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Vol. 64, No. 33
SECTION ONE
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1953 16 PAGES TODAY *
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Canton Youth Drowned At Mouth Of Cove Creek On Davidson River
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Opening Of The 1953 Brevard Music
Festival Declared Highly Successful
REPORT PROGRESS Huge Crowds Attending 1953 Music Festival
AT SAVINGS, LOAN
ASSOCIATIONMEET
A 17.year-old Canton high school student, Jimmy York, was drowned Sunday at the mouth of Cove
Creek on Davidson river, pictured above, in the Pisgah National Forest. The lad had been fishing with
his father and brother and became separated from the group. A search was started that afternoon
and the body was spotted Monday morning in the eight-foot pool of water, “X” marks the spot, by
WAYNE WIGGINS, refuge manager of the Pisgah, who is pictured above pointing to the rock ledge
on the other side, where the boy is believed to have slipped into the water. He was a non-swimmer.
Shown with Forester Wiggins is Game Warden Mimms, who was with him when he discovered the
body. (Times Staff Photo)
Brevard Garden Club Planning Big
Flower Show On Thursday And Friday
Jenkins Is New Director. Je
rome Made Executive
Vice President
Reports made at the monthly di
rector’s meeting of the Brevard
Federal Savings and Loan associa
tion indicate that the concern con
tinues to make progress.
Assets of the savings and loan
association were reported to be
{r2,350,000 and general reserves are
now $210,000.
The association has started mak
ing GI loans on longer terms, it
was stated at the meeting. Smaller
loans are,being made at lower
costs, it was also reported.
President Joseph S. Silversteen
presided over the meeting, and Don
Jenkins was elected to the board
of directors.
Jerry Jerome was made execu
tive vice president and treasurer,
and Mrs. Rowena Summey was
elected secretary and assistant
treasurer at the annual stockhold
ers meeting.
Members of the board of direc
tors include President Silversteen,
Vice President A. F. Mitchell, ex
ecutive vice president, Jerome, J.
I. Ayers, R. H. Plummer, W.
Mull, W. D. Gash and Don Jenkins.
Cordial Invitation Extended
To Local Citizens, Visi
tors To Attend
Among the many events in Bre
vard which are expected to attract
lai'ge numbers of visitors this week
end is the annual Brevard Garden
club Flower Show, which is open
inJUe NYA hut Thursday and Fri-
2 to 10 p. m.
Mrs. Lewis Hamlin, show chair
man, and Mrs. W. M. Melton, club
president, join hands in extending
a cordial invitation to guests and
residents alike to enjoy the beau
ty of the flowers.
A number of outstanding dis
plays are expected in addition to
the usual entries. Dahlias by Mrs.
S. R. Harrington, roses by Aston
Heath and a number of commercial
displays will be included.
A small admission will be charg
ed to the flower show and door
prizes will be given. Prizes have
also been donated by local mer
chants to be awarded exhibitors
having the largest number of
points in each division.
The show is open to any exTiibi-
tor, but all displays must be set
up prior to judging at 11 a, ra
Thursday morning.
Competitive entries must have
been grown by the exhibitor^ al
though this is not a requirement
in the arrangement category.
No exhibits may be removed be
fore 10 p. m. Friday evening in or
der to enable everyone attending
the full benefit of the flowers.
Officers of the sponsoring club,
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Canton Youth Drowned While
Fishing In Forest On Sunday
Jimmy York, a ITryear-oid Can
ton high school student,
drowned in Davidson river in the
Pisgah National Forest while fish
ing on Sunday.
His body was discovered at the
mouth of Cove Creek on the Da
vidson river about 6:00 o’clock
Monday morning by Wayne Wig
gins, refuge manager in the Pisgah,
who was searching for the lad with
other officials of the Pisgah.
Young York was fishing with his
father and brother on Sunday aft
ernoon and became separated from
the group. When he failed to re
turn to where the group had start
ed out near the rearing station, a
search was started and it was just
after daylight Monday 'mornin^
when Mr. Wiggins spotted a fishing
basket and tackle at the eight-foot
pool at the mouth of Cove creek
on the Davidson.
Rescue equipment of the Brevard
fire department was used by fire
men, forestry officials and mem
bers of the sheriff’s department in
recovering the body, and a jury,
summoned by acting coroner, Ed
Local Minister Is
Ordained At Meet
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Aug. 13 — Flower
show at NYA hut, 2 to 10 p. m.
7.0^'' at Methodist church,
p. m. Masonic meeting in tem-
ple at 8 p. m.
A-ug. 14 — Flower show
f. hut, 2 to 10 p. m. Bre-
«r(l Music Festival concert at
iransylvania Music camp, 8:15 p
Ji- Square dance at the American
^gion building, 8:30 p. m.
Saturday, Aug. 15 — Brevard
Music Festival concert, 8:15 p. ra.
country club square dance, 9 p. m.
bunday, Aug. 16 — Attend the
^nurch of your choice. Brevard Mu
sic Festival concert. 4 p. m.
Monday, Aug. 17 _ Rotary club
. ^ 5^ Gaither’s Rhododendron
> 7 p. m. Street dance in front
court house, 7:30 p. m.
sin — Brevard Mu-
concert. 8:15 p. m.
Wednesday, Aug. 19 - WOW
“^eets in hall at 8 o'clock.
Rev. R. H. Kindschi, pastor of
the Brevard Wesleyan Methodist
church, was ordained into the min
istry at the annual conference of
this denomination in Colfax last
week.
His ordination was the result of
four years of study for the minis
try. He has been preaching for
about five years and came to Bre
vard two years ago to accept the
pastorate of the local church.
McGaha, attributed death to drown
ing.
Mr. Wiggins reports that young
York is the second person drown
ed in the pool at the mouth of
the Davidson. Some three years
ago a young man lost his life while
fishing there.
York is believed to have fallen
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Toxaway Rail Link
To Be Abandoned
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission at Washington last Friday
authorized the Transylvania Rail
road to abandon its 10-mile branch
line between Rosman and Lake
Toxaway.
The properties are being operat
ed by Southern Railway.
Discontinuance of service was
protested by shipping interests and
the North Carolina Utilities Com
mission. Howeevr, the ICC said
that declining traffic and the losses
suffered by Southern in the opera
tion warranted the abandonment.
Large crowds have attended the first concerts of the eighth
annual Brevard Music Festival, and a small portion of the hundreds
of cars and people at the Transylvania Music camp last Sunday aft
ernoon is pictured above. The festival continues with three con
certs this week end. Luboshutz and Nemenoff, internationally famous
piano team, will be featured with the 85-piece festival symphony or
chestra on Friday night and Sunday afternoon. Saturday night Rob
ert Harrison, concertmaster of the orchestra, and Gordon Epperson,
its principal cellist, will be heard in the fam.ed Double "Concerto for
Violin, Cello and Orcheaira by Brahms. (Pho-o byvi. m)
CAPACin CROWDS
AGAIN EXPECTED,
ROOMS AVAILABLE
Luboshutz And Nemenoff To
Appear With Orchestra
Twice This Week End
REVIEWS^E GIVEN
Dr. Roland Is New President
Of Brevard Country Club, Inc.
Modarelli Stresses Importance Of
^53 Symphony Management Course
New Club President
By STAFF WRITER
‘TVe are telling our people at
tending .the second symphony man
agement course in Brevard that
they must go home and blaze trails
in the same sense that their for-
bearers ' pioneered,” said Antonio
Modarelli, conductor of the Charles
ton, W. Va., symphony.
This man is a crusader in a sense
and has the vision to look ahead
to the day when American cities
and towns will have available cul
ture the same as in Europe.
The grass roots theory is one that
has been exploited in only a few
short years, explains Helen Thomp
son, executive secretary. The Lay
Workers Forum, which has just
concluded at Transylvania Music
camp, is the second annual event
of its type to be held here and the
only available course for the train
ing of community symphony man
agers.
Modarelli pointed to last
year’s fruits. When one man left
the course, he was hired six days
"Swing Your Partner” Will Be Order
Of The Day Over The Week End Here
later by the Wichita Symphony
Similar experiences were cited in
other towns. “He must learn the
basic principles of music in* order
to sell his orchestra to the people
who support it,” according to Con
ductor Modarelli.
Miss Thompson is excited about
the way symphony orchestras are
mushrooming all over the United
States. That was the prime reason
for the need for her organization.
Today there are nearly 1,000 sym
phony orchestras in cities, towns,
colleges, and other small groups
such as those sponsored by libra
ries and cultural agencies. This
compares with 1900, when there
were only nine major symphonies,
“We must give significance and
impetus to this movement,” Miss
Thompson said, “in order that a
national culture can be built.” She
compared the cities and even vil
lages of Europe, where one can
f-ind choral groups, ballets, orches
tral ensembles in every communi
ty. It is there that the young
people learn and the culture is
built.
“Music appreciation must be
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Huffman To Serve As Secre
tary And Loeb New Treas
urer Of Board
Square dancing will be near the
top of the entertainment list for
summer visitors and residents .alike
tl.us week end, as three of them are
scheduled for Friday, Saturday and
Monday nights.
The regular American Legion
square dance will begin at 8:30 in
the Legion building Friday night.
Music will be furnished by Vernon
Rogers and his band from Hender
sonville. They are well known, hav
ing formerly played many
ipents at the Saddle Club.
A square dance will also be held
at the Brevard country club Sat
urday night from 9 to 12. Music
will be furnished by Pender Rector
and his band from Asheville, with
Gayden Corpening, of Tryon, doing
the calling. This dance is open to
members and out-of-town guests.
The Jaycee street dance will be
held in front of the court house
Monday night with music for danc
ing by the famed Drifters band.
Y oung Fathers
Sh ould Register
With Draft Board
All young men who are quali
fied to be placed in the new
draft classification, 3-A, are re
minded that August 25 is the
deadline for producing proof of
parenthood.
This new classification is for
young fathers and all who have
not notified the board that they
are parents should do so imme
diately.
DR. E. O. ROLAND, popular
Brevard optometrist, was elected
president of Brevard Country
Club, Inc., at the first meeting
of the newly elected board of di
rectors on Monday night. Dr. Ro
land succeeds William F. Huff
man, who will serve as secre
tary during the coming year
Art Loeb is the new treasurer.
Dr. E, O. Roland, Brevard op
tometrist, was elected president of
Brevard Country Club, Inc., at the
first meeting of the newly elected
board of directors at the club house
Monday night.
Dr. Roland succeeds William F.
Huffman, who was chosen as secre
tary for the new year.
Art Loeb was elected treasurer,
and other directors on the board
are Henry N. Carrier, Mrs. C. L.
Newland, E. F. Tilson and John
Anderson.
Members of the various commit
tees of the club and golf course
will be announced at the next reg
ular meeting of the board next
Monday night.
President Roland named the fol
lowing chairmen: club house, Mr.
Carrier; greens, Mr. Tilson; and
promotion, Mr. Anderson.
The board will meet each week
for the next few months, and every
effort will be made to have the
golf course put in an e»:ellent con
dition, President Roland stated.
He made a plea for wholeheart
ed support on the part of the pub
lic, and announced that the mem
bership of the club was over 200
at the present time.
It’s Festival time in Bre-
vard and hundreds of out-of-
town people were here for
the opening concerts last
week end.
It is conservatively estimated
that more than 3,000 attended
these programs, and capacity audi
ences are expected this week end.
Regardless of the number of
people coming to town, there will
be accommodations for all, Mrs.
John Ford, the executive secre
tary of the Brevard chamber of
commerce states.
She will gladly assist in helping
find rooms, and she reports that
she has a long list of accommoda
tions. Her office is located on the
court house lawn, adjacent to the
library.
Friday’s Program
America’s top two-piano teaim,.
Luboshutz and Nemenoff, highlight
this week end’s concerts of the
Brevard Muric Festival Friday eve
ning at 8:15 o’clock and again Sun--
day afterno6n at 4 o’clock.
Completing the week end roster,
Robert Harrison, violinist, and Gor
don Eppr sou, iyllist, v'ill be heard
Saturday^veniiig at 8:la 0 clock.
Pierre Luboshutz and Genia
Nemenoff, who is Mrs. Luboshutz
in private life, have distinguished
themselves both in the perform
ance and rediscovery of two-piano
literature. Returning to Brevard
for the second year, Luboshutz and
Nemenoff climaxed a successful
tour of Europe last spring
command performance in Gxeeee',
for King Paul and Queen Frederica >
with the Athens Symphon:^Qrehesr -
tra.
The widely-acclaimed duo-pia=^-.
nists, whose performance has been
' called by Serge Kouss.evitzky, “per- -
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HONOR COURT IS
SLATED THURSDAY
Many Boys To Be Advanced.
Excellent Wildlife Movie
To Be Shown
Program Highlights
NBC Summer Symphony Is One Of
WPNF’s Most Popular Programs
With Brevard being the “Sum
mer Music Capital of the South,”
and thousands of music lovers
from all parts of Eastern America
here for the Brevard Music Festi
val, WPNF station officials remind
their many listeners that one of the
best programs heard on the local
waves is the NBC Summer sym
phony.
Wilfrid Pelletier, noted Canadian
conductor, will conduct the NBC
symphony this Sunday afternoon,
and the program will be heard
over WPNF from 5 to 6 o’clock on
August 16.
Mr. Pelletier has chosen three
major works for his program on
Sunday. The concert will open
with the Symphony No. 8 by Bee
thoven. This will be followed by
three of the five movements of
Berlioz’ “Symphonic Fantastique.
The movements selected by Pelle
tier for the concert are titled: (a)
A Ball; (b) March to the Scaffold;
and (c) Witches’ Sabbath. The
work of another French composer,
Jacques Ibert, will complete the
concert. It is “Escales” (Ports of
Call), a symphonic poem in three
sections. The ports are Palermo,
Tunis and Valencia.
Other Programs
Thursday, on the Farm and
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The regular August court of
honor for the Transylvania dis
trict of Boy Scouts of America will
be held Thursday night, begin
ning at 7:30 o’clock at the Firsfe
Methodist church.
According to E. B, Garrett, ad-
vancement chairman, a great deaf
of interest is being shown already
for this court. Boys have been-
working on their achievements an#
merit badges this summer in order
to obtain higher rank for the com
ing fall and winter terms.
One troop reports it will have
over 15 advancements and with
other troops working hard, this
court will be a big one. For the first
time, the new troop No. 3 of the
Presbyterian church will be rep-
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Cloggers Again
Win Championship
In Nat’I Contest
The Echo Inn Cloggers, square
dancing team with most of its
teen age members from Brevard,
were again named national cham
pions at the Country Music and
Dance contests last week end ia''
Warrenton, Va.
Mrs. J. B. Houston, manager,,
accompanied the group on the
trip and acted as chaperone.
Boys and girls who danced in
Warrenton were Bill Arnette,
caller, Dot Llttrell; BUI Littrell
with Rose Marie Miller, Bob Keid-
with Patsy Reid, Wait Ledbetter
with Suzy Burnette, “Hot Shot”
Leatherwood with Anita Patter
son, Alex Houston with Sylvia
Shook, and George Johnson and’
John Medford, substitutes.