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Vol. 64, No. 14
SECTION ONE
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1953
k IS PAGES TODAY ★
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Narrow Span Under Bridges On French Broad Holding Water
Many Special Services Are Planned
Dnring The Easter Observance Here
JAYCEES STAGING
EASTER SUNRISE
SERVICE SUNDAY
Spring In All Its Blooming Glory
The Story Of The Resurrec
tion To Be Told In Panto
mime On College Field
At a recent road meeting in the court house here in Brevard it was explained that in several sec*
tions of the county the narrow span of the bridges over the French Broad river acted as a dam and
caused much flooding of the adjoining fields. M. M. Feaster told highway officials at the meeting that
the bridge near Pisgah Forest, which was only 118 feet wide held back much water during “flash flood”
periods. In the top photo, taken from in the center, of the bridge looking back toward Brevard, the high
water flooding the fields can be noted as well as the swift current into the stream. The river bank is
indicated by the broken line. At the right Mr. Feaster can be seen measuring the water on the upper
side of the road and the ruler shows it to be only four inches from the top of the road bed. On the low
er side it is down about 14 inches, and the pictures were taken some 18 hours after the water had reached
its crest. Highway officials have promised to get Transylvania “out of the high water” and it would
appear that work must first be started on widening the bridges and on the river which is reported to be
filled with jetties. (Times Staff Photos)
Dewey Lance Given 18-20 Years For
Murder Of Wife, Criminal Term Ends
Court Cut Short With Many
Cases Being Continued,
Civil Docket Heard
Dewey Lance, who pled guilty to
murder in the second degree of his
wife, was given from 18 to 20 years
in the state penitentiary by Judge
H. Hoyle Sink in the March-April
term of Superior court in Transyl
vania county.
Mrs. Lance was found dead at
her home on Kings creek on De
cember 1, 1952, and the grand jury
of the last term of Superior court
returned a true bill, indicting the
husband for murder.
The criminal slate of the March-
April term was completed Wednes
day morning and motions and di
vorces were started immediately.
Due to the fact that many of the
cases on the docket were contin
ued because attorneys Robert Gash
and Ralph Fisher are in the state
legislature, the term of court
cut short.
Clerk of Court Marvin McCall
said late Wednesday that he ex
pected court to adjourn on Thurs
day.
Judge Sink will pass sentence on
several cases heard on Monday and
Tuesday prior to adjournment, and
other cases disposed of were as fol
lows:
James H. Bradley, charged with
reckless driving, forfeited bond or-
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, April 2 — WMS of the
First Baptist church, 3:30 p. m.
Methodist and Presbyterian wom
en’s circles. Lions meet at Gaith
er’s at 7 p. m. Masonic meeting in
temple at 7:30 p. m. Maundy Thurs
day services in churches. Public
meeting of citizens interested in
golf course, 8:30 p. m., over city
hall.
Friday, April 3 — Kiwanis club
meets at Gaither’s, 7 p. m. Junior
Recreation club, American Legion
building, 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. Good
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Registration Boob For Town
Election To Open Saturday
Registration for the municipal
election in the town of Brevard
will begin on Saturday, April 4th,
1953, in the court house. Hours will
be from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m,
The books will also be open on
the following Saturday, April 11,
and April 18th. The following Sat
urday will be challenge day.
The primary election will be on
April 27th, and the general election
is slated for May 5th.
As of noon Wednesday no one
has filed for mayor or the board of
aldermen in the town of Brevard,
and candidates must file notice of
their candidacy 10 days prior to the
primary election, N. A. Miller,
clerk of the town and secretary of
the board of elections, announces.
It is explained that persons who
have never voted in a municipal
election here must register in order
to be able to vote this spring. It is
further explained that there are
separate -sets of books for general
elections and town elections, and if
local citizens are in doubt whether
or not they are on the town books
to check with the registrar on one
of the three following'Saturdays.
To be able to vote in the city
election, a citizen must have been
a resident of the state for one year
and in Brevard for the past four
months.
Junior Recreation
Club Meets Friday
At Legion Building
The Junior High Recreation club
will have its second meeting Fri
day night in the American Legion
building from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
All 7th, 8th and 9th grade boys
and girls are invited. At the organ
izational meeting last week mem
bers voted to have a 10 cent door
admission to help defray expenses
of the organization.
WPNF Program Highlights
Moravian Easter Sunrise Service
To Be Heard This Sunday Morning
The broadcast of the Moravian
Easter Sunrise service from Win
ston-Salem will highlight the ob
servance of the Holy Week and will
climax WPNF’s Easter broadcasts
ThiS/ special feature will be
broadcast at 6 o’clock Easter Sun
day morning over a statewide ra
dio network.
The broadcast over WPNF will
be sponsored by Coca-Cola Bottling
company, of Hendersonville, serv
ing Transylvania county. Jack Ham-
mette, station manager, announces.
“On Sunday night at 9 p. m. you
vail hear the Triumphant Hour
which will feature Ann Blythe as
Mary Magdalene, Jeff Chandler as
the Apostle Peter; MacDonald Ca
rey will be heard as the doubting
apostle, Thomas, and Ruth Hussey
will be heard as Mary, the mother
of Christ,” Dave Sherrill, program
director, says.
Five opera singers, Licia Alba-
nese, Jerome Hines, Nan Merri-
man, Marguerite Piazza and Brian
Sullivan are to be heard on this
annual Easter program.
For the sports menu durfng the
coming week, WPNF offers: Thurs-
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Brevard Jaycees are sponsoring
their annual Easter Sunrise pag
eant this Sunday at 6 a. m. on the
Brevard college athletic field.
The story of the Resurrection,
which includes scenes of the tomb,
the upper room, and the Ascension,
will be told in pantomime. Special
music will be rendered by the com
bined choirs of both churches and
the Brevard high school band.
Oscar Smith will be the narrator
and characters in the pantomime
are as follows: Guards, Earl Powell
and Burder Teague; angels. Jack
Fenwicke and Buddy Cantrell; Je
sus, James Bayne; John, Brad Har
rison; Peter, Frank McGuire; Mary
Magdalene, Mrs. L. E. Bagwell;
Mary, mother of James, Mrs. David
Cooper; Salome, Mrs. Robert Mel
ton; Thomas, Rev. John D. Smith;
and disciples, Robert Melton, J. H.
Cox, John Ford, Jr., John Reynolds,
Troy Bryan, Buddy Cantrell, Bur
der Teague and Earl Powell.
The opening prayer will be giv
en by Rev. Julian Holmes, Metho
dist minister, and Rev. B. W. Thom
ason, pastor of the First Baptist
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CIVIC CHORUS WILL
PRESENT CANTATA
‘Seven Last Words’^ Will Be
Heard Friday Night At
Episcopal Church
“The Seven Last Words,” a sac
red cantata by Theodore Dubois,
will be given by the Brevard Civic
chorus at the Episcopal church
Good Friday evening at 8 p. m.
Soloists will be Mrs. V, C; Hill,
soprano; Mrs. James Sanders, so
prano; Lloyd Burhans, tenor; Rev.
John D. Smith, tenor and E. C. Jol-
liff, bass.
The choir will be directed by
Bruce A. Livengood. It has been
trained under the direction of Fran
cis B. Price. Organist is Charles
Jolliff.
This will be a union program and
members of all churches are invit
ed to attend.
In spite of freezing temperatures and frost two mornings last
week end, the beautiful formal garden of MR. AND MRS. F. BROWN
CARR remains in bloom with more than 200 varieties of shrubs and
bulbs adding to the colorful display. The photograph here was shot
through an old well, which adds atmosphere to the garden setting.
The neatly kept walks, flanked by flowers and shrubs can be seen.
The garden is a riot of color from early spring until late fall. (Times
Staff Photo)
Planning For Eighth Brevard
Music Festival, To Attract
Biggest Names In The Field
MAUNDY THURSDAY
AND GOOD FRIDAY
EVENTS ARE SET
Schools Will Close Two Days.
Town And County Offices
Shut On Monday
EGG HUNTS SLATED
975 PERSONS SIGN
PETITIONS ASKING
FOR BEER ELECTION
Will Be Presented To Board
At Next Meeting. Regu
lations Cited
Internationally Famous Ar
tists Being Secured On
Elaborate Program
Petitions with 975 names, calling
r an election on the legal sale of
beer in the town of Brevard, have
been obtained and will be present
ed at the next regular meeting of
the board of aldermen.
These petitions were circulated
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Jaycees Are Planning 2nd Big Folk
Festival For Three Days In July
Brevard Jaycees have already
started making plans for the big
2nd Annual Sylvan Valley Folk
festival to be held here on July
2nd, 3rd and 4th, Burder Teague,
the general chairman, announces.
Last year the folk festival at
tracted large crowds and hun
dreds of folk artists, dancers and
singers, and Mr. Teague says this
year’s will be “bigger and bet -
ter.”
Monthly Singing On
Saturday Night, 4th
The regular monthly all - night
singing will be held at the Brevard
high school auditorium Saturday
night, starting at 8 o’clock, accord
ing to an announcement by the pro
moters.
Featured groups will be the Hi-
Neighbor and the Harper quartets
of Anderson, S. C., and Riley Smith
and his Tonemasters, of Asheville.
A number of local singers are ex
pected to participate.
These sings are sponsored by the
Brevard high school athletic asso
ciation. A large turn-out is expected
Saturday evening and the public
cordially invited.
JONES ATTENDS MEET
P. Jones, Jr., owner and man
ager of the Martin and Jones Sheet
Metal shop, has returned after at
tending for the fifth consecutive
year the dealers’ training school at
Lennox Furnace company in Co
lumbus, Ohio.
The ’53 event will be staged
on the Brevard high school ath
letic field, and folk artists de
siring to enter are urged to write
members of the program com
mittee as early as possible. They
are: Jack Smathers, Rev. Ed C.
Roy and Brad Harrison.
Chairman Teague says that all
indications point to even more
entries than the Jaycees had last
year, and he requests full co
operation of business and pro
fessional men, industries, other
civic groups in this outstanding
area-wide project
Complete plans for the eighth an
nual Brevard Music Festival in
August, which will feature some of
the biggest names in the musical
world, have been completed and
are announced this week by John
D. Eversman, president, and James
Christian Pfohl, founder and direc
tor of the Festival.
The roster of names signed for
the South’s outstanding musical
event indicates that this year’s pro
gram will feature more top-notch
soloists than ever to appear here
on the three-week series.
Internationally famous piano du
et, Luboshutz and Nemenoff, now
on a triumphant tour of Europe, re
turn after a smashing concert suc
cess last season. Eileen Farrell, fa
vorite soprano, will also appear on
the 1953 program.
The free children’s concert,
which for many seasons was highly
popular, will be resumed this sea
son and will open the Festival
ries on Wednesday afternoon, Au
gust 5th.
Joseph Szigeti, one of the world’s
greatest violinists, will play a con
certo with the festival orchestra on
Friday, August 7, and again on Sun
day, August 9. Soloists at the Sat-
:;day evening concert August 8th
will be the sensational Cuban pi
anist, Jorge Bolet.
Olin Downes, distinguished music
critic of the New York Times, re
turns to the Festival for the third
season. On Tuesday, August 11, he
will lecture on ' Ralph Vaughan-
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Doings of the Legislature
Senator Gash Offers Bill To Lease
Golf Course, Country Club To Group
Churches throughout Bre«-
vard and Transylvania are
observing Easter with special
services and highlighting the
religious holiday will be a
union service featuring a re-
ligous cantata Good Friday
and the Easter Sunrise ser
vice Sunday morning.
Persons of all faiths are invited
to hear Dubois’ “Seven Last Words”
given by the Brevard Civic chorus
at St. Philip’s Episcopal church at
8 p. m. Friday night.
Maundy Thursday communion
services are planned at several
churches. The First Methodist
church will begin this observance
at 7:30, and at the Presbyterian
church the communion will be ob
served at 8 p. m.
Transylvania schools will be
closed Friday and Monday for the
Easter holidays, and all town and
county offices as well as the post
office and the bank will be closed
on Monday.
The last of the special Holy
V/eek services being held at the
Lutheran Church of the Good
Shepherd will be held Thursday at
7:30 when the pastor, Rev. D. F.
Coopei-Ib::'ngi the message.on “It
Ls Finished!”
Many of the Sunday school and
school classes are planning Easter
egg hunts on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday.
GOLF MEETING IS
SLATED THURSDAY
Persons Interested In Bre*
vard Club And Course Re
quested To Be Present.
By STAFF WRITER
The committee on counties, cities
and towns of the senate has before
it a bill offered by Senator Robert
Gash, which would authorize the
town of Brevard to lease the Bre
vard golf course and country club
with an option to buy. A group of
prominent local citizens are inter
ested in acquiring "the property.
The house appropriations com
mittee has approved legislation to
provide the 85 million dollars Gov
ernor Umstead requested in bond
issues for school construction, men
tal hospitals and permanent im
provements to state institutions.
An election would be called on the
50 millions proposed for schools
and 22 million dollars for mental
institutions but no popular vote
would be required on the proposed
IS million dollars for permanent
improvements.
The house welfare committee
gave its approval to a senate-passed
bill to allow names of welfare re
cipients to be made public. The bill
would require county welfare de
partments to file lists of those re
ceiving assistance, which would be
available for public inspection in
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All golfers and other citizens of
the town and county interested in
the Brevard country club and golf
course are asked to meet Thursday
night over the city hall at 8:36
o’clock.
The meeting is being called by
Milton Herzog, chairman of the
committee which was named re
cently to investigate the possibili
ty of local citizens leasing the prop
erty from the town.
Chairman Herzog says that the
committee has made much progress
and that it is time to report to citi
zens the findings of the group.
The board of aldermen has as
sured the committee that it would
like to lease the property to citi
zens of the community, and a bill
now in the legislature that would
authorize such action.
The chairman explains that the
meeting is being held at somewhat
of a late hour on Thursday night
due to special Easter services at
churches and other civic meetings.
However, the meeting will not be
long and drawn out and he urges
all interested persons to come out
Charles Russell is secretary of
the committee' and other members
include H. E. Newbury, Bill Huff
man, Dr. E. 0. Roland, George Per
kins, Jr., and John Anderson.
Schools And College
Closing For Easter
Transylvania county schools
and Brevard college will all ob
serve Easter with holidays, it is
learned from school officials to
day.
All public schools will observe
Friday and Monday, April 3 and
C with holidays and will open
again Tuesday morning for class
es.
Brevard college holidays be
gan Wednesday, April 1st, and
will continue until Wednesday.
April 8.