TALK TURNS TO NEW
BANK AS TIME LIMIT
.PASSES ON THE 26TH
Ogetfs Session of Le?i#l*
yygravated an Already.
?rd Situation Here
CHAIRMAN TRANTHAM IS
PRAISED FOR HIS EFFORTS
People of Section Recognize i
Need for Immediate Action
Providing Bank Facilities
With arrival of the 26th day of
May ? time limit set forth in the
agreement between the depositors and
stockholders of the Brevard Banking
company for re-organization of the
Brevard bank ? the whole matter is
"up in the air," and no one seems to
be able to say what the outcome will
be. The agreement provided that
plans as outlined for re-organization
and re-opening should be perfected
and approved by the state authorities
on or before the 26th day of May,
said agreement to be null and void
unless said bank should be re-opened ,
according to the terms of the agree- 1
.ment. j
The Depositors Committee and the
Stockholders Committee, working to
gether under direction of B. W.
Trantham as chairman, has rendered
yeomanry service in an effort to ob
tain signatures of all depositors to
the agreement. Members of these
committees have ridden the county
Over, time and again, and procured
hundreds and hundreds of signatures
to the agreement. There were more
than three thousand depositors, many
of whom lived in distant states, and
much correspondence has been neces
sary in reaching all of these out-of
town depositors. Many men have
worked day and night, and at great
expense to themselves, in the task of
procuring the signatures to the agree
ment. All citizens who have expressed
themselves have spoken in highest
terms of the devotion to his duty that
marked the work of Chairman Tran
tham.
There remain quite a number of de
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HALSELL COMING TO
BREVARD BY PLANE
Wealthy Summer Resident To
Reach Brevard About
First of July
E. L. Halsell, Muskogee, Okla
homa capitalist, will arrive in Bre
vard about the first of July, with
Mrs. Halsell and nurse to spend the
summer at the beautiful Halsell Sum
mer home, at Davidson River. Word
was received by Mr. T. A. English,
master farmer of Transylvania coun
ty whose fine farm adjoins the Hal
sell property, that Mr. and Mrs. Hal
sell will come to Brevard in a hos
pital plane, and will make landing in
the river bottom lands of Mr. Eng
lish.
Mr. Halsell is well known here, <
having spent many summers at the 1
Davidson River estate, one of the '
most beautiful summer homes in all
the mountain section. He and Mr.
Is^iglish are close personal friends,
ttrid Mr. Halsell always expresses
pleasure in being able to leave his
business cares in the Oklahoma sec
tion to spend the summer months in
this section, which he declares to be
the most beautiful in all of North
America.
The Brevard Kiwanis club always
looks with pleasure to the arrival of
Mr. Halsell, as he attends the meet
ings while here and adds much to
the enjoyment of the programs. It
is expected that a large number of
Brevard people will gather at the
English farm to welcome Mr. and
Mrs. Halsell as they swoop down
from the sky in their plane to take
up their summer residence here.
'YARD LAWYER ATTENDS
SERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION
Judge Robert L. Gash, prominent
lawyer' of Brevard and active in
Presbyterian church work, is in Mon
treat, attending sessions of the Gen
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian
church. Judge Gash represents the
Asheville Presbytery in the General
Assembly.
W
PRESIDENT J. JEROME
NAMES MANY STRONG
COMMITTEES FOR ?.
r
v. I
Large Gathering Indicates De
termination to Carry On
with Town's Work
BY-LAWS SUBMITTED BY
CHAIRMAN PAT KIMZEY
Woman's Bureau Lends Great
Aid ? All Business Houses
Are No\* Members
Despite the many counter attrac
tions and meetings in the town, a
goodly number of interested men and
women attended the Chamber of Com
merce meeting last Thursday evening
in the county courthouse. President
Jerry Jerome read appointment of va
rious committees, while Pat Kimzey,
Brevard lawyer, read the report of
the by-laws committee. The suggest
ed by-laws were, in the main, highly
satisfactory, but some slight altera
tions and additions were suggested,
whereupon the matter was re-referred
to Mr. Kimzey's committee, and will
be read and adopted at the next meet
ing.
Decision was reached that the rooms
in the Joines Motor company's place,
kindly tendered the Chamber of Com
merce as headquarters, were too small
for the purpose of the body, and ef
forts are being made to obtain use of
the Weilt building, formerly known as
Plummer's corner, for headquarters.
Definite announcement will be made
at an early date, and formal opening
af the place will be observed.
Many people have complimented
President Jerome because of the par
ticular ability of each member of the
committees to serve in the places des
ignated. Following is a list of the
committees and the appointments :
Agriculture? J. A. Glazener, chair
man ; Fred Johnson and Willis Brit
ain.
Finance ? 0. H. Orr, chairman;
Mrs. 0. L. Erwin and Mrs. John W.
Smith.
Tourist ? John W. Smith, chairman;
3. M. Macfie, Roy Long, Carl Hardin,
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NEW COMMITTEE TO
BEGIN ACTIVE WORK
t
While the committee is working un
Jer a handicap having a late start,
members of the Chamber of Com
merce are confident that the tourist
:ommittee, appointed last Thursday
light by President Jerry Jerome, will jt
wing many people to Brevard for this (
jeason, and great crowds are expect-1
:d in July and August, with a goodly
lumber in June. The committee nam
ed to have charge of the tourist busi
less of the Chamber of Commerce is
made up of the following active men
ind women: John W. Smith, chair
nan; S. M. Macfie, Roy Long, Carl
Hardin, Miss Florence Kern and Miss
(Catherine Griffin,
In addition to the task of directing
the advertising work to be done in
in effort to bring people here, this
committee will also be responsible for
the entertainment of the summer peo
ple while they are here. Forms of
recreation and places of amusement
are to be major portions of the plan
ning by this committee. It will direct
the publicity work to be done for tour
ists, and suggestion has been made
that special efforts be made to get
people of the Mid-west.
"KNOT HOLE GANG" TO SEE
BALL GAME FREE SATURDAY
Lawrence Holt, manager of the
Brevard baseball team, makes the
announcement of a. "knot hole
gang" for the coming Saturday's
game here with Waynesville. To
be eligible for membership in the
gang, any youngster thirteen or
?under will be admitted to the
field without charge, provided he
hats a certificate of attendance at
Sunday School last Sunday, or
the Sunday School teacher can
bring the class in a group. This
rule is to be in effect at all games
played hi Brevard this summer,
Mr. Holt announces. Waynesville
is expected to bring a strong ag
gregation here for Saturday's af
fair, while Brevard with two
straight wins can be expected to
give the fans full value for their
money. Game starts three-thirty.
: Ind&rial Committee Planning For
'''* Gretfi County Industrial Expansion
Mayor Ramsey was named to head
the industrial committee, named by
President Jerry Jerome at the meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce last
Thursday evening. / With Chairman?]
Ramsey on the committee there are T. 1
G. Miller, of the Southern Railway
company ; E. P. McCoy, former presi
dent of the Chamber of Commerce,
and a man thoroughly versed in the
irork of obtaining new industries; J.
Jf. Gaines, manager of the local plant
of the Southern Public Utilities com
pany; -and R. H. Morrow, civil engi
neer, who is already in close touch
with the industrial situation of the
South.
With these men as the industrial
committee, members of the Chamber
of Commerce feel most confident that
many new plants will be added to the
industrial list of this county within
the next two years. President Jerome
g^ve much thought to the selection of
the members of this committee, and
each one of the men named on it are
in peculiar position to be of great
value to the Chamber of Commerce
and through it to the county as a
whole.
GREAT COUNTY FAIR WILL BE
HELD IN BREVARD THIS FALL
r t t i :
That Transylvania county is to
have a county fair this year was as
sured when President Jerry Jerome
selected the committee on agriculture
for the Brevard Chamber of Cpm*
merce. The three men selected are
all known as advocates of county
fairs, and fully appreciate the great
value of such institutions in an agri
cultural community. As chairman of
the committee on agriculture, Mr. Je
rome named that pioneer in agricul
tural development, Julian Glazener,
and to serve with him the president
selected Willis Brittain and Fred
Johnson. Mr. Brittain, manager of
the B. & B. Feed and Seed company,
is one of the best posted men in West
ern North Carolina on questions of
agriculture, and through his business
has been of untold worth to the farm
ers of this county. Mr. Johnson, an
experienced farmer, yet for the past
several years engaged in the retail
grocery and farm produce business, is j
a worthy associate of the two first j
named in working for the promotion ,
of agricultural interests in the coon- 1
ty.
With these men working on a com
mittee devoted to agriculture, it is ab
solutely safe to say that Transylvania
county will have a good fair this fall.
Invitations are to be sent to Prof.
Corbin, teacher of vocational agricul- ;
ture in the Rosman schools, to become
a member of the Chamber of Com
merce, so that his name may be added
to the agricultural committee, and
those who know of Prof. Corbin's
great ability and fine energy are con
fident that he will readily align him- 1
self with the organization, permit his '
name to be added to the committee, |
and then, it is pointed out, the ma
chinery will be perfect for the best
promotion of agriculture the commun
ity has ever enjoyed.
WORK BEING RUSHED
ON HIGHWAY NO. 28
Soon To Be Paved To Sap
phire ? Great Scenic
Beauty Route
Highlands, May 26. ? Placing of a
lew rock crusher on Highway No. 28
n Jackson county near Cashiers, ap
jroximately 11 miles from Highlands,
s expected to speed up the work of
lurfacing No. 28 between Sapphire
ind Gneiss. The crusher near Cash
ers will probably be in operation
vithin two weeks, it is stated by
lighlands citizens who have observed
he operations.
The link of No. 28 from Highlands
o Sapphire is a federal aid project,
he surfacing of which, it is under
tood, must be completed by Septem- '
ler 1. The distance covered by this
ink is approximately 30 miles. It in
ludes all of No. 28 in Jackson county '
ind a few miles in Macon and Tran- 1
ylvania. When it is completed, along
vith the stretch from here to Gneiss. '
<fo. 28 will be surfaced from its east- :
rn extremity at Bat Cave to Frank
in.
Three Months Work
Fair progress is being made on the
urfacing between Highlands and
Jneiss. At the Short creek quarry the
lighway has been blocked at intervals
o clear out blasted granite, but this ,
nconvenience will be eliminated as I
oon as the granite mass has been I
Luarried further into the mountain, i
Road officials estimate that throe 1
nonths will be required to complete
he laying of stone to the concrete at
Jneiss. The surface will be rolled at
ntervals for a year, after which tar
vill be applied.
It is possible that a rock crusher
vhich has been in operation on the
Caesar's Head road between Brevard
,nd the South Carolina line will be
noved to Highlands and located at
he municipal quarry. This is partly
lependent on arrangements pending
letween the highway commission and
he town of Highlands by which the
own will furnish stone and power for
rushing in return for surfacing of
he streets, over which No. 28 is to
?un, to their full widths by the high
way commission. If this arrangement
s made, the three crushers will great
y speed the surfacing of No. 28.
CAROLINA-VALLEY
BASEBALL LEAGUE!
Plays Opening Game Next Sat- 1'
urday ? Six Teams In i,
New League ji
Representatives of six baseball i
clubs met last Tuesday evening with 1
the Mills River club to organize an j
amateur league. Clubs represented <
were Fruitland, Valley Hill, Oakley, 1
Mills River, Penrose and Pisgah For- j ]
est. 't
N. L. Ponder of Penrose, was elect- J i
ed president, and Mr. Lance of theii
Fruitland club, secretary-treasurer. ?
Mr. Covington of the Covington Sport ^
Shop of Asheville was present and
gave several good suggestions and [j
volunteered his service in helping to
establish the league. Several rules I
and regulations were discussed and j]
voted upon. Managers of the several <
teams meet Tuesday evening of this jt
week to schedule games and adopt by- l
laws for the league. The opening ]
games of the season will begin Sat
urday of this week. It is suggested
that this league be called the Caro- ,
lina Valley League. 1
Penrose and Oakley played on the ,1
Penrose field Saturday in a seven- 1
inning game. Due to a cold wind and ^
lack of organization, Penrose lost by .
the score of 24-11. :
Pisgah Forest took the winners and !
won a seven-inning game by the score j
of 9 to 5. !t
]
INSTITUTE COMMENCEMENT y
CLOSING EXERCISES TODAY i
Rev. Dr. R. L. Holroyd, of
Greenville, S. C., will deliver the
graduating address to the big I]
senior class of the Brevard ItisU- ij
tide this Thursday evening at i
eight o'clock. This address brings <
to a close the commencement ex- i
ercises of the Institute and closes i
one of the most successful years
in that institution's history. Un
der the leadership of Prof. J. F.
W int. on, with a strong faculty,
the Institute is growing in power j
and influence each year. The pub- 1
lie has been attending the com- j
mencement, and a, cordial invito- 1
tion is extended to all to attend \
this evening's adress. j
FRANSYLVANIA LOW
IN ITS POPULATION
Raleigh, May 26 ? Transylvania
;ounty had a population density of
!5.3 persons to the square mile, ac
:ording to the 1930 census, which
jave the county a population of 9
589 living in the 379 square miles of
ts land area, a report of the De
velopment shows.
The average density of population
in the State is 65 persons per square
mile, or 3,170,276 persons living in
:he 48,740 square mile of land area.
The range is from 287.8 persons per
square mile in Forsyth to 13.2 per
sons ner square mile in Tyrrell.
Forysth, Durham, Gaston and Meck
lenburg have more than 200 persons
per square mile, and more than 100
persons live to the square mile in
New Hanover, Guilford, Buncombe,
Wilson, Eowan, Wake, Cabarrus and
Cleveland counties. Forty-four coun
ties have less than 50 persons per
3quare mile.
Government lands in this county
account for low density.
REV. R. L. ALEXANDER TO
MAKE FASS1FERN ADDRESS
Rev. R. L. Alexander, pastor of the
Brevard-Davidson River Presbyterian
church, will deliver the commence
ment sermon to the students fii Fas
sifern school, Hendersonville, next
Sunday mo-.ning at 11 o'clock. The
services will be held in the Methodist
church in Hendersonville.
Fassifern is closing an unusually
successful year, under the leaders)*1 1
of Rev. Dr. Jos. R. Sevier,
standing educator of the S*' of the
Rev. J. H. West, w"? will fill
Brevard Methodist V>j ay morn-/
wilp^
JUDGE HYAIT HEARD
AT BREVARD CHURCH!
Judge Carl B. Hyatt, of the Ashe
i ville Juvenile court, delivered an in
spiring address to a large congrega
tion at the Brevard Methodist church
last Sunday evening. "The Seven Sen
tences of the Cross," was the subject
of the address, and the manner in
which the Asheville jurist made ap
plication of each of the sentences to
present day life and problems was an
inspiration to the large number of
people who heard him.
Judge Hyatt is one of the outstand
ing men of the country, having be
come famous in his judicious handling
[of juvenile cases and his masterful
'manner of solving juvenile delinquen
cies. Because of his great experience
jwith young people who have erred,
Judge Hyatt very naturally selected
jthe words of the Master, "Forgive
ithem," as being the greatest of the
seven sentences of the cross. His work
las juvenile judge has been that of
forgiveness of these erring youths,
'and the giving of a new chance with
'greater encouragement and finer pro
jection, resulting oftentimes in splen
|did manhood and excellent woman
hood developed from the boy or gir'
who, in the days of their youth. -adc
grevious mistakes.
?rte messjMfr-'
It was this spirit
of the cross whej,^ tlfoMfc
called upon appealed v ?
murderers^ as , " his great
Judge, Tlere thP m^autiful &rt
adtflh wis w^cut tl word,
was wo*
Forgive.'
p CLOSED SATURDAY
Saturday is holiday. P. 0. window
)pen 8 to 9 A. M., 2 to 3 P. M. No
?ural or city delivery will be made.
FORTY-TWO MEN AND
WOMEN SENTENCED
IN FEDERAL COURT
Eighteen Are Given Suspended
Sentences By Judge E.
Yates Webb
TO BE IMPRISONED IF
THEY VIOLATE THE LAW
12 Sent to Atlanta from County
and 12 to Chillicothe ?
General Clean-up
Judge E. Yates Webb sentenced 42 J
Transylvania county men and women
to the penitentiary and the county
jail last week in federal court at
Asheville. Twelve of these are to be
sent to the federal prisons at Atlanta
and Chillicothe; twelve are to serve
senteces in Transylvania county jail
and 18 were given suspended sen
tences. Never before in the history of
the county have there been so many 1
people sentencd to prison, which fol
lowed the general "clean-up" of fed
eral officers here a few months ago.
It will be recalled that United States
officers worked in the county for a
few days, and United States Commis
sioner A. E. Hampton's office in Bre
?ard was a busy place for more than
i week, as preliminary hearings were I
jiven those arrested.
Judge Webb announced, when pass- 1
ng sentence and suspending same on I
:he eighteen men and women released
n this manner, that if reports reach
id him from any reputable citizens of I
;he county that any one of those peo- 1
Die now free under suspended sen- 1
;ence were drinking whiskey, dealing '
n whiskey, or carousing with those
?ho do drink or deal in whiskey, that |
luch person would be taken into cus- .
;oday and made to work the full term. '
Those convicted and sentenced, be- ,
ng given suspended sentences during j
food behaviour, are as follows:
J. B. Owen, Claude Owen, Roy
ting, Mrs. Dick Pettit, Mrs. Brad
Smith, Mrs. Robert Wilson, Mrs. Ber- ?
ha Chapman, Mrs. Judd Plott, Bob- '
>ie Fisher, John Banks, Mrs. Lus }
ferry, Burt McJuncken, R. V. Allison, '
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15 CENT AD VALOREM
TAX ADOPTED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
No Sales Tax of Any Kind To
Be Adopted ? Salaries Re
duced, Including Teachers
LONG SESSION ABOUT TO
COME TO FINAL END
Teacher Load Increased ? Prin
cipals Must Also Teach, Re
ducing Number of Teachers
Raleigh, May 26 ? A miracle, lit
tle less, will be required to prevent
the North Carolina General Assembly
from passing the 1931-33 Revenue
Bill this week, best predictions b$7
ing that the measure will pass its
third and final reading about 1
o'clock Wednesday morning, after
which that body will adjourn after a
record session of 141 days.
The House amendment adopted
Tuesday night by a vote of 41 to 22
reduced the emergency school fund
from $200,000 a year to $150,000.
Both houses approved -the bill on oral
votes.
The House Tuesday night killed an
amendment offered by Representative
Seawell of Lee to abolish the state
board of equalization and transfer its
duties to the department of education.
Under the school bill the equaliza
tion board will distribute the school
money to the counties.
The bill will require an appropri
ation of $16,500,00 annually. In ad
dition it calls for the expenditure of
$1,250,000, partly for state aid in ex
tended terms.
It limits cuts in the salaries' of
teachers, superintendents, and princi
pals to 10 per cent and also denies in- ?
creases for the years 1931-32, and
1932-33.
By increasing the teacher load and
requiring principals of schools with
less than 40 teachers to do teaching,
the bill reduces the numer of teachers
by 1,320.
All possible economies are required
before any salary reduction is en
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SAND BOYS PLAN FOR
SUMMER CONCERTS
Plans are being rushed to comple
;ion for presentation of a minstrel by j
3revard's band boys, proceeds from ?
which are to defray the expenses of ?'
Prof. Cutter's services in conducting j
jand concerts during the summer
season. The band boys are not to
nake any charge for their services
n the band during the summer, and 1
low that they are assuming the ad- 1
litional work of preparing and stag- .
ng a minstrel for the purpose of <
raising necessary expenses, it is be- 1
ieved that people from all over the ?
:ounty will attend the minstrel and |
lelp in raising the needed funds. .J
The band concerts are the town's ,
greatest offering of entertainment j
;o the visitors and to the home-folks. .
People from all over the county at- ,
:end the concerts, and it is believed
that they will attend the minstrel
in large numbers and assist in mak
ing certain a continuation of these
;oncerts during this summer season.
Full announcement of details of
the minstrel will be given next week, j
SPECIAL MEETING OF TOURIST
COMMITTEE THURSDAY NIGHT
To the Boarding House Keepers 1
and Hotel Proprietors:
The Toui-ist Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce will hold
a meeting this Thursday evening,
eight o'clock, in the County Court I
House, and all Boarding House <
Keepers and Hotel Proprietors |
are urged to attend, as matters '
of vast importa-tce are to be dis
cussed and acted upon. We have
information that you ought to
have, and you have some infor
mation that we need in our work
of bringing tourists to Brevard.
If you want a good season this
swnmer, be sure to attend this
meeting.
JOHN W. SMITH I
Chmn. Tourist Committee.
THIS COUNTY SAVED
$40,000 ON SCHOOLS
New Law Reduces Tax Cost
from $54,000 to $14,000
for 6- Month School
Raleigh, May 26 ? Tax reduction of
nearly $10,000,000, or, to be exact,
$9,667,186, will result to the prop
erty owners of North Carolina for
each of the next two years under the
Revenue Bill which is about throutrk
the General Assembly, according to *
table of figures prepared by the
State Tax Commission.
This table shows that on the as
sessed valuation of $3,978,710,226 for
the year 1930 in the whole State, the
100 counties had a total tax levy of
$14,135,244 for current expenses of
the six months school term. On the
same assessed valuation at the pro
posed 15-cents tax rate the total levy
will be $4,469,058, by which it is seen
that the levy for the next two years
will be $9,667,186 less than in 1930.
Transylvania county, the report
shows, had an assessed valuation ift
1930 of $9,286,955, on which the tax
rate was 59 cents for current ex
penses of the six months school term,
which made the total tax levy for
this county $54,739. The proposed 15
cent levy on the same valuation basis
will mean $13,930 in taxes in 1931 and
1932, or a reduction in the county of
$40,863.
This amount, it is pointed out, will
be felt appreciably in the tax bill
of the individual taxpayer in every
county in the State.
MRS. RAMSEY'S FATHER
DIED TUESDAY NIGHT
Mayor Raph F. Ramsey left Bre
vard early Wed?esday to go to hi*
wife, whose ?ther died Tuesday
night. Mrs. Jamsey has been with
her father rfvring the past several
days at the/latter's home in Dillon,
C.. atte?ding him in his illness.
Mp/or RaJisey will return to Brevard
?Saturday, it is announced.
McDougald aS Head of Road Group, 1
Will Work for Completion of 284
<mm\W
id the belief of many men of the
rfWn that President Jerry Jerome
aade a ten-stroke in the selection of
he committee on roads when he nam
d Duncan MacDougald as chairman,
nd then placed Messrs. William J.
STallis, S. R. Joines and Alex Kizer
n the committee to work with Chair
lan MacDougald. All of these men
re known as good roads enthusiasts,
nd Chairman MacDougald is noted
jr his belief in Brevard's future just
s soon as one or two additional links
f highway are completed.
This committee will strive to have
< highway 284, now being completed oh
(the Caesar's Head side, carried o*
through Pisgah National Forest, te
i Waynesville. Another project that
this committee will push is the paving .
'of Boylston road from Brevard to the -;??
I Henderson county line.
I With this committee working for
[completion of highways, members of
jthe Chamber of Commerce are confi
jdent that this town's network of
-roads will be completed, in short time,
|and with their completion will come
:an enhanced valuation of property i?
[Transylvania county of double ot
treble nature.