TRANSYLVANIA—
rhe Lard 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 P rize- Winning A. B. C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed
ucational, Agricultural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1990 Census, 13,321.
Brevard Community 7,394.
Voi. 68 — No. 22
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1957
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
CIVIC LEADERS presented
Rev. Robert H. Stamey a plaque I
for meritorious service, both to I
(he college and the community '
while he has been president of ;
Brevard college during the past
five years. The presentation was
made at a banquet last Thursday !
night in the new Campus Center 1
building by Ralph H. Ramsey,
Jr., left in the photo above, and i
i\Tr. Stamey can be noted in the
center accepting it. On C e
right is Ed M. Andersen, news
naper and radio executive, who
spoke on behalf of the board of
trustees of the college at the
banquet meeting. Climaxing the
events of the formal opening of
the center last Thursday night
was a concert by the Brevard
high school band, pictured in the
photograph at the left, and the
Brevard college glee club.
(Times Staff Photos)
Annual Chamber Of Commerce Banquet
Set Friday Night In Masonic Temple
Southern Railway’s Vic«
President Will Be The
Principal Speaker
The annual banquet of the Bre
vard chamber of commerce is set
for Friday night in the Masonic
temple, with F. Clifton Toal, vice
president of Southern Railway as
the principal speaker.
A large crowd is expected to at
tend the ladies’ night event, and
chamber of commerce president,
Frank Bridges, urges all members
to secure their tickets prior to Fri
day noon.
The Order of the Eastern Star is
serving the dinner, and the ladies
promise a delicious meal, Presi
dent Bridges states.
He commented further that the
civic body was most pleased to
have Mr. Toal as the principal
speaker.
Being in charge of the railway’s
Industrial and Agricultural Devel
opment program, Mr. Toal is ex
pected to bring an interesting and
informative address to the ibanquet.
He first joined Southern Rail
way in 1922, after receiving his de
gree at George Washington univer
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, May 30 — Memorial
Day. Offices, bank and post office
to close. Legion auxiliary to con
duct service at Gillespie-Ever
green cemetery at 11 a. m.
Friday, May 31 — Chamfoer of
commerce banquet in Masonic
temple at 7 p. m.
Saturday, June 1 — Commence
ment exercises begin at Brevard
college. Art exhibit in Campus
Center, 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. Ecusta
Indians play Valley Springs at
Camp Straus, 3 p. m.
Sunday, June 2 — Attend the
church of your choice. Baccalaure
ate sermon at college, 11 a. m.,
Methodists to attend. College grad
uation exercises, 3:30 p. m.
Monday, June 3 — Baptists and
Methodists begin Vacation Bible
Schools. Presbyterian men to meet
in church at 6:30 p. m. Rotary club
meets at 7 p. m., in Gaither’s.
Tuesday. June 4 — Lutheran wo
men to meet at home of Mrs.
Frank Sansosti, 8 p. m.
Wednesday, June 5 — Persons
interested in Little League base
ball to meet at American Legion
building, 7:30 p. m.
For Second Time
’57 Concert Of Brevard Music
j Festival On World-Wide Series
A concert of the 1957 Brevard
Music festival will be carried on
World-Wide Music festival series,
it is announced today.
James Fassett, director of seri
ous music for the Columbia Broad
casting system, confirmed the
broadcast with James Christian
Kohl,, the director, and John D.
Fyversman, business manager of
To Sell Property
For Taxes Monday
Tax sales certificates for Tran
sylvania county, town of Brevard
and town of Rosman will ibe sold
Monday at 12 noon at the court
house door by C. M. Douglas, tax
collector for the three units.
The list of delinquents is being
carried in this week’s Times, and
persons who have not paid by 12
noon next Monday will have certi
ficates issued and offered for sale.
the foundation, on Wednesday
morning, prior to leaving for Eu
rope.
The World-Wide Music festival
scries are broadcasts of the lead
ing festivals in European coun
tries, plus one American festival.
This will be the second time that
a concert from the Brevard Mu
sic festival has been carried on
the world wide facilities of CBS.
Two years ago one of the outstand
ing local concerts was aired
around the world.
This year’s concert will be the
performance of “Elijah”, which is
scheduled for Sunday afternoon,
August 11th, and features the Bre
vard Music festival symphony and
chorus, under the direction of Mr.
Pfohl. Soloists will be Lois Mar
shall, Beverly Wolff, Walter Fred
ericks and Yi-Kwei-sze.
The program will be tape re
corded by Mr. Fassett’s assistant,
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Program Highlights
Address Of Southern Railway Vice
President To Be Heard Over WPNF
WPNF will record the speech
by F. C. Toal, vice-president of
Southern Railway, as he addresses
the Brevard Chamber of commerce
at the annual banquet Friday night
in the Masonic temple.
Mr. Toal’s speech will be broad
cast Saturday morning at 10 o’
clock over WPNF, and everyone
is urged to hear this interesting
program at that time.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Civic hour
for the coming week is as follows:
Friday, Rosman chamber of com
merce: Monday Mathatasian club;
Wednesday, Little Theatre.
On the Farm and Home hour
the following will be heard: Thurs
day, Carolina farm features; Fri
day, ASC office, Marvin Whit
mire; Monday, county agent’s of
fice: Tuesday, Soil Conservation
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F. CLIFTON TOAL
Consolidation Oi Schools In Upper
Transylvania County Is Announced
STAMEY AWARDED
SPECIAL PLAQUE
BY CIVIC LEADERS
Progress During Past Five
Years Cited. Campus Cen
ter Building Opened
j Rev. Robert Stamey, president of
I Brevard college, was presented a |
plaque for his distinguished rec
jord of achievement during the past
I five years as president of the lo
' cal educational and religious in
Istitulion by leaders of the town
'and county and the Brevard civic
'organizations.
The presentation was made at a
banquet of representatives of the
j various groups in the new Campus
Center building Thursday night by
Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., county at
torney.
The event highlighted the for
, mal opening of the new and mod
ern building, and was attended, by
150 members of the Rotary, Lions,
Kiwanis, the local chapter of uni
versity women and the junior
chamber of commerce, as well as
other educational and political
loaders of the community.
Mr. Ramsey cited the phenome
nal growth of Brevard college dur
ing the past five years under the
leadership of President Stamey,
and he also paid tribute to excel-j
; lent relations, which now exist be
tween the college and the com
munity. He emphasized that Mr.
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The Weather
i
A considerable amount of precip
itation was recorded in the county
during the past week, with the
heaviest rainfall occurring Sunday.
The week's rainfail reading was
1.35 inches.
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
High
SI
85
83
31
33
81
76
Low
60
56
58
46
57
57
46
Pre.
.13
.02
.17
0
.72
.31
0
QUIET OBSERVANCE
OF MEMORIAL DAY
Legion Auxiliary Sponsoring
Service At 11 A. M. Offi
ces To Close
Memorial Day will be quietly ob
I served on Thursday in Brevard and
Transylvania county.
Town and county offices will be
closed, as will the bank and the
post office. Brevard stores will re
main open.
There will be no delivery of ru
ral or city mail, however the gen
eral delivery window will be open
from 11:30 until 12 noon.
The American Legion auxiliary
will sponsor their annual Memorial
Service this Thursday morning at
II a. m., in the Gillespie - Ever
green cemeteries with Miss Helen
Fullbright in charge.
Miss Fullbright will bring a brief
message and the invocation and
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Pat’s Will Open
On Friday Morning
Alvin J. Patterson has announ
ced that he will open his outlet
store on Main street on Friday, May
31. The store will be called Pat’s.
It will open with the bankrupt
stocks bought from receivers in
bankruptcy in the U. S. district
courts. Stocks came from Madi
sonville and Bowling Green, Ken
tucky and Athens, Georgia, ac
cording to Mr. Patterson.
Something over 2,500 pairs of
men’s, women’s and childrens
shoes as well as ready-to-wear will
be offered for sale. The new store
will feature self service, all items
having been sized and priced.
Mr. Patterson is well known in
Transylvania county, having been
associated with the clothing bus
iness in Brevard for many years.
He returns to Brevard from
Waynesville, where he was in bus
iness for a short time.
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E. A. “BUD” KNOTH, president of the Transylva
nia Humane society, is pictured above pointing over the
beautiful site his organization is planning to purchase
on which an animal shelter will be erected. Part of the
tract of land, which is located just off the Rosman high
way, some lour miles from Brevard, is in bottomland,
while the rest of it is a wooded hillside. Both water and
electricity are available on the site.
(Times Staff Photo)
Humane Society To Purchase
Site For An Animal Shelter
JACK GRAVELY, forester of
the Georgia-Pacific Lumber com
pany, covering several counties
in Western North and South Car
olina, is the new president of the
Brevard Lions Club who suc
ceeds Guy Burchfiel, and instal
lation of. new officers is set for
the third Thursday night in
June. (See story, page 5, first
section)
Group Making Plans To
Raise $5,000. Facilities
To Be Constructed
Directors of the Transylvania
Humane society have agreed to
j purchase a site for an animal shel
j ter.
j Located about five miles from
| Lrevard just off the Rosman high
. way, the site is said to be ideal,
j since part of it is in bottomland
and the remainder is a wooded
hillside. There are some one and
one-half acres in the tract, and elec
tricity is available. Water will be
supplied by a mountain stream.
Officials of the humane society
are now looking forward to erec
tion of a building on the site to
house animals.
Plans call for separate cat and
dog sections, with fenced-in runs
for exercising. The site will be
landscaped, and plans also call for
parking facilities.
The society depends upon dona
tions to finance its operation and
there are no paid officials. In or
der to build the animal shelter and
make other improvements, a cam
paign to raise $5,000 is being
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Smathers, Local Archery Champ,
Leaves To Compete In Tourneys
Brevard’s O. K. Smathers, who
holds both the state and Southeas
tern archery titles, leaves Thursday
for Nashville, Ind., and the famed
Brown County Tournament.
This is the 19th year the tour
ney has been held in the same
place and Mr. Smathers points out
that in past years many of the
winners have gone on to cop the
national title.
It is an open invitational tour
ney and is considered a warm-up
for national and international com
petitions in archery.
During the week of June 2 Mr.
Smathers will 9pend in Chicago,
111., as courtesy of the American
Archery company.
On June 8 and 9 Mr. Smathers
will travel to Minneapolis, Minn.,
for the famed “Eliminations” tour
nament. The two top men and wo
men archers who win this tour
nament will be sent to compete in
the international tourney in Prague
in July.
Mr. Smathers says there will be
archers from 18 to 20 countries
competing and an American has
never been fortunate enough to
win it. The last tourney of this na
ture was held in 1955.
Since he leaves for Indiana this
Thursday, Mr. Smathers will not
be able to defend his .North Caro
lina state crown at Charlotte this
week end. >
However, he feels he will be ab
ly represented by his daughter and
son, Lynne and Kenny.
And local people agree with him,
since Lynne won top honors in the
girls’ intermediate class last
year, and Kenny won junior hon
ors.
PRINCIPALS AND
TEACHERS OVEN
LOCAL APPROVAL
Action Is Subject To State
Allotment. List Is
Carried
BOARD MEETS
Consolidation of several comi
ty schools is announced today.
With the completion at the new
T. C. Henderson school at Quebec,
Lake Toxaway and Silversteen will
be consolidated there, and Balsam
Grove goes to Rosman. Selica Stu
dents will now go to the Brevard
elementary school.
This action was taken at the last
meeting of the board of education.
At that time principals and tea
chers were approved foy the dis
trict committees, the board and
the superintendent. This action is
subject to state approval. According
to Supt. J. B. Jones, delay of state
allotments, could be due to the fact
that the legislature met a month
later than usual.
Principals ajid teachers elected
for 1957-’58 are as follows.
District No. 1
Robert T. Kimzey, Principal
Brevard high school: Margaret
Kimzey, Lucille Sledge, Mrs. Jer
ry Rice,. Marion Verner, Ruth H.
Andrews, Glenn Galloway, Mar
shall Teague, Sarah K. Tilson, Char
les Milner, Eulah H. Clarke, Ellen
R. Garrison, Carol Wells, Lucile
Trantham, Benjamin Fishburne,
Donald E; McLeod, Sarah Aber
crombie, Hubert Edwards, Randal
Lyday, Alma Galloway, Rose N
Biisre’I; ,’ane H. Beam.
Brevard elementary school: F. B.
Cuckf, Principal; Elizabeth Davis,
Mary. Moore,,.Carolyn Eller, Lfl
ijan Zachary, Betty Shuford, Lor
erie Osborne, Eugenia Blackwell,
Margaret Kil strom, Lila Hill, Jo
seph i n e, Medford, Fannye Harris,
Roxie Neely,- Nelle Norman, Mar
tha Garmon, Beatsie Bagwell, Max
ine Whitmire, Catherine Bauer,
Fleeto Freeman, Josephine Clay
ton, Lucy Bryson, Annie Reid, Ber
nice Hollifield, Margaret Davis,
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LITHE THEATRE
ELECTS OFFICERS
Mrs. Masters Is The New
President. Movies Shown
Of Several Plays
Highlight of the annual meeting
Saturday night of the Brevard Lit
tle Theatre was the election of
ficers with Mrs. Gus Masters being
named president of the group for
the 1957-58 season.
She succeeds Don Stoneback.
Other officers elected at the din
ner meeting are Boib Bolt, first vice
president; Ray Burgin, second vice
president; Jim Curwen, treasurer;
Mrs. Dave Hilley, secretary; and
directors, Mrs. Ray Burgin, Cleaves
Johnson, Rev. Keith Beam, Do*
Wilson and Ray Winchester.
Holdover directors are Mrs.
Mack Allison, Jr., Bill Sagar and
Mrs. Bill Norris.
A standing vote of thanks was
extended to both Mr. Stonebafck
and to the director, Robroy Far
quhar, for the successful year ol
BLT just concluded.
Mr. Stoneback made a brief talk
on the past season and Mr. Farqu
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Series Of Wrecks
Over Week End, No
One On Injured List
Four automobile accidents ’in
Transylvania were reported over
the week end, however no one was
seriously injured.
Last Friday night Noan Wilbur
Rogers lost control of his car and
ran into the Norman residence in.
the Glade Creek section. Both the
car and the dwelling were damag
ed, and Patrolman Jack Cabe char
ged him with reckless driving.
Saturday night a car driven by
Gladys Byers Huggins was hit aft*
most head-on near the Pisgah Mo
tor court by another vehicle, dri
ven (by Eleanor Armster. The lat
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