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_Times Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North G arolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943 Vol 54; No. 23 ★ 12 PAGES TODAY * BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1944 * ONE SECTION A PUBLISHED WEEKLY FORWARD College’s 10th Anniversary Observance Big Success ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★-a-** WAR LOAN DRIVE STARTS MON. i ATTENDANCE WAS SPLENDID. A FINE PROGRAM ENJOYED Institution Highly Praised And Further Progress Was Predicted. DR. COLTRANE PLEASED The commencement program and the four-day observance of the tenth anniversary of Brevard col lege, which came to a close Tues day at noon, was an outstanding success. The elaborate program, featur ing a number of prominent speak ers and a historical pageant, went off according to schedule. Considering transportation diffi culties, attendance was regarded as being exceptionally good. The luncheon held in the college din ing hall Monday was attended by nearly 200 persons, and attendance at all other programs exceeded ex pectations. The observance received a great deal of publicity throughout this region, and plans were made for further growth and development of the institution during the next ten years. The people of Brevard and Tran sylvania clearly demonstrated their interest in the college during the anniversary observance. “We are not even in our ’teen age, but we are walking and are really beginning to grow and this anniversary marks a great mile stone in the progress of this in stitution,” Edwin L. Jones, chair —Turn To Page Six MRS. KIZER HEADS GIRL SCOUTS HERE Elected To Succeed Mrs. Keith Pooser. Mrs. Mc Mahan Deputy Com. Mrs. Alex Kizer was elected com missioner of the Brevard Girl Scout council at an annual meet ing held here at the home of Mrs. E. H. McMahan. She will succeed Mrs. Keith Pooser, who has served in this capacity for the past two years. Mrs. McMahan was chosen as deputy commissioner and Mrs. Walter Duckworth was elected treasurer. A secretary is to be se lected later. The new commissioner has serv ed as deputy commissioner of the —Turn To Page Twelve Jackson Completes His 50th Bombing Mission In Italy (Special to The Times) ITALY, 15th Army Air Force —Lt. Zebulon V. Jackson, 23 year old Bombardier on an AAF B-17 Flying Fortress, whose home is in Brevard, North Caro lina, made his fiftieth mission on April 28, 1944, with an attack on Piombino, Italy. Lt. Jackson, now stationed in Italy, entered the armed forces on April 28, 1942, and received his wings on May 13, 1943, at San Angelo, Texas. His first combat mission was made on November 22, 1943, over Toulon, France. He is a graduate of Brevard high school, where he received varsity letters in football and baseball. Before entering the army, Lt. Jackson was a mail carrier in Brevard, and worked for The Times. He has been awarded the Pur ple Heart and the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf cluster. American Red Cross Aquatic School Opens With Enrollment Of 160; No Pageant This Year School Director For the sixteenth consecutive year, Harry Kenning is direct ing the American Red Cross national aquatic school that opened yesterday at Camp Caro lina. Since last August Mr. Kenning has been giving army and navy instruction. BANQUET TO BE HELD TONIGHT IN LOCAL CHURCH County’s Quota is $406,000. Nine Rallies To Be Held In The County. Transylvania county’s fifth War Loan drive, participating in the nation-wide campaign to begin on June 12, will get underway here this week with a kick-off rally and supper for workers, members of the war finance committee and speakers for the nine rallies to be held throughout the county diming the period of the drive, it has been announced by E. H. McMa han, chairman of the Transylvania county drive. The supper-rally will be held in the dining room of the Brevard Methodist church tonight at 7:30 o’clock. Around 75 persons are expected to attend. Full instruc tions on the drive will be given at this time and a few short talks will be made. Entertainment at bond rallies will be provided by the Ecusta Mountain musicmakers, composed of Rhett Talley, Rupert Gordon, —Turn To Page Seven Faculty Composed Of 23 Members. School Will Last For 10 Days The twenty-first annual Amer ican Red Cross National aquatic school opened today at beautiful Camp Carolina near Brevard with an enrollment of approximately 160 students from a number of southern and eastern states, Di rector Harry Kenning announces. The school’s faculty is compos ed of 23 members and the courses of instruction have been designed to fit war needs and conditions in swimming, life-saving, accident prevention, canoeing, diving, and first aid. The school will last for 10 days and will close on June 17. Be cause of war conditions, no water pageant will be given this year, but an acquade will be staged sometime next week to which the public is invited, Director Ken ning stated. Instructors of national promi nence are included in the faculty this year. Charles “Red” Russell, of the National Red Cross staff, Atlanta, Ga., is associate director. James F. MacMillan, of Cocoa, Fla., is dean of the school, while Charlotte Russell, of Ft. Myers Beach, Fla., is dean of women. Dr. J. W. Fenton, of Atlanta, is waterfront director. Mary Tre whitt, of Chattanooga, Tenn., is nurse. Judy Lewis, of Terre Haute, Ind., and Virginia Perry, Atlanta, are secretaries. Other teachers are Blanche Al bert Blevins, of Atlanta; Frances Cake, Gaffney, S. C.; Frank Cul vern, Charlotte; D. C. Duncan, —Turn To Page Twelve Exchange Auction Sales To Be Held Here Every Month In response to a public demand, the Brevard Lions will conduct an auction exchange sale here the last Tuesday afternoon in each month, John Ford announced yes terday. The sale will be held on the va cant lot near the courthouse op posite Belk’s department store and will commence at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Every person in Transylvania is being invited to buy or sell on the auction exchange. The initial sale held in May was so successful that the club has re ceived numerous requests for its continuance, Ford said. The de cision to hold monthly sales was mad# at a meeting of directors Tuesday night. Boy Scouts Are Conducting A Waste Paper Drive In Brevard And County Transylvania county Boy Scout waste paper drive, sponsored by the local salvage committee, got underway this week and will con tinue in progress until July 8, it was announced yesterday by How ard Wyatt, salvage chairman. The Scouts will make collections of waste paper on Sunday after noon from 2 to 6 o’clock, and those who have old papers, magazines or books to donate to the drive are asked to tie them in small bun dles and leave them on the front porch or other easily reached place. The Scouts will make col lection from all the stores and the town area three times a week dur ing the period of the campaign, Mr. Wyatt said. Those who have an unusually large quantity of paper on hand are asked to call the city hall, and a way will be provided there for having it haul ed off in a short time. The town and county have been divided into four zones, with a leader and assistant leader for each zone, for a more systematic and efficient operation of the drive. Ray King, leader, and Jim Hat ley, assistant, will supervise activ —Turn Te Page Seven SCENES AT TRANSYLVANIA MUSIC SCHOOL-CAMP At the top is a bird’s eyeview of the beautiful lake and camp headquarters. Scene number 2. Individual instruction by Major J. B. O’Neal, supervisor of instrumental musk, Saint Lucie county public schools, Florida, associate director of the camp: No. 3, Director James Christian PfohL No. 4, Major O’Neal in the act of conducting at an afternoon concert. No. 5, a sectional rehearsal and No. 6, instruction in art by Miss Clara Smith. LUTHER H. HODGES SPEAKS TO GRADS AT COLLEGE TOES. N. Y. Manufacturer Urges Preservation of Private Enterprise. An urgent appeal to all young Americans to preserve private en terprise in this nation was made by Luther H. Hodges, of New York City, vice president of Mar shall Field and company, in a —Turn To Page Seven Report Sgt. McCall Missing In Action Over German Area Mrs. John McCall, of Brevard, was notified this week by the war department that her husband, S. Sgt. Carlos John McCall, has been reported missing in action over Germany since May 24. The mes sage further stated, “If further details or other information are received you will be promptly notified.” Sgt. McCall, son of Rev. and Mrs. Clyde S. McCall, of Lake Toxaway, entered army service in December, 1942. He was a radio operator on a bomber, stationed in England. He was employed in the Champagne printing department before entering military service. His wife, the former Miss Doris Sitton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Sitton, makes her home in Brevard. Transylvania Music School-Camp Will Open Next Tuesday Morning ——-<g> Pfc. Wayne Owen Is Wounded In Action On Italian Front Mr. and Mrs. Loonie Owen, of Lake Toxaway, were notified by the war department last Friday that their son, Pfc. Wayne Owen, was seriously wounded in action in Italy on May 14. His new address given by the department showed that he is in a hospital, presum ; ably somewhere in that region be hind the battle front. No further —Turn To Page Six The Transylvania Music School camp, which is being established near Brevard at Camp Transylvan ia, will open next Tuesday with an enrollment of approximately 125 boys and girls from various South ern and Eastern states and with a staff of around 30 talented and ex perienced artists from Davidson and Queens colleges and other in stitutions. James Christian Pfohl, head of the music departments at David son and Queens colleges, is direct or of the unique music school-camp that will give instruction in all —Tun To Pace Seven 58 Transylvania Men Left Monday For Spartanburg To Enter Naval Training Fifty-eight Transylvania county registrants who recently passed their pre-medical examinations at Camp Croft, left Brevard Monday morning to report to the navy recruiting station in Spartanburg, S. C., for induction. Two negroes left last week for induction into the army at Fort Bragg, and two were transferred to other boards for induction. "Clyde A. Shuford was leader of the group leaving Brevard Monday. Neal Birchfield, Harry L. Blake and Edgar M. Meece were assist ant leaders. The group includes: John N. Price, Hermit W. Reece, J. Earl Gravely, Ivy C. Cantrell, Charles B. Clark, J. Edwin Mims, Fred Gillespie, Carl Gregory, Lester H. Edney, Jerry H. Moore, Thomas J. Brown, Julius W. Tinsley, E. C. Wilson, W. Parmer Andrews, Al vin Y. Blythe, Mack Bell, Jr., Clif ford E. Grant, Oscar J. Riddle, Jeter C. Kitchen, Lewis E. Hens ley, Leonard T. Fanning, Edward E. Layne, Troy Owen, Ules P. Bry son, James S. Brotherton, W. Rufus O’Dell, Alvin W. Owen. Elzie L. McCall, Carl S. Barrett, Carl T. Watson, Herman E. Street, —Torn To Page Six ALLIES ENCOUNTER RESISTANCE WHEN THEY LANDED NON. Huge Second Front Invasion Caught Germans Off Guard. Dominate Air PRAY FOR SUCCESS Allied invasion armies, by air, land and sea continued to ad vance on a 100-mile front of the French Normandy coast with an inland thrust of 10 or 12 miles into France, fighting against some what stiffer Nazi resistance on the second day of the world’s greatest invasion of all times, according to official communiques yesterday from allied supreme headquarters. The invasion started in the early hours of Monday, June 6, when United States, British and Canad ian troops landed on the European mainland from the English chan nel and took the Germans appar ently by surprise with their first main invasion thrust on the Nor mandy coast launched under a screen of bombs and shells from 4,000 warships and 11,000 planes. Naval casualties were reported un expectedly light at the start of the invasion. Channel weather was reported adverse yesterday but this did not halt the continuous stream of supplies and troops from pouring in from English ports. Even though the crust of Hit ler’s seawall was broken by the early invasion thrusts and the conflict was reported to be pro ceeding in a thoroughly satisfac —Turn To Page Six A TONSIL CLINIC HELD HERE HIES. Forty Patients Had Tonsils Removed. Sponsored By Health Department. Forty patients had their tonsils removed at the Transylvania coun ty tonsil clinic held here in Bre vard elementary school Tuesday and Wednesday, under the spon sorship of the health department. Those in charge of the clinic in cluded Dr. W. E. Brackett, Hen dersonville; Dr. Tom Stringfield, Waynesville; Dr. Sisk, district health officer and Mrs. Mary Mi chal, assistant health officer. Pub lic health nurses who assisted with the clinic were Mrs. Alma Mc —Turn To Page Seven Sgt. Poteat Has Many Awards To His Credit In Pacific War Area M. Sgt. Carl A, Poteat, a former resident of Brevard and Brevard high school student, has returned to the home of his father, Crayton A. Poteat, in Morganton, after more than two years with the ferrying group flying supplies to scattered American forces in the India-China area. The 28-year-old aerial engineer and instrument specialist flew from China to Greensboro, a trip of 14,000 miles in 12 days, and left at once for his home in Mor ganton. He was twice hospitalized for malaria, and said in relating his experiences, “I was never shot down and was never forced to jump. Supply-carrying planes are on their own and are attractive targets for Japanese airmen.” He has been distinguished with a unit badge, the Asiatic Pacific ribbon, good conduct ribbon, American de fense ribbon, bronze star on the Asiatic Pacific ribbon and the aviation badge.
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