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TRANSYLVANIA—
Hie Land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer Camps,
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
The Transylvania Times
A Slate And National Prize-Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, M>
rational, Agricultural
and Music Center. Populn
don, 1950 Census, 15*581.
Brevard Community 7,194.
Vol. 67—No. 38
Second Class Mail Privileges
Authorized at Brevard, N. C.
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1956
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
“WHAT WILL YOU HAVE?”—Whis
kies of all kinds were captured in the
recent raids in Transylvania, and Tom
Huffman, of the local police radio de
partment, can be noted in the center in
specting some of the better “moonshine”
that was nabbed. At the left is Paul Fish
er, chief of police, who worked for a
week with an undercover agent of the
Treasury department of the United
States prior to the local raids, and Offi
cer Lewis Gravely, who helped nab the
22 persons arrested in the raids, is at
the right. (Times Staff Photo)
Strong Protest Is Made Here Against
Action Of WNC Football Officials
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Community Given Unfavor
able Publicity. Meeting
Slated On Friday
'fransylvania school officials
made a strong protest Wednesday
morning to the action of the WNC
officials association Tuesday night
when Brevard was placed on pro
bation for one year for alleged in
cidents that occurred in the Hen
dersonville-Brevard football game
last Friday night.
Supt. J. B. Jones wired Dr. J. L.
Pierce, chairman of the Athletic
Advisory commission, State De
partment of Public Instruction.
Raleigh, Wednesday morning the
following telegram:
“I wish to protest trial, convic
tion and unfavorable publicity for
Brevard by Western North Caro
lina Officials association without
accused being given an opportunity
to be heard”.
The executive board of the asso
ciation met Tuesday night in Ashe
ville and heard the officials of
the game testify that they were
subjected to abusive language on
the part of Brevard players, the
Brevard head coach and fans both
during and after the game.
■Coach Bradburn has denied the
accusations, and together with
assistant coach, Bill Milner, he
will attend another special session
of the board Friday in Ashe
ville.
The nature of the action taken
by the Officials Assn. Tuesday
night is as follows:
Brevard is to be placed on a one
year probation, diming which time
the school will receive no football
officials for its home games unless
the association gets a guarantee
from the county superintendent of
schools and Brevard High School
officials that game officials will re
ceive adequate protection against
any abuse.
If this agreement is violated at
any time, the association will dis
continue sending officials to Bre
vard’s home games altogether.
The officials who worked the
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Sept. 20 — Circles of
WMS, First Baptist church meet.
Lions club meets at 7 p. m., in Gai
ther’s. Women of the Presbyter
ian church meet at 8 p. m., home
of Mrs. Willis Brittain. WOW in
hall at 8.
Friday, Sept. 21 — Schools to
close all day. Kiwanis meet at
7 p. m., in Gaither’s. Brevard vs.
Canton here on high school field,
8 p. m.
Sunday, Sept 23 — Attend the
church of your choice.
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Doctors In News
Wjlkerson Will Be Honored,
Boyer Leaving For Two Years
Dr. J. B. Wilkerson, of Brevard,
who received his doctor of medi
cine degree in 1906, is one of 34
physicians who will be honored by
the University of Tennessee Medi
cal Units at commencement exer
cises in Memphis Monday night,
Sept. 24.
The university is recognizing the
services which Dr. Wilkerson has
rendered to his community during
the ha If century since his gradu
ation.
The physician will be presented
with a Golden “T” certificate at
commencement exercises. A tour
of Memphis and a luncheon honor
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Youths Charged
With Larceny Of
Local Band Bus
Two Hendersonville teen-agers
have been bound over to Hender
son county court on charge of
larceny of pocketbooks and wal
lets from a bus last Friday night,
which carried the Brevard high
school band to the football game.
The two youths were given a
hearing Tuesday before Mayor A.
V. Edwards, and police Chief Pow
ers said all articles taken from the
bus had been recovered, Ininus an
estimated $10 in cash which the
wallets contained.
Dr. Norman Boyer, who is en
gaged in the general practice of
medicine here, announces that he
will close his office on September
29th for a period of two years.
He was accepted a special as
signment with the Foreign Service
Division of the State Department
and will first spend three months
training in Washington. Dr. Boy
er will then go to Europe for two
years to assist in setting up a pro
gram of occupational health for
civilian employees of the State De
partment and their families.
Mrs. Boyer and the children will
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College Is Beginning "Best Year",
Over 400 Students Are Expected
JURORS NAMED
FOR OCTOBER
TERM OF COURT
Heavy Civil Calendar Slat
ed. Judge Froneberger To
Preside Over Session
Jurors for the civil term of Su
perior court in Transylvania coun
ty in October are announced today
by Marvin McCall, clerk of court.
The list was drawn Tuesday by
the Transylvania county jury com
mission, composed of P. A. Rahn,
O. H. Orr and the clerk of court.
The civil term of court will be
gin on October 22nd, and a large
docket is slated to be heard.
Judge P. C. Froneberger, of Gas
tonia, will preside.
Jurors called the first week are
as follows:
Harold Saltz, Glenn Whitmire,
Alvoid J. Galloway, Jason P. Mc
Call, L. T. McClellan, L. D. Mar
tin, Raleigh T. Waldrop, Clarence
A. Ellis, Sam B. Ellis, William Car
roll Batson, Walter Garren, Mrs.
Everett Huggins, Arthur J. Lind
ley, Arthur Jenkins, Jr., Ray Ni
cholson, Miss Helen FulbVight, A.
L Poteet, Charles Zeigler.
Second week: Walter Perkins,
Elton Lewis, Frank McCall, Jr.,
Joe Patterson, 0. R. Willingham,
Earl Holden, Ed C. Mitchem, Law
rence Whitmire, Charles M. Whit
mire, Mrs. Harry Buckner, Mrs.
Ed rentelle, Walter H. Straus,
Raymond Hoxit, Alda Hall, E. C.
Wilson, A. M. Ream, Arthur Whit
mire, Mrs. Marvin Edney.
One-Day Membership
Drive Set Thursday
By Commerce Group
Directors of the Brevard cham
ber of commerce will conduct.
a one-day membership drive on
Thursday of this week.
According to Frank Bridges,
the membership chairman, the
directors will meet at Gaither’s
Rhododendron room at 8:00 o’
clock for a dutch breakfast and
a canvass of the community will
follow.
Delinquent members will be
contacted along with prospec
tive new ones.
Methodists, Officials Of
College At Winston Meet
Methodist ministers and lay
leaders in Transylvania and
representatives of Brevard col
lege are this week attending the
annual Western North Carolina
conference of Methodists in
WinstonnSalem.
At noon Wednesday a Bre
vard college alumni luncheon,
.was held at the Augsiburg Lu
theran church in Winston, with
President Robert H. Stanley as
one of the principal speakers.
Trustees of Brevard college
Federation Opening Remodeled Store
This Saturday, Frank Byrd Is Manager
A new remodeled store will be
formally opened by the Farmers
federation for Transylvania coun
ty patrons on September 22nd, it
is announced by Guy M. Sales, fed
eration general manager.
Modern fixtures and lighting
with asphalt tile flooring will fea
ture the opening of the new store
which will give farmers and pat
rons better service and marketing
facilities.
Mayor John A. Ford will cut the
ribbon at the opening ceremony at
10 a. m. and prizes and refresh
ments will be given out during the
day. A special grand prize will be
awarded at 6 p. m.
The new store will be operated
on the same site where the first
Farmers federation store was op
ened in 1938. The late R. C. Crow
ell, Farmers federation vice-presi
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FRANK BYRD
met Wednesday afternoon and
reports on activities at the local
institution were made by the
president and Edwin L. Jones,
chairman of the board.
One of the best years in the
history of the school was pre
dicted. Ed M. Anderson, a mem
ber of the board, attended from
Brevard.
Others representing the col
lege at the conference included
Rev. C, E. Roy, Rev. George
Ring, and Prof. Nelson Adams.
Rev. Dobglas Corriher, pas
tor of the Brevard Methodist
church, attended, and the
church’s official delegate is P.
A. Rahn.
Rev. W. A. Kerr and Rev.
George King, of the Methodist
churches out in the county, also
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Business Firms
Change Locations
Two Brevard firms, Cash Whole
sale Grocery and Sledge Radio and
TV, are moving into new locations.
Curtis Kelley, owner of the
/wholesale grocery concern* has
sold his building on the corner of
Gaston and Jordan to Mr. and
Mrs. John Reece Sledge, and he
will move his concern into the
building adjacent to Brevard Lum
ber company on King street.
Mr. Kelley says the new quar
ters will give his concern room for
more storage.
Sledge radio and TV will be
moved from its location on Cald
well street later this fall, after the
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GORDON SPROTT, who will head the ’56 United
Appeal fund drive in Transylvania, is pictured above at
the western regional conference of campaign officials,
which was held last week at Statesville. At the left is
the area chairman, Jim Gibson, of North Wilkesboro,
and Robert M. Hanes, of Winston-Salem, the state chair
man for United Community campaigns, is shown in the
center.
Mrs. Fisher Withdraws From
House Race, Executive Group
Names Mrs. Teague Successor
THOMAS R. ELLER, town at
torney, has been elected pres
ident of the Transylvania Bar
association. Other officers elec
ted at the annual meeting Wed
nesday morning were as follows:
Jack Potts, vice president, and
Gene Ramsey, secretary and
treasurer. Other action by the
group included making up of
the calendar for the civil term of
Superior court next month.
Lee’s Rides Will
Return Next Week
Lee’s Riding devices return to
Brevard on Monday for a one
week’s stand.
Sponsored by the Shrine club,
the rides will be located on Cald
well, opposite Pisgah Candy com
pany.
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Health Said Reason. Chair
man King Announces
Schedule of Meetings
Mrs. Thelma R. Fisher has re
signed as a candidate to succeed
herself in the house of representa
tives from Transylvania in the No
vember election, and Mrs. Millard
C. Teague has been named to make
the race.
This action was taken at a spec
ial meeting of the Republican ex
ecutive committee last Thursday
night, with Chairman Eugene King
presiding.
Mrs. Fisher said that she was
withdrawing because of her health.
She was named to the state
house in the 1955 session when
her husband resigned because of
illness. He died last September.
Mrs. Fisher also served during
the July special session.
Mrs. Teague, prominent for sev
eral years in Republican activi
ties, is the organizer and was first
president of the North Carolina
Federation of Republican Women.
She resigned from the post in
1953.
A native of Asheville, she is the
former Miss Kathleen Lominac of
Asheville and has been living In
Brevard for the past 17 years.
Mrs. Homer Harris, of Brevard,
will manage the Republican head
quarters here, which will be lo
cated in the building formerly oc
cupied by Parson’s on West Main
street, The headquarters will be op
ened on October 1st.
Mr. King announces that pre
cinct workers will meet as follows:
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Program Highlights
WPNF Will Begin Broadcasting
College Football Games Saturday
On Saturday afternoon WPNF
will join the Tobacco Sports net
work for the college games of the
’56 season, Bobby Hoyle, the sta
tion manager, announces.
The Carolina-State game will be
carried this week, with air time at
1:45 o’clock Saturday afternoon.
Sponsors for the games this fall
will be: Austin’s Studio, Batson’s
Esso, Biltmore __ Dairy, Brevard
Bowling Center, * Brevard Hard
ware, Bridges Coal & Oil, Burgin
Fur. Co., Coleman Tire Co., Gray’s
Barber Shop, Micy’s Laundry, Os
borne Plumbing, Siniard’s Trans
fer and Sledge Radio & TV Ser
vice.
Friday night WFNF will broad
cast a play-by-play description of
the Brevard-Canton game, and air
time is 7:55 o’clock. Gaither’s and
Houston furniture company are
the sponsors.
According to Mr. Hoyle, a new
religious program will be started
Sunday over the local station. It
will be conducted by Rev. and
Mrs. J. B. McCarson, of Hender
sonville, anu is entitled, “Hour of
Deliverance”. It will be heard at
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FRESHMEN BEGAN
ARRIVING SUNDAY,
CLASSES STARTED
New Dormitories Are Filled.
Freshmen Number More
Than 250
PRESIDENT QUOTED
All indications point to one
the most successful years in the
history of Brevard college, vhirt*
is this week beginning its lo&rf
year of religious and educational
service to the state and nation.
Registration figures were ioctxn
plete on Wednesday, with fresfc.
men continuing their selection of
curriculum. The first year chon
is exipected to number 250, and
total registration should exceed
400 students.
Freshman students arrived oc
Sunday, filling the new men's and
women’s dormitories.
Upper classmen will complete
their registration on Thursday,
having pre-registered last spring.
Classes for freshman begin Thmrm.
day and for sophomores on Fri
day.
.Local residents were invited to a
reception at the college Saturday
I evening to inspect the new dor
mitory facilities. This was the first
social event on the campus.
The next public event will be a
piano recital on Friday, September
28th, in the auditorium by Peter
Ford and Mrs. Louise P. Miller.
Both are members of the musie
department, Mr. Ford being a new
comer this year. He is a graduate
of Yale University and received
1ms master’s degree in must* from
Converse college.
In welcoming the students to the
campus on Sunday, President Rob
ert Stamey predicted the best year
ever because of the wide support
of the college, a larger and en
tirely competent faculty, and en
larged physical plant.
SCHOOLS CLOSE
ALL DAY FRIDAY
Principals And Teachers To
Attend Western District
Meeting Of NCEA
Transylvania schools will close
all day on Friday of this week in
order that local principals and
teachers may attend the 34th annu
al convention of the Western dis
trict of the North Carolina HMnr
cational association in Ashew9e^
Supt. J. B. Jones says the
was made up the first of this year*
and approximately 3,000 teachers*
principals, superintendents and
others will attend the Asheville
meet Friday.
The one-day meeting vrfll hr
highlighted by a general session. In
•the auditorium of the Lee & Wt- •
wards high school, and Dr. Wil
liam H. Plemmons, president, Ap
palachian State Teachers coOcft>
will deliver the convention's prin
cipal address. _
The five divisions of the NCKAi
will hold meetings during the dtp,
and professional problems mil be
discussed during the day.
Little Theatre
Try-Out* Planned
On Monday Night
The Brevard Little Theatre try
outs for casting of the first phj,
“John Loves Mary”, will be h»M in
the courthouse Monday evening,
September 24th, it is annoaeeecL
by Don Stoneback, BLT president.
Mr. Stoneback issues an imi
tation for all interested persons
to attend, and adds that if cant
ing is not completed after the ftrf
try-out, they will be continued
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Kathleen Onnand is serv
ing as casting chairman, and she
also issues a cordial invitation for
anyone interested to attend. Al
though try-outs will begin at 7JD
p. m., persons may stop in the
courthouse and read at any thee
after that.
Coffee will be served thrmijh
out the evening, and officers «£
the organization will form a has
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