TRANSYLVANIA^
rhc 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
THANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial. Tourist, M
ocational, Agricultural
and Musk Center. Popula
tion, 1050 Census, 15,321.
Brevard Community 7,304
Vol. 68 — No. 3
Authorized at Brevard, N. C.
Second Class Mail Privileges
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1957 * 18 PAGES TODAY A
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TRANSYLVANIA’S NEW LIBRARY,
built at a cost of $18,420.00, will be ded
icated Sunday afternoon, and the public
is most cordially invited to attend the
ceremony. Following a brief program at
2:30 o’clock in the court room of the
court house, the library will be open for
inspection and the Brevard Branch of
the American Association of University
Women will hold a reception.
Order Is Placed For Modern Fire Track,
. Specially Designed To Fight Rural Fires
Local Firemen Need Only
$496 To Pay All Costs Of
$16,204. Remodeling.
An order for a modern fire truck,
one that is specially designed to
fight fires in rural areas, has been
placed by the Brevard volunteer
fire department.
The truck, and all necessary aux
iliary equipment, will cost $16,
204.60, and by the time it arrives
in Brevard, the local firemen hope
to have this amount on hand.
At the present time they have
$15,708.18 in the bank, and they
feel the balance of $496.42 can be
raised in the next few days. Per
sons desiring to oontribute can send
their donations to F. L. “Buck”
McCall, c-o Rural Fire Truck Fund,
Pisgah Forest, or phone 2-3131.
The GMC truck, a 554-A model,
will be shipped from Elmira, New
York, on the 22nd of this month,
and it is expected to arrive here
in about a week from that time.
Equipped with 10 forward and
two reverse gears, the truck has a
storage tank with a capacity of 750
gallons. There are preconnected
lines in two sizes, and it will be pos
sible to pump water through the
truck from a pond or stream some
3,000 or more feet from a fire at
the rate of 15,000 gallons per
hour.
Auxiliary equipment, in addition
to the portable pump, will include
a complete two-way radio system,
a portable light plant with two
500-watt flood lights, gas masks,
first air equipment, etc.
Members of the local department
have been busy during recent
evenings rebracing, reflooring and
remodeling the local department
in an effort to make room for the
new truck. It will also be kept in
the local department along with
the? other two trucks, and Fire
Chief Dan Merrill says an open
house will be held at a later date
so the public can inspect the mod
em facilities of the local fire sta
tion.
Demonstrations are also planned
later this winter or in early spring
in the various communities in
Transylvania, especially at the dif
ferent community centers.
The firemen also plan to begin
immediately mapping out the lo
cation of all houses out in the
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Jan. 17 — Lions club
meets at Gaither’s at 7:00 o’clock.
Friday, Jan. 18 — Kiwanis club
meets at Gaither’s at 7:00 o’clock.
Sunday, Jan. 20 — Attend the
church of your choice. Library
dedication at 2:30 o’clock.
Monday, Jan. 21 — Rotary club
meets at 7:00. Annual Red Cross
meeting at 7:30 o’clock at Gaither's, j
Tuesday, Jan. 22 — Farm bu- ;
reau meet at Gaither’s at 7:30. Gold
Star Mothers to meet with Mrs. E. j
B. Fowler at 7 p. m. League of Wo
men Voters, Gaithers, 8 p. m.
Wednesday, Jan. 23 — Jaycees |
ladies’ night and awards to out- j
standing farmer, young man and i
key members.
Figures Released
Rise Noted In Number Of
Accidents In Transylvania
Although Transylvania county
has the best record of no fatalities
on its highways during the past
three and one half years, the num
ber of accidents during 1956 was
considerably more than in the pre
vious year, Patrolman Jack Cabe
apd Bill Sawyer report.
During 1956 there were 85 mo
tor vehicle accidents in Transylva
nia, while during the previous
year there were 55. For 1954, acci
dents totalled 56 in this county.
Last year there were 49 acci
dents involving two cars, and 35 in
which only one vehicle was involv
ed. A total of 31 persons were in
jured in the 85 accidents, and 64
arrests following the various acci
dents were made.
Heading the list of 1956 arrests
was the charge of reckless driving.
A total of 15 were arrested on this
count, and 13 were cited for driv- j
ing on the left side. Twelve were J
arrested for failing to yield right-1
of-way.
Patrolman Cabe points out that j
it is interesting to note that reck- j
less driving has headed the list for
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The Weather
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The season’s first snowfall was
recorded early Tuesday morning
in Transylvania,
temperature for
degrees.
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
The average low
the week was 30
High Low Pre.
55 40 .01
63 36 .06
40 22 .01
55 30 0
56 26 0
49 33 0
40 27 .05
the past three years.
Property damages to vehicles in
the 85 accidents were estimated at
$32,867.00 by the local patrolmen.
During 1956 more accidents were
reported on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday than any other days of the
week. Saturdays led the list with
16. and 15 \#ere recorded on Fri
days and Sundays.
As to the location of accidents,
18 occurred on US 64, west, while
there were 17 on NC 280. On US
64, east, there were 14, and eight
occurred on the Little River road.
As to the time of accidents, 3:00
o'clock in the afternoon led the
list with 10, while six were record
ed at 4:00 p. m., 7:00 p. m., and
9:00 p. m.
New Library Will Be Dedicated On
Sunday Afternoon, Public Is Invited
BUS COMPANY TO i
CONTINUE UNTIL I
HEARING IS HELD
Operations Will Not Be C •
continued Today As An
nounced Last Week
Smoky Mountain Stages will be j
required to continue running its |
buses through Brevard and Rosman
jntil a hearing is held before the <
North Carolina Utilities Commis
sion, it was announced from Ral
eigh yesterday.
In a letter from the utilities com- \
mission to C. M. Douglas, chairman s
■>£ the Brevard Chamber of Com- •
merce bus committee and Mrs. Joe i
Osborne, of the Rosman chamber,
it was stated that “. .. the time and i
place for the hearing has not yet i
been determined, and in the mean
time . . . buses must continue as
per schedule, as of now.”
The letter also states that the
hearing, if Smoky Mountain Stages
wishes to have one, will be held in
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TAG SALES SAID
SLOW, MOTORISTS
SIGNING PLEDGES
Mrs. Norwood Say* Some
1,200 Plates Sold To Date.
Ahead Last Year
Although the sale of license tags
at the Carolina Motor qliA office
is slow, the total number of tags
already purchased is slightly more
than the figure sold at this time
last year, Mrs. Harold Norwood,
the manager, announces today.
Some 1,200 license plates had
been sold through Tuesday, she re
ported, and she urges all motorists
who have not secured their tags to
do so immediately and avoid the
last minute rush.
Transylvania motorists are also
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Directors, Officers Of
The Bank Are Re-Elected
Directors and stockholders of
the Transylvania Trust company
met Tuesday afternoon, and
heard the best reports in the his
tory of the local bank.
With resources at an all-time
Annual Red Cross
Meet Set Monday
The annual meeting of the Tran
sylvania chapter of the American
Red Cross will be held at 7:30 at
Gaither’s, Monday night, January
21st.
New officers will be presented
and service stripes given to all vol
unteers who have served during the
past year. All members and inter
ested persons are asked to attend
this meeting.
Frank Bridges Is Named To Head
Brevard Chamber Of Commerce
D. Frank Bridges, co-owner of
Bridges Coal & Oil company, was
elected president of the Brevard
chamber of commerce at a spec
ial call meeting Tuesday night of
the new board of directors over
the city hall.
He succeeds James C. Gaither,
who presided over the meeting.
Mr. Bridges has been a member
of the board of directors of the
chamber of commerce for the past
several years, and for the past two
years, he has done an exceptional- |
ly good job as head of the member-;
ship committee. j
Cecil J. Hill, Brevard attorney,'
and head of the industrial commit
tee of the commerce body for the
p»st two years, was named vice
president.
The following officers were re
elected: C. M. Douglas, recording
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D. FRANK BRIDGES
high, the group was optimistic
over the future, and officers were
re-elected.
Resources, at the end of 1956,
totalled $3,751,874.29, and de
posits were $3,449,004.77.
Jonathan Woody was re-elected
president, and other officers who
were renamed were: Ralph J.
Duckworth, executive vice pres
ident; Melvin Gillespie, cashier;
Rowell Bosse, assistant cashier;
and, Catherine M. Henderson, as
sistant cashier.
Directors are S. E. Varner, Sr.,
chairman, L. N. Davis, R. J. Duck
worth, W. M. Melton, Jos. S. Sil
versteen, and Jonathan Woody.
County Said To Be
Lagging In Taking
The Polio Vaccine
In a recent polio survey spon
sored by the schools and the
county health department, out of
2,600 questionaires returned,
more than 50 percent of the one
to 19 age group had had no polio
shots at all. In this group, 25
percent had had three shots, 21
percent had had only two shots
and 3 percent had one shot. Less
than one fourth of Transylvania’s
school children have complete
protection against polio, health
department officials point out,
since some of the questionaires
returned were from pre-school
children.
The 2,600 questionaires re
turned represent roughly 65 per-_
cent of the one to 19 age group in
Transylvania county.
Polio vaccine is available to
anyone, regardless of age,
through private physicians. Al
though polio is considered a dis
ease of the young, according to
health authorities, young adults
are also susceptable and should
avail themselves of the protec
tion of the Salk vaccine.
THE BREVARD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE office
is now located in the new Transylvania library on the
court house lawn. Mrs. John A. Ford, the executive
secretary, and James C. Gaither, the outgoing president,
are pictured above inspecting some new publicity ma
terial and the facilities of the attractive new quarters.
Along with the library, the office will be open Sunday af
ternoon, when the building will be officially dedicated.
Chamber Of Commerce Doubling
Efforts To Get Warning Signals
At Highway - Railroad Crossings
O. R. LONG, regional director,
of organization of the American
Farm Bureau federation, cover
ing 13 southeastern states, will
address the Transylvania county
Farm Bureau at its annual meet
ing next Tuesday night, January
22, at 7:30 o’clock, at Gaither’s.
Mr. Long has had many years’ ex
perience in dealing with farm
problems and farm organizations
and is considered by many to be
closer to farm problems than any
other man in the South. M. M.
Shuford, president of the Tran
sylvania Farm bureau, will pre
side over the meeting.
Special Committee Is Being
Named To Work With
Music Foundation
Chamber of Commerce directors
ba”e requested the State Highway
commission and Southern Railway
to take immediate steps to provide
proper and adequate warning sig
nals and railway crossings at
North Brevard, Etowah and Horse
Shoe on U. S. 64.
Recent death of the Gillespie
family at the Etowah Crossing was
recalled at the meeting, and stress
was also laid on the fact that re
quest was made several years ago
for protection at the North Bre
vard crossing soon after the new
Straus schodl was opened.
Letters were ordered written to
Commissioner Harry Buchanan at
Hendersonville, of the State High
way commission, and to appropri
ate officials of the Southern, with
copy of the letter also to be mailed
to Governor Luther Hodges.
In other matters of business be
fore election of officers was held,
the board of directors named Jerry
Jerome and Ralph Ramsey as co
chairmen of a special committee to
work with other civic groups in
supporting the Brevard Music
Foundation. The board voted to
pay $25.00 into the regional promo
tion fund of the industrial survey
now being started through WNCAC
to bring the 1947 book up to date.
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Program Highlights
WPNF Will Broadcast Dedication
Program Of County’s New Library
As a public service, WPNF will
tape the dedicatory program of the
new library Sunday afternoon, and
it will be heard over the air at 4:00
o’clock.
Bobby Hoyle, the station mana
ger, cordially invites the public to
attend the dedication at 2:30 o’
clock, and then to listen to the spec
ial program at 4:00 o’clock over the
air.
Brevard college’s president, Rev.
Robert H. Stamey, will make the
dedicatory address, and an inspec
tion tour of the beautiful new
building will be held following the
ceremony.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Civic hour
for the coming week is as follows:
Friday, Book & Plate cM); Monday,
American Lfegion, Wednesday, Ro
tary club.
On the Farm and Home hour the
following will be heard: Thursday,
Brevard Home Economics depart
ment, Mrs. Glenn Burrell; Friday,
Carolina Farm features; Monday,
county agent’s office; Tuesday,
Rosman Vo-Ag Department, B. E.
Keisler; Wednesday, Carolina Farm
features.
The Rev. Bob Ayres, pastor of
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5TAMEY TO MAKE
PRINCIPAL TALK,
TOUR IS PLANNED
Reception Also On Program*
Ramsey To Present Build
ing To The Chairman
REVIEW IS GIVEN
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The new and modern TransyL
'ania Community library, located
d.iacent to the court house, will lie iX
ledicated Sunday afternoon in a
pecial ceremony in the court room,
ollowed by an inspection .’Of the
^tractive building.
The public is most cordi^Hh »■ -
died by Mrs. Oliver Orr, chairman
>f the library board, to attend the
ledication and to tour the new H
>rary.
Rev. Robert H. Stamey, presi
lent of Brevard college, wiD de
iver the dedicatory address Spa
iay afternoon, and Mrs. Orr will
preside over the ceremony.
Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., county at
om ey and chairman of the special
committee which raised the foods
:o build the new library, will make
:he official presentation of the
building to the chairman of the
board. Mrs. Orr will then make the
acceptance speech.
Thomas R. Eller, town attorney,
will give a brief history of the*
rransylvania library, and the ad
dress of welcome on the program
will be by Mayor John A. Ford.
Special music for the Oceanian
will be by the Brevard eoQefe
choir, with Prof. Nelson Adam*
head of the department of mask
at the. college, conducting.
*Rev. Keith Beam, pastor of the
Lutheran Chureh of the. Good
Shepherd, will give the invocation, '
and the dedicatory prayer will he
by Rev. B. W. Thomason, pastor of
the First Baptist church,
Mrs. Lehman Kapp, the libra
rian, will introduce special guests.
A tour of the library will he
held afterwards and it will be fol
lowed by a reception, given by the
Brevard chapter of the American
Association of University Women:
The chairman of the board points -
out that the new library is truly p -
community enterprise.
Late in 1955 a campaign to raise
$20,000 for a new building was .
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$45,000 RAISED M
COLLEGE CAMPAIGN
Officials Believe Goal W3I
Be Overrobscribei So
licitors Are Bosj
The Brevard College Develop
ment fund campaign in- TnaajV
vania county, which is being direc
ted by Ed B. Garrett,, is now over
the $45,000 mark, the chairman re
ports. .
Mr. Garrett is calling on all so
licitors to intensify their cgffMtF
and return to him as many pledge
cards as possible by next Monday.
College President gdbert &
Stanley expressed himself as Mag
highly pleased with the success of
the campaign here and in the ether
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ties.
The local goal is $50,000 and col
lege officials and members of the
board of trustees feel thaf it wSB
be oversubscribed, thereby setting
a fine example for other counties
to follow.
Collections Of
Sales, Use Taxes
Are Up In County
Using the collections of anles
and use taxes in Transyhruu
as a barometer, business was bet
ter during November, 1956, than
it was for the same month a year
before, it is learned today.
According to the Retailer,
monthly publication of the North
Carolina Merchants association*
collections for November this
past year amounted to $14,
308.08, while they were $13,~
972.67, for November, 1955. JL
gain of $335.41 is noted.
A slight gain was also chalhed
up across the state.