THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES “#■
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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.
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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”
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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
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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