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 Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed
ucational, A g r i c ultural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1950 Census, 15,321.
Brevard Community 7,394.
Vol. 67: No. 2
SECTION ONE ★
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1956
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
OFFICERS OF THE TEEN-AGE
center cordially invite all members to the
Grand Opening on Saturday from 4:00
until 11 :00 p. m..Adult inspection is sla
ted for Sunday afternoon from 3:00 un
til 6:00 o’clock, and the public is cordial
ly imi! 'd to attend. The Teen-Age cen
ter is located at the Sledge house on Jor
dan street, and standing in front of it
with the sign are the officers. Left to
right, they are: Bette Hall, treasurer;
Robert McCall, president; Jimmy Cassel,
vice president; and, Frank Lance, secre
tary. (Times Staff Photo)
k Grand Opening Of Teen-Age Center Set
Saturday, Adult Inspection On Sunday
Member Elect Executive
Committee. Arrangements
Being Completed
The grand opening of the Teen
Age center, located in the Sledge
house on Jordan street, will be held
Saturday afternoon from 4:00 until
11:00 p. m.
Adult inspection of the new cen
ter is slated for Sunday afternoon
from 3.00 to 6:00 o’clock.
E B. Garrett, president of the
Transylvania Youth ^ association,
Inc., which sponsors }’0t*<feeil-Age
center, urges all members to attend
the grand opening on Saturday,
and he cordially invites all adults
to inspect the center Sunday after
noon.
Robert McCall, senior at Brevard,
was named chairman of the Teen
Age executive committee, and oth
er officers are: Jimmy Cassell, Ros
man, vice chairman; Bette Hall,
Brevard, treasurer; and, Frank
Lance, Rosman, secretary.
The Teen-Age center is being
equipped with TV, radio, record
players, ping pong table, etc., and
it is expected that everything will
be in readiness for the grand open
ing on Saturday.
Mr. Garrett expresses sincere ap
► preciation to the large number of
adult leaders, especially to the
members of the Youth association,
and the students at the two high
schools for their work in making
the opening of the center possible.
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Merrell will
direct and supervise activities at
the center, which will be open on
week ends.
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday. Jan. 12 — Civil term
of court continues. Fortnightly
club meets with Mrs. Robert Sta
nley, 3:30 p. m., college campus.
Masonic meeting in temple at 8
p. m.
Friday, Jan. 13 — Hospital aux
iliary meets in dining room at 3
p. m. Brevard vs. Rosman, college
gym, 6:15 p. m. Board of trustees.
Teen - Age Center, 7:30 p. m.
Saturday, Jan. 14 — Opening of
Teen - Age Center, 4 to 11 p. m.
Lutheran Brotherhood meets at
church. 7:30 p. m.
Sunday, Jan. 15 — Attend the
church of your choice. Dinner and
meeting of Episcopal congregation,
1 p. m., Gaither’s. Adult open
house at Teen Age Center, 3 to 6
p. m.
Monday, Jan. 16 — Criminal
court begins at 9:30 a. m. Brevard
High School P-TA meets at 8 p. m.
Tuesday, Jan. 17 — Meeting to
protest changing bus schedules, 10
a m., over city hall. Special call
meet of chamber of commerce di
rectors, city hall, 7:30 p. m. Order
of the Moose, 8 p. m. Pisgah Chap
ter OES meets at 8:00 o’clock in
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New Year Begins
Transylvania Farmers Urged
To Sign Up For ASC Program
It’s time to sign up again in the
Agricultural Conservation program,
says Marvin W. Whitmire, chair
man of the Transylvania ASC com
mittee. The first initial sign up
period has been set for January 15,
to January 31, in the county ASC
office, located in the court house.
The farmers, who will be unable to
call by and sign up by January 31,
may call by at a later date as the
county ASC office shall continue
to accept requests for federal cost
sharing in performing conservation
practices throughout the 1956 pro
gram year.
The following conservation prac
tices have been approved for Tran
Newland To Head
Workers Council
Harry E. Newland, soil conser
vation supervisor, was named chair
man of the Transylvania Agricul
tural Workers council, at the first
meeting of the year held this week.
Other officers elected for 1956
are Mrs. Julia Westwood, ASC sec
retary, vice chairman; and Mrs.
Edith B. McGlamery, assistant
home agent, as secretary.
A committee was appointed to
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sylvania county for 1956:
1. Establishing permanent pas
ture or hay crops
2. Establishing permanent pas
ture or hay on cropland
3. Applying liming materials on
farmland
4. Contour stripcropping
5. Planting forest trees
6. Improving permanent pasture
or hay crops
7. Seeding winter cover crops
Farmers who cooperate in the
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Will Begin Action On Criminal
Slate In Superior Court Monday
SERIES OF FIRES
STRIKES, FOREST
THREAT REMAINS
State And Federal Fire
Fighters Had Busy Week
End. Also Local Men
Four fires were reported in
Brevard and Transylvania over the
past week end, and the threat of
forest fire mounts as dry weather
continues.
Early Monday morning the home
of Claud Allison was burned to the
ground near the Transylvania Mu
sic camp and the fire set the woods
ablaze all around.
No one was injured in the blaze,
however, all of the furnishings of
the Allison home were lost.
The house was burned to the
ground about 2:00 o’clock, and for
estry crews were called in immed
iately to fight the forest fire,
which was intensified by the high
winds.
At 4:00 o’clock the Brevard vol
unteer fire department was called
to the music camp to protect the
buildings, should the fire spread
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DR. FOLGER JOINS
DR. NEWLAND HERE
Will Be Associated In Gener
al Practice Of Medicine.
Comes From Easley
Dr. Charles L. Newland this
week announced that Dr. John R
Folder. Jr., has become associated
with him in the practice of general
medicine.
Dr. Folger has already taker, over
his duties in the suite of offices he
will share with Dr. Newland in the
Lawrence building on Jordan
street.
Dr. Folger has been practicing
for the past IV2 years in Easley,
S. C. Prior to that he was on the
resident staff at the Greenville
General hospital in Greenville, S.
C.
The new doctor received his pub
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Small Industry Group
Named, Action Planned
A committee to set up a corpor
ation to work for small indus
tries in Transylvania county was
named by President Vernon
Fricks at the regular meeting of
Chamber of Commerce directors
here Tuesday night.
The committee will have as its
main business the setting up
of a corporation to buy and
hold approved properties for
industries, and to otherwise en
gage in promotion of industry
in Transylvania county.
“There will be no donations,”
President Fricks stressed, in
naming the committee. “People
will be asked to invest in stock in
the corporation with the view to
getting a return on their money,
and at the same time have availa
ble sites for industry whenever
an inquiry is received,” Mr.
Fricks said.
Don Jenkins was named chair
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SOME 32 HEAD OF CATTLE were
killed and a tractor - trailer was badly
damaged, when the driver went to sleep
and ran off the road on a sharp curve at
Middle Fork early Monday morning.
Driven by Ellis E. Mitchem, the truck
was taking the cattle from Gainesville,
Georgia, to Bristol, Tennessee. After the
crash, some 48 head were recaptured,
but there are still more than a dozen at
large in the mountains near the scene of
the accident. (Times Staff Photo)
WANDA SUE NORRIS, the first baby in Transyl
vania in 1956, gets the final stamp of approval from Dr.
R. L. Strieker, the attending physician, before going
home. Little Miss Norris arrived at 4:40 p. m., New
Year’s day, and she and her mother left the hospital for
their Penrose home last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Howard Norris are the proud parents, and they received
many tine prizes from local merchants in contests con
ducted by The Times and WPNF. (Times Staff Photo)
Directors Of Brevard Chamber i
i
Of Commerce Chosen, To Elect
Officers Next Tuesday Nighti
WILL PROTEST
CHANGES IN BUS
SCHEDULE HERE
Hearing Is Set For Next
Tuesday Morning. Letters
Are Written
A hearing will be held here
Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock be
fore the North Carolina Utilities
commission by chamber of com
merce officials, governmental agen
cies, representing the town and
county, and other interested citi
zens in protest against proposed
change of schedule of the Grey
hound bus from Brevard to Hen
dersonville and Asheville.
Greyhound corporation proposed,
in a schedule posted here last week,
to change hour of the early morn
ing bus from Brevard to Asheville,
via Hendersonville, from 6:15 to
7:10, and also to cut off entirely
one round-trip schedule leaving
here at 11:15 o’clock.
The bus people also propose to
change the early morning schedule
from Brevard to Greenville from
6:30 to 8:30 o’clock.
Letters have been written to the
Utilities commission by the town,
county, chamber of commerce, and
various individuals protesting the
change and cut-off.
A petition bearing 150 names
was sent also to the commission last
week, signed by riders of the var
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Eller, Fricks And Jenkins
High Men In Balloting.
Alternates Named
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Ballots for directors of the Bre
vard chamber of commerce were
tabulated at a meeting Tuesday
night over the city hall, and a 25
man board of directors was elected.
The newly elected board will
meet next Tuesday night at a spec
ial call meeting to elect officers for
the new year. Vernon Fricks, the
out-going president, urges all mem
bers of the new board to attend the
meeting, which will be held over
the city hall, beginning promptly
at 7:30 o’clock.
Thomas R. Eller, president
Fricks and Don M. Jenkins led the
ticket with 54 votes each, and 72
ballots were cast.
John I. Anderson and J. C. Gai
ther were next in line with 52
votes, followed by John A. Ford
with 48, Curtis Kelley 47, and D.
T. Abercrombie, Frank Bridges, C.
M. Douglas and Freeman Hayes,
with 45 each. Cecil Hill, Harry Sel
lars and Eddie Varner received 43
apiece.
Other members of the board are:
J. M. Gaines, W. W. Brittain, Ralph
H. Ramsey, Jr., R. W. “Buddy”
Melton, Lewis P. Hamlin, Mrs. R. E.
Lawrence, Dan Hawkins, Alex Kiz
er, Sr., Melvin Gillespie, Gil Coan
and L. F. Dixon.
As vacancies occur on the board,
they will be filled with the follow
ing alternates:
Dr. Walter Clayton, Frank G.
Carr, Charles Himes, J. I. Ayers,
Dr. Frank McGuire, Gordon Sprott,
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WPNF Program Highlights
Play-By-Play Descriptions Of Leading
Southern Basketball Games Are Heard
Station WPNF is now broadcast
ing play-by-play descriptions of
leading Southern college basket
ball games, and Saturday night the
North Carolina - Clemson game
will be heard.
Next Wednesday night the South
Carolina - Clemson game will be
broadcast, and Bobby Hoyle, station
manager, urges all listeners of
WPNF to hear these fine games.
The schedule for the remainder
of January is as follows: January
21—Furman vs. Clemson; Jan. 28
—Wake Forest vs. Clemson; and
Jan. 30—Citadel vs. Clemson.
The two groups of local mer
chants sponsoring the games are:
(1) Sledge Radio and TV, Micy’s
Laundry, Biltmore Dairies, Aus
tin's studio, Martin and Jones and
Baker’s Jewelry; (2) Batson’s Esso,
Sledge Radio and TV, Sam’s Drive
In, Micy’s Laundry and Biltmore
Dairies.
OTHER PROGRAMS
The schedule for the Farm and
Home hour for the coming week is
as follows: Thursday, Brevard
Home economics department, Mrs.
Glenn Burrell; Friday, Health de
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MANY CASES ARE
ON THE DOCKET,
REVIEW IS MADE
McCall vs. Carver Cases Con-,
suming Most Of The Time
This Week. To Continue
JUDGE SHARP PRESIDES
With one case, McCall vs. Can*
ver, consuming most of the
this week, the January term ef
Superior court will be continued
all next week, when the criminal
slate will be heard.
Judge Susie Sharp is presiding;
and at noon Wednesday she charg
ed the jury in McCall—Carver con
troversy, which grew out of an
automobile accident at Canton last
year.
Due to conflicting engagements
of solicitor, Clarence O. Ridings, ok
Forest City, the civil docket is b*
ing heard prior to the crimiml
slate, which opens Monday morn
ing.
Judge Sharp instructed the grand
jury, which was named Monday, to
return next Monday. Walter Can
trell is the foreman.
The two cases, Elizabeth McCall
vs. Roy L. Carver and A. B. Mc
Call vs. Roy L. Carver, were heard
simultaneously and the McCalls arc
asking for damages for injuries ini
the accident. Action began on the
cases on Monday, and the jury is
expected to return a verdict late
Wednesday or early Thursday
morning. Afterwards, action on
the civil docket will be continued
for the remainder of the week.
Cases on the criminal docket to
be heard next week are as follows
Hit and run: Arnold Blythe,
Charles Masters.
Breaking and entering: Paul P.
Hamlin (also larceny)
No operator’s license: Walter
Lee Norman, Billy Joe Sentelle,
Leonard Myers, Alton Hubbard*
Otelia Bolt, Arthur Buchan*
Frank M. Murr, Fred Dodson, Rob
ert Owen, Cecil G. Pressley, Lester
Evans, Albert Whitmire, Ine*
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JAYCEES TO MAKE
SEVERAL AWARDS
Outstanding Young Man
And Farmer Will Be An
nounced At Banquet
Along with naming “Man of the
Year”, the Brevard Jaycees wilt
also select the outstanding young
farmer of 1955 in Transylvania
county, President Bill Norris an
nounces today.
Nominations are now being re
ceived for these two awards, and
the deadline is Saturday, January
21st.
The president urges the public
to assist in these selections, and
nominations can be made to the
following chairmen:
Robert “Buddy” Melton, chair
man of the DSA committee; and,
Baxter Morris, chairman of the
young farmer award.
Chairman Morris requests per
sons in the Rosman area to make
nominations to Tom Queen at the
railway express office.
Announcement of the two awards
will be made at the annual baa
quet, to be held Wednesday night,
January 25th, in Gaither’s Rhodo
dendron room.
Jack Sharpe, Jr., of Kannapolis,
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Fricks Elected To
Head Shrine Club
Vernon H. Fricks, co-manager of
the Goodwill Motor company, has
been named president of the Tran
sylvania Shrine club.
He succeeds W. L. Hensley, and
other officers elected at the spec
ial meeting this week were: Roy
Head, vice president; Vernon P.
Fullbright, secretary; and, E.
Dillingham, treasurer. The officers
were installed by A1 Ream.
Raymond F. Bennett was elected
on the board of trustees for three
years. And the other two members
of the board are T. E. Reid and
John A. Ford.