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Rosman To Observe Halloween Saturday, Fire Course Planned BY MRS. AUSTIN HOGSED In keeping with the request of Governor Bob Scott, the Town of Rosman will observe Halloween on Saturday, Mrs. Edith Osborne, the Mayor, an nounces today. The change is being made since Halloween this year falls on Sunday, the 31st. —☆— Basic Fire School A basic firemanship course will be taught at the Rosman Volunteer Fire department be ginning on November 8th. The 42-hour course will he taught every Monday nights from 7:00 until 10:00 p. m. The dates of the course are as follows: Nov. 8, 15, 22 and 29 Dec. 6, 13 and 20 January 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 February 7 and 14. Gordon Byrd, a well-qualified instructor from the Brevard Fire department, will teach the course. The course is being offered in cooperation with the Blue Ridge Technical Institute. Carnival The annual Halloween carni val will be held Saturday night at the Rosman school beginning at 6:30 under the sponsorship of the Rosman Boosters club. Phil Gillespie is serving as chairman. A Halloween king and queen will be selected. Other attractions will be the fish pond, grab bag, dart throw ing, ball throwing, bingo, coun try store, cake walks and cos tumes parade. Mrs. Loretta Sanders is in charge of the food and the pub lic is asked to donate cakes, cookies, etc. which will be on sale. Pafcfceds from the carnival will be used for athletics at the Rosman high school. “Open House. “Open House” and a flag cer emony by Troop 110 of the Junior Girl Scouts highlighted the meeting of the Rosman P-TA Thursday night at the school. The Girl Scout ceremony was under the direction of Mrs. G. O. Shepherd and Mrs. Alvin Smith, scout leaders. The Rev. Jesse Meece, pastor of the Middle Fork Baptist church, conducted the devo tions. Mrs. Ernest Powell, presi dent, presided and announced a number of committees. They are as follows: membership, Miss Gail Dutton—grades 1-4; Rev. J. K. Pressley—grades 5-8; Mrs. Lucy Bryson, high school; nominating committees for ”72 ’73, Mrs. Joe Petit, Mrs. Edith Oshorne, and Mrs. Norma Ball; devotional chairman, Mrs. Betty Tinsley; Pre-school-, Mrs. How ard Reece, Mrs. Catherine Chapman, and Mrs. Louise Sharpe, publicity; Mrs. LaVerne Hogsed and Mrs. Marilyn Whit mire. In the grade count, Mrs. Louise Hogsed’s second grade and Mrs. Shellie Hutchinson’s first grade tied for the award for having the most parents present. Following the general sess ion, parents of children in the grades one to three met with the teachers for a discussion of the non-graded program adopted for Lhese grades. The parents also visited the teachers in all the elementary grades and high school. The next meeting will be held November 18 with Miss Deborah Landreth’s sixth grade in charge. Dinner Mr. and Mrs. Roy Aiken en tertained with a dinner Sunday at thtir home near Rosman. The dinner was given in honor of Mrs. Aiken’s sister, Mrs. Car mel Hall who was celebrating her birthday anniversary. Guests present in addition to the honorees were Mr. Hall and children, Mr. and Mrs. Elzie McCall, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McCall and children and Mr. and Mrs. Danny Aiken and chil dren of Kissimmee, Fla. At Middle Fork A group of girls in action from Pisgah Forest Baptist church presented a program on their work at the Middle Fork Baptist church Wednesday night at the meeting of the GA’s of the Middle Fork church. Adults present were Mrs. Da vid Hogsed, associational lead er, Mrs. Gail Bradburn and Mrs. Cleo Sentelle. Mrs. Carolyn Lowe is leader of the Middle Fork group with Mrs. Jo Powell as assistant. All girls of the community from the ages of 6-11 are invit ed to attend the next meeting Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Zion Church News The Youth A and Junior Girls Sunday school classes of Zion Baptist church will visit the Broyhill Home near Waynes vile Sunday afternoon. They will be accompanied by their teachers Mrs. J. K. Pressley and Mrs. Mary Pangle. Members of the WMU and the youth mission groups are selling Benson fruit cakes. Pro ceeds will be used for church projects. Mrs. Tracy Rice is in charge of the sale. Last Rites Held For Edwin L. Jones, Sr., Tribute Made (Continued from Page One) plete new air base in the Pan ama Canal Zone. Son Edwin, in charge of that project, landed five others while there during a three year period, and the company came out of the de pression with increased capi tal, training in offshore mobil ization and a larges trained su pervisory staff. And Jones Construction was there when the Roosevelt ad ministration came on with hous ing post office and military construction projects. Public contracts fell to Jones through out the southeast plus indus trial commercial and institu tional work. World War II found Jones Construction ready to take on any government assignment and it did, camps and canton ments and finally Liberty ships in Florida and Georgia. In late 1942 Jones was di rected to build a huge steam generating plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn., did so in a record 10 months and as a result was cho sen for a super - secret half billion dollar project, at that time the largest construction project in the history of the world—a project called “K-25.” This was followed by “K-27” with Edwin L. Jones in charge of both projects. These were the plants producing uranium which, with plutonium, bombed Lake Toxaway Baptist Church Expected To Open On Sunday By • Mrs. Leo Owen LAKE TOXAWAY — The congregation of the Lake Tox away Baptist church expects to have the first service in the new building Sunday morning, October 31st. Sunday School will begin at 10 o’clock and worship service at 11 o’clock. There will be a picnic lunch at noon and the song service will start at 1:15. A number of singing groups are expected and ev eryone is invited.- Rev. Tommy Goldsmith is pastor. The Lake Toxaway Com munity club will hold its reg ular meeting Tuesday, Nov. T, at 6:30 p. m. There will be a covered dish supper and every one is invited to attend. Clin ton Owen is President. Charles Barton of Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, spent the weekend here at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barton. and Mrs. Julius Owen are visiting their son-in-law and brother-in-law and sister Mr. and Mrs. Joe Galloway this weekend. Mr. ai.d Mrs. C. H. Hall and family of Jacksonville, Fla., spent the weekend at their summer home here. They also visited the formers brother-in law and sister Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur Barton and family. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Montieth of Arlington, Va., were guests last week of the formers, brother-in-law and sister Mr. and Mrs. Warren Fisher anil other relatives here and in Cashiers. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Powell, of Greer, and Mr. and Mrs. Lag ron Brown of Duncan, S. C., visited Mrs. Powells parents, Mrs. Carl Breedlove Sunday. Mrs. Mary Jones, of Cinn., spent the weekend with her son and daughter-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jones here. Oth er guests of the Jones’ during the weekend were, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Honeycut, of Bre vard, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hon eycut and son of Asheville, Mrs. Nellje Charles of Hender sonville and Mr. Dan Honeycut of Newark, N. J. and Sirs. Maude Owen of Brevard. World War II to a stop. In 1948 J. A. Jones stepped up to chairman of the board and Edwin L. Jones stepped into his father’s shoes as pres ident. His interest in public housing was magnified at war’s end. Touched by the appeal of a group of veterans who found housing impossible to find and asked Jones for his help, he told them, “We’ll do it at cost plus the company fee. After all, you’ve done a lot for us.’” Edwin Jones already had be come head of Charlotte’s Hous ing Authority and was to con tinue in that capacity until his insistence upon retirement in 1968. In November 1960, like his father, he stepped up to serve as board chairman and Edwin Jones Jr., a civil engineering graduate of Duke, became president. Edwin Jones Sr. was a trus tee of . Duke university, Brevard college, Lake Junaluska Assem bly, Inc., Methodist Home for the Aged, Florence Crittenton Home and was formerly presi dent of the Charlotte YMCA. He served as a director of a number of companies including Wahcovia Bank & Trust. Mrs. Farmer Is Buried In Indiana Mrs. Rosemary Farmer, age 76, of Penrose, died late last Wednesday evening in Margaret Pardee hospital in Henderson ville. Mrs. Farmer has been a music teacher for the past 46 years. She was a member of the First Christian church of Fort Myers, Fla. Survivors include tbe hus band, William A. Farmer, of Penrose; one son, Carl W. Far mer of Butler, Indiana, and four grandchildren. Funeral services were held on Saturday at 2:00 in Auburn, In diana. Frank Moody Funeral Home was In charge of local arrange ments. , Small businesses will be able to obtain long-term emergency loans to help them comply with job safety and health standards under an expanded program, the Labor Department reports. The on which there is no dollar limit* will be the Small Business ition, (SBA) either or in cooperation with or other loan institutions. Rosman Personals . Rev. and Mrs. Fred Duck worth of Winchester Va. were week end guests of Mrs. Duck ett’s brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Israel. Eugene King Jr. is spending several days in Edgewood. Md. with his brother-in-law and sis ter, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Pro cell. Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Winches ter and daughter Anita spent the week-end in Chapel Hill as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Winchester. J. T. McCall of Arlington, Va., spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. Henry McCall. Guests during the week-end of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Mit chell were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mitchell anti acns and Miss Bur ney Brasswell and her mother of Anthony, Fla. and Miss Edna Rickman of Asheville and rel atives from Brevard. Rev. and Mrs. John Eades and son Keith of Greer, S. C. and Carla Holden of Greenville, S. C. spent the week - end with Mrs. Eades’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Carter. Mrs. Buren Huggins and daughter Mary Helen and Mrs. T. P. Galloway Jr. spent the week-end in Oak Ridge, Tenn. with the latter’s daughter, Mrs. Paul Glazener. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Melton of St. Petersburg, Fla., were re cent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene King and Mrs. Henry McCall. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kuykendall and children of Asheville spent Sunday with Mrs. Kuykendall’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Whitmire. Edwin Staton and son, Har old, Bob Reece, Robert Synder of Rosman, Larry Hamilton and Andy Synder of Brevard re turned home Saturday after en joying a hunting trip to Mon tana for the past two and one Mlf weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Danny Aiken and children of Kissimmee, Fla. were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Aiken and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Everette Chap man and children of Salem, S. C., and Mr. and Mrs. A1 White, of Cashiers were week - end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Masters. Mrs. Chapman and Mrs. White are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Masters. Mr. and Mrs. James Saunders and children, were visitors to Gatlinburg, Tenn., Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dock Lusk and Miss Elizabeth White were Sun day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Al len White in Asheville. Rex Galloway, of Lake But ler, Fla;, was a Sunday guest of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Galloway. Mr. and Mrs. Manning Little ton and Mrs. Ed Jones were the Sunday guests of Homer Little ton who is in a nursing home in Asheville. Mrs. Edwin Staton and daugh ters Mrs. Larry Hamilton and daughter Sonya were week-end guests of the former’s son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Staton in Rock Hill, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Snipes of Cashiers were called here Thursday due to the death of Mrs. Dan Snipes. Mrs. James Staton of Rosman and Mr. and Mrs. David Byrd and daughter Greta of Horse Shoe, spent the week-end in Chattanooga, Tenn. with the former’s son, Joe Staton. Progressive Developments Are Outlined (Continued From Page One) Corporation executive vice pres ident Sapphire Valley an envir onmental achievement by Bealtec Incorporated, SIM North Federal Highway, a subsidiary of Certain-toed Products Corporation, one of the nation’s largest producers of building materials. Certain teed has been listed an the New York stock exchange for over half a century; haa saaats r. of mare than S2M.MMM. Final Rites Held For Mrs. Dixon Mrs. Alice Dixon, age 73, of Brevard died Monday morning in a local hospital. Mrs. Dixon is the widow of the late Joshua Dixon. She has been a life long resident of Transylvania county and was a member of Dunn’s Creek Baptist Church. Survivors include one son, Oliver Dixon of Brevard; one daughter, Mrs. Olive Dillard of Brevard; one sister, Mrs. Leva Ball of Brevard; one brother James Perry of Easley, S. C.; five grand children; and a num ber of neices and nephews. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel of the funeral home. Rev. Albert Bishop of ficiated and burial followed at Dunn’s Creek Cemetery. Pallbearers were nephews. Frank Moody Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. News From Transylvania 4-H Clubs WNC Horticultural Crops Contest This contest is open to any 4-H club or FFA member in the Western 18 counties. All horti cultural projects are eligible— vegetables, fruits or ornamen tals. There is no limit to the number of entries per county, blit each entry must have a statement from the supervising agency, either 4-H or vocational agriculture. The deadline for record books is November 1st. Cash awards totaling $225.00 will be present ed at an awards dinner on De cember 6th in Asheville. If any information about this contest is needed, contact Dennis Win ters, 4-H agent, or John Bradley or Clinton Owen, vo-ag teachers. County Council The 4-H County Council of Transylvania county met Thus day, October 21, at the Brevard Davidson River Presbyterian church. The meeting began at 7 p. m. and the program con cerned nominations of the 1972 county 4-H officers. Re freshments followed after spec ial 4-H awards were presented. The Selica 4-H club was award ed a State Honor Certificate for outstanding achievement in the conservaation of natural resour ces program. Fair Booth Transylvania county was well represented at the 1971 State Fair held in Raleigh during the last two weeks. The 4-H exhibits from Transylvania county won third place with its theme on Junior Leadership in 4-H. The title of the exhibit was “Which Bird Are You”? and its main character was a seven foot bird planned by 4-H members and leaders. Total prize money was $350.00 to be used by the 4-H clubs of Transylvania county. 35 Year Support Of 4-H During National 4-H Congress in Chicago last December, the National 4-H Electric program marked 35 years of continuous support by Westinghouse Elec tric corporation. The 4-H elec tric program is currently reach ing over 160 thousand youth and is well adopted to both ur ban and rural areas. 4-H’ers learn everything from wiring simple lamps and making ex tension cords — to building sound systems and learning about atomic energy. For more information about the 4-H elec tric program, contact the Coun ty Extension office at 883-2730. Pisgah Forest Lions Club Hears District Governor District Governor Joe El Khouri was the guest speaker at the Oct. 26th meeting of the Pisgah Forest Lions club. Pro gram chairman Ronnie Daniels introduced the district gover nor. Mr. Khouri gave an inter esting and thought provoking speech to the club. The turkey and ham shoot that was to have been held on Oct. 23rd was cancelled because of rain. Weather permitting, there will be turkey shoots on the next two Saturdays Oct. 30th and Nov. 6th. Shooting will start at 10 a.m. and last until 5 p.m. “Don’t be afraid of the witch es and spooks, come on out and shoot until you win your Thanksgiving turkey and ham. The turkey shoots are being held at the Mountain View race track on old 64 below Pisgah Forest,” the Lions'state. On Nov. 9th the Lion Dick Gudger of Asheville will show a film and talk to the Pisgah Forest Lions about the eye bank and eye wills. To Hold Dinner And Business Meet At Sapphire-Whitewater By WALLACE BREWER SAPPHIRE - WHITEWATER —A covered dish supper and business meeting will be held at the Sapphire - Whitewater com munity building on Tuesday, November 2nd, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The installation of new club officers for the in coming year will be held at this time| Please note that the meeting has been changed from Thurs day to Tuesday for meeting nights. Members of the Sapphire - Whitewater community develop ment club that plan to attend the annual awards dinner to be held at the Olin cafeteria on Thursday evening; October 28th beginning at 7:30 are: Denny and Cardll Hansen Cindi Rock, Hester Hansen, Walter and Dorothy McNeely and daughters Jean and Gail, George Blair, Marion and Tom Condon, and incoming club president, Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence Denslow. Congratulations to Denny and Caroll Hansen for being elected as treasurer of the Brevard Jay cees. Cindi Rock and Jean McNeely attended a Beta club dinner held at Pisgah Fish Camp on Thursday evening. Denny and Caroll Hansen have a very nice selection of pumpkins on-their front porch of Which the proceeds will go to the JayceeS Boys Home fund of North Carolina. Dinner guests of Mrs. Rotha Matson and. daughter, Pamela, Saturday evening were Mrs. Ne va Whitted and Mrs. Florence Adams. .... ... >i'i Bruce Bosier is reported to be strong enough fqr second surg ery at SaraBotn+Memorial hos pital. He irf.th&riather of Mrs. Melvin Daftn and has been a frequent vjisitoK^to Sapphire. E. O. Zelglerrand mother of Bearwallow DrlVe and Sarasota were Sunday Afternoon guests of Mrs. Neva Whitted. Mr. anud Sirs. Denny Hutchin sodn of Sarasota, Fla., spent last week at their parents’ cot tage at the Lee Hutchinson villa. Mrs. Ruih Wilhelm, owner and operator of Wilhelms Nurs ing Home of Sarasota, Fla., and guests from Miami, spent last week at her summer home at Sapphire. Wallace Brewer was a Sun day evening visitor of his bro ther-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ford Rice and children, Reda, Karen, Genet, Stanley and Roger at Cashiers. 1961 Rosman Senior Class To Have Reunion On November 26 The 1961 senior class of Ros man High school will hold a 10 year class reunion on Friday evening, November 26, begin ning at 6:30 p.m. lit will be conducted at the Pisgah Fish Camp, where din ner will be served to order. Fol lowing dinner, games and other festivities will begin. Please call 885-2078 or write P. O. Box 224, Pisgah Forest, for other arrangements. All members and their wives or husbands are expected to at tend if possible. Wba&nya*ssjgj? •araJ Published Each Thurtday At 100 Broad Street, Brevard, H. C. THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES SacoofrOata Pottage l'ald At Brevard, tt. C. v;.::-7;, ; SUbacrtptkm Bate* Pw Tear Inaida the County • KBO year Outaida tbe County • «MN Quebec Community Club Elects New Officers, Halloween Party Slated This Friday Evening By MRS. PAUL M. FISHER QUEBEC — The Quebec com munity club held its regular meeting Monday night at T. C. Henderson school, with a good attendance. The meeting was called to order by Claxton Hen derson; in the absence of the president who was unable to at tend. After the secretary’s report, new officers were elected. They were as follows: presi dent, Benny Fisher; vice presi dent, Lester Chapman; secre tary, Mrs. Larry Chason; treas urer, Claxton Henderson; pro gram chairman, Nancy Ann Whitmire; scrap book, Mrs. Margaret Owen; youth directors, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Chap man. ''any thanks and appreciation is expressed to Tommy Owen, past president, who has done a wonderful job, along with the other officers who served with him. After the election of officers, an open discussion was held concerning the Halloween Car nival Friday night. We hope everyone will plan to attend and bring a friend. There will be bingo, fish pond, fortune telling, horror house, dart throw and other fun attrac tions. Also a rummage sale. The food sale will begin at 6:30 p.m. Everyone is invited. We appreciate your cooperation in helping us with our building fund. • Civilisation Film Series Concluded, Said Successful The last film in the 13-week series of Civilisation was shown on Wednesday,^October 27th. This series has been made avail able by the Friends of the Li brary and has been shown week ly, twice each Wednesday since August 1st, in the morning at i0:30 in the Presbyterian church and in the evening at 7:30 in the college library. The public Interest has been sustained, with 55 to 80 persons attending one of the showings each week. The series was edit ed and narrated by Lord Ken neth Clark, British historian and art critic. Beginning about 200 years after the fall of Rome, he traced the development of western civilization from the fourth century to the twentieth cenury. The remarkable feature of these one-hour films was the scope they covered—history, art, music and literature. Approxi mately 150 persons attended one or more of the showings and a dozen or more shared the entire series. Appreciation and thanks are extended to those who made this series possible in Brevard, to the church and college for the space made available, to Jerry Purser of the Agricultural Ex tension Service for showing the morning films and to Rev. Thomas McPhail for his assis tance in showing the evening projections. Also to Mrs. Leh man Kapp, librarian for arrang ing the series. Another Big Football Weekend Is Slated On Brevard's WPNF 'Continued From Page One) Thursday, Carolina News; Fri day, U. S. Forest Service, Dan Hile; Monday, County Exten sion Agent; Tuesday, N. C. For est Service, Clark Grisson; Wed nesday, Home Agent Miss Jean Childers. Speaking this week on Morn ing Devotions is Rev. T. W. Searcy, pastor of the Morning side Baptist church. Next week Rev. Ed Sheridan, pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic church, will be heard. Sunday morning church serv ices are being broadcast through the remote facilities of WPNF from the First Baptist church. Rev. Russell Willis is pastor. DO YOU CONSUME ENOUGH PROTEIN? Did you know that a study of the Food and Nu trition Board of the National Research Council has indicated that there is a good chance you do not? Examine your present diet carefully and if you find that you are not getting enough protein, ask us for Hoffman’s Hi-Proteen or Super Hi Proteen. Rich in high quality protein and essen tial amino acids. Hi Proteen reg. $1.50 now $1.20 Super Hi-Proteen reg. $5.00 now $4.00 Harvest Village Health Foods 216 South Broad Street 883-3810 883-3860
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