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Volume 51; No. 23
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941
$1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
College Commencement Week
Opens Here Next Saturday
Graduation Exercises Set For
Tuesday; Some 115 To
Graduate
Brevard College's seventh annual
commencement exercises will get under
way here this week-end with the an
nual oratorical contest for men and
women to be staged in the college audi
torium Saturday evening at eight
o'clock. The graduation exercises are
set for next Tuesday morning at 10:30
o’clock when some 115 candidates for
graduation are scheduled to receive
their diplomas.
The oratorical contest which opens
commencement events at the college is
an annual affair in which girls compete
among themselves and boys among
themselves for two coveted medals. Sev
eral have announced for competition,
and it is believed that this year’s con
test will be one of the best ever staged
at the college.
The annual commencement sermon
will be preached at the Methodist
church here next Sunday morning at
eleven o'clock. The Rev. J. G. Huggin,
Jr., pastor of the First Methodist church
at Waynesville, will deliver the sermon.
Special music will be furnished by the
Brevard College Concert Choir.
On the lawn of the President’s home
next Sunday afternoon, from five until
seven o’clock, a reception will be held
by the faculty for members of the grad
uating class, alumni, and parents of
members of the graduating class.
The annual Alumni banquet will be
staged next Monday evening at seven
o’clock in the West Hall dining room.
Bill Rock, Alumni president, will pre
side. A number of outstanding guests
are expected to attend along with a
large number of previous graduates of
the college. Scheduled on the program
are Alumni of Weaver and Rutherford
Colleges, the two colleges that were
merged to form Brevard College. Also
at the banquet the annual Alumni Cup
Award for raising money for the col
lege student loan fund will be presented.
This is the first year the cup has been
presented. The recipient will be Miss
Geraldine Groce, of Winston-Salem.
Officers for the next year will be elected,
it is understood.
Climaxing commencement week ac
tivities. of cou>^e, will be tiv* jyadiui
tion exercises in the college auditorium
next Tuesday morning at ten-thirty,
o’clock when approximately 115 stu
dents will stand in line to receive their
diplomas. Scheduled to make the com
mencement address is L. P. Hollis,
superintendent of the Parker District
schools, Greenville, S. C„ one of this
section’s outstanding educators. Special
music will be furnished by the college
choir and Miss Laura Schafer, who will
be accompanied in a violin solo by Al
vin Moore. Diplomas will be awarded
to members of the class by Dr. E. J.
Coltrane, president, after which the
presentation of special awards will be
made.
Lions To Have Meet
At White Pines Camp
R. F. Thomas, president of the Bre
vard Lions Club, said here yesterday
that tonight's meeting of the club will
be held at the White Pines camp ground
in Pisgah Forest at seven o’clock. A
picnic dinner will be served.
President Thomas urged all Lions to
be present for the meeting.
Meade Will Preach At
Presbyterian Church
f
Dr. George Meade, of the staff uf
Asheville Callege, will fill the pulpit at
the Presbyterian church here next Sun
day morning, at 11 o’clock, according
to announcement by church members.
Members here pointed out that Dr.
Meade has preached here in the past
many times, during vacations of the
pastor, and he was exceptionally well
received.
Officials of the Presbyterian church
here said yesterday that pending the
securing of a pastor for the local charge
services will be held regularly by min
isters who may be available for supply
work.
Welcome Rain Fell
Here Last Monday
The rains came down in re
freshing torrents in Transyl
vania county and other points
in Western North Carolina last
Monday, bringing crop-builds
ing moisture to farm lands
throughout this section, after
almost two months of dry
weather that had threatened
to damage crops extensively in
this area.
For the past two weeks early
vegetables and truck garden
produce had been consistently
rising in price, due, in part, to
the dry weather attack on
growing conditions. Agricul
tural specialists were predict
ing, if the dry weather had
continued, wide damage to
crops. Streams and watersheds
were also being affected by the
prolonged dry spell.
COMMISSIONERS
APPROVE HIRING
A HOME AGENT
Work Of Home Agent Be Ef
fective July 1; Not Named
As Yet
At their regular meeting here on
Monday the board of county commis
sioners, composed of K. Carl Allison.
W. W. Brittain and J. L. Wilson, ap
proved the proposal that had been pre
sented by a number of leading citizens
of the county in regard to securing the
services of a home demonstration agent.
According to terms of the approval an
agent will be secured for the county by
July 1 of this year.
The set up for such services as those
of a home demonstration agent call for
the county to allot only a portion of
the salary and expense of that agent,
the remainder being paid by the state
and the federal government. It is un
derstood that Transylvania county's
portion of the salary of the home agent
will be only $40 per month.
No home agent has been named to
fill the position here, and it is expected
that it will be left up to the state office
to appoint her, since the state govern
ment furnishes a majority of the ex
penses attached.
There had been a movement under
way in Transylvania for some time to
secure the services of a home agent
here, and last Monday a group of in
terested citizens appeared before the
county commissioners to petition them
to apporpriate the county’s portion of
expense for the agent.
A special committee also met with
the county commissioners Monday to
ask them to appropriate funds for se
curing the part time services of a book
mobile in this county. No decision was
made in this case; it was left for later
investigation.
The commissioners gave their ap
proval to the proposed opening of Pro
bart street from Caldwell to Gaston
street, a project which members of the
Methodist church have been seeking
tor some time. Opening of this street
would provide an outlet other than by
Gaston street from the Methodist church
and would lighten the parking prob
lem, it was pointed out by members of
the Methodist church and other inter
ested citizens who petitioned for the
project to be approved. The approval of
the commissioners in this case merely
gives their sanction to the project, it
was pointed out. since the town board
of aldermen would have to approve and
appropriations be made for it before
construction could actually take place.
COLLEGE CHOIR
IS TO PRESENT
CONCERT FRIDAY
Spring Concert Will Be Given
By Group In High School
Auditorium
The Brevard College Concert Choir,
under the direction of John M. Hawkins,
head of the department of music at the
college, will be presented in a spring
concert at the Brevard high school
auditorium Friday evening at eight
o’clock. The Choir recently returned
from an extended tour which included
stops at the nation’s capital and the
capital of the State.
In an interview here yesterday Mr.
Hawkins, who is a graduate of the
Westminster Choir College, Princeton
University, said that the concert Fri
day night would be the last presented
by the Choir this year and, from all in
dications, would be one of the best pre
sented this year. He pointed out that
the group of singers, after a full year
of practice and formal appearances,
will undoubtedly be at their best in
this appearance.
ORR TO ENTER
ARMY SERVICE
AT FORT BRAGG
Mark Taylor Orr, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Oliver Orr of Brevard, leaves here
today with the selective service con
tingent from Transylvania for Fort
■Bragg where he will be Inducted in the
Army service. Young Orr is volunteer
ing.
For the past four years Orr has been
editor of publicatons and assistant di
rector of the Southern Council on In
ternational Relations, a public educa
tion service of the Carnegie Endow
ment for International Peace and the
University of North Carolina. He is on
leave of absence from his duties in that
capacity for the duration of the war
emergency.
ABOUT COLLEGE
RECEPTION
Mrs. E. J. Coltrane has announced
that the faculty reception for Brevard
College seniors next Sunday afternoon
from 5 until 7 o’clock on the lawn of
the President’s home, will be open to
all Alumni, parents of seniors and par
ents of all Alumni.
AS POST OFFICE WAS DEDICATED
This scene was “shot” last Friday afternoon during the
dedication ceremony of Brevard’s new post office build
ing. Faces recognizable in the picture are, left to right,
Mayor Carl Hardin, Rev. E. P. Billups, Wythe M. Peyton,
Asheville postmaster, Attorney Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr.,
Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, Wrightson Chambers, dedicatory
speaker, T. Coleman Galloway, Brevard postmaster, Eddie
Varner, Ed M. Anderson, Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey.
(Photo by Austin)
McCall arrested
CONNECTION WITH
FISH THEFT HERE
Approximately 400 Game Fish
Were Taken From Rear
ing Pools
Austin McCall, resident of the Little
Mountain section of Transylvania, was
arrested last Sunday morning and
charged with the theft of approximately
100 game fish—rainbow trout from
the Davidson River fish rearing station
in the Pisgah National Forest. The
haul was made between 11:30 p.m. and
2:00 a.m., Tuesday night, May 27, ac
cording to forest service officials. The
theft was not officially disclosed until
after his arrest, but since Wednesday
morning, May 28, officers had been
tracking down suspects. They indicat
ed that probably one or two other per
sons were involved in the case.
J. B. Fortin, forest ranger, said that
the fish had been removed from the
rearing pool with a seine. All of the
fish had been marked for stocking in
streams of the Pisgah game preserve,
he said, and would have been stocked
during the month of June. The actual
meat value of the fish was estimated
at $100, but far more important than
that, officials said, the experiment in
stocking now being carried out, was
broken up. They explained that the
number of fish taken from the pools
would have equaled one day’s fishing
for anglers on the game preserve. The
fish were about 11 inches in length
and would have averaged in weight ap
proximately one-half pound each, the
officials said.
Evidence finally pointed to McCall,
officers said, and early Sunday morn
ing U. S. Deputy Marshal Paul Sossman
of Asheville, J. B. Fortin, forest ranger,
and other local officers arrested him
and placed him in the Asheville jail.
McCall, in a hearing before U. S.
■Commissioner Alex Kizer yesterday,
was bound over to the Federal term of
superior court in Asheville next No
vember.
His bond was named at $1,000.
Girls of 14 are considered too old to
take part in dancing ceremonies on the
island of Bali. They begin to dance
when they are 3.
THE TOWN BOARD
LENDS APPROVAL
TO APPOINTMENTS
Will Investigate Street Project;
May Have Swimming Pool
Open Soon
At a meeting of the town board of
aldermen in the City Hall last Monday
evening the following appointments of
municipal employees were approved:
Gill Thomas, appointed to the local
police force, will begin duties here on
June 15. He has had considerable ex
perience in that field of work, it is un
derstood, and is being taken on as a
full-time police officer. He comes here
from Greenville, S. C.
Glenn Galloway, a native of Brevard,
was appointed special policeman for
Brevard during the months of July and
August.
E. C. Henderson was appointed build
j ing inspector for the town of Brevard.
He replaces A. N. Case in this capacity.
At the meeting Monday night the
l>oard was petitioned by a group of lo
cal citizens, including many members
of the Methodist church, to open Pro
bart street from Caldwell to Gaston
street", thereby providing an outlet from
the Methodist church other than Gas
ton street and also alleviate the park
ing problem to a certain extent. The
board approved investigation of the
project by a special committee and gave
favorable response to the petition.
The board also asked a special com
mittee to investigate and make plans
for opening of the municipal swimming
pool. They said, in all probability, the
swimming pool would be opened to the
public by June 15.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Patients reported to be in the Com
munity Hospital on Wednesday were:
Mrs. Mary Golderer and infant son,
Harry Charles, Jr., born Tuesday, June
3; Mrs. A. H. Harris, Jesse Jackson,
Edward Helms, Alice Carolyn Hawkins.
LATE BULLETIN
Mrs. Jimmie English and
Robert Duckworth were mar
ried last night at eight o’clock
in Greenville, S. C.
Movement Would Interest A
Commercial Hotel Builder
SYRIA MAY BE
NEXT GOAL OF
AXIS POWERS
Possibility Reigns of French
Participation Against
Britain
Syria is seen by military observers as
Hitler’s next goal after his airborne
parachutists conquered the Greek isle
of Crete in a mass raid lasting- 12 days,
causing evacuation of British troops.
Hastily re-armed units of the French
air force have been secretly shifted to
Syria and Tunisia, with Germany’s
consent, to enforce a “single handed”
French defense against further British
attacks, it was announced Wednesday
in reliable quarters.
In a new move to strengthen Britain's
Atlantic life-line, the United States
maritime commission announced Wed
nesday that American vessels would
henceforth handle all British shipping
services from Canada and the United
States to Australia and New Zealand.
“This will release a dozen British ves
sels for Great Britain’s own war ef
forts,” said an announcement from the
commission.
Soviet Russia was the first country
to train armed parachutists.
Commerce Officials Pledge Co
operation In The Move-1
ment Here
A movement is under way here to in
terest someone in building a commercial
hotel in Brevard to accommodate the in
creased tourist business in the summer
season as well as to provide accommo
dations for traveling people through
out the entire year. It was pointed out
that present hotel accommodations in
Brevard are not adequate to take care
of the demand, since Brevard has grown
considerably within the past few years,
thereby attracting more business and
professional people, more visitors, and
more tourists.
Officials of the Brevard Chamber of
Commerce and the Junior Chamber of
Commerce have expressed the opinion
that such a hotel is needed here and
have given hearty approval to the idea.
An official of the Chamber of Com
merce said yesterday that he was very
much interested in seeing a new com
mercial hotel established here and that
his organization would cooperate in
every way possible in bringing about
the culmination of the movement now
under way.
The idea of erecting a new hotel in
Brevard was first given prominence
here late in January when a number
of citizens here gave that in reply to
a question as to what Brev^xl and
Transylvania county needed® badly.
Since that time the prospects for such
an enterprise have steadily grown.
Daily Vacation Bible Schools
Report Good Enrollment Here
THREE MEN ARE
BEHIND WITH SS
QUESTIONNAIRES
Have Not Returned Draft
Questionnaires Sent Out
April 9, 16
The Transylvania county draft board,
of which Mrs. Allie P>. Harllee is clerk,
has issued an appeal to the public for
help in locating' three selective service
registrants who have failed to return
their questionnaires and have been
temporarily classified as delinquents.
The three registrants who have fail
ed to report, according to the draft
board, are Adgar A. Stamey, age 28 at
time of registration, of Brevard, Route
1; Glenn T. Buckner, age 29, at time
of registration, of Balsam Grove; Otis
Wqodrow Owen, age 23 at time of
registration, of Balsam Grove. The
questionnaires were mailed to the first
two registrants on April 9. and to the
latter one on April 16.
Mrs. Allie B. Harllee, clerk of the lo
cal board, said that according to infor
mation furnished her Stamey is wanted
by local law officers on a charge of de
sertion, but that as yet he has not been
apprehended. He is charged with de
serting his wife and children. The last
report the local board has had from
Owen was that he was working on the
Glenville dam project. No direct report
was had from Buckner, but his parents
informed the local board that he Is
“away looking for work.” This was
several weeks ago.
Mrs. Harllee said that though the
board was not pressing charges of de
linquency as yet on these three men,
it was urging that they report at once.
She said that anyone knowing the
whereabouts of one or all of these men
should get in touch with the board here
immediately.
W.M.U.MEETAT
PBGAH FOREST
NEXT THURSDAY
State Organization Member
Will Deliver Principal
Speech At Event
The annual meeting of the Transyl
vania Associational of the Baptist W.
M. U. will be held at the Pisgah Forest
Baptist church Thursday, June 12, in an
all-day session, beginning at 10 o’clock.
Mrs. W. D. Briggs, of the State W.
M. U. organization, Raleigh, will be the
principal speaker on the day’s program.
The superintendent’s message will be
given by Mrs. J. L. Underwood, super
intendent of the Transylvania associa
tion. Mrs. J. R. Morgan, district super
intendent of Waynesville, will lead the
open conference at the afternoon ses
sion.
The day’s program will include: De
votional, Mrs. B. W. Thomason; recog
nition of pastors and visitors; response,
Mrs. Fred Monteith; business; super
intendent’s message, Mrs. J. L. Under
wood; report of young people’s leader.
Mrs. M. C. Shipman; training school
and Margaret Fund, Mrs. Ed Mackey;
mission study, Mrs. J. W. Glazener;
stewardship, Mrs. L. E. Jaeckel; per
sonal service, Mrs. W. B. Sprinkle;
address, Mrs. W. D. Briggs; lunch;
prayer; special music by Brevard Y.
W. A. ; open conference conducted by
Mrs. J. R. Morgan; report of com
mittees; playlet, “No Time”, directed by
Mrs. M. C. Shipmap; benediction.
I
REA COMMITTEE
ATTENDS STATE
MEET IN RALEIGH
Report That Group Already
Has 150 Paid Memberships
In County
A committee representing the pro
posed Rural Electrification Project in
Upper Transylvania left here Tuesday
for Raleigh where they are attending
a state meeting of the REA and will
present their survey and application
for an REA extension into this county.
The state meeting was held Wednesday.
It was understood here that REA of
ficials from Washington were present
at the state meeting.
Attending the meeting, along with
the committee from Transylvania, are
Jimmie Moore, superintendent of the
Cruso Electric Membership corporation,
Jack Lynn, county agent for Haywood,
R. E. Uackey, county agent for Jack
son, Howard Clapp, county agent for
Swain. The committee from Transyl
vania was composed of Julian Olaze
ner, county agent, Walter McNeely, M.
O. McCall and A. M. Paxton.
Members of the local committee stat
ed that more than 150 paid up mem
berships for the electric cooperative
here had already been paid in.
New York’s 11,000 firemen fought
more than 28,000 flree in 1940.
Some 200 Pupils Are Enrolled
In Two Schools Conducted
Here
By Wednesday of this week approxi
mately 200 students had enrolled in the
two Daily Vacation Bible schools being
conducted in Brevard—one at the First
Baptist church and one at the Metho
dist church. Members of the staffs of
the two schools expressed themselves
as being well pleased with the enroll
ment, which may be enlarged as the
schools progress through the remainder
of this week and next. They were open
ed on Monday, and classes are being
conducted from 9 until 11:30 o’clock
each week-day morning except Satur
day when no classes are held.
The First Baptist church school, of
which Mrs. Melvin Gillespie is prin
cipal. reported an enrollment of around
150 pupils yesterday. Four departments
have been set up, including inter
mediate, junior, primary and beginners.
Superintendent of the intermediate de
partment is Mrs. A. J. Beddingfield.
Assisting her are Mrs. Knox DeLong
and the pastor of the church, Rev. B.
W. Thomason. In the junior department
Mrs. Paul Tindall is superintendent,
and assisting her are Mrs. Hugh Holli
field, Mrs. T. E. Reid, Mrs. H. Q. Dor
sett, Mrs. G. F. Gallamore, Mrs. R. L.
Aiken, Rev. E. R. Pendleton, J. A.
1 Crisp, Randal Lyday and E. F. Tilson.
Mrs. Tom Phillips is superintendent of
the primary department. Working with
her in that department are Mrs. Eddie
Varner, Jr., Mrs. B. W. Thomason,.
Mrs. Thomas Hollifield, Mies Rosalie
Martin, Mrs. J. E. Mosier and Miss
Betty McCall. Superintending the be
ginners department is Mrs. John Can
trell, who has the following assistants r
Mrs. Charles Lacey, Mrs. E. R. Pendle
ton, Mrs. George Clark, Mrs. Leslie
Poor and Miss Dorothy Poole. Other of
ficers of the school, besides Mrs. Gil
lespie, are Jean Thomason, pianist, and
Clarence Garren, secretary.
In the Methodist school here some
50 or 60 pupils were reported enrolled
Wednesday. The staff there is composed
of Rev. E. P. Billups, supervising the
school and in charge of the intermediate
department: Miss Rachel Orr, in charge
of the junior department ; Miss Bill
Aiken, in charge of the primary de
partment; and Mrs. Fred Holt, in
aharge of the beginners department.
Miss Beth Buckner is assisting in the
beginners department.
Both schools will close on Friday,
June 13, when graduation exercises will
be held.
The United States nas more than
4,000,000 motor trucks.
COLLEGE BOARD
BE IN SESSION
HICKORY TODAY
Committee Representing Bre
vard Townspeople Will
Be Present At Meet
The hoard of trustees of Brevard
College, composed of eighteen members,
will meet this Thursday morning at
Hickory, according to information re
leased here yesterday. It is expected
that the board will discuss the proposed
removal of the college from Brevard to
some city in the Piedmont area.
A special ciitzens committee has been
named by Brevard townspeople to rep
resent them at the meeting of the board
and present argument for retaining the
college at Brevard. Besides the special
committee, a delegation of citizens is
expected to attend the meeting. The
committee, headed by J. B. Jones, coun
ty superintendent of schools, will ask
for retainment of the college at Brevard
on the grounds that the Methodist
church should have an institution of
higher learning in this section of the
state, that Brevard is an ideal location
for such an institution, and that stu
dents in this section will be handicapped
if the college is removed, it is under
stood.
Carrier Pigeon Falls
At C. R. Sharpe Home
Bearing two numbered
bands on its legs, a carrier
pigeon fell in the yard of the
home of C. R. Sharpe at; Selica
last Monday afternoon. The
pigeon seemed to be injured in
the wing, it was reported by
members of Mr. Sharpe’s fam
ily.
On the right leg was a metal
band with the following letter
ing: 1253-AU-40NBC. On the
left leg was a rubber band
bearing the figures 648, N-856.
The pigeon, though injured
when it landed in the yard, is
reported to be ready to take off
again now. Mr. Sharpe is hold
ing the pigeon awaiting inf or