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The Transylvania Times A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County Vol. 53; No. 31 ★ ONE SECTION ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUG. 5, 1943 ★ 12 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY COUNTY, TOWN TAX RATE IS $3.00 ★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★** Transylvania Baptist Association Held Its Annual Session Yesterday T. C. HENDERSON IS RE-ELECTED AS MODERATOR Next Association Will Be Held At Middle Fork Church Near Rosman GOOD ATTENDANCE A large crowd, including rep resentatives from twenty-five churches, attended the 62nd an nual session of the Transylvania Baptist association held yesterday at Glady Branch Baptist church. Reports submitted during the business session indicated that a majority of me churches in the association made substantial gains in financial contributions and in membership for the past year. T. C. Henderson, well known Transylvania county man and for mer superintendent of public schools, was re-elected moderator of the association. Kev. J. A. Anderson, ot Penrose, was re-elected vice moderator and N. L. Ponder, of Brevard, was re elected as clerk. Mr. Ponder has served in this capacity for the past seven years. Other officers chosen were Ed McGaha, treasurer and historian; Fred Montieth, Sunday School sup erintendent; Mrs. S. F. McAuley, W. M. U. director; Mrs. Karl Bosse, B. T. U. director; Lloyd Cantrell, Lord's Acre movement and Miss Lorena Merrill, D. V. B. S. direc tor. Members of the executive com mittee were re-elected as follows: T. C. Henderson. Rev. W. H. Whit lock, N. L. Ponder, Rev. B. W. Thomason, J. A. Glazener, A. M. Paxton and Rev. W. S. Price. The next annual session will be held at the Middle Fork church —Turn To Page Seven SHOT DOWN ONE GERMAN PLANE Brevard Boy Is In Transport Command. Sustained Minor Injuries Pvt. Charles W. McJunkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert McJunkin, of Brevard, has at least one Ger man plane to his credit. On June 18, it has been dis closed, Pvt. McJunkin, who is a turret gunner in the air transport command, shot down a German fighter somewhere in the Atlantic. In the action, McJunkin was slightly injured in the hand by enemy fire, but he has now re covered and says that he is ready to “go back after some of those dirty Germans.” His plane was said to have been attacked by a group of German fighters. He stated that he saw two German planes go down and that a third one was damaged. Pvt. McJunkin volunteered for service in November, 1941, and is now stationed at a Miami, Fla., base. Following his graduation from Brevard high school, he work ed at Ecusta before entering ser vice. He took basic training at Atlantic City, N. J. and Camp Crowder, Mo. To Limit Parking Here To One Hour To relieve congested parking conditions in the business dis trict of Brevard, a one hour parking limitation will go into effect immediately, it was de cided at a meeting of the town fathers. As soon as signs are placed, the one hour parking will be- • come effective from 6 A. M. to 6:30 P. M. during the week on the following streets—Main street from Caldwell to Gaston and from Main street to Jordan. A petition requesting this ac tion was presented to the board of aldermen. The petition was signed by a group of local mer chants who pointed out that many people are making the parking problem more serious by leaving their cars parked on the streets all day long. Motorists who violate the or dinance will be cited into court. Merchants To Close Stores For Funeral Services Of All Transylvania Men In Service WOMEN S CLUB TO SPONSOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY Committee To Meet With Miss Beal And Work Out Complete Details Backing up the action of its officers, members of the Brevard Women's Civic club Tuesday after noon voted to sponsor a county wide public library with the co operation of the county and town officials. President Mrs. Oliver Orr and Mrs. H. R. Bobst. chairman of educational committee, were in structed to get in touch with Miss Marjorie Beal, state librarian, and the U. D. C. chapter and work out full details for establishing a town and county library. In taking over the U. D. C. li brary. it is further proposed that the civic club raise funds to sup plement those that will be con tributed by the town, county and state, so that the library may be better equipped. At their meeting Tuesday and upon the suggestion of Mrs. Larry Haswell, chairman of the club’s war bond and stamp sales, the club decided to request all other women’s clubs in the city to co —Turn To Page Twelve Marvin McIntyre Visited Here Tues. Marvin McIntyre, one of Presi dent Roosevelt’s secretaries who is vacationing at Asheville, visited Brevard Monday afternoon. He and Charlie Price, U. S. marshal, were luncheon guests at Ecusta and came here to see Alex Kizer, U. S. commissioner. Mr. McIntyre said that he was greatly impressed by the large, modern Ecusta plant and that he always enjoyed coming to Brevard. “I’m coming back soon and spend some time here,” the noted secretary stated. Vaccination Against Diphtheria Required Dr. C. N. Sisk, district health officer, today called attention of all parents who will have chil dren entering school this fall for the first time that the state law requires these children to have certificates showing that they have been vaccinated against diphtheria. Vaccinations are given here at the health department by Dr. Sisk and the county nurse. Dr. Sisk is here every Mouday and Mrs. Paul Lollis is in the office on Monday and Saturday morn ings and during the week she is in and out of the office. During the school term the health department conducts im munization clinics in the various schools. Action Taken At Meeting Monday Night. To Remain Closed On Thursday To honor Transylvania county men in uniforms who make the supreme sacrifice and to show their respect and appreciation, the merchants of Brevard agreed in a meeting here Monday night to close their stores for at least fifteen minutes on the hour of funeral services for these men. In adopting the resolution, the merchants pointed out that this policy will be followed regardless of whether the funeral service is to be held in Brevard or some where in the county. The same action will be taken when rites are held for colored men in uni forms. The merchants also expressed regret that the decision had not been reached sooner and extend ed sympathy to the families of those who have already died while in service. The resolution also provided that fifteen minutes would be the minimum closing time, and a committee was appointed to pre pare copy for suitable signs to be hung on merchant's doors. Chief of Police Bert Freeman agreed to notify the merchants of funeral hours in the future. In taking this action, the mer chants also requested the full co operation and understanding on the pari of the public. The meeting was held under the sponsorship of The Times, follow ing a suggestion made by Rev. B. W. Thomason. At the meeting, it was also de cided that stores could continue to be closed on Thursday after noons for the duration. A com mittee composed of Harry Sellers, Bob Plummer, Jack Trantham and Tom Varner was named to con tact other merchants in regard to closing. C. M. Douglas stressed the need for a Brevard Merchants associa tion and offered the co-operation —Turn To Page Twelve Commerce Directors To Help Merchants Form Association At a meeting of chamber of commerce directors Monday night, the group voted to co-operate in every way possible in helping to form a Brevard Merchants associa tion. The transportation committee reported that it had been success ful in getting the Greyhound com pany to inaugurate better bus service between Brevard and Hen dersonville. A report from another commit tee indicated that the chamber of commerce is co-operating splendid ly with Brevard college in its ef forts to get more students this fail. Finance committee members were instructed to complete the mem bership drive within the next two weeks time. A Regular Health Clinic Will Be Opened At Rosman Friday Afternoon A maternal, infant and welfare, clinic for the convenience of the ] people of Rosman and vicinity will be opened Friday afternoon in the Gloucester Lumber com pany’s office building in Rosman, Dr, C. N. Sisk, district health of ficer, announced here this week. The clinic will be open the first Friday afternoon in every month from 1 to 3 o’clock and will be conducted by Dr. Mary B. H. Michael, assistant district health officer, assisted by Mrs. Jessie Mae Lollis, county health nurse. The clinics will be held primari-j ly for examination of expectant mothers and for the care of in fants, but at the same time all types of vaccinations will be given, including diphtheria, typhoid, small pox and whooping cough. Quarters for the clinic are be ing furnished by J. S. Silversteen. “One of the major purposes of the clinic is to give periodic ex aminations to expectant mothers to determine whether or not any complications of pregnancy are developing,” Dr. Sisk said. “The best authorities state that all expectant mothers should have physical examinations once each month from the time of inception through the seventh month and then at least twice each month,” he explained. “At the clinic a general physical —Turn To Page Six AMERICANS ENTER SICILY’S CAPITAL OF PALERMO THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION that Yanks have received as yet in Sicily was given them in the island's capital of Palermo. A Sicilian carries the Stars and Stripes for the conquering troops. Many fought with him for the privilege. An Army car with troops rolls on at the left. This Army Signal Corps Kadiophoto sent from Algiers is the first to show the Americans in Palermo. DRIVE TO COMPEL STAMP PURCHASES STARTED TUESDAY Summonses To Be Issued For Delinquent Car Owners After August 15 A drive to enforce purchase of the $5.00 federal automobile use stamp was launched Tuesday of this week, S. E. Varner, deputy collector of internal revenue, said yesterday. He has been instructed by the department to issue sum monses sometime during this month for all automobile and mo torcycle owners who do not dis play the stickers. No prosecution is planned, he said, if the stamps are purchased following issuance of the summonses, but in the event of failure to do so it will be necessary to recommend prose cution. July 1 was the original deadline for purchase of the stickers, Mr. Varner said, but the date was ex tended through July 31 by the post office department. Stamps remaining on hand at that time were returned to the collector’s office and a supply of eleven months stamps was sent. This stamp sells for $4.58, but it can be used only on automobiles and motorcycles that were not operat ed during July. Mr. Varner is in his office, room 9, in the basement of the post office building, Brevard, each Saturday and Monday. If the stamps are purchased from him before August 15 no summonses will be issued, he said. Mr. Varner pointed out, how ever, that it was not necessary to see him in person to buy the stamps. A post office money or der payable to the collector of in ternal revenue, Greensboro, N. C., may be procured and mailed to —Turn To Page Six Three Large Stills Destroyed In County Officers found and destroyed three stills in Transylvania county last week end. One of the stills was located in the Old Toxaway section. It was a 40-gallon outfit and contained around 300 gallons of beer. Two stills were destroyed on Sunday and both of them were 40 gallon outfits. One was located in the East Fork section and the other in the Quebec area. The illicit outfit at Quebec was in full operation and three men ran when they saw officers ap proaching. There they also found 500 gallons of mash. Large Crrnvd Attended FumhI Service Held Here On Tuesday For Aviation Cadet Lewis Sims $76,000 BUDGET IS ADOPTED BY BREVARD BOARD Authorizes Spending $46, 293 General Fund And $30,000 Debt Service A budget authorizing the expen diture of $46,293.24 through the general fund and $30,000 through the debt service fund was adopted last Thursday for the town of Bre vard by the board of aldermen, and the 1943-44 tax rate was set at $1.45, the same as last year. The general fund budget was itemized as follows: water depart ment, $9,240; sewer department, $2,600; streets, $12,400; police de partment, $4,960; salaries of of ficials, $4,460; fire department, $800; lights, $3,791 and miscel laneous, $9,082. The debt service fund budget proposes that $19,034.86 be applied to the refunding plan and $10, 965.14 to the funding plan. The combined town and county tax rate will be $3.00 this year. John Smith, chief of the fire department, appeared before the board last Thursday night and —Turn To Page Twelve Popular Brevard Boy Killed Instantly During Flight Last Thursday A large crowd attended the funeral service held on Tuesday afternoon at Brevard First Baptist church for Aviation Cadet E. Lewis Sims, Jr., 21, who was killed in stantly last Thursday afternoon in an airplane crash near Augusta, Ga., while on a routine flight with his instructor from nearby Bush Field. The pastor, Rev. B. W. Thomason, conducted the service. Interment was in Gillespie ceme tery. Both occupants of the plane were killed, but the cause of the accident has not been officially announced. The scene of the ac cident was not located until the following Friday morning. Young Sims was in the army air corps at the basic flying school at Bush Field. He enlisted in service in August, 1941. He was a graduate of Brevard high school and took the pre-flight course at Brevard college. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. E. L. Sims, of Brevard, and his father, Sgt. E. L. Sims, who is with an aviation crew on active duty in North Africa; and his grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Osborne, of Brevard. Active pallbearers were Tom —Turn To Page Six AAA Community Leaders To Assist Farmers In Reporting Practices Plans are now being made for Transylvania county AAA commu nity committeemen to hold a series of meetings in each community to assist farmers in reporting their soil building practices, measure ments of special crops, potatoes and commercial vegetables for 1943. Notices of the community meet ings will be sent to the farmers and they are being urged to take advantage of the opportunity to secure special assistance. The reg ulation this year provides that the farmers are to make the reports themselves. Instruction was given to the county and community committee men by Jeff H. Enloe at a meeting here in the courthouse on Monday. Those attending the meeting were: County AAA committee mem bers—T. J. Wilson, James Dick son, Jr. and Richard McCall. Communities represented as fol lows: Boyd: L. F. Lyday, Sam Orr, Sutton Wilson, Andrew Boggs, P. A. Hahn; Brevard - Dunns Rock, John G. Canup, George W. Max well, G. W. Whitmire, Harvey Sprouse, A. R. Gillespie, V. B. Waldrop; Catheys-Creek-Eastatoe, N. H. Chapman, J. Frank McCall, Gaston Whitmire, Lilymae White, R. F. Glazener, A. M. Paxton; Gloucester-Hogback, Warren Fish er, W. J. Raines, C. A. McCall, Calvin Owen, L. E. Cash; Little River, Frank P. Shuford. OFFICIALS ADOPT ANNUAL BUDGETS AND SET RATES County Appropriation Of $150,795 Is Made. Funds Lfeted SELL TRACT OF LAND A Transylvania county budget, appropriating a total of $150,795. to be spent auring this fiscal year for all purposes, was adopted at the August meeting of the com missioners here last Monday, and the tax rate was set at $1.55, the same as of last year. The Brevard aldermen adopted a $76,000 budget and set the rate at $1.45. Since the tax collectors’ offices have been consolidated,, local taxpayers will pay both town and county taxes at the same time and the combined rate will be $3.00. The county poll tax rate is $2.00 and the levy cn male dogs of six months old is $1.00 and female dogs, $2.00. The budget appropriations are divided into 13 different schedules and they are as follows: County general fund, $22,300; debt service fund, $47,340; school fund, $38,500; outside poor fund, $1,485; old age assistance fund, $18,720; aid ic dependent children, $8,100; welfare department admin istration, $4,800; county health de partment, $1,500: county account ant department, $3,775; fire pre vention fund, $1,200: home agent fund, $600; farm agent fund, $1, 475; and county upkeep depart ment, $1,000. The county general fund is di vided as follows: Board of commissioners, $4,810; tax listing and assessing, $450; —Turn To Page Seven LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS, WALLIS Prominent Brevard Woman Died At Her Home Here , Tuesday Afternoon 4 Funeral service was held yester day afternoon at the Wallis resi dence in Brevard for Mrs. William Joseph Wallis, 82, prominent Bre vard woman, who died at her home here Tuesday afternoon, following an extended iilness. The service was conducted by Bishop John D. Wing, of Florida, and Rev. Harry Perry, rector of St. Philip’s Episcopal church. In terment was in St. Paul’s in the Valley cemetery. Surviving are two children, Mrs. Eric Rawls, of Asheville, and W., J. Wallis, of Brevard; two brothers^ V. Ward Boswell, of Alexandria, Va., *md T. S. Boswell, of Fau quie Va.; and four sisters, Mrs. G. C. Witmer, Mrs. C. H. Gordon and Mrs. Sam McCullough, of Bre vard, and Mrs. C. N. Cox, of Alex andria, Va. Her husband, Dr. W. J. Wallis, died about 12 years ago. Pallbearers were: H. N. Carrier, Harry Clarke, David G. Ward, R. —Turn To Page Twelve Honors Bestowed On Lt. Boyd B. Meixell In recognition of courageous service in action, Lt. Boyd B. Meixell, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Meixell, of Route 2, Brevard, has been awarded a special air medal. He was cited for meritorious achievement while participating in an aerial flight over the ocean in the New Guinea area. He is a member of a combat unit engaged in reconnaissance missions against hostile shipping. Several cargo ves sels and one large destroyer were sighted and despite intense anti aircraft fire, success was recorded. During the mission, the plane was attacked by several enemy fight ers and in a battle two Zeros were shot down. This information was contained in a letter from George C. Ken ney, who is commanding the fifth air force. Meixell was recently featured in the news reel at a local theatre.
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