TRANSYLVANIA An InduetriaL Tourist Bd ucational, Agricultural and Muaic Cento1. Popula tion, i960 Census, 15321. Brevard Community 7,394. THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Ne w s p a p e r TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfall* Mecca for Summer Entrance to) Piagafc Ra tional Forest and Berne of Brevard Music Festival. Vol. 69 — No. 23 Second Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Brevard, N. C. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1958 * 18 PAGES TODAY * PUBLISHED WEEKLY PRINCIPAL FIGURES at graduation exercises at Brevard college Sunday af ternoon are pictured above. From left to right, they are: President Emmett K. Mc Lartv, Dean John Bennett; Vice Presi dent Robert H. Stamey and Leslie S. Gro gan, manager of the new Du Pont sili con plant here, who delivered the main address. (Times Staff Photo) "Sommer Festival Of Music" Is Slated Seven Weeks, Signing Many Soloists Camp To Open June 19th. Additions To Staff, Or chestra Are Noted An altered schedule of concerts in which the “Summer Festival of Music” will last for seven weeks will open Sunday, June 22, at the j Transylvania Music camp and close , on i unday, August 10th. ivi ■ odies will ring from the; mountains as Transylvania Music! camp opens its 22nd season on June 19th. Talented young music students from 17 states have en rolled for six and one half weeks of study under the distinguished fac ulty of musicians from leading con servatories and symphony orches tras which James Christian Pfo’nl, director of the camp, has assemb led. Soloists are now being signed for the concerts that will be held week 1;. on Friday and Saturday even-] ings at 8:15 o'clock and on Sunday ; afternoons at 4 o’clock. The full list of soloists will be announced at, k a later date. The Transylvania Chorus and Choral Ensemble, members of the faculty and staff and the soloists will be presented with the orches tra under the direction of Mr. Pfohl and other conductors throughout the summer. Among the new additions to the j orchestra is Emil Raab, professor of music at the University of Ala bama. who will serve as concert master. He is a well known soloist and recitalist and plays first violin with the Alabama String quartet, j Dr. William Revelli, famed con-! ductor of the University of Michi gan bands, returns again this sea son to conduct a concert on July 26th. Dr. Revelli will be remem bered for his outstanding concert at the Brevard Music Center last sum mer. A newcomer this season is Bernard Fitzgerald, conductor of ^ the University of Kentucky sym phonic band who will conduct the Transylvania concert band on July 4th. A number c£ special events are being planned at the Brevard Mu —Turn to Page Four CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, June 5 — Chamber of commerce breakfast and member ship drive, 8 a. m., Gaither’s. Meth odist and Presbyterian women’s circles meet. Lions club meets at Gaither’s, 7 p. m. Episcopal women meet in the parish house, 8 p. m. Friday, June 6 — Kiwanis club meets at Gaither’s, 7 p. m. Master point game of Ace of Clubs, 7:45 p. m. Brevard High School Gradua tion, 8 p. m. Saturday, June 7 — Municipal pool opens, as does Camp Straus. fOlin Mathieson vs. Hazelwood, Camp Straus, 3 p. m. Sunday, June 8 — Attend the church of your choice. Monday, June 9 — Board of ap peals meets in city hall at noon. Ro tary club meets in Gaither’s, 7 p. m. Tuesday, June 10 — Ace of Clubs meets at 7:30 p. m. Chamber of commerce directors meet over city hall at 7:30 p. m. Fidelis Sunday school class meets with Mrs. John DeBord. Wednesday, June 11 — Jaycees meet at 6:30 p. m., at Gaither’s. Thursday’s The Day * Chamber Of Commerce To Hold One-Day Membership Campaign The annual membership drive for the Brevard Chamber of Com merce will be held Thursday, ac cording to James C. Gaither and E. T. Abercrombie, co-chairmen of the membership campaign. Solicitors will meet at 8 o'clock | Thursday morning at Gaither's for a “dutch'' breakfast. They will then go out in parrs to make the canvass, which they hope to complete in one day. The co-chairmen urge that peo-1 pie meet the solicitors with a “glad hand" and keep in mind that the i workers have already paid their j memberships for the year in addi-! County’s Schools To Open Sept. 2nd Transylvania’s schools will open on September 2nd for the 1958-’59 term. Superintendent Wayne Bradburn announces today. Principals and supervisors will report for work on August 19th. and the county-wide faculty meet ing is slated on Sept. 1st. at 10:00 a. m. Supt. Bradburn also announces: that there will be no school on Sept.: 23rd, the date of the NCEA dis trict meeting in Asheville. Schools will also be closed on Nov. 4th. which is election day. Schools will close on Wednesday, Nov. 26th for the Thanksgiving holidays, and wall reopen on Mon day, Dec. 1st. The Christmas holidays will run from Dec. 19th until Monday, Jan. 5th. Easter holidays are scheduled from March 26th until March 31st. The closing date of schools will be June 2nd, providing no time is lost during the year. tion to donating their time for the drive. Mrs. John Ford, executive sec retary of the chamber of com merce, reports that her office in the Transylvania Library building j is now open all day for inquiries ! from tourists and others. “We should look forward to an j exceptionally fine season,’’ Mrs.' Ford said. She backed this up by adding that the number of inquir ies so far this season was ahead of years. A number of tourists have alrea dy arrived in town, and Mrs. Ford said that she was busy looking for places for them to stay. Good Vote Recorded In Primary Here, Dillingham And Shuford Victorious METHODISTS ARE MEETING AT LAKE Many From Transylvania In Attendance. College Spon soring Luncheon Brevard and Transylvania coun ty will be well represented at the Western North Carolina confer ence of the Methodist church this week end at Lake Junaluska. Some 2,000 clerical and lay dele gates are expected to be in attend ance at the annual meeting, which officially opens at 9:00 o’clock Thursday morning. Bishop Nolan B. Harmon will be in charge. Attending from the Brevard Methodist church will be the pas tor, Rev. Douglas Corriher, and P. A. Rahn is the lay delegate. Robert Buddy” Melton is the alternate. In Mr. Corriher’s absence on Sunday, the Rev. B. W. Thomason, retired pastor of the First Baptist church, will preach. Several persons from the staff and faculty of Brevard college will also attend the conference, and —Turn to Page Four ASHE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENTj Two Others Injured Tuesday Night In Wreck Near Cashiers Charles Lyman Ashe, 29, of Brevard, was killed instantly in an automobile accident which oc curred on N. C. 107 just north of Cashiers around 11:15 p. m., Tuesday night. Few details of the accident were available at press time. Riding in the 1951 Ford with —Turn to Page Four Will Open Bids On New Construction On Parkway \ Bids will be opened on June 20 | for construction of the grade separ ation at cross-over of the Rosman Lake Logan road at the intersection ol the Blue Ridge Parkway at Beech Gap. it was announced here by the parkway officials yesterday. The grade separation will pro vide for access to the Parkway at Beech Gap from the trans-mountain road, and at the same time will pro vide an underpass for through traf fic that will use the road, which is under construction now between Pin Hook and Beech Gap above Bal sam Grove. The officials stated that they hoped to have the contractors on the job this summer, and that com pletion will depend on weather and other factors. It was also announced by the parkway officials that bids will be opened on June 13 for 11% miles cl' the scenic parkway from Beech Gap west to Racking Horse Gap. This job will require around a mil lion cubic feet of excavation, and will take nearly a year for comple tion. it is estimated. The parkway officials went on to say yesterday that plans are to let the rest of the section to complete the scenic drive all the way from Wagon Road in to Smokemont in the Great Smokies sometime after July 1. The last letting will be 8% miles from Racking horse to Bal sam gap on US 23 between Waynes ville and Sylva. “Racking” Horse gap, known to many of the people as “Rocking” horse gap, has come in for much discussion recently. Older people contacted here from Upper Tran —Turn to Page Five DEMOCRATIC VOTERS gave a good vote of confi dence to the two men above, who were seeking renomina tion in last Saturday’s primary. At the left is Sheriff E. V. “Scott” Dillingham, who polled 1,830 votes, which to talled a 491 majority over his three other opponents. At the right is Congressman George Shuford, who received 1,898 votes, for a majority of 682 votes. Impressive Addresses Heard At ’58 College Commencement, Alumni Group Elects Officers Dr. Graham Is The New President. Underwood Speaks At Luncheon The annual Brevard College Alumni luncheon was held in the college cafeteria last Saturday with the class of 1958 as guests of honor. Miss Lillian Zachary, of Brevard, immediate past vice president, presided over the business session and announced the results of the recent election of new officers for the coming year. Dr. Gordon N. Graham, class ’46, of Easley, S. C., was elected pres ident of the group. Other officers include Rev. C. Marvin Boggs, class ’39, of Catawba, vice presi dent; .Dorothy Wallace, class ’53, of Brevard, secretary - treasurer; Herman Morgan, class ’48, of Asheville, vice president, Brevard auxiliary; Judge W. A. Hart, of Weaverville, vice president, Wea ver auxiliary; and Rev. Rollin Gibbs, of Statesville, vice presi dent, Rutherford auxiliary. Dr. Sam J. Underwood, class of ’43, professor of education at Fur man University, was the speaker, and used as his topic the liberal education. He said, “That education is lib eral which induced man to become av/are of his past, sensitive to his present, and prepared to meet his future unafraid.” He went on to say that “the first law of nature is that change is in evitable, and it is contorting to —Turn to Page Five Diplomas Are Awarded To 86 Graduates. Speak ers Are Quoted A total of 86 graduates received diplomas at impressive graduation exercises at Brevard College on Sunday. Highlighting the exercises was an address by Leslie S. Grogan, manager of the new Brevard Du Pont silicon plant, who said: “It is a central fact of our time that the group-directed work force has sup planted the one-man business and the enterprise controlled by the individual.” “The problem today,” Mr. Gro gan said, “is to reconcile the deter mination and aspirations of the in dividual with those of the group and at the same time to encourage the talents and creativity of the in dividual — as part of the group.” “About the time Brevard Col lege was founded, something like four out of every five persons were self-employed — the exact op posite of today’s situation, in which four out of every five are employ ees of someone else,” he contin ued. “What has been happening over a great many years to the various fields of endeavor in which our June graduates might find gain ful employment is the gradual re placement of individual effort with group effort,” he said. Group organizations apparently are going to get larger, he said. “If this is a bleak picture for some of —Turn to Page Five OFFICIAL ELECTION RETURNS FROM PRIMARY IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, MAY 31st o PQ « O ns c3 N X cS W « © j- £ PQ X! S'* So i OJ .c "cC O R5 X a; U o o Pi c c 3 O a ce W o R5 W c £ 0/ K