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p THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES p fej "fr A Newspaper Devoted.to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County t r* " — " ' L»———————a—i —————————«MMMW————r————————— VOL. 38—No. 46 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1933 _ $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY DIPHTHERIA CLINICS THURSDAY-F RID A Y At Little River Thursday —• Rosman Friday—Brevard Following Week Nearly three hundred children were given first diphtheria treatment at Brevard elementary school last Friday afternoon, this clinic being one of the four held at variou < points m the county under supervis ion of the underprivileged child com mittee of Brevard Kiwanis club. Second and final treotme:.. • were given children at the Lake Yoxaway' school last Friday after no n, several who tock the first treatment one week previous failing to atttnd the clinic. • i On Thursday afternoon of this week at nvo o’clock, final treatment will be given children of the Little River and surrounding sections, 34 having taken the first treatment there on Nov. 2. Final treatment will be iveni children of the Rosman school dis-l trict on Friday afternoon of thisj week, N'ov. 17, at two o’clock, 189 taking the first treatment there on Nov. 3. Fine! treatment will be given children at the Brevard elementary school on Friday afternoon, Novem-1 her 17, this clinic completing thej work for this year. * Nearly one thousand children ox the county were given treatments under supervision of the Kiwanis! club and interested groups last year,1 the medicine for the treatments at that time being furnished locally at ] a cost of approximately $160. The) State Board of Health, in ronsidera-l tion ol the work already done by the! Kiwanis club is donating the medi-l cine this year. Dr. C. L. Newlantlj and Dr E. C. Cunningham are giv-j ing the treatments. Underprivileged child work ha?, been chief objective of the local civic! organization for the past three years, j much work having been done during this time that has merited approval I of the state departments. THIEVES GET RNE i BUNCH OF CHICKENS! Earl Frady of the lower end of the county is mad, and has plenty of right to be, even more so than Joseph of Biblical fame, who, ac errding to a voung Sunday School boy •‘was sold too cheap by his brothers.” j Mr. Frady. being a great fancieri of Rhode Island Red chickens, in-1 vested better than twenty dollars in a flock of young biddies of pure1 strain, giving his chicks the best of care, watching their diet, range and other prerequisites to a healthy flock of fine chickens until they were prac-t ticaHy ready to start reimbursing him with golden brown eggs. A couple of weeks ago Mr. Frady rose early, and as was his custom, went to give his first attention to the fine pen of fourteen Reds. Fresh water and feed were carried out with pride by the young farmer to—an empty pen. Mis chickens hud been re moved during the night. ' I.oss of fourteen fryers of ordi nary sort is sufficient to cause most any person grief, but to lose a pen that has set one back $1.50 each in times like these, is a catastrophe in deed. and he lost no time in laying his sad story before Sheriff Wood. After several days of careful in vestigation, Sheriff W ood arrested one young fellow of the Blantyrc section last week who readily admit ted his guilt and implicated a friend i who was nabbed Suneiay night. Some degree of satisfaction was; gained bv Mr. Frady in the arrest I of tho=e said to be responsible for his loss, but failed to take away his ire for anybody who would sell chicks that cost $1.50 each at ten cents ner pound, just like ordinary run of the woods chickens. _ Much Interest Shown In Proposal Toj Build Storage Dam On French Broad j Representative citizens of Tran sylvania, Henderson and Buncombe counties met at the Hendersonville court house Thursday night, heard the Tennessee Valley proposition discussed in an intelligent mannerl by E. D. Burchard, of Asheville, and approved appointment of a commit tee of fifteen to dig into the matter ■ and report their findings to a meet-' ing to be held in the near future. Discussions pro and eon were | heard after Mr. Burchard, in charge| of the U. S. Geological Survey fori ihb district had outlined plans fori the project of building the dam on the French Broad in Buncombe coun-j ty, as he understands them. Mr. Burchard expressed the idea that the recent visit of Dr. Morgan, head of the TVA, to Asheville had significance for this section—he be lieving that Dr. Morgan was puting out a gentle bint to people of this section that there was a general de velopment rf some sort in this sec tion being contemplated by the TVA. Completion of the Muscle Shoals plant along lines that are called for under TVA plans, Mr. Burchard said, would lie futile unless there was a guaranteed supply of water FOUR MILLION MEN TO BE PUT TO WORK SOON No official word had been re ceived in Brevard at noon Wed nesday by Chairman W. L. Aiken of the county board of commis sioners in regard to the project [ which was announced through I the daily newspapers on Tuesdav in which President Roosevelt expects to put 4,000,000 unem ployed men back to work within one month. Under the proposed plan, each county will submit at least six road projects, these to be passed upon by the State Highway de partment heads and relief head? at Raleigh. No estimate of the number of men to be put to work in this | county was available Wednesday, j Of the amount to be paid by the I government for road work, 65 per | cent will be from the relief fund and 35 per cent will be from the I federal aid fund. COUNTY MINISTERS AT METH. MEETING; Rev. West and Rev. Hall Are Attending Conference In Charlotte Methodist pastors of Transylvania1 county, the Rev. J. H. West pastor j of Brevard Methodist church, and the Rev. J. N. Hal!, pastor of the] Rosman circuit, left early this week^ tor Charlotte to attend the Western. North Carolina conference convening) there this week. Both ministers are popular in their work, the Rev. Mr. West having, served as pastor of the Brevard church for four years. During the ministry of Mr. West, he has taker, an active part in com munity affairs and was very active ir. securing iocation of the Brevard Junior College here. Mr. Hall liasi likewise maile numerous friends' throughout the county during his stay, and especially in the upper end of the county where his work has been for the most part . World's Fair Closes Chicago—The Century of Progress curtain dropped here at midnight to he re-opened next June, authorities state. HIGHWAY SURVEY IS PLANNED FOR PISGAH (Waynesvilk Mountaineer) Survey on highway number 284 between here and Brevard is expect ed to get under way just as soon as engineers are available, said Frank Miller, member of the highway com mission, just before leaving for Ral eigh to attend the meeting of the board a! which time contracts arc to 3o let for about 13 projects through-■ nit the state which will cost approx-1 imately $953,000. | Work has been completed on the, survey of the highway 284 from Dell-' wood to the Tennessee line and work started on the Crabtree and Fines Creek stretch. The survey of 284 from here to Brevard was ordered at the last meeting of the board. Because of the number of projects in the cities the engineers of the departments have been working on these projects but it is expected that the survey will get under wav at an early date. A total of $81,000 has tr-en appro priated bv the National Forest ser vice for improvement on the road. Of this amount some will be used in widening the motor road to the inn and the romaindei will be used onj the main read. There is a possibility tfeat the pro ject for the extension of highway 293 from Soco Gap to Cherokee will be in the contracts let at Wednes day’s meeting. fi.-.v, which at present did not exist. J Storage dams would be required, the: engineer said, to insure a steady! flow to the plant which he termed! as a “run of the river project,” that is, very little- reservoir supply being on hand at the great plant. The French Broad river, Burchard said, offers one of, if not the great est, place for a reservoir of any; tributary streams to the Tennessee, river and for thi' reason, there is a very great possibility thaf the Bent Creek dam will be constructed. U. S. Army surveys propose u dam of 125 feet at Bent Creek with a (55-foot draw down. This, he said, has naturally many objections. It would flood a large area (about 40,000 acres), the drawoff would many times leave the flats exposed, and much work would be neees'sa -y to replace railway lines, highways, and buy land. It would also be in 'bo territory of power companies, and he expressed the view that TVA did not wish to ^ake power users eway from the companies, but to create new power users. In the opinion of Mr Burchard. (Continued on bad; page) 'MAGAZINE OFFER IS ACCEPTED BY MANY Low Cost on Group of Period icals Made Possible By Transylvania Times In connection with renewals to The Transylvania Times, offer ir being made whereby teachers in Transylvania county can secure worthwhile magazines and farm journals at a very low cost.in fact save $1.25 on a group which I we have selected for readers in the ' county. For instance, with each renewal to The Times at. one dollar per year, the Progressive Farmer, Count ry Home, Mother’s Home Life, Homo Friend, Gentlewoman's Magazine, and Good Stories can be had for 25 cent* extra. Or if preferred ,a group con sisting of Southern Agriculturist, Everybody's Poultry Magazine, Country Home, Home Circle and Il lustrated Mechanics can be had at the same price of 25 cents extra when taken in connection with re newals to The Times. Ordinarily these magazines would cost, subscribers $2.60 per year, but through special arrangements with publishers The Times is able to of fer them when .taken in connection with renewals or new subscripions to this paper at this very nominal sum. A coupon is being printed in this issue of The Times which may bo used for this club offer. AGRICULTURE BOYS HAVE PIG PROJECTS JtOSMAN, Nov. 15—Four of the Herman agriculture boy? started their 1934 projects with pure-bred spotted Poland China pigs on Satur day, November 11. They are all greatly interested in their pigs. Two of the boys procured their pigs on a two-io-one basis and two <f them paid cash. The boys now having pig projects are Warren Case, Craig Fisher, Walter Green and Tom Glazener—Julius Tinsley, reporter . DAHLIA CLUB TO MEET NEXT TUESDAY EVENING A meeting of the dahlia club if called for Tuesday night November 21, at the high school building at 7:30 o’clock, according to announce ment of John Ashworth secretary of the organization. It is requested that as many mem bers as possible attend this meeting. HENDERSONVILLE ROUTE 3US SCHEDULE CHANGED ■ Winter schedule of the bus line, Brevard to Hendersonville, now in effect calls for the first bus to leave Brevard at 7:30 in the morn ing and the second bus t'» leave at 1:45 in the afternoon. Returning from Hendersonville the bus leaves there at S:30 in the morning and 7:15 in the evening, arriving at Brevard at 9:00 in the morning and 3:00 in the evening. WHIRL AT THE WORLD OF NEWS Items of interest gleaned during the pa*t week Wants Gold Price Raised Washington—Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, and Senator Smith of South Carolina have issued a call for a conference, which, it is believ (1 will be a step to raise the price of gold to 341.34, Must. Repay V. S. Loans Knoxville, Tenn.—Secretary Iekes dismissed Harry S. Berry, public works engineer for the state of Tennessee on Monday, declaring hss reason for doing so was that Berry had told civic organizations of the state that U. S. loans would not have to be repaid. Hitler's German President Berlin, Germany—Chancellor Hit ler’s foreign policy was given cs rea son for his overwhelming majority, the German people approving in great style withdrawal from the League of Nations and other policies of the German leader. Russian Rceoynitioii Seen Washington — Recognition of Sov iet Russia is counted on by Friday of this week, close observers here as serted Tuesday, which will bring the nations together diplomatically for the first time in sixteen years. Millions Buck On Payroll Washington—First steps were tak en here Thursday of last week to put into action President Roosevelt s plan to take four million heads of families off relief rolls and put them on payrolls. ,V. C. Looking To Federal Govern ment For Aid Raleigh—Governor Ehrirghaus said here Friday that the state of North Carolina is locking to the federal government to protect" the aridity ot ‘ho state. The state expects to en j deavor to enforce its prohibition law. but expects federal aid to en ; farce the dry statutes of the 21st 'arr-’dmrnt, the governor said. MORE BOYS SENT TO | 1 JOHN’S ROCK CAMP Sixty-Six New Members Are Enrolled In CCC In This County .1 - >• Sixty-six young men from Foit j McPherson, (ia., wree established in 'John’s Rock Conservation Corp camp (Friday morning, bringing the total ilenrollmtnt of Camp F-l to 180. j The young men arrived at Pisgah (Forest station early Thursday night, •and after being served hot coffteej and sandwiches were transported to (the camp, where winter quarters! • had already been prepared under the I I supervision of Cnpt. Wm. P. Bran-! ; don. __ A special train brought the boyr j from Ft. McPherson, 65 boys being' unloaded at Hendersonville and sent! to Camp F-2 on Mills River. YOUNcTcURLEE DRAWS EXTRAORDINARY SCENE | A water color picture in The Time* j I office during the past few days has; been attracting much attention byj r reason of the fact that it is the! (work of a very yoang artist, Paul j Curlee, who resides near Pisgah j Cotton mills. ! Under fifteen years of age, young < Curlee says he has been “drawing I things” for several years, he having r'just picked up the knack.” 'DUST CLOUB IS SEEN . I HERE LAST MONDAY: 1 _ What is supposed to have been a; dust cloud caused much comment in Brevard Monday afternoon, with the sky becoming gradually overcast un til it seemed that a heavy snow storm was just in the offing but never arriving. As the afternoon passed to night fall, the dust became more notice-j able the ' minute particles seeping j through seemingly tight rooms and onto furniture enough to be percep tible. First thought to be a fonsc fire smoke, people kept .waiting for tell tale rdor, and then presumed that it was a fog. However, there was nc| dampness felt with the enveloping 1 clouds, causing the general belief to, be that it was a dust cloud that hadj swept eastward across the high mountain ridges west of Brevard. Later, increasing velocity of winds bore out this belief. Several citizens report scattered flakes of snow during the day, the j first to bo reported here this season., P.-T. a7 MEETING TO BE HELD TUESDAY EVENING Lake Toxaway, Nov. 15—The par cnt-Teacher .association will hold its regular meeting at the school build ing on Tuesday evening, November 21 at 7:30 o’clock. All parents and patrons of the Lake Toxaway school are invited to attend the meeting, j i Ravensford Firm Gets Million Asheville—A superior court jury Wednesday awarded the Ravensford Lumber company $1,057,190 for its land condemned by the North Caro lina Park commission as part of the area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The tract contains 32,511 acres. Court Protects Whiskey Warrenton, N. C.—Two negroes took their whiskey back home from court after it had been held they did not have the liquor for purpose I of sale. ! Employment Drive Announced '• Washington — Four million men will be given jobs before Dcecniber 15, if plans announced by President Roosevelt on Monday carry through. Highway construction will be find •step, in'the great mobilization j workers. Like a Mule | Susanville, Calif.—Deducing that iwhen an automobile acts like a mule !it should be treated as one, three Indians built a fire under their balky car here. The fire thawed out the cold engine but didn’t stop at that. The fenders were saved. Long Gets Egg Shower Alexandria, La.—Several barrages of rotten eggs, ripe fruit and “stink ’ brmbs were hurled at Senator Huey Long Thursday night as he addre? ! sed a mass meeting in front of tne , city hall j Mail Truck Held Up 11 Charlotte—Four men armed with i machine guns held up a mail truck I rear the heart of the city Wednes ! day and escaped with one registered - mail pouch and four pouches of fir?, i class mail. Postal employes said the • bandit car blocked the truck and tha. 1 they were covered with machine gun. : before they realized their danger. | LEAVING BREVARD I Rev. R. L. Alexander REV, ALEXANDER TO ! LEAVE COMMUNITY! Popular Minister Delivers Last! Sermon Here on Next Sunday Morning Formal resignation was tendered! Ithe Rev. R. L. Alexander to a| ■rregutionnl meeting of Brevard o vidson River Presbyterian church,’ > f which be has been pastor for the] unst five years at a special session ( • Sunday, Motion was made and carried that] ;ii>* church unite with Mr. Alexan-I dev in requesting the Asheville Pres-! bytevy to dissolve the pastoral rela-! tions existing between the church and] Mr. Alexander, the motion contain ing an expression of deep regret that Mr. Alexander was leaving. R | ; L. Cash. J. A. Miller, Dr. C. 1.. New-, land, Jerry Jerome, Mrs, T. E, Pat-. ! ton and Mrs. S. F. Verner were ap pointed as a committee to secure a successor to Mr. Alexander. The popular pastor will preach; his last sermon at the local church] next Sunday morning, and will take ■ up his new work at the First Pres-, byterian church, Lumberton, N. C.,j on December first. HEAVEN BOUND WILL BE GIVEN ON FRIDAY] 4‘Heaven Bound,” said to be one| 'of the outstanding negro plays toj be given by North Carolina talent in a number of years, will be stnged at Brevard High school Friday of this, week at eight o’clock, by a troupe of 30 negroes from Sylva.] The program will be negro spiritual ; all iu songs. I The pageant, which is being spon sored here by The Guild of St. Phil-j i ips Episcopal church, has been pre-: Rented in several Western North .Carolina towns, and has been accord ed a great play in every respect. Patterned to a great extent after "Green Pastures,” which has won national acclaim, the pageant by the Svlva troupe is said by many to be better in many respects than the !widely advertised “Green Pastures. Some of the best negro talent in. | the state has been assembled, making a troupe that has a number of cx-i ceptionally fine voices, and actors, that do credit to metropolitan een-l ters, according to press reports re-; ceived here. Ladies of St. Philips Guild have, investigated the. plav and announce, that thev feel it will be worthwhile in every respect, aside from being highly entertaining. Colored people will be admitted to the balcony. Resume of Bills Passed By Legislature Pertaining To County of Transylvania v * - I (By Harry Brandis, Jr., Associate Director of Institute Government). RALEIGH. Nov. 15-The Summa ry of lcgisation affecting Transyl vania county printed immediately fol lowing this introduction represents i the inauguration of the legislative ' service sponsored by the Legislators I Division of The Institute of Govern ment in which The Institute is under taking to report local legislative : measures to local citizens and local officers affected. This summary,which includes bills which failed as well as those which passed, is to be supple mented by an analysis of laws affect in^ the entire State which will short ly0 be ready for publication. The summary has been submitted for ap proval to the county’s representatives in the General Assembly The adoption of this program t>y the Legislators’ Division of The In stitute marks the first time in die history of the State that member* of the General Assembly have pre served an organization after adjourn 'ment for the purpose of mterpret ! inc to their constituents the legisla tion enacted by them. These sum I marks, cnc of which has been will* JUR Y SELECTED TO SERVE IN DECEMBER Judge Michael Schenck To ! Preside—Calendar To Be Printed Next Week At a meeting of the county com missioners held on Wednesday of last week jurors were selected to serve at the t):comber term of Superior court, it which time Judge Michael Schenck of Hendersonville is sche duled to preside. Following are. the jurors selected: FIRST WEEK Leo Brittain, Guy Dean, ,\i. (J. Summeral, Eugene Southern, O. H. Bryson, II. D. Lee. H. 0. Rogers, E. C. Lyday, J. C. Whitmire, Avery Reid, Chester Fenwick. A Rockwood, Will Owen, T. W. Whitmire, C'. M. Fisher, Herman Holden, Henry G. Sexton, E. N. Norton, B. C. Land reth. Charles Henderson, J. W. Allison, M. B. Bagwell, Cope W. Lee, J. Frank Martin, A. G. Kvie, Robert Sherrill Raymond Fisher. Baxter Queen, John S. Greenwood, .VI. W. Fortune, J. W. Barnard J. L, ! Gravely, Luther F. Cooper, W. R. | Lewis, H. E. Morrison, R. F. Glaze ;ner. Cleo Brittain, W M. Henry, J. P. Deaver, Luther McGaha. second week | M. P. Gillespie, A. E. England, Joe Neely, T. C. McCall, Tom Gro gan, W. B. Kilpatrick, J. P. Bowen. J. L. Morris, Sutton Wilson, J. C I Siniard, M. G. Galloway, C. J. Man ly, C. S. Osborne, Gaston Grogan, Lloyd A. Allison, R. F. Kilpatrick, H. M. Whitmire, H. A. Plummer. MASONIC MEETING WILL BE HELD FRIDAY NIGHT A special communication of Dunn's Rock lodge will be held in the .Via. sonic hal! Friday night of this week at 8:00 o'clock for 'che purpose of conferring the second degree Mr. Jerry Jerome will be in charge of the initiation and will be assisted by Mr. T. G. Miller. All members arc requested to be present, and a cordial invitation is extended to all visiting Masons. ROLL CALL! GOING FINE IN COMMUNITY With workers in each community jin the county the annual Red Cross Roll Call bids fair to reach the two hundred mark, judging from reports turned in by canvassers for the first two days of this week to Jerry Jer ome, roll call chairman. Teachers in the schools of tiie county arc assisting in taking the campaign into each school communi ty, while workers in Brevard, Pis. gah Forest and Rosman are expect ed to have their drives completed by the last of the week. Goal has been set by the nation i! organization for Transylvania at hundred memberships, and it is readi ly believed that people in general will respond to the call, especial 11.v so when they remember the great amount of work that has been done in the county during the past, year by the Red Cross, and which is con tinuing this winter. Hundreds of families in the coun ty wrere dependent to a great c-xte on the food supplied them last win tor, this being true in many sec tions of the United States, ov. six million families being giv. 1 flour last winter when other fo < i was unavailable, with nearly the same number receiving clothing. Half the enrollment fees of one dol lar are kept in the chapter treasury to be used ns The chapter deems fit. the money derived from memberships last year, being used to defray opera tions of delicate nature for children of parents who were unable to pa;, ten for each county, ami the forth coming analysis of general legisla tion, constitute one phase of the broader legislative program of Tlv Institute which also includes cot ■ tinuous study revision and codifici tion of the laws and a study and r. vision of legislative practice and pr cedure. The work of preparing th summaries and analysis this veer was handicapped by shortage of per sonnel, but it is expected that be ginning in 1936, a service will be established to report bills to officerr and citizens affected immediately 1 after the bills are introduced, to pr< i pare and publish the local summaries immediately upon adjournment oi the legislature and to publish the ! analysis of general legislation shortly 'thereafter. — | This summary is concerned onlv 'with those statutes which specifical ly mention Transylvania County, its municipalities or subdivisions. Many , genera! laws were passed which also ! affect Transylvania, but these gen ' era! laws are treated in the general i analysis. Mention is made here, bow ■ ever, of the general laws form which (Continued On Poge Firs) i