TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Educa
tional, Agricultural and Music
Center. Population, 1960 Census,
16,372. Brevard Community 8,500,
Brevard proper 4,857.
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TRANSYLVANIA—
The Innd of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps. Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest, and
Home of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival.
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Vol, 75 — No. 12
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PAID AT BREVARD, N. C. ZIP CODE 28712
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1964
PRICE 10c
* 24 PAGES TODAY * PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TWO MISSION AIRES with the
Sudan Interior Mission had a busy
day in Brevard last Thursday. They
are Dr. and Mrs. Wesley Kraay, and
they are pictured in the center with
Rev. Ben Ormand, pastor of the Bre
vard - Davidson River Presbyterian
church, left, and James M. Wulpi,
right. Mrs. Kraay is a niece of Mr.
Wulpi. Dr. Kraay spoke at a break
fast for the Men of the Presbyterian
church, while Mrs. Kraay talked with
the women at a coffee hour during
the morning, and then they lectured
at Brevard senior high school that
afternoon. They illustrated their in
formative talks with colored slides.
Dr. and Mrs. Kraay will return to
Nigeria. Africa, in September.
(Times Staff Photo)
Less Than Average
432 Transylvanians Reported
On Payrolls Of Government
How many Transylvania
county residents are bolding
down government jobs—Fed
eral, state and local? How
T* many of them are connected
with the public administration
part of government?
V A special report, just released
by the Department of Com
merce, presents a social and eco
nomic portrait of workers in the
United States and of the hun
dreds of types of work they per
iorm. it is called “Occupational
Characteristics.”
From this and from other
data on the subject, compiled
by the Census Bureau, it ap
pears that there are 432 local
residents employed in civilian
capacities by various govern
mental bodies.
Of these, 98 work for agencies
of government whose activities
come under the head of public
administration, Included in this
^ category are those with legisla
t;ve, judicial and executive func
tions and, in addition, those in
the postal service.
* In terms of the total num
* ber of working people in Tran
sylvania County, the propor
tion in public administration
is equivalent to 19 per 1,009
workers.
There are many local people,
besides these, who are in gov
ernment employ in ether capaci
ties, outside the field of public
—Turn to Page Eight
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, March 19 — Kiwan
is club meets at Gaither's at
6:45 p. m. Lions club meets at
Pisgah Forest Community Cen
ter at 7:00 p. m.
1 Friday, March 20 — BLT
tryouts for “Roman Candle” at
court house at 7:30 p. m. East
ern Star installation at Temple
at 8:00 p. m. Lyceum program
“Kings and Clowns” at Brevard
College at 8:15 p. m.
Sunday, March 22 — Attend
the church of your choice.
Monday, March 23 — Rotary
club meets, at Gaither’s at 7:00
p. m.
Tuesday, March 24 — Ace of
Clubs meets at 7:30 p. m. Elks
meet at Lodge at 8:00 p. m. Bre
vard Civic Chorus meets at Bre
vard Methodist church at 8:30
P- m.
Wednesday, March 25 — Jay
In Two-Day Session
WNC Rescue College Will
Convene Here, September
Brevard has been selected
as the site for a Western North
Carolina Rescue College con
ference and training session on
September 2Gth and 27th of
this year. Captain J. C. Rowe
announces today.
The official announcement
came from Jim Finison, assistant
director of Fire and Rescue
Training, Department of Insur
ance, Raleigh.
Greenville was selected as the
.site in Eastern North Carolina.
During the first five years
of the Rescue College, the foi
Kiwanians To
Hear District
Governor, 6:45
Donald J. Quarles, o£ Black
Mountain, Lieutenant Governor
of Division One, will make an
official visit to the Brevard Ki
wanis club Thursday, March
19th.
The meeting will be held at
Gaither’s Rhododendron room
beginning at 6:45 o’clock.
Mr. Quarles is chief account
ant for Ex-Cell-0 corporation.
lowing courses will be taught;
Knots, fire extinguishers, cas
ualty handling, artificial res
piration and height rescue.
Each class will have classroom
and training sessions, and the
teachers are graduates of in
structor schools.
Captain Rowe says the local
rescue squad is proud to have
the rescue college here for the
1964 annual session, and he
says that representatives will
come from a wide area of
North and South Carolina.
The Brevard squad has com
pleted its new home in North
—Turn to 5*age Eight
American Thread Company To Receive Bids
On Construction Of Plant, Calvert Site
j Group To Move
Forward With
Canopy Plans
A steering committee has
been named to move forward
with plans for a canopy for the
central business district of Bre
vard.
The matter was discussed at
length at recent meetings cl' the
directors of the Brevard Cham
ber of Commerce and the Mer
chants committee of that group.
The following have been
named to serve:
Don W. Brown, John D.
Clark. Charles W. Cook, Wil
liam E. Edens. A1 Martin, Dew
ey Mix, Ben Patterson. Robert
H. Plummer, James E. Smith
and Larry Turner.
William H. Keith, president
of the Brevard Chamber of
Commerce, told the members of
the committee that he felt that
they could count on the en
thusiastic support of the. entire
membership.
Don Brown, chairman of the
Merchants committee, will call
the first meeting of the steer
ing committee in the immediate
future.
The committee is composed
of seven members from the mer
chants group, plus a represen
tative from the Planning Board
and the Town Board.
Lions To Meet
At Pisgah
Forest Center
The Brevard Lions club will
meet Thursday, March 19th, at
7:00 o’clock at the Pisgah Forest
Community Center, for the an
nual basketball awards to high
school teams.
Ralph James, manager of the
Asheville Auditorium, Sam Pat
ton. personnel manager at Enka,
and Hugh Tomberlin, principal
of Enka High school, will be
special guests.
Gubernatorial Candidate
Preyer Will Visit Brevard
Thursday, Tea Set For Wife
Richardson Preyer, candidate
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination, and his wife will be
in Transylvania county Thurs
day afternoon for a few hours.
Den Irwin, Judge Preyer’s
ccunty manager in this county,
stated that Preyer would be here
Later This Week
Dr. William Martin To Open
Office, Veterinary Medicine
Dr. William M. Martin will
open the Brevard Animal Hos
pital at 36 Probart satreet, this
week.
A native cf Mt. Gilead, he at
tended N. C. State college and
was graduated from the Univer
sity of Georgia with a doctor of
veterinary medicine in 1961.
He served in tthe U.S. Air
Force from September 1961 un
til September 1963. Prior to com
ing io Brevard, he was associated
with Dr. J. W. McKee in Hickory.
lie is married to the former
Miss Mildred Scroggs, of Thom
asville.
Dr. Martin is the brother of
Coach L. W. “Chick” Martin, ot
Brevard college.
getting a first line view of the
potential anrl needs of this sec
tion of WNC and would meet as
many people while here as time
will permit.
Mrs. Preyer will he the guest
of honor at a tea given by the
“Transylvania County Women
For Preyer ’.
The tea will be held in Gai
ther’s Rhododendron room from
3:30 p.m., to 5:30 p.m., and all
interested women are invited to
attend.
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! The Weather I
Temperatures the past week
ranged from a high of 67 record
ed on Tuesday to a low of 22
degrees tallied on three morn
ings during the period.
Average highs and lows were
60 and 27 respectively, with pre
cipitation over the weekend, to
taling 1.87 inches.
Daily readings for the week
were as follows:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday ... 65 22 Trace
Thursday .... 66 26 .00
Friday.61 22 Trace
Saturday. 56 36 .89
Sunday. 48 34 .98
Monday . 62 22 .00
Tuesday ..... 67 25 .00
“BUGS ABOUT BEATLES” is the
theme of the bulletin board in .Mrs.
Ray Winchester’s room at Brevard
senior high school. She feels that this
latest teen-age rage display inspires
her students while they are studying.
The attractive and colorful bulletin
board was designed and erected by
Marla Hooper. Sharon Parker and
Bob Colwell.
(Times Staff Photo)
Discussion At
Planning Board
Meeting Lively
The proposed land use pro
gram and extra-territorial zon
ing were the main items of
business that came up for dis
cussion at the meeting of the
Itrevard Planning and Zoning
Hoard Tuesday night in the
court house.
Several hundred persons filled
the court room to take part in
the discussions that took place
during the lengthy session.
The Board granted prelimi
nary approval to Russell Arm
entrout to have a commercial
sub-division located on the
Asheville highway just beyond
the railroad crossing.
Dan, Vismore, staff planner
with the WNC Regional Plan
ning commission, next presented
to the group the land-use pro
posal that has been in the plan
ning stage for some time.
Mr. Vismore thoroughly ex
plained the program and point
ed out the commission’s sug
gestions for land use in and
around Brevard. A lengthy
question and answer period
—Turn to Page Eight
Hampton Seeks
Office Of
Tax Collector
J. W. “Bill”. Hampton today
announces his candidacy for the
office of Tax Collector of Tran
sylvania county, subject to the
May 30th Democratic primary.
Mr. Hampton, a native of
Transylvania county, has been
employed for the past several
years at the Brevard Du Pont
plant. He is 32 years of age and
is a graduate of Baltimore Poly
technic Institute.
He is a member of the Bre
vard First Bantist church, the
American Legion and the Loyal
Order of Moose. From 1951
through 1954 he served in the
LT.S. Army. He was employed at
Osborne-Simpson Funeral home
from 1954 through 1957, before
going with Du Pont.
In his announcement, Mr.
Hampton stated that, if elected
he would serve the people of
Transylvania County itt a fair,
honest and impartial manner.
Retired Admiral
Ligon Ard Announces For
Representative In Primary
LIGOX B. ARD
Civic Chorus
Wil! Meet
Next Tuesday
The Brevard Civic Chorus will
meet Tuesday, March 24th, at
the Brevard Methodist church at
3:30 o'clock.
This change in the time of
meeting was made because of
the Holy Week services being
held at the church.
All members are urged to at
tend.
Ligon B. Ard announces his
candidacy for representatrt#
from Transylvania county in the
General Assembly, subject to the
May Democratic primary.
He is a graduate of the United
States Naval Academy a*:. Annap
olis and is a retired Rear Ad
miral.
lie is currently the 31st Dis
trict. Commander of the -Ameri
can Legion and is the immediate
past commander of the Brevard
legion post.
He was co-chairman and treas
urer of the Transylvania Coun
ty Centennial Commission Pio
neer Fund in 1961. and has been
1he treasurer of the Friends of
the Library since its' inception.
He is also a member and the
treasurer of the Humane Society
for the past six years. He is a
member of the Transylvania
Historical society, a past presi
dent of the Western N. C. His
torical Association and is now
president of the N C. Society of
the Sons of the American Rev
olution.
He and Mrs. J. A. Macfie or
ganized Transylvania County
Teen-Dems, the first such organi
zation in this state, and he is
still one of their advisors. He
is also a member of the Y.D.C.
He was appointed a Justice of
the Peace last year by J. Will
Pless, Jr., resident judge of this
district. He is a member of the
—Turn to Page Seve*
WPNF Program Highlights
Holy Week Services To Be
Heard Each Night Next Week
Program Director Fred Reiter
announced today that WPNF will
broadcast Holy Week Services
from the Lutheran Church of the
Good Shenherd each weekday
evening beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The services are being spon
sored in the public interest by
members of the church, accord
ing to the pastor, the Rev. Al
fred D. Rhyne.
The broadcasts will last 30
minutes each evening, and will
be carried ‘‘live” by direct line
from the church sanctuary on
North Broad Street
Arrangements are now under
way for the station to carry a
number of special programs
throughout the Easter season.
Announcements regarding the
broadcasts will be male next
week.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm
and Home hour is as follows:
Thursday, Brevard vo-ag dept.,
Randal Lyday; Friday, station
program; Monday, county exten
sion chairman; Tuesday, soil
conservation, Grover McPher
son; Wednesday, home agent.
Appearing on the Civic Hour
—Turn to Page Sevei
Work Expected
To Be Started
In Early Spring
The American Thread com
pany will receive bids on Mon
day, March 23rd. for construc
tion of the new plant at the
Calvert site near Kosman.
The bids will be evaluated im
mediately, and according: to com
pany officials, the contract could
hr let by April 1st.
it is hoped that construc
tion could then be started im
mediately.
The contract will he in five
phases:
(1) The Building
(2) Air conditioning
(31 Fire protection
<4i Electrical work
<5) Electrical switch gear
work.
Officials of the company al
so said today that they have
been informed by the State
Health department and the
Stream Sanitation commission
that all necessary permits re
garding the construction and
use of water of the French
Hr^ad River will be issued by
the time that construction is
started.
President E. B. Shaw announc
ed earlier this year that his com
pany had purchased the Calvert
site, and (he anticipated the new
mill being in full operation bjjj
late 1965:'
The modern building will
be a one-story structure, fully
air-conditioned and will pro
duce a variety of thread yarn
products.
The company expects to em
ploy around 300 persons.
Like most of American
Thread's other spinning mills,
the new mill will ship the bulk
of its output to the company's
500.000 square feet Sevier plant
nc.ir Marion for finishing.
About the local plant, Presi
dent Shaw said:
"We are building this new
facility because we firmly be
lieve in the future of the tex
tile industry in this country.
Our nation's population Is
growing and the market for
textiles is growing with it. We
intend to serve this market in
—Turn to Page Eight
Little Theatre
Hold Try-Outs
Friday Evening
Brevard Little Theatre try
outs for “Roman Candle” will be
held in the courthouse this Fri
day at 7:30 p.m.
Roles will be open for 12
men and 3 women.
This uproarious Broadway
comedy, which starred Ro
Sterling, Julia Meade and
Stevens, (of Farmer’s Dan
fame), is packed with enjc
for everyone, officials of
say.
The story centers on the
mantic entanglements of
scientist-professor, Mark
ter, who alternates interest
tween the Army’s missile i
ing program “Operation
ball” and a female twosome '
intent on marriage.
The female reads are rich
beaut il"l E’.eanor Win
t'.S. S' itor’s daughter,
irterests for|
Brown, an
fed with Extra
•c ion. Liz uses
bii: v to predict i
m military
the winning horse at a i
Pat Fulefhan will
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