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Vol. 72 — No. 47
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize - Winning A.P C. Newspaper
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1961 ★ 20 PAGES TODAY * PRICE 10 :
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Space Command Selects Transylvania Location
To Erect Giant Parabolic Telemetry Antennas In Pisaah National Forest
A site in upper Transylvania
county in the Pisgah National
forest for the second in a ser
ies of giant parabolic teleme
try antennas was selected to
day by the Goddard Space
Flight Center of the National
Aeronautics and Space Admin
istration.
The huge 85-foot diameter
high-gain data acquisition
“dish,” to be constructed in
this mountainous area of West
ern North Carolina, will be
used for receiving and record
ing telemetry from high in
clination orbits of the upcom
ing “second generation” satel
lites.
It will be modelled after the
first in this series, the ultra
sensitive data acquisition an
tenna recently constructed
near Fairbanks, Alaska. A
picture of the antenna in
Alaska with be carried in the
next issue of The Times.
The satellite telemetry fa
cility will be located above
Rosman, in the Glassmine
mountain area of the Pisgah
National Forest.
The site will include ap
proximately 640 acres to be ac
quired through the coopera
tion of the U. S. Forest Ser
vile. Only 40 acres will be
used for initial construction.
The site selection survey
team from the Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Maryland, completed their
st'-i y nf the Rosinan area last
week. Radio noise interference
ireps-rements, so critical to
sensitive telemetry, together
with a topographic and cadas
tral survey was conducted
through the combined efforts
of the Forest service under
Ted Seely, district forest rang
er, who gave invaluable assist
ance in providing crews to
clear roads to the site and in
making the land available.
The giant data acquisition
antenna is part of the NASA’s
Satellite Instrumentation Net
work, operating now with a
ccrrnlpmept of 13 stations
strategically located around
the World. Like its predeces
s'"- in Alaska, the sensitive
Transylvania dish will gather
da* a from scientific satellites
orhiting the earth. The dish
will net be used to track or
to rereive any information
from military satellites.
Wideband data acquisition
capability is the result of re
search and development be
ing conducted at NASA’s God
dard Space Flight Center. Tele
metry requirement for future
scientific space exploration
have become vastly more com
plicated in recent years as
satellites have been placed in
higher orbits, deeper into
spare, each with increasing in
telligence-seeking instruments
and corresponding necessity
for wider sensitivity within the
system. With this new anten
na, wide bandwidth data can
he received from very great
distances.
One of the most important
of the “second generation sat
ellites” to be acquired by the
local dish will be the Orbiting
Astronomical Observatory, due
for launch by NASA in 1963.
This satellite will contain high
ly accurate telescopes and will
observe radiation from distant
stars. This information will be
relayed to earth by telemetry.
Construction on the Transyl
vania facility is due to begin
in late February or early
March, 1962, with an opera
tional target date set for fall
of next year. When completed,
it will be XS9 feet high, weigh
ever 340 tonr, and will be
“X-Y” mounted fa? motions
which will provide near-fall
shy coverage. The operations
will be conducted by about
40 government scientists and
engineers.
Initial desigii o> the con
struction requirements began
today with the announcement
by Goddard of the selection of
Von Storch and Burkavage.
Architect-Engineer?* of Phila
delphia, Penn
Olin Will Enlarge Ecusta Plant
& Proposed Site For Super structure At Oiin’s Pisgals
Thanksgiving To Be Quietly
Observed, Service Wednesday
Transylvanians will observe
the 1961 Thanksgiving in the
traditional manner on Thursday.
There will be large family
gatherings, and the day, through
out the town and county will be
a holiday.
Stores, town and county of
fices, the bank and post offices
Y will be closed.
There will be no rural or city
^►delivery of mail, and the General
Delivery window will be open
from 11:30 to 12:00 noon.
In order that subscribers may
have their issue of The Tran
sylvania Times, this newspaper
went to press Tuesday after
noon.
All town and county schools
will have a holiday on Thurs
day and Friday, and Brevard col
lege students will be excused
from classes at noon Wednesday
for the weekend.
A community Thanksgiving
service has been planned at the
First Baptist church for W°dnes
day evening, November 22nd, be
ginning at 8-00 o’clock.
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
*
Wednesday, November 22 —!
Brevard College Thanksgiving
holidays begin at noon. Jaycee.
meet at Gaither’s at 6:30 p.m.
Thanksgiving union service at
First Baptist church at 8:00 p.m
Thursday, November 23 —1
Thanksgiving Day Masons meet
at Temple at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 26 — At
tend the church of your choice.
Monday, November 27 — Rot
ary club meets at Gaither’s at
7:00 p.m. Brevard Music Lovers
club meets with Mrs. Robe’-t Mel
ton at 8:00 p.m Breva-d Sen
ior High P-TA meets at 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 28 — Ace
of Clubs meets at 7:30 p.m. Jun
ior High P-TA meets at 7:30 p.m.
Elks meet at 8:00 p.m.
Rev. Ben Ormand will deliver;
the message, and special music
will be under the direction of j
Ray Childers.
Choir members from the var
ious churches are invited to take
part in the special singing.
The community service is be
ing sponsored by the Transyl
vania County Ministerial associa
tion, of which Rev. Fred Valen
tine is the president.
The free^vill offering will go
to the Transylvania Community
nospital.
Hundreds of hunters from all
parts of Eastern America are
here for the organized hunts in
the Pisgah National Forest, and
Thursday is expected to be a
good “hunting” day throughout
the county.
PoSice Reserve
Again Operates ;
Toy Repair Shop
Member? of the Brevard Police
Reserves will again this year
collect and repair toys for the
underprivileged children of
Transylvania county, to be dis
tributed at Christmas.
The workshop will be set up
on Main street in the bui'ding
formerly occupied by the Nickel
Bargain house. Persons having
BLUEPRINTS bOR ECUSTA’S
multi-million-dollar expansion pro
gram are checked by officials of
Olin’s Pisgah Forest operations and
representatives of Chas. T. Main,
Inc., of Boston, Mass., consulting en
gineers. From left to right are: Philip
C. Brownell, vice president and man
ager of Ecusta Paper and Film opera
tions of Olin’s Packaging Division;
a director of Chas T.
Main, Inc.; Arthur J. Loeb, division
vice president; William F. Taylor,
Jr., assistant to the division vice presi
dent, who will be proiect manager
for Ecusta; Harold G. Ingraham,
Main’s project engineer; Le» M.
Eauer, production manager of
Ecusta; and Thomas E. Ramsay,
manufacturing superintendent.
The Weather
High Low Pre.
Wednesday
68 56 0
67 59 .64
63 36 0
52 29 0
45 37 0
45 32 0
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
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toys to donate may leave them at
the workshop on any Saturday,
or they may call the polire sta
Patrolmen To
Clamp Down On
Drunk Drivers
Transylvania’s Highway Pa
trolmen Bill Sawyer, Charlie
Capell and G. T. Beshears are
joining with all others across
North Carolina in a drive to
“stamp out” drunk driving.
Drunkennesses and intoxica
tion continue to be the major
problems in the traffic safety
field, they point out.
Unfortunately, drunk drivers
are more numerous during the
holiday season, so the campaign
will continue through Thanksgiv
ing and Christmas.
The local patrolmen urge
Transylvanians not to drive
while drinking.
Patrolman Beshears, who was
recently assigned to this county,
resides at 119 Fisher road with
his wife and son and daughter.
“We like Brevard very much,
:nd I am enjoying my work
here,” he declared.
Prior to coming to Transylvan
ia, he worked in the China Grove
and Gastonia area.
As a hint for safe driving in
Transylvania, Patrolman Be
shears has the radar equipped
car in this county.
—Turn to Page Four
Multi-Million Dollar Expansion
Program Includes Machine 11
gy
Final plans f-.-r the gigantic
Christmas parade that will u he:
tile iltiCii Christmas season inti.
iirevard have been announced
by Mis. Robbie Cay Sledge,
parade chairman.
The event will be held or
Thursday, November 30th, and
v, .it tunmeike.promptly at 4:4i
mi, inarching up East Main
.vet, and following route
. . cribed in detail in a large ad
• oiaid elsewhere in this issue of
the Times.
Over 30 units, comprised of
nine beautiful floats designed
especially for the occasion, many
lovely beauty queens, three
bands and other entries will
make up the long parade.
The parade committee an
nounced today that the line-up
was complete and that absolute
ly no other entries could be ac
cepted. Each entry has been
designated a number, and no
other entries will be allowed to
—Turn to Page Seven
New Post Office
At Pisgah Forest
Opens Thursday
The Pisgah Forest Post office
will begin operations in its new
quarters on Friday, November
24th, according to Joe McLeod,
postmaster.
Actually the post office will
operate in its present quarters
through Wednesday, and the
move into the new quarters will
be made on Thursday.
Since Thursday is a national
holiday, the post office will be
closed, but mail will be handled
in the new quarters.
Legion Presents
New Flag, Pole
To High School
The Monroe Wilson post o
the American legion will presen
a flag and a flagpole to Brevarr
rhieh school at 11:00. or
Thanksgiving Day.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the brief ceremony ir
rront of the new high schoo'
buildings.
Participating in the program
will be local legionnaires, mem
ners of the American Legion aux
iliary, Chairman of the Board
of County Commi'-sioners. R. M
Bovd, Mayor B. W Thomason,
and local school officials.
The new flacnole. manufac
tured by John E. Lingo and Son
fnc. of Camden, New Jersey
w’ll be 40 feet above the ernund
The pole, flag, and installation
cost in excess of $400.
Another Urge expansion program, of equal im
portance at hast to the construction of the No. 10
caper machine ra 3^.56, is announced by A, J..
Loeh, vice-president of the Ecusta Paper operations,
pr.rt of the packaging division of the OUn Mathie
rou Chemical cor -oration.
| Engmeori-nr; ; i,-; design work has been commenced
| tor a multi-million dollar pave? machine which wifi
| he No. 11 at the local plant.
(.on •:rueiio < , the ■Uipcrstruc'uro tji house .the
I machine will L g : • in lofe. winter of early spring,
if v. v ,■ ' h< r is- favorable
■ h r. enrsf■, v v-lll employ several kun
persons r ■ .5 it i*. e pec ted that thfc jofc will
rcoi.-re atm ? 1;: --.er.ths to.complete
Th is indicates the aatwtiqho.1
gin so metirne in rriid-198?
(■Iffm m ght be
In charge of the project will be W P. Taylor, Jr.,
assistant to the division vice president who will be
the project manager for Ecusta.
The new No. 11 will have various improvements
in product quality and operating speed that have
been made by Olin and other papet making en
gineers since No. 10 was designed
In the paper industry it is customary to give soefe
machines an identification, like Pullman cars and
ships.
When No. 10 was completed in 195% iJL was christ
ened “The Cherokee Arrow”.
When No. 10 was introduced the corporation said:
“As far as can be learned it is the largest paper
machine in operation in the United States for tie
production of the kind of light weight papers which
Ecusta makes. (It) has a wire width of 182 inches.
Ecusta’s other nine machines hare wire widths of
112 to 114 inches. Machine speeds vary with the pro
duct produced. The new machine is designed at
much higher speeds than any of the other Emits
machines” . . .
It is anticipated that No. 11, when it is ready, will
in various ways have technical superiorities to the
champion of 1958. . ■ , v
Paper making machines, Olin’s statement explain
ed, are custom built, that is, to order, and it takes
from eight to 14 months to design and make one on
the scale of the new No. 11.
The new building will have two stories and var
ious access platforms, called mezzanines. It will Ee
erected on a site next to the Cherokee Arrow build
ing, and will occupy floor dimensions of 50 bv 500
feet. ■ , _
CPin’s predecessor, Ecusta, was established in 193'* '
At that time the plant had four paper machines anA' <
within a year, when it was at fn'l operation, it haw
150 employes and a payroll approximating $1,200,000*
In 1950 OFn acquired Ecusta and began cel?*»
rhane as well as paper iranufact- ring at Piss»h
Forest by erecting a »»narate pl»nt and creating
what is know as the “Film operations.”
The r'*if»inel Fcusta Paper Corn, is now known
as the “Ecusta Paper Operations”.
Over 2,500 people now work at the two Pispa1
Forest divisions, and the ag^re^ate payroll was 'es
corted hv the corporation in 1958 as exceeding 11
!ion dollars. In the three years since there has been
an even further rise.
In addition to light weight papers for the tobacco,
printing and carbon paper industries, the Ecus*a
Paper Operations manufacture Hoping, and per
manent wave tissue, cigarette filter, specialty v
ping paper, endless wow*" belts and other
weight paper of high quality.