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/ s TRANSYLVANIA— Tourist, Eduea Agricultural aid Music Population, 1M0 Cenaus . Ok Brevard Coummtty proper 4,*W. THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES fh •Hi* ■#> Vol. 81 — No* 10 State And National Prize - Winning, Home Town Newspape TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah National Forest and Home of Brevard College and Brevard Music Festival. SECOND CUSS POSTAGE PAID AT aatVAAD, N. C. UP CODS 28712 BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1968 PRICE 10c ■irate; PI HED WEEKLY ★ 24 PAGES TODAY ★ Boyd Holliday Is Winner In Peace Contest Boyd Holliday waa announced as the Transylvania winner of the high school world peace study and speaking contest February 29th in a school as* sembly program, In his original essay, Holli day pointed out that violence is the result of many people’s attempts to achieve material security, and that internation al violence, like international crime, should be dealt with by law. He also stressed that first a change must ccme within men’s minds whereby they will be more willing to live by peace and mutual respect. The contest, endorsed state wide by educators and com munity and civic organizations, was sponsored and promoted locally by the Brevard Junior Women’s club. Local contributors to date include: Pat’s Shoe Mart, Pat terson’s The Transylvania Times, the Brevard Jaycettes, Pisgah Candy Company, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corpora tion, Burgin’s, Lion’s club, Com munity Cash, Citizen’s Tele phone Company, Brevard Lum ber Company, Lyda - McCrary, Morris Pharmacy, Harold’s Su per Market and Varner’s Drug store. As a winner, Boyd, along with the pther winners in North Carolina, will be leaving March 31st on a chartered bus trip to Neny- York City and Washington, D. C., for a four , day all expense paid trip. In JP. addition to this trip, he was i\,gresented an especially design ed ‘World Peace” gold key, aha\ $B5 IT. S. Savings Bond corapJiifcents of First Union •NsrttWStt Bank. He is now eligible to com pete for the Lotan A. Corrl —1Tan to Page Sis Varner Will Head Local Rotary Club David H. Varner, medical technician at the Transylvania Community hospital, was elect ed president of the Brevard Rotary cluib for 1988-’09 term at this week’s meeting in Gai ther’s Rhododendron room. The other new officers are: Dr. Wilburn A. Davis, vice president Walter C. Holland, Secretary S. Wayne McCarty, treasurer Newly elected directors are: Rev. G. Darnel McCall, Pat Thomas and Jerry WilMs. The new officers and direc tors will be installed at a la dies’ night meeting in late June. Mr. Varner succeeds Dr. Da vis as president of the dub. The -election was conducted by Gene Baker, past president. Rotarian John Andenou will have the program next week. BOYD HOLLIDAY, right, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fulton Holliday, of Pis gah Forest, is the local winner of the High School World Peace Study and Speaking Contest. An outstanding senior at Brevard, young Holliday gets an all-expense trip to Washing ton and New York as well as other prizes. Principal Harry C. Corbin is shown presenting him with his winnings. At the left is Mrs. James O. Smeaton, co-ordinator of the pro ject for the Brevard Junior Women’s club and other sponsoring firms and civic organizations. Next in line is Lee Galloway, runner - up in the contest. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Galloway, of Brevard. (Times Staff Thoto) Meeting Thursday Public Cordially Invited To Aid In Planning For Schools Open discussion of the up • coming long range study of the Transylvania County School System hy the University of Tennessee and the Ford Founda tion will take place Thursday evening, March 7th, at 8:00 p.m. in the Brevard senior high school auditorium. (See full - page remind er on page 3, Section three of this isues). Prior to the public discus sion, beginning at 7:S0 p.m., the Brevard Senior High School Band, under the di rection of John D. Eversman, will give a concert. The public will be asked to cooperate in this important program on which hinges the f u t u r e of Transylvania's school system. It is vital to have the maximnm town wide attendance. Speakers will be Dr. Law rence 0. Haaby, Professor of Education, University of Ten nessee, and Dr. John W. Gil liland, another expert la the Arid of long-range planning at the University of Tennes see. Tim high professions! qual ifications and the experience of these speakers promise a most interesting evening. Offic. ToOpcn Board Of Elections Takes Office, Boyd Is Chairman Transylvania’s Board of glee tions has been sworn into of fke by J. O. Wells, Clerk ol Many Races ' Democrats Put Up Slate Of Candidates For May Primary A slate of Democratic candi dates for the May 4th Primary is announced today. The County Board of Com missioners, consisting of Chair man Donald Lee Moore, Hale Siniard, Jr., and Dr. Charles L. Newland, is seeeking re-elec tion. Two. members of the Tran sylvania Board of Education, Chairman Edward B. Ma.heson and Eugene Morris, are also seeking re-election. Two other office holders in the county, Fred H. Israel, Reg ister of Deeds, and Lawrence R. Hipp, tax collector, are announcing that they are can didates to succeed themselves. Jack Goldsmith is a candi date for Clerk of Superior Court, since J. O. Wells has an nounced that he would not seek re-election. Two Brevard attorneys, Rob ert T. Gash and John R. “Jack” Hudson, have entered the race for a judgeship in the 29th Ju dicial district. There are three —Turn to Page Sever In Chicago Frank Hardin Awarded Trip To 9th Youthpower Congress Frank r>. Hardin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hardin, of Route 2, Brevard, has been se lected as a delegate to the ninth annual Youthpower Con gress, March 27-30 in Chicago, Hardin, along with Suzanne Thompson, of Route 1, Bur lington, will vie for the “Top Teen for Youthpower” aiweid. They will compete with nomi nees from throughout the na tion. Delegates were chosen main ly on the basis of outstanding project work in the areas of food nutrition and leadership qualities. Project activities ranged from high school diet studies to interviews with lead Look Inside. ers in the food industry. Expenses for the three - day stay in the Windy City are paid each year by the N. C. food and food-related business. The Youthpower program in the state is coordinated by the N. C. Farm Bureau and the N. C. Board of Farm Organizations and Agricultural Agencies. More Road Project §fAre Announced For County, Hearing Wednesday Will Discuss New Four Lane Route On US 64 Citizens of Brevard and Transylvania county are again reminded of the public hear ing concerning the new four lane highway to be built from Brevard to the Lake Sega bridge. It will be held Wed nesday, March 13tb, at 4:00 p.m. in the Transylvania court house. An expanded drawing of this new, four-lane link is published on page 8, Section three of this issue. Readers are urged to study this draw ing and attend the meeting where their comments are so licited. This being a federally sup ported project, a public hear ing is required by law. Once held, the project may go forward; this is the only time the public will have the opportunity to express objec tions if any. In the words of the mar riage ceremony, the public, if it has objections, must “speak now or forever hold its peace.” WezfAer By FRED REITER Breyard temperatures aver aged 49 and a chilly low of IB during the past week. The snowfall of Thursday morning was the first precipitation in the area for nearly a month. It amounted to 5 inches at Brevard, or the Equal of .55 inch of rain. The week’s high was 63 de grees on Saturday and Tues day. Long range forecast for the area indicates that tempera tures will average below nor mal for the next few days. High temperatures are ex pected in the 40’s, while lows at night should average in the low 20’s. The weather bureau indi cates there is a possibility of more precipitation by the week end. A check of weather records indicates February was the 'driest month in Brevard for the past several years. A total of only .89-inch of precipitation mas registered during the month, and .56-inch of that amount fell on the “ex tra” day, Feb. 29th. There were 28 consecutive days without any precipitation. High Low Free. Wednesday_42 15 Thudsdpy- 38 28 5” snow Friday _ 43 14 Saturday _ 63 10 Sunday _ 40 28 Monday _58 20 Tuesday _ 63 13 0.00 0.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Program Highlights Army Hour Is An Important jKgaipp’rt. Feature On WPNF Each Week V.\' ■ - ‘Hie Army Hour”, a week ly feature of WPNF, this week will feature a special report on the l*t Cavalry Division. With units constantly spread over of Vietnam, one of the Critical problems is that amunications. The 19th fiatalion has the all ant Job.of getting mas through to the various idely dispersed units in Army Hour’s Pacific Ocean. The Army Hour may be heard each Saturday at 3:06 p. m. on WPNF. Other Programs The schedule of the Farm and Home hour for the coming week is as fellows: Thursday, Station Program; Friday, N. C. Forest Service, Clark Grissom; Monday, County agrieuituaral extension agent; Tuesday, Sta tion program; Wednesday, Home Economics extension agent, Jean emitters. Speaking this w*ek on ing Devotions is Mr. Hyman —Tara to Page Mi Coach At Duke Vic Bubas To Conduct Summer Sports Camp Here At College Brevard College will hold an all-sports camp on its campus for four weeks this summer. The announcement was made today by Dr. E. K. McLarty, Jr., President of the college. Victor A. Bubas, head bas ketball coach at Duke Univer sity, will be the Executive Di rector of the camp. According to Coach Bubas, the camp will offer an opportunity for young men, ages 9-16, to obtain per sonalized sports instruction in a camp atmosphere by profess ional coaches and top college and professional athletes from throughout the country. The camp will hold two ses sions. The first session will begin on Sunday, July 7 and end Saturday, July 20 with the second session starting July 21 and ending August 3. Students may attend one or both of the two-week periods. Bubas will organize all ac tivities, which will center in the Boshamer Gymnasium and Sherrill Athletic fields. Stu dents will be housed in the col lege dormitories with meals served in the college dining hall. • Among the activities to be offered at the camp are arch ery, baseball, basketball, golf, football (skills only—no di —Turn to Page Seve* Luncheon Thursday Six Brevard Winners In Fine Arts Festival In Asheville Mrs. Joan Schneider of Ashe ville, the Western North Caro lina Federation of Women’s Cluibs District Chairman of Arts and Crafts, has announced the winners of the 1968 Fine Arts Festival. Of the 17 cate gories offered, six first place winners are from Brevard. The winners are Mrs. Patrick Bohan, weaving, and Mrs. Charles Russell, knitting, rep resenting the Book and Plate club; Mrs. Jack Trantham, needlework, the Mathastation cluib; Mrs. Dan McCall, wood Miss Baker Is Named "Young Educator" Mrs. Sally Baker has been named Transylvania’s “Out standing Young Educator” of the year by the Brevard Jay cees. The award was made Tuesday night at the regular meeting of the Brevard Junior Chamber of Commerce. Harry C. Corbin, principal at Brevard senior high school, made the presentation on be half of the Jajveee. Mrs. Baker, the wife of Eu —Turn to Phfa Sever ! work, Mrs. Tom Crawford, flow er arranging and Mrs. Tom Penn, textiles, all from the Brevard Junior Woman’s club. The Fine Arts Luncheon will be 12:30, Thursday, March 7th at the Battery Park Hotel in Asheville. All entries in the Festival will be on display this week through Sunday, March 10th in the basement of the Asheville City Auditorium. Itemized List Given By The Commissioner Continuing the TIMES' cov erage of road improvements in Transylvania county, we list below the projected im provements received this week from W. Curtis Russ, State Highway Commissioner for *his district. It should be noted that allo cation of most of these funds has been reported earlier, thus these do not constitute addi tional funds except for the $6, 000.00 extra engineering funds listed last in this article. But the allocations, when received earlier, were by pro ject or SCH road numbers and would have had little meaning to the l oader not employed by the highway commission. Here we publish a break-down by local road names which are familiar to most Transylvania county res idents. Authority To Start In addition to the roads list ed last week, the following will also be improved as indicated. Listed also are the Work Or der numbers, the last step in the planning process: a work order is authority to start the work. Work Order 6.002053 — Sup plement — $9,000.00 — 6.4 miles. (1) Stabilization of School Bus Routes 4.0 miles (2) Grade, drain —Turn to Page Sevel Wells Will Not Seek Re-Election P. O. Wells, Clerk of the Superior Court, announced to day that he will not be a can didate in the forthcoming elec tion for this office. Upon the death of Robert Caldwell a vacancy existed in this office and the office had to be closed until a successor was appointed and qualified. Due to the emergency which was thus created Mr. Wells reluctantly agreed to his ap pointment as Clerk of the Su perior Court. His appointment to serve in this capacity was of a tempor ary nature and only in order that the otffijqb could be re opened as quickly as possible, and in order also that the of fice might be prepared to take over the additional duties that will devolve upon this office when this county goes under the District Court System in —Turn to Page Seve* On Democratic Ticket "Bill" Fetzer Is Candidate For House Of Representatives William M. “Bill” Fetzer, age 42, today announces his candi dacy for the North Carolina House of Representatives from the Forty-eighth District, com posed of Jackson, Swain and Transylvania counties. Mr. Fetzer is a lifelong cit lizen of Transylvania county, having graduated from Brevard high school in 1942. He served in the United States Navy from 1943 until 1946, enlisted in the United States Air Force as * flying cadet in 1918 and served in the Air Force until his re tirement in 1967. Upon hit re tirement from the Air Force in 1967, he had attained the rank of major. Mr. Fetzer attended Brevard —Tarn To Fage Three
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