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The Transylvania Times
Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation
Vol. 53; No. 33
★ TWO SECTIONS ★
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUG. 19, 1943
★ 16 PAGES TODAY ★
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
PULPWOOD CAMPAIGN STARTED
A A A All 111 1 1 1 A A 1 lii i i a
AROUND $1,500
MUST BE RAISED
BY CONTRIBUTION
Money Needed To Buy New
Books And To Provide
Library Personnel
MAY START DRIVE
To purchase badly needed quan
tities of news books and to pro
vide adequate personnel, a first
year budget of $2,930 is needed to
establish the proposed Transyl
vania County Public Library, Miss
Julius Amis, field supervisor of
the State Library Commission,
told members of the local library
committee here Tuesday night.
The minimum budget suggested
by Miss Amis is as follows: sal
aries, $1,510; new books, $1000
and operating expenses, $300.
To participate in the state fund
and thereby receive $1,125, it is
necessary for the county library
to have a certified librarian and
to meet certain other require
ments. Miss Amis explained.
The proposed budget anticipates
employing a certified librarian on
at least a part-time basis and em
ploying an assistant who will keep
the library open every day dur
ing the week from around 10 or
11 o’clock in the morning until
5:30 in the afternoon.
There are approximately 3,000
volumes in the UDC library here
which the members propose to turn
over to the county institution, but
Miss Amis stated that from 500
to 1000 new books should be
bought during the next twelve
months in order that the library
may be able to provide needed
facilities.
Miss Amis stated further that
a branch unit should be set up at
Rosman and that books should be
made available to the schools and
through home demonstration clubs
to all of the people of the county.
“I am delighted to see so much
interest here in the establishment
of a free county library and the
state commission will co-operate
with you in every possible way in
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CAMPS IN COUNTY
CLOSE THIS WEEK
One Of The Best Camping
Seasons County Ever Had.
Directors Pleased
Transylvania county boy and
girl summer camps, which have
enjoyed one of the most successful
seasons in years, are closing this
week.
Campers at Deerwoode and Caro
lina started leaving yesterday and
the regular camping season at
Camp Mary Gwyn and Cateechee
ends today.
Camp Illahee, however, will re
main open until next Thursday,
August 26th.
Due to various wartime restric
tions, several camps in the county
did not open this season, but those
that were in operation reported
record enrollments, and directors
said they had nearly twice as many
applications as they could accept.
It is estimated that around 1,000
boys and girls from all over east
ern America have camped here
during the summer.
County Reaches Its
Red Cross Knitting
Quota; Pins Arrive
Mrs. John Smith, chairman Red
Cross knitting work in the county,
announced today that a shipment
has been made to headquarters
and that the county is now up
with its quota.
“I am expecting to receive an
other supply of material within a
short time,” she said.
She also announced that pins
have been received. “Fifteen per
sons have secured theirs and I
have about 25 more pins on hand,”
she explained and stated that wo
men entitled to wear them might
obtain their pins at the library.
Red Cross Aquatic School
To Open Saturday; A Large
Enrollment Of 125 Expected
Italian Prisoner
CPL. ERNEST B. ENGLISH,
a bombardier and grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. Flem Glazener, of
Rosman, is a prisoner of the
Italian government. He has been
missing ia action since June 18.
CpI. English has been in service
18 months. He was first sent to
England and then to North Af
rica. Before enlisting in the ser
vice, he worked at Ecusta. He
is a nephew of Sheriff and Mrs.
Freeman Hayes.
BREVARD COLLEGE
RECEIVING MANV
INQUIRIES NOW
Regular Fall Semester To
Open Sept. 20. To Have
Football This Fall
Judging by the large number
of inquiries from parents and pros
pective students that have been
received, Brevard College’s new
four-year program, embracing two
years of high school and two years
of college that can be completed
in three years, is being well re
ceived, President E. J. Coltrane
announced today.
“During the past week we have
had inquiries from as far north as
Detroit and Pennsylvania and as
far south as Miami and Birming
ham,” he stated. “A visitor on our
campus from Pittsburgh, Pa., said
today that everywhere he went he
heard discussion of our new war
time, acceleration program.”
The regular fall semester will
open on Monday, September 20,
and indications are that the col
lege will have a good enrollment.
A letter that President Coltrane
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Harry Kenning Is Director.
Staff Composed Of
Prominent Persons
Approximately 125 men and
women from all over eastern
America are expected to attend
the late summer National Aquatic
school that will be held at Camp
Carolina by the American Red
Cross starting this Saturday and
ending August 31, Harry Kenning,
director, announced today.
As usual, courses will be given
in first aid prevention, swimming,
life saving, boating and other re
lated subjects.
Several nationally prominent
Red Cross representatives are in
cluded on the teaching staff, Mr.
Kenning announced.
Charles E. Nix, of Anderson, S.
C., is assistant director of the
camp. Other staff members are
Don Northy, National Red Cross
staff; Harry Lyons, of Daytona
Beach; Charles E. Russell, Sam
Jones, Miss Dorothy Tollison, Pea
body college; Mrs. Jaime Palmer,
Fort Lauderdale; Mrs. Clarice Con
ner, Charlestown, W. Va., Mrs.
Edith Howard .Miami; Miss Blanche
Albert, Atlanta; Dr. J. Fenton,
Mrs. Fannie Nix, Azel McCurdy,
and Charles Nix, Huntington, W.
Va., J. C'artia Burnett, Mrs. Judy
Lewis of Indiana, is secretary.
“We are expecting to have a
very large and successful school,”
Mr. Kenning said.
Mrs. R. F. Johnston
Receives A Purple
Heart For Husband
Mrs. Robert F. Johnston, of Bre
vard, whose husband, Lt. Robert
F. Johnston, was killed in action
in the Southwest Pacific on July
11, received this week the Purple
Heart from Secretary Stimson by
order of President Roosevelt.
Accompanying the posthumous
award was the statement, “A mili
tary merit for bravery and for
wounds received in action result
ing in his death on July 11, 1943.”
Lt. Johnston was a bomber pilot
and had been in foreign service
only one month. In addition to
his wife, he is survived by his
mother, Mrs. M. C. Johnston, of
Miami, Fla., and one sister.
Mrs. Johnston, formerly Miss
Christine Yongue, of Brevard, has
been here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Yongue, practically
all of the time since her husband
entered military service.
MORE WHEAT RECEIVED
A carload of feed wheat arrived
here a few days ago and is being
purchased rapidly by local farm
ers. Another shipment is expected
i within the next week.
To Hold Graduation Exercises At
Brevard College Next Thursday, A. M.
Graduation exercises for five high
school students and five junior
college girls will be held at Brevard
College next Thursday morning,
August 26, at 11 o’clock, President
E. J. Coltrane announced today.
This is the college’s first high
school graduating class since its
establishment here in 1934.
In keeping with wartime edu
cational needs, Brevard College
inaugurated an accelerated pro
gram of pre-college training last
June and five of the high school
summer-term students have al
ready completed enough credits to
graduate, Dr. Coltrane stated.
Diplomas will be awarded to
these five students and they will
finish their training on Saturday,
August 28.
The junior college graduates,
however, will not receive their
diplomas until the regular term
is over on September 18. The
prograqi of graduation, though, is
being combined.
Ed M. Anderson, editor-publisher
of The Times and college publicity
director, will deliver the com
mencement address. Special music
will be rendered and Dr. Burt W.
Loomis, dean, will present the
classes to President Coltrane who
will award the diplomas to the
high school grads.
The high school graduates are
Charles Cabe and Rufus Pannell,
of Franklin; Morton White, Cordes
ville, S. C.; George Simpson, Bre
vard and John Yancey Thomas,
Milton.
Sophomores who are members
of the summer junior college grad
uation class are Ella Sue Allen,
Knightdale; Bertha Emyla Bald
win, West Jefferson; Grace Marion
Dooley, Bedford, Va.; Patricia
Hope Howard, Fayetteville, and
Betty Truitt, Sanford.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the graduation.
Western North Carolina’s Number One String Band
The Ecusta String Band, shown above, won first prize in the 16th annual Mountain Dance and
Folk Festival music contest held in Asheville recently. The picture was made while the boys were
in action. Rhett Talley, picking the banjo, is manager of the band. Others are: reading from left
to right. Robert King, Odell Scott, Arch Lance, Rhett Talley and Carl Patterson.
4-H CLUB BOYS,
GIRLS ENJOY A
CAMPING TRIP
Extension Agents Take 65
4-H Members On Trip
In Forest
A total of 65 Transylvania boys
and girls attended a two-day camp
last Friday and Saturday at the
Pink Beds located in the Pisgah
National Forest.
The club memoers played soft
ball and a number of other games.
From all reports, they had an en
joyable stay in the forest.
This form of recreation was pro
vided under the leadership of the
county extension agents, and is
provided each year for 4-H club
boys and girls. Supervising the
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Motorists May Get
More Gasoline Soon
Indications from Washington are
that A card holders may get one
more gallon per week. This action,
however, may not take place be
fore the first of September.
Dealers who have A-7, “B” or
“C” coupons received from motor
ists at a unit value of four gallons
before August 16 must have them
in to their suppliers or exchange
them at the rationing board for
inventory coupons by midnight
August 21, Dr. Zachary, chairman
of the county War Price and Ra
tioning board, announced today.
They must segregate these cou
pons and affix them to gummed
sheets to which no other coupons
are attached and must summarize
the coupons on Form R-541, listing
no other coupons on this form, he
said.
The dealer may either forward
the coupons, together with the
form and signed certificate to his
supplier who may honor them at
four-gallon value up to midnight
August 21, or he may exchange
them at the rationing board for
inventory coupons by the same
date.
To Hold Homecoming
Day This Sunday At
Rocky Hill Church
Rocky Hill Baptist church, Cedar
Mountain, will observe Homecom
ing day Sunday, August 22nd,
with a program beginning at 10
A. M. and lasting all day, with din
ner being served on the grounds.
An invitation is extended to all
former pastors, members, and
friends of the church to attend.
Revival services, conducted by
the Rev. C. B. Lockee, pastor of
Washington Avenue Baptist church
of Greenville, S. C., will begin
Monday night and continue
throughout the week. Rev. Clyde
Collins is pastor of the church.
Invasion Of Europe Seems
Imminent With Downfall
Of Sicily And War Meeting
PLANS DISCUSSED
FOR CONDUCTING
WAR LOAN DRIVE
County’s Quota Expected To
Be Over $200,000. Drive
Starts September 9th
Tentative plans for conducting
the Third War Loan drive in Tran
sylvania county were discussed
last night at a meeting of the
War Finance committee held in
the courthouse.
No quota has been assigned to
the county yet, but it is believed
that this quota will be around
$200,000, or nearly twice as much
as the Second War Loan drive
quota of last April, Chairman E.
H. McMahan estimated.
The drive is scheduled to start
on Thursday, Sept. 9 and to end
Sept. 30.
Plans are being made to contact
practically every person in the
county, and full details will be
announced later.
“Our quota will undoubtedly be
higher than it was for the last
drive, because of the fact that the
national quota is higher and also
due to the fact that no part of
this quota is assigned to banks,
whereas five billion of the last
quota was assigned to the banks,”
Mr. McMahan stated.
Changes in the national and
state organizations have recently
been made and it is believed that
this is why no information has
been received relative to the coun
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Americans Took Last Strong
hold. War Conference
Underway In Quebec
The stage appears to be all set
now for the next big allied of
fensive against the Axis, with the
battle of Sicily ended on Tuesday,
after the fall of Messina to Ameri
can forces following a 38-day fierce
battle with German and Italian
forces, and with the historic meet
ing of Prime Minister Churchil]
and President Roosevelt, which
began with the Quebec war con
ference on Wednesday.
World wide speculation has beer
rife as to the location of the nexi
allied invasion blow, whether the
main offensive will be on the Euro
pean continent or against the
Japs somewhere in the Pacific
Strong indications point to ar
early invasion of Kiska on the
Aleutian Islands, and also to ar
attack on the European continen
from the West, striking at the
coastal areas of France or Nor
way from English bases.
With the arrival of Presiden
Roosevelt and his military leader:
in Quebec Tuesday night, w^ere
they were met by Churchill anc
his military and political experts
it is believed by official authorities
that a master war plan will be
made to blast the Axis out oi
existence, at a conference whicl
destines to hold the fate of the
Allies as well as the staggering
enemies in their hands.
Stepped-up offensives have been
noted the past few days in the
European war theatre, when Brit
ish and American heavy bombers
roared over Germany in day and
night attacks, blasting at numer
ous strategic Nazi targets of air
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Transylvania County War Fund Drive
Quota Is *10,200; Drive In October
Transylvania county’s United
War Fund quota is $10,200 and the
drive to raise this large amount
of money will be conducted in
October, J. S. Silversteen, who was
appointed some time ago by Gov.
Broughton as county chairman, an
nounces.
Preliminary plans for the drive
were discussed at a meeting of a
few community leaders and the
following officers were chosen to
serve on the county organization:
F. S. Best, secretary; George
Wheeler, treasurer and Ed M.
Anderson, publicity director.
A full executive committee and
other members of the county-wide
organization will be appointed in
the near future.
Instead of conducting separate
campaigns, the U. S. O. and all
other war recreational and relief
drives have been combined this
year into one campaign and it
will be held throughout the nation
during the month of October.
“We have a large quota and it
is going to require full co-opera
tion on the part of every one to
raise it,” Mr. Silversteen stated.
“To date Transylvanians have
made outstanding war records and
I am sure they will do their part
in this worthy campaign,” he said.
DRIVE SPONSORED
BY THE TIMES AND
PRESS OF NATION
Government Badly In Need
Of Pulp And Chestnut
Wood In War Program
ANNOUNCE COMMITTEES
Featuring a slogan of “enlist
for three extra days” in the woods,
The Times today has joined other
non-daily and daily newspapers of
the nation in a campaign to aid
the government to help solve the
serious pulpwood and chestnut
wood shortage situation.
This is the second time since
Pearl Harbor that the nation’s
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TO TIMES OFFERED
Printed in an advertise
ment on the front page of
the second section of this
issue is a pledge statement
which, if filled out and sent
to The Times, entitles the
signer to receive and wear
a Pulpwood campaign badge.
To the first five farmers or
woodsmen who bring this
pledge The Times will give
one year’s subscriptions.
newspapers have been called upon
to overcome a serious war material
shortage.
Last fall it was the Newspaper
United iicrap Metal campaign. At
Jtlv*'lp|ft scores of steel mills
fa ed VShutdown for lack of ma
terials.4 What this newspaper and
the other papers of the country
accomplished in that drive is his
tory. The situation was saved with
more than 6,000,000 tons of pre
cious metal collected in the nation
and over 3,000,000 pounds collect
ed in this county.
Now it is the pulpwood and
chestnut wood campaign and it is
equally serious because hundreds
of thousands of cords of the na
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IRA DAVES DIED
WEDNESDAY, A.M.
Death Resulted From Pistol
Wound. Officers Found
Still On Place
Ira Daves died yesterday mom
I ing at one o’clock in the Transyl
’ vania community hospital from
wounds sustained in a shooting
duel with his uncle, Harley Mc
; Call, last week in the Pin Hook
’ Gap section of Jackson county,
: just across the Transylvania county
line, -<
Funeral service was held yester
’ day afternoon at 4 o’clock at the
, Shoals Creek Baptist church by
Rev. Lloyd Jones and burial was
in the church cemetery.
Daves, who was 47 years old,
is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Sarah Daves, his wife and six
children.
Three other members of the
Daves family were wounded dur
ing the shooting and McCall died
a short time after the fighting
occurred.
Mrs. Daves and 13-year-old, Lon
nie, were dismissed from the Hen
dersonville hospital a few days
ago and the condition of James,
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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.