THE TRA
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
BUY
UNITED
STATES
AND
STAMPS
Vol. 52: No. 27
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
PROPERTY VALUATION PASSES SIX MILLION IN COUNTY
Parade And Patriotic Program Will Be
Features Of Victory Celebration Here
FREE FILMS BE
SHOWN AT HIGH
SCHOOL EVENT
Parade Begins At 7:45;
Will Have Groups Of
County In March
The “Victory Celebration” in
Brevard this Friday evening will
be featured by a street parade be
ginning at 7:45 p. m., to be im
mediately followed by a patriotic
program in the local high school
auditorium.
The parade will start from West
Main street near the England home
and march via the square and on to
the high school. A group of girls
from Camp Deerwoode on horse
back, provided by Gale Burke of
Memphis, will head the parade.
The American Legion post, dis
playing the new post and national
flags, will be followed by groups
from all civic and fraternal organ
izations of Transylvania county.
The uniform rank degree teams
from the Rosman Woodmen and
Woodmen Circle units, Boy and
Girl scouts in uniform, representa
tives of Brevard College, a bicycle
brigade and an unique arrangement
by the Red Cross will be among
the parade features. Mayor Carl
Hardin and President R. R. Fish
er of the chamber of commerce
will ride in a buggy.
The program at the high school
will include sound motion picture
subjects on home and fighting
fronts. The local theatre
agement has arranged for the films,
which will be shown free of charge,
and the Brevard College projection
machine will be used.
Two reels will be of events lead
ing up to the war, another will
show Hitler’s blitzkrieg methods
called “Master of Timing”, and
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Lions Carnival
Be Staged Next
Week Two Nights
A benefit carnival with 15 con
cessions will be staged by the Lions
club in front of Brevard high school
on Thursday and Friday evenings
of next week for the entertainment
of tourists and to raise funds for
the club’s sight conservation pro
gram, club officers announced yes
terday.
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce will have street dances on
Thursday, as well as Monday,
nights next week. The entertain
ment will start in the evenings at
8 o’clock.
The committee named in charge
of the carnival is Harold Kilpatrick,
D. H. Luther ,Jimmy Smith, John
Anderson, and Chas. Moore.
Stores Closing
Monday; County
Offices Fourth
Stores and business houses
of Brevard will close Monday
instead of Saturday for the
Fourth of July week end, ac
cording to announcement made
today by local managers, while
county offices at the court
house will not be open on the
Fourth.
Other than county offices not
opening Saturday will be the
local bank, and the Selective
Service office, which was not
ified yesterday the draft of
fices are being given a holiday
for the Fourth. The rationing
board office will be open Sat
urday as usual, but will be
t closed on Monday.
Regular Saturday mail ser
vice will be maintained at the
post office here, but rural de
liveries have been accepted
from an order by Postmaster
General Frank C. Walker. The
post office will be open on the
Fourth and will sell War Bonds
and Stamps on this patriotic
holiday.
COUNTY GATHERS
46 TONS RUBBER
Campaign Being Continued
And WPA Truck* Asked
I • For Rural Areas
Transylrfu^a county has collect
ed 92,000 pounds of scrap rubber
in the salvage campaign, which has
been extended until July 10, Chair
man H .D. Wyatt of the county sal
vage committee said yesterday.
This 46 tons has been gathered
at the filling stations throughout
the county, Mr. Wyatt declared,
and much rubber is yet to be ob
tained from the rural sections. He
said a request had been made the
area WPA office in Asheville for
collection trucks to come gather
the scrap in the rural areas. Julian
A. Glazener is co-chairman of the
salvage committee, and has charge
of rural collections.
The scrap rubber so far collected
was reported as follows: Brevard,
21% tons; Little River, four tons;
Penrose, three tons; Pisgah For
est, four tons; Rosman, six and one
half tons; Lake Toxaway, five tons, j
and Cedar Mountain, two tons.
Mr. Glazener said farm commun
ity leaders are urging county resi
dents to place the scrap in a con
venient place where the salvage
trucks can pick it up, weigh it,
and give the owner a government
voucher, thereby getting the scrap
quickly to the separating centers
where it can be dispatched to the
proper mills for processing.
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Following Transylvania
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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. J. W. Jackson, of!
Brevard, Route 2, have two sons,
in military service, and a daugh
ter in 1mny training school. SGT.
HUEY JACKSON entered the ser
vice on April 7, 1941, going first to
Fort Bragg in the field artillery,
then to New York and from there
to Fort Sill, Okla. He is now
somewhere in the Pacific. CHIEF
QUARTERMASTER WALTER
JACKSON has been in the service
for 18 years. He is in the navy and
is now in the Pacific warring zone.
The daughter, ELIZABETH JACK
SON, is with the army signal corps
at Fort Monmouth, N. J. After six
months training there she will be
ready for assignment for war posi
tions.
SGT. J. wtLLIS WALL, son of
Mr. and Mrs. B. Conrad Wall, ofj
Lake Toxaway, has been promoted
to the rank of technical sergeant
at Camp Lee, Va. Formerly an
instructor in the mobile laundry
training school, Sgt. Wall has been
named superintendent of a sta
tionary field laundry.
In a recent letter to friends here
from MARSHALL TEAGUE, of the
air base at Jacksonville, Fla., he
writes in part, “I’ll say it’s hot
here. I’m in my last week of avia
tion ordnance school and may go to
a squadron in Norfolk, Va., but
don’t know yet. It rains here some
but turns hotter than ever after the
tain. I sure would like to be in old
Transylvania camping in the moun
tains for awhile. It’s about time
Uncle Sam cleaned up this whole
mess and he will do it” ifamiiaii
—Torn To Pago Seven
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COUNTY QUOTA OF
BONDS SURPASSED;
$25,200 REPORTED
Transylvania Again Goes
Over Quota; Expected
$30,000 For July
Sale of War Bonds for June in
Transylvania county again surpass
ed the assigned quota when $25,
200 in bonds were purchased,
Chairman E. H. McMahan of the
county War Savings staff announ
ced yesterday. The June quota was
$17,200.
The July quota was also given
yesterday as $30,000 for Transyl
vania. and Mr. McMahan said the
county was expected to again not
only reach the assigned amount, but
to “go over the top.”
The maturity value of the bonds
in $33,600, which compared with
the $27,677 maturity value of bonds
purchased in May when the quota
was $11,000.
Mr. McMahan pointed out that
July would be the peak month for
the voluntary purchasing of the
War Bonds. The country has been
given a three month trial of buying
bonds, after a plan for forced pur
chasing of 10 per cent of income
was first discussed . Transylvania
has twice surpassed the quota given
this county.
The $25,000 in bonds were
bought in the county at the follow
ing places: Transylvania Trust Co.,
$10,468.75; Brevard post office, $4,
*43.75; Fzcgah Forest post office,
$8,625, and Federal Savings and
Loan Asso,, $1,662.50. There was
no report from Rosman.
The sale of War bonds and stamps
for July were begun here yesterday
when business houses observed a
15 minute period devoted entirely
to bond-stamp sales . A fairly good
response was reported by local
managers.
LARGEST FAIR
FOR COUNTY IS
OFF THIS YEAR
After plans had been made for
the holding of a Transylvania coun
ty fair this year, which would have
been the largest ever staged for the
county, the co-sponsors of the fair
said yesterday there would be no
exposition for the duration in Tran
sylvania.
The county farm agent and two
Brevard chambers of commerce
were to sponsor the county’s first
fair since 1936, and had arranged
to use the athletic field and gym
nasium of Brevard college for the
fair site, according to Julian A.
Glazener, county agent.
The office of defense transporta
tion in Washington asked that
all fairs be cancelled because
of travel to and from the fairs be
ing unessential.
STAGE PROPERTY
TO SCHOOL HERE
Stage scenery, valued at $1,000
has been given the Brevard ele
mentary school by the management
of the Co-Ed and Clemson theat
res, according to Principal J. E.
Kufty of the local school.
The scenery was formerly used
on the stages of the theatres here,
but had been stored in recent
months.
Mr. Rufty said the stage property
which is in good condition, will
be used at the elementary school
in addition to present scenery,
which has become somewhat worn.
The contributed property is of
three scenes, including a street
scene and a living room.
Veteran’s Service
Be Sunday Evening
The special religious service for
veterans and families of men now
serving in the armed forces has
been changed from the First Bap
tist to the Methodist church this
Sunday evening at 8 o’clock.
Rev. B. W. Thomason, chaplain
of the Monroe Wilson Legion post,
will deliver the sermon.
cu/iJcntime4 °rou^xfacieci^mox. ”
0ECLARAT/OA/ OF/ATDEPENDEA/CE - JOLy4,{f?6.
Gasoline Ration Registration
Be One Day Only In County
At All Transylvania Schools
Truck Owners To Sign At
Later Date; Autos And
Cycles On Thursday
Registration for gasoline ration
cards for passenger cars and mo
torcycles will be held at all schools
in Transylvania county on July 9,
one day only, and rationing admin
istrators were announced yester
day by the county rationing board.
Truck owners, who also must se
cure cards under the new registra
tion, will not register until a later
date to be announced, according to
the board.
A meeting of all administrators
will be held in the county com
missioners room at the courthouse
on Wednesday, July 8, at 2 p. m. for
the purpose of studying directions
and giving out supplies.
The rationing centers, adminis
trators and hours of registration at
each place will be as follows:
Brevard, J. E. Rufty, 9 a. m. to
7 p. m.
Cedar Mountain, Miss Carrie
Jones, 9 a. m to 5 p„ m.
Connestee, Mrs. L. A. Farrier, 9
a. m. to 5 p. m.
Lake Toxaway, Mrs. L. C. Case,
Jr., 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
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LAURELS
To
‘Uncle Joe’ Orr
4—
One of the oldest citizens of
the county is “Uncle Joe” Orr,
who observed his 89tn birth
day anniversary on June 30.
He still attends church regu
larly and is often called on to
deliver one of the numerous
songs he enjoys singing.
“Laurels of the Week,” Mr,
Orr, and may your good health
continue.
Report Erroneous
On Doctor Called
Dr. Julius Sader said yesterday
the report he was to leave within
two weeks for the Army was erron
eous.
“I haven’t been notified yet,” the
Brevard physician declared, “and
when I do get a notification two
weeks will be allowed in which to
report for service.”
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No Stamp Could
Draw $25 Fine
Collector of Internal Re
venue S. E. Varner said yes
terday that all owners of mo
tor vehicles, including motor
bikes and motorcycles, are j
liable to a fine of not more j
than $25 if the $5 federal !
auto use stamp was not dis- !
played by today.
Mr. Varner pointed out the \
stamp must be obtained by j
July 9, or else the vehicle j
operator cannot obtain a 1
gasoline rationing card. He J
said some did not purchase j
the original $2.09 stamp, but j
practically all of these have }
been found, and those few 1
who have not yet bought this j
stamp would have to do so, j
before buying a $5 stamp. J
0VER80%C0Uim*
TAXES COLLECTED
Penalty Increased Yester
day; Property Be Ad
vertised August
Over 80 per cent of 1941 col
lectable taxes for Transylvania
county had been collected before
the penalty was increased to four
per cent on delinquents here yes
terday, Tax Collector Edwin A.
Morgan said.
The collection of the other 20
per cent will be forced during July
and August, and the property will
be advertised in August, according
to Mr. Morgan.
The 1941 assessment was for
$100,000, of which a little more
than $80,000 is now in, which is
considered a much better collection
than in recent years.
The increase in tax penalty yes
terday was one-half of one per cent,
which will bring to four cents the
extra payment property owners
must make who have waited until
past time to pay the county money
owed for taxes.
COUNTY HAS 350
YOUTHS TO SIGN
IN REGISTRATION
Young men of 18 and 19 years
of age registered' Tuesday for the
fifth time age groups have signed
under the Selective Service, and
339 had been reported as register
ing in Transylvania county, but
two places had not given reports
yesterday, according to Mrs. Allie
B. Harllee, clerk.
The final number was expected
to be 350 for the county, Mrs. Harl
lee said. This was the figure esti
mated last week.
Of the number signing in Tran
sylvania, however, there were 69
from several different states and
will not be counted from this coun
ty. These were young men at
summer camps in this section, and
also tourists, who are from states
all over Eastern America and the
West.
No national lottery will be held
to determine the order numbers of
these men, but they will be given
their serial and order numbers on
the basis of their birth dates, ac
cording to the selective service
system.
This age group is the best phy
sically and mentally to register.
Housing Shortage In Brevard Shows Only One
Resident Unit To 600; Below National Average
Brevard housing vacancies are so
few and far between until there
appears no available dwelling units
for rent, and the vacancy rate at
present is about .003 per cent
compared with a national average
of 2.7, according to a local survey
this week.
In reality, the habitable rental
vacancy rate is only about one
house in every 600, which is con
siderably less than most municipal
ities over the country.
That housing space is at a pre
mium is attested to by local real
estate dealers, who have only a few
unoccupied houses listed for sale,
and practically none for rent. The
housing survey revealed only 2 va
cant houses in Brevard that could
be rented at the present time, and
these were expected to be occupied
immediately.
It is said that a few houses are
under construction' but they are
not intended for rent. Some few
homes with residents at present are
also on the real estate market for
sale.
All the new units reported in the
survey are in white neighborhoods,
and agents said when these are sold
there will be no more for the dur
ation.
The available apartments are
about like the houses—there just
aren’t any. Although vacancies do
occur occasionally in Brevard be
cause of occupants moving, these
apartments are always quickly tak
en and could not be considered as
vacant in a shortage survey.
Brevard has not been affected
as have some communities by the
war program. Other cities are re
porting residents moving away to
find employment in defense in
dustries with no influxation to take
their places. More citizens have
been moving into Brevard than
have been moving away, it seems.
The fact that there has been a
greater percentage of housing
shortage here is best shown by the
increase in rent for the last four or
five years, which has jumped
around $10 over that period. An
average residence in Brevard today,
if you’re lucky enough to find one
for rent, is froht $35 to $45, and
small apartments are renting for
the former rates of houses.
INCREASE OF HALF
MILLION OVER 1941
REPORT THIS YEAR
Increase Comes From New
Buildings; Board To
Set Up Tax Budget
An increase of almost half a mil
lion dollars in valuation of Tran
sylvania county real and personal
property has been reported for
1942, compared with a year ago,
according to E. C. Allison, chair
man of the board of county com
missioners.
The first report on the 1942 list
ing, given this week by Mr. Allison
in the absence of Tax Supervisor
Ralph Lyday, gives a total valua
tion of $6,090,000 for the county,
while last year the report was $5,
500,000.
“Practically all in the increase
conies from new buildings,” the
commissi oners’ chairman said,
which shows the rapid rate with
which Transylvania has been grow
ing in recent years. The 1941 re
port was almost one million over
the previous year.
The county commissioners will
meet next Monday for the regular
session, at which time a tentative
budget will be suggested to be
passed on to the local governing
commission. The budget is to be
approved, and the tax rate set, the
first of August.
The commissioners pass the first
six months of this year with $9,
703.0 interest funding bonds hav
ing been retired since January 1,
and Mr. Allison said the county was
in financial shape to purchase more
bonds. The bonded indebtedness
of the county is now $1,535,000, but
the interest payments are being
met and some bonds retired.
Since the refunding plan of 1937,
when the bonds were placed at a
lower rate of interest, the finan
cial condition of the county has
been much improved. Whereas
one time the bonds were being ask
ed at 20 cents, or less, on the dol
lar, they are now bringing 80 cents
on market sale with 90 cents ask
ed.
The county went in debt before
the state took over highways, and
at the time the road commission
was over the county commissioners
in appropriating funds for county
highways. Transylvania was placed
in an unfortunate situation when
the old road commissioners gave to
the state, instead of borrowing as
most counties, and does not now
receive returns.
The maturity date of the bonds
outstanding is 1972, but the county
can call them in at any time. All
excess funds of the county are held
for retirement of bonds.
Dean Buckner To
Be Chapel Hill
For Three Years
C. E. Buckner, dean and regis
trar of Brevard College, was grant
ed a leave of absence for the next
three years, at a meeting of the
board of trustees last week-end in
Statesville, Dr. E. J. Coltrane, presi
dent of the College, announced yes
terday.
“It is our understanding that
Dean Buckner will pursue the quest
for Ph.D. degree at the University
of North Carolina, in addition to
some administrative and teaching
duties in the public schools of
Chapel Hill,” Dr. Coltrane said.
He said the board granted the leave
of absence to Dean Buckner some
what reluctantly, and expressed
sincere appreciation for the ser
vices he has rendered Brevard col
lege.
In addition to his work as dean
and registrar at the college, Dean
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Beauty Winner Be
Crowned At Dance
The Bundles for America bene
fit dance at the Brevard country
club this Friday evening from 10
till 2 will be featured by the crown
ing of “Miss Brevard”, who is being
named in a local beauty contest
now underway.
Guy Hensley and his orchestra
will play for the dance. The beau
ty winner to be announced will
come from 17 contestants for the
title, and will be crowned by W. P.
Jordan, master of ceremonies.
Ballots for the contest will be
taken up at local stores this after*
noon.