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PERSONALS Mrs. J. B. Pettit has returned! from a visit with friends in Wash ington, D. C., and Arlington, Va. She was accompanied on her re turn home by Mrs. Evlin Tara couzio, who is visting Mrs. Pettit here, and contemplates buying a home in Brevard. Pvt. Dwight Moffitt is on fur lough here this week with his wife and mother, Mrs. Nettie Moffitt. He is in the medical corps of the army, and is being transferred from Atlanta, Ga., to Greenville, Pa Major and Mrs. C. L. Newland and two children Mary Jane and Joanne, left last week for Indian apolis, Ind., where Major Newland is doing surgery in the hospital at the army air base at Stout Field. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Aillison and daughter, Miss Elizabeth, spent the past week-end in Columbia, S. C., where Lt. Mack Allison, Jr., is stationed at the army air base. Mrs. Jack Holden is spending two weeks with her husband who is at the naval air station, Norfolk, Va. Cpl. Kenneth King left last Friday for Los Angeles,Calif.,af ter spending a 14-day furlough here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wade McGaha. Mrs. J. C. Hendricks and daugh ter, Miss Frances, returned last week from Fort Pierce, Fla., where they spent the holidays with Mr. Hendricks and their son, Carl Hen dricks, and family. Mr. Hendricks returned to Brevard with his wife and daughter. Miss Eleanor King visited friends in Hendersonville last week. Ruel Hunt, who volunteered for service more than two years ago, and has been in overseas service in England, has received his medi cal discharge, after being confined in a New York hospital, and is now in Brevard at the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Waters. Mrs. Ted Seely and little son, Langdon. of Talladega, Ala., are visiting the former’s mother Mrs. E. S. English, and family here. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Schepkowski have been visiting the former’s mother in Yonkers N. Y., the past week. Mrs. John Reese Sledge was called the past week from Atlanta, Ga., on account of the illness of her mother, Mrs. R. F. Mock. She has been with her husband in Atlanta for several weeks. Pvt. James E. Smith has been on a 10-day furlough here with his wife. He is in the army air corps, stationed now at Daniel Field, Au gusta, Ga. Dr. Sine Hamed is now in In dianapolis, Ind., taking special in struction in clinical psychoanalyt ical therapy in the Indiana Phy sic-Therapy college. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Mitchem were called to Norfolk, Va., on Monday, on account of the critical illness of their son, Bobby, who is in the naval hospital there. He has been in service about six months. Mrs. Charles McCrary is re ported to be improving nicely from a recent serious illness. Pfc. James K. Mills, of Camp Stewart, Ga., spent the week-end here with his wife and parents. Robert Duckworth, AMM third class, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. Duckworth, who has been in Florida with her husband, were week-end guests of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Duck worth, and Mr. and Mrs. Few Lyda here. Mrs. Duckworth remained for a longer visit with Mr. and Mrs. Lyda. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Haswell have moved from the Bradley house on Maple street to the Aber crombie cottage on Broad street, formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Ted Schepkowski, who are at present with the latter’s parents, Mrk and Mrs. O. H. Orr. . Mrs. Woodrow Hemphill has re turned from New Orleans, La., where she has been for three weeks with her husband, who is in the navy, stationed there. Mrs. Hemphill was formerly Miss Mar tha Bryson, of Brevard. Mrs. Arthur Ffoulkes is a pa tient in the Brevard Community hospital, recuperating from a re cent fall. Mrs. T. O. Howell and little daughter, Celia Mae, who have been living in Greensboro for some time, have moved to make their home in Brevard for the duration. They are at present visiting Mrs. Howell's sister, Mrs. Donald Lee Moore, and Mr. Moore, but will soon move to the Ratchford home on Maple street. Mr. Howell en tered the navy service recently. Mr. Alex. Patterson is in New York this week buying merchan dise for Patterson’s department store. Mrs. Patterson joined her husband in New York the first of the week. ANDERSON NAMED SERVICE MEMBER OF RATION BOARD Plans To Furnish Speakers For Club And Other General Meetings Ed M. Anderson has been appointed as community service member of the Transylvania war price and rationing board, Dr. J. F. Zachary, chairman, announced today. “Despite the mistakes that have been made during the past two years of rationing, the program on the whole has been extremely suc cessful,” Mr. Anderson declared. “Thanks to price control and rationing, the cost of living has been held down and scarce com modities have been distributed equally and fairly,” he explained. “Much of the confusion about the program comes from misun derstanding, as well as human error, and much of its success is dependent entirely upon public ac ceptance and full co-operation.” Mr. Anderson stated that he will be glad to furnish speakers to talk to various clubs and organizations on the subject. “Just send your requests to me and I will arrange for a speaker,” he declared. Funeral Service Is Held For R. L. Dills Funeral service for Robert Les ter Dills, 19, was held at Carr’s Hill Baptist church Monday af ternoon. He died in the Transyl vania community hospital Satur day night. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dills, formerly of Haywood county; three brothers, Verlin, Roy and Truey, of Bre vard; one sister, Mrs. Perlie Hen ry, of Macon county. Massie Funeral home, of Way nesville, had charge of arrange ments. SPECIAL SERVICE SUNDAY A special service will be held at Oak Grove Baptist church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, it has been announced by the pastor, Rev. N. H. Chapman. This service, which was scheduled to be held the past two Sundays, was postponed both times due to inclement wea ther. Much Sickness In Penrose Community BY N. L. PONDER Mrs. M. H. Holliday has been on the sick list for over a week, confined to her bed most of the time. We are glad to know she has much improved and is ex pected to be out again soon. W. L. Talley and Everett Talley have both been unable to be out of bed or the house for a few days, but are reported improving. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Gibson have about recovered from a two weeks’ sickness, and are able to be up again. Junior Sims is out again after a spell of sickness which kept him in bed for a while. Snow last Sunday and the Sun day before kept nearly everybody away from Sunday school and church. Out on Penrose Route 1 we hear of the illness of our friends, the Couches, and we wish them, too, a speedy recovery. George Shuford and folks, who were all sick in bed about the same time, are now up and about their work. Jack Blythe, who was off his job at Ecusta for a week, is now able to be back at work. The snow here Sunday was very beautiful and unusually pictur esque. A little two-year-old, when he first looked out, said, “Look at the Christmas trees!” TO BROADCAST SERIES GIRL SCOUT PROGRAMS “Here’s To Youth,” a series of 13 radio programs will be heard over NBC network every Saturday afternoon from 1 to 1:30, starting this Saturday, January 15, it has been announced by Mrs. Keith Pooser, Girl Scout commissioner. This series of 13 dramatic pro grams is based on current prob lems facing young people of America today and the part played by voluntary youth-serving agen cies in their solution. Girl Scouts join with nine other voluntary youth organizations in sponsoring this NBC radio series. ATTEND ASHEVILLE PARTY Ecusta officials and their wives attended a dinner-dance given at the Grove Park Inn last Monday night by Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Straus in honor of Mrs. Baldauf and Mr. and Mrs. Roger King, of New York City. Mrs. Baldauf is a sister of Mr. Straus and Mrs. King is his daughter. It's 'Snow* Fiaht WHEN IT IS IMPOSSIBLE because of climatic conditions to get the real thing for a snowball fight, residents of Cypress Gardens, Fla., can al ways use flowers from snow-on the-mountain plants Here Sylvia Chambliss enjoys "fighting” without fear of chilblain. (International) PATSY OWEN IS - FROM PAGE ONE - feed by Farmers Federation and a year’s subscription to The Times. Notice is hereby given to the merchants of the winner. BOOKS AVAILABLE -FROM PAGE ONE helping to perfect plans for the establishment of the county library, highly praised the community and members of the board of trustees. “I am delighted that Transyl vania county will soon have a free public library and pledge full co-operation and assistance from the state department,” she said. Plans are now being made to re pair and paint the library build ing which has been leased from the UDC chapter and when this work is done a formal opening will be held. Jan. P.-T. A Meeting Has Been Cancelled There will be no January meet ing of the Brevard P.-T. A., due to the delay in re-opening of the schools after the holidays, it has been announced by Mrs. Goode Loftis, president. The regular meeting of the executive committee, however, will be held Monday afternoon at 4:15 at the grammar school, which all chairmen of committees are urged to attend. Escaped Prisoner Is Caught Near Rosman J. B. Owens, who escaped from the state prison camp near Mur phy two years ago, was caught last Saturday night near Rosman by Sheriff Freeman Hayes and Deputy Sheriff W. T. Brown. Officers said Owens had served about half of a 12-months sen tence when he escaped. He was convicted of assault and given a one-year road sentence. Owens told officers that since his successful flight he had been living in this section of the state. He had a pistol, but made no effort to resist arrest. W. O. W. TO ELECT OFFICERS AT MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT The annual election of officers of the Balsam Camp number 16 of the W. O. W. will be held here Friday night in the lodge hall and all members are expected to at tend, Paul Pipkin, consul com mander, announces. Because of sickness that result ed in poor attendance, the election was postponed from last Friday night. P.-T. A. MEETING TUES. The January meeting of the P.-T. A. will be held in the Pisgah For est school next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The meeting was postponed from last week due to the delayed opening of the schools. AUTO TAG OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY Auto license tag office of the Carolina Motor Club will be closed next Monday, Jan. 17, while the manager is away attending a re gional meeting of the Red Cross. RATIONING YEARS - FROM PAGE ONE . ly, “Congratulations, volunteers, for this fine job your are doing. Keep up the good work.” Working in connection with the local board are four panels with three members each, as follows: Gasoline, Charles W. Davis, chair man, Bert Freeman and Virgil Mc Crary; Tire, Dr. J. F. Zachary, chairman, Henry Carrier and J. 0. Wells; Fuel Oil and Stove, Alex Kizer, chairman, Herbert Finck and Robert Kimzey; and Price, Jerry Jerome, chairman. Mrs. Mary Jane McCrary and J. W. Smith. Miss Mattie E. Lewis is chief clerk of the local board and work ing as her assistants are Miss Mol lie McCall and Mrs. Ruby Bonnell. Dr. Zachary is general chairman of the board. Ed M. Anderson is community service member of the local board. TIMES TEAM LOST 3 GAMES The Times bowling team lost three games Tuesday night in the Tri-City league to Sealtest. Every player rolled good scores, but not quite good enough. Individual scores were Reynolds 511; Kappers 471; Simpson 518; Lupper 507 and Straus 566. Total, 2,573. A Radio Operator SGT. C. JOHN McCALL, son Mr. and Mrs. Clyde S. McCall, of Lake Toxaway, recently com pleted a 20-weeks radio opera tors mechanic school at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He entered service a year ago and was first sent to Fort Jackson and from there to Miami Beach, Fla. and Las Vagas, Nevada where he re ceived his wings. His wife is the former Miss Doris Sitton. Standings In Bowling League Are Unchanged After Make-Up Games Machine Room And Finish ing Made High Scores In Last Matches In make-up games for the men’s division of the Ecusta bowling league on January 3, the Machine Room team took top honors while in the woman’s make-up game on January 4, Finishing walked away with all high scores. Maintenance is still in the lead in the men’s league with Machine Room bowling slightly ahead of Champagne to advance to second place in the men’s group. Having lost only one game this season, the Champagne women’s team is hold ing on to top honors in the wom en’s league with Endless Belt in second place. High scores in the men’s divis ion last week were made by Ma chine Room as follows: High match score, 2358; high team set score, 837; and high individual score 206, bowled by B. Teague. Making high scores in the wom en’s division, Finishing bowled high team match score of 1254 and held high team set honors, scoring 424. Sue Allen, of the Finishing team, made high individual score of 104 in the women’s league. Results Of Games MEN’ TEN PIN LEAGUE Monday, January 3rd Machine Room, 3; Office, 0. Control, 2; Champagne, 1. Maintenance, 3; Refining, 0. WOMEN’S DUCK PIN LEAGUE Tuesday, January 4th Finishing, 3; Office, 0. League Standing WOMEN’S DIVISION Team W L Pet. Champagne_ 26 1 .966 Endless Belt ___ 18 9 .666 Finishing - 13 14 .481 Control - 12 15 .444 Office - 8 19 .296 Pin Setters_ 4 23 .148 MEN’S DIVISION Team W L Pet. Maintenance_ 30 6 .861 Machine Room __ 27 9 .755 Champagne_ 26 10 .722 Control - 14 22 .388 Office_ 10 26 .277 Refiner Room 1 35 .027 BUILT TO DO A JOB FOR Men and Boys For men’s and boys’ work clothing visit our Men’s Department. Here you will find a nice assortment of good work clothes, de signed to stand up under the hardest wear, as well as work shoes that are built for hard service, plus comfort. ★-★ MEN'S WORK SHIRTS Men’s vat-dyed shrunk work shirts. Full cut, in the following Men’s and Boys’ Work Shoes Most of them of good pre war quality that will give good wear. MEN’S_ BOYS’_$1.25 TO $2.98 WORK SOX Plenty good work sox at 10c and 15c Per Pair Also seamless toe Rockford make at, per pair— 19c $1.98 TO $4.98 I I I Sweaters This is the time of year when most people like to patch out the rest of the season with a good sweater and Belk’s is the best place we know of to find just what you want. ALL SIZES FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS ALL SIZES FOR THE LARGER FOLKS 49c 98c Men’s and women’s—the best assortment we have had—coat or slipover styles; part wool or all wool. Prices range from— $1.98 to $3.98 ~ uciimguuiic LW11I, ctllU UUVC army twill. Made to give plenty of long, hard wear. $l.98 to 195 PANTS TO MATCH $1.98 TO $2.95 Also a new shipment of plaid shirts, sizes 14 to 17; ceiling price _ -★ $1.45 Leather Jackets For Men and Boys Boys’ - - - $8.95 Men’s - *9.95 to *12.95 • *-* MEN’S FLEECE-LINED Overall Jackets The kind that will keep you warm, good range of sizes from which to select. Each— *2.49 © Belk’s Dept. Store “THE HOME OF BETTER VALUES”
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