THE TRANS HLVANIA TIMES
A State And National i * e - Winning, Home Town Newspaper
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Vol. 81 — No. 34 .aid at^mvajd.^. c. BREVARD J > C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1968 ★ 28 PAGES TODAY ★
CONGRESSMAN ROY A.
TAYLOR spent last Thursday
visiting and speaking in Bre
vard and Transylvania county.
At the top he is pictured with
Bill Boggs, president of the
Brevard Kiwanis ' club, left,
and Don Irwin, right, who in
troduced him at the semi
monthly meeting of the Kl
wianians. In the photograph at
the left, Rep. Taylor is being
interviewed by Jon E. Ander
son, staff announcer at
WPNF, who is working at the
station prior to returning to
graduate school on Sept. 15th.
Congressman Taylor’s inter
view and a story on the Ki
wanis meeting are carried
elsewhere in this week’s
Transylvania Times.
(Times Staff Photos)
Next Monday
Brevard College’s Largest
Faculty To Begin Workshop
The largest faculty ever
assembled at Brevard College
will begin the annual Facul
ty Workshop next Monday,
August 26th.
•Fifty - three faculty members
will report for their first meet
in at .1:00 .p. m. New faculty
members will begin orientation
sessions at 9:00 that morning.
At the 1:00 meeting, the
members of the instructional
staff will hear a report on
the work of the Presidential
Council by the Rev. E. Wan
namaker Hardin, Jr., business
manager of the college and
. chairman of the council. The
Presidential Council was form
ed in late May to carry on
the duties of the presidential
office until a successor could
be named to assume the of
fice left vacant by the death
of Dr. Emmett K. McLarty,
Jr.
The initial session will be
followed by divisional meet
ings in the afternoon, with the
activities being concluded by a
7:00 p. m., dinner and an ad
dress by the Rev. Grady H.
lege.
On Tuesday, faculty com
mittees will meet to plan
their work for the coming
Whicker, new dean of the col
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Congressman
Taylor Is
Interviewed
Congressman Roy A. Tay
lor, Representative from this
district is the United States
Congress, visited in Brevard
and Transylvania county last
Thursday.
Following his visit with sup
porters in the courthouse, ait va
rious businesses and industries
and on the streets, he was the
principal speaker at the semi
monthly meeting of the Brevard
Kiwanis club.
During the afternoon, he
was interviewed by The
Transylvania Times and Radio
Station WPNF.
Congressman Taylor answer
ed the different questions as
follows:
Q. "What brings you to this
area?”
A. “It is a real privilege to
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Slight Increase
MM
United Fund Budget Set At
$47,399, Breakdown Given
UtoiTrawQ^Miia County USlt
ed Fund Inc., has approved a
record budget for 196* of
^ MVtM13
* Meeting in the Transylvania
Community Center on Monday,
the Board approved increased
allocations to local agencies to
taling *8,435.13, a 9.4% increase
over the 1968 budget. Chairman
Keith urged members of the
board to make a special ef
fort to ensure the success of
the campaign. Keith indicated
that the Uckoff date for the
1969 campaign drive will be
October 8th.
Included in the budget are the
following funds for local agen
cies:
Associated Charities-4600;
Boy Scouts—$6,500;
Girl Scouts—96,600;
Humane Society—$800;
School Menus
For Next Week
Are Announced
The menu for the lunchrooms
■at the various schools in Tran
sylvania for next week are re
leased today by the Transylva
nia County School Food serv
ice.
They are as follows:
Monday—Country style steak,
mashed potatoes, tomato - let
tuce salad, hot biscuits, butter,
peach crisips and milk.
Tuesday—Tuna-egg salad, po
tatoes in jacket, carrot curls,
‘1fredde-faoe” rolls, butter, fruit
jello and milk.
Wednesday — Yum-yums on
ibun, buttered green beans, car
rot-cabbage slaw, iced cake
squares and milk.
Thursday — Chicken pie, but
tered spinach, hot biscuits, but
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Transylvania’s Schools Will Open On Friday
Teachers Now
In Session,
Full Day Mon.
Schools in Brevard and Trans
ylvania county will open for
ihe 1968 69 term on Friday of
this week.
School buses will run, and
classes will begin at 8:30 a.m.
They will recess at 11:15,
following registration, class
room assignments, etc.
Maonday will be the first full
day of school, and the lunch
rooms will be open.
According to Dr. R. E. Rob
inson, the superintendent, the
projected enrollment for the
schools for the new term is
set at 4,649.
All the principals and teach
ers met at Brevard senior high
school on Wednesday. A band
concert, under the direction of
John D. Eversman, opened the
program.
Speakers included Dr. Rob
inson; E. B. Matheson, chair
man of the Board of Educa
tion; Mrs. Hilda Olson, school
supervisor; Mrs. Madge Maree,
food services; Joe Pressley,
who spoke on the NCEA; Mrs.
Fred Kllstrom, CTA; and the
principals introduced new
personnel. Randal Lyday also
spoke on personnel policies.
On Thursday of this week the
teachers will again meet.
Norman Leafe and George
Schackelford, of Raleigh, will
speak to the teachers from
the fourth through the eighth
grades from 10:00 a.m. until
12:00 noon on the new health
books.
Paul Taylor, also of Raleigh,
will discuss the new science
books from 1:30 p.m. until 3:00
p.m. with 'teachers from the first
(through Ithe 12th grades.
Several Major Changes
There will be several major
changes in the school system
this year. One of the greatest
changes is found in the con
solidation of the lunchroom
programs which will be ad
ministered by a supervisor of
food services and a bookkeep
er. The main features of con
solidation are
(1) central bookkeeping
(2) central storage, and
(3) central purchasing. Of the
162 admdniisttTattive units in
North Carolina, approximately
140 have centralized lunchroom
programs as a result of (1) In
creasing cost of food, (2) In
creased cost of labor, and (3)
■the necessity to keep prices of
lunches to a minimum.
The key to success of this
type of program is participa
tion by the students and the
lowering of overhead costs.
FOOTBALL COACHES are unusually busy
this time of year, and this group here in TransyP
vania is certainly no exception. Above, Brevard
High’s staff is pictured discussing plans in prepa
ration for tha Blue Devils’ opening game with the
Hendersonville Bearcats on Friday night, August
30th. The coaches are, left to right; Harry Bal
lard, Head Coach Bill Stanley, Jim Johnson and
Frank Robinson. In the photo at right, Rosman’s
Coaches are getting their squad ready for the
christening of their new stadium at Rosman when
the Tigers host Bakersville on Thursday night,
August 29th. They are Jim Howell, left, and
Head Coach Bill Cathey, right.
(Times Staff Photos)
By FRED REITER
The past week was one of
ithe warmest on record in the
■past several years in Brevard.
The week’s averages were 88
and 65. There was a minimum of
rainfall during the period.
The five-day forecast for the
area calls for continued hot
weather, with little relief in
sight until at least the end of
the week, according to the
Weather Bureau’s extended out
look.
Temperatures and rainfall for
the period were as fallows:
Wednesday_ 83 64 0.25
High Low Prec.
Thursday
84 65 0.21
iFriday .
Saturday
90 64 0.00
88 67 0.05
Sunday .
Monday
Tuesday
88 65 0.13
90 64 0.00
91 65 0.00
Early Tuesday Morn
Four Escape From Local Jail,
Search Being Made For Boley
Four prisoners, who were
all being held on felony
charges, sawed their way out
of the jail here in Brevard
sometime Tuesday night.
But for three of them, free
dom was short lived.
Members of the Sheriff’s
Beauty Pageant
Is Postponed
Due to lack of entries the
Miss Brevard Beauty Pageant
scheduled for August 24th
and sponsored by the Brevard
Jaycees has been postponed.
A decision will be made at
the next Jaycee meeting
whether to reschedule the
pageant for a later date or
abandon the project.
On Annual Basis
'Transylvania Smokers Spend $490,000
The campaign against cig
arette smoking, which has
taken on a new intensity in
recent weeks, brings up the
question of cigarette consump
tion in' Transylvania county.
How much are local residents
smoking these days compared
with people in other communi
ties? What etteot have previous
health warnings bad on their
smoking habits?
Judging from the latest fig
ures on cigarette sales in the
area, there has been no ap
parent cutback. The average
user is smoking Just about aa
much aa ho did in previous
years.
(He has paid little or no hoed
to the warning issued by the U.
S. Surgeon General hi 1904
Nor has the caution “cig
arette smoking may be haz
ardous to your health,” which
is printed on each pack of
cigarettes, made any notice
able difference.
The net result is that Tran
sylvania county residents smok
ed some 2,077,000 packs of cig
arettes in the past year, accord
ing to a 'breakdown of regional
statistics, released hy the to
bacco industry.
This was equivalent to 187
pacha a year for every local
resident over the age of 18.
It was greater than in some
portions of the country and less
than in others. The average
for this age group, nationally,
was 215 packs. In the South At
lantic States it was 220 packs.
Now the Public Health Ser
vice has eeme out with a
new warning. For the first
time it has stated that there is
a cause-and- effect connection
between cigarette smoking
and heart disease.
Specifically, it declares that
the average young smoker in
the 25 to 35 age bracket faces
a shortening of his life by about
eight years if he smokes more
than .two packs a day. Sven the
tight smoker can expect a re
duction of his life expectancy,
it finds.
Smoking is becoming a more
costly habit in another way,
too. Because of tax boosts in
many parts of the country, the
price of a pack of cigarettes
has been mounting.
In Transylvania county,
last year, an estimated $490,
000 was spent by local resi
dents for cigarettes. It was at
the rate of $44 per smoker.
department, the Brevard po
lice and other law enforce
ment officers, used blood
hounds to track the three
down on Tuesday.
Sheriff Carter McCall said
Robert Gray, 21, and Bruce
Miller, 20, of Pisgah Forest,
were rounded up Tuesday after
noon in a corn field in the Lit
tle River section. Miller’s bro
ther, Harold Miller, 18, was cap
tured Tuesday might in a Crab
Creek tobacco patch.
The fourth escapee, Wayne
Boley, 23, of Rosman, was still
at large late Tuesday night.
Sheriff McCall described Bo
ley as being five feet, nine in
ches tall and weighing 165
pounds. He has dark wavy
hair and a tatto on his right
arm. When last seen he was
wearing dungarees.
Boley was being held in con
nection with the recent assault
case in the Cedar Mountain sec
tion.
There is a $500 reward of
ered for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of
person or persons involved in
the assault.
Sheriff McCall was high in his
praise Wednesday morning of
the fine work his deputies, the
Brevard police, the patrolmen
and other persons did in assist
ing with the arrest of the three
escapees on Tuesday.
The residents of the Little
River section were most help
ful, he stated.
The bloodhounds were called
in from Craggy prison near
Asheville.
Sheriff McCall said that he
would greatly appreciate any
information as to the where
abouts of Boley.
The sheriff’s telephone
number is 883-5811, and the
Town police department is
883-2212.
Program Highlights
WPNF's Listeners Are Kept
Informed On Stock Markets
Stock market reports are
heard on WPNF twice daily, as
a service to listeners in the area.
A complete summary of the
day’s activities is heard each
weekday evening at 6:15 p.m.,
when Olin Matihieson Carp, of
Pisgah Forest sponsors the eve
ning Stock Market Summary
from McCarley and Company of
Asheville.
A summary of market condi
tions at noon each weekday is
heard on the local station at
12:45 p.m. The New York stock
market and other principal ex
changes have been closed on
Wednesday for the past several
months, in order for clerical
employees of the member firms
to catch up on ‘^»aper work” in
wived in transactions.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm
and Home hour is as follows:
Thursday, station program; Fri
day, ASC office, Glenn_Whit
mire; Monday, county extension
chairman; Tuesday, station pro
gram; Wednesday, home agent.
Speaking this week on Morn
ing Devotions is Rev. Nolan
Ford, pastor of Calvary Baptist
church.
The Sunday morning church
service is being broadcast
through the remote facilities of
WPNF from the Breward-David
son River Presbyterian church.
Rev. Dan MoCaH is pastor.