TRANSYLVANIA—
Fhe Land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer Camps,
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
Vol. 68—No. 8
The Transylvania Times
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TRANSYLVANIA—
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and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1990 Census, 15,321
Brevard Community 7,394
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,19S7 * i8 PAGES TODAY *
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
A HUGE WNC COUNTRY HAM was
presented to. Harold G. Brown, right, a
Du Pont public relations advisor, follow
ing his address at the joint meeting of
Brevard civic groups last Wednesday
night in the Masonic temple. Making the
presentation on behalf of the clubs is
Mayor John A. Ford, left. Over 225 mem
bers of the Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary and
B & PW clubs, as well as directors of the
Brevard and Rosman chambers of com
merce, attended the banquet meeting,
sponsored by the Brevard Jaycees. Seat
ed at the right is Ed M. Anderson, news
paper and radio executive, who intro
duced Mr. Brown. (Times Staff Photo)
Du Pont Wants To Be Good Neighbors"
Public Relations Advisor Says In Talk
Growth Of Gigantic Com
pany Is Revealed. Many
Attended The Banquet
The Du Pont company, which is
building the new silicon plant here,
wants us all to be good neighbors,
said Harold G. Brown, public re
lations advisor with the pigments
department, to a large group as
sembled at a special meeting in
the Masonic Temple Wednesday
night.
Lions, Kiwanians, Jaycees, B &
PW club members and Brevard and
Rosman chambers of commerce di
rectors assembled some 225 strong
to hear the message from the Du
Pont official.
Pure air and water, he said, were
the main reasons for the selection
of the Buck Forest site which is in
both Transylvania and Henderson
counties. The new multi-million
dollar plant will be built along the
Little River on the Transylvania
side.
“The plant for the manufacture
of hyperpure silicon is a part of a
long term expansion and improve
ment program launched by Du
Pont since the close of World War
II,” Mr. Brown said. He pointed out
that the company searched for ov
er a year before this site was selec
ted.
Mr. Brown indicated that actual
construction of the plant will be
gin on March 1st. Work on the
roads in already underway. “By
March 15th,” he said, “The pig
ments department will send in an
employer relations man who will
be in charge of recruiting and
training personnel.
The new silicon plant cannot be
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Feb. 21 — Lions Club
to meet at Gaither’s, at 7:00 o’clock.
Masons meet at Masonic temple at
7:30 o’clock. YWA rally at Grace
Baptist church at 7:30.
Friday, Feb. 22 — Scout commit
tee '^mpjeet at Duke Power com
pany at 7:30 o’clock. Brevard vs.
Hendersonville game in college
gym. Faculty recital at Brevard
college at 8:15 o’clock.
Sunday, Feb. 24 — Attend the
church of your choice.
Monday, Feb. 25 — Rotary club
meets at Gaither’s at 7:00 o’clock.
Tuesday, Feb. 26 — Gold Star
mothers meet at Mrs. Henry Gar
ren’s at 7:00 o’clock. Elks and
Moose lodges meet at their respec
tive lodges at 8:00 o’clock.
Wednesday, Feb. 27 — Jaycees
meet at Gaither’s at 6:30 o’clock.
Bradburn Chairman
Plans Being Made To Observe
Centennial, Education Group
; Elaborate plans are being made
for the local observance of the
joint celebration of the North Car
olina Education association and the
National Education association cen
tennial anniversary.
• The theme of the observance,
which is slated for April 4th, is “An
; Educated People Moves Freedom
I Forward”.
Transylvania members are join
ing with the more than 660,000
members of the NEA across the
ration in this gigantic celebration.
Objectives of the project are:
(1) To consider the decisive role
of education in a changing world;
(2) To stimulate action to provide
adequate education for the in
ceasing millions of children; and,
(3) To strengthen the teaching
profession in its service to people
of all ages.
Wayne Bradburn, county super
I visor, is the general chairman of
, the event, and a few of the local
] activities being planned are: a gi
gantic parade on April 4th; dis
plays on the streets and in the
store windows; recognition and
awarding of gifts to educational
j leaders; a birthday party at the
. Oiin M3thieson Chemical corpor
ation; etc.
A history of the school system
and each school will be prepared
under the direction of Mrs. Com
nena Lawrence and John I. Ander
son and the Transylvania Centen
nial committee.
Newspaper articles, radio talks
and other programs are being
j planned with all of the various civ
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More Than A Million To Be Expended
In Transylvania Along The Parkway
TWO HOUSES ARE
BURNED, SAID TG
HAVE BEEN “SET”
Both Dwellings Located On
Quebec Mountain. Inves- :
tigation Underway
Investigations of two residen
tial fires in upper Transylvania,
which are believed to have been
set, are underway, according to
Sheriff ‘Scott” Dillingham.
Both blazes occurred about the
same time, 2:00 o’clock Tuesday
morning, and the dwellings were
located some 300 yards apart on
Quebec Mountain above Rosman.
The summer home of Gilbert
Reid, of Sarasota, Florida, was a
total loss, and damages to the
house belonging to Lawrence
Smith, were estimated at several
hundred dollars. Neighbors were
able to extinguish the blaze be
fore the house burned complete
ly
Both houses were unoccupied. I
The sheriff says his depart- 1
ment has evidences, which point l
to both fires being set.
A window of the Smith home
had been broken out, and a jar
of kerosene had been thrown in
on a bed, where the fire origina
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GAITHER NAMED !
TO COMMITTEES
Local Representative In Gen
eral Assembly Says
Body Is Busy
Transylvania’s representative, j
James C. Gaither, has been named!
to 13 important committees in the |
General Assembly.
Mr. Gaither spent the week end j
in Brevard and says the legislature
is now settling down to serious bus- i
iness after completing much pre
liminary work. ,
Mr. Gaither invites Transylvan-'
ians to keep him posted on their
wishes on such important items as
salary raises, the garnishee law
and other legislation.
He said he had a number of lo
cal bills to be introduced later and
that he would keep the public ful
ly informed on them through the
columns of The Times and over
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Excellent Response Is
Reported At Polio Clinics
Excellent response is being re
ported in the polio clinics now be
ing conducted in the schools of
Transylvania, Dr. John Folger,
health officer reports.
During the first two days, a to
tal of 458 shots was given, and the
clinics will be continued on
Thursday morning at 9:00 o’clock
at Penrose, and then at Pisgah
Forest at 1:00 p. m. Thursday af
ternoon.
Martha Fortune Is Awarded The Mary
Morrow Scholarship At The University
- •
Martha Caroline Fortune has
been named the winner of the Mary
Morrow scholarship for 1956-1957.
The N. C. Classroom Teachers
association, a division of the NCEA,
named Miss Fortune the winner
over a number of outstanding ap
plicants for the award.
Miss Fortune is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Fortune, of
Brevard. She is a junior at the
University of North Carolina.
The scholarship will be in the
amount of $150 and was awarded
on the basis of character, financial
need, personality, an expressed in
tention of entering the teaching
profession, and scholastic achieve
ment.
“I want to be a teacher as I see
that the need for teachers must be
met if the youth of today are to be
guided into responsible adulthood,”
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MARTHA FORTUNE
The schedule for next week is as
follows:
Feb. 25 — 9:00 a. m., Rosen
wald
Feb. 26 — 9:00 a. m., Brevard
high school.
Feb. 27-28 — Brevard Elemen
tary.
Dr. Folger says that P-TA
groups are furnishing clerical help
and refreshments in some instan
ces. Upon the completion of the
new T. C. Henderson school at
Quebec, a clinic will be held there
for the remainder of the children
in upper Transylvania.
Only school children are receiv
ing the Salk vaccine in the school
clinics, and younger and older
persons are urged to get them at
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Corn Club Banquet
Slated March 1st
Members of the 100-Bushel
Corn club in Transylvania will be
honored at the annual banquet on
Friday night, March 1st, County
Agent James Davis announces.
This year the event will be held
in the Rosman cafeteria, with A.
D. Stewart, specialist from State
college,. Raleigh, as the principal
speaker.
Tickets may be secured at the
county agent’s office for $1.00
each. During this past year, a
total of 38 persons raised 100 or
more bushels of corn on one acre
in Transylvania, Mr. Davis re
ports.
The banquet meeting will begin
at 7:00 o’clock on March 1st.
NEW DIAGNOSTIC X-RAY equipment, costing
more than $15,000 is now being installed at the Transyl
vania community hospital, and administrator, John Bail
ey, can be noted at the left inspecting the modern ma
chinery. Funds for this equipment were made possible
through the Ford foundation and Duke endowment.
Technicians of the Dell School of Medical Technology,
of Asheville, >yho work on week ends at the local insti
tution, are: Rufus E. Coltrane, center, and Thurman
Meeks, right. A. E. Norville is head of the X-Ray and
laboratory departments of the local hospital.
_ (Times Staff Photo)
Service Unit Of Salvation
Army Will Be Set Up Here
STEERING GROUP
OF CLUB CHOSEN
Plans For Reopening Will Be
Made. To Nominate Offi
cers, Directors
A steering committee has been
named to make plans for the re
opening of the Brevard country
club house and continued operation
of the golf course.
During the winter months the
club house has been closed be
cause of the expense of heating the
huge building, but the course has
remained open, and playable, all
year.
The group will also nominate of
ficers and a board of directors.
Serving on the steering commit
tee, which was appointed at a re
cent meeting of members and in
terested persons in Gaither’s Dog
wood room, are the following: Dr.
E. 0. Roland, Pete Wright, Roy
Orr, Buster Carr, Frank Yar
brough, Vance Jackson and Wayne
Bradburn.
George Perkins, Jr., presided
over the meeting, and it was the
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Many Advantages Are Cited,
Funds Furnished By The
United Appeal
A Salvation Army service ex
tension unit Jias been set up in
Brevard, and money for its opera
tion is being furnished through
the local United Fund.
Brevard was formerly served by
the Asheville office, and state of
ficials state that with a local unit,
better services will be rendered
this area.
Rev. L. B. Vaughn, pastor of the
Kings Street Baptist church, has
been named chairman of the local
unit, and Marvin F. McCall is the
vice chairman.
Brevard’s city clerk, Mrs. Opal
King, will serve as secretary and
treasurer, and other members of
the committee are as follows:
Mrs. Joe Osborne, W. W. Brittain,
Jack Tranthani, Paul Fisher and
Mrs. Ed Sentelle.
The local extension service unit
pf the Salvation army will offer
such services as over night lodging
and meals for transients; clothes
and food for families losing their
belongings by fire; emergency med
ical care; Christmas cheer for indi
gent families; and, other services
which are deemed advisable and
worthwhile.
Legislative Round-Up
Raise In Salary For Teachers Is
Biggest Battle In General Assembly
m
By STAFF CORRESPONDENT
RALEIGH — The teacher pay
raise was the most controversial
issue before the Legislature dur
ing the past week. Last Thursday
the General Assembly was told,
that if it is determined to raise the
salaries of teachers and state em
ployees above the level proposed
by Gov. Hodges it should look in
to elimination of sales tax exemp
tions in order to find the money.
A resolution was introduced on
Tuesday to make consideration of
pay increases for teachers and
state employees its first order of
business.
I Week’s Highlights
A day-by-day run-down included
the following action of the Gener
al assembly:
Thursday — Legislation intro
duced included a bill to increase
the amount of tax refund given to
farmers on motor fuels used for
farming purposes. The farmers
now are getting back only 5 of the
7 cents tax on the gasoline they
use in their tractors and other
farm equipment. The bill would in
crease this to 7 cents and make
the refunds annually instead of
quarterly.
Friday — A legislator set out to
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PRIVATE CAPITAL
TO BE INVESTED
FOR FACILITIES
Concessions To Be Built Dur
ing Next Nine Years.
Meet Held Monday
COMPLAINTS HEARD
Over a million dollars in build
ings and equipment in the Transyl
vania county area will be spent for
tourist accommodations along the
Blue Ridge Parkway by private
capital investing in contractural
agreements with the National Park
service, it was announced by Supt.
Sam Weems at a meeting is
Waynesville on Monday.
Lodging and food facilities will
be provided, under the plan, at ML
Pisgah, and luncheon-gas service
will be operated at the foot o£
Tennessee Bald neat the Transyl
vania - Jackson county line, the
Park service officials stated during
the hearing.
The concessions. at Mt.' Pisgah
and Tennessee Bald will be built,
during the next pine years, it was
j announced, and effort will be.
| made to work out an arrangement
with present operators of Pisga^a.
Inn for continuing there under thy*,
new contract, it was stated.’
Present Pisgah Inn is operated?
by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie. Kinwhner,
who own the buildings! and lease
land from Pisgah National Forest
Site of the Pisgah Inn is included
in the Parkway boundary, it Was
pcinted out at the Monday hearing,
and will have to be demolished.
However, it is passible that opera
tion of the inn will be continued
for eight or nine years, as the see
tion of parkway near Mt. Pisgah fe
cn the low priority list. . „
Special allotment of $3O£Q0
from state highway surplus funds
out of the 1956 budget have bees
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: DOC CLINKS TO
BEGIN MARCH 1ST
Commissioners, Health De
partment And Humane
Society Cooperating.
A series of clinics for the innoce
lation of dogs in Transylvania
county will be started on March 2,
Elam Galloway, county dog war
den, announces.
The clinics are being arranged*
to suit as nearly as possible ait dog
owners in Transylvania* and the?
are being sponsored by the county
commissioners, the local health de
partment, with the Transylvania
Humane society assisting.
Regarding the vaccination «fr
dogs, Walter F. Hart, director of'
sanitation, releases the following;
statement:
“For the protection of the peo
ple as well as the ammaF otar state*
has strengthened the rabies con
trol laws and we are directed to
enforce them fully. We also feel
that the majority of people are
perfectly willing to comply with
the law by having their pets vac
cinated but that many of them are
careless and through their care
lessness annually in our state
there is considerable grief from ra
bies in our people. Through m#
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Straus P-TA Asks
For Salary Raise
For AH Teachers
The P-TA of the Harry H.
Straus school voted at its Tues
day night’s meeting to urge leg
islation, which would give the
teachers of North Carolina *
raise of 19.1 percent in salary.
Gunther Bauldanf, the presi
dent, has written each parent of
children in the Straus school,
urging them to use their influ
ence in getting the pay raise.
“If we are to keep our present
teachers as well as attract new
teachers for our increasing
school population, it is impera
tive that the legislature adopt
laws to put pay increases into eft
feet,” Mr. Bauldauf states.