TRANSYLVANIA- >
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed- •
ucational, Agricultural
and Music Center. Papula
tion, 1950 Census, 15,321.
Brevard Community 7,394.
The Transylvania Times
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TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of WaterfeHa,
Mecca for Summer
Entrance to Pisg^h Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
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VOL. 68 — NO. 36
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Authorized at Brevard, N. C.
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1957 * 16 PAGES TODAY *
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
SPECTACULAR SHOTS
of the car crashing over
Toxaway falls for the movie
“The Whippoorwill’’ can be
noted at the top and at
left. Hundreds of spectat
ors gathered along the
highway last Friday to wit
ness the incident. In the top
picture the car is shown as
explosives are set off un
derneath it along the edge
of the falls. At the left the
car can be seen careening
down the rocky falls just
before it burst into flames.
Hollywood cameramen shot
the plunge of the car and its
two occupants, represented
by dummies, from four dif
ferent angles. See addition
al picture and story on page
five, first section.
(Times Staff Photos)
Brevard College To Open New Term On
September 15, Now Planning Workshop
Capacity Enrollment Is Ex
pected. Orientation Pro
gram Is Planned
Brevard college will officially
open for the 1957-’58 term on Sun
day, September 15th.
New students will arrive on that
day, and the cafeteria will open
that evening.
A capacity enrollment of more
than 400 students is expected.
The orientation program will get
underway with assembly in the
new college auditorium at 7:30
Sunday evening, Sept. 15th. Bobby
Little, president of the student gov
ernment, win preside. President
Emmett McLarty will be in charge
of the service of worship.
Monday and Tuesday will be de
voted to further orientation. The
testing program for new students
will be under the direction of Dean
—Turn to Page Eight
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Sept. 5 — Tour of
Cedar Mountain community and
new silicon plaint at Buck Forest.
Lions club meets at Gaither’s at 7
p. m.
Friday, Sept. 6 — Kiwanis club
meets at 6:45 p. m., in Gaither’s.
Football, Brevard vs. Reynolds on
lighted high school field.
Saturday, Sept. 7 — Fisher
reunion, Toxaway church, 10 a. m.
Jaycees to hold Ladies Night at
Cascade Lake.
Sunday, Sept. 8 — Attend the
church of your choice. Davidson
River Day to be observed by Pres
byterians.
Monday, Sept. 9 — DAR meets
with Mrs. Randal Lyday, 3 p. m.
Rotary club meets at Gaither’s, 7
p. m. Brevard P-TA meeting at ele-'
mentary school, 8 p. m.
Tuesday, Sept. 10 — Chamber of
commerce directors meet, 7:30 p.
m.
ANNUAL FISHER
REUNION IS SET
THIS SATURDAY
Program Will Begin At 10
O’clock In The Morning.
Lunch On Grounds
The annual Fisher reunion will
be held Saturday at 10:00 a. m. at
the Lake Toxaway Baptist church,
according to an announcement
from Roy Fisher of Rosman, presi
dent.
Special music will be rendered
by the Bishop family of Cedar
Mountain and Misses Betty and
Catherine Moody of the Quebec
section.
A picnic lunch will be served at
12:30 p. m.
All relatives and friends of the
Fishers are invited to attend the
reunion.
Student Leaders Will Joir
With The Faculty And
Staff Setting Agenda
The annual workshop conference
for the Brevard College faculty anc
staff will be held on the college
campus beginning Tuesday, Sep
i tem/ber 10th, and lasting througl
I September 14th.
! The student leaders of the col
j lege will join the faculty and stafi
Ion Thursday evening, Septembei
12th.
The theme of the workshop will
be “Aims and Purposes of Bre
vard College”, President Emmetl
K. McLarty stated.
Objectives of the conference
are:
To interpret the current empha
sis on higher education.
To clarify the church college’s
place in meeting society’s needs.
To define the tasks of a church
sponsored junior college.
To study the various means by
which these tasks may be accom
—Turn to Pace Eieht
WPNF Program Highlights
Much Sports Activity Being Heard On
WPNF, Reynolds Game On Friday
WPNF is featuring a full menu
of sports activities, with addition- j
al shows being planned, Bobby
Hoyle, the station manager, an
nounces.
Daily the Brooklyn Dodger
games are being heard, and each
Friday night a play-by-play descrip
tion of the high school football
game is carried.
This week it will be Brevard vs. j
Reynolds, with air time at 7:55 o’- [
clock.
The sports review is heard each |
evening at 6:45 o’clock, and the
Blue Devil player of the week is'
carried each Tuesday afternoon at
5:45 o’clock.
Hie local station manager says
that plans are now being made for
WFNF to join the Tobacco Sports
network again this season and car
ry the exciting Carolina football
games beginning on Sept. 22nd.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm and
Home hour for the coming week is
as follows: Thursday, farm home
administration, John Collins; Fri
day, U. S. Forest service, Ted See
ly; Monday, county agent’s office;
—Ton to Page Eight
Asheville Council, WNC Leaders To
Visit Cedar Mountain On Thursday
CAR CRASHES OVER
TOXAWAY RALLS AS
MOVIE IS FILMED
Unique Event Created Much
Excitement U>t Friday
Aftenloon
BY FRANCES WALKER
A 1957 model Ford went over
Toxaway Falls Friday afternoon at
3:30 o’clock, but it was no wreck.
Instead it was part of the second
unit phase of filming for the movie
“The Whippoorwill”, which is be
ing made in Western North Caro
lina. The movie stars Robert Mit
ch um, who is also the producer of
the independent company making
the picture.
Mitchum himself was on hand
to witness the “shooting” of the
; scene as a large crowd of orderly
J spectators watched the activities,
j He attracted as much attention as
! did the car that was sent down the
falls.
The yellow Ford careened slow
ly down after it had been set off by
explosives and caught on fire. The
spectators were kept at a safe dis
I tance by a flock of highway patrol
men, three of whom are assigned
to the movie company everywhere
; they go.
The car had been perched on a
wooden platform just below the
roadway and just above the falls.
The charges of explosives sent the
car to its doom and also caught it
on fire. Inside were two dummies.
The dummies in the movie will
represent two men who are sup
posed to be chasing Robert Mitch
um. The scene is to be one of
many exciting ones in th^modern
| day story concerning the illicit
manufacture of whiskey, “moon
shining.”
Toxaway Falls took on the as
pects of a Hollywood location all
day Friday as the cameramen and
—Turn to Page Five
MORROW RITES
ARE RED HERE
Prominent Civil Engineer
Played Important Role
Developing Area
Royal H. Morrow, 80. of Brevard,
died suddenly last Friday in the
Transylvania Community hospital
after a brief illness. Graveside
rites were conducted at the St.
Pauls in the Valley cemetery by
the Rev. Ben Ormand. The service
was private with only the family
attending.
Mr. Morrow was a native of
Zanesville, Ohio, where he was
connected with an engineering
firm until he moved to Western
North Carolina in 1908. He bought
a small piece of property in the
I Sapphire section of the county and
later built a summer cottage there.
In 1915 he moved into a house he
had built on east Main street
where he lived until his death.
Mr. Morrow was employed by
the Old Toxaway company on its
survey for water power develop
ment, gaining a thorough know
ledge of the streams and run-off
capacity of the watersheds in this
area. He was later consulted by
the T.V.A. and other water power
developments.
Mr. Morrow became interested
—Turn to Page Eight
Brevard otreats
Being Blacktopped
Eight streets in Brevard are now
being blacktopped, by Driveways,
Inc., of Asheville.
Jack Bryant, chairman of the
street committee of the bpard of
aldermen, reported at Tuesday
night’s meeting that the work
would be completed in the near
future. The costs of the project
were set at $8,280.92.
The streets are as follows: Var
sity, Morgan, Lakeviiew, Harold,
Laurel Lane, Duckworth, Johnson
and Oakdale.
The aldermen signed P. D. Jones
to replace Robert Fisher on the
police force. Mr. Jones is a former
deputy sheriff of Transylvania.
Other action of the board in
cluded granting of taxi driver’s li
cense to Johnny Fisher.
BREVARD’S CO-CAPTAINS, Jerry Cabe, left, and
C ecil Lowery, rifght, will lead the Blue Devils in their
second home game Friday night against Reynolds, of
Buncombe county. They were standouts last Friday
night, as Brevard crushed Taylors, of South Carolina,
44-0, before 2,500 fans. See stories on sports page.
(Times Staff Photo)
Labor Day Week End Quietly
Observed In Town And County
C. M. DOUGLAS, Transylva
nia’s tax collector, was re-elect
ed secretary of the North Caro
lina Park, Parkway and Forest
Development commission at the
annual meeting last week. Mr.
Douglas has held this position
since the organization of the
commission under legislation en
actment in 1947. (See story on
page seven, first section.)
The Weather
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No precipitation was recorded
in Brevard during the past week.
Temperatures, both high and low,
were to the extremes, compared
with the previous week’s readings.
The average high was 88, and the
average low was 53. Daily readings
are as follows.
Max.
Wednesday_85
Thursday _86
Friday _89
Saturday _90
Sunday _91
Monday _90
Tuesday _90
Min.
51
51
55
53
53
57
54
Bear Killed In Cage At Pis- [
1 gah Trading Post. No'Ac- '
cidents Reported .!
The Labor Day week end in J
Transylvania was quietly observed. |
and according to the highway pa-1
trol, there were no automobile ac- \
cidents.
One unpleasant incident, how-!
ever, reports Sheriff “Scott” Dil- j
lingham, was the killing of one of
I the large bears in the steel cage at!
the Pisgah Trading post at the en
trance of Pisgah National Forest.
The sheriff states that some per
son or persons shot the bear early
Saturday morning and dragged it
from the cage to a nearby ditch.
Two youths were arrested in
| connection with the killing, and in
vestigations are being continued,
the sheriff reports.
Brevard stores, the schools and
town and county offices were clos
ed Monday for the Labor Day hol
iday, and there were record num
bers of sightseers in this “land of
waterfalls”.
Mkny Transylyanianjs attended
the Apple Festival parade in Hen
dersonville Monday afternoon, and
the Brevard high school band,
dressed in new uniforms, complete
with Bermuda shorts, made a big
hit with the crowd.
Martha Fortune, Brevard girl,
rode in the parade, with film star,
Robert Mitchum. There has been
considerable speculation since the
parade about whether or not she
was in the convertible with him.
Here’s what happened:
Mitchum began his ride in the
parade alone. After the parade be
gan rolling festival officials decid
ed he needed a girl with a pretty
smile to ride with him. Miss For
tune was selected from the crowd
as she watched the parade near the
A&P store on Main street. She con
tinued the rest of the route with
the movie star and said he chatted
amiably with her.
Annual Davidson River Day To Be
Observed By Presbyterians Sunday
The annual Homecoming of the
Presbyterians, Davidson River Day,
will be observed this Sunday at the
Rrevard-Davidson River Presby
terian church,
Sunday school will begin at 9:45
a. m., and the regular worship ser
vice will be at 11 o’clock. A part of
the morning worship service will
be devoted to commemorating Da
vidson River Day.
The picnic dinner will be served
at 12:30 p. m.} in the church Fel
lowship Hall.
Copies of the recent ‘History of
Brevard-Davidson River Church”,
written by Harvey L. Cavender,
will be available. There will also
be copies of a chronological roll
of the church.
The old Davidson River church
at Pisgah Forest will be open all
day for those who may desire to
—Tara to Pago Eight
FOUR OF DU PONT
SILICON PLANT IS
ALSO ON SCHEDULE
second Stop Of Dutingaiib'
ed Body Will Be at
Olin Mathieson l»>
DINNER SLATED
The Cedar Mountain (fomm nnityi
op winner in the Transylvania- Ru
al Development contest last year
md also the first place winner in
Western North Carolina with the
iuladean community of lritrftyfl
bounty, will be visited by the Aahe
rille Agricultural council gmf otb
?r local and WNC leaders on Thurs
lay afternoon.
The Cedar Mountain Develop^
nent club will be host to. the event,
which will include a tour to the
lew Silicon plant being constrnc
ted in Buck Forest; a trip to the
Olin Mathieson Chemical corpor
ation at Pisgah Forest; and, dinner
at the Cedar Mountain Commun
ity center.
Morris McGough, executive vice
president of the Asheville Agri
cultural council, will head the del
egation of some 50 persons from
Buncombe county. Included, in ad
dition to officers and directors of
the council, will be city and coun
ty officials, businessmen and civic
leaders.
Transylvania’s County Agent
James Davis announces that city
and county leaders here will join
with the Cedar Mountain club in
welcoming the distinguished body
to the area.
The first stop will be made at
the Du Pont plant at 3:00 o'clock.
The group will be welcomed fcv
Harold G. Brown, a Du. Pont pub
lic relations officer, of Wilmington,
Delaware, and Bob Baker, em
ployee relations supervisor of the
new plant here.
The two Du Pont officials will
give the group a progress report.
Afterwards, the tour will be con
tinued to Pisgah Forest, where
Charles L. Russell, community re
lations director, will welcome the
body. Scheduled to speak on the
brief program are Phil Brownell,
general manager of the paper di
vision, and Milton Herzog, gener
al manager of the film division.
At 5:00 o’clock persons making
the tour will be welcomed to Ce
—Turn to Page Eight
MAN HANGS SELF
IN COUNTY JAIL
Coroner Reports That Jimmy
Tatum Committed Sui
cide Wednesday
Jimmy Tatum, 33, of Brevard,
committed suicide in the Tna
sylvania county jail sometime
early Wednesday morning, ac
cording to coroner Donald Lee
Moore.
Tatum had used a portion of
a sheet which he had tied amend
some bars in the cell block and
hanged himself. He was discov
ered by P. D. Bryson, a primmer,
about 7:15 Wednesday mmnfuc
According to coroner Moore he
had been dead about four hoars.
Tatum had been arrested
around midnight Tuesday on a
warrant for the larceny of a rifle
valued at $40.00 according On
sheriff E. V. “Scott” Dillingham.
No inquest will be held.
League Of Women
Voters Here Now
Conducting Drive
The Brevard League of Women
Voters is this week and next con
ducting a drive for funds to fin
ance work of the organisation, Mrs.
G. H. Baldauf, the president, an
nounces.
In asking the public to support'
the drive, Mrs. Baldauf points out
that the league is a non-partisan
civic organization, which is inter
ested in increasing citizen partici
pation in government.
She explains that the league pro
vides information on local, state
and national issues and encourages
citizens to register and to note k
elections.