TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Educa
tional, Agricultural and Music
Center. Population, 1960 Census,
16,372. Brevard Community 8,500.
Brevard proper 4,857.
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
TRAN6YLVANIA
The Land of Waterfalls,
for Summer Camps, Entrance t*
Pisgah National Forest amt
Home of Brevard Music Fe
Vol. 73 — No. 32
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1967 ★ 24 PAGES TODAY *
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY/
Country
Carnival
Saturday
Plans foe Brevard Little The
atre’s Country Carnival which
will be held Saturday, August
11th, at Robin Hood’s Barn in
Sherwood Forest have been com
pleted, according to Maggie Mas
ters and Mel Everingham, co-'
chairmen. |
Beginning time is set at 11:30
a m., and the day will end in time
for the regular Saturday night
square dance at 8:30 p.m., to be
railed by Earl Powell. General
admission, which includes the
Variety Revue, is $1.00 for adults
and 50 cents for children. The
Country Carnival is another BI..T
project to benefit its building
fund.
The use of Robin Hood’s Barn
dkas been donated by Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Dehon as a special
contribution to the building
fund.
Everyone attending the Coun
try Carnival is urged to dress
. ji costume appropriate for the
occasion and a prize will be
awarded for the costume consid
ered most representative.
It is emphasized that this gala
day of entertainment is for thp
entire family. Children’s amuse
ments will include a free ride
on the Biltmore Dairy train, as
well as performances by the fam
ous horse, Trigger. Pony rides
will be available at the regular
price. A baby-sitting booth will
be set up for the convenience of
those attending with small chil
dren.
The baby-sitting service will
be furnished free of charge, and
all children under six years of
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Principals To.
Report For
Duty Monday
Transylvania county school
.principals will go on duty on
iMonday, August 13th, and they
■y^ili be at their schools from
that date until school opens.
Supt. Wayne Bradbum urges
persons who have moved into
the town and county and having
children of school age to report
to the principals in the areas
where they reside.
Students going to school in the
town and the county for the first
time should register prior to the
opening date.
If they are in doubt as to
•* .which school they should attend,
' *they should contact the Board of
Education office in the court
house.
-k All students will report on the
*24th. Buses will run at the us
ual time in the morning and will
return the children home
around noon.
Monday, August 27th, is the
first full day of school.
According to Mr. Bradburn,
the Board of Education will
meet Tuesday night, August
14th, at 8:00 o’clock in his office.
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, August flth — Ma
. sons meet at Masonic temple at
r%l:00 p-m.
Friday, August 10th — Ace of
Clubs meets at 8:00 pun. Fes
tival concert at 8:15 p.m.
Saturday, August 11th —■
“Story Time” at library at 9:30
am. Festival concert at 3:30
and again at 8:15 pan.
Sunday, August 12th— Attend
the church of your choice. Fes
tival concert at 3:30 p.m.
Monday, August 13th — Ro
tary picnic at Franklin Park at
7:00 p.m Shrine Club meets at
Berry's at 7:00 pjn.
Tuesday, August 14th — Ace
of Clubs at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 15th —
Dinner to honor {Leslie Grogan
at Masonic Temple at 7:00 p.m
Toastmasters meet at Gaither's
at 7:00. WOW meets at 8:00
pm.
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THE BEAUTIFUL Transylvania
Music camp will be the scene of the
17th annual Brevard Music Festival,
which will be held for the next three
weekends. The opening concert is
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scheduled for Friday night, and thou
sands of music lovers from all parts of
Eastern America are expected here
for this outstanding event.
Northwestern & First-Citizens
Two Banking Firms Seeking
To Establish Facilities Here
The Northwestern bank has
made application to the super
vising authorities of banks in
North Carolina for permission to
establish a bank in Brevard and
at Rosman.
The Northwestern bank serves
Western North Carolina with 38
convenient offices.
J. B. Wahman, executive vice
president, was in Brevard this
week and issued the following
statement:
“We feel that Brevard and
Transylvania county will support
two banks — a national bank and
a state bank. The Northwestern
bank will materially help the in
dustrial growth and in turn the
small businessman and the indi
vidual.
“We solicit the support of the
public in our application before
the Commissioner of Banks of
North Carolina.”
The Northwestern bank was
organized on July 1st, 1937, and
Edwin Duncan is the president.
Resources as of December,
1961, totalled $129,755,367.63.
The Northwestern bank has
operated in Henderson county
for the past 30 years and in Bun
combe county for 21 years.
Cato's Will
Open On
Thursday *
Cato’s ladies? ready-to-wear
store, located on West Main
street and the newest addition
to the business district of Bre
vard, will open its doors Thurs
day morning of this week at 9:00
o’clock.
The grand opening of Cato’s
on Thursday morning is the re
sults of months of planning and
preparation by the company to
bring to the people of the Bre
vard shopping area the latest in
ladies’ and children’s fashions
at moderate prices
The store’s interior layout was
designed by Cato’s architects to
give customers the same ease
and convenience in shopping
which they find in the most mod
ern stores in any city. The com
pletely fluorescent-lighted store,
with its modem facilities and at
tractive decor, is planned to pro
v i d e pleasant surroundings
which will appeal to its custo
mers.
W. H. Cato, Jr., of Charlotte,
and president of Cato Stores,
Inc., said, “Our company is very
pleased and happy to be coming j
to Brevard. It is always a source
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DISCUSSING PLANS for the 17th annual Bre
vard Music festival at the lakefront of the Tran
sylvania Music camp are Paul C. Thomas, left, chair
man of the music center board of trustees, and
James Christian Pfohl, director.
An application has been filed
with the State Banking Commis
sion by the First Citizens Bank
& Trust Company to establish a
banking facility in Brevard.
Announcement of the filing
came from Lewis R. Holding,
president of First-Citizens, North
Carolina’s third largest banking
institution.
The commission will act on
the application during its hear
ings to be held on October 17th,
in Raleigh. If approved by the
state regulatory body the appli
cation must then be reviewed by
the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
First-Citizens, which was
Founded in Smithfield, in 1898,
showed total resources of almost
$280 million as of the close of
business on June 30, 1962.
Mr. Holding commented that
the Brevard and Transylvania
County area is an outstanding ex
ample of the continuing progress
being made by Western North
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Brevard Music Festival Opens This
Friday Night Many Are Expected
Community
To Honor
Grogan
Leslie S. Grogan, who has
been plant manager of the Bre-j
yard Du Pont silicon plant since
it began production in 1958, will
be honored at a tribute dinner!
next Wednesday evening.
The event, to which the pub-1
lie is being cordially invited to
attend, will be held in the Ma
sonic temple, beginning at 7:00
o’clock.
Mr. Grogan has been extreme
ly active since coming to Bre
vard in the civic, educational,
religious and political affairs of
the community. Later this year
Mr. Grogan is being transferred j
to Du Pont’s pigments depart-1
ment in Baltimore.
He is an alderman of the town
of Brevard, a trustee of Brevard
college, a director of the Bre
vard Chamber of Commerce, and
a director of the First Union
National Bank, Brevard branch, j
He is also a director of the
Transylvania United fund, and a
trustee of the Brevard Method
ist church and the Transylvania
Community hospital
Cecil J. Hill, Brevard attorney,
will serve as master of ceremon
ies on the program following
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Lake Toxaway
Inn Opening
"fine grand opening of the new
Lake Toxaway Inn, located on
the shores of beautiful Lake
Toxaway in upper Transylvania,
will be held this Sunday, Au
gust 12th.
D. H. Cosby, owner of the Inn,
states that much preparation has
gone into the construction of the
new facility, but that everything
is now in readiness for the form
al opening Sunday.
A buffet luncheon prepared by
M. Fernand Audet, a French
chef who has served in the most
exclusive hotels on Florida’s
“Gold Coast”, will be served be
ginning at 12 noon.
Lake Toxaway Inn has 20 lux
uriously furnished units, a spac
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Rescue Squad To Hold Auction On
Friday Night, Saturday 1:00 P. M.
The members of the Bre
vard Rescue Squad have been
busily engaged collecting
items for their auction to be
held at the old bowling alley
on Caldwell Street on Friday
and Saturday, August 10th and
11th.
Although many items, rang
ing from antiques to automo
biles, have been donated,
there is still a drastic need for
more.
The squad feels severely
handicapped in its service to
the public by the lack of cer
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[ The Weather
By - A1 Martin
Brevard’s
official Weatherman
Although afternoon tempera
tures have averaged reaching
just over 85 degrees this past
week, accompanying high hu
midity has caused much mid
afternoon discomfort for those
not blessed with air conditioning
or a shade - tree with a built
in breeze.
Early morning low readings
have averaged 61 degrees, with
rainfall for the week totaling
3.10 indies, a figure higher than
the total rainfall for the past
month.
Records for the week are as
follows:
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
High Low Prec.
85 51 0
81 64
81 62
83 62
87 64
90 61
90 62
.15
1.63
.08
1.19
0
.05
tain vital life-saving equipment
and is making this sincere
plea for support.
Call 883-3580 to have con
tributions picked up, or drop
them by the collection depot
in the old Crafton Motors
building between 6:00 and
9:00 pjn.
Many items of interest to the
public have been collected in
cluding radios, wrist watches,
electric ranges, automatic
washers, furniture, hunting
trophies, books, baked goods,
photographs, antiques (some
with marble tops), pictures,
power tools, and many, many
valuable articles.
In addition, through the
generosity of McCrary Chev
rolet, they will offer to the
highest bidder a fine used au
tomobile.
Auctioneering will begin at
7:00 p.m. on Friday evening
and at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday
afternoon. “Come and bring
your family!” they say
There Are Blue
Berries In The
Hills Of Pisgah
Here’s good news for bine
berry pickers.
There is a bumper crop this
year, and the higher slopes in
the Pisgah National forest are
blue because of them.
According to Ranger Ted See
ly, the gate to Shining Rode road
will be open, beginning August
15th, and win remain open
through Labor day.
MARGARET SCHLOSSER, the current Miss
Brevard, right, leads Shirley Hammill, Brevard’s
recent entry in the Miss North Carolina contest,
left, in a dance routine. Both will appear Saturday
in Brevard Little Theatre’s Country Carnival Vari
ety Revue shows, at 2.:00 and 7:15 p.m. at Robin
Hood’s Barn in Sherwood Forest. Margaret will do
an interpretive dance to the “Peter Gun” theme
music and Shirley will sing. Many other attractions
are scheduled tor the gala occasion which begins at
11:30 a.m. and lasts until regular square dance
time at 8:30 p.m. (Times Staff Photo)
Verdicts Listed
County Court Is Having
Busy Session This Week
Finck Appointed
To WNC Elk Post
Herbert P. Finck, of Brevard,
has been appointed District Dep
uty grand Exalted Ruler for
the North Carolina, West Dis
trict, by Lee A. Donaldson,
Grand Exalted Ruler of the
Benevolent and Protective Or
der, of Elks, Etna, Pa.
The North Carolina, west dis
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The Transylvania County
court is having a busy session
this week, and Judge Robert
T. Gash expects the term to
last all week.
Many cases were disposed
of on Monday and Tuesday,
and as The Times went to
press at noon Wednesday, a
jury returned a verdict of not
guilty in the case of Malford
Jeter, who was being tried for
drunk driving.
Earlier in the week, divorces
were granted in the following
cases:
Thelma Buchanan Keever
vs. Albion Keever and HezeU
ah Thomas Corn vs. Lois Pet
erson Blanton Corn.
Carol Alton Metcalf had to
pay costs on a charge of hav
ing no operator’s license.
Bruce Hogsed, charged with
worthless check, had to pay
costs.
James Roland Owen plead
ed guilty to driving toe fast
for road conditions and had to
pay costs.
On a charge of having no
chauffer’s license, Elijah Al
len had to pay $25 and costs.
Williard Morgan had to pay
a fine of SIM and costs on a
charge of driving under the
influence, and Samuel N
Whitesides had to pay $2M
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WPNF Making Plans For
Broadcasting Of Football
Station manager A1 Martin an
nounces today that WPNF will
offer extensive coverage during
the forthcoming football season.
“In addition to carrying die
entire Brevard senior high
school schedule, we plan to carry
the games of the University of
North Carolina, a feiw of the N. C.
State contests, and possibly sev
eral of the Bosnian high school
games,” Mr. Martin said.
In past yean, the local station
has carried the local high school
games and most of the Carolina
games.
“The N. C. State contests to be
made available to us are the re
sult of a new network affiMotimn
with the Carolina Radio Network,
and we are most happy to an
nounce that Bill Currie, former
long-time associate of Ray Reev
I es, will be handling the broad
! casts,” Martin added.
In conclusion, be stated:
“Because of the interest gen
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Array Of Artists
To Appear With.
Noted Symphony1
The 17th annual Brmic'
Music Festival begins Friday
with its largest symphony or
chestra in history and a> mv
26-piece ensemble called dir
Sinfonietta.
An outstanding array of ar
tists, headed by violinist Jos
eph Fuchs, will team with the
90 - piece Festival Symphony
and the Sinfonietta for four
concerts during the weekend
A similar schedule will fol
low each weekend in August.
The orchestra is made wp «T
members of the faculty and isiasg-:'
of the Center’s Transylvania
Music Camp, which ended Sun
day, 20 players from, the new
Advanced Division, the 16 t*j,>
campers selected from audition*
and a half dozen members of th»
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestral.
Fuchs, a frequent so Joist
with the New York Philftar
monic and veteran of three
European tours, will give twc*
concerts. Friday evening ht
will play Walter Piston’s Vio
lin Concerto, which was writ
ten for him under a grant IVonc
the Ford Foundation. Sunday
afternoon he will play Men
delssohn’s Violin Concerto.,.
E Minor.
Friday’s orchestrations will ha'
Beethoven’s Leonore Overturn
No. 3 and Franck’s Symphony hr.
D Minor. James Christian PfoNS.
will conduct.
Saturday afternoon's guesc
artists will be Mildred and Ger
ald Snyder, piano duo, «d Ft.
Lauderdale. They viB yhy
Francis Poulenc’s Concerto,
Minor, for Two Pianos.
orchestra, conducted hgr -
Raab, will play BeetbeveaV .
Coriolan Overture and Benrjr
Cowell’s Symphony No. 8:
The Sinfonietta, which <
be available for torn- after
Festival, will make to
Saturday evening,
Griffes’ The White .
and Vittorio GianninPs
from “Love’s Labors
under Pfohl’s baton. __
Lawton of Hartsvflle, & fL,
of four Brevard IB
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A Good Weekend j
To Invite
Friends Here
Dr. James Christian rfnh<i
rector of the Brevard
center, urges Transylva
invite their friends from <
town to spend the wee*
Brevard.
He suggested that music
arrive in time Friday
for the 8:15 conceit^
gah National Forest j.
there Saturday morning and <
ly afternoon .attend the 3:30.
8:15 Saturday concerts, haw
leisurely or church-going 3
day morning and then
toy attending the 3:30 Sun
afternoon conceit
A special price on tickets
all concerts during a
was also announced ._n_
$10.00, the book of four uriD
sold for $8.50.
Forest Service:
To Show Free
Movies Saturday