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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
Vol. 51; No. 25
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1941
$1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
HARDIN, McMAHAN
HEARD IN TALKS
AT NYA CLASSES
Point Out Privileges That Are
Enjoyed By Youth Of Today
Mayor Carl Hardin and Attorney E.
H. McMahan were heard Tuesday
morning in short addresses before a
group of young boys enrolled in the
furniture and cabinet making division
of the vocational training classes of the
NYA here.
Mayor Hardin, who spoke first, point
ed out to the group that education does
not merely mean being a graduate of a
college or university. He said that the
term “educated” could be applied to
hundreds and hundreds of people who
had never seen a school house, and
that there were no limits to the heights
a person might ascend by taking ad
vantage of the opportunities offered in
a woodworking class.
Mayor Hardin declared that the pro
cess of education was not training. He
said monkeys were trained. bi|t that
persons became educated by learning
to do things which no foreman had to
tell them to do. He told the boys en
rolled in the class that if they would ap
ply themselves earnestly at their work,
they, too, would become educated.
Mr. McMahan, in his talk, emphasiz
ed to the young people that they were
being given a course by the Federal
government and that they should adept
themselves to their work and put forth
their best. He compared the present
situation in which young boys grow up
and live to that of their ancestors who
founded this country and pointed out
that our forefathers never had such
an opportunity as we have at the pres
ent time. He said that hard work had
been the major factor in the building
of this great country of ours and that
the youth of today should show their
appreciation by doing hard work them
selves.
Mr. McMahan told the group, in six
concise statements, how best to prepare
themselves for life. He warned them to
be honest and truthful, to be consider
ate of others, to learn to appreciate
values, to learn to be thankful for what
they had, to learn to think clearly, and
to be serious in their work. He urged
them, above all, to be a man. a real
man who knows how to live.
Supervisors of the local NYA wood
work and carpentry training center is
W. L. Wood, and currently enrolled in
the class are James Anders, of Lake
Toxaway, David Conner, of Cherryfield,
lyovic Galloway of Selica, Doyle Eu
banks of Selica, Arthur Anders of Roe
man. Henry Snipes, of Rosman. Bill
Bentley of Selica, and Joe Gillespie, of
Rosman.
CHILD KULED IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
NEAR CASHIERS
One Death and Four Injured
Result of Car Overturning
On Curve
Onf> death and four persons injured
was the result of an automobile acci
dent on the highway near Cashiers val
ley last Sunday afternoon.
Killed was a two-year-old twin son
of Mrs. Marjorie Littleton of Rosman,
and the injured included Mrs. Littleton,
twin brother of the dead child, and two
Jones youths, brothers of Mrs. Little
ton. Only superficial injuries were suf
fered by the Jones youths and the child,
but Mrs. Littleton was retained at the
local Transylvania community hospital
until Tuesday where she was treated
for hip and back injuries. Her condition
was never considered as critical, hos
pital attaches reported.
Although cause of the accident was
not wholly determined, according to re
ports something went wrong with the
steering gear of the automobile just as
it was rounding a sharp curve. The car
left the highway and overturned. A
Jones youth, brother of Mrs. Littleton,
was said to have been driving at the
time the accident occurred.
Occupants of the overturned car were
brought to the local hospital immediate
ly after the accident, but the Littleton
child was dead upon arrival. Others
were discharged after treatment except
ing Mrs. Littleton, who was retained
until Tuesday.
Summer School Is Now
Under Way At College
A nine weeks ’ session of summer
school got under way at Brevard Col
lege Tuesday morning, with C. E.
Buckner, dean of the college, as di
rector.
Dean Buckner reported yesterday
that the enrollment was below normal
for the summer term, which may be
accounted for in part by the fact that
the college is not conducting this year
a full semester of summer school.
In previous years some fifty students
have been enrolled in the summer
school at the college.
BRIDGE PARTY SET
"Bundles for Britain” bridge party
will be held at the Country Club Wed
nesday night, July 16, at 8 o’clock.
Prizes will be awarded, and the local
"Bundles for Britain” committee urges
that a large number attend. 4
AT INSTITUTIONAL MEET OF MOOSE LODGE
Shown here are the group of charter members who were present for the institutional
meeting of the local Moose Lodge No. 632 which was instituted here last Sunday after
noon, with Charles A. Kirby, regional director of the Loyal Order of Moose, in charge.
On the front row are some of the newly elected officers. Reading left to right, they are:
Zebulon Jackson, outer guard; John A. Ford, secretary; R. J. Duckworth, Austin E.
Hogsed, S. F. Allison, trustees; A. M. Paxton, sergeant-at-arms; L. M. Simpson, pre
late; P. E. Stroup, junior governor; W. A. Balcomb, governor, and B. H. Freeman, past
governor. (Times Photo by Austin)
Moose Lodge No. 632 Was
Instituted Here Sunday;
120 Are Charter Members
Officers of Newly Formed Or
ganization Are Listed;
Meeting Date
Brevard Lodge No. 632 of the Loyal
Order of Moose was instituted here hist
Sunday afternoon at the Masonic Hall
on Broad street in ceremonies beginning'
at two o’clock. Charles A. Kirby, re
gional director, from Moosehart Home,
Mooeehart, Illinois, was in charge of the
institutional services.
The charter membership list of the
newly organized lodge contains 120
names.
Officers elected at the institutional
services included the following: Gover
nor, W. A. Balcomb; past governor, B.
H. Freeman; junior governor, P. E.
Stroup; prelate, L. M. Simpson; sec
retary, John A. Ford; treasurer, Ft. W.
Lyday; sergeant-at-arms. A. M.
Paxton; inner guard, Alvin J. Patter
son ; outer guard, Zebulon Jackson;
trustees, S. F. Allison for one year
period, Austin E. Hogsed, for two-year
period, and R. J. Duckworth, for three
year period.
Secretary of the Lodge, John A.
Ford, announced that regular weekly
meetings of the organization will be
held at the Masonic Hall on Broad
street. Next meeting will be held at
eight o’clock Monday evening, June 23,
he said.
Charter members of the local Lodge
are: S. F. Allison, G. C. Austin. W.
A. Balcomb. Clarke G. Banks, Ralph
Barger, Sid Barnett, Pete Bikas, J. E.
Bishop, H. H. Bowie, D. R. Boyd, D.
F. Bridges, W. W. Bridges, Bill Bry
son, Dewey Burton. Willis Cauble, E.
H. Davie, D. Guy Dean, B. F. Dixon,
R. J. Duckworth, W. W. Duckworth,
R. G. Eason, D. L. English, Jr.,
(Continued on page eight)
Fisher Appointed
On Board For Fund
S. G. Fisher, former commander of
the local post of the American Legion,
has been appointed by Governor
Broughton as a member of the Advisory
Board of the OLD NORTH STATE
FUND. This is a fund being raised,
among other things, to give to England
a large airplane ambulance.
RE
REPORT B
OWEN YOUTH
SHOOTS SELF
Fort Bragg Enrollee Said To Be
In Critical Condition A»
Result
Maurice Owen, 19, native of the Lake
Toxaway section of Transylvania coun
ty, is in a serious condition as a result
of a supposedly self-inflicted rifle shot
wound near his heart, according to in
formation received here from The
Times’ Lake Toxaway correspondent.
Young Owen, Fort Bragg army youth,
who was home on furlough, is believed
to have shot himself early last Sunday
morning near the school house where,
as a boy, he attended. Later, neighbors
found him on the front porch of their
home.
Owen is well known in sporting cir
cles hereabouts, especially in boxing.
In the fall of 1939 he reached the ban
tam weight finals of the National Gold
en Gloves tournament in Chicago.
JAYCEES MAKING
PLANS TO STAGE
CHARTER BANQUET
The Brevard Junior Chaml>er of Com
merce charter night banquet will be
held at the Franklin Hotel on the
evening; of Tuesday, July 1. The date
was definitely decided at a call meeting
of the Jaycees at the Brevard country
club last Tuesday evening. Tentatively
scheduled as the principal speaker is
Dr. Julian Miller, editor of The Char
lotte Observer, widely known through
out the Carolinas as one of the ablest
speakers in this section.
Present plans for the banquet, which
will be under the direct supervision of
Bussell Ramsey and officers of the
Junior Chamber, are to arrange for an
attendance of approximately 150 per
sons.
'Basil Whitener, president of the
North Carolina Junior Chamber of
Commerce, will be present and will pre
sent the State and National charters to
the local organization. The banquet
will be a town-wide affair, and repre
sentatives from the various civic or
ganizations will be invited to attend as
well as any and all citizens who may
desire to attend.
Tickets for the event will go on sale
this week-end. Members of the l>oard
of directors urge that reservations be
made immediately because only around
150 persons can be accommodated at
the banquet. Tickets may be obtained
from members of the board of directors
who are Mack Allison, Jr., John Ander
son, Jr., Ruel Hunt, Edgar Loftis, Jr.,
Bob Matthews, Russell Ramsey, Harry
Sellers, R. F. Thomas, and Eld Varner,
Jr.
TEN BE INDUCTED
FROM COUNTY IN
14TH DRAFT CALL
Group Will Be Admitted At
Fort Bragg On June 23;
Two Volunteers
The local draft board has issued for
publication the list of selective service
draftees to be inducted at Fort Bragg
on June 23 to fill the quota for the 14th
call.
There are ten in the call, two of
whom are volunteers. They are John
William Reese, RFD 2, Brevard, and
Harley Edgar Fisher, RFD 1, Bake
Toxaway.
The other eight are composed of
Horace W. Raper. of Winston-Salem,
former dean of men at Brevard Col
lege, Clyde E. Justus of Shelby, former
college student here, John Reese Sledge
of Brevard, Alex Arnold, of Franklin,
Joe Bill Lance, of Rosman, Hubert E.
Batson, Gus F. McCrary, and Frank
M. Murr, all of RFD 1, Brevard.
Exchange Pastorates
Plans Are Changed
Plans in regard to the exchange of
pastorates for a month during the sum
mer between Rev. E. P. Billups, pastor
of the Brevard Methodist church, and
Dr. Bertram Jackson, pastor of the
Norwood Park Presbyterian church,
Chicago, Illinois, have been changed,
Rev. Mr. Billups has announced.
The month of exchange will be from
August 1 until September 1 instead of
from July 1 until August, 1, as was
originally planned.
WHISKEY IS FOUND
Seventy-five pints of bottled in bond
whiskey were found in the home of
Dewey Allison in North Brevard last
week, according to information released
here by local officers.
Allison was charged with the illegal
possession of whiskey and was bound
over to superior court here.
Local Lumber Company Buys
Timber Tract In Haywood
Operations Will Begin At Once
On Vast Timber Project
Papers were passed Tuesday in clos
ing- one of the biggest land deals trans
acted in Haywood county in a genera
tion, transferring ownership in fee
simple of the “Twelve Mile Strip” on
the left bank of Pigeon river in Catta
loochee township, containing six thous
and acres of virgin timber lands from
the Thomas Hume Estate, headquarters
in Muskegon, Michigan, to the Carr
Lumber company of Piegah Forest.
The vast boundary of land is twelve
miles long and averages one mile wide,
and surrounds the Cattaloochee dam
and tunnel belonging to the Carolina
Power and Light company and borders
the land of the latter company at Wat
erville where the power*plant is located.
It lies on the west bank of Pigeon river,
between White Oak Creek, which flows
into the Pigeon, and the Tennessee line.
In the transfer of the papers on
Tuesday, the Carr Lumber company
was represented by W. W. Croushorn,
General Manager. This company form
erly operated the famous George W.
Vanderbilt holdings in Transylvania,
Henderson and Buncombe counties, now
a part of the Pisgah National Forest,
and is now operating the O’Connor lands
(Continued on page eight)
NEW RESTAURANT
THE DOWN TOWNER
OPEN IN BREVARD
The Down Towner, Brevard’s new
restaurant, now open for business on
West Main street across from court
house, was delayed in opening at the
scheduled time because of delay in ob
taining necessary equipment. The new
restaurant is operated by Welch Gallo
way.
Features The Down Towner is ad
vertising include home style cooking,
choice steaks, and quick, friendly serv
ice.
Campbell Is Off To
School Once More
G. W. Campbell, head of the indus
trial division at Brevard College, is
now working for his M. S. degree in
industrial education with a minor in
industrial engineering at the University
of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Mr. Campbell, who is ground in
structor in the Civilian-"Pilot Training
program here, will continue his work in
that connection, as well as his regular
work at the college.
Plans Going Forward For
Opening Of Eighth Year
Of Service At College
MATTRESS MAKING
PROJECT STARTED
AT NYA HUT HERE
People In Brevard Community!
Now Working Make
Five A Day
The Transylvania county mattress
making project, with the Triple A, the
NYA, and Farm extension service co
operating:, grot under way Tuesday of
this week at the NYA hut in Brevard.
Mrs. R. F. Glazener of Roeman, has
been appointed supervisor in charge of
the project by the Triple A committee
for this county. Mrs. Glazener was se
lected for the work due to her experi
ence in mattress making. Triple A com
mittee members stated.
Assisting Mrs. Glazener in supervis
ion of the work is Clarence Bowen, who
has had much experience in that work
also and has a fluffing machine, a ma
chine necessary to the construction of
mattresses.
An average of five mattresses a day
will be made for the duration of the
project, those in charge pointed out.
Four were made Tuesday and six on
Wednesday. While the project is get
ting under way. people from nearby are
being employed. At present people in
the Brevard community are making
mattresses. People in the various com
munities in the county will be notified
by the county aegnt’s office when they
are to work, it w’as emphasized.
The cotton and ticking for the mat
tresses are being furnished by the Sur
plus Marketing Administration through
the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
tration .
Fish* Ex pel t Here
For 2 Weeks Period
_
Dr. C. M. Mottley, fishery consul
tant with the United States Department
of the Interior, Washington, and pro
fessor of fisheries at Cornell University,
is spending two weeks here aiding Mr.
T. K. Chamberlain, in charge of the
fishery experiment being carried on in
the Pisgah Game Preserve, in studying
data accumulated here within the past
five yeans.
Dr. Mottley pointed out that the ex
periment being carried out in the Pis
gah area of the U. S. Forets service is
an outstanding and unique set up for
the study of fishery problems.
FUNERAL 1$ HELD
ON THURSDAY FOR
sam McCullough
Aged Resident of Brevard Died
Here Wednesday Night,
June 11
Sam McCullough, 75, died at his home
here Wednesday night of last week,
following an illness of 10 days. Funeral
service was held at the Moore Funeral
home Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock.
Interment was in the Brevard ceme
tery. The service was conducted by Rev.
E. P. Billups, pastor of the Brevard
Methodist church.
(Survivors are the widow and one son,
Sam McCullough, Jr., of Brevard, and
one brother living in Atlanta.
Mr. McCullough was a native of
Georgia, but had lived in Transylvania
county the past 15 years. He was a
member of the Presbyterian church
here. He was a prominnet farmer in
the county until failing health several
years ago caused him to retire from ac
tive work.
Pallbearers were Anthony Trantham,
Willie Brittain, R. L. Gash, Will Deaver,
John Smith and Ralph Wedge.
Arrangements were in charge of
Moore and Trantham.
BATTERY F TO
HOLD REUNION
EARLY AUGUST
Battery F of 113th Field Artillery,
30th Division, will hold its annual re
union at Connestee Falls on the first
Thursday in August, Eck L. Sims,
president of the group, has announced.
Battery F has about 50 World War vet
erans from Transylvania county, Mr.
Sims said.
The reunion will be an all-day affair.
A barbecue picnic is planned. Among
outstanding speakers expected to be
present are Congressman Zebulon
Weaver and Governor J. M. Brough
ton. A complete announcement of pro
gram will be made later.
Last year Battery F held its reunion
on the banks of the Catawba River near
Charlotte.
College President Says Much
Interest Shown In South
Carolina, Georgia
Dr. E. J. Coltrane, president of Bre
vard College, said yesterday that plans
are going forward for the opening of
the regular school year at the college
next fall. A statment he issued follows:
‘‘Plans are proceeding for opening
the eighth year of the operation of Bre
vard College early in September. Sev
eral members of the administrative
staff and some students are busy mail
ing out bulletins and writing letters to
prospective students. The room reserva
tions at this time indicate a full enroll
ment in September. Arrangements are
being made to operate Virginia Lodge
again next year. Some needed repairs
and the renovation of dormitories are
being made. Mr. C. A. Schoenknecht and
Mr. John Hawkins have resigned as
members of the staff. Mr. Horace Raper
has been granted leave of absence with
the expectation that he will enter mili
tary service in a short time. Other ad
justments in the faculty will be made.
“Inquiries coming into the college of
fice indicate a wider interest in the
college than any previous year. This is
especially true of South Carolina tn<J
Georgia. The college will be operated^
next year on the same general plan,
which has prevtiled in former years.
Young people in Transylvania county
who are expecting to enter in Septem
ber should mak“ the necessary arrange
mnts with Dean Buckner as early as
possible.”
FURMAN YOUTHS
ARE TO CONDUCT
YOUTH REVIVAL
Will Conduct Service At First
Baptist Church Here,
June 22-27
Rev. B. W. Thomason, pastor of the
First Baptist church here, stated yes
terday that the Young People’s Revival
scheduled to open on June 22, will be
carried on by students from Furman
University, Greenville, S. C.
The revival will continue for a period
of one week, during which time Mr.
Roy McLain will be the principal speak
er. He graduated from Furman Uni
versity this June. While a student at
Furman, he was an outstanding lead
er in many capacities. For the past year
he has been the president of the min
isterial association. At present, Mr. Mc
Lain is pastor of three Baptist churches
in Greenville county, S. C.
Mr. E. S. Morgan, pastor of a Bap
tist church in Charlotte, is to be the
music director for the week. Mr. Mor
gan graduated from Furman University
last year.
Miss Annie Louise May,' Margaret
Sparks, and Ann Cochran are to assist
in discussion groups and special pro
grams. Miss May, of Edgefield, S. C.,
is an instructor of dramatics at Fur
man University and a leader in student
religious work. Miss Sparks, of Ashe
ville, graduated from Furman Univers
ity this June and for the past year has
acted as Baptist Student Union Presi
dent of the Women's College of Fur
man. Miss Cochran ,of Dublin, Ga., is
a rising senior at Furman and has been
active in positions of religious leader
ship.
The daily schedule Monday through
Friday will be as follows:
7:00 A. M.—Morning Watch.
4:00 P. M.—Children’s choir practice
and Junior recreation hour.
7:30 P. M. — Forums (discussion
groups for adults, young people, inter
mediates, and juniors). These forum
groups will be for the purpose of dis
cussion of vital present-day issues on
practical Christianity.
8:00 P. M.—Twilight vesper.
8:15 P. M.—Evening preaching hour.
The public is invited for all phases
of the program.
I
Red Cross School
Closes Tomorrow
The eighteenth annual session of the
National Red Cross Aquatic school will
close at Camp Carolina tomorrow after
noon. The school opened Wednesday,
June 11.
A staff of some twenty people have
been on hand to instruct the scores of
students enrolled for the ten-day period.
Instruction has been in first aid, safety,
and all kinds of water front activities.
Harry Kenning is the director.
A second ten-day school will be held
at Camp Carolina some time in August.
JEWELRY STORE TO OPEN
Carlton’s Jewelry Store, featuring
fine jewelry, luggage and silverware,
will open in the Picklesimer Building
on West Main street around July 1, it
has been announced here.
Further details will be found in next
week’s paper.