BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 19, 1930
Number 8
VOLUME XXXV.
PLAYGROUNDS AND
SWIMMING POOL
MAY BE OBTAINED
W. E. BreesrOffTrs Beautiful
Site for Municipal Park
Near Maiden Hair
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
BUSY ON PROPOSITION
Would Build Dam and Create
9- Acre Lake If Plans
Materialize
Brevard may have one of the
most attractive municipal parks o
any small town in all the mountain
section. This possibility loomed
large Tuesday evening when W m. E.
Breese offered his beautiful mill
place, at Maiden Hair Balls, to be
used as a park. A committee was
appointed to work out the details
with Mr. Breese.
Plans call for building a dam that
will create a lake covering nine
acres of ground. The proposed
municipal park site is one of tne
picturesquely beautiful places about
Brevard. The offer of Mr. Breese
was made when the tourist commit
tee was reporting on work done anu
to be done. Attention was called to
the fact that Brevard lias nothing to
offer the tourist except the great
beauties with which Nature en
dowed this section. The need of a
park and a swimming pool was
stressed, and then it was that Mr.
Breese made tender of the beautiful
section at the fool of See-Off moun
tain.
Swimming, playgrounds,, swings,
tennis courts .shaded noons, ana
everything that goes into the making
of a real park can'bq easily prepared
at this place. \
The committee is to report back
to the Chamber of Commerce as
early as possible, and it is believeu
the park can be rushed to such com
pleted state that it could be used this
year. It would mean much to Bre
vard as a tourist center.
REPORTON INCOME
TAX NOW IN (PER
Income tax reports again!
All reports must be in by March
15th.
There are two reports to make,
one to the federal government and
antoher to the state government.
J. W. McElroy, with the federal
government, will be in Brevard
Monday, February -4, at the \\ alt
ermire Hotel, where he wnl assist
any one in making out the reports
for the United States government.
C. II. Hamrick, with the state j
government, will b" here on March I
7 and 8, and will assist any tax payer
in making out the report on state in
come taxes.
For the state, all single persons
with incomes of $1000 or more, and
all married persons with incomes of
$2000 or more, and all corporations
and partnerships regardless of the
amount taken in during the past
year, must file reports.
The figures are slightly higher on
the federal inconi" taxes. A stiff
penalty is attached for those failing
to file' their income tax reports.
BENEFITBR1DGE
FRIDAY EVENING
Eastern Star Plans Large List
of Prizes for Winners
at the Game
Members of the Eastern Star will
sponsor a benefit bridge Friday eve- '
ning at the Masonic Hall. It is ex-;
pvcted that a larne number of peo- j
pie will attend this event, and re- ;
quest is made that those playing !
bring with them their own set of
cards. j
Business firms of the town will
donate prizes to1 b awarded the win- '
ners in the ilifferi.nl ^amos.
The following pri:;is will be of- j
fered:
Macfie Drug company, 1 box pow
der; Farmers Supply Co. ? 1 mixing
bowl; O. 1.. Erw:n--Sl in merchan
dise; The l'lutnn' r co:.ipany ? 1 row
el puff j Carolina Clwnsrs ? 1 suit
o <1. v rkahed; ! lish Bros. ? 1
pair rubber heels; Joints Motor Co.
.*>0 cents in trade; McCrary Tire
Service ? 5 gallons gas; Ward's Bar
: ' ? oi.oii ? i in trade; Brevard
Battery ? 1 flash light ; Clement's
<t weiry Store, merchandise.
,'lemson Theatre ? 1 movie tickets;
llr-evard Banking Co.? $1 in cash;
White way Cleaners ? 1 suit or dress
cleaned; The Canteen ? 2 meals;
Nobby Shop ? 1 box handkerchiefs;
?Johnson Grocery ? 50 cents in trade;
Central Market ? $1 voast; A & P
Store ? 1 pound Maxwell House
coffee; B & B Co. ? $1 assorted
Sower seed; Rug Factory ? 1 table
mat; Simpson's Barber Shop ? $1 in
barber work; Harry Sellers ? 2 pound
box chocolates; Pushell's Store ?
vanity shoe brush; Robinson & Lof
??> :::a--'-ct-? :51 ?? "??: Wales Mull?
iy pounds sugar.
NOTED PHYSICIAN
CALLED IN DEATH
Dr. William J. Wallis Laid to
Rest at St Pauls In
the Valley
Dr. William J. Wallis, aged 75,
died Sunday morning at 8o'clock at
his home here, following a prolong
ed illness. Funeral services were
held at St. Philips Episcopal church
[Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, con
ducted by the rector, the Rev. Har
ry Perry. Interment was in St. Paul's
in the Valley.
Dr. Wallis, who was a native of
Ontario, Canada, came to Brevard in
1897 and for many years was a lead
ing physician of Transylvania coun
ty. Failing health the latter years of
his life, however, forced him to re
tire from active practice. For 30
years he served as senior warden of
St. Philips Episcopal church.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Lucy Boswell Wallis, one daughter,
Mrs. Eric M. Rawls, of Asheville, and
one son, William Joseph, Jr, of Bre
vard; also two brothers, Rev. S. A.
Wallis, D. D., of Alexandria, Va.,
and Dr. A. W. Wallis, of Pittsburg,
Penn.
Active pallbearers were: R. H.
Morrow, Overton Erwin, H. N. Car
rier. S. M. Macfie, D. G. Ward and
J. S. Bromfield.
Honorary pallbearers included the
Vestry of St. Philips and Dr. G. B.
Lynch, Dr. E. S. English and Dr.
W. M. Lyday.
SHOWKELVfNATOR I
AT S. P. U. OFFICES!
Announcement is made by the
Southern Public Utilities company
elsewhere is this paper of a new
shipment of cabinet Kelvinators,
which are now on display at their
main sales room on East Main street.
These electric refrigeration ma
chines are attached with Isothermic
tubes, resulting, it is claimed, in
more rapid freezing with assurance
of a quantity of ice available for un
expected occasions. A choice of three
styles in attractive designs are on
display, all featuring the new auto
matic devices and fulfilling a modern
need with their many exclusive fea- ,
tures. The management of the local i
concern announce that they will be
pleased to have the public call at j
their main office and be shown these j
new refrigeration machines.
FISHING TO BE BIG !
DRAWING CARD N0W|
Jerry Jerome, Jchn Smith and!
rudge Edward P. McCoy, mayor of
Pisgah Forest, were named Tuesday
evening to have full charge of the
fishing waters in the Cascade dam,
and operate the place during this
season as a center of attraction for
tourists who are fond of fishing.
The Chamber of Commerce lias a
live-year lease on the lake, and it is j
maintained for the good of the town j
as a puller for tourist trade.
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY j
TO BE RE-ORGANIZED HERE j
Temporary reorganization of the i
Woman's Auxiliary of the American!
I. \v;i> affected in a meeting)
Monday afternoon at the Chamber)
oi Commerce. Mrs. Ii. G. Mc- j
Cieachy, of Kinston, state president,;
was present at the gathering and i
gave valuable assistance in the re
organization work. A meeting will;
be held next Monday, at which time j
a permanent organization will be put !
into effect.
DEWEY GRAVELY IN i
race m mm:
Young democracy in Transylvania
lOunly asking recognition in coun
ts- political affairs, the first concrete
case of this nature being the an
nouncement of Dewey Gravely for
i n< ruination in the June primary for
the office of Register of Deeds. Mr.
j Gravely is only years of age, was
I born in East Fork township, but has
jspent most of his life in Brevard. lie
.graduated at the Brevard High
| school, class of '27, and took a com
i co i.i'.'o last year at the Bre
.vard Institute. Mr. Gravely has done
j ? ical wojrk for the B. & B. com
'pany and for the Brevard Banking
.company. His friends claim that he
j > daily qualified for the work as
( register of deeds.
DEMONSTRATION THURSDAY
AND FRIDAY OF FRIGIDAIRE
Announcement is made that a
demonstration of the famous Frigid
aire will be given at Long's Drug
Store this Thursday and Friday. All
people are invited to attend these
demonstrations.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
We plan to put a copy of next
wcoks" Brevard New* in every
home in Transylvania county. It
i". h. ?;ood time to advertise your
business.
WE ARE GOING TO GIVE
A Brand New Automobile
TO SOME ONE
Absolutely Free!
The person who makes the nearest correct estimate of
the population of Transylvania County will be given this
spank-fired, brand new automobile ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Get Your Old Thinking Cap On
And Begin Figuring Right Now
Find out what the census figures were ten years ago,
and figure on the increase from then until now. Get the
total vote of 1928 and figure from that angle.
Know Your County ? Get Your
Children io Working on This
Full particulars will be in next week's Brevard News.
But begin NOW making up your estimate of the number of
people in Transylvania County. SOME ONE will drive this
caraway! Why not YOU? Watch for next week's Bre
vard News for detailed information. Tell your friends.
Tell your kinfolks. Be 011 the alert! Start studying NOW,
and make up your estimate of the number of people living
in Transylvania County.
KIWANIS PROGRAM ;
PLEASING TO CLUB!
Reports on Florida Trip Inter-',
ested the Club Members j
? Good Attendance
Julian Glazener provided half an
hour'3 real inspiration to the Kiwanis ,
club last Thursday, when he had on .
the program C. C. Yongue and Prof. I'
J. F. Corbin, recently returned from 1
Florida, to tell the club of the i
things learned about the growing of ,
celery. (
Prof. Corbin told of his. impres
sions of Florida, not only as con
cerning the celery business, but as 1
a resort section. lie related the 1
manner in which Florida people <
greet and entertain visitors and ;
tourists, and suggested that Brevard (i
enlarge upon its plan of entertain- s
ment and lend more personal effort ji
to its manner of receiving the tour-h
ists. ! i
As to the celery. Prof. Corbin '
stated that he would not go into the
technical side of the question there, <
as there were no celery growers or i
prospective celery growers in the ?
Kiwanis club. He stated that his i
better work would come in teaching ii
the Young Tar Heel Farmers in the 1
Rosman school as to celery growing. |l
Mr. Yongue, in his characteristic j 1
manner, told of the things he had,1
learned on the trip, and expressed the M
opinion that some day celery will be j
one of the main money crops in this ( i
valley. "We are going to take it : i
slowly, however, and we do not ad- i
vise any man to plant a big crop of I
celery until he learns something I
about it.." i
An unusually large number of
members were present at the meet
ing, and it is expected that another
full attendance will be present this
Thursday, when Prof. J. B. Jones is i
in charge of tfce program.
JESS 1GALL0WAY
| MS ENTERED RA$
i Jess A. Galloway, well known i iti
zen, is announcing in today's Bre
vard News for nomination on the
{democratic ticket for the office of
j register of deeds. Mr. Galloway has
?been with the Silversteen companies
! for the past twenty years, most of
which time he has been engaged as
| engineer. He has not before been
.'?i candidate for public office, andj
'lis friends predict that he will have
support throughout the county.
Mr. Galloway lives in Brevard at;
?iresent, having moved here from
j Rosman about a year ago. He mar
ried Miss Deltha Stover, daughter of
Bert. Stover, for many years one of j
he prominent figures of the county, |
being especially popular in the Glou- j
cester section.
NEW PASTOR AT CARR'S
HILL BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. B. N. Rogers, recently se
lected as pastor of Carr's Hill Bap
tist church, preaches every Second
?ind Fourth Sundays, morning and
evening, and the public is invited to
attend these services. Rev. Rogers
's recognized as a stron - preacne:-,
mi! members of the church at Can-'.
Till express gratitude that th"v
vere able to bring him to this
hwch as pa:-tor.
USE JOBLESS MEN i
TO CLEAN UPTOWNj
Associated Charities Paying'
Men for Work They
Are Doing
? Twenty men of Brevard who are |
>ut of jobs have been employed by j'
|ic Associated Charities, and are j
it work cleaning up the town. The -
men work in relays of ten men each, ,
riving all the twenty men work parti
time throunh the week.
This is being done in preference
.0 making outright contributions to
hose who are able to work. Of
;ourse, the widows and the men who
ire ill and unable to work, are be
ne cared for as usual by the As
sociated Charities. The cleaning up
,vork is being done under supervision
>f Chief of Police Freeman, and al
ready the town is beginning to lo:?k
ike "a lady dressed for a fancy ball.
The men who arc working have
expressed appreciation of this man
ner of receiving aid. They prefer to
ivork. They could not find employ
ment, hence their forced appeal to
.he Associated Charities. The work
.hus provided gives them a chance
Lo earn their money instead of b;*- :?
ing forced, under adverse circum
stances, to accept charity from the
rood people of Brevard.
All vacant lots, back lots, anu j
athcr unsightly places are being ;
;leaned up. The plan has been given
much praise by the people of 1 1 1 c
iown, and is recognized as the very !
t?est way to handle a situation such
as developed here.
The Associated Charities is operat- i
ed by an executive board consist- :
ing of the four ministers of the
town, and two laymen from each of
the four churches. The personnel is
us follows:
Jos. S. Silversteen is president,
and Rev. J. W. West, vice chairman.
Iiev. R. L. Alexander is secretary
and disbu'v-ing officer. Other mem
bers are: T. H. Shipman, Fred Mil
ler, William Wallis, Alex Kizer, (
Beverly Trantham, C. M. Douglas,;
J. I. Crawford and C. R. McNeely. j
35SEliSiTfI I
BREVARD ISH NOW:
I
Thirty-five young men and women ,
in the Brevard High school will grad- .
uate "in May, they having already I
recognized as Seniors by having
no conditions against them. Others
will be added to this list as condi
tions are removed, and it is believed
the 1930 class will be an unusually
large one. ?
Following are the nanus of those
now recognized as Seniovs:
Iilanton A rh worth, Anne Bowen.
Carl Bryson, Frances/ Dalton, June
Grogan. Bculah Garofn. Lillie Grav
lev Julius Hinfon, /Eugene Hender
son. Tina Had rick/ Mary Hamilton.
Ada Hedrick. Bcrfha Jean Hampton.
'May Jenkins, Hafrold IOlpatrick, Al
| exander Lance/ Albert Lyday. v>il
? J o s e p h ^ A 1 f /e d Miller Jr., Charles
Morgan. Elizabeth Mills, Edith Mull,
Mary Nicholson, Mark Taylor Orr,
Pauline Powell, Lessie Reid, Glenn
Reid. Garland SledKe, Thomas Hayes
Shipman', Joe Tinsley. Holland Tal
!ley I-aiira Verner, Martha , aughn,
' Aimeta Waters, Gladys Wood.
ADOPT SALES TAX
PLAN AS REMEDY
Determined Fight Being Wag
ed To Kelieve Property
Tax Burden
With expressed determination to
find a remedy for overtaxed prop
erty in North Carolina, citizens from
many counties met in Asheville
Monday night and adopted resolu
tions with far-reaching effects. It
was again the expressed wish of the
hundreds of people, at the meeting
tha tGovernor Gardner cali a special
session of the legislature at an early
date, at which time demanded reme
dies might be enacted into law.
Tlu-ee propositions were advanced:
One for a general sales tax. An
other providing that the state take
over and operate the schools, with
local supervision. The third, that a
commission be appointed to super
vise county and municipal govern
ment with all the rigid inspection
that the state now gives to the
bunking business.
S. R. Radford, of Brevard, was one j
of the speakers, while telegrams
were read at the meeting from other |
Brevard citizens, including Wm. E.
Breese and T. H. Shipman.
Ai .ument was advanced that a
gross sales tax, placed against every
salt nade in all channels of com
merc j, would remove practically all
tax burden from real estate. It
would result, its advocates claimed,
in immediate revival of business and
^reat activity in the real estate
mar ft. Further argument v/as made
that this increased activity and busi
ness revival would bring additional
peoji.3 to the state, people with
money for investment and business.
Sut> ?:-',nt revenue would be rus
.ii, it s pointed out, ar.der th:*
.-?.ales t:.:; plan to enable the state to j
take over the full six months' school j
term, relieving the counties of iin
iincial obligations in support of
schools.
The state, it was said, makes rigid
examination at regular intervals of
all hanks in the state. It was sug
gested that such strict watch be kept
over ali departments of county and
municipal government, charging that
much of the high taxation in the
state today is the result of lax meth
ods in county government.
Governor Gardner has issued a
statement to the effect that it is un
wise to call a special session of the
legislature at this time for the pur
pose of enacting such laws as sug
gested.
On March 31 it is expected that
five hundred men will visit Raleigh,
urging the calling of a special ses- ,
sion. I
That opposition to the proposed j
sales tax rian wil! develop is as
sured. There are many leading men
and women of the state who will op- ,
pose sales tax being placed on tin
necessities of life. There is chance,
it is said by many people, of procur
ing a sales tax law p'aced on lux-1
uries, and it may be that advocates
of the original plan will adopt this
method rather than risk defeat of
the entire plan.
BURNING TiBACCO
BEDS ORDER OF DAK;
Tobacco beds are to be burned at|
an early date on the lands of T. T. j
Loftis. These beds are being sown
for purpose of supplying fifty farm
ers with sufficient plants for setiin;-.
an acre each in tobacco, assurir.,
that there will be at least fifty acre:
of the weed grown in this countj
this year.
Julian Glazener, with his Youn;
Tar Heel Farmers, will burn Im
beds and sow the seed. The Brevavu
Banking company is bearing the e>:- '
pense of raising these plants, and I
they are to be furnished to the I
group of farmers who have made ap- !
plication to the bank for the plants. {
Forty-eight farmers have already i
signed up, and it is expected the oth
ers will soon make application for ,
the plants, which are furnished frc.
to these fifty farmers.
NEW RleiDI 1
being wmmn
Ii. L. Nicholson, postmaster, ha;
received many letters in connection
with the propo I United Stater,
posfoffice building for Brevard, and
much hope is expressed that th? |
plans will materialize. Business in
[the Brevard o!Tice has had rapid
j.Towth, and this town now ? ;n<i
'its best chance to procure a federal
building.
Mr. Nicholson has been \v
on the project for some time, an ? .
while he says nothing for publica
tion about the matter, it is believed
that the postmaster has high hop- s
of success.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO
MEET THIS THURSDAY EVE
Directors and members of the
Chamber ot Commerce are to meet
.this Thursday evening at 7:30
'o'clock, for an '>".portant meetinr
and to take action on proposer
change in T?\ iav- .
SCHOOL BOARD WON
CLEAR VICTORY IN
BUNCOMBE'S CASE
Holds Sc hooL Board To Be Part
of. State Government ?
Independent Body
MAY NOT AFFECT THE
ROW IN THIS COUNTY
{Justice Heriot Clarkson Wrote
Decision In Case for the
Supreme Court
Buncombe county's long expected
[decision in the school row there has
'been handed down by the Supreme
'court, and the school board won a
?sweeping victory. The questions in
volved in the Buncombe case con
cerned the authority of the county
auditor to refuse to honor vouchers
'in payment of purchase made by the
.purchasing agent of the school
board.
I The controversy started last Sep
tember. Commissioners, claiming they
would effect an economy, abolished
the school purchasing agent's office
in resolutions, and ordered the gen
eral county purchasing agent to per
form his duties. The board of edu
cation objected. Finally, in order to
get a court decision on his duties,
H. E. Walter, county auditor, re
fused to sign the purchasing vouch
ers which the school agent, Doc
Roberts, continued to sehti to him.
Then the board of education Jilcd
suit for a writ of mandamus to re
quire Mr. Waiter to sign the vouch
ers. The case was argued before
Judge T. B. Finley in superior court
in October and a decision in favor of
the school board was rendered sev
eral weeks later. The defendant ap
pealed to the supreme court.
The opinion handed down was
written by Associate Justice Clark
son who quoted the consolidated
statutes to show that "it is the duty
of the county board of education t>
provide suitable supplies for its pub- _
lie school buildings," and "it is tin? "
duty of the board of education to
estimate the amount of money necl
ed for the six months term,-' and s.l
so "that it is the duty of the county
commissioners to provide the amount,
necessary.'
Referring to the county govern
ment. act of 1927, on which the de
fendant had based his case, Justice
Clarkson stated that there is noth
ing said in the act about the public
school system. Had it been the in
tent of legislators to include the
school systems, it would have been
mentioned, he said
In his judgment, Judge Finley
ruled that the board of education
was created as a pstrt of the state ed
ucational system and was- subordi
nate to the state department of edu
cation but not to tie board o? county
commissioners.
It is not known what effect file
decision in the Buncombe case Will
have on the long fight between the
school board in T;:ansylvania county
and the board of county eommy
,-ioners. None of the interested
parties in the local case would mak ?
comment on it, n.o-t of them beir. r
out of town at the time the decisio i
was handed down, and giving as
their reason the fact that they had
not had time to give the decision
close study.
It is said there ere different angles
to the Transylvania case, and some
questions at issue locally which were
not embraced in the Buncombe case.
Those close to the leaders of both
sides say, however, that there is
every indication that the_ appeal
started in the- Transylvania case
will go on to the Supreme court on
its own merits.
FISHER PUSHING
JETTIES MATTER
Now !n Wash:ngion ? Lnglish
Has Done Much Work
for Project
R. R. Fisher, county alt >ruey, and
Judge W. C. Meekins, county at
torney in Henderson county, are in
Washington in connection with get
ting the United States government
to remove the jetties from the
French Broad river. Congressman
George M. Pritchard is ier.ding aid
in the matter, and it is believed that
engineers will soon be sent here to
make survey of the work.
This movement was started several
weeks ago, and the county commis
sioners authorized Mr. Fisher to tak ?
the matter up with Washington, and
go to the Capitol in an effort to have
| this work done. It is beli. ved that
removal of the jetties will mean
thousands of dollars to Trans.vlcania
county in averting overflow of the
French Broad river.
T. A. English, master farmer of
Transylvania county, has done much
work- in bringing this matter to a
final conclusion. Mr. English cir
culated petitions which were signed
by practically all the citizens of the
county, asking the government to re
move these jetties and make other
improvements in the river bed.
Messrs. Fisher and Meekins are mt
?< <*d to return to horat? at
c end of the week.