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.Ii.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. 74—No. 31
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1963, BREVARD, N. C.
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★ 24 PAGES TODAY * PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Auction
, Sale A
Success!
Prospective bidders attend
ing the Brevard Rescue Squad
Auction Friday and Saturday
filled the auction building to
capacity forcing many to
stand outside.
Auctioneer John Ford kept
the tempo at a fast rate sell
in tr almost 400 individual
items.
Wives of squad members
operated a concession stand
selling homemade cookies,
cake and cupcakes, as well as
soft drinks and coffee.
Highlight of the Auction
came at 10 p. m., when the
winning Myrtle Beach Vaca
tion ticket was drawn by
Mrs. Gatha McCarson. Win
ner of the beach trip and
$125.00 expenses was Mr. Ar
nold Smallwood, of Pisgah For
est.
Special thanks go to the
Transylvania Times for their
wonderful coverage, to Olin
Mathieson for free advertise
ment and to Lyda-McCrary
, Ford for the donation of a
A 1950 Ford automobile, C'apt.
Jimmie Rowe states.
Money earned at the auc
tion and from the vacation do
th nations will be used to pur
chase equipment and to com
plete the new squad building.
“Thank you Transylvanians
for your generous support!”,
Mr. Rowe concluded.
Kaeser Is Heard
At Rosman, Sky
Top Reopened
Joe Kaeser, manager of the
RCA division, which will oper
ate the satellite tracking station
in upper Transylvania county,
was the principal speaker Tues
day night at the regular meet
ing of the Rosman Chamber of
CUiuutrce.
It was held in the school cafe
teria, with B. E. Keisler, the
president presiding.
^ Mr. Kaeser said that some 65
no 70 persons would come here
by August 15th to operate the
Tracking station, and they are
■^iow looking for housing facili
ties.
“Our people want to become a
part of the community,” he de
clared.
Nath Miller, of Coral Gables,
Florida, reported at the meeting
that the lease with Camp Sum
mr u ' ^e^n cancelled. "
He said that he and his wife
v • te Skv Top on
the same high plane that they
h. e neve for 15 years. |
It will be operated as a din
ing room and a family resort
center, with houses and cottages
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’ CALENDAR OF
» COMING EVENTS
Thursday, August 1 — Kiwan
is club meets at Gaither’s at
6:45 p.m. Lions meet at Colonial
Inn at 7:00 p.m. Masons meet
at Temple at 8:00 p.m.
Friday, August 2 — District
Tarheel Little Baseball tourna
ment at Junior High field at
5:30 p. m. Ace of Clubs meets
at 8:00 p.m. Brevard Music Cen
ter concert at 8:15 p.m.
Saturday, August 3 — Story
Ho - -i irausyivania County
Library at 9:30 a. m. Brevard
Music Center concert at 8:15
p.m.
| Sunday, August 4 — Attend
the church of your choice. Bre
vard Music Center concert at
3:30 p.m.
Monday, August 5 — Rotary
club meets at Gaither’s at 7:00
p.m. Transylvania Baptist asso
ciation meets at First Baptist
church at 7:15 p.m.
Tuesday, August 6 — Ace of
clubs meets at 8:00 p.m. Eastern
star meets at Temple at 8:00
pm.
Wednesday, August 7 — Toast
masters club meets at Gaither’s
at 6:30 p.m. WOW meets In
Woodman Hall at 8:00 pm.
GERALD C. SITTON has retired
from the Brevard Post office after
37 years of service. He is shown
above, left, receivng a certificate of
appreciation signed by Postmaster
General J. Edward Day from the
local pos:master, C. Y. Patton, Jr.
The staff of the local post office
gave Mr. Sitton two pieces of lug
gage as f retirement gift.
(Times Staff Photo)
ALAN SADER, son of Dr.
and Mrs. Julius Sader, of Bre
vard, is appearing this week
at the Elat Rock Playhouse in
“The Man Who Came to Din
ner,” and will be seen next
week in the hit musical, “The
Fantasticks.”
To Publish History
Historical Groups Take
Action At Meeting Here
A highly successful joint
meeting of the North Carolina
Literary and Historical associa
tion and the Western North
Carolina Historical association
was held last Friday and Satur
day here at Brevard college.
Key action of the meeting in
cluded plans to plan, write and
publish a comprehensive history
of the mountain’s region of 23
counties.
Professor of English at Mars
Hill college, John A. McLeod,
who also serves as president of
the WNC group, was authorized
to name a steering committee
which is to report at the Octob
er meeting. It will be held in
Hendersonville.
It was pointed out that half
a century has passed since pub
lication of the major history of
the whole region, by John Pres
ton Arthur.
Principal address of the Sat
urday morning session was by
U. S. Judge Johnson J. Hayes
of North Wilkesboro.
His subject was the problems
of research, writing and publish
ing a county history.
His recently published book is
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Succeeds Parrish
Chester Kilpatrick Is New
Member Of YZelfare Board
Chester Kilpatrick has been
sworn in as the state appointee
to the Transylvania County Wel
fare Board, for a three-year term.
He succeeds T. Ralph Parrish,
whose term expired June 30th.
Mr. Kilpatrick, a member of
the Moore - Kilpatrick Funeral
home, is well-known for his in
terest in civic affairs in Transyl
vania county.
Other members of the Welfare
Board are Hale Siniard, Jr. and
Dan Wallen.
Mrs. Suzanne Cox, Public Wel
fare Worker I, has been added
to the staff in the Welfare Of
fice. She assumed the position
July 1st. She has had experience
at the Friendship House in Wash
ington, D. C. and York County
Juvenile Domestic Relations
court in Rock Hill, S. C. Her hus
band, Charles Cox, is employed
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CHESTER KILPATRICK
This Saturday
The “Requiem” Will Be
Presented, Music Center
The Brevard Music Cenier j
will present the choral highliiht
of the 1963 season this Saturcay
evening at 8:15 p. m. Veni’s
tremendous work, the “Marco
ni" Requiem will be perforned
with the Transylvania S/m
phony, the 150 - voice Brevard
Festival Chords, and lour out
standing sok'i.,1 .
Soloists are- soprano Jeanette
Pecorello, messo - soprano Fran
ces Martin, tenor Eugen Talley
Schmidt, and bass Paul Hick
fang.
Husband and wife Jeanette
Pecorello and Eugen Talley
Schmidt were featured soloists
last Sunday at the Brevard Mus
ic Center.
Mezzo - soprano Frances Mar
tin comes to Brevard from Mun
ster, Germany, where she is a
student of Karin Branzell. On
September 16th, she will open
the season in Aehen, Germany,
singing Senta in Richard Wag
ner’s “Dor Fliegende Holland
er!" Frances Martin will also so
lo with the Brevard Music Cen
ter Symphony on Sunday, Aug
ust 4th.
Bass Paul Hickfang is pres
ently assistant professor and Di
rector of Opera at the Universi
ty of North Carolina at Greens
boro. He was a 1955-57 Ful
bright Scholar to Munich, Ger
many, and has been soloist with
the Oklahoma City Symphony,
the Honolulu Symphony, the
North Carolina and Winston
Salem Symphonies, the Mil
waukee Opera Festival, and the
Boston Opera Group.
For a performance of the in
spiring and beautiful Verdi
Requiem follow the notes to the
Brevard Music Center this Sat
urday evening.
Good News
More Money Allocated
To The School Budget
Additional funds have made
possible an increase in the
current school budget of the
Board of Education, accord
ing to an announcement by
the Transylvania County Com
missioners.
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1 The Weather I
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High and low temperatures
last week averaged 81 and 62
degrees, respectively, with over
all high for the week an 87 de
gree reading recorded on Sat
urday afternoon.
Low mark for the week was
registered on 'both Wednesday
and Thursday mornings when
the mercury fell to 57.
Rainfall for the week totaled
just over two - and - a - quarter
inches.
Official saatistics are as fol
lows:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday- 72 57 0.11
Thursday- 77 57 0.72
Friday_ 82 61 0.00
Saturday - 87 71 0.77
Sunday_ 85 65 0.10
Monday - 84 62 0.40
Tuesday - 82 62 0.16
The long range forecast calls
for temperatures to average near
normal highs and lows of 84 and
63 through Monday of next
week. Precipitation will average
about one inch in the form of
widely mostly scattered after
noon and evening thundershow
ers.
The current expense budget
will be increased $1991.25, and
the capital outlay budget will
be increased by $2989.86.
Wayne Bradburn, superinten
dent, announces the following
new teachers for the 1963-64
term:
Straus elementary—Miss Lois
Elease Wilson, Miss Ilena King,
and Mrs. Nancy F. Fullbright.
Brevard Elementary — Miss
Shirley R. Pressley, Miss Jackie
Ann Cabe, Mrs. Jane G. Kelley,
John Dennis Mehaffey, Mrs. Dor
is C. Lovell, and Miss Rita L.
Allison.
Brevard Junior high — Mrs.
Joyce Owens, Alton P. Full
bright, and Roy Lambert.
Brevard Senior High — Miss
Theodosia Sproles, Miss Mary
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Wallace Leads
Discussions At
Kiwanis Meet
Alan Wallace will lead a panel
discussion at the Kiwanis club
meeting Thursday night, August
1st, at Gaither’s Rhododendron
room.
The meeting will begin at 6:45
o’clock.
The discussion will be on the
topic, “What We Can Do.” Mr.
Wallace is a member of the club.
Tempo Of Business Increases In
Town, County, Best Year Foreseen
Retail Sales
Hit High Mark
$13,699,000
Business activity was in high
gear in Transylvania county
in the past year, according to
a national economic survey.
The county comnared well
with other communities through
out the country in market vital
ity. Personal incomes and con
sumer buying locally proved to
be relatively high.
These facts emerge from a
new, nationwide survey of buy
ing power, conducted by Sales
Management. The copyrighted
report, 676 pages long, gives
economic data for every area.
The volume of business done
by Transylvania County's retail
stores w-’s big because incomes
were good.
Net earnings, locally, after
payment of all personal in
come taxes, amounted to $25,
438,000, exceeding the previ
ous year’s $24,229,000.
What this figured out to, on
a family basis, was found by
dividing the income by the num
ber of households. The average
per household was $5,782, as
against the former year’s $5,507.
What was done with all this
cash? The discretionary part of
it, the part that was left after
paying the basic living costs, was
spent more freely than in some
years.
A smaller portion of it was
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Lions To Hear
Bill Leonard
Bill Leonard, Transylvania’s
representative in the 1963 Gen
eral Assembly, will be the prin
cipal speaker at the semi-month
ly meeting of the Brevard Lions
club this Thursday night at the
Colonial Inn.
He will speak on the activities
in the House of Representatives.
Meeting time is 7:00 o’clock,
and all Lions are urged to at
tend.
MIKE THOMAS, sales manager
of Thomas farms, North Carolina’s
largest grower of gladioli, is shown
with a few dozen of the fine crop
this year. Currently, Thomas farms,
located in lower Transylvania, is
shipping some 7,000 dozens glads
each day to all parts of the country.
Mr. Thomas says that the flowers
this year are among the finest ever
grown on the Thomas farms her®
and in Florida.
(Times Staff Photo)
Well-Known Here
Collfaswn Is Named
President Of Olin Corp.
01 in Mathieson Chemical Cor
poration today announced sev
eral high level executive
changes and improved sales and
earnings for the second quarter
and first half-year of 1963.
N. Harvey Collisson, formerly
senior vice president, was named
president and chief executive
officer, succeeding Stanley de
J. Osborne, who was elected
chairman of the newly formed
finance committee.
Thomas S. Nichols, formerly
chairman of the board, was
elected chairman of the exccu
t i v e committee, succeeding
John M. Olin, and a member of
the finance committee.
Mr. Olin, who recently com
pleted 50 years of service to the
corporation, was appointed hon
orary chairman of the board.
He remains a member of the
board and of its principal com
mittees.
Mr. Collisson, the new presi
dent, joined Olin in 1950 as gen
eral manager of what was then
the Cellophane Division. Sub
sequent appointments have in
cluded vice president for opera
tions in 1S54, executive vice
president for the Packaging Di
vision in 1955, corporate vice
president for production and
engineering in 1957 and vice
president and general manager
of the Metals Division in 1959.
He was appointed senior vice
president and chairman of the
N. HARVEY COLLISSON
staff committee three years ago
and was elected a director of
Olin in April 1961.
Since 1958 he also has been
president of Ormet Corporation,
a jointly - owned aluminum-pro
ducing subsidiary of Olin and
of Revere Copper and Brass In
corporated.
Following graduation from
Swarthmore College in 1924 with
a B.S. degree in civil engineer
ing, Mr. Collisson became a
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Program Highlights
Mrs. Alfred Galloway Wins
WPNF's Treasure Hunt Prize
Station Manager A1 Martin an
nounces today the third winner
in the current Summer Treasure
Hunt, sponsored jointly by the
local radio station and 12 of Bre
vard’s merchants.
The winner of the fourth con
test was Mrs. Alfred Galloway,
of 112 Wilson drive in Brevard.
Mrs. Galloway was the only
entrant last week to correctly
identify each of the answers as
“Sandman . . . April . . . Secret
. . . and Moscow.”
Many entries had all but the
third answer, but several added
an extra word, “Secret Love,”
the song title from which the
answer was obtained.
Mrs. Galloway Is the recipient
of a $25.00 weekly prise.
The final week jackpott re
mains $175.00.
Other Programs
The Farm and Home hour
schedule for this week is as fol
lows Thursday, N. C. Forestry
Service, Clark Grissom; Friday,
Soil Conservation Service, Gro
ver McPherson; Monday, county
agricultural extension agent;
Tuesday, Brevard vo-ag depart
ment, Randal Lyday; Wednes
day, home agent, Jean Childers.
Appearing on the Civic Hour
are the following: Friday, Ki
wanis club; Monday, Hospital
auxiliary; Wednesday, Lions
club.
Speaking this week on Morn
ing Devotions is Rev, J. M. Reev
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July Building
Permits Hit
$39,600.00
Building permits issued in
tlie town of Brevard during
July totaled 839,600.00.
Included in the project were
four new houses and two re-"
modeling projects.
Town Manager Bill Edens
says that the tempo of build
ing in Brevard is increasing.
Loftis, Summey
Reunion Is j
Slated Sunday
The Loftis and Summey re
anion will be held Sunday, Aug
ust 4th, beginning at 4:00 p. m
at the old Loftis place in Ceda
Mountain. 1
All members of the Lofti
clan are cordially invited to at
tend.
It is reported that many fro*
distant places are planning t<
be present.
Moore To Shoi
Slides At Meet
Of Rotarians
Charles Moore, welH
Transylvania naturalist,;
sent a program of nature :
at the meeting of Brevard ]
club Monday, August 5th.
The meeting will
7:00 o’clock in Gaither’s
dendron room.
At the meeting last
Gil Coan presented G
of the Rosman Data
Facility, a pin as the
member of the club.
During the
presided over by
Sanders, president,
reports of the
men for this