THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1941
$1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
Criminal Docket Near Cleared
In April Term Superior Court
Liquor Cases Highlight Crim
inal Docket of Superior
Court
Indications late yesterday afternoon
were that criminal cases in the current
term of April superior court would be
cleared- by early today, and that trial
of the civil docket could begin imme
diately, Other minor criminal cases
came up for trial in the whole criminal
docket, including charges of public
drunkenness, driving under the influ
ence of intoxicating liquors, abandon
ment and non-support, breaking and
entering, unlawful transportation and
sale of whiskey, and simple assault.
Judge Allen H. Gwyn, of Reidsville,
is presiding over the current term.
Clarence Ridings of Forest City is the
prosecuting attorney.
Cases cleared up to Wednesday in
clude the following:
O. S. Dilliard, sale and possession of
tip boards: pay costs of action and jail
sentence of 4 months suspended for
two years.
Clyde Day, driving drunk, plea of
eruilty; Fine of $50.00 and costs; 6
months jail sentence suspended for two
years; driving license revoked for one
year.
Herman Holden, driving drunk, plea
c< guilty; Fine of $50.00 and costs; 6
months jail sentence suspended three
years; driving license revoked one year.
Frank M. Garren, driving drunk,
plea of guilty: Fine of $50.00 and costs;
• months jail sentence suspended for
five years; driving license revoked for
one year.
James Barton, driving drunk and hit
and run, plea of guilty: Fine of $50.00
and costs; 7 months jail sentence sus
pended for five years; driving license
revoked for one year.
J. Nevette Waters, driving drunk;
Fine of $60.00 and costs; 6 months jail
sentence suspended for three years;
driving license revoked for one year.
Claude Allison, public drunkenness
ami selling whiskey, plea of guilty; pay
costs of action; 12 months jail sen
tence suspended for 5 years.
Freeman Raines, three cases of pub
lic drunkenness; each case, 30 day jail
sentence suspended for 4 years: pav
costs in action.
Ed Gibbs, public drunkenness, judg
ment not rendered .
C. C. Rogers, reckless driving, con
tinue^ nnt’l next tern; of'court,
Ernest Moore, abandonment and non
support, plea cf guilty; 2 years jail
sentence to work on public highwas,
etc. (provisional).
J. Paxter. driving drunk. plea of
guilty; Fine of $50.00 and costs; 6
months jail sentence suspended for
three years; driving license revoked for
one year.
Ed Gibbs and Lorene Anders, plea of
guilty to fornication and adultery;
prayer for judgment continued until
next term of court.
Ed Gibbs, carrying concealed weapon,
plea of guilty: fine of $50.00 and costs.
William Norris, public drunkenness,
plea of guilty; 20 days in jail for con
tempt of court.
Lyday Melton, eight cases of pub
lic drunkenness; 30 days in jail in one
case, and 20 days in jail suspended
sentence for three yeans in each of the
other cases.
C. N. Loveal, plea of guilty to driving
drunk; fine of $50.00 and costs; 6
months jail sentence suspended for
three years; driving license revoked for
one year. (Continued Next Week)
Dance Tomorrow Night
At The Country Club
Under the sponsorship of the Bre
vard country club, a square dance will
be held tomorrow night at the country
club house from 8:30 to 11 o’clock. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
This is one of a series of square
dances being staged by the country club
committee for the benefit of the coun
try club. All funds taken in are ap
plied on the work being done by the
country club.
MACFIE TO RUN
FOR ALDERMAN
J. A. "Mose” Macfie, prominent |
Brevard druggist, late Wednee- |
day afternoon announced that I
he would be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Board
of Aldermen for the Town of Bre
vard In the primary to be held
here on April 28.
Mr. Macfie, a member of the
present board of aldermen, is |
filling1 the unexpired term brought j
about by the resignation of Wil- J
lis Brittain when he became a I
county commissioner. He has j
served less than a year as alder- J
man, and due to that fact, he I
said, his friends were urging him j
to offer himself for re-election.
The announcement of Mr. Mac
fie’s candidacy follows:
"I hereby announce my can
didacy for the Democratic nom- j
ination for Alderman for the 1
Town of Brevard in the primary I
to be held on April 28.
"My election to the Board of
• Aldermen was to fill the unex
pired term of a former member,
and I have therefore served less
than a year. Due to that fact
my friends feel that I should of
fer myself for re-election.
“I ehall appreciate your sup
port."
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BREVARD GOLF PRO
BOB SMITH, for the past six
years successful operator of the
Hendersonville country club, was
employed some time back to oper
ate the Brevard country club. Mr.
Smith and his family are now at
the country club house, where he
is supervising- extensive improve
ment work being done on the
golf course and other projects
there. Says Mr. Smith: “Pros
pects look good for the coming sea
son here."
Palm Sunday Service
At Methodist Church
Palm Sunday will be observed Sun
day morning at the Methodist church 1
with the reception of a class of child
ren into the church. The pastor, Rev.
E. P. Billups, will use as his morning
subject, “Builders of Bridges.”
At the evening service the pastor
will give a dramatic reading of “The
Trial of Jesus,” a compelling drama on
the events of holy week written by
John Masefield. Chopin’s "Nochturne
in G Minor” will be used as an organ
accompaniment to parts of the read
Oyj a - who has give-; *bi^
reading many times, is repeating it by
popular request.
LAST RITES FOR
W. H. GROGAN, 88
HELD SATURDAY
Was Widely Known Farmer
Of Transylvania
County
Funeral services were held la«t Sat
urday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the
residence for William H. Grogan, 88,
widely known farmer and business man
of Brevard, who died Friday r'g'nt about
eight o’clock. The Rev. B. W. Thomas
on, pastor First Baptist church here,
officiated. Interment was in the Oak
Grove cemetery near Brevard.
Mr. Grogan’g death was attributed to
heart trouble and old age. He had
been in ill health for quite some time,
but had been critically ill for only two
weeks. He had been a resident of Bre
vard and Transylvania county all of
his life.
Mr. Grogan is survived by one sister,
Mrs. Hattie Millwood, Spartanburg, S.
C.; two daughters, Cora and Emma
Grogan, of Brevard; two sons, William
H. Grogan, Jr., state manager W.O.W.
for New Jersey, Trenton, and Vance L.
Grogan, interior decorator of Asheville.
Active pall bearers were Fred Holt,
Charles Moore, Eck L. Sims, Anthony
Trantham, Ralph Fisher and Joe Mc
Crary.
Honorary pall bearers were: Lewis
Moore, A. B. Galloway, Hubert Holden,
Wayman Galloway, Ed King, A. N.
Poole, Tom Wilson, Howard Wyatt,
Aston Heath, B. W. Trantham, D. F.
Moore, Henry Plummer, O. L. Erwin,
T. W. Whitmire, J. K. Mills, W. H.
Duckworth, F. Brown Carr, Dr. C. L.
Newland, Dr. Julius Sader, Ralph Ly
day, Bill Whitmire, Plato Lankford,
Eugene Lewis, Leon Scott, Coleman
Galloway, B. P. Scruggs, Fred Shuford,
George Shuford, Oliver Orr, Harry
Sellers, R. P. Kilpatrick, Lewis Hamlin.
Moore and Trantham funeral home
and Osbome-Simpson funeral directors
had charge of arrangements.
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR B.T.U. MEET
Plans have been completed for the
meeting of the Transylvania Associa
tion Baptist Training Union division,
which will be held at the First Baptist
I church in Brevard next Monday after
[ noon and evening. The meeting will
begin at 4 o’clock and continue until
[9:30 in the evening, with supper serv
[ ed at the intermission from 6 to 7
o’clock.
Prominent state and south-wide
leaders in B. T. U. work will be heard
on the program. Those expected to at
tend the meeting will include associa
tions! officers, general officerB of all
training unions, leaders and sponsors
and all others interested in B. T. U.
work.
YOUNG JAYCEES
ORGANIZE HERE;
PLANS OUTLINED
Junior Chamber Visitors Are
Heard At Organize
tion Meet
Around ,40 Brevard young- men at
tended the organization meeting of the
Brevard Junior Chamber of Commerce
ast Tuesday night in the city hall.
Final details of organization were
worked out, and plans were made to
hold the first regular semi-monthly
meeting of the group on Tuesday night,
April 15, at which time permanent of
ficers and a board of directors will be
elected. Temporary president John
Anderson presided at the meeting Tues
lay night.
In the call for membership, approxi-j
mately twenty-five registered their in- j
tentions of becoming members of the
newly formed jaycee group. A mem -
bership committee, composed of Karl I
Straus, Ed Rathbauer, Mack Allison, I
Frank McIntosh, H. N. Lyday, and
‘Spud” Carpenter, was named to solicit i
membership.
Temporary officers told of plans be
ing made by the group to aid in the
program of work at the country club
and to sponsor various tournaments
and contests for the benefit of the peo
ple of the town and county.
Visitors ir°m neighboring Junior I
Chambers of cot* "»erce at the meeting
Included Allen Pearson, president of;
the Asheville Junior ct«. ..'•ber; Moore
Bryson, a member of the bt'rd of di
rectors of the Asheville orgai ization;
John Nichols, president of the He.’der
sonville Junior chamber; George Wn/:
treasurer of that group, and ‘‘Shine"
Southerland, a member.
The visitors from Asheville and Hen
dersonville spoke briefly to the Brevard
group .
John W. Smith, of the Brevard
Chamber of commerce represented the
senior chamber at the organization
meeting.
MRS. SCRUGGS IS
FINAL WINNER IN
BIG EGG CONTEST
The Times one dollar award for the
biggest egg contributed in the big egg
contest this week stays right at home'
gain The dollar goe8 to Mrs. B. F. j
Scruggs. Brevard, for an egg weighing
four one one-quarter ounces. An egg
contributed by Mrs. Allie Galloway,
II--2, Brevard, was runner-up with a j
weight of four and one-eighth ounces.
With the one dollar award this week, j
rhe Times big egg contest comes to a
lose. Through this contest The Times
has been able to tell just exactly what
Transylvania county hens are doing.
We trust that the contest has been j
just as interesting to you readers as'
it has been to us.
Until Big Egg contest time again
we .say ‘‘Pleasant Breeding,” and have
the hens keep up the good work.
P.-T. A. MEET APRIL 8
The April meeting of the Brevard
P.-T. A. will be held in the grammar
school building next Tuesday after
noon at 3:30. This will be the last meet
ing of the year and it is urged by the
president, Mrs. C. L. Newland, that a
large membership be present.
HOLDS FORMAL OPENING
MR. A. H. HOUSTON, operator of
the Houston Furniture company
here, is giving away almost $400.00
worth of furniture at the formal
opening of his new store on East
Main street, next Wednesday aft
ernoon, April 0, at two o’clock.
DELEGATES NAMED
TO N. C. TEACHER
MEET THIS WEEK
Schools of the County Will be
Closed on Friday
At a county wide meeting of the
p,v. Me school teachers of Transylvania
county in the Brevard high school aud
itorium last Saturday morning delegates
were elected to the North Carolina
Teachers Association annual convention
to be held in Asheville, April 3, 4, and
5. The meeting was purely for the bus
iness of electing delegates to the con
vention, and no other business was car
ried out.
Delegates elected by the Transylvania
county teachers included .7. B. Jones,
superintendent of county schools; J. E.
Rufty, principal, Brevard elementary
school; Miss Vera Jones, teacher at the
Cedar Mountain school; R. T. Kimzey.
principal, Brevard high school; E. F.
Tilson, principal, Rosman high school;
and T. C. Henderson, teacher from the
Quebec section.
All schools in the county will be
closed tomorrow, Mr. Jones said, to
enable all of those teachers who so de
sire to attend the convention in Ashe
ville.
Father Of Local Lady
Is Buried In Virginia
Wilmer B. Finkbine, 88, died at his
home in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday,
March 20, following falling health of
about a year. Funeral service was
held the following Sunday afternoon at
Annapolis. Interment was in Winches
ter, Va., cemetery.
Survivors are three daughters, one of
whom is Mrs. Woodford Zachary, of
Brevard, two sons, nine grandchildren
and three great-grandchildren.
Mr. Finkbine was a prominent farm
er and dairyman of Annapolis, where
he had made his home the past 50
years.
Pisgah CCC Camps Celebrate
Eighth Anniversary This Week
DELEGATES OF
W. O. W. GO TO
CAMP SUNDAY
Six Transylvania county members
the Woodmen of the World Life
Insurance Society will leave here next
Sunday, April 6, for Durham to at
tend the biennial Head Camp conven- i
tion of the society being: held there
April 7 and 8. Elected by their re
spective camps at Brevard and Roe
man, the local delegates will meet with
other Woodmen from the state of North
Carolina. To represent the local mem
bership at the Head Camp are Dean
Whitlock, Ralph Brown, and Arthur
Gillespie, of Brevard, and Mickler R.
Lusk and L. Alfred Gallow’ay, of Ros
man.
A. B. Galloway, of Brevard, local
field representative of the W. O. W.,
will also attend the Head Camp con
vention. He now holds the office of
Head adviser in the Head Camp, and
at the meeting: Monday he will be ad
vanced to the office of Head Consul, j
This will give Mr. Galloway the dis
tinction of being: the highest officer of
the Jurisdiction of North Carolina,
which office he will hold for a period
of two years.
At Lyday Hospital
Patients reported to be in Lyday
Memorial hospital on Wednesday were:
Miss Sadie North, Mrs. C. K. Osborne,
Mrs. R. C. Whitmire, Mrs. Willie
Shirley, Wiley Devore, Harold Nelson,
Clarence Morris.
New Arrhral
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell King
a daughter, Margaret Kay, on Tues
day, March 36, In BUtmore faoepHaL
Camp NC F-28 Near Brevard
To Hold Open House
Saturday
The eighth anniversary of the Civil
ian Conservation Corps will be cele
brated by all camps located in the
Pisgah and Croatan National Forests
on or about April the 5th, according1 to
H. B. Bosworth, Forest Supervisor.
The camps have established an an
nual custom of “Open House” and the
public is invited to visit and look over
the camps and the many work projects
they have completed, or working on at
present.
Company 428, CCC, NC F-28, near
Brevard in the Pisgah Ranger District,
will hold its “Open House” on Satur
day, April 6, Sub Alternate officer J. B.
Miller, in charge of arrangements for
the open house at F-28, announced.
Charles Davis, recently arrived from
Forest City, is commanding officer at
the camp.
At F-28 sight seeing trips will be
organized in Camp to visit the New
Ranger station, the fish rearing station,
recreational centers and nearby camp
grounds, and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Mr. Miller said that citizens of the
town and county were especially urged
to attend the open house and partici
pate in the all-day program.
H. B. Bosworth pointed out that the
entire pattern of CCC camp life—the
daily routine, the training and educa
tional programs, the work projects—
all contribute to national security by
developing in youth, character, discip
line, good work habits, health, love of
country, and the ability to achieve
economic Independence. Every effort,
is being made at each camp to train
these young men in special skills, In
developing physical hardihood and dis
cipline, in building good citizens, cap
able and anxious to take their proper
fOonttmued on pace four)
Selective Service Draftees
Will Answer Call Every Ten
Days; Program Speeded Up
MAY DAY ROYALTY
NAMED AT COLLEGE
Plans for the Brevard College an
nual May Day festival early in May
are going forward, and the May Queen,
maid of honor, and senior and fresh
man attendants have been elected by
the student body.
Elected Queen to reign over the May
Day festivities was Miss Carolyn Klus
meier, of Charlotte, Dovie White,
daughter of Mayor and Mrs. A. M.
White, Rosman, was named maid of
honor.
Senior attendants elected were Clara
Brinkley, of Charlotte; Marianna Ken
dal, of Greensboro; Mildred Maxwell,
of Brevard; and Aulene Powell, of
Denton.
Misses Jean Bennett, Brevard, Louise
Huntley, Wadesboro, Lucille Fletcher,
Booneville, and Margaret Liles, Li lee -
ville, were named as the freshman at
tendante.
Holy Week Services
At Episcopal Church
Services for Holy Week at St.
Philip’s Episcopal church have been
announced by the rector, Rev. Harry
Perry.
Palm Sunday service will be held at
the church next Sunday morning at
11 o’clock. Prof John Hawkins, of
Brevard College, will be guest soloist.
Each morning during Holy Week
service will be held in the chapel at
10:30 o’clock.
Wood Rites Held
At Greenville, S. C.
Funeral service was held Wednesday
morning at the Oak Grove church,
near Brevard, for Mrs. Clara Rebecca
Grant Wood, who died last Monday
morning at her home in Greenville, S.
C., following an illness of four weeks.
Interment was in the church cemetery.
Survivors are a sister, Mrs. D. A.
Banther, of Bake Toxaway, a brother,
E. M. Grant, of Brevard, and another
brother, T. C. Grant, of Greenville. He
husband, William J. Wood, died in 1939.
BALKANS REMAIN
BIG “SORE SPOT”
IN EUROPE’S WAR
Unite'd States Seizes Number
Of German and Italian
Ships
The crisis remains tense in the Bal
kans, with German relations in an
extreme condition, and Yugoslavia con
tinuing in a state of revolution and dis
order. Yet, it is believed by authorita
tive military observers that there will
be no immediate attack by Germany
in the Balkans, eince it is felt officially
that Yugoslavia will not surrender to
Hitler’s demands and that Hitler is
not yet ready to fight until he has ex
hausted every diplomatic move to gain
his own enda
Failure of the Yugoslav government,
to define its foreign political course,
progressive mobilization of the Yugo
slav army, and increasing acts of al
leged vilence against Germans, were
listed as facts especially annoying to
the Reich government. Germany offi
cially pursued a policy of waiting on
the developments in Yugoslavia, but
front page charges in the press of
abuses against Germans prepared the
public for whatever action the Reich
may plan.
Additional thousands of Serbs, Croats,
Bosnians and Montenegrins continue
to pour into the cities of Yugoslavia to
join the army as popular indignation
flared in response to a German press
and radio campaign against the king
dom. Goverment circles reported that
Yugoslavia, Turkey and Soviet Russia
were seriously considering a joint neu
trality declaration aimed at producing
the strongest^ possible psychological
effect .
The Japanese foreign minister’s visit
j in Rome was hailed with wild demonstra
tions and conferences with Mussolini,
Count Ciano, King Emanuel and other
officials. Informed observers said they
believed the talks were devoted large
ly to the growing interest of the United
States in the war and what to do about
it.
The complete collapse of Italian East
Africa is predicted to be only a matter
of a few days, with the British now in
control of practically all of East Africa.
The United States has met protests
from Berlin and Rome against seizure
of 28 Italian and two German merchant
shins in American ports, with blanket
orders for immediate prosecution of of
ficers and crew who sabotaged 26 of
the vessels. Other western power., are
following the lead of the United States
in seizing foreign ships anchored in
their ports.
W. O. W. MEET DATE
Regular meetings of the W. O. W.
will be held every Thursday night, be
ginning April 10* instead of the pre
vious time of meeting every Monday
night, announcement has been made
by Ralph Lyday, secretary.
Eleven Young Men From Here
Will Be Inducted
April 7
Proof that Uncle Sam is speeding up
his program for national defense was
brought to the attention of the local
draft board here this week when the
| State Director of selective service is
sued a report that draft calls from now
I until further notice would be made
I once every ten days instead of once
each month. The draft board was ask
I ed to consider this step-up in its pro
j gram of planning and classifying men
Ifor reserve in Class I-A, both white and
colored.
Mrs. Allie B. Harllee, clerk of the
I local draft board, said here yesterday
I that the present registration of Tran
| sylvania county is 1,7782, and that ap
proximately 600 questionnaires have
already been sent out On the basis of
rteurns of these questionnaires, Mrs.
Harllee said that seventy-five per cent
of the men to whom questionnaires aro •
sent turn out to be in class 3-A—men
with dependents.
The draft quota for the current fiscal*
year, up to July 1, is 78. Up to the
first of April 28 men had been inducted
into service from this county, but with
the announcement of increased rate or
call Mrs. Harllee said the remaining 60
would be inducted in shorter order. She
said she did not know whether the
quota for the county would be in
creased due to emergency circum
stances, but that as yet she had had
no communication to that effect. She
said she expected that approximately
900 questionnaires, or about half of
the total number registered in the court-’
ty, would be sent out before the close
of the current fiscal year.
All doctors in the oounty are parti
cipating in the examination of regis
trants, Mrs. Harllee said, in order to
speed up the whole program of induc
tion.
Eleven young men from the county
I have been called in the first draft for
I April. They will be inducted at Port
j Jackson, South Carolina, on Monday,
j April 7. Three replacements, replac
| ing three w ho did not pass entrance
| examinations at Port Bragg in the last
call, will also be inducted at FJrt Jack
son, April 7.
Leader of the group drafted in the
j April 7 call is Craig’ Lee Misenheimer,
of Brevard. Marcus Ned Medford, of
Brevard, has been named assistant
leader. Others in the group are
Thomas Hilliard Hampton, Brevard;
Harvey Fred Scruggs, Pisgah Forest;
Roy Lee Robinson, Brevard; Guy An
drew Mull, Brevard; Hovey Ezekiel
Waldrop, R-l, Brevard; Sidney Marcus
| Mace. Brevard; Ivan Victor Galloway.
! Pisgah Forest; Albert Tuttle Kilpat
rick, Brevard; and Huey Jackson, Bre
i vard. Two substitutes, Dillard Crow,
R-l, Brevard, and Bert Wilson, Pisgah
Fores* are being held in reserve should
any of the above fail to pass entrance
I examinations at Fort Jackson.
Replacements fdr t?xc ihk^«. ^fho fail
ed to pass entrance examinatio.H^in
the last call are James Paul WhitmirF. -'^
East Fork, a volunteer; James Paul
Morrow, Brevard; and Paul Otto Young,
Brevard.
Mrs. Harllee said yesterday that a.
meeting has been planned for Sunday
night at the draft board office for the
group of draftees, at which time final
instructions will be given.
Three Negroes have been listed in
the local draft office for the April 19
call to Fort Bragg. That call will take
eight white men and two negroes float
the county. Names of the white draft
ees were not available yesterday. The
Negro draftees are Homer Smith, El lie
Edward Mills, and Daniel Webster Er
win, lal of Brevard. The latter is a vol
unteer.
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
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Kiwanis Club—Meets First and Third
Thursday, England Home, 18:16
o'clock.
Lions Club—Meets First and Third
Thursday, England Home 7 o’clock.
Chamber of Commerce—Meets Second
Thursday night, City Hall, at 7:30
o’clock.
Monroe Wilson Post of American Legion
—First and Third Tuesdays at 7:30
o’clock, City Hall.
I Women’s Civic Club—Meets every
first Monday at 3:30 o’clock.
D. A. R.—Second Monday afternoon a!
3:30 o’clock.
Brevard P.-T. A.—Second Tuesday aft
ernoon at grammar school, at 3:33
o'clock.
Brevard Board of Aldermen—Meets
First Monday night In month at
City Hall.
State Employment Service Officials at
Courthouse Every Wednesday.
County Board of Commissioners—Meets
Every First Monday.
Masonic Lodge—Meets every Second
and Fourth Friday Nights, 8 o’clock,
Masonic Hall.
Eastern Star—Meets First and Third
Tuesday Nights, 7:30 o’clock, Ma
sonic Hall.
W. O. W. at Brevard — Meets every
Thursday night at W. O. W. Hal)
TTrf^O tsuIsj asi
tlMU 10 a. m. to aesa.
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