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Vol. 51; No. 38
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1941
$1.50 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
This Week Marks Opening
8th Year At College Here
Final Registrations Today ;
Classes Begin Eight O’Clock
Friday Morning
Friday morning at eight o’clock
clauses will begin at Brevard College
for the eighth successive year of opera
tion. Members of the freshman class
complete registration today. The first
three days of the week have been spent
in carrying out an orientation program
for the freshmen and in registering and
classifying returning sophomores.
Exact figure* on this year's enroll
ment were not available late Wednes
day, but college officials stated that in
dications were that better than 300
pupils would be enrolled this year. This
is slightly lower than enrollment rec
ords of previous years, but officials
stated that Brevard was not suffering as
great a reduction in enrollment a* some
larger institutions had reported. A re
duction in the ma’e enrollment was an
ticipated. due to the selective service
enactment and the nationwide employ
ment opportunities.
The enrollment at Brevard this year
will be about equally divided between
boys and girls, and they will represent
over half of the 100 counties in the
state and several adjoining states.
Transylvania county will have a repre
sentation of more than 30 students.
In a statement released Wednesday,
President E. J. Coltrane said that pres
ent prospects indicate one of the best
years in the college's history. He said
that from year to year the college pro
gram has proceeded smoothly and in
ihat way the foundation has been laid
for probably what will be the best year
in the history of the Institution. His
written statement further states:
"The college was organized in the be
ginning to serve the special interests
of young people in the western half of
North Carolina and other states in this
general territory. A consistent effort has
been made to continue the institution
according to the underlying philosophy
which was adopted In a formal resolu
tion by the Western North Carolina
Conference of the Methodist church
when provision was made for the estab
lishment of the college. Two particular
objectives have been foremost in the
minds of the president and members of
the faculty.
"The first point of emphasis has been
the training of young men and young
women in the first two years of a gener
al college course in such a way as to
enable them to enter the junior classes
in the four-year colleges and universi
ties in the South and elsewhere. In the
achievement of this particular objec
tive, the college has been most fortu
nate. Its graduates have been trans
ferred to more than forty of the leading
institutions in this country. Practically
every institution in North Carolina and
South Carolina has received Brevard’s
graduates and in almost all cases they
have been uniformly successful in car
rying the advanced college programs
with marked success. Some students
have transferred to such institutions as
Peabody, Vanderbilt, University of
Florida, University of Tennessee, Uni
versity of Virginia, Scarritt College,
University of Missouri, University of
Washington, University of Minnesota,
and the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
The records of these students attest the
thoroughness writh which the work at
Brevard College has been done. Any
young person now entering Brevard
College can be assured of a record which
will be acceptable to good colleges and
(Continued on page 12)
Surplus Commodities
Discussed At Meeting
The county board of commissioners,
members of the county welfare depart
ment, and other interested parties met
last Monday evening in the county court
house for the purpose of discussing the
distribution of surplus commodities to
needy families in the county and the
general employment status of WPA
workers in the county, welfare board
members have announced.
A report on arrangements and possi
ble change of plans in distribution is
expected to be issued soon.
Subscriptions Pour
In To “The Times”
Renewals and new' subscrip
tions literally poured into The
Times office during the past week,
setting what we believe to be an
all-time record for a 6-day period.
A total of 128 new subscriptions
and renewals w'ere received, and
51 of these w'ere taken in a single
day—last Saturday.
In the list of renewals and new
subscriptions, names came in
from thirteen states and the Dis
trict of Columbia. States repre
sented included Georgia, Cali
fornia, Florida, South Carolina,
Virginia, Washington, New York,
Pennsylvania, Texas, Maryland,
Kentucky, Arkansas, Washington,
and—of course, North Carolina.
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B. C. Vice President
C. H. TROWBRIDGE, above, is
vice-president of Brevard College in
addition to serving as professor of
chemistry at the institution.
FIRE PREVENTION
BEING STRESSED
Fire Chief Smith Urges Citizens
To “Clean Up” To Prevent
Fires
With Fire Prevention week drawing
near, J. W. Smith, Brevard fire chief,
has issued a warning to all property
owners and tenant* to make a rigid in
spection of their premises, paying par
ticular attention to furnace flues,
chimneys, basements and roof gutters.
He urges that all trash and such mat
ter that might cause a fire hazard be
removed before starting fires in furnaces
or stoves.
Fire Chief Smith said that members
of the local fire department will make
an inspection of all property in the near
future, and he asked for the cooperation
of everyone in making preparations
to prevent what might be a fire disaster.
He said that it ie expected that the
Lions club and the Kiwanis club will
sponsor a move to entertain the fire
men during the week of October 5-11.
One night during that week Fire Chief
Palmer, of Charlotte, will probably be
on hand to talk to local citizens about
fire prevention.
SCOUTS TO ATTEND
TRI-STATE RALLY
Eight Brevard boy scouts and Harold
Norwood, scoutmaster of the Baptist
troop here, will attend the tri-etate re
gional Boy Scout Rally at Chapel Hill
from September 18-21.
The local scout* and Mr. Norwood
leave here thie morning by car. They
will take their tents with them and will
camp out during their stay in Chapel
Hill, along with 3,000 other scouts ex
pected to be there for the rally
Brevard scouts who will attend the
rally are: Alex Kizer, Jr., Johnny Sum
mey, John Vassey, Billy Shamblin,
Richard Tinsley, Gene Franklin, Frank
lin Kerber, and Bob Kappers.
Firms Here Announce
Closed Sunday Hours
Managers of two filling’ stations in
Brevard have announced that their
stations will be closed all-day on Sun
days, and the management of one drug
store announces closed periods on Sun
days in observance of church hours.
The two filling stations to remain
closed are the Brevard Auto Supply and
Hayes Motor Company, both on Broad |
street.
Varner’s Drug Store, of which S. E.
Varner, Jr., is manager, announces the
following closed hours for Sunday: from j
10:45 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., with final
closing hour on Sunday set at six o’clock.
LAST RITES HELD
FOR MRS. MOORE
Funeral service was held last Friday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the First
Baptist church in Brevard for Mrs.
Allison Moore, 24, who died at her home
here on Thursday of last week. Rev. L.
Mavity officiated. Interment was in
Gillespie cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Lewis Hamlin,
Glenn Lookabill, C. R. Kelley, Walter
Ashworlp, and Blanton Ashworth.
Mrs. Moore is survived by her hus
band, *r parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Ballard! four sisters and four brothers.
RUSSIANS BALK A
NAZI ATTEMPT TO
LAND MEN BY AIR
Germany Report* Push Toward
Dnieper River Proving
A Success
A second Nazi attempt to land troops
by air and sea on the Russian-held
Estonian Island of Oesel was reported
smashed on Wednesday by Red De
fenders.
"As a result of two days fierce fight
ing” the Soviet communique said, "the
bulk of the enemy marine and air land
ing parties was annihilated and the
remnants thrown Into the sea.”
A broad German push eastward from
the lower Dneiper river was reported
by Adolf Hitler's headquarters Wednes
day to top off claims of successes rang
ing the full length of the 2,000-mlle
Russian front.
A special communique reported a
crushing victory over three Russian
armies in the north-central sector,
roughly 150 miles south of Leningrad,
while news agency dispatches told of
steady inroads into the ring of redoubts
around besieged Leningrad itself.
Mass delivery of big, long-range
bombers direct from the United King
dom to Russia, with tons of bombs be
ing dumped on Berlin and other Ger
man cities en route, was forecast by
persons close to the Anglo-American
missions to Moscow.
These "live ferry" formation flights,
combining quick transfer of planes to
Russia and bomb devastation deep in the
Reich, would require lees than 1,500
miles of flying, only a few hundred
miles farther than the present round
trip the RAF makes between Britain and
Berlin.
President Roosevelt gave Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., power to approve appli
cations for lend-lease help from Great
Britain and China as one method of
speeding final action on them.
Making this announcement at a press
conference, the chief executive also
was plied with questions as to whether
the navy’s protection to merchant ships
between the United States and Iceland
included convoying, but he declined to
make a direct answer.
C OF C MEMBER
DRIVE TO CLOSE
Voting For Directors of Organ
ization To Take Place
In October
Lewis P. Hamlin, president of the
Hrevard Chamber of Commerce, an
nounced yesterday that the drive for
membership in the organization for the
current year would be brought to a
dowse within the next week or two and
that all firms and individuals are urged
to place their names on the membership
list at once in order that they take
part in the voting for directors which
will occur in October.
Mr. Hamlin said that an attempt
would be made to contact all firms and
individuals at an early date, but that if
any should be missed they may call at
the office of the secretary in the City
Hall or contact him in order to register
their memberships.
Mr. Hamlin was gratified over the
response this year to the commerce or
ganization.
Little Bascom Plummer, who was
critically ill in an Asheville hospital last
week, is reported to be Improving nice
ly, and it is expected that he will be able
to return this week to the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Plummer.
College President
DR. E. J. OOLTRANE, above, this
week begins his eighth year as
president of Brevard College. He
has headed the institution since its
founding in 1934.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
HEADED BY THOMAS
Barnette, Clayton, Gravely,
Morgan Are Other Officers
Elected At Meet
The Young Democrats of Transyl
vania county have re-elected R. P.
(Bob) Thomas, well known young at
torney, as president of their organiza
tion for another year and have named
Sam Barnette as first vice-president,
Nina Clayton as second vice-president,
Dewey Gravely as secretary, and Edwin
Morgan as treasurer. The elections were
made at a recent meeting of the group
at the county court house.
At its meeting the Young Democrats
club adopted two resolutions. One en
dorsed Charles P. Gold, Jr., of Ruther
fordton, for the presidency of the state
organization. The other endorsed the
county, state, and national administra
tions, with special emphasis being plac
ed favorably upon the Roosevelt foreign
i policy.
Many members of the Transylvania
Young Democrats club are planning to
attend the state meeting of the Young
Democrats in Winston-Salem, on Friday
and Saturday of this week.
MISSIONARY TO
SHOW PICTURES
OF JUNGLE LIFE
On next Sunday evening at eight
o’clock, Eastern standard time, the Rev.
Thomas Willey, missionary-explorer,
will show 1,000 feet of moving picture
film taken of primitive jungle Indians
found in the fastnesses of Columbia,
South America, at the Little River
Baptist church, it has been announced
here. These pictures, together with the
message from Rev. Mr. Willey, makes
up a thrilling story about the habits
of the jungle Indians, their manner of
life and travel, their euperstitutions.
On Sunday morning at the regular
eleven o’clock service hour Rev. Mr.
Willey will preach. He is serving as pas
tor at the Little River church in the
absence of the pastor, Rev. S. Patterson.
Gloucester-Hogback Community
Fair Will Be Held On Friday
Glazener, Swift To Be Heard;
Program For The Day
Is Outlined
The first annual Gloucester-Hogback
community fair, sponsored by the Tran
sylvania Association of RR Farmers in
cooperation with the county unit of
the Farm Security Administration, will
be held at the Silversteen school house
in Upper Transylvania on Friday of this
week, beginning at ten o’clock, daylight
saving time.
C. M. Douglas will make the address
of welcome and will discuss the object
of the fair during the first half-hour
period. From 10:30 until 12 o’clock the
various farm and home exhibits, dis
playing vegetables, canned goods, corn,
needlework, poultry, and all types of
farm livestock, will be held. A picnic
lunch will be served on the grounds at
12 o’clock.
Opening the afternoon program will
be addresses by Julian A. Glazener,
Transylvania county farm agent, and
Vance E. Swift, state director of the
Farm Security Administration.
Immediately following the two prin
cipal addresses a series of games and
contests for all of the people will be
conducted by L. C. Case, Jr., W. E.
Galloway, and Floyd Jones. Games and
contests scheduled, together with the
prizes to be awarded the respective
winners, include: husband calling con
test, with one pound of coffee as the
prize; hog calling contest, two cans of
smoking tobacco as the prize; foot race,
for boys under 50 years of age, pocket
knife as the prize; sack race, for girls,
prize, a make-up kit; old man’s race,
50 to 100 years old, two pairs of socks
as the prize; greased pole climbing, $1
j as the prize; nail driving contest for
women, prize, one hammer; catching
a greased pig, one bar of soap as the
prize; tug of war for men, six cold
drinks as prizes; horse race, bareback
riders, $1 as the prize.
Music at the fair will be furnished
by the Hogsed-McCall string band and
other bands and musicians who may be
present.
Transportation committees who have
I charge of carrying livestock and other
exhibits to and from the fair have been
named as follows: Balsam Grove com
munity, Archie Galloway, C. V. McCall,
R. S. Wood; Lake Toxaway community,
Mrs. Berlin Owen, Lionnie Banther, J.
Coley Owen; Silversteen school com
munity, Julius N. Owen, Spurgeon
Owen, Archie McCall.
A cordial Invitation is extended to
the public to attend the full program
of the fair.
LOCAL PTA STATES
SCHOOLCHILDREN
ARE FOR ADOPTION
Urge Individuals, Clubs, So- '
cieties To Adopt Needy
School Children
The Brevard Parent-Teachers associa
tion, and more particularly the student
aid committee of that organization, is
asking Individuals in the county to
adopt a child for the school year, Mrs.
Lester Martin, chairman of the student
aid committee, has announced. Also,
clubs or societies or other organizations
may have the privilege of adopting a
school child for the term, Mrs. Martin
said.
Mrs. Martin and Mrs. A. H. Kizer,
president of the P.-T.A. this year, stat
ed that adoption in this case meant the
providing of clothes and school supplies
for a needy child who might not be able
to attend school otherwise. They pointed
out that there were more than a score
of needy children in the Brevard school
district who are badly in need of adop
tion by some individual, club or society.
One child, they said, has already been
adopted by the Young Women’* associa
tion of the First Baptist church.
Individuals or clubs or society heads
wishing to adopt a school child for the
current year should get in touch with
Mrs. Martin or Mrs. Kizer at the earliest
possible date in order that these chil
dren to be adopted-fnay receive tho full
benefit of the year’s schooling. Anyone
in the county may adopt a child, but the
children to be aided are restricted to the
immediate Brevard school district over
which the local P.-T.A. has jurisdiction,
it was stated.
Mrs. Martin also stated that the P.-T.
A. here will solicit clothing, as in previ
ous years, for needy children of from
6 years old to out-of-school age now en
rolled in the schools in the district. All
citizens were urged to give any cloth- |
ing they might have which is suitable, j
Clothing will be called for after Mrs.
Martin or Mrs. Kizer are contacted. 1
LOCAL FOOTBALLERS
SET FOR CANTON HI
Coxmen Meet Canton Bears In
Canton Friday Night At
Eight O’Clock
Coach Cox’s Brevard high Blue Devil
football team will journey to Canton
Friday to meet the Canton high Bears in,
the initial battle of the season for the
local eleven.
Coach Cox sounded an optimistic note
Wednesday by saying that his squad
had been looking good during the past
week in spite of the severe losses suf
fered by graduation last year.
The Canton Bears suffered a defeat
from Morganton high last week in their
initial game of the season. The game
tomorrow night will begin at eight
o’clock.
Starting lineup for the locals, as listed
by Coach Cox, is as follows: ends,
Franklin and Wood; tackles, McGaha
and Bill Dixon; guards, Parker and
Larry Dixon; center, Sterling; backs,!
Jones, Morris, Ashworth, and Wyatt.
Masons Will Confer
First Degree Friday
A special communication of Dunn’s
Rock Masonic lodge will be held in the
lodge hall on Broad street Friday night
at 8 o’clock for the purpose of conferr
ing the first degree on a class of candi
dates.
Degree will be conferred by L. P.
Beck, assisted by D. R. Boyd as senior
deacon.
Lecture will be given by Leon Eng
lish, District Deputy Grand Master, as
sisted by Henry Henderson, illustrating
the lecture with moving picture slides.
A cordial invitation is extended to all
visiting Masons, and all members are
requested by Claud Stroup, Master, to
be present.
1942 Plymouths Are
On Display In Town
The new 1942 Plymouth is now being
demonstrated at the K. & M. Auto com
pany on West Main street and is on dis
play there in their show windows.
Harold Kilpatrick, manager, invites
the public to come in and inspect this
newest product of the Chrysler Motor
corporation.
Final Rites Set
For Roy Meece, 22
Funeral service will be held this af
ternoon at 2 o’clock at Old Toxaway
for Roy Meece, 22, who died at Six
Mile, South Carolina, at 10 o’clock
Tuesday morning.
Surviving are the widow, four broth
ers, Claud Meece, of Rocky Bottom, S.
C., Wiley Meece, of Kannapolis, Looney
Meece, of Rosman, and Jess Meece, of
Rosman, and four sisters, Mrs. Zella
Aiken, Mrs. Annie Powell, Mrs. Dallie
Galloway, and Mrs. Nora Chapman, all
of Rosman.
Osborne-Simpson are in charge of ar
rangements.
$15,000 Hospital Drive Be Conducted Today And Friday
FINAL PLANS ARE
MAPPED AT MEET
HERE ON TUESDAY
Solicitation To Be Carried Out
By Two Groups Under
Sellers, Jerome
MEET SET MONDAY
At a meeting1 Tuesday evening at the
Pierce-Moore hotel of members of the
Transylvania community hospital fi
nance committee and more than a score
of the members of the two groups who
will solicit funds, final plans were com
pleted for the two-day whirlwind drive
to raise $15,000 for the community hos
pital on Thursday and Friday of this
week.
Brief talks were made at the meet
ing by Jerry Jerome, Rev. E. P. Billups,
Joseph S. Silversteen, F. Brown Carr,
and Mayor Carl Hardin. All committee
men were optimistic about the possi
bility of raising the needed $15,000 in
Brevard and Transylvania, and especial
ly so were the captains of the two
groups who will do the solicitation—
Harry Sellers and Jerry Jerome.
The campaign will open this morning
and will close late Friday afternoon, and
during that time the two solicitation
groups, composed of around 40 people,
will make an effort to contact every in
dividual in the town and county, with
the exception of those that are to be
contacted through special campaigns
and under special committees. The
members of the solicitation groups will
work in pairs, and the two groups will
make a contest out of the drive, the
group captain to receive a token whose
group raises the most subscriptions.
Also, an individual award will be made
to the person in either group raising the
most subscriptions in the two-day drive,
it w'as stated.
Those who will aid Captain Harry
Sellers are: Mrs. H. P. Clarke, Miss
Nancy Macfle, John Smith, Charles
Moore, J. I. Ayres, Dan L. English,
Harold Kilpatrick, Mack Allison, Jr.,
Mrs. Ralph Fisher, Mrs. Gus Tucker, H.
N. Carrier, Rev. E. P. Billups, D. T.
Abercrombie, Dr. Carl Hardin, A. H.
Harris, Mrs. John Hmith, Mrs. Verne
Clement, F. Brown Carr. Mrs. John
Hudson, Gerald Sitton, and Kin Mc
Neil.
Working with Jerry Jerome as gToup
captain will be Mrs. J. A. Macfie, John
Rufty, Mrs. Fred Holt, W. J. Wallin,
Ralph Wedge, Mrs. Carl McCrary, Har
ry Patton, J. E. Smith, Lewie P. Hamlin,
Don Jenkins, Ralph Lyday, Eddie Var
ner. W. W. Brittain, Mrs. Don Jenkins,
Mrs. Wm. P. Jordan, D. G. Ward, Mrs.
Louise Walker, R. P. Kilpatrick, Henry
Henderson, Mrs. Jess Pickelsimer, and
John Anderson.
It was emphasized at the meeting
Tuesday evening that the industrial
committee, of which Joseph S. Silver
eteen is chairman, will go ahead and
set up individual drives in the various
industrial plants in the county. The
industrial committee is a branch com
mittee of the finance committee.
Robert T. Kimzey, principal of the
Brevard high school, is chairman of the
school committee, and he will have
charge of the drive in the schools.
Julian A. Glazener, county farm
agent, has charge of the drive in the
rural area of the county.
At the meeting Tuesday evening rec
ognition was made of the fact that the
present camapign set up was suggested
by the Rev. E. P. Billups, a member
of the hospital committee.
A meeting has been set for next Mon
day evening at 7:30 at the Pierce
Moore hotel for a check up and report
on the outcome of the drive.
High School News Is
Being Published Now
Beginning this week The Times is
resuming publication of high school
news from the two high schools in the
county, Brevard and Rosman.
Each week during the school year, as
has been true in previous years, The
Times will carry all worthwhile news
relative to the two high schools. We are
glad to cooperate with the staffs of the
two high schools by publishing this
news.
I Joseph Silversteen I
| On OPM Committee |
E Joseph S. Silversteen, president E
E of the Transylvania Tanning E
i company, the Rosman Tanning =
\ Extract company, and Gloucester |
r Lumber company, and Toxaway i
E Tanning company, has been ap- E
E pointed a member of an advisory E
= committee under the set up of the S
| Office of Production Management S
l in Washington, it has been learn- E
§ ed here. The committee of which \
E he was appointed a member deals |
E with priorities on hides, leather, i
E shoes and rubber goods.
Mr. Silversteen has been in S
§ Washington recently in connec- E
I tion with the appointment on the §
| committee. He will be called upon |
| from time to time, it was under- |
E stood, to sit in on committee de- |
E clsions as regards priorities and S
I allocation for production of hides, j
I leather and rubber.