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1 TRANSYLVANIA IS . .. 1 An Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Agricul- The Transylvania Times TRANSYLVANIA IS . . . The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah National Forest ter. Papulation 15,321. A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper and Home of Brevard Music Festival. Vol. 64, No. 34 if SECTION ONE ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.- * 20 PAGES TODAY ir PUBLISHED WEEKLTP Fire Department Has Unique “House Of Hazards” HOUSE OF WZAROS An unusual method of teaching fire prevention to both.,hUdren and adults is the unique “House of Hazards” recently constructed, furnished and wired under the supervision of Fire Chief Dan Mer rill. A complete view of it above shows the two upstairs bedrooms with bath between, the kitchen at center left, living room at right, and the furnace room and laundry in the basement. A total of 27 fire hazards can be actually demonstrated by the use of wiring which sets off smoke and flames. The fur nishings and other decoration are built according to scale and the house itself is of wood, covered with one-half inch asbestos. (Times Staff Photo) County Schools To Open Aupst 31, Bus Drivers School Slated Wednesday See Increased Enrollment. Funds Allotted For Jani tors In Rural Schools Transylvania’s schools will open on Monday week, August 31, at 8:45 o’clock. According to Supt. J. B. Jones, an increase in enrollment is ex pected, overcrowding all of the larger schools. With this in mind, teachers, pa rents and all other persons in Tran sylvania interested in the schools should give serious consideration to the statewide school building bond issue of $50,000,000, on which voters in North Carolina will bal lot on October 3rd. If the issue passes, the county is expected to receive $250,000. There will be a bus driver’s ex amination school here at Brevard high school on Wednesday morn ing, August 26, at 10 o’clock. Supt. Jones states that all driv ers without certificates are requir ed to attend. This applies to those who have not driven buses before and also to those persons who have been doing contract driving. The annual principals’ and teachers’ meeting will be held on Saturday, August 29, at Brevard high school at 10 o’clock. The superintendent states that all principals of standard schools —Turn To Page Six CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, Aug. 20 — WSCS of icirst Methodist church meets. 3:30 lee cream party at Episcopal eiiurch, 6:30-8:30 p. m. Lions meet Gaither’s Rhododendron room, p. m. Women of the Presbyteri an church meet, 8 p. m. Friday, Aug. 21 — Kiwanis meet Gaither’s, 7 p. m. Concert at ^revard Music Festival. 8:15 p. m. luare dance at American Legion “building, 8:30 p. m. —T^rn to Page Six Transylvania’s Prisoners Of War Are Released In Korea Both of Transylvania’s prisoners of war in Korean fighting have been released by the Communists. Last Wednesday night CpI. David Meece, 20, of Brevard, who was the third Western North Carolina serviceman released from Korean POW camps, was freed and last Fri day Pfc. Fred Lewis Holden, of Rosman, was in the group that walked into Freedom Village in Korea. Both men are reported to be on their way home. Ye Ole Chatterbox Open For Business r. and Mrs. H. A. Bramlett have opened a new restaurant. Ye Ole Chatterbox, on South Broad street opposite the high school building. The place has been thor oughly renovated and new equip ment installed throughout. Hours are from 6:30 a. m. until 11:00 p. m. daily. Young Meece, son of Mrs. Frank Garren, of Brevard, was the first Transylvania county m^ re ported missing in action in the Ko rean fighting. On January 18, 1951, he was re ported as having been missing since December 12, 1950. Meece was with the 31st Infan- —Turn To Page Twelve Large Crowds Expected This Week End For Final Concerts Of 1953 Festival MANY HAZARDS IN HOMES SHOWN IN A UNIQUE MODEL Tim* Chief Dan Merrill To Give Demonstrations To School Children By STAFF WRITER Allhough the Brevard volunteer liremen call it the “House of Haz- aids,” the unique model will very quickly and efficiently show that nn\ residence can be turned into a house of horrors. Conceived and executed mainly by Fire Chief Dan Merrill, the house of hazards is a three-foot model of a home that has been wired in order to show by a dem onstrated lecture 27 different means by which fires can be start ed. “Chief” got the idea sometime back from seeing a similar model in LIFE magazine. He and Walter Cantrell, master woodworker, got their heads together and built the house itself. Mr. Cantrell also can be credited with the small scale wooden furniture. i'he house of hazards has over 250 feet of wiring concealed, and by pulling a switch on any of the outlets, the demonstrator may show the cause of fires. All of the wiring was done by the fire chief, who has had years of experience in such work operating his own ga rage. As one of the firemen put it, “Chief has spent all of his spare time, and much of liis working time the past few months complet- —Turn To Page Six B & PW Club Will Award Deep Freeze At Movie Tuesday The Business and Professional Women’s club will award a nine- foot Frigidaire deep freeze at the Brevard Drive-In theatre Tuesday night, where they are sponsoring the first local showing of the pop ular movie, “Lone Star.” Members are now accepting con tributions which will be applied to their nurse’s scholarship fund. All persons making contributions will be eligible to receive the deep freeze. Clubwomen will be making a concerted effort on Thursday, Fri day and Saturday to secure as nmny donations as possible, and the freezer will be on display in the business district during this time. Tickets to the movie, which the club sponsors both Tuesday and Wednesday nights, are also avail able. The show stars Clark Gable and Ava Gardner and is said to be one of the finest pictures of the year. ^53 Bolton Award Goes To Ecusta^s Maintenance Control Supervisor W. E. Ryon, Jr., maintenance control supervisor of Ecusta Paper corporation, has received the 1953 Bolton award in the southeastern division of North American pulp and paper mills. The award was made by Avie C. Reece of John W. Bolton and Sens, Inc., Lawrence, Mass., for the best manuscript submitted on the sub ject, “The Obligations of a Compa- Duncan MacDougald On Isle Of Capri, Is Writing A Series Of New Articles Duncan MacDougald, Jr., of Bre vard and New York City, is spend ing the summer on the Isle of Capri off the coast of France where he is writing a number of articles. Mr. MacDougald recently had an article in the Saturday Review on Django Reinhardt, the great French-Gypsy guitarist, who died in May. Mr. Reinhardt was an intimate friend of the Brevard writer, who was the first person in the United States to write an article on the famed jazz virtuoso. This article appeared in Metro nome in June, 1938. Recently Mr. MacDougald wrote an article entitled, “Franz Liszt and the Formation of the Musical Structure of the Nineteenth Cen tury,” which was published in the summer issue of Revista Musical Chilena in Santiago, Chile, one of the leading musicological publica tions in the world. The article, which is the first of —Turn to Page Seven ny to its Employees.” The contest, conducted under the auspices of American Pulp and Paper Mill Su perintendents association, is for the purpose, of fostering an ex change of ideas on matters of com mon interest to superintendents of the paper industry. The winning —Turn To Page Seven Power Suspension Sunday Afternoon J. M. Gaines, manager of the Duke Power Co. office here^ has given notice of a power interrup tion Sunday afternoon from 2f00 to 5:00 p. m. in order to effect a change of equipment at the Bre vard distribution substation. Lines affected will be those on the Rosman road, at Rosman and the REA lines south and west of Rosman. Mr. Gaines said that power would be restored earlier if the work could be completed and that if the weather forbade out door work, the electricity would not be cut off Sunday afternoon but at a later date, to be an nounced in the future. Eileen Farrell To Sing At Final ’53 Concerts THREEPROGRAMS TOCUMAX EVENT, CHORUS TO SING Famous Soloists To Have^ Leads In Beethoven’s NintL (Choral) Symphony HIGHLIGirrs GIVEIN EILEEN FARRELL, nationally famous soprano, will appear in the three final concerts of the Brevard Music Festival this week end. The Festival orchestra and community chorus will be directed by James Christian Pfohl in performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Sym phony Friday night and Sunday aftejnoon. Saturday night’s program features Miss Farrell as soloist in operatic arias by Gluck and Wag ner, including the Prelude and Love Death from Tristan and Isolde. The orchestra will play Haydn’s “Surprise” Symphony and The Sor cerer’s Apprentice of Dukas. The performances of the Beethoven Ninth Friday and Sunday will be preceded by two Bach works, the solo cantata “Schlage Doch” and the Prelude and Fugue in D Major. Beverly Wolff, contralto, will be soloist in the cantata. Now Resurfacing Streets In Business Section Of Brevard Gets Service Pin J. B. JONES, superintendent of schools in Transylvania coun ty, was awarded a 25-year ser vice pin at the annual confer ence of county and city super intendents of the state at Mars Hill college last week. Mr. Jones has a total of 34 years of service in the schools, having served as superintendent for 20 years and principal for 14 years. He has been here in the Transylvania school system since 1926. Work Being Done By State. Town Gets Powell Bill Funds Resurfacing of the streets in the business section of Brevard has been started by the state highway department and the work is expect ed to be completed in the next few days, weather permitting. At the present time Broad street, from Gaston to Main, and Main street from Broad to Caldwell are being resurfaced, and when work is completed on these streets, re surfacing will be started on other parts of Main. Plans call for resurfacing of this route from the Greenville highway intersection on East Main, to the Pierce-Moore hotel on West Main. Mayor John A. Ford stated today that he would sincerely appreciate the indulgence on the part of the public while the resurfacing work is being done. “If we have good weather, the work will not take but a few days and our streets will be greatly im proved,” Mr. Ford said. The streets that are being resur faced here by the state are con necting links with primary high ways. Next month Brevard will receive a check for $12,526 for building —Turn to Page Twelve Program Highlights Programs From The "Classics" To Be Heard On Sunday Over WPNF With Sunday being the last day of the 1953 Brevard Music Festi val, listeners of WPNF are urged to hear the special programs from the “classics” to be heard over the local station. At 1:00 o’clock Sunday afternoon, WPNF will present a concert by the Brevard Music Festival sym phony orchestra. Special inter views will also be included on the program. Late Sunday afternoon the NBC summer symphony will be heard over WPNF with Wilfrid Pelletier conducting the American and radio premiere performance of a sym phonic poem “Guernica,” by the 26-year-old Canadian composer Clermont Pepin. John Dellinger, program director of WPNF, announces the begin ning of a new series for teen-agers, “The Adventures of Archie An drews,” each Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. “These delightful programs will please all ages,” Mr. Dellinger com ments. Other Programs Friday on the Civic hour the VFW will be in charge of the pro gram and on Monday, August 24, the Kiwanis club is slated. Wednes day, August 26th, the American Le gion auxiliary is logged. The schedule for the Farm and Home hour for the coming week is as follows: Thursday, extension forestry, F. E. Whitfield; Friday, home demonstration agent, Anne —^Tum To Page Twelve Large crowds of music lovers from all parts of East* ern America are expected here for the final concerts of the 1953 Brevard‘Music Fes tival this week end. is traditional to , end the Fes tival with a great choral work. Mendelssohn’s Elijah, the German Requiem of Brahms, and Verdi’s Requiem are among the works which have been done in past years. James Christian Pfohl, who will conduct the Brevard Festival or chestra with soloists and communi ty chorus Friday and Sunday, is believed to have presented the first complete performance in the South of the great Beethoven’s Ninth. In 1949 the Brevard Music Fes tival saw overflow crowds flock to* the Transylvania Music camp grounds to hear the timeless work. The performances this week end are expected to bring equal num bers to the auditorium to hear Ei leen Farrell, Beverly Wolff, An drew McKinley and Andrew White as soloists with the Festival or chestra and chorus. Lester McCoy, choral director,, has been working with singera frpm Bre\’ard, Asheville, Hender- soiAille and Greenv -S. C., -ana from the Festival staff to shape up what will probably be the larg est chorus to have sung in the mu.- sic camp auditorium. The first orchestra-chorus re- —Turn to Page Six GOP WOMEN ARE PLANNING MEET Vice President Of National Federation Expected Here This Week End Local arrangements are being completed this week for the en tertainment of Mrs. Peter Gibson, vice president of the National Fed eration of Republican Women, who will be featured on the panel at workshop in Asheville Monday. Mrs. Gibson arrives at the Ashe- ville-Hendersonville airport early Sunday afternoon and she will b^ met by an official delegation com posed of Lewis, Hamlin, chairman of the executive Republican com mittee in this county; Mrs. Millard Teague, state president of Repub lican Women’s clubs; Mrs. Kenneth McDarris, vice president of the Transylvania club; Mrs. John B., Murphy, president of the Render-^ sonville club; Charles Cunningham, Republican chairman in HendeiN- son county; Mrs. Henrietta Blodg ett, vice chairman of Henderson- county; Mrs. T. M. Rickman, pres ident of the Haywood club; and other members of the local organ ization. While Mrs. Gibson is in Western North Carolina she will be a gu^t of Mrs. Teague. Other officials ex pected to join Mrs. Gibson Sunday for the Brevard Music Festival: —Turn To Page Twelve Child Must Have Immunizations If He Enters School Transylvania public health of ficials remind parents that no. child will be allowed to enter school August 31st for the first time unless he or she can shoW' proof of immunization against smallpox, whooping cough and diphtheria. Teachers have been instructed to send the child home who fails to present this proof. The public health laws of North Carolina state under sec tion 130-183 the following: “No principal or teacher shall permit a child to enter a public,. —Turn To. Page . Twcjlye ,
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