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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
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Vol. 51; No. 34
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1941
$1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
Construction To Begin On Pisgah Forest School Building
Red Cross Aquatic School
Opens 10-Day Term Friday
Over 100 Students From Dozen
States Expected To En
roll In Session
The nineteenth session of the Ameri
can National Red Cross flnst aid and
aquatic school will open at Camp Caro
lina near here on Friday morning of
this week.
Over 100 students from more than a
dozen states in the South and Southeast
are expected to enroll for the 10-day
term, and a faculty of around twenty
will swell the camp to better than 125
people.
Harry A. Kenning, Red Cross field
representative of Washington, D. C.,
will again direct the camp, assisted by
a staff of nationally knowm men and
women well trained in first aid, life
saving, aquatic sports, and other ac
tivities.
This will be the second school of its
type to be held at Camp Carolina this
season. The first school was held in June
with over 200 students enrolled. Two
sessions were necessary last year also,
due to the large number of applicants
seeking to enroll.
Courses offered at the aquatic school
include home, farm, industrial, highway,
and waterfront first aid; life saving in
its several branches; all waterfront ac
tivities and leadership, including pagean
try; and training of Red Cross instruc
tors and examiners.
Leading industrial plants of South
eastern America send representatives
here each session for training, as do
states and municipalities.
Assisting Mr. Kenning in directing
this session of the aquatic school are
James (Chuck) McMillan, of Cocoa,
(Continued on page eight)
SHOW OF DAHLIA
CLUB CANCELLED
Report Bad Season, Shortage of
Dahlia Types Reason For
Cancelling
The annual Brevard Dahlia club
show, previously scheduled for Satur
day, August 23, will not be held this
year. Dr. G. B .Lynch, chairman of
the Dahlia show committee announced
here yesterday. The decision to cancel
the show was reached at a meeting of
Club members Tuesday night, Dr.
Lynch said, after careful consideration
of various points involved.
Chief reason for cancelling the annual
show, which draws people from over
Transylvania and from Asheville, Hen
dersonville, and Greenville, S. C., was
the unusually bad season for the grow
ing of dahlias and the shortage of
dahlias among members for exhibition.
Dr. Lynch said that the club mem
bership regretted having to cancel the
show, but that they felt it was impos
sible to stage a worthwhile show with
the current shortage of dahlia types.
Many club members stated that they
lost their plants after they reached the
budding stage, he reported.
This is the first time in the history
of the local Dahlia club that the annual
show has been cancelled, Dr. Lynch
said.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Patients reported to be in Transyl
vania Community hospital on Wednes
day were: Mrs. Ralph H. Ramsey and
infant daughter, Mrs. Earl Leverett and
infant son, Mrs. G. McKee Bailey, Mrs.
Eramerson West, Mrs. Porter Tinsley,
Mrs. S. P. Verner, Alfred Shook and
Jimmy McVag.
Jury Says Miller
Death Unavoidable
A coroner’s jury here last
Monday termed unavoidable
the accident in which William
Miller, 36, of Sapphire, was
killed on the night of Sunday,
August 10, on the highway be
tween here and Rosman near
Calvert.
Miller died Monday morning,
August 11, as a result of head
injuries received when he was
struck by a car driven by Carl
Barrett of Rosman, when Mil
ler was said to have been at
tempting to flag down the Bar
rett car to borrow gasoline for
a stalled truck which a com
panion, William Parker, was
driving.
The coroner’s jury, hearing
evidence in the case with Coun
ty Coroner J. C. Wike, was
composed of A. M. Case, S. E.
Campbell, C. A. Jones, H. R.
Sellers, J. C. Hendrix, and J.
F. Duckworth.
Barrett had been released on
$5,000 bond.
GERMANS STATE
FALL OF ODESSA
MATTEROFDAYS
Possibility Of A German Thrust
Across The Black Sea
Is Seen
Possibility of a German thrust across
the Black sea at the Soviet oil port of
Batum was envisioned late yesterday as
the Nazis predicted the fall of Odessa
within a matter of days—perhaps hours.
Capture of Odessa would leave the
entire Russian coast west of the Dnieper
river in German hands, thereby serious
ly impairing Soviet hopes of controlling
the Black sea, observers pointed out.
The war bulletin from Adolf Hitler’s
headquarters today said German troops
had made successful attacks on Russian
forces still defending bridgeheads of the
west bank of the Danieper river, destroy
ing 65 tanks and taking numerous pris
oners. There were no other claims re
garding the Eastern front.
A sea-borne assault on Batum, at
the eastern end of the Black sea, would
relieve the Germans of a long overland
offensive and would, if successful, pro
vide a gateway for an asault on tihe
vital Caucasus oil region.
How much naval strength the Ger
mans could muster in the Black sea is
a question, but they have reported their
air force has reduced considerably the
strength of the Russian Black sea fleet.
In addition to Soviet war vessels said
to have been damaged by air bombs,
the Germans declared yesterday they
had captured eight warships—including
a 35.000-ton battleship—under construc
tion at the Nikoleav naval base east of
j OdfeT«a.
KING RITES SET
THIS AFTERNOON
Son Of Late Brevard Residents
Dies In New Jersey City
Funeral services will be held Thursday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the First
Baptist church in Brevard for Courtney
Lee King, 52, who died at his home in
Union City, N. J., on Monday. Death
was due to heart trouble. The Rev. B.
W. Thomason, pastor of the Brevard
Baptist church, will conduct the ser
vice. Interment will be in the family
burial ground rear the Brevard Epis
copal church.
Mr. King, unmarried, was the son of
the late Pinckney S. King and Mrs.
Mary Bell King, of Brevard. He had
made his home in New Jersey since
World War I. He was a member of the
firm of King Auto Supply.
Survivors are the following relatives:
brothers, Henry Mitchell King, Phil
adelphia; Samuel B. King, Charleston,
S. C.; James Alonzo King, Union City,
N. J.; John Monroe King, Atlanta, Ga.;
sisters, Mrs. Fred J. Langley, Green
ville, S. C.; Mrs. J. F. McKinney, Wash
ington, D. C.; Mrs. J. M. Tatum, Ashe
ville.
BATSON GETS A
CORPORAL RANK
Hubert E. Batson, of Brevard, Route
1, a draftee now stationed at Camp Lee,
Virginia, has been advanced to the rank
of corporal, according to information
reaching the local draft board.
Batson has only been in the service
since June 5, Mrs. Allie B. Harllee, clerk
of the local draft board, said, and his
advancement to the rank of corporal is
remarkable in such a short period of
service, it was pointed out. He was
among a selected number of 85 from
1,000 who were selected for this promo
tion.
407 Mattresses
Are Completed
Edwin L. Shore, assistant Transyl
vania county farm agent, reported this
week that a total of 407 mattresses have
been completed in the mattress-making
project launched here some weeks ago.
The project, he said, has been tem
porarily closed until orders are receiv
ed from WPA headquarters to open
again. Participants in the program will
be notified of the opening date.
Legion Post Sets
Important Meet
Jason Huggins, adjutant of the local
Monroe Wilson Post of the American
Legion, has announced a special meet
ing for tonight at eight o’clock, day
light saving time, at the City Hall
Mr. Huggins states that the meeting
is very important, and he urges all
members to be present.
PLANS WORKED
OUT FOR FAIR
IN GLOUCESTER
Community Event Will Be Held
At Silversteen School On
September 19
In a meeting held last Saturday of the
committee for the Gloucester com
munity fair to be held on September 19
at the Silversteen school, final plans
were worked out for staging the fair
and entries for w'hich prizes will be
awarded were outlined. Miss Estelle Mc
Elwee, home management supervisor
for the Farm Security Administration
here, presided at the meeting, which
was held in the local PSA office.
Hours for the fair were set at from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., daylight saving time.
Lunch will be served at 1 p.m. Principal
speaker on the program will be Vance
E. Swift, state director of the Farm
Security Administration. Other speakers
are slated.
A schedule of the day’s program in
cludes singing, group and individual
choirs, games and contests of various
kinds, and other forms of entertain
ment. The Balsam Grove, Lake Toxa
way, Silversteen and Quebec schools
will have a part in the program, as well
as the vocational home economics and
agriculture classes at the Rosman high
school.
A special committee was named to
erect exhibition booths and another to
look after the transportation of live
stock and other farm products to be
exhibited to and from the grounds. Mem
bers of the committee said that they ex
pected the local NYA to furnish lum
ber for building the booths and display
tables.
Entries in the fair will include can
ned goods, pastry and cakes, flowers,
sewing, fruits, seeds, potatoes, corn, to
bacco, green vegetables, and all types of
farm livestock.
Committeemen present for the or
ganizational meeting included Richard
McCall, chairman, and the following
members: A. C. Price, Spurgeon McCall,
R. S. Wood, V. C. Owen, G. V. McCall,
Ransom McCall, Vardrey McCall, War
ren Fisher, Kin McNeil, Edwin Shore,
William Anders, Jason P. McCall. Joseph
McParris, Helen Ridenhour, Miss Mc
Elwee, Joe Lee Heffner, Mae Gallamore,
and Anita Macfle.
McGEHEE MAKES
MEDICAL ORDER
A Georgia doctor. Dr. John Morgan
McGehee, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
McGehee, of Macon, Ga., and Brevard,
was inducted into the International col
lege of surgeons Wednesday night at
initiation ceremonies in the theatre of
the Mexico City Palace of Fine Arts.
The college has three ranks, associ
ates, members and fellows. Dr. McGehee
is an associate at Cedartown, Ga. Among
those inducted were 143 United States
surgeons.
Don Manuel Avila Camacho, president
of Mexico, attended the ceremonies,
along with many other high Pan-Ameri
can dignitaries.
Dr. McGehee has spent many sum
mers at the summer home of hie par
ents in Brevard, and is on the staff of the
Aquatic school of the American Nation
al Red Cross, which meets at Camp
Carolina each June.
Negro Resident
Helps Defense
Talk about doing your part for na
tional defense:
Allie Aiken, local middle-aged Negro
resident, was looking for defense head
quarters in this town yesterday in or
der to give the proverbial “widow’s
mite” in the interest of national de
fense.
He came into town carrying a burlap
sack in which was 13 pounds of) tin
foil—saved over a period of five years,
he said.
Said he: 'Tve goin’ to turn it over
to de guv’ment fur national defense.
Dis country sho is impo’tant."
Neutral Sweden has lost 300,000 gross
tons of shipping during present war, the
Department of Commerce says.
Aquatic School Head
HARRY A. KENNING, field rep
resentive of the American National
Red Cross, Washington, D. C., is
again director of the 10-day session
of the Red Cross aquatic school to
open at Camp Carolina tomorrow.
HIGHWAY OFFICE
HEREJS MOVED
Webb Becomes Maintenance
Supervisor For Enlarged
District No. 1
District highway office No. 2, for the
pa/st number of years located at Bre
vard. has been combined with district
one in a general shakeup affecting
Western North Carolina. Ernest H.
Webb, Brevard district engineer be
comes maintenance supervisor for the
enlarged district, and T. G. Moody, of
Brevard, has been transferred to the
Raleigh office as draftsman. Miss Mattie
Lewis, bookkeeper in the Brevard of
fice, had not been placed the first of this
week.
In the change of district boundaries,
Transylvania, Henderson, Buncombe,
and Haywood, with headquarters in
Asheville, will compose No. 1. J. T.
Knight will be district engineer. Mr.
Webb and G. B. Baskerville will be
maintenance supervisors for the dis
trict. W. B. Ferguson, former district
engineer for No. 1, will be resident en
gineer in the office of J, C. Walker,
division engineer.
District two will be composed of
Avery, Mitchell, Madison, and Yancey
counties, with headquarters at Burns
ville. L. M. Morgan will be district en
gineer for No, 2.
District three will comprise Macon,
Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Swain, and
Jackson counties, with C. W. Lee as
district engineer, headquarters remain
ing at Andrews.
Officials here, including District En
gineer Webb, were not apprised of the
change until it was officially announced
from Raleigh. EfTort to have the state
commission reconsider the move has
not been successful.
Announces Sermon
Subject For Sunday
Rev. E. P. Billups, pastor of the Bre
vard Methodist church has announced
as his sermon subject for the 11 o’clock
hour Sunday morning-, “The Indwelling
God.” Miss Elizabeth Trowbridge, of
the Syracuse, N. Y., Conservatory of
Music, will be guest soloist.
The union service Sunday night will
be held at the Methodist church at 8
o’clook.
STORK COMES TO SEE
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Ram
sey a daughter, Sarah Martha, on Wed
nesday, August 13, at the Transylvania
Community hospital.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leverett a
son, Thomas Elliott, on Thursday, Aug
ust 14, at the Transylvania Community
hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Arch A. Groham, of
Raeford, announce the birth of a daugh
ter, Marion Leona, on Friday, August
8. Mrs. Graham was before her mar
riage Miss Ida Lee Patton, of Davidson
River.
Not One, Not Two, But Three
Millers Are Serving Uncle Sam
“Up in the air and on the ground” is
a song phrase that is still not compre
hensive enough for the sons of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Miller, of Brevard, whose
John, Fred and Henry are all three
serving Uncle Sam in the present
emergency. Fred is on the ground; John
is under the sea; and Henry is up in
the air.
Ttys unusual story of one-family na
tional defense service came to light here
this week when it was learned that the
youngest son, Henry, had signed up as
an aviation cadet at the Lou Foote
Flying field, Stamford, Texas. Fred,
the oldest son, is stationed at Maxwell
Field, Alabama, as assistant weather of
ficer. John is a lieutenant at the sub
marine base at New London, Connecti
cut.
This is by no means the first time that
the Millers Three have been in the
limelight, for they all three were eagle
scouts in their home troops back in the
days when Uncle Sam’s call was not so
imperative but when they, nevertheless,
were willing and ready to do their good
deed for humanity. Then, back in 1957,
Fred and John became the first broth
ers, and the last to date, ever to grad
uate the same year from the United
States rival academies—West Point and
Annapolis. John graduated from An
napolis, Fred from West Point. Henry
is a graduate of North Carolina State
College.
MEATSHORTAGE
THREATENS FISH
REARING PROGRAM
Forest and Wildlife Officials
Asking For Livestock
Carcasses
Any dead dogs, mules, cows, horses
today? That's the appeal the U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.
S. Forest Service jointly issued yester
day in an effort to obtain fish food to
be utilized at the Davidson River Fish
Rearing Station where from 50,000 to
60,000 trout are reared annually for
stocking in more than 100 miles of
Pisgah Forest streams.
“Because of the shortage and increas
ed price of meats formerly used as fish
food, the need for additional food for the
trout in the hatchery has become acute”,
Thomas K. Chamberlain, associate
aquatic biologist, stated, "and we are
urging all farmers owning horses, cat
tle and mules to permit us to use as
fish food any of these larger animals
which may be killed or of which dispo
sition is going to be made.”
So farmers and other owners of live
stock who have the misfortune to lose
one of their animals can still bring a
silver lining to the cloud by contacting
one of the government services men
tioned above and thereby helping to as
sure good trout fishing in the national
forest next year. Carcasses will be pick
ed up on notification.
Adding a touch of humor to a situation
that may become acute in the govern
ment’s trout rearing and stocking pro
gram, government officials reported that
some hard-hearted individuals had sug
gested that poachers be used for fish
food. They have refrained from doing
that so far, however, they pointed out,
because of the fear that such meat
would poison the fish.
FARM TOURS ARE
CONCLUDED HERE
Tours Reveal Prospects For
Bumper Corn Crop In
Transylvania
The annual Transylvania county com
munity farm tours were concluded here
Tuesday, after farms in the communities
of Little River, Brevard-Dunn’s Rock,
and Gloucester-Lake Toxaway had been
visited by scores of Transylvania citi
zens along with county agricultural of
ficials. Rain prevented the tour sched
uled Tuesday for the Calvert-Cherry
field community. More than 30 demon
stration farms were visited during the
three afternoons on which tours were
made, Edwin L. Shore, assistant county
farm agent, reported.
Mr. Shore said that the tours proved
very popular with the people, so popular,
in fact, that they asked for all-day
tours next year instead of just the af
ternoon tours. He said that the farm
women in the Gloucester-Lake Toxaway
community accompanied them on the
tour and that they were particularly in
terested in the work being done on the
demonstration fawns.
The tours revealed, Mr. Shore said,
that prospects were good for a bumper
crop of corn in Transylvania this year.
Indications were, he said, that the crop
would be the best in many years.
Summer Camps Are
Closing The Season
The regular organized summer camps
in Transylvania county are closing this
week and next, according to reports from
the operators. One camp, Cateechee,
closed last Saturday.
The majority of the boys’ and girls’
camps are closing this week, with Camp
Transylvania, for boys to close on next
Wednesday.
Camps which have operated here this
summer include Deerwoode, Rockbrook,
Keystone, Illahee, Eagle’s Nest, Con
nestee and Cateechee, for girls, and Car
olina, Sapphire, and Transylvania for
boys.
Homecoming Set For
Rocky Hill Church
The annual Homecoming of the Rocky
Hill Baptist church will be held next
Sunday, according to announcement re
ceived here.
An interesting program has been
planned, comprising inspirational talks,
singing, and a picnic lunch served on
the grounds at the noon hour. The
church membership extends a cordial
invitation to the public to attend.
Services will begin at 10:30 a. m.,
standard time.
Lower District
Singing Convention
The Lower District singing conven
tion will be held at the Little River
Baptist church next Sunday afternoon,
beginning at 2:30 p.m. standard time,
it has been announced here. Arnold
Brown will be in charge.
All singers in the district are cordial
ly invited to attend, as well as all visit
ors.
CITIZENS SIGN A
PETITION URGING
ACTION AT ONCE
District WPA Supervisor Says
Work Be Started. In Four
Or Five Days
Everything is in readiness for the
opening of construction on the $58,000
Pisgah Forest elementary school build
ing, Transylvania county school board
officials reported here yesterday, and
actual work will get under way toy Mon
day of next week. This statement was
based upon a telephone conversation
Tuesday between J. B. Jones, county
superintendent of schools, and A. F.
Weaver, Jr., of Asheville, district sup
ervisor of the WPA, under whose joint
sponsorship the building will be erect
ed. Mr. Jones said that Mr. Weaver
assured him that construction would be
under way within the next four or five
days.
Meanwhile, citizens of the Piegah
Forest school district who had become
anxious albout the construction of the
new building, approval for which was
given last March, circulated a petition
urging that immediate action be made
in opening work on the erection of the
structure. A total of 127 citizens, said
to represent at least ninety per cent
of the voting citizens of the Piagah
Forest school district, signed the pe
tition, which was mailed to the Tran
sylvania county school board yesterday.
The petition stated that the present
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DATA RELEASED
ONTB CLINIC
A Total of 91 Were Examined;
Two Found In Moderate
Stage
Dr. G, B. Lynch, Transylvania coun
ty health officer, has released for publi
cation a report on the county tubercu
losis clinic just completed here by Dr.
W. M. Peck of State Sanatorium, with
the assistance of Dr. Lynch and Miss
Jessie Mae Alexander, county health
nurse. A total of 91 persons, 88 white
and 3 colored, were examined.
Other statistics reported from the
clinic are as follow’s: Three new posi
tive cases, two white and one colored;
in moderately advanced stage, two; in
for advanced stage, one, colored; child
hood types positive, eight, white; pre
viously diagnosed adults, three, white;
probable, two white; negative, 73 white,,
two colored.
Two persons were advised to take
Sanatorium treatment; two were ad
vised to take home treatment; two were
advised to have x-rays made; and four
were advised to have further examina
tions. One white applicant was sent to
the Sanatorium.
FSA OFFICIALS
TO VISIT AREA
Howard H. Gordon, director of the
Farm Security Administration in the
region embracing North Carolina, Vir
ginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, and
Kentucky, and a Washington represen
tative of the United States Department
of Agriculture, will be in Transylvania
county today for an inspection tour of
the Appalachian Project, an experiment
in rural rehabilitation being carried out
in Upper Transylvania. Joseph C. Mc
Darris, county PSA supervisor, an
nounced the inspection tour yesterday
Accompanying the two officials on the
inspection tour will be Mr. MdDarris,
John R. Faison, district supervisor of
the FSA, and M. O. McCall, P. A.
Rahn, and James Dixon, county rural
rehabilitation committeemen.
The officials will review and report on
the progress made in the project during
the past year.
Public Schools To
Open Next Thursday
All public schools in Tran
sylvania county will open for
the 1941-42 term on next Thurs
day morning, August 28, at
8:45, daylight saving, time, J.
B. Jones, county superintendent
of schools, said here yesterday.
As previously announced, the
programs for the opening day
will be put on by the individual
building principals.
School buildings throughout
the county which were in need
of it have been repaired in pre
paration for the opening of
school. Busses have been re
conditioned and put in first
class shape for transporting
children, with some busses be
ing replaced by new ones. All
drivers of busses attended the
recent one-day school for bus
drivers conducted by the State
Highway patrol department.