TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist,
Educational, Agricultural
and Music Center. Popula
tion, 1960 Census, 16,102.
Brevard Community 8,500.
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
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TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls.
Mecca for Summer Camps.
Entrance to Pisgah Na
tional Forest and Home of
Brevard Music Festival
Vol. 71 — No. 33
SECOND CLASS MAIL PRIVILEGES
AUTHORIZED AT BREVARD. N. C.
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1960
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Lake ToxawayAnd Toxaway Inn, Photographed In 1905, Restoration Now Planned |
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Farming
Survey
Made
By — JIM DAVIS
County Agent
The 1960 County Commission
ed Farm Census Summary for
Transylvania County shows 63,
127 acres of farm land which is
about the same acreage report
the year before.
Corn grown for all purposes
showed an increase from 3,775
acres to 4,043.
The number of acres grown
for vegetabes decreased approxi
mately 500 acres, but in the re
port Irish potatoes is excluded
from vegetable acreage and the
Irish potato increased from 581
to 1121.
Corn is still the main row
crop with vegetables second.
There was an increase of ap
proximately 500 acres of improv
ed pasture in the county.
Cows kept mainly for beef and
milk remained about the same,
and sows and gilts for breeding
showed an increase of 74. These
figures are comparisons between
the 1958 and ’59. The percent of
total crops harvested is as fol
lows; Corn 38% ;hay crops 23%;
vegetables for sale 19%; other
ci*j>s 4%; Irish potatoes for
sale 11%; home gardens 5%.
« The indications are for a good
crop in 1960 when corn will
pfl&ably be the leading row
crop.
There will be a decrease in
number of laying hens in 1960
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Teacher List
Is Announced
Teachers in the Transylvania
school system for the new term
are announced today by Supt.
Wayne Bradburn.
They are as follows:
District No. 1
Robert T. Kimzey, Principal
Brevard High School
T. Kimzey, Principal
Mrs. Sarah Abercrombie, Mrs.
Eula Clarke, Mrs. Alma Gallo
wsik Paul M Maultsby, Jr.,JDon.
alCPS
_-McLeod,' Mrs. Lucile Tran
fham, John Eversman, Mrs.
Sarah Tilson, Mrs. Ruth An
drews, Landon Deal, Mrs. Anna
Holliday, Mrs. Margaret Kimzey,
Miss Freida Manuel, Mrs. Mari
on B. Vemer, Charles Glass,
Miss Berta Hirtzler, Mrs. Rose
Burrell, Benjamin Fishburn,
Mrs Faye P. Thompson, Randal
Lyday, Mrs. Lucille Sledge, Clif
ford L. Brookshire and Dr. Dor
othy Gifford.
BREVARD JUNIOR
HIGH SCHOOL
Joseph McGuire, Jr., Principal
Mrs. Lucy Bryson, Mrs. Thel
ma Fergerson, Henry Jacobsen,
Mrs. Carol M. Wells, Mrs. Maude
Hutchinson, Mrs. Julia Clayton,
Ben Fishbume, Charles Pearce,
Mas* Frankie M Wagoner, Wil
liaH J. Kay, Steve Ferguson,
Howard Hyatt, W. M. Teague,
Mrs, Doris Warren and Spencer
W. Reid.
BREVARD
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Forest B. Cudd, Principal
Mrs. Beatsie Bagwell, Mrs.
Wilma M. Chandler, Mrs. Car
olyn Cook, Mrs. Margaret Davis,
Mrs. Eva Gillespie, Miss Car
olyn Kimzey, Mrs. Mary Moore,
Mrs. Thelma Patterson, Mrs. Mil
dred Townsend, Mrs. Catherine
Bauer, Miss Agnes Clayton, Johr
Edward Culler, Mrs. Daisy Ed
monson, Mrs. Fannye Harris
Mrs. Jennie McConnell, Mrs. Rox
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LAKE TOXAWAY ESTATES
President Reginald D. Heinitsh, left,
and Bamall W. Boyd, right, inspect
a map of the 9,000 acre estate. Plans
call for a two million dollar improve
ment program on this recreational
and resort mountain paradise.
(Times Staff Photo)
Schools To Open In Transylvania
Wednesday, Teachers Meet 23rd
Schools bells will ring in Tran
sylvania county next Wednesday,
August 24th, Supt. Wayne Brad
burn announces today.
On the first day, books will be
issued, schedules will be made
out, and fees will be paid. School
is expected to recess at noon on
Wednesday, and a full day’s
schedule is planned for the
following day.
Teachers and principals will
meet in the Jones auditorium at
the new Brevard senior high
school next Tuesday morning,
August 23rd to 9:00 a. m.
Supt. Bradburn urges stud
ents to bring their fees on the
opening day of school, which
will begin promptly at 8:30 a.
m. on Wednesday. Book fees
are as follows: elementary, $2.50;
high school, $3.60.
Principal Robert T. Kimzey
explains that the fees and in
surance at the senior high school
are $7.35, and $8.35 for typing
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CALENDAR OF *
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, August 18 — Ki
wanis club meets at Gaither’s
at 6:45 p. m. Lions meet at Co
lonial Inn at 7:00 p. m. Play at
Robin Hood’s Barn at 8:15 p. m.
Friday, August 19 — Ace of
Clubs meets at 8:00 p. m. Fes
tival concert at 8:15 p. m. Play
at Robin Hood’s Barn at 8:15 p.
m.
Saturday, August 20 — Police
reserve barbecue, Masonic Tem
ple, 5:00 to 8:00 p. m. Festival
concert, 8:15 p. m. Play at Rob
in Hood’s Barn at 8:15 p. m.
Sunday, August 21 — Attend
the church of your choice. Fes
tivaL concert at 4:00 p. m.
Monday, August 22 — Rotary
meets at 7:00 p. m. at Gaither’s.
Tuesday, August 23 — Teach
ers meet in Jones auditorium,
Brevard senior high school at
9:00 a. m. Ace of Clubs meets
at 8:00 p. m.
Wednesday, August 24
School begins at 8:30 a. m. Jay
eees meet at 6:30 p. m. at Gaith
'er’s.
Event Celebrated
Over $62,000 Paid Monthly
In Social Security Benefits
In celebrating the 25th an
niversary of the Social Security
act, Douglas H. Butler, the local
representative, reports that more
than $62,000 is being paid out in
benefits in Transylvania each
month.
Mr. Butler makes a weekly
visit at the Brevard court house
each Thursday, and he will be
happy to discuss the program
with anyone at that time.
Nationally, about 13% million
persons were receiving old-age,
survivors, and disability insur
ance monthly benefits at the
end of 1959 at an annual rate of
more than $10 billion. At the
close of 1940 — the first year
in which monthly benefits were
payable — beneficiaries through
out the Nation totalled 200,000.
Almost half a million disabled
worker beneficiaries and their
dependents receiving benefits at
a yearly rate of over $400 mil
lion are included in the figures
for 1959.
The number of wives, hus
bands, and children of disabled
worker beneficiaries receiving
benefits increased sharply in
1959. Such benefits were first
payable for September, 1958. Na
tionally, from February to De
cember, 1959, the number of
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Two Million Dollars To Be Spent
On Development, Lake Toxaway
Police Reserve I
Sponsoring
Barbecue
A barbecue supper, sponsored
by the Brevard police reserve
unit, will be held on Saturday,
August 20th, at the Masonic
Temple on East Main street.
Serving will begin at 5:00
o’clock and last till 8:00 o’clock.
Tickets may be purchased at the
door or from members of the
police department and police
reserve. A number of merchants
also have tickets for sale.
Ed Flood, who is experienced
at cooking barbecue, is in charge
of preparing thg meal, and the
cooking will be done on Main
street behind Peterson’s service
station.
A school for new members of
the police reserve is being plan
ned for the near future. Anyone
over 21 years of*age and of
good moral character who is in
terested should contact Chief
•Bill” Thurston
Members of the reserve wish
to remind the public that they
will check houses of people on
vacation if they are notified.
To Dedicate
New Carson s
Creek Church
Dedication of the new Carson’s
Creek Baptist church has been
set for Sunday, August 21st, ac
cording to the pastor, Rev. Tom
my Goldsmith.
Rev. Kadez Wilde will preach
the dedication sermon at the
11:00 o’clock worship hour.
A picnic lunch will be served
at noon, and speakers in the af
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Work Of Soil Conservationist
In Transylvania Is Reviewed
The local Soil Conservation
Service has resumed its duties
of giving assistance to farmers
in Transylvania county.
Since May 16, 1960, when
Grover C. McPherson, work
ASC Committeemen To
Be Elected On Sept. 8
Marvin W. Whitmire, chair
man of the Transylvania county
ASC committee, has announced
that the election of community
ASC committeemen will be held
on September 8, 1960 and the
county convention for the elec
tion of a county committee will
be held on September 23, 1960.
He stated that the ASC elec
tion procedure will be the same
as last year in that the election
of community, committeemen
will be by balloting at designat
ed polling places.
The election will be conduct
ed under the supervision of a
county election board composed
of the county extension agent,
county heads of Soil Conserva
tion service, Farmers Home
Administration, Farm Bureau,
and the Grange. The county elec
tion board in turn was responsi
ble for naming a community
election board for each commii
nity in the county.
Mr. Whitmire stated that the
community election board for the
eight communities in Transyl
vania county has been selected.
In turn the community election
boards have selected a slate of
not less than 10 nominees for
each community in the county to
be voted on September 8, 1960.
He further stated that pro
visions provide that petitions
signed by 10 or more eligible
voters favoring nomination of
additional persons will be re
ceived by the community elec
tion boards at any time not
later than Tuesday, August 23,
I960, and the names of the per
sons so petitioned for will be in
cluded in the slate of nominees
if found eligible under the reg
ulations of the Secretary of Ag
riculture.
unit conservationist, assumed
the duties in the local office,
several farmers have applied
for assistance.
To date, applications have
been received for 15 ponds,
three drainage jobs, and 15
basic farm plans.
Work has already started on
several of these applications.
Some of them are in the plan
ning stage, some in the con
struction stage, and some are
nearing completion. Opera
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County 4-H
Clubs Tour
Hatchery
A tour of the fish hatchery by
members of the county-4H clubs
will be held on Monday, August
22nd, beginning at 11:00 o’clock,
from the County Agent’s office.
This tour was postponed last
Friday due to rain.
All 'members are invited to
attend and are asked to contact
the County Agent’s office, so
that food for the weiner roast
which will follow the tour can
be included.
MARLOWE STALLINGS, Transylvania’s largest
commercial vegetable grower, is pictured above in
one of his fields of tomatoes in Dunn’s Rock sec
tion. He has some 25 acres of these vine-ripe toma
toes, and the crop is reported to be one of the fin
est he has ever produced. Adjacent to this field,
Mr. Stallings has over 130 acres of pole beans,
from which he picked some 3,000 bushels on Mon
day. (Times Staff Photo)
Many To Attend
Pennario To Be Featured,
On Final Festival Concerts
LEONARD PENNARIO
Climaxing a -highly successful
season, the concerts at the Bre
vard Music Center this weekend
mark the end of the 24th season
of the “Summer Music Capital
of the South.”
Featured in all three concerts
—Friday and Saturday evenings
at 8:15, and Sunday afternoon
at 4:00 — will be Leonard Pen
nario, one of today’s outstanding
pianists.
In Friday evening’s concert,
Pennario will play Rachmani
noff’s “Piano Concerto No. 3,
D Minor.” Rachmaninoff’s music
is noted for the presence of a
melodic line which is supported
by rich harmonies. His “Concerto
No. 3,” which Mr. Pennario will
play, was composed in 1909 with
the American music-loving pub
lic in mind, since the composer
had been invited that year to
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Program Highlights
Welfare Experts Will Be
Heard Thursday On WPNF
A special feature on Thursday
morning’s “Coffee Time” pro
gram this week will be a seven
teen-minute discussion by two of
Western North Carolina’s lead
ing Social Security experts, who
will give helpful advice and in
formation concerning the Social
Security program.
Program Director Bill Han
cock will introduce Mrs. Edith
Jenkins, superintendent of Tran
sylvania County Public Welfare;
and Douglas H. Butler, field
representative of the U. S. So
eial Security administration.
Bobby Hoyle, station manager,
urges all Transylvanians to
tune in the “Coffee Time” show
Thursday morning, as it should
be both interesting and infor
mative.
Other Programs
Participating on the Civic
Hour will be the following or
I ganizations: Friday, the Jay
cees; Monday, the Kiwanis club;
land, Wednesday, the Hospita
l auxiliary.
New Dam Will
Be Built, Other
Improvements
Lake Toxaway, the million
aire playground of a half cen
tury ago, will be restored and
a two million dollar development
project to resurrect this 9,00©
acre recreation and resort area
is underway.
Lake Toxaway Estates, a North
Carolina corporation headed by
Regniald D. Heinitsh of Colom
bia, S. C., purchased the proper
ty from D. H. Cosby, Inc., of Bo
ca Raton, Florida.
President Heinitsh and Dar
nall W. Boyd, also of Columbia,,
S. C., and vice president and
secretary, were in Brevard ear
lier this week completing the
transaction.
Purchase price of the property
was about $475,000, This real
estate transaction, one of the
largest in the history of Tran
sylvania, was handled by Mc
Lain Hall Real Estate, of Green,
ville, S. C.
According to the new owners;
construction of the dam which,
will form a body of water one
mile wide and three miles lone
with a 14-mile shoreline, will he
started in the next 46 days, and
should be completed in early ’61,
Engineers are completing the
dam surveys, and surveyors are
expected to run the shoreline....
beginning next week.
To Be Sub-Divided
The property above the lake
will be sub-divided into lakeside
lots and offered for sale within
the next two weeks.
Upon completion of the 14
mile road around the lake, other
improvements will include an ul
tra-modern motel with swimming
pool and restaurant, and 14
hole golf course, and airplane
landing strip, and marina.
Toxaway Falls, on the sooth
side of the main east-west high
way along the southern edge ol
Western North Carolina, drnpn
125 feet over a domeishatped
shaped rock, then thumibles 23S
feet farther in a series of small
cascades, a total drop of 34ft
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Charlie Briggs
Has Short Story
In American Girl
Readers of The Americas
Girl, official publication of tbs
Girl Scouts of America, will nap
ognize the by-line of Cher lie
Briggs, “Back-Talk” columnist,
on a short story in the Augtmt
issue. Titled, ‘The Secret
ety,” the story marks _
Briggs’ first appearance in a
national magazine.
Feature articles by lbs..
Briggs have appeared in ther
Louisville (Ky.) CdurierJoai*.
nal Magazine, and her article e»i
the Brevard volunteer fire de
partment appeared in the trad*'
magazine Volunteer Fireman tea
years ago. She has recently 1
ished a juvenile book on the
[ventures of raftsmen in the <
berland River country of
tucky.
Mrs. Briggs is the
two sons, and is the
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