ANSYLVANIA T MES
A State And National Prize-Winning Home Town Newspi r
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1971
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TRANSYLVANIANS in the spotlight at the
Awards Luncheon of the 1971 Western North Caro
lina Community Development program in Ashe
ville last Saturday are pictured above. Again,
Transylvania walked off with top honors as the
county has done each year for the past 21 years.
From left to right, are: Ray Israel, President of
the Transylvania County Community Development
clubs; Erik D. Hansen, President of the Sapphire
Whitewater club; Gary Murdock, President of the
Little River club; Ruth Jones, Youth President at
Cedar Mountain; and Alvin Jones, President of the
Community Development club at Cedar Mountain.
(Photo by Jerry Purser)
“Trade At Home”
Christmas Shopping Tempo
Brisk, Stores Well Stocke/d
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Christmas shopping in Bre
vard Is at a brisk tempo, and
the stores are well-stocked
Aar the holiday gift-giving
The public is cordially in
vited to "shop at home”
.where there is a friendly
'atmosphere.
Ole Santa is in town in the
evenings to greet his young
friends, and part of Us time
he spends in his little house
on the court house lawn in
front of the library.
At other times he is visit
ing in the various stores.
Most Brevard stores are ob
serving late evening hours
for the convenience of the
shopping public, and on be
half of each, Ed Mims, chair
man of the Merchants Divi
sion of the Brevard Chamber
of Commerce, invites you to
Brevard to shop for ail of
your Christmas needs.
“Shop now while the selec
tions are good," Mr. Mims
urges. ,
8 SHOPPING DAYS
’Till CHRISTMAS
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Attention Students
School Makeup Days Announced
Revised Calendar Is Posted
The following dates have
been set for makeup of the
three remaining days that were
lost by Transylvania schools be
cause of weather conditions:
May 25, 26 and 29th.
If additional days are lost due
to weather conditions, make up
days will be scheduled accord
ing to the following procedures
(these are listed by priority):
1. On a Saturday during a
week in which a previous day
or days have been missed
2. At the end of the school
term
S. One of the Easter holidays
4. Both of the Easter holidays
5. If an extensive number of
days are missed, 6-day school
weeks will be scheduled which
include Saturday.
The revised school calendar
for 1971-72 is as follows:
May 29, 1972—End of 180-day
term
May 30, 31, 1972—Extended
term for teachers
Holidays
December 22-31, 1971—Christ
mas
January 17, 1972 — Teacher
Work Day - Pupil Holiday
March 31 - April 3, 1972 —
Easter
School Months
(These dates will change if
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Chief Rowe Reports
Continuing Investigation Pays
Dividends For Brevard Police
Continuing investigation, a
routine with the Brevard Po
lice Department, pays unex
pected dividends, as a case
this month sheers. Because of
it, a suspect arrested for a
breaking and entering and
larceny the first of this month
is also charged with a similar
rpbbery committed almost
two years ago.
Oscar Unreal Gash of Brevard
was arrested December 1st and
charged with breaking and
entering and larceny at Die Bre
For Two NighU
Youth Of First Baptist To
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the shepherds, wise men,
Mary, Joseph and the
This year’s cast will also
a Mve animals.
that the scene will
a reminder of the true
of Christmas to the
la cordially invited
the church i MM
vard Jewelers, 1 E. Main St. All
property was recovered in this
case.
"’But as a result of this ar
rest and a continuing investi
gation, Gash is now charged
with a second charge of
breaking and entering and
larceny at Baker’s Jewelry
Store on December 34, 1969—
almost two years ago.
During the booking after
Gash’s arrest the first of this
month, routine fingerprints
were taken. As a part of the
continuing investigation of the
two-year old robbery, the prints
were forwarded to Raleigh, to
the State Bureau of Investiga
tion., A report, which vyas re
ceived last Thursday from the
SB.L, constituted one of the
grounds upon which the addi
tional charge was based.
Continuing investigation is a
routine policy of the Brevard
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Sts
Above - normal temperatures
have been the rule rather than
the exception lately in the Bre
vard area, with readings aver
aging nearly ten degrees above
normal the past few days.
Temperature averages during
the past week were 64 and 39,
with the highest reading of 71
on Sunday and the low of 33
Tuesday morning. Precipitation
was at a minimum.
Weather service extended
forecast Thursday through Sat
urday: Partly cloudy and warm
with scattered showers west
portion of the state. High tem
peratures in the low 60s. Lows
should be in the low 40s.
Date High Low Prec.
Dec. 8 . 67 34 0.00
Dec. 9 _ 62 40 0.00
Dec. 10 _ 57 50 0.22
Dec. 11 _ 69 45 0.35
Dec. 12 _ 71 39 0.00
Dec. 13 _ 68 35 0.00
Dec. 14 _ 55 33 0.00
Post Offices
Open All Day
This Saturday
The Brevard and Pisgah For
est Post Offices will remain
open until 5:00 o’clock on Satur
day, Dec. 18th for the conveni
ence of the public.
All services will be available
with the exception of money
orders.
All parcels and cards should
be mailed by this time to insure
delivery by Christmas Eve, Bre
vard Postmaster Charlie Patton
states.
The Postmasters and their
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Little River Community Is A Top
Winner In W N C Competition
Cedar Mountain
And Sapphire
Are Also Winners
Again, Transylvania com
munities were top winners in
the annual Western North
Carolina Community Develop
ment program contest. The
winners were announced at a
luncheon last Saturday in
Asheville.
During the past 21 years,
rransylvania has been a con
sistent winner in WNC compe
tition.
This year Little River won
first place in Division C (for
more than 150 families) for
the third time in the history
of the contest.
Transylvania’s Cedar Moun
tain community won second in
Division B (75 to 150 families)
and the Sapphire-Whitewater
community was given honor
able mention in Division A
(fewer than 75 families).
The Cedar Mountain com
munity also won honorable
mention in the Youth Cate
gory.
Officials of Little Riger took
home a check for $400 and a
handsome plaque for winning
first place.
For winning second place,
Cedar Mountain received a
check for $300, and honor
able mention winners were
given checks for $50.
Graham Speaks
Melvin Graham of Mat
thews, brother of world-fam
ous evangelist Billy Graham
of Montrcot, told the more
than 600 persons from the
mountain counties that they
should look to God for leader
ship, as the Hebrews did dur
ing their early history; and
quoted from Nehemiah as an
inspiration, that “the people
had a will to work” to rebuild
Jerusalem, so people today
could do much to improve
their communities with the
same will to work.
“Let us make sure,” he said,
“as we go back to our com
munities, that we honor God,
obey Him, and ask for His help”
in the community projects.
“I believe,” Graham re
marked, "that God is well
pleased with people who will
work together as a group.”
The Hebrews, he said, pros
pered as long as they worked
together under God’s leader
ship; but they ceased to prosper
ivhen “one started going off in
jne direction and one in an
»ther.”
Mr. Graham was introduced
by Rep. Roy A. Taylor, who
took time out from his duties
in Washington to fly to the
luncheon.
Rep. Taylor briefly discussed
some of the recent legislation
passed and bills introduced to
lelp the rural people of the
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Program Highlights
Inspiring Holiday Music Now
Being Heard Daily Over WPNF
Beautiful Christmas music is
now being beard throughout
the day on Radio Station
WPNF.
This holiday music is includ
ed on practically every pro
gram, and the station has one
of the largest collection of
Christmas albums of any station
its size in the
"Get the holiday_sptiit by
Pro
says.
3:30
broad
p.m.
cast another in the series of
“N.A.S.A. Special Reports”.
This time the program is titled
“Lunar Haberdashery.”
The program will trace the
makings of an Apollo space suit
through the words of 1LC In
dustries representatives in
Dover, Delaware. The ILC is
NASA’s contractor for the
Apollo suits.
The program also features
comments by Astronaut Charles
M. Duke—Kunar Module Pilot
for next March’s Apollo-16 .
moon landing mission—while
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SANTA CLAUS was ushered
into Rosman in the big Christmas
parade last Sunday afternoon atop
the fire truck by pretty girls and the
Shrine clowns. Other pictures of the
parade, which featured floats, the
Brevard high school band, units of
the Rescue squads, etc., are carried
elsewhere in this week’s Times.
(Photo by Jerry Purser)
Many Items Discussed
Board Of Directors Of The
Chamber Of Commerce Meets
Request U F Donations
Connestee Offering Free
Firewood During Holidays
Roads and lake clearing
this Fall have produced cords
of excellent firewood at the
new Connestee Falls residen
tial - recreational home de
velopment. So they are offer
ing it free to anyone who
will come and haul it away.
“The Connestee Falls De
velopment Corporation wishes
to express its appreciation to
the people of Brevard and Tran
sylvania County for the cordial
reception we have received,”
says Robert L. Boone, Execu
tive Vice - President and Gen
eral Manager.
The free firewood is in
tended to be a two-phase
Christmas gift to Conneftee’s
Transylvania County neigh
bors, according to Mr. Boone.
In ret.vrn for the firewood,
each recipient is asked to
make a donation to the Tran
sylvania United Fund, thus
helping many more people.
The wood is still free, how
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Take Office On 1st
ASC Delegates Elect
New Officers For 1972
Glenn Whitmire, well-known
rran-'ylvania County farmer,
ivas named to the County Agri
cultural Stabilization and Con
servation (ASC) Committee by
delegates to the ASC county
convention, held December 13,
in the County ASCS Office.
The delegates also selected
31enn Whitmire, and N. B.
Woody, as Chairman and Vice
chairman of the three-member
County Committee, and named
Randall Lankford and J. A.
Whitmire, as first and second
ilternate committeemen.
The County ASC Committee
is re- ponsible for local adminis
tration of Government farm
programs such as acreage allot
ments, loans for eligible crops,
ind conservation cost-sharing
>n agricultural lands.
The vacancies were filled and
[he County ASC Committee of
ficers named by delegates who
ire newly-elected ASC commun
ty committeemen for 1972.
Community committees assist
the County Committee in farm
program administration and
lelp keep fanners informed of
urogram provisions.
County committeemen are
rlected by the community com
mitteemen to serve staggered
hree-year-terms, so that ordi
rar'lv one vacancy occurs each
year. The County Committee al
ternates are elected for one
year terms.
The newly elected county and
community committeemen take
office January 1, 1972.
Directors of the Brevard
Chamber of Commerce held a
short meeting Tuesday night
in the library, but several im
portant items were discussed
by t.he body during the ses
sion.
The directors went on rec
ord as commending the Bre
vard merchants for the fine
Christmas parade that was
h< Id here several weeks ago.
The downtown merchants
were all praised for their out
standing effort, to help make
the Christmas season here
more meaningful for so many
Tj nnrj lvania “youngsters” of
all ages.
The Highway committee re
ported that several of their
committee members were in
Raleigh recently t.o meft with
the Highway Commission and
the divi* ion’s Highway Com
missioner, E. J. Whitmire.
Several other prominent
Transylvanians were also
scheduled to attend this meet
ing in Baleigh, but the heavy
snowfall here on t.he Fridav
of Ihe meeting prevented
tlicir attendance.
In a nutshell, the remits of
the meeting indicate that the
proposed new highway be
complrted within the next
five years.
The rural development com
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At State Meeting
Gash Heads Conference Of
The District Court Judges
Robert T. Gash of Brevard,
Chief District Court Judge of
the 29th Judicial District, was
elected Chairman of the Confer
ence of Chief District Court
Judges for 1972.
The Chief Judges met Decem
ber 11th at The Institute of
Government in Chapel Hill to
deal with the administrative re
sponsibilities given them by the
legislature. Chief Justice Bobitt
met with the group.
The Chief Judges Conference
was held in conjunction with a
two-day seminar for all district
court judges sponsored by the
Institute of Government and by
the North Carolina Association
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