: [W] THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES IW r j C°unty i ' A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County — 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 .| 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. —-- j 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.