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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 Summer Camps and Entrance to Pisgah National Forest -*•'» Vol. 56; No. 31 ★ 16 PAGES TODAY * BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1946 SECTION ONE PUBLISHED WEEKLY ANXIETY IS QUIETED BY NEW OPA Final Softball League Games Are Announced GAMES WILL BE PLAYED TONIGHT AND FRIDAY, 7:30 Kiwanians Leading. Cham pagne-Pulp Mill Series Be gins Next Tuesday FREE NYLONS FRIDAY The last scheduled games in the Transylvania Softball league will be played Friday night here on the lighted Brevard high school field and the play-off series to de termine the winner of the first half will begin next Tuesday night between the two Ecusta teams, Champagne and Pulp Mill. The Kiwanis nine is now lead ing in the second half of play and a win over the Javeees Friday night will give the Kiwanians the second half championship. The final championship series between the winner of the second half and the winner of the series between Champagne and Pulp Mill will begin next Friday night, Au gust 9th.. with an exhibition game between the WACs of Moore Gen eral hospital and the Champagne and Pulp Mill girls also scheduled for that evening. Exhibition Games Next Week There will also be exhibition games next Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday night with the Pulp Mill-Champagne series games. The first game will begin each evening at 7:30 o’clock. Thursday night, August 1st., a doubleheader which was previously rained out between the American Legion and the Jaycees and Cham pagne and A. W. Wheeler will be played providing the weatherman doesn't interfere again. R. C. “Slim" Bullock announces that rain checks are being issued at each game and will be good for the following doubleheader when games are called on account of —Turn To Page Eight ELECTRIC FIRM OPENS SATURDAY H. H. Bangs Is Manager Of New Appliance Concern On Jordan And Gaston H. H. Bangs, manager, an nounces the opening here Saturday in the new brick building at the corner of Jordan and Gaston streets, of Electric Service com pany. Mr. Bangs is co-owner of the new concern and his partner is E. E. Hartnett, of Hendersonville. The local store is a branch of the Hendersonville firm by the same name. To Handle Appliances The Electric Service company will handle a comprehensive line of electrical appliances and will feature the Westinghouse make. Mr. Bangs said in view of the long-deferred purchase of many household appliances, he antici pated brisk business for a long time once the supply became ade quate. He expects conditions in this respect to become increasing —Turn To Page Five Baptist Association Will Hold Meetings August 7th. And 8th. The Transylvania Baptist asso ciation will meet Wednesday and Thursday, August 7th. and 8th., with delegates from all the Baptist churches in the county represent l ed, Rev. B. W. Thomason, mod ■ erator, announced this week. Wednesday’s meeting will be held at Enon Baptist church, while the meeting Thursday will be at Mt. Moriah-Cdlvert Baptist church, Mr. Thomason said. Among the prominent speakers present for the occasion will be Dr. I. G. Grier, of the Thomasville Baptist orphan age and Dr. M. A. Huggins, of Ra leigh. The associational sermon Wed nesday morning will be preached by P. L. McMahan. N. L. Ponder is clerk for the association. Monroe Redden To Speak At Merchants Picnic August 22, Full Program Is Announced —— - To Stage Various Contests And A Softball Game In The Afternoon _ Monroe Redden, Hendersonville attorney and Democratic nominee for Congress from this district, will speak at the annual picnic of the Brevard Merchants associa tion to be held at Camp Sapphire Thursday afternoon and evening, August 22, James E. Smith, presi dent of the association, announced today. Approximately 300 employers and employees and guests are expected to attend the big event that will feature entertainment in the afternoon, a barbecue chick en dinner at 5:30 o'clock and a formal program with Mr. Redden as the principal speaker at 6:30 o’clock. Horseshoe pitching contests will start at 2:30 in the afternoon with A. A. Trantham in charge. Shuffle board contests for both men and women will last from 2:30 until 3:15. Jack Parsons will be in charge of this activity for the men and Miss Mary Helen Gal loway for the women. Alvin Patterson and John An derson will direct races for men at 3:15 and Mrs. Nancy Gravely and Mrs. Gill Thomas will have charge of the races for women to be staged at 3:30 o’clock. In all of these contests, prizes will be awarded to winners, Mr, Smith stated. A men’s softball game starts at 3:45 o’clock and J. B. Martin is in charge. Rev. Ashby Johnson will give an invocation and the E c u s t a string band will furnish music during the picnic dinner. S. E. Varner, Jr., vice president of the association, will deliver the ad dress of welcome and the response will be made by Miss Helen Owen. Glenn Winchester will lead group singing and Ralph R. Fisher will introduce Mr. Redden. “We are looking forward to hav ing another outstanding picnic,” Mr. Smith said. To Speak Aug. 22 MONROE REDDEN, Hender sonville, former chairman of the state Democratic executive com mittee and Democratic nominee for Congress, will speak at the annual picnic of the Brevard Merchants association Aug 22. SCHOOLS TO OPEN AUGUST 28, MORE TEACHERS NEEDED Lunchroom And Cannery Programs To Continue. Study Budget Needs The county board of education met here Tuesday night and set the date for the opening of Tran sylvania county schools as Wed nesday, August 28, Supt. J. B. Jones announced yesterday. By opening on Wednesday, the schools will make up two Thanksgiving holidays and one day for elections, when the local schools will be used. By opening at this date, schools will close Friday, December 20th. —Turn To Page Four Infantile Paralysis Chapter Will Meet There will be a meeting of the Transylvania county chapter of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis Friday morning at 11:00 o’clock in the office of Superintendent J. B. Jones here in the courthouse, it is announced this week. The primary purpose of the meeting will be for the election of a chairman of the chapter to suc ceed Dr. G. B. Lynch, who re signed, vice-chairman Jones stat ed. All persons interested in infan tile paralysis work in the county are urged to attend. Social Security Is Frozen For Another Year At Same Rate WASHINGTON.—The senate re jected the $200-a-month Townsend old age pension plan again Tues day, but approved legislation in creasing federal aid grants to poorer states and freezing social security taxes at one per cent for another year. Approval of the measure, which greatly revises the present social security set-up, came on a voice vote after the membership, by standing vote, turned down the pe rennial attempt to put the so-called “Townsend plan” on the statute books. Three Concerts This Week End Will Close Season At Music School-Camp The Transylvania Music-Camp will present three concerts this week end to terminate the 1946 season, James Christian Pfohl, the director, announced yesterday. The sixth and final program of the faculty series will be given Thursday night in the summer theater auditorium on the camp site at 8:15 o’clock. Harris Mitehel of the music department of the University of Georgia will play a group of French horn solos and Allen Bone, director of the Duke university band, will appear as clarinet soloist. Concert Friday Night On Friday night the Transylvania Music School-camp chorus of 60 voices and the camp symphony or chestra will combine the music ef fects for the evening’s program in a concert which promises to be one of the most popular ones of the season, Director Pfohl said. The Transylvania concert band, with Mr. Bone as guest director will present the final concert of the season on Saturday evening at 8:15 o’clock^ The public is cordially invited to attend these programs, camp offi cials stated, and an overflowing audience is expected. During the past week the stu dents and faculty of the Music School-camp have presented two band concerts, two performances of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic —Tam To Pac« Kl|kt DRIVE ENDING, LAST CHANCE TO JOIN FESTIVAL Few Memberships To Bre vard Music Festival Avail able. Success Ascertained The campaign to secure mem berships in the Brevard Music Festival association is rapidly drawing to a close, F. S. Best, chairman of the finance com mittee, announces this week. The membership is limited to 500, and Chairman Best says that persons desiring to attend the festival next week are urged to join immediately if they haven’t already done so. Musicians Arriving Mrs. Henry H. Carrier, presi dent of the association, states that the festival will be a financial success and that many national ly known musicians will arrive here this week end to begin re hearsals for the four concerts next week. All programs will be under the direction of James Christian Pfohl, the director of the Transyl vania Music School-camp, and will be presented in the summer theatre auditorium on the camp site. Carroll Glenn, international ly famous violinist, will appear on the first program next Friday night in an all Mendelssohn pro gram. From all indications, the free children’s concert on Saturday af ternoon, August 10, by the Bre vard Little Symphony will be well attended. Several summer camp managers in the county have ex pressed a desire to send their en tire camp personnel to the con cert and invitations have been ex tended to other youth groups in the town and county as well as to all Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Saturday evening the same Lit tle Symphony will give a program of music by contemporary Ameri can composers, and on Sunday af ternoon Mario Berini and Selma Kaye, stellar performers with the Chicago Opera company will be presented in an operatic program. “Stork” Is Busy In Transylvania County, 12 Babies In 1 Week Ole Father Stork should receive some special citation for his gen erosity to Transylvania county mothers for in the past week he delivered an even dozen babies at the Transylvania community hos pital here. Seven of the babies were boys and were born to Mrs. Lois Grav ley, Mrs. Frances Owen, Mrs. L. M. Pressley, Mrs. C. H. Hutchins, Mrs. Ethel Tinsley, Mrs. Reba King and Mrs. Emma Shook. The five girls were born to Mrs. I. O. Linville, Mrs. Frances Meix ell, Mrs. PaulMcKinney, Mrs. Helen Manley and Mrs. Vance Jackson. High Real Estate Prices Retarding Progress In Town High real estate prices here are retarding progress, a check up to day reveals. Real estate agents said a num ber of outsiders have been in Brevard during the past few months with the view of buying lots and erecting homes or in pur chasing existing homes. Many of them, it is stated, did not buy be cause of high prices. K. S. Foster, former president of the New Orleans, La., chamber of commecre, was one of the pros pective home-builders here and on July 29 he wrote Mrs. Mary Jane McCrary the following letter: “Mrs. Foster and I finally re turned to New Orleans after a most pleasant but strenuous trip. “After looking over the invest ment field in your section, we both came to the conclusion that inflation values are even higher there than those in this section. However, we have not abandoned —Ton To Page Eight Where Yank Was Killed In Trieste AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, identified as Pfc. Walter L. Kujawa of New Jersey, is shown lying near his jeep after he was killed by an unknown assailant in the Daberdo area near Trieste. Two oth er GIs in the jeep were uninjured. Kujawa drove the vehicle. * (International Radiophoto.) George Wheeler Re-elected To Head Recreation And Athletic Association Drive Successful Re-Elected President ________ Other Officers Named At Meeting Tuesday. Bul lock On Board George Wheeier, well-known Transylvania county industrialist was re-elected president of the Brevard Recreation and Athletic association here at a meeting Tuesday night over the city hall. Other officers elected were: Ralph Fisher, vice-president; John Eversman, secretary; and R. T Kimzey was re-elecled treasurer. Raymond F. Bennett, Gill Thom as and Anthony Trantham were chosen to comprise the executive board of directors with the four officers named, and R. C. Bullock was elected to represent the pub lic at large on the executive board. More Donations Expected Prior to the election of officers, President Wheeler announced that the drive made by the association has been successful and that addi tional donations are expected to be made in the near future. Approximately $750.00 was re alized in cash, it was stated, with some $750 in uncollected pledges, making a total of $1,500.00 raised thus far in the campaign to secure funds to carry on the athletic and recreation program in Transylvania county. President Wheeler said that several persons had prom ised donations and he felt assured —Turn To Page Four GEORGE WHEELER was re elected president of the Bre vard Recreation and Athletic as sociation at a meeting of the or ganization Tuesday night over the city hall. WheeJer was lauded for his work in the association last year by the directors at the meeting. Misses Kathleen and Mary Mc Crary returned home Wednesday after graduating from Blanton’s business college in Asheville. Large Amount Of Canning Being Done At Transylvania Community Cannery Unusually large numbers of cans of beans, corn, peaches, beets, soup mixture, and chicken are be ing canned this week at the Tran sylvania community cannery by housewives who are using the fa cilities here, according to C. L. Simmons, Brevard high school vo cational agriculture teacher, who is in charge of the cannery. The cannery operates from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week now, but if the demand is sufficient, it will operate five days a week, Mr. Simmons said. At present Mrs. Simmons is the instructor and will give assistance to those persons needing it Elbertas Best For Canning “The Elberta, a yellow, easily peeled peach, which is best suited to canning is now available,” Mr. Simmons stated. “This week and next will be the best time for these peaches,” he added. Persons desiring to use the fa cilities of the cannery are urged to report not later than 2 o’clock each day the cannery is open. Any one wishing to call Mr. or Mrs. Simmons is requested to phone 623 at the cannery on Tuesday, Wed nesday and Thursday between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m., or 382-W on other days. Mr. Simmons emphasized the fact -Mi To Page Fin CEILING PLACED BACK ON NEARLY HALF FOOD ITEMS President Truman Names Three Men On Important Decontrol Board INCREASES GRANTED Transylvania county people who had watched with growing anxiety the rapid increase of prices, par ticularly of food, following the de mise of the OPA, were reassured a week ago when President Tru man signed a new price control bill which restored old ceiling, prices to approximately half the food products consumed by the American people. The principal items which are now free of price control are foods containing 20 per cent or more by volume of meat, poultry, eggs, dairy products, cottonseed and soybean derivatives. The OPA has also ruled that grains and all ani mal and poultry feeds made from grain are ceiling-free—but not grain foods for humans, such as breakfast cereals, bread, corn syrup, oatmeal, com flour and corn meal. All forms of tobacco are uncontrolled. President Truman has named a decontrol board consisting of Roy L. Thompson, of New Orleans; George H. Mead, of Dayton, Ohio; and Daniel W. Bell, of Washing ton, to determine whether meat,, dairy products and other condi tionally exempt items shall remain free of ceilings after August 20. Ceilings will be restored on the ex empt items on August 21, with the exception of poultry, eggs, tobac co and their products, unless the> board rules otherwise. Paul A. Porter, OPA administra tor, has announced that fresh and canned fruits and vegetables, cof —Turn To Page Four DRAFTING PLANS FOR FLOWER SHOW Brevard Garden Club Will Hold Event Here On August 10th. Members of the Brevard Garden club are completing plans for their flower show to be held at the NYA hut August 10th., the com mittee on arrangements an nounces. The event will be the first of its kind that the club has sponsored since before the war. A large number of classifica tions of displays and exhibits is being worked out and first, second and third prizes will be awarded in each classification. The classi fication list will be announced next week. First, second and third sweep stakes prizes for those getting the highest number of points will be awarded. All entries must be made at the* NYA hut by 11 o’clock Saturday morning, August 10. The commit tee announces that every one is eligible to enter specimens and arrangements and that the —Turn To Page Five Three County Men Made Solo Flights After Ten Hours With considerable interest being shown in flying here in the coun ty, three local men recently so loed and have received their stu dent certificates, Gene Morris, the instructor of the H & H Flying service, has announced. All three men, Frank Duck worth, David Crary and Lonnie Jones, received approximately ID hours of flying instructions under Morris, a former army instructor pilot, and soloed off the Hender sonville airport field under the in spection of Oscar Myer, Hender sonville pilot. More than 25 other local mat are now taking pilot training on the H & H airstrip, Managers Freeman and Rogers Hayes said: this week.
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