BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1933
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.00 PER YEAR
GIRL SCOUTS START
TEN DAY CAMP NEXT
MONDAY AT 1LLAHE1
Forty Girls Have RegUteret
For Outing That Will
Be Outstanding
CAMP FACILITIES GIVEN
FREE FOR GIRLS' USI
All Phases of Scouting Will Be
Taught By Staff of Ex
perienced Instructors
Final plans for the staging of th<
ten-day Girl Scout tamp are nearlj
complete and over forty Transyl
vania girls have registered to at
tend. The camp opens Monday morn
ing at 9 o'clock at Camp Illahee. All
Girl Scouts who have registered will
meet in uniform at the U. D. C. Li
brary to be transported to Illahee,
where classes in swimming, nature
lore, canoeing, and other scout ac
tivities will begin promptly.
The Girl Scout leaders announce
that increased interest in the camp is
evident everywhere, and feel justi
fied in predicting that this year s
camp will be a great success from
every standpoint.
Attending the camp as members ol
the staff will be: Mrs. Hinton Mc
l.ood, director; Miss Beulah Mae
Zachary, associate director; Miss
Virginia Frick, of Little Rock, Aik.,
associate director; Miss Ethel Mc
Minn, captain of Gipsy troop; M>ss
Bill Aiken, captain of Robin Hood
troop; Misses Helen Allison and Al
berta Jenkins, lieutenants. The sup
plementary staff includes Miss Lil
lian Jenkins, music director; Miss
Virginia Wilcox, dietitian; Mr. Jini
mie Morrow and Mr. Hinton McLeod,
Jr., swimming; Mr. Ernest Merrill,
instructor in nature lore.
All facilites of beautiful Camp
Illahee are being donated for use of
the scouts during their outing. Ui\
C. L. Newland is giving all girls a
physical examination before opening
'it is felt that under the leadership
of such a group the Transylvania !
Girl Scouts will have a splendid op
portunity to advance in the various,
camping fields. I
R. W. BOYS MAN AGER!
FOR BREVARD P! ANTj
Experienced Cotton Mill Man:
Takes Over Management
Of Pisgah Mills
Announcement is made that R. W ,
Boys, of Holyoke. Mass., has been,
made agent of the Pisgah Cotton;
Mills at Brevard and the Green Riv-j
er Mills at Tuxedo, Mr. Boys having (
already assumed his duties with tliC|
two concerns. I
A native of Manchester, England,
Mr Bovs has been a resident of the
United States for 35 years. His early
textile experience was gained in hi.
native country, and he has been
prominently connected with the tex
tite industry in this country.
He succeeds George Fi>h, tonne. (
agent for the two mills, who died a
short time ago.
EDUCATION BOARD MEETING !
Regular First Monday meeting of;
the board of education will be held;;
in the superintendent's office next1'
Monday, June 5th. 'i
IBALL LEAGUE WILL
(START ON SATURDAYI
Lake Toxaway, Brevard, Pis-|
gah Forest and Penrose In
Sylvan Valley Loop
Organization of the Sylvan Val
ley league was perfected at a meet
ing held in The Transylvania Times
.{office Monday night, with represent-)
'jatives of the four teams present, alii
'voting to join in the league.
The play will start Saturday, June.
and run through 14 games. Lake
Toxaway, Brevard, Pisgah Forest
and Penrose arc the teams, with
Walter MeNeely and Fred Stroup
r(as manager and captain of the
'?Toxaway outfit; Turner Allison and:
'(Carl Kilpatrick, at Brevard; Bob I
'fMackey and Dewey Edwards at Pis- f
gah Forest; Billy Middleton and;
Lawrence Williams at Penrose.
1 This Saturday's schedule calls fori
: Brevard to play at Lake Toxaway,!
"with Penrose at Pisgah Forest. Re-!
j turn games will be played by each .
.'team the following Saturday. All,
games will start at three o'clock in |
the afternoon.
Rules adopted at the meeting Mon
day night make it mandatory for the
' umpire-in-chief to put any player
| out of the game for using abusive
language or cursing, also for drink- .
? ing. This was thought by the mana- j
gers to be essential to the best in
terests of baseball in the county.
, COMMISSIONERS TO MEET
The board of county commissioners
are scheduled to meet at the court
house on Monday, June 5, for their
regular monthly meeting.
LITTLE RIVER AND SELICA
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
! Miss Virginia Wilcox makes an-!
nouncement of meetings at Little ;
River and Selica for the week, to | '
; which ladies of the community are;
invited to be present.
'? The Little River meeting will bej
| held Thursday afternoon, June 1, at ?
i the Little River Baptist church, and
! at Selica on Wednesday afternoon J J
I at the school house. |b
IN TRANSPORTATION
W
Professor J. B. Jones, for the past,^
two years superintendent of public '
instruction in Transylvania county,
has given other school men of the j (
state a record to "shoot at," trans- j
pcrtation costs in this county hav-i
ing been reduced' to a remarkable!0
extent. ? "
In the matter of transportation.^'
for the six months period of the i
school year just ended, cost has been
cut under the supervision of? Mi. w
Jones to the nominal cost of $0.59 jn:
per pupil, against a cost of $30.12 jet
per pupil when he took office. K
Total current expenses have beeujN
reduced from$81, 22S.99 to $G0,-'S0i.-l
29 for the constitutional term. Il"
This low mark made by Professor
Jones has attracted much attention
in school circles throughout the
state and is exceptional in mountain
counties. i ?
When asked regarding the remark- L
able showing he made during the'*'
past two years in cutting costs, Mr.
Jones replied, "Lots of co-operation
from all concerned," and refused to
i;o into detail as to how he, as head
of the county school system had en
gineered the "co-operation."
Announcement Expected Soon In
Matter Of Junior College Place
The education commission of the
Western North Carolina conference,
of the Methodist church, south, will I
in all probability have a meeting
within the next week to consider
plans for merger of its educational
institutions, according to announce
made last Saturday following its.
visit to Brevard. j
Bishop Mouzon and members of1
the educational commission were in
- - "Brevard Friday morning for inspec-i
tion of the Brevard Institute pro-;
perty which has been offered to the(
church as site for its proposed junior i
college, and seemed deeply impressed
with the fine property being offered ,
by the Woman's Council, which re
presents an investment of over $200,
000. I
Meeting with a representative
group cf citizens at the Methodist
parsonage on Friday morning, prior
to the inspection trip, Bishop Mou
zon, acting as spokesman for mem
bers of the commission. ' *hat it
was the plan of the education;!, -om
mission to establish a junior college
of the Berea type, which would be
great' r than anything in North Car
olina. '"J
Well acquainted with the Brevard:
Institute property by reason of the'
fact that he spent several vacations |
in Brevard with the Rev. J. H. West
pastor of the Brevard Methodist
1 111
church, Bishop Mouzon stated tliat | tj.
there was no question in his mind as
to the value of the Institute proper
ty as a site for a college of the type "31
his church planned to establish; that
Brevard had better property and ei
more and better buildings than other! p<
sites that had been offered the con- 1 M
ference as location of the college, i tl
but that the property within itself N
was not everything when it came to P
establishing a school of the type ai
planned.
The commission had visited Cleve- fc
land Springs and Weaver college be- 1 cc
fore coming to Brevard, and Bishop ? ta
Mouzon readily asserted that Bre
vard Institute was far superior toj-p
the other properties. He praised the ,
surrounding country as the prettiest
section in the mountain section, and
said that he himself was a lover of
this community. dt
After being shown over the pro- T
perty, the commission members were fc
guests of a luncheon at the Frank- m
!in Hotel, sponsored jointly by the lis
Methodist church and the Kiwanis ?i:
club, with Hendersonville Khvanians th
also as special guests of the occasion, h?
The Rev. J. H. West presided at
the luncheon, which was attended by
one hundred fifty people, and wel-j
corned the Bishop and his commis j n;
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G. C. Bush Elected To Head County |
School System For Next Two Years!
The Transylvania county board 01?
education in special meeting here
Saturday morning elected Professor
G. C. Bush as superintendent ol' ed
ucation, the two year term of office
to start Thursday, June 1.
The new superintendent is wcl!
known in this county, having' served
as principal of Rosman Iligh scho
for three years, Jiis term at Itosnian
beginning with the school year or
1929-30.
Professor Bush has been for tht.
past year principal of the French
Broad high school at Alexander, in
Buncombe county. He is a native ?j
Caldwell county. A graduate of Ix>
nor-Rhyne college, he received h;>
degree of Master of Arts in educa
tion in 1928. He is 44 years , old
Mr. Bush worked his way througi.
college and in his senior year at Lc
noir-Rhyne married Miss S. Hort?
of Raleigh. He has served as princi
pal of schools in North Carolina for
the past 14 years. .
Professor J. B. Jones, for th<
past two years county and city sup ]
erintendent, was not a candidate for'
office. Several appications were filed I
with the board for consideration, I
Mr. Bush being selected.
At a previous meeting of the board I
it was decided that, the office of I
county superintendent and thut oi l
the Brevard school superintendent'!' '
would be separated with the expiraj'
(ion of the present term of Mr.
Jones, who had served in the capaci
ity of Brevard principal for five 1
rears before being elected as county- I
:ity superintendent.
No intimation was made at the <
meeting as to probable change of ? s
jffice assistant. Mrs. W. C. Whit- j 1
-nire has filled this position for :
several years. The school board is 1
;omposed of J. M. Galloway, chair- <
!
I * Heads Schools *
PROFESSOR G. C. BUSH |
I
man; L. E. Powell and Mrs. Flora:
Holliday. j
While no official announcenv . ? :
has been made, it is expected th;: j
Professor Jones will continue a !
[lead of the Brevard schools, he ha- ? ' .
ing expressed a desire to continue inij
this work with the place of county j
superintendent as a separate unit. ?
Professor Jones is recognized as a.
school man of high rating and is.'
very popular in Brevard and the j |
:ounty.
JACK AND FRED MILLER ARE HONORED BY I
APPOINTMENT TO U. S. TRAINING SCHOOLS -
Jack D. Miller, son ol' Mr. and
?Irs. J. A. Miller of Brevard has
ieen oflicially notified of his accept-'
nee ijj Annapolis, and left here)
Wednesday to assume hip dwtie
Young Mr. Miller, graduate of
trevard high school with the class
i 1931, was salutatorian, and stood
igh in all scholastic work. Upon
ompletion of his high school career
ack enlisted in the United States
lavy and set about preparing him-,
elf for entrance in the training,
ehool, succeeding in passing the re-'
uirements in one year.
After successfully passing his tirs.t
lamination he took six months work
rith the preparatory class, passing
le final with honors and received
is appointment last week.
The popular young Brevard man
ill take up his four-year work this
lonth, and will in addition to pro
jring an able college education, be
raduated as an ensign in the U. S.
i'vv.
This honor is the second of its
ind to ever be conferred upon a
ransylvania county boy so far as
>uld be learned here, Woodford
achary, son of Mrs. Beulah Zach
ary and the late W. W. Zacharv,|
having graduated from Annapolis
several years ago.
f AnrimincomeTit was received Mon
day by Fred Miller, eldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. Miller, that he had re
ceived appointment to West Point,
the appointment coming through
Congressman Zebulon Weaver.
Fred graduated from Brevard
high school with the class of 1930.
and like his brother, Jack, was sal
utatcrian of his class. He also to^k
active part in athletic and othei
features of school life.
Congressman Weaver, in his let
ter to Mrs. Miller on Saturday ad
vising her of the appointment oi
her sen to West Point, spoke highly
of the fine record Fred made while
a student at State College, and im
plied that this fine record he hH
made there was one of the main
factors in deciding the appointment.
Friends of both the boys in Bre
vard are well pleased with the fim
opportunity that has come to them,
and join in wishing for both the pop
ular young men the best of luck in
their four years of work.
IDVISE BUYING NOW i
TO AVOID TAXATION;
i
'hree Per Cent Sales Tax To
Become Effective July 1
In North Carolina 1
!
Several business houses of Bre
ard are cooperating with The 7Vn?
/Ivunui Times in stressing the fact,
>at on and after July 1st a three,
;r cent sales tax will be added to J
iany articles that are essential in
le heme, and advising that purchas-!
i for the immediate future should
t made at this time.
Brevard business houses who are
ideavoring to save this added ex
cise for their customers are S. M.
acfie Drug store, Bradley's store,
le Old Plummer company, the
obby Shoppe, The Fashion, R. H.
lummer & Co., the B. &. B. Feed,
id Seed company.
Wearing apparel, shoes, certain'
'od articles, toilet articles, etc., will
mie under the three per cent safes '
x, effective July 1.
RIPLETS LIVE SHORT j
TIME; BURIED SATURDAY;
Three tiny baby girls, born Fri
ly afternoon to Mr. and Mrs. Van
in?ley of Brevard, died within a
w hours, their birth beinp pre
ature, and efforts of Dr. E. S. Eng
ih to save them were of no avail,
ncc no incubator was at hand, and j
e trip to an adjoining town would i
ive been fatal, the doctor said. ;
The three died within an hour of j
ch ether, and burial was mads in r
ik Grove cemetery, North Brevard, j
iturdav afternoon. The three little ; j
rls had been named Elaine, Eliza- 1 1
th and Eva. I<
LOCAL SCOUTS WIN
PLACE IN SIGNALING
Fine Rating Made By Brevard
Troop At Western North
Carolina Jamboree
(By Scout Reporter)
Troop No. 1 Boy Scouts of Ameri
ca placed fifth in the annual Daniel;
Boone conference Scout-O-Ral held j
Saturday in Asheville. The Scout-O-f
Ral was won by Troop 8 of Ashe
ville. Brevard scored 25 points while j
Troop 8 of Asheville scored 53. Other P'
troops which placed ahead of Bre-'J"
vard were Troop 4 of Asheville, Can-'
ton and Bryson City, over a score | '
of troops from all* over Western
North Carolina. Ig,
The jamboree btgan at 1 o'clock rc
Saturday afternoon. The first event L},
was inspection at the Arcade build- ] w,
ing. After inspection in which Bre-iW(
vard placed fifth, the Scouts paraded !Sq
through the business section of the!
city to MeCormiek Field. The events !w,
held there were knot tying, barrel. 0f
hitch relay, signalling first aid fire j cj
buildings, drilling and skating.
Brevard placed n several events j
the crack Wildcat patrol winning Inn
first place in signalling. It was the'
third straight year Brevard has
won signalling. C. K. Osborne is pa
trol Ic.v'.v. Oliyr Wikh'u- :i ! J f n
th
ly
va
ly K igins Max Aslnvorth and Tlrr
iv M';!?r. The Mohawks patrol plac
ed fourth in signalling.
In first aid the veteran Wolf pa
trol placcd third and the Wildcats
fifth. The Wolves also placed in knot
lying and fire building.
Sccut master J. A. Miller will
present to the Scouts next meeting
plans for entering air events. Another
matter to b? taken up is about a
.'ontribv ! 'on to the conference.
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?NEW RULING REGARE
TEACHER ELECTIONS
Several School Districts Ma;
Be Consolidated In Tran
sylvania County
Under the new Machinery Ac
governing schools of the state, th<
county board of education is allo\ve<
the privilege of electing all teacher:
for county schools without consultinf
local committeemen, that is, if thi
board is so minded.
Section 2 of the Machinery Ad
provides:
" and all contracts for teacher:
shall be made locally by Count}
Board of Education and ? or the gov
erning authorities or any other ad
ministrative unit, giving- due consid
creation to peculiar conditions sur
roundng each employment, the com
potency and experience for the teach
ers, the amount and character oi
work to be done, and any and all
other things which might enter intc
the contract of employment, and shall
also take into consideration the grad<
of certificate such teacher holds : . . '
Heretofore, it has been the custon
for teachers to be elected by the lo
?al committeemen, subject to approv
;1 of the county superintendent.
No statement has been made foi
mblication by the county board of
?ducation in regard to the matter,
opy of the new Machinery Act hav
ng been received here but recently.
One of the outstanding duties oi
rivileges of the previous setup of
ocal or district committeemen has
jeen that of selection cf teachers
or the schools of the county. How
?ver, as the new Machinery Act i;
nterpreted, there is at present no
ctive school committeeman in the
unty, the offices having been vaeat
by the 1933 legislature. These of
k'ts will be filed by appointment of
he county board of education, sub
set, to approval of the state school
ommissifin.
Several districts in Transylvania
ounty may be consolidated under
he new regulations governing the
tate school system, these connolida
ions to be effected upon recommend
tion of the members of the state
chool commission of this district to
other with the county board of odu
atinn. 0. J. Heller, of Rutherford
ounty is state representative foi
his section.
iRECTTNGCAMPAT
JOHN'S ROCK SITE
i
Camp construction at the John's,
Lock location in Pisgah National |
orest is well under way, with erec-!
ion of necessary buildings being j
tarted.
One hundred four enlisted men in
he reforestation work, together!
'ith three regular army officials)
re now stationed at the John's Hock ;
amp, with over a hundred more ex- :
ected within a couple of weeks.
In addition to 30 tents in which '
le men are now located, the men
ill build a mess hall, blacksmith j
lop, commissary, assembly hall,'
nd other wooden structures. The,
snip is being established to be oc-j
ipied for a period of two years.
Reece-Whitmire
W. I. Reeee of Rosman anil Miss'
Hary E. Whitmire, also of Rosman,
ere quietly married in the office of
astice of the Peace F. E. Shuford
t Tuesday morning.
)|8. 1. COMMENCEMENT
ENDS WITH LITERARY
ADDRESS THURSDAY
Summer School Registration
Takes Place Saturday
For Last Term ?
?, HAS BEEN IN OPERATION
HERE FOR MANY YEARS
L Entire Property Offered A*S
Site For Location Of
; ; Methodist College
r{
? j Commencement exercises of Bre>
? ivard Institute starteS .Sunday morn
? , ing, with the delivery "of the sermon
to the graduating class by Rev. E.
-|H. Rhinehart, pastor of Calvaiy
? | Methodist church, High Point, at the
' Brevard Methodist church at te 11
1 o'clock our of worship.
)| An inspiring and forceful message
I i was delivered on this occasion, the
: minister appealing in impressive
' manner to the younjj students to
i . make the most of their opportunities
. j and privileges at hand, for a more
. ! useful and successful life in years
! to come.
1 In the absence from town of the
'pastor, Rev. J. H. West, the service
'. was in charge of Miss Daisy Rit
jter, superintendent of Brevard Insti
J tu te. Special musical selections by
| the Institute glee club and invocation
iand scripture reading by Rev. G. C.
Brinkman were other parts of the
service.
j On Tuesday night ir. the Institute
! chapel occurred the musical program
i by pupils of the music department,
j assisted by the glee dub. under di
rection of Miss Leone [,emon= The
program included pialK, and vocal
! solos, duet sand trios aid selections
: by the glee club.
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock
the annual class day evficises were
( held in. the chapel. A clever play
presented by the senior class, en
titled, "The Frat Entertains," fca
. tured the exercises, followed by musi
cal selections, and the class gruml>
ler, prophet, poet, testator and gif
' torian.
: Following the program, the an
nual senior-faculty luncheon wa< held
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FNON PLAY mil BE
sua
SoS;
"Deacon Dubbs" Promises En
tertainment Aplenty.; Bene
fit of Girl Scout Fund
"Deacon Dubbs," a comedy drama
will be presented at the Enon school
house this evening (Thursday) at
8 o'clock by Penrose Girl Scout?= as
sisted by others living in that sec
tion.
A special feature of The entertain
ment will be selections by the Gib
son trio of Hendersonville.
The play is for benefit of th
Girl Scout summer camp to be op
erated at Camp Illahee for ten d:i;
beginning next Monday. An adr-.
sion of ten and twenty-five cent
be charged.
The cast of characters includes : I\.
L. Ponder, Floy Ponder, Holland Tai
ley, Garnet Lyday, Nina Lou Kus
tin, Ernest Brown, Alma Talley, Bil
ly Middleton, Bess Ponder, Randall
Lyday.
jreat Storage Dam On French
Broad is Part of Development
Much interest is attached to the
?opc5ed storage lake which will
ive its beginning in -'Sandy Bot-'
ms" in Buncombe county, back
aters to reach nearly to Rosman.
A survey made by the War De-'
irtment in 1930 of the French
road river project, whieh survey is
w being used as basis for study, (
iows that the huge dam which (
auld be erected in Sandy Bottoms]
duUI form a lake with an area of 73 .
uare miles. ;
Under the proposed plan, Brevard
ould be virtually a lake city, edgei
the lake coming to or within the ;
ty limits on the Greenville high-;
ay
While there is some adverse senti
ent being expressed here in that
e project would wipe out practical
all of the fertile French Broad
illeys, others are pointing to the
ct that upr:n completion of the
? - 1 Brevard -,-r aid boon, that
n. - M:n'our.ding the lal.e would
come of great value, and that a
al market would soon be establish
here for al! the products thai
uld be raised in the county, Tviuh i
e only loss that of the river bet ? i
ms, which would be srar.ll in com-)
irison to the gains.
The following taken from the'
inday Asheville Citizen, deals at i
lgtti with the plan;;
A huge storage lake on the
French Broad river between Hominy
and Bent creeks, with a water cur
face area of 78 square miles is in
cluded in the war department's sur
vey for headwaters development of
the Tennessee River valley proj cl
whick includes the Muscle Sh?..u
and Cove Creek dams.
Details of the project were r it
forth yesterday by E. D. Buich;:. ..
expert with the United States (
logical Survey, who has on file tii ?
war department's map outlining i ?
detail the entire area and all pr<
jects. With full operation? at th
Muscle Shoals plant entirely deptr.
dent upon stream flow of the hea-.
waters or tributaries area of the
Tennessee basin, the proposed stor
age dams in Western North Caro
lina, 17 in all. according to war de
partment specifications, are of iui
T.ortant significance, Mr. Burch&rd
;ald when questic.rjod.
Tiw projects in Western Nortfi
Carolina average 2,000 feel: above agggF;
sea level and are about 1,000 toot
higher 'thaii Cove Cte-k, thi !?*?? - ;
storage ur.it in the 1 -
development. The <iam at Cove Creek
will have 3.000,000 acre-feet storage.
The Cove Creek dam has already
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