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I The Transylvania Times Adjudged Best Large Noiv-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943 * ONE SECTION * ■fcREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1944 * 12 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY ECUSTA MAKING WRITING PAPERS ★ ★★ *★★★★★*★*★★★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★ Whitmire Died From Natural Causes, Coroner Finds FINAL INQUEST IS HELD HERE WED., MISSING 8 DAYS Rosman Man Found Last Friday In Woods By A Searching Party. BURIED LAST SATURDAY Louie Whitmire, 47-year-old Ros man man whose body was found last Friday night by searching parties in a wooded section about three miles from Rosman, died from natural causes, according to a coroners’ jury verdict rendered here yesterday afternoon. Whitmire had been missing for 8 days and when an inquest was held on the day the body was lo cated, officers were ordered to make further investigation to de termine if there was any foul play. Sheriff Freeman Hayes reported at the inquest Wednesday that he and other officers had thoroughly investigated the case and had found no definite evidence of foul play. The condition of the body indi cated that Whitmire had been dead for several days. An illicit manufacturing still was found nearby and officers said a whiskey jug was also found near the body. Officers said that according to rumors threats had been made against Whitmire j^nd this was one reason for conducting an ex tensive investigation. tin,; ^ t ^--11 nro’rnd Rosman, where he had lived for many years. For some time, he worked in the tannery there. Funeral service was held last Saturday afternoon at the Zion Baptist church by Rev. M. E. Sum mey and burial was made in the family cemetery. Whitmire is survived by his wife, five sons and two daughters. The sons are Allen Whitmire, who is now in Italy; Albert, Carlyle, Frantz and Max; the daughters —Turn To Page Seven TEACHERS TO MEET HERE NEXT. THURS. Schools To Open On Monday, September 18, as Pre viously Announced. All schools in Brevard and Tran sylvania county will open for the fall term on Monday morning, Sept. 18, at 8:45, according to previous schedule, it has been announced by County Superinten dent J. B. Jones. The teachers will have a meet ing at the Brevard high school on Thursday morning, the 14th, at 10 o’clock, and will be on regular school duty from that time on, even though the schools will not open until the following Monday, Mr. Jones stated. Mr. Jones called attention to the revised pay schedule for teach ers, which will go into effect with the new school term. The first month’s salary checks will be paid at the end of two weeks; the sec ond month’s at the end of five weeks; the third month’s at the end of the following five weeks; and after that the regular pay schedule will be observed. Sale Of Property For Taxes Conducted Here On Mon. Noon T. E. Reid, county and town tax collector, conducted a sale of lands for delinquent tax payments for the year 1943 in front of the courthouse here Monday at noon. Since no other bidders were present, the town and county were highest bidders on over 600 parcels of land and sale tax certificates will be issued this week. Tax collections during the past year have broken all former rec ords, and amount advertised for sale during the month of August was the lowest in many years. State Postwar Planning Board Director To Speak In Courthouse Here Friday Night At 8 O’clock Now In England ----- T. SGT. EUGENE HINKLE, son of Mrs. Alice Hinkle and the late W. H. Hinkle, volunteered in military service in October, 1942. He is now with the 9th air force troop carrier command somewhere in England. He is an aerial engineer on a C-47 and took part in the invasion in Normandy. On the following day he received the air meda? for his part in the invasion. He took his basic training at Gulfport, Miss., and Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach, Calif., receiving two diplomas. He is a brother of Mrs. Jesse C. Cash, of Oak land. A GRADUATION BANQUET TO BE GIVEN SATURDAY Rev.. E. Ashby Johnson To Speak. Madison To Preach Sermon Sunday Night The summer graduation program for Brevard college will open this Saturday with a banquet honoring members of the graduating classes to be held in the dining hall at the college, at 8 o’clock, President E. J. Coltrane announced today. The baccalaureate sermon will delivered by Rev. J. C. Madison, pastor of the Waynesville Metho dist church, on Sunday evening at 8 o’clock in the Brevard Methodist church. This will be a union ser vice and all of the churches will co-operate. Dr. J. M. Rast, president of Lander college, will make the com mencement address in the college auditorium on Thursday night, —Turn To Page Seven Felix A. Grisette To Talk On Postwar Plans. Public Is Urged To Attend Felix A. Grisette, of Chapel Hill, managing director of the North Carolina State Postwar Planning board, will speak here Friday night at 8 o’clock in the courthouse under the joint spon sorship of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce and the Transylvania county Committee for Economic Development. Ed McMahan, president of the chamber of commerce, said this will be a public meeting and urged all civic-minded persons to attend. “In his capacity as managing director of the state’s planning board, I know Mr. Grisette will have a message that every one of us would like to hear and one that will be helpful to us in making our postwar plans,” Mr. McMahan said. F. S. Best, chairman of the county’s committee for economic development, will also speak and outline a postwar program that has been set up for Brevard and Tran sylvania county. Special music for the occasion will be rendered by Miss Margaret Spiro, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Melvin Gillespie. The speaker will be introduced bv Harry H. Straus, vice district chairman of the Committee for Economic Development. Ed Mc Mahan will preside. A NEW CANNERY SCHEDULE GIVEN To Be Open Three Days Nest Week. 10,000 Cans Filled To Date. The Transylvania cannery at Brevard will be closed all day Saturday, and next week it will be open to the public only three days, Monday, Tuesday and Satur day, it has been announced by C. L. Simmons, supervisor. Future schedule of opening will be announced later, Mr. Simmons said, depending upon the food available for canning and other factors which might develop. An interesting fact pointed out is that the cannery was used by representatives from eight differ ent states, summer visitors here, in addition to those from this county and state. The states rep resented were Tennessee, Louisi ana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia South Carolina, Kentucky and Vir ginia. Approximately 10,000 cans of various fruits and vegetables were canned during the summer, the records show. Service Men And Women Are Slow In Applying For Their Absentee Ballots Only about one-fifth of the county’s men and women in ser vice have requested absentee bal lots for the forthcoming general election, it was learned today from Fred Shuford, chairman of the county election board. A total of 330 applications have been received from the 1,500 or l 1,600 service men and women from this county, and a large number of these have come through state headquarters. Some of the service men and women made application by writ ing the board here directly, others by sending in the application form that was printed in a recent issue of this newspaper, and the largest number as a result of application j cards that were distributed to them by the War department In some instances, members of the immediate families of those in the armed forces have applied at the election board office here over Patterson’s store and all families are reminded that they can make application and have ballots sent by giving the address of the service man or woman to Mr. Shuford. Approximately 250,000 North Carolinians in the armed forces have applied for the absentee bal lots. “We would like for every man and women in service from this county to have the opportunity of voting and urge them, as well as their families back home, to make application in time for the ballots to reach them and to be returned before the dale of the election,” Mr. Shuford said. Merchants And Employees Enjoy Fish Fry In National Forest Of course they are having a grand time, who wouldn’t have? Shown above is a view of a large number of Brevard merchants, their employees and guests enjoying a delightful fish fry that was prepared and served by Pete Bikas. Approximately 225 persons attended this outing, the first of its kind ever held by Brevard merchants and plans are nowr being formulated to make it an annual affair- (Staff Photo.) HAMLIN HOLDS A DISTRICT CAUCUS, JACKSON NAMED Prominent Brevard G.O.P. Candidate for Congress Has Meeting. ASHEVILLE — Brownlow Jack son, of Hendersonville, prominent Republican leader and former U. S. marshal for the western district of North Carolina, was appointed Republican chairman for the 12th congressional district last Thurs day night at a dinner meeting of Republican leaders at the S and W cafeteria. Mr. Jackson, in accepting the appointment from Lewis P. Ham lin, of Brevard, Republican candi date for congress from the district, predicted that if the present trend continues, North Carolina will give its electorial vote to Thomas E. Dewey by 80,000 votes and this state will elect a Republican gov ernor. Chairmen Are Announced In announcing the appointment of Mr. Jackson as chairman of the 12th district, Mr. Hamlin also an nounced various county chairmen in preparation for the coming gen eral election. “I was greatly disturbed above the future of America and its lib erties when the first suggestion came concerning a third term, but now that a fourth term is to be attempted, I believe it is time for the lovers of liberty to bind them selves together, regardless of par ty, against such a perpetuation of federal power,” Mr. Hamlin said. Mr. Hamlin said that he was —Turn To Page Six COUNTY COMMISSIONERS HOLD A SHORT SESSION At a meeting of the Transyl vania county board of commis sioners here Monday, Mrs. Doro thy Mitchell, tax supervisor and county accountant, was instructed to check a rather long list of taxes that had probably been charged in error and to make proper adjust ments after completing the check. Agnes Tucker presented a re quest for a refund and cancellation of beer license issued to her as the operator of the “Chicken Shack.” The request, she said, was made because the town board would not authorize license. The county board approved the request. J. B. Glazener was granted a refund of poll taxes paid last year as he had moved to Virginia and was paying taxes there, too. The commissioners were in ses sion a little over an hour’s time. Machine Room Wins Ecusta Baseball League Series; To Play An "All-Star” Club Sunday Afternoon At 3 O'clock TO HOLD FISHER REUNION ON SAT Ed McMahan To Be Prin cipal Speaker. Expect 250 People The annual Fisher family re union will be held Saturday, Starting at 10 o’clock at Lake Toxaway Baptist church, Ralph Fisher, president of the organiza tion, announces. Ed H. McMahan, prominent Brevard attorney and civic leader, will be principal speaker. Lewis P. Hamlin, Republican candidate for congress, will also talk. A picnic dinner will be spread and barbecue will be served by Sam Allison, of Brevard. Approximately 250 persons are expected to attend, this being an annual event. Mrs. L. F. Norton, of Oakland, is seretary and has served in this capacity since the reunion organ ization was formed. EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS An exhibition of paintings by Aileen Frasier and Flora G. Hol lingsworth will be shown at the Colonial Inn Thursday and Friday. The paintings have been on dis play there all week. Members Of All Teams In League To Be Guests At Fish Fry Friday Night Following a blistering 30 to 8 defeat last Sunday, the Duke’s Mix ture baseball team has conceded “little world series” championship honors to the strong Machine Room nine and plans have been made to stage a game between the “all-stars” and the pennant win ning Machine Room sluggers this Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock. Hapk Newbury has been ap pointed captain of the “all star” club and 14 players from the other three teams in the Ecusta league have already been chosen for the squad. * It is proposed that this “all star” team play the Machine Room a series of three games, with the first one scheduled for this Sun day and the second one for next Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock on (the Ecusta diamond. Members of the “all star” squad are Newbury, captain, White, Mc Call, Dorn, Allison, Morris, Clay ton, Vassey, Byrd, Hargis, Rhodes, Head, Taylor, Erwin and Gilreath. All members of the four teams in the Ecusta baseball league will be honor guests at a company fish fry to be given tomorrow night at 6 o’clock at White Pines in the national forest, John Eversman, —Turn To Page Six Merchants Vote To Form An Association; Large Crowd Attended Fish Fry In Forest Initial steps in forming a Bre vard Merchants association were taken at a big picnic held in the Pisgah National Forest last Thurs day evening when approximately 30 local merchants voted unanimously to hold an organizational meeting in the near future. Arrangements for such a meet ing are to be worked out by the merchants committee of the Bre vard chamber of commerce. Despite rain and uncertain wea ther conditions, a large crowd of merchants, employees and guests, estimated at approximately 225, attended the picnic-fish fry, and heard Roy A. Palmer, of Charlotte, aif official of the Duke Power company and president of the Charlotte chamber of commerce, speak. After the war there will be a large number of new products to sell and he explained that a good many of these products will come from electronics, plastics, light metals, nylon and other synthetic developments. He reviewed the great expansion in business that followed the first world war and predicted that a still greater expansion would take place at the conclusion of world war two. Keeping abreast with progress will place a great responsibility upon all industries and merchants, he said, and urged all local firms to start making postwar plans now. The able speaker was introduced by J. M. Gaines, manager of the Duke Power company here and an officer of the Brevard chamber of commerce. Ed McMahan, presi —Tan To Pago Twelve PRODUCTION OF THESE CRITICAL MATERIALS GOING Various Thin Writing Pap ers Are Also Being Made Out Of Flax Fibre. SAVES WOOD PULP The Ecusta Paper corporation, makers of a large percentage of the cigarette paper used by Amer ican manufacturers, is now making high quality, thin writing paper out of flax fibre, the same raw material used to produce cigarette paper, Harry H. Straus, president of the company, announced today. The paper products that are being manufactured by Ecusta in clude manifold, ^ir mail, pigeon mail, carbonizing and other light weight text papers. Finished prod ucts of these new lines are being shipped throughout the United States and they will be sold by leading paper merchants printers and convertors of social and busi ness stationery. The U. S. govern ment through various agencies, is also buying a large quantity of these special papers. Ecusta is also manufacturing a condenser tissue, a paper used in the insulation of electrical equip ment used in the war effort and the production of other critical products is contemplated. “When the supply of wood pulp, waste paper and other materials from which many paper products are made became so critical, we started work on developing ways and means of making a new line of fine, thin papers out of flax straw,” Mr. Straus said. “Within a short time we per fected manufacturing processes and are now making these papers in rather large quantities, and are thereby saving that much more pulp wood for the manufacture of ammunition containers, and other paper products necessary to keep the boys overseas supplied with food, ammunition and fighting equipment,” he stated. —Turn To Page Sir SQUIRREL SEASON OPENS SEPT. 15 Ban On Ammunition For Hunters Is Lifted.'Quotas Are Greatly Increased. The squirrel season in Transyl vania county opens next Friday, September 15, and the deer sea son will open on October 15 and remain open until December 15. Hunting is expected to increase quite a bit this season since the ban on the sale of ammunition has been lifted by the WPB. At the same time, it was announced that quotas for ammunition for farmers and hunters has been boosted. Until December 15, farmers and hunters will have the following quarterly quotas: 150 rounds of .22-calibre rimfire cartridges, 40 rounds of center-fire rifle ammu nition and 100 shotgun shells of any guage. The ban to hunters was lifted because animals and birds have been causing widespread destruc tion of crops and livestock in all sections of the nation. The bass and brim season is also open, but the trout season closed on September 1. Tire Quotas For Sept. Announced By Rationing Board September tire quotas show a decrease over those of last month, according to figures released by Miss Mattie Lewis, chief clerk of the ration board here. The passenger tire quota for September is 60 as compared with 68 for August; truck tire quota is 36 as against 33 for last month. Stove quotas for September have not as yet been released.
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