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Hearty Congratulations And. Best Wishes To All The 1957 High School And College Graduates TRANSYLVANIA— rhe Land of Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah Na ll tional Forest and Home of Brevard Music Festival. The Transylvania Times <w A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper TRANSYLVANIA— \n Industrial, Tourist, Ed ucational, A g r i c ulturad and Music Center. Popula don, 1980 Census. 18,321 Brevard Community 1^94 Vol. 68 — No. 21 Second Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Brevard, N. C. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1957 * 24 PAGES TODAY « PUBLISHED WEEKLY the new silversteen GYM at Rosman is rapidly being constructed and will be completed by the beginning of the fall term. The gym will answer an acute need at Rosman, and it is being erected at an estimated cost of $90,000. In the lower photo is the new and mod ern T. C. Henderson school at Quebec, which is now ready for occupancy. This building has been described as being as modern as any elementary school in the state. (Times Staff Photo) Comity School Bus Record Among fops In State, No Damages In Two Incidents Transylvania’s Buses Drive More Than 205,000 Miles During The Year Transylvania has one of the best school bus records in the entire state of North Carolina., O. M. Al exander, safety director of the State Highway patrol, announces this week. Mr. Alexander commended the 33 school bus drivers on their ex cellent record during the past year. Actually, there have been only two minor incidents with no damages. The safety director says a look at the Transylvania record will show how outstanding it is. The 33 buses travel a total of 1,140 miles 'per day and transport 2,519 chil dren. Over the period of 180 school days, the total mileage of the bus es runs to 205,200 miles, and dur ing the past year, only one day was missed because of bad weather. The percentage of Transylvania county students which travel to and from school by bus is 58 percent. Of the total enrollment of 4,031 there are 2,519 thus riders. “It has been definitely establish ed that riding a school bus in this county is safer than walking on the highways,” Supt. J. B. Jones stated. Of the 33 school bus drivers in Transylvania, there are 23 student drivers and 10 adults. The records of both are equally as good. The monthly wage scale for the school bus driver is only $59.50, which makes it difficult on a state wide basis to secure competent dri vers, but Transylvania has always been most fortunate, Mr. Jones de clared. CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, May 23 — Fortnightly club to hold luncheon meet, 12:30 at Mrs. W. M. Melton’s in Little River. Civic clufbs to hold banquet meet at Brevard college, 6:30 p. m. Public concert at new campus cen ter building, 8:15 p. m. B & PW club to install officers, Gaither’s, 7:00 p. m. Teen-Age center open house for eighth graders. Masonic meeting in temple at 8:00 p. m. Friday, May 24 — Lions broom sale begins. Saturday, May 25 — Legion Aux iliary sponsoring Poppy Day. In dians meet Hazelwood, Camp Straus, 3:30 p. m. Little Theatre has dinner meet at Gaither’s, 6:30 -Tm to Page Five Saturday Is Poppy Day, Legion Auxiliary Will Conduct Sale Saturday will be Poppy day in ; Brevard and throughout much of the nation. The day will see mil lions of Americans wearing bright red poppies in tribute to those who have given their lives in defense of the nation. The little flowers | of remembrance will be distributed j on the streets throughout the day | by volunteer “flower girls” from j the American legion auxiliary. Poppy day activities here will start early Saturday morning when Clinics Scheduled For Food Handlers Beginning May 28th, a food hand ler’s clinic will be held at the health department each Tuesday morning from 9:00 a. m. until 12:00 noon. This clinic is being set up to take care of the increased number of food handlers for the summer sea son and will continue through the summer. A general clinic is held each Friday, 8:30 - 4:30 p. m., for im munizations — DPT, polio, typhoid, etc. — and food handlers, officials of the health department state. the corps of volunteers, organized toy Mrs. Allen Vaughn, the auxili ary’s Poppy chairman, will be out with their baskets of poppies to greet citizens on their way to work. They will continue to work throughout the day, covering out lying business centers as well as the downtown district. Before the day ends, they hope to see the lit tle red flowers of remembrance glowing on every lapel. Contributions for the auxiliary’s work for disabled veterans and —Turn to Page Eight Many Graduate At Brevard, Rosman, Brightest Outlook For School System MILLION DOLLAR HIGH SCHOOL TO BE CONSTRUCTED Henderson Building Comple ted. Work Progressing On Silversteen Gym OFFICIALS QUOTED With graduation time set for next week at Brevard and Rosman, school officials today report that the outlook for the county school system is the brightest that it has ever been. Last December ' Transylvania j voters approved a school bond is sue of $647.000: and frith this mon-! ey and other appropriations on hand, a new high school plant here, j to cost approximately one million' dollars, will be erected in the next j two years. A 30-acre tract, the V. L. Tins ley property or more familiarly known as the “Gallamore place” on the Country club road, was purchas ed this spring as the site for the : ew and modern high school. The new T. C. Henderson school at Quebec has been completed, and this building in upper Transylva nia is as modern as any in the state. The new structure, whth its —Turn to Page Eight ENROLLMENT IS 4,031 IN COUNTY Costs Of Operating Schools Also Reported. Break down Is Given Enrollment in Transylvania county’s nine elementary and two high schools totalled 4,031 during the past year, it was learned this week from statistics in the superin tendent’s office. It was also revealed that the cost of operating the schools up to May 1st amounted to $466,366.91, and the total operating costs for the current year will be over a half million dollars. Of the amount expended until May 1st, the county paid $94,866.31, while the state $371,500.60. The capital outlay for buildings and equipment amounted to $144, —Turn to Page Five PO Clerks Again Attain Rating Of 100 Per Cent Clerks at the Brevard post office have made another record of 100 liper cent on examinations for dis patch of mail, Vernon Fullbright, the acting postmaster, announces today. The exams were give by F: W. Bolt, district transportation man ager of the Post Office depart ment, and the following local Zimmermann Named To New Post In Olin Mathieson’s Ecusta Division W. E. Zimmermann has been named to the newly-created posi tion of director of sales and mar keting for the Ecusta Paper divis ion of Olin MathiesOP chemical corporation, it was announfceh to day by Philip C. Brownell, general manager. In this post, Mr. Zimmermann will be in charge of all of the divis ion’s sales, marketing and promo tional activities. He was formerly executive vice president and direc tor of sales for Rap-In Wax,J*apfcr company, Minneapolis. Before that he was associated with Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing com pany, St. Paul, where he was gen eral manager of the Industrial Trades Tape division: In making the Announcement, Mr. Brownell pointed out that this new appointment involves no chan —Turn to Page Eight W. E. ZIMMERMANN clerks all had grades of 100: Clar ence E. Bowen, Lucian P. Deavor, J. Hugh Hollifield, Thomas Y. Gal loway and Lee Norton. This is the second time that the local postal clerks all had grades of 100 per cent on district exam inations. The postmaster here said he was mightv proud of the fine rec ord that the local clerics have made. He also announces that the Bre vard post office will be closed on May 31st, which is Memorial day. There will be no rural or city de livery of mail on that day, and the general delivery window will be opened from 11:30 until 12 noon. Presbyterians To Dedicate Memorials On Sunday Morning The memorials in the new Bre vard - Davidson River Presbyter ian church will be dedicated dur ing the 11:00 otlock service on Sunday morning, Rev. Ben Or mand, the pastor, announces. There are some 35 memorials in the beautiful new church, Mr. Or imand states, and the donors of each will be recognized during the service. He cordially invites all members and other friends of the church to attend this dedication service. SCHOOL OFFICIALS, who are in the spotlight dur ing the ’57 commencement, are pictured above. Robert T. Kimzey, top left, will award diplomas to the 100 (gradu ates at Brevard high school next Wednesday night, and at the top right is E. F. Tilson, who will give the diplomas to the 40 seniors at Rosman on the same evening. Recent ly, Wayne Bradburn, bottom right, was elected county superintendent, and he succeeds J. B. Jones, bottom left, who retires on June 30th, after 30 years as superin tendent of Transylvania’s school system. Don Blankenship Is Du Pont’s Employment Supervisor Here DON BLANKENSHIP Office Is Located On Cald well Street. Interesting Background Noted The Du Pont plant operating group here last week welcomed Don Blankenship, the employment supervisor, to the community. Mr. Blankenship, whose office is in the training center building on Caldwell street, is now inter viewing applicants for plant oper ating employment. At the present time the company is interested in employing approximately 15 per sons with experience in industrial mechanics and maintenance. Mr. Blankenship, who was transferred here from the Edge Moor plant at Wilmington, Dela ware, began his career with the Du Pont company in January, 1952. —Turn to Page Five WPNF Program Highlight* College,Program At Banquet For Civic Clubs To Be Aired Thursday WPNF will record the program at the joint meeting of civic clu/bs in the new Campus Center buil ding Thursday night for broadcast that evening at 9:30 o’clock, Bobby Hoyle, station manager, announ ces. President Robert Stamey is ex pected to report to the groups on the completion of the new and modern building, and Ed M. An derson will speak briefly on behalf of the college board of trustees. The public is being invited to attend a concert of the Brevard high school band and the Brevard college glee club in the spacious new auditorium at 8:15 o’clock Thursday night and to inspect the new building. Other Programs The schedule for the Farm and Home hour for the coming week is as follows: Thursday, extension forestry, F. E. Whitfield; Friday, Carolina Farm features; Monday, county agent’s office; Tuesday, soil conservation service, H. E. New land; Wednesday, home demonstra tion agent. On the Civic hour, the following will be heard: Friday, American legion auxiliary; Monday, Girl Scouts; Wednesday, Music LoveTs’ club. The Rev. J. A. Cox, pastor of the Grace Baptist church, is speak ing this week on Morning devo tions, and the Rev. W. A. Kerr, pas tor of Rosman Methodist church, will be heard next week. The Sunday morning church ser vice will be broadcast from the King Street Baptist church* DIPLOMAS WILL BE AWARDED NEXT WEDNESDAY NKBT Baccalaureate Sermons Set Sunday. Various Events Are Planned GROUPS ARE SALUTED Graduation exercises at Brevard and Rosman high schools are sta ted for Wednesday night, May at the two respective schools, and baccalaureate sermons wilt fee preached this coming Sunday even ing. At Brevard a total of 100 sen iors will receive diplomas, Princi pal Robert T. Kimzey announces, and according to Principal E. F. Filson at Rosman, the grarfuati^g class numbers 40 students there. At both schools honor students will deliver the commencement ad dresses. The Times this week is pub lishing its annual congratula tory edition with pictures stories about the 1957 graduates at Brevard and Rosman high schools. There are also a aura her of congratulatory messages from local firms. The Times sa lutes the graduates and the school, officials upon this impair* tant occasion. The theme of the ’57 graduation here is “The Challenge of Oar Day.” The speakers and the titles c .their speeches are as follow*: CML*les Alfred Davis, “To Each Age A Challenge”; Charles Fanil Himes, “Youth’s New Opportuni ties”, and Thomas Lane Joan, “Youth Answers the Challenge.*" The Reverend Keith Beam will deliver the invocation. rharlw Robert English will be master s£ ceremonies, and the GradwtoT —Turn to Page Eight RITES FOR BECK SET ON THURSDAY Brevard Man Served As Of ficial Coach Of Masons For 20 Years Funeral services for Lawrence Paul Beck, 68, who died Tuesday morning in the local hospital at ter a lingering illness, wiH he held Thursday morning at the First Baptist church at 11:00 o’clock. The pastor, Rev. B. W. Than. ason, will officiate, and the feoc^p will be at the church one hour prior to the service. Members of the Dunn’s Rock Ma sonic lodge, of which Mr. was a member, and past master, wiBi conduct the graveside rites at the Gillespie - Evergreen cemetery. Pallbearers at the service Thurs day morning will he Henry R. Hen derson, Ansel Hart, HeradbM' Townley, Vernon P_ FuQBri^ Frank Bridges and Ed Ahrens. Mr. Beck is survived by the end ow, the former Maude Kilpatrick; three sisters, Mrs. W. D. Christman of Miami, Florida, Mrs. Florence —Turn to Page Eight Community Center Begins Drive For Donations For Pool Officials of the Transylvania Community center have launched a> drive to raise the necessary foods to build a swimming pool in the colored section of Brevard. Donations to this project may fee mailed to Cornelius Hunt, the pres ident. The drive is being conducted on a county-wide basis, and the group is asking for as many $1.00 contri butions as possible. It was announced in Raleigh on Tuesday that the center, to be known as the Mary C. Jenkins.; Community center, had (been chap tered by the state as a non-prtrfit' corporation. Incorporators were ■ Rev. D. C. Hall, Arthur Rafany Jr., and Mary Kilgore, all of Bt$ vard. „ „ jA
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