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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
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Vol. 35: No. 15
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA,
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
FOREST FIRES BURN 13,000 ACRES WOODLAND IN COUNTY
Cuban Government Official,
Former Student At Brevard
Institute, Is Visiting Here
Says Cuba Is Behind America
And Democracies In
War 100 Percent
BY TIMES STAFF WRITER
Dr. Lorenzo Delgado Diaz, form
er governor of the important
Matanzas province of Cuba and at
present the president of the nation
alist party in Matanzas, traveled
2,000 miles to pay his respects and
gratitude to Brevard and the form
er Brevard Institute, which he
attended in the early 1930’s, but
more important than that, he
brought a message from Cuba to
the American people who are now
in the midst of a dire war emer
gency.
Dr. Diaz sat across a restaurant
table—where once he sipped soft
drinks and milk shakes while a
student at Brevard Institute—and
told a news reporter “Tell your
people I bring this message to
them, both from myself and my
people in Cuba -If you work hard,
if you trust in God and sacrifice,
ultimate victory in this war is
yours.”
As short and as simple as that,
his message was, but with a world
of meaning behind it. He elabor
ated:
“If the democracies and we who
are sympathetic to the democra
cies are to attain victory in this
war, everyone must be in complete
accord, with but the one aim of
victory in view. I realize that the
change from peacetime to war is a
drastic one, but, nevertheless, that
complete change must be made be
fore our efforts will be rewarded.”
Dr. Diaz is not speaking through
his hat when he talks about what
it takes to attain victory. After
attending Brevard Institute for two
years, during which time he kept
in close contact with political forces
back in his home country, he went
back to Cuba only a month or two
before the national revolution
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STUDENT RECITALS
ARE PUNNED HERE
Piano Pupils In Public
Schools To Give First
Recital Monday
The piano pupils of Alvin Moore
and Mrs. Hague Padgett will pres
ent their first of two recitals in the
Brevard high school auditorium on
Monday evening, April 13, at eight
o’clock, it has been announced. The
recitals, featuring piano students
of the public schools, are annual
commencement events and are well
attended.
Guest artist for the first recital
will be Donald Lee Moore, who
will play several solos.
The following pupils will be
heard in piano selections: Nannie
Sue Tinsley, Hilda Norwood, Elaine
Orr, Betty Jo Parrish, Johnny
Wedge, Dorothy Plaut, Clara Jean
Parrish, Joanne Newland, Miriam
Merrill, Dorothy Osborne, Christine
Link, Alex Kizer, Jr., Jo Anne
Poole, Travis Waldrop, Betsy Brit
tain, Betty Crary, Mary Alice Holli
field, Beverly Ann Wright, Ruth
Gaines, Henry MacDonald, Mary
Jane Newland, Fay Dellinger, Mary
Ann Ramsey, Wylma Pooser, John
nie Hensley, Frances Walker, Ro
land Mull, Patsy Austin, and
Mozelle Bryson.
Marshals for this and other com
mencement events are selected on
the basis of scolastic standing
They are: Melba Siniard, chief mar
shal, Louis McAuley, Jim Kanipe,
Wiloree McGuire, Lucille Merrill,
Ben Thomason, Franklin Tankers
ley, Henry McCormick, Miriam
Merrill, and Mildred Orr.
Miss Wylie, Former
Missionary, To Speak
Miss Roberta Wylie, a mission
ary recently returned from Africa,
will be at the Wesleyan Methodist
church in Brevard on Saturday
evening at 7:30 o’clock, April 11.
She will bring an interesting
message concerning missionary act
ivities. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
Dr. Lorenzo Diaz
(TIMES STAFF PHOTO)
REVIVAL SERVICES
TO GET UNDERWAY
College And MethodUt
Church Cooperating In
Special Services
A series of revival services, spon
sored jointly by Brevard college
and the Brevard Methodist church,
will begin next Sunday evening,
April 12, with services at the
church at eight o’clock, and will
continue through the following
Sunday, according to announce
ment by Rev. E. P. Billips, pastor.
The services will be conducted by
the Rev. Herman F. Duncan, of
Elkin, assisted by Rev. J. B. Mc
Larty, of Belmont, who will be in
charge of the singing.
Services will be held twice daily,
it was announced. Morning ser
vices will be held at 9:50 o’clock in
the college auditorium, and even
ing services will be conducted at
eight o'clock at the church. Special
services for children will be held
in the church each afternoon at
3:45.
Rev. Mr. McLarty will speak to
the Youth Fellowship at the church
next Sunday evening at seven
o’clock.
RITES ARE HELD
FOR GREENWOOD
Funeral service was held last
Friday morning at 11 o’clock at the
Rocky Hill Baptist church for J. S.
Greenwood, who died Thursday
morning in the Transylvania com
munity hospital here after a brief
illness. Rev. W. H. Whitlock of
ficiated. Interment was in a ceme
tery in Andrews.
The survivors include the widow
and a number of close relatives.
CLUB MEET SET
The Penrose Community club will
meet on Thursday evening, April
16, at 8 o’clock at the school build
ing. C. M. Douglas will be the
speaker. It is urged that all mem
bers attend.
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THIRTY-FIVE FROM
HERE BE INDUCTED
IN ARMY SATURDAY
Call Is For White Youths;
Three Of Number Are
Volunteers
GO TO FORT BRAGG
Thirty-five Transylvania county
selective service registrants will
leave here next Saturday morning.
April 11, for induction at Fort
Bragg, it has been learned. All of
those called to report on April 11
are white youths, but a call for
Negroes will be made later this
month, it is understood.
The local draft board has releas
ed for publication the following
names of registrants “who arc
about to be inducted.” The first
three of the group are volunteers.
Clarence Gravely, Brevard; Paul
Eugene Orr, Brevard, Route 1;
Kenneth King, Brevard: James H.
Sledge, Brevard; Samuel Eugene
McKelvey, Brevard, Route 1; Sam
uel S. Barnette, Brevard; Harry
Pickelsimer, Brevard; Arthur H.
Sentelle, Brevard, Route 2; Vernie
Chappell, Rosman; James J. Butler,
Rosman; Howard C. Galloway, Ros
man; Bert Wilson, Pisgah Forest.
Van Summey, Brevard, Route 2;
Arthur Gillespie, Brevard, Route
1; Reid Stamey, Cedar Mountain; j
William M. Case, Brevard; Claud j
Burrell, Rosman; Durham Lee
Thorne, Brevard; George Lance,
Rosman; John H. Lyday, Brevard;
Ralph Sloan Porter, Fayetteville;
Wm. M. Owensby, Brevard; Law
rence Rufus Owen, Brevard, Route
1; Doyle Chapman, Pisgah Forest,
Route 1; Jack Yeatman Hunter, At
lanta, Georgia; Robert Nicholson,
Brevard; Claud Lusk, Sapphire.
Ray Hilemon, Pisgah Forest;
George Tjuett Henderson, Brevard;
Jock Norwood, Spartanburg, S. C.;
Sunday Godfrey Hedrick, Pisgah
Forest; Harry Clayton, Brevard;
John W. McMinn, Brevard; Lay
mon R. Valentine, Brevard; Berry
Edward Brittain, Brevard, Route
1; and John Wright Rudder, Miami,
Fla.
BROTHER OF LADY
HERE WAR VICTIM
Lee Long, 42, Killed Last
Week By Enemy Action
Off Carolina Coast
Mrs. N. A. Miller, of Brevard,
was informed last Saturday that
her brother, Lee Long, 42, was
killed last week by enemy action in
the Atlantic. He was on a Stand
ard Oil tanker w hich was torpedoed
off the North Carolina coast. The
body was brought ashore at More
head City and was shipped to Cliff
side for burial on Monday after
noon.
Long had been with Standard
Oil for several years and had re
cently been working on a tanker
delivering oil to the allied coun
tries. He attended Brevard insti
tute here.
Survivors include one sister,
Mrs. Miller; three brothers, A. G.
Long, Niagara Falls, N. Y., Glenn
Long, New York City, and Rev.
Dan Gold Long, Minneapolis, Minn.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller attended the
funeral service at Cliffside Monday
afternoon. Interment was in the
Long family plot there.
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TAR HEEL FRONT IN WASHINGTON
About Winder Harris And Others
!
By Robert A. Erwin and Frances McKusick
(Staff Correspondents)
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WASHINGTON, D. C., April 8—
“Who ever heard of a North Caro
linian being elected to Congress
from Virginia? Don’t be foolish,
Winder. You’ll just be sticking
your neck out if you run.”
This was the advice William C.
(Buck) Harris, of Raleigh, rank
ing Superior Court Judge in North
Carolina, gave his newspaperman
brother when Winder told him
the Norfolk, Va., Democrats want
ed him to be their candidate to fill
the vacancy created by the resig
nation of Representative Colgate
W. Darden, Jr., who entered the
Virginia gubernatorial race and
subsequently was elected and took
office as Governor.
But Winder Harris disregarded
his brother’s advice, his own bet
ter judgment, was persauded to run
for Congress and was elected with
very little trouble. Now this dyna
mic, energetic, keen-minded Repre
sentative from Virginia’s Second
District is called “our extra Con
gressman’’ by the Tar Heel dele
gation in Congress.
“After I came to Washington, I
received a letter from one of my
staunchest supporters in Norfolk
who said she just wanted to re
mind me I was representing her
District, not some place in North
Carolina,” Mr. Harris said laugh
ingly in an interview in his office
at the capitol.
Winder Harris was a little sur
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RAISING FUNDS TO BUILD HUT
The Girl Scouts of Brevard, with the help of other interested or
ganizations, are getting ready to build a hut in Franklin Park. As
a part of the drive, a number of Scouts have built hut banks and
placed them in various business houses in town. Shown here is
Hugh Hollifield dropping a coin in the hut-bank in the Transylvania
Trust building. Dorothy Plant, left, Scout who built the bank, is
looking on. The Women’s Civic club has donated $25 to the fund,
and the Moose Lodge has voted to sponsor the campaign to raise
funds for the hut (Times staff photo).
Davis’ Hen Goes
Into Double Work
A New Hampshire Red hen
in the flock of Harold Davis,
of Brevard, can be cited for
doing her part in the national
defense effort to increase egg
production.
Mr. Davis went out to gath
er the eggs and found that
the patriotic fowl had laid an j
oversized egg. Upon break- j
ing the egg he found another 1
normal sized egg within it. 1
Two shells, two whites, two j
yolks—that’s what Mr. Davis j
calls overtime production. ■
REPUBLICANS TO
MEETSATURDAY
The Transylvania county Repub
lican convention, for the purpose
of nominating the county ticket
and to elect a county chairman for
the next two years, will be held at
the Brevard courthouse on Satur
day afternoon, April 11, beginning
at 2 o’clock, according to announce
ment by Ralph R. Fisher, county
chairman.
Precinct meetings for electing
delegates to the county convention
will be held in the various pre
cincts on Friday afternoon, April
10, at 2 o’clock, Mr. Fisher said.
FOWLER THRU
AIR TRAINING
Earl Fowler, son of Mrs. E. V.
Fowler, of Brevard, and a graduate
of Brevard college, has finished
advance carrier pilot training at
the Opal Locka naval air station,
Miami, Florida, and has come home
for a brief furlough before going
into active service with the naval
air force.
Young Fowler entered training
in May, 1941. Prior to his enter
ing the naval training station he
was employed at the Ecusta Paper
corporation plant at Pisgah Forest.
BULLETIN
Professor Fritz Straus, of
ficial of the Ecusta Paper cor
poration, died suddenly in
Hollywood, Florida, about two
o’clock Wednesday morning, it
has been learned here.
Professor Straus, head of the
chemistry department at Ecus
ta, was vacationing in Florida.
Funeral arrangements had
not been announced here Wed
nesday night.
MOOSE OFFICERS
ARE NAMED HERE
Gerald Sitton Is Re-elected
To Post Of Governor;
Others Listed
Gerald Sitton was re-elected gov
ernor of the Brevard Moose lodge
at the meeting Monday night. Oth
er officers for the year elected
were: past governor, W. A. Bal
comb; junior governor, W. F.
Short; prelate, Rev. W. H. Whit
lock; secretary, John A. Ford;
treasurer, Ralph W. Lyday; trus
tees, T. W. Reid, Ralph Duckworth
and D. L. Glazener; sergeants at
arms, B. F. Dixon and D. J. Luth
er; outer guard, James Holden.
The Moose, organized here about
one year ago, have furnished the
nursery for the new Community
Hospital, are sponsoring a Boy
Scout troop, opening a club or
lounge room, and are now helping
to sponsor the erection of a Girl
Scout hut.
HONOR COURT OFF
A Boy Scout court of honor, or
iginally planned to be held Friday
evening of this week at the Brevard
high school, has been postponed, ac
cording to E. H. McMahan, local dis
trict scout official.
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Music By Local
Men Published
The publication of a musi
cal composition for piano and
voice, written and composed
by Clyde K. Osborne and
Donald Lee Moore, both of
Brevard, was announced this
week by the Galaxy Music
corporation, of New York
City. The music was written
by Mr. Moore, and the words
are by Mr. Osborne. Title of
the piece is “Oft in the Twi
light.”
Mr. Moore has already had a
number of musical compos
itions published, some of
which have become national
ly famous. Mr. Osborne has
also written a number of
creative compositions.
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COLLEGE DRAMATIC
GROUP TO PRESENT
PLAY ON SATURDAY
Twelve Are Cast In Three
Act Comedy Hit, “Six
teen In August”
PUBLIC IS INVITED
The Dramatic club at Brevard
college will present its annual
spring production in the college
auditorium on Saturday evening,
April 11, beginning at eight o’
clock. A lively comedy in three
acts, “Sixteen in August,” written
by Dorothy Bennett and Link Han
nah, will be produced with a cast
of twelve characters under the di
rection of Miss Lucile Smith, dram
atic coach. Students, faculty, and
townspeople are invited to the
performance.
Dramatic club members cast in
the play, which is an amusing ex
position of the conflict between
• today’s easy-going teen-age young
' sters and their parents, include
Jean Bennett, of Brevard; Douglas
Brooks, of Greensboro; Philip
Grazier, of Randleman; Norma
Lee Ashby, of Miami, Fla.; Ruth
Watkins, of Wadesboro; Paula
Smathers, of Brevard; Harleston
McIntosh, of Brevard; Catherine
Edgeworth, of Asheville; Mary
Alice Tinsley, of Brevard; Kath
leen Wilson, of Brevard; Caryl
Lewis, of Nashville, Tenn.; Bob
Elliott, of Forest City; Ernest Star,
of Greensboro; Anita Jobe, of
Rutherfordton; and Elsie Barnhill,
of Enfield.
Playing the lead roles in the
production will be Jean Bennett
and Kathleen Wilson, female, and
Philip Frazier and Douglas Brooks,
male.
Tickets for the performance are
being sold by members of the Dra
matic club and will be on sale at
the door Saturday evening.
FIREMEN WILL MEET
Regular and auxiliary Brevard
firemen will have a dinner meet
ing in the dining hall at Brevard
college on Thursday evening of
this week, beginning at seven
o’clock, John W. Smith, fire chief,
has announced.
All members of the two groups
are urged to attend.
Brevard Girl Is Making Good In
Broadway Stage Show Business
Miss Beulah May Zachary, lead
er in Brevard’s first and successful
little theatre movement, is now on
Broadway, New York, as assistant
stage manager for the Music Box,
managed by Sam H. Harris and Ir
ving Berlin.
Miss Zachary has been doing
costume and stage setting work in
New York and other cities for the
past three years, and has had active
charge of several productions in
New England theatres.
Production now showing at the
Music Box is “A Kiss For Cinde
rella”, starring Luise Rainer,
Ralph Forbes, Cecil Humphreys,
Victor Morley, Roland Bottomley,
and other prominent players of
stage and screen.
Luise Rainer, star in the produc
tion in which the Brevard girl is
an official, is making her first ap
pearance on Broadway, but has
played leads in Reinhardt Theatre,
London, and other show spots of
Europe. Since coming to America
Luise Rainer has twice won the
Academy Award in motion pic
tures, and has played opposite
William Powell in “Escapade”; also
“The Great Ziegfeld,” and “The
Good Earth.”
Miss Zachary graduated from
Brevard high school, and Salem
College, at both of which she was
a leader in dramatics. She later
took her post graduate work in
dramatic arts at Schenectady, and
directed several summer groups.
While teaching at Brevard grammar
school Miss Zachary organized the
Little Theatre, which was success
fully operated for two years, until
she left for New York.
She is a daughter of Mrs. Beulah
Zachary and the late Attorney W.
W. Zachary, who was a leader for
years in political and civic circles
in Brevard.
FOURTEEN FOREST
FIRES REPORTED IN
COUNTY IN 5 DAYS
Blazes Now Reported To Be
Well Under Control;
No Casualties
DAMAGE IS EXTENSIVE
With more than 13,000 acres of
woodland already burned over in
Transylvania county since last Fri
day, prospects of controlling the
ravage forest fires were good late
Wednesday, fire wardens and for
est officials said. A total of 14
separate fires have been reported
in the county since last Friday, and
as far as could be learned late
Wednesday, only two, possibly
three, of these fires were still bur
ning. These were reported in the
Buck Forest area on Little River
and near the South Carolina line,
in Frozen Lake, and in Lake Tox
away.
J. B. Fortin, district forest ran
ger, told a reporter Wednesday
afternoon that government forest
lands had been clear of fire since
Tuesday morning and imminent
danger of other fires breaking over
into the forest lands was imme
diately past. However, the weather
‘remained dry, with light winds,
and the danger is not yet over, he
emphasized.
Scarcity of men to fight fires
has been the chief bugaboo in this
section, forest officials and war
dens said. No more than 25 men
have been available for any one
fire, with the exception of Buck
Forest, where 50 men were re
ported late Tuesday to be battling
the devastating fire in that area.
Fighters were still at work there
Wednesday, but unofficial reports
coming from the fire-front indi
cated that the blaze was pretty well
under control. The areas burning
in Frozen Lake and Lake Toxaway
are not nearly so large, but exten
sive damage has been done there
also.
No casualties have been reported
but Monday afternoon a number
of buildings on a summer place be
longing to a Dr. Davis were dam
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RITES THURSDAY
FOR MRS. SIMONS
Well Known Local Lady
Died In Asheville
Tuesday Afternoon
Funeral service for Mrs. P.
Noble Simons, of Brevard, who
died in an Asheville hospital Tues
day afternoon, will be conducted
from St. Phillip’s Episcopal church
here Thursday afternoon at 2
o’clock. The Rev. Harry Perry,
rector, will officiate, assisted by the
Rev. J. C. Seagle, of Bat Cave.
Interment will be in the cemetery
at St. Pauls in the Valley, two miles
from here on the Greenville high
way. Pall bearers will be Thomas
Wylie, Charles McJunkin, A. G.
Galbraith, John Hudson, R. L. Gash,
and Curtis Kelly.
Mrs. Simons was the widow of
the late P. Noble Simons, retired
cotton broker, and had made her
home here for a number of years.
She was an accomplished musician
and was widely known throughout
the South as an organist and pianist.
She had served as organist for both
the Episcopal and Presbyterian
churches in Brevard.. She was a
member of the Presbyterian church
here and was a member of the Bre
vard Wednesday club.
Mr. Simons was killed in an
automobile accident in Brevard
two years ago.
Mrs. Simons had been in declin
ing health for some time, but had
been critically ill for only four
weeks.
No close relatives survive.
Osborne and Simpson, funeral
directors, are in charge of arrange
ments.
MEMBERS TO MEET
At the close of the preaching
services next Sunday morning at
the Brevard Presbyterian church,
there will be a congregational
meeting for the purpose of making
out annual reports, adopt a budget
for the coming year, and to attend
to such other business as may be
brought before the meeting, church
officials have announced.
Dr. W. H. Morgan, of Asheville,
will preach.