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TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Sommer Camps,
Entrance to Ftsgah Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
Vo. 66, No. 38
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TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed
ucational, A g r i cultural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1090 Ceura, 18£2L
Brevard Communis 7,394.
SECTION ONE
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
24 PAGES TODAY
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
MANY LEGION DIGNITARIES from
throughout the fifth division and the
state attended the “Go-Getters’ Banquet”
here last Saturday night in the Legion
Memorial building. Commanders of posts
in this area are pictured on the front row.
Standing, left to right, are: David Sams,
Monroe Wilson post adjutant; Nash Me
Kee. of Raleigh, and state adjutant; Paul
Robertson, of Chapel Hill, the state com
mander; Mrs. Barbara Clayton, of Oteen, .
state rehabilitation chairman; Sterling
Cline, of Valdese, commander of the fifth
division; and Weldon Misenheimer,
commander of the 33rd district. (Photo <
by Austin) _
Transylvania Community Hospital Has
Lowest Mortality Birth Rate In State
Local Institution Has Record
Of 13.2 Deaths In 1,000
Births. NC Average 38.7
The modern Transylvania Com
munity hospital has the lowest mor
tality rate among births at the local
institution of any of the hospitals in
North Carolina.
The State Board of Health re
ported to administrator, John W.
Bailey, Tuesday that Transylvania
had 13.2 deaths for every 1,000
births, while the state average is
38.7.
This was for the year 1953, and
for the previous year, Transylvania
ranked in sixth place.
The administrator was naturally
quite pleased that the Transylva
nia hospital had the best record of
any of the hospitals in the state
and he said that it was due to the
fine work of the doctors, nurses
and the entire staff of the local in
stitution.
Mr. Bailey said he hoped that all
persons who contributed to the
building of the new Harry H. Straus
wing, which gave Brevard a hos
pital as modern as any in the state,
would feel a sense of pride in the
latest achievement of the institu
tion here.
During 1953, there were 302
births at the Transylvania Commu
nity hospital, with 278 of them be
ing mature births and 24 prema
ture. There were tour deaths, three
premature neonatal deaths and one
mature neonatal death.
Of the more than 140 hospitals in
the state, the one that ranked sec
ond to Transylvania had a record
of 16.6 deaths per 1,000 births.
Hall Is Named On
Committee To Study
Integration In South
Weldon Hall, director of public
relations and admissions at Brevard
college, has been appointed as a
member of the student personnel
committee of the Southern Associa
tion of Junior Colleges for the
school year of 1955-56. Ray Waller,
president of Naverro junior college
Corsicana, Texas, is chairman of
the committee.
This committee has been study
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Sept. 22 — Fortnight
ly club meets with Mrs. J. F. Zach
ary, 3:30 p. m. Mathatasian club
meets with Mrs. Frank Patton, 3:30
p. m. Brevard Methodists have sup
per and special meeting, 6:30 p. m.
B & PW club will meet at Virginia
lodge, 7 p. m. Masons meet at 8|
p. m., in Masonic temple.
Friday, Sept. 23 — Ace of Clubs
meets at Gaither’s, 7:45 p. m.
Saturday, Sept. 24 — Golf tour
nament continues at Brevard coun
try club.
Sunday, Sept 25 — Attend the
church of your choice. Special meet
ing of Presbyterian congregation,
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Insurance Benefits
591 Transylvanians Are Now
Receiving $22,332 Each Month
A total of 591 residents of Tran
sylvania county was receiving $22,
332 a month in Old Age and Survi
vors Insurance benefits at the be
ginning of this year, according to
D. C. Nichols who provides local
service in this area as field repre
sentative for the Asheville district
office of the Social Security admin
istration. These figures represent
a 22 per cent increase in benefi
ciaries and a 51 per cent increase
in total monthly benefits over cor
responding figures for the previ
ous year.
The total amount of benefits be
ing paid to county residents, by
type of benefit was as follows:
246 retired wage earners and
self-employed persons were receiv
ing $12,369 monthly.
68 wives of retired persons were
receiving $1,667 monthly.
190 children under 18 of retired
Duckworth Exhibits
New Ford Friday
The Duckworth Motor company
will display the new Ford here to
morrow (Friday). Interest in the
new Ford has been stimulated by
the use of radio, TV and the daily
papers.
Three door prizes will be award
ed, as follows: An automatic coffee
maker, 2 electric blankets and a
kitchen clock. Awards will be made
on Oct. 1 at 11 o’clock.
The management of Duckworth’s
has also procured from Curtis Kel
ley, owner of the Cash & Carry, a
junior model Thunderbird, which
will also be on exhibition on Fri
day.
or deceased wage earners were re
ceiving $4,936 monthly.
87 other beneficiaries, including
dependent husbands and parents,
widows over 65 and widowed moth
ers of children under 18 were re
ceiving $3,360 monthly.
Most county residents who seek <
information about social security ]
or who wish to file claims do so ;
by contacting Mr. Nichols who is
at the court house in Brevard on
the second and fourth Mondays of ,
each month.
For the benefit of those who may -
plan to visit the Asheville district 1
office, Glenn H. Pittenger, manager ■
of that office, has announced that
his office is now located at 40
North French Broad avenue, al- ]
most directly to the rear of the ’
Asheville post office. The move to
more spacious quarters, according 1
to Pittenger, who has a staff of 14 i
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Canvassers Soliciting Contributions
For New Library, Goal Is $20,000
LOCAL FIREMEN
TO BE HONORED
BY CIVIC GROUPS
Fire Prevention Week Ban
quet Planned. Prizes To Be
Offered In All Schools
Brevard firemen will again be
lcnored during National Fire Pre
vention Week, October 9-15, with
i banquet to be sponsored by the
hree civic clubs, Lions, Kiwanis
ind Rotary.
The Lions club is in charge of
arrangements for the event this
vear, which will be held Thursday
evening, October 13, at 7 p. m., in
he Brevard country club
The theme of the Fire Preven
:ion observance this year is “Every
fire Hurts You.”
The Brevard Volunteer fire de
partment is again offering $300 in
prize money to students writing the
pest essays on fire prevention. This
vear the essay subjects will be con
fined to forest fire prevention.
Ridging will take place by grades
n order that students will compete
vith others in their same age class.
Ted Seely, district ranger of Pis
2ah National Forest, is in charge
>f judging the essays. He asks that
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NEW FOOD STORE
TO OPEN FRIDAY
Kearns Offers $250 In Door
Prizes, Free Drinks, To
morrow, Saturday
The doors of Kearns new food
;tore, located at the corner of
'forth Caldwell and French Broad
streets, will swing open tomorrow
;Friday) morning. The building
vas erected by the Pisgah Build
ers Supply, who also furnished all
>f the materials used. It measures
15 x 80 feet. For the past six years,
Charlie Kearns, the owner, has op
erated a grocery store on the cor
ler diagonally opposite.
For the opening event, Mr.
Yearns is offering door prizes
vorth $250 and has arranged a
lumber of attractive specials,
vhich are listed in a double-page
ipread in the second section of this
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Brevard Lawyers Head
29th Judicial Group
The organizational meeting for
the Bar Association of the 29th Ju
dicial district was held at the Oak
Hall hotel in Tp’on Saturday, Sep
tember 17th, with L. P. Hamlin, of
Brevard, being elected as the first
president.
Other Brevard attorneys were
also elected to offices as follows:
Thomas R. Eller, Jr., of Brevard,
vice president; Jack Potts, secreta
ry; Robert T. Gash, member of the
executive committee; and Ralph H.
Ramsey representing the county on
Huge Crowd Attends Funeral Services
Sunday Afternoon For Ralph R. Fisher
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Final rites for Ralph R. Fisher,
63, prominent Brevard attorney,
politician and civic leader, were
held Sunday afternoon, with sever
al thousand persons paying last re
spects.
Services were held at 4 o’clock
in the First Baptist church, with
graveside rites being conducted at
the Gillespie cemetery by local,
district and state legionnaires.
The body was in state in the
chapel of Osborne - Simpson fune
ral home from 12:30 until 2:00
o’clock Sunday and at the church
from 2:00 o’clock until the hour of
the funeral.
Rev. B. W. Thomason, pastor of
the First Baptist church, and Rev.
Douglas Corriher, Methodist minis
ter, officiated at the church ser
vice.
State legion commander, Paul
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RALPH R. FISHER
the committee for prevention and
prosecution of persons practicing
law without authorization and li
cense.
The 29th district includes the
counties of Rutherford, Polk, Hen
derson, McDowell and Transylva
nia.
Principal speaker at Saturday’s
meeting was Honorable Bernard
Vermont, juvenile judge of Spar
tanburg, S. C. Judge Vermont advo
cated more emphasis on rehabilita
tion of juvenile defenders and a
broader use of the juvenile court
as a means of carrying this into ef
fect.
The association unanimously
adopted a resolution paying tribute
to Ralph R. Fisher, a past presi
dent of the bar association for the
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Fisher Memorial
Fund Established
A Ralph Fisher Memorial Cancer
fund has been started here and
contributions may be sent to the
treasurer, J. Julian Brown, Pisgah
Forest. Checks should be made out
to the Ralph Fisher Memorial Can
cer fund.
Contributions to the fund will be
accepted from now until the end
of October this year, and at that
time it will be turned over to the
Transylvania United Appeal fund
to be added to the cancer phase
of the campaign.
Many of Mr. Fisher’s friends
have expressed the desire to re
member him in this way and will be
pleased to know that such a fund
has been created.
FOR THE THIRD YEAR, Brevard’s own O. K.
Smathers won the Southern Archery crown, shooting
three record breaking rounds at Tulsa, Oklahoma,
against some of the best archers in the country. Mr.
Smathers had a 959 score in the York round, breaking
the old record by 130 points, and his score of 1505 for
the t-wo American rounds is also a record breaker and is
better than the winning tally in the national tournament.
From the Southern tourney in Oklahoma, Mr. Smathers
brought three beautiful trophies back to Brevard. (Times
Staff Photo)
Brevard College Enrollment
Might Reach The 300 Mark,
37 Students In Local Group
METHODISTS WILL
UNVEIL BUILDING
PLANS THURSDAY
Covered Dish Supper To Be
Held. Architects To Be
Heard
Plans and a drawing of the new
Brevard Methodist church, which
will be erected on a beautiful site
opposite Brevard college, will be
unveiled Thursday night at the
church.
All members and other friends
of the church are cordially invited
by the pastor, Rev. Douglas Corri
her, to attend the meeting, which
will open at 6:30 o’clock with a
covered dish supper in the church
social rooms.
The supper is sponsored by the
Women’s Society of Christian Ser
vice, and Mrs. Tom Ramsay and
Mrs. Eddie Varner are serving as
chairmen.
They join the pastor in urging
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Adult Education Program Is
Being Planned. Need For
Building Program Cited
Brevard college has completed
registration for the fall semester
with a capacity enrollment of 270
students, President Robert H. Sta
nley announces today.
When the adult education pro
gram is started and additional mu
sic students have matriculated, en
rollment is expected to be over 300.
The student body this year is the
largest that it has been in the past
six years. Thirty-nine counties, 11
states and two foreign countries are
represented on the Brevard college
campus this year.
Since Mr. Stamey became presi
dent of the college, the enrollment
has continued to increase to the
present capacity number. However,
the new $600,000 building program
will allow further increase next
year.
There are 37 Transylvania stu
dents enrolled at the college this
year. They are as follows:
Marguerite Mary Young, Martha
Fortune, Patricia Banning, Ella
Mae Brooks, Mae Camp, Ted Car
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Program Highlights
Three Big Football Games Will Be
Broadcast Over WPNF This Week End
Another full week end of foot
ball will be carried over WPNF on
Friday night, Saturday afternoon
and that evening, Bobby Hoyle, the
station manager, announces.
The local Blue Devils travel to
Canton Friday, and a play-by-play
description of the game will be
heard, beginning at 7:25 o’clock.
The broadcast is sponsored by Gai
ther’s and Coca-Cola.
Saturday afternoon at 1:45
o’clock, WPNF will join the Tobac
co Sports network for the Carolina
Oklahoma game, direct from the
gridiron at Chapel Hill.
Sponsors of the game are: Ayers
Store, Austin’s Studio, Brevard
Federal Savings and Loan, Biltmore
Dairy, Brevard Auto Parts, Burgin
Furniture company, Brevard Hard
ware, Coffey-Hayes Buick compa
ny, Martin & Jones, Micy’s Laun
dry, Red Diamond Service Station,
Sam’s Drive-In, Sledge Radio and
TV and Superior Cleaners.
On Saturday evening WPNF will
broadcast the State-Duke game
from Raleigh, beginning at 7:45 '
o’clock.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm and
Home hour for the coming week is <
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DRIVE IS BEING
TAKEN INTO ALL
AREAS OF COUNTY
Community Clubs Are Also
Aiding In Work. Legion
naires Plan Dance
DONATIONS ANNOUNCED)
Members of the Transylvania li
brary building fund are busy this
week contacting persons through
out the county in an effort to raise
the necessary $20,000 to build a
new library on the court house
lawn.
Chairman Ralph Ramsey reports
today that it is impossible to deter
mine how much has been raised to
date, but he feels that everybody
must give something if the goal is
to be attained.
Persons who have been missed by
the canvassers may mail their con
tribution to Chairman Ramsey or
to Mrs. Oliver Orr, chairman of the
library board.
Miss Elizabeth Davis reported at
the last meeting of the fund rais
ing committee that the Dunn’s Rock
community club was raising $200
for the new library.
County Agent Julian Glazener
also reported that other communi
ties were working on plans to
make contributions to the new
building.
The Monroe Wilson post of the
American Legion is planning a
dance on Saturday night, October
8th, to benefit the library. Admis
sion will be $1.50 per person, and
music will be furnished by Bre
vard’s own band, “The Solitaires.’*'
Chairman Ramsey reports that
an anonymous donor has given $500
to the building fund, and he also re
ported a gift of $250 from Mrs. Lila
Wenzlick.
“Curtis Kelley, to whom we had
given a $250 check as option on his
building which we did not pur
chase, has returned the check to us
to be applied on the building fund*1*
the chairman stated.
PRESBYTERIANS TO
VIEW NEW PLANS
Proposed Church Structure:
Plans To Be Presented At
Meeting Sunday Morn
Plans for the new church struc
ture will be presented at an impor
tant meeting of the congregation
following morning worship this
Sunday, September 25, at the Bre
vard-Davidson River Presbyterian
church.
The congregational meeting will
follow another special event, Rally
Day for the Sunday schooL “Go
Make Disciples of All” is the theme
of this year’s rally day with Tom
Eller, L. F. Dixon and Mrs. Charles;
Cook appearing on the program.
The juniors will give a choral
reading of Scripture and the prima
ry department will sing a special
song.
Another feature of the rally day
observance will be the installation
of all Sunday school teachers and
officers at the morning service.
It is hoped that every member of
the church can be present for these
two important events Sunday morn
ing.
The quarterly worker’s confer
ence of Sunday school teachers and
officers will be held Monday night,
September 26th, at 6:45 p. m., be
ginning with dinner at the church^
Young Democrats
Will Meet Monday
There will be a meeting of the
ifoung Democrats club here next
Monday night, Sept. 26th, in the
Brevard court house, Bill Millner*
he president, announces today.
Meeting time is 8:00 o’clock.
New officers will be elected, Mr.
Millner states, and the latest handk
)ook of the Democratic party will
>e distributed at the meeting.
All members and other interest*
id Democrats are cordially invited
>y the president to attend.