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1 vn| 41 NQ' 8 ' ^kvARPTNORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, b EBRUARY 20, 19?S. $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
LIBRARIES SET UP
IN COUNTY SCHOOLS
Provision Made For Each Of
School Communities To
Have 100 Books
All schools of the county will have
library facilities within a few days, ac
cording to County Superintendent J.
1'., Jones.
Hooks are being sent to six of the
schools this week, Mr. Jones said Mon
day. and other schools will bo visited
by the delivery truck as soon as the
roads are in better condition, possibly
by the last of this week.
Quebec. Sellca. Connestee, Cedar
Mountain, Plsgah Forest, Enon and
Kittle Ittvor schools were on the list
to revive first allotment of hooks, as
roads to these schools are In fair shape.
Around 100 books are being sent to
each of the schools. Mr. Jones said, and
will he left for several weeks, then
moved to another school, and books
that have been In use in other places
interchanged.
The libraries will be under the su
pervision of the principals of the
several schools, assistants to be furn
ished by the National Youth Adminis
tration through Mr. Jones’ office.
Hooks for the libraries were secured
l,y the county superintendent through
the state library commission, and
teachers and school children ure urged
to take the best of care of the volumes
and to return them ns promptly as they
are read in order that others may have
the benefits of the free library facilities.
No books out of the 1200 now on
hand will be replaced at either Bre
vard or Bosnian schools, as these two
units now have libraries. Provision will
be made at an early date. Mr Jones
said, lo furnish books for the two col
ored schools of the county. These books
however, will not be used in the white
schools.
I’so of the books now on hand will be
limited to school students, under regu
lations sent out from Raleigh, but it Is
the aim of the school authorities to
maintain the libraries through the sum
mer months, and after school closes
parents and patrons of the schools will
-i allowed the free use of the hooks.
Orchard Pruning To
Be Demonstrated On
Transylvania Farms
(J. A. Gluzener, County Agent)
II. It. Niswonger, Slate Horticultural
specialist is to spend next Monday. Feb
ruary 24. and until noon Tuesday, In
the county. While here he will give
pruning demonstrations as follows, if
the weather permits:
Monday morning 10 o'clock at Jud
Crary's orchard in Little River.
Monday afternoon 1:30 at C. F.
wdfin's orchard in Penrose commun
aml following the demonstration at
. Woodfin's. which will be pruning
ing apple trees, Mr. Niswonger will
e a demonstration on how to prune
er trees at W. T. Whitmire’s place
Penrose community.
Tuesday morning 10 o'clock at Orand
e Fisher's home, Mr. Niswonger will
e another pruning demonstration
the tienefit of the farmers in the
<e Toxawav community.
Monday night at 7:30. a meeting will
lie held in the county agent's office, at
which time Mr. Niswonger will discuss
vegetable growing. All persons, both
men and women, interested in growing
better vegetables are specially request
ed to attend this meeting. Mr. Nis
wonger is quite an authority on fruits
and vegetables and here Is hoping that
many will take advantage of his Infor
mation by attending the meeting Mon
day night ns well as the pruning dem
onstrations.
Marriage License Slump
Girls in Transylvania are either re
luctant to invade the seas of matrimony
nr are just a mite hesitant about “pop
ping the question" during the month
of February which Is supposed to bo
' roe rein" month for the ladies.
Nary a marriage license has been
med by !••• ter of Deeds .less Gallo
y il'ii ie ■ !• up year month.
^NK AND POST OFFICE
WILL BE CLOSED 22ND
V' liar'; a:>.| post office will he clos
n Satin- emoring Uoor \Vash
• m's birthday.
e local post office will be open
S to « and from 10:30 to 11:30 in
morning Thar will be no city
-r or rural delivery of mails.
Cold Wave General
Over United States
Transylvania residents have shivered
and wondered just when winter would
he over, and their cold has been made
more Intense by radio reports from
the middle west of sub-zero weather
which has taken toll of human and
stock lives.
Low readings here of 8, 10 and 15
above zero have been recorded here
while Tuesday In Minnesota the tem
perature was 46 degrees below freez
ing: Montana and North Dakota, SO
below, and Iowa, 26 below.
In addition to tha severe cold, snow
, has blocked highways In the middle
west, and food and fuel shortages also
face the people, with sickness ar.d
dean becoming more prevalent each
• lay.
ftn.!lo broadcast Tuesday night from
- Nice go gave out the hope that the
* ' wave would be brokon by Thurs
day
Many Rumors In Air
Concerning Political
Candidates In County
".and I think he's ugonna run,
too.and I heard that So-and-So
will announce right away for this or
that.”
That is the style of conversation
when two or more of the male popula
tion got together in Brevard for the j
past week or so.
The ladies are discussing tilts of hats,
cut of coats, straps on shoes, and tho
value of "foundation garments, etc,,
etc ." but the men are Interested most
ly in one thing.politics.
So far only one man has announced ,
for office- -Pat Kimzey for Representa
tive in the legislature from this county.
Attentive ear of The Times reporter j
hits been tuned in on all wave lengths, i
but the only thing the newspaper ra- j
dio lias been able to pick up from a lo- |
cal standpoint is whispers from tho
broadcasting station of Dame Rumor.
Tiiero is every earmark, however, |
that each of the offices that are to bo I
filled by the electors this fall will have j
several aspirants in the Democratic j
primary which is to be held in June, j
and there is also the more than possi- |
bility that each of tho offices will havo
more than one Republican seeker be- '
fore the convention by which the nomi- I
nees are selected for the GOP ticket.
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Breedlove-Burgess
Hearing Here 22nd
Preliminary hearing for Mrs. Jess
Breedlove, charged with shooting Mrs.
Mary Burgess and her daughter. Miss
Bertie Burgess, is set for Saturday aft
ernoon of this week.
Mrs. Burgess was shot through the
chest, and her condition was at first re
garded as critical. However, she is re
ported to be improving.
The case of Charles McNeely, who
was said to have been a party to the
affair which grew into the two women
being shot, will be turned over to Clerk
of Court Otto Alexander, juvenile judge,
as the boy Is under sixteen years of
age.
Real Estate Transfers
The following real estate transfers j
recorded in the register of deeds office
during the past week:
James A. I.yday and wife to It. N.
Boebdcll and wife; J. C. McCall and
wife to Mrs. J. A. Byday; V. M. Man- !
ning and wife to A. Charles Cannon;
Jesse Bee and wife to Rev. E. V. Best;
' It. B. Hogsed and wife to Austin E.
Hogsed; D. B. English, trustee, to N.
A. Miller; G. P. Hood, comr., to Doro
thy S. Berg and husband; M. W. Gal
loway and wife to N. A. Miller and
wife; O. P. Hood, commr., to Mrs. Eliz- '
al>et h M. Silversteen; G. P. Hood,
commr.. to Brevard Investment com
pany, 5 tracts; E. C. Blackwell to
Gloucester Dumber company; G. P.
Hood, commr.. to Judson McCrary; By
I die Osteen to Brevard Investment Co.
French Broad River
Named Tahkeeosteh
Original Indian name for the French
Broad river which begins its flow in
Transylvania county, was Tahkeesosteh,
according to Dr. A. AY. Bong. However,
Dr. Dong is not certain just what the
Indian name signified.
The name French Broad is said to
have been given the river years ago by
early settlers, the "French" part being
to identify the river from the several
"Broad” rivers in the eastern section of
the United States.
Anyone knowing the meaning of the
Indian word Tahkeeosteh is asked to
communicate with The Times.
BONDS WILL MAKE
NEW HOME OWNERS
Veterans Planning To Invest
Money From Certificates
In Real Estate
There will be over fifty r.ew home
• owners in Transylvania county during
] the next year if plans of veterans of
I the World War materialize.
Veterans who have come into The
! Tines office to have their application
i clanks filled out have expressed the
; hope to start building on their rest egg
which they will receive from their ad
justed service compensation certificates
toward home ownership.
t »f course there are those who look
forward to "just spending" their money,
hut these are in the minority; and
then there are others who want to
square off and take a fresh start, but
no less than fifty (some of them color
ed) will become home owners.
Each day brings a new batch of sol
diers in to The Times off'ee to hava
their finger prints taken, the blanks
I filled out on a typewriter and the nec
I essary notary seal, all of which is being
done in this office at no charge to the
veterans. The work was moved to this
office after Dr. Carl Hardin, adjutant
of the Drevard post American Legion
was Injured in & fall two weeks ago.
j Veterans and citizens of the county
are asked to urge upon others who
have not filed for their bonds to do so
at once, and those who have failed to
make application for adjusted compen
sation certificates are also r.sked to
come Into this office where proper
blanks are on hand.
Transylvania county veterans will re
ceive in the neighborhood of a hundp?d
thousand dollars from the baby bond
Issue which will be sent but by the fed
eral government after June 15th of this
year.
College Student Champion Com Grower
John Reno, student at Brevard College, is also a farmer of note, and
to prove the assertion that he knows the difference between oats
an.I rye, and the difference between scrub cattle and tlie better grades,
he hus boon awarded n year's scholarship at State College for his corn
growing ability, and in addition, a free scholarship to the 4-H short
course to lie held at State College this summer. A Hereford calf owned
by Student-Fanner lteno won the first prize at the Asheville Fat
Slock Show. Young lteno hails from Haywood county, a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harlev G. Reno. He is a Freshman at Brevard College. (Cut
courtesy The Citizen.)
Regulation Covering
Commodities Is Given j
Announcement is made by Mrs. C. I
Y. Patton of the work her office is
supposed to do, and the rules and regu
lations which must be observed in order ■
to keep the work here functioning with
the stale regulations.
Although the impression is quite gen
eral that with the opening of these
certifying agencies in the county wel
fare departments, all unemployed peo
ple can he certified and immediately
assigned to work, the real farts are that
only those families (persons) which
were actually receiving direct or work
relief between May 1st and November
1st. are eligible for certification to the
WPA and other Federal programs. This
means that the county welfare depart
ments will he able to certify only a
comparative few of those now without
work.
Before its liquidation, as of December
B, the North Carolina Emergency Re
lief Administration certified 65,448 fam
ilies to WPA and other Federal pro
grams. hut In view of the State's quota
it lias not been possible for all of the
certified families to be assigned to
work.
Families who received surplus com
modities only between May 1st and
November 1st, are not eligible for cer
tification, To date, no change has been
made in this ruling. Families on rural
rehabilitation between the two dates,
who have boon released by Rural Re
settlement are eligible for certification
to WPA.
According to instructions Issued there
will be no CCC referrals until further
notice. z
One of the main duties of the Certify
ing Agent in the County Welfnre De
partment is to investigate the needs of
uncertified applicants who received di
rect or work relief between May 1st
and November 1st, In order to deter
mine their eligibility.
According to the policies of WPA,
only one member of a certified family
may work on the WPA program or
other programs financed in whole or in
part from Federal funds under the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of
lpS.i. This does not preclude families
wlih sons in CCC. nor does it preclude
those in which there is a member in
NYA or Student Aid program.
School Work Will Be
Displayed On Friday
Members of the junior and sophomore
English classes of the Brevard high
school will entertain at tea Friday aft
ernoon from 3:30 to 4:30 o’clock In
room 300 in the high school building.
The project work of these students
for the fall term will be on display,
which it is expected will be the source
of much Intelest to the visiting friends.
\n invitation is extended by Miss Mar
tha Boswell, English teacher, to the
parents and interested friends to at
tend the tea and exhibit Friday after
noon.
Bonds May Be Taken
From Tax Payments
Notice Is be given tax payers by Tax
Collector Lem Brooks, that payment of
debt sendee portion of taxes In bonds
whereby the actual rate paid has. been
lower, will end when a re-financing
plan which county officials are working
on is completed.
By using bonds for payment of debt
service portion of back taxes a material
saving can be made by the tax payers
and Mr. Brooks urges In an advertise
ment in *hls issue that immediate ac
tion be taken If tlie saving la to be
had.
I
Governor Brownlee
Praises Kiwanians
Real need of civic group workings for
progress of a community was stressed
by (). Y. Brownlee, district governor
of Kiwanis international at the meet
ing of the Brevard duh last Thursday.
Governor Brownlee, who has proven
his worth to his home community of
Hendersonville many times over, com
plimented the Brevard group on its
active work here in the past, and
stressed the fact that the Henderson
ville civic groups were always willing
and eager to cooperate In any move
that would tend to build up this sec
tion.
Prof. R. T. Kimzey, principal of Bre
vard schools, was welcomed into the
club as a new member.
Capt. Bill Fetzer of Camp Sapphire,
and Hr. S. M. Macfie, proprietor of the
Macfic Drug company were reinstated
into the club. 1. H. Bailey of Charlotte,
was a guest of Mrs. Mary Jane Mc
Crary.
20.000 ETHIOPIANS KILLED
ROME, Feb. 17.—Twenty thousand
Ethiopians were killed or wounded In
the battle of Enderta, the biggest of
the entire war. an Italian official com
munique said last night.
The communique said 400 Italians
were killed and 500 wounded in desper
ate fighting in which the Ttalinnn cap
tured Amha Aradam, fortified moun
tain where the Ethiopians hoped to
stem the invaders’ advance towards
Addis Ababa.
Lincoln Day Dinner
Attended By Many
Between "5 and 100 Republican lead
ers officially opened tlie campaign In
Transylvania county Wednesday eve
ning when they gathered her for a
Lincoln Day dinner and heard Vonno
L. Gudger. Asheville attorney, in a
speech against the policies of North
Carolina and national Democratic lead
ers.
The meeting was held at the Canteen
cate on Main street, with Ralph R.
Fisher presiding. Judge D. L. English
introduced the speaker.
Mr. Gudger. who was leader In the
fight four years ago to retain the North
Carolina constitution in its present sta
tus, charged President Roosevelt and
lits supporters with trying to centralize
the government In Washington and
take away from the voters of the coun
try tiic right to say by whom and how
laws and regulations should be made.
He lauded Abraham Lincoln as a de
fender of the constitution and charged
the North Carolina Democratic powers
with endeavoring to centralize the state
government in Raleigh.
Decorations used were red, white and
blue, with a picture of Abraham IJn
coln draped in national colors behind
I he speaker’s platform.
Day Of Prayer Will
Be Observed 28th
National Wcrld Fellowship Day of
Prayer will be observed In Brevard
with union services held at the Pres
byterian church Friday, February it,
at 4 o’clock.
Representatives from the fear Bre
vard churches will take part In the
cervices, which will Include talks, spe
cial prayers and muclcal selections
The program in detail will be given in
next week’s paper.
.4T LYDAY HOSPITAL
Patients reported at Lyday Memorial
hospital on Wednesday were. Helen
Dillard. Mary Freeman, Mrs. J. T.
Honeycutt, Jack Armstrong. I/ehmar.
Williams, Tom Graham.
U. S. Supreme Court
Declares TVA Legal
In 8 To 1 Decision
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—In a deci
sion which did not reach to the consti
tutionality of the TVA as a whole, the
supreme court Monday upheld the right
of the government to dispose of surplus
power from dams constructed for pur
poses of navigation control or os a na
tional defense measure.
In an 8 to 1 decision, read by Chief I
Justice Hughes, with Mclteynolcs dis-j
tenting, held that the constrr.ct'on of
Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals was con- ■
at Motional and that the government
purchase of transmission lines from the j
Alabama Power company to distribute j
the energy was also valid.
A minority contended that the court j
should have dismissed the case.
The desicion was limited to the valid- i
ity of the contract In question and the '
government's right to dispose of pro- ,
perty belonging to It. Thus, other manl- j
fold activities of the TVA—such as
land purchase, resettlement and en- |
eouragement of wider use of electric |
power—were not directly affected.
After ruling that the constnictlor of ,
the Wilson dam as an act of national
defense and for the improvement of ■
navigation was legal, the court held j
that there was no constitutional prohl- ;
hittnn against the manner in which the 1
Tennessee Valley Authority was dispos- j
ing of the electricity generated there, I
"surplus power” is power produced In ,
excess of purely governmental needs.
Hughes asserted authority to dispose |
of property constitutionally acquired 1
was specifically provided In the const!- |
tution itself.
"The constitutional provision", r.c i
ruled, "Is silent as to the method of i
disposing of property belonging to the '
United States.
"That method, of course, must be an |
appropriate means of disposing accord
ing to the naturo of the property.
“It must be one adopted in the public
interest as distinguished from private
or personal ends, and we may assume
that it must be consistent with the
foundation principles of our dual sys
tem of government and must not be
contrived to govern the concerns re
served to the states.
"As to the mere sale of surplus ener- i
gy, nothing need to be added to what 1
we have said as to the constitutional j
authority to dispose. The government j
could lease or sell and fix the terms/'
In an opinion by Justice Brandeis,
joined by Cardozo, Roberts and Stone,
it was contended that the suit should
have been dismissed because of lack of
jurisdiction.
Thereupon Justice McReynolds read
a dissenting opinion. No indication
had previously been given that the
ruling was not unanimous.
He delivered the dissenting opinion
in the famous "gold clause” cases last
term.
McReynolds said he objected to the
extent of the government’s activities.
Ground Hog Day Said
To Be February 14th
Seems that people hereabouts check
ed up on the ground hog on February
2nd, and that the predictions were ell
wrong. Now comes one of our subscrib
ers and says that the second of Febru
ary was the wrong date, entirely. That
the real ground hog day is February 11.
Furthermore, The Times Informant
says that when the ground hog comes
out and sees his shadow on February
14, it is a certain sign that bad weath
er is over, and spring is nearly hero.
According to the way most folk about
Brevard reckoned ground hog day, if
the animal came out and did not see his
shadow, the winter was over. ...so,
from the latest information, the date
is all wrong and the way of checking is
wrnnr*’ ntan.
PRIZE OFFERED FOR
BIGGEST HEN EGG
Transylvania Times Free For
One Year—Grand Gift
Of Two Dollars
The biggest Iter, egg layer! each week
in Transylvania county is worth a
year's subscription to The Transylvania
Times, if brought to this office. This
will be the third year The Times has
conducted the big egg contest, and one
subscription will te given each week
for the ne>t four weeks.
Size of the eggs will be determined
by measurement, instead of weighing,
eggs to be measured and winners an
nounced each Thursday during the
four weeks.
As a grand prize at the end of the
four weeks, two dollars In merchandise
from any Brevard store will be given
by The Times. This will be In addition
to the one-year subscription which will
be given for the largest egg each week.
No broken eggs will be accepted in
the contest and there will be no prize
offered this year for the smallest egg,
as there has been some confusion dur- j
ing the past two contests conducted!
by The Times, some of the entrants
claiming that bird egga were "slipped
In."
The one-year subscription for the
larges? egg applies to either subscrib
ers or non-subscribers, and the same
rule applies as to the two dollar mer
chandise grand prize fo* the largeot egg
brought In during the four weeks.
The contest Is only for egga layed In
Transylvania county.
NEW ARRIVAL
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Payne
a son, Lo.rry EVans Payne, on Satur
day, February 15.
JUVENILE CAMP IS
SOUGHT FOR COUNTY
New Prison Unit At Calvert
Mentioned As Possible
Training Place
Effort will be made by the Brevard
Kiwanis club and other citizens to have
the new prison camp at Calvert used ae
a training camp for juvenile law
breakers of the first-time type.
Official action was taken by the Bre
vard civic club following a brief address
by J. E. Shipman, Hendersonville at
torney, who Is visiting different civic
organizations In this section of the
state In order to create Interest in the
movement for segregation of youthful
offenders from hardened criminals.
It was pointed out at the meeting of
the Kiwanis club, that the state had
spent in the neighborhood of $30,000 in
building the camp at Calvert a number
of months ago, the camp originally
built for housing colored prisoners.
The Calvert camr Is ono of the latest
approved types, designed to care for
from 76 to 100 prisoners. Arrangements
were made In building the camp for
water, sewage, and lights, and a good
farm of from thirty to fifty acres la
also included in the set-up.
Under the plan being advocated by
Kiwanis club of other sections, and
judicial leaders, only boys under 21
years of age would bo permitted in the
"Boys Training Camps,” and these
where they were first offenders only.
Idea of the plan is to keep youngsters
away from the hardened criminals who
Inhabit tho state prisons
Under tne proposed pian, manage
ment of the boys training camps would
be under careful and trained workers
who would be selected for their capabil
ities In training boys for useful citizen
ship after they huve left the training
camps.
Moores Visit Here
James L. (Jazzy) Moore was a week
end visitor in Brevard, accompanied
b> Mrs. Moore and John Vollmer. Mr.
Moore Is publisher of The Kannapolis
Independent, and has many friends Id
Brevard where he attended college.
ClydeR. Hoey Will
Deliver Graduation
Address To Students
Clyde r.. Hoey. of Shelby, teacher of
North Carolina's largest Sunday school
class, attorney, and candidate for gov
ernor. will make the graduation address
here on March 24th when eleven Bre
vard College students finish their work.
Students graduating on March 24th
will have completed six full quarters of
work at the college, taking advantage
of the summer school work offered last
year.
It is expected that the graduation
exercises will be held In one of the
churches uptown, In order to accomo
date the large number of people who
will want to hear Mr. Hoey, who Is an
eloquent speaker, and Is well known In
this county. Mr. Hoey will speak at.
eleven o'clock.
Baptist Young Folk
To Meet On Sunday
—
Lower district B. T. U. meeting will
be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30
| o'clock at the Pisgah Forest Baptist
j church.
The following program will be ren
dered: Devotional exercises, Little Ri
ver union; roll call; business; an
nouncements; “Fellowship With Ood."
I a talk by a senior member from Blan
jtyre union; special music by Pisgah
[ Forest B. T. U. choir; “Prayer Changes
Things,” a short talk by a senior mem
ber from Enon union; a play, Pisgah
Forest juniors.
Jt is urged that a special effort be
put forth to attend this meeting, re
gardless of whether the members have
been attending regularly this winter
I or not. This includes every member
! from each church—Blantyre, Enon,
Little River, Pisgah Forest, Turkey
Creek and Boylston, also all ti e county
officers ar.d any interested friends.
! NICHOLSON BELIEVES
SPRING COMING SOON
i _
Roscoe L. Nicholson, former post
master of Brevard, and observer ot
things cheerful, is certain that spring is
“just around the corner.”
Ross says that he saw a robin In his
garden Saturday morning, and that the
feathered harbinger of sunshine nnd
flowers had every semblance of spring
In the manner la watch he hopped
about.
Youth Movement To
Increase Enrollees
Transylvania county's quota of stu
dents to receive assistance from the
National Youth Administration hao
been doubled, says J. B. Jones, county
superintendent of schools.
Students between the ages of 16 and
26, both sexes and all races, if eligible
for assistance, will be assigned to work
at and around the school and will re
ceive $6 monthly from the NTA, be
said.
The county's original allotment limit
ed the number to be aided In Transyl
vania to 46, but Mr. Jonua has just been
notified that help Is now available for
100 or more additional students who are
in need of funds to keep them 1c school
The age amit of X6 to 26 will be
strictly adhered to under the NY A,
many perrons of that age beipg Inclined
through lack of funds to drop their
education.