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SQUARE DANCE HERE
4 FRIDAY FOR CHARITY
Paralysis Victims Will Bene
fit From Proceeds Of
President’s Ball
Arrangements have been completed
for staging a square danco at the
Brevard City Gym on Main street Fri
day night of this week by the Presi
dent's Ball committee.
The Fisher String band of Rosman.
will furnish music for the event which
begins at 8:30 o'clock, and round danc
ing will be enjoyed at the Intermissions.
The gym is being donated for the oc
casion by the Athletic association of
Brevard CCC camp, and Mr. Erwin,
owner of the building.
Funds secured from the dance will go
into the health and child welfare fund
of this county, for aid of paralysis vic
tims, and thirty per cent of the funds
•./ill be sent to the Warm Springs
Foundation in Georgia where a large
hospital Is maintained for the treatment
^ of children crippled by paralysis. A
® charge of BO cents per person will be
made for admittance to the dance.
It is estimated that there will be at
least 12.000 towns and cities In the
nation holding similar dances and balls
on the 29th and 30th for this cause.
Donald Jenkins is chairman of the
local committee, with Mrs. Harry Sell
ers ns chairman of the decorating com
mittee: and A1 Kyle chairman of the
ticket sales committee.
4 Rosman Group Will
Present Play Twice
ROSMAN, Jan. 27.—The high school
auditorium is expected to be filled here
Monday night, February 1, when the
“Poor Married Man” comedy will be
presented.
The play will present several of Ros
man's most talented people, and pro
mises to be a laugh-provoker from
start to finish.
Included in the cast will be Professor
Harry Swafford, Miss Laura Pharr.
Miss Dovie White. Professor B. L.
Lunsford, Harold Reece, and Tom Gla
zener.
Miss Jean Coleman is coach of the
three-act production, and music for
the occasion will be furnished by a
string band.
The play will be presented at the
Oak Grove Methodist church in North
Brevard on Wednesday night of next
week. t
Study Group Taking
Up Child Problems
The Parent-Teacher study group of
the P. T. A. held the first series of
meetings Tuesday afternoon at the
grammar school building. These dis
cussions on child psychology are under
the able leadership of Dr. Burt Loomis,
of the Brevard College faculty.
Dr. Loomis spoke chiefly on the phy
sical development and individual dif
ferences of the child Tuesday afternoon.
Next Tuesday he will discuss the men
. tal development of the child.
Parents cannot afford to miss this
opportunity of hearing Dr. Loomis on
this important subject, it is pointed out.
Ranger Duncan Will
Leave Pisgah Forest
Ranger W. P. Duncan, of Pisgah
Forest, has been notified that he will be
transferred to Tellico Plains. Tenn.,
during February, where he will have
charge of the national-state park there.
Mr. Duncan has served six years as
supervisor of the Pisgah National For
> cst. and has made an enviable record
with the United States Forestry depart
ment. a fact that has been considered
in leaving him here for the long length
of time. Usual time for a ranger in Mr.
Duncan’s capacity on one job Is two to
three years.
John Squires, who has been in charge
of the Tellico Plains forest for the past
three years will be transferred to Pis
.ah Forest, it is understood unofficially.
The new ranger is a graduate of L. S.
U.. and comes to this section highly re
commended as a forestry man and as a
citizen.
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MISS SATENIK NAHIKIAN, who
has been voted the best all-round girl
in the sophomore class at Brevard Col
lege. Miss Nahikian, whose home is in
Asheville, is a member of the college
news paper and college annual staffs,
member of the Dramatic club, of the
Booster club, vice-president of the Eu
terpean society, and student coach in
mathematics.
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Flood Situation
At a Glance
'rile Ohio River Valley flood sit
uation as reported over the radio
Wednesday at noon showed the
following:
Known dead, 129.
Homeless from flood, 750.000.
Health: Epidemics of typhoid,
influenza and other diseases
feared.
Red Cross: Plea for funds, food,
clothing, blankets.
Food ajjd water shortage re
ported in cities and towns.
Millions to be moved from their
homes In lower Ohio and Missis
sippi Valley immediately by or
der of the War Department. In
order to protect lives, people in
an area of 50 miles on each side
of Mississippi river to be moved
to high grounds. Millions of peo
ple to be effected by this order.
Kentucky: Dead, 53; homeless
300.000.
Ohio: Dead, 13; homeless,
103.000.
Indiana: Dead, 7; homeless,
70.000.
Tennessee: Dead, 9; homeless,
15.000.
Arkansas: Dead 18; homeless,
20.000.
Missouri: Dead, 13; homeless,
15,000.
West Virginia: Dead, 10; home
less, 40,000.
Pennsylvania: Dead, 3; home
less. 10,000.
Blind Man To Open
Mattress Shop Here
Clarence Carr Owen, formerly of the
Balsam Grove section, Is opening a
mattress factory and repair shop in
North Brevard within a week, and will
be equipped to renovate and completely
rebuild mattresses along lines approved
by the State Board of Health, at a
minimum charge of $4.60.
Mr. Owen is working under super
vision of the Blind Commission of the
FERA, and has just completed a four
months training period at the Asheville
center for the blind. ^
The shop is to be located in the Alli
son building just outside the town lim
its on the Hendersonville highway, and
in addition to mattress work, will also
make chair and swing cushions and
pads.
Equipment for the shop which the
near-blind man will operate, Is being
furnished by the federal government in
an effort to assist Mr. Owen to take
care of himself and his family, and the
training which he has received at the
Asheville school makes him capable of
giving the best type of service.
Little Theatre Meeting
Tha Little Theatre organization will
meet Thursday evening of this week in
their home on Jordan street, at 8:30
o'clock. Work Is being started on a new
play which the group will present in the
near future.
Store Hours Given
Announcement Is being made by the
A & P Food stores and the Dixie
stores to the effect that their places of
business will open each morning at
7:30 o'clock and close at 0:30 each
afternoon except Saturday, when the
rlosing hour will be moved up to 11
o’clock.
Promotion Committee
Meets at Enon, 30th
_
A meeting of the promotion commit
tee of the Baptist association will be
held Saturday, beginning at 10 o'clock
in the morning, at the Enon Baptist
church. The Rev. M. L. Lewis is chair
man of the committee.
The general subjcet will be "A Well
Rounded Program,” discussing such to
pics as, the Sunday school, the B. T. U..
the W. M. S„ the preaching service,
missions and evangelism. A round table
discussion on each topic will follow.
Lunch will be furnished by the enter
taining church. The public Is Invited
to attend.
Refunding Plan Will Save Town
of Brevard One-Half of Its Debt
A plan for the refunding of the entire
bonded Indebtedness of the Town of
Brevard has been worked out by the
Town according to announcement by
the governing officials of the Town this
week.
Copies of the plan are being mailed
to the Individual bond holders this week
and it is expected that enough of them
will have assented to the plan to put
It into operation within the next sixty
days.
The plan has been approved by the
Local Government Commission and the
North Carolina Municipal Council, Inc.,
of Raleigh. The North Carolina Munici
pal Council, Inc., was organized by and
now represents a large number of bond
houses, banks and Insurance companies
which have extensive Investments of
bonds in North Carolina units and en
deavors to investigate conditions and
protect the Interests of the holders of
such bonds.
The plan provides for the refunding
of the entire indebtedness of the town
by issuing refunding term bonds which
mature in 1976, or forty years hence.
The original interest rates have been
drastically reduced. The interest rate on
the new bonds starts at 1% and is
graduated over a period of years until
it reaches 4% in 1966. The average
over the entire forty year period is
2.75%. The interest rates provided by
the plan are as follows:
From July 1, 1936 to June 30, 1938 1 % '
From July 1, 1938 to June 30, 1940 114% I
From July 1. 1940 to June 30. 1943 114% ]
From July 1. 1943 to June 30, 1946 2 % j
From July 1. 1916 to June 30, 1956 214% |
From July 1, 1956 to June 30. 1966 3 %, |
From July 1. 1966 to June 30, 1976 4 %. j
The interest rates under the plan give j
the town the advantage of the lower!
rates over the first half of the term of
the refunding bonds. For the first two
years the interest is only 1%. Tt aver
ages only 1.2%, for the first five years
and *f,% for the first ten years and
2%, ton .he first twenty years. The av
erage rate for the entire life of the
bonds is 2.75%.
The plan provides that the interest
maturing prior to July 1. 1936, is to be
refunded on a basis of 25%. On that
TEXT OF PLAN ON PAGE S
Complete text of the plan which
has been submitted to the bond
holders will be found on the third
page of this Issue of The Times.
date the town was In default $114,602.75.
Under the provisions of the plan this ,
would be refunded on the basis of
$28,623.19. The bondholders in effect
cancelled $85,879.56 of this defaulted
Interest. Interest maturing after July.
1936, would be at the rate of 1%.
The plan represents a substantial
saving to the Town of Brevard. Under
the present rate of interest and maturi
ty dates of its bonds the town would be
required to pay $1,093,797.75 over the
next thirty-five years. Under the re
funding plan the entire debt and inter
est can be paid for $723,718.92, over a
period of forty years. The town, there
fore, saves $370,083.83 by the refunding
plan, or more than fifty percent of its
present outstanding principal debt.
The plan provides for the orderly re
tirement of the refunding bonds by pur
chases of these bonds on the open mar
ket by a special sinking fund to be set
up by the town. Debt service levies
are provided for in the plan for each
of the years during the life of the re
funding bonds. These debt service levies
provide for ihe payment of the annual
Interest and also for a certain amount 1
annually to be paid Into the sinking I
fund. These annual debt service levies |
are so graduated that the town officials j
hope the present tax rate will not have j
to be raised. It Is also expected, the
officials state, that normal increases In
property values will take care of the
slightly larger debt service levies pro
vided for under the refunding plan.
I'r.der the terms of the plan a sink
ing fund is to be set up by the town
Into which will be paid all debt service
tax collections. When the deposists in
this fund are sufficient to meet all in
terest payments due within the next
seven months the sinking fund can ■
call for tenders of town bonds and can j
(Continued on Back Page)
Red Cross Drive Here Nets Large Sum
For Relief Of Ohio Valley Flood Area
Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, dol
lars, five, ten, and two checks for $25
each have been contributed through the
Transylvania Chapter American Red
Cross here this week for aid of the
flood sufferers in the Ohio and Missis
sippi valleys.
Schools, churches, clubs, lodges, in
dividuals, and business firms have all
been very liberal in response to the plea
for help to the nearly one million people
who have been made homeless, ill, and
in some Instances, lost their lives from
the flood waters which reached an un
precedented high from the Cincinnati,
Ohio, section, south past Louisville, Kv..
during the past few days, and still re
ported to be rising.
On Wednesday morning, Jerry Je
rome, roll call chairman for Transyl
vania county reported that nearly five
hundred dollars had been contributed
by people of the county, and that there
were still a large number of people who
had not been contacted in the drive for
the mercy funds, and that teachers in
outlying schools were all being asked
to send in contributions which will be
made by their pupils and parents of the
pupils, and that by the last of the week
he expected the amount to pass the
$600.00 mark.
People of the county who wish to con
tribute to the Red Cross fund, are
asked to leave such cash donations as
they feel they can give either at The
Transylvania Times office, the Build
ing & Loan office, or at Long's Drug
Store, with the name and address. The
funds will be forwarded dally to the
National Red Cross headquarters at
Washington, and from there the funds
will be distributed to the most needy
places.
Original quota set by the national
chapter for Transylvania county people
last Saturday was $120. At that date, it
was estimated that the Red Cross would
be called on to spend around $2,000,000.
However, the flood waters spread, and
the suffering became serious In a much
larger area, and again Monday the call
came to double the amount. Ry Monday
night, more than the required $240 had
hcen donated by people of the county,
and the funds already sent in.
Tuesday afternoon, another message
was received by J. S. Silversteen, chair
man of the local chapter, that the Na
tional chapter had already been called
to spend ten millions of dollars In the
stricken area, and that Transylvania
county was being asked to give $600 or
more. People in the Immediate Brevard
vicinity who had already contributed
were being contacted Wednesday, and
with the contributions which people
from all sections of the county are ex
pected to send in, it is believed that
the amount will be over-subscribed by
Saturday.
Mayor A. H. Harris, of Brevard, is
sued an official proclamation Wednes
day morning, calling upon the people
of Brevard to give. "We have been
doubly blessed here,” the mayor said In
officially calling attention of the people
to the Red Cross drive, "and we should
all join in giving until it hurts, out
of the thankfulness of our hearts for
our security, and as citizens of a com
munity which has always done Its part
In times of stress I believe our people
will respond."
School children and teachers of Bre
vard high and Brevard grammar
schools have set their goal at $100 for
flood relief, with $05 already on hand,
and the colored school at Brevard is
also collecting funds for the cause.
Brevard College teachers and stu
dents had donated $110.00 Wednesday
morning with prospects of this amount
being raised.
Employes of the Toxaway Tanning
company, at Itosman, reported through
Superintendent D. E. Culver at noon.
Wednesday, that $40 had been donated
by that group in addition to clothing
and supplies which the employes of that
plant have already contributed.
At the risgah Mills in Brevard em
ployes were making contributions from
their pay envelopes Wednesday, with
the total amount not reported at press
time for this newspaper.
A lump cheek of $25 was received |
Monday from the Carr Lumber com- |
pany at Pisgah Forest, and other do- j
nations are also being made from that .
community, through the school and In
dividuals.
Woodmen at Bosnian sent $25 Wed- j
nesday morning to Charlotte, by vote I
of the members In meeting Tuesday
night. Also at Rosman a sum said to
be in excess of $25 had been raised and
sent in. However, this was not sent
through the Transylvania County Chap
ter of the Red Cross.
The Brevard Woodmen, Masons, Ki
wanians, and several of the women's
social and church organizations also
are making donations from their treas
uries. These amounts were not avail
able for publication Wednesday. The
Brevard CCC boys have promised to
make a contribution on Saturday of this
week. Transylvania Tanning company
employes were subscribing to a payroll
sheet Wednesday, with Instructions to
the office to pay stated amounts for
each individual and hold it out of their
pay.
Seriousness of the situation is con
tained in the following telegram which
was received here Tuesday night:
Washington, D. C.
Jan. 26, 1937.
J. S. Silversteen, Chmn
Transylvania Chap Red Cross
Iirevard NCar i
Flood suffering has already reached
unprecedented proportions with relief
need steadily mounting stop Under
these conditions Impossible now name
final goal for funds only limit Red Cross
assistance must be maximum generosi
ty American people stop Every possible
member National Red Cross staff now
assigned to field for relief duty stop 1 j
call upon all chapters to assume full
initiative their respective jurisdictions
and mobilize every community resource
of personnel and organization to raise
promptly largest possible amount stop
Report daily amount raised Btop For
your information in view present known
needs your goal should be not less than
five times quota originally assigned
you.
Cary T. Grayson, Chairman.
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Thomas -D. Hampton and Earl Full
bright left here Monday for Asheville
where they joined the American Legion
group that is now in Louisville, aiding
in the relief work. The two Brevard
men are serving as first aid workers.
Here Next Week Rj
BISHOP R. E. GRIBBIN, of Ashe
ville, who will attend the sessions of
the Convocation of Asheville to be held
at the Episcopal church here next week.
Episcopal church leaders from all
sections of Western North Carolina are
expected to attend the two-day session
of the Convocation of Asheville which
j will meet at St. Philips church in Bre
vard on Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week.
Beginning with the business session
for the clergy and lay delegates at
4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, first ser
vice to which the public Is invited will
j be held at 7:30 Tuesday evening, with
the Rev. Mr. S. Stoney, rector of the
I Grace church at Morganton, in charge.
I People of the community are invited to
[attend the services Tuesday evening
and Wednesday morning.
Hourly meditations will begin at 10
o’clock Wednesday morning, and con
clude at 1 o’clock In the afternoon.
Attending the convocation here will
be Bishop R. E. Gribbln, of Asheville,
bishop of the western diocese, and the
Rev. Arthur Parnham, rector of St.
Mary church, Asheville, who is dean of
the convocation.
! Clergymen and two lay delegates
from each of the churches in the west
ern diocese are expected to attend the
two-day sessions.
New Registration Is
Not Likely In County
j Officials here are of the opinion that
Transylvania county will be exempted
from the state-wide re-registration of
voters, which seems highly probable of
being passed at this session of the legis
lature.
It is pointed out that Transylvania
county had a new registration in 1936.
and this fact will be presented In an
effort to keep from having the county
go to the expense of a new registration
in 1938. which the proposed bill will call
for.
Commissioners Meet
Be Held February 8th
The county board of commissioners Is
not expected to meet for the regular
first Monday session of the body next
week, due to the fact that Chairman
A. B. Galloway will be out of the county
on that date.
I Mr. Galloway left here Monday for
Omaha, Neb., to attend a national
'Woodmen convention. As district man
[ager. Mr. Galloway has made such a
fine record in the Woodmen work that
I he has been given all-expense trip to
! headquarters of the national camp. .
AMERICAN LEGION
liQUfCITNC FOOD
FOR FLOOD REUff
Clothiig and Supplies Being
Gathered In County For
Ohio Valley Folk
The American Legion is asking that
people from all sections of tho county
make contributions of clothing, food,
and supplies of such nature as may be
used by flood sufferers In the Ohio
Valley.
Headquarters for the supplies have
been set up In the warehouse of Ray a
Williams store at Brevard, and people
of the community and county who have
contributions of hon-periahable foods,
and clothing are asked to leave such
Items there.
The Legion is endeavoring to collect
all suitable food and clothing by Satur
day afternoon of this week, and hope
to have several truck loads already sent
out of Transylvania county by that
date.
Commander M. K. Head of the Mon
roe Wilson post, eatd Wednesday that
the supplies would be delivered by truck
to the Asheville Legion post and that
from there they would be sent to the
most needy centers.
Reports that Commander Head had
from the national headquarters of the
American Legion which Is taking com
mand of the collection of food and
clothing throughout the nation, was
to the effect that more than 129 people
were known to have already lost their
lives In the worst flood that has ever
struck America, and that more than
760,000 people were homeless, with pros
pects Wednesday afternoon that peo
ple who live In the river valley from
Memphis, Tenn., to New Orleans, would
be moved from their homes by order of
the United States Army, and that food
and clothing for the refugees who would
be evacuated would be of Inestimable
value.
One New School Bus
For County System
Transylvania county schools will In
all probability get one new school bus
out of the large appropriation which
was passed last week by the legislature
as an emergency measure.
County Superintendent J. B. Jones
said here this week that the county
system only needed one new bus. dis
counting the fact a few of the buses
could be replaced with larger ones for
some crowded routes.
Mr. Jones has been very successful
during the past two years in securing
new buses from the state department
for this county, and the fleet now in
use here is probably superior to that
of any county in the state, taken as a
whole.
Brevard Forecaster
Prophesies Wet Year
“And the worst is yet to come,” ac
cording to W. R. Klmzey, Brevard
weather prognosticator, when asked for
his opinion on the weather.
Mr. Klmzey said that he predicted the
wettest year in many, and that with
exception of September and October,
people in Transylvania county should
look to carrying umbrellas and wearing
rain coats.
There will be no long cold spells, how
ever, Mr. Klmzey predicts, which at
least is some consolation, but rain, rain,
and more rain will fall all during the
year, except two nominally fair months.
Legislature Facing Major Committee]]
Hearing Thursday-Whiskey Question
RALEIGH, Jan. 27— Fur is expected
to fly here Thursday when the wets
and drys mix it up In a committee hear
ing that will probably be the most hard
fought scrap of the session. Even the
sales tax with its attendant advocators
of repeal, cut to one cent, two cent, and
take it off "necessities of life,” is not
expected to draw the interest that the
1 wet-dry hearing will bring forth.
To come up at the public hearing
Thursday is one measure, indorsed by
the united dry forces, would authorize
a state-wide referendum to prohibit the
sale of spirits. The other, opposed by
the drys and apparently receiving only
I hike-warm support from the wets,
would allow the state to enter the busi
ness of manufacturing whiskeys and
wines and selling them at ■wholesale to
counties which had voted "wet” in local
option polls.
The drys art confident that if a
state-wide referendum can be secured,
that the entire state (including the 17
counties now operating local option li
quor stores under the Pasquotank bill
of 1935) will be voted bone-dry by the
people of the state. The wets, afraid
that their opponents may be right in
this deduction, are opposing the pro
posed measure tooth and toenail, and
have at least a slight advantage In the
matter of committee members.
New School But Money
Quick over with was the measure ad
vocated by Governor Hoey for an ap
propriation of (600,000 for new school
buses In the state. Shut down of school
in the Raleigh section a few days ago
on account of the bad shape some of
the carriers were found to be in, was
guiding factor in the move.
Election Proposals
Change of primary dates from Sat
urday to Tuesday seems to be very
likely, if the Democratic Executive
committee of the state has any bearing
on things legislative. Also proposed by
the committee Is a slight change in the
absentee ballot law which would re
quire a voter to apply direct to the
chairman of the county board of elec
tions, either In person or in writing.
Tag Law Gets Help
Mountain representatives, led by
Klmzey of Transylvania, seem to be
getting additional force from other
sections in the move to have truck
and trailer tags issued for "county use
only” at half-price that Is now being
charged.
Madison Getting Attention
Legislators here are just a mite skep
tical about the Madison county proposed
bill which WAS destined to put that Re
publican stronghold In the Democratlc
controlled list. The bill would name four
additional county commissioners (all
Democrats) who would then be able to
out vote the three elected Republicans.
The senator and representative from
the Madison county area are each Re
publicans, and there is no hope of get
ting one of these gentlemen to Intro
duce the bill, and since the two Ashe
ville dallies have "gone after” the whole
plan so severely In the laet few days. It
fs likely that other members of the
general assembly will look with scared
eyes when they are asked to Introduce
the measure.
Take Long Week-End
The members and senators stuck to
their guns for nearly three weeks and
then “fell from grace” In the matter of
six-day weeks. Most of the folk had
gone home Friday night, and only per
functory sessions of the two houses
were held Saturday, and ra-convened
Monday night to receive the security
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