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4 THE / VOLUME XXXVI BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 24, 1931 Number 33 County T ax Rate Reduced to $1.68 on the $ 1 00 REDUCTION BRINGS JOY TO THE HEARTS OF ALL TAX PAYER? Great Activity In Local Busi' ness Circles Already Noted Since Rate Was Named GREAT PROMISE OF PROGRESS IS SEEN HERE 1" ine Crops, National Park, A New Bank and Other Pros pects In the Offing County commissioners last Friday, with assistance and advice of Charles M. Johnson, head of the local gov ernment branch of the state ad ministration, adopted the 1931 budget and set a tax rate at $1.69 on the hundred doilar valuation. This is a reduction of 25 cents on the hundred dollars, and this cut in the tax rate when it had been feared that an in crease would be necessary has proven of great value to the entire county. Already business conditions are im proving, and there is greater feeling of optimism apparent everywhere. The commissioners expressed ap preciation to Mr. Johnson for his timely aid and assistance in adoption of the budget. Mr. Johnson spoke very highly of local conditions, de claring that it should not take this county very long to work out from under its present difficulties. The county is feeling the beneficial efforts of the state having taken over the roads and the six months' school term. The road tax of 16 cents on the hundred dolars valuation in effect last year, is now eliminated en tirely. he state operation of the six months' school term, costing the county last year 59 cents on the hun dred dollars, is this year fess than 20 cents on the hundred to be paid by the county. The debt service item constitutes ! ( Continued on page eirjht) GMATlNTEREST llTj LYDAY'S PROPOSAL Large Number of People Have Written or Spoken to Man About Bank Proposition Hundreds of people have either ; written to Mr. G. H. Lyday, or have been to see him during the past week, offering their services and giving their endorsement to plans outlined in The Brevard News by Mr. Lyday , in re-organizing the Brevard Bank j and urging action that would set free j those citizens who have been sen tenced, and a nol pros in pending cases. Many of the letters contain valuable suggestions as to details for bringing about a condition of restor ed confidence and renewed progress. , The number of letters coming from i women indicates intense interest in j these local questions by the women of I the county. Mr. Lyday states that he has noth-j ing further to offer this week, but , will have a very definite statement to ' make next week. Plans for opening a new bank are so nearly completed , that he does not want to issue any statement today, he says. Mr. Lyday expresses keen appreciation for the many letters which he has received concerning the local situation, and expressed belief that many more let- . ters would be received during the coming week. In addition to the letters received by Mr. Lyday, many communications have come direct to The Brevard News, giving full endorsement to Mr. Lyday's plan. No other statement ever issued here has caused more comment or aroused greater reaction than that given by Mr. Lyday last week through The Brevard News. GRIDIRON BATTLES BEGIN THIS FRIDAY The Blue Devil football team of Brevard High School will wage its first battle of the season with Weav erville High School Friday afternoon at four o'clock in Brevard. Players starting the game will ?obably play in the following line fjohn Pickelsimer, center; Albert ?veece^&nd Max Wilson, guards; La Salle Lance and "Pug" Hinton, tack les; Harold Nelson and Jack Loftis, ends; Joe Schachner, quarterback; Walter Clayton and Bill Erwin, half backs; Langdon English, fullback. Coach Tilson announced Wednes day that the Blue Devils have only three open dates for football games. S4ven games are scheduled. Thej are: Sept. 25, Weaverville; Oct. 2 Piekens; Oct. 9, Fruitland; Oct. 23 Christ School; Oct. 30, Grace School; N*v. 6, Mars Hills; and Nov. 25 Etfndersonville. Oct. 16, Nov. 13anc ien dates. \?w* VISITORS FLOCKED ! TO BREVARD FROM ij EACH STATE IN U.S I , "I And From 4 Foreign Countries Chamber of Commerce Registration Shows GREAT SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY BY C. OF C | Many Houses Rented and Peo ple Placed by the Officers of the Organization s I That the Brevard ' Chamber of i Commerce is an asset to the town and I renders valuable service to the com | munity is evidenced by registrations | and tabulations on record at that ? place of business, and made public at this time by the secretary, Miss Alma I Trowbridge. j The registration books for the I present season, from June to the mid dle of September, reveals that ap proximately 1,000 tourists have come ? to the Chamber of Commerce at some 'time during that period and have i taken advantage, in one way and an | other, of the free services rendered i by this organization. This figure in ! eludes the visitors attending the flow !er show at the Chamber of Com merce rooms in August, which regis tration is estimated at around 500 people for the one day alone. The registrations for the month of Aug ' ust outnumber those of June and July combined, exclusive of the flower show visitors. These figures, ob 'viously, do not represent the total | number of tourists in Brevard during i the season, since many visitors do I not come to the Chamber of Com merce for registration or for infor mation. A check-up on the number of states represented by these registrations discloses that South Carolina heads the list with the largest number of ( Continued on page eight) pTt association TO PICNIC FRIDAY i i First Meeting of New School! Year Devoted to Adoption of Plan of Activity Brevard Parent-Teacher Associa- ' tion held its first meeting of the 1931-32 school year, Monday after noon at the Grammar School build- , ing. The officers for the current year | are: President, Mrs. S. P. Verner; vice president, Mrs. Roy Long; sec- 1 retary, Mrs. A. B. Galloway; and: publicity chairman, Mrs. J. E. Lot- i tis. | The Parent-Teacner association has improved .the school system of Bre vard in many ways. It has created a greater interest and better coopera tion between the parents and teach ers. At the meeting Monday it was j planned to hold the annual picnic | Friday afternoon, Sept. 25, at White Pine Camp in thg- Pisgah National Forest. All parents attending are urged to bring a picnic lunch for the family and one additional person. Transportation will be furnished for those who do not have cars. The parents and teachers are all cordially ; invited to meet at the Grammar School building at four o'clock to go on the picnic. The Western District meeting of the North Carolina Parent-Teacher Association, which is composed of 18 , Western Carolina counties, is to be j held in Canton Tuesday, Sept. 29, at the Canton High school, it was an nounced last Saturday by Mrs. P. W. Vetoe, district publicity chair man. It is expected that several wo men will represent the local associa , tion at this meeting. reuefIrouFtobe NAMED BY GARDNER Raleigh, Sept. 23 ? Following a con ference with leaders of various forms of industrial and agricultural activi ties here Friday, Governor Gardner stated that he would name five or sev 'en persons this week as a special [unemployment relief commission, di 'rected to handle relief in the State I this winter. Reports from leaders in ! activities in the State were made by ' several of the 25 persons called to I the conference. i The commission will make a study j and seek methods of relieving distress | in the State as a result of economic .depression and" the resultant lack of employment. B. W. Henninger, who ? was in charge of the work of the un , employment commission last winter, ' j has been named director. The task , ' will be greater this year, Commiscion , jer of Labor, Frank . D. Grist estimat ; j ing that about 22 per cent of the , , working population, or approximatelj j i 100,000 are out of work and anothei 1 100,060 are werking on part time. 1 6 I yPt'-v ]iirnT.iiirrnTmttrinmmrrnrmn;irLiijmnriaiunninrtnnmiDbittininiiinin~mnxnmfr;iiiiniia,ii:i^ia*z:-:Tir.rnurntr,,CTiis:"ini3^niinnii ' W* PLEADING FOR THE COMMUNITY Editor The Brevard News: ^ Please give me enough space in your paper to say that every member of my family most earnestly en Ill dorses Mr. G. II. Lyday's suggestions in regard to the rehabilitation of our county. Every right-thinking citi zen must surely do so. Even those who think they have been wronged cannot bear a grudge so great that they will not join in this movement. They must do so for the county's sake and their own. If there are still those whom these considerations cannot move, there is still the greatest reason to urge : "But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Yours sincerely, * HILDA M. NORWOOD. Iff ?-?'?'""TmnmnuilTOIIH'1 IROSMAN FAIR TO BE MELD OCTOBER m Annual Community Event Will Be Staged on Rosman i School Grounds | The Rosman Community Fair will | be held in the gymnasium building lo . cated directly behind the Rosn an | High School 011 Friday October he ; 9th, announced Prof. J. F. Corain, instructor in Vocational Agriculture j in the Rosman High School. | A few interested people met in the,! I Agriculture class room of the high I school Friday night, September 18 to i make definite plans for the fair. I It is planned that each community i in the Rosman School district will 'have a booth and also that in addition [to these booths there will be a'general j collection of individual exhibits,' placed together for convenience in judging. The various booths will be i j. judged as a whole and then the in dividual booths separately. There will ;i be space provided for the people to t exhibit anything' from wild animals', to antiques. The community booths are to be I: provided by the community cntries'i themselves. Prof. Corbin urged the'i communities to get busy and plan,,' organize, build a booth., select the I best on hand in order to make an ox- ]< cellent showing in the fair. Prof. Cor- ,i bin explained that it was not his 1 fair, nor a school fair, it is to be a community wide fair, to be given an nually. He further announced that in,, order to make the fair a big success, a quantity of nails, prizes, ribbons , ] and the hearty cooperation of every- : i one. Volunteers are requested to I ] serve from each community. Next week workers will be drafted into:( service and the deiafled directions re- 1 1 garding size and kind of exhibits given out. BE HELD 1ST SUNDAY Hundreds Expected To Attend ? To Be Held In County Court House Hundreds of people are expected in I Brevard Sunday, October 4, when the j ] McCall family reunion will be held in 1 the county court house. It is said i that there are more members of the ( McCall family than any other family in Western North Carolina, many , families of this name living in each | county in the mountains. Dr. John E. Calfee, president of i the Asheville Normal and Teachers' ? College, will preach at 11 o'clock. The ] program begins at 10 o'clock in the ] morning, lasting throughout the day, ; with a picnic dinner at the noon hour. ; \ Music is a feature at the McCall re- < unions, and quartets from many,' North and South Carolina towns will be heard during the day. Following is the program: 10 :00 ? Song -? Choir Prayer Rev. J. P. Mason : 10:15 ? Welcome Address Prof. L. H. Thomas , 10:30 ? Special Music Hendersonville Quartet , 10:45 ? Music I Simpson, Carolina and Little ' River Quartets. 11 :00-*-Sermon .. Dr. John E. Calfee; Pres. Asheville Normal and Teachers' College. 11:45 ? Business Session 12:00 ? Special Music.. Mrs. Eva Rice 1 12: 15? Talk J. C. McCall 112:30 ? Round Table Discussion NOON HOUR 1:00-2:30 2:30? Song W. C. McCall 2:45-3:30 ? Music; Various Quartetsl Officers and committees of .the re union follows: S. B. McCall, President; A. B. Mc Call, Vice President; Mrs. Seva Mac key, Secretary;. W. D. McCall, Treas urer; Arrangement Committee: Mil ford McCall, Henry McCall, and Ira Galloway. Corresponding (Committee: J. C. McCall, Louise Perry _and L. Mc "lall. Entertainment Committee: Mrs. jtzic McCall, Mrs, Lula McCall and I I'K. 'Leonard Thomas. it r1 SYLVAN VALLEY FAIR;! To Be Held In Brevard a t Building Adjoining the B. & B. Feed Co. The Sylvan Valley Fair, sponsored by the' Brevard Chapter of Young Tar Heel Farmers of North Caro- '' lina will be held in the Jenkins . building, adjoining the B. and B. I Feed and Seed Co., Saturday, CH-- } tober the third. The fair will open1 to the public at 9 o'clock in the t morning and remain open until Sat- ( urday night at 9 o'clock. j Citizens of Transylvania county a are cordially invited to participate in j j. the fair in order to make it a great 'r success. Prof. Julian Glazener, in- j, structor of Vocational Agriculture in|g the Brevard High School, has an- a nounced that the fair is open to ev- h eryone in the county and that it is jy not a school fair but a fair for any- f 3ne who wishes to contribute. 1 ^ At a special meeting of the Bre-ls, raid Chapter of Young Tar Heelie Farmers it was planned to divide the w Pair program and arrangements into ' departments. The young farmers will inter their exhibits in compeition g ivith the Transylvania farmers. e John Collins, president of the local sj :hapter of Young Tar Heel Farmers, - p is chairman of the entire group of j, Fair committees and will lead in the j fair activities. 'ei The fair will be composed of the I sj Allowing departments: ! L (a) Farm Crops. Superintendent,^ Max Wilson; co-workers, Hays Mer- , Cl ?ill. Foy Holden, Virgil McCrary and i Holland Corn. I A (b) Horticulture. Superintendent, | j_, Dtis Shipman ; co-workers, Harold I Davis, Van O'Kelly, Lamar Morgan. |rj (Continued on page eight) ( BIG EXPANSION OF SILVER FOX RANCH New Enterprise Having Rapid Growth ? Absorbs Hen derson County Ranch i cc Expansion of the Blue Ridge Silver!? Fox Ranch, at Cherryfield, this coun- 1 ;y, includes the taking over of the j P Silver Fox and Mink ranch of Hen- ti lersonville, operated formerly by Mr. !0< Charlton, near jSkyland. This ab-i^ sorption adds to the local ranch ten pairs of Silver fox and thirty pairs sf mink. Mr. Freeman, keeper of the ranch in Henderson county, is now with the local concern and has moved his family to Calvert, near the ranch here. Another shipment of 20 pairs of Silver fox from the Ozarks in Mis souri reached Brevard recently, and were added to the pens here, and an-'ti ather of the same number will be ! e; shipped on November first, according n to announcement made in Brevard j s this week. There are now several ! f hundred pairs of the silver fox in the ' o ranch here, and it is said that people n living in Missouri are becoming j-^ greatly interested in the fox ranch in ; 1< Transylvania county, many of them ? t sending their fox and their money in- S to this county. jt; Thomas Carr,' ranch manager of ! e the Blue Ridge ranch for the past ji; three years, is now in Illinois, start- , ing a new ranch there. He will re-ts turn within a few months to his du- 1 5 ties here, it is said. * R. L. Hogsed, secretary and treasurer of the local concern, is acting general manager of the ranch during the absence of Mr. j Carr. KIWANIS TO MEET. TODAY AT THE ENGLAND HOME \ ? ? ? BrevanT Kiwaniana' jwill meet at the England Home ThiirSfi^y at noon for the regular bj.-\jveekly . luncheon, j} An effort is being made" by ojfi'eer* of ?? the club to have as near perfect tendance for this montlj as, posmW^h and all members are urged to keep [ this in mind. Lewis Hamlin wl have.j c charge of the program. c ORR'S DEATH CAUSE OF GREAT SORROW TO ENTIRE COUNTY Was Graduate of Local High] School and Very Pop ular Here PREVIOUS INJURIES HAD BEEN SUFFERED, Died as Result of Accident! In Which He Was Shot i While Hunting Walter W. Orr, 24 year old son of j VI r. and and Mrs. J. C. Orr of the | Plough Farm, died in the Patton ! Memorial Hospital at Hendersonville j ;hortly before noon last Thursday,! nllowing an injury he received from ; :he discharge of a shot gun while squirrel hunting. Young Orr had , >ecn home for several days recuper iting from injuries he received in a jaiachute accident at Hempstead," \j tfew York, on July 7. Immediately following the accident le suffered from the discharge of the ;h jtgun, he was rushed to the Pat 1 Memorial Hospital and every ef t made to save his life. For nearly hree days he fought for life, but the n.Jury was too serious and he died fhursday morning. Walter Orr received his educate n the Brevard city schools and at Jrcvard Institute. He was a very pt :<iu dent and was very popular fith brith the faculty and students of he schools. After he was graduated from chool he joined the army and soon j fter received several promotions, i le was transferred to the Air Squad- j on at Mitchell Field, New York. Fol swing his parachute accident he was j ranted a furlough and when he was | ble to leave the hospital, he came . ome expecting to return for duty on | londay September 21. Mr. Orr was a very Dromisingi, oung man. He had a pleasing per- 1 cnality that won him friends where-' ver he went. He was very popular j nth the young people of Brevard. The funeral rites were conducted y Rev. Carl Blythe at the Pleasar.t Srove church Friday morning at leven o'clock. Mr. Blythe was as isted by Rev. Paul Hartsell and lev. J. H. West.Interment was made i the Pleasant Grove cemetery. Young Orr is survived by his par nts, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Orr, two isters, Mrs. Alcova McCall and Mrs. avada Morgan, lid two brothers, L. . and V. 0. all of Transylvania junty. Pallbearers were: Phillip Price, Ibert Kilpatrick, Charlie Corn, Jack oftis, Tom Wood, Jr.. Lloyd Allison. Funeral arrangements by Kilpat ick and Sons. :OUNTY GETS AID il ON EXTENDED TERM learly Seven Thousand Dol lars Coming to County On Its Extended Term Costs Raleigli, Sept. 23 ? Transylvania >unty will receive 56,628.32 from the '] 1,500,000 tax reduction fund to sup- ' j lement local taxes to support the', vo months extended school term,'( rer and above the constitutional six j lonths term. The total cost of the , k tended term in this county, based,-, n the standard established by the ' . tate for the six months term, willil e $17,029,70, the balance of which is j ) be paid from local tax?*. !< The State Board of Equalisation ' as found that the combined valua- i .on of property in all the districts ' i $2,737,024,233 and that a 14-cent 'l ix rate is necessary to produce rev- : nues sufficient to operate the two I lonths terms, with the aid of the ' tate's tax reduction fund. The to- ' il cost of the extended term, based 1 n the standards fixed for the six i lonths term, will be $4,415,123, of i rhich the State is to pay $1,500,000, : saving $2,915,123 to be paid by local ; axes. It is seen from this that the ' itate pays slightly more than one- ' hird of the average total cost of the i xtended term, and in some cases it : i more than half the cost. The valuation of property in Tran ylvaA county was fixed at $7,429,- : 64, Which, at the 14-cent rate, will roduce $10,401.38 in local revenue, o which the State adds the $6^628.32 1 o cover the total cost of the two F rronths extended term, or $17,029.70. ! Only two counties, Guilford .and ; Jew Hanover, de^-not participate in he tax reduction fund, since the rate f 14 cents on their taxable values in he districts produce more revenue han is needed to operate the erttend id term. Johnston county gets the a'rgest amount, $38,000, Columbus irid Union getting above $35,000 ?ch. Graham and Hoke get slightly note than $2,500 each. ?Local authorities are expected to uctend the full measure of tliese re factions to the taxpayers. iiuaiMn rr i r<? JUDGING CONTEST Annual Cattle judging Held at Billtmore Dairy for West ern 11*. C. District WALLACE GILLESPIE'S SCORE ALMOST PERFECT Hoped He Will Win In State Contest ? Others Here In Good Score at Meet Wallace Gillespie, tenth grade stu dent of the Rosman High school and member of the Rosman Young Tar Heel Farmers Association was the high scoring student with a score of 9G 7-8 'in the annual district cattle judging contest held at Biltmore Dairy of Biltmore, Saturday, Sept. 19th. Four counties. Buncombe, Transyl vania, Haywood and Yancey were represented in the Judging contest. The fifteen schools represented were: Barnardsville, Candler, frossmore, Cranberry, Cane Creek, Fairview. Leicester, Brevard, Mills River, Ros man, Robbinsville, Franklin, Burns ville, Waynesville and another school in McDowell county. 80 boys from the !ri schools ion tested in the judging. The various an imals used as subjects had already been judged by experts and their ra tings listed on a chart. The boys were given a record to complete. They rated the animals according to grade A. B. C. or D. Ralph Gailaway the second representative from Rosman won fifth place, giving Rosman the highest score of the 15 schools. He mfcde a score of 91 7-8. Otis Shipman and Merrimon Shu ford represented the Brevard high school. Oliver McMahan of Burnsville won second place. He and Wallace Gil lespie will represent .the Western dis trict at Raleigh Sept. 2G in a con test of all high scoring schools in the state. The state winners will repre sent the state in a National contest at the National Dairy Show in St. Louis in October. J. F. Corbin instructor of Voca tional Agriculture in the Rosman High School said "Wallace is to be highly commended on his achieve ment especially since he haa never riad a chance to be around good cows nor- was he shown cows away from Rosman during the week in which fie was coached." Mr. Corbin coached Wallace Gil lespie and Ralph Galloway personal ly and it was only through his ex pert advice and work that it was oossfble for them to make such an excellent showing in the contest. GOVERNOR TO CALL Land Doped With Fertilizer Until Farmers Cannot Buy Enough Raleigh, Sept. 23 ? Governor Gard ner is not being stampeded into call ng a special session of the General Assembly by residents of other states, )r the few calls from North Carolin ians, to place a legal ban on cotton planting next year. He takes the riew that this State raises such a small part of the cotton that it is wise to wait for action of states growing larger quantities. He asserts that :otton land in this State is "doped" svith fertilizer to such an- extent that it will not grow cotton without the 'dope," and that the people of the State will be unable to buy enoueh fertilizer next year to raise 500,00# bales. North Carolina cannot compete with Texas and Louisiana rich cot ton land and will gradually shift to other commodities, he believes. Opinion is expressed here that Jo Bephus Daniels, Raleigh editor, is pre paring, from editorial suggestions, to try to force an extra session to deal with cotton, probably with a hope of getting his pet luxury tax adopted, maybe holding out that the $100,000 bottlefcfe tax error may be rectified by the seswon. But a greater need than is no^ apparentmust develop before Governor Gardner, the last authority, gnll call the legislators together. Little MUs Scruggs It will be of interest to the people of Brevard and Transylvania county to learn that there was born to Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Scruggs of Camden, New Jersey, a daughter, Janet Louise Scruggs, on Friday, September 11, at the Cooper Hospital. Dr. Scruggs is a Brother of Plat# Scruggs of the Brevard Post Office. Dr. Scruggs 5s a native of Transyl vania county. He left Brevard about 12 years ago to begin his medical course. At present he has_ a large practice in New Jersey.