TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls.
Mecca for Summer Camps.
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
HE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper
TR ANSYLV ANM—
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed
ucational, A g r i c u Itural
and Musk Center. Popula
tion, 1950 Census, 15,321.
Brevard Community 7,394.
Vol. 70 — No. 2
Second Class Mail Privileges
Authorized at Brevard. N. C.
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959
★ 16 PAGES TODAY *
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
THE SCENE OF THE TRAGIC acci
dent in which Clarence McCall, of the
Silversteen section, lost his life early
Monday morning is pictured above. With
Donald McCall, he was preparing to re
move a fallen tree from across the high
way near Oakland, when a truck crash
ed into it, and the backlash of the pine
knocked the two men down. Actually,
Clarence McCall was knocked 68 feet to
a point marked “X”. The top arrow
marks the stump of the tree that was
blown down by the high wind Sunday
night. The dotted lines show how it
blocked the highway, and the bottom ar
row points to markings it made after be
ing hit by the truck. (Times Staff Photo)
Fire Losses In Brevard Dnring '58
Lowest Since '53, Were Set At $3,760
Local Volunteer Department
Answered 40 Alarms. Feb
ruary Busiest Month
Fire loss during 1958 in Brevard
1 were $3,760. as compared with $20,
000 during the previous year, Char
les Himes, public relations officer,
reports today.
The value of the property in
volved in the fires was estimated
at $144,500.00. and insurance paid
totaled $1,760.00. One claim has
not been completed to date.
The value of the contents was
estimated at $54,550.00.
The principal fires were the Jim
Ferguson home, where damages
were $1,500, and the Shiflet build
ing, where the loss was $525.00.
The loss in 1958 was the small
est since 1953, when losses amount
ed to $1,000.00.
The Brevard volunteer fire de
partment answered a total of 40
alarms last year, 17 in Brevard, 22
out in the county and one outside
of Transylvania.
f The members of the department
made 720 man calls answering the
40 alarms, Mr. Himes reports.
The new truck was used on all
40 alarms, while two trucks an
swered fire alarms and three were
used on one.
The causes of the fires were
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Jan. 8 — Masons meet
at temple, 8:00 p. m. Lions meet at
Colonial Inn. 7 p. m. Kiwanis meet
at Gaithers, 6:45 p. m. Jaycettes
meet at Colonial Inn, 7 p. m.
Friday, Jan. 9 — Ace of Clubs
meets at 7:45 p. m. Hospital Aux
iliary meets, 3 p. m. Singers at
Brevard college at 8:15 p. m.
Saturday, Jan. 10 — Transylva
nia Historical Association meets at
Silversteen community center, 8
p. m.
Sunday, Jan. 11 — Attend the
church of your choice.
Monday, Jan. 12 — Rotary meet
2t Gaither’s, 7 p. m. Brevard Ele
mentary P-TA meet in school caf
eteria. 8 p. m. Presbyterian men
meet in Fellowship hall, 6:30 p. m.
Shrine club meets at Gaither’s 7
p. m.
Tuesday, Jan. 13—AAUW meets
with Miss Priest. Chamber of Com
merce directors meet, City hall at
7:30.
Wednesday, Jan. 14—Jaycees
meet at Gaither’s, 6:30 p. m.
Jurors Drawn
January Term Of Superior
Court Will Open On The 26th
xnt* January term oi superior
court in Transylvania will open on
Monday, January 26th, Clerk of
Court Marvin McCall announces
today.
Judge J. B. Craven, of Moores
ville, will preside over the first
week, which will be a civil session.
The second week, a criminal
term, will be presided over by
Judge George V. Patton, of Frank
lin.
The jury list for the two weeks
is released today by the jury com
mittee, which is composed of the
clerk of Superior court, P. A. Rahn
and O. H. Orr.
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The Weather
...
Temperatures took another dip
downward during the past week,
reaching a minimum of 6 degrees
above zero Monday night. Daytime
temperatures were also colder. To
tal precipitation for the week to
taled 1.19 inches. Daily readings
are as follows.
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
High Low Pre.
52 36 0
44 32 1.18
41 33 .01
57 35 0
48 27 0
30 10 0
46 6 0
The following were called to
serve the first week:
Tv Morris, Mrs. Robert Nichol
son, Frank A. Smith, A. R. Leop
ard, Leo Reid, Ralph E. McCall,
Mrs. Willie Galloway, Otis G. Mor
gan, Howard Whitmire, Vann Ru
ren Huggins, Tracy Rice, Fred
Johnson. Lewis Tinsley, Harry Sen
telle, Henry W. Holliday, Mrs. Joe
Duckworth, Mrs. Charles M. Whit
mire, Horace Lyday. "Woodrow
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Man Hilled At Oakland Monday In
Freak Accident, First Fatality Of '59
TAX LISTERS ARE
BUSY, BOOKS IN
TOWNSHIPS NOW
Will Be Brought To Court
House After Saturday.
Osborne Cites Law
Tax listers in the townships of
Transylvania have been busy since
the 2nd of January, and Lewis Os
borne, tax supervisor announces
that after the 10th, the books will
be brought to the court house here.
He urges citizens of the county
not to wait until the last of the
month to list because the lines will
be long at that time.
During the month of January, all
county property and farm reports
must be listed. The tax supervisor
says there is a penalty prescribed
by law for failure to do so.
Property that must be listed falls
into three major categories:
1. All real estate and tangible
personal property owned on Janu
ary 1st, 1959.
8. A poll, or capitation, tax re
quired of all male persons between
the ages of 21 and 50 as of the first
of the New Year.
3. Every dog, male or female,
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DR. FOLGER HEADS
MEDICAL SOCIETY
Becomes Chief Of Staff Of
Hospital. Background
Is Given
Dr. John Folger has been elec
ted president of the Transylvania
County Medical society. With this
position as president goes the re
sponsibility of assuming the dut
ies of chief of staff of the Tran
sylvania community hospital.
Dr. Folger came to Brevard in
1955. He was graduated from the
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
in Winston-Salem, in 1953, and
took post-graduate training in
Greenville, S. C., at the Greenville
general hospital. At the present
time, Dr. Folger is the acting
county health officer.
Dr. Mac Roy Gasque, medical di
rector at Olin Mathieson Chemical
corporation, Pisgah Forest, has
been elected secretary-treasurer of
the Medical Society for the coming
year.
Dr. Folger succeeds Dr. James
M. Walker as president of the med
ical society.
Famed Singers Will Be
Heard At College Friday
i
The Chanticleers., a male quar
tet will appear in the Brevard col
lege campus center auditorium on
Friday evening, January 9th, at
8:15. This marks the second in the
current series of Lyceum concerts.
The public is cordially invited to
attend, and tickets will be available
at the door.
The program will include selec
tions by Peri, Ecarlatti, Brahms.
Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, a
group of traditional folk songs,
and a group of songs from Broad
way shows.
Members of the group include
William Diard, tenor, Richard
i Wright, tenor, Raymond Keast, bar
"Weather” Is Really In The News,
History Was Made Locally In ’58
With Ole Man Winter blowing
Ins icy breath on Transylvania and
the rest of the nation, everybody
is talking about the weather.
And Bobby Hoyle, the official
weatherman here, is no exception.
According to Mr. Hoyle, the wea
ther during the past year varied
from a record low of 20 below zero
last February to a high of 91 in
June. April was the wettest month
with 9.76 inches of precipitation,
and October was the driest month,
with a total reading of 2.12 inches.
Total precipitation for the year
was 58.01 inches.
Monthly high and low tempera
ture readings, and total precipita
tion is as follows: January, 55, 6,
and 6:14; February, 68, -20, 4.09.
March, 67, 20, and 5.47; April, 86,
27, 9.76; May, 84, 42, 5.91; June,
91, 48, and 2.21; July, 90, 52, 8.65;
August, 89, 50, and 4.02.
September, 86, 39, 2.48; October,
85, 25, and 2.12. November, 77, 20,
3.21; December, 65, 3, and 3.96.
itone, and James Martindale, bass.
Diard, a native of Florida, is a
former member of Miami Opera
company. He has appeared with the
Amato Opera company in New
York City; has toured with the
New York City Opera company in
“Romeo and Juliet”, and, has been
tenor soloist with the Miami Sym
phony orchestra.
Wright hails from Ohio. Follow
ing his graduation from Cincinnati
conservatory, he attended the Mu
sic Academy of the West. His op
eratic credits include New York
City center, the Miami Opera guild,
and the Arundel and Amato Opera
theatres. He has been featured as
soloist with Robert Shaw Chorale
or> tour and in recordings, as well
as in major Carnegie Hall con
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LionsWill Have" j
Program On March
Of Dimes Thursday
Brevard Lions will meet on
Thursday night of this week at the
Colonial Inn at 7:00 o’clock.
The meeting was originally slat
ed for last Thursday, but was post
poned because of the New Year’s
Day observance.
The January 15th meeting will
remain as scheduled.
A special March of Dimes pro
gram is slated for this week, and
President Robert Andrews urges
all lions to attend.
I
SHARON KAY DEVORE, Transylvania’s first baby
of 1959, is greeting her mother with a yawn shortly af
ter her arrival on New Year’s day at 6:25 a. m. Holding
the baby is Mrs. Hilda Cleveland, one of the staff nurs
es at the hospital, and little Miss Devore weighed in at
six pounds, nine ounces. Dr. Charles L. Newland was the
attending phyician. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lee
Devore, of Pisgah Forest, will receive a number of prizes
trom local merchants in the annual Baby Derby contests,
sponsored by The Transylvania Times and WPNF. The
Devores now have two boys and two girls.
(Times Staff Photo)
Annual Boy Scout Appreciation
Banquet Is Slated Next Monday
COMMERCE BODY
TO CHOOSE NEW
BOARD TUESDAY
Executive Secretary Urges
All Members To Return
Ballots Promptly
Directors for 1959 of the Brevard
chamber of commerce will be cho
sen at the regular January meet
ing next Tuesday night over the
city hall when the ballots will be
tabulated.
Mrs, John Ford, the executive
secretary, reminds all members to
return their ballots prior to the
meeting, and she urges that care
ful consideration, be given in se
lecting the directors since this year
promises to be an extremely impor
tant one in the history of the com
merce body.
President Cecil J. Hill requests
that all the members of the board
attend the meeting and assist with
the tabulating.
Tickets May Be Secured Loc
ally From Dr. Bryant And
Charles Douglas
The Daniel Boone council, Boy
Scouts of America, will hold its
38th Annual Appreciation banquet
or. Monday, January 12, at 6:30 p.
m. at the Gold room. Battery Park
hotel. Asheville.
At this banquet, the progress of
the previous year will be review
ed and awards will be miade to men
who have given outstanding ser
vice to boyhood in the council in
the year 1958.
These awards, the Silver Beaver
awards, are the highest that the
council can bestow on any Scoot
er.
Also to be awarded at this ban
quet will be the Presidents cup.
an award given to the top district
m membership increase and other
items during the year.
The guest speaker will be Dr.
Roswell Long, pastor of the West
over Hills Presbyterian church in
Charlotte. Dr. Long has over 30
years service as an adult scout
ci. He has served in many capac
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Program Highlights
Special News Broadcasts Being Heard
Over Station WPNF, Log Reviewed
A complete 30-minute segment of |
news, weather and sports is now j
heard daily over WPNF, according j
to program director, A1 Martin.
Local news at 6 o’clock p. m.,!
begins the special feature. It is fol
lowed at 6:10 by Brevard Lumber
company’s world news summary.
At 6:15 o’clock p. m., five minutes
of weather news is featured, fol-j
lowed by a 10-minute summary of J
up-to-the-minute sports news.
Mr. Martin states that this spec- j
ial news period should be of in
terest to all persons, and he urges
listeners to tune in daily to keep
well informed.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm and
Home hour for the coming week is I
as follows: Thursday, soil conser-1
vation service, Harry E. Newland;
Friday, U. S. Forest service, Ted
Seely; Monday, county agent’s of
fice; Tuesday, Rosman vo-ag dept., !
II. E. Keisler; Wednesday, home j
demonstration agent.
Appearing on the Civic Hour are
Ihe following: Friday, Transylva- I
nia Garden club; Monday, VFW j
Auxiliary; Wednesday, VFW.
Speaking this week on Morning
Devotions is Rev. W. A. Kerr, pas
tor of the Brevard Circuit Metho
dist church, assisted by Rev. John
Duvall, associate pastor of the Bre
vard circuit. The Rev. Harold Kil
lian, pastor of First Baptist church,
will be heard next week.
The Sunday imoming church ser
vice is being broadcast through the
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CLARENCE McCALL
VICTIM, ANOTHER
WORKER INJURED
Truck Crashes Into Fallen
Tree. Two Men Hit With
Its Backlash
INVESTIGATION MADE
Transylvania’s first highway fa
tality of ’59 was recorded about
7:00 o’clock on Monday morning of
Lhds week at Oakland, when Clar
ence McCall, 52, an employee of
the State Highway department, lost
iiis life in a freak accident.
Sometime during Sunday night,
i fierce, penetrating wind blew •
huge tree across Highway 64 near
Oakland, and with Donald McCall,
another employee of the highway
department, Mr. MfcChil was pre
paring to -remove the pine.
As blinkers were being put up,
a truck rounded the sharp curve
ahead and crashed into the fallen
tiee.
Both of the McCalls were caught
in its backlash. Clarence was
knocked some 68 feet onto the
shoulder of the road, while Don
ald was pinned underneath. The
former was killed instantly , and
the latter is in the Transylvania
Community * hospital, where hie
condition is said to be satisfactory.
A coroner’s jury was empaneled,
and together with Sheriff “Scott”
Dillingham and Patrolman lack.
Caibe, the members made a thor
ough investigation. The jury was
recessed, pending the' condition of
Donald McCall.
Howard Whitmire, foreman with
the State Highway maintenance de
partment, said he received a call
around 6:00 o’clock reporting that
a tree had fallen across the road
"oar Oafctomd. He pocked up the
McCalls aaouoMl 6:45 o’clock, and
they arrived, at the scene around
7:00. According to Mr. Wbitodre,
the accident happened wit!iin\ a
minute or two after they arrived.
Merritt Howard Merrill, of Cash
iers, was the driver of the truck, : 1
which was badly damaged in the
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PARKWAY TRAVEL
DOWN DURINC ’58
Bad Weather Given As Rea
son. Much Construction
Work Underway
Travel on the Blue Ridge Park
way in 1958 was less them the year
before for the first time since
World War II.
Visitors on the nmmtaintop
drive through Virginia and North
Carolina in 1958 added up I©’ 4,
989,144, a figure 1 per cent under
the 5,048,236 counted in 1957. IR»€
1958 parkway visitors traveled in
1507,498 cars.
Bad weather is the main reason
given by Sitpt. Sam P. Weems for
the drop.
“A very bad,' wet, foggy spring,
put us 10 per cent behind.,” said
Weems. Autumn colors brought out
more travelers, he noted, ‘‘and we
were just about even through Oc
tober but a cold December kept
the figure flown.”
Parkway rangers said travel dur
ing the week held up most of the
year but a series of rainy weekends
hampered travelers and local rest
dents who had planned picnies.
Another factor in reducing the
amount of traffic in ’58 was the
vast amount of construction and
repair work, especially in Transyl
vania.
Kiwanians Will
Install Officers
Thursday Evening
Brevard Kiwanians will install
new officers for ’59 at the mooting
Thursday night at Gaithert.
Lt. Gov. Welch, of Cherokee, will
be in charge of the installation
ceremony, which will follow the
dinner.
Dr. Earl Bryant is the near pres
ident, and he succeeds Bd Maffeo
son, who urges all members to at
tend Thursday’s important sraet
iug, which begins at 6:45 o’sImIl