|W! THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMEStef
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County '
VOl 49. NO'*j1 ' BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 18. 1939 S1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANTa COUN^
CAMP CATEECHEE
LEASED FOR TEN
YEARS BY SCOUTS
Improvements Will Be Made
and Girls Will Arrive
First of June
Plans for the Girl Scout Camp to bo
held at Camp Cateeohee on the prop
erty owned by Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
Wilson are already being completed,
according to Miss Porothv Donnell ot
Charlotte, who will direct the camp.
The eight weeks season will begin
on June 17th and close August 12th.
The staff members will arrive on June
11th. The camp accommodates 50
scouts and 20 staff members, and is
expected to be filled to capacity.
This year the camp will be operated
for scouts of four cities, Charlotte, N.
C.: Columbia. Greenville and Spartan
burg. S. C. Scouts from other com
munities will be accepted if there Is
room.
Improvements have already begun
on the physical equipment of the camp.
A new unit of five cabins and an out
door kitchen have been completed. A
new Infirmary is to be built. New
bath house and improvements made
to both the beginners lake and the
large lake.
Miss Martha Whitlock, field cap
tain in Greenville, S. C„ will be as
sistant director. Other staff members
who have already been chosen are as
follows: Miss Gladys Howard. Spar
tanburg. S. C., camp secretary: Mrs.
O. G. Murphy, LnGrange. Ga.. dieti
tian: Miss Lillian Beam. Greenville. S.
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Pre-School Clinic To
Be Held Here Monday
Information concerning pre-school
and other clinics to be held in the
local school were given by Mrs. Albert
Chance, county health nurse, and Mrs.
B. D. Franklin, PTA chairman of pre
school clinics, at the March meeting of
the Parent-Teacher association, held
Tuesday afternoon in the grammar
school building.
Mrs. Chance told of plans being com.
pleted for the pre-school clinic for
diphtheria and smallpox to be hold at
the Brevard grammar school building
on Monday, March "5o. The clinic is
for examnlatlon of ell pre-school child
ren for physical defects, who expect to
enter school next fall. She also stilt
ed that a tonsil clinic would probably
be held in Tune for underprivileged
children, who would be unable to pay
the full price for a tonsil operation.
Mrs. Franklin requested for volun
teers to help In the clinic Monday, and
stated that a eve clinic would also
he held in the near future. The PTA
voted to provide Ice cream for the
children of the pre-school clinic on
Monday. The parents were urged by
both Mrs. Chance and Mrs. Franklin
to send their children of pre-school age
to the clinic for free examination and
treatment.
Mrs. Frank Jenkins, president, was
In charge of the routine business of the
association. Principal .1. E. Rufty.
chairman of the finance committee, re.
ported that an operetta for tcnefit of
the PTA will be given by the school
children on March 30. Mrs. C. L.
Newland. room representative chair
man. announced that the Clemson
theatre management had offered to
donate the prize to the third grade for
having the most mothers present at the
meeting. The prize award will be a
free ticket to the picture at Clemson
theatre on March 30 for each child in
the third grade.
An enjoyable feature of the program
was the rendition of two vocal solos
by Mrs. Herbert F. Finck. singing to
her own accompaniment. "The Lotus
Flower" and "In The Luxemburg Gar
den."
OFFICE BUILDING AT
ECUSTA UNDER WAY
Modern Structure Will Com
plete Construction of
Cigarette Plant
Work has been started on the office
building of the Ecusta Paper Corpora
tion, and will complete the construc
tion job for the new cigarette paper
plant.
The building will be a brick and
steel structure, with limestone trim,
and will be modern throughout.
Of two story type, the building is to
be 102 feet by 46 feet, and in addition
to the two stories above ground, will
also have a large basement. Air con
ditioning is being built Into the office,
particular attention is being given the
lighting.
Harry m. siraus, president ot un
corporation, said Wednesday that the
building would be of latest modern
type, designed for comfort and effi
ciency of workers.
The building Is located west of the
plant proper, near what is now the
gate to the property, and facing Van
derbilt Road. Plans for beautification
of the grounds have not been worked
out, but will be fitted to the building.
Mr. Straus is here supervising work
on the office and other plans. He
had as his guest during the week,.Lud
wig Straus «f New York, a brother.
On his first visit here. Mr. Ludwig
Straus was highly complimentary of
the scenery in this community, and
told a Times representative that In his
opinion the Ecusta plant was located
in THE ideal spot
Progress At Ecusta Paper Corporation
ABOVE picture shows buildings of the new cigarette paper plant of the Ecusta Paper Corporation
at Pisgah Forest nearing completion. The picture was taken by Herbert Finck from the llo-foot fire-pro
tection tank of the plant, located at the southwest corner of the property. At the nght is shown the raw
products warehouse, with processing buildings in line toward the north. #
BELOW is shown state of the buildings on October 14th of last year. Warehouse as shown in the
top picture is not shown, neither is the filter plant which is now complete and water turned m part of the
huge vats. The bottom picture was taken by C. M. Douglas from top of the 225-foot smokestack shown
in the top picture. v _ ;
Books at UDC Library
Books recently shelved at the U. D.
C. library and now ready for rental in
clude: Present Indicative, Coward:
With Malice Toward Some. Halsey;
Parts Unknown, Keyes; Of Human
Bondage, Maugham; The Yearling.
Rawlings; Heaven’s My Destination,
Wildes; and two children's books. Sec
ret Garden, Burnett; and Little Swiss
Boy, Spyri.
Mrs. Irene R. Greig
Died In Summerville
Mrs. Irene R. Greig, aged 91 years,
died at her home in Summerville, S. U.
Thursday. March 9, following a period
of falling health for several years.
Funeral services were held in Sum
merville on Friday. Interment was In
Magnolia cemetery, Charleston.
Mrs. Ethel McMinn, of Brevard, an
adpoted daughter of Mrs. Greig. is the
only immediate survivor. Mr. Grieg
died several years ago. They spent the
summers in Brevard regularly years
ago, and had many friends here.
Mrs. McMinn had been in Summer
ville with her mother for sev
eral weeks, and was with her at the
time of her death.
HOLLIDAY PURCHASES
DR. W. M. LYDAY PLACE
PENROSE, March 15—M. H. Holli
day has recently purchased the former
Dr. W. M. Lyday place near Penrose,
which for the past few years has been
known as the York property.
Mr. Holliday, retired railway track
foreman who completed 43 years of
service with the Southern Railway In
1938, plans to travel some, and also do
some farming which is his pet hobby.
ART EXHIBITION TO
BE HELD SATURDAY
County School Students Will
Compete—Public Invited
To View Displays
Saturday will bring to a close the
creative art contest which has been
in progress in the schools of the town
and county the past several weeks,
sponsored by the Brevard Mathatasian
club.
An exhibition of the art composi
tions of the school children will be
held In the primary school building
Saturday from 3 to 5 o’clock, at which
time the exhibit will be open to the
public. It Is requested by the club art
committee that all entries be brought
to the school building between 9 and
10 o’clock Saturday morning.
Those adjudged winners in the local
contest will be eligible to compete in
the state art ‘contest at Chapel Hill,
where their entries will be sent for
competition in prize awards.
HIGHWAY 64 WORK
STARTED TUESDAY
Reconditioning and Widening
of Five-Mile Stretch Be
Completed by June
Work was started Tuesday by road
crews under Ernest Webb and T. O.
Moody reconditioning the Henderson
ville highway from in front of Os
borne’s Dairy near Pisgah Forest to
Beechbrook cottages below Penrose.
Engineer Webb said that the pres
ent roadbed would be followed, and
the stone now on the road re-crushed
and placed back. Black top will be
put on the road after completion of the
crushing, with expectations of being
through with the Job before June first
of this year.
The new surface will be 18 feet—an
addition of two feet over the present
roadbed, and when completed the road
will be of the same structure as that
leading through North Brevard.
Tentative plans called for straight
ening several curves of the road, but
this will be impossible at this time, Mr.
Webb said, due to the fact that funds
sufficient only to recondition the road
are available.
Original survey called for widening
and straightening the "S" curve just
below Pisgah Forest Postoffice, and
relocating the railroad crossing just
north of Davidson River bridge, but
this will not be Included in the pres
ent job, it was learned Tuesday.
Traffic will be maintained on the
road during construction, Mr. Webb
said, and effort will be made to pro
vide as near adequate service as pos
sible. A portable crusher will follow
the plows, and the stone will be re
crushed and placed back on the road
bed.
Two blind scientists, A. Parkhom
enko and I. Proskuryakov, have been
appointed instructors at the state uni
versity in Moscow, Russia.
Jr.-Sr. Banquet Will
Be High School Event
of Friday Evening
Annual Brevard Junior-Senior ban
quet will be held at the NYA hut Fri
day evening of this week, beginning
at 8 o'clock.
Arrangements are being made to
care for 125 members of the two
classes, faculty members, and invited
guests. Bob Huggins, president of the
senior class, will act as toastmaster.
Theme of the program has not been
announced, but the usual high stan
dard of Interest is to be expected at
the event.
The program will bo under super
vision of Mrs. Edwin Wike. Miss
Elizabeth Jarvis and B. D. Franklin,
sponsors, are In charge of decorations.
District Singing At
Carrs Hill Church
Middle District singing convention
lias been announced for Sunday after
noon. March 19. at Carrs Hill church
on the Greenville road.
Oirtha Shipman, president of the
convention, requested The Times to ex
tend invitation to all singers of the
county, and any visitors to attend. The
program will begin at 2 o’clock.
Brevard Young Man
On Chapel Hill Tour
CHAPKL HILL, March 15—Lewis P.
Hamlin, Jr., of Brevard is one of a,
group of students who are on a 10-day
tour of Southern colleges, where the
Chapel Hill team will debate with
teams at other colleges.
The Brevard man, who is studying
law', was a member of the Mars Hill
Junior College debating team, and has
few superiors in public speaking.
SUPERIOR COURT TO
CONVENE APRIL 3RD
Mixed Term Will Be Presided
Over By Rousseau—Jury
last Is Given
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Jurors for the April term Superior
court which convenes here the 3rd of
next month, have been selected by the
Jury commission, as follows:
First Week
Harold Kilpatrick, P. H. Galloway,
N. W. Pickelsimer, Pilmore Galloway,
A. N. Poole. Carl Baynard, J. F. Scott,
A. B. Zachary, M. F. Gillespie, N. H.
Chapman, W. H. Lyday, W. W. Led
better, A. A. Trantham, A. E. York,
H. A. Plummer, Dewey Moore, R. W.
Owens, E. H. Singletary, J. L. Gilles
pie, A. J. Beddingfield, G. H. Lyday,
Earl S. Orr, Arlin Reece, W. T. Brown,
H. E. Guyer, Lester Cox, Robert Duck
worth, A. B. Galloway, Hillie Fisher,
T. W. Phillips, Ben Jones, J. O. Can
trell, C. E. Leathers, R. E. Orr, Malga
Allison, Burton McCall.
Second Week
Fred Scruggs, H. H. Brown, J. I.
Aires, C. H. Morris, Ingomar McCall, C.
C. Reece, Wallace Collins, George
Clark, Claude Ray, A. E. Merrill, John
L. Gravely, James R. Alexander, Mack
Powell, G. T. Lyday, J. M. Bryson,
T. S. Woods, Coy Whitmire, C. W.
Henderson.
Judge Rousseau Coming
Judge J. A. Rousseau, of North
Wilkesboro will preside at the mixed
term of court, with criminal cases to be
heard the first week, and the civil
calendar to start upon completion of
state cases.
The jury list was drawn last week
by Clerk of Court Spalding Mclntorti,
C. R. Sharp, and Oliver H. Orr, jury
commission.
Dahlia Club Meeting
A meeting of the Transylvania Dahlia
club will be held Tuesday evening In
F. E. Shuford's office at 7:30 o’clock,
announcement has been made by the
president, Mrs. Brown Carr.
This will be the first meeting of the
new year, since regular meetings were
abandoned during the winter months.
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Honor Roll
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We are proud of our Honor Roll
which carries the names of friends of
the paper from week to week—those
who enjoy reading the paper to such
extent that they pay promptly:
Mrs. Donald Moore, Brevard
Julian Allison, Pisgah Forest
E. L. Gray, Brevard
B. L. Lunsford, Rosman
T. W. Whitmire, Brevard
Lynch Moore, Brevard, R-l
G. T. Frady, Pisgah Forest
T. C. Galloway, Wolf Mountain
Duncan MacDougald. Brevard, R-l
A. J. Hamilton, Penrose
H. P. Nicholson, Pisgah Forest
Dr. C. H. Trowbridge, Brevard
Mrs. L. K. Ratchford. Brevard
L. D. Gillespie, Brevard R-3
Mrs. Corrie Willbanks, Luke Tox.
Frank Shuford, Pisgah Forest
Mrs. Shuford Walker, Lake Tox.
P. S. McGaha, Pisgah Forest
Jesse C. Cash, Oakland
S. R. Owen, Lake Toxaway
W. H. Collins, Brevard. R-2
Dr. C. J. S. Pearsons, Sapphire •
John A. Owen, Lake Toxaway
Mrs. Paul Smathers, Brevard
Mrs. J. M. Gosnell, Pisgah Forest
Alfred Miller, Sapphire
Everett Huggins, Sr., Brevard
A. E. Hampton, Brevard
Gate Osteen, Brevard R-3
Arthur Whitmire, Brevard R-3
George W. Wheeler, Brevard
Mrs. Joe Johnson, Brevard R-2
Nathan Morris, Kentucky
Perry Galloway, Brevard
Carl McCrary, Brevard
Mrs. Golda Shamo, Brevard, R-2
Carl Killian, Brevard R-S
Miss Eulalia Orr, Brevard R-2
R. A. Merrill, Penrose
Carr Burgess, L. Toxaway
E. O. Shipman, Pisgah Forest
Mrs. Y. J. McCrary, Brevard R-2
Mrs. A. W. Davis, Georgia
S. T. Llp'sey, Georgia
Rad Nicholson, Brevard R-l
Gyde Ashworth, Brevard
Dock Banther, L. Toxaway
E. K. McCrary, Brevard, R-l
Richard McCall, Balsam Grove
Miss Cora Willson, Simpsonvllle
We are sending the following new
subscribers the paper this week, and
hope that they are as pleased to get
the news of Transylvania as we are
to send It:
Mrs. Constance Banks, Wlnston-8.
C. M. Sisk, Balsam Grove
Andrew Boggs, Brevard R-2
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L 0. McCALL WINS
BIG EGG CONTEST
Entries Will Be Accepted for
Two More Weeks—Many
People Interested
EL O. McCall of Brevard R-2 was
easy winner In the big egg contest
last week, with an egg that looked
like it had originally been slated for
three eggs, and as ordinary eggs go
would make three.
Mr. McCall's entry tipped the scales
at five an three-eights ounces, and
was so big around that no one would
believe It, so the measurements are
not printed.
Only once before since the big egg
contest has been in vogue each spring
has there been equal to the big egg
Mr. McCall brought in, and that was
last year when J. R. Wickllffe bought
an eight-ounce egg in South Carolina
and brought it In.
Mrs. A. E. Tinsley or tne many
Branch section, was runner-up with
her entry that weighed three and sev
en-eights ounces. Third place was
tied by entries sent In by Mrs. W. F.
Short and Mrs. D. El. Culver of Bre
vard, and H. L. Hunter of Rosman R-l.
C. L. Corn of Plsgah Forest placed
fourth with an entry that weighed
three and five-eights ounces. O. S.
Moore of Balsam Grove brought in a
Plymouth Rock egg that weighed three
and one-half ounces.
Other entries during the week which
got left In the running were made by
8. R. Morgan of Etowah, Bobbie Mc
Kelvey of Brevard R-l, James Holden,
Jr., of Brevard, Mrs. George McGaha
of Plsgah Forest, Mrs. J. W. McCall
of Brevard R-2, Mrs. Harvey Laughter
of Etowah, R. A. Collins of Rosman. and
Mrs. G. D. Walden of Brevard.
Miss Margaret Miller of Brevard ran
in a turkey egg. but the “old man"
was raised on a farm, and happened
to know his turkey and duck eggs
from hen-fruit, so Margaret’s entry
went into the frying pan Instead of
the contest.
Mrs. J. F. Matney of Statesville, who
has a chicken farm, sent In a three
and seven-eights ounce egg, which was
not eligible for entry, but also made
good eating at breakfast time.
The contest will continue two more
weeks, with a dollar being paid each
week for the largest egg. No need to
wait for a "great big egg" to pop up,
as two prior week’s winners have been
four ounces and under.
Only requirements are that the pro
ducer lives in the trading area of Bre
vard, Including Cashiers, Wolf Moun
tain. Etowah, and Horse Shoe, and that
the eggs be sent in before five o’clock
Saturday afternoon.
Two New Businesses
To Open Here Soon
Two new business enterprises are
slated to open In Brevard within the
next ten days.
One will be the McBride Variety store
In the Waltermire hotel building on
Broad street. This concern wilt be
under ownership and direction of W.
R. McBride of Waynesville. and his
son, Harry, also of Waynesville.
George Saleeby of Asheville, has
signed a lease on the front office part
of the Lawrence building next to the
post office, and will open a shoe store
there within the next few days.
Definite plans for opening have not
been announced by Mr. Saleeby, but
he expects to be open before the first
of the month.
The State Highway office has been
moved from the front of the Lawrence
building to back rooms of the .build
ing below the Western Union oa Jordan
street.
FEDERATION STARTS
WORK ON BUILDING
Other Business and
Property Is Being
proved in Brev
Work was started last week on new
mill building and warehouse of ths
Farmers Federation on East Mein
street. Plans of the organization are
to locate their feed mill and com mill
In the building, and also use It aa £
storage warehouse.
Repairs on the Long Drug store
building are going forward, and the
new front will be completed within a
few days if weather conditions are
favorable.
New home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Kilpatrick on Broad street will be
ready for occupancy within the week.
New cottage built by Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Webb on Whitmire street Is
now occupied, as well as the new C. B,
McFee cottage on Oaklawn avenue.
Jerry Jerome has completed repairs
on his home in Park Place which will
be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. A. B.
Burton. " Mr. and Mrs. Alvin York
have purchased the former Burton
home In North Brevard, and plan to
move there within a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Trantham have
moved Into their newly constructed
home on North Brevard.
Several other new homes are being
planned in the Immediate Brevard sac*
tlon. with four or more to be started
by Riley Merrill In North Brevard.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl McCrary have
purchased the “Squirrel Inn’ on MapM ,
street, and plan to remodel It through*
out and make room for an apartment
in the large home.
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