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TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Educa
tional, Agricultural and Music
Center. Population, 1960 Census
16,372. Brevard Community
6 500. Brevard proper 4,367.
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize - Winning A.B.C. Newspaper
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest and
Home of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival.
Vol. 79—No. 37
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New Library Going Up On Local Campus
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By • Fred Reiter
Temperatures began to taper
off during the past week in
Brevard, as more fall - like
weather arrived on the scene.
High temperature for the week
was only 81 degrees, while the
low during the period was an
even 50 degrees. No rain fell
during thdjJveek v.itil Zxe final
two Jfc-yc. Averagehigh twvpera
tur^Tor the week ended Tues
day was 77 degrees, while the
av^ye low was 53 degrees.
The weather bureau, in its
long - range forecast for the
area, said temperatures would
average slightly below normal,
which is about 78 and 54 for
Brevard. There should be mild
days and cool nights, with about
one-half inch of rain.
The week’s temperatures and
precipitation follows:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday_ 80 56 0.00
Thursday_79
Friday _81
Saturday__ 81
Sunday _80
Monday _72
Tuesday_64
50 0.00
51 0.00
52 0.00
51 0.00
52 0.34
58 2.10
Dfemos Open
Headquarters
Theodore E. Reid, chairman
of the Democratic executive
committee of Transylvania coun
ty, announces that headquarters
will be opened on Saturday,
September 17th, at 2:00 o’clock
—Turn to Page Two
Round-Up Made
College To Open With Record
Enrollment, Much Building
Long List Carried
Many Students In Colleges
From Brevard And County
Many Brevard and Transyl
vania county students are now
enrolled in colleges and univer
sities in the south and through
out the nation.
The Times is happy to report
that a large number from this
group is receiving Brevard’s
prize - winning weekly newspa
per.
Editor John Anderson says
the paper will be a “letter from
home” for them each week.
The staff of The Times has
made a survey to determine
just how many town and county
students are enrolled in col
lege, and a long list is carried
this week.
“Naturally, we couldn’t get
the names of all, but we will car
ry those in future issues if they
will report to us where they are
in school,” the editor said.
The list compiled to date is
as follows:
U. N. C. - Gene Ramsay; Gary
Himes; Bob Colwell; Sharon De
Muth; Jack Bennett; Lynn Striek
er; Rock McKinnish; Jim For
tune; Lloyd Fisher; Larry Lea;
My Little Girl
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(Editor’s note: This mov
ing appeal to drivers by a fa
ther is especially pertinent as
schools are beginning. Other
fathers will share the same
thought and hopes.)
Dear Mr. Driver:
Today my daughter, who is
five years old, started to school.
She wore a dark blue dress with
and whined his canine belief
blue socks. Her cocker spaniel,
Scoot, sat on the front porch
and whinned his canine belief
in the folly of education as she
waved goodbye.
‘ Tonight,, we talked about
school. She told me about her
teacher who has eyes in the
back of her head . . . about the
trees in the school yard, and
about 'the little girl who sits in
front of her ... the little girl
with the yellow curls, and the
—Toni to Page Three
Vance Jackson
U. N. C. Graduate School -
Charles Farris Himes; Susan
Farley
U. N. C. State, Raleigh - Bee
cher Carl Allison; Robert Hug
gins; John K. Tinsley; William
Long, Jr.; Steve Case; Ricky
Skerrett; Charlie Carter; Jim
Jones
U. N. C., Greensboro - Anne
Lankford; Margaret Winchester
U. N. C. Law School - Jon E.
Anderson; Peter Best
Central Piedmont College,
Charlotte - Mary Ina Anderson
Pheiffer College - Sandra Ben
nett; Janice Rahn
Davidson College - Marshall
Feaster; Tommy Bryant
Davidson College - Walter
Estes
Clemson University - Connie
Gilstrap; Dickie Edwards
Furman University - Marla
Hooper; Mary Louise Dale
Seminary, Newton Centre,
Mass. - Tom Hall
Berea College - Sharon Rich
ards; Judy Byran; Nancy Mc
Call
Salem College - Elaine Spicer
—Turn to Page Four
The vast amount of con
struction work is moving along
splendidly on the campus of
Brevard College, and the new
Lena Sue Beam hall, a dor
mitory that will accommo
date 180 students, will be
ready for occupancy when the
1966-67 term opens.
A record enrollment of more
than 600 students are expected
this fall.
New students will arrive on
Sunday, Sept. 25th, and class
es will begin on Thursday,
the 29th.
The cost of the beautiful new
dormitory is $690,000, and C. E.
Cochran is the new contractor.
The building is named in hon
or of Mrs. C. Grier Beam, of
Cherryfield, whose husband is
a member of the Board of Trus
tees.
The new Beam administration
building was dedicated last May.
Work is progressing nicely
on the new library building,
President Emmet K. McLarty
also reports.
It is expressly designed to
be an adjacent to the teaching
process, containing all the con
ventional facilities. Among
these are: seminar rooms, group
study rooms, faculty research
cubicles, a small audo-visual
auditorium, exhibiton walls,
etc.
The new library is being
constructed by the Burke
Lumber company, of Morgan
ton, at a cost of $46,678.
The present library will be
renovated into a Student Union,
—Turn to Page Two
Health Officials Announce
Will Distribute Fluoride Tablets
In Transylvania School System
This fall the Transylvania
county health department in
cooperation with the Transyl
vania county Board of Educa
tion is beginning a program of
distinction of Fluoride tablets
throughout the elementary
schools of this county.
To the departments our
knowledge, Transylvania is the
first county in the state with
such a program.
According to local health of
ficials, the safety and value of
Fluoride in building better
teeth is well established, and
it is hoped that parents of
children from grades one
through six will take advantage
of this inexpensive dental
health measure.
The small white tasteless
tablet will be dispensed daily
at the school to those children
whose parents give their con
sent on forms that are being
sent home this following week.
This tablet contains no vita
mins and is not intended as a
—Turn to Page Two
Constructing Historical Complex
In "Cradle Of American Forestry"
Blue Devils,
Tigers Away
From Home
The Rosman Tigers and the
Brevard Blue Devils will both
be facing tough competition
this Friday night when they
take on powerful non-confer
ence opponents.
Both the Tigers and the Blue
Devils will be facing undefeat
ed opponents on the road, with
Rosman traveling to East Yan
cey and Brevard venturing to
Asheville to take on Lee Ed
wards.
The Maroons of Asheville have
chalked up wi-ns over both Er
win and Pisgah (Canton), while
the Panthers of East Yancey
have impressive victories over
Happy Valley, Tenn., Mars Hill,
and Cane River.
Rosman Coach Bill Cathey
was pleased with the Tigers’
showing in their impressive
26-0 waltz over the Lee Edwards
“B” team last week, and he
feels that they can take East
Yancey “if we play the kind
of ball that I think we can.”
Cathey also stated that a lot
"will depend on the physical
condition of Dan Hall, who
played such a fine game last
week. He sustained a back in
jury that might keep him out
of action against the Panthers.
“We'll live or die on our pass
defense Friday night, because
they have a quarterback who
can really thread the needle,”
Cathey concluded.
Kick off time at Burnsville
has been set at 8 p. m.
The Brevard Blue Devils
might be without the services of
quarterback Mike Morris as
they go against Asheville Fri
day night.
If Morris can’t go, Coach
Doyce Cannon has indicated that
he will go with co-captain Char
lie Peterson, who switched from
end to fill in for the injured
quarterback against Shelby last
week.
The other Blue Devils, with
the exception of Vincent Lynch,
are all ready to go against the
Maroons.
Lee Edwards will be count
ing on the fine running capa
bilities of Otis McIntosh, Char
—Turn to Page Four
To Entertain, Inform
“Science For You” Is
Carried In Each Times
The first article of a
new feature series, “Sci
ence For You,” design
ed to inform and enter
tain both children and
adults, is carried today
in The Transylvania
Times
The new feature is
sponsored by the Olin
Mathieson Chemical
corporation at Pisgah
Forest in cooperation
with The Times.
A science stunt, grap
hically illustrated, will
be carried each week.
It will demonstrate- a
basic secince principal.
Children can learn about science and have
fun performing the experiments at home by using
common household items. No laboratory equip
ment is required.
Adults will discover that some of the seeming
ly impossible, but actually quite simple, stunts
will amuse friends at parties.
The author of the series is Bob Brown, of
Asheville, who is well known in Transylvania for
his “Science Circuses’’ which have been seen reg
ularly in the schools here.
Registration Thursday
Adult Education Program To
Start In County October 6th
Transylvania County schools
and the Asheville-Buncombe
Technical Institute will start
the fall quarter of courses on
Thursday, October 6th.
Placement tests for all adults
starting Basic Education for the
first time will begin at 6:30 p.
m. Thursday, September 15th.
All adults interested in enroll
ing for the first time should
plan to spend the evenings of
September 15th and September
19th on these tests.
Adults who are now enrolled
or who have completed the
tests will resume classes on Oc
tober 6th.
All materials and textbooks
for these basic education cour
ses leading to the North Caro
lina High School Equivalency
Certificate are free.
In the General Education di
vision, three courses will be of
fered if enough adults are in
terested to make full classes.
This will include Typewrit
ing I, Typewriting II and and
Advanced Mathematics course,
covering Algebra and Geome
try.
To enroll in the General Edu
cation classes, students must
have completed high school or
the requirements for the North
Carolina High School Equival
ency certificate. These courses
are designed to up-grade adults
—Turn to Page Two
Six Buildings
"Out Of Past"
Are Going Up
The United States Forest
Scrv ice has started major con
struction of the historical
complex in the “Cradle of
Forestry in America” at the
Pink Beds in the Pisgah Na
tional forest.
Six buildings and a quarter
mile foot trail are now being
built.
Construction is being done
by the Pisgah Ranger district
and the Schenck Job Corps cen
ter.
The buildings being construct
ed at the present ti-me are:
A commissary
Student quarters
Sehenck's offices
Hiram King house
Black Forest lodge
A blacksmith shop.
These buildings are being
built as near as possible to the
original structures. An early
writer quaintly described these
rude cabins as the “connecting
link between the woodpile and
a house." Perhaps he was right.
The pioneer who had to clear
land, plant a crop, and raise a
house at the same time, was not
apt to grope for architectural
niceties.
The cabins were built as
solid log pens, and after erec
tion, doors and windows were
cut out as desired. The one
room was a common room
shared by ail the family for
all purposes. On one end, a
fireplace provided light,
warmth, and cooking facili
ties.
Sometimes two - room cabins
were built without breezeways,
as was the first Hiram King
home in the Pink Beds. Later,
Mr. King moved to larger
quarters and turned this struc
ture into a barn. Still later, Dr,
Schenck used one end of th«
structure for his office.
“Black Forest” lodges were
built for Dr. Sehenck’s for
est rangers to live in. The
lodges were of good construc
tion; a chimney in the cen
ter to provide heating in the
living room and a flue for
the kitchen. Downstairs, the
lodges had a "sitting room,
kitchen and piazza". The up
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Lena Sue Beam Hall Being Completed At The College