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; (Contix^-d on Hack Page) I be 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. be re ed co th to i pa Sv lei ?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 (Continued on B'icl: P-ige) 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