pm THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES ®l
\ Merlt f A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
VOL. 49: NO. 32
BREVARD AUTHOR’S
NEW BOOK WINNING
ACCLAIM IN NATION
Southerner Writes of South
In Proper Style, and
Understanding
"Days Before Lent," by Hamilton
Basso Is being released this week by
Charles Scribner’s Sons, and Is winning
prized position on book review pages
throughout the land,
Tho Brevard author’s fourth book,
like hts previous ones, deals with an In
telligent Southland, and weaves an In
teresting story about a Southern char
acter who Is great In his own might and
In his own rights, though little known
outside his home city of New Orleans
where plot of the book Is laid.
Jason Kent, hero of the novel, is por
trayed as a member of the respectable
South, who goes about enjoying life,
carrying the strong belief which his
heart has In his native people that
there Is life to be lived to the fullest
Mnong his own people and proving to
his own satisfaction that greatness does
not come from plaudits of the world but
by doing well "whatsoever thy hand
flndeth to do.”
Without having to fall back on the
provincial type literature so often uti
lized by less Informed and less Inspired
writers, "Days Before Lent" portrays
something of the “New South” that is,
and Is to be—relegating to the most In
discernible background that thread of
regionalism which Southern authors
have been wont to play up In order to
gain a place on shelves for their works.
To quote the New York Times:
(ConUucd on Back Page)
Tax Advertisements
Carried This Week
Advertisement for sale of property
on which 1938 taxes have not been
paid Is being carried In this Issue of
The Times. Noticeable Is the fact that
the list Is much shorter, by nearly 200
names this year than that of last.
In addition to the list of unpaid taxes
for 1938, foreclosure proceedings are also
being started by the county by publica
tion of 1937.
In further effort to clear up back
taxes due the county, Lem Brooks, de
linquent tax collector, has announced
that foreclosure proceedings for col
lection of 1938 and prior years taxes
on real property will be started at
once.
Stamp Club Meet
Regular meeting df the Brevard
Stamp club will be held Thursday even
ing at 8:15 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Rowena Summey, 309 Probnrt street.
TRANSYLVANIA^ BOYS
AND GIRLS IN FORUM
Seven Students Place In Na
tional Magazine Writing
—Cash Awards
Of the 17 North Carolina youths who
won recognition In the National Youth
Forum conducted by the American
Magazine, seven were students at Bre
vard high school
John Paul Jones son of Professor and
Mrs. J. B. Jones of Brevard, was one of
the three North Carolina students who
won a $10 cash award for best letter
to the magazine In the forum.
Alice Petit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Petit of Brevard, was one of the
two North Carolina students to receive
$5 cash award for letters.
Certificates of Honorable Mention
have been recevled by Mildred Jean
ette Austin of Brevard; Billy Crary of
Brevard; Carmen Curto of Plsgah For
est; Edward Olazener of Brevard; Carl
Scruggs of Brevard, and Karl Wright.
Brevard high school library will re
ceive a set of Harvard Classics for par
ticipation of students In the contest.
Subjects of letters—"What I Owe
America and What America Owes Me,"
and "New Frontiers for American
Youth."
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Flower Exhibitors Are
Asked To Make Entries
Early Saturday Morning
All Transylvania growers who
plan to exhibit flowers In the
show to be held here on Satur
day at College Gym are requested
to make their entries not later
than 12 o'clock Saturday noon.
Judging of the several classes
Is to start at 12:30, and those In
charge of the exhibit point out
that it will not be possible to
make proper arrangements after
12 o'clock.
The show Is to be held In the
College Gym and will be open for
the public from 2 to 10 p. m.
Saturday.
ELUfl IS ELECTED
ASS IATI0N HEAD
Transylvania Baptists Select
Other Officers — Will
Adjourn Thursday
The Rev. Yancey C. Elliott, pastor
yf the Brevard Baptist church, was re
elected moderator of the Transylvania
Baptist association at the annual meet
ing being held at the Boylston Bap
tist church Wednesday and Thursday
yf this week.
Other officers elected for the ensuing
year Include: A. J. Manley, vice mod
erator: N. L. Ponder, clerk; T. C. Hen
derson. treasurer-historian; the Rev. J.
L. Underwood. Sunday school superin
tendent for the association; Claxton
Henderson, associate superintendent:
Hubert Batson. B. T. U. director.
Among the speakers at Wednesday's
session were R. P. Terrell,, representa
tive of the Biblical Recorder, who spoke
on religious literature; Dr. Smith Haga
man, president of the Baptist hospital
at Winston-Salem, presented needs of
the hospital; the Rev. H. L. Philips of
Forest City delivered the annual ser
mon at the morning session; the Rev.
and Mrs. Sherman Patterson sang a
duet as the afternoon devotional; Miss
Irene Dixon, vacation Bible school work,
er, presented the work of Bible schools;
the Rev. J. C. Pipes and the Rev. M.
0. Alexander, district mission workers,
spoke on the Baptist cooperative pro
gram.
The main speakers on Thursday's
program will be the Rev. J. C. Pipes,
yn minister's relief: Miss Mary Currln,
state W.M.U. official; John Arch Mc
Millan, on orphanages; Dr. O. T. Brink,
ley, on Christian education; Don C.
Young, on temperance and public mor
als, In addition to a number of county
members prominent In the assoclatlon
al work.
The association will continue through
Thursday afternoon of this week, with
sessions beginning at 9:30 In the morn
ing, and 1:30 In the afternoon.
Boylston Road Stone
Work Gets Underway
Work of placing first coat of stone
on the Boylston highway. Transylvania
county line to Mills River. Is progress
ing nicely, and Chandler Brothers ex
pect to have the road open for travel
on all-weather basis within a week to
ten days.
Gravel for the five-mile link Is being
secured at flellca. and hauled to the Job
by truck. The road from Brevard to
the county line has been completed and ]
with the surfacing of the link now under
construction, a short, straight route
will be open to Asheville.
Plans call for completing the sur
facing of the road early next spring.
Walter Hart Named
County Sanitarian
With Offices Here
Walter Hart has been given post of
county sanitarian under the Transyl-1
vanla Health department, and has as- j
sumed his new duties here.
A. W. Wilson, who has been In charge
of the work here for the county and
state for the past year, has been trans.
ferred to Macon county.
Mr. Hart has been doing similar work
for the state In Ashe county for the
past year, following completion of a
special course at Chapel Hill In sanitary
engineering. His duties will take him
to all parts of the county, and In ad
dition to the sanitary engineering work
he will also be water Inspector for the
town of Brevard, meat and milk In
spector. and other work pertaining to
his office.
Mr. Hart has moved Into his house
at Little River where he and his recent
bride are making their home. He was
In business In Brevard for a number of
years before entering this work.
Offices of the sanitarian are In the
Tinsley building.
TB Clinic Examines
Eighty-Eight Cases
Eighty-eight cases were examined by
the tuberculosis clinic here this week
In the county health department, with
Dr. J. 8. Denholm of Raleigh, and Miss
Theodosia Fludd of the district health
office In charge, assisted by the local
health unit officials.
Cases found by the clinic Included:
new minimal, 4; pulmonary moderatel
advanced, 2; far advanced, 0; child
hood TB active, 1; latent, *: previously
diagnosed, 2; pulmonary TB probable,
1< pulmonary TB doubtful, 1; negative
for TB, 49.
X-ray pictures made, 2; X-ray pic
tures advised, 2. The clinic Is held
each year under th$ sponsorship of the
Transylvania Health TJnlt
ALL TRANSYLVANIA
SCHOOLS TO OPEN
TERM AUGUST 28TH
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Teacher List Completed Fo*
Seventeen Units Operat
ing In County
All Transylvania county schools will
open for the 1US9-40 term on Monday,
August 28, according to announcement
made following meeting of the county
board of education here Monday.
Teacher list for all schools has been
completed, and will be as follows!
Brevard high school—R. T. Klmzey,
principal; Mies Earloene Poindexter,
B. D. Franklin, C. E. Wlke, Mrs. Fran,
ces DeLong, Mrs. Bara Tllson, Miss
Atnslee Alexander, Mrs. Antoinette
Wlke, Miss Elizabeth Jarvis, Edgar
Cox, Randal J. Lyday, Alvin Moore.
Brevard Elementary—J. E. Rufty,
principal! Miss Wllllc Aiken, Miss
Agnes Clayton, Miss Josephine Clay
ton, Miss Julia Deaver, Mrs. Annie W,
Reid, Mrs. Maxine Rufty, Mrs. F. P.
Sledge, Mrs. Hattie B, Vemer, Miss
Elolse Lewis, Mrs. Bernice Holllfleld,
Mrs. Velma Brittain, Glenn W. Gallo
way, Miss Edna E. Nanney.
Cedar Mountain—N. L. Ponder.
Connestee—S. P. Vemer, Principal;
Miss Margaret Gash.
Little River—C. C. Nanney, Principal; j
Miss Sallle S. Merrill, Miss Julia Wood.
Penrose—Mrs. Nolle B. Cassada, prin. i
clpal; Miss Myrtle Whitmire.
Pisgah Forest—Miss Annie May Pat
ton, principal; Miss Mamie Lyday, Miss
Flora Lyday, Mrs. Roxie Neely, Mrs.
Mildred Townsend.
Sellca—Mrs. Mamie Dale, principal;
Mrs. Marlon English.
Rosman high school—E. F. Tllson
principal; L. H. Thomas, Miss Laverne
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Court House Revival
To Begin Friday Eve
Revival services will begin at the
court house Friday night of thlB week
at 8 o’clock by J. T. Turner, of Sa
luda. The services will continue each
night for two weeks or more. A 30
minute song service will precede the
sermon.
Mr. Turner has just closed* a revival
at Little River, at which there were
110 conversions, and one at Balsam
Grove, resulting In 80 conversions.
"Biggest” Big Egg
"King of all eggs” was brought to
The Times office Friday by J. P. Eger
ton of Brevard, and attracted much
attention. The egg weighed five
ounces, and measured seven and one
quarter inches In diameter, by eight
and three-eights. Mr. Egcrton said the
egg was laid by a Barred Rock hen,
The Crop Report
Street Dance Here Friday
Evening for Entertainment
A streot dance will be given Fri
day evening of this week on West
Main street, sponsored by the Cham
ber of Commerce, from 8 to 10
o'clock.
Dancing will be In the block be
tween Oaklawn avenue and the rail
road bridge, with that section of
West Main to be roped off for
benefit of the dancers. People who
attend are requested not to park
their cars In the block west of the
Plerce-Moore Hotel.
Fisher String Band of Rosman
will provide music for the occasion,
and an amplifying system will be
operated by Sledge Radio Shop In
order to carry music to all parts of
the block.
Lighting will be done by J. M.
Gaines of the Duke Power company,
using several of the new outdoor
floodlights recently stocked there.
No charge will be made for ad
mission to the dance, and a gen
eral invitation Is extended to all
summer visitors as well as home
folk to be present. Speedy Jones
and Frank McIntosh have been ask
ed to call the figures.
Miss Willie Kate Waters, Mrs.
Frank McIntosh, and Miss Eliza
beth McCoy will be hostesses for
the occasion.
This will be the first dance of
Its kind to be held here In several
years, and If sufficient Interest Is
shown, other dances will be held
during the summer.
Canton Ball Team To
Play Here Saturday
Canton’s league-leading swatters will
play the Tanners baseball squad on the
Brevard college field Saturday after
noon.
The game will start at 8:80, and will
probably see Griffin on the mound for
Brevard. Noted for their hitting, Can
ton's team Is expected to furnish the
closest game of the season for the lo
cals.
Pisgah Forest Highway Is
Drawing Thousands Autos
Check of travel over the 15 miles of
recently completed highway J€4 through
Plsgah National Forest by Chamber
of Commerce officials Sunday showed
better than 5000 people using the scenic
road.
Chief attraction In Plsgah National
Forest near the new highway Is the
fawn rearing plant where more than
100"baby deer" are being cared for by
John V. Eller and his group of assist
ants.
At the fawn rearing station tiny deer
are taken each spring and early summer
and placed In pens where prepared food
Is given them each three hours for a
period of two to three weeks. Later
the growing fawns are placed In group
pens and the feeding process changed
slightly, with grasses and other grow
ing provender making up the diet.
By fall of the year, the deer have at
tained their full growth, and will be
transferred to other game preserves
under state and federal supervision.
The small deer are caught by CCC
boys, and local people, who are Issued
permits for hunting, and paid five dol
lars tor each live, uninjured fawn de
livered to the rangers.
The new road Itself Is a fine scenic
drive, and at numerous places, over a
thousand acres of the thickly wooded
forest and game preserve may be seen
from the highway.
Looking Glass Rock, John's Rock.
Cedar Rock, and the famed Looking
Glass falls, are all In close proximity
of the new highway which threads Its
way from two miles of Brevard to
Wagon Road gap.
Deer, wild turkey, and occasionally
a bear, may be seen on the road, and
drivers are being warned to go slow In
early morning and late afternoons by
the rangers In order that the beautiful
white-tailed deer will not be Injured.
Grade on the highway which at no
place Is more than eight percent, Is
conducive to faster travel than the
average driver thinks he Is making,
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Tax Listing Time It
Moved Up To First Of
Year Beginning 1940
Beginning In 1940 and annually
thereafter, property will be listed for
ad valorem taxes as of January 1
Instead of April 1. It was announced
today. The 1939 legislature made the
change.
The listing of property on Jan
uary 1 rather than April 1 of each
year constitutes a material change
In the tax administration of the local
governments, and It will be necessary
that the tax officials begin prepara
tion three months earlier In order
that their tax abstracts and other
forms be printed, the list takers ap
pointed, and books and accounts made
ready.
This statutory change affects only
the listing date, and does not in any
way change the date of payment of
taxes, It Is stated.
Alexander-Lyday Reunion
The Alexander-Lyday reunion will
be held at the Turkey Creek church
Sunday, Picnic dinner will be served
on the grounds at 12:30 o’clock, The
public Is Invited to attend.
Revival Services Will
Start Here August 18
Revival services will begin at Brevard
Baptist church on August 18, and con
tinue ten days to two weeks, according
to announcement by the Rev. Tancey
C. Elliott, pastor.
The Rev. W. Perry Crouch, of Ral
eigh, executive secretary of the state
mission board, will be In charge of
the preaching services, assisted by the
pastor and other church leaders.
Local Groups Win First Place In Asheville Event
Square Dance Team Is
Winner Over Muchly
Touted Soco Dance
Organization
Sixteen young people from Brevard
Journeyed over to Asheville last Friday
and Saturday evenlpgs, and when the
Judges had looked over the "best In
the Appalachians” the local group was
declared the square-dancing champions
of the twelfth annual Mountain Dance
and Music festival.
Strong competition was offered by
the Soco Oap team which has danced
before the president, the king and queen
of England, and other world-famed dig
nitaries as well as by three former
champion teams.
With “Speedy" Jones calling the fig
ures, and Sherman’s 8trlng band pro
viding the music, the local group offer
ed a new and modern type square danc
ing that won acclaim of the huge audi
ence, and was so well carried out that
the Judges laid aside the claims of the
Soco Oap outfit and said "Little River,”
name under which the Brevard group
was registered In the contest.
Championship performance calls for
It
Prize Winners Will
Perform On Thursday
The prize winning dance team
at the Asheville Music festival,
will give a performance at 10:30
Thursday evening In the NYA
hut, Brevard, at the regular semi
weekly square dance held there.
Sherman's String Band, which
played for the champions and
who also were named first place
winner, will play for the danc
ers ,
The perfosmance Ss offered as
a part of the entertainment of
the square dance, and no extra
admission will be charged.
a trip to the World Fair, or prize of
like worth for the group of dancers.
Included In the group of dancers were
Elizabeth McCoy, Willie Kate Waters,
Nancy Macfle, Helen Townsend, Emma
Lou Loftls, Sarah Hedden, Charlotte
Patton, Peaches Browning, Speedy
Jones. Nathan McMInn, Eben Morrow,
Henry Carrier, Tom Kirby, Edgar Lof
tls, Harry Clayton, and Robert Raines.
Sherman’s String Band
Named Champions of
Musician Outfits
at Meeting
Sherman’i String Band of Brevard
waa given first place In the musical
outfits playing at the Mountain Dance
and Music festival held In Asheville
last Friday and Saturday evenings.
The local group of musicians had to
compete with such organizations as
Red neper's Melody Maker* from
Cherokee; the Lance Brothers of Bun
combe county, and teams from other
sections of Western North Carolina!
Decision *of the Judges waa not an
nounced until Tuesday of this week,
as they stated that the competition was
very keen.
The group of five Brevard players
Include Talmadge Sherman, Robert
Jackson, Robert Tinsley, Frank Fan
ning, and Lester Brown. They have
been playing for local danoee for some
time, and have played several engage
ments for radio broadcasts, and other
■pedal occasions.
AGED BAKER BEING
SENT BACK DE
BY ADOLF HITLER
German Authorities Have Lit*
erally Kicked Out Geo.
Phillips, Aged 78
Qeorge Phillips, aged Brevard baker,
who left here three years ago to “spend
his last days" with his brother and
sister In his native land of Germany,
la being literally shipped back to Amer
ica, either to the poor house or to b?
placed under the care of a niece In
Denver, Colorado.
Sun, C. V. Patton, welfare superin
tendent, was notified Wednesday that
the 78-year-old man had already been
started on the return trip by German
authorities, and that provision would
have to be made to take care of him
when he arrives.
Mr. Phillips Is a naturalized Ameri
can, having come to America In 1889.
He was naturalized In Arkansas In
1908, and In 1909 came to Brevard
where he entered the bakery business.
Starting In a small way, The bakery
business grew and did well, and the
old man built a nice building (now oc
cupied by Ruth’s Beauty Parlor next
door to the postoffice), and continued
to do well, apparently,
In some way, he lost his property,
His bakery business failed when his
eyesight went back on him, and he be
came a ward of his niece In Denver
who learned of his plight and sent
money here for his care.
Three years ago the brother and
sister In Germany requested that he
return home and live out his last days
there. The niece provided cash for his
passage, and the welfare office here
made arrangements for his care and
passage to his native land. Now it
seems that the old man Is totally blind,
broken In health, a pauper, and Herr
Hitler and his crew have no use for
such an old man who cannot work,
cannot pay, and could not carry a rifle
—so back he Is sent—with the grave
probability that he will be dead ere he
arrives In America.
Just what, where, or how the old
man will be cared for Is not known,
but Mrs. Patton feels that the niece
who has helped the old man In the
past will again step forward and aid
In his care—If there Is still life In the
old body when It arrives in America,
where the poor are cared for, and the
blind never turned out to "die or do
best you can.”
MRS. VERNER WILL
PUBLISH ETCHINGS
FROM CHARLESTON
Elaborate Publication Will Be
Off the Prew By First
of November
Elizabeth O’Neill Vemer, the etcher,
of Charleston, South Carolina has been
roadmaking at her place near Brevard
for the past three months.
Ha’nty Branch Hill Is accessible only
because of untiring efforts on the part
of Its owners and Mrs. Vemer who Is
well known over the country for her
etchings and pastels might have re
mained a road builder for the whole
summer had not the firm of Bostick
and Thornley of Columbia, South Car
olina announced the publication of Mrs.
Verner's book. "Prints and Impressions
of Charleston.’’ This book of Mrs. Ver
neris etchings will come out on Novem
ber the first and has already been pro
claimed the most ambitious publishing
ever tried In the South.
When the Transylvania nines wen*
to Interview Mrs. Verner It found her
leveling off the top of the hill, work
ing with two men and a team of oxen
to move the side of the mountain. She
was elated at her success, "Every bit
of level ground on a hillside Is a thing
of beauty," she said, "we can square
dance out here, and will!”
When asked to talk about her book
Mrs. Verner confessed that her road
making and leveling had already been
Interrupted by various groups around
Brevard who are anxious to hear her
speak. She Is lecturing this month to
Hockbrook camp, Keystone camp and
Camp Carolina. She Is also speaking
at Kanuga and Highlands.
Mrs. Verner Is known hereabouts an
a most amusing speaker who weaves
so many negro stories and funny Inci
dents Into her Information on the art
of etching that her audience Is hardly
conscious of learning anything, and yet
at the end It finds that It Is familiar
with a complicated and difficult med
lum. , _ .
"Prints and Impressions of Charles
ton” Is the culmination of fifteen years
of etching. It contains forty-eight of
Mrs. Venter's best known prints and *
text by the artlet Introducing them. It
le being printed on paper especially
made to simulate the hand made paper
Mrs. Verner uses for her etchings and
so successful have the publlshersbeen'
In reproducing them that It Is difficult
for even the Initiate to tell the pages of
ths book from ths original etchings.
Noted Author Here "
Mr. and Mrs, Archibald Rutledge
were the week-end guests of Mrs.
James P. Deaver. Mr. Rutledge Is the
author of several volumes of stories
and poems. He seems to be the suc
cessor of Thompson Sston as a writer
of animal stories. His sketches of wild
life on tbs lower Bants# River have ap
peared in popular magaslnss and are
widely read. He likes Brevard aad
hopes to spsad mors Ums bora
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