TRANSYLVANIA
IS—
An Industrial, Tourist,
Educational, Agricul
tural and Music Cen
ter. Population, 12,241.
The Transylvania Times
A Slate And National Prize-Winning Newspaper And An A.B.C. Paper
TRANSYLVANIA
IS—
The Land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer
Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest
and Home of Brevard
Music Festival.
Vol. 57; No. 21
* 20 PAGES TODAY ★
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1947 * SECTION ONE *
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
MASS CLINIC TO START MAY 27TH
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Meters Expected To Yield $10,000 First Year
RECEIPTS FIRST
DAY AMOUNT TO
OVER 31 DOLLARS
Devices Stop Unduly Long
Parking In Business Area.
Give Shopper More Space
231 IN OPERATION
Collections made by the parking
meters during the first year are
- expected to reach $10,000 if the
yield of the first day is main
tained, T. H. Barker, town clerk,
said yesterday. This is exclusive
of fines, which also go into the
town treasury.
The meters took in $31.12 dur
ing six hours of operation the first
day, Mr. Barker reported, and
fines amounted to $5.00. This week
$29.00 in fines was collected for
infraction of the parking rules.
The town receives 25 per cent
of collections until the meters are
paid for, estimated to require
eight months. After that time, the
town receives all collections
which, it has been announced, will
be used to forestall a tax increase.
Approve Meters
‘'At first, Mr. Barker stated,
“many citizens expressed dissatis
faction with the meters, but they
seem now to have changed their
minds after seeing them operate.
Parking for unduly long periods
in the business area has been
stopped and more space is avail
able for shoppers. This is an ad
vantage to both business men and
those who trade in Brevard.”
Mr. Barker called attention to
the fact that the meters will not
register when a dime is dropped
into them. Nickels and pennies
should be used.
Holes have been bored in the
sidewalk on Jordan street from
Varner’s corner to Strollers Inn
and, if the need should develop,
meters will be installed in this
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THIS SATURDAY
IS ‘POPPY DAY’
Sale To Be Conducted By
Members Of VFW And
Auxiliary Body
*
This Saturday is “Buddy Poppy”
day in Brevard and throughout the
nation.
Poppies made by disabled vet
erans in government hospitals will
be sold here on the streets and in
the smaller communities by mem
bers of the Lewis Earle Jackson
post of the V.F.W. and the ladies
of the newly organized auxiliary.
“Every penny raised through
the sale of ‘Buddy Poppies’ will be
used for the relief of disabled,
needy veterans and their depend
ants: orphans of vets in the VFW
National home; rehabilitation ser
vices for veterans; and, hospitali
zation of non-compensated ex
servicemen,” Dr. Julius Sader,
commander of the local post stat
ed.
President Harry S. Truman this
week told the public that the VFW
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CALENDAR OF I
EVENTS
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Thusday, May 22—Brevard high
school baseball game with Ashe
ville team, 3:30 p. m. on college
diamond.
I Friday, May 23—Softball game
on the lighted high school field,
7:30 p. m. Brevard college formal
in gymnasium.
Saturday, May 24—“Buddy Pop
py” day sponsored by VFW and
auxiliary. Street dance in front
of Brevard high school at night.
Sunday, May 25—Attend the
church of your choice. Golf match
at country club, Ecusta vs. Moore
General. Baccalaureate sermons at
Brevard and Rosman high schools
at 8:00 p. m.
Monday, May 26—Lewis Earle
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Local Firemen Purchase Portable
Power Plant, Making Department
"Best Equipped In The State"
Big Blow-Out
WHILE Tin Pan Alley’s most
famous sous and daughters
turned out to celebrate his 59th
birthday, Irving Berlin, interna
tionally popular composer, blows
out the candle atop his cake
during a party in New York.
Asked his age, Berlin said: “Just
45.” * (International)
BACCALAUREATE
SERMONS TO BE
DELIVERED SUN.
Local Pastors Are Principal
Speakers At Brevard
And Rosman
Two Brevard pastors, Rev. W.
G. McFarland, of the Brevard
j Methodist church, and Rev. B. W.
I Thomason, of the First Baptist
church here, will deliver gradua
tion sermons at the two high
schools in the county Sunday night,
May 25.
The Rev. McFarland will preach
the baccalaureate sermon at the
Brevard high school Sunday eve
ning at 8:00 o’clock, and special
music will be furnished by the
girls’ chorus. Gordon Sprott,
faculty member, will sing a solo,
“Consider and Hear Me,” by
Wooley. There are 65 members of
the graduation class here and fi
nal exercises will be held on Fri
day night, May 30, Principal R. T.
Kimzey announces today.
The Rev. Thomason will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon at Ros
man Sunday night at 8:00 o’clock
and Rev. J. G. Allred will lead the
invocation. The benediction will
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Unit Costs $500. Can be Used
To Light City Block Or
Local Hospital
A 1,500 watt portable power
plant has been purchased by mem
bers of the Brevard volunteer fire
department to be used in cases of
emergency and for night fire fight
ing.
“With this unit, it will be pos
sible for us to light up an entire
city block, or even the hospital if
the power were suddenly cut off,”
Chief Dan Merrill said yesterday.
Two huge fioodlights are included
with the unit.
The plant, costing over $500.00,
was purchased with proceeds real
ized from the carnival last week
and the chief this week praised the
work of the committee which made
the event a success. Members were
Fred Taylor, chairman, Robert Kil
patrick, Ted McCrary and D. R.
Boyd.
“It is our ambition to make the
Brevard department one of the
best equipped fire-fighting forces
in the state.” Chief Merrill added.
With the addition of other equip
ment, the fire rate in Brevard is
: expected to be reduced, it is stal
ed.
A series of training programs
under Jim* Bailey, former Asheville
fire chief, will be started next
Monday night, and the public is
invited to watch the firemen in
action on the lot adjoining the city
hall.
In addition to the portable pow
er plant, other new equipment pur
chased by the firemen recently in
clude a resuscitator and inhaler,
oxygen mask and tank and a port
able amplifier.
DRAFTING PUf6
FDR AMATEUR NITE
To Hold Auditions On May
31. Show In High School
On June 7
Plans are now being completed
for the Kiwanis amateur night to
be staged here in the Brevard high
school auditorium on June 7, and
W. W. Huber, in charge of arrange
ments, urges that all persons in
terested in entering the various
contests to make application for au
dition immediately.
John Eversman, who will act as
master of ceremonies at the show,
will hold auditions next Saturday
at 2:00 p. m. and all persons wish
ing to compete in the amateur
night must attend, it is stated. Miss
Lucille Heffner and H. T. Caster
ton will assist Mr. Eversman with
the auditions.
Last year the amateur night was
highly successful, Mr. Huber states,
and the club is again sponsoring
the event to discover what musical
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Capacity Enrollment Is Expected To
Attend Summer Session Of College
A capacity enrollment is expect
ed to attend the thirteenth summer
term of Brevard college which
opens on June 17 and closes on
August 23, Dr. E. J. Coltrane, the
president, announces today.
More applications than ever be
fore at this time of the year are
being received, it is reported, and
a large number of the present stu
dent body has expressed a desire
to attend summer school. Of this
number, many are veterans, the
president stated.
Special courses in business,
home economics, physical educa
tion and music will be offered, and
in addition to the two years of col
lege work offered here at the jun
ior college, the last two years of
high school studies can be com
pleted, the president pointed out.
Brevard college, recognizing the
present day educational needs of
the young people of the South, has
enlarged its curriculum to include
the pre-college program, Dr. Col
trane emphasizes. It is possible for
a good student, under this plan of
suitable acceleration, to complete
the last two years of high school
and the first two years of college
in a period of three years.
A number of students were ad
mitted under this program in June
and September, 1943, and again in
1944, 1945, and 1946 and the re
sults have been quite stimulating,
the president commented.
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Received Awards And Merit Badges At Enon Honor Court
Shown above is the large group of Boy Scouts
who received awards and merit badges at the last
court of honor, which was held in the Enon
church recently. These boys with all other Scouts
in the county are planning to attend the Cam
poree to be held at John’s Rock camp Friday and
Saturday. Members of the group,, front row, from
left to right are: Norris McGaha, Roy Hamlin,
John Edward Cox, Glenn Melton and William
Greenwood; second row, Woody Paxton, Perry
Raxter, Jack Edwards, Elmer Sentelle, Vella Par
ker and Harry Owens; third row, Preston Raxter,
Harley Neal, John McKelvey, Jack Talley, Jim
Brown, Charles Wolfe and Sonny Shackelford.
(Staff Photo).
CAMPOREE TO BE
HELD THIS WEEK
AT JOHN’S ROCK
Mare Than 100 Scouts Ex
pected To Attend Event.
Committee To Meet
More than 100 Boy Scouts are
planning to attend the Transyl
vania district Camporee, which
will be held Friday and Saturday
at John’s Rock camp in Pisgah Na
tional forest, F. S. Best, chairman
of the* district, announces today.
The Transylvania district com
mittee will also meet Friday night
at the Camporee and a special
supper, to be prepared by Verne
P. Clement, will be served. Some
50 committee members are expect
ed to be on hand.
Mr. Best states that the district
meeting is held simultaneously
with the Camporee to give the ad
ults an opportunity of seeing actual
Scouting in action.
A program including campfire
and fun, Scout-craft, hiking, trail
technique, packing and patrol or
ganization is being worked out for
all the Scouts to participate in and
citations and awards will be made
at the Camporee. The boys will be
expected to pitch their tents, cook,
serve and store food, as well as to
hike and lay out their equipment
for inspection.
McFarland Chaplain
Royal Arch Masons
Rev. W. G. McFarland was ap
pointed chaplain of the Royal
Arch Masonic grand chapter for
the ensuing year by Charles C.
Ricker, of Asheville, newly elected
grand high priest, at the 125th an
nual convocation of the grand chap
ter, held in Raleigh recently. At
the request of Major Kenneth Par
ham, presiding at the convocation,
Mr. McFarland served as acting
chaplain throughout this meeting.
The Rev. McFarland, who has
been a Mason for more than 27
years, is a member of the Blue
Lodge at Brevard and of the York
Rite bodies at Asheville. In 1941
he served as grand chaplain of the
grand lodge of North Carolina by
appointment of Grand Master
Thomas J. Harkins.
Mr. McFarland and his wife re
turned Friday from a brief visit to
their sons at Chapel Hill and Dur
ham and to Mrs. McFarland’s fam
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District Sdg|l Committeemeq,
Are Appointed By County Board
Of Education Last Monday Night
GIRL SCOUTS ARE
PLANNING 10 - DAY
CAMP, DEERWOODE
Total Of 50 Campers Reg
istered. Is Sponsored By
Brevard Council
Plans are now being completed
for the second Girl Scouts’ camp to
be held at Camp Deerwoode from
June 4 to 14, prior to the opening
of the regular camp season at
Deerwoode.
Some 50 Girl Scouts and Brown
ies have registered for the 10-day
camping event, and the camp will
again be sponsored by the Brevard
Girl Scouts council, of which Mrs.
Willis Brittain is the commission
er. She will be succeeded in June
by Mrs. R. E. Matthews, who will
have charge of camp operations.
Mrs. Tommy Costello, the wife
of the internationally famous
swimmer who has instructed here
at Camp Carolina at the American
Red Cross Aquatic school, will di
rect the camp program. She has
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Teachers With Non-Stand
ard Certificates Will Not
Be Re-employed Now
School committeemen for the
Brevard and Rosman districts
were appointed Monday night at
the regular meeting of the Tran
sylvania county board of educa
tion.
For district one, Brevard, W. P.
Allison was re-appointed, Frank
Patton was chosen to succeed Har
ry Sellers, now a member of the
county board, and John L. Wilson
was named to replace Mrs. G. H.
Lyday.
In district 2, Rosman, Hosea
Lee and Leander Gillespie were
re-appointed and Mickler Lusk
was elected to replace J. L. Whit
mire.
Praises Work
Supt. J. B. Jones stated that if
medals and special certificates
could be given to committeemen
that Mrs. Lyday and Mr. Whitmire
were certainly deserving of them
for long and faithful service. At
the meeting the board adopted a
resolution expressing appreciation
to Mrs. Lyday and Mr. Whitmire
for their outstanding work.
The board agreed that teachers
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Money And Table Linens Donated To
Hospital At "Open House” Sunday
Many donations were received
and a large quantity of table lin
ens was contributed to the Tran
sylvania Community hospital at the
“open house” conducted at the lo
cal institution by the Guild last
Sunday afternoon in commemora
tion of National .Hospital week.
The function also marked the fifth
anniversary of the local hospital.
All cash contributions are being
placed into a fund to purchase an
infant respirator, Guild members
state, and to date approximately
$300 has been turned in. “This is
only half enough to buy this valu
able life-giving, life-saving appara
tus, and donations may still be sent
to the treasurer of the hospital
Guild, Mrs. Charles L. Newland,
Brevard,” the president, Mrs. Her
bert Finck, pointed out.
Assisting the officers and mem
bers of the Guild in serving the
refreshments at the “open house”
were Misses Mary Ann Ramsey,
Betty Finck, Mary Jane Newland
and Wylma Pooser. N
The first hospital was estab
lished in Brevard a quarter century
ago and five years ago the Tran
sylvania Community hospital was
opened to the public. During the
latter period 4,257 people have
been received there and the av
erage number of patients during
the last year or two has more than
doubled the number of the first
year. Plans have been made to
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EXAMINATION IS
OFFERERED FREE
TO ALL OVER 15
Stationary Unit In Hayes.
Building Here; Mobile Out
fit At Ecusta And Bosnian.
HOURS 9 A. M. TO 5 P. M.
A mass X-ray clinic for the pur
pose of giving chest examinations
to all persons over 15 years of
age who desire them will be con
ducted in the county from May 27
through June 3.
A stationairy unit from the state
sanitarium with H. L. Satterwhite,
technician, in charge, will be lo
cated in the Hayes Motor Co.
building here. On the first day
Brevard and Rosman high school
students and teachers will be ex
amined. May 28 has been set aside
for the examination of Brevard
college students and faculty* mem
bers and the general public will be
admitted from May 29 through
June 3.
A mobile unit with Robert G.
Padgett, technician, in charge, will
be dispatched to Ecusta and Ros
man high school. Ecusta employ
ees and construction workers will
be examined from May 27 through
May 30 and the public will be test
ed at Rosman school June 2 and 3.
Interest Is Keen
It was originally planned to send
only one semi-mobile unit to the
county, but the interest aroused
by the initial announcement re
sulted in a decision to send both
re stationary and mobile units.
£xaminat.„n hours will be from
9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. and no
charge is made. Only 30 seconds
is required to make a picture and
undressing is not necessary, it is
said.
The clinic is being sponsored by
the Transylvania County Medical
Society, the county public health
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JAYCEES REPORT
GOOD COLLECTIONS
Much More Money Needed
To Complete Franklin
Park, Hill Says
Response to the appeal of local
Jaycees for funds to develop
Franklin park has been so liberal
that officers of the organization
decided to cancel tentative ar
rangements for a carnival here
soon, Cecil Hill, president said
yesterday. However, Mr. Hill
pointed out that several thousand
dollars will be required to com
plete this project and additional
contributions are urgently needed.
Solicitations are being made by a
committee headed by Lewis Le
Chance. Bob Bolt is in charge of
actual construction work.
Mr. Hill requested that owners
of the first 27 units of pre-fab
houses call by his office and give
him cost figures of the structures,
showing cost of re-erection, im
provement, price of lot and util
ity connections. Refunds are be
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Anglers In Pisgah
Total 3,775 Since
Opening On May 4
A total of 3,775 fishermen have
hooked approximately 15,000 rain
bow and brook trout in the streams
of Pisgah National forest since the
opening of the season on May 3,
Ranger W. W. Huber announces
today.
“While the number of fish
caught per man has decreased
somewhat in the past few days, the
total number of anglers is greater
than it was at this time last year,”
the ranger commented.
Before the close of the season on
August 31, far more than 8,000
sportsmen will have cast their
lines in the streams here, Mr. Hu
ber predicts. Last year 8,202 fish
ermen hooked some 35,000 trout
in the Pisgah.