the editor of The Times feels that alter ten years of work in this community, that the people who have been con stantly reading and paying for the paper have done so because they enjoyed it, and will pay at the very earliest moment possi b'e. If you are unable to pay at I once, please let us know whether j or not you wish the paper con tinued, and at about what date ( you can pay. It will make us feel } better ,and at the same time al- j low us to continue sending the i paper. [ B. Y. P. 0. MEET AT CARRS HILL CHURCH Center District B. Y. P. U. aa-i sociation will convene Sunday after noon at 2:30 o'c'ock at Carr's Hill church on the Greenville highway, for an interesting program. Brevard Unior: will have charge of tha opening song service, with the! Dunn's Rock union in charge of de-l votionals. Edgar Osborne, of Bre vard, will talk to the young people on the subject of "Looking Unto Jesus for Vision of the World's Needs." Special music will be furnished by the Rocky Hill young people, after which Freeman Wright will speak on the importance of study courses in the unions. After a special song by the Dunn's Rock union, the Rev. C. W. Hilemon, pastor of Cedar Mountain Baptist church, will makfl| the closing address. Miss Hybernia Shipman is asso-i ciationa! president, while Paul GSaz ener is leader of the center district.) LARGE JACK LANDED BY ' AIKEN IN FRENCH BROAD! Randal Aiken was proudly dis playing an exceptionally nice jack) fish in tov/n Saturday afternoon, taken from the French Broad river. The beauty measured twenty-nine inches in length and weighed six and one-quarter pounds. Mr. Aiken was using live bait, and a light rod, and stated that he had plenty of excitement before he lard ed the large fellow. TWO-CENTPOSTAGE iS MISUNDERSTOOD Post office authorities tail atten tion to the fact that the two-cent postage rate is only for local mail and not for what is termed ''out side." By local mail, the local postal of ficials say. is meant, letters mailed in Brevard for Brevard or Brevard RFD delivery. In other words, if one were to mail a letter to Mr. John Doe, Brevard R-2, it would go for two cents. Or if it were maiied to Mr. John Doe, Brevard, general or City Delivery, it would go for two cents. However, if a letter, is mai'ed at Brevard to Mr. John Doe at PisgaJi Forest or Rosman, three cents is 1 npces?arv for carriage charges. CONCERT IS PLANNED! BY BAND NEXT WEEKI Arrangements arc being made for staging of the first band concert of the season on the court house lawn one night the latter part of next week, date to be announced later, by the Brevard Municipal Band. First practice of the reorganized band was held in the Erwin building last Friday evening with 16 members of the old organization present, Prof. F. J. Cutter, organizer of the band, and Donald Lee Moore, local musi cian of note, in charge. Brevard firemen are sponsoring the organization, and have the prom ise of hearty cooperation from al business men of the town. The semi weekly concerts featured here during the summer months for several years were regarded as an outstand-j ing: part of the community's enter tainment program and drew hundreds] of people. COOKING SCHOOL PRIZE ! WON BY MRS. SMATHERSi | Much interest was shown by th-s * ladies of the town in the* electric j i cooking demonstration given by th-tn | Southern Public Utilities company at. I their display rooms last Thursday, afternoon. The demonstration was aonducted by Miss Leila A. Fleming, home kconomisfc of the Southern Public [Utilities company, who clearly dem onstrated the value of an electric jran^e as a successful and dedrab'e ; means of cooking food of all kinds. Mrs. Paui Smathers was winner of the prize, latest device in electric [toaster, while others won smaller ! prizes. sMANTPEOPLE VISIT BREVARD ON SUNDAY Drug stores, cafes and service : stations all join in declaring that last Sunday saw more people in Bre vard than at any one time this sum mer, a continuous stream of cars being noted, majority of thorn beat ing- Georgia and South Carolina tags. With the thermometer koverini? around the ninety mark and above most of the day in Brevard, reports from lower sections are to effect that 90 and 97 were not uncommon 'marks. 4IDERMEN TO GET BUDGET ESTIMATE! Privilege Tax Schedule To Bel Adopted At Meeting On Thursday Night Annual Budget estimate is to be taken up by the board of aldermen of the town of Brevard in their meeting to be held this Thursday night at eight o'clock. With valuation of real property cut in half at the May listing, in ac cordance with the cut of the cur? ty, valuation of the town's assessed valuation is something like 40 per cent less than that of last year, and will in all probability cause a higher rate to be levied than that of the preceding year. Other matters to be taken up at J the meeting Thursday night will in- J elude adoption of privilege tax sche dule for the ensuing year. R. H .MORROW GETS j GOVERNMENT PLACE! Appointed as Project Super- 1 visor At the Gloucester Forestry Camp R. H. Morrow has been appointed! as project supervisor of C. C. C.| camp F-14 in the Gloucester section,' yking up his duties there on Wed lK .- .lay of this week. M r. Morrow, recognized as ant authority in forestry and engineering work, has been actively associated : with all major projects of this sec-, ticn for a number of years, has been' city engineer and in charge of en gineering for the several summer ' camp- around Brevard. He wiil have charge of all fores- j try and engineering projects to be ( carried on in the Gloucester section by the Civilian Conservation Corps, working under M. A. Mattoon and Capt. Carmichasl. He will have a group of assistant engineers and ex-' pert foiesters under his supervision, as well as the 180 or more young men who make up the G'oucester C. C. C. camp. jackTreeves IS ! BURIED ON TUESDAY Funeral services for Jack L.' Reeves, aged 87, were held Tuesday morning. July 4, at Pleasant Grov?! cemetery in Buncanipp county. The| Rev. J. L. Bragg, pasfor of the Horse, Shoe Baptist church had charge of, the service. Mr. Reeves passed away at a Ral-i eigh hospital last Sunday, the body being brought to his home county for burial. Surviving are two sons, U. G. Reeves, of Brevard, and Charles Reeves, ijf Hickory. Two daughters,' Mrs. Charles Devore of Candler, and | Mrs. Li lian G&Tyeon, of Spartan burg, also survive. Pallbearers were Wiley Reeves, Atlas Reeves, Clarence Reeves, Rus sell Reeves, Ulysses Devore, Ralph Davis of AsReville. Arrangements were in charge of Moore and Osborne of Brevard. ERWIK CHSiLD IS KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT News was received by relatives in Brevard Monday of the tragic death of Carl Erwiii, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Erwin, of East F at Rock, who was almost instantly killed by injuries sustained when struck by an automobile near his home. The child was the nephew of Mrs. Felix Norton and Mrs. Hale Siniard, of Brevard. His mother is the former Miss Florence Fortune, ofj Bret aid. 2 SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO BE FORMED HERE IF PLA.NHET 0. K. Round Topjo Brevard vidIdarint1Vafn,a COi",ty Wiil >? b""' Prof C r m v ann?uncf>nif.nt by Sent C' Bjsh' county ^''in In a meeting with the sui.crii.ten week ?S rC0BS% h?ard ^re u"t count'v is ^ HoIler- cf Rutherford county, who is a member of the state whl# '^mended t h i s mote * ,WlJI, In a11 Probability receive Sal V" W,thin a da v?, thus S ^ county into two districts in. read of the several smaller units ^esStPd016' ? r:e district w" ** Brevard 8 ma" and th" ,>tfcer toPWS??r BJiSh is "0t cer,ili? a< IwaidhtrW, thec?mrnifteen.fn for local districts will be chos-n this Brte?t0m?end/t':?n to come fr .i'i the t"a a'or'-" wlth othci ricom cal sehnn"* W- C Wil1 n,ake t,,e I ! W,!" , compare wit!, other Jud^nif sta.te.,ln f'.i notions. Judgrmg from similar action taken in other counties, there will in all prlaSy be,?"ly two local board?. . See-Off and Carson Creek will ConnaestePPr?babii-ty be mergr^d with' tions ot f'h !Tg }? recomn'enda w?th w ,.boald aftGl" coiferring with Mr. Holler here last week, with Round Top school coming to Bre ,sfj ?? 5 consolidations are pend ing: subject to transportation fa 2,1*2' ?tails to be worked out at Raleigh, Mr. Bush said, and announced later. Attention of teachers is a rain called to the fact that a?piS for positions in the county schools for the coming year must be made on standard application blanks which office 2t the suPerint?n',oni,!l DEM lEADERSHOLD MEET WITH BREESE Democratic leaders from all sec tions of Western North Carolina were guest, of Win. E. Ereese at an elaborate oarbecue held at Maiden Hair Fal s mill last Saturday after noon festivities beginning at one o'c ock. Barbecued pig and Iamb, with all the "tmn for which Mr. Breese is nr. ted in having for enjoyment of his iriends on such occasions v;as par taken of .n hearty manner by the S fr,tWd of visit0"- after whfc. iv i , were made by several of the leaders, and matters of impor tance to the party were discussed. MRS. JAM MILLER BURIED LAST WEEK Funeral services for Mrs. Jam Miller, 76 year old resident of the Sapphire section, were held on Wed nesday afternoon of last week at Union church, conducted by the Rev J. E. Eurt of Rosman, with burial made in the Union cemetery. Ar rangements were in charge of Kit Patrick's Funeral home. "Mrs. Miller had been in ill health ?for several years, end while h'.-r death was not unexpected, it was a shock to a iar?c number of people who hai come to regard the aged iady a? a vital part of the com munity in which she had lived for years. Surviving are two sons, Tim and Wocdfin, of Sapphire, and two daughters, Misses Hattie and Effie of Nev> York City. The husband, H. W. Mi'ler, died some time ago. Internationa! Conference Dislikes Roosevelt's Attitude; May Adjourn LONDON, Eng., July 5 ? President J Roosevelt s suggestion on how the! worli economic conference might con- 1 tinue its work were regarded as de-j eidealy unsatisfactory today by mem ber.; of the steering committee of the , conference. i The president's suggestions, befcrel being made public, were conveyed to i members of the conference indiviou-; ally and informally. They later advised Secretary of State Corde'.l Hull that untess the i president had something more to offer they felt the best solution was ad-1 journment of the conference, with the exception of a few economic sub committees. The conference thus was again in danger of adjournment, despite the strenuous efforts of the UniUKf States, backed by the British. Domin ions, to prevent it. Hall was understood tc have con ?eyed to President Roosevelt "he ad verse reactions of the stearin# com nittee members, and was reported even tc have urged the president to make pome concessions to the gold standard nations if he desired to pre vent adjournment The result of the morning'!: devtl opments was that although the Unit ed States delegation officially stil" opposes adjournment, the majority indivdually feel there is net much point in coniinuJiig. Bitterness against Mr. Koooevel: among- delegates of ether nations aaf I increased instead of abated. Wide ; spread objections were voiiied against I what they called his efforts -to be I dictator of the conference. At Claridgs's hote!, Iieai {quartern of the American deleftsticn, and in conference at the world occnomie conference building, effort;- to MveS the conference want or.. Tht- chairmen and vue-chaufmen sir.d secretaries of the two main committees of the conference, wita James, M. Cox representing tbt Uni' ed States, met for two hcurtv. It was these committee chiefs who yesterday voted io- recommend ad journment, and it was only by fce , roic ^ork that Hall persuaded t5?e steering committer to j>ostpcne ?? til tomorrow a meeting at which they were to draft an adjournment refutation for the full economic con ference.