The Transylvania Times
Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943
★ SECTION ONE ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JAN. 27, 1944 * 16 PAGES TODAY ★
FARM MEETINGS ARE ANNOUNCED
Birthday Ball Expected To Attract Large Crowd
DANCE WILL BE
HELD AT COUNTRY
CLUB SAT. NIGHT
Sale Of Tickets Picking Up.
To Have A Floor Show
And Bingo Games
COLORED DANCE TONITE
A large crowd is expected to
attend the President's Birthday
ball at the Brevard Country club
Saturday night. The dance will
start at 9 o'clock.
This ball is a grand climax to
the infantile paralysis drive that
is being conducted in Transylvania
county, as well as throughout the
nation.
F. S. Best, chairman of the
ticket committee, announced yes
terday that sales are picking up and
urged every one to buy at least
one ticket even though he or she
cannot attend the ball.
“This is the chief way you can
contribute to this worthy cam
paign and thereby help the county
to raise its quota of $420,” Mr.
Best emphasized.
The sale price of tickets has
been lowered to $1.25, including
taxes.
Big Floor Show
John Eversman has planned a
big floor show for the ball and
music will be furnished by a
new band under the direction of
Mr. Eversman.
The club will be attractively
decorated and Mrs. Robert Col
well is in charge of the decora
tions.
An auction sale will be con
ducted at the ball with Jerry
Jerome serving as chief auctioneer.
Bingo games will be featured and
Edwin Happ and Keith Pooser are
to be in charge.
—Turn To Page Five
LIBRARY GETS
500 NEW BOOKS
Order For 224 More Expect
ed To Be Received Soon.
To Fix Building
The Transylvania county public
library has just received 500 books
from the state library commission,
Mrs. Lehman Happ, librarian, an
nounced today.
This shipment includes a large
number of juvenile books, as well
as fiction and non-fiction volumes
for adults, she stated.
It was also announced that 224
new books have been bought by
the library board and they are ex
pected to arrive within the near
future.
Plans are now being made to
have the library building remodel
led and weather stripped.
The building has been leased
from the U. D. C. chapter here
and among other things the lease
provides that after a period of five
years of successful operation, the
free public library is to receive
the building. In the meantime, the
U. D. C. has reserved the right to
hold its regular meetings in the
building.
The finance committee of the
library board announces that a
drive for funds is being continued.
Brevard Has Three
Ensigns in Navy’s
Amphibious Corps
Three well known Brevard men
have recently completed their ini
tial training and are now ensigns
in the Navy’s amphibious corps.
These men are Ensign Eddie Var
ner, popular Brevard druggist who
has just finished his training at
New York and who will report for
duty at Solomons Island, Md. on
February 3. He is now on leave
here.
The other two are Ensign Paul
Jones, who has finished training at
Notre Dame and will be assigned
to the amphibious corps at Little
Creek, Va., and Ensign E. Pendle
ton Banks, who is already sta
tioned at Solomons Island, Md.
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Winter Commencement Program
To Be Held At College Here On
February 8th; 28 To Graduate
Heads Polio Drive
Mrs. Edwin Happ, of Brevard,
who is chairman of the infantile
paralysis drive in Transylvania
county this year. Mrs. Happ also
has charge of the Red Cross sur
gical dressing room here.
TELEGRAMS MAY
BE CHARGED SOON
TO PHONE BILLS
Western Union Official Here
Tuesday Making Arrange
ments for Service.
The Western Union is now mak
ing arrangements with the Citi
zens Telephone company here for
local telephone subscribers to call
the Western Union office in Ashe- i
ville or any of its other nearby
offices, send telegrams and have
them charged to their telephone
accounts when the Brevard West
ern Union office is closed.
In response to a complaint from
the Brevard chamber of commerce,
J. H. Slagle, of Asheville, West
ern Union’s district manager for
this section, met with the cham
ber of commerce committee Tues
day afternoon and announced that
a contract is being arranged be
tween his firm and the local tele
phone company.
During the week, the Brevard
Western Union office is open from
8 until 12 in the morning; 1:20 to
5:30 in the afternoon and from
7 until 7:30 at nights.
The Western Union office at
Asheville is open from 7 A. M.
until midnight and after the office
here is closed, local telephone sub
scribers will be permitted to call
the Asheville office, send messages
and have them charged to their
telephone accounts.
“No, we do not and cannot pay
—Turn To Page Eight
Rev. Grady Hardin Will De
liver The Commence
ment Address
Twenty - eight students, nine
junior college and nineteen pre
college students, will graduate at
Brevard college on Tuesday, Feb.
8, Dr. B. W. Loomis, dean of the
institution, announced today.
The winter commencment pro
gram will be held at 11 ’clock in
the morning in the college auditor
ium.
Rev. H. Grady Hardin, Jr., pas
tor of the Black Mountain Metho
dist church, will deliver the com
mencement address. Rev. W. A.
Jenkins, pastor of the Brevard
Methodist church, will give the in
vocation and Miss Gertrude Barnes,
director of the department of
music, will sing “The Spirit of
Flower.” President E. J. Coltrane
will award diplomas and Rev.
Ashby Johnson, pastor of the Bre
vard Presbyterian church, will
give the benediction.
Members of the junior college
graduating class are Opal Louise
Banner, Dobson; Eleanor Eliza
beth Beasley, Louisburg; Mabel
Louise Beatty, Sherrill’s Ford;
Doris Jane Caudle, Peachland;
Dorothy Virginia Hedrick, High
Point; Modine Maggie Kitchens,
Hayesville; Virginia Holt Passa
vant, Henderson; Frances Louise
Talley and Dorothy Poole, both of
Brevard.
This is the institution’s second
pre-college graduating class, and
those who will receive diplomas
are: Bob Otho Brannon, Brevard;
Betty Lou Buckner, Asheville;
Sarah Ellen Burnette, Enka; Jane
Love Butler, Tabor City; William
Stephen Cockrell, Hattiesburg,
Miss.; Phoebe Alice Crary, Bre
vard; John DeLaney Dickson, An
derson, S. C.; Richard Harry Fen
wicke, Brevard; Herbert Ferdi
nand John Finck, Jr., Brevard; Rob
ert Elmer Gaither, Brevard; Rob
ert Michael Kappers, Jr., Brevard;
—Turn To Page Eight
Bus Hearing Set
For February 24th
The state utilities commission
will hold a hearing on the pro
posal for leasing the Greyhound
franchise from Brevard to Hen
dersonville to the City Bus com
pany of Hendersonville in Ashe
ville at the Langren hotel on
Thursday morning, February 24
at 10:30 o’clock, it was learned
today.
A hearing was first set to be
held in Hendersonville January
13, but was cancelled because of
sickness among members of the
utility commission,
It is anticipated that a large
delegation from Brevard and
Transylvania county will attend
the hearing and protest the pro
posed leasing of the line.
Transylvania Ranks Above Average
In Promotions In Elementary Grades
A study of promotions of ele
mentary schools of 5 or more teach
ers in 33 county administrative
units in North Carolina shows that
84.8 per cent of the students at
tending school were promoted last
year and that in Transylvania
county the average was 88 per
cent, slightly above the 33-county
average. *
Stanly county ranked at the top
of the 33 counties with promotions
averaging 90.4 per cent, while
Madison was at the bottom with
71.8 per cent. Transylvania ranked
10th on the list of 33 counties.
A report of 29 elementary city
administrative units had an aver
age promotion of 89.2. Southern
Pines ranked at the top with 99.6
average and Fairmont at the bot
tom of the list with an average
promotion percentage of 76.3. The
Brevard elementary school had an
average promotion of 92.1 per cent
last year, Pisgah Forest 86.4 and
Rosman 76.1.
“I am confident that our state
record will show marked improve
ment in the next few years as a
result of quantitative measures
recently introduced into our state
school system,” J. Henry High
smith, of the state department
wrote in commenting on the pro
motion analysis.
“I refer of course to the 12th
year and the 9th month which will
give us 108 months of instruction
as compared with 88 months un
der the 11-year old program of 8
months.”
ALLIES SET DEATH TRAP FOR NAZIS IN 1944
(rL\. EISENHOWER SAII) IT: “We’ll win in 1944.” And as spring approaches, a determined world
cries: “On to Berlin!” From every direction men will march and planes will fly. Smashing from the
East will be the Russian juggernaut, while other Allied armies push through the Balkans and across
the Channel. Other forces will drive from Corsica through Italy and across Poland and Yugoslavia.
CONDITION OF
WALTER WOOD
IS IMPROVING
Received Cuts In Cafe Here.
Onie Kilpatrick
Is In Jail
The condition of Walter Wood,
well known Brevard man who sus
tained severe cuts in both arms
here last Friday night, is improv
ing splendidly and he is expected
to leave the local hospital within
the next few days.
Pending the outcome of Wood’s
condition, Onie Kilpatrick, who
cut Wood with a leather knife,
was still being held in the county
jail yesterday and no date has
been set for a preliminary hearing.
Bond, however, has been 'set at
$1,000.
The cutting took place in The
Grill last Friday night about 11
o’clock.
Chief Bert Freeman said his in
vestigation disclosed that Wood
and the Kilpatrick brothers, Vir
gil and Onie, got into an argument
and that Jimmie Gaither, owner
of the cafe, cautioned them. Short
ly after Onie went outside of the
cafe, the investigation revealed I
that Wood struck Virgil and just!
about knocked him out.
Officer Gill Thomas then came
in and started searching Virgil for
a knife, which some one said he
had, the report stated. Before of-!
ficer Thomas realized it while mak
ing the search, Onie Kilpatrick,
who was said to have seen the
fight from the outside, rushed in
to the cafe and struck Wood twice
with a large knife. A long, deep
gash was cut in Wood’s right arm
and a deep stab in the left arm.
Thomas then broke up the affray
and took Onie to jail, while Wood
caught a taxi and went to the
hospital. He was said to have lost
a good deal of blood and was
given transfusions.
The Kilpatrick brothers live
Turn To Page Eight
Singing Convention
At Courthouse Sun.
The regular 5th Sunday singing
convention will be held at the Bre
vard courthouse this Sunday after
noon at 2 o’clock, it has been an
nounced by the president, W. L.
Harmon.
It is expected that a large num
ber of singers from various sec
tions of the two Carolinas will be
present and take part in the pro
gram, as well as -singers from this
county. The public is invited to
attend.
W. L. Harmon is president of
the convention and Glenn Win
chester is vice president.
Bond Headquarters Opened Here
In Waltermire Building; Caravan
Of Captured Equipment Coming
Large Amount Of German
Equipment To Visit Bre
vard Feb. 10
A truck and trailer caravan of
German captured equipment will
visit Brevard and Transylvania
county the night of Thursday, Feb
ruary 10, War Bond Chairman E.
H. McMahan announces.
The caravan will arrive here at
6 o'clock in the afternoon and re
main until 10 o’clock the next
morning.
Plans are now being made to
hold a night parade and a county
wide bond rally at the Brevard
high school.
There will be 10 servicemen
with the caravan and the captured
equipment consists of one tank de
stroyer with a 76 mm. gun which
was captured in North Africa, one
German half track field kitchen,
a large piece of field equipment
mounted on a half track truck
which was used by the Germans
to feed their units in Sicily and
it was captured there.
Every one in the county will be
invited to come to Brevard and
see the captured equipment and to
attend the bond rally.
Mr. McMahan said an outstand
ing speaker has been invited to
speak here at that time.
Mr. Carl Eldridge returned last
Saturday from Norbum hospital,
Asheville, where he underwent an
operation two weeks ago.
Interest In Fourth War Loan
Drive Is Now Picking
Up Here
In comparison with other cam
paigns, interest in the Fourth War
Loan drive in Brevard and Tran
sylvania county has been lagging,
but it is expected to pick up con
siderably with the next few days,
Chairman E. H. McMahan stated
today.
An official drive headquarters
with Mrs. Oliver Orr in charge, is
being opened in the Waltermire
building in the large space former
ly occuDied by the Varner Drug
store.
Zone and block leaders, solici
tors and other persons are asked
to contact headquarters often and
to get additional material and sup
plies there. At the headquarters,
orders for bonds are also accepted.
At a meeting of the county loan
committee Tuesday night, an ur
gent appeal was issued for all ur
ban and rural solicitors to contact
every person in their communities
as soon as possible and to have
reports ready for another meeting
in the headquarters’ office next
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock.
The county’s quota is $346,000
and reports last night indicated
that only around $30,000 worth of
bonds have been issued so far.
“We’ve got a long ways to go
and we’ve got to get busy,” Chair
man McMahan stated.
Last night a great deal of en
—Turn To Page Four
Hypnotized Boy Creates Excitement
At Brevard Coliege Monday Morning
Displaying superman tactics in
the classroom and halls at Brevard
college, Kenneth Wyatt, of Bre
vard and a pre-college student who
was still under the spell of hypno
tism, created a great deal of ex
citement at the college Monday
morning.
Wyatt, an investigation disclos
ed, was hypnotized in a dormitory
Sunday night by another student,
Ben Covington, of Pinopolis, S. C.,
who told Wyatt that he was to
sleep 7 hours and that he would
then be very strong.
At breakfast the next morning
the boy seemed to be perfectly
normal, but fell asleep on an eco
nomics class taught by Prof. M. G.
Pangle and efforts to wake him
up were unsuccessful.
Finally Wyatt awoke of his own
accord and jerked a fastened desk
from the floor. He then went out
of the classroom and into the
halls where he indicated superman
strength against the walls and in
the air.
Students and faculty members
in the building became alarmed
and called the boy’s father and
Chief Freeman. Neither of them
were able to do much with young
Wyatt' because of the hypnotic
spell, it was stated, and Covington
was summoned and quietly took
the boy to his home here.
“The trouble was that Wyatt did
not get the required amount of
sleep because the boys in the
dormitory kept bothering him,”
—Tarn To Page Eight
ALL FARMERS IN
COUNTY URGED TO
ATTEND MEETINGS
To Secure Orders For Lime
And Phosphate And
Explain Goals
SCHEDULE IS GIVEN
Beginning Saturday a series of
meetings will be held over the
county for the purpose of enabling
farmers to contact members of the
AAA committee and place orders
for lime and phosphate. Individual
farm goals will be discussed at
these meetings, according to P. A.
Rahn, field supervisor of the AAA
in this county, and letters were
mailed out Tuesday to all farmers
in the county urging them to at
tend. Another topic that will be
given consideration at this time is
soil building practices.
County farm goals were discuss
ed at a meeting of the AAA com
mittee Monday, at which N. H.
Wilson, of the state office ex
plained the 1944 program in detail.
County Agent J. A. Glazener spoke
on the county goals. Practically all
of the committeemen were pres
ent.
“It is extremely important that
all farmers attend one of the
series of meetings which have
been arranged,” Mr. Rahn said.
“We want to explore and fix upon
goals for every farm.” He said
that community meetings of a
similar nature were held last fall
to turn in practices carried out,
which were very successful, and
conserved so much time that it was
decided to hold them to discuss the
—Turn To Page Five
TWENTY-SEVEN
PLACED IN ONE-A
Classifications Of Twenty
Others Are Announced.
Two In l-A(H)
Twenty-seven selectees from
Transylvania county were placed
in class 1-A by the local draft
board at two meetings held the past
week, it has been announced by
Mrs. Allie B. Harllee, clerk. Seven
were placed in 2-A, two in l-A(H)
and 11 in other classifications.
Those in 1-A are: Spencer Chap
man, Z. Franklin Osborne, John
Galloway, Clyde E. Guilbert, Mack
McGaha, Arnold W. Bailey, John
H. Crisp, Ralph Murr, Alvin R.
Hoxit, James B. King, W. Palmer
Anders, Freeman C. Galloway,
Holland W. Corn, James Daves,
W. Roland McCall, Ervin A. Mull
enex, Joe Corbett, Jr., Ralph J.
Fisher, Starling Roberts, Ralph R.
McCall, Henry P. Tinsley, John L.
Fisher, Joe E. Pace, Pleasant G.
Farmer, Frank Owen, Pinkney W.
Morris and Dennis Morgan.
In 2-A: Jeff L. Hogsed, Dennis
J. Browning, S. Varner Hall, Cart
er R. McCall, Thurman H. Nix,
Arthur C. Gravely, Jr., and Ed
ward W. Glazener.
In l-A(H): Henry R. Henderson
and Fleet A. Galloway; 2-B, Robert
O. Holcombe, Roy Holden, Paul
Whitmire; 1-C, George A. Sprouse;
2-C, Gerald P. Gillespie, John R.
Nicholson; 3-C, Freeman E. Nich
olson, Hubert C. Holden, William
Clyde Lee: 4-F, William R. York
and James Hunt, Jr.
New Semester Will
Start At College
On Monday, Feb. 7
The spring semester of Bre
vard college will start on Monday,
February 7, and a number of new
students are expected to enroll at
that time, President E. J. Col
trane announced today.
New classes will be started for
high school, junior and senior stur
dents in the pre-college division
and also for college freshmen.
Registration will take place on
the opening day. On Tuesday, Feb
ruary 8, 9 college students and
19 high school students will re
ceive their diplomas.