Vol. 54: No. 45
The Transylvania Times
Adjudged Lest Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943
★ 12 PAGES TODAY ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOV. 9, 1944 * ONE SECTION ★
DEMOCRATS WIN A BIG VICTORY
Fisher Leads In Race Of House Of Representatives
EXCEPT FOR THIS
OFFICE DEMOCRATS
WIN OUT EASILY
Democratic M a jorities
Range Up To 899. Cherry
And Hoey Lead Ticket
MRS. GILLESPIE HIGH
Complete but unofficial election
returns show that Ralph Fisher
defeated Wallace Galloway by 10
votes for the house of represen
tatives in the only closely con
tested race of the general election
in Transylvania county Tuesday.
With the exception of this con
test, the Democrats won easily for
the entire county, state and na
tional ticket, with majorities rang
ing up to 899.
A slightly heavier vote was cast
than had been anticipated. A to
tal of 5.269 ballots were counted
unofficially in the presidential
race, with Roosevelt receiving
3.018 and Dewey 2,251. Civilian
absentee ballots cast totalled 414
and the soldier vote was 340.
Gregg Cherry led the county
ticket with 3,050 votes. Clyde Hoey
was second high with 3,043, and
Mrs. Eva Gillespie polled the high
est vote of any of the county can
didates. She received 3,033 votes.
Willis Brittain was next to her
with 2.965.
The unofficial return shows that
Galloway received 2596 votes and
Fisher 2,606.
Lewis Hamlin, Republican can
didate for congress, also polled a
high vote on the Republican tick
et. He received 2,341 votes, as
compared with 2,891 for Weaver.
S A. Jones, candidate for state
senate, was third on the local GOP
—Turn To Page Twelve
ROY IS NAMED
ROSMAN PASTOR
Professor Of Education At,
Brevard College Appoint
ed To Succeed Barr
Rev. C. Edward Roy, who was
ordained at the annual conference
of the Methodist church, which
convened recently in Charlotte,
and was appointed head of relig
ious education at Brevard college,
has now been named by District
Superintendent A. C. Gibbs to the
pastorate of Rosman circuit.
Mr. Roy succeeds A. W. Barr,
supply pastor, who was appointed
to this charge at the general con
ference, and has resigned from
this conference to become super
intendent of an orphanage in
South Carolina. Mr. Roy will con
tinue his position at Brevard col
lege in addition to his new pas
toral duties, which began last Sun
day.
The Rosman circuit includes
five Methodist churches, at Ros
man, Selica, East Fork, Lake Tox
away and Wolf Mountain. Services
are held on alternate Sundays at
each of these churches.
Another pastoral change made
—Turn To Page Twelve
Baptists To Meet
At Zion Church On
Sunday Afternoon
A meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Transylvania Bap
tist association will be held at
Zion Baptist church in Rosman
on Sunday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock, to which pastors of all
churches of the association are in
vited.
The purpose of the meeting is
to plan for the work of a centen
nial evangelist crusade for the
centennial year of 1945.
T. C. Henderson, in announcing
the meeting, said, “We wish to
enter into solemn covenant with
God and with one another to do
our best for Christ and the church
at all times. Every pastor in the
association, we sincerely hope, will
meet with the committee at the
time and place named.”
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Fourth Term President Of The U. S.
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
Local Hunters Make Records In
Pisgah National Forest Deer 6*
Bear Hunts; Weather Is Ideal
Get Total Of 10. Tinsley
Bags First One And
Stroup The Largest
Transylvania county hunters are
really making a record this season
in the Pisgah National Forest deer
and bear hunts, bagging 10 of the
51 deer killed during the first two
days of this week and getting the
first two out of three kills.
Of the 17 Transylvania county
hunters participating in the big
annual hunts, 10 of them went
home Monday and Tuesday with
some choice meat. A. E. Tinsley, of
Brevard, had the honor of killing
the first deer Monday morning.
He got a 100-pound doe at 8:15
o’clock, shortly after the hunts
opened.
Today the hunting switched to
North Mills, Pisgah Ledge and
Cantrell Creek, with a total of 250
sportsmen scheduled to participate
in the hunts there for the next
three days. Monday hunting will
return for three more days in the
Davidson River, Big Creek and
Bradley Creek wilderness areas.
The weather has been ideal for
the hunts.
—Turn To Page Six
Leading In Race
RALPH FISHER, shown
above, is leading Wallace Gal
loway in the race for House of
Representatives, according to
the unofficial tabulations pub
lished elsewhere in this issue.
Several years ago Fisher served
a term in the legislature.
Sgt. Sydney Gash, Brevard Boy, Awarded
Distinguished Flying Cross In Italy
(Special to The Times)
15TH AAF IN ITALY.—T. Sgt.
Sydney S. Gash, son of Mrs. Ella
R. Gash, Brevard, North Carolina,
has been awarded the Distin
guished Flying Cross for extraor
dinary achievement in aerial com
bat.
Sgt. Gash 15th Air Force aerial
engineer, helped his crew fight off
six ME-109’s who attacked their
crippled bomber, and later re
paired the damaged fuel line so
that the bomber was able to get
back to its base. The Liberator was
damaged on the bomb run at Plo
esti and was attacked by the fight
ers after falling out of formation.
The fighters succeeded in damag
ing the fuel system so badly that
much gasoline was lost, but Sgt.
Gash and the other gunners shot
down four of the attacking planes
and damaged the other two so
badly that they broke off the fight.
Sgt. Gash then crawled along the
narrow gas-slick catwalk over open
bomb doors and repaired the fuel
lines sufficiently for the bomber
to reach home. The crew counted
over 350 flak and machine gun
holes in their Liberator and me
chanics found less than 75 gallons
of fuel remaining in the gas cells.
Sgt. Gash, who is serving his
second tour of foreign duty after
flying 37 missions in the Aleutian
Islands, came to Italy several
months ago and recently flew his
41st mission with the Liberator
group commanded by Lt. Col. John
P. Tomhave, Montevideo, Minn.
Sgt. Gash, who is credited with
destroying three enemy aircraft,
now wears the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross and Air Medal with
three Oak Leaf clusters.
BEST IS ELECTED
AS PRESIDENT OF
BREVARD KIWANIS
Popular Local Man Succeeds
Hamlin. Johnson Is
Named Vice President.
F. S. “Buck” Best was e'ected
president of Brevard Ktwanis club
at the meefing held Friday night
at the Bryant. The Rev. E. Ashby
Johnson was named vice president.
Lewis Hamlin, incumbent presi
dent, will assume office of imme
diate past president.
The following directors were
elected for the ensuing year: Wil
lis Brittain, Eugene J. Coltrane, A.
H. Harris, Jerry Jerome. Keith
Pooser, Ralph H. Ramsev, W. Paul
Tindall.
Secretary and treasurer will be
named by the incoming board of
directors.
Mr, Best, new president of the
club, has served during 1944 as
vice president. He is assistant to
the president of Ecusta Paper cor
poration and is a popular Brevard
man. Vice President Johnson is
pastor of Brevard Davidson River
Presbyterian church.
Ten members of the club volun
teered to give a day’s work each
in the Sixth War Bond drive which
starts on Nov. 16. They will help
advertise meetings and solicit
bonds for the community rallies.
During the business session a
resolution was passe a by the club
thanking the faculty of Brevard
high school for the excellent job
done in staging the Halloween par
ty here last week, and promising
to support such a movement in
1945.
Favorable discussion was given
by several members of the move
ment to establish a teen-age enter
tainment center at the high school
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COLLEGE STUDENTS
FAVOR ROOSEVELT
Give Him A Majority of 3 to
1. Also Favor Other
Democrats.
By a vote of over three to one
Brevard college students Tuesday
favored the re-election of Presi
dent Roosevelt over Governor
Dewey.
The campus election was spon
sored by the International Rela
tions club to familiarize the stu
dents with the main principles of
voting, registering and final cast
ing of ballots and to arouse inter
est in politics and government.
“Four years from now most of
our students will be voting and
the purpose of our election was to
create interest in government,” Dr.
A. L. Bramlett, professor of his
tory and sponsor of the club, stated.
Former Governor Clyde Hoey
and a member of the college board
of trustees, received the highest
number of votes cast. For United
States senate he received 118
votes and Ferree only 23.
In the congressional race Weaver
received 100 votes and Hamlin 42,
while in the local race for house
of representatives Galloway de
feated Fisher 98 to 48.
A total of 189 students register
—Turn To Page Twelve
Sgt. Merrell Wounded
In Action in France
Mr. dnd Mrs. G. G. Merrell, of
Pisgah Forest, have been notified
that their son. S. Sgt. Glen J. Mer
rell, is in a hospital in Phoenix
ville, Pa., where he has been since
Oct. 26, after being wounded in
France. He was overseas in Eng
land and France seven months.
He wears the decorations for the
European theater of operations,
combat infantryman’s badge and
the Purple Heart. He was inducted
into the army in June, 1942.
Two other sons, Pvt. Emerson
Merrell, is in France, and Theo
dore Merrell has just been drafted
into service.
County, State And National Officers
U. S. Senator
CLYDE R. HOEY
Congressman
ZEBULON WEAVER
Governor
GREGG CHERRY
Secretary
THAD EURE
Sixth War Loan Drive To Open
In Transylvania Next Monday
County Goes Over
Top Of Its United
War Fund Campaign
Transylvania county is over the
top of its United War and Com
munity Chest fund quota by almost
$200, Chairman J. S. Silversteen
announced late yesterday.
“All reports are not in yet, but
we believe that the county will ex
ceed its quota by about $400,” he
said.
“1 am delighted with this fine
record and wish to thank every
one,” he added.
Announcement will be made
next week of the school contest
winners.
Banquets To Be Held To
night And Friday. Ral
lies Are Announced
The sixth war loan drive will
open in Transylvania county next
Monday night with a rally to be
held at Quebec school, Chairman
Ed H. McMahan announced today.
The drive was orginally sch
eduled to open on Thursday, the
16th, but in order to conclude the
12 rallies that are to be held
throughout the county on or be
fore December 15th, it was nec
essary to open the campaign next
Monday, he said.
Plans for the drive will be made
at banquets to be held tonight
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F olio wing T ransyl vania A *
This column is devoted to news of men serving
their country. Such news is solicited from parents
and friends of these men. “Revenge Pearl Harbor”
CpL Louis F. McAuley has been
promoted to the rank of corporal,
according to information received
from the 15th air force command
in Italy. He is a clerk in a quarter
master trucking company. He has
received the good conduct ribbon
and the African-European-Middle
Eastern theatre. He is the son of
Rev. and Mrs. S. F. McAuley, of
Brevard. He was graduated from
Brevard high school and attended
Mars Hill college prior to entering
service in August, 1943.
—“ .... *
Pvt. Frank T. Owens, of Bre
vard, trainee of “B” company,
174th Infantry Replacement Train
ing battalion, Camp Hood, Texas,
qualified as marksman with the
Army’s M-l Rifle. Private Owens,
who is now in his seventh week
of infantry training, has also fired
the .30 calibre carbine, the Anti
tank Rocket Launcher (Bazooka),
and Rifle Greledes. He has
thrown Hand Grenades under sim
ulated combat conditions and later
—Tun To Page Six
ROOSEVELT SWEEPS
NATION, HOEY AND
CHERRY WINNERS
Democrats Lead In Contests
For Both Branches Of
The National Congress
VOTING IS HEAVY
In the county, state and nation
the Democrats won sweeping vic
tories in the general election Tues
day according to unofficial re
turns reported late Wednesday af
ternoon.
Preisdent Franklin D. Roosevelt
was elected fourth term president
in Tuesday’s national election,
winning over his Republican op
ponent, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, in
the wartime presidential race by a
majority of two and a quarter
million popular votes and a land
slide of 283 electoral votes, re
turns from 34 states as tabulated
by this paper before going to
press last night revealed.
Roosevelt’s popular vote at that
time stood at 20,034,190 as against
Dewey’s 17,993,631. The electoral
vote for Roosevelt was 407 and
Dewey 124. from the incomplete
returns.
Incomplete official returns in the
senate race gave the Democrats
control of 51 seats, with 12 unde
cided. In the house of represen
tatives, the Democrats had 180
seats and the Republicans 104. It is
belie\ <'d that the Deaugnqlfe. we
ed by the time the new emigres
convenes in January.
Returns in the governor’s race
at that time showed 11 states with
Democratic governors, against 10
Republicans.
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QUEBEC TVA AREA
PROJECT OKEYED
County Is Granted Third
Area Unit. Fifty-One
Fanners Will Participate
The application of the Quebec
area demonstration has been ap
proved by the Tennessee Valley
Authority, T. S. Gash, assistant
farm agent announced this week.
A total of 51 farmers in the Que
bect section are included in the
area project and will receive phos
phate and nitrate, farm planning
and supervisional aid and assist
ance from TVA forestry special
ists.
This gives the county three TVA
area demonstration units, involv
ing 120 farmers. The other two
areas are Gloucester and Dunn’s
Rock.
Application for the Quebec proj.
ect was made some time ago after
a complete survey was made and a
tentative organization perfected.
At a recent meeting C. W. Hen
derson was elected chairman, M.
O. McCall, vice chairman; Mrs. C.
M. Fisher, secretary; J. A. Glaz
ener, county agent and T. S. Gash,
assistant agent, members.
“This area movement is the out
growth of the work of neighbor
—Turn To Page Twelve
Court Of Honor To
Be Held On Friday
At Methodist Church
The November court of honor
for the Transylvania district of
the Boy Scouts will be held Fri
day night at 7:30 o’clock at the
Brevard Methodist church, J. E.
Trantham, advancement chairman,
announces.
The “honor troop plaque” for
October was won by troop number
1 for having the most advance
ment and attendance.. “All troops
are urged to participate in this
contest,” Mr. Trantham said.
Scouters, parents and friends
are invited to attend the court of
honor.
After the meeting Friday night,
a meeting of all the scoutmasters
in the district will be held.