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"l-fl THE TRANSYLVAN I County A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest the People of Transylvania County “ VOL 38lr^T~ ~ BREVARD NORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1933 $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY MISS F. KERPfHEA9S WOMEN’S CIVIC CLUB Much Community Work Has Been Done During Past Year by Organization Annual el otion of officers of the Women’s Civic dub featured the ' December meeting of this organisa tion held Monday afternoon at the U D. C. library. The following officers were < uco ed i’er the ensuing year: Pro ident, Miss Florence Kern; vice pcs’dent, Mrs. W. E. Broe'se; recording secre tary, Miss Alma Trowbridge; treas urer. Mrs. Roy Long. It was decided that the club would sponsor a night at the local skating rink, the management hav ing agreed to allow the rub a cer tain percentage cf all ticket sales fer that night. This event will tnko place Thursday night. December 14. Prizes will be offered for the best costumes and the best skaters. Mrs. T. C. Galloways and Mrs. B. F. Beasley were appointed a committee to work out arrangements fer the affair. , A rising vite of thanks was given Miss Katherine Griffin for her ef ficient work in connection with the Woman’s Exchange activities the past two seasons. Mrs. \V. II .Duckworth reported that eight baskets of eatables had been sent the inmates of the county home on Thanksgiving day, as the annual donation from the club. Reports were made by the vari ous committee chairmen, showing the work accomplished in the differ ent departments during the past year. Some of the outstanding pro jects included the flower show. Ihe quilt show, the property beautifica tion prize contest, all staged by the garden committee of which Mrs. John Maxwell is chairman; the local relief work and hospital day, under the supervision of the welfare com mittee, of which Mrs. T. A. Berg is chairman; interesting and helpful programs sponsored at different meetings by the American Citizen ship committee, of which Mrs. 0. H. Orr is chairman, and the Ameri can Homes committee, of which Mrs. Roy Long is chairman, and the court house beautification project under the civics committee, of which Mrs. Beulah Zachary is chairman. PRESIDING ELDER TO BE HERE ON SUNDAY Announcement is made that the Rev. L. B. Hayes, presiding elder of the Waynesville district of the Methodist church, will preach at the Brevard Methodist church Sunday morning at the 11 o’clock hour and at Rosman at 7;30 o’clock ir. the evening. Immediately following the service at Rosman the first quarterly con ference will be called into session. Special music and singing by the Cherryfield and Calvert church choirs will be added features. A cordial invitation is extended the public to attend both these serv ices at Brevard and Rosman. At the recent annual conference the Brevard and Rosman charges were changed from the Asheville district to the Waynesville district, hence this will be the first time for the two local churches to hear their new presiding elder. CONNE3TEE LADIES WILL MEET FRIDAY AFTERNOON Announcement is made by MIm Virginia Wilcox that a Woman 5 club will be organized at the <on nePtee school Friday afternoon of this week, beginning at 3:30 oclock. A cordial invitation is extended by :Miss Wilcox to all ladies of the j Gon lies tee section to attend this ■ meeting. SUPERIOR COURT IN SESSION THIS WEEK i Civil Docket To Be Taken Up Monday—Judge Michael Schenck Presiding Superior court convened here Monday morning with Judge Michael Schenck of Hendersonville, presid ing and J. Will Pless, Jr., of Marion as solicitor. Garland T’nomas son < f Asheville is court stenogra pher. Presumption was at noon Wed j neaday that the criminal docket, which is being tried tins week would be concluded Thursday or Friday, | majority of the cases at this term being of more or less minor nature. Civil court will begin Monday i morning with the Carolina Timber company vs. Jennings being the first ' on docket, end expected to be major 1 civil term case. FREAK EAR OF CORK ROSMAN. Dec C—Cullwell Gallo 1 -.vay reports a new kind of corn grown tn his place, one shuck con taining ten perfect but small ears. The ears range in length from two | to four inches, but are all perfectly formed. DEER RELEASED BY SAWING OFF ANTLER ueiievea 10 oe rirsi uper« tion of Its Kind Ever Un der Like Condition Transylvania county is first in one thing at least—that of releasing two buck deer by the simple method of sawing off one of the interlocked horns, this believed to be the first operation of its kind ever performed. John Deal, who resides inside the Pirgah National Forest came upon the two bucks Saturday morning as they started their deadly combat, and watched them, for several hours ' as they charged and backed away for another impact. i Finally, after one of the large fellows had lost an eye in the con , flict and both were badly gored and bruised about the head and shoul ders the "death lock” of antlers, i which has caused death by starva tion to countless warring bucks, was j effected and in such a manner that I they could not unlock themselves. | Spurgeon Edmundson, ranger, was I notified of the plight of the two deer, and he in turn called for aid 'from eight members of John’s Rock iCCC camp. After trying in vain to ; loose the big fellows, a saw was re ; sorted to, four of the CCC boys hold I ing onto each of the bucks while i Ranger Edmundson sawed off a ' four-point horn. Released, both the | bucks went about their own business | one of them short a beautiful antler, [but saved from a terrible death of thirst and starvation. Seek Routing Park-To-Park Highway Within 12 Mile Distance of Brevard Petitions have been sent by the county commissioners and board of aldermen to Frank W. Miller, of Waynesville, highway commissioner trom this district, urging him to use his influence in having the park to-park highway come within ap proximately twelve miles of Bre vard. The commissioners in their meet-j ing Monday pointed out that Bre vard would derive great benefits from the highway if it followed the proposed route from Biltmore through Pisgah National Forest, 284 connecting Brevard directly with the important link. j The matter was presented to the! town aldermen by County Attorney Breese Monday night and they voted; to join with the commissioners in asking for the route. Attorney Breese pointed out that Highway ,284, now being surveyed, was prac tically assured of being routed di rect from Brevard to Looking Glass, land that this would add to the value 'Brevard and the county would get lif the highway is built along the crest of Pisgah Ridge. j • Commissioner Miller is known to favor this route, and it is believed that the authorities will seriously consider the proposed route inasmuch as there will be no right of way to purchase through the national for 0S^ ' Following is the letter sent by the commissioners to Commissioner Miller, the town aldermen also send ing one of like nafftre: We, the undersigned Board of C o m m i s sioners of Transylvania county most urgently request that you use your influence to secure the highway known as “The Park to Park Highway,” so that same will leave Biltmore and cross French Broad River at a suitable point nearby and enter Pisgah National Forest, pass up Mount Pisgah and then on to the top of the ridge known as the Pisgah Ridge at Bal sam Mountain and thence to Balsam Gap, thence to Soco Gap. This will make one of the most beautiful scenic highways .in the United States, as it will be from the crest of the range of mountains close to the South Carolina boundary line and into the upper part into the States of South Carolina and Georgia on the Southwestern side of raid road and then see the magnifi cent gorges of Pigeon River and its varies forks, the Tuckaseigee and other streams which traverse its territory. Transylvania County not only feels that it would be a great at traction for the tourists from the Northern and New England States and Visiting the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, but also we feel that as Transyl vania county has lost most of its territory in the creation of Pisgah National Foret# ajnd thereby lost the taxes on same, that said County is entitled to some consideration. We therefore urge that you use your powerful influence and get the fellow members of your Commission to endorse this route for said Park Highway. SEAL SALE STARTS OFF WELL IN CITY Funds Will Provide Lunches For Undernourished Chil dren In School Annual campaign fnr the Tuber culosis Christmas cal sale was Ixs gun Monday and will continue until Christmas. The sale i* sponsored this year by the Parent-Teacher as sociation of which Mrs. J. R Pick elsimer is president, i Booths for sale of these little i Christmas seals were established on 'Monday at the post office and the I bank. Different civic and church or ! ganizutions of the town will be in I charge of the booth sales each day,' i assisting the P T. A. in this great' movement to fight tuberculosis ini the county, state and nation. It is pointed out that 75 percent of j the proceeds of the seal sale will re-j mam at home to carry on the tuber-1 cular combat in Brevard and Tran sylvania county, while the remaining j 25 per cent will be sent to the state; headquarters. The local projects to be under-| taken as result of the sale of these little penny Christmas seals will be j used toward feeding the under-1 privileged school children, buying scales for schools of the county, care and treatment of indigent children or adults who have tuberculosis, for I physical examinations, for public health nurse and many other worthy health needs nf the town and county. A goal of $65 has been set for Transylvania county’s seal sale cam paign this year, and it is believed jby those in charge of the drive that I this goal can be reached only by | hearty cooperation of all the people in the community by buying these little penny Christmas seals, there by aiding in stamping cut the dread disease, tuberculosis in Bre-j vnrd and Transylvania county and] i throughout the state and nation. WORK IS STARTED ONj CITY SWIMMING POOL Surrounding Tract Of Land To Be Made Into Park— Work Under CWA Work was started last week oil' the Brevard swimming pool which will be located in the Franklin Park section, and will be the center of a three to four acre park that is be I ing laid out. I The work is being done under thei Civil Works Administration, the| project being financed with federal j funds. R. P. Kilpatrick is in charge; of the crew of 25 men. Plans call for erection of a pool 150 feet by 60 feet ranging in depth from three to twelve feet, and being built along approved plans. It will be of cement construction through out, estimated cost being set at $9,000. i Land for the site is being given by the Brevard Building and Loan association in conjunction with the town and county, the project when completed to be s community affair. Plans call for development of the surrounding tract into a park, with driveways, tennis courts, seats and other playground facilities, several large trees already being on the property given by the Building and Loan. The project will furnish several, months’ work to the crew of work men who are being paid at the rat*] of 45 cents per hour for a thirty hour week. NURSERY $ OOLIS BEING C DUCTED 1 Over forty children are enrolled I in the nursery school being conduct led at the Brevard Primary building i ; by Mrs. John McLean and Mrs. Con-| stance Banks, with added enrollment i expected during the week. The pre-school classes are con ducted from 8:30 to 12:16, approved methods of teaching being employed, both teachers having had consider able experience in this line of work. The project is under the CWA, being the first of its kind to be established in the state. Several clubs are taking an active part in the work, supplying needed 1 equipment. The Mathatasian and I Wednesday clubs have made such donations. BOYS ARE ADDED TO GLOUCESTER CAMP Seventy boys from Ft. McPherson, Ga., arrived at Gloucester CCC camp last Saturday bringing the total en rollment of that camp to 189, ac cording to Captaiu H. F. Adams, of ficer in charge of F-14. All the boys but one are from Eastern North Carolina, Captain Adams sail., one young fellow be ing from Greenville, S. C. Three more boys are expected to arrive this week, bringing the enrollment j to the tv(0 hundred mark. /LESS IS SPEAKER AT KIWANIS MEET Pnrk Highway Route Endors ed—Thanks Extended To Two Doctors Solicitor J. Will Ple^s was speak er at Brevard Kiwanis club Wed nesday, using- law enforcement ai hi ; theme, and chided members of tin club and the average citizen for failure to assist in law enforce ment, stressing the fact that th( average person knew of the laws knew v-liy they were enacted but had the feeling seemingly, that II was a job for the courts and of ficers, not realising that withnul support of the better element of the people that the officers and courU were practically powerless. Resolution was passed by the clut endorsing the park-to-park highway routing as already -endorsed by th< board of commissioners and the board of aldermen, and instructs the secretary to write Commlssionoi Miller to that effect. A veto of thanks was extended t Dr. C. L. Newhnd and Dr. E. C Cunningham for their services i» the diphtheria clinics held in the county last fall and this undei auspices of the club, the two doctor; giving their services free to the club Around fourteen hundred childre* were given immunization vaceim luring the two years. Plans were discussed for hold in, a Christmas tree program fc children of needy families, Rc-v. Pat Hartsell, P. I.. Thrclkeid, Jerry Jerome, Dr. C. L. Newiand and C M. Douglas being appointed a com mittee to work out plans for tlr event and present them to a med ing of the directors to be held ot Thursday night of next week. Solicitor Pless was n guest, of C M. Douglas, while Judge Michae Schenck was guest of Presidcn Kimzey. LEGALIZED WHISKEY IN U. S. ON TUESDAY Dry North Carolina la To Re ceive Protection Under Webb-Kenyon Law WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. o~ Leagalized liquor returned Tuesda; but it will be months—perhaps yean —before the government and th< states decide the questions growini out of prohibition’s unexpectedly sudden death. The Webb-Kenyon act of 191! which remains on the statute book! after the expiration of the Volsteai acts puts on Uncle Sam the responsi bility of protecting dry states fron liquor shipments. Even more pressing from the fed eral standpoint is the administra tion of the codes and marketinj agreements written to enable super vision at the source of business. Interlaced with this is the prope! federal tax to yield substantial rev enue to a treasury which needs i and at the same time keep the leviei low enough to discourage the homi manufacture of gin and the illici distilling of corn and rye. Moving swiftly after the verdict a the November v elections, (thej gov ernment has taken control of th< domestic distilling industry, import and breweries. Plans to have similai authority over whiskey rectifiers am wholesale dealers are near comple tion. A federal alcohol control adminis tration, headed by Joseph H. Choate Jr., a New York attorney was set u| to function until congress passei legislation for control and the regu Iations already drawn may form th< basis for the laws to come. Congress, however, will be con cerned with one important mattei over which the control administra (Continued On Page Five) WORKS!ARTTDON 3 MORE COUNTY ROADS Work was started on Wednesday morning on three more county roadi under the Civil Works Administra tion, with approximately 40 men be ing given employment from the re employment office, according t ( Dewey Gravely, manager. The projects started Wednesday morning include seven to eight milef on the Gloucester road, leading froir near Shoal Creek to the Tennesse< Gap. L. P. Wilson is foreman ir charge. The Reascnover road from Cox store in the Little River section with Eck Sims foreman in charge and a stretch from the Pickens high way through Old Toxaway section tt No. 28, with Carl Owen foreman ir charge. Four projects were started las! week, bringing the total up to sever stretches of county roads that art being improved, most of them get ting crushed stone surfaces. The workers are being furnishes from the re-employment and relie! offices, with P. L. Threlkeld, distrlej maintenance engineer in charge foi the State Highway commission. • DUNN’S ROCK TO ELECT OFFICERS FRIDAY NIGHT j - | Dunn's Keck lodge No. 207 A. F.‘ A. M., will elect officers for 11(3-?} at u regular communication Friday night, December 8. at 8 o'clock . C. X. Osborne worshipful master has urgently requested that every member be present. Refreshments! will be served. j BARNETTNAMEDTO ! i PISGAH FOREST P.0. _ ; Office Is Now Third Class and Pays Salary of Nine teen Hundred j Word was received from Wash ington last Sunday to the effect ' that S'd Barnett of Pisgah Forest ' would be placed in charge of the ■ post office at that place, his ap ! poiniment expected to be- made v.itn (in a few days. ■ Mr, Barnett., when interviewed 1 Tuesday, stated that he had not i been notified as to when he would J take over the work, and neither had i E. P. McCoy, postmaster for the J past several years, been notified. | The office, according to news din ! patches sent out from Washington ! is now a third class office and will v a salary of $1900 per year. Mr. Barnett is widely known in hi’ section, having been in business Pisgah Forest for a number of I :rg, operating a ptachine shop, I has made numerous friends i (moughout the county as well as in j bir immediate community. HEUT, CARMACK IS 'ABSOLVED OF BLAME -_ , I Coroner’s Jury Acquits Him! In Accidental Death of Daniel M. Shook (Friends in Transylvania county of Liuetenant J. S. Carmack cf the Gloucester CCC camp, are elated • wii.> .l.c popular officer in his ac ' qui tal of any bittK.e *r connection 'with the death of D. M. Shook of ! Mills River, who was killed in ar; [ automobile accident on Nov. 26. ! The following Hendersonville story '■tells of the acquittal: ij HENDERSONVILLE, Nov. 29— , A Henderson county coroner’s jury ■ Wednesday afternoon held that. • Daniel M.‘Shook. 15, farmer of the Mills River section of the county, i who was killed on the Mills River ' road late Sunday afternoon when [‘struck bv an automobile, came to his : death as a result of an unavoidable l accident. Lieutenant J. S. Carmack, aU tachcd to the CCC camp at Glouces [ ter, who was held by officers follow [ ing the accident, was released from ! custody following the coroner's jury’s verdict. Carmack was the driver of the automobile which struck Shook. The jury held that Shook died of ! injuries sustained when struck by an ' automobile driven by Carmack, but 1 found no probable cause for holding ! Carmack for trial in Superior Court. Arthur Meece and Paul Bryson, • who were walking on the road with ' Shook when the latter was hit, tes , tified at the inquest. Carmack also [ testified, saying that he was blinded . by the headlights of two passing I automobiles and did not see Shook , until after his car had struck him. PICKENS ROAD TO BE FINISHED THIS WEEK Will Be One of Fin«*t High way* In County—Gives Southern Routing Work on Pickens Highway v/il) be finished this week, acordiiig u> plans of A. B. Coveli, superintendent in charge of th.* work icr w ft- B. Taylor Construction company, con tractors. Two large crews have be--n busy the past two weeks putting on the final or tic-coat, am! with the warm weather that has been prevailing /or ,lhe part few days, indications were Tuesday fhat the job would be ship shape and possibly opened before the end of this week. When completed, the Pickens high way will easily be the finest piece of read work in the county, with perfectly banked curves, easy grade* and a surface that is smoothness it self. This route, leading off 28 at Her man, will he used by local people in many instances for travel to and from Greenville, the curves Irvine far less dangerous and the grade much easier. It will probably be used extensively by people going to Anderson, Augusta, Savannah und Atlanta, and will furnish an excel lent outlet for the upper end of the county into South Carolina and points south. Paving on the South Carolina sole has been completed several months. Work on the road has been done un der the State Highway Commission, labor being furnished from this sec tion. FOREST FIRES DAMAGE RICH MOUNTAIN AREAS Several hundred acres of mountain land were burned over last wees by forest fires in the Rich Mountain and upper Maiden Hair creek sec tions, with no considerable amount of damage reported to saleable tim ber. , .. Several crews of volunteer me fighters worked Thursday night. i-Viday and Saturday in an </fort to check the flames, a heavy rainfall Sunday mo...ii.b r -i*‘ing in putting out the fire. EASTERN STAR FLAY ON BOOK THURSDAY The Tom Thumb Wedding, com posed of a cast of about 60 children of Brevard, will be presented at the Brevard high school tonight (Thurs day) at 8 o’ lock, sponsored by the local chapter Eastern Star. The children have been, rehearsing the past week or more and ail is now in readiness for presentation of this cast of local children, which prom ises to be an entertainment of un usual enjoyment. Miss Eva Call i« directing the play. An added feature will be the wed ding dress review presented by ladies of the town An admission of only ten and twenty cents will be charged foi the evening’* entertainment, AT TyDAY HOSPITAL The four patients at Lyday Memo rial hospital were all reported o:i Wednesday to be improving. Following are the patients: Mr . Winston Ashworth, E. R. McCa". Mrs. L. L. Wilson, Turner Allison Commissioners Vote To Accept Fifty Cents On Dollar For Collateral Notes In order to enable people to pay < off notes that are held by the coun ty of Transylvania, a straight re duction of fifty cents on the dollar was ordered by the county commis sioners in their meeting here Mon day. I The county holds approximately ($250,000 in notes that had been put up as collateral by the Brevard; Banking company as guarantee forj deposits of county funds in the) bank, the notes becoming county ( property upon closing of the bank I in the winter of 1930. , In passing this order, the com ' missioners are of the opiaion that they are acting for the best in terest of the county and the peo ple who are makers and endorsers of the paper, it being the general belief that majority of the people against whom, the paper is held will make added effort to settle with this^big reduction in effect. Order was made by the commis sioners *t the same time to the ef fect that county bonds would not be received in payment of the notes in question. Following is the order passed by the commissioners: “On motion duly made seconded and carried that W. E. Breese, coun ty attorney authorized and directed to accept as payment in full fifty cents on the dollar for all notes held by the county received from . Brevard Banking company for a I limited time. J “It is further moved, seconded and carried that no county bonds be r>r°ived as payment of said note." m The county commissioners in their meeting Monday made plans for paying off the numerous small claims that are now outstanding by issuing term notes for amount owed, these notes to be given as evidence of indebtedness to clai mants against the county. Floating indebtedness in the ap proximate amount of eight to ten thousand dollars is due and past due, and this step is being taken to clear the books of the county of current operating bills. Following is the order passed: “On motion duly made and cai ried, the county accountant was di rected to make out an itemized list of all floating indebtedness of th - county and to make proper appli cation to the Local Self Govern ment Commission to issue notes to settle same.” STOVEY STARTED ON PISGAH FOREST ROAD Survey of the Pisgah National Forest route-was begun last week with a crew of six men doing the work, which is expected to be com pleted within a few months. General idea of the survey is to find the beat route for building the Pisgah Forest road on approved State Highway specifications to the top of the mountain where it wifi connect with similar construction on the west side.
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