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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize - Winning A. B. C. Newspaper Vol 80. — No. 5 !“d°« b&vard05™gc. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1967 ★ 24 PAGES TODAY ★ tip r.nnF 2«712 7 At Senior High School Cafeteria Some 300Persons To Attend Brevard Chamber Of Commerce Banquet Friday A capacity crowd of 300 persons is expected to attend the annual banquet of the , Brevard Chamber of Com* ' merce Friday night in the cafeteria of Brevard senior high school. The event will begin prompt ly at 7:00 o’clock, and Aubrey J. Wagner, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ten nessee Valley Authority will be the speaker. Mr. Wagner is expected to talk on flood control in the Upper French Broad river basin and how it relates to Transylvania county and ad joining counties. Dr. Emmett K. McLarty, pres ident of Brevard College, will be the master of ceremonies on the program. Special entertainment will be by Rev. Fred Valentine, pastor of St. Philip’s Episco pal church. Mr. Valentine is a talented musician, and he will be featured playing his banjo. John D. Clark, president of the Brevard Chamber of Com merce, will recognize officers and special guests at the ban quet. Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., the county attorney, will intro duce the speaker. Rev. Elmer Sundlie, pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, will give the invocation, and the benediction will be by Mr. Valentine. Stan Meares, the past presi dent, will also appear on the program. Mrs. John Ford, the execu tive secretary, says a few tickets are still available, and they can be purchased at the Chamber of Commerce office in the Library building on Thursday. Mr. Wagner became a direc tor of the Tennessee Valley Authority on March 3, 1961, and was designated Chairman by President Kennedy in June 1962. A career official with service going back to 1934, he was the agency’s General Man ager at the time of his ap pointment to the Board. President Clark, in anticipat ing the year 1967 to be one of the most important ones in the history of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce, will outline goals for the membership during the banquet. A new 40-man Board of Directors was elected at the January meeting, and he es pecially urges all directors to attend. Of course, a cordial invita tion is extended to the mem bership and to the general pub lic to be present. Mr. Wagoner’s talk is ex pected to be both interesting and informative. A flood control program for the area has been adopted by the TVA, but no time table has been predicted. t In addition to President Clark, other officers elected re cently at a call meeting are as follows: Henry C. McDonald—vice president Donald A. Lineberger— secretary C. Few Lyda—treasurer. Mr. Wagner joined TVA a year after it was created as an engineering aid in the General Engineering and Geology di vision. He was assigned to the navigation program and took part first in the planning and construction of Tennessee River navigation facilities. Later he also engaged in transportation economics studies designed to develop the fullest possible con tribution of low cost water transportation to TVA’s total program for integrated resource development. In 1948 he was named chief of the Navigation and Trans portation branch. In that post he was responsible for gen eral planning of TVA's naviga tion program, including both engineering matters and eco nomic studies involved in the growing commercial use of the newly improved Tennessee waterway. In 1950 Mr. Wagner was a member of the “Committee on Domestic Water Navigation Pro jects and National Policy” of the President’s Water Resources Policy Commission. He was appointed Assistant General Manager in 1951 and General Manager in 1954. In this capacity he was the agency’s chief administrative officer. Mr. Wagner was born January 12. 1912. in Hillsboro, Wiscon sin. He received the bachelor of science degree in civil engi neering from the University of Wisconsin in 1933. In 1962 he received the Uistinsuisnec vice Citation at the University of Wisconsin 14th Annual Engi neers Day. In May 1966 he re ceived an honorary LL.B. degree from Newberry College (S. C.) From 1963 to 1965, Mr. Wag ner was a member of the Pres ident’s Appalachian Regional Commission. In April 1965 he was designated a member of the President’s Council on Recreation and Natural Beau ty. He is past president cf St. John's Lutheran Church Council in Knoxville. Tennessee, and is serving a second term as a mem ber of the Executive Council of the Lutheran Church in Ameri ca. He has been active in Boy Scout work since 1935; holds the Lamb Award, the Scoutmas ter’s Key and Silver Beaver awards; and is a member of the Boy Scouts of America National Council. He was married in 1933 to —Turn to Page Five k TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY has reached its quota in the statewide goal of a million dollars for the North Carolina 4-H Development Fund, Inc. The men who were in charge of raising local funds are pic tured above. Seated at the left is Charles L. Russell, the chairman, and at the right is Fred Israel, the secretary and treasurer. Standing are Jim Davis, county extension chairman, and ijohn I. Anderson, editor of The Transylvania Times. (Times Staff Photo) County Responds $2,478 Raised Locally For NC 4-H Development Fund ^Taylor Has ^Opinion Poll In Progress Charles Taylor, Represents tive - elect from the 48th Leg islative District, has been so liciting the attitudes and wish es of the people of the county by means of an Opinion poll on state and local issue. Rep. Taylor is distributing questionnaries over the county to get the thinking of the peo pie on many important issues The first sheet of the question naire deals with State bill! which will come before the leg islature in the 1967 Genera —Turn to Page Fiv< Transylvania county has reached its quota of $2,478 on the state-wide goal of $1 mill ion for the North Carolina 4-H Development Fund, Inc., ac cording to Fred Israel, secre tary and treasurer of the local committee. Against a background oi growing 4-H membership and interest, the devolopmenl fund was initiated in 1958 by ru ral and business leaders to help meet some of the needs in the 4-H program not covered by ex isting funds. The organizational group made plans to raise hali of the $1 million from counts quotas and half from specia' groups to support 4-H work ir four general areas — campinf awards, scholarship and citizen ship. To date about one half ol the goal has been reached. Transylvania county has al —Turn to Page Eigh i Two Youths Arrested, Chargee With Breaking And Entering Two Brevard youths, one a juvenile, have been arrested on suspicion of breaking and en tering into several residences here, according to Brevard Po lice Chief J. C. Rowe. The two were apprehended last Saturday night by Officer Boyce Galloway, who stated that they 'were acting suspi ciously and ran when they saw him. Galloway brought them to the police station for interro gation, and while there, a report came in that a home on Pari avenue had been broken into. Stolen items from this home as well as from four others tha had also been broken into sine last Wednesday were discover® in the youths’ possession. At a preliminary hearing hel Tuesday, Theadore Sanders, 11 of Brevard, was bound over t stand trial at the March terr of Superior Court for breakin and entering. Sanders is cui rently being held, and bail ha —Turn to Page Fh Extra high-temperatures were the rule during most of the past week in the Brevard area. Readings for the week averag ed 58 and 27, several degrees warmer than normal during January. The only precipitation was 1.25 inches of rainfall dur ing a lightning and wind storm early Friday morning. The Weather Bureau’s ex tended forecast calls for tem peratures to continue above normal, with daytime highs av eraging in the 50s, while low temperatures should average about freezing, 32 degrees. , There should be a quarter to \ three quarters of an inch of . rain during the period. * High Low Prec. Wednesday_ 70 32 0.00 Thursday -_ 64 37 0.00 Friday _ 59 31 1.25 Saturday _ 49 20 0.00 Sunday _ 57 24 0.00 : Monday_ 60 26 0.00 Tuesday _ 53 22 0.00 t..— i Look Inside... Editorials—page 2, second ’ section. j News of and for the women— s page 3, second section and page ’ 6, third section, s Demolishing of bridge piC' • tures—page 7, third section. II Much Action Is Being Taken In Criminal Term Of Superior Court Now In Session County Better Off Dollarwise, How Do \ou Fare As Compared To ’56? a By Staff Writer How much more money must the average Transylvania County family have at its disposal today to live on the same scale as it did ten years ago? To what extent have rising incomes locally compensated for the reduced purchasing power of the dollar? On the basis of data from the Tax Foundation and from other sources, local families have more than made upfor that deterioration. f The great majority of them have incomes today that pro vide them with a higher Stan dard of living than they en joyed back in 1956. According to the Tax Foun dation’s findings, a family that had an income of $4,000 in 1956 must have $4,750 to day, 18.8 percent more, just to break even. The $7,500 family must now_ be getting $8,825 and the $10, 000 family, $11,764 to live on the same scale as before. In Transylvania County, the average family has done better than that, according to the Standard Rate and Data Service. From an income of $4,251, in 1956, it advanced to $6,430 by last year, an in crease of 51.3 percent. The local gain compares fav orably with that reported for most other parts of the United States, where it amounted to 40.1 percent in the ten-year period. In the South Atlantic States there was a 47.4 percent rise. Steadily rising incomes have become a necessity if people are to meet the higher taxes imposed by all levels of gov ernment and to keep abreast of the year-by-year increase in the cost of living as a whole. Throughout the State of North Carolina, according to the Tax Foundation report, state and local taxes rose from $115 per capita in 1957 to $188 per capita in 1965. It was a jump of 63 percent. In the, other sections of the country, the increases ranged from 37 percent, in Oregon, to a high of 119 percent, in Dela ware. During 1967, living costs —Turn to Page Eight Diabetic Screening Clinic Set There will be a diabetic screening clinic on Friday at the Transylvania Health depart ment on the four-lane highway. The hours will be from 8:30 until 12:00 noon, and no ap pointment is necessary. Brevard Jaycees To Hold Annual DSA Banquet Brevard Jaycees will honor Transylvania’s “O u t s t a nding i Young Man of the Year” at ! their annual Distinguished Ser vice Award banquet next Tues day night, February 7th. Jaycee chairman Landon Deal also announced that awards will be presengted to the county’s “Outstanding Young Educator” and “Outstanding Teenager” at the banquet, which will be held at Berry’s Restaurant beginning at 7 p.m. A secret panel of judges, all over the age of 36, will select the DSA winner from entries submitted from all over the county. Similar panels will also choose the Teenager and Young —Turn to Page Eight bill McDonald “IT’S JUNE IN JANUARY”. And Fred Reiter, the official weatherman for Transylvania county, is shown above reading the temperature as record ed in front of The Times office. The mercury climbed to above 70 degrees on three occasions last week. (Times Staff Photo) Two Terms Of Summer School Are Set At Brevard College Dean J. Braxton Harris an nounces that Brevard College will offer two six-week terms next summer, June 1st to July 7th and July 10th to August 15th. The work load will be six hours for each term. Each class period will be one hour and thirty minutes. “Basic courses in English, So. cial Studies, Mathematics and several elective subjects will be offered,” said Dean Harris, “primarily for regularly enroll ed students who want to accel lerate their schedules or im prove their scholastic stand ings.” Mrs. Napier Is 'h Tried For Being Accessory X busy session of Superior court is in session this wee* here at the court house. The court is a one - week criminal term, and a two- ; week civil docket will be „ tried, beginning February 27th. v Judge W. E. Anglin, of Burnsville, is presiding over the court. As The Times went to press Wednesday, the case, State vs. Karen Marie Napier, was called. Mrs. Napier is being charg ed with accessory before the fact with intent to kill. Last June 16th. her husband was shot and killed in a guii battle with Officer Robert C. Rogers and Deputy Sheriff Ed Owen. Officer Rogers was wound-, ed, and Deputy Owen suffer ed powder burns when Na pier shot at him at close range. Just prior to adjournment fot lunch Wednesday, William E, Barton had pled guilty to re ceiving stolen goods of value less than $200, and Roy D. Gill-; espie put in a plea of guilty to larcency of goods at value of less than $200. « Judge Anglin postponed judgment until later in the week. James Donald Orr entered a plea of guilty to speeding anc| had to pay court costs. The court accepted a plea of guilty to driving under the —Turn to Page Eight Program Highlights •1 Weather-An Important Phase; Of Daily Broadcasting On WPNF WPNF listeners are kept con tinually informed on weather conditions, both in the local area, and in other parts of the nation. Weatherword is presented each hour during the day on WPNF at 27-minutes past the hour. The latest available forecasts are given at that time. “Weatherword” is presented by five sponsors, Lyda-McCrary Motors, Almany Mobile Homes, Ruth’s Originals, Duvall Drug} and Mims & Lyday, who jo together to sponsor this lar public - service feature. Other Programs The schedule for the ■md Home hour is as follov Thursday, station program; day, N. C. forest service, i Grissom; Monday, county tension chairman; tion program; We agent.
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