The Transylvania Times Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In Nor th Carolina And Second Best In Nation Vol. 53: No. 42 ★ ONE SECTION ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1943 ★ 12 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY PLANS SHAPED TO DESTROY RATS *** + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + _ ' • ' " - ' ' ' ' '' '- '' ^ ^ n n Reports Indicate Splendid Start In War Fund Drive LEADERS EXPECT TO REACH QUOTA RY END OF MONTH Special Committees Busy Soliciting Donations In Industrial Plants. DIME BOARD POPULAR Response to the National War Fund drive, which started here Monday morning, is excellent, ac cording to leaders in various sec tions of the county. Ladies of the home demonstra tion clubs, school teachers and students, and other groups, in cluding the Jaycees, are turning in splendid reports of the first few days activity, according to the co-chairmen of the campaign for Transylvania, C. M. Douglas and Jerry Jerome. Progress of the drive is being reported daily to the county chairman, J. S. Silversteen, who is in a New York hospital with a broken leg. He wired his greet ings Wednesday morning, and also said that he felt sure Transyl vania would come through on this drive as it has in the past for all calls pertinent to the armed forces and its causes. People Respond Readily The goal of $10,800 which was alloted to this county by the state headquarters is expected to be reached by the end of the month, and leaders said Wednes day that signs shown in the first three days of the drive gave ev ery indication that people would respond as they never have be fore. “It will take an average of over one dollar per Transylvania man, woman, and child if we attain the goal for the largest sum ever —Turn To Page Seven GALLOWAY NAMED HEAD OF DEACONS First Baptist Church Board Appoints Committees. Sitton, Sec’y* A. B. Galloway, well known Bre vard man and field representative of Woodmen of the World for Western North Carolina, has been elected chairman of the board of deacons of the First Baptist church here, it was announced today. He succeeds J. A. Glazener. Karl Bosse was chosen as vice chairman and Gerald Sitton as secretary. Mrs. N. A. Miller is church treasurer. Other members of the board of deacons are Lewis Hamlin, J. A Glazener, A. E. Hampton, Robert Kilpatrick, D. F. Moore, N. A. Miller, John Ford, Ansel Hart, Ralph Ramsey, J. B. Jones, Brown Carr and Paul Tindall. The following committee ap pointments were also announced today: Housing committee—R. P. Kil patrick, chairman; Paul Tindall and Karl Bosse. Finance committee—J. A. Glaz —Turn To Page Twelve Funds From Picture For Army Relief In an announcement appearing in this paper, the statement is made that the American legion is sponsoring the first night’s showing here of the picture, “This is the Army,” and that 70 per cent of the proceeds would be applied to the United War fund. We, the American legion, were informed at the outset that this money would be credited to the county's quota of $10,800. It has been learned since that this was an error and that these funds must go only to the Army Emergency relief, an equally worthy cause, and no local or ganization is getting any por tion of this money. Don’t forget both causes are deserving of your support. William Wallis, Comdr., Monroe Wilson Post No. 88, Verne Clement, Chrm., Ticket Sale. Method For Distributing Ration Book Number Four Is Explained To Teachers Of Transylvania Co. Buddies In Camp Shown above are Pfc. MEL VIN GILLESPIE, left and Pvt. DON A. LANCE, right, of Tran sylvania county, who were in ducted together, and who took their initial training together at Miami Beach, Fla. Pvt. Gilles pie served as register of deeds until he entered service. The photo was sent in by Pvt. Lance who wrote that “Pvt. Gillespie is the best soldier today in a uni form.” ANNUAL ELECTION C. OF C. OFFICERS SET NEXT WEEK Printed Ballots Will Be Mail ed To All Members This Weekend. Annual election of officers for Brevard chamber of commerce will be held during the coming week, it was announced by C. M. Douglas, president, here today Ballots will be printed Thurs day of this week and mailed to all members who have paid for 1943 on Friday, The ballots will be returned to the office and counted next week, and from the directors so chosen officers for the coming year will be selected. Mrs. Ralph Fisher, secretary, in summing up the year’s work, states that while no outstanding piece of work has been done dur ing the year, many projects of community interest and coun ty betterment have been carried on in addition to the caring for visitors, and mailing of more than 5,000 pieces of Brevard lit erature to a selected group of in dividuals. Clyde G. Jones, who has been at the air base, Ypsilanti, Mich., is home with his family on a fur lough. Douglas and Jerome De scribe Contest In Schools For War Fund Drive. Dr. J. F. Zachary, chairman of the local rationing board, gave to Transylvania county teachers meeting here last Saturday morn ing detailed instructions for the distribution of War Ration Rook 4. Application forms for the new books will be issued to school children by teachers today Oct. 21. These forms should be filled out in detail and returned to the tea chers on Monday, October 25, to gether with the old Ration Book 3. The teachers will then issue new ration books to the children on Oct. 25 and 26. The books will be given to the oldest child of a family attending school. Arrrangements have been made for families without children in school, or those whose children in school are too young to trust with the books, to register at all schools in the county from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. on October 27 and 28. This registration will be conducted by teachers, PTA or volunteer work ers. Dr. Zachary said, and he urg ed that any person who w^ould like to assist with this work to contact the rationing board this week. “The responsibility for procur ing these new books,” Dr. Zach ary said, “rests squarely upon par ents. Instructions received by the board thus far indicate there will be no replacements. If patrons have any grounds to doubt that their children can obtain and re turn these books they should wait until the registration on Oct. 27 and 28.” The new ration book is expected to last at least two years. It con tains stamps for all rationed com modities, except fuel and stoves. Dr. Zachary said that the public should understand from this that the rationing board cannot issue or replace lost books as freely as it has done heretofore. C. M. Douglas aifd Jerry Jerome spoke to the teachers with regard to the contest in the schools in which $50 in cash prizes is being offered to stimulate interest in the United War Fund drive. Supt. Jones said school people were in tensely interested in this contest and he predicted that rivalry would be keen for these awards of $25, $15 and $10, wdiich will be deter mined by the amount of money raised for the fund per pupil en rolled. Three Games Won By Times Bowlers Tues. The Transylvania Times bowling team defeated Communications Wings team in Asheville Tuesday night by winning three games in the Tri-city league. Highest score, 549, was rolled by Bridges. Other scores were: Reynolds, 502; Dunne, 547; Rap pers, 460; Straus, 526. The total Times team score was 2584. Local Farm Loan Association Is Consolidated With Other Groups Consolidation of the Brevard National Farm Loan association with eight other associations to form a new association, which will be known as the Asheville Na tional Farm Loan association, has been approved by the Farm Credit administration, according to N. S. Whitaker, secretary-treasurer. These associations have maintain ed a joint office at 149 College Street, Asheville, North Carolina, for the past seven years. Mr. Whitaker, who has been serving as secretary-treasurer, will continue in the same capacity for the new association, and Mrs. Dorothy Alli son will continue as assistant sec retary-treasurer. The new association began busi ness on October 1, and is author ized to accept applications for farm loans from the Federal Land Bank of Columbia in Buncombe, Avery, Henderson, Madison, Mit chell, Transylvania, and Yancey counties. Under an agreement with the Columbia Land Bank, it will also handle collection of these loans with the Columbia Land Bank, it will also handle collection of these loans and perform other loan services for the Bank. These loans are made to farmers for terms of five to forty years at 4 per cent interest secured by first mortgages on farm property. The consolidation was effected in or der to form a stronger financial organization, reduce operating ex penses, and provide better credit —Turn To Page Seven HOMECOMING TO BE HELD OCT. 30 LOCAL COLLEGE To Have Football Game. To Crown Harvest King And Queen. The ninth annual homecoming and harvest festival at Brevard col lege will be held on Saturday. Invitations are being mailed this week to all former students, alum ni and friends. During the afternoon a football game will be played on the col lege gridiron field and one of the highlights of the evening program will be the crowning of the har vest king and queen. The election of the king and queen will be held within the next few days. Nominated for queen are Caroline Doris Bennett, Wan da Woosely, Carolyn Porter, Doro thy Reed, Millicent Stafford, Har riet George, Anne Rigler. Nomi nated for harvest king are Bill Cockerell, Jack Hasty, Henry Mc Donald, Herbert Finck, Roger Ip cock, John Hunter, Robert Folger, and Ken Wyatt. Nominated to represent the sophomore class in the court are Virginia Blanton, Ruth Wainscott, Eleanor Beasley, Geneva Landers, Alan Leonard, Casey Tweed, Er nest Page and Jesse Warrick. Miss Dorothy Hilliard, director of physical education for women, is in charge of arrangements. FSA WORK WILL BE CONTINUED IN TRANSYLVANIA Covert McCallum, Former Brevard College Instructor, To Have Charge. The Farm Security Administra tion-office here will be re-opened in the near future and the FSA program will be increased instead of decreased in the county, Cov ert McCallum, Henderson county supervisor, announced this week. Mr. McCallum and other mem bers of the Hendersonville office are going to devote a great deal of time in this county and full-time secretary will be employed to keep the office open. It was tem porarily closed when Ralph Smith and his clerk resigned recently. The FSA has a case load of 150 in Transylvania and five owner ship loans have been made. “We are going to stress produc tion loans for the war effort and hope to make five more farm own ership loans,” Mr. McCallum stat ed. Other members of the Hender son staff who will work in this county are Thomas Renshaw, as sistant supervisor and Miss Mary Johnston, home supervisor. Me. McCallum is well known in Transylvania. For two years he was head of the agriculture de partment at Brevard college. Milk Delivery Trips On Revised Schedule In compliance with an ODT or der, the Transylvania Dairies will begin on Saturday a revised sched ule for milk deliveries to the re tail customers and wholesale deal ers, it was announced yesterday by Ralph Parrish, manager. The or der issued is to conserve gasoline, tires and labor. As stated elsewhere in this pa per, there will be four weekly de liveries of milk for retail custo mers, namely, Monday, Wednes day, Friday and Saturday. For wholesale dealers, trips will be made every day except Sunday. Local grocery stores and other firms are revising or have revised their delivery systems to comply with the conservation orders of the ODT, which applies to all sec tions of the nation. Cpl. Charles Loftis, who is in the air corps, stationed at Wil mington, is here this week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Loftis. PATTON COMFORTS WOUNDED YANK ALWAYS SOLICITOUS of the men in his command, Gen. George Patton, Jr., stops to comfort Pvt. Frank A. Reed, of East Dedham, Mass., who was injured in the fighting in Sicily. Reed and the others in the photo were later moved by plane to a hospital. O.W.I. photo. (International) important Points in Revised Stablization Program For Area Are Listed By Car! Buchanan IRVING BERLIN'S “ARMY” FILM AT CO-ED WEDNESDAY Local Legion Post Sponsors Initial Showing At Local Theatre. Irving Berlin’s “This Is the Ar my,” which successfully stormed city after city in its original stage version, comes to the screen of the Co-Ed Theatre, Wednesday even ing, Oct. 27, in its Warner Bros.’ technicolor production. The picture will be a happy invasion of the hearts of America by its stalwart and talented sons in the service. Monroe Wilson post 88 of the American legion is sponsoring this presentation of the famous War ner Bros, production. Seventy percent of the proceeds will be turned over to the Army Emer gency Relief fund. The Legion, ac cording to J. M. Gaines, adjutant, derives ho financial benefit what ever from the picture. The picture will also be shown at the Co-Ed on Thursday and Fri day. “This is the Army” uses all 350 of the original cast plus heavy —Turn To Page Six Region Affected Embraces N. C., Three Other States And D. C. Carl Buchanan, manager of the Hendersonville office of the U. S. employment service, has sent to The Times a summary of the sa lient points under the revised sta bilization program drafted by the War Manpower commission and applicable to region four. This program became effective last Fri day and covers besides this state Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. The points listed by Mr. Buchanan fol low: 1. Any worker employed in an essential activity during the pre ceding 60 days must possess a Statement of Availability before he can be hired. 2. Any worker employed in an essential activity during the pre ceding 60 days may be hired in an activity other than essential only through the USES. 3. Any worker who was not en gaged in an essential activity dur ing the preceding 60 days may be hired only if he signs a certificate of prior employment or is referred by the USES. 4. A worker desiring to go to another locality for employment must first clear with the local USES office and obtain a referral of Statement of Availability. This —Turn To Page Six Dr. D. W. Dudley Relates Amusing Incident In County Dental Work If a boy swapped his cake of soap for marbles, that would be human nature. But if he swapped his marbles for a toothbrush, that would be news! And that’s exactly what hap pened, but let’s let the State school dentist, Dr. D. W. Dudley, who is working in this county for several weeks, tell the story in exactly the same way that we got it from him yesterday. “It happened in a small rural school in the state,” Dr. Dudley began, “we won’t call any names, because we run into similar cases wherever we go, and besides it might embarrass some of the par ties concerned. Just say it was Dr. Smith and Johnny Jones at the Brown school. j “Anyway, Dr. Smith had just I made a talk to all the children at j the Brown school about brushing their teeth properly for three minutes, twice a day, and at the class he announced that any child who didn’t have a brush could get a good one for as little as 10 cents. “The children were so impress ed with the talk that a number of them came by after school and brought their dimes for brushes. Johnny came by, too, not once but twice. He was from a very poor family, but he had one distinction. He was the best marble shooter in school, and his pockets were usually full of marbles he had won, but almost never any money. —Turn To Page Six EVERY RESIDENT IN COUNTY ASKED TO JOIN EFFORT Community Leaders Are Taking Orders For Bait To Kill Rodents. TEACHERS HELPING A concerted county-wide move is being planned to exterminate rats in this section, with date for put ting out the bait set for November 4-5th. Effort is being made by the county agent’s office, community leaders, schools, and chamber of commerce to have every resident of the county co-operate in the movement, which is estimated by authorities to save the county many thousands of dollars in dam age each year. Orders are being taken for the prepared bait by community lead ers throughout the county and school teachers and pupils are as sisting in the work of contacting farmers. In Brevard the chamber of commerce is heading the move,, with merchants and manufacturers being asked to cooperate. Poisonous To Rats Only In a meeting here last Saturday afternoon it was pointed out by L. C. Whitehead, district agent for U. S. Wildlife, that the poison bait to be used it not harmful to cats, dogs, or humans but that it is certain death to rats. In addition to being the best method known for exterminating rats, it was pointed out by the specialist that less than one rat in a thousand would die indoors, and thus the common dread of house wives that dead rats might cause stench is reduced to practically —Turn To Page Twelve PT-AATROSMAN HOLDS MEETING Several New Members Add ed; Finance Committee Is Named. The Rosman Parent-Teacher as sociation held its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon, October 12, with the president, Mrs. Eugene King, presiding. The minutes of the last meeting were read by the secretary, Mrs. Ralph Paxton, and the treasurer’s report was given by Miss Edna Nesbitt, treasurer. Many new members were reported by the membership chairman and two additional members were appoint ed to serve on this committee. They are Mrs. J. L. Gillespie and Mrs. D. H. Winchester. The fol lowing were appointed to serve on the finance committee. Miss Dil liard, chairman; Mrs. William Bail ey and Mrs. Allen Sisk. Due to illness, the musical program sponsored by Miss Dill ard was postponed until the next meeting. Following the reading of the president’s message by Miss Lucille Galloway, plans were discussed for the work of the P-T. A. Mrs. Bowman’s fifth and sixth grade room won the picture by having the most parents present. Miss Barnes Chosen Head Of Music Dept. At Brevard College Miss Gertrude Barnes, of To wanda, Pa., has been appointed director of the ctepartment of mu sic at Brevard college, Dr. E. J. Coltrane announced today. Miss Barnes is a graduate of Mansfield Teachers college at Mansfield, Pa., the Dramatic Art school in New York and received her M. A. from Columbia Univer sity. She has taught at Blue Ridge college, New Windsor, Md., and at a large private school in New Mex ico. She is now organizing a glee club and choir at Brevard college and is giving individual vocal in struction.

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