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\ TRANSYLVANIA— 11m Land of Waterfalls, Mecca (or Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah National Forest asd dome of Brevard College aa> Brevard Music Festival. THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize-Winning Home Town News} fr REPRODUCTION OF AH Matter Herein Is PrahJMt ed Without The IinnsU Goa sent Of The Owner. * Vol. 86—No. 23 StCOND CLASS POSTASt BREVARD. N. C. ZIP COM M7IS BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1973 k 32 PAGES TODAY * PUBLISHED WEEKLY PERSONS ATTENDING the ground breaking ceremonies last Thursday for a new union hall of Local 1971 of United Papermakers, from left to right, were: Kenneth O’Shields, Trustee; Ralph Lee, President of Ralph Lee Construc tion Corp.; Harry Galloway, Trustee; Nancy Logan, Recording Secretary; Arnold Brown, \ice President and Area Director, Area 4 UPIU; Harold L. Stamey, Trustee; Stanley Woodfin, Rep resentative, UPIU; and Paul D. Seagle, President, Local 1971. (Times Staff Photo) Ceremonies Held Union Hall Being Built On Morris Road, Pisgah Forest Ground breaking ceremonies for the United Paperworkers, Local 1971 Union Hall to be built on Morris Rood, Pisgah Sorest, were held last Thurs »y, May 31st at 10:30 a.m. Officers, Trustees and mem bers of the Local attended, along with Arnold Brown, Vice President and Area Director for Area 4; Stanley Woodfin, UPIU Representative and Ralph Lee of Ralph Lee Con struction Corp. Work began at the same time as the ground breaking and the completion date is set for early this fall. When completed, the build ing will be a two-story block and brick structure containing a 6,400 square feet Meeting Hall and rest rooms upstairs, and five offices, storage, plus kitchen and dining area and rest rooms downstairs. The building will be com pletely air conditioned and will be one of the largest Union Halls anywhere in North Caro lina. The building is being built by Ralph Lee Construction Cor poration of Greenville, S. C. The upstairs meeting hall will be able to seat 1,000 per sons. Burgess Announces United Fund Accepting New Agency Applications President Ben Burgess, Tran sylvania County United Fund, requests that any agency in the county, not presently an agency member of the Fund, which de sires to seek support from the upcoming Fund Drive, send a copy of its budget request in duplicate to Paul Goeser, Ex ecutive Director of the Fund, by June 22nd. The request should include a general statement of the pur pose and program of the agency, its operating budget for 1974, including an amount request ed from the Fund, and the per son who should be notified con cerning a later budget hearing date. The United Fund is the united way in which Transyl vanians attempt to invest in the various serving agencies of the county who make life bet ter for all of the residents of the county, President Burgess states. Next Tuesday Night Chamber Of Commerce Directors To Hear Cole The regular monthly meeting of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce will be held next Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. at the library and will be high lighted by remarks on the up coming season at Brevard Music Center by that organiza Noted Benefactor Cary Boshamer Buried On Tuesday, Dr. Davis Quoted Cary Carlisle Boshamer, age 77, noted industrialist and trus tee of Brevard College and the University of North Carolina, died last Saturday, June 2nd, after a long illness. Mr. Boshamer hag been a Brevard College Board member since 1954 and has contributed generous^ to the college de velopment program to help with the construction of the Boshamer Gymnasium, which is named in his honor, the outdoor tract, swimming pool, the class room building ag well as other campus buildings. He has also tonia and Clover, S. C. Mr. Boshamer also owned a cattle ranch and a horse farm and once owned the Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore, Mary land. He is survived by his widow, Kathleen Porter Boshamer. tion’s new general manager, Robert G. Cole. Mr. Cole, who was appointed BMC’s general manager in May, will shortly be moving his family here to Brevard, where they will be permanent resi dents Jlis appearance at next Tuesday night’s meeting will give Chamber members an op portunity to meet him and wel come him to the area. Several other important committee reports are expected to be presented, and Chamber President Bill Norris urges all members, directors, and those interested in the Chamber of Commerce to attend. President Norris also re minds interested persons that a petition encouraging individual endorsement of the reopening of the Jones Gap access road from Transylvania county to South Carolina Route #11 is now in the Chamber office where it can he signed by sup porters of the project. Jade Mitchell, chairman of the Chamber’s Highway com mittee. had reported several meetings back that the Green ville, S. C., Chamber of Com Methodists Attending Conference Methodist leaders in Tran sylvania county are attending the annual meeting of the Western North Carolina United Methodist Conference at Lake Junaluska. Some 1,500 delegates and 1,000 visitors are in attendance. Representing the First United Methodist church of Brevard are Dr. Robert Tuttle, the Pas tor, and Bill Boggs, lay leader. Betsy Boggs is the Youth Rep resentative of the Asheville district. Dr. Merle Young is attending from St. Timothy United Meth odist church, and Rev. Henry King is representing the Bos nian United Methodist church. English Chapel and the Selica United Methodist church. Dr. Robert A. Davis, Presi dent of Brevard College, heads the College delegation, which includes Dean Ben Wade, Rev. Ed Roy, Rev. Wannamaker Hardin, who will be accepting a church at the conference after several years of teaching here at the College and John D. Eversman. Speakers during the confer ence include Bishop Roy H. Short, retired, of Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. James S. Ferguson, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and Dr. William Holmes Bor ders, pastor of Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta. » ....— - ■ After Recent FloodStorm jjg 2 ^ Transylvania Ts Declared Disaster Area, Damages Set At $1,313,000 Emergency Conservation Materials Requested The Transylvania Disaster Committee, after estimating damages at $1,313,000 in this county from the recent flood and storm over the Memorial Day weekend, has declared Transylvania a disaster area. With this designation, the committee is requesting Emergency Conservation ma terials from the Secretary of Agriculture. These practices, if approv ed, will be used for leveling land washed out by the rain fall and recent flood, re habilitation streambanks and channels, re-establishing per manent vegitative cover, re storing and cleaning drain age systems and other con servation measures. The local emergency com mittee is composed of heads of the local units of the United States Department of Agriculture. Members are: Charles Bryson, Chairman, (ASCS); Merrimon Shuford, Soil Conservation Service;, Jerry Purser, County Exten sion Service; and Ranger Dan Hile, of the U S Forest Service. The Emergency Conserva tion Materials cost - sharing is limited to areas where new conservation problems and threats have been created on farmland by natural dis asters. If these areas are not treated the land would be endangered or the produc tivity of the land is seriously hampered. The damage must be unusual in character and is not the type that recurs frequently. Also, the area must be damaged to the ex tent that without Federal as sistance, the farmer could not afford to return the land to agricultural usage. The request must go through the necessary chan nels for approval. It is ex pected to be approximately two weeks before information on the amount of money ap proved for Transylvania County will be known. The local ASCS office will be handling the funds for this program. The office will be glad to answer any ques tions which persons might have pertaining to this pro gram. Feel free to call 883 3317 or drop by the office in room 208 of the Bryant Build ing. Agenda Given Commissioners To Review 1973-74 Budget Monday The regular monthly meeting of the Board of County Com missioners will be held Monday evening, June 11th at 7:00 p. m. in the courtroom. The complete budget for Transylvania County for the 73-74 fiscal year will be open for review. If the Commis sioners accept the preliminary budget, it will then be open for public inspection in their offices untQ the first meeting in July at which time it will be, formally adopted. Another item of interest to before the Commissioners will be consideration of the Erosion Control Ordinance. A similar ordinance was recently adopted by Forsyth County. This would regulate the man ner in which the land can be changed to insure that mud and other debris would be kept out of the streams. The Commissioners will also open bids and purchase a new accounting machine for the Ac countant’s office. This new ma chine is necessary because the present machine does not have the capabilities required by the new Fiscal Control Act of North Carolina. Any persons wishing to bring business to the attention of the Commissioners should get in touch with the Commis vited to attend the meeting. _y^n Editorial Flood Control Plan Needed! Some who fought so hard to kill the TVA Flood Control Plan for Transylvania County are of the opinion, so we hear, that they can rest on their laurels. “We can now concentrate on en vironmental matters,” is their rather vague plan for the future. They seem to have forgotten com pletely the matter of flood control. The photo above shows what an ostrich-like, head in the sand atti tude this is. Pictured is the bridge on Wilson Road in Pisgah Forest a week ago last Monday. It is graphic proof of the inconvenience suffered all over Transylvania County because of flood waters that closed roads and brought daily activities to a stand still for hundreds of county citizens. But this is only the tip of the ice berg, so to speak. Travel disruption, however inconvenient, is a small thing compared to the real destruc tion and heavy financial loss to farmers and landowners caused by the uncontrolled waters of the French Broad River. And even this is subordinate to the very real dan ger of loss of life, fortunately un realized, both from the flood waters themselves and the isolation they caused, had there been a real medi cal emergency. Because of flood waters, the Transylvania County Disaster Com mittee has declared us a disaster area. The committee, made up of the County ASCS committee, Exten sion Service, Soil Conservation and Forestry Service, has set damages at $1,313,000. Yet some people, whose concern in the flood situation is, obviously, only sympathetic or aesthetic, would now concentrate on “environmental” matters. We think it is incumbent upon those who fought so hard to defeat the TVA flood control plans to de vote some of their abundant energy toward coming up with alternatives instead of mooning about general environmental matters. It is hardly sufficient to simply be against something; we should be for some thing. And that something should be an adequate flood control plan for Transylvania County. As many know, Transylvania is in the region of the second highest average annual rainfall in the con tiguous United States. This can only mean periodic stream flooding; and with continued clearing for building and timber cutting, it will get worse. Something has to be done to control this natural situation, and it must be done soon. We should like to hear some con crete flood control proposals from our altruistic environmentalists and conservationists, as well as those who suffer the real damages in these frequent floods. A word of warning: If we don’t come up with a generally acceptable flood control plan soon, massive public pressure will result in some thing being done — something that our conservationists will have no say in whether they like it or not. Average temperatures were 71 and 51 in Brevard during the past week with a low of 48 on Wednesday morning and a high of 83 Sunday. Long range forecast for North Carolina calls for partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers Friday and along the coast over the weekend. Warm days and mild nights are forecast with bighs ranging in the low 80s in the mountains and mostly in the mid 80s elsewhere. Lows will average In the mid 50s in IfriS? —turn to Page Three Fourth List More Local Students In College Graduation Events Several more Transylvania students graduated from Col leges and Universities during the past week. Graduating at Western Caro lina University last Sunday were the following: Brevard—Keith Elliott, Keith Dunn Harbin, Route 2 (both master’s degree); William Roy Barfield, Charles Louie Fisher, Deborah Ann Foote, Route 1, Rodney BpiTy Gaither, Mar garet Gayle Johnson, magna cum laude, EUena Stone Lyda, David A. Pittillo Route 2, cum laude, Jesse Michael Smith, Gayle Leigh Waldrop Route 2, Peggy Lee Williams, Jerald M. Willingham. Cedar Mountain — John Rob ert Wickliffe, Jr. Pisgah Forest — Clarence \ William Ramer, Route 1, Mich- \ ael E. Reid Route 1. Rosman — Barbara McCall Putnam (master’s degree); Vic —Turn To Page Three
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