THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
fol. 79—No. 5 V£Ht^varTnAGc. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966 ★ 22 PAGES TODAY ★
ZIP CODE 28712 '
tA SCENIC SNOW SCENE was
ght by the camera of Alex Mac
Cormack near his home at Cedar
Mountain. No other words are nec
essary to describe the beauty of win
ter along US Highway 276.
Fy Improving, Enlarging
Special Election Called
In Brevard On March 12th
Formal announcement of
the Special Bond Election for
improving and enlarging the
sanitary sewer system in the
Town of Brevard is announced
by the Board of Aldermen.
The election will be held on
Saturday. March 12. 1966.
from 6:30 a.m., to 6:30 p.m.,
at the Town Hall Fire depart
ment.
The regular election, regi
stration books for the town
will be used, and they will be
opte for registration of voters
nor heretofore registered on
the following days:
Saturday, Feb. 12 — 9:00
a.m., until sunset
^Kurdays, Feb. 19th and
26th during the same hours.
March 5th will be challenge
day.
The registrars will be:
Mrs. Mirium Schlunz and
Mrs. Dorothy Kizer.
Judges are:
Lloyd Burhans, Ed Allen,
M. M. Feaster, Jr., and Mrs.
Alma Spicer.
A favorable vote in the elec
tion will permit the aldermen
to issue sanitary sewer bonds
not exceeding the amount of
$315,000.00.
The aldermen have been or
dmttd by the State Stream and
Safflation committee to make
necessary improvement in the
town’s sewer system. This or
der has authority granted by
th^recent legislature.
We work will require re
placement of over three miles
of existing sewerage mains
plus the cleaning and repair
of over one mile of mains.
Thursday, February 3rd —
Kiwanis meets at Gaither’s at
6:45. The Lions convene at 7:00
p.m. at the Colonial Inn.
Friday, February 4th — Re
publican precinct meetings will
be <||d at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 6th — At
tend the church of your choice.
Nelson Adams presents a recital
at the Methodist church at 3:00
p.m.
Monday, February 7th — Ro
tary meets at 7 o’clock at Gai
ther’s.
Tuesday, February 8th — The
Ace of Clubs meets at 8:00 p.m.
A Democratic executive com
mittee meeting will be held at
the courthouse at 8:00 p.m. The
Hospital auxiliary meets at 10:00
a.m., in the Nurses’ dining room.
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Town Hall Announces
Water Bills Are Unchanged This
Month Because Of The Weather
Water bills in Brevard for
the month of January will be
the same as they were for
the previous month, Mrs. Opal
Armentrout, the city clerk,
announces today.
This is due to the fact that
the metermen have not been
able to read meters because
of the snow and ice, she says.
Any adjustment necessary
will be made next month.
Demo Executive
Committee To
Meet Tuesday
The Transylvania County
Democratic Executive committee
will meet on Tuesday, February
8th, at 8 p.m. in the court house
in Brevard.
John K. Smart, Jr., chairman
of the executive committee,
states that the purpose of the
meeting is to approve recommen
dations for the County Board of
Elections.
He urges all members of the
committee to attend the impor
tant meeting.
Formal Opening
Of Thrif-Tee
Store Slated
The formal opening of Thrif
Tee Discount, Inc., Brevard'
newest business, will take place
this Thursday morning at 9:0(
a.m.
The new store, specializing ir
health and beauty aids, small ap
pliances, etc., is one of six such
stores that have opened recent
ly in this area. Similar stores
are in operation in Canton
Franklin, Sylva, Hendersonville
and Elizabethton, Tenn.
The modern new facility will
offer a variety of items at prices
that will make available savings
to the people of Brevard and
Transylvania county, according
to Charles Gidney of Franklin,
president of the firm.
“We are happy to become a
part of progressive Brevard”, Mr.
Gidney stated, “and we feel that
cur firm is progressing by com
ing to Transylvania. We like the
people here, and we feel that
our store will have much to add
to the community.”
•a
Mr. Gidney concluded by ex
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In 11th Year Here
Nelson Adams Gives Recital
Sunday, Public Is Invited
A faculty recital will be pre
sented this coming Sunday, Feb
ruary 6th, by Nelson F. Adams,
organist. It will be presented in
the sanctuary of the Brevard
Methodist church at 3:00 p. m.
Works to be performed were
composed by: Roberts, Couperin,
Bach, Handel, Langlais and
Franck. This will be the first
of three identical recitals to be
given by Mr. Adams in Febru
ary.
The other two will be at Duke
Chapel, Durham, and at West
minister Presbyterian church,
Greenville, South Carolina.
This is Mr. Adams 11th year
as head of the music department
at Brevard College and as Min
ister of Music at the Brevard
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NELSON ADAMS
Winter s Worst Weather Being Felt In
Town/ County, Mercury Dips To 10 Below
Soil Survey
In County
Is Completed
A complete soil survey of
Transylvania county has quiet
ly been under way for the
past three years, but will
likely require another two
• years befort it becomes avail
able to the public. According
to Merrimon Shuford, of the
U. S. Soil Conservation ser
vice, the survey will give use
ful information about the soil
of every acre of land in the
county.
This survey is being made by
soil surveyors of the U, S. Soil
Conservation Servi.ee and the
U. S. Forest Service. When the
survey is completed there will
be available to any who are in
terested, a detailed map showing
the location and extent of the
many different kinds of soil
which occur throughout the
county.
In addition to the map,
there will be descriptions of
each soil and information
about them that will point
out their properties, such as
depth, texture, permeability,
wetness, overflow hazard,
slope and erosion.
This soil survey should be a
valuable report to many people
in the county. Among the pos
sible users of this report are
farmers, planners, builders, de
velopers. contractors, appraisers,
real estate brokers, foresters
and many others who use the
land and need to know more
about it.
Look Inside..
News for the Women, pages 6
; in second and third sections.
Sports, page 6, first section.
Classifieds, page 2, first sec
tion.
Interesting feature on the late
John W. Smith, page 3, third
section.
Editor’s Corner, page 5, first
section.
Farm news, page 8, third sec
tion.
Editorials, page 2, second sec
tion. a
Church directory, page 8, sec
ond section.
Diabetic
Screening
Clinic Set
The Transylvania County
Health department will hold a
Diabetic Screening clinic Friday,
February 4th, from 9:00 a.m. to
12:00 p.m.
No appointments are neces
sary for this free public service.
By - A1 Martin
Official Weatherman
A total of eight inches of snow
and sleet fell on Brevard during
the past week, as temperatures
took a plunge to the season’s
new low mark of 10 degrees be
low zero on Monday morning.
High mark for the week was
a modest 44 degrees on Friday
afternoon of last week.
Average highs and lows were
36 and 10 degrees.
Day-to-day readings were as
follows;
Wednesday_ 33 20 3.0
High Low Snow
Thursday
Friday —
Saturday
Sunday
Monday .
Tuesday
40 18 0.0
44 7 0.0
30 19 4.0
26 -3 0.0
34 -10 0.0
42 17 1.0
A SURFBOARD by any other
name is still a surfboard but it cer
tainly looked a little out of place
here in Brevard in last Saturday's
heavy snowstorm. You see it pictur
ed here on top of the car belonging
to Peter Layzell, also shown above,
who was enroute to Florida after
visiting relatives in Montreal, Cana
da, when the snows caught him here.
Pete, who hails from Daytona Beach,
Fla., took it all in stride, saying “Oh,
well, you just never can tell when
you might find use for a surfboard.”
And he just might, after the spring
thaw comes. (Times Staff Photo)
On February 25th
“Medicare” Registration Day%
To Be Held In Transylvania
By The Chairman
Farmers Are Urged To Plan
ACP Spring Practices Now
Farmers who have been con
sidering soil and water conser
vation practices to be establish
ed on their farms with Agricul
tural Conservation Program co
operation this spring should file
their requests for program as
sistance as soon as convenient,
Glenn A. Whitmire, chairman of
the Transylvania county ASCS
committee suggested.
The 1966 ACP was approved
several weeks ago, requests for
cost-sharing are now being ac
cepted at the local county ASCS
office.
Mr. Whitmire explained that
Judge Pless To
Take Oath Of
Office Monday
The Office of the Clerk of
Court in Transylvania will be
closed on Monday in honor of
Honorable J. Will Pless, Jr., who
,vill be sworn in as an Associate
supreme Court Justice in Ra
eigh.
Clerk of Court Marvin McCall
lias been invited to attend the
ceremonies in Raleigh for the
cutstanding judge, who is a na
:ive of Brevard.
Mr. McCall says all Transyl
vania can be truly proud of
fudge Pless and his outstanding
record. The judge wrote Mr.
McCall that he had had many
:ond memories of Brevard.
“It has been indeed a pleas
.tre working with you over the
rears, and I look forward to our
continued friendship,” Judge
Pless stated.
the sooner the request is filed,
the easier it will be to obtain
approval of the practice and take
care of other program, details
before the work is begun.
Under the 1966 program, cost
share program assistance aver
ages about half the cost of car
rying out such conservation prac
tices as establishing and improv
ing vegetative cover of grasses,
legumes, or trees for soil pro
tection: and installing drainage
ditches.
Mr. Whitmire states further
that the Agricultural Conserva
tion program has been in con
tinuous operation since 1936, and
that over 2 million farmers and
ranchers regularly are applying
needed soil, water, woodland and
wildlife conservation practices
on their land.
A special “Medicare" regi
stration day will be held in
Brevard on Friday, Feb. 25th,
at the American Ia*gion Me
morial hall.
The time will be from 9:30 in
the morning until 2:30 that af
ternoon.
The registration will be con
ducted by a trained Social Se
curity Administration staff.
It is open to all residents
of Transylvania county 65
years of age or over (or those
persons who will become 65
before June 1, 1966).
N. G. Grubbs, Social Security
field representative, issues the
following statement concerning
the registration day:
Here is your chance to ob
tain information and to file an
application without going to
Asheville or waiting hours in
line.
“If you have not already re
quested your “Medicare” cov
erage, take action now to beat
the deadline. (Bring your So
cial Security number and
—Turn to Page Five
By The Baptists
Rev. Harold Killian Named
To Post Of General Board
REV. HAROLD W. KILLIAN
Rev. Harold Killian, pastor of
the First Baptist church here in
Brevard, was elected vice presi
dent of the General Board of
the North Carolina Baptist Con
vention at the General Board
meeting in Raleigh recently.
Rev. Mr. Killian, pastor here
at First Baptist for the past
seven years, was elected to serve
in the high position for a one
year term.
Dr. E. W. Price, of High Point
was re-elected president, and
Mrs. Henry B. Stokes, of Tryon,
was elected secretary.
As vice president, Mr. Killian
will be the number two man of
the powerful General Board,
which is composed of delegates
from every Baptist association
in North Carolina.
Schools Remain
Closed, Many
Meets Cancelled
Brevard and Transylvania
have received some 22 inches
of snow since the first of the
year, and the wintry weather
recorded during the past week
is said to have been the worst
in the history of the town
and county.
The fourth snow storm hit
here last Saturday, making
three sncws on three straight
Saturdays.
The fifth snow and sleet
stcrm blew in Tuesday, and
the weatherman is still pre
dicting more snow this week.
Driving conditions con
tinue hazardous, and schools
are closed for the second
straight week.
Making the snowstorm last
weekend even worse was the
low temperature of 10 de
grees below zero on Monday.
Also, the mercury has stayed
below freezing mark much of
the time since then.
The snow continues to play
havoc with the people’s sche
dules.
Many, many meetings have
been cancelled or postponed.
Several of the churches in
the county have also cancelled
services because of weather
and load conditions.
Motorists are warned daily
to stay off the highways un
less absolutely necessary, and,
1 JKdentally, they have to a
^Jrge degree.
The annual banquet of the
Brevard Chamber of Com
merce. which was slated for
this Friday night, has been
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Weather Reports
Popular Over
Radio WPNF
With so much interest in the
rough weather being experienc
ed throughout the nation this
winter, WPNF calls attention to
the hourly “Weather Word”
broadcasts heard daily.
These summaries are pre
sented Monday through Satur
day at 27 minutes past each
hour from 6:27 a. m. through
9:27 p. m.
The programs include the lat
est forecast for the area as well
as current temperatures from
official United States Weather
Bureau instruments located at
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Republicans To
Hold Precinct
Meetings Friday
Republicans will hold precinct
meetings in the various precincts
of Transylvania on Friday night
of this week at 7:30 o’clock.
According to Ralph L. Wal
drop, chairman of the Transyl
vania Republican Executive com
mittee, the purpose of the meet
ings is for the election of pre
cinct officials and naming of
delegates to the Republican Coun
ty convention.
This convention will be held
in the court house here on Sat
urday, Feb. 12th, at 2:00 p.m.
The purpose of the convention
is to complete organization of
the 1966-’67 Republican Execu
tive committee to nominate del
egated for the November Gen
eral Election. Delegates to the
district and state Republican
conventions will also be named.