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TRANSYLVANIA IS— The Land of Waterfalls. Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah National Forest and Home of Brevard Music Festival. The Transylvania Times A State And National Prize-Winning Newspaper And An A.B.C. Paper TRANSYLVANIA IS— An Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Agricul tural and Music Cen ter. Population 12,241. Vol. 58; No. 45 ★ SECTION ONE ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1948 ★ 16 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY DEMOCRATS WIN HERE, IN NATION Many Make Record Corn Yields STRAUS GIVES NEW MOISTURE TESTER FOR SERVICE HERE _ Glazener Says Local Farm ers Are Profiting With Famed Apparatus NICHOLSON ON TOP More than 20 Transylvania conn ty farmers have already qualified : for the 100 bushel corn club for ■ the 1048 season, and according to j Julian A. Glazener, county agent, j several others are expected to: make more than 100 bushels ol j hybrid on one acre of land when ! all farms have been measured. | Heading the list of corn produc tion on one acre in the county at the present time is Freeman Nich olson, part-time farmer in the Lit tle River community, who has a record of 131 bushels. On five acre tracts, Ralph Ramsey, prom inent lawyer and farmer of Tran sylvania had 558 bushels; Pat Alli son had 521 bushels; and, Marvin Whitmire produced 521.5 bushels on five acres. County Agent Glaze- j ner says there are five other five-1 track plots to be measured in the county and results will be published when all tabulations are completed.: Among the other high producers! in the 100 bushel club to date are: j J. B. Lance, veteran farmer. 127.4 . bushels in the Rosman community on land rented from R. F. Glaze ner; C. H. Bales, vocational agri culture teacher at Rosman. 126.9 bushels on land rented from JacK; Fisher; and Shipman Whitmire, j FFA Brevard high school student, j 124.9. He is the son or Mr. and Mrs. | G. W. Whitmire. ‘•These are but a few of the | twenty some that have already ■ placed in the 100 bushel club,” i Mr. Glazener declares. All yields | are based upon the moisture con-1 tent of the corn the day the field was measured and the corn weigh- j ed. As an example, a sample of! — I urn To Pane Five I HENDERSONVILLE MAN BUYS BAKERY To Continue Offering Com plete Line Of Products At Quality Shop H. P. Owenby, of Hendersonville, has bought the Quality Bakery here from Robert Jackson and has al- i ready taken charge of the business. Mr. Jackson is now connected with a bakery in Orlando, Fla. Mr. Owenby said that he plan ned to offer a complete line of bakery products. He is a veteran of World War II and has had sev en years experience in the bakery business. Ed Flood, who was connected with the local bakery in the past, will remain, and Mr. Owenby said his sister, Miss Betty Owenby, will assist with the book work and wait on the trade. Mr. Owenby is married and he and his wife have an infant. They reside on Park Avenue extension. *'—-—-■——--—+ CALENDAR OF i EVENTS 4---—-■ + Thursday, Nov. 4 — Lions club meets at Bryant House, 7:00. In formal dance at VFW Clubroom at 8.00. Friday, Nov. 5 — “DollarDay1” to benefit colored community cen ter. Kiwanis club meets at Bryant house at 7:00. Brevard high vs. Tryon high, kick-off at 7:30. Illus trated lecture on Java at Brevard college, 8:00. Saturday, Nov. 6 — Inspection lane opens in Brevard. Square dance in American Legion build ing at 8:30. Sunday, Nov. 7 — Attend the | church of your choice. Monday, Nov. 8 — VFW meets in clubrooms, Hendersonville high way, 8:00. Tuesday, Nov. 9 — P-TA meets . —Turn To Page Four Work Is Started On Five-Store Building On East Main Street, All Will Have Modern Fronts Led County Ticket Pictured above is FRANK KING, who unofficially led the county ticket by receiving a to tal of 3.401 votes in the general election Tuesday. Mr. King was re-elected to succeed himself as tax collector. Ilis GOF opponent was Avery C. Neil. Register Of Deeds PAUL M. WHITMIRE, county service officer and vocational agriculture teacher, was elected register of deeds for Transyl vania county in the general elec tion Tuesday. Running on the Democratic ticket against Wil liam L. McNeely, Republican, Mr. Whitmire received 3,318 votes, unofficially. Argentinian Diplomat Will Speak In Brevard Jeronimo Remorino, Argentinian ambassador to this country, will speak in Brevard next Wednesday evening at a place yet to be chosen, Dr. E. O. Roland, president of the local Lions club, said yesterday. The diplomat will be heard in —Turn To Page Four Jack Schulman Says Struc ture Should Be Complet ed By Early Spring Foundation work was started on a building to contain five stores on East Main street just below the court house, Jack Schulman, the owner, announces today. To be a one story building, the structure will be built of brick and will have modern fronts on in dividual stores. Mr. Schulman reports that his store, now located on West Main, will occupy one of the stores and the other four will be rented. The overall dimensions of the building will be 145 feet by 100 feet, with four of the stores hav ng fronts of 28 feet and the fifth. 33 feet. Each store will be 100 feet deep. R. P. Kilpatrick will supervise the work. Mr. Schulman states, and the stores are expected to be ready for occupancy by early spring. Mr. Schulman has operated de partment stores here and in Hen dersonville for the past several years. ADOPTION OF MEAT ORDINANCE URGED AT BOARD MEETING Aldermen Dispense With Much Routine Business On Monday Night Walter F. Hart, county sanitar ion, and Dr. Verne C. Hill, veteri narian, appeared before the reg ular meeting of the town board of aldermen Monday night and asked that the town adopt a proposed meat ordinance which would more adequately meet present condi tions than the ordinance now in effect. Mayor S. E. Varner appointed a committee to investigate the pro posed ordinance and the present ordinance now in effect. This com mittee is composed of Aldermen W. M. Melton, Ashe Macfie and | Charlie Russell. A report from the Zoning Com mission was read of their last meet ing on October 6. This report re commended that the town desig nate as a business area the strip | of land 150 feet deep from Brevard college line on the southeast side of North Broad street to the ! Ralph Fisher lot, northeast boun dary. The board agreed to adopt and amend the zoning ordinance as suggested by the commission. Routine business was featured throughout the remainder of the meeting. The board agreed to have ! an aerial survey made of the town, [providing the cost of such a sur vey does not exceed $150. Clyde Tipton requested that the town put in a new water line on his property in the Brevard Park development. The board agreed —Turn To Page Four i Blind Aid Seals To Be Mailed Out Next Week By Lions Club Committee Blind aid seals will be mailed out to 1,000 citizens of the town and county next week, Alex Pat terson, chairman of the sight con servation committee of the Bre vard Lions club, stated yesterday. With the sheets of seals will go a letter urging the recipient to do nate to the work the club is do ing to conserve and restore vision among the citizens of the county. Mr. Patterson said that no goal bad been set, but that the club could use all the money citizens may contribute. He recalled that Last year the club gave $2,500 out af their blind aid fund to install modern lights in Transylvania school houses. He also referred to the aid given persons who were unable to have glasses fitted and operations performed. “All of the money raised for blind aid is spent for that purpose,” Mr. Patterson said, “and we re ceive a special rate on glasses and operations. This means,” he con tinued, “that the Lions receive extra value for the money they spend on this activity.” Serving on the sight conserva tion committee with Mr. Patterson are John Ford, Allen Brittain and J. A. Harris. Wins Over Dewey In Presidential Election Democratic candidate, was e^pl(BflF^Pi|WSiy over Gov. Dewey, Republican, to serve as President of tlie T’mted Stales for the next four years. Mr. Tru man leads in 27 states winning 279 electoral votes to 17 states for Dewey and 214 electoral votes. Mr. Dewey conceded the election to Truman shortly after 11:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, when it became apparent that Truman had the majority oi the popular ana electoral vote. House To House Canvassing, Collection Booths Will Be Featured On Dollar Day Fri. Returns To House RALPH R. FISHER, Republi can candidate for the house of representatives, was elected Tuesday in the general election over E. Carl Allison. The un official vote was 3328 for Mr. Fisher to 2,728 for Mr. Allison, with 18 out of the 19 precincts reporting. Mr. Fisher is the only GOP candidate elected and has previously served several terms in the house. It is also reported that he is the only Republican candidate to carry the Brevard township in the past 90 years. Polio Victim Is Reported Improving The condition of Betty Sue Wil liams, 11-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Williams, of Pen rose, is reported to be good by officials of the Asheville Orthpedic home where the-Transylvania girl is recovering from infantile par —Turn To Page Five Jaycettes, Other Civic Clubs Aiding In Drive For Colored Center House to nouse canvassing and collection booths in stores will be used for raising funds on “Dollar Day” Friday, November 5, for the completion of the colored commu nity center here, according to Mrs. S. A. Bullock, general chairman of the civic project. According to a proclamation is sued last week by Mayor S. E. Var ner, “Dollar Day is being set aside for the solicitation for funds to finish this much needed project. Every citizen is asked to contrib ute a small amount.” Jaycettes, under the supervision of Mrs. Doyle Wells, will be or ganized into groups which will work each section of the residen tial area. Groups of women from each Brevard church are in charge of the collection booths which will be placed in the bank, at Varner’s, —Turn To Page Five Fisher Is Only GOP Candidate Chosen In Transylvania, Record Vote Is Cast Despite Weather ICing, Whitmire Are Victori- j ous. Brittain And Os borne Re-elected BURTON ON BOARD All Democratic candidates for | county offices were victors in the ! general election here Tuesday, ex-1 : ept E. Carl Allison, who lost to! his Republican opponent, Ralph R Fisher, by a vote of 2,728 to 3,328, with 18 out of 19 precincts report ing late Wednesday. More than 6.000 votes were cast j in the voting places in the town j and county, which is a record for : Brevard and Transylvania. In the 1944 general election a total of 5,202 votes were reported, while in the Fisher-Allison race this year the count was 6,056. It is unofficially reported that the GOP candidate carried seven of the eight townships in the county and is the first Republican candidate to carry Brevard township in the past 90 years. With only one precinct not re-; porting, Mrs. E. L. McKee, of Syl va, and William B. Hodges, of Hen dersonville, received 3,123 and 3,264 votes respectively in the county for the state senate. Their Republican opponents T. N. Davis and Wilkshire Griffith received 2,609 and 2,514 respectively. In spite of the cold rain all day, considerable interest in the elec tion was reported at all of the polling placps and a large number ret in ns in the Breverd court house Tuesday Mglrf until after midnight. However, several precincts were not received until Wednesday af ternoon. Frank King was re-elected tax collector of Transylvania county by the largest vote cast for any can didate. Unofficially, he received 3,401 ballots, and his GOP oppon ent was Avery Neil. Paul M. Whitmire, Democrat, received 3,318 votes, 18 out of 19 precincts, while his opponent, Wil liam L. McNeely, polled 2,583. Willis Brittain and Lewis Os borne, members of the county board of commissioners, were re elected, and Dewey Burton was chosen to serve with them. Mr. Burton was the high man of the three with a total of 3,311. Their Republican opponents were Claud Stroup, Otis Shipman and Lynch Moore. of intei Native Of Java To Speak At College Joseph Ellis, a native of Java, will give a demonstrated lecture on Javanese natives and their cus toms at Brevard college Friday night at 8:00 p.m. The public is invited to hear Mr. Ellis. A native of Java, the lecturer was educated at Duke university, returned to his country where he spent several years before com ing back to the United States to lecture. He will show native costumes, several stuffed animals and curios peculiar to his country. A small admission will be charg ed. George Wheeler, Jr., a student at Christ School, Arden, spent Sunday at home with his parents. More Than 200 Former Students At Brevard College Homecoming Saturday More than 200 former students and friends of Brevard college reg istered at the annual Homecoming observance at the institution last Saturday, according to Ray F. Swink, alumnus and faculty mem ber who was iri charge of arrange ments for the event. Registration began in the admin istration building at 10:00 o'clock, and alumni were introduced to the plans for the new Coltrane Hall at a booth set up for this purpose. The proposed building will honor Dr. E. J. Coltrane, president of the institution, and funds will be rais ed from alumni and friends of the college president, who is also dis trict Kiwanis governor. Informal gatherings of friends and classmates were held through out the morning and luncheon was served in the college cafeteria. A business meeting of all alumni was held at 2:30 o’clock in the auditorium of Dunham hall, and Mr. Swink presided. It was voted to close the drive for funds for | the C. E. Buckner Memorial at the i end of the current year. A report was made by Lois Frazier, secre tary and treasurer of the associa tion. Mr. Swink pointed out the —Turn To Page Five, Dewey Concedes Defeat Wed. Morning In Close Race. Urges Support STATE DEMOS WIN Led by President Harry S. Tru man, whose victory was conceded by his Republican opponent, Thom as E. Dewey, Wednesday morning, Democrats swept to a landslide victory in the general election Tues day and won control ol' both houses of congress. The voters—in a startling upset —unseated 50 or more GOP house members, and gave the Democrats a majority in the senate, as seem ingly they decided to revamp the legislative body that President Tru man called “do -nothing,” history’s second worst—even “idiot.” The new house will probably contain 242 Democrats and 192 Republicans, while in the Senate the Democrats will have 54 seats, or 12 more than the Republicans. In his congratulatory message to President Truman, Mr. Dewey said “I urge all Americans to unite be hind you in support of every ef fort to keep our nation strong and free and to establish peace in the world. President Truman received 18, 296,719 popular votes and Dewey 17,743.378. This gave the president the lead in 27 states with 279 elec* ♦oral votes and Mr. Dewey a lead in 17 states with 214 electoral votes. These returns are not com pplate... ; <* was an easy victor over ( Fs Repumfean opponent, John A ! Wilkinson, in the senate race, poll ing 383,131, while the latter re ceived 148,173. W. Kerr Scott rode safely into the governor’s office and with him went 10 other Democratic candi dates for state offices. Running to succeed himself, Monroe Redden was re-elected con gressman for the 12th district —•turn To Page Five INSPECTION LANE RETURNS SAFDAY i Owners Of Vehicles Minus Blue Stickers Urged To Have Examination The mechanical inspection lane will return to Brevard on Satur day, Nov. 6, and will remain here until next Friday, it is announced today. The lane will again be located on French Broad street and will be in operation daily from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 in the afternoon, with an hour off for lunch. All model cars should be in spected by the last day of Novem ber and owners of autos and trucks are urged by the men in charge to have their vehicles checked at a garage prior to ex amination as a means of saving time. Owners are also reminded that the registration card is required before the car or truck can be in spected and the cost of the test is $1.00. There are many cars and trucks yet to be inspected in Bi'evard and —Turn To Page Fiv* Health Department Continues Clinics For Immunization Dr. Gordon B. Wheeler, health officer for the Henderson-Transyl vania district, announces today that the department’s immuniza tion clinics will be held each week at the local office until further announcement. A general immunization will be given at the health office on Fri day afternoons from 1:00 until 4:00 p.m. and on Saturday morn ings from 9:00 a.m. until noon. Dr. Wheeler also announces that the general immunization clinic will be held at Rosman each Mon day afternoon from 1:30 until 3:30 until further notice. This clinic will be held at the Rosman Meth odist church.
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