Vol. 53: No. 51
The Transylvania Times
Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation
★ SECTION ONE ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 1943 ★ 16 PAGES TODAY ★
CHRISTMAS BONUSES ARE PAID
* * *
Nearly 45,000 Pounds Waste Paper Collected Here
SHIPMENTS ARE
MADE THIS WEEK
IN PAPE DRIVE
Jaycees Sponsor Campaign
Through Co-Operation
Schools, Scouts.
NEW DRIVE PLANNED
A total of 32,855 pounds or a
little over 16 tons of waste paper
was shipped from collection cen
ters here this week, Howard
Wyatt, salvage chairman, an
nounced today.
A previous shipment of 12,120
pounds was made recently, bring
ing the grand total weight of pa
per collected during the initial
campaign*to 44,975 pounds.
The county-wide drive was spon
sored by the Brevard junior cham
ber of commerce under the direc
tion of the county salvage com
mittee and through the co-opera
tion of the schools and Boy Scouts.
A renewed campaign is being
planned after the first of the year.
Frank Bridges, who was in
charge of the Jaycee drive, report
ed collections from schools and
Scout troops as follows: Little
River, 1,600; Pisgah Forest school,
3,100; Rosman school, 6,000; Boy
Scout troop of which Curlee is
scoutmaster, 1,050 pounds; Scout
master Hadley’s troop, 550: and
Scoutmaster Hart’s troop, 1,455
pounds.
A total of 13,000 pounds were
collected from the Brevard high
school and 4,600 from Brevard ele
mentary school.
“The drive was an excellent suc
cess and I wish to thank the pub
lic for co-operating and to con
gratulate the Jaycees, schools and
Boy Scouts,” Wyatt declared.
“The Jaycees worked hard and
did an exceptionally fine job and
they are to be highly commended,”
he said. “The schools and Scouts
also deserve much praise.”
G.H. ALEXANDER
BURIED MONDAY
Prominent Transylvania Co.
Merchant and Farmer
Passes Away.
Brief funeral services were
held last Monday afternoon at the
residence in the Boheney section
for George Harry Alexander, 83,
who died at his home Sunday
morning, following a stroke of
paralysis and an extended illness.
Rev. Theodore Rose, pastor of the
Boheney Baptist church, conduct
ed the service, after which the
body was removed to the Alex
ander cemetery in Oconee county,
S. C., for further service and in
terment. Rev. Reuben Hudson,
pastor, conducted the service.
Nephews of the deceased serv
ed as pallbearers.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Arzelia Pickelsimer Alexander;
two daughters, Mrs. L. E. Cash,
Oakland, and Mrs. Hovey Chap
pell, Brevard; two sons, Otto Alex
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Girl Scouts Will
Have A Christmas
Party Friday Night (
Girl Scout troops will celebrate
Christmas in various ways, ac
cording to an announcement by
the leader, Mrs. Ashe Macfie.
A Christmas tree and party will
be held at the Scout room at 6:30 ■
Friday evening following which .
they will go in a group to sing
carols at homes around town for '
an hour. Parents are asked to be <
at the court house at 8:30, at which <
time their children will be there 1
ready to go to their homes. Other ;
activities of the Scouts was the i
selling of Christmas seals at the ]
booth on the court house lawn i
last Saturday.
‘Pete’ Home After 470-Mile Hike
Persistence personified describes “Pete,” a Pomeranian, shown
with his mistress, Barbara Ann Staud, 13, of Norfolk, Va. The
pooch hiked 470 miles to Patchogue, N. Y., where his mistress was
visiting the town where she and her pet once lived. Barbara had
left when he arrived, so friends shipped him home by train.
Mrs. Oliver Orr Is Elected
Chairman Of Public Library
Board; Kapp Is Librarian
Miss Gash Is Service Chair
man and Mrs. Earl Bry
ant Secretary.
Mrs. Oliver Orr was elected
chairman of the board of trustees
of the Transylavnia county public
library at an organizational meet
ing held last Thursday night.
Miss Annie Gash was elected
vice chairman and Mrs. Earl Bry
ant secretary and treasurer .
Application for a charter was
sent to Raleigh this week, together
with a request for state appropria
tion which amounts to $1,100 for
this fiscal year.
Mrs. Lehman Kapp, of Brevard,
was selected librarian and Mi&
Daisy Norton assistant librarian.
Mrs. Kapp is a trained and ex
perienced librarian. She formerly
taught library science at George
Peabody college, served as libra
rian at Shorter college, Rome, Ga.,
and did public library service for
the Cossitt library, Memphis,
Tenn.
Miss Norton has been connected
wth the UDC library here for sev
eral years.
As soon as a charter is received
and other details are worked out,
including the completion, of the
finance drive, the UDC library will
be turned over to the town and
county and converted into a public
library.
According to present plans,
funds will be raised to purchase
a large number of new books and
these will be available to the pub
lic without charge.
Appointed on the finance com
mittee are Mrs. Earl Bryant,
chairman, Virgil McCrary and
Willis Brittain.
The book committee is composed
>f Mrs. Kapp, Miss Gash, E. F.
rilson and Keith Pooser.
The buildings and grounds com
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KIN M’NEIL TO
HAVE ARTICLE IN
NOTED MAGAZINE
Former Editor of The Times
Describes Lord’s Acre
Plan.
Today, just 13 years after the
inception of the Lord’s Acre plan,
over a thousand rural and village
churches in more than half the
states of the union are cultivating
an estimated 10,000 acres of ground
in the name of the Lord, according
to Kin McNeil, former editor of
The Transylvania Times and now
with the Associated Press in Char
lotte, whose article, “The Lord is
Their Partner,” appears in the
January issue of Coronet maga
zine.
Because of their participation
in the plan, these small churches
find that they are able to pull
themselves financially from the
red to the black side of the ledger,
are burning their mortgages, pay
ing their pastors respectable sal
aries and embarking fearlessly on
new building projects. Some even
boast of a surplus which they have
proudly invested in War Bonds for
their country.
The movement got its start in
the early spring of 1930 when ru
ral churches were being hit hard
by the depression. Most of them
faced poverty and dissolution,
with rapidly decreasing member
ships, underpaid pastors and di
lapidated buildings. Then James
G. K. McClure, a former minister,
and the alert aggressive Rev. Du
mont Clarke put their heads to
gether and evolved the Lord’s
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Certificates Awarded To Aircraft
Warning Service Workers In County
Notice has been received in
rransylvania by all members of
he volunteer Aircraft Warning
Service that the work has been
mtirely inactivated for the pres
;nt time and workers in Transyl
vania who have done a splendid
ob are receiving this week certif
cates of “Honorable Service” from
Brigadier General Glenn O. Barcus
>f the United States Army.
More than 50 people have served
as airplane spotters since start of
the war, and many of them have
served well and creditably, ac
cording to a letter received from
the filter center at Columbia. Sev
eral of the posts have been on 24
hour duty on several occasions,
and all have given “red flash” or
emergency service continuously
since inception of the work here.
While there were provisions for
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CONNESTEE VON
FIRST PUCE IN
RAT CAMPAIGN
Enon School Won Second
Place and Cedar Moun
tain Third Place.
The Connestee school won first
place in the recent school rat poi
son campaign, Supt. J. B. Jones
and County Agent J. A. Glazener
announced today.
Mrs. Geneva Farrior is principal
of this school and a prize of $15
in cash has been awarded to the
school.
Enon school, with Mrs. Agnes
Ward as the principal, won second
place, $10, and Cedar Mountain
school, third prize, $5. Mrs. Amy
Calhoun is principal there.
The awards were presented by
Messrs. Jones and Glazener.
Winners were determined on
the basis of the number of rat
poison packages sold in the com
munity in comparison with the
school’s enrollment.
All three of the winning schools
held special chapel programs and
explained in detail the rat cam
paign.
“They did a fine job and I con
gratulate them,” Mr. Jones said.
Over 600 Garments
Collected in Old
Clothing Campaign
Approximately 1,000 pounds or
over 600 different garments were
collected by the Whiteway Dry
Cleaners and the Dixie Cleaners
during the old clothing campaign
that ended here a few days ago,
Howard Wyatt announces.
Of this amount, the Whiteway
collected around 800 pounds.
Ten per cent of the collection
will remain in the community and
will be distributed to needy fami
lies by the welfare department,
while the other 90 per cent will
be shipped to foreign lands to re
lieve distress and misery this win
ter.
Mrs. C. Y. Patton said this cloth
ing would help supply urgent
needs in the county, but that it
would not take care of all of
them.
Today she issued an appeal for
sweaters, bath robes and other
garments.
Adelaide Van Wey
To Tour Mexico &
Central America
Adelaide Van Wey, one of the
nation’s outstanding contraltos and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Silversteen, will leave for Mexico
City on January 25 for a concert
tour of Mexico and Central Amer
ica. She will be accompanied by
her husband, Robert N. Hill, pian
ist. She will give the last of a
series of concerts in the east in
Philadelphia on January 18.
License Tag Sales
Going Good Here
Auto license office will close
at 12 noon Friday of this week
[for Christmas and remain closed
until Tuesday morning. The clos
ing hour at noon Friday of this
week is made necessary in order
that the large volume of money
received may Be banked prior
to closing of the bank. For New
Year’s the office will close Friday
afternoon, Dec. 31, at 4 o’clock
and remain closed until Monday
morning.
Sales of tags have picked up
noticeably during the past few
days, according to C. M. Douglas,
manager of the local Carolina Mo
tor Club office, with truck tags
especially selling fast. All motor
ists are supposed to have new li
cense plates by Jan. 1.
Santa Says—4‘Merry Christmas To All”
Good Old Santa Claus who is now getting ready to make his
annual rounds this Saturday, Christmas Day—spreading Christ
mas cheier and good fellowship. Everything here is agog, awaiting
his arrival.
The Times Wins An Award
Of Merit For Outstanding
Service In Pulpwood Drive
MILD EPIDEMIC OF
FID IS SUBSIDING
Would Have Closed Schools
If It Hadn’t Been Near
End of Term.
The epidemic of flu in Brevard
and Transylvania county is sub
siding slowly, it was learned to
day from the Health Department.
During the last four days of
schools, there was an average of
about one out of six of the chil
dren n the elementary grades out
sick, but attendance rolls started
climbing bade up the last day of
school this week, Tuesday.
“If it hadn’t been so near the
holiday season and this term, we
would have closed the schools last
Thursday, Supt. J. B. Jones said.
Of the 745 enrolled at Brevard
elementary school, 172 were out
last Thursday and 21 of the 165 at
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Large Certificate Is Sent Tc
This Paper. Will Continue
Drive.
An award of merit for an out
standing contribution to the na
tion’s war program and for effec
tive effort to increase the produc
tion of pulpwood during the 1942
Victory Pulpwood campaign has
just been presented to The Tran
sylvania Times.
A reproduction of the certifi
cate of award appears elsewhere
in this issue.
“You have cooperated most gen
erously in the 1943 Victory Pulp
wood campaign and I am happy tc
send you the enclosed award of
merit as a token of appreciation
from the Newspaper Pulpwood
committee of the American News
paper Publishers association,”
Walter M. Dear, chairman, wrote
The Times this week.
“While we cannot yet estimate
the results of this newspaper cam
paign in terms of pulpwood pro
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To Start Tax Listing On January
3rd; Schedule Of Listers Announced
Tax listing for the year 1943
will get underway in the various
townships in Transylvania county
on Monday, January 3, Mrs. Doro
thy Mitchell, county tax super
visor, announced today.
List takers and a complete
schedule of each lister was also
announced today.
The list takers are: L. F. Lyday,
Boyd township; Lamar Lewis, in
side city limits of Brevard and
Mrs. Edwin Morgan, outside city
limits, with Alex Kizer assisting
both of them; Gaston Whitmire,
Cathey’s Creek township; George
Maxwell, Dunn’s Rock township;
A. M. Paxton, Eastatoe township;
Obbie Fisher, Gloucester town
ship; Frank Shuford, Little River
township. No appointment has
been made for Hogback township.
Mrs. Mitchell announced that
all taxes must be listed during the
month of January. “A penalty of
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INDUSTRIES GIVE
PRESENTS, TREATS
TO THE EMPLOYEES
Stores Open Here At Nights*
Number of Them To
Close Monday.
ECUSTA GIVING PARTIES
In accordance with previous
practices, nearly all of the 3,500
industrial workers ;n Transylvania
county will receive bonuses or cash
presents this Christmas, it was
learned today from officials of the
various industries located in the
county.
No information was announced
by any of the plants as to the
size of the bonus checks, but all
of them are in conformity with re
quirement limitations of the stab
ilization program, officials de
clared.
Christmas treats and packages
for children of employees are also
being given by several industries,
including specifically Ecusta, Sil
versteen Industries and Pisgah
Mills.
Stores to Close Monday
Stores in Brevard will remain
open tonight and tomorrow night
and Santa is expected to visit
here these two days.
Grocery and drug stores, cafes,
, barber shops and filling station*f
are expected to observe only
Christmas day, while department
and a group of other local stores
will be closed on Monday, too, D.
T. Abercrombie, chairman of the
merchants committee of the cham
ber of commerce, announced to
day.
Stores that will close are Aber
crombie Furniture company, Roses,
Sample Store, Schulmans, Dixie
Cleaners, McFee Jewelry and Ra
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JUSTUS HOME IS
DAMAGED TUESDAY
Fire Burned Roof of House
Near Country Club Before
Being Put Out.
The two-story frame home of
Mrs. George Justus, located just
outside the city limits of Brevard;
near the Country club, was badly
damaged by fire Tuesday after
noon.
The shingle roof was completely
burned and a good deal of house
hold things were said to have been
damaged. The total damage was.
estimated at $500.
The fire, it is believed, caught
on the roof from sparks blown.,
from the yard where Mrs. Justus
was burning some brush and trash.
The Brevard fire department
soon had the flames under control
and prevented the house from,
burning to the ground.
A small fire was also extinguish
ed here Monday afternoon on the
lot across the street from the Law
rence apartments and next door to
the Sledge house. Little damage
was done.
Dewey Gravely Is
Serving as U.S. Tax
Collector Here Now
Dewey Gravely, U. S. deputy
collector, has been transferred
from Elizabeth City to Brevard
and is here on a temporary as
signment until S. fi. Varner is
able to be back on the job.
Later Mr. Gravely, whose home
is here in Brevard, hopes to be
assigned in a Western North Car
olina territory. He has been at
Elizabeth City since last February.
He will be in the office here
on Saturday and Monday from 9
until 4 o’clock.
The condition of Mr. Varner is
improving, but he does not expect
to return to work for several
weeks.