TRANSYLVANIA—
rhe Land oi Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer Camps,
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
The Transylvania Times
A State And National Pri ze - W i n n i ng A. B. C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed
ucational, A g r i c ultund
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1950 Census, 15,321.
Bretard Community 7JNM.
Vol. 68 — No. 26
Second Class Mail Privileges
Authorized at Brevard, N. C.
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 19S7
* 20 PAGES TODAY ★
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
A TENNESSEAN, William Feathers, ;
made a crash landing in the Piper Cub
plane above in a field of Frank Merrill
at Little River last week. Although the
small ship flipped over in the soggy soil
and tall grass, Mr. Feathers walked
away, un-injured. However, the plane
was badly damaged and had to be dis
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mantled before being hauled back to the
Asheville - Hendersonville airport, the
airport from which Mr. Feathers had
rented it. He was forced to make a crash
landing in this vicinity because of dark
ness and storms at airports in Asheville
and at Hendersonville.
(Times Staff Photo)
Agricultural Departments Release
Farm Census Survey For County
Crop Breakdown Is Given
Most Of Land Is Wooded.
Livestock Increasing
m
A preliminary ’57 Farm Censu:
.summary is released today fo:
Transylvania county by the com
missioners, Freeman Hayes, th<
chairman of the board, announces
The report, compiled by th<
North Carolina and the 1. S. De
parturients of Agriculture and th<
Crop Reporting service, Raleigh, ii
made up of information that wa:
contributed hy farmers of thf
county to the county commission
ers through the Farm Census su
pervisor and the township lister:
this past January.
The chairman says these dat:
should not be considered as officia
estimates since they make no al
lowance for undetectable errors ir
reports for individual tracts.
There were 62,026 acres of farm
land in Transylvania during 1956
with 18 percent of the total bein|
in harvested cropland, the report
shows.
The majority of the croplands ir
Transylvania, or 40,679 acres, is ir
■woodland. This represents 67 per
cent, while nine percent is in im
proved- pasture, three percent ir
unimproved pastures and three pei
cent idle.
Corn is still the big crop ir
Transylvania, with 4,434 acres be
ing harvested during the past year
This represents 38 percent of thf
harvested cropland, and it is a de
crease during the previous year.
For 1955, some 5,345 acres ir
Transylvania were in corn.
Acres in improved pasturelanc
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thunday, June 27 - B 4 ?1V
club meets at 7 p. m., in Gaither’s.
Masonic meeting at 8 p. m., in Ma
sonic Temple.
Friday, June 28 — Band concert
at Brevard Music Center, 8:15 p.
n.
Saturday, June 29 — Baseball at
Camp Straus, 3 p. m. Concert at
Brevard Music Center, 8:15 p. m.
Sunday, June 30 — Attend the
church of your choke. Fifth Sun
day singing at Brevard court house,
2 p. m. Concert at Brevard Music
Center, 4 p. m. Youth Caravan at
Brevard Methodist church, 8:30 p.
m.
Monday, July 1 — County com
missioners meet in court house,
10 a. m. Presbyterian Men’s club
ladies night, Camp Straus, 6:30 p.
m. Rotary club meets at Gaither’s,
7 p. m. Town board meets in city
hall, 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday, July 2 — Eastern Star
meets in Masonic temple, 8 p. m.
Concert at Brevard Music Center,
8:15 p. m.
Wednesday, July 3 — Music lec
ture at Brevgrd Music Center, 8:15
p. m.
List Is Given
More Du Pont Workers Are
Arriving, Work On Schedule
.1 Another c Titingent of perma
> nent employees in the new Du
: Pont silicon plant now under con
struction at Buck Forest is expec
, ted to arrive here on or about July
. 1st. Bob Baker., the employee rela
tions manager, announces today.
It was announced recently that
some 47 persons would come here
from the Wilmington or other Du
I Pont plants between now and the
first of the year, and after next
week, some 16 are expected to be
on location. Mr. Baker continued.
Other families will be arriving
from time to time.
Regarding the training program.
Festival Chorus
Members Invited
To Music Center
All persons in Brevard and
vicinity who would be interested
in singing with the Transylvania
Festival Chorus are asked to
meet with Gordon Page, choral
director, on Monday evening, Ju
ly 1, at the lodge at Brevard Mu
sic Center, Brevard, 7:30 p. m.
The repertoire for the chorus
will include Carmen by Bizet;
Mendelssohn’s Elijah; Festival
Te Deum by Holst; and excerpts
from Boris Godunoff by Mussorg
sky. Among the soloists with
whom the group will perform !
. will be Lois Marshall, Jerome j
! Hines, and Yi-Kwei Sze.
Mr. i^diter sa£i Wednesday that ev
erything i£ on schedule at the cen
ter on Caldwell street. Some eight
local persons were recently em
ployed and applications have been
received from others.
Construction work on the new
plant is also progressing on sched
ule. Roads are being constructed
into the Buck Forest area, and the
plant is expected to be completed
in 1958.
New personnel arriving next
week and their titles are as fol
lows: Lou F. Nerlinger. production
superintendent; C. L. Eisenhart.
production area supervisor; Don N.
Erwin, production laboratory su
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Town And County To Approve New
Budgets Monday, Tax Rates Same
TO PAY $62,000
TO MEMBERS OF
SAVINGS A LOAN
Resources Are Over Four
And One Quarter Million,
Jerome States
Semi-annual dividend checks, to
talling $62,#00, will be mailed Sat
urday to members of the Brevard
Federal Savings and Loan associa
tion, it is announced today by Jer
ry Jerome, the executive vice pres
ident.
Resources of the association here
now total over four and one quar
ter million, the secretary states,
and interest is being paid at the
rate of thj-ee and one half per cent
per annum.
In addition to the executive vice
president, other officers are: Jos
eph S. Silversteen, president; A.
F. Mitchell, vice president and at
torney; Robert H. Plummer, treas
urer; Mrs. Rowena Summey, sec
retary and assistant treasurer.
Directors are: President Silver
steen, Vice Presidents Jerome and
Mitchell, H. B. Shiflet, J. I. Ayers,
W. L. Mull, J. M. Allison, Sr., Don
Jenkins and R. H. Plummer.
Mr. Jerome also announces that
money deposited in the Federal
savings and Loan between the first
•and tenth of each month begins
drawing interest as of the first.
PARRtSH IS NEW
MEMBEROFBOARD
Is Successor To Raymond
Bennett. Expansion Of
Welfare Services
T. Ralph Parrish, manager of
the Brevard branch of Southern
Dairies, is the new member of the
Transylvania board of public wel
fare.
He succeeds Raymond F. Ben
nett, the board chairman, who ter
minated seven years of service at
the last regular meeting of the
beard.
Mr. Bennett served one year of
the unexpired term of Mrs. S. P.
Verner, and he was re-elected for
two, three-year terms. Board mem
bers are limited by law to two
terms, it is explained.
Other members of the Transyl
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Merger Of Banks Is Now
Official, Purpose Cited
Consolidation of the Transylva
nia Trust company, First Na
tional Bank and Trust company
of Asheville, Hendersonville and
Waynesville has been completed,
and the local bank is now known
as the First National Bank, of
Brevard.
Jonathan Woody, former pres
ident of the bank here and at
Waynesville, is the new vice
president of the consolidated
bank. Charles D. Parker, of Ashe
ville, is the president.
John Bennett Is The New Dean At
Brevard College, Stevenson Teaches
John Boyce Bennett, of Green
ville, N. C., has been appointed
dean of Brevard College to succeed
J. J. Stevenson, Jr., who has re
signed to devote his full time to
teaching, President Emmett McLar
ty, Jr., announces today.
Mr. Bennett has been associate
professor of Bible and Ethics and
co-ordinator of religious activities
at Eastern Carolina Teachers Col
lege at Greenville since 1954.
From 1948 to 1954 he was head
of the department of Religion and
Philosophy at Mount Union col
lege and from 1945 to 1948 he head
ed the department of Religion at
Olivet college. For three years pri
or to that time he was associate pro
fessor of religion and philosophy
at Emory and Henry college and
he was instructor in Bifale and Re
ligious Education at Brewrd col
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JOHN BOYCE BENNETT
Advisory board members to
supervise the activities at the lo
cal bank who were elected last
Thursday are as follows: S. E.
Varner, Sr., L. N. Davis, R. J.
Duckworth, W. M. Melton and
Joseph S. Silversteen.
Bank officials here point out
that the specific purpose for
the merger of the banks is to pro
vide this four-county key area
with a range of services so com
plete, and lending power so
broad, that every individual,
commercial and industrial need
can be met right here at home
and by home folks.
They go on to explain that the
local bank, by reason of its in
creased resources, becomes a
more versatile, more useful or
ganization, and at the same time
it enjoys Western North Caro
lina ownership and control.
Public Invited To
Fifth Sunday Sing
The regular fifth Sunday sing
ing is slated in the Brevard court
house for Sunday afternoon, be
ginning promptly at 2:00 o’clock.
'President Jesse Gillespie cord
ially invites the public to attend,
and he announces that a number
of outstanding singing groups will
appear on the program.
Among the out-of-town groups
expected to be present are: Times
quartet, of Asheville; Melotone
quartet, of Canton; and, the Melo
dettcs, also of Canton. Many local
-groups have also agreed to sing at
I the Fifth Sunday singing this Sun
Iday, he says.
A FAMILIAR SIGHT in Brevard these days is pic
tured above as truck loads of campers come to town to
shop. As indicated by the “note” on the side of the
truck, the group pictured is from the Transylvania Mu
sic camp. Each Monday afternoon the more than 200
boys and girls there take time out from their organized
work and play to come to town and shop.
Transylvania’s Concert Band
Makes First Appearance Friday
CARR SELLS HIS
INTEREST IN FIRM
AT PISGAH FOREST
Morgan Is The New Presi
dent. Patton And Holmes
Are Other Officers
Ed A. Morgan and Tom Holmes
have purchased the stock of Frank
G. Carr in Pisgah Builders Supply,
Inc., according to an announcement
from the new officers of the cor
poration. The corporation will be
headed by, Morgan as president;
Frank Patton is vice-president and
Holmes, secretary-treasurer.
“There will be no change in the
policies or personnel with the ex
ception that the company^ will no
longer be engaged in the building
or contracting business”, the offi
cers stated. “We will be happy to
assist with any building problems
and to recommend builders or con
tractors,” they continued.
The company will confine their
business to supplying the building
trade with lumber and building
supplies os well as tools, equipment
and paints.
Mr. Carr has served as president
of the firm for the past 10 years.
He expressed his appreciation for
the kindness and support he had
received during this period.
Faculty And Staff Orchestra
To Be Heard Saturday.
Symphony Sunday
The Transylvania concert band
(will make its first appearance od
the ’57 camp season Friday eve
ning at 8:15 o’clock. Conducting
' will be Paul Bryan, for several
years faculty member at the Tran
sylvania Music Camp. In the win
| ter he is conductor of the Duke
, university bands,
j Jaimes Christian Pfohl will con
j duct the orchestra of the faculty
; and staff on Saturday evening.
Mary Spauling, harpist with the At
lanta Symphony orchestra, will
j play Ravel’s “Introduction and Al
legro” for harp and orchestra.
Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock
the Transylvania symphony or
chestra, conducted bv Mr, Pfohl,
will appear in concert with the
brilliant young pianist, Thomas
Brockman, as guest soloist. Mr.
Brockman will play Beethoven’s
First Piano Concerto.
The chamber orchestra will ap
pear on Tuesday evening, July 2,
with Louise Nelson Pfohl, pianist,
playing the Mozart Piano Concerto
No. 14 (K. 449).
Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, noted mu
sic lecturer, will give a special pro
gram Wednesday evening, July 3,
at 8:15, on “Music for Everybody.”
His talk is reported to obtain much
humor and should be of wide pop
alar appeal.
Tickets for all concerts will be
'available at the box office.
WPNF Program Highlights
♦
Many Listening To Broadcasts Of
Big League Games, Race Is Close
With a close race underway in
the major leagues, WPNF’s broad
casts of baseball games are at an
all-time high of popularity, Bobby
Hoyle, station manager, reports.
Almost daily, Transylvania coun
ty sports fans hear an exciting
Brooklyn game.
The season is now at the half
way mark, with three more excit
ing months remaining in this year’s
season. Brooklyn, although now in
fifth place, is only two games away
from the number one position.
Mr. Hoyle reminds the listeners
that WPNF is carrying the entire
Brooklyn Dodger schedule and
some additional games of the Wash
ington Senators as well. The com
ing week’s schedule can be found
on the sports page.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Civic hour
for the coming week is as follows:
Friday, Kiwanis club; Monday, hos
pital auxiliary; Wednesday, Bre
vard Garden cluih.
On the -Farm and Home hour,
J the following will be heard: Thurs
day, Carolina Farm features; Fri
day, ASC office, Marvin Whitmire;
Monday, county agent’s office;
Tuesday, Brevard vto-ag depart
ment, R. J. Lyday; Wednesday,
home demonstration agept.
The Rev. L. B. Vaughn is speak
ing this week on Morning Devo
tions, and the Rev. B. W. Thoma
son, pastor of the First Baptist
church, will be heard next week.
The Sunday morning church ser
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CONDITION OF
BOTH IS SOUND,
SURPLUS NOTED
Expenditures For Coming
Year Are Up. Breakdown
Given By Officials
BOARDS TO MEET
With the new year beginning on
Monday, July 1st, town and coun
ty officials are busy preparing
budgets for 1957 ’58, and they re
port that both are in a sound finan
cial condition.
The county commissioners will
meet on Monday morning hnd the
city aldermen will hold their reg
ular July meeting that evening.
Both boards are expected to ap
prove the budgets, which will be
placed on public inspection for 21
days prior to adoption.
The budgets will be carried in
their entirety in the paper next
week.
The county tax of $1.55 is ex
pected to remain the same, as is
the town tax rate of $1.45. ’
County Accountant C. Lewis Os
borne reports that there is a sur
plus in all funds of Transylvania
and all bills are paid to date.
Estimated expenditures for
1957-’58 are set at $1,266,664, which
includes the $647,000 bond issue
for a new high school.
Mr. Osborne also explains that
$10,563.61 is included in the bud
get as the county’s part for the
new health center, which is to be
erected during the coming year ad
jacent to radio station WPNF.
I The center will cost more than
| $30,000, and will be a modern
i structure.
Appropriations to the various
departments have been increased
for the new year and salaries have
Ken r * ed as voted by the recent
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PLANSSETFOR
JAYCEE JOLLIES
Production Will Be Given
Next Thursday And Fri
day At BHS
Final rehearsals are being held
for the Jaycee Jollies with the
dress rehearsal set for Wednesday
night and the performances sched
uled for the following Thursday
and Friday nights, July 4 and 5
ip the Brevard high school auditor
ium. - ~ , « ► * ~ * r'
In addition to the opening chorus
and the Romeo and Juliet act, a
variety of local talent will be fea
tured in the second act.
Performers include solos by Caro
lyn Osborne, Jewel Sentelie, Robin
Hoyle and Henry McDonald. Ray
Winchester will give a comical imi
tation of Elvis Pressley. Nita Loo
Pierce will do a special danco
number and the Copy Cats will per
form some of their pantomines.
Mary Anne Varner and Dottie
Hooper will do a baton twirling act.
A trio from Pisgah Forest will also
appear en the show.
Tickets are now being sold by
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Florida Family To
Get Free Vacation
In This Community
A Florida family will vacation ilk
Brevard this week as a result of
th^ Colgate-Palmolive Peet contest
with which the chamber of com
merce here and throughout Wes
tern Carolina have cooperated.
Coming for a visit here will be
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Grier Mid two
daughters, of Orlando, Fla. The
Griers chose to bring their daugh
ters for three days, rather than
getting a vacation for two for a
week.
While here they will be guests at
the Sunset Motel and local restau
rants will provide their meals. Ar
rangements are being made
through Mrs. John Ford, executive
secretary of the chamber ef com
merce.
Meals will the furnished the Grier
family by Ye Ole Chatterbox, The
Chicken Kitchen, Galloway’s res
taurant,. Colonial Inn and Gaith
er’s Restaurant.