THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A. State And National Prize-Winning Home 7i w i Newspaper ★ \r i OA m* __ SECOND CLASS POSTAGE " Vol. 84 No. 27 paid atmevard. n. c. BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 8, 19 ★ 24 PAGES TODAY * “THE UNCITY” that Realtec Incorporated plans to construct at Connestee Falls here in Transyl vania was the chief topic of conver sation at Realtec’s “get acquainted” dinner-reception at the American Legion building here last week. Several Realtec officials are shown tibove going over the proposed proj ect with Donald Lee Moore, chair man of the Transylvania County Board of Commissioners. Looking over the diagram of the area are, left to right; Roger W. Sheridan, Realtec's vice president of opera-_ tions, Commissioner Moore, Realtec vice president Robert Boone, and Stanley Whitcomb, executive vice president of Realtec. (Times Staff Photo) At Legion Building Connestee Falls Reception, Dinner Attended Bv Many By - Cal Carpenter An estimated 150 Brevard and Transylvania County citizens attended a dinner-re ception sponsored by the Con nest.ee Development Corpora tion June 29th and were briefed on plans for what Realtec, Inc., t.he Ft. Lauder dale, Fla. - based Urban De velopment branch of Certain teed Products Corporation .and parent firm of Connestee, ‘, .— viduals heard Gilbert P. Ed wards, President of Realtee, reiterate the obligation the cor poration feels toward the his toric Connestee Falls area and Transylvania County. “The natural splendor and unspoiled beauty of Connes tee Falls is our inheritance. We pledge to preserve and protect that, trust with all the resources at our command,’’ he said. “We are, of course, in busi ness to make money, like all businesses,” said Mr. Edwards, “but we are convinced that we will profit more if you profit too; if we create a resort-home area that the citizens of Tran sylvania will be proud to have as a neighbor — not just another second home develop ment.” The “Uncity” Realtec’s determination is to develope a year-around res idential • resort area with complete city utilities and conveniences plus the beauty and recreational facilities of a resort. It is to avoid any crowding and emphasize de sirable privacy, yet provide restricted entrance, security —Turn to Page Eight in This Issue 4 i City, County Have Record Budgets For The New Year - Budget summaries for Transylvania County and for (She City of Brevard are car ried in this week’s issue of The Transylvania Times. While they are record bud get estimates, the tax rate fpr both the City and the County will remain the same. The summary for Transyl vania County is carried on the front page of the third section, and a complete copy of the same is on display in the Register of Deeds office In the court house. " The total budget require ments amount to $1,945,944, as compared with $1,923,703 last year. , X Property valuation in the epunty is set at $91,500,00 as compared with $88,000,000 last year. Donald Lee Moore, chair jH$n of the Board of Commls rioners, points out that the largest expenditure Is for schools. The tax rate will remain at $1.05. For Brevard Brevard’s record budget for 1971 • 72 totals $544,061, and this compares with $494, 804.00 for the past year. The tax rate will remain the same at $1.38. The complete budget sum mary for the ensuing year is carried in the front section of this week’s Times. Curfew Put On Park Aldermen Take Action At July Meeting On Tuesday The last of the old refunding bonds for the City of Brevard, amounting to $731;000.00 were retired cu June 30th of this year, Mrs. Opal Armentrout, Clerk-Treasurer, reported to the Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday night. The original issue was $479, follows Reeve* Dr. Merle Young Is Now The Pastor At St. Timothy United Dr. Merle N. Young, the new minister at St. Timothy United Methodist Church, is a veteran of 26 years as a Navy Chaplain. He retired in 1966 while Dis trict Chaplain, 11th Naval Dis trict, San Diego, California. Dr. Young is a native of Iowa and was educated at John Fletcher College, Drew Theo logical Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary and has just returned after completion of two years garduate study at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree in 1960 by MacMurray College, a United Methodist institution at Jacksonville, III While on active duty with -taa to Page Ptve 3 000, dated July 1, 1936, and they were scheduled to be re tired in 1976. The City Fathers voted at the meeting to put a curfew on the City’s Franklin park. The closing time is 10:00 p.m., and violators will be prosecuted. A public hearing will be held on August 2nd, in regards to re-zoning of property of Don M. Jenkins on West French Broad street, bounded by Whit mire street, Railroad avenue and King street. The request is to have the property changed from I-l to C-2. Thomas Pinkerton was given permission at the meeting to operate two pool tables in the Family Game Room. A taxi driver’s license was also granted to Ben J. Miller. Other items at the meeting concerned a Fire ordinance amendment, an amendment to the Code of Ordinance relating to the streets and budget re vision. Mayor Charlie Campbell pre sided, and aldermen attending included W. W. Duckwortht Gil Johnson, W. M. Melton, Dwight Moffitt and Charles L. Russell. I Heavy Criminal Docket To Be iiisard In Superior Court Beginning Next Monday Pops Concert Highlights The Weekend, Music Center “A Broadway Gala” is the over-all theme for the first Pops Concert of the summer on July 10 at the Brevard Music Center. The Center’s Pops Concerts have long been a favorite part of the musical summer with Tran sylvania audiences and this first offering promises to re inforce that popularity. Brok en down into four sections, the Saturday night extrava ganza spotlights music from long-run Broadway hits, sumptuous Hollywood movies, popular recordings and a spe cial patriotic medley of Amer icana. Other programs on the sec ond Festival weekend feature the young Metropolitan Opera star Loretta Di Franco who will sing the lead in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” on Friday night and James Oliver Buswell, IV, the brilliant 22 vear-old violinist who will be the soloist Sunday afternoon with the Transylvania Sym phony Orchestra. Buswell is a violinist whose career has been phenomenal for one so young. He has ap peared with nearly every ma jor orchestra and music festi val in North America, and has been acclaimed by every important newspaper and magazine in the country. What is even more remark —Turn to Page Six With over three inches of rainfall during the past week, Brevard area residents had a very wet week, for the most part. Temperature averages were 31 and 61 for each day, with a wide variation, from a high of 85 on Thursday to 53 on Mon day morning. The extended forecast calls for a chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers each day through Friday, with aver age seasonal temperatures. Highs should be in the low to mid-80s, while lows should aver age in the low 60s. Weather data for the past week was as follows: High Low Wednesday_ 82 65 Thursday 85 65 Friday _ 79 64 Saturday_81 59 Sunday __ 82 58 Monday ___ 78 53 Tuesday _ 73 64 Prec. 0.96 0.00 1.71 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.95 REMEMBERS BREVARD COL LEGE — Ottis Green, Sr., right, one of WNC’s oldest and leading citi zens, tells John I. Anderson, left, Editor and General Manager of The Transylvania Times, that he is re membering Brevard College in his will. Both Mr. Green and Mr. Ander son are members of the Board of Trustees of the local College. On the 29th of this month, Mr. Green will ob serve his 97th birthday. (Times Staff Photo) On Eve Of Birthday Ottis Green Remembering Brevard College In Will By The Editor Ottis Green, Sr., one of Western North Carolina’s oldest and leading citizens, is remembering Brevard Col lege in his will. It’s almost a birthday pres ent from Mr. Green to the local religious and educa tional institution. On July 29th of this year, Mr. Green will celebrate his 97th birth day. In his will, Mr. Green is leaving Brevard College $15, 000 for the education of de serving students with leader ship and ability. He is asking that this fund be administered by a committee of the president, Dr. Robert A. Davis, the chairman of the Board, Allen H. Sims, and John I. Anderson, one of the Brevard trustees. Mr. Green retired from busi ness life in 1956, but he is still active around his home and in Asheville. He operated Ottis Green Hardware company on Pack Square in Asheville from 1905 to 1956. “Not too long ago, I had an operation at Duke. Before being rolled into the operat ing room, I told the Lord that if he would let me live and prosper, 1 would use every Succeeds Willis Ben Burgess Is New Resident Manager At First-Citizens Ben E. Burgess, Assistant Vice President, has been pro moted to Resident Manager of the Brevard Office of First Citizens Bank & Trust Com pany, effective July 1, 1971. Mr. Burgess succeeds Vice President Jerry T. Willis who lias been named to head the lew Washington, N. C., Office Rankings Announced Joe Pickelsimer Is New Fire Chief, Merrill Commissioner There’s news from the Bre vard Volunteer Fire Depart ment this week that doesn’t concern fires.. The news is about men themselves, new ranking and William Rides. Joe Pickelsimer, Brevard na tive, is the new chief, succeed ing Dan Merrill, who has serv ed as chief more years than he cares to recall. Chief Pickelsimer was ap pointed by the Brevard Aider men, who also named Chief Merrill as the new Fire Com missioner of Brevard. The following were elected to various posts by the members of the Department: Ray Badger - Deputy Chief Gordon Byrd • Senior Captain Eddie Paxton • Junior Cap tain Don Kilpatrick - Thick Cap tain Ernest Smith - Senior Lieu tenant Joe Smith - Junior Lieu —Turn to Page EtgU of the banking system, sche duled to open shortly. An experienced commercial and installment loan manager, Mr. Burgess transferred to Bre vard in February after serving as head of the Saluda Office and with installment loan units in Canton, Hickory and Dunn. He is a 10-year veteran with First - Citizens. A native of eastern North Carolina, Morehead City, Mr. Willis will assume direction of the Washington Office in July after havivng been in charge of the Brevard unit since No vember, 1967. Joining First Citizens in 1964 after several years’ experience in the credit field, he served in numerous installment loan and commer cial positions in the Fayette ville and Fort Bragg offices of the bank. Mr. Willis has been extreme ly active in Brevard and Tran sylvania County civic and church endeavors. Mr. Burgess is a native of Newton and a graduate of Duke University. He, too, has been actively involved in civic af fairs while in Saluda and since arriving in Brevard eariler this year. thing that I have to benefit other people. “So, one of the things I am doing is leaving this money to Brevard College to help some of our young people,” the stately gentleman told this Editor. From the way he shows you around his home and yards, you would never guess his age. But then to listen to him remi nisce, you readily recognize the fact that he is a pioneer citizen of Western North Carolina. As a church man, he has been an active member of the Hay wood Methodist church since 1898, and for about 20 years, he was chairman of the Board of Trustees. As a businessman, his Hard ware company was one of the leading firms of its kind in WNC for more than a half century. As a civic leader, he was president of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce and president of the Asheville Rotary club. He also helped to organize Chambers of Com —Turn to Page Eight Several Face Drug Charges, Cases Listed Superior Court opens in Transylvania county next Monday morning, July 12th, and all defendants, attorneys, witnesses and others connect ed with criminal cases are urged to be in the courtroom at 9:30 o’clock. It. is not known at this time who the presiding judge will be. The trial of the Civil dock et will begin on Thursday, July 15th. According to Mrs. Marian McMahon, Clerk of Superior court, there is a heavy criminal docket to be tried. Persons on the docket and the charges they face are as follows: William Hemphill, non sup port, two cases William Robinson, bastardy Larry B. Lawrence, fraud Kenneth N. Young, fraud, six cases Albert H. Stiel, fraud Craig Wilkes, inadequate supt. Roger Queen, assault Frank E. Penson, fail, pro vide James S, Tate, D. U. I. Richard Garren, rape Richard Garren, attempted crime against nature Dennis McGee, assault Gerald Honeycutt, assault Donald L. Miller, driving while license revoked Walter G. Powell, driving while license revoked, and reckless driving Sandra B. Suttles, forgery, two cases Dean M. Landreth, unlaw ful possession of stimulant and narcotic drugs, one case each Danny R. Volrath, unlawful possession of stimulant and narcotic drugs, one case each James R. Fowler, unlaw ful possession of stimulant and narcotic drugs, one case each Kenneth A. Smith, unlaw ful possession of stimulant narcotic drugs, one case each Charles Allen Smith, un lawful possession of stimu lant and narcotic drugs, one case each Dennis E. Galloway, un —Turn to Page Five Highly Qualified “Luke” Morgan Is Named City Manager Of Brevard Brevard has a new city man ager as of July 1st. He is Lu cius B. Morgan, a former Olin employee and Brevard resident since 1962. Mr. Morgan fills the position left vacant by Robertson Buck, who left several months ago. An Olin employee since 1962, Mr. Morgan worked for two summer employment terms at the U. S. Plywood-Champ ion Papers plant in Canton while completing his educa tion. He is a graduate of the Uni versity of Tennessee with a B.S. degree in Industrial Man agement. Earlier he attended N. C. State University at Ral —Tom to Pag" Six