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— TRANSYLVANIA IS . . . An Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Agricul tural and Music Cen ter. Population 12,241 Vol. 60, No. 18 * 20 PAGES TODAY * BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 4, TRANSYLVANIA IS . . . The Land oi Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah National Forest and Home of Brevard I Music Festival. PUBLISHED WEEKLY WELCOME ISSUED LEGIONNAIRES ★ ★ ★ ★ **★★★ ★★*★★★***★★******* Army Engineers To Study Flood Control Here TO HOLD HEARING IN COURTHOUSE NEXT WEDNDAY Transylvania And Hender son Counties Adopt Sim ilar Proposal OPPOSE TV A PLAN Army engineers will come to Transylvania and other Western North Carolina counties next week to collect data for the preparation of a flood control report on the French Broad river and tribu taries. Interested citizens of the town and county will meet with the Transylvania flood control com mittee and the Army engineers next Wednesday afternoon in the courthouse here. Lewis Hamlin, chairman of the county committee, will preside at the meeting to which the public is invited. Flood control committees of Transylvania and Henderson coun ties have held joint meetings in the past few days and the two groups are in full. accord with a program that would call for chan nel clearance and storage basins that would avoid flooding fertile farms. It is the consensus here and in adjoining counties that the TVA plan is, in effect, dead because of the opposition of valley residents in Transylvania and Henderson, where the majority of the TVA dams would be located. The proposal for a flood control plan which would avoid the TVA storage basins in bottomlands has the approval of Congressman Monroe M. Redden, as well as the various committees in Transylva nia and Henderson counties. Mr. Redden has also expressed him self as opposed to the TVA plan. Mr. Hamlin said yesterday that he was delighted that the coun ties had worked out a program of —Turn to Page Seven MANY TO ENTER MUSIC CONTEST Event Will Be Held At Mrs. Matheson’s Home This Sunday Afternoon A large number of school chil dren have designated that they will enter the Mathatasian club’s music contest, which will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home of the chairman, Mrs. E. B. Matheson. The required selection that must be played on the piano is “Gavotte” from the Fifth French Suite by Bach, and any one se lection by an American composer may be chosen for the second piece. Top ranking pianists, selected on the basis of style, interpreta tion and form, will be given tick ets to the Brevard Music festival as prizes. Judges will be Miss Kate Dot son, Miss Elizabeth Mauney and Mrs. E. G. Sigmon, all of Hender sonville. . ———————-—-—" ■ ■■ —■ CALENDAR OF EVENTS +.,■■■■■■■ . Thursday, May 4—License ex aminer in courthouse today and Friday. Lions club meets at 6:30 at Bryant house. Friday, May 5—Home Demon stration club style revue and tea, NYA hut, 2 o’clock. Junior-Sen ior banquet at Brevard Country club, 7 o’clock. Kiwanis club meets at Bryant house, 7 o’clock. Camera club meets, Hobby and Sport shop, 8 o’clock. Recital at Brevard college, 8:30. Square dance in American Legion build ing, 8:30. Saturday, May 6—Trout streams open in Pisgah National forest at 6 a. m. May Day program at col lege, 2 o’clock. County Demo —Turn To Page Six Attention Citizens! You Don’t Count Until You’ve Been Counted, Aid Is Requested In Taking 1950 Census In County Heads Division RALPH R. FISHER, promi nent Brevard attorney, is com mander of the Fifth Division, and will preside over the spe cial meeting on Saturday, when members of the 42 posts will convene here at the American Legion Memorial building. The barbecue is being served through the generosity of the commander. RECORD NUMBER OF FISHERMEN EXPECTED HERE Forest Streams Will Open On Saturday; Regula tions Are Cited Fishermen from all parts of the South are expected here this week end when the trout streams in the Pisgah National forest will open for the 1950 season. The streams were to have been opened on April 15, but due to the extremely dry weather, opening date was postponed until after a hard rain. The streams will be open again on Sunday, when another record number of fishermen is expected according to Ranger William P. Duncan. “From the number of phone calls we have had in the past few days, we. will be covered up this week end,” John Eller, the assist ant ranger, said yesterday. Daily permits will be required of all persons regardless of age, the fee for which is a dollar. Fish ing will be permitted from 6 in the morning until 8 o’clock in the evening. All fishermen are required to present their catch of fish for in spection at checking stations at the end of the day’s fishing. The creel limit is 10 per day. Fish of any size may be retained. Official Questionnaire Is Carried On Page Six Of The Times By STAFF WRITER Have you been counted? If you have not, the citizens of Brevard are likely to receive an unpleas ant shock when the final figures on the 1950 census are released for the town as well as the county. Fill out the form on page six im mediately. According to Harry Sample, district supervisor of the bureau of the census, it is very unlikely that Brevard (in the city limits) will reach the 5,000 mark. That, itself, is disappointing, and for this reason an all-out effort should be made by everyone to see that his family, friends and neignoors are countea. This does not mean that Bre vard has not grown since 1940— but it has grown in the areas im mediately joining the city limits on all sides. The official questionnaire, as released by the census bureau, is printed in this week’s Times for the convenience of anyone who was not at home, or skipped for any reason. However, Mr. Sam ple points out that if for any rea son anyone does not wish to fill out this questionnaire, he may call the local chamber of commerce, phone 593, and give them the in formation. “We want to locate everyone here in order that the population for Transylvania can come up to expectations,” Mr. Sample said Wednesday. The district supervisor said that all books have been turned in by enumerators and that although two had to be returned for correc tions, this had already been com pleted. “We are now busy check ing, and it should not be too long before official figures can be re leased.” So, hurry, and contact the cham —-Turn To Page Twelve WANT FRANCHISE FOR OS CONCERN Request Made At Meeting Of Aldermen; “Clean Up” Weeks Declared Approval of a franchise for a natural gas company to operate in Brevard was requested at the reg ular meeting of the town board of aldermen this week. Mayor S. E. Varner presided. The request was made by Attor ney Ralph R. Fisher, who with H. C. Fisher, of Asheville, is acting as agent for the Natural Gas Transportation company, of Hous ton, Texas. It is understood that if the fran chise is approved, the natural gas will be piped from Spartanburg, S. C., to the city limits of Brevard —Turn to Page Si* School Groups To Give Concert On May 10 During National Music Week In observance of National Mu sic week, May 7-14, the Brevard Music Lovers club is sponsoring a concert by school groups Wed nesday night, May 10, in the Bre vard high school auditorium at 8 o’clock. The program will feature the Ecusta band, under the direction of John Eversman, playing a med ley of marches, and also accom panying the audience in the sing ing of several familiar songs. The 53 members of the Brevard college glee club, directed by Bruce A. Livengood, will sing five selections on the program. This group has been highly applauded on tours throughout the state this year. A high school trio composed of Joann Newland, Hilda Norwood and Shirley Wilde will sing a group of familiar songs. Choruses from each of the gram mar grades, which have been re hearsed by Mrs. Eva Gillespie, public music teacher, will sing folk songs from different nations, —Turn to Pace Six Fifth Division Legionnaires To Gather Here At Legion Building Pictured above is the modern and imposing American Legion Memorial building here where the legionnaires and auxiliary members of the Fifth division will gather on Saturday for a meeting, barbe cue and square dance. Activities will get underway at 3 o’clock, and a large crowd from the 42 posts in the division is expected to attend. Following the division meeting, legionnaires of the 33rd district, of which Eb Morrow, pictured in the inset, is commander, will hold a brief session. The building above was erected two years ago, with the clubroom addition on the left being added last fall. The structure is aptly called a community center, with numerous meetings of v^rkus kinds being held each mouth in the building._' <Times Staff Photo.) WILL MAKE TOUR OF PASTURES ON SAT'DAY, MAY 13 Improved Demonstrations In Upper Transylvania To Be Visited An extensive tour of the out standing pastures in upper Tran sylvania county is being planned for Saturday, May 13. According to Julian Glazener, the county agent here, the tour will be an all-day affair, getting underway at M. 0. McCall’s store at 9:30 o’clock and ending at Richard McCall’s farm in the af ternoon. “All persons interested in see ing more and better pastures de veloped in Transylvania are urged to go on this tour and see for themselves just what some of the grass-minded farmers of the up per end of the county are doing,” Mr. Glazener said yesterday. The county agricultural work ers’ council at its March meeting set a goal of 1,000 acres of im proved pastures to be seeded in the county this year. As a means of stimulating interest in reaching such a worthy goal, the council agreed to promote two pasture tours during the year, one in up per Transylvania and one in the middle or lower portions of the county. On the tour next Saturday, lunch will be served at the Balsam Grove schoolhouse. In connection with improved pasture lands, the council encour ages all farmers who have not tak en advantage of the PMA (AAA) pasture materials such as lime, phosphate, potash, 2-12-12 fertil izer and seeds to be sure and sign up for all fall seeding. Riding Devices Will Return Next Mon. Lee’s riding devices, which have filled engagements in Brevard for several years, will return Monday for a week’s stay. The rides will be located on North Broad street opposite Smathers Manufacturing company. They will operate un der the auspices of the local Lions club, which will receive a share of the proceeds for use in its work in behalf of the blind. Democrats Will Hold County Convention Here On Saturday, Executive Group Also Meets Welcomes Veterans RAYMOND F. BENNETT, commander of the Monroe Wil son post of the American Le gion, this week extends a cor dial welcome to all legion naires of the Fifth division who will meet here on Saturday for a business session, barbecue and square dance. Commander Bennett will also introduce dis tinguished guests attending the event. Officers And Delegates To Be Chosen; Chairman Urges Attendance Transylvania county Democrats] will hold a convention here in the courthouse Saturday at 3 p. m. for the purpose of perfecting or ganization and electing delegates to the state convention in Raleigh May 11, it was announced yester day. At the same time there will be a meeting of the county executive committee for the purpose of electing officers. Delegates to the convention and alternates were chosen at precinct meetings last Saturday, and ac cording to Chairman W. A. Wil son, they are as follows: Brevard No. 1—Gill Thomas. Alternate Mrs. Hugh Hollifield. Brevard No. 2—T. E. Reid. Alternate Mrs. Tom Bryson. Brevard No. 3—C. L. Osborne. Alternate Mrs. Morris Hawkins. Brevard No. 4—C. L. Russell. Alternate Mrs. Lehmann Kapp. Pisgah Forest—Buck McCall. Alternate Mrs. Bill Henson. Boyd—P. A. Rahn. Alternate Mrs. Edna Lankford. Little River—G. D. Shuford. Alternate Mrs. W. H. Medford. Catheys Creek—Ralph Paxton. Alternate Mrs. Clark Grissom. —Turn to Page Si* Several Hundred Expected To Attend HD Style Revue And Tea This Friday The style revue and tea, which is being held here at the NYA hut Friday afternoon in observance of National Home Demonstration Club week, is expected to draw several hundred clubwomen and their friends. One of the features of the style revue will be 15 garments, which have been loaned to the home agent, Anne Benson Priest, by the National Cotton council. These garments have all been made from printed cotton feed sacks, and have been designed especially for sack sewing by Simplicity pat terns. According to the home agent, this is the sixth year the National Cotton council has sent these gar ments on loan, in order that farm women may learn to best utilize the materials at hand. Some 150 million printed cotton sacks are used every year by American wo men in making clothes for them selves and their families, statistics —Turn To Page Six FIFTH DIVISION WILL MEET HERE THIS SATURDAY Barbecue And Square Dance Will Follow Business Session At 3:00 MUCH ENTERTAINMENT A Ufordial welcome is being ex tended the legionnaires and their wives and the auxiliary members of the Fifth division by all of pro* gressive Brevard and Transylva nia county to the meeting, barbe cue and square dance which will be held here Saturday afternoon, beginning at 3 o’clock in the American Legion Memorial build ing. Division Commander Ralph R. Fisher will preside over the meet ing, and the barbecue is being fur nished by Mr. Fisher. It will be prepared by Sam Allison and be served by the auxiliary members here. According to Charlie Disher, adjutant of the Monroe Wilson post here, host to the event, ' a large number of legionnaire dig nitaries from all over the state have already accepted invitations to attend the function here on Saturday. Among the prominent persons expected are: Wiley Pickens, ex ecutive vice commander; Nash McKee, department adjutant; Lewis Parker, membership chair man of the state; Karl Muschette, Gal , North Carolina commanders; ana Dr. B. R. Perry, state commissioner for legion baseball. Durham Davis, of Shelby; V. R. Alexander, of Kannapolis, and B. E. Hamrick, of Hickory, announced candidates for next year’s state commandership, will also attend the event. Following the division meeting, which all legionnaires in Brevard: —Turn to Page Seven. INTEREST MOUNTS IN SCENIC ROUTE Joint Meeting Held Here;' Roads Committee Plans Dinner, Picnic A step forward in the planning of a scenic highway from Wal halla, S. C., to Oakland, in upper Transylvania county by the fam ous White Water Falls, highest cascade in eastern America, was realized at a meeting here Tues day night. Called by the roads committee of the Brevard chamber of com merce, the meeting was attended by representatives from the Oak land-Sapphire Civic club, the Que bec Community club, Rosman chamber of commerce and local committee members. Ralph R. Fisher, chairman, presided over the meet. Earl Aiken, executive director of the Brevard chamber of com merce and the merchants associ ation, was appointed to work with Mrs. Joe Osborne, of Rosman, and C. A. Wilson, of Oakland-Sap —Turn To Page Twelve License Examiner Here On Thursday, Friday Each Week The driver’s license examiner in Transylvania county will be here two days, on Thursday and Friday of each week, and all mo torists whose last names begin with N through Q are advised to come in early and avoid the last minute rush. Mrs. Beulah Burgin was advised last week that she would be al lowed two days here instead of one because of the increasing heavy load. An appeal had been made to L. R. Fisher, acting di rector of the Highway Safety di vision by leading citizens and or ganizations in Brevard and Tran —Tan To Pago Six
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