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^ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939 $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
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24 NEW HOMES BUILT
THROUGH HELP OF
SAVINGS AND LOAN
Total of 62 Loans Made Since
July 1936—Dividend Paid
For Half Year
Semi-annual dividend checks amount
ing to $1,516.11 have been mailed to
106 shareholders of the Brevard Fed
eral Savings and Loan association, it
is announced by Jerry Jerome, secre
tary.
The association pays 3% annual divi
dends, and this was the half-yearly
payment.
Organized one year ago the local as
sociation has played an important
part In the community's progress.
During the past year the association
has financed the building of 24 new
homes, purchase of 15, refinanced 13
loans on homes, and provided funds
for repairs to 1#.
Officers of the Brevard association
Include: Jos. S. Silversteen. president;
A. F. Mitchell, vice president: Jerry
Jerome, secretary: F. D. Clement, W.
D. Gash. W. L. Mull, T. G. Moody, Dr.
C. L. hfewland. It. H. Plummer, di
rectors.
Governor Hoey Unable
To Attend Gathering
Governor Clyde R. Hcey, who had
been invited to attend the annual Gil
lespie reunion at the home of B. A.
Gillespie on East Fork. Sunday.
Governor Hoey wrote Eck Sims that
he had to be in Wilmington on that
date. Music and short talks will be
feature of the occasion, and all friends
and relatives of the Gillespie family
are Invited to attend.
Dr. H. McCoy Dies In
Hawaii After Illness j
Word has been received by E. P.
McCoy of Pisgah Forest from Puune,
Hawaii of the death of his brother. Dr.
Halliburton McCoy., 49. who died Sun
day afternoon .
Dr. McCoy was a natr/e of Asheville,
son of the late T. C. McCoy, and spent
his boyhood days In Buncombe county.
He was a brother of Tom McCoy, for
mer assistant district attorney, of Ashe
ville.
The deceased had been in Hawaii for
some time, on account of his ill health.
Balfour and Spinners
Play Here Saturday
Balfour of the Blue Ridge Industrial
League is scheduled to play the Pis
gah Spinners here Saturday afternoon
at 3:30.
The game will be played on the high
school field, and either White or Press
lv will be on the mound for the local
nine.
The Tanners will play at Hazelwood
Saturday afternoon for the first game
of the second half.
Canton won the first half of the
schedule which ended last week.
Educational Tour In
U. S. Forest Planned
Pisgah Forest rangers and the Bre
vard Chamber of Commerce plan to con
duct a "show me” tour through Pisgah
National Forest In order that -local
people may be Informed of the natural
assets the forest has for this commun
ity. and to learn of the attractions the
preserve has for tourists.
At a meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce last Thursday evening it
was brought out that majority of the
Brevard people are unaware of the at
tractions the forest has for visitors,
because few of the people here know
of these things.
Well built roads traverse most of
the forest, and with addition of the
paved highway 284 from the entrance
to Wagon Road Gap the entire area is
^ made much more accessible.
Definite arrangements will be worked
out by the ranger service and the
Chamber of Commerce and the tour
staged during this month.
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4-H Representatives
To Attend Meeting at
Raleigh, July 24th
When the annual 4-H Short Course
is held at N. C. State College July 24
29, Transylvania County will probably
have several representatives , from
among itiTfarm boys and girls. One
of these will be Gerald Allison of
Cherryfield, who was selected as the
outstanding 4-H Club boy in the coun
ty for 1938. The honor carried with It
a scholarship to the State College event,
given by the Chilean Nitrate of Soda
Educational Bureau of which A. G.
Floyd is State director.
The 4-H Short Course combines edu
cation recreation, and inspiration and
offers farm boys and girls an opportun
ity to exchange ideas, receive the latest
Information on agricultural and home
making developments, and engage in
programs of entertainment and games.
Mrs. Laura J. Wilson
Buried Friday Morn
Mrs, Laura J. WilBon, 84-year-old
resident of the Enon section, died at
her home Thursday morning at 6
o’clock following an illness of two years.
Funeral services were held from the
home Friday morning at 11 o’clock,
with the Rev. E. P. Billups, pastor Bre
vard Methodist church, In charge. In
terment was made in Davidson River
cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
T. F. Middleton, of Enon where the aged
lady made her home for the past num
ber of years; and Mrs. C. F. Woodfin
of Campobello, S. C.; one son, T. J.
Wilson of Brevard; nine grandchildren
and six great-grandchildren. The hus
band. George W. Wilson, well known
figure in political and agricultural
circles in the county for years, died in
1913.
Mrs. Wilson was bom in Wythevlile,
Ya., December 25, 1845. She was the
daughter of Jacob and Jane Miller.
In 1866 her father moved his family
from Wytheville to Jackson county,
near Cashiers Valley. Later they mov
ed to Waynesville, which was their
permanent home. She married George
W. Wilson, April 25, 1877, moving to
Transylvania county, where she lived
until her death.
In charge of flowers were Mrs. Frank
Woodfin, Mrs. Gus Patton, Mrs. Davis
Woodfin, Miss Mary Maxwell, Miss
Margaret Wilson and Miss Sara Mc
Crary.
Pallbearers at the funeral were Frank
Woodfin, Ralph Woodfin, Davis Wood
fin, Jeffray Wilson. Wilson Middleton,
Billy Middleton. Osborne-Simpson fun
eral home had charge of arrangements.
Lower South Mills To
Be Open For Fishing
Lower South Mills river will be open
for fishing on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of next week, July 12, 13
and 14, according to announcement by
Jack Fortin, ranger.
Since last fishing date on this stream,
1.800 brown trout measuring 10 inches
or more have been planted in the
stream. This stream was the best of
any open this season. Ranger Fortin
said, when it was opened in May for
fishing.
Only 40 permits will be issued for
each of the days, and local people who
| expect to fish in the stream next week
are reminded that permits should be
■secured at once.
Camping will be permitted at Turkey
Creek and Cantrell Creek, but permits
are necessary. Checking stations will
be maintained at Turkey Pen and at
Lower South Mills River, and those
using the Turkey Pen station \yill be
required to check in and out at the
Turkey Pen station.
At Lyday Hospital
Patients reported at Lyday Memorial
hospital on Wednesday were: Mrs.
Charles Hamilton and infant daughter
Agnes Katherine, born Sunday, July,
2, Mrs. Tommy Landers, Roy Collins.
Mrs. P. N. Page, Miss Ida Lance,
Glenn Meece, Harvey Radford.
JURORS ARE NAMED
FOR SUPERIOR COURT
, Mixed Term Will Convene In
Brevard July 24—Judge
Rousseau Coming
Jurors for the July-August term Su
perior Court have been drawn by the
jury commission for two weeks, as fol
lows:
First Week
J. L. Wilson, D. H. Winchester, H.
B. Glazener, A. E. Hampton, C. W.
Tally, Freeman Nicholson, B. F. Cox,
Carlee McCall, J. M. Meece, C. C. Gar
ren, W. H. Hoxlt, F. Lewis Johnson,
P. A. Rahn, T. C. Henderson, Alney
McCall, Guy Whitmire, W. C. Austin,
Arthur Sentell, John Pickelslmer, P.
E. Raxter, J. F. Morgan, L. F. Lyday,
Austin Brown, Arch Galloway, J. E.
White, Jim Waters, Jason McCall, C.
W. Owens, G. W. Whitmire, G. H.
Woodard, G. H. Lyday, H. Roy McCall,
Henry Chapman, J. J. Jackson, Warren
Galloway, Amos McCall.
Second Week
Winston Ashworth, Harry P. Clarke,
R. W. Lyday, Fred Stroup, R. L. Mc
Gaha, Julius Owens, R. D. Bosse, Ral
eigh Waldrop, Grady Shipman, Cecil
King, Glenn Galloway, E. D. Fisher,
E. P. McCoy, C. A. McCall, C. B. Hol
den, S. R. Owens, Frank Whitmire, Leo
Brittain.
The mixed term opens on July 24,
with Judge J. _A. Rousseau of North
Wllkesboro, scheduled to preside.
BREVARD COLLEGE
EXPANSION PLANS
GET OFFICIAL O.K.
Erection of Laundry Is Provid
ed For By Friend of Local
Institution
With fifteen of the eighteen members
present, the Board of Trustees of Bre
vard College held Its annual meeting
at the college on Friday, June 30. The
members were luncheon guests of the
College in the West dining hall, after
which Rev. H. C. Sprinkle, Cornelius,
chairman of the Board, presided over
the business session.
Recommendations of President E. J.
Coltrane relative to the development
of the college were accepted. These
recommendations include Increase of
endowment fund and provision for rais
ing annually a sufficient amount of
money to cover the cost of the student
labor program. The Board also auth
orized the erection of a laundry for
which money has been piovlded by a
friend of the college. It is expected
that construction on the laundry will
begin at an early date.
Members of the Board are Rev. H. C.
Sprinkle, Cornelius; Rev. C. M. Pickens,
Thomasville; H. B. Kelly, Henderson
ville: W. H. Bobbitt, Charlotte; H. A.
Dunham, Asheville; James E. Lambeth.
Thomasville; Rev. C. H. Moser, Gas
tonia; Mrs. Bess Gray Plumly, Winston
Salem; Mrs. C. C. Weaver. Charlotte;
Mrs. E. L. McKee, Sylva: J. H. Plck
elslmer. Brevard; Rev. A. W. Plyler,
Greensboro: Rev. J. H. West. Brevard;
Rev. Paul Hardin, Jr.. Wadeshoro;
R. O. Lindsay. High Point; Rev. James
B. McLarty, Mount Holly; R. T. Amos.
High Point. Guy Weaver, Asheville.
Second Half Softball
League Starts Today
Brevard College, winners of the first
half, will meet the WOW in the first
game of the second half Thursday
evening on the college field. The Col
lege team had a record of ten victories
and one defeat for the first half. The
Woodmen were in second place with
seven victories and the same number of
defeats. The CCC team was in third
place with four wins and eight defeats
while the Lions Club was in last place
with four won and nine lost.
Ten leading hitters for the first half
were Holt .478, Teague .429, Wood
.419, J. Young, 415, Jackson .388 B.
Young .372, Coggins .66, Kitchens .353.
Hendrix .348, Gilliam, .344 and Sisk .321.
The CCC camp P-66 has entered a
team for the second half which puts
five teams in this half. Schedule for
the first week of play is July 6. Col
lege vs. WOW; July 7th Lions Club
vs. F-28; July 10, P-66 vs. College;
July 11, P-28 vs. WOW; July 12, Lions
Club vs. P-66; July 13, Lions Club vs.
College.
Delinquent Taxes To
Be Advertised Soon
Delinquent taxes for the year 1938
will be advertised In The Times in
August, and sold the first Monday in
September, according to order made by
the board of commissioners Monday.
Additional advertising costs, as well
as sale costs will be added to the taxes
now due, under the foreclosure law,
and the time limit of August was al
lowed, the commissioners pointed out,
in order that taxpayers might be saved
these additional costs.
Revival Service at
Pisgah Closes Friday
Revival services at Pisgah Forest
Baptist church will continue through
Friday of this week, according to the
Rev. ,ir. L. Underwood, pastor in charge.
Sunday morning and evening services
were banner attendance services of the
meeting which has been in progress
there for the past ten days. A large
crowd overflowed the church Sunday
evening, it is reported, and spiritual
interest can high.
More than 25 people have been con
verted during the meeting, ganging in
age from children to past seventy.
Books at UDC Library
New books added to the rent col
lection at the U. D. C. library include:
The Exile, The Fighting Angel, Buck;
Steele of the Royal Mounted, Curwood;
Spirit of the Border, Grey; Red Lamp,,
Rinehart; Strong Poison, Sayers; Of
Mice and Men, Steinbeck; The Daffodil
Murders, Wallace.__
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Cascade Lake Dance
Slated For Friday
A dance will be given at Lake Cas
cade Inn on Friday night of this week,
it is announced by Mrs. W. P. Raines,
manager.
Opening of the hotel last Saturday
brought many people to the inn and to
the lake _where boating swimming, and
fishing facilities are afforded, ae well
as the hotel services and the rental of
cottages around the lake property.
Bridge Party Plans
Announced For 14th
Plans are underway by the Women’s
Civic club committee for the annua!
benefit bridge party to be given at the
NYA hut Friday evening, July 14.
The party, which is sponsored each
year by the civic club, is for the bene
fit of the annual flower show and
other activities of the club, Lovely
prizes have been donated by the mer
chants and individuals, which will he
awarded the various winners. A very
nominal admission will be charged.
Townsend Club Meet
A meeting of the Townsend club
will be held at the NYA hut Wednes
day night. July 12. at 8 o’clock, an
nouncement has been made. All in
terested are invited to attend.
TAX RATE FOR TWO
UNITS REMAIN SAME
^udget Estimates For County
and Town Call For Levy
of $1.62 and $1.40
Tax rates for both the county and
town will remain the same as last
year, according to tentative budgets
adopted by the commissioners and ald
ermen in meeting here Monday.
County Hate 1.62
Tentative tax rate for Transylvania
county was set at $1.62 on the hundred
dollar valuation by the board of com
missioners in their first meeting of the
new fiscal year.
Increases were shown to be necessary
in the debt service levy, school supple
ment, and welfare department, while
decreases are expected to be made in
several other funds to offset the raise.
Summary of the budget estimate will
be found on another page of The Times,
and the budget estimate in its entirety
may be seen in the register of deeds
office where it will be filed for 20 days
Town Hate 1-iO
Town of Brevard rate will remain at
$1.40 on the hundred dollar valuation,
estimated budget figures adopted by the
aldermen Monday night show.
Increased revenues from the water
departments, and from an increase in
the property valuation for the year are
expected to offset some of the increas
ed expenditures which are anticipated
for street improvement and other nec
essary expenses which will have to be
increased during the fiscal year.
Largest single item of expenditure
will be Improvement of streets. Flans
are being made to buy equipment and
co-operate with the WPA In improving
approximately six miles of unpaved
streets, as well as do repair work on
some of the paving.
Prison Camp Dog Is
Used To Advantage
In Tracking Thief
Superintendent W. B. Bailey of the
state prison camp has a young blood
hound that seems to be living up to all
the promises that were given concern
ing him from his former owner.
Mr. Bailey and Eddie Varner took
the year-old dog to East LaPorte Wed.
needay morning, and within three hours
had trailed a suspect to his home six
miles distant, and the man waa under
arrest.
The man Is alleged to have broken
into the East LaPorte Store company
during the early part of the night. The
dog was allowed to smell some of the
art.'cles the alleged thief had dropped
in leaving the store, and within three
hours had “treed” the man In his bed.
Hendersonville Road
Closed for Surfacing
Hendersonville road, Plsgah Forest
to Blantyre, was closed Wednesday by
state highway forces who are engaged
in surface-treating the link.
Detour from Brevard toward Hen
dersonville or AEheville is via Boyls
ton road, NC-280 to Blantyre road and
two miles back across county road to
U.S.-84. This road has been condi
tioned and is in good shape. Surface
work on the Boylsotn road was com
pleted Tuesday, and the link of new
highway from Little Mountain to the
county line is an excellent one.
Ernest H. Webb, district engineer,
said Wednesday that he hopes to have
the Hendersonville road open Sunday
if he has favorable weather for prime
coating.
County Record* Will
Be Indexed By WPA
Order was made by the County Com
missioners Monday to have records
in the register of deeds office and the
clerk of court office indexed.
The work will be done by the WPA.
and total cost to the county will not
be more than $100, for supplies neces
sary, including index record books.
Kiwanis Markers Are
At Brevard Routes
Attractive club markers have been
erected by the Brevard Kiwanis club
near the edge of town on North Broad
street, and Greenville Road, and serve
both as welcome signs for visiting
Kiwanlans and as attractive designat
ions of the town the traveler is enter
ing.
A third marker will be placed on the
Pickens-Anderson highway near South
Brevard at an early date hy the Lions
club, and will add materially to ap
pearance of the town.
Square Dances Will
Be Rosman Feature
Square dances will be featured at
Rosman community building each Fri
day night during the next two months,
it is announced by Dan Glazener.
Fisher String band is slgted to pro
vide music for the dance on Friday
night of this week, which begins at
8:30 o’clock.
Golf Playing Takes On New Life Here
With Improvements of Brevard Course
Interest In Brevard Golf course has
exceeded all expectations, and increas
ed number of players has been noted
each day since the course officially
opened last Saturday.
Work on the greens and fairways
has been going forward for weeks, and
the greens are now pronounced to be
In the best shape In years.
The fairways have been straighten
ed up, and roughs cleared, and two
workmen are steadily employed on the
course. -
Temporary quarters have been set
up at top of the hill, near number one
tee, with W. C. Brenks in charge.
Work of building a club house was
started Wednesday morning by the
Works Progress Administration, and
crews are also engaged in clearing
roughs preparatory to extending fair
ways and possible change of number
seven and eight greens.
Avery Case is foreman in charge of
construction for the club house, with
W. A. Wilson as supervising engineer.
Plans call for erection of a club
house containing a dance floor of 2700
square feet, locker rooms and showers
for ladies and men, office, kitchen and
porches on the first floor; living quar
ters for caretaker in the second story,
and caddy quarters and tool storage
space in the basement.
City water is already piped to the
club house location on present number
seven green, and electric lights are
also available from the Duke Power
lines nearby.
Plans are to have the club house in
operation by October first, of this year,
and an entertainment committee will
be appointed to arrange social activi
ties there for members and the pub
lic during the winter and spring
months.
Memberships are being _, sold by a
committee composed of*R. H. Plum
mer, Rev. E. P. Billups, Rev. C. M.
Jones, E. H. Boys, Dr. C. L. Newland,
and John W. Smith. Jerry Jerome
has been named treasurer for the
committee.
‘LOOKOUT STATION
BE CONSTRUCTED
ON SCENIC HIWAY
New Pugah Fore»t Road Now
Complete and Bringing
Many Visitor*
Plans of the United States Forestry
service and the Bureau of Public Road
are being made up whereby a lookout
station will be built at Green Knob
on the Fcenlc parkway.
No definite announcement has been
made by the service as to actual size
and parking space to be built, but ten
tative plans call for an area adequate
to care for 50 or more cars at one
time.
Point of the lookout Is north of Look
ing Glass Rock, and from this place 1
the entire Mills River headwaters
area, Davidson Rlvor and Gloucester
section are joined In one view.
The new highway, from entrance of
the forest on 280 near Plsgah Fcrest
to Wagon Road Gap was opened to
travel last Saturday morning, and
hundreds of cars made the trip over
the scenic road ■ during the week-end
and holidays.
Work on the scenic parkway from
Wagon Road Gap south Is progressing,
with much of the excavation already
being done for more than half tho five
mile distance now under contract
Albert Brothers are contractors on
the road, and J. M. Francesa company
Is doing the stone work for retaining
walls,
A. E. Demaray, director of the De
partment of Interior, In a letter to the
Western Carolina Advisory Committee
on June 27, states that advertising for
bids on Section 2-V-l (Beeci; Gap
northward) will be carried out within
the next few weeks.
Original plans were to let the entire
seven miles from the end of present
project being built by Albert Broth
ers to Tennessee Bald, but the director
states that Increased expenses brought
about by necessity of a 700-foot tun
nel will cause part of the link to be
carried over into 1941.
It is unofficially understood that
Section 2-V-l will be for five miles,
leaving a two-mile gap between Beech
Gap project and Wagon Road Gap
project to be contracted In 1941.
Cooking School Here
Thursday and Friday
Mrs. R. L. Allison, of Asheville, has
announced that she will conduct a
free cooking school in the court house
in Brevard, Thursday and Friday af
ternoon, from 3 to 5, at which time in
struction will be given in Summertime
Cooking, balanced meals, and baking.
She will also devote time to recipes
both old and new.
Ladies of the Brevard Methodist
church are sponsoring the school for
the two afternoons, and several mer
chants and business houses are co
operating In supplying equipment and
materials.
Attendance prizes will be awarded
each afternoon.
Benefit Dance Here
Next Tuesday Night
A benefit square dance will be given
by the Waightstill Avery chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revo
lution Tuesday evening at the NYA
hut, beginning at 9 o’clock.
The event is for benefit of the D.
A. R. scholarship fund, and is also
in observance of the 50th anniversary
of the National Society.
Tickets at a small admission charge
are on sale by the chapter members
and will also be on sale at the door
Tuesday night. Attractive prizes wilf
be awarded the winners.
BANK DEPOSITS HERE
ARE MATERIALLY UP
Assets of Transylvania Tiyst
Company Nearing Half Mil*
lion Dollar Mark
Gain in deposits at the Transyr
vania Trust"company showed a gain
of nearly $100,000 during the year
ending June 30, 1939, statement of the
local bank issued Monday shows.
Gain of $28,030.20 was shown In de
posits for the past three-months per
iod. Total deposits as of June 30, this
year were reported in the quarterly
statement as $396,714.41, a gain of
$97,264.38. Assets of the bank are
listed at $468,259.67.
Organized In November 1931, the
local bank has shown a steady ££pwth
in both deposits and assets. J. H.
'Piekelsimer is president, Ralph J.
Duckworth, cashier, with the following
directors:
P. D. Clement, Lewis P. Hamlin, C.
R. McNeely, W. L. Mull, C. W. Plckel
slmer, J. H. Pickelslmer, Jos S. Silver
steen and W. R. Smith. -•
Dillingham Added T<r
Brevard Police Force
_
Scott Dillingham haa been named as
extra policeman for the town of Bre
vard and assumed his duties Tuesday.
Officer Dillingham will serve daring
the afternoons and early part of the
nights, assisting Church C. Morris,
regular night officer, and Chief B. H,
Freeman.