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W- ? (?-?? Only Newspaper Pub-ished In Transylvania County TRANSYLVANIA TI A Newspaper Devoted to the Best. Interest of the People of Transylvania County An Advertising Medium Of Exceptional Merit *&a? SpjjSl VOL. 38 ? No 29 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA?THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1933 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.00 PER YEAR URGES QUICK ACTION; ON PISGAH ROAD IF, WORK IS TO BE DONE! I Chairman Jeffress Cooperating ? Would Give Fine Con nection To Section Editor The Transylvania Times: I I am enclosing1 to you copy of ? 1 letter which I have just received frcm Mr. E. B. Jeffress and to which j I wish to call the attention of the! people of Transylvania county. i For several years I have b-'vn ad-j vocating that the people of Transyl-j vania County and of Brevard give their special attention to attracting.1 tourists and investors to our County.) One of my reasons for so doing, was that our forests are fast being ex hausted, first, by the chestnut wood which is destroying our chestnut wood and if history is to repeat itself, the tanneries that formery operated j in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and! Virginia had to move from those j sections by reason of the blight kil-; ling the chestnut and thereby de stroying the acid wood, and in addi tion to this, there now seerns to be some disease among the other kinds of timber, which is destroying our oak of various kinds. Our greatest assets however are magnificient climate, wonderful scenery and the peculiar properties of our air which afford rest and re cuperation for people from the less favored sections from the South- j eastern Atlantic States. No one has been a stronger ad vocate for good roads, than I have j been and even when the proposition: of securing good roads for Transyl-I vania was unpopular, the records' will show that I was doing all in my j power to secure thoroughfares into! and through Transylvania County j which would attract the traveling! public to come herein. [ I think that one of the best roads j (Continued 0)i back page) TEACHERSGETPAID FOR LAST OF TERM, i A total of $7,700 was received this f week by Professor G. C. Bush, coun-j ty s^-.iir.tendent to be passed out among teachers of the county inpay ment in full for the 1932-33 school , term. Majority of the checks have al ready been received by teachers who] taught in the county schools last i session, the large sum being already] on the "road to recovery" through out the county. Included in those re ceiving final payment for the past year's work are principals, teachers, 1 bus drivers and otter employes of the school system for the past year. COUNTY SCHOOLS TO START AUGUST 28TH Teacher List Not Made Up ? 1 Several Schools Consoli dated By State All schools of the county will start thirir 1933-34 sessions on Mon-: day, August 28, according to an-) nouncenient by Professor G. C. Bush,' county :;uperintendent, on Wednes day. It is expected that teachers for the various schools will be selected at an early date, several hundred applica-. cions already being on file at the of- j nee of the superintendent. Roun-1 Top school will come to j Erevard this year, Mr. Bush said, i this being a part of the consolidation j program recommended by the state i board. See-Off and Carson Creek will j got to Conr.ostee. No other consolida- [ tion* have bene announced as yet, J Mr. Bush said. CAROLINA CAMPER FULL i OF INTERESTING NEWS First 1933 issue of the Carolina Camper, official publication of Camp Carolina for boys, is just off the press, carrying four pages of in jteresting news about camp life for j the past two weeks, slid outlining events and activities for the coming six weeks of camp. Edited by F. DeWolfe Miller, the Carolina Camper is being sent to all parts of the country, serving as an advertising media for the camp and a booster for Transylvania county Printing of the paper was done by The Times print shop. BAND CONCERTTO BE GIVEN TONIGHT I Many Compliments Paid Local Organization For Fine Entertainment A crowd estimated at over five hundred people crowded the court house lawn and the square last Thursday evening for the first band concert of the season, given by the, Brevard band. Professor F. J. Cutter, organizer and instructor of the old Brevard Municipal band (together with Don ald Lee Moore, had charge of the 26 pieces, and were wqll pleased with the manner in whicnthe crowds re sponded. Tommy Patton and his "Florida Collegians," who are play ing dance engagements Tn this section during the summer months, were present with the local boys and add ed materially to the enjoyment of the occasion. Second concert will be staged to night (Thursday) at eight o'clock, at the bandstand on the court house lawn. BEN GEERELECTED FURMAN PRESIDENT Brevard Boooster Given High Honor By Baptist Insti tution of S. C. Ben E. Geer, of Greenville, well known in Brevard whore he has many friends, was elected president of Furman University, Baptist in stitution in Greenville, at a meeting of the board of trustees last Satur day. The Greenville man succeeds the J late Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, who was j president of Furman from 1919 until' his death several weeks ago as the' result of an automobile accident near Kings Mountain, N. C. President Geer was once professor of English at Furman. He was for many years president of the Judson Cotton Mills in Greenville, but is not now actively connected with any mill He is a member of the federal com mittee investigating the stretchout system in textile mills and this week has bK-n present at hearings in Spartanburg and Greenville. He rep resents industry on the committee. Geer is a trustee of the Duke Foundation and of the school he war elected to head. Geer was professor of English at Furman from 1901 until 1911. Two years later, he became president and treasurer of the Judson Mills and president of the Southern Worsted Corporation. During the World War ho was federal fuel administrator for South Carolina. LARGE RATTLER KILLED IN CEDAR MTN. COMMUNITY Harley Reynolds reports killing an extra large rattler ir. the Cedar Mountain section iast week , the reptile measuring four feet in length and six inches around. Fourteen rattles anc! a button were cut from the tail of the poisonous snake and brought, to The Times of fice where they are on display. School Committees Appointed To Havej Charge Of Two Transylvania Districts! School committees for the year 1933-34 were/appointed by the coun ty board of education in their meet ing here Monday, "six people instead of 57 as heretofore now comprising the local bocrds under ruling of the: state department of education. Mrs. G. H. Lyitay of Davidson River, A. E. England of Boylston; and J. A. Miller of Brevard com prise the local board for the Cherry field .section and W. C. Gravely of East Fork, make up the committee for the Rosman or number two dis trict. Local committees for each school have been dispensed with under the new statewide setup, in keeping with the formation of two districts out of the nineteen. Included in the Brevard district are Turkey Creek, Penrose, Pisgah Forest, Selica, Round) Top, Connestee, See-off, Carson Creek, Cedar Mountain and Little River schools. In the Rosman district, to be known as No. 2, Is 01d_Toxaway, Oak Forest, Balsam Grove, Silver steen, Quebec, Montvale and Lake Toxaway. schools. It is expected that teachers for the various schools- of the county will be selected at an early date, no an nouncement having ljec-n made as to j the exact date of meeting of the lo-i eal committeemen for this purpose. | Several hundred, applications havi1 1 been received in The office of Pro-! fessor Bush, many of them being !o-j cal people, applying for schools fori the coming year. Under the new set- i up of the state, the county superin tendent will make recommendation to the local committee who will in turn select a teacher or teachers as tke case may be for the individual schools, these to be o. .k'd by the county board of education, which body makes all contracts with teach ers. In each instance, Professor Bush said, several applications will be | submitted for each place, the local committees to make selection from these and the contract in turn signed by th'e county board. No instructions have as yet been received at the office of Profes sor Bush as to what salaries will be for the coming year. However, in timation has been generally made that salarie=_will be much lower than that of last year, some of the last ( Continued on back page) Commissioners Vote To Accept Bonds On Debt Service Portion Of Taxes Transylvania county tax collector was authorized by resolution adopted by the board of county commissioners last Saturday to accept bonds in payment of the debt service portion of taxes. Meeting of the board at which the necessary resolution was passed authorizing acceptance of bonds at (face value for debt service portion of taxes, followed a mass meeting held at the court house at which time much discussion on the matter was laid, those present voting un animously to adopt a resolution calling upon the commissioners to take the step. Following is the resolution as passed by the board: "The board having previously called a mass meeting to discuss the question of accepting bonds in pay ment of the debt service portion of past due taxes as provided in house | bill No. 1156,; ratified Arril 10, 1933 land it appearing to be the sense of the meeting that said bonds be ac cepted, ' "Therefore, on motion, duly made land adopted, the following resolution was adopted, viz: I "Be it resolved that the tax collec !tor of Transylvania county be au thorized and directed to accept past I I due bonds, or bonds maturing during I the current fiscal^ year, to- wit, 1933, I at face value7 in payment of the I debt service portfon of the . taxes Ipast due for the year 1932, and'th^t ! no interest credit will be allowed on j said past due bonds; provide3 fur ther that the balance and remainder of all said taxes to be paid in cash [ at the time said bonds are tendered ' and accepted." I Full discussion of the bill was held at the meeting called by the com missioners, with from 100 to 150 people present, and several taking part in the discussion. Chairman W. L. Aiken of the! I board, called the meeting to order! land asked A. E. England of Boyls-j | ton section to preside. Commissioner) ! W. B. Henderson, briefly stated that j it was the purpose of the commis sioners at ail times to do what was < I best as they saw it. for the peo- J pie of the county, that they had thej interests of the people at heart, and further that the meeting in session was called for purpose of clarifica tion of the proposed move rather than for any friction. Pat Kimzey of Brevard, stated ? that he was heartily in favor of the ( Continued on back page) LARGE DELEGATION HERE FOR RETREAT Brevard Institute Is Host To Women of Southland at Religious Meeting Deep interest and renewed spiriuj ual uplift were manifest on thej part of the nearly 100 women fro.?| various sections of Southern Metho dist who attended the three-day ses sion of the Spiritual Life Retreat held at Brevard Institute the past week-end. The session began Friday ?morning and concluded Sunday night with three services heTd each of the three days. , . This was the third annual retreat sponsored by the spiritual life com- 1 mittee of the Woman's Missionary. Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was generally pronounced one of the most success- 1 ful from every standpoint. , The purpose of the gathering, | which was for renewal of deeper , spiritual experience, prayer, medita tion and discussion of timely re ligious subjects, was well fulfilled, it was felt by the large number of those in attendance. All _ other in terests were set aside, insofar as possible, the -three-day) perioo be ing given over entirely to spiritual interests. The program included three out-j standing topics for each of the three | (1 a v s. Friday's session centered around the theme, "Cod and Myself, while the theme of Saturday fea tured. "Myself and My Bl?the'' and on Sunday "My Witness to the , World was the center of thought andi discussion. . Leaders and speakers prominent j in Methodism were heard on the, program, including Dr. ? letcner . i Erockman, for a number of years m mission work in China, Dr. t Lave . M. Thomas, of Emory ^juversitj, and Mrs. W. A. Newell. Miss Daisy . Davies, Miss Estelle Haskm ?ndj (Continue^ on li<uck Pug?) F NON RE VIVAir WILL START ON SUNDAY PENROSE, July 19? Rev. C. W Hilcmon, pastor of Rocky Hill church at Cedar Mountain, was invited by the Enon church folks Sunday to be- J gin a revival in Enon .church Sunday! July 23 a"t 11 o'clock, It is expected that h-3 v.'ill be assisted by the Rev, J. N. Black of Yancey county. Mrs. Ina Rustin and Miss Jeanette Talley with the Girl Scouts of Penrose entertained the members oi the "Deacon Dubbs" play cast with a splendid supper and other gooi. pastimes on Friday evening of last week. ? _ . Members of Enon B. Y. P. L. at ; tended the association at Rosman : Sunday and report an excellent pro I gram. 'NSPECTOR PRABES FIRE DEPARTMENT Approximately five hundred feet of Brevard fire hose was thrown out by an inspector from the Fire Un derwriters Association here Tuesday when a test of the "equipment of the Brevard fire department was made. The inspector, aside from culling the several lengths of old hose, was well pleased with other equipment of the local department, ana especially ? with the quick manner in which (members of the department respond ed to the siren, he stating that for a town of the size of Brevard, he had found no better outfit. A. now shipment of hose recently received by the department leaves plenty to take care of all needs at the present. F. F. A. BOYS TRYING OUT FOR BIG PRIZE! Whitmlre and Lyday Repre-| senting Western Counties In Raleigh Meeting ? ? I Both Transylvania county agri culture teachers, Pr^cssor Julian Glazener.of Brevard, and Professor John Corbin of Rosman, Wednesday, together with severa. b;g '"wh'tmie of schoool. high scorer Jn the recent iudging contest for western Nor Carolina and J. C. Lyday, of Brevard| High schoool, second high man in the western part of the stale, wii enter the statewide judging conte . at Raleigh this week, competing witn other sectional representatives of acriculture classes for the coveted ?rip to the national judging contest at Ed ' Contey X' Foy Holden, of th< Brevard Chapter Future Farmers Jt America, are also eigh meeting, and will tiveo of the local school in the state meeting. The local chapter received period on the program of the state meetirig^yo boys will enter the iudging contest. Whitmire . and L> dav will be called upon to judge beef Carolina in the rational meet to be he Wallace Oiliespie, of Rosman high scS won out at th? Raleigh, meet, Sftrw&stfjMW the latter part of this week. j 'BOYS FIND SKULL IN S CREEK IN BREVARD | Quite ? Wt of excitement .? I caused here Tuesday when severa. bovs playing in the small creek 1 the southwestern part of town ju^t i ,,fl- Oiikdale street found a s.jju, ! which from the last traveling news that got on the rounds was anything from a fresh murdered man to an antediluvian resident. lame0 Thp boys, James Simpson, Jame Bridges and Charier Alien; ca"'?J the skull to the office of Dr . R. Jj I Stokes, who pronounced it thai t ol i a young negro man, and st^ed 'there was nothing on the sK"" indicate foul play. At le*si d | something of interest on a hot ?a y, 'ant' the boys are proud possessore 01 Kmiethingr they do not know what tc do with. J, PUREBRED RAM NOW AT WHITMIRE FARM ed Hampshire ram last week head his flock of seventy-five or , more ewes, the fine animal being about two years old. winE yr Whitmire. aside from I a large flock of sheep, is alfo going ; fn viretty heavy in hog rawing, and, is growing most of h,s ??t for farm, thus insuring a market -or [his corn and other grains and at the same time deriving a neat nrofit The Hampshire ram was .purchased at Clyde in Buncombe countv. the purchase being made by Professor John F. Corbin of Ro man High school. BAPTIST ASSOCIATION TO MEET ON AUGUST 16TH Plans are being made for holding the Transylvaaia Baptist Associa tion which will be held with little River Baptist church on August 16 and 17, with the Rev. Paul Hartsell, of Brevard, moderator, Request is made by Mrs. G. F. Gallamore, of Brevard, clerk to -the association, that all those people who are supposed to have letters pre pared for the association meeting call at her home and get clerk's forms for presentation at the asso ciation. SINGING CLAST WILL BE HERE ON TUESDAY Oxford Orphanage Group Will Perform At Brevard High School Art annual treat afforded the peo ple of Brevard is the coming of the Oxford orphanage singing class, ?which will visit this community next Tuesday evening, July 25, at 8:00 o'clock at the high school auditorium. This year's singing class is coin posed of 14 boys and girls under the direction of Mrs. Sadie Hutchison. The program will feature songs, recitations and drills with colorful costumes and excellent music. Each year brings a new class with a new program. \ The members of the class will be entertained here in the homes of Masons. The children travel in the orphanage bus, under the traveling management of L. W. Alderman, who has for many years been head in.? the singing class over the state. An admission of ten and twenty rive cents will be charged. localcottoT ?ll ON NEW SCHEDULE Million Workers Over United States Get More Pay, Shorter Hours With a minimum wage of twelve dollars per week, and maximum hours of 40 per week operatives at Pisgah Cotton Mills at Brevard went to work Monday morning under the new industrial code. Two shifts are employed at the local mill, the day shift going on at six o'clock in the morning, with ar. hour off for lunch, their places be ing taken at three o'clock by the af ternoon and night shift which works straight through untlFeleven o'clock. Making eight hours per day for the first five days of the "week, the mill will not run on Saturdays. WASHINGTON, July 17? Foil nearly a million working men and' women the depression is as good as ended today, their wages suddenly lifted back to the purchasing level of better days by voluntary reopera tion of industry with government. For hundreds of thousands, per haps millions more, the day holds forth hope of similar good luck in the immediate future. Textile workers ? not only cotton but rayon, siiks and allied products ? all over the North and South, went back to their mills this morn ing on a 40-hour work-week sched ( Continued on Bwk Page) TEACHERS^TO MEET IN HENDERSpNVlLLE SOON All principals of elementary and high schools of the county are re quested to attend a meeting to bo held in Hendersonville on August 10, at 0:30 o'clock. At this meeting information of value to superintendents, elementary and high school principals will be given out, and a jreneral discussion of school work held. PICKENS ROAD NOW READY TO BETAKEN OVER BY THE STATE Surface Treatment Will Prob ably Be Given Important Link ThU Fall work on the Pickens ,,.i I fu ,s e completed this eek, the contractors putting finish ing touches on the six mjje stretch. nfPeP?t u- u? tu-rnillS if over to the bta.e Highway Commission. The roadbed has been built up, .sev Anw j s5arp turns tal:en out and grades made better, aside from several new bridges and culverts of pproved tyjjg having been put in since the project started in Decem ber of last year. Final plans for the finished job call for a macadam bound surface with a six-inch bed of stone> this P? ? ihe work now being complet ? ? Sui .ace treatment will be given later, possibly in the fall, wh'ch will make of the project one that equals the Caesar s Head highway which is proving most satisfactory, standing l'p well under heavy traffic. After being turned over to the state, within the week, the grav*? now on the roadbed will be scraped and smoothed, traffic ever the road to play an important part in putting on the finishing touches before ihf surface treatment is applied. Completion of this highway will give Transylvania a network' that can only be improved upon for through traffic by construction of 284 across Pisgah, this work expect ed to be among the major projects for this section out of the federai funds that have been allotted to | North Carolina. Brevard and Pickens interest* have been working for several years on 283, the South Carolina side hav ing been widened to 22 feet and be ing now .-eqdy for surface treat fment. The Transylvania end of the highway is 18 feet surface. MOORE LICENSED BY N. C. STATE BOARD Donald Lee Moore, of Brevard, has received notice from the State Beard cf Examiners of his passing the re quired grade to qualify as a licensed embalmer, entitling him to do all kinds of undertaking and funeral di ! rectirg. Mr. Moore, while taking a course at the Tennessee Embalming Schooi, was rated as outstanding among his classmates, and in recognition of his high marks was made president of the class, his marks in all phases of the work^ setting a new record for the school. Mr. Moore will be con nected with Moore & Oborne, here-. MANY PRIZES TO BE i WON WITH ROWERS i _ Annual Event To Be Staged Here On August 18th ? Prize List Given Elaborate preparations are under way for the annual flower shov/ sponsored by the Women*, Civic oh'' and under the direct supervision the garden committee, of which M>' jJohr, Maxwell is chairman, whi . i will be an event of August 18. | Valuable prizes have been offti 'J . by local business firms and individ uals and by outside firms for win inors in the various entries. It is J expected that a few more prizes will ,be needed, however, and anv or.e j having bulbs, plants. , vergreeens c: .seeds to donate for this purpose i - [requested to communicate with Mr; (Continued oh ly?ct; page) Two More Slates Vote To Repeal 18th Amendment; Bishop Mouzon Speaks Up WASHINGTON, July 19? Repeal I of the 18th amendment this year! becomes more than a possibility today I as two southern states ? Alabama I and Arkansas ? heretofore considered dry, joined the 16 states that have voted wet. It marked the halfway point in the battle for repeal. Thirty-six states are needed before the 2lst repeal amendment becomes a part of the constitution. Alabama and Arkansas were the first southern states to express them selves on the 21at (repeal)' amend : ment and ware the scene of a last ditch battle by drys who were con-, vinced that if repea] was to be stop-! ped it wou'd have to be stopped in the South. They believed it would remain loyal to traditional dry ideals. While returns from yesterday's election were not complete, compe tent political experts aid not believe the total count would upset the ap parent wet victories. Ill Arkansas approximately 1,067 of the state's 2,100 precincts gave 57,835 votes for repeal and >36,913 against a satio of 5 to 3. In Alabama 1,167 prccincts out of 211K rave Mnealisis 75.080 votes and drys 45,114, a jau't, of about 3 to 2. The twin defeat' were considerc ? the most grave "he dry cause so is has received. Tennessee votes on repeal Thui - day and Oregon Friday. Wet yictc. ies were reported likely. Fifteen other states vote before November 7 and if the ctean sweep of wc-t victories continues, they -wilT bring the tota! of states approving repeal to 35? one short of the nec essary 36. CHARLOTTE, Juiy 18 ? In an ap peal to North Carolina and the South to vote dry Bishop Edwin P. Mouzon of the Methodist Episcopal church. South, said today President Rooosevelt by his support of prohibi tion repeal has given "genuine pain to millions of his most loyal sup porters." "And when he sends into th? South Postmaster General Farley, [chief dispenser of political jobs, [Bishop Mouzon continued 'to uvg* | lcya! Democrats to vote for repeal, jhe is doing a thing that ought not ( Continued on beck flvge)