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Trade at Home Boost Your Town —and— Your County The Transylvania Times A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County Transylvania County Entrance to Pisgah National Forest « - ■ .. ■ ii m i «< > Vol. 52: No. 4 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942 PUBLISHED WEEKLY Two Thirds Red Cross War Relief Quota In Sight Orer Half Hundred Firms' Employes Give Days Pay To Cause TO CONTINUE DRIVE Employes of Brevard business concerns were leading the drive here Wednesday to secure $3,000 in Transylvania county for the American Red Cross War Relief Fund. Charles M. Douglas, drive chairman, announced that approx imately $2,000 is already in sight. He said that all employes in 59 out of 62 firms contacted have either given or pledged one day’s wages to the war relief fund. Mr. Douglas said that the drive would be carried on until February 1, and he was confident that the quota would be reached by that time. The “Victory Day” drive carried out by the ladies of Brevard and in other sections of the county was very successful, he said, and many large contributions were received. Probably the largest donation will be made to the war relief fund through the efforts of the Agricul tural Workers Council which is planning a scrap metal collection over the county on Saturday of this week. Farmers are gathering up their scrap metal, and in prac tically every instance they have agreed to turn the proceeds over to the Red Cross war relief fund. Donations to the fund may be left at the City Hall, at The Times office, or at the Building and Loan association office. Following is a list of the firms whose employes have volunteered 100 per cent in giving one day’s wages to the Red Cross war relief fund: Austin’s, Abercrombie Furniture company, A and P stores, B and B Feed and Seed, Belk’s^ Bradley’s, Brevard Lumber company, Brevard Steam laundry, Brevard g •tore, BreVard insurance *ge.icJ! Brevard Tire Recapping, Brevard Police force, Citizens Telephone company, Carlton’s, City Market, Clemson and Co-Ed theatres, Dean Plumbing company, Dixie Cleaners, Duckworth Motor company, Petit’s Shoe Shop. Farmers Federation, Gibbs’ Esso —Turn To Page Twelve FUNERALISHELD FOR MRS. HARRIS Passed Away Sunday At Hos pital After An Illness Of Two Years Mrs. A. H. Harris, 61, for many years a leader in Brevard social and civic circles, died Sunday night at Transylvania Community hos pital after an illness of two years. Funeral services were conducted from the residence on Broad street Tuesday morning with the Rev. Father Harold Shea and the Rev. Father Frank Shea, nephews of the deceased, in charge. The two young priests read the impressive Catho lic ceremony in Latin and English in front of an altar that was bank ed by more than a hundred wreaths and baskets of flowers. “Abide With Me” was sung by Mrs. Harry R. Bobst. Interment was made in Gillespie cemetery. Mrs. Harris was before her mar riage Miss Kathryn Holford of Stevens Point, Pa., a graduate of the Pennsylvania State Normal College, and taught school in Penn sylvania for three years before her marriage. She taught one year in the Rosman schools after moving to this community with her hus band and two children 23 years ago, and later was registry clerk in the Brevard postoffice for several years. In Brevard, Mrs. Harris soon be came an active figure in affairs for uplift of the community, and in ad dition to her activities in church and social affairs, served as direc —Turn To Page Six Telephone Company To Issue Directory The Citizens Telephone company will at an early date issue a new telephone directory for Brevard and Transylvania county, and copy for the new issue is now being com piled. Jerry Jerome, secretary for the company, urges all patrons to make any corrections in listings at once in order that correct listings may be included in the new directory. ! SATURDAY IS DAY {FOR COLLECTION ■OF SCRAP METAL . Central Collection Places j Named In Majority Of N eighborhoods GIVE TO RED CROSS ! The intensive drive for the col lection of scrap metal on the farms I of Transylvania county will be car i ried out on Saturday of this week, from eight o’clock in the morning until two o’clock in the afternoon, according to Julian A. Glazener of I the County Agricultural Workers ; Council under the auspices of which, together with the County Civilian Defense Council, the drive I is being conducted. I Central collection places have been designated in most neighbor hoods, Mr. Glazener said, but a few remain to be chosen. Individuals are asked to gather scrap metals on their places and take to these central places of collection. If no means of transportation is avail ; able, leaders in the neighborhoods ' will pick up the metal. Mr. Glazener emphasized that tin cans are not wanted in this drive, since they cannot be disposed j of through the same channel. A ' drive may be carried out later for j tin cans, he said. | All farmers yet contacted have agreed to turn the entire proceeds of the sale of scrap metal over to the Red Cross war relief fund in the county, it was announced. Collection places so far desig nated include the following: Little River, The Jot ’Em Down store and at the home of Virgil McCrary; Blantyre, at the home of * Tirra"^ P>ge tfwelve GILLESPIE ELECTED W.O.W. CAMP DEAD Consul Commander, Other Officers Elected At Meeting Thursday Melvin L. Gillespie, register of deeds of Transylvania county, was elected Consul Commander of the I Brevard Camp of the Woodmen of the World at a meeting of the camp last Thursday evening. He succeeds Dean Whitlock in that capacity, who automatically becomes past Consul Commander. State Manager T. E. Newton, of Kinston, installed 1 the newly elected officers at the l meeting. j Other officers elected Thursday ) vere Curtis Kelly, adviser lieuten-1 ant; Arthur Gillespie, banker; Don-1 aid McCall, escort; Z. Vance Jack son, watchman; Russell Bentley, I sentry; Fred Johnson, Fred W. j Grogan, and Karl T. Bosse, audi tors. Ralph W. Lyday is financial , secretary. I Taking part in the program of election and installation were A. j B. Galloway, district deputy, and A. M. White, of Rosman, financial j secretary of the Rosman camp. First meeting with the new offi-1 cers will be held Thursday night [ of this week. KIWANIANS TO MEET The Brevard Kiwanis club will meet at the Moffitt House on Thurs- j day of this week at 12:15, it has been announced. i How The A.E.F. Sailed In 1918 With an American expeditionary force being rounded into shape for action “wherever they are needed,” according to President Roose velt’s state-of-the union speech, United States soldiers will soon be filling huge transports like this one. Here, American troops are shown aboard the troopship Mt. Vernon during the first World War. C. W. Pickelsimer Named President Trust Company .———-I Rumor Dispelled About Volunteers Mrs. Allie B. Harllee, clerk of the local draft board, on Wednesday dispelled a rumor ‘ ran^Uit hfe*J this seek that no more volunteers are being accepted in Uncle Sam’s arm ed services and that hence forth all selectees would have to go through the regular rou tine of being drafted. Mrs. Harllee said that no official communication had been is sued to that effect and that, on the other hand, urgent calls are still being made for volunteers. Source of the rumor was not apparent, but Mrs. Harl lee assured all who wish to do so that they may still vol unteer. SHERIFF WILL FILE DATA ON OWNERS’ TIRES The Transylvania county sher iff’s department has announced that the make, size and serial num ber of automobile tires may be registered with the department as a safety measure against loss of tires by theft. Sheriff G. D. Shuford urges all motorists of the county to take down the make, size and serial number of tires and file them at the sheriff’s office in the county court house. He said that the problem of tracking down stolen tires would be considerably simplified if this safety measure were taken. Static electricity in an automo bile, which causes radio interfer ence and static shock, can be elim inated by a powder blown into each inner tube. Draft Clerk Issues Statement About Marriage Deferment In an attempt to correct an ap parently widespread misunder standing of selective service reg ulations regarding married men a statement was released Wednes day by Mrs. Allie B. Harllee, clerk to the local draft board. The infor mation was furnished by the North Carolina headquarters of the selec tive service system and it empha sized that local boards have been cautioned frequently that each in dividual case must be considered on its own merits. Following is the information released by Mrs. Harl lee: Regulations prohibit the blanket deferment of married men simply because they are married, the state ment said, stressing that defer ments in class III-A must be based on dependency. Selective service regulations pro-1 vide, the statement explained, "that no registrant shall be placed in class III-A if he acquired depend ency status on or after Sept. 16, 1940, (the date of the adoption of the selective service act) and be fore Dec. 8, 1941, unless he pre sents information which convinces the local board when classifying him that such status was not volun tarily acquired at a time when his selection was imminent or for the primary purpose of providing him with a basis for deferment. "No registrant shall be placed in class III-A if he acquired depend Hhsi To Page Twain . • \ ■ . .• , t i Directors, Officers Named At Annual Meeting For Current Year C. W. Pickelsimer, well-known business man of Brevard and Tran sylvania county, was elected presi dent of the Transylvania Trust company at a meeting of the direc tors Tuesday afternoon. He suc ceeds his brother, the late Joseph H. Pickelsimer, who served as pres ident of the institution for a num ber of years prior to his death last November. At an annual meeting of the stockholders immediately before the directors’ meeting at which Mr. Pickelsimer was named president of the trust company, the follow ing directors to serve during the current year were named: F. D. Clement, R. J. Duckworth, Lewis P. Hamlin, C. R. McNeely, W. L. Mull, C. W. Pickelsimer, and Joseph S. Silversteen. R. J. Duckworth was re-elected vice president and cash ier and active officer in charge of the bank. Karl T. Bosse was re elected assistant cashier. At the directors’ meeting the cashier’s report for the year was read, and it showed an increase of total resources during the past year of $113,318.27. The company paid a 6% dividend to common stockholders and increased its sur plus by $2,500. A total of $2,750 was transferred to the retirement account for preferred stock. R. J. Duckworth announced that the past year was one of the most successful the bank has enjoyed. The trust company celebrated its tenth anniversary the latter part of last November. ANNUAL RED CROSS MEET SET MONDAY Mrs. E. L. McKee Unable To Speak; Council To Be Elected Mrs. E. L. McKee, of Sylva, former state senator, will not be able to address the Transylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross at its regular every-member meet ing on Monday evening, January 26, it was learned here Wednesday. Red Cross Chapter officials were not able to announce a speaker, but some prominent person will be brought here for the occasion, they said. At the annual meeting next Mon day evening which will be held at the First Baptist church, begin ning at 7:30, the executive council j will be elected, and they in turn will elect chapter officers and lead-! ers to carry on the work of the Red: Cross in this county. ! Chapter officials urged every member to attend the meeting, if possible. License plates of plastic materials; instead of metal ones, are being! considered by some states as a: means of saving steel All Local Government Expenses For Operating Will Be Kept To Minimu II COLLEGE CAMPAIGN WILL BE RESUMED MARCH 1, REPORT President Coltrane Says Col lege Will Discharge Responsibilities WATTS WILL DIRECT The campaign to raise funds for the Forward Movement Program at Brevard college will be resumed with full force on March 1, accord ing to Dr. E. J. Coltrane, president, j On account of the observance of I Brevard College Day, Sunday, Feb ruary 15, it did not seem desirable to wage a campaign in the months of January and February, he said. The financial effort to raise $400, 000 for Brevard college was tem porarily delayed with the outbreak of war in the Pacific. However, Dr. Coltrane said Wednesday that he is confident that $10,000 will be rais ed as a result of the program on Brevard College Day. R. N. Watts, of the Division of Financial Service of the Methodist church, will assume active direc tion of the campaign when it is re sumed in March, Dr. Coltrane said. C. F. Coykendale, who was with the college for a period of eight weeks late last year, has engaged to con duct financial campaigns in the middle west. In announcing the date of resum ption of the campaign, Dr. Coltrane said that it is the opinion of many people that the present is an ideal time to raise money for educational institutions. He pointed out that money will be needed for various enterprises of an educational and humanitarian nature, but that church education is the bulwark of democracy and that the cause should be supported liberally in the time of a great emergency like the present war. A number of col —Turn To Page Twelve' PRESIDENTS BALL PLANS COMPLETED Table Reservations Now Be ing Received For Event Of January 30 Final plans are being completed for the annual President’s Birthday Ball at the Country Club on Friday evening, January 30, according to Ernest McFaul, chairman of the drive for Infantile Paralysis Foun dation funds in Transylvania and chairman of the ball. The Carolina ] Buccaneers, of Asheville, will play | for the dance, which will start at 91 o’clock. Table reservations for the affair I are now being received, Mr. Me-1 Faul stated, and reservations may | be made through the committee composed of Mrs. E. L. Happ, Mrs. Denton Anderson, and Miss Ro-1 berta Bryant. Elsewhere in this issue of The Times there appears a large ad vertisement stating certain features of the campaign, especially those I of the President’s Ball, in which! there are a number of names of! business firms and individuals who have cooperated with The Times in making this advertisement pos sible and to raise an additional fund to be included in the receipts for this community’s gift to the gen eral funds for the cause. • ,n " n ■■ ■—-—■■ ■■ ■ H > Times Publisher Is Appointed O P M Ed M. Anderson, publisher of The Transylvania Times and president of the North Carolina Press Association, has been appointed a mem ber of the advisory commit tee on printing and publish ing for the Office of Produc- | tion Management, Washing- i ton. Mr. Anderson was noti- ! fied of his appointment last 1 Saturday at the close of the | 18th annual Newspaper In- i stitute at Chapel Hill. He at- ! tended a meeting of his com- j mittee in Washington this ' week. The committee on which Mr. Anderson was appointed will deal with printing and publishing problems and pub lishers’ priorities under the present war emergency. COUNTER ATTACKS BEAT BACK JAPS IN BATAAN AREA; British Fighter Planes Shoot Down 12 Japanese Ships Gen. Douglas MacArthur report ed yesterday that savage counter-! attacks have re-established his Ba taan province defense lines with “very heavy” Japanese losses and revealed that Filipino guerillas far behind the lines have carried out a "brilliant” attack on an enemy airdrome. MacArthur’s report of the guer illa success was the first to indi cate that his efforts to establish organized behind-the-lines fighting on the model of the successful Russian tactics against the Germans are beginning to pay dividends. British fighter planes and guns shot down 12 Japanese planes, it was said authoritatively on Wed nesday, in a savage and indiscrim inate enemy attack on civilian areas of Singapore, and a second — Turn To Page Twelve Lower District Sing Convention Planned The Lower District singing con vention will be held at the Boyls ton church next Sunday afternoon, beginning at two o’clock in the af ternoon, according to announce ment by R. E. Mackey, president of the convention. All singers in the county, as well as the general public are invited to attend. BULLETIN Grady W. Campbell, head of the! industrial division at Brevard col-1 lege and ground instructor and co-! ordinator in the government civil- j ian pilot training program, was in-! formed Wednesday that the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Wash ington, has assigned a quota of 10 for the elementary course, spring session, CPT sponsored jointly by Brevard college and Meyer Flying service, Hendersonville. Minimum age limit for applicants has been reduced to 18 years. Other require ments remain as before. College Graduates Five This Week; Mid-Year Exams On Mid-year examinations began Tuesday at Brevard college, Dean C. E. Buckner has announced, and will continue through Saturday of this week. The second semester will begin on Monday, January 26, he said. Classification of sopho mores and freshmen is being made this week, and registration for both sophomores and freshmen will he held next Monday, with actual class work to start on Tuesday, January 27, for the second semester. Five students, one girl and four boys, are scheduled to graduate on Saturday, the closing day of the first semester, Mr. Buckner said. However, they will not receive their diplomas until regular spring grad uation exercises in Jane. Those completing their junior college work this semester are Miss Claire Rhodes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Smith Rhodes, North Wilkesboro; Jess Calloway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse S. Calloway, Asheville; Ben Washburn, son of Mrs. E. N. Washburn, Sr., Bostic; Earle Brinkley, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brinkley, Stem; and Joe Jen- j kins, son of Walter Henry Jenkins, Smithfield. Commenting upon enrollment for the second semester, college offi cials said they anticipated no ap preciable drop in registration, not withstanding the effect the war is having upon enrollment in educa tional institutions In general. Will Aid National Defense By Lightening Burden On Taxpayers JOHNSON ASKS AID The administrative officials of the town of Brevard and of Tran sylvania county this week assured citizens of the town and county that local government operating expen ses will be kept to a minimum dur ing the present emergency in an effort to lighten the burden which has been plased upon the average taxpayer by increased Federal taxes and rising costs on every hand. Mayor Carl Hardin and City Clerk Alex Kizer both pointed out that the town of Brevard has been operating on an economy budget since 1930, and, of course, for the duration of the war every expense will be kept to a minimum. One of the costliest projects, the enlarge ment of water and sewerage serf ice, could not be expanded greatly at the present time, Mayor Hardin pointed out, even if it were so de sired, due to the priorities ruling on use of materials. W. W. Brittain, member of the county board of commissioners, said Wednesday that the commis sioners have been practising econo my all along and more especially during the present emergency. He said that they had considered new projects in the light of increasing costs of living and tax burdens on the average citizen and had not taken steps in many cases which they might have taken under ordi nary conditions. Local government officials have been asked by Charles M. Johnson, chairman of the Local Government Commission, Raleigh, to contribute to the national defense effort by keeping operating expenses at the lowest possible point. This is not the time, Mr. Johnson said, for lo cal governments to plan immediate spending for anything exoept pressing necessities. The local gov ernments can contribute much to national well being by lightening the tax burden at home, he conclnd ed. MRS. J. P. DEAVOR RITES SET TODAY Well Known Tranoytruus Lady Died Here Wed nesday Morning Funeral service will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at St. Philips Episcopal church, Brevard, for Mrs. James Patton Deavor, who died at the home of Miss Julia Deavor at Pisgah For est early Wednesday morning, fol lowing an illness of some time. Rev Harry Perry, rector, will officiate. Interment will be in the Davidson River cemetery. Survivors are two sons, James Patton Deavor, of Graham, Lucian Porcher Deavor, of Brevard, and one daughter, Miss Emma Marlon Deavor, of Raleigh. Three brothers and five sisters also survive, as fol lows: W. B. Porcher, San Francisco, Calif., E. P. Porcher and Corder Porcher, Charleston, S. C., Cather ine Porcher, New York City, Mrs. Henry Mellichamp, Mt. Pleasant, S. C., Camilla, Caroline and Betty Porcher, Charleston, S. C. Pallbearers will be Gerald Pat ton, Harry Patton, Mack Allison, R. L. Gash, Will Deavor, Joseph Porcher. Those in charge of flowers will be Mrs. Theodore Schepkowski, Mrs. George Wrigley and Mrs. Har ry Sellers. Mrs. Deavor was active in chnreb and civic affairs until falling health prevented her from regular attend ance. She was a member of St Philip’s Episcopal church, and of the local chapter of the U. D. C. and the D. A. R., and of the Hugue not Society. Osborne-Simpson funeral direct ors have charge of arrangements. Tankersley Owner Of Florist Shop Announcement has been made that A. B. Galloway and Quay Tankersley have dissolved partner ship in the Sylvan Valley Floriai establishment on West Main street, and Quay Tankersley is now the sole owner and manager. Mr. Tankersley, who has man aged the florist shop since It was established, invites his friends —^ customers to visit him often far a variety of potted and cat Hum
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