TRANSYLVANIA— An Industrial, Tourist, Educa tional, Agricultural arid Music Center. Population, I960 Census, 1(5,372. Brevard Cotnmuni.y 3,500, Brevard proper 4,357. THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper TRANSYLVANIA— The I..md of Waterfalls, Mecca 11*r Stinuner Camps. Entrance to I’: .'.'ah National Forest and 1 Ionic of Brevard College and Brevard Music Festival. Vol. 74 — No. 7 SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BREVARD. N. C. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1963 PRICE 10c ★ 24 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY Nation’s Top Travel Expert To Speak Here At Annual Commerce Banquet Tlic* USA’s Man of the Year in Mi<- travel industry — North U.irolina’s Voil Gilmore — will he the principal speaker at the animal liampiet of the Brevard ( liamhoi of Comhieree on I’ri ^ d.iy nivnl, Mart'll iith. The ladies’ niylil affair will lie held in llie Masonic tem ple, and elaborate plans are hc in•.* made for this auspicious orca-ioil. Mr tiilmore, a resident y the ‘‘Travel Man of the Year” award made annually by the Atllerican Motor Hotel associa tion for the greatest achieve ment in the travel industry. Operating in virgin territory | — (The U.S.A. was one of the few nations that did not have a national travel department) | — (tilinore got the “Visit U.S.A.” campaign going full blast in only a year and a half. USTS now has offices in 10 key countries in Europe, South America, Asia and the South I'acilic. "In the short span of 18 months the U. S. Travel Serv ice has gained an impressive foothold, unmatched in recent ; years by any comparable trav | el activity, government or pri vate,” wrote Editor Irwin Rob j inson of “Travel Weekly”, a biblo of the travel indu.sly. .. | This followed an earlier look I at the U.S.T.S. by syndicated j columnist I’.oh Considiiie, who said Voit (lilmore’s operation I was a good investment and 1 pointed out that evert with our 1 start in advertising U. S. trav 1 el abroad, the U. S. investment i in this project still ranked 23rd among 25 promoting trav el through nftional govern ment offices. j Mr. Considiiv touched on a major; reason for Voit Gil more'i success; He’s driving home jk> foreig icrs that travel in thi$ USA r :ed not be as expensive as reputed, and there are mao.sfattractions out side ports of entry and metro politan content which arc most inexpensive —I in North Caro lina lor instance. The soundness of this ap proach was refected in a 220 increase in travel to the U. S. from abroad during the first half of last year. An .outstanding feature of the "Visit tf.S.A.” program last year was the North Caro lina travel mission to Europe in March, the; first state-spon sored mission of this kind, and the visit to hfirth Carolina in October of 25 European travel executives lot on-the-spot in spection of ojir travel attrae —Turn to Page Three V01T GILMORE Directors of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce adopt ed a record budget of S7.500.00. at their regular 'February i meeting Tuesday night in the ; library. 1 It was presented bv W. H. Keith, chairman of the finance committee, and one of the largest items of expenditure is S2.000 for industrial devel opment. The meeting Tuesday night ! was one of the best that the directors have held in years in Brevard. It was Well attend ed. and many reports were heard. President VVavne Bradhurn urged all committee chairmen to have meetings during the : month and to have reports of t aims, objectives and accom plishments ready for the next .meeting. j lie stressed the importance of flic directors and member ship encouraging the building of homos and apartments for the many now people who are expected to come into the community this year. lie also placed emphasis on working with the merchants in remodeling and building a modern shopping area in the community. Dewey Nix. chairman of the merchants division reported that plans were being made for town wide promotions. He said one goal would be the stressing of better salesman ship in selling Urovard as an ideal place in which to shop. "We re going to encourage 'Urovard citizens to trade in Urovard." he commented. John A. Ford, chairman of the roads committee said that although the roads and high wavs may not appear to be in the best of condition because of the Weather.-the Stale High way officials are doing every thing possible to keen the. emintv 'out of the mud". He also brought the group up-to-date on the progress along the Blue Bidge Parkway. A report was also made on the progress of the Brevard College Development cam paign, which is under the lead ership of Bill Keith, and he said that so far response has been good. "it's no1 easy to raise $00, 000. but we feel that the drive will be a success.” A1 Martin, chairman of the advertising committee, asked for support of a campaign to boost Brevard. Town Manager Bill Edens, who heads the beautification committee, reported that his group'will come up with sev eral ideas lor beautifying the town. Dr. frank McGuire, chair man of Hie education commit ter, urged the directors and llie members of the Brevard —Turn To Page Three TR A NS YI.VA NIACOMMUNITY CENTER officials are shown above in fronl of the building on Gaston street discussing the renovation work that is now being done’and also the campaign to raise funds that begins on Thursday. From left to right, They are: Rev. Ron Ormand, the campaign director; Or. Julius Sader, president; Mrs. Kmrrtott K. McLarty, secretary; ami Tom McCrary, vice chairman, who is also in charge of scheduling meetings at the center. (Times Staff Photo) For Community Center Campaign For $20,000 Is Launched Here, Plea Is Made A campaign to raise $20,000 will be launched this Thurs day morning by officials of the Transylvania Community center, Itev. Ben Ormand, campaign director, says they hope the goal can be reached during the next two weeks. ‘IVe have a wonderful com munity, and if all of us will do our part, we will have no trouble in reaching our mark,” he declared. lie emphasizes that this is a five-year campaign in one. The expenditure of the $20, 000 Is broken down as follows: $1.‘>,000 - to pay for property $3,000 • for emergency re —Turn To Page Fivo CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Thursday, February 14 — Girl Scout cookie sale begins. Masons meet at Temple at 8:00 pm. Friday, February 15 — Meet ing of Better Schools Commit tee at Brevard Senior High at 7:30 p.tn. Ace of Club meets at 8 00 p.m. Brevard Little Thea tre play at Legion Building at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, February 16 — BLT play at Legion Building at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, February 17 — At tend the church of your choice. World War I Vets meet at court —To Tot* Friday, Saturday Little Theatre Will Present "You Can't Take It With You” The curtain goes up Friday night at 8:00 p.m. on one of the zaniest comedies ever pre sented by the Brevard Little Theatre. It is Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s stage and screen hit "You Can’t Take it With You”. The play itself is enough to convince you that “Everyone is crazy but me and thee, and sometimes even thee”. The Vanderhof household— three generations of the fam I ily — operates on a standard of values which underscores the coinage of happiness. Their delightful impracti cably is the basis of every re mark. When one member of the family asks, "What time is it?” she gets a helpful sugges tion. “Mr. dePinna might know,” and another idea, “It was five o’clock about two hours ago”. In this happy family grand father keeps pet snakes and goes to commencements, moth er has been writing plays since a typewriter was accidently delivered to the house 8 years before, father manufactures fireworks in the cellar, one daughter studies ballet and makes “love dream" candies, and her husband prints copies of sentiments which look good in type. Their way of life is put on trial when the lovely daughter Alice and her boss' son fall in love. And since the authors of the play, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, have a very active and dependable sense of comedy, the boss and his wife come to dinner on the wrong night and see the Van derhof household at its worst — or best. “You Can’t Take it With —Turn to Page Flvr On The Political Front (Fdi tor’s note: William Leonard, Transylvania’s rep resentative in the General Assembly at Raleigh, spent last weekend here at home. In the following article he reports on his activities during the first few days of the legisla ture.) _ ,J About a week ago Lewis P. Hamlin, Mrs. Al Ream and a large delegation of Leonards attended the inauguration cere monies at Raleigh where I was sworn in as your representa tive. It took us about an hour to find seats, it was so crowd ed. In fact, my wife, Biddy, sat in House seat Number 120, since it was vacant. She didn’t get sworn in, but I have won dered if any reporters were confused by her presence. The State Legislative build ing is certainly new as we all know. And it is much larger than we are used to in this —Turn to Page Five fT|uiiiiiniiniiinm»M»iiiiiiiiiiim«mnMHtnnnin f»l ! The Weather | Q mini11linni0 The weatherman’s call for snow was finally answered on Tuesday morning of this week, but by noon the snow had all but disappeared. Precipitation for the week to taled one and a quarter inches. High reading for the week was 67 and low temperature record ed was 15 degrees. Official statistics during the past week were: Wednesday - - - 67 23 0 Thursday - - - - 63 27 0 Friday. 49 29 0 Saturday. 42 25 0 Sunday.52 15 0 Monday.51 28 .27 Tuesday. 37 29 .98 At Olin Mathieson Brownell Is Named General Manager Of Packing Division Philip C. Brownell, a corpor ate vice president, has been named general manager of the Packaging Division of Oiin Math ieson Chemical corporation, it is announced by Stanley de J. Os borne, president. He formerly was manager of the Film Operations and Kcusta Paper Operations of the division. These two operations and the Forest Products Operations in West Monroe, U., comprise the operating units of the division. din’s Packaging division man ufacturers and sells a wide range of packaging materials including cellophane, kraft paper and board, shipping containers, mul tiwall sacks, grocery bags and folding cartons. It also offers Bible paper, lightweight print _Turn to Page rour PHILIP C. BROWNELL JL. ia Brevard Firemen Quell Stubborn Ayers Store Blaze Tuesday Night THE KICK-OFF CHECK in the Brevard College Development cam paign is being written by W. II. Keith, vice president of the First Un ion National bank here, in the pic ture above. Naturally, C. A. But | terworth, j wearing a the hank': pledge to cam pa urn treasurer, is pleased look as he accepts first paid. of a three-year Brevard C'ollojre. (Times Staff Photo) Early Response To College Drive Is Reported To Be Good The Brevard College Devel opment program is now under way in the town and county with a goal of 860.000.00. Three-year pledges are be ing solicited, and according to Gilbert F. Coan, solicitation chairman of the campaign, the advance gifts division is get ting fine response from busi nesses and industrial firms in Brevard who have already been contacted. Mr. Coan calls the local atten tion to two North Carolina com munitics who were convinced of the economic value of a local college. The first, Rocky Mount, raised 82,000,000.00, in 1960 to provide a site for a new college, and pledged 850,000.00, annually tc support the school. “Just last year," Mr. Coan said, “New Bern bid 81,000, 000.00, for Mount Olive college when it appeared that the citi zens of Mount Olive were be coming lax in their support of the college”. The Brevard College Develop ment Fund campaign is being conducted by a special commit tee of the Brevard Chamber oi Commerce, headed by W. H, Keith. This committee has set March llth-25th as the official cam paign period, although they add —Turn To Page Seven 'From Forest City WPNF Making Plans To Carry College Basketball Tourney WI’NF is currently engaged in making plans for carrying the Brevard College games to lie played in the playoff tournament next week in East high's new gymnasium in Forest. City, ae cording to A1 Martin, station manager. “It has been a most pleasura ble basketball season J'or us." Martin stated. “Frankly, we had expected far more complications in broadcast ing basketball Ilian in carrying football, hut the events of this season have proved n.s wrong.” Dining litis season, the station lias broadeast almost all of the local names for hot It the high school ami the college. “We would like to express our thanks to Ilrevard senior high school coach, Paul Maultsby, and Ilrevard College Coach “Chick” Martin for their assis tance." Martin said. "Our appreciation also goes to —Turn To Page Seven Brevard Rolarians Celebrate Anniversary, Background Cited Next week the Brevard Rotary club will celebrate the founding of Rotary on February 23, 1905, in Chicago, 111., Charles Pickcl simer, the local president, states. The local observance will be gin with an important meeting of the club next Monday night in Gaither’s Rhododendron room. The Brevard Rotary club was organized in August, 1947, and the charter night banquet was held the following month at the, old Franklin hotel. John 1. Amlershn was the first president, and other presidents are as follows: 19(i2-'63 C. W. Picklesimer, Jr. 1961-'62 Jack E. Bryant 1960-’61 James E. Davis 1959-’60 D. G. Dail 1955- 59 Gil Coan 1957-’58 Dr. Frank McGuire 1956- ‘57 A1 Perkins 1955-’5(i Kowell Bosse —Turn To Pago Four Much Difficulty' Encountered, Dept. Praised t> rtic town of Brevard suffer- i -*ed i(s ivnrsl fire Tuesday night v in about four years, when (lie liaseineut of Ayer’s store was milled by a blaze that was ilif I ii'ii11 to liiHng under control. According to Fire Chief Dan Merrill, damages would have been thousands and thousands of dollars worse than it was had it not been for the cour age and the ability of 22 of his fire fighters. "It was a dangerous fire to fight, and as nerve-racking as any we have ever had," Chief .Merrill declared. Preliminary investigations reveal that the blaze started in a little room near the fur nace and quickly spread to the stock stored in the base ment. "By quick thinking on the part of the department, we were able In keep the fire in —Turn to Page Thret Better Schools Group To Hold Open Meeting Tin' executive committee ( Hie Transylvania Citizens eon miltec. for Itetter Schools ai noiinees an important meetin at 7:.'ill pan.. Friday, Februai loth, at I lie I'.revard high schoi aiidiloriiim. This will he an open meetii and I’-TA members and oth interested persons are cordii invited to the meeting. Dr. David C. Lea, chairman I lie executive committee, mal the following statement rej —Turn to Page World War I Vets To Heai York Sunda^ John C. York, National uty Chief of Staff. Vete World War I, USA, Inc., the principal speaker at of World War I veterans Transylvania County co Sunday afternoon at 2:301 Headquarters of the Organization is located ington, I). C., and by 1 the 9th National Corn? are pressing in the t a more