TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer Camps,
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
The Transylvania Times
A State And National P r i ze-Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed
ucational, Agricultural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1980 Census. 15.32L
Brevard Community 7,391
Vol. No. 8
★ SECTION ONE *
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1955 * 18 PAGES TODAY *
PUBUSHED WEEKLY
THE NEW FIRST BAPTIST church
is beginning to take shape regardless of
the severe wintry weather. As noted in
the photograph above, the steel frame
work is nearing completion, and the brick
foundation has been finished. At the
present time, the brick work is up to the
lower floor, and church officials are
gratified over the progress that is being
made. Jerry Liner, of Waynesville, is the
general contractor, and it is hoped that
the new church will be completed by
summer. (Times Staff Photo)
Advisory Group Makes Three-Point
Recommendation To Education Board
Funds Said On Hand To Do
All Three Projects. Imme
diate Action Urged
A three-point recommendation
has been made by the Transylvania
Education Advisory committee to
Jie board of education.
With some 75 persons attending
the meeting in the court house, the
advisory group unanimously adopt
ed the following recommendation:
(1) Build a modern school house
in upper Transylvania;
(2) Construct four additional
classrooms at the Harry H. Straus
school to take care of the overflow
from Brevard elementary school;
and,
(3) Build two additional class
rooms at Brevard high school.
It was explained at the meeting
that funds, including county and
state bond money, to complete all
three projects were on hand.
It was the consensus of those ad
▼isory committee members attend
ing that immediate action is neces
sary, and it was requested that the
board of education begin one or all
three of the projects at once.
Dr. J. F. Zachary, chairman of
the board of education, presided
over the meeting, and reports were
made by Supt. J. B. Jones and
Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., county attor
ney.
Persons from all sections of the
county, civic and fraternal organi
sations, businesses and industries,
comprise the advisory committee.
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Feb. 24 — Fortnightly
club meets at 3:30 with Mrs. H. W.
Sigmon. Masonic meeting in the
temple at 8 o’clock. Dr. William
Newman concert at Brevard col
lege, 8:15 p. m.
Friday, Feb. 25 — World Day of
Prayer at the Lutheran church, 4
p. m. District Boy Scout commit
tee, Duke Power office, 7:30 p. m.
Sunday, Feb. 27 — Attend the
church of your choice.
Monday, Feb. 28 — Rotary club
meets at Gaither’s at 7 p. m. Good
Neighbor club will meet at 8:00
o’clock with Mrs. Rastus Smith. Mu
sic Lovers’ club meets at Gaither’s
at 8 p. m.
Tuesday, March 1 — WMS Day
of Prayer, First Baptist church, 10
a. m. Lincoln Day dinner, Gaith
er’s, 7 p. m. Dairy school at Bre
vard high school, 7:30 p. m. Eastern
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At The College
Dr. Newman Will Be Heard
In Concert Thursday Evening
The feature of the concert to be
given by Dr. William Newman of
the University of North Carolina
at the Brevard college auditorium
Thursday evening, 8:15 p. m., will
be the famed Rachmaninoff’s Third
Piano concerto.
Mrs. Louise P. Miller, of the col
lege faculty, will play the orches
tra part of the arrangement for two
pianos.
Other numbers on Dr. Newman’s
Begin Dog Clinics
In County Tuesday
A series of clinics for vaccinating
of dogs will be started next Tues
day in Transylvania.
The first clinic will be held at
Merrill’s store in Little River at
2:00 o’clock, and then the schedule
calls for one or more clinics in
every community of Transylvania
prior to April 23.
Dr. Verne C. Hill is conducting
these clinics, with Elam Galloway,
the county rabies inspector.
The laws of North Carolina re
quire that all owners have their
dogs vaccinated annually.
A complete schedule of the clin
ics in Transylvania can be found
on page three, second section, of
this week’s Times.
program will include Beethoven’s
variations on “God Save the King”
and a sonata by Shephard, a con
temporary composer.
Dr. Newman will spend the en
tire day Thursday on the local col
lege campus, conducting a forum
clinic for music teachers in the
morning, 10 to 12:30 p. m. The af
ternoon is reserved for college fac
ulty and student conferences.
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Making Final Plans For
'55 Red Cross Campaign
Final plans are being made for
the annual funds raising drive of
the American Red Cross in Transyl
vania county, Charlie Himes, chap
ter chairman and director of the
campaign, announces today.
The drive will begin on Thurs
day, March 3, and serving with
Chairman Himes in directing activi
ties will be Mrs. Robert Duckworth
and Charles L. Russell, co-chair
men. Alex Kizer, treasurer of the
Red Cross in Transylvania, will also
serve as treasurer of the funds
raising drive.
Mr. Himes said he was pleased
to have Mrs. Duckworth to assist
with work in the town and county,
and to have Mr. Russell carry out
activities at the Ecusta Paper cor
poration.
Mrs. Duckworth, who has worked
with the schools and is well known
in civic circles, is also one of
Transylvania’s outstanding gray la
dies. Mr. Russell is editor of the
house organization at Ecusta and
also community relations director.
Next Thursday, March 3, a lunch
eon for all workers of the Red Cross
in Transylvania, will be held in
Gaither’s Rhododendron room, and
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33 Gallons Of ‘Booze,’
Non-tax Paid Variety,
Seized With Two Cars
Two Transylvania “moonshin
ers” preferred their freedom to
33 gallons of non-tax paid “white
lightning” and two automobiles
Monday afternoon.
The two men were presumably
transferring the moonshine
from one car to another atop
Blue Ridge a few miles above
Rosman when they spotted Tran
sylvania’s Deputy Lewis Gravley
and two federal officers coming
up the road.
They “took to the woods,” and
the officers seized the freshly
run-off spirits and the two au
tomobiles, a ’49 and a ’40 Ford.
All the loot will be confiscated,
Sheriff Scott Dillingham states.
WPNF Program Highlights
Program On Americanism Set Friday,
Talk At Jaycee Banquet On Air At 10
A special program on American
ism will be heard over WPNF on
Friday morning at 9:30 o’clock.
This special show was produced
by the members of the seventh
grade of Brevard, under the direc
tion of the teacher, Mrs. Neil Mc
Glamery.
Jack Hammette, station manager,
urges all listeners to hear this spe
cial program, on which many Tran
sylvania school children will be
heard.
The Brevard Jaycees held their
annual banquet Wednesday night,
and Ed M. Anderson, president oi
WPNF and publisher of the Tran
sylvania Times, was the principal
speaker. Mr. Anderson’s talk was
recorded and played back over the
air at 10 o’clock Wednesday night.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm and
Home hour for ^he coming week is
as follows: Thursday, extension for
estry, Fred E. Whitfield; Friday,
ASC, Marvin Whitmire; Monday,
county agent’s office; Tuesday,
Rosman vo-ag department, B. E.
Keisler; Wednesday, Rosman home
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Strikers Picket At Local Tannery;
Plant Operations Reported Normal
REV. KEITH BEAM
NAMED LUTHERAN
MINISTER HERE
Succeeds Rev. David Cooper.
Assumes Duties On Sun
day, March 6th
Rev. Keith Beam, of Gifcsonville,
is the new pastor of the Lutheran
Church of the Good Shepherd here.
The Rev. Mr. Beam succeeds Rev.
David Cooper, who left Brevard on
the first of the year to accept a pas
torate at Austin, Texas.
The new Lutheran minister to
Brevard will assume his duties here
on Sunday, March 6th, and he
plans to move his wife and three
children to Brevard right after the
first of the month.
Members of the Lutheran church
today express much delight over se
curing a man with the qualifica
tions of Mr. Beam as the pastor of
their church here.
A NEW LOCATION
FOR WESTERN AUTO
$150 In Prizes To Be Award
ed On March 5. List Is
Announced
Crawford W. Freeman, owner,
has announced the opening next
Saturday of the Western Auto As
sociate store at a new location on
East Main street next to the Farm
ers Federation. The new store room,
Mr. Freeman said, provides much
additional space and room in the
basement for storage. New fixtures
were installed throughout jthe store.
Tickets are now being issued at
the new location for $150 in prizes
to be awarded on March 5 at 5:00
p. m. These prizes are two Davis
tires, a Truetone radio and a Wiz
ard mixer. In addition, a Western
Flyer bicycle will be awarded to
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Search Suspended
For Missing Plane
After giving Transylvania and
the rest of Western North Carolina
a “95 per cent plus coverage,” the
Civil Air Patrol has temporarily
suspended its search for 18-year-old
Teddy R. Jarnagin, missing pilot
Erom Knoxville, Tennessee.
Last Friday the CAP moved its
headquarters from the Andrews
Murphy airport to the Asheville
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FIRE COMPLETELY DESTROYED the residence of
Rev. Walter McGuire on the Boylston highway about
1:30 o’clock Tuesday morning. No one was at home at
the time of the blaze and the dwelling and all of its
furnishings were destroyed. Brevard firemen, however,
were able to save several outbuildings. (Times Staff
Photo)
Little Theatre Will Present
'The Hasty Heart” Twice Next
Week, American Legion Bldg.
JAYCEES RAISE
OVER $330.00 IN
HEART CAMPAIGN
Two-Hour Solicitation Car
ried Out Sunday. Expect
More Donations
In the first heart fund drive in
Transylvania, Brevard Jaycees rais
ed over $330.00 Sunday afternoon
in a two-hour, door-to-door solici
tation.
They left envelopes at the resi
dences where no one was home
•with the plea that a donation be
mailed to “Heart, Brevard, N. C.”
President Bob T. Gash said he
was well pleased with the response
in the campaign and that nearly
everyone contacted contributed in
the drive.
There was no quota in the cam
paign, and the Jaycee president
hopes the amount received will
swell to over $500.
He expressed deep gratitude to
all Jaycees who assisted in the so
licitation, and he also thanks all
persons who contributed in this
worthy drive.
Farquhar Directing Produc
tion. Cast Includes Eight
Men, One Woman
John Patrick’s moving comedy,
“The Hasty Heart,” will be given
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings,
March 1st and 2nd by the Brevard
Little Theatre in the American Le
gion Memorial building. Curtain
time is 8 p. m.
Admissions to the play are either
by season membership or by single
tickets which will be available at
the door. This is the second produc
tion of the Little Theatre’s fifth
season.
“The Hasty Heart” is set in the
interior of a hut which is being
used as a convalescent ward in a
temporary British army hospital
somewhere in the South Asia com
mand.
Robroy Farquhar is the director,
assisted by Mrs. Charles Norlander.
The cast and the characters they
portray are as follows: Bill Taylor,
orderly; Jim Curwen, Yank; Smith
Conklin, Digger; Bob Stewart,
Kiwi; Ray Winchester, Blossom;
Charles Norlander, Tommy; Caro
lyn Eller, Margaret; Ernest Gil
strap, the colonel; and Bill Sagar,
Lachlen.
Ralph Palmer is serving as pro
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Doings in Legislature
Bill On The Senate Calendar Would
Require Inspection Of Motor Vehicles
RALEIGH — A bill which would
require annual mechanical inspec
tion of motor vehicles has been
placed on the senate calendar. Both
Governor Hodges and the motor ve
hicles department have endorsed
the objectives of the bill. The bill
is far different from the one en
acted in 1947 and repealed two
years later. Under its provisions,
inspection would be by private ga
rages, which would be authorized
to sell stickers at not more than
$1.00 each.
After lengthy debate the senate
passed a bill which would give the
state milk commission power to fix
the minimum retail and wholesale
prices of milk. An amendment to
change the make-up of the milk
commission was rejected.
A group of more than 100 ne
groes representing various organ!
zations appeared before the joint
education committee to voice dis
approval to a bill revising and codi
fying the state’s public school laws.
One of the spokesmen of the group
declared that the purpose of the
bill was “to avoid the execution of
the supreme court’s decision and
to slow down or retard the process
of integration.”
Harold H. Purnell, of Louisa,
Va., a member of Governor Stan
ley’s special commission on public
education expressed alarm at what
he called “the somewhat defeatist
attitude taken by the South toward
abolition of segregation in the pub
lic schools.” He and another mem
ber of the commission came to Ra
leigh to find out what action North
Carolina plans as a result of the
supreme court decision banning
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MAJORITY OF
WORKERS SAID
TO BE ON JOB
Management Says Brands
Of Union Will Not Rec
ognize The NLRB
NO DISTURBANCES
A number of employees of the
Transylvania Tanning company
■went on strike early Wednesday
morning and formed a picket line
in front of the plant.
However, the tanning company is
continuing normal operations.
President Joseph S. Silversteen im
ports, and a majority of employees
are on the job.
There were some 25 persons in
the picket line at noon time on
Wednesday. The strike is said to
have been called by a branch of
the United Mine Workers of Ameri
ca.
Members of the Brevard police
department and the sheriff’s staff
are on the scene but no disturb
ances whatsoever have been report
ed.
The statement of the manage
ment of the Transylvania Tanning
company is as follows:
The latter part of January, the
Transylvania Tanning company re
ceived a letter from Mr. Reid P.
Davis, regional director of United
Construction Workers union, Dis
trict Fifty, of the United Mine
Workers of America, advising the
company that the union claimed to
represent a majority of the employ
ees of the company for collective
bargaining purposes. A conference
was requested for the purpose of
g a contract.
company, in accordance with
* ions of the National La
[ehrtions la*, agreed to the
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PLANNING LINCOLN
DAY DINNER HERE
Brevard Attorney Will Be
Speaker At Event Next
Tuesday Night
Republicans in Transylvania will '
have a Lincoln Day dinner in Gai
ther’s Rhododendron room on Tues
day, March 1st, with Gene Ram
sey, Brevard attorney, as the fea
tured speaker.
This year the Transylvania Young;
Republican dub is sponsoring the
dinner. An entertaining program is.
planned, centering around the
founder of the Republican party*
; Abraham Lincoln, and the youth'
! movement will also be stressed.
Following the program, the
Young Republican club will elect
officers, and President Dick Davis
urges all dub members and pros
pective members to attend this im
portant meeting.
Tickets at $1.50 may be securedT
from the following: A1 Skinner*
Harold McNeely, Lloyd Burhans,
Ralph Waldrop, Gene Ramsey*
Gerald Owen, Dick Davis end mem
bers of the Transylvania Republi
can Women's club.
Harbins Purchase
Colonial Inn Here
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Harbin, of
Paducah, Ky., have purchased the
Colonial Inn property here on East
Main street and expect to operate
the downstairs part as a dining es
tablishment
The property was purchased from
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hatfield, who
returned to Macon, Ga., to make
their home. Mrs. Annie K. Massey,
agent, handled the sale and the
purchase price was not disclosed.
The Hatfields had been operat
ing the inn during the summer
months, but they did not serve
meals. For a while it was leased by
the Elks lodge for a club house.
The large house, located three
blocks from town, was the Breese
ancestral home, and is one of the
finest in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Harbin and son, age
14, and daughter, 16, have already
taken possession of the property.
They expect to do extensive remod
eling and will open the dining
place in early spring.