The Transylvania Times
Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943
Vol. 54; No. 5
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1944
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BOND SALES NOW TOTAL $100,000
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Hardin To Deliver Commencement Address
2$ TO GRADUATE
AT COLLEGE HERE
TUESDAY MORNING
Well Known Pastor Speaks
At 11 A. M. Semester
Changes
Rev. H. Grady Hardin. Jr., well
known Methodist minister and pas
tor of the Black Mountain Metho
dist church, will deliver the com
mencement address at Brevard
college’s winter commencement to
be held next Tuesday morning.
Other features of the graduation
program include the delivery of
diplomas by Dr. E. J. Coltrane,
president of the college, and a solo
by Miss Gertrude Barnes, director
of the music department at the
college. Also slated to be on the
program are Rev. W. A. Jenkins,
pastor of the Brevard Methodist
church, who will give the invoca
tion, and the Rev. Ashby Johnson,
pastor of the Brevard-Davidson
River Presbyterian church, who
will pronounce the benediction.
The graduation exercises will be
at 11 o'clock in the morning at
which time twenty-eight students
will receive their diplomas. Nine
of the graduates are completing
their junior college work while
nineteen are members of the pre
college class. Eight of the pre-col
lege graduating class are from
Brevard.
Marshals for the mid - winter
graduating exercises, selected on
scholastic achievement, are: Vir
ginia Blanton, Madge Finger, Con
stance Roberts and Betty Smith.
The second semester at the in
stitution will get under way on
Monday, the day before gradua
tion, when registration for classes
will take place. Several new stu
dents arc expected to enroll.
AUTOMOBILE TIRE
QUOTAS LOWERED
Truck and Bus Tire Quotas
Higher; Stove Allotment
Also Higher.
Passenger automobile tire quotas
for Transylvania county have been
cut for February in both grades
1 and III tires while truck and bus
tire quotas have increased slightly,
though not up to the December
allotment.
The quotas show that the coun
ty will have 41 grade I tires as
compared with 46 during last
month, and 31 grade III tires,
which is a considerable decrease
from the allotment of 53 for Jan
uary. Tubes for passenger cars
increased slightly from 34 in Jan
uary to 40 for February, which is
the same number allowed for the
last month of 1943.
Transylvania’s truck and bus
tire quota advanced to 30 in
stead of 24, as it was last month
and the tube quota for such ve
hicles increased by three, from 25
to 28.
One new automobile and one
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Motorists Arrested
For Not Having New
Auto License Tags
Nearly 500 people have not
bought auto and truck tags in
Transylvania county, according to
check-up figures given by C. M.
Douglas, manager of the local
Carolina Motor Club branch.
Of this number, approximately
75 are truck and trailer owners,
with possibility that 50 to 100 car
owners will store their cars and
not drive during 1944.
Deadline for having the new
1944 plates on cars and trucks was
Monday night, and those people
who still have no new plates are
warned that they should secure li
cense before moving their vehicles
as strict orders have been given
the highway parol to arrest any
one driving Feb. 1st or later with
out current license.
Patrolman H. M. Morrow report
ed 14 arrests and 21 citations for
Tuesday, February 1.
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DR. WILSON LYDAY
WILL OPEN OFFICE
HERE NEXT MONDAY
Will Be Located In Pickel
simer Building. Been
In Service
Dr. Wilson Lyday, a native
Transylvanian, will open an office
of medicine and surgery in Bre
I vard on Monday and will use the
rooms in the Pickelsimer building i
on Main street, formerly occupied
by the late Dr. E. S. English. He
will begin active practice in Bre
vard and the county on that day
and expects also to become affili
ated with the Transylvania Com
munity hospital.
Dr. Lyday is the son of L. F.
Lyday and the late Mrs. Lyday, of
Penrose, and also has family con
nections with the widely known
Lyday physicians, who practiced
i in Transylvania county for genera
tions. He is a grandson of Dr. A.
J. Lyday and a nephew of Dr. W.
M. Lyday and Dr. A. E. Lyday, all
now deceased.
i Dr. Lyday is a graduate of Bre-!
I vard high school, of Mars Hill col
| lege, Western Carolina Teachers
: college, Wake Forest college and
j Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
J For one year he did post graduate
work at City hospital Atlanta, and
the past four months he was en
j gaged in industrial surgery at the
, Bell Aircraft corporation plant,
I Atlanta. He was in the U. S. army
j a little over three years, two and
I a half years of which he was in
foreign service. He is how in in
| active military service.
Office hours that Dr. Lyday
plans to observe are 10-12 a. m.,
3-5 p. m. on week days, and 11-1
on Sundays.
Dr. Lyday is unmarried and
plans to make his home with his
father at Penrose.
It is generally felt that the com
ing of another doctor to this com
munity will fill a great need, due
to the shortage in the medical
profession caused by war condi
tions.
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S. S. Association To
Meet Sunday Aft.
The Transylvania Baptist Sunday
school association will have the
regular monthly meeting Sunday
afterndon at 2:30 o’clock at Carr’s
Hill church, it has been announced
by Fred Monteith, superintendent.
Following talks on the program
theme, “The right kind of song ser
vice in church worship,” there will
be a round table discussion. Sev
eral special singers are expected
to be present. All Sunday schools
in the association are asked to
have a delegation present.
Mrs. A. A. Towers, of New York
City, spent last week in Brevard,
stopping at the Darlington. Mrs.
Towers spends the summers here
at her home on Rice street.
Boy Scout Week To Be Observed
In Brevard February 8-14; Plans
Made At Meeting Of Committee
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ATTENDANCE AT
FARM MEETINGS
IN COUNTY GOOD
Many Orders For Lime And
Phosphate Are Placed.
Interest Fine
Approximately 60 per cent of
the Transylvania farmers attend
ed one of the series of meetings
held throughout the county to
enable orders for lime and phos
phate to be placed with members
of the AAA committee, according
to an announcement given out by
the local office here yesterday.
Twenty-four meetings were held
in the county on Saturday, Mon
day, and Tuesday. All of these
were conducted by community com
mitteemen who have reported that
an extremely high note of interest
was shown by the farmers.
At the meetings individual farm
goals were discussed, as well as
soil building practices. An effort
was made to fix 1944 goals for ev
ery farm in this county.
Mrs. Julia Westwood, clerk of
the county AAA office, stressed
the fact that all farmers must
have plans of their farms fixed out
in order to cooperate in the 1944
program.
Those people in the county who
failed to attend one of the com
munity meetings and who have not
as yet filled out a farm plan, may
get a form to fill out if they call
at the AAA office. The committee
officials are planning to place the
order for lime and phosphate at
an early date; therefore, those
farmers wishing to receive either
lime or phosphate must place their
order immediately.
FOREST FIRE BURNS
OVER 100 ACRES OF
LAND AT QUEBEC
A lire in the Quebec section of
the Pisgah National Forest burned
over about 100 acres of land Tues
day and Tuesday night. Ranger
Griswold said that in his opinion
the fire was set by one or more
persons, but as yet no arrests have
been made. The flames were
brought under control Wednesday
morning.
CHANGES IN BUS SCHEDULE
The night bus which has been
operating daily between Brevard
and Orr’s Store and Brevard and
Rosman will, effective today, make
trips only on Monday, Wednesday,
Friday and Saturday. The bus to
the county line has been discon
tinued.
Seaman First Class Joe Cooper
Tells Of Thrilling Experiences
Rates Four Campaign Rib
bons And Five Stars.
Home On Leave
After two years of active service
on many of the major islands in
the Southwest Pacific war zone as
a member of the crew on a patrol
craft of the U. S. navy, and acquir
ing a rating of four campaign rib
bons and five stars, Joe D. Cooper,
seaman first class, was at long last
granted a 30-day leave, the greater
part of which he spent in Brevard
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Luther F. Cooper, the past few
weeks.
Speaking of some of his thrill
ing experiences, Seaman Cooper
told of one especially exciting one
when their PC first went to Guad
alcanal and anchored at the north
ern end and soon afterward the
skipper took the craft’s motor boat
—Turn To Page Twelve
JOE DAYTON COOPER
Scouts To Attend Church In
A Body And To Have
Special Display
Extensive plans are being made
to observe Boy Scout week, Feb
ruary 8-14, in the Transylvania
county district of the Daniel Boone
council, E. H. McMahan, chairman
announces.
This observance will include a
large window display here in the
business section of Brevard, at
tending church in a body on Sun
day, February 13, each troop hold
ing parents’ night, and a number
of special Boy Scout programs by
various organizations.
Frank Kerber has been appoint
ed to have charge of arranging the
window display and each Scout
and Scoutmaster is requested to
get in touch with him and assist
in the project.
A special service for the Scouts
and their leaders will be held at
the First Baptist church on Sun
day night, February 13, at 7:30
o’clock w.th Rev. B. W. Thomason
delivering the sermon.
Next Tuesday the Scouts will
conduct a “mop-up drive” in the
sale of war bonds. Each troop is
expected to conduct a special cam
paign on that day. Rev. W. A.
Jenkins, district Jcommissioner, is
head of this bond selling drive.
A regular court of honor will be
held on Friday night at 8 o’clock.
February 11. at the Methodist
church in Brevard. .Jack Trantham
is in charge of this activity.
At a meeting of the district com
mittee here last Thursday night,
Assistant Scout Executive Bill
Wall briefly reviewed the progress
of Scouting in Transylvania the
past year and highly commended
the district upon the fine record
that has been made.
Three new troops have been
started during the last twelve
months and membership, as well
as Scout activities, have increased
steadily.
—Turn To Page Six
ESSAY CONTEST IS
ANNOUNCED TODAY
Transylvania Students Are
Invited To Enter. To
Give Prizes
| The North Carolina Forestry
association is offering three cash
awards for the best essays written
by North Carolina high school
students in the field of forestry.
In announcing the contest, the
Raleigh office stated that the work
done by students would be “an
excellent means of bringing the
importance of forestry to the at
tention of high school students.”
Superintendent J. B. Jones says
that the principals, teachers and
pupils in Transylvania county have
always been interested in the
forestry service. He stressed fur
ther that there has always been
a close connection between the
forestry association and the coun
ty schools, the stone and land for
the Pisgah Forest school having
been furnished by the N. C. assoc
—Turn To Page Six
Walter Wood Better;
Kilpatrick Is Held
Walter Wood, who was severely
cut in both arms on January 21
by Onie Kilpatrick, was released
from the Transylvania Community
Hospital yesterday afternoon. Ilis
condition was reported to be great
ly improved.
Meanwhile Onie Kilpatrick was
still being held in the local jail
and Chief Bert Freeman stated
yesterday that no date has been
set for the hearing of the case.
The cutting took place here as
a result of an argument between
Wood and Kilpatrick and his bro
ther, Virgil.
FIFTY-EIGHT MEN
REPORT TO CROFT
FOR PHYSICALS
Among Those Ordered To
Report Were 22 Pre
War Fathers
Fifty-eight Transylvania men
left Brevard Monday morning for
Camp Croft, where they had been
ordered for pre-induction physical
examinations. In the group were
22 pre-Pearl Harbor fathers and
three post-Pearl Harbor fathers.
Seven of the draftees leaving for
Croft on Monday are married but
have no children, making a total
of 33 married men reporting from
Transylvania on January 31.
The pre-Pearl Harbor fathers
leaving were: Van R. Tinsley, Ed
ward I. Thomas, James Buchanan,
Robert D. Justus, Henry Cison,
Ralph R. McCall, Hubert B. Grav
ley, Ralph M. Owen, James C.
Gaither, Harlow Owen, Olies Mas
sengale, James W. Aiken, James
D. Mehaffey, Woodie O. Deason,
Elzie B. Young, Dickey Tinsley,
Alvin C. McCrary, Hughey M.
Raines. Thomas L. Osteen, Ollis L.
Cantrell, Robert G. Sitton and
Herman W. Hemphill.
The three post-Pearl Harbor fa
thers reporting for examination
were: Johnnie Buchanan, Luther
M. Holden and Thomas J. Stroup.
The other married men ordered
to leave Monday were: Arthur
Dishmon, J. Brisco McCall, Ran
som Stamey, Hubert Whitmire,
Burdcr W. Teague, Thomas C.
Rogers and H. Ray Fisher.
Also leaving with the above
groups were: William H. Lance,
Ervin A. Mulencx, Frank B. Mc
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Mrs. Mary Glass In
Bus Wreck Sunday
Mrs. Mary Glass, well-known
musician at Ecusta. was one of
the 19 persons injured Sunday
when a Carolina Scenic Trailways
bus ran off the highway between
Brevard and Asheville and turned
over. Mrs. Glass was taken to
Mission hospital where she was
reported to have been suffering
from back injuries.
Working in the recreational de
partment at Ecusta, Mrs. Glass is
an accompanist for John Eversman
and is well known in and around
Brevard.
Mrs. Glass' condition was re
ported yesterday to be improving.
PENALTY IN FORCE FOR
LATE PROPERTY LISTERS
No extension of time was grant
ed for listing property for taxation
in Transylvania county, and late
listers are being taxed with a pen
alty of $1.00. It is estimated that
a large majority of people listed
during January. All of the books
are now in the tax supervisor’s
office in the courthouse.
Less Than Third Of County’s
Quota Reached; Big Caravan
Of German Equipment Coming
Nearly $20,000 Sold At Ral
lies. Solicitors Urged To
Finish Canvass
War bond sales in Transylvania
during the Fourth War Loan drive
now total approximately $100,000,
which is less than one-third of the
county’s quota of $346,000, Chair
man E. H. McMahan announced
today.
“Of course our reports are not
complete, but it is evident that we
have a long way to go and only
a short time in which to do it,”
McMahan said.
1 The drive will end on Tuesday,
February 15, and the bond chair- j
man urged all block leaders, sped-1
al solicitors and other workers to
finish their canvass of the town
and county as soon as possible,
j It is estimated that approximate
ly $20,000 worth of bonds were
sold at three rallies held during
the past week. A total of $3,500
were sold at the colored rally
—Turn To Page Twelve
$281.31 RAISED
FROM SEAL SALE
$201.49 To Be Retained For
Use In Fighting Tuber
culosis In County
A total of S281.31 was raised
during the recent sale of Christ
mas seals in Transylvania county,
R. T. Kimzey, chairman of the
Transylvania county Tuberculosis
1 association and sponsors of the
sale, announced this week.
Of this amount $70.32 have been
sent to national headquarters and
$201.49 are being retained here
for use in fighting tuberculosis
in the county.
Through the co-operation of the
welfare department, a number of
examinations have already been
given and treatment is provided
regularly for those suffering with
this dreaded disease.
“I wish to take this opportunity
to express the appreciation of our
entire committee for the generous
response from the public to this
worthy cause,” Mr. Kimzey said.
Rev. Jesse Owen
To Address Kiwanis
Club Friday Night
The Rev. Jesse Owen, former
missionary to China, will be guest
of Brevard Kiwanis club Friday
night at their meeting at the
Bryant house.
The Rev. Mr. Owen, a native of
Transylavnia county and noted
Baptist minister, spent may years
in China and will discuss the Chi
na of today as relates to World
War II.
Boy Scout week will also be ob
served this week, with two scout
masters as guests of the club.
County Surpasses Its Infantile
Paralysis Quota Little Over $100
Transylvania county went over
the top of its infantile paralysis
quota by $101.28, Mrs. Edwin
Happ, chairman of the drive, an
nounced today.
The gross income amounted to
$026.89 and expenses were only
$105.61, leaving net receipts of
$521.28, she stated.
One half of this amount, $260.64,
will be sent to national headquar
ters and the other half will be
retained for use here in the county.
The largest amount of money
was raised from the President’s
birthday ball here last Saturday
night. Ticket sales to the dance
totalled $237.97. Incomes from
other sources included $78.20 from
the colored dance, $40 from the
sale of a large cake at the birthday
ball, $56.84 from coin boxes in all
the schools, $40.50 from coin boxes
in town, and $126.00 from collec
tions at local theatres.
Expenses this year were regard
ed as being exceptionally low, pri
marily because of not having to pay
a high price for music and enter
tainment at the dances. A special
Ecusta orchestra, under the direc
tion of John Eversman, furnished
music and a floor show, featuring
the Ecusta trio—Edna Earle Nan
ney, Lucille Heffner and Naomi
[Ashe; solo by Lucille Heffner; a
special number by Little Miss Bet
ty Barker and dance by Gus Grose
and Sue Allen.
The birthday ball was a highly
enjoyable affair and attendance
exceeded expectations.
Thirty-three soldiers from Ashe
ville were honor guests and Mrs.
Robert Colwell, Mrs. Edwin Happ
and Ray Bennett entertained them
at a dinner Saturday night before
the dance.
“On behalf of the infantile pa
ralysis committee, I want to thank
every one for the excellent support
and co-operation given this worthy
cause,” Mrs. Happ stated. “I am
delighted with the response.”
To Hold County-Wide Rally
On 10th. Judge Pless
Will Speak
A large caravan of German cap
tured equipment will visit Bre
vard and Transylvania county next
Thursday evening and a county
wide bond rally will be held that
night at 8 o’clock in the Brevard
high school auditorium with Judge
J. Will Pless, of Marion, as the
principal speaker.
The caravan will arrive here at
6 o’clock in the afternoon and will
remain until 10 o’clock the next
morning.
Plans are being made to hold a
night parade prior to the rally at
the high school.
There will be 10 servicemen with
the caravan and the captured
equipment consists of one tank
destroyer 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 to feed the Ger
mans in Sicily.
This equipment will be on dis
play here and the public is invited
to inspect it.
The caravan is making a tour of
the sta’e and will come here from
Waynesville.
Judge Pless is well known here
lie was born in this county and
has been here many times in the
past. From 1923 until 1934 he
served as solicitor and has been
a superior court judge since that
time.
War mothers and fathers who
have four or more sons serving in
the armed forces will be given
special recognition at the meeting,
and are urged to attend.
SMATHERS KILLED
IN ACCIDENT TUES.
Former Superintendent Of
Asheville District Metho
dist Church Dies
Rev. M. T. Smathers. well known
in Brevard and Transylvania coun
ty as former superintendent of the
Asheville district of the Methodist
church, was killed instantly in an
automobile accident Tuesday night,
when the automobile in which he
was riding with other members of
his family collided with a truck
about 10 miles from Albemarle.
Five other persons were in
jured, including Dr. Smather’s
daughter, Mrs. Harold Simons, of
Concord, and her two small daugh
ters. They were removed to the
Albemarle hospital, where their
condition was reported serious on
Wednesday.
Dr. Smathers was appointed su
perintendent of the Asheville dis
trict in 1937, a position to which
he was re-appointed for six con
secutive years. He preached many
times in the Methodist churches
of Brevard and Transylvania coun
ty during his years as district
superintendent. He was appointed
pastor of the Asheboro church at
the last annual conference in 1943,
and he and family have been living
there since that time.
Public Invited To
Ride In Jeep Here
All Day Saturday
Members of the Brevard Jaycees
are extending an invitation to
every one in Transylvania county
to ride in a Jeep here this Satur
day.
The Jeep will be here from 10
o’clock in the morning until 5 in
the afternoon and all adults who
purchase bonds from the Jaycees
and children who buy $5.00 worth
of stamps are eligible for a free
Jeep ride.
On the following Saturday the
Jaycees are planning to have the
Jeep return and to stage a rally
in front of the courthouse. A 20
piece band from the Moore General
hospital will give a concert from:
2 until 4 o’clock in the afternoon
and bonds will be sold at that
time.