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THEfTRANSYLVAMA TIMES A State And National Prize-Winning Hoi Town Newspaper ■. .. ■ .. *- ■ - m 1 t i ■ ■ -■ ★ Vol. 86—No. 39 ,»BAT«?oeVlwl'2?TSS,o«M».. ★ BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ■ 73 ★ PUBLISHED WEEKLY * 34 PAGES TODAY * —.... ..i. ..— ■ —I— —«■==? Cl. B . ■■■ ■ , - IT :■■■■ . ■ -a i ■» TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of tm Summer Camp*, Pii*ah National Foreet and Roma of Brevard CoL'age mao Brevard Mueic PeetivaL a REPRaDUCnON OF AH Matter Herein la ProUMt ad Without The turanit Com aent Of The Owner. DIVISIONAL CHAIRMEN of the 1974 United Fund campaign here in Transylvania county are pictured above with a poster urging everyone to support the local fund raising effort which will get underway on October 2nd. They are, left to right; Landon Deal, Public Employees Divisional Chairman; Tom Crawford, Industrial Division Chairman; Ralph Williams, Advance Gifts Division Chairman; Dick Thomas, Commercial Division Chairman; Ray Miller, Campaign Chairman; and Transylvania United Fund Executive Director Paul Goeser. (Times Staff Photo) By Soil Conservation Service Recreational Potential For County Revealed In Survey A report on the potential for outdoor recreation in Transylvania County has re cently been compiled by the Soil Conservation Service. According to Roger W. Mon tague, District Conservationist with SCS, the report covers 11 different kinds of outdoor rec reational developments. The appraisal was made by members of various federal, state and local agencies and groups who are familiar with Transylvania County. The new report shows a gen erally high potential for de velopment of recreational en terprises in the county. Enter prises appraised as having a high potential for future de velopment include vacation cabins, cottages and homesites; camping grounds; picnic and field sports areas; fishing wat ers, both warm water and cold water; hunting areas; scienic areas; riding stables. Other areas of recreation where development potential can be seen are golf courses, shooting preserves, natural and historic areas and water sports. Winter sports were pot con sidered in the appraisal because of the very restricted areas with a high enough elevation to have a siutable climate. The bound report includes individual maps showing the major tourist routes in the county, natural and historical —Turn to Page Three Schedule Announced Lions Visual Screening Van In County 10 Days The Western North Carolina Lions, Inc., Pre-School Visual Screening Van will be here in Transylvania County on the fol lowing dates in these locations: T. C. Henderson School, Mon day, October 1 Rosman Elementary School, Tuesday, October 2 Brevard Elementary School, Wednesday, October 3 Brevard Plaza, Thursday and Friday, Ocober 4, 5 Pisgah Forest Lions Den, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, October 8th, 9th and 10th. Sponsored by the Brevard and Pisgah Forest Lions Club, this is a free eye screening clinic for all pre-school chil dren, ages, three years through six years. The screening is for eye conditions such as “lazy eye”, “weak eye”, “confused eye”, which are often unnoticed, but may be a serious handicap to a child. As this is an annual project, the Lions urge all children in this age group to take advant age of this screening. Books Are Open Registration Underway For Election In City Registration is underway for the City Election, which be held here on November 6th. The books will be open daily, exoept Saturday and Sunday, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., through October 8th. Mrs. Marian Schlunz is the Projects Underway --.- v . ’•* . r~ ' Progressive Report On County Road Work Made Jack Mitchell, Secondary Hoads Councilman for this dis trict, has reported on several items of work underway or shortly to be started in Tran sylvania County. Mr. Mitchell is working close ly with the newly appointed Secondary Roads Council for Transylvania County, whose members are Quentin Cantrell. Chairman, Jackie Hall and Ralph Waldrop, members. These men are currently reviewing Transylvania Counts secondary .joads and establishing paving priorities. and complete the paving author ized on on that.-road. iSASS; The bridge on Wilson Boad at Pisgah Forest is to be re planked and resurfaced. Wort: on this will begin very soon. The residents of Pttgah For est will be very happy to learn that after years of suffering, the drainage ditch' wiB be in stalled. Work will begin some time in October and comple tion is expected two or three weeks after initiation of the work. The County Commission has pushed very hard to see that this project was funded. Commission Chairman Bill Registrar for Precinct No. 1 at the Municipal Building, and Mrs. Jerry Paxton is the Regis trar for Precinct No. 2 at the American Legion Building. Citizens, who are not regis tered to vote in the City Elec tion on November 6th, are urg ed to register at the Municipal Building in the Council Rohm during -*-1 tion Mayor and two members ot tne Board of Aldermen in the Elec tion. Candidates may file tor office with Mrs. Opal C. Hahn, the Executive Secretary to the Board of Elections of Brevard, in her offic« at the Municipal Building until 12:00 noon Fri day, October 12th. excluding Saturdays Election Board Office To Open All Next Week In order that persons who are not registered for the Novem ber 6th Election, may do so, the Board of Elections office in the Court House will remain open all week, Monday through Saturday. According to Glenn Burrell, Chairman of the Board, the books for registration will close on October 8th. Persons, who are in doubt about their registration, should check with the office next week, October 1st - 6th. Tickets On Sale At Door For Big Fish Supper A big fish supper with all the trimmings will be held in the Masonic temple on East Main street on Friday, Sept. 28th from 4:30 to 8:00 o’clock. The price per plate will be $1.50 for adults, and children under the age of 12 can eat for 75 cents. Jerry Hart Jerome, the Wor shipful Master, announces the tickets are now being sold to the Masons and their friends. Profit from the supper will be equally divided between ' the Oxford Orphanage and the Ma sonic and Eastern Star Home. The Master states that the popular request take out boxes will be available at 4:30 p. m. , Tickets will also be sold at —Turn To Page Three Uniter Fund Campaign Will Open With Breakfast For Workers, 2nd 61 3 Weaffier By FEED REITER j Western North Carolina daily temperatures cooled a bit dur ing the past week and should be cooling off considerably more in the next few days. Temperature averages for the week were 79 and 57, with a high reading of 85 Monday of this week, and a low of 47 degrees last Wednesday. There was no significant rainfall for the period. Three-day forecast for Thurs day through Saturday: Chance of showers Thursday. Partly cloudy Friday. Fair Saturday. Highs in the mountains will be in the upper 70s, while the low readings will average in the 50s. Brevard weather data for the week was as follows: Date High Low Prec. Sept. 19 _ 74 47 0.00 Sept. 20_ 78 51 0.00 Sept. 21 _ 80 52 0.00 Sept. 22_ 80 62 0.00 Sept. 23 _ 78 62 0.00 Sept. 24 _ 85 60 0.00 Sept. 25 _ 76 62 0.00 Hotline Begins Operations On October 4th Transylvania’s Hotline will begin operations here October fourth. Hot line is an emergency telephone service for anyone who needs help. “We are not geared solely to any one group, or any one kind of problem,” one Hotline staff member emphasized. “We are here for anybody of any age in any kind of difficulty. Too often people in trouble don’t know where to turn for practi cal help or information, or even for comfort and encourage ment.” Hotline also stresses that it is a completely independent organization: “We have no af filiations with social agencies, churches, Federal or state pro grams.” ■*' People calling Hotline need not reveal their names, and all calls will be handled confident ially. Trained volunteers will man the telephones weekends around the clock from 6:00 p. m. ev ery Thursday until midnight every I.unday, beginning Oc tober 4th. (Later, Hotline hopes to expand and remain available seven days a week.) The number to call if you have a problem is 883-3737. Priest 25 Years Rev. J. Paul Byron Is New Catholic Minister Locally father J. Paul Byron is the new Pastor at the Sacred Heart Catholic church. ' ' : • i* „ Also included in his charge is the St Jude Catholic Church at Sapphire Valley. Rev. Byron succeeds Rev. William Hamely. Recently, members of the lo cal church gave a welcoming pot luck supper for Rev. Byron, which was also termed as a fare well supper for Rev. Hamely. Father Byron, who has been a Priest for 25 years, comes to Brevard from Jacksonville, North Carolina, where he was Pastor of the Catholic church there for six years. For 10 years prior to that time, he was in Charlotte. Rev. Byron is a native of Albany, New York. In addition to being a minis ter and an excellent speaker, Father Byron is a musician with emphasis in choral music. GIVEN PROMOTION — It’s Major Jack Cabe now.. The former Brevard State Highway Patrol man is now stationed in Raleigh where he is Direc tor of Zone Operations for the State system. Major Cabe served the Patrol in Brevard from 1950 to 1959, and he has been stationed in several areas of the state since that time. He is pictured in The Times office on a visit to Brevard last Thursday afternoon. (Times Staff Photo) Goal This Year Is $62,159.79, Small Increase The “Kick-off” breakfast for the Transylvania County United Fund will be held Tuesday. Oc tober 2nd at 7:30 a. m. at Ber ry’s. A good program is planned for the occasion, and Fund Chairman Ray Miller indicates that a careful time limit is be ing set so that persons attend ing may get on to their work for the day. Public spirited citi zens who attend will be the guests of the First - Citizens and the First Union National Banks of Brevard. The United Fund goal for 1974 is $62,152.79, which rep reesnts a five percent increase over last year’s budget of $59, 076.89. In view of the inflationary costs of the day, a five percent increase hardly covers the in creased costs for maintaining the same level of services of fered this year. With ever in creasing needs, service agen cies are called upon to offer expanded services. Success of this year’s United —Turn to Page Three Breakdown Given Powell Bills Funds At Record High For Brevard And Rosman Tuesday Night Commissioners Discuss Many Matters At Meeting The Board of County Commis sioners discussed many facets of the Ambulance Service at their meeting Tuesday evening. The most important issue concerned stationing ambulances at loca tions other than the service building. This would particular ly mean football games and other athletic events. Afer some discussion, the Commissioners voted not to sta tion the ambulances at any rec reational activity. There were several reasons for this con clusion. The most important one concerns the lack of per sonnel. Right now, there are two attendants on duty and if the ambulance is called out, two more men are called in for standby service .If an ambu lance were stationed away from its home base this would re quire paying two additional men and it is felt that the num ber of injuries is so small that the expense would not be justi fied. Commission Chairman Bill Ives brought to the attention of the audience that the Ambu lance Service is operated at a loss of from $30,000 to $35,000 per year. A further problem involved in stationing an ambulance at games is the fact that this would require an ambulance being on duty about three nights a week, since there are games in Ros man and Brevard on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights quite often. The Ambulance Service has been called twice this year. Ac curate records are kept by the Ambulance Service and it was reported that they were able to be at the scene three minutes after the call in the first in stance and in five minutes after receiving the call in the second instance. With service so rapid ly available, it appears that there would be little advantage in having the ambulance ac tually adjacent to the field. Commissioner John Folger gave his opinion as a licensed physician that having an ambu lance at the field was not neces sary. There is a licensed phy sician present at all high school football games and their ser vices are far more important in case of accident than a vehicle in which to transport the per son. Dr. Folger did point out that if the Commissioners were to put an ambulance at the place where most injuries oc cur, one should be placed at Sliding Rock all summer Ion" Another item of obvious inter est to the audience was a dis cussion of a proposed landfill site. The Commissioners an nounced that they had abandon —Turn to Page Three li aiiayivauia tuumj ceive record appropriations from the Powell Bill funds this month, according to a release out of Ralegh. The breakdown is as follows: Brevard - $63,210.70 Rosman - $4,746.79. Last year local grants were: Brevard $60,906.42, and Rosman $4,603.17. The amount to be distributed in the state this year will be $29.2 millions, Secretary of Transportation Bruce Lentz an nounces, which is some two mil lions more than the $27 millions which were distributed last year. State law provides that one cent of the state’s nine cents per gallon gasoline tax be dis tributed to state municipalities on a basis of population and street mileage within their boundaries which is not a part of the state system, and which they must build and maintain. Charlotte, the state’s largest city, will receive the largest single check, one for $2,887,428 and the amounts scale down ward to Falkland, whch will get $1,290. At Pinehurst Pickelsimer Elected President Of State Telephone Association The 42nd Annual Convention of North Carolina Independent Telephone Association in ses sion at the Pinehurst Hotel and Country Club in Pinehurst con cluded its meeting Tuesday with the election of Charles W. Pickelsimer, Jr., Vice-President and General Manager of Citi zens Telephone, of Brevard, as its president for the coming year. Mr. Pickelsimer has been ac tive in Association affairs for many years having served on the various operating commit tees, as Vice-President during the past year, and a member of the Board of Directors for two years. A Director and Past Presi —Tan to Page Two
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