THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
Vol. 73 — No. 46 ★ ttjgRfljffg,Bih.gigyi9 BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1962 PRICE 10c ★ 24 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest and
Home of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival.
TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Educa
tional, Agricultural and Music
Center. Population, 1960 Census,
16,372. Brevard Community 8,500,
Brevard proper 4,857.
Derailment Of 13 Southern Railway Freight Cars Creates Much Excitement
SEVERAL OF the 13 freight cars that were derailed at the Da
vidson River sub-station about noon on Monday are pictured in the
front yard of the residence of Mrs. G. H. Lyday. The right photo is
a view of the wreckage from inside Mrs. Lvday’s home. It was through
this picture window that she witnessed the accident.
_ (Times Staff Photo)
THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY suffered a costly
accident on Monday, as 13 freight cars were de
railed at the Davidson River sub-station at Pisgah
i
Forest. A temporary track has been built around
the scene, and “mopping up” operations are con
tinuing. (Times Staff Photo)
Times To Be
Out Early
Next Week
^ In order that readers might
have their newspaper before
It, Thanksgiving, next week’s issue
of The Transylvania Times will
be published Tuesday afternoon,
November 20th.
The deadline for news, adver
tising copy and classified is at
noon on Tuesday.
Along with the regular news,
columns and features, special
Thanksgiving articles will be
carried.
“Be sure to look forward to
our next issue on Tuesday, the
20th”, Editor John Anderson de
clares.
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, November 15 —
League of Women Voters meet at
Gaither’s at 10:30 a.m, Kiwanis
club meets at Gaither’s at 6:30
p.m. Lions club jneets at Col
onial Inn at 7:00 p.m. BLT pro
duction of “Charley’s Aunt” at
American Legion building at
8.15 p.m.
Friday, November 16 — Ace
of Clubs meets at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 17 —
BLT production of “Charley’s
Aunt” at American Legion Build
ing at 8:15 p.m.
Sunday, November 18 — At
tend the church of your choice.
Monday, November 19 — Ro
tary club meets at Gaither’s at
7.00 p.m. Democratic Women
meet at Gaither’s at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 20 — Ace
of Clubs meats at 7:30 p.m.
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Transylvania s General County
Court Busy Monday, Tuesday
Transylvania’s General County
Court held a busy session on
Monday and Tuesday, adjourning
at 6:30 Tuesday night.
Chief interest in the court this
week was the disposition of the
cases against four clubs in the
county which involved illegal
possession of gambling devices
and keeping beer and whiskey
for sale in excess of legal
amounts.
Ordered to pay court costs and
fines of $200.00 each were VFW
Post No. 4309; American Legion
Post No. 88; Loyal Order of
Moose No. 1769; and BPO Elks
No. 1768.
Managers of the clubs were
listed in the original warrants,
which were altered in order to
try the organizations only. The
four cluhs were raided by state
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Season’s First
“Charley’s Aunt” Slated
Thursday, Saturday Nights
“Charley’s Aunt”, the first pro
duction of Brevard Little Thea
tre’s current season, will take
place at the American Legion
building, Thursday and Saturday,
November 15th and 17th, at
8:00 p.m.
Brandon Thomas’ hilarious
comedy, which is suitable thea
tre fare for all members of the
family, is under the direction of
Robroy Farquhar, managing-di
rector of the N. C. State Theatre
at Flat Rock.
The cast for this world-fam
ous farce whose plot centers
Davis Announces
rhis County Now Observing
National Farm-City Week
This is National Farm-City
week.
According to Jim Davis, form
s' county agent whose title has
seen changed to county exten
sion chairman in Transylvania,
the purpose of the observance is
to bring about better understand
ing between the people who live
in towns and cities and those
who live on the farm.
“These two groups must be
closely allied if our nation is to
remain strong. Neither can
prosper without the other and
the nation will not prosper un
less both prosper. The need for
better farm and city relations is
not as great in North Carolina
and Transylvania county as in
other places of the nation, but
even here there is room for im
provement,” Mr. Davis declared.
These two groups are bound
together by a common depen
dence upon land and water. In
the hustle and bustle of mak
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around the trickery involved in
two college students disguising
another male student as Char
ley’s aunt, is as follows:
Stephen Spettigue — E. W.
Freeman
Colonel Sir Francis Chesney
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I The Weather j
Just under two inches of pre
cipitation fell on Brevard during
the past week, soaking the al
most parched earth.
The largest part of the rain
fall was recorded from six p.m.
on Thursday evening until the
same hour on Friday. During
that twenty-four hour period,
1.90 inches fell.
High reading for the week
came on Sunday when the mer
cury hit 65 degrees. Low tem
perature was recorded on Wed
nesday as the reading skidded
down to 18 degrees.
Official readings for the week
were as follows:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday-60 18 0
Thursday- 50 36 0
Friday _ 52 42 1.90
Saturday - 63 34 0
Sunday_ 65 23 0
Monday- 55 24 0
Tuesday_ 53 34 .05
Costly Accident Occurred Monday
Near Davidson River Sub-Station
Canvass
Made Of
Voting
The canvass of the balloting in
the General Election in Transyl
vania on November 6th was held
in the court house here last
Thursday.
Ralph Lyday, chairman of the
Board of Elections, presided, and
he expressed sincere apprecia
tion to all registrars and judges
in the election.
He also thanked The Transyl
vania Times and WPNF for their
cooperation in the 1962 election.
Actually, the official vote was
very close to the unofficial re
sults, which were carried in last
week’s Times.
A table of the voting by pre
cincts of many of the local races
where there were contests ap
pears in ttie second section of
this issue.
Official results in the various
races are as follows:
Solicitor:
Leonard Lowe — 3796
State Senate:
Brantley (D) — 3439
Yates (D) — 3430
Breeding (R) — 2909
Vernon (R) — 2922
House of Representatives:
Leonard (R) — 3381
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Commerce Body
Hears DuPont
Plant Manager
Directors of the Brevard
Chamber of Commerce heard an
informative report on constric
tion and other proceedings tak
ing place at the local DuPont
plant at their regular monthly
meeting in the library Tuesday
night.
Albert Morrison, plant mana
ger pf DuPont’s Brevard opera
tion, spoke to the directors and
gave a most interesting progress
report concerning the new opera
tion here.
It was announced that the an
nual Christmas parade, sponsor
ed by the merchant’s division of
the Chamber of Commerce,
would be held on Wednesday,
November 28th. Full details on
the parade will be released later.
Walter Cantrell spoke to tie
group on the several recent in
stances of disrespect to the flag
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Rev. Harold Killian Will
Preach Thanksgiving Sermon
The Cemmunity Thanksgiv
ing service will be held in the
Brevard-Davidson River Pres
byterian church on Wednes
day, November 21st, at 8:00
o’clock.
The Rev. Harold Killian,
pastor of the First Baptist
church, will preach the ser
mon. Special music will be
by the Brevard Civic chorus,
li n d e r the direction of
Charles Jolliff.
Bookmarks for the world
wide Bible reading campaign,
from Thanksgiving to Christ
mas, sponsored locally by the
Transylvania County Minister
ial association, will be avail
able at this service.
The people of Transylvania
oounty are urged to attend
this Thanksgiving service.
REV. HAROLD KILLIAN |
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Purpose Cited
Education Week Is Being
Observed In County Schools
“Education Meets the Chal
lenge of Change” has been select
ed to serve as general theme for
the 42nd. annual American Ed
ucation Week to be observed in
Transylvania county this week,
according to N. A. Miller, Jr.,
supervisor of Instruction.
The basic purpose of Ameri
can Education week is to make
every American aware of the
important role education plays in
a Democracy, and to help him
realize that good schools and
colleges are, to a very large de
gree, his personal responsibility.
Every November the week,
which includes Veterans Day, is
set aside as American Education
week by four national sponsors:
the National Education associa
tion, American legion, National
Congress of Parents and Teach
ers and U. S. Office of Educa
tion.
American Education week
grew out of the revelation dur
ing World War I that an alarm
ing proportion of the American
people were illiterate and phy
sically unfit. NEA and the new
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Program Highlights
WPNF's Election Coverage
Praised, Many Are Thanked
Station Manager A1 Martin to
day expressed appreciation to all
thoise persons who helped to
make the local station’s election
coverage a success.
“It is gratifying to learn that
many, many local citizens stayed
with us until 4:15 a.m. on Wed
nesday morning, when we com
pleted our election party,” Mar
tin stated.
In addition to the many per
sons who assisted in making tel
ephone and radio reports, the
sponsor, Coleman Tire company,
came in for praise, as did Citi
zen’s Telephone company.
“Without firms such as Cole
man Tire company, our sponsor,
and Citizen’s Telephone com
pany, who provided the neces
sary telephone loops making the
broadcast possible, we would
have been unable to provide the
fast coverage, we afforded our
listeners,” Martin said.
“We are very grateful to all
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Lyday Property
Suffers Damage,
Work Continued
The derailment of 13 South
ern Railway freight cars below
Pisgah Forest at the Davidson
River substation about noon on
Monday created much excite
ment in the community dur
ing the past three days.
Of the number, 10 cars were
loaded with coal, which was
dumped along the tracks on
the property of Mrs. G. H.
I.yday.
There were no injuries in
the accident, and the cause has
not been determined. Some
observers feel that it was due
to a broken track.
In all, there were some 60
freight cars, and the first one
derailed was the 20th behind
the engine.
Two of the overturned cars
were loaded with merchandise
for the Olin Mathieson Chem
ical corporation. The other
car was empty.
The dumped coal was clean
ed up and delivered Monday
night and Tuesday, and a tem
porary track has been bnilt
around the scene of the acci
dent.
Repair work to the damaged
section of the tracks is expect
ed to take another day or two.
It was a costly accident for
Southern Railway.
Mrs. Lyday was probably the
most frightened person when j
the accident occurred.
She was in her kitchen pre
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Reward Offered
For Stolen Dogs
The Transylvania county
Humane Society offers a re
ward for the apprehension of
those persons who trespassed
on county property and stole
five dogs from the new county
animal shelter located on Boss
road.
The sheriff’s department Is
working on the case and will
continue to do so the
theft is solved.
A reward of $300.00 is offelt
ed by the United States'A*
mane Society for informattsai
leading to the arrest and con*
viction of anyone who feS
any dog or cat for resale or who
to poison any dom^^uUmaL
Anyone having information
should phone the
ciety at Brevard,