THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize-Winning Home Town Newspaper
j * Vol. 87—No. 2 “f00"A? BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1974 ★ 30 PAGES TODAY ★
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OUT OF GAS—OUT OF TANKS
—Strickland’s Grocery on the old
Hendersonville highway between Bre
vard and Pisgah Forest now has two
problems: They are out of gasoline,
and they are also out of tanks and
pumps. Last Friday and that night
the two large tanks in the ground
“floated” up through the concrete
platform, pushing the pumps up in
the air. The tanks had been empty
for two weeks, and with all the rain,
the water beneath pushed them right
out of the ground.
(Times Staff Photo)
By Col. McDonald
Inspection Is Made Of Dams,
Connestee Falls Development
Colonel Dan McDonald,
engineer with the State De
partment of Natural and Eco
nomic Resources, was in Bre
vard last Thursday to make a
visual inspection of the dams
being built in the Connestee
Falls development.
His inspection consisted of
a review of the plans and con
struction logs of the dams and
also a visual inspection of the
three dams which are nearly
complete and the one under
construction near the Walnut
Hollow Road. This inspection
was a result of numerous calls
to the State of North Caro
lina by citizens who were con
cerned for their safety be
cause they live on the stream
below the dams.
Col. McDonald said, after
reviewing the work with the
engineers in charge, Quible
and Associates, he felt secure
enough that he would be wil
ling to pitch a tent at the
foot of any dam and stay
through tiie largest rainfall.
The three large dams have
all been constructed to with
stand a rainfall of 29.5” in
a six-hour period. The storm
of last Memorial Day, which
go devastated Transylvania
County, consisted of less than
a 12” rain over more than
six hours. This gives the lay
man some idea of the design
capacity of these dams.
Marvin Crutchfield, chief
engineer on the project, be
lieves that these dams will'
reduce flooding on the lower
portions of the Connestee
Creek. He explained at great
length to CoL McDonald,
County Commission Chair
Bin Ives and County Planner
Mike Epley all of the work
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Monday Night
Many Scouts Receive Awards,
Troop 703's Court Of Honor
Scout Troop 703 held Parent’s
Night and a big Court of Honor
Monday night at Brevard
Davidson River Presbyterian
Church, with a large number of
troop members receiving awards
during the ceremonies.
Troop Committee Chairman
Glenn Winston presided over
the meeting, which was well at
tended by a large number of
Scouts and parents.
Mr. Winston also took the oc
casion to announce the retire
ment from active service of
Scoutmaster Richard Gustafson,
who has led Troop 703 for a
number of years/
“We’ll really hever know the
tremendous influence for good
that Dick has had on the hun
dreds of young men who have
come under his guidance and
counceling during the years
that he has served 703 as Scout
master,” Mr. Winston stated,
“But we do know that any who
have come under his leadership
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Planning Awards Banquet
Jaycees Seek Nomination!
For “Young Man Of Year”
The Brevard Jaycees are
now seeking nominations for
Transylvania County’s out
standing young man of the
year, according to Darrell R.
Hooper, Jaycee President.
The Distinguished Service
Award, presented annually since
1947 by the Jaycees, is given
to that young man in the com
munity who is adjudged to
have contributed most to the
welfare of the community and
Who has given evidence of out
Next Monday Night
Commissioners May Name
Emergency Board At Meet
Transylvania County Plan
ner Mike Epley will propose to
the Commissioners) at their
meeting on Monday night, Jan
uary 14th, the creation of a
hoard to deal with emergencies.
This Board will help in al
location of scarce fuels and
devise a plan of action in oth
er types of disasters that would
the coordination of
agencies.
and the Commissioners are ex
pected to act on it. The Com
missioners have also spoken
with Sheriff Milford Hubbard
about adding a deputy to his
staff whose sole concern would
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Road (Secondary Road No.
1128) being impassable during
Hie recent flash flooding in the
Rosman area. This is a dead
end road and these conditions
isolate several families on the
south side of the French Broad
River. The situation could re
sult in tragedy in a medical
above
will
plpp
mpi
standing leadership ability and
business or professional grow
th.
President Hooper emphasizes
that the young man does not
have to be a member of the
Jaycees in order to be eligible
for the award. He points out
that the only limitations are
that he be a resident of Tran
sylvania County, be at least 21
years of age and have not
reached the age of 36 before
June 1, 1973. All nominations
must be made on the forms
provided and should be deliv
ered or sent by mail to Scott
Peterson, this year’s project
chairman. P. O. Box 427 is the
mailing address for mailed nom
inations, and these must be
turned in no later than 5:00 p.
m., Monday, January 14, 1974.
Nomination forms are avail
able at the Nationwide Insur
ance office pn South Broad
Street, the Chamber of Com
merce, Cambridge Square Men’s
Shop on East Main Street or
may be obtained through the
mail by ctfUng Mr. Peterson,
who is Chairman of ti
A wards Blount ,
This year’s recipient
Distinguished Service
along-with this year1
ing Young,Educator,
ing Young aw Enforcement Of
ficer and this year’s Jaycee
“Boss of the Year*’ will be
honored at the annual Awards
Banquet, to he held on Febru
ary 1st, 1974.
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By FRED REITER
Temperature averages dur
ing the past week were 54 and
38 in the Brevard area, with
some rainfall nearly every day.
Highest temperature reading
was a 66 on Sunday, while the
week’s low was 24 on Tuesday
morning.
Long-range forecast for North
Carolina for the period Wed
nesday through Friday: chance
of showers Thursday, with
more general precipitation in
the latter part of the period.
Highs in the 40s and 50, with
lows in the upper 20s to mid
dle 30s in the mountains.
Total rainfall at Brevard dur
ing December was a nearly
unbelievable 14.36 inches. That
made the total for the year
1973 at Brevard 82.09 inches.
Weather data at Brevard
during the past week was as
follows:
Date High Low Free.
Jan. 2 _ 40 34 0.50
Jan. 3_ 56 39 0.14
Jan. 4 _ 54 45 0 46
Jan. 5_ 51 42 0.00
Jan. 6_ 66 37 0.05
Jan. 7 _ 59 45 0.20
Jan. 8 _55 24 0.00
Will Discuss
Formation Of
Arts Council
Mary B. Regan, Community
Associate of the Department of
Cultural Resources of the State
of North Carolina, plans to be
in Brevard on Wednesday, Jan
uary 16th, in order to discuss
the possibility of the formation
of ah arts council for Transyl
vania County, it is announced
today by Helen Hawthorne,
President of the Brevard Little
Theatre.
Any group or individual who
is interested in learning more
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State Official
Will Inspect
Connestee Area
John Rice, representing the
Sedimentation Control Division
of the State Department of
Natural and Economic Re
sources, will be in Transylvania
County on Friday, January 11th,
to inspect the sedimentation and
siltation caused by construction
on the Connestee Falls prop
erty.
Arrangements for this inspec
tion were made following a
meeting in Raleigh this week of
County Commission Chairman
Bill Ives and James Harrington,
Secretary of the Department of
Natural and Economic Re
sources.
Colonel Dan McDonald and
C. B. Shimer of the Sedimenta
tion Control Division of this De
partment were also in attend
ance at this meeting.
Chamber Of Commerce Membership
Elects 40-Man Board Of Directors
TRANSYLVANIA’S NEW
YEAR BABY — Amy Mellisa Shel
ton is shown in the arms of her mo
ther, Mrs. Wanda Bernice (Owen)
Shelton, in a maternity room at the
new Transylvania Community Hos
pital. Amy Mellisa arrived at 6:00
a. m., January 3rd. She weighed in
at Six pounds, 15% ounces; and
measured 20% inches. The father
is Leon Dexter Shelton; the family
lives at Lake Toxaway. As the first
baby born in Transylvania in 1974,
Ann Mellisa and her parents will be
the winners of a long list of prizes
offered annually to the first - born
in the county by The Times, WPNF
and Brevard businesses. At Mrs.
Shelton’s right is Mrs. Sharon Mc
Lendon, R. N.- (Times Staff Photo)
New School Schedule
No Problem Noted In Switch
To Daylight Savings Time
Good News
Social Security Supplemental
Checks Are Received Locally
This month many thousands
of people in Transylvania Coun
ty, among over 3.1 million per
sons nationally, are receiving
their first Federal Supple
mental Security Income (SSI)
Checks, according to D. W. Rice,
manager of the Hendersonville
Social Security Office.
“As could be expected, such
a massive new program was
bound to have a few snags in it
at first” said Mr. Rice, but
fortunately, only a very small
percentage of the total number
of persons currently eligible for
payments did not receive their
Teacher Workshops Set
Transylvania Students To
Get Vacation On 17th, 18th
Transylvania County Schools
will be dismissed at 2:00 p. m.
next Wednesday, January 16th,
and Thursday and Friday; Jan
uary 17th and 18th, will be pu
pil holidays. Teachers will be
attending workshops and par
ticipating in parent - teacher
conferences during this time.
Supt Harry C. Corbin also
reminds the public of the two
schedules on which the schools
operate. ' J
They are Schedules A and B,
and be explains them as fol
lows:
SCHEDULE A - Schools and
buses will operate on reg
plar schedule.
SCHEDULE B * Buses will
begin runs one and one
half (1%) hoprs late.
Schools will begin their
daily schedules at 10:30 a.
m. when schools are op
erating on the 9:00 - 3:30
schedule and at 10:00 a. m.
when schools are operating
on the 8:30 - 3:00 schedule.
If it becomes evident, dur
ing the cue and one-half (1%)
hour delay, that schools can
not operate, announcements
will be made on Radio Stations
WPNF and WWNC and on
Television Stations WLQS,
Channel 13; WFBC, Channel
4; and WSPA, Channel 7.
first check for various reasons.
“These reasons range from
their having moved without
notifying us of a change of ad
dress to a change in living ar
rangements and possibly an un
detected clerical error which
prevented our computers from
processing certain checks,” he
commented.
However, the vast majority,
more than 95%, have already
received their first SSI check
or will receive it soon.
“We are asking all persons
whom we’ve previously advised
to expect a gold-colored SSI
check in the mail in January
1974, to notify us immediately
if the check is not delivered
within the next few days. We
want everyone previously get
ting payments under state aid
to the aged, blind and disabled
programs to receive a January
check even if that check ar
rives late in the month,” Mr.
Rice continued.
He also said that most of the
persons found to be newly
eligible based on the SSI claims
they filed directly with Social
Security Offices through Oc
tober 1973, had also received a
January check or would be re
ceiving one in the next few
days. He added, however, that
some SSI claims filed later in
the year have not been in the
system long enough to be pro
cessed. “We’re processing all
recent claims just as quickly as
possible”.
Mr. Rice said that people who
wish to report a non-receipt of
check should call 692-0533 in
Hendersonville.
Transylvanians seem to be
adjusting to Daylight Savings
time without fuss or fury.
Schools began operating on
a new schedule of 9:00 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. on Monday, and
according to Supt. Harry C.
Corbin, “the 30-minute adjust
ment helped us”.
Of course, there are many
students walking or catching
buses to school in early morn
ing darkness, but so far, no
complaints have been re
ceived.
Stores, generally, are open
ing and closing at the same
lime as they did before Sun
day, when the new Daylight
Savings time was started.
Offices in the Court House
and in the Municipal building
also have the same hours,
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
No one can yet evaluate
the saving in energy due to
the switch to DST, but Duke
Power Company officials say
the big saving nationwide will
come in the early evening.
The short winter days in
the Northern industrial areas
prompted the move to Day
light Savings Time.
New Officers
To Be Named
Next Tuesday
A 40-man Board of Direc
tors of the Brevard Chamber
of Commerce was elected at
the Chamber’s regular meet
ing Tuesday night at the li
brary.
High man in the balloting
was Bill P. Norris, who serv
ed as President of the (Cham
ber during 1973. He received
84 votes. Local real estate and
insurance executive Gil Coan,
Sr. v/as second high with 80
votes.
Ballots for the election
were mailed out in December
to the Chamber’s membership
of 220, representing 247
eligible for election to the
Board. All ballots were tabu
lated during Tuesday night’s
meeting.
New’ officers for 1974 will
be elected from the 4flman
Board at a meeting next Tues
day night, since this week’s
meeting was recessed until
that time.
The meeting next Tuesday
will be reconvened in the
library at 7:30 p.m., and Presi
dent Norris urges all mem
bers of the newlv elected
Board to attend. He also re
minds all Chamber members
and persons interested in the
work of the Chamber to at
tend, as there will still be
several brief, but important
items of business, other than
the election to attend to.
Members of the 1974 Board,
in alphabetical order, are as
follows:
John I. Anderson
John W. Bailey
Raymond F. Bennett
Don R. Blankinship
Ben E. Burgess
Charles H. Campbell
Walter Cantrell
Lloyd F. Cash
Gil Coan, Sr.
Harry Corbin
Dr. Robert A. Davis
Dr. Wilburn A. Davis
Jack C. Dense
Clyde Duvall
James M. Felty
Vernon Fullbright
Judge Robert T. Gash
Dr. Carol Grahl
Cecil J. Hill
Charles F. Himes
W’illiam M. Ives
Don M. Jenkins
Jerry Hart Jerome
Chester Kilpatrick
Dr. Milton V. Massey
Robert W. Melton
John R. Mitchell
Eugene Morris
Bill P. Norris
Paul Owenby
Ben Patterson
Charles W. Pickelsimer, Jr.
Jerry Purser
Ralph H. Ramsey. Jr.
Charles L. Russell
Ray N. Simmons
Hale Siniard, Jr.
John K. Smart, Jr.
George Turner \
Robert Whatley. <
Program Highlights
WPNF To Resume Senator
Ervin’s Talks January 27th
The weekly Sunday afternoon
broadcast of Senator Sam J.
Ervin, Jr., will resume over
WPNF-Radio 1240 at 1:15 p.m.
on January 27th.
The program has not been
heard for the past several
weeks due to the fact that Con
gress has not been in session.
Senator Ervin recently com
mented that his program had
been broacast over WPNF as a
public service broadcast for a
longer period of time than on
any other station in North Caro
lina.
Also heard on the program is
Hall Smith, Senator Ervin’s
Press Secretary.
Other Programs
The schedule for the Farm
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