,.. * I-Sr! THE TRANSYLVAN: County «$• • , : A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County_. VOL. 48: NO. 36 ■ BREVARP, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1938 < $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA^COUNTY College Officials Active This Week In Registering Of Record Number DR. EUGENE J. COLTRANE, President, said Wednesday that all attendance records would be broken by the 1938 registrations. C. H. TROWBRIDGE. Vice resi dent, head of the Chemistry and Physics departments proudly an nounces new and modern eqjlp ment for use this year. Dean C. E. BUCKNER is a busy man at Brevard College this wenk, and is literally swamped with the banner enrollment. The Rev. EARL D. C. BREWER, Is head of the newly created Public Relations department for Brevaid College, and has assumed his new duties here. Reaching On Hunting {Preserves To Be Over Poaching on the Tar Kiln Rod A Gun club will be ended this season, tf watchmen are able to prevent It, ac cording to plans announced by mem bers of the club. W. H. OIney and V Earl Twiggs will be or. the property during the rest of the season, and have been deputised to arrest any poachers who are caught Last year, considerable damage was done to the gam* are* b? poacher*. College Greetings In Second Section Greetings from Brevard busi ness people to the incoming teachers and students of Bre vard College are being carried In this issue of The Times In the second section. Brevard Is proud of Its college, and the business people and in dividuals are making public ex pression through The Times of their interest In the Institution. Students and teachers are re | quested to file the second sec | tlon of the home paper which | carries the messages, as a bust | ness guide. _' ’ Paving of Bat Cave Highway Sought By Interested WNC Folk _ i Official approval of plans of the Mar lon Board of Trade to improve U. S. j highway 64 from Old Fort to Bat Cave j was given by the Brevard Chamber of Commerce in meeting Friday evening. Plans of the Marlon civic group Is to urge on State Highway officials the Importance of grading and surfacing this link of highway—21 miles—which would give Brevard an 11-mlle shorter route to Marion, Raleigh, or other points east. In addition to making a shorter route, the continuity of U. S. 64 would be un broken by unpaved roadway, and would bring Increased travel through Hen dersonville and Brevard. Highway 64 traverses the state from Albemarle Sound through Murphy, and with the exception of the 21-mlle link i between Bat Cave and Old Fort Is | paved Its entire length. j The Marion group plans to secure the assistance of a number of other sections In pressing claims for Improv ing the road, and it Is believed that the state will agree with the petitioners that the link Is a vital one. COMMERCE BODY IS CLEAR OF ALL DEBT Membership Drive To Close Sept. 20—Good Report Made For Year Brevard Chamber of Commerce Is debt free. Report of the finance committee made last Friday evening to the com merce body showed all current bills paid. Including $234.50 for special ad vertising literature, and $25 for special Touring Magazine advertising. It was voted that the bureau of In formation would be kept open full time during September, with offices to re main in the city hall. Mrs. John Smith reported that 92 people had paid Into the Chamber of Commerce this year, and that there were several other pledges which would be collected during the next few days, bringing the total collections for the year to nearly $000. A vote of thanks was given Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Ralph Fisher and other members of the fi nance committee for their work. Revls Frye, leader of the Brevard Municipal band, stated that a federal (Continued On Pack Pane) Young Aiken Girl Is Buried On Thursday ROSMAN, Sept. 7—Beulah Mae Aik en. aped 12 years, dauphter of Mr. and Mrs. Deroe Aiken, died at her home in the Old Toxaway section Thursday af ternoon at 5 o'clock, following an ill ness of the past year. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Old Toxaway Baptist church, conduct ed by Rev. Nathan Chapman and Rev. M. E. Summey. Burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving are her parents and the following five brothers and two sis ters: Arthur, of Ravenford; Howard, T^eo, Ray, Earl, and Ossie and Mvrtle, all of Old Toxaway. Pallbearers were Looney Meece. Roy Galloway Coleman Aiken. Walter Meece. Ernest Aiken and Gus Aiken. In charge of flowers were Lela Aiken, Jessie Powell, Helen Galloway, Norma Powell. Inez Chapman, Allenfee Chap man.. Transylvania Boys Chosen To Build Raleigh Log Hut Transylvania NYA workers have been selected to build a log hut on the State Fair Grounds in Raleigh which will be used as the National Youth Adminis tration display rooms during the week of the fair. F. H. Holden, Transylvania director, said Monday that one car load of logs had already been shipped and that others were being gotten out at this time for use in constructing the hut. The logs that were shipped Monday were secured off the lands of Fleet Shipman. Charles Merrill ana jonn uraveiy left Tuesday for Raleigh to start work on this display hut, and Mr. Holden plans to leave for Raleigh later In the week and take four or five more boys down to complete the work. The log hut will be dedicated on October 11, by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Little River Baptist Church Centennial Sunday Celebration of the hundredth an niversary of Little River Baptist church, pictured above, will be staged Sunday, Sept 11, with an all day program being arranged. Home coming day will also be ob- . served for the Little River church and community and hundreds of people from far and near are ex pected to be In attendance. The program wlH begin at 11 o’clock In the morning, and continue through the day, with short talks, singing, and special music to be featured. Professor C. H. Trowbridge of Bre vard College will make principal address of the morning. History of the church will be giv en by W. Ernest Merrill, who has also prepared a special article for The Times which Is printed on the sixth page of this Issue. Brevard College campus Is alive with young people who have come from different parte of North Caro lina and other states to spend a year as residents of the college community. In addition to more tnan iuiy students, who were here over the week-end, freshmen began arriv ing early Monday morning and they are still coming In. Dean C. E. Buckner and his associates hoped to complete the registration of freshmen by Wednesday night. Seniors are expected to arrive Wednesday. Several members of the class have been here for the past several days. Thursday has been set aside for the classification of seniors with the hope that the classification of all students can be completed Thursday so that classes may begin at .eight o'clock Friday morning. First regular chapel program has been arranged for 11:45 Friday morning. The seats In the auditor lum have beer, repaired and new seats added so that It may be pos sible to accommodate every student in the regular student assemblies. All available space In the dormi tories has been filled. In order to accommodate the unusual number of young men who have asked for admission, 14 additional beds have been placed In Taylor Hall and six or eight additional beds In Ross Hall. Young men have been quar tered In three small cottages on the campus. Arrangement has been made for Mrs. D. L. Englirh to accommodate sixteen young men. Under direction or Mr. ana rars. John B. Bennett a student retreat was held at Camp Transylvania last Saturday and Sunday. Eigh teen students representing the stu dent council and other arganiza tlons spent several hours both days discussing the college program and making provisions for the reception of new students. This retreat had been arranged by Dean Buckner early In the summer. Paul Jones Awarded Merit Certificate John Paul Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jones of Brevard, has been award ed a special certificate of honorable mention for his entrv in the 1937-3# American Youth Forum contest. The contest, which was sponsored by the American Magazine in order to stintulate clear thinking on the part of the youth of America, was participated in by high school students throughout the United States. A total of 231.384 pupils competed for prizes Young Jones entered a . two-thous and word essay on the subject, "The America I Want." Those receiving hon orable mention In the contest will be announced In the September Issue of the American Magazine. Brevard Men Going To Big Game Area Today R. W. Everett and Walter Weilt plan to leave Thursday for Jackson Hole. Wyoming, where they will hunt on the big game reservation The two Brevard sportsmen are among the lucky 25 who will be allow ed to kill moose on the only reserva tion of Its kind in the United States. They will also be permitted to kill one deer, one bear, and one elk each. Ap plications from many sections of the country are received each year for moose hunting, it is said, and the two Brevard men who made Joint applica tion are considered very lucky indeed wife of the president, In a special cere mony. Transylvania youths were selected by the state administration of the NTA to build the display building due to the fact that this county’s projects have been outstanding in the state since start of the program of work two years ago. The recreation building at Brevard high school was the first of Its type to be built in the state, and It* style has been followed by other counties which have since started the work. The building will contain four rooms, two to be 15x20 feet, and two 15x25 feet. During the state fair, NYA work ers will operate wood-working machin ery. and other crafts In the building to show the type of Instruction that has been given the youths under the NYA movement. BLUE RIDGE PARK ROUTE ASSURED BY TENNESSEE BALD Entrance Through Cherokee Indian Reservation An nounced As O. K. Final approval of the Tennessee Bald-Balsam Gap routing for the Blue Ridge Parkway was given in Washing ton last Thursday, and approach to the Great Smoky Mountains National park was also definitely settled. The 11-milc stretch from Wagon Road gap intersecting highway 281 had already been approved by Secretary Harold L. Ickes and action on the 14 mlle link assures Transylvania of a long stretch of the scenic highway along Its borders. Secretary Ickes and the Indian Ser vice agreed upon an entrance of the parkway through the Cherokee Indian reservation, and the park service will pay the Cherokees $40,000 for use of a 12-mile stretch. Tinder the arrangement worked out the long-delayed transfer of that por tion of N. C. route 107 In the park will be made to the National Park service at once. The park service has agreed to approve the road and to build links connecting Black Camp gap, Helntooga ridge and the Flat Creek tourist center, which has an elevation of 5,000 feet. Frank L. Dunlap, chairman of the North Carolina Highway commission, Charles Ross, attorney, and R Gettys Browning, chief locating engineer who has had much to do with location of the parkway near Brevard, attended the conference In Washington. Present_plans call for formal open ing of the Great Smoky Mountains Na tional park next spring, and many not able national figures are expected to visit this section of the state at that time, and attend the dedication cere monies. Transylvania county will have two Important highway connect'ons with the parkway—one at Wagon Road gap where the new 284 will connect, and at Tennessee Bald where the Rosman Bunburst road will tie In. The 26-mlle stretch from Wagon Road gap to Balsam Is expected to be let sometime this year, and will be the first part of the route open west of Asheville. Use of the Rosman-Sun hurst and 284 highways will be made for connecting links. New Arnrali Bom to Mr. and Mr*. J. P. Housed a son, Charles Perry, on Monday, Sep tember 6. Bora to Mr. and Mrs. Taft Owen a son on Monday, September 5, at Lyday Memorial hospital. I ■ ——————————-H Special Rates To County Students The Times will be sent to the college boys and girls who are going away for the entire nine months' college term for only one dollar. Parents seldom think to write the boys and girls In school about all the many activities In which the student Is Interested. Send them The Times Instead and keep them Informed of local events. It will be like a long let ter from homo each week. Start their subscription now. 11.00 will pay It up until the close of school next June. 4—' ' MAY OPERATE BUS LINE GREENVILLE TO BREVARD SOON Greyhound Company Plans Passenger and Express Ser vice Via Travelers Rest The Atlantic Greyhound corporation has filed a petition to operate a pas senger and light express route from Brevard to Greenville, S. C„ via Trav elers Rest and Cedar Mountain, accord ing to announcement from the Inter State Commerce commission at Raleigh last week. While details of the plan of opera tion have not been received In Brevard, It Is understood that plans of the Grey hound line are to give through fast service between Brevard and Green ville. Brevard people have been Interested In such a line for some time, and the announcement that a line may be es tablished will be welcome news here. Date of hearing on the proposed route has been set for October 2f, at Charlotte after which time. If the peti tion Is granted, the connecting line will be started. Future Farmers Name H. Batson President Brevard Chapter of Future Farm ers of America held Its first meeting of the school year last Monday, Sep tember the fifth, In the high school auditorium, presided over by Profes sor R J. Lyday. The following officers were elected to serve the chapter during the com ing year: president, Homer Batson; vice president, Lester Brown; secre tary, Marvin Jones; treasurer, Robert Tinsley; reporter, Fred Olazener; watch dog, Weldon Melsenheimer. The boys appointed to serve on the program com mittee were Homer Batson, Lester Brown, and Herman Rahn. The total enrollment of the chapter Is eighty boys, which Is the largest en rollment Jn Its history. The boys, under the capable guid ance of Professor Lyday, are looking forward to an enjoyable and profitable year In the study of vocational agri culture.—Fred Olazener. Reporter. PROGRESS NOTED AT ECUSTA PLANT WITH BIG CREW WORKING * New Concern Will Manufac ture High Grade Cigarette Paper From Flax Concrete base for the high smoke stack at the Ecusta Corporation's new plant at Pisgah Forest was another milestone passer) last week in construc tion of the $2,000,000 plant, completion of which will mark the beginning of a new Industry In the United States— that of making fine cigarette papers. Better than 800 workmen are en gaged on the construction job which Is under the Flske Carter Construction company of Greenville. Concrete, steel, and brick are being combined by the workmen to create a new scene In the Davidson River valley each week. Lower building, which will be a raw products warehouse, Is nearing com pletion, and brick and steel are being joined on the machine and carpenter shop, on the main building which will house the heavy machinery, and on the finished product warehouse. At the upper ena or me property, groups of workmen are engaged In building a huge filtration plant that will take the water from the changed, course of Davidson River and remove the last vestige of the small amount of lmpurltlea that may creep In after the crystal flow leaves Its headsprings In the Plsgah National forest watershed. New channel for Davidson River Is i near-complete, and a few hours work by the giant steam shovels will turn the stream to the right after It passes the bridge on highway 280. A pumping station near the Indian Mound Is be ing put In to pick up the water and send It through the filtration plant, and on Into the main buildings where It will perform a great part In the changing of raw flax Into the finest of cigarette papers. Plans of the Ecusta Corporation are to have the plant In operation next spring, and North Carolina, which Is the nation's leading state in manufac ture of cigarettes will then be able to produce an all-N.C. product, with the tobacco, the paper, and the workman ship all furnished by Tarheels. Nearly three hundred Transylvania people are now employed on the con struction work for Ecusta, and when the plant Is completed many more county men and women will be given first preference for employment by the new concern. One of the deciding fac tors In the decision of the plant offic ials to locate this Industry here was the fact that there Is sufficient local labor of a high type available. The plant Is being constructed along the latest lines to provide ideal work ing conditions to Its employee* and at the same time produce cigarette papers that will duplicate If not sur Ipass the fine papers that have here tofore been imported from France. At Lyday Hospital Patients reported at Lyday Memoriaf hospital on Wednesday were: Walter Dowdy, Alton Hubbard, Mrs. Taft Owen and Infant son. born Monday, September 5, Mrs. Arthur Pack and In fant son, born August 27.__ Transylvania Dahlia Show Be Held Here Saturday Rev. H. Perry Wins Handicap Golf Meet Rev. Harry Perry was top flight man in the Brevard Country Club handicap tournament held last week. Other places went to L. H. Loftis, second; Edgar Loftis, third; Joe Poole, and Bill Warren, fourth; J. W. Smith, fifth. Bill Warren was low score man with 95, but had a low handicap, putting him back to fourth place. . The golf committee was well pleased with the tourney and with the fine spirit of co-operation showm by the merchants and business people In giv ing prizes. Lions Club Organizer Here Mr. and Mrs. J. Barnett Napier of Chicago are stopping at the Plcrce Moore hotel for ten days while Mr. Napier who Is commissioner for Lions International interviews prospects In the community looking toward organ ization of a Lions Club here. Lyle Henderson Photo In Association Set A photograph made by Lyle Hender son, eon of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hender fon of Quebec, has been nelecied among 150 pictures for the loan collection of the Photographers Association ofj America. The collection plcturee were chosen from about 2,000 exhibited at the or. ganlzatlon’o recent convention in Chira ga, 111. Mr. Henderson attended the convention. The picture by Mr. Hen derson will be exhibited In Asheville for the next few days at the Mountain Exchange shop on Haywood street, It was announced. Mr. Henderson, who Is connected with Preston's Studios In Asheville, has been doing photography work for aev eral years, and several of his pictures have been selected by Southern and state groups as outstanding work. Annual Flower Event Is Ex pected To Draw Visitors From Many Sections For Display The annual dahlia show, sponsored by the Transylvania Dahlia Club, will be held Saturday at the NTA hut, be ginning at noon, and will be open to the public until 10 o'clock at night. All exhibitors are urged by officials In charge to bring their flowers early to allow time for arrangement before work of the Judges begins. A splendid collection of prizes will be awarded, practically all of which win be valuable In the arrangement of flowers. The most expensive prizes will' be awarded for the most difficult ox | Buds win be permitted In arrange ment section. Flowers in Classes 8 and i do not have to be grown by exhibi tor, it is pointed out. A silver cup will be given In section I to the person winning the greatest number of points. First counts two, Section I. The person living in Transylvania county who exhibits the larggest and' boat dahlia win be awarded a silver cup, with the winner's name engraved thereon. The same person mast have won the rap three years in succession in order to become its owner. . The petals of the largest and most perfect dahlia, grown In Transylvania county, will be counted, and the per son guessing nearest to the correct number of petals will be given a prize of a bulb of tho same variety of dah lia. Tbis contest will be conducted by Mrs Q. B. L,yr.ch. Each visitor win bo given a ticket, entitling the person to guess any time during the operiner hours. a silver orrenngr win doer. Mr. and Mrs. G. of the Nlc-Nar Ntneriw will act aa Judges for their nere. Lynch is president Dahlia club, and la chairman of HQ

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