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TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfalls, Meets for Summer Campe, Entrance to Piagah National Fore at and Home of Brevard Collage and Brevard Music Festival. THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize-Winning Home Town Newspaper ★ Vol. 85—No. 7 •tCOND CLASS eOSTAet PAID AT BUSTARD. N. C. ZIP CODS SSTIS BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1972 I ) PAGES TODAY ★ REPRODUCTION OP All Matter Herein la Prohibit ed Without The Expressed Con sent Of The Owner. PUBLISHED WEEKLY SIGNING NOTES — The men above are sign ing notes for nearly two million dollars for the Brevard Housing Authority grant from the Fed eral government to be used in connection with the low-rent housing program for the City of Brevard. Seated are Cecil J. Hill, Chairman of the Board of Housing Commissioners, and Charles S. Dunlop, Executive Director. Standing, from left to right, are: Mayor Charlie Campbell, and Commissioners Charles F. Himes, L. E. Bagwell, Otis Jones and J. I. Ayers. (Times Staff Photo) Progress Report Hospital Receives Second Grant Of $125,000From Duke Duke Endowment to mak ing its second payment of $12fft000 to the new Transyl vania Community hospital, John W. Bailey, the adminis trator, announces today. ':-|V The first installment of $123, 000 was made last year, and a similar amount will be forth coming Jn 1973, Mr. Bailey con tlnUfte The current payment will be made within the next 60 days, according to Ashley H. Gale, Jr., Assistant Executive Director of Duke Endowment. Mr. Bailey also announces to day that the Transylvania Com munity hospital is also receiv ing $1,138 from the Duke En dowment. This is an annual grant and it goes towards operation ex penses. It represents $1 a day for each day of free care reported by qualified hos •v' pita Is in North and South Carolina. j* Construction on the new hos i’ pital on the Four-lane highway ,< in North Brevard is about 20 per cent completed, Mr. Bailey ' stated Wednesday morning. |' At the moment, the con , tractors are pouring the floors, and Mr. Bailey is 1 pleased with the progress that is being made. Free Westerns Shown "Cougar Country" Attracts 1,000, Film, However, Fails To Arrive “Cougar Country”, the highly advertised animal film now playing across the country, attracted nearly a thousand people in Brevard last Thursday, but unfortunately they didn’t get to see the movie. It wasn't the fault of the management of the Co-Ed Theatre, however, as every effort was exerted to get the film here in time for the after noon and evening showings. The distributing company, American Na tional Enterprises. Inc., just didn’t get the film here until late in the evening, much too late for showing. C. B. “Dick” Carter explained to the crowds that the film was late in arriving, just why he didn't know, and instead, he was show ing two, free western films. This delighted many who had waited in line for quite some time. They had a ball. They bought popcorn, hissed and booed the villian and stomped their feet just like they did at Westerns 25 years ago. Mr. Carter said he was pleased that the public accepted his apology so graciously, and again apologizes for the incident. “This hasn’t happened to us in many, many years, and we hope it never happens again,” he declared. And he also said it would be the last film that he would book from American National Enterprises. Weather conditions at Bre vard during the past week were generally quite mild and pleas ant for wintertime, and tem peratures averaged 52 and 24 for the week. More than an inch of rain also fell. Extended outlook for Thurs day through Saturday: Chance of showers Friday, otherwise fair throughout the period, with seasonal temperatures. Daytime highs in the low to mid 50s. Lows in the 20s Thursday mor ning. Weather data for the past week was as follows: High Low Prec. Feb. 9_ 47 16 0.00 Feb. 10_ 54 15 0.00 Feb. 11_ 56 24 0.00 Feb. 12_ 37 25 0.40 Feb. 13_- 53 27 0.92 Feb. 14 _ 59 22 0.00 Feb. 15_ 55 37 0.00 Post Office To Close Monday The Brevard Post Office will be closed on Monday, Feb. 21st in observance of Washington’s birthday. There will be no win dow service and no regular mail delivery on city or rural routes. Special delivery service will be provided. I Hat In Ring Representative Taylor Is I Now In NC Senate Race State Representative Charles Taylor announces today he will be a candidate tor the 27th State Senate District. The dis trict is made up of Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Hen derson, Jackson, Macon, Polk, Swain and Transylvania coun In the 1969 and the 1971 ses sions Representative Taylor served as House Minority Lead er. During his three terms in the State House Mr. Taylor Intro duced and supported a substan tial number of piece* of pro gressive legislation. Aqua* the legislation he introduced were automobile liability insurance reform, fiscal^efonmjefjda Survey Reveals Tax Deductions Average $2,010 Here Taxpayers in Transylvania County who are working on their Federal income tax re turns can now determine how closely thedr personal deductions compare with (he average. -V ‘ •’ Were their charitable contri butions in the past year larger or smaller than those made by others? What about their de ductible outlays for medical ex penses, for interest and for local taxes? To know whether their de ductions are running higher or lower than those listed by other people might be useful. Some light in this direc tion is provided hy the Com merce Clearing Bouse, a na tional authority on tax and business law, and hy the In ternal Revenue Service. They amounted to in recent years at each income level. Among families in the Unit ed States with incomes close to the average prevailing in Tran sylvania County, the deductions come to approximately $2,010, which is about 19 percent of their adjusted gross income. The percentage varies with income, it is found. It ranges from 15 percent to 23 percent. Families in the local area whose incomes are as high as $20,000 to $25,000, for ex ample, would have deductions of about $3,500 under normal circumstances, equal to about 18 percent of their adjusted gross income. On the other band, those in the $7,000 to $8,000 bracket would be de ducting $1,550, or 21 percent Of the $2,010 in deductions taken by families with incomes approximating the Transylvania County average, a breakdown shows that $282 of it is for charitable contributions, $664 for interest paid on loans and instalment debt, $675 for state and local taxes and $389 for medical and dental expenditur es. As for the donations to charity, it is noted that the government is a silent part ner in these gifts. It picks up part of the tab. As a result, the net cost to the taxpayer of each dollar he contributes ranges from as little as 30 cents, for those in the top brackets, to 81 cents for those with small incomes. The Commerce Clearing House warns that the deduc tion figures are merely a guide to what most people have been listing and that proper records must be kept to support all claims. t Two Million irant Made To |g Brevard Housing Authority 100 Units Will Be Constructed On Three Sites Announcement is made by U. S. Senator Everett Jordan and U. S. Congressman Roy A. Taylor of the approval of Brevard’s Low Rent Housing Project by the Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment. The Project which is for 100 housing units was ap proved for a cost of $1,941,916. Cecil J. Hill, Chairman of the Brevard Housing Authority, says that he and his commis sioners are happy over the news that HUD has this amount ear marked for the local program. A lot of work and patience has been spent on presenting the program for satisfactory approval. Mr. Hill thanks his commissioners, the Town of ficials and Charles Dunlop, the Executive Secretary, for work well done. Former May or Raymond F. Bennett, in answering the pleas of citiz ens petitions, started this pro gram and present Mayor Campbell has been promin ant in keeping it alive. Many local people have cooperated and been interested in the project. For a period of over a year the project was under suspen sion of spending because of the lack of funds in HUD. During this time the Local Authority worked on ways to get reinstated so that development could move on to final stages. Schemetic designs and specifications were completed by the architects, McDonald, Brewton Associates. “Although we were under sus pension,” says Mr. Dunlop, “no one gave up on the idea of fur nishing low rent housing in the area.” There will be 40 units for the elderly located on a site close to the center of town for convenience of the ten ants. Sixty units will be built on two other sites. The pro ject. is designed as a well planned subdivision and will be an asset to the community. One building will be for com munity facilities. This build ing will also house the office of the Manager and will have a section for maintenance equipment. The Community Building will be located on the Elderly Site. Blueprints of the housing can be seen at the Brevard Housing Authority office at 127 West Main Street. Visitors are wel come to inspect the plans. It is hoped that the acquisition of land will be completed at an early date so that contracts can be let for the building. NEW ELECTION BOARD CHAIRMAN — Glenn Burrell, right, is pictured above being sworn in as the new Chairman of the Board of Elections in Transylvania county by Mrs. Marian M. McMahon, Clerk of Superior Court. Mr. Burrell succeeds Admiral Ligon Ard, who resigned to run for the Board of County Com missioners. (Times Staff Photo) Several File Filing Deadline For Primary In May Slated Monday Noon Five-County Area Judge Gash Is Seeking Re-Election In District Chief District Court Judge Robert T. Gash of Brevard has filed with the State Board of Elections his notice of candi dacy to succeed himself in the 29th Judicial District, composed of Henderson, McDowell. Polk, Rutherford and Transylvania Counties. Judge Gash, a Democrat, was elected district court judge in 1968 when the district court system was activated in the 29th district as a part of the statewide court reorganization plan. In July of 1970, he was named Chief Judge of the 29th district and continues to serve in that position. The North Carolina Confer ence of Chief Judges., an or ganization dealing with adminis trative aspects of the court system and composed of the chief judges of each of the state’s 30 districts, elected Judge Gash its chairman for 1972. Judge Gash is currently Vice President of the N. C. Associ ation of District Court Judges —Turn to Page Eight The deadline for filing in the May 6th Primary Election is at noon on Monday, Febru ary 21st, Glenn Burrell, Chairman of the Board of Elections, announces today. Mr. Burrell is the new Chairman, succeeding Ad miral Ligon Ard, who resign ed to run for Comity Commis sioner of Transylvania. The office of the Board of Elections is open upstairs here in the Court House. There will be races in Tran sylvania in the following of fices: Board of County Commis sioners Board of Education (2) Sate Senate House of Representatives Tax Collector Register of Deeds. As The Times went to press Wednesday, the following Democrats had filed: R. M. Boyd, for Commissioner; Thomas E. Payne, Jr., for Commissioner; Admiral Ard, for Commissioner; Cecil J. Hill, State Senate, and Dr. —Turn to Page Four States Platform Cecil J. Hill Files In The State Senator Running Cecil J. Hill, prominent Bre vard attorney, has announced his candidacy for the N. C. State Senate to fill one of the two seats in the new 27th Sena torial District. He plans to cam paign for primary nomination and election on a platform ask ing for bi-partisan support. “I count on and believe I will receive bi-partisan political support,” says Mr. Hill, “for I think it is obvious to both Democrats and Republicans that a cooperative political as sociation with the majority Democrat Legislature is neces sary if this district is to receive its fair share of the state’s de velopmental resources. “I believe it is obvious to Re —-Tub to FUge Eight
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