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An Industrial, Tourist,
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and Music Center. Popula
tion, I960 Census, 18,372
Brevard Community 8,500
Brevard proper 4,857.
Vol. 72 — No. 35
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,4 State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
BREVARD, N.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1961
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| TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls,
.Mecca for Summer Camps,
Entrance to Pifgah Na
tional Fqrcst and Home of
Brevard Music Festival
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“THE RAINS CAME,” but the parade went on
last Saturday afternoon here in Brevard, and it was
described as one of the “biggest and best” that has
ever been staged here. Featured were bands,
floats, local persons in centennial costumes and
horses and buggies. Braving the elements and put
ting on quite a show were the majorettes of the In
man - Landrum “band of gold.”
(Times Staff Photo)
Centennial
Museum
Now Open ^
The Centennial Museum, lo
cated in the basement of the
Brevard Federal Savings and
Loan association, is open to the
public during the regular busi
ness hours.
The large variety of antiques
on display were collected by Dr.
Carl Hardin.
One curiosity displayed is the
pii|^onholes from Brevard’s
first post office, which had been
in a store building near the
prj&ent location of Joe’s Little
store on the Asheville highway.
Another is a gopher plough of
wood with metal point used
before the Civil War by Dr.
Hardin’s grandfather, J. C. Mc
Gaha, near Cedar Mountain.
Visitors may see parts of a
grist mill owned prior to 1861
by Joe Clark, of Macon county,
about whom the popular square
dance song was written.
Corded beds from an old Pat
ton home in Transylvania are
accompanied by the mat of white
oak splits that was used on top
of$he cords, to prevent the cords
from cutting the covering of the
straw ticks.
ftoe of the only two big hand
made looms in the county is dis
played, and parts of a moon
shine still can be seen, among
the hundreds of items.
Members of the various wo
men’s clubs in the county are
acting as hostesses, and the pub
lic is urged to visit the museum.
There is no admission fee.
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, August 31 — Cen
tennial Pageant at 8:30 p.m.
Friday, September 1 — Ace of
Clubs meets at 8:00 p.m. Centen
nial Pageant at 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 3 — Attend
the church of your choice.
Monday, September 4 — Labor
Day. Town and county offices,
schools and banks closed.
Tuesday, September 5 — Ace
of Clubs meets at 7:30 p.m. Town
Board meets at 7:30 p.m. County
Commissioners meet at 8:00 p.m.
Eastern Star meets at Temple at
8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 6 —
Brevard College Faculty-Student
Work Conference begins.
Many Visitors Expected In County
During The Labor Day Observance
All indications point to a rec
ord number of visitors in Bre
vard and Transylvania county
over the Labor Day weekend.
Monday will be a holiday as
most of the stores in the county
will close. School will also ob
serve the day as a holiday.
Town and county offices, the
First Union National Bank, and
Brevard Federal Savings and
Loan association will close for
the day.
According to Acting Postmas
ter, Vernon P. Fullbright, there
will be no rural or city delivery
of mail. However, the window
will be open from 11:30 a. m.
to 12:00 noon.
Many picnickers and sightseers
are expected in the Pisgah Na
tional Forest, and Ranger Ted
Seely predicts that the recrea
tional areas will be filled to ca
pacity.
The meeting of the Town
Board of Aldermen, which is us
ually held each first Monday
night, has been postponed until
the following evening at 7:30
o’clock. The County Commis
sioners will also meet on Tues
day evening at 8:00 o’clock at
the court house.
George Wilson, drivers license
examiner, reports that his office
will be closed on Labor Day.
Jack Bryant, president of the
Brevard Rotary club says that
next week’s meeting has been
cancelled because of the holiday,
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Set In October
Bailey Is Named General
Chairman Of UF Campaign
John W. Bailey, administrator
of the Transylvania Community
hospital, has been named gen
eral chairman of the annual
United Fund campaign in the
town and county.
The announcement comes to
day from John A. Ford, president
of the Transylvania UF for 1961
’62.
The campaign is conducted
each year during the first week
in October, and plans are al
ready being made for this year’s
drive.
Mr. Ford says the organization
is extremely fortunate in hav
ing a man of Mr. Bailey’s ability
to conduct the campaign.
“Mr. Bailey has demonstrated
his organizational ability many
times in our community, and we
believe this year’s campaign un
der his direction will be highly
successful.”
Mr. Bailey will work closely
with Jim Wulpi, the executive
director of the local UF.
Mr. Ford again points out that
a great majority of every dollar
contributed remains in the
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Dr. Johannaber Speaks To
College Faculty - Students
President Emmett K. McLarty,
Jr., will open the Brevard Col
lege faculty - student work con
ference with an address at a
dinner meeting next Wednesday
evening September 6th, in the
Campus Center building.
For the three - day conference,
President McLarty announces
that the principal speaker will
be Dr. John W. Johannaber,
dean of Scarritt College, Nash
ville, Tennessee.
The theme of the conference
will be “The Role of Christian
College in Higher Education”
on which Dr. Johannaber will
make four addresses: “The Role
of the College in Higher Educa
tion,” “The Purpose of the Chris
tian College,” “The Faculty as
Key to Achieving Purpose”, and
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| DR. JOHN W. JOHANNABER
JOHN W. BAILEY
In The Shadows O f Mi. Pisgah' Well
Attended. Continues Through Friday
Cast Includes
The • . ;a u:...- outdoor
dpi'inia, \i;: tho ..ViadOws of Alt,
i’iygah". ' li-f-h' depicts the
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t aivii-. giveil nightly •
i n 'the . vir athletic field
aiuir.g o', lock.
The t. : mantes win
.<• ’.nr; ■.'•throe:.''!; Friday
t;..e'./iMg •"«, tins week, and ail
T.'HKsyh: niaiisahci visitors i.i
tht- con'.;1; .nit'y Avlio have not
l'. exiravrixanza are
'urged to d i so.
Hundreds of. persons have
a i.tciided.the. first perforihane
t-> end record crowds are ex
pected 11 Thursday and Fri
day evenings.
• cast of 250 local persons
arc . portr;tying the history of
the county as it is narrated.
Organ music, made possible by
the Cagle Music Company of
Asheville accompanies the nar,
ration.
The huge east performs on
a 230-foot set of many differ
ent elevations.
Special lighting, which has
been brought in for the spec
tacle, adds much to the reality
of the scenes presented.
The drama enacts the very
early history of the county
when Indians roamed these
hills, shows the pioneers com
ing here, the religious and edu
cational background of early
times here, the actual found
ing of the county in 1861, many
! Civil War scenes, volunteers
from Brevard receiving the
j flag from Molly J. Fuller, Gay
I 9C’s scenes, and many others
| right up to the present time.
A souvenir program will be
on sale during each perform
ance.
Tickets are on sale at Cen
tennial headquarters on West
Main street and will be on
sale at the gate. General ad
mission tickets are $1.50, re
served tickets are $2.00, and
tickets for children under 12
are 75 cents each.
Local Citizens
Offered Russian,
Spanish Courses
Brevard College is contribut
ing to the development of inter
cultural communication by the
offering of certain language
courses, in which there is cur
rent great interest, in the even
ing. People of the community
are being invited to enroll in
evening courses in Russian and
Spanish.
Dewey R. Whitaker, a chemi
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Holiday Schedule For Schools
Announced, Labor Day Included
The schedule of holidays for
the Transylvania County
schools is announced today by
C. W. Bradburn, superinten
dent.
Labor Day, September 4th,
The Weather
Precipitation causing overflow
of streams, creeks and rivers
throughout western North Car
olina last weekend left Transyl
vania County and many of its
residents soaked through and
through. Apparently the heavy
downpour left the town of Bre
vard high and dry compared to
many of the surrounding com
munities. Rainfall at the obser
vation point adjacent to radio
station WPNF amounted to just
under seven and three-quarter
inches for the past seven days.
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Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
High Low Pre.
81 57 .05
76 61 4.71
73 61 1.70
80 62 .90
81 62 .11
85 66 .13
87 64 .14
will be observed as a holiday
for the first time this year.
The students will also get a
holiday on October 13th when
the teachers attend the dis
tric N.C.E.A. meeting.
Thanksgiving holidays will
be held on November 23
24. and schools will be closed
for Christmas from December
21st to January 1st.
Easter holidays, scheduled
for the first time this year,
will be from April 16 - 23.
May 31st will be the last day
of school, and graduation ex
ercises at the two high schools
will be on June 4th.
Molly Siniard
Clark Is Queen
Molly Siniard Clark has been
crowned Queen of Transylvan
ia, and she is reigning over the
Centennial celebration.
A four-day paid vacation has
been arranged for the Queen and
her companion at the Gill Hotel
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
—Turn to Page Seven
TWO TEACHERS FROM ENG
LAND are teaching this year in the
Transylvania County school system.
Both are graduates of Southlands
College in London, England, and both
have taught for two years in the East
Ham elementary schools in London.
Snpt, C. Wayne Bradburn is shown
above discussing the local system
with them. In the center is Miss Rose
mary Ottmann, of Birmingham, Eng
land. who is teaching the fifth grade
at Penrose. At the right is Miss Bar
barn Pawson, of Yorkshire, England,
who is teaching the first grade at Bre
vard Elementary school. Miss Pawson
is the niece of Dr. Roland Morgan,
superintendent of the Mooresville
City schools. Mr. Bradburn states that
he is most impressed with the teach
ers and that they afford a rare op
portunity for a mutual understanding
of the school systems and an ex
change of views. The two young wo
I men are living at 230 Whitmire
I street. (Times Staff Photo)
Flood Damages In Transylvania
To Run More Than Half Million
Transylvania, like the rest of
the counties in Western North
Carolina, suffered heavy crop
damages during and following
the flooding of the bottomlands
last weekend.
Conservative estimates of dam
ages are running more than a
half million dollars.
This does not include damages
to primary and secondary roads,
bridges and private roads.
One Transylvanian is believed
to have lost his life as a direct
result of the angry high waters.
A man, tentatively identified
as F. L. Farmer, of route two,
Brevard, drove his car last Fri
day toward the Fanning Bridge
road across the French Broad
near Fletcher. The car was swept
from the road and was later re
covered.
Rescue squads are still search
ing for the body of the driver.
The total of the heavy rain
fall in three different areas in
the county for Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday is as follows:
Dupont plant, Cedar Mountain
— 10.37
Olin Mathieson, Pisgah Forest
— 6.75
Brevard weather station —
7.31
One of the most spectacular
sights caused by the high waters
was the dam at Cascade Lake
where the water going over the
top of it was more than sue feet
high.
The dam of the reserve lake
at Cascade was washed out by
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Jurors Drawn
Special Term Of Civil
Court Begins Sept. 18th
Brevard High
Publications
Win Top Honors
Brevard high school news
paper and yearbook won first
place awards in their division
in competition sponsored by
the N. C. Press Association and
the University of North Car
olina School of Journalism.
Competing with schools
across the state with enroll
ments of under 750, Brevard’s
newspaper, “The Broadcaster,”
was first place in makeup
typography. Second place went
to Shelby High School’s “The
Outlook.” Judges were mem
bers of the Charlotte News.
“The Brevardier,” Brevard
high school annual, received
first place over all schools of
under 750. Judgment was on
general merit.
Gil Coan and Carroll Park
er were co-editors of the
Broadcaster, with Mrs. Robert
—Turn to Page Six
Program Highlights
Football Broadcasts And The
Southern 500 Slated, WPNF
Sports and special features
headline the appproach of the
fall season on WPNF Radio, ac
cording to station manager, A1
Martin. I
All the excitement of the 12th
annual Southern “500” from Dar
lington International Raceway
will be heard on Labor Day,
Monday, September 4th.
Again this year, Dave Rogers
will be anchor man at the “eye
in the sky” describing all the
important aspects of America’s
Labor Day Classic. McCrary Autc
Service and Wilson’s Radiator
and tire shop are sponsoring the
broadcast beginning at 10:40
Monday morning.
Football is once again in the
air, and beginning this Friday
iiight, Brevard Blue Devil games
will be on the air.
Program director Bill Hancock
will do play-by-play for each of
the games, being presented by
Houston Furniture company,
Lyda-McCrary Motors, Gaither’s
restaurant, Toxaway house and
—Turn to Page Six
A special one-week term of
civil court is slated in Transyl
vania, beginning Monday, Sept
18th, Marvin McCall, clerk «rf
Superior court, announces today.
The session will be presided
over by Judge John D. McCon
nell, of Southern Pines.
The term has been called by
Chief Justice Charles Winburn.
Jurors who have been called to
serve are as follows:
Mrs. Thomas R. Mitchell
Arthur L. Poteet
David Weldon English
James Middleton
Mrs. Peter Eberle
L. E. Hollifield
B. E. Holden
W. M. Melton
Clarence Whitmire
Aldon Childress'
Mrs. Calvin j. McCrary
Garland Merrill
Julius W. Tinsley
Paul Kellar
Cole E. Hogsed
Roy Orr
Vance F. Shook
—Turn To Page Seven
Souvenir
Programs
On Sale
As one of the added attrac
tions of the Centennial celebra
tion here, a 44-page historical
souvenir program is being of
fered to the public, Mrs. Mary
Jane McCrary, chairman of the
Transylvania Historical commis
sion, announces today.
The book is dedicated to the
memory of the pioneers of Tran
sylvania county, and a long list Is
carried on the inside cover.
There are lines sb that other
names may be added.
A history of Transylvania
county is included among the
editorial features, as well as
much other valuable and histor
ical information.
There are also many pictures
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