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THE TRANS LVANIA TIMES '••v ‘S-m ‘ A State And National se - Winning, Home Town Newspaper SECOND CLASS POSTAGE Vol. 82 — No. 32 C‘ BREVA1 - n . C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, I960 ★ 30 PAGES TODAY * INSPECT GYMNASIUM PRO GRESS — Cary C. Boshamer, right, and Brevard College President Rob ert A. Davis pause in front of Bos hamer Gymnasium while inspecting the progress of construction work on the addition to the athletic facili ty. A resident of Gastonia and a ■ member of the college’s Board of Trustees, Mr. Boshamer has been a substantial donor to Brevard College and provided the funds necessary for the additional construction at the gymnasium. (Times Staff Photo) Friday & Saturday NC Beekeepers To Meet At The College The North Carolina State Beekeepers Association will hold its annual summer meet ing at Brevard College on Aug ust 8th and 9th. ** The program will feature in teresting speakers, both morn ings, and in the afternoon of the 8th the men will tour the bee yard of James W. Dickson, Jr., Highway 280, 2Vz miles east of the Transylvania - Hen derson County line. A tour is also planned for the ladies on the afternoon of the 8th to the 8 Crofters, Cedar Mountain, and a scenic view from the Chapel at Camp Greenville for boys, on Highway 276. President Dave Ratley of the North Carolina State Beekeep ers Association extends an in vitation to all beekeepers and interested persons to attend. He extends a special invitation to Transylvania County beekeep The tour to the bee yard will be conducted by Gerald Sitton, a Transylvania beekeeper, and Grover Frisbee, president of the Transylvania County Beekeep ers Association. The tour for the ladies will be conducted by the Transylvania County Exten sion Service staff. For those attending outside the county, rooms and meals will be available at the college. The morning sessions will start at 9:00 a. m., each morn ing, with the tours beginning at 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon. Program Highlights "Citizen Of The Week" Is Being Saluted Over WPNF, New Shows new and outstanding are being premiered in the neat* future over WPNF and listeners should keep tuned for full details. ■ The “Citizen of The Week” sponsored by First Citizens Bank and Trust Co., is now be ing heard each Monday. Wed nesday and Friday at 7:35 a.m. It’s a new program on which one jot Transylvania County's outstanding citizens is honor ed each week. The station is also starting a which lost and found pets will be announced on WPNF as a free service to tbe public. These particular items will no longer be broadcast on the station’) over WPNF in approximately two weeks. It’s to be a big, new fun contest on the local station, and there will be dozens of winners. All listeners should be happy when they enjoy and take part in this upcoming con test .So keep listening to WPNF for-all details, and watch the Transylvania Times for a com plete list of sponsors of this contest. Other Program* The Farm land Home Hour schedule for the next week is as follows: Thursday, station program; Friday, station pro gram; Monday, county Agricul tural Extension Agent Jim Dav is; Tuesday, station program; Wednesday, Jean Childers, Home Economics -f extension agent. Sunday morning worship ser vices are being broadcast over WPNF during August from the sanctuary of the Brevard-David ron River Presbyterian, church. Rev. 6. Daniel McCall is pastor. William H. Wilkto, Jr., a na tive of Sky land, and a apace en gineer, designed the whole-body counter that ia being used In the National Space Administra tion's Lunar Receiving tabor* r in Houston, Tea. , H« i* on leave tow Oak Bryant To Be Sworn In On Thursday Mom Jack E. Bryant will be swttrn in as a member of the North Carotins Cooaervation Sim. velopment Board on Thursday morning at iO.OO o’clock in Raleigh. The ceremony will be held in the Old House Chambers of the Capitol building. A number of local persons will be in attendance at the im pressive ceremony. Conservation and Develop ment Board members do not represent geographic districts as State Highway Commission members do, but serve on state wide divisions. They deal with such matters as conservation, industry, tourism and forestry. Mr. Bryant is president of Bryant Construction corporation and the Bryant Electric corpor ation. He is active in civic and political affairs of the commun ity, and he has served as a mem ber of the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Brevard. A native of Brevard, he at tended the public schools here. In 1952, he founded Bryant Electric corporation. Today, the two corporations employ up to 300 people and ^handle major construction projects in North and South Carolina. g Weaffier By FRED REITER I Brevard’s highest tempera ture for the past week occurred on Thursday and Saturday when the mercury reached 85 de grees. Low point for the week was Wednesday, with a low of 55. Precipitation was plentiful during the week, with a total ot 2.75 inches. Temperatures av eraged 80 and 60 for the seven days ending Tuesday. The past month of July was an extra wet month in the Bre vard area, with a total rainfall of 7.30 inches. Greatest rainfall for any one day was 1.5 inches on the 20th. Rainfall was regis tered on a total of 19 days out of 31, while foggy conditions prevailed on 15 mornings, and there were thunderstorms on 13 days during the month. Weather data for the past week was a3 follows: Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday High Low Prec. 82 55 0.00 85 56 80 63 85 62 77 73 80 0.00 0.71 0.69 63 0.67 61 0.68 57 0.00 Governor Scott Makes Forecast On Tax Vote interviewer last week in Raleigh, “I’d say not very many counties are going to approve it.” He was speaking of the local option sales tax to be voted on across the state November 4. “It will depend in large meas ures on how well local officials are able to convince their eon stitutents that they need the money,’' the governor said. Each county will decide whether to levy a 1 per cent sales tax as a local option sup plement to the existing 3 per cent state tax. It is a good plan, and drafted for return of the money to coun ty and municipal governments by as fair a formula as one could ask, and could serve as an alternate source of revenue to increase the property tax - now the primary source of local income. But the timing of the vote this November, following raises of the gasoline tax and the start of taxes on cigarettes and soda pop, is bound to make it a harder selling job on sup porters. Scott forecast looks pretty realistic. Three Stellar Attractions Are Set This Weekend At BMC BREVARD LIONS have pre sented a check for $500.00 to the “Fupd For. Your Life’’ campaign of the Transylvania CoYttririrrcrttf hos pital. Receiving the contribution at the left is Charles W. Pickelsimer, Jr., chairman of the Major Gifts Division, and making the presenta tion .is Jerry Hart Jerome, president or the local Lions club. At the right is Charles Chapman, the treasurer of the club. (Times Staff Photo) Million Dollar Gdal Needed: $10,553 To Put The “Fund For Your Life” Over By The Editor Attention Mr. and Mrs. Transylvania: We need $10,553, if we are to reach the million dollar goal in the “Fund For Your Life” campaign. Transylvanians can be proud of the fact that they have raised $989,447.00, when the goal was $600,000. This is indeed a record of which we can all be proud! But in our elation, we must remember that more money must be raised in order to build the intensive care phase. We need a million dollars, and we need both phases of the hospital. The fund raising effort on behalf of the hospital has been an endeavor perhaps without equal in any com munity In these United States. Many said at the outset that it was an impossible task; that it just couldn’t be done. But the drive was started with tremendous enthusiasm. Industries and their employ ees came through with fan tastic support in the early stages of the campaign. Clubs, patriotic and fra ternal organizations rallied. SWEARING IN CEREMONIES for Mrs. Lou Edith Crisp, Transylvania's new Magistrate, were held at the Transylvania court house last Friday. Mrs. Crisp was appointed to fill the vacancy creat ed by the death of her husband, Odaa W. Crisp, who had served as Magistrate prior to his death several weeks ago. Pictured above are, left to right; Clerk of Court Marian M. McMahon, Mrs. Crisp, Judge John Jackson Qf Hendersonville, who appointed Mrs. Cr.sp, and Judge Forrest Robert son of Rutherfordton, who was presiding at Dis trict Court here when the ceremonies took place. (Times Staff Photo) The businesses and profes sional people pitched in. As In a Homtio Alger Novel, the hard work of so many and the dedicated sup port of a large cross section of Transyl- win people was not to be denied. Let’s reach the million mark. If you haven’t given, make your pledge right away. Be a part of “Fund For Vour Life.” The campaign office in the Bryant building will be open until August ISth. Let’s raise a million dollars by that time! Look Inside.*. Sports - Page four section four, and page four, section one News of and for the women - page six, second two, and pages six and seven, section four Pictorial feature on “Uncle Judd" Meece and the Cradle of American Forestry”, page six, th;rd section History of Transylvania Coun ty, front page of the second sec tion Real E-tate Transactions, al so on front page of the second sect;on Editor’s Corner, page five, section Opera Friday, Pops Saturday Then Merrill In perhaps Us most extra ordinary trio of summer weekend attractions ever, the Brevard Music Center will present Puccini’s operatic masterpiece Tosca on Friday, August 1st, a gala All • Ameri can Pops Concert on Saturday Auguit 2nd and a concert re cital by Methopolitan Opera star Robert Merrill on Sun day, August 10th. Each succeeding weekend draws ever - larger crowds to the Brevard Festival and aud iences for this next-to-last 1969 weekend are fast buying up all available seats for these out standing events. Robert Merrill’s Sunday concert is an eagerly-awaited event, for he has long been one of America’s leading sing ers and personalities. The debonair baritone, brilliant star of the Metropolitan and Chicago Operas, and the reigning Rigoletto of the generation, has become a household name through his manifold appearances on tele vision, in motion pictures, and in his ever popular concert appearances. Of Mr. Merrill’s voice, the New York Times has said, “one of the most beautiful natural baritones that the generation has produced” while the Chica go American dubbed him “Prince of American baritones.” Appearing for the first time in Brevard, the hand some Mr. Merrill will be back ed by the BMC Orchestra, a full - sized symphony conduct ed by the Center’s director, Henry Janiec. On Sunday, August 10th at 3:30 p. m., the Brevard audience will thrill to Robert Merrill’s baritone in a recital of favorite arias. Featured will be three Verdi selections, “Per me guin to" from Don Carlo, “Credo in un Dio” from Otello and “Di Provenza il mar” from La Tra viata, plus other beloved ex cerpts from Mozart. Leoncaval lo and other operatic masters. Saturday evening, August Pth will be a bell - ringer at Brevard for Maestro Henry Janice, director of the Center and conductor of the virtuoso BMC Orchestra, has program med an evening of well-loved Pops and band favorites. Toe tapping oom-pah-pah and stir ring marches will fill spacious Whittington • Pfohl Auditor ium as a fell symphony or chestra blares out with fav orite tunes by Sousa, Ferde Grofe and Leroy Anderson, plus exciting band favorites by old m »"ters such as Strauss and Brahms. Audiences for tomorrow eve ning’s production of Tosca will be treated to one of the most ambitious productions eyer staged at Brevard. Puccini’s great work, perhaps the most dramatic of all operas with its theatrical setting and its tragic tale of the prima donna Tosca, will utilize the full resources of the Brevard Opera Workshop plus several distinguished guest artists in the lead roles. The entire production will be in the highly capable and experienced directional hands of John Rich —Turn To Page Thres This Sunday Mayor Osborne To Dedicate Youth Building At Rosman Mayor Edith Osborne will dedicate the new Rosman youth building Sunday, August 10th, at 2:00 p. m. The playing field, which is still under construction, will include a ball field, horse shoe pits and picnic and play area. This project is tne comDmea effort of several local adults and the youth of the community. Arrangements are underway for exhibition games immediate ly following the dedication. The public is invited.
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