THE BREVARD NEWS . , ' . - ? -? ? ... 1 ? ' ' >?>* VOLUME XXXVII BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 14, 1932. Number 23 FISHER HELD UNDER $20,000 BOND TO THE WINER COURT TERM PRIVILEGE TAX IS ! ADOPTED BY TOWN i COUNCIL FOR YEAR I f Preliminary Hearing Held In Court of Magistrate H. E. Erwin Monday. CHARGED WITH MURDER OF WILLIAM J. FISHER Thomas Girls Appeared As Witnesses in Case ? Tiag- j edy Occurred 10 Days Ago i Clifford Fisher was bound to the j December term cf Superior court here ; Monday morning by Justice of the! Peace, H. E. Erwin who heard thcj preliminary evidence charging him with the murder of Will J. Fisher. I Fisher was confined in the county J jail upon failure to make the $20,- j 000 bond required by Justice Erwin. ! T. Coleman Galloway and W. E. j Breese appeared for the state while j Lewis P. Hamlin was the defense i counsel. Clifford Fisher charged with at-; tacking Will J. Fisher Sunday even- ? ing July 3 and mortally wounding; him so that he died early Tuesday [ morning July 5 as a result of the! wounds inflicted by his relative is the J son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fisher of i Reids Siding and is 22 years of age. ] Edwin Owen, star witness for the ? state testified little evidence other' than that revealed in the coroner's | inquest held Tuesday July 5. The wit- j noss declared that as he was passing i the home of Ben Thomas, where the I tragedy occurred, about seven o'clock ; Sunday evening on the way to church ? accompanied by Misses Nettie and; Ruth Thomas he heard the commo-j tion at the house and paused in the : road approximately 25 yards from the | scene. He testified that he saw Will I Fisher stumble from the door after j a shove or blow delivered by Clifford j Fished and fall on his hands and ; knees at the foot of the steps. The j witness stated that Will Fisher start-! ed around the house and was follow-; ed by Clifford Fisher who knocked j him down with a blunt instrument i that appeared to the witness to be j either of wood or iron. He said that; Clifford picked his victim up from j the ground and knocked him down a j second time by a blow with the in- j strument in the side of the head. The : witness further declared that Clif- ? ford hit Will three times with the j ( Continued on back page) Tax Placed Against All Pro i fessions, Trades, And Busi ness In The Town. MODERATE CHARGE MADE AS SCHEDULE REVEALS j 1 All People Warned To See To It That Privilege Tax Is Promptly Paid. Brevard's privilege tax schedule j was adopted Friday evening, July 8, | for the new fiscal year by the mayor and board of aldermen, who then planned for regular auditing of the town's books, and voted an appropria tion of S1200 to the general fund for the expenses of the town government, its activities and institutions for the month of July, or as much of said sum as may be needed. The following special privilege tax rates were appointed covering all trades, professions and businesses within the corporate limits of the town Moving pictures or electric theatres, cafes and restaurants, ped dlers, meat markets, fish and oyster dealers, patented articles, dogs, drayj workers, steam fitters and plumbers, i undertaking establishments, book. I map and magazine agents, barber j shops, shoe shine stands, ice dealers, I peanut and popcorn machines, press- 1 ing clubs, cleaning plants and tailor- ! ing establishments, steam laundries, , laundry agents, and automobiles or, other machines kept for hire for; public service. Taxes were also levied i on bill posters, jewelry and optical j merchants at public auction, express j companys, oriental goods, cigarette, cigar and tobacco dealers, gasoline aryl oil agents, coal dealers, fruit and vegetable peddler, service sta-( tions, garages, electrical workers, radio dealers, piano dealers, telegraph companies, beauty parlors, soft drink stands, pool and billiard tables. bowling alleys, person operating two or more stores in town, fortune tell- 1 ers, industrial banks, soda fountains,! hotels and boarding house on both j European and American plan, and | miniature pool tables and games of j like nature. ! No license shall be issued for thej carrying on or conducting any of the | trades or business specified in the proceeding sections for less than 12 ( Continued on back page) DR. JOS. E. OSBORNE MOVES TO ROSMAN Dr. Jos. E. Osborne of Shelby, for, the past three years a practicing i physician and surgeon in Grady hos-| pital, Atlanta, has arrived in Trail-' sylvania county to locate his practice i at Rosman. according to a recent an- ! nouncement. Dr. Osborne is a graduate in den- ! tistry from the Southern Dental Col-, lege in Atlanta and a graduate in , science and medicine from Wake For-j est College, he having practiced den- 1 tistry six years prior to taking up I the study of medicine. Dr. Osborne is; also a graduate from the Medical Col- i lege of Virginia and he was the resi-j dent Dentist and Practicing Physician for North Carolina State prison for several years, being connected with the N. C. State Board of Health at one time doing specialized clinic , work. Dr. Osborne has a splendid ex service record for work during the world war. Dr. Osborne carries on the name of prominent family of physicians, his grandfather, the late Dr. Jas. E. Osborne and his father, Dr. Jas. R. Osborne, both of Cleveland county having been prominent figures in the medical, surgical and dental fields before him. He is a brother of Mrs. Madge Os borne Wilkins who is connected with the Nobby Shop here and he has a wido circle of friends in Bfevard where he has often visited. B. L STUDENTS TO , BANQUET FRIDAY A large number are expected to attend a banquet to be given Friday night, July 15, at 7:S0 at the West Asheville Methodist church in honor of present and former students and ' faculty members of the Brevard In stitute, of Brevard, N. C. The get-together will be the first i of its kind held and the banquet is hoped to be made an annual affair. J Principal speaker for the affair will be Dr. C. H. Trowbridge, pres-jl ident of Weaver College, who was J superintendent at The Brevard In-' stitute from 1907 to 1928. ! Those desiring to purchase tickets I for the banquet or desiring further] information regarding the occasion ! are requested to get in touch with ! Mrs. John Gatlin, Mrs. J. R. Hamlin,! or Mrs. Henry Crowell of Asheville. I The Brevard Institute, which start- J ed as a private institution in 1895; by Rev. Fitch and Mrs. Taylor, now ; has an enrollment of more than 100 students. Thirty two students grad uated from the Institute this year. The Brevard Institute is operated by the women's missionary societies of j Methodist Episcopal Church of the [two Carolinas and Georgia. ! CARR NAMED SECRETARY | i F. Brown Carr, Pisgah Forest mer- 1 I chant, has been named secretary of | Dunn's Rock Masonic Lodge, Pasture and Feed Production Is Basis! Of "Real Profitable Livestock Industry! BY J. F. CORBIN The basis of all permanent prof itable live stock industry is pasture and feed production. Pastures should be started and feed grown before we get very much stock on hand. The next two months should be a very busy time with farmers sowing pas ture grass and hay mixtures. Perhaps j the grasses and glovers for pastures i should be sown in next 30 days and i the mixtures of small grain and vetch, Austrian peas, etc. sown a lit tle later or about September. Pastures are of two kinds: Tem porary pastures are composed of mix ture of small grains together with clovers or vetch. Permanent pastures are more important and a mixture of the following grasses and clovers are generally ured: red top grass, or char;l grass, blue grass, alsike and white clover, and lespedeza sown on! this the following spring. Lime and} superphosphate are just as essential as the seed. When it comes to hay production I know of no better way than to sow a mixture of small grain and clovers together. I call this my "Hay special". Select a rich piece of land, generally this years potato land if dug in Aug. Broadcast in manure, cut with disc harrow, and drill the following seeds per acre: 1-2 bu. wheat, 1-2 bu. bar ley, 1-2 bu. ryej 10 lbs. vetch, and 15 lbs. Austrian peas. No, I did not make a mistake about sowing this per acre. If the above is done right and has good luck it will likely make as much high quality hay as a pair of horses will eat in one year. The mixture should be sown about first 15 days of September. Breaking Faith With the Schools of State to Keep Faith With N. Y. Banks (By Tom Bost In The Greensboro News) Raleigh, July 12 ? Proposed salary slashes, rated the most popular of ficial pastime in Raleigh, appeared today to be at least doubtful enough among the rulers to make them give car to school leaders all over North Carolina and they will be. here to morrow to present the other sides to the advisory budget commission and the council of state. Must Balance Budget The solemn session today, precipi tated by a recently published letter of State Treasurer John P. Stedman, considered the suggestions of Mr. Stedman that the state cut $7, 000,000 from its $50,000,000 appropriations and "balance the budget." To get this perfect financial Fairbanks it is nec essary to cut heavily and illegally in to the teachers' salaries, into ali states employes' salaries and wages, then into the appropriations. This i paring has gone along steadily for three years. The 1931 appropriations have been reduced to 70 per cent. And the reduction now proposed takes the total down to 60 per cent. So far, so bad. The public has not cared deeply about it. It is quite con ccivable that the populace can look without weeping upon larger salary I and appropriations cuts. But not un til the current conference of the fi nanciers has the real reason been dis closed. These slashes are not made in behalf of the terribly over-taxed people but in the interest of North Carolina's unimpaired credit. The heavy cuts are to be ordered to make possible "curtailment" of state ob ligations and to retire the state's ob ligations in the usual way. Cut For Tcachcrx Illegal The teachers in the state are pro tected by statute from this attack on ( Continued on page four) CITIZENS WANT TOWN AND COUNTY TO TAKE BONDS IN PAYMENT On Back Taxes, Street Assess ments And Other Pub lic Obligations. EXCEPTING, OF COURSE, PAYMENT CURRENT TAXES Pointed Out That Bonding Company Paid Buncombe With Its Bonds. Many citizens of Brevard and Transylvania county continue discus sion of the question of paying off back taxes, street assessments and other public obligations of private citizens with county and town bonds. It is pointed out that such course is being followed in other towns, cities and counties in the state, and there is a very marked sentiment in this county and the town of Brevard for such payment plan. Announcement that Buncombe county accepted Buncombe county bonds at par from an insurance com pany in payment of the bonds of L. L. .Jenkins, former county treasurer of Buncombe, has caused the question to be renewed here with emphasis, j Buncombe county obtained judgment' against the bonding company that' covered former County Treasurer . Jenkins, and now that Buncombe county accepted its own bonds at par, when they are selling at much less than fifty cents on the dollar, is basis for the oft-repeated question here of ( Continued on Back Page) HIGHWAY 284 AND 28 i NOW DESIGNATED AS| 'FEDERAL HIGHWAYS! Original Federal System Start- 1 ? ed Eleven Years Ago Now Completed. ! BEING FEDERAL SYSTEM i HAS MANY ADVANTAGES j Another Step Toward Com- 1 pletion Of 884 Through Pisgah Forest. ! After eleven years of intensive! I road building in North Carolina, the; original Federal system of highways | adopted in 1921 have been completed j ! in the state, and all Federal high- i ways designated. Of particular inter- j est to Brevard and Transylvania' I county is the inclusion in the Fed- 1 | oral Highway System of 284 and 28, j j two of this county's main lines, i Highway 284 will be known, from j j Travelers Rest in South Carolina, to I Brevard, North Carolina, as Federal I Route No. 276. Federal signs have Jbeen requisitioned and will be placed j on these highways at once. Placement I of 284 in the Federal Highway sys j torn, with signs at Travelers Rest j giving this information, will bring ' 'many travelers from the South into) Jrevard. It is known that tourists fol- * low Federal routes almost entirely j during recent years, hence the im- 1 portance to this section of the desig- j ^nation of 28 and 284 as Federa' Routes. No. 28 will be known as Federal ( Continued on Back Page) COUNTY SCHOOLS TO : START WORK AUG. 29 VOCATIONAL WORK | TO BE CONTINUED Transylvania county schools will open Monday morning August 29 for the regular 1932-t33 school term, ac cording to recent decision of the coun ty board of education with Prof. J. B. Jones again head of the Brevard High School and T. C. Henderson re placing Prof. G. C. Bush at Rosman high school. Only a few minor changes will be made in the regular school schedules announced Prof. J. B. Jones city county superintendent in regard to the school year. CIVILCOURTTERM JURORS ARE DRAWN Transylvania county July-August term of Superior court will open Mon day August 1 for the Civil session with Judge Walter E. Moore of Sylva, presiding. Despite the fact that the docket has not been completed it has been esti mated that more than 250 cases will be scheduled for trial, according to Otto Alexander, clerk of Superior court. Jurors for July-August term of court First week: M. E. Shipman, Cole Lee, Homer Orr, W. E. Head, F. E. Landreth, John S. Patton, Hettry Mc Cail, Clyde Case, C. A. Mull, A. C. Landreth, J. F. Corbin, V. C. Orr, T. D. Grimshawe, W. B. Daniels, W. A. Allison, V. B. Scruggs, W. M. Hin kle. and A. J. Beddingfield. Second week: C. C. Reece, E. 0. Shipman, P. W. Jenks, D. H. Win chester, Virgil McCrary, P. A. Mor gan, Anthony Trantham, W. W. Pru ?>tt, G. H. Paxton, G. T. Frady, R. E. Johnson, Branch Tinsley, B. A. Hogsed, George Beddingfield, R. E. l!:?Vov. F D. Jones, S. W. Radford and A. J. Lee. Transylvania county's school bud get which was presented by the coun ty board of education to the board of commissioners at their last meeting included an allotment ol funds for the vocational agriculture teachers in i the Brevard Rosman school districts. I Prof. Julian A. Glazener and Prof, i John F. Corbin who have been car ! rying on such splendid work in the j county will continue their work at their respective schools and sections of the county the budget shows. GREATLY LOVED BOY DIED HERE MONDAY! Funeral services for little Billy ! Owen six year old son of Mrs. Ethel ] Barnette Owen and A. B. Owen who died at the Lyday Memorial Hospital Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock fol lowing an operation for appendicitis ? which he underwent Thursday July 1 7 were held at the Baptist church ! Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock with jRev. Paul Hartsell and Rev. R. L. i Alexander in charge. Interment fol lowed at the Gillespie Cemetery. Pallbearers were: George Brom field, Harry Clayton, Glenn Burrell and Lee Arledge. Flower girls were: Misses Chris tine Saltz, Winifred Nicholson. Louise Gillespie, Rebecca Summey, Nell Gil lespie and Mrs. Elaine Kilpatrick. ! Funeral arrangements were in charge of the Kilpatrick and Sons Funeral Home. KIWANIS TO MEET | Regular meeting of the Brevard ? ICiwanis club at noon, today, with S. [ B. Howard in charge of the program, i Ml members and visiting Kiwani? 'rrged to attend. BOOTLEGGERS SAID TO BE MULTIPLYING RAPIDLY IN CANADA BOB REYNOLDS GOT | BIGGEST VOTE EVER I POLLED IN PRIMARY Government Liquor Control In Canada Has Created Reg ular Bootlegger's Paradise NEWSPAPERS^ AND COURT OFFICIALS EXPRESS ALARM Each Hotel Has An Average of 100 Blind Pigs ? Pros titution Also. Hear the verdict of Attorney-Gen era! Craig of Manitoba: "Retail bootlegging has increased, due to the removal of the first main difficulty of anyone proposing to deal illicitly with liquor, namely, the ob taining of supplies, a condition in tensified by the fact that in addition to all former avenues of supply, such unlawful trafficker can now lawfully purchase liquor (from the govern ment) which he intends for resale, particularly in districts where ob taining liquor previously was always difficult and frequently impossible." The Vancouver, British Columbia, W rid says that liquor "control" 11'- re has created a "bootleggers' priadise:" "Has not the time arrived to put a:, end to the unenviable position which F i Irish Columbia has achieved i headquarters of the bootlegpinx v.. iness? Rum-runners, gunmen, thugs and all of the parasites who ihrive in the mission of the uiiui-; wr.rld of the Pacific Coast are foster ed by the policy now in fore? . . . " The Vancouver Sun, in the issu v" October 3, 1927, said: "The open operation of bootleg ging joints in this city is a disgrace to Vancouver. There are bootlegg.'i-= here so confident that they will <!?? liver liquor to an unfamiliar addr?sc on a telephone order from any un known person. They will openly car ry bottles of liquor across the street in broad daylight to waiting auto mobiles .... Vancouver at the pres ent time is a bootleggers' haven." The Mayor of Winnipeg, Mr. R. H. Webb, has declared that: "For every hotel there is in the city, there are 100 blind pigs whero hard liquor is sold by the drink." Judge Stubbs, of the County Court of the same city said: "In some sections of Winnipeg, bootleggers are as thick as fleas on a dog's back." Judge Coderre, of the Supreme, Court of Quebec, in and official Re port upon conditions in that city, said: "The proof reveals that in defi ance to the bylaws, certain of these establishments (cafes) and naturally the least recommendable, remain (Contimied oil page five ) I Official Count Gives Asheville Man 107,463 Majority Over Morrison. I EHRINGHAUS. MAJORITY IS SURPRISINGLY LOW Fight Dec'ared! To Have Been Hardest Political Contest la History. Raleigh, July 14 ? John Christopher Bluchc-r Ehringhiius was declared the Democratic nominee for Gover nor, Robert Rice Reynolds for Urjitwi States Senator, and Arthur L. Fletcher for Commissioner of Labor by the State Board of Election?, ia session for that purpose here. The official vol; for the secoai primary, July 2, for Senate follow*; Short Term Reynolds 227,854 Morrison 120.423 j Key. Majority 107,46} i Total votes 348.232 Long Term J Reynolds 221,8(3 | Morri-on 116.012 ! Rcy. Majority 105.857 "Total votes 337.381 Governor i Ehringhaus 182,055 ; Fountain 168.917 Ehr. majority 13,i:j& Total votes 350,972 Commissioner of Labor Fletcher 134.203 Mitchell 114,072 Flet. majority 70,1 :!1 Total votes 298.275 These figures tell the story of two of the hardest State-wide intra-par'.y simultaneous fights in the history >f I politics in North Carolina. They show | that Reynolds won over Cann-i-n 'Morrison by the largest vote mer least in a Democratic primary, wh'rh 'vote surprised even the most hopeful i Reynolds followers. Reynolds himself, jin his nw?t sanguine moments, would | not have claimed half the 107,46" ma jority he received. They al.-o show I that Richard T. Fountain came up | from under a 47,000 lead in the first i primary to within 13,000 of Ehring hnus, also a surprise. A majority for Major Fletcher over Clarence E. Mitchell was expected, the extent un certain. The total vote for Governor fell about 41,000 behind the nearly >90, 000 cast in the first primary. held up better than was expected But the hatchet has been buried and the winners and losers have es ( Continued on back page) MRS. SMITH TELLS l INQUIRIES COMING - i "I receive an unusually largj] number of inquiries conceding Bre vard and Transylvania county every day," said Mrs. John Smith who has charge of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce at the U. D. C. Library in a recent interview with the Brevard News. "Raraly a days has passed during the past few weeks," she said, "that I have not placed one or more fami lies in a boarding house or summer home for either a visit of several weeks or more." Mrs. Smith has announced that she will release her month's report next week and it is expected to reveal a goodly number of tourists from dis tant points who have retreated to Brevard during the heat waves. Mrs. Smith has had considerable experience in this type of work and under her able direction and super vision the Chamber of Commerce in formation department is proving dis tinctly valuable to large numbers of< tourists and transients. ? ' ? ? ? *' TWO MEET DEATH IN ! MOTORCYCLE WRECK Louie Moon, 22 of Columbia, S. C. was instantly killed and Tom Grum ble of Greenville, S. C. was fatally injured at 11 o'clock Sunday morn ing 12 miles south of Brevard on the Brevard-Greenville highway when the motorcycle in which they were riding crashed headlong into an auto mobile. The motorcycle crashed into an automobile driven by D. D. Harm of Greenville as they were rounding a sharp curve. The motorcycle was driven by Moon and Grumble was riding as a passenger on the rear of the machine. Harris who is a summer resident of Cedar Mountain was not injured. The motorcycle ran under the auto mobile and both vehicles caught fire and were badly burned. Grumbles was rushed to a Green ville hospital where he later died ftom a fractured skull. A coroner's jury Sunday afternoo* absolved Harm of any blame in con nection with the accident. Baptist Bible School Children to Open Annual Vacation Event with a Parade Friday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, July 15th, is the date set for regis tration of children who expect to at tend the Daily Vacation Bible School at the Baptist church. The first les sons in handwork will probably be given immediately after the registra tion. At 4:00 o'clock a parade through the business section will be partici pated in by the children. If automo biles are available the children will ride in automobiles during the parade. Since the last announcements in this paper many inquiries have been received asking if children of other denominations than Baptist may at tend the school. The principal, Rev. Mack Grogan, announces that the -chool is for all boys and girls be tween the ages of 7 and 17 regardless ?f denomination. Visiting children who expect to be in Brevard during I the two weeks of the school are als? given the same invitation. "Plans are being made to take care of every boy and gir! in Brevard who comes," an nounces the principal, The school i3 absolutely free to all children. An offering will be taken on the night of the commencement program when all parents and friends interested in the school may contri bute what they wish to help defray the expenses. About one hundred boys and girls who hove already said they were com ing to the school have been asked t? fcrinj anything they can find about their homes which can be used for making small toys, doll furniture, small book shelves and other useful articles. The boys were asked to brine (Continued on page five )

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