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 ri ze-Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed
ucational, A g r i c ultura]
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1990 Census, 15,321.
Brevard Community 7,394.
Vol. 66, No. 46
SECTION ONE ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1955# 20 PAGES TODAY *
PUBLISHED WEEKLT
“I SPEAK FOR DEMOCRACY” con- i
test winners in Transylvania are pictured
above following the special awards pro
gram last Thursday afternoon in the main
studio of WPNF. Sponsored by the Jay
cees, the radio dealers, and WPNF, the
contest was open to students at both Ros
man and Brevard high schools. There
were hundreds of entries and prizes to
talling more than $160.00 were awarded
the 10 winners. Seated, left to right, are:
Jerry Whitmire, first prize; Charles
Bishop, second prize; Stella Glazener,
third prize; and Carolyn Osborne, fourth
prize. Standing, left to right, are: Bill
Norris, Jaycee president; Benny Cassell,
fifth prize; Beverly Bostic, sixth prize;
Betty Jean Hensley, seventh prize; Grace
Gillespie, eighth prize; Shirley Winches
ter, ninth prize; Altha Mae Fisher, tenth
prize; Bobby Hoyle, WPNF station man
ager; and Marvin Overcash, Jaycee
chairman of the contest. See story on
page 7. (Times Staff Photo)
First Annual United Appeal Fund
Is Overscribed, Workers Thanked
Final Rally Will Be Held
Next Monday Night. More
Contributions Expected
Transylvania's first United Fund
campaign went over the top here
today, it is announced by President
Rev. R. H. Stamey.
Volunteers in the fund-raising ef
fort that supports 15 health and
welfare agencies in Transylvania
county raised $22,950.00 or 102 per
cent of the $22,500.00 goal.
Enthusiastic workers brought in
“extra” gifts and pledges in time
to meet the deadline.
President Stamey also announced
that last-minute gifts are still com
ing in from generous contributors.
He saluted the campaign’s more
than 200 hard-working volunteers
and the contributing citizens who
came through with such a magnifi
cent accomplishment.
“We are $450.00 ahead of the
budget committee’s most optimistic
goal,” Rev. Stamey pointed out.
“Transylvanians have set a success
pattern which should be an inspi
ration for future campaigns as our
county continues to grow.”
Volunteer workers who have re
turned collections and pledges to
campaign chairman Randal J. Ly
day are:
Mrs. T. J. Gordon, Mrs. Edna
Fullbright, Mrs. Margaret Carter,
Mrs. Margaret Bridges, Mrs. Wanda
Smathers, Mrs. Christine Goodwin,
Mrs. Julius Sader, Mrs. Freddie
Norris, Mrs. Wallis Short, Mrs.
Claire Matheson, Mrs. Robert
Duckworth, Mrs. C. L. Newland,
Mrs. Bonnie Harmon, Mrs. Martha
Fraser, Mrs. Thelma Alexander,
Mrs. Howard Wolsted, Mrs. Ben Or
mand, Mrs. Douglas Corriher, Mrs
Glenn Burrell, Mrs. Don Stoneback.
Mrs. Albert Lyday, Mrs. Roy^ Mc
Call, Mrs. Marie Eggert, Lloyd Bur*
bans, Hugh Hollifield, Mary Sue
Thorne, Mrs. Hampton Scruggs,
Mrs. Riley Merrill, * Mrs. Charlie
—Turn To Page Six
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Nov. 17 — Lions club |
meets at 7 p. m., at Gaither’s. B
6 PW club meets early because of
Thanksgiving, 7 p. m., at Gaither’s.
Football, Hendersonville vs. Can
ton, 7:30 p. m. Masons meet at 7:30
p. m., in Masonic temple. WSCS
meets at Methodist church, 7:30
p. m. Women of the Presbyterian
church meet at 8 p. m.
Friday, Nov. 18 — Garden club
meets at 3:30 p. m., with Mrs. Ran
dal Lyday. Kiwanis club meets at
7 p. m., at Gaither’s. First Baptist
■women hold study course, church
parlor, 7 p. m.
Saturday, Nov. 19 — Jaycees
sponsor turkey shoot, Henderson
—Turn To Page Six
Resolutions Adopted
Urge Parkway Connecting Link
From Gloucester To Beech Gap
Strong resolutions, urging the
State Highway commission and the
Bureau of Public Roads to approve
allocations to match those of for
estry funds for the construction
and paving of a road from Glouces
ter road in upper Transylvania to
Beech Gap and then down to Lake
Logan as a connecting link with the
Blue Ridge Parkway, have been ap
proved and sent to Raleigh by the
Transylvania county commissioners,
the town board of aldermen and the
road committee of the Brevard
chamber of commerce.
Harry Buchanan, 14th district
highway commissioner, met with
local governmental officials and
civic leaders this week and ex
plained that there would be a high
way meeting in Raleigh next Tues
day, when the Gloucester connect
ing link would be discussed.
Thanksgiving Dance
Set At Country Club
One of the highlight features of
the Thanksgiving observance in
Transylvania will be the annual
dance at the Brevard country club
on Saturday night, Nov. 26th.
According to President Jay Cof
fey, all members with current dues
cards will be admitted free, and de
linquent members and guests will
pay $3.00 per couple.
Special dinners will be served
that evening, and President Coffey
urges members to make their res
ervations early by calling Manager
E. E. Fraser at 2-1333.
In the resolution it is pointed
out that since the new 11 and one
haif mile stretch of the Parkway
has been opened from Wagon Road
Gap to Beech Gap atop the Pisgah
that thousands of cars are now
travelling this scenic highway.
It is further explained that the
link terminates in a dead end at
Beech Gap and travelers have to
turn around and return over the
same section or to turn to the right
and travel Clown to Lake Logan
over a narrow and winding dirt
road, all of which creates traffic
congestion.
If the road is constructed from
the end of the pavement on Glou
cester road to Beech Gap, it would
afford a way of access to and from
this section of the Parkway to the
—Turn To Page s»i
JURORS NAMED
FOR DECEMBER
TERM OF COURT
Judge Pless Will Preside.
Large Number Of Cases
On Criminal Slate
Jurors for the December term of
Superior court in Transylvania
county are announced today by
Marvin McCall, clerk of court.
The court will open on Monday,
Dec. 5th, with Judge J. Will Pless,
Jr., t)f Marion, ^presiding.
During the Term, several civii
cases will be heard, Mr. McCall
states, and there are many cases
on the criminal slate.
Jurors for the first week are as
follows:
Mrs. Marvin Garren, Miss Geneva
Mull, Phil Riddle, Harry Lee Hog
sed, Carl Eldridge, Charles W. Mor
gan, Owen Banning, Mrs. Pearl M.
McClelland, Neal Birchfield, Alton
Childers, Mrs. Joe Duckworth, Ar
nold Williams, Robert Bolt, C. C.
Garren, Clarence Crowe, Ben Shif
let, Rufus Guffey, Henry Wood, H.
C. Lyday, Robert Taylor, Odell
—Turn to Page Seven
MERCURY CUMBS
TO 74 DEGREES
Cold Wave Is Expected To
End Summertime Weather
Of Mid-November
Golfing, picnicking, fishing and
other summertime diversions oc
cupied the daydreams of persons
confined indoors this week as the
mercury soared to an unheard of
November high, 74 degrees on
Tuesday.
Weatherman Jack Huggins re
ported this high reading for
Tuesday, adding that his records
don’t go back far enough to de
etermine if this temperature was
a record-breaker.
Nearby Asheville claimed that
their high of 76 on the same day
broke a 25-year record of 75 de
grees.
Western Carolina’s balmy,
spring-like weather began Satur
day and continued throughout
the week end with rains on Mon
day. Tuesday again cleared sun
ny and mild, as did Wednesday.
The weather bureau officials
were predicting winds and cold
er, more November-like weather
for late Wednesday night and
Thursday.
Ecusta Employees Will
Receive Raise Dec. 5th
The employees of Ecusta Paper
corporation, a subsidiary of Olin
Mathieson Chemical corporation,
will receive a five-cent per hour
raise.
The announcement was made
jointly today by L. F. Dixon, gen
eral manager of the paper divis
ion; and M. L. Herzog, the gen
eral manager of the film divis
ion.
The raise is effective Decem
ber 5, 1955, for employees on an
WPNF Program Highlights *
Famous Tabernacle Choir Will Be Heard
Sundays, Two Grid Games Saturday
Continuing in its effort to bring
the finest music possible to its lis
teners, WPNF will present a 25
minute program by the world’s fa
mous Tabernacle choir of Salt
Lake City, Utah, this Sunday after
noon at 5:05 o’clock.
During this series of programs,
favorite hymns will be heard, John
Dellinger, the program director,
announces.
Two Grid Games
Play-by-play descriptions of two
of the leading college games will
be carried over WPNF on Satur
day.
The Carolina-Virginia game will
be heard in the afternoon, with air
time at 1:45 o’clock, and that eve
ning the State-William and Mary
game will be broadcast, beginning
at 7:45 o’clock.
Other Programs
On the Farm and Home hour for
the coming week the following will
be heard: Thursday, Brevard home
economics department, Mrs. Glenn
Burrell; Friday, health depart
ment, W. F. Hart; Monday, county
agent’s office; Tuesday, soil con
servation service, H. E. Newland;
—Tun T* Page Six
hourly or weekly basis, and effec
tive for the month of December
for monthly salaried employees.
The increase will affect more
than 2,200 hourly and salaried
employees, the general managers
said.
Now Giving Salk
Vaccine To All
Age Children
The Transylvania county
health office now has sufficient
Salk polio vaccine enabling them
to offer it to all children between
the ages of one and 18 years.
Dr. C. L. Newland, health offi
cer, announces that both the first
and second polio shots may be
secured at the health office with
out charge to the parents. The
immunizations will be given only
on Fridays, the clinic day, be
tween 8 and 12 noon, 1 and 4:30
p. m.
The health officer stresses the
importance of having children
immunized now so that it can be
iu effect by next summer.
Previously the vaccine was giv
en free only to children in the
five through eight age group.
Since there is sufficient left ov
er, the health officials deemed
it advisable to offer it to children
of all ages.
EAGLE SCOUT, the highest rank one may achieve
in the Boy Scouts of America, will be conferred on John
Harper Allison, above, at the monthly Court of Honor
Thursday night, November 17th, at the Turkey Creek
Baptist church. John i^che son of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Al
lison, Jr., and is a member of the sophomore lass at
Brevard high school. He is the first Scout from Troop
No. 1 in several years to achieve the Eagle rank. John is
also active in his school and church as well as in scouting.
(Times Staff Photo)
Thousands Of Hunters Are
Expected Here Next Week
As 1955 Deer Hunts Open
JACK POTTS AND
GENE RAMSEY NOW
PARTNERS AT LAW
Offices Located At 15 West
Main Street. Brief Back
grounds Are Given
The formation of a partnership of
Jack H. Potts and E. Gene Ramsey
for the general practice of law is
announced this week.
The law firm will be known as
Potts and Ramsey, with offices at
15 West Main street, telephone
2-4221.
Mr. Potfcs, a native of Highlands,
began practicing law here in No
vember, 19$3? with the late Ralph
R. Fisher.
Mr. Ramsey dpened his law of
fice in Brevard in. October, 1954.
—Turn Ter Page Seven
Unlimited Number Will
Check In At Stations After
The First Day
Thousands of hunters from
throughout Eastern America are ex
pected to arrive in the vicinity this
week end to participate in the 1955
organized deer and bear hunts in
Pisgah National Forest, which get
underway Monday.
The deer season will be from No
vember 21st through December
10th.
For the first time since the hunts
were begun, the Pisgah is open to
all sportsmen with no hunting quo
tas assigned to any of the checking
stations
Pisgah District Ranger Ted Seely,
along with Malcolm Edwards, ref
uge supervisor for Western North
Carolina, and Wayne Wiggins, ref
uge manager for the Pisgah game
preserve, have been completing the
arrangements for the big hunt this
week.
The system is similar to that
—Turn To Page Six
Remarkable Progress Through Rural
Development Program Cited In Talk
Cash income of farm products in
Transylvania county for 1954
amounted to $2,164,523.00, it was
revealed in a recent talk, prepared
by Ed M. Anderson, publisher of
the Transylvania Times for the
awards meeting to climax the ’55
Rural Development contest in Tran
sylvania county.
Income from crops, including
corn, hay, soy beans, tobacco, truck
crops, and bulbs and flowers, to
talled $1,531,870.00, while the coun
ty farmers received $632,653.00
from livestock and poultry.
Mr. Anderson’s information was
—Turn to Page Six
The remarkable progress made
by farm families in Transylvania
county through the Rural Develop
ment program was brought out in
the principal address at the recent
awards meeting in Brevard high
school.
In the eight organized communi
ties participating in the ’55 contest
there were 525 families taking part
in the program. Of this number, 126
painted their homes, while 66 re
modelled their residences.
A total of 52 new kitchens was
installed, and 23 homes had central
heat added. Bathrooms installed
—Turn to Page Seven
THREE BUILDINGS
TO BE COMPLETED
BY SEPTEMBERS
Executive Comm. Instructed
To Make Study Regarding
Long-Range Program
CALL MEET HELD
The final stamp of approval to
the $700,000 three-phase building
program at Brevard college was
given at a special call meeting of
the board of trustees Tuesday here
at the local institution.
Edwin L. Jones, chairman of the
board, presided over the meeting,
which was followed by a luncheon
for trustees and faculty members
in the college cafeteria.
Contracts were awarded at the
meeting and construction will be
gin immediately on the $150,000 ad
dition to the new wing of the wom
en’s dormitory. J. A. Jones Con
struction company will build the
addition, which will house 90 stu
dents. The present new building
accommodates 110 students.
In the immediate future con
struction will also begin on the ad
dition to Taylor hall, and 88 more
men students can be taken care of
when the wing is completed. Costs
are estimated on this phase at $125,*
000.
The third portion of the present
building program, which is to be
completed by next September, is a
new campus center building to
house an auditorium to seat 500
persons; a cafeteria to accommo
date 500; an entire floor of admin
istrative offices for the college and
students, soda shop, post office, etc;
The contracts on the second ainf
third phases of the current build
ing program will be let as soon as
plans are completed.
The board discussed at length
and made a survey of a future ex
pansion plan for Brevard college
when the current three-phase pro
gram is completed. This expansion
will include a music and fine arts
building; a gymnasium; a science
—Turn to Page Six
FARM ADVISORY
BOARD IS FORMED
Merrimon Shuford Is Chair
man. Dinner Meetings Wilt
Be Held Each Quarter
A Transylvania Farm Advisory
board has been organized here
with Merrimon Shuford as the
chairman; Jones Garren, vice chair
man; and County Agent Julian
Glazener. secretary.
As explained by Mr. Glazener,
the primary purpose of the board
is to discuss and point oiit the needs
and problems by individual farmers
from every section of the county
and from the information obtained,.
an overall, coordinated farm pro
gram can be worked out.
Such a program, Mr. Glazener
continued, will increase farm in
come that will be converted into
improved living.
Some 20 farmers and civic lead
ers met together at the organiza
tional meeting in Gaither’s Rhodo
dendron room as guests of the man
agement for a turkey dinner, and
some of the suggestions made were
as follows:
(t) Organizing of a community
hay drying group to serve an entire
section.
(2) Growing of boxwoods for ex
tra income.
(3) Increased vegetable growing
with improved marketing system.
(4) Increased poultry production.
(5) Shipping out more farm
—Turn to Page Six
Help Fight TB
Buy Christmas Seals
32
MORE SHOPPING
DAYS TIL
CHRISTMAS