A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
Vol. 52: No. 39
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1942
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
SATURDAY WILL BE JUNK RALLY DAY IN TRANSYLVANIA
16 Transylvania Men And
Women Arrested In Liquor
Raids To Be Tried In Nov.
Big ‘‘Round-Up” Made by
* Federal Men Last Wed
nesday Night
NOW OUT ON BONDS
The sixteen Transylvania coun
ty men and women who were ar
rested during an all-night “round
up” last Wednesday night by fed
eral tax men and revenue depart
ment representatives from Ashe
ville and Charlotte on charges of
retailing non-tax-paid liquor are
slated for trial in the federal court
at Asheville the second week in
November, it was learned yester
day.
Practically all of the defendants
have raised bonds and are now out
of jail awaiting trial, it is report
ed.
While the federal officers, with
the aid of local forces, “rounded
up” the defendants last Wednes
day night, U. S. Commissioner
Alex Kizer kept his office open
all night to hold hearings and fix
the amounts of bonds. All of those
who appeared before him on Wed
nesday night and Thursday morn
ing waived hearings. The bonds
ranged in amounts from $100 to
$1000.
Hearings for four more defen
dants were held here Monday af
ternoon. Miss Effie Butler and
Mrs. Ola Cantrell, of near Bos
nian, were placed under $300 bonds
and bonds for Mr. and Mrs. Ed
mond Chapman, of near Cedar
Mountain, were fixed at the same
amounts.
All sections of the county were
visited by the federal men and local
officers who gave full co-operation.
Approximately 15 gallons of non
tax paid moonshine liquor were
brought in along with the alleged
retail salesmen and saleswomen.
The prior investigations were
made during the past two weeks
by representatives of the alcohol
tax unit and warrants were sworn
out by deputies from the U. S.
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CANTATA WILL BE
GIVEN ON SUNDAY
“The Holy City” To Be Pre
sented By Music Club At
Methodist Church
A cantata, featuring the pre
sentation of “The Holy City,” will
be given in the Brevard Methodist
church on Sunday evening at 8
o’clock under the sponsorship of
the Music Lovers’ club, it was an
nounced today.
The cantata will last for about
an hour and a half and the public
is cordially invited. Many of the
leading singers here are included
in the cast and practice has been
underway for some time.
“The Holy City,” by A. R. Gaul,
is based on the prophecy by St.
John and is one of the world’s
classics.
Mrs. Melvin Gillespie is director
and Mrs. Leon English organist.
Those taking solo parts include
Miss Emmi Neuberger, Miss Del
la Shore, Mrs. Alex Kizer and Mrs.
C. T. Shytle, all of whom sing
soprana; Mrs. Nat Townsend and
Mrs. H. R. Bobst, alto; Keith
Pooser, tenor and Alvin Moore,
bass.
MASONS WILL GIVE
ICE CREAM AWAY
HERE THIS SATURDAY
As one of the highlight
features of the “Salute to
Heroes days” program, the
Dunn’s Rock Masonic lodge
will give Carson’s ice cream
free to all children and adults
who purchase a ten cent sav
ings stamp, at the booth in
the room next to the Waiter
mire hotel entrance Satur
day.
The booth will open at 10
o’clock Saturday morning
and will remain open until at
least 15 gallons of ice cream
are given away.
Here is your chance to get
ice cream free and at the
same time to help your coun
try by purchasing a war sav
ings stamps.
Colonel In Army
0
Here is Colonel Haskell Al
lison, formerly of Brevard, who
is now stationed at Fort Knox,
Ky., and is in charge of the Sig
nal Corps. He served in the last
World War, too.
BLACKOUT IS SET
FOR ENTIRE STATE
NEXT TOES. NITE
A state-wide practice blackout
will be held in North Carolina
next Tuesday sometime between
seven o’clock in the evening and
midnight and Chairman Ralph
H. Ramsey today urged all mem
bers of the Transylvania civilian
defense corps to be prepared to
make the blackout in Brevard and
the county an outstanding success.
The full co-operation of the pub
lic is likewise solicited. The same
regulations will apply as in pre
vious blackouts. All residential
homes are to be blacked out as
soon as the alarm sounds and
motorists are to pull -over to the
side and turn off their lights un
til the “all-clear” whistle is sound
ed.
This state-wide blackout is be
ing staged on the anniversary of
an important World War One date.
Red Cross Planning
To Start Nutrition
Classes Here Soon
Plans are now being made to or
ganize several nutrition classes
here and in the county under the
sponsorship of the Transylvania
county unit of the American Red
Cross, Mrs. William P. Jordan,
chairman of the local chapter’s
nutrition committee, announced to
day.
The nutrition courses consist of
20-hours of instruction, divided in
to two-hour periods each week, un
less otherwise arranged by the
teachers and enrollees.
Mrs. Jordan is now asking all
women in the county who have de
grees in home economics and who
wish to teach one of the classes,
to get in touch with her immediate
ly so that they can be certified
and arrangements made to start a
class.
All women interested in taking
the nutrition course are likewise
asked to contact or notify Mrs. Jor
dan. Her address is box 127, Bre
vard and telephone number 123.
METHODIST CHURCH
HERE ELECTS NEW
OFFICERS FOR YEAR
Fellowship Supper Will Be
Held Tonight, And Fourth
Quarterly Conference
Stewards, trustees and other
officers of the Brevard Methodist
church, were named at a church
conference held at the regular ser
vice last Sunday morning, to serve
for the 1942-43 church year. These
officials elected their chairmen and
other officers at the Sunday night
service.
Rev. E. P. Billups, pastor, has
announced the church fellowship
supper meeting, which will be
held at the church Thursday night
at 7 o’clock, at which time the dis
j trict superintendent, Dr. M. T.
Smathers, will talk, and conduct
the 4th quarterly conference fol
lowing the supper.
The following officials have
been elected for the ensuing year:
Stewards: D. T. Abercrombie, J.
j I. Ayers, W. Homer Coltrane, T.
B. Crary, B. D. Franklin, Lamar
Lewis, D. J. Luther, W. M. Melton,
O. H. Orr, J. B. Pickelsimer, John
Pickelsimer, R. A. Rahn, J. E.
Rufty, Harry Sellers, H. B. Shif
let, Jack Trantham, C. H. Trow
bridge, S. E. Varner, J. F. Zach
ary.
Communion Stewards: Mrs. J. E.
Loftis, Mrs. Cordia King.
Trustees: S. R. Sharp and D. P.
Kilpatrick.
Superintendent Church School:
J. E. Rufty.
Board of Christian Education:
Dr. Burt Loomis, Miss Mabel
Cherry, Dr. J. F. Zachary.
Director Golden Cross: Mrs. 0.
H. Orr.
Church Committees: Member
ship, S. E. Varner, Lamar Lewis,
D. T. Abercrombie, John Pickel
simer, P. A. Rahn. Finance: J. E.
Rufty, J. F. Zachary, H. B. Shif
let, Harry Sellers, D. J. Luther.
Pastoral Relations: C. H. Trow
bridge, S. E. Varner, O. H. Orr.
Adult: J. I. Ayers, Jack Tran
tham.
Records: O. H. Orr. Hospitals
and Homes: Mrs. 0. H. Orr, D. T.
Abercrombie. Board of Missions
and Church Extension: 0. H. Orr,
Mrs. E. J. Coltrane. Evangelism:
C. H. Trowbridge, J. F. Zachary.
Music: Harry Sellers, J. E. Rufty.
At a meeting Sunday evening
the newly elected Board of Stew
ards elected the following officers:
W. M. Melton, chairman; Jack
Trantham, vice chairman; J. I.
Ayers, secretary; D. J. Luther,
treasurer.
Ecusta Band Will
Give Concert Here
The Ecusta band, under the di
rection of John Eversman, will
give a public concert this Saturday
evening, starting at 8 o’clock, on
the lawn in front of the court
house here, it was announced to
day.
The band is composed of 25
pieces and is one of the outstand
ing organizations in Western North
Carolina. It was organized last
February and has made rapid pro
gress. All of its members are se
lected from Ecusta employees.
The concert Saturday night will
consist of a varied musical pro
gram.
BUYS $25 WAR BOND
HERE WITH NICKELS
Miss Grace Mull has purchased
a $25 war bond with new nickels.
She has been saving new nickels
since last fall and says she had
rather loan them to Uncle Sam
than to keep them for her own
pleasure.
55 Transylvania Men To Take Army
Examinations On Wed., Sept. 30th
Fifty-five Transylvania county
men and four transfers will leaVe
here next Wednesday morning,
Sept. 30, at 7 o’clock to report
for examination by the Army ex
amining board at Camp Croft, it
was learned today from the local
draft board office.
Those passing the examination
will have a 14-day furlough before
having to report for induction in
to military service.
Ten of the men scheduled to
take the examination are volun
teers and 45 are draftees. The
volunteers are Tom Bagwell, Ar
thur Elliott Anders, Cyrus Edward
Chapman, Roy Lynch Gravely,
Charles Edwin Sims, Harry L.
Mills, Francis M. Plummer, John
W. McMinn, Lloyd S. Smith and
Jesse Pressley.
The draftees are: John E. Dris
coll, leader, Waytha Powell, Spen
cer W. Chapman, Bert Wilson,
Luther W. Shipman, Leon H. Man
ley, Jack Fowler, Ray Prince, Roy
M. Robinson, J. Elijah Chapman,
William Lee Parker, Charles R.
Loftis, Lipsy Henderson, Jack Lof
tis, Lloyd Kimzey, Charles Harold
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Ground Crew Welcomes Bombers After Raid
Old Glory and the ground crew at a base somewhere in Egypt welcome a trio oi U. S.
bombers, as the planes return from a raid on Axis military installations in the desert,
bombers that have been blasting German-Italian bases at Matruh and Tobruk. The
costume are mess attendants at the U. S. air base.
B-25’s, medium
These are the
boys in native
(Central Press)
Brevard College Opens With
An Enrollment Around 300;
Classes Start This Morning
Faculty Meeting Held Last
Saturday. Plans Are
Made For Year
Early this week saw the opening
of the ninth year of Brevard Col
lege when approximately 175 fresh
man and nearly 10Q sophomores
came on the campus to begin their
studies for the ;L&2-43 college
term. The first three days of the
week have been spent in carrying
out an orientation program for
the freshmen and in registering
and classifying returning sopho
mores.
Exact figures on this year’s en
rollment were not available late
Wednesday, but Dr. E. J. Coltrane,
president of the college, said that
as many, if not more, students
would be registered this year than
there were last year.
“We anticipated a reduction in
male enrollment” Dr. Coltrane
said, “but with 39 C. P. T. students
now at the college, we have about
the same number of boys as we do
girls. Over half the 100 counties in
the state are represented here at
the college as well as several ad
joining states.”
Classes are scheduled to begin
this morning. Nineteen of the CPT
students are now completing their
work and twenty new students
have already begun their courses,
Grady W. Campbell, head of the
industrial department announced.
Davidson River Day
To Be Held Sunday
The annual observance of David
son River day will be held at the
Old Davidson River church near
Pisgah Forest, Sunday, September
27th. The services, with usual
picnic dinner, have been a custom
for generations.
“Those who have attended need
no description. Those who have
not, no description would be ade
quate. It takes attendance to un
derstand or appreciate,” one mem
ber states.
The Old Davidson River church
was organized in 1800, some 142
years ago. For years it had pre
viously been a preaching point of
the Swannanoa church, then known
as Piney Grove church.
The Brevard church was cut off
from Davidson River in 1891, and
forty years later the two churches
were merged under the name of
Brevard-Davidson River. The clerk
has the sessional records since June
1828, and there are fragmentary
records, in Presbyterial and Sy
nodical reports dating back to 1800.
Transportation will be provided
for those who will be the the Bre
vard church Sunday morning at
10:40.
TUESDAY WAS “PAY
DAY” FOR TEACHERS
Tuesday was the first “pay day”
of the new school year for Tran
sylvania county teachers, princi
pals, bus drivers and janitors.
Vouchers for the county’s 82
teachers, bus drivers and janitors
totalled $12,000, Supt. J. B. Jones
stated.
Gets A Promotion
Lewis Summey, son of Mrs.
Ethel Summey, of Brevard, has
been promoted from a corporal
to a staff sergeant at MacDill
Field, Tampa, Fla.
DR. E. 0. ROLAND
VOLUNTEERS FOR
SERVICE IN NAVY
Popular Brevard Optometrist
Enrolled At Asheville.
One Other Joins
Dr. E. O. Roland, popular optom
etrist of Brevard, volunteered for
the Navy Monday of this week in
Asheville and was inducted at Ral
eigh on Tuesday. Charles Reid,
also of Brevard, joined the Navy
along with Dr. Roland.
It is announced that Dr, John
Todd, of Hendersonville, will be in
Dr. Roland’s office on Tuesdays
and Fridays of each week from 9
a. m. to 5:30 p. m., and that his j
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PATROL TO REPORT
MOTORISTS DRIVING
OVER 40 PE HOE
List To Be Sent To APO And
Will Be Used By All Ra
tioning Boards
All motor vehicles traveling over
40 miles an hour will be reported
to the OPA, Patrolman Morrow
announced this week following
the receipt of instructions from
Raleigh.
The order applies to buses,
trucks and automobiles alike, he
said. The Patrolmen have been
instructed to take the license num
bers of all motorists driving over
40 miles an hour and send them to
the OPA.
The Office of Price Administra
tion in Washington is studying a
plan to take away gasoline ration
cards of speeders.
A story out of Raleigh yesterday
stated that “more than 300 reports
of tire abuse by high speed and
otherwise have already been re
ceived by the state OPA rationing
chief from highway patrolmen.
“Patrolmen literally flooded
OPA with reports, Morrow said to
day. He added that the violations
were all of a “serious nature” and
that persons who were reported
by the patrol would be reported
to local ration boards and the in
formation would be used to en
force better care of tires as well
as prohibit the releasing of new
tires or recapps to those caught
abusing them.”
Grocery Stores In
Brevard Will Close
Thursday Afternoon
Beginning today (Thursday),
most of the grocery stores in Bre
vard will close each Thursday af
ternoon at 12 o’clock from now
until the first of March, 1943.
The managers of the stores say
that Thursday afternoons are
usually slack and that the half-holi
day for their employees will give
them more time for recreation and
civilian defense activities.
Agreeing to close in an ad in
last week’s issue were: Dixie Store,
City Market, Cash & Carry Super
Market, Mull’s Market, Mitchem’s
Market, Scott’s Grocery, Farmers
Federation and A&P. Store.
Russians Still Holding On
At Stalingrad After A Month
Of History's Bloodiest Battle
After continued house-to-house
and street-by-street fierce attacks
in the besieged city of Stalingrad,
the Russians were reported yester
day to be holding their own against
the attackers, inflicting tremen
dous losses on the Germans as
they poured an apparently endless
stream of fresh troops into the
bloody battle.
The midnight communique said
the Red army was counter attack
ing northwest of Stalingrad, where
3,000 Germans were said to have
been killed in two days.
U. S. fliers in the Solomons Is
lands have been reported by the
navy to have damaged another
Japanese cruiser and pounded the
enemy bases in that area. This
brings to a total of 23 warships and
auxiliaries damaged by American
forces since the marines launched
their offensive against the Japs on
the Solomons on August 7. The
navy communique revealed that the
United States positions on Guadal
canal island remain intact.
Allied airmen, pounding at four
Japanese bases along the 600-mile
front during the past 24 hours,
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EVERY PERSON IN
COUNTY IS URGED
TO AID IN DRIVE
All Small Quantities Of
Scrap To Be Brought To
Brevard. Three Centers
NEED IS VERY GREAT
Brevard and Transylvania coun
ty Junk Rally Day will be held this
Saturday at the request of the War
Production Board and every per
son in the county is urged to co
operate, members of the county sal
vage committee state.
Every man, woman and child is
asked to gather up scrap metal
and rubber and if the quantities
are too small to warrant having a
WPA truck sent to make collec
tion, the individuals are request
ed to bring the junk to one of the
collection centers here Saturday.
These collection centers are:
McCrary’s Auto service, Tinsley’s
and Gibb’s service stations.
Those who have large quantities
and want a WPA truck to pick up
the scrap are asked to notify the
farm agent’s office or the Chair
man Howard Wyatt at the city
hall.
All junk that is brought in Sat
urday can be sold or contributed
by the various individuals. If con
tributed, the money received from
the sale will be turned over to
some charitable organization.
A total of 350,000 pounds of
scrap have been collected in the
county since the renewed drive
was launched in July. The present
goal is 400,000 pounds and the co
operation of all persons, as well
as organizations, is urgently sought.
“There seems to be no question
but that the length of the war may
be determined by the quantity of
scrap which is collected within
the next few weeks or months,”
it is stated. “Already our war pro
duction mills are closing down be
cause of lack of scrap.”
ASSISTANT FIRE
CHIEFS ELECTED
Brevard Firemen Met Mon
day Night. Misenheimer
And Merrill Elected
At a call meeting of the fire
men, auxiliary firemen and mem
bers of rescue squads of the Bre
vard Fire department, held here
Monday night, C. F. Misenheimer
and Dan Merrill were elected as
sistant chiefs, and Joe J. Tinsley,
captain. Mr. Misenheimer had
been serving as assistant for some
time.
The assistant chiefs will also
have charge of the fire squads and
Hugh Hollifield and A. C. Bradley
were named as captains of the
rescue squads.
Chief John W. Smith presided
at the meeting and a number of
minor business matters were dis
cussed.
Brevard Fire Chief
Issues A Warning
Before building fires in the
furnaces, stoves or fireplaces,
John W. Smith, chief of the Bre
vard Fire department, urges ev
ery family and business firm to
“check your basement, furnace
rooms, smoke pipes and flues.”
“The fire department will make
an inspection tour of the town
in a short time, so get cleaned up
and save embarrassment,” he cau
tioned.
“Now, as never before, we need
your co-operation in keeping down
fires.”
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COLLEGE EDITION TO
BE PUBLISHED THURS.
The annual Brevard Col
lege Weleome Student edi
tion of The Transylvania
Times will be published next
week.
This edition will carry full
and interesting information
about the College, as well as
special messages from Bre
vard merchants and other
firms.
Copies of the edition will be
given to every student at the
! College.
All merchants are urged to
co-operate and to have their
copy ready early.