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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
MOVEMENT ASKS FOR RAILWAY PASSENGER SERVICE HERE
PLAN TEST OF AIR
RAID WARNING IN
BREVARD, COUNTY
Test Of Air Raid Signals,
Mobilization Of Work
ers Set For Fri.
TIME: 6:40 TO 7:15
The Transylvania county civilian
defense council has announced
that on Friday evening of this
week, at seven o'clock, a test of
the air raid warning signals in the
county will be made, together with
a test of mobilization of all civilian
defense units and committee.
Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., chairman
of the council, said Wednesday
that the test would not be a prac
tice blackout, but merely for the
purpose of finding out whether the
air raid warning system is effec
tive over the county and to deter
mine how quickly civilian defense
units may be mobilized. He said
that all civilians are asked to stay
off the streets in Brevard and to
refrain from making telephone
calls between the period of from
6:40 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Friday
evening, in order that mobilization
may be done without interference.
Of course, necessary calls by tele
phone may be made during the
above period, and action may be
taken in any type of emergency.
The defense council urged citi
zens over the county to listen for
the air raid warning signal, which
will be the blowing of sirens and
steam whistles, in alternate high
and low fluctuation, for a period
of two minutes. Signals will be
given by the Brevard fire siren,
Ecusta, Carr Lumber company,
Transylvania Tanning company,
and the Silversteen industries in
Rosman. At 7:30 the all-clear sig
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two minute sustained blast.
The mobilization of civilian de
fense workers is being made in the
Brevard area only and does not
apply to members over the county.
Units to be mobilized include air
raid wardens, auxiliary police and
firemen, public utilities, public
works, emergency medical service,
and any other fully organized units.
They will mobilize at mobilization
centers, or will report to their re
spective posts of duty.
MARKET JUMPS FOR
REPTILE PRODUCTS
Kim Miller, Rattlesnake
Hunter, Finds Demand
For Products Great
Within a few short months the
chief problem for Kim Miller, of
Lake Toxaway, erstwhile rattle
snake hunter of the North Carolina
mountains, has become one of sup
plying the demand for stuffed
snake hides and for snake oil to
“cure the pains and infirmities of
humanity.” Previously, his big
problem was the disposition of
stuffed snake hides and snake oil.
Boost in the market for Mr. Mil
ler’s unusual products came with
the publication of feature stories
about his occupation late last sum
mer. A number of large daily news
papers in North Carolina and in
the Eastern section of the country
carried a story and pictures about
his snake hunting. Wide World,
feature photo syndicate, serviced
their clients with a photo-layout of
an actual snake hunt, showing how
Mr. Miller went about capturing
the deadly rattlers. Life magazine
also published a picture relative to
the snake hunt.
Since publication of the articles
and pictures about his snake-hunt
ing activities, Mr. Miller has been
deluged with requests from all over
the United States for snake oil
and stuffed hides. Some orders
were received from outlying terri
tories of the States.
At first business was just pleas
ingly brisk, Mr. Miller reports, but
it finally outgrew his supply, and,
at last, he had to turn down all
orders. “There just wasn’t enough
snakes in these mountains to fill
the orders, even if I had ’em all
caught,” Mr. Miller said.
But he hopes to fill some of
those orders this summer, come
snake hunting time again.
FIREMEN TO MEET
A second class meeting for aux
iliary firemen has been called by
Fire Chief J. W. Smith for Thurs
day evening at 6:30 in the City
Hall
First Twenty Selectees Are
Listed By The Draft Board
In accordance with the third
draft lottery in Washington,
I). C., held Tuesday night, the
Transylvania county draft
board has issued for publica
tion the order sequence of the
first twenty Transylvania reg
istrants who will be subject to
call for possible military serv
ice as third registration selec
tees.
More than a week will be re
quired to determine all order
numbers of local registrants,
Mrs. Harllee, clerk to the board,
stated. However, it is hoped
that the majority of the order
numbers of the 741 county
registrants in the third regis
tration will be ready for publi
cation in next week's issue of
The Times.
Listed below are the first
twenty Transylvania men in
the order they will be called
for possible military service:
Lawrence Wisdom Banther,
Lake Toxaway; Marcus Willie
Lynch, col., of Brevard; Rip
Lloyd, col., of Brevard; New
ton Wilson Pickelsimer, Pen
rose; Daniel Vance Snipes,
Rosman; Dewey Allison, Bre
vard; John Charles Sprouse,
Brevard; Elzie Galet Chapman,
Rosman; Randle Clingman
Aiken, Brevard; Jennings Do
ver Hudson, Brevard; Connie
Luther Talley, Hendersonville,
Route 4; Eric Deering Reese,
Jr., Pisgah Forest; Gilliard Rex
Merrell, Penrose; James T.
Rosemond, col., Brevard; Rob
ert Tabor Kimzey, Brevard;
Ralph Thomas Snelson, Bre
vard; Harry Edward Meyer,
Pisgah Forest; Clarence Ed
ward Goldsmith, Brevard; Jesse
Dewey Gossett, Penrose; Aus
tin Alexander Brown, Bre
vard.
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War
Bulletins
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ALLIES MASS POWER
IN AUSTRALIAN AREA
MACARTHUR’S HEADQUAR
TERS, Australia, March 18—The
Allied armies of Australia, led by
Gen. Douglas MacArthur and
sparked by growing numbers of
American fighting men and ma
chines, massed its maximum strik
ing power against the Japanese to
day ‘o defend this embattled con
tinenr*auu eventually turn it into
a springboard for a smashing coun
ter-offensive.
The newest and fastest Ameri
can fighter and bomber planes
were taking a leading role in the
battle for air control over the is
land approaches to Australia, in
cluding a new Allied bombing at
tack on the Japanese-held base of
Koepang on Timor Island and an
enemy bombardment in the Solo
mon Islands.
BRITISH TO COUNTER
ATTACK IN BURMA
London, March 18.—British im
perial forces capitalized on a mo
mentary lull in Burma hostilities
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MOOSE TO ERECT
FLAGS IN COUNTY
Brevard Moose members voted
at a meeting last Monday night to
erect a flag at one or more of the
Transylvania schools. A committee
is arranging with County Superin
tendent J. B. Jones for public pre
sentation to be made at an early
date.
The lodge also voted to sponsor
a Boy Scout troop in Brevard, to
be known as Whitmire Street
Troop. E. H. McMahan, B. F. Dixon
and C. M. Douglas are committee
members in charge to offer spon
sorship to the Boy Scout Council.
A committee headed by Mr. Mc
Mahan, W. A. Balcomb and Quay
Tankesley was also appointed to
confer with Girl Scout leaders as
to needs of the local troop, and re
port back to the next meeting of
the Moose for action.
SUPER MARKET IS
OPENED BY A & P
Harry Sellers Will Manage
New Self-Service Store
In Brevard
The Great Atlantic and Pacific
Tea Company has just opened a
new self-service Super Market on
Broad Street—A & P’s former lo
cation completely remodelled, and
Harry R. Sellers, for the past 15
years manager of the Broad Street
A & P here, has been made man
ager of the new Super Market.
Sellers has a record of 16 years of
continuous service with the A &
P people.
Mr. Sellers, wno is prominent in
business and civic affairs in Bre
vard, pointed out that the new Su
per Market is of the same general
design as all A & P self-service
stores, including separate depart
ments for groceries, dairy products,
meats, baked goods, and produce.
It’s easier to enter and more con
venient to shop in, he emphasized.
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Love, Marriage;
Well, Not Always
The ardor of love does cool,
forsooth!
At least that’s the way
Register of Deeds Melvin L.
Gillespie has chalked up the
case of Dock Love, Negro
youth, and his fiancee. Love
took out license to wed here
on December 31, 1941. A
month later he was back at
midnight asking the Register
of Deeds to tie the knot, but
was promptly informed that
the Register of Deeds was no
J. P. The disconsolate one
went on about his way.
So, Register of Deeds Gil
lespie thought everything
was done and over with. That
is, until the other day, he did.
A letter from the roving lover
stated that the “marriage bus
iness” was off for the time
being. “Instead,” wrote the
youth, “I am going to start
working for the government.”
TAR HEEL FRONT IN WASHINGTON
Reviewing Carolinians At The Capital
By Robert A. Erwin and Frances McKusick
(Staff Correspondents)
WASHINGTON, March 18. -
“Yes,” said the Congressman,
“Washington is one of the biggest
cities in North Carolina.”
The speaker was Farmer Bob
Doughton, North Carolina’s grand
old young man of the mountains,
Representative of the Ninth Dis
trict in Congress for more than 31
years. He wasn’t talking about Lit
tle Washington, as North Caro
lina’s own Washington is known,
but about the Nation’s Capital.
Today, more than a million peo
ple live in and around Washing
ton, and good guessers place the
number of Tar Heels in these parts
at 40,000 or more. Washington was
just a self-contained city, with not
much of a suburban area, on March
4, 1911, when Farmer Bob took his
first oath of office on Capitol Hill.
Wearing his familiar big broad
brim black Stetson hat and stand
ing well over six feet in height,
Farmer Bob surveyed Washington
for us from one of the best views
of all, Capitol Plaza itself. “It’s
some city,” he declared, “and grow
ing all the time, and more folks
coming up from North Carolina
every day to work for Uncle Sam.”
Washington has become a great
city, and as former Postmaster
General Jim Farley once said, “the
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Seeks Another Term
M. W. GALLOWAY, above, has
announced his candidacy tor nom
ination, subject to the coming Dem
ocratic primary, to succeed him
self as representative from this
county in the state legislature.
(Photo by Austin)
This Ought To
Jump The Price!
Mountain moonshiners have had
a hard week of it in Transylvania
county.
Federal officers John D. Norton
and R. S. Bolt, of Asheville, and
Officers W. W. Owen and A. D.
Rogers, of Rosman, compiled the
following statistics during the past
week on illicit liquor distilling in
the county, and no less than three
groups of blockaders are without a
base of operation as a result:
Shoal Creek section: A 100 gal
lon sheet iron “still” destroyed,
along with 700 gallons of mash, and
one man reported captured.
Old Toxaway section: A 100 gal
lon copper “still” cut down and 800
gallons of beer poured out. Thirty
gallons of molasses, substitute for
sugar, salvaged.
Old Toxaway section: A 65 gal
lon wooden “still” destroyed. 400
gallons of beer poured out, and 115
pounds of precious sugar, in 5
pound bags, salvaged.
Add strange as it seems items: A
highway signal lamp stolen from
the Pickens, S. C., highway nine
years ago was recovered at one of
the “still” sites.
DEFENSE CLASSES
SET AT COLLEGE
Last Military Drill Period To
Be Held Thursday
Evening
The last of a series of three 2
hour military drills for civilian de
fense volunteer workers will be
held on the Brevard college ath
letic field on Thursday evening,
beginning at 6 o’clock, according to
announcement by Dean C. E. Buck
ner, chairman of the instruction
committee.
Meanwhile, plans are being com
pleted for the opening of a second
group of defense classes at the
college, beginning Monday of next
week, Dean Buckner said. They
will run for a two-weeks period
and will cover the same subject
matter as covered in the classes
held there in February. However,
the schedule will be reversed, and
classes held the second week in
the first group of classes will be
held the first week in this
group. Classes will begin at 7:30
each evening, and continue through
a 2-hour period.
On Monday evening, March 23,
discussion of organization of de
fense workers and maintenance of
control centers will be held; Tues
day, March 24, discussion on gas
defense; Wednesday, March 25,
discussion of fire defense; Thurs
day, March 26, one hour of fire
defense discussion and one hour
of air raid warning discussion; Fri
day, March 27, discussion on black
outs. The classes are open to new
people, or those who missed some
of the previous classes.
The schedule for the second
week will be announced later.
REPRESENTS TAILORS
L. P. Beck, Brevard representa
tive for Nash custom tailored
clothes, announces in this week’s
issue of The Times that he will
be glad to serve his customers at
Ward’s News stand, on Main Street.
CAPITAL WRITERS
TO SERVE TIMES
WEEKLY COLUMN
Will Write Special Weekly
Column About Tar Heels
In Washington
The Transylvania Times presents
in this issue the first installment
of a new weekly column from the
Nation’s capital, “On the Tar Heel
Front in Washington,” written by
Robert A. Erwin and Frances Mc
Kusick, well known Capital journ
alists whose services have been se
cured by The Times.
Thousands of North Carolinians
live in Washington. Many of them
are high Government officials and
high-ranking members of Congress.
Who they are, what they do and
what they say is news in these cri
tical times. This new feature ob
tained by The Times is not just
another Washington column, but
a resume of news and people, side
lights and human interest stories,
of direct interest to Transylvan
ians and folks all over North Caro
lina.
Bob Erwin hardly needs an in
troduction. His name has been
known to Tar Heel readers for so
many years that they hardly know
he isn’t a native Tar Heel. Bob,
who was born in Evansville, on the
banks of the Ohio River in South
ern Indiana, terms himself “a Tar
Heel by ancestry, adoption and pre
ference.” His people on both sides
of the house came from North
Carolina, and as Bob puts it, he
“had sense enough to go back.”
For some years, he was manager
of the United Press Bureau in Ra
leigh, covered the State Capitol,
the State Legislature and •'chieved
a s'_:ewide acquaintanceship. He
knows people in just about all of
the State’s 100 counties. He pre
serves and cherishes his legal res
idence in North Carolina, votes
in Wake County, and despite his
progress in Washington, still plans
to return to Tar Heelia someday
to settle down again and live with
his favorite people.
In Washington, he is on the staff
of The Evening Star, and he also
writes for The State Magazine of
Raleigh. The Greensboro Daily
News and The Durham Herald. He
is a member of the White House
Correspondents Association, the
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SHOOTIN’ WAR!
As far as the Transylvania
county draft board is concern
ed, Jock Norwood Allison, se
lective service registrant from
Woodruff, S. C., advanced some
good philosophy when he came
to the board here asking for
help in getting inducted into
Uncle Sam’s army. Said Alli
son:
“They won’t let me into the
army because I lack proper ed
ucation, but you ain’t goin’ to
kill no Japs with pen and ink.
Shootin’, and plenty of it, is
what it’s goin’ to take, and I
can shoot as good as anybody.”
Local draft officials were
sympathetic to Allison’s plea,
but were unable to do much
about it. Draft legislation pre
vents his immediate induction
into the army, yet retains him
in the 1-A classification, there
by providing a detriment to
employment.
Civic And Public Officials
Advocate Tourist Schedule
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Takes FSA Post
Shown here Benjamin Grady
Hill, Jr., a graduate of Berry col
lege, Rome, Ga., who has come
to Brevard to assume the post of
assistant supervisor of Farm Se
curity Administration here. (Photo
by Austin)
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Breaking The
Political Ice
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Hayes Is Candidate
For County Sheriff
Freeman Hayes, owner of Hayes
Motor company and well known
business man, on Wednesday an
nounced that he will be a candidate
for the nomination for the office
of Sheriff of Transylvania county,
subject to the coming Democratic
primary. He is the second person
to announce for that office on the
Democratic slate.
In making public announcement
of his candidacy, Mr. Hayes issued
the following statement:
“I hereby announce my candid
acy for the office of sheriff of
Transylvania county, subject to the
action of the Democratic primary.
If I am nominated and elected. I
shall strive to represent and serve
the varied interests of the entire
county honestly, impartially, and
efficiently. The active support of
every voter is solicited and will
be appreciated.”
MONTH’S TIRE
QUOTA IS GIVEN
The Transylvania county tire ra
tioning board announces that the
county quota for March includes
nine passenger car tires, eight pas
senger car tubes, twenty-one truck
tires, and twenty-seven truck tubes.
Also, a quota of thirteen recapped
truck tires was given the county for
this month.
According to R. W. Everett, chair
man of the rationing board, no new
tires and tubes have been granted
applicants this month. However,
eleven truck tires have been re
capped.
Curfew Hours Adopted By Station
Operators; No More Sunday Sales
All service station operators in
the Brevard area met at the Hayes
Motor company here Tuesday af
ternoon to discuss plans for the
retail sale of gasoline subject to
the 20 per cent reduction in de
liveries which is being placed in
effect in the Southeastern States
this week.
The two principal resolutions
adopted, both unanimously, call
for the closing down of all serv
ice stations in Brevard on Sunday
and the observance of business
hours of from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
during the week days, similar to
the curfew imposed last year by
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes. They
become effective Thursday of this
week.
Service station owners as well
as prominent business and civic
leaders of the town expressed
wholehearted approval of the move
to close service stations for the
entire day Sunday, thereby giving
station employes a chance to at
tend religious services and parti
cipate in other Sabbath Day activ
ities. At the same time, the work
week of the employes will be con
siderably shortened.
Unanimous approval was given
a resolution which provided that
no discounts be granted anyone
in the future, due to the increased
cost of operating and the decline
of revenue.
Service station operators point
ed out that if the new business
hours and the cutting out of sales
on Sunday equalizes the reduction
of deliveries, a system of ration
ing may not have to be imposed.
However they added, continued
normal sales will probably make
rationing necessary.
Say Service Will Be Essen
tial To Tourist Business
This Summer
TO CONTACT OFFICIALS
A number of public officials of
Brevard and Transylvania county
as well as civic organizations this
week began a movement to secure
railway passenger service to Bre
vard this summer in order that
tourists may make direct rail con
nection with Brevard. At present
the nearest railway passenger serv
ice to Brevard is Hendersonville,
some twenty miles from here,
Southern Railway having discon*
tinued passenger service to Bre
vard more than a year ago.
Chamber of Commerce officials
here point out that tourists will be
travelling more than ever by rail
this summer, and thp lack of rail
connections here will mean the loss
of considerable tourist business.
They emphasize that vacationists
will be coming in larger numbers
to the mountains this year, due to
war dangers on the coast, and that
rail service to this tourist center
will be essential.
As the first step in the move
ment to secure railway passenger
service to Brevard, O. B. Price, of
Asheville, Southern Railway Dis
trict Superintendent, will be con
tacted within the coming week and
the proposition placed before him.
Among the civic leaders and or
ganizational and public officials
who are pushing the movement for
securing railway passenger serv
ice here are Ralph R. Fisher, pres
ident of the Brevard Chamber of
Commerce and commander of the
American Legion post; Dr. Carl
Hardin, Mayor'of Bi' vard,'Willis
W. Brittain, member of the county
board of commissioners; and S. E.
Varner, Jr., president of the Bre
vard Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Many other business and civic
leaders expressed their whole
hearted approval of the move and
pledged their support to the move
ment.
BAR GROUP NAMES
TEN COMMITTEES
Members Of Committees.
Named To Serve During
Current Year
Committees for the year were
appointed in a special meeting of
the Transylvania county bar asso
ciation here Tuesday morning. The
appointments were made by A. F.
Mitchell, president of the associa
tion, and included the following:
Executive committee, Ralph H.
Ramsey, Jr., chairman; A. F. Mit
chell, D. L. English, and E. H. Mc
Mahan.
Calendar committee, Lewis P.
Hamlin, chairman, Robert L. Gash,
and D. L. English.
Grievance and legal ethics com
mittee, E. H. McMahan, chairman,
A. F. Mitchell, Ralph H. Ramsey,
Jr., and Lewis P. Hamlin.
Constitution and by-laws com
mittee, Allan H. Brombacher, chair
man, Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., and
Lewis P. Hamlin.
Illegal practice of law commit
tee, D. L. English, chairman, Ralph
H. Ramsey, Jr., and A. F. Mitchell.
Memorial committee, R. L. Gash,
chairman, E. H. McMahan, Lewis
P. Hamlin.
Membership committee, Alan H.
Brombacher, chairman, E. H. Mc
Mahan.
Legislation and law reform com
mittee, E. H. McMahan, chairman,
D. L. English, and R. L. Gash.
Public affairs committee, Lewis
P. Hamlin, chairman, Ralph H.
Ramsey, Jr., and E. H. McMahan.
Historian, Robert L. Gash.
National defense committee,
Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., chairman,
Robert L. Gash, and Lewis P. Ham
lin.
Kiwanians Set Quiz
Program For Meet
Don M. Jenkins will be in
charge of the Quiz Program which
is planned for the regular meeting
of the Brevard Kiwanis club at
the Moffitt House at 12:15 Thurs
day afternoon. All members are
urged to attend.
A Turkey dinner will be served,
it was announced.