TRANSYLVANIA—
rhe 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 *•
Winning A. B. C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial. Tourist, Ed
ucational, A g r i c ultural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1990 Census, 15,321.
Brevard Community 7,394.
Voi. 67: No. 11
SECTION ONE
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 22,1956
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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WILLIAM BELL CLARK, of Neely Road Brevard,
shows his certificate he recently received from the Poor
Richard club of Philadelphia commending him for his
book,. “Ben Franklin’s Privateers”. The award reads,
“In Honor and Memory of Benjamin Franklin, The Poor
Richard Almanack Award is Awarded to William Bell
Clark For Distinguished Service In the International
Celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 250th Anniversary.”
At the left Mr. Clark holds the bronze medal that the
club presented this year for the first time. It is inscribed,
“Awarded for Merit, William Bell Clark” and signed by
the Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia. See story page
seven. (Times Staff Photos)
Commissioners Hire Bond Attorneys,
Proceed With Plans To Hold Election
Transylvanians Will Vote On
$637,000 Issue During
July Or August
At a meeting Monday, the Tran*
o.vl'^nia county comnr^iunfxs un
animously agreed to employ Dona
attorneys to advise them in pro
ceeding with plans to hold a spec
ial school bond election some time
next summer.
County attorney, Ralph Ramsey,
reported that he conferred with W.
E. Easterling, assistant director of
the Local Government Commission
in Raleigh last Friday regarding
the proposed school bond issue.
He said Mr. Easterling recom
mended that the county employ
special bond attorneys in accord
ance with the law relative to bond
elections.
The commissioners voted to em
ploy the firm of Mitchell Pershing,
Shetterly and Mitchell, of New
York. This firm handled the
county’s special school bond elec
tion several years ago.
At the regularly monthly meeting
on March 5, the commissioners ag
reed to call a special election to
vote on the issuance of school
bonds in the amount of $637,600.00
and instructed Mr. Ramsey to con
tact Local Government Commission.
The election will probably be
held in July or August and, if car
ried, the board of education plans
to erect a new and modern $700,
000 Brevard high school and to
carry forward a complete county
school building program.
This will include the erection of
a new school at Quebec for the up
per end of the county and a new
gymnasium at Rosman.
Between now and July 1, the
county will receive from state
funds approximately $300,000 and
will have around $90,000 from
county funds.
If a new high school is erected
here, the present building will be
used for an elementary school.
School officials state that this pro
gram will relieve crowded condi
tions in both the high and elemen
tary schools for some period of
time.
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Mar. 22 — Brevard
B & PW club meets at 7 p. m., in
Gaither’s. Masonic meeting in tem
ple at 8 p. m.
Friday, Mar. 23 — Scout commit
tee meets at Duke Power office,
7:30 p. m.
Saturday, Mar. 24 — Junior Mu
sic Festival at Brevard college, 9
a m. Boxing matches in the Am
erican Legion building, 8 p. m.
Sunday, Mar. 25 — Attend the
church of your choice.
Monday, Mar. 26 — Rotary club
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Political Wars
Whitmire Seeks Re-Election,
Statewide Rourtd-Up Is Made
Interest in politics in Transyl
| vania is beginning to mount, as
the filing deadline of April 14th
dnws nearer.
Paul Whitmire, register of
deeds, announced Tuesday after
noon that he would be a candidate
to succeed himself, and it is gen
erally believed that the others in
offices which come up for re-elec
' tion, will also aspire again.
C. M. Douglas, tax collector, has
already announced that he would
run again, and Joel M. Hubbard, has
also announced for the office.
I Mrs. Ralph Fisher has not an
1 nounced herself as a candidate for
re-election in the house of rep
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Low Of 15 Degrees
Recorded After The
Arrival Of Spring
Tuesday was the first day of
spring in Transylvania, that is,
according to the calendar, but
the weatherman didn’t cooper
ate and sent the mercury down
to 15 degrees that night.
And that’s official. Uncle Sam’s
weatherman here, Jack Huggins,
said so.
Extent of the damages from
the hard freeze is expected to
be confined to killing of early
blooming flowers.
| With a large number of Demo
I crats seeking state offices and con
j gressional seats, the present out
! look is for a heated state-wide Dem
I ocratic primary election to be held
on May 26.
Three relatively unknown men
are opposing Gov. Luther Hodges
and it is readily apparent that all
of them put together will not pro
vide much opposition to the popu
lar governor who is now serving
out the unexpired term of William
Umstead.
On the other hand, the race for
I lieutenant governor is viewed as
I a “hot” one. There are a total of
! five candidates seeking the nom
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Construction Work Progressing At New
Cosby Choir Campf To Complete In June
SCHOOL LEADERS
TO ATTEND NCEA
MEET ON SATDAY
County Has 22 Delegates.
Action Is Expected On
Salary Proposal
A large number of Brevard and
Transylvania county principals and
teachers are planning to attend the
72nd annual convention of the
North Caolina Education Associa
tion in Asheville, starting this af
ternoon and ending Saturday.
The county has 22 delegates and
even a larger number are expected
to attend night sessions.
In accordance with a vote taken
last fall the schools will not be
closed Friday for this convention
and teachers will have to secure
substitutes.
Supt. J. B. Jones, aloBg with
Principals R. T. Kimzey and Er
nest Tilson, are planning to attend,
as well as Forrest B. Cudd, presi
dent of the Transylvania unit of the
NCEA.
Registration headquarters and
general sessions will be held in
the City Auditorium.
Headed by Gov. Luther Hodges,
several distinguished speakers are
on the program. Gov. Hodges will
address the teachers at the opening
i general session Thursday night.
At the convention, one of the
major activities will be the adop
tion of a legislative program, aimed
particularly at securing increases
in salaries.
It is expected that the Canton
proposals will be rejected.
EXPANDED CIVIL
CALENDAR GIVEN
Chief Justice Orders Courts
To Clean - up Old
Cases
On order of the chief justice ol
the Supreme court of North Caro
lina, Transylvania’s clerk of court,
Marvin McCall, is this week pub
lishing an expanded civil calendar
for the April term of Superior
court here.
There are some 127 cases on the
civil docket, which will be heard
on Thursday and Friday, April 5th
and 6th, and during the second
week of court. Mr. McCall explains
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Brevard Debaters Win
In First Two Rounds
Both the negative and the affir
mative debating teams of Brevard
high school will enter the district
contest in Boone in the spring, af
ter winning over the teams from
Mill Spring and Enka, Principal
Robert Kimzey announces.
While Brevard was debating out
of-town, the Enka negative team
won over Mill Spring’s affirmative
group here at the local high school
last Friday.
Bryon Simonson, Famous Architect,
To Design Sapphire Country Club
New flavor for an already color
ful 18-hole championship golf
course is ..in the making at Sap
phire this week with the announce
ment that plans are being drawn
foi a country club building to be
located on the Sapphire Valley
links.
Bryon Simonson, Palm Beach,
Fla., architect of international re
nown, has been retained to draft the
plans, to be designated as a com
plement to the “million-dollar, nat
urally air conditioned course” re
cently completed there by Eugene j
Howerdd of Augusta, Ga.
First nucleus of the building,
Mr. Simonson said, will be built
this year, and will comprise the
locker rooms and golf facilities.
The overall building, he added, is
expected to be completed by next
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BRYON SIMONSON
Mrs. Eula Clark, the coach of the
local debaters, took the affirma
tive team to Enka to meet the neg
ative debaters of Mill Spring and
the locals were victorious. Debat
ing for Brevard were Martha Gail
McCall and Johnny Allison.
The Brevard negative team trav
eled to Mill Spring, where it won
over Mill Spring’s affirmative team.
Local debaters were Charles Taylor
and Floyd McCall, and accompany
ing them to Mill Spring was Mrs.
Kate Cornue, the county supervisor,
who is assisting Mrs. Clark.
Blue Ridge Parkway
To Open April 15th
The Blue Ridge Parkway will
open its gates on April 15 for the
1956 season and it is estimated that
at least five million people will vis
it the famed mountain-top scenic
beauty.
The annual tour of the Parkway
by newsmen and photographers
has been set for the week of May
20, Sam Weems, superintendent of
the Parkway announces.
The group will assemble at Ashe
ville and the tour will include all
sections of the famed Parkway, in
cluding those in Transylvania
county.
The mile high, 10-mile section
near here is ready for traffic this
season. The stretch begins at Wag
on Road Gap where U. S. 276 cross
es the Parkway and ends at Beach
Gap. This is expected to be one of
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MR. AND MRS. DAVID H. COSBY, of Boca Raton,
Fla., and Lake Toxaway, are the founders and owners of
the new Cosby Choir Camp, which will have its two op
ening sessions this summer. Construction of the camp is
now underway. Its opening will be the culmination of a
dream that Mr. and Mrs. Cosby have cherished for many
years as they watched the importance of training young
people in church music.
Brevard High School Band Is
Awarded Top Honors In Contest
FRANCES WALKER, Times’
associate editor, has been elect
ed to the presidency of North
Carolina Press Women. She was
elevated from the vice - presi
dent’s position at the annual
Spring Institute and meeting held
last week end in Chapel Hill.
At the same meeting Miss Walk
er was presented with a second
place award in the non-daily div
ision of the NCPW contest. The
winning entry was a feature story
she wrote about the Balsam
Grove clinic. See story page 7.
The Brevard high school band,
playing in the district band con
test at Western Carolina college
last Friday, received the highest
rating given in the competition.
Brevard was entered in grade
five, next to the highest classifi
cation, and the rating given the lo
cal band was namber one, superior.
| The band performed for 25 min
i utes at Cullowhee, playing a March,
“The Fairest of the Fair”, by John
Phillip Sousa, and two selections
as ordered by contest officials.
These were “Till Eulenspiegel’s
Merry Pranks” by Strauss, and
“The Barber of Seville” by Ros
sini.
Director John Eversman was
high in his praise of the perfor
mance of the members of the band.
In the recent band clinic at Cul
lowhee, there were more entries
from the Brevard band than any
other in Western North Carolina.
Entrance in the clinic was by com
petitive auditions.
Charles Glass is the assistant
band director and instructor, and
Mr. Eversman and Mr. Glass form
ed the original band at Ecusta dur
ing the ’40’s. It became the Bre
vard high band in January, 1953,
and this year there are more than
85 members of the junior and senior
bands. A band is also being form
ed at Rosman high school.
Program Highlights
Many Religious Programs Are Heard
Over WPNF Each Sunday, Log Cited
On the Sunday programming at
WPNF, many religious programs |
are carried as a public service,
John Dellinger, program director,
announces.
Af 9:30 each Sunday morning,
the Methodist Men’s hour is heard,
and at 12:30 o’clock, the Church
World News is heard. At 2:30 p.
m., the Ava Maria hour is logged,
followed by the Baptist hour at
5:30 o’clock. At 6:15, “Things Peo
ple are thinking about” is sche
duled.
Transylvania ministers, who are
heard over WPNF each Sunday,
are: Rev. Kermit Reece — 7:30 a.
m.; Rev. W. R. Cox, — 8:00 a. m.;
Rev. F. A. Raines — 8:30 a. m.;
Rev. N. H. Chapman — 9:00 a. m.;
and Rev. Bill Wilson — 4:30 p. m.
OTHER PROGRAMS
The schedule for the Farm and
Home hour for the coming week is
as follows: Thursday, Soil Con
servation service, H. E. Newland; i
Friday, Transylvania Humane so- j
ciety, Mrs. Ralph Palmer; Mon- >
day, county agent’s office; Tues
day, extension forester, F. E. Whit
field; Wednesday, home agent’s of
fice.
On the Civic hour the following
will be heard: Friday, Jaycees;
Monday, Kiwanis club: Wednesday,
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SITE IS THE
OLD TOXAWAY
INN PROPERTY
Dedication Set For June
With First Session To
Open On July 9th
PURPOSE EXPLAINED
The construction of two new dor
mitories and a large dining hall for
the new Crosby Choir Camp, Inc.,
at Lake Toxaway is progressing
rapidly and D. H. Cosby, founder,
states that they will be completed
in ample time for the first session
beginning on July 9th.
The interdenominational choir
camp is being built near the si,te of
the famed Toxaway Inn on prop
erty which Mr. Cosby bought last
year from the Jennings estate. He
acquired additional acreage in De
cember from William P. Dean
which adjoins the old hotel site.
The construction work was con
tracted to Pisgah Builders Supply
and actual work began in Febru
ary. Mr. Cosby estimates that ap
proximately $40,000 will be spent
on the camp before it is completed.
Mr. Cosby, a Boca Raton, Fla^
businessman, has set the dedication
service for the choir camp for ear
ly June prior to the July opening.
Rev. Ben F. Ormand, pastor of the
Brevard - Davidson River Presby
terian church, will be in charge of
the dedication.
An outstanding faculty has been
secured for the choir camp, headed
by Frank L. Pugh, minister of mtt
sic of the First Presbyterian
church of Fort Lauderdale, Ffn.
Mr. Pugh is a graduate of West
minister Choir college, Princeton,
N. J., where he studied under Dr.
John Finlay Williamson. As a mem
ber and section head of the famous
Westminister Choir four years, he
has appeared widely in concerts
under the batons of famous conduc
tors.
Other faculty members include
William Bowles, feature tenor with
the Westminister choir, who is
chairman of the tenor division. Miss
Betty Still, instructor in music at
Fort Lauderdale high school, will
head the alto section. Mrs. Billie
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COUNTY ELECTION
BOARD IS NAMED
Democratic Members Are
Shuford And Bridges. Re
publican Is McCall
Members of the Transylvania
county board of elections were ap
pointed Saturday by the state board
of elections from names
that had been recommended by
both the Democratic and Republi
can parties.
There are three members of the
county board, two Democrats ami
one Republican.
The Democratic members are
George D. Shuford, of Penrose and
Mrs. Margaret M. Bridges, of Bre
vard, both of whom served the last
term and Elmo McCall, Pisgah For
est, the Republican member.
Mrs. James Brennan, of Brevard,
who served as the Republican mem
ber last term, was recommended,
but was not re-appointed.
It is understood that Mr. Shuford
will serve as chairman.
The election board will open an
office in the courthouse in the near
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Auction Of Cattle,
Machinery Set Sat.,
Glenn Cannon Farm
There will be an auction sale
of cattle and farm machinery on
Saturday, beginning at 10:00 o’clock
at the Glen Cannon farm in lower
Transylvania.
The sale is being conducted by
W. A. Keith, agent, of Henderson
ville, and Preston Thompson, auc
tioneer.
Mr. Keith states that the Romfh
brothers, owners of the farm,
which is one of the largest and best
equipped in WNC, have decided to
change their farming operations,
and they will absolutely sell all
machinery and equipment