• ^yW^^AW»».»vw( _ Only Newspaper g Published In I ■“j ** Transylvania A A J County VOL 39. NO. 27 ___ _____ WESTERN CATTLE TO BE HERE THIS WEEK Fir»t Shipment To Be Placed In Lower End Of County —More Coming Later First shipment of “boarding’' cat tle for Transylvania county from tne drouth area of western states is ex- | pected to arrive at Davidson River, either Thursday or Friday of this week, according to W. A. Wilson, emergency relief director who is placing the cattle :n this county for the federal government. Only 750 head are expected in the ; first shipment. These will be taken to the Everett Farm where they will be fed and distributed to various sec tions of the lower end of tne county. Another shipment will arrive with in a few days for placement in the ■ upper end of the county these to be unloaded at Rosman and Lake Toxa way. Mr. Wilson states that a total of : 2,900 head have been applied for by landowners of the county ,and that he is expecting these orders to be : filled shortly. The government will pay $1 i head per month for good pasturage | that is"fenced. For good range pas ture lands .where rangers must be ^ employed by the government, 50 cents , per head per month will he paid the j land owners. j MISS JENNINGS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Word was received here last Thurs-: day morning of the death of Miss Collie Jennings, daughter of E. H. Jennings, the young lady losing her life in an automobile accident near Pittsburgh, Pa. i Mr. Jennings, who was at Fairfield : left immediately for Pittsburgh. De tails of the accident have not been received here of the death of the j popular young lady, who was plan ning to visit this section within the next few days accompanied by a party of friends. W. L MULL CELEBRATES LONG BUSINESS CAREER W. L. Mull, in business in the county for 33 years, announces :n ( this week’s paper that he has bought a real birthday present for his meat market ir. the form of a refrigeration , cabinet that is second to none in any , state. The fine cabinet is being used I in hi* Proud street place of busi ness, and a general invitation is ex- j tended to the public to come in and Inspect this new and up-to-date out __ * * [DEPOSIT INSURANCE i f ON LARGER AMOUNT ' _ I Announcement was made today by i the Transylvania Tru3t company that; effective last Monday, July 1, al! j deposits of the bank are insured up j to and including the amount of $5,000. Deposits in the bank are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Deposit insurance ori ginally was in the amount of $2,500 but effective July 1, deposit insurance was extended for one year and the amount raised to $5,000. MANY BOYS BEING ADDED TO 2 COUNTY CC CAMPS Recruits for the two CC camps in Transylvania will bring the en rollments up to two hundred, 101 boys arriving at Gloucester on Tues day of this week, coming from the Charlotte district by train to Easley, S. C., and thence by truck. Forty-eight boys will arrive at j 1’isgah Forest Friday for entrance at I John's Rock camp, with another 1 group of 38 arriving next Tuesday. BLOOD POOL CAUSES! MUCH EXCITEMENT • --- Much excitement was caused ir. the Island Ford section the first of this week when residents heard several shots fired in the direction of the bridge and upon investigation dis covered a pool of blood on the bridge, with a trail leading to the edge of the bridge, and signs of blood also on rocks in the river. Natural conclusion was that some one had been murdered there and the j body thrown into the river. Sheriff; Tom Wood was notified, who went to the scene and after investigation, was preparing to have the river dragged in an effort to find the body. However ,it was discovered that some people who were close to the bridge had heard a dog howling and yapping, then a shot, followed by a whimper as the dog's life ebbed. This was taken as evidence that it was only a dog that had lost its life. MRS. HAWKINS DIES AT THOMASTON, GA.f HOME Mrs. R. L. Hawkins 22, died sud denly Sunday at her home in Thom aston, Ga. Details as to the cause of her death had not been learned here. Funeral services were held in her home city on Tuesday. Mrs. Hawkins, who was before marriage Miss Mary Della Drake, is survived by two small sons, her father S. W. Drake, and one brother U. S. Drake of Brevard. NEW AUTO CONCERN OPENS IN BREVARD Announcement is being made in j this issue of The Times of the open-, ing of the Broadway Motor company in the Waltermire Hotel building on | Broad street, the agency to hcndle; Dodge and Plymouth cars and Dodge trucks. The firm is composed of W. L. Mull, Judson McCrary and T. W.1 Whitmire, with Mr. Whitmire in charge of the sales room. Charles Y. Patton is salesman for the new con cern. Service department will be maintained at the Freeman Hayes garage. YOUNG POWELL INJURED IN WRECK SATURDAY L. E. Powell, Jr., was seriously injured in an automobile accident! Saturday night, when the coupe he I was driving struck a telephone pole 1 after leaving the paving on Maple j street., cutting the pole off at the I ground and crashing into a tree. | Henderson Asks For More Definite > Information On Storage Reservoir; - i EDITOR THE TIMESL , Mr. Editor, I am neither for nor j against the tiam for I have no au thoritative information, and I don’t believe any one else in the county has and it is an imposition to have some people filling the credulous peo ple with all kinds of imaginary cal amities that have never been thought of or contemplated or would even happen if the dam is built. You can publish the following let ter if you wish to: There is an old and to some extent a very true saying that our worst troubles are those that never hap pen. Just imaginary troubles, just a fear that some great calamity will occur. And I feel sure a great many of our people are today suffering, really suffering from what they imagine could happen if the proposed French Broad dam is built. And this fear arises from a lack of confidence in the fairness and justice of our great president and leader. And in 'view of his every utterance and his every effort to relieve suffering and idistress this is unfounded. I Do you think for a moment tn&t | Isuch a man would deliberately confis-j (cate our property, take it without just compensation contrary to our con stitution he has sworn to uphold and abide by and contrary to his every word and act since March 4, 1933. Do you think he would say, “Well, just in this one instance we will de part from our principles and do evil f that good may come. We will destroy these few people that we may do good to a greater number.” Well, 1 know that he is not going to do that, and if all receive due compensation then none has anything to fear. But I tell you now that those who would t claim a fictitious or sentimental value are going to Be disappointed. As I say, lots of our good peo ple are doing some real mental suf fering. I will admit it is an injustice for those in authority to prolong that suffering. TVA Morgan (A. E. Morgan) has said he would appreciate the cooper ation cf the people in the valley. Well, those who cooperate are supposed to know what it is all about. And here we are, don't know anything, and for fear of what might happen we are putting forth ail our energies in opposition, when if we knew the tiuth we would be just the other way. So now let’s be sensible and send a delegation to see A. E. Morgan and tell him plainly if he can show us plainly that it will be to our interest we will be with him 100 per cent. But if he can’t .we will oppose him 100 per cent. Let him tell us over his own signature and for publication how high does he propose to build the dam; how much of our valley will be covered by the highest flood waters; does he only propose to pay for land covered by water; what is the mini mum and the maximum he proposes to pay for such land; will he make sure the same offer for all bottom land above flood waters to be accept ed by the owner any time in the future that he finds his land damaged by reason of the silt filling up the river bed channel; do they propose to force everybody on the watershed to sell their land; do they propose to build a storage dam and power plant or just a storage dam; will the peo ple in the counties affected have any preference as laborers during con struction of the dam and in indus tries run by the power generated at the dam? Let us have all this information at our next meeting and then we can talk with the baric on. There has been too much loose talk already, talk without information or authority. Let our delegation be composed of all factions, one in favor of building the dam and one opposed and one neu tral. Yours truly, F. HENDERSON, Route 1. Ramsey and Galloway Nominated In Second Primary Held Last Saturday Ralph H. Ramsey Jr. was given an overwhelming majority 1 aver Cos Paxton in the second Democratic pri mary Saturday for the office of state senator .while Jess A. Galloway defeated his opponent by a majority of 111. Rod Smith was nominated as constable for Brevr*-d by 48 votes. In the first primary, held June 2, Mr. Ramsey led Mr. Paxton by a vote of 1061 to 737, the third man in the race, Wallace M. Galloway, be ing eliminated. The lead was increas ed by Ramsey in the second primary to 1.370 to 860, or a majority of 610. In the second run for nominee as register of deeds, Jess A. Galloway increased his lead of 103 votes- in the first primary to 111, this race being rather close. The first primary vote count was Galloway 735, Sims C32, with Glenn Burrell, Edwin A. Mor gan and Noah C. Milller following in order named. In the Saturday voting Mr. Galloway received 1,216 votes | while Mr. Sims received 1,105, or a; majority for Mr. Galloway of 111 In the Brevard township constable j race Red Smith was high man, with , 383 to Luther Wood’s 345, the “’at: i urday vote being Smith 517, ** 110_ 469, or a majority for Mr. Smith of 48. Much interest was shown in the second primary, with strong groups organized on each side, Ramsey and Galloway seemingly being paired against Paxton and Sims. A total of 2,330 vc-tea were tabulated in the second primary against 2,485 in the first, this close vote said to be the nearest ever gotten out in any second primary to the count in the first. Official vcte as certified by L. P. Wilson, chairman of the board of elections, follows: Far State Senator Ramsey . .1,470 Paxton . S60 Ramsey majority . 010 Register Deeds Calloway .1,216 Sims .M°5 Galloway majority. llj Cokable Brevard T. S. Wood .■*** Smith majority .... 48 AH Dogs In Brevard Must Be Kept Up In Summer Months Says Board At a meeting of the board of j aldermen Monday night necessity fori enforcement of the town ordinance! requiring all dogs to be confined dur-1 ing the summer months was brought j to attention of the board, and Mayor j Wike was requested by the board to. cause the ordinance to become im-! mediately effective. The following; statement in regard to the matter i? made by Mayor Wike: I wish to call the attention of the citizens of Brevard to a town ordin ance adopted in 1927 requiring the confinement of dogs. This ordinance was adopted to prevent any danger of rabies during the summer months. Therefore, in accordance with our usual custom this ordinance will bo strictly enforced on and after the first of July. The following is a copy | of the ordinance: Section 1. That all persons residing in the | corporate limits of the Town of Bee-! yard are required to keep or coniine j ' his or her dogs. Section 2. That no person or persons are per mitted to allow his or her dog or dogs to run at large in the Town of Bre vard, from the ratification of this ordinance. Section 3. That any person or persons viol ating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not less than five dollars nor mere than fifty dol lars or imprisoned not less than five davs nor more than thirty days, J C. WIKE, Mayor. GREENVILLE PEOPLE ! COMING NEXT WEEK, Retail Merchants Will Spend Afternoon Here—Large Group To Attend Around one hundred fifty members of the Greenville Retail Merchants i Bureau will visit Brevard next Wed- \ nesday afternoon, for their annuali summer outing. The party will leave Greenville im- j mediately after lunch, stopping en route at several places of interest, and ending the day in Brevard with dinner at the Franklin Hotel at 7:30. Use of the Welcome to Brevard Golf course ar.d the Brevard munici pal swimming pool has beer extended to the visitors and other courtesies are expected to be given in an effort ic make the annual outing a success. SCHOOL COMMITTEE IN SESSION HERE TUESDAY No statement was given out for publication by members of the Bre vard district school committee who held a meeting in the office of the county superintendent Tuesday night. Allotment of teachers hRS been re ceived from the state department, only one teacher being_ cut from the number employed, during the last tern. It is expected that another meeting vrill be held within a few days. REVIVAL SERVTCESTO BE HELD AT SELICA CHURCH Revival services will begin at the Selica Methodist church on Sunday night, July 8, with the Rev. .Nathan Chapman, former pastor, doing the preaching Assisting the Rev. Mr. Chapman in the services will be his brother, John Chapman, of Tryon. The public is in vited to attend these services, begin ning- Sunday night. SAWDUST PLACED IN j GAS TANKS OF CARS! Sawdust was placed in gas tanks of i several automobiles in Brevard some time during Friday night ,with car owners reporting more or less ser ious damage to their cars from the effects of the dust. Wost damage from the sawdust escapade was reported by Mr* T. l'| Galloway ,her car, a Ford with the gas tank over the motor, being clog ged in such a manner that she was unable to drive it Monday after noon. ‘‘Aunt Roily,” as she is affec tionately known to people of the -auntY handed in the following note for publication: “Just a word to thank the one who put dogwood sawdust in the gas tank of my Ford on June 29. And, too, the Sears-Roebuck envelope used to carry the sawdust had a name on it. “Lovingly, “MRS. T. H.’GALLOWAY.” CUV POOL PROVING CENTER OF ACTIVITY • i . ■ ■■ State Official* Say Brevard Park Outstanding Piece Of Relief Work One of the most popular places in Brevard for the past week has beer the municipal swimming poo) located in Franklin Park, where children, young people, grown-up and oldsters are disporting themselves in the fine water. Coach Ernest Tilson, who is in charge of the pool for the town of Brevard, stated that there were over eighty people in the pool at one time last Sunday afternoon, and that the pool is very seldom vacant, hall dozen to twenty-five being in regu larly. Season tickets for individuals, man and wife, and families are cn wile at the pooi where Coach Tilsor. is in at tendance at all time? at cne city j hall. Officials of the state department o. the emergency relief, under which the pool was constructed, were here Mon day and stated that the Brevard pool is one of the best to be constructed ir, the entire state. It is expected that the bath house will be completed within another I week, after which workmen w ill be I put on the grounds in the large park area. .... • , ,, At suggestion of state officials, the pool will be placed at the-disposal of children of relief cases on certain days of the week, Director Wilson to designate such cases. At Lyday Hoapital Patients reported at Lyday Memor ial hospital on Wednesday, and all said to be doing nicely, include: Lit tle Hamilton DeSaussure, suffering from pneumonia, little Jimmie a measles patient, and L. L. Powell Jr., recovering from injuries sustain ed in an automobile wreck last week. DELINQUENT UST BE PRINTED IN AUGUST List of delinquent tax payers for the year 1933 will be published be ginning the second week in August, according to action taker, by the board of county commissioners in ses sion here Monday. After being advertised through the local newspaper the property on which taxes have not been paid will be sold for assessments due. Follow ing is order made by the board: ‘ On motion duly made and carried Commissioner Sigmon was directed to notify 0. L. Erwin, tax collector, to prepare list of delinquent taxes for year 1933 so-that same could be duly advertised according to law begin ning at such period so that said pro perty could be sold on the first Mon day in September 1934.1’ The board, after1 conducting rou tine matters of business, took a re cess until Saturday of this week. ELECTRIC COOKING SCHOOL NEXT WEEK Despite the fact that Friday of next week falls an the 13th, the local SPU office is planning to hold an electric cooking school at their, showrooms in Brevard. Miss Leila A. Fleming, home economist for the Southern Public,' will conduct the sessions, and she too, believes that there U a lot moie luck in correct stoves and correct recipes than there is bad luck in a Friday that fails on the 13th. S3 FAIR MEETING WILL | BE HELD JULY 14TH Meeting of the Transylvania coun ty fair association will be held at the Brevard court house on Saturday night of next week, July 14, at eight o’clock. Announcement of the meeting is being made early by J. Wede Dick son, president, in order that all peo ple who are interested may plan to attend the meeting. It is pointed out that if the fair is to be a success, that plans must be made immediately, looking toward the fall event. BREESE MADE CHAIRMAN | OF TEACHER COLLEGE At a meeting of the board of trustees of Western North Carolina j Teachers College held in Asheville last Thursday, Win. E. Breese, of Brevard, was selected as chairman of the board. Reports made to the board of trus- < tees by Dr. Hunter, president of the school, were to the effect that the college is doing good work, and in creasing in attendance each yaar. TREE PROPAGAT N PROGRAM TO SI RT A project of tree propagation is in progress of formation by the red era' government under the TVA program, whereby the farmers of this section will be benefited, ac cording to John W. Ilershey, who H connected with the TVA witn head-! quarters in Knoxville, and was in ; Brevard Wednesday giving out infor • mation concerning this federal pro ject. , . The idee of the project, as explain ed by Mr. Hershey, is for the pur pose of getting the farmers to plant and propagate such trees on their premises as will aid in preventing soil erosion and also will be productive oi j fruit, berries and r.uts which will be. beneficial to the farmer and to the . housewife. ... . . j Various contests wul be sponsored by the government in this project, in cooperation with the newspapers in the section ,to further inform and educate the people as to the value of this tree crop propagation program., Newspaper releases will be made | by the TV A at occasional intervals, giving information and instructions | regarding the various phases of the j enterprise. The first release of tnis nature to be ihade will b* on July 5, j on the subject of the wild cherry I tree, which will appear in The Times i of the July 12 iasae._[ 'FOURTEEN BOYS ARE SELECTED FOR CAMP — Leaving Here Thuriday For Asheville—New Ruling In Regard To Pay Fourteen Transylvania boys will leave Thursday morning for Ashe ville where they will be examined for entrance in CC camp work. Five alternates are being taken along with the group oi fourteen by Director of Relief Wilson, to take places of any boys who are turned down on account of physical condition. It is pointed out by Mr. Wilson that b new ruling is now in effect pertaining to pay of the CC boys. A five dollar allotment i« given each of the boys monthly, $25 being sent to their families. In cases where a por tion of the money is returned by the parents to the boy in camp, such boy will be discharged at once. Those who will go from Transyl vania on Thursday are Roy Parker, Balsam Grove; Jim Brown. Balsam Grove; Jake Cantrell) Old Tex* way; Hamilton Kilpatrick, East Fork; Alfred Head, North Brevard; Hilton Anders, Rosman: Virgil Mc Call, Quebec, Frank Murr, East Fork; Vernon Searcy, Rosman; Pink Monroe Collins, East Fork; Joe Can trell, Old Toxaway; Janu-s Giiliard Bowen, Brevard; R, V. Galloway, Rosman; Harley Reynolds Dunn’s Rock. The five alternates are: Jim Jones, Brevard; Lee Miller, I.ake Toxaway; Herman Crow, Pisgah Forest; Arnold Bracken, Brevard; Demon McCall, Gloucester. HEAVY WINDSTORM IN BLANTYRE SUNDAY A severe rain and windstorm visit ed the Blantyre section Sunday after noon .doing much damage to fruit trees and garden crops. The storm was more than a mile in width, reach ing from the Dave Holliday home to ward the Glade Creek section. The heavy wind was accompanied by a steady downpour of rain. No damage to buildings was reported. FIGURES^ 80” FOUND ON BEET BY BREVARD LADY A freak of nature that attracted much attention in The Times office last week was a beet with the figures SO clearly showing on both the inner and cuter skin. The figures .uniform and about the 12-point sire showed up dark in the i*eel of the beet, and on the inside appeared to be a powdered sub stance growing into the hody of the beet. INCREASED NUMBER USING GOLF COURSE Leon English, who has charge of the Welcome to Breserd golf course, re poita increasing players daily, with summer visitors from many states playing on the course last Sunday. Always U beautiful course the nine hole layout has been repaired and improved! considerably during the past several months, now being in the beet shape in years. French Broad Dam Meeting Will Be At County Court House On Friday _____ Call is being issued by leaders in j the movement to work with the Ten nessee Valley Authority in the con struction of the proposed reservoir on the French Broad river to aJ people of the county especially farmers and landowners, to meet at the county court bouse on Friday night of this week at eight o’clock. At this meeting it is hoped to ar rive at a decision as to what action farmers and landowners expect to take in the matter, looking lowirt. working out a program that will bt acceDtable to the Tennessee Valley Authortiy and at the same time be for the best interest of all people ocn cerned. . .... A group of around filty represent ative citizens of the county met at the Brevard high school last Friday night, and expressed themselves as against construction of a storage dam cn the main French Broad stream in any location above A?ne ' ^Professor S. P. Verncr, who has made a study of the French Broad valley and its water storage poten tialities, presided. Several other men present, including Mayor J. C Wike, Chairman W. A. Aiken, W. E. Breese, Professor G. D. White and Chris Dillard of Mills River, express ed themseives as opposing construc tion of a dam in the valley for stor age purposes with its attendant damages to valuable property and the inevitable evils that would come from draw-down cf the water level. Professor Vevner pointed out that there were four plans that the TV A could, or are, contemplating. One J* construction of e 210-foot dam near Bent Creek in Buncombe county which would put water over the rail road tracks at Rosman; sene*. ot smaller dams from Asheville to Ros man; dams on several tributary streams; and development of th® valley. He told of visiting^ Dr. A. E. Morgan, head of the TVA, stating that it was the attitude of the offi dais to indude the French Bro:; 1 valley in the wide program and con serve and develop resource* here if possible. However, the official gave no assurance of what the program would be. Mr. Vomer pointed out that the Norris dam was first started as a storage proposition and later turn ed into a power generation plant. Mr. Verner stated that average price paid for lands in Tennesee that was taken over by the TVA was $49 per acre, including bottom and up land. He said that he was not opposed to the TVA or the administration, but he wanted if possible, to have Transylvania (resources developed which would make this the garden spot of the world. With proper de velopment, following conntruclion of dams on tributary streams which would be used both as storage arid flood control units, the speaker said, potentialities of the valley in s few ysais would be $40,000,000 per year He stressed ihe fact that there would in his opinion, be something done by the TVA in this immediate valley, and urged concerted action to get what is best for all concnrnea. Professor G. D. White, vocational agriculture teacher of Mills River high school, stated •flatly that con struction of the dam meant the very existence of French Broad Valley people. He pointed out that very small part of the actual value of land in the valley would be received by owners if the government took over property. He too, expressed the opinion that tributary storage dams would make valley land exceptionally fine for agricultural purpose*. W. L. Aiken, chairman of the boara of commissioners, declared that he had lived here all his lifts and that he wanted to finish out his alloted time in Transylvania, and that he was emphatically opposed to con struction of the storage dam. J, C. Wike, mayor of Brevard, — (Continued m betel? png')

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