THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
State And National Prize- Winning A.B. C. Newspaper
Vol. 79—No. 32
SECOND CLASS POSTAGE
°AID AT BREVARD. N. C.
ZIP CODE 28712
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1966 ★ 28 PAGES TODAY ★
Six Beauty Queens Are Entered To Date In “Miss Brevard99 Pageant
CAROL COLEMAN
ELIZABETH JONES
JUDY PARKER
The deadline for entry in the 1966 Miss Bre- ?
vard Beauty pageant is set for August 18th, 7:00
p.m., according to officials of the local Jaycees.
Chairman Frank Smith announces that the fol
lowing girls have entered to date:
Kimberly Ann Storrs, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John If. Storrs, of Brevard. Miss Storrs is a !
graduate of Brevard high school and will attend j
Brevard College this year. This summer she is j
studying drama at the Flat Rock Playhouse
Mary Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde “Speedy” Jones, of Brevard. Miss Jones
graduated from Brevard high school this year and
plans to attend Oxford College of Emory Univer
sity where she plans to study nursing. She is a life
guard at Glen Cannon Country club this summer
Sheila Marie Smathers, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Smathers of Brevard. Miss Smathers is
a graduate of Brevard high school and will attend
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MILLIE RAHN
SHFII.A SMVTHHiS
KIM STORKS
Philosophy Quoted
Earl Lee Retires From The
Brevard Police Department
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By - Jock Lauterer
»en Earl Lee walks, he
his arms out from the
gun that hangs from his belt,
the gun he's drawn out of that
holster only once in the 19
years he’s been in law en
forcement.
Last Thursday at 3:00 p.m.,
Officer Lee retired from the
Brevard Police Force. “I don’t
even have a ticket book today,"
he chuckled to himself at 2:00
p.m., that same afternoon.
Better known to most Bre
vard folks as the "meter read
er,” Officer Lee has been ev
eruling from prison guard to
dt'P»y sheriff. He’s been with
the Brevard force, "9 years,
five months and four days,”
as Officer Lee himself recites.
Trffiic flowed up the asphalt
ed hill by the courthouse where
Officer Earl Lee stood in the
shade watching the cars and
talking about his times with the
force.
The man looks so gentle
that you’d never suspect him
to be a policeman. Officer Lee
doesn’t even like to be grum
py. “Hello, Madam, how are
you,” he tipped his hat to a
passing mother. Then to the
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Tuesday Night
Need For Adequate Airport In
Transylvania Cited At Meeting
Directors of the Brevard
Chamber of Commerce heard
several good reasons for hav
ing an adequate airport here
at their regular monthly meet
ing in the library Tuesday
night.
“Many people can’t understand
why the county should pay $75,
000 as its share of the cost for
Look Inside..
Women’s news — page six in
second and third sections
Classifieds — pages 2 and 3
in first section
Editor’s Corner - page 5, first
section
Sports - page 4, first section
Editorials - page 2, second sec
tion
Middle Fork road feature -
page 3, fourth section
Eagle Scout story and picture
• page 7, third section.
Jaycees Busy
Will Establish Workshop For
Mentally Retarded In County
The steering committee of
the embryonic local workshop
for the mentally retarded met
for the first time on Tues
day evening, August 2, at
Oscar Grant’s home.
The idea of establishing a
legally-incorporated workshop
for mentally retarded children
over the age of 16 was investi
gated by a three-man committee
of local Jaycees. Oscar Grant,
Thomas Tartt and Robert Mas
sengill.
They presented their find
ings to Brevard’s Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, and the
Jaycees wholeheartedly voted
to support the project and
pledged $500 yearly support.
The steering committee dis
cussed problems of finance and
parcelled out jobs to committee
members: finding a location for
the workshop; seeking out fu
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constructing a new airport here.”
slated Gil Coan, "But such a
facility will serve many more
people than those who presently
own planes in Transylvania,” he
said.
Mr. Coan, reporting for a
committee that has been work
ing to secure a new airport
here, went on to point out
the great economic impact
that such a facility would
mean. "Industry looks for
adequate air facilities when
considering prospective plant
sites,” he said, "and the sum
mer camps and many prospec
tive tourists have also request
ed a good airport."
“Air travel is with us,” Mr.
Coan continued, “And it is im
perative that we here in Brevard
and Transylvania keep pace
with the times. Of 90,000 planes
in use in the U.S. today, only
2,000 are commercial craft. That
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SO Years Ago
Old Toxaway
Dam Broke,
File Scanned
This weeks marks the 50th
anniversary of the breaking of
the old Toxaway dam and the
disastrous flood in Western
North Carolina in 1916.
Two photographs showing
damages to railroad tracks are
carried in the fourth section of
this week’s Times. They were
furnished this newspaper by
I>avid Ward who witnessed
Hooding damages from Black
Mountain to Brevard.
The original dam was 600
feet long and 62 feet high. It <
had impounded Lake Toxaway
for 14 years, and the water
covered some 550 acres. <
Members of The Times staff
are reading with interest this
week the issue of August 18,
1916, which gives a lengthy and
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WeafAer
More rain was received at the
Brevard weather station during
the past week than during any
one week in the past few
months. Rainfall total at Bre
vard was 2.15 inches, most of
this amount falling last Thurs
day, when 1.63-inches fell in one
evening.
Temperatures have been mod
erate, and are expected to con
tinue about the same.
The weather bureau’s extend
ed forecast for the area stated
that temperatures are expected
to be somewhat lower than nor
mal for this season, and will con
tinue that way for the next few
days. Normal for the area is
about 88 for a high, with a low
of 64. The past week’s average
for Brevard was 82 and 61.
The week’s temperatures and
precipitation follows:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday_ 83 61 0.10
Thursday __81 61 1.63
Friday_ 83 63 0.00
Saturday_81 60 0.00
Sunday_ 83 63 0.10
Monday_ 83 60 0.32
Tuesday_81 61 Trace
Opening Of Brevard College For
Fall Delayed, Due To Building
More Than 600
Expected, Dean
Quoted In Story
Brevard College regretfully
announces today that the open
ing of the Fall Semester will
be delayed nearly a month.
‘"We are delaying the opening
late until September 25th to
illow time for the completion
>f the new girls’ dorm now un
ler construction,” explained
Dean Braxton Harris Wednes
iay morning.
Brevard College has been
bursting at the seams with
growth in the past two years.
This semester it has been esti
mated that “maybe a little
over 600,” students will be
enrolled.
The new dormitory will house
:60 girls. Previously it had been
jlanned to split the dorm, 80
r>en. 80 girls.
“But we had so many appli
cations from women that we
decided to make the dorm ex
clusively for them,” Dean Har
ris continued.
The new schedule for classes
ind holidays is almost identical
o the one used two years ago.
Dorms will be open September
15th. Registration will be on
September 28th. Classes will be
Sin on Sept. 29th.
The Thanksgiving vacation
nill consist only of the latter
half of Thanksgiving day.
Christmas vacation will be
gin December 17th at 12 noon
and will run until Wednesday,
January 4th. Previously, the
Brevard College has enjoyed
a month’s Christmas vacation.
Exams will follow Christmas
tacation. falling on January 20th
and lasting until the 27th.
Spring Semester will open on
that same day, the 27th. Regi
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STILL SMOLDERING, Dewey
Burton’s airplane hangar lies in a
charred-heap with only the tin roof
ing remaining. The building is the
last of three Bosnian fires that have
firemen and the County Sheriff look
ing for a firebijg. The hangar went
up in smoke early in the morning of
July 150th. (Times Staff Photo)
anerirr reports
Arson Is Said Cause Of 3
Fires In Rosman Community
"We’ve got a fire bug or
two up there, that’s for sure,”
reported Transylvania Sheriff
Carter McCall when asked
about the series of small fires
that have plagued Bosnian for
the past three weeks.
Rosman volunteer fire depart
ment Chief Don Butler said the
same thing. “It all points to ar
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During The Weekend
Entertainment For All At Music Center
The sixth—and next to last
•—week of concerts included
in the 30th anniversary season
at the Brevard Music Center
holds a variety of entertain
ment for persons of all musi
cal talents. The weekend
starts Friday with an engag
ing play with musical back
ground, '‘John Brown’s Body,”
a Civil War theme, and con
tinues Saturday with a Pops
concert, followed by the Bre
vard Music Center Orchestra
on Sunday with solo pianist,
Jean-Marie Darre.
“John Brown’s Body,” based
>n the play by Stephen Vincent
Benet, with chorus accompani
ment, will be narrated by three
young actors, John Bonitz, Don
ald Hayes, and Nancy Helms.
Bonitz, making his first appear
ance at the Center, is a native
of Greensboro and has an im
pressive number of dramatic
credits, having appeared in tele
vision, motion pictures, and on
the legitimate stage.
Hayes, a resident of Vir
ginia, has acquired broad ex
perience in the theater in only
a few years. He has portrayed
such classic roles as King
Richard in Shakespeare’s
“Richard H,” and Cassius in
“Julius Caesar,” as well as
John Proctor in "The Cruci
ble,” in this country and in
England. Nancy Helms, a sen
ior majoring in drama at Con
verse College, has appeared in
numerous roles with the col
lege theater and with the
Spartanburg Little Theater.
“John Brown’s Body,” direct
ed by James Parker and con
ducted by William Partridge,
begins at 8:15 p.m on Friday,
August 12.
Another Pops concert, this
time featuring the music of the
Viennese Strauss family, will be
presented on Saturday, August
13, at 8:15 p.m., with the Bre
vard Music Center Orchestra
under conductor Henry Janiec. A
bevy of soloists from the Opera
Workshop will be featured in
highlights from the popular
Strauss operatta, “Die Fleder
maus.”
And Sunday afternoon, Mme.
Jean-Marie Darre, pianist, will
perform with the Brevard
Music Center Orchestra in the
Schumann Piano Concerto.
Mme. Darre has been appear
ing in concerts for more than
four decades, amid highest
praise of the world’s critics,
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son. The fires are following the
same pattern."
The first fire occurred July
5th at a house owned by Mrs.
Zora Galloway on the Balsam
Grove road at about 1:30 in
the morning.
The second fire was also in
the early morning at this time
Bruce’s Produce Place on July
24th. "You could smell gas in
(hat fire,” remarked Chief But
ler. Both he and Sheriff McCall
suspect that Bruce's was possi
bly robbed before it was burned.
The final fire was probably
set about 3:30 a.m., at Dewey
Burton’s airplane hangar on
July 30. There was evidence
that the fire was started with
hay stored in the building.
‘‘The buildings always fall in
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Program Highlights
Football Season Coming;
WPNF Will Cover Contest
As another football season ap
proaches, station officials of
WPNF are busily engaged in
completing arrangements to
broadcast another full scasrn of
the fall sport, both on ti e col
lege scene and the loci grid
irons of high school conference
games.
WPNF commercial manager
L'ruce O’Kelley said this week:
“once again it will be a pleas
ure for our station to broadcast
the games of the University of
North Carolina Tarheels. These
games are available to football
fans in our area from the Tar
Heel Sports Network.”
Chief sportscaster for the
college games, as in years past,
will be the colorful Bill Cur
rie, Sports Director of the Net
work. First game of the season
will be September 17th, when
the Tar Heels take on Ken
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