|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. (Contlued on Back Page:) 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 _ 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. 1 f-——-—H Honor Roll i _. •