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Transylvania County Entrance to Pisgah National Forest • *-■■■ - ———————■«. the Transylvania A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest iof the People of Transylvania County Trade at Hoi Boost Your To^ and County VoL 51; No. 47 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1941 $1.50 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA CO College Expansion Program Would Double Size Of Plaijj * * * * * * * *•* * * * * * ■/* * * * * * The Times Adopts New Type Face, Format, Popular Features IDE TIMES FIRST IN STATE TO GET THECORONA FACE M&llon Washington Column, Comics, Photo Service Are Added SEVEN COLUMN FORMAT Ladies and gentlemen, how do you do! After months of planning, The Times greets you today in an entirely new dress, with a lifted face, if you please. The type face is new, the format has Been chang ed, features have been added—in fact, so much has been done to give our readers a livelier, more read able, modern weekly newspaper that the conventional type news story had to be discarded to tell you about it. The type face in which today’s paper is printed is the latest cre ation of the engineering and de signing staff of the Mergenthaler Linotype company. The name is CORONA, but the name is not im portant. The type represents a triumph of visual engineering. It not only makes for a better look ing product, but it also lightens the optical task of absorbing the news. Give this new type face the-most drastic tests possible. Read it at * unusual and difficult angles. Vary your reading distance. Try it under one lamp or six—in dim light or in white glare. There will be just one possible reaction—you are sure to realize that a tremendous contribu tion has been made toward per fecting the readability of news papers. Now you can read The Times as long as you please and as late as you please without a trace of eye fatigue. Now, ip a triumph of visual engineering, The Times becomes one of North Carolina’s easiest to read newspapers, because The Times is the first newspaper in the state to receive the new CORONA type face. Now about some of the other added features this week which —Turn To Page Seven »FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN DETROIT Ross Hall At College Was Named For Mrs. Ross Word was received here Mon day of the death of Mrs. F. H. E. Ross, 84, on Sunday at the home of her son, Dr. Worth Ross, in De troit, Mich. Mrs. Ross had been in poor health for several years. She was one of the most widely known women in the former South ern Methodist church, having been treasurer of the Women’s Mission ary Council of the church for many years, with headquarters in Nash ville, Tenn. She gave up this work when her health failed. She was intensely interested in the education of young people and to this end devoted much of her time in promotnig Brevard Insti tute, which was under sponsorship of the Council. She was an active member of the North Carolina So ciety of Colonial Dames and was also a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She was a native of Guilford county and the widow of Dr. George W. Ross, of Greensboro. She is survived by two sons, Dr. George Floyd Ross, of Hot Springs, and Dr. Worth Ross, of Detroit. The funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock in Greensboro. Ross Hall, now the property of Brevard College, was named for Mrs. Ross, who was connected with the local college the first year of its operation here. High School Class To Present Comedy The junior class play at Brevard high school will be presented in the high school auditorium on Friday evening, November 28, beginning at eight o’clock. The play, a lively mountain comedy, is entitled “Feudin’ in the Hills” and was written by James C. Parker. i A WHOLE FAMILY OF MASONS These three members of the J. L. Waldrop family of the Cherryfield section of the county are all members of the Dunn’s Rock Masonic Lodge here. J. L. Waldrop, center, has been a Mason for 22 years. His two sons, Raleigh, left, and Ralph, right, received their Masonic degrees together, having been administered the third degree last Friday night. (Photo by Austin). .—..— 4* t* | No T. B. Deaths In County In ’40 i j The November issue of the j I Health Bulletin, publication ] j of the North Carolina State 1 j Board of Health, reveals that 1 j Transylvania county was the j j only county in the state that j i did not have a death from j | tuberculosis during the year ! ] 1940. j The Bulletin lists totals of j ! deaths from tuberculosis in j j each county of the state. The j j average number of deaths J j per county was 17, but over j j 100 deaths resulted from the j ! dread disease in some coun- } I ties during the past year. S j A very low number of ac- | j tive tuberculosis cases have ■ been reported in this county ! during the past few years, i --* Plummer’s To Have Toy Town Preview Santa is here, children. Well, not exactly, but he will be here Fri day night of this week at Plum mer’s department store on West Main street. Yes siree, it’s the real thing. Santa will be at the formal open ing of Toy Town at Plummer’s from 7:30 until 9:30 Friday even ing, all loaded down with free candy for the children and a gentle disposition to show you the latest in Toyland preview. Nothing will be sold during the formal Toy Town opening—but it provides a mighty good chance to get acquainted with that elusive annual visitor who finds his way down the chimney. COLTRANE WILL SPEAK Dr. E. J. Coltrane, president of Brevard college, will speak in a special program over Radio Station WWNC in Asheville next Sunday evening at 6:45. His subject will be “The Future of Brevard College” and will be in the interest of the college campaign in Western Caro lina. j RITES HELD FOR ! J. H. PICKELSIMER Large Crowd Attends Funer al Of Business Leader Her" Thursday Funeral services were held last j ; Thursday afternoon at 2:30 at the Methodist church here for Joseph Hamilton Pickelsimer, 63, who died at his home on Tuesday afternoon of last week. The Reverends E. P. Billups and B. W. Thomason were in charge. Masonic rites were per formed by the Dunns Rock Masonic lodge, of which Mr. Pickelsimer was a member, at the graveside. ! Interment was in the Oak Grove cemetery in North Brevard. A great throng of local citizens and visitors from over the state and out of the state gathered to pay final tribute to Mr. Pickelsimer i as one of the county’s outstanding business and civic leaders. The floral tribute was unusually beau tiful. A number of business houses closed for the period during the funeral services Thursday after noon, and Brevard college dismiss ed classes for the entire afternoon in honor of Mr. Pickelsimer who had served for a number of years as a member of the board of trus tees of the institution. Moore and Trantham, funeral di rectors, had charge of arrange ments. Moose Lodge Will Show Movie Here The Brevard Lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose announces that the local lodge will sponsor a moving picture, “Pursuit of Happiness”, at the Brevard high school on Mon day night, December 1. Admission will be free but by ticket, it was announced. Tickets may be ob tained from members of the Lodge. The regular meeting of the local Lodge was held Monday evening at the Woodmen hall. Refreshments and games were enjoyed after the business session. Reds Are Withstanding The Heavy Nazi Blows; Subs Act Red army troops are falling back toward the Caucasus on the Kerch peninsula at the eastern tip of the Crimea, but are withstanding fresh Nazi blows on the Moscow and Do nets basin front, the Moscow radio indicated yesterday. German submarines are operat ing in the White sea, German com mentators declared, emphasizing assertions that this is on the route of any United States merchantmen bound for Archangel, Russia. The White sea is an arm of the Arctic, and is largely frozen over in winter. The Dienst Aus Deutschland com mentary said winter had not hind ered German submarines there, however. Japan intimated Wednesday that her decision as to how to define her obligations under the third clause of the axis pact—that clause which under some circumstances could be interpreted to mean a shooting alliance with Germany and Italy—might depend upon the re sult of Saburo Kurusu’s mission to Washington. ALLOTMENT IS MADE FOR REA SERVICE HERE Approximately 1QO Miles Of Line To Be Constructed In County MEMBERSHIP NEAR 500 Members of the committee here working in the interest of rural electrification lines in Transylvania county were notified last Thursday that the Rural Electrification Ad ministration in Washington had al lotted the Cruso Electric Member ship corporation $279^000 for the erection of 247 miles of line in Hay wood, Jackson, Swain and Transyl vania county. Approximately 100 miles of that line will be construct ed in Transylvania. J. C. Moore, superintendent of the Cruso corporation, stated here Thursday that construction would begin on lines in this county as soon as material is available. He pointed out that there is a tem porary shortage of copper wiring for stringing the lines, due to na tional defense needs. Enrollment of memberships for the rural electrification project in this county began several months ago, but progress had been arrested pending allotment for construction of the lines. Members of the com mittee here stated tlfet approxi mately 500 members h|d subscrib ed for the electric service to be supplied by the Cruso corporation which now serves around 800 mem bers in Haywood county. Head of fices of the corporation are in Waynesville, county seat of Hay wood. Sections in this county which will be served through the electric membership corporation include a stretch from the prison camp at Calvert through Rosman, outside the town limits, Middle Fork, East Fork, Quebec, Lake Toxaway to Lake Sapphire, Oakland, Boheney, and the Gloucester area. TRANSYLVANIA BAR ELECTS OFFICERS A. F. Mitchell Is Named President Of Bar As sociation Here At a meeting in the clerk of the court’s office here Tuesday the Transylvania County Bar associa tion elected A. F. Mitchell, well known Brevard attorney, to head the organization during the com ing year. He succeeds Lewis P. Hamlin as president of the group. Other officers elected at the meeting wer Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., county attorney, vice-president; and Edward H. McMahan, secre tary. The meeting was presided over by Lewis P. Hamlin, retiring presi dent. Alan M. Brombacher was taken in as a new member of the association. Officials of the county bar an nounce that the Transylvania unit will be host to the 18th judicial dis trict bar association at its annual meeting to be held in Brevard some time next summer. Brother Of Brevard Lady Dies Suddenly Robert Edward Bryson, 57, died suddenly Wednesday morning at 7:30 o’clock at his home in Ashe ville following a heart attack. He was born June 29, 1883, the son of the late Capt. A. W. Bryson and Dorthula Miller Bryson, of Sylva. He had been employed in Ashe ville for several years as supervisor of road projects for WPA. Surviving are his widow, three daughters, Mrs. Emma Lee Atkins of Washington, D. C.; Misses Sue and Joan Bryson, of Franklin; three sons, Cecil Bryson, of Akron, O., Gene Bryson, of Greensboro, and R. L. Bryson, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; one sister, Mrs. Carrie Mc Kee, of Brevard; and five grand children. ■i**—— *■ ■* .——»»— Thanksgiving Day Plans Announced Thanksgiving Day plans in Brevard and Transylvania county call for the closing of all public schools in the coun ty on both Thursday and Fri day of this week and the clos ing of business houses on Thursday. Also, the post of fice here will be closed all day Thursday except for two brief periods in the morning for giving out genral delivery mail. The U. D. C. Library will be closed, too, it was an nounced. It is understood that Bre vard college will hold regu lar class hours during the morning session Thursday. The bank here will be clos ed during the entire day. --- HONORCOURT IS HELD RY SCOUTS | OF TROOPS 1,2 Merit Badges. Tenderfoot, Second Class, Star Awards Made At a court of honor held Friday night at the Presbyterian church [ here members of Brevard Boy | Scout troops one and two were (awarded a number of merit badges and other ranks. Scout executive A. W. Allen .of the district council, Alex H. Kizer, -city clerk, and Scoutmasters Dr. E. O. Roland and Harold Norwood participated in the program. In Troop 1 the following re ceived merit badges: Alex Kizer, Jr., in music and bookbinding; Jim Newbury, in athletics, bird study, electricity, carpentry, and reading; Henry Summey, in athletics; Bob Kappers, in athletics, safety, and gardening; Gene Franklin, in ath letics; and John Vassey, in ath letics. Richard Tinsley, of Troop 2, re ceived a merit badge in swimming. Two tenderfoot awards were made, both in Troop 2. They went to Richard Fanning and Fred Mc Call, Jr. A total of six second class awards were made. In Troop 1 Alfred Neu man and Speedy Merrill received l them. Billy Shamblin, Bobby Nor j wood, Bruce Glazener, and Philip ! Price, Jr., received the awards in i Troop 2. Gene Franklin, of Troop 1, re ceived the star scout award. i Straus Buys Home In Biltmore Area Harry H. Straus, president of the Ecusta Paper corporation, has pur chased a home on the Vanderbilt road in Biltmore Forest, according to a news story appearing in Tues day afternoon’s edition of The Asheville Times. The home, a large two-story building, was owned by Charles Seyburn Williams, of New Orleans. It is surrounded by IV2 acres of landscaped woodland. Mr. B. D. Franklin is reported to 1 be critically ill, following a stroke of paralysis he suffered Tuesday night at his home here. Elected Presidents RALPH R. FISHER, at top, was elected president of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of the promotional group last Thursday night in the City Hall. J. O. WELLS, at bottom, was named president of the Brevard Kiwanis club at a recent meeting of that organization. (Photos by Austin) R. FISHER HEADS COMMERCE BODY Willis Brittain, J. M. Gaines, T. E. Reid! Other Officers Named Ralph R. Fisher, commander of the Monroe Wilson Post of the American Legion and well known Transylvania county businessman, was elected president of the Bre vard Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of the promotional body at the City Hall last Thursday night., He succeeds Lewis P. Hamlin, Bre vard attorney, as head of the com merce organizatoin, and he will serve during the coming year. Other officers elected at the meeting were: Willis W. Brittain, county commissioner and local busi ness man, vice president; J. M. Gaines, manager of the local branch of the Duke Power company, secre tary; and T. E. Reid, county school board chairman and businessman, j treasurer. Mr. Gaines held the sec- j retaryship this year. At the meeting a committee was j appointed to work with other civic groups in making plans for Christ mas decorations and holiday cele bration in Brevard. The committee is composed of Harry Sellers, Fred Holt, and T. E. Reid. The clutch should never be dis engaged until just before the auto mobile comes to a stop. Scouts Helping In Red Cross Roll Call; Hospital To Aid The intensive drive for the Red' Cross Roll Call in the business sec tion of Brevard will not be held un til next week, according to an nouncement by Jerry Jerome who will act as chairman for the busi ness district. The drive is under way in the rural areas of the county, and this week-end, Friday and Saturday, members of the Brevard Boy Scout Troop No. 1 will canvass the resi dential section of Brevard for members, it was announced. Also, a nurse from the Transylvania com munity hospital will be stationed in the Transylvania Trust company building on Friday and Saturday to enroll members in the Red Cross. The appeal is very urgent to join the Red Cross this year, the Roll Call chairman stated. Efforts and services of the Red Cross are be ing enlarged on every front, he stated, and the quota for Transyl vania county has been doubled this year. The drive for membership will close here on November 30. ADDED BU1LDDM PLANS ARE N01 BEING PRE PAN Call For Science, Litj Buildings, Dormitory | Young Women ENLARGED ENDOWM A completely outlined pr of expansion which will imm< ly double the size of the Bi college plant was made publii Wednesday by officials of tl lege and members of the cc tee in charge of the financial paign for the college. The ed expansion program wasj lined, they said, preparatory opening of a campaign throd Western North Carolina to si ment by $350,000 the total proximately $75,000 already ed through the campaign ij county. The trend of the expans^ outlined by the group will' a new science building, U building, and a dormitory bd for young women on the cal in addition to equipment fori buildings. Also, the endoq fund would be enlarged by 000. College officials said here] nesday that Henry I. Gainesj known Asheville architect wl been engaged to draw plans if new buildings and landscad campus, is now busily emploj preparing plans for the new tures and that reproductions sketches will be used in a coming booklet which will rected as an appeal to pq contributors throughout thij tion of the state. Charles F. Coykendale, re tative of the board of educai the Methodist church, Nai Tennessee, who has been ed by the committee here to the financial effort in Carolina, spent most of t week in Asheville working tails for the expanded ca; Campaign offices will be Asheville, and Mr. Coykend; Wednesday that he hoped an organizational meeting next Monday with the work definite date for launching larged effort could be give nesday, but it is generally stood actual work will be way before the end of Novi BREVARD Ml FRANKLIN Thanksgiving Day G Promises To B< Full Of Action In a Thanksgiving clave vard high school’s strong'fc eleven runs headlong into charging Franklin team Thi afternoon on the Brevard field in a game that promises one of the best this season, off will be promptly at 3 o’cl* This Franklin-Brevard gai climax an exciting football for Brevard Hi. Getting off ’ slow start, the local eleven, the tutorship of Coach Cox, managed to defeat Swam to 6. Then Sylva took a clc 7 to 0, and again the next breaks were bad for the team as Bryson City took a victory over Brevard. But as the season proj Coach Cox developed his pol good footballers, and they Asheville Farm School, and Marshall in three of the est games witnessed on field. In the last home gs vard lost to a heavy, more enced Waynesville team 19 Although Franklin has feated two or three times it is reported that the games \ up pretty evenly on paper, hundred spectators are ea witness this Thanksgiving between these fairly evenly ed high school elevens. BULLETIN Because of the Thanksgivini day The Times is being pul Wednesday afternoon this stead of Thursday morning scribers in most places their paper Wednesday.
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