A Most Hearty Welcome Is Extended To All Persons Attending The 1957 Gala Festival Of Music
The TransylVania Times
A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper
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Vol. 68 — No. 32 * <?■" * BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1987 * 20 PAGES TODAY * PUBLISHED WEEKLY
1957
FESTIVAL
ISSUE
WELCOME
1957
FESTIVAL
ISSUE
WELCOME
BEAUTIFUL CAMP TRANSYLVA
NIA will be the scene of the 12th Annual
Gala Festival of Music for the next
three week ends. The opening concert is
slated for Friday night, and thousands of
music lovers from all parts of Eastern
America are expected here for the an
nual event.
Survey Reveals 1,560 Persons Are
Available For lobs In The County
Figures Released By Employ
ment Security Commis
sion. 100 Active Claims
There are 1,560 workers now
available for new or expanding in
dustry in Transylvania county, a
study just completed by the Em
ployment Security commission re
veals.
This bi-monthly survey covers
not only workers actively seeking
employment, but also groups not
now in the labor market.
Included among those persons j
who would become job seekers
should more job opportunities ex
ist are: housewives, workers now
commuting to other areas, young
people recently completing school,
older workers and handicapped
persons who could qualify for a
number of jobs in industrial plants.
The local office of the Employ
ment Security commission has ap
proximately 100 active claims each
week. According to officials, this
number is higher than usual dur
ing summer months.
The office is located over the
city hall and is open each Wednes
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Aug. 8 — Masonic
meeting in Temple at 8 p. m.
Friday, Aug. 9 — Masterpoint
game of Ace of Clubs, 7:45 p. m.
Opening concert of Gala Music
Festival, Brevard Music Center,
8:15 p. m. Square dance in the
American Legion building, 8:30 p.
m.
Saturday, Aug. 10 — Teen Age
Swimming Party at municipal pool,
7 p. m. Special singing at the
court house, 8 p. m. Gala Music Fes
tival continues, 8:15 p. m.
• Sunday, August 11 — A & B Bat
teries leave from Legion building
for reserve camp, 6:30 a. m. Attend
the church of your choice. Gala
' Music Festival, Brevard Music
Center, 4 p. m.
Monday, Aug. 12 — Football
players report for practice at field,
8 a. m. Frances Clark piano work
shop begins on Brevard College
campus. Rotary club meets at 7 p.
m., Gaither’s. Town board meets in
city hall, 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday, Aug. 13 — Fidelis class
meets at 8 p. m., with Mrs. 0. D.
Biddy.
Action Taken
Eight Brevard Streets Will
Be Blaektopped, Board Meets
Eight streets in the town of Bre
vard will be blacktopped in the
immediate future, the board of al
dermen decided at their regular
monthly meeting Monday night.
The cost of the paving project
is $9,280.92, and Driveways, Inc.,
of Asheville, will do the work.
The streets to be blacktopped are
as follows: Varsity, Morgan, Lake
view, Harold, Oakdale, Laurel lane
and Duckworth street.
Alderman Jack Bryant was
named to the hospital board of trus
tees from the town.
The board will meet next Mon
day night, August 12th, to consider
a proposed amendment to the Bre
vard Zoning ordinance.
The amendment would change
the area opposite the high school
on Oakdale from residence to bus
iness district.
Approval has been given the pro
posal by the zoning board.
Mayor B. H. Freeman presided
over the meeting, and all the aider
men. Jack Bryant, Roy Head,
(M. Melton, Mark Osborne and
M. Neely, attended.
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'57 Gala Festival Opens Friday Night
Most Successful Season Is Expected
CORDIAL WELCOME
ISSUED BY TOWN,
COUNTY LEADERS
Record Crowds Are Antici
pated. Special Edition Of
Times Published
PROGRAMS VARIED
Transylvanians will this week
end roll out the welcoming mat
for hundreds and hundreds of
music lovers from all parts of
Eastern America as the ’57 Gala
Festival of Music opens Friday
night.
All indications point to this
festival being the most success
ful in the history of the Brevard
Music foundation.
Town and county officials join
with heads of civic and fraternal
organizations in extending a wel
come to all visitors.
In this special festival edition
of The Times, merchants also
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FCKUN JOINS
STAFF AT BANK
New Department Being Cre- j
ated. Much Remodeling
Work Is Underway
Ralph Duckworth, vice president
& manager of Brevard's First Na
tional bank, announces that James
C. Hicklin has joined the bank’s
staff for the purpose of creating a
new installment loan department.
The new bank services include
home improvement loans, automo
bile loans, appliance and co-maker
loans, as well as various types of
equipment loans on the install
ment plan.
Mr. Duckworth stated that Mr.
Hicklin has been employed with
First National for approximately
five years and has wide experience
in the installment lending field. He
is president of the Cosmic club of
Asheville, immediate past presi
dent of the Asheville Community
theatre, and a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
Mr. Duckworth also announces
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Frances Clark Workshop
Being Held At College
The Frances Clark Piano
Workshop, held here last, in
11)55, will again be conducted on i
the Brevard College campus be
ginning Monday, August 12t and
continuing through August 16th.
i The Workshop will feature a
public concert Monday evening
by Martha Braden and Doris
Martin, duo-pianists. There will
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THE FRANCES CLARK PIANO WORKSHOP opens
at Brevard college Monday and many leading teachers
and students from all parts of the country are. expec
ted to attend. Miss Clark* the eminent teacher and di
rector is shown at the left, and Miss Louise Goss,, the as~
sociate director is at the right. Miss Goss will be Sn
charge of the five-day workshop here.
be no admission charge to the
concert.
The workshop will be open this
year to both piano teachers and
students. Around 100 persons are
expected to be enrolled. Local
piano teachers have a special in
vitation to attend the workshop.
Registration will be held on
Monday at the college.
Smathers Family
Attracting Much
Attention To Area
Brevard’s O. K. Smathers, the
first American to win the world’s
archery title, is bringing con
siderable publicity to this area.
Next Monday morning he will
be interviewed on the Dave Gar
roway TV program, “Today” in
New York City, at 7:30 o’clock,
and he is expected to make oth
er television appearances in New
York this week end.
Next week Mr. Smathers, his
daughter, Lynne, and son, Ken
ny, will compete in the Northern
Field tournament, and he says:
“This is another big one I’d like
to win”.
Newsweek is expected to carry
a feature article on the world’s
archery champion in the next is
sue, and other leading national
publications are (making sim
ilar plans. Practically all of the
daily newspapers in this area
have carried stories and pictures
on the famous Smathers family
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PRINCIPAL FIGURES at the
opening concerts this week end
of the 12th Annual Gala Festi
val of Music are shown here. At
the top, left, is Lois Marshall,
celebrated Canadian soprano,
who will be guest soloist with the
Festival orchestra Friday night.
Grant Johannesen, above, inter
nationally famous pianist, will be
the guest artist Saturday night.
At the left is James Christian
Pfohl, the music director of the
camp and festival.
Du Pont Official Reports On
Progress Or. New Silicon Plant
A & B BATTERIES
LEAVE FOR CAMP
SUNDAY MORNING
Four From Asheville Unit
Also In Group. Is Seventh
Annual Session
Forty-eight Transylvania coun
ty men will leave Brevard Sunday
morning for two weeks of annual
summer training at Fort Jackson,
S. C., with the army reserves.
The entire group, with the ex
ception of four men who are as
signed to an Asheville battery, are
members of “A” and “B” Batteries
of the 316th Field Artillery Battal
ion, commanded by Lt. Col. W. C.
Taylor, of Asheville.
This summer marks the seventh
year the 316th FA battalion has tak
en part in a two-weeks’ period of
active training.
The group will leave from the
American legion building here in
Brevard Sunday morning at 6:30
o’clock.
The four men attached to the
Asheville unit, who will leave with
the other local men are Major
James P. Morrow, CWO Charles F.
Himes, M-Sgt John M. Johnson
and M-Sgt. Otis Shipman.
1st Lt. John K. Jolliff is com
mander of the “A” Battery, and
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Baker Reviews History Of
County’s Newest Industry
At Kiwanis Meeting
“The location of Du Pont’s Sili
con plant at Brevard was the result
of much complicated study and the
consideration of many possible lo
cations throughout the United
| States,” commented Bob Baker, em
ployee relations supervisor of the
Du Pont company’s plant at Cedar
Mountain. Mr. Baker was guest
[speaker at the meeting of Brevard
Kiwanis club last Friday evening.
This area offered many advan
tages over others considered, the
speaker went on to point out. Some
of those-many advantages are: a
good water supply, adequate power
and communications facilities and
a good supply of desirable potential
workers. Of major importance too,
Mr. Baker said, was the availabil
ity of a large, isolated tract of land.
“The purity of the air and prob
able absence of contaminants are
essential to enable us to produce a
top quality product,” the speaker
emphasized.
In describing the progress of
construction at the Cedar Mountain
site, Mr. Baker announced that it
was proceeding as scheduled. The
majority of the underground pip
ing and conduit work is completed
and much of the concrete flooring
has been laid.
Describing the main plant buil
ding, which is to be approximately
200 feet by 300 feet, Mr. Baker ad
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Program Highlights
Public Service Programming At
WPNF Includes Government Shows
Highlighting WPNF’s public
service broadcasts each week, are
a number of quarter hour shows
produced by various government
organizations including the armed
forces. Some of the most popular
programs are heard Monday
through Friday mornings at 9:45.
One of these is the Treasury De
partment presentation “Guest Star”
heard each Monday morning.
Thursday’s at the same time the U.
S. Army presents “March Time
Down South”, and- on Friday's the
Veteran’s Administration offers
“Here’s to Vets”.
Another series of these fine pub
lic service programs is heard week
day afternoons at 5:45. Included in
this group, are the Tuesday Show,
“Music on Deck”, produced by the
Navy Department; and the top
notch Air Force presentation,
“Greatest Sports Thrills”, heard
each Friday.
A new program is going on the
air for the first time today at
WPNF. It is produced by the Uni
ted Nations and will review all the
current world problems and possi
ble solutions. “Horizons ’57” can
be heard each Thursday afternoon
at 5:30 beginning today.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm and
Home hour for the corning week is
as follows: Thursday, Farm Home
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CONCERTS TO BE
CONTINUED NEXT
THREE WEEK ENDS
90-Piece Symphony Orches
tra Now In Practice Ses
sions. Best Yet
PFOHL CONDUCTS
This week end will mark the
opening of the 12th annual Gala
Festival at the Brevard Music cen
ter. Through August 25, the workfY
finest musicians will appear in
concert with the Gala Festival or
chestra and chorus to provide out
standing music for vacationers anrf
residents in Western North Caro
lina.
The nine concerts of the 1957
series will constitute the only Am.
erican music festival to be carried
by the CBS radio network on its
world-wide broadcast of music
festivals in late September. All
other festivals will originate in
Europe.
The 90-piece orchestra will be
made up of scholarship students
and faculty members of Transyl
vania Music camp and foremost mu
sicians from the nation’s leading
symphony orchestras, including
Baltimore, Cincinnati, New Orleans
and Indianapolis. The chorus of 150
voices will be augmented by sing
ers from the Brevard and Asheville
areas.
Only those persons holding fes
tival season tickets or week end
tickets will be admitted to the re
hearsals.
The opening concert of the ser
j ies will feature Lois Marshall, so
prano, as guest artist on August 9
at the Music Center auditorium.
Miss Marshall has been featured on:
the leading concert stages of the
country, and has appeared with all
the nation’s great symphonies. She
will return to Europe this year by
popular demand.
Renowned pianist Grant Johan
nesen will be guest soloist at the
music center on Saturday evening.
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TEACHER NEEDED
AT ONE SCHOOL
All Other Vacancies Filled.
Opening Date Set Aug
ust 26th
With the opening of TrocsyWa
nda’s schools only two and one half
weeks away, all teacher vacancies,
with one exception, have been fitt
ed, Supt. Wayne Bradbum announ
ces today.
An English-French teacher is
needed at Rosman and qualified
persons are urged to contact Mr.
Bradburn.
Mrs. Martha Hipsher, of Water
loo, S. C., has been appointed to
succeed Mrs. Jesse Adams as home
economics teacher at Rosman.
Appointed to fill other vacancies
at Rosman are the following: Hen
ry Smith, Mrs. Annie Banks and
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Local CAP Cadets
Taking Air Force
Training, Albany
Eight cadets of the Brevard
squadron of the Civil Air Patrol
are attending a two-weeks’ train
ing session at Turner Air Fore©
base, Albany, Georgia.
The group is being given basic
Air Force training, and during the
tw > weeks’ period they will be tak
er on their initial jet flight.
Taking the cadet training at Al
bany are the following Brevard
boys: Jack Levy, Ronnie Byrd, Nor
man Trotter, Robert Green, Allen
Tritt, Wayne Reese and Doug Is
rael.
The Brevard squadron meet*
each Tuesday night in the annex
adjacent to Brevard high school at
7:00 o’clock. At the present time^
meimbers are selling “radar-lites**,
which are said ideal for emergen
cy use, in an effort to raise fluids
for operating costs.