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The Transylvania Times A State And National Prize-Winning Home Town Newspaper SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAJD AT BREVARD. N. C. ZIP CODE 28712 ★ Vol. 84—No. 44 BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1971 * SECTION THREE * News From m US Forest Service, Cradle Visits Up! The Cradle of Forestry closed last Sunday, ending its sixth year of operations. The total attendance tlds year was 92.407. We had hop ed for 100,000 visitors but the rainy weather during the summer months and bad weekends during October dis couraged many from visiting the forest. But this years visitation was up 25% despite the bad weath er. The visitation to the Cradle over the past six seasons was: 1966 - 13,850 1967 - 20,694 1968 - 26,783 1969 - 40,215 1970 - 75,821 1971 - 92,407 Al'o closing last Sunday was the Pink Beds Picnic area, White Pines Camp ground and Loop 8 at Lake Powhatan. Picnic tables along U. S. Highway 276 are available for picnicking the year-round. Local Group To Attend State Meeting Of Head Start Body The North Carolina Head Start Association will hold its annual conference at the Dur ham Hotel and Motel in Dur ham on November 5-6. Guest speakers for the plenary ses sions of the conference are Dr. Edward Zigler, Director of Of fice of Child Development, Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare; and Mrs. Barbara Whitaker, Assistant Regional Director of the De partment of HEW, Office of Child Development. Other activities scheduled for the upcoming conference are workshops conducted by North Carolina consultants in the fields of Early Childhood Education, Social Services, Pediatrics, and Psychology. A panel of parents will also share experiences gained from par ticipation in their respective head start programs. During the business session of the conference, new officers will be elected for the begin ning program year. Tlie present officers of the NCHS Association are: Presi dent - Cornell Manning, Head Start Director, Henderson, North Carolina; Vice - presi dent - Reba Robertson, Head Start Director, Hendersonville, North Carolina; Secretary-Carl ton Bellamy,' Former Head Start Social Service Worker, Charlotte, North Carolina; Treasurer - Annie Bryant, Head Start Parent, Burgaw, North Carolina. The Head Start Association in North Carolina is unique in that membership is open to Head Start staff and parents, as well as any other persons in the state who are actively in volved with project Head Start. The purposes of the As sociation are to promote and support Head Start objectives, make known the needs of young children and their families, and to encourage continued profes sional growth of all Head Start personnel in North Caro lina. Presently there are 30 sum mer programs and 34 full year GOSPEL SINGING Friday Night, Nov. 5, 7:30 P.M. American Legion Building, Brevard FEATURING The Marksmen Quartet MurrayviJIe, Ga. The Revelations Quartet Sylva, N. C. Admission $2.00 Adults $1.50 Students A GROUP OF NEMOS inspect their paint job on the pool between Jones and Beam at Bre vard College. Chief Deputy Pettit Will Speak To Legal Secretaries Association The Transylvania Legal Sec retaries Association will hold its monthly meeting at 12:00 noon on November 9, 1971, in the Rhododendron Room of Gaithers Cafeteria. The guest speaker will be Charles Petit, Chief Deputy of the Transylvania County Sher iff’s Department. All members are urged to attend and any interested per sons are invited. US Savings Bond Sales Up, Transylvania Totals Given September sales of U. S. Savings Bonds in North Caro lina were $5,574,600, a 7.1 per cent increase over sales for September a year ago and the largest dollar volume for any September since 1945. Amounting to $55,852,290, January - September sales were 13.4 percent over the same period of 1970 and were the Head Start programs in North Carolina. Information concerning mem bership in the North Carolina Head start Association may be obtained by calling your local Full Year Head Start office 8838151. Approximately 20 Head Start parents, staff members and volunteers from Transyl vania and Henderson Counties will be attending this confer ence. Barbara Garrett, Ida Sharpe, Billy Sharpe, Betty Hunter will be attending the conference from Transylvania County. best 9-month record since 1945. This amounts to 87.8 percent of the state’s 1971 dollar goal of $63,600,000. At the end of September, 21 counties had achieved 100 per cent or more of their 1971 goal. They are: Alleghany, Bruns wick, Caswell, Chatham, Cho wan, Columbua, Greene, Hay wood, Hartford, Mason, Per quimans, Pitt, Polk, Sampson, Union, Vance, Washington, Watauga, Wilkes, Wilson, and Yadkin. Closely following this honor roll list are 70 counties which have attained 75 per cent or more of their goal through September. Sales in Transylvania Coun ty for September were $25, 563.00. January - September sales totaled $248,772.00. This represents 88.3 percent of Transylvania County’s goal of $281,748.00, according to Jerry Jerome, County Volun teer Chairman. First Fall Sophomore Recital Set A sophomore music student; Thomas Shuff, will be present ed in the first formal recital of the college year in the audi torium of the Dunham Music Center Friday, November 5th, at 8 p.m. on the Brevard Col lege campus. Mr. Shuff, a clarinetist from Chattanooga, Tennessee, will perform works by C. M. von Weber and Willson Osborne. He is currently a pupil of Miss Irene Brychcin. Miss Beverly Moore will accompany him at the piano. Tbe Chamber Singers, under the direction of Nelson F. Adams will present works by Bach, Lassus and Baska. Appearing also on the pro gram will be a flute trio per formed by Maries Cansdale, Chris O’Brien and Jayne Sams. Little River Club Happy Over Winning Division C In Contest By • George Iludgins LITTLE RIVER — The Lit tle River Community Club was very happy to be first place winners of Division C at the Transylvania County Communi ty Development Awards Pro gram last Thursday night. Olin Corporation furnished a very delirious dinner for the clubs participating. Each club was well represented with Ray Is rael, Chaiman of County Coun cil, presiding. Our speaker for the evening, Rev. Thomas P. Owen, pastor of North Toxaway Baptist Church, a native of Transyl vania County and well known and loved by all, made a very impressive talk. Congratulation to all the other clubs that won also. Girls in Action Mission Groups from Little River Bap tist Church had a wonderful time Sunday as they toured the Broyhill Children’s Home near Waynesville. Their leaders were Mrs. Channing Hubbard, Mrs. Calvin Justice, Mrs. Ted Whitmire and Mrs. Charles Guilkey. We still have several on our sick list but most of them are improving. They are Paul Can trell in Black Mountain; Harry Kilitrom in Mission Memorial to undergo surgery this week; Mrs. O. L. McKelvin underwent surgery last week at Mission in Asheville; W. A. Fordyce from Florida is recuperating at his home in Little River; and Mrs. Lessie Merrill is home. We wbh all these continued im provement. Mrs. Jesse Bailey has return ed from Tampa, Florida, where she attended the funeral of Eu gene Stevens, father of Valen tina Stevins a close friend and frequent visitor of Rev. and Mrs. Bailey. We are sorry to learn of the death of Mrs. Emma McCall Monday in Brevard. We wish to extend our sympathy to the family and friends of both of these loved ones. Mr. and Mrs. Merrimon Shu ford, Jane and Julia recently visited Mr. and Mrs. Grover McPherson in Salisbury and while there both families at tended the State fair in Ral eigh. Visiting with T. L. Townsend last week before he left for Florida were Mrs. Harmon Townsend and Mrs. Leona Gun ter from Dade City, Fla. Visiting with Mrs. Ruth Cox and Mrs. John Cox was Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grover and children Susan and Danny from Piedmont, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Artemus Bailey from Pensacola, Florida, re turned home Monday after visiting with their son and family Rev. and Mrs. Jesse Bailey for a couple of weeks. Visiting With Mrs. Thomas McCrary Sunday and attending church with her Sunday night was her sister Maude Metcalf from Mars Hill. Miss Lessie Heath from Greenville, South Carolina, spent a week with Hazel Mer rill recently. Don't buy the gift that doesn’t fit, doesn’t work, isn’t needed. Buy U. S. Savings Bonds for the perfect Christ mas gift. 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