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Transylvania
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Entrance to
Pisgah National
Forest
THE TRANSYLVANIA
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Vol. 51; No. 44
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1041
$1.50 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
Chamber Of Commerce
Directors Elected; This
Year’s Work Reported
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Twenty-Five Directors Named
For Coming Year In Pro
motional Body
CAMPAIGN CARRIED OUT
Results of the balloting for the elec
tion of members of the board of direc
tors for the Brevard chamber of com
merce were announced Wednesday by
Mrs. Ralph R. Fisher, secretary of the
organiaztion. Twenty-five members
were elected from the membership.
They will serve during the coming year.
Elected to the board were the follow
ing, listed in the order of election by
votes from the entire membership:
Willis W. Brittain, Harry Sellers, Lewis
P. Hamlin, J. B. Jones, Miss Annie Ship
man, S. E. Varner, Don Jenkins, Ralph
B. Fisher, D. T. Abercrombie, Oliver H.
Orr, John Anderson, J. M. Gaines, J. W.
Smith, Mrs. J. W. Smith, Ralph H.
Ramsey, George Wheeler, Jerry Jerome,
Dr. Carl Hardin, E. J. Coltrane, Ashe
Maefle, J. M. Allison, Mrs. Ralph Zach
ary, T. E. Reid, Mrs. Carl McCrary, and
Fred Holt.
In announcing the new members of
the board Mrs. Fisher also issued the
annual report as prepared by Lewis P.
Hamlin, president. In the report was in
cluded a summary of the work carried
out by the chamber of commerce dur
ing the past year.
Major items in the annual report were
the sponsoring of the organization of
the Brevard junior chamber of com
merce, the building of a number of road
signs to be placed on main highways
leading into Brevard and advertising
the advantages of Brevard and Transyl
vania county, aiding in the location of
the Transylvania Pipe company in Bre
vard, the planning of an industrial sur
vey for the county, co-sponsoring pro
gram of summer enterfalnment with
the junior chamber, the sending of a
representative on the Western North
Carolina Mayors' tour to Florida and
to other meetings of the Western North
Carolina Communities associated, the
advertising of Brevard and the county
in magazines and other publications,
and the sponsoring of the erection and
dedication of the memorial entrance
portals at Pisgah National forest.
In addition to the above the com
merce body has distributed over 5,000
booklets advertising the county and has
answered numerous inquiries. At pres
ent the body is working on the matter
of securing a new commercial hotel for
Brevard, and during the past few weeks
has been sponsoring a financial cam
paign for Brevard college, in which over
$30,000 has i>een raised to date.
REV. FENWICK TO PREACH
Kev. Frank Fenwick, of Asheville,
will preach at the l^ake Toxaway
Methodist church next Sunday morning
at 11 o’clock, announcement ha« been
made.
MEET TO ORGANIZE
NFIP CHAPTER SET
Organizational Committee Will
Meet At City Hall Monday,
November 3
The committee on organization, re
cently named to organize a Transyl
vania county chapter of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc.,
and having for its jurisdiction Tran
sylvania county, will meet on Monday
evening, November 3, at seven o’clock
in the room over the City Hall, according
to announcement by John I. Anderson,
secretary of the committee on organiza
tion. The chapter will be fully organized
to engage In infantile paralysis ac
tivities, preventive and curative, thru
out the county.
Members of the organization com
mittee, as named by Basil O'Connor,
president of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, -Include Dr. G.
H. Eynch, chairman; J. B. Jones, vice
chairman; John I. Anderson, secre
tary; Ralph Duckworth, treasurer; and
Ralph II. Ramsey, Jr., I^ewis p. Hamlin,
Mrs. E. J. Coltrane, Dr. Julius Sader,
Kin McNeil, Joseph S. Silvereteen, Mrs.
David G. Ward, Jerry Jerome, Mrs.
Edith Bobst, Dr. J. F. Zachary, Mrs.
Oliver Orr, Mrs. C. Y. Patton, and
Ernest D. McFaul.
The Initial meeting of the group will
be purely for organiaztional purposes, it
was pointed out, and all members of the
organizational committee are urged to
be present.
Mr. J. S. Bromfleld and daughter, Mrs.
John Verner, and small daughter,
Marion, left Monday on a motor trip to
visit relatives and friends in Virginia
and Kentucky.
HOMECOMING DAY
AT COLLEGE HERE
SET FOR SATURDAY
Intra-Mural Football Game,
Hallowe’en Party Planned
For Event
The seventh annual Homecoming for
former students and alumni of Brevard
collepe will be held on the campus Sat
urday of this week, Dr. E. J. Coltrane,
president, has announced. Letters of
invitation for the event have pone out
to the more than 900 praduates and an
equal number of former students, Dr.
Coltrane said, and it is expected that at
least 300 of the number will spend most
of the day on the campus.
For most of the day those returninp
will be left free to visit amonp them
selves and to inspect the buildlnps in
which they once lived and studied,
those in charpe of the propram an
nounce. However, at three o’clock that
afternoon an intra-mural football pame
has been scheduled to be played on the
collepe athletic field. No admission will
be charped, and all townspeople as well
as praduates and present students will
be invited to attend.
The main propram will be held Satur
day eveninp, bepinninp at seven o'clock,
in the collepe pymnasium. A Hallowe’en
party will be staped for the benefit of
the alumni and students. The Harvest
Queen, elected by the student body, will
relpn over festivities that eveninp, alonp
with a Harvest Kinp, also elected by the
students. Both the Queen and Kinp have
already been elected by secret ballot, but
they nor the student body have been
informed who was elected to either
honor. The six contestants for the role
of queen are Jean Bennett, of Brevard;
Louise Huntley, of Wadesboro; and
Doris McIntosh, of Burnsville, sopho
mores, and Wynette McFaddin, of
Gable, S. C.; Ruth Phillips, of Winston
(Continued on pape eipht)
REDS REPORTED TO
BE HOLDING LINES
Heavy Fighting Going On Only
55 Miles From The Rus
sian Capital
Heavy fighting in the Volokolamsk
•sector about 56 miles northwest of Mos
cow and about midway between the
Kalinin and Mozhaisk sectors was re
ported yesterday by the Soviet infor
mation bureau in a broadcast over the
Moscow radio.
Supported by hardened reserves from
Siberia, the Red armies before Moscow
were declared by informed neutral
quarters to have measurably improved
their position by general counterattacks
which in some sectors threw the Ger
mans back ten miles.
Violent German shelling of besieged
I^eningrad, apparently as a prelude to
big tank and infantry assault, and re
pulse of desperate Soviet counter
attacks on the Moscow front were re
ported on Wednesday after the high
command announced the fall of Krama
torks, key southern Soviet industrial
city.
Axis forces struggling to maintain
communication lines and supply bases
in North Africa are encountering
mounting difficulties through frequent
naval and air bombardments by the
British. The Mediterranean fleet in
three shellings between the Egyptian
border and the Libyan ports of Tobruk
and Bardia within a week must have
handed German General Erwin Rom
mel’s plans a severe setback.
Methodist Pastors Are
Retained Here, Rosman
Transylvania county’s two Methodist
pastors have been returned to their
pastorates here for their fourth year of
service, by appointment of the Western
North Carolina conference at their an
nual meeting last week in Winston
Salem.
Rev. E. P. Billups has returned to
the Brevard pastorate, and Rev. J. R.
Bowman to the Rosman charge. A new
appointment in the Asheville district
was made, that of Rev. L. A. Bennett
to supply at Etowah. Mr. Bowman 1?
studying- at Brevard College, in addi
tion to his pastoral work. Rev. M. T.
Smathers was re-appointed to district
superintendent of the Asheville dis
trict.
MAYOR PUTS IN PRACTICE FOR GOLF TOURNAMENT
Shown in this picture made on the Brevard golf course is Mayor Carl Hardin as he practiced putting prepara
tory to entering the county golf tournament to be held under the sponsorship of the Jayceee on November 2 and
t*. Those who have already signed up for the tournament include J. I. Ayres, Dr. Hardin, Dr. E. O. Roland,
Jimmy Wallace, W. H. Plees, Jr., Jim Atkins, John Anderson, Robert Plummer, D. T. Abercrombie, John W.
Smith, Ruel Hunt, Joe Hunter, Stewart Campbell, Vernon Fullbright, Sherb Wall, Tom Whitmire, Talmadge
Stockstill, and Roland Wilbur. Several others are expected to sign up to play. (Times Staff Photo)
LIONS CARNIVAL
WILL BE STAGED
FRIDAY EVENING
Plans Are Completed For Full
Evening of Fun And Frolic
At Event
The annual Hallowe'en carnival,
sponsored each year by the Brevard
Lions club, will be held on Friday even
ing of this week on East Main street,
according to J. E. Smith, chairman of
the carnival committee of the club
East Main street, from the square to
iGsston Street, will be roped off for that
evening. The carnival activities are
scheduled to get into full swing by
seven o’clock, he said.
Plenty of fun and frolic have b*en
promised for both grown uf>e and chil
dren at the carnival. A costume parade
will be held about ten o’clock, and cash
prizes will be awarded for the most
original men’s, women's and children’s
costumes. Lion Donald Moore and an
able group of judges will be in charge of
the parade.
Other highlights of the evening of
fun will include an unusual performance
by a pair of quacking ducks under the
supervision of Lions Billups and Mc
Neil, Lion Carl Hardin and his winning
ways with pennies. Lion Joe Tinsley
with his side-stepping cats, and many
other amusing and fun making attrac
tions, including Lion Harold Kilpatrick
with his Bingo table loaded with attrac
tive and useful gifts.
Purpose of the carnival is two fold,
according to Chairman J. E. Smith. One
is to provide entertainment for the chil
dren on Hallowe'en night, and the other
is to raise money to carry on the work
of the sight committee of the club. Pro
ceeds from the carnival will be used to
buy glasses for needy children through
out the county. Already twelve pair
have been bought this year, he said.
In event of rain the carnival will be
postponed until next Monday evening, it
was announced.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Patients reported on Wednesday af
ternoon to be in the Transylvania Com
munity hospital were: Mrs. A. H. Har
ris, Mrs. Jeff Hogeed, Mrs. Lorene An
ders and Mrs. Yancey McCrary.
College To Get Funds From
Liquidation Of Rutherford
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I Apple Tree Bears
Crop For Defense j j
j When a June apple tree bears { j
E in June, that’s routine. But when 5
§ one bears in October, that’s news. |
E A tree on D. P. Kilpatrick’s |
s place in Brevard did the latter I
j and so goes down in the annals of |
£ newsworthy events.
§ Mr. Kilpatrick report* that the E
j tree came along normal with the |
j first crop, which was harvested §
E months ago. Then, as if to outdo |
E every other neighboring tree and j
jj add a bit to the national defense E
I effort, the tree came along with a E
| second crop. Only six red June s
: apples in October, but it was a jj
| very noble effort. £ i
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SECOND BAPTIST
Discussion Will Be Held On
Building Better And Larger
Sunday Schools
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The Transylvania Sunday School as
sociation will meet with the Brevard
Second Baptist church on next Sunday,
Fred Monteith, associational superin
tendent, has announced. The program
will begin at 2 o’clock in the afternoon,
and the theme of discussion will be
“Building Larger and Better Sunday
Schools”.
The pastors' part in building a better
Sunday school will be discussed by the
Rev. B. W. Thomason, pastor of the
First Baptist church here. N. L. Pon
der, of Enon, will discuss the super
intendents’ part in the program. Mr.
Rose, teacher in the ‘Second Baptist
church, will lead the discussion relating
to the teachers’ part of building better
Sunday schools.
What’ll The Youngsters Be Doing
Halloween? Something Like This
It won’t be all the ghosts and little
white goblins that’ll be getting in your
hair Friday night, and the witches
which will be riding the broomsticks
will be 12-year-olds with a heart full of
joy and a mind to do mischief, so grease
your plate glass windows and let the
air out of your automobile tires and
prepare not to be surprised on Saturday
morning.
The Hallowe’en spirit has been in the
air all week now, but it will find its
mark in other places than the air on
Friday night. According to an unofficial
survey made by a Times reporter (and
the boys were not asked to tell their
names), one young Brevardite out of
ten will remain quietly at home on the
eve of All Saints Day and do nothing
but play with toys of a bygone era.
Three boys out of ten will participate
in the fun (fun to nobody but the per
petrators of the tricks), and tfcey will
get home to mama and to bed about
three a.m. on Saturday. About three
more hoys out of the pseudonymnal ten
will take part in a lot of honest-to
goodness fun and frolic which leaves a
bad taste in nobody’s mouth—such as
coming to the Bions Club’s Carnival on
Main street. They’ll go home at a de
cent hour with no more smashes to their
credit than a couple of jaek-o-lantern
pumpkin heads put out of business. One
other of the ten boys will stay at home,
but he won’t be playing with outgrown
toys. He’ll be wishing he was out on the
streets helping to do something which
might make a Saturday morning riser
temporarily lose his religion, but he’ll
be too timid to go out. The other two
of the ten will confine their trickery to
their home folks, such as scaring the
daylights out of little sister by wearing
a mask which, though it may not look
any worse than the original, will be
something she isn’t used to.
That’s just about the Hallowe’en pro
gram in a nutshell. Only one thing
more. By Sunday everybody will be feel
ing all right again.
Brevard College Day Set Aside
In February To Help
Labor Program
In action taken at the Western North
Carolina conference of the Methodist
church, meeting in Winston-Salem last
week, Brevard college will have Its en
dowment resources hiked by approxi
mately $70,000. The conference voted to
liquidate Rutherford college holdings in
Burke county and to transfer endow
ment resources of that now defunct in
stitution to Brevard college. Dr. E. J.
Coltrane, president of Brevard, stated
Wednesday that liquidation processes
for Rutherford college would probably
be completed within a six months period.
The conference also approved previ
ous action of the college board of trus
tees in voting to operate and develop
Brevard college at Brevard, in view of
the fact that local citizens are sponsor
ing a campaign to raise $50,000 for the
institution in Transylvania county and
a total of $400,000 in the entire confer
ence area.
Another action taken by the confer
ence in favor of the college here, ac
cording to college officials who were
present at the conference, was the set
ting aside of the third Sunday in
February, 1942, as Brevard College day j
to be observed by the churches in the
Western North Carolina conference as
the day on which a special offering will
be taken to aid in the promotion of the
self-help program at the college. In
connection with this, college officials
have pointed out that approximately
one fourth of the college’s annual bud
get is set aside to help worthy students
in a labor program on the campus.
Upon being informed of the favorable,
action taken by the conference, mem
bers of the campaign committee here
voted to continue the campaign in the
county and immediately upon conclusion
of that to set out on a wider campaign
throughout the Western North Carolina
conference area.
The committee here hopes to com
plete the local campaign by Saturday
of this week. Total pledged by Wednes
day amounted to approximately $31,000.
not including other pledges which are
to be counted toward the total cam
paign goal.
Co-Ed Gets “Sergeant
York” Second In State
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“Sergeant York”, the epic film ver
sion of the World war hero as por
trayed by Gary Cooper, comes to the
Co-Ed Theater here next Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday for the second fun in
the two Carolinas. Premiere for the
Carolinas was held at Statesville last
Monday.
A number of merchants this week are
congratulating' the owners of the Co
Ed for obtaining this outstanding
movie for one of its first runs in North
Carolina. Also, the advertisers in The
Times business directory are giving
away free tickets to see the show to the
persons whose names may be found in
the directory ads.
TIMES STAFF ON PROGRAM
The staff of The Times, including
John Anderson, Henry Henderson and
Kin McNeil, had charge of the program
at the monthly meeting of the Western
North Carolina Weekly Press associa
tion in Asheville last Saturday night.
The discussion related to the produc- |
tion of a modem weekly newspaper.
COUNTY FARMERS
URGED TO AID IN
DEFENSE EFFORT
Production of Food For Defense
Will Require Every Farm
er’s Help
MILK, EGGS IMPORTANT
The farm products output in Tran
sylvania county will be increased by at
least $15,000 during the year of 1942 as
a part of the national defense effort in
the production of “Food For Freedom”.
The Transylvania county AAA commit
tee and the community AAA commit
tees will direcf the effort for the in
crease of farm production, and every
farmer in the county will be contacted
and asked to share in this increased
production quota. The AAA committee
men will begin their work in the county
next Monday morning.
Delegates to the county convention of
the AAA committee met in the county
agent’s office here Wednesday morn
ing with the county AAA chairman, T.
J. Wilson, to work out complete plans
for the expanded farm defense effort
in the county and to elect a new coun
ty AAA committee and alternates.
Elected to the county committee were
T. J. Wilson, chairman; A. M. Paxton,
of Hoe man, vice chairman; George
Maxwell, regular member; W. J. Raines,
first alternate; L. F. Lyday, second al
ternate; Julian A. Glazener, secretary;
and Mrs. Julia Westwood, treasurer.
At a meeting of the Farm Defense
Council for the county in the county
agent’s office last Saturday morning,
J. C. Lynn, district agent, and T. W.
Cathey, of Haywood county, state AAA
committeemen, explained the program
for 1942 and discussed means of pro
ducing the increased quota and better
farm practicee by use of lime and phos
phate. Also at this meeting Miss Estelle
McElwee, FSA home management
supervisor, and Miss Annabel Teague,
home agent, discussed the importance
of a balanced diet in the family food
program for the year. Represented at
the meeting were sixteen AAA com- '
munity committeemen, vocational agri
culture teachers Randal Lyday and 'B.
E. Keisler, County Agent Glazener, FSA
Supervisor McDarris, and others.
In the National Farm Defense pro
gram, Transylvania county has been
called upon for an increased quota in
the following products: milk, increase
of 184,000 pounds in ’42 over the pro
duction in ’41; eggs, increase of 21,670
dozens; oats or barley, increase of 10
acres; soybeans for seed, increase of
100 acres; hay, increase of 98 acres.
County Agent Glazener expressed the
opinion that this quota could easily be
doubled through the cooperation of all
farmers in the county. He emphasized
that this increased production of food
products would be utilized here, there
by releasing farm products elsewhere,
for defense usage.
COUNTY FARM TO
BE SOLD SHORTLY
Bids are now being received by the
county for the sale of the county home
farm, according to county accountant.
Ralph W. Lyday. The bids will be open
ed on December 1.
The county home, located on the Ros
man highway about four miles from
Brevard, was closed in July, 1939, when
the inmates were placed in private
homes and taken care of by old age
assistance funds.
Sealed bids will be accepted at the
register of deed’s office in the county
court house until November 30.
BLUE DEVILS MEET
FARM SCHOOL HERE
Lions Club Sponsoring Battle
With Buncombe Crew
This Afternoon
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With two home victories to their
credit, Coach Cox’s Brevard High Blue
Devils will be out for their third win
of the season here this afternoon when
they meet an eleven from Asheville
Farm School in Buncombe county on
the local athletic field. The kickoff is
set for 3 o'clock.
Sponsoring this home game will be
the Brevard Lions club, and every ef
fort is being made to have as large a
crowd as possible out to witness the af
fair. All of the stores and restaurants in
town have agreed to close for the period
from 3 o’clock until 5 o’clock, with only
the filling stations remaining open dur
ing the game. Lions club members have
| been selling advance tickets, and they
j report that much interest is being
| shown and that a large crowd is ex
pected to be on hand to watch the home
' town gridders perform.
! Last week the local eleven exhibited
their ability by downing a much heavier
outfit from Candler by the score of 19
to 7. Local fans believe that the Ashe
ville Farm crew will be just ae easy a
mark for the Coxmen.
Stores To Be Closed Today From 3 to 5 p. m. For Football Game