Do Your Christmas Shopping Early. Santa To Arrive In Brevard Today To Open ’59 Yule Season
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
.1 State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
4 Vol. 70—No. 50 ★ So?teS‘9atBJSSv2dT1N8ec. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1959 ★ 20 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls.
Mecca for Summer Cbmps.
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Hone of
Brevard Music Festival.
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.
BREVARD ROTARIANS honored the
outstanding football players of the 1959
season of Brevard high school at the an
nual banquet for the team recently at
Gaither’s. At the left is President D. G.
Dail, while Coach “Buffalo” Humphries
is at the right. The three players, from
left to right, and their awards, are;
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Charles Bradburn, winner of the Rotary
trophy for being the best defensive
player (senior) ; Jake Lowery, the most
valuable player and winner of the Lance
Memorial trophy; and, Denny Landreth,
winner of the Rotary trophy for being
the best offensive player (senior).
(Times Staff Photo)
Many From Transylvania To Attend
WNC Awards Luncheon This Saturday
A delegation of some 50 persons
from Transylvania county is ex
pected to attend the Awards lunch
eon in Asheville Saturday, when the
winning rural areas in the 1959
Western North Carolina Rural De
velopment program will be an
| nounced.
The Pisgah Forest community is
representing Transylvania in the
• final judging, and County Agent
Jim Davis predicts that this organ
ized Rural Development club will
make a good showing in the WNC
competition.
During the past five years, Tran
sylvania county has been in the
‘•'top three’' winning communities.
Last year the Balsam Grove copped
third place.
Previously, Cedar Mountain was
runner-up in the WNC contest, and
in 1956 that community was tops.
Prior to that year, Little River was
a first place winner, and Dunn’s
Rock was a runner-up.
At this Saturday’s meeting, the
principal speaker will be Brooks
Hays, director of the Tennessee
Valley authority, former congress
man from Little Rock, Arkansas
and immediate past president of the
Southern Baptist convention.
I Presiding at the awards luncheon
will be Leroy H. Feagin, president
of the Asheville Agricultural De
velopment Council of the Asheville
Chamber of Commerce, which spon
sors the area development program
in cooperation with the agricultural
agencies. The luncheon is sponsor
ed by the Agricultural Council.
Cash awards of $2,000 will be
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, Dec. 3—Christmas pa
rade at 4:00 p.m. Episcopal Christ
mas Bazaar, begins at 3:00 p.m. Ki
wanis Club meets at Gaither’s at
6:45 p.m. Lions meet at Colonial
Inn at 7:00 p.m. Basketball, Bre
vard high vs. North Buncombe, high
school gym: Brevard college vs.
Spartanburg, college gym.
Friday, Dec. 4—Episcopal bazaar
continues. Gladv Branch Baptist
church ham supper at Masonic
temple 4:30-7:30 p.m. Ace of Clubs
meets at 8:00 p.m. Brevard high
| junior class play in high school
auditorium, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 5—World War I
veterans to meet at court house at
8:00 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 6—Attend church of
your choice.
Monday, Dec. 7 — Transylvania
Baptist ministerial association
meets at Gaithers at 6 p.m. Rotary
meets at Gaither’s at 7:00 p.m.
American Legion meets at Legion
•building.
Tuesday, Dec. 8—Chamber of
Commerce directors meet at library
at 7:30 p.m. Elks meet at 8:00 p.m.
Ace of clubs meets at 8:00 p.m.
Cases Discovered
Report Made On Sale Of
m Seals, Group Is Busy
Miss Marie J. Strasser, treasurer,
i f tlu Transylvania countyUubercu
losis Committee, today reported
ihat the receipts from the current
Christmas seal total $402 through J
November 28. In last year’s drive, j
'423 had been received by Novem
ber 24th and total receipts through j
December first amounted to $633. j
Miss Jeanette Austin, chairman of j
the local organization, reported that i
two active cases of tuberculosis
have been found within the past j
two weeks. 'This i* a rather high ;
percentage,” Miss Austin stated.;
“when you consider that only 33
people were X-rayed in this special
clinic which was held for people
who are receiving county assist
ance. This group included many
elderly and disabled persons.”
The Health Department and the
TB Committee chose this particular!
group because of the fact that over I
half of the new cases of TB occur
in the age group that begins at 44,
and because of the economic status.
One of the newly found cases is
an eighty-four year old woman who
entered the sanatorium at Black
Mountain last week, and the other
is a housewife in her early thirties
with five children, whose ages
range from 6 to 14 years, Miss;
Austin revealed.
In both of these cases, arrange
ments for sanatorium admission
v\ ere made by the Health Depart*
merd. and the financial responsi
bility will be assumed by the
county. The local TB committee has
supplied clothing necessary for the
hospital stay by expenditure of
Christmas seal funds and by secur
ing donations of eood used pa
jamas. bath robes and bedroom slip
pers.
‘"Ayers m l Bovvers Stores have
granted us very generous discounts
in the purchase of clothing for
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Town & County
Hit By Cold
Wave, Low of 11
The first real cold wave of the
current season moved into Brevard
and throughout Western North
: '. roiina during the past weekend.
According to Bobby Hoyle, the
ificial weatherman for Transyl
vania, the mercury dipped to 11 de
uces Sunday night for a record low
1 iiis fall.
Predictions for Thursday are for
continued lew temperatures and de
ceasing cloudiness.
The official readings at the local
weather station during the past
week are as follows:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday_ 66 31 0
Thursday_ 63 24 0
Friday _ 60 40 0
Saturday_ 59 ,32 .50
Sunday_ 33 20 0
Monday_44 11 0
Tuesday_53 15 0
Plans Made By
Youth Directors
The Board of Trustees for the
Transylvania Youth association,
Inc., met on Monday evening, No
vember 30th, to make plans for the
ensuing year.
Dr. John Truesdail presided, and
mhers attending were Mr. and Mrs.
Fritz Merrell, Airs. Ralph Humph
ries. lirs. E. B. Matheso :. Mrs. L. J.
David, E. B. Garrett. R. O. Baker,
Frank Ferrell, Lloyd Burhans and
Dr. Julius Sader.
Budget and recreational programs
were discussed, and plans for the
dance to be held during Christmas
week were made.
According to Mr. and Mrs. Mer
rell, directors of the center, there
are 204 members, with an average
attendance on weekend nights of
70 to 80. The center is open on
Tuesday nights from 7:00 to 10:00.
and Friday and Saturday nights
from 7:00 to 11:00.
Officers for this year are as fol
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Gigantic Christmas Parade Set For
Thursday Afternoon At 4:00 O'clock
Coroner's Jury Rules Self Defense
And In Line Of Duty In Shooting
A Negro young man was killed
and a local officer was injured
when two members of the Bre
vard police force attempted to
quell a fight following a dance
last Friday night at the colored
community center.
Shot and killed was James
Charles Glaze. 23. when he inter
ferred as Officer Jack Owen and
Chief of Police Paul Fisher were
attempting to put a couple who
had been fighting into the police
car.
A coroner's jury, after hearing
the chief and Charlie Whitmire,
the Negro who was engaged in
Civic Orchestra To Present
Concert Thursday, Reed Conducts
The Brevard Civic orchestra,
under the direction of Ralph V.
Reed, will present its fall concert in
the Sims Campus Center audi
torium at Brevard college on
Thursday, December 3rd, at 8:15
o’clock.
Mrs. James H. Sanders, Jr., will
again be the guest vocal soloist, and
an all-male glee club will sing with
the orchestra for the first time.
This concert is open to the pub
lic, and no admission will be
charged.
Members of the orchestra include
the following: Pat Austin, William
Barnes, Anita Brennan, Andy
Brown, Jerry Chappell, James
Crenshaw, Preston C. Ferguson,
Richard G. Fluke, Susan Gamble,
Leslie S. Grogan, Francis Guffey,
Lib Holder, Sue Ellen Hunter, Eric
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RALPH V. REED
the affray with his girl friend,
testify, ruled that Officer Owen
shot Glaze in self defense and in
line of duty.
Testimony at the hearing re
vealed that Officers Owen and
Fisher were called to the com
munity center about 1:00 a.m.
As they attempted to break up
ihe fight between Whitmire and
his girl friend and to put them
in the car, rocks were thrown at
them and shots were fired from
the mob.
Glaze was reported to have
interferred with Owen as he
started to put the girl in the car.
Fisher and Whitmire said that he
ripped the policeman’s jacket
off and slugged him across the
head with an umbrella.
The officer fought back and
shot twice, after he had been
knocked down a bank.
Coroner Donald Lee Moore
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Vets Of World
War 1 To Meet!
Veterans of World War I in Tran
sylvania county will meet Saturday
night of this week at the court
house.
According to Commander Glover
Jackson, the meeting will begin at
8:00 o’clock. A report will be made
on the progress made toward get
ting a pension for all veterans of
the first world conflict.
Commander Jackson urges all
veterans of World War I to attend
the important meeting.
OLE SANTA CLAUS will come to Brevard Thurs
day afternoon, and he will be the highlight attraction
of a gigantic parade, beginning at 4:00 o’clock. He will
have candy for his little friends, and the event will signal
the opening of the 1959 Christmas shopping season. Dan
Hawkins, chairman of the trade festival of the Bre
vard chamber of commerce, invites all citizens of this
and surrounding areas to attend.
New Telephone Directories
Out, Area Assets Are Cited
Mobile Office
Of Blue Cross
Here Next Weel<
A Blue Cross mobile enrollment
office, operated by the Hospital
Care association, of Durham, will be
in Brevard Monday and Tuesday,
December 7-8.
The 15-foot aluminum trailer will
be parked at the courthouse in
Brevard, open from 8 30 to 5.30
both days.
E. G. Hamby, of Charlotte, non
group representative for Hospital
Care association will be in charge
of the mobile office during its stay
in Brevard.
For the first time, Blue Cross pro
tection will be available to local
citizens 65 years of age and over
on an individual non-group basis on
a new Senior Citizen Certificate.
Anyone in reasonably good health
is eligible to enroll. There is no
age limit.
Blue Cross is the only hospital
service plan officially approved by
the North Carolina and the Ameri
can Hospital associations.
The new, 1960 telephone direc
tories for Brevard and Rosrnan are
now out, Charles Pickelsimer, Jr.,
manager of the Citizens Telephone
company, announces.
These attractive directories are
being mailed to all subscribers and
a large number of individuals and
industries across the country.
The directory, which is the larg
est ever published by the local tele
phone company, is a depatrure from
the average telephone book. The
management of the Citizens com
pany has combined phone listings
and informative material to adver
tise the assets of Brevard and Tran
sylvania county.
On the attractive cover is a pic
ture of beautiful looking Glass
Falls in the Pisgah National forest,
and the community is described as
the “Land of Waterfalls.”
An aerial photo of the Brevard
area is carried in the directory, and
the caption is as follows:
“The heart of the business sec
tion of Brevard can be noted near
the center of the photo, with the
beautiful campus of Brevard col
lege directly behind. The Olin
Mathieson Chemical corporation at
Pisgah Forest is in the background.
Note the beautiful Blue Ridge
mountains that surround the peace
ful Sylvan valley.”
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Santa Claus Now Reading
Letters Daily Over WPNF
With Christmas just around the
corner, WPNF urges all boys and
girls in Transivania to write let
ters to Santa Claus and to put them
in special mail boxes at Pearlman’s,
Macfie drug store and Plummer's.
Daily he is picking these letters
up, and reading them over the local
radio station at 4:15 o’clock.
These programs are heard Mon
day through Saturday of each week
from now until Christmas, Bobby
Hoyle, station manager, states.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm and
Home hour for the coming week is
as follows: Thursday, Soil conserva-1
tioir service, Harry E. Newland;
Friday, Station program; Monday,
county agent; Tuesday, Rosman vo
ag dept., B. E. Keisler; Wednesday,
home agent.
Appearing on the Civic Hour are
the following: Friday, Jaycees;
Monday, Kiwanis club; Wednesday,
Hospital auxiliary.
The Morning Devotions is being
brought by the Rev. Fred Valen
tine, pastor of the St. Philips Epis
copal church. Speaking next week
will be Rev. Paul Morrow, pastor of
the Royleston Baptist church.
Many Floats &
Other Entries
Are Entered
Everything is in readiness for the
gigantic Christmas parade in Bre
vard Thursday afternoon at 4:00
o’clock.
The parade, which is being de
scribed as the biggest and best that
Brevard has ever had, will begin
forming at the Brevard Davidson
Biver church on East Main street
at 2:30 o’clock.
Many professional floats have
been entered, along with the Bre
vard and Hendersonville bands,
beauty queens and other entries too
numerous to mention.
Santa Claus will come to town
atc.p the biggest float in the group,
and he will have candy for all his
little friends.
Many of the stores in Brevard
will stay opep Thursday evening
for the convenience of the shoppers
who have come to town to see the
big parade.
Santa will make his headquarters
at the chamber of commerce office
in the new library building, and on
Friday and Saturday of this week,
he will be glad to greet his friends
there from 4:00 until 5:00 o’clock.
During that time, Mrs. Lehman
Kapp, librarian, will read a Christ
mas story to all children visiting
there, and Santa will talk with
them afterwards. Santa will return
to the library for visits on the foi
ls wing Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday. Dec. 10, 11 and 12, and 17,
18 and 10.
The route of travel of the parade
on Thursday will be as follows:
Up East Main street and across
the square to the bank; left on
Caldwell to Oakdale; left again on
Oakdale to South Bread; then, up
Broad and across the square to the
Brevard college campus where it
will disband.
Annual Bazaar Set
At Parish House
Thursday, Friday
The Christmas bazaar sponsored
annually by the Auxiliary of St.
Philip’s Episcopal church is being
held today and tomorrow, Decem
ber 3rd and 4th, in the Parish
House.
The hours of the sale today are
from 3:00 to 9:00 p. m., and tomor
row from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
A variety of gifts, homemade
foods, Christmas ornaments and
decorations have been prepared.
There will be a special room filled
with unique and beautiful imported
East Indian gifts.
The Masters will also have on dis
play some of their handmade cop
per and enamelware jewelry, and
there will be a white elephant
room.
A shoppers luncheon and dinner
will be served during all the hours
of the Bazaar. Officials of the Aux
iliary extend an invitation to the
people to attend the Bazaar.
Ham Supper To
Benefit Church
Organ Fund
The public is being cordially in
vited to attend the ham cupper Fri
day evening at the Masonic temple,
which is sponsored by the Com
panion class of the Glady Branch
Baptist church.
The hours of the supper will be
from 4:30 o’clock until 7:30 p.m.
The proceeds from the project
will be used to purchase an organ
for the new Glady Branch church,
which is now being completed.
Tickets are now on sale and may
•be obtained from any member of
the class or at the door, on the
night of the supper. Admission is
$1.00 for adults and- 75 cents for
children.