TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, ed
ucational, A g r i c u Itural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1950 Census, 15,321.
Brevard Community 7,394.
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls.
Mecca for Summer C&ropa.
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival.
Vol. 70—No. 40
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Authorized at Brevard, N. C.
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1959
22 PAGES TODAY
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
THE OUTSTANDING Transylvania
County School band will play several se
lections on the dedication program at the
new Brevard high school on Sunday
afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. The public is
most cordially invited to attend. Band
members are pictured above with Charlie
Glass, left, co-director, and Principal
Robert T. Kimzev and Director John D.
Eversman, right. Principal Kimzey an
nounces this week that the fine local
band has been invited to parade and to
play at the annual Shrine Bowl game
in Charlotte this December. The invita
tion was issued by -T. H. Daughtry, direc
tor. at Charlotte, and it has been accept
ed by Mr. Eversman. (Times Staff Photo)
Breakfast For Workers To Kick-Off
United Fund Drive Thursday Morning
Need Said Greater. Goal For
Coming Year Is $28,500.
Cooperation Urged
The 1960 United Fund campaign i
in Brevard and Transylvania county i
opens on Thursday, October 8th,
with a big “kick-off’ breakfast for
committee chairmen, captains and
solicitors in Gaither’s Rhododendron
room.
The breakfast will be served at
7:00 o’clock, and President Leslie
Grogan urges all workers to attend.
The goal this year is $28,500
which is $2,000 more f in last year.
This figure was arrived at after
careful study of community needs
by the Admissions and Budget com-1
mittee headed by Don Jenkins.
“The public can rest assured that
the majority of this money will stay
right here in Transylvania county.”
he said. “If all of us will do our
share and contribute we will have
enough funds to help our own peo
ple who need help as well as doing
our fair share toward state and na
tional agencies.”
Mr. Grogan will preside at the
breakfast, and John A. Ford, cam
paign chairman, will explain the de
tails of the campaign to the solici
tors.
“I am confident that our com
munity will recognize that our
needs are greater than last year be
cause of our growth and will pledge
accordingly,” said Mr. Ford.
An office will be opened at 40
West Main street for the conveni
ence of the solicitors and the public.
It will be manned on Monday, Wed
nesday, and Friday afternoons, and
Saturday mornings.
“Here is an opportunity for all of
us to take care of our community
needs by giving ‘Once For All’ in
stead of having to consider a gift
to various agencies every week or so
throughout the year.” said Presi
dent Grogan.
The public will be able to watch
the progress of the campaign as the
large thermometer will again be
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday Oct. 8—United Fund
kick-off breakfast at Gaither's at
7:00 a.m. Brevard Junior high foot
ballers vs. Waynesville at 7:30 p.m.
Masons meet at 8:00 p.m. Organiza
tional meeting of Cubs at Lutheran
church at 7:30 p.m. Methodist hold
family night at 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 9—Brevard vs. Erwin
at 7:30 n.m. Ace of Clubs meets at
8:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 10—Rosman vs.
Christ School at 8:00 p.m. Home
coming at Brevard college begins.
Sunday, Oct. 11 — Attend the
church of your choice. Dedication
program at Brevard high school at
2:00 p.m., followed by “open house”
from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 12 — Presbyterian
Men to meet at 6:30 o’clock. Rotary
meets at 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 13—Directors of
chamber of commerce meet at 7:30
p.m. at library. Elks meet at 8:00
p.m. Ace of Clubs meets at 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 14—UN service
at Presbyterian church at 7:30 p.m.
Jurors Called
October Term Of Superior
Court To Open Here On 26
Jurors, who have been called to
serve during the October term of
Superior court in Transylvania are
announced today.
According to Marvin McCall,
clerk of Superior court, the two
weeks’ term will open on Monday.
Oct. 26th.
The first week will be devoted to
trial of criminal cases, while the
civil calendar will be heard the
second week.
Judge J. Will Pless. of Marion,
will preside over the court, and
Leonard Lowe, of Forest City, will
prosecute for the state.
The following were called to
serve during the first week:
Condon Raxter. Eva Helen Bur
UN Observance
Set 14th & 15th
A community wide observance of
United Nations Day has been set
for Wednesday and Thursday eve
nings, October 14th and 15th, and
Mrs. Harold Siniard, chairman,
urges all Transylvanians to attend
one or both sessions.
These programs will begin at 7:30
in the Brevard-Davidson River Pres
byterian church. A number of lead
ing Brevard civic leaders will par
ticipate on the program, and spe
cial music will be presented by
Mrs. Duncan Hunter and the Allen
High School Glee Club, of Ashe
ville.
The following persons are serving
with Mrs. Siniard on the planning
committee: Mrs. Lehmann Kapp,
Mrs. Morris Hawkins, Mrs. Willis
Birttain, Jack Bryant. John Ander
son, Mrs. John Reese Sledge, Mrs.
Duncan Hunter, and Mrs. Ray Win
chester.
gin. Paul Simpson, Mrs. Clyde
Nicholson, Ingomar McCall. Mrs
Clyde Shuford, Arnold Brown, Mrs.
G. K. Schulze, Charles C. Joliff, Joe
Earl Jones, Walter Hubbard, Helen
Fullbright, Erby Boley, H. W. Hall.
Mrs. Robert E.Mitchum, Elmo Me
Call, Mrs. William C. Gardner, Otis!
Merrill. C. C. Garren; William E.
Gairen, Mrs. Frank J. Byrd, Fred
W right. Mrs. V. E. Whitener,
| Charles Morgan. Paul D. Seagle.
Claude Glazener, G. E. Moore, Clar
ence Brown, Mrs. lT. G. Batson, and
! Earl O. Bryant.
Those called to serve during the
second week are:
Lawson Moore, Fred Stroup. Ar
thur McGaha. Luther Ashe, Wade
Eubanks, Mrs. Ethel Reid, Howard
A. Richardson, Lloyd Cantrell.
Enno F. Camenzind, L. S. Parsons.
Van Summey. Harry Styles, Charles
F. Collins, Ed Mitchum. Hoyt
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Brevard's New High School Will Be
Dedicated This Sunday Afternoon
Many Floridians
Own Property
In Transylvania
Residents of Sarasota. Florida,
bid fair to start a “little Sota col
ony" in the Oakland section of
Transylvania county, it was revealed
by Tax Collector C. M. Douglas, fol-j
lowing his mailing of tax statement}
this week. j
Total of 192 people in the Sara
sota area now own property in this
county, mostly in the Oakland-Sap
phire section, the collector stated.
Many of the tracts, some of which
consists only of one or two lots,
have been purchased within the
past two years.
A large number of cottages and
houses have already been built by
'he Florida citizens in Transylvania,
and developers of property they say
that many more are planned for
this fall.
A further check-up shows that 412
Florida residents now own prop
erty in Transylvania, with Sarasota,)
of course, being high. In the Miami
rea, 84 owners reside; 13 in Winter
Haven: and 11 in St. Petersburg.
South Carolina is next high with
out-of-state owners, totaling 291. Of
this number 99 give Greenville as
home address: Columbia 18, and
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Tax Collections
Reported High
Probably among the top five in
the state for current collections
was the report given by Tax Col
lect.;)- C. M. Douglas in his an- ;
nual settlement for 1958 with the ;
county commissioners Monday. j
The percentage of 95.1775 is
said to be a high mark.
\cw tax books were given the
collector for 1959, and statements
have been mailed to all property
owners.
The total levy for local taxes
is in excess of half a million for
1959. it was reported to the com
missioners. This includes S427.000
for the county, $85,000 for the
town, and S3.000 for Rosman.
Brevard Du Pont Silicon Plant
Receives Famed Safety Award
L. S. Grogan, plant manager of
the Du Pont company’s silicon plant
near Brevard, announces the win
ning of the General Manager’s
Safety Award on October 2, 1959.
The award is in recognition of the
Brevard plant having operated 842
days, and more than 878,000 ex
posure hours, without incurring a
single disabling or time-losing in
jury’.
The Du Pont company established
its “award for no-injury plan” in
1931. Under this plan, company
units are eligible for awards when
they complete certain specific time
intervals with injury-free records.
The large exposure-hour goals, once
thought impossible to attain, neces
J. Bruce Morton Takes Over
Law Practice Of Thomas Eller
J. Bruce Morton, who has been
practicing civil and criminal law in
Gastonia for the past two years, has
taken over the law practice of
Thomas R. Eller here in Brevard.
Mr. Eller was appointed to the
State Utilities commission last
month by Governor Luther Hodges,
and he was sworn into office on Oc
tober 1st.
A native of Greensboro, Mr. Mor
ton received his AB degree at Guil
ford college in 1952, and he was
awarded his LLB degree in law at
the University of North Carolina in
11)55.
Mr. Morton served in the United
States army from 1955 to ’57, with
14 months in France. He is now
a member of the reserves.
He is a member of the American
Bar Association and the Phi Alpha
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J. BRUCE MORTON
sary to achieve the awards have
been successfully accrued many
times throughout the company. Mr.
Grogan states.
The Du Pont company has long
been interested in industrial safety
and the protection of the individual
worker. As a result of this emphasis j
over the years, Du Pont employees j
find they are much safer at work j
than at home—12 times safer as a j
matter of fact, the local plant man-!
ager continues.
Du Pont employees also are in an
enviable position at work compared
to industry as a whole. In 1958, Du
Pont workers experienced .3 dis
abling injuries per million exposure
hours, which figure is 18 times bet
ter than the average in industry.
Mr. Grogan congratulated all em- ]
ployees on their achievement of this!
record and informed them that they
w ould each receive an award in j
recognition of the winning of the!
General Manager’s Safety aw'ard. !
Examiners Of
Drivers Has
New Schedule
The drivers license office in the
courthouse will have a different
schedule for the next two weeks,
Examiner George Wilson an
nounces.
The office will be open on Friday.
October 9th, and Friday October
16th. It will be closed on Tuesday
and Wednesday, October 13th and
14th, while Examiner Wilson at
tends the annual training school at
Chapel Hill.
Beginning on Monday, October
19th, the office will resume its
regular schedule on Monday, Tues
day, and Wednesday of each week.
EARLE HITCH, well-known author, has been named j
curator for the Transylvania Historical association. He '
is shown above in the local library looking over bound |
copies of The Transylvania Times for information con- !
cerning past events. He will write a column in this news- j
paper each week from now until the centennial ob
servance in 1961. (Times Staff Photo)
Earle Hitch Named Curator,
Transylvania Historical Body
Homecoming At|
Coiiege This
Week End
_
Brevard College Alumni will re
turn to the campus this weekend for
the annual Homecoming festivities,,
which will get underway Saturday
morning at 10:30 with registration.'
This will be followed with a coffee
hour in the Faculty Lounge.
Dr. Gordon N. Graham, president I
of the Alumni Association, will pre-j
side over the general business ses-!
sion at 2:00 o’clock. This will be |
followed with class meetings of the
classes of ’59. ’55. ’51, '47. ’43. and
39.
Open house will be held in the
dormitories beginning at 3:30, and
returning alumni will have an op
portunity to tour the campus, Glenn
Hardesty. Director of Public Rela
tions, states.
Following the dinner meeting at
6:30 in the cafeteria, the festivi
ties will be climaxed with the an
nual Homecoming Dance.
Queen Betty Neale, of Charlotte,
will reign over the dance, and will
be escorted by Michael Mauney, of
Cherryville.
Miss Gayle Johnson, of Pahokee,
Florida, and Miss Patricia Brower,
of Wadesboro, will attend the queen,
and their escorts will be Donald
Mavhaw, of Mooresville, and Don
ald Walser, of Lexington.
The regular fall meeting of the
Board of Trustees of Brevard Col
lege is scheduled for Friday, Oc
tober 16th, beginning at 10:00
o'clock.
The various committees will meet
prior to the general meeting, and |
will conclude with lunch in the j
cafeteria.
Prominent Avsthor Now Re
sides In Little River Sec
tion Of County
Earle Hitch has been appointed
curator of the Transylvania County
Historical commission, it was an
nounced yesterday by Mrs. Mary'
lane McCrary, the commission’s
chairman.
Mr. Hitch is a writer. In the last
few years most of his time has
been on advertising and public re
lations.
He is the publisher of the Chero
kee Guide book, which is now in its
seventh edition. This book is sold to
tourists in Cherokee. Gatlinburg,
Asheville and other tourist centers
in and around the Great Smoky
Mountains.
In 1952 Harper & Bros., of New
York, published a book by Mr.
Hitch on the subject of the na
tion’s shift of population from
country to city. The book tells of
programs that are being introduced
to halt the withering of country
life.
Many of the examples cited by
the author were drawn from work
being done by rural preachers and
country' churches. As a result of
that, the book was adopted as a
text in the graduate courses of the
Duke Divinity school, the graduate
school of Oberlin College in Ohio,
and other colleges. It has had a
foreign sale as well.
Mr. Hitch has a cottage on the
ridge above the Crab Creek road, to
the east of the Little River com
munity house.
According to Mrs. McCrary,
curator is a word not common to
most vocabularies. It is a Latin
word meaning guardian, or a per
son who has charge of a library or
art gallery. It is pronounced cue
ray-tor, accent on the second
syllable.
Program Highlights
Dedication Program At
Brevard High To Be Aired
The Brevard high school dedica
tion program on Sunday afternoon
will be broadcast over WPNF at
2:00 o’clock, Bobby Hoyle, the sta
tion manager, announces.
He urges the public to attend the
ceremony and open house, and he
invites the sick and the shut-ins
who will be unable to attend to lis
ten to the local station. The Citi
zens Telephone company is co
operating with WPNF in this public
service program by making its lines
available for the broadcast.
Mr. Hoyle also reminds listeners
that WPNF will carry a play-by
play description of the Brevard
Erwin game Friday night.
The big game between Carolina
and South Carolina will be heard
of WPNF on Saturday afternoon,
Mr. Hoyle reports.
Other Programs
The Farm and Home hour sched
ule for the coming week is as
follows: Friday, N. C. forestry serv
ice, Clark Grissom; Monday county
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Program Starts
At 2:00, Open
House Follows
Brevard's new million dollar high
school layout will be formally dedi
cated Sunday afternoon at 2:00
o'clock, and open house will be held
from 3:00 until 5:00 p.m.
Principal Robert T. Kimzey and
Supt. Wayne Bradburn issue a joint
invitation on behalf of the board of
the education to the public to attend
tne dedication ceremonies and to
see the beautiful new high school.
The principal speaker on the
dedication program will be Dr. Paul
Reid, president of Western Carolina
college at Cullowhee, and he will
be introduced by Dr. Emmett K.
McLarty, Jr., president of Brevard
college.
During the ceremony, the audi
torium will be dedicated to the late
Supt. J. B. Jones, who served the
Transylvania school system for
more than 30 years. A portrait,
which will hang in the auditorium,
will be unveiled by Mrs. Jones, and
the dedicatory address will be made
by Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., county at
torney.
The address of welcome will be
delivered by Eddie Varner, chair
man of the board of education, and
Mr. Varner will present the build
ing to Principal Kimzey, who will
make an acceptance address.
Rev. Courtney Ross, pastor of the
Brevard Methodist church, will give
the invocation, and the benediction
will be pronounced by Rev. Alfred
Rhyne, Lutheran minister.
Dr. Reid first became president of
Western Carolina college in 1949,
and he resigned in March, ’56, to be
come assistant director of the
Boa d of Higher Education ir, Ra
leigh. After serving this post for
one year, he returned as president
of Western Carolina.
Special music on the program
Sunday afternoon will be furnished
by the Transylvania County School
band, under the direction of John
D. Eversman.
I Refreshments will be served dur
j ing the afternoon in the cafeteria,
| and the high school faculty will act
i as hosts.
Construction on the new high
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Hudson To Head
lYoung Demos
John R. Hudson, Jr., young Bre
vard attorney, was elected presi
dent of the Transylvania County
Young Democrats club at a meeting
here last Thursday night.
Other officers who will serve for
the 1960 year are Mrs. F. M. Mc
Call, Jr., first vice-president;
George Wilson, second vice-presi
dent; Joel Hubbard, secretary; and
Mrs. Lela Price, treasurer.
The new president was also ap
pointed chairman of the local dele
gation to the state YDC convention
held in Asheville.
In the state election last Saturday,
Monroe M. Redden, Jr., of Hen
dersonville, was named state presi
dent. He is a member of the 12th
district, which includes Transyl
vania county.
Charles Kivett, of Greensboro,
was elected national committeeman.
Burning Permits
Now Required
Burning permits must be obtained
for any sort of burning from Oc
tober 1st through June 1st, accord
ing to a statement today by County
Ranger Clark Grissom.
There is no charge for the per
mits. which may be obtained from
the following persons:
Walter McNeely, Oakland; Mc
Neely’s Store, Lake Toxaway; Mc
Call’s Store, Quebec; McCall Broth
er’s Garage, Rosman; Virgil Mc
Call, Rosman; Ransler King, East
Fork; Robinson’s |Grocery, Cedar
Mountain; Donald Merrill’s Store,
Little River; Patton’s Store, Pisgah
Forest; Powell’s Store, Dunn's
Rock; Tinsley Brown, Gloucester
section; and C. M. Douglas, tax col
lector’s office, and Scott Dilling
ham, sheriff’s office, in the court
house.