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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
to brevard A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County_to brevard
VOL. 49: NO. 24 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE IS, 1939 $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
ALL TOWN OFFICERS
ARE RE-APPOINTED
Plans Are Started To Improve
Streets In Some Sections
of Brevard
All members of the town working
and supervisory departments were re
appointed at the board of aldermen
meeting Monday night. The list In
cludes: Alex H. Klzer, clerk and. tax
collector; Ralph Ramsey Jr., attorney;
B. H. Freeman, chief of police; C. C.
Morris, night policeman; \V. C. For
tune, watershed patrolman; A. M. Case,
building Inspector; Harold K. Norwood,
electrical Inspector; J. 8. Bromfleld.
fire chief; Dan Merrill, fire truck driv
er. Other employes of the town will
be named by heads of the department.
W. C. Fortune was given $15 month
raise In salary, to $75, and will also
be assigned to police duty on Saturday
nights, and when needed at no extra
pay. In addition to Patrolman For
tune. C. F. Mlscnhelmer, water depart
ment collector, also acts as patrolman.
Order was made that all applications
for building permits and electrical In
spections be made at the city hall, and
records kept of such Items. Also, re
cords are to be kept In the office of
any condemnation of buildings or re
fusal of connections.
Discussion of securing equipment to
Improve streets and sidewalks was
gone Into at length, and also the matter
of securing equipment for the golf
course.
Several members of the board ex
pressed the opinion that a stop-light
would have to be placed on the square
due to Increased traffic, and "slow”
markers at other Intersections. A com
mittee was appointed to check Into the
matter of a stop-light, with Instructions
to report to the board at the next
meeting.
Business Girls Meet
At Merrie Wood Camp
Camp Merrie Woode, In the Sapphire
section. Is the scene of a conference
this week of members of business girls'
clubs from all over the southern reg
ion from Virginia to Texas. The con
ference Is from June 12 to 32.
The program will Include lectures
from noted persons In the professional
and business field, among whom will
be Dr. Ernest Eberllng, professor of
economics at Vanderbilt university,
Rabbi Rernard Eciger, of the Univer
sity of North Carolina. Dr. Arthur
Raper, of Agnes Scott College, Atlanta,
and many others.
At Brevard College
Five Transylvania young people are
registered at the Brevard College sum
mer school, which opened last week for
Its 16-week session.
Those from this county are: Juanita
Ward. Jennie Aiken, C. S. McCallum.
Harold Hogsed and C. K. Osborne Jr.
Camp Cateechee Scouts
Open Sessions June 17
Camp Cateechee for Girl Scouts will
open Saturday of this week for the
term. Girls from Charlotte and other
North Carolina towns for the most part
will make up the enrollment.
Scouts from Greenville will register
later In the summer, as the camp Is
operated on two week registration.
Kiwanis Official
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JAMES P. McMILLAN. known to
hundreds of people In Brevard as
Jimmy Mac, will be guest speaker
at Brevard Klwanls club meeting
Thursday.
Mr. MacMillan Is lieutenant gover
nor of the Central District Florida
Klwanls clubs, and was a charter
member and past president of the
Cocoa, Fla., club. He Is a prominent
Insurance and realty man In Cocoa,
but takes two weeks off each year to
teach at the National Aquatic School
of the American Red Cross at Camp
Carolina.
44 CHILDREN HAVE
TONSILS REMOVED
Special Clinic Under County
Health Unit Being Con
ducted This Week
Forty-four children had their tonsils
removed at the clinic held here Tues
day and Wednesday under sponsorship
of the Transylvania Health Unit, an in
crease over the previous year’s clinic
of 12.
Patients were received at the two
day clinic from all sections of the coun
ty, including two colored youngsters
whose parents were unable to pay full
price for such an operation.
All cases had been certified to the
local health unit as worthy cases by
county physicians, and the minimum
charge of $7.50 was made in each rase.
Dr. W. D. Drackett of Henderson
ville, eye, ear, nose and throat special
ist, did* the operating, assisted by Dr.
Strlngfleld of the Waynesvllle district
health office as anesthetist, Dr. C. N.
Sisk, district health officer, and Dr. O.
B. Lynch. Transylvania hoalth officer.
Nurses sasistlng In the work were
Miss Theodosia Find, district nurse;
Mrs. Edith B. Chance, Tiansylvanld
health nurse, and other nurses from the
district.
The temporary operating room and
hospital was set up In the new primary
school building and made an Ideal place
for the clinic.
All children operated on Tuesday
were permitted to go home Wednesday,
and those undergoing operations Wed
nesday will go home Thursday. The
patients were kept overnight In wards
fitted up In the school building, with
a nurse on duty with each group. (
Pink Beds and Fawn Station
Open To Public Until June 25
(Pisgah Ranger Service)
Ranger John D. Fortin of the Pisgah
district anounces that Highway 281
through toe Pisgah National Forest
will bo opened from June 16 (Thurs
day) through June 25th to permit
tourists attracted to this section to en
joy the beauty of the Pink Beds and
Pisgah I .edge, .
In order to make tho tour more at
tractive. the Yellow Gap Road from
highway 284 at the Pink Beds through
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TALK GLIBLY ABOUT *
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; to tho North Mills River Recreational
: Aroa will be opened with 284 highway.
Never before has laurel, rhododen
| dron and the flame azalea mingled
i their blooms In such a profusion of
[ colorful delight. The purple rhododen
! dron just clusters the Pisgah Ledge,
j Azalea Is In bloom along the Pi?gah
! Motor road up Stony Fork creek and
also along highway 284. and the
laurel Is blossoming In massive beds
of pink throughout the Pink Beds and
the Yellow Gap road.
Tne roresr aervice aovises persons
from Brevard and Rosman to drive up
highway 284 to the Pink Beds, visit
the Forest Service fawn rearing sta
tion and then Into the Yellow Gap
road at the Pink Beds. All traffic on
the Yellow Gap road will be west to
east or from the Pink Beds to North
Mills River. This road Is narrow and
open only during the time of the laurel
bloom or during hunting and fishing
seasons. From the North Mills Rec
reational Area the tourist should take
the Bent Creek road (a left turn)
through the Bent Creek Experiment
Station, then highway 191 to Enka
and Candler. From Candler a con
crete highway leads to the forest en
j trance at Stony Fork and the Plsgah
Mot'r Road to the Plsgah Ledge.
Here a trail leads to Mt. Plsgah and
wonderful views of Big Creek and the
Pink Beds valley may be seen. From
the I.edge where rhododendron flow
ers In purple and pink clusters, the
tourist may take highway 284 at Wag
on Road Gap and return to Brevard.
Rosman, and South Carolina.
Highway Engineer G. G. Page said
Wednesday that the 284 paving had
been completed from Looking Glass
bridge to Wagon Road gap, and that
the lower five and one-half miles
would be surfaced between June 26 and
30th. completing the entire 14 miles
of the most scenic route In Western
North Carolina.
TWO BREVARD TEAMS
AT HOME SATURDAY
Tanners Meet Biltmore and
Pisgah Entertains Nine
From Mills River
Brevard Spinners will play a double
hwder ball game here Saturday after
noon with the Mllla River crew, and
the Tanners will play Biltmore here at
the same time.
The Tanners hope to "dress down the
hide” of the Biltmore nine on the Col
lege field, while the Spinners are count
ing on taking the crooks out of the
Mills River and spin them Into nice
weaving product on the high school
field.
Last Saturday's game at Fletcher
between the Spinners and the home
crew there ended in a 6-6 argument for
Fletcher, with Brevard protesting the
game account of alleged Interference
on the playing field, and umpiring that
wasn't of the particular kind that they
Uked.
The Tailners are In fourth place In
the Industrial league, with Canton
standing on top—seven wins, no losses.
Erika and Hazelwood are tied for sec
ond with 6-2.
Carolina Red Cross
Executive Session In
Brevard This Week
Conference for North and South Caro
lina Executive Secretaries of the
American National Red Cross will be
held at the Franklin Hotel In Brevard
Thursday through Saturday of this
week.
Thirty-five or more executive secre
taries and several district and national
leaders are expected to be present for
the three-day conference which con
venes Thursday evening for the first
official meeting.
William Carl Hunt of Washington,
D. C., eastern area manager, will pre
side over most of the sessions, with
other leaders to assist him. Much of
the time will be spent In round-table
discussion of Red Cross work with dif
ferent secretaries leading the Informal
discussions.
Mrs. Mary Camp Sprinkle and Miss
Katherine Myers, field representatives
for North Carolina, Miss Allle Mc
Neil and Miss Mary M. Pritchard, field
representatives for South Carolina, will
be among the officials present for the
conference.
While here the visiting Red Cross
workers will visit the National Aquatic
school In session at Camp Carolina near
Brevard, and will also be guests at the
water pageant
This Is the third consecutive annual
session to be held at the Franklin hotel.
2 Bible School* Will
Close Sessions Sunday
Cloning exercises of the (wo vacation
Bible schools at the Baptist and Meth
odist churches will come to a close on
Sunday, after being in session the past
two weeks.
The exercises of the Baptist school
will be held Sunday night, with a pro
gram given by children of the school
In demonstration of their work. An
exhibit of their various activities will
also be on display.
Closing exercises of the Methodist
school will be held Sunday morning at
11 o'clock. "The Living Book." a pro
gram especially prepared for the ob
servance of Church School Day, will be
presented by the vacation school pupils.
The parade given Jointly by children
of the two Bible schools on Thursday
morning through the business district
proved an enjoyable and interesting
feature.
Parents of the children and the pub
lic are invited to both of the Sunday
closing exercises. *
E. L. Lyday Here
E. L. Lyday, electrical service man
and contractor of Hendersonville, Is
now connected with the Brevard Plumb
ing company on East Main street.
DAVIDSON RIVER TO
BE OPEN NEXT WEEK
Fine Fishing Expected In Na
tional Forest—Brown Trout
Are Being Released
Two hundred or more fishermen are
expected to enter waters of Davidson
River during Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday of next week, when the main
stream and tributaries will be open for
the first time this season.
Seventy-five permits will be sold for
each day, and the Plsgah office said
Wednesday that first Jay’s supply had
already been exhausted.
The stream has been stocked during
the past year, and the previous year,
and should provide fine sport.
Eighteen hundred brown trout will be
released In the Lower South Mills river
during this week from the Davidson
River rearing station. These fish are
all ten Inches In length or more, and
are In fine condition.
The trout were reared at the station
In the forest by Ruben Knuth, fish
culturlst of the National Bureau of
Fisheries and will be planted up and
down South Mills River from the Tur
key Pen guard station. This stream will
be opened to 13B fishermen in July
and should provide the real paradise of
the season.
Father's Day
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Golf Course Improvement
Started By Town Brevard
Work of putting the Brevard Oolf
Course in first class condition has been
Btarted, and within the coming week
it is expected that all fairways and
greens will be smooth, and play will
be started by both home folk and visi
tors.
A "Motor-Mower" has been purchas
ed for the course which will enable
the workmen to go over the entire
nine-holes In two days, Insuring the
continued Bmooth fairways.
A temporary club hotose has been
moved from town property Inside the
city limits to the number one fairway
for headquarters for the operators of
the course and golfers.
Workmen are engaged In clearing
roughs and covering hazards.
The board of aldermen voted Mon
day night to accept a proposed WPA
project which has been secured through
Dltsrlct Engineer W. A. Wilson, and
50 men will be placed at work on the
courpe the first of July, reconditioning
the fairways, and the course In gen
eral.
Tne project calls for erection of a
i club house, which will be adequate for
use for many years to come. Including
a dance floor, kitchen, lockers, baths,
and living quarters for a caretaker.
The project calls for expenditures of
around $15,000, at small cost to the
town.
The golf course has been a matter
of discussion among civic leaders and
organizations, as well as the town of
ficials for several months, and a group
of committee members from the var
ious civic clubs met with the board of
aldermen ten days ago and urged erec
tion of a club house, and Improvements
of the grounds.
Committees had been appointed by
the Chamber of Commerce, the Klwanis
and Lions Clubs, and the Women’s
club to confer with the board of aider
men, and a petition was also presented
to the board at their meeting which
wap signed by the majority of the prin
cipal taxpayers of the town, requesting
that the WPA project be put Into opera
tion at once.
The matter was presented to the
boa/d by Jerry Jerome, R. H. Plummer,
Lee M. Bauer, and several others, who
stressed the fact that citizens of the
town have spent nearly $76,000 on the
golf course, raised by selling stock and
by popular subscription, and that these
same citizens were among those who
now pay most of the taxes in the town.
Need of a golf coarse was also stress,
ed, the committees pointing to the
fact that the tourist business demanded
a golf course, and that casual visitors
also expected a tourist center the size
of Brevard to have golf facilities,
In view of the fact that the town
as a governing unit has only a mini
mum Investment In the course which
they purchased several years ago the
speakers pointed out that an additional
Investment of $1200 or $1500 to secure
the WPA project would be good busi
ness and pointed to the petition which
they had presented to prove their con
tention that leading taxpayers of the
town considered this to be a fact.
The motion was taken under ad
visement at that time (Thursday of
last week) by the board, and after much
discussion Monday night, the plan was
adopted.
The board also adopted a resolution
setting up a governing board of five
for operation of the golf course, with
a representative to be appointed by
the mayor from the Chamber of Com
merce, Klwanls Club, Lions Club, and
Women's club to serve with a member
of the board of aldermen as exofflclo
committeemen, Under the resolution,
the governing body will have charge of
work on the course, plans for operation,
Improvements, and In general, be the
supervisors of the course. This gov
erning body shall be responsible to
the board of aldermen for Its actions,
and may be removed or its plans ap
proved or disapproved at pleasure of
the aldermen.
Membership committee, greens, house,
play, tournament, and other groups,
will be appointed, and every effort made
to arouse Interest In and use of the
golf course among home folk and
visitors.
Young Andrews Girl
Missing From Home
Parents of Geneva Andrews, 16
year-old girl of the Laurel Creek sec
tion of Transylvania county reported
Monday that the child had not been
at home since Wednesday of last week.
| and they fear for her safety.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. An
drews. state that the girl left home on
Wednesday, June 7, saying she had
work, but she was seen in Brevard
several times Wednesday and Wednes
day afternoon.
Sheriff George Shuford has been in
vestigating the case and states that
he does not think it was a matter of
foul play. The girl was dressed in
blue overall pants, and sky-blue shirt,
and wore sandals when she was seen
in Brevard. She has dark brown hair,
and dark eyes, and is about five feet
tall; weighs 100 pounds.
The father is employed on the WPA.
At Lyday Hospital
Patients reported at Lyday Memorial
hospital on Wednesday were: Mrs. Cleo
Garren and infant daughter born Mon
day, June 12, Mrs. L. C. Hall, Kath
erine Blake, Roy Collins, John Peter
son, Ted Wheeler, Bruce Whitmire,
Prank Lance and Ed Watson.
Memorial Service At
Baptist Church For
Woodmen Sunday
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Memorial service for deceased mem
bers of the Brevard camp Woodmen of
the World will be held Sunday morn
ing at Brevard Baptist church, with
the Rev. Yancey C. Elliott, pastor, de
livering the message.
Woodmen are requested to meet at
the hall at 10:30 Sunday morning, In
order that th6 entire gruop may march
to the church In a body.
During the afternoon committees
from the local camp will visit graves
of deceased members and place flowers
on the mounds,
Books at UDC Library
Books shelved at the U.D.C. library'
and ready for rental Include: History
of the United States, Anderson r The
Lady and Sada San, Little; Water
Babies. Kingsley: Dickens Retold for
Children, Rlve3; Rhymes for Children.
Seegmlller; The Desert, VanDyke.
WHISTLE AT ECUSTA
BLOWS FIRST BLAST
Work On Building Nearly Com
plete—Prominent Visitors
At Plant Tuesday
The steam whistle at Ecusta Paper
Corporation’s new plant blew Wednes
day for the first time, and was of such
Interest to cause company officials and
newspapermen to "stand at the bot
tom looking up” as the steam came
hissing forth to resound In a loud note.
Huge boilers at the plant have been
"warmed up” for sometime, and the
225-foot smokestack has been carrying
a blue tinge for several weeks..
President Harry H. Straus made no
statement for publication Wednesday
in regard to starting of the machinery
at the plant, but said “Soon, I hope."
The large crews of workmen are prac
tically through on outside and inside the
17 buildings which comprise the plant,
and the magnificent office structure is
also nearing completion, where all busi
ness of the Ecusta corporation, and
that of H. H. Straus and associates
will be carried on.
Prominent visitors at the plant of
Ecusta this week Included E. E. Norris,
president of the Southern Railway
system, of Washington, D. C., and Vice
President E. R. Oliver, also of Wash
ington.
President Straus said that he had
moved his family to the Grove Park
Inn, Asheville, and that Mrs. Straus
and their son would spend the summer
in Western North Carolina.
Wins Checker Tourney
Lloyd Allison, of Durham, son of Mr.
and Mrs. 3. F. Allison of Brevard, was
winner In the annual Eastern Carolina
checker tournament, held In Goldsboro
on May 30. Mr. Allison defeated C. R.
Luqulre, of Durham, In the finals by
two games to one and one draw.
Mr and Mrs. Allison plan to come
to Brevard July 1st for their annual
summer vacation visit here.
Cedar Mountain Man
Died Monday Morn
Elbert R. Bishop, 69, prominent farm
er and lumberman of the Cedar Moun
tain section, died Monday morning at
11:45 o’clock at his home following an
Illness of several weeks.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at Rocky Hill Baptist church
at Cedar Mountain, and interment was
made there.
Son of the late W. P. and Elvira
Heath Bishop, the deceased was very
active until within three months of his
death, and was a leader In his com
munity.
Mr. Bishop was married three times.
His first union was to Miss Florence
McGaha, while his second marriage was
to Miss Jena Marcum. His third union
was to Miss Julia Marcum who sur
vives with two brothers: Alvin Bishop,
Washington, and Luther Bishop of
Oklahoma.
Three step-daughters—Miss Erlene
Marcum, Mrs. Myrtle Willis, and.Mrs.
Luther Huggins, also survive.
Dahlia Club Meeting
Regular meeting of the Transyl-anla
Dahlia olub will be held in F. E. Shu
ford’s office Tuesday evening at 8
o’clock, announcement has been made.
Singing Convention To
Be Held Here Sunday
A special session of the county sing
ing convention has been called by the
president, E. D. Randolph, to meet at
the Brevard court house Sunday af
ternoon at 1:30 o’clock. All singers
throughout the county are urged by
Mr. Randolph to be present, and come
prepared to finish paying for the piano
and to pay as much as possible on
the convention song books.
Red Cross Aquatic School
Has Over 200 Pupils Here
Attendance at the sixteenth session
of the National Aquatic school of the
American Red Cross had reached a
total of 230 Wednesday, according to
director Ramone S. Eaton, representing
16 states.
In addition to the large number at
Camp Carolina for the classes in first
aid, safety, accident prevention, and
waterfront activities, there are a num
ber of families of the students stop
ping in the community for the ten
days or longer, swelling the population
of Brevard section more than five or
six hundred.
Attendance at the 1»3» scnooi is
somewhat less than last year, Director
Eaton explained, due to the fact that
two schools will be held at Camp Car
olina Instead of one as has been the
custom for the past 15 years. The sec
ond school will begin August 24, and
already better than 100 applications
have been filed for the fall school,
Mr. Eaton said Wednesday. *
No public water pageant will be pos
sible this year, the director stated, due
to the fact that the throngs of people
have outgrown the facilities for caring
for the crowd. Check on the number
attending the last public pageant show,
ed nearly 6,000 people in attendance,
and seating capacity at the lake being
little better than 2,000.
A pageant will be staged by the
classes In recreation and pagentry dur
ing the session, Mr. Eaton said, and
will be attended by the executive sec
retaries of the Red Cross of North Car
olina who convene at the Franklin hotel
here on Thursday of this week.
In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Eaton,
Harry Kenning, Jimmy MacMillan, A1
Gordon, and other members of the reg
ular staff, the faculty Is composed of
such people as Lee Powell, head of
the safety department of the North
Carolina Industrial commission, Ral
eigh; Frank Culvern, safety superin
tendent for the Southern Bell Telephone
company, Charlotte; D. C. Duncan,
chairman of the Red Cross chapter at
Bluefleld, W. Va., and safety director
for Appalachian Electric Power com
pany; A. L. Taylor, safety director for
the Florida Light & Power company of
Daytona. Dr. John McGehee of Cedar
town, Ga., and Brevard, Is camp phy
sician. Other leaders In various fields
of safety, first aid, and water sports
from several states assist In conduct
ing the dally classes.
A new feature of the camp this year
Is the dally newspaper with its four
and six pages of strictly campus news,
facts, and fancies. The publication Is
Issued from “on the hill" and has
Lewie Hallman of Goldsboro, as editor
In chief, and a bunch of pretty girls
and some fair looking men as assist
ants.
The school will close on Wednesday
of next week.