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 15,321. Vol. 61, No. 45 ★ SECTION ONE * BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1951 ★ 20 PAGES TODAY * PUBLISHED WEEKLY DEDICATION OF ECUSTA MEDICAL CENTER FUNNED Event Will Be Held At 1:3C O’Clock On This Friday Afternoon Dedication exercises for the Med ical center of the Ecusta Paper cor poration, a subsidiary of Olin In dustries, Inc., at Pisgah Forest, will be held on Friday at 1:30 p. m., it is announced by John W. Hanes, Ecusta president. The Ecusta Medical center is one of the company’s industrial rela tions services and is under the di rection of Dr. MacRoy Gasque, a specialist in industrial medicine and a native of Western North Carolina. The principal speaker will be Dr. Edwin Holmblad, ®f Chicago, managing director of the Industrial Medical association. Others partici pating in the program will be Dr. George Gehrmann, medical director of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and company, and representatives from the Medical School of the —Turn To Page Six Medical Center Dedication Set Friday Dedication of the recently completed medical center for Ecusta Paper corporation will take place at the modern structure Friday afternoon, with Dr. Edwin Holmblad. of Chicago, managing director of the Industrial Medical association as the principal speaker. Em ployees and friends of the plant are invited to attend the dedication of the new structure which provides facilities for medical care of 2.000 employees. - < Ecnstans Placing Goal In Hospital Drive At $40,000 The campaign to raise $77,360, Transylvania's part of the $200, 000 needed to build the Harry H. Straus Memorial wing at the Tran sylvania Community hospital, is gaining momentum, Ralph H. Ram sey, the chairman, reports. A voluntary solicitation program for funds for the proposed addi tion is underway at the Ecusta Paper corporation and pledge cards have been distributed to most of the employees. “We are highly gratified with early results,” company ofiitiuls declare. A goal of $20,000 has been set by the officials and this amount will be matched by the company’s $20,000, making a total of $40,000. In order to raise the goal, it will be necessary to give one hour’s pay per week for the next eigh' weeks, which is the equivalent to one day’s pay from each employee. No pledge will be extended beyond the eight-week period, it is stated. Ecusta officials request that all employees support this worthwhile project which will result in bene v—Turn to Page Six LEGION TO HOLD PARTYSATURDAY Event Will Climax Member ship Drive. Many Prizes To Be Awarded Transylvania legionnaires will climax their annual membership drive with a party Saturday night in the American Legion memorial building, beginning at 8:30 o’clock. Prizes, totalling more than $800 in value, will be awarded during the evening, and Commander Charles B. Disher urges all veter ans who have paid their 1952 dues to be sure to attend. They will be permitted to bring their wives or girl friends, and auxiliary members c.re also invited and may bring their husbands or boy friends. The buffet ^supper will be fol lowed by dancing, and special mu sic will be furnished by the Ecus ta string band. A large number of door prizes also will be awarded rhirin** tho mronintr CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, Nov. 8 — Brevard Jayvees vs. Hendersonville, 2:30, high school field. Rotary meeting at Coffee Shop at 7 o’clock. Masonic meeting in Temple at 8 p. m, Jay cettes at 8 o’clock, home of Mrs. T. E. Hall. Friday, Nov. 9 — Marine and Navy recruiters at post office, JO a. m. to 3 p. m. Junior class play, Brevard high school, 8 p. m. Square dance in American Legion build ing, 8:30. Saturday, Nov. 10 — Hiking club meets at elementary school, 1 p. m. Music club meets with Mrs. J. H. Pickelsimer, 3 p. m. American Le gion party at 8:30. Sunday, Nov. 11 — Armistice Day. Attend the church of your choice. Monday, Nov. 12 — Transylva —Turn To Page Twelve DR. BOTNER TO SPEAK AT MEET Teachers And Parents Urged To Hear Educational Prob lems Discussed Dr. Taft B. Botner, director of teacher training at Western Caro lina Teachers college, Cullowhee, will lead a discussion on what can be done locally to improve the edu cational advantages for the children cf the community at a mass meet ing in the Brevard high school au ditorium next Wednesday night. The meeting will begin at 8:00 o clock, and all teachers, princi pals, school patrons and other in terested persons are cordially in vited to attend. Dr. B. A. Stevens, county super visor, said yesterday that every teacher and parent in Transylva nia should hear Dr. Botner, who is directing practice teaching of about 80 prospective teachers of this re gion. “Dr. Botner, by the very nature of his work, can not be classed as an armchair theorist in education. His constant field and classroom contacts have given him the ad vantage of a proper perspective for viewing education as it is now; and how, in practical ways, it can de velop in the future. What he will tell us of the needed forward steps in school development will be realizable goals and practical objectives. The things he will sug —Turn to Page Seven DAR Essay Contest Winners Announced The Waightstill Avery chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution this week announce the top three winners in their essay contest recently conducted at the Brevard elementary school. Marion Verner was declared first place winner, with the second and third being Kathryn Sands and Dorothy Osteen, respectively. All three girls are pupils in Miss Mar garet Hall’s eighth grade. The essay topic was “How a Junior American Citizen Serves.” THEATRE GROUP SPONSORS PLAY ON TWO NIGHTS Old - Fashioned Melodrama With Barbershop Singing On Tuesday, Wednesday An old-fashioned melodrama, along with a barber shop quartet and a community sing, will open the 1951-52 season for the Bre vard Little Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday nights, November 13 and 14, at 8:30 o’clock in the Amer ican Legion building. A membership drive is now un derway and admission is by season ticket cA b> *pa>mg the single ad mission pfice at the door. No seats are reserved. The play, “The Curse of An Ach ing Heart” or, the subtitle, “Trap ped in the Spider’s Web,” is re ported to be an extremely funny production, offering lines during which the audience will be expect ed to applaud and boo as well as laugh. These are typical of the old melodramas, which all have a hero, a heroine and a villain. These are plave§ by Alex Kizer, Jr., Ann Lemmond and Bruce A. Livengood, respectively. Robroy Farquhar, director of —Turn to Page Twelve Totai Of 70 Firms Enter Holiday Trade Festival Here, Award Prizes On Nov. 17 SURVEY REVEALS GAIN IN SALES FROM FESTIVAL Merchants Are Well Pleased With Public Response To Huge Trade Event A sui'vey made yesterday by The limes among merchants partici pating in the Harvest Trade festi val revealed that they are highly pleased with the public response, although the event started only a week ago. Without exception, those ques tioned said that sales had been stimulated. One merchant said that his sales for last Monday were three times what they were the Monday before and he attributed the increase largely to the festival. The manager of one furniture store here reported a “very good” lesponse and another made similar comment, stating that he had heard favorable reports from several oth er merchants. The manager of a variety store —Turn To Page Six Winning Ess ays In Times Contest Announced Today The two winners in the more than 100 entries in The Transyl vania Times essay contest for high school students in the coun ty are announced today by Pub lisher Ed M. Anderson. Highlighting the observance of National Newspaper week, the subject of the contest was: “How Does a Newspaper Light the Way to Freedom?” Winning first place and a cash award of $10 was Alice Owen, 12th grade student at Rosman high schoof, and second prize of $5.00 went to Hattie Bolick, 12th grade student here at Bre vard. These two winning essays will be printed in next week’s issue of The Times. “We were extremely pleased with the response in the contest, and we regret that everybody could not win a prize,” Publisher Anderson said yesterday. Transylvania Farmers Approve “Nickels For Know-How Measure” Transylvania and other North Carolina farmers voted overwhelm ingly Saturday in favor of the "Nickels For Know-How” propo sal to finance an expanded program of agricultural research and edu cation. The Transylvania vote was the second largest among the Western North Carolina counties, with a to tal of 986 ballots being cast. Of these 906 were for the referendum, and 80 were against the measure. Unofficial reports from 95 coun ties showed: 59,063 voted for the plan; 5,932 were against it. Merrimon Shuford, the Transyl vania chairman, and County Agent Julian Glazener this week expressed extreme delight over the excellent vote in the county. "We wish to thank everybody who assisted in any way in the passage of the measure, which will mean far great er progress in agriculture, not only in Transylvania, but also through WPNF Program Highlights Churchill To Be Heard On Friday . Night, Theatre Group To Broadcast Winston Churchill, newly-elected prime minister of England, will be heard over WPNF Friday night from 10:30 to 11:00 o’clock, and he will discuss Great Britain’s foreign policy. Due to the seriousness of the re-, cent election in England, this talk should prove very interesting to people here at home, the program director of the local station an nounces. Sport fans of Transylvania are reminded that WPNF will carry the Carolina-Virginia game on Satur day afternoon. The program direc tor also informs high school stu dents in the county that the dead line in the radio script-writing con test is next Monday, November 12th. Other Programs Members of the Brevard Little Theatre will present the civic hour Friday morning at 9:30. On Mon day the Hospital auxiliary will be in charge of the program, while the Wednesday club is scheduled for Wednesday’s program. Here is the Farm and Home hour schedule for the coming week: —Turn To Page Twelve out North Carolina,” they declared. It was pointed out that a record vote was cast in the polling places in Brevard and this was due to the fact that so many of the farmers had come into town to shop. Of the 18 polling places, only two had a negative vote, and they were Little River with 34 for and 43 against, and Enon with 8 and 10. Pisgah Forest had eight and eight. Other tabulations in the county are as follows: Polling Place For Against Blantyre _21 3 Boyleston_*_35 3 Turkey Creek_ 8 5 Brevard_255 5 Connestee_11 1 Calvert Cherryfield_39 1 Dunn’s Rock _116 1 Rosman _97 1 Cathey’s Creek_80 4 Quebec_47 0 —Turn To Page Six Hiking To Looking Glass Rock Proves Popular On Sunday The first trip by the newly or ganized hiking club last Sunday afternoon to Looking Glass Rock was attended by 22 men, women and children, and the group was so enthusiastic another hike is planned for this Saturday, No vember 10. Led by Charles Coffin, wild life expert with the Forest Ser vice, and Charlie Moore, natural ist, the group will leave the ele mentary school next to the post office at 1 p. m. Saturday in cars and travel to the national for est. The hike will be to Cold Springs in the Sherwood area of the Parkway. Anyone who is interested in the hike is invited to meet at the elementary school. Hospital X-Ray Roorin Serves Double Purpose MRS. GUSSIE METZ, hospital superintendent, takes the tempera ture of COY L. OWEN., of Brevard, who was hospitalized at the local institution in the X-ray room since all wards and private rooms were filled. An Ecusta employee, Owen has had considerable hospital care in the past few months, but this is his first trip when all 25 beds were full. But the chief of staff at the institution will still say that no one has ever been refused admittance, when they were in need of med ical treatment. The proposed new wing will add the needed rooms. (Times Staff Photo) Overcrowded Conditions Are Found By Writer At The Local Hospital, Need Is For Wing BRAZILIAN PAYS VISIT TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL Says Transylvania Institu tion Is Well Planned And Constructed Roberto Nadalutti, an architect of Brazil, who is very much inter ested in hospital structures in the United States, visited the Tran sylvania Community hospital on Tuesday and said that it was one of the best arranged small hospitals that he has inspected in this coun try. Accompanied by his wife and George P. Harris, director of field service of Duke endowment, Mr. Nadalutti was given a conducted tour of the local institution by Otis E. Ridgeway, administrator of the local hospital. The tour of the Brazilian is be ing conducted under the auspices of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, an agency of the govern ment. Mr. Nadalutti is employed by the South American government in the field of hospital planning and construction. He arrived in Washington about 10 days ago and will spend the next 30 days visiting hospitals of North and South Carolina. Superintendent Says Private Rooms, Emergency Oper ating Room Are Musts By FRANCES WALKER “We had them standing in line waiting to be admitted at Transyl vania Community hospital last week end/’ Mrs. Gussie Metz, su perintendent, half kiddingly told a Times reporter who was investigat ing the crowded conditions and need for expansion at the institu tion. She wasn’t being altogether lit eral in her comment, yet at the same time all of the 25 beds in the house were full and one man was hospitalized on a cot in the X-ray room. Actually two patients com ing for tonsillectomies did have to wait for a short while until the procedure of discharging two oth ers was completed. “What would have happened if you had had several emergencies brought in after this?” was the log ical question to the personable su perintendent, but how could she or anyone answer this question. The need for an added wing and expanded facilities are noted not only in bed space but in many other ways af^er a very brief tour through the hospital uner the eagle eye of a trained member of the personnel. Because of the lack of private rooms (only two and only one with a private bath) it is not possible to ascertain how many more per sons would avail themselves of lo —Turn To Page Six Business Is Better Postal Receipts And Bank Deposits Show Gain, Expect First-Class Office Postal receipts and bank deposits in Brevard show a gain for the first nine months of 1951. Total receipts at the Brevard post office are more than a thou sand dollars ahead of 1950, and ac cording to Postmaster T. Coleman Galloway, the local post office is expected to become first class in 1952. “If we continue at our normal rate of operation until January 1, we will be a first class post office n