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Vol. 84—No. 38 „,D <T 7‘Tcodc ★ BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1971 * ★ 28 PAGES TODAY * PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls, Meeea
for Summer Camps, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest and
Home of Brevard Collet* and
Brevard Music FeatlvaL
. J. Madden
R. W. Melton
G. T. Perkins
C. W. Pickelsimer
J. R. Mitchell
A. J. Patterson
Hale Siniard
J. K. Smart
From Many Fields
First-Citizens Bank Names
Local Board Of Directors
First - Citizens Bank &
i, Trust Company has named
10 Western North Carolina
business and professional
leaders to the newly estab
lished Board of Advisors
for the Brevard Office, R. P.
Holding, Jr., First • Citizens
Chairman of the Board, an
nounced.
Elected to the Board are L.
. J. Madden, Jr., Robert W. Mel
ton, John R. Mitchell, Alvin J.
Patterson, George T. Perkins,
Jr., Charles W. Pickelsimer,
Jr., Hale Siniard, Jr., John K.
Smart, Jr., L. E. Bagwell, Jr.,
and Ben Burgess.
As members of the First
Citizens Bank Board of Ad
visors in Brevard, they will
assist local bank management
in policy matters and business
development and serve as an
additional liaison between
the community and the bank.
Mr. Madden is vice presi
dent — finance and administra
tion — of the Olin Corporation.
The Louisiana native is a grad
uate of Centenary College and
the Harvard School of Busi
ness. He is chairman of the
board at Asheville Country
Day School, serves as treasurer
of the board of trustees at Mars
Hill College and is vice chair
man of the board of deacons
at First Baptist Church in
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Program Highlights
WPNF's Football Broadcasts
Reported To Be Popular Shows
The broadcasts of football
games over WPNF each week
end are attracting many, many
listeners, according to John I.
Anderson, the Executive Direc
tor.
As always, the Friday night
high school broadcasts are most
popular, and the Carolina-Mary
land game on Saturday after
noon is expected to have a ter
rific listening audience, he
states.
Sponsors of the College
games are Morris Pharmacy,
Co-Ed Theater, Nu-Way Clean
ers, Sears, Brevard Paint and
Decorating and the Four-Lane
Builder Supply.
The pre-game warm-up and
the post-game scoreboard are
sponsored by Patterson’s of
Brevard and Caimes Sales and
Service.
Sponsors of the broadcasts of
the high school games are:
Cardinal Cleaners, Houston’s,
Community Cash, State Farm
Insurance, Swaffs and Varn
er’s.
Owenby Brothers sponsor the
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This Saturday
Brevard High Band Enters
Skyland Clinic-Festival
The band of Brevard High
School, “l'he Pride of Brevard,”
has been invited to participate
in the First Annual Skyland
Marching Band Clinic - Festival
to be held at T. C. Roberson
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Hospital Chief Of Staff
Last Rites Were Held Monday
Morning For Dr. Alfred Elwell
Last rites for Dr. Alfred M.
El well, 54, who died last Fri
day morning in an Asheville
hosptal after a lengthy illness,
were held Monday morning at
11:00 o’clock at the Brevard
David-'on River Presbyterian
church.
Rev. Thomas McPhail officiat
ed, and graveside rites were con
ducted at Pisgah Gardens by
members of the Hendersonville
post of Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
Pallbearers at the service
were John L Anderson, John
W. Bailey, Dr. James Sander*
f)r. James Keeley, Dr. Robert
L. Strieker and Michael Riecci.
A New Jersey native, Dr.
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High School in Skyland, Satur
day evening, September 25th,
at 7:30 p. m.
The clinic judge will be
William Swor of Lousiana
State University. All half-time
shows will be recorded on video
tape and will be played back
afjer the bands have finished.
Comments and criticisms will
be made by Mr. Swor at the dis
cussion session.
“These comments should
prove quite helpful to our band
because of their upcoming par
ticipation at the Southeastern
Band Festival in Bristol, Vir
ginia ' - Tennessee the next
weekend,” says James F. Har
well, the band director;
The Skyland Marching Band
Clinic is designed for learning
and not competition. No rat
ings or placements are to be
given but constructive criti
cism will be a part of the edu
cational benefits of this type
clinic.
Parents, friends and the pub
lic are cordially invited to the
performance Saturday night.
There will be a $1.00 Admis
sion to the performance. The
Clinic begins at 7:30 p. m. on
the football field at T. C. Rob
eraon High School in Skyland
Temperatures moderated
somewhat in the Brevard area
during the past week, averag
ing 78 and 56 for high and
low. Warmest reading was last
Wednesday’s high of.87, while
the coolest was 49, also on
Wednesday. Rainfall totalled
1.77 inches.
Extended forecast for North
Carolina: Variable cloudiness
and rather warm Thursday
through Saturday. Scattered
showers or thundershowers oc
curring mainly toward the end
of the week. High tempera
tures averaging in the middle
to upper 70s in the mountains,
while .the lows should be in the
mid 50s.
High Low Prec.
Wednesday 87 49 0.00
Thursday_ 73 53 0.00
Friday_ 66 59 0.63
Saturday j_ 76 61 1.04
Sunday_ 80 60 0.00
Monday_ 81 57 0.05
Tuesday _ 82 56 0.05
Look Inside...
Editorial page, second sec
tion, page two, including trib
utes to Dr. Elwell and Mrs.
Frost
News of and for the women,
page six. second section, and
pages six and seven, third sec
tion
To Break Ground
At Hospital Site,
Schenck Center
Plans Dedication
Two outstanding events, to
which the public is cordially
invited, will be held in Tran
sylvania county Sunday after
noon.
The first is the ground
breaking ceremony of the new
Transylvania Community hos
pital and the other is the
dedication of t.wo new Dormi
tories at the Schenck Job
Corps Center in beautiful
Pisgah National Forest.
The hospital ground-break
ing, weather permitting, will
be held at 2:00 o’clock on the
site off the Four-lane high
way opposite Camp Straus,
and the Dedication at the
Schenck center is slated at
3:30.
Actually, the ground-break
ing ceremony was scheduled
last Sunday, but it was post
poned because of the condi
tion of the site after three
<ays of heavy rains.
Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., life
time trustee, will be the
Master of Ceremonies on the
brief program at the ground
breaking ceremonies for the
new hospital.
Jack C. Dense, chairman of
the Board of Trustees, will
speak briefly, and others on
the program will include Dr.
John Scroggin, the new Chief
of Staff at the Hospital, and
Mrs. William Dechant, Presi
dent of the Women’s Aux
iliary.
Dr. Robert A. Davis, presi
dent of Brevard College, will
give the invocation.
John W. Bailey, Adminis
trator of the Transylvania
Community hospital, will in
troduce persons on the plat
form and guests.
Schenck Dedication
Two new dormitories at
the Schenck Job Corps Cen
ter will be dedicated on Sun
day, Sept. 26th, at 3:30
o’clock.
Following the dedication,
there will be an “Open House”.
The dormitories, each with
a capacity of 56 corpsmen, re
place four of the temporary
trailer units that have been
part of the center since the be
ginning. The new dormitories
are of the latest type “pole”
construction which is in har
mony with the forest setting of
the center.
These dormitories are t.he
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Second Session
Labor Relations Board To
Hold Hearing At Olin, 28th
The National Labor Rela
tions Board will meet in Bre
vard September 28 with Oiin
Corporation and United Pap
ermakers and Paperworkers
Union (AFL-CIO) representa
tives to continue the hearing
which took place yesterday,
September 21, in Asheville.
Date of the election has not
been established. The Ashe
ville hearing resulted from a
petition filed with the NLRB
by the Union asking to be
certified as the representa
tive of “All production and
maintenance employees and
supporting activities in the
Employer’s operations at
Pisgah Forest, North Caro
lina.”
Olin sought clarification at
yesterday’s hearing of exact
ly which employees can vote
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without legitimate challenge
by the Union. The Company
insisted that all hourly em
ployees who act as relief
foremen or hourly employees
who perform clerical work
from time to time be quali
fied to vote. Before yester
day’s meeting recessed,
Union representatives had
agreed that all 59 relief fore
men and all but one of the 18
hourly rated clerical workers
would be allowed to vote.
It is expected that next
Tuesday’s meeting will con
cern the voting eligibility of
the one hourly rated clerk,
and clarification of the status
of employees who are on
Long Term Disability. The
Union has taken the posi
tion that no employees on
LTD for more' than a year
should be permitted to vote.
“WOMEN IN SERVICE TO HU
MANITY”, internationally known
as Epsilon Sigma Alpha, held their
first State Council meeting of the
1971-72 year in Brevard last Satur
day, with 79 members from across
the state attending. Welcoming the
N. C. State President, Mrs. Janet
Mauney, to Brevard are, left to right,
Mrs. Nancy Glazener, President
of Beta Rho, the host chapter of the
meeting; Dr. Milton Massey, Presi
dent of the Brevard Chamber of
Commerce; Mrs. Mauney; and Mrs.
Martha Jave Johnson, Registration
Chairman. The meeting was held in
the Fellowship Hall of the First
United Methodist church.
(Times Staff Photo)
At Brevard, Rosman
Seven Transylvania Seniors
Are Semifinalist, National
Merit Scholarship Program
Seven Transylvania high
school seniors have been
named Semilinalists in the
1971-72 National Merit Scho
larship Program.
According to Principal Wil
liam H. Stanley, the six stud
ents at. Brevard high school
who are semi-finalists are:
John Bohan. George Cline,
Karen English, Sara Lea,
Stephen Morgan and Olin
Redman.
Principal A1 Warren at
Rosman high school announ
ces that William J. Cathey,
Ill, is a semi-finalist there.
The approximately 15,000 Semi
finalists appointed are among
the nation’s most intellectually
talented high school seniors.
They will compete for some 3,
C00 Merit Scholarships to be
awarded in 1972.
The Semifinalists were the
highest scorers in their states
on the National Merit Scho
larship Qualifying Test
(NMSQT), which was given
given last February to more
than 655,000 students in
about 16.600 schools nation
wide. They constitute less
than one percent of the grad
uating secondary school sen
iors in the United States.
The Semifinalists are repre
sentative of the country's most
intelleetuallv able voting peo
ple, according to Edward C.
Smith, president of the Na
tional Merit Scholarship Cor
poration (NMSC). “From this
group will come many future
leaders in business, industry,
and the professions," he said.
“These students bring hon
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What 1% Pays
Sales Tax Take For First
Month In County: $21,148
The treasury of Transyl
vania county was swelled to
the tune of $21,148.91 as a
remit of one-cent. sales tax
collections during the first
month of the four-cent levy
that was in effect here.
A report from the North
Carolina Department of Rev
enue reflects the purchases
during the month of July:
the additional one-cent tax
went into effect July 1st.
Returns on August sales
were due in Raleigh last
week, and this report will be
out in about 30 days.
Rased on the same ratio of
sales the next 12 months,
Transylvania will benefit, by
more than $250,000.00 from
the tax.
According to Donald Lee
Moore, Chairman of the Tran
sylvania County Board of
Commissioners, the sales tax
money is used for debt ser
vice and for schools.
Neighboring counties re
ceived the following alloca
tions:
Henderson - $68,620
Haywood - $63,451
Buncombe - $255,747
Macon - $32,860
Madison - $7,374
Swain ■ $15,400
Jackon - $24,184.
Total collections in tlie
state for the 47 counties with
the local tax was over $3 mil
lion.
Next Tuesday
England's Lord Garadon To
Speak On College Program
Lord Caradon, who was ap
pointed Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs and perma
nent United Kingdom Repre
sertative at the United Na
tions when Mr. Harold Wil
son formed his government
in October, 1964, and held
these offices until the Labor
Government went out of of
fice in June, 1970, will speak
at Brevard College’s second
Convocation program on Tues
day, September 28 at 7:30
p.m. in the Boshamer Gym
nasium. Lord Caradon is be
ing presented under the
auspices of Brevard College
and the public is cordially in
vited to attend.
Dr. Robert A. Davis, Pnesi
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