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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. 28 * 16 PAGES TODAY ★ BREVARD. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1947 ★ SECTION ONE * PUBLISHED WEEKLY SIGNS TO GUIDE FOREST TRAFFIC ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★IT ★★★ ★ ★ + Town-County Budgets Filed; Tax Rate Same APPROPRIATIONS ARE INCREASED FOR FISCAL YEAR School Fund Receives $497, 317.00. Welfare Depart ment Is Cut BOARDS MET MONDAY At regular monthly meetings Monday both the county board of commissioners and the town board of aldermen filed budgets for the fiscal year 194748, The budgets will be open for public inspection for 21 days, after which they will be adopted. The tax rate for the new year will remain the same, and because then' has been an increase in val uation. additional revenue has been added into estimated expendi tures. The total amount expected to be spent by the county this year is $044,124 with approximate ly three fifths of this amount— $497.817—being alloted to the school fund. Debt service requires one-fourth of the budget, which leaves a comparatively small amount for all other purposes. The county has launched a school building program that has to be taken care of and debt ser vice is a “must", the commission ers state. The county's bonded debt amounts to $1,477,000 and this year the interest increases from 2 to 24 per cent. It is explained that reductions were necessary in the welfare and county agent's department. Dur ing the last year the former spent $56.005 20: for the current year $45,190.00 has been placed in the budget. Other business before the eoun* ty commissioners Monday included the alloting of $16,100.00 for ex pense® during the month of July; denying beer licenses to J. C. Gal loway; prohibiting granting of free —Turn To Page Foot CANNERY OPENS HERE THURSDAY To Operate Two Days Next Week. Facilities Have Been Enlarged The Transylvania community cannery-, which has been complete ly renovated, remodeled and re paired for the current season, will officially open Thursday and hun dreds of housewives are expected to use the cannery facilities which have been considerably expanded, Randall J. Lyday, general super visor, announces. Test canning has been done and everything is in readiness for the opening, it is reported. Next week the cannery will be open on Tues day and Thursday, July 15 and 17. To be operated on the same basis as last year, the cannery is expected to do a record business this season. Last year several hun dred persons put up more than 30.000 cans of fruits, vegetables and meats, and this number will —Turn To Page Four > " " . ■ 11 --f CALENDAR OF EVENTS ~♦.. - — ...... . Thursday. July 10 — Masons to meet at Masonic Hall, 8:00. Tag football league begins at Brevard college. Catholic card party at country club, 8:00. Friday, July 11—Hospital guild to meet with Mrs. Herbert Finck, 2:30. Kiwanis to entertain softball team at Camp Sapphire, 7:00. Soft ball doubleheader, 7:30. high school field. Boy Scout Court of Honor for troop No. 4 at hut, 7:30. Daily Vacation Bible school of First Bap tist church to hold commence ment, 8:00. Saturday, July 12—Lions club to award Plymouth at Lee’s Riding Devices. Sunday. July 13—Attend the —Turn To Page Five Principal Speaker* At Ecu*ta Picnic Gonial host of the Ecusta picnic, President Harry II. Straus, right, who delivered his annual address duly 4. is shown above. At the left is T. N. Word, vice president of Ecusta Paper corpora* tion. and standing next to him is Brandon llodges, Asheville attor ney, guest speaker, at the event. (Staff Photo) President Straus Predicts Bright Future For Ecusta At Big July Fourth Picnic Announces That Progress Is Being Made On Company’s Expansion Program A bright future for the Ecusta Paper corporation was predicted by President Harry H. Straus in an address before a throng of five thousand employees, their fam ilies and friends at a big Fourth of July picnic at Camp Sapphire last Friday. Mr. Straus, who was recently awarded an honorary degree of doctor of engineering by the Uni versity of North Carolina at Ra leigh, stated that splendid progress is being made on the company's $5,000,000 expansion program, de signed to increase the production of cigarette paper and to prevent possible disruption in operation. Additional warehouses to store flax fibre have been constructed at a cost of approximately a mil lion dollars and these houses will hold around three million dollars worth of extra flax. "Flax is a product of nature and if there is a crop failure, we might miss the expected flax sup ply," Mr. Straus explained. "Con sequently, so as to give our cus tomers a continuous flow of cig arette paper, irrespective of crop conditions, transportation interrup tions or labor interferences in oth-1 er industries, we have provided this large supply of flax in our, fireproof warehouses right here | which can keep us going now for a —Turn To Page Five REPORTS ON CHEST EXAMS NOW BEING RELEASED HERE Dr. Michal Issues Statement. Immunization Clinics Each Saturday Morning Dr. M. B. H. Michal. district health officer, has announced that persons having negative chest ex aminations have been notified and that the final tabulation on tests proving positive should be re leased within the next two weeks. Dr. Michal states that the main program at the health office now is the regular clinics. She holds her clinic each Monday. Mrs. Paul Lollis, health nurse, announced that she is still holding her im munization clinic each Saturday morning from 9 to 12 o'clock. Children of school age are urg ed to check at the health office and see if all immunization shots have been taken before school be gins. KIWANIS TO ENTERTAIN SOFTBALL PLAYERS Brevard Kiwanis Club will be host to the Kiwanis softball team at the dinner meeting on Friday evening of this week. The dinner will be given at Camp Sapphire, beginning at 7 o’clock. Broadcasts Will Originate At Music School-Camp Starting Friday Night The first in the series of con* certs to be broadcast from Tran sylvania Music School-Camp will be the Friday night concert be ginning promptly at 7:30 o'clock. The concert by the 60-piece band will be aired over stations. WWNC, Asheville. WBT, Charlotte and WSPA. in Spartanburg. The concerts, which are broad cast from 7:30 until 7:55, were made possible by the installation of Class A telephone lines by Citizens Telephone company of Brevard, the Lions club, and the Brevard Chamber of Commerce. The coverage by these three large stations will insure a listening audience composed of the majority of North and South Carolina. Al though the public is invited to these concerts they are urged to be on time for the broadcasts. The Sunday afternoon concert at 4:00 o’clock will feature this week Marjorie McClung Parker, soloist, the Transylvania Symphony orchestra and chorus. The chorus is under the direction of John Hol liday, of Queen’s college, in Char lotte. This is Mr. Holliday’s sec ond summer as choral director at Transylvania. Romine Hamilton, head of the string department of Ohio Wesleyan, will again be con cert master. Mr. Hamilton will be concert master for the Brevard —Toni To Page Five LOCAL MAN IS NAMED TO POST IN VFW DISTRICT Jack Huggins Named Dep uty Chief Of Staff Of 12th Area Of State Jack Huggins, adjutant of’ the Lewis Earle Jackson post of the V. F. W. here, has been named deputy chief of staff of the 12th district and holds the distinction of being the only veteran of foreign wars in this district to hold a state office. In a general order from Edward C. Snead, department commander, of High Point, Mr. Huggins was informed this week of his duties during the ensuing year. Acting as public relations officer in this district, he will visit all the vari ous posts and assist in organizing new ones. Dr. Julius Sadcr, commander of the local post, stated this week that the post here was honored by hav ing its adjutant named to a state of fice. He also reminded the members that the organization here will meet next Monday night in the club room in the basement of the Pickelsimer building. CLUB TO AWARD NEW PLYMOUTH Other Prizes To Be Given Away Saturday Night At Lee’s Riding Devices The Brevard Lions club will award a 1947 Plymouth sedan on Saturday night, when Lee’s Riding Devices close a week's engage ment here under the auspices of the club. Other awards to be made the same evening include an electric refrigerator, electric grill, coffee maker and Mixmaster. Several other prizes have been awarded since the rides opened here Mon day night. It has been announced that the club’s share of the proceeds will be used in blind conservation work, on which local Lions have spent around $1,500 during the past three and a half years. John Ford is chairman of the sight conservation committee. Oth er members are Dr. E. O. Roland, Jack Trantham and L. S. Parsons. Good crowds have been enjoy ing the rides and the Lions have been raising additional funds by selling refreshments. Given favor able weather, attendance during the remaining afternoons and eve nings is expected to be even bet ter. Douglas Is Named Secretary Of Park And Forest Group C. M. Douglas of Brevard was named secretary of the North Car olina National Park, Parkway and Forest commission at the organiza tion meeting held in Waynesville Monday. Charles E. Ray, Jr., of Waynesville, was chosen chairman of the state commission, and Dr. Kelly E. Bennett, of Bryson City, was elected vice-chairman. Constitution and by-laws for the commission were adopted at the morning session and other matters relative to setting up and opera tion of the state commission were ironed out. At a luncheon meeting at noon given by the Waynesville chamber of commerce, representatives from Tennessee, including civic and state leaders from Knoxville, Mem phis, Gatlinburg and other centers held a round-table discussion of problems which both North Caro lina and Tennessee are interested in. The commission was authorized by the 1947 session of the legisla ture, and the seven-man board was appointed by Governor R. Gregg Cherry last month. Other mem bers of the commission besides the —Turn To Pago Eight Filming Battle Scene In County ? mnr iinriinriMr^Tfifiwaiii llillli III liillW—MMUMlIIIIII— lillUHH I Pictured above, is a dramatic scene in James Street’s story, “Tap Hoots”, which was filmed at Mary Gwynn’s camp last Saturday morning. Soldiers are shown burning the old mill behind the water wheel. Actually, the fire was made with chemicals and no damage was done to the property. Another picture of the movie set is on page four, first section. (Staff Photo) Scenes For 'Tap Roots" Are Taken At Mary Gwynn’s Camp, Others Made In Natl Forest I SEVERAL GIRLS ENTER JAYCEES’ BEAUTY CONTEST Chairmen Seeking More Con testants. To Be Crowned This Month i A group of 11 girls have en tered the Jaycee’s beauty contest to select “Miss Brevard ’, it was announced today by Russ Poole and Ben Shiflet, co-chairmen for the event. The chairmen emphasized that the time is limited for girls to en ter the contest, and it will be nec essary for contestants to get in touch with a member of the Jaycee committee before next Monday, July 14. The girls in the contest thus far are Misses Maude Stew art, Marie Tankersley, Viola John son, Eleanor Pettit, Hazel Brown, I Dorothy Poole, Mary Frances Gai j ther. Frances Walker, Beatsie Moore, Amelia Amos and Ruby Galloway. The contestants, who are being sponsored by various business firms in town, will be introduced at a dance to be given at the country club the end of this month. The girls, wearing evening dresses, —Turn To Page Four ► ____ Filming Of Picture In West ern North Carolina Is Completed Filming of the forthcoming Uni versal-International motion picture, “Tap Roots”, in Transylvania coun ty and Western North Carolina has been completed and the rest of the work on this color movie of James Street’s civil war story will be done in the studios in Hollywood. A number of “shots” were made in this county, with the last group being made at Mary Gwynn’s camp here last Saturday morning. Others were made at Lake Tox away and in the Pisgah National Forest and most of them featured battle scenes. Mary Gwynn’s camp was select ed because of its beautiful old wa ter wheel and ideal natural setting. A huge $20,000 movie technicolor camera clocked on three different scenes there in front of the water wheel. One showed a quiet, peaceful pastoral scene with an ox team pull ing a loaded sled and a pair of fine horses pulling a wagon by the wa ter wheel and quaint old building next to it. Another scene was highly dra matic and depicted the capture i and burning of the old mill by a group of Yankee soldiers. Filming last Saturday was di rected by George Templeton and —Turn To Page Four July Fourth Was Observed Quietly In Town And County; Sheriff Says Superstition has it that No. 13 is unlucky and 13 persons in Tran sylvania county last Friday had firm convictions in this belief, for on that day of celebration the sheriff’s department forcefully let rooms in the local jail to that many people. All in all, the day was quiet in Brevard and Transylvania despite the numerous picnics and athletic events, Sheriff Bert Freeman re ports, and only one auto accident with no serious injuries was re ported. Branch Carrington, colored, was arrested on the Hendersonville highway some three hours after the car he was reported to have i been driving crashed into another beyond Enon near the old Erwin place. Carrington’s car was quick ly abandoned by the driver and three other negroes, and upon in vestigation by Deputies John Kil patrick and Bill Bailey and Patrol man H. M. Morrow a case of whis key was found in the rear. Carring ton was relased on a bond of $150 and the car is being held for $2, 000.00. Drunk driving and public drunk enness constituted the other 12 ar rests in Transylvania last Friday. Mrs. T. E. Reid left Monday to visit her sister, Miss Wilna Walton, in Atlanta, Ga, CHAMBER WILL SHARE COST OF ERECTING LINE Five CBS Stations To Carry Programs Weekly From Music School-Camp REPORTS HEARD Realizing that the Pisgah Nation al Forest is the greatest tourist attraction in this vicinity and that the number of people who fre quent it is steadily increasing, the board of directors of the Brevard chamber of commerce at a regular meeting held Tuesday night voted to erect signs in town and along highways leading into the forest to guide traffic. Willis Brittain, president, presided at the meeting, which was held in the office on East Main street. Appropriate signs will be erected in Brevard at the intersection of U. S. 64, N. C. 280 and U. S. 276 at North Brevard, at the Pisgah Forest post office and at the en trance to the forest at the inter section of highways 280 and 276. near Davidson River bridge The directors voted to join with the Lions club and the Citizens Telephone company in underwrit ing the cost of a special telephone line to the Transylvania Music School-Camp to transmit broad casts of the camp-school orches tra on Friday nights and the an nu.d music festival. Fit st Broadcast Friday It was reported that beginning tomorrow night the weekly broad casts would be carried on a chain of five stations through CBS and also that coast-to-coast supporting programs of the music festival would be carried over the same net work in August. These programs are of the “sustaining” nature and will not cost the musie school or the stations anything. It was point —Turn To Page Eight RAIDS ARE MADE BY SHERIFFS DEPT Number Of Pinball Machines; And Punch Boards Are Picked Up Here In a series of raids here this week, the sheriff’s department has picked up more than 20 pinball machines and numerous punch boards from several service sta tions and eating houses, it is re ported. Belonging to an Asheville con cern, the machines are being held and the manager of the firm will be given a hearing before Fred Shuford, justice of peace. “We are not going to have these types of machines on which peo ple may gamble, in Transylvania county,” Sheriff Bert Freeman re ported yesterday. He stated fur ther that he had had numerous complaints from parents that their school children were wasting their lunch money in the pinball outfits. —Turn To Page Eight Washington Man Is One Of The Longest Times Subscribers Among the subscribers of the Transylvania Times, Elzie B. Cox, of Seattle, Wash., probably should win a prize for being the longest subscriber in the town farthest away. Mr. Cox’s record is indeed out standing. A native of Brevard, he has taken this paper all the 44 years he has been away. “In the 44 years I have been away, the paper has proved a very pleasant tie with the friends and relatives of my youth,” he writes. The letter in closed a check for a two-year re newal. If there is any subscriber with a similar record, The Times would like to hear from them. As far as our records show, that of Elzie B. Cox, of Seattle, Wash., is the long est.