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TRANSYLVANIA
IS—
An Industrial, Tourist,
Educational, Agricul
tural and Music Cen
ter. Population, 12,241.
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The Transylvania Times
A State And National Prize-Winning Newspaper And An A.B.C. Paper
1. 57; No. 32
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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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1947
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
tOCKER PLANT TO OPEN MONDAY
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Many Expected To Attend Postal Convention
19 STAGE EVENT
ATCLUB AND CAMP
ILLAHEE AUG. 29-31
Several Washington Digni
taries And State Political
Leaders On Program
HARRIS TO PRESIDE
Approximately 300 persons are
expected to attend the district
convention of the North Carolina
Federation of Post Office Clerks to
be held in Brevard from August
29 through August 31, it is an
nounced here today.
Headquarters for the convention
wilj be at the Brevard country
chib with many of the clerks and
their wives staying at beautiful
Camp Illahee. Others will be
housed it the Franklin hotel and
in the \ irious guest houses of the
community.
Several Washington dignitaries
and many other state political
leaders are scheduled to speak on
the programs oi the three-day
convention. Senator William B.
Umstgad. Representative Monroe
Redden. Brandon Hodges, who an
nounced his candidacy for lieuten
ant governor recently, Ed M. And
erson, publisher of five weekly pa
pers in Western North Carolina,
have ill been invited to participate
on the program.
Norman L. Harris, of Shelby,
state president of the group, will
preside over the convention, and
Clarence Bowen, head of the local
group of post office clerks, is in
char^ > of the committee making
plans for the event.
Hi blighting the activities of the
conv ntion. will be picnics at Camp
Illahee and at the Pink Beds in
Pisgah National forest, a banquet
and dance at the Brevard country
club, a golf tourney and a tour of
the Ecusta Paper corporation, the
world’s largest manufacturing plant
of cigarette paper, Mr. Bowen
states.
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TOWN, COUNTY
ADOPT BUDGETS
Regular First Of Month
Meetings Of Boards
Are Reported
The town and county budgets,
which were filed the first of July
for public inspection, were offi
cially adopted by the board of al
dermen i and the county commis
sioners jat regular meetings Mon
day. \
The ttiiwn budget’s requirements
are $86,1576.08 and the tax rate
will remain at $1.45, while the
county's budget is $725,076.00, ne
cessitating a levy of $1.55, the same
as last ye|ir.
Other routine business of the
commissioners Monday included:
exempting L. L. McLean from poll
tax by reiison of indigency; deny
ing a beer license to Looney Sisk
at Dug-Oqit on Rosman highway;
and requesting the state highway
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calendar of
EVENTS
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Thursday August 7—Lions club
meeting. t‘-aithers cafeteria, 7 p.
m. Dairyrinen meet in county
agent’s office at 8 p. m.
Friday, j August 8—Garden club
at home pf Mrs. Brown Carr at
3:30 p. mi. Last doubleheader of
softball league on high school field
at 7:30 p./ m. Beekeepers’ meeting
at county' agent’s office at 8 p. m.
Public concert at Music camp at
8:15. Broadcast from camp at 9:30
p. m. J
Saturday!, August 9—Arts and
Craft show 4 to 5:30 at Camp
Deerwoode.l Softball game be
tween Ecusta and Asheville Army
stores beginning at 7:30 on lighted
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Rotary Club Is Organized In
Brevard, Officers-Directors *
Are Chosen At Meeting Tues.
Sought For Probe
This is a characteristic study
of John W. Meyer, S10,000-a-year
publicity man for the Hughes
Aircraft corporation, whose fasci
nating expense accounts are a
highlight of the Senate investi
gation of the Howard Hughes
company. Meyer is reported cur
rently “out of the country.”
(International)
DRIVE IS ENDING,
LAST CHANCE TO
JOIN FESTIVAL
Few Memberships To Seven
Concerts Available. Ar
tists Arriving
The campaign to secure mem
berships in the Brevard Music
festival is rapidly drawing to a
close, F. S. Best, chairman of the
membership committee, announces
today.
Since the membership is limit
ed to 600 persons and with out-of
town applications for admission
pouring in, Mr. Best urges local
citizens to join immediately, if they
haven’t already done so.
In response to numerous re
quests for single concert tickets,
Mr. Best reports that a special
seating section is being erected
so that single admissions may be
sold at $3.00 each.
Members of the Jaycees are
making a last minute drive to
sell memberships, which are also
on sale at Parsons Jewelry here,
it is reported.
James Christian Pfohl, who will
conduct the 60 piece festival sym
phony orchestra on all of the
seven programs, announces that
many of the nationally famous
musicians composing the orches
tra have already arrived and that
rehearsals are beginning for the
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Members Of Asheville Club
Assist In Organizational
Work Here
Steps for the organization of a
Rotary club were taken Tuesday
night by a group of 16 business
and professional men who are
planning to establish a unit of
that world wide service organiza
tion in Brevard. Meeting with sev
eral Asheville Rotarians in Gai
ther’s cafeteria, these men voted to
apply for a charter in Rotary In
ternational, thus adding Brevard to
the list of more than 6,000 cities in
some 75 countries and geographical
regions of the world where Rotary
has come to play a leading part in
the progress of the community.
Following a brief discussion of
the aims and ideals of Rotary by
Lowell Smith, president of the
Asheville club, and other officers
of that organization, the local
group named Ralph J. Duckworth,
Crawford W. Freeman, J. C. Gai
ther, L. W. Bonnell and John I
Anderson as directors of the Bre
vard Rotary club. Mr. Anderson,
editor of The Transylvania Times,
was chosen president of the newly
formed organization and Mr.
Duckworth, who is vice-president
of the Transylvania Trust company,
was elected as vice-president.
Wade Sutton, owner of the
Highlands Electric company, of
Brevard, was appointed secretary
and treasurer for the first year.
Mr. Sutton, who has been actively
identified with Rotary clubs in
other leading cities, has been in
strumental in forming the organi
zation in Brevard, it was explained.
Besides the officers and direc
tors, the other charter members of
the Brevard Rotary club are: John
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TO RUN SPECIAL
FESTIVAL BUSES
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Music. Club Urging Public
To Leave Cars Home
During Event
The Brevard Music club has
made plans to run buses to the
Transylvania Music camp during
the two week ends of the festival,
August 15 and August 22.
The tickets will be 25 cents per
round trip, and a book of tickets
may be bought for all seven con
certs. The schedule calls for the
buses to leave the Franklin ho
tel 45 minutes before time for
the concerts to begin. Stops will
be made at the square, at the
Pierce-Moore and any other place
where people request the bus to
stop. It is reported that the buses
will remain at the camp during all
concerts and be ready to leave im
mediately after they are over. Not
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Brevard Woman Returns From Berlin,
Reports On Life In Occupied Germany
Mrs. Rachel Orr Schepkowski,
prominent young Brevard woman,
who has only recently returned
from Berlin told a Times reporter
this week, “It’s actually surpris
ing what a nice life you can have
in Germany today.” Mrs. Schep
kowski sailed from Rotterdam on
July 5, on the Dutch ship, “Noor
dam.”
After spending 19 months in
Germany with the Public Rela
tions department of military gov
ernment, Mrs. Schepkowski ad
mitted that in spite of the many
conveniences now made possible
for Americans and allies that life
there is far from luxurious. “There
is still an acute shortage of sweet
milk,” she said, “as well as fresh
fruits and vegetables.” She ex
explained how the limited supply
of fresh milk that came in from
Denmark was distributed to the
enlisted men and American chil
dren.
Due to the fact that she arrived
in Europe so soon after the end
of the war, Mrs. Schepkowski,
along with 12 other American
girls, was quartered in a large
home formerly belonging to Ad
miral Doenitz. “It was comfort
ably furnished, and we could
have our breakfast and dinner
there if we choose,” she explain
ed. Their cook had been there j
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Brevard Boy Wins Soap Box Derby At Asheville
MONO CLAKK
BALSOM CAMP 116
Brevard, N,C.
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RAYMOND CLARK is pictured above holding
the Dreystadt award which he received last Sat
urday afternoon for winning the second annual
Asheville Soap Box Derby before a crowd of
5,000 people. Young Clark will represent this
area in the National Soap Box Derby finals in
Akron, Ohio, on August 16.
RAYMOND CLARK
WINS ASHEVILLE
SOAP BOX DERBY
Brevard Boy Drives Racer
At 35 Miles An Hour
Before 5,000
Fifteen-year-old Raymond Clark,
of Brevard, sponsored by Balsam
camp No. 116, Woodmen of the
World, and driving an unpainted
aluminum racer at approximately
35 miles an hour at the finish line,
won over 11-year-old Gary Camp
bell, Jr., of Asheville, in the finals
to take first place in Asheville’s
second annual Soap Box derby last
Saturday afternoon before a crowd
of nearly 5,000 people. Some 51
boys from Asheville and other
Western North Carolina towns par
ticipated in the event.
Manly Wright, chief clerk for
the derby, said that young Clark,
who qualified for the finals by
winning first place in the Class
“A” races earlier in the afternoon,
sped over the course of approxi
mately 1,000 feet in 42.2 seconds.
He was trailed several lengths at
the finish line by young Campbell.
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Jaycees To Feature
Dance Exhibition
Next Mon. Night
The Connestee square dance
team, with Walter Wood calling,
will give an exhibition at the Jay
cees’ street dance next Monday
night in front of the Brevard high
school beginning at 8:00 o’clock,
Cecil Hill, the president, reports
today.
The team, which was sponsored
in the Asheville Folk Festival by
the Brevard Jaycees, is recognized
as one of the best in Western
North Carolina. Immediately fol-!
lowing the exhibition, Miss Caro-1
lyn Kimzey, who was crowned I
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Roberts Brothers
Buy Grocery Store
Kenneth and Maurice Roberts,
of Canton, assumed charge of the
Broadway Grocery last Friday,
having purchased the business
from Roy F. Wolfe.
Kenneth is a veteran of World
War II, having served with the
navy for 42 months in different
parts of the world. Maurice was
employed by the government at
Pearl Harbor during the conflict.
Both of the Roberts brothers
are married and Kenneth and his
wife are living at 627 Probart
street. They have one child. Mau
rice expects to move to Brevard as
soon as he can secure a house.
Brevard Merchan
Annual Picnic
On NextH
FINAL BROADCAST
FROMMUSICCAMP
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
Public Concert At 8:15. Spe
cial Programs Saturday
And Sunday
The closing broadcast in the
series of musical programs pre
sented from Transylvania Music
camp will be heard Friday eve
ning, at 9:30 o’clock, over sta
tions WWNC, Asheville; WBT,
Charlotte and WSPA, Spartan
burg. This final program will fea
ture the symphony orchestra, un
der the direction of James Chris
tian Pfohl.
Again the concert for the pub
lic will be given at 8:15 o’clock,
but the audience is invited to re
main for the broadcast. At the
early concert the second, third
and fourth movements of Men
delssohn’s “Reformation Sym
phony” will be played. From this
came the famous chorale, “A
Mighty Fortress is our God.”
Carringer Is Soloist
Featured soloist on the broad
cast Friday evening will be Walter
Carringer, of Murphy. Mr. Car
ringer will sing “Leo Reve,” from
Manon, by Massanet; and “Du
Bist de Ruh,” by Shubert. Also
to be heard on the broadcast is
the first movement of Shubert’s
“Unfinished Symphony,” featur
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ts To Have
At Pink Beds
srsday Afternoon
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Around 250 People Expected i
At Outing; Varied Pro- j
gram Is Arranged
Arrangements have been com
pleted for the annual picnic of the
Brevard Merchants association,
which will be held at the Pink
Beds next Thursday afternoon be
ginning at 3 o’clock. Around 250
people are expected to attend, in
cluding in addition to the mer
chants and their clerks several
prominent local guests.
Curtis Kelley is in charge of the
committee on food and has ar
ranged a tempting meal, which
will be served by Sam Allison, start
ing at 5:30. There will be bingo
for the ladies, a softball game for
the men, horseshoes and badmin
ton. The Ecusta string band will
furnish music.
The directors voted this year to i
dispense with a speaker inasmuch
as the occasion is intended pri
marily for enjoyment and recrea
tion. The state secretary, W. L.
Dowell, has been invited to attend.
Free tickets are being distrib
uted to the members of the as
sociation on the basis of their
monthly payments. Others are
available at $1.00 each.
BEE KEEPERS TO MEET
The Transylvania Bee Keepers
association will meet in the coun
ty agent’s office Friday night, Au
gust 8, at 8:00 o’clock, it is an
nounced today.
All bee keepers in the county
are urged to attend and visitors
are welcomed. The topic for discus
sion will be “Disease Control.”
Verbatim Reporter Of UN Visiting
in Transylvania; Predicts Success
“American citizens of foreign
background should make every ef
fort to see that the differences
that now exist between nations
are smoothed out,” Miss Lola
Kagen, Russian-born American
who is now a verbatim reporter
for the United Nations organize- j
tion told a Times reporter this
week. Miss Kagen, who has been
an American citizen for 17 years,
is vacationing at Camp Keystone,
near Brevard.
“It is hard to realize how people
from war devastated countries
look when they arrived here to
work with the United Nations.
They are looking haggard and
worn and wearing clothes that the
poorest man in this country would
not think of wearing,” Miss Kagen
stated. “And yet,” she continued,
“these thousands of persons repre
sentating 56 nations have come
here guided by one ideal; they
firmly believe that this organizat
ion is the hope of mankind.” Miss
Kagen attributed this attitude as
the cause for harmony in the sec
retariat where she works. Among
the 2,000 people, coming from all
nations and all different types of
background, Miss Kagen explained
that everybody got along extreme
ly well.
Miss Kagen’s interest in world
politics began back with the
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PUBLIC INVITED
TO OPENING HERE,
PROGRAM AT 2:30
Federation Installs Facilities
For Preserving Fruits,
Vegetables And Meats
McCLURE TO PRESIDE
Advocated for many months as
a valuable asset in assuring this
county a more abundant supply of
food without recourse to imports,
a frozen food locker plant will be
opened in the new Farmers Federa
tion warehouse here next Monday,
August 11 This plant will make it
possible lor its patrons to keep
vegetables garden-fresh the year
around and enable farmers to
butcher t any season. It is the
consensi $ of opinion here that this
project will not only provide a
convenience for householders but
should stimulate meat production
on the farms of the county.
The locker plant will be open
for public inspection from 2 to
6 o’clock on the 11th. At 2:30 p.
m. there will be a program at
which the president of the federa
tion, James G. K. McClure, will
preside.
M. H. Austin, in charge of all
federation locker plants, will make
an address, pointing out its bene
fits to the eommijaity.
Mhs My Margajtft ITdtAir^r
tXtilmtl the prep
amion oTr*od ter freezing.
Mayorj. E. Varner, Sr., and Ed:
M. Are'rson, publisher of The
Times, ill also make short talks.
There ill also be a program of
music, etertainment and refresh
ments, Fed B. Wilkie, local man
ager, sai yesterday.
The fiezer locker plant is lo
cated in he basement of
built ancgreatly enlarged
tion wareouse here at the
of East 3*in and Gaston
After a caipaign last suj
which sevtal thousand
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FOLK
Musicians Are
ter Event Sche<
August
The first annual
Folk Jubilee will be p
here on the nights of Au
21, by the members of th
Earl Jackson post of V. F
the high school auditor!
purpose of this jubilee, e;
Jack Huggins, adjutant of
post, is to bring out the ol
tain music that was one
ical here and is now dying
Real old time musicians
uled to appear on the prograir
elude Wallace Galloway, Bob
ton and Red Brewington and tl
Bracken family string band. The
championship Ecusta square dance
team and the Connestee team have
been invited to give exhibitions j
Any individual or group desiring tj
enter have been asked to conta<|
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Unique Honor Court
To Be Held Friday
At Pisgah Forest
One of the most unique honor
courts in the history of Scouting
in Transylvania county will be
held Friday night at 8:00 o’clock
in the basement of the Pisgah For
est school by troop 5, according to
Frank Carr, Jr., Scoutmaster of
the host troop.
The boys of troop 5 are bi
this week preparing a forest cal
fire scene in the building and]
the Scouts, leaders and visit
can actually participate in the
pressive event, Mr. Carr states!
The general public is invited to
attend the honor court and all
parents of Scouts are especially
urged to attend, the. Scoutmaster