THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES “#■ • i A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County ■H"M H I Him * **** VOL. 49 NO 6 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1939 $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIACOUNTY MISS EVA ISRAEL IS CHOSEN AS ROSMAN REPRESENTATIVE High school Student Named To Represent Community In Merit Contest — Miss Eva Israel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Israel, of Rosman. has been chosen by the faculty and students of Rosman high school to represent the school In the D. A. R. Pilgrimage to Washington and as Rosman high school’s best citizen for the current school y«ir. Every high school In North Carolina Is entitled to select the outstanding girl In the senior class to represent the school In this nation-wide contest. Miss Israel. 16 years of age. a mem ber of the senior class of 1939. of Ros man high school. Is popular not only In her school but In the community as well. Qualifications to be taken Into con sideration In this contest are: Depend ability. service, leadership, scholarship, and patriotism. During her high school career. Miss Israel has made excellent grades on all subjects. She Is associate editor of the Rosman high school news; secre tary of the 4-H club; active In sports, being a member of the first team In basketball; commencement marshal in her Junior year, and Is very active In all school activities. She won a medal In the second year of home economics for making the best dress. In the election of the superla tives of the senior class, she has been chosen as the most popular girl, best sport, best all-round, most Intellectual, most likely to succeed, and most ath letic girl. Resides these attainments she Is outstanding In dramatics, having taken the leading role In many plays, and she has also coached plays. Miss Israel has a pleasing personal ity and Is liked by her teachers and class mates. She never shirks her duty, and always responds whenever she Is called upon. The faculty re gards her as one of the most depend able students Rosman has ever had. She Is very acive In church work, being a member of Zion Baptist church, and many of Its organizations. She has a remarkable record of attendance, not having missed a Sunday In several years. She was awarded a Bible for writing the most promises found In the New Testament. She serves as as sistant pianist at church, and some times as cholrister, and is also a mem ber of the Rosman Gospel Trio. Miss Israel Is a patriotic and reliable girl, and stands for everything tha^ Is good and noble. Postmasters To Meet At Rosman On Friday Postmasters of Transylvania county will meet Friday evening: of this week at the Rosman hlgrh school, the pro gram to begin at 7:30 o’clock. Purpose of the meeting as set out In an Invitation from Dewey Edwards of Pisgah Forest, chairman of the Tran sylvania County Association, Is to be come better acquainted, and to dis cuss matters of Interest pertaining to the national and state organizations of postmasters. Postmaster Wythe Peyton of Ashe ville, and other postmasters from near by towns are expected to attend, along with the mayors of Rrevard and Ros man. Edwin C. Galloway Died Last Saturday PICKENS—No Inquest will be held In the death of Edwin Cancelor Gallo way. 81. prominent farmer of Pickens county, who was found dead In bed at his home early Saturday morning, ac cording to Coroner Dennis H. Ramsey. Mr. Galloway had been In the best of health and his death was wholly unex pected and proved a distinct shock to his many friends. It was thought that he died of a heart attack. Mr. Galloway was a native of Tran sylvania county, N. C., but moved to Pickens county while a child. He had made his home here since. He was a member of the Mile Creek Baptist church. Ho was also a deacon In the church. His wife. Mrs. Mallnda Chapman Gal. loway, died about three years ago. Surviving are the following daugh ters: Mrs. Roy Ellenberg, Misses Mary and Plumle Galloway: the following sons, Pendlor, Woodrow, Barney and Lee Galloway: three sisters, Mrs. El len Chapman, Mrs. Alice Powell and Mrs. Elmeda Murphree. Three grand children also survive. Funeral services were held from the Mile Creek Baptist church Sunday af ternoon, conducted by the Rev. Harri son Whitlock, the Rev. H. A. Newton and the Rev. Cleve Marshbanks. Interment was made In the Mile Creek church cemetery. Big Egg Sent In An egg that measured six and one quarter by seven and three-quarters was brought down from Rosman Sat urday night by Tom Stroup. The large piece of breakfast food (I know exactly what meal It was) was laid by a white leghorn, which proves that the "banty egg” notion some people have about whtta leghorns Is all the bash. The egg weighed four ounces. Stamp Club Meeting Regular meeting of the stamp club will be held Thursday evening of this week at the home of Rowell Bosse at 8 o’clock. Rosman DAR Pupil MISS EVA ISRAEL Town Board Asks for More Money from Gas Tax for Street Work j Official request was made by the Brevard board of aldermen at their meeting Monday In a petition-resolu tion to the legislature to turn more gasoline money toward the mainten ance and construction of streets here. Similar resolutions have been adopt ed throughout the state by municipal-1 ltles during the past few days. Follow- 1 lng Is copy of the resolution: WHEREAS, surveys have conclusive ly proved that motor vehicle owners residing in towns and cities pay 63 per cent of all the state-collected gasoline taxes and motor vehicle license taxes, and WHEREAS, surveys also show that approximately 37 per cent of all motor vehicles travel is on the streets within the corporate limits of towns and cities, and WHEREAS, only 1 1-2 per cent of the total state-collected highway funds are now being used on streets within the towns and cities of North Carolina, the balance of the tremendous cost of street malnltenance and construction being paid by property taxes for the eneflt of motor vehicle owners, now therefore RE IT RESOLVED, by the Aldermen of the Town of Brevard, N. C.t In meet ing assembled this 6th day of February, 1939, that this body unanimously fav ors and strongly, recommends that not less than $1,000,000 annually of state highway funds be appropriated by the 1939 General Assembly for use In main taining, reconstructing or widening of streets in towns and cities that are used as connecting links for state and county roads, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that In our opinion this request reflects the sentiment of an overwhelming major ity of the taxpayers of this community and that copies of this resolution are hereby ordered to be sent by the clerk of this body to the State Representa tive from this county and the State Senators from this district, to the Gov ernor of North Carolina, and to the newsnaDer. JACK FORTIN NAMED TO RANGER POSITION Former Assistant at Pisgah Succeeds Squires Here In District Office John B. Fortin, who has been a mem ber of the Pisgah Forest service for a number of years, has been assigned to the post of ranger at Pisgah, succeed ing John Squires. Mr. Fortin has been acting district ranger on the Uharle division since 1936 when he received a promotion from the post of assistant ranger here. Previous to that time he worked In Pisgah as cultural foreman and project superintendent In the CCC camps at Johns Rock and North Mills River. Mr. Fortin is a graduate of the New York College of Forestry, having a BS and MF degree. He Is well known here, and “welcome back home" was extended to the new ranger at the weekly meeting of Brevard Klwanis club last Thursday. h ■■ ■ .mi. . — . Brevard Lady Inherits $80,000 From Cousin Mrs. Nancy B. Carrier of Rockbrook, has been notified that she was named as a beneficiary of Mrs. Frances B. Leigh’s will, and was bequeathed $80,000. Mrs. Leigh, who inherited a fortune from her grandfather, the late P. T. Bamum, left bequests totaling $188,600 to over a dozen charities in her will. The estate was valued at more than $1,000,000. Mrs. Leigh was a cousin of Mrs. Car rier. Art Contest Will Be Held Here March 18 The annual creative arts contest, sponsored by the Mathataslan club In cooperation with the University of North Carolina, will be held on Satur day, March 18, at the NYA hut. Rules governing this contest have been sent to the schools In the county. It Is hoped that all children who are talented In certain arts will enter. Junior college students are eligible to enter this contest BRIDGE WORK FOR BOYLSTON STARTED Important Highway Link Will Be Completed This Year—> Short Asheville Road Work of building bridges and cul verts on the Boylston road has been started by Hoobs-Peabody, contractora of Charlotte. Plans of the construe tlon company are to have the 20 small structures completed by May first, or earlier, and grading of the road will start immediately after that by Chand ler Brothers. The new road will connect with the new link built last year from top ot Little Mountain to the Henderson coun ty line, and will merge with 191 one half mile south of the Mills River bridge. The new stretch will be six and one half miles long, something over a mile shorter than the present route, with practically all curves eliminated. About thirty men are employed on the project. G. G. Page of Brevard Is engineer for the stale highway com mission. Paul Jones Winner In Charlotte Radio Program Broadcast Paul Jones, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jones, was declared Brevard winner over eight other con testants In a state-w'lde broadcast heard I over radio station WBT, Charlotte, on Saturday. The Judges were unanimous in their decision that his piano ren dition was the most outstanding per formance on the program of musical and reading selections. Paul was one of four chosen from the recent Young America contest held In the Brevard high school, under spon sorship of the local Lions club, qualify ing him for entrance In the radio competition at Charlotte. The young Brevard pianist was pre sented with a radio for his winning performance over WBT. It also en titles him to return to Charlotte In the spring for another broadcast, In which he will compete with 26 other talent ed Young Americans In a contest, the winner of which will be given a free trip to the world’s fair In New York. Following announcement that Paul had won In the Charlotte broadcast, he received an Invitation to appear and play before an audience of several hun dred persons attending the annual con vention In Charlotte on Tuesday of the Norge factory officials, dealers and! guests from various sections of North j and South Carolina. Paul was accom- j panied to Charlotte for this occasion by his parents. County Superintendent I and Mrs. Jones. The Invitation to play I at this convention was extended by the Southern Bearings and- Parts company, of Charlotte, sponsors of the weekly broadcast "Young America on the Air." Paul was accompanied to Charlotte for the Saturday broadcast by Harold Kilpatrick, of the local K&M Auto and as representative of the Brevard Lions club. The other three Brevard contestants on Saturday's broadcasting contest. O’Neill Owen, Mildred Green and George Simpson, Jr., were accompanied to Charlotte by Mrs. George Simpson. Mrs. Madge O. Wilkins and Mrs. Joe j K. Osborne. Boy Scout week will be observed with a parents’ night program to be held at the NYA hut Friday evening at 7 o'clock. Games, stunts and other en tertainment features will be participat ed In. All parents of the scouts are requested to be present On Sunday morning at the Presby terian church, all scouts will attend a special service in their honor at 11 o’clock. Sewer Project Here Completed By WPA Praised By Officials Completion of the Jumping Branch sewer project was made last week by WPA workers under W. A. Wilson and Avery Case. Letters of commendation for the type of work done, and the saving In ex penses to both the town and the fed eral government have been written by Mayor A. H. Harris and B. H. Free man, superintendent of streets and water for the town. The Jumping Branch sewer line has given trouble for several years, the Brevard officials pointed out In their letters to George W. Coan, state ad minlstrator for the WPA, and the as sistance of the WPA made a badly needed improvement possible. In addition to laying the new sewer line, work of draining and clearing the swamp-land along the small creek was also don9 by the workmen, mak ing a decided Improvement In the section southeast of the high school building. Renew your subscription. John Maxwell To Be Buried Thursday At Oak Grove Cemetery John Clayton Maxwell, 64, died sud denly Wednesday afternoon on the streets of Westminster, S. C., where he had gone on business. Death was due to heart attack. He had been In 111 health the past year. Funeral services will be held Thurs day afternoon at 4 o’clock, from Bre vard Methodist church, of which the deceased was a member. Interment will be made In Oak Grove cemetery, North Brevard. The Rev. E. P. Bil lups, pastor will be In charge. Mr. Maxwell was a native of this county, son of William Maxwell, of Brevard. Mr. Maxwell was a farmer, and cattleman, and had been active in business here for years. He Is survived by his widow, and one daughter. Miss Mildred Maxwell of Brevard; one sister, Miss Mary Maxwell of Brevard; two brothers, George Max well of Brevard, and R. E. Maxwell of Umatilla, Florida. Brevard High Win* First Double Bill of 1939 Basketball Year Brevard high’s basketball teams turn ed In their first double win of the season here Tuesday night with the girls a vastly improved and still im proving outfit, taking the Rosman sex tet 16-15 and the boys duplicating that win in the final taking their game 19-14. The Brevard girls with Hayes lead ing the way with 9 points were suc cessful in winning their first game of the year at the expense of a Rosman team that had previously defeated them three times. The only other Brevard player to connect with a shot was Gray. The Brevard defense was an other outstanding feature of the game. Osteen and Israel with four tallies apiece were Rosman standouts. The Blue Devils still seemed Jittery over their Friday night loss and were held to the closest score of the season by Rosman's rejuvenated Hawks. Al though they won the game the Brevard boys were far away from the form that carried them to early season heights. However, they showed im provement over their loss of last Friday and gave promise of more wins. Car land and Teague led the scoring with 7 and 6 points respectively. Single tary led Rosman with three field goals College Debaters Will Be Heard Over WWNC Brevard college will go on the air Thursday evening, February 9, over radio station WWNC at 7:00 o'clock, with two members of the Forensic club debating Mars Hill college. These rival schools will debate the question: "Resolved that the United States should cease to use public funds, including credits, for the purpose of stimulating business.” Billy Shipman, Hendersonville, and Wayne McLain, Statesville, will uphold the negative side of the query for Brevard college. Three faculty members and nine stu dents of Brevard college participated In the services of various churches on "College Day,” observed throughout Southern Methodism on Sunday, Feb. 5. Dr. Burt W. Loomis and Billy Shlp mnn represented the college on the Flat Rock circuit near Hendersonville. Go ing to three churches on the Ruther ford charge were Stella Ray, Evelyn Rothrock, Dixie Sheets, Fred Willis. Sara Hensley, Wayne McLain, and Bunyan Andrew. To Lake Junaluska Methodist church went Marvin Boggs. June Marian was at the eleven o’clock service at Pinnacle Methodist church near Winston-Salem. Rev. Earl D. C. Brewer spoke In Summerfleld Sunday morning and at the evening service In the First Methodist church of Char lotte. Poultry Buying Dates For Cooperative Cars Pushing further Its program to en courage expansion of the poultry In dustry In Western North Carolina, the Farmers Federation will conduct regu lar poultry buying days In 11 communi ties starting next week. In cooperation with the Farmers Cooperative Exchange, of Raleigh, H will sponsor weekly trips extending from Murphy to Morganton of a spec tal poultry car. Dates of poultry buy ing days and prices to be paid will be advertised In advance. The schedule for next week calls for the buyer to be at the Brevard ware house of the Federation Thursday morning, February U, until noon. Prices to be paid are carried In this Issue of The Times. Business Houses Are. Improving Properties Repairs and improvements are being made on three business buildings In Brevard. % A modernized front Is being put In the Dixie Store building on Broad street, with Idea In mind for better dis play. The Long Drug store and Ward-, Smith fronts are to be rebuilt hlong practically the same lines now existing. This Is being dene for strengthening the building. WgKt , Tinsley's Barber shop la tnsiall'na new fixtures, a modern partition os tween the news stand department and the barber chairs, and doing other improvement* inside tfeo building. Man Of The Year DEAN I. O. SCHAUB of State Col lege, Raleigh, has been named "The Man of the Year” for service to the agricultural interests of North Car olina bv The Progressive Farmer magazine. A native of North Carolina, Dean Schaub knows the problems that face the Tar Heel farmers, and has taken a keen Interest in things pertaining to betterment of farm living in every chase. DELINQUENT TAXES WILL BE COLLECTED Commissioners Appoint Lem Brooks To Post—Say “Get The Taxes” Order was made by the board of commissioners in their meeting here Monday to the effect that all back taxes Including 1938 and prior years be col lected at once. The commissioners have made like orders heretofore, but this time they went a step farther, and hired a man to do nothing but collect the delin quent taxes, and clothed him with the power to use such methods as he finds necessary for collection. Lem Brooks, former tax collector, was named to the delinquent tax col lecting post, and will receive 20 per | cent of all monies collected as his fees. His duties will Include going to every delinquent tax payer in the county, whether the tax be for poll or person al "property, arid making collections. Instructions were given Mr. Brooks by the commissioners to collect small and large accounts, Irrespective of amounts. It was pointed out by the board in making the order, that around $100, 000 in back taxes is due the county, and taxpayers who have taken care of their obligations are urging that others be made to pay. Added to this, is the fact that the funds are needed by the county. Mr. Brooks said that he hoped to do the collecting without resorting to levying on personal property and gar nlsheelng wages, but that his orders were "Collect the taxes” I TWO-CODNTY CORN SHOW BE HELE N BREVARD MARCH 4 Transylvania and Henderson Will Hold Banquet For Champion Growers Transylvanla-Henderson com show and banquet will be held In Brevard on March 4. according to announcement by county agents and agriculture teach ers of the two counties Wednesday. Definite plans for place of holding the show and the banquet following have not been made, but the banquet will very probably be at Brevard Col lege on the evening of March 4, with the show In the county agents office. Pinal checkup on the yields made by Gerald Allison showed that he grew his com at 2S cents per bushel against 29 cents per bushel cost of the com grown by Reid Lance of Henderson. Additional Operators At Telephone Office Two operators have been added at the central office of the Cltlsens Tele phone company, to assist In handling Increased business. Miss Opal Fullbrlght Is assisting Mrs. W. M. Cloud as night operator, and Mrs. Langdon English Is aiding Mrs. Rowena Summey and Mrs. B. H. Free man as day operator. Efforts Being Made To Get Federal Aid On County Bond Debt Effort Is again being made by the Transylvania county board of com missioners to secure a refund from the federal government of a proportionate part of bonded Indebtedness outstand ing when the government took over county lands to add to PIsgah Nation al Forest. The board Instructed County Account ant Ralph Lyday to write other coun tiej which have been effected by the forestry taking ove.' lands and see If concrete action could be had through I Congrese for a refund. 3 PISGAH FOREST WORKERS ELEVATED TO HIGHER POSITIONS Squires, Huber, Ruff Named To District and Area Places of Region Three Plsgah Forest officials who have been stationed here for the past several years have been given promo tions in the forestry service and are being transferred from the Plsgah sta tion to separate fields. Working together here for three years, John Squires, W. W. Huber, and Fred Ruff, have each made individual records that have won recognition of the district, area, and national for estry divisions, and working as a unit have placed the service in the Plsgah district on a plane that has attracted the attention of forest and game offi cials from all sections of the country. Ranger John Squires John Squires, district ranger, has been promoted to the post of acting as sistant In the Plsgah Forest area, with headquarters In the office of supervisor H. E. Ochsner, Asheville. Mr. Squires is a native of Louisiana, and a graduate of LSU. He was presi dent of the graduate school of 1932 at the Louisiana State University, and was leader in other student activities as well as baseball and basketball. He. entered the forest service In Georgia, and was transferred to Tel llco Plains, Tennessee, as ranger In 1984. He came here In 1987 to succeed W. P. (Bill) Duncan, who went to Tel llco. During his term as ranger for the Plsgah district the fish rearing pools have been built, a number of camp grounds set up, and many other Improvements made in the district of lasting nature. Mr. and Mrs. Squires and their two children are now living on take Shore Drive, Asheville, and Mr. Squires' of fice is in the Arcade building. Ranger Jack Fortin Is now in charge at Pls gah Forest Assistant Ranger Huber William W. Huber, assistant ranger at Plsgah, has been promoted to the office of acting ranger of the Mt Mitchell district with offices In the Marion postoffice building. He will have charge of the 150,000 acre wild life district near Marion which is a part of the Plsgah National Forest area. Mr. and Mrs. Huber and their young son plan to move next week to their new home in Marlon. Mr. Huber is a native of Brooklyn, N. Y. and a graduate of New York College of Forestry at Syracuse. He came to Plsgah Forest from Misslss fConfined on Back Page) Hogs Paid Pat Allison $1.33 Per Bushel For Corn Used For Feed (By J. A. Qlazener, County Agent) Pat Allison of the Dunns Rock sec tion has just completed a hog feeding demonstration In which 90 bushels of corn was fed to 10 hogs and brought $1.93 1-3 per bushel. Mr. Allison bought 10 shoats for $42.00, paid $1.00 to have them hauled home, fed them $8.00 worth of supple ment feed and paid $6.00 to have them hauled to market. The shoats at the age of 6 months and 19 days weighed 2200 pounds and sold for 8 cents per pound or a total of $176.00. Total ex penses other than corn was $68.00, leaving $120.00 for his 90 bushels of Corn or $1.38 1-3 cents per bushel. If 40 per cent of the average corn crop produced In Transylvania county were fed to hogs, allowing 15 bushels to produce a 200 pound hog along with supplement feed, and 60 of these 200 pounders were placed In a car this county could produce on the average of 90 cars of hogs annually. A wonder ful possibility not developed. Dance Thursday Eve; Proceeds Used To Buy Lunch Supplies A square dance will be held at the NYA hut Thursday evening of this week beginning at 9 o’clock. Patrons and patronesses will be Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie McCrary. Music will be furnished by Vernon Randolph band and Speedy Jones will call. Twenty-five cents ad mission will be charged. Through the proceeds from the dances and the surplus from the lunch rooo^ the NYA management was enabled td purchase a new $1** hotel range for use In the school lunch room kitchen. Kiwanis Club To Meet Weekly During Month' Brevard Klwanlana will meet each week In February, the club voted last Thursday after hearing John C. Mc Dow, district Governor. The meeting this week will be held at 12:15. On February 15 the club will hold ■ladles night," with members from Asheville, Hendersonville, and Tryon attending with their ladles. At the meeting last Thursday Dr. Edwin P. Jones was guest of Ralph Ramsey; John Fortin was guest of Brown Carr. Negro Minstrel Date Date for the nrf.ro mlnatret has been chanred to Friday, February 17. from tbs pravlnua date set for the lOch. The event <a sponsored by the Balaam Grove school and wttl be held at the NTA hut

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