TRANSYLVANIA
IS—
The Lend of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer
Camps, Entrance t o
Pisgah National Forest
and Home of Brevard
Music Festival
The Transylvania Times
A State And National Prize-Winning Newspaper And An A.B.C. Paper
TRANSYLVANIA
IS—
An Industrial, Tourist,
Educational, Agricul
tural and Music Cen
ter. Population 12,241.
Vol. 60; No. 3
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1950
★ SECTION ONE ★
PUBUSHED WEEKLY
NAME FIRST ROADS FOR PAVING
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Transylvania Veterans Now Receiving Refund
QUARTER MILLION
EXPECTED TO BE
PAID IN COUNTY
Few Checks Have Come In;
Warning Is Issued To GI’s
By Post Office
AVERAGE IS $175
A few of the 1,600 veterans in
Transylvania have this week re
ceived their National Service Life
Insurance dividend checks, and
more than a quarter million dol
lars is expected to be expended
in the county by the Veterans Ad
ministration in the next few
months.
Paul Whitmire, county service
officer, says that about 90 per cent
of the veterans in the county have
filed for their insurance dividend,
and he urges those who have not
done so to file an application im
mediately. These forms may be
obtained at his office in the court
house here or at the post office.
Post office officials said yester
day that a few checks have come
in and many of them are due to
“pour in” in the near future. Vet
erans are urged by the post office
aepartment to keep their recepta
cles locked while awaiting the pay
off.
The average check, according to
national standards, will be for
.8175. That is the amount of the
average dividend on. $10,000 worth
of insurance held fprjttf*#. jreaps.
amount to be rec^WBl bjTfoca! Vet
erans was estimated at near the
one million mark.
In order to estimate the amount
of his check for the life insurance
dividend the veteran who held
$10,000 worth of insurance may
multiply $5.50 by the number of
months he held the insurance dur
ing the wartime emergency period.
STEVENS SPEAKS
AT P-TA MEETING
Needs Of School Children
Are Cited By County
Supervisor
Dr. B. A. Stevens, county school
supervisor, spoke to the members
of the Brevard Parent-Teacher as
sociation Tuesday afternoon on
“The Home and School in Child
Guidance.”
The speaker stressed the fact
that the schools have to work with
the material sent them by the
home, and that the parents could
and should do more in the future
to prepare the child for school. He
illustrated his talk with film
strip.
“The main purpose of schools is
not to teach reading, writing and
arithmetic alone, but to develop
a well-rounded personality,” Dr.
Stevens stressed. He gave four
needs of a child that will aid in
attaining this goal. They are, “the
feeling of security, the need for
many activities, the need for suc
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CALENDAR OF
EVENTS
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Thursday, Jan. 19 — Methodist
WSCS meets at church, 3:30. Lions
club meeting at Bryant house, 6:30
p. m. Masonic building commit
tee meets, 8 o’clock. Mission stu
dy program for Presbyterian worn*
en, home of Mrs. Jerry Jerome, 8
o’clock.
Friday, Jan. 20—Kiwanis meet
ing at Bryant house, 7 p. m. Tran
sylvania Tourist association, Busy
Bee at 7:30. Square dance in the
American Legion building, 8:30.
Saturday, Jan. 21—Turkey shoot
at Country club range, 2:30. Le
gion and auxiliary buffet supper,
8 o’clock. President’s Ball at the
Country club, 9:30.
Sunday, Jan. 22—Attend the
church of your choice. Mid-win
ter college graduation, Methodist
church, 7:30.
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Brevard College To Hold Winter
Graduation Exercises At First
Methodist Church Sunday Night
Graduation Speaker
DR. EMBREE H. BLACKARD,
pastor of the Central Methodist
church, Asheville, will speak to
the graduating class of Brevard
college, their friends and rela
tives, at the commencement on
Sunday night. Dr. Blackard is
a member of the board of trus
tee# of the local college, and is a
well-known educational and re
Hgteus leader of the Western
North Carolina conference of
the Methodist church.
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STORE IS ROBBED
AT PENROSE; TWO
MEN CAPTURED
Reported To Have Broken
Into Summer Homes Near
Hendersonville
Onie Kilpatrick, Jr., 18-ycar-oId
white man, is being held in jail
here on a charge of breaking and
entering and larceny, Sheriff Bert
Freeman said yesterday.
Kilpatrick and Grady Howard,
21, are accused of having broken
into George Shuford’s store at
Penrose Thursday night and stolen
about $250.00 worth of groceries.
Howard, who lives in Henderson;
county, was arrested Sunday morn
ing in Hendersonville by city po
lice. He is being held there.
Kilpatrick, who formerly lived
in this county and now resides in
Greenville county, S. C., just
across the line, was arrested Sun
day afternoon on highway 64 near
Davidson River by Deputy John
Kilpatrick, Patrolman E. H. Hatch
er, E. C. Dixon and E. G. Wilson.j
According to Sheriff Freeman,
both men admitted the Penrose
store robbery.
Kilpatrick and Howard are said
to have robbed homes of summer
residents in Hendersonville and
disposed of some of their loot in
this county. It was these sales
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I Dr. Blackard Is Speaker;
President Coltrane To
Award Diplomas
Mid-winter graduation exercises
at Brevard college will be held
Sunday evening, January 22, at
7:30 o’clock at the Brevard Meth
odist church.
Dr. Embree H. Blackard, pastor
of the Central Methodist church,
of Asheville, and a member of the
board of trustees of the college,
will be the principal speaker, and
Rev. Julian Holmes, the local pas
tor, will preside at the service. A
large number of college students,
parents and friends are expected
to attend the commencement ser
vice.
Dr. E. J. Coltrane, president of
the local institution will award
diplomas following the address to
13 graduates. Dean J. J. Steven
son will present the honor stu
dents. Special music will be fur
nished by the music department of
the college, with Bruce A. Liven
good directing.
Members of the graduating class
are as follows: Edith Marie Day
vault, Concord; Herbert Dale Dix
on, Kings Mountain; Isabelle Mar
garet Hi^rris^ti, Gastonia; Mary
Kathleep Martin, Charlotte; Henry
Odell Purgason, Converse, S. C.;
David LeGrande Rogers, Bennetts
ville, S. C.; Mary Josephine Rowe,
Charlotte; Sherman G o r r e 11
Thompson, Winston-Salem; John
Westervelt Tucker, Sola, Cuba;
Eli Alston Wilkes, Jr., Hemingway,
S. C.; Raymond Lee Wilkinson,
Belmont; Connie Wortman, Casar;
and Wiley Stewart Van Nortwick,
Robersonville.
NfcW IbKn BEIilNS
AT COLLEGE HERE
Registration Is Scheduled
Through Monday For
Spring Semester
The spring semester at Brevard
college will begin Monday, Janu
ary 23rd, and there will be avail
able places for several new stu
dents, it is announced by the presi
dent, Dr. E. J. Coltrane.
This is made possible, the presi
dent explains, by the graduation
of a number of students here Sun
day night.
It is possible to enter the local
college at the beginning of the
spring semester, and complete re
quirements for graduation by Au
gust of the following year.
Registration for students now
at the college will be held from
9 to 5 o’clock Monday. During
this time the new students en
rolling will be engaged in an orien
tation program.
Brevard college is completing
its 16th year and was recently
elected to membership in the
Southern association of Colleges
and Secondary schools.
Transylvania Dairymen’s Association
Organized, Osborne First President
The Transylvania County Dairy
men’s association was organized
Thursday night at a meeting held
in the county agent’s office.
C. L. Osborne was elected pres
ident. Other officers chosen were:
Freeman Nicholson, vice presi
dent, and James Dickson, secre
tary. These officers and Albert
Merrill and Ralph Ramsey con
stitute the board of directors.
F. R. Farnham, state dairy spe
cialist, was present and spoke to
the group on feeding, breeding,
marketing and management as the
four essentials for successful dairy- j
ing.
Practically all dairies in the
county were represented, Mr. Os
borne said. He stated the objects
of the association was to improve
and expand the dairy business in
the county and to devise methods
of increasing the consumption of
milk produced in this county.
Milk producers attending the
meeting were: Freeman Nichol
son, John Bradley, J. W. Cordell,
A. E. Merrill, Vernon Gosnell,
Hal Hart, Frank Merrill, Edward
Mackey, Steve Ferguson, Mrs. P.
E. Raxter, Mrs. J. W. McGuire,
Claude Ray, James Dickson, M.
0. McCall, M. O. McCall, Jr., Bill
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Tonsil Clinic Is Started In Transylvania County
Sponsored by the Brevard Rotary club in conjunction with the Transylvania coordinated school
health program, the first tonsil clinic for medically indigent children of the town and county was held
at the Transylvania community hospital last week and will be continued weekly for the next few
months. All the doctors in Brevard and Transylvania have been asked to participate in the clinics,
and Dr. Robert L. Strieker is shown removing the tonsils of the first patient last week. Giving the an
esthetic is Dr. MacRoy Gasque, of Ecusta, and assisting is Mrs. Frances McCall, center, and Mrs. Gypsy
Perkins, right, who is superintendent of the local hospital. In the bottom insert are Dan Hawkins and
Rhea Doyle, two members of the Rotary clinic committee, Mrs. Jessie Lollis, county health nurse, and
Dr. Gordon Wheeler, district health officer. (Times Staff Photos.)
TONSIL CLINIC IS
STARTED HERE AT
LOCAL HOSPITAL
Sponsored By Rotarians And
Transylvania Coordinated
School Health Program
A weekly tonsil clinic for med
ically indigent children of Brevard
and Transylvania county has been
started under the sponsorship of
the Brevard Rotary club and the
Transylvania coordinated school
health program.
Four children have their tonsils
removed each week at the clinic
which is being conducted at the
Transylvania community hospital.
All the doctors in the town and
county have been requested to par
ticipate in the clinic. Dr. R. L.
Strieker performed the first four
operations with Dr. MacRoy Gas
que giving the anesthetic, and Dr.
Charles L. Newland and Dr. Wil
liam Lyday conducted the second
clinic yesterday.
Dr. Gordon Wheeler and County
Health Nurse Mrs. Jessie Lollis
have made a thorough survey of
Brevard and Transylvania and re
port that there are at least 70
children who should have their
tonsils removed as soon as possi
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Johnson Promoted,
Will Manage The
Spindale Branch
Ted Johnson, manager of the
Biltmore branch here for the past
few years, has been promoted to
the management of the Biltmore
branch at Spindale and left yester
day to assume his new duties. His
family will remain here until Mr.
Johnson has secured suitable liv
ing accommodations in Spindale,
he said yesterday.
An active member of both the
Lions club and the American Le
gion, Mr. Johnson had won many
friends in Brevard who will re
gret to learn of his transfer. He
asked yesterday before leaving
here that his thanks be expressed
to all for the courtesies shown
him while he was in charge of the
Biltmore branch here.
Charles Buttner, another Bilt
more employee, is in charge of the
local branch here, pending the se
lection of a permanent manager.
Chamber Of Commerce Directors
Chosen, Will Elect Officers At
Meeting On Next Tuesday Night
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i
merchants hold
ANNUAL BANQUET
HERE NEXT WEE
Officers To Be Elected And
Reports To Be Heard
At Function
John A. Ford, chairman of the
committee on arrangements, said
yesterday that a prominent mem
ber of the Asheville Merchants as
sociation would be the principal
speaker at the annual banquet and
business meeting of the Brevard
Merchants association next Thurs
day night at 7:30 o’clock. The
function will be held in the dining
room at the Brevard graded school.
Curtis Kelley is in charge of ar
rangements.
A delegation from the county
100-Bushel Corn club is expected
to attend the banquet and invita
tions have been extended to heads
of leading industries in the coun
ty and their wives.
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lerome And Fisher Receive
Highest Vote; Member
ship Now Over 100
Ballots were tabulated and di
rectors for the Brevard chamber
if commerce for 1950 were elected
it a special meeting of the organ
ization in the room over the city
hall Tuesday night.
Officers will be elected from the
list of the new board of directors
it a call meeting here next
ruesday night, January 24, which
will begin promptly at 7:30
j’clock, John Smith, the outgoing
president, announces.
The local chamber of commerce
lias a paid up membership of more
„han 100 members, and a complete
list is carried this week in a story
m the front page, second section.
Jerry Jerome, prominent civic
leader and secretary-treasurer of
Ihe Brevard Federal Savings and
Loan association, received the
highest number of votes cast in
Ihe balloting this year. Ralph R.
Fisher, well-known local attorney,
was a close second in the voting,
ind J. I. Ayers, member of the
own board of aldermen, ran third.
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March Of Dimes Drive Enters Second
Week Here, President’s Ball Saturday
As the twelfth annual March of
Dimes drive enters the second
week in Transylvania, several
events have been scheduled to
raise funds for the extensive cam
paign, J. O. Wells, the general
chairman states.
“This Time Give Dollars”—he
urges, in stating the slogan of this
year’s polio campaign.
While the campaign is being
sponsored locally by the Kiwanis
club, other organizations and indi
viduals are being asked to partic
ipate as volunteers or workers for
the scheduled events.
Highlighting the campaign in
Brevard and Transylvania county
is the annual President’s Birthday
Ball, to be held at the Brevard
Country club Saturday night, be
ginning at 9:30 o’clock. Carrol
Henry and his Buccaneers will fur
nish music for the dance.
The dance is being sponsored
by the Jaycees, and members of
the organization are now selling
tickets. Russ Poole is dance chair
man, Lloyd Burhans is ticket chair
man for the event, and E. E. Fra
ser, manager of the country club,
urges all persons planning to at
tend to call 565 for reservations.
Chairman Wells states that the
town and county has been divided
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PROJECTS LISTED
BY THRASH ADD UP
TO 14.5 MILE TOTAL
Contracts May Be Let In.
February; 20.2 Miles
In Phase Two
HALF COUNTY TOTAL
Members of the county road
committee appointed by L. Dale
Thrash, district commissioner, last
December approved six projects
which comprise the first group of
roads in this county to be black
topped under the bond program at
a meeting held in the courthouse
here Thursday morning. The list
was submitted by Mr. Thrash and
was approved without dissent by
the township committeemen and
a number of interested citizens.
Mr. Thrash was accompanied
by Zeb. V. Stuart, divisional engi
neer, and J. T. Knight, district en
gineer. The meeting lasted two
hours and the group also approved
| the projects in a second phase. The
two phases, calling for 34.7 miles
of roads, Mr. Thrash said, was |j
about half of the mileage the coun- ^
ty would get under the program.
Mr. Thrash stated that these
roads were chosen because they
were ready to blacktop and not
because they were more important
than others which might have been
selected. These will be leveled
out and additional stone will be
applied and then paved, but there
will be no grading and relocation.
The commissioner said he hoped
to include these roads—all 16 feet
wide—in the letting the latter part
of February and the second phase
roads in the spring. The projects
in the first phase are as follows:
Everett farm road from David
son river station to Calhoun, 3.2
miles.
Little River road from end of
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SHUFORD ESTATE
LANDS ARE SOLD
Otto Alexander Pays $18,*
500 For Farm In Catheys
Creek Township
The C. A. Shuford estate Ug
were sold at auction here
week by Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr.,
tomey, acting for F. E. Shuf
executor.
A one-half undivided inter
in 300 acres of land in Little Riy
er township was sold on Monday' v;
to J. H. Whitson for $660.
Otto Alexander bought the Shu
ford farm in Cathey’s Creek town
ship the same day for $15,500.
There are 166 acres in this farm.
On Tuesday three lots in the
town of Brevard were sold. Ed
M. Anderson purchased the lot on
Morgan street adjoining the build
ing of Sarratt’s dry cleaners for
$1,250. Curtis Kelley paid $3,000
for the lot adjoining and Mayor
S. E. Varner bought a lot on South
Caldwell street for $2,675.
These bids may be raised at any
time within 10 days from the date
of sale.
Delling Booth Sued
For Libel In S. C.,
Story In Time Mag.
Delling Booth, Brevard native,
who is an Associated Press report
er in Columbia, S. C., has been
made a defendant in a criminal li
bel suit as a result of the publica
tion of a story which he wrote af
ter he had interviewed a con
demned negro rapist. It is alleged
in the suit that Booth’s story was
“false, malicious and defamatory/1
although he did not use the name
of the victim—a prominent white
girl—which is forbidden by law in
that state.
A lengthy story of the suit and a
picture of Mr. Booth is carried in
the current issue of Time maga
zine under the press classification.
The negro was tried in Green
wood, S. C., but made no state
ment. He told Booth that the
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