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TRANSYLVANIA— An Industrial, Tourist, Educa tional, Agricultural and Music Center. Population, 1960 Census. 16,372. Brevard Community 8.500. Brevard proper 4,857. Vol. 73 — No. 37 \ THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize - Winning A.It C. Newspaper TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah National Forest and Home of Brevard Music Festival. SECOND CLASS MAIL PRIVILEGES AUTHORIZED AT SREVARD. N. C. ★ 24 PAGES TODAY * BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1962 PRICE 10*: PUBLISHED WEEKLY SHERWOOD FOR EST, located between Brevard and Cedar Mountain on the Green ville highway, will be the home of the nation’s first Audubon residen tial colony. Above is one of the beautiful lakes with the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dehon, owners and di rectors, in the back ground. At the left is one of the colony cot tages that was recently built on the 950-acre wildlife sanctuary. (Times Staff Photos) Sherwood Forest Establishing Audubon Residential Colony I ^ Establishment of the first Audubon residential colony in the nation at Sherwood Forest, inear Brevard, is announced by Arthur M. Dehon, director of Sherwood Forest. Mr. Dehon said that the Audu bon colony is located in a 950 acre wildlife sanctuary in the heart of Western North Caro lina’s scenic segment of the Blue Ridge mountains. Audubon Society members and others with a hobby or profes sional interest in the out-of doors are eligible to establish permanent homes or vacation cottages at Sherwood Forest, where they will have neighbors who share their interest and who likewise appreciate a setting where natural beauty is re rained and man’s intrusion is kept to a minimum. The Audubon colony is being developed under the direction W of an advisory board chairmaned by Ken Morrison, National Au dubon Society lecturer, vice 4' president of the Florida Au dubon Society, and former edi tor of Audubon Magazine. Plans being formulated for next summer’s activity at the colony include field trips, led by a resident naturalist, through Sherwood Forest as well as near —Turn to Page Five CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, September 13 — Jaycettes meet at Colonial Inn at 7:00 p.m. Rosman vs. Edney ville on Brevard Senior High school football field at 7:30 p.m. . Masons meet at Temple at 8:00 A p.m. Friday, September 14 — Bank hearing at court house at 10:00 a.m. Ace of Clubs meets at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, September 16 — At tend the church of your choice. Little Theatre picnic at Camp Straus at 2:00 p.m. Monday, September 17 — Ro tary meets at Gaither’s at 7:00 pjn. Tuesday, September 18 — Ace of Clubs meets at 7:30 p.m. East ern Star meets at Temple at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 19 — Toastmasters meet at Gaither’s at 6:30 p.m. WOW meets in Woodman Hall at 8:00 p.m. “Letter From Home” Many Students In Colleges jNow Receiving The Times Many Transylvania county; boys and girls who are now at- j tending colleges and universities I in various parts of the country! have subscribed to The Transyl vania Times, Dorothy Wallace, circulation manager, announced today. Among the early subscribers are the following: James Opie Wells, Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Patricia Hall, Florida State University. Thomas Hall, Mars Hill col lege. Donald Moore, Donald Ash worth, and Robert F. Andrews, III, N. C. State. Stanley Bishop, Brenda Gallo way and Phyllis Galloway, Berea. Bob Hamilton, Wingate col lege. Susan Hollis, University of South Carolina. Beatrice White, Guilford col lege. Mary Jo McJunkin, Winthrop college. Ann Glazener, R. P. I. Anita Burhans, Maryville col lege. Barbara Loeb, Bryn Mawr. Charlotte Sentelle, Appalac hian State Teachers college. Marianna Hooper, Wake For est. Jon E. Anderson, University of North Carolina. David Phillips, Chowan col lege. Judy Morris, School of Nurs ing, Medical College, of S. C. The Times has learned from other sources that a large num ber of local students have en rolled in colleges. At least 32 have pre-registered at Brevard college, and possibly others will do so. They include Catherine Atwell, Robert Ayres, Johnny Bradburn, Tommy Bing ham, Don Briggs, Robert Brown, Vicky Caldwell, Gil Coan, Charles Cook, Virginia Cook, Martha Ann Curto, Charles Fish er, Ann Hamilton, Shirley Ham mill, Terry Hawkins, Thomas Henson, Ray Hoxit, Edwin Jones, Martha Kimzey, Gayle Lance, Rita Merrell, John Mueller, Har old Owen, Viola Perez, Carl Powell, Robert Reid, James Rog ers, Stanley Roper, Ann Schlunz, Carla Stevens, Mary Alice Wilkes, and Thomas Wilson. Attending N. C. State will be Tommy Stroup, Obie Willing ham, Joe Wright, Jr., Robert Green, Charles Bradburn, Ed Matheson, and Ray Green. Marilyn Baker and York Os borne have registered at Berea college. Ann Kilpatrick and Freddie —Turn to Page Five Drive Underway Little Theatre Plans Annual Picnic Sunday, Try-outs Set Brevard Little Theatre’s an nual picnic is scheduled to take place at Camp Straus, Sunday, September 16th, at 2:00 p. m. An open invitation is extended to all who are interested in Lit tle Theatre activities to come and bring their lunch. Those wishing to bring meat to cook may do so as facilities and a cook will be provided, as will relish, pickles, catsup, etc. It is Import ant that those who wish to at tend notify either Mrs. Jane Johnson at 3-3308 or Mrs. wee Dysart at 3-3271 as BLT is fur nishing dessert and beverage for ail. A special invitation Is issued by the president, Mel Evering ham, to all newcomers, includ ing personnel associated with construction at DuPont and Olin Mathieson plants, Mitchell-Bis sell plant at Rosman, Photo Products division at DuPont, the Alexander Wood Products com —Turn To Page Fivt Verdicts ■ , . ‘ Handed Down Several cases were heard in Transylvania’s County court this week, and Judge Robert Cash handed down verdicts in ninst of them. Others were ; continued. Walter Hawkins pled guilty to no operator’s license and ■ had to pay S25.00 and costs. I Arthur Reece was found I aiiilty of drunk driving and Ind to pay $100.00 and costs. Andrew Lusk pled guilty to speeding and was assigned to work under the county com missioners for 30 days. Ben Fishbume pled guilty to drunk driving and had to pay $100.00 and costs. Walter Lee Norman was 1 <pund guilty of simple assault and was assigned to the coun | ty commissioners for 10 days j work. I Ellis Revis was found guil | ty of non-support and was giv en a suspended sentence. Marjorie Dills Galloway pled guilty to reckless driving and had to pay $25.00 and i costs. ! On a similar charge, Henry j C. Tucker pled guilty and had j to pay $25.00 and costs. i Larry David Hunnicutt had | to pay costs when he pled guil : ty to reckless driving. j-— ! Labor Survey | Is Being Continued A labor survey is being con tirued by the Rosman and Bre vard Chambers of Commerce. At the present time, they are u-ying to determine how many persons in Transylvania have had experience as a weaver on tape looms, label looms, ribbon looms, and narrow fabric looms. The information desired is as follows: Name, address and ex perience. Persons can write either to the Rosman Chamber of Commerce, Box 154, Rosman, or the Brevard Chamber of Commerce, Library Building, Brevard. Rescue Squad Issues Traffic Statement The Brevard Rescue squad would like to express to the pub lic its reasons for not directing traffic at the football games. The Rescue squad was not or ganized with the intention of performing any duties which are the function of a law enforce ment agency. The Brevard squad has not been trained in traffic manage ment and does not have the au thority to direct traffic in such numbers as are present at foot ball games. “We are on call at any time to serve where any emergency ex ists endangering human life and should such an emergency arise we would like to be free to an swer the call. There are other —Turn to Page Eight j The Weather J By - AL MARTIN Brevard’s Official Weatherman With a little over one-third inch of rainfall in Brevard dur ing the past week, high readings averaged almost 80 degrees with early morning lows a shade over 60 degrees average. High reading for the week came on Monday afternoon when the temperature dipped to 55. Readings for the week are as follows: Wednesday_ 83 68 .12 Thursday_ 73 58 0 Friday _ 74 55 .04 Saturday _ 72 58 .20 Sunday_.... 78 62 0 Monday _ 90 64 Trace Tuesday_ 88 61 Trace Brevard College Will Begin New Term Thursday, Enrollment High PRINCIPAL FIGURES at the Ihree-day fire training school in , Transylvania last week are pictured j above on the lakefront at Camp Straus, the headquarters. More than ! SO state and federal men who are experts in fighting forest fires in mountain country attended the school. From left to right, the men are: P. W. Tillman, assistant state forester; F. H. Claridge, of Raleigh, the state forester; Clark Grissom, Transylvania state forest ranger; B. Coi'pening, of Asheville, district forester; and C. C. Pettit, of Sylva, district forester. Another picture of one of the demonstrations of the school can be found on page two, first section. (Times Staff Photo) Bank Commissioner Will Hold Hearing In Court House Friday ! At Last Session Chamber Of Commerce Directors lake Action Engineers Club Being Organized The Brevard Engineers club held its second meeting Tues day evening at Gaither’s with 17 members present. E. H. Paxton presided, as tem porary chairman, pending a complete organization of the club and elections of officers. The club heard a brief talk on the applications of engineer ing in the field of municipal op erations by the Town Manager Bill Edens. At the close of the meeting, a steering committee was selected to prepare a proposed constitu tion, by-laws and to present nom inees for officers in the new club at the next regular meet ing. The Engineers Club of Bre vard is open to graduate engi neers and those who by experi ence and training have become proficient in the applications of engineering principles to all facets of endeavor. All persons in the Brevard area are invited to attend the next monthly meet ing and become acquainted with the aims and purposes of this new organization. Brownell To Speak To Accountants The Asheville area chapter, National Association of Accoun tants, will hold their first tec nical meeting on Tuesday, Sep tember 18th, at 6:30 o’clock in the Battery Park Hotel. The speaker for the evening will be Philip C. Brownell, vice president and general manager of the Ecusta paper and film operations, Olin Mathieson Chem ical Corporation, at Pisgah For est. His subject will be “Manage ment and the Accountant.” The regular monthly meeting of the directors of the Chamber oi Commerce was held Tuesday evening in the library. Committee reports were heard and discussed after the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and approved. It was reported that the cham ber will be represented at the State Conservation and Develop ment meeting, which will be held in Asheville next Wednes day. This meeting is pertaining to area promotion and industrial development, and four members cf these respective committees, Cecil Hill, Don Jenkins, Gil Coan and Charles Himes will attend The directors decided to erect a banner welcoming the Brevard College students to Brevard and Transylvania county. This will —Turn to Page Eight • Ben R. Roberts, commissioner [of banks in North Carolina, has (called a hearing here in Brevard I on Friday, September 14th, at 10:00 o’clock in the court house to consider applications of Northwestern Bank and First Citizens Bank and Trust compa ny. Both institutions desire to es I tablish banking facilities in Bre j vard. Northwestern has also j made application to establish a | bank at Rosman. Officials of both banks are busy this week contacting citi zens in the town and county, re questing support at the hearing. Brevard’s First Union Nation al Bank appears to be remain ing neutral in the fight. It was learned from a reliable source that both Northwestern and First Citizens have option ed sites in Brevard for a bank. A ruling on the applications is expected to be made when the full banking commission meets in Raleigh on October 17th. Program Highlight* Spotlight On Sports During Weekend Over Station WPNF Sports takes the spotlight on VVPNF this weekend as two foot ball games and a special sports broadcast are aired. Thursday afternoon at 5:40 Western Auto presents “Player of the Week” with a special award to an outstanding player in the preceding week’s Brevard High school football game. Thursday evening at 7:15 Bill Norris and A1 Martin will take to the air to describe the Ros man-Edneyville high school grid iron battle. Prim* to the game, interviews with Coaches Bill Cathey of Rosman and Bill Bell of Edneyville will be featured in the 15 minute warm-up. On Friday night, Ken Fry and Herb Turner of WHCC in Way nesville will describe the Bre vard-Waynesville football en counter to be played on the Mountaineer’s home field. On September 22nd, WPNF will begin a series of University of North Carolina football broad casts as Bill Curry of the Caro lina Radio Network does., the play-by-play account of the N. C. State-Carolina contest. Air time for that game will be 1:45 p.m. with kick-off slated for 2 p.m. Other Programs The schedule for the Farm and Home hour is as follows: Thursday, Rosman vo-ag dept, B. E. Keisler; Friday, ASC of fice, Glenn Whitmire; Monday, county agent; Tuesday, Soil con servation service; Wednesday, home agent Appearing on the Civic Hour are the following: Friday, Wed nesday club; Monday, Transyl vania Garden club; Wednesday, VFW Auxiliary. Speaking this week on Morn ing Devotions is Rev. Alfred Rhyne, pastor of the Lutheran church of the Good Shepherd. Next week Rev. Fred Valentine, pastor of St. Philip’s Episcopal church, will be heard. The Sunday morning church service is being broadcast through the remote facilities of WPNF from the Lutheran church of the Good Shepherd for this month. Construction Of Gymnasium Now Nears Completion Brevard college opens the !962-’63 term on Thursday with a capacity enrollment of some 420 students. According to President Em mett K. McLarty, the local ed ucation institution is looking forward to one of its most suc cessful years. Registration was held on Wednesday, and classes begin Thursday. This year’s sophomore class represents 85 percent of last year’s freshman class, and Glenn Hardesty, director of admissions, says that more than 500 applications were re ceived from high school and ether students desiring to go lo Brevard college for the first time. The new student body here is a selected one. Dr. McLarty says that sev eral teachers have been added to Brevard’s fine faculty. The new physical education plant is fast nearing comple tion, and it is hoped that the building and indoor swimming pool can be put into use in the immediate future. The Transylvania Times will publish its annual Brevard college “welcoming” issue next week. Interesting features, wel coming messages and a listing of the students will be carried. Jayceet kSunch Campaign For Scholarship In order to raise money for their college scholarship fond, the Brevard Jaycees are asking for donations that will enable seme worthy Transylvania coun ty student to attend college. Tickets are being given with each donation, and a brand new 1963 Chevrolet pick-up truck will be awarded to a donor on December 24th. The Jaycees have long been seeking some way of making a college scholarship possible, and this method was decided on at a recent meeting. “We encourage everyone to | contribute to this worthy cause,* stated Jaycee President Tom Mc Crary, “because we feel that ee ' eryone will want to take part in a project that will enable some Transylvania boy or girl to - attend college who might other wise be unable to go.” “We also fed that most every one has use for a pick-up truck,” he continued, “and that they will want to combine the possibility of becoming the owner of a brand new truck with the ehnne^ to help someone through college. Only the participation of m»ny people will make this project a success.” Tickets given in return for the donations may be secured from any Jaycee, and they will be die tributed up until 8:00 pan. on Christmas Eve, at which time the truck will be awarded. Mrs. AI Ream Resigns, LOWY Mrs. A. Bruce Bn dent of the Brevard Women Voters, has accepted the Mrs. A. M. This is non-partisan board member date to hold i political party. Mrs. Ream h didate for the
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