TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Educa
tional, Agricultural and Music
Center. Population, 1960 Census
16,372. Brevard Community 8,500,
Brevard proper 4.867.
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—i
The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest and
Home of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival
Vol. 76—No. 28
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BREVARD, N.C., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1964 ★ 24 PAGES TODAY ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY
HUGH N. LAMBERT, Transyl
vania’s corn growing champion for
many years, has won the state title
for the fifth straight time. His offi
cial yield in 1963 was 172.7 bushels
per acre, and in addition to receiv
ing a trophy from the First Union
National bank, he was also awarded
a plaque that was given by the North
Carolina and the Virginia Plant Food
Institute. (Extension Staff Photo)
Stars On Programs
Special Group To Be Honored
At Music Center This Weekend
A very special group of visi
tors is to be honored July 10
12 at the Brevard Music Center.
Officially designated Board
of Trustees and Board of Visi
tors Weekend, Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday’s concerts will wel
come more than 44 members of
the Brevard Music Center's
Board of Trustees and an equ
ivalent number of outstanding
businessmen and friends who
comprise the Board of Visitors.
Featured soloists for the
weekend will be pianists Doro
thy Griffith and Hugh McGin
nis, soprano Arlene Saunders,
and guest conductor Arthur
Winograd.
The Board of Trustees, head
ed by Samuel Piekney Stowe, of
_Belmont, and the Board of Visi
tors represent 10 states and will
take part in a special program
of events during the weekend.
1^. Arlene Saunders, leading
"’American soprano with the
Hamburg Opera Company, ap
pears for the second consecu
tive summer at Brevard Music
Center. She is scheduled to ap
pear Friday night, June 10,
at 8:15 p.m. singing the Four
Last Songs by Richard Str»»ss
and on Sunday afternoon, July
12, at 3:30 p.m. when she will
sing Agathe’s Aria, from “Der
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Friday, July 10 — Ace of
Clubs meets at 8:00 p.m. Brevard
Music Center concert at 8:15 p.m.
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Saturday, July 11 — Brevard
Music Center concert at 8:15
p.m.
Sunday, July 12 — Attend the
church of your choice. Brevard
Music Center concert at 3:30
pjm.
Monday, July 13 — Sherwood
Forest Nature Lecture at 3:30
pjn. Rotary club meets at Gaith- '
er’S ait 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, July 14 — Chamber
of Commerce directors meet at
Library at 7:30 p.m. Elks meet
at Lodge at 8:00 p.m. Ace of
Clubs meets at 8:00 p.m. Bre
vard Music Center concert at 8:15
p.m.
Wednesday, July 15 — Toast
masters meet at Gaither’s at 6:30
p.m. WOW meets in Woodman
HaM at 8:00 p.m. Brevard Music
Center concert at 8:15 p.m.
For First Graders
Brevard School Is Approved
For Summer Readiness Program
The Brevard Elementary
school has been approved by
the State Department of Pub
lic Instruction to participate
in the Comprehensive School
Improvement project, Supt.
Wayne Bradburn announces.
The North Carolina fund pro
posed a comprehensive school
improvement project be devel
oped in the North Carolina
public schools directed toward
improving the teaching and
learning of reading, writing, and
arithmetic in the primary
grades.
The project provides for the
establishment of a six-weeks
summer readiness program for
children who need strengthen
ing in readiness skills. En
trance into the summer pro
gram will be based on the
child’s performance on his
test which he took on Begin
ner’s Day.
A similar project will be car
ried into the regular school pro
gram this fall. Three primary
rlass groups will be organized
into a single unit. Three teachers
will have already been assigned
to these primary grades. To this
team of three teachers will be
added the equivalent of one full
time teacher aide. In most cases
this team will stay with the
same students for the three years
cf the project.
The State Department of
Public Instruction will provide
consultation and supervision
for all schools in the project
and will develop a staff team
to work with the total school
improvement project in pro
gram development and evalu
ation.
Application for this fund was
made for the Brevard school
necause of its location and the
number of children it serves.
The summer program will
l egin July I3th. “If your pre
•chool child took the test at
i'he Beginner’s Day program
and is eligible for the summer
readiness program, you will be
notified by letter,” Mr. Brad
burn concludes.
Members Invited
Transylvania Rifle, Pistol
Club Formed, Has New Range
The Transylvania Rifle and
Pistol club has been organized
;o provide safe facilities and
raining for experienced and
jeginning shooters.
The club has recently com
pletely its range which is now
ipen for shooting to club mem
bers.
The range is located on Cedar
Rock Creek, off Cathey’s Creek
road in the National Forest.
This range was made possi
ble with the cooperation of the
National Forest Service who, in
iddition to making the site avail
able, has issued firearm permits
.0 club members.
Without these permits, it is
Regal to carry firearms in the
National Forest.
The range has facilities for
target shooting at 25, 50 and 100
yards including two bench rests.
To be eligible for club mem
beship a person must be 17 years
of age or older and become a
member of the National Rifle
association with which this club
is affiliated. The NRA is an or
ganization which promotes safe
firearm practices, markmanship,
and realistic and effective gun
legislation. It is the governing
body for competitive rifle and
pistol target shooting in the U.S.
The club presently has 28
members whose time and efforts
has made possible these facili
ties.
The club holds meetings on
the 2nd Monday of each month,
8 00 p m., at the Olin Medical
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Fourth
Was
Quiet
Fourth of July was quietly
observed in Brevard and Tran
sylvania county.
The day was a holiday, with
many of the stores, town and
county offices being closed.
Highlighting activities in
the community were the
Fourth of July picnic at Camp
Straus an dthe Sylvan Valley
Folk Festival at Brevard Col
lege.
More than 5,000 persons at
tended the annual picnic, and
the gala event .was reported
to have been highly success
ful.
While a record number of
persons were killed on the na
tion’s highways over the Four
th of July weekend, there were
no serious accidents in Tran
sylvania county, the State
Highway Patrol- reports.
Prior to the holiday, Bre
vard merchants staged a three
day, Fourth of July Sidewalk
sale. It was declared a success,
with trading brisk all three
days.
Ambulance
Service
Continued
Ambulance service in Tran
sylvania has been taken over
by the county, with Arthur
Anders in charge.
The service is being operat
ed from 302 Maple street, and
the telephone number is 883
4070.
Ambulance equipment for
the service was leased from
Frank Moody of the Frank
Moody funeral home.
Due to financial losses, the
two funeral homes in Brevard
discontinued ambulance ser
vice as of July 1st.
Tax Collections
Continue Good
The collection of 1963 taxes
in Brevard, Bosnian and Tran
sylvania county continues good,
Lawrence Hipp, the tax collec
tor, reported at board meet
ings this week.
Of the charge of $98,448.46 in
Brevard, a total of $90,218.33
had been collected as of July
1st, 1964, he stated.
The percentage was 91.64
per cent.
For Rosman, collections total
ed $2,395.67. Percentage - wise,
this was 88.349o.
For Transylvania the 1963
charge was $549,078.97, and
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I The Weather I
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Brevard received over two
thirds of an inch of precipita
tion last week as temperatures
remained at summertime levels.
Actual high and low readings
for the week were 86 and 44
degrees, with average highs and
lows of 82 and 55 degrees.
The forecast continues to call
for scattered afternoon showers
and thundershowers for the next
few days.
Daily readings for the past
week were:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday__ 78 55 .01
Thursday_ 83 56 .39
Friday 81 63 .31
Saturday _ 83 61 .00
Sunday_„ 81 48 .00
Monday __ 83 44 .00
Tuesday_ 86 56 .00
Record High Budget Of *976,723
For Transylvania County Approved
MISS BREVARD OF 1965, Lynne
Wylie Brownell, is shown above fol
lowing her coronation last Saturday
night. At the right is Miss Karen
Galloway, first runner-up in the
beauty pageant, and at the left is
Miss Brenda Sue Sitton, second run
ner-up. Miss Brownell also placed
first in the evening gown competition
and won, the coveted Miss Congenial
ity award. Miss Galloway placed first
in the talent competition.
uvent Successful
Lynne Brownell Crownedi ‘Miss
Brevard” To Climax Pageant
Lovely Lynne Wylie Brow
nell, an obvious favorite of the
crowd attending the beauty
pageant Saturday night, was
crowned Miss Brevard of 1965.
The blonde beauty was placed
first in evening gown competi
tion and was voted Miss Con
geniality by her fellow contest
ants.
The daughter of Dean H.
Brownell and the late Mrs.
Brownell, she was sponsored by
the American Legion Post No.
88.
Her talent performance was
a charcoal sketch of Ruth Ellen
Hunter, Miss Brevard of 1964.
The coronation of Miss Bre
vard climaxed the three-day
Folk Festival and Beauty Pa
geant sponsored by the Bre
vard Jaycees and Jaycettes.
First runner-up was Miss
Karen Galloway, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Gallo
way, of Osborne Road. She was
also winner of the talent com
petition with her outstanding
vocal presentation of “Birth of
the Blues.” She was sponsored
by the Brevard Little Theatre.
Second runner-up was Miss
Brenda Sue Sitton, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Sitton ot
Pisgah Forest. She was spon
sored by the Pisgah Forest Com
munity Canter, and her perform
ance at the piano of “Moon
River” and “Exodus” was well
received during the talent pres
entations.
Miss Donna Irby, sponsored by
the Kiwanis club, was the win
ner of the siwimsuit competi
tion. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Leon J. Irby of Fisher
Road. Her talent was a baton
twirl to the theme “Trumpets
Wild.”
After preliminary appearan
ces in evening gown and swim
suit on Thursday evening, the
girls gave fine talent perform
ances on Friday evening.
In addition to performances
already mentioned, Miss Lynda
Patterson, sponsored by the Ro
tary club, performed a panto
mine dance to “Honeybim” from
“South Pacific;” Miss Betty Ann
Schranz, sponsored by the Lions
club, sang “I Enjoy Being A
Girl” from “Flower Drum Song;”
and Miss Carole Dillingham,
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Found Unharmed
Some 500 Persons Aided In
Search For 2 \oung Bovs
Two young boys were found
unharmed Saturday morning
after an all-night search in the
mountainous Pisgah National
Forest by about 500 persons.
The boys, Paul Byrd, 13, of
Ridgeville, S. U., and Riekv
Lunsford, 6, of Elberton, Ga.,
had been missing since 11:00
a.m. Friday when they wan
dered away from them parents
while following deer tracks.
They were on a camping trip
at the Pink Beds recreational
area.
Harold Wingo. of Inman,
S. C., one of the searchers,
found the boys at 10:15 a.m.
Saturday walking down a for
est trail, away from the camp.
The Rescue squad from Bre
vard, aided by the Rosinan res
cue unit, searched all night
Friday for the, boys, and were
joined Saturday by Buncombe.
Haywood, Hen derson and
Swain county rescue squads.
The Civil Air Patrol also
joined the search Saturday be
fore the boys were found. In
Asheville. Peter J. Hanlon, su
pervisor of North Carolina Na
tional Forests, said a helicop
ter from Atlanta was to join in
the search later in the day if
the boys had not been located.
Young Byrd said he and the
smaller boy realized they were
lost early Friday afternoon.
They climbed a free just be
fore dark in an attempt to
spot their camp. When that
failed they descended and
spent the night at the foot
of the tree.
T was scared," Paul said,
‘but I didn't want to let Ricky
know."
Both boys were reported in
good condition.
In a radio interview on Sat
urday over WPNF, the boys
seemed most grateful that so
many persons would give up
their holiday on the Fourth of
July to aid in the search for
them.
Program Highlights
Prizes Awarded In WPNF s
Summer Treasure Hunt Show
Station manager, A1 Martin,
announced today the names of
the first three winners in
VVPNF’s Second Annual Sum
mer Treasure Hunt.
First winner this summer .was
E. B. Ahrens, of 110 Wilson
drive.
Second and third winners
were Paul Blankenship, of 38
Franklin avenue, and Tom Gal
loway, of 115 South Johnson
street.
Other winners in each of the
10 weekly contests will be an
nounced on Monday afternoon
at 2:30 p.m. immediately follow
ing the close of the contest.
"Clues” in the weekly contest
are given over the air, and an
swers are displayed by those
merchants participating in the
program.
Entry blanks are available
from each of the 12 sponsors
Harold’s Super market, Westeri
Auto store. Smile Oil company
McCrary Florist shop, Krisp;
Glaze bakery, McClellan Furni
ture store, McCrary Auto service
MacFie Drug, Golf-Burger Drive
In, Cardinal cleaners, Cm- Build
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Tax Rate Will
Remain Same,
Summary Given
A record high budget esti
mate of S976.723.00 for the fis
cal year, 1964-’S5 has been ap
proved by the Transylvania
county commissioners, and it
will be adopted following pub
lic inspection.
The new budget is based on a
property valuation of $33,250,
009.00. as compared with $30.
500.000. 00 for last year.
The tax rate will remain
at SI.75 per S100 valuation.
The budget estimate for the
past year was $930,269.00. The
largest expenditure in the new
budget is for school current ex
penses.
It is S227,048.00, as compar
ed with S194,60n.00. for last
year. »
Funds for county general are
estimated at $173,312.00. and that
compares with S164.930.00, for
1963-64.
Other school expenses are as
follows:
Capital outlay - S70.096.00
School debt service - $75,306.00
In the welfare department
budgets, the largest amount
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Little Theatre
Planning A
First Workshop
The Brevard Little Theatre
will sponsor a summer workshop
with courses in acting, set de
sign. staging and - makeup, be
ginning July 28th.
These courses will extend ov
er a five-week period and cul
minate in a production to dem
onstrate the skills gained from
workshop training.
Classes will be open to any in
dividual with a serious interest
with the phases of modern the
atre to be covered. Enrollment
will be Limited to adults, high
school juniors and seniois.
A general meeting will be held
Tuesday, July 28th, at the Tran
sylvania Community Center be
ginning at 7:30 o’clock to estab
lish the workshop schedule.
Mel Everingham is general
chairman of the workshop, and
conducting the courses will be
Pat Fuleihan, Maud Freeman,
Walt Rogers and Mike Vaniman.
Hospital Seeks
More Control
Of Visiting
In an effort to provide bet
ter patient care, the Transyl
vania Community hospital is
attempting more visitor con
trol, according to John W.
Bailey, administrator.
All visitors must enter the
hospital through the front en
trance now and check with the
office staff before visiting a
patient.
The welfare of the patient i
is their first concern, Mr.
Bailey stated, and he request
the cooperation of visitors in
this effort.
He suggests the observance
the following good visiting
tices:
Observe visiting hours.
are 10:30-11:30 ajn.,
to Pm