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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize - Winning, Home Town Newspaper Vol 82 — No. 29 -AfD AT m”v*rds N? c. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1969 ★ 28 PAGES TODAY * vu*. o* ZIp C0Dt 28712 Severe Thunderstorms WithlHigh Winds Hit ections Of Transylvania SPECTACULAR ELECTRICAL STORMS, accompanied by high winds, expended their wrath upon several sections of Brevard and Transylvania county last Thursday afternoon. Crops were dam aged and hundreds of acres of corn were blown over. Trees were uprooted, and power was off in some areas for awhile. Crews of Citizens Telephone company worked for two days restoring tele phone service throughout the county. Some of the hangers at the Brevard airstrip were just blown from off the planes, however they were anchored down and were not damaged, as shown in the photo at the left- In the right photograph is the damaged steeple of the new Enon Baptist church at Penrose. A cable through the middle kept it from being blown to the ground. (Times Staff Photos) THE BELL RINGING REPORT in the "Fund For Your Life” cam paign Tuesday morning was $915, 000, and officials of the drive are now shooting for the one million dol lar mark. With the success of the new figure, both phases of the new hospital can be built simultaneous ly. Another reports meeting will be held next Tuesday at noon in Gaith er’s Rhododendron room, and solici tors are urged to complete their so licitations by that time if possible. In the picture from left to right are: Jack C. Dense, campaign chairman; Charles Pickelsimer, major gifts di vision chairman; Garza Baldwin, Jr., vice chairman; and Dr. Frank McGuire, vice chairman, supporting committees. (Times Saff Photo) Gala Weekend “The King And I’9 And Jan Peerce At The Music Center The coming Brevard Music Center weekend promises to be a blockbuster. With Met ropolitan Opera star Jan Peerce in Sunday’s concert and a colorful staging of the hit musical The King and I on Friday, July 18th, the Cen ter will doubtless add to its reputation as the “Summer Music Capital of the South.” Completing the list of great weekend attractions, leading American soprano Jeanne Grea lish sings in concert with the Transylvania Symphony Or chestra, conducted by Emil Raab, on Saturday, July 19th. All weekend programs will be held at Whittington - Pfohl Auditorium at 8:15 p. m. Millions are familiar with Rodgers’ and Hammeritein’s The King and 1 through the Broadway and motion picture versions which starred xul Going To Henderson Buck Resigns As Town Manager, Resignation Accepted With Regrets Robertson W. Back, Bre vard's town manager, has re signed, and his resignation was accepted with regrets, this week by Mayer Raymond P. Bennett and the Board of The resignation was due to reasons of henWh of his wife and other family matters. “It was the hardest de cision that I have ever had to nuke," Mr. Bock said " be i “We love Brevard, and the past four years we have had rewarding Brynner. Appearing in the King of Siam will be Val Pa tacchi, long a Brevard favor ite who has appeared with leading opera companies threnghout the U. S. Patacchi has won favor with audiences in the UJS. and abroad for his dashing portrayal in this melodious musical. Soprano Ann Gardner also stars as Anna, the prim Eng lish heroine who finally comes under the King’s spell. Miss Gardner returns to Brevard in one of her favorite roles after —Turn to Page Six Wezf/ier By FRED REITER The weekly average tempera tures for this past week were 86 and 63 in Brevard, for one of the summer’s hottest weeks. -High point for the week was 80 degrees on Friday, while the week’s low was 57 on Sunday morning. A total of 1.11 rain fall. The mild earth tremor -of Sunday evening was felt by some in the area. It occurred about 5:25 p. m. Sunday after noon and was felt for about a minute. Average temperatures and rainfall for summertime are expected during the next few days by the Weather Bureau. The week’s temperatures and precipitation as follows: High Low Prec. Wednesday .., 80 68 0.03 Thursday 88 68 0.75 Friday_ 90 64 0.06 Saturday -_ 87 66 .-0.27 Sunday_ 89 57 0.03 Monday _ 86 59 0.00 Tuesday _ 84 58 0.00 Brevard Coin Club To Meet Tuesday Night The Brevard Coin Club will hold its regular meeting next Tuesday night, July 22nd. in the Seminar Room of the Bre vard College Library. The meeting will start promptly at 8 p. m., and will feature a program on “Buffalo Nkkles” by Mrs. Marie Bre wer. All persons with numismatic interests are extended a cor dial invitation to attend. Finishing Operations For "Crolyn" Magnetic Tape Slated At Du Pont New Pilot Plant Will Employ Around 100 In order to meet a growing demand for “Crolyn” magne tic tape using Du Pont’s new chromium dioxide magnetic particle, an additional finish ing operation will be estab lished at the company’s Photo Products Department’s plant in Brevard. Tape will continue to be man jfactured through the finish ng stage at Newport, Del., with sufficient unfinished product shipped to Brevard where the lew finishing facility will more :han double existing capacity. The new tape fnishing op eration at Brevard, where x ray film is mainly manufac tured, will ultimately employ 100 people. Du Pont ‘tCrolyn” magnetic ape was announced June, 1967. rffering two principal advan ages: greater reliability and greater information storage opacity than conventional mag letic tape. Already accented as com puter tape, “Crolyn” is ex pected also to attain wide ac centance as video, instrumen tation and audio tape as equipment designed to take advantage of the superior properties of “Crolyn” con tinues to become available.. LONG. PADDLE — Leonard Monteith hands his traveling col league, Bill Hall, one of the Ion ; paddles which was used to transport them some 380 miles via streams, lakes and rivers from Brevard, N. 0., ' o Chattanooga, Tenn. They were : nests of the Naval Reserve Training Center at Chattanooga before em barking on the second half of their adventure to Guntersville, Ala Quite A Trip Brevard Youths Paddle River From Brevard To Chattanooga (This special story appear ed in the Chattanooga Times in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and it concerns two fine Bre vard youths and their trip down the French Broad river and other streams. It was written by Pete McCall.) CHATTANOOGA — Two adventuresome 18 - year - old Survey Reveals $1,352,000 In US Grants Locally From a dollars and cents standpoint, how well is Tran sylvania County making out under the government’s grants-in-aid program? Does the price it is paying for these grants, through match ing funds and other payments that come out of taxes, make them worthwhile financially? The aid programs — there are hundreds of them — of fer assistance to states and local coaamunities for pur poses ranging from road building and education to wel fare grants and child care. What it cost some localities, in the past year, proved to be greater than the aid they re . . . . . ceived. For others, it worked out favorably. They got back more than they put in. A comprehensive study of the aid programs, made by the Tax Foundation, a non-profit organization that watches gov ernment taxation and spending, shows how much aid was al located to each state and, in each instance, what the cost was. A breakdown of the state figures Which are baaed upon Treasury Department reports Indicates that the cast of Fed eral aid in Transylvania coun ty came to approximately «, 082.000 in the post fiscal year and that Dm amount that waa returned, in the form of grants, was an estimated $1, 352,000. The State of North Carolina was also ahead on this score The portion of its tax returns that were allocated to the Federal aid programs amounted to $318,300,000, the Tax Founda tion reports. What came back, in grants to the state and its localities, was $396,000,000. In effect $1 was received in the form of government aid for every M cents expend ed. Of the 30 states, 17 got back leas than they contributed and —Tarn to Page Five students from Brevard, N. C.. are enjoying their "biggest adventure and greatest feat” this summer, having paddled some 380 miles thus far to gether in their 15- foot kay aks to reach Chattanooga 21 days after embarking on their —Turn to Page Six Prominent Mason Last Rites Held Tuesday For Odas Crisp, A Civic Leader Final rites for Odas W. Crisp, 44, of Allison Road, were held Tuesday morning at First Bap tist Church in Brevard. Mr. Crisp, an outstanding state Masonic leader, died Sun day in an Asheville hospital af ter a brief illness. A native of Swain county, he had resided in Brevard for the past 15 years where he had been station manager for South ern Railway. He had been with Southern Railway for 25 years. Active in the civic affairs of his community, Mr. Crisp was a director of the Brevard Cham ber of Commerce and Brevard Lodge B.P.OX No. 1706. He was a past Exalted Ruler of the —Tom To Page Three
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