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Vol. 51; No. 24
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941
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Red Cross Aquatic School
Opens Eighteenth Session
Noted People Are On Staff Of
Eighteenth Annual Session
Of School
The eighteenth annual session of the
American Red Cross National Aquatic
school opened at Camp Carolina near
here yesterday morning at ten o’clock
and will continue through June 22. The
Red Cros6 Aquatic school, two sessions
of w^hich are held at Camp Carolina
every summer, is one of five such
schools conducted annually in Eastern
America. The next session of the school
will be held here in August.
Directing the school this year is
Harry A. Kenning, field representative
of the American Red Cross from Wash
ington, D. C. Mr. Kenning has been
coming to Brevard in connection with
the camp for many years, as well as
have most of the rest of the twenty-odd
members of the staff. Assistant direct
or for the current session is Charles
(Chuck) Mix, field representative for
the Red Cross in North and South
Carolinas. Mrs. Fannie Mix is dean of
women and school nurse. They come
from Anderson, South Carolina. James
McMillan, director of the Florida State
Fire school, of Cocoa. Florida, is the
dean of men and director of pageantry
at the school here.
Between 175 and 200 students have
enrolled for study in the various courses
offered at the Red Cross school. These
students represent a large number of
the Southern States and come for study
at the school to prepare themselves for
camp counselors and as qualified in
structors in their home Red Cross units.
Courses offered at the school include
those of first aid. farm and home acci
dent prevention, life saving and water
safety, swimming and diving, boating
and canoeing, recreational swimming
and pageantry.
The staff at the Red Cross school is
composed of leaders in first aid, safety,
and water front activities from many
sections of Eastern America, and in
cluded in the group are outstanding
swimmers and leaders in other fields.
A complete list of the staff members
follows:
Dr. Hubert Plaster, of Shelby, Miss ^
Miriam Sheldon of the Women’s Col
lege of the University of North Caro
lina. Greensboro. Miss Louise Stuhr,
Charleston • Carolina « Keneth
Wooten, Wilmington; Kyle Tallent,
Manatee, Florida: A. E. (Al) Gordon,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Mrs. Fannie
Mix, Anderson, South Carolina; Brian
McCarty, Fort Pierce. Florida; Dan
McCarty, Fort Pierce, Florida; Mrs.
Katherine Rawls Thompson, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida; James McMillan,
Cocoa, Florida; Thomas Herbert, Char
leston, South Carolina; James H. Al
len, Jacksonville, Florida; Frank Cul
vern. Charlotte; D. C. Duncan, Blue
field, West Virginia: Paul Huff, Atlan
ta, Georgia; Dr. John McGehee, Cedar
town. Georgia; Stephen McGranaham.
Miami, Florida; Dorothy Tollison, Pea
body College, Nashville, Tennessee;
Josephine Woodward, Birmingham.
Alabama; I>eita Cathcart. Miss Billy
Howington, and William Stead.
THREE CAMPS IN
PRE-SEASON ARE
OPEN IN COUNTY
Mary Gwynn, Sapphire And j
Eagles Nest Are Open
This Month
Three pre-season camps are operat
ing in Brevard through the month of
June, before opening of the regular or
ganized summer camps here the latter
part of June and the first week in July.
One of the pre-camps is for girls, one
for both girls and boys, and the third is
for family groups.
Camp Mary Gwynn opened its seventh
season at Camp Transylvania the first
of June and wil continue in operation
until June 28. Around 50 campers, boys
and girls from four to 12 years of age,
are in attendance. A dozen or more
states are represented in the enroll
ment, the majority coming from the
southwest and middlewest states. Miss
Mary Gwynn, of Leaksville, is director,
assisted by a competent and experienc
ed staff of 17 or more counselors.
The program of the camp centers
around the needs and interests of the
younger child. Two new features, added
last season and in effect this year, are
horseback riding and the nursery
school.
The pre-camp for girls at Camp Sap
phire opened on June 9 and will con
tinue until June 30. Thirty-five girls
from the ages of six to 16 are enrolled
for the three weeks’ session. Mrs.
Dorothy Fetzer, of Brevard, and Mrs.
Bernard Fetzer, of Concord, are the di
rectors. A capable staff of 12 counselors
assist in the various camp activities.
Eagles Nest camp will operate a pre
camp for family groups from June 15 to
June 30, before the opening of its regu
lar camp for girls the first of July.
Mrs. Thomas Pearce Bailey, of Brevard,
and Winter Park. Fla., is director and
owner of Eagles Nest camp.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Patients reported to be in the Com
munity Hospital on Wedneeday yere:
Mrs F. E. Faucher and infant daugh
ter, Mary Ann Moonyean, born on Sat
urday, June 8; Mrs. Harry Golderer and
infant son, Harry Charles, Jr., Edward
Helms and Herbert We/bb.
F. BROWN CARR
IS APPOINTED
USO CHAIRMAN
Will Head Campaign For Rais
ing Funds For Organiza
tion In County
Governor Broughton has appointed
F. Brown Carr, manager of the Carr
Lumber company store, Pisgah Forest,
as chairman for Transylvania county
in a campaign to raise funds for the
United Service Organization, according
to announcement received here yester
day. Quota set for the county is $250.
Mr. Carr said here yesterday that
plans were being formulated for carry
ing out the campaign in the county and
that w’ork would begin immediately
upon completion of the plans.
The United Service Organizations is
a merger of the activities, for war work,
of the Y. M. C. A., the National Cath
olic Community Service, the Salvation
Army, the Y. W. C. A„ the Jewish
Welfare Board, and the National Trav
elers Aid Association. This cooperative
ecort will eliminate competition and
duplication of effort which were preval
ent in the last war, reduce expense and
increase efficiency.
Mr. Carr pointed out that the govern
ment gives the boys in service every
care while on the military reservation,
but when they leav^ on week-ends to
visit nearby towns, which in many
cases are very small and unable to pro
vide wholesome recreation facilities and
sufficient religious environment, they
therefore become victims of "juke
joints”, "frailer palaces”, bootleg shacks,
and other places of the lowest order.
The United Service Organizations pro
pose to change these conditions by of
fering. in buildings and on grounds pro
vided by the Government. wholesome
and decent leisure-time activities and a
homelike atmosphere, to the end that
our boys may return to their homes
improved physically, mentally, and in
character.
This movement was treated st the
request of the President of the United
Ptates. backed by the full support of
the War and Navy Departments.
Ask Cooperation In
Vaccination of Dogs
Dr. G. R. Lynch, county health doc
tor, has announced that it has been
brought to his attention that people in
some sections of the county are not co
operating in the campaign to vaccinate
dogs for rabies. Dr. Lynch said here
yesterday that it was very important
that every dog owner cooperate in or
der that the campaign be effective.
He also pointed out that it was neces
sary to have dogs vaccinated every
year and the fact that they were vac
cinated last year had no bearing on
the present vaccination. He emphasized
that the vaccination was compulsory
by virtue of a state law and that the
fee for vaccination, 75c. would be re
funded in the tax levy if the vaccina
tion were made by an inspector or a
veternarian.
Huggin Speaker
At Commencement
Rev. J. G. Hu^sin, Jr., pastor of the
First Methodist church. Waynesville.
delivered the commencement sermon to
the graduates of Brevard College last
Sunday morning at the Methodist
church here. Special music was furnish
ed hv the college choir and Miss Raura
Schafer, violinist.
The most dangerous trend sweeping
America and the world today is the
tendency of people to leave God out of
their lives, declared Mr. Huggin, in a
forceful and inspiring message, taken
from the text, "And the light shineth in
darkness, and the darkness compre
hended it not.” But the light still shines
through the darkness, he said, and
spiritual power is still in the world,
though a more wide-spread faith and
trust in God is necessary in order to
get hold of the light. In conclusion, the
minister exhorted the young people, as
the hope of the world, to fail not in their
calling to be bearers of light.
Special Meet Called
For Flower Committee
A special meeting of the Women’s
Civic club flower show committee has
been called by the chairman, Mrs. E. R.
Pendleton, to meet In the club room
next Monday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
This will be an important meeting to
make plans for the flower show, which
will be held August 8.
The following members of the com
mittee are asked to attend the meeting:
Mrs. Beulah Zachary, Mrs. John Max
well, Mrs. Roland Wilber, Mrs. E. R.
Happ, Mrs. Ed Cantrell, Mrs. Carl
Hardin, Mrs. A. B. Galloway, Mrs.
Oliver Orr, Mrs. Marcus Williams, Mrs.
Coleman Galloway, Mrs. S. A. Bul
lock. Mrs. H. R. Haswell.
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Pearce Bailey
returned last week from Winter Park,
Fla., and are at their Eagle’s Nest
camp, which will open for the regular
camp term on July 1.
SCHOOL DIRECTOR
HARRY A. KENNING, field rep
resentative of the American Red
Cross from Washington, D. C., is
director of the National Red Cross
Aquatic School’s eighteenth annual
session at Camp Carolina which
opened yesterday for a ten-day
period.
MYCEESPLAN
ENTERTAINMENT
FOR TOURISTS
Local Hoatelries Urged To
Leave Names of Guests
With Mrs. Fisher
The Brevard Junior Chamber of
Commerce announces plans for in
itiating a tourist entertainment serv
ice during the summer season and will
begin with their work next Monday
morning.
According to the tentative plans Mrs.
Ralph Fisher, secretary to the Brevard
Chamber of Commerce, will act as in
termediary in the set up. All tourist
homes, hotels, and boarding houses
are asked to call Mrs. Fisher at the
City Hall upon arrival of visitors in
Brevard who desire to have the recre
ational facilities and other points of in
terest Tainted out to them. Mrs. Fisher
will call members of the Junior Cham
ber who wi]] provide means among their
membership for entertaining the visit
ors during their stay in the town and
county.
All operators of boarding houses,
tourist homes and hotels are urged to
call Mrs. Fisher upon arrival of guests
and leave their names with her.
Franklin Hotel To
Open Here Saturday
The Franklin Hotel, operated by
Misses Rose and Annie Shipman, will
open here Saturday for the summer
season, according to announcement by
the operators.
The Franklin, located on East Main
street, has been thoroughly “prone over”
during the last few weeks. The grounds
have been put in excellent condition as
well as the exterior and interior of the
building, and everything is in readiness
to provide comfortable and pleasant
accommodations for tourists and travel
ing business and profesional people this
summer.
The Franklin has a total of 68 rooms.
WHISKEY POSSESSION
Ernest McFaul of Rosman, has been
charged with the illegal possession of
whiskey, according to local officers. Ap
proximately six gallons of whiskey was
reported to have been found recently
in his residential quarters.
SCHOOL COMMISSIONER
RALPH H. RAMSEY, JR., promi
nent Brevard attorney, this week
was named a member of the State
School Commission for this con
gressional district by Governor
Broughton. His appointment is for
a term of two years.
JAYCEES APPROVE
MOVE TO SECURE
COLLEGE FUNDS
Group Discusses Plans For
Charter Night Banquet
At Meeting
The Brevard Junior Chamber of Com
merce, in regular meeting Tuesday
night at the Country clubhouse, ap
proved and endorsed a campaign in
Transylvania county to raise funds,
tentatively scheduled at $50,000 for the
erection of a new science building on
the Brevard College campus. C. E.
Buckner, dean of the college, was on
hand to present the problem of need
now facing the college. The Jaycees
voted to cooperate in every manner
possible to help raise funds in this
town and county.
At the meeting discussion was held
regarding the Charter Night Banquet
for the Junior Chamber which is being
tentatively planned for Friday evening,
June 20, at the Franklin Hotel. Speak
ers for the occasion have not been an
nounced, but some outstanding per
sonality in the State will be obtained,
it was reported.
The Jaycees voted wholeheartedly to
back the country club membership drive
and agreed to lend their support in
making a successful season there.
Membership pins were distributed to
the members present, and announce
ment was made of a meeting of the
group for next Tuesday evening at
7:30 at the clubhouse. All members
were urged to be present for this special
meeting, at which time details will be
outlined for the Charter Night Ban
quet.
Report On Little
River Bible School
The boys and girls of the Little River
community are having1 an opportunity
to attend the Bible school classes dur
ing the past two weeks. Quite a num
ber of children are attending and on
several days one hundred per cent of
the pupils carried the textbook, the
Bible.
Those assisting in the school are
Rev. and Mrs. Sherman Patterson, Mrs.
L. L. McCall, Hal Medford, and Misses
Lorena Merrill. Dorothy Metcalf, and
Irene Dixon.
On Friday evening at eight o’clock
the pupils will present a commence
ment program at the Little River Bap
tist church. All the parents and friends
of the community are invited and urged
to attend.
Moose Lodge Be Instituted
Here Next Sunday Afternoon
JONES NAMED TO
POST IN N. C. E. A.
J. B. Jones, county superintendent of
schools, has been appointed district
chairman of the Legislative Commis
sion of the North Carolina Education
Association, it has been announced
here. The appointment was make by
K. G. Phillips, president of the N. C.
E. A.
The district over which Mr. Jones
will serve as chairman is comprised of
territory in the state west of Gaston
county.
Mr. Jones said here yesterday that
the first meeting of the group will be
held in Chapel Hill on June 17.
Vacation Bible School
Commencement Slated
Closing exercises of the Brevard
Baptist Vacation Bible school will be
held Friday night at 8 o’clock at the
church. The school has been in daily
session the past two weeks.
The program by the children will con
sist of a demonstration of the work
they have done during the Bible school
term. A freewill offering to help defray
expenses of the school will be taken.
Expect To Have 100 Charter
Members Of Lodge In
County
A Lodge of the Loyal Order of
Moose will be instituted in Brevard
next Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, ac
cording to announcement by W. C.
Moreland, membership director, who has
been in Brevard and Transylvania
county for some time now writing up
members for the Lodge here. Mr. More
land said that 76 applicants have already
signed to Join the local lodge, and he
expects that a total of 100 will have ap
plied by Sunday.
The lodge here will be instituted by
regional director, Charles A. Kirby, of
Moosehart Home, Moosehart, Illinois.
The ritual will be exemplified by a de
gree team from Elizabethton, Tennes
see. All applicants are requested to be
at the institution meeting promptly at
2 p.m.
The place for meeting Sunday has
been tentatively set at the Masonic
Hall on Broad street. If place of meet
ing is changed directions will be given
at the Masonic Hall, Mr. Moreland said.
After institution of the lodge, regular
weekly meetings will be held, Mr.
Moreland said. Officers for the lodge
will be elected at the institutional meet
ing, he said.
Hollis Heard Seventh Annual
Brevard College Graduation
REPORT MADE
ON TRUSTEES
MEET HICKORY
Vote To Keep Brevard College
Here For At Least An
other Year
At a meeting of the board of trustees
of Brevard College in Hickory last
Thursday, the group voted to continue
the operation of the college at Brevard
for at least another year and reelected
Dr, E. J. Coltrane as president of the
institution. Dr. Coltrane has served as
head of the college since its opening in
1934.
Fourteen membere of the eighteen
member board were present for the
meeting which was considered a very
important one because of the proposals
that had been made during the past
months to remove the college to some
urban center in the Piedmont area or to
consolidate it with some other Methodist
institution. These proposals were shelv
ed, for the time being at least, in favor
of retaining the college here for another
year. Dr. Coltrane stated that under
those circumstances the college would
necessarily remain here for two years,
since it could not be moved on short
notice, and he predicted that the college
would remain here permanently if suf
ficient funds could be raised to meet the
needs of the institution in erecting ad
ditional buildings and obtaining more
equipment.
Members of the board pointed out
th^t the Western North Carolina con
ference of the Methodist church at its
meeting in October is expected to fol
low the recommendations of the trus
tees that the school be kept here at
Brevard. The trustees meet again dur
ing the conference and may take fur
ther action regarding the institution at
that time. Members of the board con
sidered this unlikely, however. They, as
a whole, were optimistic about the fu
ture of the college.
Meanwhile, Dr. Coltrane has an
nounced that leading persons in Bre
vard and Transylvania are optimistic
about raising funds here in the county
for the college. Tentative plans are to
raise $50,000 here toward erection of a
new science building, and announce
ment has been made that Brevard Col
lege alumni may be asked to raise $10,
000 for equipping such a building.
At a meeting Tuesday night the Bre
vard Junior Chamber of Commerce lent
approval to the movement here to raise
funds for the college and went on record
that they would cooperate in that move
ment. It is expected that other civic or
ganizations here will take a similar
stand on the matter.
J. H. Picklesimer, member of the col
lege board of trustees from Brevard,
was in attendance at the board meeting
in Hickory.
A delegation of Brevard citizens,
headed by J. B. Jones, county school
superintendent, attended the meeting of
the board and petitioned the members
to retain the college at Brevard.
Work At Country
Club Progressing
Bob Smit^i, golf pro at the Brevard
country club and manager of the local
golf course, has announced that work
on the golf course is coming along nice
ly with the fairways being mowed,
greens rolled and flags and markers be
ing erected. The course, says Smith,
will be ready for play by this week
end.
It was reported yesterday that sev
eral memberships at the country club
had been signed up for the ensuing
year, and members of the recreational
board urged that all those who antici
pate joining the club to please contact
the membership drive committee im
mediately. John Anderson is chairman
of the committee which is composed of.
in addition to Mr. Anderson, Mrs. Bill
Jordan, Lee Bauer, John W. Smith,
Rev. E ,P. Billups, Rev. B. W.
Thomason, Robert P. Thomas, Karl
Straus and Russell Ramsey.
SINGING CONVENTION
The upper district singing conven
tion will be held at the Middle Pork
Baptist church next Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock, announcement has been
made by the chairman, W. H. Nichol
son. The general public, and all sing
ers in particular, are invited to attend.
FISH REPORTED
DYING HERE BY
STREAM POISON
E. R. Galloway, county game warden,
has reported here that a number of
fish have been found dead in recent
days near the mouth of Davidson River.
Some of the fish were alerady dead
when found while others were dying.
Mr. Galloway reports that authori
ties first thought the fish had been
dynamited but upon examination it was
found to be polluted water that was
killing them. Any help in finding the
source of pollution would be appreciated
by the authorities.
Total of 117 Students Receive
Diplomas At Exercises
At College
That the next great revolution in this
section of the country would be in the
educational realm was the prediction
of L. P. Hollis, superintendent of the
Parker District Schools, Greenville,
South Carolina, in the literary address
last Tuesday morning before 117 grad
uates of Brevard College who completed
work there at the seventh annual grad
uation exercises. He talked principally
about what the school of the future
would be and the ramifications of that
school.
In elaborating upon what he saw as
the school of the future, Mr. Hollis said:
“The school of the future must have a
direct approach to what we want to do
in teaching our students. It must meet
the needs and interests of the students,
I and the students must be happy. The
students must learn by doing and not
by listening, and, furthermore, the
teacher must remain in the back
ground.”
Mr. Hollis threw a bombshell into the
placid beliefs of “academic” institution
al heads when he declared that the cur
riculum of a echool should be made out
by the individual teachers and not by
an administrative group. He emphasized
that children should be taught to grow
and improve life rather than merely to
make good grades. He shelved Shakes
peare and Dickens, along with other
classical works, as a part of the present
day curriculum requirements and de
clared that not four persons out of a
hundred read such classics after getting
out of public schools and colleges unless:
they were required to do so.
As a curriculum for the school of
the future Mr. Hollis saw primary em
phasis being placed upon music, art,
and dramatics, all being taught with a
democratic approach rather than a se
lective approach as is true today. He
said that this new school of the future
would put forth health and would exist
for the benefit of the children rather
than that of the teachers. In concluding,
he said, “Anything that improves life
helps to make up a good educational
program.”
Other features of the graduation pro
gram, which was held at ten-thirty
o’clock Tuesday morryng in the college
auditorium, include! special music by
the college choir. Miss Laura Schafer,
violinist, accompanied by Alvin Moore,
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Dahlia Club Will Meet
Next Tuesday Night
The regular meeting of the Transyl
vania Dahlia club will be held next
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock in the office
of Fred Shuford. It is requested that
all members attend.
W. O. W. AT CHURCH
A meeting of the W. O. W. will be
held at the regular 11 o’clock service at
the First Baptist church next Sunday
morning, it has been announced. Mem
bers will assemble at the Woodmen
Hall at 10:30 and will go in a body
from there All members are urged to
attend.
BRITISH, FREE
FRENCH PUSHING
INTO DEEP SYRIA
Vichy German Controlled
Government Says Cling
To Germany
Slowed only by “fifty-fifty” oppo
sition. British and Free French columns
were reported Wednesday to be pene
trating- Syria in swift dashes within
sight of Damascus at a point less than
10 miles away.
It remained to be seen whether re
sistance would be offered outside the
Syrian capital, a British spokesman
said, while Free French sources said
the troops were expected to enter the
city within a short period.
With two drives launched against
Damascus, a third column was proceed
ing against Beirut, capital of Lebanon,
Syria’s mandated twin under French
rule. Authorities said these troops
were making "good progress” but they
declined to say how far they had gone.
In Vichy, Vice Premier Admiral
Darlan broadcast to the French nation
that France must cling to Germany or
perish. He said: "For France not to
carry out the armistice (with Ger
many) loyally and give the victor reas
on to denounce it would be equivalent to
suicide for herself and her empire”
The United States has cautioned
Portugal against allowing any use of
its strategic islands in the Atlantic by
Nazi forces which "now threaten the
peace and safety” of the Western
Hemisphere.
Survivors of the sunken United
States ship Robin Moor declared she
was "torpedoed by a German subma
rine” in the South Atlantic, Captain
Waldemar Lucio Pereira, skipper of the
rescuing Brazilian steamer Ozorio, ra
dioed the Associated Press.
Forty-six persons, including three
women and one child, were aboard the
Robin Moor when she went down May
21. The Ozorio picked up 11 of them.