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The Transylvania Times
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1932
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iTON ROAD PROJECT IS APPROVED
WILL SURFACE
HIGHWAY TO
MILLS RIVER
FIFTH AVENUE’S EASTER PARADE
Traveler's RestjM f AjJP
Postoffice Robbed
Postma.ster Heaviest Loser
—Thieves Escape
GREENVILLE, S. C., Mar. 30.
The post office' at Travelers Rest
was robbed Tuesday night, the
loss amounting to $550, of which
$450 belonged to Postmaster J. A.
Anderson, and the balance was
postal funds.
Thugs entered the post office
by boring a hole in the front door
and removing the lock. A .safe
was removed through a side door,
placed on a truck and carried 17
miles up the Greenville-Hender-
sonville highway. It was carried
about 50 yards off the highway on
a side road and cracked with a
crowbar and sledge hammer.
Stamps worth $250 and a num
ber of money order forms were
left in the safe.
Investigation by Sheriff Bram-
lett and his assistants showed that
the truck had gone north.for some
distance from the place where the
safe was cracked, and had then
turned around and gone in the
direction of Greenville.
Brevard Man Had Never
Lived Outside Transyl
vania County
Gloomy skies and the Weather Man’s forecast of vain didn’t squelch the q-regarious instincts of Mr and
Mrs PnbliC’ who multiplied by many thousands, turned out in their spring finery for the Easter piracle
on Manhattan s tamous Fifth Avenue. Hep’s a view of the throng- of promeiiaders—modishly dressed
and otherwise—who came forth to see and be seen on the crowded boulevard
parkTroup
- PLANS_ SUITS
Tennessee Will Act to Add
6900 Acres to Smoky
Holdings
NASHVILLE, Tenn., March fiO.
gpDecision to bring condem
nation suits to acquire small hold
ings totalling 6,900 acres of land
was made by the Tennessee Groat
Smoky Mountain park committee
in session in the office of Gov.
Henry H. Horton Tue.sday. These
suits will be filed in the counties
in which the suits are to be
brought and Attorney General L.
D. Smith said he will proceed at
once.
i “We have reached the point
where there’s nothing to do but
bring condemnation suits,” Col. D.
C. Chapman said.
• ^ Among large tracts the commis-;
sion is negotiating for is one own
ed by the Morton Butler Lumber
company in the southwestern end
of the park, comprising 25,000
acres. The other contains less
than 5,000 acres and is owned
by the Aluminum company of
America. I
^^ol. Chapman said the commis* I
Sion has available in the park i
fund practically $700,000. The
state of Tennessee already has |
tiansferred to the federal govern
ment deeds for 153,000 acres and
North Carolina has transferred
deeds for 140,000 acres.
The federal government last
year spent $30,000 building roads
and fighting fires in the park area
and is keeping four rangers in the
ar^. ^ , gi J:
There is a bill pending in con-
I'ress to appropriate $3,000,000
tor a federal budget for building
national parks, according to Col
Chapman. “There is a blanket ap
propriation for building roads
national parks,” he declared.
N. C. RULING
WON’T AFFECT
SCHOOLS HERE
Will Complete Their Full
Term “Regardless,”
Jones Believes
Although Transylvania county
is praci^ically $18,000 behind with
its payment into the state literary
and building fund, School Super
intendent J. B. Jones is not dis
turbed over the announcement
made at Raleigh by State Treas
urer Stedman that counties not
keeping up their payments on this
debt to the state will not enjoy
the benefits of state sup))ort for
the extended two-months term.
ilr. Jones, when in Rafeigh re
cently, was in conference with Mr.
Stedman on this and other topic.=!,
and
cia! that those counties which
make a substantial effort to meet
this obligation will not have their
quota of extended term state
money cut off. Regardless, too, of
what may happen. Mr. Jones stat
ed that the teachers o’f Transyl
vania county and of Brevard have
indicated their continued loyaltv
to the schools and the pupils un
der them by assuring that if state
withheld, they will now
complete the school year, and not
let the student body suffer a set
back through failing to get full
credit for eight months’ school
work.
The literary and building fund '
is provided in order that loans
may be made for school construe- ^
t'i'on work. The county has a loan j
from this fund which it is paying j
back at the rate of $9,000 per j
year. |
Last year it failed to make its |
payment because the Brevard
bank closed with county funds on
deposit. This year the county has
GRANDMA HENDERSON MARKS
94TH BIRTHDAY AT QUEBEC
Transylvania Woman Has
Lived to See Five
Generations
An event of unusual interest
throughout Transylvania county
and other sections, occurring on
Easter Sunday, was the celebra
tion of the 94th birthday anniver
sary of “Grandma” Millie Hen
derson at her home in Quebec,
near Lake Toxaway. '
“Grandma,” as she is affection
ately known by her large family
connections and wide cii-cle of
friends, was assisted in celebrat
ing the memorable day by the
Pi’esence of hc-r eight children and
their immediate families.
The children include: T. C. Hen- ^
derson. V/. B. Henderson, Charlie j char
!>-
. having the distinction of having
attained such a ripe oRl age, is
also a remarkable character iii
many respects. It is only within
the past year or two that she has
been confined practically all the
time to her bed or wheel chair,
though her general health is said
to be very good for her advanced
years. Her eyesight is not im
paired to any great extent; she
enju;,'s reading the current news
and her Bible, her mind and mem_
ory being remarkably clear and
alert; her hearing is said to have
greatly improved and become al
most normal only within recent
weeks, since she was very leal:‘
previous to that time; her hair,
still of a reddish tinge, is only
streaked with grey.
Grandma’’ is a lovable, saintly
.greatly beloved by her
Henderson, Mrs, Giddeon Miller,
all of Quebec; Rev. J, K. Hender- I Her
.o Elizabeth Reece, [tinu
d bv the state offi- of Brevard; Mrs. Dora Mil,
ler. Sapphire; Rev. Isaac Hender-
t’ yre lugiuv resijecrca,
living j ential, useful citizens of the
children, _ “Grandma” proudly
boasts of 39 grandchildren, 85
gre.at-grandchiidren, and 10 great-
great-grandchildren, the majority
of whom are residents of Transyl
vania county. The aged lady has
1 I .L. fifth genera-
I Maco
Will Give Shorter Route to
Asheville; “Traffic Bind
ing” Planned
EAST BROAD^STREET
WILL BE SURFACED
Approval of the road better
ment project involving G.7 miles
on the Boilston road extending
from the Transylvania county
line to Mills River, and joining
280 with Highway 191 at Mills
River with an all weather road
has lieen received by highway dis
trict No. 4 offices here, "W. B.
L'erguson, district highway engi
neer said ■\\’'ednesday forenoon.
As a result, an 18-foot rnac-
ailam road will be provided and
will be “traffic bound.” Mr. Fer
guson said that the traffic bind
ing, which, with the use of grad-
'iirs and rollers, gives a mechani-'
cal binding, will be more satisfac-
Dunty and one of the first! Unan a water binding, which
ndreds of friends and relatives,
fiuence for good will con
tinue to be exerted, it is felt, even
after her pa.^sing from this life,
in^ the lives of her children, all of
horn are highly respected, influ-
usef
unity
s. Henderson was, before her
age to_ George W. Hendor-
Millie Peak, a native of
tlius lived to ;
lion.
Mrs. Henderson,
BUDGET WILL
BE BALANCED
BY JULY 1
Rosman Potato
Meeting Is Set
CORBIN
.
vocational Agricultu
P, . tor, Rosman
weeks
Somty will be planted. Potatoes
.cron that requires a cool
Slimate in which to grow makes
t necessary to plant them and
lot them do most of their grow-
be weather. Potatoes
be naturally the be.st money
fop on most farms in the coiiri-
vt' have the possibility
vealth"“;i,'‘"il ^ ““’-PP of
fVAt. ■ county if proper
.lOKing practices are'adopted.*^
practices are
mif the'* potatoes
ownWei ®t even a
i profit to” ®’®o.st sure of
b should not fret so
ibout selling price but
P^'^/^cing price. We
growing price
gr p'^rtir
COURTOPENING
TO BE IINDAY
City and County Boards
Also Will Be in Ses
sion That Day
April 4, will be one of
the buisest of days for Brevard
and Transylvania county. It will
mark the opening of the approach
ing mixed civil and criminal term
for Transylvania county superior
court, at which Judge J. H. Clem
ents of Winston-Salem will pre
side. ^ The Transylvania county
connnission will be in session also
during the day, anti at night the
city aldermanic board will con
vene for its April session.
_ The call of the criminal docket
in .superior court will take place
from Monday to Wednesday, in
clusive, and the court has civil
cases set for the period of April
‘ to 14, inclusive, with motions
and divorces set for hearing on
Saturday. April 9.
The county commissioners are
.scheduled to hold their April
meeting also on Monday, but at
this time nothing outside of rou
tine matters is scheduled to come
beroi'e the meeting.
^ With the aldermanic board, two
item.s are likely to come up for
consideration, one being the re
port of the city audit, on which
■work has been in progress for the
past several weeks, and the other
IS the discussion of a milk inspec
tion scheme, which the city may
establish. The matter, it is under
stood, is to be presented to the
board by an expert worker along
Funeral service for M'. Jasper j oaid into the state literary and
Orr, 90, who died at his home {^luilding fund $700 on this debt,
here early Friday morning, was' ® Payment of $200 on
held at Oak Grove Methodist 1 , , ...
church Saturday afternoon con- Stedman’s public announce-
ducted by Rev. J. H West pas-' week is to the effect
tor of the Brevard Methodist i which pays one-
church, assisted by Rev. R. L. third of the costs of the two-
Alexandei*. pastor of the Bre-, extended term in the sev-
vard-Davidson River Presbyterian' counties, will seize this ex
church. Interment was in the tended term money where coun-
Oak Grove cemetery. [ties do not make such substantial
Mr. Orr was a na'tive of this 1 P^v^^ents on their _ literary and
county, being born in December building fund as will show good
1841 at Davidson River, and.faith in their efforts to reimburse
never moved out of Transylvania
county during the 90 years of
his life. He was the son of Geo.
Orr and Jane Fletcher Orr.
the state for its lokns,
Mr. Jones said that Mr. Sted
man’s position is that he wants to
be reasonable in his dealings
oined the Davidson River Pres-; the matter, but that bis first duty
yterian church in 1866, and' is to maintain the state’s credit,
later w’as made deacon. When Mr. Jones also said that Mr. Sted-
the Brevard church was organ
ized he was on© of the elders.
He was a Confederate veteran,
leader of the band in Company
25th North Carolina Regi-
not complaining about the
current year’s payments.
The county’s payment to this
state fund is due in monthly in
crements.
ment, under Colonel Henry Mid- j Teachers have been paid for
dieton Rutledge. He was a de- five and one-half months of their
scendant ox John and Rachel services for the six-months term
Orr 01 Scotland, who_ came to j of the current school year, and it
Amenca m 1749 ; on his paternal j js expected that the remainder of
r . Im was a descendant of the the money with which to complete
French Huguenot. Jean Brevard. | payment of salaries for the six-
Brev^’d months term will be in hand with-
ten days, Mr. Jones states.
this line.
ancestress,
Davidson, Avas a sister
Ephriam Brevard, who wrote the
j Mecklenburg declaration
dependence, May 1775.
Mr. Orr’s first "wife was Mary
Jane Lyon, daughter of James
Clifford and Matilda Glazener
Lyon, and to them were born
spen children, as follows: Net
tie Lee Orr, Hattie and Daisy
Orr of Brevard, George Clifford
Orr of Randall, "^^ash., G.
Louaillier Orr and Louis Cain
Orr, both of Chattanooga Tenh.,
and Albert Orr of Glendale,
Calif.
On December 28, 1905, Mr.
Orr was married to Miss Mamie
L. Kimzey of Mills River, who,
with the six children, survive.
Active pallbearers were: "Will
Kimzey, Tabor Kimzey, Lewis! ^UOSING PROGRAMS
Kimzey, Martin Kimzey, Tom Os-j FRIDAY, APRIL 22
borne, Dr. J. H. McLean. j All schools in the county hav-
Plonorary pallbearers included: i ing closing exercises will conduct
Dr. E, S. English, D, P. Kil-1 these on Friday, April 22. Not all
Patrick. S. P. Allison, Fred Shu- j of the schools will observe a for-
ford, 0. H. Orr, Fred Johnson, j mal program but this date will be
R, L. Gash, C* S. _ Osborne, S. IC. | kept, where such events are being
Osborne, J. K. Blills, Joe Lyday, | planned.
C. M. Siniard. {
^ Moore and Osborne funeral
directors were in charge.
Payments on the extended term
will be made as rapidly as tax
-collections permit it, Mr. Jones
states. Of every dollar of county
tax paid, the schools get eight
cents for the extended term sal
ary account.
Mr. Jones said that the remain
der of the school term will be held
according to schedule, “regardless .. ....
of what happens, as the teachers [house displayed
are ready to make sacrifices be
cause thev want the children to
have credits for the work done
this year.”
The second and closing month
of the extended term began on
Monday of this week.
Garner’s Plea Spurs Soloas
to Provide Billion,
126 Million
WASHINGTON, March 30.
—The way.s and means
committee today addel $4v5,-
000,000 more in taxes to the
billion dollar tax bill.
The following rates were
agreed upon and will be sub
mitted to the house a.s part of
the Democratic program: In
crease corporation tax by one-
half per cent to 13 1-2 per cent
in revision of con.solidated re
turns; provision of eight per
cent on oil transniitted .in pipe
lines; and revision of gift tax to
a maximu mof 33 1-2 per cent.
Speaker Garner urged in a
speech from the floor the adop
tion of an amendment placing’ a
levy on consolidated corpora
tion returns.
WASHINGTON, March 30.—
The new _ budget- b a 1 a n c-
ing tax bill of one billion one
hundred twenty-six million dol
lars was pushed forward today in
the house with such vigor that
passage before tomorrow night
seemed possible as a result of
the dramatic plea of Speaker
Garner to house insurgents Tues
day.
seUlers in that county. She has
lived in Transylvania county prac-
, . j tically all her married life. Her
addition to | hii.-^band died about 18 years ago.
Students Send in
Forestry Essays
Essays have been turned in by
a number of Brevard high school
students in the state wide contest
under the auspices of the Isaac
Walton League, dealing with “The
Relation of Our Forests, to Our
Fish and Game.” The local con
test was promoted by Randall Ev
erett, in his capacity as an offi
cial member of the state Isaac
Walton League. Winner of the
local contest will be announced
next week.
Those participating in the con
test here were Misses Clara Bar
nett, Justine Wright, Elia Mae
Scruggs, Mary Willie Burnette,
Mildred Whitmire, Helen Erwin,
and Nell Duckworth, together with
Andrew_ Boggs, Otu.s Shipman,
Max Wilson, and Ralph Galloway.
The sturdy, outspoken Texan,
e-xu-auiuon papers
SNIPES TAKEN
TO MICHIGAN
Detroit Officers Serve Ex
tradition Papers on Al
leged Robber
Pro.secuting Attorney Jensen of
Detroit and Detective Lieutenant
Harry Schouw of the Detroit po
lice force arrived in Brevard
'Wednesday shortly before noon
ith extradition papers for Oliver
chemically. J'he natural
binding, he said, makes a bettor
surfaced road. Work on the proj
ect will likely start this week, and
not later than early next Aveek.
While this Avork is in progress,
said Mr. Ferguson, there Avill bo
some three months Avork done on
the tributary roads in the section,
the surplus of stone and gravel
AAdll be used in the improvement
of these. Some $5,000 to $6,000
Avill be expended on these latter
projects.
This road project will give Bre
vard a more direct route than it
has heretofore had to Asheville.
From the Hendersonville end of
the line, it extends the surfacing
of the Boilston road to the county
line, and will thus give a direct
hardsurfaced road to the entrance
of risgah T’orest.
Another project that will be of
keen interest in Brevard i.s the
fact that the state highway com
mission is to pave the east end of
Broad street from the intersection
of Main to the city line. This will
he macadam, with traffic binding,
and it is expected that it will be
surface treated at a later date.
Avas master of the situation
throughout. This Avas demon
strated in a thunderous ovation
he _ received, in the immediate
capitulation of Republicans and
Democrats Avho had been fighting
and in the promptness the
translating its
Texan’s
triumph.
The unruly body which a few
days ago noisily overthre-w its
leaders calmed down yesterday
and, in a sane, sober-minded way,
immediately Amted $158,500,000
V program sub-'the other
of taxes '
- ... to Detroit
for trial on a charge of robbery.
Snipes ,had been held in the
county jail for about two weeks,
following his arrest by Sheriff
Ed I’atton,
Lieut. Schouw is a member of
the police headquarters hold-up
squad.
''’HI be recalled, wasL^o?
packed . galleiy witnessed the ai rested by the sheriff’s d^iart-i
ment some months ago
nection with anotlicr crime and
Avas one of two prisoners taken
at that time. Officers came from
Detroit previously, but failed
definitely to identify Snipes
sought, and he Avas
mitted by the ways and means
OLD TIME JUBILEE
AT SELiCA FRIDAY
two times
.A- q^^^ormal condi-
'ards thit
■ Jne only practice that
COUNCIL MEETING SET
only oractic IV, i ■ ./ROSMAN, March 30,—A col,,,-
'orth follovvinq N one th\77 "’'JI be held Saturady
■'■oduced rosults ove” a i Baptirt church cm
1 of vear.^j o-P +1-,^ ?
(Crer.!- ^^ost
(('ontimied on page three)
An entertainment, knoAvn as
the 01(1 Time Jubilee, Avill be
presented ?-t the Selica school
building Friday evening of this
Aveek at 8 o’clock. The program
will consist of music, dancing,
jokefe and comical acts, with
music furnished bv the Happv
Five.
The
PENNY JARS FOR
CAMP DISTRIBUTED
freed at the time.
committee as a substitute for the
defeated sales tax.
The taxes in the new program
which Avere approA^ed, in addition v...
to cosmetics and automobiles anI. saw something of' that
evemie they will raise arc:! fore
P'lve per cent oh candy, $.1,000,-[ north.
000; 10 1-2 per cent on furs
.$20,000,000; 10 per cent on jew
elry, $15,000,00; 10 per cent on
sporting goods and cameras $4,-
000,000: four cents per thousand
on matches $11,000,000; five per
cent on chewing gum $3,000,000;
five per cent on radio.s and
phonographs $1.1,000,000; 10 per
cent on yachts and motor boats
$500,000 and administratiA^e
Sheriff Patton accompanied the
two Detroit officials and their
prisoner as far as Asheville Wed
nesday afternoon, where they
ty be-
ontinuing on their way
_ Little penny jars for the bene
fit of the Girl Scout summer
camp have been placed in all of
the business houses this week by
the Business and Professional
Women’s club, sponsors of this | changes, $1,0007000.
movement. [ Success was forecast for tlie
It is expected by those in i .substitute program Avhich is de
charge of raising funds for op-, signed to raise $569,000,000.
eration of tbe Scout camp in I This amount added to other pro-,
Brevard next summer that the I visions of the bill already ap-!fertili:
n-1 Burt will filf his
Iment.'A at 11 a. m.
program, directed by
Frank Fenwick, is for the benefit
of the school, and an evening of
wholesome fun and enjoyment is
promised all Avho attend. An ad-
• ^ ,1'iiission of 15 cents aviH be charg-,.i«i uiou in
lai appoint- ed for adults, children admitted, Giii Scout Camp.
and 7:3n p. m. tfree.
people of the town will co-op- proved b.v the house, will pro-1 it
erate in making possible this duce a total of $1,'245,000,000,
project by depositing many pen- sufficent to balance the budget
nies and other ^jmall change in [by July J, 1983,
these little jars oonvenienAly j Rushing foi'Avard immediately,
P^^^d for this purpose. ^ ; the house voted increased taxes
_ The in.scription pasted on each i on automobiles, furs, iewelry,
sajs: “Drop pennies here fori sporting goods and camera's,’
"" ‘We’ll see it [matches, chewing gum, candy,
FERTILIZER STOLEN
Sheriff Patton yesterday had
in custody a Avhite man named
King, arrested for him in Hen
derson county by the sheriff’s de
partment there, and was detain
ing two negroes for investigation
in connection Avith the theft of
19 bags of fertilizer from John
Merrill of Ijittle River section.
Search Avas being- conducted for
a fourth person in connection
with the case.
Mr. Merrill came to Brevard
Monday, bought $26 worth of
and returned home with
CONNESTEE
MAN INJURED
John Gravely Falls From
Truck, Skull Fractured
John Gravely of Connestee .sec
tion, suffered a fractured skull,
a broken nose and several minor
cuts and bruises Saturday after
noon when he fell from the truck
of Mrs. Harry Clarke, who had
offered him a ride.
Stricken unconscious by his
fall, he was badly shaken up and
offering from shock when Sher
iff Ed Patton saw him when his
injuries Avere being dressed by
Dr. _ R. L. Stokes, Mr. Gravely
having been brought here by
Leighton Bagwell, who found him
on the highway as he was driving
a Rockbrook truck to the city.
Mr.s. Clarke, with her two bro
thers overtook Mr. Gravely as he
Avas walking on the road.
She offered him a ride, and ho
t in the fear of the truck. Mr.
Gravely believed that he lost his
balance as he reached for a sack
of cereal he was taking to mill,
and botli he and the 'sack fell
from the truck.
Mrs. Clarke was herself shocked
at the accident, and the first she
knew of it Avas when she was
asked about it by Sheriff Patton.
Mrs. Clarke explained that fro-
(luently she picked up people and
brought them to toAvn and was
accu.stomed to ([uitting the truck
in town Avithout seeing them
again, and in this instance, she
was unaware that Mr. Gravely
had suffered an accident.
I through with ponnios,”
(Coniinuofl on page three)
That night it was stolen and
Mr. Merrill personally traced it
through Henderson county -and
to a _ purchaser in Upper ' South
Carolina. The South Carolina
man was expected to come to
Brevard some time Thursda-,- in
an effort l.o d;finitoly identify
the men held a.s having connec
tion with the case.
Tom Bagwell Is
Bound to Court
Tom Bagwell was arrested by
City I’oliccMnan C. C. Morris Tues
day night, and Wednesday morn
ing in city court he Avas bound
over to superior court by Mayor
Ralph Ram.sey, Avhen charges' of
assault on his father, and resisl •
ing 'arro^t Avere lodged again.st
him. When T^oliceman Morris
went to arrest him, the officer
testified. Bagwell drew a razor
and slashcnl his left hand badly.
Bagwell is said to have three o
four other charg-es against him i
uperior court, and failed to a,,
pear Avhen these were reached on •
court docket last term.