THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize-Winning Home Town Newspaper
★ Vol. 84—No. 42 p*fDTT SmvmETc! BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1971 ★ 30 PAGES TODAY *
ZIP CODE 28712
FILMING AT CONNESTEE FALLS — Eddie Albert, pictured
in both photographs above, was in Transylvania last weekend mak
ing a promotional movie at beautiful Connestee Falls. The star of
“Green Acres” was high in his praise of developments at Connestee
and the beauty of the entire section. In the picture at the left, from
left to right, are: Joseph A. Brooke, Jr., treasurer of Realtec, owner
of Connestee Falls Development Corporation; Stanley Whitcomb,
Jr., President of Realtec; Betty Sue Dycus, one of the Indian guides
at C
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Mr.
onnestee; and Mr. Albert. In the right photo, President Whit
> is pictured at the left going over the script of the movie with
Albert. (Times Staff Photos)
Verdicts Are Handed Down In Criminal
Court, Civil Docket Slated Next Week
SAFETY SUPERVISORS in
Ecusta Paper Division and Film Di
vision are pictured with Gordon
Grand, Olin Corporation president,
following: his presentation of Olin’s
top four safety and loss prevention
awards to the Fine Paper and Film
Group October 18 at Pisgah Forest.
Shown left to right from Mr. Grand
are J. D. Mann, Ecusta safety super
visor; T. E. Payne, Film assistant
safety supervisor; F. B. Ayres, Film
safety supervisor; and D. L. Norton,
Ecusta assistant safety supervisor.
OuUtanding Record Wjl
Olin Employees Praised
Receive Four Safety Awards
Praise for the teamwork
that brought results was ac
corded all employees of the
Fine Paper and Film Group
October 18 by Olin Corpora
tion’s president, Gordon
Grand, in presenting Olio’s
four highest, awards for safety
and loss prevention.
Garza Baldwin, Jr., Group
president, accepted for the
Group the President’s Awards
for Greatest Improvement both
in Safety and in Loss Preven
tion. W. F. Taylor, Jr, Ecusta
Paper Division vice president
and general manager and John
Link, Film Division vice presi
dent and general manager, ac
cepted flags duplicating those
which have flown at the Pisgah
Forest plants since July when it
was announced that the Group
had won top safety and loss pre
vention awards for 1970.
The general managers also
received miniature plagues
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to the dei
ed to Hr.
Mr. Link accepted the Presi
dent’s Safety Award in recogni
tion of the division’s perfect
in 1970 at both
Pisgah Forest and Coving
the Pisgah
ton plants.
Mr. Taylor accepted the
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President’s Loss Prevention
Award. It was the second
consecutive year for consign
ment of the top loss preven
tion award to the Fine Paper
and Film Group.
In the informal awards cere
mony in the Research confer
ence room, Mr. Grand told rep
resentatives of the Group staff,
Ecusta Paper Division and Film
Division, that there is recogni
tion throughout the corporation
of the Group’s achievement in
winning all four top awards.
“It isn’t just a statistical
number that won these
awards for the Fine Paper.
and Film Group,” Mr. Grand
said.
“It is a concern about peo
ple and property. It is team
work that calls, for total com
mitment all the way through
the organization.
“No company can rely sole
ly on the inspections of safety
—Turn to Page Five
Campaign Underway
Du Pont Employees Contribute
Over $21,000 To United Fund
United Fund contributions
amounting to more than $21,000
have been made by employees
of the local Du Pont plant,
Earle Johnson, President of
the Transylvania Community
United Fund, announces today.
Directing the Du Pont drive
to its successful results were
William A. Buell and Grover A.
Masterson, together with many
key employees from various
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sections of the organization.
Progress is being made in
other areas of the United Fund
Campaign. William Overholt,
Chairman of the Professional
Division, including schools, has
announced that Rev. Ernest
Barnes, Cecil Hill and Dr. Wil
burn Davis make up his team
ox solicitors.
Charles Moore, Chairman of
the Industrial Division, is work
ing with Robert Lentz of the
Tracking Station, Ed Morrow of
Mitchell Bissell, Chester Kil
patrick representing American
Thread, Charles RtfsseU, respon
sible for the Campaign at Olin,
and William A. Buell at
DuPont.
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Ronald Byrd is directing so
Hcitation in the Commercial Di
vision with the assistance of
Larry Prince* John Smith, Tye
Morris, Julia Fisher and Ellie
WlDtam Ives, who is Chair
man of the area outside Bre
vard, as well as small service
businesses throughout the Coun
ty, has enlisted the help of Ben
Burgess, Elizabeth Mayes, Gil
Coan, Jr„ and George Turner.
of the United Fund
will be
in The
freA, aUX
Last weeks rainfall amounted
to nearly two and a half inches
at the Brevard station. The rain
fell Friday afternoon and eve
ning and on into Saturday con
tinually.
Temperature averages for
the week were 73 and 49, with
the week’s high being 81 on
Thursday and Saturday, while
the low was 38 on Wednesday
morning.
Weather Service extended
outlook for Thursday through
Saturday — partly cloudy and
mild. Lows at night expected to
average in the upper 40s and
low 50s in the mountains. Day
time highs will average in the
70s.
High Low Prec.
Wednesday_ 72 38 0.00
Thursday_ 81 45 0.00
Friday _ 65 48 .0.92
Saturday _ 81 58 1.47
Sunday- 72 57 0.03
Monday _ 65 56 0.00
Tuesday-. 73 44 0.00
Post Office
To Close For
Veterans Day
The Brevard Post Office will
be closed on Monday, October
25th in observance of Veterans
Day.
There will be no window ser
vice and no regular mail de
livery on city or rural routes.
Special Delivery service and
holiday lock box service will be
provided. _
Making A Movie Here
Hollywood Star Eddie Albert
•Vfegfe At Connestee Falls
By . Cal Capenter
Stage, movie, and tele
vision star Eddie Albert
thinks Connestee Falls is
“beautiful, unspoiled and un
polluted.” He likes the Bre
vard recreational residential
community, now under con-'
structien so well, he plans to
build a home here himself.
Here to make a promotional
film for the new community,
Mr. Albert was lavish in his
praise of Connestee and West
ern North Carolina.
“My wife and I have talked
about a home where we could
take walks in the outdoors—
get away from the crowds,”
said Mr. Albert, in an inter
view Friday. “I’d heard about
Western North Carolina for
years and now that I’ve seen
it, I think it’s the most beau
tiful, unspoiled place I’ve
seen.
“I’ve seen many places in the
world,” Mr. Albert went on.
“but this is the best. We want
to have a home here, spend
time, enjoy the various seasons.
We intend to build as soon as
the details can be worked out.”
Looking fit and readv, Mr.
Albert was busy with the
movie making but still found
In Federal Court
Two Suits Are Dismissed
In The Trailer Burial Case
The trailer burial case that
began in Transylvania Coun
ty in February was finally
completed in U. S. District
Court in Bryson City Tues
day.
Cannon McCall, 90, signed
a quitclaim deed to the U.S.
Forest. Service for any rights
he might have had in a tract
of land under dispute in the
Balsam Grove community, and
the civil suit brought against
him by the Forest Service
over ownership of the land
was dismissed.
Mr. McCall received a check
for $3,600 from the Forest
Service.
The suit, brought by Mr.
August Collections In
.
Sales Tax Revenue Is Still
Running Ahead Of Expectations
A check for $21,911.39 will
soon be sent to Transylvania
and her municipalities for sales
tax collections during August,
according to the State Depart
ment of Revenue.
This is
lections, according to I. L. Clay
ton, Commissioner of Revenue,
who reported them.
According to the collections
so far, the total will exceed ex
pectations and estimates of sev
eral months ago.
It has not been announced
how the distribution of the
money will be made to the coun
ty and the municipalities in
Transylvania.
McCall and other residents of
the community against Ran
ger Dan Hile on charges of
“willful and malicious dam
age to private property,” also
was dismissed.
The settlement was origi
nally scheduled for Oct. 8 in
a criminal court session in
a move that surprised every
one concerned, signed his
part in the land over to a
Balsam Grove neighbor, Em
mett Owens, the last of Sep
tember.
Owens signed a quitclaim
deed Monday conveying the
property back to McCalL
The motions to dismiss the
suits were made by Dist. Atty.
Keith Snyder, who was de
fending Ranger Hile, joined
by J. O. Wells, solicitor from
Brevard, and Harland Stepp,
Jr., of Hendersonville, Mc
Call’s attorney.
Ranger Hile was charged
and the civil suit initiated
after the Feb. 22 incident
When he headed a Forest
Service crew that buried a
trailer belonging to Cannon
McCall’s son, Vernon, on the
land in question. Forest Ser
McCalisThad teen ordered to
Vernon sms killed June 12
in Transylvania County in an
time to shake hands with nu
merous visitors and sign au
tograph books. He had only
two days to make the promo
tional film, squeezed into
his busy acting schedule, but
he didn’t seem to be in the
least hurried.
Mr. Albert is obviously well
read and deeply concerned
(bout the environment. He seem
ed most impressed with the
state of the Connestee Falls
area.
“The ar^a is beautiful and
still unpolluted,” he stress
ed. “And the Rcaltee Corpora
tion, backed as it is by Cer
tain-tecd Products Corpora
tion, will insure that it is
protected. I’m familiar with
Realtec and Certain-teed and
I know von can relv on them
to keep it as beautiful and as
much fun as it is now.
“Another of the interesting
aspects of this area, in addi
tion to its unspoiled condition—
and the wonderful people I’ve
met — is its central location. I
should have, after moving here,
projects I’d want to go on with.
I can do so easily, for I could
be in Washington. New York or
other large city in a matter of
hours.”
Connestee Falls, approxi
mately four miles south of
Brevard, is a 3900 - acre tract
—Turn to Page Six
The Criminal term of Su
perior court in Transylvania
was adjourned Tuesday after
noon by Judge Sam J. Ervin,
III, after he had handed
down a number of verdicts.
The Civil term of the Oc
tober court will open next
Monday morning, and Mrs.
Marian M. McMahon, Clerk of
Superior Court, urges all de
fendants, witnesses, attorneys
and others connected with the
cases to be in the court room
by 9:30 o’clock.
There are 14 cases on the
Civil docket.
Cook Case
Sheriff Milford Hubbard
rroorts to The Times that
Billy J. Cook. Jr., who was
charged with the double slay
ing of his brother and wife,
has been declared incompe
tent to stand trial by authori
ties at the Dorothea Dix hos
pital in Raleigh.
Sheriff Hubbard says that
he has not been informed
whether Cook will he con
fined to a State Mental insti
tution or whether he will be
returned to the Armed Forces
for confinement.
In court here Monday
Dorothy Rackley was given a
—Turn to Pa Re Six
In Washington Thursday
Gill Thomas Elected To Receive
The Highest Degree In Masonry
Gill Thomas will receive the
highest degree in Masonry, the
33rd degree, in special cere- ;
monies in Washington, D. C.,
on Thursday, Qctober 21st.
He is the second Transyl
vanian to receive this honor,
which is awarded on the basis
,of distinguished services to
Masonry..
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He was elected at the Bien
nial Session of the Supreme
Council being held in Washing
ton this week.
Henry R. Henderson, Past
Master who is serving his 38th
year as secretary of the Dunn’s
Rock Masonic lodgei, was the
first Transylvanian to be elect
—Turn to Page Fear
Billy J. Cook
Said Incompetent
To Stand Trial