Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation
Vol. 53; No. 35
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, 1943
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
PLANS MADE FOR BIG BOND DRIVE
Transylvania Schools Open With Good Attendance
NEARLY 3,000
CHILDREN ARE
NOW IN SCHOOL
Another Good Year Is Pre
dicted. To Start Publish
ing Schools News
SCHOOLS OPEN 8:45
Brevard and Transylvania county
public schools opened last Monday
with good enrollments, Supt. J. B.
Jones announced yesterday.
Exact enrollment figures were
not available from all schools in
time for publication today, but it
is believed that the total enroll
ment will slightly exceed last
year's records, although a number
of high school boys have already
entered service.
Supt. Jones estimated that the
county will have around 550 high
school students this year and near
ly 2.500 elementary pupils.
Enrollment at the Brevard high
school is nearly 400 and at Brevard
elementary, around 725.
Rosman high school has nearly
150 students and the elementary
school around 475.
Pisgah Forest enrollment is over
225.
All schools in the county are
opening this year at 8:45 o’clock,
instead of 9:45 as was the practice
a year ago.
According to all indications, this
will be another successful school
year in Transylvania.
Publication of regular school
news from Brevard and Rosman
high schools is expected to be
started next week and all other
schools in the county are being
requested to send in news from
time to time.
SMOKY MT. STAGES
CHANGE SCHEDULE
New Schedule In Bus Runs
Affects Brevard And
Transylvania
Several changes in time, extra
runs and extensions have been
made by the Smoky Mountain
Stages in their bus schedule, af
fecting Brevard and Transylvania
county, which is printed in an
advertisement appearing elsewhere
in this paper.
In the Brevard-Rosman schedule
the bus formerly leaving Brevard
at 10 p. m. now leaves at 9:45,
and the one formerly leaving Ros
man at 10:25 p. m. now leaves at
10:10. and the 4:30 bus leaves now
at 4 p. m.
Several other additions, changes
in hour of arrival or leaving, extra
runs or extensions, not listed in
the former schedule of the Bre
vard - Pisgah Forest - Ecusta - Orr’s
Store schedule, will be found by
a careful reading of the Smoky
Mountain Stages advertisement.
An extension to the county line
will be noted in the run of the
2:10 p. m. bus. and the 9:15 p. m.
leaving Brevard, and in the 11:20
a. m., the 2:35 p. m., and the 9:25
p. m. bus leaving Orr’s Store. Two
runs have also been added—one
leaving Brevard at 10:45 a. m. to
the county line, and one leaving
Orr’s store at 11:20 a. m. from the
county line.
Few Business Places
To Close Labor Day
No particular observance of
Labor Day has been announced
to take place here next Monday
with the exception of the clos
ing of some of the offices and
places of business.
All stores will remain open for
business on Monday as usual,
but the bank and all offices in
the court house will be closed
for the day. The post office
will be closed, with the excep
tion of two hours in the morn
ing when the window will be
open for service from 8:30 to
9:30 and from 11 to 12 noon.
Ali schools in Brevard and
throughout the county will con
tinue in session also.
Asheville Convocation Of
Episcopal Church Is Held
Here At St. Philips Church
--
Directs Bond Drive
ED H. McMAHAN, popular
and efficient chairman of the
Transylvania county war finance
committee, has also been ap
pointed to head the Third War
Loan drive in the county. He
says with assurance, “We have
a large quota, but we’re going
over the top again.”
SEVEN MORE HEN
ARE ACCEPTED &
WILL LEAVE SOON
Two Groups Left Here Last
Monday. Others To Leave
On September 10
Of the large group of Transyl
vania men who were examined at
Camp Croft on August 20, sev
eral more of them have been ac
cepted for military service, Mrs.
Allie Harllee. draft board clerk
here,# announces.
The names of approximately 50
men accepted for service were
announced last Thursday and Mrs.
Harllee revealed that seven more
had been accepted.
The Transylvania draft board
Monday sent 11 colored men to
Fort Bragg for examination. Three
of them were volunteers and eight
were drafted.
Clarence M. Summey and Chas.
B. Smith will join the large group
who are to leave here at 10
o’clock Friday morning, Sept. 10,
for Fort Jackson. Noel R. Norman
has already entered the air corps
and Dallis B. Baines, Bennett
Stansell and Charlie Y. Patton, Jr.,
are to be inducted into service at
Fort Jackson on Sept. 13th. War
ren G. Galloway, Gordon D. Leslie
and Robert Lee Jennings were
accepted in the navy and entered
—Turn To Page Four
Many Delegates From West'
em North Carolina
Diocese Attend
A two-day session of the Ashe
ville Convocation of the Episcopal
church of the diocese of Western
North Carolina, which was held at
St. Philip's Episcopal church in
Brevard on Tuesday and Wednes
day, came to a close yesterday at
noon. The convocation was attend
ed by 60 or more delegates, clergy
and visitors from the different
churches of the diocese.
Prominent leaders in the dio
cese who were present and par
ticipated on the program were:
Rev. A. W. F a r n u m , dean,
who opened the session Tuesday
afternoon with a discussion of the
subject, “Our Diocesan Task for
1943-'44;” Rev. G. Floyd Rogers,
rector of Trinity Episcopal church,
Asheville, delivered the sermon at
the Tuesday night session and
Evensong; Rev. Norvin C. Duncan,
retired, of Asheville, spoke Tues
day afternoon on gathering the
news for the diocesan paper, “The
Highland Churchman;’’ Rev. Joseph
Clair, rector of the Holy Cross
church, Tryon, spoke Wednesday
morning on, “Orientals within the
United States—Are the Attitudes
of Church and State Satisfactory?”;
Rev. A. W. Farnum, dean and
rector of St. Mary's Episcopal
church, Asheville, presided over
the two-day session and talked
Wednesday morning on the topic,
“Russia, Christian, Atheist or Nei
ther—What of this Nation’s Rela
tions to Her?”; Rev. James Sill,
in charge of Asheville missions,
discussed Wednesday morning the
topic, “The Present Status of the
Negro — Are We Satisfied With
It?”; Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, super
intendent of the Kanuga confer
ence, spoke on “The Christian
Attitude and Policy Toward a
Defeated Axis.”
Rev. Grant Folmsbee, Episcopal
minister of the community church
at Fontana Dam, was elected secre
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Troy McCrary Is A
Prisoner Of Germany
Staff Sergeant Troy McCrary,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander
McCrary, who live just across the
line in Henderson county, is now
a prisoner of Germany in Ru
mania, according to a telegram re
ceived this week by his parents
from the War Department.
He was a member of the 8th.
bombing squardon and participa
ted in the destructive raid August
1st on the Nazis oil fields in Ru
mania. It is believed that his plane
was wrecked or shot down, and
that he escaped injury. On Aug
ust 19th, his parents were advised
that their son was missing in ac
tion.
Before entering service, he work
ed at Ecusta.
Fathers In Essential Jobs Will
Be Called Last By Draft Boards
Fathers engaged in essential or
deferable activities need have no
fear of immediate induction in the
army, possibly not for several
months or at all, but pre-Pearl
Harbor fathers who continue to
engage in nondeferable activities
will find themselves subject to in
duction prior to registrants who
are engaged in other employ
ment.
This and further definite and
detailed information is contained
in orders released for newspapers
of the state this week by General
J. Van B. Metts of Raleigh, state
director of selective service. Draft
boards were instructed to clear
the air on the status of fathers.
The full order as issued by Gen
eral Metts is as follows:
“Recent directives from na
tional headquarters require the
reclassification of pre-Pearl Har
bor fathers without regard to
their eligibility for a 3-A classifi
cation. Such registrants who are
essential farmers or who are em
ployed in war production or in
support of the war effort are in
no danger of reclassification. Such
registrants whose induction would
result in ‘extreme hardship and
privation’ to a wife, parent, or
child, may be deferred for de
pendency in class 3-D. All other
registrants now classified in 3-A
on account of their family status
should not be surprised if they re
ceive notice that they have been
reclassified in class 1-A.
“The fact that a pre-Pearl Har
bor father finds himself in class
1-A does not necessarily mean that
he will be inducted immediately.
Registrants are divided into four
groups and all available men from
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l
Transylvania Dollars Bought This Flying Fortress!
Here she is and isn’t she a beauty! If you bought a war bond last April, you should be thrilled
to see this great bomber. It is the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, latest model of this high altitude,
daylight precision bomber. It has four engines and a wing span of approximately 104 feet. It has
a top speed of over 300 miles per hour and carries a bomb load of ten tons. The bomber is heavily
armed, too. Let’s buy another Bomber in September!
COLOR SIGNALS
MAY BE CHANGED
FOR NEXT TEST
9 _
Public Urged, However, To
Cut Off Lights With
First Warning
It is entirely probable that the
next secret air raid drill and
blackout and the regular sequence
of color signals may not bet fol
lowed, but a distinct variance of
standard sequence as heretofore,
R. W. Martin, director of civilian
defense in the state advised Chair
man Ralph Ramsey this week.
“At the second blue, the next
signal may be another RED and
it is possible that a blue may be
called and no other color until the
Ail-Clear and also your first sig
nal may be possibly a RED,” Mr.
Martin stated.
“In the event of the varied se
quence of signals, we can proba
bly expect some confusion and
your cooperation in immediately
advising your defense corps mem
bers and soliciting the assistance
of the newspapers in giving pub
licity is earnestly requested,” he
wrote.
To avoid confusion, Mr. Ramsey
advised the public that when the
first warning sounds, cut off all
lights and keep them off until
street lights come back on.
MOORE TO EXHIBIT
FLOWERS TO KIWANIS
Native wild flowers, some of
them growing several thousand
feet above sea level and photo
graphed at considerable peril, will
be shown by Charles Moore at the
next meeting of the Kiwanis club
tomorrow evening at the Byrant
house, Henry Henderson, secretary
announced yesterday. The meeting
will start at 7 o’clock and a full
attendance is urged inasmuch as
several matters of importance are
to be discussed.
County September
Tire Quota About
Same; 2 New Tires
Transylvania county’s tire quota
for September is about the same
as the quotas for the past two
months, it was learned today.
The September quota is as fol- j
lows:
Passenger tires: grade 1—52;
grade 3—52 and new tubes—38.
Truck tires; new, 44 and 31
tubes.
The supply of passenger tires is
about adequate to take care of
eligible needs, but the county is
running behind on its truck tire
needs, it was stated.
Transylvania also has a quota
of 2 new passenger cars for Sep
tember.
Fall Leadership Conference Of
N. C. Education Association To
Be Held At Brevard Sept. 27
PRICES OF FOOD
DECLINE, JERRY
JEROME STATES
Efforts On Part Of Govern
ment And Local People
Bring Results
Jerry Jerome, chairman of the
price panel of the local War Price
and Rationing board, announced
that according to statistics com
piled by the Department of Labor,
retail food prices declined 2.0 per
cent from June 15, 1943, to July
15, 1943, and that the overall cost
of living fell .8 per cent during
the same period.
These reductions in the cost of
living are the direct result of a
determined effort on the part of
the government and local citizens
to hold living costs in line with
the income of the people. Mr. Jer
ome requested the wholehearted
cooperation of all merchants and
consumers in the program to resist
price increases.
It was pointed out that all rep
utable grocers were assisting In
the campaign by posting their
prices in accordance with the gov
ernment’s requirements. In order
—Turn To Page Eight
Miss Geneva Paxton Elect
ed President Of County
Education Unit
The Western District Workers
council of the North Carolina
Education association will meet at
the Brevard high school at 3
o’clock on Monday afternoon,
September 27, Supt. J. B. Jones
announced at the county - wide
teachers meeting held last Satur
day morning.
This meeting is called the “fall
leadership conference” and will be
attended by officers of county
chapters of the N. C. Education
association in Western North Caro
lina and by city and county super
intendents. Twenty-one other dis
trict conferences will be held in
the state.
At the meeting here last Satur
day, Miss Geneva Paxton, principal
of the Rosman elementary school,
was elected president of the Tran
sylvania unit of the state educa
tion association and Mrs. Bernice
Hollifield, Brevard elementary
teacher, was elected secretary and
treasurer.
According to present indications,
the association will have a hundred
per cent membership in the county
this year.
E. H. McMahan, chairman of
the county’s Third War Loan
drive, urged the principals and
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Mrs. J. M. Powell Has 12 Grandsons
In Service; Observed 80th Birthday
Mrs. J. M. Powell, who cele
brated her 80th birthday on Mon
day, with a picnic dinner at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W.
Powell, in the upper end of
Transylvania county, has an out
standing record of her offspring,
in addition to her attainment of
a ripe old age.
“Grandma Powell,” as she is
familiarly known, is the mother of
nine children, which isn’t so much
of a distinction in itself, but the
increasingly large number of suc
ceeding generations and their
achievements entitle her to an
unusual honor.
Besides the nine children, there
are 47 grandchildren, 75 great
grandchildren and one great
great-grandchild. Among the 47
grandchildren, 12 grandsons are
in the U. S. military service, 10 of
whom are in the army, one in the
marines and one in the navy;
and two grandsons are Baptist
ministers.
The 12 grandsons in the service
include: Cpl. Richard and Cpl.
Dewey Powell, Pvt. Watha and
Pvt. Avery Powell, Sgt. Francis
P. Chapman, Pvt. Coolidge Powell,
Pvt. Arthur Allison, Pvt. Edwin
Allison, Pvt. Donald Allison, Pvt.
Oscar Aiken, all in the U. S. army
service; Pfc. Ernest M. Chapman,
in the marines, and Elbert Lee
Chapman, petty officer, third
class, in the navy. The two minis
ter grandsons are: Rev, N. H.
Chapman, of Rosman, and Rev.
John Chapman, of Gastonia.
“Grandma” Powell continues in
fairly good health despite her ad
vanced age. She displays a keen
interest in the winning of the war
and in other world and national
affairs.
FULL OUTLINE OF
ELABORATE PLANS
ANNOUNCED TODAY
Workers To Hold Big Ban
quet At College Next
Wednesday Night
QUOTA IS $432,000
Elaborate plans for conducting
the Third War Loan drive in Tran
sylvania county have been com
pleted, Chairman Ed H. McMa
han announced today.
The drive to sell at least $432,
000 worth of bonds during the
month of September will open of
ficially on the ninth and in the
meantime a good deal of adver
tising and promotional work will
be done.
The county’s Third War Loan
drive will include a house-to
house canvass in Brevard by
Civilian Defense organization block
leaders, individual solicitation of
persons and firms able to buy
large bonds, conducting a series
of bond rallies in 11 schools in
the county, speeches at various
public places, thorough canvass of
rural communities, and a county
wide rally.
To receive final instructions, a
banquet meeting of the members
of the war finance committee, so
licitors, and block leaders will be
held next Wednesday night at 7:30
o’clock at Brevard College. Spec
ial entertainment will be provid
ed at the banquet by the recrea
tional department of the Ecusta
Paper corporation, featuring the
Ecusta string band and trio, un
der the direction of John Evers
man.
The slogan of the Third War
—Turn To Page Four
SERIES OF BOND
RALLIES PLANNED
Ecusta To Furnish Entertain
ment. Full Schedule Is
Announced
To boost the sale of war bonds
during the Third War Loan drive,
a large number of rallies, featur
ing a special entertainment pro
gram presented by the Ecusta rec
reational department and patriotic
speeches by many prominent local
citizens, will be held in Transyl
vania county, Chairman E. H. Mc
Mahan announces.
The Ecusta string band that
recently won first place in the
festival at Asheville, the Ecusta
trio and other special acts, under
the direction of John Eversman,
will provide entertainment. On the
speakers list are L. P. Hamlin,
Ralph Ramsey, Jerry Jerome, Rev..
W. A. Jenkins, A. B. Galloway,.
E. H. McMahan, Rev. B. W. Thom
ason, J. A. Glazener, A. H. Harris,
Raymond Bennett, Ralph Fisher,
J. B. Jones, 0. H. Orr and Ed M.
Anderson. —\
The first rally was held last
night at the Enon school and the
rest of the schedule is as follows:
Thursday, Sept. 2—Bond speech
at Lions club and Co-Ed Theater;
Lions club, Ralph Ramsey, speaker:.
Theater, Jerry Jerome, speaker.
Friday, Sept. 3—Bond speech at
Kiwanis club and Co-Ed Theater;
Kiwanis club, Rev. W. A. Jenkins,
speaker; Theater, L. P. Hamlin,
—Turn To Page Four
William Wylie Is
Awarded Navy Cross
Lieutenant Commander Wil
liam Wylie, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Wylie, of Brevard, has been
awarded the Navy cross for dis
tinguished service, it was learn
ed here today.
Lieutenant Commander Wylie
graduated from Annapolis in
1930 and has been in service
since that time. He is comman
der of a submarine and was re
cently cited for distinguished
service.
His parents have been living
here for the past 10 years. Hi&
father is a retired banker. Wylie
visited here a little over a year
ago. Since Pearl Harbor he has.
seen a lot of service.