TRANSYLVANIA
IS—
An Industrial, Tourist,
Educational, Agricul
tural and Music Cen
ter. Population, 12,241.
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The Transylvan a Times
A State And National Prize-Winning Newspaper And An A.B.C. Paper
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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.
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Vol. 57; No. 23
★ SECTION ONE A
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1947
16 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TO START RECREATION PROGRAM
Record Tourist Season Is Predicted For County
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MORE INQUIRIES
RECEIVED THAN
MOTHER YEARS
New Chamber Of Commerce
Office Opened In Front
Of County Library
LOOKING FOR ROOMS
With the opening of the summer
season, the prospects for the best
tourist trade in Brevard and Tran
sylvania county are brighter than
ever before according to officials
of the Brevard chamber of com
merce.
The new information office of
the commerce group, is now open
in the building on the court house
lawn, in front of the county library
building. Mrs. Ralph Fisher, the
secretary, reports that numerous
visitors have come in since opening
day.
“Never before have we received
so many letters from people in dif
ferent sections of the country,”
Willis Brittain, president of the
chamber of commerce here, re
ports.
To meet the influx of a large
number of summer visitors, the
chamber of commerce is making
extensive plans to provide accom
modations for as many people as
possible. An appeal is made to all
homeowners with rooms to rent to
list them with the chamber office,
phone 41.
A survey this week of the ho
tels, lodges, summer camps,
ing houses in Transylvania county j
also indicates that a record num- j
ber of reservations has been made j
for the 1947 vacation season.
REV. W. P. BALDWIN
TO BE INSTALLED
Service To Be Held Here In
Presbyterian Church On •
Sunday Evening
Installation service of Rev. Wal
ter P. Baldwin, Jr., who was re
cently chosen pastor of the Bre
vard-Davidson River Presbyterian
church will be held here at the
church Sunday evening, June 8,
at 8 o’clock, it is announced today.
The commission to install the
pastor is as follows: Rev. J. C. Mel
^ ville, of Horse Shoe; F. A. Bailey,
P of Horse Shoe; J. L. Gash, of Bre
vard, and Rev. Jack B. Davidson,
of Highlands. The Rev. Melville
has been requested to deliver the
sermon, and the Rev. Davidson is
to charge the minister. Mr. Bailey
will charge the congregation.
The Rev. Baldwin, a native of
Clinton, S. C., succeeded Rev. Ash
by Johnson, who accepted a pas
torate in Louisville, Ky. Mr. and
Mrs. Baldwin are now residing in
the manse on Probart street.
Rev. Baldwin received his aca
demic training at the University of
South Carolina and took his theo
logical course at Union Theolog
ical seminary, Richmond, Va. He
served as assistant pastor of the
First Presbyterian church in Co
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CALENDAR OF
EVENTS
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Thursday, June 5—Lions to hold
dinner meet at Gaithers cafeteria
at 7:00. Masons to hold special
meet in lodge hall at 7:30. Julia
Trowbridge circle of the Methodist
church meets with Mrs. Oliver Orr
at 3:30.
Friday, June 6—Special program
on preparation of frozen foods in
the home economics department
at the high school at 3:00. Kiwanis
club meets at Bryant House at
7:00.
Saturday, June 7 — Pressley’s
safety show on the high school
field at 3:00. Ecusta vs. Green
River on the Ecusta field at 3:30.
Alumni day at Brevard college. Fri
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Graduation Exercises Begin
At College Saturday; Grads
To Receive Diplomas Monday
Perfect Record
MISS BETTY JEAN WHIT
MIRE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. L. Whitmire, of route 1, Bre
"aril, was presented with the per
fect attendance award at the
Bosnian high school last Friday
night for her record of 12 years
of attending school without be
ing absent or tardy. She was also
given $75.00, anonymously, to
apply on her college tuition.
MUSIC FESTIVAL
DRIVE FOR MORE
MEMBERS STARTS
Ten Thousand Folders Are
Being Distributed In
Several States
Renewing their efforts to sell
memberships for the 1947 Brevard
Music festival to be presented
here in August, members of the
association are this week distrib
uting 10,000 attractive two-color
folders to music lovers here and
throughout the Southland, accord
ing to F. S. Best, chairman of the
membership committee.
A selected list of interested per
sons in North and South Carolina
and many other states was recently
compiled by the festival promo
tional committee, which is headed
by Gus Tucker, and folders are
being mailed to all with an invita
tion to buy a membership.
Although many persons in Bre
vard and Transylvania county have
already purchased memberships
for the two weeks’ festival this
year, a large number of the attrac
tive folders will be distributed lo
cally to acquaint the public here
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Dr. Blackard To Preach Bac
calaureate Sermon At
Methodist Church
Alumni Day at Brevard college
on Saturday, June 7, will officially
open the 1947 graduation exercises,
Dr. E. J. Coltrane, the president,
announces today.
Elaborate plans are now being
made to entertain a record number
of returning alumni, Ray Swink,
the alumni association secretary,
reports, and a business session will
be held during the afternoon in
the college auditorium. Many im
portant items will be discussed, it
is stated.
A total of 106 students are grad
uating from Brevard college this
year, the largest graduation class
in the history of the institution.
On Sunday morning, June 8, the
first commencement service will
be held in the Brevard Methodist
church at 11:00 o'clock.
Dr. Embree 11. Blackard, super
intendent of the Charlotte district,
will deliver the baccalaureate ser
mon and special music will be fur
nished by the Brevard college
choir, under the direction of Wil
liam Timblin. Mrs. Louise P. Mil
ler will be the accompanist.
"Hia final graduation exercises
wiL 6e held in the college auditor
ium on Monday morning, June 9,
at 11:00 o’clock. Dr. B. G. Childs,
professor of education at Duke uni
versity, will be the principal speak
er, it is stated.
Following the address, President
Coltrane will present the diplomas
to the 106 students, 62 in the col
lege division and 44 in the pre
college department. Presentation of
the classes will be made by J. J.
Stevenson, Jr., dean of the col
lege.
lhe college quartet, composed of
Sarah Komegay, Peggy Penning
ton, Conrad Wilson and Lon Vance
will render special music for the
final graduation program.
SWIMMING POOL
TO OPEN MONDAY
Aldermen Decide To Hold
Second Clean-Up Week.
Other Business
The Brevard municipal swim
ming pool at Franklin park will of
ficially open for the 1947 season
next Monday at 10 a. m., the board
of aldermen decided at their reg
ular meeting Monday night.
To be sponsored by the recent
ly organized Park and Recreation
commission, the swimming pool
will be operated by the Brevard
Jaycees with Lee Thompson and
Charles Robbins in charge. Two
life guards will be on duty at all
times and the pool will be open
daily from 10 until 12 in the morn
ings and 2 to 6 in the afternoon.
Sunday hours will be from 2 to 6
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Signing Of AAA Farm Plans In County
Suspended, Purchase Orders Cancelled
Transylvania farmers, along
with others throughout the state
and nation, are facing a tremen
dous loss, provided the proposed
cut in the agricultural budget be
comes effective. In the face of
the situation the signing of all
farm plans for this year has been
temporarily suspended by the lo
cal AAA office, Mrs. Julia West
wood, the secretary, announces to
day.
The proposed cut by the federal
government would affect approxi
mately 950 Transylvania county
fanners and would reduce the
Transylvania budget from $24,853
to around $16,000, or about 33
per cent.
The local AAA office has been
notified to cancel all purchase or
ders in the hands of fanners fend
vendors in case of material and
seed, the secretary reports.
Because of the tremendous loss
this will mean to the county, T.
J. Wilson, chairman of the county
conservation committee, this week
urges all fanners and other inter
ested citizens to write or wire con
gressmen and senators to stop the
cut. Several messages and letters
have already been sent out from
this county, it is understood.
Over 5,000 Persons Have Chest X-Rays In County
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Over 5,000 chest examinations were made by
the semi-mobile unit and the stationary one, pic
tured abovei, during the past week in the mass X
ray clinics, conducted by the Transylvania Med
ical society, the public health department and
the Transylvania Better Health association. Above,
E. F. Tilson, principal of the Rosman schools, is
being X-rayed by H. L. Satterwhite, technician
from the state sanitoriumi Mrs. Jessie Mae Lol
lis, county health nurse, can be seen in the back
ground. (Staff Photo)
OVER 5,000 X-RAYS
MADE IN COUNTY
IN MASS CLINICS
Response Better Than In
Other Counties. To Mail
Out Reports
During the past week, a total of
4,967 persons in Brevard and
Transylvania county were given
chest examinations, and when the
mobile unit closes its clinic at the
Pisgah Mills and the Carr Lumber
company on Thursday, over 5,
000 examinations will be made
here, Mrs. Jessie Mae Lollis, coun
ty health nurse reports today.
“The response to these valuable
clinics, both the stationary unit
which has been located in the
Hayes Motor company building
and the mobile one which has cov
ered the outlying communities
and industries, has been up to ex
pectations and far better than in
other counties,” Mrs. Lollis de
clared.
Negative reports of the X-rays
will be mailed out within the next
week, it is reported, and persons
with symptoms of tuberculosis,
cystic ailments of the chest, en
larged hearts or other abnormal
conditions of the lungs will be
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Fred Glazener Is
Awarded Degree
Fred Glazener, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Julian Glazener, received an
M. D. degree at George Washing
ton university last Wednesday,
May 28, at the graduation exer
cises held in Constitution hall. He
will interne at Walter Reed hos
pital in Washington.
Dr. Glazener is a graduate of
Mars Hill college and attended the
University of South Carolina be
fore going to George Washington
university. At all three schools he
was an honor student and made an
outstanding record.
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Glazener and
son, Bruce, were guests of Dr.
Glazener and his wife while in
Washington to attend the gradua
tion exercises.
Wilson Agency Now
Over Galloway’s
The Wilson’s Insurance agency
has moved to the office over Gal
loway’s cafe, formerly occupied by
Dr. C. J. Goodwin, who has moved
to his new location at 15 Jordan
street.
The Home Interior shop, operat
ed by L. W. Bonnell, has taken
over the additional space in the
Waltermire hotel building, va
cated by the Wilson agency.
County Is Having Budget Problems,
Unable To Increase Appropriations
And Still Hold Tax Rate The Same
WELFARE DEPT.
REQUESTS A BIG
BUDGET INCREASE
$56,481 Spent Current Year.
Asked For $81,066.
Meeting Is Held
Mrs. C. Y. Patton and members
of the welfare board requested a
thirty per cent increase in the
county’s appropriation to the wel
fare department for the next fis
cal year to match funds that have
been approved for allocation to
Transylvania by the state and fed
eral governments and to take care
of more general poor relief in the
county.
To date, however, the county
accountant and the commissioners
have not found a way to grant any
substantial increase in the appro
priation to this department with
out likewise increasing the tax
rate, it is stated.
Mrs. Patton states that the work
of her department will be greatly
crippled if her present budget re
quest is not granted and that she
cannot continue to EFppeal to the
public and state and federal agen
cies to take care of the extra wel
fare needs of this county.
“Last year I obtained $3,000
from generous gifts of a number of
people in the county to relieve dis
tress and misery that I could not
provide because of budget limita
tions,” Mrs. Patton said.
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School Building Needs Must
Be Taken Care Of. Val
uation Increases
Because of acute school building j
needs and the county’s commitment j
to do something about them, Tran-1
sylvania is facing difficult budget |
problems for the new fiscal year |
despite a valuation increase of i
$717,000.00 making the total $11,- j
600,000, it was learned today from
Mrs. Dorothy Mitchell, acting coun
ty accountant, who is now prepar
ing a budget estimate to submit to
the commissioners.
Every effort is being made, Mrs.
Mitchell said, to hold the tax rate
at $1.55, the same as last year and
to do this it is necessary to cut
several of the departmental bud
gets, and to give others the same
appropriations as of last year.
The school fund has to get over i
half of the levy and debt service j
will require almost one-third of it,!
leaving a comparatively small
amount for all of the other funds,
she stated.
The county has launched a
school building program that has
to be taken care of and debt ser
vice is a must, she explained. The
county’s bonded debt amounts to
$1,477,000 and next year the in
terest rate increases from 2 to 2^
per cent.
Departmental requests total ov
er $50,000 and if these were grant
ed it would be necessary to increase
the tax rate about 47c, to $2.02. The
welfare, health, farm and home
agents departments and other
county offices have all asked for
increases in appropriations and to
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Amateur Show At High School Sat.
Night; Prizes Offered To Competitors
An amateur show, with John
Eversman acting as master of cer
emonies, will be given at the Bre
vard high school auditorium Sat
urday night, June 7, beginning at
8 o’clock. The show is being spon
sored by the Brevard Kiwanis club.
In addition to the amateur per
formers, other attractions on the
program will include special num
bers by the Ecusta concert band,
the Ecusta string band and an ex
hibition by the Ecusta square dance
team.
Auditions for the show were
held last Saturday afternoon with
more than 25 acts appearing. Some
of the contestants were:
Vocal soloists: Bobby DeBord,
Frances Loftis, Billie Hart, Pete
Shiflet, Mollie Siniard and Jewell
Sentelle.
Appearing in vocal ensembles
were Bonnie Hawkins and Pete
Shiflet; Gaynell and Ann Patter
son; Kathleen Jones and Martha
McCall.
As instrumental soloists the fol
lowing young folks appeared: Car
oline Fuller, flutist; Billie Jean
Cansler, cometist; Bobby Jeanne
Sherrill, cometist; Mildred Fuller,
clarinetist. In the piano group
June Mason, Allie M. Sentelle,
Charles Miller, Mary Frances
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SUPERVISED PLAY
FOR CHILDREN TO
START NEXT MON.
Albert Shuford To Have
Charge. A Full Program
Of Play Planned
FREE TO EVERYONE
A full program of supervised
athletics and recreation will again
be offered the children between
the ages of 5 and 15 here on the
field at the Brevard high school
daily from 10 a. m. to 12 noon and
from 3 to 5 p. m., George Wheeler,
president of the Brevard Athletic
and Recreation association, spon
sors of the program, announced.
Albert Shuford, who directed
the program last summer and
coach at Brevard high school, will
launch the various activities next
Monday morning. Additional play
ground equipment is now being
erected on the school field.
Tennis courts, badminton courts,
horseshoe pits, shuffleboards, vol
leyball courts and many other
sports, including softball, croquet,
etc., will be open for the children
and Coach Shuford invites parents
to bring their children to the field
in the morning and afternoons for
healthful recreation and exercise.
Officials of the association invite
ladies and girls who have grad
uated from high school to assist
with the supervision of the recrea
tion of smaller children.
Swimming will be offered free
two mornings each week to all who
participate in the program, Direc
rector Shuford explains, and a
midget softball league will be or
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PRESSLEY SHOW
HERE SATURDAY
Charlotte Officer Will Pre
sent Trained Dogs And
Pigeons On H. S. Field
In a performance designed to
dramatize and impress safety rules
on children, Officer Ernest E.
Pressley, of the traffic department
of the Charlotte police force, will
present his troupe of four trained
dogs and two pigeons on the Bre
vard high school athletic field on
Saturday afternoon, June 7, at 3:00
o’clock. In the event of rain, the
troupe will perform in the school
auditorium, it is stated.
The six highly trained “stars”
of the show have been taught the
tricks of vaudeville stage and are
a source of amusement through
out the performance, both to chil
dren and adults. By demonstrat
ing to children how to avoid risks,
it is said that the Pressley show is
saving lives and countless injuries
to small boys and girls.
The originator of the show, who
is a Charlotte traffic officer, has
taken his act to many cities in the
Southeast and the comment has
been most favorable. He has ap
peared in Knoxville, Miami, Palm
Beach, Charlotte, and many small
er cities. When F.B.I. Chief J.
Edgar Hoover saw the show, he
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Jaycees To Start
Street Dances Here
Next Monday Night
The Jaycees will begin their
summertime street dances next
Monday night, June 9, here in
front of the high school at 8:00
o’clock with music by Fred Wilson
and his Enon playboys, it is an
nounced today.
These square dances, put on
each summer for the entertainment
of the townspeople and the tour
ists as well, have proved highly
popular with more than 1,000 peo
people attending each Monday
night, Cecil Hill, the Jaycee presi
dent states.
Doyle Wells is in charge of the
street dance committee and soft
drinks will be on sale behind the
bandstand.