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THE TRANSYLVANIA A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County • * • * * • •' _* _ __ VOL. 48: NO SO BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1938 $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY CONTRAC L BE LET ON FIRST LINK OF SCENIC HIGHWAY Wagon Road Gap-Yellowstone Stretch Opened For For Bids January 5th First stretch of the Great Smoky Mountains National park highway which touches x Transylvania county, will be let to bid on January 5. Specifications for bids which have been received hy Chandelr Brothers of fice here, call for approximately five miles of the road and It Is expected that actual construction will be start ed sometime In February. The five-mile link to be let on Jan uary 5, will begin at Wagon Road gap on highway 284 and run to a point near Tellowstone Falls. Another letting will be held later in January, it Is expected, which will carry the road through to the Rosman Sunburst road which Is now hetng built by the CCC and the state high way commission. The contract calls for 338.000. cubic feet of excavation work, and building of 500.000 feet of ruble masonry re taining wall. Surface of the road will be 20 feet bound macadam, with five foot should ers, the same as the parkway already finished In Virginia and Northeast Carolina. - I Mrs. W. E. Bishop Died i Here Saturday Morning Mrs. W. E. Bishop, aged 75, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. S. Osborne, early Saturday morning. She had been 111 for two weeks, and death was attributed to heart trouble. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from Brevard Baptist church with the Rev. Yancey C. Elliott and the Rev. E. P. Billups In charge. In terment waa made In Oak Grove ceme tery, North Brevard. W. M. Henry, S. F. Allison, Howard Whitmire, J. M. Allison, C. C. Tongue, and A. E. Hampton acted as pall bearers. Osbome-SImpson had charge of arrangements. Ladles of the T. E. L. class were honorary escort. Surviving are the daughter, Airs. Osborne; four sisters — Mrs. John Bishop of North Brevard; Mrs. E. S. Hawkins and Mrs. R. A. Johnson of Easley; and Mrs. George Johnson of Cttra, Fla. Three brothers also sur vive as follows: Rev. Judson Corn, Brevard; H. E Corn. Easley; and Vir gil Corn of Walhalla. Mr. Bishop, who was In the hard ware business here for n number of years, and was widely known, died In 1924. Christmas Services at Methodist Church Christmas will be observed at the Methodist church next Sunday In the various services of the day, announce ment has been made by the pastor, the Rev. E. P. Billups. At the Sunday school hour at 9:45 o’clock, a white Christmas will be ob served, at which time packages wrap ped In white will be brought for later distribution to the needy of the com munity. At the 11 o'clock hour of wor ship the pastor’s sermon text will be •'A Beatitude for Christmas." A Christmas worship service in Scripture and song will feature the evening service at 7:30 o’clock. In termediate League will be held as usual at 5 o’clock. Tobacco Balloting In County This Saturday (By J. A. Olazener, Co. A vent) All persons who were engaged In the production of hurley tobacco In 1938 are eligible to vote In the referendum on Saturday, December 17, to deter mine whether tobacco quotas will be In effect In 1939. The polling place for Transylvania County will be at the County Agent’s office. The polls will open at 9 a. m. and close at 5 p. m. BREVARD FFA WON TWO-COUNTY PRIZE Ritual Team Places First In Contest Entered by 7 High Schools _ Ritual team of the Brevard chapter Future Farmers of America won first place In the Henderson-Transylvanla meet at Fletcher last Saturday, mak ing the second successive year the local chapter has won this distinction. Seven teams from as many high rschool vocational agriculture classes entered the contest. Belts with FFA monogram buckles were awarded each member Of the winning team. The Brevard chapter team is com posed of Homer Batson, president; Lester Brown, vice president: Marvin Jones, secretary; Robert Tinsley, treas urer; Fred Olazener, reporter: Randall J. Lyday, adviser. Other schools competing In the con test Included Rosman, Hendersonville. Fletcher, Mills River, Flat Rock, and Etowah. , . Two-county federation president has been elected from the Brevard chap ter—with O'Dell Scott serving In 1937, and Fted Olazener In 19SS . Old Santa's Got the Right Idea! \\ Y WAL. PUBTV SOON CWBlSTMA* WILL BE HEBE-AND )fl;' v OLD SANTA'S SONNA HAVE TO TA/jTLE TO SIT AU. V'I'lL ^ THESE TOSS BEADV TOC TH BI9 MV--WE CAN'T F0C6IT ANV C* TH' SOU HOSTESS --THEV MKiuT 6lT TO _J I eCLISUN' THEBE IVA« NO SANTA CLAUS* THEV OIOL'T aiT SOMETHIN' F00 CWflISTMAS 1 SHUCKS/---WE CAN'T HANE 'EM TVAnkILT mV THAT-A-WAV, NOW CAN WE . FOLKS ?? IWffDTr*—^ 1-1—-Tin: —-I 1. r 7TTTT_ Five Coons Caught By Brevard Hunters Five coons In one night is the record catch made by three Brevard hunters Monday. Four of the coons were taken from one tree, and this was one in stance when the "big one" did not get away. On the hunt were Loalia Tinsley, Artillus Tinsley, and James Bridges. The Brevard men returned at day light Tuesday morning, and had a near record catch to show for their hunt. Square Dance at Hut on Thursday Evening A Christmas square dance has been announced for Thursday evening of this week at the NT A Hut on Broad street by Miss Willie Kate Waters and Miss Elizabeth McCoy. Music will be furnished by Sherman’s String Band, and the figures will be called by “Speedy” Jones. Proceeds from the benefit will be used in the NT A work here. The NT A dances this summer proved to be very popular, and it is to bo expected that a large number will at tend Thursday evening. At Lyday Hospital Patients reported at Lyday Memorial hospital on Wednesday were: Mrs. Clyde Hamilton and infant daughter. Lois Elizabeth, bom Saturday, Decem ber 10, Mrs. K. F. Mock, Helen Melton and Jim Burgess. ABSENTEEBALLOTS SEEN ON THE UST FOR DISCARD SOON _ i Election Board Is Inclined To Substitute Theft-Proof System During ’39 Legislature RALEIGH—North Carolina's State Board of Elections will recommend to the 1939 General Assembly a thorough going revision of existing election laws which will Include at least three salient points. 1. Repeal of the existing absentee statute and substitution therefor of a new absentee law so full of teeth that It will bite on suspicion. 2. A new staie-wlde registration of voters. 3. A limitation on the number of voters at any precinct in the state. Nobody on the board has publicly an nounced that these points will be stressed in the report and recommen dations required by law to be submit ted to the General Assembly, but Chairman Will A. Lucas and other members have so frequently given voice to their convictions that they are certainties and not long shots. The Lucas view, In which Bell will probably concur fully, is that the ab sentee ballot can be so protected as to make its fraudulent use almost im possible. or at least so dangerous that nobody will attempt It. He will rec ommend that complete authority be centralized in the county election board chairman for the Issue of absentee bal lots. would make it certain that full and complete Information regarding absentees Is given the State Board in advance of every election and would provide penitentiary sentences for vio lations of the law. NO AGENTS Absentees, under his plan, would be issrued only on application In per son, no agents would be required to swear that he marked the ticket him self In secret, and the officer taking the. oath would be required to certify that he (the officer) did not solicit the voter to cast his ballot for any person and that, to his knowledge, no one else did. Under this plan there could be onlv one person responsible for absentee frauds—the county chairman—and on him would fall the full penalties In proven cases. As for the new registration, the State Board will unanimously favor that recommendation as the board’s probes last Fall showed conclusively that a tremendously high percentage of registration books are In such woe ful condition that only a clean start can ever correct them and make them up to date. COURT TERM ENDED LAST FRIDAY NIGHT Few Civil Cases Heard During Thursday and Friday— One Mistrial Ordered — Mistrial resulted In the Freeman Patterson vs. TWus Woods ease late Friday afternoon when the Superior :ourt jury failed to agree on a verdict, and court was dismissed by Judge J. Will Pless. Patterson was suing Woods for $5. 500 damages, charging alienation of af fections. A number of witnesses were heard during the nearly two days of the trial. Wife of Patterson was not put on the stand. Very few other cases were tried dur ing the”two-day session of civil court, ind the criminal docket was cleared pn the previous Tuesday. 1 ransylvaman Named President of Furman Music Organization GREENVILLE, Dec. 14 — A. M. White, Jr., of Roaman, has been named President of the Furman chapter Phi Mu Alpha Slnfonla Fraternity of Ameri ca, and as head of the musical organi zation will attend the national meeting In Washington during the Christmas holidays. Phi Mu Alpha, the national music fraternity, was founded In 1898 and now Includes about seventy chapters located over the nation. The major ity of these chapters are in the north, and the local chapter will be the only one In South Carolina. The nearest chapters are at the University of North Carolina. Miami University, and Louis iana State University. The fraternity Is considered the out standing organization of Its kind In the United States. Christmas Dinner To Be Served at School Students in Brevard Elementary schools will be given a Christmas din ner on Friday of this week In the NYA lunch room, with a tree, fruits, and other delicacies. The lunch room has been providing meals each school day for an average of 175 students, 80 of whom have been given free food each day. The lunch room Is nearly self-sup porting, Miss Willie Kate Waters states, due to the fact that a number of pat rons and friends of the school have been making contributions of food and other necessary articles. The lunch room Is open for Inspec tion by the public at all times, Miss Waters states, and any donations are always gratefully received. It Is through the very narrow margin of pro fit from the paying students, and do nations, that hot lunches are provided each day for the 80-odd undernourish ed pupils who would otherwise be over looked. Miss Pickelsirner Is Head of Iredell NYA Miss Ruth Pickelsirner has been ap pointed recreation supervisor of Ire dell county for the Works Progress Ad ministration, with office headquarters In Statesville. She has assumed her official duties in the county welfare building. Miss Pickelsirner has Just completed a six weeks' training course in Salis bury, fitting her for leadership In this type of work. She is a graduate of Brevard College and of Berea College, Berea, Ky„ and taught school In the Saluda high school. All County Schools To Close Friday for Christmas Holidays All schools In the county, and Bre vard College will close on Friday af ternoon of this week for the Christmas holidays. The schools will resume class work on Monday morning, January 2, accord ing to County Superintendent T. B. Jones. Several of the schools are planning Christmas programs for Thursday or Friday of this week. Chan Ashworth Named By All - Southern and All-State First Pickers Chan Ashworth, hard-hitting back tor Brevard high school, has bedn named on the "All-South" football tquad, and on the Charlotte News ‘All-Southern” aggregation. In the Western North Carolina vot ing which was published Sunday Ash worth received honorable mention, along with Teague, Allison, Jones, and Hlle man for the Blue Bldge conference sleven. One of the hardest driving hacks pro luced In a number of years. Ashworth was a consistent yard gainer through out the season, and was an Important :og In all games played by Coach Edgar Cox’s outfit this fall. Brevard fans were surprised that the local trlnle-threat man was not placed on the Blue Ridge first string, but are dated over the fact that he Is a mem ber of the all-state and all-southern. Pageant Sunday By Baptist Young Folk At the regular Sunday evening ser vice at the Brevard Baptist church next Sunday at 7:30 o’clock a pageant will he presented, under the direction of Mrs. Knox DeLong. Members of the Sunday school will hrlng at this time gifts wrapped In white paper for the white Christmas. These gifts will be placed around the Christmas tree and will be distributed later to needy families in the commun ity. Randal Lyday is chairman of the White Christmas feature. An Invitation Is extended by the pas tor. the Rev. Yancey C. Elliott, to the public to attend the pageant service and for all who wish to contribute to ward the white Christmas. Basketball Season at Brevard Looks Extra Good to Local Fans With the football season a thing of the past Brevard High’s athletic co horts have turned their attention to basketball In an earnest fashion. Coach Edgar Cox has three regulars from last years team with which to work while several of the reserves from last seasons quint are showing good form. The regulars are Ashworth at cen ter who led the team In scoring a year ago, Teague, brilliant forward, and Batson outstanding guard are the other men who were last year’s regulars. Carland will most likely fill In at the other forward post while Walker. MIs enhelmer, or Medford seem to be the best bets for the guard position. One of the three latter may possibly give Carland some trouble In holding his position. Other men trying for places are Oevedon, Allison. Morris, Dick and Pat Hamlin. N. A. Miller, Jr., has been made manager of the team. The Brevard team which won 10 and lost six games last season will prob ably see their record bettered by this year's quint because of the more ex perienced material. The squad Is point ing for a berth In the Blue Ridge con ference tournament to be held in Hen dersonville the third and fourth of March. The first game is scheduled for Jan uary 6th with the Blue Devils’ arch rivals of the court. Rosman. P.O. Open Saturdays General Delivery and parcel post windows of the Brevard post office will be open on Saturday afternoons of Dec. 17, 24, and 31, according to announcement by Postmaster Gallo way, who says "Mail it early, Please.” Christmas Music By Band Thursday Night Revis Frye and his Brevard Band announce that they will gve a concert at the band-stand Thursday evening of this week at 7 o’clock, featuring Christmas carols. At least fifty Instruments and voices will be used In the concert, Band Leader Frye said Wednesday. His plans also called for having simi lar concert Wednesday evening. Smaller groups have rendered Christ mas music in the uptown section on previous Christmas occasions, but this will be the first time that so large a group has ever performed here. The concert Is a part of the program which Is under the Federal Music Adminis tration In Brevard. Yvonne Cassell Rites Held Thursday Mom Funeral services for Yvonne Cassell, 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cassell were held Thursday morn ing at the Mt. Moriah Baptist church. She died Tuesday, December 8, fol lowing a long Illness. The services were conducted by the Rev. J. L. Un derwood and the Rev. M. L. Lewis. Interment was In the Calvert ceme tery. Surviving are her parents, seven brothers, Bruce Cassell, of Hot Springs, Them Cassell, of Fort Bragg, Ber tram J. C„'Jr., Carlos, Donald Lee and Jimmy Cassell, and two sisters, Lula and Annette Cassell. The little girl was_a member of the second grade of the Rosman elementary school. Pallbearers were Frank and Fred Israel, Charles Metchel and Jim Wald rop. In charge of flowers were Carolyn and Jewel Garren, Mary Waldrop, Wllda Reece, Verona Fisher, Louise Osteen, Elizabeth Sisk and Edna Al lison. Funeral arrangements v.ere In charge of Moore and Trantham. Champ Deer Hunter R. O. KNUTH, superintendent of the Davidson River fish rearing pools is shown above with his 2i0 pound buck killed during the Iasi week of the Pisgah hunt. The prize had ten points. A total of 599 deer and four bear were killed during the four-week hunt. A total of 1,346 hunters par ticipated. Last year 709 deer and 10 bear were killed. Other Transylvania hunters who made kills included Austin Hogsed, Dr. Joe E. Osborne, C. C. Gibbs, Dr. Geo. B. Lynch, A. B. Owen, J. R.. Black, Jr., C. L. Green, C W. Rink, C. E. Tinsley, J. H. Wolfe, O. Bradley, Frank Duckworth, B. P. Scruggs, L. Anderson, and Clar ence McCall. Transylvanians wno failed to make kills were E. H. Davis, A. B. Burton, B. B. Melxell, J. H. Bringhurst, Jr., George Wrigley, Freeman Hayes, John Ashworth, and A. E. Tinsley. Some of these * hunters passed up their chances of taking a doe, while some shot and missed, and two failed to get shots. CITIZENS ASKED TO AD COMPLETION OF COLLEGE BUILDING $1500 Contribution Will Be Made If Local People Do Their Part An appeal to Transylvania citizens to aid In the completion of the Bre vard College gymnasium Is being made through The Times this week by Presi dent E. J. Coltrane, who was asked for a statement on status of the building which Is now under construction. Mr. Coltrane’s statement follows: Recent developments in connection with the building program at Brevard College have made it necessary and desirable for us to call upon the citi zens of Brevard and Transylvania County for contributions to enablo the college to complete the gymnasium now in process of construction. Early In November a friend of the college agreed to give *1000 on the building program provided we could show that a total of *9000 had been i contributed for this purpose since Nov ember 1937. The friend indicated that this amount must be raised in cash by January 1, 1939. We found at once that It was necessary to raise *3000. Another friend agreed to contribute *500 of (his amount on condition that we raise the remainder. Small con tributions are being received daily. We believe, however, that the citizens of the town and county will want to have the opportunity to contribute at least *1000 on this effort. Within the next few days a canvass of interested per sons will be begun. We are expecting a cordial response to our efforts to raise the necessary funds to complete the gvmnasium. Since the opening of the college In September 1934 the value of the col lege plant has probably been increas ed to the extent of $150,000. More than $75,000 In actual money has been spent on construction and equipment of var ious types. The college has operated on its budget and today has no debts of serious consequence. Other compet ing institutions in the Methodist church have been closed permanently, and the way is open for substantial growth in the local Institution. This Is the first time since the opening of the college when we have found It necessary to call on our local friends for financial help. A campaign to Increase the faclll. ties of Brevard College to a consider able extent will be launched within the next few months. The next great need after the completion of the gym nasium Is a science building tn which the departments of chemistry, ^physics, biology, home economics and agricul ture can be properly housed. I am arranging to give most of my time in the next several months to the raising of the necessary funds for the erection of such a building. If our local friends who have loyally supported us In the past will contribute at least $1000 now the gymnasium can be completed. Our friends In other parts of the state and elsewhere will consider this as an In dication of genuine Interest in the pro ject which we are trying to develop. We believe that the response will be encouraging. Eugene J. Coltrane, President of the College. Send a year’s subscription to your friends for Christmas . . they’ll thank you 52 times. PRELIMINARY WORK R STARTED ON LOC L POSTOFFICE SITE Foundation Soundings Are Be ing Made On South Broad Property Sounding pits were started on the Brevard new post office lot Tuesday morning by an engineer for the fed eral government, and pictures of the site were made up by Austin's Studio. This Is the first actual work that has been done on the lot on South Broad street since announcement was made several weeks ago that the lo cation had been definitely selected. It Is not known what plans are for starting the building, and some time may elapse before construction starts, Inasmuch as engineers and landscape artists will very likely spend some time on laying out the building. Housing Shortage In Brevard May Prevent Families Coming Here Walter M. Schwarz of Nrw JTork City, vice president of the Ecusts. Paper corporation, was In Brevard Wednesday, and visited the Ecnsta plant where construction Is going for ward. Mr. Schwarz stated to The Times that the housing situation in Brevard was giving him considerable concern. He said that employes of the new In dustry who would have to be brought here in getting the plant In operation would naturally prefer to live In Bre vard, but that as the matter now stands In the way of available homes, this looked very unfavorable. Survey here shows that there Is a shortage of homes at the present, and while there are a few under construc tion, there Is dire needs for a mini mum of 35 more. No PTA Meeting There will be no meeting of the P. T. A. for December, announcement has been made by the publicity chairman. Mrs. J. F. Zacliary. The meeting for this month has been cancelled due to the early closing of the schools for the Christmas holidays and also because of the measles epi demic In the community. Rev. J. L. Underwood Pastor Pisgah Forest ' The Rev. J. L. Underwood was call ed to pastorate of Pisgah Forest Bap tist church last week, and has accepted the work. The Rev. Mr. Underwood lives at Cherryfield, and Is also pastor of the Calvert church there. Before coming to this county he was pastor of the Hayesville Baptist church. Services at the Pisgah Forest church are held at 7:30 in the evening on the first and third Sundays, and at 11 o’clock in the morning on the second and fourth Sundays. Pisgah Game Official To Speak at Kiwanis Fred J. Ruff, game technician for Pisgah National Forest, will tell Bre vard Klwanls members some of the more Interesting highlights of the re cent deer hunt held on the national pre serve. The meeting will be held at the Eng land Home on West Main street Thurs day at noon. Grid Stars Will Be Recognized By Lions -- James Mitchell of Brevard College all-conference Junior college guard, and Channon Ashworth, all-state and all Southern high school back, will be honored at the meeting of Brevard Lions club Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. Dr. E. M. Dings will tell of some of the Interesting things to be seen in California, and special Christmas muslo will be rendered. FIRECRACKER LAW WILL BE ENFORCED SAYS MAYOR HARRIS i Officers Instructed To Arrest Violators of Ordinance On Brevard Streets Mayor A. H. Harris has instructed Brevard policemen to arrest any per son over 16 years of age who lights firecrackers In the uptown section dur ing Christmas. The mayor said he was prompted to take this action, due to the exces sive amount of shooting of the giant crackers which has been going on here for several days. Juvenile cases, or youngsters under 16, will be turned over to the Juvenile court under Instructions of the may or, and while technical arrests will be made of the younger boys, it is the older group which the officers have been instructed to be on the lookout for. Considerable disturbance was creat ed Saturday and Sunday by fireworks, and the mayor said that he had had numerous complaints from citizens here In regard to the matter.
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