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/---N Transyivania County Entrance to Piagah National Forest THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County Trade at Home Boost Your Town and County Vol. 51; No. 43 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1941 $1.50 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY Two Killed In Epidemic Of Automobile Wrecks 1 In County Last Week Series of Accidents Leave Num ber Injured; One Narrow ly Escapes LANG, VANN KILLED A literal epidemic of automobile ac cidents in Transylvania county over the past week-end brought death to two and left nine others injured, while one person miraculously escaped death as his car overturned into the lawn of a local home. Both deaths resulted from a single ac cident last Saturday morning around 11:30 when a car in which Dr. Arpard I^ang, about 45, chemical engineer of Greensboro, was driving alone, collided with a car driven by William Vann, 51, of Griffin, Georgia, on U. S. Highway 64 near Davidson River three miles north of here. Dr. Lang, suffering a crushed skull and severe cuts, died a short while after being rushed to Tran sylvania community hospital. Mr. Vann, who received deep cuts about the head and face and internal chest injuries, died at eight o’clock Monday night at the local hospital where he was being treated along with members of his family injured in the accident. According to officers who investigated and members of the Vann family, the Vann car was traveling toward Hender sonville along a straight stretch of the highway when they met the Lang car which was apparently out of control. Members of the Vann family said Mr. Vann pulled over to the right side of the road and had stopped when the Lang car struck their car head-on. The fronts of both cars were demolished. Those in the Vann car who were in jured included Mrs. Vann, 47, their children, Mary, 18, William, Jr., 14, and Ann, 6, and a traveling companion, NTolan, ai- JP w • n r. minor injuries. They were discharged Tuesday from the hospital, and they ac companied the body of Mr. Vann to Griffin, Georgia, for burial. Only a few minutes after the Vann Lang collision last Saturday morning, automobiles reportedly driven by Walter Hart, county sanitarian, and Amos Johnson, local negro, collided on the same highway less than half a mile be low the scene of the first accident. Mr. Hart suffered painful head and face in juries and shock, but was not seriously injured. Johnson, and a daughter riding with him, were both injured. He re ceived fractured ribs, while she suffered (Continued on page eight) FARM DEFENSE COUNCIL WILL MEET SATURDAY A meeting has been called by the Transylvania county National Farm De fense council at the county agent’s of fice in Brevard at nine o’clock on Satur day morning of this week, it has been announced. “Food Products for Defense” will be the theme of the discussion at the meet ing, and all agencies represented in the Agricultural Workers Council should have a representative present at the meeting, it was emphasized. Also at the meeting plans will be made for contact ing all farmers in the county and urging upon them the importance of growing “food for freedom” in the present fight for freedom. Local farm officials, Including County Agent J. A. Glazener, Home Agent Annabel Teague, T. J. Wilson, chair man of the county AAA committee, and Joseph C. McDarris, FSA supervisor here, attended the district meeting in Waynesville Monday, at which the pro duction of “Food for Defense” was the principal topic of discussion. BREVARD IS SET FOR CANDLER HI Locals Will Be Gunning For Their Second Home Victory Tomorrow The Brevard Hi football team, seeking its second victory of the season, meets a Candler eleven tomorrow afternoon (Friday) on the Brevard high school field. Kick-off is set for 3:30. Coach Cox says his boys are in good shape and that the game should be ex citing from start to the finish. Although Brevard was beaten by Asheville last Saturday, they still stand a good chance of ending the season with a 50-50 record. In the last home game Brevard was barely beaten by a margin of one point. In the first home game the locals nosed out Swannanoa by 7-6. A large crowd is expected to witness the game tomorrow. In the column, “Just Football” of this issue, it is stated that Brevard meets Hayesville. This is a mistake, and per sons entering the contest are asked to change Hayesville to Candler on their entries. 4J. | Number Planes Are j | Observed In County { § In connection with the army \ | airplane "spotting” being carried | : out in Transylvania and else- j E where this week, a numoer ot E E reports on two or more planes E : had been flashed in to interceptor j j headquarters by observers at the s j nine observation posts throng.i- i E out the county. i | At the Brevard post, stationed § I atop Plummer’s department store, [ E only one “flash” was turned in by E E early Wednesday afternoon. Dan E i Merrill and Prank Bridges saw | j two large planes come over on : : Monday. | j The observations will be carried | I out until next Sunday morning. § {■lanilMlllliiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiliMilMlliimiilMliaiiiiiiiiiiiiii ..0 VETERANS TO HEAR McMILLIAN MONDAY NIGHT AT BANQUET Monroe Wilson Post Is Sponsor ing Banquet Meeting At NYA Hut Pinal plans have been completed for the staging of a banquet meeting for all ex-service men in Transylvania county at the NYA Hut in Brevard on next Monday evening, Ralph R. Fisher, Commander of the local Monroe Wilson Post of the American Legion, ha#* an nounced. Princinal speaker will Ro> < McMillian, State Commander of the American Legion. The program will open at seven o’clock. An attempt has been made by mem bers of the Post here to contact all ex service men in the county in order that they may have the opportunity of at tending and hearing the message to be brought by the State Commander. How ever, it is possible, members said, that someone has been missed. If so, they should get in touch with the banquet committee, composed of William Wallis, B. H. Freeman, F. Brown Carr and Eck L. Sims, at once to place their reserva tions. In addition to Mr. McMillian, District Commander E. L. Walker, of Forest City, will appear on the program, it was announced. Both Mr. McMillian and Mr. Walker will have vitally interesting i messages for veterans, Mr. Fisher said. • Besides the speaking, a general pro gram of entertainment has been plan ned by the local Post for the event next Monday. LOCAL MASONIC LODGE PLANNING A HOMECOMING Dunn’s Rock Masonic lodge will hold their annual Home-Coming on Friday afternoon, October 31, beginning at 4 o’clock, and supper will be served at 7:00. At the night session the main feature will be conferring of the second section of the third degree, by the local degree team. Complete plans of the program will be published in next week’s issue of The Times. Members of the degree team are re quested by Dr. J. F. Zachary to meet at the lodge hall on Thursday, October 23, at 8 o’clock for the purpose of practicing for the third degree. AT THE HOSPITAL Patients reported to be in Transyl vania Community hospital on Wednes day afternoon were: Mrs. A. H. Harris, Miss Sallie Duckworth, Lorraine Anders, Claude Brown, Mrs. H. V. McClure, Mrs. Lester McKelvey and infant son. IT’S “APPLE PICKIN’ TIME” IN TRANSYLVANIA i'.V.'.V.KWVB The apples are not Virginia Beauties, but the beauty is a Tar Heel, Johnnie Clark, of Brevard, who this week gave “apple pickin’ time in Western North Carolina” a bright send-off by picking some of the luscious fruit for The Times staff photographer in the orchard of Ben Jones, of the Lake Toxaway section. Hundreds of thousands of bushels of apples are being harvested in Western North Carolina this fall. Total Of $30,000 Pledged In Local College Campaign --Ah - FUNERAL IS HELD FOR MRS. LYDAY Well Known Resident of Enon Section Died Suddenly Last Sunday Funeral service was held Tuesday af ternoon at 4 o’clock at her home in the Enon section near Brevard, for Mrs. L F. Lyday, 63, who died suddenly of a I heart attack last Sunday evening at 6 I o’clock at her home.The pastor, Rev. W. I S. Price, and Rev. B. W. Thomason, pastor of the Brevard Baptist church, officiated. Interment was in the Enon church cemetery. Survivors are the husband, three daughters and five sons, including Mrs. Otto Alexander, Brevard; Mrs. M. O. Ledford, Winston-Salem; Miss Sylvia j Lyday, Cullowhee; Randal J. and John Lyday, Brevard; Leon F. Lyday, Yan- ! ceyville; Dr. Wilson Lyday, Canal Zone; j Jack Lyday, Macon, Ga. Two brothers ! and two sisters also survive, Sutton and I John Wilson, Mrs. A. C. Lyday and Mrs. U. G. Reeves, all of Brevard. Mrs. Lyday was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William J. Wilson, of Clayton, Ga. She was a member of the Brevard Methodist church. She was well known throughout Transylvania, and she and Mr. Lyday had provided a total of more than 30 years of college education for their children from returns from the farm and summer tourist trade. Mrs. Ledford and Mrs. Alexander graduated from Asheville Normal; Randal, Leon, and Jack graduated from N. C. State col lege; Wilson graduated from Mars Hill, W. C. T. C., Wake Forest Medical school, and Emory University medical school; Sylvia is a senior at W. C. T. C.; and John has finished two years of col lege work at W. C. T. C. Pallbearers were: Ralph Lyday, Har ley Lyday, Lyday Morgan, John H. Ly day, Carmel Pickelsimer, Coy Surrett, Charles Pickelsimer and Joe Lyday. Those in charge of flowers were Gloria Ann Wilson, Wilma Pickelsimer, Mrs. Harry Brown, Inez Lyday, Mrs. Ken Westwood and Mrs. Webb Patillo. Osborne-Simpson funeral home had charge of arrangements. Campaign Will. Be Carried Out Over Western North Carolina Soon A total of $30,000 has been pledged in the drive being conducted in Transyl vania county to raise $50,000 for Bre vard college, according to the most re cent reports by the college campaign committee, and plans were being made to complete the campaign here by Nov. 1, shortly after which date it will be carried to other sections of Western North Carolina. Earlier this week members of the committee wired representatives of the college and the campaign committee at the Western North Carolina confer ence of the Methodist church in Win ston-Salem that the $30,000 mark had been passed in the drive here, and they in turn presented those figures as a part of the argument for retaining the col lege at Brevard. It was generally be lieved here that the conference would act favorably upon the request of local citizens that the college be continued in operation at its present site, in view of the fact that they are sponsoring the movement to raise substantial sums for a building expansion program and to increase the endowment resources of the institution. S. E. Varner, chairman of the cam paign committee, said here Wednesday that the committee and other leaders in the solicitation were confident that the remaining $20,00(V of the county goal could be raised by the end of the current month. A meeting of the com mittee has been called for Friday after noon at five o’clock at the City Hall, when final plans for raising the remain der of the county goal will be worked out in detail, he said. Substantial sums have already been pledged toward the state-wide goal of $400,000, and as quickly as the drive in the county is completed work will begin on the more extensive drive. Charles F. Coykendale, a representative of the board of education of the Meth odist church, has been retained by the chamber of commerce committee to di rect the activities of the financial effort. Balances which weigh tiny particles of aluminum alloy and other aircraft materials to within one-twentieth of a milligram are used in airplane factories. B""..■■■••■■••••■in.••••[•) | Navy Day Oct. 27; Recruits Inquire | E Navy Day will be celebrated In f E Transylvania county and through- | : out the nation on Monday, October j | 27, when tribute will be paid to i | the boys in Blue and White who j § man Uncle Sam’s battleships. | In connection with the celebra- j § tion, The Times is continuing its \ | drive to help recruit men for the 1 r Navy. Already the drive is bearing E E fruit here. A total of seven young E E men in the county have made in- E E quiries into the advantages in I E training the Navy offers. | These young men are Eugene E E Buchanan, Elmer Galloway, James i j McJunkin, and Harold Keaton, all | jj of Brevard; Ralph Barton and s | Wiley C. Bumgarner, both of Pis- = j gah Forest, and Oliver Orr, of = | Chapel Hill. liinniniiiiimiiHiii.lli•ml■■H■•■■l■l•llmlll•••••••M■■ll■•fjl MRS. MORRISON DIED ON MONDAY Mrs. Eugene Morrison, 67, died last Monday morning- at the home of her daughter, Miss Delitha Morrison, in Brevard. The funeral service will be held on arrival of a son from California. The service will be in charge of Rev. G. E. Kellar. Interment will be in St. Paul’s cemetery in Henderson county. Survivors are the husband, one daughter, and two sons, Miss Delitha Morrison, of Brevard, Horace Morrison, of Walland, Tenn., and Edward Morris on, of San Diego, Calif. A brother in Haywood county and a sister in Hen derson county also survive. Osborne-Simpson funeral home will be in charge of arrangemens. Annual P.-T. A. Picnic Is Being Planned Here The annual P.-T. A. picnic, given by the parents for the teachers of the Bre vard schools, will be held at the lodge at Rockbrook camp next Tuesday even ing at 6 o’clock. Cars will leave the grammar school building promptly at 6:15 to provide transportation for all. The hospitality committee extends an invitation to parents of school children who have moved to Brevard during re cent months and to all patrons of the school to attend the picnic. The com mittee also expressed appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Carrier for pro-1 viding their camp as a place for the event | Juke Box Players “Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire,” But They Drop In The Slot To The Tune Of $200 Per Week Every two and one-half minutes, with just a few seconds added, somebody in Brevard drops a nickel in the slug of a piccolo, “juke” box, or whatever your pet term is for the five-cent music box es, and out comes a tune, mellow and soft ,in return. During the past week, every fourth time some nimble finger turned the automatic selector of a piccolo the num ber on the selector stopped at the num ber ascribed to “I dont Want To Set The World On Fire”, as played by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians or as oozed out by those now famous Ink Spots. Next in order came "Hiwaiian Sunset” by Sammy Kaye, and ’’Precious Jewel” by Roy Acuff, these two shar ing second place preference among drop pers of nickels into the proverbial slot. Standing well up in the "honorable mention” list this week were the dit ties “Jim,’’ by Jimmy Dorsey, "I Told You So,” by Jimmy Davis, “Victory Parade,” the Notre Dame victory song, by Dick Powell, "Little Sweetheart, Come and Kiss Me,” by Roy Hall, and “I Wish I Had A Dime” by the Andrews Sisters. Just how much do Brevardites and those who may be visiting here pay out each week to “put the needle on the track” of their favorite pieces of music? The answer is $200. Really, during the past week it waa only $197.36, but $200 is an approximate figure that will bear pretty close scrutinizing. That means, in round figures, that something like $10,000 a year goes down the slot of piccolos located in Brevard. Perhaps you’re wondering how the serene sanctum of a newspaper office became loaded down with a lot of statistics about piccolos and who plays them and what they play. It all came about by a little private poll conducted by a Times reporter turned musically minded for a few hours. And some other interesting facts he found, not listed among the above, were that something like 4,000 nickel tunes a week are play ed in Brevard restaurants, drug stores and other places where piccolos are stationed, that automatic selectors in booths boost the sale of nickel tunes by at least 100 per cent, and that wo men, if they’re married (to the man with them), usually select the tunes, but the men furnish the nickels. Among courting couples and just casual ac quaintances the percentage drops down to about flfty-flfty as to who selects the tune, but the man almost invariably pays. Those limber characters who are flying the three well known sheets in the wind are just as apt to select a sacred hymn as they are the “Mean Hangover Blues”, and high school boys and girls who at this season of the year, are all het up about football just go wild over the “Victory Parade” as sung by Dick Powell. And last, but still very significant, Roy AcufTs recording of "Precious Jewel” is right now the most popular record seller In Brevard. / DEFENSE OFFICIALS ARE URGED TO LOOK INTO POSSIBILITIES Transylvania Was Scene Of Magnesium Mining During The Civil War 50 MILE AREA DEPOSIT That Transylvania county, along with other counties in Western and North western North Carolina, may play an important role in the present national defense effort is seen as a distinct pos sibility, due to the deposits of olivine and other magnesium bearing metals in this section which stand ready to be developed. Magnesium is essential to national defense, it being employed in the construction of airplanes and in the manufacture of incendiary bombs. National defense officials are being asked to investigate the olivine deposits in Transylvania and adjoining counties in this section of the state. Requests for immediate investigation into the mining possibilities in this county are being made by The Times through the North Carolina Department of Conser vation and Development, Governor J. M. Broughton, the State Geologist, Con gressman Zebulon Weaver, and Con gressman R. L. (Farmer Bob) Dough ton. According to recent Tennessee Valley Authority reports, there are extensive deposits of olivine in Western North Carolina within the four counties of Transylvania, Clay, Macon and Jack son, the greater portion of which is in Macon and Jackson counties. Though the total area in Transylvania in which there are olivine deposits is only about 50 square miles, chiefly in Gloucester township, it is said to be especially “rich” ore, containing a high percentage of metallic magnesium. During the War Between the States the ore was mined extensively in the Boylston section of the county and was used in the making of ammunition. Last summer defense officials in Washington began prelimi nary investigation of the possibility of reopening the mines in this and adjoin ing counties. One oi the banes of the democracies in the present world war has been the lack of magnesium, but it is believed that if the deposits in North Carolina can be successfully developed that prob lem will be over. It is estimated that the United States is at present producing only about one tenth of what will be needed in the national defense efforts. Publisher of The Times, Ed M. An derson, stated this week that he had received assurance from congressional representatives that the matter of de veloping the olivine deposits in this sec tion would receive immediate attention. Already they have taken the issue up with the planning boards of several na tional defense agencies. At a meeting in High Hampton Inn, in Jackson county last week, Governor J. M. Broughton pledged the full weight of the office of the Governor of North Carolina would be placed behind the pro posed olivine development in this sec tion and to secure adequate power for its operation. Proposals of Jackson county citizens to open a mine at Web ster had been rejected previously on the grounds that adequate power was not available. Mainer Musicians To Present Program Here Wade Mainer and his Sons of the Mountaineers will present a program of string music and other entertainment at the Brevard court house on Friday evening of this week, beginning at eight o’clock, it has been announced. The program is being sponsored here by the W. O. W. Circle. Mainer and his group are well known radio performers, and are heard over radio station wWNC, in Asheville, each week day at noon. JAYCEES SPONSOR GOLF TOURNAMENT County Event Will Be Staged At Country Club On November 2, 9 A golf tournament, under the spon sorship of the Brevard Jaycees, has been planned at the Brevard Country club for November 2 and 9. Any resident of Transylvania county will be eligible to enter, and a handicap will be given to each entry. The first round of 18 holes will be played on Sunday, Nov. 2, to determine what handicap each player should be given. Bob Smith, golf pro and man ager of the local club, is chairman of the committee which will work out the handicaps. The final 18-hole round will be played on the following Sunday, an1 to the golfer having the lowest net score, will be awarded a handsome trophy. The runner-up will also receive a prize. Anyone wishing to enter the tourna ment may contact John Anderson at The Times office by October 30 and fill in an entry blank. A $1.00 entry fee is being charged. This includes green fees for both Sundays. Also serving on the golf committee with Anderson and Smith, are Ruel Hunt and Jim Atkins.