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IS. . .
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Mecca for Summer
Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest
and Home of Brevard
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The Transylvania Times
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Vol. 61, No. 45
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1951
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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<jxt July 1,” Mr. Galloway said
yesterday.
Resources at the Transylvania
Trust company as of October 10,
1951, total $2,862,031.26, as com
pared with $2,690,288.55, for Oc
tober 4, 1950.
According to Ralph J. Duckworth,
the executive vice president, de
posits now are $2,702,232.05, while
this time last year they were $2,
547,535.82. The vice president re
ports that the surplus is up from
$40,000 to $55,000, while undivid
ed profits are $22,129.14 for 1951,
while they were $16,430.47, at this
time last year.
Another nice gain is shown at
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PONTIAC NOW ON
DISPLAY, OTHER
AWARDS LISTED
Participating Concerns Are
Announced By The Gen
eral Chairman
RESULTS GRATIFYING
Seventy local business firms are
participating in the Harvest Trade
Festival, in which more than $3,000
vyorth of prizes, including a Pon
tiac Eight, are being offered to
Brevard shoppers. The car was de
livered to Crawford Freeman, gen
eral chairman of the festival, and
Dr. E. O. Roland, president of the
chamber of commerce, last Friday.
It is now being exhibited on the
streets here.
The first awarding of prizes will
take place on the high school ath
letic field next Saturday afternoon,
Nov. 17, at 2 o’clock. The prizes
to be given away at that time are:
A Frigidaire refrigerator valued
at 229.75, purchased from Aber
crombie Home Furnishings.
A “True Temper” Steel Fly Rod
valued at 22.50, purchased from
Hobby and Sport Shop.
A “Dominion” Waffle Iron val
ued at 12.95, purchased from West
ern Auto Associate Store.
Prizes will be awarded each Sat
urday thereafter at the same time
and place with the giving away of
ihe Pontiac on December 22.
The following firms are partici
pating in the trade festival:
Abercrombie’s, A&P Super Store,
Ayers’ store, Austin’s studio, Belk’s,
Bradley’^ Brevard Hardware Co.,
K. Rubber Welders, Sid
B^rnet^tMachine Shop, Brevard
Laundry fc Coal Co., Erevard Jew
elers, Blue Bonnet Beauty Shop,
Cash and Carry, Coleman Tire Ser
vice, Corn’s Taxi, Cassel’s 3 and
10c Store, City Cabs, Crest 5 and 10c
Store, Duke Power Co., DeLuxe Es
so, Dixie-Home Store, Farmers
Supply Co., Ford’s Comer, Farm
ers Federation, Frick’s Buick Co.
Gaither’s Restaurant, Goodwill
Motor Co., Gibbs’ Esso Station, Gal
loway’s Cafe, Harold’s Super Mar
ket, Hart’s Barber Shop, Hobby &
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OPEN YULE SEASON
HERE ON NOV. 23
Santa To Come To Town.
Streets And Stores To Be
Gaily Lighted
The Christmas shopping season
in Brevard will open on November
23, with the arrival around 7
o’clock on that date of Santa Claus
on a gaily decorated sled. The col
ored Christmas lights will be turned
on shortly before his arrival.
This decision was made at a
meeting on Tuesday of the Holiday
Trade festival at the Coffee Shop,
at which plans for the opening
were formulated.
Santa after being received with
appropriate acclaim will visit in
the stores and mingle with his ad
mirers on the streets. The stores
will remain open until 9 o’clock
that evening.
A Christmas program is being
arranged to coincide with Santa’s
arrival here. Details are yet to be
worked out, but it will be very
impressive, according to Crawford!
Freeman, general chairman.
Holiday business here this year
—Turn To Page Twelve
Hold “Open House”
At Harry H. Straus
School On Tuesday
An “Open House” for all pa
rents and friends of the new Harry
H. Straus school in North Brevard
is being given by the Parent-Teach
er association at the regular meet
ing time, Tuesday evening, Novem
ber 13, at 8 o’clock.
A brief business session of the
P-TA will be held at 8 o’clock by
the president, Mrs. Arthur Loeb.
Membership plans will be discussed'
for the drive already underway,
with each parent being urged to
join.
A tour of the school will be held,
and teachers will be in their class
rooms. Refreshments will be served
in the school cafeteria.