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 Prize-Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
Transylvania—
An Industrial, TonrM, 9A
ocational, Agricultural
and Music Canter,
tion, 1900 Census,
Brevard Community
Vol. 67 — No. 34
SECTION ONE
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 23,1956
18 PAGES TODAY *
PUBLISHED
I
REPRESENTATIVES of the
North Carolina Department of
Conservation and Development
inspected a number of plant
sites in Transylvania prior to the
banquet meeting of civic groups
last Friday which was sponsored
by the Transylvania Industrial
Development corporation. R. T.
Mauney is pictured holding the
information that is being collec
ted here, and E. L. Branson is
looking it over with him. Others
in the top photo, left to right,
are: Mayor John A. Ford; C. M.
Douglas, secretary of the local
industrial group; Don Jenkins,
the president; J. C. Gaither, pres
ident of the Brevard chamber of
commerce; and, Austin Hogsed,
president of the Rosman group.
Making the principal address at j
the left is J. Ray Shute, of Mon- j
roe, an expert on locating indus- j
tries, and seated, left to right,
are: Guy Burchfiel, president of
the Brevard Lions club, and E.
F. Tilson, president of local Ki
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ers has moved
n adjoining Aus
the building former
ly Slack’s on the cor
and Broad streets.
la Cox, the manager,
new store has consider
>re room, and she invites
istomers to come in and in
the new quarters.
ressman
essary to record data
aphy. Borings must be
along with transferring
he states.
e director has requested the
1 office at Atlanta to place
igh priority on the construction
the new hatchery on Davidson
river.
Ranger Ted Seely said that an
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viptrs
Thursday, Aug. 23 — Transylva
nia HD council sponsors chicken
barbecue, 6 to 7:30 p. m., Brevard
high school. B & PW club meets at
•Gaither's, 7 p. m. Masonic meet
ing in Temple at 8 p. m.
Friday, Aug. 24 — Gala Festival,
Brevard Music Center, 8:15 p. m.
Saturday, Aug. 25 — Boxers meet
in Brevard gym, 8 p. m. Gala Festi
val concert, Brevard Music Center,
8:15 p. m.
Sunday, Aug. 26 — Attend the
church of your choice. Festival
concluding concert, 4 p. m„ at Bre
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Transylvania Schools Open Tuesday,
Increase In Enrollment Is Predicted
VACANCY OF ONE
TEACHER IS NOW
SAID IN SCHOOLS
Dail Is New Principal At
Straus. Other Changes Are
Noted By Jones
REGULATION CITED
Except for a teacher in one of
[he elementary schools of the
county, all vacancies in the Tran
sylvania school system for the 1956
57 term have been filled, Supt. J.
B. Jones stated today.
D. G. Dail, former football coach
and teacher at Brevard high school,
has been named principal of the
Straus school in North Brevard,
succeeding A1 Shuford, who re
signed. Mr. Shuford will teach in
[he Brevard elementary school.
Mr. Jones also reports that Mrs.
Opal L. Fullbright has resigned as
principal of the Seliea school, and
she has been succeeded by Mrs.
Adcovia McCall.
Benjamin Fishburne, of Colum
bia, S. C., has been elected as Eng
iish teacher at Brevard high, suc
ceeding Mrs. Willis Brittain, re
signed.
A former member of the faculty
at the University of South Carolina,
Mr. Fishburne comes to Brevard
highly recommended, Mr. Jones
states.
“He is a man of unusual linguis
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COUNTY RECEIVES
$12,180 FROM THE
NATIONAL FOREST
Most Of Fund Is Derived
From Sale Of Timber In
Pisgah, Ranger States
Transylvania county will receive
$12,180.75 from the National for
est this month as payment for rev
enue on a 25 percent basis of in
take on lands within the county
boundary.
While there are several contri
buting factors to the revenue pro
duced by tt\e National Forest each
year, bulk of the 1955-56 money
was derived from managed timber
sales, according to Ted Seely, Pis
gah Forest ranger.
Mr. Seely points out that on the
basis of money for Transylvania
county this year, about 14-cents
per acre tax is being received. This
amount is far in excess of average
mountain land in Transylvania.
Transylvania county has 87,500
acres within the national forest
boundary.
Rural Fire Truck Fund
Is Beginning To Swell
Donations to the Rural Fire
truck fund in Transylvania county
are still coming in, F. L. “Buck”
McCall, the chairman, states, and
he urges all citizens who have not
contributed to do so as quickly as
possible.
“The fire out at Cedar Mountain
last week makes us work harder
and faster to raise the $13,000 that
we need to buy the truck,” Mr. Mc
Call stated yesterday.
Program Highlights
Reports On Rural Development Clubs
Will Be Heard On WPNF Programs
A series of programs will begin
this week over WPNF, featuring
the eight Rural Community Devel
opment clubs in Transylvania
county. These programs will be un
der the sponsorship of the Ecus
ta Paper corporation and will be
heard each Saturday afternoon at
12:30 o’clock.
The eight organized Community
Development clubs taking part in
these programs are listed in the or
der in which they will appear: Bal
sam Grove, Middle Fork, Cedar
Mountain, Dunn’s Rock, Little Riv
er, Pisgah Forest, Quebec and Pen
rose-Blantyre.
According to county agent, James
Davis, “These programs will be
an informative report on what is
taking place in the community and
a discussion of special projects.”
Other Programs
The schedule for the Civic hour
for the coming week is as follows:
Friday, Mathatasian club; Monday,
Brevard Little theatre; Wednesday,
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Various organizations are putting
on special events, and solicitations
are being made in the various com
munities, the chairman explained.
While no exact figure can be giv
en at the present time, several
thousand dollars have been raised
to date
The list of contributors as re
ported by Chairman McCall is as
follows:
Pisgah Forest
Harry Sentelle, Holland Corn,
Merrill Capps, J. T. Reid, Buck
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Jack Huggins Has
Accepted Position
With Mt. Holly Mill
Jack Huggins, Brevard’s official
weatherman and secretary at Pis
gah Mills, leaves Brevard next
Wednesday for Mt. Holly, where he
has accepted a position with the
American & Efird Mills.
Mr. Huggins has been connected
with Pisgah Mills for the past 10
years, and he has been the official
weatherman for over four years.
A hobby with him, he began weath
er work in the service during World
War II.
His successor has not been nam
ed as yet.
BILL HUBER, right former ranger here in the Pisgah
National forest, has been named director of the nation
wide “Smoky Bear” cooperative forest fire prevention
program for the United States Forest service. Mr. Huber
succeeded Clint Davis, left, who was named chief of in
formation and education of the forest service. Mr. Hu
ber has been vacationing in Transylvania during the past
week, before returning to his important work in Wash
ington, D. C.
Chairman Of Board Reports
$14,000 Operating Deficit
For Year At Music Center
OVER 100 ATTEND
BANQUET MEETING
OF CIVIC GROUPS
Industrial Expansion Theme
Of Talk By Monroe’s
Ray Shute
More than 100 Transylvanians
heard J. Ray Shute, of Monroe,
outline ways and means of secur
ing small industries in a commun
ity at a dinner meeting last Fri
day night at Gaither’s, which was
sponsored by the Transylvania In
dustrial Development corporation.
It was a joint meeting of the Ki
wanians and the Lions, and a num
ber of Rotarians, Jaycees and mem
bers of the Brevard B & PW club
and the Rosman Chamber of com
merce attended.
E. F. Tilson, president of the
Brevard Kiwanis club, brought
greetings, as did Guy Burchfiel,
president of the Lions club here.
C. M. Douglas, secretary of the
industrial development corpora
tion, introduced the guests attend
ing the dinner meeting and also
the principal speaker.
B. L. Branson and Richard T.
Mauney, of the North' Carolina De
partment of Conservation and De
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Campbell Says Support Must
Come From Wider Area.
Suggestions Are Made
An operating deficit of around
$14,000.00 for the current season
of the Brevard Music Center makes
it essential to obtain wider support
for this unique music center and
Transylvania Music camp, Edmund
D. Campbell, Washington, D. C., at
torney and chairman of the board
of trustees of the Brevard Music
Center, stated \oday.
“We are definitely in need of
greater public support.” Campbell
said, “if we are to continue to main
tain the Center with the high stan
dards which our students deserve.”
“We must meet this $14,000.00
operating deficit if we are to con
tinue running our music camp with
its added feature of a three-week
graduate school and Gala Festi
val.” the prominent Washington at
torney declared.
Campbell, in mentioning the in
spirational value of this program
to the talented boys and girls at
the camp, noted that the project is
too important to the growth of sou
thern culture and music to be al
lowed to fail through lack of finan
cial support.
“This deficit must be made up by
our southern music lovers — peo
ple from all over this section and
from distant cities whose musicians
receive their most concentrated
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Ramsey Was Favorably Impressed
With Actions In Demo Convention
BY FRANCES WALKER
“It is indeed a revelation — in
fact an inspiring one — to see how
thousands of persons from all dif
ferent sections of the country can
compromise their differences and
agree on candidates,” said Ralph
H. Ramsey, Brevard attorney, who
| was one of North Carolina’s dele
gates to the Democratic National
Convention last week
“Wildly exciting” was the way
Mr. Ramsey described the ballot
ing for the vice presidential can
didate, in which Senator Estes Ke
fauver. of Tennessee, came out on
top.
Mr. Ramsey said that by watch
ing the events on television, one
misses completely the actual man
euvering and “behind the scenes”
meetings that are the real core of
the convention.
Mr. Ramsey feels that the Demo
cratic party selected the two
strongest possible candidates and
paid great tribute to Adlai Steven
son for throwing the convention
wide-op^n in the selection of his
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PRINCIPALS AND
TEACHERS MEET
MONDAY MORN
Lunchrooms Begin Operations
Next Wednesday. Quebec.
Opening Is Delayed:
JONES IS QUOTED*
School bells in Transyfnadc
will ring next Tuesday mornings
I August 28 at 8:45 o’clock and ap
proximately 4,250 boys and garis
are expected to fill the classrooms.
: of the 13 schools.
A slight increase in the am
ber of students is expected tina
year, and five additional teachers
have been allotted, giving Trxns
sylvania a total of 137.
Schools will be recessed at noon
next Tuesday, but a full day <o£
activities is planned for mate
Wednesday, when the cafeterias
are to be in operation.
Principals and teachers wifi meet
Monday morning at 10 o'clock in
! the Brevard high school audito
rium, and Supt. J. B. Jones •■orees.
full attendance.
Routine instructions will he giv
en and following the general meet
ing there will be meetings of thm
principals with the teachrss of.
their schools.
Because of the delay in con
struction, the new T. C. Henderson
school will not be open until later
this fall.
The colored high school sxndeafer
in Transylvania will go to Hfendfer -
sonville next Thursday the first das
there. Only a half day is planned.
Considerable work has been oenn
pleted at Brevard elementary and
the majority of the other schook
in the county, Mr. Jones slate.
Boys and girls enrolling in the
first grade should present tew
certificates of immunization and
parents are reminded to see that
they have them.
BREWER HEADS
BOOSTER CLUB
Vast Amount Of Aid Gnat
Football Team Durmg
Year, Report Shows.
John A. Brewer„ a superinten
dent ait the Ecusta Paper ctapaut
tion and an ardent sports fan iue,
has been named president off Ac
Blue Devil Booster chib. He sac
ceeds Ed Matheson, wha was fpn
en high praise at Tuesdtagr
meeting on the success of the «r<- -
ganization during its first year.
Ben Patterson was <&osec as the.1
vice president for the»new jar,
and Vance Jackson was re-elertai
secretary.
In addition to the*
the outgoing president, <
bers of the executive committee <
Jim Smith, manager, of Belk’s.
Thomas New and Lewis'
A motion was carried at the
nual meeting that four
names be added U>‘ the
committee, and these persons will
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Praises Services
Received At Local
Hospital Recendf
Dr. Christopher CrittaiB^4S
rector of the N. C. State Ikprt
ment of Archives and ffidatj aS
Raleigh, today praises the Tns
sylvania Community ktqihL
Dr. Crittenden was one of
principal speakers at the rec
joint meeting of the WNC ]
torical association and the
Literary and Historical
tion at Brevard college.. 1
was here, he was hnr|i ill find
the Transylvania Community hi
pital.
In a letter of appreciation, 1
states:
“I want to express mg
ciation for the very fine
received at the
Community hospital, an
ially for the friendly
shown by staff
hospital is indeed
of which all the citizens
sylvania may justly be |