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TR ANSYLV ANLA— An Industrial, Tourist, Ed ucational, A g r i c ultural and Music Center. Popula tion, 1950 Census, 15,821. Brevard Community 7,394. THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper TRANSYLVANIA The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca lor Summer ChmpA Entrance to Pisfrf Na tional Forest and Moans of Brevard Music Festival. Vol. 69 — No. 20 Second Class MaU Privileges Authorized at Brevard, N. C. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1958 ★ 24 PAGES TODAY * PUBLISHED WEEKLY REDECORATING OF THE Nurses’ dining room at the Transylvania Com munity hospital has been completed with the auxiliary cooperating. A group of hospital personnel is shown above as they eat their noon meal. At the left can be noted the new drapes, for which the auxiliary purchased the material. The drapes were made by Mrs. Arthur McCrary and Mrs. Baxter Morris, of the hospital staff. The dining room was also repainted and additional lighting was installed. (Times Staff Photo) Du Pont Announces Reduction Of Prices Of Silicon, Plans Call For Larger Unit Expansion In Market Of Product Is Predicted. Background Given Lower prices for all grades of hvper-pure silicon were announced b\ Du Pont today, coincident with the start-up of the nation’s first full-scale silicon plant near Bre-1 yard. Reductions range from S5 to $40 a pound, retroactive to May 1. ac cording to Dr. J. B. Sutton, spec ialty products sales manager for the company's pigments depart ment. When Du Pont pioneered pro duction of semi-conductor silicon lr 1952. the price was $430 a pound. Solar grade silicon sold for $’90 per pound when introduced in 1950. “The new price level is expected to broaden further the markets for silicon and lead to many new uses in electronic fields where semi conductors are not used at pres ent". Dr. Sutton said. Dr. Sutton also said greatly ex panded technical service facilities to assist silicon customers are now available at the new sales develop ment laboratory of the pigments department at Chestnut Run. near Wilmington. Prior to completion of the Bre vard plant, silicon was produced on a pilot scale at the company's New port. Del., plant. The new plant is located about 15 miles from here, where a 10.000-acre site offers pro tection from airborne contamina tion from industry or agriculture. About 200 persons are employed, though future plans call for a still larger unit. The company also said cut rod will be standardized at approxi mately 1J2 inch diameter and 80 —Turn to Page Five CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday. May 15 — Women of Presbyterian church covered dish i supper, 6:30 p. m. Lions club meets at 7 p. m.. at Gaither’s. Friday. May 16 — Hospital open house and tea. 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. Transylvania Garden club tour, 3 p. m.. at Mrs. B. F. Murphy’s. Ki wanis Ladies’ night at Presbyterian church. 7 p. m. Missionary rally at the Church of the Nazarene, 7:30 p. m Talent hunt program at the court house. 8:15 p. m. Saturday, May 17 — Armory open house, 5 to 8 p. m. Last day to register for Primary. Sunday, May 18 — Attend the church of your choice. Monday, May 19 — Rotary club meets at Gaither's at 7 p. m. Tuesday, May 20 — Ace of Clubs meets at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, May 21 — Cancer health conference at Olin Mathie son health center, 2 p. m. Meet ing of Catholic Laymen’s associa tion, 8 p. m., at the church. Printing New Folders Commerce Body Expecting Good Year, Annual Drive Is Planned With 77 members already paid in for the year 1958. annual drive for the Brevard Chamber of Com merce has been set for the first week in June by the directors who net Tuesday night. Headed by James C. Gaither and P. T. Abercrombie, an effort will be made to have sufficient number of canvassers to make a one-day drive for the 1958 enrollment of business and individual members. Rollman Conducts Talent Hunt Show Here This Friday The Western North Carolina tal ent hunt program will be brought to Transylvania on Friday night by Heinz Rollman, of Waynesville. The hunts are being conducted in 10 WNC counties, and the finals are slated for Saturday night, May 24th. in Asheville’s City Auditor ium. The program here Friday night will get underway at 8:15 o’clock, and all amateur singers, musicians, comedians, etc., are invited to en ter. A beautiful trophy will be award ed to the local winner, who will also appear in the finals and com pete for an opportunity of winning a free trip to New York and a TV audition. Details on the talent hunt can be found in an ad on page seven, third section, of this week’s Times. For 1957 a total of 201 active voting members paid into the Bre-' \ard chamber, with a noted in- j crease in individual memberships. Tt’o tourist committee reported that an “information school’’ for service business heads and employ ees would be held here within the next few weeks, and that plans will be made at a meeting to be held in G.ither’s Rhododendron room Thursday afternoon of this week at 2 30. Classes will be held by repre sentatives of the state. The advertising committee re —Turn to Page Four Number Of Covered Workers Increases In County, 765 Farm Openings Reported RESERVE UNITS WILL HOLD OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY Mayor Freeman Issues Proc lamation On Armed Forces Day Armed Forces day will be ob served in Brevard and throughout the nation on Saturday. The local reserve units will hold open house the armory, the Pic kclsimer building on Caldwell street, which was formerly occu pied by Du Pont. Hours will be from 5:00 in the afternoon until 8:00 that evening. Mayor B. H. Freeman has issued a proclamation, declaring Satur day as Armed Forces day here. lie calls upon local citizens to display the American flag on Sat urday and to familiarize themselves with the achievements of the Arm ed Forces. “You can honor these groups by attending and participating in the local ceremony of open house on Saturday.” he declares. HOSPITAL WEEK BEING OBSERVED “Open House” And Tea Are Planned By Auxiliary On Friday Afternoon In observance of National Hos-1 pital week, the auxiliary of the Transylvania Community hospital is sponsoring “open house” at the institution on Friday afternoon from 2:30 until 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. Herbert Finck, president of the auxiliary, invites everyone to take the opportunity of visiting the hospital on Friday. There will be a tea, refresh ments and tours of the hospital, conducted by the personnel of the institution. Members of the arrangements committee, which has been ap pointed by Mrs. Finck, are: Mrs. James Wulpi, Mrs. David Ward —Turn to Page Eight 55 % Of County's Seniors Are Continuing Education Over half of Transylvania’s grad uates from the two high schools continued their formal education m 1957 by enrolling in college, bus iness or trade schools or a nursing institution, it was learned in a survey this week. Actually, the percentage was 55.3, and Transylvania ranked eighth in the state among the 99 other counties. The state average was 40.7. For 1956, the percentage of high school students continuing their formal education was 45.7. There are no figures available as to Transylvania negro students, since they go to Hendersonville Gaither Elected Chairman Of Demos In County, Precinct Chairmen Named James C. Gaither, Transylvania’s representative in the last General Assembly and a candidate to suc ceed himself this year, was elected chairman of the Democratic party in this county at a convention last Saturday afternoon in the Brevard court house. He succeeds Thomas R. Eller. Brevard attorney, who presided over the convention, which was well attended. Other officers elected at the me time by the new Democratic executive committee arc as follows: Mrs. Martha Fraser, vice chairman; Charles L. Russell, secretary; and. W. W. Brittain, treasurer. During the business session of the convention, Mr. Eller recog nized the various candidates in the May 31st primary, and those pres —Turn to Page Five JAMES C. GAITHER high school. The vast majority of the white students continuing their formal education in Transylvania enter ed junior or senior colleges, Prin cipal Robert T. Kimzey reports. During the past five years, more and more graduates from the local high school have been going to col lege, he states. Congressman George Shuford Visits Here Congressman George Shuford, who is seeking renomination in the May 31st primary, visited friends in Brevard and Transylvania coun ty Monday afternoon. He reported that he was fully re covered from his recent eye opera tion and is now carrying his cam paigning into all sections of the dis trict prior to returning to Washing ton. The congressman was pleased with the progress that is being made on the new fish hatchery in the Pisgah National forest, and he said he hoped that construction could soon be started on the new Army Research center in Brevard. His office recently announced that the army had approved the site for the armory here in Bre vard just off French Broad and Johnson streets. CLUB TOURS FRIDAY The Transylvania Garden club will go on a tour Friday, May 16th, for their regular meeting. Members are asked to meet at 3 p. m., at the gardens of Mrs. B. F. Murphy on (he Greenville highway. After see ing them they will go to Mrs. S. R. Harrington’s and Mrs. Brown Carr’s. CROWNING OF MISS NANCY HARRIS as Queen of the annual Junior-Senior banquet and dance last Friday night climaxed the big events at the American Legion building. Crowning Miss Harris is Jerry Cabe, who is president of the junior class. A senior at Brevard high school, Miss Harris was elected Prom Queen by the mem bers of the junior class. During the past three years, she has been a member of the beauty court and she was Pop ularity Queen her sophomore year. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Harris, of Brevard. (Photo by Austin) Saturday Is The Last Day To Register For May 31 Primary PVT. BYRD IS NOW WITH ELVIS Former Times Employee Sta tioned At Fort Hood, With Famed Singer Pvt. James Gordon Byrd could well be the envy of millions of teen-age idols of Pvt. Elvis Press ley. For they are stationed close to each other in the same barracks at Fort Hood, Texas. The son of Mr. and Mrs. James Robert Byrd, of Rosman road, Bre vard, Gordon entered the army on April 30th. Prior to that time he was employed as a printer-press man at The Transylvania Times. He recently wrote his parents of an incident at Ft. Hood involving Pressley. Gordon wrote that Elvis dated a girl on base, strictly off limits during basic training, and for that he was assigned to two weeks of KP. Publicity originating at Fort Hood about Singer Elvis has all stated that he is a model soldier. Byrd is taking his infantry basic training and following eight weeks he will be given a leave and reassigned. Democrats And Republicans Will Both Vote. §huford Cites Regulations Registration for the May 31st primary closes in Transylvania on Saturday. The following Saturday, May; 24th. is challenge day, George Shu ford, chairman of the Transylvania; board of elections, announces. There is no new registration this year, but all persons who have moved into the community since the last election must register, and all persons moving from one pre cinct to another 30 days prior to the primary must secure a transfer slip. Interest in Transylvania in the primary is centered in three races. They are: for sheriff, for congress and for state solicitor. In the first one, the incumbent, Sheriff, “Scott” Dillingham, is be ing opposed by Claude Melton, Eu gene S. Wilson and Lloyd L. Wood. Solicitor Clarence O. Ridings, of Forest City, has as his opposition, Leonard Lowe, another Forest City lawyer. Throughout the district there seems to be much interest in the congressional race in which Con gressman George Shuford is being opposed by four candidates, San ford W. Brown, Beverly M. Middle —Turn to Page Eight Program Highlights "Your Hospital" Will Be Theme Of Special Program On WPNF Friday “Your Transylvania Community Hospital” will be the theme of a special program on WPNF on Fri day morning at 9:30 o'clock. This is National Hospital week, and the special programs will be conducted by A1 Martin, program director. On his “Coffee Time” program on Saturday morning, Mr. Martin will interview Rev. Ben Ormand. who leaves later this month for Scotland, where he will preach this summer. Other Programs The schedule for the Farm and Home hour for the coming week is as follows: Thursday, home agent’s office; Friday, station program; Monday, county agent's office; Tuesday, Rosman vo-ag, dept., B. E. Keisler; Wednesday, home agent’s office. On the Civic hour the following will be heard: Friday, Rotary club; Monday, Lions club; Wednesday, American Legion auxiliary. Speaking this week on Morning devotions is Rev. W. A. Kerr, pas tor of the Selica and Rosman Meth odist churches and next week Rev. Hamilton Witter, pastor of the English Chapel and Oak Grove Methodist churches, will be heard. The Sunday morning church ser vice is being broadcast through the remote facilities of WPNF from Brevard Methodist church, Rev. Douglas Corriher is pastor. TRANSYLVANIA TOPS STATE IN GROWING GLADS Weekly Earning Rate Here Is Also One Of The Best In North Carolina SITUATION IMPROVED Transylvania now has 3,330 wrrkors in the county employed under covered employment, that is, covered by Employment Security commission benefits, and accord ing to a recent survey, farm open ing in Transylvania appear very' promising for the coming season. This survey was made by the Farm Placement interviewer for the Hendersonville area, W. D. Brackett, and it indicates that there are at least 765 farm open ings in this county. In addition, a number of Tran sylvania workers commute to farm jobs in Henderson county and tc the numerous packing houses around Hendersonville. The local employment office al so reports that Transylvania ranks No. 1 in the state in the growing of gladioli, and the growing of pole beans and other agricultural prod ucts has become an important ac tivity. Mr. Brackett will be in Brevard on the next two Wednesdays, May 21st and 28th, at the court room in the court house to discuss farm openings with interested appii cants. Another bright side of the em ployment picture in the county is the fact that the average weekly earnings of covered workers here is $70.89, considerably more than the average of $59.83 for the state as a whole. At the present time the commis sion s Maying unemployment bene* ms t<- slightly more than 200 claimants. This is a slight decrease from the peak claim load experien ced during the winter and early spring months. Claims during the past several months have been heaviest from the lumber and textile industries —Turn to Page Eight PARKWAY HERE BEING REPAIRED Severe Freezes Did Consid erable Damage During Past Winter The Blue Ridge Parkway in Transylvania county, from Wagon Road to Beech Gap. may not open tc travel for several weeks, it was announced here Wednesday by C. M. Douglas, secretary of the N. C. Park commission. Severe freezes on sections of the 11-mile stretch of the scenic highway near Brevard caused complete breakdown of the base for distances of 100 to 1000 feet, and this necessitates rebuilding of the base. Work on many of the culverts also has to be completed before other repair w'ork can be done, it was stated in official communica tion from the Roanoke headquar ters office. In addition, it will be necessary to re pave the entire 11 miles. This work has been delayed —Turn to Page Eight Car Fails To Make Curve At McCrary’s, High Damage Result Six persons were injured and four ears and a wrecker were dam aged in an auto accident about mid night last Saturday in front of Mc Crary auto service on Broad street. Local officers report that a car which was said to have been driv en by Kenneth Anders, failed to make the curve just beyond the McCrary concern and crashed into two new cars, a used vehicle and the wrecker, which were all parked in front, of the parking lot. Others riding in the car were Helen Perry. Martha Gay Owen, Junior Bryson, Ernest Fisher and David Meece. They were all taken yto the Transylvania Community hospital and were treated for cuts —Turn to Page Four
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