TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Educa
tional, Agricultural ami Music
(tenter. Population, 1060 Census,
16,372. Brevard Community 8,500,
Brevard proper 4,057.
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
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TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps, Entrance to
P>gah .National Forest and
Home of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival.
Vol. 74 — No. 20
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1963
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
453 Petitioners Ask For Election On ABC Store In Brevard
After receiving petitions with 4!>3
signatures of residents of Brevard, the
Town Board of Aldermen adopted a res
olution at a special call meeting this
week requesting the Representative and
Senators for Transylvania to introduce
a bill in (he legislature calling for an
election for the establishment of an
ABC store here.
The bill would exclude the sale of
beer and wine in any form.
Since the petitions contained ap
proximately 25 per cent of the number
for registered voters in the town, the
board felt that it had no other alterna
tive than to call for the election.
A large delegation appeared before
the board at the called meeting.
The election will not be held earlier
than July 9th, 1963.
The bill proposed the profits from
the store be distributed as follows:
Not less than 5 per cent or more
than 10 for law enforcement, as provided
by law
Not more than 5 per cent for educa
tion as to the effects of the use of alco
holic beverages and for the rehabilita
tion of alcoholics
The balance:
75 per cent to the General Fund of
the Town of Brevard
25 >per cent to the County of Tran
sylvania.
In the absence of Mayor B. W«
Thomason, Mark Osborne served as
mayor pro tern at the meeting, and otlior
aldermen attending were l)<>n Blanlcin
ship, Buddy Melton, Anthony Trantham
and Dr. John Tmesdail.
Others attending in an official ca
pacity were Cecil F. Hill, town attorney;
Bill Edens, town manager; and Mrs..
Opal Armentrout, clerk.
IMPERIAL MOTOR LODGE is now under con
struction mi (lie tour-lane highway loading into
Brevard at the city limits. At the loft is W. II. In
gram, the owner, and going over the plans with
him is I. M. Bag well, contractor, right. There are
24 rooms in the motel, a two-bedroom living quar
ters and an office. Mr. Ingram hopes to open the
modern mold in September. More details can be
found in story elsewhere in this week’s Times.
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Silver
Tea Set
Friday
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The annual Silver Tea sponsor
ed by the Hospital Auxiliary will
be held Friday, May 17th, from
2:00 to 4r00 o’clock in the
Nurse’s Hilling room at the Tran
sylvania Community Hospital.
This event is held each year
during National Hospital week,
and proceeds will be used for
the purchase of urgently needed
equipment.
Tours of'the hospital will be
given by members of the hos
pital sthff.
Women of the Sacred Heart
Catholic church and St. Philip's
Episcopal church are furnishing
cookies for the tea, and Mrs.
Enno Camenzind is in charge of
door prizes. Mrs. Marius Wells
is president of tne aujfiliary.
CALENDAR OF
* COMING EVENTS
Thursday, May 16 — League
of Women Voters meets at Gaith
er’s at 10:00 a. m. Open House
at Armory 5:00 to 7:00 p. m.
Lions meet at Campbell’s Esso
at 5-00 d. m. Kiwanis club meets
at Gaither’s at 6:45 p.- m.
Friday, May 17 — Silver Tea
and open house at hospital 2:00
to 4:00 p. m. Annual BLT
Awards dinner at Legion Build
ing at 6:30 p. m. Ace of Clubs
meets at 8:00 p. «n.
^ Sunday, May 19 — Attend the
church of your choice. Recital
at Brevard Methodist church at
4:00 p. m.
Monday, May 20 — Rotary
club meets at Gaither’s at 7’00
p. in. Brevard Senior High P-TA
meets at 8:00 p. m.
Tuesday, May 21 — Ace of
Clubs meets at 7:30 p. m. East
ern Star meets at Temple at
8 00 p. m.
Wednesday, May 22 — Jay
cees meet at Gaither’s at 7:00 p.
m.
Special Week Observed
Hospitals Described As Career,
Center", Many Ate Employed Here
Hospitals employ more than a
million anil a half workers in
some 200 different job classifica
tions, John Bailey, administrator
of the Transylvania Community
Hospital, said today on the ob
servance of National Hospital
Week, May 12-18.
The Transylvania Community
Hospital itself has 38 employees
in 18 job classifications, ranging
from accountant to x-ray tech
nician.
Theme of National Hospital
Week, held annually during the
week of Florence Nightingale’s
birthday, May 12th, under the
sponsorship of the American
f/ospital Association, is “Today’s
Hospital — Career Center for
America’s Youth.”
The hospital truly is a career
center. It might be likened to
a small city, Mr. Bailey said. The
hospital requires every level of
skill, profession, trade and tal
ent needed in a city, but it also
requires the specialized skills of
the nurse, therapist, and phy
sician.
For every hospital patient,
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Replies to Boyd
Representative Explains
Reasons On Local Bill
May 11, 1963
Mr. John I. Anderson, Editor
The Transylvania Times
Brevard, N. C. >
Dear Mr. Anderson:
The weather in Raleigh is be
ginning to beat down on us. It’s
been around 90 for several days
now. And, judging by the let
ter to the editor from Mr. Bob
Boyd last week, it might appear
that we are trying to make it
hot around here, too. I can as
sure you, though, that I prefer
to have the cool cool cool of the
mountains.
I’m not sure that I need to
answer Mr. Boyd’s letter, but
I think our people expect me
to say something about it. So,
let me first say cn what grounds
I agree with the many state
I
Graduates At UNC
Jerry Whitmire Awarded
Fellowship At Alabama
Jerry Morris Whitmire has
been awarded a three - year Na
tional Defense Graduate Fellow
ship for study in romance lang
uages at the University of Ala
bama, to begin in the fall of
1963.
Mr. Whitmire will graduate
from the University of North
Carolina in July.
He attended Rosman high
school and graduated in 1957
from the Martha Berry School
for Boys, Rome, Georgia. Prior
to entering the University, he
attended Brevard college.
The award provides a stipend
of $2,000 for the first academic
year of study, $2,200 for the
second, and $2,400 for the third,
plus an additional $400 yearly
for each dependent.
Mr. Whitmire will major in
Spanish and minor in French.
JERRY W1HTMIRE
ments Mr. Boyd made.
His first and last statement
regarding the five to one vote
for our Flood Control Program
is undoubtedly true. We cer
tainly showed by our votes a de
sire for this program. I am glad,
however, that he did not try to
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Open House" Will Feature First
Anniversary Of Armory Thursday
Public Invited
To Event From
From 5 To 7 pm
In celebration ol the first
anniversary of the opening of
flic Wilier Memorial armory
on French Broad street, "Open
House” will he held Thursday,
May 16th, from 5:01) p. m., un
til 7:00 p. m.
The public is most cordially
invited to this event at the
local U. S. Army Reserve
training center.
There will be displays of
unit equipment.
"Come out and help us ob
serve your Armed Forces
Day,” says SFC Kenneth F.
Gray, assistant advisor.
The modern armory was
dedicated last May in a cere
mony commemorating the pa
triotic services of Joseph’ '7(1
'■ffeti Miller, Jr., and his broth
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Du Pont Grants
Wage Increase
A wage increase averaging
6 cents per hour was announc
ed effective May 13th, 1963, ac
cording to the Brevard plant
management, E. I. du Pont de
Nemours & Company.
In commenting upon this in
crease, Don Biankinship, em
ployee relations supervisor
said:
“Despite the fact that the
Brevard Plant is in the middle
of a construction program and,
therefore, is far short of being
fully productive, it is never
theless consistent with our lo
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Best Season Predicted
Selle And Hunter To Head
AnnuaLMusic Center Drive
Plans are being formulated to
conduct the annual membership
campaign for the Brevard Music
center, James Christian Pfohl,
the director, announces today.
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i The Weather
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Precipitation for the week to
taled .17 of an inch occurring
late Monday afternoon and eve
ning. Daily high and low tem
perature readings averaged 81
plus and 52, respectively.
High reading for the week wis
an 88 recorded Saturday, with
low mark coming on Thursday
and Friday mornings when the
temperature dropped to 47.
Readings for the week arc as
follows:
High Low Prec.
54
47
47
58
56
52
51
0
0
0
0
0
Trace
.17
Wednesday 80
Thursday _84
Friday_85
Saturday_88
Sunday _82
Monday_71
Tuesday_81
Above normal
are forecast, with
ings today. Normal high and
low are 75 and 52. A total of a
quarter-inch of precipitation is
expected in the form of showers
or thundershowers on Friday
and Sunday or Monday.
temperatures
cooler read
Wolfgang Sclle is the now
chairman, and Mrs. Ruth Hunter
will serve as co-chairman.
According to Mr. Pfohl, more
fine artists are coming to the
Music center this summer than
during any two seasons in the
past.
“We are looking forward to
•our best year,” lie states.
Memberships are as Jollows:
Single — $25.00
Sponsor — $50.00 (2 tickets)
Patron — $100 (2 tickets)
Donor — Over $100.
More details on the 1003 sea
son will be announced next
week.
Radio Network
Group To Meet
In Brevard
Some 60 members of the
Southeastern Regional Commu
nications Network of the Mili
tary Affiliates Radio System
(MARS) of the United States
Air Force will meet here this
weekend.
The visitors, from all over the
state, will be guests of local ama
teur radio operators who are
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THE BREVARD ROTARY CLUB
was the first recipient of the Gover
nor’s Attendance trophy for having
five-months of perfect attendance by
the entire1 membership. Charles Pic
kelsimer, the president, is holding
the beautiful trophy as other officers
look on. Brevard Boiarkins will
until
tain tire cup
left to rijrlil. are:
tiers, vice president
elected president:
treasurer: and Dr.
1!)G4. Standing
Dr. Janies San
who is the newlyl
John Alvin Gray,
Marius H. Wells,
the secretary.
(Times Staff Photo)
Succeeds Kimzey
Miller Named Principal
At Brevard Senior High
N. A. .Miller, Jr,, supervisor
of in.sl ruction in the Transvl
vania school system since 1950,
has been named principal of
Rrevard senior high school,
Supt.' Wayne Rradburn announ
ces.
lie succeeds llobert T. Kim
/ey, who resigned recently, ef
fective July 1st, 1003.
Currently, Mr. Miller is com i
pic! ing his doctor's degree at the
University of Tennessee at Knox
ville.
lie holds a US degree in Edu
cation from Western Carolina
college. Cullowhee, and a M. E. ]
degree from Springfield college.
Springfield, Mass.
Resides his work in the Tran
sylvania educational system. Mr.
Miller has taught at Broughton
high school, Raleigh; Springfield
College, Springfield, Mass; Roy- ]
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N. A. MILLER, JR,
Reiter Announces
More Religious Programs
Being Heard Over WPNF
Program Director Fred Reiter
announces a new program added
to WPNF’s Sunday morning
schedule.
The new broadcast will be
called, “Revivallime,” and will
be sponsored by the Seliea
Church of God. The program
will be conducted by the pastor
of the church. Rev. Ralph Press
ley. Broadcast time will be 7:30
a.m.
This brings to five, the total
of locally snonsored religious
broadcasts heard on the local
station on Sunday.
Tlie others, their sponsors and
times of broadcast include the
“Pull Gospel Hour,” Rev. Bert
Podson of the Rosman Church
of God; “Gospel Hour,” Rev. Al
vin Jones; “Broadcasting for
Jesus,” Rev. Dewey Powell.
Times of these programs are
8:00, 8:30, and 9:00 a.m., respec
tively.
In addition, the “Voice of Cal
vary” is heard Sunday afternoons
at 5:30 p.m. The program is con
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Teacher
List
Announo
A list of teachers who
shined contracts for the 19
school year is released today
<’. \V. Bradburn, superintende
of the Transylvania Couil
schools.
Several vacancies still exist
seme of the schools, and a
of additional teachers will
released when they have
obtained, he stated.
The schools, their princij
and teachers arc as follows: J
Brevard Senior high school, j
A. Miller, Jr., principal;
Sarah Abercrombie, Mrs.
Andrews, Robert Armstr
Mrs. Velma D. Brittain, Clii
Brookshire, Mrs. Rose N.
rell. Landon Deal, John D. ]
ersrnsn, Sirs. Alma L. Gallo
Charles Glass, Mrs. Anna
day, Mrs. Margaret M. Kin
Randal J. I.vday, Mrs.
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Rescue Squa
Plans Auctio
July 2Kill and 27th j
born sot for the Brevard
one Squad’s auction.
According to Captain
Rowe, last years auction
such a success the squad j
to make this an annual aj
I,ast year squad men
hoped to raise enough mi
to purchase a small rea«
tor. As it turned out, on
the finest resusitators on