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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 Honje of Brevard Music Festival. Vol. 58; No. 33 ★ SECTION ONE ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1948 ★ 16 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY FESTIVAL TO OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT + + ++ + ++ + + 4r + + ± + + 4r 4r + 4r + ^ x x * m m Revised Electrical Code For County Issued AUTHORITY OF INSPECTOR IS DEFINED IN ACT Chairman Of Board Says New Regulations Will Be Enforced To Letter PENALTIES CITED A revised electrical ordinance was adopted tor Transylvania county by the county board ol commissioners, which is designed for s. i'eeuarding life and property by regulating and providing for the inspection of electric wiring, devices, appliances and equipment and creating the office of electri cal inspector and prescribing his authorities and duties. Copies of the ordinance have been printed and are being dis tributed to interested persons by the commissioners and the county inspector, W. I. Reece, and the town inspector. E. L. Happ. \Y. \Y. Brittain, chairman of the board, states that the ordinance will be carried out to the letter and that it was compiled with the suggestions of the electrical in spectors. J. M. Gaines, head of Duke Power company here, and in compliance with the state code. As stated in the ordinance, no equipment shall be installed in buildings, structures or premises, nor shall any alterations be made to existing wiring, etc., without first securing a permit. Persons doing the work must also have an electrical contractor's license is sued by the state board of exam iners of electrical contractors. Following the completion of electrical work, it is necessary to notify the electrical inspector, who will inspect the installation with in 24 hours. Electrical inspection fees were set forth in the ordinance, and per sons violating any of the provi sions of the ordinance are sub —Turn To Page Four MERCHANTS’ PICNIC AT CAMP SAPPHIRE Tickets Now Being Sold For Annual Outing Next Thursday By Committee The annual picnic of the Bre vard Merchants association will be held at Camp Sapphire next Thurs day and it has been announced that all of the facilities of the camp have been placed at the dis posal of the merchants and their guests by the Ecusta management. A number of games, contests and other diversions have been plan ned by the arrangements commit tee, of which C. M. Douglas is chairman. .Music will be furnished by the Ecusta string band. The program will get under way at 3 o'clock. Harry R. Sellers is chairman of the food committee and S. F. Alli son has been employed to serve a cold meal similar to that pre pared last year. Tickets, selling at $1.00 each for persons above the quota allow ed each member, are now being distributed by a committee head ed by Crawford Freeman. Mi Freeman or a member of his group —Turn To Page Five ...---* CALENDAR OF I EVENTS +---—. I Thursday, Aug. 12 — Corn Dem onstration tour begins at high school, 1:15 p.m. Square dance ex hibition in front of high school, 8:00 p.m. Masons to meet in Ma sonic Hail at 8:00. Friday, Aug. 13 — Brevard Gar den club meets with Mrs. S. R. Harrington, at 3:30. First festival concert begins at 8:15. Saturday, Aug. 14 — Second fes tival concert featuring Mary Both well, 8:15 at Transylvania Music camp. Sunday, Aug. 15 — Attend the —Turn To Page Eight To Visit Corn Demonstrations In County Thursday Afternoon, Businessmen Invited On Tour Festival Conductor JAMES CHRISTIAN PF01IL, well-known Southern conductor and organist is the musical di rector of the Brevard music fes tival, which will present a series of six concerts here beginning August 13. The opening concert Friday night will feature the orchestra, conducted by Mr. Pfohl. in an all-Tchaikovsky pro gram. SOFTBALL LEAGUE PLAY-OFF BEGINS NEXT MON. NIGHT Local “All-Stars” Now En tered In District Tour nament In Canton With five teams in the running because oi a three-way tie for ihird and fourth place, play-off in the Transylvania Softball league will get underway next Monday night at 7:30 o’clock on the lighted Brevard high school field, R. C. “Slim'' Bullock, the financial sec retary of the league, announces to day. The league “All-Stars” are enter ed in the Eighth District tourna ment at Canton this week end and will face Champion “Y” Thursday at 8:30 o’clock. Behind the two hit hurling of Fritz Merrell, the “All-Stars” defeated Postal Ac counts, of Asheville, Tuesday night by the score of 2-1. Clint Morris was the leading hitter with three for three. The five teams in the league play-off next week are: Ecusta. Kiwanis, Brevard College. Brown Appliance and American Legion. Doubleheaders are scheduled all six nights, totaling 12 games. Results in the league during the past week play are as follows: Thursday night — Brown Appli ance 8, American Legion 6; Bre —Turn To Page Four Remarkable Progress Being Made In County. Itin erary Is Given A large number of Transylvania farmers, veteran-farmers, FF'A students and others are expected to make the second tour of dem onstration corn farms in the coun ty Thursday afternoon. A special invitation is extended to Brevard businessmen to accompany the group and to view the remarkable progress that is being made in Transylvania in the growing of hybrid and other varieties of corn here. The first of the corn tours was held Tuesday afternoon, when more than (it) persons visited dem onstration acres in the upper part of the county. The group will as semble Thursday afternoon at 1:15 o’clock at the Brevard high school. These tours are being sponsor ed by county agent. Julian Glaze ner, and vocational teachers, Ran dall Lyday and C. 11. Bales. “Each person making the inspection tour :s given a chart showing exactly how the various practices were carried out on each demonstra tion. ’ .Air. Glazener commented. : The first farm to be visited Thursday will be that of Marvin Whitmire in the Dunn’s Rock sec tion. Then the group will go to [Shipman Whitmires and to the larms of Ralph 11. Ramsey, Madi ison Allison, E. G. Langston, M. M. , Feaster, Smith farm, Lewis Hens ley. G. C. Sentelle, Charles and i Howard Wolfe, Elmer and Kline Sentelle, Randall Monteith, Arlin and Furman Reece, Floyd Dills, 1 Jeep Wright and Jim Brown. The modern grade A dairies of C. L. Pickelsimer and W. T. Whitmire —Turn To Page Five — LOCAL CLUB WILL HOLD ART EXHIBIT Work Of Charlotte Guild To Be On Display At Frank lin Next Week The Brevard Fortnightly club has announced plans for an art exhibit here by members of the Guild of Charlotte Aritsts be ginning at the Franklin hotel next Wednesday afternoon, Aug ust 18. The exhibit will continue dn-ough Saturday afternoon, each clay from 3:00 to 5:30 p. m. In cluded in the exhibit will be oil paintings, water colors, sculptures and ceramics. All arrangements for the show are being handled by the Fort nightly club, of which Mrs. Paul 5aker is president, with Mrs. W. G. McFarland, chairman of the art committee. Paul Bartlett, not ed artist, who has been instruc tor at Transylvania Music camp this summer, is president of the Charlotte Guild and made the ar —Turn To Page Five C Of C President Urges Support And Attendance Of Music Festival Here Jerry Jerome, president of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce this week urges all citizens of Brevard and Transylvania to sup port and to attend the six concerts of the Brevard Music festival which opens Friday night. In a letter to the editor of the Times, Mr. Jerome says: “I wish to take this opportunity to urge all who possibly can to attend and support our Music fes tival during the coming two week ends, for which some of our promi nent citizens have worked so faith fully and tirelessly through the past months. Not only will you have the pleasure of again hear ing the wonderful symphony or chestra under the able direction of Mr. Pfohl, but some of the finest singers, pianists and violin ists of our country, as welF. I might mention the fact that to hear one performance by any one of these widely known musicians would cost almost as much as we pay for a season ticket to our own festival. “Aside from the standpoint of musical enjoyment, we should think of the advantages to our town in a financial way—for in our opinion this is the best adver tising we have ever had. From the fact that many of the students come from different states, natur ally means that the families of —Turn To Page Foul One Killed, Another Seriously Injured In Auto Mishap Here Pictured above are the two automobiles which collided near the entrance of Camp Sapphire on the Asheville highway last Ihursday afternoon, causing the death of Mrs. Max II. Brombacher, prominent summer resident here, and seriously injuring Dr. Richard Watson, local pharmacist, who is now in the Mission hospital in Asheville. Mrs. Brombacher was driving the car in the middle of the photo, and | Dr. Watson was behind the wheel of the one on the right. (Complete details in story on front page of the second section of ibis issue.) (Staff Photo) SALESTRAINING COURSE TO START HERE ON MONDAY Classes Will Be Held In Court House Daily For Next Two Weeks A course in sales training, con | ducted by a representative of the state distributive service of the state department ol' public instruc tion. will begin in the court house Monday and run for two weeks. Classes will be held twice daily, from 9 to 10 a.m. and from 10 to j 11 a.m. in order to enable mer chants to stagger their sales help. A minimum enrollment of 50 is expected. The instructor of the classes will be Mrs. Delle K. Putnam, special instructor in the state department. Mrs. Putnam has had extensive successful experience in selling, sales management and personnel relations. For the past several years, she has conducted similar classes for merchant groups throughout this and other states. The course to be offered here, designated “Selling Techniques,” is designed expressly to assist de veloping experienced sales per sons. It emphasizes the value of merchandise knowledge, courtesy and tact in a successful sales per sonality. The course is being sponsored by the Brevard Merchants associa tion in cooperation with the local schools. Further information with re gard to the course may be had by calling Ira B. Armfield, association secretary, at phone 7. Schools To Open September 1st As Announced Earlier All Transylvania county schools will begin their 1948-49 session on Wednesday, Septem ber 1, according to J. B. Jones, county superintendent. Mr. Jones points out that al though the opening dates of many schools throughout the state have been postponed due to polio, he feels reasonably sure that Transylvania will not have to open late since there have been no recent cases here since the ones at Mary Gwynn’s camp. RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL Mrs. Leslie Coleman, who was injured in an automobile accident Monday night, suffered minor head lacerations but was released from Transylvania Community hos pital Tuesday. The car in which she was riding was driven by her husband, and collided with a state highway truck in North Brevard. AAA Funds For Coming Year To Be Same As In ’47, Committee Choosing Conservation Practices Festival President MRS. HENRY N. CARRIER, president of the Urevarcl Music festival, this week welcomes the out-of-town guests a n d music critics to the third annual festi- i val which opens Friday night. VISITS IN BREVARD Bill Sharpe, head of the state news bureau at Raleigh, visited in Brevard Wednesday morning and secured several news items to which state-wide publicity will be given. Mr. Sharpe said that his office is busy this week informing people in this and other states about the Brevard Music festival which opens Friday night. Transylvania Handbook Be ing Prepared. To Be Ready By Oct. 1 The amount of money which can be paid to farmers in Transylvania county for carrying out practices in the 1949 Agricultural Conser vation program will be about the same as the funds available in 1947, according to an announce ment this week from T. J. Wilson, chairman of the Transylvania county PMA committee. The Transylvania county com mittee is now in the process of de ciding which practices are most necessary in this county to assist farmers in restoring and conserv ing soil fertility. These practices were also discussed at a recent meeting in Waynesville attended by Mr. Wilson, Mrs. Julia West wood, secretary of the county com mittee, and other PMA fieidmen. It was pointed out at this meet ing that Congress has authorized the development of the program for next year on the basis of a considerable increase in the ap propriation over the funds avail able for the 1948 program. The practices which are deem ed most desirable by Mr. Wilson and the county committee will be published in a handbook which is to be submitted to the State com mittee for approval by August 25. The 23 practices which are includ ed in the State Handbook for 1949 include several new ones which will receive serious consideration of the Transylvania committee. In addition to selecting from these 23 practices those which are —Turn To Page Four Booklet Prepared By W.N.C.A.C. Lists Assets Of Transylvania County Copies of a booklet entitled “Inventory of Assets of Transyl vania County,” were distributed to directors of the Brevard cham ber of commerce at their meeting in the city hall Tuesday evening. Jerry Jerome, president, presid ed. The inventory was prepared un der the direction of the W.N.C.A. C. and each of the eleven coun ties in this area has one. Two ears was spent on the prepara tion of the inventory. Data was gathered by chamber of com merce in the several counties, the paper was furnished by the TVA and the folder was produced by the industrial board of the state board of conservation and develop ment. C. M. Douglas, secretary of the local chamber who serves the W.N.C.A.C. in a similar capacity, was directed to write a letter of thanks to the TVA and the con servation department for their aid in preparing the booklet. Mr. Douglas also said that the TVA had recently completed a survey of all streams in this 11-county area, which was exhaustive and extremely valuable. It was announced that Congress men Monroe Redden and Joe Bry son, of Greenville, S. C., had accepted an invitation to meet with the local board to consider —Turn To Page Eight CAPACITY CROWDS EXPECTED, FIVE ARTISTS COMING rhree Programs This Week End. Two Will Be Aired Over Leading Stations PROCLAMATION ISSUED Hundreds of local and out-of :ov;n people will pack the summer heater of the Transylvania Music :amp tor the opening concert of he Brevard Music Festival Fri day night at 8:15 o’clock, when the festival symphony presents an all* Fchaikovsky program under the able direction of James Christian Pi hoi. The second program o£ the fes fival will be given Saturday eve ning featuring Mary Bothwell, lovely young Canadian soprano. She will sing arias from the operas, “Lohengrin’’ and “Tristan and Isolde,” both by Richard Wagner. Another internationally famous artist, Joseph Battista, brilliant young pianist, who has been chos en* as musical emissary from this country to Brazil, will be soloist with the festival symphony Sun day afternoon. Mr. Battista has chosen Chopin's Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Opus 21 to be featured on the program. Friday night’s festival concert will be broadcast over leading sta tions, WWNC, Asheville, WBT, Charlotte and WDNC, Durham and the Sunday afternoon programs will be carried over WBBO, For est City, WFBC, Greenville, S. C., and WHKP, Hendersonville. These stations will also carry the con certs on the following week of the festival, and 15 minutes of the August 20th concert, featuring Frances Yeend, will be broadcast coast-to-coast over the Columbia Broadcasting system. Mayor S. E. Varner today issues a proclamation declaring the next —Turn To Page Fmts WILL HOLD SQUARE DANCE EXHIBITION Proceeds To Go For Patron Membership In Festival. Russell Speaks An exhibition by leading square dance teams will be given in front c£ the high school Thursday night beginning at 8:00 o’clock and proceeds derived from the collec tions between numbers will be used to purchase a patron mem bership to the Brevard Music fes tival, Doyle Wells, chairman of the street dance committee, an nounces today. Music will be fur nished by the Enon Playboys and the public is cordially invited to attend. Members of the Brevard Junior Chamber of Commerce voted at their regular meeting Tuesday night to accept the invitation of the Western North Carolina As sociated Communities to become a member. Charlie Russell and Cecil Hill were then appointed representatives to the organiza tion. Charlie Russell program chair man, who is also a member of the town board of aldermen, pre —Turn To Page Five Legion To Begin Community Singing Next Tues. Night Beginning next Tuesday night, there will be community singing in the new American Legion Memorial building with Charlie Himes directing, Dr. Carl Hardin, who is chairman of the project^ announces today. The public is cordially invited to come out and join in the sing ing which will feature old time songs, the doctor says. The Ecu sta quartet will render special numbers, and all other singers sre especially urged to attend the community sing. No admission will be charged.
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