TRANSYLVANIA—
iVn Industrial, Tourist, Educa
lional, Agricultural and Music
Center. Population, 1960 Census
16,372. Brevard Community 8,500,
Brevard proper 4,857.
Vol. 76—No. 24
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1964
TRANSYLVANIA—*
The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest and
Home of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival.
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At 24 PAGES TODAY if PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Building Boom Continues Throughout Brevard And Transylvania County
TWO OF THE MANY BUILDINGS now under construction in the
town and county are pictured above. At the left is the new audi
torium going up on the lakefront at the Brevard Music Center, and
ancl 11: ls expected that this spacious structure will be ready for use
by festival time in August. At the right is the new Winn-Dixie store,
the key building in the town’s largest drive-in shopping center, oppo
site Brevard College. Other important building projects in the area
include the expansions at Olin Mathieson Chemical corporation at
Pisgah Forest, the American Thread company at Calvert and the
new administration building at Brevard College.
(Times Staff Photo)
Concerts
On Radio
WPNF
WPXF will again broadcast
excerpts from concerts at the
Transylvania Music camp this
summer.
These programs will be heard
each Sunday afternoon when the
local radio station is program
.'iiing for the visiting motoring
public, as well as local listeners.
The concerts will be heard
at 4:15 o’clock.
Other Programs
The schedule of the Farm and
Home Hour for the coming week
is as follows: Thursday, N. C.
Forestry Service, Clark Grissom;
Friday, Station Program; Mon
day, County Agricultural Exten
sion Agent: Tuesday, Extension
Forester, Leonard Hampton;
Wednesday, Home Economics
Extension Agent. Jean Childers.
Appearing on the Civic Hour
are the following: Friday, Jay
—Turn to Page Eight
CALENDAR OF
, COMING EVENTS
Thursday, June 18 — Lions
Club ladies’ night at Hawkins
(Mfarm at 7:00 p. m. Kiwanis Club
^meets at Gaither’s Rhododen
dron Room at 6:45 p. m.
Friday, June 19 — Spaghetti
supper at Brevard College from
5:00 - 7:00 p. m.
Saturday, June 20 — “Story
Hour” at the Transylvania Coun
ty Library at 9:30 a. m.
Sunday, June 21 — Attend the
church of your choice. Brevard
Davidson River Presbyterian
Bible school begins at 6:45 p. m.
Masons St. John’s Day breakfast
at the Temple at 8:30 a. m.
Monday, June 22 — Nature
program begins at Robin Hood’s
barn at 3:30 p. m. Rotary club
meets at Gaither’s Rhododendron
Room at 7:00 p. m.
Tuesday, June 23 — Elks
meet at 8:00 p. m.
THOUSANDS OF VISITORS are
returning to the beautiful Pisgah Na
tional Forest, and already the recrea
tional areas are filled to capacity be
fore each weekend. The 1964 season
is expected to be a banner one, Ran
ger Ted Seely reports.
Spaghetti
Supper
Friday
The public is invited to a spa
ghetti supper Friday evening in
the Brevard College cafeteria.
The hours will be from 5:00 to
7:00 p.m., and proceeds will be
shared by the Kiwanis club with
sponsored Boy Scout troop 701,
Explorer Post 701 and the Girl
Scout troop 82.
The Kiwanians will use their
money toward perpetuation of
the scholarship fund for a de
serving and needy student.
The regular semi-monthly
meeting of the Kiwanis club will
be held Thursday night at 6:45
in Gaither’s Rhododendron room.
Henry C. McDonald, local arch
itect, will talk on some facets of
architecture.
n
Two Events Slated
New Rosman Lions Club
Receives Charter Saturday
Saturday night will be char
ter presentation night for the
new Lions club at Rosman.
A large delegation of Lions
and their wives from Brevard
will attend the event at the new
Rosman Fire station beginning
at 7:00 o’clock.
All district officials are also
expected to attend.
Officers of the Rosman Lions
club are as follows:
D. S. Winchester - president
Bill Galloway - 1st vice pres
ident
B. E. Keisler - 2nd vice pres
ident
Mike Vanimam - secretary and
treasurer
Allen Sisk - tail twister
Harold Hogsed - assistant tall
—Turn to Page Eight
By Counseling Program
Local Board Is Seeking To Aid
In Employing Rejected Draftees
As a result of the Presi
dent’s Task Force on Man
power Conservation in Febru
ary, 1964, Local Board No. 89,
Transylvania County, as well
as other Selective Service
Boards in North Carolina, and
across the country, has enter
ed into a counseling program
in conjunction with the Em
ployment Service Commission,
for registrants who have been
found not acceptable for ser
vice in the Armed Forces, for
various reasons.
The Employment Service
Commission, through its coun
seling program, plans to refer:
(1) certain registrants to an
educational program for train
ing in vocational or technical
courses, or academic subjects
leading to vocational or tech
nical training at a later date
(2) those who are employ
able but are not full - time
employed, into full-time jobs
(3) those needing better
employment, who are fully em
ployed but are capable of bet
ter jobs.
The local draft board office
is presently in the process of
notifying registrants when and
where they can be interviewed
by a representative of the Em
ployment Service Commission,
locally, to set the program in
motion.
All registrants concerned
should take advantage of this
Opportunity.
Look Inside..
Sports - page six, first section.
Classifieds - page two and
three, first section.
With the Women - page six,
second section, and page six,
third section.
Editorials - page five, third
section.
Editor’s Corner - page five,
first section.
Stories and pictures about the
Brevard Music center, third sec
tion.
Church directory - page two,
second section.
United Fund story, second
front,
St. John’s Day breakfast, sec
ond front.
Banner Tourist Season Expected,
Summer Camps Open At Capacity
Rhododendron
At Peak Along
The Blue Ridge
Although the Rhododendron
along the Blue Ridge Parkway
and atop the Pisgah National
Forest was at the height of
beauty last weekend, it will
still be in full bloom this week
end, Ranger Ted Seely pre
dicts.
Mountain Laurel is also ap
pearing rapidly along the
mountain slopes, especially in
the Wagon Road to Beech Gap
area.
Other flow'ers appearing in
abundance are Blackberry,
Bluets, Hawkweed, Daisies,
Violets, Groundsels, Pentste
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j The Weather
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Another hot and dry week lef
Brevard and Transylvania conn
ty with little precipitation in tin
record books for this period.
The average daily high tem
perature reading for the weel
was a dusty 89. while the average
low was 59. The highest temper
ature recorded for the week was
a sticky 94, recorded Sunday
Low for the week was 55 on Mon
day.
The trace of rainfall on Satur
day and the slightly over one
tenth of an inch which fell on
Tuesday did little to settle the
dust throughout the area.
Daily readings were as follows:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday_ 92 60 .00
Thursday_91 56 .00
Friday- 85 63 .00
Saturday _ 88 62 .05
Sunday_ 94 56 .00
Monday _... 91 55 .00
Tuesday_ 83 62 .15
High Temperatures Send
Current Need To High Mark
Several days of tempera
tures hovering near the hun
dred mark—causing people to
turn up their air conditioners
—have brought a new produc
tion record to Duke Power Co.
The meters in the company’s
operation office in Charotte
sh w d an all- ime high produc
tion peak between 11 a.m. and
noon Monday. Hie company’s
facilities produced 3,421,000
KW, raising the last record
peak by seven per cent
The new demand figure is
double that of the highest day
in 1954, and if the tempera
ture continues at the present
levels, G. G. Mattison, Vice
President of Production and
Transmission, expects to see
yet a higher record set In the
next few weeks.
Governor On Program
Dr. Pfohl Attends American
Symphony League Conference
| Dr. James C. I’folil, found
er - director of the Brevard
Music Center, is in Detroit for
a four - day annual conven
tion of the American Sympho
ny Orchestra League. Approx
imately 800 delegates from all
parts of the North American
hemisphere are expected to
attend the largest conference
for the performing arts in the
world.
Dr. Pfohl, long recognized
nationally for his efforts at
establishing enduring cultural
institutions in the South,
joins business and cultural
leaders from North Carolina
in Detroit. He is a past vice
president of the American
Symphony Orchestra League,
and a member of the Gover
nor’s special committee on the
1 School for the Performing
—Turn to Page Seven
DR. J. C. PFOHL
Crackdown Continues
Youths Fined For Misconduct
In Pisgah Recreational Areas
Eight youths were arrested
this past weekend for viola
tions of state and National For
est laws.
Three from Brevard were fin
ed $25.00 each and suspended
from use of camping areas in
Pisgah National Forest for 6
months in separate cases tried
before U.S. Commissioner John
A. Ford.
In each case the offenders
were charged with operating a
motor vehicle in a careless and
unsafe manner, based on com
pliants from campers using
White Pines Recreation. Area.
Five youths from the Ashe
ville area were arrested early
Sunday morning by Sheriff’s
deputies and Forest Service
personnel on a charge of pub
lic drunkenness. They were
reported by campers at Pink
Beds Recreation Area who used
a citizen-band radio to notify
police. The campers complain
ed of youths holding a drink
ing party, using loud, boister
ous, profane language and
threatening to kill one another
with a knife.
Another radio call over the
citizen-band radio, relayed by tel
ephone to the Sheriffs office,
reported the youths had left the
Pink Beds and were proceeding
toward Brevard on U.S. 276.
Sheriff’s deputies and Forest
Service personnel were already
cnroute to the Pink Beds and
apprehended the offenders by
blocking the forest highway.
A knife, an almost full fifth of
whiskey, several cans of beer,
and an army type bayonet were
—Turn to Page Eight
College Will
Hold Several
Conferences
The 1964 tourist season in
Brevard and Transylvania
county is expected to be a
banner one, a survey this
week reveals.
Already the famed Pisgah
National forest is crowded on
weekends with visitors from
many adjoining states.
.Hotel operators and owners
of the restaurants and drive
ins in the community report
quite an influx in business.
Practically all of the 18 or
ganized summer camps report
a capacity number of campers
for the season.
The Transylvania Music
camp will have its largest en
rollment, and concerts are
planned through out the sum
mer season. This is the 28th
season, and elaborate plans
are being completed for the
"best” season.
The American Red Cross
has completed a highly suc
cessful Aquatic school at beau
tiful Camp Carolina, and oth
er camps are having pre-camp
sessions.
Brevard College is a popu
lar place this summer, as
many conferences and meet
ings of various groups are be
ing held there.
Next week The Transylvania
Times is publishing its an
nual Camping edition, and
it will contain features and
stories of the various camps
of the county, as well as many
other interesting articles.
Cook Is President
Rotarians Install New
Officers Monday Night
1
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Charles Cook was installed as
the new president of the Bre
vard Rotary club at induction
ceremonies last Monday night.
The installation of officers was
at Camp Deerwoode, and a
ladies’ night was held. Rotary
members and their wives enjoy
ed a barbecue dinner.
Other officers installed at this
tune were John Smart, secre
tary; and Ted Miller, treasurer.
Also installed were Eugene Bak- !
er, Jack Mitchell and Dr. Marius f
Wells as members of the
of directors.
Dr. Wells, outgoing i
was presented with
studded Rotary pin.
for many