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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1641
$1.50 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
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Civilian Defense Council Gets Set For “Enemy” Air Raids
College Campaign Report
Indicates $14,000 Already
Pledged Toward Final Goal
Plan To Have Major Part Of
Goal Pledged By Saturday
Afternoon
WORKERS ARE NAMED
The committee in charge of the cam
paign to raise $50,000 in Transylvania
county and better than $400,000 in other
areas of the state for Brevard college
announced Wednesday that the cam
paign in the county was proceeding
well and that over $14,000 toward the
$50,000 goal had been pledged. Solici
tation for funds began Tuesday, and the
committee hoped to have the majority
of the goal pledged by Saturday of this
week in order than a report might be
made to that effect to the general con
ference of Western North Carolina
methodism when it convenes in Win
ston-Salem next Monday evening.
A total of eighten well known local
men are actively doing the solicitation
work in the campaign here. They are:
Rev. E. P. Billups, Rev. B. W. Thoma- |
son, Julian A. Glazener, Lewis P. Ham
lin, Oliver Orr, Dr. J. F. Zachary, E. H.
McMahan, Harry Sellers, Lloyd O.
Hughes, Alex H. Kizer, John A. Ford,
A. B. Galloway, W. W. Brittain, P. A.
Rahn, J. B. Jones, Jerry Jerome, Pete
Eberle, and G. F. Huskamp. In most in- '
stances they are working in teams of
two, contacting posible contributors.
Charles F. Coykendale, a representa
tive of the board of education of the
Methodist church, retained by the local
Chamber of Commerce, is directing the
campaign, and on Wednesday he re
ported very satisfactory progress.
Members of the committee yesterday
emphasized the importance of the so
licitors making all posible contacts be
fore Saturday afternoon of this week
in order that some definite knowledge
of the total amount expected to be rais
ed in the county could be had before
the conference convenes in Winston
Salem. They pointed out the ultimate
future of the college at Brevard de
pends in great measure upon the suc
cess of the campaign in its first week
heer. Representatives of the local com
mittee will report the progress of the
fund raising effort to the board of edu
cation of the conference on Monday
night of next week.
Committee members said the response
in the first two days of solicitation here
indicated that the citizenry of the coun
ty is tremendously interested in the]
future of Brevard college at Brevard,
and they were confident that Transyl
vanians would help bring the campaign
to successful completion.
LEGION PUNNING
BANQUET MEETING
State Commander Roy McMil
lian Will Be Principal
Speaker On Oct. 27
The local Monroe Wilson Post of the
American Legion is planning a banquet
for all ex-service men in the county on
Monday evening, October 27, at the
NYA Hut in Brevard, according to an
nouncement by the Commander of the
Post, Ralph R. Fisher.
Principal speakers on the program
will be State Commander Roy McMlllian,
of Raleigh, and E. L. Walker, of Forest
City, Commander of the Nineteenth
District. Mr. Fisher stated that they
would have messages of special interest
to all ex-service men and urged that
everyone in the county attend.
A committee has been named by the
local Post to take charge of the sale of
tickets and arrangements for the ban
quet. William Wallis is chairman of the
committee, and B. H. Freeman, F. Brown
Carr, and Eck L. Sims are members.
It was announced that members of
the committee would make an attempt
to contact all ex-service men in the
county, but the committee urged that
its members be contacted if possible to
Insure complete attendance.
Entertainment in addition to the gen
eral program will be provided at the
banquet, it was stated.
PISGAH MILLS
CARRIES OUT
IMPROVEMENTS
Extensive improvements have been
made to building's in the Pisgah Mills
community during the past two months,
it was announced this week by Walter
Hart, county sanitarian.
The approximately 35 homes in the
company community have been reno
vated during that period, including
painting the exterior, installation of
new screens for doors and windows, and
new plumbing equipment.
Mr. Hart said living condition for the
mill employees had been greatly im
proved, and he commended the com
pany for its step in community improve
ment.
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| Danger of Water
Shortage Looms |
j C. P. Misenheimer, city water j
| superintendent, this week warns [
| the citizens of the town against |
| using excess water and to be sure |
| that no leaks are left unrepaired, |
: since there is danger of a water §
j shortage due to the continued dry j
: weather.
| Mr. Misenheimer said that at j
j present there is an adequate |
| water supply for everyone, but it |
I would take the cooperation of the j
| citizenry of the town in conserv- |
j ing water to insure a continued j
: adequate supply. ;
: Hp urged all water users to co- j
| operate.
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DRAFTEES NAMED
FOR CALL NO. 18
Eighteen White Young Men
Will Leave For Fort Bragg
Next Monday
Eighteen Transylvania county se
lective service registrants have been
mailed orders from the local draft
board to report for induction on Mon
day morning, October 20, to fill the
quota for call number 18, according to
Mrs. Allie B. Harllee, clerk to the draft
board. These draftees will be inducted
at Fort Bragg, leaving Brevard at 9:20
o’clock next Monday morning.
Those who will be inducted are Wil
liam Walter Holden, of Brevard; James
Curtis Gevedon, of Brevard; Bryan
Clayton Jackson, of Brevard; Ralph
Charlton Smith, of Pisgah Forest; Gor
don Brown Prentice, of Cleveland, Ohio;
Robert Farmer Thomas, of Brevard;
Victor Raymond Cooke, Jr., of Brevard;
Robert Henry Tritt, Brevard, Route 2;
Straub Thomas Cooper, Brevard, Route
2; Andrew Floyd Evans, Pisgah Forest;
Ira Allen Sisk, of Rosman; Donald
Byers Shipman, of Pisgah Forest; Lloyd
Kinsey, of Rosman; John Bolen McCall,
of Lake Toxaway; Arthur Williams, Jr.,
of Brevard; Billie Lamar Morgan, of
Brevard, Route 2; Emerson William
Merrell, of Pisgah Forest, Route 1; and
Elmer Wendell Gevedon, of Brevard.
KIWANIANS TO MEET
The Brevard Kiwanis club will hold
its regular meeting at the Moffitt House
on Country Club Road at 12:15 today,
it hds been announced by members of
the club.
J. O. Wells is in charge of arrange
ments for the program.
VETS SPONSOR
NAVY’S DRIVE
The local Monroe Wilson Poet of the
American Legion ie sponsoring a drive
for U. S. Navy recruits in conjunction
with the Navy’s drive for recruits, it
was announced this week by members
of the Post.
According to Poet officials, the local
veterans will furnish transportation to
all applicants to the enlistment sta
tions. Those interested in taking ad
vantage of the Legion’s offer should
contact Ralph R. Fisher, commander,
or Howard Wyatt, vice-commander.
Recruiting Officers Clark and Jen
nings, from the Navy recruiting sta
tion, Asheville, were in Brevard last
Thursday interviewing applicants for
enlistment in the Navy, and those who
get in touch with Commander Fisher
or the Navy Editor of The Times will
be referred to them for interviews re
garding enlistment.
SHIPMAN CHILD DIES
Robert Earl, infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gertha F. Shipman, died recently
at the home. Funeral was held at the
home of the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
E. L. Hamilton, with the Rev. Harrison
Whitlock in charge.
Burial was in the Carrs Hill cemetery.
MR. SILVERSTEEN BETTER
Jos. S. Silversteen, who suffered an
acute heart attack while in his office
here last Monday, is reported to be
somewhat improved in a Greenville, S.
C., hospital, where he was removed on
Monday.
Mrs. Silversteen accompanied her
husband to Greenville, and has been in
the hospital there with him the most
of the time since Monday.
Governor Visits At
Ecusta Paper Plant
Governor J. M. Broughton, returning
through Brevard Tuesday on his way
back to Raleigh after attending the
dedication ceremonies of Glenville Dam
on Monday, spent several hours visiting
the Ecusta Paper corporation plant at
Pisgah Forest.
GERMANS DRIVE
TOWARD CAPITAL
OF IDE SOVIETS
Report Nazis Have No Less
Than 13,000 Men In Dead
And Wounded
The Germans crashed toward Mos
cow from a new direction on Wednes
day in heavy fighting at Kalinin, only
95 miles northwest of the capital, while
the Red armies of the center reported
they had beaten the Nazis back 10
bloody miles over the critical Vyazma
sector to the west.
Government advices said the Ger
mans had no less than 13,000 men in
dead and wounded on the Moscow front
on Tuesday alone.
Germany’s military leadership an
nounced Wednesday the annihilation of
a total of 6,000,000 Russian soldiers of
whom more than half were captives, and
an irresistible advance by the Nazi
armies of the center which has put the
outermost defences of Moscow within
range of German heavy artillery.
Winston Churchill silenced aid-to
Russia critics in commons with a flat
refusal to discuss the situation for fear
that talk might hurt the Soviet cause
There were some cries of dissent when
the prime minister banned a debate on
the matter, but the majority of the
house gave tacit support to his silence
both on the question of aid and as to
the actual war situation.
British fliers carried the war to the
Norwegian coast and occupied France
behind Cherbourg Tuesday night in a
continuing all-out offensive.
Overnight they had bombed Dussel
dorf, Cologne and other objectives in
Western Germany, and shipping and
port facilities along the Netherlands
and French occupied coast. In this
fourth consecutive night assault on the
reich, five planes were lost, the British
said, and Berlin, agreeing, added that
a total of 36 British planes had been
shot down in the past 24 hours over
all German and German-occtipied re
gions.
NEWCLENVILLE
DAM DEDICATED
Governor Broughton Principal
Speaker At Dedication
Ceremonies Monday
Governor J. M. Broughton on Mon
day dedicated the new Nantahala Power
and Light company’s hydroelectric
project at Glenville, Jackson county, to
service "in war and in peace.”
At the conclusion of a more than two
hours long service, he pressed a button
which started the 22,500 kilowatt gen
erators turning with a roar and a few
seconds later power was flowing along
a line over the Great Smoky mountains
into the plant of the Aluminum com
pany of America at Alcoa, where it will
be used in manufacturing aluminum for
defense. The Nantahala company is a
subsidiary of ALOOA.
The ceremony took place during the
afternoon at one end of the new Glen
ville powerhouse, which is three and
one-half miles from the recently con
structed Glenville dam. Approximately
500 persons, including officials of the
power company and the aluminum com
pany, the Tennessee Valley Authority,
the Carolina Power and Light company,
and leaders from Asheville, Jackson
county and other Western North Caro
lina counties, were present. In the
crowd also were a number of persons
from the immediate neighborhood.
A flag-bedecked speakers' platform
had been erected on the newly land
scaped lawn and chairs had been placed
for about 300 persons. The remainder
stood during the ceremonies.
J. E. S. Thorpe, president of the Nan
tahala Power and Light company, served
as master of ceremonies. He accepted in
the name of his company the completed
project from the Aluminum company’s
chief hydraulic engineer, Jamee P.
Growdon, who was absent and was
represented by his assistant, D. J. Blei
fuss.
San Francisco handlee 80 per cent of
United States wine exports.
TWO BUSINESS MEN LEAVE BREVARD
Shown here are J. C. Helms, left, and Robert F. Thomas,
both of whom are .leaving Brevard. Mr. Helms, formerly
manager of the Brevard Auto Supply, goes to Asheville
where he will be connected with Gene Oschenreiter, Inc.,
automobile dealers. Mr. Thomas, well known local attorney
and president of the county Young Democrats club, leaves
Monday for Fort Bragg where he will be inducted as an
Army trainee.
Accident Claims Life Of
Child; Autoist Is Injured
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| Local Firm Sets *
Floor Sand Mark j
| A local concern, the McIntosh §
: Floor Service, has broken an all- §
E time record for the nation in floor :
: sanding and finishing-, it was |
: learned this week. i
| Recently, in a contract at Ports- i
| mouth, Virginia, thj concern |
| sanded 200,000 square feet of floor |
| space within a period of 15 days. |
| To make the amount of space I
E more vivid, the manager, Frank |
j McIntosh, pointed out that the :
: floor space sanded made up sev- |
| eral acres. §
j The McIntosh Floor Service has \
j received a number of national de- |
j fense contracts recently. §
fflNNHfiiSHOP °
TO OPEN FRIDAY
Will Carry Ladies* Ready-To
Wear; Fur Coat To Be
Given Away
Winner’s, an up-to-date ladies’ ready
to-wear shop, opens in Brevard Friday
morning of this week in the Plckel- I
simer Building on West Main street. ]
The building was formerly occupied by
Jennie Bowen.
The store, which will be affiliated with
Winners, in Canton, will be under the
managership of Mrs. James Parker who
has many years experience in serving
the ladies in clothing needs. Associated
with Mrs. Parker as employes of the
shop will be Mrs. Madge Wilkins, and
Misses Myrtle Little and Louise Moore.
As a part of the opening festivities on
Friday the management Is offering a
valuable fur coat as a free gift to the
lucky person whose name is drawn that
afternoon. Ladies visiting the shop Fri
day will be invited to leave their names
and addresses on a card which will be
placed in a box. The drawing, which
will take place at 5:30 that afternoon,
will be done by E. J. Coltrane, president
of Brevard college.
The policy of the shop, as announced
by the management, will be to do busi
ness which -will invite the confidence of
the public.
Nationally known brands of clothing
will be handled.
New Water System Is Installed
At Rosman; Buildings Repaired
Rosman Gets Safe Supply Of
Sub-Strata Water For Its
Residents
A municipal water system has just
been installed at Rosman, through the
cooperation of Joseph S. Silversteen and
the county health department, Walter
i Hart, county sanitarian, has announced.
The system will serve the greater ma
jority of the 500 residents of the town,
according to Mr. Hart.
Previously Rosman had been sup
plied with water through five different
mountain streams, and the source was
not adjudged strictly sanitary. Now,
with the new system, an adequate and
safe supply of sub-strata water has
been secured.
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Mr. Hart said that all of the installa
tions relative to the new water system
complied fully with the regulations for
a domestic water supply as required by
the State board of health.
The installations for the new line en
tailed the putting: in of complete new
mains and branch lines and the build
ing of a covered reservoir. The reser
voir capacity will bring a pressure of
45 pounds to the spigots, it was stated.
In connection with the installation of
the new water system, other extensive
improvements have been made in Ros
man, especially in the tanning and lum
ber interests there. Company houses
have been repaired and painted and
placed in first class condition, accord
ing to announcement by Mr. Hart.
Billy Corn, 5, Fatally Shot On
Monday; Miss Pangle In
Hospital
Two separate accidents in Transyl
vania during the past week brought
death to one and placed another in a
hospital in a serious condition.
On last Monday evening at about
6:30 o’clock Billy Corn. 5-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Holland Corn, of Pis
gah Forest, was fatally wounded as he
and an uncle, U. G. Corn, 22, played
“sheriff and bandit” at the home oi the
child.
According to information available to
a Times reporter, the uncle and Billy
were playing in the living room, when
the uncle picked up a .38 calibre pistol
as a part of the property for effectively
carrying out the sheriff and bandit
game. The uncle presumably did not
know the pistol was loaded, and when
he picked it up it was accidentally dis
charged, sending a bullet into the child’s
abdomen and on through to the base of
the spine where it emerged.
The child was rushed to the Transyl
vania community hospital for treat
ment, but little hope for recovery was
held. Shortly before eight o’clock Tues
day morning he died as a result of the
wound in the abdomen.
Miss Bessfe Pangle, around 30, of
Bosnian, was in a hospital at Biltmore
Wednesday in what hospital attaches
described as probably a serious condi
tion, the exact extent of her injuries
not having been determined. She re
ceived deep cuts about the head and
face and possible internal injuries. She
was injured about 6 o’clock Tuesday
evening when a light coupe, said to have
been driven by her brother-in-law,
Spurgeon Queen, also of Rosman, left
the Rosman highway about one mile
from here and struck a telephone pole.
Miss Pangle was riding on the right
side of the car which received the
severest impact. Mrs. Spurgeon Queen
was also an occupant of the car, but
neither she nor her husband received
extensive injuries.
According to eyewitnesses of the ac
cident, the Queen car was traveling to
ward Brevard and met a large truck on
a sharp curve. The truck, said to have
been on the wrong side of the road,
forced the Queen car off the highway
causing it to careen into the telephone
pole. Witnesses said the truck did not
stop.
Funeral service for the Corn child
was held at three o’clock Wednesday
afternoon at the Pisgah Forest Baptist
church, with the Rev. J. A. MgAuley
officiating. Interment was in the David
son River cemetery. The parents sur
vive.
Osborne-Simpson were in charge of
arrangements.
Lions Will Hear
Reethof At Meet
Oscar Reethof, formerly of Czecho
slovakia, but now a resident of Brevard
and an employee of the Transylvania
Tanning company, will be the principal
speaker at the regular meeting of the
Brevard Lions club tonight, it has been
announced. They will also celebrate
“Bob Thomas” night in honor of their
past president who leaves Monday for
the Army.
The club will meet in West Hall at
Brevard college, the meeting to open
at seven o’clock.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Patients reported at Transylvania
Community hospital Wednesday after
noon were: Mrs. A. H. Harris, Mrs.
Fred Moflfitt, Mrs. Carter McCall, Mrs.
Hal Hart and Charles Jordan.
OBSERVATION TO
BE CARRIED OUT
AT NINE POINTS
Observers Will Man Posts For
24 Hours Every Day
For A Week
OBSERVERS NAMED
The semblance of full-time war ac
tivity in the observation of "enemy"
air planes will be gone through in Tran
sylvania county and over the entire
Southeastern America during the week
of October 19-25, and members of the
county civilian defense council are now
working out detailed plans for the
carrying out of the observation in vari
ous sections of the county.
Plane spotters will be located at nine
points in the county, according to Ralph
H. Ramsey, Jr., chairman of the county
civilian defense council, and these ob
servation posts will be manned for 24
hours a day during the week period.
Upon spotting a plane, observers will
immediately get in touch, by long dis
tance telephone, with the Army In
terceptor Base at Tampa, Florida. The
“spotting” maneuvers are a part cf the
Army’s ground work for experience in
carrying out the civilian defense pro
gram in event of war, and should this
country become engaged in war those
who participate in spotting the planee
in these practice maneuvers will be
called upon to perform a like duty in
an actual emergency, it was pointed
out. Some 500 planes will participate in
the maneuvers.
In making announcement of the air
maneuvers spotting' work, the county
civilian defense council asked for volun
teers to help with the observation at
the various posts, and urged that these
volunteers get in touch with the chief
observer at the nearest observation
post.
A list of the observation posts, to
gether with those who have been nam
ed as chief observers and assistants at
the poets, follows:
Brevard: D. W. Merrill, chief observ
er; Prank Bridges, first assistant; C.
P. Misenheimer, second assistant; and
Byron Olney.
Blantyre: Mrs. Avery Justus, chief
observer; Prank Bly, first assistant;
Andrew Rymer, second assistant.
Rockbrook: Mrs. Henry N. Carrier,
chief observer; Miss Myrtle Raines,
first assistant.
Rosman: Austin Hogsed, chief ob
server; P. A. Raines, Jr., first assistant;
L. C. Hall, second assistant
Cascade Lake: C. A. Blythe, chief
observer; Mrs. C. A. Blythe, first as
sistant.
Frying Pan Mountain: E. S. English*.
Jr., chief observer; John Y. Eller, first
assistant.
Pilot Mountain: Talmadge Chastaine,
chief observer.
Sassafras Mountain: Woodrow Can
trell, chief observer; Martha Cantrell*,
first assistant.
Cash’s Store: L. E. Cash, chief ob
server.
Observations will begin at 6 o’clock
next Sunday morning, October 19, and
someone will be kept at the observation
posts at all hours of the day and night.
LIONS PLAN FOR
ANNUAL CARNIVAL
Hallowe’en Event Will Be Stag~
ed By Club On Friday,
October 31 J
At a special meeting of the commit
tee for the Lions club annual Hallowe'en
carnival, plans have been projected for
making this the biggest and most at
tractive project the Lions have ever
attempted. The carnival will be staged
on Friday, evening, October 31, on East
Main Street.
The annual carnival is staged by the
Lions club for two purposes. One is to
provide entertainment for the children
of the community on Hallowe’en night.
The other is to raise funds to carry
on the Lions club’s special work with
underprivileged children relative to pro
viding glasses for those who need them.
During the first two months of this fis
cal year, it was pointed out, the club
has bought 12 pairs of glasses and one
artificial eye for underprivileged chil
dren in the county.
The committee announced that some
of the highlights of the carnival this
year would be a quacking duck game,,
directed by Lion Billups, Lion Joe H.
Tinsley and his wild cats, Lion Ford and
hie production line, Mayor Hardin and
his winning ways with pennies, and
Lion Harold Kilpatrick and his bingo
table. Dozens of other attractions are
scheduled.
DR. McLEOD IS
NOW AT ROSMAN
Dr. Walter G. McLeod, who has been
a practising physician in Southern
Fines for the past 15 years, has taken
up residence with his family in Rosman
at the Florence Winchester home. It
was learned yesterday.
Dr. McLeod’s office, for the present,
will be located at his residence.