The Transylvania Times
Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943
VoL 54; No 9
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAR. 2, 1944
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
RED CROSS DRIVE IS PLANNED
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Waste Paper Drive To Be Launched In County
JAYCEES, SCHOOLS
AND SCOUTS ASKED
TO CONDUCT DRIVE
Public Is Urged To Co-oper
ate. Sponsoring Agencies
To Get Funds
VITAL TO WAR EFFORT
A renewed waste paper campaign
will be started in Brevard and
Transylvania county today under
the sponsorship of the Brevard
Junior chamber of commerce, the
public schools, boy scouts and
other interested agencies, all work
ing under the supervision of the
county salvage committee.
The public is urged to co-operate
with the sponsoring agencies in
obtaining all of the waste paper
possible for the war effort. Funds
received from the sale of the pa
per will be retained by these agen
cies.
The salvage committee has des
ignated the Jaycees as the major
sponsoring group.
To get purchasing agents to send
trucks here to haul out the paper,
it is necessary to have several
thousand pounds collected at one
location and properly tied up. The
Jaycees have agreed to collect pa
per from the schools, from scout
depots, etc. and to bring it to
their central station here. For mix
ed paper, it is explained that deal
ers pay $14 per ton. Checks aie
to be sent back to the salvage
committee and the schools or
scouts will receive $10 per ton,
the committee about 10 to 15 per
cent for expenses and the Jaycees
will get the small balance to cover
their costs of hauling and getting
the paper in proper shape.
It is also explained that other
sponsoring agencies that collect
enough poundage to justify a di
rect haul from the dealer will re
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J. P. DUCKWORTH
KILLED IN WRECK
Native of Brevard is Victim
Of Auto Accident in
Walsh, Colo.
Joseph Payton Duckworth, age
83 and a native of Brevard, was
killed in an automobile accident
Monday in Walsh. Colo., relatives
here were informed yesterday.
No details were received as to
how the accident occurred or about
funeral arrangements. He had
been living in Walsh for the past
several years.
Mr. Duckworth is survived by
two daughters, Mrs. Lois Newbury
and Mrs. Gladys Grubbs, of Dallas;
one brother, W. H. Duckworth,
Brevard; two sisters, Mrs. Sallie
McCarrell, Brevard, and Mrs. Mol
lie Aiken, Florence, S. C., and a
number of half brothers and sis
ters.
The deceased was the son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E.
Duckworth, of Brevard. He spent
the first haif of his life here and
the last half in Texas and Colo
rado. He was a salesman and had
a host of friends in Western North
Carolina.
Adelaide Van Wey
Highly Honored In
Mexico City Sunday
Adelaide Van Wey, who is
now touring Mexico giving a
series of concerts, was featured
last Sunday night on the Nation
al hour, broadcast from Mexico
City. During the evening, a party
was given in her honor and was
attended by the entire diplo
matic corps in Mexico City.
The noted singer, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Silversteen,
of Brevard, is being accompanied
by her husband, Robert Hill.
This is the first time that
Adelaide h»« given concerts out
side of the United States since
the war started. She has been
devoting most of her time to
appearing on USO and special
radio programs.
Merchants Here Agree That
New Ration Tokens Represent
Improvement In OPA Program
State That Their Work Will
Be Made Easier. Several
Are Interviewed
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Brevard merchants who are using
the new ration tokens agree unani
mously that under the new ration
ing program their work will be
much easier.
Though the local merchants have
used comparatively few tokens, the
general consensus is that after the
brown and green stamps expire
the rationing plan will be simpli
fied. Harry Sellers, manager of the
A. & P. super market, explained
that the only thing worrying his
cashiers was handling old books
with stamp values varying from
one to eight and handling new
ones at the same time.
Mrs. Mitchem, at Mitchem’s Mar
ket, says that they haven’t used
enough tokens to know how they
like them, but that all indications
are that the token system is much
more simplified than the previous
plan.
Dixie Home Store’s manager, i^
answer to an inquiry of “How do
you like the new token system?”,
stated without much hesitation
that “It couldn’t be worse than the
old system and it now looks like
it is much better.”
Curtis Kelley, manager of Cash
& Carry, is finding that his cus
tomers still have brown and green
stamps on hand and are able to
make purchases without needing
“change.” One of his cashiers
agreed with him that the mathe
matical calculations would be eas
ier when shoppers begin using
only those stamps valued at 10
points.
Mrs. Feaster, in at Mull’s Gro
cery, thinks the new system is
rather confusing—not because it
is complicated, but because it is
new.
Helen Allison, from the City
Market, brought out an entirely
new idea when she suggested that
“knowing what all women carry in
their bags, I just hope the house
wives will be able to keep up with
their tokens.” She added that it
would be much easier on store I
keepers to deal with 10 point
stamps and 1 point tokens and if
only the tokens aren’t lost the new
plan should be better all the way
’round.
Another poini in favor of tokens
brought out by local merchants
was the fact that the tokens are
valid indefinitely. This will keep
both merchants and shoppers from
worrying about expiration dates of
the tokens they receive as change
from 10 point red or blue stamps.
As Brevard housewives go shop
ping these days they don’t have
to spend a great deal of time dou
ble checking cashiers to make sure
their stamp values are counted
correctly because no matter which
red stamp or which blue stamp is
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CAPTAIN CARRIER
HONE FOR A VISIT
FROM WAR AREA
Sees 9-Months-Old Son For
First Time. Is A Marine
Transport Pilot.
“He’s a swell lad and I hope he
will never have to fight the Japs
or Germans,” Captain Henry N.
Carrier, Jr., declared when he saw
his nine-months-old son here this
week for the first time.
Captain Carrier has just return
ed from the Pacific theatre of war
where he spent the past 14 months
as a Marine transport pilot and
officer, evacuating wounded from
the Solomons area.
When his son was born here
June 1, 1943, Captain Carrier was
thousands of miles away from this
peaceful mountain section, trans
porting wounded from the Pacific
battlefields to military hospitals
and trying to keep out of reach
of Jap fighter planes.
News of the blessed event reach
ed him by shortwave radio broad
cast out of New York. “One of our
Marines in the line heard the re
port and told me about it,” he
said.
Captain Carrier entered service
in 1940 and was married in Novem
ber, 1941. He first trained in the
Marine line and later transferred
into the Marine air corps.
He has 1,000 hours of flying
in the Southwest Pacific to his
credit and 500 in this country. He
has a remarkable record of having
never had a mishap or of having
to make a forced landing. Captain
Carrier is the member of a group
that received the Presidential ci
tation.
He expects to visit his family
here for two or three weeks and
to be sent to California where he
will probably become an instruc
tor.
21 Persons Tried
In Mayor’s Court
There was a total of 21 persons
convicted in the mayor’s court
here over the week end and Mon
day night. Eight of these were
fined $10 and cost, each on charges
of gambling and 13 were fined
from $10 to $30 on charges of pub
lic drunkenness. Eight men were
caught by local officers here last
Friday afternoon for gambling.
They were said to have been
“caught in the act.” All of them
submitted and paid before mayor’s
court was held on Monday night.
Leo Gravely Is Expected To Recover
From Shotgun Wounds Received Sun.
The condition of Leo Gravely,
who was seriously injured last
Sunday night when he was shot in
the chest, is improving and C. C.
Maxie is still being held in the
county jail here pending the out
come of Gravely’s condition.
The shooting took place in the
front yard at the home of Maxie
in the Dunn’s Rock section.
Maxie told officers that Grave
ly, who lives about a half a mile
from him, came to his house last
Sunday afternoon in a drunken
condition, refused to leave with
out getting into an argument,
struck him and his wife with a
stick of stovewood and then th|ew
rocks at them.
“We had never had any trouble
and I don’t want to have ai$y,”
the 66-year-old man who owns a
30-acre farm in the Dunn’s Hpck
section stated.
“I urged him to go on home, but
he wouldn’t leave; so we went
down to the barns where I fed my
stock. Leo tried to take our cow,
but somehow she knocked him
down and that seemed to have
made him mad.
“I went on back to the house
and sat down on the porch and
he came up with a stick of stove
wood and hit me on the head. Of
course I tried to strike back and
when my wife came out he struck
her,” Maxie explained.
“I told him to leave or I would
shoot him and went into the house
and got my shotgun. He walked
out in the yard and started throw
ing rocks at us and I shot him.”
Maxie used a 12-gauge shotgun
and number 6 shot. A large num
ber of the shGis went into Grave
ly’s body and ranged from the top
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TO START FIRST
AID CLASS HERE
TUESDAY NIGHT
Certificates Awarded At
End Of Course. Miss
North Leader
A Red Cross First Aid class will
start next Tuesday night and will
meet on Tuesday and Friday nights
of each week at the court house,
from 7:30 to 9:30 o’clock, it has
been announced by Miss Sadie
North, who will be the instructor.
The classes are sponsored by the
local Red Cross chapter, and will
comprise a 20-hour course.
Miss North pointed out that
those who have never taken this
course will be awarded a standard
certificate upon successful com
pletion of the prescribed 20-hour
classes, and those who have taken
it before within the past three
years and want to review the work
will be given an advanced certifi
cate upon completion of the course.
High school pupils who failed to
get their standard certificates last
year, can do so now by taking one
half of this course, that is, 10
hours for five nights, or can get
their advanced certificates by tak
ing the entire 20-hour course, Miss
North stated.
RECOMMENP J.
I. AYERS HERE
SCOOT LEADER
Court Of Honor To Be Held
At Baptist Church Here
On March 10
To enable Boy Scouts in the
Transylvania county district to ob
tain their uniforms, badges and
supplies locally, the district com
mittee has recommended the ap
pointment of J. I. Ayers, owner
of the Brevard Sample store in
Brevard, as an authorized dealer
for Boy Scout supplies.
Ed H. McMahan, chairman of
the district, points out that the
establishment of a local dealership
j will be a great convenience for
the county’s 120 Scouts and Cubs.
At a meeting of the district
committee last Thursday night, it
was decided that the March court
of honor would be held on Friday
night, March 10, at 8 o’clock in the
First Baptist church here and that
refreshments would be served.
The district’s adult membership
campaign will be conducted in
April, W. C. Wall, assistant scout
executive, announced.
Donald Lee Moore was appoint
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J. H. Holloway, 71,
Died Here Sunday
J. H. Holloway, 71, died at his
home in Brevard Sunday night,
following a lingering illness. The
body was removed the following
day to White Pine, Tenn., where
funeral services and burial were
held on Tuesday. His widow is the
only immediate survivor.
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Noted Singer Will
Give Concert Here
At College On Wed.
Hazel Hildred, noted singer, will
give a concert in the Brevard col
lege auditorium here next Wednes
day evening at 8 o’clock under the
sponsorship of the college’s musi
cal department, Dr. E, J. Coltrane
announced today.
Miss Hildred, who is now tour
ing the south and who is known
as a “Stephen Collins Foster Girl,”
will sing a number of the popular
Stephen Foster songs and other
popular numbers.
The public is invited to hear the
concert and tickets are now on
sale.
Miss Hildred has a beautiful
contralto voice and has given many
concerts in this country and in
Europe. She has also appeared in
several operas.
Abandon Proposed Plans For
Holding A County Fair This
Year Because Of Conditions
H. LARRY WILSON
KILLED IN PLANE
CRASH IN TEXAS
Young Brevard Aviation Ca
• det Died From Injuries
In Accident
Herschell Larry Wilson, 18, avia
tion cadet in the army air forces,
stationed at Corsicana, Texas, died
Tuesday night in a Corsicana hos
pital from injuries received in an
airplane accident earlier in the
day.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete, awaiting the arrival of
the body in Brevard, which is not
expected before Saturday.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
H. L. Wilson, of Brevard, and one
sister, Miss Janie Wilson, who is
connected with the signal corps in
Long Branch, N. J.
Aviation Cadet Wilson volun
teered in the service and was call
ed in April, 1943. He had special
training at the University of Ala
bama, and since last October has
been in training as pilot in the air
corps at the Corsicana air field.
He was a graduate of Brevard high
school and attended Brevard col
lege one year before entering mili
tary service. He was a native of
Brevard and always lived here.
Citation Is Awarded
To Sgt. Pickelsimer
England — Staff Sgt. Charles J.
Pickelsimer, of Brevard, waist gun
ner on a Flying Fortress, has been
awarded an Oak Leaf cluster to
the Air Medal for “meritorious
achievement” on ten bomber com
bat missions over enemy Europe,
it was announced recently by Col.
Eugene A. Romig, of Byesville,
Ohio, commanding officer at this
station.
The citation accompanying the
au'ard read in part: “The courage,
coolness and skill displayed by this
enlisted man upon these occasions
reflect great credit upon himself
and the Armed Forces of the
United States.”
Sgt. Pickelsimer, 23 years old,
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Pickelsimer, 236 West Jordan St.,
Brevard. He attended Brevard and
Christ high school at Arden and
Brevard college. He entered the
service July 29, 1942.
Gene and Phyllis Franklin, of
Asheville, visited friends in Bre
vard last Sunday. They formerly
lived in Brevard with their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Franklin,
who moved to Asheville several
months ago.
Decision Made at Meeting
Held Here Tuesday in
Courthouse
At a meeting held in the court
house here Tuesday night, it was
unanimously decided to abandon
the proposed plans for conducting
a Transylvania county fair this
year because of manpower and
transportation problems.
The meeting was held under the
sponsorship of the Lions club and
was attended by a number of rep
resentatives from civic clubs and
various organizations in Brevard
and by several farmers.
The Lions club proposed to act
as sponsoring agent if it were
deemed advisable to have a fair
this fall and if other organizations
and the farmers wanted it and
would co-operate. Jack Trantham,
president of the Lions club, pre
sided and John Ford explained a
tentative program of operation.
County Agent J. A. Glazener
and several farmers stated that
they did not think a fair should
be conducted this year, but strong
ly urged that one be held just as
soon as manpower and transpor
tation problems are relieved.
It was unanimously agreed that
Transylvania should resume the
operation of a county fair, prob
ably next year or in 1946.
Glazener emphasized that the
farmers were confronted with a
tremendous job in reaching the
county’s 1944 food and feed goals.
SHUFORD IS IN HOSPITAL
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Shuford have
received word from their son, Pvt.
Albert C. Shuford, that he is in a
hospital somewhere in Italy, suf
fering from wounds received in
action, but it is thought his con
dition is not serious. He is in the
infantry and has been overseas
five months.
Federation Will
Hold Annual Meet
Here Friday, 10:30
The Farmers Federation will
hold its annual stockholders’meet
ing for Transylvania county at the
Brevard warehouse Friday at 10:30
A. M.
James G. K. McClure will give
a short report of Federation busi
ness in general and the business
of Transylvania county. Election
of officers for a period of one year
and the nomination of a director
for Transylvania county will take
place.
Coffee and doughnuts will be
served by Federation employees.
Drawings will take place, in which
holders of lucky numbers will be
given free baby chicks. All stock
holders of the Federation are in
vited to attend.
New Orders Will Require Draft
Boards To Review Deferred Cases
In accordance with orders re
cently issued from Washington, the
local draft board is expected to
review cases of all farm and in
dustrial workers who have been
deferred, with the view of stepping
up induction.
Last Saturday President Roose
velt ordered immediate review of
all occupational deferments and a
speedy start on making up a 200,
000-man deficit in army inductions.
He asked that industrial defer
ments be ruled out for all men un
der 26.
Previously General Hershey, head
of Selective Service, was ordered
to review the cases of 1,700,000
deferred farm workers and to can
cel the deferments of those not
contributing their share of produc
tion in the light of increased crop
goals for 1044. The number of
units for farm deferment was in
creased from 9 to 16.
General J. Van Metts, state Se
lective Service director, has pro
tested the application of this strict
16-unit rule in North Carolina and
has asked for modification. He ex
plained that under it only about
10 per cent of the farm deferments
could be continued in the moun
tain area where farms are small
in size.
In this county, there are 37
farmers in 2-C and 37 in 3-C, mak
ing a total of 74. If the 16-unit is
not changed, it is estimated that
only about 10 per cent of them
can qualify.
Of the industrial deferments in
the county, 90 are in 2-A and 479
in 2-B, making a total of 569.
No action has been taken by the
board here, awaiting the receipt of
official directives.
A BIG ONE-WEEK
CAMPAIGN STARTS
IN NEAR FUTURE
County’s Quota is $9,000.00.
Schools, Clubs and Plants
To Help.
BIGGEST IN HISTORY
Plans are being made this week
for the greatest Red Cross fund
drive ever staged in Transylvania.
Plans are to make a one-week
whirlwind campaign, and leaders
feel certain that the $9,000.00
quota assigned the county will be
raised during the week.
Several people have already
mailed in checks from other sec
tions to the Transylvania chapter,
and Ecusta employees are already
beginning their every-worker can
vass. Other plant officials will
start the program for collection
immediately after March 15th.
C. M. Douglas, Jerry Jerome,
The Times office, and offices of
all industrial plants are designated
collectors.
Schools, Home Demonstration
clubs, 4-H clubs, Brevard block
leaders, and special workers will
all combine their efforts to make
the one-week drive go over the
top.
Pickelsimer Named
To Head Power Co.
J. B. Pickelsimer was elected
president of the Cascade Power
company, of Brevard, at a meeting
of the directors held here last
week. Mr. Pickelsimer was elected
to fill the vacancy in this office
made by the recent death of Dr.
E. S. English.
The Cascade Power company
furnishes the electric current for
Brevard and Transylvania county,
which is retailed to residents by
the Duke Power company.
COUNTY’S flRE
QUOTA ANNOUNCED
March Quotas Little Lower
Than February. Fig
ures Are Given
Tire quotas for Transylvania
county have been slightly changed
for the month of March with grade
III passenger tires dropping from
37 to 31 and truck and bus tires
decreasing in number from 42 to
30. according to an announcement
by Miss Mattie E. Lewis, chief
clerk of the war price and ration
ing board here.
The allotment for this county of
grade I passenger car tires remains
the same as it was in February
with a quota of 41.
Tube quotas for passenger cars
fell from 48 to 40 and at the same
time the quota of tubes for trucks
and buses rose from 27 to 28.
With a big drop, coal and wood
heating stoves have an allotment
of 37 in this county for March as
compared with 61 in February. In
spite of a reported increase in
demand for cooking stoves, the
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OPA To Check All
Grocery Stores In
County This Month
All food stores in Transylvania
county will be checked In the
near future In accordance with
the nation-wide check of such
stores which is to be conducted
March 13-18, Miss Mattie E.
Lewis, clerk of the local board
announced this week.
The stores will be checked
mainly for posting—to see that
the grade of the store is posted
in a prominent place and also to
see that community prices are
listed.
While checking the stores for
correct postings, the checkers
will also see about the actual
selling prices of foodstuffs. The
checking of the 48 stores in this
county will be done by the price
clerk and voluntary assistants.