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1 ■ v^V; r Do Your Part To Help Win The War —- Buy War Bonds Every Pay Day And Collect Scrap Metal And Rubber! Vol. 52: No. 35. e Transylvania Times A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27,1942 PUBLISHED WEEKLY SCHOOLS OPEN WITH LARGE ENROLLMENT Sergeant Marvin Whitmire Critically Wounded By A Negro Near Camp Wheeler Condition Of Local Man Is Improving. Shot While Arresting Negro POLICEMAN IS SHOT Sergeant Marvin Whitmire, of Brevard, is slowly recovering from a severe bullet wound in his chest which he sustained last Thursday night at Macon, Ga. lie is now in a station hospital at Camp Wheel er, Ga„ and is expected to pull through all right. Sergeant Whitmire, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Glad Whitmire, of near Brevard, entered military service over a year ago and is sta tioned at Camp Wheeler, Ga„ with the military polioe detachment. Last Thursday night Sergeant AVhitmire arrested a Negro soldier in Macon. The negro was reported to have been an A.W.O.L. soldier from Fort Benning. As the serg eant was preparing to call for a wagon, the Negro started a scuffle. A Macon newspaper report of the story stated that “W. T. Reynolds and Willie F. Stuckey said they were standing in the bus depot door when they saw Sgt. Whitmire first attempt to place the Negro under arrest. “When he started to fight, they went to the sergeant's aid across on the dark side of the street. They aided in bringing the Negro to the light side of the street,” the J^aper Turn To Page Eight MATTIE NEELY TO BE BURIED TODAY Well Known Brevard Wo man Died Yesterday Af ter Lingering illness Funeral service for Miss Mattie Neely, 70, who died Wednesday morning at 9:15 o’clock at her home in Brevard, will be held this (Thursday) morning at 11 o’clock at the Neely residence in North Brevard. Rev. E. P. Billups, pas tor of the Brevard Methodist church, will conduct the service Interment will be in Oak Grove Methodist cemetery. Miss Neely, who had been in de clining health for the past year or more, was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Neely. She was a native of Brevard and had always made her home here. She was widely known throughout Bre vard and the county through the ministration of her nursing of the sick and afflicted in a great many of the homes of the community. Active pallbearers will be Harry Patton, J. C. Brewington, Roland Owen, William Wallis, Freeman Hayes and Lem Brooks. The following will serve as hon orary pallbearers: A. K. Lewis, Lamar Lewis, Dr. E. S, English, Melvin Gillespie, B. H. Freeman, Fred Johnson, Harry Sellers and Philip Price. Surviving are three sisters and three brothers, including Misses Lula, Mollie and Cora Neely. Jim and Grover Neely, all of Brevard, and Tom Neely, of California. Women Will Sell War* Stamps Here In Stores On Sat* War stamps will be sold in the .stores of Brevard all day Satur day,* sponsored by the Women's Civic club, announcement was made yesterday by Mrs. Oliver Orr, president. Mrs. H. L. Haswell will be in charge of this week’s sale. Around $400 in war stamps have been sold by the civic club in the » several previous Saturday sales, Mrs. Orr said, and it is expected that the sale on Saturday will ex ceed the number of stamps sold in the past weeks. The request is ( made that the merchants have their war stamps ready for the ladies and girls to begin their sales promptly Saturday morning. 97 ENROLLED IN AQUATIC SCHOOL AT LOCAL CAMP Director Kenning Is Well Pleased. To Close With Banquet Tuesday Ninety-seven men and women, representing 17 southern and northern states, are enrolled in the national aquatic school that is now being conducted at Camp Carolina by the American Red Cross, Harry Kenning, director and Red Cross field representative of the eastern area, stated yesterday. Serving on the faculty with Mr. Kenning are seven other members of the national staff of the Red Cross and 14 volunteer instructors. The school opened last Sunday and will close next Tuesday night with a banquet, at which time cer tificates will be presented. Friday night the campers will take a canoe trip down the French Broad river and Saturday night a costume ball will be held. A number of courses are being given and stress thorough training in swimming, life saving, accident prevention, first aid and the handl ing of canoes and small craft. “We are having a grand school and I am well pleased with the en rollment,” Mr. Kenning stated. “Due to transportation difficulties, there were a number of others who could not get here.” The states having the largest en rollment at the school are South Carolina and Florida. In addition to the southern states, students are enrolled from New York, New Jersey, Pa., Ohio and Washington, D. C. The Red Cross conducts aquatic schools at 16 different camps in the nation, 7 of which are located in the eastern area. Of the six teen, there are only two other schools besides the one at Bre vard that are held in the spring and late summer, too. These two are Camp Letts, in Maryland and Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind. The Red Cross has been holding the national aquatic schools for 21 years. Schools have been held in this county since 1931. To Give Patriotic Program On Tues. Night At Theatre All of the epochal events and personalities of these turbulent times, from the Versailles armistice to the attack on Pearl Harbor, are brought to life in the thrilling mo tion picture of the quarter-century of shame that forged the United Nations into a mighty offensive weapon, called “United We Stand,” which will be shown at the Co Ed theatre here next Tuesday night. At the invitation of the manage ment of the local theatres, the county war bond committee is go ing to hold a special patriotic program in the theatre about 9 o’clock Tuesday night after the showing of the first picture, Chair man McMahan announces. In addition to the program, a public sale of war bonds of all de nominations will be conducted. Serving on the special commit ted are Harry Sellers, Ralph Duck worth, C. M. Douglas, Jerry Je tt me and Mrs. Oliver Orr. BEEKEEPERS TO MEET HERE FRIDAY NIGHT To discuss the problem of check ing a disease that has been killing bees in the county, the Transyl vania beekeepers association will meet tomorrow night at 8 o’clock in the agriculture classroom at the Brevard high school, President David Norton announces. All members and others who are interested are urged to be pres ent. Second Front Plans Are Discussed Plans for opening a second front and the general conduct of the war were discussed by Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin during their three-hour historic conference in Russia a few days ago. The above photo was made at the time and radioed to New Yor& from Moscow. Past Seven Days Most Eventful Week For Allies During Year MRS. E. F. TILSON HEAD OF COUNTY EDUCATION ASS’N. Miss Paxton Is Vice Presi dent And Miss Earleene Poindexter, Sec’y Mrs. E. F. Tilson, a popular member of the Brevard high school faculty, was elected president of the Transylvania county unit of the North Carolina Education as sociation at the county-wide teach ers’ meeting here Tuesday. Miss Geneva Paxton, well known elementary teacher in the Rosman school, was elected vice-president and Miss Earleene Poindexter, capable and efficient commercial teacher at Brevard high, was chosen as secretary and treasurer. The selection of all officers was unanimous. All of the teachers and principals present joined the association and it is believed that by today Tran sylvania county will have 100 per cent membership in the NCEA. Supt. Jones announced that the district meeting this fall will last for only one day and that the county will send 15 representa tives, and that schools will remain open that day, if substitute teach ers can be obtained. These delegates will be appoint ed or elected later. Lieutenant Commander Wood ford W. Zachary, of the U. S. Navy, Washington, D. C., spent a few days’ furlough here with his moth er, Mrs. Beulah Zachary this week. Capture Islands, I n v a d e Coast, Brazil Declares War, Convoy Arrives With the successful invasion of the Solomon Islands, the allied at tack on the French coast, U. S. convoy in England, the Brazilian government declaring war on Ger many and Italy, the Russians de livering counter blows on the Nazis, and the conclusion of conferences between Churchill and Stalin, the past week has been highly event ful and significant one for the al lied nations in the world at war. Last Thursday the Navy offi cially announced the capture of Solomon Islands and Tuesday of this week the Japs returned to the Solomons with a huge armada, with the hope of re taking the vital Pacific. Latest reports yesterday were that this armada is being smashed by our Navy and air forces. Six enemy warships were badly damaged, and the battle is still raging. Vast quantities of war materials and crack fighting units arrived at British ports on Sunday, emphasiz ing the prospects of a second front, which was started by the invasion rehearsal of last week. After declaring war against the Axis last Saturday, Brazil is mobil izing all of its natural and human resources for the war. She was the first South American nation to take a stand against the Axis and other nations are expected to fol low her lead and join the Allies. The darkest picture for the allies is in Russia where 1,000,000 Ger mans are driving towards Stalin grad, a key industrial city. The Reds are putting up a stiff resist ence, but Hitler’s forces are mov ing slowly forward. Dr. James Thinks Government Should Correct Minor Defects The government should make arrangements to provide medical service for men who are turned down because of minor physical disabilities and should direct in struction or work for those men who are rejected because of educa tional deficiencies, is the opinion of Dr. Joseph E. James, prominent Trenton, Tennessee Presbyterian minister and draft board chairman who is spending a vacation here. “Many men are being rejected because of minor physical aliments which could easily be corrected by operation,” he said. “At the pres ent time, in order for these men to get into actiye service, they have to bear the expense of the opera tions. I think it would be wise for our government to resume this service. “I also think that men turned down because they cannot read and write should be taught and there by enabled to enter service,” he declared. In regard to conscientious ob jectors and others who do not want to fight, Dr. James said that “a man who won’t fight for his country when it is fighting for its very existence is very disloyal.” In addition to his work as chair man of the Trenton, Tenn., number one draft board and pastor of the First Presbyterian church there, Dr. James is grand chaplain of the Grand Masonic Lodge of Tennes see, chairman of two committees in the Memphis Presbytery and is en gaged in other activities. He and his family have been coming to Brevard almost every year for the past 35 years. He owns some property in the county, and has a wide acquaintance here. “Of course I like the scenery and the climate, but the thing I like most is these mountain people,” he said. Dr. James is staying at the Wal termire hotel and will leave Mon day. •* AUGUST BOND SALE NEARLY HITS QUOTA With four more days left, the August sale of war bonds and stamps in Transylvania county is $2,800 short of the month’s quota of $19,200. Chairman E. H. McMahan, in reporting sales yesterday, expressed the assurance that the quota would be reached, and urged every one to co operate to the fullest possible extent. Sales to date total $16,400. The September quota for the county will probably be $30, 000, he said. Keep ’em flying. Buy war bonds and stamps! 4m—W»uM»|i8—H— . COUNTY TEACHERS PLEDGE FUU AID IN WINNING WAR By Resolution They Re-Af firm Loyalty To Nation And War Effort The teachers of Transylvania, through the officers of the coun ty teachers association, yesterday reaffirmed their loyalty to the federal government and re-dedicat ed themselves to the prosecution of the nation’s war effort. The resolution, adopted by the association’s officers yesterday, was worded identically the same as one prepared by T. C. Hender son and adopted by the Transyl vania county teachers association in 1917, except that the name of President Roosevelt was substitut ed in the place of President Wilgpr. The resolution is as follows: “We, the members of the Tran sylvania County Teachers Associa tion, at this time of unprecedented conditions of world war, recognize that the first duty of the hour is whole-hearted loyalty to our nation. Our supreme wish is to give the fullest measure of service for the sacred cause of our country and our allies in defense of democracy and righteousness. We pledge to President Roose velt and the national administra tion, and to our Governor, State Superintendent and county offi cials, that we will conduct all edu cational affairs committed to our care in this spirit, supporting the conduct of the war and upholding the Federal Government with ab solute loyalty. We rejoice that our young men and young women have manifest Turn To Page Eight Dr. Everington To Give Lecture Sunday The last of the Sunday evening union services for this season will be held at the Methodist church Sunday at 8:00 p. m. Dr. John Everington, lecturer artist, will give his illustrated lec ture on “The Cathedrals of Old England.” Mr. Everington was born in Lincoln, England, and has traveled in many parts of the world making photographic studies of scenic and historical places, includ ing pictures of world famous homes, gardens and sanctuaries. In the course of his travels he has composed twenty-five illustrated lectures and the pictures which will appear on the screen in his lecture Sunday evening were hand tinted by Mr. Everington in natural col ors. On Monday evening at the Meth odist church Mr. Everington will give his lecture on the “Homes and Gardens of Old England.” Over 500 Attended Last Street Dance The last Brevard street dance of the season was held Monday night with over 500 participants and spec tators being present. John Anderson, Junior Chamber of Commerce president and spon sors of the special summer enter tainment program, announced that an average of over 500 persons had attended the seven street dances that were held this season and that from 100 to 200 persons participat ed in the dances each time. “We are well pleased with the success of the dances this season,” President Anderson said. Total Enrollment In County Estimated To Be Over 2,800, Teachers Met Here Tuesday T ransyl vania School Heads I --■-~ SUPERINTENDENT 4» J. B. JONES has been con nected with Transylvania county schools for over 15 years and has served several terms as superin tendent. DIRECTS BREVARD HI ROBERT T. KIMZEY is prin cipal of the Brevard high school and has heid this position since 1936. ROSMAN PRINCIPAL ERNEST F. TILSON, who was formerly coach at Brevard, has been principal at Bosnian high school since 1937. Pvt. Earl Fullbright, of Tacoma, Wash., is here on a 15-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Per ry Fullbright. Schools Open At 9:45 And Close at 4:30„ Wartime Problems Discussed The public schools in Brevard and Transylvania county opened yesterday morning for the 1942-43 term with what is believed to be record enrollments in most of the schools. Exact enrollment figures from the two high schools and fifteen elementary schools in the county . were not available yesterday in time for publication, but Supt. J. B. Jones estimated that the total enrollment for the county will be around 2,800, an increase over last year, as well as previous years. Approximately 650 are enrolled at Itosman, 400 at Brevard high school and around 700 in the Bre vard elementary school. At the opening exercises yes terday morning at the high school, Principal Robert T. Kimzey dis cussed the school’s activity plans for the year and the new curri culum set-up. behoofs open At 9:45 All of the schools are opening at 9:45 and closing at 4:30 in the afternoons. Plans for the opening of schools were made at a county-wide teach ers’ meeting held in the auditori um at the Brevard high school Tuesday morning. Supt. Jones presided and stated that because of the shortage of ^ires .t^u gasoline; no other coum ty-wide meeting would he held un —Turn To Page Eight 16 FINISH FIRST” AID COURSE HERE Last Course Of The Season Is Now Being Given At The City Hall ^ Fourteen members of the Red Cross First Aid class, under the instruction of Miss Sadie North, have received their certificates for completion of the standard course, and two have completed the ad vanced course, Miss North an nounced yesterday. Those finishing the standard course are: Miss Bill Aiken, Mrs. T. C. Galloway, Mrs. S. P. Verner, Mrs. Ted Schepkowski, Mrs. Gene va Farrior, Mrs. F. P. Sledge, Miss Frances Smedberg, Miss Julia Deaver, Miss Hattie Aiken, Mrs. T. E. Reid, Miss Josephine Clay ton, Miss Agnes Clayton, Miss Lillian Zachary, and Mrs. Mary Jane McCrary. The two completing the advanc ed course are Miss Dorothy Al-' lison and Mrs. Roy Kanipe. About eight members of this class, which came to a close last week, will complete their time or take the test with the First Aid class that is now in progress at the city hall on Tuesday and Thurs day nights from 7:30 to 9 o'clock, Upon completion of the class iHW* in progress, there will not be another started in Brevard until after the Christmas holidays, Miss North said, since her time will be devoted to classes in other sec tions of the county. Mrs. Mitchell Is In County Office Mrs. Tom Mitchell has been named temporary county account ant and tax supervisor of Transyl vania county by the county com missioners, and has assumed the duties in this office. Mrs. Mitchell is a well known Brevard lady, having been with the local draft board, and this summer has been on the office staff at Rockbrook camp. Miss Earleene Poindexter, wha has served temporarily in the coun ty office during the summer while Ralph Lyday is on leave of ab sence, is resuming her position of commercial teacher in Brevard high school. Mr. Lyday is reported to be im proving in health, and hopes to be able to return to Brevard soon.
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