The Transylvania Times
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
Vol. 52: No. 25
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
U. S. DIGNITARIES TO BE ECUSTA GUESTS
GOVERNORS COMING
TO BREVARD FROM
34TH CONFERENCE
Will Have Luncheon At Pis
gah Forest Plant, Visit
Sites of Transylvania
Governors, ambassa dors
and other dignitaries attend
ing the 34th National Gov
ernors conference in Ashe
ville will be guests of the
Ecusta Paper corporation at
a luncheon here next Wed
nesday at 1 p. m., President
Harry H. Straus of Ecusta
said yesterday.
Adjournment of the governers
conference will follow immediately
after the luncheon, and those at
tending will be asked to visit the
numerous scenic wonders in Tran
sylvania county and to see Pisgah
National forest. The luncheon
guests will inspect the Ecusta plant,
which is the only American manu
facturer of cigarette paper which
went into production just in time
to avert a critical shortage due to
cessation of imports from Europe,
which before the war produced all
paper used in American cigarette
manufacture.
This will be a momentous oc
casion for Transylvania county, as
the nation’s outstanding personages
will visit here. The Town of Bre
vard will make ready to welcome
the distinguished guests of the day.
Other than the governors prac
tically every state in the Union
attending the conference will be
ambassadors from principal coun
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JAYCEE SUMMER
STREET DANCES
ARE SCHEDULED
The Brevard Junior Chamber of
Commerce will launch its summer
program of entertainment for tour
ists and townspeople next Monday
night when the first street dance
is scheduled, President John And
erson announced yesterday.
The dance will be held again on
Broad street in front of the high
school, and John Pickelsimer and
Vernon “Red” Fullbright will be in
charge of arrangements. A local
string band will furnish music.
In cooperation with the sale of
war bonds and stamps, the Jaycees
will charge a 10c war stamp for
every alternate dance. War stamps
will be on sale at bandstand each
Monday night.
Next week’s dance will be the
first in the series of street dances
to be held each Monday night this
summer. Dancing will begin promp
tly at 9 o’clock, and spectators, as
well as dancers, are cordially in
vited, President Anderson stated.
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Welcome Edition
Be Out Next Week
A special Welcome edition
to the governors of the Unit
ed States and ambassadors,
who will be in Brevard next
Wednesday as guests of Ecus
ta Paper corporation, will be
published next week by The
Transylvania Times, and the
cooperation of readers, news
contributors and advertisers
i is asked.
The Times will endeavor
to make this edition herald
the advantages and attrac
tions of Transylvania county,
; with the outstanding indus
tries, scenic wonders, muni
cipal accomplishments, and
other highlights included.
Deadline on all copy will
be Tuesday afternoon, and
The Times will appreciate as
sistance of all in this Wel
come edition.
SUMMER CAMPS TO
OPEN SOON WITH
BIG ENROLLMENT
Three Camps Opening This
Week In Transylvania;
Others Make Plans
(Note: The Times will begin
a weekly feature story on each
camp of the county next week,
and cooperation of camp di
rectors is asked.)
Summer camps in Transylvania
county are getting under way with
directors reporting registrations
equal, and in some cases above,
those of last year at this time.
Camp Carolina for boys, with an
enrollment of about 145 already
signed for the summer, will open
on June 24 for an eight weeks’ ses
sion. D. Meade Bernard of Jack
sonville, Fla., is director of this
camp, which is attended by boys
from approximately 15 states.
The Y. W. C. A. Camp Burgiss
Glenn opened last week at Cedar
Mountain with a group of Green
ville, S. C., girls there for a one
week stay. The younger girls’
camp ends this Saturday, and a
counselors orientation period will
be held 20-24, after which the regu
lar eight-week program will begin.
Camp Cateechee, the Girl Scout
area resort near Brevard, will.open
Sunday. Miss Dorothy Donnell of
Charlotte is director of the camp.
Rockbrook camp opens July 1 for
its 22nd season, and Mrs. H. N.
Carrier, director, says that regis
tration is now completed with a
waiting list. Both junior and sen
ior camps are filled, she reports,
with girls representing approxi
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Following Transylvania
This column is devoted to news of men serving
their country. Such news is solicited from parents
and friends of these men. “Revenge Pearl Harbor”
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Fisher have
four sons who are now in the ser
vice of Uncle Sam. WOODROW
FISHER is located at Camp Grant,
111. For some time he was in the
government hospital there taking
treatment for injuries received in
a car wreck. He is now apparently
fully recovered and is doing work
in the army camp hospital. PAUL
FISHER is stationed at Camp For
est, Tenn., where he is assistant
supply sergeant. R. T. FISHER,
Jr., is at St. Paul, Minn. He is
military policeman, having taken
training for that service. MEADE
FISHER has gone overseas and is
doing service somewhere in the war
zone.
M. O. McCALL, Jr., and J. B. Me*
CALL, sons of Mr. and Mrs. M. O.
McCall, are doing their bit in the
service of the United States. M. O.
is somewhere outside of the United
States. J. B. is located at South
Charleston, W. Va.
PVT. OTIS SHIPMAN, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. O. Shipman, of Pisgah
Forest, was graduated June 11 from
the world’s largest air corps tech
nical school at Sheppard Field,
Texas, where he attended classes
for the past five months. Now
qualified as one of the eight specia
lists necessary to keep one plane
in thd air, he is eligible for assign
ment to any unit maintained by the
air £orps.
COUP. RUSSELL V. BATSON,
who is at Fort Randolph, Canal
Zone, in a letter to The Times, re
newing his subscription to the pa
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TRANSYLVANIA’S NEW HOSPITAL OPENS SATURDAY
THE TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, above, was only recently completed at an outlay of
approximately 890,000, and is being opened to the public at dedicatory exercises this Saturday after
noon at 2 o’clock, when Gov. Broughton will deliver the principal address. The 25-hed hospital is rea
lized after work on the part of many Transylvania citizens since 1939, and numerous residents of the
county have contributed to its erection. (Photo by Austin)
DIRECTOR AT B. C.
MISS NANCY BLANTON is the
new physical education director
of Brevard college, and will have
charge of the sports activities at
the local school for the coming
year. (Times staff photo)
ATHLETICS UNDER
DIRECTION WOMAN
Brevard College Appoints
Miss Blanton Physical
Education Director
Brevard College goes patriotic
for its first full-time session of sum
mer school in appointing a woman
to direct physical education for
both men and women. Miss Nancy
Blanton, women’s physical educa
tion director for the school year
1941-1942, has been appointed to
the position formerly occupied by
L. W. Roberts ,who left to take a
job in Kentucky, as men’s physical
education director.
Miss Nancy Blanton of Eilenboro
graduated from Woman’s College
of the University of North Carolina
in 1941, and received her BS de
gree in health and physical educa
tion. Miss Blanton was an out
standing athlete while at Woman’s
College, and she is very popular
here.
Miss Blanton has received her
Red Cross instructor’s degree in
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Mrs. Raines Hurt
When Hit By Bus
Mrs. Mack Raines, 35, of Rosman,
was reported yesterday at the Tran
sylvania Community hospital to be
in fair condition after being struck
by a passenger bus near Rosman
Monday afternoon.
She was admitted to the hospital
here at 4:50 a few minutes after be
ing hit by the bus, reported to be
operated by the Smoky Mountain
Trailways. Hospital attaches said
Mrs. Raines suffered fractures of
both legs and a scalp injury.
Scrap Rubber 1$ Collected At
Service Stations; Metal To
Be Gathered By WPA Trucks
Every filling station and garage in Transylvania
county is now a depot to receive scrap rubber in a county
wide salvage campaign to gather the elastic and metal, af
ter an appeal by President Roosevelt for every person to
turn in “every bit of rubber you can possibly spare.”
Service stations in Brevard re
ported yesterday afternoon that
much scrap was being brought in,
“mostly by young boys”, and one
place reported a ton of rubber
brought in Monday with a total of
about four tons for three days.
Other stations said collections were
increasing daily.
The county salvage committee
met Monday night at the City Hall
and Chairman H. D. Wyatt divided
Brevard into two zones for the col
lection. William Wallis will head
the south zone, with Ralph Fisher
chief warden of the north zone.
E. H. McMahan has been appoint
ed chairman of the call publicity
committee, and he is directing an
appeal especially for rubber
throughout Transylvania county.
Persons turning in the scrap
will get a due bill from the service
station operators after the rubber
is weighed, or the receipt can be
turned over to organization or war
fund.
The question whether nation
wide gasoline rationing will be
ordered to save rubber may depend
on the success of the rubber collec
tion drive, according to President
Roosevelt. For this reason, respon
sibility for the rubber salvage drive
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After 30 Years,
Calls Relative
Walter Murphy, who left
i this county 30 years ago and
had not been heard from
since, called his brother,
Wash, in Pickens, Saturday
night from Seattle, Wash., by
telephone.
He reports he has been in
Alaska, where he will return
soon. He has relatives in the
county, and his parents were
the late Mr. and Mrs. Law
rence Murphy.
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Union Service Be
Held Here Sunday
A union service of the churches
of Brevard will be held Sunday
evening at 8 o’clock in the First
Baptist church to welcome the new
Presbyterian pastor, the Rev. E.
Ashby Johnson.
The Rev. Mr. Johnson will deliver
the sermon, and music will be by
the combined choirs of the local
churches.
New Transylvania Community
Hospital Open After Program
Harry H. Straus Will Introduce Governor Broughton; J.
B. Jones To Present Building To Public; Ralph H.
Ramsey Jr. To Read Letter From Dr. Rankin
Governor J. Melville Broughton will dedicate the
Transylvania Community hospital Saturday afternoon at
a dedicatory program beginning to 2 o’clock, to which
every citizen of Transylvania county has been invited to
attend, and at which time the new $90,000 hospital will
open its doors, the chairman of the board of trustees,
Harry H. Straus, announced yesterday.
TO SPEAK HERE
GOV. J. MELVILLE BROUGH
TON will deliver the principal
address at the dedication of the
Transylvania Community hospit
al here Saturday afternoon at 2
o’clock, and a large crowd from
this section is expected to hear
his talk.
C. OF C. DRIVE BE
HELD NEXT TUES.
Budget Adopted By Cham
ber Before One - Day
Membership Drive
Annual membership drive for the
Chamber of Commerce will be held
here next Tuesday with directors
and workers in the civic group call
ing on citizens and business lead
ers, and expecting to complete the
work in one day.
In meantime, those who wish,
may call at the office of the civic
body in the city hall and pay the
secretary, Mrs. Ralph Fisher. Sev
eral people have already done so,
Mrs. Fisher reports.
Budget of $1,132 has been set for
the year, including direct-by-mail
advertising, newspaper space, coun
try road signs, and other media.
At a meeting of the directors
last Thursday it was stressed that
the chamber could not afford to
slow down this year, because there
are hundreds of people who will go
somewhere for vacations, and liter
ature is being mailed every day to
possible patrons of the community.
Doesn’t Take $1,000 To Get Married In County
Today As Did When First License Issued In 1861
Getting married in Transylvania
county today does not require the
capital it once took, when the fu
ture bridegrooms posted a bond of
$500 to $1,000. Now a couple has
to only be in good physical condi
tion to obtain permit to wed in this
state.
Today the applicant for a license
needs only $5, of which the state
gets three and the county keeps
two.
The first marriage license is
sued and recorded on the records
of Transylvania was on August 18,
1861, when B. F. Kilpatrick paid the
bond and license, and filed state tak
of one dollar, to get a permit to
wed Mary S. Burns. They were
married by Arza Orr, Esq., accord
ing to records in the courthouse
here.
Other couples married in the
county from 1861 until prior to re
modeling of the constitution in 1868
posted a bond to get permission to
wed. Bonds on file are for both
$500 and $1,000, but it is believed
this difference in amount of bond
required was whether the couples
were residents of this county or
not, and also the financial status of
the bridegroom.
The bonds were for the purpose
of determining whether or not a
prospective bridegroom was eligi
ble to marry. Eligibility, of course,
meant freedom to make a marriage
contract. A man with a living
wife is a perfect example of ineligi
bility.
“That wasn’t a bad idea,” one
Brevard lawyer said in discussing
requirement of the bond. At least
it served to keep down more than
one wife to a husband until the
marriage license system was sub
stituted.
The Marriage Bond Law was
scrapped in 1869 when the license
system was started. From time to
time the General Assembly has
passed various laws affecting mar
riage license applicants. The pres
ent law, adopted in 1939, is one of
the strictest in the country. It re
quires physical examination of all
applicants and statements from re
gistered physicians that the appli
cants are physically and mentally
capable and, in addition, two blood
tests of every applicant. For this
reason, many North Carolina cou
ples take themselves to South Caro
lina to be enjoined.
The old records from 1861 are in
good condition in the county court
house, and Register of Deeds Mel
vin Gillespie pointed out the neat
ness of longhand in entering the
marriages. Interesting to note is
that the place of marriage was also
recorded, and one couple reported
as being married in the “public
road.” Practically all marriages
were home affairs in the 1860’s.
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North Carolina’s governor ac
cepted the invitation to come here
and speak at the opening of Tran
sylvania’s hospital, and will be his
first time a governor has spoken in
Brevard.
OTHERS TO BE HEARD
Gov. Broughton will be intro
duced by Mr. Straus, and other
short talks will be heard on the pro
gram. Dr. E. S. Rankin, of the
Duke Foundation, was asked to
come here but could not because
of an operation, but a letter from
him will be read by Ralph H. Ram
sey, Jr., past chairman and present
vice chairman of the hospital board
of trustees.
J. B. Jones, chairman of the pro
motion committee, will present the
hospital and preside for the pro
gram. Acceptance will be made
by Mr. Straus, who will also intro
duce Gov. Broughton.
Dr. E. P. Billups will open the
program with invocation, and the
Ecusta band will give musical se
lections.
The whole of Transylvania coun
ty now finds the opening of the 25
bed hospital a realization, after two
and a half years of a drive to secure
funds, which was started in the fall
of 1939.
ffc*‘ original plan called for a
$50,000 building on the lot at the
corner of Hayes street and Country
Club road, which was obtained by
the hospital some time back, look
ing towards a future building. But
after the Duke Endowment Fund
increased their donation, the goal
was raised to match this gift on a
percentage basis. The Duke fund
contributed $28,000 towards the
hospital.
MANY GIVE TO FUND
Donations to the hospital fund
have been received from numerous
citizens of the county, and from
summer residents of Transylvania.
Two drives were also held, and
largest contribution came from the
Ecusta Paper corporation employes,
who gave $20,334.26.
Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., was chair
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HANDICAP GOLF
TOURNEY TO BE
HELD JULY 1-5
The handicap golf tournament
sponsored annually by the Brevard
junior chamber of commerce will
be played July 1-5, and one more
week remains for qualifiers to play
rounds to secure handicaps.
Even the dubber can win this
tournament, Jaycee officers point
ed out, as handicaps will be assign
ed after three 18-hole rounds are
played before June 29.
Two large trophies, which will be
awarded the winner and runner-up,
are on display at Parsons Jewelry
store. Other consolation prizes
will be given bv merchants, and
will be listed nqfft week.
Qualifiers must turn in the three
18-hole cards a^.d pay the $1.00
entrance fee at the country club
prior to June 29.
LAURELS
To
MR. STRAUS
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President H. H. Straus of the
Ecusta Paper corporation has
time and again shown his civic
interest in Transylvania county,
and he is c-dntributing much
towards the future of Brevard,
but he is presented “Laurels of
the Week” because of not only
bringing Gov. Broughton here
for the hospital dedication, but
also for being host next Wed
nesday of notables from all
over America.