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TRANSYLVANIA— An Industrial, Tourist, Ed ucational, A g r i cultural and Music Center.* Popula tion, 1950 Census, 15,321. Brevard Community 7,394. The Transylvania Times A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. N ewspaper Vol. 65, No. 21 SECTION ONE BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1954 * 24 PAGES TODAY * TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah Na tional Forest and Home of Brevard Music Festival. PUBLISHED WEEKLY Winter Returns To Transylvania County On May 20th Last Thursday morning, May 20th, several sections of Transylvania were hit by the heaviest ice and snowfall of the year. In the top photo, MARY HUFFMAN, takes time out from her duties at WPNF to throw a snowball at The Times staff photographer. PAT and JOAN AUSTIN can be noted in the lower pic inspecting the peonies on the Andy Tipton farm, which were beaten down by the heavy ice and snowfall. The warm rain that followed kept damage at a minimum. (Times Staff Photos) Election Officials Announced. Will Democratic And Republican Judges In Each Precinct Named In List Ballots and supplies to be used in the primary on Saturday will be distributed today and tomorrow, Mrs. Margaret Bridges, clerk of the county board of elections, said yes terday. Persons named by the board to conduct the primary in the various precincts follow. The first name is the registrar, the second two names are the Dem ocratic judges, and the fourth named is the Republican. Boyd — Virginia Wilson Pittillo, Elmer McLean, Horace Lyday and Arnold Brown. Brevard No. 1—W. W. Bridges, Albert Shuford, Mrs. Hugh Holli fiela and Lloyd Burhans. Brevard No. 2—Edna Smith, M. W. Galloway, Mrs. Helen King and Robert Hughes. Brevard No. 3 — Mrs. Blanche Sims, Glenn Burrell, Fred Johnson and Coy Fisher. Brevard No. 4 — Mrs. George Justus, Mrs. Sue Wilson, Charles Russell and Robert Bruce Brown. Cathey’s Creek — Mrs. Allie Waldrop, Howard Whitmire, Oscar Karbin and Ralph Waldrop. Cedar Mountain — Mrs. D. W. Lee, Mrs. Azilee Watson, Mrs. Ar nold Shipman and Emerson Jones. Dunn’s Rock — Mrs. Marvin Gad dy, Virgil Gillespie, Mrs. Glad Whitmire and Earle Parker. Eastatoe — Lawrence Whitmire, Johnnie Jones, Gus Paxton and James Summey. East Fork — Roy Whitmire, Ed —Turn To Page Five CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, May 27 — Business and Professional Women’s club meets, 7 p. m., Gaither’s Rhododen dron room. Masonic meeting in tem ple at 8 o’clock. Friday, May 28 — District Scout committee, 7:30 p. m., Methodist church. Saturday, May 29 — Primary, polls open 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. Poppy Day. Ordination of Rev. Paul L. Ritch, St. Philip’s Episcopal church, 10 a. m. Dance at Brevard country club, 9 p. m. Sunday, May 20 — Attend the church of your choice. Memorial services at Camp Straus 2 p. m and Gillespie cemetery 2:30 p. m. Camp Straus opens for season. Monday, May 31 — Bank, post office, town and county offices —Turn to Page Five Improvements Noted Official Opening Of Camp Straus Is Set For Sunday The official summer opening of Camp Harry H. Straus, Ecusta Pa per corporation recreational area, will be this Sunday, May 30th, fol lowing Memorial services at the monument adjacent to the lake, at 2 p. m. Visitors to Camp Straus will note one of the largest single improve ments since the company acquired the site. A combination canteen and dressing rooms for both men [and women is being completed on the site where the old canteen Spring Dance At Club On Saturday The annual spring dance at the Bievard country club is planned for Saturday night, May 29th, Dr. E. O. Roland, the club president, announces today. A special dinner will be served prior to the dance, and reserva tions may be made by calling 2 1333. Admission will be $1.50 per per son, and the dance and dinner will be open to club members and their invited guests. building stood. It is expected to be ready for use this Sunday. The old building was razed in early April. The new structure is of concrete block divided into three sections. It contains the two dressing rooms plus space for the canteen, office and clerical rooms. Bath house sections are equip ped with showers, lavatories, indi vidual dressing booths, etc. A —T’irn to Page Eight Democrats, Republicans To Vote In Saturday's Primary In Transylvania MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES WILL BEHELDSUNDAY Town, County Offices To Close On Monday. Also Bank, Post Office The program for the annual Me morial Day services at Gillespie cemetery this Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. has been completed and is announced today by Mrs. Frank King, chairman. L. F. Dixon, vice president of the paper division at Ecusta, will be the principal speaker. He will be introduced by Ralph R. Fisher. Rev. B. W. Thomason, pastor of the First Baptist church, will de liver the invocation and special music will be directed by Charles Himes. Memorial wreaths will be pre sented by representatives of a number of veterans and other or ganizations. Mrs. King states that flags will be placed on veterans’ graves throughout the county. She has re quested that if any grave is omitted to notify her. In case of inclement weather the memorial service will be held in the American Legion building. Monday, Memorial Day, will be observed here with the town and county offices closed, as well as —Turn to Page Fir HOSPITAL PARKING LOT IS BEING FIXED McCrary Is In Charge Of Work. Traffic Hazard Being Eliminated Arthur McCrary was low bidder 01. the new parking lot at Transyl vania Community hospital and has been awarded the contract, accord ing to John W. Bailey, administra tor. The new parking area behind the old wing and adjacent to the new addition is 93 by 200 feet and will adequately park 65 cars. “This will cut down on the traf fic hazard which has been created by parking in front of the hospital cn this narrow street.” Mr. Bailev points out. A sidewalk will also be construct (Continued From Page Four) Legionnaires Steal Show In '54 Convention Parade Transylvania legionnaires and auxiliary members, dressed as typ ical mountaineers and marching riotously behind an “A” model truck completely rigged with a “moonshine” still, stole the show last Saturday afternoon in the big parade, which highlighted the an nual American Legion convention in Asheville. Equipped with jugs, muzzle-load ing rifles, the local legionnaires ere Ordination Service Set Saturday Morning For Rev. Paul L. Ritch I The Rev. Paul Livingston Ritch, Jr., who has served St. Philip’s Episcopal church as deacon for the p«st year, will be ordained to the sacred priesthood this Saturday morning, May 29, at 10 o’clock. The ordination will be by the Rt. Rev. Matthew George Henry, D. D., bishop of Western North Carolina. A number of other members of the Episcopal clergy from through out this area will participate in the service. They are Rev. William Scott Root of Black Mountain, Rev. Eric W. Veal of Asheville, Rev. Peter W. Lambert of Penland, Rev. G. Mark Jenkins of Fletcher, Rev. H. Boyd Edwards of Skyland and former rector of St. Philip’s, Rev. James Bryan Griswold of Moores ville and Rev. James M. Hindle of Bat Cave. All friends of the Rev. Ritch are invited to this ordination service. —Turn To Page Five REV. PAUL L. RITCH ated much excitement in the long j parade, which was witnessed by thousands of people. I Probably the most exciting part of the parade was the miniature cannon, that could be heard from one end of Asheville to the other each time it was fired by Bill Baughn. Ed Lass also captured his share of the cheers from the spectators with giant firecrackers and his numerous hillbilly antics. Members of the Monroe Wilson post had rigged up an actual ‘'moonshine” still on the back of the truck, and it was followed by another “T” model carrying and being pushed by auxiliary mem bers, dressed as “mountaineers” with big bonnets and hoop skirts. Rotary Officers To Be Installed At Deerwoode Meet Newly elected officers of the Brevard Rotary club will be in stalled at the annual ladies’ night affair at beautiful Camp Deerwoode next Monday night, beginning at 7 o'clock. . Rev. David F. Cooper is the new president, and he succeeds Dan Hawkins, who will preside over the meeting. Other officers are: Rev. Robert H. Stamey, vice president; A1 Per kins, treasurer; and Carroll Merrill, secretary. The new board of directors will consist of the officers, the past president and Dr. James Sanders and Thomas R. Eller. Local Interest Centers In Two Races mmm I Chief interest in the pHn&^liiciipn on Saturday in Transylva nia county is in the Scott-Lenntfh race for U. S. senate and in the Fisher-Dillingham race for sheriff. While there are seven candidate! for the post of U. S. senator, W. Kerr Scott, top left, former gov^ ernor of North Carolina, and Alton Lennon, top right, the incum bent, are principal contenders. The other race, which is attracting considerable attention here, is for the Democratic nominee for sher iff. Paul Fisher, bottom left, is opposing E. V. “Scott” Dillingham for this post. Favorable Reports Are Made At Meet Of College Trustees Dr. Blackard Is Principal Speaker At Graduation Monday Morning “Come and Let Us Build a New World,” was the theme of the com mencement address delivered Mon day morning by Dr. Embree H. Blackard, pastor of Central Metho dist church, Asheville, to the grad uating class at Brevard college. “In the century ahead, new dis coveries will be made and new frontiers will be crossed,” the Rev. Mi. Blackard said, in pointing out that many important contributions to the world are yet undiscovered. He stressed that the greatest realm for research and progress is in the fields of religion and mor als. “In the past century we have been so busy discovering new ma terial inventions, we don’t know yet how to manage them,” the min ister pointed out. Dr. Blackard said he felt that communistic doctrines could never destroy this country where there are deep religion and integrity. The speaker illustrated with the fact that religion and integrity —Turn To Page Five Budget Is Adopted. School Again Operates In Black. To Build Home Brevard college has enjoyed re markable progress during the past year and the outlook for the ensu ing year is extremely bright, ac cording to reports made at the an nual meeting of the board of trus tees Monday afternoon in the col lege library. Edwin L. Jones, of Charlotte who was re-elected chairman of the board presided over the meet ing, which was attended by a ma jority of the trustees. President Robert L. Stamey re ported that for the third consecu tive year Brevard college has op erated in the “black,” and a bud get of $225,000, which was approx imately that of the past year, was adopted by the board for 1954-’55. The president reported that a successful recruitment program has been carried out, and Brevard col lege expects to have a capacity en rollment of 250 students next fall The trustees approved plans for president’s home to cost approxi —Turn to Page Five WPNF Program Highlights Local And State Election Returns To Be Heard All Evening This Saturday An election party will be featur ed all evening on Saturday over WPNF, and all persons are urged to keep their dials at 1240 for the latest local and state returns in the primary. Highlighting the evening’s broad cast will be the following programs beginning at 6:55, 7:35, 8:20, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 and 11:55 o’clock. According to Jack Hammette, sta tion manager, WPNF, will remote returns direct from the Brevard court house during the evening, and programs will be interrupted to bring listeners of the local sta tion the results as they come in. Through the cooperation of Fire Chief Dan Merrill and the two-wa: radio system of the town and coun ty, local returns will be received and broadcast over WPNF earlier than ever before. Usually, the out lying precints are the last to bo heard from. “In this primary, we hope to hear from them first,” Mr Hammette stated. The Saturday night broadcasts of the primary are being sponsored by Sledge Radio and TV, and Pisgah Builders Supply company, the —Turn to Page Eight MILD INTEREST S BEING SHOWN IN VARIOUS RACES County Led State In Voting With Highest Percentage Two Years Ago SLATE GIVEN Both Transylvania Democrats and Republicans will vote in Saturday’s '• mary, but a light vote is expect ed in the 19 precincts of the coun | tv. The polls will be open from 6:30 m., until 6:30 p. m., and sample unty and state ballots can be ted on the front page of the bird section. According to George Shuford, hairman of the board of elections, . gistration for the May 29th pri ry has been extremely light. In the 1952 election, Transylva ;,a voters led the state, when ’ 50 per cent of the voters of this i ;Hinty participated in the election, urther details on this record vote an be found in a special article >:i page four of the second section rf this week’s Times. The one local Republican race in the primary here on Saturday will bo between R. K. Powell and J. E. McGaha for coroner. Democrats will choose between Paul L. Fisher and E. V. Dillingham for sheriff,, and two out of three candidates running for ^le-Jvoard of education 'viR be The candidates ore: Ipojnfcf N. McCall and Harry F. MftrgIncumbents, and Her \ict Fisher. fii# other race in which Transyl vanians are showing interest is the Seott-Lennon.race for U. S. senate. Also on the state ticket, Transyl vanians will nominate a state treas urer and a commissioner of insur ance. The local candidates are busy this week campaigning and close races are predicted. LEGION AUXILIARY PLANS POPPY DAY Event Will Be Held On May 29th. Girl Scouts Will Assist Plans are now underway for the observance here of Poppy Day, May 2&th, under the sponsorship of the American Legion auxiliary. The ob servance will be directed by Mrs. Elton Lewis, auxiliary poppy chair man. Poppies will be distributed here by volunteer workers of the auxil iary. They plan to begin at 7:30 a. m. and continue the poppy sales until evening. Girl Scouts of Troop 81 will assist the legion auxiliary. They will be treated to a picnic after ward. Mrs. Frances Millner is leader. Mrs. Lewis points out that con tributions received from this me morial flower will go entirely into —Turn To Page Four Scout Committee Plans ^Different Program Friday A “coordinated committee opera tion” will be held at the monthly meeting of the Transylvania district committee of the Daniel Boone council of Boy Scouts of America on Friday night, beginning at 7:30 o’clock, at the Brevard Methodist church. According to district chairman, Charles Dunlop, a different type meeting is planned this month. “Instead of our usual meeting where all our time is spent with each operating committee making reports, it will be more of a plan ning for future meeting with each operating group sitting at a sep arate table. After the various committees have had ample time to make their plans, the meeting is called back to order and each will be given a few minutes to report,’* Mr. Dunlop states. Deputy Regional Executive Roy Lyles, of Atlanta, Ga., is expected to attend the meeting, and Mr. Dunlop urges full attendance by all committee members.
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