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The Transylvania Times
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
Vol. 53: No. 7
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
COUNTY TO HAVE 2,597 GARDENS
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Point Rationing System Registration To Be Held In Schools Next Week
DETAILS OF PLAN
ANNOUNCED HERE
BY DR. ZACHARY
To Use Alphabetical Sys
tem. Sales To Be Frozen
All Next Week
TEACHERS TO HELP
The sale of commercially-can
ned goods that are to be rationed
under a point system starting
March 1, will be stopped this Sat
urday night and all sales will be
frozen next week, at which time
the public will register for Ration
Book two.
Dr. J. F Zachary, of the Tran
sylvania War Price and Rationing
board, who has charge of the
point-rationing registration, today
announced that registration will
be held in all of the county’s pub
lic schools, starting next Friday.
From Monday through Friday,
registration will be conducted in
the school buildings from 1 until
5 o’clock in the afternoon, and
on Saturday, Feb. 27, from 9 until
5.
To Register Alphabetically
The public is asked to register
alpabetically, with those whose
surnames begin with certain let
ters registering on certain days.
Persons whose names begin
with A. B. C, D. E, F, and G will
register on Monday and Tuesday.
Persons whose names begin
with H, I, J, K, L, M and N will
register on Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Persons whose names begin
with O, P, Q, R, S, T, U. V, W,
X, v, Z, will resist. F"’rl,’v
and Saturday.
Dr. Zachary stated that in the
smaller communities all persons
should register as early as possi
ble and forget about the alphabe
tical system in order not to inter
fere with school activities any
more than necessary.
Requirements Are Given
The requirements for registra
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FUNERAL SERVICE
HELD ON TUESDAY
FOR HENDERSON
Well Known Brevard Car
penter Dropped Dead
Sunday Afternoon
Edward Claude Henderson, well
known 58-year-old Brevard car
penter and city building inspec
tor, who dropped dead in the lob
by of the post office building here
last Sunday, was laid to rest Tues
day morning.
Funeral service was held at the
Brevard Methodist church and was
conducted by Rev. W. A. Jenkins.
Interment was in the Glazener
cemetery.
At one o’clock Sunday after
noon, Mr. Henderson went into
the post office to get his mail.
Returning through the lobby he
spoke to a friend, J. N. Whitmire,
who was reading a newspaper.
“Let me see the paper a sec
ond,” he asked and then fell to
the floor. Dr. G. B. Lynch ex
amined the body and said death
resulted from a sudden heart at
tack.
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County Jail Empty
For First Time In
Nearly Three Years
Yesterday, for the first time
in nearly three years, the Tran
sylvania county jail here, was
empty.
“We don’t have a single cus
tomer and our doors are wide
open,” Mrs. W. T. Brown told
a Times reporter.
She said that with the depar
ture Tuesday afternoon of Mar
ion Coval, who was sent to
serve a sentence on the roads
for public drunkenness and dis
turbance, the jail was empty.
The Browns have been in
charge of the jail for over two
years, and Tuesday night was
their first night “without cus
tomers.”
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DETAILS FOR REGISTERING FOR BOOK TWO AND
CANNED GOODS RATIONING ARE GIVEN
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PLACE: All Public School Buildings In County.
TIME: Monday, Feb. 22, through Saturday, Feb. 27—Registra
tion to start at 1 o’clock each school day and from 9 to
5 on Saturday, 27th.
ALPHABETICAL REGISTERING: To facilitate registering,
public is asked to register as follows: Persons whose
surname begins with:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, will register on Monday and Tuesday.
H, I, J, K, L, M, N, will register on Wednesday and
Thursday.
O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, will register on Fri
day and Saturday.
(NOTE — It is not compulsory that individuals register in this
manner, but requested. However, those living in small
school communities can register early so as to get it
completed and not interfere with school longer than
necessary.)
REQUIREMENTS: 1. One person can register for entire fam
ily.
2. No one can register for Book Two except upon pre
sentation of Book One. If Book One, Sugar Book, is
lost, provisions will be made to register after March 1.
3. Must declare inventories of commercially canned
goods on hand February 21 and coffee on hand Novem
ber 28, 1942. Declaration forms can be obtained at j
Grocery stores before registering and should be filled I
out to save time. 1
Fifty-Five Men To Leave Next
Monday For Examination And
Induction At Camp Croft, S. C.
Ten Are Men Married Prior
To Pearl Harbor. Colored
Group To Leave
Fifty-five Transylvania county
men will leave here next Monday
morning at 8 o’clock for army ex
amination and induction at Camp
Croft, S. C., it was learned today
from the local draft board.
Of this number, ten are married
men without children and they
were married before Pearl Har
bor. They are the first group of
men married prior to the Jap at
tack in the Pacific to be called
by the Transylvania board. Most
of the other boards in the state,
it is understood, have been draft
ing married men for some time.
Six of the remaining forty-five
selectees were vounteers. They
are Douglas H. Wyatt, Jr., J. David
Ray, James O. Paxton, Glenn Em
erson, Lawrence F. Dixon, Jr.,
and Broughton Canup.
The ten married men are J.
Berl Wallace, Elmer P. Norman,
Wm. Marvin Gaddy, Huey M.
Raines, Charles W. Kay, Larry L.
Baumgarner, Randall Lankford,
Arthur L. Orr, William W. Gilles
pie and Howard L. Volrath.
The others to leave Monday are:
Howard G. Griffin, Avery M. Gal
loway, Erskine Ruff, Boyce Whit
mire, Charles F. Mitchell, C. Boyd
Lyday, Woodrow W. Luker, Floyd
M. Galloway, Milas D. West, Ern
est L. York, Ernest R. Rudd, Noah
M. Stamey, Lester C. Wilson,
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GIRL SCOUTS TO
MEET ON MON.
Meeting To Be Held At
Presbyterian Hut, Honor
ing Friendship Day
A special meeting of all Girl
Scouts will be held next Monday
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at the
Presbyterian hut, announcement
has been made by Mrs. Katherine
E. Balcomb, under whose direc
tion the event will be given.
The three Scout troops — the
Brownies, under the leadership of
Mrs. John Reese Sledge, and the
intermediates under Mrs. Ashe
Macfie and Mrs. Wendell Jeffries,
and the Brevard local council will
be special guests of the occasion.
The meeting is in honor of the
day set aside each year in celeb
ration of the birthdays of both
the Chief Scout and the Chief
Guide, Lord and Lady Baden
Powell, founders of this great
movement.
It is known as “Thinking Day,”
when all Scouts will be remem
bering the ties that bind in in
ternational friendship, and each
Scout will contribute her friend
ship pennies to further Girl Scout
ing in other countries. An inter
esting means has been devised by
the chairman for presenting these
pennies, along with a contest be
tween troops.
Following An Extensive Investigation
Chappell Is Released Under A Bond
Waiving a preliminary hearing,
Hovie Chappell was released from
jail here Tuesday under bond of
$500 and will face trial in the next
term of superior court on charges
of criminal negligence and illicit
manufacture of whiskey, Sheriff
Freeman Hayes announced.
Following extensive investiga
tion, charges of murder and con
cealment of the dead body of Gor
don Chapman, which was found
nearly two weeks ago in an ab
andoned three-room house in the
Bear Wallow section of Transy
lvania county, were withdrawn
and Chappell was allowed to make
bond.
Tw'o men of the same communi
ty who left the county a day be
fore the dead body was found,
were arrested in Dearborn, Mich.,
Monday and held until Tuesday
for questioning, Sheriff Hayes
stated.
These men were Russell Fisher
and Avery Hinkle who claimed
they went to Michigan to get
work in war industries.
“The story that those men told
Dearborn officers corresponded
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TO LAUNCH SCOUT
FINANCE DRIVE IN
COUNTY ON MON
To Enroll Adult Members.
Goal Is To Raise Total
Of $900
The annual enrollment of adult
members of the Transylvania dis
trict of the Daniel Boone council
of the Boy Scouts of America will
be held in Brevard and the coun
ty next Monday and Tuesday, Jer
ry Jerome, chairman of the dis
t r i c t finance committee, an
nounces.
The goal for the drive is $900
for the Transylvania district. The
total budget sought for the coun
cil is $12,215, which is the amount
needed to carry on the scout pro
gram in the council area for this
year.
In Transylvania county there
are four scout troops with a total
membership of around 60. Plans
are underway to organize several
more troops this year.
While scouting is not military,
the training given the boys in
camping, initiative, and leader
ship has proved valuable to thous
ands of young men in the armed
services.
Scouts on the home front have
been active in war service. They
have distributed war posters,
helped collect scrap metal, rub
ber and paper, aided the civilian
defense council and numerous
other activities.
Members of the finance com
mittee will make a complete can
vass next Monday and Tuesday.
TWELVE PERSONS
FINISH ADVANCED
FIRST AID CLASSES
Instructor’s Course Will Be
Given In Near Future
By Red Cross
Twelve persons finished the
Red Cross first aid advanced
course that was given at the
courthouse here last week by
Luke Harrison and Dr. Otis Mar
shall and are ready to take the in
structor’s course that is to be giv
en here the first or second week
in March, Mrs. Ashe Macfie an
nounced today.
All other persons in the county
who have completed the advanced
course and who would like to take
the instructor’s course are urged
to get in touch with Mrs. Macfie.
The course will be taught by a
Red Cross representative, with
the assistance of Dr. Marshall. A
general review of prior work will
be given before the starting of
the course, by Dr. Marshall.
Those finishing the advanced
course and who will receive cer
tificates are: Mrs. E. L. Happ,
Mrs. Roy Rackley, Mrs. George
Massey, Mrs. Julius Sader, Mrs.
T. C. Galloway, Mrs. R. E. Law
rence, Mrs. Goode Loftis, Mrs.
Ashe Macfie, Miss Lucy Holden,
Miss Harriette Gore, W. J. Wallis
and Coach Tilson.
Teachers Will Meet
Here Sat. Morning
The Transylvania County Teach
ers association will meet at the
Brevard high school auditorium
Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock,
Superintendent J. B. Jones an
nounced yesterday.
Among the matters of business
to be taken up will be the ap
pointment of delegates to the
state convention, and general of- i
ficers of the State Teachers as-1
sociation will be voted upon.
At 11 o’clock Dr. J. F. Zachary,
of the local rationing board, will
take charge and explain the new
rationing program.
BREVARD POST OFFICE
TO OBSERVE HOLIDAY
In observance of Washing
ton’s birthday, the Brevard post
office will observe a holiday sche
dule next Monday. Windows will
be opened from 8 to 8:30 and
10:30 to 11 in the morning and
all carrier delivery will be sus
pended for the day.
Galloway Introduces Bill To
Consolidate Town And County
Tax Offices By Agreements
Elected Chairman
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HARRY H. STRAUS, popular
president of the Ecusta Paper
corporation, was honored at a
meeting of business and indus
trial leaders in Asheville last
Saturday afternoon.
POST-WAR PERIOD
PLANS DRAFTED
Harry Straus Given Key
Post On CED At Ashe
ville Meeting
Harry H. Straus, president of'
the Ecusta Paper Corporation,
was unanimously elected com-|
munity chairman at a meeting in
Asheville last Saturday, at which
leaders of commerce and indus
try in Western North Carolina
took initial steps for post-war
planning under the guidance of
the national committee for Econo
mic Development.
The purposes of the national
organization, as outlined at the
meeting, held at the Battery Park
hotel, are to assist commerce and
industry to plan for high levels
of employment and productivity
when peace comes. It is not un
der the government, but is an in
dependent project inaugurated by
a representative group of indus
trialists and business men.
Paul G. Hoffman, president of
the Studebaker corporation, is
national chairman. Robert Me
Hanes, president of the Wachovia
Bank and Trust company at Wins
ton-Salem, is regional chairman
of the CED for North Carolina.
Mr. Straus said that plans for
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BANK TO CLOSE MONDAY
In observance of Washing
ton’s birthday, the Transylvania
Trust company here will be clos
ed Monday, Ralph Duckworth,
cashier, announces.
Two Other Local Tax Meas
ures Introduced. Con
sider Finance Bill
The tax collector’s office for
the town of Brevard would be
abolished and consolidated with
the Transylvania county tax col
lecting office if House Bill 389,
which has been introduced by
Representative Wallace Galloway,
is voted upon favorably in the
general assembly.
This measure, it is understood,
has the approval of the board of
aldermen here and the county
commissioners and is expected to
pass without a great deal of op
position.
The bill provides that consoli
dation of the offices would be
effected by mutual agreement, in
writing, and that such agreements
would extend for two-year periods
and be subject to renewal.
Delinquent Tax Bills
Two other bills concerning the
collection of delinquet taxes in
the town of Brevard and the coun
ty have also been introduced by
Representative Galloway.
House Bill 336 authorizes the
board of county commissioners to
appropriate to the general fund
all taxes due the county that are
more than two years delinquent.
House Bill 355 authorizes coun
ty commissioners and aldermen of
the town of Brevard to make set
tlement with taxpayers for taxes
upon property which has been
over-assessed and upon which de
linquent taxes that have accrued
prior to 1934, are due. For ad
justment and settlement to be
made, however, the measure pro
vides that there must be a cash
payment made covering all delin
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Thomason Returns
To Local Church
Rev. B. W. Thomason resumed
his duties as pastor of the First
Baptist church here Monday fol
lowing his release from the Navy
at Norfolk, Va., last week.
A board of medical survey
found that Mr. Thomason was not
physically qualified for active du
ty, but he remains in the naval re
serve on an inactive basis.
Mr. Thomason entered the
Navy as a chaplain with the grade
of lieutenant last November 24.
During his absence, the pulpit of
the local church was filled by Dr.
Phil Elliott, teacher of English at
the Western Carolina Teachers
college at Cullowhee.
Mr. Thomason was in the Navy
during World War I and at the
close of that conflict was an avia
tion cadet, stationed at Massach
ustetts Institute of Technology at
Boston. He has been pastor of
the local church since June, 1940.
Final Plans Are Being Made To Start
Extensive Red Cross Drive In County
Final plans are now being made
to launch an extensive drive on
March 1 to raise Transylvania
county’s 1943 Red Cross war fund
quota of $5,400.
Initial reports from the special
gifts committee, composed of
Chapter Chairman Jerry Jerome
and Drive Chairman C. M. Doug
las, indicate that the response to
the big drive this year will be
exceptionally good.
They contacted 37 firms here
yesterday and received large con
tributions. Employees of nearly
all of the firms agreed to give
at least one day's work.
This committee will contact all
local firms and industries.
The Kiwanis, Lions and Wo
men’s Civic club and the Jaycees
will conduct a house-to-house can
vass of Brevard, following the
same zone plan as used in the
Victory Garden survey.
Each school is being asked to
have a drive and principals are to
appoint committees. The 12 home
demonstration clubs and 4-H clubs
in the county will conduct drives
in the rural areas.
To meet the greatly increased
wartime responsibilities, the Red
Cross has set a goal of $125,000,
000 for the 1943 war fund now
in progress. Of this sum, $80,
000,000 will go to the national
organization to further its serv
ices to the armed forces. These
include home service work be
tween the men in service and
their folks back home, nursing
facilities for men in service, re
creation, and numerous other ac
tivities.
The Red Cross is providing
emergency relief to women and
children made homeless in war
areas, and is carrying on an ex
tensive training program on the
homefront and taking care of dis
aster relief in the United States.
NEARLY EVERY
FAMILY TO HAVE
VICTORY GARDEN
Average Size Around Four
Fifths of Acre. Survey
Report Announced
TABULATIONS GIVEN
Farmers, urban families and in
dustrial workers of Brevard and
Transylvania county will have a
total of 2,597 Victory gardens with
an aggregate area of 2,063 acres,
a tabulation from a survey con
ducted by the county Victory
garden committee reveals.
On the basis of these incom
plete survey tabulations, County
Agent Julian Glazener pointed out
that nearly as many Victory gar
dens will be raised in the coun
ty as there are families and that
the average acreage of these Vic
tory gardens will be approxi
mately four-fifths of an acre.
In the town of Brevard proper,
according to the survey, there
will be 317 gardens with a total
of 95 acres. These figures do not
include gardens that will be rais
ed by industrial workers who re
side within the city limits.
For industry, the returns show
1504 gardens with a combined
area of 1173 acres. Approximate
ly two-thirds of these gardens
will be planted by Ecusta em
ployees.
In the town of Rosman. there
will be 15 gardens amounting to
seven acres.
761 Garden In Country
The average size garden in
all sections of the country will
be approximately one acre and
there will be one of them on each
of 761 farms.
These returns were compiled at
a meeting of the Victory garden
committee at the county agent’s
office Saturday morning, which
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IMPORTANCE OF
WARNING SYSTEM
STRESSED HERE
Army Officials Visit Here
And Make Talks At
Meeting. Show Film
“If the Military Aircraft Warn
ing System volunteers work as
they should, America will never
be effectively invaded by air,’*
said Corporal Henry Liebman, of-,
ficial of the Columbia Air Filter
at a meeting of aircraft observers
at Brevard College here Tuesday
night.
The entire defense of America
from attack by air is hedged
about the volunteer workers in
over a million posts throughout
the nation, the man declared, and
the seven posts in Transylvania
county are as vital a part of this
nation-wide system as any cog in
a drive wheel of any war industry,
the army man said.
Sgt. John P. Stack, also here
for the meeting and inspection
tour of the posts, said that the
volunteer organizations such as
those now operating in Transy
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Contributions For
Oak Grove Church
Building Solicited
Improvement work on the Oak
Grove Methodist church has been
started and the finance commit
tee is now busy collecting all
pledges and soliciting additional
contributions to the building
fund, Pastor G. G. Adams, Jr., an
nounces.
A total of at least $800 is need
ed to make the necessary im
provements and repairs and $500
has been collected to date, he
states.
Those who have their pledges
or gifts ready, please contact im
mediately one of the subscription
committee members: Mrs. Robert
English, Mrs. T. E. Hargis, Jr.,
Mrs. Harvey Sprouse, James W.
Dickson, Jr., Albert Fortune,
John L. Morris and G. G. Adams
Jr.