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Vol. 51; No. 27
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941
$1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
Steering Committee Holds
Meet To Discuss College
Campaign; Name Chairman
Say Money Raising Effort Will
Get Under Way At
Early Date
An interesting and enthusiastic dis-!
cussion in regard to the proposed cam
paign to raise money for plant improve
ments at Brevard College was held at!
the meeting of the steering committee, j
which is to formulate plans, at the City
Hall last Saturday afternoon.
S. E. Varner, local deputy collector
of internal revenue and previously
named temporary’ chairman of the com
mittee, was named permanent chairman
of the group. Harry H. Straus, presi
dent of the Ecusta Paper corporation,
was elected vice chairman. Rev. E. P.
Billups, pastor of the Methodist church,
treasurer, and C. E. Buckner, dean of
the college secretary.
A committee was also named to work
out complete details of means by which
the campaign would be carried out in
connection with the Brevard Chamber
of Commerce. The committee included
Alex H. Kizer. city clerk and treasurer,
Rev. B. W. Thomason, pastor of the
First Baptist church, and Kin McNeil,
acting editor of The Transylvania
Times. They will work with the Cham
ber of Commerce in organizing the
personnel of the campaign.
At the meeting a resolution was
passed asking officials of Brevard Col
lege to prepare as accurately and com
pletely as possible a list of the minimum
needs of improvement in order that the
college might be placed on the ac
creditation list of the Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools
and other agencies and to assure its
continued operation at Brevard.
Members of the steering committee
felt optimistic over prospects and pre
dicted that the campaign would get un
der way within the next four to six
weeks. They said the work would be
carried out hand in hand with the Bre
vard Chamber of Commerce which nam
ed the steering committee.
LEGION POST TO
DISCUSS HUT AT
MEETING TONIGHT
Say Proposal Has Been Made
To Erect Combined Moose
Legion Hut
A proposal to construct a combined
Legion and Moose Lodge hut In Bre
vard in the near future will be brought
before members of the American Le
gion at their meeting tonight at eight
o’clock in the city hall. Legion Com
mander Ralph Fisher said here yester
day that the proposal had already been
considered and that something might
be worked out for such a combination
of sponsorship. The Legion, he said,
had been considering the erection of a
hut for some time now. *
Also at the meeting tonight Com
mander Fisher will report to the mem
bership on the State Convention of the
American Legion which was held in
Durham recently.
Meeting dates of the local Post of
the Legion have been changed to one
meeting night each month, Adjutant
Jason Huggins announces. The regu
lar meetings will be held until further
notice on each first Thursday night of
the month at eight o’clock in the city
hall.
All Legionnaires and veterans are
urged to attend the meeting tonight in
order that they may participate in the
discussion regarding the erection of the
proposed hut and in order that they
may have an opportunity to help with
the plans.
ARE TO ENFORCE
REGULATION OF
PARKING LIMITS
Mayor Carl Hardin and Chief of Po
lice B. H. Freeman have both announced j
that the ordinances pertaining to park
ing on certain streets and sections of
streets during the summer months were
being rigidly enforced, effective July 1.
They pointed out that signs designating
the parking limits had been erected
for some time but that motorists had
been neglectful of the signs and had
been violating the ordinances. They
emphasized that motorists further vio
lating the regulations would be fined in
accordance with provisions of the law.
Here are the parking limits and
streets affected:
One hour limit—Main street from
Caldwell to Gaston; Broad street from
Probart to Morgan.
Two hour limit—West Main street
from Caldwell to England; East Jordan
street from Broad to Gaston; North
Gaston street from Main to Probart.
The regulatory limits apply from 6
a.n* until 6:30 p.m.
LIBRARY CLOSED
The U. D. C. library Will be closed all
during the day of July 4, Miss Annie
Jean Gash, librarian, has announced.
BROTHER OF C. M.
DOUGLAS DIES IN
D. E. Douglas, Brother of Form
er Publisher, Dies Sud
denly Wednesday
D. E. Douglas, of Winston-Salem,
twin brother of C. M. Douglas, of Bre
vard, died suddenly at his home Wed
nesday afternoon at three o'clock.
Death was due to a heart attack.
Funeral services will be held in
Winston-Salem Friday morning from
the First Methodist church ,and inter
ment will be made in the church ceme
tery.
Mr. Douglas was a contractor, and
had made his home in Winston for the
past 20 years. Surviving are the widow
and one son, Charles Herman; two sis
ters. Mrs. Paul Lewis, of Winston, and
Mrs. C. M. Compton, of Mooresville;
two brothers, C. M. Douglas ,of Brevard,
and J. F. Douglas, of Troutman.
MIXED DOCKET OF
SUPERIOR COURT
CONVENES21ST
Jurors For First And Second
Weeks of Session Are
Drawn
The July-August term of Transyl
vania county criminal and civil superior
court will convene here on Monday
morning, July 21, with Judge F. D.
Phillips, of Rockingham, presiding. A
light docket of criminal cases, all minor
charges, will be heard first, and the.
civil cases will be heard during the re
maining part of the two weeks sched
uled session.
Jurors drawn for the first week in
clude Otto Wells, Fate Mahaffey, Ray
Parker. Alvoid Galloway, G. T. Frady,
Winbome Gash, Arthur Sentelle, all of
Brevard. Route 2; Walter Hamlin,
Mitchell Holden, J. D. Bryson, Jud
Plott, R. C. Cordell, Oat Bryson, Dewey
McCall, and Ralph Benson, all of Bre
vard, Route 1; D. McCall, H. D. Lee,
both of Lake Toxaway; James Staton,
Rosman; C. L. Corn, Pisgah Forest;
Odell Owen, J. E. Rufty, J. B. Jones,
J. J. Tinsley, Newt Heath, Edgar Mull,
James Wood, Henry Erwin, Jr., Leo
Reid, Garland Sledge, James Garren,
Herbert Schain, L. E. Bagwell, T. D.
Hampton, J. B. Stancel, Elmo McCall,
and Knox DeLong, all of Brevard.
Drawn for the second week are Carl
Baynard, Brevard, Route 2; J. B. Hug
gins, Clifford Raxter, both of Brevard,
Route 1; Berlin Owen, L. C. Case, Sr.,
and Granville Fisher, all of Lake Tox
away; Claude Stroup, Tom Stroup, A.
M. Pharr, Rosman; Chester West, Pis
gah Forest; Ray Byrd, Bill Bridges,
Doc Gravely, J. A. Bishop, J. E. Glaze
ner, Snead Siniard, Robert Waldrop,
J. A. McCrary, all of Brevard.
DRAFT BOARD
REGISTERS 112
A total of 111 young men who had
reached the age of 21 since October 16,
1040, registered in Transylvania coun
ty Tuesday under the selective service
act. One young man who had returned
from army service since last registration
also registered, thus making a total of
112 registrants for the day. The figures
were released today by Mrs. Allie B.
Harllee, clerk of the local draft board,
who said that the registration did not
come up to expectations. It had been
previously estimated that around 150
would register.
Mrs. Harllee said that anyone who
failed to register Tuesday could still
do so by coming to the local draft board
office on Broad street.
BANK CLOSED SATURDAY
The Transylvania Trust company
will be closed all day Saturday as well
as Friday in observance of a proclama
tion issued by Governor Broughton,
bank officials have announced.
OFFICES CLOSED
All offices in the county courthouse
will be closed during the entire day of
Friday, July 4, officials there have an
nounced.
THE STORK COMES TO SEE
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Tucker announce
the birth of a son, Augustine Washing
ton Tucker TTI, bom at Biltmore hos
pital, on Saturday, June 28.
Whales, which are bom in the water,
begin swimming immediately.
JAYCEES HELD
CHASTER NIGHT
BANQUET TUES.
Number Speakers Heard At
Event; 165 Persons In At
tendance
Some 165 Transylvania county citi
zens and visitors were present Tuesday
night at the Brevard Junior Chamber
of Commerce charter night banquet at
the Franklin Hotel when Basil L.
Whitener, of Gastonia, president of the
North Carolina Junior Chamber of
Commerce, presented the state and na
tional charters to the local organiza
tion and made the principal address of
the evening. Ed Varner, Jr., president
of the local chamber, presided.
Other speakers on the program in
cluded Lewis P. Hamlin, president of
the Senior Chamber here, John Ander
son, secretary of the local junior cham
ber, Allen Pearson, president of Ashe
ville junior chamber, and Trass Mc
Carson, president of the Hendersonville
junior chamber.
In his talk Whitener oxitlined the or
ganization of the junior chamber over
the United States and the state of
Nprth Carolina. He also pointed out
the avowed purpose of the organizatoin.
Hamlin made a paternal welcoming
talk to the junior chamber and predict
ed that the local group of young men,
banded together, would have great suc
cess.
In his short talk Anderson welcomed
the people to the event and stated that
the purpose of the Brevard Jaycees
is to help tell the world about Brevard
and Transylvania county and to help
promote civic enterprises which would
go to make Brevard a happier and more
prosperous place in which to live.
Pearson and McCarson both con
gratulated the local organization on its
splendid work so far and wished for -t
continued success.
Music at the banquet was furnished
by The Cavaliers, local nine-piece
swing band.
COOPER IS HELD
ON CHARGE OF
CHECK FORGERY
Cashed Three Checks At Local
Places Drawn on Pisgah
Forest Lady
Lawrence Cooper, 27, of Canton, has
been arrested and placed in the local
jail charged with the forgery of a
number of checks on Mrs. Jacksie Wolf
of Pispah Forest, accordinp to Chief of
Police B. H. Freeman.
Chief Freeman said that Cooper had
cashed three checks totalling $25 at
local service stations and restaurants.
The checks, drawn on Mrs. Wolf, were
made payable to Clifford Ray. Cooper
himself poeed as Ray when cashing the
checks.
When Cooper was arrested here three
other checks totalling $28 were found in
the car he was driving. These were
drawn on Mrs. Wolf also but were made
payable to a party other than Ray,
Chief Freeman said.
Cooper has been bound over to
superior court here in July.
15 Counties Go Over
Top In USO Drive
WINSTON-SALEM. — Robert L.
Coons, state director, reported that ap
proximately $50,000 of North Carolina’s
quota of $124,500 for the United Service
Organization program had already been
raised. More than fifteen counties have
already gone over the top in their
quota.
HONOR COURT FOR
BOY SCOUTS SET
FOR FRIDAY NIGHT
Brevard Troop No. 1 Will Make
Awards, Tender Merit
Badges
A court of honor for Brevard Troop
No. 1 Boy Scouts, of. which Dr. E. O.
Roland is scoutmaster, will be held
Friday night at the Methodist church
here at eight o’clock. All scout officials
and troop committeemen in the Tran
sylvania district of the Daniel Boone
council have been invited to attend the
honor court, Dr. Roland said.
Those who will receive awards and
merit badges tomorrow night include
the following: Tenderfoot, Spaulding
McIntosh and Paul Patterson; second
class, James Kanipe, Johnnie Summey,
Edward Buckner, Alex Kizer, Kenneth
Ratchford, Albert Reid; first class.
Gene Franklin; star scout, James New
bury, Franklin Tankersley, Henry
Summey, Robert Kappers.
Merit badges: Robert Kappers, in
public health and cycling; Franklin
Tankersley, in firemanship, public
health, cycling and pathfinding; Frank
lin Kerber, in bookbinding; Henry Sum
mey, in cycling and pathfinding; James
Newbury, in personal health, fireman
ship, public health and first aid; Gene
Franklin, in public health and personal
health; Charles Cantrell, firemanship,
public health and personal health;
Robert T. Gash, in swimming and life
saving; John Summey, pathfinding.
FORTUNE CHARGED
WITH SHOOTING OF
GRAYELY. McCALL
Altercation Took Place At
Connestee Falls Place
Sunday Morning
Local law officers reported Tuesday
that Mitch Fortune, operator of a dine
and dance hall at nearby Connestee
Falls, had been charged with assault
with a deadly weapon, with intent to
kill and had been placed under a $1000
bond in connection with the shoonng
last Sunday morning- of Homer Gravely
and Jesse McCall, residents of the Cedar
Mountain section of Transylvania.
Gravely and McCall were each shot
through the left leg, Gravely five times,
with a .22 calibre rifle allegedly fired by
Fortune. The shooting occurred just in
front of the dance hall, officers said.
The shooting is understood to have
resulted from a renewal of a wrangle
involving Fortune, Gravely and Mc
Call, which took place in the dance hall
the previous Saturday night. Officers
said that Gravely and McCall returned
to the premises the next morning to
resume argument and the shooting en
sued.
Gravely and McCall were neither re
ported seriously wounded.
WORK TO START
SOON ON PISGAH
FOREST SCHOOL
J. B. Jones, county superintendent of
schools in Transylvania, said today that
plans had been revised by the State Of
fice of the WPA for the $58,000 Pisgah
Forest school building, the revised plans
approved, and that it is expected that
construction will get under way by July
15.
He said that undernthe revised plans
the county would save approximately
$2,000 in comparison with the outlay
required in the original plans.
July 4th Celebration Plans
In The County Are Announced
Dance, Business Closing, And
Rededication Program In
Activities
Brevard and Transylvania county
plans for celebrating the Fourth of
July are highlighted by Mayor Carl
Hardin’s proclamation urging all citi
zens to participate in the national re
dedication patriotic program, by the
patriotic dance at the Country Club
house, under the sponsorship of the
Jaycees, set for tomorrow night from
10 until 2 o’clock, and by the closing of
all business houses, by common con
sent, in the town of Brevard all day
tomorrow. A number of less important
events are planned throughout the
county.
The rededication program, a national
event which will be participated in by
President Roosevelt, will begin at four
o’clock, Eastern Standard Time. The
Mayor urges that wherever you are you
join in the program by turning on your
radio and singing with the group “The
Star Spangled Banner” and repeating
with the President the Oath of Allegi
ance.
The Jaycees are urging that Transyl
vanians celebrate the evening of the
glorious Fourth by attending the pa
triotic dance at the Clubhouse for which
the Carolina Buccaneers will play.
Tickets are on sale at all drug stores,
couple tickets $1.50 and singles $1.10.
The business houses which have
signified their intention of closing- all
day tomorrow and have signed an agree
ment to that effect are: Abercrombie
Furniture company, Roses, McFee’s
Jewelry, Nicholson’s Shoe repair, Jen
nie Bowen, Plummer’s, United Variety,
Parson’s Jewelry, Western Auto store,
A&P stores, B&B Feed and Seed,
Ward’s News stand, City Market, Bre
vard Shoe shop. City Hall, Wilson’s
Agency, Sample Store, Scott’s Grocery.
Patterson’s, Bradley’s, Austin’s Studio,
Wilkins Ins. agency, Houston Furniture
company. Quality Beauty Salon, Mc
Bride’s, Murphy’s Barber shop, Ray
and Williams, Ruth’s Beauty Shop,
Trantham’s, Farmer’s Federation, Hal
lie’s Shop, Simpson Barber Shop. Dixie
Store, Mull’s Market, Lyle Jackson
shop, Anna’s Shop, D. Guy Dean, Blue
Bonnett Beauty Shop, Parker’s Harket,
Sledge Radio Service, Olney Electric
Service, Federal Savings and Loan, O.
Duclos Plumbing, Belk’s, Transylvania
Trust company, Tinsley’s News stand,
Duke Power company, Sea Food Mar
ket, Cash and Carry super market,
Transylvania Times. Farmer’s Supply.
Launch Drive Here Today
To Raise Funds For USO;
Committee Members Listed
MAYOR ISSUES
REDEDICATION
PROCLAMATION
Sets Aside Period From 4 to
4:15 Friday Afternoon For
Rededication
Mayor Carl Hardin has issued the
following proclamation in regard to the
observance of Independence Day, July
4, in Brevard. He urges that all citizens
show their patriotic appreciation for
their country by joining in the rededi
cation program.
The proclamation follows:
WHEREAS, the Fourth of July re
dedication program is to take place
simultaneously throughout the nation
at four o’clock, eastern standard time,
and
WHEREAS, the rededication will be
gin with a five-minute radio speech
by President Roosevelt, followed by the
playing of the National Anthem and the
repeating by the President of the Oath
of Allegiance to the United States, and
WHEREAS, as an American you have
a part in the rededication wherever you
may be—at home, at the beach, in the
mountains, on a picnic, at the theater,
at a ball game—it is your duty to join
in.
THEREFORE, T, Carl Hardin, Mayor
of the Town of Brevard, do proclaim
the period from 4 until 4:15 p.m. on
Friday, July 4, as a period for rededica
tion among our citizens to the ideals of
our Nation.
Signed: Carl Hardin, Mayor.
FIGURES GIVEN
ON INSURANCE
FOR WNC AGED
Over Nine Thousand Dollars
Paid In Seventeen Counties
In Area
Figures released today by the Social
Security Board show that 642 persons
in the Asheville area were receiving
monthly payments of old-age and sur
vivors insurance as of March 31, 1941.
These benefits totaling $9,533.00 were
paid to men, women, and children living
in the seventeen western North Caro
lina counties comprising the Asheville
service area.
Of the 642 persons in the Asheville
area receiving monthly payments of old
age or survivors insurance 270 are in
sured workers who have reached the
age of 65 and who have retired from
regular employment in business or in
dustry. Some 69 of these annuitants
have wives who are 65 years old or over,
and they, too, are receiving monthly
payments of old-age insurance.
John H. Ingle, acting manager of the
Asheville office of the Social Security
Board explained that a man who has
worked in a factory or a store or in
some other industrial or business con
cern since the old-age insurance sys
tem went into operation, and has quali
fied for benefits, may claim payment
upon reaching age 65. When an insured
worker reaches age 65 and begins re
ceiving old-age insurance payments, ad
ditional benefits may go to his wife if
she is 65 or when she reaches age 65.
Each of his children also may receive
monthly payments if they are under
16 (18 if still in school).
The monthly payment to the wife of
an annuitant amounts to one-half of
his monthly benefit. The monthly pay
ment to each of his minor children is
also one-half of his own monthly bene
fit. The amount of monthly insurance
payments which any member of the
worker’s family may receive depends
upon the amount of the worker’s own
monthly insurance benefit.
HELLER PASSED
IN A BALTIMORE
HOSPITAL MON.
Walter Heller, 27, a resident of Bre
vard since the opening' of the Ecusta
Paper corporation and employed by of
ficials of that concern for the past eight
years, died Monday in the Johns Hop
kins hospital in Baltimore, Maryland,
as a result of a brain operation he un
derwent there five weeks ago. Funeral
service and burial was held in Jersey
City, New Jersey, his native home.
He is survived by his wife and a 4
year-old #son.
WORK ROOM CLOSED
Members of the local chapter of the
Red Cross have announced that the
Red Cross work room over the City
Hall has been temporarily closed. No
tice of reopening will be issued, they
said.
I
Say That Drive To Raise Funds
Will Be Completed By
Tuesday
The Transylvania county committee
for the United Service Organizations
will formally launch their campaign
here today to raise money for contribu
tion to the State and National funds of
the USO, P. Brown Carr, county
chairman, has announced.
A meeting was held last Monday night
to formulate plans for carrying out the
campaign in the county. At the meet
ing Mrs. Mary Jane McCrary, manager
of the Walker Insurance agency, > was
named chairman of a committee to so
licit donations for the fund in the town
of Brevard; Ralph Fisher, commander
of the local post of the American Le
gion, was named chairman of county
solicitations outside the town; Rev.
B. W. Thomason was named treasurer
and Kin McNeil secretary of the coun
ty organization as a whole.
Mrs. McCrary and Mr. Fisher said
here yesterday that their respective or
ganizations are fast being completed
and that the drive would be over by
next Tuesday at the latest. In the town
committee members will be appointed
on each block in the town, and they
will solicit from individuals and firms
on their respective blocks. Mr. Fisher
will probably handle his campaign in
the county in the same manner, naming
committee members in each of the
communities.
Present at the organizational meet
ing, besides the committee members
listed above, were Mrs. Ralph Fisher
and J. O. Wells.
F. Brown Carr, county chairman,
said yesterday that prospects look good
for raising a good fund for the organi
zation here in the county. He appealed
to the patriotic nature of every one in
the county to give as liberally as they
can in this drive, since it all goes into
a permanent fund for providing social
and recreational facilities for the hun
dreds of thousands of young men r>ow
ev *■ ln^ in the Army and Navy.
RED ARMY SAYS
FORCES OF NAZI
LEGIONS CHECKED
Nazis Claim To Have Penetrat
ed Deep Into Red
Territory
Red army troops supported by tre
mendous artillery barrage have cheek
ed the German invaders of Russia on
the Minsk front with heavy losses, the
Soviet information bureau stated Wed
nesday, while late reports from Berlin
stated that the Soviet naval base of
Riga, capital of old Latvia, was storm
ed and captured by the German Baltic
armies and that other Nazi forces pen
etrated deep into the central Red front.
The capture of Riga, into whose
southwestern suburbs German troops
had fought their way as early as June
29, was declared to have established a
solid Nazi front southeast of Dvinsk.
German troops were said to be in pur
sxiit of the retreating Russians.
One of the biggest air armadas of the
war carried out a bold “sweep” of Ger
man-occupied Prance, virtually w'thout
challenge from the luftwaffe, after
three daylight bombing invasions of
Germany and German-held territory by
RAF squadrons.
Striking in force by daylight for the
second consecutive day, the royal air
force smashed at industrial targets
around Oldenburg, blasted the Nazi sea
plane base at Borkum and then at dusk
sent a roaring armada over the channel
against Northern France.
Robber Goes Four
Times And Gets—Cut
The proverbial maxim about the
“third time is out” evidently wasn’t be
lieved in by the person or persons who
have been entering Hayes Motor com
pany building: on Broad street for the
past two weeks. Monday night it was
entered for the fourth time.
On the first break in $13 was taken
from the cash register. The last three
times have netted the would-be-robber
nothing—except some bad cuts suffered
in the last escapade on Tuesday night.
A trail of blood was left behind and it is
believed that the person was cut badly
on broken door glass.
Late Wednesday local officers had
not tracked down any suspects, but
they were still working on clues.
TO INSTALL OFFICERS
Charles P. Moore, employe of the
Duke Power company here, will be in
stalled tonight at a meeting of the Bre
vard Lions Club at Brevard College as
new president of the organisation.
Other newly elected officers will be in
stalled at the meeting which is sched
uled at 7 o’clock.