The Transylvania Times
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★ Vol. 85—No. 6 BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1972 A SECTION TWO *
JAYCEE YOUNG MAN OF THE YEAR—
Shown with his wife Marge, is Stan Scruggs who
was recently selected as “Young Man of the Year”
by the Jaycees in Monroe. Mr. Scruggs, owner
and operator of the Harris - Scruggs Funeral Home
in Monroe, was cited for his work with the com
bined charities of Boy Scouts, the Episcopal Church
and the Jaycees. He also received a special pres
idential award for his work with the Goodfellows
Club. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Hampton Scruggs,
85 Rosman Highway, Mr. Scruggs attended Bre
vard schools, Brevard College and Cincinnati Col
lege. The couple, who have two children, make
their home in Monroe where he went into business
after Army service.
Thomas Case Will Pay His
Official Visit To Lodge Here
Thomas G. Case, Henderson
ville, District Deputy Grand
Master of the 60th Masonic Dis
trict, has notified the officers
and members of Dunn’s Rock
Masonic lodge that he will pay
his official visit at a stated com
munication of the Temple on
East Main street, Thursday,
Febuary 10th.
Mr. Case asks all officers and
pmbers of the local Masonic
books to
resfrip
’8. adv
please bring them to the meet
ing for inspection.
Jack M. Frady, Worshipfu
Master, states that since this i
the second official visit of th
new District Deputy Gram
Master, he urges the officer
and members to make every ei
fort to attend this importan
communication.
Several Masons from botl
Henderson and Polk countie
to Brevard. The Master also e>
tends a cordial invitation to al
visiting Masons.
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From
ALMAR FARM
In Transylvania
BY CAL CARPENTER
I’ve long since decided that
animals are smarter than most
people give them credit for.
You ju.st have to be around
them and watch to see the
most unusual examples. I
see things like this most ev
ery day aronnd the farm and
I’ve written about them many
times.
You also hear a lot of good
animal stories about such
things once it becomes known
that you’re an animal lover,
which Is surely the case with
me. Take* for example, the story
I heard over at Canton the oth
er Sunday When we went to
visit Mother.
We were having dinner at
my sister, Kate Howell's house.
My brother-in-law, Claude Har
kins, asked me:
"Have you ever heard of a
pony walking a footlog?”
I said no, I hadn’t. And he
proceeded to tell me about
one that did. .
Claude has a pasture that
joins the property of Sunny
Point Baptist Church and
he’s been letting the pastor’s
young son keep his pet black
Shetland pony in it.
The pasture is separated from
Claude’s yard by a goodsized
brook running between deep
banks with a strong fence on
the yard side — everywhere,
that is, except at the end of a
footlog across the branch. The
footlog is some 20 feet long and
about 15 inches wide. It takes
a pretty sure-footed person to
walk across it safely — it’s pret
ty high over the center of the
branch.
One day, the pony was found
over In Claude’s yard. Claude
p’’t it back In the pasture
through a regular gate, but
he couldn’t imagine how it
got in his vard until the
Beverend Heffner, the pas
tor. mentioned that he’d seen
1 good 490 ixvipds. walking
[ across the rickety footlog.
Pays Claude, “Even from the
preacher, I found that hard to
believe, and I guess my ex
pression showed it.”
“it you don’t believe it,”
said the preacher, noting
Claude’s skeptical look, “just
watch and you’ll see.”
So Claude watched, and
ure enough, one evening just
before dark he saw Blackie
cross the narrow footlog.
“There was Blackie,” he
says, “carefully placing his
dainty little hooves one in
front of the other and slow
ly easing across. It was a
sight to see, believe me.
“Nbw I believe it,” he says.
I do too, for I know Claude
wouldn’t fake a story like that.
But it surprises me too, for
I’ve always heard that horses—
and ponies too, I suppose —
weren’t sure-footed animals. You
hear a lot about the sure-foot
edness of mountain goatst bur
ros and even mules; but not
horses or ponies.
—☆—
Regarding the story above,
Claude mentioned that Rob
ert Ripley would probably
like to know about, this for
his “Believe It Or Not” car
toons.
“It seems to me,” I said,
“that Mr. Ripley died several
years ago. I don’t believe I’ve
seen his, cartoon in a long time.”
“I don’t know about that,”
said Claude, “but I’ve seen his
cartoon in the GRIT not so long
ago.”
“Probably a rerun,” I said.
“The GRIT has lots of old
things. I see it every now
and then up at the barber
shop in Rosman. That paper’s
been going on for a long
time.”
“It sure has,” said Mother.
“Why, I remember reading it
when I was a young girl.”
(Mother’s now nearly 87.)
“We really thought we had
something when we got a copy
of the GRIT in those days,”
said Mother, and went on to
tell us about it.
“We didn’t have much time
for reading then. Everybody had
to work to make a living. But
we’d have a little time at
night and it was then we’d read
the GRIT.
“Even that took work,”
said Mother, “for kerosene
oil cost money and we
couldn’t afford to burn the
lamps for light to read by. So
we children — my brothers
ar.d sisters and I—woulu go
up on the mountain and get
our own reading light.
“We’d find a big, old pine
tree, cut it down and split out
the pine knots. We’d cut
these into pieces and use them
for*tWtTtms: They were rietofa
rorin and burned with a strong,
yellow light.
“You could light two ol
these, put one on each side
of the hearth, and lay down
between them. It wasn’t bright,
but there was enough light to
read by. And that’s how we
did mo;t of our reading — the
GRIT and the few books and
magazines we saw.
“My uncle subscribed to a
few magazines and these were
passed on to us. When we’d
read them, we passed them on
to someone else. Anything to
read was too precious to throw
away; those few magazines and
books and the GRIT were read
by everyone in the country.”
While she was talking,
Mother’s eyes were dim,
looking far into the distant
past. She was seeing again, I
suppose, a teenaged girl ly
ing in front of a fireplace
those 75 years ago, reading
by torchlight.
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Bus Fund
Reaeheas
$3500.00
The Brevard College Bus
Fund, started by two BC stud
ents, Cathy Schilling and Fred
Dean, recently overshot the
$3500.00 mark. This is a far
cry from the $15,000 needed for
puchasing a new 30 passenger
bus.
The money was donated by
interested and concerned par
ents. dormitories, and a large
donation of $2,000.00 was re
ceived from the Student Union
Legislature.
To help in raising more funds,
the Brevard College Recycling
Program will hopefully get into
full swing on Feb. 26, but will
depend entirely on student help
The current plan calls for a
house to house drive in the
town of Brevard. To accomp
lish this, students are needed.
A1 o, it is planned that stud
ents will be needed to over
look a drop off point probably
in a shopping center in the
community for those people
that would rather drop off
their glass and paper than wait
for a student to come by their
home.
If only a few students volun
teer, the whole program will
have to be dropped. This is an
important project not only for
Elks To Award Scholarships
To Colleges And Universities
Robert Lentz, Exalted
Pnler of Brevard Elks Lodge,
Number 1768, announces to
day the Trustees of the Or
der’s National Foundation
have again offered well over
half a million dollars in col
lie scholarships for the
academic year 1972-73.
Tho deadline d-t“ for fil’og
annl'Vations is February 15th,
1972 Mr. Lentz urged students
in 1he Tra*>r”lvan'a County
area vho need financial help in
order to go to college to see
the advisors or the principal of
their hjeh school for more in
formation and application
forms. The forms may al'O be
'-pei-red from the Prevard Elks
Lodee or bv telephoning 883
3265.
The Flks National Founda
tion offers 730 scholarships
ranging from S60O to $2,500,
with the total coming to cov
er $"20 000. 365 awards will
go to b0"o and the same num
ber to girls.
High school and prep school
seniors and college students be
the bus fund but al;o to
strengthen ties between the
colege and the community. For
those students interested in
helping please contact Cathy
Schilling or Fred Dean.
low the senior class are eligi
ble if they are United States
citizens and reside in the juris
diction of the Order. The awards
are given with no restrictions
as to race creed or country of
origin.
In addition to scholastic at
tainment. applicants are judged
on citizenship, personality,
leadership, preservernree. re
'ourcefulne". patriotism and
financial need.
The local lodge here in
Prevard will award Saving
Bonds to the winner from
Bosnian and Brevard.
The Elks National Founda
tion scholarships and “Most
Valuable Student” awards pro
gram is row in its 38th year
and has been approved by the
National Association of Sec
ondary School Principals.
Well over million in
scholarships have been dis
tributed by the National
Foundation since its incep
tion.
Two slices of fresh apple put
together with a layer of cream
cheese or slices of Cheddar
cheese makes a hearty and sub
stantial snack for after school
appetites.
Lt. Beard
Completes
Course
T
Army Second Litutenant
John T. Beard, 22, son of
Colonel (Ret.) and Mrs. W. N.
Beard, 1050 Neely Road, Bre
vard, recently completed a
nine-week Ranger course at
the U. S. Army Infantry School,
Ft. Bcnning, Ga.
The course is designed to de
velop exceptional endurance
in the Infantry Soldier as well
as teach him the fkills of
field craft, survival, mountain,
jungle, airlanding and special
amphibious operations.
Training in small boat opera
tions, water crossing, jungle
patrolling and survival was
was taueht in Florida Ranger
Camp, Eglin Air Force Base,
while mountaineering and
longrange patrolling instruc
tion was given at Mountain
Ranger Camp, Dahlonega, Ga.
Lt. Beard entered the Army
in July, 1967.
He is a 1967 graduate of
Ou'hing Academy, Ashburn
ham, Mass., and received his
B. S. degree in 1971 from the
U. S. Military Academy, West
Point, N. Y.
His wife, Cindy, lived in Co
lumbus, Ga„ during his train
ing.
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