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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
Vol 87 Nn an secoso cuss postabe
VOI. St NO. 40 PAI# A SREVARD. N. C. ZIP CODE 28712
BREVARD, N. CM THURSDAY. OCTOBER 3, 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
1,843 Olin Workers Out On Strike
Olin Employees Convene In Union Hall To Vote Ft
Time* staff Photo
New Sight In Transylvania . . . Picket Lines
Hill Flays
Taylor Road
Proposal
Cecil J. Hill, Western District
candidate for the N. C. State
Senate, Saturday attacked State
Sen. Charles Taylor’s call of last
week for a road bond issue of up
to one billion dollars as “tinder on
the fires of inflation”.
Addressing a Jackson County
Democratic party rally at the
Cashiers school on Saturday
night, Hill said the Taylor
proposal "completely ignores
warnings of economists
everywhere to cut spending and
balance budgets as the first step
toward controlling inflation”,
/ adding:
“To hear the Senate minority
leader propose this kind of
spending in the same week the
White House held its much
heralded two-day summit
meeting makes one question Mr.
Taylor’s priorities and fiscal
'i s- responsibility.”
State Sen. Charles Taylor, as
reported in the Asheville Citizen
on Wednesday, Sept. 28, called
for a transportation bond issue of
from five hundred million to one
Transylvania Teachers
Union Receives Charter
With a reported membership of
“around 40 teachers,” the
Transylvania local of the
American Federation of
Teachers was presented a
charter Tuesday night at the
jUnion Hall of Local 1971 of the
United Papermakers In
ternational Union, Pisgah Forest.
Guidance Counselor Thelma
Bryson of Rosman High School,
first chairman of the new local,
accepted the charter from
Eugene J. Didier, southern
regional director of the AFT,
AFL-CIO.
The new unit is chartered as
Local 3306 of the American
Federation of Teachers, AFL
CIO.
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Chairman Bryson told The
Times: “This is another
professional organization. We are
not trying to be troublemakers.
The North Carolina Education
Assn, and the National Education
Assn, are not meeting our needs.
This organization will advance us
in our profession.”
All of Florida is already
—See Transylvania, Page 6
$500,000 Jail Bond
Vote Is Authorized
Transylvania County citizens
will vote Nov. 5 on a $500,000 bond
issue for erecting and equipping a
new jail.
The County Commissioners at
their meeting last week officially
authorized the vote.
There was no debate on the
issue, and no questions from the
audience, which Chairman Bill
Ives said “was a surprise.”
The questions had come at a
meeting nine days earlier when
commissioners fielded question
after question from a large group
—See *500,000, Page 12
$5,350,000 Waste Treatment
Plant To Be Built By Olin
A secondary waste treatment
project has been approved as
next step in pollution abatement
efforts at Olin Corporation’s
plants in Pisgah Forest ac
cording to Garza Baldwin, Jr.,
president of the Fine Paper and
Film Group.
To cost 95,350,000, the new
program will raise to above $18
million the cost of controlling
water and air pollution at Olin’s
Fine Paper and Film plants.
two years
m
hence, the secondary waste
' treatment facilities will treat
waste waters from the Ecusta
Paper and Film division plants.
Discharge will be directly into
the French Broad River from the
large, lake-like, aerated
stabilization basin. It is Phase V
in the Pisgah Forest com
prehensive pollution abatement
program, which will be con
siderably different in scope and
location from the earlier
projects, its steps all part of a
planned sequence. Most of it will
be on newly-acquired land south
;
and southeast ot the plant,
formerly the John J. Brown
property.
Rising on approximately half
this site, the aerated stabilization
basin will have 17 floating
aerators, each powered by 75
horsepower motors, to supply
oxygen to the wastewater
recieved by pipeline from the two
large clarifiers. The water
surface area will be ap
proximately 85 acres, bounded on
three sides by earthern dikes and
—See Giant New, Page 10
Temperatures remained
steady during the past week,
reflecting little change from the
previous week, at least until
Monday morning of this week.
Averages for the past week
were 72 and 49, with the highest
reading being 77 degrees on
Saturday afternoon, while the
veek’s lowest mercury reading
vas a snappy 34 degrees on
Ouesday morning. Moderate to
leavy frost, the first of the fall
eason, occurred also Tuesday
noming.
Extended forecast for North
Carolina—fair and rather cool
'hursday; partly cloudy and
warmer Friday and Saturday.
Highs in the 60s Thursday,
warming to the lower to mid-70s
Friday and Saturday. Lows in the
mid to upper 30s in the moun
tains, ranging to the low 50s on
the south coast Thursday,
warming to the 50s by Saturday.
Brevard weather data for the
week was as follows:
DATE HIGH LOW PREC.
sept. 25
Sept. 26
Sept. 27
Sept. 28
Sept. 29
Sept. 30
Oct. 1
70
71
67
77
74
73
73
46
44
56
60
65
34
34
0.04
0.00
0.30
1.57
0.08
0.00
0.00
United Fund
Drive Kickoff
On Monday
The annual Transylvania
County United Fund Drive will be
launched Monday, October 7, at
Berry’s Restaurant at noon, it
was announced this week.
Dr. Wilburn Davis, local
dentist and long-time resident of
Brevard will be the featured
speaker for the kick-off luncheon,
which is being sponsored by the
local banks, a United Fund
spokesman said.
All funds solicitors,
representatives of all United
Fund agencies, and persons
interested in the ultimate success
of the drive which has a 1975
budget of $66,883.58, are urged to
attend this important meeting,
the spokesman said.
Some 75 persons are expected
for the event.
Drive Chairman Tom Penn
promises that the entire lun
—See United Fund, Page <
Violence Flares,
Truck Damaged
A total of 1,843 employees of Olin Corporation’s
Ecusta Paper and Film Division went on strike at 8
a.m. Monday following their refusal Sunday af
ternoon to accept a new three-year contract offered
by the company.
Members of Local 1971 of the United Paper
workers International Union on Sunday voted 1,406
to 92 to turn down Olin’s proposal, then followed with
a ballot—1,389 to 104—to strike the company on
Monday morning.
Picket lines were set up for the first time in
Transylvania County history.
The first incidence of violence was reported on
Tuesday morning when a Bowman Transportation
Corp. tryik. loaded vrStV titanium dioxide for
ananas ralQ that no on-duty
pickets were involved, nor is
there evidence that any striking
personnel were involved.
All entrances to Olin property
are being picketed, it was an
nounced, with around 20 em
ployees manning the lines at all
times, a union spokesman said.
Operations at the giant firm
are completely shut down, except
for a few essential maintenance
chores being performed by
supervisory personnel, it was
announced.
Both company and union of
ficials said that no more
meetings between Olin and the
Paperworkers are scheduled.
Olin’s final offer, given Friday
afternoon after 31 hours of
bargaining, a company official
said, would have increased
hourly workers’ wages and
benefits by 1.81 an hour over the
three-year period of the contract
to an average of $5.72 an hour.
The current average wage is
1
ficial said.
“Cost of wage and fringe
benefit improvements in the
company’s offer would have
exceeded $8 million over the
—See Olin Workers, Page 6
Water Short,
Council Warns
The Brevard City Council
Wednesday called on water
customers to begin conserving
water usage “before we get into
an emergency situation,” Mrs.
Opal C. Hahn, acting city
manager reported.
The low volume of water in the
reservoirs has already affected
pressure in some areas, she said,
“but we believe we can overcome
the present situation at this time
if everyone will con e usage.”
She continued: “We are doing
everything possible to check
leakage in order to gain our
normal capacity, and will ap
preciate the cooperation of the
water users.”
Old School
Site Study
To Be Made
Transylvania’s Board of
Commissioners and Board of
Education in a joint meeting
Monday night decided* that
nothing will be done immediately
with the eight-acre Broad Street
school complex soon to be
vacated.
Students will move from this
site to the new Brevard
Elementary School and t^the
Brevard Middle School by
Thanksgiving, Superintendent of
Education Harry Corbin told the
receive the resolution” from
them with such short notice
only a week actually between the
receipt of the resolution and the
October 1 deadline. “And we had
agreed to do nothing prior to
another joint meeting.”
The two boards had held a joint
meeting on August 28 concerning
the property, and at that time had
agreed to hold another meeting
before doing anything about the
property, Mr. Ives said.
"Since we had agreed to do
this, the resolution asking us to
—See Old School, Page 5
No School
On Friday
There’s no school Friday,
young ’uns.
School Superintendent Harry
Corbin says that the day is a day
of professional meetings for
school staff members and that it
is a holiday for pupils.
So have fun.
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