TRANSYLVANIA—
An industrial, Tourist, Educa
tional, Agricultural and Music
Center. Population, I960 Census,
16,372. Brevard Communi.y 8,690,
Brevard proper 4,867.
Vol. 74 — No. 23 *
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A Stale And National Prise - Winning AJt.C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
Tbo Land of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps, Entrance to - i
\ ^isgah National Forest and
Home of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1D63, BREVARD, N. C. PRICE 10<: * 24 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLt
A MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE was hold last
(hursday morning at tho Ciillcspie-Evorgreen cem
etery, and tribute was paid to all veterans making
the supreme sacrifice. Principal participants on the
program, front row, left to right, are: Mrs. ,J. Ik
Pettit, Admiral l.igon Ik Aid, Rev. R. L. Phillips,
David Sams, Mrs. lily Royers, M. Wtilpi, Mrs.
Herbert Woodard, Mrs. Irene Slack, Done Mc
Dalia, All’s. Kck Sims and Mrs. I*'. N. lOyorlon. Hack
row: I’.ill Haves, \\r. fi. Head.. K. Wilson, 'Wal
ter ('antroll and A. K. Norville.
(Times Staff Photo)
Conferences
Slated At
College
More Ilian 400 members of the
North Carolina Pupil Transpor
tation association will attend the
annual conference next week at
Brevard College.
The conference is the first in
a series of annual meetings this
summer on the campus of Bre
vard college.
It will be followed by Guid
ance Counselors, slated June
15th and 16th. and^'ie following
week there will be conference of
the American Cheerleaders as
sociation.
Some 80 persons of the Ad
vanced Division of the Brevard
Music center will be on the eamo
us from June 17th to August 4th.
Other groups holding confer
ences at Brevard College this
summer are as follows:
Trust Training School
Spiritual Life Retreat
Music Federation Weekend
Piano Workshop
k Rood Art Workshop
Disciplined Older of Christ
According to C. A. Buttcr
w’orth. the business manager of
Title college, other groups are
making arrangements to hold
conferences here.
Masons To Hold
Past Masters
Night Thursday
Past Masters nieht will be ob
served at an emrrepnt commun
ication of Dunn’s Rock Masonic
lodire Thursday, June Pth. at
8-nn n’pjock. in the Masonic
fcTcmnle. according to .T C .Cas
^sell. Jr.. Worshinful Master.
The local lod'*e has 94 living
|Past masters. 21 of which re
side in Transylvania countv
and will be present for the
event.
The main feature of the eve
ning will be Die noct master?
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CM ENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, June 6 — Kiwanis
club meets at Gaither’s at 6:45
p.m. Lions club meets at Coloni
al Inn at 7:00 p m. Masons meet
at Temple at 8:00 p.m.
Friday, June 7 — Ace of
k Clubs meets at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 8 — Elks din
ner dance at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 9 — Attend the
church of your choice.
Monday, June 10 — Rotary
Club meets at Gaither’s at 7:00
p.m. Transylvania Shrine Club
meets at Ford’s Cabin at 7:00
p.m.
Tuesday, June 11 — Ace of
Clubs meets at 7:30 p.m. Cham
ber, of Commerce meets at Li
brary at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday. June 12 — Red
Cross Bloodmobile at First Bap
tist church 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
At Satellite Tracking Station
Collins Radio Company Will
Build Space Probing Antenna
The National Aeronautics
and space administration se
lected Collins Radio Co., Ce
dar Rapids, Iowa, to provide
the electronic systems for a
huge space - probing antenna
to be built at the satellite
tracking station in upper
Transylvania county
The contractor to build the
structure — the second 85
foot-diameter antenna to he
installed at NASA's Kosman
station — has not yet been se
lected.
NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center, Creenbelt, Md„
said it would negotiate a fix
ed price contract of about
$1.5 million with Collins for
antenna servo - drive mechan
ism operator consoles, com
mand - transmission equip
ment, tracking receivers and
ground communications gear.
The work will be done at
Collins’ Richardson, T e x.,
plant.
NASA said when the work
is completed late next year,
space scientists will be able
to process vast amounts of da
ta sent back to earth by the
various types of orbiting ob
servatories that are in the U.
S. launching program.
Aquatic School
Opens Monday
The American Red Cross Aqu
atic school opens Monday at
beautiful Camp Carolina.
A capacity attendance of some
150 persons is expected at this
first school of the '63 season.
The second session will be held
in August.
Among the directors of the
school are Bill McDonald, Harry
Kenning, Jack Evans and Lloyd
Gross.
Swimming, life-saving, first
aid and waterfront safety are all
taught during the 10-day school.
Defends Leonard
Editorial Says: Worse
Than Looseness Al A Club
(Editors note: Transylvan
ia’s 1. mesentative, William
Leonard, lias been sharply cri
ticized by bis colleagues for
his comments about thc-in at a
Country Club party, but sev
eral newspapers have come to
his defense. We are reprint
irtg an editorial from the
Smithfichl Herald, which was
entitled: ‘"Worse Than Loose
ness At A Country Club").
Representative William Leo
nard of Transylvania County is
an outspoken fellow. Maybe lie
says too much too plainly. May
be he was saying too much too
plainly when he reported to the
home folks, in a newspaper arti
cle, that members of the Gen
eral Assembly had engaged in
improprieties at a drinking par
ty
For certainly, he stirred a hor
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j The Weather I
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The local weatherman was so
busy congratulating himself on
the good fortune he enjoyed last
iveek with his forecast that he
completely ignored the ominous
clouds early this week.
Calling for heavy rainfall was
his major error, as ISrevard had
anly .42 inches for the week, all
coming on Wednesday of last
week. Temperatures dropped ov
er the weekend, and the average
for the week, a low of 50 and
i high of 76, was very close to
the predicted 52 to 55 and 74 to
76.
Extremes for the week were
the 81 on Wednesday of last
week, and the 44 on Monday
morning of this week.
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net’s nest when ho wrote:
“Occasionally some of you
have asked about the drinking
parties that go oil . . . 1 ran
.say that I have been to a couple
of these drinking parties where
many seem to get rather high.
I The employee’s party last Wed
nesday was typical. It was at the
country club and lasted until the
early hours. There were plenty
of senators and representatives
who were finding delightful
opportunity to enjoy the oppo
site sex in ways they would
rather have not discussed, They
probably had some regrets the
next day, but will undoubtedly
be quite willing to do it all over
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Hochschwender
Assistant At
GEORGE HOCHSCHWENDER
Beech Gap To Balsam Link
Of Parkway Is Now Open
The highest section of the
Blue Ridge Parkway — the 20
mile link from Beech Gap to
Balsam Gap was officially open
ed to the public last Saturday.
Often called the most scenic
section of the parkway, the link
reaches the highest elevations
along the entire motor road.
The section swings up to G,
053 feet in the Great Balsam
Mountains, which form a mas
sive land bridge between the
Blue Ridge and Great Smoky
Mountain ranges.
The new section ties in with
other stretches of the parkway
at Beech Gan and Balsam Gap.
Long awaited by the travel
ing public, the new section of
parkway will provide continu
ous travel along the scenic
route from Mount Pisgah to the
Great Smoky Mountains Nation
al Park —- a distance of CO miles.
There are more than 400
miles of the parkway open for ]
travel, between Shenandoah
National Park in Virginia and
the North Carolina entrance
to the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park near Cherokee.
Between Wagon Road Gap (on
U. S. 270 in Pisgah National
Forest) and its junction with U.
S. 441 near Cherokee, the park
way crosses rugged mountain
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Special School Tax Is Defeated
By A Vote Of More Than 6 To I
A BC
Bill
I Killed
The bill calling for an elec
tion in Brevard on the estab
lishment of an ABC store here
was killed by the House Prop
osition's and Grievances com
mittee last Friday morning.
The jill was introduced into
the ITm.se last Tuesday by Rep
resent.'! ive William Leonard at
the reciuesf of the Town Board
of Aldtrmen.
Previously, the board had re
ceived petitions with 453 names
requesting such an election.
Aflei the introduction of the
bill, a hearing was called be
fore He Propositions and Grei
vances committee.
Aiwng those calling for the
hearing was Mayor B. W. Thoma
son, vho told the legislative
body that he was asking for
such : hearing as an elected of
ficial of I tie town
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B ngo Reports,
Ads Ruled
Illegal By PO
Frequently requests are
made ol' both the advertising
and news departments of The
Times about bingo games.
Sponsors of the game wish to
buy advertising space and al
so news stories.
The Post Office Department
lias a ruling that any newspa
per using the- word in connec
tion with advertising or re
porting' news of such is harred
from the mails.
To save embarrassment and
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Named Special
Music Center
Floridian George A. Hochs
ehwender, a Tampa civic leader,
will join the staff of the Bre
vard Music Center this summer
as special assistant to the di
rector, James Christian Pfohl.
Mr. Hochsehwender, a native
of Brooklyn, graduated from
Princeton with a degree in pol
itics and was an artillery aviator
with the Army. Before moving
to Florida and becoming a trac
tor dealer, he was associated
with the Central Intelligence
Agency. He is now in the real
estate business.
Even with his varied business
background, Mr. Hochsehwender
is no stranger in the field of
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Street Dances
Begin Next
Monday Night
Summer square dances will
begin Monday evening, June
10th, for teenagers on the Winn
Dixie parking lot on North
Broad street.
Dancing will begin at 8:00
o’clock, and music will be by
Blaine Emory’s band. Callers
will be Earl Dowell and Harry
Ballard. A concession stand will
be operated by the Brevard
Jaycees.
These dances are an activity
of the Transylvania Youth as
sociation, and will be open only
to persons in the ninth grade or
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OlllCIAL COUNT
Tuesday School Kloclion
Precincts For
Ho,yd ___ __fi(>
Brevard 1 _ 128
Brevard 2___ .'ll
Brevard 2_.___ 29
Brevard 4_ . _ 100
Cathey's Creek ___... . .10
Cedar Mountain__ 2
Dunn’s Itoek __ 20
Eastatoe __. 7
East Fork _ _
(iloiicester 1 __
Gloucester 2______
Hogback 1___
Hogback 2 0
Hogback 2 _________________ 1
Little River __ 9
Pisgah Forest ___ 17
Bosnian___ 12
Totals
1S7
:M0
290
227
271
2 12
429
44
1 72
1S 1
29
04
89
97
92
20
128
ov
• ) <
107
2201
J 1
Against
I
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In WNC Competition
Mis* Shirley 1 lamimll «4e **
County’s Dairy Princess
SHTRLFY HAMMILL
Look Inside..
Legislative report, page 8, sec
ond section.
Society news, pages 6 and 7,
third section.
Editorials, page 6, second sec
tion.
Brevard Music Center news,
page 4, second section.
Sports, pages 4 and 5, first
section.
Classifieds, pages 2 and 3, first
section.
Miss Shirley Ilammill, who was
"Miss Brevard '62". will serve as;
Transylvania’s Dairy Princess ini
the annual WNC contest in Ashe
ville this weekend.
Miss Sue Ellen Hunter, of Bre
vard, who was crowned Western
North Carolina’s Dairy Princess
last year, wiil crown the new
queen.
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Preliminary judging and a
dinner honoring all county prin
cesses will be held at The Manor
Hotel in Asheville, followed by
the pageant and final judging in
the patio of Westgate Shopping
Center at 8:30 p.m., on Friday.
The public Is invited to the final
judging at Westgate.
The Area contest is sponsored
by the Dairy' Commission of the
Asheville Agricultural Develop
ment Council in cooperation
with Western North Carolina
dairy farmers and milk plants
as a part of the national June
Dairy Month Program.
The winner of the Area Con
test on Friday night will repre
sent this section in the N. C.
Dairy Princess Contest to be
held on June 25th and 26th in
Statesville, N. C. with all expens
es paid.
Program Highlights
Documentary Program To Be
Heard Sunday On WPNF
Station Manager A1 Martin an
nounces today that Dr. James
Christian Pfohl, director of the
Brevard Music Center, is making
available to the station a record
ing of a special broadcast pro
duced by the staff of WBT in
Charlotte.
The program is in the form of
a documentary, which presents
important highlights in the his
tory of the Brevard Music Cen
ter since its beginning.
The special broadcast will be
carried over the local station on
Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m.
In’addition, Mr. Martin stated
that Dr. Pfohl was making ar
rangements for the local station
to rebroadcast the series of six
programs produced last summer
at the center and broadcast this!
spring by the National Broad-1
casting company.
The series was to have been
carried by the local station, but
due to last minute timing chang
es, only two of the six programs
were aired locally.
An announcement will be
made regarding broadcast times
and dates, once proper arrange
ments have been made with the
network for necessary tapes.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm
and Home hour is as follows:
Thursday, Brevard vo-ag dept.,
Randal Lyday; Friday, soil con
servation service, Grover Mc
Pherson; Monday, county exten
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Official Ballot
Was 487 For,
3361 Against
Transylvanians defeated a
special ad valorem tax for
schools by a vote of more than
six to one on Tuesday. Ac
cording to Spalding .McIntosh,
chairman of the election, the
official vote was 487 for ami
33(il against.
The election called for a tax
of 25 cents per §100 valuation
for school improvement. The
election had been recommend
ed by the Transylvania County
Citizens Committee for Better
Schools and approved by the
Board of education.
The County Commissioners
and others opposed the tax for
the following reasons:
(1) Because of revaluation,
at least SGO.OOO will be availa
ble for schools without a spe
cial tax.
(2) At the present rate, ftic
tax rate could be 82.28'j per
8100.00 valuation.
(3) Trade schools appear to
be the bggest need.
(4) It will discourage ex
pansion of present industry
and discourage new industry
from locating in the county.
The purpose of the election
as outlined by the committee
was for'
funds for upgrading' an#
-‘broadening the educational
opportunities in the schools
The money was to be used to
employ additional teachers, li
brarians, aud other supporting
personnel.
The vote Tuesday was heav
ier Ilian many observers antici
pated.
Bloodmobile
Returns Next
Wednesday
The Red Cross Bloodmobile re
ams to Brevard next Wednes- j
lay. June 12th.
It will set up at the First Eap
ist church, and a special effort
s being made through all the
hurchcs to have a large number
>f donors for the visit.
Civic clubs are also aiding in
securing pledges, with Rev. Fred
Valentine as the chairman.
The time of the visit is from
1:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the after
noon. and Mr. Valentine urges
ill persons who can and will to
jive a pint of blood.
Junior, Senior
Summer School
Opens June 10
Summer school for Transy
rania County junior and sen
high school students will
June 10th in the Brevard Junii
High school building.
Classes will be conduc
daily from 8:00 a. m. to 1:00
m. for 30 days. Students are ]
mitted to take one subject
ing this period of time.
All subjects taught in ju
and senior high school
which there is sufficient
mand will be taught in sun
school.
Registration will he
June 5th, 6th and 7th
junior high school !
from 9:00 a. m. to 3:00 ;