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TRANSYLVANIA IS . . . The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah National Forest and Home of Brevard Music Festival. The Transylvania Times A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper TRANSYLVANIA IS . . . An Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Agricul tural and Music Cen ter. Population 12,241 Vol. 60, No. 10 ★ 18 PAGES TODAY ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950 ★ SECTION ONE ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY IMPORTANT BANQUET IS PLANNED To Vote On Bond Issue April 15 WATER, SEWER EXPANSION IS TO COST h MILLION Town Attorney Says That Expenditure Will Not In volve Tax Increase BOOKS TO OPEN The town board of aldermen at a regular meeting held in the city hall Monday night adopted ordi nances calling a special bond elec tion on April 25, at which time the qualified voters will decide wheth er not more than $200,000 shall be expended on expanding the water system and not over $300,000 on extending the sewer system. The state board of health last month, following an investigation here, ordered the town “forthwith to construct and put into opera tion an adequate system of sani tary sewerage and the necessary sewerage treatment plants.” The ordinances passed Monday night stipulate that a tax levy suf ficient to amortize the bonds over a period of years shall be levied. Ralph Ramsey, town attorney, said yesterday that this was re quired by law. However, he point ed to figures which he said very strongly indicated that no net in crease in the tax load here would be entailed by voting the bonds. Since May 18, 1933, he said, the standing indebtedness of the town has been reduced $501,255. Valu ation of property in the town is now around $4,000,000 as compared with a valuation of $1,055,524 for year 1935-’36. Water revenues have increased from $14,213.42 in 1940 to $32,007.64 last year. Ad ditional revenue is expected from the parking meters this year since 1 they are now the exclusive prop erty of the town. It was also pointed out that there will be a yearly increase of property valuations of around half a million dollars a year and that as the water facilities expand they will bring in additional revenue. These data, he said, inclined him to believe that no net tax increase would be involved in voting the bonds. Registration books will be open for the registration of voters not already entered thereon from 9 a. —Turn To Page Ten I GRAVELY TO AD) FILING RETURNS Deputy Collector Will Be In Office Here On March 14th And 15th George Dewey Gravely, deputy collector of internal revenue, will be in his office at the post office to assist persons filing income re turns on March 14th and 15th. The office will be open from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. on these days and the collector states that no charge is made for this service. Assisting Mr. Gravely will be Deputy Patrick L. Harwood. All persons whose income in 1949 was $600 or more are required by law to file their returns on or before March 15, 1950. ■- - ■ ■■ - CALENDAR OF EVENTS " “—" “ —*•■■■ ■ > Thursday, Mar. 9 — Republican county convention, courthouse at 2 o’clock. Chamber of commerce and Merchants association ban quet, Brevard Country club, 7 o’clock. Masonic meeting at 8. Friday, Mar. 10—Square dance in Legion building, 8:30. ^Saturday, Mar. 11—Social at ^Rnerican Legion building, 8:30. Sunday, Mar. 12—Attend church of your choice. Monday, Mar. 13—DAR meeting at home of Mrs. Roy Kanipe, 3:30. Shrine meeting 7:30. Tuesday, Mar. 14—P-TA meet ing and reception, high school at 3:30. Jaycee meeting at Busy Bee —Turn to Page Four Olin And Ecusta Officials Discuss Plans For Making Cellophane Here Pictured above are officials of Olin Industries, Inc., and Ecusta Paper corporation following a luncheon on Monday at the Ecusta cafeteria. Plans were discussed by the group for early production of cellophane here at the modern Ecusta plant, and construction on the new division is expected to start in mid-April. Officials of both firms stressed the fact that much local labor would be employed in the construction of the new unit and the production of cellophane as well. In the picture are (left to right, seated): T. Nelson Word, Ecusta vice president; Fred Olsen, Olin research and development director; Harry H. Straus, Ecusta president; Spencer T. Olin, first vice presi dent of Olin; M. W. Acker, manager of Western Brass Mills division and a director of Olin; John W. Hanes, Olin vice president and director; R. R. Casteel, secretary, couhsel and director of Olin; B. E. Bassett, Olin regional manager and director; standing: W. C. Schade, manager of product divisions of Olin; E. W. Taft, Olin treasurer; N. H. Collisson, executive assistant to Straus; George L. Dawson, re gional manager of New Haven operations for Olin; Harry H. Straus, Jr., of Ecusta; W. L. Schulte, Olin auditor; Paul J. Rothbacher, Olin assistant treasurer; A. W. Hauge, Olin general auditor; R. G. Deyton, Ecusta assistant treasurer; and C. C. Tallman, Olin comptroller. (Times Staff Photo.) REPUBLICANS TO MEET THURSDAY, ELECT DELEGATES Fisher Announces County Convention In Court house At 2 P. M. Ralph R. Fisher, chairman of the executive committee of the Republican party in Transylvania county, reminds all party mem bers of a county convention which is planned for Thursday (today) at 2 o’clock in the courthouse. According to Mr. Fisher the purpose of this meeting is to se lect delegates for the state, con gressional, senatorial and judicial conventions. Precinct meetings were held on Wednesday and delegates to the county convention were chosen. The convention for the counties of the twelfth district will be held in Hendersonville Saturday at 2 o’clock. Lewis P. Hamlin is con gressional chairman of the party in this county. Legion Will Hold Social On Saturday The regular monthly social for members of the Monroe Wilson post of the American Legion and their wives and the auxiliary mem bers and their husbands will be held Saturday night, beginning at 8 o’clock, Adjutant Charlie Disher announces. A buffet supper will be served and the adjutant urges full at tendance of both memberships. Round and square dancing will be enjoyed. I Olin Officials Express Delight Over Prospects For Cellophane Manufacture After Ecusta Visit! H. HENDERSON IS ELECTED SENIOR WARDEN OF LODGE Thomas And Fullbright Also Appointed To Post At Asheville Meet Henry R. Henderson, 32° KCCH, and secretary of the local Masonic lodge, was elected senior warden of the lodge of Perfection of the Scottish Rite bodies of Asheville at the monthly meeting held in *he Masonic temple, at Asheville Tuesday night. Two other local Masons were also appointed as officers. They were: Gill Thomas, past master of Dunn’s Rock lodge as master of ceremonies and Vernon P. Full bright, as captain of the host, who is junior warden in the local lodge Other officers elected were as follows: Harold E. Barker, ven erable master; Ernest O. Miller, junior warden; Charles C. Ricker, treasurer; Herbert Noble, secre tary; William H. Woodbury, al moner. The officers appointed by the venerable master are: Edwin Burge, expert; Glenn D. Brown, assistant expert; and Ed Sentelle, tiler. The newly elected and appoint —Turn to Page Ten County’s 550 4-H Club Members Join In National Observance, Programs Given Transylvania county’s 550 4-H club members are this week join ing more than 123,000 others in North Carolina in the observance of National 4-H Club week, March 4-12. Members of both the Lions and Kiwanis clubs last week heard programs given by 4-H club mem bers of the progress made by the young people during 1949, and of the goals which have been set for this year. Other clubs which will have 4-H club programs within the next week are the Jaycees and the Rotary club. A display of handicrafts, sewing, canning, etc., that was done by boys and girls of the 4-H clubs can now be seen in the window of Puke Power company. Posters re minding persons of the weekly ob servance can now be seen in a number of local stores. Yesterday four outstanding 4-H club members, Barbara Talley and Buel Ferguson, of Brevard, and John Paxton and Louise Hutchins, of Rosman, went to the 4-H camp near Waynesville, where they spent the day learning to finish —Turn tc Page Five Employment For Between 600-900 People; Construc tion Starts In April Officials of the Olin Industries, j Inc., spent Monday and Tuesday j inspecting the modern plant of the Ecusta Paper corporation at Pisgah Forest and expressed ex treme delight over the prospects cf early production of cellophane here. With the employment of 600 to 900 workers—largely local people —the Olin officials said they ex pected to start manufacturing cel lophane around the first of the year. The construction of the cello phane division here at Ecusta is expected to be started by the mid dle of April, and the officials said that local labor would also be em ployed to build the plant. Pres ent plans call for the installation of eight cellophane making ma chines, which was described as a “minimum installation.” The unit at Ecusta which will make “Olin Cellophane” will be constructed on a site southeast of and adjoining the present plant. The estimated cost is between 13 and 20 million dollars. S. T. Olin, first vice president, and Dr. Fred Olsen, director of re search and development, acted as spokesmen for the group of Olin directors and stressed the fact that as many local people as pos sible would be employed. Some technical and supervisory officials will be sent here by the Olin firm. E. I. du Pont de Nemours com pany, which has licensed Olin In dustries to make cellophane, will —Turn to Page Ten Some Improvement Noted In The Flu Situation Locally Improvement was noted in school attendance Wednesday, af ter absences of 20 to 30 per cent had been reported in the past week on account of the prevalence of flu in the town and county. Local physicians report that there are many adult cases here and throughout the county, and attendance in churches, civic meet ings and other gatherings has been sharply reduced. LOCAL DEALERS EXPECT TO GET COAL SHIPMENT Supply Here Is Expected To Hold Out Until Ship ments Arrive Local coal dealers said yester day that they expect shipments of coal to start rolling into Brevard in a “week or 10 days.” Supplies were dwindling here as the coal strike ended Monday, fol lowing the signing of the 28-month v/age contract by Lewis and the mine operators. Lewis ordered his 370,000 striking miners back into the pits. Lewis was obviously pleased with the contract’s 70-cents-a day wage increase and 10-cents-a ton hike in industry payments to the union’s welfare and retire ment fund. He said he hoped “substantially all mines will resume production in whole or in part,” immediately, j George H. Love, spokesman for Northern and Western commercial operators, said he hoped the con tract will bring “such mutual un derstanding that we will do away with coal strikes in the future.” He said it “gives the industry its first real opportunity for stability in the last decade.” The new contract, signed by some 75 union and operator offi cials, includes the whole soft coal industry. The Southern operators, who had not been included in the agreement reached Friday night, signed at the last minute. Mrs. Alfred Berthold returned Saturday to her home in Chevy Chase, Md., after spending a week here. Interested Citizens Will Discuss Outlook Thursday Night, Camack To Make The Principal Address HELTON FARM IS PURCHASED FOR PENROSE SCHOOL Medford Congratulated For Making Arrangements; Jones Comments Approximately 70 acres of land, known as the Melton farm, and located above the highway in the Penrose section is being pur chased by the Transylvania coun ty board of education for the new Penrose school building. This action was taken at the meeting of the board this week, when it was learned that the Naumkeag Steam Cotton company was not yet in a position to make a definite commitment concerning the use of a portion of the prop erty for the school. In a telephone conversation this week with Naumkeag officials, lo cal board members learned that Naumkeag is desirous of cooperat ing in any way possible, and deep ly regretted that they could not make a definite decision at this time. in view 01 me neea ior a new building and the fine building weather that is approaching, it was decided to make outright pur chase of a site in order to s$v« time,” Superintendent J. B. Jones said yesterday. It is understood that the excess acreage in the tract purchased is to be disposed of at public auction whenever conditions seem most favorable. E. W. Medford was appointed to work with the county superintend ent in connection with a site for the new building, and Mr. Jones said yesterday, “our hats are off to Mr. Medford for finding a site that the people of all three com munities could agree upon.” “He visited his neighbors and community leaders in the lower end of the county and made a def inite recommendation to the board of education,” Jones continued. “The people of the lower end of the county are also to be con gratulated on letting the welfare of the pupils have greater consid —Turn to Page Ten First Tree Farm In County To Be Dedicated Wed. Dedication of the first tree farm in the county will be held on the E. H. Mackey farm in the Little River community next Wed nesday afternoon, March 15 at 2 o’clock. To qualify as a tree farm requires good forestry manage ment practices such as selective cutting, pruning, reforestation and other practices that would pro mote profitable farm forestry man agement. Participating in the dedication and forestry field day will be John E. Ford, extension forester; C. C. Pettit, Jr., state district for ester and representatives of the forestry division of TVA. The public is cordially invited to attend this very important and educational field day meeting. Noted Magician To Bring Show Here Next Wednesday, Sponsored By Lions Wear, master magician and his company of Wonder Workers, will present their big two-hour mystery show at the Brevard high school auditorium Wednesday, March 15 at 8 p. m. The show is being sponsored by the Brevard Lions club. An afternoon matinee for the students will be presented at 2:20 p. m. The program will be en tirely different from the evening performance. Local merchants have provided prizes to be awarded at both per formances. At the evening show the following prizes will be given away: a table model radio, retail price $35.00, purchased by the club; a table lamp from Belk’s; a dress belt from Patterson’s; a flashlight from Brevard Hard ware; a card table cover from Bre vard Sample store and two pairs of nylon hose from the Sample store. Two prizes will be given at the afternoon performance, as fol lows: a basketball from the Sam ple store and a scarf and two pairs of bobby sox from Trantham’s. —Torn to Page Ten Several Local Leaders To Make Short Talks; To Adopt By-Laws TICKETS AVAILABLE Over 150 persons are expected to attend the banquet meeting at the Brevard Country club Thurs day night, which is being held for all persons interested in the wel fare and progress of Brevard and Transylvania county. The func tion is being sponsored jointly by the Brevard chamber of commerce and the Brevard Merchants asso ciation. The banquet will get underway promptly at 7 o’clock and tickets will be on sale until noon Thurs day. They may be secured from Lloyd Burhans at the Hobby and Sport shop or at The Times office. P. M. Camack, one of North Car olina’s most outstanding boosters of chambers of commerce, will be me principal speaker, and will briefly point out the opportunities now facing Bre vard and Tran s y 1 v a n ia and means of utiliz ing them. Mr. Carmack has been secretary of the Hender sonville cham ber of commerce Mr. Camack and has beep most instrumental in* th&dovelopment of the tourist that county. “After hearing Mr. Camack speak, I am convinced that he has a timely and convincing message for every citizen in Transylvania,” Jerry Jerome, who is in charge of arrangements, said yesterday. Following the principal address short talks will be made by lead ing citizens of the community. Among these speakers will be Mayor S. E. Varner, W. W. Brit tain, chairman of commissioners; Ed M. Anderson, publisher of The Transylvania Times; Joseph S. Sil versteen, president of the Silver steen Industries; Jonathan Woody, of Waynesville, banker, and oth ers. John Anderson, president of the Brevard chamber of commerce, will preside, and the address of —Turn to Page Five COUNTY PLUMBING CODE IS PROPOSED County Board Defers Action On Request By Hart; Roads Approved The county board of commis sioners at their regular monthly meeting last Monday heard an ap peal by Walter F. Hart, district sanitarian, for the adoption in this county of a plumbing code. Mr. Hart said such a measure would safeguard the health of the public and that if such a code were adopted anyone could do his own plumbing so long as it con formed to certain requirements. Such a code is said to be in op eration in Henderson and other —Turn to Page Five African Explorer Orders Two Cutters From Local Firm Back in 1946, Paul P. Smathers* owner of the Smathers Manufac turing company here, outfitted a party with various machines of his manufacture for a jaunt into unexplored portions of Africa. This week Mr. Smathers had a letter from the leader of the ex pedition, R. A. Braun, who wrote on February 9 from Bangui, in French Equatorial Africa, order ing two grass cutter outfits of the sworl type, identical to those pur chased on his visit here in July* 1946. Mr. Braun said he rotated the little cutter motor from the cut ter to a seven-inch table saw and grinder outfit, where it worked —Tun to Page Five
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