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--- - --’7 I TRANSYLVANIA— ! The Land of Waterfalls, I Mecca for Summer Camps, ! Entrance to Pisgah Na tional Forest and Home of Brevard Music Festival. Vol. 66, No. 9 ★ SECTION BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1955 * 18 PAGES TODAY * TRANSYLVANIA— An Industrial, Tourist, Ed ucational, A g r i cultural and Music Center. Popula tion, 1950 Census, 15.32L Brevard Community 7,394. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BEAUTIFUL TOXAWAY FALLS, one of Transylvania’s most popular tour ist attractions, is included in the sale of the Edward H.. Jennings Estate to David H. Cosby, of Boca Raton, Fla. Although Toxaway Falls, which is over 3,000 feet 11w u i iul i i iiHiwfwuuvnmr-:v:-w«i high is the best known, there are at least a half dozen other beautiful waterfalls on this 9,292-acre tract. Mr. Cosby plans to develop the property for homesites and the establishment of a summer camp for the training of church choirs. Jennings Estate At Toxaway Sold, To Develop Homesites, Choir Camp _ [ Florida Realtor Plans Imme diate Action. Some 9,292 Acres Are Involved The Edwards H. Jennings estate, consisting of beautiful Toxaway Falls, Horsepasture and resort areas of yesteryears, has been sold to David H. Cosby, of Boca Raton, Fla., for future development. In one of the largest real estate transactions to take place in many years, the sale includes 9,292 acres, some 14 square miles of property. Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., Brevard at torney, is handling the transaction. In addition to the famed Toxa way Falls, there are a number of smaller falls on the property, and is said to be ideally suited for re sort development. Along the Toxa v/ay River are miles of fishing streams. In the immediate future Mr. Cos by, a Florida realtor, plans to clear and develop about 100 acres for the building of homesites. While he does not plan to rebuild the lake, which was destroyed by the 1916 flood, a master long-range develop ment plan is said to include this project. Mr. Cosby expects to begin con struction immediately on buildings to house an inter - denominational choir school that will be under the guidance of the Presbyterian Church, USA, and the Presbyterian Church, US. It will be a non-profit camp un der the direction of Frank L. Pugh, minister of music of the First Pres byterian church of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. M. Pugh is a graduate of the Westminster Choir college at —Turn to Page Four CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, March 3 — Agronomy school at Gaither’s, 9 a. m. Red Cross luncheon, Gaither’s, 12 noon, Methodist and Presbyterian circles meet. "WMU meets at the First Bap tist church, 3:30 p. m. Lions club .meets at Gaither’s, 7 p. m. Episco pal women meet in parish house, 8 p. m. Friday, March 4 — Jaycee sup per at Masonic temple, 5 to 8 p. m. Kiwanis club meets at Gaither’s, 7 p. m. Sunday, March 8 — Attend the —Turn to Page Five Answer The Call Luncheon Thursday Is "Kick-Off" Event In Annual Red Cross Drive The 1955 Red Cross Roll Call in Transylvania will officially get un derway at a “kick-off” luncheon at noon Thursday in Gaither’s Rhodo dendron room. Charles F. Himes, county chair man and director of the ’55 funds raising campaign, urges all volun teer workers and others interested in the Red Cross program to attend the luncheon. Reservations may he made until 11 o’clock Thursday morning by calling the Red Cross Barber Shop Will Move Next Monday John A. Gray, owner, has an nounced the anticipated removal on Monday of next week of his barbe. shop to the location recently vacat ed by the Western Auto Associate store. No service will be offered the public on that day. Mr. Gray announced that he had recently bought out the equity in the shop of his partner, John W. Smith, but that Mf. Smith would continue to work there. Barbers besides Mr. Smith em ployed by Mr. Gray are Ed Owen by and M. E. Head. office here. Joe Varner, of Atlanta, Ga., who is chairman of the Red Cross blood prdgram in the southeastern area, will be the principal speaker at the lunchedn. Formerly, Mr. Varner was the assistant director of the blood program in the eastern area with headquarters in Washington, D. C. Prior to his Red Cross work, he was a physical education direc —Turn to Page Four • Council-Manager Form Of Government Advocated For The Town Of Brevard MEDICAL CENTER PLANS APPROVED ATBALSAM GROVE Dr. E. Game Cannon Gives Details On Project At Meeting Tuesday A medical clinic sufficient to serve the needs of upper Transyl vania county and the services of a full-time physician became more of a reality than a dream Tuesday night as Dr. E. Gaine Cannon, of Pickens, S. C„ unfolded his plans before the Balsam Grove Commu nity Club. Around 200 persons from Balsam Grove and adjoining communities unanimously accepted Dr. Cannon’s proposal and subscribed 2200 man hours of labor to construct the clinic. Dr. Cannon, who owns a summer place at Balsam Grove and has ad ministered part-time to the medical needs of the area, donated the prop erty on which to construct the building, the skilled labor and the cinder blocks. He asked the people to give their unskilled labor and the native rock. The unique idea which Dr. Can non proposed was that each person coming to his temporary office bring with them two rocks, to be placed in a designated area marked by a sign. The doctor said those neglecting to bring the rocks would be charged a higher fee and the money would go into the hospital building fund. Blue prints jjnd legal papers con nected with the hospital are al ready being handled by Dr. Can non. A committee composed of —Turn To Page Four FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR ROAD WORK $400,000 Set Aside For Ad ditional Lane From Bre vard To US 276 Allocation for road building in Transylvania and other counties of North Carolina were made at a meeting of the State Highway com mission on Thursday in Raleigh. At the meeting cost of all road building in the program was $79, 000,000. An allocation of $400,000 for an additional lane from Brevard to US Highway 276, a distance of 2.5 miles, was made for grading, struc tures and paving. $100,00 was also allocated for widening of two bridges and box culvert south of Brevard on US 64. Strike At Local Tannery Is Believed To Be Ended Picket lines at the Transylva nia Tanning company were dis continued Monday afternoon, ap parently ending a six-day strike of some 64 of the company’s 175 employees. There were no disturbances during the strike, and according to Joseph S. Silversteen, presi dent of the company, there were no arguments between manage ment and the men on strike. Representatives of the United Construction Workers union, Di WPNF Program Highlights Jaycees Will Present Special Civic Program Friday, Rotary Plans Series | Highlighting the recent Jaycee j annual banquet were proposals | lhat Brevard adopt a council-mana ger form of government and that j civic and other organizations join forces in organizing a United Ap peal fund, instead of having several campaigns each year. These proposals, along with an account of the big Jaycee banquet for Friday night of this week at the Masonic temple, will (be discussed further over WPNF on Friday morning at 9:30 o’clock on the Civic hour. All persons interested in the welfare and progress of the commu nity are urged to hear this special program. Beginning next Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock a series of programs on the golden anniversary of Rota ry International will be heard. President Robert H. Stamey invites the public to hear these splendid public service programs, which tell the story of the world’s largest and oldest civic organization. John Dellinger, program direc tor of WPNF, says that the radio —Turn to Page Four vision 50, of the United Mine Workers of America, had request ed the local tannery to call an election, saying that they repre sented a majority of the employ ees. Mr. Silversteen informed them that such an election should be conducted by the Na tional Labor Relations board. Without notice and further ne gotiations, a strike of a number of employees was called last Wednesday morning. However, the company has con —Turn to Page Four Auto Store Now In New Location Throngs attended the formal op ening last Saturday of the Western Auto Associate store at its new lo cation next to the Farmers Federa tion on East Main street. Crawford W. Freeman, owner, expressed him self as being highly pleased with the reception given his new and greatly enlarged store by the pub lic. Tickets are now being given away for prizes which will be awarded Saturday at 5:00 p. m. The prizes are: Two Davis tires, True tone radio, a Wizard mixer and a bicycle to some boy or girl under 16 years old. Mr. Freeman is also continuing his “Early Bird” sale with bargains in every department. ROBERT “BUDDY” MELTON, Brevard realtor, is shown at the right receiving the Distinguished Service Award, presented here annually by the Brevard Jaycees, from Tom Posey, of Asheville, who is vice president of district one of North Carolina Jaycees. The" award was made at the annual banquet in Gaither’s Rhododendron room last Wednesday night. Another picture can be found on page one, second section, in this week’s issue of The Times. (Times Staff Photo) —* Melton Receives DSA At Annual Banquet Of Jaycees, Publisher Makes Two Proposals In Speech JAYCEES TO HOLD SUPPER FRIDAY AT MASONIC TEMPLE Proceeds Raised Will Go To Pay Tax Lien On Club For Street Dances The Brevard Jaycees are spon soring a ham supper at the Mason ic temple in Brevard this Friday night, with the aim of obtaining funds to wipe out a federal tax lien that has been assessed against the Jaycees for accrued taxes that date back to the early 40’s. These taxes were on street dances that the Jaycees sponsored for the summer tourist trade and it was not known until recently that the tax was due on this entertainment. The Jaycee treasury was not pre pared to pay several hundred dol lars in back taxes.. An enticing menu to make the purchase of a ticket attractive to any individual has been prepared. Baked ham and potatoes head the list of good foods that can be pur chased for a dollar. Project chairman, John Ford, Jr., has gone all out to make this meal the best of its kind ever to be —Turn to Page Eight Council - Manager Form Of Government Advocated. Likes U. A. Fund Here Robert “Buddy” Melton, Brevard realtor, was named “Young Man of the Year” here at the annual jun ior chamber of commerce banquet in Gaither’s Rhododendron room last Wednesday night. The award was made by Tom Po sey, of Asheville, and vice presi dent of district one of the North Carolina junior chamber of com merce. Mr. Posey explained that Mr. Mel ton had been extremely active in civic and religious life of the com munity, as well as adding to the progress of the town and county through the building program of his agency. Ed M. Anderson, publisher of five weekly newspapers in Western North Carolina, a radio executive and president of the National Edi torial association, was the princi pal speaker at the ladies’ night banquet, which was attended by some 60 persons. Mr. Anderson praised the fine work of the Brevard Jaycees over the past 14 years, and he challeng ed them to carry out two projects that would aid in the progress of the community. He first suggested a city-manager type of government for Brevard, —Turn to Page Five Doings in Legislature House Measure Authorizes Fee Of $1.10 Daily For Fishing License RALEIGH — The house gave its approval to a bill restoring the one-day permit for non-resident fishermen at $1.10 and the five-day permit at $2.60. House Judiciary committee 2 de ferred action on two bills intended to make it, more difficult for per sons, particularly youths, to obtain barbiturates. It was pointed out in testimony before the group that once a prescription for the drugs has been filled, there is at present no limit on the number of times it can be refilled. James F. Bradshaw, assistant di rector of the SBI, told the commit tee that in some ways barbiturates, including “yellow jackets,” are worse than narcotics. The house education committee has turned to a study of the bulky bill which would revise theis school laws in North Carolina. Many sec tions of the bill have been chal lenged and extended discussion is likely before enactment. A public hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 15, at 10:30 a. m. —Turn to Page light MORE EFFICIENT OPERATION SEEN, QUICKER ACTION Voters Must Make Decision Following Circulation Of Petitions In Community IS BIG BUSINESS „ By STAFF WRITER Along with many progressive lo cal citizens, this newspaper is strongly recommending that Bre vard adopt the Council - Manager form of municipal government. According to the experiences of other cities and towns in Western North Carolina and throughout the nation, the Council-Manager system is a far more business-like, more modern and more progressive form of town government than is -the mayor-aldermen form under which Brevard is now operating. Under the present system, it is pointed out that no employee of the town, mayor or aldermen has any final authority and that final action can only be taken at board meetings. Often times when urgent requests are made by residents, it is neces sary for them to wait as long as thirty days to obtain action. Furthermore, under the present' system a great deal of responsibili ty and detailed work is placed on individual members of the board and this frequently works quite sl hardship on the aldermen and may or. In addition to that, the town has full-time employees and three MprVtime employees, but no gen Feral manager to supervise and ad vise them at all times. All of this would be corrected in a Council-Manager form of govern ment. Under this system, the voters would elect five cou Imen at large for a period o' ' \ years. These councilmen, i would elect from their ov grbup a may or and would appoint a town mana ger who would be charged with the —Turn lo Page Foui CORN BANQUET SET MARCH 11TH Lambert Is Top Producer. Dr. Collins Will Make Ad dress At Annual Meet The annual 100-Bushel Corn club banquet will be held on March 11th at 7:00 o’clock in the Brevard ele mentary school lunchroom. During 1954 there were 41 corm growers in Transylvania who had a yield of 100 bushels or more of corn on one acre of land. L. N. Lambert, of the Selica see* tion, is the county’s top producer with a yield of 153.3 bushels on one acre. Mr. Lambert will be awarded, the handsome trophy, which is giv en annually by the Transylvania^ Trust company. Other members of the 100-Bushel Corn clu-b will be awarded certificates, and a number of cash prizes will also be given. Dr. E. R. Collins, who is nr charge of the extension agronomy department of State college, Ra leigh, will be the featured speaker of the evening on March 11th. Tickets to the banquet meeting are now on sale by staff members of the county agent’s office and also the officers of the various commu nity clubs. They are $1.00 each. Fire Season Begins, Federal And State Towers Manned The ’55 fire season in the wood lands and forests of Transylvania and the rest of Western North Carolina has arrived. According to Ranger Ted Seely, the fire towers in the Pisgah Na tional Forest are now being man ned, and the fire season is expect ed to last until the middle of May. Due to the snow and rains, the fire season is opening about two. weeks later this year. Ranger Seely explains that it’s a fire season because people are be ginning to take to the woods again for activities involving fires and farmers burn debris in the field. At the same time, it’s the period —Tom to Pago Eight
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