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Vol. 51; No. 39
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIM
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2S, 1941
$1.50 PER YEAR
RED FORCES TAKE
THE OFFENSIVE IN
NAZI-RUSSIAN WAR
Russians Said To Be On The
Offensive From Arctic To
Baltic Sea
The Russians, gravely concerned by
the growing German threat to the vital
Donets basin industrial area, counter
attacked against Nazi forces over
hundreds of miles of the front on Wed
nesday in a determined effort to re
lieve pressure on Red armies in the
south.
From the Arctic to the Baltic red
forces were on the offensive with ac
counts of successes coming in par
ticularly around Leningrad where a
continuing drive was declared to have
resulted in 50.000 Germans dead, wound
ed and captured.
Russian counter-offensives in every
one of the three major sectons—the
most widespread yet mentioned in Nazi
dispatches were reported Wednesday
but all were declared broken in a series
of German victories highlighted by an
nouncement of the destruction of 50
Red divisions trapped east of Kiev.
Of this vast force claimed to have
been utterly destroyed — numbering
about 750,000 men—380,000 were said to
have been taken prisoner in a con
tinuing restriction of the German trap.
Authoritative commenatries thus
brought to a grand total of 2.000.000
their estimate of the number of Soviet
war prisoners—a figure equalling the
number of Russian captives taken in
four years of the World war.
President Roosevelt said at his press
conference that the country was prob
ably heading toward the arming of its
merchant ships to protect them from
the attacks of axis warships.
At the same time, he disclosed that
some American-owned ships—former
Danish vessels which have been trans
ferred to Panamanian registry—have al
ready been equipped with guns.
Among the latter was the Pink Star,
which the president said was sunk by
a submarine last Friday night, at a po
sition 275 miles northeast of Cape Fare
well, the southernmost tip of Green
land.
Twenty-three survivors from the
American freighter Pink Star which was
stink off Iceland l;>st Friday, have ar
rived at Reykjavik, Iceland, in good
condition, the state department an
nounced.
FAIR IN HENDERSON
IS NOW UNDER WAY
Automobile Races Feature
Events For Today And Sat
urday At Fair
HENDERSONVILLE, Sept. 24. —
Automobile races—between both etrip
ped-down racing cars and standard
stock models—will be featured this
week at the second annual Western
North Carolina fair now in progress.
Stock car racing, the newest thrill in
racing circles, will be presented at the
Thursday afternoon performance, while
on Saturday afternoon both midget and
standard racing models will compete
for top honors.
More than a dozen automobiles have
l>een entered in the stock car race in
cluding both local drivers and some of
the South’s best known racers. Bill
France, this year’s Florida champion,
and Roy Hall, Atlanta, who was last
year’s southern champion stock car
racer, both will be on hand for the oc
casion.
In the stock car race only automobiles
that are standard stock models will be
allowed to enter. No alterations are al
lowed other than removal of glass to
avoid possible injury. Even fenders
must stay on, and to all intents the
cars are just the same as thousands
seen on the nation’s highways.
Saturday’s event will be between the
usual stripped-down type racing care,
driven by the South’s finest drivers and
fighting for an all-southern record over
the new one-half mile loop track at the
fair grounds. According to present en
tries there will be nearly 15 partici
pants in this type.
A special feature on Saturday after
noon will be a race between Herman
Owens of Charlotte and Larry Varrier
of Miami in which they will drive mid
get racers.
Mr. and Mrs. William Q. Cain left
last week for New' York City, before re
turning to their home in Palm Beach,
Fla., after visiting Mrs. Cain’s mother,
Mrs. S. A. Bullock, here.
College Frosh Go
For “V” Hair-do
The "V" for victory spirit hit
a new trend here this week with
the opening: of Brevard college.
Instead of appearing on dormi
tory windows, the “V” signs
came out on the domes of fresh
men.
It was all the idea of the upper
classmen, it seemB, but the fresh
men are the real patriots, for not
only are they carrying the vic
tory sign around, but they sacri
ficed a six-months’ growth of hair
as well.
Brevard upperclassmen report a
considerable rise in hope for the
British after the haircut inno
vation.
Winning Exhibit At Gloucester Fair
This live-at-home exhibit, prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Har
low Mason, won the blue ribbon in the live-at-home displays
at the first annual Gloucester-Hogback community fair
staged at the Silversteen school house last Friday. Mrs.
Mason is shown picking up the blue ribbon awarded the
display. (Times Staff Photo)
Newspapers In State To
Help In Navy Recruiting
WORK UNDER WAY
ON PASTEURIZING
PUNT IN BREVARD
Farmers Will Soon Have Ready
Market For Grade A
Raw Milk
Preliminary grading: work is already
under way for the construction of a
pasteurizing plant by the Nantahala
Creamery at the junction of Caldwell
and Broad streets in North Brevard,
and indications Wednesday were that
actual construction would begin within
a few days.
The Nantahala Creamery, owned by
A. B. Slagle, of Franklin, operates
dairies at Franklin and Brevard, and
the pasteurizing plant here will take
care of Grade A milk from his local
dairy as well as milk produced under
Grade A conditions on private farms in
the county.
Edwin L. Shore, assistant county
farm agent, said Wednesday that be
fore Mr. Slagle started on the pasteur
izing plant a study was made of the milk
supply in Transylvania county, and it
was found that only a small part of the
Grade A milk consumed in Brevard was
produced within the county. Mr. Shore
said that several farmers have agreed to
put in small Grade A dairies to produce
milk for the pasteurizing plant.
According to Mr. Shore the farmers
who produce the Grade A milk will get
one-half of the price the milk brings af
ter it is pasteurized, bottled and dis
tributed. He estimated this as an aver
age gallon price of 25c, providing the
milk tests as much as 4.5% butterfat.
The pasteurizing plant will contain
1,600 square feet of floor space and will
be built of brick or tile and concrete.
Mr. Slagle has made no predictions as
to when the plant will be opened, due to
the fact that certain machinery used
in the plant is hard to obtain at the
present time.
Set Baseball Play
Off At Ecusta Sun.
A play-off for the championship of
the inter-department baseball league
will be held on the Ecusta field at 3
o’clock, Eastern standard time, next
Sunday afternoon, Jack Alexander, di
rector of athletics there, has announced.
The play-off will be between a Cham
pagne team, managed by Walter Straus,
and a pulp mill team, managed by Ro
land Wilbur.
U.D.C. Library Hours
Set For Winter
Winter schedule of the U. D. C. li
brary went into effect this week, Miss
Annie Jean Gash, librarian, has an
nounced. The opening hours now are
from 10 to 12 each morning, and from
2:30 to 5:30 each afternoon, except
Sunday.
Dr. Meade To Preach
At Church Here Sun.
Dr. George Meade, dean of Asheville
college, will preach at the Brevard
Presbyterian church on Sunday morn
ing at 11 o’clock, announcement haa
been made.
Dr. Meade is well known in this sec
tion of the state. The public is cordially
invited to attend the services Sunday.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Patients reported to be in Transyl
vania Community hospital on Wednes
day were: Prank Bridges, Bob Tinsley,
Mrs. Doble Young, Ralph Whitmire,
David Surrett, M. G, Duncan, Mrs.
Pink Peavy.
The Times Is Cooperating In
Recruiting Men For
The Navy
The Transylvania Times, along with
other weekly and daily newspapers over
the state of North Carolina, has launch
ed a campaign to aid the United States
Navy in a drive for recruits to man the
Two-Ocean Navy which Uncle Sam is
rapidly building. Over 75 per cent of the
newspaper publishers and editors of
this state gathered in Raleigh on Sat
urday, September 13, to meet with U.
S. Navy officials to work out the joint
advertising-publicity campaign. Ed M.
Anderson, president of the North Caro
lina Press Association and publisher of
The Transylvania Times, presided at
the meeting and presented the case for
North Carolina newsmen.
North Carolina was chosen by the
Navy for the advertising program in
newspapers to recruit men for this
branch of the armed service because of
the state’s long record of patriotism in
defense of the nation, and because it
already ranks first in the percentage
of volunteers in the service of the na
tion.
The Navy believes it can get plenty
of volunteers without having to draft
them. Mr. Anderson is of the opinion
that this state will afford a great num
ber, and he had this to say about the
campaign which is being launched this
week in all towns and cities under
60,000 population:
“Now that paid advertising in news
papers is to be employed, a more vig
orous response in both the number and
type of men may be expected when Ihe
impressive campaign of navy advertising
is released to the newspapers.
“It is very significant, I believe,” con
tinued Mr. Anderson, "that newspapers
have been selected to do the job of se
curing good men quickly for this im
portant work of building a two-ocean
navy quickly and efficiently. There is
no other medium as well suited for such
a task as the established newspapers of
our state.”
The first of the Navy's advertise
ments is appearing in this week’s is
sue of The Times. The Times will be
headquarters for Transylvania county
in recruiting men for the Navy, and the
Navy Editor, as well as other members
of the staff, will be glad at all times to
furnish information to prospective re
cruits and other interested parties.
A Navy recruiting committee is be
ing formed in Transylvania, and mem
bers of this committee will be glad to
work with prospective recruits.
Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Rittenhouse and
Mrs. Alice Horton, mother of Mrs,
Rittenhouse, returned last week to their
home in St. Petersburg, Fla., after
spending the past two months in Bre
vard.
Navy Club Formed
For. Transylvania
Organization of a Navy Club to
assist in the recruiting of men
for the U. S. Navy was announced
here this week in conjunction
with the launching of an adver
tising campaign in The Times.
Dr. Carl Hardin, mayor, has
been named chairman, with Ed
McCoy as assistant chairman.
Other members include Weilt
Duckworth, Sam Allison, and
Lem Daniels.
Any former Navy men in the
county are cordially invited to
join the club, it was stated.
HI FOOTBALLERS
OPEN HOME PLAY
HERE ON FRIDAY
Coxmen Set To Meet Eleven
From Swannanoa In First
Home Game
('oath Cox's Brevard high school Blue
Devil football machin^ will open the
current home campaign here Friday af
ternoon at 3:30 o’clock when they en
gage the gridders from Swannanoa high
school.
Everything is in readiness for the
opening battle here, and in spite of the
fact that the locals dropped their initial
contest of the year to the Canton high
Bears, followers of the Brevard team
are well pleased and are confident of
a successful season ahead. The Coxmen
dropped the game last Friday night to
Canton by a score of 8 to 6. The locals
did fine defensive work all during the
game, and in the final minutes of play
scored a touchdown.
Swannanoa is said to be bringing a
heavy squad here Friday, including an
all-conference man of last year, but
Coach Cox seemed confident that if the
local boys play the brand of ball they
did at Canton there will be little trou
ble with the boys from the blanket
town.
Starting with the whistle for Bre
vard Friday afternoon will be Franklin
and Benningfield at ends, B. Dixon and
MeGaha at tackles, L. Dixon and Parker
as guards. Wood at center, and Ash
worth. Jones, Morris, and Wyatt in the
backfleld positions. Coach Cox said they
were all in good condition for the bat
tle.
A roster of the Brevard high squad
includes the following: Ends, Richard
Franklin, Lloyd Wood, Charles Link,
Leonard Simpson, Jr.. David Dixon,
Ray Benningfield, John Bradley, Bob
Eason; tackles, Bill Dixon, Clannie Me
Gaha? Charles McJunken, Kenneth
Stafford, Robert Clark, Ernest Smith;
guards, Larry Dixon, A. J. Parker, Roy
Simpson, Bob Brannon, John Hunter,
Charles Heath; centers, Lloyd Gillespie,
John Allison; backs, Harry Ashworth,
Bill Morris, Harry Jones, Bradley
Wyatt, Bill Fetzer, John Misenheimer,
George Bikas, Henry McDonald, Doug
Wyatt, and Vereo Houston.
Standard Time Will Be
Back In Vogue Soon
Beginning Sunday morning next
there’ll be no more wondering, for a
while at least, what kind of time a fel
low means when he says he’ll meet you
at ten o'clock, for Eastern Standard
Time becomes effective once more at
12:01 Sunday morning.
To correotly set your watches and
clock back to standard time, just turn
the hand back one hour on Saturday
night when you go to bed, and you
won’t have to worry about whether you
should set the time back at 12 o’clock
midnight daylight time or one o'clock
Sunday morning daylight time.
Principals, Teachers
To Meet Saturday
A county-wide meeting for principals
and teachers will be held at the Brevard
high school auditorium Saturday morn
ing, September 27, at 10 o’clock, an
nouncement has been made by County
Superintendent J. B. Jones.
The object of the meeting will be
partly for the voting for officers of the
western district of the North Carolina
Teachers association, Mr. Jones stated.
To Make Survey Of Needs For
College; Trustees Will Meet
Steering Committee Will Pre
sent Plans To Trustees
Next Month
The steering committee appointed
early the past summer by the Brevard
Chamber of Commerce to work out
plans for a campaign for funds for Bre
vard College In order to assure Its
permanent retention at Brevard, will
present its case before the board of
trustees of the college when they meet
in regular session at the college on
Tuesday, October 7, S. E. Varner, chair
man of the committee, has announced.
At a recent meeting the committee
made immediate plans for having a sur
vey of the college’s needs made as well
as a survey of the prospect for carrying
out a financial campaign in Transyl
vania county and adjoining- western
North Carolina counties. The financial
division of the consolidated Methodist
church, Nashville, Tennessee, has been
contacted, and a representative is be
ing sent here within the week. C. E.
Buckner, dean of the college, said the
preliminary survey would get under
way immediately after the representa
tive arrives.
The plan of the committee is to have
initial plans for the campaign mapped
before the meeting of the college trus
tees in order that definite questions
may be considered and a course of ac
tion decided upon.
The Western North Carolina confer
ence of the Methodist church will meet
in Winston-Salem on October 20, and it
is expected that the campaign will be
launched immediately after the confer
ence.
To Continue
Through Fri
ASHEVILLE MAN
KILLED IN CAR
ACCIDENT HER!
Newton H. Pearson Killed In
stantly Thursday At Pis
gah Forest Entrance
In one of the most unusual automobile]
accidents Transylvania county has re-1
corded, Newton H. Pearson, 48, World
war veteran and prominent Asheville
automobile dealer, was instantly killed
around 6 o’clock last Thursday even
ing- when the car in which he was driv
ing alone struck one of the entrance
portals on U. S. highway 276 at the en
trance to Pisgah National foerst about
three miles from Brevard.
Pearson’s car, a 1940 model Pontiac
sedan, was coming out of Pisgah Na
tional forest at the time of the accident,
and it struck, almost center, the newly
erected stone entrance portal on the
right side of the highway the direction
he w-as driving. The portal, estimated
to weigh more than ten tons, wras mov
ed for a distance of approximately 18
inches off its foundation, and the front
end of the car was smashed completely
back into the front seat. The housing of
the transmission was resting against the
lower front portion of the front seat,
and the entire front part of the car wras
smashed almost even with the wind
shield frame.
Sheriff G. D. Shuford, wrho investi
gated, said the tracks of the car left
the surfaced part of the highway about
40 feet before it struck the stone por
tal. The portal stands about seven feet
off the surface of the highway.
The exact time the accident occurred
no one seems to know, for there were
no eyewitnesses, but indications were
that it was around 6 o’clock. Pearson,
his head crushed and deep lacerations
about his legs, was already dead when
passersby found him. He was brought
to the local Osborne-Simpson funeral
home, later being taken to Asheville by
Morris-Gearing funeral directors of that
city.
Pearson, who wrae very prominent in
civic affairs in Asheville, is survived by
his widow and one son, Howrard. Funeral
service was held in Asheville last Sat
urday.
Girl Scouts Will
Collect Buttons
The local Bundles for Britain chapter,
headed by Mrs, W. J. Wallis, is issuing
an appeal for buttons of all kinds for
use on clothes in England, and on Sat
urday morning in Brevard, from 10 un
til 12 o’clock, the girl scouts will can
vass the homes asking for contribu
tions in the form of buttons.
Members of the local Bundles for
Britain chapter pionted out that no but
tons were to be bought in England and
that the call for help was urgent.
Everybody is urged to contribute.
A shipment for Bundles for Britain
was made this week, containing three
layettes, five helmet knitted caps, two
pair socks and a big roll of tinfoil, an
nouncement was made by Mrs. W. J.
Wallis, in charge of this feature of war
work.
JAYCEES IN MEET
AT LOCAL COLLEGE
Discuss County Fair; Set Dance
At Country Club For
October 10
Several important business matters
were discussed at the regular monthly
meeting of the Brevard Junior Chamber
of Commerce meeting at Brevard col
lege last Tuesday night with President
Ed Varner presiding and approximately
20 persons attending.
Secretary John Anderson discussed
the possibilities of the Jaycees sponsor
ing a Transylvania county fair next
fall. A committee is being appointed to
discuss the matter with other local
civic organizations.
Ruel Hunt was appointed to make ar
rangements for a local Thanksgiving
golf tournament to be sponsored by the
Jaycees. To work with Hunt are Vernon
Fullbrlght and John Anderson.
A round dance at the country club on
Friday night, October 10, met with the
approval of the Jaycees and on the
dance committee are: Joe Hunter, Ruel
Hunt, E. S. Morrow', Edgar Loftis. John
Anderson and Ernest McFaul.
The next meeting of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce will be held on
Tuesday night, October 14, at Brevard
college.
Annual Reunion Of
McCall Family Set
The annual McCall family reunion
will be held at the county court house
In Brevard on Sunday, October 6, be
ginning at ten o’clock in the morning,
S. B. McCall, president of the reunion
group, has announced.
A picnic dinner will be served at
noon. Speeches and music will be on
the program. All friends as well as
members of the family are invited to
attend.
Largest single donation made in the
two-day drive was contributed by F. D.
and Verne Clement. They gave $1,000
for the dedication of a hospital room in
memory of Mrs. Blanche R. Clement,
deceased wife of P. D. Clement and
mother of Verne Clement.
Members of the S. M. Macfle family
pledged to furnish a room at the new
hospital in memory of Mr. Macfle.
Dr. Charles L. Newland contributed
$500 in the drive last week. In addition,
Dr. Newland and Dr. H. J. Bradley had
previously donated hospital equipment
conservatively estimated at a value of
$3,000.
The two campaign directors, Jerry
Jerome and Harry Sellers, reported
splendid reaction among the general
public. Many persons contacted were
gold star contributors, due to the faot
that they gave in the previous drive and
the current one as well.
Those who contributed to Jerry
Jerome’s group of solicitors included:
Mrs. Samuel Bullock, R. H. Plummer,
P. D. and Verne Clement. R. W. Everett,
Oat Shipman, Mrs. Laura Miller, Miss
Grace Piercy, Mrs. Martha Saltz, Mrs.
J. A. Lyday, Joe McLeod, Clyde Orr,
Mrs. P. S. McLean, Bob Cansler, P. A.
Sitton, J. J. Patton, Sam Bryson, Ralph
Hinkle. Jim Barton, Lester King, Ed
win Cheek. Sid Barnett, Jr., Lamansel
Mulanax, Mrs. A. Riggs, Mr. and Mrs.
John Ford, Mary C. Beane, Mr. and
Mrs. D. G. Ward, B. Olney, Mrs. John
Mitchell, Mrs. Stella Reid, Dee Gillespie,
Dr. Bobst, Mrs. Beulah Zachary, H. W.
Spinning, Mrs. T. I*. Ward, Marjorie
Garren, Mrs. Ada V'. Wylie, Mrs. J. H.
West, John Bishop, T. N. Davis, Jack
Barnett, Brevard Insurance Agency,
John Anderson, The Transylvania
Times, S. L. Barnett, I’. A. Rahn, W. B.
Hodges for Gulf Oil company, A. B.
Riley, A. H. King. McCrary Auto Ser
vice, Houston Furniture company.
State Trust company. Gold star coi*
tributors in the group were Charles
Patton, A. W. Long, Trantham’s, Row
ena Summey, Mrs. Bates Patton, Miss
P. T. Smedberg, W. C. Austin, Lewis P.
Hamlin, Mrs. L. M. Hart, W. P. Hart,
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Morrow, Ralph
Ramsey. Long’s Drug Store, Brevard
Lumber company, B&B Peed and Seed
company, Ralph Lyday, Brevard Ki
wanis club, A. N. Jenkins, and T. E
Reid.
Contributors to Captain Harry Sel
lers' solicitors included: Mrs. Ralph
Zachary, Mrs. M. B. Witmer, Mrs. D. L.
English, J. A. Crisp, Thomas Palmer,
A. B. Owens, J. C. Hendricks, H. D.
Wyatt, J. Mack Allison, Melvin B. Gil
(Continued on page eight)
FORMER VISITOR
KILLED IN LA.
Captain Lamar F. Woodward, a regu
lar army officer of Fort Knox, Ky., and
a brother of Mrs. H. J. Bradley, of Bre
vard, now at Fort Bragg with Dr.
Bradley, was killed in a traffic accident
during maneuvers between the Third
and Second army in Louisiana in tha
blackouts Sunday night, September 14.
Four soldiers, including Captain
Woodward, were killed in the pre-dawn
traffic accidents in blackouts as thou
sands of troop-carrying vehicles, arm
ored cars and tanks rumbled into no
man’s land in West Central Louisiana
for the games testing the strength,
training and staff work of 480,000 men
and officers of the U. S. army. Captain
Woodward, who had frequently visited
his sister, Mrs. Bradley, and family in
Brevard, was attached to the Second
army, stationed at Fort Knox.
Barnette Elected To
Post In The YDC Club
President R. F. Thomas and Secre
tary Sam Barnette of the Transylvania
Young Democrats attended the sta/te
convention in Winston-Salem last week
end. Barnett was elected secretary of
the newly organized 12th district.
Fisher Family Has
3 Sons With Army
One, two, three—that’s the way
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Fisher, of Lake
Toxaway, count when they add up
the number of sons they have in
Uncle Sam’s rapidly growing
army.
The three Fisher youths are
Paul, 26, stationed at Camp For
rest, Tennessee; Roland T„ Jr.,
23, stationed at Fort Jackson;
and Meade C., 19, stationed with
the regular army at Fort Bragg.
A fourth son, Woodrow, 28, volun
teered, but was not accepted be
cause of a slight physical in
capacity.
All three of the Fisher youths
volunteered, and all three report
that they like the army fine.