1ST 1 THE TRANSYLV AN Coi,nty I A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County --1 ^. .VJ-NoTlS RRFVABD. NORTH caROLINA-THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1934 $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY _ ^^™ ■——“ 1 ——————^ ' I CHARLOTTE SENDING MANY PUPILS HERE Brevard College Looking For Full Enrollment—Will Open September 10 Prospects for a full enrollment in Brevard College are brighter every day. Applications for admission a)'L‘| coming in from several counties m ; .the Piedmont section of the state. Lust week President Coltrane receive ! nine applications from Stanley < ...n tv. When questioned yesterday «. Coltrano indicated that r ojably Mecklenburg county and t! city ot Charlotte would send twenty-five students this year. Last week the presi..-nt attended the Charlotte District conference and presented the cause >.i Brevard Col lege. Ministers and laymen in that district evidenced great enthusiasm for the college and gave assurance ot active support. The president receiv ed several applications from students. Last Saturday Mr. Coltrane and Mr. Cathey, who is representing the col lege i'11 the field, held a conference in Lina lnton with prospective stu-; dents in that territory. Next Saturday ) the iv will be a similar conference in ; Gastonia. Mr. Cathey is working m j Henderson county this week. Ci liege authorities believe that all available space in the college dormi tories will be taken before the open-; ing September Id. Families in ditfei ent sections of the state are making inquiries about living accoommoda-; Pons in Brevard. There lias been a growing demand for copies of the ^ new catalogue. Nearly two thousand ( copies have been distributed and a new edition of the issue of the cata logue is now contemplated. PHILMORE SEARCY IS ! SOUGHT BY SHERIFF ( Sheriff Tam Wood refuses to trust any move prisoners, whomsoever. The sheriff’s faith in mankind of the type j that runs afoul of the law was shakin , last week when Philmore Searcy left the rare of the guardian of the law ( while being loosed from the sheriff tor a brief moment. It seems that Searcy was charged with stealing a cow, and the sheritt was sent out to bring the alleged cul prit in. which lie did. Coming through the t orrid: r of the court house with his prisoner en route to jail, some one stopped the sherd f and Risked; lo speak to him “right now.’ i tun ing half around to discuss the more (,r less weighty matter with the get}” t(email who stopped him, the sheriff released his hold on Searcy, who took this opportunity u make a dive, for the baik d«o«- of the jail. A quick tui n around the corner at the Mot ho dis. church and Philmore was ;n parts unknown. ENON CHURCH CALLS EV. HILEMON AGAIN PENROSE. July 11 — The Rev. C. \V Ililonion was re-elected Sun-1 day as pastor of the Enon baptist: church. 1'his is the third time the; Rev. Mr. lliiemon has been selected by the church folks. The first call was tendered iiim in 1925 when he served three years, later leaving for school, lie was called again a year ago. Following a ruling adopted by the church to elect all officers yearly the church re-elected Mr. lliiemon Sunday with no other names con sidered. Other church officers for the asso ciational year will be chosen on the fourth Sunday. Ward Recovering T. P. Ward, of Ward’s News Stand, is improving from injuries received in a wreck la-t Friday night. Mr. Ward’s arm was broken and several cuts were received about the body. Charles Corn, who was with Mr. Ward at the time of the accident, es caped with minor injuries. The car was damaged considerably. FAIR ASSOCIATION TO | MEET SATURDAY EVE. Plans To Be Laid For Staging Transylvania County Fair Here This Fall Saturday night of this week has been set for meeting of the Transyl vania Fair association, the meeting to be held at eight o'clock at the county court house. J. Wade Dickson, chairman of the association, stresses the fact that ^nlans must be made at once if the ~county is to have a fair this fall which will equal that heid here last year, when the two-day event was ac corded a success in every way. Original plans of the association were to build a permanent fair | rounds at the county home, a project * being made out and request for Fed eral funds having been made. How ever, curtailment of funds has held up the project and it is not known now whether the permanent grounds will be located at the county home or not. TEACHER MEETING TO BE HELD HERE JULY 18 All principals and teachers of the county are requested by County Superintendent Bush to meet at the Brevard high school auditorium at 10 o’clock on Wednesday, July 18, fur a conference with Dr. J. Henry High smith. state director of instructional service. Chief subject to be taken up at the meeting by Dr. Highsmith will be the new course of study. — ALL DOGS MUST BE j CONFINED BY ORDER | Order Made as Preventative j Measure Against Out break of Rabies Order was passed by the Transyl vania County Board of Health last Thursday to the effect that all dogs j in the county must be kept confined 1 during the months of July and Aug- i ust. Ill eases where dogs have been . inoculated against rabies by a veter-j inarian or a physician, and the ownei j has certificate showing that such in- ( oeulation has been made, such dogs , will not come under the ruling. Any dogs found running at large i in the county during the months of July and August without tags show- , ing are subject to he shot forthwith, according to Dr. (5. B. Lynch, chaii man of the hoard of health, or the owner fined or given a prison -en-j tence. I It is pointed out by Dr. Lynch that any pel son who allows a dog to run loose, and such dog should contract rabies and bite people or animal> that the owner would be doubly lia ble, both for damages and criminal violation of the order, which when passed officially by the county boaid of health, as in the manner of the present order, becomes law. The board met and passed the | mter after reports were made Iron) , several sections of the county ot mad | dogs. DAHLIA CLUB MEETING TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY Th > Transvivania Dahlia club will meet on Friday i veiling of this week at eight o’clock at the offices of Fred , Shufurd in Brevard, at which tune plans will be discussed for staging the annual dahlia show next month. Request is made by officers of the vhib that all members be present at this meeting and that non-member, interested in dahlia growing and the dahlia show also attend. Norton Gore To China j Mr. and Mrs Felix Norton have received word from their <011 Lamar Norton, to the effect that he is sail ing this week on the L'. S. S. Hender son for China for a stay of three years. Young Norton has been in tne navy for several years. BASEBALL GAME HERE SATURDAY AFTERNOON Transylvania Tanning company’s ciack baseball nine will meet the Gloucester CC camp team on the high school field Saturday afternoon at 3:30, according to Manager Mis enheimer. 1 The ' local outfit defeated the Gloucester bunch last Sunday after noon on the latter’s diamond by the score of 6-2 in a game that was in teresting throughout. LOCAL TRUCK] S CAR; TWO MEN DIE ,T. F. Long of Saluda, N. C., was killed instantly early last Thursday morning in Columbia, when the car in which he was riding with R. B. McCarty of Watts Mill, S. C., and Ben Sample of Saluda, N. C. crashed into a truck driven by Allen Brittain of Brevard, accompanied by Tom Mitchell, also of Brevard. McCarty, seriously injured, was carried to a hospital in Columbia, where he died last Saturday. The third man in the ear escaped with minor injuries. Neither Mr. Brittain nor Mr. Mitchell, both employes of the B. & B. Feed & Seed company, were hurt. At a coroner’s jury hearing Tues day night in Columbia, the jury found that the two men came to their death from a collision, and made no recom mendations as to negligence of either of the parties. However, the local men were allowed to return to Bre vard without making bond or being detained in any way. Mr. Brittain said that the car was on his side of the road and, thinking it was about to park or turn left, he pulled toward the middle pf the road. The car, he said, did likewise, the cra-h resulting. EQUALIZATION MEET SET FOR JULY 23RD The county commissioners will sit as a board of equalization and re view for the county in the court house on Monday, July 23, the sessions to open at ten o’clock in the morning. Any tax payer who is dissatisfied with his listing may come before the board for a rehearing on his property assessment. Greenville Business People Visiting In Brevard Wednesday on Annual Outing As The Times went to press Wed nesday afternoon, nearly one hun dred fifty Greenville citizen* were scheduled to arrive in Brevard. According to prearranged sched ule the motorcade was made up of members of the Greenville Retail Merchants Bureau and their wives, accompanied by the Greenville Municipal band and an escort of South Carolina highway patrol nun, was to leave Greenville at three o’clock, and was to be met at the state line by a party of Brevard business men and two North Caro lina highway patrolmen, w h o were sent here by Lieutenant Fisher of the Asheville office as a courtesy to Brevard. The itinerary as announced Tuesday by Secretary L. M. Glenn of the Greenville Chamber of Com merce follows: 2:45 P. M.—Motorcade forms on North Main street opposite Spring wood cemetery, heading north. 1! P. M.—Do not move your tar until signal is given at 3 P. M. Mo torcade moves up North Main to Stone avenue; left turn into Stone avenue; right turn into Rutherford street; straight ahead; slow down at traffic light at junction of Ruth erford and Camp roads; straight ahead out new Buncombe Road en trance. 4 P. M — Pause at North Caro lina-South Carolina state line for few minutes but do not leave cars. 4:15 P. M.—First stop Rockbruok Camp. This is one of the most ex clusive camps for girls in the South. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Carrier, the former a native of Greenville. Fifteen minutes allowed for inspection of camp. 5 P. M.—Move off on signal. Fol low motorcycle escort through city of Brevard, without ^topping, for visit to Camp Sapphire, one of the limst camps for boys in the South. One hour allowed for swimming, as guests of Bill Fetzer, owner of camp. Band concert at camp, by Greenville Municipal band. 6 P. M.— Return to Brevard. Mo toi cade will pause in front of court house to permit members of band to dismount, cars will then pro ceed on down street and park in front of Franklin hotel. Members of motorcade will please walk back to courthouse lawn and mingle with Brevard citizens during the band concert. 8 P. M.—Supper served ai. Hotel Franklin. Miss Rose Shipman, manager. Motorcade will leave immediately after adjournment. In a letter to The Times, Mr. Glenn stated that there “is no spec ial significance to our coming to Brevard, other than one of friend ly interest. It's beer, hot down here, and we want to come up to Bre vard for a spoil and cool olf.” The Greenville merchants take a short trip each summer in Juiy, it being the lirst Wednesday half holiday observed by the business house workers and employes. By unanimous vote the members of the retail bureau of the Chamber of Commerce decided to come to Bre vard. Several of the business men of Brevard received invitations to bt guests of the Greenville folk at the Franklin Hotel dinner at eight o’clock Wednesday evening. No Steps Be Taken On Dam Matter i Until More Information Is On Hand No ■ fficia] steps will be taken by ' people of Transylvania county in re-• gard to the proposed French Broad dam until such time as definite in- i formation can be had as to actual, plans of the T’t A. This action was , taken at a meeting held in the coun-j t.v court house last Friday night, j .Around two hundred people at tended the meeting, with a number of discussions being heard in ogurd to possibilities of the project, most of which were surmises, exception being that the Tennessee Valley Authority is making surveys in the valley with a view of establishing data on stor age possibilities and economic condi-j Mans. Profe-sor S. P. Venter presided a the meeting and introduced the sev eral people who spoke more or Je.s brief'ly, among them being Miss Fior ence Kern >t' Brevard, who stated simply that she was opposed to the building of the dam; Judge Meekins of Hendersonville, who stated that he was not cognizant of facts in the case, but that he was opposed to the i government going into business in competition with private industries;, K. W. Kubanks of Hendersonville, j stated that he was in Brevard to learn what the folk here had to say in regal'd to the matter. He stated, however, that in his opinion, if the governmental agency found that tne dam was necessary to the Muscle Shoals project that it would be built. Di. T. Thompson, ol Virginia, who has been coming to Camp Carolina for a number of years, stated that he was a listener only. C. W. Talley of Penrose said that we would like to have some definite information about the matter, wanting to know how much the authority would pay for lands condemned, and on what ratio a farmer situated as he is in the path of the proposed storage reservoir, receive for improvements, and on; uplands. Oliver II- Orr, J. M. Gaines and Dr. J. H. McLean, when called on by Mr. Verner, stated that they. were at the meeting to learn some- j thing about the matter. Fidelia Henderson, sage of Con-1 nestee, declared that some of the; bottom lands in Transylvania and j Henderson county are worth more i than $40 to $100 per acre, which he , understood had been paid in the j Tennessee section where a dam is now being built. It was his opinion that farmers of the two counties should band themselves together and demand a fair price for their lands and dam ages incurred, and failing in these demand-, tell the government to built their dam somewhere-else. He stated that President Roosevelt has done more than any one man to alleviate sufering and give the people a fair dial and he did not believe he wouic allow drastic steps to be taken to dis possess people of their property un fairly. .J)r. .1 C. Owen, defeated candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress, emphatically declared that the dam was one of the biggest and best things that could possibly come to Western North Carolina. He dwelt at length on the possibilities ol water '. ranportotion and summer re sort business that would follow m the wake of the proposed development. His argument was given rebuttal by C. M. Douglas. Mr Yerner asked Chairman W. I. Aiken to preside at this point in the meeting and suggested that an or ganization be formed to represent ail the people of the county in the mat ter. and made motion that another meeting be held at an eatly date for organization purposes. After the question was put to the assemblage, W. E. Breese, offered an amendment to the effect that, Mr. Verner be empowered by the meeting to git in touch with Chief Engineer A. C. Bock of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and that another meeting of the people be held at such time as Mr. Bock could be here and give out something definite in regard to tm proposition. “No one knows where the lake will reach to,” he said, “and no one knows what price will be pain for our lands.” . , „ , . Mr. Breese stated tnat he, Ralph Ramsey end A. K. Harris held a con ference with Engineer Bock and that the engineer himself did not know and told the Brevard party that he did not He said that he was opposed to the building of a storage dam that would cover up a part of the val.ey and ruin practically tne rest of it due tc bad drainage and other attendan bad features. However, he reiterated, no one knew just what, was to be done, and that the authority itself did not know as yet. It would be foolish, he stated, to fight something that nothing was known of and urged waiting until something definite was know. . , Walter B. Smith, who was he:e icveral moths ago as construction engineer of the water gauging units on the French Broad, but who was removed after several weeks, stateo (Continued on bo,ckvogo)____ FINE POTATOES ARE BEING GROWN HERE The one-acre plot of potatoes at the county home, project of Brevard high school vocational agriculture class and the county commissioners is one of the finest plots in the state, according to G. K. Middleton of the state college who was here last week inspecting crops that are to be certi fied. The state inspector also went over a plot being grown by W. rill of the Little River section, and praised the work that is being started in this county for the growing of cer tified seed potatoes. The plot at the county home was started this year by Professor Julian Qlazener in an effort to intx*oduce certified seed in this county, and pro duce seed for sale to farmers here. MEANEST MAN CUT . TAIL OFF MILK COW The meanest man in Transylvania has bobbed up again, this time in Bre vard, and his dirty deal was the cut ting off of a cow’s tail. The fine milker belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Will Hunt, and the mean act was commit ted while the cow was in the pasture. Naturally Mr. Hunt was riled up, and no blame is attached to Mr. Hunts intention of keeping a weather eye pealed for the “next fellow” and a shotgun in hand to help him express his sentiments. The real mean thing about cutting the cow’s tail off is the fact that in stead of “whacking” the appendage off in a cross manner, the diabolical minded mean guy took a ieng slice at about a 4.5 degree angle. SHERIFF CRAIG RESIGNS PLACE AFTER SHOOTING PICKENS, S. C., Juiy 11—Sh.riff John B. Craig, rounding1 out nine years as chief law enforcement offi cer for Pickens county, resigned his office last Wednesday, his resigna tion growing out of the shooting of his son. In a statement made public from the Craig home the day following the shooting, • Sheriff Craig stated that “he regretted very much the af fair." The 22-year-old son was shot! three times with a pistol. CIVIL TERM COURT STARTS JULY 30TH Judge Warlick To Preside — Jury Drawn Saturday By Commissioners Superior court for trial of civil , cases will convene in Brevard on July 30, with Judge Warlick presid ing. The term is scheduled to la‘i two weeks with the following having : been selected by the board of com- j missioned last Saturday to serve as j jurors: ne t Week Jack Trantham, C. C. Williams, T. H. Hart, Charley Gillespie, Ernest j Allison, A. W. Hubbard, Elisha j Gravely, Jess Brcediove, W. P. Alli son, Clyde Baynard, Oliver Galloway, j G. C. Neely, T. F. McCall, W. M. Brittain, J. T. Harrison, C. F. Nor ton, J. C. Gravely, A. C. Price, Frank Whitmire, A. N. Jenkins, M. G. Cun- j ningham, Cole T. Lee. Fred Batson and Arnold Williams. Second Week C. C. Reece, II. D. Lee, Pat Henry, G. F. Gallimore. E. C. Fortesque, J. Colie Owen, M. 0. McCall, C. ( Yongue. Wm. H. Warren, A. J. i Fisher, Sam L. Cooper, N. M. Hens ley, C. H. Morris and C. K. Osborn.. IjN-CANNNED SALMON FOR BOYS AT CAMP SAPPHIRE — The Greenville News tells of the !)0 campers at Camp Sapphire who sat down to an “un-canny” salmon supper Monday night. It seems that the 35-pound salmon had been taken from Canadian waters by Col. Frank W. Clark president of ' the Anglo-Canadian paper company, shipped from Quebec to Greenville, S. C., to Roger C. Peace. It was taken to camp by Roger Peace, Jr., afford ing many campers their first taste of fresh salmon. They seem to have en joyed salmon that didn’t, tome from cans. UNLUCKY THIRTEENTH FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK Walk under no ladders Friday, let no black cat cross your path, take, no money in the left hand, kill nc cats. -. ■ do nothing thac will incur the wrath of the unlucky demons, for double bad luck is destined to come on Fii day, July 13th. Transylvania county people e\i dmtly wore very careful on the* pre vious "bad lock" day which occurred in April of this year, as there were ■no dire calamities reported or, that date. Negro Bail Game The ‘‘Brevard Sluggers,” Inca' i colored aggregation, will meet the ‘‘Pickens Stars," reputed to bi pretty good baseball players, on the high ! school field here Monday afternoon j at four o’clock. baphstkaTledto MEET SUNDAY, 2:30 Special meeting of officers and pastors of the Transylvania Baptist association is called for Sunday af ternoon at 2:30 at the Brevard Bap ! tist church. This meeting is to be he'd i in the interest of the coming regular : session of the association. Every pastor, church clerk, deacon. | Sunday school superintendent anil I leaders in other departments of j c hurch work are urged to attend this ' meeting. Any member of a BaptM I church who is interested in the work j of the association is cordially invited I to attend. Paul Hartsell, Moderator. Mrs. G. F. Gallimore, Clerk. MUCH INTEREST 5H0WN IN TEACHER QUESTION Much interest is being shewn in the matter of teachers for the schools of the Brevard district, with Dam-: Rumor seemingly holding the trump hand in the matter. No statement has been made for publication by either the local school committee or the county superintend j ent. SPELLINGBEETO BE GIVEN FRIDAY NIGHT A spelling bee will be given at the Connestee school Friday night o1 this week at 8 o’clock, sponsored by the Cop.nestee Beneficial Society music club. The contest will be between the boys and girls of the community. Music will be furnished by the musi cians of the Conneetee section. The public is invited to be present and to take part in -he entertainment. COUNTY WILL TAKE BONDS AS PAYMENT — Fourteen Thousand Dollar* Re tired During The Past Two Month* The county commissioners in meet ing Saturday made an order to the effect that . u:>ly bon I would be accepted at fare value in payment c£ notes now h i.I by the ■ unty arid i’l the hands of County Attorney \V. id. Breese for collection. The notes in question are collateral paptr put up by the tv w defunct Brevard Banking company as deposit guarantee and are the property o£ the county. Considerable saving may, be affected by those who take advan tage of this offer, as county bonds are wiling at, much below their face value. Five bend* of $1,000 each were turned over to the county commission ers Saturday by Tax Collector Er win, having been taken in on debt service portion of taxes. Fourteen such bonds we.e turned n; the first Monday in July. The order in regard to note pay ment by county bonds follows "RESOLVED that the county at torney be directed to accept county bonds at par in the payment of any notes held by the county. Provided, That no reduction be made in thu amount of the note, or accrued inter est thereon. “Provided, farther, that this au thority shall continue foi such timu as the board may deem proper." NEW ARRIVAL Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Fortune an nounce the birth of a daughter, Betty Frances, on Sunday, July b. BREVARD BAND SETS FIRST CONCERT DATE I — Brevard's firJf band concert of the season will be heard Saturday night, July 21, according to Goode Lotus, manager of the musical unit and Donald Lee Moore, director. The group practice- Tuesday and Thursday evenings of each week and Manager Loftis is urging that, all former band members who have not been working with the faithful at • tenders supplement them Thursday night in older that the first concert be a successful one. These band coneei:.- in past sum mer* have gained popularity among local and visiting )< iplc and it is with eagerness that th, first concert is awaited. KIWANIS WILL MEET ON EACH THURSDAY Brevard'Kiwani* club will meet each Thursday at noon during July and August according to action taken at the meeting Wednesday. Th: ..ay of meeting was changed nt requt;: of some of the member.- and the sched ule changed from bi-yvecklv i n ac count of the fact that there ai.' numerous visiting K;wani;ins ;n B’.'< vard each summer w. wish, to max up their attendance Mrs. C. E. Cody, ot Savannah. G who is spending the summer in P vard, delighted the 'iiembei * v several vc cal selections, nccowpai I by Mrs. Carl McCrai .. . W. P. Gash, a new member \ appointed to the public affairs <■ ... mittee, and E. J. Bogtn made a num ber of the entertainment committee. AVERY CASE APPOINTED CITY BUILDING INSPECTOR Avery M. Case hu»; bei n appointed building inspector In the town >' I Brevard, taking ovu the office mad:: vacant by tne death ot H. A. Du Rant several days ago. The law requires that a ptrmit be secured from the budding inspector before any new building or repairs to old building in iht town limit* be started. TAX RATE ESTIMATE Final Adoption cf Budget b Set for Next First Monday Meeting Budget estimate as presented to the. county commissioners at their meet ing Saturday by County Accountant L. V. Sigmon calls for a rate of $1.69 on the hundred dollar valuation, an increase of four cent- on the hundred over the rate of 1933 which was $1.55. Final adoption of tv.< budget will be made by the commissioners in their meeting the first Monday in August, a study of the estimated budget being made in the meantime. The commis sioners have the right to either raise or lower the estimated rate. A seventeen cent increase is noted in the debt service column of the sum mary as carried on page 3 of this issue of The Times. The- . county health and poor fund and health de partment was cut from 17 to 14 cents, with the county general left at 17, and estimate for Fchcols was made the same as last year, 30 cents.