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THE TRANSY VANIA TIMES A State And National Prize rinning, Home Town Newspaper - - •' . ^ --- i. ,, ... 11 ■■■ : 'Jm Vol. 82 — No. 22 BREVARD, N. Cj URSDAY, MAY 29, 1969 * 32 PAGES TODAY * - ■ .... .. . - SHseSs* SMMRH - MMHBI..;:$ **,h >* . '** ROSMAN MARSHALS for Graduation Exercises Friday night are pictured above with Principal A. L. Warren. On the front row, from left to right, are: Gayle Wal drop, Judy Hall and Mr. Warren. Second row: Elise Moore, and Rhon da Hall; and, third row: Lynn Green, Raymond Baker and Steve Owen. (Times Staff Photo) How Dollar* Are Spent Du Font’s Economic Impact On The Community Is Cited The payroll of the Du Pont company's x-ray film base plant at Brevard, reached $7,300,000 last year, J. C. Dense, plant manager, an nounced today. It exceeded 1967 by more than $400,600. In citing the economic im pact of the plant on the com munity, Mr. Dense said that based on national figures, Du Pont employees in the Brevard area spent more than $1,600, 000 in grocery stores and super markets for food. They bought $857,000 worth of clothing in department and specialty stores, and paid out $1,825,000 for shel ter in the form of nent and mortgage payments. •« *-r -,, Mr. Dense said the national figures also permitted Du Pont to trace how the plant’s payroll showed up elsewhere In Brevard’s economy. He pinpointed $730,000 being spent for new and used card, $365,000 for recreation and sporting equipment, and more than $200,000 for personal care services. “The overall economic im pact of the plant goes beyond the multimillion dollar payroll,” Mr. Dense said, ‘^because a good percentage of an additional $1, 477,000 spent in North Caroline by the plant, stayed in the local —Tam to Page Eight Post Office Will Close On Friday Hie Brevard post office will be closed all day Friday, May 80th in observance of Manorial Day. There will tie no window ser vice and no city or rural de livery service. Special delivery service will be provided, according to C. Y. Patton, postmaster. Town and county offices will be closed on Friday for the Me morial day observance, howev er the banks in Brevard will be open. County Manager? Taylor Introduces Bill, To Regulate Sheriff's Office Representative Charles Tay lor has introduced a bill in the legislature providing that the Chairman of the County Board of Commissioners will serve as County Manager at a salary of $3,500.00 per year. Beginning in the next genera] election, the Office of chairman of the board would be voted up separately from other board .mouthers under Taylor’s bill. The bill also sets the pay of the sheriff at $7,200 a year, but provides for a salary re duction to $6,200 if he Mis to complete a prescribed law en forcement course of training. The Times contacted Donald iLee Moore, chairman of the board Wednesday morning as to the bill. Mr. Moore said that he did not see the revised bill before it was introduced in the leg islature. He said that it was his un derstanding that he would be given that opportunity by Mr. Taylor, who introduced it in the House Monday night. The bill is as follows: A bill to be entitled an act to provide that the chairman of the Board of County Commiss ioners of Transylvania county £all be the county manager, to t bis salary, to set the salary of the sheriff and his deputies and for other purposes. The General Assembly of Nbrth Carolina do enact: Section 1. The Chairman of the -Board of County Commiss ioners of Transylvania county, in addition to his duties as pro vided by law as Chairman of said Board of Commissioners, shall be manager of the county at Transylvania, and as such manager Is vested with and shall have the duties and authority as set out in G. S. 153421 and shall have the adidtional duties and authority, as follows: (!) To hold weekly office hours in Hie office of the Coun ty Commissioners and to make Will Decorate T • —sj; Memorial Day Services Friday, Public Cordialli John I. Anderson, editor of The Transylvania Times. The decoration of all Tran sylvania county’s deceased he roes graves is in charge of Mrs. Jack Gillespie co-memorial chairman. ’ : Representatives are expected to be present from the V.F.W. Post, D.A.R., World Wars I and II, as weH as Gold Star Moth ers. The public is invited to bo for Otis lovely tribute ■'* rsnhremo ST these hours open and known to the public. (2) To inspect periodically buildings, roads and other pub lic facilities for which the coun ty of Transylvania is in part or in whole responsble. (3) The right to vote on all matters coming before, -die Board. Sec. 2. The Chairman of said Board of Commissioners, for his services as Chairman and as County Manager, shall receive —Turn to Paco Eight Wezf/fer By FRED REITER Temperatures during the past week averaged 79 and 55 in Brevard, with a total of 1.34 in ches of rain. High for the week was 82 on Wednesday after noon, While the week’s low was 50 on Tuesday. During the period through Saturday temperatures will average above normal. Daytime highs will average mostly in the ■low 80’s. Lows at night will average in the upper 50’s. Rain fall should be light averaging less than a tenth of an Inch occurring as a feiw scattered af ternoon or evening thunder showers mainly toward the end of the week. Temperatures and precipita tion for the week follows: High Low Prec. Wednesday_ 82 52 0.00 Thursday _ 78 59 0.00 Friday __ 79 58 0.13 Saturday . 81 56 0.20 Sunday —. 81 58 0.83 Monday_ 80 54 0.00 Tuesday . 74 50 0.18 Graduation Exercises Are Slated This Weekend, Brevard Rosman High Schools Local Seniors Will Receive Diplomas This Saturday Night It’s graduation time again. During the com ing weekend, exercises will be held for the senior classes at Rosman and Brevard high schools. This week The Times is carrying many stor ies and pictures about the 1969 graduates, and all readers are requested to examine the paper very carefully. Stories about the exercises at Brevard and at Rosman follow: THE CLASS OF 1969 has fi nally made it!!! Graduation will take place on May 31, 1969 a I the Brevard Music Center. The BUS band, directed by Mr. John I>. Eversman, will be gin the ceremonies with a thir ty - minute concert beginning at 7:30 P. M. Carl Waldrop will serve as the Master of Ceremonies. The Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Keith Baynard, and the invocation will be given by Lin da Baxter. Rev. Dan McCall, pastor of Brevard - Davidson River Pres byterian Church will give a short commencement address, following which diplomas will be presented to the candidates for graduation by Principal Harry C. Corbin, Transylvania School Superintendent Dr. R. E. Robinson, and Assistant Principal Bill Stanley. The Class of ’69 will be pre senlted by Dr. R. E. Robinson .fitt the graduates will be ac • copied by E. B. Matheson, chairman of the Transylvania County Board of Education. The Graduate’s Creed will be given by Cherry Warren, the recessional will be played by the band, and the Class of ’69 will no longer be high school stud ents! Following the graduation ex ercises on May 31, the Teen Center will sponsor a dance for the Class of ’69 and their dates. The dance will start at 10:00 p. m. Graduation exercises for the Senior Class at Rosman High School will be held Friday evening, May 30th, at 8:00 o’clock in the Rosman stadium. This year, for the first time, the baccalaureate services and graduation will be combined. This is also the first year grad uation has been held on the new athletic field. Rev. Danny Smith, pastor of the Glady Branch Baptist Church, will be the guest speaker. Dr. R. E. Robinson will present the awards and Principal A. L. Warren, the diplomas. Beverly G. Whitmire will give the valedictory speech and 'Linda Hoxit, the salutatory speech. Other students participat ing in the exercises include Troy Stamey, master of cere monies; Herbert Owen, invo cation; Brenda Myers, pledge to the flag; Linda Thomas, graduates creed; and Dean Fisher, benediction. The Rosman High School hon or graduates of 1969 have been announced as follows: Beverly Whitmire - Valedictorian, Lin da Hoxit - Salutatorian, Tony Stamey, Dean Fisher, Joy Whit mire, Linda Thomas, Brenda Myers, Janet Dutton, Katherine Chapman, and Herbert Owen. The music will be under the direction of Mrs. J. M. Winget. Invitation Extended Cradle Of Forestry Will Open For Season On May 30 The Cradle of Forestry in America will open to the public beginning on Memorial Day, Ranger Dan 'Hile announces. It is located in beautiful Pis gah National Forest in the Pink Beds Valley, 14 miles from Bre vard on US Highway 276. The Visitors Center will be open daily from 10:00 a. m., until 6.00 p. m. Ranger Hile states: “The exhibit room takes you on a walk through time, show ing the taportance of wood to the coimpifts and becoming in rreasingly: ^important through the Nineteenth Century. “The story continues with the conservation movement in the 1890’s which resulted in Ameri ca’s first Forester, Gifford Pin chot, practicing scientific forest management in Vanderbilt’s Pis gah Forest. “A diorama shows Dr. C. A. Schemek talking to a few of his students at the Nation’s first forestry school. After viewing the exhibits, Hanger Hile suggests that visi tors should see the 20 minute movie which shows the historic —Turn to Page Pont THE BREVARD MUTUAL CON CERT association is currently con ducting its annual membership drive. It will continue until June 3rd. Dis cussing the outstanding line-up of attractions for the 1969-70 season above are Mrs. Robert Melton, the membership chairman; Rev. Nelson Adams, head of the Department of Music at Brevard College and Max Johnson, of Alkahest, Inc. A great variety of entertainment and infor mation encompassing music, speech . mmum.mm and drama has been selected for this season. From September through April there will be six presentations playing one night each at the Dun ham Mnsic building auditorium at Brevard College. Present members are encouraged to renew their mem berships at this time. Persons inter ested in joining the association may obtain further information from the Brevard College music department, Mrs. Robert Melton or Mrs. J. H. Sanders, Jr. (Times Staff Photo) \ >' i Excellent Line-Up Mutual Concert Group Now , Conducting Annual Campaign Advanced Gifts Early Response Is Good In "Fund For Your Life" Drive Although the “Fund For Your Life” campaign of the Transylvania Community hos pital doesn’t begin until early June a few advanced gifts already total $27,000. Transylvanians will endeavor to raise $600,000 in the cam paign, and this will be matched by more than three dollars to one by the Federal govern ment. The new hospital will cost $2,050,000, and it will be built on a site just off the four lane highway, opposite Camp Straus. .Solicitors are now being se lected by the Hospital Advisory committee which meets at 12:30 each Tuesday in Gaither’s Rho dodendron room. The “hospital family” be gan its own campaign this week, and early response is encouraging. The Board of Trustees and members of the Medical Society are also con S3 ond row: Steve Spicer, Polly Jeffers, Marsha Rhodes, Suzanne Rhodes and Barbara Wauchope. Third row: Wayne Miller, Johnny Bolt, Steve Owen and Chuck LeClaire, chief maishal. Fourth row: Ricky Daniels. (Times Staff Photo) tributing heavily to the drive. Training sessions for the vol unteer solicitors ar<j expected to get underway next week and will be conducted to familiarize the volunteers with the needs of the community for a new hospital, the inadequacies of the present facilities. Included in the training ma terials will be a brochure which illustrates the need for a new hospital, how it will be financed, project, memorial and tribute opportunities at the new hospital and a sup porting statement by Cam paign Chairman Jack C. Dense. Also, a tax information fold er which illustrates and ex plains ways to obtain a tax ad vantage from a contribution to the new hospital and an infor mation folder which answers various questions of interest to anyone concerned about the campaign and the hospital. Kick-off drives for the va rious divisions will commence shortly after the training ses sion are completed. This is expected to be sometime dur ing the first week of June. The Brevard Mutual Con cert Association presents for its 1969 - 1970 season an out standing line-up of concert attractions which have been carefully selected to bring a great variety of entertainment and information. In scope it ranges from the classics to special eras, to the new popu lar sounds: and in presenta tion, it encompasses the world of music, speech and drama. There will be six presenta tions instead of four, and each program will be one night on ly. The attractions are as fol lows: September —The Smithsonian Institute, new sounds in music October — Concert ’70, lour young American artists in a program of a variety of vocal music November — Max Morath, terrific ragtime piano and two hours of musical theatre January — Paul Winter Con sort. a unique blending of sys phonic orchestration, folk mu sic and jazz March — Dr. Eugene S. Cal endar. a lecture on urban prob lems facing America April — Ruiby Holbrook, a one woman drama of women —Turn to Page Sever Log Reviewed "Trading Post" Is A Program With Much Appeal Over WPNF Just a few days ago WIPNF received a letter with a New Orleans, La. return address. The letter said the writer had been driving through this part of the country the day be fore the letter was written, and had heard about a certain item advertised for sale on WPNF’s “Trading Post”. The writer said she was un able to drive and write down details of the offer, so she ask ed the station to supply details on a post card which was en closed. The details were sent by re turn mail. The writer of the letter said she’d be back in N.C. shortly and would get in touch with the person who had the item for sale. WPNF hopes the listener will be afyle to obtain the item in question. Nobody should ever underestimate the power of broadcast radio, as the poten tial audience is sometimes an>» azing as in the case of this tru£ incident. “Trading Post” has been heard ftrr many years on WPNF each weekday at 12:30 p.m. It is sponsored by Don Brown of Western Auto Associate store. The schedule for the Farm and Home hour is as follows: —Turn To Page Three
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