The Transylvania Times
Outlook Good
The year 1931 is history
and merchants of Brevard
and Transylvania county
are hopeful of a much
better year during 1932. |
FASTEST GROWING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1932
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.00 PER YEAR
rPraCTS PUSHED IN DISTRICT
»FF SOON TO receive {‘SCHOOL BUS
TAX BOOKS FOR COLLECTION fQSIS TO BE
CUr--J0NES
•Sheriff T. E. Patton, Jr., and
the county commissioners spent
Wednesday in conference, look
ing toward a settlement ol the
1930 tax collections, chaiged o
the sheriff for collection.
At the office of the sheriff
and the county f
previous evening, both^wer^
ly engaged in closing out the j
work on the books, reaching to-1
tals and preparing for the set-'
tlement on Wednesday. As soon
as the settlement is reached be-1
tween the .sheriff and the county 1
commissioners, the 1931 tax
hooks will be turned over _ to
Sheriff Patton, for the collection
of taxes for the current year.
Sees Reduction of $1350
for Transportation in
Year’s Last Half
9 AUTOS "Drying
544 PUPILS NOW
Indications are that much less
.will be spent for the second half
Ai- . mcetincr of the city, On account of the change in ' ^he school year than in the
T. fdnf aldermen which it is! the fiscal year, made by the past half for the transportation
-m , -11 on Friday j general assembly and the time at of Transylvania county public
I believed wi will I which the local government con-{school students, according to J-
evening 0 s , the Urol act went into effect, the pe-; jj. Jones, county school supenn-
’u Tor^S “ "“d "''lich the city’s books, tendent. Mr. Jones has been en-
A number of bids have already j are to be audited at this time | gaged this week in the propara-
1..,^ received and others were covers 1!) months. | tion of a report to the state
° ted prie'r t° *'*’e confer-! In future, it is anticipated that j board of equalization regarding
set tentatively for Friday
TOWN BOARD READY TO
RECEIVE BIDS ON AUDIT
expected
' night.
CABINET OF
I LAVAL FALLS
Briand May Be Next Min
ister of State,. Tardieu
War Minister
Mrs. E. Bishop
Buried Sunday
At Rocky Hill
semi-annual audit will be con-j y^sts of the past months, of the
iicted, j current term, and probable needs
for the remainder of the year.
There are nine school busses
carrying 544 pupils in the city
and county daily. There are five
men holding contracts for the
transportation of school children,
providing their own equipment
and transporting 109 pupils daily.
This makes a total of 653 chil-
j dren given daily transportation
—: in the county for attendance on
Funeral services for Mrs. FI-j
bert Bishop, who died at her home j Mr. Jones’ estimate is that the
at Cedar Mountain Fridav after- j costs for the second half of the
noon, were held Sunday afternoon , term
at the Rocky Hill Baptist church
Kiwanis to Hear iHARDSURFACE
Greenville Manljgg J[(j
MONTH PERIOD
An interesting meeting of the
Kiwanis club is planned for
Thursday of this week when J.
N. Walker, secretary of the
Greenville Y. M. C. A. will be
the main speaker.
Attendance at the Kiwanis
meetings is said to have been the
be.st the past month than in
some time, and a large number
of members and guests is ex-
j’ected at the meeting today at
noon, at the England home.
RESPONSE TO
RELIEF PLEA
I GOOD WRT
More Clothing and Books
Needed; However,
Miss Kern Says
PARIS, France, Jan. 13.—Thejwith Rev. Vaughn and Rev. Mark
vear-o!d government of Premier ■ Osborne conducting the services.
Pievre Laval resigued lash night "as in the cemetery
after a series of rapid-fire politi-{nearby.
cal developments and a mass at-j (;;;0(iar Mountain Baptist church
11 be $^350 less than for
the first half. The reason for
this is that it was necessary to
purchase a motor and much tire
eijuipment at the beginning of
the school year, in addition to
other replacement of parts. The
first three months of the term
ligh
tack of thousands of unemployed, filled to ovcrflow'ing for the i the state did not appropriate any-^
led by communists, on the opening Sunday afternoon. An ) thing for replacement, but ai-j
cr r. ■ unusual number of floral tributes lowed an appropriation for
session of the .chamber of depu-
,• i. 1 -J I X.. were sent by friends of the fam
The cabin^et deci ec j„oHolUy» including- a number from
after Laval had failed to persuad^ ^jj, Carolina points. Quite a
the powerful radical paity, led by ^ number of friends were present
from a distance- for the funeral.
including several from Greenville.
Mrs. Bishop, who was 57 years
of age, was stricken with paraly
sis while on the streets of Bre
vard Thursday afternoon, and was
removed in an ambulance to her
home. In a little more than 24
hours from that time she passed
away, her entire right side bfting
completely paralyzed. She had
been a sufferer from high blood
pressure for some time.
Mrs. Bishop left no children,
^ ^her husband being the only im-
beco‘mr“minister"of ‘mediate survivor.
Edouard Herriot, to accept posts
the government and support his
regime in the forthcoming inter
national conferences on repara
tions and disarmament. Herriot
was offered the foreign affairs
portfolio and four other posts for
his party.
President Paul Doumer, who ac-
cepted the cabinet’s resignation,
was consulting the parliamentary
party leaders today but is expect
ed to commission Laval to form a
new government. The premier is
believed likely to retain the old
cabinet, with the exception of For
eign Minister Aristide Briand,
who may
state.
Laval probably will assume the
portfolio of foreign minister and
Undersecretary Pierre Cathalu
will succeed.the premier as rnin-
ister 'of interior. Antlrc Tardieu,
former premier, will become min
ister of war and a senator prob
ably will be chosen to succeed
Tardieu as minister of agricul
ture.
Briand was believed to have re
sisted to the end against Laval’s
plan to relieve tim of the foreign
post, although he had previously
indicated he realized that his ill
ness handicapped him. The for
eign miryster did not accompany
the cabinet when Laval visited
Doumer to present the resigna
tion, but that was due to his ill
ness. If Briand had voluntarily
relinquished his post, it was un
derstood Laval would not have re
signed.
iCt
pairs'. The total transportation
appropriation for the six months
term is $3,995.50.
Mr. Jones said yesterday that
the school bus drivers are badly
underpaid this year, but that the
pay is the most that can be given
in view of tl^ appropriation that
was made.
He points out that conditions
under the new school law are
abnormal, in view of the fact
that it was such a short time be
fore school opened that there
Virginia Willys, De Aguirre, daughter of John N. Willys, millionaire
motor magnate and United States ambassador to Poland, is reported
to be seeking a divorce in Paris from Luis Marcelino De Aguirre,.son
I of an Argentine cattle baron, to whom she was married in London
two years ago. Mrs. De Aguirre opposed her father’s wishes to marry
De Aguirre. The couple are shown above.
FRANCElND ENGLAND ARE ” ‘
IN ACCORD ON WAR DEBTS
AND REPARATIONS SCHEME
40 Children GiveJ'
Lunch Each Day:
P.T. A. Needs Aid
PARIS, Jan. 13.—An agree
ment between France and
Great Britain for settling wat
debts and reparations was report
ed last night as Sir Frederick
Leith-Ross, British treasury
Howard Gives Report on
Boylston and Other
Highways
EXPENDITURES IN
UNITS REPORTED
A tremendous amount of road
work has been accomplished in
the fourth district of the state
highway organization since the
state took over the roads, it is
shown by a survey of completed
work given The Transylvania
Times by S. G. Howard, district
engineer in charge.
With the exception of the work
on the Boylston road (the 16 3-4
miles extending from just outside
the city limits at the intersection
of highway 28 to the Henderson
county line, the purpose of which
T ^ i. . , , .is to give access to bridle paths in
Immediate respoiise has been Pisgah National forest area).
® T? il'”' practically all larger projects are
Jnnt i r Transyl- ;,beyance at this tiiL, and will
need's of this L"dy“for®Zes am appropriations
clothing have beet partially the highway depart-
teraporarily met. Miss Florence' a™
Kern, in charge of the supply de
repair of small places, imme-
ttT‘foi“thrgfott,%''a‘id7ettm-kttdiata attention to which will pre-
But Miss Kern points out thali''""* /r,
there are many children in need i'^f' ^ ‘"‘al of 168 miles of
of clothing and of books, and thatl™®'^” I*®':® surfaced m this
school attendance is compulsory, . state took over
cov, roads on July 1.
PAYROLLS BY COUNTIES
alike for those who
cannot afford these.
Meanwhile, the Women’s Bu
reau, of which Mrs.. 0. L. Erwiu
is president, will undertake to
supply warm undergarments for
children, and some of the mem
bers of the bureau are already
engaged in preparing these, Miss
Kern said, now that the welfare
group has obtained a definite idea
of what is needed.
Miss Kern is appreciative of all
supplies that are tendered her for
of the organization, but she
government leaders and returned
to London.
I The accord was understood to
i^-p-UrgcHt appcul IS Hiade by offi-I provide for an European settle-
was any deflate understanding . parent-Teacher asso-1 ‘be reparations issue
with regard to the new law. He cmls of the Paient ieacner asso j submitted
declares, however that he feels ciation for assistance in the work , connection
.riu fn n^"l | with possiblc Cancellation or ad-
Q-v-T-o.cn in nn- yornonii- o no o wnpn. justment of the wai* debts which
pert, concluded negotiations with, pointed out that among the items
show far better results :
other year of school.
I Wallace Gillesp ie
Given Certificate
ROSMAN, Jan. 13.—Wallace
Gillespie was awarded a certifi
cate of merit Friday at chapel ex
ercises. The certificate was sent
him from Washington, D. C.
Rosman Y. T. H. F. entertained
in chapel Friday, January 8, giv
ing the official ceremony as used
Officers Elected
In Seventh Grade
of Rosman School
ROSMAN, Jan. 12.—The sev
enth grade of Rosman elementary
school elected new officers after
Chri.^tmas for the rest of the year.
They# are: President, Everett
Whitmire; vice pi’esident, G. C.
McClure; secretary, Mary Mor
gan; boys’ hall monitor, Billie
Dockins; girls’ hall monitor, Mary
Morgan; room monitors. Margaret
Glazener and Millie Allison; nic-
ture committees, Margaret Glaz
ener, Annie Gillespie and Lois
Whitmire; boys’ playground mon
itor, Earl Whitmire; girls’ play-
groud monitor, Ruby Whitmire:
blackboard monitors, Mae Owen
and Millie Allison; boys’ ball cap
tain, Everett Wjiitmire; vice cap-
taim Billie Dockins; girls’ ball
captain, Millie Allison; vice cap
tain, Pauline Sutton; door moni
tor, Billie Dockins; window moni
tor, Billie Dockins; boys’ play
ground committee, J. D. Powell,
Roy Whitmire, Lamar Whitmire,
Howard Reece, G. C. McClure,
Woodrow Masters, Mr. Kimzey, J.
John A, Bush, 58,1
Gastonia, Expires |
ROSMAN. Jan. 12.—John A.;
Bush, age 58, died at Ga.stonia
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock,
after a long illness.
Funeral services were held
Thursday at Gastonia at the Bap
tist church, conducted by Rev. Mr.
Austin. Interment was in Caldwell
county, near Lenoir. Surviving
relatives are: the mother, Mrs. J.
P. Bush; wife and several chil
dren; two sisters, Mrs. Claud
Hartly and Miss Geneva Bush;
brothers, Marvin, J. L., R. V. and
G. C. Bush. The latter is princi
pal of Rosman liigh school and has
a host of friends here who will
be sorry to hear of his brother’s
death.
dernourished school children.
- Many individuals and organiza-, - ^ American gov-
tions of the town have already , *=
lent valuable assistanc^e in this [ * p', joint-
work by providing lunches on des-
States, it was said.
by the Future Farmers of Amer-[^* D. S. Winchester, Nath
ica. 'Passmore and Frank McCall; girls'
During the program, County 1’^^^YSround committee, Laura
Superintendent J. B. .Jones award-! Pkarr.
.ed to Wallace Gillespie a certifi-j Student government has been
cate of merit which was .given him r®LV successful during the last
for his outstanding judgment in
judging Guernsey cows at the Na-' ^ I’are thing for Mr,
fional Dairy show held in St. Louis [Kimszey to find it necessary to use
October 10. , |any other form of control other
This certificate was issued from .f^un that provided by the class of-
Washington, D. C.. and signed by dicers.
' The class takes special pride
ignated days, but a call
made for other interested parties
to serve lunches to the under
nourished children during next
week.
Forty children are served each
day, 30 in the primary grades and
10 in the grammar school. The
Parent-Teacher association furn
ishes 40 one-half pints of milk
each daf as their donation in this
worthy xvork, and the call is for
patrons and friends of the school
to furnish lunches of hot soup,
hot cocoa or sandwiches each day.
The present schedule of operation
for the serving of lunches will be
in effect until next Monday, after
which time no definite arrange
ment has been made as yet.
The request is made that any
one desiring to help'in this needy
work get in communication v/ith
Mrs. H. E. Erwin, who is chair-
New Telephone
Lines Proposed
A movement has been inaugu
rated to secure the development
of two new telephone lines out of
Brevard.
The first of these would be a
line to Cedar Mountain and Ced
ar’s head. This would extend 17
miles out of Brevard a'nd it is
proposed especially in view of the
dispatch it would provide
reporting of forest fir
section
The plan was reported to pro
vide:
1— A two year moratorium on
conditional reparations payments
by Germany to the European pow-
2— Creation of German rail
way bonds bearing a total of 660,-
000,000 marks ($158,000,000) to
meet the unconditional repara
tions payments, beginning in
1934'.
3— In event of cancellation of
the inter-governmental war debts,
part of these railway bonds would
be alloted to the United States as
compensation.
The purported plan was some
what in line with suggestions from
London recently, when it was un
derstood on good authority that
France and Britain were working
of this phase of the parent-1 toward an -accord in reparation
teacher work, and notify her whatr^^^hich would permit them to make
day would be most suitable to
furnish lunch at the school 1 o
these 40 children who would
otherwise go without necessary
nourishing food at the noon hour.
United
H. S. Girls Wm
Over Institute
The Brevard girls’ basketball
the [team opened its season last Sat-
thatjurday night by winning from the
considerable number ' Brevard Institute team by a score^
of people would be served, but of 37 to 13.
the approximate number has not I Both teams played well in the
' opening game and showed prom
ise of developing into fast, clever
basketball teams.
been obtained,
The other nroposed line would
extend 22 miles to Oakland, be
yond Lake Toxaway.
Dr. Lane, chief of the division of
vocational agriculture in the Unit
ed btates; also by Roy H. Thomas,
state supervisor, of Raleigh.
at MT. MORIAH
rosman, Jan. 12._The dis-
tiiet singins; convention will meet
next Sunday, January 17, at Mt.
Moriah church at Calvert at 2:30.
ent ’“w ® p “t'® invited to be pres-
• A®*’® “f Rosman is
president of this organization.
birth at GLOUCESTER
■the 01^'' J*''®- of
,tl- announce
daughter Sunday,
'the birth of
January 10
keeping good order and continu
ing work when it is necessary for
Mr. Kimzey to leave the room.
By MILLIE ALLISON,
Seventh grade.
STILL CUT DOWN
ROSMAN, Jan. 12.—Policeman
Bill Stroup and Con.stable Welch
Galloway captured a moonshine
still in the Glady Fork section
about six miles from Rosman on
Thursday.
Four stands of, beer
Brevard Cases
Awaited Jan. 27
With 78 cases still in the hands
of the state supreme court, de-
cisigns on appeals of eight cases
[ from Transylvania county su
perior court are being expected
Jan. 27, if at all this term, ac
cording to word received here. AH
cases growing out of the closing
of the Brevard Banking corapanif
still not acted
MAYOR FINES TWO
Ed Wilson and Walter Towns
end both entered pleas of guilty
to charges of forcible trespass in
Mayor Ralph kamsey’s court this
week. Wilson was fined $10 and
costs, and the same fine was im
posed on Townsend. The latter,
however, took an appeal to the
superior court.
MISS KEELS IMPROVED
Miss Sarah Keels, mathematics
teacher in the Brevard high
school, who has been ill since the
first of the. year, has recovered
will be j and will be back at her duties the
the last decision day of the winter! latter part of the week. Mrs. Wil-
court will adjourn on ; lis Britt has been substituting for
stioyed but no men were captured, that date until the spring term. * Miss Keels.
of clothing she had on hand, none
were for winter wear, with the ex
ception of one item,' and further
that none of these garments were
such as to meet the needs of a
child from 1 to 12 years in age.
^ Mi.ss Kern said yesterday that
donations of shoes last week were
from Mrs. J. S. Silversteen and
the Plummer Co., while Miss Em
ma Bagwell contributed clothing
and groceries, T. B. Crary pota
toes, Mrs. C. C. Robinson cloth
ing, and C. C. Young dried beans.
On Wednesday, donations to the
supply depot included clothing
from Mrs. B. W. Trentham and
Mrs. C. 0. Robinson.
“We have more clothing prom
ised,” said Miss Kern, “but noth
ing like enough to supply the de
mand. We especially need over
alls and sweaters for the boys, and
print dresses with coats or sweat
ers for the girls.”
Miss Kern pointed out the dis
tress of a family in the Glouces
ter section, which she said was
typical of many others. She had
been called on for help by the
family and in this group are ten
people to be fed and clothed. They
include a man and his wife, the
aged father and mother, neither
of whom are able to work, and six
children. As recently as three
years ago, this man had money in
the bank, and had a good dairy
herd. He was thrifty and is not
the type of man who has had to
look to others for assistance, Miss
Kern said.
Rosman Quintet
Beats Institute
joint appeal
States as compensation.
The purported plan was some-
lat in line with suggestions from
T.ondon recently, when it was un
derstood on 'good autliority that
France and Britain were working
toward an accord in reparation:
which would permit them to make
a joint appeal to the United
States for an adjustment of war
debts, ROSMAN, Jan. 13.—The RoS'
The reparations problem would man high school boys defeated
be threshed out at the Lausanne Brevard Institute here Friday af-
conference, beginning January 25, ternoon by the score of 24 to 17,
when France and Britain are ex- The game was very closely con-
pected to take a definite stand | tested. Brevard led at the half,
for a two-year moratorium onj^o to 9, but the Rosman outfit
conditional reparations payments, made a comeback in the second
These payments correspond al- half to win by a decisive score,
most exactly to the war debt pay-1 Line-ups:
ments of France, Britain, and i Rosman (24) Brevard Inst. (17)
Italy to the United States. ! Whitmire (7) White (5)
It was said that the European j Forward
nations were expected to agree j Glazener (4) Lebby (1)
that unconditional payments byj Forward
Germany would be completely an- e. Eldridge (10) .. Mitchell (4)
hulled if the United States would Center
agree to cancel war debts. D. Eldridge (2) . . G. Dumas (2)
Guard
Pangle (1) M. Dumas (5)
ARE GIVEN
For the administration month,
which runs from the fifth of one
month to the fifth of the next,
Mr. Howard shows the following
expenditures in the several unitsi
that make up the territory for
which he is chief engineer:
Jackson and Macon counties,
$1400 on state highways;
Henderson county, on county
roads, $4,000, and on state roads,
$300;.
Polk county, on county roads,
$2,000, and on state highways,
$350;
Transylvania county has had
expenditures of around $4,500,
which includes the Boylston road,
on which the payroll is approxi
mately $2,670 per month.
Mr. Howard estimates that
there remains two or three months
of work to be done on this road,
surfacing of which began around
November 1, and that the speed
with ■which this project can he
pushed depends of course on
weather conditions.
In December, there were 44 hir-
'ed men at work on the Henderson
county roads, in addition to ilie
40 convicts so engaged.
RESULTS BY COUNTIES
SINCE JULY 1ST
Since July 1 a total of 60 miles
of roads have been surfaecd with
sand, gravel and stone, in Hen
derson county.
There have been 95 free labor-
s at work in Tra7isylvania coun
ty for the month of December, in
addition to 60 convicts at the rock
quarry. In Transylvania county
there have been about 28 miles of
road surfacing done since July 1.
In Polk county 29 free labor
ers and 32 prisoners were at work
the past month, and a total of 50
miles of county roads have been
surfaced under the new organiza
tion plan.
Formerly the fourth district
comprised in addition to the coun
ties mentioned, all of .Tackson, but
this unit of the district has been
revamped so as to include parts
of Macon and Jackson. The terri
tory in Macon embraces Highlands
and Gneiss and extends south to
the state line. In that area 60 men
were w-orked during the month of
December, and the combined mile
age of work accomplished since
July in that section is around 30
miles, -W’hile the pavroll in the sec
tion for the month was approxi
mately $1900.
In Transylvania county,in the
past-month, there was around $2,-
000 spent on county roads, ex
clusive of the work done on the
state highways.
GOOSE WALKS WITH OWNER
WOKING, Eng.—A pet goose,
named Bill, accompanies his own
er, H. Watson, on long walks and
shopping expeditions.
MRS. GALLOWAY HOME
Mrs. Jess Galloway, who has
been in Warren. Pa., for a month’s
visit, returned home Tuesday eve
ning.
Guard
Referee—Cline (U. N. C.).
MISS CALL RETURNS
Miss Eva Call, music teacher in
the Brevard elementary school,
and who was out for several days
followin^g the Christmas holidays,
returned to her duties last week
end. Her place was taken during
her absence by Mrs. A. H. Kizer,
1000 BOOKS READY
FOR DISTRIBUTION
A thousand volumes of state
school circulating library books in
several units, which were received
at the beginning of the year for
use in the county schools and
which have been returned to Su
perintendent J. B. Jones’ office,
are I’eady to be issued to other
schools, that official said yester
day. Mr. Jones said that these
units may be let out for reading
purposes of all pupils, excepting
those in the Brevard and Rosman
high schools, and that principals
and teachers asking for theso
units first will be the iii'st to re
ceive them,