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IIS? THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES HF
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
VOL. 49 NO. 42 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1939 <1.00 PERYEAIMNTRAWSY^ANIA COUNTY
C. OF C. ELECTION IS
SLATED FOR FRIDAY
Body Ends Summer’s Work In
Community With No Ov
erdrafts or Debts
Annual election of officers will be
special business of the Chamber of
Commerce Friday evening at 7:30
o'clock. The meeting will be held In
the office at the city hall.
Report of the year's work made last
Thursday to the directors showed that
on deficit was Incurred during the
year, and that additional memberships
which are now being secured are ex
pected to amount to enough to take
care of printing new booklets.
I’lans of the body are to have the
booklets printed and ready for distri
bution by the first of tho year.
It was decided at the meeting last
Thursday that the services of full time
secretary would not be maintained dur
ing the winter. Mrs. Thelma Fisher,
secretary, however, will continue to take
care of the correspondence and other
secretarial work, and will call the di
rectors together at such times as she
deems necessary. Regular meeting of
the body will be continued through the
winter months, and headquarters will
be left at the city hall, where booklets
and Information sheets may be obtained
at any time.
The finance committee reports the
following additional members during
the week: Dan L. English. Ralph H.
Ramsey. Jr.. Transylvania Trust Com
pany, and Martin Taxi.
Open Tennis Tourney
To Be Held Saturday
Fourteen men and six ladles had
made official entry In the open tennis
tournament Wednesday morning, ac
cording to Walter Straus and Charles
Jones, sponsors of the event.
Entries may still be made by con
tacting Mr. Straus at 39 Park avenue
prior to Saturday. The tournament will
be played on the Rockbrook Camp
courts, and starts promptly at 2 o'clock
Saturday.
Men's singles pairings have been made
as follows: Campbell-Kyle, Colwell
J. Morrow-H. Carrier. Jr., Orr-,
H. Carrier, Sr.-, Clarke
E. Morrow, Jenklns-KIzer, Tucker
St raus.
Ladles’ singles: Betty May-.
Mrs. Straus-Mrs. Macfle, Mrs. Carrler
—-•, Nancy Macfle-Helen Car
rier. Double and mixed drawings will
be made Saturday.
No charge will be made for use of
the courts, and entry fee of 25 cents
for each event will go to defraying ex
penses of buying balls for the tourna
ment.
Brevard Boy Built
Home On Wheels To
Finish College Work
CLEMSON. S. C.. Oct. 17—Otis
H. Shipman, a senior In Clemson
Agricultural College here, neglected to
send In his registration card this fall,
but that didn't keep him out of school.
Finding no room for him In the
barracks. Shipman went to Dr. E. W.
Sikes, college president, with his tale
of woe. The result was Shipman de
cided to “build" himself a room.
He returned to his homo In Brevard.
N. C„ and built a trailer, to become
the college's first trailer resident.
But Shipman’s troubles were not
over. He had to move the trailer to
college, and a license to tow It down
with a passenger car would have cost
$30.
The law said nothing about con
traptions drawn with a form tractor,
bo Shipman hitched his trailer to the
tractor and set out.
A tire on the trailer blew out and
delayed him one night, but he slept
In the trailer nnd completed the 60
mlle trip the following day.
Finding a suitable location for his
“rolling room" was another problem,
but Shipman solved that too. His
address Is "behind the college laundry.”
Legion Meets Tuesday
A meeting of the American Legion
will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30
o’clock In the office of the register of
deeds. This will be an Important meet,
lng and It Is requested that all mem
bers attend.
Fire Permits Must
Be Secured Before
Brush Blaze Started
Permits are necessary before burn
ing of brush on or near woodlands
during the forest fire season month, ac
cording to County Fire Warden Char
lie Gillespie.
Warden Gillespie points out that
the law requires landowners to secure
permits before a fire Is allowed to be
started within BOO feet of any state
protected woodland, and that all of the
Transylvania forests are listed as state
protected.
Permits may be secured at no cost
from the Farmers Supply company,
Clerk of Court, at Brevard; E. R. Gal
loway, Rosman: or the fire warden.
High School To Play
Asheville Saturday
Brevard high school football eleven
will play at Asheville School for Boys
Saturday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Coach Cox announces that Allison Is
again In the backfleld.
Heads Teacher Group
O. S. DILLARD, Principal, Cand
ler High School, Candler, and Presi
dent of the Western District Teach
ers Association of The North Car
olina Education Association,
SMI H NAMED CHIEF
BR im FIRE DEPT.
Assistant Head Replaces J. S.
Bromfield—Resolution By
Board of Aldermen
John W. Smith was named chief
of the Brevard fire department at
meeting of the Board of alderman
Monday night, succeeding J. S. Brom
field.
Mr. Smith has been acting as assistant
chief for ten years or more under
Chief Bromfield, und is well qualified
for the post he was appointed to. His
term of office was set for the balance
of the fiscal year.
Chief Bromfield tendered his resig
nation several weeks ago but remained
as head of the department until his
successor was named. Ill health was
reason for Chief Bromfleld’s resignation.
He has. the public in general will
testify, done a good Job as head of
the Brevard fire fighting group, and
the board of aldermen passed a res
olution Monday night commending him
for the work he has done here during
the past 25 years.
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Honor Roll
Thanks to the following friends—
they have sent In their renewals to the
home paper since Wednesday of last
week:
C. B. Scott. Brevard
Mrs. B. L. Laird, Brevard
Rev. J. C. Owen, Asheville
J. T. Gillespie, Rosman
J. H. Norwood, Brevard R-2
C, L. Newland. Brevard
S. P. Vcrner, Brevard
Mrs. S. V. Batson, Brevard R-l
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, L. Toxaway
Clarence McCall, L. Toxaway
W. M. George, Penrose
B. T. Egerton, Hendersonville
L. A. Ammon, Cullowhee
J T. Lyday, Rosman
Mrs. V. E. Twiggs. Brevard
A. L. Bagwell, L. Toxaway
Warren Fisher, L. Toxaway
Mrs. J. H. Garren, Brevard
Roger Hayes, Brevard
W. G. Gevedon. Brevard R-2
Mrs. Joe McCrary, Penrose
Mrs. A. E. Tinsley. Brevard R-8
Mrs. Carrie Wilbanks. L. Toxaway
T. G. Miller, Tryon
Mrs. Hilliard Booth. Brevard
H. R. Dreggors, Florida
William Bishop, Plsgah Forest
Mrs. M. C. Whitmire, Brevard R-3
Robt. McKInna, Brevard R-3
Mrs. Ila Rhodes, Plsgah Forest
* We are glad to have the following
subscribers added to cur list this week:
Jack Houck, Brevard R-l
Walter Heller, Brevard
Charles Reiner, N. Y.
Miss Myrtle Norris, Georgia
A. B. Galloway, Jr., Raleigh
Thanksgiving Tourney
Attracts Golf Players
Manager Ed Watson of the Brevard
Golf course reports that he already has
a number of entries in the Thanksgiv
ing tournament, and that Interest In
golf generally Is Increasing among local
people.
The handicap tournament, to be play,
ed the week of Thanksgiving, will only
require registry fee of 50 cents per per
son, with customary green fees, and any
player, whether a member of the club
or not. will be entitled to enter.
Schools of County To
Recess Friday Noon
All schools of Transylvania county
will recess at noon Friday In order that
teachers may attend the seventeenth
annual convention of Western District
Teachers Association In AshevlUe, Fri
day afternoon and Saturday.
Sessions will begin at 2:16 o’clock
and will be held In the Lee Edwards
High school. Other programs will be
held at 8 o’clock Friday evening, and
recess until Saturday morning at 9:80.
Concluding general meet will be held at
11:15 Saturday morning.
Randall J. Lyday, teacher of Voca
tional Agriculture, Brevard: and Miss
Elizabeth Jarvis, English teacher at
Brevard high, are members of the of
ficial groups for their departments.
Flim-Flam Letter Game
Starts On Rounds Here
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The old hum-bug has again hit Bre
vard—the one that Is so old that it is
putrid—but like the ones that have
come and gone and left a lot of blue
"suckers” (blue because they cast their
bread on the waters and they came
back NOT) it is for suckers exclusive
ly.
This one Is appropriately named
"Christmas Club,” and It was conceived,
so the letter displayed In The Times
office said, by a group of businessmen
who are real sports (whatever that
means).
Five names grace the letter, and the
names were rather prominent ones too,
and the LUCKY receiver of the letter
had only to omit the top name of the
five-group, add his name at the bottom
of the list, mall one dollar (silver or
greenback will do) to the name and ad
dress omitted and then send letters to
five friends (with the writer’s name on
the bottom).
After that—so the letter said—the
writer would only have to sit back and
wait for the dollars (greenbacks or
slver or both) to roll In, with the pos
sibility (possibility the letter said) of
getting 1280 smackers, all for the price
of one dollar (coin or paper) and the
work of writing five letters and mail
ing to sports like the writer was sup
posed to be.
The chain Is purely for businessmen
and sports—that’s what the letter said
—and If the person receiving same hap.
pened not to be a sport he should mall
the letter back to the last name on
the list (the one In The Times office
came from Gainesville, Ga.)
Of course there was no guarantee
that the chap who sends out his dol
lar (sliver or greenback) would receive
anything at all from his whirl In the
world of Ponzl finance—for making
such a positive statement would be a
violation of the postal regulation and
Uncle Sam would put some chap In
jail.
And, too, there was nothing In the
letter to keep a chap (businessman and
sport) from sending his five letters out
and forgetting to send the chap whose
name appeared at the top of the list
his dollar (coin or greenback).
In fact there was nothing at all at
tached, written, or Implied to keep any
fellow from squelching on his friends
(businessmen and sports) and no way of
telling just who would be crooked In a
game like that and who would be
straight.
Christmas Club—with old Santa just
around the corner (not that prosperity
corner, either) the name Christmas
Club has especial appeal. And no doubt
but there will be suckers In Brevard
who nibble at the bait, and If there is
no Santa Claus, woe Is he.
Eight County Homes
Closed During Year
Forty-six former Inmates have been
placed In private homes since the first
of June and the Cumberland county
home now Is "definitely cut off of busi
ness," E. L. Hauser, county welfare
superintendent, has advised W. C,
Ezell, director of the division of Insti
tutions and corrections of the State
Board of Charities and Public Welfare.
Mitchell, Greene, Hyde, Yancey,
Chowan, Cherokee, Swain and Transyl
vania county homes preceded the Cum
berland Institution on the closed list,
their inmates having been given county
grunts or public assistance payments If
over 66 and placed In private homes.
Cost of operation of the Cumberland
home for the last year of its existence
came to $7,900, Hauser said, and esti
mated that "in addition to old age as
sistance, the total cost of boarding out
those under 65 will be around $1,600"
for the current year.
Lighting Expert Will
Speak Here Thursday
Hoy A. Palmer, Illuminating engineer
for the Duke Power company, will be
guest speaker at the meeting of the
Brevard Kiwanls club Thursday ut
noon, and at the Brevard Lions club
Thursday evening.
The lighting expert was with the
General Electric company for ycurs.
and Is reputed to be the leader in his
line in the South.
Books at UDC Library
Children’s books recently shelved at
the U. D. C. library include the follow
ing': Emerald City of Oz, Lund of Oz.
Lost Princess of Oz, ltlnkittnk in Oz,
Baum; Fairy Tales by bofli Andersen
and Grimm; Happy Days, Daniel; Sun
bonnet Babies, Grover; Making of
America, Scott.
Miss Evelyn Taylor
Victim of Own Hand
Friends of Miss Evelyn Taylor of
Atlanta, Ga., were shocked Friday when
messages were received that the young
nurse had taken her life in a fit of
despondency.
Miss Taylor had been a regular visi
tor to Brevard for the past two years,
and purchased Camp Illahee two years
ago, at which time her plans were to
develop an Atlanta colony here.
Ill health caused the young lady to
abandon her plans for the colony and
the property was leased as a girls camp.
Miss Taylor had been 111 for more than
a year, and during that period had been
confined to her bed for most of the
time. It is believed here by friends
that brooding over her physical condi
tion caused the popular young lady
to take her own life.
Tim Cowan Critically 111
Tim Cowan Is reported to be In a
critical condition at his home In Pisgah
Forest, due to a stroke of paralysis he
suffered Sunday afternoon at his home.
His entire left side is affected and he
has been in an unconscious state the
past three days. Mr, Cowan has been
in ill health for some time, but appear
ed much Improved the past few months
and was preparing to resume his work.
Baptist Pastors Will
Meet Here Saturday
A meeting of all pastors and Baptist
churches of the Transylvania Baptist
association will be held at the Brevard
Baptist church Saturday morning at
10 o’clock, announcement has been made
by M. L. Lewis.
The meeting is for the purpose of
considering the appointment of an as
sociations! missionary. The committee
appointed at the last associational meet
ing will ulso be present at Saturday's
meeting.
Reforestation Program Aided By Nursery
Thousands of trees are being started at the Crab Creek
Nursery near the Henderson-Transylvania line. These trees
are available to farmers and land owners at a very nominal
cost. (Cut courtesy Farmers Federation News).
The North Carolina Department of
Conservation and Development operates
two state nurseries for the production
of forest tree-planting stock. One of
these Is at Clayton, Johnston County,
In the upper costal plain; the other
Is on Crab Creek, between Brevard
and Hendersonville In Henderson Coun
ty. In the mountain nursery there
are approximately 400,000 white pine
seedlings, some yellow poplar and black
locust available for distribution this
fall and next spring. The white pine
two-year seedlings will cost $8 peh
thousand delivered; the yellow poplar
and black locust will cost $2 per thou
sand delivered. At Clayton the fol
lowing species are grown; shortleaf
pine, slash pine, black walnut, black
locust, cypress and white ash. All
but the black walnut cost $1 per thou
sand delivered; black walnut cost $10
per thousand delivered.
It takes about 900 tree seedlings
per acre If they are planted 7 feet x
7 feet apart. Under ordinary circum
stances two men should plant one
acre to one and one half acres per
day. Thus the cost of planting an acre
with white pine In the mountains
would be about $5 or $6 per acre, de
pending on the condition of the land.
In certain cases where the farm Is under
the A. A. A. program, payments are
made to the farmer which will cover
the cost of the trees and the planting.
Further Information as to planting
practices, announcements and appli
cations may be secured from the
State Forester, N. C. Department of
Conservation and Development, Raleigh,
N. C.
Checking For Spies
J. EDGAR HOOVER, chief of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
made statement last week that his
department was "on Its toes” in ef
fort to thwart any action of foreign
elements which might tend to In-'
Jure the United States. His depart
ment was called to San Francisco
last week to look Into reported
sabotage aboard the U. S. battleship
Arizona. Damage reported on the
huge battleship was to the water
tanks, and machinery.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
HERE ON SATURDAY
Blue Ridge Meets Local Grid
ders—Several Brevard
Boys Are Injured
Brevard College football squad meets
Blue Ridge here Saturday afternoon,
and will attempt to wipe out the stigma
of the bad defeat at hands of Belmont
Abbey last Saturday.
The game will start at 8:15 o'clock,
and with the Blue Ridge HUltoppers
said to be in excellent form, a good
game Is expected.
Pass defense Is being worked at this
week by Coach Christenbury’s charges,
as this was the weak point through
which the Abbey team laced the Blue
Devils In the locals first try at night
football last week.
Probable starting lineup has not been
announced by Coach Christenbury, as
several of the boys are limping from
Injuries, and Shuford Is still on the
"leg list."
Fourth game of the season, the local
gridders have tied Wofford and Win
gate, and lost to Belmont Abbey.
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Seven Transylvania
Students at W.C.T.C.
CULLOWHEE, Oct. 17—Final figures
Just released by Miss Addle Beam,
registrar, at Western Carolina Teach
ers College, show a total of 519 stu
dents, 289 women and 230 men who
have registered for the fall quarter
which began September 26. This num
ber shows 118 more students registered
this fall than were at the same time last
year and represents a 29 per cent in
crease.
Fifty North Carolina counties scat
tered from the coast to Tennessee are
represented by this enrollment. Jack
son county leading with 125 students
and Buncombe county coming second
with 72 students. Transylvania county
has seven students registered.
Fifteen Brevard College students are
pursuing their higher education at Cul
lowhee this year.
At Lyday Hospital
Patients reported at Lyday Memorial
hospital on Wednesday were: Mrs. Al
vin McCall, Mrs. Mitchell King, Essie
Galloway, Woodrow Fisher. Henry Mas
sey, Walter Andrews, Carl Sanford, W.
B. Head Jr., Lamar Whitmire.
Red Cross Allocates
Million Dollars For
European War Relief
WASHINGTON — Chairman Norman
H. Davis announced that the American
Red Cross had appropriated $1,000,000
from its reserve funds for emergency
war relief work In Europe.
"To meet the Increasing need for re
lief In Europe and In answer to urgent
appeals for our help, the American Red
Cross,” Mr. Davis said, "has set aside
$1,000,000 for Immediate relief opera
tions In Europe.”
The money, he said, would, as far as
possible, be expended for medical sup
plies, blankets, and refugee clothing
for Impartial distribution, wherever
needed, In the belligerent countries.
Chairman Davis announced that re
ports he had received from the Ameri
can Red Cross delegation, which went
over last week by clipper and reached
Geneva Oct, 10, specified needs for 87,
oOOO Polish refugee men, women and
children In Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary
and Roumanla.
The International Red Cross has
delegates In all of the countries har
boring Polish refugees and has already
spent $25,000 sent by the American Red
Cross for relief In the four countries,
chiefly In the purchase of warm under
clothing and medical supplies.
Dr. George Mead To
Preach Here Sunday
Dr. George W. Mead will preaoh at
the Presbyterian church next Sunday
morning. Dr. Mead has served Import
ant churches In both New York CSty
and In Pittsburg, and Is now on the
staff of Asheville Normal College, and
Is an able teacher as well as a power
ful and Interesting preacher.
The many friends of the pastor,
Mr. Jones win be glad to learn that he
Is rapidly Improving.
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METHODIST CHURCH
MEETING THIS WEEK
Rev. E. P. Billups Expected To
Return To Brevard For
Another Year
Annual conference of the Methodist
church Is convening at the West Market
street church in Greensboro this week,
beginning Thursday and continuing
through Sunday night.
It Is the expectation of the local
Methodist church that Its pastor, the
Rev. E. P. Billups, will be returned
for his second year's pastorate, when
the appointments are read by the pre
siding bishop at the last night's ses
sion.
Those from the Brevard church and
Brevard College attending the confer
ence at Greensboro this week Include:
Rev. E. P. Billups, Rev. and Mrs. J. H.
West, Rev. G. C. Brinkman, J. H, Plck
elslmer, President E. J. Coltrane, Dr.
Harold M. Buehler, Prof. A. L. Ben
nett and Wayne Kemodle, of Brevard
College.
The annual meeting of the board of
trustees of Brevard College was held
Wednesday morning In Greensboro.
At this session of the annual confer
ence, the three branches of the Metho
dist church will be merged Into what
Is now known as the Methodist church,
according to official adoption of a de
claration of union made effective at
the general conference held In Kansas
City last spring.
Hamilton Child Dies
After Brief Illness
Juanita Faye Hamilton, 7-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wlnford E.
Hamilton of the Country Club road
section, died Monday after a brief ill
ness.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon from Carrs Hill Baptist
church with the Rev. Laurence Ervin,
pastor, and the Rev. Yancey C. Elliott,
pastor of Brevard Baptist church, 1»
charge.
Interment was made in the church
cemetery following the services. James
Klnkle, Guy Dean, Guy Hamilton and
Walter Shipman acted as pallbearers.
Osborne-Simpson had charge of ar
rangements.
Flower girls, playmates of Juanita,
were: Mary Loiuse Dean, Ruth Ship
man, Mary Louise Heath, Jane Led
better, Betty Shipman, Frances Dean
and Virginia Shipman.
The little girl became 111 Saturday,
and was being carried to an Asheville
throat specialist Monday afternoon
when she became critically ill, and died
before medical aid could be given her.
Surviving are the parents, and one
sister, Dorothy.
BROADER PROG »
FOR BREVARD IN
OF COLLEGE ( IIP
Trustees Considering Expans
ion of Work Here—Report
For Year Is Good
Plans for broadening the scope of
work at Brevard College were dis
cussed at the annual meeting of
trustees In Greensboro Wednesday after
noon.
No official report was available Wed.
nesday afternoon when The Times went
to press, but President E. J. Coltrane
said Tuesday that he expected an
announcement of interest would be
made following the meeting.
The meeting convened at 10:30 Wed
nesday morning in the West Market
street Methodist church, and findings,
recommendations, anti reports will be
made to the annual Methodist conference
which also meets Wednesday through
next Monday In Greensboro.
Official members of the board from
Brevard attending the trustees meet
ing include Dr. Coltrane, J. H. Ptckel
aimer, and the Rev. J. H. west.
Report of the president made Wed
nesday morning to the trustees board
showed an enrollment last year of
436; value of the college plant Increased
by $21,000, and over $1,000 added to
the endowment fund; operating fund
Increased to $7,000; and the outstanding
fact that the college closed the fiscal
year without a current deficit.
Banking Hour* Changed
Change In banking hours at Tran
sylvania Trust company were put Into
effect Monday, the new hours being 9
to 1 o’clock weekdays, and 9 to 12
o'clock Saturdays.
Mason Home Coming
Event of October 27th
Annual home-coming event of the
Masonic lodge will be held at the
Masonic hall here on Friday, October
27, in an afternoon and evening ses
sion.
It is expected a large number of
Masons will attend, and an Interesting
program will be presented. Further de
tails of the event will be given In next
week’s paper.
Killing Frost Reports
From All Sections
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Killing frost was reported In most
sections of the county last Friday morn
ing and again Monday and Tuesday
mornings. .
Official reading of the weather check
ing station here Monday morning waa
SI degrees, coldest day this tall.