The Transylvania Times '-§*
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County ^
Vol. 51: No. 52
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1941
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Carr Lumber Is Buying Timber Rights Of Vast Jennings Estate
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Transylvanians Ready To Observe 81st Christmas
HOLIDAY BUYINC
HEAVY HERE THE
PAST FEW DAYS
Needy Children Of The
County To Be Aided By
Local Firemen
BUSINESSES TO CLOSE
Transylvania county citizens are
all set to celebrate their 81st Christ
mas Day as a separate government
al unit, and heavy buying here dur
ing the past week indicates that
Transylvanians will have one of
the most abundant Christmases in
many a year.
The outbreak of war between Ja
pan and America threw a damper
on Christmas buying and the true
Christmas spirit here for a few
days, but local citizens have buck
led down to the grim realities and
are prepared now for a 1941 Christ
mas celebration with the usual hol
iday joy and merrymaking, realiz
ing at the same time that Christmas
Days of the future may not be
filled with the benefits now avail
able.
Celebration of Christmas during
a period of war is nothing new for
Transylvanians, for since their
county was formed from Jackson
and Henderson counties in April.
1861, a total of six of those Christ
mas Days have occurred while the
. nation was at war, including the
* Civil War. the Spanish American
War, and World War I. A few pa
triarchs of the county can still re
member the first Christmas Day
in this county which was celebrat
ed during a period of war.
But in spite of the present war
and the fact that Transylvanians
are 100 per cent behind the na
tion’s government in its prosecu
tion of that war, citizens are going
about their business pretty much
as usual and this Christmas Day
will not be a great deal different
from Christmas Days in the past.
Although no complete roster of
stores, filling stations and other
business houses which will be
closed Christmas Day has been
available, it is expected that the
majority of businesses will remain
closed for the entire day Thursday,
i The post office will be closed all
r day, with the exception of two
brief periods in the morning for
distributing general delivery mail.
The Transylvania Trust company
will be closed on Thursday and
Friday. The U. D. C. Library will
be closed on Wednesday and
Thursday.
No churches in Brevard are
planning special Christmas serv
ices, with the exception of the St.
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ECK SIMS, WAR
VET. IN ARMY!
Well-Known Local Man En
listed For Active Serv
ice On Monday
Eck L. Sims. 46. well-known j
Transylvania citizen and World
» War veteran, left here Monday for j
Fort Bragg to enlist for active ser-!
vice in the Army for the duration
of World War II.
Mr. Sims was one of the first
to volunteer for service in 1917, \
and his enlistment this week places '
him among the first veterans of I
North Carolina to join up for j
armed service in the present war.!
in the nrst World War he enlisted
in July, 1917, and was honorably!
discharged on March 28, 1919. He \
was a member of the 115th Field i
Artillery, 30th Division, and spent
a total of 15 months in France. I
His public record in Transyl- j
vania includes service four years |
as deputy sheriff, Brevard police- j
man, register of deeds for the coun- J
ty four years, and he was employed
by the State Highway commission
from 1928 to 1936, and again from
1940 to the time of his enlistment.
Mr. Sims is a member of the lo-!
cal Post of the American Legion, j
Woodmen Camp here, and of the |
local Masonic Lodge. He is mar-!
ried and has one son, Lewis.
To All The Readers of
THE TIMES
The Entire Staff
Wishes You A
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TAX LISTING TO
START ON JAN. 1
All Citizens Must List Their
1942 Taxes During Month
Of January
Tax listing for the year 1942 will
get under way in the various town
ships of Transylvania on January
1, a week from Christmas Day, in
accordance with an act of 1939
which requires that all property,
real and personal, shall be listed
as of the first day of January each
year. All county taxes must be list
ed during the month of January.
County Tax Supervisor, Ralph W.
Lyday, announces that a penalty
of $1 will be assessed and charged
against any property owner, real
or personal, who fails to list in
January.
The tax books will be in the
hands of the township listers from
January 1 through January 10,
Mr. Lyday said, and after that they
will be in the Tax Supervisors of
fice in the court house for the re
mainder of the month where list
ings of all townships will be car
ried out.
For the convenience of Tran
sylvania citizens the listing points
and list takers have been designat
ed in an advertisement on page
nine of this week’s issue of The
Times. Readers should consult that
advertisement to find the place
and date most convenient for them
to list.
Many From Here To
See Rose Bowl Game
Many Transylvania citizens are
planning to attend the Rose Bowl
football classic at Durham on New
Year’s day, according to a rapid
survey made by The Times.
Usually very few, if any, persons
from Transylvania attend the Rose
Bowl game, but since it is being
held so near this year—due to war
conditions on the Pacific coast—a •
large number from the county is I
expected to attend. !
Teaching Standards In
County Are Endangered
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Holiday Greetings j
In Early Edition |
The Times is being issued I
one day early this week in j
order tha* the paper may be j
delivered before Christmas |
Day and also give employes j
of the paper some time off j
for Christmas. j
Greetings from many Bre- j
vard and Transylvania county |
business firms and individ- 1
uals are to be found in this j
issue of The Times, express- j
ing good wishes to the pub I
lie and thanks for patronage j
during the past year. j
The Times office will re- I
main open every day this I
week, with the exception of |
Christmas Day. |
NO AUTO TIRES
ON SALE HERE
Transylvania car owners, along
with car owners over the nation,
are not now able to purchase new
tires for their cars, and beginning
January 4, 1942, it is probable that
they will have to sign a priorities
card to the effect that their car is
essential to their business before
they can buy them then. Local
stores are not permitted to sell
any new tires at this time.
The Brevard Tire Recapping
company has not been affected by
the OPM order clamping down on
the sale of new tires, but they re
port that raw rubber is becoming
increasingly harder to obtain.
The supply of crude rubber has
been virtually cut off from the
United States from the West Indies,
due to the outbreak of war in the
Pacific.
Red Cross War Relief Drive To
Be Carried Out After Holidays
Joseph S. Silversteen, chairman
of the Transylvania chapter of the
American Red Cross, announced
Tuesday that an organization would
be set up shortly after the Christ
mas holidays to carry out the Red
Cross war relief drive. The county’s
quota has been set at $3,000 for
this emergency drive.
Mr. Silversteen stated that a
special meeting would be called
in the near future to appoint com
mitteemen for conducting the spe
cial campaign ,and every effort, he
said, would be made to attain the
war relief quota.
In announcing plans for organiz
ing for the war relief drive, Mr.
Silversteen emphasized that the lo
cal chapter’s production allotment
for the year has been filled and
shipments of the products made.
Mrs. John W. Smith and Miss Elise
Walker have been in charge of the
production department, assisted by
many local ladies, at the Red Cross
workroom over the City Hall.
The local chapter will gladly re
ceive contributions to the war
relief quota now before the actual
drive gets under way, it is an
nounced.
Jones Says High Living Costs
May fa use Reversal
In Field
In a special release to The Times
early this week the National Educa
tion Association urged local boards
of education to ‘‘help avert a seri
ous threat to the schools” repre
sented in the rocketing costs of liv
ing which have begun to force qual
ified teachers into other lines of
work, cutting the quality of edu
cational opportunity to the danger
point, the release stated.
J. B. Jones, county superintend
ent of schools, told a Times report
er Tuesday that Transylvania
schools so far have not been affect
ed by the drain on teaching person
nel by other job offerings of high
er salaries but that it is becoming
increasingly hard to obtain men
teachers for agricultural and allied
courses. He said in event agricul
ture teachers are drafted, no re
placements are obtainable and that
important phase of the public
school work would have to be clos
ed temporarily.
Mr. Jones revealed that in some
instances already teachers in Tran
sylvania have asked to be released
to take other positions, but that
the releases have not been granted.
He emphasized that contracts can
not be terminated before the end
of the school year.
In commenting upon the danger
ous situation brought about by the
current rise in living costs, match
ed by the wage prices in factories
but not in the teaching profession,
Mr. Jones said that it is apparent
that we will have to lower the stan
dard of teaching or raise the stand
ard of teacher pay.
A survey shows that within the
past two years factory wages have
gone up 30 percent, farm income
about 45 per cent, but teacher in
come has remained, for the most
part, static. Living costs are up
about 33 per cent over one year
ago, the survey shows.
Volunteer Offices
Closed Till Jan. 2
Offices for the registration of
volunteer workers are being dis
continued temporarily until Janu
ary 2, according to Mrs. O. H. Orr,
because of the holidays. She said
that they wouid be open on Friday
and Saturday, January 2, 3, from
9 a.m. until 4 p.m., and every week '
day thereafter, if enrollment neces
sitated. If not, regular open hours
will be announced later.
Volunteer workers enrollment
offices have been set up at the
City Hall, Brevard college, and at
Ecusta. Both men and women vol-!
unteer workers enlist through j
these offices, Mrs. Orr pointed out. i
ALLIES FORMING A
SUPREME COUNCIL
OF WAR IN CAPITAL
Americans, Filipinos Meeting
Japs On Even Terms In
Manila Fighting
NAZIS ARE ROUTED
The great scope of the Roosevelt
I Churchill conversations for unified
conduct of the war was emphasized
Tuesday with a White House dis
closure that the British prime min
ister brought a party of 80 techni
cal experts and officials with him.
White House Secretary Stephen
T. Early said that Sir Gerald Camp
bell, director of British press rela
tions in this country, would make
public the names of the entire per
sonnel of the prime minister’s
party, “some 80 in number.” They
included Lord Beaverbrook, British
supply minister.
Meanwhile jungle - toughened
American and Filipino troops
fought on even terms or better late
Tuesday against a massive Japan
ese attack on Luzon island and un
official reports said at least three
Japanese transports, crammed with
thousands of invaders, have been
sunk in Lingayen gulf.
The Japanese attackers used air
power in an attempt to ease terri
fic American pressure on their
beachheads along the Lingayen
coast 135 to 150 miles north of
; Manila.
I Imperial headquarters said that
Japanese troops have been in com
plete occupation of Davao on the
Island of Mindanao in the Southern
Philippines since Saturday.
Headquarters said the Japanese
occupied Davao the same day they
landed. Naval units were reported
cooperating closely in Southern
Philippines operations where ene
my casualties up to Sunday includ
ed 200 killed and 600 prisoners.
Strong Russian forces, launch
ing another phase of the campaign
to drive the Germans from the
Moscow front, have hammered deep
wedges into enemy lines in the im
portant Maloyaroslavets sector 70
miles Southwest of the capital,
front dispatches said.
Maloyaroslavets was the remot
est German frontal position on the
Moscow front when the Red army
began its offensive.
British communiques reported
that imperial columns now block
the Axis line of retreat on the Gulf
j of Sirte, South of Benghazi, and as
| serted Axis air power has suffered
i a shattering blow with the destrue
i tion of 54 planes in the air and on
j the ground.
jBOY SCOUTS TO
COLLECT PAPER
I
The Boy Scouts of Brevard are
| prepared to collect old newspapers
j and magazines in the interest of na
| tional defense, according to Dr.
| E. 0. Roland, who this week urged
! all citizens in Brevard and in near
by communities to let the Scouts
know when they have old news
papers or magazines to contribute.
The Scouts may be contacted
through Dr. Roland at his office.
Dr. Roland urged citizens to co
operate in this drive, as old papers
are used in many defense pro
jects and are much needed. 1
Insurance Man
C. M. Douglas, former publisher
of The Times, has returned to Bre
vard after a lengthy vacation due
to ill health, and is now a special
representative of the Occidental
Life Insurance company in Bre
vard and Transylvania county.
In Another War
The picture shown here of Eck
L. Sims and his pet dog was taken
while he was in training at Fort
Jackson, S. C., in 1917, for the
first World War. This week he en
listed for active service with the
army in the second World War.
CHILDREN WILL
SEE FREE MOVIE
The management of the Clemson
and Co-Ed theatres, Messrs. Frank
and Verne Clement, announce that
a free movie for children of the
county will be shown at the Clem
son Theatre on Christmas morning,
beginning at 10 o’clock. The pic
ture to be shown is “South of the
Border,” with Gene Autrey. White
and colored children are cordially
invited to attend.
The free Christmas movie for
Transylvania children is a custom
of long standing with the Clements;
they started it a quarter of a cen
tury ago.
1942 Auto Tags On
Sale At Tinsley’s
Johnny Fuller, Carolina Motor
club branch office agent at Tinsleys
Gulf station here has received a
shipment of the 1942 automobile
and truck license tags, and car and
truck owners may purchase their
new licenses from him.
New Registration Law Affects
22,000,000 Men Of Nation
The path was cleared for one of
the largest armies in the history of
America last Friday afternoon
when the United States congress
enacted legislation requiring all
men between 18 and 64 years in-!
elusive to register and making1
those from 20 to 44 inclusive sub-1
ject to actual military service.
This new service legislation will
raise a fighting army of at least
4,000,000, and the millions of others
subject to registration will serve
in civilian defense duties.
Though actual registration will
not begin for several weeks prob
ably, it is estimated that at least
2,000 men in Transylvania will be
affected by the new legislation.
It is predicted that the new reg
istration will affect more than 22,
000,000 men in the nation. Added
to the more than 17,000,000 already
registered under the selective serv
ice act, this Mil make the greatest
war-time mobilization of manpower
in the history of the world per
haps.
16,000 ACRE AREA
LAST RIC STAND
UMBER IN W.N.C.
Carr Lumber Company To
Cut All But Chestnut
And Hemlock
ESTATE FAMOUS HERE
Timber rights to the 16,000 acre
estate of E. H. Jennings in upper
Transylvania and Jackson counties
are being purchased by the Carr
Lumber company of Pisgah For
est according to W. W. Crousehom,
general manager of the lumber
company, who told The Times early
this week that transactions are now
, being made for the rights and that
operations are expected to begin
I early next spring.
The timber on the vast Jen
nings estate is the last remaining
large stand of virgin timber in
Western North Carolina, and Mr.
Crousehorn stated that the bound
ary would require at least 10 years
to cut out.
Chestnut and hemlock on the es
tate is being purchased by the
Champion Fibre company, of
Canton, and they will work with
the Carr Lumber company in cut
ting timber on the tract, but un
der separate contract, according to
Mr. Crousehorn.
When operations begin on the
Jennings estate the logs will be
shipped from Lake Toxaway to Pis
gah Forest and to Canton by rail.
Mr. Crousehorn stated.
The Jennings tract adjoins the
large O’Connor boundary on which
the local lumber concern is now
working. When this boundary is
cut out, operations will be immed
iately transferred to the Jennings
boundary, it was pointed out.
The Carr Lumber company has
been operating here for 28 years
and within' tfcat period they have
operated some of the largest hold
ings in North Carolina. The firm
operated the famous George W.
Vanderbilt holdings in Transyl
vania, Henderson and Buncombe
counties, now a part of Pisgah Na
tional Forest. Last June they pur
chased the large Hume estate in
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SALES HIGH FOR
DANCE TICKETS
A1 Dunn’s Orchestra To Play
For Jaycee New Year’s
Eve Dance
Jaycee officers announced here
yesterday afternoon that the tick
ets for the New Year dance to be
held at the country club on Wed
nesday night, December 31, are be
ing sold far above expectations and
that most of the tables have al
ready been reserved.
Mrs. Frank McIntosh, chair
man of the sponsors, says that the
gay decorations have arrived and
the club will be gayly decorated.
A1 Dunne and his enlarged orches
tra will play for the affair.
Mrs. Fred Holt and Mrs J. A.
Macfie have charge of the tables.
The other sponsors who are sell
ing tickets are: Mrs. T. J. R. Clark,
Mrs. Robert Colwell, Mrs. Robert
Matthews, Mrs. Eben Morrow and
Mrs. Ed Varner.
4.
Window Contest
Prizes Awarded
Prizes for the outstanding
holiday season show windows
in Brevard are being award
ed by The Times to Patter
son’s, Plummer’s, and Belk’s
department stores. Many
others received honorable
mention.
First prize of $3 is being
awarded to Patterson’s. A tie
for second place gives prizes
of $2 each to Plummer’s and
Belk’s.
Out-of-town judges award
ed the decisions and gave
honorable mention to the
following: Winner’s, Carl
ton’s, Parson’s, the drug
stores, and Duke Power com
pany for street lighting.
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Santa Claus Will Make His Final Visit Of The Season To Brevard Today