TRANSYLVANIA
IS . . .
The Land ol Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer
Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest
and Home of Brevard
Music Festival.
Vol. 64, No. 27
The Transylvania Times
A State And National P r i z e-Winnin g A. B. C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA
IS . . .
An Industrial, Tourist,
Educational, Agricul
tural and Music Cen
ter. Population 15,321.
★ SECTION ONE ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1953 ★ 24 PAGES TODAY ★
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
FOLK FESTIVAL BEGINS THURSDAY
★★★★★★★★★
A Record Vote Is Expected In Beer Election
LOCAL CITIZENS
TO CAST BALLOTS
HERE ON TUESDAY
Registration Reported High
Over 2,500 Names On
Town’s Books
INTEREST KEEN
A record vote is expected here
in the special election next Tues
day for or against the return of
legal sale of beer within the city
limits of Brevard.
Interest is -keen in the election,
and voting will take place down
stairs at the city hall. The polls
will be open from 6:30 in the
morning next Tuesday until 6:30
o’clock in the evening.
George Justus, the registrar, says
that registration was heavy during
the special registration period. On
the first Saturday a total of 105
registered, the next Saturday 154,
and on the last day 238 names were
added to the books.
There are over 2,500 persons reg
istered in the town of Brevard, and
the number voting next Tuesday is
expected to be far greater than
those persons going to the polls in
December, 1949, when beer was
voted out in the town of Brevard.
At that time 697 persons voted
against the legal sale of-beer, while
594 were for it, giving a total of
1,291 voting.
Ji’dges for next Tuesday’s elec
tion will be Bill Bridges and Lewisj
P. Hamlin.
Both the wet and the dry fences
are conducting vigorous campaigns,
and each side is confident of vic
tory.
Last Saturday the county lay
men’s league held a protest parade
here, which was participated in by
some 600 people. Sunday night the
local laymen’s league held a rally at
the First Methodist church, with
Rev. R. M. Hauss, executive secre
tary of the allied church league, as
principal speaker.
In a message in this week’s
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Annual Ecusta Picnic
Highlight Fourth Of July
Activities In Transylvania
National Champions To Dance At Sylvan Valley Folk Festival
To Give Exhibition
Stores, Town And County
Offices, Bank And Post
Office Will Be Closed
COAST-TO-COAST
BROADCASTS BEGIN
HERB PARSONS, sizzzling-
triggered Western • Winchester
exhibition shooter, will give an
exhibition at Camp Harry H.
Straus at 1:15 o’clock on the
Fourth of July and the public is
cordially invited to attend. Mf'./
parsons is recogmzed as the fast
est and most entertaining gun
handler in the country.
SILYERSTEEN BUYS
TIMBER RIGHTS ON
FAIRFIELD LAND
Industries Now Cutting On
Some 20,000 Acres Of
Virgin Woodlands
First In A Series Of Concerts
From Music Camp To Be
Heard Saturday Morning
The first in the series of 18 coast-
to-coast broadcasts from the Tran
sylvania Music camp will be heard
on Saturday morning at 11 o’clock
until 11:25 over WPNF through
the full facilities of the Mutual
Broadcasting system.
During the next few weeks, all
four of the networks. Mutual, NBC,
CBS and ABC, will carry edast-to-
coast broadcasts from the music
camp here, and several festival
broadcasts will also be heard in Au
gust and early September.
Mutual will carry a total of nine
concerts from the camp and festi
val, while the American Broad-
epting company has scheduled
five broadcasts during July and
August.
The schedule with the National
Broadcasting company, with which
WPNF will become affiliated on
July 6th, is being worked out. Ten-
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All timber rights on the 6,200
acres of the beautiful Fairfield Inn
property have been purchased by
Silversteen Industries, President
Joseph S. Silversteen announces to
day.
Once a part of the old Jennings
property, the land is said to contain
some of the finest virgin timber
in the Western Carolinas. The tim
ber includes poplar, white pine,
hemlock, oak and other varieties.
Purchasing of timber rights was
handled by attorney Ralph Ramsey
from Tatem Property, Inc. Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph L. Stevens and her
daughter, Mrs. Henry Roberts, own
the property, and they plan to op
erate Fairfield Inn this summer.
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Highlighting the Fourth of July
observance in Transylvania county
on Saturday will be the annual
Ecusta picnic at beautiful Camp
Harry H. Straus, which is expect
ed to be attended by thousands of
people.
All stores, town and county of
fices, the bank and the post office
will be closed on Saturday, and
persons are reminded to do their
week end shopping on Thursday
and Friday.
There will be no rural or city
delivery of mail on Saturday. How
ever, the general delivery and par
cel post window at the post office
will be open from 11 to 12 o’clock.
The big .Ecusta picnic will begin
at 9:30 o’clock, and the highlight
attraction will be the shooting ex
hibition by Herb Parsons, begin
ning at 1:15 o’clock. The public is
cordially invited tc see Mr. Par
sons, reputed the country’s fastest,
most,entertaining gun handler,
At 4:00 .o’clock there will be an
Industrial league game at Camp
StraiTs. bekye^ Ecusta and the
league-leSding ^erke^ey team.
Inns, rooming houses, hotels, mo
tor courts and guest homes are ex
pected to be filled in Transylvania
over the week end, as thousands
of people from down in the IotV-
lands come to the mountains to es
cape the extreme heat. The Pisgah
National Forest will also be a most
popular place during the entire
week end.
Climaxing the Fourth of July on
Saturday will be the final night’
entertainment of the big Sylvan
Valley Folk Festival. This is also
expected to attract a very large
crowd.
OFHCERS NAB
TWO CONVICTS
One Of The Three Still At
Large. Believe Woman
Aided In Escape
The capture of two of the three
convicts who escaped in Transyl
vania during the past few days is
reported by local officers.
Walter Blue, who made his get
away with another convict last
Wednesday in the Forest Hills sec
tion just off the Rosman highway,
was nabbed Tuesday morning in
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, July 2 — WMS meets
at First Baptist church, 3:30 p. m.
Sylvan Valley Folk Festival begins
7:30 on high school field. Lions
club meets at 7 o’clock at Gaither’s.
Friday, July 3 — Kiwanis club
meets at 7 p. m. at Gaither’s. Sec
ond night of Sylvan Valley Folk
^’estival, 7:30 p. m. Concert at
Transylvania Music camp, 8:15 p. m.
Saturday, July 4 — Independence
I^ay. All stores closed. Big picnic
at Camp Harry H. Straus. Special
band concert at Transylvania Mu
sic camp, 5:30 p. m. Concluding
flight of Folk Festival, 7:30, high
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SAMPLE BALLOT
SPECIAL ELECTION
TOWN OF BREVARD
NORTH CAROLINA
July 7, 1953
INSTRUCTIONS
1. To vote “For the legal sale of beer,” make
a cross mark (X) in the square to the left of
that question.
2. To vote “Against the legal sale of beer,”
make a cross mark (X) in the square to the
left of that question.
3. If you tear or deface or wrongfully mark
this ballot, return it and get another.
□ FOR
□ AGAINST
THE LEGAL
SALE OF
THE LEGAL
SALE OF
BEER
BEER
Mrs. Opal C. King
Town Clerk, Ex Officio, Secretary of Board of Elections.
THE ECHO INN SQUARE DANCE TEAM, national champions, will be featured in exhibition at
the Sylvan Valley Folk Festival, which opens here on the Brevard high school athletic field on Thurs
day night. Thousands of persons are expected to attend the big three-night event, held under the spon
sorship of the Brevard Jaycees. The Echo Inn square dance team is composed largely of Brevard boys
and girls, and has performed in the larger cities of Eastern America.
WPNF To Observe 3rd Birthday, Joins
NBC Monday, Salute Programs Slated
Property Valuation In County
Up Vo, Set At $20,523,177
Festival Chorus To
Begin Rehearsals
Here Monday Night
The local members of the chorus
for the Brevard Music Festival will
begin rehearsals for the two festi
val performances of the Beethoven
Ninth Symphony, Lester McCoy,
festival chorus conductor, has an
nounced.
The first rehearsal will take
place in the Presbyterian church
this Monday at 7:30 p. m.
The Beethoven Ninth symphony
will be the major work on Brevard
Music Festival concerts given Fri
day evening, August 21, and Sun
day afternoon, August 23. James
Christian Pfohl, music director of
the camp and festival, will conduct
the orchestra and chorus.
Soloists for the Beethoven work
will be Eileen Farrell, soprano
Beverly Wolff, contralto; Andrew
McKinley, tenor; and Andrew
White, baritone.
The Brevard Music Festival off
fers a series of eleven concerts,
given at Transylvania Music camp,
August 7-9, 11, 14-16, 18, and 21-23.
Soloists include Joseph Fuchs, vio
lin; Jorge Bolet, piano; Olin
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Freeman Hayes And
Son Purchase Equity
Freeman Hayes and his son, Bil
ly, have purchased the interest of
Frank C. King in the Mitchell Mo
tor Co., the former announced yes
terday. The name of the new con-
will be Hayes Motors, Inc.
Two weeks ago, the Hayeses acquir
ed the interest of Ray Cogdill, of
Sylva, in the motor company, mak
ing them sole owners of the busi
ness. Freeman Hayes said yeeter-;
day that Mr. King would remain
with the company as a salesman.
fuller announcement will be
made next week.
Budget For. The New Year
Now Being Drafted. Open
For Inspection Monday
Property valuation in Tran
sylvania county for the year
1593-’54 showed a gain of ap
proximately seven per cent, it
has been revealed here.
Lewis Osborne, tax supervis
or, announces that estimated tax
valuation for the year amounts
to $20,523,177 as compared with
$19,180,763 for the preceding
year, a gain of $1,342,414.
This total is exclusive of polls,
dogs and excess profits tax, Mr.
Osborne said.
Brevard inside showed a gain
from $4,727,582 last year to $4,-
815,000 for the current year, Mr.
Osborne reported.
The budget for the new year
is now being drafted and will be
presented to the commissioners
on Monday. It will be open for a
period of 20 days thereafter, for
public inspection.
Brevard Believed To Be The
Smallest Community To
Be Affiliated
On Monday, July 6th, WPNF,
Brevard’s modern radio station,
will be three years old, and as a
birthday present to its listenei^,
the station will become an affil
iate of the National Broadcasting
company, the world’s oldest net
work, President Ed M. Anderson
announces.
Throughout the day on Sunday,
salute programs will be carried,
and a special birthday program,
with the president presiding, will
be broadcast from 1:00 to 1:30
o’clock.
President Anderson urges
listeners of WPNF to listen to the
salute shows and especially to tune
in the fine NBC programs on Mon
day.
WPNF will be the sixth NBC sta
tion in North Carolina, and it is
believed that Brevard will be the
smallest NBC community in the
nation.
The National Broadcasting com
pany was established in 1926, and
it is the oldest network in the
world. There are some 200 NBC
affiliations, and NBC programs
are recognized as the finest on the
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LARGE CROWDS TO
AHEND PROGRAMS
ON THREE NIGHTS
Jaycees Sponsoring Events..
Beauty Pageant Is.
Also Slated
PRIZES OFFERED
The Brevard Jaycees wil?
stage their second annual
Sylvan Valley Folk Festival
on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights here on the
Brevard high school athletic-
field and thousands of per
sons are expected to attend.
The program gets underway each
evening at 7:30 o’clock, featuring
dancers and entertainers in compe--
tition as well as many exhibitions
by folk artists.
The cream of folk entertainers in
Western North Carolina has en^^
tered the festival, Burder Teaguej.
the general chairman, announces.
The Jaycees have been extreme
ly busy during recent weeks ereet-
ing platforms, benches, etc., and
the Jaycettes have elaborate plans-
for the Miss Brevard pageant^,
which will be held in conjunction,
with the folk festival.
Miss North Carolina Here
Miss Barbara Harris, Miss North
Carolina of 1952-’53, will reign ov-»?.
er the. pageant, and local girls en
tered in the contest are: Minnie:
Sue Brown, Jane Bishop, Barbara.
Talley* 'Vyanda I^^^holson, Madeline
Lanmng, ML iauj'.. Sweat, Mary Jo
McCrary, Shirley .Vilde and Ruby
Fisher.
In addition to many fine prizes;
the winner will receive a $200
scholarship to Brenau college*
Gainesville, Georgia.
• Many dance teams, each a win
ner in some major festival, will’,
perform on all three nights of the^
festival, and the list of teams as;
released by Chairman Teague is- ,
as follows: Ecusta, Bent Creek*
Waynesville Jaycees, Soco Gap,
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Program Highlights
Top NBC Shows Will Be Heard On
WPNF Beginning AAonday, Log Cited
JUDGES NAMED IN
BEAUTY PAGEANT
Method Of Selecting WinneK-
Is Given. Dinner Slated
On Saturday
The selection of judges for the
Miss Brevard Pageant has been
made according to Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Hill, co-chairmen of the judg.
ing committee of the pageant, to
be held on the high school field,
July 2, 3, and 4th.
In the actual judging the fol-
lowing qualifications will be taken
Into consideration: talent, beauty
of face and figure, beauty and:
grace in an evening gown, and in
telligence, poise, personality.
While ballots will be east on the
above qualifications, the judges,
will constantly bear in mind charm,
disposition, general culture, stage
presence, voice and diction.
At a dinner in Gaither’s Rhodo
dendron room on July 4th, each
judge will have the opportunity of
talking personally with all of the
contestants before they appear in
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Rosman Soldier Is
Wounded In Korea
Beginning on Monday, the thitd
birthday of WPNF, the top shows
of the National Broadcasting com
pany will be heard during the day
and evening over the local station.
Each morning listeners of WPNF
can hear such famous programs as
the “Bob Hope Show,” “Welcome
Travelers,” “Strike It Rich” and
others.
Famous “soap operas,” including
‘Life Can Be Beautiful,” “Road of
Life,” “Pepper Young’s Family,”
‘Back Stage Wife” and others, will
be carried over WPNF during the
afternoon.
Some of the popular evening
shows to be heard during the sum
mer months include “NBC Summer
Symphony,” “Tony Martin Show,”
“The Railroad Hour,” “The Voice
of Firestone,” “The Telephone
Hour,” “Stan Kenton Concert,”
“Roy Rogers Show,” Eddie Cantor,
Judy Canova, Dinah Shore and
many other famous stars of radio
and screen.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Civic hour
for the coming week is as follows:
Friday, July 3, Transylvania Music
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Pvt. Addison W. Bruner, Jr., was
wounded in action in Korea on
June 11th, his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Bruner, Sr., of Rosmaa.,
have been advised by Major Gen
eral William E. Begin, of the de-.
partment of defense.
P\i:. Bruner received flesh’
wounds caused by mortar fire by
the enemy and he is now being
treated in a hospital in Japan.
The Rosman soldier entered the
army in October, 1952, and receiv
ed his basic training at Camp Rob
erts, California. He left the States^
for Korea on April 10th this year
and was fighting on the front line
by April 30th.
He attended Rosman high school
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