The Transylvania Times
A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper
Vol. 61; No. 14 ★' SECTION ONE * BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY^APRIL 5, 1951 ★ 18 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TRANSYLVANIA
IS . . .
An Industrial, Tourist
Educational, Agricul
tural and Music Ce»
ter. Population 15,321.
TRANSYLVANIA
IS . . .
The Land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer
Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest
and Home of Brevard
Music Festival.
RED CROSS DRIVE SHORT OF GOAL
April Superior Court Ends After Busy Session
FISHER’S CASES
ARE CONTINUED,
JURORS EXCUSED
Armstrong Disposes Of A
Number Of Cases In Day
And A Half
VERDICTS GIVEN
The Transylvania term of Supe
rior court, which opened here on
Monday, was completed in short
order and was adjourned at noon
Tuesday by Judge Frank M. Arm
strong.
There were 100 cases on the i
docket, but 55 of them were con
tinued at one time to the July
term of court. These were cases
of Ralph Fisher, who is repre
senting Transylvania in the legis
lature at Raleigh.
Several other cases were con
tinued because of illness of wit
nesses, etc., and according to
Marvin McCall, clerk of court
here, the term of court was a busy
one in spite of its brevity.
All jurors who were called for
the second week of court have
been excused by Judge Armstrong.
The cases disposed of during the
April term of court, as released
by the clerk, are as follows:
Robert Manley, violating liquor
law, suspended sentence on pay
ment of $25 line.
Billy J. E. Wilson, abandon
ment and non-support, suspended
sentence on payment of cost of ac
tion and fees set by the court.
Robert Ansel, forgery, suspend
ed sentence on payment of checks
Albert Kilpatrick, public
drunkenness, suspended sentence
on payment of $25 and costs.
Robert Gordon, larceny, 12
months on roads and suspended
sentence on breaking and entering
charge.
Billy Hunnicutt, larceny, eight
months, suspended sentence on
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GROUP WILL GET
PHYSICAL EXAMS
Draft Calls 15 On April 12;!
Brevard College Is Made
Center For Tests
Pre-induction call No. 13 for 15
of Transylvania’s young men is
made today and the group will j
leave next Thursday, April 12, for i
Charlotte.
The draft board clerk, Mrs. Al- j
lie B. Harllee, also announces that j
four Brevard college students have '
been transferred to this local
board for pre-induction physical
examinations.
Brevard college has been named
a center where college students in
Western North Carolina may take
aptitude tests in order to qualify
for deferment for military service. |
There are 27 such centers through
out the state, and Brevard college
is No. 759 of the 1,000 in the
United States.
The group called for pre-induc
tion physicals from Transylvania
on April 12 are as follows:
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CALENDAR OF !
EVENTS
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Thursday, April 5 — WMS of
Baptist church, 3 o’clock. Presby
terian and Methodist circles meet.
Lions club meets at Bryant house,
7 o’clock. Rotary club at Coffee
shop, 7 o’clock. Musical program
in courthouse, 7:30. Meeting of
board of directors, Brevard Music
Festival, home of Charles Himes,
8 o’clock.
Friday, April 6—Kiwanis meet
ing at Bryant house, 7 o’clock.
Square dance in American Legion
building, 8:30.
Sunday, April 8 — Attend the
church of your choice. Seventeenth
district meeting of VFW at 2 p. m.
Monday, April 9 — DAR meets
with Mrs. Alfred Weiss, 3:30 p. m.
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Local VFW Post Will Hold 17th
District Meeting Here Sunday
Afternoon, New Officers Named
Conducts Revival
REV. W. KENNETH GOOD
SON, pastor of the First Metho
dist church at High Point, will
conduct evangelistic services at
the Brevard Methodist church
next week. He will also speak
at chapel exercises at Brevard
college during the week, which
is Religious Emphasis week at
the local educational institution.
G00DS0N SPEAKS
TO METHODISTS,
AT THE COLLEGE
High Point Pastor Will Con
duct Revival; Religious
Emphasis Week
Evangelistic services will begin
at the Brevard Methodist church
on Monday evening, April 9th,
at 7:30 o’clock with the Rev. W.
Kenneth Goodson, of High Point,
conducting the services.
Next week will also be Religious
Emphasis week at Brevard college
and the Rev. Mr. Goodson will
speak at the chapel exercises each
morning. The students will attend
the evening services at the Metho
dist church, the pastor, Rev. J.
Julian Holmes announces.
The evangelistic services of the
Methodists will continue all week,
except Saturday, and music will be
led by the adult and youth choirs,
under the direction of Prof. Bruce
Livengood and Mrs. Frank B. Mc
Guire.
Rev. Goodson has held pastor- j
atcs at Oak Ridge, Wadesboro and
is in the third year as pastor of
the First Methodist churcji at
High Point. “He has had wide ex
perience in the field of evangelism
and has held many successful re
vivals,” Mr. Holmes states.
A native of Salisbury, he grad
uated from Catawba college, where
he was president of the student
body his senior year. He did grad
uate work in the Divinity school at
Duke university, and is the asso
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Jimmie Alderman Is Re
Elected Commander;
Others Chosen
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
17th district will mbet Sunday af
ternoon at 2 o’clock at the club
house here of the Lewis Earl Jack
son post of the VFW just below
Brevard college.
According to Commander Jim
mie Alderman, who was re-elected
Tuesday night at a call meeting,
the meeting will feature the instal
lation of officers and talks by the
state commander, E. D. Knauff, of
Kinston, and Otis M. Brown, the
executive advisor of state VFW
posts.
District Commander Allen E.
Brown, of Hendersonville, will
preside, and representatives of all
posts in the district are expected
at the meeting. Other larger posts
in the district in addition to Bre
vard include Hendersonville, Can
ton-Waynesville, Asheville, Black
Mountain-Fletcher and others.
“This is the first time that we
have held a district meeting at
Brevard and we’re hoping for a
good turnout,” Commander Aider
man stated last night. The auxil
iary of the local VFW post will
serve refreshments.
Other officers chosen at the call
meeting Tuesday night in addi
tion to Commander Alderman
were: A1 Coggins, senior vice com
mander; Ed Fentress, junior vice
commander; Vance Jackson, quar
termaster; and Ed McCoy, three
year trustee, who succeeds Glover
Jackson. Other trustees are Fred
Israel and Ed Garrett.
PLAY REHEARSALS
BEGUN BY GROUP
“Night Must Fall” Will Be
Given In May; Two
Parts Are Open
Rehearsals are now underway
fcr the fourth Brevard Little The
atre production, “Night Must
lall,” although a few of the parts
in the cast have not yet been
filled, according to Mrs. Ray Win
chester, president.
“Night Must Fall,” a suspense
drama will be given here in the
American Legion building on May
8 and 9. Robroy Farquhar is the
director. '
The cast is announced as fol
lows:
Nurse L i b 1 e y, Mrs. Edna
Schranz; Mrs. Bramson, Mrs. Mil
dred Happ; Mrs. Terrence, Mrs
Dorothy Baldauf; Hubert Laurie,
Charlie Norlander; Dora, Mrs
Janice Hockfelder and the roles
yet to be cast are that of Belsize
and Dan.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Jerome and
Miss Julia Deaver will leave on
Thursday morning for Umatilla,
Fla., to spend several weeks. Mr.
and Mrs. Jerome will stay at their
cottage and Miss Deaver will visit
relatives in Umatilla and other
places in Florida.
WPNF Program Highlights
Big League "Game Of The Day” To Be
Carried Over WPNF Beginning April 16
Good news to all sports fans in
Transylvania is the announcement
this week that the “Game of the
Day” of the American and Nation
al leagues will be heard this
spring, summer and fall over sta
tion WPNF, under the sponsor
ship of the Ecusta Paper corpora
tion.
The “First Game of the Day”
will be the world champion New
York Yankees vs. the Washington
Senators game at Griffith stadium
at Washington, D. C., on Monday,
April. 16. This game will be de*
scribed by Mutuals “Sports Voice,”
A1 Heifer, and his chief aide, Dick
Bingham, starting at 2:30 p. m. An
annual custom of major league
play is to open the season in the
nation’s capital with the President
of the United States tossing out
the first ball.
The “Game of the Day” will
carry through September 30.
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Work Well Underway on Disposal Plant For Town Of Brevard
Under the bond program for improvement and expansion of the water and sewer systems of the
town, Brevard will be one of the first towns in North Carolina to take its sewerage out of the rivers. In
the photo above, excavating work can be noted for the digester of the new disposal plant that is being
erected beyond Brevard college and on the flat lands behind Ross hall. LT A. HENTHORN. resident en
gineer on the gigantic project here, is shown on the edge of the excavation; L. C. ATWELL, superin
tendent of the building of the disposal plant of the Boyd and Goforth company, is directly behind the
engineer and is holding the plans in his left hand; and C. F. MISENHEIMER, street superintendent of
Brevard, is at the right conferring with Atwell. (Times Staff Photo.)
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GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
ROUND-UP
North Carolina
*
The house Tuesday passed
and sent to the senate a half
billion dollar appropriation bill,
on which the state government
will operate for the next two
fiscal years. Before approving
the measure by a 60-46 vote, the
house rejected an amendment
which would have further boost
ed salaries of teachers and state
employees. As approved by the
house, the money measure totals
$502,000,000, an increase of $42,
000,000 over the recommenda
tion of the advisory budget com
mission.
The senate passed and sent to
the house a bill which would in
c ease penalties on truckers who
overload their vehicles. The sen
ate appropriations committee ap
proved a bill which would set up
permanent weighing stations to
enforce the load limits.
The senate appropriations i
committee deferred action on a ]
proposal sponsored by the state I
teachers and employees retire
ment system which would pro
vide a minimum of $50 monthly
pension for teachers and state
employees after 30 years of ser
vice.
The legislature is expected to
continue the life of a commission
appointed in 1949 to investigate
the erection of a permanent me
morial to the late Josephus
Daniels. The commission has pro
posed the erection of an arboret
Ayers To Attend
Head Camp Meet
J. I. Ayers, a head auditor of the
North Carolina jurisdiction, WOW,
will attend the head camp meeting
in Asheville April 16 and 17. Sev
eral other local Woodmen are ex
pected to be present at some of
the sessions, which will be held at
the George Vanderbilt hotel.
Visitors and delegates will prob
ably total around 350, it is stated.
Among the speakers will be for
mer Governor E. D. Rivers, of
Lakeland, Ga., and Charles A.
Hines, a national director, of
Greensboro. President Farrar
Newberry Will report on the prog
ress of the order for the past two
years.
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America’s Rrrfmost Folklorist
Is Signed To Appear On Aug. 14
Program Of The Music Festival
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WILL HOLD ESSAY
CONTEST ON CAMP
AND FESTIVAL
Brevard Music Lovers Club
Is Sponsoring Event;
Prizes Offered
The Brevard Music Lovers club
this week announces an essay
contest for high school and gram
mar school students on the theme.
“What Transylvania Music Camp
and Brevard Music Festival Mean
to Me and My Community.”
The contest is being sponsored
as one of the National Music week
features and winners will be an- !
nounced during the May 7-13 ob
servance.
First prizes of tickets to the en
tire festival will go to one high
school and one grammar school j
pupil. Second prizes are also giv
en in the two divisions, and they
will consist of tickets to one of the
festival week ends, whichever the
winner chooses to attend.
Entries should be 250 words or
less, and must be postmarked by
April 21. They should be mailed
to Mrs. Harry Dreyer, Brevard.
Each essay should be in pen and
ink or typewritten, with pages
clipped together and numbered
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John Jacob Niles Signs Con
tract; Susan Reed Is
Also Coming
John Jacob Niles, America’s
foremost folklorist, is the second
renowned folk musician to be
signed for a concert during the
1951 Brevard Music Festival, it
was announced here Wednesday,
alter the contract with Mr. Niles
was signed.
He will give a performance here
on Tuesday evening, August 14,
accompanying himself on three
dulcimers, stringed instruments,
which he has made.
Announcements of other solo
ists for the music series was made
last week by Festival President
Walter K. Straus, but Mr. Niles'
name was withheld pending the
signing of the contract.
Sharing the spotlight with Mr.
Niles will be another of America’s
best loved folk singers, Susan
Reed, who will open the festival
here on August 7.
A native of Louisville, Ky., Mr.
Niles lives on a farm near Lexing
ton, where he is continually work
ing on his compositions and col
lections. He has traveled to every
county in the Southern Appalach
ians collecting folk music, some of
which dates back to the 17th cen
tury. Niles is the only folk sing
er living today who has never
used material from any collection
but his own—just as he uses only
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College Choir Returns From Highly
Successful Tour, Tribute Paid Jones
After a four-day tour, singing in
the high schools and churches of
Charlotte, Concord, Wadesboro
and Rutherfordton, the Brevard
college choir returned to the col
lege campus here Tuesday night.
The religious concerts were dedi
cated to the memory of the late
James Addison Jones, benefactor
of Brevard college.
Climaxing the highly successful
tour was the sacred concert at the
DiJworth Methodist church in
Charlotte, the home church of Mr.
Jones. The select group of 32 stu
dents sang under the direction of
Prof. Bruce A. Livengood, head of
the college music department.
Francis B. Price, instructor of
voice, was the baritone soloist and
Miss Mary Jane Kornegay, fresh
man from Greensboro, was so
prano soloist. Miss Susan Graham,
instructor in piano, was accompan
ist for the tour.
Traveling with the choir was
President George Brinkmann Ehl
hardt. The Rev. Ehlhardt deliver
ed short addresses at the intermis
sion of the sacred concerts. His
address at Dilworth church was
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HOPE TO RAISE
QUOTA OF $4,266
BY NEXT SATDAY
Some $1,200 Contributed In
Uptown Brevard; Jerome,
Douglas Soliciting
CHAIRMAN QUOTED
The Red Cross roll call had
reached the half-way mark on
Wednesday and workers are con
tinuing in an effort to secure the
quota of $4,266 before Saturday of
next week, when it is hoped the
drive will be completed.
The uptown area of Brevard had
reached $1,200 at noon Wednes
day, according to Jerry Jerome
and C. M. Douglas, who are in
charge of soliciting the business
area.
Reports from industrial areas
l ad not been completed at press
time, and workers in the residen
tial and rural areas do not start
until the first of the week due to
lack of getting the organization
perfected and supplies distributed,
and will go at least one-third to
one-half over last year, the solici
tors stated.
The increased quota has been
made necessary for 1951, the Rev.
J. Julian Holmes, chapter chair
man, states because of the fact
that services for armed forces has
more than trebled in the past eight
months. Armed service work w>&>
*or blood through the Red Cross
fikve alsu increased and service for
families has of course materially
increased.
Hospital work in Oteen and
Moore General veteran units has
been stepped up nearly ten times
in the past year over previous fis
cal periods, Mr. Holmes said. In
addition, the expense of aiding in
civilian defense and starting of
first-aid courses here have natur
ally called for more funds for the
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GRAND JURY
MAKES REPORT
Repairs Are Being Made To
Schools, Buses; Reports
Are Requested
The grand jury of the April term
of Superior court inspected the
jail, court house, prison camp and
public offices of the county
and made several recommendations
to the Honorable Frank M. Arm
strong, the presiding judge.
School officials were interrogat
ed by the jury, and in view of the
fire hazard that exists in some
of the ‘older schools, it was rec
ommended that the principals of
each school submit a written report
to Supt. J. B. Jones, giving the
date of each fire drill held.
Regular repairs are being made
to the school buses, the report
stated, and maintenance work is
being carried out in the various
school buildings.
It was stated in the report that
apparently no action has been tak
en on the grand jury report
of December, 1950, in which the
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Residential Garbage
Is Being Collected
Tuesdays, Fridays
Garbage is now being collected
twice each week from the resi
dences in Brevard, N. A. Miller,
clerk of town, stated yesterday.
“As an economy measure, we
were forced to collect garbage
from the homes only once each
week during the winter months,
but now we are back on the reg
ular schedule of twice weekly,’'
he said.
Collection days from the resi
dences in Brevard are every Tues
day and Friday, and collections
are made at the business houses
every day.
It was estimated that several
hundred dollars were saved by the
town over the winter time period.