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■ ! THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize-Winning Home ti Newspaper ★ „ , .. —_ M *»COND CLAM rOSTASI Vol. 83 No. 30 •*!«» AT MtVARD. H. C. Hr COOI 21711 BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 23, ★ 28 PAGES TODAY * TOUCH TONE DIALING comes to Brevard — Charles W. Pickel simer, Jr., Jeft, vice president and General Manager of the Citizens Telephone company, is pictured with W. O. Parker, warehouse manager with the first of the new tone dial pay telephones that are being in stalled in the Brevard 883 exchange. Plans call for converting of all pay stations to the new tone dials as quickly as the company can get de livery on the conversion kits. Mr. Pickelsimer says that tone dials are available in the 883 exchange for a nominal monthly charge. He also says that successful operations of the new exchanges at Cedar Mountain and at Pisgah Forest were begun on Sunday. (Times Staff Photo) Another Big Weekend All Attendance Records At Music Center Being Broken The 1979 weekend Festival concerts of the Brevard Music Center, which thus far have been setting new attendance records, should draw capacity crowds again this Friday, Sat urday, and Sunday. The scheduled appearance of a violin virtuoso hailed as a “secopd Papanlnl,” the tai jfrortul music of Geprge Ger *wiwin, and a concert tribute to Beethoven comprise a *F riety-flDed MQ that should prove attractive to all musical tastes. At 3:30 p;m. Sunday, BMC visi tors will have a rare chance tq hear Ruggiero Ricci play the violin. During a 40-year career which has spanned the years from child prodigy to acknow ledge genius, Ruggiero Ricci has attained a loftv level of virtu osity. On his first concert tour in Italy, critics there spoke of him as “a second Paganini.” His flair, technique, and inter pretation have become a by word in musical circles ever since his New York debut at the age of nine, when no less a person than Albert Einstein called him “a genius.” On Sunday, July 20 at Bre vard, Ruggiero Ricci will in terpret a work that fully shows his amazing dexterity and brilliance, the intricate “Violin Concerto No. 2” by Wieniawski. His remarkable tone is combined with un canny control and beautiful shading. Critics have exhaust ed their superlatives for decades praising Rlcd; in Warsaw the press said “his fantastic technique defies de scription,” while in London -Ms “sheer unearthly beauty qf sound and technical Mastery” left audiences jistery” BMC audiences this Sunday will undoubtedly hear the violin played as they’ve never heard ip ftit Six Acquiring Options Designs For Public Housing 'Are In Brevard Being Drafted At the regular montfdp meet ing of the gqgrd of Commis sioners of the Brevard Housing Authority Monday night, Charles S. Dunlop, Director of the Local Authority, announced that the three sites of the pub lic housing project had been - surveyed and that maps had been completed. Land options were in the process of being acquired. At this stage the architect could start the Sche matic Design work so that total costs of the project could be estimated. Henry C. McDonald, Archi tect for the local Authority, was present at this meeting and he told of his preliminary studies. He presented tentative floor plans drafted to illustrate how the families of the low-in come and elderly groups might be cared for in the Brevard Public Housing Project. There were drawings of different size —Turn to Page Three Felty Announces Five Key Chairmen Of United Fund Named, Backgrounds Cited Chairmen for five key divi sions of the 1970-71 United Fund Campaign are announced this week by James Felty, CSam paign Chairman. Mr. Felty fur ther stated that he felt grati fied and fortunate to secure the services of such outstanding men. Division I, Commercial, will be led by Lewis F. Whiteside. Mr. Whiteside teaches school in the Transylvania County School System and has been recognis ed several times for his ef forts and work in community projects. Division II, County, will have Hale Siniard, Jr., as chairman. He is a* member 4t the Trans lyvania County Board of Com missioners and a partner in Siniard Brother's Construction company. He is active in civic makers and Paper Workers (AFL-CIO). ^ min yfftciniB announced that the time and hours of the emo tion were so arranged that all four shifts could vote without difficulty. In addition, eligible and church activities and is well known throughout the county. Division III, Industrial, will be led by Paul W. Schlunz. Mr. Schlunz is employed at Olin and is well known in industrial cycles and the community* Division IV, The Services Di —Turn to Page Three Temperatures averaged 86 and 58 during the past seven days at Brevard, for a typical summertime average, except that there was a minimum of rainfall, and conditions remain dry over the area. High Temperature for the week was 01 last Thursday, while the low reading of 51 occurred on Friday morning. Long - range forecast for the area calls for temperatures to remain at about the normal level for the week, with chance of scattered thundershowers through Friday. Weather data for the week was as follows: High Low Free. Wednesday_ 90 62 0.04 Thursday- 91 62 0.00 Friday _ 84 51 0.00 Saturday_ 87 53 0.00 Sunday- 87 52 0.00 Monday_86 62 0.00 Tuesday . 32 6.10 Brevard Lions To Meet Here This Thursday The Brevard Lions club will meet this Thursday night, July 23rd, at 7:00 p.m. at the Co lonial Inn. President Bill Huters en courages all Lions to be present at the meeting, as a most in formative and entertaining pro gram has been scheduled. Lion Glenn Echols will show a recently acquired film on the troubled flight of Apollo 13 en titled “Houston, We Have A Problem”. Plans will also be discussed for the Brevard club’s hosting of the big TOstricrSWr meet ing, which will be held here on August 9th. Look Inside... Classifieds, pages two, three and four in second section News of and for the women, page six, fourth section, and pages six and seven, third sec tion Pictorial feature of new equipment for law enforcement officers, front page of fourth section Editor’s Corner, page five, first section Sports, page two, first section Editorials, page two, fourth section. •I Special $4,000,0OdSchool Bond Election Is Set For Sept. 12th ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY of man landing on the moon, the access road at the Rosman Tracking Station was dedicated the Neil Arm strong road in a brief ceremony on Monday. J. C. Jackson, Director of the station, was the principal speak er, and he is pictured above address ing the group attending. Others in the spotlight, from left to right, are: Raymond F. Bennett, Mayor of Bre vard; Mrs. Edith Osborne; Mayor of Rosman; Jim S. Judson, Manager of the station; Dewey Keller; Mr. Jackson; Dennis Wilshire, Manager of a Tracking Station in Australia; and Don Culin. Hidden behind the speakers are George Cope and J. C. Jackson. (Times Staff Photo) First Anniversary Event Neil Armstrong Road At The Tracking Station Dedicated Meeting I» Told Parkway Extension Construction Start Is Planned For Next Year Supt. Granville B. Liles said this week he hopes construc tion of the Georgia extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway from Beech Gap can start in the fiscal year beginning next July 1st. Mr. Liles told the quarterly meeting of the N. C. Park, Parkway, and Forest Develop ment Commission at Waynes ville “we are proposing that the first construction begin in the 1972 fiscal year in North Carolina, provided funds are made available by Congress.” Mr. Liles said he attended a meeting in Asheville Thursday at which plans for the first 10 miles of the extension were re viewed. This section is current ly in private ownership. The superintendent said he hopes to review plans for the Georgia section with that state’s highway department in September. North Carolina’s State Highway Commission re —Turn to Page Six Survey Ii Made New Hospital Progress On Schedule with 91 million pledged In but year's “Fund For Your Life” campaign and $1.7 mil lions of federal and other ad on schedule according to John W. Bailey, Hospital Admin istrator and Jack C. Dense, Chairman of the Hospital Board of Trnataet. teen some - Burton funds, Congress recently pass ed a new bill over the Presi dent’s veto. This will extend the program. Hospital officials are reasonably confident that this money will be appropriated in the not too distant future. The original hospital schedule has not been set back by this delay because the Hill - Bur ton funds cannot be requested until the final working draw ings have been approved. This it expected to take place in Oc tober, 1970. The Upper French Broad Development Com i approved the ap fer the Appalachian Grant and forwarded it to state coordinator for fin North Care , the Appalachi no ; is re sill take grant la (schematics) has been ap proved with certain modifica tions by the V. S. Public Health Service in Washing ton and the North Carolina Medical Care Commission. And, just recently, the archi tect has completed a second set (preliminaries) and sent it to the Medical Care Com mission. As soon as this set is approved, working draw ings and specifications will be submitted to the Commission for final approval. Upon re ceipt of this approval, the next order of business will be to go out for bids — probab ly this fall or no later than next spring. The present target date for having the hospital in use is 1972. The hospital property Is lo cated on the four - lane high way, US m and M. The en trance will he from the four lane highway onto the prop erty. It is anticipated that contatructien HU begin on the road into tin. property in about N to N da^As soon as access is gsinr J, work Mika —4a«» tonal univnrn tfn waller toUU SrWlI ujc system win begin. The first anniversary of the lunar landing was ob served Monday at the Ros man Stadan station with the dedication of the access road into the tracking station as the Neil A. Armstrong road. Just one year ago on that day, 500 millions around the world saw Armstrong and Ed win “Buzz” Aldrin walk on the moon. J. C. Jackson, Director of the station in upper Transyl vania, was in charge of the ceremony at the gateway en trance. He spoke briefly on the his toric event, and he expressed appreciation for the local co operation the tracking station has received. Persons attending the cere mony included RCA personel, visiting dignitaries of the space program, local leaders and members of the press, radio and tv. Mrs. Edith Osborne, mayor of Rosman, and Raymond F. Bennett, mayor of Brevard, were on hand for the occasion. Dennis Wilshire, manager of the Stadan station at Or roral, Austrailia, was among the visitors. Taking part in the ceremony were the following station of ficials: J. S. Judson, station —Turn To Page Three Registration Books To Open On August 15th Notice is given this week of a special School Bond Election in Transylvania county on September 12th. Voting will be held at all the polling places in the county, and a list of the pre cincts, the polling places, the registrars and the judges is carried on page three in the third section. The Bond issue will be in the amount of $4,000,000.00, The regular registration books for the county will be used in the election, and they will be open for voters not heretofore registered begin ning Saturday, August 15th, and closing August 29th. Saturday, Sept. 5th, is chal lenge day. Absentee voting will be permitted in the election. According to the notice of the special election, the funds provided by the pass, age of the issue will be used for erecting additional school ( buildings, and other school plant facilities, remodeling, enlarging and reconstructing existing school building*, and other school plant facilities. Also, the funds may be used for acquiring necessary land. The special notice of the Bond Election is signed by Fred H. Israel, Clerk of Board of County Commis sioners, and I.igon Ard, Chairman of the County Board of Elections. Brevard's '70 Census Shows Decline Of 30 Persons Brevard has met the same fate in the 1970 Census as many, many other towns and cities in North Carolina. A preliminary (unofficial) total received by Mrs. Opal Armentrout, the City Clerk, showed a total population in side the town limits of 4,827, which is 30 less citizens than in 1960. The City Clerk says that some persons in the City limits might not have been counted. Anyone who did not re ceive a Census form by mail of was not called upon by the Census-taker is asked to pick up a tabulation form, “Were You Counted?” at the new Brevard Municipal building. The Census for Transyl vania county was up from 16,372 to 18,274, a gain of 1,902, or 11.62%. Program Highlights WPNF Gives Listeners Daily Coverage Of Sport Activities Sports-minded radio listeners of the area can keep well in formed about their favorite sport and athletes by tuning to 1240 radio, WPNF, their own local station. Major league baseball scores are reported early each week day morning on WPNF. Fred Reiter brings listeners a brief wrapup of morning sports head lines, and previous days scores, weekday mornings at 0.30. Sportfr Review, a complete review of the day’s sports news is reported each evening at 6:20 p.m. by Leon Southerland, also with scores and sports sched ules, etc. Special sporting events are broadcast “live” over WPNF from time to time, including several auto races. During football and basket ball seasons, Brevard High School and Brevard CoBege games are broadcast by the lo cal station each week. Stay tuned to WPNF Li, .. *•
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