The Transylvania Times
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
Vol. 52: No. 38
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
‘Salute To Heroes’ Days Planned
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Mayor, Defense Chairman And Draft Officials Salute Men In Service
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EXTEND WORDS OF
APPRECIATION AND
PLEDGES OF HELP
Continued Co-operation In
Buying War Bonds And
Stamps Is Assured
Mayor Carl Hardin, Ralph Ram
sey, civilian defense chairman; A.
H. Harris, former mayor and chair
man of the local draft board and
Mrs. Allie B. Harrllee, draft board
clerk, extend formal greetings to
all of Transylvania county’s men
in service and renew their pledges
of full co-operation on the home
front.
“It seems like it has been quite
a long time since most of you left
and I want you to know that we
miss you, every one of you,” Mayor
Hardin stated.
“Yes, we miss you around the
corner and in the loafing spots or
waiting for your work-shifts,” he
continued.
"By the way, I wish you could he
here now. You know the squirrel
season just opened and you could
practice up your eye and limber
up your old trigger finger. Out
side of getting some squirrels, it
would not be bad training for your
dealings with the Japs.
"But laying all joking aside, we
know back home here that we have
a job to do the same as you fel
lows, and we are not worried in the
least about how you will do your
job when the time comes. We
know that we can depend on you to
do the thing up slick and the only
thing we have to sweat over is giv
ing you enough things fast enough
to do it with. So far we are doing
pretty good, I think, and if we can
keep it up I don’t believe this war
will last as long as some people
say it will.
Now, men, if you do not get a
letter as often as you would like,
don’t think that we are letting
you down because we aren’t and if
there is anything that you need or
want, why just drop us a line and
we will see if we can’t do some
thing about it . . . Yours for Vic
tory in a big way,” Mayor Hardin
concluded.
Ramsey Makes Statement
Defense Chairman Ramsey is
sued the following statement to
the men in service:
"Transylvania county is justly
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PHILLIP PRICE IS
IMPROVING NICELY
Is Expected To Recover
From Shot Through His
Head Last Friday
The condition of Phillip Price,
popular Brevard superintendent of
streets, who shot himself in the
head at his home here last Friday
night, is improving, reports from
the Transylvania community hos
pital last night stated.
In spite of the fact that a 38
calibre pistol bullet went through
his head, from one temple through
the other just under the brain,
Price is expected to recover. Yes
terday he was sitting up in bed,
had a good appetite and was smok
ing. He was also making sug
gestions about the street work.
It is not known whether the
shooting was accidental of inten
tional. Officers quoted Mrs. Price
as stating that her husband was
getting ready to retire about 9:30
o’clock and that she had gone in
to another room to get an alarm
clock. Upon returning to the bed
room door, Mr. Price was undress
ed, had a pistol in his hand and
said he was going to shoot him
self and then the gun fired and he
fell on the floor.
He was rushed to the hospital
and his condition has been improv
ing steadily. Friends state that he
has been asking, since regaining
consciousness, “what happened and
how?”
Mr. Price has been superinten
dent of streets here for several
years and has a large host of
friends. Recently his friends
state that he has become more
nervous and more excitable.
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NOTICE TO PARENTS OR FRIENDS
TRANSYLVANIA BOYS IN SERVICE
We have printed 600 extra copies of this “Salute to Tran
sylvania County Boys in Service” edition and are anxious for
every one of “our boys” in the armed forces to receive a copy
of this paper.
On our mailing list we have over 100 “men in service sub
scribers”, and in order for all of the others to get a copy of the
paper, we are requesting that parents or friends of the boys stop
in our office and get a free, wrapped copy and mail it im
mediately.
We also wish to remind parents and friends to enter sub
scriptions for the “boys in service” so that they will get a “letter
from all of the folks back home each week”. Whether on land,
sea or in the air, they’ll appreciate news from home.
The public’s attention is also called to our regular “Men In
Service Column” that appears each week. You are invited to
send in news for this column from time to time. i
Four New Members Elected
On Hospital's Medical Staff
Dr. English, Dr. Stokes, Dr.
Brackett and Dr. Her
bert Are Elected
Several physicians and surgeons
were placed on the medical staff
of the Transylvania community
hospital at a meeting of the board
of trustees Tuesday afternoon.
These included Dr. E. S. English
and Dr. R. L. Stokes, of Brevard;
Dr. W. E. Brackett, ear, eye, nose
and throat specialist of Hender
sonville and Dr. W. P. Herbert,
Asheville surgeon. Dr. J. B. Wil
kerson was already a member, and
Dr. G. B. Lynch is expected to
apply for membership on the staff
as soon as he enters private prac
tice.
The superintendent’s report
showed that the hospital had 59
patients during the month of Aug
ust, which was 13 more than in the
month of August a year ago. The
daily average was 10 and the larg
est number of patients in the hos
pital at any one time was 17.
With the addition of several out
standing physicians and surgeons
to the medical staff, patronage in
the future is expected to continue
on the increase.
Kiwanis To Hold A
Bingo Party Tues.
Bingo game, sponsored by Bre
vard Kiwanis club, will be held at
the Brevard high school “Hut” on
Tuesday evening, September 22,
with one or more $25.00 war bonds
as tickets or door prizes, and war
stamps for each game played.
Play will begin at 8:30 sharp,
it is announced, and plans are being
made to accommodate 200 or more
players. The bingo party is part
of the “Salute to Heroes” being
staged September 19 to 30, arid is
featuring sale of stamps. Commit
tee in charge is composed of J. O
Wells, W. P. Tindall, Henry Hen
derson, Walter Straus, Don Jen
kins, C. M. Douglas, and R. T. Kim
zey.
PLAN TO ORGANIZE
COUNTY HOSPITAL
AUXILIARY ASS’N.
Group Of Representative
Ladies Met At Hospital
Tuesday Night
Preliminary plans to organize a
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Transyl
vania community hospital were
made Tuesday night at a meeting
of representatives of a large num
ber of women’s organizations at'
the hospital.
The purpose of the proposed or
ganization was outlined by Rev. E.
P. Billups and Acting Chairman
Mrs. Alex Kizer appointed a nomi
nating committee.
It was decided to hold the or
ganization meeting on Tuesday
night, September 29, at the hospi
tal and all ladies in Brevard and
the county are invited to attend.
Appointed on the nominating
committee were Mrs. Charles New
land, Mrs. Oliver Orr and Mrs. S.
A. Bullock. 1
Mr. Billups explained that the
purpose of the organization is to
assist the board of trustees in the
operation of the hospital. The
auxiliary constitution provides for
the appointment of a number of
committees including wards, flow
ers, reading, grounds, canned food,
and so on.
Representatives were present
from all churches in Brevard, the
DAR, UDC, Wednesday club, P-TA,
Home Demonstration club, Music
Lovers club, Civic club. About 25
persons were present.
STARTS NURSING CLASS
Miss Jessie Mae Alexander,
county nurse, is starting a home
nursing course at the Brevard high
school and enrollment is expected
to be good. This course is also
sponsored by the Red Cross.
Plans Are Completed For Opening
Of Brevard College September 21
JJrevard College will open for
its ninth consecutive year on Mon
day, September 21st, when fresh
man orientation days will begin,
Dr. E. J. Coltrane, president of the
college, announced yesterday.
Registration for both freshmen
and sophomores will be held on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
During these three days the new
comers and old students will be
classified and registered for their
classes. Miss Nancy Blanton, phy
sical educational director, is plan
ning a full program of athletics
and recreational games for stu
dents during the days of registra
tion and orientation.
Saturday and Sunday, September
19th and 20th, approximately 35
sophomores are expected to return
to Brevard College for the annual
retreat. Dr. B. W. Loomis will be
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in charge of the retreat which will
be held on the college campus.
Plans and polices for student acti
vities for the year will be discuss
ed.
Registration will be completed
Wednesday and classes will begin
at eight o’clock on Thursday morn
ing, September 24.
Dr. Coltrane announced the ap
pointment of another new facul
ty member yesterday. Humphrey
Olsen of Broad Creek, Michigan
is the new Dean of Men and will
teach secretarial science.
Although no enrollment figures
were predicted by President Col
trane, Brevard College usually en
rolls between 350 and 400 students
and it is understood that applica
tions to date compare favorably
with previous years with an addi
tional number of coeds.
COUNTY HEALTH
DEPARTMENT TO
BE CONTINUED
Boards Met Here Monday
Morning. Dr. Sisk To
Supervise Work
The Transylvania county health
department will be continued with
Dr. C. N. Sisk, of Waynesville, dis
trict health officer, doing the sup
ervisional work, it was decided at
a joint meeting of the county board
of health, county commissioners,
and Brevard board of aldermen
held here Monday morning.
Although Dr. G. B. Lynch has
resigned as health officer, effective
October 1, and even though it is
virtually impossible to secure a
doctor to replace him, the local
board members felt that under
existing circumstances it would be
unwise to discontinue the health
department.
With the possible exception of
maternity and infant clinics, plans
are being made to continue all of
the other services of the depart
ment.
Miss Jessie Mae Alexander will
continue her work as county nurse
and look after the immunization
programs, while Walter Hart will
do the sanitarians work, as in the
past, and Mrs. Joe P. McLeod will
do the clerical work.
As his territory now covers five
counties, Dr. Sisk said he could
not come over very often, but
would get here at least once a
month. Arrangements are also be
ing made to have Dr. Lynch con
tinue to hold venereal disease
clinics once a week.
Members of the boa d said that
due to the shortage of physicians,
it is highly important that dis
ease prevention work of all kinds
be continued in the county.
Under the new set-up, the coun
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FUNERAL SERVICE
HELD WEDNESDAY
FOR 0. L ERWIN
Prominent Local Citizen Died
Suddenly On Tuesday
Of Heart Attack
Funeral service was held Wed
nesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at
the Davidson River Presbyterian
church, near Brevard, for O. L.
Erwin, 77, who died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Lamar Lewis,
in Brevard, Tuesday morning about
9:30 o’clock following a heart at
tack. He had been in declining
health for some time. The service
was conducted by the pastor, Rev.
E. Ashby Johnson, and Rev. B. W.
Thomason, pastor of the Brevard
First Baptist church. Interment
was in the church cemetery.
Mr. Erwin was a native of Tran
sylvania county and had always
made his home here. He was a
prominent merchant in Brevard
and other sections of the county
for about 50 years. He served one
term as county tax collector, and
was interested in civic affairs. He
was a large property owner in his
younger years, and was widely
known as a cattle raiser and farm
er. He was a member of the Bre
vard Presbyterian church.
Surviving are three daughters,
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Election Board To
Open Office Here
Fred Johnson, chairman of the
Transylvania county board of elec
tions, has gotten a leave of absence
from the state highway department
and has opened the election board
office in the courthouse here.
He announced yesterday that
ballots will be available in time for
mailing on October 3. “No absen
tee ballots can be sent before that
time according to state law,” he
said.
He also announced that any one
who is leaving town and who will
not be here during the month of
October when registration books
are open, can register at his office
now.
Rationing Board Here Issues
Warning To Motorists - New
Restrictions Are Released
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Enrolls In WAAC
Miss Mary Clayton, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. 0. W. Clayton,
of Brevard, and St. Petersburg,
Fla., has passed examinations at
Fort Bragg and will be inducted
into service in the Women’s
Army Auxiliary corps at Des
Moines, Iowa, next week with
four other girls from Western i
North Carolina. It is understood I
that she is the first girl from
this county to enter the WAAC.
WILL HOLD JUNK
RALLY DAY 26TH
Everyone In County Is Re
quested To Co-operate.
Final Clean-Up
With the view of going over the
400,000-pound scrap metal goal for
this county and at the requests of
the War Production Board, Bre
vard and Transylvania county Junk
Rally Day will be held next Sat
urday, September 26, members of
the county salvage committee an
nounce.
A rather complete canvass of the
county has already been made in
recent weeks and over 350.000
pounds have been collected and the
Junk Rally day is being staged as
a grand climax to the intensive
drive.
All farmers in the county are
asked to “clean up” their scrap col
lection and to notify the farm
agent’s office on or before Septem
ber 26 to have a WPA truck pick
up their scrap. Farmers who do
not have enough scrap left to justi
fy having a truck sent out, are re
quested to bring the scrap to Bre
vard that day.
The same request applies to all
persons in Brevard, except that
they are to notify Mr. Wyatt at the
city hall if they have enough scrap
to warrant sending out a truck,
otherwise they are asked to bring
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Number 1 Coupons Good Un
til 22nd. To Re-Examine
B And C Certificates
Rationing board officials here
yesterday cautionad motorists and
filling station operators that num
ber 2 coupons in A book cannot be
used until September 22 and that
after that date the number l’s in
the A book cannot be accepted.
Motorists who are making “too
liberal use” of their B and C type
ration books are also warned that
boards have no authority to issue
‘refills” for any one vehicle with
ing a rationing period.
Following a district conference
in Asheville last week-end, all
county rationing boards were or
dered to re-examine all supple
mentary rationing certificates is
sued, with particular emphasis on
the “C” books and of the “S” books
giving service rationing to delivery
cars, trucks and buses, and the
local board will follow this instruc
tion from OPA headquarters.
OPA officials announced that
this re-examination had been or
dered because of the revision of
the eligibility list for supplement
ary books.
occupations now eligible for
limited mileage as provided in A \
and B books, totalling 560 miies
per month per applicant include
the following 27 classifications:
1. Accountants, traveling; 2, ad
vertising workers; 3, auto dealer
service passenger vehicle; 4, bank
ers; 5, brokers; 6, collectors; 7,
circus, carnival and similar amuse
ment enterprises; 8, commercial
supervisors; 9, commodity buyers;
10, cotton buyers; 11, cotton grad
ers; 12, credit investigators; 13,
delivery service; 14 dry cleaners
and laundries using passenger
automobiles; 15, finance company’s
employees; 16, hotel employees;
17, insurance adjusters; 18, law
yers; 19, ministers of any religious
faith not serving a regular congre
gation; 20, photographers; 21, real
estate agents; 22, repairmen of
portable household appliances; 23,
retail newspaper deliveries; 24,
salesmen; 25, school personnel; 26,
workers not essential to the war ef
fort and motorcycles for occupa
tional driving.
“’All applicants who are dis al
lowed a part of their requested
mileage and who are dissatisfied
with the decision of the board,
should be informed that it is pos
sible to appeal to the OPA direc
tor, Raleigh, by filing said appeal
through the local rationing board
and that the appeal will receive
prompt handling,” it is announced.
DEADLINE FOR GETTING
CANNING SUGAR IS 30th
The deadline for applying for
canning sugar is September 30,
Mrs. Davis, rationing board clerk,
announced yesterday.
The canning season is now near
ly over and the board has set the
last of this month as the deadline
for accepting canning sugar ap
plications.
Junior Commandos Are Active
In Bringing In Scrap Metal
About 35 boys and girls in Bre
vard have already qualified as Jun
ior Commandos by collecting scrap
metal and rubber and most of
them have collected sufficient
quantities to earn higher ranks,
Dr. E. O. Roland, announces.
A total of 5,964 pounds of scrap
have been collected and shipped to
Asheville and the “Commandos are
just begining to bring in the
scrap,” Dr. Roland states.
To qualify as a Junior Comman
do, boys and girls between the ages
of 9 and 20 have to bring in to
the collecting center at McCrary
Auto Company at least 10 pounds
of scrap.
When a sufficient quantity is
collected, it is hauled by the WPA
to Asheville and sold. The Jaycees
retain 10 per cent to defray ex
penses and the boys and girls get
the remainder in war savings
stamps. Dr. Roland points out that
no paper is wanted.
The Junior Commando leaders
include Lieutenants Dorothy Gal
loway, Alex Kizer, Jr., and Jim
my Newbury. District loaders are
Nancy Jane Loftis, Gene Frank
lin, Kenneth Ratchford, Johnny
Summey, Robert Melton and Rob
ert Hunter.
“Boys and girls interested in be
coming Junior Commandos should
get in touch with one of these,”
Dr. Roland said.
Those who have qualified for
private first class awards for hav
ing brought in 35 pounds or more
include Red Gaither, Bob Kimzey,
Jr., Paul Lance, Bob Smith and
Nancy Jane Loftis.
The present corporals who have
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12-DAY PROCRAM
TO FEATURE SALE
OF WAR STAMPS
Theatres Take Lead With
Various Organizations In
County Co-operating
DETAILS ANNOUNCED
Starting Saturday and continuing
through this month, “Salute to
Heroes” days will be observed in
Transylvania county, with special
emphasis being placed on the sale
of war savings stamps in honor of
the nearly 600 young men from this
county who are now serving in the
armed forces.
Clemson and Co-ed theatres are
taking the lead in the “Salute to
Heroes” days, with all civic and
fraternal organizations and the
churches co-operating in the
movement.
War stamps will be on sale at
the theatres each night by various
groups and stamps sales will be
stressed throughout the county,
with schools and organizations as
sisting.
The program line-up is as fol
lows:
Saturday, Sept. 19—Commando
Day—All children will be admitted
to a special morning matinee “All
Silent” picture at 9:30 upon pur
chase of two 10-cent war stamps or
one 25-cent stamp. Following the
show, Commandos will sell stamps
in business section and stores of
\towiA Saturdays. Commando Day.
7:00 p. m.—Boy and Girl Scouts
will sell stamps in lobbys of thea
tres.
•Sunday, Sept. 20—Salute to
Heroes in Churches. 9:00 p. m.—
Chamber of Commerce representa
tives make 3-minute address in
theatre.
Monday, Sept. 21—Garden Club
Day—Special drive among mem
bers for sale of stamps; club will
have charge of stamp sales night
show at theatre lobbys.
Tuesday, Sept. 22-^-P.T.A. and
School Day—Special stamp sales
will be conducted in all schools of
county by teachers and students
groups, and PTA. Brevard College
students will sell stamps in theatre
lobby (night). Kiwanis Bingo
game in Brevard NY A Hut. Fath
ers (colored) of men in service ad*
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CIVILIAN DEFENSE
MOBILIZE TONIGHT
Practice For Blackouts To
Be Staged. Public Is Not. -
Affected *
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Preparatory to a state-wide'
black-out within the next 30 days,
which will probably be called with
out advance warning, the Transyl
vania county civilian defense corps
will hold a general practice mobil
ization tonight, Thursday, sometime *
after dark, it was decided at a meet
ing of the council last Thursday
night.
The general public will not be af
fected by this practice as no alarm
will be sounded or the town black
ed out. Members of all of the civil
ian corps, however, are urged to
co-operate in the practice mobiliza
tion.
“Although our first practice
black-out was a success, at the same
time we prepared for it in advance
and now we must be ready to
mobilize quickly without advanced
warning,” Chairman Ralph Ram
sey stated at the meeting last week.
In connection with the last prac
tice black-out Mr. Ramsey said that
there was too much noise in the
control center and that too many
people came to the city hail “By
remaining quiet, we do not create
as much confusion,” he declared
During black-outs, all civilians
should remain at home and cut out
lights except in the “black-out
rooms”; all persons traveling in
cars should pull over to the side
of the street or highway and stop
and turn off their car lights; and
all civilian corps members should
be prepared to “block-out” their
cars for “black-out” driving, it was
pointed out.
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