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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. Newspaper W TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah Na tional Forest and Home of Brevard Music Festival. Vol. 65, No. 25 SECTION ONE BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1954 * 20 PAGES TODAY * PUBLISHED WEEKLY bSBs* mmmsmmmm mxzmrsam■ MEMBERS OF THE SYLVAN VAL LEY ARCHERY CLUB, who will be host to the Southeastern Archery tournament here this week end, are shown above practicing for the event to be held at beautiful Camp Harry H. Straus. Regis tration begins Friday afternoon at Bre vard college, and some 100 of the na tion’s top archers are expected here to participate in the tournament. Transylvania County Becomes Archery Capital Of Southeast This Weeh End Registration Begins At Col lege Friday. n Set At Camp Striltli#^' Transylvania becomes the Arch f?ry Capital of the South this week end as 100 of the nation’s top arch ers come here to compete in the Southeastern Archery tournament. Registration begins at 2:00 o’clock Friday afternoon at Bre vard college, where conferences will be held over the week end. Competition in the tournament will be held at beautiful Camp Harry H. Straus, and members of the Sylvan Valley Archery club will be host to the tourney. The largest groups of partici pants are expected to come from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia. A number of entries are also expected from the Indian res ervation at Cherokee. The tournament was held last year at St. Petersburg, Fla. Events are scheduled for men, women, junior boys and girls and senior boys and girls. They include the York, National, Hereford, American and Columbia rounds and »the Wand shoot. O. K. Smathers, Brevard’s de fending target champion, will de fend his crown against a formidable array of sharpshooters. Smathers is a five-time North Carolina cham pion and last year he won the Southern at Houston, Texas, and took second place honors in the National event at Amhurst, Mass. Mrs. Philip Linsley, of Miami, Fla., and Robert Shuford, of Arden, will defend their titles in the wom en’s and junior division. The tournament this year marks the first time an intermediate di vision has been included in the southeastern competition. The tournament ends with pres entation of awards Sunday after noon at 5:00 o’clock. CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, June 24 — Transylva h nia 4-H dress revue at 10 a. m., I* Gaither’s Rhododendron room. Bus iness and Professional Women’s club picnic, Camp Straus, 7 p. m. Banquet for sponsors of Transylva nia Rural Development association, Ecusta plant cafeteria, 7 p. m. Ma sonic meeting in temple at 8:00 o’clock. WSCS meets in parlor oi Methodist church at 8 o’clock. Friday, June 25 — Registration for archery tournament, 2 p. m., Brevard college. Square dance al the American Legion building, 8:30 p. m. Saturday, June 26 — Ecusta vs Enka on Ecusta plant field, 3 p. m —Turn To Pago Six tonal Teachers, Board Seeking Bids Transylvania county has been al lotted four additional teachers for the 1954-55 school year bringing the total for the 13 schools to 127. County School Superintendent J. B. Jones says that the state has al lotted three additional teachers at Brevard elementary school and one for Rosman elementary. There King To Manage Loan Office Here The Pisgah Industrial Loan com pany will open for business in the Ford’s corner location next to the Clemson theatre next Monday morning. Loans will be made from $10.00 up on signature, cars and furni ture. Frank C. King, prominent farm er and well-known Transylvania business man, will be general man ager of the concern. This concern is being established here to enable Tcansylvania county people to obtain loans for personal needs and emergency purposes, i Mr. King said yesterday. will be no additional high school teachers. The total number of teachers at Brevard elementary school, largest in the county, will now be 37. Basis for allotments remains un changed from last year. The formu la is one teacher for each 30 pu pils, based on an average daily at tendance for any consecutive six months out of the first seven —Turn To Page Twelve County-Wide Chest X-Ray Survey To Begin In Transylvania This Friday LAST CALL FOR CONTESTANTS IN BEAUTY PAGEANT Plans Are Being Completed For Annual Sylvan Val ley Folk Festival Applications for the Miss Bre vard pageant to be held in con junction with the Sylvan Valley Fok Festival will close this week end, according to Charles Brewer, chairman, who states the winner will be crowned by Miss Barbara Ann Crockett, the current Miss North Carolina. Miss Crockett will also serve as a judge to select the Brevard beau ty who will compete in next year’s state contest. The young ladies in the contest will appear in evening gowns and bathing suits and each will per form her particular talent during the stupendous folk festival July 2, 3 and 5. Burder Teague, general chair man of the festival, announces that additional dance teams have been secured for the festival. “It promises to be the best folk festi val in this entire area,” the chair —Turn To Page Twelve TWO HOMES BURN OVER WEE END Flames Destroy Lake Sega House Saturday. Roberts Residence Total Loss Two homes in Transylvania were completely destroyed by fire over the week end and losses were esti mated by Fire Chief Dan Merrill at several thousand dollars. The local volunteer fire depart ment was called out about 6:30 o’clock Saturday morning to an swer an alarm at Lake Sega, but when the fire fighters arrived, the nine-room house of Tal Schuman was almost completely ablaze. The living room furniture was saved, but the rest of the furnishings of the home and the building itself —Turn to Page Sir Set Dinner For Sponsors Of Agricultural Contest A dinner for the sponsors of the Transylvania Rural Prog ress program will be held Thurs day night in the Ecusta cafete ria, beginning at 7:00 o’clock. County Agent Julian Glazener will serve as master of ceremo nies, and approximately 50 per sons will attend the event. R. W. Shoffner, assistant direc tor of the State college extension service, Raleigh, will be the prin Spalding McIntosh Graduates From Deep Sea Diving School In Calif. Spalding McIntosh, Jr., of Bre vard, was graduated from the Sparling School of Deep Sea Div nig, Wilmington, Calif., on May 28th. According to E. R. Cross, direc tor, McIntosh qualified to a depth of 200 feet and graduated with a final average of 90 per cent. The course began on February 8th and ended the last of May. Sparling school is noted for be ing one of the best in the entire country to train young men for underwater burning, welding and rigging for salvage and construc tion operations. Prior to going to California to enter diving school, Mr. McIntosh was a projector operator at a local theatre. Mrs. McIntosh was the former Miss Dorothy Osborne. She was sec retary of the Transylvania health department before leaving Brevard and now holds a position with the Libby-Ford Glass company in Cali fornia. SPALDING McINTOSH cipal speaker, and the theme of his talk will be county progress through rural development. Reports from the six communi ties entered in this year’s rural development contest will be made, and these groups and then presidents are: Little River, Otis Merrill; Cedar Mountain, Jones Garren; Dunn’s Rock, Richard Moore; Balsam Grove, T. R. Chas tain; Quebec, Bud Sitton and Lake Toxaway, Harold McNeely. Rev. John T. Neal, pastor of the Little River Baptist church, will give the invocation on the program Thursday night, and —Turn to Page Six Waldrop Killed In Tractor Accident Ray Waldrop, aged about 42, was instantly killed yesterday (Wednesday) about noon in the Hannah Ford section when a tractor he was driving turned over on him. Mr. Waldrop suffered a brok en, neck, a crushed chest and in juries about the head. He was dead when a wrecker called from Brevard lifted the tractor off him. J. E. McGaha, acting coroner, viewed the body at Moore fune ral home here yesterday after noon about 1:30 o’clock and an nounced that no inquest would be held. Neither Mr. McGaha nor Mr. Moore could state definitely why the tractor overturned. Mr. Wal drop was said to have been do ing some work in a field when the fatal mishap occurred. Funeral arrangements are in complete. ED M. ANDERSON, right, publisher of the Transyl vania Times and four other prize-winning Western North Carolina weekly newspapers, is shown above ac cepting the gavel from ALAN C. McINTOSH, of Lu verne, Minnesota, the outgoing president of the Na tional Editorial association. Mr. Anderson was elected president of the thousands of weeklies and non-daily newspapers at the annual convention last Saturday aft ernoon in Baltimore, Maryland. (Times Staff Photo) Ed M. Anderson Is Elected To Presidency Of NEA At Annual Meet In Baltimore ROGER W. BABSON, rated as the most outstanding economic analyst of the nation, gives his business and financial outlook for the second six months of 1954 on pages four and five in the first section of this week’s issue of The Times. Mr. Babson’s score for last year was 84 per cent accurate. sKUJKT - ' «!» - Publisher Of The Times Has Been Active In Nationwide Organization Since 1942 Ed M. Anderson, publisher of the Transylvania Times and four other Western North Carolina weekly newspapers, was elected president of the National Editorial association, national trade associa tion for the thousands of weekly and non-daily newspapers of Amer ica, at the 69th annual convention in Baltimore last Saturday after noon. Mr. Anderson succeeds Alan C. McIntosh, of Luverne, Minnesota. In addition to being publisher of The Times, Mr. Anderson is presi dent of radio stations WPNF, Bre vard, and WBBO, Forest City. He is also vice president of WBRN, Marion, and WIFM, Elkin. Besides The Times, the other weeklies published by Mr. Ander son are: the Forest City Courier, the Spindale Sun, the Skyland Post at West Jefferson and the Alle —Turn To Page Seven WPNF Program Highlights Music Camp Begins Friday Programs, Lake Toxaway Club Will Broadcast Broadcasts concerning the Tran sylvania Music camp, featuring in formation on camp personnel, out standing students, along with va ried musical selections, will be heard each Friday morning at 9:30 o’clock over WPNF on the Civic hour, station officials announce to day. The first broadcast will be held this Friday morning, and Mr. and Mrs Edwin Bergamini will be in charge. ““Next Monday morning the Bre vard Jaycees will be heard on the Civic hour, and next Wednesday the American Legion auxiliary is scheduled. The sixth and concluding pro gram in the Community Hour se ries will be heard on Saturday at 12:30 o’clock, Jack Hammette, sta tion manager, announces today. The Lake Toxaway Community Development club will be in charge of the program and County Agent Julian Glazener will serve as mas ter of ceremonies. Other Programs The schedule for the Farm and Home hour for the coming week is as follows: Thursday, fish rearing in Pisgah National Forest, Earl Bigford; Friday, A. S. C., Marvin Whitmire; Monday, county agent’s office; Tuesday, forestry extension, Fred E. Whitfield; Wednesday, Rosman home economics depart ment, Mrs. S. C. Clapp. —Turn To Page Seven UNIT WILL BE IN ROSNAN TWO DAYS, HERE ON MONDAY Importance Of Project Is Stressed. Open To All 15 Years And Older HOSTESSES NAMED A community-wide chest X-ray survey will be conducted in Tran sylvania from June 25th through July 3rd. This greatly expanded survey is being sponsored by the Transylva nia health department, the county tuberculosis committee and the state health department. On the first two days, June 25th and 26th, the mobile unit will be in Rosman at Hogsed garage from 11 a. m., to 5:00 p. m. All next week the unit will be set up here in Brevard in front of the Waltermire hotel, just off the square. Hours will be from 11:00 to 5:00 o’clock. The goal of the survey will be to have every citizen, 15 years and older, examined. The chest X-rays are free and only a few minutes are required to have them made. Mrs. Leonard Cousins, chairman of the TB committee, makes a plea for all persons, 15 and older, to have an X-ray made. She points out that tuberculoses is the nation's leading communicable disease and it can be conquered if discovered in its early stages. The response from hostesses for the chest X-ray survey has been outstanding, she says, and at press time Wednesday the following vol unteers had agreed to represent various groups: Mrs. Melle Dunlop, Book and Plate club; Mrs. E. H. Corpennig and Mrs. A. K. Massey, Brevard HD —Turn to Page Twelve CANTRELL ENTERS NAVAL ACADEMY Was In Top Honor Group At Brevard This Spring. To Leave On Monday Walter H. Cantrell, Jr., one of the top honor students of the ’54 graduation class at Brevard high school, has passed all mental and physical examinations for admis sion to the United States Naval Academy, Congressman George A. Shuford announces. Young Cantrell reports to the academy on June 28th, and he is the first principal appointment to Annapolis from Transylvania since 1933. L. F. Dixon, vice president of the Ecusta Paper corporation, was the first person in the county to recommend Young Cantrell to Congressman Shuford, and in a let ter to him this week, Mr. Dixon said in part: “This whole community is very proud that Walter has qualified and feels greatly indebted to you for having handled this matter so energetically and efficiently.” Cantrell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cantrell, of the Dunn’s Rock section of Transylvania and the boy’s father is owner of Canter Woodworks. Brevard Stores To Close On July 5th Brevard stores will be closed on Monday, July 5th, in observ ance of the Fourth, which this year falls on Sunday. Offices in the court house and the city hall will not be open for business on Monday, the fifth. The post office will observe holi day hours and there will be no city or rural deliveries. Employ ees of the bank will have the day off. The Ecusta picnic will also be held on Monday, June 5th, at Camp Straus. The program will be made up largely of athletic events of different kinds and there will be a baseball game in the afternoon at 3:30 between Ecusta and Hazelwood.
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