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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
Transylvania
County
Entrance to
Pisgah National
Forest
Volume 51, No. 19
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941
$1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
One Million Dollars In Bonds
Are Cremated At The City Hall
Accumulation of Paid and Ex
changed Bonds Over 35
Years Destroyed
On last Friday afternoon approximate
ly a cool million dollars worth of city
lnmds ami coupons that have been paid
and exchanged within the last third of a
century went up in flames at the City
Hall, with City Clerk Alex Kizer, Mayor
A. H. Harris, and City Attorney Ralph
Ramsey looking on.
Mr. Kizer said that work of listing
and recording the bonds and coupons for
making photostatic copies of the records
had been going on for the past year. A
total of 15 photostatic pages were need
ed to record the bond and coupons.
The issues of bonds and coupons
that were cremated dated back as far
as 1905, when on June 1 of that year a
$25,000 issue was made for water works
and street improvement. Others destroy
ed in the cremation were as follows:
March 1, 1910, $15,000 in water bonds.
April 1, 1913. $10,000 water works and
sewerage bonds. July 1, 1913, $25,000
street improvement bonds. May 1, 1920, j
$9,000 funding bonds. September 1, 1922,
$100,000 in public improvement bonds.
March 1, 1925. $100,000 in street improve-!
ment bonds. July 1, 1925, $200,000 in i
street improvement bonds. March 1,
1929, $110,000 in refunding bonds. June
1, 1926, $250,000 in street, water, and
sewer bonds.
Program For Improving
Rural Mail Boxes Is On
T. Coleman Galloway, Brevard post
master, has announced that during the
month of May especial emphasis is be
ing placed upon cleaning up and paint
ing up of rural mail boxes in the county.
Mr. Galloway urges that every mail
box holder in the county cooperate in
the program of beautification and better
ment of natural surroundings in their
section. He emphasized that the program
of rural box improvement would be for
the benefit of individuals concerned and
that it would be to the advantage of
everyone to c^k. >erate
Forest Blaze Burned
North Fork Timberland
A forest fire, which started about noon
Tuesday and was brought under con
trol Tuesday night by fighters and rain,
burned over an estimated 150 acres of
timber land in the North Fork Creek
section about three miles northeast of
Brevard. Boys from the local CCC camp,
local citizens, and county and state fire
wardens fought the blaze from early
Tuesday afternoon into the night to
bring in under control.
The fire, origin of which was not re
ported here, is said to have originated
near the Glenn Cannon farm and was
well under way in the surrounding un
dergrowth and timberland before fight
ers reached the scene. A crew of CCC
boys began fighting the blaze about mid
afternoon.
Draft Board Has
No Calls In May
The local draft board has had no re
quirements on calls 8, 9, 10 and 11, and
therefore no more men from Transyl
vania county will be called during- the
remainder of this month, Mrs. Allie B.
Harllee, clerk, said yesterday. However,
33 local men will be called before July
1st.
Mrs. Harllee called attention to the
fact that the draft board office in the
court house would be closed all day
Saturday, which is a national holiday.
Red Cross Classes
\ Are To Be Resumed
Classes in Red Cross First Aid are to
be resumed by the instructor. Miss Sadie
North, who has been confined at her
home for several weeks due to injuries
received in a fall.
Classes will be held each Wednesday
and Friday nights at 7:30 o’clock at
Mias North's home on Probart street.
FIVE FROM HERE
AT FIRE COLLEGE
Five Brevard people are attending the
Fire College and drill school being held
at Durham this week, May 7, 8, and 9, it
has been announced.
Included in the group are C. F. Misen
heimer of the local fire department, and
four men from Ecusta: H. F. Finck,
Duke Harrison, Tom Hargis, and Marion
Elliott.
Hospital Day Will Be
Observed Next Tuesday
Hospital Day will be observed at the
local hospital next Tuesday afternoon,
with open house to be held from 3 to 6 j
o’clock and with a shower for the hos- J
pital. The event is sponsored anually |
by the Women’s Civic club.
The request is made at the hospital I
that the shower of gifts be limited to I
bed linen, towels, dresser scarfs and ar
ticles of similar nature. Bight refresh-!
ments will be served during the hours]
of the reception. I
COUNTY TEACHERS
MUST HAVE CLASS
“A” CERTIFICATES
All New Teachers Employed
Will Have Class “A”
Rating
The Transylvania county and district
school officials have decided that here
after all new teachers employed in the
[county must hold Class A certificates, J.
B. Jones, superintendent of county
schools, sa.d here today. Teachers al
ready in the service here, he said, who
do not hold the highest grade certificates
are being urged to raise theilf ratings as
soon as possible,
Mr. Jones said that there are only
thirteen teachers in the county, includ
ing both races, who have teaching cer
tificates of less than A Class. Of this
number, ten are Class B, and only three
are Class C. He pointed out these teach
ers who hold lower grade certificates
are good teachers with several years of
experience behind them, but it is ex
pected, he emphasized, that in the very j
near future all teachers in the county I
will hold Class A certificates.
WILL CLEAN CEMETERY
AT OAK GROVE CHURCH
—
C. M. Siniard has announced that to
morrow, Friday, has been set aside at
the Oak Grove church in North Brevard
for celaning up the cemetery, and he
asks those who have relatives and
friends buried in this cemetery to come
j out and help with the work.
Dinner is to be served on the grounds,
j Mr. .Siniard said.
ATKINSW1NNER
IN STUDEBAKER
SALES CONTEST
Local Dealer Placed 23 New
Studebakers In Three
Months
.James M. Atkins, owner of the local
Atkins Motor Sales, has been awarded
a 1941 Studebaker Champion in a nation
wide sales contest covering a period of
three months from January 1 to March
31. He was one of six winners in the
nation and sold a total of 23 cars during
the period.
The contest was divided into six sec
tions, according to size of town and
dealership. Mr. Atkins’ record was made
in the sixth, or smallest group.
Mr. Atkins opened his company here
early last December. Prior to coming
here he was connected with the M. and
J. Finance company in Asheville. He
says he’s going to sell the car he won
and apply the money on a house and
lot.
C OF c OPENS OFFICE
FOR SUMMER MONTHS
The Brevard Chamber of Commerce
has opened a regular office in the City
Hall for the summer months. Mrs.
Ralph Fisher, secretary, will be in
charge of the office.
Mrs. H. N. Lyda, Jr.,
Is Winner of $5.00
In Naming Contest
j E. H. McMahan, attorney for H. W.
Teague contractors, who have made
plans for developing a new residential
subdivision on the Mrs. George C. Wit
mer estate in North Brevard, announced
that the winner in the contest for nam
ing the subdivision is Mrs. H. N. Lyda,
Jr., and that a check is in the mail in
the amount of $5.00, the prize offered for
naming the development. The prize win
ning name was “College Heights”.
Mr. McMahan said that more than 40
names were submitted in the contest
He expressed his appreciation for the
interest taken and thanked those who
submitted names.
CAR CUTS DOWN TELEPHONE POLE
Shown here is a ear. said to have been driven by Jesse Gillespie, which last
Saturday afternoon left the street and cut down a telephone pole in front of
the Brevard postoffice. No one was hurt seriously.
Two other accidents which demolished the cars, occurred Tuesday night
and Wednesday afternoon. On Tuesday night, a car said to have been
driven by B411 McNeely. left the highway at Little Mountain five miles from
Brevard and plunged over an 150 foot embankment. The car caught afire
and burned, but the driver escaped unhurt. Wednesday afternoon another
car, reportedly driven by I>ave Griffin, turned over on the highway near
Ihsgah Forest and was almost completely demolished. According to reports,
no one was hurt.
FINAL FLANS BEING
DRAFTED FOR POST
OFFICE DEDICATION
Congressman Weaver Will Par
ticipate In Dedicatory
Exercises
Complete and final plans for the dedi
cation of Brevard’s new $75,000 post
office building: are now being: worked
out, Postmaster T. Coleman Galloway
said here yesterday, and a tentative pro
gram may be announced by next week.
Dedicatory exercises are set for Friday,
May 30.
A number of important political and |
government officials have been invited to j
attend the dedication, Mr. Galloway
said, and Congressman Zebulon Weaver
has already made plans to come. Post
master General Frank C. Walker, who,
it was hoped, could be here, has found
it impossible to come. However, Mr.
Galloway said some of the important of
ficials from the postoffice department at
Washington will be here.
Governor J. Melville Broughton has
been invited to participate in the dedi
cation exercises and it is expected that
he will send an affirmative answer to the:
invitation within the next few days.
Mr. Galloway said that committees are'
busily working: on complete plans for
the dedication program and are making
arrangements to provide for a large
crowd here on dedication day.
BANK TO BE CLOSED
ALL DAY SATURDAY
! li. J. Duckworth, cashier for the
Transylvania Trust company, has an
nounced that the bank will be closed
next Saturday, May 1rt, in observance of
Southern Memorial Pay. He urges that
the public take notice of this and attend
to necessary banking on Friday.
BREVARD, ROSMAN
TOWN OFFICIALS
ELECTED TUESDAY
Small Number Votes Cast In
Uncontested Municipal
Elections
Transylvania county town officials in
the two towns of Brevard and Rosman
were elected Tuesday in two uncontested
elections. The election at Brevard was
Democratic with no opposition, and the
one at Rosman was non-partisan. Mayor
and five board of aldermen were elected
to head Brevard's government, and a
mayor and a board of three aldermen
were elected for Rosman. In primaries
two weeks ago the officials were nomi
nated, an action tantamount to election.
Dr. Carl Hardin, local dentist, received
19 votes for mayor. In the primary he
received 426 votes. A. M. White, incum
bent mayor at Rosman, received 40 votes
in the election. In the primary he poll
ed 160 votes.
Aldermen for Brevard received the
following votes in the election and pri
mary respectively: R. J. Duckworth,
21, 681; Dr. Fred Holt, 19. 695; Don
Jenkins, 19, 451; J. A. Maefie, 18, 662;
J. E. Waters, 18, 530.
Aldermen for Rosman were elected as
follows, with tabulation of election and
primary votes in order: Nath S. Gallo
way, 35. 89: Austin Hogsed, 39, 128;
Claud Stroup, 10, 144.
The town officials were officially in
stalled Wednesday.
DR. LASLEY AND FAMILY
HAVE MOVED TO BREVARD
Dr. and Mrs. C. G. Easley and son
formerly of Statesville have moved tc
Brevard where Dr. I^asley is connected
with the Brevard Drug store.
Appraisal Of Real Property In
Brevard Is Complete; Complaints
Will Be Reviewed Mon., May 19
Assessment Value In Town Is
$233,000 Above Previous
Assessment
The scientific appraisal of real proper
ty in Transylvania county is well under
way. Ralph W. Lyday, county account
ant and tax supervisor, announced yes
terday, and the appraisers have finish
ed work in the Town of Brevard and
are now busy appraising: property of
Brevard township located outside of the
city limits.
The Board of County Commissioners
has set aside Monday, May 19, as the
day they will sit as the Board of Equali
zation and Review to hear any com
plaints the taxpayers may have to offer
regarding the assessments the apprais
ers have placed upon the property. On
this day complaints will be heard from
taxpayers who reside in the town or
those who own property within the town,
Mr. Lyday said. Other days are to be
scheduled later for property owners who
live in Brevard township but outside
of the town and in other townships of
the county.
The appraisers’ report on the assess
ment for the Town of Brevard shows
that for the tax year 1940 the assessed
valuation of the real property within
the city limits was $1,382,000.00, and the
valuation placed on the property for
the year 1941 is $1,615,000.00, or a gain
in assessment of $233,000.00. It is pointed
out that many new homes and buildings
have been included in the 1941 assess
ment and that the gain over 1940 is at
tributed to new property for taxation
and equalizing of values on property
I that was on the tax books for 1940 and
prior years.
This appraisal of property Is one that
the Board of Commissioners and the
county officials, together with the city
board of aldermen and the town officials
have given much thought to, Mr. Lyday
pointed out. Before entering into the
appraisal considerable time and effort
were devoted toward finding the proper
methods to pursue in order that the
work might be as thorough as possible.
After getting information from the In
stitute of Government and several coun
ties and towns, the county officials built
up a Real Property Assessment Record
| card which gives the breakdown of all
| land assessed with proper classification
as to location and accessibility. Im
provements that have been added to the
land are classified as to type and the ap
praised figure arrived at by figuring
construction costs and giving proper al
lowances for age, physical, functional
and economic depreciation. The tax
Supervisor says he will be glad to show
the system of appraisal to anyone in
terested.
The Board of Commissioners and
county officials announce lo the tax
payers that this appraisal of property
is being made for two reasons: 1. Ac
cording to the laws of the State of North
Carolina, 1941 is the regular designated
year for the assessment of all real prop
erty (land and buildings which are lo
cated on the property). 2. In the year
1928 the property in the county was
assessed at what everyone termed an
excessive figure, and in 1933 the Board
of Commissioners made a horizontal cut
of 50 per cent of the 1928 assessment,
and in so doing some of the property be
came unequally assessed and has been
carried forward from year to year at
the values arrived at from the horizon
tal cut. The efforts that are now being
put forth are to equalize values so that
each and every real property taxpayer
will share and share alike in the tax
burden of the county and the town of
Brevard.
Transylvania County Teachers
For Year 1941-42 Are Listed
GIRL SCOUTS
LEADER CAMP
OVER SUNDAY
More Than a Score of Leaders
Were In Attendance
There
The third of a series of week-end in
stitutes for leaders of Girl Scouts in the
I Southern Region closed at Camp
Cateechee near Brevard Sunday after
noon at 2 o’clock. Counses at the camp
opened at four o’clock last Friday.
More than a score of Girl Scout leaders
from North and South Carolina were in
attendance.
Training activities during the three
day camp included cooking and fire
building, nature, singing, folk dancing,
dramatics suitable for outdoor camp
fires, and discussion on the “how” and
“why” of camping.
The instructional staff included Mies
Helen Gillard, Atlanta, Georgia, field
adviser for Region 6 of Girl Scouts,
Inc.; Miss Martha Whitlock, local Girl
Scout director, Charlotte; Miss Treva
Tilley, local Girl Scout director, Green
ville, S. C.; Mrs. Jack Keys, member
Girl Scout Council, Greenville, S. C.;
and Mrs. W B. Mulligan, assistant in
training, Greenville, S. C.
ROLAND HAS RETURNED
FROM OPTOMETRY MEET
Dr. E. O. Roland, local optometrist,
has returned to Brevard after spending
the past week in Charlotte, where he at
tended the annual meeting of the South
eastern Congress of Optometry.
HOUSTON AWARDED
TRIP TO ATLANTIC
CITY IN CONTEST
Received Honor For Sales I
Volume of Philco Radios
In Region
A. H. Houston has been advised that
he has been awarded a trip to Atlantic
City, with expenses paid, on the basis of
Philco radio sales by the Houston Furi
ture company during a contest in which
dealers in the Carolina*? were partici
pants.
A. K. Sutton of Charlotte. Philco dis
tributor, extended “heartiest congratu
lations for this evidence of outstanding
merchandising and sales ability in which J
the best merchants in both Carolinas
competed’’ and indicated that the trip
will be made late this month. Only ten
merchants were awarded the trip. It will
be the fourth such award received by
Mr. Houston, previous trips having been
made to White Sulphur Springs, Havana
and Palm Beach.
Girl Scouts To Hold
Drive For Members
A Girl Scout drive for new members
will be held in connection with the regu
lar meeting to be held next Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Presby
terian church. All members and pros
pective new members are urged to be
present.
The intermediate group includes girls
from 10-12 years, and it is hoped at this
meeting to form a senior troop from 12
18 years of age.
Mrs. Ashe Macfie and Mrs. Edwin
English are the leaders, and Mrs. Homer
Coltrane and Mrs. Julius Sader have
agreed to assist in the leadership of the
enlarged membership.
PATTERSON RETURNS
FROM BUYING TRIP
Mr. A. Patterson, of Patterson’s store,
returned this week from a buying trip
in New York, where he purchased mer
chandise for the coming summer
months.
Mr. Patterson states that new sum
mer merchandise for his establishment
will be arriving daily.
Seventy -< One Teachers Are
Named To Posts In The
County
J. B. Jones, superintendent of Transyl
vania schools, has released for publica
tion a list of teachers for the county
schools for the year 1941-42 as elected
5y the various school committees. Prac
ically every one of the teachers who
aught this year were hired again, and
mly three vacancies remain to be filled
before school opens next fall. One of
these vacancies was caused by the re
cent death of Miss Eloise Lewis, teacher
n the Brevard elementary school. A
total of 71 teachers have been named.
The list of teachers for the next year
ind the schools in which they will teach
ire as follows:
Brevard High School:
R. T. Kimzey. Principal; Earleene L.
Poindexter, W. J. Middleton, C. EL Wike,
Mrs. Frances DeLong, Mrs. Sara Tilson,
Dorothy Duckett, Mrs. Antoinette Wike,
Mrs. Margaret Kimzey, Edgar Cox,
Randall Lyday.
Brevard Elementary:
J. E. Rufty, Principal; Willie Aiken,
Agnes Clayton, Josephine Clayton, Julia
Deaver, Mrs. Annie W. Reid, Mrs.
Maxine R. Rufty, Mrs. F. P. Sledge, Mm.
Hattie B Verner, Mrs. Bernice Holli
field, Mrs. Velma Brittain, N. L. Ponder,
Edna Earle Nanney, Dorothy Allison.
Cedar Mountain:
Vera Jones, Principal: Mrs. Mary L.
Moore.
Connestee:
Mrs. Flora A. Pickelsimer, Principal;
Margaret Gash.
Little River:
C. C. Nanney, Principal; Sallie S..
Merrill, Julia Wood.
Penrose School :
Mrs. Nelle B. Caseada, Principal;
Myrtle Whitmire.
Pisgah Forest School:
Annie May Patton, Principal; Mamie
Lyday, Flora Lyday, Mrs. Roxie Neely,
Mrs. Mildred Townsend.
Selica School:
Mrs. Mamie Dale, Principal; Mrs.
Marion English.
Roeman High School:
E. F. Tilson, Principal; LaVeme
Whitmire, L. H. Thomas G. W. Gallo
way, Mary Martha Bennett, B. L. Luns
ford.
Rosman Elementary:
E. L. Ponder, Principal; Ophelia
White. Flora Reid, Mrs. Ruth M. Stroup.
Helen Allison, Ruby Whitmire, Flee to
Freeman, Ruth Whitmire. Thelma Gal
loway, Rachael Orr.
Balsam Grove School:
Mrs. Florence Winchester.
Lake Toxaway School:
L. C. Case, Jr., Principal; Mm. Rosa
Callahan. Mrs. Lola Lusk.
Montvale School:
T. C. Henderson.
Quebec School:
Geneva Paxton, Principal; Mary Mor
gan.
Silversteen School:
Helen Henderson, Principal: Vera
Whitmire.
Rosenwald School (Colored):
J. P. Sartor. Principal; Mrs. J. H.
Johnstone, Ethelwyn K. Mills, Svnetha
F. Glenn.
Glade Creek School:
Mrs. Gertie Hemphill.
COLLEGE CHOIR TO
! BEGIN EXTENSIVE
! TOUR ON MONDAY
Group Will Be Heard In Two
Concerts In Nation’s
Capital
The Brevard College Concert Choir;
under the direction of John M. Hawkins,
will leave here next Monday morning
for a week’s tour of concert appearance*
in North Carolina and the Eaetemi
States, including two performances ini
Washington, D. C. Last year the choir
gained wide recognition over this State
for some fifteen performances in as many
towns and cities.
The group will leave for Washing
ton Monday morning and will spend
Tuesday sightseeing at the nation’s
capital. Tuesday night they will be heard
at eight o’clock at the Methodist
Church of the Covenant there, and
again on Wednesday evening at the
same time they will sing at the First
Baptist church in Washington.
On Thursday they will leave Wash
ington for Greenville, North Carolina,
wrhere they will appear in a concert that
night in one of Greenville’s churches.
The following day they will go to
Raleigh for a concert Friday evening at
the Edenton Street Methodist church.
On Saturday they will go to High Point
for an appearance that night at High
Point College.
Plans are being made to schedule an
appearance in some Winston-Salem
church on Sunday morning, May 18, but
as yet plans are incomplete.
The final concert of the tour will be
presented at the First Methodist church
in North Wilkesboro on Sunday evening,
May 19, after wilich the group will
return to Brevard.
Business manager of the choir is Jack
Donnell. Bill Dunnagan is student di
rector.
Mrs. John Marchant has returned to
her home in Greer, S. C. after spending
two weeks here with Mrs. Cos Paxton.