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Vol. 51; No. 37
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1941
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13th Field Artillery Spends Two Nights In Pisgah Forest
Brevard College To Open
Eighth Year On Monday
Initial Faculty Meeting of the j
Year Set For Tonight At
College
Brevard College will open for its
eighth consecutive year on Monday,
September 15, when freshman orienta
tion days will begin, Dean C. E. Buck
ner, has announced.
More than 200 freshman from half a
hundred counties in the state and many
from outside the state will arrive on the
campus Monday morning, Dean Buck
ner said, and the first meeting of the
group will be held at eight o’clock that
night in the college auditorium. On
Tuesday the newcomers will be classi
fied and registered for their classes. A
full program of athletics and recrea
tional games has been planned by
Leonard W. Roberts and Miss Nancy
Blanton, physical education instructors,
for the recreation of the group during
the days of orientation.
Sophomores will return to the camp
us on Tuesday, and the first meeting
of that class will be held on Tuesday
night in the college auditorium at eight
o’clock. The sophomores will register
on Wednesday, while the freshmen are
to go through a day of becoming ac
quainted with the buildings and grounds
and the general program of the college,
Dean Buckner said.
On Thursday the freshmen will com
plete registration for the term. Classes
will begin at eight o’clock on Friday
morning, September 19.
The initial faculty meeting of the
school year will be held immediately af
ter dinner in West Hall this evening,
Mr. Buckner announced, and all facul
ty members for the year are expected
to be on the campus by today.
Although no enrollment figures for
the year were predicted, Brevard usual
ly enrolls between 350 and 400 students.
It was understood from college officials
that enrollment this '’ear, ho fats, had
stacked up well with previous years,
and there was no reason to believe that
attendance this year would fall behind
previous years to any great extent, if
any.
Between 30 and 40 studente from
Transylvania county attend Brevard
each year.
SOVIET OFFICERS
PREDICT ROUTING
OF GERMAN ARMY
Say 100,000-man Nazi Force
In Retreat On Russian
Front
The Red army’s biggest victory of
the war, on the central front where
shattered remnants of a 100,000-man
Nazi force are reported in disordered
retreat, drew from an official Soviet
spokesman on Wednesday the declara
tion that “the impending rout of all the
German armies can already be discern
ed.”
The great city of Leningrad, sur
rounded and isolated from the rest of
Russia, is being attacked by every
military means at Germany’s command
and “should be taken within a reason
able space of time,” authorized Nazi
sources declared.
Both the high command communique
and accounts of authoritative commen
tators told of bombs and shells from the
massed might of German air and artil
lery forces pounding relentlessly into
the heart of the city.
The S. S. Sessa, an American-owned
freighter flying the flag of Panama, was
sunk by a torpedo on Aug. 17 about 300
miles southwest of Iceland, the state
department announced, and all but three
of her crew of 27 were presumed lost.
The crew included one American.
Winston Churchill expressed the wish
that American naval forces already
endlessly patrolling the Atlantic ap
proaches to the Western Hemisphere
might be of even “greater help” to the
British in the battle for that ocean of
destiny.
British naval and aerial raiders re
ported they had sunk five axis ships,
probably destroyed three more, dam
aged others, and pounded the locomotive
works of the German city of Kassel in
attacks stretching from the Arctic to
Bengasi in the Mediterranean.
New Hours For The
Draft Board Given
The local draft board office will be
closed from 12 to 1 o’clock every day
through September and October, an
nouncement has been made by Mrs.
Thomas Mitchell, who is in charge of
the office during Mrs. Allie B. Harllee’s
absence on a three weeks’ vacation.
Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. each day, with the exception of the
one hour noon closing. Those desiring
to call at the office at other hours than
the above stated are asked to make ap
pointment by calling Telephone No. 385.
Upon Mrs. Harllee’s return the first
of October, Mrs. Mitchell will take her
vacation of three weeks.
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Times To^ Publish
A College Edition
As a part of the welcome pro
gram for the opening- of the
eighth year of service at Brevard
College, The Times next week
will publish a special college
edition in which news and feature
stories pertaining ;o the college
and its program of activities will
be featured.
Also, local merchants and busi
ness firms will be invited to ex
tend greetings to the student*
and faculty members on the open
ing'of the new school year.
Brevard College is a tremend
ous asset to Brevard and Tran
sylvania county, and through this
special edition The Times and
local citizens will express their
appreciation for it.
PUN CONCERTED
DRIVE TO RAISE
HOSPITAL FUNDS
Finance Committee Sets Sept.
18, 19, For Two-Day
Drive
At a meeting of the finance commit
tee of the Transylvania community
hospital here Tuesday night, plans were
made to launch a concerted drive for
$15,000 additional funds on Thursday
and Friday, September 18, 19. Members
of the finance committee said a large
li-tring o-mmttt* * was oigani’-'ed at the
meeting, with two group captains ap
pointed. They were Jerry Jerome and
Harry Sellers.
These two group captains will divide
the town into two sections, and each
solicitation group, under the direction
of their group captain, will handle its
division of the town. J. A. Glazener,
rural chairman, will handle the drive
in the rural areas.
The finance committee said that an
attempt would be made to reach every
person and to get a cash payment or
pledge on the two days mentioned above.
The drive will also be carried on in
the Ecusta Paper corporation’s plant,
the Wheeler hosiery mill, the tanning
and extract plans in Brevard and Bos
nian headed by Jos. S. Silversteen, the
Carr lumber company, and Pisgah
Mills. Previously, Ecusta and Wheeler
Mills matched the donations of their
employes, it was stated, and it is prob
able that they will do so again.
The finance committee emphasized
that this extra money had to be raised
because of change of original plans in
the hospital building, the change being
necessitated because of increase in in
dustry here and the expansion of
Ecusta and other industrial plants in
the county. This expansion came after
the first drive was started, it was point
ed out, and officials of the Duke Foun
dation, which has appropriated $28,000
for the building, advised that the
original plans be enlarged upon to take
care of additional demands which would
be placed upon the hospital.
The change in the plans added 5 beds,
an emergency operating room, a deliv
ery room, an X-ray and laboratory fa
cilities. Also an elevator was added.
COUNTY ALLOTTED
$2,340 N Y A FUND
John A. Lang, state administrator of
the National Youth Administration, has
announced that a total of $2,340 has
been allotted the public schools In Tran
sylvania county for the current school
term. These funds will be expended in
the seventeen schools of the county for
carrying on the student work program.
J. B. Jones, superintendent of county
schools, said yesterday that some 50
students in the county would be aided
by the NYA program this year.
Work of the NYA students includes
clerical and office assistance to teachers,
campus beautification, and other sup
plementary work in connection with the
schools.
Will Award Prize
In Music Contest
J. B. Jones, county superintendent of
schools, has received word from Mrs.
W. H. White, of Sanford, chairman of
the public school music department of
the North Carolina Federation of
Music Clubs, that a $6 prize will be
awarded the boy or girl in any of the
high schools or grammar schools in the
State for the best essay of 800 to 1500
words on "What Music in the School
Means to Ms”.
The contest, which will end on March
1, 1942, is being sponsored by Mrs.
Maurice Honlgman, president of the
North Carolina Federation of Music
Clubs. It is open to every child enrolled
in the public schools of the county.
ON FOREIGN SOIL
Czechoslovak soldiers celebrated Coming-to-Britain Day with a machine gun relay
race recently in one of the strangest national holidays ever to be observed any
where. It was celebrated “somewhere in the English Midlands.” It was in celebra
tion of the anniversary of the Slovak and Czech soldiers’ safe arrivel in the British
Isles after the collapse of France, which had sheltered them during the first year of
the war. A unit of the Czech and Slovak soldiers is now in formation on Russian soil
and will fight alongside of the Soviet armies when fully established.
SET HONOR COURT
FOR SCOUT TROOP
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
Baptist Scout Troop Will Be
Installed At Services
Sunday Evening
—
An honor court for members of Bre
vard Boy Scout Troop No. 1, sponsored
by the Brevard Kiwanis Club, will lie
held Friday night at eight o’clock at
the First Baptist church, members of
the county scout committee have an
nounced. Don M. Jenkins, advancement
chairman, will preside, and the awards
will be presented by various members
of the local and district scout commit
tee, it was stated. Dr. E. O. Roland is
scoutmaster of the troop.
In line for the tenderfoot award Fri
day night will be Robert Hunter, John
Hunter, Speedy Merrill, William C.
Bryant, Alfred Neuman, Donald Lee
Poteat, Hilton Reid, and Spencer Reid.
Second class awards will go to Bobby
Simpson and Paul Patterson.
Those to receive first class awards are
John Vassey, Edward Buckner, Alex
Kizer, Jr., Kenneth Ratchford, Thomas
Disher, and James Kanipe.
Merit badges will be presented to
Robert Kappers, in first aid, pioneering
and pathfinding; Gene Franklin, in life
saving, swimming, firemanship, pio
neering, and first aid; Franklin Kerber,
| in firemanship; Charles Cantrell, in life
saving; Buddy Tankereley, in first aid
and swimming; John Summey, in swim
ming; Henry Summey, in life saving,
personal health, first aid, and pioneer
ing; Thomas Disher, in wood carving;
Robert T. Gash, in chemistry; Alex
Kizer, Jr., in pathfinding; and James
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V. C. McCrary, Of Little
River Is Suicide Victim
Rates Be Increased
For Times Monday
Next Saturday will be the last
day on which subscriptions may
be made to The Times at the old
rates. Publisher Ed M. Anderson
announces, and urges all old sub
scribers to come in and renew by
Saturday afternoon in order to
take advantage of the old rates.
New subscriptions are invited,
too, before the rates are revised.
Hundreds of subscribers during
the past few weeks have renew
ed, and many new subscribers
have been added to the mailing
list.
Beginning next Monday rates
will be increased due to increasing
costs of labor and materials. Take
advantage of old rates by renew
ing this week.
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Army Draftees Leave
For Fort Bragg Today
Eleven Transylvania county boys
leave here today for Port Bragg where
they will fill the quota for the 17th draft
call, according to Mrs. Thomas Mitchell,
acting clerk to the local draft board.
A list of names from which the eleven
boys would be selected was published
last week, but the names of those who
will actually leave was not available
until today, draft officials said.
Aldermen, Commissioners And
Carnival Folks Don’t See Alike
DR. GIBBONEY TO
SPEAK SUNDAY
Dr. Charles Gibboney, of Farmville,
Virginia, pastor of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church and professor of
Bible at Hampden Sydney College, will
preach at the Brevard Presbyterian
church on Sunday morning at eleven
o’clock, members of the church have
announced.
Dr. Gibboney, who is a graduate of
the University of Virginia, Union Theo
logical seminary, and has a degree
from the University of Edinborough in
Scotland, is being considered for the
pastorate of the Brevard-Davidson
River Presbyterian church, it was stat
ed.
Circles Donate $25
For Library Books
The four circles of the local
Methodist church have made a donation
of $25 for the purchase of library books
at the Roeenwald school for Negroes
here, J. B. Jones, superintendent of
schools, has. announced.
Carnival Men Can Be Preco
cious About The Places
They’re Stopping
A carnival was coming1 to town—and
then the city board of aldermen met
and it didn’t come. The same carnival
was coming to the county just outside
the town limits—and then the county
commissioners met and it didn’t come
there. The two meetings are now history,
and so is the carnival that didn’t come.
It was all so sad, too, because the
carnival folks had all of their signs
printed up and were right in the middle
of having Transylvania motorists do
some free advertising on their car
bumpers. But the board of aldermen and
county 'commissioners thought other
things were a lot more necessary right
now than a week’s carnival activities
in the town and county—such, for in
stance, as the carnival’s absence.
The last town which was “blessed” by
the appearance of the carnival was
Sylva, and red hot reports from there
indicate that the town officials are red
hot about it all—after they staged their
shows and pulled up stakes and left.
But there’ll be no sad hearts in official
dom seats in Brevard and Transylvania.
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Aged Transylvanian Found
With Throat Slashed Early
Tuesday Morning
Funeral service was held at noon
Wednesday at Crab Creek for V. C.
McCrary, 73, well known Transylvania
farmer of the Little River section, who
died at his home around 8:30 last Tues
day morning as the result of a slashed
throat, which Coroner J. C. Wike, who
investigated, said was self-inflicted. In
terment was in the Crab Creek ceme
tery.
Mr. McCrary was found by a son,
Clifford, about 6 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing as he lay on the floor of his bed
room in a veritable pool of blood. His
throat was slashed for six or eight
inches, and a blood-covered razor was
found lying on a trunk near the bed
in which the elder McCrary had been
sleeping. Coroner Wike said that in
vestigation revealed that the wound
must have been inflicted about four
o’clock that morning.
Mr. McCrary had been in ill health
for some time, and this was advanced
as the cause of the suicide. He left no
notes or other explanation of his action.
Surviving Mr. McCrary are his third
| wife, Mrs. Feta McCrary, and ten chil
dren, seven boys and three girls. Six
of his children are dead. A nutaber of
grandchildren also survive.
Osborne-Simpson funeral home was
in charge of arrangements.
Young Democrats
To Meet Friday
There will be an important meeting
of the Young Democrats club of Tran
sylvania county in the courthouse on
Friday evening at 8 p.m., according to
an announcement by R. F. Thomas,
president of the organization. Thomas
urges that all members be present for
the election of officers, discussion of
the state convention and other import
ant business.
Brevard Negro Held
Up Here On Monday
J. F. Mills, well known Brevard Negro,
was held up by two armed Negroes and
relieved of $75 in cash in West Brevard
Monday, local officers reported Tues
day.
Officers said no detailed description of
bandits was available and as yet no
clues as to their identity have been ob
tained.
Parking Lines On
Streets Changed
The white parking lines on the city
streets have been changed to facilitate
parking and to provide more driving
room.
Originally the parking lines were set
at approximately a 45 degree angle
from the curbstone. The new lines are
set at a 88 degree angle, thereby en
abling motorists to park with more ease
and at the same time leaving more room
on the street for th^ run of t
OUTFIT LEAVES
THIS HORNING
FOR FORT BRAGG
Brevard Becomes Army Town
For A Day While Thous
ands of Soldiers Are
Here
UNITS TO PASS THROUGH
For a brief period of a day and two
nights Brevard became an “army
town” this week with the coming of the
13th Field Artillery brigade of Fort
Bragg to Pisgah National forest on
Tuesday afternoon. The brigade is com
posed of some 4,000 men and 600 ve
hicles, and all day Wednesday the
streets of the town were filled with
soldiers, and probably for the first time
in the history of the town army trucks
remained parked for hours at a time
alongside the curbstones. On Tuesday
and Wednesday nights hundreds of
/
At least one member of the 13th
Field Artillery brigade which
leaves this morning for Fort
Bragg is making no bones about
where the army’s heading.
A local citizen accosted a soldier
on the street yesterday and asked
him where he was heading. Back
came the reply: “Germany.”
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soldiers poured into town looking for
places of entertainment and recreation,
and dining places were literally jammed
with men in uniforms.
In an interview Tuesday night Gen
eral Crane said the purpose of the trip
into the mountain area was to give the
men experience in handling long
columns on winding , mountain roads
and to give the many new men in the
outfit a “shakedown” in preparation for
the army maneuvers which are to be
gin within the next two weeks. He said
so far the purpose *of the trip had been
splendidly fulfilled and that he was well
satisfied with results. In spite of the
unfamiliar mountain roads no mishaps
have yet been suffered, he said.
Wednesday, men in the brigade got
practice in individual cooking, and some
hiking and observation work was done.
Otherwise it was a general holiday for
the group, except for gassing the trucks
and making necessary repairs. He said
around 15,000 gallons of gas per day
was required by the brigade when mov
ing.
The brigade brought all supplies with
them from Fort Bragg, except bread
and milk which was supplied locally.
Perishables were brought to Brevard
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FOOTBALL DRILLS
UNDERWAY AT B.H.
Loss of Seventeen Lettermen
Handicap; Open Season
September 19
Having lost seventeen lettermen by
graduation and two others not return
ing to school, Coaches Cox and Middle
ton at Brevard high face a difficult task
in rebuilding their football machine to
compare with the excellent group of
last season. Although some twenty-five
boys have been working out daily on
the high school field, the majority of
them are newcomers without previous
experience, and as a whole they are
small.
The chief problem seems to be finding
a wingback who can block and who has
sufficient speed. The coaches are well
pleased with the work of the group as
a whole, and they feel that the team
will be able to present a formidable
front when the season gets under way..
Coach Cox stated Wednesday that
the boys were in excellent condition
and that regardless of the calibre of
the team that will open the season
against a Canton high eleven on Friday,
September 19, he felt sure it would be
the scrappiest team he has had since
coming to Brevard high.
Indications at present are that the
following squad members will answer
the call on September 19: Ends, Frank
lin and Wood, or Beddingfleld; tackles,
Bill Dixon and Clan MoGaha; guards,
Larry Dixon and Sparky Parker; cen
ter, Monroe Sterling; backs, Harry
Jones, Bill Morris, and either Bill Fetzer
and Bill Siniard, or Dave Wedge and
Bradley Wyatt.
Child Swallows Hull;
Reported Resting Well
Bascom Henry Plummer, 3-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Plum
mer, was reported to be resting well
yesterday In Biltmore hospital where
the child was rushed last Friday morn
ing after he swallowed a walnut hull.
A first attempt to remove the hull was
unsuccessful, but another try will be
made today, it was learned.
Doctors described the case as very
unusual, since the lodging of such mat
ter in the throat of a young child usual
ly proves immediately fatal unless at
tention is had at once.
The Plummer child swallowed the
piece of hull on Thursday night