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THREE SECTIONS THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County THREE SECTIONS Vol. 51, No. 20 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 15,1941 $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY Will Break Ground For Community Hospital Tomorrow Transylvania County Medical Society Is Formed By Doctors Officers For The Organization Were Elected At Initial Meeting A Transylvania County Medical So ciety has been organized here and charter for membership in the State Medical Society has been applied for, members of the organization which was formed last wTeek, have announced. Transylvania doctors who have signed up as charter members are: Dr. B. F. Cliff, Dr. E. S. English. Dr. G. B. Lynch, Dr. Charles Newland, Dr. J. E. Osborne. Dr. Julius Sader, and Dr. J. B. Wilkerson. All are practicing in Bre vard with the exception of Dr. Osborne, who has offices in Rosman. At the organization meeting at The Transylvania Community hospital Dr. B. F. Cliff was elected president of the newly-formed organization. Dr. Osborne was elected vice president, and Dr. Sader was named to the post of secre tary-treasurer. These officers have al ready assumed their duties and are rapidly making plans for a regular pro gram of work to be carried out In the organization. President Cliff pointed out that the Society should prove beneficial to every one, including doctors in the county and the community at large. He said practically every other county in this section had such a society and indicat ed that such a step for organization of the medical doctors in Transylvania was a decided step forward in the field of medical service in this county. Secretary Sader explained that the purpose of the organization was two fold—for both professional and social benefits. He said that at meetings dis cussion would bo held regarding cases confronting individual doctors and other professional discussion in general re lating to practice. He added that new methods in the profession would be dis cussed, individual mistakes reviewed for the benefit of all, and cooperative at tempts made to work out common prob lems here in the county. He pointed out, too, that from time to time prominent doctors and medical authorities would be brought here to speak to the Society on topics pertinent and informative for the medical world. According to present plans of the Medical Society meetings will be held on the first Tuesday evening of every month at eight o'clock. The meetings will be held at the Transylvania Com munity hospital, formerly known as Lyday Memorial hospital. JAYCEES PLAN A SECOND DANCE AT COUNTRY CLUB Will Be Held On Friday Even ing, May 23; Jungaleers To Play At a business meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday ■ight at the country club, another spring dance was planned for next Friday night, May 23, to be held at the club. The Clemson Jungaleers are scheduled *o play for the affair. President Ed Varner reporter] that the Jaycees made a profit on the first dance held in April and that the funds cleared will be used for a charter night tonquet which is tentatively scheduled for June 6. The Brevard Jaycees were informed this week that the national organization had approved the organizing of a junior (Continued on page 8) i »* TO REVISE MAILING LIST THIS WEEK-END In accordance with pos tal regulations, the mailing list of The Times will be revised this week-end and all persons whose sub scriptions have expired are urged to send in their renewals at once and not miss a single issue of the paper. Notices are mailed out regularly each month and if you have received a no tice, please be sure to mail, send or bring your renew al to the office before next Wednesday. “We are delighted over the fact that our subscrip tion list continues to grow and we appreciate the many complimentary re marks concerning the kind of a paper that we are en deavoring to publish,” Publisher Anderson stated this week. COFCTOOPEN ; A MEMBER DRIVE ' IN A FEW DAYS I _ | Will Solicit Memberships) In Business Houses And Among Individuals By the first of next week the Brevard Chamber of Commerce, with the Junior Chamber of Commerce cooperating’, ■will j launch their annual membership drive, j with a goal set of enlisting members of all the business houses in Brevard and the county as well as vastly increasing the regular individual membership. | Members of the Chamber of Commerce report that the drive will be intensive and all-inclusive and all persons and businesses are urged to cooperate with the program in every way possible. Only a small membership fee is being charged, they said, but the cooperation of citizens in the promotion of C of C activities will mean much to the suc cess of the program. Lewis P. Hamlin, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said here yes terday that Mrs. Ralph R. Fisher, sec retary for the Chamber, is now busy writing letters in answer to numerous inquiries from tourists who anticipate a trip to this section during the sum mer. Also the new color view folders, more than 10.000 of which have been prepared by the C of C, are being mail ed to leading tourist centers throughout the South. The folder depicts the beauties of Brevard and Transylvania county. Another project which the C of C is carrying out is that of constructing and ' erecting signs along all main highways leading to Brevard. These signs, too, tell of the advantages to be found here in “♦he land of waterfalls.” Tt was under stood that these signs would l>e com pleted in the near future. Mr. Hamlin said, in connection with membership drive, that prospects look better than ever for a good tourist sea son here this summer and that it is up to every citizen in the county to co operate in what the C of C is trying to do for Brevard and Transylvania coun ty. He urged that every one participate , in the Chamber program as far as it is ' possible for them to do so. RESIGNS PASTORATE REV. C. M. JONES, pastor of th Brevard-Davidson River Presby terian church since 1937, has re I signed his pastorate here to becom j pastor of the Presbyterian Chur h at Chapel Hill. He will assume his ! J duties there on June 1. Before coming here the R.-v Jones was pastor of the Presby- i terian church at CharIottes\ ille, j W. Va. _ PLUMMER’S HOLD FORMAL OPENING ! HERE THIS P. M.j Plummer’s Department stor« one the leading business houses in i • this week celebrates the forma! <• >ening of their newly remodeled store. The formal opening "party” will be held to night at the store from eight until ten o’clock with special music to be furnisn ed by Russell Lawson and his Swing Band, a group of college and high school boys. Tonight carnations will 1 presented lady visitors at the sto e, cigars will be given the gentlemen, ard candy to the children. Nothing will - < on sale. f I t Manager of Plummer’s is Robert H Plummer. Mrs. Plummer has char- ■ the ladies’ department, and Miss Ha ■: e ) McCrary, beginning today,* wll hava complete charge of. the downstairs f! , - Other members of the staff are Dorn Allison, Mae Gallamore, Mary Helt Galloway, Mrs. Nancy Gravely, Lot! Jenkins, and Charles Perry. The manager and the staff cordlali> invite the public to attend their formal I opening tonight. Architect’s View of New Hospital Building Shown here is the architect’s view of Transylvania’s new community hospital building, ground for which will be broken tomorrow morning. The building will be 112 feet long by 41 feet and 6 inches wide. (Copy Photo by Austinj ALDERMEN PASS ORDINANCE TO ! CONFINE DOGSi Fines Will Be Levied On Canine! Owners Who Don’t Cooperate In a special meeting here Tuesday j night the board of aldermen of the town passed an ordinance regarding the con- i finement of dogs during the month of j May, June, and July, and the vaccina- | tion against rabies. The ordinance fol- j lows: THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN j OF THE TOWN OF BREVARD I DO ORDAIN: Sec. 1. That during the months of j May, June and July of every year the owners of all dogs in the Town ! of Brevard shall keep them eon- j fined: Provided, that dogs that ha\ < I been properly vaccinated against , rabies may be allowed in publk if i muzzled and kept on leash. Set:. 2. That any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 1 and be subject to a fine not exceed ing the sum of fifty dollars. Sec. 3. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication. This the 13th day of May, 1941. Tonsil Clinic To Be Held Here June 3, 4 The annual Transylvania county ton sil clinic will be held here in the Bre vard elementary school building on June 3 and 4, Dr. G. B. Lynch, county health doctor, has announced. Dr. W. E. Brackett, eye, ear, nose and throat specialist of Hendersonville, assisted by other doctors and nurses and in the district health department, will have charge of the two-day clinic. Dr. Lynch said that approximately 25 children a day could be accommo dated .1' the clinic. Children served will be up 0 and 12 years of age. Appli cable ill be received at the local heal1 uartment on West Main street. TEACHERS NOT LISTED — > the teachers list for 1941-42 school yea; >r Transylvania county, published las -k, two teachers for the Brevard elerrc ary school were not included in! he They are Anna Mae Weaver and j M ur A. Hannah. Memberships Being Taken For Electric Co-op In County B. T. U. MEETING BE HELD TONIGHT Tonight at eight o'clock at the First Baptist church here a meeting of all Baptist Training Union leaders and sponsors, general officers of unions throughout the county, will be held. The j purpose of the meeting is to discuss the work of the various unions in the Transylvania Association, in the interest of strengthening and enlarging the units. There are ten Baptist churches out of a total of twenty-eight in the county which now have some unit of the Train ing Union. They are the First Baptist t-hurch in Brevard, the Second Baptist i hunch here, Uittle River, Enon, Pisgah Konst, Carr's Hill, Glady Branch, Mount Moriah, Cherryfleld, and Mount Moriah Calvert. Pastors of the churches and the ! Training Union personnel are urged to I attend the council meeting. SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT! I J. B. JONES, who has just re ceived approval from the State Board of Education at Raleigh of his reelection as Superintendent of Transylvania county public schools. Mr. Jones Is now serving his fifth term in that capacity. I Other Cities Being Talked | | As Site For Brevard College j 1 17 ve Alternatives For The Methodist Institution Are Listed In Paper t - Other cities besides Winston-Salem : are now being considered as a site for | the relocation of Brevard College, ac ’ cording to information contained in a | ra ws report in The Charlotte Observer ; for Tuesday, and apparently the college | ill be closed here or moved unless ad tional funds for buildings, equipment id endowment can be raised within the ; ext year on the basis of information mtained in news stories in both The i Asheville Citizen and The Charlotte oserver. The Charlotte Observer said Tuesday: . “That Charlotte may be the site of new million-and-a-half-dollar educa onal Institution replacing Brevard unior college was seen as a possibility ist night when Dr. E. J. Coltrane, 1 president of the school, said in a tele phone anifUlMi that this city bee an "excellent chance” to get the new j plant if present plans for discontinuing operation at Brevard go through. "Lack of funds has made it impos sible for us to operate under the present setup,” Dr. Coltrane said, “and we’d rather close down entirely than main tain a sub-standard institution.” "Clarence Kuester, president of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement last night that his or ganization ‘assures Dr. Coltrane and the Methodists of North Carolina utmost co-operation in helping to establish a new college in this area.’ Investment of $3,000,000 "The new school as proposed by Dr. Coltrane, would entail a capital invest ment of three million dollars, half of which would be used for buildings and equipment, half for an endowment fund. “It would be a four-year standard col lege, incorporating the junior college system with an added two years for (Oonttnmod on pace tj Federal REA Man Is Favorably Impressed With Possibilities Persons active in securing a rural electrification project for Upper Transyl vania county reported here this week that representatives elected by citizens of the communities of Rosman, Quebec, Ivake Toxaway and Gloucester have met with officiate of the Cruso Electric Membership corporation of nearby Hay wood county and have worked out tenta tive plans enabling them to proceed with the taking of memberships and ease ments in the area which the proposed rural electrification setup would serve. According to reports of the repre sentatives much interest is being shown and a large number of citizens in the county have already signed for mem bership in the projected cooperative. W. S. Halsey, representing the Rural Electrification Administration office in Washington, has already spent a full day in the county, with County Agent Julian A. Glazener and Jimmie Moore, Cruso superintendent, looking over the area to be served by the proposed co operative and has reported that he is favorably impressed with the possibili ties. Objective now of the group interested in securing the cooperative is to secure five customers per mile of line in the county and representatives say that from present indications this can be easily done. The electric line would come into Transylvania by way of the Caney Fork section of Jackson county, •and right of way for the line has already been mapped up to the Transylvania county border. After entering the coun ty the line would be erected through Gloucester, Hake Toxaway, Quebec, and on down into Rosman. Some 300 customers in the com munities outlined above are expected to (Continued from front page) LAST RUES ARE HELD FOR MRS. 0. L. ERWIN TUESDAY Mrs. Erwin, One of Town's Leading Citizens, Died Monday Morning Funeral service was held last Tues day afternoon at the residence in Bre vard for Mrs. O. Ij. Erwin, who died at her home here early Monday morn ins’, followins a brief illness due to a heart attack. The service was conducted by Rev. J. C. Seagle, former rector of St. Philips’ Episcopal church here, and Rev. C. M. Jones, pastor of the Bre vard Presbyterian church. Interment was in the Davidson River cemetery. Mrs. Erwin had been in failing health for some time but was able to attend to her usual home duties and other mat ters and was apparently in normal health up to a short time before her death .She awakened members of her family early Monday morning who sum moned a physician, and within lees than an hour she passed quietly away. Mrs. Erwin was active in community, club and church affairs, and was greatly in terested in the progress of Brevard and did much toward its growth and wel fare before prevented by ill health. Surviving are the husband: three step-children, Miss Kathleen Erwin, Washington, D. C., Mrs. Iamar Lewis, Etaleigh, and Mrs. A. K. Lewis, Green ville; also two sisters, Mrs. F. P. Sledge, Brevard, and Mrs. E. P. Mc Collum, Greenaboro, Ala. Pallbearers were Fred Johnson, Don Ud Jenkins, George Nicholson, Philip Prtoh, Verne CSement, W. J. Wallis. CONSTRUCTION WILL BEGIN IMMEDIATELY ON 25-BED BUILDING To Break Ground At Eleven O’clock Tomorrow For $86,000 Structure STRAUS WILL TURN DIRT Tomorrow morning- at eleven o’clock the first shovel of dirt will be turned at the site on which the new $86,000 Transylvania Community Hospital will be erected and immediately following, at least by the first of next week, a con struction crew will be on the grounds to start the building program. Harry H. Straus president of the Ecusta Paper corporation and one of the principal leaders in securing funds for the new hospital, will turn the traditional first shovel of dirt. Other members of the hospital committee will participate tn the ceremony. The public is cordially In vited to witness this breaking ground event. The hospital building is to be erected on the corner of Hayes street and the Country Club road just this side of the present Transylvania Community hos pital, formerly known as Lyday Me morial hospital. It will contain 25 beda and will be of modern brick fire-resisting construction. Dimensions of the building are 112 feet in length by 41 feet 6 inches in width. It will be a one-story' structure with basement half above the ground level. Features will include a modern operating room with latest equipment, modern delivery room offices, and other necessary rooms. The plans were drawb by J. E. Sirrine and company, archi tects of Greenville. South Carolina. Contractor for the building is the Ftske Carter Construction company, also of Greenville, South Carolina. The drive for securing funds to erect the new hospital was started in the fall of 1939. Since that time the fund has steadily grown, and people of the com J munity have raised, including present J tentative pledges, some $38,000. The Duke Endowment Fund recently in creased their allotment from $18,000 to $28,000, thereby giving a boost to the j expanded building plans which were j changed after initial plans were laid | out. It was originally expected that the j hospital building woulf\ cost approxl ! mately $50,000, but when plans were I changed to enlarge the building the cost j was hiked to an estimated $86,000 for ! building and equipment. Ralph H. j Ramsey Jr., chairman.of the board of ! trustees of the present Transylvania Community hospital said that additional funds are still to be raised in the county, to meet the added expense and, of course, contributions will be welcomed. Members of the building committee for the hospital said yesterday that, al though it was not vet known when the j (Continued on par/e 8) | PRO TEM MAYOR ; AND COMMITTEES NAMED AT MEET .At a special meeting of the Mayor and City board of aldermen Tuesday night, J. E. Waters was elected Mayor Pro Tern or Vice Mayor, and chairm&n j were elected to head the various com | mittees. t R. J. Duckworth was named to head ! the Finance commitee; J. E. Waters j was elected chairman of the streets j committee; Don M. Jenkins was elected j chairman of the water, sewer and sani tary committee; Fred Holt was elected head of the parks and pool committee, and J. A. Macfle was named chairman j of the lights committee. FIVE IN COUNTY ARE BITTEN BY MAD DOG It was understood here ! this week that four chil- I dren, three belonging to | Mr. and Mrs. John Brown I and one belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hensley, of the Country Club section I of Brevardm have been bit j ten by a mad dog and are | now being treated for ra bies. It is reported also that Mrs. John Brown was I | bitten and is being treat i! ed. I { Details could not be | learned, but from reports j the children and Mrs. j Brown were bitten by a | | family dog, which was ! later found to be mad. Officials in the town are I to enforce a law requiring | confinement of dogs unless j vaccinated, and the coun> | ty health department is j planning a vaccination campaign. Persons should be especially wary of stray I dogs and report them at I once to officers. i- -1
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