TRANSYLVANIA—
The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca
for Summer Camps, Entrance
to Pisgah National Forest and
/tyme of Brevard College and
'' Brevard Music Festival.
THE TRANSYLVANIA rHMES
A State And National Prize-Winning Home Town Newspapei
Vol. 87—No. 38
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PAID A SREVARD. N. C. ZIP CODE 237 It
BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1974
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TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist,
Educational, Agricultural and
Music Center. Population, 1970
Census 19,317. Brevard Com
munity 8,500 Brevard proper
5,243.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
CHARLES TAYLOR
CECIL HILL
What Are Assembly Issues?
Education Foremost
In Taylor’s Views
< district N. C. Senator Charles Taylor of Brevard
says he is running on his record of eight years in the
General Assembly as he seeks reelection in the
November vote.
“We have four people, two Democrats and two
Republicans running for two seats in a 10-county
district. I want election to one of those seats. I am
hot running against individuals.
Education, environment, a no-fault insurance bill,
and equalization of opportunity for citizens of all
counties will be burning issues in the upcoming
Legislature, Senator Taylor predicts.
Mr. Taylor served six years in the House of
Representatives—four as miniority leader—and two
years in the Senate where he was minority leader
during the last two sessions.
Education, quality education, is close to his heart,
he said.
“When I went to the House in 1967, the starting
salary for teachers was $4,300. We were so far
behind in salary scales that we lost many of our
teachers to neighboring states in our area. We were
far below other states’ school salaries, and com
peting industries as well.”
Retirement benefits were substandard, health
care, additive work days, and other benefits needed
a lot of attention, Senator Taylor said. Some schools
See Taylor Favoring. Page 3
Noted Star’s
New Show
On WPNF
A new five-minute feature
program will start on WPNF
Radio next Monday, Sept. 23, and
will continue each weekday
morning over the station.
xaa myerson will be hostess of
this new program entitled “Up To
Hie Minute’’. The program will
be presenting in-depth analysis of
the top issues of the day, in
terviews with people in the
,deadlines, as well as a com
Naentator who is one of the
r’a most admired women.
iy Bess will analyse what
rr^ning in America and in
the rest of the world. Her guests
on the program will be the men
and women who are outstandi
Osborne
Clyde K. Osborne, Tran
sylvania native and a veteran
North Carolina journalist and
editor, has been named editor of
The Transylvania Times, it is
announced this week by Mrs.
Stella Anderson, publisher.
Mr. Osborne, who comes to The
Times from The Charlotte Ob
server, is a state and national
prize winning writer and editor.
“We feel extremely fortunate
to obtain Mr. Osborne as the new
editor of The Times,” Mrs. An
derson said. ‘'He has always had
the best interests of the people of
Transylvania County at heart,
and he has written many stories
from Transylvania which at
tracted national attention to the
county.”
“We feel that he is the ideal
person for the position of editor of
The Times.”
At the same time Mrs. An
Inflation Major
Topic, Says Hill
Senatorial Candidate Cecil Hill of Brevard has a
slogan: “This Is Hill Country.”
And he indicates in his campaign as a Democrat,
that the hills of Western N. C. aren’t the only things
in the 29th District which are high.
“Inflation is going to demand the attention of the
General Assembly next year,” Attorney Hill says.
Over the last decade, a surplus of tax collections
has kept the state abreast of the rising costs com
pounded by steady inflation, Hill says.
But during the last biennium, inflation appears to
have caught up with the surplus.
“I do not favor raising taxes,” Mr. Hill said this
week, “so as I see it, the state is going to have to
concentrate on ‘must’ programs. This may delay
some other programs. But, as I see it, state and local
governments must join with the Federal govern
ment in doing something about inflation.”
Something he wants to point out in this context,
said Mr. Hill, is the obvious change of fiscal
philosophies of the Democrats and Republicans.
“A few years ago the Republicans were accusing
Democrats of being big spender^. But look now
who’s doing the big spending—Republicans. It is the
Democrats who are showing fiscal responsibility.”
No fault insurance is certain to be an issue in the
See Hill Would Allow. Page 18
New Times Editor
derson announced the promotion
of Bill Norris to associate editor
and advertising manager.
Mr. Osborne succeeds to the
editorship following the untimely
death of the late John I. An
derson, who was editor and
general manager of The Times
for 33 years.
Mr. Osborne in his 26 years at
The Observer as garden editor,
rural life editor, and state news
editor, traveled to many areas of
the world for the newspaper. His
“Garden Mailbox” has been a
popular feature of the Charlotte
Daily for the last five years.
He is married to Dorothy
Wallace Osborne, who for six
years was women’s editor of The
Times.
Mr. Osborne was educated at
Mars Hill College, Brevard
College, the University of North
Carolina, and Cambridge
University in England.
He is a Methodist, a member of
the Carolinas Press
Photographers Assn., and a
member of Sigma Delta Chi, the
Society of Professional Jour
nalists.
Aldermen
Request, Get
Resignation
Brevard City Manager Bill
Slough was fired Monday night
during an executive session of the
Board of Aldermen.
With Mayor Pro Tem Mark
Osborne chairing the meeting in
place of Mayor Charles H.
Campbell, who was out of town,
the board members unanimously
requested Mr. Slough’s
resignation and received it.
Aldermen were reluctant to
talk about the firing, but said the
major problem was Slough’s
“poor public relations. He could
not deal with people.”
In his tetter of resignation, the
town manager strongly defended
his work for the community.
But two of the aldermen said
flatly that if they hadn’t called for
his resignation, “the townspeople
would have lynched us. We got
tired of hearing complaints every
time we stuck our noses out the
door.”
* Following is Slough’s letter:
“I hereby resign as city
manager. 1 am proud of what I
have done for the dity, and
consider my efforts to have
always been in the best interest of
See City Manager, Page 2
ALMOST READY — The final
coat of paint is being applied by Roger
Brock to the walkway cover at the new
Brevard Elementary School as
construction crews ready the facility
for opening soon. The Brevard Middle
Scnool and Rosman Elementary
School are also being readied for
opening.
\ IVezf/ter
By Fred Reiter
Temperature averages were 79
and 60 for the past week in the
Brevard area.
Highest temperature for the
past week was 85 degrees on
Friday morning, while the week’s
low reading was 57 degrees on
Monday morning. Little rain fell
during the period.
Extended forecast for North
Carolina Thursday through
Saturday: Mostly cloudy through
Saturday with a chance of
showers Thursday and Friday.
High temperatures in the 70s in
the north and west, with lows in
the 50s.
Brevard weather data for the
week was as follows:
DATE HIGH LOW PREC.
Sept. 11 83 62 0.05
Sept. 12 84 60 0.11
Sept. 13 85 59 0.21
Sept. 14 76 62 0.00
Sept. 15 77 61 0.00
Sept. 16 79 57 0.00
Sept. 17 69 61 0.17
Fall Over
Toxaway Falls
Injures Man
A Virginia man suffered
multiple injuries Saturday when
he fell over Toxaway Falls.
Steven Willis of 701, Corntassle
Trail, Martinsville, Va., is in
Mission Memorial Hospital in
Asheville, according to Tran
sylvania sheriff’s deputies who
investigated the accident.
Willis, according to witnesses,
had been sight-seeing by bicycle
in the Highlands area for more
than a week. He had visited
Brevard early Saturday, riding
down from Highlands with a
friend.
On the return trip he stopped to
look at the falls and slipped over.
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Commission Okays School
Bonds, Delays Jail Action
Transylvania County com
missioners in a lengthy session
Monday night approved the
issuance of $750,000 in bond an
ticipation notes to pay for
completion of three new schools
expected to open in the near
future.
Expected action on $750,000 in
bond anticipation notes for a new
jail was delayed because of a
technical error. County Attorney
Bill White told the commissioners
and a large audience that an
advertisement had not been in
the newspaper the previous
week, a legal necessity.
Action on the jail will be taken
at a public hearing at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 25.
The crowd which had gathered
to hear the jail issue discussed,
was told by Commission
Chairman Bill Ives that since
they had come, and James Pitts,
the regional jail inspector was on
hand, all questions would be
answered.
Two members of the audience
said that there was a substantial
sum of money on hand at one
time to build a jail. Different
figures were quoted, and Ives
said this was, in a sense, true;
and at one time, there was a
capital reserve of $200,000. This
was in the 1972-73 budget.
He explained that some people
felt this had been set aside for a
jail. But this money was used to
help pay off school bonds.
Ives also said that between the
election in 1972 and the time in
which they, as new Com
missioners, took office, several
different members of the school
board approached them asking
for help with Brevard Elemen
tary School.
Shortly after taking office, the
commissioners voted to help the
school board by purchasing the
1948 elementary building which
will eventually be converted into
a county office building for Social
Services, Health Department,
Mental Health Department,
Agricutural offices, and many
other State and County Agencies.
A lengthy discussion Monday
centered around the existing and
proposed county landfill. County
Planner Mike Epley reminded
the Commissioners that there
was $137,000 budgeted for con
tainer pickup and heavy
equipment work at the landfills.
He said that so far $22,000 has
See Rosman Rescue page 2
Bob Merrill Appointed
A Northwestern Director
Lloyd F. Cash, vice president of
The Northwestern Bank of
Brevard, has announced the
appointment of Bob Merrill to the
Bank’s Board of Directors.
Mr. Merrill, a native of Hen
derson County, North Carolina
graduated from Etowah High
School and attended Mars Hill
College. He is president of Merrill
Masonry, Inc., and Brevard
Industrial Storage, Inc. and is
also vice president of Tradco,
Inc.
Mr. Merrill is very active in
civic and community affairs. He
is presently serving as president
of the Transylvania Shrine Club
and vice president of the Blue
Devil Club. He has served as a
See Merrill, Page 18
Two N. C. GOP Leaders
Speak Here Saturday
William E. Stevens, the N. C.
Republican candidate for the U.
S. Senate seat, will be the keynote
speaker at a Stevens-Carson
supper planned for Saturday
evening, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m. at the
Brevard High Cafeteria.
Stevens was a member of the
North Carolina House of
Representatives until he resigned
in February of this year and filed
for the U. S. Senate seat.
He is executive vice president
of Broyhill Industries.
In 1972 he was elected to the
North Carolina House of
Representatives from the 34th
District consisting of Caldwell,
Wilkes and Yadkin Counties.
James Carson, Attorney
General of North Carolina, will
also appear as a featured speaker
at the supper. Carson is a former
justice of the North Carolina
See GOP Fete, Page 3
*
City Manager Quits
In Surprise Action