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The Transylvania Times
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
Vol. S3; No. 28
ONE SECTION
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TAX COLLECTOR OFFICES MERGED
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Transylvania Community Hospital Is Now Debt-Free
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$2,500.00 FROM
DUKE ENDOWMENT
HEPS PAY BILLS
All Obligations On Beautiful
$100,000 Hospital Are
Paid Up
SUCCESSFUL OPERATION
Every penny of indebtedness
against Transylvania county’s beau
tiful new $100,000 hospital has
been paid, it was learned today.
Construction of this modern, 25
bed hospital was completed in the
spring of 1942 and the hospital
was officially opened last June,
and now. within less than thirteen
months from the date of opening,
all construction and equipment
costs have been paid.
Most of the cost was paid while
construction was underway and a
check of $2,500 received a few
days ago from the Duke Endow
ment enabled the trustees to pay
all outstanding obligations.
The exact value of the hospital
is $98,906.56. The large brick build
ing cost $71,702 and equipment
around $25,000. The lot on which
the hospital was built was valued
at $3,500 and it was given by the
town and county.
The Duke Endowment had pre
viously contributed $28,000. Tran
sylvania county citizens and sum
mer residents gave around $69,000
or $70,000 in cash. Of this amount
the Ecusta Paper corporation and
employees contributed approxi
mately $30,000.
Other large contributors includ
ed Dr. C. L. Newland and Dr. H.
J. Bradley who gave around $5,000
worth of equipment, Mrs. Charles
Moorelman, $1,000; Wheeler Hosi
ery mill and employees, $1,000;
Silversteen Industries and employ
ees, approximately $1,000; Mrs. E.
P. Upton, $2,000; Sirrine Engine
ering firm and employees, $1,710;
Mayor Verne Clement and father,
$1,000. Hundreds of other citizens
and firms made contributions.
During its first year of operation,
the hospital made a surplus and
it is filling a great need in the
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MARK T. ORR IS
NOW A CAPTAIN
Well Known Native Of Bre
vard Is Promoted And
Transferred To Pa.
Capt. Mark T. Orr, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Oliver H. Orr, of Bre
vard, has been promoted from the
rank of first lieutenant to a cap
tain, and has been transferred
from Morris Field, Charlotte,
where he was public relations of
ficer, to Harrisburg, Pa., for a
course of advanced instruction in
the air intelligence school.
Captain Orr was inducted in
to the army in June, 1941, as an
enlisted man and was commission
ed a second lieutenant in April
of last year, a few days before he
was transferred to Morris Field
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Brother And Sister
Meet In N. Africa
Private James E. McCormick,
who was stationed with the para
troopers somewhere in North Af
rica, recently met his sister, Sec
ond Lieut. Jaunita McCormick, in
North Africa, a letter from James
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
McCormick, of Brevard, states.
Lieut. McCormick is an army
nurse and is likewise stationed on
the dark continent.
The McCormicks have three
other sons in service. Cpl. Melvin
McCormick has been transferred
from the Aberdeen Proving
Grounds to Auburndale, Mass. Pvt.
George D. McCormick has been
transferred from the infantry to
the medical detachment at Camp
White, Oregon, and Pvt. Thomas
McCormick, the last son to enter
service, is still at Camp Myles
Standish, Mass.
Mrs. McCormick and infant
daughter, Hazel, are staying with
Mr. and Mrs. McCormick.
Allies Attack Island Of Sicily
Here’s how American, British and Canadian troops landed last
Saturday morning on the island of Sicily where they are now7
making splendid progress. Shown above are amphibian troops
carrying full packs and rifles. They have just abandoned a dis
abled landing barge and are swimming to shore.
Community Chest Proposal
Unanimously Endorsed At A
Meeting Here Last Thursday
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Survey And Study Now Be
ing Made. To Hold Organ
ization Meeting Soon
At a meeting held here last
Thursday night, representatives
of a majority of the civic clubs
and other organizations in Brevard
voted unanimously to help or
ganize a Community Chest.
The need for such an organiza
tion and plans for perfecting it
wore presented by Ed H. McMa
han and Jerry Jerome.
It was pointed out that through
a Community Chest program, many
of the town’s financial drives could
be consolidated into one cam
paign, thereby saving a great deal
of time for solicitors and con
tributors.
If such an organization were
perfected Boy and Girl Scout
Scout drives and other financial
campaigns would be grouped in
to one big annual drive.
For organizational purposes, it
was proposed that every club and
organization in Brevard have at
least one or two representatives
on the Community Chest com
mittee, that officers be elected
and committees appointed.
The organization would be in
corporated and would operate un
der a constitution and by-laws.
A committee, composed of Ed
McMahan, Jerry Jerome, Rev.
Ashby Johnson, Jack Trantham,
Keith Pooser and Ed M. Anderson,
was appointed to work out full
details as to organization plans and
several ladies were appointed to
make a survey of the various fi
nancial drives that would be in
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CAMP OSCEOLA AT
PISGAH FOREST IS
NOW IN OPERATION
R. L. Rinc, of Miami, Is Man
ager. Says War Hurts
Tourist Trade
“The only reason Brevard is not
flooded with tourists this summer
is because of the war, patriotism
and bond buying,” is a statement
made by R. L. Rinc, of Miami, Fla.,
who opened his summer camp for
boys, Camp Osceola, near Pisgah
Forest, on July 8.
Mr. Rinc, who with the assis
tance of his wife and other coun
selors, has been operating his camp
in this vicinity for the past 15
years or more, expressed the opin
ion that hundreds of visitors from
Florida and other sections would
flock to Brevard for their vaca
tions this summer if war condi
tions, transportation and other ex
isting difficulties did not prevent.
The fact that he purchased his
camp property here in 1925, and
has spent the majority of the sum
mers here since that time, attests
to the fact that he is a lover and
a booster of this immediate sec
tion of the Western Carolina
mountains.
“The war is brought much closer
home to the people living along
coastal Florida,” Mr. Rinc said,
“and nothing would suit them bet
ter than to be able to get away
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War Demandsj’For Lumber Greater
Than Supply, Forest Man States
Lumber production is first in
the war effort due to the fact that
a shortage of eight to ten billion
feet in demand for carting and
barge construction exists, it was
stated by W. L. Shaddix, of Double
Springs, Alabama, who is in Bre
vard and other points in this area
in the interest of the program of
the Southern States Forestfire
Commission. “85% of the lumber
produced in the south is by port
able mills, and of which the south
has now about 25,000 working
part-time, where a year ago we
had nearly 40,000,” he stated.
“15,000 have shut down because of
lack of loggers and truck drivers,:
and because of shortage of trucks
or parts. Many shut down for lack
of timber. It is easy to see how
the government should get caught
short of necessary lumber for war
needs, and lend-lease,” Mr. Shad
dix stated, and added:
“Aside from labor shortage, fire
burnt up a fourth of the south’s
stumpage in the Spring—April of
1942, and at the time the big fires
swept some of the mountains here.
“Back in 1939 we organized sev
eral volunteer forest fire groups
in this and adjoining counties to
help keep down forest fire de
struction. We expect to revive and
increase the groups, and to furnish
much valuable and interesting ma
terial to teachers of the schools
in this county beginning this fall.
“We also are inviting citizens of
this county to join in a conference
to be held at the Grove Park Inn
August 6, beginning at 11 a. m.,
where a dutch luncheon will be
served. Guests will hear eminent
conservationists from several states
discuss plans for assuring that an
other April of 1942 will not occur
with its terrible destruction of our
timber we need to back up our
boys in war.”
MOVIEGOERS HERE
RECOGNIZED “IKE”
MEIXELL IN NEWS
Penrose Boy Who Is An Avi
ator In Pacific Area Fea
tured On Screen
Movie-goers here Sunday and
Monday nights were thrilled When
they recognized a picture of “Ike”
Meixell in the news ree* at the
Co-ed theatre.
Without any advanced warning,
a number of persons reported that
they recognized the popular Pen
rose boy “just as soon as he turned
around in his plane and smiled.”
The news reel showed a group
of American aviators getting ready
to start on another bombing flight
against Jap-held territory. Seated
in a large plane were two men,
apparently a pilot and co-pilot.
“When the co-pilot turned and
faced the camera I knew it was
Ike, and told Mrs. Eck Sims who
he was,” Mrs. Allie Harllee, popu
lar board clerk, told a Times re
porter.
That was on Sunday night. Not
many persons in the theatre that
night recognized the former Ecusta
worker. But en Monday night when
the word was spread around, a
large number of his friends went
to the theatre and cheered as his
photo was flashed upon the screen.
“Ike” enlisted November 5,
1941, and, true to his desires, got
into the army air corps. He has
been at Guadalcanal and other
Pacific aileas for tfie past several
months and has seen a great deal
of action.
J. A. Griffin, who has a son in
the Pacific and who is a neighbor
of the Meixells, also recognized
Ike, and told Mrs. Harllee about
it on Monday.
“Oh, yes, I recognized him,” she
replied.
PRICE SURVEYS
MADE IN COUNTY
Group Of Ladies Assisted
Local Board In Survey
ing Grocery Stores
Community ceiling prices on
many items carried in grocery
stores in Transylvania county will
be established in the near future,
it was learned today.
During the past week price as
sistants of the local war price and
rationing board visited 4 grocery
stores in Brevard, 2 in Rosman
and 2 at Pisgah Forest and made
a list of a large number of items
carried in those stores.
These items and present prices
charged have been sent to OPA
offices in Charlotte and officials
there will work out community
ceiling prices for this county.
A list of Brevard and Pisgah For
est price panel assistants was an
nounced recently. Four women as
sited in making the survey in
Rosman. They were Mrs. Rosa
Callahan, Mrs. Ola Collins, Mrs.
Fay Bishop and Mrs. Lola Lusk.
At a later date surveys will be
made of department stores and
other types of stores to determine
community ceiling prices.
Tourist Season Is
Better This Year
There are more tourists in
Brevard now than there were a
year ago, it was learned from the
Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
Many of the visitors, it is stat
ed, want to rent cottages and all
available places of that kind have
been taken, it is stated.
Local hotel facilities are still
not crowded, however, and an ef
fort is being made to induce others
to come to Brevard.
As yet no information has been
obtained from the Greyhound of
ficials concerning the request for
improved bus service to and from
Hendersonville.
VISITS HERE
Sgt. Mary Clayton, of the
WAACs, stationed at Fort George
Meade, Md., visited friends and
relatives in Brevard the first of
the week on a 72-hour furlough.
Christen Dutch Princess In Canada
Chaplain of the Netherlands Navy Rev. Winfield Burrggahhf
christens the third daughter of Crown Princess Juliana of the
Netherlands and Prince Bernhard in Ottawa, Can. The baby was
named Princess Margriet Franeisca. The child’s mother holds her
as the father stands nearby at the right. (International)
Six Transylvania Men Will
Enter Service August 2nd;
34 Were Examined Last Fri.
To Collect Taxes
T. E. REID who has been ap
pointed as Transylvania county
tax collector to succeed Edwin
A. Morgan. Mr. Morgan will
enter military service August 2.
Canning Season Has
Started In County
The summer canning season has
started and many persons are now
making application at the war
price and rationing board office
here for canning sugar.
Applications will be accepted
any day from now until October.
Reports from Washington indi
cate that the rationing of sugar
and coffee may be discontinued
in the near future.
Several Accepted For Navy.
Edwin Morgan To Enter
Training
Of the 34 Transylvania county
men who were examined at Camp
Croft last Friday, 7 of them were
inducted into the army and order
ed to report at Fort Jackson on
August 2, and a number were ac
cepted for service in the Navy.
Included in the group who will
go to Jackson on August 2 is Ed
win A. Morgan, well known Tran
sylvania county tax collector.
The other six are Lawrence
Orville Ray, John Clarence Whit
mire, Christine Patrick Costanza,
Floyd Wesley Callahan, James Le
roy Banks and Howard Paul Shep
pard.
A list o' those accepted by the
Navy was not available today.
Others sent to Camp Croft were:
Buren Arthur Morgan, James Joe
Walden, Walter Mack Hamilton,
Joe Flem Tinsley, Jesse Pressley,
Joseph Asbury Gillespie, Frank
Harry Barton, Len White, Paul
Cecil Miller, Rufus Norman West,
Claud L. Barton, Frank Edmond
Parker, Alvoid Daves, John Eve
rett Sorrells, Frank Eccles Riddle,
James William Dunn, Lawrence
Herschel Justus, Clarence Eugene
Masters, Ernest Orr, Brack Chap
pell, George William Bryson, Vir
gil Buddy Gibson, William Law
rence McCall, Estle Hall, Jesse
Lloyd Cash and Max Gillespie.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Taylor, sons,
Vance and Clifton, and daughter,
Geraldine, of Gibsonville, were
week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Taylor. The elder Mr. and
Mrs. Taylor are parents of Fred
Taylor here.
Escaped Prisoner Stole Car Here
Monday; Automobile Found Tues.
A car which was stolen off the
streets here Monday afternoon,
was found Tuesday on a dirt road
between Travelers Rest and Pick
ens, S. C., Sheriff Freeman Hayes
reports.
The automobile belonged to Mrs.
Ruth Clayton, manager of the
Western Union office here and was
stolen by Hovey Moody, an es
caped South Carolina prisoner who
was serving a term for car steal
ing.
Fortunately the car had not been
damaged, but it was out of gas
and stuck in the mud, and several
personal items, including a dog,
were missing.
Greenville, S. C., officers ar
rested Moody Tuesday morning.
At the time of arrest, they did
not realize he had stolen a car
here. Later in the day Sheriff
Hayes called them and upon ques
tioning, Moody admitted that he
had taken an automobile here. He
told officers where he left the car.
Yesterday officers questioned him
about the dog and other personal
property items in the car.
The car was parked on the street
here in front of the Western Union
office. “Being m front of our door
I left the keys in the car and
didn’t dream of any one driving
it off,” Mrs. Clayton said.
Officers said Moody had also
admitted to stealing two other
motor vehicles. He escaped jail in
lower South Carolina and stole a
car. Later he nabbed a truck and
was alleged to have been hauling
liquor. After wrecking the truck,
he came to Brevard looking for
free transportation.
It is understood that Moody’s
parents live somewhere near where
the Clayton car was found.
TOWN AND COUNTY
OFFICES COMBINED
AT MEETING HERE
Town To Pay County $50 Per
Month. Advantages Of
Plan Given
REID IS APPOINTED
At a joint meeting of county
commissioners and the board of
aldermen here Monday night, the
town of Brevard tax collector’s
office was consolidated with the
office of the county tax collec
tor, and llrs consolidation will be
come effective October 1st of this
year.
This consolidation was effect
ed in accordance with a local bill
passed during the last session of
the state general assembly, and
is in keeping with the trend
throughout the state.
T. E. Reid, prominent Brevard
business man and chairman of
the Transylvania board of educa
tion, has been appointed to serve
as county tax collector during the
absence of Edwin A. Morgan who
will enter military service on Aug
ust 2.
Mr. Reid has been connected
with the Houston Furniture com
pany here for several years. Dur
ing the last election he was one
of the Democratic candidates for
sheriff.
Mr. Morgan, whose term of of
fice does not expire until Decem
ber, 1944, has been granted a
leav* of absence. He has served
as tax collector for the past four
and a half years and has made an
outstanding record.
The resolution, passed at the
joint meeting of the boards, con
solidating the tax collectors’ of
fices, is printed below.
This action does not affect the
present personnel set-up in the
town’s office.
The resolution is as follows:
WHEREAS, the Board of Coun
ty Commissioners of Transylvania
County and the Board of Aider
men of the Town of Brevard, in
joint session assembled, deem it
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MITCHEM MARKET
IN NEW LOCATION
Much More Room Available
At United Variety
Store Stand
Announcement is made today of
the removal of Mitchem’s Seafood
Market to a new and more com
modius location adjoining Macfie’s
Drug store. This building was oc
cupied until a few weeks ago by
the United Variety store.
Increased business necessitating
additional room was assigned by
Ed C. Mitchem, owner, as the
principal reason for the move. The
extra space will also make it pos
sible to display merchandise to a
better advantage, he pointed out.
J. B. King, an experienced
butcher, is in charge of the mar
ket at the Mitchem store. The
market regularly rates Grade A
and utilizes the most modern equip
ment.
Mr. Mitchem has been in the
meat and grocery business here
for several years and has built up
a large volume of trade. He plans
to open in his new location today.
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|Schedule Of Events!
| For Visitors
Street dance every Monday night
in front of Brevard high school
building, sponsored by Jaycees.
Community sings every Thurs
day night at Brevard courthouse,
sponsored by Jaycees and senior
chamber of commerce.
Square dance at Country club
every Friday night, sponsored by
the club.
Swimming every day in Bre
vard’s municipal pool.
Golfing on beautiful 10-hole
golf course at Country club.
Fishing in various streams of
the county.