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TRANSYLVANIA IS— . An Industrial, Tourist, Educational and Agri cultural Center. Popula tion, 12.241. The Transylvania Times A State And National Prize-Winning Newspaper And An A.B.C. Paper TRANSYLVANIA IS— The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca For Sum me r Camps and Entrance' to Pisgah National Forest VoL 56; No. 24 ★ 20 PAGES TODAY ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1946 ★ SECTION ONE ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY 1,000 TO ATTEND SUMMER CAMPS ****************** ********* Recreation Program Gets Underway Monday SHUFORD WILL DIRECT PLAY OF CHILDREN HERE Parents Urged To Co-oper fk ate By Bringing Young sters To School Field DRIVE IS CONTINUED The organized program of ath letics and recreation for children of all ages of Brevard and vicinity will get underway next Monday morning at 9 o’clock on the Bre vard high school field under the direction of Albert Shuford. All parents are urged to co-op erate in the program and bring their children to the field for su pervised and directed play by Mr. Shuford. Facilities are now being erected for various kinds of games such as tennis, badminton, shuffleboard, softball, horseshoe pitching and sandboxes and swings are being built for the smaller children. Daily Operation Of Program The recreational program will be in operation each week day from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 5, and the extensive program of super vised play is expected to draw sev eral hundred children each day. Shuford, who received his de gree in physical education at W. C. T. C. last week, has also taken over the supervision and operation of the softball league, and -larger crowds are expected to attend. fhe doubleheaders oaf Jywd4, **Hl Friday nights since the weather has warmed up. At a meeting of the directors of the association last Thursday night in the office of the president, George Wheeler, R. C. “Slim” Bullock was appointed as financial manager of the association and au thorized to do the purchasing of equipment and supplies needed in the operation of the organized —Turn Te Page Twelve MUNICIPAL POOL TO OPEN FRIDAY I Johnny Fuller To Serve As Instructor And Lifeguard. “Free” Day Friday The municipal swimming pool here will open for the summer sea son Friday and will be operated by Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Fuller, town officials announced this week. Opening day has been designat ed as “free” day for all at the pool and several hundred persons are expected to don their bathing suits or the first time this year. Fuller, a returned veteran, has just completed a life-saving course at the American Red Cross aquat ic school held at Camp Carolina and will teach swimming and serve as life-guard. The pool will be open from 10 until 12 o’clock and from 2 until 6 o’clock every day during the week. Water is changed twice —Turn To Page Seven Large Liquor Still Captured In County By Officers Sunday One of the largest stills to be captured in Transylvania county was found last Sunday afternoon by Sheriff Bert Freeman and Streeter Fisher in the Feed Rock section between Cedar Mountain and the Greenville water sheds. Approximately 1,200 gallons of beer were destroyed and the six, large steel vats which contained the mash were brought back to Brevard by the sheriff. They are now on display behind the court house. It was a brand new outfit and the vats appear to be dye tanks from some bleachery, Freeman said. The still, located only 100 yards off the road, was found when the sheriff became suspicious of bushes and shrubbery being cut away on an embankment Proposed Highway Program In County Is Submitted By Roads Committee Of Brevard Chamber —-» - New Chief Of Police B. F. BANTHER, former mem ber of the Brevard police force, was chosen as chief of police by the board of aldermen and as sumed his duties last Thursday. He succeeds Frank Allen. BAJCTHER SUCCEEDS1 ALLEN AS CHIEF OF POLICE HERE Allen Is Demoted As Chief And Refused To Accept Position On Force B. F. Banther has been appoint ed chief of the Brevard police force and is succeeding Frank Al len in this capacity. Banther served on the local force two months this spring and resigned May 11 to accept a posi tion on the West Greenville, S. C., force. Prior to coming here, he had been on the Greenville, S. C., city force for three years. The reason given for resigning last month was that he could not find a place to live. Chief Banther is married and has three children. He was born at Pelzer, S. C., and spent 12 years working out in the western states. His father was the late Weldon Banther, a native of this county. Silas C. Jame6, of Little River section, was recently appointed on the Brevard force and M. A. “Slim” Nelson is the other mem ber of the department. The aldermen, it is understood, are planning to appoint a fourth officer in the near future and to purchase a police car. With this addition, Brevard will have an ade quate police force, it is believed. Officer James was born in New port, Tenn., and lived in Hay wood county before coming to —Turn To Page Seven Recommendations Are To Be Sent To The State Highway Department A suggested program of highway improvement and construction in Transylvania county has been sub mitted to the State Highway and Public Works Commission by the good roads committee of the Bre vard chamber of commerce, with the urgent request that immediate attention be given to the county’s road system An outline of the program is as follows: County Roads 1. Stone and make passable all of the county roads. 2. Re-locate and pave Island Ford road from Brevard by the country club to the Greenville highway. 3. Raise and pave Everett farm road from Davidson River to Cal houn. 4. Raise, straighten and gravel road from Wilson’s bridge on the Greenville highway down the east side of the river to Pisgah Forest. State Roads 1. Faster and more permanent repair of state highways. 2. Re-locate and surface high wajNaboye Rosman to Lake Tox 3. Raise U. S. 64 to the Hender son county line and highway 276 towards Greenville to get above high water level. 4. Re-locate and concrete U. S.' 64 to Hendersonville. The committee also pointed out that the traffic through the cen ter of town is too heavy and re quested the town officials to ask the state highway to widen Caldwell street from King street to West Main and make another entrance into the town; to designate this route as 64-A truck route and to widen the intersection of South Caldwell and U. S. 64. Highway Has Plans A sub-committee composed of Ralph Ramsey, Willis Brittain and Verne Clement was appointed to present this program to John A. Goode, of Asheville, district com missioner and to the chairman of the state highway commission. Wfllis Brittain, chairman of the county board of commissioners and one of the leaders in obtaining im-1 —Turn To Page Seven Record Number Of Fish Caught To Date The record number of fish caught last year in the Pisgah Na tional Forest streams will soon be broken, Ranger W. W. Huber prophesied this week, as the sum mer weather begins to break. Already more than 4,000 fish ermen have caught over 18,000 rainbow and brook trout, while for the entire season last year, 5,092 sportsmen hooked approxi mately 23,000 fish. Flying Service Opens Airstrip At Rosman, Several Learning To Fly The H-B-H Flying service, of Brevard, owned and operated by Freeman Hayes, Roger Hayes and Dewey Burton, has opened an air strip on a field adjoining the edge of the town of Rosman and a large number of persons made flights from the strip during the past week in the new Aeronca Champion, which the three men recently purchased. At the present time the Brevard airstrip, located one mile from the city limits on the Hendersonville highway, is being rolled and grad ed and will soon be in excellent condition, the owners said. Con struction on a hanger on the upper end of the field is expected to be gin in the near future. Several Taking Pilot Training Considerable interest is being shown in flying here since the opening of the two airstrips, Free man Hayes said, and several per sons began taking flying instruc tions this week. Eugene Morris, who had more than 1,500 hours of instructing in the army, has been employed to teach pilot training for the flying service here. Per sons who have already made appli cation for flight training include: Frank Hopkins, Ralph Galloway, Frank Duckworth, J. C. Cassell, Jim Davis and John and Ed M. Anderson. “Tha mountains are now ap proaching the peak of their true -m Ta Page Six MORE BLACK DIAMONDS FOR NATION’S FURNACES THE SCENE HAS CHANGED at the Norfolk and Western yards in Williamson, W. Va. Where a few days ago empty coal cars filled the yards, now with the soft coal miners back at their jobs, the yards are once more working at top speed to transport the precious fuel to feed the nation’s furnaces. Wil liamson is the gathering point for some 300,000 tons of coal mined weekly the the local areas. (International) New Lion President DR. JULIUS SADER, prom inent local physician, who rec turned recently from overseas service in the U. S. Army Med ical corps, was elected president of the Brevard Lions club at the regular meeting last week. He and other officials elected will be installed at a ladies’ night meeting of the club on June 20. LOCAL FIREMEN TOOK INTENSIVE TRAINING DURING PAST WEEK The Brevard volunteer fire de partment has been taking intensive training courses in fire fighting and safety methods during the past week under Fire Chief Jim Bailey in Asheville, Dan Merrill, local chief, announces this week. The Brevard firemen have had considerable practice on the train ing tower on Merrimon avenue in Asheville and are prepared to cope with any emergency, Chief Merrill stated. At the last regular meeting Roy McCall was elected secretary and Melvin Smith assistant secretary and lieutenant to fill vacancies caused by resignations. Attending the practices in Ashe ville were: Chief Merrill, D. R. Boyd, Frank Bridges, James Bridges, Ted McCrary, Fred Tay lor, Melvin Smith, Roy McCall, Robert Kilpatrick, Donald Kil patrick, Shirley Primm, Gill Thom as, Leon English, Boyd Riddle, Jr., and Paul Kellar. ATTENDING THE KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL MEETING Dr. E. J. Coltrane, lieutenant governor of this Kiwanis district, Mrs. Coltrane and Charlie Doug las are attending the annual con vention of Kiwanis International in Atlantic City this week. Mr. Douglas is representing the local dub. Three Teams Tied For Lead In Softball League, Large Crowd Expected To Attend Games Fri. CAFE WORKER IS ARRESTED HERE BY FBI AGENTS Arrest Made After Sheriff Freeman Recognized Pic ture From Circular Lewis Vernon May, alias James Lewis Tabor, was arrested last Sat urday afternoon by FBI agents and Transylvania county officers in Galloway’s cafe here, where he was employed. The FBI agents said he is want ed in two states and that the most recent charge against him alleges rape in the state of Maryland. May was arrested after Sheriff Bert Freeman recognized his pic ture on a FBI circular of wanted persons which he received Satur day morning. He immediately con tacted the FBI. Following the arrest, May was given a hearing before U. S. Com missioner Alex Kizer and placed under a $10,000 bond. May had been employed at Gal loway’s cafe as a waiter for the past six weeks. Pete Bikas, the owner, said May told him that he had operated a lunch counter in Woolworth’s store in Seattle, Wash., for the past three years. —Turn To Page Twelve Nylon Hose To Be Given Away. League Leaders To Play Three teams, American Legion, Pulp Mill and Champagne, are all tied for the lead in the Transyl vania Softball league and a large crowd is expected to attend the doubleheader Friday night between Champagne and the Baptist church teams and the American Legion and Pulp Mill nines. In an effort to stimulate interest in the games each Tuesday and Friday night, the directors of the Brevard Athletic and Recreation association voted last week to give away prizes each week after the games. Prizes To Be Given Two pair of “nylons” will be given away Friday night, George Wheeler, president of the associa tion, announces and the night is expected to be “ladies” night. In one of the best games of the season last Tuesday night, the Presbyterian church team downed the A. W. Wheeler team in an extra-inning ball game, 8 to 7. Burchfield led the victors at the bat, and Henderson starred for Wheeler. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Jaycees took another licking by the Ki wanis team this time, 18 to 5. Pete Wright had three for three for the Kiwanians and H. Cohen had two for four for the Jaycees. —Turn To Page Six Emergency Food Drive To End In County Next Tuesday, $500 Raised Ira B. Armfield, chairman of the Emergency Food Collection in be half of the UNRRA in Transyl vania county, announced yesterday that the drive in this county would close Tuesday. Already the greater part of the money contrib uted has been sent to New Yoric, he said* and the tinned food donat ed will be shipped before the 22nd. “The drive in this county has been only moderately successful,” Mr. Armfield said. “Judging by the response in the two old cloth ing drives, I had hoped we would be able to raise a few thousand dollars. It appears now that it will be hundreds instead unless contri butions pick up sharply in the few remaining days. The total collected to date is a little over $500. “In view of the continuing shortages of foods of different kinds, I can understand the re luctance of people to part with their canned goods,” he stated. “It is a distinct possibility that they will need them in the approach ing months.” Mr. Armfield said that a num ber of people had promised do nations but had neglected to hand them to him because they assumed the campaign would run on foi some time. “I want to urge them tc let me have their money or checks before Tuesday,” he said, “because I want to remit the balance in my —Turn To Pace Su / 300 COUNSELORS SIGNED, SEASON OPENS NEXT WEEK Boys And Girls Will Come From All Parts Of The United States BAR FLORIDA YOUTHS Approximately 1,000 boys and girls from various parts of the United States will arrive in Bre vard on varying days next week to make up the attendance at the nine summer camps which will operate in Transylvania county for a period from four to eight weeks this summer. More than three hundred coun selors, some from Brevard and others from colleges throughout the South, will make up the staffs at the nine camps and will work under the direct supervision of the owners and managers. A larger number of campers was expected this year, but because of the epidemics of poliomyelitis in: Florida, from where many Transyl vania county summer campers come, this number has been re duced considerably. At a meeting of the owners and' managers of the camps last Sat urday morning at Camp Illahee, an appeal was made to the attorney general that campers who lived in. areas in Florida not affected by the epidemic be permitted to at tend camp here, but no action has been taken on this appeal as yet, it is understood. The present regulation of the North Carolina board of health, which was adopted June 3, provides that all persons under sixteen years of age who come into this state from affected areas shall be quarantined on the premises for I14 days. Under this regulation, en rollment of children from epi i demic areas is prohibited. —Turn To Page Six GROCERY FIRM TO OPEN MONDAY I — Brevard’s First Wholesaler Of Its Kind Is Started On Whitmire Street The Brevard Wholesale Grocery will open for business at 450 Whit mire street on Monday, Curtis Kelley, the owner, has announced. Dwight Moffitt, who has had sev eral years’ experience in the retail grocery business, will be manager and he will be assisted by Carroll Merrill, formerly of Henderson county but more recently a teacher in the local high school. Mr. Kelley purchased the stock and goodwill of Lentz Brothers of Hendersonville and decided to move the merchandise here and continue the business. From his long experience in the grocery business here, Mr, Kelley said he was of the opinion that such a con cern could render a distinct ser vice to grocery merchants in Bre vard and vicinity. He also stated —Turn To Page Six Summer Term At Brevard College To Open Monday The Brevard college summer term will open next Monday morrv ning, President E. J. Coltrane an nounces. A capacity enrollment is ex pected to attend the summer ses sion and college officials are go ing “all out” to take care of as many veterans as possible, it is un derstood. Work has been started on the erection of 21 government housing units to accommodate at least 38 GI’s and should be completed oy August, the president said. During the past year, the col lege had a record enrollment and the year was one of the best and most successful in the history of the college, President Coltrane stated.
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