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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize - Winning A.B. C. Newspaper
Vol. 71—No. 17_*_saEuCthorizCeLdSaStMbAr'eLvardV'l»EGc5 BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1960 * 20 PAGES TODAY * PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls.
Mecca for Summer Camps.
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest arid Home
Brevard Music Festival.
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TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Ed
ucational, A g r i c u ltural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1950 Census, 15,321.
Brevard Community 7,894.
“DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY” will
be presented by the Brevard Little
Theatre on Friday and Saturday nights
in the Brevard College auditorium, as
their final 'production for this season. In
the scene above, Grazia, played by Alice
Nichols, is being comforted by other mem
bers of the cast after having been fright
ened in the garden by “Death.” Pictured
from left to right are Andy Brown, Dave
Jackson, Mrs. Nichols, Bernie Maguire,
Martha Sader, Thelma Hart, and Alice
Pearce. (Official Little Theatre Photo)
Public Invited To "Pioneer" Meeting
Thursday Night At The Legion Building
In the next few days “Pioneer”
'buttons will blossom like the dog
wood in Transylvania county.
This is the spring season of the
local historical movement, now be
ing organized to sponsor the
county’s first centennial next year.
Therefore, this occasion is part oi
history itself.
In recognition of this notable
event all who enroll as sponsors will
become members of the Transyl
vania county Pioneers. There will
be special membership buttons is
sued to all who join in the sponsor
ship organization. Adult member
ships, blue on white, are $5; junior
memberships, red on white, are $1.
The sponsors will become the first
pioneers of the county’s second cen
tury, and their names will be honor
ed in the pages of Transylvania
county history for posterity.
Names of all who enroll wdll be
inscribed in the permanent records
of the Transylvania County Histori
cal Commission.
Enrollment by Civic Leaders
The enrollment is to be taken by
civic leaders representing the civic,
business, professional and commun
ity improvement clubs.
Organization for this work will
be completed Thursday night at a
meeting in the American Legion
building.
Chairman Raymond F. Bennett of
the Pioneer committee will preside.
A special entertainment feature
will be a musical program by the
Brevard high school'band, under the
direction of John D. Eversman, be
ginning at 7:00 o’clock.
This is the first public appear
ance of the band since it won a
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, April 28 — Brevard
high vs. Hendersonville at Camp
Straus, 3:30 p.m. Family night at
Brevard Methodist church, 6:30
p.m. OrganizationaT-mpeting of Pio
neers at American Legion building,
7:00 p.m. BPW meeting at Colonial
Inn at 7:00 p.m.
Friday, April 20—Straus School
Spring Festival, 5:00-9:30 p.m. Little
Theatre play in college auditorium,
8:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 30—Registration
begins in precincts, at 9:00 a.m. for
May 28th primary. Olin vs. Old
Fort at Camp Straus, 3:00 p.m.
Little Theatre play in college audi
torium, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 1 — Attend the
church of your choice. Organ con
cert at Methodist church at 4:00
pm. Christ School Boys Choir to
sing at St. Philip’s at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, May 2 — Rotary club
meets at Gaitfler’s at 7:00 pm.
Tuesday, May 3—Ace of Clubs
meets at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Star
meets at 8:00 pm.
Wednesday, May 4—Toastmasters
meet at Gaither’s at 6:30 pm. WOW
meeting at Woodman Hall at 8:00
pm.
Improvements Planned
Municipal Golf Course Is
Being Readied For ’60 Play
The Municipal Golf course, form
erly Brevard Golf Course, Inc., is
being readied for the 1960 season
Tom Henry, town manager, reports
Since May 5, 1953, the course has
been operated by a group of local
citizens, but it has been turned
back to the town for operation and
maintenance.
“We had planned to use our new
ly acquired heavy equipment ir
making some physical changes and
improvements on the golf course
and to open some additional recre
ational areas,” Mr. Henry declared
This work was postponed because
of the very inclement weather and
the heavy snows.
At the present time it is impos
sible for the town to do this im
provement work, since the crews
must now concentrate on water
sewer, street and sidewalk instal
lations during this good weather.
Green fees and membership dues
will remain the same as in the past,
with the exception that a quarterly
payment shall entitle the member
to 90 days of play from the date ol
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The Weather
Warm, dry weather continued
during the past week, with only a
third of an inch of precipitation re
corded on Tuesday. Sunday was
the hottest day to date this year,
when a high of 86 degrees was re
corded. Daily readings are as fol
low:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday_ 69 44 0
Thursday _ 70 48 .31
Friday_81 46 .02
Saturday_85 43 0
Sunday_ 86 40 0
Monday_ 85 46 0
Tuesday_ 84 48 0
the payment. Memberships will not
be required this year during the
winter months when improvement
and renovation work will be under
taken.
The fees are as follows: $1.50 for
week days; $2.00 for Saturday, Sun
day and holidays; and, $16.00 for
three months, to begin with date of
payment.
“It is the desire of the town to de
velop the property so that our citi
zens and visitors will some day find
in Brevard a fine, nine-hole golf
course, where they can play at a
most reasonable fee,” Mr. Henry
continued.
Some of the plans for develop
ment are as follows:
(1) Make No. 1 fairway a driving
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Demos To Hold
Precinct Meets
On May 7
Transylvania Democrats will hold
precinct meetings on Saturday, May
7, at 2:00 o’clock, James C. Gaither,
Sr., the chairman, announces today.
Mr. Gaither is asking all precinct
chairmen to hold meetings on that
day in their precincts and to elect
committees. Precinct committees
will consist of five persons, two of
whom shall be women.
After the election, the committee
shall meet and elect a chairman, a
vice chairman, one of whom shall be
a woman, and a secretary.
Delegates and alternates to the
county convention on May 14, will
also be elected at the precinct meet
ings.
Little I heatre
Presents Drama
This Weekend
The final Little Theatre produc
tion of this season, “Death Takes A
Holiday,” will toe presented on Fri
day and Saturday evenings, April
28th and 29th, in the Brevard Col
lege auditorium. Curtain time is
8:00 o’clock.
Written toy Alberto Cassella,
“Death Takes A Holiday” was first
produced by Lee Shubert in 1929 at
the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in
New York City.
This striking drama has estab
lished itself among the important
plays of our timb. It is based on the
poetic conception of death suspend
ing all activities for three days dur
ing which period he falls in love
with a beautiful girl, and through
her realizes why mortals fear him.
The mood of this play is establish
ed with remarkable skill and while
it is charged with exciting moments,
it. is a perfect background for a love
story that is as simple as it is ap
pealing. The character who symbol
izes death is for the most part a
human sort of person.
This is a play that arouses thought
and presents an optimistic philoso
phy on the problems of love and
death.
The cast is composed of several
new faces and many former Bre
vard Little Theatre players. It will
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Valley Springs Students To Be
Evacuated To County On May 3
The Transylvania chapter of
the National Civil Defense orga
nization will participate in “Op
eration Alert 1960” on May 3,
Weldon Misenfreimer, the local di
rector announces today.
The local unit’s part in “Opera
tion Alert 1960” will be caring for.
the students of Valley Springs,
school in Buncombe county.
All students in Buncombe will
be evacuated to the four adjoin
ing counties, when the alarm is
sounded at 10:30 am.
The Valley Springs group will
ibe taken by bus to Camp Deer
woode, which will serve as a re
ception area for Transylvania
county.
The Civil Defense units have re
ceived emergency-type rations,
and they will be fed to the stu
dents at the noon hour.
Parents Asked To Aid With
Course Of Study, High Schools
This year the principals at Bre
vard and Bosnian high schools are
requesting parents to aid their chil
dren in selecting the best course
for him or her during high school.
There are three options open to
every student, N. A. Miller, Jr.,
supervisor of instruction, _ an
nounces today.
They are terminal - vocational,
commercial and precollege. j
These have been approved by the,
board of education, the superintends
ent, the district principals and the
supervisor of instruction himself.
According to Mr. Miller, each stu
dent has 'been given complete infor
mation concerning registration, and
the parents should go over this ma
terial with their children.
After this is done together, a se
lection of course should then be
made, and the parents’ signature
placed on the proposed program.
Mr. Miller emphasizes that stu
dents desiring to enter college with
a specialty in science should be en
couraged to take as many science
courfbs as possible, particularly ad
vanced courses for which they are
qualified. Students desiring to take
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The entire student exercise will
ibe handled under the general su
pervision of the Buncombe CD
unit with the CD organizations of
Transylvania counties cooperat
ing.
At the conclusion of the exer
cise in the reception areas, the
school participants will be re
turned by bus under police escort
to their respective schools. The
time spent on the exercise will be
considered a part of the school
day.
Throughout the exercise, each
high school will operate as a sepa
rate unit under the leadership of
its school officials.
Duckworth Is
Retiring, Sale
Is Announced
Walter W. Duckworth, one of
Western North Carolina’s pioneer
Ford dealers, has announced his re
tirement from the automotive busi
ness and the sale of his interest in
Duckworth-Lyda Motors to Judson
McCrary. The partnership with C.
Few Lyda will be known as Lyda
MoCrary Ford.
Mr. Duckworth 'began his asso
ciation with the Ford Motor com
pany as an employee of the Lowe
Motor company in Brevard, back in
the Model-T days. He bad an inter
est in Service Motor company in
Marshall for some six yean before
returning to Brevard about 25 yean
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ART DEHON, Brevard’s outstanding miler, is being
congratulated above by teammates and well wishers just
after winning the mile event in the Blue Ridge confer- [
ence track meet last Saturday at Hendersonville. Brevard j
also won team honors, and the Blue Devils promise to be 1
a serious threat in the Interscholastic Relays at Asheville
School for Boys this Friday. Complete results of last Sat
urday’s track meet are carried on the sports page in this
week’s Times.
(Engraving courtesy of The Asheville Citizen)
Authority Is Granted To
Abandon Rosman RR Station
JACK POTTS, Brevard attorney,
is the third man to enter the race
for house of representatives from
Transylvania county, subject to
the Democratic primary on May
28. Prior to his announcement,
James C. Gaither announced that
he was seeking re-election, and
Wood Paxton also filed for the
post.
Permission has been granted the
Southern Railway company to
abandon the station at Rosman and
discontinue the agency there. The
order was signed on April 21, by
the State Utilities commission to
this effect, and official copies of
the order have been received by
the Brevard and Rosman chambers
of commerce.
All business for the Rosman sta
tion will be handled by the Brevard
office of the Southern, except a
.locked shed will be utilized for
benefit of shippers of less than car
load quantities.
Protest to the closing was made
by Rosman and Brevard at a hear
ing in Hendersohville on April 6,
when several civic leaders appeared
before the Utilities commission and
protested the closing of the station.
The commission in its order sets
out that a locked shed must be pro
vided, and that keys be furnished to
larger shippers, with a special key
to be left with a nearby Rosman
business house for benefit of the
public, and a telephone direct to
the Brevard station agent be in
stalled in the Rosman shed.
Several local people appeared as
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Station WPNF To Take Part In
"Operations Alert” Next Tuesday
Radio Station WPNF will partici
pate in the nation-wide conelrad
drill on Tuesday, May 3, Bobby
Hoyle, station Inanager announces
today. The event is “Operations
Alert 1960.”
The emergency broadcasting sys
tem will be publicly demonstrated
on that date from 1:00 pm. to 1:30
p.m., at which time all radio and
TV stations will go off the air for
thirty minutes.
During this drill, the only broad
casting will be over the conelrad
frequencies of 640 and 1240 on your
radio, Mr. Hoyle reminds local
listeners. During an actual enemy
attack, conelrad would be the most
direct channel for receiving offi
cial information and local instruc
tions.
During next Tuesday’s drill, sta
tion WPNF will remain on the air at
1240 kc, broadcasting information
from local, state, and national civil
defense officials, Mr. Hoyle con
cluded.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm and
Home hour for the coming week is
as follows: Thursday, station pro
gram; Friday, A.S.C., Marvin W.
Whitmire; Monday, county agent;
Tuesday, Brevard vo-ag dept., Ran
dall J. Lyday.
Appearing this week on the Civic
Hour are the following: Friday,
Fortnightly cluib; Monday, B & PW
Club; Wednesday, Elks Club.
Speaking this week on Morning
Devotions is Rev. John O’Brien,
pastor of Sacred Heart Cathodic
church. Next week Rev. James Bal
lard, pastor of Pisgah Forest Baptist
church, will be heard.
The Sunday morning church ser
vices will be broadcast through the
remote facilities of WPNF from the
Wesleyan Methodist church for the
month of May. Rev. W. G. Davidson
is pastor.
Prime Interest
In Local Races,
Registrars Named
As the Democratic primary on
May 28 nears, much political "talk**
is being beard in the town and
county.. ,. , .
Loc^l ^candidates are busy cam
paigning in all precincts, and prime
interest 'sterns to be in the raees
for county offices.
According to George Shuford,
chairman of the county board tdc
elections, the registration boohs will
open on Saturday of this week.
They will'continue to be open on
the two following Saturdays, May 7
and May 14. Registration will &•
from 9:00 ajm. until Sundown.
May 21 will be challenge day.
Mr. Shuford points out that this
is not a new registration, but it is
held for the purpose of registering
newcomers and persons who hare
become of age since the last elec
tion.
Voters who have moved from ona
precinct to another 30 days prior to
the election must secure transfer
slips.
"If there is any doubt about your
registration, check with the regis
trar in your precinct,” Mr. Shuford
urges.
The list of registrars and judges
for the 18 precincts in Transylvania
county for the'May 28 primary is as
follows:
Brevard Np.. 1—Nathan MeMinn, ■
registrar; Wilson Gregory, Dem.
judge; and, Gerald Owen, ftep.
judge. .. ,
Brevard No. 2—Lawrence Hipp,
registrar; Freeman Galloway, Dean,
judge; and, Robert, Nicholson, Rope
judge.
Sjftfcvard
rCfc . iirLr;'
judge; and,
judge.
Brevard No. 4 —
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No Fire Permits
Until A Rain
No burning permits will be
issued for any type of brook,
grass, or other bnniingi untQ n •
good heavy rain, it is announce*
by the fire wardens.
Extreme danger in aD orntiwy
of the county, as well as western ,
part of the state is npw being
noted, and wardens urge extiruae
caution in or near woodland*. „
Two forest fires week reportedr,
in Transylvania last Sunday.
Both were said to bane been set. 4
In the Quebec section some If' ‘
acres were burned over,5 *wl «a.
eight-acre blaze was brought (Un
der control in the Frouen Creek
section after three and one-halt
hours of Fire-fighting. '
To Advertise Taxes
In Month Of J|ay
Delinquent taxes will be adver
tised in May, and tan sale eertiQ
cates sold on the first Monday In
June, it is announced by €. M. Doug
las, Tax Colleetor. i •
Despite the several weefis of bod'
weather, collections have - held up
well, the tax coHacior stages, and as
of this date average is sfighifiy abend
of 1959.
Police Reserve
To Be Formed
On May p
uK.
Police Chief W. S, “Big’Ljaw**
ton announce* that file ic.thcamiag
Brevard police reserve wUlhold tta
organizational meeting attd^e
City Hall an Friday night, May 4
7:30 o’clock.
All meinfcere of the civic cMa
and other crtiaene interested. in join- -
ing will he furnkbed an-appW
tion blank that night. ’
Those vriio rapnot wMi iiil nil llm
ni$»t of May 6, eaft I* “
plication blajfa
few days from Chief *
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