] TRANSYLVAMA
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed
| ucational, A g r i-c ultural
i and Music Center. Popula
1 tion, 1950 Census, 15,321.
Brevard Community 7,394.
The Transylvania Times
A State And National Prize- Winning A. B.C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls,
Mecca for Summer Camps,
Entrance to Pisgafe Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Vol. 68 — No. 33
Second Claes Mall f'vnHIeee®
Authorized si Brevard. N C.
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST IS, 19S7
A ZO PAGES TODAY A
HIGH ROCKS LAKE, situated high
up in the hills of Cedar Mountain, is the
center of an 1.100 acre tract now being
operated as a guest ranch. Next summer
‘'High Rocks” will become Transylva
nia’s 15th camp, the third to be operated :
for boys. From' the terrace of the main i
house, the children of owners, Mr. and
| Mrs. Sumner Williams, look out over the
12-acre lake. Mrs. Williams is the dau
j ghter of Frank Bell, Henderson county
camp owner, who sold the property to
them for the development as a boys’
! camp. See story, page six.
(Times Staff Photo)
Daniel Construction Company Will
Build New Superstructure For Ecusta
New Building Will House
10th Machine. Produc
tion Expected In ’58
Daniel Construction Company,
Inc., of Greenville, S. C., the low
bidder, has been awarded a contract
for the superstructure to house
the 10th paper machine for Ecus
ta Paper division, of Olin Math
ieson chemical corporation. This
announcement was made today by
A. J. Loeb, assistant general man
ager of the division. The substruc
ture was completed by Daniel Con
struction company in July.
The new machine, having a wire
width of 182 inches, will be larger
than any of the existing machines
at Ecusta.
It is designed primarily for ex
panded production of Bible and
other thin printing papers, base
papers for the carbonizing paper
industry, and other lightweight
specialty papers. Ecusta’s other
nine machines are used in the pro
duction of flax cigarette paper and
other thin papers.
It is now anticipated that pro
duction of the new machine will
commence during mid 1958
The Weather
The season’s record high tem
perature was recorded Monday
when the mercury soared a
sizzling 93 degrees. Only .39 inch
es of precipitation was recorded.
Daily readings are as follows.
Wednesday 81 45
Thursday 84
Friday 87
Saturday 89
Sunday 91
Monday 93
Tuesday 90
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Aug. 15 — Lions club
Jneets at Gaither’s at 7 p. m. Bre
vard High Boosters club meets at
7:30 in school. WSCS of Brevard
Methodist church to meet, 7:30 p.
m. Executive board of the women
of the Presbyterian church meets,
7:30 p. m. Boy Scout Court of
Honor, 7:30 p. m„ Presbyterian
church. Piano recital at college,
8:15 p. m.
Friday, Aug. 16 — Brevard Gar
den club meets at 3:30 with Mrs.
L. D. Martin. Transylvania Garden
club meets at 3:30 with Mrs. Bob
Andrews. Kiwanis club meets at
7 p. m., in Gaither’s. Conceit of
GaJa Music Festival, Brevard Mu
ck Center, 8:15 p. m. Square dance
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Successful Season
All Transylvania Organized
Summer Camps N’ow Closing
Transylvania’s outstanding or
j ganized summer camps are clos
ing after a highly successful sea
son.
Several of the camps are plan
ning post-season sessions, and the
American Red Cross Aquatic
school, which is held twice each
! summer at Camp Carolina, opens
! on Thursday.
The first session in June was
most successful, and another ca
pacity enrollment is expected.
Classes in all types of lifesaving
and water safety are taught to men
| and women from throughout the
| southeastern area.
Transylvania county is recog
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Town Will Push
Water Collections
—
In the past some people in the j
I town of Brevard have been getting
by without paying their water
rents, but effective immediately
this will be stopped.
At a meeting of the town fathers
Monday, Mrs. Opal King, town
clerk, was instructed to employ a
man to cut off water to all custom
ers whose accounts are 66 days or
more in the arrears.
Like the telephene and power
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nized as a “meeca for summer
camps", and each summer one or
two new ones open up.
Camp Cherrvfield for adults is
enjoying its first year, and "High
Rocks." off the Greenville high
way, is planning to open as a boys’
camp next season.
The unique Transylvania Music
camp closed last week to make
way for the Gala Festival of Mu
sic.
Other camps in the county for
boys and girls are Eagles Nest.
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Governor Hodges To Visit At Music
Center, '57 Opening Is Successful
SCHEDULE OF
SECOND SERIES
IS ANNOUNCED
“Wizard Of The Keyboard”
To Be Heard Friday.
Chorus On Sunday
RfOUND-UP MADE
The Brevard Gala Festival will
move into the second weekend of
its highly successful season on Fri
day evening. Capacity crowds are
expected to “follow the notes” to
the open air auditorium in Brevard
as Ldlhard Pennario appears with
the Gala Festival Orchestra in the
fourth concert of the 1957 series.
Mr. Pennario has achieved hon
ors in both recital and with lead
ing orchestras in the United States
and Canada that place him in the
front line of pianists. Six of his I
numerous New York recitals have
been played at Carnegie Hall.
Known as a “wizard of the key
board,” Mr. Pennario will play the
Khachaturian Concerto for Piano
and Orchestra for his Festival of
ft ring.
The 90-piece Festival Orchestra
will perform the Creston “Dance
Overture” and Brahms “Symphony
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TO SEL CANNON
FARM AT AUCTION
West Land Company Will
Conduct Sale Next Tues
day. Prizes Offered
; The Glen Cannon farm, located
three miles from Brevard on the
Cluff Wilson road, will be sold at
public auction next Tuesday, start
ing at 10 o'clock.
The large 400 acre farm is owned
by Jules and Lawrence Romph, of
Miami, Fla. Last year they sold all
of the beef cattle and this year
they leased over 200 acres of land
' to bean growers.
The farm is regarded as being
one of the finest farms in the coun
ty. It has 2 large barns, 3 silos, 1
main house, 3 tenant houses. 2 corn
cribs and other buildings.
The sale is being conducted by
West Land Auction Company of;
Weaverville.
Tax Collections Total 94.5
Per Cent, Increase Noted
County tax collections for the
fiscal year 1956-57 passed the
94.5-mark Monday, according to
C. M. Douglas, tax collector. This
is a sizeable increase over the
same period last year both per
centage-wise and in cash, he
states.
Collections for the towns of
Brevard and Bosnian are also
comparatively up, for the year.
With all but a little over five
percent of the current levy in,
Glenn Hardesty Is New Director Of
Public Relations At Brevard College
W. Glenn Hardesty, of Salis
bury, has been named director of
public relations for Brevard col
lege, according to an announce
ment today by President Emimett
K. McLarty, Jr. Mr. Hardesty suc
ceeds A. G. Burchfiel, who has ac
cepted a position as principal of
the Black Mountain elementary
school.
Born in Chapel Hill and reared
in Cartaref county, Mr. Hardesty
was graduated from North Caro
lina State college. During World
War II, he served with the 32nd
division in the Pacific theatre of
war. He was employed by the Farm
ers Home administration office in
Rowan county and served as assis
tant supervisor for three years,
during which time he was trans
ferred to Clinton.
For the past three years, he has
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W. GLENN HARDESTY
the tax collector has started pro
ceedings to collect through gar
nishee of wages and salaries in
accordance with requirements of
the Machinery act and General
statutes. These require the tax
collector to “use whatever means
are available to collect taxes that
are past due after June first.”
Notices have been mailed to
delinquent taxpayers in the past
month, and letters have gone out
to employers during the past few
days advising them of the fact
that some of their employees are
delinquent.
The tax collector states that ac
tual garnishment of wages will
start the first of the month in
effort to further collections.
Movie Scenes Will
Be Made In County
A number of scenes from the
Robert Mitchum film, “Jack of Dia
monds”, will be filmed in Transyl
vania county, according to produc
tion manager Robert O. Burch.
Among the places where shoot
ing of the film will take place is
Toxaway Falls, he stated.
Toxaway Falls figured promin
ently in the movie, “Taproots”, sev
eral years ago when many of the
scenes of this famous movie were
shot both above and below the falls.
Shooting for “Jack of Diamonds”
is scheduled to begin on Monday,
August 26th, and last for about 30
days in Buncombe, Henderson and
Transylvania counties.
Mitchum, a famous movie star,
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GOVERNOR LUTHER HODGES, who was instru
mental with Transylvania’s representative, James C.
Gaither, in getting the last legislature to appropriate
$15,000 to the Brevard Music foundation, will visit the
Music center during the coming wreek. He will be given
first hand information regarding the important work at
the camp, and he will hear rehearsals of the Gala Fes
tival of Music, which is described as the “best yet”.
Litchfield ls> New Successor
To Redmile As Field Project’
Manager Of Du Pont Plant
UTTLE THEATRE
TO USE COLLEGE
CAMPUS CENTER
New Auditorium Is Said
Ideal. McFadden Appoint
ed To Board
The Brevard Little Theatre will
use the auditorium and stage fa
cilities of the new Campus Center
building at Brevard college dur
ing the coming season, and all
three plays will be given there.
This announcement is made
jointly today by Mrs. Gus Masters,
president of Little Theatre, and
college officials who worked out
the arrangements.
The auditorium will be rented
the same as was the case with the
Legion Building, previously used
for plays. The Little Theatre will
be allowed the use of the Campus
Center for one week prior to the
plays, and shows will be given on
Friday and Saturday nights.
“We shall certainly encourage
student audiences and expect to
select ones that will have appeal
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Background Given. Con
struction Is Reported
Moving On Schedule
N. D. Litchfield will succeed Har
, old F. Redmile as field project
manager for the construction of the
multi-million dollar silicon plant at
: Buck Forest, it was learned to
I day. The change will become effec
i tive next Monday.
Mr. Redmile, who has been here
since last February, is being trans
ferred to Nashville, Tenn., where
he will have charge of the construc
tion of a large addition to Du Pont’s
Old Hickory plant that makes ray
on.
Mr. Litchfield comes to Brevard
from Martinsville, Va. He is a na
tive of Birmingham, Ala., and has
been with Du Pont construction for
the past 17 years. He is married
and has one child. The family will
occupy the home of Mrs. Juanita
Kimzey on Park Avenue.
Mr. Redmile stated, that con
struction on the huge Transylvania
county plant is progressing on
schedule and that it should be com
pleted by next February or March.
He said he had enjoyed living in
the area and regretted that he was
being moved.
“We love this country and I know
we’ll like Brevard,” the new field
project manager declared.
WPNF Program Highlights
Listeners Are Urged To Mail In
Requests, Popular Shows Listed
The three programs over WPNF
drawing the most requests, accord
ing to station manager, Bobby
Hoyle, are: “Happy Birthday” each
morning, as reported by Baxter
Morris; “Cousin Hank”, featuring
Cousin Hank and A1 Martin; and,
Joe Price’s “Starlight Serenade”.
Listeners are urged to mail in
their favorite selections to the an
nouncers.
WPNF has several DJ and rec
ord shows during the day, and its
news and sports programs are also
said to be outstanding.
Other Programs
Friday morning’s civic hour will
be conducted by the Jayceee. On
Monday, the Kiwanis club will be
heard, and Wednesday’s program
will be presented by the Hospital
auxiliary.
The Farm and Home hour sche
dule for the coming week is as fol
lows: Thursday, the Brevard Home
Economics department, under the
direction of Mrs. Glenn Burrell.
Friday’s program will feature Car
olina’s news. Monday’s program
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OVER 3,500 AT
CONCERTS HERE
LAST WEEK END
Sunday’s Program Was
Taped For Broadcast
Around The World
REVIEW GIVEN
Distinguished risitow to the
Brevard Music Ceeter (hiring the
coming week will include the Hon
orable Luther H. Hodges, Govern
or of North Carolina, and Mrs.
Hodges.
The chief executive and his wile
will be guests at the music center
to observe the outstanding work
being done for the musical growth
of this state and region.
The 1957 Gala Festival of Music
last week end enjoyed its most suc
cessful opening to date. Some 3,500
persons attended the three con
| certs. *
Lois Marshall, soprano, who ap
peared as guest artist in the initial
; concert on Friday evening, was
given a standing ovation by the
I enthusiastic crowd following her
| rendition of two Puccini arias.
I Approximately 1,100 persons
I heard famed pianist Grant Jehan
i nesen at his Saturday evening per
formance of Beethoven’s Plano
Concerto No. 2 in B Flat and Sym
phony on a French Mountain Song
; by d’Indy.
There was standing room only at
Sunday’s performance of Mendel
ssohn’s “Elijah,” starring Beverly
Wolff, contralto, Walter Freder
icks, tenor, and Yi-Kwei Sze, bass.
Lois Marshall, originally sched
uled to appear in “Elijah,” was
taken ill before the program and
Linda Sanford, secretary to James
Qhristian Pfohl, stepped fnto the
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RITES HELD FOR
ROBERT L. GASH
Was A Prominent Lawyer la
Transylvania For More
Than 50 Years
Graveside rites for Robert Le
noir Gash, 80, practicing attorney
in Brevard for over 50 years, were
held at 11 o’clock Saturday morn
ing at the Davidson River cemetery
in Pisgah Forest.
Rev. Frank McKenzie, rector of
St. Philip’s Episcopal church, was
the officiating minister.
Mr. Gash died Thursday night at
home after being in failing health
for several years. Due to his
health he had been inactive in the
law firm of Gash and Gash, which
he shared with his son, Robert T.
Gash.
Mr. Gash was horn on October
6, 1877, in what was then Hender
son, but is now Transylvania coun
ty. He was the son of the late Dav
ie Anne Deavor and Thomas Le
noir Gash, and hfs interest in fam
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Commerce Body
Seeks To Extend
Four-Lane Highway
Chamber of Commerce direc
tors in meeting here Tuesday
night started an effort to se
cure extension of the four-lane
highway from end of the pres
ent contract at least to the junc
tion of VS 64 and 64-A in front
of Deerfield Motel or possibly to
the court house square on Broad*
street.
The road committee was asked
to contract proper high commis
sion officials and set forth the
fact that a •‘bottle-neck” was iu
the making in front of Radio Sta
tion WPNF, where the new four
lane runs into Broad street. Hie
old 64 highway from North Bre
’ vard, it was pointed oaf In dis
cussion of the matter, wHl also
converge at that point and wiB
add to the congestion.
The road committee, composed
of Ralph H. Ramsev. John A.
Ford, Lewis P. Hamlin and?Free
man Hayes, was requested »to
take immediate steps brae mat
i ter.