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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize - Winning A. B, C. Newspaper Vol. 80 — No. 23 Em "t BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1967 ★ 28 PAGES TODAY ★ ZIP CODE 28712 SOME 6,000 ACRES of croplands were covered with water last weekend as Transylvania reeled under a flash flood when the French Broad River went out of its banks because of more than 10 inches of rain at Rosman and seven at Brevard. Crops were ex tensively damaged, and fields below Pisgah Forest covered with high water are pictured at the left. At the right is a stretch of US Highway 276 near the Wilson bridge. The road was closed Sunday and most of Monday because of high water in several places. The highway was repaired last year and low places where flooding oc curs were supposed to have been eliminated. But last weekend’s flooding of US Highway 276 proves that the road is still in a deplor able condition. (Times Staff Photos) / A TRAILER PARK near Pisgah Forest took on the appearance of a lake Sunday because of the heavy rains over the weelfend. The French Broad river was out of its banks from above Rosman all the way into Hen derson county on Sunday and Mon day. (Photo by Everingham) Dense Announces 3u Pont Put Over $4,500,000 tn Local Economy Last Year The Du Pont Company’s photo products plant at Bre vard put more than $4,500, 000 into the economy of the Brevard area last year, Plant Manager Jack C. Dense, an nounces today. Du Pont’s Brevard payroll was $4,379,664 while pur chase for of goods and services plant from 74 Brevard amounted to $187,000. In addiiton, 389 North Car olina suppliers outside Bre vard were paid $601,000 for goods and services for the plant, whose principal prod ucts are medical and indus trial x-ray films. Mr. Dense said that the Brevard plant and another Du Pont plant ad Kinston to gether made an economic contribution of over $36 mil lion to North Carolina in —Turn to Page Threi I Jaycees To Hold Light Bulb Sale The Brevard Chapter of North Carolina Jaycees will hold its annual light bulb and Kleenex sale on Monday and Tuesday evening, June 12th and 13th. Members of the Jaycees will be calling on residents of Bre vard on these evenings between the hours of 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. The proceeds from this sale go to further the community service projects of the local Chapter, one of which is co sponsorship of a Little League baseball team. The project chairman for this year is Eugene Baker. The —Turn to Page Four Dates Announced Schools Planning Reopening, Head Start, Summer School Set M _ A Head Start program will be gin in Transylvania on June 19th, and extend through July 28th. The hours will be from 8:00 a. m., to 12:30 p. m., daily, and lunch will be served. Classes are for children who will enter school this fall and ! will be held in each of the fol lowing elementary schools: T. C. Henderson, Rosman, Brevard, —Tub to Page Four A summer program in the academic areas of reading and arithmetic will be offered for pupils in grades 1 through 6. These classes will be held for 5 weeks at Brevard elemen tary school daily from 8:00 a. m„ to 12:30 p. m., June 19th through July 21st. The tuition is $20.00. Parents are expected to fur —Torn to Page Feu WeafAer By FRED REITER Brevard temperatures aver aged a high and low of 68 and 52 during the past week. The actual high came on Tuesday, when the mercury reached 74. Low point for the week was Saturday morning, with a read ing of 45 degrees. Total rainfall for the week was 9.01 inches, with most of the rain occurring Saturday night and Sunday. The measure ment between Saturday night and Sunday evening was 6.7 —Turn to Page Four Federal Grant Is Approved For Brevard A grant of $90,930.00 was approved Tuesday by the Federal Water Pollution Con trol Administration, Interior Department, to help the Town of Brevard expand its sewage treatment facilities, Congress man Roy A. Taylor announc es. The project will cost a total of $303,100.00. Part of this amount is ex pected to come from Section 214, Regional Appalachia Act, and the balance from the Bond issue, which was passed here last year. Weekend Flood Severely Damages The Crops In Transylvania, Roads Closed Methodists Attending isi Conference Transylvania’s Methodist min isters and lay leaders are at tending the annual meeting of the Western North Carolina Methodist conference, which op ened Wednesday at Lake Juna luska. i When the expected 1,400 dele gates return home they will have passed judgment upon many new legislative offerings affecting their own local church es and the future of national Methodism. And about 200 of the more than 800 clergymen who are members of the Conference will begin packing to move to new congregational assignments. Bishop Earl G. Hunt, Jr., spiritual leader for the Char lotte Methodist Area, will pre side over all sessions of the Conference, and on June 11th will read the appointments (as signments) of clergymen to churches, college and university positions, administrative posts, the missions field and other special tasks. Dr. Emmett K. McLarty, pres ident of Brevard College, will deliver the devotional message SEVERAL FAMILIES at Pisgah Forest and at Rosman were evacuat ed from their homes last Saturday night and Sunday morning because of the flood. Shown above is the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Cordelia Whitmire at Pisgah Forest, and as sisting Mrs. Whitmire is J. R. Hester. (Photo by Everingham) for the young preachers coining into full connection in the West ern North Carolina Conference, at 9 a. m., on June 8th at Lake —Torn to Page Three Graduate Of Harvard Kolman Is Awarded Doctor Of Medicine Degree At Columbia BENET S. KOLMAN Benet Sosnik Kolman receiv ed the degree of Doctor of Med icine from Columbia Universi ty College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City on June 6th. Young Kolman graduated as highest ranking scholar at Ashe ville School for Boys in 1959. He was awarded an Honorary National Merit Scholarship to Harvard University in Cam bridge, Mass. In 1963, he grad uated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard. On July 1st Dr. Kolman will begin his internship at the University of Virginia hospital in Charlottesville, where he will specialize in Internal Medicine. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kolman of Green Acres. Dean Is Quoted First Session Underway At College, Enrollment Is Up Summer school is in session at Brevard College with an en rollment of 82 for the first ses sion. This is a 70 per cent gain ov er last year, and the second ses sion begins on July 10th, and ends Aug. 15th. In addition to summer school, a number of conferences are al so planned on the campus this summer. Dean Braxton Harris issues the following statement: "While our objective in the summer session is not simply to add numbers, we are gratified with the increase of some 70% over the enrollment of last summer. “This puts the summer pro gram on a sound footing and hopefully means that we will be able to continue it in fu ture years. “We anticipate that about 50 students will remain in school during the second term, July —Tarn to Page Three Rosman Receives Over 10 Inches Of Rainfall —Sk.— Flooding conditions again hit Transylvania county last weekend. This was one of the most devastating floods that the county has had in recent years. It hit during the spring time, doing extensive dam ages to crops in the county. The last two floods were in the fall, and crop damages were not as great then as they were last weekend. High waters covered at least 6,000 acres of croplands, which is about half of the total planted crops of the county. Much of the area is still covered with high water. Here in Brevard the rain fall for Saturday and Sunday was 6.7 inches. At Rosman it was 10.38 inches, sending the French Broad River out of its banks. Actually, the river rose some 10 feet at Rosman. Several families were evacu ated from their homes Satur day night and early Sunday morning, and the Rosman Rescue squad worked around the clock during the emer gency. Donald Butler, chief of Hie Rosman volunteer fire de —Turn to Page Three Program Highlights WPNF Increases News Coverage, Spotlight Is On World Events Radio listeners are reminded to stay tuned to the local sta tion for latest news develop ments. Every effort is made to stay abreast of the latest develop ments in both the domestic and world news fronts. Listeners are reminded that newscasts are heard every hour on the hour, and programs are interrupted to present news bulletins as they occur. Local news of Brevard and Transylvania is broadcast on WPNF weekday mornings at 7:30 a. m., 12 o’clock noon and 6:00 p. m. Other Programs The schedule for the Farm and Home hour is as follows: Thursday, station program; Fri day, N. C. forest sendee, Clark Grissom; Monday, county exten sion chairman; Tuesday, Caro lina news; Wednesday, home agent, Miss Jean Childers. Next week Rev. Noland Ford of the Calvary Baptist church, m
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