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The Transylvania Times Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943 Vol. 54; No. 39 ★ SECTION ONE ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1944 ★ 16 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY WAR FUND DRIVE STARTS OCT. 9 Big Hunts To Be Held Here In Forest Nov. 6th-18th APPLICATIONS FOR DEER, BEAR HUNTS BEING RECEIVED Squirrel Season In Forest To Open October 9 Thru October 14 DETAILS ARE GIVEN Plans h^e been completed for the tenth public big game hunt on the Pisgah National preserve, which is scheduled for a period of 12 days, beginning Nov. 6 and ending Nov. 18, according to an announcement of W. W. Huber, district ranger, who will be in charge of the hunt. The hunt will be limited to 1,000 hunters from various sections of the United States. The hunters, whose applications must have been previously officially approved, will be selected by public drawing to be held by the Brevard cham ber of commerce on Monday, Oct. 16. at 2 p.m. in the city hall. Appications for the hunt will be accepted on or after Oct. 1, and must be mailed back to the North Carolina Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Asheville, not later than Oct. 16, accompanied by remittance. Hunting permits cost $7.50 for regular check-in and check-out hunts, and $10.00 for wilderness hunts. Each hunter will be allowed a three-day period in which to kill one deer or one bear of either sex. If more than 1,000 applications are received, a public drawing will be held by the Brevard cham ber of commerce to select the successful applicants. In addition to the designated 1,000 names, 200 alternates will be drawn. In the event all vacancies are not filled from this list of alternates, ser vicemen will be invited to com plete the day’s quota. The main hunts are under care ful supervision. Persons assigned —Turn To Page Four NOTED WOMAN TO SPEAK AT COLLEGE Miss Emily Woodward To Discuss Recent Trip To England At College Miss Emily Woodward, of At lanta, Ga., well known newspaper woman, author, lecturer and trav eler, will speak at Brevard college Friday morning at 10:45 o’clock, President E. J. Coltrane an nounced today. Miss Woodward recently re turned from England where she spent five months as guest of the Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information as consultant and lecturer. She is expected to speak on her experiences and observations in England and Scotland and to dis cuss war conditions as she found them. “We are delighted to have Miss Woodward and extend a cordial invitation to the public to hear her speak,” Dr. Coltrane said. —Turn To Page Four Observance Of V-Day In Europe Is Planned Here By Legion Post The Monroe Wilson post of the American Legion is now making plans to observe Victory-day-in Europe by staging some form of observance here. A committee, composed of J. M. Gaines, Dr. Carl Hardin, Frank King, Alex Kizer and Ralph Fisher, is now working out plans for this proposed observance. The Legion post has requested the full co-operation of merchants, public officials and civic organiza tions in making arrangements for the observance. The committee has requested all local business firms to have flags ready to be displayed when news of the downfall of Hitler is re ceived. Meet Ten New Faculty Members At Brevard Junior College Dean Of Men Directs Physical Ed Teaches Music College Librarian Teaches Bible Willard E. Ruggies Assists Treasurer Miss Ruth Wilson College Dietitian Miss Margaret Spiro Art Instructor Miss Jessie Mae Cover Home Ec Teacher Rev. Edwin Roy Coaches Football Mrs. Willard Ruggles Miss Evelyn Powell Mrs. A. L. Bramlett Miss Mabel Hendrix Howard Wilkie Labor Leaders Protest Activities Of The Transylvania Citizens Committee AF Of L Group Scored Com mittee In Resolution Here Last Sunday The executive board of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor, in a special meeting here last Sunday, adopted resolutions scoring the activities of the Tran sylvania Citizens Committee and asserting that the “only purpose of the committee appears to be that of preventing organization of the workers in the plants of the Ecusta Paper corporation..” One of the resolutions stated that the members of the committee are not employees of Ecusta and are not eligible to membership in any union of the American Fed eration of Labor. The North Caro lina State Federation of Labor is a branch of the American Federa tion of Labor. The board, in its resolutions, as serted that it is none of the busi ness of members of the Transyl vania Citizens Committee whether or not the Ecusta employees “wish to join a union or do not wish to join a union,” and said that “the question of union membership con cerns the workers and no mer chant, lawyer, doctor, dentist, drug gist, preacher, farmer, banker, picture show operator, or any one else, except the worker himself has any right to say whether or not the worker wishes to exercise his American right and privilege of joining a union of his fellow workers.” The board stated that no other group in the country has fought harder for the “untrammeled rights of free enterprise than has the American Federation of Labor.” The board called on the mem bers of the citizens committee to study carefully the “unwholesome situation being created” and cited —Toni To Pago Five CAMFOREE TO BE HELD IN OCTOBER All Local Troops Expected To Participate. To Start Training Course. A scoutmasters training course will be given here next month and will start with a camporee that is to be held at John’s Rock in the Pisgah National Forest on October 21 and 22, it was decided at the September meeting of the Transylvania district committee meeting of the Daniel Boone council. Bill Wall, assistant scout execu tive, will conduct the course and all men interested in scouting are invited to take the course. Cer tificates will be awarded to those who complete the course. All scout and scouters in the district are expected to attend the camporee and to participate in the two-day camping program. The old CCC buildings at John’s Rock will be used. Auto Tag Prices Cut Three-Fourths Automobile and truck tags will go on sale Monday at the Caro lina Motor Club office on Broad street at one-fourth the regular price for balance of the year, it is announced by C. M. Douglas, man ager. This reduction in price will ap ply only to cars and trucks that have not been driven previously during the year. The license plates will be good for the rest of 1944. New license plates for 1945 will go on sale here December 1. BREVARD TO PLAY HENDERSONVILLE Opening Game of Football Season To Be Played in Hendersonville Friday. Brevard high school’s football team will play the opening game of the season Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock against Hendersonville high at Hendersonville. Cars are needed to take some of the players to Hendersonville, leaving here at 2 p. m. Anyone who can provide transportation for any of the boys is asked to call at the high school immediately. The next scheduled date is Fri day, October 13, when the local lads will engage Franklin high here. R. T. Kimzey, high school prin cipal announced that there are several open dates, as follows: October 6, October 20 and Novem ber 17. The local lads will play —Turn To Page Four Seaman Myers Home After Ship Disaster L. Harold Myers, petty officer, second class, is home with his mo ther, Mrs. Arthur McGaha, on a survivors’ leave, after encounter ing narrow escapes on his landing craft boat. His ship struck a German mine off the coast of France and was blown up. A rescue boat picked him up and took him to England, together with other members of the crew. From England, he was returned to the States on the Queen Elizabeth to Boston. The ship was loaded with war prison ers. Seaman Myers is a gunner on a landing craft and has served 10 months in the British Isles. He was in the invasion and has been in several major battles. He expects to be sent to the South Pacific on his return to duty. Citizens Committee Says It Is Their Affair To Oppose Having Unions Here MOTORISTS MUST BUY AUTO STAMPS Failure of Auto And Truck Owners To Purchase Will Bring Penalty. Further delay in purchasing and displaying the federal stamp for automobiles and trucks will re sult in the imposing of heavy pen alties for auto and truck owners who are operating their vehicles without the federal stamp, Deputy Colector S. E. Varner has an nounced. The new federal stamp is ef fective for the fiscal year, July 1, 1944, to June 30, 1945, and the law requires that the owners of these vehicles not only purchase the stamp but display it on their windshields. The office here in the post of fice building has been instructed to make a personal check and leave summons on all vehicles on which the stamp is not displayed by Oct. 2, Mr. Varner said, and to continue this drive until all own ers have purchased and displayed the stamps. The office here will be open for this service on Monday, Oct. 2, and Saturday, Oct. 7. Mr. Varner further stated that if anyone desiring to purchase the stamp on the above mentioned dates was unable to do so, then he could purchase a P. O. money or der for $5.00, payable to Collector of Internal Revenue, Greensboro, N. C., and send to him at Brevard, and the matter could thus be han dled by mail. Mrs. S. E. Varner will leave Thursday for a visit of two weeks with relatives in Atlanta, Griffin, Ga., and Fort Pierce, Fla. Long Statement Explains Committee’s Position In Reply To Union “Having toiled and sacrificed to bring industries into Transylvania county we feel that it is our busi ness what happens to them and to their employees,” members of the Transylvania Citizens Committee stated today in reply to a resolu tion passed by the executive board of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor, in a special meeting here last Sunday. The Citizens committee member ship is made up of more than 100 well known business and profes sional people and farmers from all sections of the county who sign ed this statement in joining the committee: “We, the undersigned, do hereby associate ourselves in a committee of citizens for the purpose of op posing and working against the unionization of industry and busi ness in Transylvania county.” The committee’s statement re leased today stated: “The people of the community, including the business men, pro fessional men and farmers whom the union leaders condemn so severely, have a personal and fi nancial interest in the industries of this county. “Every one of these industries located here as the direct result of the efforts of the public spirit ed citizens of our county, who not only gave their services, but spent thousands of dollars of their hard earned money as well. They sub scribed stock, furnished sites and paid other expenses in connection with the establishment here of the Tannery, the Cotton Mill, the Hos iery Mill and Ecusta. They did so in order that employment might be furnished their sons and daugh —Torn To Pago Five ORGANIZATION IS SET UP AND ALL GOALS ANNOUNCED Fifty Dollars In Cash Prizes To Be Given To Schools In Contest COMMITTEE MET MON. A complete county-wide organ ization to conduct Transylvania’s united war and community chest fund drive was set up at a meet ing of the executive committee held Monday night at the home of Chairman J. S. Silversteen. The rural areas of the county were divided into 16 communities and a chairman for each commun ity was appointed. At the same time quotas were set for each rural community, schools, town of Brevard and industries. All rural chairmen will be rep resented to perfect their organi zations immediately so that they will be ready to start work when the drive officially opens on Mon day, October 9. The county’s total quota of $12,800 was broken down as fol lows: rural communities, approx imately $1800; town of Brevard, $2000: all schools in the county, $1000: industries, approximately $8,000. Three cash prizes, totalling $50, will be given to the schools in the county that secure the largest amount of money par first award is £ by Harry Strtiw; $15 and third prize which are giverHjnHCKalrman Sil versteen. Supt. J. B. Jones will have charge of the school cam paign. Block leaders will be asked to make a house-to-house canvass in Brevard, while C. M. Douglas and Jerry Jerome will contact all bus iness houses. These two men, Chairman Silversteen, Ray Ben —Turn To Page Four TRUSTEES TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING College Board To Meet At Hickory Next Tuesday. Jones Chairman The annual meeting of the board of trustees of Brevard college will be held in Hickory next Tuesday, October 3, starting at 10 o’clock in the morning. A number of important business matters are to be discussed at that time. The board of trustees is com posed of 24 outstanding Methodist ministers and lay leaders who live in various sections of Western and Piedmont North Carolina. Edwin L. Jones, of Charlotte, is chairman of the board. Mr. Jones is manager of the J. A. Jones Con struction company and is a prom inent business $ian. Rev. C. M. Pickens, of Charlotte, is vice chairman and Rev. James B. McLarty, of Belmont, is secre tary. The executive committee is com posed of Chairman Jones, Rev. C. M. Pickens, H. A. Dunham, O. V. Woosley and Dr. E. J. Coltrane. The other members of the board —Turn To Page Five Brevard College To Play Franklin High Here Friday, 3 P. M The Brevard college football team will meet Franklin high school here on the college grid iron Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the opening game of the season. A large crowd is expected to see this game and to see what kind of team Coach Howard Wilkie will have this season. Practice has been in progress for several weeks and the boys, although some of them have never played before, are in pretty good shape.
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