TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Educa
tional, Agricultural and Music
Center. Copulation, 1960 Census, j
16,372. Brevard Community 8,500.
Brevard proper 4,857.
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
,4 State And National Prize -Winning A. BcC. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest and
I Home of Brevard Music Festival.
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Vol. 73 — No. 26
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1962 * 28 PAGES TODAY * PRICE 10*:
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TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, recognized as a
mecca for summer campers, has many mountainous
trails that overlook the peaceful sylvan valley, as
shown in the photo above. Each year several thou
sand boys and girls attend the 17 camps in this area,
and this week The Times is saluting these youth and
all summer visitors in Brevard and Transylvania
county. (Austin Photo)
Welcome To County Extended
All Campers, Summer Visitors
With all the 11 organized
summer camps in Transylvania
reporting capacity enrollment,
officials of the town and coun
ty and heads of civic organiza
tions join hands in issuing a
most cordial welcome to the
campers, summer visitors and
others here for a vacation this
season. .
It is with a glad hand of
friendship that they roll out
the welcoming mat to this
beautiful land of lakes and
vcjterfalls, which is also recog
nized as a “mecca for summer
tamps.'’
Through the columns of The
’Transylvania Times this week
many merchants and others
are welcoming the campers
and other visitors to town.
Editor John Anderson urges
all readers to especially note'
the write ups on many of the
camps.
During the next iew weens,
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 summer.
best year
From all indications, this
$mnmer will be a peak year in
tsarist business, and already
thousands of cars are seen in
the great Pisgah National For
est, as people from the low
lA'Js come up to the moun
tains in an effort to escape the
heat and to see this famed won
derland of nature.
Drug stores, eating establish
ments, hotels, motels, inns,
etc., in the county, report a
sharp increase in the tourist
business.
Bob Boyd, chairman of the
— Turn to Page Twelve
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, June 28 — BPW
meets at Camp Straus at 7:00
nm. Masons meet at Temple at
8:00 pm.
Khday, June 29 — Brevard
Music Center concert at 8:15
pm.
Saturday, June 30 — GOP ex
ecutive committee meets at court
house at 2:00 pjn. Brevard Mus
ic Center concert at 8:15 pm.
Sunday, July 1 — Attend the
church of your choice. Singing
at courthouse at 2:00 pjn. Bre
vard Music Center concert at 3:80
pjn.
Monday, July 2 — Diabetic
clinic at County Health center
9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Ameri
can Legion meets for supper at
6:30, meeting 7:30 pm. Rotary
club meets at Gaither’s at 7:00
pm.
Tuesday, July 3 — Ace of
Clubs meets at 7:30 p.m. East
ern Star meets at Temple at 8:00
p.m. Brevard Music Center con
cert at 8:15 pm. Sylvan Valley
Folk Festival on junior high ath
letic field
Parkway Progress
Balsam-Beech Gap Link
Paving Is Now Underway
The Asheville Paving Company
has started work on paving the
19-mile link of the Blue Ridge
Parkway between Balsam Gap
and Beech Gap. The section was
graded last year.
Tentative plans are to have
the project paved by Septem
ber, and if the Bridge at Bal
sam is completed by that time,
the link will be opened for the
color season.
This section of the Parkway
reaches the highest elevation of
the entire 477-mile scenic high
way, as it passes the 6,000-foot
mark at Tennessee Bald.
The W. B. Dillard Construction
Company has the contract on the
bridge at Balsam Gap which
Merchants Plan
"Sidewalk" Sale
Next Weekend
Brevard merchants will con
duct a huge “Sidewalk Sale”
next Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday, July 5th, 6th and 7th.
Extensive plans have been
made by the merchants to of
fer many wonderful bargains
diving the sale, which prom
ises to be the biggest and best
ever promoted in Brevard.
In announcing plans for the
sale, Dan Hawkins, chairman
of the merchants division of
the Chamber of Commerce,
stated that the local merchants
were going “all out” to offer
Transylvania county shoppers
many real bargains during the
three-day event
Full details of the sale will
be carried fat next week’s
Times, which will be publish
ed Tuesday afternoon.
crosses US 19A-23 and the South
ern Railway. At the present rate
of progress, the bridge should be
opened by the end of September.
The major portion of the grad
ing of the link on the Parkway
from Wagon Road Gap (US 276)
to Pisgah Inn has been complet
ed, and paving of the four-mile
link is expected to be done this
fall. This contract is held by
Macon Construction Company.
The Park Service recently let
a contract to Blythe Brothers of
Charlotte, for building the Park
way link from Cutthroat Gap to
Flat Laurel at Pisgah Inn, com
ing in from the east.
Workmen have also started ex
cavating the site for the bridge
to cross US 276 at Wagon Road
Gap. The Parkway crosses the
Federal Highway at this point.
According to Ranger Ted See
ly, when current construction
and paving is completed, the dis
tance from Wagon Road Gap to
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GOP Executive
Committee To
Meet Saturday
The Transylvania County Re
publican Executive committee
will meet this Saturday after
noon at 2:00 o’clock here in the
court house in Brevard, it is an
nounced today by Ralph L. Wal
drop, county chairman.
The purpose of the meeting is
to nominate candidates to fill
vacancies which have occurred
on the Republican ticket for the
November, 1962, General Elec
tion for the Office of the Board
of Education.
Mr. Waldrop urges all mem
bers of the executive committee
to attend this important meeting.
Festival
Pageant
Slated
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The Brevard Jaycees and Jay
cvttes are completing plans for
the Sylvan Valley Folk Festival
and Beauty Pageant which will
be held July 3rd and 4th at the
Brevard Junior High athletic
field.
Performers for the Folk Fes
tival will include the Brevard
Western Style Square Dancers,
the Lloyd Waldrop String band,
the Cumberland Mountain boys
string band, the Pigeon Valley
Ramblers and the Hendersonville
Junior square dance team. Also
performing will be the Proma
lettes, a junior square dance
team from Franklin. They have
been dancing together for four
years and have appeared on
WFBC-TV, at the University of
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Memo No. 2 to:
City of Brevard
State Highway
Department
June 23, 1962
Brevard, N. C.
Mr. John Anderson, Editor,
The Transylvania Times,
Brevard, N. C.
Dear Mr. Anderson:
It was most gratifying to see
the prominent space you gave in
last week’s edition of the Times
to Mr. Spicer’s Memo to the
City of Brevard and State High
way Department. I have been
working on this same project
with no success and would ap
preciate your giving this letter
the same prominent spot. May
be it will help.
Have you ever seen a Brevard
Little Leaguer trying to cross
Broad Street at French Broad?
Have you ever seen a college
student trying to make the same
crossing? They risk their lives
—Turn to Page Twelve
Potts And Hubbard Are Nominated
By Democrats In Second Primary
Varied Program
Of Concerts At
Music Camp Set
Brevard Music Center’s first
full weekend of concerts will
also be one of its most varied.
It will feature as soloists a vo
calist, a pianist, a violinist and
a harpist.
Metropolitan Opera star Gior
gio Tozzi will be the vocalist
Sunday afternoon, July 1, at 3:30,
sharing soloist honors with Ed
ward Vito, Toscannini’s harpist
with the NBC Symphony Orches
tra.
Joan Field, internationally
known Miami violinist, will per
form at both Friday and Satur
day evening concerts at 8:15.
Jack Tail, pianist and assistant
professor of music at Winthrop
College in Rock Hill, S. C., will
appear as a soloist Friday eve
ning.
Mr. Tozzi will sing two anas
f'-om Moussorgsky’s “Boris God
unoff,” the Monologue and Hall
ucination scene, and two num
bers by Verdi, 0 Tu Palermo,
from “I Vespri Siciliani” and In
1'ilice! e tuo credevi, from “Em
an\” He will also sing Prince
Gremin’s aria from “Eugen One
gin” by Tsehaikovsky and Finch’
han del vino, from “Don Giovan
ni” by Mozart.
Also on Sunday the Transyl
vania Symphony Orchestra Will
play Beethoven’s Overture to Eg
mont and Tschaikovsky’s Romeo
and Juliet Overture, which the
famous composer revised 10
years after writing it the first
time at the age of 29. Mr. Vito
will play Handel’s Concerto in
B Flat. Music Center Director
James Christian Pfohl will con
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The Weather
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By - A1 Martin
Brevard’s
Official Weatherman
Daily high readings ranged
from 82 to 86 degrees, with early
morning lows dipping to 54 and
ranging upward to 64 degrees
during the past week.
The average afternoon maxi
mum temperature reading was
84V2 degrees with the minimum
averaging 61. Precipitation for
the week totaled 1.45 inches.
All in all, the week appeared
tc be normal as far as the weath
er was concerned with tempera
tures and rainfall about average
for this time of year.
Official readings for the week
include:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday- 82 63 .28
Thursday- 83 54 0
Friday_ 86 62 0
Saturday- 85 64 .10
Sunday- 85 58 .30
Monday- 86 54 .14
Tuesday_ 84 58 .63
JACK H. POTTS
CLYDE HUBBARD
! Progress Noted
Savings And Loan Will
Pay $149,000 In Dividends
Times To Publish
Early Next Week
The Transylvania Times will
be published a day earlier next
week because of the Fourth of
July observance.
The presses should start
rolling shortly after noon on
Tuesday, and The Times will
be on sale at news stands and
by carrier boys that afternoon.
They will also go in the mails
at the same time.
Deadline for advertising
copy is Monday afternoon at
5:00 o’clock, while the news
deadline is 12 noon an Tues
day.
Plans Made
For United
Fund Drive
John W. Bailey, president of
the Transylvania County United
Fund, and Chester Kilpatrick,
campaign chairman, are making
preliminary plans for the annual
drive which will be held this fall.
Several meetings have been
scheduled to complete these
plans.
The Admissions and budget
committee, Rev. Ben Ormand,
chairman, will meet at 8:00
o’clock at Gaither’s on August
6th and August 13th.
The board of directors will
meet on August 23rd at 8:00
o’clock at Gaither’s.
A meeting of the division
chairmen will be held at Gaith
er’s at 8:00 o’clock on Septem
ber 10th, and the campaign kick
off breakfast will be held at 7:00
Construction Is Started On
Satellite Tracking Station
Work has been started on
the satellite tracking station in
the Pisgah National forest
above Rosman, it is announced
today.
Boyd and Goforth, contrac
tors of Charlotte, were award
ed the contract, and they have
already started grading and
base work.
The initial contract was ap
proximately $1,100,000.00.
Heavy machinery is being
moved into the area, and A. J.
Baucom is the superintendent.
Joe Rusneok is the resident
engineer.
The installation oi this giant
parabolic telemetry antenna is
under the direction of the God
dard Space Fligrt Center of
the National Aeronautics Ad
ipinistration.
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Official Election Returns From Second Primary In Transylvania County on June 23rd
House of Rep.
Bennett __ 189
Potts_121
335
241
230
262
274
281
217
156
1721 81 138
246 10 107
851 6
139 73
7
22
14! 341
19 72
7
47
17
9
51
24
1191 6511968
122) 116)2067
Sheriff
A Whitmire_163
Hubbard_147
369
219
211
273
2771 212
277 j 160
186! 6
236 12
166
86
80
144
3
78
17
12
221 601 13
111 54 41
17
9
471 1021 6111991
28 140 122 2048
Semi-Annual dividends, total
ing over $149,000, will be paid
this week by the Brevard Fed
eral Savings and Loan associa
tion for the period ending June
30, 1962, Jerry Jerome, the presi
dent, announces today.
La9t year the association paid
over $250,000, and resources to
day are over eight million dol
lars.
The interest rate being paid is
four and one quarter 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 and
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, J. F. Aycock
and Edwin Morgan.
W. L. Mull is director emeri
tus.
a.m. at Gaither’s on September
17th.
Mr. Bailey urges Transylvani
ans to support this drive.
“By giving the United way, it
is not necessary to participate in
other drives that come into our
community,” he stated. “Our lo
cal fund organization, operated
by local people at a minimum of
cost, assures that your contribu
tion covers your fair share to
local, state and national worth
while agencies.”
Record Number
Voted. Counting
Out Was Fast
Transylvania Democrats re
nominated Jack H. Potts, in
cumbent, for re-election in the
November General election in
a second primary that was held
in the county last Saturday.
They also chose Clyde Hub
bard, deputy sheriff, as their
candidate for sheriff this com
ing November.
In the first primary on May
26th, Mr. Potts ran second high
to Raymond F. Bennett in
which a third candidate, Jess
A. Galloway, was in the run
ning.
Last Saturday, Mr. Potts re
ceived 2,067 votes while Mr.
Bennett polled 1,968.
In the other close contest,
Deputy Hubbard polled 2,048
votes to 1,991 for Marvin W.
Whitmire.
In the May 26th primary, Mr.
Hubbard was high man with
1,480, while Mr. Whitmire had
1,368. There were three other
candidates in the running.
At the bottom of this page
is the vote of the four candi
dates by precincts. Inside the
first section is the tabulation
of the May 26th primary.
All four candidates waged
vigorous campaigns, and the
heavy vote exceeded previous
predictions. Actually, it was
the heaviest vote in any pri
mary held in Transylvania
county.
The tabulating was fast Sat
urday night, with precinct of
ficials reporting into The
Times and WPNF at their spe
cial radio booth in the Sher
iff’s office in the court house.
Final results were announced
at 8:15.
Several of the precincts
counted out within an-hour.
Collection Of
Taxes Good
Lawrence Hipp, tax collec
tor in Transylvania connty, re
ported to the county, the town
and to Rosman this week on
(he collection of current taxes
and also back taxes.
Collections during the past
vear have been good, he stated.
County tax collections
amounted to $476,264.29, or
93.55%. Back tax collections
were $14,568.44.
For the town of Brevard
they were $80,846.95, or
90.74%, with collections of
back taxes totaling $3,638.25.
Collections of current taxes
for the town of Rosman were
$2,623.62 or 88.36%
Program Highlights
Welcoming Messages Will Be
Heard This Week Over WPNF
Station manager A1 Martin an
nounces today that over the
weekend the local radio station
will extend greetings to the new
ly arriving summer residents, in
cluding the many visitors to the
camps in the area.
In making the announcement,
Martin stated:
“It is our bope that summer
residents and visitors will make
WPNF a part of their daily activ
ities, and we invite them to make
use of our various public serv
ice programs and features
throughout their stay
“As with our year ’round resi
dents, we hope our summer visi
tors will let us hear from them
regarding our programs. If we
can serve any of our Widening
public in any way, we will appre
; date the opportunity,” Mr. Mar
tin concluded.
Program Director BiU Hut
cock announces a series of broad
casts by Rev. and Mrs. Harold
Atkins, of Greenville, South Car
olina, currently conducting serv
ices at the Brevard Faith Assem
bly.
The daily broadcasts are Mag
heard at 1:15 o’deek.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Form and
Home hour is as follows: Thurs
day, Farm home administration,
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Rosman Civic v
Body To Hold
Important Meet
The Rownan Chamber of Com
merce js planning an in^ntut
meeting for Tuesday night, Mjg
3rd, at 8:00 o’clock in the high
school auditorium.
President Austin Haped ear*
dially invitee all residents ad
Rosman to attend, and he espe
cially urges all member* of the
chamber of commerce to be pres
ent.