TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist,
Educational, Agricultural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1960 Census, 16,102.
Brevard Community 8,500.
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls.
Mecca for Summer Camps.
Entrance to Pisgah No
tional Forest and Home off
Brevard Music Festival.
Vol. 71 — No. 29
SECOND CLASS HAIL PRIVILEGES
AUTHORIZED AT BREVARD. N. C.
BREVARD. N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 21. 1960 * 20 PAGES TODAY *
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TONS OF TROUT FOR TAR HEELS
-—Records at the new fish hatchery at
Nj| Johns Rock in Pisgah National forest re
veal that to date some 33 tons of catcli
ing-size trout have been reared and
stocked in the streams of WNC. Above
approximately 1,100 Brook trout are be
ing loaded for distribution in streams in
^li Henderson and Polk counties. Maurice
Bryant, left, is the hatchery manager,
and he is supervising the operation. On
the truck is Leon Harrell; Van Owen is
in the center; and, Hobart Barton is at
the right. The hatchery is nearing com
pletion, with the construction of a four
stall equipment building, which is three
fourths completed. This half million
dollar layout is expected to be formally
dedicated this fall.
(Extension Staff Photo)
To Double Efforts In "Pioneers" Drive,
Funds For Centennial Celebration
The advisory committee, appoint
ed by the Transylvania Historical
commission to raise funds to fi
nance the centennial celebration
in 1961, will intensify efforts in
the campaign during the coming
weeks, Mrs. Mary Jane McCrary,
the commission chairman, reports
today.
This committee is headed by Ad
miral Ligon Ard, Raymond F. Ben
nett and Dan Scannell.
“Pioneer” buttons are being
given with each donation of $5.00,
and they will admit the wearer to
many of the centennial events next
year. The donation is also tax
Adeductable.
Mrs. McCrary says that it is the
hope of the committee to open an
.office in uptown Brevard in the
Jlnear future.
Every man, woman and child in
Transylvania should be interested
in having a part in the centennial
celebration next year, Mrs. Mc
Crary says in urging the public to
buy and wear the “pioneer” pins.
An application blank can be
found on page 6 in this week’s
Times.
Reasons Cited
The Pioneer committee in charge
of raising funds for the county
history and centennial celebration
has summarized as follows the rea
sons for the financial support that
is needed:
1. The centennial celebration
will be one of the county’s most
Important historic events.
2. County history is a civic
enterprise and a commendable
$ history will be cause for civic
pride. The organized effort and
support of civic minded people
_ is of greatest importance in
t gathering and preserving the
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, July 21 — Kiwanis
Ladies Night at Robin Hood’s Barn,
Sherwood Forest, at 7:00 p. m.
Lions meet at Colonial Inn at 7:00
p. m. ‘Stage Door” at Robin Hood’s
Barn, at 8:15 p. m.
Friday, July 22 — Ace of Clubs
meets at 8:00 p. m. Federation
Weekend begins with concert at
Transylvania Music Camp at 8:15
p. m. “Stage Door” at Robin Hood’s
Barn, at 8:15 p. m.
Saturday, July 23—Puppet Show
• at Transylvania county library at
fe:30 a. m. Music Camp concert at
8:15 p. m. “Stage Door” at Robin
Hood’s Bam at 8:15 p. m.
Sunday, July 24 — Attend the
church of your choice. Music Camp
Concert at 4:00 p. m.
Monday, July 26 — Rotary club
meets at Gaither’s at 7:00 p. m.
Tuesday, July 28 — Ace of clubs
meets .at 8:00 p. m. Elks meet at
Lodge off Park Avenue at 8:00
p. m.
Wednesday, July 27 — Jayeees
meet at Gaither’s at 6:30 p. to.
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Supper Planned
“Stage Door" Being Given
Again At Robin Hood’s Barn
With a east of 28 people, the
second production of Robin Hood’s
Barn Community theatre will open
this Thursday, July 21st, for the
fourth time.
“Stage Door” by Edna Ferber
and George Kauffman will be given
again on Friday and Saturday
nights.
The scene of the play is Mrs
Duckworth Is
Named Minister
Of Music, Va.
William W. Duckworth, Jr., has
been appointed minister of music
at the Wytheville Baptist church,
Wytheville, Virginia, and also band
and choral director at the new
Fort Chiswell high school.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Duckworth, 520 Country Club road,
he attended the local schools, Bre
vard college, and graduated from
the Shenandoah Conservatory of
Music in 1953.
Since that time he has served
as band and choral director at
Pound high school, Pound, Virginia,
and as music director at the First
Baptist church at Pound.
Mr. Duckworth assumed his du
ties at the church post July 1st
and will begin work at the new
high school with the fall term.
Orcutfs boarding house, called
The Footlights Club, and the role
of Mrs. Oreutt will be played by
Lisa Snowden.
Mrs. C. E. Seiler will play Mat
tie, the maid, and Doug Page has
the part of Frank and houseman.
The young girls who live in the
house looking for stage work on
Broadway, include Kay Seiler, Bob
bi Bomba, Judy Edwards, Anne
Marchman, Catherine Fleming.
Susan Mathews, Charlotte March
man, Sharon Gensert, Catherine
Ledbetter, Tosh Hamerschlag, Rue
Carter, Doris Williams, Patricia
O’Kelley, Margaret Pillow, and Lin
da Campbell.
Sondra Dehon will portray Made
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Police Reserve
Formally
Organized
Brevard's Police Reserve unit
has been formally organized and
is now serving the community with
the regular force, Chief W. S.
“Bill” Thurston reports today.
Following their recent gradua
tion from the police training school
at the new Army center, they were
sworn into active duty, and during
the carnival last week on the col
lege athletic field, they contribute
ed a total of 145 man-hours.
Frederick Marvin McCall, Jr.,
was elected as the chairman of the
reserve unit, and other officers
are:
Edwin Ray Wike — security of
ficer
Marshall M. Feaster, Jr., — sec
retary and treasurer
Jack Carl Wyatt — publicity of
ficer
According to Chief Thurston,
the reserve officers have purchas
ed, at their own expense, summer
uniforms, guns and other necessary
equipment.
It is hoped that the group can
sponsor some event, like an “all
night” singing, to make enough
funds to buy winter uniforms,
which are expensive.
At the meeting when officers
were elected and plans made for
the future, Officer Jimmy Rowe
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Two More Shell l
Stations Open .
| In The County
Two new Shell service stations
will begin their grand opening cele
brations this weekend.
Crane’s Shell service, located at
the intersection of Asheville high
way and Eeusta road, and Almany’s
Shell service, on the Rosman high
way at Rosman, are featuring free
prizes and both will offer free, a
o.uart of Shell oil with each oil
change.
Crane’s Shell was built by Rob
ert T. Gash and leased to Skyland
Petroleum company, operated by
Alvin Batson of Cedar Mountain
and Cecil Cantrell, of Henderson
ville. The station is sub-leased to
j Quentin Crane, of Pisgah Forest,
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New Probation District Created,
Brevard Headquarters, Gilbert Here
A new probation district, in
cluding Transylvania, Hender
son and Polk counties, has been
created, C. Gordon Maddrey, di
rector of the North Carolina
Probation commission at Raleigh,
announces today.
District headquarters will be
located here in Brevard in an
office adjacent to the sheriff’s
office in the court house.
Daniel E. Gilbert, a native of
Benson, has been assigned as the
probation officer in charge of
Cousins Is Now The Director
Of The Brevard Civic Orchestra
Wolfgang Selle, president of the
Brevard Civic orchestra, announc
ed this week that M. Thomas
Cousins, professor of music at the
Brevard College, had accepted the
position of director of the orches
tra. The post was vacated recently
by Ralph M. Reed, Jr., who resign
ed to accept a position with the St.
Petersburg Community college in
Clearwater, Florida.
Mr. Cousins received his musi
cal education at Juilliard School
of Music in New York and the
Army Music School in Washing
ton, He studied trumpet with 'Wil
liam Vacchiano, principal trumpet
with New York Philharmonic,
studied theory and composition
with Dr. Franklin Robinson, and
conducting with Fritz Mahler.
During World War H, he served
as bandleader and commanding of
ficer of the 251st Army Band ov
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M. THOMAS COUSINS
this new district, A. F. Sigmon,
Jr., the division supervisor, re
ports.
Mr. Gilbert has been under
going an indoctrination program
in the Raleigh office, along with
10 other new probation officers.
According to Mr. Sigmon, Mr.
Gilbert was at the top of the
class, and he assumes his new
duties here in Brevard this week.
A graduate of Wake Forest
college with a BS degree in so
ciology, Mr. Gilbert is single and
is a Baptist.
College Chosen
For Pulp, Paper
Short Course
_
The first pulp and paper statis
tics course to be presented in the
South will be conducted here Aug
ust 8-19 at Brevard college.
Offered by the Institute of Sta
tistics at North Carolina State
College, the ninth annual program
will be jointly sponsored by the
Technical Association of the. Pulp
and Paper Industry, the Technical
Section of the Canadian Pulp and
Paper Associations and the State
College Extension.
The course will consist of 18 lec
tures and 18 laboratory sessions,
with both basic and advanced sec
tions.
The staff will include three
statisticians from industry and two
| from the State College Institute of
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NEW OFFICERS of the Associated Weeklies are pic
tured above, following their election last weekend at the
annual summer meeting of the North Carolina Press as
sociation in Asheville. At the left is H. Clifton Blue, of
the Sandhill Citizen, Aberdeen, the president. Mrs. Ed
M. Anderson, 'publisher of this newspaper, is at the
right, and she was elected as vice president. Miss Grace
Laffoon, of Elkin, was renamed secretary and treasurer,
and she is shown in the center.
(Photo by Malcolm Gamble)
Many Artists Arrive
12th Annual Federation
Weekend Set At Music Camp
JAMES STANDARD, bass-bar- !
itonc, witl sing several operatic
selections on the program at Bre
vard Music center on Friday
night at 8:15 o’clock. Standard
was the 1959 winner of the Na
tional Federation of Music Clubs'
Young Anists audition, and he is
under . contract with the San
Francisco Opera company for
the fall season.
The 12th annual Federation
Weekend will be held this week
at the Brevard Music center and
Brevard College, as members of
the National Federation of Music
Clubs from the Southeastern
Region gather for their summer
conference.
Nationally known artists, as well
as outstanding soloists from the
camp, will be featured in the full
schedule of concerts Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday.
Friday -evening at 8:15, pianist,
Bryon Janis, and bass-baritone.
James Standard, will share the
stage with the Transylvania Sym
phony in the first concert of the
(gala “Federation Weekend.”
Janis, who will perform Rach
maninoffs “Concert No. 2,” was
the American artist selected to
open American Festival Week at
the Brussels World Fair in 1958.
One of today’s greatest young
pianists, he has not only complet
ed eoast-to-eoast tours of this coun
try but also has toured South
America and Europe four times.
On the same program, bass-bari
tone James Standard, 1959 win
ner of the National Federation of
Music Clubs’ Young Artists audi
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Southern States Writing Workshop
Opens July 23 At Camp Cherryfield
JOSS EUNICE BRADLEY
Miss Louise Blackwell, director
of Camp Cherryfield, announces
that Southern States Writing Work
shops will open at the adult camp
on Saturday, July 23rd.
Workshops in the writing of the
short story, novel, poetry, juveni
les, drama and non-fiction, includ
ing professional writing, feature
articles, history and criticism will
be held for two weeks.
One of the key faculty people
for the writing workshops is Miss
Eunice Bradley, who teaches at
David Lipscomb College in Nash
ville. Miss Bradley, herself a free
lance writer and experienced jour
nalist, is returning for the third
year as a member of the writing
faculty at Camp Cherryfield.
Chalmers S. Murry, of Charles
ton and Edisto Island, S. C., is re
turning for his second year on the
writing faculty. Mr. Murray is a
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Docket Reviewed
Several Consent
Judgements Made
Trial of the civil docket in the
July term of Superior court here
in Transylvania is expected to end
on Thursday.
The case of Alice E. Dunn vs
William N. Fisher took a day and
a half of the court’s time this week,
and when the jury was polled, tier.
verdict was that the plantiff should
not receive any damages.
In the case Reginald Kitchen vs.
Appalachian Hall, the court said
that the plantiff should recover
S375.00, from the defendant, who
also had to pay costs.
Divorces were granted in the fol
lowing cases:
Katie Sue Toole vs. Thomas?
l'oole.
Mae W. Stancell vs. Bennett
5 tancell.
Consent judgments were made
in the following cases:
Walter Clayton vs. E C Whit
son.
Thelma Oliver vs. Kendrix Cald
well.
Barbara Oliver vs. Garland Wat
son.
Peyton Oliver vs. Garland Wat
son.
Thelma Oliver vs. Garland Wai
son.
The following two cases wave
combined and were being heard
on Wednesday:
A. I. Stubblefield vs. Robert Ed
gar Davis and Doyle Stubblefield
vs. Robert E. Davis.
In the case Helen Gibson vs.
Robert T. Gash, the plaintiff was
given the right to cancel the dead
of trust.
The following cases have been
continued till the next term -of
court: ’■*
P. A. Rahn, Adm., vs. Ada M.
Fowler.
Cole I. Lee vs. Mary Jones.
Richard R. McCall vs. Jesse Sli
der and Ernest West.
Jule R. Wells vs George C
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Now Receiving
Street Paving
Applications
Persons desiring the paving ed
their streets in Brevard should
make application for paving pe
titions at the City Hall, Town Man
ager Tom Henry announced today.
The basic requirements concern
ing streets to be paved ar-e as fcd
liows:
(1) Adequate water and sewer
lines must be in the street or serv
ing the property to be affected s®
that the street will not have to bit
tern up for installation of vrafier
and sewer lines in the near fu
ture.
(2) The street right of way must
be a minimum of 30 feet in width.
(3) A majority of the property
owners in number and a majority;
of the front footage represented ifey
the owners abutting the street
must sign the petition.
In the past streets had to be paid
100 percent in advance by all prop
crty owners. The Town Board of
Aldermen has adopted the assess
ment policy which will allow the
property owners to pay the as
sessment in five equal annual in
stallments.
WPNFToCarry
Programs From
Music Center
WPNF will begin broadcasting
next week programs from the Bre
vard Music Center, it is announced
by station manager, Bobby Hoyle.
The programs will be heard eack\
Wednesday evening at 7:00 o’-darihu
p. m., and Mr. Hoyle invites every
one to listen. They will be eontbm
ed through August.
Various artists, the orchestra at
the faculty and staff and the heads
will be heard from time to time eat
—Tara Te rage Severn