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TRANSYLVANIA— An Industrial, Tourist, Educa tional, Agricultural and Music j 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 TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah National Forest and Home of Brevard Music Festival. Vol. 73 — No. 34 SECOND CLASS MAIL PRIVILEGES AUTHORIZED AT BREVARD. N. C. BREVARD. N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1962 * 24 PAGES TODAY * PRICE 1(k PUBLISHED WEEKLY Derailment Of Locomotive And Five Freight Cars Creates Much Excitement A SOUTHERN RAILWAY FREIGHT TRAIN was derailed last Saturday afternoon at the Hannah Ford road crossing between Bre t vard and Rosman, and the pictures above vividly show the pile-up. Actually, the locomotive and five cars were derailed, and only one car and the caboose remained on the tracks. Much damage was done as the cars plowed up tracks and ties for a considerable distance. A railway derrick \vas shipped from Asheville and the j engine and cars were hoisted back onto the repaired tracks late Tues- I day. The freight train was hauling sand, stone and cement for the new satellite tracking station above Rosman when the accident oc curred. The left photo above shows the derailed locomotive, and the pile-up of cars is pictured at the right. (Times Staff Photos) 'V School bells will ring in Bre vard and Transylvania county on Friday morning of this week, Signifying the opening of the 1962 - ’63 term. Students will register and will receive textbooks on the ••(first day, which will not be a full day. Buses will run, but the lunchrooms will not open until Monday. Assignments will be made Friday, and students will be re sponsible for homework on the first day of next week. A general meeting of prin cipals and teachers was held Wednesday morning in the sen ior high school auditorium. Students are requested to pay } their textbook fees on Friday, U and a complete schedule of ^charges for the various schools can be found elsewhere in this week's Times “jaycees Will Again Operate Check Lane A motor vehicle safety check lane will be held Saturday on East Main Street in front of the Episcopal church in Brevard. Brevard Jaycees and the Bre vard Reserve Police Unit, co sponsors of the safety check lame, were most pleased with the response to the check held last Saturday. i Ray Wike, chairman of the —Turn To Page Five ' CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, August 23 — BPW meets at Camp Straus at 7:00 p.m. Masons meet at Temple at 8:00 p.m. Friday, August 24 — School opens half day. Ace of Clubs meets at 8:00 p.m. Festival con cert at Brevard Music Center at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, August 25 — Festi val concert at Brevard Music Center at 3:30 and 8:15 p.m. Sunday, August 26 — Attend the church of your choice. Fes tival concert at Brevard Music Center at 3:30 p.m. Monday, August 27— First full —Turn To Page Eight A CITATION was presented to | Cwstatoe Community Club President I’ Ehno Crowe, left, during a tour of the J community Thursday by Western ! North Carolina Community Develop ment Program leaders. Making the presentation was Mrs. Mary M. Dey ton of Yancey county, chairman of the community development commit tee of the Asheville Agricultural De velopment council, which issued the citation. Looking on were Maurice Blankenbeekler, of Asheville, tour chairman, third from left, and James r. Da. is, of Brevard, Transylvania county farm agent. See story on the farm page. (Extension Staff Photo) Meeting Held Progress On Watershed Program Being Reported Approximately 125 persons were present in the county court house Monday night at the wa tershed committee meeting. The meeting was held primar ily to inform the public of the progress being made on the pro posed construction of 24 dam sites in Transylvania county. Representatives of various governmental agencies, industry and others directly concerned with the watershed program were in attendance, and many questions concerning the pro gram were discussed. L. F. Thompson, watershed planning party leader of the Soil Conservation Service, stated that the surveying of the 24 sites should be completed within the next two to three months. Ac tual cost of the program, size of the dams and lakes formed by the dams and other pertinent information cannot be deter mined until the surveying has been finished. Others speaking during the meeting were R. M. Dailey, state administrator of the Soil Con servation Service, and E. O. Graham, state conservationist in charge of watersheds. Representatives of the U. S. Forest Service, the U. S. and N. C. Wildlife Service, the Town of Brevard and several others all took part in the discussion. Lewis Hamlin, chairman of the watershed committee in Transylvania county, presided over the meeting. Program Highlights Educational Programs Will Be Aired Weekly Over WPNF WPNF will carry a series of broadcasts from the schools in Transylvania county this fall, ac cording to an announcement to day from A1 Martin, station man ager. In making the announcement, Martin said that County School Supervisor, N. A. Miller, would coordinate the series with prin cipals and teachers as well as students themselves from the schools in Transylvania. A similar series was carried in the past, but the plans for this fall, now being coordinated, will include many new facets of school life for both teachers and pupils. The purpose of the series is to better inform the public of —Turn To Page Four "t ; j The Weather j Just over an inch and a quar ter of precipitation fell in Bre vard during the past week while afternoon high temperatures ranged from 81 at the first of the recording period to a humid 90 on Tuesday, the final day of the seven day period. Early morning lows gave some relief from the muggy heat as they dipped into the mid 50’s. Readings for the week are as follows: High Low Prec. Wednesday_81 61 .78 Thursday __ 84 59 .26 Friday _ 86 56 0 Saturday _ 85 55 0 Sunday_ 86 59 0 Monday_ 90 59 .23 Tuesday_ 90 57 0 United Fund Board Meets Thursday The United Fund board of di dectors will meet this Thursday, August 23rd, at Gaither’s at 7:30 p. m. to decide on a budget for the annual campaign which starts this year on September 17th. The admissions and budget committee, headed by Rev. Ben Ormand, has completed studies, and investigations and will pre sent the proposed budget. All directors have been noti fied and are urged to be pres ent. Negroes File Suit Against The Transylvania Board Of Education Many New Teachers Added A list of new teachers for the ,.:c (13 term in the Transylvania , .unty schools is released today i y Superintendent Wayne Brad ■■urn. Itobcrt K. Armstrong will ’.each biology at Brevard Senior •High school. A native of Bruns wick, Georgia, he was educated at Furman university, Greenville, • ■S; C. Miss Margaret M. Byrd will teach math at Rosman High \ school. She is from Horse Shoe, and received her degree from Appalachian State Teachers col-1 lege, Boone. Miss Mildred C. Day, of Mar ble. will teach third grade at j Brevard elementary school. She is a graduate of Western Caro lina college. Miss Sarah L. Fortune, of Bre- i yard, will teach second grade at Pisgah Forest elementary school. She is a graduate of the Univer sity of North Carolina. Thomas Y. Galloway, of Bre —Turn To Page Four Hamlin Is Nominated To GOP Post Lawis P. Hamlin, well-known Brevard attorney and WNC Re publican leader, was nominated as the GOP candidate for Chief Justice of the State Supreme court by the North Carolina Re publican executive committee last Saturday at Greensboro. Mr. Hamlin has practiced law here since 1917. He is a former nember of the General Assembly and has run unsuccessfully for Congress. He is the longtime chairman of both county and congressional district executive committees for his party. Mr. Hamlin told The Times that he was honored with the nomination and that it will bring recognition to this county and to Western North Carolina. He is a member of the Hamlin, Potts, Ramsey and Hudson law firm here. CONCERTS SET during the final weekend of the Brevard Music Festival will feature violin, pi ano, trumpet, soprano and mezzo soprano soloists. Benno and Sylvia Rabinof, shown in the top photo, will be heard on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Rabinof will appear on Friday evening, and Mrs. Rabinof will be heard on Sunday afternoon. Arlene Saun ders, soprano, bottom left, is scheduled for Friday evening and Sunday afternoon, while Beverly Wolff, right, mezzo soprano, will make her fourth appearance of the season on Saturday evening. ’62 Festival Ends At The Music Center This Weekend Brevard Music Center closes /ts 26th season and 17th Festival this weekend with as much va riety as could be packed into a tour-concert series. Friday evening’s artists will be soprano Arlene Saunders, re cently selected as one of the nine most promising young art tists in the world, and Benno Rabinof, a veteran of more than 2,000 concerts with most of the world’s principal symphonic groups. Placed in the “nine most promising” group by Musical America Magazine, NBC Opera Star Arlene Saunders will sing selections from Puccini’s “La Rondino,” Bizet’s “Carmen,” and Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. Rabi —Turn To Page Eight Seeking To Send Higfe School Students Locally A suit seeking admission of Negro junior and senior i igh school students to Tran , syivania county schools was ; i ied last Friday in U. S. Dis trict Clerk Thomas Rhodes’ j. five in Asheville. Asheville attorney Ruben | .5. Dailey instituted the suit against the Transylvania County Board of Education, county schools Supt. C. W. Bradburn, board Chairman E. E. Matheson and board mem bers Thomas E. Ramsay, Eu gene M. Morris, Harry F. Mor gan and D. S. Winchester. The suit seeks a temporary restraining order asking ad mission'of the plaintiffs for the ’62 - ’63 school year, a speedy hearing, a permanent injunction restraining as signment on a racial basis or a reorganization plan for as signment on a nonracial basis of both pupils and teachers. Alleging that the plaintiffs must be transported by bus 21 miles to Hendersonville, it note# that eight Negro pupils have been assigned to the pre viously all-white Brevard junior and senior high schools for this fall. Plaintiffs named in the ac tion include Georgia Anna Conley, Robert Conley, Jr., Leonard Ossie Bailey, Call Elliott, Keith Elliott, Tommy Ferguson, James Edward Gardin, Jr., Ruby Gardin, Harold Chatman, Dwight —Turn To Page Five Free Eye Tests Of First Graders Are Continued Visual readiness “screening" for pre-school children will be continued at the offices of mem bers of the North Carolina Op tometric Society in Transylvania county on August 24th in con junction with the statewide pro school vision screening program. Dr. Lin Fincannon, of Elfchi, president qt the North Carolina Optometric Society, said the screenings would be wholly with out charge and are intended to help parents to determine if chil dren who are to enter school this -Tm To Page Eight
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