Vol. 54; No. 38
The Transylvania Times
Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 21, 1944
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
WILL CONDUCT WAR FUND DRIVE
Commerce Directors Adopt County Postwar Plans
PUBLIC IS URGED
TO COOPERATE;
REPORTS GIVEN
Airport Committee Author
ized To Option Site And
Have A Survey Made
ZONING IS FAVORED
The extensive postwar planning
program for Brevard and Transyl
vania county, as proposed by the
county’s committee for economic
development and the Brevard
chamber of commerce postwar
planning committee, was unani
mously adopted at the September
meeting of the chamber of com
merce directors held here in the
city hall.
The program included a set of
goals for the town and county and
surveys to determine consumer
needs and postwar employment
estimates.
The recommendations of the
committee were also adopted, re
questing that civic organizations
assist in making the surveys and
asking them to adopt one or more
of the postwar goals as their pro
jects.
Airport Plans Are Made
The chamber of commerce air
port committee, of which Raymond
Bennett is chairman, reported that
propress is being made in the
selectici. of a proposed site for a
municipal airport.
Several sites are under consid
eration, one of which is located
on the Greenville highway near
the city limits. The committee was
authorized to have a survey made
of proposed sites and to obtain
options. A motion was also passed,
authorizing the committee to send
representatives to Washington to
confer with federal and airline of
ficials.
Zoning Proposal Favored
Jerry Jerome reported that his
committee recently met with the
town board of Aldermen and dis
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FOUR BOUNDPVER
ON THEFT CHARGE
Local Young Men Charged
With Stealing Cigarettes
Out Of A Box Car
Four Brevard and Transylvania
county young men were bound
over to superior court in a hear
ing before Justice Fred Shuford
last Saturday morning on charges
of entering a box car, stealing and
offering for sale cigarettes and
other smoking tobacco.
The four are Bill Volrath. of
Cherryfield; Bill Parker, Route 2,
Brevard: Leon Mason, Brevard,
and Bill Jones, Gloucester. The
young men were arrested last Fri
day by local officers and bonds
were fixed at $400 each.
Officers said that a railroad box
car at the Brevard depot was en
tered last Wednesday night and a
quantity of cigarettes stolen. They
said their investigation disclosed
that these men had 26 cartons
of cigarettes and one case of Bull
Durham in their possession. Of
this quantity, 17 cartons were
recovered.
Three Men Bound
Over On Charges Of
Damaging A Church
Duren Morgan, Hall Fisher and
Austin Waldrop, of the Eastatoe
township, were bound over to
superior court in a hearing here
Monday before Justice Fred Shu
ford on charges of entering the
Old Toxaway Baptist church re
cently, breaking up lamps and
knocking out windows in the
church.
Morgan pled guilty to the
charges and his bond was fixed
at $500. The other two men said
they were not guilty, but admitted
having a flat tire near the church
at the time of the damage. Their
bonds were each set at $100.
Postwar Consumer Needs Survey
Now Being Conducted In Town
& County By Civic Organizations
Aged Man Dies Here
GEORGE E. PHILIPS, 83, who
died in Brevard last week. Of
German birth, he returned to
that country in 1936 after being
a resident of Brevard nearly 35
years, but was forced to return
to America by Hitler authorities
at the beginning of the Euro
pean war. Broken in health then
and nearly blind, he was cared
for here by kind friends for
nearly six years until his death.
FACTORS SHAPING
ECONOMIC FUTURE
THEME OF SPEECH
John Paul Lucas, Duke Pow
er Co. Executive, Heard
By Local Kiwanians
Some factors bearing on the
economic future of the piedmont
and mountain areas of the Caro
linas were outlined before the
local Kiwanis club by John Paul
Lucas. Jr., executive of the Duke
Power Co., Charlotte, at the reg
ular meeting of the club at the
Bryant house last Friday evening.
Mr. Lucas was introduced by J. M.
Gaines, local manager of the Duke
Power company. F. S. Best was in
charge of the program.
The trend toward family-sized
farms, many of them operated by
returning veterans; the advantages
afforded by more extensive rurai
electrificiation by both public and
private agencies; the opportunities
for a considerable animal and ani
mal products industry; and an
atmosphere that encourages eco
nomic growth and industrial de
velopment were among the con
siderations taken into account by
Mr. Lucas.
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Kiwanis, Lions and Profes
sional And Civic Clubs
Are At Work
A postwar consumer needs sur
vey is now being conducted in
Brevard by the members of the
Kiwanis club, Lions club. Business
and Professional Women’s club
and Women’s Civic club under the
sponsorship of the Brevard cham
ber of commerce.
The town has been divided into
five zones and each one of these
organizations has voluntarily taken
one of the zones.
A similar survey will be con
ducted in the county by community
farm and home demonstration club
leaders under the guidance of J
A. Glazener and Miss Annabel
Teague.
The purpose of this survey is
to determine approximately how
many homes, barns and business
houses will be constructed in the
town and county after the war
and the estimated cost of this con
struction; how much repair work
is being planned; how many new
automobiles, electric refrigerators,
radios, washing machines, house
furnishings, farm machinery, heads
of cattle, etc. will be needed.
The survey will also undertake
to find out what method of pay
ment will be used in making these
purchases.
‘We are not interested in know
ing who wishes to buy what, but
how much and how many will be
needed in our county so that plans
can be made to supply this de
mand.” Ed M. Anderson, chairman
of the chamber of commerce post
war planning committee, stated.
‘This is a splendid service that
the various civic and farm organi
zations are rendering and I wish
to highly commend them,” F. S.
Best, chairman of the county com
mittee for economic development,
said.
The urban survey is expected
to be completed this week and the
farm leaders are being urged to
make their survey as soon as pos
sible.
Scouts To Collect
Waste Paper Here
Sunday Afternoon
The Brevard Boy Scouts will
hold their last town-wide collec
tion drive this Sunday afternoon
and everyone is urged to co-op
erate.
“Please nave paper tied in
bundles and put on the front
porch or next to the curb and it
will be picked up by the Scouts,”
Ray King requested.
A total of 12,000 pounds of pa
per have been collected by the
Scouts during the current drive.
Special thanks are extended to
Messrs. Abercrombie and Turner
for the use of their trucks.
School Attendance Law To Be Enforced
Mrs. Patton Tells Teachers At Meeting
Full enforcement this year in
Transylvania county of the North
Carolina school attendance law,
which requires that every child
between the ages of 7 and 14
must attend public school, was
urged by Mrs. C. Y. Patton truant
officer, at a county-wide meeting
of the principals and teachers
here last Thursday morning.
Mrs. Patton said the principals
should assume, according to the
law, responsibility for aiding in
the enforcement of the act. “You
should send in to me the names
and addresses of children and
parents who are not complying
with the law,” she stated.
County Nurse Talks
The Transylvania county health
department’s school program this
year will be about the same as in
the past, Mrs. Paul Lollis, county
nurse, told the teachers and prin
cipals.
“Our main purpose is to pre
vent diseases through the immuni
zation program and examinations
to find defects so that they can
be corrected,” she said.
“It is also our aim to have the
children ready before they start
to school.
“This year we hope to examine
every school child for tubercu
losis and of course the important
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Ecusta Square Dance Team To Enter Folk Festival
Meet the members of the 1944 Eeusta square dance team. Reading from left to right, first row,
Louise Dishman, Sue Allen, Dot Hamilton, Callie Talley, Di Vola Cogdil, Margaret Collins, Hazel
Arrowwood and Dot Rogers; second row—Walter (Red) Wood, caller, Karl Kilpatrick, Clyde Gal
loway. Lloyd McGaha, Waverly Morris, Chris Rogers, Alfred Shook and Marvin Simpson. The string
band will also compete in the festival. Both groups won last year.
COLLEGE OPENED
WITH A CAPACITY
ENROLLMENT
Classes Started This Morn
ing. Nearly 300 Boys and
Girls In School.
Brevard college opened its 11th
year this week with a capacity en
rollment of between 275 to 300,
Dr. E. J. Coltrane announced to
day.
Over 250 have already enrolled
and registration \yill be continued
throughout the day. Approximate
ly 200 have registered in the junior
college division and around 50 in
the pre-college unit.
For the first time in several
years, a few students were turned
away this week. Space in all dor
mitories is filled and this includes
Ross Hall that is being used for
boys.
The student body will be com
posed of between 225 and 250
girls and over 50 boys. These stu
dents come from a large number
of southern and northern states.
Classes will start this morning
at 8:45 o’clock.
In addition to the regular courses
that prepare students for AB and
BS degrees, Brevard college is
offering courses in agriculture,
business, home economics, art and
music.
The institution’s faculty is com
posed of 28 members this year.
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3000 ENROLL IN
COUNTY SCHOOLS
Schools Opened Monday
With Good Attendance.
Announce Teachers
All Brevard and Transylvania
county schools opened last Monday
for the new 1944-’45 school year,
with a total approximate enroll
ment of 3,000 in all of the schools,
it is announced by Supt. J. B.
Jones.
The exact enrollment figures in
all of the schools of the county
were not available in time for pub
lication this week, but it is thought
that the total enrollment will
slightly exceed that of last year,
although a number of high school
boys have entered service and
several are enrolled in the Bre
vard college pre-college division.
The two high schools at Brevard
and Rosman have a total enroll
ment of 575, Mr. Jones stated, and
around 2,500 elementary students,
it is believed, are enrolled in all
of the elementary schools.
The Brevard high school has an
enrollment of 425; Rosman high
school around 150; Brevard ele
mentary, 735; Rosman elementary,
around 475; Pisgah Forest elemen
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Hitler Assumes Full Command Of
His Forces As Allies Continue
Big Drive Against Siegfried Line
FIRE CHIEF JOHN
SMITH ISSUES A
TIMELY CAUTION
Urges Home Owners, Mer
chants And Industrial
Firms Check Flues
John W. Smith, chief of the
Brevard Fire department, today
issued an urgent request to owners
of all homes, business houses and
industrial plants to clean out their
furnace smoke pipes, stove flues
and pipes before starting fires.
“An ounce of prevention is
worth pounds of cure and I urge
all property owners and other
citizens to co-operate in the pre
vention of fires in Brevard and
Transylvania county,” Chief Smith
declared.
It is also important that the
roofs and guttering be checked,
he said.
“Most fires can be prevented if
proper attention is given in ad
vance. We have made another fine
fire record here in Brevard and
I hope we can continue to have
such a good record.”
National Fire Prevention week
will be observed the week of Oc
tober 8-14, Chief Smith said.
Among other things, members
of the fire department will be
honored guests at a joint banquet
of the Brevard Kiwanis and Lions
clubs to be held on Thursday,
October 12.
Charles L. Burkett, chief of the
Salisbury Fire department, will be
the principal speaker.
Airborne Invasion Is Making
Success. All Forces Are
Showing Gains.
Bright prospects for an early
end of the European war were
strongly indicated in late commun
iques on Wednesday, which told of
Hitler having assumed full com
mand of all his operational forces
in the European theatre. This
announcement followed by only
a few days further encouraging
war bulletins of last Sunday, tell
ing of General Eisenhower’s huge
airborne invasion of Southern
Holland in a daring and success
ful allied attempt to cross the
Siegfried line.
In this the first entirely air
borne operation in military history,
1,000 transport and glider loads of
American, British and Polish
paratroopers were dropped safely
to within only about six miles
from the German frontier, meet
ing the British second army troops
which had broken across the Dutch
frontier south of the landings in
a perfectly timed allied offensive.
Wednesday’s bulletins reported
that the British troops, racing to
flank the northern end of the Sieg
fried line, have completed a new
junction with alliecl airborne
troops in Holland and are now
fighting on the banks of the Waal
Rhine, linking the paratroopers
solidly with the advancing British
forces.
On the eastern battle fronts, re
ports yesterday stated that the
Red army had driven to within
six miles of the Latvian capital of
Riga in the fourth day of the
Russian offensive that has cap
tured nearly 3,000 towns and aims
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Farm Needs In Transylvania County
Contained In Survey Made By F.S.A.
A survey made by county super
visors of the Farm Security ad
ministration of the past three
months’ accomplishments of the
low income farm families in Tran
sylvania county and their needs
for 1945 shows that of the 1,010
farms in this county 499 of them
consist of less than 30 acres and
that the average farm has only
7.5 acres of tillable land. This
survey was made by FSA super
visor, James E Fletcher, and home
supervisor, Mary E. Johnston, of
the Transylvania county FSA staff.
For the entire county the survey
shows that the average farm con
sists of 59.8 acres, and out of 150
families picked at random, 86 have
good land, 46 fair, and 18 poor.
The survey further reveals that
of the 1,010 farms ^n Transylvania
county, 450 need improved sani
tary conditions, 700 need new or
repaired screens and repairs to
houses.
Plans are now being made by
the farm and home supervisors to
give during September, October
and November to the 49 low in
come families definite assistance
in working out a plan that will
enable them to have sufficient
milk, meat, eggs and adequate
vegetables for fresh and canned
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FUND AND CHEST
COUNTY QUOTA
TOTALS $12,800
Executive Committee Ap
pointed And Will Meet
Next Monday Here
DETAILS ARE GIVEN
Plans are now being made to
launch a 10-day drive in Brevard
and Transylvania county on Tues
day, October 9, to secure contribu
tions to the united war fund for
the 19 war-related agencies com
prising the National War Fund
and for the county community
chest, J. S. Silversteen, chairman
of the community war fund, an
nounced today.
The county’s war fund quota is
$10,300.00 and the community
chest quota is $2,500.00, making
a total of $12,800.0C.
Appointed on the county s war
fund executive committee are Jer
ry Jerome and C. M. Douglas,
solicitor training directors; George
Wheeler, treasurer; Ed M. Ander
son, publicity director; Gip Mills,
colored chairman; Ralph Ramsey,
F. S. Best, J. B. Jones and Herbert
Schain. A meeting of this commit
tee will be held next Monday.
Mr. Silversteen, member of the
executive committee and others
from this county are planning to
attend a luncheon meeting of the
United War Fund of North Caro
lina in Asheville Friday at 12:30,
at which time Mrs. Mark Clark,
wife of the general commanding
the victorious American First
Army and W. W. Bell, senior sec
retary for war prisoners aid work
in India, will speak.
The beneficiaries of the united
war funds are the armed forces,
prisoners of war, merchant marine
seamen and the war victims of
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HAROLD VANNAH
MAKES BIG RAID
Brevard Flight Officer Helps
Destroy Three Warships
In Toulon Harbor
AT A 12TH AIR BASE ON
CORSICA — In what has been
described as one of the most de
structive attacks ever carried out
by a single group of medium bomb
ers, the B-25 Mitchell group to
which Flight Officer Harold P.
Vannah, 51 Park Avenue, Brevard,
N. C., is assigned destroyed three
warships in Toulon harbor shortly
after the landings in Southern
France.
Flight Officer Vannah flew as
bombardier of his bomber in the
attack upon the heavily defended
harbor which was made without
the loss of a single B-25.
The ships were a heavy cruiser
of the La Galissonciere Class, the
Battleship Strasbourg and a sub
marine. The terrific firepower of
these formidable naval units con
stituted a serious threat to the
west flank of the Allied invasion
forces.
Photos made by a reconnais
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Ecusta String Band
And Dance Team To
Enter Folk Contest
The Ecusta string band and
square dance team will enter the
18th annual Mountain Dance and
Folk festival which opens tonight
at 7:30 o’clock in the city audi
torium at Asheville, John Evers
man, recreational director, an
nounces.
The string band, first prize win
ners last year, drew a bye in the
first contests that are to be held
tonight and will perform Friday
night. On Saturday night at 10
o’clock they will broadcast from
the auditorium over radio station
WWNC.
The square dance team, second
place winners last season, is prim
ed to annex first award this year.