The Transylvania Times
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Vol. 53: No. 43
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCT. 28, 1943
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
WAR FUND DRIVE IS CONTINUED
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Observance Of Girl Scout Week To Start Saturday
EXTENSIVE PLANS
HADE BY BREVARD
SCOUTS, BROWNIES
To Hold Rally Saturday
Night And Attend Church
Sunday In Body.
ACTIVE GROUP HERE
Extensive plans are now being
made by the Brevard Girl Scouts
and their leaders to observe Na
tional Girl Scout Week which
opens Sunday, October 31 and con
tinues through November 6.
A rally for all Scouts, Brownies
and leaders will be held Saturday
night at 8 o’clock in the NYA Hut
here and will be in the form of
a Hallowe’en party with each
troop staging some special stunt.
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock the
scouts will attend the First Bap
tist church in a body. Monday
will be homemaking day; Tuesday,
citizenship day at which time the
Scouts will buy war stamps; Wed
nesday, health and safety day and
Thursday, international friendship
day. Thursday afternoon the
Scouts and Brownies will meet at
the Presbyterian hut and hear
talks by Mrs. Kathryn Curtis, a
former member of the National
Girls Scout staff and by Miss Treva
Tilley, former director of the
Greenville, S. C., district. Friday
is arts and craft day and Saturday
is out-of-doors day.
Low Started Scouting
“Girl Scout Week commemo
rates the birthday on October 31,
1860, of Juliette Gordon Low,
founder of Girl Scouting in the
United States and is celebrated
annually by Girl Scouts all over
the country,” Mrs. Keith Pooser,
district chairman stated.
“The program for the week fol
lows a traditional pattern, being
devoted to Seven Service days,
with demonstrations of the skills
and crafts incorporated in the
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JENKINS RETURNS
AS PASTOR HERE
Rev. J. R. Bowman Is Re
Appointed To Rosman
Methodist Circuit.
Rev. W. A. Jenkins, pastor of the
Brevard Methodist church, and
Rev. J. R. Bowman, pastor of the
Rosman circuit, were returned to
their pastorates for another year,
according to announcement made
at the final session of the annual
meeting of the Western North Car
olina conference, which was held
in Statesville last week.
Rev. W. R. Bustle was appointed
to the pastorate of the Ecusta
charge, succeeding G. G. Adams,
who is a ministerial student at
Duke University this year.
Rev. C. A. Gibbs was named to
succeed Rev. M. T. Smathers, as
superintendent of the Asheville
district, of which the Methodist
churches in this county are mem
bers. Rev. Mr. Gibbs comes to this
district from Elkin, where he was
district superintendent, and Dr.
Smathers was transferred to Ashe
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Brevard College Day
To Be Observed Dec.
Fifth Of This Year
“Brevard College Day” will be
observed in the Methodist churches
of the Western North Carolina
conference on Sunday, December
5, or as near to that date as prac
ticable, President E. J. Coltrane
announces.
This action designating the first
Sunday in December as “Brevard
College Day” was approved at the
annual conference held in States
ville, and all Methodist churches
in the conference are expected to
participate in the observance.
On that day special collections
will be taken to help carry on the
iwork at Brevard college. This is
l the third annual “Brevard College
IDay” observance. Nearly $10,000
Jwas raised during the first observ
ance and over $11,000 last year.
Brevard College Homecoming
And Harvest Festival Will
Be Held Here This Saturday
College To Play Brevard
High School Football
Team At 3 O’clock.
Final plans have been made for
the ninth annual homecoming and
harvest festival that will be held
at Brevard college Saturday,
President E. J. Coltrane announc
ed today.
Former students and alumni
are expected to arrive on the cam
pus Saturday morning. At 3
o’clock in the afternoon on the
college gridiron field, Coach Wild
er’s wartime football team will
play the Brevard high school
eleven.
At 6 o’clock a picnic supper
will be served and starting at
7:30 o’clock a combination harvest
festival and Hallowe’en party
will be staged in the gymnasium.
The highlight of the festival will
be the crowning of the harvest
king and queen who were elected
this week by secret ballot. The
outcome of the election will not
be announced until Saturday night.
The following students have been
chosen to represent the student
body in the harvest court: girls—
Carolina Warren, Chapel Hill; Vir
ginia Blanton, Cliffside; Eleanor
Beasley, Louisburg; Carolyn Por
ter, Charlotte and Doris Bennett,
Charlotte; boys—Alan Leonard,
Ramseur; John Hunter, Brevard;
Bill Cockrell, Hattisburg, Miss.,
Henry McDonald Brevard and
Casey Tweed, Marshall.
Various organizations on the
campus will sponsor booths and
put on stunts at the festival and
party, and following the regular
program, square dancing will be
enjoyed.
Faculty members in charge of
arrangements are Miss Dorothy
Hilliard, chairman, Coach Robert
Wilder, Dr. Burt Loomis, Miss
Lucile Smith and Gertrude Barnes.
Lt. Mack Allison
Will Visit Here
Lt. Mack Allison, one of Tran
sylvania county’s outstanding war
heroes, has arrived in Newport
News, Va., from North Africa and
expects to visit his parents here
in the near future. Lt. Allison has
participated in a large number of
bombing raids, and was recently
featured on a world-wide broad
cast.
Plans For Library
To Be Discussed At
Meeting Here Monday
Plans for establishment of a
Transylvania County Library will
be discussed at a regular meet
ing of the Women’s Civic club
to be held Monday afternoon at
3:30 o’clock in the Methodist par
lor here. Mrs. Oliver Orr, presi
dent, urged every member and
all others who are interested in
the library movement to be pres
ent. Several important announce
ments are to be made at that
time, she stated.
EDWIN L. JONES
ELECTED AS HEAD
COLLEGE TRUSTEES
Prominent Charlotte Man
Succeeds Rev. H. C.
Sprinkle As Chm.
Edwin L. Jones, of Charlotte,
was elected chairman of the board
of trustees of Brevard college,
succeeding Rev. H. C. Sprinkle,
of Mocksville.
The election took place at a
meeting of the board in States
ville last Thursday. Rev. C. M.
Pickens, Charlotte, was elected
vice chairman and an executive
committee was selected as follows:
Edwin Jones, chairman, Rev. C. M.
Pickens, H. A. Dunham, Asheville;
O. V. Woosley, Winston-Salem and
Dr. E. J. Coltrane, Brevard. /
Mr. Jones is a prominent Char
lotte business man. He is treasur
er of the J. A. Jones Construction
company and has taken an active
interest in the Methodist church
for a number of years. Mr. Sprinkle
has served as chairman of the
board fn he. past 10 years.
“Members of our board decided
to go forward at once with the
proposed expansion program,” Dr.
Coltrane said.
Brevard college is owned and
operated by the Western North
Carolina Methodist conference and
the attitude of all ministers in the
conference toward the institution
here is better than it has ever been
since Brevard college was estab
lished 10 years ago, board members
state.
Jaycee Dime Board
Helps Fund Drive
Dime board in operation on the
square in front of Long’s Drug
store for the past two Saturdays
has netted a total of $178.00 in
gifts for the United War fund.
Members of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce are in charge, and
they state that many people have
made as high as four and five con
tributions during a single day of
amounts ranging from five cents
to $1.00.
“Takes only a dime to ring the
bell, and you help the United War
fund,” is the greeting which
nearly every person who passes
this busy corner is met with.
The dime board will operate
again Saturday, and the Jaycees
are hoping to make the grand to
tol reach $250.00 by closing time
Saturday night.
ACCEPTS CHURCH CALL
Rev. S. B. McCall, who has
been pastor of the Lake Toxaway
Baptist church for the past two
and a half years, has accepted a
call and is now pastor of the
Mt. Moriah-Cherryfield Baptist
church.
Today Is Last Day To Register For
War Ration Book Number Four
Today is the last day to register
for Ration Book Four and Dr. J.
F. Zachary, chairman of the Tran
sylvania rationing board, last night
urged every family or individual
who has not registered to do so be
fore 5 o'clock this afternoon.
The registration is being con
ducted at all of the schools in the
county and will last from 9 until
5 in the afternoon. P-TA members
and volunteer workers are assist
ing the teachers with the registra
tion.
Monday and Tuesday a total of
8,000 books were issued by teach
ers to the school children, leaving
about 6,000 more to be issued to
the public yesterday and today. '
“The registration is moving
along smoothly and I wish to thank
the school principals and teachers,
as well as the large number of
other volunteers who are assisting
with the registration and issuance
of the books,” Dr. Zachary said.
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.
It is necessary for persons ap
plying for the new book to present
or have presented on their behalf,
their copies of war ration book
three. Application forms must also
be completed and these are avail
able at the schools. Any responsi
ble member of the family may
register for all of the family.
FIRST NURSES TO ARRIVE BY AIR IN ITALY
EAGER TO GET TO WORK, the first group of Allied nurses to arrive in Italy by air leave an ambu
lance plane on a field on the southern mainland. Many of the nurses are now stationed at front line
field hospitals, bringing medical comfort to soldiers and civilians alike. (International)
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ELECT DIRECTORS
LOCAL CHAMBER
COMMERCE TOES.
Group To Meet Next Week
And Select Officers,
Expenses Are Low.
Directors of the Brevard, cham
ber of commerce for the ensuing
year were elected at a meeting
here Tuesday night and the new
directors are to meet next Tues
day night at 7:30 o’clock and
elect officers.
The following were chosen on
the board of directors: J. M.
Gaines, Willis Brittain, S. E. Var
ner, A. H. Harris, C. M. Douglas,
Jerry Jerome, L. P. Hamlin, E.
J. Coltrane, Ed McMahan, Ralph
Fisher, H. B. Shiflet, R. F. Ben
nett, Ed M. Anderson, D. T. Aber
crombie, Miss Annie Shipman, J.
M. Allison, Harry Sellers, Verne
Clement, T. E. Reid, Mrs. Mary i
Jane McCrary, O. H. Orr, J. H. I
Tinsley, George Wheeler, A. H.1
Kizer, Ralph Ramsey and J. W.
Smith.
A financial report showed that
during the past year the chamber
was operated at the low expense
cost of $499 and that it has a good
surplus on hand.
Safety Course Is
Being Given Here
By George Barwick
George I. Barwick, a safety en
gineer with the North Carolina In
dustrial commission, is conducting
this week at the local grammar
school a safety course, the object
of which is to reduce accidents in
factories, homes and on highways.
The course began Monday evening
and will end tomorrow evening, j
Sessions are held from 7 to 9
o’clock each night.
Every phase of accident preven
tion is covered in the course, which
is being attended by two repre
sentatives of Duke Power com
pany, one from the town of Bre
vard and 31 from Ecusta. Other
interested parties are invited to
attend.
With each lecture there is be
ing shown a film running about 20
minutes relating to the particular
phase of accident prevention un
der consideration. Tomorrow night
the lecture and film will relate
largely to accident prevention in
the home and community.
ATTENDING CONFERENCE
Raymond F. Bennett, Roland
Wilber and J. R. Denton, of the
Ecusta Paper corporation, are at
tending the fall conference of the
Southern and Southeastern divis
ion of the American Pulp and Pa
per mill superintendents associa
tion that is being held in Atlanta
today. Mr. Bennett is first vice
chairman of the Southeastern di
vision and Mr. Wilber is secretary
treasurer.
Forty-Five White And Twelve
Colored Men Are Sent To Camp
For Examination & Induction
KEEN INTEREST IN
BREVARD COLLEGE,
COLTRANE STATES
Ministers And Laymen Want
To See Program At Col
lege Expanded.
At the recent annual conference
of the Methodist church held in
Statesville, more interest in the
development of Brevard College
was evidenced than ever before,
President E. J. Coltrane declar
ed this week.
“Ministers are keenly interested
in providing at Brevard substan
tial foundation on which to de
velop a fine junior college,” he
stated. I
“The interest that was manifested
there had been discovered pre
viously by college representatives
who have traveled over the terri
tory in the Western North Caro
lina conference,” he continued.
“This interest will result in a
larger student body and, also, in
creased effort in the charges for
the support of Brevard college.
Members of the conference now
accept Brevard College Day as a
necessary basis of support for the
college. Many expect that this
year total offerings to the Brevard
College Day program will amount
to $15,000.00 or $20,000.00.
“Members of our board of trus
tees and leading ministers and lay
men are aware of the necessity of
building a good physical plant at
Brevard College. We have men
and women who have already in
dicated their desire to contribute
to a fund which would be used for
the enlargement of the college
plant as soon as the war is over.
—Turn To Page Six
Lbtge Group Left Here Tue3
day. Sixteen Men Were
Volunteers.
Forty-one white Transylvania
county men were sent to Camp
Croft yesterday for examination
and induction and sixteen color
ed men were sent to Fort Bragg
Tuesday for examination.
Of the forty-one white men, six
teen of them were volunteers and
twenty-five were selectees. Five
of the volunteers are pre-Pearl
Harbor fathers, but as yet no pre
Pearl Harbor fathers have been
drafted from this county.
The volunteers were Noah Henry
Whitmire, George Herman Grove,
Samuel Luther King, Luther Lonzo
Killian, Theron Lester King, Drury
Frank Bridges, Earl Van O’Kelley,
Daniel Boone Galloway, Van Bur
en Waldrop, Jr., Ernest Marshall
Ball, John Albert Suttles, Acie
Carl Waldrop, William Howard
Lance, William Rector Hall, John
W. Slagle and Eben S. Morrow.
The regular selectees were
Robert Glenn Reid, Woodfin And
rew Gosnell, Shirley Tom Clark,
Eddie Montgomery Holden, Otis
Woodrow Owen, Sidney Millard
Siniard, Herbert Woodard, Frank
S. J. McIntosh, Howard William
Galloway, Auburn Ervin York,
Sherman David Ducker, John Mor
row Johnson, Luther E. Callender,
John Sid Barnett, Jr., John Jack
son Little, Len Nelson Hoxit, Rob
ert Watson Grant, Harley Dixon
Lyday, Dewey Dodson, Robert
Earl Galloway, Leroy Holden, As
tor Garfield Reece, Enno Frank
Caminzind, and James Hopkins
Wharton.
Two men transferred from other
boards were also sent. They were
Fred Jack Fendley and Woodrow
Wilson Smallwood.
12 NEGROES SENT
The 12 colored men who left on
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To Hold Rat Killing Campaign In
County Next Thursday And Friday
Judging by the large number
or orders for bait that have al
ready been placed, the county
wide rat extermination campaign
that is being sponsored by the
farm agent’s office and the cham
ber of commerce will be a big
success, J. A. Glazener announced
yesterday.
The specially prepared bait will
be put out in the county next
Thursday and Friday, November
4th and 5th and all farmers are
urged to place Jheir orders im
mediately with their community
leaders or at the farm office
here. The actual cost is $1.00 per
farm.
In the town of Brevard, bait
will be set out on November 8th
and 9th.
Cash prizes for the schools in
the amounts of $15, $10 and $5
are being offered for the commun
ity which participates to the full
est extent in the rat killing cam
paign.
Students are expected to play
an important part in boosting and
advertising the drive.
COUNTY IS STILL
SHORT OF QUOTA
BY ABOUT $3800
School Contests Continued
Through Saturday, No
vember Sixth.
LIST IS ANNOUNCED
With $3,800 more to be raised to
reach the county’s assigned quota
of $10,800, the Transylavnia Na
tional War Fund drive will be con
tinued through next week, Co
Chairmen Jerry Jerome and C. M.
Douglas announced yesterday af
ter a conference with Chairman
J. S. Silversteen, who is still in the
Post Graduate hospital in New
York city.
“We had hoped that our county
would go over the top by this Sat
urday night, but according to the
present outlook, this will be impos
sible,” the co-chairmen said.
“We are, therefore, announcing
and calling special attention to the
schools, block leaders, demonstra
tion clubs, industrial solicitors and
the public that the drive will be
continued through next week,”'
they explained.
School Contests Continued
The contest among the schools
in which $50.00 in cash prizes
are being offered will not close
until Saturday, November 6th.
The school turning in the larg
est amount of money per pupil
will receive $25.00 cash as first
prize, second prize of $15.00 will
go to the school turning in the
seed, » «a gest amount per pupil
and $10.00 cash to the third
school.
The drive leaders announced
late yesterday afternoon that a
total of $7,000 has been reported
and that there are several sources
from which no reports have been
received as yet.
Solicitation of the business
firms here in town has been prac
tically completed and nearly every
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ENJOYABLE PARTY
HELD AT ECUSTA
Group Singing Was Featur
ed. Square Dancing And
Bridge Enjoyed.
A novel and enjoyable feature
of the party given for Ecusta em
ployees in the cafeteria last Thurs
day evening was the singing by
those present of a number of pop
ular and tuneful melodies, which
were led by the Ecusta chorus
under the direction of John Evers
man.
The stage had been tastefully
decorated with shocks of corn, au
tumn leaves and pumpkins. A
heap of wood had been placed on
the stage, beneath which were
concealed light bulbs sheathed in
red. When the cafeteria lights
were cut off the beams from the
woodpile resembled a cozy camp
fire while the glowing pumpkins
suggested the approach of Hallow
e’en. The chorus was grouped
around the campfire as it led the
singing of numbers suggested by
Mr. Eversman. Those present
joined heartily in the singing of
patriotic, sentimental and religious
songs.
—Turn To Page Twelve
113 Men Classified
In One-A By Board
Thirteen more men have been
placed in class 1-A by the local
rationing board, it was announced
this week.
They are: Robert L. English,
Orr L. Smathers, Charles E. Dod
son, Will Bennett, George C. Nor
ris, Clyde McCall, Fred M. King
Henry D. Carland Herbert B.
Gravely, Earl Van O’Kelley,
James Dunne, John L. Taylor and
William E. Merrill.
Placed in 2-C was Jack O.
Crary, in 3-C Leonard D. Brown
and in 1-C Howard C. Galloway.
James N. Stamey and Edgar Cox
were put in 2-A.
A total of 8 men were placed
in class 2-B.