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. 58; No. 5
★ SECTION ONE *
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1948 ★ 16 PAGES TODAY ★
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
SAVINGS BOND SALES STILL HIGH
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Polio Drive Is Extended Another Week Here
PRESIDENTS BALL
SATURDAY NIGHT
IS MAIN EVENT
Chairman Says Contribu
tions Are Gratifying. Mak
ing Solicitations
DIME BOARD OPENS
Although word has been re
ceived here from Mrs. Phillips
Russell, state chairman of wom
en’s activities of the March of
Pimes, that the drive in Transyl
vania county, and possibly all
other counties of the state will
be extended until February 7,
the President’s Ball at the coun
try club Saturday night, January
31, will be one of the highlights
of the drive, it is reported by
county chairman. Mrs. Mildred
Scott.
‘Our contributions from mer
chants have been more than
gratifying, but the extremely bad
weather has curtailed soliciting
somewhat,” Mrs. Scott asserted.
Merchants who have not been con
tacted thus far in the drive will
be visited by a representative
from the March of Dimes either
the latter part of this week or the
early part of next, it was stated.
More than 150 reservations had
been made for the President’s
jliA/ll ivllJVl i vV? | oamcwy
may be made by calling E. E. Fra
ser at the country club, number
565.
In case of extremely bad
weather or more snow, the dance !
may be postponed, but Mrs. Scott
emphasized that this will not be
likely. It is hoped that arrange
ments can be made with all taxi
companies to remain open until
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COLLEGE TO HOLD
FINALS ON 10TH
Rev. H. C. Wilkinson And
Dr. Dwight Ware Will
Be Principal Speakers
Mid-winter graduation exercises
at Brevard college will be held
on Sunday and Tuesday, Feb. 8
and 10, with 33 students in the
graduating classes, Dr. E. J. Col
trane, president of the institution,
announces today.
Rev. Howard C. Wilkinson, pas
tor of the Haywood Street Meth
odist church, Asheville, will de
liver the sermon at the annual
commencement religious exercises
next Sunday night, Feb. 8, at the
Brevard Methodist church. Mrs.
Malvin Artley will be in charge
of a special music program at that
time.
Dr. R. Dwight Ware, district
superintendent of the Asheville
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CALENDAR OF
EVENTS
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Thursday, Jan. 29—Recital by
music department at college, 8:00
in auditorium.
Friday, Jan. 30—Fashion show
at college, 8:00 March of Dimes
board opens on square.
Saturday, Jan. 31—Art exhibit
at college from 2:00 until 5:00 p.
m. Basketball game, Brevard vs.
Lees-McRae, 7:30, in college gym.
President’s ball at country club,
9:00.
Sunday, Feb. 1 — Attend the
church of your choice. Presby
terian Family night supper, 6:30
at the church.
Tuesday, Feb. 3 — Catholics to
sponsor spaghetti supper and card
party, 7:00, at country club.
Wednesday, Feb. 4 — Rotary
club meets, Gaither’s cafeteria,
7:00.
Mountain Crest Farm Is Sold
To W. R. Smith And Son, Tract
Has Interesting Farming History
MERCHANTS WANT
MORE PAY GIVEN
SCHOOLTEACHERS
Trade Body To Sponsor Pig
Contest; New Committees
Named By President
The board of directors of the
Brevard Merchants association at
a regular meeting in the city hall
Tuesday evening voted unanimous
ly to request the governor to take
whatever steps necessary to raise
the salaries of teachers in North i
Carolina: This action followed
considerable discussion of the
proposal, and the consensus was'
that the teachers deserved more
money. Alex Patterson, president,
presided.
The finance committee, head
ed by Ralph Duckworth, was in
structed to work out a budget for
the present year and submit it at
the next regular meeting.
gpesident Patterson appointed
Legislative: E. H. McMahan,
chairman; Jerry Jerome and Ed
die Varner.
Transportation: Don Jenkins,
chairman; C. M. Douglas and
George Hunter.
Membership: Curtis Kelley,
chairman; Crawford Freeman and
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V.F.W. Members
Asked To Help
Tidy Up Quarters
Members of the local post of the
V. F. W. are asked to come to the
new quarters of the unit over Pat
terson’s store Sunday afternoon
and help in cleaning up the rooms.
The hours set are from one to five
o’clock and Francis Plummer, who
handles publicity for the post,
urges that every member who pos
sibly can report and do his part
in making the new quarters more
inviting and attractive.
There was a good attendance
of members of the post and its
auxiliary last Monday night, Mr.
Plummer said, and plans have
been formulated to increase rec
reation facilities in the hall. Plans
are now being drafted to launch
the annual membership drive of
the post and an effort will be made
to enlist a larger number of World
War I veterans in order that the
younger contingent may have the
advantage of the former’s judg
ment and experience, Mr. Plum
mer explained.
New Owners Are Former
Residents Of County. Pur
chase Price $100,000
The largest and most produc
tive farm in Transylvania coun
ty, containing over 1800 acres and
now known a6 Mountain Crest
farm, was sold last week to W.
R. Smith, of Virginia, and son,
Ray Smith, of Marion, at a pur
chase price of $100,000, it was
learned from Attorney Lewis P.
Hamlin, who handled the real es
tate transaction.
This farm, owned and operat
ed for many years by Randall W.
Everett, of Brevard, is located in
the lower part of the county, and
has operated since May, 1947, as
Mountain Crest farms, an unlim
ited partnership. The farm has
been engaged in extensive truck
farming since this time, having
the largest strawberry beds in this
section as well as many aspara
gus beds. Last summer and fall
thousands of bushels of string
beans were produced on the farm.
Randall W. Everett sold this
farm to* Dr Edward H. Jones in
1*§5. Mr. Jones owned it for many
Which time he ac
1 w»onaid e rable larger
aqjpeage than the original farm
£>r. Jones sold in 1945 to D. H.
Black, who in turn sold the farm
to the Mountain Crest partnership
in 1947.
Operated Furniture Store Here
W. R. Smith has owned prop
erty in Transylvania county at va
rious intervals and at one time
owned and operated a furniture
store here, which he sold out to
Ashe Houston. Mr. Case, of Hous
ton’s, is a brother of Mr. Smith’s
wife. At one time Smith owned
Glen Cannon farm, formerly
known as the old Clough farm.
He sold this in 1939 to Irven J.
Rueter, from whom the present
owner, E. C. Langston, bought the
property. Mr. Smith also owned
property on West Main street in
Brevard at one time.
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Take .Old Tags Off
Vehicles By First,
Patrolman Warns
Saturday night, January 31, at
midnight is the deadline for 1948
license plates, and Patrolman H.
M. Morrow issues a warning to
all motorists to have the tags put
on before this time. A fine will
be imposed on persons who are
caught driving after this time
with last year’s tags.
Patrolman Morrow said that he
wished to warn car owners that
plates this year must be on both
the front and rear. Placing them
inside the windshield is a viola
tion of the law, he asserted.
Mitchells Talk With Daughter In
Japan, American Telephones "Better"
Although the mileage from here
to Japan runs into many thou
sands, the distance was cut short
by a trans-Pacific telephone call
made to Mr. and Mrs. Everett
Mitchell at 3:00 a. m. the morn
ing of January 14. The Mitchells
talked with their daughter, Mrs.
Beverly Tate, who has been in
Tagajo, Honshu, Japan, with her
husband for more than six months.
Still excited over hearing her
only daughter’s voice across so
many miles, Mrs. Mitchell said she
could hear Beverly distinctly, but
evidently telephones are not as
good in Japan for her daughter
said she had difficulty under
standing her mother. When
asked what the news was, Mrs.
Mitchell replied, “They’re get
ting along fine except for the four
months-old baby, and he had the
measles. But I don’t think people
would be very interested in hear
ing that”
The young son of Lt. and Mrs.
Tate was bom in Japan, and Mr.
and Mrs. Mitchell have never seen
the baby. As yet, the couple does
not know when they can return
to the United States. Lt. Harold
Tate is serving with the Airborne
division of the United States
Army of Occupation.
The January 23 issue of the
Asheville Times had a picture of
Mrs. Tate along with several oth
er American women who were
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One Of 100 Outstanding Photos To Be On Display
Shown above is one of the outstanding photo
graphs to be on display in Transylvania Febru
ary 4th through 14th by Popular Photography
magazine. One of the 100 outstanding photos
made by members of Camera clubs all over the
nation, this shot exemplifies the human interest
angle so popular in modern photography. The
photographs in the exhibit, sponsored locally by
the Brevard Camera club, may be seen at the
library of Ecusta Paper corporation, the Tran
sylvania Trust company, the Hobby and Sport
shop, Austin's Studio, Patterson’s, and in the
window of The Transylvania Times.
ONE MORE LONG
DISTANCE LINE
TO BE INSTALLED
Will Make Total of Six To
Asheville, Four To H’ville.
More Are Promised
Another long distance line to
Asheville will be installed from
Brevard and ready for use in the
near future, C. W. Pickelsimer,
the general manager of the Citi
zens Telephone company, an
nounces today.
“At the present time there are
only five lines to Asheville and
four to Hendersonville, thus se
riously handicapping long dis
tance service,” Mr. Pickelsimer
states. Another line, however,
will considerably alleviate the
congestion, he says.
In a statement this week, the
general manager points out that
the local telephone company is a
privately owned concern, and that
the long distance lines to and
from Brevard arfe owned and op
erated by the Southern Bell Tele
phone company.
“We want our subscribers to
have the very best service pos
sible,” Mr. Pickelsimer declared,
“and we are going tov make every'
effort to see that they get this
service.” He said that this ap
plies to local service as well as
to long distance.
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Farmers Urged To
File Compliance
Reports By Feb. 15
Approximately 200 Transyl
vania county fanners have
failed to file their 1947 ACP
performance reports, Mrs. Julia
Westwood, the local AAA sec
retary, reports today.
“It is imperative that local
farmers make these reports to
the office here in the court
house by Feb. 15, 1948, as that
date has been fixed as the fi
nal time for acceptance of per
formance records as a basis for
making payments on the 1947
agricultural conservation pro
gram,” the secretary stated.
There are a total of 990 Tran
sylvania farmers participating
in the program, it is reported,
and Mrs. Westwood urges the
200 delinquent ones to make
their reports within the next
two weeks.
Strong Protest Is Made In
Washington By Delegation,
Parkway Funds "Inadequate”
Park Commission
Makes Protest Of
Toll On Parkway
A formal protest against the
government’s proposal to col
lect a toll from motorists trav
eling on the Blue Ridge Park
way was written by the N. C.
National Park, Parkway and
Forests Development commis
sion at their meeting Wednes
day in Washington.
Three objections were stat
ed: that the parkway was par
tially paid for by the states of
Virginia and North Carolina;
that its use would be retarded
by charging a toll in the park
way’s present incomplete state;
and that to charge a fee would
result in boosting costs to the
state for acquiring additional
rights of way.
ATTENDED INSTITUTE
Publisher Ed M. Anderson, John
Anderson, editor, and Ira B. Arm
field, business manager, attended
the 23rd annual press institute
held last week end in Chapel Hill
and Durham.
More Than A Million Dol
lars Requested For De
velopment Of Project
A joint North Carolina-Tennes
see delegation, which included
civic leaders from every West
ern North Carolina community,
the governors of both states, and
the congressional representatives
from both states, made it clear to
government and Park officials at
a banquet at the Mayflower hotel
in Washington, D. C., last Thurs
day night that the proposed fed
eral budget lacks more than a
million and a half dollars of meet
ing the recommendations of a
committee for further develop
ment of the Smoky Mountains
National park and Parkway.
Members of the North Carolina
Park commission and the Tennes
see Department of Conservation,
forming a joint committee, stud
ied the needs of the park and rec
ommended a conservative budget
of $2,204,000. However, last week
President Truman presented the
budget to congress which called
for only $636,899 for the same
items, a difference of $1,567,101.
The budget itself calls for ex
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Variety Of Wintry Weather Plays
Havoc With Life In Transylvania
If those old timers who like to
say, “We don’t have winters
like we did when I was a boy”
had nerve to repeat that phase
over the last week end, they must
have done so with their tongues
in their cheeks.
Snow, sleet and freezing tem
peratures which have been pre
valent in Transylvania county
(and most of North Carolina) for
the past few days have remind
ed many people of their boyhood
days.
Snow began falling in Brevard
around 3:30 o’clock last Friday
afternoon and continued through
out the night with approximate
ly eight inches reported on Sat
urday morning. Both sleet and
rain fell intermittently Saturday
morning until noon, when the
temperature rose a few degrees.
A low of 18 was reported Satur
day morning.
Schools Close—And Reopen
As a result of this extreme
weather, schools in the town and
county were closed all day Mon
day, but resumed on Tuesday.
Several minor accidents were re
ported as a result of icy roads,
but no serious mishaps occurred.
An Ecusta bus from Henderson
ville ran off the road below Enon
but no one was reported injur
ed.
A weak sun peeped through
Sunday to melt some of the snow,
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TRANSYLVANIA
CONTINUES TO
MAKE RECORD
Total Of $301,254 Sold hk
1947. Big Gain Over
Previous Year
18 COUNTIES CITED
The people of Transylvania
county, who set records during
World War II in the buying of
war bonds, are continuing to pur
chase government savings bonds
at a brisk clip, it is learned this
week.
During 1947, a total of $301,
254.25 was purchased in Transyl
vania county, Allison James, the
state director, informed E. H.
McMahan, county chairman in a
congratulatory letter this week.
This amount exceeds the 1946 to
tal sales here by $47,654.30, and
Transylvania county is one of the
18 in North Carolina to exceed’
the previous year’s sales in both
E bonds and total sales.
A total of $213,950 was han
dled b» Jerry Jerome, co-chairman
of the w*»:■ finance committee in:
Transylvania and secretary of
the Brevard Federal Savings andl
Loan association. Mr. Jerome
states that the majority of these
bonds were purchased by the Ecu
sta Paper corporation and its em
ployees through the payroll de
duction plan.
A survey of the other industries
in the county shows that the em
ployees of the Silversteen indus
tries, the Pisgah Mills, A. W.
Wheeler and Son, Carr Lumber
i company and others are increas
' ing their savings through the Sav
j ings Bonds program.
A large number of savings
bonds were sold at the local post
office in ’47, according to Vernon
j Fullbright, the assistant postmas
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COLLEGE EXPECTS
40 MEW STUDENTS
Spring Term Opens On Feb*
9th. Will Have Capac
ity Enrollment
A record enrollment is expect
ed at Brevard college when reg
istration begins on Monday, Feb.
9, for the spring semester, Pres
■ ident E. J. Coltrane announces
■ today.
[ “We should have at least 40 new
students to matriculate at that
time,” the president reported.
Present enrollment at the local
institution is 509 and 33 students
will be graduated on Feb. 10.
“We are operating this year
with the largest enrollment in the
history of the school, and we feel
that we will be able to accom
modate a few more during the
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Drive Is Started »
To “Fill A Ship
With Friendship”
The “Fill a Ship with Friend
ship” drive, which is being held
this week in Transylvania county
and throughout North Carolina,
will be terminated on Saturday,
it is reported today.
House to house collections will
be made in the next three days
and persons desiring to contribute
to the drive may leave their con
tributions at the Duke Power
company office in Brevard, it is
stated.
Clothing items are the most
requested materials, and equally
important are shoes, overshoes
and rubbers, the local chairman
says. All goods collected in Tran
sylvania will go directly to the
Church World Service center.
New Windsor, Md., for special
packing and then directly over
seas to a few of the 43 countries
now receiving American church
relief.