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Only Newspaper Published In Transylvania County THE TRANSYLVANIA T A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County ^ ? ? ? ??* ? ? ? ? 1 | An Advertising j Medium Oi Exceptional i Merit VOL. 38 ? No. 28 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA? THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.00 PER YEAR BOND ACCEPTANCE WILL SAVE MONEY GALLOWAY STATES Similar 'Bill Effecting Great Saving For Tax Payers In Town of Brevard OTHER LOCALITIES ARE USING SIMILAR SET-UP Representative Gives Views On Measure He Had Made Into Law Editor The Times: . Since a mass meeting has been called to consider House Bill 1156 1 feel that I should give to the pub lic at this time my interpretation of the bill and its objects and purposes, since it was through my efforts the bill was passed by the .egislature. This bill is a measure intended to do for the tax payers of the coun ty what a similar bill is doing for the tax payers of the town of Bre vard; that is to save the individual tax payer the difference between the face value of our county bonds and the price at which such bonds may be purchased, which at the pres ent time, is around 33 1-3 percent of face va'ue, effecting a saving to the individual tax payer of approxi mately two-thirds of the amount of taxes permitted to be paid in such bonds; that is to say, if a tax pay-, er owes three hundred dollars in Debt Service Taxes instead of put-, ting down three hundred "bucks" in payment of that amount he may, un- , der the provisions of House Bill I U56, purchase three hundred dol-j lars' worth of county bonds, which, ' as recited above, will cost him around one hundred dollars, and ap p'y these bonds in payment of that portion of his taxes, making a net ( Continued on B<v>k Page) MILL CODE WILL BE EFFECTIVE MONDAY Pisgah Workers To Be Paid1 Minimum Wage of Twelve ? ? ???? _ . 3 _ Dollars! Per Week Close to four Jjundred thousand! cotton mill employes throughout the United States will start work Mon day morning of next week at a mini mum wage of $12 per week, accord ing to the Mill Code which was of?< ficially put in force on Monday of this week when President Roosevelt signed the bill. The Pisgah Mills at Brevard, em. I ploying better than eighty people' will come under the ruling, which sets out that no mill shall operate more than eighty hours per week when double shift is employed. The local mill is now operating on a 55 hour basis. - Following is the code in brief : Remains in force four months,' subject then to extension or modifi- 1 cation. j Guarantees minimum wages of $12' a week in the South and $13 in the North; excepts cleaners, outside em ployes and learners. Limits any employe to 40 hours work a week, except repair shop crews, who shall get time and a half for overtime. - ? Forbids employment of children' under 16. j Requires periodical submission of reports on wages, hours, production, consumption, etc. Restricts "Stretch - out" system/ through which workers increase thoiri output by operating more machines, j Directs submission by January 1,, 1034, of a minimum pay. maximum I hours agreement for cleaners ar.d! outside workers. Instructs industry's planning ccm-j mittee to submit by -January 1 a plan j for employe home-ownership. Allows the administration to name j three non-votirg members of this] committee. ' SU ' BAND CONCERT WILL BE GIVEN THURSDAY i i Brevard Organization Plan j ning Enjoyable Feature Dur ing Summer Months ! ! Plans are being perfected for stag j ing the first band concert of the sea sen at the court house stand on I Thursday evening of this week, the j music to start at eight o'clock. Under the- leadership cf Prof F,| J. Cutter and Donald Lee Moore, several members of the old Muniei-, pal Band have been meeting regular-! ly for practice and expect to btj ready to play Thursday night. Around twenty members have been | coming out for practice, and several boys from Tommy Pstton "Florida Collegian" orchestra are also ex pected to play with the local outfit. The fire department is sponsoring the move to have semi-weekly con certs which have proven a great drawing' card in the past summers, with cooperation promised the boys ; from business men of the town. j 0. L. Erwin is donating a prac- 1 tice room for the boys, and other | business men of the town are ex- 1 pected to assist in taking care of , the light bill for the practice room and the band stand. The entire community is invited to attend the first concert Thursday evening at eight o'clock, and no charges of agy kind will be madf However, it is requested that^those attending remain quiet while in the vicinity of the band stand, and especially is request made that no cne be trampling shrubs and flowers on the court, house lawn. Much Mon ey and labor has been expended by ladies of the Civic Club in beauti fying the court house lawn and special emphasis is Taid on the re quest that children be kept from running and playing around these shrubs at the concerts to be given this summer. MASONKLODGE TO MEET IN NEW HOME A special jubilee meeting of Dunn's Rock Masonic- Lodge will b; held on Friday night of this week, at 8 o'clock, lat which time their new lodge room wi 1 be dedi cated. The new hiUl, in the Pickelsimer building on Broad street, has been | laid out and built in accordance with plans of lodge rooms in larger cen ters, and is said to be ideal in ev ery respect. New furnishings and equipment have been installed, and officials of the lodge urge that every member be present for the first meeting in the new home. CIVIL TERMCOURT STARTS JULY 31ST July-August term Superior court for trial of civil eases will be held for two weeks at Brevard beginning Monday, Ju'y 31; Judge Michael Schencl:, of Hender sonville will preside at this term, at which a number of cases have been scheduled for trial. The jury was drawn by the county commissioners at their meeting here Monday, the following being selected: First Week H. B. Chappe'l, B. A. Brittairt, R. E. Fortesque, J. A. Allison, H. E. Raines, T. M. McCal!, J. A. Nelson, ? J. Wade Dickson, Clyde S. McCall, F. F. Bagwell, Lee Baynard, J. F. Hayes, R. S. Winchester, Leonard Simwson, Warren Fisher, J. V. Gil lespie, P. G. Jones, Alton Hubbard. Second Week G. W. Whitmire, W. S. Lankfcrd, G. D. Shuford, H. Hcdrick, James' W. Dickson, F. G, Norton, Wallis Bryar.t, W. J. Ray, J. D. Bryson, C. E. Wike, H. C. Baynard, S. L. Bar nett, Elbert J. Owen. C. B. Mitrhe 1, J. R. Wright, T. E. Patton Jr., Free man Hayes, W. W. Gillespie. Southern Baptist Leader Calls Churches! To See Danger In Liquor Law Repeal; SHREVEPORT, July 12.? Dr. M. E. Dodd, president of the Southern Baptist convention, has issued the following appeal to the four million Southern Baptists for their support against the repeal cf the eighteenth amendment: "To the pastors, officers and four; million members of the 24,000 South ern Baptist churches. "Dear Brethern: "Since various states in the terri tory of the Southern Baptist con vention will soon have the opportu-i nity to vote again on whether or not; - the eighteenth cmer.dment shall be,' retained or repealed; said, "Since Southern Baptists pastors,; evangelists, deacons, Sunday school teachers and other leaders and mem bers, in the past, had much to do with creating a south solid against the liquors business; "It seems imperativ? to me to is sue the following statement and ap-, peal a? president of the Southern j Baptist convention: _ liquor traffic js a legal cut-' law, an economic outcast, an intel lectual imbecila, and a moral dere lict. "It is ar. outlaw because it is not now, never has teen, and by its very nature, never has be^n, and, by its very nature never can be subject to any legal restraint, regulation or prohibition. Give it nothing legally and it will take an 5?ic.h, bat if we give it an inch it will take a mile, liquor leaders being witness. The Brewers Journal of May 1, 1910, said: " 'No matter what laws are made to cripple the beverage industries, they cannot and will not be observed by those managing these industries.' "You had as well try to regulate a r&tt'esnake, a raging flood, a wild forest fire. The only thing to be done with any of them is to destroy , them. "The proposal to regulate tho liquor traffic is an apparition o f ghostly dreams, an hallucination of | {CovMnued On Page S:-z) Gloucester Lumber Plant To Employ Hundred Men Gloucester Lumber company a< Rosmcn will resume operation the latter part of the week, according' to announcement by Jos. S. Siversteen,| president of the concern. Around one hundred men will tx employed by the Gloucester Lumber company, Mr. Silversteen said, this number including both plant opera tives and woousmen. Experienced mill men and woods workers who have been in the employ of the com pany for a number of years will for the most part make up the crews, with no outside labor being re eruited, this rule being adhered to in all industries headed by the Bre-j vard man. The company will start cutting its j own timber, taken from several large boundaries, the chief of which is lo cated on the East Fork of the French Broad river. Logs will a'so be pur chased from other county property owners. Among the pioneer plants of Tran sylvania county, the Gloucester Lum ber company manufactures hardwood lumber, oak, poplar, and chestnut being the principal output, and ship ments are made* to ali parts of the country. With employment of 100 men by the Gloucester company, in addition to the vork provided for timber own-: ers who will sell to the p'ant, an in- , creased business will be felt in all i sections of the county, this plant's resumption of operations cutting heavily into the unemployment situ ation. Other plants headed by Sir. Silver steer. are operating or. full time. They include the Transylvania Tan ning company and the finishing plant at Brevard; the Rosman Tanning Ex tract company at Rosman; and the Toxaway Tanning company, at Ros man. The Brevard man seees great good in the plan of President Roosevelt as it is now being put into effect, and' is of the opinion that business in general will be operating at full! swing within a few weeks. Mass Meeting Called by Board For Bond Measure Discussion Several hundred people of the county are expected to attend a mass meeting at the court house Saturday ; afternoon at one o'clock, the m?et-| ing being called by the board' of; county commissioners for discus^on' of the legislative enactment pertain- 1 ing to accepting bonds in payment} of! the debt service portion of coujityj taxes. In a statement being published inj the advertising columns of The > Times, the county commissioners set< forth that "it appearing that there | has been considerable discussion as to the acceptance of past <lue coun ty bonds becoming due during the current year in payment of debt service portion of the faxes and it' further appearing that there was considerable misunderstanding amongj the taxpayers of the county as to, the provisions of the bill authorizing! the acceptance of said bonds in pay- 1 ment of said flortion of tax..-. . I "The purpose of this meeting is so that the taxpayers of the county 1 can be fully informed as to the na ! ture and effect of said bill and ol j the action of the county commis-l sionere under saitie. "This is a matter of vital impor tance to the county and all taxpayer* are most urgently requested to at tend this meeting." The biil was passed at the last session of the legislature by Repre sentative Wallace Ga'lcway &nd sets forth that the county commissioners may accept county bonds t hat are past due and to become due within the fiscal year in payment of the debt service portion of county taxes. Those who are urging that the commissioners pass resolutions which will put the act into effect, stress the! point that with county bonds selling! at one-third and less their face value, a great saving can be effect ed. Much interest is being shown in the matter, and an interesting meet ing is looked forward to. i TWO DISTRICTS NOW i IN SCHOOL SYSTEM! ? . I State Board Discontinues Sev-; eral Smaller Units ? No j Committees Appointed Transylvania county school system] is now designated as district one and! two, all local school districts of the county having been merged with Brevard and Rosman as centers, ac cording to information received Wed nesday by Prof. G. C. Bush, coun ty superintendent. The consolidation into two dis- , tricts instead of the nineteen as! heretofore was done after 0. J. Hoi- j !er, state school commissioner was J here and looked over the county, it. beir.g his opinion that this would aid] the schools of the cov.nty to conform) with state i equipments. Included in the Brevard district? sire Turkey Creek, Penrose, Pisgah Forest, Selioa, Round Top, Conncs tee, See-off, Carson Creek, Cedar Mountain and Little River. In the Ror.rnan district, to be known as No. 2, is Old Toxaway, Oak Forest, Bal- j sam Grove, Silve'-stcen. Quebec,) Montvale and Lake Toxaway. No intimation was made in the] letter received by Mr. Bush as to! how many committeemen wou'd be' appointed in aach of the two dis- } tricts. The local county board is { awaiting advice1; from Raleigh be-j fore appointing local committeemen or proceeding with hiring of teach ers for the coming year. TAX LISTERS WlTT BE ALLOWED $2.25 PER DAY Tax listers and assessors wi'.l_ be paid $2.25 per day for what time they put in on tax work, according to order passed by the board of county commissioners, while the tax supervisor will be paid three dollars per day for what time he put? in. COUNTYCI? TO j ENTER. W.N.C. EVENT Transylvania county will enter several cont-stj to be staged at the annual mountain song and dance festival to be held in Asheville dur ing the first week of August. Transylvania teams will be danc ing by a group of Cedar Mountain residents and oth*r?, a band from tha lower end of the county and two or more from the upper section. I The event i ? h?irp pfagred by Bas I com Lamar Ltmsford, fo:k lore I specialist and musician of note un der sponsorship, of the Asheville [Chamber of Commerce. Several i 'hou'an'.l people are expected to at | ! end. GLADE CREEK ROAD ! IS BEING IMPROVED Five Mile Stretch Serves Num ber of Families ? Other Projects To Start State highway forces under super vision of P. L. Threlkeld, district en gineer, are doing an outstanding piece of work in the Glade Creek! section, surfacing the road leading t from Hendersonville Highway to the Boylston road. The five-mile stretch, which serve* a large group of families, is being given a treatment of grave/ and sand that is making it qtfitc an im provement over the old road bed. other necessary work being done at the same time. Gravel and sand from the river if being hf.uled to the Glade Creek road in trucks, a fmall crusher being used to crush th" larger gravel or the job. Mr. Threlkeld plans to finish thejj stretch of road from near the monu-i ment across to No. 28, alongside the Davidson River within the next short ivhile, part of this stretch a'leady having been graveled. Taken as a whole, roads in the county are beginning to show up re-j markabty under supervision of the! state highway department, many ? families now being given highway : connections that hitherto -vere more j or iess "road-bound." LARGE RATTLERS K. J LLE D | IN STEELE CREEK SECTION Bu3ter Bagwell ^nd Buford Mulli-j nax, working on Steele Creek last! week, killed two large rattlesnakes, one of the reptiles measuring 44 inches and the other 48, the latter carrying 12 rattles. The large snake is said to have< struck at a horse being used in log- J ging operations on Steele .Crack several times, quick action on the part cf Baerwell probably saving the horse's life. FLOWERSH0WWILL BE HELD IN AUGUST I Plans arc going forward by the garden committee of the Women s Civic club for the annual flower show, which will be an event of August 18. Ladies of the toWn ere requested by the committee to keep this date in mind, and to make preparations to have as many flowers of varied kinds as possib'e ready for exhib ition at that time. Valuable prizes I will be awarded for winners in the I various entries. ' ' - ? ' ' ' i 'TOWN TAX RATE IS i I ESTIMATED AT $1.70! ? . i Real Property Owners Wil!: Pay Less Under The New Rate Than Before With the valuation cut from $2,-j 950,000 to $1,700,000, budget esti-, mate as presented to the board of al-j dermen at their meeting iast Thurs-j cay night calls for a .tax rate for the ! year of $1.70 on the hundred dollars.' Rate last year was set at $1.27 en j the hundred, with 29 cents of this; rate being for general expenses andj 98 cents for debt service. j This year the rate for the general : fund is set at 50 cents and the debt service $1.20. " !? Principal cause of the raise in the rate this year, as reported to the board by Clerk Harry Patton when presenting the budget, is the fact that with cutting valuation of real ? property in half at the May meeting] has taken nway better than 43 per cent of taxab'e values, while at the | same time deficits in several funds! have giown due to slow collections of I taxes during the past three yet.rs. j Although the rate has been raised.: it was pointed out to the aldermen j in their meeting last Thursday, real property owners will pay less taxes curing the coming- year than last, re duced assessed valuation giving a j man owning a $1,000 piece of pro-| perty last year on which he wasi; inquired to pay $52.70, a total tas' ?-?sessment under tha new rata of 3 , i .'.SO for 1933. Personal property j wners, will of course pay more. The summary of budget estimate ; together with financial statement ot, the town is being carried on another j nage of this n?Per> and can also be , oen in more detailed form at the of- i rice of Clerk Harry Patton. BROWN CARR WILL I LEAVE COMMUNITY! Brcwn Carr. president of tht ? Brevard Kiwanis Club and manager ; of the Carr Lumber company store ; at Pisgah Forest, leaves this wcek| for New Orleans, where he will - enter business with the Metropolitan! Life Insurance company. Mr. Carr has numerous friends; both in Brevard and throughout the > county who will regret tc learn that , he is to leave. He has been a moving factor in the Brevard Kiwanis C'ub i and other civic organizations of thy town, and has taken a very active < part in all affairs of the Brevard j: Baptist church. Mrs. Carr will remain at her [ ? home here for some time before i joining Mr. Carr in New Orleans. RAMSEY" SELECTED AS CITY ATTORNEY Ralph H. Ramsey Jr., for the pastl two years* mayor of Brevard, was' selected as attorney for the town at a meeting of the board of aldermen held last Thursday night. Mr. Ramsey, who enjoys a wide law practice here, is a native of South Carolina, but has made Bre-j vard his home for the past several) years. Two ytavs ago he was elected ; mayor by a. large majority, but| would not allow his name entered at j the last election. ROSMAN BOY SCOUTS ON ! FINE TRIP LAST WEEK j ROSMAN, July 12? The Bo<yj Scouts and their leader Rev. J. N. ! Hall, enjoyed a camping trip to, Frozen Lake the latter part of tho week. Through courtesy of D. H. Winchester of Rosman one of the cabins at the lake was used by the scouts. Swimming, boating and other out!< door activities were enjoyed by the i troop. The ucouts extend to Mr. Winchester ?'neir thanks for making possible so pleasant a trip. i CHURCH LEADERS TO ATTEND MEETING AT BREYARD INSTITUTE One Hundred Women Are Ex pected Here For Spir itual Life Ratreat THREE-DAY SESSIONS TO START FRIDAY MORNING Noted Religious Leaders Will Be Heard; Delegates To Be Guests of B I. Approximately 100 women dele gates ore expected to attend the three-day Spiritual Life Retreat which will be held at Brevard In stitute July 14-16. beginning Friday morning- of this week and continuing through Sunday night. The purpose of the retreat, which is conducted by the Spiritual LLfa committee of the Woman'* Mission ary Council of the Methodist church, South, is for renewed spiritual lii'e, preyer and meditation. It is the re quest of the committee that those attending set ail other interests aside in so far as possible and that this three-day period be given en tirely to spiritual interests, letting God be the center of their thinking. Three sessions will be held each d a y, beginning in the morning at 9:30 o'clock, in the afternoon at 4 o'clock and in the evening at 8 o'clock. Leaders and speakers will inc ude:' Dr. Fletcher S. Brockmari, a numl>er of years in China; Dr. Lavens M. Thomas, of Emory University; Mrs. W. A. Newell, Miss Daisy Davies and Miss Estelle Haskin, Miss Mabel K. Howell, of Scarritt college. The theme of Friday's sessions will be "God and Myself;" on Satur day, "Myself and My Brother;" and (Continued, on buck page) COUNTY ?PS TO MEET NEXT SUNDAY Transylvania B.Y.P.U Assoc iation Will Be Held at Rosman Church Plans have been completed for th< Transylvania county B. Y. P. U. associational meeting, which will be held at the Rosman Zion Baptist church next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. It is expected that a large delegation from the various unions all over the county will iittend this meeting. An interesting program has been prepared, on which wi 1 appear speakers prominent in t{ie state B. Y. P. U. work, giving inspirational talks. Annual election of officers will also be a part of the program, and special musical selections will b? featured. ? The following program wi 1 bi carried rut: Song service by Paul Glazener; devotional, "Lift Uj> Your Eyes and Look on the Fields," by Ansel Jones ar.d Richjrd Moore: special song. ''Open My feyes That I May See," by the Zion union; she play. "Why Have a Standard for B. Y. P. U." by the Brevard seni ? union; inspirational talks by str leaders, including Mr. Mashbr regional president. end Miss Bn intermediate and junior leader, : t others; quartet,- Enon urior; sii talk, "Looking Unto Jesus fo j a Vision of the World's Needs." by Miss Ruby Whitmin;, Calvert; spe cial B. Y. P. U. songs by Cedar Mountain union. COLLINS BARN BURNED LAST THURSDAY MORN ROSMAN, July 12? Mr. and Mrs ft. L. Collins had ih<? misfortune tc have their ham ?nd contents de stroyed by fire of unknown or gin early Thursday morning of last week. A cow that was in the barn v'?s severe'y burned, also a quanti ty of feed was destroyed. Young Democrats On Record for Repeal; Roosevelt, Reynolds Make Statements WaiCrllTSVILLE B E A C H? If North Carolina voters listen to the appeal of Senator Robert R. Roy r,oldt< as madei here lest Saturday, the state will repeal the eighteenth amendment on November 7th. .Senator Reynolds was speaking be-1 fore the convention of the Young Democrat Clubs of North Carolina assembled he^c i of u one-day tes-l sion. With a thundering; shout of; "ayes" the statt: organization record-' ed itaelf as favoring repeal but with almost the same degree of fervor re fused to condemn the Turlington Act, which is regarded as a vary strin gent prohibition law, applicable only to North Carolina. An appeal from President Roosevelt was alco made public Sunday, in which the chief executive yets forth his views on tirt' question and declares that he is for rspes.1 of the 18th amendment, am! that the Democratic platform adop ted at. the last naticna1 convention expressly set forth, not fox- referen dum but fc-r repeal. Resolution}' adopted ly the Young ; Democrats club set forth : "Whereas national prohibition hn fsiled utterly in that it fcsterj t9 pocrisy, invitis corruption, suppc' < crime ?.nd makes a mockery of thi? cause of temperance, and, | "Whereas, the action of the stet-'fjl of North Carolina with reference t repeal will be detertained by a vo i?: of the people in a non-partisan elec tion in November, 1P33. now there fore, be it resoVad: ' That the Young Democrats of ?North CaroIir,?; in convention as3em- J bled, recognizing ti e right of every, | citizen to vote fcr or against repeal without regard to party affiliation, record the vote cf this convention i'? favor of repeal Of the 18th arocni ? went "Further, that we urge the evju ? merit of such srisasures as will ac tually promote temperance snS ef fectively prevent the vetnrn of the j saloon." PRESIDE NT'S APPJSAL WASHINGTON, July 12-Presf { Continued on bach vane) .
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