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TRANSYLVANIA— An Industrial, Tourist, Educa tional, Agricultural and Music Center. Population, 1960 Census 16,372. Brevard Commnuity 8.500. Brevard proper 4,857. THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C, Newspaper TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance t* Pisgah National Forest and Home of Brevard College and Brevard Music Festival. Vol. 78—No. 48 SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BREVARD. N. C. ZIP CODE 28712 BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1965 * 24 PAGES TODAY if PRICE 10c PUBLISHED WEEKLY Do Your Christmas Shopping Early, Santa Arrived In Brevard Tuesday I HE BEAUTY OF SUNSET on Lake Toxaway was vividly photographed on Thanksgiving by Jock Lauterer, a journalism major at the Univer sity ot North Carolina. Lauterer spent his vaca tion last summer working with The Times staff, and while here, he formed a deep affection for the scenic beauty of this section of the Carolinas. Commission Members Are Appointed Wransylvania representa tives on the 12-man commis sion to coordinate economic development in Transylvania, Buncombe, Henderson and IV^ison counties have been appointed by the county com missioners, Donald Lee Moore, the chairman, announces to day. They are: W. J. “Bill” Wal lis, Stan Meares and John Bailey. Mr. Wallis, who has been ac tive in flood control work in Transylvania, was instrumental in setting up the commission for the four counties. Mr. Meares is vice president of the First Citizens Bank and Trust company here, and Mr. Bailey is the administrator of the Transylvania Community hospital. Jfhe 12-man commission will a™o deal with the Tennessee Valley Authority in the plan ning phase of an $80 million —Turn to Page Sevei * Thursday, December 2nd — Kiwanis ladies night meeting at Presbyterian church at 6:45 p. m. The Lions will meet at the Colonial Inn at 7:00 p. m. Friday, December 3rd — The Health Center will open a Di abetic Screening Clinic from 8:30 a. m. to 12 o’clock noon. The Christmas Musical Fashion show will take place at 8:00 p. m.. in the Parish hall of the Episcopal church . ^turday, December 4th—The , Elks Charity Ball will be held at the Legion building beginning . at 9:00 p. m. Sunday, December 5th — At- \ tend the church of your choice. : At 2:30 p. m„ the Elks will hold their Memorial Service at the Lodge. Monday, December 6th — The Rotary meets at 7:00 p. m. at Gaither’s. Also at 7:00 p. m„ the Democratic Women’s club meets at Berry’s. Tuesday, December 7th—The Ace of Club meets at 7:30 p.m. I Highway Officials Say Much Road Improvement Work To Be Carried Out In County Transylvania’s County Com missioners learned first hand from State Highway officials in a special meeting during the past week how funds would be allocated in the im mediate future for road im provement work. Chairman Donald Lee Moore presided over the meeting hero in the court house, and the other commissioners. Dr. Charles L. Newland and Hale Siniard, Jr., were present, along with county attorney, Ralph H. Ramsey. Representing the highway commission were: Curtis Russ, commissioner: A. J. Hughes, di vision engineer, and their as sistants. Present with them were Grady Shook, L. H. Hig don, Webb Pitillo, Howard Whitmire, T. M. Austell, district engineer, and Edward Martin, Mr. Isom and Mr. Ple9s. Chairman Moore welcomed them and expressed appreciation >f the commissioners for their —Turn to Page Eight We Might Win! Large Local Delegation To Attend Awards Luncheon, 4th Governor Dan K. Moor will be the principal speake at the annual Awards Meei ing of the Asheville Agricul tural Development Counci to be held on Saturday, Dt cember 4th, at 12 noon in th Asheville City Auditorium. Several hundred rural ar civic leaders, including mai state and local officials, will 1 on hand for this meeting. Hig light of the occasion will be tl announcement of the top rur communities in the 1965 Wes em North Carolina Rural Cor munity Development Prograr This will climax a year’s wor by 115 organized rural are: in 15 counties that have pa ticipated in the developmei It’s Now Official Coach Brookshire Resigns To Enter Private Business Cliff Brookshire, head foot ball coach and athletic direc tor at Brevard Senior High School for the past six years, has resigned to enter private business here in Brevard. The resignation had been ru mored for the past several veeks, and Coach Brookshire nade it official Tuesday night it the annual football banquet dr the Brevard and Rosman ligh school teams that was held n the cafeteria at Olin. Coach Brookshire, whose Blue Devil grid squads have compiled a record of 52 wins, 14 losses and 3 ties during his six year tenure, will be come associated with Lowe’s Brevard Associate store here in Brevard. The amiable young coach had —Turn to Page Fiva CLIFF BROOKSHIRE i program this year. Approximately $4,500 in . awards will be presented to the ( winning communities in the . area. Over $8,000 has already , been presented by local spon sors i.n the various county con tests. Forty - four communities competed in the final judging ■“ during November in the Farm y and Non - Farm divisions and ie the Youth program. l e Representing Transylvania d county for top honors at the t- —Turn to Page Seven V I. WeatAer By - A1 Martin Official Weatherman November proved to be a rel atively dry month for Brevard as only 2.29 inches of rainfall ’ was recorded at the local obser vation station adjacent to the WPNF studios. Three-tenths of this rainfall came during the past week which saw the lowest tempera ture reading of the season on Tuesday morning when the mer cury dropped to 12 degrees. A 10 degree reading on Wednesday morning of this week goes into next week’s records, although it will become the low mark for this fall. High reading for the week was a balmy 73 degrees last Satur day afternoon, while average highs and lows for the period were 58 and 30 degrees. Day -to-day readings were as follows: High Low Prec. Wednesday-61 26 .00 Thursday- 50 36 .10 Friday -.— 65 37 .00 Saturday_ 73 44 .20 Sunday- 58 29 .00 Monday_ 52 22 .00 Tuesday-45 12 .00 TVA Presents Plans For Flood Control In Transylvania County Thousands See Yule Parade Mere than 10,000 persons attended the big Christmas parade here Tuesday after noon, when Santa made his arrival for the 1965 shopping season. The parade featured the fine bands of Brevard and Hendersonville and several colorful floats. There were also befauty queens, the Shrine, elowns, horses and carriages, the mo torcycle corps of the Asheville auxiliary police and other at tractions. The color guards led the parade up Main, down Cald well, back to Broad and then down to Brevard College. A survey in Brevard reveals that the tempo of shopping has noticeably stepped up, and the stores are well stocked with Christmas merchandise. The multi - colored lights, more extensive than ever be fore, were turned on in the business section Tuesday night, and parents are par ticularly urged to bring their children to town at night-time to see these beautiful lights. Officials of the Merchants division of the Brevard Cham ber of Commerce point out that it is good business tc “shop at home”. Mrs. Ponder Is Postmistress At Penrose Announcement of the appoint ment of Mrs. Grace J. Ponder as acting Postmistress at the Penrose post office has been made by the office of the Post master General, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Ponder’s appointment be came effective October 31st, 1965, upon the retirement of Mrs. Ina T. Rustin, who had served as Postmistress at the Penrose office since 1940. A certificate of appointment signed by former Postmaster General John A. Gronouski was delivered to Mrs. Ponder on Tuesday, November 23rd, by W. T. Martin, postal service offic er, of Charlotte. Elks Hold Memorial Service The public is cordially invited to a Memorial service at the Brevard Elks lodge on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 5th at 2:30 o’clock. According to Andrew J. Brown, the exalted ruler, the service will be in memory of all departed Elks. He also announces that five new members will be initiated into the club at the next meet ing on Dec. 14th at 8:00 o’clock. Their indoctrination will be held on Dec. 13th at 7:30 o’clock. .. —w OFFICER R. J. KITCHEN, JR., discovered ex pensive tip boards in the car of William Whiteside when he arrested him about 4:30 a.m., in the park ing lot of one of Brevard’s drive-ins recently. A part of a pint of gin was also found with the lottery material. (Times Staff Photo) Breakdown Given Duke Power Company Reduces Rates Again Duke Power company to day asked the utilities regula tory commission of both Caro linas for permission to chop its charges for electricity by over $1 million per year. The rate reduction will be the company’s sixth since January, 1960. The proposed cut will be come effective January 1, 1966. A breakdown on the classes of service to share in the re quested reduction is as follows: Residential service, $671, 000; Municipal Street Light ing Service, $283,000: and To tal - Electric General Ser vice, $93,000. Duke spokesmen regarded the change in street lighting rates, plus a company proposal to modernize street lighting, to be the most important of the rate reductions as it involves not on ly a reduction in costs, but the furnishing of more light, in many cases, for the lowered charge. The new rates couple a re duced monthly charge for mercury vapor lights with an offer to change all incan descent lights within Duke’s 20,000 square mile service area to mercury vapor. The company said that it would change existing incandes cent street lights to the mer cury at its expense. This would involve replacing over 40, 000 street lighting fixtures throughout the company’s 50 county service area at a cost of about $3 million, and would take about two years to com plete. The reduced charges, tiowever, will be effective Janu ary 1, 1966. The mercury lights will re duce cost to the cities and will provide, on the average, 35 per cent more light for the lower cost. Ninety - three per cent of the street lights on the Duke system will be —Turn to Page Three Program Highlights Broadcasts Of Basketball On WPNF Proving Popular The 1965 1966 college basket ball broadcasts move into high gear on WPNF this Saturday night with the broadcast of the University of North Carolina versus William and Mary game from Chapel Hill. Again this season, Bill Currie, a familiar voice to Tar Heel sports fans, will handle the play-by-play of Carolina, State, Duke and Wake Forest games. Brevard College cage contests will be broadcast by A1 Martin and Bill Norris. Arrangements have been made with the Tar Heel Sports Net work to relay the score of Sat urday night’s preliminary game between the University of North Carolina freshmen squad and the Brevard College Tornadoes. Other games during the com ing week have North Carolina at Ohio State, Monday night at 8:20 p.m. and Richmond at North Carolina on Wednesday night at 7:50 p.m. Other Programs The schedule for the Farm and Home hour is as follows: —Toni to Page Three 3 Alternate Sites Selected Above Rosman Transylvania leaders have accepted an alternate proposal calling for construction of TVA dams on the West Fork, North Fork and East Fork of the French Broad River in Transylvania county. The alternate proposal, voted on and accepted at a meeting here in Brevard Wed nesday of Transylvania lead ers, including the county com missioners, representatives of Brevard, Rosman and the Lit tle River community and TVA officials, plus representatives cf other counties directly in volved in the Upper French Broad flood control project, calls for the following action: (1) Three dams will be constructed, one each on North Fork, East Fork and West Fork in upper Transyl vania. This three dam pro posal will replace the original plan calling for construction of one large dam that would have flooded much of the land between Brevard and Rosman. (2) A dry dam, one that does not form a permanent pool or lake, would be con structed on Davidson River at the entrance of Pisgah Na tional Forest. (3) A dam will be construct —Turn to Page Three Kiwanis Club Will Hold Ladies Night Brevard Ki-wanians will hear Congressman Basil L. Whitener, of Gastonia, Representative of the tenth Congressional District of North Carolina, at their reg ular meeting Thursday night. Congressman Whitener will be introduced by Kiwanian Dana - Harris, who resided for a num ber of years in the tenth Dis trict, and who is a personal ac quaintance of the Congressman’s. The affair will be held in the fellowship hall of the Brevard Davidson River, and will get un Davidson River Presbyterian church, and vail get underway promptly at 6:45. This will be a ladies night, and all Ki.wanians and their Kiwan iannes are reminded to attend. Christmas Charity Ball Slated On Saturday Night Brevard Elks will hold their annual Christmas Charity ball this Saturday night. The event will be held in the American Legion building, and dancing will begin at 9:00 o’clock. The public is invited, and tickets may be secured from a member of the Elks lodge. Exalted Ruler Andrew J. Brown says that donations t» this Charity Ball help the to support their many pi for needy children in vania county. Music will be furnished Grady Nichols and his fine chestra of Asheville. .
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