The Transylvania Times
Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943
Vol. 54; No. 10
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAR. 9, 1944
ONE SECTION
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
RED CROSS DRIVE IS UNDERWAY
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Community Service Cannery To Be Established
ITS FACILITIES
TO BE AVAILABLE
FOR PUBLIC USE
Will Be Located At Brevard
High School. Sponsored
By The Agr. Dept.
GOVERNMENT TO HELP
Plans are underway for the
establishment of a community can
nery in Brevard this spring, under
the sponsorship of the vocational
agriculture department of the Bre
vard high school and Rosman high
school, operating with funds pro
vided by the Vocational Agricul
ture department of the federal
government. C. L. Simmons is
agriculture teacher of Brevard
high school and R. E. Lawrence
of the Rosman school.
The building for the cannery is
already available on the Brevard
high school property and is pro
vided with boilers. In addition to
the building, the local sponsors
will also be required to furnish
water, lights and fuel, and will
purchase the tin cans from the
government in wholesale lots and
re-sell them to individual canners
at a very nominal price. The gov
ernment will provide all necessary
equipment, including a large steam
pressure cooker of an average of
200-can capacity, and two cookers
of smaller size. The canning equip
ment will be a free service to
users, whose only expense will be
the providing of their own food
to can and the small charge for
the tin cans. The total canning ca
pacity will be from 750 to 1,000
cans daily.
It was pointed out by Mr. Sim
mons that the cannery will be
operated on a non-profit basis, and
that instructional supervision will
be included in the free service to
the community. The cannery will
be opened on certain days desig
nated. according to the season and
needs.
The cannery will be ready for
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OVEN NAMED TO
COLLECT GARBAGE
Succeeds J. L. Henson. May
or Is Ordered To Ad
vertise Lots
Roy Owen this week succeeds
J. L. Henson as garbage collector
for the town of Brevard.
At their meeting Monday night,
the town fathers approved the ap
pointment of Owen and it is be
lieved that the garbage collection
service here will be improved.
Owen agreed to complete the
contract that Henson had made
with the town last July. He will
collect, haul and dispose of gar
bage until June 30 and will be paid
|f $260.00 per month.
Monday night members of the
board formally approved action
taken at a special meeting in Feb
ruary, placing a long list of old
water department accounts
amounting to $1,069.76 in an in
active file, subject to being re
charged in event the persons re
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Chief Freeman Will
Issue Free Tickets
To All Servicemen
i
i
The Monroe Wilson post of
the American Legion today an
nounced that free theatre tickets
which are given to servicemen
through the courtesy of the post
and the theatre management will
henceforth be issued only by
Chief Bert Freeman.
At the Legion meeting Tues
day night, a committee composed
Dr. Carl Hardin, chairman,
J* A. Glazener and Ray Bennett
was appointed to work out plans
for staging an entertainment
program to raise funds for the
theatre fund.
Plans relative to the building
program were also discussed at
the meeting.
Transylvania Victory Garden
Committee To Meet March 18
And Map Out 1944 Program
FEDERATION HELD
ANNUAL MEETING
HERE LAST FRI
Charles Davis Is Re-Elected
Director. Committees
Re-Appointed
Farmers Federation stockhold
ers in the Transylvania area met
at the federation warehouse here
last Friday. It was the annual
meeting at which committee mem
bers and directors are chosen.
Charles W. Davis was re-elected
as a director for Transylvania
county to serve for a period of
two years. Lloyd Cantrell, Tran
sylvania county director, was
named in 1943 for a period of two
years.
Committee members, all of whom
were re-elected, are as follows:
E. Carl Allison, T. T. Miller. Tins
ley E. Brown. S. A. Jones. Y. J.
McCrary, J. L. Gash. Mrs. Ed
Mackey, Miss Lorena Merrill, J. F.
McCall and Arthur Whitmire.
James G. K. McClure, president
of the Farmers Federation, pre
sided at the meeting. He told of
the progress of the Brevard ware
house through the years and in
talking about the large amount of
business done by the cooperative
in 1943, he explained that the more
members that patronize and sup
port their cooperative the larger
their savings will be. He an
nounced that a five per cent pat
ronage refund will be paid on
1943 purchases.
Max Roberts, educational direc
tor, told of some of the projects
now being developed by the fed
eration. These include the live
stock and dairy herd improvement
programs and the poultry and egg
programs.
Mert Austin, who will be in
charge of the federation food lock
er plants, talked on the subject of
frozen foods and the Rev. Dumont
Clarke talked about the Lord’s
Acre plan and its almost universal
acceptance by the rural church.
Ramsey WiS! Speak
To P-TA Here Tues.
Ralph Ramsey, prominent local
attorney, will speak at the Brevard
Parent-Teachers association meet
ing here in the auditorium of the
elementary school next Tuesday
afternoon at 4:00 o’clock on the
subject of “rationing and price
control,” Mrs. Keith Pooser, who
has charge of the program, an
nounced today.
The program is in keeping with
the OPA’s nation-wide movement
this month to keep wartime prices
down and to prevent inflation. The
public is invited.
All Members Urged To At
tend. More Victory Gar
dens Requested
A meeting of the Transylvania
county Victory Garden committee
will be held Saturday, Mar. 18, at
10:30 o’clock in the farm agent’s
office here to discuss plans for
the 1944 victory garden program,
J. A. Glazener announced today.
The committee is composed of
representatives from the exten
sion service and neighborhood
leaders, FSA, AAA, vocational
agricultural departments, schools,
county commissioners, chambers
of commerce, civic clubs, home
demonstration clubs, mayors of
Brevard and Rosman, chairman of
the rationing board, and represen
tatives from each industry in the
county.
Transylvania had one of the
best Victory Garden programs in
the state last year and plans will
be made at the meeting Saturday
to exceed the record made in 1943,
Mr. Glazener said.
The U. S. department of agri
culture has set a goal of 22 mil
lion gardens in the nation this
year, which is a slight increase
over last year.
NOTED CONCERT
STAR APPLAUDED
Miss Dorothea Lawrence
Gives Lecture-Recital
At College Here
A large and appreciative audience
highly applauded Miss Dorothea
Lawrence, noted soprano who gave
a lecture recital here last night in
the Brevard college auditorium un
der the sponsorship of the music
department of the college.
The recital featured songs by
Stephen Foster and included “Jean
nie With the Light Brown Hair,'’
“Beautiful Dreamer,” “My Old
Kentucky Home” and many other
favorites. The outstanding singer
was accompanied at the piano by
Miss Gertrude Barnes.
Miss Lawrence has a warm, rich
and beautiful voice, combined with
a rare interpretive expression.
She was born in New York and
is an author, as well as a concert,
operatic and radio star. She made
her debut with the Cosmopolitan
Opera Company in New York in
1933. She has directed 16 all-Ameri
can music broadcasts and was re
sponsible for the success of the
Folk Festival held recently at
Madison Square Garden in New
York.
“The Primer of American Mu
sic,” of which she is the author,
contains music covering all phases
of America’s cultural development.
Miss Lawrence is now touring
the south, giving concerts.
Maintenance Team Wins First Place In
Men’s Group Of Ecusta Bowling League
The strong Maintenance depart
ment bowling team is the winner
of the 1943-44 championship of the
men’s division of the Ecusta bowl
ing league, John Eversman, direc
tor of the recreation department,
sponsors of the league, announced
today.
During the season the “repair”
boys won 46 games and lost only
14. They finished the season with
an average of .766 percent.
Machine Room won second place
and Champagne third. Trophies
will be awarded to all three teams.
Ed Vassey is captain of Main
tenance and other members of the
team are Bruce Reynolds, Bob
Kappers, Wayne Conn, Waverly
Morris, Tallis and Bradley. Jim
Poteet is captain of Machine Room
and Chris Rogers heads Cham
pagne’s team.
High individual average for the
season was won by Bruce Rey
nolds, with an average of 170. Paul
Simpson was second high, 189, and
Bob Kappers third, 165.
Simpson made the highest score
in any one game, 266, and he also
won high set score, 614. Medals
will be awarded to the winners of
high averages.
Machine Room won the season’s
high team match score, making
2,509 and Champagne won high
team average, 911.
In the women’s division of the
league, Champagne is leading with
a remarkable record of 48 victories
and only 3 defeats. Finishing is in
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| HOW DOOLITTLE OUTSMARTS GERMANY’S LUFTWAFFE
DARING NEW AIR RAID TACTICS of Maj Gen. Doolittle continue to make records for destruction
of key Nazi armament centers and air fields that protect them, with a marked decrease in the number
of Allied planes losjt. A 2000-plane attack on Hanover, Braunschweig and Bremen plus half a dozen
fields that guard these centers was successfully executed with a loss of five fighters and fifteen bomb
ers during a test of the Doolittle technique which operates, as the map illustrates, as follows: Fighters
go well ahead of the bombers instead of “covering” them, as previously. These fighters clear the way
for the heavy bombers, engage in dogfights and challenge the enemy fighters. The bombers break in
to daringly small formations—about sixty to a group—and strike out in various directions a«d at
many targets, thus confusing the enemy. (International)
MRS. R. F. MOCK
BURIED SUNDAY
Died At Home Here After
Long Illness. Service In
Brevard Sunday
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at the Brevard
Methodist church for Mrs. Robert
F. Mock, 62, who died at her home
here early Friday morning, follow
ing an extended illness. The ser
vice was conducted by the pastor,
Rev. W. A. Jenkins, assisted by
Rev. Frank Smathers, of the Hen
dersonville Methodist church, and
Rev. E. P. Billups, pastor of the
Canton Methodist church. Burial
was in Gillespie cemetery here.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
John Reese Sledge, of Brevard, and
Mrs. C. G. Clapp, of Greensboro;
three brothers, E. E. Roberts,
Candler, Herschell and Russell
Roberts, Weaverville; two sisters,
Mrs. M. L. Hughey, of Alexander,
and Mrs. S. H. Carter, of Demo
crat; and four grandchildren, Eliza
beth Ann, Marvin, David and Doro
thy Clapp.
Mrs. Mock, a native of Buncombe
county, was the widow of Rev. R.
F. Mock, a Methodist minister in
the Western North Carolina con
ference, who died 13 years ago.
She was active in church work and
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CHANGE 5N SCHEDULE
OF FIRST AID CLASS
The Red Cross first aid class,
which was scheduled to meet on
Tuesday and Friday nights in the
court room of the courthouse, will
me.et hereafter on Tuesday and
Thursday nights from 7:30 to 9:30,
it has been announced by Miss
Sadie North, instructor. The
change is made in order not to
conflict with the surgical dressing
work on Friday nights. About 25
persons enrolled in the class, which
began on Tuesday night, and will
continue for a period of a 20-hour
course.
Republicans Will
Hold Convention
Here On Saturday
A Republican convention for
Transylvania county will be held
here at the courthouse Saturday
morning at 11 o’clock for the pur
pose of electing delegates to the
state convention in Charlotte on
March 16 and the congressional
convention at Asheville on March
14th.
Several precinct conventions
were held during the past week
and Brevard and Fisgah Forest
precincts will meet at the court
house here Saturday morning at
10:30 o’clock.
Ralph Fisher will preside at the
meeting Saturday.
Girl Scouts Here Are Observing
32 nd. Anniversary By Holding
Special Programs At Meetings
MERCHANTS AIDES
TO CHECK STORES
Volunteer Group To Meet
This Afternoon At Ration
ing Board Office
A group of price panel assistants
and volunteer merchants aides
who will work with the Transyl
vania war price and rationing
board office in making a check of
all food stores in the county next
week, v/ill meet this afternoon at
3 o’clock in the OPA office here
and receive instructions from Mrs.
Alice Timmons, of Charlotte, on
how to conduct the campaign.
There are 42 stores in Transyl
vania that handle food and they
will be checked next week to see
that they are complying with price
ceiling regulations. The aides will
also give information to the stores
on how they can co-operate in the
fight against inflation to the full
est extent. This is part of a nation
wide campaign
Eleven women have volunteered
to assist in this work, Miss Mattie
Lewis announces. They are: Mrs.
Julius Sader, Mrs. H. P. Vannah,
Mrs. E. L. Happ, Mrs. Lawrence
Haswell, Mrs. Frank Kerber, Mrs.
Herbert Finck, Mrs. Jerry Jerome,
Mrs. S. A. Bullock, Mrs. Howard
Schmidt, Miss Annie Shipman and
Mrs. Carl Moltz.
Movement Started In Savan
nah, Ga. Brevard Has
Six Troops
The six Girl Scout and Brownie
troops in Brevard are observing
the 32nd. anniversary of their or
ganization by holding special pro
grams during their regular meet
ings, Mrs. Keith Pooser, district
commissioner, announced today.
“March 12th. will mark the 32nd.
anniversary of the day in which
Julliette Lowe organized the first
Girl Scout troop in America and
inaugurated the great nation-wide
movement,” she said.
“Since that first troop was
formed in Savannah, Ga., several
million girls have enjoyed and
have been benefitted by Scouting
| and I am delighted that the move
ment is expanding here in Bre
vard,” she explained and said that
there are now approximately 70
Scouts and Brownies here.
“The President and others vi
tally concerned with the welfare
of the nation have lauded Girl
Scouting as a strong force for de
mocracy. The importance and val
ue of a vigorous democratic youth
movement has been highlighted by
the war and when the war is over,
Girl Scouting should continue to
grow and expand.”
Scout troop leaders here include
Mrs. Ashe Macfie, Mrs. Lehman
Kapp, Mrs. Earl Bryant, Mrs. Chas.
Dunlop, Mrs. A1 Ream, Miss Eliza
beth Allison, Mrs. Robert Colwell
and Mrs. W. E. Wyant.
Waste Paper Campaign Is Underway
In County; Public Asked To Assist
To help avert a serious war
crisis, a waste paper campaign is
now underway in Brevard and
Transylvania county under the
sponsorship of the Jaycees, public
schools and Boy Scouts and di
rected by the county salvage com
mittee.
It is pointed out that the local
drive is part of the U. S. Victory
waste paper campaign which was
started recently at the urgent re
quest of Donald M. Nelson, chair
man of the War Production Board.
Mr. Nelson declared that waste
paper receipts must be increased
another 25 per cent to avert a se
rious threat to the progress of the
war.
Supt. J. B. Jones has urged every
school in the county to participate
in the campaign and to collect as
much waste paper as possible. ,
Frank Bridges, chairman of the
Brevard junior chamber of com
merce waste paper committee, ask
ed the public to co-operate to the
fullest extent possible and to give
paper to any of the sponsoring
agencies.
He said that the Jaycees would
be glad to call for and haul any
quantities of waste paper if no
tification is sent to him or to Jay
cee members.
Ed McMahan, chairman of the
Transylvania district Boy Scouts,
has called on all scouts to co
operate in this collection cam
paign.
“Operations in many plants
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GOAL FOR COUNTY
IS $9,000; GIVE A
LIST OF WORKERS
Zone Leaders To Canvass
Town. Home Demonstra
tion Groups Announced
PLANTS NOW WORKING
With a goal of $9,000.00 set for
Transylvanians, the annual drive
of the American Red Cross gets
underway today.
Already reports from some of
the workers indicate that people
are giving generously, and it is
believed that others will make the
quota a thing of the past within
the allotted time.
“Hundred Per Centers” will be
noted in the uptown section by the
first of the week, with attractive
signs showing that each member
of the honored firm having do
nated the amount of one day’s pay
or more to the Red Cross. Last
year over 50 firms carried the 100
per cent emblem.
Ladies of the town, under direc
tion of Mrs. H. P. Vannah, will
canvass the town of Brevard. Lead
ers of the several zones who are
being assisted by several ladies
each, are—Mrs. Riley Merrill, Mrs.
Frank Kerber, Mrs. Jerry Jerome,
Mrs. Paul Tindall, Mrs. George
Massey and Mrs. Marion Moody.
Home Demonstration war leaders
of the county under the direction
of Miss Annabel Teague, have be
gun their work, and are reporting
great response in the rural sec
i.Vns. Leaders of the various com
munity clubs are—Blantyre, Mrs.
Ada Reed; Brevard, Mrs. Ludwig
Straus; Calvert - Cherryfield, Mrs.
Homer Israel; Cedar Mountain,
Mrs. Joe Pace; Glady Branch, Mrs.
Robert Allison; Lamb’s Creek, Mrs.
Coy Fisher; Lake Toxaway, Mrs.
W. H. Sutton; Little River, Mrs.
E. H. Mackey; North Brevard, Miss
Annabel Allison; Penrose, Mrs..
Horace Lyday; Pisgah Forest, Mrs.
Carl Hamby; Rosman, E. H. Davis.
Any person residing in the com
munities above or nearby are re
quested to contact the leader
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COMMISSIONERS
TO MEET MOM.
Will Sit As Board Of Equali
zation And Review To
Hear Complaints
The Transylvania county board
of commissioners will meet next
Monday at 10 o’clock in the court
house here and sit as a board of
equalization and review to hear
complaints from any taxpayer in
regard to assessment of property
for taxes for the year 1944, it was
announced today.
Mrs. Roy McCall was appointed
as registrar of vital statistics for
Brevard township, to succeed Mrs.
Z. V. Merrill, at a meeting of the
county commissioners this week.
Mrs. Merrill resigned a short time
ago.
The commissioners ordered the
bond for Melvin Gillespie, former
register of deeds who is now in
service, cancelled.
County-Wide Meeting
Of Teachers Will Be
Held Here Saturday
A county-wide meeting of
Transylvania principals and
teachers will be held here at the
Brevard high school Saturday
morning, Supt J. B. Jones an
nounces.
The principals will meet at
10:30 o’clock and the general
session at 11 o’clock.
Delegates to the state con
vention will be elected and pro
posed changes in the constitu
tion of the North Carolina Edu
cation association will be voted
upon.
C. M. Douglas will discuss the
Red Cross drive that is now In
progress and a representative of
the Jaycees will talk about waste
paper campaigns.