North Carolina Newspapers

' . County A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of .m vo.'« NO 24 BREVARD. WORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, JUNE 14. 1834 _$1.00 PER TEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY ____****^fc^^^EMMMM**MM**l*MM****M* ___^ SECOND PRIMARY TO BE HELD IN COUNTY Sims, Paxton and Wood Asking For Another Try—Date Set For June 30 Three men have filed with the board of elections for a second pri mary, according to Ralph W. Lyday, chairman. __ . Cos Paxton, with a vote of 737, in the state senatorial race against Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., who polled 1061 votes. Eck L. Sims, with a vote count of 632. has filed intention ot running the race over with J;«s A. Galloway, who received 735 votes for register of deeds. \V Luther Wood, who s ught nomi nation as constable of Brevard town ship. was led by Red Smith by the count of 383 to 345, also asks for an other chance at vote getting. Jude L. Albert, third man in thi9 race, re ceived 285 votes. Piling period for the second pri mary closed at six o’clock Monday n'cht, Mr. Lyday stated. The primary is scheduled to bo held on Saturday, June 30. FAIR ASSOCIATION TO MEET HERE JUNE 22 The next meeting of the Transyl vania county fair association will be held at the court house in Brevard Friday night. June 22, at 8 o’clock, instead of the previously announced date on the loth. The change in date was made necessary on account of not being able to get all information needed for definite work of the organization until after the 15th, ac cording to statement of the chairman, 3. W. Dickson. It is urged that every community .-end a delegation to this meeting, as it will be a very important meeting, looking toward the success of the county fair. ■ FIFTY GIRLS AT CAMP SAPPHIRE FOR 3 WEEKS Fifty girls from eastern North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia are at Camp Sapphire for a three week’s outing prior to the regular camp season for boys which opens June 30. Mrs. Bernard Fetzer and Mrs. J->e Kill of Concord are directors of the girls' camp, assisted by an able corps of counselors. Another group of girls, expected to arrive the latter part of this week, will swell the number of enrollees to around 75. U. S. CARRIER PIGEON KILLED AT OAKLAND Ray Rigdon, young son of Lewis Rigdon of the Oakland section, took a pot shot at a strange bird that was sitting an the barn roof at the Syl vannus Sanders home last week, caught the bird fair with his sling, and when he examined it found that it was a carrier pigeon. Band taken from the leg of the pigeon identified it as being property of the United States Army. Raised letters on the silver band taken from the bird's leg read US 33 Ft M 105. A rubber band was found on the pigeon’s wing but no message of any sort was attached. KIWANI3 CLUB AGAIN TO SPONSOR BOY SCOUTING Brevard troop Boy Scouts will again be sponsored by the Brevard Kiwanis club. This action was taken at the meeting Wednesday, with J. A. Miller. Ralph H. Ramsey and Professor J. B. Jones being appointed as troop committeemen for the club. Professor John E. Rufty is expect ed to take over the place of scout master of the troop, Fred Miller hav ing resigned from the work after a number of years of service. , SELICA SPELLING BEE TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY A spelling bee will be held at the Selica school house Friday night of this week. All who will take part are invited to do so ar.d to come on time at 7:30 o’clock. SEVENTY BOY SCOUTS AT CAMP CONNESTEE COVE A Boy Scout encampment opened at Camp Connestee Cove Sunday and will continue in session for three weeks. The camp is composed of 70 boys and their instructors, all from Miami, Fla. This is a pre-camp session before the opening of Connestee Cove camp for girls early in July, and is oper ated by Mrs. D. R. Roof, of Braden ton, Fla. The Boy Scouts attending the en campment here Jane fenjoying their first trip to the mountains and many expressions have been heard from them regarding the wonderful advan tages to be found at this camp and in this section for a vacation outing. BENEFTFPLAYWELL ! COACHED AND GIVEN Small Audiences See “Butter and Egg Man” Here Last Week Played before a small but apprecia- | tive audience, “The Butter and Egg Man,” presented by a group of local talent at the high school last Friday and Saturday evenings, was well worth the journey through the steady downpour of rain to the school build ing. r The play will be given again with- j in a few weeks, according to Frank | McIntosh, director of the creditable \ production, a number of people hav- J ing made request for the re-play. ! While the entire cast did creditable work in the presentation, Donald Jenkins, Leon English, Miss Christine Yongut., Miss Dot Fetzer were out standing in portrayal of their char acters. Miss Helen Erwin as soloist, and Donald Lee Moore and Mrs. Car-, roli Kilpatrick as accompanists, were j heard between acts. The play was given under spon sorship of the Brevard Wednesday club for benefit of the Givi Scout treops. Appearing in the entertainment were Donald Jenkins, Dorothy Fetzer, Leon English. Christine Yongue, Tom Whitmire, Helen Morrow, Randolph Myers. Ernest McFau), Frank McIn tosh, Margaret Fullbright, Mrs. Ashe ' Macfie and Jimmie Denver EVANGELIST WILL HOLD MEETING IN BREVARD Announcement is made by the RevJ G. E. Kellar that a series of revival services will be held at the county court house beginning on Friday evening of this week, and continuing until July first. Evangelist VV. C. Grave of Los I Angeles. Calif., will have charge of! the services, with Frank Desmard of I Kannapolis, in charge of singing and Mrs. Luella Bean of Hazelwood as organist. Juniors To Elect Officers Transylvania council Junior Order1 United Mechanics will meet in the i lodge room- at Brevard Saturday! night of this week at eight o’clock for I election of officers. All members of the order are es pecially requested by officers to be1 present at this meeting. FIRE TOWER T0 8E BUILT ON TOXAWAY Announcement is made by W. K. [ Beichler, district forester for the Western North Carolina section, a new 47-foot steel fire tower will be built on Mount Toxawa.v near the Jackson county line .this being one of six such towers being constructed in this area. By the first of 1935, Western North Carolina will have a system cf about 20 steel fire towers with direct telephone communication to commer cial lines, that will give forest obser vation points for all counties co-op eration with the state and fedeial government in forest protection, Mr. Beichler said. NEW ARRIVALS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ear) Twiggs, a son on Tuesday, .Tune 12. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Erwin, a son, on Saturday, June 9. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Gil lespie a daughter on Saturday, June 9. Transylvania County Day To Be Held At Brevard College On Next Saturday Ai! prospective stuu tfi !U> of Brevard j College who live in Transylvania county have been invited by President E. J. Coltrane to assemble at the col 'ege next Saturday, June 16, at 10 a. m. Invitations have already gone out to something like one hundred young people who have indicated de sire to att°nd Brevard College this year. No doubt thf re are i many others whose names the c--1’ officials do not have. Any person in terested in Brevard College is par ticularly invited to be present for the assembly Saturday morning. These prospective students are be ing invited to the college in order that they may receive an explanation of the college policies. Such questions as courses of instruction, arrangements for clas-ifieation of students, sched ules of expense, and college social activities and athletics will be dis cussed. President Coltrane has indi cated that similar meetings will be held in other counties in Western North Carolina later. Interest among young people in Brevard College is widespread, the (.resident indicated. Every day brings numerous requests for‘information in regard to the college. Students are now filing their applications. Presi dent coltrane has just finished a tour of several districts in Western North ■ Carolina conferences. In every ea?o he reports there has been consider able interest, and indications point to a large enrollment when the col lege opens September 10. Prison Camp Construction Being Held Up On Account of “Dam” Propaganda Work Stopped At Calvert Pending Definite Informa tion From Headquarter* of Tennessee Valley Author ity—Decision I* Expected Within Next Few Day*. Work on tHe State Prison camp near Calvert has been stopped tem- i po'rarily, according to Llovd W. Cut- ■ ting .supervisor, pending definite in- ] formation in regard to the proposed | Tennessee Valley Authority dam on the French Broad river. , Mr. Cutting said Wednesday that he I expect-: to receive definite word with- j in the next few days in regard to continuing or .‘-topping the work which was started ten days age, plans calling for a permanent camp to house 100 to 125 prisoners. Aerial survey of the French Broad , valley was ordered on June 5th by the TVA, and this order was taken by many people, including officials of the State Highway department, to mean that this preliminary work was forerunner of construction of a darn or dams affecting this immediate section. While no direct statement has been ; secured from the State Highway of-; ficials, stopping of the prison camp work is looked on as being signifi cant of their belief that a program 1 of some sort will be started in the county. ICE CREAM SUPPER TO BE HELD AT LITTLE RIVER Young people of the Little River; Baptist church wil] give an ire cream supper and musical program at the Little River school house Saturday evening of this week at eight o’clock. Proceeds from sale of the ice cream ' will be used by the B. Y. P. U. in j their church and missionary program. I Suggests That Effort Be Made j To Have Government Con- j tider Building Several i Smaller Dams In This Sec tion—Would Help Develop County Resources. Editor of Transylvania Times: It is apparent that the federal government through the Tennessee Valley Authority, is going to take im mediate action on the construction of a dam or dams on the French Broad river and its tributaries. This proposition is vital to the future of Transylvania county, as well as to other counties which may be affected thereby. It has been reported that there is going to be built a 200-foot dam somewhere on the French Broad river : in Henderson county. If this is cor- : rect, it would mean the flooding of | a large part of Henderson county and j a large part of Transylvania county. | It has been suggested that this dam < is for purpose of creating a storage reservoir, and if a storage reservoir is contemplated that would mean that the water level of the lake would be lowered approximately fifty feet during the dry seasons. This would mean a mud bank along the shores of the lake varying from ten feet to nearly a quarter of a mile and would practically destroy the tourist busi ness in this county. The government would pay for the | land taken and damaged, a full and fair compensation, under their con- j denination proceedings, but this would , not be a full payment for the damage sustained. If the people of Hander son county and Transylvania county will get the co-oporation of their senators and congressmen, it is pos i ble that they can secure the building of two or thiee power dams on the (Continued on bach ge) UNEMPLOYED ASKED TO REGISTER AGAIN Dewey Gravely, for the past year manager of the Transylvania county re-employment office, but who is no longer connected with the service due to the fact that the office and its dutjpa have been moved to Asheville, make; announcement that those peo ple who wish to receive work or any publir program will have to have their registration in the Asheville office. This can very easily be done, Mr. Gravely states .inasmuch as all files from the Brevard office were trans ferred to the Asheville office and applicant may have his card renewed by writing the Asheville re-employ ment office. MRS. VERNER NAMED | AS WELFARE LEADER] j - Mv>'. S. P. Verner, teacher in the i Brevard schools and for years active i jin parent-teacher and civic work, was | elected chairman of the Transylvania i Welfare association at a meeting held j in the office of County Superintend-] ent G. C. Bush last Saturday. Other' , members of the central welfnre board i ! are W. H. Duckworth of Brevard and ! j Hosea Lee of Lake Toxaway. Der ision was made by the board to I | hold regular meetihgs on each fourth I Tuesday, with next meeting to be i | held on June 2(5, at which time a rep-j j resentative of the state welfare group . will be present. Child welfare was! |topic under discussion at the meeting! I Saturday. j Red Cross Institute At Camp Carolina Will Stage Water Pageant Next Week -___ The tenth annual First AM and Life Saving Institute of the Ameri can Red Cross opened Wednesday morning at Camp Carolina, neat Brevard, with the enrollment of 141, exceeding that of any previous insti tute held in the United States, ac cording to Rantone S. Eaton, director. Purpose of the school is to equip potential camp water-front directors, swimming pool managers and com munity leaders in aquatic sports to carry on a program in swimming and water safety in their respective cities. Pupils are enrolled from nil thirteen southern states and several midwestern and northern states. The school :s one of eleven similar schools conducted in various sections of the country. Others in the east are heated at Brinfield, Mass., Narrowsburg, N .Y, Chatauqua, N. Y.f and Annapolis, Md. In connection with the regular school at Camp Carolina there if be ing conducted this year a special course in first aid and its relations to industrial safety. Represented in this student group are Florida Light and Power company, Georgia Light and Power company, Aiabama Power company, the Enka corporation of Asheville, and other industrial con cerns of the south E. G. Padgett of the North Carolina Industrial Com tnifsion is assisting Dr. Otis Marshall of Washington, D. C., in instruction of the group. Regular courses of study for the ten day period include first aid, life saving, swimming, diving, boating, canoeing, recreational swimming and pageantry. Each year as a feature of the school a water pageant is produced. In 1933 it was estimated that a crowd of 5,000 people witnessed this production. This event will be staged on Thursday evening, June 21, th;R year. Faculty of the school is composed of outstanding individuals in ’.heir [ respective subjects who are voiur.-1 teering their services. They are: Rarnone S. Eaton, director, national representative American Red Cross, Washington, D. C.; Harry A. Ken- | ning, also field representative of the j national organization; James MacMil- j lan, nationally known small boat ex pert and chairman of the Red Cross : chapter at Cocoa Fla.; Henry Cheat- I ham of St. Augustine, Fla., canoe e:;-! pert and authority on archery and riflery. • Marshall Wayne, Miami. Fla., national A. A. U. diving champion and holder of numerous Florida state and sectional diving titles; St. Clair Buist, physical education director of Ashley Hail college, Charleston, S. C.; Reds Russell of Fort Myers, Fla., national authority on canoeing and canoe sailing, aiso known for his feats of hunting in the Florida Everglades with bow and arrow; Miss Mary Cau thon, Washington, D. C., headquar ters nurse for the American Red Cross. Mrs. J. E. Davis. Hartsville, S. C., executice secretary of the camp; Dr. Otis Marshal), Washington, D. C., an attache of the national staff of the Red Cross; E. G. Padgett of Raleigh, secretary of the North Carolina In dustrial commission; Frank Culvern, Charlotte first aid and safety in structor for thr Southern Bell Tele phone company; l)r. M. D. Hegge, county health officer of Forsyth coun ty and member of the state board of health; Dan McCarty, Ft. Pierce, Fla., canoeing and swimming -Htpeft. from .the University of Florida; Thomas Costello, Winter Haven, Fla., canoeing and boating expert; Charles Mixe, Daytona Beach, Fla., captain' of the Davtor.a Beach Red Cross Life Saving corps, and authority on surf rescue work. MISS FANNIE HOLT IS LOOKING FOR BIG CAMP Miss Fannie Holt of Jacksonville, Fla., has arrived at Camp Keystone, and is busily engaged in preparing her oopular recreation center for opening within ihe next few weeks. Miss Holt states that she expects n greatly increased enrollment^ over the past several years, and predicts a good tourist business for this sec tion. WOMAN’S EXCHANGE TO OPEN HERE ON FRIDAY The Women’s Exchange will open for business in the old Chamber of Commerce rooms on East Main^ street Friday morning, with Miss Kather ine Griffin in charge. Foods, fancy articles, home-made quilts and spreads, antiques, and other articles will be on sale at the exchange, according to plans adopted by the Women’s Civic club. GEODETIC SURVEY SETS ELEVATION AT 2230 FT. Brevard’s elevation, Bccoifjing to the U. S. Geodetic survey, which was made here last week, is 2229.11. These figures are posted on a brass plate just to the right of the court house door. The survey was made by a crew of workmen under F M. Poole, who had headquarters in Brevard while working in this vicinity When leaving, last Thursday morning, Mr. Poole stopped by The Times office and stated that he was r*ry favorably impressed with the section, and espec ially with the folk he had met while here, and that several people had gone out of their way to be nice to him. BOYLSTONHIGHWAY WILL BE RE-LOCATED Map Filed At Court House— Many Bad Curves Will Be Eliminated Work is soon to start on the Boyl ston road, judging from the fact that map of the proposed route with slight changes has been posted by the State Highway commission with Register of Deeds Jess A. Galioway. No official announcement as to actual starting of the read has been made, Ernest Webb, district engineer said here Tuesday. However, it is be lieved that the contract will be let on June 28tb. Beginning at the top of Gallamore Hill in North Brevard, only slight changes are made in the proposed route map until the Memorial Arch curve is reached. There the deep curve is straightened considerably, the same applying to the sharp curve near the Boggs home at Turkey Creek. At Little Mountain the proposed route leaves the present roadbed, g • ing up the right hand side of the creek, making a much better grade and eliminating practically all of the sharp curves. If the outline as posted at the court, house is followed, the Boylston road will be one of tie straightest highways in this section. BREESE IS RE-ELECTED DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN W. E. Breese was re-elected chair man of the county Democratic execu tive committee here Monday, with Mrs. G. H. Lyday re-elected as vice chairman and Mrs. Annie M. Douglas re-elected aecretary. Meeting of the executive committee was held Monday morning, with the county convention being held in the a fternoon at which time delegate* and alternates were selected to attend the state Democratic convention. At Lyday Hospital Patients reported at Lyday Memor ial hospitai on Wednesday morning included: 31. 3. Holden and Jim Hale, both reported to be recovering from appendix operations; Tilden Meece .suffering from a fractured leg; and 3Ir«, Huston Williamson, of Charleston, S under treatment. FERAWlL FURNISH BALANCEMATERIAL City Clerk Harry Patton and Director of Relief W. A. Wilson re turned from Raleigh on Wednesday and report that the state department was very favorable to their request frr additional funds for completion of the swimming pool project. Estimation of co-'fs of the pro ject as originally made to the state department of the relief administra tion was too low, and unless the state department assists in the pur chases it will lie necessary for the town to furnish several hundred dol lars worth of supplies. TONSIL CLINIC WILL BEHELD IN BREVARD Local Hospital To Reduce On Operations For Those Unable To Pay A tonsil clinic for children be tween the agei of 6 and 15 years will be held at Lyday Memorial hospital for one week beginning Monday, June 25, closing the following Sat urday, June 30, sponsored by tha board of trustees of the hospital. The operations will be performed by the hospital staff. It is pointed out that the clinic is only for children of these parents who are not able to pay the full regular price of tonsil operations. The clinic price for each tonsil operation has been set at $12.50, which is less than half of the regular price, it is stated by the staff. Attention is called to the fact that all parents who desire their children to take advantage of this clinic and have their tonsils removed must first see Miss Brendel, the head nurse, and make arrangements with her about appointment for the operation and also arrange with her for a physical examination of the child before the operation can be performed. FRANKLIN HOTEL TO OPEN ON JUNE 21ST Franklin Hotel will open for the present season on Thursday June 21, according to announcement of The Misses Shipman, managers. A large number of reservation? have been made for the opening date and an unusually good season is ex pected by the managers. Many im provements have been made on the interior of the building and also on the grounds, making this popular tourist hotel among the most attract ive to be found i:i this section. PRESBYTERIANS WILL HOLD EVENING SERVICE Announcement has been made by Rev. J. P. Simmons, pastor of the Presbyterian church, of regular ser vices at this church. Beginning next Sunday night at 8 o'clock regular Sunday night service* will be held each Sunday. The .ser vice will begin promptly at 8 o’clock and close at 8:45, and will be of a popular nature. The young peoples' service will be held each Sunday evening at 7:15 o’clock and the morning worship at 11 o’clock and Sunday school’hour at 0:45, closegWplayeb AT ROSMAN TUESDAY -mm ; ROSMAN, June 13— The local baseball nine had a "hard luck" third inning here Tuesday afternoon to lose to the Transylvania Tanning team by the score of 3-41 in a game that war. superb throughout. White, on the mound for the Iw**, had a great day, striking ut 17 Tan ner batsmen and giving up but one , hit. Loftis for the visitors allowed I seven hits anti struck out ten men. In the third inning on erroi in cen ter field, two walks and a single net ted the visitors their only tallies. DAHLIA CLUR TO MEET WITH MRS. J. ASHWORTH Transylvania Dahlia <-!ub will mr at the home of Mrs. John Ashworli i Brevard next Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock. Plans arc goiug forward steadily for staging the unuua’. dah lia show early this fall and with the ! large number of new growers this j?4 ! year it is expected that the sh-.-w will be far greater than any previous iik: event. Kiwanis Club To Sponsor Movement To Make Brevard More Friendly Town Carrying out the idea that Brevaro ought to be a more friendly town a suggested two wcek3 ago .the Brevard Kiwanis dub, in meeting Wednesday at noon took definite steps to incor porate nil people of the community In an effort to make the movement a success. Leaflets are bing printed this week setting forth some things that busi ness people and workers in business houses as well as individual resident' should and could do to help make the tawn_ known as a friendly com munity. " -; . , ,, . The committee in charge '8T-*+n|> work, J. Dale Sfer.tz, Rev. J. K. Wes?' and C. M. Douglas, were also appoint ed to provide insofar as funds are available from the club treasury, forms of entertainment for summer visitors. As a concretr example of how the suggested united friehdly spirit af fects newcomers to the community the following editorial is reprinted from The Picayune Item of Mississ ippi: “A SPIRIT WE LACK— “We just received a card from John Simmons, pastor during his stay here, of the First Presbyterian church. Brother Simmons first, of course, a-ked that his Item be changed so it would reach him at 216 P; chart street, Brevard, 2i. C.. then he told ue ho whe and Mrs. Simmers and baby Simmons were received at their new home. The first thing of course was the nice way the people fixe! / up the house for them. Wr do th:-, in Picayune. We always fix up th pastor’s home. The ladies do that, at: that is why if is done; then he sc; "the business men sent us ‘sample./ the gas man wash® dtheir tar. the market sent a lavge roast, th* milk men lined the front porch with grad; Amilk and cream (cai: you beat it?) and the hotel mas sheltered them ..while the hojpm.wn.s being finished. NoW/Turfs'one you the paper men sent sample •■opn'S'S^f the paper. On top of til! this acclaim/** the Kiwanis club sponsored a friendly campaign. We do not believe the busi ness people of Brevard did nli these because Brother Simmons carried with him his reputation for meeting his obligations promptly ,but because they are just a friendly sort of folk Here is luck to you, John, wife end baby.” A program of events was suggested to be published in The Times each week or printed daily and distributed for benefit of the visitor;, setting forth such attractions and en+er-tam ments as are to be held eaclt day.