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Vol. 64, No. 36
SECTION ONE ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 19S3 * 18 PAGES TODAY *
PUBLISHED WEEKL'f
Civil Air Patrol Is Being Formed In Brevard
A dinner meeting for the purpose of organizing a civil air patrol squadron here was held last week
in Gaither’s Rhododendron room, and members of the squadron at Asheville were on hand to assist
vnih the organization. CAPT. JOHN P. HOSIER, commanding officer at Asheville, is shown above being
gieeted by MAYOR JOHN A, FORD, and on the left, are Mr. and Mrs. John McCall, of Brevard. Other
persons in the picture with members of the Asheville squadron are GEORGE WHEELER, JR., behind
Capt. Dosier, and H. E. WOODS, behind the mayor. Major L. L. Conkle, U. S. air force liaison officer for
North Carolina, also attended the dinner meeting, and he authorized the formation of the local squadron,
which is expected to be activated within the next 30 days. (Times Staff Photo)
Civil Air Patrol Squadron Now Being
Formed Here, Authorization Is Given
Now Making Up Organiza
tion. Benefits Described
At Dinner Meeting
Some 40 persons attended a din
ner-meeting in Gaither’s Rhodo
dendron room which was held for
the purpose of organizing a Civil
Air Patrol squadron in Brevard
and Transylvania county.
Officials of the Asheville squad
ron, headed by Capt. John P. Ho
sier, and Major J. L. Conkle, U. S.
Air Force liaison officer in North
Carolina, attended the meeting and
discussed plans for organizing the
local squadron.
Major Conkle authorized the for
mation of the CAP group here, and
interested persons are requested
to contact H. E. Woods, who will
probably serve as communications
officer, or Jack Smathers, who will
be the commander of the squadron.
The visiting CAP officials point
ed out that a squadron in Brevard
could be of much service. They ex
plained that CAP aids in all disas
ters, principally to keep communi
cations open. The Asheville squad
ron has been particularly active in
searching for lost airplanes.
The Brevard squadron is expect
ed to be activated within the next
30 days.
In addition to Mr. Woods and
Mr. Smathers, others active in the
organization of a CAP squadron
here are George Wheeler, Jr., Jack
McCall, Curtis Banther, Glenn Mel
ton, Vernon Long, Calvin Raxter
and Alex Kizer, Jr.
In addition to Commanding Offi
cer Smathers, and communications
officer, Woods, tentative plans call
for the following persons on the
table of organization: chaplain, 1st
Lt. B. W. Thomason; executive of
ficer, 1st Lt. Alex Kizer, Jr.; public
information officer, 1st Lt. John
Anderson; adjutant, George Wheel
er, Jr.; legal officer, 1st Lt. Tom
—Turn To Page Four
Transylvenia POW s Returning,
Celebrations To Be Arranged
Cpl. David Meece, who was the
third Western North Carolina ser
viceman to be released by the Com
munists, has landed in the United
States and is on his way home, his
mother, Mrs. Frank (larren, has
learned.*
He is expected to arrive here on
Thursday.
Mrs. Garren talked with her son
over the telephone and she reports
that he is in good health and good
spirits.
Transylvania’s other prisoner of
war, Pfc. Fred Holden, was also
recently released by the Commu
nists, and he is expected to land
at San Francisco, Calif., on Satur
day.
Cpl. Meece served with the 31st
Infantry, and on January 18, 1951,
he was reported as having been
missing since December 12, 1950.
In July, 1950, he was assigned ov
erseas after taking three .months
training at Fort Knox, Ky.
A native of Brevard, young
Meece attended high school here.
Pfc. Holden is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Isaac Holden, of Rosman.
—Turn to Page Ten
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Sept. 3 — First Bap
tist WMS meets in church at 3:30.
Methodist and Presbyterian wom
en’s circles meet. Lions club meets
at 7 p. m., Gaither Rhododendron
room. Wildlife club meets over the
city hall at 7:30 o’clock. Shriners
and Masons meet in Masonic tem
ple at 8 o’clock.
Friday, Sept. 4 — Kiwanis meets
at 6:45 p. m., at Gaither’s Rhodo
dendron room. Opening football
game, Brevard vs. Black Mountain,
high school field at 8 p. m. Square
dance in the American Legion
building at 8:30 p. m.
Saturday, Sept. 5 — Dinner-
dance at Brevard country club.
Sunday, Sept. 5 — Attend the
church of your choice.
Monday, Sept. 7 — Labor day.
—Turn To Page Ten
Examiner Is Here
Mondays, Tuesdays
The drivers’ license examiner has
changed his Brevard schedule and
will now be'here to give tests in
the court house each Monday and
Tuesday.
Previously, examinations were
given only on Fridays in the city
hall.
State highway patrolmen indi
cated that the two days are being
allotted because of the past neces
sity for so many persons to spend
time waiting.
Plans are now being made for
honoring of Transylvania’s prison
ers of war who will- be returning
home in the near future.
Eb Morrow, commander of the
fifth division of the American Le
gion, has been named chairman of
the Transylvania welcoming com
mittee by Governor William B. Urn-
stead.
Both of Transylvania’s POW’s in
Korean fighting are on their way
home, and appropriate celebrations
are being arranged.
Commander Morrow has named
Charles L. Russell, community rela
tions director of Ecusta Paper cor
poration, and John I. Anderson, ed
itor of the Transylvania Times, co-
chairmen of the committee on ar
rangements.
When Cpl. David Meece, who was
the third WNC serviceman releas
ed in Korea by the Communists,
and Pfc. Fred Lewis Holden arrive
—Turn To Page Ten
Good Enrollmeiit Reported In Schools^
College Planning Snccessful Opening
FRESHMEN WILL
ARRIVE TODAY,
OUTLOOK GOOD
Workshop Is Being Complet
ed By Faculty And
Student Leaders
EXPECT OVER 200
Some fifty Brevard col
lege faculty members and
student leaders are complet
ing a three-day workshop at
Camp Tekoa today in prep
aration for the opening of
the 1953-’54 term.
Freshmen will begin enrolling
here on Thursday, September 3rd
and the remainder of the students
will matriculate on Tuesday, Sep
tember 8th.
President Robert H. Stamey re
ports that over 200 students are
expected to enroll at Brevard col
lege this year, the beginning of
the second century in the field of
Christian education for the local
educational institution.
During Freshman week, the days
will be devoted entirely to the new
students and will be among the
most important of the school year.
A variety of activities will fill
the students’ schedule with work
and fun. In addition to a number
of tests for placement and coun
seling, recfeational programs will
will be set set up so that students
and faculty may play as well as
work together. In this way the
ground work is established for the
friendly atmosphere which per
vades the Brevard college campus,
Mr. Stamey says.
Classes will begin next Wednes
day, following an elaborate orien
tation program.
Baptist Association
Meets This Sunday
There will be an associational-
v;ide meeting of the Transylvania
Baptist Sunday School association
on Sunday at the Mt. Moriah Cher-
ryfield Baptist church, beginning
at 2:30 o’clock.
According to LeRoy Rackley, the
assistant superintendent of the as
sociation, all associational officers,
pastors, general superintendents
and other officers and teachers of
the various Baptist Sunday schools
in Transylvania are urged to attend.
“This will be a very important
meeting and we want to make plans
for the crusade, “A Million More
in Fifty-Four,” Mr. Rackley says.
Little Theatre Opens New Season,
Heads Of Committees Are Chosen
The 1953-’54 season of the Bre
vard Little Theatre, Inc., opened
Sunday evening with a picnic at
tended by some 80 members and
families, who were welcomed to
the affair at Camp Straus by
President G. H. Baldauf.
Mr. Baldauf presided over a
brief business session at which
time he announced the first play
would be given in November.
The date for try-outs and the se
lection of the play by the read
ing committee will be announced
soon, he said.
Mr. Baldauf also announced the
Program Highlights
Music Camp Program On NBC Saturday,
WPNF Will Again Broadcast Grid Games
Although the ’53 season has end
ed at the Transylvania Music camp
outstanding programs recorded
during the season are still being
heard from coast-to-coast, and one
of the best of the year will be
heard on Saturday over WPNF
from the National Broadcasting
company, the world’s oldest net
work.
The time of the broadcast is from
2:30 until 3:00 o’clock on Satur
day, and all listeners of the local
station are urged to hear it.
On the program the Transylvania
Symphony orchestra, James Chris
tian Pfohl, conductor will perform
Bach’s Little Fugue in G minor;
the Sinfonia Piccola by the late
contemporary Finnish composer,
Heikki Soulhati; and the Farandole
from Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suite
Number 2. The Madrigal group
under the direction pf Donald
Plott will song three short works,
“0 Eyes of My Beloved” and “My
Heart Doth Beg You’ll Not Forget,”
—Turn To Page Ten
standing committee heads for the
season. They are as follows, with
the first named chairman and .the
second vice chairman:
Playreading, Charles Jolliff,
Mrs. Harry Dreyer.
Properties, Lucy Clark, Mrs.
L. E. Bagwell, Jr.
Publicity, Frances Walker,
Bill Norris.
Staging, Marcy Newell, Ralph
Palmer.
Stage furnishings, Mrs. Verne
Hill, Mrs. Marcy Newell.
Social, Mrs. Charles Glazener,
Mrs. Baldauf.
Program and tickets, Don Hill,
general chairman, with subcom
mittees, program, Ray Winches-
—Turn To Page Ten
Mail Schedules In
Area Are Improved
Mail schedules from Asheville to
Hendersonville have been rear
ranged to improve mail service be
tween Brevard and Asheville, ac
cording to Postmaster Mark Sum
ner, Sr.
These changes on the Asheville-
Hendersonville star route wei^e ef
fective Tuesday. Now Asheville
and Brevard have two direct con
nections daily.
The star route now leaves Ashe
ville daily except Sunday at 5:15
a. m., arriving at Hendersonville
—Turn To Page Ten
JONES REPORTS
SOME 3,625 ARE
NOW ATTENDING
Brevard Elementary Leads
All Others In Number
Of Students
BREAKDOWN GIVEN
Olin Industries, Inc., and the
Bow Chemical company, through
Ihe cooperation of the county
agent’s office here, are testing
pdyethylene. a light, durable
and gas tight material for a cov
er for gas treatment of tobacco
beds. II. M. MERRILL, tobac
co farmer of the Little River
community, is shown in the top
photo making the bed gas tight,
and in the lower picture he is
putting the gas in the bed. T. II.
JOHNSON, district representa
tive of Olin, is assisting with the
demonstration, which is explain
ed ill full detail by County Agent
Julian Glazener in a i article on
the front page of this Week’s
Times. (Photos by Glazener)
Labor Day To Be Observed
Quietly In Town And County,
Brevard Stores Will Close
Enrollment figures for the
opening of school in Ti'an-
sylvania county indicate that
there will be a slight increase
over last year, according to
Superintendent J. B. Jones.
At the end of the first month
last year there were 3,583 pupils
attending schools in Transylvania.
The total enrollment for opening,
day last Monday was 3,625.
Supt. Jones points out that a
slight increase can also be expect
ed in the next two weeks since a
number of children are always tar
dy about enrolling.
Brevard elementary school
leads with the largest number of
pupils, 1,065, as compared with
1,013 last year.
The smallest enrollment was at-
Balsam Grove, with 32 pupils. This
was a drop from last year and
Supt. Jones explains that a number
of Balsam Grove pupils are now
voluntarily attending Rosman
school.
The total enrollment by schoolSj.
as reported on Monday, follows:
Balsam Grove, 32.
Brevard Elementary, 1,056.
Brevard High, 524!.
Lake Toxaway, 79.
Penrose, 219.
Pisgah Forest, 314.
Quebec, 61.
Rosman Elementary, 584.
Rosman High, 200.
Rosenwal’d, 183.
Selica, 50.
Straus, 285.
Silversteen, 41.
FISHERMEN HAVE
GOOD LUCK THIS
YEAR IN PISGAH
Ranger Says Some 14,000
Cast Their Lines. Aver
age 4 To 5 Per Man
The 1953 fishing season in the
Pisgah National Forest was highly
successful, according to Ranger
Ted Seely.
During the season, which closed
on Monday, some 14,000 fishermen
tried their luck in the tumbling
streams of the Pisgah, and the aver
age catch is expected to be from
four to five fish per man, the
ranger states.
The number of fishermen would
have been greater if the legisla
ture had not abandoned the one-
day fishing permits, it is explain
ed, and the lake at Bent Creek,
which accommodates some 1,000
per year, was closed this past sum
mer.
Norman Davis, of Candler, made
one of the best catches of the year,
Ranger Seely says. His was a 26”
German brown trout, which weigh-
—Turn to Page Five
Many Visitors Are Expected
In Area, Governing Bodies
Meet On Tuesday
SPECIAL EVENTS
PLANNED AT CLUB
The Labor Day week end will be
quietly observed in Brevard and
Transylvania county and present
indications point to a large number
of visitors in the area.
Most of the Brevard stores and
business houses will be closed on
Monday, September 7th, as well
as the town and county offices. The
bank will also close but the post
office will observe holiday hours.
Many picnickers and sightseers
are expected in the Pisgah Na
tional Forest over the week end
and there are a number of private
parties planned here. The Elks will
hold a pre-Labor day celebration
on Friday evening, and on Saturday
night there will be a dinner-dance
at the country club.
The drivers license bureau will
be closed on Monday. The office
will only be open one day next
week, Tuesday. But in the weeks
following the two-day schedule of
Monday and Tuesday will be observ
ed.
The regular first Monday meet
ing of the county commissioners
has been postponed until Tuesday,
September 8th, and the board of
aldermen will meet Tuesday eve
ning instead of Monday night.
Testing Polyethylene As A Cover
For Gas Treatment Of Tobacco Beds
By JULIAN A. GLAZENER
County Agent
Covers to maintain the bromide
gas are an important factor in the
new and successful gas treatment
of tobacco beds for the control
of weeds, grasses, certain diseases
and nematodes. The covers must
be gas tight, light and durable.
The Olin Industries, Inc., and the
Dow Chemical company are coop
erating with the North Carolina
extension service of State college
through the local county agent’s
office in Brevard in testing a very
light and dwrable Olin product
known as polyethylene. The DoW
Chemical company supplied suf
ficient bromide gas known as Dow-
fume MC-2 for the test.
T. H. Johnson, district represen
tative of the sales division of the
Olin Industies, Inc., is closely ob
serving H. Merrill, tobacco
farmer of the Little River commu
nity, in the pictures on the front
of this week’s Times, as he first
tucks the edges of the polyethylene
cover in the trench around the to
bacco bed and then places dirt firm
ly against the edges to form a tight
—Turn to Page Five
Labor Day Dinner Dance
Slated Saturday. Sched
ule Is Announced
Brevard country club members
and guests will have the benefit of
varied entertainment throughout
the month of September, beginning
with a dinner-dance this Saturday
night, according to Bill Atchison^
special events chairman.
The dinner-dance will feature
music by Ty Bowling and his or
chestra, of Greenville, a group
which was favorably received at a
previous club dance.
A special dinner menu will be
served from 6 to 9 p. m., and per
sons who wish to attend the dance-
without the dinner may do so af
ter 9 o’clock.
A ladies’ night party will be
held at the club Tuesday evening.
Women members are invited to
participate in an informal discus
sion centered mainly on what ac
tivities they would like featured on
the club program. A social hour will
also be held.
A family dinner will be held at,
—Turn to Page Ten
Methodists Plan
Homecoming Sun.
Oak Grove Church
The annual homecoming for Oak
Grove Methodist church, the old
est of its denomination in the-
county, is being planned for next
Sunday, September 13th.
All former pastors and friends
have been invited to participate in
the homecoming which begins with
a church service at 11 a. m. Rev.
R. L. Phillips is the pastor.
A picnic lunch will be spread on
the church grounds at noon and
singing will be featured during th&
afternoon.
Persons with relatives buried ixa
the Oak Grove cemetery are re
minded that several of the lots need
attention. If possible, the church,
officials would like for all of thfe-
cemetery lots to be cleaned before
the homecoming date,..