TRANSYLVANIA— An Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Agricultural and Music Center. Popula tion, I960 Census, 16,372. Brevard Community 8,500. Brevard proper 4,857. 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 Na tional Forest and Home of Brevard Musie Festival. Vol. 72 — No. 2 SECOND CLASS MAIL PRIVILEGES AUTHORIZED AT BREVARD. N. C. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1961 ★ 18 PAGES TODAY ★ PRICE 7c PUBLISHED WEEKLY * CENTENNIAL MOUSTACHES Sir- •. begintiln^ to appear in Brevard and Transylvania, and Boy Messer, bar- j ber at Gray’s, is pictured above r/'-tt- | "ing a few finishing touches to his, i , v '* . h •••• - -t ; o weeks old. Many • ■ 'lie/. are bein'? planned in ' • '•••*. as the centennial will be cL.-.ervc-u throughout (Times Staff Photo) Building Permits Totaled $549,760 In '60, Gain Noted Over Past Year Permits in the Town of Bre vard to build and to repair com mercial buildings and residences bit the high total of $549,760.00 during I960, Mrs. Opal King, the city clerk and treasurer reports This was up from a half-mil lion dollars the previous year. During 1960, new commercial building in Brevard totaled <339,500.00 Amo;.new cntit structions were the Science build ing at Brevard college, the new J & P Super market, and the Building of the new Lutheran church, Mrs. King states. £ Estimated building costs of 14 ftew residences were $144,500.00. Repairs of dwellings were esti mated at $40,760.00, while $25. 000.00 was cpent in the repair ing of five commercial buildings. Mrs. King reminds all citizens who plan to build or repair their commercial buildings or residen ces during 1961 to first secure a building permit at thief city hall. Willis Installed As President Of Kiwanis Club it! James D. Willis has been named to head the Brevard Ki Jvanis club for the new year. ' He and other new officers were installed at last week’s meeting of the club at Gaither’s Rhododendron room. Other officers include G. H. Farley, vice president; Dr. Carl S. Plumb, secretary; Melvin Gill espie, treasurer; and I). Frank j Bridges, past president. Directors of the club include Jack Alexander, Don Blankin ship, Wayne Bradbum, Walter Cantrell, J. M. Gaines, Dana j Harris, and Dan Scannell. CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, January 12 — J^y cettes meet at Colonial Inn at 7:00 p.m. Civil Air Patrol meets In junior high school at 7:00 p.m. Masons meet at Temple ai 8:00 p.m. Friday, January 13 — “Friday the 13th”. Brevard Senior High Vs. Bethel in high school gym. jj#ce of Clubs meets at 8:00 p.m. Wrestling matches at Legion Building at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, January 15 — Attend the church of your choice. Monday, January 16 — Rotary Club meets at Gaither’s at 7:00 pjm. First Baptist Church be gins Bible conference, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 17 — Ace of Clubs meets at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Star meets at Temple at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 18 — Toastmasters meet at Gaither’s at 6:30 p.m. Brevard Senior High Vs. Hendersonville in high school gym, Parents Night. WOW meets in Woodman Hall at 8:00 pm. To Name Officers Brevard Chamber Directors Elected At Meeting Tuesday Ballots for directors of thei Jijvai'd Chamber of Commerce] were tabulated at the January] meeting Tuesday night in the li brary, and a 25-man board of directors was elected. The newly elected group will meet at a, call meeting * next Tuesday night, January 17th, and elect new officers for the new year. President Charles F. Himes, in congratulating the newly elected directors, urges all of them to attend next Tuesday night’s important meeting and take part in the election. He has appointed the follow ing on a nominating committee: J. M. Gaines, chairman; Gil Coan and Frank Bridges. Gil Coan and John I. Ander son led the balloting Tuesday night with 55 and 51 votes re spectively, and others in the top 10 were: John A. Ford, Charles F. Himes, Eugene Morris, Don M. Jenkins, Cecil J. Hill, Wayne Bradburn, J. M. Gaines and Les lie S. Grogan. The remainder of the board t.f directors is as follows: C harles W. Pickelsimer, Jr.. Tom Henry, Frank Bridges, If. -W. Melton, Robert I,'. Daniel^ James C. Gadhf-r, R- bert ' P I t, Ralph !!. Ramsey, Jr.. J. mes M. ^'ijlpi, ^Raymond F. Bennett, Vernon P. Fullbright, Dr. E. K. MeLarty, Harry R. Sellers, Freeman Hayes and C. Few Lyda. Alternate members of the board are: Walter Cantrell, A. J. Loeb, Donald Lee Moore, John R. Sledge/ Vernon Fricks, and Bobby Hoyle. Transylvania's Centennial Celebration Begins, Churches Joining In Observance Progress Report Made In spite of wintry weather, progress is being made on the restoration of beautiful Lake Toxaway. Logging crews are busy clearing out the lake bed, and work is being continued on the building of the dam. The huge drain pipe being put in at the base of the dam is attracting considerable at tention, and many of the pass ing motorists stop at Lake Tox away falls to view the work. Reginald D. Heinitsh, presi dent of Lake Toxaway Es tates, announces today that Dan Duncan, civil engineer of Columbia, S. C., is now the engineer in charge of the dam. He replaces Davis and Floyd, engineers of Greenwood, S. C., who are no longer connected with the restoration of the dam and lake. One Nabbed In Rosman Robbery The Transylvania sheriff’s department and the State Bur eau of Investigation are mak ing a thorough investigation of the robbery of Wilma’s store at Rosman last Friday night. One suspect lias been picked up, and several others are be ing checked today. Sheriff “Scott” Dillingham reports. Much of the merchandise that was stolen has been re covered, along with the cash register that was also taken. Retail Sales In November Reflect Better Business Business was better in Bre vard and Transylvania county during the month of November this past year than it was for November, 1959, according to the collection of sales and use taxes. Collections in November, 1980 were $17,650.89, as com pared with $16,163.55 for No \ ember, 3959. Gross retail sales for this past November were also up slightly, as compered to the pre-ious month. For Novem ber, i 900 the'.' were $1,128,020. 0P. while in October. I960, they c .; i.051,282.60. ' fig ."’■'s were obtained Mrs. Sue Wilson Is Given Double Honor To Begin 1961 Mrs. Sue JT V\ ' »n bp; been duubly hoaovcii in v, week-. She has boon b ‘ ! in “Who’s Who of the Natitevd Association (-!: If< :il i£s l.:;tf> Board fob 196<, holer* one of 10 renlte in North Vyna hiti’d and H;o only one in IVestern N 1 . ilia, Hie has boon 1 mi d a presi t:' “■ t. of (he i art Board of I • tors for •' ft. i. Owner and op rat. :■ of the W'l soil agency f r iv o Ulan 20 years* Mrs. Wib • is active in the civic and p.t ■ > 1 affairs of the town and county. She is president. <■ Democratic Women’s club and i,"- vice chair man of the county Democratic 'Executive committee. She is a member of the Business and Pro fessional Women’s club the Bre vard Methodist church, where she served for many years in the commission on mission work, an honorary Girl Scout, and an act ive member of the beautification program for the Brevard Cham ber of Commerce. Prior to forming her own com pany, Mrs. Wilson worked as secretary and saleslady for Jud son McCrary, before his death I in 1940. It was during this time that she typed the final contract MRS. SUE II. IViLSON between Mr. and Mrs. U. G. Reeves and K rry Straus for the old Reeves home in Pisgah For est, which became a part of the Ecusta Paper corporation. Board Officers Brown Carr was elected to serve as secretary and treasurer of the Brevard Board of Realtors, —Turn Ts Page Few from the January, 1961 “The Retailer”, the monthly publi cation of the North Carolina Merchants Association publish ed at Raleigh. Hunters Buy Motor Lodge The Brevard Motor lodge, for merly Deerfield Motel, has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Punter by Weldon Misenheimer. i Located at the intersection of Caldwell and Broad, opposite Brevard college, the motor lodge is being remodeled by the new owners. They also announce plans to build a swimming pool at the lodge. The trailer park directly be hind the motor lodge, was also > irehased by the Hunter’s, who will continue to own and to | operate Pisgah Motor court be i tween Brevard and Pisgah For I est. ' Renovation plans for Brevard Motor lodge call for repainting wall-to-wall carpeting and other vork. ' IT The Weather 4 j Clear, cold weather prevailed > in Brevard this week, bringing temperatures which ranged from ' :t high of 57 degrees to a low of 11 degrees. Heavy frost was noted each morning. Daily read ings are as follows: High Low Wednesday 55 13 56 16 57 18 55 18 44 27 48 14 54 11 S Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday THE SALE OF TAGS was slow here in the Carolina Motor club of fice until L. L. McCall, of Penrose, walked in Monday morning. He is pictured above buying four tags from Mrs. Rosa Norwood, the local man ager. It was the largest single sale made to date. Mrs. Norwood urges motorists to come in early and get their licenses in order to avoid long waiting lines later this month. (Times Staff Photo) WNC Chemical Engineers To Hear Bates Robert L. Bates, widely-known authority on fluid agitation, will be guest speaker at the January meeting of the WNC Chemical Engineers’ club Thursday, Jan uary 19th, at 6:30 p. m.' in the S & W Cafeteria’s Pine Room in Asheville. Mr. Bates’ talk is titl ed “The Sacred Cows of Fluid Agitation.” Mr. Hates is vice president and technical director of chemineer, Incorporated, of DavtoOj Ohio, tie has been associated indus trially with Monsanto Chemi cal company, The Atomic Energy commission, and International Engineering, Incorporated. His educational background includes the degree of Chemical Engineer from Ohio State University. Mr. Bates’ specialty is fuild agitation, a field in Much he —Turn to Page Ten Tax Listing Said Slow Tax listing in the townships of Transylvania has been slow, ac cording to Lewis Osborne, the fax supervisor. He also announces that the books will be in the court house beginning on Thursday. January 12th. Mr. Osborne advises early list ing to avoid long waiting lines later this month. After February 4th, there will be a penalty imposed on all per sons listing their taxes. Property that must be listed falls into four mqjor categories: 1. All real estate and tangible personal property owned on Jan uary 1st, 1961. 2. A poll, or capitation, ta) required of all male-persons be tween the ages of 21 and 50 a: of the first of the New Year. 3. Every dog, male or femalt more than six months old ownet or kept on the first. 4. Farm reports. Fullbright Quoted \ olume Of Christmas Mail Was Heavier At Local PO Varner Accepts Position At Rocket City Eddie Varner, prominent drug store owner and operator in Bre vard from 1940 to 1960, has ac cepted a position with the feder al government at the Red Stone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, which is recognized as the “Rock et City of America”. On Monday of this week, Mr. Varner assumed his duties which include being in charge of the pharmacy department of the out patient clinic and teaching on the hospital staff. * Mr. Varner’s family will re main here in Brevard at least until the end of the present school term. During the past few months, Mr. Varner has been working on his master’s degree at the Uni versity of Georgia. Active in business, civic and church affairs in the community, Mr. Varner has held many posi tions of leadership in Brevard and Transylvania county. Because of his outstanding work as chairman of the Board of Education and building of the new senior high school, he was recently selected for member ship in “Who’s Who” in the south and the southeast. He was the charter president of the Brevard Jaycees and later president of the Brevard Cham ber of Commerce. Other civic positions of leadership included —Turn To Page Four The Christmas volume of. mail at the Brevard post office was heavier during the I960 Christ mas than it was for the same month the past year, Vernon P. Fullbright, the acting postmas ter, announces today. Actually, he states, cancella tions totalled 196,295 for De cember, 1960, as compared with 191,232, the past December. Mr. Fullbright further said that the heavy volume of mail here was handled by the 13 regu lar employees and four tem porary assistants. He said the public was most cooperative and this fine co operation was greatly appreciat ed by the entire staff. Receipts at the Brevard post office during 1960 were $71, 061.12, as compared with $71, 329.70 during 1959. Services Expanded Nationally, Postmaster Gener al Summerfield points out, mail deliveries have been extended io record levels. Today there are an estimated 40.1 million fam ilies nationally receiving city de livery service, an increase of 9.2 million since 1953; there are an estimated 3.7 million businesses, an increase of 852,500 since 1953, and an estimated farm families total of 9.2 million, an increase of 1.4 million in the last 8 years. Locally, some of the exten sions of city delivery have in cluded: Chestnut drive, Ashe ville highway, Hawthorne drive, Allison drive and Hendersonville | highway. Program Highlights Weather Is Much In The News At WPNF, Reports Frequent Weather is really in the news now, and WPNF is giving com plete coverage on the weather, with forecasts and temperatures being broadcast on the hour, and two daily weather news casts. Bobby Hoyle, station manager, and who is also official Weather observer for Brevard, reminds listeners that temperatures and precipitation readings given over the air are official figures from the local observation station. Each morning at 8:15 WPNF presents a five-minute coverage of the national and local weather picture. Another similar daily , program is broadcast each even ! ing at 6:15, following local and national news, Mr. Hoyle con ■ eluded. [ OTHER PROGRAMS The schedule for the Farm and Home hour is as follows: Thurs day, Brevard Home-ee. dept., Mrs. Glenn Burrell; Friday, N. C. Forestry, Clark Grissom; Mon day, county agent; Tuesday, Bos nian vo-ag dept., B. E. Keisler; Wednesday, home agent Appearing on the Civic hour are the following: Friday, Fort nightly club; Monday, B & PW club; and Wednesday, Elk’s club. Speaking this week on Morn ing Devotions is Rev. Rudolph Nichols, pastor of Brevard Faith Assembly. Next week Rev. George Julian, pastor of the Temple Baptist church, will be heard. ,The Sunday morning church services are being broadcast through the remote facilities ol WPNF from the Wesleyan Methodist church. Rev. W. G. Davidson is pastor. I .'' Schedule Of Events Carried, Also, History Churches in Brevard and Transylvania are beginning the Centennial celebration this month, and according to Mrs. Mary Jane McCrary, elaborate plans for the 100th birthday of this county are being planned on a month-by-month basis. i As chairman of the Transyl , ania Historical commissi kfrs. McCrary has sent out a b? iistory of Transylvania to e. minister. She is asking the various :hurehes to furnish individual listories to the:commission, and hey will be published at a later late. Specific information that is desired concerns the date of the rounding of the church, the dedication and consecration of the building, names of pastors, etc. Rev. B. W. Thomason is serv ing as chairman of the church committee for the commission. Mrs. McCrary urges all Tt • sylvanians to plan to take a p^_ in the Centennial Celebration' this year, and a schedule of events is carried on page five, second section. She also makes a plea for all citizens to get their “pioni buttons and to wear them. • The brief history noon while he was bosflv crating his 55-gallon still the Standing Rock section of Transylvania county near the South Carolina line. Tie officers —- Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Investigator* of Asheville—destroyed the n 100-gallon holler, SO gal of aoataxpsM Uqnar, So. gallons of mash and a num ber of empty mash contain ers. The containers had a ra pacity of 050 gallons, hut the “run” had been _ made, the officers Aiken S. Conunlndaaer Ain Kf •* *rw*ri» whirl he w» hearing to the May erftn tawsfW.ft “ lit I riff r - ‘rrUirriiri