THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And' National Prise-Winning Home Tt Newspaper
* Vol. 84—No. 35 "“at 8mvVd“”c! BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, \ * 32 PAGES TODAY ★
ZIP CODE >1711
THE CAMPUS OF BREVARD COLLEGE is
once again teeming with activity as some 600 stu
dents begin the new year. Community leaders are
welcoming the students, faculty and staff this
week, and President Robert A. Davis, left, has
issued a special statement on thd opening of the
school.
To Be A Holiday
Labor Day Activities Here To
un
Climax Fine Tourist Season
Labor Day activities in Bre
vard and Transylvania county
next Monday will climax a
highly successful ’71 vacation
Season here.
trMost of the stores, town
and county offices will be
closed Monday for the holi
day.
Schools win also dose.
The Post Office will be
dwgd m Monday i* «bsorv>
aftce of Labor Day, and there
wifibe no window service or
delivery of mail on dty and
rural routes.
Special delivery service
wiU be maintained, and mall
will be placed in local boxes.
The September meeting of
the Board of Aldermen Will
be postponed from Monday
evening until Tuesday at 7:30
pjn.
The County Commissioners
will also postpone their Mon
day meeting. It will be held
In the Commissioners office
at 9:00 o’clock Tuesday morn
ing.
The First Union National
bank, the First Citizens Bank
and Trust company and Bre
vard Federal Savings and
Loan association will observe
Monday as a holiday.
The Monday luncheon meet
ing of the Brevard Rotary
dub has also been cancelled.
George Wilson, license ex
aminer, announces that his of
fice will have a holiday on
Monday. ~
Many picnickers and camp
era are expected in the Piagah
^ National Forest, and Ranger
Dan Hile predicted that recre
ation facilities will he filled
ito capacity.
g The highway patrolmen in
Transylvania urge all motor-v
; ists to drive with extreme
tr: caution over the holidays,
—Turn to Page Five
On Fourth Anniversary
ABC Store Sales,
Profits Increasing
Labor Day weekend will mark the Fourth
Anniversary of the T««m of Brevard ABC
store. Sales continue to increase each year
and the months of July and August this year
mark the highest in the store’s history.
Profits from the operation are divided be
tween the town of Brevard and Transylvania
County, with 75 % to the Town and 25% to the
County. Distributions have been as follows:
BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA
1968
1969
1970
1971
$25,000.00
59.000. 00
60.000. 00
26,000.00
$ 8,333.33
19,666.88
20,000.00
8,666.66
Two more distributions of profit will be
made this year, in September and in December.
The Town of Brevard has received $170,
000.00 from the ABC during the past four
years, while the county’s share has been $56,
666.87.
Sales have been as follows:
1967 (Sept.-Dec.)
1968
1969
1970
1971 (Jan.-July)
$206,891.78
637.461.70
705,848.30
737.076.70
416,398.25
Total sales of the store since it has been
open add up to $2,703,673.70.
The Brevard store is said to be one of the
most efficiently operated stores in North Caro
lina.
The $226,666.87 which has been received
by the town and the county since September,
1667, has helped to improve streets, provide
better recreational facilities, better schools,
etc., here in Brevard and Transylvania instead
—Turn to Page Five 1
Welcome Extended Brevard College Students
And Faculty. President Davis Issues Message
Transylvania
Reported Well
Represented
As Brevard College begins
a new year, Dr. Robert A.
Davis, the president, issues a
statement to t.be College-Com
munity.
He expresses appreciation
for the fine cooperation that
the college receives, and he
is looking forward to one of
the best years in the history
of the school.
At the end of his statement,
is a list of Transylvania stu
dents attending Brevard Col
lege this falL
“ Brevad College has just
begun another year of aca
demic life and service in Bre
vard and Transylvania Coun
ty. Created especially to serve
the people of Western North
Carolina, Brevard College is
committed to a program of
academic excellence and ser
vice to the citizens of our
area. We are proud to be a
part of this community. It
is our desire to contribute
fully to its development as
one of the most desirable
places to live in the entire
United States.
“We are also proud of our
heritage and our continuing
role as a church - related col
lege. Brevard College is comnit
ted to Christian values and a
style of life consistent with
those values where young men
and women may receive the best
in academic instruction, along
—Turn to Page Four
Temperatures averaged rela
tively high during the last week
in Brevard, with readings of 83
and 57, with very little rain.
Highest reading during the
period was 85 on Thursday,
while the low was 52 on Sunday.
Here is the extended forecast
for Western North Carolina for
the period Thursday through
Saturday: Chance of showers or
thundershowers in the moun
tains Thursday, otherwise vari
able cloudiness throughout the
period. Daytime highs expected
to average in the middle and
upper 70s, while the lows at
night will be in the middle and
upper 50s.
Weather data for the week
was as follows:
High Low Prec.
Wednesday 83 60 0.00
Thursday-, 85 57 0.00
Friday _ 84 60 Tr.
Saturday_ 83 53 Tr.
Sunday_ 82 52 0.05
Monday_ 83 55 0.00
Tuesday 84 61 0.00
LOCAL LIONS of the Brevard
and Pisgah Forest Lions Clubs re
cently participated in a worthwhile
sight conservation project here when
they brought the WNC Lions, Inc.,
eye-screening van to Transylvania.
The van screened several hundred
Transylvania pre-school children for
possible eye defects and referred a
number of them for treatment.
Several of those participating in the
project are pictured above at the
Pisgah Forest Lions Den, with sev
eral of the children who were
screened. They are, front row, left
to right; Tim Hawes, Jeff Johnson,
Lion J. I. Ayers, chairman of the
Brevard Lions sight - conservation
committee, Dovie Jean Gaskill and
Sallie Ann Newbauer. Second row;
Charles Creasman, past president of
the Pisgah Forest Lions Club, Edwin
Rice, president of the Brevard Lions
Club, Ray Burgin, member of the
Brevard Lions sight - conservation
committee, and Charles Hudgins,
chairman of the Pisgah Forest Lions
sight-conservation committee.
Eye Screening Van Of Lions
Was Busy On Visit In County
Continues Three Days
Much Opposition Is Being
Heard At TVA's Hearing
Much opposition is being
heard at the three-day hear
ing of the Tennessee Valley
Authority to the proposed
Mills River Dam and Reser
voir.
' The hearing is being held in
Asheville, and the opposition is
coming from the Upper French
Broad Defense Association,
formed to fight the project,
which was joined Tuesday night
by representatives of the Sierra
Club, the Conservation Council
of North Carolina and the North
Carolina Wildlife Federation.
Douglas Wauchope of Bre
vard, who terms himself a
“craftsman in wood,” said “I
fail to see how they can pro
tect Western North Carolina
farmers by flooding their
farms ... I would like to
hear statements from those
who will personally benefit
from the project, but that’s
wishful thinking.”
He said when “progress” is
discussed, substitute “money”
or “gross national product” and
you have a more accurate mean
ing of what is being talked
about.
Among those who spoke at
the hearing in the Humanities
Hall on the University of
North Carolina, Asheville,
campus, in favor of the proj
ect were Luke Morgan, Bre
vard City Manager; Ralph H.
Ramsey, Jr., of the Brevard
Chamber of Commerce; Wil
liam J. Ward, general man
ager of the Hendersonville
Country Club; and, Robert W.
Melton, a Brevard realtor.
Transylvania County and Bre
vard officials have endorsed the
project from its inception,
—Turn to Page Four
The world will look bright
er to some 44 Pre-school chil
dren in Transylvania county,
thanks to the Lions Pre
school Visual Screening van.
This program was carried out
over the past two weeks by the
county’s tw'o Lions Clubs, Bre
vard and Pisgah Forest.
Under the sponsorship of
the Brevard Lions Club, the
van was at T. C. Henderson,
Bosnian, Brevard Elementary
School and at, Harold’s Super
Market over a period of five
days, and screened a total of
222 children. Twenty-one chil
dren with visual or other de
fects were recommended for
medical care.
The mobile unit then moved
on to Pisgah Forest, where it
was stationed at the Lions Den
for the three davs of August
24th, 25th. and 26th. During this
time, 90 children were screened,
and eight were found to need
medical at'ention.
The Lions stress that this
was a screening clinic only,
not a complete examination.
Total referrals include: 29
children for complete eye ex
_rum to Page FW*
More Than 600
Students Are
Now Enrolled
Brevard and Transylvania
officials join hands with mer
chants and others in the com
munity in welcoming the
large and selected study body
t.o Brevard College for the
1971-’71 term.
All indications point to one of
the most successful years in the
history of the institution.
There are more than 600
students with many special
students.
Brevard College is beginning
its 118th year of educational
and religious service to the
youth of the nation.
Brevard College is 'actually
not 118 years old, but it grew
out of two Western North
Carolina institutes that were
founded in the 1850s and is
on the site of a third old-time
institute.
One of the institutes began in
Burke County as a one-room log
cabin with eight pupils and one
teacher — Methodist minister
Robert L. Abernathy’s Owl Hol
low School later became Happy
Hollow Academyi, Rutherford
Academy in 1858, Rutherford
Seminary in 1861. and Ruther
ford College in 1870.
The second institute which
merged with Rutherford Col
lege to become Brevard was
Weaver College near Reems
Creek or the old Salem Camp
Grourd in Buncombe County,
originally built in 1851 as the
Temperance School.
Both schools were founded as
Methodist institutions. In 1933.
the Western North Carolina
Methodist Conference ordered
the merger of Rutherford and
Weaver Colleges on the campus
of the old Brevard Institute,
which was established to serve
a mountain community with no
public school and was closed
when Brevard grew large
—Turn to Page Eight
Legion Will
Begin Drive
For Members
The Monroe Wilson Post, No.
88. of the American Legion, will
hold its September meeting
next Monday night.
Dinner will be served at 6:30
o’clock, followed by the meeting
at 7:30 o’clock.
This meeting marks the kick
off of the 1972 membership
drive, and Commander Jerry
Pierson urges all Legionnaires
to attend.
7im'ri
sifel
Program Highlights
Darlington "500" Races Will
Be Broadcast Monday On WPNF
Next Monday, Labor Day,
:.VPNF will agHitfc ftsWWeaat the
-thrilling account of the 1971
^Southern 500 sink car race
. fcpm Darlington International
Saeeway at Darlingtcn, South
^Carolina.
Broadcast time is 11:30 a.m.
with the actual race getting
underway at 12:00 noon.
Most of the best known stock
car drivers among the ranks of
NASCAR will be on hand for
tkii nee, and the same broad
; least personnel will handle the
the race will be run and broad
cast on the' flr-t clear day fol
lowing Labor Day.
Rev. A. L. Stevenson, retired
Methodist minister, and sum
mer resident of Brevard, will
again be beard on “A Citizen
Speaks” Friday morning at
11:30 o’clock over WPNF,
This will be the second in a
Clark Leaving Brevard Turner Comes Here
Duke Power Announces Promotions
John D. Clark formerly man
ager of Duke Power Company’s
retail operations in Brevard,
has been transferred to the
-utility’s general office at Char
lotte as Assistant to the Man
ager of Rate Development and
Administration.
Glen A. Coan, Vice President
Rates, said Mr. Clark’s promo
tion was effective on September
1st.
Mr. Clark grew up in Char
lotte and joined Duke Power as
a lighting specialist in Greens
boro after receiving his B. S.
Degree in Civil Engineering
from N. C. State University in
1980. He later served as indus
trial representative in Hickory
before becoming manager of
—Turn te Page SU
George L. Turner, formerly a
residential representative in
Dukfe Power Company’s Thomas
ville office, has been named
Manager of the utility’s retail
operations here.
K. A. Arledge, District Man
ager, said Mr. Turner’s promo
tion was effective on September
1st. He replaces John D. Clark,
who has been transferred to
the Duke Power general office
in Charlotte as Assistant to the
Manager of Rate Development
and Administration.
A native of Burlington, Mr.
Turner is a graduate of David
son College and joined Duke
Power in 1966 after serving two
years with the U. S. Army. He
had served as residential repre
—Tarn to Page Six
For All Levels
Transylvania Adult Learning
Center To Open September 7th
The new Transylvania Coun
ty Adult Learning Center will
open September 7th.
Sponsored by the Transyl
vania County Board of Educa
tion in cooperation with the
Blue Ridge Technical Institute
at Hendersonville, the doors of
the Center will open in the
Brevard Junior High School
Annex at 1:30 p. m. next Thurs
day.
t. i
The Center will be open from
1:80 until 9:30 p. m. Mondays
through Thursdays and 8:00
a. m. to 5:00 p. m. on Fridays.
All adults interested in im
proving their education at any
level are invited to call 883-2520
for full information. The infor
mation can also be had by writ
ing the Adult Learning Center,
General Delivery, Brevard, N.
C. 28712
Full time director of the Cen
ter will be David James wh®
attended Brevard College and
later taught in the Transylvania
school system.