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TRANSYLVANIA— Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Agricultural a-.d Music Center, Popula Jion, 1960 Census, 16,102. prevard Community 8,500. THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper TRANSYLVANIA— The Lend o< Waterfall*. Mecca for Summer Ounpe. Entrance to Ptegah Na tional Forest and Home of Brevard Music Festival Vol. 71 — No. 45 SECOND CLASS MAIL PRIVILEGES AUTHORIZED AT BREVARD. N. C. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10,1960 * 20 PAGES TODAY * PRICE 7c PUBLISHED WEEKLY 1960 Unofficial Election Returns In Transylvania County On November 8th Results In Other Races In Transylvania PRESIDENT Kennedy_3,387 Nixon_4,215 (18 oat of 18 Precincts) GOVERNOR Saaford_3,868 Gavin_3,696 (18 out of 18 Precincts) SENATE Jordan__4,027 Hayes_3,356 (17 out of 18 Precincts) HOUSE Taylor_3,968 Rollman_3,445 (17 out of 18 Precincts) THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES the Board of County Commission ers in Transylvania were victorious over their Republican opponents by sizeable majorities. C. Few Lyda, left, was high man with 4,460. Bob Boyd,' center, was next with 4,417, and Dwight Moffitt, the incumbent, right, had 4,385. Much Action Is Taken By Town Board, Monies Are Received The Brevard board of alder men acted upon many items ol business and others were dis cussed ait length at the Novem ber meeting at the City hall, payor B. H. Freeman presid and all of the alderman, Jafk Bryant, Boy Head, W. M. MMion, Mitch Neely and Mark Osborne attended. Others in at tendance included Tom Henry, town manager; Cecil J. Hill, town attorney; and, Mrs. Opal King, clerk-treasurer. Walter Hart, senior sanitaria® of the Transylvania Health de partment, appeared before the board and discussed at length the garbage d'u!m|p arlea. It was suggested that the land previously purchased by the town and county an Williamson’s creek for a garbage dump be sold and money be invested in a more suitable property for land fill purposes. This area is not presently in use. The mayor appointed a com mittee to take a forward look Into the matter, flamed were the town manager and Alderman Os borne from the city; the county health officer; and, others to be —Turn to Page Twelve CALENDAR OF ^COMING EVENTS Thursday, November 10 — Jaycettes meet at Colonial In® at 7:00 p.m. Masons meet at Temple at 8:00 p.m. “Carmen” by National Opera company at Brevard college at 8:00 p.m. Friday, November 1)1 — Veter ans Day, Ace of dribs meets at 8:00 pm Saturday, November 12 — Awarding of prises in Trade Festival at 10:00 am. in front of Plummer’s. Legion party and dance at Legion building begin ling at 7:00 jpm " Sunday, November 18 — At —Tom to Page Twelve Little Theatre Presents Comedy, “Two Blind Mice” Samuel Spewack’s cMight ful comedy, “Two Blind Mice" will be the Brevard Little Thea tre’s first production of the 1960-61 slsason. The play will be presented in the Brevard College auditorium on Friday and Saturday evenings, Novem ber 18th and 19th, at 8:00 p. m. Director Rotoroy Farquhar and his talented cast have been working long and hard on the production which promises to be one of the BLT’s best in recent years. The story is centered around two dear little old ladies who have been running a govern ment office in Washington for —Turn to Page Six Legion To Hold Annual Party Saturday Night Members of the Monroe Wil i son post of the American legion and the legion auxiliary will hold their annual membership party on Saturday night here in the American Legion Memorial building. Prizes totaling more than $400 in value, will be awarded by the two organizations. This —Turn to Page Twelve Last Rites For C. M. Douglas To Be Held Thursday Afternoon Funeral services for C. M. Douglas, 61, prominent civic, business and political leader of Transylvania and Western North Carolina, will foe held Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock in the Brevard Methodist church. The pastor, Rev. Courtney Ross, assisted toy Rev. B. W. Thomason, will officiate. Burial will be in the Oak Grove cemetery in North Bre vard. It has been requested that in lieu of flowers that contributions be made to the Brevard Metho dist church. Mir. Douglas, who had suffered a heart attack earlier this year but apparently recovering satis factorily, died late Tuesday after noon of. self-inflicted pistol wounds. His wife iwas in another part —Ton to Page Twelve C. M. DOUGLAS I Paris Wins Newspaper Contest Ronnie Paris, a senior at Bre vard high school, won first place in the essay contest of The Tran sylvania Times. The event high lighted the local observance of National Newspaper week, and Editor John Anderson expressed sincere appreciation to all sen iors who entered. He also thanked the English teachers at Brevard and Rosman bigh schools for fine cooperation in the annual essay writing con test. “We had many fine entries, —Turn To Page Seven Water & Garbage Collections Up Nearly $32,000 An increase in water and garbage collections of nearly $32,000 for the year ending June 30, 1960 was shown in the audit report presented to the board of aldermen at their meeting this week. This com pares with a loss of $3,284.74 during the previous year. Water collections showed an increase of $25,061.72 and garbage collection an in crease of $6,760.50. The audit report will be gone over in detail at the Dec. 5 meeting of the board. To Award Prizes On Saturday In Trade Festival The third drawing ill the Brevard Trade festival will be held Saturday morning, Nov. 12th, at 10:00 o’clock on West Main street in front of Plum mer’s. Some 42 Brevard merchants are participating in this trade promotion, and it is emphasiz ed that persons do not have to be present to win. Prizes totaling $375 will be awarded this Saturday. It is broken down as follows: First prize — $100, plus a $50 bonus if present. Second — $75, plus a $25 bonus if present. Third — $50, plus a $25 bon us if present. Fourth and fifth prizes — $25 each. A list of winners will be posted in the windows of the participating merchants. Commissioners Authorize Plans For Remodeling Work, Court House The Transylvania board of commissioners took action to improve various facilities of the court house at their regu lar November meeting. This was in line with the approval of their plans of im provement before the October term of the Grand Jury of Superior court. After a full discussion of the plans it was moved by Commissioner Dewey Burton and seconded by Dwight Mof fitt and unanimously passed QiaillllllllllllllllllllllMMIIIIIIIIIIMMIIIIIIIillllllllfa] | The Weather Qniiiii.I.....*.>'»'0 Brevard’s first hard freeze of the season occurred early Tues day morning, when the mercury dapped to 16 degrees. Daily low readings were at or under the freezing mark the week long. Daytime highs ranged in the high sixties and low seventies. A total of only 10 on inch of pre cipitation was recorded. Daily leadings are as follow: High Low 72 66 65 71 55 69 51 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday 31 32 25 27 25 23 16 Pre. .04 .06 0 0 0 0 0 that Henry McDonald, local architect, be employed and au thorized and directed to per form the following services: (1) To prepare a master plan of the county court house and jail property, showing thereon accurately the lot, buildings and all existing water, sewer, electrical and —Turn to Page Seven Economy Store Opens Friday Economy Auto Store will open far business on Bast Main street, next door to Duke Power com pany, on FSriday, November 11 at 9 a.m. Dan Hawkins, well known local businiessman, is co owner with Jack Bryant, electri cal contractor, and will manage the stoma Mir. Bryant will con tinue (to operate his electrical business. Economy Auto is one of over 100 associate and company own ed stores located throughout the southeast. It is part of the largest southern owned and operated home and auto Store chain hi the southeast The local Store wall feature nationally advertised hardware, —Tom to Page Twelve AMONG THE DEMOCRATIC winners in the General Election in Transylvania 'on Tuesday were the four men pictured above. Above at the left is D. S. Winchester, who was elected by a vote of 4,065 votes, and next to him is Harry Morgan, the incumbent member of the board, who polled 4,061. At the left on the bottom is Jack Potts, who was elected to the House of Representatives over his Re publican opponent, Mrs. Homer Harris, by a vote of 4,315 to 3,190. Owen Lee, incumbent registrar of deeds, is at the right on the bottom, and he defeat ed his Republican opponent, Sam Talley. The vote was 4.485 to 3.044, Program Highlights Two Big Football Broadcasts Slated This Week Over WPNF As the 1960 football season, enters the homestretch, WPNF has two big gaimes on tap this weekend, Bdblby Hoyle, .the sta tion manager, announces. Friday night Bill Hancock, program director, and other staff members, will go to Bethel to broadcast a play-foy-iplay ac count of the big Bnetvard-Bethel game. Airtime is 7:15 o’clock. On Saturday afternoon Caro lina meets Maryland at Chapel Hill, and Ray Reeves will 'baring local listeners a word-picture of the outstanding garde. Tbe broadcast will begin ait 1:46 o’clock. Other Programs The schedule for the Farm and Home hour is as follows: Thursday, SC.S., Orovier C. Mc Pherson; Friday, Station pro gram; Monday, county agent; Tuesday, Rosnten wag dept. —Tarn to Page Seres Community Is Shocked By Douglas Death I Inflecting the deep in terest vf Transylvania vot ers in local political issues and those of a national scope, voters of this county marched to the polls more than 7600 strong on Tues day and gave sweeping victories to the Democrat candidates except in the presidential race. The community was shocked just before the potte closed as one of thla caiwMalfces, C. M. Douglas, the incumbent tax col lector, was reported to have taken his Kfto. As to the naming of a suc cessor to Mr. Douglas in the * office of tax collector, Ralph.' H. Ramsey, Jr., Transylvania’s county attorney, requested a ruling from the Attorney Gen eral’s office at Raleigh on Wed nesday morning. Later in the day, the Attor ney General advised that if the canvass of ballots showed that Mr. Douglas was elected, a successor to him should be appointed by the governor on December 5tb, when the new term begins. For the interim period, he also advised that a successor be appointed by the governor. In respect to Mr. Douglas, the county cammissSomters have closed the office until after the funeral Thursday afternoon;. Unofficial Returns A tabulation of the unoffic ial returns appears at the top of this page, and readers are reminded that these figures —Turn to Page Twelve Veterans’Day Will Be Quiet Veteran’s Day to Tnaneylvania counity will Ibe quietly observed on Friday. The post office will bam ». holiday, and Hhere wffl be no dedivteay of rural or city mull Accoondingtt) Vernttn Fuflbright. d»e acting postmaster, window service, wffl be ottered, front. 11:30 tmta 12:00 Moan. Owners and oprintora of buri ness firms are arged to fly the American flag In front of their establishmente to tribute to «h* men who bam defended this country in world conflicts. Both «ha First Unto* TTaMomt
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