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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize-Winning Home Town Newspaper
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TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest and
Home of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival.
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Vol. 82 — No. 35
KCOND CLAS«. POSTAGE
PAID AT DRIVAKO. N. C. ZIP CODE 28712
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1969
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
SCENES OF THE FIRE in which two persons lost their lives
last Saturday night are shown above. At the left is the front of the
one - story frame house and officers can be seen probing the ruins.
In the other photograph the deputies can be seen at the left in the
room where Mrs. Ethel Wilbanks was burned to death. At the
right, officers and firemen are in the room of the son. His body was
IT
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found near the front door in the burning dwelling.
(Photos by Tom Osteen)
To Be Holiday
Labor Day Activities Here To
Climax Fine Tourist Season
Labor Pay activities in Bre
vard and Transylvania Best
Monday will climax a highly
successful '69 vacation season
here.
Most of the stores, town and
county offices will be closed on
Monday for the holiday.
Schools will also close.
The Brevard high school band
will travel to Hendersonville
that afternoon to participate in
the big Apple Festival.
The first Monday meeting
of the Town Board of Alder*
men has been postponed un
til neat Tuesday night.
The First Union National
hank, the First Citizens Bank
and Trust company, Pisgah In
dustrial Loans and Brevard
Federal Savings and Loan asso
ciation- will observe Monday as
a holiday.
The Monday luncheon meet
ing of the Brevard Rotary
club has also been cancelled.
Geprge Wilson, license exam
iner, ; announces that his office
will have a holiday on Mon
day. .
Many picnickers and camp
ers are expected in the Pisgah
National forest, and Ranger
Jim Wells predicted that rec
reation facilities will be fill
ed to capacity. •> i
The highway patrolmen in
Transylvania urge all motorists
to drive with extreme caution
over the holidays, which is one
of the most dangerous periods
—Tarn to Page Flys
BREVARD’S ED GASH is pictured above as
he prepared to leave to attend the 54th Annual
Convention of the Order of the Arrow, which was
held August 23rd to the 26th at the University of
Indiana at Bloomington, Indiana. The Order is a
national fraternity of honor Scout campers, spon
sored by the Boy Scouts of America. Ed is Vice
Chief of Tsali Lodge and as such led a delegation
of 14 boys from Western North Carolina. He also
served as a discussion leader on camp promotion.
Ed, an 'Eagle Scout and senior at. Rrevard High
School, is son of Judge and Mrs. .Robert T. Gash
of Brevard. Some 4500 Scouts attended the con
ference. ' (Times Staff Photo)
Kirby Say
Selection Of United Fund
Workers Almost Completed
Selection of workers for
the 1M» * 7# Tranaylvania
County United Fund cam
paign. to rirtnally complete
according to Campaign Han
Going Away To
School? Let
Times Go Too
m
Temperatures in Brevard for
the past week averaged 80 -and
56, with rainfall over four
inches, most of that falling on
one day. High temp for the
wpek was {(8 on Tuesday after
noon, whil*i"--the 'tfeek’g lew was
48 on Saturday and Monday
morning.
The Weather Bureau’s five
day forecast for the area calls
for temperatures and rainfall
to average about normal for
this time of late summer, which
means lows in the mid-50’s and
high temperatures in the low
80’s each day.
Temperatures and precipita
tion for the week as follows:
High Low Free.
Wednesday ... 84 66 0.60
Thursday . 83 57 0.00
Friday _ 64 56 3.65
Saturday _ 77 48 0.00
Sunday _ 81 52 0.00
Monday _ 84 48 0.00
Tuesday _ 88 56 0.00
Look Inside...
News for the women, page
six, second section; pages six
and seven, third section; and
page six, fourth section
DAR pictorial feature, front
page of section three
Science for you, front page,
second section
Almar Farm column, page
eight of the second section
Editorials on page two in the
second section
Editor’s Corner, page five,
first section.
Classifieds, pages two and
three in the first section
School lunchroom menus for
coming week, front page of the
second section
Two Persons Perish In Fire
Saturday Night Pisgah Forest
Schedule* Announced, .__
Brevard College Beginning
New Year, Large Enrollment
An Open Letter To
Citizens of Brevard, Transylvania
From
President Robert A. Davis
Brevard College
Dear Friends:
First of all, I would like to express appre
ciation on behalf of myself and my family for
the fine way which we have been received by
the community since we moved to Brevard in
June. We look forward to serving the entire
area through the
work of Brevard Col
lege, for we want
the college to be a
maximum education
al asset to Brevard
and Transylvania
County.
This week marks
the beginning of our
35th year of opera
tion. Our enrollment
will be at near capa
city, as we expect
approximately 6 2 5
students. We have
employed the largest
number of faculty
members in the col
lege’s history, and
Robert A. Davis
we believe that they
are better prepared
than ever before to H
participate in the meaningful experience of
Christian higher education.
Beginning with the fall term, we will pro
—Turn to Page Fiv#
It Happened Tuesday
Youths Steal School Bus,
Wreck It Over Mountainside
US Highway 876 about five
miles from Cesser's Head
at Bald rock.
Although the bos stayed
upright down the long drop,
it was badly damaged.
Held in connection with
the stealing are Ted Eubanks,
—Turn to Page Plea
Bodies Of Lost
Couple Found At
Rainbow Falls
#•.' . _
The bodies of two Bun
combe county teenagers were
found Tuesday in a deep pool
under Rainbow Falls near
Sapphire after an extensive
search since Sunday after
noon by Rescue Squads from
—Turn to Page Six
Brevard College will begin
the 1969-70 academic year
with a formal convocation
Sunday, August 31st, in Bos
hamer Gymnasium at 8:00 p.
m. .
Speaker for the occasion will
be the Rev. Robert A. Davis,
newlv - elected pr 'd -nt of the
college. Mr. Davi; began his
duties as the si' Ml prp ident of
Brevard on Jur^ 1 t.
College e'clr!' expect
627 students to -gister for
courses on Monday, Septem
ber fst, with classes schedul
ed to begin the following day.
Freshmen will report to the
campus for orientation on
Thursday, August 28th. The
382 incoming students will re
ceive two davs of testing and
academic counseling prior to
the beginning of the fall term.
Grady H. Whicker, dean of
the college, announced the
rohedule for the 1969 - 70 col
lege year which is as follows:
Sunday, August 31 — Con
vocation
i
Monday, September 1—Reg
—Turn to Page Six
Circumstances
Bring About
Investigation
Two Pisgah Forest resi
dents lost their lives in a
fire of an undetermined or
gin just after midnight last
Saturday.
The victims were identified
as Mrs. Ethel Wilbanks, age
87, and her son, Lee Wil
banks, age 68.
The fire gutted their one
story frame house, and it
was completelv engulfed in
flames when the firemen ar
rived.
According to Fire Chief
Dan Merrill, both victims
were dead when the firemen
arrived at the scene on the
EcuUa road.
He said that Mrs. Wilbanks
was found in her bed and her
son was found near the front
door.
An autopsy is being con
ducted to determine the exact
cause of death, Chief Merrill
said. Both bodies were burn
ed extensively.
Two trucks answered the
call at 12:15 a. m. Sunday.
The fire was under control
in about 28 minutes, Merrill
said. No other houses were
—Turn to Page Six
Brevard Native
Gayle Ramsey Joins Law Firm
Of Ramsey, Hill And Smart
Gayle E. Ramsey, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph 'H. Ramsey, Jr.,
-has joined the law firm of Ram
sey, Hill and Smart here in
Brevard. / -
A native" of Brevard, young
Ramsey was educated in the lo
cal city schools, and in 1960, he
received his BA degree at Wake
Forest College.
He served in the United
States Army with the rank of
lieutenant.
In 1966, he was awarded his
M A degree in Political Science
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
During the year 1966 - ’67, he
taught in Brandon Hall school.
—Tun to Page Five