TRANSYLVANIA
IS—
An Industrial, Tourist,
Educational, Agricul
tural and Music Cen
ter. Population, 12,241.
The Transylvania Times
A State 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. 27
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1947
★ SECTION ONE *
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
COUNTY TO CELEBRATE JULY 4TH
Festival Membership Drive Now Underway
GOOD RESPONSE
IS REPORTED BY
COMMITTEE CPI
Much Publicity Being Given
Event Throughout State
And Nation
SUPPORT URGED
With the 1947 Brevard Music
festival only six weeks away,
members of the association are re
newing their efforts to sell mem
berships for the two weeks’ event
which will be held here in the au
ditorium of the Transylvania Mu
sic-School camp on the week ends
of August 15-17, 22-24, F. S. Best,
chairman of the membership com
mittee, announces.
The response to the initial drive
which was conducted this spring
has assured success of the second
festival of the association, and the
bulk of the membership tickets
are still available, it is reported.
Recently, 10,000 attractive two-col
or folders were distributed local
ly and throughout the Southland
to acquaint the public with the
festival and the six international
ly famous artists who will appear
as guest soloists on the concerts.
While nation-wide publicity was
given to the festival held here last
year, a greater number of news
papers and magazines in the state
and nation are citing the festival
as one of the outstanding musical
events of the entire Southland.
Bill Sharp, who is in charge of the
North Carolina News bureau, re
cently released a complete story to
all newspapers in this and neigh
boring states giving full details on
the Brevard Music Festival.
Hamilton Arrives
Romine G. Hamilton, of Colum
bus, Ohio, who will again be the
concertmaster, has already arrived
and is daily working on the scores
with Director James Christian
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POLICE BAU WAS
WELL ATTENDED
Approximately $400 Was
Realized From Event. To
Purchase Equipment
A large crowd attended the po
licemen’s ball which was held at
the Brevard country club last Fri
day night and approximately $400
was realized from the function,
Chief B. F. Banther reports to
day.
The money will be used for the
purchase of necessary law en
forcement equipment, the chief
said, and he expressed his sin
cere appreciation to all who made
contributions and assisted in any
way in making the event a suc
cess.
The ball will be held annually, it
is reported. Last Friday night
many tourists as well as a large
number of local persons attended
the affair. Music was furnished by
the Ecusta string band and
“Speedy” Jones was the caller.
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CALENDAR OF I
EVENTS i
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Thursday, July 3—Lions club
meeting at Gaither’s cafeteria, 7:00.
Presbyterian Circles 1 and 2, 3:30
and Circles 3 and 4 at 8:00. Sarah
Taylor Guild of Methodist church,
8:00.
Friday, July 4—Fourth of July
celebration beginning with Ecusta
picnic at 10:00. Open house, Bre
vard country club. Ball game, Ecu
sta vs. Enka, Pisgah Forest field,
4:00. Softball doubleheader, Bre
vard high school field, 7:00. Street
dance, 8:00. Concert, Transylvania
Music School-Camp, 8:00.
Sunday, July 6—Attend the
church of your choice. Student
concert, / Transylvania Music
School-Camp, 4:00.
Monday, July 7—American Le
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Fourth Of July Concert At
Music-School Camp Will Open
1947 Season, Pfohl Announces
Just 99 Years Old
“UNCLE” BILL ERWIN,
99-year old Brevard negro, says:
“I ain’t old; I’se just been here a
long time.” Recalling the days
when he was a slave, “Uncle”
Bill says that Selica, where he
was born, was once larger than
Brevard. (Staff Photo)
BREVARD NEGRO,
99, MAKES CLAIM
OFAYOUNGMAN
l
Gives Theory For Long Liv
ing. Recalls Slave Days
When A Boy
“I ain’t old, I’ve just been here
a long time,” 99-year-old “Uncle”
Bill Erwin told The Times yester
day and when asked his recipe for
long living, the aged colored man,
who recalls his slave days when he
was a boy, stated, “You gotta walk
mighty straight and careful on sol
id ground.”
“Uncle” Bill, a deacon in the
Bethel Baptist church, carries out
his theory and despite his age,
moves with agility, carrying his
lean and lanky figure erectly.
His wife died in 1921 and “Un
cle” Bill says he hasn’t married
again because a man doesn’t need
but one good woman in a lifetime.
His idea about children, however,
differed and in their 50 years of
married life, the Erwins had a
family of 19.
Born between Brevard and Ros
man, “Uncle” Bill says he remem
bers the days when Selica was
bigger than Brevard. Said he didn’t
quite know what to make of all the
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Cannery Opens Here Next Thursday,
Rushing Business Expected In 1947
_
The Transylvania county can
nery, located here at the Brevard
high school, will officially open
next Thursday morning, July 10, at
10:00 for the current season, Ran
dall J. Lyday, general supervisor,
announces.
During the following week, the
cannery will be open on Tuesday
and Thursday, July 15 and 17, and
on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and
Thursdays for the remainder of
the month. Beginning August 1,
the cannery will be in operation
four days out of every week until
the beginning of school, at which
time canning will be done only af
ter school hours, Mr. Lyday re
ports.
The cannery will be operated on
the same basis this year as in the
past and three persons will be on
duty to assist and advise persons
who wish to use the facilities of
cannery. Otis Shipman will be the
manager and one of the instruc
tors, Mr. Lyday states.
Last year hundreds of persons
used the facilities of the cannery
and put up over 30,000 cans of
fruits, vegetables and meats. In
spite of the fact that the price of
cans has advanced, the cost to the
patrons of the cannery this year
will be the Same as last season. For
canning fruits and vegetables the
cost will be six cents for No. 2
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I To Have Display Of Fire
works On Lake Follow
ing Program Fri. Night
The Transylvania Music-School
camp will open its summer season
of regularly scheduled concerts by
the various musical organizations
of the camp when the 60-piece
concert band presents a program
of patriotic music in keeping with
the occasion Friday night begin
ning at 8:00 o’clock in the spaci
ous summer theater auditorium on
the camp site near Bevard, James
Christian Pfohl, the director, an
nounces.
Immediately following the con
cert, there will be a display of
spectacular fireworks from the
lakeside, and Mr. Pfohl cordially
invites the public to the free con
cert.
Sunday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock
the 50-piece symphony orchestra,
under the direction of Mr. Pfohl,
will present a concert featuring
Louis Purdey, tenor, of Winston
Salem, as guest soloist. The Lon
don Symphony of Haydn and two
vocal arias from Carmen and Pag
liacci will be included on the pro
gram.
Next Tuesday night several of
the outstanding artists on the camp
faculty will be featured in a con
cert beginning at 8:00 o’clock, and
the public is invited to all of the
concerts. Mr. Pfohl explains that
throughout the summer the Fri
day and the Sunday concerts will
feature the students of the camp
in concert with guest soloists and
the Tuesday nights’ programs will
be given by the faculty artists.
On Saturday night of this week
Mr. Pfohl will take his symphony
orchestra to Hendersonville to
present a concert in the Hender
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INSPECTOR HERE
WARNS BUILDERS
Must Have Permit Before
Work Is Started On
Home Or Business
A. M. Case, Brevard building in
spector, this week warns all per
sons who are planning to build or
repair their homes or businesses
that a permit is necessary before
work can be started.
Applications can be secured
from the city hall, and, according
to the North Carolina state law, no
work can be started until a permit
has been issued by the inspector.
Mr. Case also explains that it
is necessary now for all manufac
turers of cement blocks to have a
state test made before the blocks
can be sold. Purchasers of these
types of blocks are urged by Mr.
Case to obtain a slip from the
manufacturer showing mixture of
the cement blocks.
U. N. Palestine Committee Meets In Jerusalem
AT THE FIRST OPEN MEETING of the United
Nations Special Committee on Palestine in the Y.
M. C. A. Building in Jerusalem, Moshke Shertok
(extreme left), head of the Jewish Agency, is
shown presenting an introduction to the Palestine
problem from the Jewish standpoint. At extreme
right is Justice Alfred Emil Sandstrom of Sweden,
chairman of the probe committee. Seated beside
Sandstrom is Dr. Hoo of China.
(International)
DR. OWEN STARTS
REVIVAL AT PISGAH
FOREST NEXT WEEK
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Outstanding Mission ary,
Minister And Writer Re
turns To County
Dr. J. C. Owen, of Lakeland, Fla.,
and a former resident of Transyl
vania county, will conduct a two
weeks’ revival at the Pisgah For
est Baptist church beginning next
Monday, July 7, it is announced
today.
A missionary, a minister and a
writer, Dr. Owen has conducted
457 revivals during his life-time
and has been preaching for 68
years. During the large number of
revivals which he has conducted,
! there have been more than 26,000
conversions, Dr. Owens reports.
After doing missionary work for
; many years in China and other
foreign countries, Dr. Owen has
returned to America to write an
other book in which many refer
ences to Transylvania county and
his early life are made.
All members of the Pisgah For
est church and friends of , Dr.
Owen throughout the county are
cordially invited to attend the ser
vices next week, LeRoy Rackley,
the secretary reports.
Speaking at the First Baptist
church here last Sunday morn
ing, Dr. Owen made an earnest
and eloquent plea for relief for
Chinese children orphaned by
years of war. Later, he reported
a good response to his appeal. In
his sermon, Dr. Owen said Ameri
cans owed a great debt to the Chi
nese, who kept 4,000,000 Jap
troops engaged while the war was
at a critical stage in the Far East.
He also paid tribute to the hero
ism and stamina of the Chinese
race in spite of years of tribula
tions.
New Manager At
Firestone Store
K. Brenfleck, of Trenton, N. J.,
has succeeded D. J. Luther as
manager of the Firestone Home
and Auto Supply store here. Mr.
Luther is now actively associated
with L. D. Martin in the taxi bus
iness.
Mr. Brenfleck was in business
in Trenton for 20 years before
coming to Brevard. He is married
and he and his wife have one
daughter, the latter being now on
a visit in Morganton. They plan
to come to Brevard as soon as liv
ing quarters can be obtained.
Mr. Brenfleck is a brother-in
law of the owner of the store, W.
S. Shiflet.
HEALTH OFFICE TO CLOSE
The Transylvania county health
department office will be closed
for the holidays, July 4 and 5, in
clusive, in accordance with the
holidays taken by the rest of the
district health department.
Barker Children To Leave For
Hollywood, Acclaimed Highly
Successful On New York Stage
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On Times Staff
ManaMHBH
FRANCES WALKER this
week assumed her duties as so
ciety and assistant editor of The
Transylvania Times. Miss Walk
er received her degree in jour
nalism at the University of
North Carolina last month and
is an honor graduate of Bre
vard high school and Brevard
college.
Upholstery Shop
Opens, N. Caldwell
John F. Hull, of Hendersonville,
has opened up an upholstery shop
in the building at the corner of
North Caldwell Ave. and French
Broad street, formerly occupied
by the B & L Book Store.
Mr. Hull, who served during
World War II, has announced that
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Eight Women Will Be Called For
Jury Service During July Term
For the first time in the history
of Transylvania county, women
are listed on the jury list for the
July term of superior court which
opens here on Monday, July 21
for a two weeks’ session. Judge
Hoyle Sink will preside over the
court and Clarence O. Ridings, of
Forest City, will be the solicitor.
The eight women included on the
jury list include: Mrs. Donald Lee
Moore, Mrs. Doyle Moss, Mrs.
Gerald Allison, Mrs. D. J. Luther,
Mrs. B. T. Whitmire, Mrs. Verne
P. Clement, Mrs. Cora Neil Turn
ner and Bessie Gash.
During the spring term of court,
one other Transylvania county
woman, Mrs. C. Y. Patton, superin*
tendent of public welfare, served
on a jury in a divorce case, but
the women listed above are the
first to be drawn from the court
panel.
The following persons are named
to served on the jury for the
first week of court: A. H. Harris,
Mrs. Donald Lee Moore, J. C. Al
bertson, Mrs. Doyle Moss, Millard
Teague, Mrs. Gerald Allison, Al
vin Hubbard, Ralph L. Waldrop,
Harry L. Sitton, I. G. Gillam, Mrs.
D. J. Luther, H. M. Merrill, V. V.
Johnson, C. L. LaChance, Carl J.
Kilpatrick, E. H. Davis, Sylvester
Orr, J. I. Ayers, John L. Whitmire,
B. T. Tinsley, Glen Whitmire,
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Spending Vacation Here
With Parents. Career*
Are Reviewed $ *
After two successful yearB of
modeling and appearing in New
York shows, the three Barker
children, Betty, Marie and Charles,
accompanied by their mother,
Mrs. V. E. Barker, have returned
to Brevard for a visit before leav
ing for Hollywood.
“It is really a privilege and a
treat to be back in Brevard with
Mr. Barker and our many friends,”
Mrs. Barker said. V. E. Barker is
employed in the main office at
Ecusta.
The career of the Barker chil
dren began two years ago when
Betty now aged 10, won a per
sonality show sponsored by Macy’s
department store. Since then Bet
ty and Marie, who is 16 and the
oldest, have gradually climbed the
ladder of success until now they
feel like veteran actresses.
It is no wonder that little Betty,
with her blonde curls and vivaci
ous personality, was discovered by
Oscar Hammerstein and signed for
the new version of “Showboat,”
brought back to Broadway for a
years run. Betty appeared in five
scenes in the show and has a rec
ord of never missing a single per
formance in the tough schedule
which included eight shows week
ly
“Southern Belle” was the nick
name the older members of the cast
tagged on Betty. She has many au
tographed pictures of them, all
saying, “To our little ‘Southern
Belle’.”
A model for the Conover agency,
Betty will appear on two magazine
covers this fall. The magazines are
Beauty Culture and Modern Beau
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ECUSTA PICNIC
WILL HIGHLIGHT
DAY’S PROGRAM
\thletic Events Planned.
Many Tourists Here
For Occasion
STORES TO CLOSE
Highlighted by the Ecusta Paper
corporation picnic at Camp Sap
phire which will be attended by
several thousand people, the
Fourth of July will be elaborately
celebrated in Transylvania coun
ty. Many special athletic attractions
have been planned in and around
Brevard and the day will be
climaxed by a big street dance
that night in front of the Brevard
high school.
All stores, and industries, the
bank and the various town and
county offices will be closed for
the day as will the post office.
Window service, however, will be
offered from 8:30 a. m. to 9:00
a. m. and from 11:00 to 11:30 a,
m. There will be no city or rural
delivery.
Many Tourist Here
With the opening of the sum
mer tourist season, already a
large number of visitors from all
parts of the nation are filling the
inns, hotels, cabins and extra
rooms in the town and county,
| reports, and a large number of
| golfers and tennis players are ex
! pected to use the facilities of the
club. According to Ranger W. W.
Huber, already throngs of sum
mer visitors are flocking to the
Pisgah National forest, and a rec
ord number of sightseers, picnick
ers, swimmers and fisherman are
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kmc^special activities are -being!
entertain
* ton*,
the day and j
the Brevard fcduafcry club wil^toid
open house, Manager E. E. Fraser
SANITARIAN ASKS
AID IN CAMPAIGN
Hart Points Out Two Steps.
In Fly Control; Urges
Thorough Clean-Up
In preparation for the approch
ing fly extermination campaign,
Walter Hart, county sanitarian,
yesterday urged all citizens to
dean up their premises as a
means of getting rid of breeding
places of the pests.
Mr. Hart pointed out that the
fly is a mechanical carrier of dis
ease which thrives in filth and
contaminates anything upon which
it lights or crawls.
He pointed out that there are
two steps in controlling them:
first to clean up favorite breed
ing places, such as horse and cow
t stalls, chicken houses and garbage;
second, to spray these places with
such material as DDT, by means of
which nearly all flies can be
killed.
“In order to make this program
successful,” Mr. Hart said, “we will
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Chamber Commerce
Members To Meet
In Asheville, 8th.
Several members of the Brevard
Kiwanis club plan to attend the
regional meeting of Western North
Carolina Associated communities,
which will be held at the Battery
Park hotel next Tuesday, July 8.
Luncheon will be served the
group which will represent all
communities in the eleven-county
group at 12:30, and the program
will begin at 1:30. Among those
who have made plans to attend
from Brevard are President Wil
lis Brittain, Secretaries Bill Hu
ber and Mrs. Thelma Fisher, C.
M. Douglas, secretary of the
WNCAC, and Mayor S. E. Varner.
It is expected that other mem
bers of the local commerce body
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