The Transylvania Times
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
Vol. 52: No. 23
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1942
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
COUNTY WAR BONDS, STAMPS SALES DOUBLE MAY QUOTA
RECORD VOTE CAST
IN DEMO PRIMARY;
BAILEY GETS 3 TO I
5. McIntosh Renominated
Court Clerk; Osborne
High For Coroner
A record vote for a primary was
cast in Transylvania county last
Saturday when 1,282 Democrats
selected party nominees for XJ. S.
senator, clerk of superior court,
county coroner, and for sheriff un
less the second candidate in this
three-way race contests for a sec
ond primary. ,
Freeman Hayes, owner and man
ager of Hayes Motor company, here,
led the sheriff’s race with 919,
which was not a majority but a 153
lead over T. E. Reid, manager of
Houston furniture company, who
polled 763 votes. Third candidate
for sheriff was Tom Wood, former
sheriff, who ran a close third with
713 votes.
S. McIntosh was renominated for
clerk of court with a vote of 1,505
to 777 for Elmer Gillespie, of Ros
man. J. C. Wike, present coroner,
was unseated by Purd Osborne by
voting of 854 to 1,341.
Senator Josiah Bailey, who was
renominated for a third term to
Washington in light voting over the
state, had a majority of 1,804 to
478 over Richard T. Fountain in
this county. Senator Bailey had
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JAYCEE TOURNEY
DRAWS GOLFERS
Entrants Being Turned In
For Annual Tournament
Last Week Of June
The handicap golf tournament
put on each year by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, got off to
a good start the first of the week
on the Brevard country club course
with several golfers paying their
S1.00 entry fee and turning in their
first 18-hole score card, President
John Anderson announced yester
day.
Mayor Carl Hardin was the first
man to enter the tournament, and
turned in a score of 101 for his first
18 holes. Participants in the tour
ney must turn in three score cards
within the next two and one-half
weeks to be eligible for the final
round to be played during the last
week of June.
Two handsome trophies will be
presented to the winner and run
ner-up. Last year Jim Atkins and
J. I. Ayres won the trophies, and
this year in addition to these two
prizes, several local merchants are
giving prizes to the high scorers
succeeding the winner and runner
up.
Persons wishing to enter the tour
nament are requested to contact E.
E. Fraser, manager of the country
club, and play their first handicap
around this week-end. Fraser says
the golfers are highly elated over
the course this year and its excel
lent condition and invites the public
out to follow the golfers. around
during tournament play.
Rattler Killed
Rut ‘Walks OfP
Strayed or stolen—One rat
tlesnake with 14 rattlers and
a button.
This four-foot rattler is
wanted by B. F. Dixon, 23 E,
Main street, who said he kill
ed the snake Sunday after
noon, left the reptile at his
front door, and it was gone
early Monday morning. Dixon
said he was with a party that
caught five trout and killed
four snakes, including the
huge rattler.
“I really would like to have
the snake,” Dixon declared,
“but he’s gone.”
High For Sheriff
FREEMAN HAYES, of Brevard,
led the sheriff’s race in tke Demo
cratic primary in the county last
Saturday. The close race saw T.
E. Reid runner-up, with Tom
Wood third in the voting.
AQUATIC SCHOOL
DRAWS ATTENTION
EASTERN AMERICA
Staff Meets Here Monday
To Make Final Plans
Of Year’s Session
The Red Cross National Aquatic
school, which attracts the attention
of water front officials of Eastern
America to Brevard, will open the
nineteenth annual session at Camp
Carolina Tuesday for the first of
two summer periods, with the sec
ond to be conducted here in Aug
ust.
Harry A. Kenning, who has di
rected the school for several years
and who is field representative of
the American Red Cross from
Washington, D. C., will again be
director. Assistant director will
again be Charles (Chuck) Mix,
field representative for the Red
Cross in the two Carolinas.
The students of the aquatic
school, who are chosen by Red
Cross chapters over Southeastern
America, represent a large number
of states and take the courses of
study here in order to qualify them
selves as instructors in their home
Red Cross units, and to become
camp counselors. The Brevard
school is one of five suoh conduct
ed annually in Eastern America.
The staff of the school, including
top men in their field, will meet
here Monday to make final plans
for the courses. The curricula of
fered includes first aid, farm and
home accident prevention, life sav
ing and water safety, swimming
and diving, boating and canoeing,
recreational swimming and pagean
JOHN PAUL LUCAS
SPEAKS TO CLUBS
John Paul Lucas, Jr., editor of
the Duke Power magazine, will be
in Brevard this Thursday to address
the two local men’s civic clubs on
“Our Part in the War Effort.”
Lucas will speak at the Kiwanis
uncbeon at 12:15 o’clock at the Mof
fitt house. The Duke editor will
be heard by the Lions club at 7:30
at Brevard college.
Known as an interesting speak
er, Lucas edits the montkly Duke
magazine that is circulated to many
readers in areas serviced by the
power company.
First Aid Course
Begins Here Friday
Miss Sadie North, ARC instruct
or who has taught numerous First
Aid coursse in Transylvania county,
will begin a course primarily for
school teachers but with the pub
lic also eligible for participation
this Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock
over the City Hall.
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BREVARD COLLEGE
OPENS FULL-TIME
SUMMER SESSION
Classes Began Tuesday As
Registration Continues
Until June 10th
Brevard college opened the first
regular full-time summer session
at the local college Tuesday after
noon with more than twice as many
students registering in the morn
ing as did for the school lasjt sum
mer, announced Dr. E. J. Coltrane,
college president.
Registration for the summer
courses will not be closed until
June 10, Dr. Coltrane said, and he
expects many more students to ar
rive before registration closes June
10. He revealed the students re
gistering for the summer work were
largely from North and South Caro
lina and Tennessee.
Classes began Tuesday with
eighteen members of the regular
college faculty carrying on the
work. C. E. Buckner, dean of the
college, said that enough freshmen
enrolled to form a regular fresh
man class. All regular work, in
cluding courses in both Chemistry
and physics, leading to the engi
neering profession, are being offer
ed in the summer session which
will close on September 16.
Dr. Coltrane announced that the
civilian pilot training work will be
continued this summer under
Giad> ■ w. Campbell, head of the in
dustrial division of the college. Mr.
Campbell will have a quota of
twenty students in his civilian pilot
class. During the winter and spring
session, Mr. Campbell was assign
ed a quota of ten boys for the civil
ian pilot training work, but for the
summer session his quota has been
doubled, since the college pro
gram was approved by the Navy
V-l and the Army air reserve pro
grams.
HOSPITAL ROOM
BE FURNISHED BY
PHILATHEA CLASS
A room in the new Transylvania
Community hospital, now nearing
completion, will be furnished by
the Philathea Sunday School class
of the First Baptist church, accord
ing to George W. Wheeler,
treasurer of the hospital campaign
fund.
Members of the class have con
tributed $150 for the furnishing of
the room, Mr. Wheeler said yester
day.
At Community Hospital
Patients reported to be in the
Transylvania Community hospital
on Wednesday were: Ann Gillespie,
Mrs. Bishop Talley, Hale Chamber
lain and O. L. McKelvey.
FORT BRAGG GUNS LINED FOR INSPECTION
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These 155-mrn. guns shown at Fort Bragg represent some of the heaviest hitting power of the Army.
They are not in firing position, but are drawn up for inspection by Secretary of War Henry L. Stim
son. Col. Walter W. Hess, Jr., is1 in charge of the Provisional Field Artillery Brigade. These guns
have a range of more than fifteen miles.
Aged Citizen Dies
T. H. HAMPTON
T. H. HAMPTON
DIES YESTERDAY
Oldest Brevard Citizen And
Former Clerk Of Court
Was Civic Leader
Thomas Hilliard Hampton, oldest
Brevard citizen and active in civic
and political affairs of Transylvania
county, died suddenly at his home
early yesterday morning at 1
o’clock, and funeral arrangements
were incomplete last night.
Mr. Hampton was 92 years of age,
and had been in feeble condition for
some time, although he was active
until his death. He was clerk of
court of this county for one term,
and was a merchant here for years.
He represented the 10th congres
sional district at the national Re
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War Asked On Balkans;
Aerial Assaults Devastate
Great Nazi Arsenal Cities
Hitler Begins Burge In Ger
many As Reports Food
Conditions Worse
Congress prepared yesterday to
give prompt approval to President
Roosevelt’s request for a declara
tion of war on Bulgaria, Hungary
and Rumania, which the President
said were “instruments of Hitler.”
They “are now engaged in mili
tary activities directed against the
United Nations and are planning
an extension of these activities,”
declared the President.
On the German frontier, hun
dreds of thousands were reported
as being moved from the Rhineland
following joint United States-Bri
BULLETIN
The Japanese began their
looked for attacks to the north
yesterday afternoon by bomb
ing Dutch Harbor, the Ameri
can base of the Aleutian Is
lands, which extend from the
coast of Alaska.
Military heads have been
looking for a move by the Ja
panese in this direction, and
this is the first attack in the
direction of Alaska.
tish mass aerial assaults thab*de
vastated Cologne and Essen war
plants. The United Nations air at
tack seemed launched to blast the
Reich out of the war city by city
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Official Democratic Primary Vote In Transylvania
ELECTION
PRECINCT
Boyd
Brevard 1
Brevard 2
Brevard 3 ,
Cathey’s Crk.
Cedar Mt.
Dunn’s Rock
East Pork
Eastatoe
Gloucester 1
Gloucester 2
Hogback 1
Hogback 2
Hogback 3
Little River
Old Toxaway
Rosman
TOTALS
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78 33
302 126
386 191
77 27
127 106
7 6
123 54
5 87
87 52
18 12
14 8
69 11
40 1
41 10
20 12
8 10
103 31
1505 777
SHERIFF
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30
136
196
36
54
12
68
33
40
5
12
25
16
5
3
10
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53 37
114 202
234 196
24 56
59 131
0
46
28
59
6
6
24
13
38
12
13
44
1
66
31
42
19
4
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12
8
17
5
62
713 763 919
CORONER
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33 78
202 223
197 371
36 72
96 131
4 9
39 112
43 43
38 84
13 11
7 12
33 44
28 11
24 24
13 18
7 11
41 87
854 1341
SENATOR
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101 17
373 63
420 155
98 16
174 59
11 1
128 35
81 10
103 30
25 4
19 2
71 7
35 5
41 10
28 4
12 7
84 51
1804 478
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Record Rainfall
Since ’16 Flood
Record rainfall for a single
month, since the 1916 flood,
fell in Transylvania during
May, according to the local
meteorological report, as over
13 inches of rain was record
ed.
This is between 20 to 25
per cent of average rainfall
for the year, based on com
parison with past years, as
approximately 65 inches is
usually recorded for the year.
June started out Monday to
be a drier month, however, as
the sun ran the thermometer
to a high level for Brevard, 1
and Tuesday a high of 87 was
recorded against a 42 low.
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WOMEN OF LOCAL
RED CROSS MAKE
MANY GARMENTS
Women of the local Red Cross
chapter are producing many gar
ments each month for the comfort
of soldiers and sailors, reports of
the production committee show.
Last week, 190 hospital bed shirts
were shipped by the local chapter
to Sea Girt, N. J., for trans-shipping
to centers where they will be put
in use. All garments are made to
government specifications.
In addition to the sewing for
hospitals, there are also 143 ladies
now engaged in knitting woolen
sweaters and other pieces of wear
ing apparel for use by the boys
during the coming winter. Some
of the ladies have already knitted
more than half dozen garments
each, and are continuing in the
work.
Mrs. Roy Long and Mrs. Henry
Carrier are in charge of the sew
ing production, and Mrs. John W.
Smith in charge of the knitting.
NAVY FUNDS WILL
TOTAL $600 HERE
The Navy Relief drive will be
ended June 15, according to re
quest by the state chairman that
all reports be in by that time, local
chairman C. F. Misenheimer said
yesterday.
Incomplete reports until today
show the Transylvania contribution
will be over $600 towards the Navy
Relief fund, as $549 is now in with
the campaign yet to be finished.
“Transylvania county has done
mighty well in this drive,” Chair
man Misenheimer said yesterday.
The local* collection will be sent
to Dr. F. M. Haynes, of Duke uni
versity, state chairman.
$27,677 BOUGHT
IN TRANSYLVANIA
FOR PAST MONTH
June Quota Set At $17,200
For County; All Pledges
Not Yet Reported
Sale of war bonds and stamps
in Transylvania county for May
more than doubled this county’s
quota, reported Chairman E. H.
McMahan of the local war savings
staff yestehlay, as sales totaled
$27,677, which surpasses by over
$16,000 the $11,000 quota assigned
Transylvania. The quota for June
was also given yesterday as $17,200
for the county.
Report of the pledge-signing cam
paign through yesterday, although
incomplete, showed Transylvania
citizens pledging to purchase
$7,890.50 in war bonds or stamps
each month of this year, Chairman
McMahan declared. He esitmates
this campaign to be 80 per cent
complete, with some pledge books
still unreported from workers.
“Our June quota of $17,200 is
$6,500 more than May, but $10,000
short of our actual sales,” Mr. Mc
Mahan emphasized, “and we must
meet this quota. Future quotas
will be increased.”
State Admistrator C. H. Robert
son, in announcing Transylvania’s
new quota, said that all indications,
are the state quota for the month,
of May will be considerably ex
ceeded.
The Pisgah mills helped swell
sales here for the past month by
purchasing $10,000 in bonds, but
sales from all other sources totaled
$17,675 in the county. Mr. McMa
han pointed out that sales far ex
ceeded pledges, but it is believed
many did not pledge who are buy
ing regularly. He urged all who
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MANY WANT SUGAR
FOR HOME CANNING
Applicants Received At Ra
tion Office In Element
ary School
Hundreds of applicants for home
canning sugar are applying at the
local rationing board office here in
the Brevard elementary school
building, and many are having to
be turned away because all cannot
be accommodated each day, the
clerk of the board, Mrs. Ernestine
Davis, said yesterday afternoon.
The ration office is open fr6m
10 a. m. to 12 noon, and from 1 p.
m. until 3:30 p. m., except Satur
day.
Each holder of war ration book
one may obtain a certificate to pur
chase five additional pounds of
sugar for canning purposes, Mrs.
Davis pointed out. Applicants must
have the first ration book issued
with them, and only place of regist
ration is at the local rationing of
fice, which was only recently mov
ed from the courthouse to the ele
mentary school. Entrance to the
office is the door facing the high
school building.
Persons applying for tire per
mits should appear at the board
meetings on Monday or Thursday
nights at 7 o’clock, the clerk said,
but applications can be received at
the office.
Some gasoline ration cards have
recently been turned in, accord
ing to Mrs. Davis, as vehicle opera
tors exchanged for cards of lower
limits. The office is handling gaso
line, tire and sugar rationing.
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Leaves For West
But Takes Tires
T. K. Chamberlain is leav
ing here tomorrow by train
for Arizona, instead of in his
1934 model pick-up truck as
planed, but he will not leave
behind the rare tires on the
vehicle.
Officials of the department
of the interior informed
Chamberlain, who is with the
fish and wildlife service, that
a truck similar to his could
be found at a hatchery near
Las Vegas, Nev., and for him 1
i to take the tires from his
truck here and put them on
the one at Las Vegas.
While packing, Chamber
lain included the tires.
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