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' *■ - : 87r_:-14 BREVARD' N- c-- THURSDAY. APRIL 4, 1974 * SECTION THREE
PA,NTINC FOR THE HOSPITAL — Shown,
left to right, with the 18 by 25-inches watercolor
recently accepted by the new Building and Equip
ment Priorities committee, of the Hospital Aux
iliary, are: John Bailey, Hospital Administrator;
Collins, Director of Nursing; Mrs. Beth
Mitchell, Artist and donor of the painting; and
Mrs. Dot Hunter, President of the Transylvania
Community Hospital Auxiliary.
(Times Staff Photo)
Masons Confer
First Degree
Thursday Night
An emergent communication
of Bunn’s Rock lodge will be
held in the Masonic Temple on
Bast Main street Thursday,
April 4th beginning at 7:30 p.m.
This announcement comes
from M. M. Feaster, Jr. the
Worshipful Master.
The purpose of the meeting
Kill be for conferring the
Entered Apprentice degree.
The degree will be conferred
by Julius L. Nicholson Senior
Tjeacon, and Robert L. Parker,
Junior Deacon will fill the
Senior Deacon place.
T. Ralph Parrish, Past Master
will give the lecture, Mr. Nich
olson will present the lamb
skin apron and James Whit
mire will deliver the charge.
Mr. Feaster urges the mem
bers to attend and extends a
cordial invitation to all visiting
From The Broadcaster
Marriage & Death Arrive At BHS
“Death: The Inevitable,"
“Ecology and Literature” and
“Marriage and Communica
tion” are the three new English
mini courses that are being of
fered at BHS this fourth nine
weeks.
“Marriage and Communica
tion”, taught by Mrs. Gail La
throp, is a communication
course. Students in this course
will concern themselves with
problems dating couples and
marriage partners have in
their attempts to communicate.
Students registering for this
course had to register with a
partner.
“Death: The Inevitable” will
be taught by Mr. J. Dean Hen
son. This course, which is a
literature course, will acquaint
students with different views of
death. The study of customs,
fears, taboos, and superstitions
about death will be studied.
Through literature the student
then may draw his own opinions
about death. “We try to teach
our kids how to live but shy
away from the most important
event in life — death.”
Mrs. Margaret Meany will
teach "Ecology and Literature",
a literature course. The liters
ture of ecology is a study ol
man's literary outcries for un
derstanding, recognition and ac
tion. In this course the student
will study man’s pleas to his
fellow man to: Please listen!
Please help! Please act!
Driver’s License Examiner’s
Office Now Open All Week
in uruer 10 oener serve me
Transylvania County area,
the Brevard Driver’s License
Office, located in the jail
building, is open on Friday.
Examiner Wilson feels this
will help to alleviate the
crowded Mondays which he is
experiencing.
The urges everyone to be
sure and check their driver’s
license on Friday as they can
expire over the weekend.
“The new office hours Mon
day through Friday, will be
»:uu a.m. until 5:UU p.m. with
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. being
closed for lunch,” states
Examiner George Wilson.
While everyone should have
their hearing tested annually to
prevent an undetected hearing
loss, persons working in noisy
environments should have their
hearing tested at more frequent
intervals to be certain a hear
ing loss does not go'undetected,
officials of the Beltone Crusade
for Hearing Conservation urge.
Mrs. Beth Mitchell
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Brevard Artist Donates Painting To
Transylvania Community Hospital
New Auxiliary
Committee Will
Approve Gifts
The first object of art to be
accepted by the new Building
and Equipment Priorities
committee of the Hospital
Auxiliary, Transylvania Com
munity Hospital, is a water
color painting by the well
known local artist, Mrs. Beth
Mitchell. The painting, ap
proximately 18 by 25 inches,
will hang in the Snack Bar
off the main lobby.
The purpose of the new com
mittee, according to John W.
Bailey, Hospital Administrator,
is to accept and submit for ap
proval to the Administrator or
the Board of Trustees, all pro
posed individual gifts of furni
ture, appliances or art objects
to the hospital. This will be
done in order that art objects
and other gifts may be coordi
nated with the building decor
and original furnishings.
Chairman of the Priorities
committee is Mrs. R. M. Thom
as, another well-trained and
accomplished local artist.
Mrs. Mitchell’s gift, a nat
uralistic painting of the Roy
Orr barn on Hannah Ford
Road entitled, appropriately,
“Roy’s Barn,” is particularly
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BREVARD DRIVE-IN CLOSED ™m££TdlIMa™.to
fitting for the hospital ac
cording to Mrs. Dot Hunter.
President of the Auxiliary.
. The painting, a valuable pro
fessional work, was donated
by Mrs. Mitchell, “out of grat
itude for the excellent care I
received during a recent hos
pitalization."
Mrs. Mitchell was born and
reared in Illinois. She came to
Brevard six years ago to a
home on Holly Lane.
She is an art graduate of
George Peabody College,
Mrs. Wishon Is
Buried Sunday
Mrs. Wocia Allgood Wishon,
age 81, of Route 1, Lewisville,
died last Friday morning in
Transylvania Community Hos
pital.
Survivors include a daughter.
Mrs. Ethel Whitmire, of Route
2, Brevard.
Funeral services were held
Sunday in the Vogler Funeral
Home Chapel, Clemmons.
Burial followed in the Court
ney Baptist Church Cemetery.
Yadkin County.
Nashville. Tennessee, and has
done graduate work in art at
the Chicago Art Institute, ihe
Chicago Academy of Fine
Arts, and with several private
instructors.
All of her paintings are done
outdoors, on the spot.
"This is the kind of painting
I like to do,” she says. “I don’t
do any studio painting.”
Mrs. Mitchell has exhibited
at many places, both with
groups and in one-artist
shows. She has received nu
merous prizes and awards
for the excellence of her
work.
She paints primarily for her
own pleasure, she says, but
has sold many paintings.
•We are very grateful for
Mrs. Mitchell's valuable gift
to the hospital." says Mrs.
Hunter.
Far Away Places
The U.S. imports as well as
exports agricultural commodi
ties — and from places that one
might not suspect. For example,
we imported about a million
dollars worth of fine animal
hair — mostly cashmere and
camel hair — from Outer Mon
golia last year.
When you think of prescrip
tions, think of VARNER’S, adv.
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883-8472
AN ANNOUNCEMENT
To The Democrats of
BUNCOMBE AND
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES
By
Dr. Wilson Lyday
Candidate For The
State House of Representatives
I wa, raised on a farm in Transylvania County and I am a Life
Long Southern Baptist and a Life-Long Democrat. 1 have practiced
medicine as a family physician in Brevard for the past 30 years. My
wife Jackie and I have operated a small cattle farm for the past 16
years as a sideline enterprise. Therefore I am vitally interested in
the N. C. Agriculture Dept, and in all aspects of farming in Western
North Carolina.
I graduated from Western Carolina University at Cullowhee
m 1934 as a teacher. 1 taught and coached football at the former
Valley Springs High School in Buncombe County the 1934-35 school
year before entering Wake Forest University Medical School in the
fall of 1935. My salary for the eight month school term at Valley
Springs was Seventy Dollars per month paid by the State of
North Carolina. So you can see that I am keenly interested in all
phase, of public education in North Carolina from our kindergarten,
to our graduate schools.
w. are join, to have such tremendous change, i„ tl„, „b„„,
.wo Hold. i» „„r ...to over .ho ,„o„«y year, lh.t it could w.ll
b. called . revolution. There great change, wi|l fc. w „„ ,h.
re.liz.,i„„ .ha, .here 1. no I™, (i„ ,igh, wh., YOUR
youngster's brein ere. do nnd can do rapidly i( given ,h. prop.r mo
tivation, opportunity, and discipline.
VOTE for a man for the State HouM that can see these great
change, coming over the next twenty yea™. -.Dr. Wilaon Lyd.y from
Brevard, candidate for one of the four seat, to the State House of
Representatives from the 43rd House Di.trict of Buncombe and Tran
sylvania Counties in the MAY 7th DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.
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