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1953 FESTIVAL ISSUE The Transylvania Times 1953 FESTIVAL ISSUE WELCOME A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper WELCOME Vol. 64, No. 32 SECTION ONE BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1953 * 20 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY? Eighth Annual Brevard Music Festival Opens Friday At Camp 1953 Festival To Open Friday Night, Most Successful Season Is Expected OmCIAlS HERE EXTEND WELCOME TO ’53 VISITORS Chamber Of Commerce Of fice Will Aid In Finding Accommodations Deer Plentiful In Pisgah National Forest The eighth annual Brevard Music Festival, which promises to be the finest ever, will open Friday night at beautiful Transylvania Music camp, pictured above. At the left is JAMES CHRISTIAN PFOHL, the conductor and director of the festival. Concerts will be given each Friday and Saturday nights and on Sunday afternoons for the next three week ends. Also, Tuesday evening concerts are planned for August 14th and 21st. Hundreds of music lovers from all parts of Eastern America are expected here for the festival, and several internationally famous artists will appear with the lOO piece Brevard festival symphony orchestra on the various programs. Climaxing the festival on the 21st and 23rd will be the presentation of “Beethoven’s Ninth (Choral) Symphony,” which will feature a 100-voice chorus ^ with the festival symphony orchestra. . ASSETS CITED With the slogan, “Every home a guest home duping the festival,” Transylvanians this week welcome the hundreds of visitors who are arriving for the eighth annual Bre vard Music Festival. Officials of the county, the town and civic clubs join hands in ex tending a cordial welcome to all who will come here during the next three week ends for the many per formances of the outstanding musi cal event of the South. This week Tho Times is publish ing its annual Festival-Mailaway edition, and Publisher Ed M. An derson urges all subscribers to read it carefully. The chamber of commerce, lo cated adjacent to the library on —Turn To Page Six fllH Three Paving Projects Approved In Parkway And Forest Roads Give One Of Best Scenic Drives In State The addition of $371,000 in ap propriations by congress for the Blue Ridge Parkway will assure the completion and paving of the ll-mile link from Wagon Road Gap to Beech Gap, in Pisgah, it was learned this morning. It is also understood that the state highway commission will sur face treat the Vanderbilt Motor Koad from Elk Pasture Gap to Wagon Road Gap. This road is of ten called the Mt. Pisgah Motor Road. The highway commission al so plans to pave the road through Sherwood Forest, in cooperation with the Forest Service, from Beech Gap to Lake Logan. The road from Lake Logan to U. S. 276 is already paved. The completion of these proj ects would give one of the best scenic drives in the state, it was said. The route could start at Candler, to Elk Pasture, Wagon Road Gap, Beech Gap, Sherwood Forest, Lake Logan, Bethel, and on to Waynesville. With the increased appropria tions, officials now feel that pav ing can start next spring on the Parkway, Pisgah, and Sherwood projects. The paving of the Parkway link will open up the Tennessee Bald, Devil’s Court House, and other scenic spots in the area. The final appropriation was —Turn to Page Twelve Symphony Orchestra Holds Top Position In Success Of Festival When the Brevard Music Festi-1 castello, Cincinnati;Nan- Cirillo Brooklyn, N, Y.; James Dumm, Columbus, O.; Lillian Foote, Charlotte; May Jo Ford, Asheville; Betty Gysbers, Atlanta; Lucile Hassell, Hendersonville; Mary Jane Kirkendol, Charlotte; Doris Lefler, Charlotte; George Or- ner, Jr., Jacksonville; Alice Keith —Turn to Page Seven Friday night, the most important factor in its success will not be any one individual soloist, but the symphony orchestra, which is the foundation of all programs. Drawing from the ranks of lead ing symphonies, conservatories and colleges, the orchestra is composed of 100 leading musicians, many of whom are on vacation and welcome the opportunity of being a part of such a musical organization. The orchestra is conducted by James Christian Pfohl, the found er and director of the festival and the Transylvania Music camp. Mr. Pfohl is also the conductor of the Charlotte Symphony orchestra and the Jacksonville, Florida, sympho ny. The complete personnel of the orchestra, listed by instruments with their home addresses follows: Violins — Robert Harrison, con- certmaster, Atlanta; Dorothy Gen- nusa, assistant, Baltimore; Herbert Bangs, principal, second violins, Baltimore; Ruth Dabney Allen, At lanta; John Beroset, Cincinnati; A&BBAHERIES LEAVE FOR CAMP SUNDAYMORNING Morrow And Dellinger Are In Charge Of Two Local Reserve Units The 48 meii in A and B Batteries of the 316th Field Artillery battal ion, 108th Infantry division, will leave Brevard on Sunday morning at 8:00 o’clock for Fort Jackson, S. C., for their, annual 15-day sum mer training session. . Capt. James P. Morrow is com mander of Battep^ A, while Lt. Claude Dellinger is in charge of B Battery. An advance party of M. Sgt. Harold Siniard, Sfc. Henry E. Gar- ren and Cpl. Paul Patterson will leave on Saturday for Fort Jackson to make arrangements for the ar rival of the reserve units on Sun day. Major Wm. F. Taylor, of Ashe ville, is commander of the 316th Battalion, and Col. Mayfield is di vision commander. Final plans for the 15-day train ing period will be made at Thurs day night’s meeting of A and B batteries here in the American Le gion Memorial building. ORCHESTRAAND VIOLINIST WILL PLAY IN OPENER Record Crowds Are £xpect^ ed For Three Concerts, During Week End ROUND-UP IS made: RANGER TED SEELY is pictured above at one of the recrea tional areas in the Pisgah National Forest feeding a young buck, which was one of three injured by stray dogs. Called “Andy,” this tame little fawn pauses in front of an eight-foot plaque of “Smokey,” the symbol of forest fire prevention in the forests of America. The ranger points out that two of the worst enemies of deer, reported pleniiful this season, are stray dogs and forest fires. Visitors in the Pisgah at this time of the year usually see many deer along the streams and on the mountainsides. Court Still In Session, Resume Of Criminal, Civil Cases Given Festival President Transylvania Will Get $250,000 If State Passes School Bond Issue Transylvania county will get approximately $250,000 from the new state school building bond issue of $50,000,000 if the voters approve this issue on October 3, Supt. J. B. Jones states. This estimate is based on the assumption that the needs in this county will be approximately the same per pupil as the needs in other counties and cities of the state. This could be used for the con- CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, Aug. 6 — Episcopal omen’s auxiliary, parish house, 3 Baptist WMS in church o:30. Lions meet at Gaither’s at Masonic meeting in temple 7:30 p. m; Transylvania Wildlife : over city hall at 8:00 0 clock. ^ — Kiwanis meets : „7i^her’s at 7 p. m. Eighth an- 'uai Brevard Music Festival opens D Music camp, 8:15 T dance at the Ameri- can Legion, 8:30 p. m. Saturday Aug. 8 — Brevard Mu- —Turn To Page Twelve PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the contribution of the Transylvania Music Camp to the City of Brevard is outstanding, and WHEREAS, its highly cultural events are of local as well as state and national significance, and WHEREAS, all citizens of the City of Brevard are vitally interested in, and pleased with, said Music Camp’s goals and achievements; NOW THEREFORE, as Mayor of the City-of Brevard, Tran sylvania County, North Carolina, I hereby proclaim the period of time from August 2, 1953, through August 23, 1953, to be a festival period, to be known and observed as “The Brevard Music Festival.” Duly ordained by me this 5th day of August, 1953, John A, Ford, Mayor, City of Brevard struction of gymnasiums, class rooms, shops, lunchrooms or any other improvement of school plant facilities, Mr. Jones says. “The high cost of construction cut short the county school build ing program and we are in urgent need of the funds that would be provided by the state bond issue. This together with normal local funds would go a long way to- —Turn To Page Twelve Court Steno Will Be Married Friday On Television Show Persons who saw the attractive, petite court stenographer during last week’s criminal session of Superior court in Transylvania county will have another oppor tunity of seeing her Friday — on television. But Ann Sprouse, of Marion, will not be in the role of stenog rapher. She and Hoyt Reel, also of Marion, will be married db the famed CBS television show, “Bride and Groom” to be seed at 11 a. m. Friday on Charlotte, Channel 3. Miss Sprouse and her fiance are the recipients of an expense- paid trip to New York City, plus numerous prizes and a wedding Rogers-Merrill Trial Under way As Times Went To Press Wednesday JOHN D. EVERSMAN is presi dent of the Brevard Music Fes tival, and Mr. Eversman joins with directors of the association and the foundation in welcom ing all visitors to the eighth an nual festival, which opens Fri day night. The July-August term of Supe rior court in Transylvania is ex pected to take the full two weeks, as originally scheduled, and at noon Wednesday the case of Chris Rog ers vs. Dan Merrill was being heard. Growing out of an automobile collision on Gallaraore hill, the case was started on Tuesday and witnesses were heard Wednesday morning. Fisher and McCoy are representing Mr. Rogers, while Ramsey and Hill are attorneys for Mr. Merrill. They summed up the case before the jury on Wednes day afternoon. During most of last week the criminal slate was heard, while Judge J. H. Clement has devoted most of the time this week to the civil docket. Hundreds of dollars are being turned over to the school fund from this term of court in forfeit ed bonds, Clerk of Court Marvin McCall reports. He explains that —Turn to Page 5 The Brevard Music Festi val will open Friday night at 8:15 as James Christian Pfohl, conductor of the Bre vard Festival orchestra, rais es his baton for the opening- number, Beethoven’s maje&- ! tic overture to “Egmont.’* Joseph Fuchs is the soloist for the first concert, and many hun dreds of music lovers from this area and from far points in the nation will gather to hear him m. the Brahms violin concerto. The festival has become a sum-- mer institution of national reputa tion in the music world, and its eighth season is expected to be the largest and most successful in its history. The 85-piece orchestra gathers: top players from such leading phonies as Cincinnati, Baltimore,, and Louisville, and from the many- fine community and civic groups-, which are fast becoming the pride? of the country. Saturday’s concert features the.* Kavana-born pianist Jorge Bolet im the magnificent Concerto No. 3 for- piano and orchestra by Serg^ Rachmaninoff. On Sunday Mr. Fuchs will agaiEa appear, in the Concerto in D Ma.- jor, K. 218, of Mozart. Olin Downes, dean of music crit ics and internationally known writ^ er for the New York Times,, ar^ rives at Brevard next week to pars ticipate in Tuesday’s concert, u program with explanations and commentary featuring “A LandoB,, Symphony,” by the eminent British: composer Ralph Vaughan Wih.-. Hams. Other soloists to appear during; ■ the three-week festival are Eileecs Farrell, soprano; Richard Dyer- Bennett, folklorist; Luboshutz and Nemenoff, duo-piano team; Robert • —^Turn to Page Sir STOCKHOLDERS '' OF CLUB MEET Activities To Date Reported Successful. New Board Is Elected Program Highlights Secretary Of Agriculture Will Be Heard, Mysteries On WPNF's Log With Transylvania being an ag ricultural county, many persons here will be interested in the talk of Ezra T. Benson, U. S. secretary of agriculture, over WPNF on Sat urday, which originates on NBC’s National Farm and Home Hour at 1 o’clock. At the request of many listeners, the schedule for mysteries over WPNF is given: Thursday night, 9:00—Counter Spy; Sunday night, 10:00 — Confidential Investigator; and Wednesday night, 10:00—Ad ventures of Scarlet Pimpernel. A special program to be heard on WPNF on Saturday night at 6:30 o’clock is the “Taming of the Shrew,” directly from the annual ^..7 -11 . ««« « wcuiuug bnrew," directly from the annual that will be viewed by the tele- I Oregon Shakespearean festival at vision audience. 'Ashland, Oregon Brevard Hardware sponsors the World News Roundup every Sat urday morning, 8-8:15, with Bill Sprague reporting a summary of major developments—world - wide —and on-the-spot coverage by cor respondents at the scene. Other Programs On Friday, August 7, Edwin Bergimini, publicity director of the Transylvania Music camp will be heard on the Civic hour discus sing the ’53 festival activities. Monday, August 10, the B & PW club is scheduled and Wednesday, August 12, Elks club officials will be heard. On the Farm and Home Hour Thursday, Wallace Flint of the Farm Home administration is slat- —Tom To Page Twelve The first annual stockholders meeting of the newly formed Bre vard Country Club, Inc., was helff Tuesday night at the club house, with many of the some 300 stock holders attending. President William F. Huffman- presided, and he gave a complete report on activities at the club since orgpization until July 31. He ex plained that the organization was st financial success at the present time, and the outlook for gi'adual: improvements in the club house and on the golf course is very good- However, he named many needed items, which the club cannot af ford just now, but are included in a long range program. The report on membership show ed that as of July 31 there were 20® members, almost twice as many as the board of directors had antici- —Turn To Page Seven Florida Boy Scouts Camping In Pisgah Troop 27 and 27-A Boy Scouts of Jacksonville, Fla., are encamped at John’s Rock Kiwanis club camp in Pisgah National Forest for the week and are spending their time in nature work and other scout ao- tivities which call for outdoors. Seven leaders and 82 boys are in the group which began arriving in large trucks and staton wagons Thursday of last week, with major part of the contingent arriving Sat-- urday afternoon. The troop has been coming to Brevard for several years, and each year over 300 post cards showing’ scenes of Pisgah National Forest. —^Tum To Page Seven
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