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Vol. 54; No. 18 The Transylvania Times Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943 ★ 12 PAGES TODAY ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1944 * ONE SECTION ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY * INCOME FROM COURTS INCREASES ★ ★★★★★★★**★★★★★ ★★★★★★ Large Number Of Persons Are Registering To Vote REGISTRATION BOOKS WILL BE OPEN THIS SAT. Men And Women Must Be Registered Properly To Qualify For Voting REGISTRARS ARE GIVEN Interest in the primary and gen eral elections among the voters of Transylvania county is picking up, judging by the large number of men and women who registered or checked their registrations with the registrars in the various pre cincts in the county last Saturday, the first day the registration books were open, Fred Johnson, chair man of the county election board, stated today. Mr. Johnson pointed out that the registration books will be open at the voting places in each pre cinct this Saturday and next from 9 in the morning until 6:30 in the afternoon. He said that the state law pro vides that to be eligible to vote a person must be 21 years old, must have lived in the state one year and the precinct four months prior to the election on November 7. He also emphasized the fact that such person must be registered. To be eligible to vote in the primaries, party affiliations must also be shown on the registration books, he declared. A large number of applications from servicemen who want to vote in the Democratic primary to be held May 27, are now being re ceived by the election board office here and 115 absentee ballots have been mailed to date. The county’s registrars are as follows: Boyd precinct, Mrs. M. H. Holliday; Brevard number 1, Mrs. Edna Wood; Brevard number 2, Mrs. W. F. Short; Cathey’s Creek, —Turn To Page Twelve TIRE QUOTAS FOR MAY ANNOUNCED Allotments Decreased In The Main Over April Quotas. Stove Quotas Given. Transylvania county’s May quota for new passenger car and truck tires and tubes has been released by the war price and rationing board here, and was announced yesterday by Miss Mattie Lewis, chief clerk. The month’s grade 1 quota is as follows: 46 new passenger tires and 57 new tubes; 52 small truck tires and 5 large truck tires; 29 truck tubes. No quota was assigned for grade III passenger tires, but applica tion for these may be made to the board for any tires needed, Miss Lewis said. The April tire quota included: 79 passenger car tires and 44 tubes, and 51 truck tires and 24 tubes. May’s quota for cooking and heating stoves: 6 coal and wood coqking and 10 coal and wood heating stoves; 3 oil cooking and 1 oil heating. The stove quota for April was: 5 coal and wood cooking, and 28 coal and wood heating; 3 oil cook ing and 2 oil heating stoves. High School Golf Team Is Playing In Tourney Today The Brevard high school golf team, composed of Pete Wright, Roy Orr, Frank Canap and Law rence Brown, will play in the annual Carolinas’ high school tourney in Greenville today. The team, together with Man ager- and Coach E. E. Fraser, left yesterday afternoon and got in a round or two of practice before the tournament started this morning. This is the first time that Brevard high has had a golf team, and full credit is due Mr. Fraser. { 165 Registrants Sent To Camp Croft Last Saturday, A High Percentage Of Them Passed -----• - Now In England CPL. CHARLES B. PEEVY, of Brevard, is now stationed in England with the fifth hospital unit. He entered service last June and received his basic train ing at Fort McPherson, Ga. He worked at Ecusta before enter ing service. W. 0. W. TO MEET HERE NEXT FALL Will Hold Log Rolling Con vention of the Western N. C. District. The 66tn convention of the log rolling association of the Western North Carolina district of the Woodmen of the World will be held in Brevard some time next October, Ray King, consul com mander of the Balsam Camp of the W. 0. W., announced here to day. The decision to meet in Brevard was made at an annual convention held in Lenoir last Saturday, Mr. King said. E. A. Sherrill, manager of Belk’s department store here, was elected second vice president of the W. N. C. log rolling associa tion at the meeting in Lenoir. Other officers chosen were Cloyd Roberts, of Lenoir, president; How ard Blanton, of Shelby, first vice president and Frank Smith, Lenoir, secretary-treasurer. It is estimated that at least 200 persons will attend the con vention to be held here next fall. BELL BUYS LARGE FARM IN CEDAR MOUNTAIN AREA J. D. Bell, of Tuxedo, N. C., has purchased about a thousand acres of land in the Cedar Mountain sec tion from Mrs. Mary Jenkins. Mr. Bell operates a camp near Tuxedo, but no information is available as to what he plans to do with the large mountain farm. Largest Number Ever Sent At One Time. Only 3 Over 26 Years of Age. One hundred and sixty-five reg istrants from Transylvania county left last Saturday for pre-induc tion examinations at Camp Croft, S. C., which is the largest number to have ever left Brevard at one time, it has been announced by Mrs. Allie B. Harllee, clerk of the draft board here. No definite and complete information was* avail able, but it is understood that a high percentage of the men passed. Of this number, only three are 30 years old or over and the re mainder are between the ages of 18 and 26, and 25 of the number are volunteers. Only about a doz en registrants listed thus far are left who are under the age of 26. Of the total 165 who left for in duction, about half of them are married men, Mrs. Harllee said. The following inductees who left Saturday are: Frank Owen, Coy Brown, Charles Clark, Edwin Mims, Henry Garren, Jr., Jesse McCall, Edgar Meece, Clyde Shu ford, Walter Jarrett, Milford West, Ules Bryson, Alvin Owen, Carl Watson, Herman Street, Arthur Waldrop, Harry Blake, Aldon Hall, Jr., John Smith, Curtis Reid, Wal ter Ingle, John Cantrell, Briscoe Parker, John Price, Kermit Reece, Oscar Gasperson, Ivan Galloway, James Gravely, Ivy Cantrell, Ken neth Sentelle, Charles Tinsley, Paul Fisher, John Baldwin, Fred Gillespie. Carl Gregory, Jr., Jerry Moore, Elzie Chapman, Charles Jackson, John Perry, Terry Powell, Pat Poor, Hilliard Murphy, William Hunnicutt, Walter Green, Clifford Youngblood, Frank Sisk, Julius Tinsley, Floyd Nash, Roy Gravely, Arnold Bailey, E. C. Wilson, Ralph Marr, Parmer Andrews, Alvin Blythe, Mack Bell, Jr., Harold Scruggs, Quentin Cantrell, Clif ford Grant, Oscar Riddles, Jeter Kitchen, Harry Stiles, Charles Sit ton, Thomas Landers, Arthur Bar ton, Troy Owen, Frank Revis, Clyde Gaddy, Ewart Metcalf, Jack Whitson, John Stiles, Marvin —Turn To Page Six P.-T. A. Meeting To Be Held Tues. Night The May meeting of the Brevard P.-T. A., which will be held next Tuesday night at 8 o’clock iq the grammar school auditorium, will be featured by a special musical pro gram given by the students of the high school, elementary and pri mary schools in observance of Na tional Music week. Attention is called to the change in hour from the usual time on Tuesday afternoon to night for this meeting, which is made in or der that the fathers as well as mothers may attend. All parents and teachers are urged to be pres ent, since this is the last meeting of the school year. William Huber To Succeed Gerald Griswold Here As Forest Ranger Gerald H. Griswold, who has been connected with the national forestry service the past 19 months as district forest ranger for this region, with headquarters at the Pisgah Forest ranger station, will leave sometime this month for Thomson, Ga., where he will be project forester for the War Pro duction Timber Project of the for est service. Mr. Griswold will be succeeded here sometime around the middle of May by William Huber, who is now with the forestry service at Tellico Plains, Tenn., and was for merly assistant ranger here under Rangers John Squires and Jack Fortin, the latter of whom Mr. Griswold succeeded here. Mr. Hu ber left here about three years ago to assume his forestry duties at Tellico Plains, and will return here as district forest ranger. Mr. Griswold’s new forest ser vice job is manned by forest ser vice employees, and he will have 27 counties under his supervision. His work will be tied in directly with the war effort and particular ly with the lumber industry to see that sawmills in his district are kept running with full production and that maximum production is secured for materials used in the war operations. Mr. Griswold was forest ranger for the Mt. Mitchell district before coming to this sec tion. / Transylvania Has First Lone Tribe Troop In Council Here are the members of the newly organized Lone Scout tribe that is sponsored here by the. Balsam Camp of the Woodmen of the World and several officials of the Transylvania district of the Daniel Boone council. The photo was taken in the Woodmen hall immediately after the charter pre sentation ceremonies were concluded last Wednesday night. Seated in front is Mrs. A. B. Galloway. On the back row are members of the district committee, Scoutmaster Ray King and Assistant Scout Executive Bill W'all, who presented the charter. (Staff Photo) SEVERAL GASOLINE STATIONS HAY BE FORCED TO CLOSE OP A Declares Large Num ber Of Coupons Accepted By Stations Are Invalid Several gasoline stations in Bre vard and Transylvania county may be forced to close down within the next two weeks because their gas ration bank accounts may be de pleted by the district office of the OPA having declared many gas coupons illegal, it was learned here today. When the gasoline rationing pro gram was started, each service sta tion was given an inventory quota —Turn To Page Seven TONSIL CLINICTO BE HELD IN JUNE County-wide Clinic Set For June 6 and 7, at School Building Here. A tonsil and adenoid clinic for Transylvania county will be held in Brevard at the elementary school building on June 6 and 7, under the auspices of the county health department. Dr. W, E. Brackett, of Hendersonville, eye ear, nose and throat specialist, will do the operative work and will be assisted by the physicians and nurses from the various health departments in the district. The services of the clinic are primarily for children whose par ents are financially unable to pay the usual fee for an operation of this kind, the charge for the opera tion in the clinic being $10.00 per case. Those interested in having their childrens’ tonsils and ade noids removed are requested to get in touch with Mrs. Jessie A. Lollis, at the county health de partment in Brevard, immediately. Parents are also requested not to register their children unless they intend to have this work done for registering, and failing to come might deprive some other child of a needed operation since the num ber of children to be admitted to the clinic is limited. Private James Cox Cited For Bravery Pvt. James Marshall Cox has | been cited for gallantry in action in New Guinea on August 16, 1943, and was awarded the Sil ver Star by the war department. He has been in the service sev eral years. Details were not given of the extent or kind of action for which the award was made. Pvt Cox is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Morris Cox, of Bre vard, Route 2. John E. Rufty Is Elected As Head Of Transylvania County Democratic Executive Comm. -----<*> - WILL ENFORCE DOG ORDINANCE Instructions Issued at Meet in Monday. Sale of Six Lots Approved. The board of aldermen here, in regular meeting Monday night, in structed officers to enforce rigidly the town’s dog ordinances which require all owners to have dogs confined during the months of May, June and July and that they shall be permitted on the streets only if they have been vaccinated against rabies and are muzzled. Another ordinance that will be enforced provides that all dogs running at large in the town on which taxes have not been paid and which have not been vaccin —Turn To Page Seven NO PRICE VIOLATIONS FOUND IN SURVEY OF EATING PLACES HERE A survey made this week on all restaurants and eating es tablishments by the war price and rationing board showed that they are complying 100 per cent with the ceiling prices as set by the OPA. Thirteen places in Brevard were checked and no violations were found. Miss Mattie Lewis, chief clerk, was assisted in mak ing the survey by Mrs. George Massey and Mrs. Frank Kerber, merchants aides. A survey is being made by the local board now to check ceiling prices on mixed feeds at stores dealing in feedstuffs. Succeeds Ralph Ramsey, Jr. Other Delegates Are Elected At a county convention held here last Saturday, John E. Rufty, principal of the Brevard ele mentary school, was unanimously elected chairman of the Transyl vania Democratic executive com mittee. Mr. Rufty succeeds Ralph Ram sey, Jr., who had served two terms as chairman and declined to be a candidate for re-election. C. L. Osborne was elected first vice chairman; Mrs. B. H. Free man, second vice chairman; Joe P. McLeod, secretary and W. W. Brit tain treasurer. Nearly every precinct in the county was represented and dele gates were chosen to the state con vention to be held in Raleigh to day. They were as follows; Ralph Ramsey, John E. Rufty, Pat Kimzey, Lewis Osborne, Frank Morgan, K. F. Glazener, T. J. Wil son, T. C. Henderson, Edgar Reid, L. C. Case, Buck McCall, Keith Pooser, Freeman Hayes, Alf Zach ary, Cal Allison, Wallace Galloway, Fred Johnson, Mrs. J. F. Whitmire, B. H. Freeman, Mrs. M. H. Holli day and Mrs. J. S. Silversteen. Alternates selected were Jess Galloway, C. Y. Patton, Joe Mc Leod, Frank Shuford, Carr Owen, A. M. Paxton, John L. Wilson, Mrs. W. A. Wilson, N. A. Miller, Glenn Burrell, Allen McCall, D. H. Winchester, Mrs. Fred Nicholson, E. H. McMahan, Mrs. C. M. Doug las, Mrs. W. F. Short, Mrs. T. J. Wilson, Mrs. C. L. Newland, George Maxwell, R. L. Gash, Rob ert Mackey and Charles Gillespie. Mr. Rufty has been in Brevard —Turn To Page Six Trout Fishing Season To Open In Forest Streams Next Wednesday The trout fishing season in the streams of the Pisgah National Forest will open next Wednesday, May 10, it was announced here today. Initial open dates in the Pisgah game preserve are as follows: Davidson RiVer and tributaries —May 10,11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28 and 31. North French Broad river—May 10, 11, 12. Bent Creek lake—May 10, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 24, 27, 28 and 31. Upper South Mills river—May 13 and 14. Lower South Mills and Bradley —May 20 and 21. North Mills river—May 27 and 28. Fishing is permitted in the for est streams according to regula tions of the state law. A fishing license and a permit costing $1.00 per day, which can be purchased at the designated checking stations on the streams, must be obtained. The catch of each fisherman must be recorded at the checking sta tion before leaving the stream. The hours for fishing will be be tween 6 a. m. and 8. p. m. The limit is 12 legal fish. All trout under seven inches long must be returned to the water. ENABLES SCHOOLS TO PAY AN EXTRA YEAR ON DEBTS To Catch Up On Payment Of County’s School Debt Service Fund COMMISSIONERS MET A greatly increased collection of fines in the mayor’s court here and by the justices of the peace and the Transylvania superior court will enable the county to catch up this year on the annual payment of the school debt service fund, it was learned today. In accordance with the state law, all fines, penalties and forfeitures go to the school fund, but these and other income in the school fund have not been adequate to take care of the debt service and the county has been carrying the item in another fund, it is ex plained. As a result, payments have been made for the past several years one year behind schedule. Addi tional income from fines, over what had previously been antici pated, will enable the school board to meet two years payments during this fiscal year, Supt. J. B. Jones stated. The extra payment will amount to $4,535.64 and authority for mak ing this payment was granted by the county commissioners at their regular meeting here on Monday. The balance owing on the coun ty’s school debt service fund is approximately $50,000 and it will be liquidated faster than expected , if the income from fines continues at the present rate. . Postpone Land Advertismg -jj. J The commissioners have author-^^ ized T. E. Reid, county tax collec tor, to postpone advertising the sale of land for delinquent taxes for one month. At their meeting Monday, W. I. —Turn To Page Twelve AQUATIC SCHOOL TO OPEN JUNE 7 D. M. Bernard Arrives At Camp Carolina To Get Everything Ready. D. Meade Bernard arrived this week to start getting everything in readiness at Camp Carolina for the national aquatic school of the American Red Cross that will be held on June 7 to 17. A capacity enrollment is expect ed for the school and Harry Ken ning will again be in charge. In struction will be given in water safety, accident prevention and first aid. Another school will be held on August 20-30. Camp Carolina will open on June 21 and remain open for 8 weeks. A full enrollment has al ready been achieved. Mr. Bernard has been in charge of this outstanding boys’ camp for a number of years. Pre-School Clinics Will Be Started In Transylvania Fri. The annual pre-school clinics to he held in four schools of Transylvania county will get un derway tomorrow, under spon sorship of the county health de partment and county P. T. A. groups, it has been announced by Dr. C. N. Sisk, district health officer. The clinic schedule to be carried out during May is as follows: Rosman school, May 5, 9:30 a. m.; Pisgah Forest school, May 9, 1 p. m.; Brevard school, May 16, 9:30 a. m.; Lake Toxa way school, May 23, 10 a. m. The clinics are for the benefit of children who will enter school for the first time in the falL They will be given physical ex aminations and be immunised for smallpox and diphtheria. Pa rents are asked to accompany their children to the clinic.
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