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
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest and
Home of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival.
Vol. 73 — No. 47
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1962
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THE BOY SCOUT TROOP No. 704, sponsored by
Brevard Elks is pictured above receiving its new
charter. At the left Don Stoneback, exalted ruler,
is receiving the charter from Charles Moore, mem
ber of the district committee. Behind the two men
Harry Kolm in, institutional representative, and
Hugh Pegra a, scoutmaster. At the right is Julian
Schoenberg, leading knight of the Elks lodge. Scouts
from left to right are Harry Pierson, Verrill Stiles,
Larry McCall, Charlie Peterson, Ronnie Stiles, Wel
don Lusk, Barry Curlee, Harry Stiles, Jr., John
Pressley, J. H. Schoenberg, and Marty Pressley.
(Times Staff Photo)
Seven Blue
Devils On
BBC Team
Brevard’s Blue Devils placed
seven men on the Blue Ridg'
Conference All-Stars selected le
coaches of the circuit at tiifcir
November meeting at Enka High
Monday night.
The mentors picked offensive
and defensive teams and listed
a large number of honorable
mentions.
The Blue Devils, conference
champs with 10 straight wins,
placed five players on the offen
sive team and three on the de
fensive, however, one of the Bre
vard stars — tackle Butch Sker
rett — was named to both the
offensive and the defensive
teams.
Fullback Jim Fortune of Bre
vard was the only player to re
ceive a unanimous vote. He was
selected on offense by all six
coaches.
In addition to Skerrett. and
Fortune, other Brevard players
named to the “All-Star” team
were:
Lloyd Fisher, guard
Donnie Owens, center
Carl Collins, quarterback
Larry Landreth, end
Jerry Collins, halfback.
Honorable mention went to
Don Owens, end, and Gerald Fan
ning, tackle.
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Wednesday, November 21 —
Toastmasters meet at Gaither’s
at 6:30 p.m. WOW meets at
Woodman Hall at 8:00 p.m.
Community Thanksgiving serv
ice at Presbyterian church at
8:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 22 —•
Thanksgiving — a holiday in the
town and county. Masons meet
at Temple at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 24 —
Teen Center dance at Legion
building at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 25 — At
tend the church of your choice.
Monday, November 26 — Ro
tary club meets at Gaither’s at
7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 27 — Ace
of Clubs meets at 7:30 p.m. Bre
vard Junior High P-TA meets at
7:30 p.m. Elks meet at Lodge
at 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 28 —
Christmas parade at 4:30 p.m.
Jaycees meet at Gaither’s at
7:00 p.m.
Big Parade Next Wednesday
To Open ’62 Christmas Season
Final plans for the gigantic
: Christmas parade that will
j usher the 1962 Christmas sea
j s- i nut Brevard iave been
I announced by Dan Hawkins,
chairman of the Merchants di
vision of the Chamber of Com
merce.
I
The event will be held on
Wednesday, November 28th,
and will commence promptly
at 4:30 p.m., marching up East
Main street, and following a
route described in detail in a
large ad found elsewhere in
this issue of The Times.
Over 30 units, comprised of
nine beautiful floats designed
especially for the occasion,
many lovely beauty queens,
two bands and other entries
will make up the long parade.
The parade committee an
nounced today that the line
up was complete and that ab
solutely no other entries could
be accepted. Each entry has
been designated a number, and
no other entries will be al
lowed to enter the parade.
The Merchants committee of
the Brevard chamber of com
merce also announces that all
Brevard stores would be closed
from 4:30 until 5:30 during
the parade. The stores will
re-open at 5:30 for the con
venience of those shoppers at
tending the parade.
The merchants extend a
cordial invitation for everyone
to attend both the parade and
show in Brevard this Christ
mas.
Ralph Duckworth Named County
Key Blanker" In This Section
A prominent Brevard banker
has been named to coordinate
farm activities of the N. .C. Bank
ers association in this area.
NCBA President Oscar J.
Mooneyham, Sr., of Forest City,
lias announced that R. J. Duek
I worth will serve as “County Key
Banker” for Transylvania coun
ty during the next 12 months.
Mr. Duckworth is executive con
sultant of First Union National
Bank.
North Carolina’s 100 County
Key Bankers continue to make a
noteworthy contribution to agri
culture through the farm pro
grams of the NCBA, Mooneyham
stated. He pointed to the rec
ognition that Tar Heel bankers
have won.
Mr. Mooneyham thanked Mr.
Duckworth for his willingness to
help promote the NCBA’s pro
grams to assist in building a
sound farm economy in North
Carolina and stated that the
NCBA spends more time and
money on its farm programs
than any other phase of its activ
ity.
The association sponsors,
among a variety of projects, a
two-week school at State College
each February, attended by
about 150 young farm leaders
from across the State. Over
1,100 scholarships to the school
have been awarded since its in
Record Outstanding
Hunter Named As The County s
Morehead Scholarship Nominee
After extensive investigation
and a personal interview, the
Transylvania Scholarship com
mittee announces Mike Hunter
as the county’s nominee for the
John Motley Morehead founda
tion scholarship.
The Morehead scholarships
are awarded to a select group of
North Carolina high school sen
iors for study at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The nominees must be young
men who demonstrate superior
scholastic ability, exceptional
qualities of moral character, and
a capacity to lead and take an
interest in school life.
Young Hunter is a busy BHS
student. He has made straight
A’s since the ninth grade and
is ranked number one in his sen
ior class oif 180 students. He is
—Turn to Pago Six
MIKE HUNTER
ception by bankers, all expens
es being paid by their hometown
banks.
The annual farm credit confer
ence brings together several hun
dred farmers and bankers. A
soil judging contest in the in
terest of soil conservation is an
other project of the NCBA.
Meanwhile, the bahks of North
Carolina continue to lend more
money to farmers than any other
institutional group of lenders.
Thanksgiving Will Be Quietly
Observed In Town And County
Christmas Clubs
Paying Out
Over 540,000
Santa Claus will arrive early
for many Brevard and Transyl
vania county citizens, thanks to
the Christmas clubs at First Un
ion .National bank and Brevard
Federal Savings and Loan asso
ciation.
Approximately $40,000 is going
in the mails to members of the
two clubs at the two banks. The
bank executives said the extra
money saved during the past 50
weeks proves beneficial to a larg
er number of participants each
year.
“The more than $40,000 going
into our trade channels in the
community will definitely be felt
in all lines of business,” they
declared,
“This much money is bound to
be a stimulant for business in
general, and the dollars will
likely change hands many times
during the coming weeks.”
Scouts To Hold
Recognition
Meeting, 30th
The annual recognition meet
ing of the Transylvania District
Boy Scouts will be held Friday,
November 30th, at 7:30 o’clock
in the Masonic Temple.
This meeting will give recog
nition to cub scouts, Boy Scouts,
Explorers and scout leaders for
their advancement and services
during 1962.
Kenneth Drupiewski, Scout
executive of the Daniel Boone
council, will be the principal
speaker.
All scouts, parents and friends
are urged to attend the meeting.
Transylvania Communities
Organizing 4-II Clubs
Community 4-H clubs are well
under-way in Transylvania coun
ty as a result of the redirected
4-H club program. The 4-H
clubs are moving out of the
schools to a community basis
with adult leaders working with
the members.
The local extension staff com
prised of James E. Davis, coun
ty extension chairman; Jean
Childers, Home Economics Ex
tension agent; and W. L. Wilson,
Jr., Associate Agricultural Ex
tension agent are training lead
ers who are working with 4-H
boys and girls.
Leaders will be able to give
more time to smaller commu
nity groups than agents could
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! The Weather \
The early morning tempera
tures remained in the vicinity
of or below freezing during the
past week with the exception
of Saturday morning when the
mercury dipped to only 52 de
grees.
This was 13 degrees lower
than the high for the week which
occurred on both Friday and
Sunday when the temperature
climbed to 65 degrees.
Rainfall for the week again
confined itself to the weekend
with just over eight-tenths of an
inch being recorded.
Official readings for the week
are as follows; ,
High Low Prec.
Wednesday _59 19 0
Thursday__ 62 27 0
Friday - 65 32 0
Saturday _ 63 52 .14
Sunday_ 65 39 .67
Monday _51 28 0
do in larger school groups. |
Adults leaders are more able to j
assist in project work and in
special 4-H activities.
Under the redirected 4-H club
program ,the following leaders
are working with community
4-H clubs:
Mrs. E. H. Mackey, Mr. and
Mrs. N. B. Woody, Weaver Cor
dell, Lola Mae Glazener, Ever
ette Norris, Mr. and Mrs. Norris
Powell, Keitha Faye McCall, and
Joe McCall.
Other communities will be or
ganized as soon as leaders can
be obtained.
Junior High P-TA
To Visit Classes
Tuesday Night
The Brevard junior high
school P-TA in cooperation with
the school administration will
conduct a classroom visitation
program on Tuesday, Nbvember
27th, at 7:30 p.m.
The purpose of this program is
to enable parents to meet the
teachers and see the facilities of
the school.
The program will begin with
a general meeting in the school
cafeteria following which par
ents will spend 10 or 15 minutes
in each of the classrooms accord
ing to the schedule of their jun
ior high school son and daugh
ter.
Joseph W. McGuire, principal,
invites any interested adult to
participate in this program.
Following the tour of the
school, refreshments will be
i served in the cafeteria.
Forgive Us, Lord, For ShailowThankfulness
By W. W. REID
(North Carolina Christian Advocate)
Forgive us, Lord for shallow thankfulness,
For dull content with warmth and sheltered care,
For songs of praise for food and harvest 'press,
Yet of thy richer gifts all unaware:
Teach us to thank three, Lord, for love and grace,
For life, and vision, and a purpose clear;
For Christ, thy Son; and for each human face
That shows thy message ever new and near.
Forgive us, Lord, for selfish thanks and praise,
For word that speaks at variance with deed;
For give our thanks for walking pleasant ways
Unmindful of a broken brother’s need:
Teach us, O Lord, true thankfulness divine
That gives as Christ gave, never counting cost,
That knows no barrier of “mine” and “thine,”
Assured that only what’s withheld is lost.
Forgive us, Lord for feast that knows not fast.
For joy in things the while we starve the soul,
For wars and walls that hide thy mercies vast
And mar our vision of the Kingdom goal:
Open our eyes to glimpse thy Love’s intent,
Our minds and hearts so plumb its depth and height;
May thankfulness be days in service spent,
Reflection of Christ’s Life, and Love, and Light.
Art Work Of Pearl Sheldrick
On Display At The College
The work of Asheville artist 1
Pearl H. Sheldrick is on exhibit
in the Faculty Lounge of Sims
Campus Center building at Bre
vard College. The showing will
hang through the month of De
cember and is open to the pub
lic, according to Kenneth Du
Bois, head of the college Art
Department.
Mrs. Sheldrick teaches pri
vately at the YWCA and at St.
Joan of Arc school in Asheville,
she is a member of the Profes
sional Artists’ and Museum
groups in Asheville.
Her work has been featured
five times in the international
artists magazine, FAMOUS ART-1
ISTS, and has been exhibited in I
Michigan, Ohio, New York, Cal- j
ifornia and North Carolina. She |
is' represented in the traveling:
exhibit of the Conservative
Painters of Western North Car
olina which is now in Latrobe,
Pa.
Mrs. Sheldrick studied at the
Academy of Arts in Chicago, at
Meinsinger’s School of Art and
the Redford School of Art in
Detroit, and at the Famous Art
ists School in Westport, Connec
ticut. She paints landscapes,
still life and portraits in both
oil and pastel.
Program Highlights
WPNF To Carry "Word Pic”
Of Gigantic Yule Parade
WPNF will broadcast a de
scription of the 1962 Christmas
parade in downtown Brevard
next Wednesday afternoon, it
was announced today by A1 Mar
tin, station manager.
“Again this year, we are most
appreciative to Citizens Tele
phone company for arranging
the lines to make it possible for
js to broadcast highlights of the
parade,” Mr. Martin said.
The entire broadcast, begin
ning just prior to the parade
and continuing until the entire
line has passed the two vantage
points to be set up, will be car
ried as a public service of the
local station to those persons
who would be unable to attend
Ihe colorful event.
“Both Leon Southerland and
l are looking forward to doing
he parade broadcast this year
. . hoping that our words de
scribing the color and pagentry
)f this annual event will help
spread the spirit of the Christ
mas season which it heralds,”
Martin concluded.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm
md Home hour is as follows:
rhursday, Thanksgiving; Friday,
’'arm home administration, John
Collins; Monday, county exten
sion chairman; Tuesday,
ioil conservation service, Grover
McPherson; Wednesday, home
igent.
Speaking this week on Morn
ing Devotions is Rev. Henry
Becker, pastor of the Sacred
Heart Catholic church. Next
week Rev. Dan Wallen, pastor of
the Cherryfield Baptist church,
will be heard.
The Sunday morning church
service is beinfj* broadcast
through the remote facilities of
WPNF from the First Baptist
church. Rev. Harold Killian is
pastor.
Rotarians Hear
Mario Perez
Mario Perez, a member of the
Brevard college faculty, was
guest speaker at the meeting of
the Brevard Rotary club Mon
day evening.
The meeting was held in Gaith
er’s Rhododendron room, and
Charles Pickelsimer, president,
was in charge of the meeting.
Mr. Perez, a native of Cuba
who has lived in Brevard since
August, 1960, spoke of the cur
rent Cuban situation. He told
about conditions as they were
years ago, the conditions as they
were when he left Cuba for
America, and developments dur
ing the past two years.
The speaker was introduced
by David Varner.
Special Service
Wed. Night,
Times Out Early
Transylvanians will observe
the 1962 Thanksgiving in the
traditional manner on Thurs
day.
There will be large family
gatherings, and the day,
throughout the town and
county will be a holiday.
Stores, town and county of
fices, the bank and post of
fices will be closed Thurs
day.
The county offices will al
so close on Friday and Satur
day, but the city hall will re
main open those two days.
Residential garbage collec
tions that are usually made on
Thursday will be picked up on
Wednesday afternoon this
week.
There will be no rural or
city delivery of mail, and the
General Delivery window will
be open from 11:30 to 12:00
noon.
In order that subscribers
may have their issue of The
Transylvania Times before
Thanksgiving, this newspaper
went to press Tuesday after
noon.
All town and county schools
will have a holiday on Thurs
day and Friday, and Brevard
college students will be ex
cused from classes at noon
Wednesday for the weekend.
The Community Thanksgiv
ing service will be held in the
Rrevard-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,
under the direction of Char
les 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
county are urged to attend
this Thanksgiving service.
Hundreds of hunters from all
parts of Eastern America are
here for the organized hunts
in the Pisgah National Forest,
and Thursday is expected to
be a good “hunting” day
throughout the county.
Organized Deer
Hunts Are Said
Successful
The 1962 deer hunting season i
opened Monday. Hunting dur- ■
ing the past two days has been |
described as good.
It is estimated that in the en- |
tire Western Management area, ‘
more than 250 deer have been -■
killed during the two days.
Here on Davidson River 18 of ^
the 183 hunters made nice kills,
on Monday, and one bear and*
one wildcat were also bagged.
Charlie Gibbs got the hu,
deer Monday, an eight-poir
weighing 185 pounds.
R. L. Roper killed an eii
point, 112 pounder, while
old Siniard bagged a four-pu
er, Pete Bikas a five-pointer, i
Leslie Coleman also made a I
By mid-afternoon Tuesday,
deer had been checked out
the Davidson River station.
At the North Ming
checking station, 21 of
hunters checked out
on Monday.