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TRANSYLVANIA— The Land of Waterfalls, Mecca for Summer Camps, Entrance to Pisgah National Forest and Home of Brevard College and Brevard Music Festival. THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES A State And National Prize- Winning Home Town Newspaper TRANSYLVANIA— -V An Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Agricultural and Music Center. Population, 1970 Census 19,317. Brevard Con£ munity 8,500 Brevard propel* 5,243. ,r . -a SrCOND CLASS POSTAGE VOl. 87 — NO. 39 PAID A BREVARD. N. C. 2IP CODE ES7II BREVARD. N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1974 36 PAGES TODAY 15c COPY PUBLISHED WEEKLY ‘TAIN’T LIKE the waters of the North Fork of the French Broad Hiver which is his home, but when's a guy’s thirsty, he’s gotta have a swig. Satan, pooch belonging to Rod Lawrence of Balsam Grove, was walking past the Court House in Brevard Sunday with his master when he decided to pause for refreshment. (Times Staff Photo) Taylor Wants Road Bonds: $500 Million State Senator Charles Taylor has called for a substantial transportation bond issue to deal with the most critical problems of transportation in the state. Taylor said the 1975 General Assembly should place a bond issue on the ballot calling for some five hundred million to one billion dollars for the state’s most critical transportation problems. He pointed out that 50 per cent of the bond issue should be used for paving secondary roads in North Carolina. “In Western North Carolina over 50 per cent of the secondary roads are unpaved compared with 34 per cent in the balance of North Carolina, and even though the Holshouser administration has more than doubled the secondary roads funds for Western North Carolina, it will take many years to make a dent in the thousands of unpqved roads in this part of the state,” Taylor said. Rougly 25 per cent of the bond issue should be used to upgrade existing paved secondary roads, See Taylor Seeks Page 6 WPNF Holds ‘Record Party’ All the day’s popular music is heard each day over WPNF Radio, especially during the afternoon hours. Bob Allen reviews the current playlist each day over the local station and invites your requests for his show. “Record Party” is a nightly feature of WPNF, each night except Sunday from 7:05 p.m. until the station signs off at 10 p.m. This show presents all the rock music of the day, sometimes with a few oldies sprinkled in for good measure. That’s WPNF Radio 1240 in See Hit Songs Page 3 J..-- o. — iS Wezffor By Fred Reiter <i-—-■-—.——4 Temperatures were noticeably cooler in the Brevard area during the past seven days, averaging 75 and 49 high and low each day. Highest reading came on Friday and Saturday with highs of 81 degrees on those days. Lowest temperature was Tuesday morning with the mercury registering 39 that morning. Rainfall was at a minimum. Extended outlook for North Carolina for Thursday through Saturday: chance of showers Thursday and Friday. Saturday partly cloudy and warm, lows in the 50s. Highs in the upper 70s mountains. Brevard weather data for the period as follows: DATE HIGH LOW PREC. 78 51 0.00 Sept. 18 Sept. 19 Sept. 20 Sept. 21 Sept. 22 Sept. 23 Sept. 24 80 81 81 79 56 50 51 55 54 40 39 0.00 0.00 0.13 0.00 0.00 0.00 200 G. O. P. Members Attend Fete Some 200 Transylvania Republicans gathered in the Brevard High School cafeteria Saturday night to hear the N. C. GOP senatorial candidate, Bill Stevens of Lenoir, flog his Democratic opponent, Robert Morgan, with charges of bungling. The dinner group was en thusiastic, a Republican spokesman said, as candidate after candidate stood behind the lectern to hit at the Democratic foes, and take a share of the dinner spotlight. State Senator Charles Taylor, Mrs. Marilyn C. Hewitt, State House of Representatives can didate, Douglas Martin, another House hopeful, Gerald Deaver, seeking a post on the School Board, and Judge Ladson Hart took turns speaking at the $5 a plate event. Mr. Stevens charged Mr. Morgan “had bungled a three million dollar drug suit involving the citizens of N. C. With much fanfare, my opponent proclaimed his case against five major drug companies for over charging North Carolinians for certain medicines. The speaker continued: "He spent some $500,000 of the tax payers’ money handling the case and indirectly promoting him self.” Morgan, Stevens charged, turned down a settlement of well over $3 million and became the only attorney general in the 50 states not to win a single dime for the citizens of North Carolina. “Not only did the citizens of See 200 GOP Faithful Page 13 Bulletin As The Times went to press Wednesday, OUn employees were voting on whether or not to strike the giant paper and chemical plant, it was learned. A sign on the union bulletin board at the plant at Pisgah Forest called for the vote: “United Paperworkers In ternational Union—Local 1971 Strike Vote To Be Wednesday, September 25, from 1:30 to 4:40 p.m.” Should the employees choose to walk out, it would be the first labor strike in Transylvania County history, it is believed. DEMOCRATS OPEN HEADQUARTERS — Borne 100 Democratic candidates and supporters gathered Monday, afternoon' to officially cut the ribbon opening the campaign headquarters on -West Main Street in Brevard. They later went to a'raily .at T.C. Henderson School at Quebec. Pictured cutting the ribbon are, left to right, House Candidate Her bert Hyde, Clerk of Court Candidate Jean Hooper, House Candidates Mary C. Nesbitt and Claude DeBruhl, County Democrat Chairman Molly Wilmot, and Senates Candidates Joe Palmer and Cecil Hill. » - - Dwarfing the man at lower center, Olin Corporation’s second electrostatic precipitator at Pisgah Forest brings air pollution control to 80 per cent of the power plant’s boiler capacity. The precipitator on top of No. 8 boiler is as high as a nine-story building and was a year under con struction. Second Olin Air-Cleaning Unit Goes Into Operation The second of two huge air cleaning units for pollution control is now in operation at Olin Corporation’s plants at Pisgah Forest. Gazara Baldwin, Jr., president of Olin’s Fine Paper and Film Group headquartered at Pisgah Forest, announced that startup of the new electrostatic precipitator appeared to meet all ex pectations for the removal of particulate matter. It is similar to the first unit, a $2 million precipitator which since last November has removed more than 99.5 per cent of the particulate matter emitted by boilers Nos. 5, 6, and 7. Ef ficiency tests to determine precise removal from the No. 8 boiler will begin soon. » The new precipitator serves No. 8 boiler, newest and largest of the eight boilers comprising the power plant. It has the same fail safe feature as the first, con sisting of two chambers and designed to perform effectively See Olin Antipollution Page 3 New Forest Chief Named James E. Reid has been named to succeed Dan Hile as the new Pisgah District forest ranger, it was announced this week. Mr. Reid expressed his elation as he began his new assignment at Pisgah Forest. “This is one part of the country I always wanted to live and work in,” he said. “During schooling at N. C. State I spent three weeks in this area. That was my in troduction to this area and I always said—and very often— that 1 would some day return to work and live here.” The native of Virginia comes to this region from the Superior National Forest in Minnesota where he was the recreation, wilderness, and visitor in formation services officer. Prior to that he was district ranger on two ranger districts in Minnesota. He has worked on the White Mountains National Forest in New Hampshire and the George Washington National Forest in Virginia. The N. C. State graduate is a member of the Society of Foresters, the American' Forestry Assn., the Masonic Lodge, and the Lutheran Church. He is married and has two children, Robbie, six years old, and Donna, 4. He expects to return to Min nesota in early October to move his wife and family to Tran sylvania County. “She’s going to be delighted also with the move,” he smiled. “She told me the temperature was 22 degrees up there Sunday morning, and that snow was beginning to fall. Eight years of that was enough." Mr. Hile was transferred to a ranger district at Pine Knot, Ky. Penrose Will Get New Post Office x cmvoc; to 5CU1115 a uc« pviov office after seven years of pleas and attempts, it is announced this week by Bill McCall, the post master. Mr. McCall said he had received word from the manager of the Charlotte District, John J. Wise, that the new facility has been approved and a contract let. The 840-square-foot Penrose post office will be built behind the present post office on the south side of the old Hendersonville Highway, on land owned by Jack R. Ferguson of Candler who has been awarded a contract to build the structure. “Surveys have already begun,” said Mr. McCall, “and the new post office is scheduled to open in March of next year.” me unuing win ue leased from Mr. Ferguson for a period of 10 years, with options for an additional 20 years, Mr. McCall said. The site, which contains 12,500 square feet, a little more than one-quarter acre, will provide ample room for parking around the new post office. Mr. McCall, obviously elated by the news, said the an nouncement culminates years of hard work since he became postmaster in 1967. “Our facilities have been too small, just plain inadequate,” the post master said. There will be around 300 boxes in the new building, he said. Mrs. Joyce Whitmire is the assistant postmaster. Valuable, Heavy Box Amid Loot Vandals, thieves, and hoodlums have been active at Silvermont in recent weeks, if has been reported to police Craig Freas, director of the Transylvania Parks and Recreation Dept. Latest item missing is an an tique ice box, weighing from 400 to 500 pounds, and valued at $900, Brevard Police Officer Walter (Tink) Siniard says. “It took some doing to take this box—four or five men and a truck,” the officer said. The removal of the old, wooden refrigerator from the back porch of the mansion of the late In dustrialist Joseph S. Silversteen on E. Main St. culminates a long series of thefts from the structure since it became the hub of recreation activities for the county, Director Freas told The Times. “We’ve had many more thefts. An antique bed with a cane headboard, valued at $200, was found missing from an upstairs room,” the recreation official said. “We’ve noticed things disap pearing all alqng—cut glass, for instance, etched with the Silvenpont monogram. We’d see eight glasses one day. The next day there’d be only six, then we’d discover there were only four. Things like that have been happening as people sneaked off with them.” There are paintings missing, and books from valuable sets have been lifted, Mr. Freas said. Such items as antique chairs, an ancient telephone, desks, ash trays, glasses, and other things have also been stolen from the home. “As a result, we’ve carried everything we have left of value to the top floor and locked it in.” The Parks and Recreation Board is planning an auction at as early date of these antiques to salvage as much as possible of the estate’s valuable belongings. The loss so far, Freas said, will See ‘Silly’ Vandalism Page 3 Reserve Funds Bought School A story on the meeting of the County Commissioners Sept. 16 indicated that $200,000 in capital reserve funds had been applied to retire school indebtedness. Commission Chairman Bill Ives says the money was actually used to purchase the Brevard Elementary School building erected in 1948 from the Board of Education, giving that body funds to negotiate for the new school site on Greenville High way. Taylor’s Aide In Brevard On Tuesday Tom L. Mallonee, Uth Congressional District Congressman Roy A. Taylor’s assistant will be in Brevard on, Tuesday,Oct 1 from 9:30 to 10:30 a m., it has been announced. .;, Mr. Mallonee will meet with any person who has plans at official business pertaining to congressional matters. ,<■ The official will be in the Transylvania County Courthouse at the time specified.
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