TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed
ueational, 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
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer Camps,
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival
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Vol. 66, No. 27
* SECTION ONE ★
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1955 ★ 18 PAGES TODAY A
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AS WPNF OBSERVES ITS FIFTH
BIRTHDAY, the management and staff
pose for a photograph in front of the at
tractive station, located adjacent to the
beautiful campus of Brevard college. As
a birthday present to its listeners, WPNF
will carry more musical programs, disc
jockey shows, newscasts, etc., which will
be in keeping with the modern trend in
radio broadcasting. On the front row, left
to right, are: John I. Anderson, treasurer
and executive director; John Dellinger,
program director and announcer; Bobby
Hoyle, station manager; and Mary Huff
man, receptionist and bookkeeper. Sec
ond row, left to right: Ed M. Anderson,
founder and president; John Eversman,
vice president; Richard Waters, announ
cer; and Baxter Morris, chief engineer
and announcer. (Photo by Austin)
WPNF Now Observing Fifth Birthday,
Musical, Other Shows Added To Log
Record Library Being Ex
panded. More Newscasts
Will Be Heard Daily
Radio Station WPNF is now cele
brating its fifth birthday of broad
casting service to Brevard and
Transylvania county. In keeping
with the modern trend in radio
broadcasting, the station is drop
ping its affiliation with NBC in or
der to carry more and a larger
variety of musical programs, disc
jockey shows, news, sports, local
public service programs and enter
tainment.
“We have enjoyed our affiliation
with NBC, but surveys reveal that
our listeners want more and a wid
er variety of music and disc jockey
shows instead of so many soap op
eras,” President Ed M. Anderson
said.
In the future, the station will also
place even greater emphasis upon
local programs and local public ser
vice features and news.
The station is expanding its mu
lical library and at all times will
have the latest hits in all types of
music. It is likewise expanding its
news coverage and will carry more
frdjbent newscasts.
Tn observance of their fifth an
niversary, officials of the station
extended thanks to listeners and
advertisers.
WPNF has one of the finest and
most modern buildings of any sta
tion in the Carolinas. Its equip
ment is also of the highest quality
—Turn To Page Five
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, July 7 — Lions club
meets at 7 p. m., in Gaither’s. Ma
sonic meeting in temple at 7:30
p. m.
Friday, July 8 — Square dance
in the American Legion building.
Band concert at Transylvania Mu
sic camp, 8:15 p. m.
Saturday, July 9 — Bake sale at
Duke Power Co. 9 a. m.
Sunday, July 10 — Attend the
church of your choice. Concert at
Transylvania Music camp, 4 p. m.
Monday, July 11 — Presbyterian
Men’s club meets at 6:30 p. m. Ro
tary club meets at 7 p. m., in Gai
ther’s. Street dance in front of the
—Turn to Pago Four
Strike Settled
Buses Now Running On Schedule
In And Out Of Brevard Station
Following the settlement of the
Greyhound strike last Wednesday,
busses in and out of Brevard are
now running on schedule and busi
ness is reported good by Walter P.
Hart, manager of the local station.
The strike lasted for 84 days, and
while Greyhound was on strike,
Brevard was served only by Smoky
Mountain Trailways.
The present schedule of arrival
and departure of busses is as fol
lows:
Greyhound: leaving Brevard —
6:15 a. m., bound for Asheville;
6:30 a. m., for Greenville; 11:15
a. m. and 3:15 p. m. These buses
make all North, South, East and
West connections, Mr. Hart states.
Firemen Sponsor
Williams Rides
Williams’ Rides are filling an
engagement here under the aus
pices of the local fire department.
There are five of the rides and they
will be in operation from 6 to 11
p. m. through Saturday. The rides
are located opposite Wood Paxton
Motor Co. on North Broad street.
Arriving in Brevard: 9:25 a. m.;
2:30 p. m., 7:10 p. m., and 8:00
p. m. (from Greenville).
Smoky Mountain Trailway s:
leaving Brevard: 8:30 a. m., and
2:55 p. m.; and arriving in Brevard
12:20 p. m. and 6:20 p. m. from
Asheville.
Property Valuation Up Nearly One
Million In County, Budgets Approved
TOWN WILL SPEND
$175,000 DURING
NEW FISCAL YEAR
City Fathers Earmark $7,500
For Small Dam And Line
On Bracken’s Creek
OTHER ITEMS CITED
The town board of aldermen,
meeting Tuesday night at the city
hall, adopted a new budget for the
fiscal year, beginning July 1st. The
budget, which is carried in summa
ry form in this week’s, issue of the
Transylvania Times, will remain
open for public inspection for 20
days at the city hall, and will be
adopted after that time.
The new budget calls for expen
ditures totaling $175,000.00, of
which $43,000.00 was levied as re
quired by state law for the retire
ment of bonded indebtedness. The
tax rate will remain the same at
$i.45 with $.90 of this going to re
tire bonded indebtedness.
The city clerk, Mrs. Opal King,
reported that for the first time in
recent history the town was com
pletely out of debt other than its
bonded indebtedness and that these
payments are current. Several old
debts to the county and others were
wiped off the slate during the past
year.
The board, realizing Brevards’
growth and the possibility of future
droughts such as was experienced
during 1954, has ear-marked $7,
500.00 for possible use in building
a small dam and running a line
from Bracken’s creek to the town
reservoirs. This would add a third
source of water to the town’s exist
ing connections on Norton and
King’s creek. The new line, if fi
—Turn to Page Four
4-H’ers Off To
Camp Monday
Transylvania boys and girls at
tending the 4-H camp in Haywood
county will leave from the county
agent’s office Monday, July 11, at
1 p. m.
Home Agent Anne Benson Priest
and Assistant County Agent G. H.
Farley will accompany the young
people.
The cost of the camp will be $15,
which includes the transportation.
The group will return to Brevard
after breakfast on Saturday.
Boys and girls who have not al
ready notified the county agent’s
office of their desire to go should
do so immediately.
Red Cross Official Lauds
Work Of Brevard Aides
Terry Cline, Red Cross field
representative, had a chance to
observe from first hand experi
ence the excellent work being
done in Transylvania Community
hospital by local nurse’s aides.
A letter to the chapter chair
man this week praises the nurse’s
aides who attended Mr. Cline
while he was a patient in the hos
pital for three days in June.
The Red Cross official explains
that while attending Aquatic
School at Camp Carolina he was
taken ill and underwent hospital
ization.
Thousands Attend Annual Ecusta
Picnic, Fourth Quietly Observed
More tnan 5,uuo people attend
ed the annual Ecusta picnic, the
highlight attraction of the Fourth
of July observance in Transylvania,
on Monday at beautiful Camp Har
ry H. Straus.
During the morning hours, vari
ous events, including swimming,
bingo, ping pong, etc., were held,
and hundreds and hundreds of boys
and girls were served free pop
corn, lemonade and ice cream.
Families spread picnic lunch at
noontime, and boxing and a base
ball game were included on the list
of events for the afternoon.
Families having sons in the ser
vice, were able to send messages
to their boys via a complete radio
station, AF4ACA, which was op
erated by E. B. Garrett and Tom
Ramsay.
Another popular attraction at the
picnic were the parade of quar
tets and the Bishop family won
first place. The Ecusta quartet
came out second with the Shelton
family winning third.
Other picnics were held through
out the county and thousands of
people visited in the famed Pisgah
—Turn to Paco Five
He stated: “As a Red Cross
field representative, working al
most entirely with volunteers, I
was deeply impressed, as all pa
tients must be who find them
selves a part of our hospital
scene of nurse need that is so
admirably relieved by kind and
generous women such as you
have there in Transylvania coun
ty.”
League Sponsors
Workshop In July
The Brevard League of Women
Voters is sponsoring a workshop
on “Parliamentary Procedure” and
inviting anyone who is interested
to attend.
Mrs. Mary Jenkins will conduct
the workshop in Gaither’s Dogwood
room Monday, Wednesday and
Thursday, July 18, 20 and 21, from
8 until 10 p. m.
Mrs. Jenkins will present the
subject the first evening with
practice sessions to follow on
Wednesday and Thursday.
Board members of the league
feel that officers and members of
other organizations in town will
welcome the opportunity of learn
ing more about parliamentary pro
cedure from Mrs. Jenkins, an ac
cepted authority on the subject.
ROY HEAD, right, the new commander of the Mon
roe Wilson post, No. 88, of the American Legion, is being
congratulated by Nash McKee, of Raleigh, and state de
partment adjutant, at the installation ceremony of new
officers here Monday night. At the left is Weldon Mi
senh^imer, past commander of the post, and the pres
ent commander of the 33rd district, who presided over
the meeting Monday night. (Times Staff Photo)
Head Of American Bandmasters’
Association Will Be The Guest
Conductor At Music Camp Friday
STREET DANCES
TO BE CONTINUED
Town Board Takes Other Ac
tion. Kilpatrick Named As
Successor To Erwin
The Brevard Jaycees have been
granted permission by the town
board to continue their street
dances in front of the high school
each Monday night, beginning at 8
o’clock.
Jaycee president, Bill Norris,
and several Jaycees appeared be
fore the board Tuesday night and
told of their plans for the season.
The dances will be continued for
a period of six weeks to two
months, depending on attendance.
Admission will be 10 cents per
person per dance, and music will
be furnished by The Drifters, with
Earl Powell calling.
Other Board Action
The city fathers accepted the
resignation of C. N. Erwin as street
superintendent, effective July 15th,
and he is being succeeded by John
Kilpatrick.
Board member, George Justus,
was appointed to serve on the Tran
sylvania United Appeal fund, and
a discussion of paving portions of
Monroe, Varsity and Morgan
streets concluded the meeting.
GRACE HOMECOMING
There will be an annual home
coming at Grace Baptist church on
Sunday. The pastor, Rev. J. A. Cox,
will preach at 11 o’clock and there
will be special singing. All singers
are invited. Dinner, which will be
served at 12:30, will be furnished
by the ladies of the church. The
public is invited.
Young Violinist To Be Heard
On Sunday Afternoon’s
Concert
Captain James C. Harper, presi
dent of the American Bandmasters
association, and director of the
prize-winning Lenoir high school
band, will make his first appear
ance as guest conductor of the
Transylvania Music camp concert
band Friday night at 8:15.
The interesting and diverse pro
gram includes numbers by compos
ers ranging from Wagner to Leroy
Anderson, and from Strauss to
iSousa, with a composition to tempt
every musical palate.
A graduate of Davidson college,
Captain Harper received his mas
ter’s degree at the University of
North Carolina, and has done ad
ditional graduate work at Colum
bia university (N. Y.), Duke, and
the National Music camp at In
terlochen, Mich.
He is a member of the American
School Bandmasters association, the
North Carolina Bandmasters asso
ciation, the North Carolina Music
Educators association and the Mu
sic Educators National conference.
Captain Harper was founder of
the Lenoir high school band &nd
has been with it the 31 years since
its inception, the oldest band in
the state to have operated contin
uously for that length of time.
Michael Tree, a 20-year-old violin
ist whose Carnegie Hall concert
last November was termed “the
most brilliant young debut in the
j recent past,” is the featured guest
artist for the Brevard Music Cen
ter concert, Sunday at 4 p. m.
Mr. Tree will play the Mendels
sohn Violin Concerto, op. 64, as so
loist with the Transylvania Music
Camp Symphony orchestra under
the baton of camp director James
Christian Pfohl.
The popular “New World Sym
—Turn to Pag* Five
Transylvanians Are Pleased With
Approval Of Pigeon River Route
Transylvanians were elated with
the announcement of the State
Highway commission that the Pig
eon River route was approved last
Thursday for the interstate system
connecting Tennessee and North
Carolina.
Local observers foresee this
route connecting with U. S. High
way 276 and bringing traffic from
the Great Lakes area to Florida
by way of Brevard.
The decision of the commission
came after members had heard de
tailed reports from Will Rogers,
Jr., chief engineer, and R. Getty
Browning, chief locating engineer.
A conference of the North Caro
lina highway commission with the
Tennessee commission is expected
in the immediate future, and it is
believed that the highway could be
completed within three years.
Back in the early 20s, several
Transylvanians began working to
get federal funds for a highway
down the Pigeon River route, and
it now appears that this “dream”
will become a reality.
COUNTY TAX RATE
WILL REMAIN AT
$1.55 FOR YEAR
Schools To Receive More
Money. Breakdown In
Expenditures Given
SUMMARY CARRIED
Property valuations in Transyl
vania county climbed nearly a mil,
lion dollars during the past 12
months, bringing the total valua
tion to $21,767,069.00, County Ac
countant Lewis Osborne announces
today.
The actual increase is $965,084.00
and valuation for 1954 was $20,
801,985.00, the county accountant
states.
During the past year, O. H. Orr
and P. A. Rahn have been revaluat
ing the property in the county, and
the increase in valuation has been
brought about by the revaluation
and much new building.
The county board of commission
ers approved the budget for the
new year at a meeting Tuesday
morning in the court house. The
budget is now open for public in
spection and will be adopted-after
20 days. The county-wide tax levy
remains unchanged at $1.55.
Projected expenditures by the
county for the year amount to
$630,605.00, as compared with
$535,609.00 for last year, an in
crease of $94,996.
The majority of the increase in
expenditures, or $78,333 went into
the school fund, which is broken
down as follows: school current ex
pense, $100,000; school capital out
ilay, $194,868; and school debt ser
vice. $33,147.
An increase of $8,557 is noted in
the county general fund, and total
expenditures for this division are
$80,719.
Taking up the entire increase
will be funds for a radio for the
sherfif’s car and office in order
that Brevard and Transylvania can
have a joint police radio system;
an appropriation for the town gar
bage dump so that people out iiL
the county may use the city dispos
al; and enough funds to permit re
indexing of deed books in the reg
—Turn to Page Font
NEW SCHEDULE
OF COURTS SET
Recent General Assembly
Made Many Changes. Next
Term October 24th
Many changes were made in die
schedule of courts in the various
counties of North Carolina by the
last General Assembly, and the next
term of court set in Transylvania
will begin on October 24th.
The regular July term has been
cancelled, clerk of court, Marvin
McCall, states and this will be a.
civil term, which will also include
trial of jail cases.
Judge J. Will Pless, of Marion*,
will preside.
The next criminal court in Tran
sylvania is slated to begin on De
cember 5th, with another to follow
just one month later on January
9th, 1956. Judge Pless will preside
over the first, and a judge will be
assigned later for the January
term.
Judge Zeb V. Nettles, of Ashe
ville, will hold the ’56 spring term
of court here, beginning on April
2nd.
Men’s Club Will
Observe Ladies’
Night On Monday
The Presbyterian Men’s club will
have a ladies’ night dinner and
meeting Monday, July 11, begin
ning at 6:30 p. m.
The Rev. Warren Thuston, of
Asheville, will be the principal
speaker.
The meal is being prepared by
the young people of the church,
who have promised a special menu.
Bill Bangs is the July program
chairman, and Walter Straus is in
charge of reservations.
All men and women in the church
are invited to this special meeting,