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VOL. 38? No. 14. BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933. WATER BILL TOPIC OF COMMUNICATION BY CITY OFFICIAL! Legislature Knows Nothing Oi Local Conditions and Local Questions CITIZENS OF~TOWN ARE ONES TO HANDLE MATTEF Cutting Water Rates Would Severely Cripple Operation Of Town Essentials "The officials of the Town of Bre vard wish to make the following ex planation of the stand which thej took in regard to the bill introduc ed in the Legislature by Mr. Gallo way regulating the water rents oi the Town. "We took the view that this was purely a local matter that should be left in the hands of the citizens of the Town., The gentlemen in the Leg. 'ature at Raleigh know nothing of our local conditions and are not in position to inform themselves about conditions here. Mr. Galloway ?himself has been so busy with state wide and county -wide measures that he has not had aR opportunity of acquainting himself fully with the conditions as they exist at the pres ent time. We felt it our duty, there fore, to oppose the bill in order that the matter might be settled here by the local officials elected by the citizens of the Town. "We believe that we have as loyal and intelligent a citizenship here in Brevard as can be found anywhere. We believe that our citizens are competent to handle the matter and when they have full information in regard to the niatter they will do the right thing about it. If the new Board soon to be elected, after a thorough study of the matter, find they can secure the needed revenue from some other source and can re duce the water rents we shall be satisfied. Our opposition to Mr. Galloway's bill was not based on the question of either lowering the wat. r rents or keeping them at the present figure. We merely wanted the matter left in the hands of the ( Continued on Back Page) BALL LEAGUEWILL START ON MAY 1ST i l Sylvan Valley Loop Expected To Start Playing With Four Aggregations Plans are going forward for the organization of the Sylvan Valley Baseball league, with plans now cal ling for play to begin on May 1st. F ur teams are expected to enter t!u> 1 :ijrue. with possibility of six. Pisgah Forest, pennant winners last year, are already at work on their lineup, while Penrose, Toxawav and R an are expected to fall in at i once. CI imes. as was the schedule last year, will be played on Saturday of each week. No outside players will be allowed in the league, only home players being qualified. Mneh real enjoyment was gotten] bv both players and fans out of ; the ^ague's operation last year, j and some real good baseball was i played. Those interested in playing j or assisting in promoting the games: are asked to get in touch with Wal ter McNeely at Lake Toxawav; Babel Stroun and" Coy Fisher at Rosman;j Bob Mackey at Pisgah Forest, or N. ' L. Ponder at Penrose. SUPfckiOK COURT IN SESSION THIS WEES ? * . ) Glen Blythe Case Is Set Foi Friday ? Five Men Get Stiff Sentences r! April term Superior court con fvMced here Monday morning witf His Honor, Judge P. A. McElroy 1 of Marshall, presiding and J. Wil i Pless, Jr., of Marion, solicitor. Miss ? Daphne Spratt of Marion, is court , j stenographer. I The Glen Blythe case is set foi Friday of this week, this being the only ca.se of homicide in this term. Young Blythe is charged with .'slaying his uncle, Verge Gray, the . ' shotting taking , place early thijB r year. ? i Of outstanding interest was the .(case of five young men from Hen 'iderson county who were tried Mon jday, chargcd with larceny and slay ^ ing livestock. Sentences ranging from ,:one to five years were meted out to : the men who allegedly drove to the , upper end of Transylvania county, 'and killed three hogs, one cow, and j wounded two other cows. I The livestock, belonging to W. L. ; Philips and Ralph R. Fisher, was j taken near the Philips home, Ac cording to Sheriff Tom Wood, who ! worked up the case against the mcji. I four animals were slain outright., three of which were carted to Hen derson county and there butchered and divided, while two other cows j were shot and are still suffering i from the wounds inflicted by the [ marauders. J David Fowler was given one to > two years: Mutt Maroney, three to 'five; Carl Russell, Allen Simpson land Arthur Ledford .four to five. | The men submitted. ; Civil term of court is scheduled i for next week. MASONIC MEETING IS ATTENDED BY MANY! i Over fifty members of Dunn's , Rock Masonic lodge gathered in a ' spccial meeting in the lodge room ; Tuesday evening in answer to a. [statewide call. , The Rev. Paul Havtsell, pastor of j Brevard Baptist church, and the ! Rev. R. I.. Alexander, pastor Pres | byterian church, were in charge of I the program of the evening. A num ber of other speakers were also i heard during the evening. ! HEMLOCK WOOD REPORTED 1 ' TO HE MORE MARKETABLE j Judging from an advertisement be | ing carried this week in The Times,) the first one of its kind in many months, business is g-.'tting better. | D. II. Winchester, of Rosman, isj 'advertising fo? peeled Hemlock, [ I wanting 15 carloads at one shot.! I Sounds interesting to those wliol have this type wood for sale. SOUTHERN TRAIN JUMPS AT ROSMAN SATURDAY! ROSMAN, April 5? The entire | population of Rosman and many peo-j nle from the surrounding communi ties were drawn here Saturday af ternoon by a wreck of the Southern I train, just inside the city limits, as) it made the return trip from Toxa- 1 way to Hendersonville. 'i Crews of men worked all night! Saturday, and up into the day S'.in < day, in an effort to get the engine! back on the track. However, it was | found necessary to bring a derick j and wrecking crew from Ashcville . before the feat could be aecomp- . lished. Very little damage was re-, ported to either the train or track, j I Bonds Will Be Accepted By Town j For Taxes and Special Assessments! Resolutions were passed by the; board. of aldermen at their regular, meeting Monday night authorizing j the acceptance of bonds in payment , of debt service portion of current j and past due taxes, and in payment of special assessments.. Resolution was also adopted by which taxpayers may have special assessments refunded, giving a per iod of ten years for payment of the assessments which are now due and past due. This extension of time will be given upon application by the taxpayers, blanks for this pur pose now being in the hands of City i Clerk H. H. Patton. Following are the resolutions in regard to accepting bonds in pay ment of debt service portion of taxes and special assessments: "Be it resolved that the tax col lector and ? or treasurer be authoriz ed to accept at par value in pay ment of any installment of the prin cipal and ? or interest of any spec ial assessment , bonds of the town of Brevard that are due or that become due in the current fiscal year which said installment or install ments of principal and ? or interest shall become due, and that the said tax collector ami? or treasurer be allowed full credit in this settle ment with the town for all bonds so accepted by him in payment of any installment of principal and ? or in terest of any special assessment." The resolution in regard to ac cepting bonds for the debt service portion of taxes, passed by the board, follows : "Be it resolved that the tax col lector and ? or treasurer be authoriz ed to accept bonds of the town ofj Brevard that are due or that be ; come due in the current fiscal year: at par value in payment of the J debt service portion of current and j ? or delinquent taxes. Provided, i however, that before accepting such bonds in payment of the debt ser vice portion of any current and ? or delinquent taxes he shall -require the payment in cash of the same proportionate part of that portion of the current and ? or delinquent taxes levied for the current fund, and all interest, penalty and costs, and that the said tax collector or treasurer be allowed full credit in his' settlement with the town for all bonds so accepted by him in pay ment of such debt service portion o f current and ? or delinqu-ent taxes." Transylvania Real Property Be 1 Cut 50 Per Cent Under Ruling r Passed by Board Commissioners Transylvania county real property . will be placed upon the tax books ) at a reduction of 60 per cent, &c m cording to action taken by the coun-. , I ty board of commissioners in their , '/meeting here Monday. Resolution adopted by the board,' . of which W. L. Aiken is chairman/ , L. V, Sigmor; secretary and W. B. ; ; Henderson, follows: ; | "It appearing to the board of com-} missioners that the Legislature has, (passed an act authorizing the eom-j j missioners to determine whether or I not the said board would revalue the, real estate of the county by a hori-i zontal decrease or increase or tg appoint a county supervisor and have a revaluation of the county made. I "And it further appearing to the I board that it would be very ex j pensive and cost the county several thousand dollars to have a revalua-' tion of the real estate of the coun ty, tract by tract, and it is the opinion of the commissioners that a horizontal reduction of the valua tion would meet present conditions. "And, it appearing to the board that the present vaue of real estate in the county is excessive, and that the true value of said property is less than BO per cent of what appears on the tax books. "Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the board of commissioners of Transylvania county do hereby de clare that the real property of Tran sylvania county be revalued by a horizontal decrease of 50 per cent from the present tax value from each lot, parcel, or piece of land hi Transylvania and that the list takers and other officials be lega ly directed and empowered to make out their1 abstracts or lists as to real estate in conformity with this resolution." TEMPERANCE DAY IS !T0 BE HELD SUNDAY I Special Services To Be Held at Local Churches ? Speaking At Rosman at 3 p. m. I Temperance Field Day, a state- ; wide movement, will be observed in the Brevard churches and at Ros man on Sunday, with special ser visee held during, the day and night! in the interests of temperance. Outside speakers in observance of j the day will include Rev. Jesse C.J (Owen, of the North Carolina Anti-| j Saloon League, who will speak at i I Rosman high school Sunday after- 1 [noon at 3 o'clock, also Mrs. Owen I [and M. R. Hilford, connected with j the Anti-Saloon movement. Special services of a temperance nature, with visiting and local 'speakers, will be held in the Meth j odist und Baptist churches of Bre- 1 vard Sunday morning, the day's ac tivities concluding with a mass meet ing Sunday night at 8 o'clock, to be held in the Brevard Baptist church, according to present plans. It has been stressed that the Tem perance Field Day observance is a strictly non-partisan, inter-denomi national movement, sponsored by the Anti-Saloon League of North Car olina, and solely in the interests of temperance and prohibition. The observance of the day is spon- j sored locally by the Brevard Min isterial association. KIWA1S DIRECTORS ENDORSE RIVER PLANi Congressman Weaver Praised For Efforts He Is Making To Have Work Do.?e Endorsement of the work Con-! gressman Zeb Weaver is doing in ' regard to work of clearing the Frcnch Broad river was made by resolution at a meeting of directors of Brevard Kiwanis club held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Kim aey last Friday evening. Mayor Ralph H. Ramsey and C. M. Douglas were appointed as a committee to act for the Kiwanis club in the matter, and were in structed to confer with Hcnderson ville Kiwanians and other interest ed groups. Before the business session of the; directors an enjoyable dinner was served to the following officers and j directors; F. Brown Carr, Mr. Kim-, zey, F rank Clement, Rev Paul Hart- ; sell, Dr. C. L. Newland, Rev. R. I-' Alexander, Mayor Ralph Ramsey.. C. M. Douglas. | BANK HOURS CHANGED ) Announcement is made by Tran-;< sylvania Trust company, that effect-! ive Saturday, April 15, the bank will ; close promptly at 12, o'clock noon. I: Other banks in W. N- C. are also J 1 observing this rule. j B. Y. F. U. MEETING j! TO BE HELD SUNDAY!] j Center District B. Y. P. U. meet-] ing will be held Sunday afternoon , ; at Carr's Hill church, Cedar Moun-' tain, beginning at 2:30 o'clock, ac-, cording to Paul Glazener, district, leiftkr. j ' Churches expected to have repre-l sentatives at the meeting are Carr's! Hill, Brevard, Glady Branch, Dunn's! Rock and Dunn's Creek. Rocky Hill union will have charge of the music, with th'i Rev. Paul Hartscll, Clyde Pitman Gillespie, Vernon Gosn<>!! ind others scheduled to take part , >ti the nrop-arn. j [FUNERAL HELD FOR LAKE T0XAWAY MAN: ! . i C. L. Sanders, Prominent I Transylvania, Dies After i Two Week's Illness | I Funeral services were held Wert I nesday afternoon for C. L. Sander I age 54, at Lake Toxaway Bapti > church, with the Rev. S. B. McCall j of Lenoir, former p3stor of th<" church, in charge. Interment wa.-l made in the cemetery nearby. Mr. Sanders had been ill for tw. weeks, ami died early Tuesday morning. He was a native of Trar sylvan ia county, a son of the late Sam Sanders, and had been in the mercantile business at Lake Toxa way for a number of years. He wa>" an active member of Lake Toxa way Baptist church and took part in all community affairs, being rank ed as among outstanding citizens of his section. Surviving are the widow who wa- j before her mavri.-ygn, Miss A (1m Reid, and two daughters, Mrs. Wal ter McKinna and Miss Edith Sar, dcrs, both of the Toxaway section. Moore and Osborne had charge of funeral arrangements. PASTOR O.V VACATION ROSMAN, April 5? The Rev. J. E. Burt, pastor of Zion Baptist church, will leave next week for Pendleton, S. C., where he will as sist the Rev. J. W. Hix in a meeting at the Baptist church there. BREVARD BANK B!L! IS RATIFIED MONDAY Commissioners Granted T o Take Over Building In Payment of Deposits Provision whereby the county of Transylvania can take over the Brevard Banking company building! to offset deposits to the credit at the time of the bank\s elosing in December, 1930, are provided in r. bill which has been ratified by the General Assembly. The bill, introduced several week' ago by Representative Gallowaj provides that credit for the building - may be accepted by the county a; part of their claims against th: bank. FINE RESPONSE MADE TO 5 CALL FOR SUBSCRIPTIONSj Great response is being made to subscribers who are behind wit) their subscriptions to pay at least a part of the amount due. Letters from several states con taining checks or money orders are ; coming in daily, together with ; fine response from Transylvania people. Again, we remind our sub- 1 ' 5criber:< that if they enjoy reading 1 the county paper it is necessary that effort is made to pay for same. NO NAMES FILED IN I MUNICIPAL PRIMARY ; With filing date for entry in the i Brevard City primary only one day ! distant, time limit sot at Friday, ' April 7, no names have been re ceived by City Clerk H. H. Patton. Several names have been suggest ed for mayor and aldermen, but none as yet have been filed. Mayor Ralph H. Ramsey has emphatically stated that he will not re-enter the i campaign for election, while several j members of the present beard have 1 also signified their intention of iust "being one of the voters." [payment of taxes IN BONDS IS SOUGHT Debt Service Portion Would Be Allowed Paid W;ith Outstanding Paper j A bill which would permit T rati- j sylvania county to accept bonds in payment of the debt service portion i of taxes has b<?tn introduced in the. General Assembly by Reprcsenta-i itive Galloway and passed by ttiei j lower house. The bill follows: j A biil to be entitled &n act to al - low the commissioner? of Transyl-. vonia County to accept bonds in payment of certain taxes. i The General Assembly of North j Carolina do enact: Section 1. That the County Com . missiorierl of Transylvania County , are hereby authorized to accept i ; County Bonds that are past due, or which become due within the fiscal year, in payment of the debt-service I portion of past-due or current >4 axes. ? Section 2. That the Tax Colleo-j ?tor for said County is hereby auth- . I ori;:ed to accept any such P\\t-(!uc tbor.ds in payment of the- debt-sei ! vice portion of such taxes and not I otherwise ; and when such bono. - [h: ve been so accepted bv such lax C Hector he shall be allowed full <? adit therefor in his settlements ,i. th the County Commissioners on, i ' Section 3. That all laws and (v.iises of laws in conflict with ttu. i ; . ovisions of this act. are hereby I ... DOfllcd . Section 4. That this act shall be in full force and effect from and aiter its ratification. i'iBERT HOIDEN IS | BIG EGG CHAMPION; i Hubert Holden, of Brevard, ?a-| first prize winner in the big egF, contest he having brought an egt | to The Times office that measured; 8 1-8 by 6 1-4, Second prize goes to Mrs. Addic Ilogsed, Route One; with, third prize going to V. t>. Puce, Ji j of Brevard. Each of the* three per sons will be given one year s sub , scription to The Tines. 4 Altogether there were nineteen en tries in the contest, size of '? ;, entered coming in order of enti . named below: Mrs. Haskell L>dai of Enon and Patsy Grimshawe ofj Brevard tying for fourth place. L? tlo Patsy Grimshaw haa hard luc and broke the egg she p.anred to en , ter else one of the first three peop. would in all probability have bee IS >? ?s.' Majorie Holden allTVl. WiHiams'.j River 'and Mw.* W j Pisgah Forest; J A ^ hitmire, Cher | rvfield; Verne Hensley, belica T J*. i F Whitmire. Calvert; and Joh. J , Pickelsimer, Brevard. j Altogethei. the eggs arc among , the largest ever to be shown in Bi ; van) and have attracted much at-;, t<? "smallest eggs were brought i^ ^'l; Earl Gray, of 1 Blantyre ; Mrs Ha. , . kell Lyday, Enon; J. M. and W. S. Hooker J * j was offered for the sma.lest egt Finger Cut Off !< ROSMAN, April 5 ? Ruby Moove i foui year- old daughter of Mr. ar.d[( Mrs. Charlie Moore of near Rosman.;! lost a finger last Saturday when hei j ' brother, aged seven, in some manner ji cut the smaller childs fingt-r off f i (vith an axe. '< 'PUBLIC meeting b HELD ON QUESTION OF SALARY CUTTING Petition Are Sent To Raleigh Asking That Accountant Office Continue SHERIFF OPERATING ON VERY MODERATE SALARY Chief Objection To Bill S? Abolishment of County Accountant Office Protest against the ntatiw in regard to cutting salaries a n d abolishing the office of county ac countant was voiced at a meeting of citizens of the county held in the court room immediately following the recess for noon on Wednesday. Several speakers were heard in op position to the measure which was introduced* by Representative Gal loway and passed in the lower house. Announcement that tne meeting was to be held on Wednesday was mace at recess of court Tuesday noon. A petition was adopted unanimous ly hy the meeting and sent to Sena tor Francis, asking amendment to the measure in part. Wm. E. Breese presided at the meeting and re?d the bill as introduced. He explained that the treasure's office had already been abolished, this having been done in the first meeting of the new boird of commissioners last De cember, and that 0. L. Erwin, elect ed tc fill the post of trc?curer was made tax collector, tliis office form erly being consolida'ed with that of sheriff. He said that Clerk of Court Otto Alexander, Register of Deeds Jess Galloway and T.-iX Col ector 0. L. Erwin were willing to take a cut in their salary as set out in the bill, and that the register and clerk had asked Galloway tf> introduce a bill calling for a 15 pet cent cut; that Sheriff Wood volun teered to take a cut of $f>00_ at the beginning oi his term, leaving his salary at $3000, and that in view of the fact that all expenses incurred by the sheriff were paid by him. rhe county supplementing no money at all other than the ?3000 salary, that sheriff Wood was e"title.iL^4i ? the salary now in effect. Sheriff Wood said that he had (Continued on B<uck Page) MISS MverIeads DAHLIA ASSOCIATION Plans Call For Show To Be Staged During Early Part of Fall Reorganization of the Transylvania Dahlia association was effected "i Tuesday nigut at the Brevard h' ;i school building, with the election f af fleers for the ensuing year. All officers were re-elc-cted with the exception of the president, the fallowing to serve for the coming pear: President, Miss Julia Dc-aver; rice president, Mrs. John Maxwell; secretary-treasurer, John Ashworth. Julian Glazener presided over tl- ? meeting, the organization cntcrir : into a general discussion of dahl ? :ulture, and made plans for stagii ?: i dahlia show at a later date. Annocnecment is rr.rd? tl:?.t a :->li ;d meeting r.f the association will '"??? field at the high school buildtr.ir Thursday flight of this week, at ;vhich time all members and others nterested in dahlias are given a cor - lial invitation to be present. Beer To Be Sold In North Carolina Under Law Passed By Legislature Ho, all the thirsty, beer will be provided in Northi Carolina fo; quenching the thirst, according to final action taken on the Francis bill by the General Assembly on Tuesday afternoon by z vote of 77' to 25. The Senate had previously j passed the bill. Under the statewide provision,! which is to go into effect one I minute after midnight on May first, | jeer will be sold wherever and when i ;ver one wishes to sell, unless it j is a business established for this: purpose only. Section 1 of the bill as passed by' :he legislature provides: "That on and after the passage of j this act it shall be lawful for anyi person, firm, or corporation to sell.) barter, trade, exchange, or dispose j 3f beer, lager beer, ale, porter, fruit juices, and or light wines, containing not more than 8,2 per lent of alcohol by weight, or such 5ther percentages as may conform to any act of the Congress of the United States, within the domains of the State of North Carolina, subject, however, to payment of tax hereinafter imposed . "Section 4. That it shall be unlaw ful for any person, firm or corpo vation to sell beer iager beer, ale, porter, fruit juices, and (or) other | light wines in North Carolina with out first applying for and receiving ja permit or license from the board of commissioners of the several | counties of the State, which license fee shall be fixed at the sum of 'twenty-five ($25.00) dollars and ! placed in the treasury of the coun ty, to be used in the payment of ; the public debt of said counties. "Section 5. That each and every incorporated city or town in North Carolina way levy 9 similar license tax on each dealer in the corporate limits or within two miles of the limits not exceeding the sum of ben (SX0.00) dollars, the license for in corporated cities and towns, and th* funds derived therefrom shall be put in the general funds of the city or town, to be used in the debt-servW [fund. j "Section 8. That it shall be unlaw ful for any person, firm or corpora tion to sell or give any of the pro ducts herein authorized to be sold to any minor under sixte |t<>vms of this section shall be guilty [of a misdemeanor and punished for leach offense in the discretion of the court." age; and any person
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