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Vol. 52: No. 10
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Women’s Civic Club To
Present Extravaganza Of
Music And Comedy Here
"Funzapoppin,” To Be Pre
sented On Thursday And
Friday Evenings
SPECIAL FEATURES
Under the direction of Miss Hel
en Shimeall, professional dramatic
eoach, the Brevard Women’s Civic
club will present a three-act come
dy, “Funzapoppin,” on Thursday
and Friday evenings of this week
at the Brevard high school audi
torium. The performances will be
gin at 8:07 each evening, and pro
ceeds will go for the benefit of the
Transylvania community hospital.
Cast in the comedy are June Fen
wicke as Betty Blair, William P.
Jordan as Bobby Blair, Hal Gib
son as Vic Trueman, Roland Wil
ber as Sylvester Fogg, III, Sonja
Colwell as Trudi Brown, Elizabeth
Kapp as Mrs. Browne, Eben Mor
row as J. Edgar Dunwiddie, Ellen
Jervey as Aunt Ida, Becky Macfie
as Bridget the maid, John Wilber
as Ambrose, Marie Wilber as Mrs.
Snappett, and Lillie Clarke as Gab
bie Gooney. Mrs. Melvin Gillespie
will be the musical accompanist.
The cast is ably supported by
special musical numbers, includ
ing chorus dance routines by girls
in high school and college. Waltz
exhibition numbers will be given
by Misses Priscilla Bobst, Virginia
Aiken, Mary Vannah, and Helen
Pickelsimer, and Jim Laughlin, Bud
Elliott, Robert May, and Phillip
Frazier, Brevard college students.
An added feature of the comedy
presentation will be a style show of
the latest spring fashions from Win
ner’s and Patterson’s stores in
Brevard. Each will have models dis
play latest styles at both perform
ances of the play.
To model for Winner's will be
Mrs. D. L. English, Miss Annabel
Teague, Miss Mabel McNeely, Miss
Louise Moore, Mary Osborne Pax
ton, Lyta Stepp, Dorothy Kizer, and
Miss Louise Huntley, Sarah Hester
Fowler, Madeliene Meece, Helen
Grogan, and Jean Bennett. The
page will be Joan Parker, and Ad
die Rhodes and Betty Duclos will
announce.
For Patterson’s, the Misses Kath
ryn English, Mary Sue Jennings,
and Jean Dixon and Mrs. E. O.
Roland will model ladies clothes.
The men models will be Russell
Lawson, Bobby Ellitt, Walton Bor
ing, and Phillip Frazier, who is also
announcer. The page will be Wayne
Kerber.
Two other features being carried
out in connection with the play
are a baby contest to determine
Miss or Mr. Brevard and a Guess
Who contest in which baby pic
tures of prominent people about
town are entered.
Babies entered in the popularity
contest, votes for which are being
received at a number of business
bouses in town, include Shelby
Jean Grogan, Loretta Gail Bonnell,
Michael Duckworth, Mary Ann
Wright, Patricia Duckworth, “Little
Sang” Lyda, Judy Goodwin, Caro
lyn Bauer, Tina Sellers, Tiny Brit
tain, Dorothy Collins, Joyce Anne
Withmer, Bessie Bikas, Charles
Glen Lasley, Agnes Catherine
Hamilton, Barbara Sue Lothery,
Mickey Owens, Mary Ellen Loftis,
Mike McCrary, Cornelia Coltrane,
“Little Mose” Macfie, Martha Ann
Massey, Douglas Page, Lois Hamil
ton, “Little Kin” McNeil, Jo Anne
Siniard.
Mrs. William P. Jordan is gen
eral chairman of the play. Mrs.
Ralph R. Fisher is in charge of
ticket sales. Advertising is under
the direction of Mrs. Edwin Happ
and Mrs. Oliver Orr. Mrs. Larry
Haswell is in charge of publicity.
YEAR’S PROGRAM
IS OUTLINED BY
THE HOME AGENT
Miss Annabel Teague, home dem
onstration agent for the county,
has announced the monthly topics
which will be taken up at home
demonstration and 4-H club meet
ings for the remainder of 1942. The
topic follows the name of each
month.
March, My Clothing Needs; April,
Future Security Through Conser
vation; May, The Staff of Life
Whole Grain Products and Their
Use; June, Home Care of the Sick;
July, Food Preservation; August,
Planned Recreation; September,
Wise Use of Time and Money; Oc
tober, Clothing Clinic; November,
Building Strong and Sturdy Bodies;
December, Housing Repair gad Im
for Happier
Mdr and
Living.
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War
Bulletins
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MacARTHlJR’S FORCES
SINK JAPANESE SHIPS
WASHINGTON, March 4.—Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s tiny air force,
following up his surprise assault
last week that smashed enemy ad
vance positions on the Bataan bat
tlefront has sunk at least four Jap
anese ships in Subic bay in a dar
ing attack, the war department an
nounced today.
With only a handful of little P-40
fighter planes to challenge Japan’s
bombers, dive-bombers and fight
ers, MacArthur’s dauntless airmen
caught the Japanese by complete
surprise and caused havoc in Su
bic bay, Japan’s chief means of
supply for the Bataan front 15 to
20 miles south.
JAPS SURGE FORWARD
IN JAVA REGION
WITH ALLIED FORCES In Java
(Via Telephone), March 4—Japan
ese invasion forces surged forward
in Java despite bitter American,
Dutch and British opposition today
and United Nations soldiers lay in
ditches along the fighting fronts
shaking their fists in futile anger
at enemy planes roaming the skies
almost unchallenged.
United Nations air support ap
parently has collapsed in front line
areas I visited and Japanese con
trol of the sea approaches to Java
is stronger than ever.
GREAT BRITAIN WILL
RESUME BOMB OFFENSE
LONDON, March 4,—Air Minis
ter Sir Archibald Sinclair said to
day that Great Britain would re
sume the largest possible bombing
offensive against Germany at the
earliest possible moment with the
aid of American dive-bombing
planes markedly superior to any
thing Germany had.
Tactical and reconnaissance
squadrons of the Royal Air Force
are now being re-equipped with the
best American fighting planes, he
said.
BRITISH ATTACK FRENCH
INDUSTRIES AIDING AXIS
LONDON, March 4. — British
bombers, attacking French indus
tries producing war materials for
Germany, flattened buildings “like
packs of cards” in a two-hour raid
on industrial targets in the Paris
suburbs during the night, Air Min
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Series Of Timely
Messages Started
Featuring the themes of
‘‘buy defense bonds with the
money you save by trading at
home,” “save your tires by
trading at home,” “for vic
tory—buy defense bonds,” a
group of progressive local
business firms are starting an
interesting and impressive
series of advertisements in
this week’s issue.
Every reader is requested
to read the special message
which is contained in the
first ad in the series, publish
ed on page three.
“Dollars spent at home help
build up the local commun
ity, while those spent with
mail order houses and in oth
er places, help build up some
other town.”
Filing Information Is Given To
Transylvania Office Candidates
Candidates for political offices
in Transylvania county have ap
proximately six week for filing
with the chairman of the county
board of elections, according to an
nouncement Wednesday by county
election officials. All candidates
for nomination to an office must
file six weeks before the primary
date, the last Saturday in May, the
officials said. Six weeks prior to
Saturday, May 30, will be Saturday,
April 18, and all persons wish
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ing to file for an office must do so
by or on that day.
So far, only one candidate for
nomination to a public office in
the county has announced his in
tentions.
As stated before, candidates
seeking nomination must file with
the chairman of the county board
of elections, who, on Wednesday
had not been named for the cur
rent year. Fred Johnson served as
chairman of the election board in
| the immediately past election year.
$75,000 Hospital Will Be Occupied In Near Future
The new Transylvania community hospital, shown here in a picture taken by The Times staff photogra
pher last week, will soon be ready for occupancy, and construction work is already completed with the
exception of minor electrical equipment. Hospital officials could not say Wednesday just when the build
ing will be occupied, removal to the new quarters being dependent upon obtaining certain necessary equip
ment, but they were of the opinion that the next six to eight weeks ought to see the new hospital in
operation. (Times staff photo)
In Late Eighties
MRS. MARY TINSLEY, above,
celebrated her 89th birthday on
February 14 with a special birth
day party at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Plato Scruggs, of
Brevard. She is widely known
throughout the county and remains
extremely active for her age.
(Photo by Austin)
New Mailing System
Installed By Times
The Times is glad to announce
this week the installation of a new
mailing system by which subscrib
ers may tell at a glance when their
paper expires. The new system is a
complete revision of the former
mailing procedure and should bar
against loss of paper in transit due
to illegibility.
If errors occur on the new mail
ing label, either in the name or the
expiration date, attention should
be called to this at once.
James Davis Named
Federation Officer
James Davis, well known farmer
of near Brevard, was nominated as
a director for the Farmers Federa
tion in Transylvania county at a
meeting at the Farmers Federa
tion warehouse in Brevard last
week.
The other director of the Federa
tion in the oounty is Lloyd Can
trell.
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Plasma Bank Is
Maintained Here
The Transylvani! community hos
pital has established a blood plas
ma bank, according to Miss Myr
tice Dillard, head nurse and super
intendent, and already ten Transyl
vania men have contributed to the
bank.
Individual contributions of a
pint of blood are accepted, Miss
Dillard said, and the blood is sent
to Asheville for centrifuging or
reducing to the plasma. Then, in
an emergency, the blood plasma
may be given without typing the
blood of the persons concerned, as
must be done in ordinary trans
fusions.
Persons who have already do
nated to the blood plasma bank
here are James Simpson, James
Robinson, Max Robinson, and Leon
English, the first four; and Vincent
Dixon, Clyde Davis, Harlan Corn,
L. W. Bonnell, James W. Gilles
pie, and Leon Scruggs.
Miss Dillard said that those in
terested in donating blood to the
bank might leave their names to
be called for future contributions.
SCOUTS TO HAVE
P. T. A. PROGRAM
The Brevard Parent-Teacher as
sociation will hold its regular
March meeting at the Brevard
grammar school auditorium next
Tuesday evening at eight o’clock,
according to announcement by as
sociation officials. Girl and Boy
scouts of Brevard will have charge
of the program, the subject of
which will be “How To Use Lei
sure Time.”
The meeting Tuesday is being
prepared especially for mothers
and fathers, and fathers are urged
to attend, it was announced.
Commissioners Will
Sit As Review Board
The meeting of the county board
of commissioners in the court
house last Monday was cut short by
the heavy snowfall, and only rou
tine matters were taken up in the
brief period of meeting.
It was announced at the meeting
Monday that the board will sit as
a board of equalization and review
in the commissioners’ room at the
court house on Monday, March 23,
beginning at 9 o’clock in the morn
ing. They will then hear complaints
if any, of any taxpayer or taxpay
ers who have complaints to make
in regard to assessment of property
for taxes for the year 1942.
Mrs. Smith Winner
In Special Contest
Mrs. Paul Smith, 244 Broad
street, Brevard, was adjudged the
winner of the 15-piece kitchenware
ensemble in the Rexall Birthday
Sale Quiz contest, sponsored here
by Macfie Drug Store.
The contest comprised the an
swering of 14 questions pertaining
to Rexall products, and a 15th ques
tion, to finish in 15 words or less,
the sentence, “1 prefer to use Rex
all Products because . . Mrs.
Smith’s entry won the prize award
for submitting the most nearly
correct answers.
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THIRTY-THREE MEN
ARE RECLASSIFIED
RY COUNTY BOARD
Number of Registrants Here
Are Placed In 1-A
Classification
The Transylvania county draft
board this week issued a list of clas
sifications and reclassifications for
a number of registrants in this
county. The list is comprised of the
following names:
Clarence Eugene Gravely, 1-A;
Frank C. Kimzey, 1-A; Arthur
Harry Pickelsimer, from 1-B to 1-A;
James Hubbard Sledge, from 1-B to
1-A; Davis C. Rains, from 4-F to
1-A; Ira Petit, from 1-B to 1-A;
Charlie Adam Pierson, from 4-F to
1-A; Clarence Clayton Brewer,
from 4-F to 1-A; William Oscar Ai
ken, from 4-F to 1-A; Herbert
Charles Fisher, from 1-B to 4-F;
Robert Merritt Nicholson, from
1-B to 1-A: William Lloyd Gallo
way, from 4-F to 1-A; Hilliard Ed
ward Fowler, from 4-F to 1-A; Sun
day Godfrey Hedrick, from 1-B to
1-A; Fred Owen, from 1-H to 1-A.
Hobart McKinney, from 1-H to
4-F; Kenneth Lynch King, from
1-B to 1-A.
The following were reclassified
after examination by the Army
examining board:
Clifford Lowell Reid, from 1-B
to 1-A; Allison Lee Moore, from
1-A to 4-F; Arthur William Gilles
pie, from 1-A to 1-B; William
Teddy Jennings, from 1-B to 1-A;
Gus Frederick McCrary, from 1-B
to 1-A; Jesse Stalcup, from 1-A to
1-B; Eli Donald Morgan, from 1-B
to 1-A; William Forse Huggins,
from 1-B to 1-A; James Burton
Morgan, from 1-B to 1-A; Joe Neely,
continued in 1-B; Arthur Williams,
Jr., from 1-B to 1-A; Tom Elise
Grogan, from 1-A to 1-B; James
Curtis Gevedon, from 1-B to 1-A;
John Edward Driscoll, from 1-A
to 1-B; Woodrow Wilson Fisher,
from 1-B to 1-A.
LIONS WILL MEET
The regular semi-monthly meet
ing of the Brevard Lions club will
be held at Brevard college in the
dining room at West Hall on Thurs
day evening, beginning at 7 o’clock.
Rev. E. P. Billups is in charge
of the program and has announced
that an interesting program is being
planned.
Germany’s World War gun, “Big
Bertha,” attained a muzzle velocity
of 3,400 miles an hour.
Seventeen Inches Snow
Blankets Transylvania
And Western Carolinas
No Action As Yet j
On Sugar Ration
If Transylvanians are won- I
dering about the announced !
sugar rationing, they should
go ahead and buy the sugar
they need for current use and
wait for action. No definite
system has as yet been set
up in the county.
J. B. Jones, superintendent
of schools, said Wednesday
he had had no definite details
of the rationing plan other
than that a meeting of ele
mentary school teachers
would be held early in March
and that a request had been
received asking for the ap
proximate number of persons
living in the elementary
school districts of the county.
When rationing is effected,
elementary school teachers
will hand out the initial ra
tioning stamps. Each person
, will be allowed 12 ounces per
week. Undoubtedly, teachers
will hand out the stamps in
| the several elementary
schools of the county, Ne
| groes included.
HEFFNER IS NEW
ASSISTANT AGENT
Benjamin Hill, Jr., Replaces
Heffner In FSA Work
Here
Joe Lee Heffner, a native of Mills
River in Henderson county and for
the past two years associate super
! visor of the Farm Security Admin
istration in this county, this week
became assistant county farm agent,
replacing Edwin L. Shore at that
post. Announcements of the change
were made by Julian A. Glazener,
county farm agent, and by Charles
McDarris, FSA supervisor here.
Mr. Shore resigned his post here
to return to his home near Yad
kinville.
Mr. Heffner has had wide train
ing in the agricultural endeavors
of this county due to his work with
the Farm Security Administration.
He received his education at Bre
vard college and the University of
Missouri. This week he is spending
in Raleigh doing special and inten
sive study relative to his new field
of work.
Replacing Mr. Heffner as assist
ant FSA supervisor here is Benja
min Grady Hill, Jr., a native of
Franklin, Georgia, and a graduate
of Berry College at Rome, Georgia.
Hobbies Be Topic
At Kiwanis Meet
Hobbies in relation to National
Defense will be the topic under dis
cussion at the regular meeting of
the Brevard Kiwanis club at the
Moffitt House Thursday afternoon
at 12:15, according to announce
ment by Julian A. Glazener, who is
in charge of the program. Mr. Glaz
ener will comment on hobbies in
general and will introduce the
speakers.
Harold P. Vannah will discuss his
viewpoint of personal hobbies, and
Randal J. Lyday will speak on
gardening as a hobby.
CANCEL BOARD MEET
The regular meeting of the Bre
vard board of aldermen, scheduled
for last Monday night, was post
poned due to the extremely bad
weather.
Draft Board Will Induct 22
Selectees At An Early Date
The county draft board has re
leased for publication the names
of 22 selective service registrants
who will be called up for induction
within the next ten days. They
will comprise the first group of
draftees to leave the county during
March.
The registrants up for induc
tion include Arthur Williams, Jr.,
William Forse Huggins, Robert
Graham McCall, Algie Galloway,
William Harry Johnson, Alfred
Hampton Gravely, all of Brevard;
LeRoy McCall, of Balsam Grove;
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William Lloyd Rhodes, William
Teddy Jennings, Glen T. Buckner,
Gus Frederick McCrary, Eli Donald
Morgan, all of Brevard, Route 1;
Carl Swangim, Robert Henry Tritt,
James 'Curtis Gevedon, all of Bre
vard, Route 2.
Woodrow Wilson Fisher, of Lake
Toxaway; Clifford Lowell Reid, of
Oakland; Quinton Aiken, of Ros
man; Willie Collins, of Rosman;
James Burton Morgan, of Rosman,
Route 1; Willie Monroe Reynolds,
of Tuxedo; and Leonard Oscar
| Mote, of Arlington, Ga.
County Schools, Closed Mon
day Afternoon, Will Re
open Next Week
TRAFFIC DISRUPTED
Shoveling was the order of the
day in Transylvania county on
Tuesday and Wednesday of thia
week as citizens began digging out
from under one of the deepest
snows within the past ten years.
Reaching a depth last Monday night
of approximately 17 inches—and
two feet and more in places where
it had drifted—the season’s second
snow was the deepest recorded
since 1932, and many older citizens
declared it had not snowed so deep
in two decades. No official weather
reports were available for authenti
cation of the records of previous
years.
Snow began falling shortly after
six o’clock Monday morning in
most sections of the county and
continued steadily throughout the
day and into the night. No snow
fell, in appreciable amount, after
eight o’clock Monday night, thereby
providing a record fall of better
than an inch an hour.
Beginning about noon Monday
traffic on the streets of Brevard
and on the highways found going
difficult, even with chains, and by
Monday night negotiation of the
streets and highways was almost im
possible. A number of cars stalled
on the steeper grades nearby, and
one large bus skidded into the
bank Monday morning a short dis
tance from Brevard. The passengers
walked or hitch-hiked into Bre
vard. Not realizing the extent the
snow might fall, many motorists
left their cars parked all day Mon
day and were not able to drive
them away Monday evening. Quite
a few cars had not been moved by
noon Wednesday, though most of
the snow in the center of the
streets had been scraped away or
had melted.
Schools in the county were closed
about 2 o’clock Monday afternoon,
and though stories about children
being marooned at some of the
rural schools drifted into town,
none of these proved authentic. As
far as could be learned, all school
children reached home safely. Sup
erintendent of schools, J. B. Jones
said Wednesday that schools will
remain closed until Monday morn
ing, with opening then dependent
upon weather conditions. Weather
forecasts indicated that weather
might remain fair.
In many instances residents of
the rural areas could not get into
town except by walking, but a num
ber of visitors from the outlying
districts came into town Wednes
day. The Times’ correspondent in
Rosman reported Tuesday that
traffic had been tied up there and
that business was practically at a
standstill during Monday and Tues
day.
Telegraph and telephone com
munications, though disrupted in
many sections of Western North
Carolina, remained open between
Brevard and Asheville, but Ashe
ville had no service out to any of
the major cities. Radio wires and
press wires were both out of or
der there, and Asheville was actu
ally cut off from the world until
Tuesday night.
Mail deliveries in Brevard were
continued during Tuesday and
Wednesday morning. Mail trucks
from Greenville came through,
though behind schedule. Rural de
liveries were temporarily suspend
ed.
BULLETIN
The Transylvania county repub
lican convention has been called
by County Chairman, Ralph R.
Fisher, to meet at the Brevard
court house on Tuesday afternoon,
March 10, at 2 o’clock, Mr. Fisher
said Wednesday.
He said the meeting will be sole
ly for the purpose of naming dele
gates to the district and state con
ventions. Precinct meetings, he said,
will be held Saturday afternoon,
March 7, at 4 o’clock.
LOW COST BROODER
The Duke Power company has
developed a new type of low cost
electric chick brooder, and it will
be placed on display in the com
pany’s show window on Broad
Street.
The management issues a cor
dial invitation for chick raisers to
come by and inspect the new brood
er.