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TRANSYLVANIA—
An industrial, Tourist, Ed
ucational, Agricultural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1850 Census, 15,321
Brevard Community 7304.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Vol. 66, No. 34
The Transylvania Times
A Stale And National P r i ze-Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
+ SECTION ONE + BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1955
A 20 PAGES TODAY *
TRANSYLVANIA—
The land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer Camps.
Entrance to Pisgah Na
Itional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
THE LARGE “MOONSHINE” STILL,
pictured above, was captured early last
Thursday morning by Rosman’s chief of
police, P. B. Owen, right, and Deputy
Sheriff Lewis Gravley, left, in the Mor
ton Gap section of Transylvania above
Middle Fork. The fire was still burning in
the huge furnace, which can be noted in
the foreground. It was well built out of
cement and stone and had to be dyna
mited. Also note the oil drum above it
with the hose leading into the fire box.
While making their escape just prior to
the arrival of the officers, the “moon
shiners” left their breakfast of coffee,
bread and luncheon meat behind. Along
with the still, some 500 gallons of mash
were destroyed. (Times Staff Photo)
Three Concerts This Week End Climax
Tenth Annual Brevard Nnsic Festival
Huge Crowds Expected At
Events. Audiences Have
Been Enthusiastic
The tenth anniversary Brevard
Music Festival completes one of
the most successful seasons in its
history this week end with a series
of concerts, conducted by James
Christian Pfohl.
The festival this year is said to
be bigger and better than the nine
previous ones, and again this week
end, more than 3,000 music lovers
from all parts of Eastern America
are expected here for the final
three concerts.
Last week end approximately 2,
000 patrons gave enthusiastic ap
plause to the 85-piece festival or
chestra and soloists Richard Cass,
piano, Agnes Davis, soprano, and
Lome Munroe, cello.
Grant Johannesen, international
ly prominent pianist, will be guest
soloist with the festival orchestra
during the first concert of the final
series of the tenth anniversary fes
tival Friday evening at 8:15 at the
Brevard Music Center.
Mr. Johannesen will perform Mo
zart’s “Concerto No. 21 in C for
Piano and Orchestra, K. 467” dur
ing the Friday evening concert at
8:15. He is one of America’s most
talented young pianists, having
done concert work in North and
South America and Europe.
The 85-piece festival orchestra,
under the distinguished baton of
James Christian Pfohl, will play
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
No. 1 meets Methodist church, 7:15
p. m. B & PW club meets, 7 p. m.,
Camp Straus. Masonic meeting in
temple, 8 p. m.
Friday, Aug. 26 — Cub Scout
Pack No. 2 has picnic at Camp
Straus, 6:30 p. m. Brevard Music
Festival, 8:15 p. m.
Saturday, Aug. 27 — Baseball
game at Camp Straus, 2:30 p. m.
Brevard Music Festival, 8:15 p. m.
Sunday, Aug. 28 — Attend the
church of your choice. Baseball
game at Camp Straus, 2:30 p. m.
Brevard Music Festival, 4 p. m.
Union service at First Baptist
church, 8 p. m., Rev. A1 Starnes,
guest preacher.
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Second Series
County School Children Will
Get Salk Vaccine, Sept. 1st
The second round of the Salk
Polio vaccine will be administered
to all children who received it last
spring in a clinic at Transylvania
Community hospital Thursday, Sep
tember 1st.
Dr. C. L. Newland, Transylvania
health officer, who is in charge,
announces that the set-up* for ad
ministering the vaccine will be
identical to the first clinic.
Last spring children in the first
and second grades were brought
from their schools to the hospital
for the vaccine. These same chil
dren will be the ones receiving j
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Club Stockholders
Meet Next Tuesday
The annual stockholders meet
ing of the Brevard country club
will be held next Tuesday night,
August 30th, at the club, beginning
at 8:00 o’clock.
Reports on activities at the club
and golf course will be made, and
new officers and directors will be
elected.
According to President John An
derson, a number of door prizes
will be awarded, and all stockhold
ers are urged to attend.
their second shot in the series of
three. Dr. Newland states that the
first shots have not lost their ef
fect.
Any child moving into the county
who has received his first shot will
also be eligible to receive the sec
ond one on Thursday. However, he
must have a signed statement from
the doctor or health officer stating
he has received the first Salk in
jection.
Dr. Newland says that an an
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Transylvania Schools Open Thursday,
Increase In Enrollment Is Predicted
HUBER IS GIVEN
UGH PROMOTION
IN FOREST WORK
Former Ranger In Pisgah
In Charge Of Co-Operative
Fire Prevention Drives
William W. Huber, former for
est ranger here in the Pisgah Na
tional Forest, currently in charge
of wildlife management in the Pa
cific Northwest region, has been
named director of the Cooperative
Forest Fire Prevention campaign
at Washington headquarters, the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
announces today.
On September 1, Mr. Huber will
move into his new position, vacat
ed when Clint Davis was promoted
to chief of the information and ed
ucation division of the U. S. Forest
Service.
Mr. Huber, a native of Brooklyn,
N. Y., and graduate of the College
of Forestry at Syracuse in 1932,
had his first professional job
thereafter in the Mississippi Na
tional Forests in 1933, subsequent
ly working in Georgia, Tennessee,
and North Carolina, holding rang
er’s jobs in the latter two states
before transferring to I & E work
in Region Seven in 1948. He has
been on his current job in the
northwest since 1950.
In his new job, Mr. Huber will
carry out the policies of the U. S.
Forest Service, the State Foresters’
organization, and the Advertising
Council, co-sponsors of the Smokey
Bear fire prevention campaign.
OLIN DOWNES
PASSES MONDAY
Famed Music Critic Of N. Y.
Times Was Frequent
Visitor Here
Olin Downes, 69, music critic of
the New York Times for the past
31 years, died of a heart attack
Monday.
He previously had been music
critic for the Boston Post for 17
years.
In addition to his work as critic,
he lectured on musical theory, his
tory and appreciation and the op
era. For a time he was commenta
tor for the Sunday afternoon broad
casts of the New York Philharmon
ic-Symphony Society. In 1939 he
was music director of the world’s
fair.
Mr. Downes had made numerous
appearances at Transylvania Music
camp and the Brevard Music Festi
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High School Band Sets
Concert Next Tuesday
The Brevard high school band,
under the direction of John D.
Eversman, will give its first con
cert of the season next Tuesday
morning, August 30th, at 11:45
o’clock in the high school audi
torium.
One of the highlights of the
program will be the performance
of the first movement of the
Schumann concerto for piano by
Miss Nancy Eversman, daughter
of the director.
Program Highlights
Outstanding Religious Programs Are
Heard Each Sunday Over WPNF
Several outstanding religious
pro ams are heard each Sunday
over WPNF, and this schedule is
announced today by Bobby Hoyle,
the station manager.
As a public service, WPNF car
ries a regular worship service from
one of Brevard’s churches for the
sick and the shut-ins and others
who are not able to attend the
church of their choice. These pro
grams are heard at 11:00 o’clock.
From 3:30 until 4:00 o’clock each
Sunday afternoon the Baptist hour
is heard on WPNF, Mr. Hoyle
states, and the Protestant hour is
logged from 5:30 until 6:00 o’clock.
Another outstanding program is
the Ave Maria hour, heard at 8:30
p. m.
Transylvania ministers having
religious programs on Sunday are
as follows: Rev. F. A. Raines, 7:30
8:00 a. m.; Rev. W. R. Cox, 8:00
8:30 a. m.; Rev. N. H. Chapman,
9:15-0:45 a. m.; Rev. Bill Wilson,
4:30^5:00 p. m.
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Miss Eversman will be accom
panied by the band, and other
selections on the program are
Stradella Overture and several
new marches.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the concert next Tues
day morning.
The Brevard high school band,
composed of more than 50 boys
and girls, has just completed
summer band camp, and Mr. Ev
ersman is highly pleased with the
progress that has been made dur
ing the past three months.
Miss Eversman is majoring in
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Appeal Is Made
For Used Clothing
Mrs. Norman Boyer, chairman,
P-TA clothing room, grammar
grades, has addressed the follow
ing message to parents:
“School opens Thursday. While
you are getting your son’s and
daughter’s “back to school” things
ready, won’t you think of another
child and put aside at least one out
grown outfit to send along to school
on opening day? Help us put a
gleam into the eyes of the young
sters whose only “new” clothes
come from the P-TA clothing
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GRANT JOHANNESEN, left, and Louise Nelson
Fiohl, right, will be featured with the Brevard Festival
orchestra during the final week end of the tenth anni
versary festival. Mr. Johannesen, prominent piano vir
tuoso, will perform Mozart’s “Concerto No. 21 for Pia
no and Orchestra” Friday evening at 8:15 and Brahms’
“Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra” Sunday after
noon at four. Mrs. Pfohl, wife of festival orchestra con
ductor, James Christian Pfohl, will play with the 85
piece orchestra in a performance of Ernst Bloch’s “Con
certo Grosso for String Orchestra and Piano Obbligato”
during the Saturday evening concert at 8:15.
Formulating Plans For Rural
Development Contest For ’55
STAMEY REPORTS
ON COLLEGE, TO
ENROLL CAPACITY
President Tells Kiwania*?
That Institution Will Ex
pand Its Facilities
President Robert H. Stamey of
Brevard college told Brevard Ki
wanis club members last Friday
night that capacity enrollment at
the local junior college was over,
and that 20 or more boys would be
housed at Virginia Lodge this year.
President Stamey stated that five
additional faculty members were
being added this year, and that al
together the college outlook for
1955-56 was good.
The college prexy told of plans
for immediate enlargement of the
facilities at Brevard and also plans
for the long-time program of ex
pansion under the money expected
from a projected “loyalty” cam
paign which will be staged for ben
efit of the college this fall.
He said that Brevard was not as
piring to be a senior or four-year
college, but was striving toward a
very efficient, effective junior col
lege program, believing that this
type of institution could best serve
the community and the section.
President Stamey stated that the
college hoped to become more and
more an integral part of the com
munity with stress being laid on
cultural and educational needs. He
pointed out that more than 700 peo
ple had visited the college this year
for various group conferences, one
of which was the recent piano work
shop when 130 music instructors
from many states were here for a
study course.
President Stamey was introduced
by Dean J. J. Stevenson and Julian
Glazener presided over the meet
ing. Guests included were Cliff
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Cash Prizes Will Total $1,
060.00. Nine Communities
Entered This Year
Plans for the ’55 Rural Develop
ment contest in Transylvania were
discussed by representatives of the
various communities at a meeting
last Thursday night in Gaither^,
Rhododendron room, with Couaift
Agent Julian Glazener presidhj^ *
Prizes totaling $1,060.00 in cash
will be awarded in the ’55 contest,
which will be conducted along the
same lines as the one last year.
First prize will be $200, with sec
ond being $100, and third, $50.00.
A total of 16 inducement prizes
of $25 each will be awarded, in ad
dition to $25 to each of the various
otner communities participating in
the contest.
Nine communities have entered
the ’55 contest, and they are as
follows: Balsam Grove, Little River,
Quebec, Middle Fork, Cedar Moun
tain, Dunn’s Rock, Penrose, Pisgah
Forest and Lake Toxaway.
The county agent reports that all
of the officers of the various com
munity clubs are very enthusiastic,
and the Middle Fork community is
already planning a fair on Satur
day, Sept. 3rd.
The awards day program will be
held on November 5th, when the
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Bishop Quartet
Wins Talent Hunt
The Bishop Quartet, of Cedar
Mountain, won the Talent Hunt at
the show here Saturday night fea
turing television stars, Claude Ca
sey and his Sagedusters.
Their prize was an appearance
on the Sagedusters television show
Wednesday night, August 24, over
WFBC-TV.
The cash prize went to Donald
Brown, soloist
The Good Neighbor club, which
sponsored the show, thanked all of
the talent for their contribution to
the evening’s entertainment.
Group Making Plans To Raise Funds
For A New Library Building Here
Plans for a campaign to raise
$20,000 to purchase the building
now occupied by the Cash Whole
sale Grocery and equip it as a libra
ry, or to construct another build
ing for that purpose, were formu
lated at an organizational meeting
of the building fund committee held
Wednesday night of last week in
Gaither’s Rhododendron room.
Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., chairman
presided and 32 other persons were
in attendance.
The committee has obtained an
option until Sept 30 to purchase
the Cash Wholesale Grocery build
ing from the owner, Curtis Kelley,
for $12,000. The balance of the
money which the group hopes to
raise would be spent on renovations
and equipment.
Mr. Kelley said yesterday that in
the event the committee purchases
his building, he expects to obtain
another location in Brevard with
enlarged floor space.
Meetings of subcommittees of the
general committee were held last
week end and the whole group met
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PRINCIPALS AND
TEACHERS MEET,
PLANS OUTLINED
Buildings Are Repaired. New
Additions Will Be Ready
By First Of October
NEW GROUP PRESENTED
School bells will ring at 8:45
rhursday morning in Brevard and
throughout Transylvania county
ind approximately 3,850 boys and
girls are expected to fill the class
rooms of the 13 schools.
An increase of some 100 students
is expected this year, and five ad
ditional teachers have been al
lotted, giving Transylvania a total
of 132.
Schools will be recessed at noon
on Thursday, but a full day of ac
tivities is planned for Friday, when
the cafeterias will be in operation.
A good attendance was present
for the principal and teachers
meeting Wednesday morning in the
Brevard high school auditorium,
when plans for the year were out
lined.
Jones Speaks
Supt. J. B. Jones presided, and
he discussed the social security
program. The principals and teach
ers will have an opportunity to vote
on October 26th on whether or not
school personnel should come un
der the social security program in
addition to the state retirement
plan.
Mr. Jones also discussed monthly
fire drills, reports, etc., and he ex
plained that the state board had
passed a ruling that a child six
years old this fall could enter at
the first of the school term if he
or she was boarn before midnight
ber
Ity Cudd, president of the
Transylvania unit of the North
Carolina Education association,
spoke following Supt. Jones, and
he outlined plans for the year by
hi? organization.
Wednesday afternoon the various
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BREVARD LIONS
PLAN PROJECTS
Work To Begin Soon On
Sale Of Calendars. Movie
Shown After Business
The Brevard Lions club held its
last regular meeting Thursday
night in Gaither’s Rhododendron
room. President Cleaves Johnson,
presided.
Several items of interest in the
1955 program were discussed. One
of these was the forthcoming cal
endar sale, which provides a major
portion of the funds required to
carry on the club’s program. Hall
Smith, calendar sale chairman, an
nounced the appointment of team
captains and the areas in town al
lotted to each.
These are: Bill Woodward, North;
Brevard; Ned Medford, southeast
section; and Clark Grissom, north
east section. Advertising and pub
licity will be handled by members
of the publicity committee, of
which J. D. Jones is chairman.
Bill Woodward, chairman of the
Civic Improvement committee,
made a brief report on the latest
developments in a move to secure
adequate space for a library. He
said there were 8,000 books in the
library and last year withdrawals
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Station Is Opened
By Red Diamond On
Broad, Near College
The new Red Diamond service
station, located on Broad street
near Brevard college, is now open,
with Fulton Chappell as the man*
ager.
The station has been completely/
remodelled, and according to Mr/.
Chappell, is offering highest quali
ty gasoline at saving prices.
Mr. Chappell says that Red Dia*
mond is returning to Brevard withi
much pleasure, and that he is look*
ing forward to serving the motor*
ing needs of the public here.