TRANSYLVANIA—
Land ot Waterfalls,
ssecea for Summer Camps,,
Entrance to Ptegah Na
ticmal Fta^ rt and Home of
Brevard If sic Festival
The Transylvania Times
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TRANSYLVANIA—
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neational A g r i c ultund
and Music Center. Popula
tion, i960 Census, HJ421.
Brevard' Community 7494.
Vol. 68 — No. 11
Second Class Mall Privileges
Authorized at Brevard. N. C.
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 14,1957 * 18 PAGES TODAY ★
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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THE DEMOLISHED CAR in which
two Transylvania high school virls were
] killed last Wednesday night, is pictured
above being inspected by Sgt E. W.
Jones, of Asheville, kneeling, and Patrol
man Jack Cabe, who investigated the ac
cident. It can be noted that the front left
wheel was driven below the driver’s seat
in the impact. Killed in the accident,
which occurred near the entrance of Pis
gah National forest, were Linda Sue Cas
sell and Judy Evelyn Hutchins, and Cor
bett Holland was seriously injured.
(Times Staff Photo)
Du Pont Opening Office Here, To Begin
Employing Persons At Later Date
Training Center Will Be Set
Up In Pickelsimer Build
ing Next Month
The Du Pont company, which
will begin construction of a mul
ti-million dollar Silicon plant at
Buck Forest in the near future, has
■opened offices in Brevard in the
^McMinn building, Harold F. Red
mile, the project manager announ
ces today.
A number of key persons, who
are connected with construction
of the modern plant, are arriving
in the community.
Mr. Redmile says it will be a cou
ple of weeks or more before appli
cations will be taken for employ
ment of local people to work on
construction of the plant.
A sub-contract for clearing and
grading of the property was let
this week to McKoy and Helgersen,
of Greenville, S. C. This work has
already begun and it must be com
pleted before any construction
can move forward, it was learned.
Other sub-contracts are expect
ed to be let at an early date.
The Pickelsimer building, loca
Jfrd on Caldwell street near the
Yisgah Candy company, has been
rented by the Du Pont company.
It will be used as their initial
—Turn To Page Seven
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, March 14—Fortnight
ly club meets with Mrs. J. C.
Wike, 3:30 p. m. Mathatasian club
meets with Mrs C. E. Buckner,
3:30 p. m. College basketball
banquet, college cafeteria, 5:45 p.
m. Masonic meeting in Temple, 8
p. m.
FYiday, March 15 — Brevard
Garden club meets with Mrs. R. H.
Stamey, 3:30 p. m. Kiwanis club
meets at Gaither’s, 7 p. m. Ameri
can Legion dance, 9 p. m.
Saturday, March 16 — VFW aux
iliary bake sale, 9 a. m., in front of
Belk’s.
Sunday, March 17—Attend the
church of your choice.
^Monday, March 18 — Board of
■iualization and review meets in
commissioner’s room, 10 a. m. Ro
tary club meets at Gaither’s, 7 p.
m. 4-H electric meeting, Masonic
temple, 7:30 p. m. Brevard High
School P-TA meets, 8 p. m.
Tuesday, March 19 — Eastern
Star meets in Masonic temple, 8
p. m.
Wednesday, March 20 — Even
ing unit of League of Women Vo
ters, home of lifrs. H. C. McDonald, j
8 p. m.
Legislative Round-Up
Highway Dept. Reorganized
Before General Assembly
1 RALEIGH — The legislature
!has been busy with the reorgan
ization of the highway department
•during the past week. Also pro
posed is legislation to separate the
State prison system from the high
way department. Still being de
bated is a system for raising the
salaries of state employees.
A day by day round-up shows the
following proposals being or hav
Equalization And
Review Board To
Meet Next Monday
The board of equalization and
Review in Transylvania will meet
on Monday morning, March 18th,
here at the court house at 10:00 o’
clock.
According to C. Lewis Osborne,
county accountant and clerk of the
board, the purpose of the meeting
is for the hearing of complaints in
regard to valuations placed on real
property.
The meeting will be held in the
commissioner’s room.
ing been acted upon during the
past week by the General Assem
! bly:
I Wednesday — An administra
! tion - engineered compromise
[cleared the way for quick and fa
vorable action on legislation to re
i organize the State Highway Com
j mission. Also, the Senate ver
jsion of the highway reorganized
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Accident In Forest Claims Lives Of
Twor First Fatalities In 3% Years
ASC CHAIRMAN
URGES FARMERS
SET PRACTICES
Whitmire Cites List Of Six.
Conservation Needs
Are Explained
Farmers of Transylvania Coun
ty who sign up to cooperate in the
1957 Agricultural Conservation
Program may select from a list of
practices the ones needed on their
individual farms to check and con
trol soil erosion, build up stock
piles of soil fertility and make bet
ter use of water.
The list includes:
(1) Seeding permanent pasture
or hay crops
(2) Seeding permanent pasture1
or hay in a crop rotation
(3) Applying ground limestone
on farmland
(4) Planting forest trees
(5) Improving permanent pas
ture or hay
(6) Seeding winter cover cropsj
Explaining how an individual
uses the Agricultural Conservation I
Program on his farm, Marvin W.
Whitmire, Chairman of the Tran
sylvania County ASC Committee,
said that first a farmer should
study his own farm to determine
the conservation needs.
Is sheet erosion taking the top
—Turn to Page Seven
NEW BUS LINE
NOW OPERATING
The Jack Bryson Company Is
Now Serving The Brevard
Asheville Runs Each Day
The Jack Bryson bus company,
o* Asheville, is running Brevard
to Asheville over Boylston road
and at present is making two round
trips from Asheville daily. The
Asheville bus arrives here at
noon, leaves at 12:30 for Ashe
ville; returns to Brevard again
at 6:30 in the afternoon and then
back to Asheville.
Mr. Bryson took over the fran
chise of the Smoky Trailways last
week, and says he hopes to eventu
ally work out a schedule that will
be suitable to Brevard people and
at same time make a financial go
—Turn to Page Twelve
Commerce Office Opens,
Influx Is Expected Here
In order to serve the many new
people who are expected in Bre
vard during the coming weeks
to work on the Du Pont project
and the new addition at the
Olin Mathieson Chemical cor
poration at Pisgah Forest, the
office of the Brevard chamber of
commerce will open each day
from 9:00 a. m. to 1:00 p. m., be
ginning Monday, March 18th, the
TWO TRANSYLVANIA GIRLS, who lost their lives
in an accident near the entrance of the Pisgah National
forest last Wednesday night, are pictured above. At the
left is Linda Sue Cassell, Rosman high school student,
and at the right, is Judy Evelyn Hutchins, of Pisgah For
est, and a student at Brevard high school. Large crowds
attended the last rites for the two girls last Friday and
Saturday afternoons.
f
directors decided Tuesday night.
The beautiful new office is
located in the modern library
building, adjacent to the court
nouse, and staffing it are Mrs.
John Ford, the executive secre
tary, and Mrs. Alex Boxer.
The directors urge all persons
with apartments and houses for
rent to list them with their bro
ker or the real estate agents of
the community or to advertise
them in the paper.
“We expect a big demand for
both and we want to furnish liv
—Turn to Page Twelve
Opening Celebration
At Ray Dills Center
A grand opening celebration will
be held Friday and Saturday,
March 15 and 16 by Ray Dill’s Shell
service station, self-service grocery
and drive-in restaurant, located on
highway 64 halfway between Bre
vard and Rosman. The owner and
operator of these businesses, Ray
Dills, has invited everyone to
come out and help celebrate the
openings. Free hot dogs, cokes and
ice cream will be given to all com
ers.
The service station will feature
Shell oil products, Exide batteries
and Dunlop tires. At the self-ser
vice grocery, customers will find
a complete line of groceries, pro
duce and meats as well as livestock
feeds. The drive-in restaurant will
be managed by Vickie Gates and
will serve sandwiches and short or
ders and will specialize in foot
long hot dogs and 5c coffee.
THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT, which claimed
the lives of two 16-year old girls last Wednesday night,
was viewed by hundreds and hundreds of persons dur
ing th£ past week end. According to investigating offi
cers, the death car traveled some 480 feet from the first
skid marks to the sycamore tree, indicated by arrow,
where it was finally halted. (Times Staff Photo)
Will Build Scenic Road In
Upper Transylvania, Bids
To Be Opened On March 26
DR. FRANK McGUIRE, Bre
vard optometrist, was elected
president of the Brevard Rotary
club at Monday night’s meeting.
He will succeed Rowell Bosse.
(See story, front page, second
section.)
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The Weather
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Temperatures were mostly mild
during the past week. The largest
portion of the week’s rainfall
came on Thursday from a mixture
of rain and snow.
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
High Low Pre.
43 34 .07
45 33 .42
40 32 .32
43 26 0
56 16 0
69 27 0
69 41 .04
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Road Is Familiarly Known In
County As The Pin-Hook,
Beach-Gap Route
A new three-mile road will open
a new area of mountain wilderness
to motorists in 1958.
The road will provide a direct
route between U. S. 64 near Ros
man, and US 276 near Canton. It
will traverse the mile-high moun
tains at Beech Gap on the Blue
Ridge Parkway and wind over the
headwaters of the French Broad
River.
The bids on construction and
laying of a stone base will be open
ed by the State Highway and Pub
lic Works Commission at Raleigh
March 26.
C. W. Lee, the commission’s 14th
I Division engineer at Sylva, said
[ today the cost, excluding that of
paving, is expected to be about
$600,000.
He said the road will open to mo
torists in the summer of 1958.
It will run between the parkway
at Beech Gap on the Transylvania
Haywood County line to Pinhook
Gap, tying in with a U. S. Forest
Service road there. The existing
Forest Service road winds through
Balsam Grove Community about
II miles north of Rosman and joins
a paved, two-lane rural road which
connects with U. S. 64.
Lee said the new three-mile sec
tion would be built by state and U.
S. Forest Service road funds.
The road will have a maximum
grade of eight per cent.
It was also announced in Ral
eigh this week that a contract for
grading of the Balsam Gap to So
co Gap link of the Parkway would
—Turn to Page Twelve
Program Highlights
New Type Programming Proving To
Be Successful Over Station WPNF
Block programming is proving to
be very successful over WPNF,
John Dellinger, program director,
reports.
Many listeners have compli
mented this type programming,
featured each afternoon over the
station.
A solid 45 minutes of gospel mu
sic is featured daily at 1:15 p. m.
and is followed by a half hour of
popular favorites.
At 2:30 p. m., one and one-half
hours of country music is aired.
In order to satisfy every taste
for music, an hour of popular
songs, followed by 30 minutes of
rhythm and blues, rounds out the
afternoon of music. Listeners are
urged to send in their requests by
mail for their favorite programs,
—Turn to Page Twelve
many attended
RITES FOR HKH
SCHOOLSTUDENTS
Linda Cassell and Judy Hut-’
chins Are Victims. One.
Person Injured
MAKING INVESTIGATION
Transylvania’s outstanding rep
ord of no fatalities on its highways >
in three years and eight months
was broken last Wednesday night
when two 16-year old high school
#rls were killed in the Pisgah Na
tional forest, a lew hundred yards
xrom the entrance.
The girls were Linda Sue Cassell,
a Rosman high school student, and
Judy Evelyn Hutchins, of Pisgah * w
Forest, a student at Brevard hijfa *' *
school.
Another passenger in the ear,,
who first said that he was the dri
ver, Corbett Holland, 22, of Pi*,
gah Forest, was seriously injured
and he was taken to Moore Gen- .
eral hospital. His condition on
Wednesday of this week was said
to be improving.
State Highway Patrolman Jack
Cabe, who investigated, said the
car, apparently traveling at a
high rate of speed, skidded off a
curve on U. S. 276 and slammed *
into a tree. It was completely de
molished.
| - Holland and Miss Cassell were'
thrown about 12 feet from the
[wrecked car. Miss Hutchins was
lying partially out of the wreck:
when found.
The two girls were taken to the
local hospital, anMiss Cassell
died of head injuries shortly af
ter arrival, and Miss Hutchins died
I some two hours later from spine,
head and chest injuries.
• The accident was reported by J.
B. Brown, who was driving a car
j in front of the ’55 Ford, which was
' involved in the crash.
Patrolman Cabe quoted James
Landreth, a passenger in the
Brown car as having seen the aod
—Torn to Page Twelve.
LEGION TO HOLD
BIRTHDAY DANCE
Commander Sams Reviews
Work Of Organization.
Auxiliary Gives Cake
Members of the Monroe Wilson
post, No. 88, of the American le
gion, will join with others of 1ke
17,200 posts across the country la
their birthday observance on Fri
day.
Highlighting the local anniver
sary will be a dance Friday night,
beginning at 9:00 o’clock in tht
American legion building.
Music will be furnished by Ty
Bolling and bis orchestra and vo
calist, and admission will be by *37
membership cards.
Commander David Sams says the'
national goal is 3,000,000, and he
points with pride to the magnifi
cient accomplishments of the leg
ion during its 38-year history.
During the special ceremonies at
the dance, the local auxiliary will
present the legion post with a huge
birthday cake with 38 candles.
In urging all veterans who have
not signed up to do so immediafte
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Electrical Power
Will Be Off Early
Sunday At R os man
The electricity will be off for
one hour, from 6:30 until 7:30 o’
clock, Sunday morning, in the Bos
nian area, Frank Yarbrough, man
ager of the local branch of Duke
Power company, announces today.
Duke customers at Rosman and
along the Rosman highway will be
affected by the cut off.
The shutdown in electrical pow
er is necessary to meet the grow
ing demands of residential and
other electrical customers in the
: rea, Mr. Yarbrough states.
In case of inclement weather,
this work will be done at the sanur
time the following Sunday.