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VOL50~~NO 13 ~ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1940 $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
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Most Original Boy
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OLIVER ORR of Brevard hits
been named most original boy of
the sophomore class at Brevard
College by the student body.
Popular at Brevard
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MISS KATHLEEN WILSON has
been voted the most popular girl
at Brevard high school by the stu
dent body. In addition to the above
honor the popular girl was alBO
voted most friendly, most versatile,
and most studious member of the
senior class. She is a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wilson of
Brevard.
Prettiest at Brevard
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MISS GLORIA ANN WILSON
was selected as prettiest senior at
Brevard high school by the student
body In the recent election. Miss
Wilson Is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Sutton Wilson of Penrose.
Masonic Play Friday
To Feature Meeting
A special communication of Dunn’s
Rock Masonic lodge A. F. and A. M.
has been called for Friday evening of
this week at 8 o’clock in the lodge hall.
The meeting is for the purpose of
witnessing the Masonic play. "Greater
Love Hath No Man.” which will be
presented by the John A. Nichols play
ers of Ashevlllo. The play, written by
Carl H. Claudy, deals with the curious
raising of Hank Higgins. The action
la packed with drama and has proved
pleasing and entertaining to all who
have seen It. The characters In the
play are practically the same as those
appearing in the cast, “The Rose Upon
the Altar,’’ which was presented last
summer.
The play will be shown to Master
Masons only, who are urged to attend.
There will be no charge for admission.
Light refreshments will be served.
SNI TNDICEMAR
EASTER PARADE
Cold Weather Reaches Low of
14 Above Zero—Wave Was
General Over Nation
Transylvania residents, many of them
for the first time in their lives, saw
snow and sleet fall in plentiful atyle
Easter Sunday.
The depth was reported from two
to four Inches In various sections of
the county, and much of the snow was
■till to be seen Wednesday.
Low reading of 28 above was record
ed for Sunday night, and the thermom
eter fell to 14 above Monday night.
Wednesday was some warmer and with
buds popping forth on trees, spring
tried to really .show Itself above the
snow.
Reports from all over the nation were
to the effect that a “white Easteri’ wae
witnessed, except southern portions of
the country.
REPUBLICAN TICKET
BE NAMED APRIL 6
County Convention Called To
Meet In Brevard Court
House at 2 o’clock
Official call for the Transylvania
county Republican convention for April
6 has been issued by Lewis P. Eamlln,
chairman of the executive committee.
The convention will be called to
order at 2 o'clock, In the county court
room.
Business to be taken care of will be
nomination of a ticket for county of
fices, election of a chairman and mem
bers of the executive committee.
Ticket to be nominated Includes
register of deeds, tax collector, survey
or, members of the board of commis
sioners, legislative member, and recom
mendations as to state senator from
the Transylvania - Haywood - Jackson
district.
Delegates to the state and other dis
trict conventions were named at a
meeting held here on March 11.
Unless more than one person files
for each of the offices there will be no
county candidates for the May 25 pri
mary. However, several men are run
ning on the state ticket for various of
fices which will cause a Republican pri
mary vote.
Information Tour To
Visit Transylvania
Friday of Next Week
Around 150 business officials, clerks,
and Junior Chamber of Commerce
members from Asheville, will pass
through Brevard on the afternoon of
April 5 and stop here for a brief "look
see.”
The party will be on a tour of West
ern North Carolina communities, as
part of the Asheville Junior Chamber
of Commerce plan for Informing the
home people of beauty spots In West
ern North Carolina, so that they will
be better able to tell visitors about this
section.
The Junior Chamber has been con
ducting regular evening classes for
weeks in Asheville, dealing with various
sections, and points of Interest.
The trip next Friday will Include
visits to Canton, Waynesville, Sylva,
Cullowhee, Cashiers, Lake Toxaway,
and Brevard. Other trips will be made
throughout the section, according to
officers of the Junior group who were
In Brevard Tuesday planning for a
stop here.
Idea being worked out Is similar to
trips conducted here last summer by
the Chamber of Commerce through Pls
gah Forest.
Miss Marguerite Hall
Will Direct Cateechee
GREENVILLE — Miss Marguerite
Hall of Richmond, Va., has been named
director of Camp Cateechee, area Girl
Scout camp, which opens June 22 for
; an eight-week season ending August
17.
The managing committee of the camp
will meet with Miss Hall In Charlotte,
Monday. April 1 to discuss details of
the camp program. Mrs. Margaret
Poole is Greenville representative of the
committee.
The camp is located near Brevard,
N. C., and is operated jointly by the
Greenville, Columbia, Spartanburg and
Charlotte Girl Scout councils.
Miss Hall is a former director of the
Richmond Girl Scout council. She Is
now doing graduate work at William
and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va.
Last summer she was director of the
Washington. D. C., Girl Scout camp.
Singing Convention
Meets Here Sunday
The Transylvania county singing
convention will meet at the court house
in Brevard, March 81, announcement
has been made by E. D. Randolph,
president. The request is made that
those who want to join in the sing
ing make themselves known so they
can be given a chance to sing.
Fanners Federation
Stockholders Elect
Directors For Year
Annual stockholder* meeting of the
Fanners Federation was held here Sat
urday. with a large group of farm
ers and officials of the co-op In at
tendance.
Report of the year’s business was
made by James G. K. McClure, presi
dent, and the local unit was paid a tri
bute for Its progress In the past twelve
months.
8. C. Clapp, seed expert for the fede
ration, advised farmers as to the prop
er method of buying seeds of first or
der and pointed out the value of buy
ing a known product, from known con
cerns.
Lloyd Cantrell was re-elected direc
tor at large, and E. Carl Allison was
also named to the post of director, fill
ing the post of E. O. Shipman, who
has served two years. Mr. Allison was
also named to the advisory commit
tee for the local unit
Advisory committee re-elected for the
ensuing year Includes: Tinsley Brown,
Lloyd Cantrell, J. L. Gash, 8. A. Jones,
Yancey McCrary. R. A. Merrill, 8. R.
Owen, E. O. Shipman, Frank Shuford,
Arthur Whitmire.
During the year ending this month,
the federation has moved Into Its own
home, erected a feed and com mill,
and otherwise improved its business
here.
Annual meeting of the stockholders
will be held in the Buncombe county
court house on Saturday, March M.
Brevard Lady Killed
In Auto Accident
Mrs. Inez White of Brevard, died In
an automobile crash near Wlnnsboro, S.
C., about 6 o’clock Easter Sunday
morning, and her daughter, Miss Lucie
White, was Injured severely.
Mrs. White and her daughter left
Brevard about midnight Saturday to
drive to Charleston where they plan
ned to spend Easter with Mrs. White's
daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Parker.
Miss Lucie White told hospital at
taches at Wlnnsboro where she Is be
ing treated, that her mother was driv
ing at the time of the accident, and
that Just before the car swerved out
of the road her mother cried out as If
In pain. Doctors who examined the
body expressed the opinion that Mrs.
White died of a heart attack, and that
when she became unconscious the car
left the highway on the curve.
Mrs. White had lived In Brevard for
the past year where she has been
manager of the Jennie Bowen Shop.
She was popular In the community.
Funeral services were held Wednes
day afternoon from the Shepherd Fun
eral home In Hendersonville Wednes
day afternoon, and Interment was made
in the Pleasant Hill cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss
Lucie White, of Brevard, and Mrs.
Evelyn Parker of Charleston: one son.
Carol E White of Hendersonville; one
sister, and two brothers.
Gone With Wind Be
Shown In Brevard
Four Days In April
"Gone With the Wind," in the same
style and form as shown at the Atlan
ta, Ga,, premiere, will be shown at the
Co-Ed Theatre in April, it is announced
by Verne Clement, manager of the
show.
The picture will be shown here four
days. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, April 21, 22, 28, and 21.
Only two shows will be held each
day, afternoon and evening. The show
Is full four hours in length.
Recognized as one of the greatest
drawing cards in years, Manager Clem
ent states that he will have advance
sale of tickets within a week for the
showing.
Several Brevard people who went to
other larger cities to see the show pro
nounce it one of the best ever seen.
The picture has probably received more
comment from newspapers and radios
than any other show.
Bookmobile Schedule
For County Is Given
Bookmobile schedule for the week
of April 8 has been announced by Miss
Annie Jean Gash, as follows:
Monday, April 8—Powell’s store, 10
a. m.; Connestee school, 10:30: Cedar
Mtn. P. O., 11:30: Cedar Mtn. School,
noon: Little River School, 1:30 p. m.;
Penrose School 3 p. m.
Tuesday, April 9—Oakland P. O., 10
a. m.; Monvale School, 11 a. m.; Toxa
way School, 12 noon; Sllversteen School,
2 p. m.; Rosman community house,
8:30 p. m.
Wednesday, April 10—Selica School.
9:30 a. m.; Quebec School, 11 a. m.
Balsam Grove school, 1:30 p. m.; Orr’s
store, 3:30 p. m.
Thursday, April 11—Pisgah Forest
School, 10 a. m.; Pisgah Forest P. O.,
11:30 a. m.
WARRIOR McCALL IS
‘BIG EGG’ WINNER
Basket of Large 'Hen Fruit’
Submitted During Last
Week—Contest Continues
Warrior McCall of Brevard R-2 owns
a brown leghorn hen that laid a dollar
egg last week. The large egg laid by
the hen that Warrior qwns tipped the
scales at three and seven-eights ounces
and won first place In The Times big
egg contest for last week.
Mrs. Marcus Williams sent In the
second largest—three and three-quar
ters ounces. T^ls egg was laid by a
New Hampshire red, and was mighty
dose to winning.
Other eggs submitted in order of
their weight were sent In by the fol
lowing: Mary Gulley. Brevard: Jimmy
Johnston, Brevard: Mrs. G. M. Drake,
Etowah: C. H. Holden, Brevard. R-2;
Dixon Lyday, Pisgah Forest; Mrs. J.
W. Nicholson. Pisgah Forest.
Mrs. W. A. Bracken, Brexard; Mrs.
Pearl Jewell, (2), Brevard R-2; Mrs.
C. P. Hogsed, Brevard R-l, C. M. Sln
lard, Brevard R-2; Gordon Leslie, Pis
gah Forest; F. S. Fisher, Lake Tox
away; Audrey Luther, Penrose; George
E. Merrill, Penrose; Mrs. W. H. Mc
Kelvey, Brevard R-l.
The largest looking egg dosent win
every time. First week’s winner only
weighed three and one-third ounces.
Any extraordinary large egg Is apt to
win. The contest runs from Monday
through Saturday of each week, with
weighing Saturday afternoon at 6:80
o'clock.
Woodmen Meeting Will
Be Held April 15th
The social get-together meeting of
the Woodmen of the World and the
Woodmen Circle, which was to have
been held Thursday night of this week,
has been postponed until Monday night.
April 16.
Music, % special program with an out
of town speaker and refreshments will
feature the evening’s entertainment
It Is urged that an members of the two
organisations attend on the night of
April It at tbs Mb* bab.
April First Pranks
FRED JOHNSON HEADS
BOARD OF ELECTIONS
Dates For Filing and Primary
Given—No New Registration
Be Held In County
Fred Johnson was named chairman
of the Transylvania County board of
elections Saturday, and C. Y. Patton
was named secretary.
The board, comprised of Judge D. L.
English and the two above named was
sworn in by Clerk of Court Spalding
McIntosh.
The board voted to call for a re
listing of the voters in the county in
stead of a re-registration. The gen
eral assembly of 1939 had ordered that
one of the methods be used. Transyl
vania county had set up a registra
tion similar to the one the new law
calls for four years ago, It was pointed
out by Chairman Johnson.
The board will meet on April 6 to
name registrars and judges for the
several precincts.
Filing date has been ordered closed
by the state board of elections on April
18 for county and township officers.
The registration books will open on
April 27, and cldse on May 11. May
18 will be challenge day, and first pri
mary will be held May 25. If second
primary Is called, and It appears now
that there will be for several state of
fices, It will be held on June 22.
Miss Anna Whitmire
Buried On March 20
Miss Anna Jay Whitmire, aged 78,
died at her home in the Selica section
Tuesday morning, March 19, following
a lingering Illness. Funeral services
were held Wednesday afternoon at the
Mt. Moriah Calvert Baptist church,
with the Rev. J. L. Underwood offi
ciating. Burial was In the church
cemetery.
Miss Whitmire was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Whitmire,
of Henderson county. She was a na
tive of Transylvania county, and a
member of the Calvert Baptist church.
Surviving are two brothers. Harve
Whitmire, of Greer, S. C., and Bert
Whitmire, of Monarch, Ark.
Pallbearers were Lewis Moore, Rev.
Richard Moore, Lynch Moore, Gene
Whitmire, Dewey Moore and Clyde
Jones. Osborne and Simpson funeral
directors were In charge of arrange
ments.
Lord’s Acre Pictures
Picture slides will be shown at Mt
Moriah Cherryfield church Friday even
ing at 8 o’clock by Rev. Dumont Clarke,
of the Lord’s Acre movement. The
public Is Invited to attend.
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New Arrival
Lieut, and Mrs. J. A. Milled Jr., an
nounce the birth of a son, J. A. Miller
III, on Saturday, March 2S, at^Barks
dale Field, La.
Census Enumerators
Taking Training For
Places This Week
Census enumerators who will con
duct the every-person count In Tran
sylvania county during April are to
attend a school In Sylva this week at
which time classes will, be held, and
Instructions given on proper methods of
procedure.
Out of the group who attend the
Sylva school Wednesday and Thursday
of this week, the list will be selected
by the supervisor of the district to
make the count
Some of the people who will aid In
the census work hers will attend a
similar school In Asheville Friday and
Saturday of this week, It has been an
nounced by Charles Z. Flack of For
est City, supervisor for the district
Complete list of those who are seek
ing places In the census work was not
available Wednesday, but win be pub
lished next week.
The census Is expected to start with
in the next ten days In an communi
ties of the county, some of the workers
probably starting out Monday.
Little River Service*
Announcement Is made that the Rev.
C. E. Blythe will preach at Little
River Baptist church Sunday at 7: SO
In the evening. Children of the pastor
will assist In the service, featuring
-The Prodigal Sob* In aong and ecrlpt
Pisgah Forest Man
Held For Robbery
Of Mullinax Money
Robert Benefield of Plsgah Forest
was bound "over to Superior court Mon
day morning on a charge of highway
robbery.
Benefield is alleged to have struck
Buford Mullinax, also of Plsgah For
est, in the head with a bottle or some
ether weapon late Friday night of last
week as the two men were walking
along the highway near their home, and
took $160 In cash from tils victim.
Benefield was arrested In Henderson
county Sunday for Sheriff George
Shuford who was called on the case
early Saturday morning.
Tried before Justice of Peace Har
rison Case here, probable cause was
found, and the defendant bound over.
Reserve Officers To
Meet Here Tuesday
Reserve officers of the district will
meet at Camp NC F-28, In Plsgah Na
tional Forest on Tuesday night of next
weejc, April 2.
Subject of the two hour session will
be "The Infantry battalion, rifle, with
anti-tank platoon attached In attack."
George Clyde Morton, 2nd lieutenant
447th Infantry will be director of study.
At Lyday Hospital
Patients reported at Lyday Memorial
hospital on Wednesday were: Mrs. Dan
Merrill, J. C. Pace, Mrs. L. F. Cooper,
Jean Vassey, Lambert Baker, R. S.
Browning, Melvin James, Nace Darnel,
and Delmar Melton.
CRIMINAL CASES ARE
SLATED FOR TRIAL
Probable That Superior Court
Term Will Be Completed
During First Week
April terra Superior court convenes
here Monday morning with Judge
Prank M. Armstrong presiding, and
Solicitor Clarence Ridings appearing
for the state In criminal cases.
Few criminal cases, and none of
major nature, are to be heard at this
term. It Is likely that the criminal
docket will be completed by Wednes
day afternoon, and the bar association
has scheduled civil cases for Thurs
day.
Civil calendar Is carried elsewhere in
this paper, showing cases for Thursday
and Friday of next week. However,
Jurors have been summoned for the
full two weeks term, as follows:
Ftret Week
Walter Shipman, J. A. Nelson, Mick
ler Lusk, Elmer McLean, M. L. Gil
lespie, E. L. T. Eubanks, George W.
Wheeler, Berlin Owen, Herman Parker,
J. B. Hall, A."B. Owen, A. H. Harris,
U. 8. Drake, Otto Alexander, D. Guy
Dean, Frank Raines, D. Gillespie, L.
C Case, J. A .Johnson, O. H. Bryson,
Nelson Bowen, W. W. Pruitt, J. C.
McCall, L. F. Osteen, Ralph McCall,
S. W. Reid, C H. LaMance, Cad Whit
mire, Doyle Manley. J. W. McGuire,
J. P. Bowen, Dewey Gravely, J. L.
Salts, W. J. Raines, A. M. Bisk, Walter
Hinkle.
Second Week
John C Tinsley, Horace Mason, T.
B. Williams, K. K. Miller, W. W.
Croushom, B. A. Hogsed, G. R. Mer
rill, W .R. Klmzey, C. V. Green, C. 8.
Osborne, Lee Baynard, A. M. White,
Doyle Hamilton, A. D. Brittain, Frank
King, L 8. Kilpatrick, James Jones,
E. C. Henderson .
Edwin Morgan Seeking
Second Term In Office
Edwin A. Morgan, who Is rounding
out hi* first term as county tax col
lector, makes announcement that he
will be candidate for re-election.
Mr. Morgan Is a graduate of Roeman
high school with the class of 1111, and
later entered the Anthony Wayne In
stitute at Fort Wayne, Indiana, where
he completed a business course, and
graduated with honors In i#*l.
While attending business college In
Indiana, Mr. Morgan was connected
with a department store there and took
a regular position with the firm which
he held for two yean. He was named
assistant tax collector for the last year
of Lem Brook’s term, and was sleeted
In lilt far his first Ism.
CHARLOTTE CONCERN
LOW BIDDER ON P.O.
Plana for Building Call for
County Agent Office and
Revenue Collector Space
WASHINGTON. March 27 — The
names of the three lowest bidders for >
the construction of the proposed Post
Office for Brevard, (North Carolina),
were reported to Federal Works Ad
ministrator John M. Carmody by W. E.
Reynolds, Commissioner of PubBo
Buildings as follows:
Boyd & Goforth, Inc., Charlotte^
North Carolina, $44,900.00
Hurley Company, Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, $48,864.00.
Grover H. Ashbrook, Hyattsvllle,
Maryland, $49,976,000.
Award of contract will be made In
the very near future after due con
sideration by the Board of Awards, Mr.
Reynolds said.
Plans and specifications Issued by
the Public Buildings Administration
call for a one story building of con
temporary design with an expression
of the Colonial to be erected on the
northeast corner of Broad and Morgan
Streets.
An allotment of $75,000.00 was made
under the Federal Public Buildings
Appropriation Act of 1938 to Include the
purchase of the site, construction and
administrative costs.
The design for the new building
originated in the Office of the Super
vising Architect of the Public Build
ings Administration. Exterior walls
will be faced with face brick, with stone
and wood trim. Cornice, windows, etc.,
will be of wood.
In keeping with the Colonial ele
ments In the design, the pitched slate
roof covering the front portion of the
building will be surmounted with a
cupola. A flat composition roof with
Inset skylight will cover work room In
the rear.
The graceful approacn will be
marked with stone steps and platform,
metal railings and lamp standards.
The charm of the entranceway will be
enhanced by the use of wood columns
and cornice.
The ample public lobby will be four
teen feet wide and will provide space
for five service windows and more
than 400 lock boxes. The postmast
ers office and work room occupy the
balance of the first floor.
On the ground floor postal storage
•pace la provided, as well as office
rooms tentatively assigned to the De
partment of Agriculture Extension Ser
vice and the Interrial Revenue.
In commenting on the design of the
Brevard Post Office, Commissioner
Reynolds said, "It Is apparent that
here Is no casual assembly of walls,
windows, doors and roof to accord with
someone’s haphazard opinion of what
the building should look like. Rather
It Is the Inevitable product of many
controlling factors, chief among which
are the practical requirements of the
Post Office Department, the conven
ience of the public, the size and shape
of the building site, and the character
and tastes of the community."
New Cafe Locating
In Greenwood Building
Workmen started Monday renovating
the former Mull store on Broad street
which will be occupied by a new cafe
about April 10th, according to J. C.
Oalther, who will operate the business.
Mr. Gaither Is offering a $5 cash
prize for most suitable name left at
The Times office before 12 o’clock
noon, on Friday April 5.
Owner and operator of the Park
Lunch Room In Sylva, Mr. Gaither said
Monday that he plans to operate a
first class grade-A cafe, and that he
would like for local people to have
say-so In the naming of his place.
Auto License Go On
Bargain Rate Sale
Bargain rates on North Carolina
automobile license plates, selling at
three-quarters the annual fee, win go
Into effect March SO, It was announced
yesterday by Mrs. Mary Jane Mc
Crary, manager of the Brevard office
of the Carolina Motor club.
Registrations In Brevard are now
far ahead of last year for the corres
ponding period.
BASEBALL GAME BE
PLAYED SATURDAY
High School Nine Meets Farm
School Team On Local
Diamond at 3 o'clock
Coach Cox's high school charges win
play their first baseball gome of the
season on the high school diamond Sat
urday afternoon of this week at I
o’clock. Barm School of Swannanoa.
will provtae the opposition.
The following Arms contributed to
buying new uniforms for the team:
Plummer’s. Scott’s grocery, Clemson
Co-Ed, Brevard Cafe, Freeman Hayes,
The Times, Bek Sims, Rose's. White
way Cleaners Simpson Barber shop,
Olbbs Esso, Tinsley’s newsstand.
Probable starting lineup win bo—
Carlanrt, pitcher: Barton, catcher; Rahn,
1-b; Tinsley, l-b; Clayton, »-b: Jones,
so; F. Morris, If; Jackson, cf; Loa
ning, rf; Lloyd Wood, A. J. Parker,
Ell Allison, Bin Morris, Wright, Lancs,
Pat Hamlin, and Nick Simpson, win