THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfall*, Mecca
for Summer Camp*, Entrance to
Pisgah National Forest and
Home of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival
TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Educa
tional, Agricultural and Music
Center. Population, 1970 Census
19.317. Brevard Community
8,500. Brevard proper 5,243.
A State And National Prise-Winning Home Town Newspaper
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1974
SCCOND CLASS POSTAOt
MID AT BRCVARD. N. C. ZIP COOS 1*7*2
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Attend Festival Of The Arts And Sidetvalk Sale Here This Week
INTENTLY WATCHING the pro
ceedings at Brevard High Stadium
Monday night, a small portion of the
big crowd in attendance is pictured
above. But it wasn’t football that
they had gathered to see, even
though it is almost time for the Blue
Devils to start their 1974 season.
You can see for yourself just what
had the interest of the crowd by
turning to page 20 of the second
section of this issue of the Times.
(Times Staff Photo)
"St. John Passion" To Be Seen At
Music Center This Friday Evening
Program Highlight! :^|XX. I
Sports Fans Can Hear Last
Minute News On WPNF Radio
Area sports fans are remind
ed that they can hear the very
latest sports results ovei
WPNF-Radio each night at 9:4S
p.m. mi “Sports Break”, spon
sored by Goodwill Motors ol
Brevard. An early mominj
sports review is also heard each
weekday morning at 7:45 a.m.
also sponsored by Goodwill. The
morning show presents a com
plete review of previous days
scores in all sports, and a loot
at the days sports happenings.
Plans are now going forward
for broadcasting another sea
son of University of North Caro
lina football this fall, as well as
football on the local scene with
broadcasts of Brevard Blue
Devil games. Details will be an
nounced.
Other Pregrams
Farm and Home hour sched
ule is as follows: Thursday,
station program; Friday, For
est Service; Monday, Jean
Childers, Home Economics
Agent; Tuesday, station pro
gram; Wednesday, Jerry Pur
ser, County Extension Agent.
This week’s speaker on Morn
ing Devotions is the Rev. A.
Carl Funderburk, Jr., Pastor of
Turkey Creek Baptist Church.
Sunday morning worship ser
vices are broadcast this month
from Brevard-Davidson River
Presbyterian Church, East
Main Street.
Look Inside...
Society, Page 15, section two
Sports, Pages 18 and 19, sec
tion two
Editor’s Corner, page six, sec
tion one > v, ■
Festival Of Arts Calendar,
page eight, section two,
Editorial, page two, section
three
Classifieds, pages two, three,
four and five, section one
Bishop Will Ordain Local
Pastor In Brevard Church
Bishop Earl G. Hunt, Jr., will
deliver the sermon at the Bre
vard First United Methodist at
the 11:00 a.m. service on Sun
day, August 4th.
At this service Bishop Hunt,
the United Methodist Resi
dent Bishop of the Charlotte
Area, will ordain the Rev
tile United Methodist Church
of Rosman.
Ordaining a Methodist minis
er in a local church is a very
rnusual procedure, according
sray-»as
The Brevard Music Center
production of "St. John Pas
sion" on Friday, July 26, will
feature vocal and instru
mental soloists chosen from
the faculty and student body
according to conductor Ward
Woodbury.
Woodbury said both the Tran
sylvania Chorus and Brevarc
Repertory Orchestra will tak<
part in this great work bj
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Singing the Evangelist will
he tenor William McDonald,
faculty member, who recent
ly won critical acclaim for
his role in the BMC produc
tion of “La Boheme.” Direo
tor of Opera John Richards
McCrae will sing the role of
Jesus while Scott McAdow
will be Pilate, Allen Reed
will be Peter and Henry
Smiley the Servant.
Aria soloists are: sopranos
Alison Odum and Martha Sheil;
mezzo-soprano Kathryn Fraser;
tenors Patrick Woliver and
William Momeweg and bari
tones Wayne Baughman and
Sidney Hill.
Playing instrumental solos
are students Ellen Boda,
flute; Jill White, Ed Hinson,
oboe and Carol Cagle, Emily
Nichoi, violin. Faculty and
staff soloists are: Haas
Schmettau, cello; WlBtam
Noll, organ and James Baas,
English horn.
Many of the ainpn m al
ready familiar la thia y> ir'«
audiences, having appear* la
the first productions of the ee
son,
McDonald portrayed Hu
dolfo to Ifiss Shea's Mart la
"La Bohr me.” Mss Odam
and Morneweg sang the leads
ia “Down la the Valley" while
Banghman was the Leader la
the same show. Smiley aad
Reed were seen la “Daughter
of the Regiment” and Wottver
was in “La Boheme.” Mbs
Fraser aad Hill were heard
as aabisto h» Beethoven’s
“Ninth Symphony."
See-Off Mountain Road Is First Priority
For Paving County Secondary Road Work
Festival Of Arts
Has Many Events
Set For Weekend
The first of the week events
of the Festival of the arts have
all been well received and at
tended, according to sponsoring
Chamber of Commerce officials
here, but there is still plenty to
come.
Thursday sees the opening of
the Art show at Brevard Col
lege and the youth art show at
Silvermont, with both shows
scheduled to run Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday.
The craft show, with many
craftwomen demonstrating their
skills, will also start a three
day run Thursday at the Hut
next to Brevard Middle School.
Silvermont will be the scene
Thursday of a mineral show, a
stamp club display, a doll show,
and a hiking gear display, all
scheduled to show through Sat
urday.
Thursday night at Brevard
Music Center there will be a big
country-western show beginning
at 8:00 p.m.
Friday will see the opening of
the county fair at the Masonic
Lodge and Presbyterian Church
Fellowship Hall; a standard
flower show at the American
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£2 WesfAer
By FRED REITER
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Brevard temperatures aver
aged 81 and 60 each day during
the past week, with six-tenths
of an inch of rainfall also reg
istered during the week. High
est temperature reading came
on Friday and Saturday with
85 degrees, while the low for
the period was 55 degrees on
Sunday morning.
Extended forecast for North
Carolina: Partly cloudy and
warm with widely scattered
mostly afternoon and evening
thundershowers each day. Highs
generally in the 80s, with lows
in the 60s.
Brevard weather data for the
week was as follows:
Date High Low Prec.
July 17_82 64 0.02
July 18_ 84 60 0.00
July 19_ 85 59 0.04
July 20_ 85 59 0.29
July 21_ 84 55 Tr.
July 32_ 82 61 0.00
July 23_ 66 62 0.25
SEE-OFF MOUNTAIN ROAD—
Photo shows the See Off Mtn. Rd.
where it turns off U. S. 276 south of
Brevard. A recent announcement
from the N. C. Department of Trans
portation assigns this road the num
ber one priority for paving with
funds available and the work al
ready programmed.
(Times Staff Photo)
With Festival Of Arts
Brevard Merchants Start 3 Day
Sidewalk Sale Here Thursday
At Brevard College
Third Annual Alumni Weekend
Slated First Week In August
The first weekend in August
will mark the third annual
alumni weekend held on the
campus at Brevard College. All
alumni are invited to attend.
For a very nominal fee, housing
will be furnished in the resi
dence halls and meals will be
served in the dining hall.
This will give alumni the op
portunity to come to the moun
tains of Western North Carolina
for a weekend of relaxation and
time to visit with friends and
classmates on the campus of
their College.
Brevard Institute, Rutherford
College and Weaver College
have a special invitation to visit
and get acquainted with Bre
vard College. Weaver College
Alumni will want to leave after
Two Opening Dates Are Set
For Transylvania Schools
T*» opening dates have
been set far the schools in
Transylvania County for the
1ST4-TS school term. Wednes
day, August 21st, is pupil as
signment day (or Brevard
Ugh, Brevard Middle, Bre
vard Elementary, Pisgah
Forest, Penrose, and Straus
Schools. The Brst full day of
classes for these schools will
be Thursday, August 2|nd.
T. C. Henderson, Bosnian
Elementary, and Rosman
the new Rosman Elementary
School cannot be occupied by
Angnat 23rd, the opening
dates for the schools In the
Rosman area will likely be
moved forward to coincide
with the Brevard dates.
All teachers will report to
their respective schools for pre
school work shops on Wednes
day, August 14th.
The tentative closing date for
all schools is May 80, 1975.
A complete school calendar
will be published in the near
future, according to the School
Superintendent’s office.
breakfast on Sunday to attend
their annual reunion in Weaver
ville.
Recreational facilities on
campus which will be open to
alumni are the swimming pool
(bring your swim clothes),
tennis courts (you will need a
racket and balls), billiard and
ping pong tables.
Tickets for the performances
at the Brevard Music Center for
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
and Flat Rock Playhouse for
Saturday night, will be vailable
through the Alumni Office.
Some visitors may elect to at
tend the Mountain Folk Festival
on Friday night featuring moun
tain musicians, old-time music
and dancing. This is an annual
occasion held in the Asheville
Civic Auditorium. Others may
want to go to Robin Hood Barn,
Sherwood Forest on Greenville
highway, for a Saturday night
of square dancing with live
music and experienced callers.
AD of the recreational offer
ings for the weekend are option
al. If alumni choose to browse
around the campus, visit with
one another, or whatever . . .
they are free to do what they
want.
The largest group at the 1973
Alumni Weekend was the Bre
vard Institute students.
“If you wish to meet at Bre
vard College with some of your
former classmates for renewing
acquaintances, let them know
you are coming and ask them
to send in their reservations.
You could work up a good class
reunion,” says Dr. Robert A.
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Brevard merchants are hold
ing a big sidewalk sale here
this weekend, offering hundreds
of outstanding values to those
lucky shoppers attending.
A number of the participating
merchants have made special
purchases for the sale, and
their tables on the sidewalk will
be well stocked with both sea
sonal and unseasonal merchan
dise.
Larry Turner, chairman of
the sponsoring merchants di
vision of the Brevard Chamber
of Commerce, stated that this
year’s sidewalk sale was being
held in conjunction with the
Festival of the Arts, a week
long program of events cur
rently taking place here.
“The Festival of the Arts
certainly has something for
everyone in the outstanding
schedule of events,” Mr. Turn
er stated, “And Brevard’s mer
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Priority Lists
Are Published
Lists of the secondary
roads in Transylvania coun
ty selected for improvement
from the 1973 - 74 allocations
of Secondary Road Improve
ment Funds, have been re
leased by the office of J. F.
Warren, Division Engineer,
at Sylva.
One list gives the paving pri
ority, in the order of their list
ing, of 30 secondary roads in
the county. The actual work in
dicated on this list will be done
as money becomes available.
The priorities on the list are
based on a point. - eligibility
survey made in 1973.
A second, shorter list, gives
the priority for secondary
road paving which has actual
ly been programed; that is,
the money is available and the
work as indicated is schedul
ed to be done.
The roads scheduled for pav
ing on this list are the first
five on the larger paving prior
ity list. These will be paved
soon, with the exception of the
Number 3, Homer Israel Rd.;
which, although of third prior
ity in the survey, has been de
leted because of the planned
future relocation of U.S. High
way 64 which will make the
work originally planned un
necessary.
The third list gives the
genera] improvements pro
grammed for nine other sec
ondary roads. This is not
paving, but more basic engi
neering improvements. This
work has no connection with
the roads’ eligibility for pav
ing. Eligibility is determined
by a survey conducted every
two years. Secondary roads
in Transylvania county will
be surveyed again and the
priorities adjusted as the
survey indicates, in the spring
of 1975.
The following are the lists:
Paving Priorities
See Off Mtn. Rd. — 2.3 miles
Rockwood Rd. — .1 mile
Homer Israel Rd. (Deleted—
part of US 64 relocation pro
ject.)
Nicholson Creek Rd. — .52
mile
General Improvements
Lyons Mtn. Rd.—Raising—.2
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miles
Flat Creek Valley
Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr.
To Address Kilgore Reunion
Despite his sadness at the
recent tragic slaying of his
wife of 48 years, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Sr., with his only
surviving daughter, Mrs. Chris
tine King Farris, will join the
Kilgore family of Brevard dur
ing the happy occasion of their
bi-annual Family Reunion, July
25th - 29th.
Dr. King will deliver the
feature address of the re
union public service at Beth
el Baptist Church on Sunday,
July 28th, at 3:39 p. m. His
subject will be “The Family
and Freedom.”
The public is cordially invited
to this service and the recep
tion following.
Mrs. Fanis, who is an a»
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DR. KING