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No. 19
A State And National Prize-Winning Newspaper And An A.B.C. Paper
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TRANSYLVANIA
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The Land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer
C a m p s, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest
and Home of Brevard
Music Festival.
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947
SECTION ONE it
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
WILL INSTALL DIAL PHONES HERE
ROSS HALL TO BE
CONVERTED INTO
APT. BUILDING
Construction Will Be Start
ed On Library And In
firmary This Summer
JONES CO. DOING WORK
Construction was started this
week on three dormitories here
at Brevard college which will
house 180 men and which will be
completed by the opening of the
fall semester. According to Pres
ident E. J. Coltrane, this is the be
ginning of the extensive building
project at the local institution and
work will be continuous on other
structures until the entire expan
sion program is completed.
The decision to begin work im
mediately was made at an exec
\ utive meeting of the board of
trustees in Charlotte last week and
following the erection of these
three buildings, Ross hall, formerly
occupied by men students, will be!
converted into an apartment build
ing for the accommodation of mem
bers of the college staff.
The committee also authorized a
start to be made on erecting of the
James Addison Jones library. Con
struction is expected to begin on
June 1. By the middle of summer,
work will be started on the Mary
Frances Stamey Memorial Infirm
ary.
w President Coltrane said that he
is proud to announce that the J.
A. Jones Construction Company
would erect all of the buildings in
the program as at present project
ed. “It is well known,” the presi
dent said, “that this concern was
engaged in the building of ships,
camps, and the atomic bomb plant I
at Oak Ridge, Tenn.”
Henry I. Gaines, college archi- j
tect, has already begun a study j
t of Ross Hall with a view to draft-1
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CLINICS WILL BE
HELD IN SCHOOLS
Health Department Will Ex
amine All Children For
Physical Defects
A pre-school clinic will be con- j
ducted at the Brevard elementary j
school on Friday, May 16, under j
the auspices of the Brevard PTA,
Dr. Mary B. H. Michal, acting dis- j
trict health officer, announces.
Dr. Michal will be assisted in
the work by Mrs. Jessie A. Lollis,
public health nurse, and Mrs. Alma
McCracken, district supervising
nurse. All school children in at
tendance will be examined to de
termine the presence of physical
defects that may be a hindrance to
the child’s progress in school.
It is reported that during the
month of May the health depait
ment will hold clinics in all the
schools. Next fall, Dr. Michal
states, school children will be re
quired to present a certificate
showing that he or she has been
immunized against diphtheria,
whooping cough and smallpox in
compliance with the state law.
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CALENDAR OF t
EVENTS
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Thursday, May 8—Legion Auxil
iary meeting with Mrs. T. B. Lew
is at her home at 8 o'clock. Jr.
Senior reception at high school
here. Softball game on high school
field at 7:30 o’clock, Rosman vs.
Ecusta and Kiwanis vs. VFW.
Friday, May 9—Baseball game,
Brevard high school vs. Hender
sonville. Senior play at Brevard
high school auditorium at 8 o’clock.
Tennis match on Country club
courts at 2:30 o’clock, Brevard col
lege vs. Spartanburg Jr. college.
Garden club meeting at Colonial
Inn. Boy Scout court of honor at
Enon at 7:30 o’clock
Sunday, May 11—Attend the
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District Conference Meeting
Of Methodist Church To Be
Held Here, Jones To Speak
Brevard's Mayor
S. E. VARNER, well-known lo
cal business man, was elected
mayor of Brevard in the, general
election Tuesday. Mr. Varner was
running on the same ticket with
the present board of aldermen
and received 65 votes. There was
no opposition.
MAYOR VARNER
AND TOWN BOARD
SWORN IN WED.
Total Of 65 Votes Cast In
Election Tuesday. Only
One Ticket
Following the general election
of Tuesday in which there was no
opposition, S. E. Varner, mayor,
and the re-elected board of aider
men, consisting of R. J. Duckworth,
J. Ashe Macfie, W. M. Melton, J. E.
Waters and Charlie Russell, were
sworn in by notary public, C. M.
Douglas, yesterday at noon.
Mr. Varner succeeds Mayor A. H.
Harris, who was filling out the un
expired term of Senator Verne
Clement. With only one slate, no
primary was necessary and a total
of 65 votes was cast in the elec
tion Tuesday.
Coming to Brevard 13 years
ago, Mr. Varner has been active in
religious and civic circles and at
the present time is chairman of the
board of stewards of the Methodist
church, a member of the board of
trustees of Brevard college, and a
director of the Kiwanis club and
the chamber of commerce. He is
also a Mason and a member of the
Brevard Shrine club.
Mayor Varner is connected with
his son in the drug business here
and from 1933 to 1945 he was dep
uty collector of Internal Revenue
for the Western North Carolina
district. In 1945 he was forced to
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All-Day Meeting To Be Held
Friday. Dr. Ware Will
Preside
Dr. R. Dwight Ware, superin
tendent of the Asheville district
of the Methodist church, will pre
side for an all-day district con
ference to be held here at the
Brevard Methodist church, Friday,
May 9th., opening at 9:30 a. m.
The pastors and eight lay repre
sentatives from each of forty pas
toral charges are expected to at
tend the session.
Dr. Ware announces that the
feature of the conference will be
an address at noon ‘by Edwin L.
Jones, prominent Charlotte lay
man. Other prominent speakers
will include the Rev. Arthur Kale,
pastor of Central Methodist church,
of Shelby, at 11 a.m. and Rev.
Richard Hanson, of Peiping, China,
at 2 p. m. Other interesting items
of the program will include re
ports as to progress and plans for
the future in the several pastoral
charges. Reports will be made
from the Methodist Children’s
Home at Winston-Salem, the Meth
odist Home for the Aged to be
built at Charlotte and other de
nominational interests.
The Asheville district includes
all Methodist churches in Bun
combe, Madison, Henderson, and
Transylvania counties and a few
in Polk.
Lunch will be served at the
church about 12:30 by the local
church women, Rev. W. G. Mc
Farland of the Brevard Methodist
church announces.
RIDING DEVICES
HERE THIS WEE
Prize Given Away Each Eve
ning; Profits To Be Ap
plied On Temple Cost
Lee’s riding devices is filling a
week’s engagement here this week
under the auspices of the Tran
sylvania Shrine club, of which Ray
Bennett is president.
Prizes are being awarded each
night. On Monday evening Ernest
Cantrell of Rosman, won a record
player donated by the Highlands
Electric Co., and on Tuesday eve
ning Carl Garren, of Brevard, was
awarded a tire from the Duckworth
Motor Co.
The prize last evening was an
other record player donated by the
Highlands Electric Co. Tonight an
alarm clock from the Electric Ser
vice Co. will be given away. An
electric iron, contributed by Guy
Dean, will be awarded Friday night
and on Saturday night the grand
prize—a Motorola radio—will be
awarded.
All profit derived by the club
from the rides will be applied on
the cost of the proposed Masonic
temple, Mr. Bennett said.
Ecusta Bowlers Win ’46-47 WNC Ten
Pin League, Several Records Are Made
The Ecusta bowling team in the
WNC ten pin league won the 1946
47 championship Tuesday night
by defeating Enka 2-1, while the
second place Reed-Abee keglers
of Asheville took only two of the
games they bow'led, before failing
to gain on the locals.
Captain Walter Straus highly
praised his boys yesterday after
the victory and reported that this
was the third time in the past
six years that a Transylvania team
had won first place in the league.
One other time Ecusta was run
ner-up.
At the end of the season the
other teams in the top half of the
bracket besides Ecusta Mid Reed
Abee were Allen Transfer, of
Asheville, Enka and the Transyl
vania Times.
Clyde Galloway, of the Ecusta
team, has the highest game of the
season with a 268 score, while
Captain Buck Albert, of The
Times, has the second highest set.
His record score is 666. Bill
Bridges and Bruce Reynolds are
listed in the first 10 with the
best averages. Bridges has aver
aged 176, while Reynolds has av
eraged 175.
Individual scores for the match
es Tuesday night are as follows:
Ecusta, Morris 482, Colwell 519,
Galloway 629, Rogers 542, and
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Efficient Fire Department Securing New Equipment
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Recognized as one of the best volunteer fire departments in Western North Carolina, the Brevard
firemen are equipping the fire house here with the the most modern fire fighting and life saving
equipment. Shown in front of the group above are the new resuscitator and inhaler, oxygen mask
and tank and portable amplifier. Plans are being made now to secure, a small power plant for emer
gency use. Members of the group are: front row, left to right, Frank Bridges, asst, chief; Philip
Price; Jr., Donald Kilpatrick, Bill Bailey, Chief Dan Merritt, Robert Kilpatrick, driver. Second row,
left to right, Leon English, Jr., Ted McCrary, captain, AHfee&*<HT, J>. I. Boyd, asst, chief, J. Fred Tay
lor, lieut. Back row, John Tolbert, Melvin Smith, lieut.; sod Pool Keller. Absent when the picture was '*
made were: Roy McCall, driver, Calvin McCrary, Luke Harrison, Shirley Primm, Jamies Bridges, cap
tain, Gill Thomas and Charlie Himes. (Staff Photo.)
1,353 FISHERMEN
HOOKED 6,083
TROUT IN FOREST
Record Number Of Anglers
For Opening Of Annual
Fishing Season
A total of 1,353 fishermen caught
6,088 rainbow and brook trout in
the three streams in the Pisgah
National forest last Saturday, Sun
day and Wednesday, as the fishing
season in the forest opened, accord
ing to Ranger W. W. Huber, who
said that attendance was several
hundred more than ever before
during the opening week.
Last Saturday 619 fishermen
tried their luck in the Davidson
river and reported an average
catch of 4.5 fish per man. W'hile
the number of fishermen this year
has been considerably increased,
the catch per angled is .5 more than
it was last season, which was a rec
ord year. And it was reported that
as a rule the trout this year are
slightly larger than those caught in
past seasons.
Thursday the Davidson river
stream, and North Fork of French
Broad will be open and a record
number of fishermen is expected.
West Fork, North Fork and David
son river will open Saturday and
Sunday and Bent Creek will have
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Song Service To Be
Held Sunday Night
A community song service,
sponsored by the Music Lover’s
club, will be held at the Brevard
First Baptist church Sunday eve
ning, May 11th., at 8:00 o’clock, to
conclude the Music week pro
gram here.
The Methodist choir will sing,
“Seek Ye The Lord,” by Roberts,
a solo, “Mother O’Mine,” by
Tours, will be sung by Miss Peggy
Pendleton. “Listen To The Lamb,”
by R. N. Dett, will be sung by the
Presbyterian choir. Mrs. Geneva
Farrier and Mrs. Flora Shytle will
render a duet, “The Lord Is My
Shepard,” by Henry Smart. An
organ and piano duet, “Largo,”
by Handel, will be played by Al
fred Newman and Darr Wise.
Lloyd Burhans will sing, “It Is
Enough.”
PTA To Hold Installation Meet
Here On Next Tuesday, District
Director In Charge Of Program
COMMISSIONERS
ASKED TO ADOPT
PLUMBING CODE
County Attorney Asked To
Inquire Into Authority Of
Group To Act
Requested by W. F. Hart, R. F.
Tharp and L. K. Ratchford to adopt
a plumbing code for the county,
the board of commissioners at their
regular meeting on Monday direct
ed the county attorney to ascertain
whether the group has the author
ity to take such action. Mr. Hart
was r<sked to assist the attorney in
obtaining all relevant information.
The board denied the requests
presented in behalf of the local fire
department and the Jaycees that
license fees on two carnivals to be
sponsored by these organizations be
remitted. A similar plea with ref
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To Feature Exhibits Illus
trating Home Recreation.
Public Invited
Elaborate plans are now being
made for the installation meeting
I of new officers of the Brevard Par
I ent-Teacher association here in
the high school next Tuesday
I night at 8:00 o’clock.
Mrs. T. Allen Luther, district di
' rector, from Asheville, will install
: the new officers, which include:
| Mrs. Julius Sader, president; Mrs.
| C. J. Goodwin, vice-president; Mrs.
J E. L. Happ, secretary, and Mrs. A.
; J. Montanari, treasurer.
The program, on home recrea
j tion, will be divided into four parts,
and Albert Shuford, the chairman,
reports that the local PTA is very
| fortunate in having displays of
hobbies which will vividly carry
| out the theme.
Some 40 of the best prints of the
Brevard camera club will be ex
hibited and the public is invited to
! inspect these outstanding local
j scenes made by Transylvania ama
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Reports Show Goal In Cancer Drive
Will Be Reached, The Chmn. Says
With donations amounting to'
$439.52 already received and a
number of pledges not yet account
ed for, the Cancer Control cam
paign in Transylvania county is
certain to exceed the goal by an
appreciable amount, Mrs. G. H. Ly
day, local commander of the Amer
ican Cancer Society, reported yes
terday. The drive in this county
was sponsored by the Fortnightly
club.
Mrs. Lyday expressed a desire
to give special recognition to those
children who contributed to the
drive. Without their active aid,
she stated, the goal of $450 could
not have been reached.
The largest contributor to the
fund was Brevard high school,
which gave $105.00. Students in
the Brevard grammar school donat
ed $71.71. Eight dollars was re
ceived from the Pisgah Forest
school and Glade Creek colored
school is credited with a $10.00
contribution.
All money raised in the drive
will be used to arouse people of
the danger of cancer and the most
effective methods of detecting its
presence; to provide better facili
ties for prevention, diagnosis and
treatment of cancer, and to expand
the scientific research now con
ducted in many centers of the
country.
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NEW EQUIPMENT
PURCHASED BY
LOCAL COMPANY
Telephone Service Will Be
Available to All Rural
Communities
MOST MODERN SYSTEM
Automatic equipment for dial
telephone has been purchased
by the Citziens Telephone com
pany of Brevard and will be in
stalled as quickly as it arrives
from the manufacturers, accord
ing to a statement made yester
day by C. W. Pickelsimer, gen
eral manager.
“With the installation of this
new equipment, said to be the
most modern type obtainable, it
will be possible to serve more
people of the town and county
and at the same time render
greater efficiency of s e r v i c e,”
Mr. Pickelsimer commented.
The new board will have a ca
pacity of 1,200 subscribers, which
is considerably more than are on
the lines at present, it is under
stood, and other automatic boards
can be installed without difficul
ty when need arises.
With the view toward making
telephone service available to
people who have never had it
before, lines are being erected
into different sections of the
county and with dial phones, it
possible for the local
to install telephones in
of the county.
Pomte To Need
rs. J. Hi Pickelsimer, the
president of the local company,
said yesterday that while the sys
tem now in use had been ade
quate in the past, she felt that
Brevard and Transylvania county
needed the greater efficiency as
sured by the dial system, which
has been widely adopted in the
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CODE PERMITS USE
LIQUID PETRO GAS
Proposed Ordinance Govern
j ing Parking Meters Read
To Board Of Alderpian
Dan Merrill, chief of the Bre
! vard fire department, informed
members of the board of aldermen
at their regular meeting Monday
night that use of liquefied petro
gas in the fire zone was permis
sible under the national fire un
derwriters code if the apparatus
were properly installed.
Ray King and Vardera Mullenax
were granted licenses to operate
taxis.
At the request of the local
Shrine club, the license fee on
Lee’s riding devices was cancelled.
The aldermen agreed, at the re
quest of Mrs. O. H. Otr, to adopt
later an ordinance making Bre
vard a bird sanctuary.
A request by several property
owners beyond the Brevard cour^
try club to use town telephone
poles upon which to string a line
was referred to the park com
mittee.
T. E. Reid appeared before the
board to discuss loading and un
loading since parking meters are
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Boy Scout Honor
Court To Be Held
At Enon Friday
The Transylvania court of honor
for all Scouts in the local district
of the Daniel Boone council of
Boy Scouts of America will be held
Friday night, May 9, at the Enon
Baptist church, beginning at 7:30
o’clock.
Troop nine at Enon will be the
host to all Scouts attending this
important honor court, and Jack
Trantham, chairman of advance
ment, invites the public to attend
the meeting. A large number of
awards are expected to be made
and many boys will be up for ad
vancement.