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I TRANSYLVANIA— ' An Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Agricultural and Music Center. Popula tion, 1960 Census, 16,372 Brevard Community 8,500. Brevard proper 4,857. Vol. 72 — No. 26 ★ THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize-Winning A.B.C. Newspaper second class mail PRIVILEGES BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1961 ★ 24 PAGES TODAY PRICE 7c PUBLISHED WEEKLY AUTHORIZED AT BREVARD. N, C. _ TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfalls, I Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah Na tional Forest and Home of Brevard Music Festival. AT WORK ON THE LAWN of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shep herd is a grou'p of yoimg people par ticipating in the first experimental *uther League Work camp in North Carolina. The youngsters, ages 15 to 21, who paid all their expenses in connection with project, did painting, landscaping, transplanting s h 1* u b s and flowers, and other chores. (Times Staff Photo) Olin Mathieson Picnic To ]'Highlight Fourth Of July Highlighting the Fourth of July observance in Transylvania will be the 20th annual picnic at beautiful Camp Harry H. Straus on Tuesday. Each year the event is at tended by more than 5,000 per sons, and the largest attendance ever is expected this year. The day in Brevard and Tran sylvania will be a holiday, with stores, the bank and the post office being closed. Town and county offices will observe both Monday and Tues day as holidays, and the Com missioners meeting which is us ually held on the first Monday has been postponed until next Wednesday night at 8:00 pun. The Town Board meeting has been changed from Monday even ing to the following Monday evening. There will be no delivery of city or rural mail on Tuesday, and the General Delivery window will be open from li:30 to 12:00 noon, according to Vernon Full bright, acting postmaster. ^Tnns. rooming houses, motels and guest homes are expecting a rushing business this weekend, thousands of persons from wer elevations come to these mountains for the Fourth of July observance and to escape the summer heat. Transylvania’s highway patrol men, Bill Sawyer and Charlie Capell, make an urgent plea for motorists to drive with extreme caution over the Fourth of July weekend, which is one of the most dangerous periods of driv ing on the .nation’s highways. Hie program at the Olin Mathieson picnic at Camp Straus —Turn to Page Five y------== CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, June 29 — Masons meet in Temple at 8:00 p. m. Friday, June 30 — Garden Center at Farmer’s Federation, 10:00 - 12:00 noon. Shriner’s auction at Masonic Temple at 7:30 p. m. Brevard Music Cen ter concert at 8:15 p. m. Ace of Clubs meets at 8:00 p. m. Saturday, July 1 — Storytime at library at 9:30 a. m. Brevard Music Center concert at 8:15 p. m. Sunday, July 2 — Attend the church of your choice. Singing Mnvention at Court House, 2:30 p: m. Brevard Music Center con cert at 4:00 p. m. Monday, July 3 — Town and county offices closed. Rotary meets at Gaither’s at 7:00 p. m. Sylvan Valley Folk Festival at 7:30 p. m. Brevard Musk Center at 8:15 p. m. Tuesday, July 4 — Holiday. Town and county offices, banks, post office, and stores closed. Sylvan Valley Folk Festival at , 7:30 p. m. Ace of Clubs meets at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, July 3 — Toast masters meet at, Gaither’s at 6:80 p. m. WQW meets in Wood man HaO at &Q0 p. ou Brevard Music Centet pohcert at 8:15 - Many Artists Full Weekend Of Concerts Scheduled At Music Camp Full weekend concerts get un derway June 30-July 2nd at Bre vard Music Center and will feat ure both classical and contem porary favorites. Opening the series will be the Brevard Music Center Symphony orchestra, directed by James Christian Pfohl, with violinist Emil Raab and cellist Margaret Christy as featured soloists. Mr. Raab and Miss Christy are both members of the Transylvania Music Camp faculty as well as the Alabama String Quartet. Mr. Raab, dean of faculty, holds the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of Michigan and has studied at Juilliard and Eastman Schools of Music. He has had ex tensive experience in symphony orchestras throughout the coun try both as a performer and a conductor. Miss Christy, one of the origin al members of the Alabama String Quartet, has coached pri vately with the members of the Budapest Quartet and studied Crews Will Pick Up Brush, Trash Thursday, Friday The free trash and brash pick up for Brevard citizens will be conducted again this weekend. Trash and brush must be placed on the side of the street on Thursday and Friday, so that the clean-up can be com pleted by Saturday noon. Town Manager William E. “Bill” Edens reminds citizens that there will be no garbage collection next Tuesday be cause of the Fourth of July observance. Collections will be made the following day. for one summer with Pablo Cas als in Prades, France. Saturday’s concert will feature guest conductor Richard Bales of the National Gallery orchestra. Mr. Bales will direct the new ly-formed Brevard Musie. Center Sinfonietta and the Transylvania Choral Ensemble in his two cantatas. “The Union” and “The Confederacy,” based on music of the North and the South dur ing the years of 1861-65. Both works feature baritone and so prano solos and a speaker. This work is being performed as a part of the Civil War Centennial and Fourth of July celebration. He has made a number of re cordings and transcriptions, and has 27 major compositions to his credit. On Sunday, Meredith Zara, the first of three Brevard Music Cen ter Young Artist Award Win ners, will appear in solo with the Transylvania Symphony with Dr. Pfohl conducting. Miss Zara, who is a graduate of Indiana University, is con sidered one of the promising young sopranos today. She has appeared extensively as a solo ist in Atlanta and in Philadel phia. This spring she won the Georgia State Metropolitan Opera Auditions. Concerts on next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday even —Turn to Page Five Town Budget Approved j The Town Board of Aldermen I has approved a record budget) of $255,045 for the fiscal year | 1.961-62. Actual operating expenditures amount to $231,595, while the breakdown for debt service is as. follows: payments to principal, $9,000: interest. $16,210: and) bank charges,. $90. Operation expenditures for the past year total $223, 854, The new budget is based on a valuation of $6,000,000, and the tax rate re mains at the same figure, SI.45.1 The new budget was present ed this week to the Aldermen by William E. Edens, Town Man ager, and it now goes on public inspection for a period of 20 days before adoption. $10,000 is allocated in the new budget for the improvement of city streets and curbing. The Town also anticipates buying a new garbage truck during the coming year. Appropriations in the budget for the various departments are as follows: Mayor and board, $17,585 Administration, $38,070 Police department, $41,665 Fire department, $f0,025 Streets and sanitation depart ment, $61,760. Water and sewer department, $52,515 Recreation department, $6,915 Contingency, $3,000 In other action at the meeting, the board agreed to sell the Wil liamson Creek property, jointly owned by the town and county, to the highest bidder over and above $6,000. The prospective purchaser will —Turn To Page Four Many Attending Summer School An extremely busy summer session is currently in progress at the Brevard junior high school, according to Principal Joseph W. McGuire, Jr. Approximately 110 students are enrolled for the session, which is being conducted from June 12th through July 21st. These students come not only from Brevard high school, but also from Brevard junior high, Rosman high school, East Hen derson high school and Christ School as well. Seven teachers are instructing the students, who are studying English one, two, three and four, typing, history, civics, geogra phy, French, Spanish, biology, general science, algebra and geometry. In addition, all eighth grade subjects are being taught, as well as a special course in reading improvement. Several classroom teachers are enrolled in typing and Spanish classes to improve their know ledge of these subjects. Mr. McGuire pointed out that —Turn To Page Four Ground Breaking Exercises For New Church At Little River Set Groundbreaking exercises will be held at the Little River Baptist church on Sunday, July 1st, at the 11:00 o’clock wor ship service. Construction on a new church auditorium and educa tional building valued at $65, 000 will then begin, according Jurors Called For July Term Of Superior Court, Opens 17th Jurors for the July term of Superior court in Transylvania have been drawn and are an nounced today by Marvin McCall, clerk of Superior court. The criminal term will be held during the first week, beginning on Monday, July 17th. The civil docket will be heard the follow ing week. Judge Hugh D. Campbell, of Charlotte, will preside over the court, and Leonard Lowe, of Forest City, will prosecute for the state. Called to serve during the first week are the following: J. F. Aycock James Paul Bowen H. N. Burns \ i Richard Nicholson James A. Patton E. L. Batson G. Elmer Mitchell Lewis Carr, Jr., Clarence R. Ramer W. Glenn Hardesty Dwight Brown Earl Burton Johnson L. W. Baker Mrs. John Leroy Mills Flem Ashe Mrs. Dwight Moffitt Charles R. Loftis Mrs. B. H. Freeman R. George Hunter Harry E. Nicholson M. G. Brittian Mrs. L. N. Townsend to Rev. Jarvis Brock, pastor of the church. Henry C. McDonald is ar chitect for the building, and C. E. Cochran is the builder. They will participate on Sun day’s program, along with Newton Pickelsimer, building —Turn to Page Three The Weather 3“ Higher temperatures came in to Transylvania with the official arrival of summer last week. Along with those higher temper atures, came showers which thor oughly soaked the ground and everything thereon. A pleasant weekend with plenty of sunshine and a few fleecy clouds of white was followed by a blue Monday during which precipitation sel dom ceased. Official readings for the past week: High Low Pie. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Tuesday 74 57 256 70 58 .06 80 58 .02 78 82 0 82 53 0 75 57 .61 75 58 50 Welcome To Transylvania Extended All Campers And Summer Visitors THREE TRANSYLVANIA WIN NERS in the District elimination 4-H contest held recently at the Clyde Erwin high school near Asheville are pictured above. All three placed in the blue ribbon groups. Seated is Don rv Sur>’ette who teamed up with Larry Merrill, standing, left, on ai electric fence demonstration. At the i r'.srht is Don Merrill, whose demon stration was on vegetable production. Absent when the picture was made was David Cantrell* w,ho was in the top four in the tractor operators con test. Jane Shuford was the county winner in the dress revue, and her picture wras carried in last week’s Times. (Extension Staff Photo) A New Sylvan Valley Folk Festival Opens Monday Night Folk music, square dancing and beautiful girls will be very much in evidence in Brevard next week as the new Sylvan Val ley Folk Festival gets under way. The Brevard Jaycees and Jay cettes have made elaborate plans to stage the festival, which will he the first big event helping to celebrate the centennial of Tran sylvania county. Entertainers and square dance teams from all over Western North Carolina have been in vited to participate in the fes tival, which will be held next Monday and Tuesday night, July 3rd, and 4th, on the lighted Jun ior high school athletic field. Square dance teams partici pating include two teams from Champion Y in Canton, the Bre vard Western style team, the Ruby Ramblers from Franklin and the Candler smooth square dancers. String bands performing will be the Pigeon Valley Ramblers, the Carolina Mountain Boys, the Cumberland Mountain boys and —Turn to Page Five Advice Is Given On Polio Shots For Pre-Schoolers According to Dr. John H. Folger, Jr., Transylvania health officer, the North Carolina State Board of Health has passed on the recent recommendations of the American Academy of Pedia trics concerning polio immuniza tions. Infants who begin their series at less than six months are to receive monthly injections for three months. While those over six months receive only two in jections a month apart, initially, thereafter, an injection is given seven months later, a booster a year later, then additional boost ers every two years. The local health department has been authorized to provide at no cost polio shots for those of pre-school age. Those of school age or over who receive polio are charged one dollar per injection. Progress Noted Savings And Loan Will Pay $125,000 In Dividends -1 _ JACK BRYANT, prominent electrical contractor and form er member of the town board of aldermen, was installed as the new president of the Bre vard Rotary clnb at a ladies’ night banquet Monday evening at Camp Deerwoode. He suc ceeds Jim Davis. Semi-Annual dividends, total ing over $125,000, will be paid this week by the Brevard Fed eral Savings and Loan associa tion for the period ending June 30,1961, Jerry Jerome, the presi dent, announces today. Last year the association paid $236,000.00, and resources today are over seven million dollars. The interest rate being paid is four per cent per annum, and all accounts are insured up to $10, 000. Mr. Jerome urges persons who do not have a savings account at the Brevard Federal Savings and Loan association to open one and to share in the December dividend. Officers‘and Directors Officers of the association, in addition to President Jerome, are A. F. Mitchell, vice president and attorney; Jerry Hart Jerome, executive vice president »nH treasurer; J. I. Ayers, assistant treasurer and secretary; J. H. Tinsley, assistant secretary. The directors are: Jerry Jerome, A. F. Mitchell, Jerry Hart Jerome, J. H. Tinsley, J. I. Ayers, H. B. Shiflet, W. L. Mull, and Edwin Morgan. Program Highlights Many Entries Are Received In WPNF's Summerama Show WPNF’s station manager, A1 Martin, has announced the first weekly winner in the “Summer ama" Money-gram contest which began on Monday, June 19th. The winner was David Phillips, who correctly identified the first week’s slogan as “Listen to us all summer.” Others who correctly identi fied the slogan were* Mrs. C L. Clark, Mike Galloway, Mrs. Wal ter K. Bogle, Mm. Martin Turby ftU» Bd Garrett, Mrs. Jane Evett, Tommy Kearns, Mrs. Richard Rice, Anna Gay Anderson, Georgia C. Holden, lbs. Alfred Galloway, Mrs. Jerry n«mi| Mra. Donald N. Tinsley, L. R. Hipp and Mabel Shelton. All these persons, including the weekly winner, will be eligi ble for the giant jackpot drawing in September. All entrants for each weekly contest ly identify the slogan before It is announced on the —Tun To Capacity Groups Are Reported At 18 Fine Camps With all the 18 organized summer camps in Transylvania reporting capacity enrollment, officials of the town and county and heads of civic or ganizations join hands in 'is suing a most cordial welcome to the campers, summer visi ters and others here for a va cation this season. ft is with a glad hand of friendship that they roll out the welcoming mat to this beautiful land of lakes and waterfalls, which is also recog nized as a “mecca for summer camps.” Through the columns of the Transylvania Times this week many merchants and others are welcoming the campers and other visitors to towa. Editor John Anderson urges all readers to especially note the write-ups on many of the camps. During the next few weeks, The Times will carry stories on all of the camps. Also, in this issue a series of camp pictures was started, and it will be con tinued throughout the sum mer. BEST YEAR From all indications, this summer will be a peak yean- in tourist business, and already thousands of cars are seen ra the great Pisgah NatfonaT For est, as people from the Ibw lands come up to the moun tains in an effort to escape the heat and to see this famed wonderland of nature. Drug stores, eating establish ments, hotels, motels, inh etc., in the county, repost a sharp increase in the- tourist business. Bob Boyd, chairman of the Transylvania county board of' commissioners, B. W. Thoma son, mayor of Brevard uA “Baddy” Melton president af~ the chamber of commerce, Jobs hands in welcoming all ilsB ors, and they will be glad to give information or other as sistance through the office ef the commerce group, whhh to located in the library. Transylvania has long heeni —Turn to Page Four - First Sunday Sing Slated : The First Sunday Singing C6i*^ vention will be held Sumfay af ternoon, July 2nd, In the court house here in BrevarA bexiuninsT. at 2:30 o’clock. According to Chief *BiU*~ Thurston, the singing will last until around 4:3t), and he coev ally invites the public to «n»~t "This is your ariofh»g tnBt) M tion, and we want you to fed free to come as a me mm listener,” he declare*. The singing conventaoro will continue each first g—Hr after noon. Prior to the beginning of the singing, recorded gospel rfwyfay is played for the listening pleas ure of persons arriving early. Shriners Continue Auction Transylvania ShriMn will" continue their wuti&om on Friday night, Jpe be ginning at 7:30 oVioch, j» n» Masonic temple an Kast street Hundreds of items mm nil at the auction fast veeftend; and’ there are still several Manu «m hand to be disposed at the Friday night sale: In order to glue anm mai
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