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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper Vol. 69 —No. 35 ★ Authorized SaBrevarli PNVicgeS BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1958 * 18 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY TRANSYLVANIA Tbe Land ol Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Cause, Entrance to Piagafc Na tional Foreet and Home of Brevard Music Festival. TR ANSYLV ANI.A— An Industrial, Tourist, Ed ucational, A g r i c ultural and Music Center. Popula tion, I960 Census, 15,321. Brevard Community 7,394. TRANSYLVANIA’S NEW Health i Center, pictured above, has been com pleted and is now being occupied by the staff of the county health department. This modern brick structure is located just at the city limits adjacent to Radio Station WPNF. Equipment is now being installed in the health center and as soon as all of it has been completed plans will be made for an “Open House”, in order that the public may inspect the facili ties. (Times Staff Photo) Transylvania Schools Open Tuesday, Principals And Teachers Meet Monday All Vacancies Filled. Much Renovation Is Completed In System Everything is in readiness for the opening of schools for the 1P58-59 term next Tuesday, Supt. A' ayne Bradbul*n reports. Principals met on Monday, and a county-wide meeting of princi pals and teachers will be held on Monday. Sept. 1st, in the Brevard high school auditorium at 10:00 o'clock. ^ Supt. Bradburn will preside, and Eddie Varner, chairman of the board of education, will give the address of welcome. New teachers, members of the board. P-TA presidents and others will be introduced. A half-day session of school is scheduled on Tuesday, and a full 'day of classroom work is sched uled Wednesday, when the cafe terias will also be opened. Supt. Bradburn reports that all teacher vacancies have been fill ed. An increase in enrollment, es pecially at Brevard high school, is | anticipated. The colored high school students in Trans\ lvania will also begin1 school on Tuesday, since Hender- ( son county’s schools open simul taneously with Transylvania’s. . Considerable repair and repaint | work has been completed in the1 schools throughout the county, and the maintenance crew has also constructed new classrooms at Bre vard high school, where the in crease in enrollment is expected to be around 120 students. Another outstanding accomplish —Turn to Page Four CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS ===== Thursday, Aug. 28 — Children’s Story hour at the library, 9:30 a. m. Call for Jayvee football play ers, Brevard high, at 2 p. m. B & PW club picnic, 7 p. m., at Camp Straus. Masonic meeting in tem ple. 8 p. m. Friday, Aug. 29 — Football game. Camden vs. Union, Brevard high school field, 8 p. m. Booster club meeting after ball game, BUS annex. Saturday. Aug. 30 — American Legion dance, Legion building, 9 p. m. Sunday, Aug. 31 — Attend the church of your choice. Monday, Sept. 1—Labor Day. Teachers and principals meet at Brevard high school. 10 a. m. Ro tary club meets at Gaither's, 7 p. m. Tuesday, Sept. 2 — Transylvania schools open. 8:45 a. m. Ace of Clubs meets at 7:30 p. m. Book and Plate club meets with Mrs. Thomas R. Eller. 8 p. m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 — DuPont Silicon plant to have Open House, 1 to 9 p. m. 970 On Payroll Social Security Payments In County Half Million Yearly Old-age, survivors and disability insurance benefits are being paid to 970 residents of Transylvania county, totaling S41.363.00 a month, according to Mrs. Lucille M. Rickman, field representative! of the Asheville Social Security district office. "This makes a total of almost half a million dollars annually, and j represents a considerable increase over last year,” Mrs. Rickman said. Transylvania county (r a n k s ; seventh in the 16 counties serviced by the Asheville office, both in; the number of persons drawing federal social security benefits and in the total amount paid. While social security benefits i are intended primarily as the basis for individual economic security, the payment of $496,356.00 a year in Transylvania county helps bus Driver’s License Examiner Program Given Top Rating The driver’s license examiner in Transylvania, George Wilson, has been informed that, according to the official gradings of the 1957 Inventory of Traffic Safety activi-! ties by the American Association | of Motor Vehicles administration at Washington, North Carolina won out with a score of 97 percent. California was in second place with a 94 percent score, followed | —Turn to Page Four | iness generally, because most ol' ;iu mone\ - >i»ent immediately for necessities, such as food and clo thing. There are several reasons for the increase in benefits over last year. One of these was the payment of benefits to people who were brought under the law for the first time in recent years — self employed farmers, for example. And since Transylvania county is largely an agricultural area, this accounts for a large number of ad ditional beneficiaries. - Other reasons for the increase were the reduction in the retire ment age to 62 for women and the —Turn to Page Four Du Pont Will Hold Open House At Silicon Plant Next Wednesday, 1-9 OLIN’S INDIANS WIN ’58 CROWN Local Baseball Team Makes Great Comeback. In Play Off This Week End Olin Mathieson’s Indians are 1958 champions of the Western North Carolina Industrial base ball league. The Indians won the champion ship at Hazelwood last Saturday af ternoon. trouncing the Hazelwood club, which had lead the league all season, to the tune of 8-1. By winning the championship, the Indians completed the great est form reversal in the history of the WNC league. The Indians dropped their first five games of the season and then won 12 of their next 13 to capture the title with a 12-fi record. It marked the first time since 1940 that the Indians had taken the regular season title, however, they captured playoff laurels last year alter Beacon had finished first in the scheduled play. Pitcher Wayne Young, a su —Turn to Page Ten REAM SUCCEEDS BULLOCK AT OLIN Is Named Pulp Mill Superin tendent. Brevard Man Goes To Peru \. .M. Ream has been appointed Pa'.p Mill superintendent for the fiusta Paper division of Olin Ma ■liieson Chemical corporation at Pisgah Forest, it was announced today Vn Lee M. Bauer, production manager. Mr. Ream replaces R. C. Bullock, who has resigned. The appointment becomes effective September 1. 1958. A native of Wardner, Idaho. Mr. Ream is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology with a de gree in chemical engineering. He joined the company in 1941, hold ing several positions in research and production. Since 1951 he has served as technical assistant to the production manager, coordinating j specialized activities of the electro chemical plant and the pulp mill. In his new duties, he will have i —Turn to Page Five i WPNF To Carry Southern 500 Races On Labor Day WPNF will again broadcast the Southern-500 stock car race from Darlington, South Carolina, accord ing to Bobby Hoyle, station mana ger. The broadcast will begin at 10:05 a. m. Monday, September 1, and will be carried at regular inter vals until its conclusion. McCrary Auto Service is spon soring the broadcast. This year's classic Labor Day race will be carried by over 135 ra dio stations in 16 states, and will also be broadcast overseas by the! Armed Forces network. ■%W "We are very happy to bring this race to our listeners again this! year," Mr. Hoyle says. Other Programs The schedule for the Farm and Home hour for the coming week is as follows: Thursday, Carolina News; Friday, ASC office, Marvin W. Whitmire; Monday, station pro gram; Tuesday, Soil conservation, Harry E. Newland; Wednesday, Home Demonstration agent. On the Civic hour, the following will be heard: Friday. Lions club; Monday, American Legion auxili —Turn to Page Ten THE ’58 OLDSMOBILE that was demolished in a drop of some 100 feet over the steep embankment at the Cascade Power company station is pictured above. The Highway patrol reports that the driver, Harold Rahn, said a big bump threw the car off the narrow road, and Mr. Rahn was able to jump out before the vehicle went over the embankment. The Olds was owned by a broth er, Wilbur Rahn. (Times Staff Photo) Labor Day Will Be Quietly Observed, Stores To Close I LIITLE THEATRE GROUP MEETS, 7TH Plans For Coming Season To Be Made. Outstanding Performers Cited All members and friends of the Lrevard Little Theatre are invited to participate in a covered dish supper at Straus Park Sunday eve ning September 7. The picnic will begin at 6:00 P. M. Plans for the 1958-1959 season will be discussed, and colored slides of recent productions will be shown. All Little Theatre members of previous years are urged to at tend this opening meeting. New comers fn the area who are inter ested in acting or staging are in vited. If further information is de sired call Freddie Norris, Turner 3-3553; Mrs. Norris is the presi dent of the group this season, The Little Theatre is made up of men and women of the Brevard area interested in theatre work as a hobby. Three shows are produced each year. Last year the three shows that were presented were “My Three Angels,” “Mousetrap,” and “The Father of the Bride.” The plays are given in the Brevard College auditorium. Robsters, the Little Theatre equivalent of Hollywood’s Oscars, were awarded to outstanding par ticipants of last year’s productions during a summer meeting. Fred die Norris received a Best Actress Lobster for her portrayal of the —Turn to Page Four 9 1 own And County Offices To Have Holiday. Legion Plans Dance Saturday The Labor Day week end in lire ! van! and Transylvania county will be quietly observed, and present indications point to a record nurh ber of visitors in the area. Most of Brevard’s stores will be closed on Monday, as will town and I county offices, the bank and the I post offices. According to Vernon Fullbright, the acting postmaster, there will be no rural or city delivery of mail. Specials, however, will be delivered, and the general deliv ery window will be open from 11:30 until noon. The driver's license examiner’s office in the court house will also close on Monday. The American legion is sponsor ing a Labor day week end dance on Saturday night at the legion memorial building, with music be ing furnished by the "Teen Kin&s”, of Asheville. The public is invit ed to attend. The September meeting of the Transylvania board of commission ers has been postponed from Mon day morning until Tuesday morn ing because of the Labor Day ob servance, and the board of aider men meeting is slated for Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock instead of on Monday night. Many picnickers and sightseers are expected in the Pisgah Nation al forest, Ranger Ted Seely re ports and he predicts that all of the recreational areas will be filled to capacity. Patrolmen Jack Cabe and Bill —Turn to Page Five HOUSE and a tour of the Du Pont Silicon plant in Buck I forest will bo held next Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 3rd, from 1:00 until 9:00 p. m. Families of employees and other friends and neigh bors in this and adjoining communities are cordially invited to inspect the modern plant and see the facilities for the manufacture of hyper pure silicon. The public is also invited to see “The Du Pont” story next Wednesday at the Clemson theatre. FREE MOVIE SET AT THE CLEHSON. PUBLIC INVITED Grogan Says Facilities To Manufacture Product To Be Inspected BACKGROUND GIVEN An open house and plant tour at the Du Pont company’s recently completed Brevard silicon plant has been scheduled for Wednes day, September 3, from 1 to 9 p. m., it was announced today by Les lie S. Grogan, manager. “We hope this open house will provide an opportunity for the families of our employees and our friends and neighbors in Brevard and surrounding communities to inspect our plant and see some of the facilities for manufacturing hyper-pure silicon,” Mr Grogan said. He added that on the same day, as part of the open house program, the Brevard Clemson theatre will present two showings of the fea ture-length film “The Du Pont Story” produced with an all-star Hollywood cast. The showings are at 3:15 and 4:40 P. M. Admission i- free, and everyone interested Ls invited to attend whether or not they visit the plant, Mr. Grogan said. The open house follows closely formal dedication ceremonies at which Governor Luther S. Hodges was the guest of honor. In announcing the program for the open house M.\ Grogan de scribed silicon tht plant’s siut U product — as a “material of the future", and said that the plant — Tarn To Page Tea FIRMS EXPANDING, MOVING IN TOWN Much Activity Noted In Bus iness Area. Survey Is Made Several of Brevard’s businesses are now being expanded and other* are moving into new locations. Varner’s drug store, which has been operating at the corner o( Broad and Jordan and also at Long’s corner, is now being con solidated at the former location The adjacent store, formerly oc cupied by Mull’s grocery, will bo come a part of Varner’s drug store. "When completed, we hope have one of the finest semi-set/ service drug stores in the Caro linas,” Eddie Varner said yester day. Plans call for doubling the size of the drug store. Long’s corner at the square is being remodeled, and when renova tion work is completed, Eugene Morris will open “Morris Pharma cy” at that location. Mull’s grocery has been moved from Broad street into the York building on Jordan street, which was formerly occupied by Cloth —Turn to Page Four Going Away This Fall To School? Subscribe Today Attention boys and girls who are going off to school and cot lege—and their parents, too. Let The Transylvania Times go with you. Enjoy reading your hometown paper which is, as you know, chock full of infor mation and news about all the doings in the Brevard area. Parents — The Times won’t take the place of letters to >our -sons and daughters away at school. Not at all. But it will save you the time and trouble of having to write news items in yourself, and if we do say it ourselves, the Times will give far more news than anyone has time to write. The cost? Very little; only S2.50 for the entire school term from the time they start until June 1. 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