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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper Vol. 79—No. 18 SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BREVARD. N. C. ZIP CODE 28712 BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1966 ★ 28 PAGES TODAY ★ HOLD UP VICTIM for the sec ond time in 18 months, Rowell Bosse, in charge of First Union National Bank’s Rosman office, is pictur ,d here shortly after two young bandies helcLhim up at gun point and escap ‘d with $8,868 last Friday afternoon. Mr. Boose is holding the phone that the culprits cut to prevent an early report of the robbery. (Times Staff Photo) Commissioner Quoted Major Work On Highways In County To Begin Immediately Major highway construction work in Transylvania county is slated to start right away, according to W. Curtis Russ, of Waynesville, highway com missioner of the 14th Division of North Carolina. Mr. Russ, speaking to a group of Transylvania com munity leaders at Gaither’s Tuesday night, stated that bids to construct a four-lane high way from the Brevard city limits to the Southern Railway bridge on highway 64, and a new highway from the bridge on to Rosman, could have al ready been let if property rights-of-way had been secur ed. 4^e are ready to move right now,” he stated, “but we are meeting with such great oppmution in securing rights of-u4p’ from the property own ers along the route that we now have no idea when we will be able to get started.” “We of the highway com mission want you folks to know that the holdup on con structing a new US 64 from Brevard to Rosman does not lie with us,” he continued. “We will move just as soon as the good people of Transyl vania permit us to.” Mr. Russ then switched the subject to US 276, stating that improvement work will start at once on the stretch of high wa^Kfrom the Brevard city limits to the South Carolina line. Tbw work, amounting to a costw almost a quarter mil lion dollars, is scheduled to be completed before December 1st of this year. Work to be done includes complete resur facing of the road as well as widening and strengthening —Turn to Page Four Attention Chairmen! Demo Precinct Meetings Are Slated In County On Saturday Democratic meetings will be held at all of the polling places **i Transyl'r.nia county this Sat urday, May 7th, Jotfn Smart, chairman of the Democrat ex ecutive committee, announces today. The meetings are scheduled at 2:00 p. m., and Mr. Smart Special Programs Are Carried On Radio WPNF Area residents are invited to hear Rev. Tom Haggai in his daily inspirational talks titled “Values for Living”. This feature is heard over WPNF Monday through Friday evenings at 5:30 p.m., presented through the cooperation of Olin Mathieson of Pisgah Forest. The program is a long-time feature of the local station. Tom Haggai is a well-known evangel ist, and appears at many func tions throughout the east and south. Other Programs The schedule for the Farm and Home hour is as follows: Thursday, station program; Fri day, North Carolina forest ser vice, Clark Grissom; Monday, —Turn to Page Three Moves This Week J. Grady Monday Joins Law Firm In Martinsville, Virginia J. GRADY MONDAY J. Grady Monday, a member of the law firm of Hamlin, Ram sey and Monday, moved this week from Brevard to Martins ville, Virginia, where he is now, associated with the law partner ship of Joyce and Stone. Mrs. Monday, who is also an attorney and a faculty member of Brevard senior high school, will join her husband at the close of this school term. Mr. Monday, who came here in September, 1964, has also been active in civi caffairs. He is a Jaycee, a member of the Brevard Rotary club, and he is secretary of the Transylvania Bar association. He is also a Toastmaster and a member of the Brevard Methodist church. A 1955 graduate of Clover —Turn to Page Sfa is urging that all precinct chairmen hold their meetings promptly. The purpose of the meeting is to elect the precinct executive committee, with at least two of them being women and two of them being men. Delegates to the county convention are also to be named. The Precinct committee shall be composed of a chairman, vice chairman (one woman and one man) and a secretary-treas urer. The Transylvania county con vention will be held on the fol lowing Saturday, May 14th, at 2:00 p. m., here in the court house. The meeting of the executive committee will be at 1:30 p. m., on the same date. MlimillllllllllllllllMlimttllllllMIIHHI'HIIHHIMMni Look Inside.. Sports, Page 6, section 1 Society, Pages 4 & 5 section 4 Editors Corner, Page 5, sec tion 1 Classifieds, Pages 2 & 3, sec tion 1 Editorials, Page 2, section 2 Ns* >'T'* WeafAer By Fred Reiter Official Weatherman Almost five and one-half inch es of rain fell at the Brevard weather station during the past week. The exact total was 5.47 inches, and the heaviest fall oc curred last Friday. The five-day forecast for North Carolina calls for temper atures to average near normal, which for this section of the state means a high of 73 each day and low of around 48. The weather bureau’s forecast calls for little or no rainfall during the remainder of the week. The week’s temperatures and precipitation follows: High Low Prec. Wednesday_ 70 54 0.71 Thursday- 73 56 0.97 Friday__ 70 56 2.10 Saturday- 69 58 1.28 Sunday_ 78 55 0.30 Monday_61 55 0.11 Tuesday_ 74 42 0.00 Almost $9,000 Taken In Second Hold-Up Of Rosman Branch Of First Union Bank I Tax Collections Reported Good To Three Boards Tax collections for Brevard, Rosman and Transylvania coun ty were reported as being good by L. R. Hipp, the tax collector, to the various boards this week. The report for Brevard fol lows: Charge - $154,778.93 Corp. excess - 5.060.40 Discoveries - 1,017.49 Total charge - 160.856.82 Less pre-pay - 17,174.82 Balance - 143,682.29 Collections Total - 135,642.20 for 84.32% Balance - 25,215.62 The report for Rosman is as follows: Charge - $3,530.81 Corp. Excess - $233.55 Total charge - $3,764.36 Less pre pay - $330.45 Balance - $3,433.91 Collections Total - $3,002.61 for 79.26% Balance - $761.76 The report for Transyl vania county: Charge - $626,196.15 Corp. Excess - 14,312.75 Discoveries - 1,017.49 Total charge - 641,526.39 Less pre-pay - 265,057.05 Balance - 376,469.34 Collections Total - $586,259.83 for 91.39% Balance - $55,266.56 Dr. Julius Sader Dies Suddenly Dr. Julius Sader, prominent Brevard physician, died early Wednesday morning of a sud den heart attack. Memorial services will be held Friday morning at 11:00 o’clock at the St. Philip’s Episcopal church here in Brevard, and graveside rites are scheduled for 1:30 that afternoon at the Green Hill cemetery in Waynes ville. A native of Lita, Poland, Dr. Sader died at the age of 62. He came to the United States at an early age and was educated at New York university, College of Medicine, where he received his medical degree. Prior to coming to Brevard in February, 1941, Dr. Sader prac ticed medicine in New York for 10 years and in Bailey, N. C., for two years. During World War II, he serv ed in the United States Medical corps from 1942 to 1945, with much of that time being spent —Turn to Page Four BREVARD MUSIC CENTER sea son ticket sales will be handled by the Brevard Jaycees this year, and two members of the sponsoring or ganization are pictured here discuss ing plans with John D. Eversman, center, who is consultant at BMC. Project co-chairmen Joe McGuire, left, and Javcee president Charles Weiss, right, will play major roles in the season ticket campaign, which gets underway next Monday. Absent when the picture was made were the other Jaycee co-chairmen, John Hud son, and Craig Hankenson, business manager at Brevard Music Center. (Times Staff Photo) As Public Service Brevard Jaycees To Conduct Music Center Ticket Sale Registration Continues Democrats And Republicans To Hold Primaries On 28th Registration books for both Democrats and Republicans will again be open at the 18 polling places in Transyl vania county on Saturday, May 7th. They will also be open'' on the 14th, and Saturday, May 21st, is challenge day. The primary, in which Democrats and Republicans will vote, will be held on Saturday, May 28th. This is not a new registra tion, and those persons whose names are now on the books should not register unless they have moved from one pre cinct to another. The registrars will be at the polling places on the next two Saturdays from 9:00 a. m., until sunset. There are several races In the Democratic primary, how ever there is only one race in the Republican primary. It is between Winfield Scott Harvey, of Arden, and Joe S. Schenck, of Canton, who are seeking the nomination on the Republican slate in the Con gressional race. WNC Historical Group To Meet Mrs. Mary Jane McCrary, Transylvania historian, will pre side over the meeting of the Western North Carolina His torical association on Saturday, May 7th. The meeting will be held at Horne’s restaurant in Ashe —Turn to Page Four Hines, Decker Speak College Commencement Set Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, D.D., 22nd Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, V. S. A., and Dr. Ralph W. Decker, director of Education al Institutions, Board of Ed ucation of The Methodist church, will be the commen cement speakers at Brevard College May 15th, according to an announcement by Pres ident Emmett K. McLarty, Jr. Bishop Hines will deliver the commencement sermon at 11:30 a m., in the Boshamer Gym nasium. The Presiding Bishop was born in Seneca, South Caro lina, one of a family of nine children. One of his sisters, Mrs. Dana Harris, is a mem ber of the faculty of Bre —Turn to Page Six RT. REV. JOHN E. ;TNES DR. RALPH W. DECKER Season ticket sales for the gala 1966 Brevard Music Cen ter season will get underway next Monday, May 9th, under the direction of the Brevard Jaycees. This is the first time that any organiaztion other than the Music Center has under taken to handle season ticket sales, but officials of the Cen ter expressed delight with the local Jaycees’ decision to take charge of the campaign this year. Jaycees Joe McGuire and John Hudson are co-chairmen of the ticket sale, and they have indicated that everything is ready for the campaign to get underway next Monday. John D. Eversman, consul tant at Brevard Music Center, stated that the local Jaycee organization had long been noted for ‘‘getting things done” and he stated that he was certain that the season ticket sale would be a great success under their capable leadership. The season tickets will cost —Turn to Page Six All-Out Search Is Continued, No Trace Yet For the second time in 18 months, the Rosman branch office of First 1 nion National Bank was held up and robbed last Friday afternoon. Rowell Bosse, who is in charge of the Rosman office, stated that two young men entered the bank several min utes before the 1:00 p.m. clos ing time last Friday, held him up and escaped with almost $9,000 in cash. Mr. Bosse was also on duty on Monday, October 26, 1964, when the Rosman bank was j held up by two men who were apprehended some 90 minutes later. Over 86,000 was taken front the bank on that occasion, but most of it was recovered. The two men are currently serving stiff sentences in a Federal penitentiary for the robbery. Last Friday’s holdup men were described by Mr. Bosse as both in their early to mid twenties. One had long blonde hair, the other had brownish blonde hair and a small mus tache. Some eye-witnesses stated that a third youth waited in the get-away car while the rob bery was taking place and ac tually drove it during the escape. Mr. Bosse stated that the long haired blonde handfi him a note that he apparently had just written on the back of a bank deposit slip indicating that ‘‘this is a hold-up”. He then produced a ‘‘long-barrel led revolver” and stated “I don’t want to have to shoot you." I After assuring the bandit —Turn to Page Si* Duke Power Has Offices In New Bryant Building The Duke Power company has moved into new and spaci ous quarters in the Bryant builcP ing on East Main street, just one block from the former lo cation. According to John D. Clark, local manager, the new all-elec tric facilities are designed for the convenience of customers. Among the new conveniences are: Off-street customers park ing; night depository; air-con ditioning; etc. The new location is at 120 East Main street. Visits Here Charles Crawford Is Running For State Senate In Primary Charles R. Crawford, of Swain county, and a candidate for State Senate in the May 28th Democratic primary visited in Transylvania during the past week. Mr. Crav/ford said that many Democrats in this district, which includes Transylvania, Jackson, Swain, Macon, Clay, Graham and Cherokee counties, did not real ise that he was a candidate for the post. His opponent is Mrs. Mary Faye Brumby, of Murphy, who visited here the week before and earlier in the spring. In a statement to the press, Mr. Crawford said that he pro posed to do everything he could, if elected, to expedite the road progress as outlined in the 300 —Ton to Page Four CHARLES K. CRAWFORD |
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