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TRANSYLVANIA TIMES te And National Prize - Winning __ at »7<a BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1967 PRICE 10c 'HELD WEEKLY TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfall*, Mecca for Sommer Camp*, Entrance te Pisgah National Forest and Home of Brevard College and Brevard Music Festival. ★ 36 PAGES ★ J MASONIC MARKER DEDICATED—On De cember 4th, the officers and members of Dunn’s Rock Masonic Lodge No. 267 AF & AM and visit ing Masons in the county dedicated the stone mark er in ceremonies in the Dunn’s Rock community near the site where the lodge held its first meet ings. The dedication talk was made by the Wor shipful Master, Thomas E. Payne, Jr., and W. A. Hart, past master and treasurer, gave the dedica tion prayer. (See story, front page, fourth section). Siniard Quoted Brief History Of Work For >N: . • Flood Control Is Continued (Last week Comity Com mistioner Gels Stniard, who s resides~ hi the little River -section of Transylvania, began ra- history of the effort, that have been exerted to dote for flood control io iMamsT *d des. HIS history ollows). ; The first time the Coramk siooers knew of the TVA pro ject for Hie French Broad River Basin was from our representative on the WNC Planning Commission, one of Transylvania county’s great workers for Flood Control by SCS dams for our county, William Wallis. He came from a meeting and told of the to be presented by TV A at a called meeting for the five-county area. He re ported that there were to be three dams in Transylvania County, little River Dam and the Brevard Dam, at the mouth of Cathey’s Creek, and one at the Davidson Riv er. We began at once to try to stop this project and went to each of the five counties and talked to the commission ers about this project and the effect the Little River and Brevard dams would have on Transylvania Coun ty. We asked them to vote against this project if it was presented for a vote. At the meeting in Asheville, TV A presented the proposed plans and asked for a vote to continue their work on this project. After a short caucus by each county, we had -a vote and Henderson, Madison and Buncombe counties stated they had been flooded out long enough and voted far the adop tion of these and for TVA to continue with their work. Transylvania voted against this project as it would take over one-third of our farm land, in dustry sites and ruin our coun ty. Haywood county voted with us, so Coke Candler asked to withdraw Buncombe county’s vote and remade a motion that would approve the plans, pro viding that TVA restudy Trans —Turn to Pago Four Regulations Cited Tax Listing Begins On January Tax listing in Transylvania comity tor 1968 will begin on Wednesday, January *rd, ac cording to an annoncement coming today from the Traias ytvania County Board of Com missioners. The Township books will be in each - township .through Jan uary! l«h, except for Brevard, which.wiUbe J^Mli Super visor’s office. Each person owning real and/or build ings and or In of Demonal 1st, 1987, and all males between the ages of 21 and 50 are requir ed to list during the month of January. The tax Hating hooks are lo cated In each township for a .period of 10 days to provide a more convenient service for the people living there, so please list while the books are in the .township if possUe as this prevents hardships later on where long lines in the Tax Supervisor’s office means a longer waiting period. AH listing books will be in the Tax Supervisor’s office for letted President, Medical Society Dr. John R. Fodder, Jr., was elected president of the Trans ylvania County Medical Society for the year 1968 at a recent society meeting. He succeeds Dr. James H. Sanders, Jr. and he will take office on January 1,1968. Dr. Folger will also become Chief of Staff of the Transylva the remainder Of (the month. All dogs, vehicles, heavy equipment, farm machinery, livestock, furniture, house hold goods, boats, motors, electrical appliances, business inventories and numerous —Turn to Page Three WezfAer By FRED REITER Brevard’s temperatures dur ing the past week averaged out at 58 and 37, as temperatures above normal lor this time of year continued over the South east. High for the week was 65 last Thursday and Friday, while the low was only 27 degrees on the past Wednesday morning. Weather Bureau’s five - day forecast for the area calls for temperatures to continue aver aging normal. Daytime highs are expected to average in the high 40’s, while lows at night should be in the mid-20’s. Precipitation will total a half to three quarters of an inch or more, probably occurring as rain. Rainfall during the past week amounted to a total of 3.57 inches. High Low Free. Wednesday_ 52 27 0.00 Thursday _ 65 31 0.00 Friday_ 65 41 0.04 Saturday _ 62 35 0.10 Sunday _ 54 46 2.29 Monday_ 49 44 1.08 Tuesday_ 56 37 0.06 Look Inside... News for Women, page 6, sections 2 and 4 Du Pont Safety Feature, page one, section 2 Editorials, page 2, section 2 Civic Body Endives Highway To Du Pont, Williamson Creek *1 Rotarians To Hold Christmas Party Monday Brevard Rotarians will hold their annual Christmas party next Monday night in Gaither’s Rhododendron room. The Rotary Anns will be the special guests, and the buffet dinner will begin at 7:00 o’clock. According to President Wil burn Davis, the following com mittee members are in charge of arrangements; Gene Morris, Jack Mitchell, Walter Holland and George Perkins, Jr. Tom Holmes delivered his classification talk at the last regular meeting of the Rotary club. Mr. Holmes is a partner in the firm of Pisgah Builders Supply. While he was born in Geor —Turn to Page Four VFW Post To Hold Second Member-Party 'Hie second Membership par ty of the local post of the VFW will be held this coming Satur day night, Dec. 16th, at the post home. It will begin at 7:30 o’clock. According to Commander L. R. Hipp, cash prizes will be awarded. Some $125 will go to members and their wives, and the membership prizes will to tal $200 in cash. Informal dancing, with live music, will begin at 9:00 o’clock. Post Offices Open All Day On Saturday The men at Brevard and Pis gah Forest post offices will be working overtime during the Christmas rush. The two post offices will be open all day this coming Sat urday, December 16th, Charlie Patton, Jr., the local postmas ter announces. The hours will be from 8:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Announces Today Senator Mary Faye Brumby Is Seeking Re-Election Mrs. Mary Faye Brumby, Senator of the 33rd District, has announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the State Senate again. Senator Brumby srved as Representative of Cherokee County in 1965. She served one regular session as representa tive and two special sessions. Mrs. Brumby fought reappor tionment bitterly during the Special Session in 1966. One of her speeches before the legisla ture was laced with stinging re bukes not only of the federal district court which ordered it, but also of her colleagues who she knew were ready to pass it. Nevertheless, her colleagues vo ted that her speech be insert ed verbatim in the Journal and placed in the Archives of North Carolina. Her stand on this question was editorialized by Jesse Helms, Executive Vice Presi dent of Channel 5 in Raleigh. It was heard on 350 TV and ra dio stations throughout the state. Mr. Helms called her “a voice crying in the wilderness” in her fight for States’ Rights. —Turn to Page Five Group Leaves Friday Brevard College Students To Study Ocean's Floor, Bahamas Brevard College students were astounded to find a course dealing with plant and animal life on the ocean floor listed for credit during the present academic year. A college located in the moun tains offering a course in ma rine ecology? However, when it was ex plained to them that the For Goods, Services .. . $24,351,000 Spent By Transylvanians They contributed in good measure, through such outlays, toward producing a record breaking gross national prod uct (GNP). The GNP, which represents the total value of all goods and services produced in the country, is regarded by most economists as the principal Index of the nation's econo mic activity. This output, which came to $743 billion last yew and which la rising well above that figure this year, takes into ac count personal ap-vting, in dustrial outlays for plant expan fense. The major part of it, by far, according to the National In dustrial Conference Board and the Department of Commerce, was consumer spending, which amounted to no less than $465 billion, or almost two-thirds of the total. Transylvania county ac counted for approximately $24,351,000 of its share of this total, carrying its own weight on the basis of population. Consumer spending for goods and services locally amounted to .0062 percent of the national. The spending increases were across the board, rang ing from house furnishings to personal care and from food purchases to recreation. Only part of the rise was due to bigger consumer buying. The rest was attributed to high er prices. Of the outlay in the local area for personal consump tion expenditures, $24,351, 000, a marked increase over the 1963 total, which was $20,050,000, the reports show that $17,602,000 was spent in retail stores in the area and the remaining $6,749,000 went for services. Included under “services” was rent, or, in the case of owner - occupied dwellings, their imputed rental value. At the present time, say the economists, the American peo ple as a whole, what with in comes and savings at a high level, are in an excellent po sition to increase their spend ing and boost the GNP to a new record. As of the middle of this year, their financial assets were at an astronomical $1.5 trillion, H is estimated, or more than $90 billion more than at the beginning of the year. course would be held for a three • week period on the is land of Elbow Key in the Ba hamas, college administrators were hard - pressed to find room for all who wanted to enroll. A party of 15 leaves the col lege Friday for the Bahamas, where they will spend the next three weeks in intensive study of the flora and fauna native to the Grand Bahama Islands. A full three semester hours of credit is offered by the college upon successful completion of the course of study. (See pic —Turn to Page Four Directors Cite Advantages Of Direct Route Directors of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce went on record Tuesday night as endorsing construction of a new highway from Brevard to the Du Pont plant via the Williamson Creek route. The action was taken at the chamber’s regular monthly meeting that was held in the library. Discussion at the meeting revealed that Henderson county officials and citizens are doing all within their power to have a new road constructed from Henderson county to the Du Pont plant. It was felt that it is high time for Transylvanians to start positive action calling for a road along Williamson Creek that would mean a more direct route from Bre vard to the Du Pont plant than now exists. The chamber’s action on Tuesday night called for all directors to individually write Governor Dan Moore encour aging construction of the Williamson Creek road, and to encourage all Transylvani ans who will to do the same. Operating on the theory that “the wheel that squeaks the loudest gets the oil,” the directors feel that many let ters from local citizens will go a long way toward empha sizing to the Governor how important and imperative construction of a new route to the Du Pont plant is to the economy and safety of Trans ylvanians. A new road constructed along the Williamson Creek route would cut the mileage of the route presently follow ed to Du Pont exactly in half. It would also cut out many hazardous curves and allow access to Du Pont in times of —Turn to Page Five USE CHRISTMAS SEALS CHRISTMAS 1M7*T GREETINGS 1M7< CHRISTMAS ISSTfl GREETINGS IM7 4 FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS and other Respiratory Diseases 9 More Shopping Days Terrell To Speak Brevard And Rosntan Football Teams To Be Honored By Olin Olin s annual banquet honor ing the football teams of Bre vard and Rosman high schools will be held this Thursday night at the Ecusta cafeteria at 7:30 p.m. Featured speaker for the ban quet will be Bob Terrell, of Asheville, Sports Director and News Editor of The Asheville Citizen and the Asheville Times. He will be introduced by George Tesnow, Olin’s Em ployee Services Supervisor. Mr. Terrell, a native of Syl va, has been associated with the Asheville newspapers for a number of years and is well versed on the high school foot ball situation in Western North —Tor* to Page Three
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