TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer Camps,
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
The Transylvania Times
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TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial. Tourist, Ed
ucational, A g r i c ultural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1900 Census, 19,821
Brevard Community 7,394
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1987 * 16 PAGES TODAY t
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
POLIO VACCINE is administered to
the staff of the Transylvania community
hospital. Shown, left to right, are Dr.
James Sanders, Dr. Julius Sader, Dr.
Carl Plum. Mrs. Jessie A. Lollis, Dr. John
Folger and Mrs. Hilda Cleveland. Every
I member of the staff received the Salk
Vaccine. This is part of a program to
see that every person in the one to 19 age
group receive the polio shots plus a good
percentage of the adults in Transylvania
county. (Times Staff Photo)
Plans For Polio Clinics In County In
Mid-February Being Carried Forward
Principals Hear Health Offi
cials. To Distribute Per.
mission Forms
Plans for the polio clinics to be
held in the schools were discussed
at the monthly meeting of the prin
cipals held Tuesday evening at
Gaither’s.
The clinics are scheduled to be
gin the week of February 18th,
with a return visit plashed a month
later for the seeofld shot. A com
plete schedule of visits to all
county schools will be announced
after it is worked out.
Permission forms are being dis
tributed this week through the
schools. Parents who wish their
children to receive the Salk vac
cine at the clinics are asked to
sign and return these blanks.
On these forms, additional in
formation is asked for if the child
has had previous shots. This is
necessary in order to determine the
proper spacing of further shots.
The present schedule of immun
izations which is recommended is
as follows: two to six weeks be
tween the first two shots, and at
least seven months between the
second and third. Children who
had their first and second shot on
ly a week apart are advised to get
a fourth, or additional booster.
The American Medical associa
tion is beginning a campaign in
which they are urging adults to
take immunization shots against
polio. Medical men are pointing
out that when this disease strikes
adults, there are usually devas
tating effects.
The vaccine was given last year
in the quantity of over 60 million
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday. Jan. 31 — Tax listing
in the court house. Mothers March
on Polio begins with sound of si
ren, 7 p. m.
Friday, Feb. 1 — Next to last day
for tax listing in court house. Ki
wanis club meets ai Gaither’s, 7 p.
m. Ace of Clubs meets at Gaither’s,
7:45 p. m. Brevard high vs. Flat
Rock, college gym at 7:30 p. m.
Saturday. Feb. 2 — Last day for
listing taxes in the court house.
Brevard college vs. Lees McRae,
college gym, 8 p. m. American Le
gion sponsors March of Dimes
dance. 9 p. m.
Sunday, Feb. 3 — Attend the
church of your choice. March of
Dimes singing at Enon church, 2
p. m.
Monday, Feb. 4 — Presbyterian
Men’s club meets in church, 6:30
p. m. Rotary club meets at Gaith
er’s, 7 p. m. American Legion has
supper, 6:30-7:30 and meeting at
8 p. m.
Tuesday, Feb. 5 — Book and
Plate club meets with Mrs. Lita
Steppe, 8 p. m. Eastern Star meets
in Masonic temple, 8 p. m. Luther
an church women meet with Mrs.
Joe Norman.
$1,628 Now Raised
Several Events To Conclude
Annual March Of Dimes Drive
The annual March of Dimes drive
in Brevard and Transylvania coun
ty will close this week end, Wayne
Bradburn, the campaign director,
announces today.
Concluding events will be the
Mother’s March, the President’s
ball and the singing at Enon Bap
tist church at 2:00 o’clock Sunday
atternoon.
Mrs. F. B. Cudd, the treasurer, j
reports today that $1,628.63 has
been received to date in the '57
drive.
Legionnaires are staging the big
President’s Ball Saturday night,
and the public is invited to attend.
Music will be by Ty Bowling and
his orchestra and vocalist. Admis
sion is $1.00 per person.
“Turn on your light; fight polio
tonight” is the theme of the annu
Rev. Vincent Erb
Is Transferred To
Waynesville Area
Rev. Vincent Erb, pastor of the
Sacred Heart Catholic church here,
is being transferred this week to
the Catholic churches in Waynes
ville and Canton.
Rev. Mr. Erb will also serve the
new Catholic school at Waynesville
and the high school.
He will be succeeded here by
Rev. John O’Brien, of Greensboro,
and the transfers are effective this
week.
Mr. Erb came to Brevard in
June, 1954, and he has also servel
the pastorate at Highlands. Prior to
coming to Brevard, he was pastor
of the Catholic church at Durham,
and he served as the Catholic chap
lain at Duke university.
His new pastorate will include
St. Johns Catholic church at
Waynesville. and the Catholic
church at Canton.
al Mothers’ March which will be
gin Thursday at 7 p. m., with the
blowing of the fire siren.
All parts of Brevard and out
lying districts have been organized
and the women will stop at homes
where porch lights are burning to
pick up donations.
Afterward the section chairmen
are asked to report their funds to
Mrs. Bertha Jean Lance. March
chairman, at the office of Ramsey
and Hill. All solicitors need not
report but should give funds to
their chairmen.
Volunteers were listed in last
week’s papers. Others who have
been added to the list since then
are, Green Acres, Mrs. Harry Kol
man; College Heights, Mrs. S. J.
Rose; and North Brevard, Mrs. Al
bert Lyday, chairman, Mrs. Frank
Osborne and Mrs. Harold Siniard.
Brevard College Begins New Semester,
Enrollment High, Outlook Said Good
MARTIN 4 JONES
MOVES, SINCLAIR
BUILDING STATION
Liner Construction Company
To Erect Modern Struc
ture By May 1st
M irtin and Jones sheet metal
shop has been moved into a new
location opposite their old loca
tion on South Caldwell street.
The buildings, formerly occu
pied by Martin and Jones, have
been razed to make way for a new
and modern service station for the
Sinclair Refining company.
The property has been leased by
John A. Ford to the Sinclair com
pany, and Liner Construction com
pany is building the modernistic
station.
The building, which is now occu
pied by Martin and Jones, is loca
ted on the corner of Caldwell and
Apple Tree streets, just above the
I'isgah Candy company.
J. P. Jones, the manager, cord
ially invites his customers to visit
them in their new location.
The Sinclair station, being erect
ed on the old location of Martin
and Jones, is expected to be com
pleted by May 1st.
HAYES BUYS OUT
BUICK FIRM HERE
Partnership Formed With
Son. Coffey To Return
To Asheville
The firm of Coffey-Hayes Buicfe
company has purchased by
Freeman and Billy Hayes, it is an
nounced today.
The policies of the company,
which include giving dependable
and courteous service, honest
trades, prompt attention, etc., will
be continued as in the past, Mr.
Hayes states.
He invites all old and new cus
tomers to come in and ride in the
'57 Buick.
Mr. Hayes has been in the auto
motive business in Transylvania
county for 30 years, and he and his
son formed a partnership with Jay
Coffey a year and a half ago.
Mr. Coffey plans to return to
Asheville, where he has purchased
a used car business at 1080 Patton
avenue.
Local Group To Protest
At Bus Hearing Friday
Officials and directors of the
Brevard and Rosman chambers
of commerce will appear before
the North Carolina Utilities com
mission in a special hearing Fri
day morning at 10 o’clock in the
Buncombe county court house.
The two commerce bodies have
asked that the franchise of Smo
ky Mountain Stages in Transyl
vania county be revoked. This ac
tion was taken after the bus com
pany announced the first of Jan
uard that service would be “tem
porarily” discontinued, effective
January 19th.
However, the commission ord
ered that the company continue
its services in Transylvania un
til a hearing was held.
C. M. Douglas, Mayor John A.
Pisgah, Nantahala National Forests
Hit By 108 Fires, Burn Small Area
One hundred and eight forest
fires hit Pisgah and Nantahala Na
tional forests in 1956 and burned
over a relatively small 978 acres.
D. J. Morriss, supervisor of North
Carolina National Forests, said
that less than one-tenth of one per
cent of the 740,490 acres under
protection in the two forests was
hit by fire.
Pisgah’s 454,560 acres had 36
! tires which burned over 250 acres.
! Nantahala with its 325,930 acres
had 72 fires, which burned 458 ac*
I res.
The cost of suppressing the fires
averaged 10 cents an acre, a drop
of about three cents an acre from
j the year before, Morriss said. In
11955, the two forests had a total of
195 fires which burned over 1,750
; ac res.
I Incendiarism was the cause of
, nearly one-third of the fires, fol
, lowed in order of frequency by
| careless smokers, sparks from
burning debris, sparks from camp
f.res, and lightning.
March and April, with 55 fires,
were the most dangerous fire
months.
! Ford, H. B. Shiflet and Joe H.
Tinsley comprise the bus com
mittee of the local chamber of
commerce, and they will be
heard at the hearing. Scott Gallo
way, Gil Coan, Austin Hogsed
and others are expected to go
from Rosman.
County 4-H Council
Names New Officers
Floyd McCall, of the Little Riv
er 4-H club, was elected president
of the Transylvania County coun
cil at their meeting Monday night
in the Dunn’s Rock Community
center. He succeeds Sara Hunter
Kellar.
A highlight of this meeting was
the attendance by a group of visit
ing agriculture leaders from Iran,
India and Yugoslavia. They were
interested in observing the boys
and girls in an actual 4-H meet
ing.
Other officers who were elected
to the council are as follows: First
vice president, Betty Jo Lyday,
Beavers club; second vice presi
dent, Charles Taylor, Brevard Sen
iors; secretary, Barbara Severs,
Busy Bee club; song leader, Jean
Bagwell, Harry Straus club; re
porter, Gil Coan, Jr., Brevard Jun
iors; pledge leaders, Melvin Mer
rill, Little River and Carolyn Sue
Thomas, Lake Toxaway; scrapbook,
Linda McCrary, of Rosman and
Douglas Barton, Lake Toxaway.
These officers will be installed
at the next council meeting. The
time and place have not yet been
selected.
r
1956
PRESS AWARD
Nnrtif Carolina
JlrrBB Association
Best Photography
Weekly Division
SECOND PLACE
TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
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January 25, 1957
Transylvania Times Receives
Award At Annual Press Meet
LITTLE THEATRE
GROUP NOW BUSY
“Seven Keys To Baldpate”
Will Be Presented Here
On February 12 & 13
The rehearsals this week are
moving into their final phase for
the Brevard Little Theatre produc
tion of “Seven Keys to Baldpate”,
a melodramatic farce reported to
be full of surprise action.
This second production of BLT’s
seventh season will be given Tues
day and Wednesday evenuings,
February 12 and 13, at 8 p. m., in
the American Legion Building.
Robroy Farquhar is the director,
assisted by Mrs. Rae Stoneback.
A large number of the cast of
15 are new faces to Brevard Little
Theatre audiences.
Earl Rhodes, a teacher of the
seventh grade in Brevard Elemen
tary school, will portray the role
of Elijah Quimby. Mr. Rhodes has
had previous experience in dra
matics and he is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina.
The Rev. Keith J. Beam, Luther
an minister here, makes his BLT
debut in this play. The Rev. Beam
had his first dramatic experience
at Lenoir Rhyne college. He is mar
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Brevard Weekly Has Won 19
State And National Prizes
During Past 14 Years
The Transylvania Times, Bre
vard’s prize-winning weekly news
paper, added another to its long
list of state and national awards at
the annual Institute of the North
Carolina Press association last
week end at Chapel Hill and Duke.
The Times, in competition with
some 140 weekly newspapers of the
state, was one of the nine newspa
pers winning an award. The Times
won second place in the photogra
phy division.
John Anderson, editor of The
Times, received the award from
Governor Luther Hodges at the
meeting in Chapel Hill last Thurs
day night. ...
Two other non-daily newspapers
published by Ed M. AAderson, The
Forest City Courier and The Sky
land Post, were also given awards
at the Institute.
“Winning awards is in keeping
with our policy to publish the best,
modern-day newspaper possible,’
Anderson stated.
He continued by saying that it
was not only an honor for The
Times and its staff but also for the
community as well, and he thanked
all readers, advertisers, corres
pondents and others for their fine
and continued cooperation and
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Program Highlights
Another Educational Program Added
WPNF's Log, Outstanding Series Set
WPNF has added another educa
tional program to its log. The Wake
Forest College program is now
heard weekly each Friday after
noon from 5:45 to 6 o’clock. The
program is made up of music, news
notes of Wake Forest college and
interviews.
In addition to the educational
program, WPNF has regular pro
grams from Transylvania’s schools,
Brevard college, Mars Hill and by
PTA groups.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Civic hour
for the coming week is as follows:
Friday, Girl Scouts; Monday, Musit
lovers club; Wednesday, Rosman
chamber of commerce.
On the Farm and Home Hour the
following will be heard: Thursday
Extension Forestry, F. E. Whit
field; Friday, Carolina Farm Fea
tures; Monday, county agent’s of
fice: Tuesday, Brevard Vo-Ag De
partment, R. J. Lyday; Wednesday
Rosman Home Ec Department
Mrs. S. C. Clapp.
The Rev. Frank McKenzie, rec
tor of the St. Philips Episcopa
church, is speaking this week or
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. 'I1-**.
REGISTRATION
IS CONTINUED,
FIGURES GIVEN
Institution Now Has Seres
Foreign Students. Gffed
uation Set
LOCAL GROUP LISTED
Brevard college opens the
spring semester this week with s
good enrollment. All indications
point to another highly successful
term in the 103rd year of religious
and educational service to the
youth of this state and nation.
More than 400 students are ex
pected to be enrolled for the se
mester as registration continues
this week. Several veterans are al
so expected to matriculate next
week, President Robert H. Stamey
reports.
Included in the group register
ing this week is another Korean
student, Tai Kern, of Seoul, Korea,
Young Kem is the third Korean
student registered at Brevard col
lege, and there are four others
from various foreign countries.
Graduation for the 1956-’57 year
is set for Sunday, June 2, Presi
dent Stamey reports.
An orientation program for new
students was given last week end
under the direction of Dean J. J.
Stevenson, and the testing pro
gram was under the direction of
Dr. B. W. Loomis.
Students attending Brevard Col
lege from Brevard are: Janice El
aine Brown, Charles Wayne Byrd,
Benjamin Coatsworth Cassell, Dav
id B. Cudd, Myrna Delores Fisher,
Sarah Louise Fortune, Craig David
Garren, Donald Lee Greene, Thom
as Avery Hawkins, Betty Jean
Hensley, John Robert Huggins, Ed
gar Powell Israel, Mary Lla Leet
Lance, Sharon Morley, Alice Faye
Moses, Virginia Owen, Nell Rog
ers, Stanley Hampton Scruggs,
James Jerry Stamey, Herbert De
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TAX usm WILL
END ON SATURDAY
Penally Will Be Imposed Af
ter February 2nd, Super
visor Reports
Owners of both real and per
sonal property in Transylvania
county are reminded hy the tax
supervisor, C. Lewis Osborne,
that Saturday of this week is the
last day to list without penalty.
According to the law, proper
ty must be listed during January
or a penalty will be imposed.
This year, Transylvanians are be
ing given two extra days, Febru
ary 1st and 2nd, in which to lbt,
Mr. Osborne explains.
Farm reports must also be
made during this period.
AJ1 the books are here in the
court house.
Glazener Welcomed!
On Return, Brings
Foreigners Here
Accompanied by 16 outstand
ing farm leaden from several
foreign countries, Julian A. Gla
zener, former county agent here,
returned to Transylvania this
week and was given the “glad
hand” as he proudly showed the
group the outstanding progress
that is being made in Transyl
vania in the Rural Development
program.
Various communities, includ
ing Dunn’s Rock, Cedar Moun
tain, Little River and Balsam
Grove, entertained Mr. Glazener
and the foreign visitors from
Iran, India and Yugoslavia. They
appeared to have been more im
pressed with this section of Wes
tern North Carolina than the oth
er parts of the United States in
which they have been recently
visiting.
Before returning to Raleigh
where Mr. Glazener holds an im
portant post in community devel
opment work with the extension
service of State College, the
group will visit in Henderson
and Rutherford counties.