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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1941 $1.50 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
Vol. 51; No. 41
College Board Votes To Operate Institution Here
Kiwanis, lions To Hold
Banquet Honoring All
Firemen At NYA Hut
Fire Prevention Be Stressed;
School Posters To Be On
Exhibit
PALMER TO SPEAK
Brevard fire department members will
be guests of honor at a banquet meet
ing of the Brevard Kiwanis and Lions
clubs tonight at the NYA hut here, be
ginning at 7 o’clock. An annual affair,
the joint banquet is sponsored by the
two Brevard clubs in honor of the vol
unteer firemen and to help in promoting
fire prevention during Fire Prevention
Week.
Principal speaker at the event tonight
will be W. H. Palmer, president of the
International Fire Chiefs association and
chief of the Charlotte fire department.
Other special guests will include Fire
Chiefs Fitzgerald and Clark, of Ashe
ville, and Dr. C. V. Squires, of the
Crowell Clinic. Charlotte.
Special Brevard guests at the banquet
will be the presidents of the civic cluhs
and organizations here. Mayor Carl
Hardin, Chief B. H. Freeman, Sheriff G.
D. Shuford, and City Clerk Alex Kizer,
and possibly a few others.
Decorations for the NYA hut have
been prepared by Brevard public school
children who this week entered a Fire
Prevention poster-making contest at the
school. Around 100 posters will be on
exhibit in the hut.
To preside as officials of the sponsor
ing clubs will be Charles Moore, presi
dent of the Lions club, and R. T. Kim
zey. president of the Kiwanis club.
In charge of preparations for the pro
gram is John W. Smith, chief of the
Brevard volunteer fire department, who
announces that more than half a hun
dred are expected to attend the affair.
He states that Chief Palmer and Dr.
Squires will arrive in Brevard this
morning and that a sight-seeing trip
through the Ecusta Paper corporation
and the Pisgah National forest has been
arranged for them.
WAGES BE GIVEN
TO THE HOSPITAL
President Straus Of Ecusta
Works Out Plan For Con
tributing Wages
The finance committee of the Transyl
vania community hospital announced
this week that a plan is being worked
out in the various industrial plants of
the county whereby eafh worker might
subscribe one hour a week of his wages
for twelve weeks to the hospital build
ing fund.
The plan was originated by Harry H.
Straus, president of the Ecusta Paper
corporation, who announced that the
some 1500 workers of the corporation
were being granted the privilege of
making their contribution to the hos
pital fund in that manner. He said he
believed the plan would meet with gen
eral approval among workers in the
county and would not prove a burden
to anyone.
The finance committee adopted the
plan and urged plant officials through
out the county to cooperate with the
workers in making the system of do
nation possible. Employes in stores and
business houses will be granted the
same privilege, it was stated.
Outside canvass in the second cam
paign for the community hospital, with
a goal of $15,000, was completed over a
week ago, but in most instances the in
dustrial drives are just now getting un
der way. Committee members express
ed confidence that the goal would be
easily reached when the industrial
drives are completed.
LIONS SUPPORT
CAMPAIGN FOR
COLLEGE FUNDS
The directors of the Brevard Lions
club, in meeting Tuesday evening at the
home of the Rev. E. P. Billups, passed
a resolution commending the chamber
of commerce here for the undertaking
of a campaign to raise $100,000 for Bre
vard College, $50,000 of which is to be
raised in Transylvania county. In the
name of the club, the directors pledged
full support in bringing the campaign
to a successful close.
Also at the directors meeting, plans
for the annual Lions club Hallowe’en
carnival were discussed. This year the j
carnival will be staged for two succes
sive nights instead of one, as previous
ly. The proceeds will go to the Lions
club eye clinic fund, which furnishes
glasses to needy children.
Mrs. Billups served the evening meal
to the directors.
More than 3 y2 % of all life insurance
death claims are paid for automobile
accidental deaths, it is reported by the
Institute of Life Insurance, this tragic
toll costing life insurance policyholders
$35,000,000 annually.
URGE DESIGNATE
CALDWELL STREET
AS STATE HIGHWAY
Garbage Contract Is Awarded
At Meeting Of Board Of
Aldermen
The Transylvania county board of
commissioners and the city board of
aldermen in regular meeting this week
both passed resolutions urging the
State Highway and Public Works com
mission to designate Caldwell Street as
U. S. Highway 64-A immediately and to
post signs to that effect and maintain
it as such.
The resolutions pointed out that by
designating Caldwell Street, from its
intersection with North Broad street to
its intersection with the Hosman road
or U. S. Highway 64 on the west, as an
alternate route for U. S. 64 traffic a good
deal of the traffic congestion over Broad
street would be relieved.
The city board of aldermen pointed
out in their resolution that the matter
of the State taking over Caldwell street
had been previously taken up with of
ficials of the State Highway and Public
Works commission during the year 1940,
and that the officials had agreed to
designate Caldwell street section men
tioned above as a by-pass of U. S. 64,
but that so far no action had been taken
in that respect.
Copies of both resolutions were sent
to L. B. Prince, chairman of the State
Highway and Public Works commission.
In their meeting this week the city
board also awarded a city garbage haul
ing contract to A. J. Williams at 1?218
per month. The contract calls for luck
ing up trash and garbage in the busi
ness section of Brevard every morning
and trash and garbage in the residential
sections twice a week. Plans are now
being worked out, it was announced,
for business firms in the town to pay
a pro-rata levy for the service of gar
bage and trash collection from their
places of business. However, no definite
figures had been arrived at on Wednes
day.
MOOSE MINSTREL
IS BIC SUCCESS
Better Than $300 Realized In
Net Proceed*; To Furnish
Nursery
Attracting one of the largest crowds
ever brought together by local enter
tainment, the local Moose Lodge min
strel show was presented last Friday
evening in the Brevard high school
auditorium before approximately 1,000
people. The performance, by a cast of
more than a score of well known local
people, was well received by the audi
ence.
According to report from John A.
Ford, secretary of the Lodge here, the
net proceeds from the performance
amounted to approximately $335, which
amount will go toward furnishing the
new hospital nursery. The Lodge had
already voted to completely furnish the
nursery.
Total receipts from the minstrel
amounted to more than $400, Mr. Ford
said.
Winner’s Shop Will
Open In Brevard Soon
Winner’s, an exclusive ready-to-wear
shop for ladies nad children, will open
for business in the Pickelsimer Building
on West Main Street in the near future,
it has been announced by the manage
ment.
The building is now being extensively
remodeled in preparation for the open
ing of the new store wrhich will feature
nationally known brands of women’s
and children’s clothing.
Winner’s will be managed by Mrs. 1
Hazel Parker and will be affiliated with
the Winner’s exclusive ready-to-w7ear
shop in Canton.
Young Erwin Is In
Air Corps School
Private Harold E. Erwin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. E. Erwin, who is now
stationed at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mis
sissippi, is one of 800 boys selected from
24,000 soldiers for enrollment in the Air
Corps Mechanical School there, it has
been learned here.
Young Erwin was among the first ten
of the 800 to receive enrollment orders,
the priority being based upon rigid
examination. He was chosen class lead
er of a group of 25 boys, and this class
leadership usually marks the first step
toward an advanced rating.
LOOMIS HEAD OF
COLLEGE SECTION
AT TEACHER MEET
Number From Transylvania To
Attend District Teacher
Meet Friday
At the nineteenth annual convention
of the Western District Teachers as
sociation, which will be held in Ashe
ville Friday, one of the most important
divisional meetings will be the college
or higher education section, of which
Dr. Burt W. Loomis, professor of psy
chology and director of guidance at
Brevard college, is president.
Dr. Loomis has announced here that
he has secured Dr. William E. Cole,
head of the department of sociology at
the University of Tennessee, to address
the meeting of the higher education
group and to lead the discussion on the
topic, “Adjusting the College Program
to the Needs of the Mountain Area.”
Dr. Loomis said that delegations from
all of the colleges of the western sec
tion of the state are expected to attend
the higher education divisional meeting
which will be held at 2 o’clock Friday
afternoon in the Lee Edwards high
school building.
Other school officials from Transyl
vania who will be present to participate
in the program of the District meeting
will be J. B. Jones, county superintend
ent of schools and vice president of the
District association; Mrs. Antoinette
Geiger Wike, modern language teacher
in the Brevard high school and presi
dent of the District modern language
teachers division; and John E. Rufty,
principal of the Brevard elementary
school, who will take part in the
panel discussion relating to improving
the elementary school program to meet
the changing problems of Southern
community life.
All schools in the county will be clos
ed at the noon hour on Friday, it has
been announced by school officials, to
permit those teachers who wish to do
so to attend the District meeting that
afternoon and night. A large delegation
of teachers from the Transylvania
Teachers association is expected to go
to the meeting.
DRAFTEES NAMED
FOR CALL NO. 18
Notice Of Selection Sent To 22
Registrants By Local
Draft Board
Notice of selection has been mailed to
22 selective service registrants with the
Transylvania draft board, from which
will be selected 15 draftees to be in
ducted at Fort Bragg on October 20,
Mrs. Allie B. Harllee, clerk to the local
beard, announces. These 15 draftees will
fill the quota for call number 18, she
said.
Those to whom notices of selection
have been sent include:
Robert Farmer Thomas, Brevard;
Victor Raymond Cooke, Jr., Brevard;
Robert Henry Tritt, Rt. 2, Brevard;
Straub Thomas Cooper, Rt. 2, Brevard;
Ira Allen Sisk, Rosman; Andrew Floyd
Evans, Pisgah Forest; Donald Byers
Shipman, Pisgah Forest; Lloyd Kinsey,
Rosman; Bollin Madison Millner, Bre
vard; John Bolen McCall, Lake Toxa
way; Arthur Williams, Jr., Brevard;
Walter Cannon Ashworth, Brevard;
Arnold William Batson, Balsam Grove;
Billie Lamar Morgan, Rt. 2, Brevard;
Boyd Blair Meixell, Jr., Rt. 2, Brevard;
Leonard Oscar Mote, Tampa, Florida;
Emerson William Merrell, Rt. 1, Pisgah
Forest; Charles Russell Greene, Rt. 1,
Brevard; Bryan Clayton Jackson, Bre
vard; Ralph Charlton Smith, Green
River, Utah; Walter William Holden,
Rt. 2, Brevard; James Curtis Gevedon,
Rt. 2, Brevard.
The nation’s entire surface trans
portation system, including railroads,
water and motor carriers, is being
studied by a Congressional board to de
termine future possibilities in defense.
“Wonder How It Works . . .
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FIRST SHIPMENTS of American-made lend lease guns to help defend
Asia against the Axis threat have reached these tough Sikhs, members
of a famous North Indian race of fighting men in the service of Britain.
Loss of the rich rubber and tin supplies of India, Malaya and Burma
would be a blow not only to the war effort of Britain and her fighting
Allies in the war against Hitler, but to the American defense program
as well.
Parent-Teacher Chapter
Urges Student Adoption
Chairman of Student-Aid Com
mittee Says 75 Children
For Adoption
Members of the Brevard Parent
Teacher Association this week issued a
renewed plea for individuals and civic
clubs and organizations to adopt a child
or the current school year, the adoption
to entail the furnishing of clothes and
school supplies needed for underprivi
leged children in the school district.
Mrs. Lester Martin, chairman of the
student-aid committee, said here yester
day that there are approximately 75
children in the Brevard district who
need adoption for the school term. So
far, five children have been adopted,
Mrs. Martin said. They were adopted
by the Sarah Taylor circle of the
Methodist church, the Brevard garden
club, the Woman’s auxiliary of the
Episcopal church, the police department,
and the girl scout troop of which Mrs.
Ashe Macfie is leader. Also, funds for
buying clothes have been contributed
by the Kiwanis club, the Fidelis class
of the Baptist Sunday school, and the
Carey Newton circle of the Baptist
church.
Mrs. Martin emphasized that the stu
dent-aid committee would be glad to re
ceive donations of usable clothing to be
distributed among the needy children.
These, she said, might be left with any
of the student-aid committee, compris
ing besides Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Keith
Pooser, Mrs. E. P. Billups, Mrs. Bart
Charles, and Mrs. T. E. Reid, or at the
City Market.
The committee expressed appreciation
for gifts already received, stressed that
there was still a great need for additional
gifts.
To Garnishee Wages
, On Delinquent Taxes
Alex H. Kizer, city clerk and tax col
lector, has issued a notice to city tax
payers that those delinquent on their
1940 personal property and poll and
street tax will have their wages garni
sheed to obtain these delinquent taxes,
beginning immediately.
Mr. Kizer said that a list of the de
linquents is being prepared now and
garnishee will begin at once.
A notice regarding the garnishee may
be found on page 2 of this week’s Times.
English Chapel Was Dedicated
In Services Held Last Sunday
In services beginning at eleven o’clock
last Sunday morning the newly erected
English Chapel of the Methodist de
nomination was dedicated, with Dr. J.
M. Ormond, of Duke university, de
livering the dedicatory sermon. Some
200 people attended the dedication of
the Chapel which is located on the
Davidson River about four miles from
here in Pisgah National Forest. It
stands on the site of a religious land
mark, the original English Chapel hav
ing been erected in 1860.
In hie dedicatory address Dr. Ormond
paid high tribute to the rural churohes
of America and declared that they were
a national institution. He pointed out
that North Carolina has better country
churches than any other state in the
South, a fact due in large part to the
fact that the Duke Endowment fund has
aided approximately 600 country
churches within the past 17 years. Eng
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lish Chapel receivved $1,000 from Duke
Endowment.
Commending-.the membership of Eng
lish Chapel for the splendid work they
had done in erecting a debt free $5,000
church house, he warned them that their
work had only begun. He said that now,
as never before, the world is waiting for
real Christian churches. He further em
phasized that a church not controlled by
true Christian principles is the most
dangerous institution in the world.
Participants in the dedicatory exer
cises included the Rev. M. T. Smathers,
D.D., superintendent of the Asheville
district of the Methodist church, and the
Rev. L. W. Hall, pastor, of Etowah.
The congregation joined Dr. Ormond
in reading the dedicatory words at the
close of his address. Special music for
the occasion was furnished by the Eng
lish Chapel choir. Dinner was served on
the grounds.
CIVIC CLUB VOTES
AID TO HOSPITAL
Women’s Group Will Give $150
To Furnish Room In New
Hospital
Featuring the regular meeting of the
Women's Civic club last Monday after
noon was a vote of the club to contribute
$150 for the furnishing of a room in the
new community hospital, and to make
a donation of $15 for the local Bundles
for Britain organization.
Miss Annabel Teague, home demon
stration agent of Transylvania county,
was the speaker. Miss Teague spoke of
the importance of raising the standard
of living among farming people, in
providing the proper food and other es
sentials of better living. She closed her
talk by saying, “Lets’ make Transyl
vania county one of the best counties
in which to live.’’
Plans were made at the meeting for
giving a reception at an early date for
faculty members of the college and
public schools. Mrs. Oliver Orr, president,
was in charge of business transactions.
BLUE DEVILS SET
FOR BRYSON CITY
Local Eleven Will Be Gunning
Today For Second Home
Victory
This afternoon Brevard high school’s
feotball team will encounter the Bryson
City team on the local high school field
in the second home game. The kickoff
is set for 3:30.
The game was first scheduled for Fri
day afternoon, but due to numerous re
quests from townspeople and employes
of local business houses, the game was
moved up to this afternoon. A large
crowd is anticipated to witness the
match.
Coach Cox says the probable starting
line-up is as follows:
Left end, Richard Franklin; left
tackle, Butch Dixon; left guard, Larry
Dixon; center, Loyd Wood; right guard,
A. J. Parker; right tackle, Clany Mc
Gaha; right end, Roy Benningfleld;
fullback, Harry Ashworth; quarter
back, Lonnie Jones; blocking back, Bill
Morris; wing back. Brad Wyatt.
Up-to-Date football fields of the fu
ture will have electric eyes to record
' field goals, it is predicted.
Davidson River
Day Be Observed
Annual Davidson River Day will be
celebrated at the old Davidson River
Presbyterian church at Pisgah Forest
on next Sunday, October 12, opening
with a morning service at eleven o’clock
and continuing through most of the af
ternoon. Dr. R. F. Campbell, of Ashe
ville, is scheduled to deliver the sermon.
At the noon hour a picnic dinner will
be served on the grounds, and people
attending are urged to bring basket
lunches.
The Davidson River Day celebration
is familiar to hundreds of citizens in
this county and has become a sort of
institution. Each year hundreds of peo
ple from over Transylvania and many
from outside the county attend the cele
bration.
CAMPAIGN FOR
$400,000 IS OFF
TO GOOD START
Leaders For County Goal Of
$50,000 Are Named By
Committee
$40,000 IS PLEDGED
The matter of Brevard college remain
ing at Brevard was settled once and for
all probably at a meeting of the college
board of trustees on the college campus
Tuesday of this week. They passed a
resolution unanimously to continue to
operate and develop Brevard college ac
Brevard and pledged their full personal
support in every effort that might be
taken to expand the institution at its
present site.
The resolution had been urged by a
committee representing the Brevard
chamber of commerce w’hich last Thurs
day launched a campaign to raise $400,
000 for the junior institution, $50,000 of
which is to be raised in Transylvania
county.
In the early part of the afternoon a
representative group of the committee
from the chamber of commerce appear
ed before the board and announced their
intentions relative to the campaign
which will provide funds for erecting
new campus buildings and to increase
the endowment resources of the institu
tion. The announcement was favorably
received by the board members, and im
mediately a motion was put on the
floor to pass the resolution w'hich called
for operating and developing the col
lege at its present location, in view’ of
the fact that Brevard citizens were do
ing everything possible in behalf of the
institution.
ihe chamber of commerce commit
tee. headed by S. E. Varner, reported
to the board on Tuesday that $40,000
had already been pledged in the five
day old campaign. $10,000 of which was
promised by J. H. Pickelsimer. local civic
and business leader and a member of
the college board of trustees. The other
$30,000 had been pledged by Harry H.
Straus, president of the Ecusta Paper
corporation, in th« frame of the corpora
tion, to be paid over a period c\f three
years. The $10,000 pledge is to be count
ed toward the $50,000 goal in Transyl
vania. while the $30,000 will be counted
in the total $400,000 program.
Appearing with the Brevard commit
tee before the board were Charles F.
Coykendale,'representative of the board
of education of the Methodist church,
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S.S. MEET HELD;
OFFICERS NAMED
Business Transacted At Regu
lar Monthly Meeting Of
Group Sunday
The Transylvania Sunday school as
sociation held its regular monthly meet
ing with the Rocky Hill church at
Cedar Mountain, Sunday, October 5.
The following Sunday schools were
represented: Brevard First, 4; Brevard
Second, 6; Carre Hill, 6; Dunn’s Rock,
2; Glady Branch, 20; Little River, 3;
Mt. Moriah Calvert, 4; Mt. Moriah
Cherryefild, 3; Oak Grove, 4; Pisgah
Forest, 3; Rocky Hill, 35; visitors from
Tennessee River association, 4; total
present, 94. Sunday school superin
tendents present, 8; pastors present, 4;
teachers present, 12; deacons present, 7.
Interesting talks were given by all the
superintendents and pastors that were
present. Special singing was rendered
by the Bishop sisters, Bishop trio, and
the visitors from Tennessee River as
sociation.
The following officers were elected to
serve with the associations! superintend
ent for the next year: associate super
intendent, Rev. J. L. Underwood; secre
tary, N. L. Ponder; choister, Loyd Can
trell; pianist, Mrs. Perry Cheek; adult
superintendent, T. C. Henderson; young
people, R. J. Lyday; intermediate, Mrs.
A. J. Beddingfleld; junior, Mrs. Marion
Edney; primary, Mrs. T. B. Brown; be
ginners, Mrs. John Gravely; cradle roll,
Mrs. Mamie Monteith.
The group superintendent will be nam
ed at the next meeting.
SISTER OF MRS.
ORR DIED FRIDAY
Mrs. Grace Lumley, a sister of Mrs.
Oliver Orr, of Brevard, died at Chat
ham, Va., last Friday, following- a heart
attack. The body was removed to her
former home in Birmingham, Ala.,
where interment was Sunday afternoon
beside the grave of her husband.
Survivors are two children, Mrs. Nina
Guy, of Buffalo, N. Y„ and James Lum
ley, of Bridgeport, Conn.; also three
sisters, Mrs. Oliver Orr, Mrs. Roland
Gooch, of Asheville, Mrs. Frank Lyon,
of Oxford; one brother, Hoy Taylor, of
Miledgeville, Ga., and two half sisters
and one half brother. Misses Alice and
Elizabeth Taylor, of Boone, and Joe
Taylor, of Lenoir.
Mrs. Lumley had frequently visited
her sister, Mrs. Orr, and family, in Bre
vard, and had many friends in the com
munity. At the time of her death, she
was dietitian at the Hargrave Military
academy, in Chatham, Va.