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C6QGC6C8C8C80BC8C8C6C6C60GOGOB06Q60606Q Transylvania County Entrance to Pisffah National Forest THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County Trade at Home Boost Your Town and County Vol. 51; No. 31 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941 $100 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY EVERYTHING SET FOR INTENSIVE ALUMINUM DRIVE Boy Scouts To Collect Friday; Pens Erected On Court House Lawn The boy scouts of Brevard are all set to begin their Intensive drive for old aluminum ware in the town of Brevard Friday morning, and the drive over the rural areas of Transylvania county has been under way since last Friday. Much success is reported by Edwin L. Shore, chairman of the collection in the rural section. Dr. E. O. Roland, scoutmaster for Brevard Troop No. 1, stated that his scouts expected to gather a large num ber of contributions from housewives here tomorrow. Edwin Shore said yesterday that pens are being constructed on each side of the courthouse lawn and will be ready by today for the depositing of aluminum ware by contributors to the cause of National defense. One pen will be used as a depository for those people in the rural areas of the county, while the other will hold the aluminum deposited by people in the town of Brevard, Mr. Shore said. A sort of contest will be staged to see which group will contri bute more. As regards contributions from rural citizens, Mr. Shore said that they*might bring their aluminum ware to the pen on the courthouse lawn anytime be tween this morning and Saturday night. A previous announcement had been made that the contributions should be brought into town on Saturday of this week, but this need no longer be regard ed, Mr. Shore said. Townspeople may also bring their contributions to the pen on the courthouse lawn if they prefer. Dr. Roland emphasized that those wishing to contribute should leave the pieces of aluminum on the porch or out in the yard if they do not want to be disturbed by the boy scouts when they call by to collect it. In the rural areas the 4-H clubs and the Little River Grange are cooperating in collecting the aluminum, Mr. Shore said. SCOUTS WILL SEE PICTURE The Brevard Methodist <purch boy scout troop, with E. H. McMahan as scoutmaster, will meet at the Methodist church on Friday evening’ of this week at eight o’clock Daylight Saving time to see a moving picture depicting scout work in all of its phases, Mr. McMahan has announced. Immediately after the showing of the picture watermelons will be cut and served to those attending. Mr. McMahan urged that all boys over 12 years of age who are not yet affiliated with another sccut troop attend the meeting Friday evening and see the picture depicting scout work. Mors scouts will be accepted into the Metho dist troop, he said. RUSSIANS RETORT GERMANS DRIVEN BACK IN PUCES Nazis Admit That Their As saults “Need Time To Ripen” In Russian Drive The German advance generally has been checked and Nazi divisions in many places have been forced into re treat, the Soviet government 6aid on Wednesday as the Red army announc ed it had thrown the Germans out of their trenches in the Smolensk sector on the front before Moscow. Adolf Hitler’s official Nazi party or gan said that Germany’s assaults “need time to ripen” bacause of fierce Russian resistance, but added that Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev were doomed as were Paris and Belgrade. The “battle of annihilation” in the Smolessk sector which the high command said Monday was near a successful conclusion, ap peared to be raging with unabated ferocity, with the Red forces fighting stubbornly in a great area including Smolensk, Mogilev and Vyazma. Despite the lack of details, there was every indication that the battle was the toughest the German forces had en gaged in on any front. Japan moved Tuesday Into Camranh, French Indo-China naval base 800 miles from Manila, with warships, troops and an efficient organization for military administration. Thus proceeded in force the occupa tion of eight air bases and five garrison posts which, it was announced official ly, will pyt a total of 40,000 Japanese troops in Southern Indo-China, will sta tion Japanese planes within easy bomb ing range of British Malaya and Burma, within an hour’s flight of Bangkok, and will enable Japanese air patrols to cover the ship Iroutes of the China sea and complete Japanese air domination of all Indo-China. Buys Defense Bonds With Saved Pennies PITT9TON, Pa.—Mrs. George Wil liams of Duryea entered the Pittston poetoffice and asked for four $18.75 de fense bonds. In payment, she handed the clerk a shoe box, containing 7,600 pennies which she had saved during the past live years. Two clerks spent nearly four hours counting the pennies. VIEW OF NEW ENGLISH CHAPEL Above is a view of the new English Chapel which has just been erected near the Davidson River just off the Trans-Pisgah Forest highway about four miles from Bre vard. It is constructed of native stone gathered from the Davidson River. DRIVE MADE ON SLOT MACHINES Local Officers Round Up Gam bling Devices Under Order Of Judge Phillips Slot machines and other Rambling: devices in places of business through out Transylvania county came in for a free ride to the city hall yesterday when Chief of Police B. H. Freeman, State Highway Patrolman Morrow, and Sheriff G. D. Shuford made a "haul” on establishments in which the devices were found under order of Superior Court Judge F. D. Phillips of Rocking ham. Metre than a dozen slot machines had been rounded up late Wednesday by the local officers. Judge Phillips, who presided over the term of superior court adjourned here Friday, said in his order to the officers that a great deal of complaint from the citizens of Transylvania had come to him. He ordered all slot machines, pin boards, punch boards, and all machines and devices of like nature that do not give the player merchandise for hi* money seized and kep{ under loci? and key. t. His order also instructed the officers to arrest any and all persons who are keeping these devices in their places of business to be operated by the public, as well as any and all persons who are the owners or agents for placing the machines in places of business. Bond for persons arrested In connec tion with the slot machine clean-up drive were set at $200 for appearance in court by Judge Phillips. JAYCEES REPORT PROGRAM SUCCESS Plan To Hold A Dance At Coun try Clubhouse In The Near Future At their regular meeting last Tuesday night at the Country Clubhouse mem bers of the Brevard Junior Chamber of Commerce reported splendid progress in the street dances and community sings which are being sponsored by the or ganization on Monday and Thursday evening respectively of each week. At the initial community sing held one week ago tonight a large crowd turned out for the event, and the pro gram was highly successful. At the second street dance last Monday night more than 1500 people were present, and indications were that still larger crowds would attend in the future. Tuesday night the Jaycees voted to sponsor a ball room dance at the Coun try Clubhouse some time in the near future, but no date was set. It is under stood, though, that this dance will be held within the next two or three weeks. Boy Scouts Place 1st In Field Meet The local Brevard Boy Scout Troop No. 1 came out in first place in a field meet at the Area camp on Pigeon River held last week. Activities at the meet Included fire building, first aid, knot tying, pacing and swimming. The local boys took first place in these events. Five troops were entered in the contest. Community Sing At 8:30 Daylight Time The weekly community sing sponsor ed by the Brevard Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held at 8:30 tonight Daylight Saving time, C. M. Douglas, master of ceremonies, announces. The place for the sing is on the Bre vard high school lawn just off Broad street, and all citizens and visitors are cordially invited to attend and join in the singing. ICE CREAM SUPPER An ice cream supper will be held at the English Chapel on Friday evening, August 8, at 8 o’clock, for benefit of the building fund of the Chapel. The event is sponsored by the Ladles Aid, and the public is invited. BULLETIN The establishment of an United States pack artillery camp in nearby Pisgah Forest for the training of soldiers in the 4th and 97th batallions at Fort Bragg in mountain climb ing and camouflage has been indefinitely postponed, a re porter for The Times was told late Wednesday in a telephone conversation with Major Dan iels of Fort Bragg. Major Daniels said that al though the 60-day encamp ment had been deflnitely de cided upon, no definite date could be given as to when the camp would be established here. He indicated that the two Fort Bragg battalions would be sent to Pisgah Forest later in the summer. CC URGES MORE ACCOMMODATIONS Secretary Reports Memberships In Organization Coming In Well One of the major problems discussed at the regular meeting of the Brevard ! Chamber of Commerce last Thursday | night in the City Hall was the providing of accommodations for tourists in the town and county, and the organization considered plans for encouraging per sons or firms to provide these accom modations in order that the demaf d might be filled. Mrs. John W. Smith, acting secretary I in the absence of Mrs. Ralph Fisher, re ported that memberships to the or ganization were coming in well. The Chamber of Commerce is in charge of arrangements for the dedi cation of the Pisgah Forest entrance portajs here next Sunday afternoon, and Lewis P. Hamlin, president of the Chamber, will preside at the dedicatory exercises. Carr Lumber Company Store Is Remodeled F. Brown Carr, as manager of the Carr dumber Company store at Pisgah Forest, this week Invites friends and customers in to see the newly remodeled store and to see the bargains in goods on display there. In a page of advertisements elsewhere in this issue of The Times, neighboring firms and individuals congratulate the Carr Lumber Company store upon their extensive remodeling program. Ecusta President Sees Possibility Of Growing Flax In Transylvania And The South For Utilization By Paper Plant THE DRAFT BOARD ISSUES CALL NOS. FOR REGISTRANTS Order In Which Second Regis tration Draftees Will Be Inducted Listed The local draft board has Issued the order numbers for the second registra tion draftees who registered on July 1 of this year. Mrs. Allie B. Harllee, clerk to the local board, explained that order number 702 for the first registrants, October IS, 1940, had been reached on July 1 when the second registration took place. This means, she said, that beginning with number 702, a second registration pros pective draftee has been placed after every 13th man in the original order number list for this county, thereby making the order number of the first second registration man 715. The num ber 13 was arrived at by dividing the number of new registrants, 83, into the remaining number of registrants from the first registration after 702. the or der number reached in induction, had been deducted from the complete first registration order number list which totalled 1760. The order numbers of the second registrants are as follows: R-1459: Andrew Leon Williams, Pig gah Forest. R-1434: Alfred Marion Gillespie, R-l, Brevard. S-1561: William Thomas Gardner, R-2 Brevard. S-1522: Jack Austin Gravely, R-2, Brevard. R-l472: Elmer Harrison Galloway, R-l, Rosman. R-l382: Bert Sanford Cassell, R-l, Brevard. R-l010: William Oscar Aiken, Ros man. I R-1650: Cecil Francis Ball, Brevard. S-754: Carl Swangim, Brevard. S-1036: Andrew Floyd Evans, Pisgah 1 Forest. R-766: Herman Kilgore, Brevard (Col.) S-1152: Jerald Eugene Tate, Brevard. S-1074: Dollin Madison Millner, Bre j vard. S-1217: James Paul Bowen, R-2, Bre vard. S-1497A: Dillard Lee Trent, R-2, Bre vard. (Continued on page eight) Noted Novelist Is Granted A Divorce RENO.—Katherine Brush has won a divorce from Hubert Winans to end a marriage the noted novelist and her second husband said in 1929 would be a perfect union. They were married that year after agreeing there should be a new proposal and acceptance every three years. They were to have separate living quarters in their New York apartment but were to meet for dates and dinner. The author charged cruelty and was granted the right to use her first mar ried name, Katherine Ingham Brush. She was awarded the decree on testi mony taken by deposition after Winans fulfilled the six weeks Nevada residence requirement. RUSHTON TO PREACH Rev. F. S. Rushton, of Greer, S. C., will preach at the East Fork Baptist church next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock and at 3 o’clock, announcement has been made. The public is invited to attend. Program For Two-Day Annual Baptist Event Is Outlined The annual meeting of the Transyl vania Baptist Association will be held at the Oak Grove Quebec Baptist church on Wednesday and Thursday, August 6 and 7, according to announcement by N. L<. Ponder, cleirk of the association. The morning session of the first day, Wednesday, will open at 10 o’clock with devotionals by Rev. W. S. Price. Fol lowing that enrollment of messengers will take place. The remainder of the morning session will be taken up with the appointment of committees, the re port on Sunday schools by E. L. Pon der, the report on Daily Vacation Bible schools by Miss Lorena Merrill, recog nition of visitors. At 11:30 the annual sermon will be preached by Rev. B. W. Thomason, pastor of the First Baptist church of Brevard. Lunch will be serv ed at 12 o’clock. Scheduled for the afternoon program the first day, beginning at 1:15, aJre the devotional by Rev. N. H. Chapman, an address on Temperance and Public Morals by Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., re port on hospitals by A. M. Paxton and Smith Hagaman, miscellaneous busi ness, and report on the orphanage by Mrs. M. H. Holliday and Dr. L. G. Greer. The first day's session will adjourn at 3:10 p.m. Opening the Thursday morning ses sion at 10 o’clock will be the devotional by Rev. S. P. McCauley, followed by an address on Religious literature by Rev. Lawrence Erwin. Other events on the morning program include a report on B. T. U. krork by Valrey Carter, a report on W. M. U. work by Mrs. J. L. Underwood, and a report on the con dition of churches by J. W. Glazener. The afternoon devotional will be given by Rev. W. H. Nicholson. Im mediately following will be the election of officers for the coming year. A co operative program will be given by T. C. Henderson, and a report will be made by the committees previously appoint ed. The closing event for the day and for the entire meeting will be a talk on Christian Education by Miss Martha Kate Moore. The meeting will adjourn at 2:80 p.m. DEDICATORY SPEAKER Shown above is the Hon. Joseph R. Bryson, United States Congress man from Greenville. South Caro lina, who will make the principal address at the dedication of the Pisgah Forest Gateway memorial Sunday afternoon. BRYSON TO SPEAK AT DEDICATION OF FOREST GATEWAY Joseph C. Kircher Also On Pro gram Beginning At 3:30 Sunday Afternoon. United States Congressman Joseph R Bryson, of Greenville, South Carolina, will make the principal address at the dedication here next Sunday afternoon of the Memorial Entrance portals to the 150,000-acre Pisgah National Forest and game preserve, according to announce ment by the Brevard Chamber of Com merce and officials of the U .S. Forest Service. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 3:30 Daylight Saving time at the memorial gateway only two miles from Brevard at the beginning of the trans-forest highway. Others who will be present for the deidcation of the memorial gateway to the memory of the soldiers who gave their lives in the first world war in clude Joseph C. Kircher, regional forester with the U. S. Forest Service, of Atlanta, Georgia, who will present the memorial; Ralph R. Fisher, com mander of the local Monroe Wilson Post of the American Legion, who will ac cept the memorial in the name of Tran sylvania county and World War veter ans; and Lewis P. Hamlin, president of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce, who will preside at the dedicatory ex ercises. The original gateway memorial was erected in 1920 soon after the close of the World War and was dedicated to the memory of Transylvania soldiers who lost their lives overseas. It formed an archway over the trans-Pisgah forest highway where it left the Mills River highway. Included in the new memorial, which is built of native stone, are the bronze tablets and plaques which were a part of the old gateway as well as some of the same stone that helped to form it. The new memorial is near where the old one stood on the reconstructed trans forest highway, formerly No. 284. Given a prominent place in the new memorial are two bronze plaques, both taken from the old gateway. One is dedicated to the memory of “those who made the supreme sacrifice for their country—D. Monroe Wilson, Boyd Wiley Ross, Thomas Jose Turner, Brance Lorenzo Glazener, Ellis Freeman Bar (Continued on page eight) ton, Scott Doggin, Buford Raines”. This Collector Urges Payment of Taxes Edwin A. Morgan, Transylvania coun ty tax collector, this week urges all citizens who have not yet paid their 1940 taxes to do so before Saturday, August 2, when lists of property will be turned in to The Times for adver tising for sale to satisfy delinquent taxes. All taxes that are paid by Saturday of this week, Mr. Morgan said, will not be turned over for advertising purposes. Too, the advertising cost will be added to the original taxes. He urged that all attend to this mat ter at once, and said that he would re main in his office in the courthouse un til three o’clock Saturday to receive payment of taxes. Over 300 Farm Folk Hear Harry H. Straus At Farm ers Federation Here McCLURE PRESIDED Growing of flax on the farm lands of Transylvania county and other counties in Western North Carolina for use as raw material at the Ecusta Paper cor poration’s plant at nearby Pieguh Forest was seen as more than a possibility by Harry H. Straus, president of the Ecusta corporation, in a speech made Wednesday morning: at the annual pic nic of the Farmers Federation in Tran I sylvania. Mr. Straus’ speech highlighted the | program of the day for the more than 300 farm folk who gathered on the lawn of the Brevard high school to watch and participate in the all-day program over which James G. K. McClure, president of the Farmers Federation, presided. Going into detail about the proposition of growing raw flax in this section—a proposition that interested every farm er present—Mr. Straus said: “As to the possibility of flax becom ing a crop for this section, we are not yet in a position to state when this can take place. We are working diligently on this problem now, as we are anxious to add an agricultural benefit to those which we have already brought to this vicinity; but the smallness of the acre age in this particular section is the reason why we could not apply our present methods of preparing the flax straw to this immediate vicinity. "In spite of that fact, however,” he said, “we are giving considerable thought to bringing this crop to the South”. As one of the means of bringing raw flax production to this section and the entire Southland, Mr. Straus told of the Ecusta plant’s present operation of a new mechanical development of their own—a portable flax machine—which produces fibre from the straw directly in the field. He said these machines were being tested as to their capacity and cost of production in California at this very moment, and that the result of this operation experiment will have great influence upon the decision to bring the crop to this section. Mr. Straus emphasized: “We do not want to recommend a crop to our farm ing friends in this vicinity, unless we can assure them of a profitable opera tion. We hope that with this portable equipment we can use the product of isolated flax acreages. “It is our hope”, he continued, "con trary to what we are doing in Minne sota and California, namely, bringing the flax straw to the mill, to bring the mill to the fields with the use of our portable equipment If this can be worked out satisfactorily, we hope to materialize on our ambition to bring this crop to this section”. Mr. Straus told the farmers gathered at the picnic that he was telling them this plan of theirs so that they would realize that Ecusta is interested in their farming problems and that Ecusta is attempting to help them fight some of their battles. Elaborating further upon plans for the future at Ecusta, President Straue said: "We are Just about to put into operation a special department, in the charge of competent men with prior experience, who will work out in detail flax fibre which can be grown in this section. I take the opportunity to men tion this here—it might be a little pre mature—that we have other crops on our program which we are now de veloping that might be more easily grown in this section than flax itself’. He did not reveal what these ex (Continued on page eight) COUNTY SCHOOLS OPEN AUGUST 28 Two More Teachers Are Grant ed The County Because Of Increased Enrollment Public schools In Transylvania county will open on Thursday, August 28, for the 1941-42 season, J. B. Jones, county superintendent of schools has announced. The two high schools in the county, Brevard and Rosman, are scheduled to open at the same time that the more than a dozen elementary schools thru out the county open. The reason for opening the schools on the week-end, Mr. Jones pointed out, was to make it possible to complete four months of school work before the Christmas holidays, thereby marking the completion of a half year’s work in 1941, and still permitting two days holi day for Thanksgiving. Christmas holi days, he said, will begin on December 19, and classes will be resumed on January 5, according to the present schedule. Because of increased enrollment last year two schools In the county, the Bre vard high school and the elementary school at Enon, have been granted an extra teacher each, thereby increasing the total number of teachers in the county to 75. Neither one of the two teachers has been appointed. The extra teacher at Enon will teach in the mid dle elementary grades. It was not learn ed in what field the extra teache/r at Brevard high would be placed.