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
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Vol, 75—No. 16
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Little Theatre
Group Busy
On New Play
The production crew is actively
preparing for the Brevard Little
Theatre play “Roman Candle” to
be given May 1st and 2nd at the
Legion Building.
B.L.T. President, Jane John
son, states there are many aspects
of play production in addition to
directing that require the use
of special talents. The resulting
organization of people possess
ing these talents resembles a
small, highly efficient business
^ concern.
Organizational efficiency is a
necessity, since the production
must be given in a relatively
■ short period of time. Rehearsals
of the cast usually go on for a
full 6 weeks but the stage must
be constructed in 2 days and
disassembled for storage in just
one afternoon.
Most of the production crew
for “Roman Candle” were active
in the first two plays of the sea
son. This eases matters since in
some cases retraining is needed,
due to turnover of personnel be
tween productions.
Howard Barnes will be the
technical director. His experi
ence with set construction and
other duties makes him ably
suited to direct the technical
phases of production, officials of
the group state.
The chairmen of committees
working with him are Jim Nic
hols, state construction; Eva
Burgin, art; Ann Erwin, hand
properties; Peg Beasley, cos
tumes; Maude Freeman, make
up; Bob Hale, lights; Charles
Martin, sound; and Dick Seiler,
transportation.
V
Administrative chairmen are
Thelma Hart, casting; Walt Rog
ers, house; jeanade Seiler, pro
grams; Mel Everingham, public
ity; Joyce Rogers, posters; Fred
die Norris, social; and Vem
Wray, tickets.
Advisors to special phases of
production are Mike Vaniman,
assistant sales manager of Mitch
ell-Bissell company, and Edward
Eisele, assistant station director
of the NASA tracking station at
Rosman.
Bradburn Says
Summer Session
Will Be Offered
An eight-week summer schoo
will be held during the summer
according to Wayne Bradburn
county superintendent.
Dates for the school have nol
been set, but it will begin proba
bly about one week after the
regular session ends. The dates
will be announced later.
Courses will be offered for stu
dents who failed to pass the reg
ular course, and the specific
courses will be determined by
the demand.
A course in typing will also be
offered.
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, April 16 — League
of Women Voters meets at Bre
vard Methodist church at 11:00
a. m. Lions begin broom sale at
5:00 p. m„ supper meeting at
Colonial Inn at 7:30 p. m. Ki
wanis club meets for ladies night
at Presbyterian church at 6:45
p. m. Masons meet ait Temple at
7:30 p. m.
Friday, April 17 — Noon, dead
line for filing for election. Re
cital at Brevard College at 8:00
p. m. Ace of Clubs meets at
8:00 p. m.
Sunday, April 19 — Attend
the church of your choice.
Monday, April 20 — Rotary
club meets at Gaidher’s at 7:00
p. m.
Tuesday, April 21 — Ace of
chibs meets at 7:30 p. m. Eastern
Star meets at Temple at 8:00 p.
m.
Wednesday, April 22 - J*y
cces meet at Berry’s at 7:00 p.m.
GETTING FIRSTHAND KNOWL
EDGE about missiles on a visit to the
Rosman NASA tracking station are
three members of the current Bre
vard Little Theatre production, “Ro
man Candle”. Edward Eisele, assist
ant station director of the tracking
station, is briefing Eddie, played by
Taj Hanna, and Mark, played by Bill
Beasley. Liz, portrayed by Pat Arch
er, appears to be more interested in
Mark than missiles. Shown above,
left to right, are Mr. Hanna, Mrs.
Archer, Mr. Beasley and Mr. Eisele.
Boyd Is Quoted
Salute Made To Industries,
Luncheon Planned On Friday
Highlighting the local oh
servance of “Industry Appro
ciation Week” in North Caro
lina will be a luncheon foi
representatives of the various
industries of Transylvania or
Friday.
Sponsored by the Board <
County Commissioners, th
luncheon will be held in the ne1
Lambeau Room at Berry’s e
at 12:30 o’clock.
R. M. “Bob" Boyd, chairman
of the county board, says that
the town and county is fortu
nate in having such fine indus
tries here.
“We want to express to ther
at this time our sincere apprecis
tion for the efforts they are mail
ing to build a finer and mor
prosperous Transylvania county,
he declared.
Across the state, Boards of
Commissioners are joining
with Governor Terry Sanford
in this “salute to industry”.
Among the industries to lx
•epresented at the luncheon hen
in Friday are the following:
Olin
Canter Woodworks
Du Pont
Mitchell-Bissell company
The American Thread com
pany
Weiss Machine shop
Alexander Wood Products
company
Gloucester Lumber company
Thomas Farms, Inc.
Barnett’s Machine shop
Brevard Manufacturing com
pany.
Governor Terry Sanford is urg
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Vast Increase
School Enrollment Hits
f Highest Mark In History
v By - Dorothy Wallace
4 The total enrollment of stu
dents in the Transylvania
County school system is the
largest in the history of the
schools.
That figure, according tc
1 Wayne Bradburn, county super
■ intendent, at the end of March
• was 4,523. This compares with
! 4,332 students who were enrolled
in September, 1963, an increase
of 191.
In figuring student enroll
ment and attendance, the
Board of Education office also
keeps the average daily atten
dance and the number of stu
dents absent from school be
cause of contagious diseases.
At the end of March, the av
erage daily attendance for the
county schools was 3,894. Of the
students absent, 186 had contagi
ous diseases, which do not count
against the average daily atten
dance. Thus the figure for av
erage daily attendance plus the
contagion figure at the end of
March was 4,080.
School officials state that the
fluctuation in the average daily
attendance is caused mainly by
the amount of construction un
derway in the county, with
families constantly moving in
Mrs. Galloway Announces
Steven Norton's Essay Said
Best Across North Carolina
A seventh grade student at the
Pisgah Forest school has been
named state winner in the DAR
sponsored history essay contest.
Steven Norton’s essay on “Na
than Hale” was judged best in
the state in this year’s contest.
The theme for the contest was
“The American Patriot”, and was
held to promote interest in the
history of the United States.
The son of Mr. Mid Mrs. Earl
Norton, of route two, Brevard,
Steven received a cash award last
Friday afternoon by Mrs. T. Cole
man Galloway, local historian.
His essay has been entered in
the national contest, and those
winners will be announced next
week at the National Congress
meeting In Washington, D.C.
Steven is • student in Miss
Lou Rhodes’ men.
STEVEN NORTON
to or out of the county.
Mr. Bradbum predicts that the
total enrollment by September
1964 will increase by at least 100
students. Plans are being made
for additional programs begin
ning in September.
For the first time, a day
trade program in the area of
carpentry and distributive edu
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Registrars And Judges For Primary
Announced, Friday Last Day To File
20 Candidates
Pay Filing
Fee To Date
This Friday, April nth, is
the deadline for candidates to
file for the General Election,
which will be held in Novem
ber, and also the Primary,
slated on May 30th.
As The Times went to press
at noon on Wednesday, 20 candi
dates had filed here in the Boarc
of Elections office in the cour
house, J. 0. Wells, the chairman
announces.
Others desiring to file have
until 12:00 noon on Friday.
Candidates who have alreadj
filed are as follows:
HOUSE OF REPS.
Jess A. Galloway (D)
B. W. Thomason (D)
Ligon B. Ard (D)
William Leonard 1R) - ineum
bent
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
R. M. Boyd (D) - incumbent
Robert M. Nicholson (R)
Ralph E. McCall (R)
Owen G. Lee (D)
Charles L. Newland (D)
Donald Lee Mpore (D)
Franz W’hitmire (D)
TAX COLLECTOR
Lawrence Hipp (D) - incum
bent
William L. Bishop (R)
Tony Ira Petit (D)
James W. Hampton (D)
REGISTER OF DEEDS
Fred Israel (D) - incumbent
Edwin S. English (R)
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Thomas E. Ramsey (D) - in
cumbent
Peter F. Leone (R)
Robert Hunter (D)
Background Historical
Duke Power Company Is Now
Celebrating 60th Birthday
By • Staff Writer
Water wheels and rope-driv
en generators marked the birth
of Duke Power company 60
years ago this month as a dar
ing business. To many skep
tics, it was a dubious enter
prise. Electricity, they thought,
was neither practical nor im
portant.
Except for a sore foot, the
company would not have grown
as it has from its modest begin
ning.
The story, though not the
company, dates back to the last
century and the vision of Dr.
W. G. Wylie, a prominent New
York surgeon who was a na
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f The Weather |
Rainfall totaled just over one
and two-thirds inches during the
past week, with most of this re
corded on Monday of this week.
Temperatures averaged out at
a high of 64 degrees during the
afternoons, following an average
early morning low of 38.
Both the high and low marks
for the week came during a
twelve hour period on Saturday,
April 11th, when the mercury
dipped to a low of 28 around day
hreak; then climbed to a maxi
mum of 68 during the afternoon:
Readings for the week past are
as follows:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday _ 67 50 0.33
Thursday_ 58 31 0.00
Friday _ 68 25 Trace
Saturday_ 06 28 0.00
Sunday_08 39 0.00
Monday.« 40 128
88 51 0.10
Tuesday
tive of Chester, S. C.
Being in New York, Dr. Wylii
was able to observe firsthan<
what an inventive genius by thi
name of Thomas Edison was do
ing. In 1880 Edison developei
an incandescent light bulb tha
burned for 40 hours. By 1882
he had a light bulb that woulc
last an average of 1425 hours—
and the Edison Electric Illumi
nating Co. began operating in thi
Fire District of New York City
Edison’s Pearl Street gene
rating station made history by
supplying power for 400 lights
in 59 New York buildings. His
generators were so “massive"
that they actually were named
“Jumbos.” The capacity of a
Jumbo? Less than 300 kilo
watts. (Compare that with the
350,000-kilowatt generator due
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Rosman Chamber
Of Commerce
Banquet Set, 1st
The Annual Rosman Chamber
of Commerce dinner will be held
this year on Friday night, May
1st, at 7:30 p.m., in the Rosman
school cafeteria. The featured
speaker of the evening will be
David Howe, director of Opera
tions for The American Thread
company. His talk will concern
the new plant being built at Cal
vert.
Among other guests from
American Thread will be Charles
fohnsm, plant manager at the
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A 283/4” BROWN TROUT was caught in the
French Broad River in the Cherryfield section by
Tommy Brissey, 106 Silversteen Drive. This is the
largest trout ever photographed by The Times staff.
According to Mr. Brissey, the “whopper” weighed
over 10 'pounds and was rather difficult to catch.
(Times Staff Photo)
At Appalachian
Fullbright To Participate
In ’64 Language Institute
ALTON P. FULLBRIGHT
Smart Elected
President Of
Brevard Jaycees
Brevard attorney, John K.
Smart, Jr., was elected president
of the Brevard Jaycees at their
last regular meeting last Wed
nesday at Berry’s.
Mr. Smart’s election to the top
spot in the local Jaycee organi
zation highlighted the meeting,
which concluded several weeks
of heavy campaigning on the
part of those Jaycees seking of
fices.
Others elected to serve for the
coming year included John R.
Hudson, Jr., first vice president;
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Alton P. Fullbright has been
chosen as a participant in the
Summer Institute for teachers
of foreign languages to be held
on the campus of Appalachian
State Teachers College, Boone,
June 18th-August 11th. This
institute is sponsored by the
C.S. Office of Education under
terms of the National Defense
Education Act.
The purpose of the institute is
to improve the audio-lingual pro
ficiency of the high school teach
ers of the country and introduce
them to the newest teaching
methods and techniques. The
language laboratory at the col
lege will be one of the key spots
in the institute program.
There will be 64 partici
pants, 32 teachers of French
and 32 teachers of Spanish.
These have been chosen from
more than 300 completed ap
plications.
The participants will live as
a group in a college dormitory
and have their meals together.
They will in general speak only
the language they are studying,
and most classes will be conduct
ed in the language. Classes in
conversation, language analysis,
civilization, linguistics, reading
and writing, methodology, and
laboratory techniques will oc
cupy much of the time of the
participants.
A series of lectures by nation
ally prominent specialists in
language teaching, some careful
ly selected foreign films, and
other activities such as group
singing and folk dancing will oc
cupy many of the evenings.
Mr. Fullbright is a Spanish
teacher in the Brevard junior
high school
List Is Cited
Many Programs On Log Of
WPNF Delight Homemaker
Many special programs for
homemakers are featured daily
over WPNF, according to sta
tion manager, A1 Martin.
Among them, the station calls
attention to the “Woman’s
World” program on Tuesday
mornings at 10:46, when Ade
laida Van Way gives household
tips, notes on making house
keeping chores lighter, and other
interesting items for the ladies.
On Friday morning, Mrs. Neva
Harrington is hostess on her
“Flower Gardening Time” pro
gram at 10:45 a. m. Hie quarter
hour features tunas items for
gardeners regarding activities
in this general ansa, information
helpful in ptmsdM
Election Board
Changes Names,
Five Precincts
As the tempo of politics in
creases in Brevard and Tran
sylvania county, a list of regi
strars and judges for the pri
mary on May 30th is announc
ed today by J. O. Wells, chair
man of the Board of Flections.
Other announcements are also
made by Mr. Wells.
Bill Johnson has been named
to the election board, replacing
Harold Byers, who resigned.
The board has moved the
polling place in the Sapphire
Whitewater precinct from
Cash's store to the Community
center.
The board also changed the
name of five precincts so that
they could be more easily iden
tified.
The changes are as follows:
Gloucester I to Gloucester
Gloucester n to Balsam
Grove
Hogback I to Quebec
Hogback II to Lake Toxaway
Hogback III to Sapphire
Whitewater.
A registrar, a Democrat judge
and a Republican judge were ap
pointed for each precinct. An
alternate Democrat judge was
named for each in the event the
Democrats have _.a Mffbhd pri
nts ry and the Republicans do nqfc.
Mr. Wells says the law re
quires that if candidates from"
only one party are involved in
a primary, all the election offi
cials must be members of that
political party.
Registration for the election
begins on Saturday, May 2nd,
and it will continue on the 9th
and the 16th. The following j
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Lions Conduct
Broom Sale
This Thursday
Members of the club will make
a house-to-house canvass, begin
ning at 5:00 p.m.
Proceeds from the sale will
benefit the Lions program for
the blind in Transylvania conn
The Lions will pick up their
brooms and other household!
items at Brevard Federal SavingJ
and Loan association.
The sale will be fallowed hyl
a supper at the Colonial Inn, be-l
ginning at 7:30 o’clock.
The items the Lions are
mg and the costs are as foil
Regular Brooms__$
Kitchen Sets _
Warehouse Brooms_
Whisk-brooms_
One dozen Regular_,_1
One dozen Warehouse_2
Kiwanians To
Hold Ladies
Night Thursdi
Ladies Night will be obser
by the Brevard Kiwanis cM
their meeting Thursday, Ai
16th.
The buffet will be seruicQ
6:45 o’clock in 1be fellowship]
of the Brevard-Davidsoo M
Brevard Lions will conduct
their anual broom sale on
Thursday.