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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
JOHN’S ROCK CCC
CAMP NEAR HERE,
WILL RE CLOSED
The 73 Enrollees There Will
Be Transferred To Camp
At Raeford
IS DEFENSE MOVE
In a move to supply additional
workers in defense areas, the
John’s Rock CCC Camp, twelve
miles from here in Pisgah National
Forest, will be disbanded at noon
Saturday, March 14, and the 73
white youths now stationed there
will be transferred to Raeford, ac
cording to announcement by Lieu
tenant Jack R. Sheffield. The clos
ing of the camp here coincides with
the closing of 8 others throughout
the state, 3 of them in this sec
tion of the state. In each case the
enrollees are being transferred to
defense work centers.
The camp at John’s Rock, Com
pany 428, Camp N. C., F-28, was
established at its present location
in May, 1938, where a previous
CCC camp had been in operation
An approximate enrollment of
100 has been maintained since the
camp was opened.
Work of the youths enrolled at
the John’s Rock camp has been
confined chiefly to activities in the
National Forest area. A resume of
their work during the past four
years includes the building and
maintaining of 30 recreational and
picnic areas, fire protection of
150,000 acres of forest land, con
struction of a new ranger station
and a number of warden stations,
construction of the entrance por
tals on the trans-forest highway
three miles from Brevard, mainten
ance of the Davidson River fish
rearing station, construction and
maintenance of 125 miles of tele
phone line, construction of a fire
lookout tower and maintenance of
three lookout towers, and assisting
in the work of the Penrose nursery.
In announcing the disbanding of
the camp here, Lieutenant Shef
field expressed regret for his staff
and the youths enrolled, of the
necessity of closing the camp. He
said the cooperation of the citi
zens of Brevard and Transylvania
county had been splendid in every
activity of the camp personnel.
TEACHER HERE IS
CALLED TO ARMY
Randal J. Lyday, Brevard
High Teacher, Will Leave
^ On March 18
Randal J. Lyday, vocational ag
riculture teacher at the Brevard
high school and a well known citi
zen of this county, has been called
for active duty with the United
States Army, according to informa
tion made available this week. A
member of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps, Mr. Lyday will re
port for service on Wednesday,
March 18. The destination of Mr.
Lyday was not announced.
Mr. Lyday is the second voca
tional agriculture teacher in the
county who has been called for ac
tive duty with the Army this year.
Two weeks ago B. E. Keisler, who
held the same post at the Rosman
high school, was called into the
service. He is now stationed at
Asheville as president of an army
aviation cadet examining board.
The son of L. F. Lyday, of Pen
rose, Mr. Lyday has been a teacher
in the Brevard high school for sev
eral years. He is a graduate of
North Carolina State college and
has been active in church and civic
affairs in Brevard and the county.
It was not learned whether Mrs.
Lyday will accompany her husband
to his nost.
Cash And Carry Is
Having Anniversary
The Cash and Carry Super Mar
ket is this week celebrating its
first anniversary of service to the
people of Brevard and Transyl
vania county. Lewis K. Osborne,
the manager, announces.
In a message elsewhere in this
issue of The Times the proprietors
of Cash and Carry express their
thanks to their patrons for the
splendid reception they have had
during their first year of business
and pledge their faith and integ
rity to serving the public in the
same prompt and efficient man
ner they have during the year just
past.
EDNEY WILL PREACH
Rev. A. E. Edney, recently elect
ed pastor of Holly Springs Baptist
church, will preach there next Sun
day morning at 11 o’clock. The pub
lie is invited to attend.
Aircraft Observers Here
Ordered To 24-Hour Duty
Aircraft observers in the
Brevard area have been order
ed on active duty 24 hours a
day for an indefinite period,
beginning Wednesday, accord
ing to orders received from
army headquarters by Dan
Merrill, chief observer for Bre
vard and immediate surround
ing territory.
Mr. Merrill said Wednesday
that the new aircraft observ
ing station, just completed
atop the McMinn building
here, is to be manned every
hour of the day and night until
orders are received from head
quarters to suspend observa
tion. He had no details as to
the reason for putting aircraft
observers back to their posts,
the first such order received
since trial observations were
made late last year.
Any and all planes passing
over the Brevard area are to
be reported immediately, Mr.
Merrill said, regardless of the
type. He did not reveal where
the headquarters for reporting
passing aircraft in this sec
tion is located.
Volunteer observers to man
the observation post are badly
needed at this time, Mr. Merrill
emphasized, and persons be
tween 17 and 19 years of agje,
not subject to the draft, are
especially urged to help in the
observation work. Volunteer
observers may get in touch
with Mr. Merrill for observa
tion assignment.
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Assistant Agent
JOE LEE HEFFNER, above, has
become the new assistant farm
agent for Transylvania county,
succeeding Edwin L. Shore in that
position. He was formerly asso
ciate Farm Security Administration
supervisor in this county. (Photo
by Austin)
MILITARY DRILLS!
The first of a series of three
2-hour periods of military drills
for civilian defense workers in
Transylvania county will be
held at Brevard college, on the
athletic field, Saturday after
noon of this week, beginning
at 2:30 o’clock. Dean C. E.
Buckner, chairman of the
civilian defense council com
mittee on instruction, announ
ced the drills, which will be
conducted by Leonard W. Rob
erts, head of the department
of physical education at the col
lege and formerly a member of
Uncle Sam’s armed forces.
The other two drills will be
conducted on Monday and
Wednesday of next week, each
2-hour drill period to begin at
2:30 o’clock in the afternoon.
All civilian defense workers
are urged to attend the drills.
Neumann and Powell
Winners In Contest
Alfred N. Neumann, of Brevard,
and Melvin Powell, of Rosman, are
the Transylvania county winners
in the contest conducted by the
Asheville Citizen-Times for World
Study maps and Scrapbooks on the
series carried by the Citizen-Times.
The winners were announced in
last Sunday’s issue of the news
paper.
Neumann is a student in the Bre
vard elementary school, in the
seventh grade, and Powell is a
fourth grade student at the Ros
man elementary school.
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Breaking The
Political Ice
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Galloway Candidate
For Representative
M. W. Galloway, Transylvania
county’s representative in the state
legislature in 1941 and in previ
ous years, this week announced
that he will be a candidate in the
coming Democratic primary for the
nomination to succeed himself as
representative in the 1943 state
legislature.
In a statement handed to The
Times, Mr. Galloway made the fol
lowing announcement:
“I will be a candidate before the
coming Democratic primary for
the nomination to succeed myself
as representative in the 1943 leg
islature, and this will be notice to
the Democratic voters of the coun
ty that I shall very greatly appre
ciate your active support for this
nomination.
“I am fully aware that the task
of the 1943 legislature will be tre
mendously important in whatever
way we may consider it, but if the
people of the county again entrust
me with that responsibility I shall
do my utmost to serve intelligent
ly the best interests of the whole
county.”
Mr. Galloway’s is the first public
announcement for the candidacy
for nomination for the post of state
representative.
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CIVIC CLUB PLAY
NETS ABOVE $200
Money Will Be Used For
Furnishing Room In
New Hospital
More than $200 was realized by
the Brevard Women’s Civic club
from the production of “Funza
poppin,” comedy, on two evenings
last week, according to Mrs. O. H.
Orr, president of the club. The
funds will be used for furnishing a
room in the new community hos
pital building, she said, and any
remainder will go into some type
of Defense program.
In connection with the produc
tion of the comedy, which was un
der the direction of Miss Helen
Shimeall, professional dramatic
coach, a baby contest was spon
sored to determine Mr. and Miss
Brevard. The winners were Doug
las Page, 17 months, and Mary El
len Loftis, 5 years, respectively.
Each received $5 in defense
stamps.
The girl scouts, under the direc
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Construction Is Under Way On
New Homes In College Heights
The Brevard Development com
pany has begun construction on a
group of approximately 30 low
cost homes in the North Brevard
area, the development to be known
as College Heights. C. W. Teague,
of Asheville, and H. W. Teague, of
Brevard, are in charge of the con
struction of the homes, which are
being built on property formerly
owned by Mrs. George C. Witmer
and now owned by Mrs. Edna M.
Smith, of Marion.
Five of the new homes are al
ready under construction, and some
of them will be completed in the
near future, according to C. W.
Teague. Of modern design, the
homes will range in price from
$3500 to $4000. They are being
built under specifications for FHA
financing.
The Brevard Development com
pany has just completed another
home development in North Bre
vard, Greenacres, on which some
15 modern homes were construct
ed. Mr. Teague said that no Immed
iate shortage of building materials
was foreseen.
Miss And Mr. Brevard Are Named
Meet Miss and Mr. Brevard. The two children shown above,
Mary Ellen Loftis, right, and Douglas Page, left, were named Miss
and Mr. Brevard respectively in a popularity contest sponsored by
the Women’s Civic club and carried out by the Brevard girl scouts
during the past two weeks. Little Miss Loftis, aged 5, is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Loftis. Young Mr. Page, 17 months, is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Page. (Photos by Austin)
MARCH-APR1L TERM
COURT SET MAR. 30
Judge Hoyle Sink, of Greens
boro, Will Preside Over
Mixed Term
The March-April term of Transyl
vania county superior court will
convene in Brevard on Monday,
March 30, and continue for a two
weeks’ session, announcement has
been made by Clerk of Court Spald
ing McIntosh.
Judge Hoyle Sink, of Greensboro,
will be the presiding judge, and
Solicitor C. 0. Ridings, of Forest
City, will represent the State.
The following jurors have been
drawn for the first week of court:
J. M. Allison, W. L. Bishop, C.
H. Morris, S. L. Barnette, D. Guy
Dean, G. Carl Bryson, Frank Duck
worth, Carrol Manley, Richard Mc
Call, Lewis Orr, Charles Norris,
Paul Sitton, J. E. Galloway, Lloyd
Cantrell, W. R. Kilpatrick, Robert
Duckworth, Harry McBride, W. C.
Morris, Victor Sigmon, Jack Fisher,
J. T. Carland, Wallace Gillespie,
Clyde Sitton, Joe Wilde, W. E. Gal
loway, Coy Compton, N. A. Miller,
L. C. Hall, W. W. Mull, Wade Ly
day, Y. J. McCrary, W. W. Ledbet
ter, Rad Nicholson, C. K. Osborne,
J. A. Avery, Paul Bowen.
Jurors drawn for the second
week include:
Walter Fisher, Dock Banther,
Earl Orr, Archie McCall, Clyde
Pittman, Dock Lusk, Watha Fisher,
Harry Owen, C. C. Yongue, Chas.
F. Moore, Cope W. Lee, Willie
W. Reid (Oakland) Jess McCall,
Chas. Ashworth, W. S. Lankford,
A. M. Paxton, Jr., O. H. Bryson,
Marvin Garren
TEN ARE ACCEPTED
FOR FLYING COURSE
College Industrial Division
Classroom And Office
Space Increased
Grady W. Campbell, head of the
industrial division at Brevard col
lege and coordinator and ground in
structor in the civilian pilot train
ing program carried out jointly by
the college and Meyer Flying serv
ice, Hendersonville, has announced
a list of ten college students who
have been accepted for the spring
session of primary flight training.
The aspiring young pilots are
Raymond Dotson Biddix, of Gas
tonia; Joseph Glenwood Jenkins,
of Greenville, N. C.; Charles Fred
erick Spivey, of Benton, Ky.; John
Beatty Garren, of Greenville, S. C.;
Alex Arnold, of Cullasaja; Ernest
Rankin Rudd, Jr., of Pleasant Gar
den; Russell Henry Lawson, of
Shannon, Ga.; George Washing
ton Gordon, of Greensboro; Keith
Forest Cooper, of Greensboro; and
Walton Herbert Boring, of Crouse.
The youths have already begun
their study in the primary flight
course, and quarters for training
at the college have been enlarged
and improved. An additional class
room and office space has been
turned over to the work of the in
dustrial division there.
B. & L. SETS MEET
The annual stockholders meet
ing of the Brevard Building and
Loan association will be held at
its offices at 6 South Caldwell
Street, in Brevard, on Monday,
March 23, at 3 p.m., it has been an
nounced.
Sugar? There’s
No Rationing On
This sweet business about sugar
rationing is beginning to get sour.
First, there were no sugar ra
tioning stamps in the county—and
rationing was originally scheduled
to start about March 1—and now
that the stamps are here, nobody
seems to know just what to do with
them. Apparently, the county ele
mentary school system is supposed
to handle the dispensing of the
original books of stamps, but Sup
erintendent of Schools J. B. Jones
has had no definite details about
the matter. And the stamps were
delivered to the court house cus
todian, finally landing in the office
of County Accountant Ralph W.
Lyday. Now the court house has
the stamps, and the grocerymen
have the sugar, and Mr. and Mrs.
Consumer don’t have to worry, for
the present, at least, about being
limited to 12 ounces per person per
week.
Moral: Go ahead and buy sugar
in the same old way until some
body presents you with a book of
rationing stamps.
REPUBLICANS WILL
NAME TICKET SOON
Precinct Meeting Set For
April 10: Convention
On April 11
The Transylvania county Repub
lican convention, for the purpose
of nominating the county ticket,
election of executive committee
members, and the election of a
chairman of the executive com
mittee for 2 years, will be held at
the Brevard court house on Sat
urday afternoon, April 11, begin
ning at 2 o’clock. The decision
was reached at the Republican
convention held Tuesday afternoon
in the court house here.
Precinct meetings for the elec
tion of delegates to the county
convention and for the naming of
precinct committees will be held
Friday, April 10, at the various
polling places of the county, it was
announced.
At the convention here Tuesday
it was concluded that all Transyl
vania Republicans will be recog
nized as delegates at the congres
sional, senatorial, judicial, and state
conventions.
Ralph R. Fisher, county Repub
lican chairman, presided at the
meeting Tuesday
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Pisgah Chemical Company
At Penrose Now Producing
Semi-Commercially, Report
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War
Bulletins
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AUSSIES HAMMER
JAP INVASION FLEET
MELBOURNE, March 11.—Aus
tralian air squadrons hammering at
the spearhead of Japanese invasion
on New Guinea island today were
credited with smashing seven to
nine enemy vessels, including at
least one and perhaps two war
ships.
A flaming trail of blazing, beach
ed or sinking Japanese vessels was
left by Australian fliers, including
veteran airmen withdrawn from
other fighting fronts, in the larg
est raid of the war against the ene
my forces headed toward this con
tinent, air communiques disclosed.
BRITISH TAKE UP
NEW POSTS IN BURMA
MANDALAY, Burma, March 11.
—British imperial troops, aban
doning the entire Irrawaddy river
delta to the Japanese, are swing
ing their defense line slowly north
ward to take up positions some
where in South Central Burma
where they hope to halt the ene
my advance, unofficial reports re
vealed today.
Reports from Rangoon said that
city was left a blazing skeleton and
it was indicated that thousands of
gallons of gasoline and other oil
had been set afire in the harbor
to destroy docks, warehouses and
boats, completing land destruction
previously effected.
INDIA BE BASE FOR
ALLIED OFFENSIVE
LONDON, March 11.—Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill disclosed
in the house of commons today that
India would be a base for an even
tual Allied counter - offensive
against Japan and that Sir Stafford
Cripps was going to discuss with
Indian leaders a war cabinet plan
for solution of the Indian freedom
problem.
“We must remember also that
India is one of the bases from
which the strongest counter blows
must be struck at the advance of
tyranny and aggression,” he said.
REMAINDER OF DUTCH
FLEET AT SEA, REPORT
MELBOURNE, Australia, March
11.—Lieut. Gov. Hubertus J. Van
Mook of the Netherlands East
Indies said today that he was con
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MEET SET FOR
SAVINGS STAFF
The Transylvania county defense
savings staff will hold its regular
monthly meeting next Thursday
afternoon, March 19, at four
o’clock in the auditorium of the
Brevard elementary school, accord
ing to announcement by E. H. Mc
Mahan, county chairman. This will
be the second of a series of meet
ings of the county staff, at which
the work of promoting the sale of
defense bonds and stamps among
the general public is taken up in
detail.
Meanwhile, a series of meetings
are being held with the workers
4n the various industrial plants of
the county, and short addresses are
being delivered by members of the
county staff. During the next week,
according to Mr. McMahan, meet
ings will be held at Carr Lumber
company, Ecusta Paper corporation,
and Pisgah Mills.
Persons Rush To File Income
Tax Returns; Deadline Monday
As the deadline for filing in
come tax returns approached this
week, hundreds of Transylvania
citizens crowded to the office of
deputy collector of internal revenue
to settle up with Uncle Sam. Dep
uty Collector S. E. Varner stated
that the rush was the greatest he
has yet experienced, and, conse
quently, he is devoting extra time
for office hours in Brevard. All
returns must be filed on or before
Monday, March 16.
Mr. Varner's revised schedule
for office hours hi Boom 9, post of
fice building in Brevard, is as fol
lows:
Friday, March 13, from 8:30 a.m.
until 5:30 p.m.; Saturday March
14, from 8:30 a.m. until 12 o’clock
noon; Monday, March 16, from 8:30
a.m. until 8 o’clock p.m.
Mr. Varner emphasized that he
will not be available for service at
any other hours, and that contact
should be made personally. Calls
over the telephone are taboo, he
said, since they take up the time
of those waiting in line at the of
fice and interrupt the general pro
cedure of filing the returns.
Is Manufacturing Important
Potassium Metabisulfite
Chemical
WPB SAYS CRITICAL
The Pisgah Chemical company,
located at Penrose, seven
from here on the Hendersonville
highway, is now in the semi-com
mercial production stage of an im
portant chemical—potassium met
abisulfite-according to Denton An
derson, president and general
manager of the company. The com
pany was chartered late last year
by Mr. Anderson, Ala Kipping^ amt
E. H. McMahan, local attorney. Ex
perimental production has been
under way since January 20, bnt
only in recent weeks has the pro
duction reached a semi-commercial
stage.
Mr. Anderson emphasized that
all details of profitable commer
cial production of the chemical have
not been worked out as yet and that
waste material. He termed the
a large problem remains in finding
a way to reclaim a majority of the
chemical process a “tricky” one
which produces the important
chemical, but said that materials
necessary to the production of it
are easily obtained at present Only
one other plant that on the West
Coast, is now engaged in the com
mercial production of potassium
metabisulfite, Mr. Anderson safe
The chemical being manufac
tured here is listed as a critical one
by the War Production Board. It
is used as a reagent in the produc
tion of other vital chemicals neces
sary to the war effort, and the mar
ket is good, according to Mr. An
derson.
Mr. Anderson indicated that the
next few weeks would determine
the successful production of potas
sium metabisulfite at the plant at
Penrose.
J. ALEXANDER GETS
U S N APPOINTMENT
Ecusta Athletic Director Will
Report For Duty On
March 16
Jack Alexander, well-known
Western North Carolina athlete
and at present director of ath
letics at Ecusta Paper corporation,
Pisgah Forest, was notified Wed
nesday of his appointment as
Chief Specialist (physical instruc
tor) in Class V-6, U. S. Navy
Reserve. He will report for duty
at Raleigh on Monday, March 19.
Alexander, for three years a
standout on the Duke Blue Devil
football team, from 1933-35, re
ceived his appointment as a result
of an interview with Lieutenant
Commander Gene Tunney in Ra
leigh on February 27. Lieutenant
Commander Tunney recommended
Alexander to Navy officials in
Washington, and his official ap
pointment came through headquar
ters there.
Alexander’s wide experience hi
athletics, professionally and other
wise, fits him admirably for the
post of physical instructor in the
Navy’s physical fitness program.
He has been football coach, pro
fessional base bailer, and is well
versed in practically every type
of professional and amateur sport.
During the year 194041 he was
head football coach and director of
athletics at Brevard college, ha
the summer of 1941 he accepted hie
present position with the Beueta
Paper corporation.
Presbyterians To
Have Special Meet
Dr. George W. Meade, of Aahe
ville, will preach at the Preohy
terian church next Sunday utra
ing at eleven o’clock.
At the close of service, a congre
gational meeting will he held to
take action in regard to eaMng a
pastor, and in regard to inch other
matters as may properly be brought
before the meeting.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Patients reported on Wednesday
to be in the Transylvania Commun
ity hospital were: Miss Jessie Mae
Alexander, Mrs. Neal Birchfield,
Mrs. Guy Dean, Mrs. Oscar Barrett,
J. E. Cantrell, T. I. Paxton, Pete
Pennington.
The first census taken in K^-;
land was in 1801.