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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1B7<
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Hubbitrd, Morris, CiJbe Elected
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Union Rejects New Olin Offer
Strike
Goes On
At Plant
BULLETIN
As The Times was leaving
for press Wednesday af
ternoon, it was learned that
Olln Corp. negotiators and
those from the United
Paperworks International
Union had resumed talks.
Federal Mediator Eugene
Garrety reconvened the
sessions of the opposing
factions at 3 p.m.
A majority of
striking union mem
bers Monday rejected
the tentative
agreement which had
been reached between
their negotiators and
Olin Corp. and the
walkout headed
through its sixth week.
The vote of members
of Local 1971, of the
United Paperworkers
International Union
was 812 in favor of
continuing the strike to
672 for accepting the
agreement.
f*f Production has been at a
standstill at the giant in
dustrial complex since Sept.
30, when workers left their
jobs at 8 a.m. after the ex
piration of their contract with
Olin. The Ecusta Paper
Division is the largest
manufacturer of cigarette and
other fine papers in the world.
medical insurance,
retirement, vacation, and
other benefits.
The spokesman said an
immediate wage increase
would have added from 50 to
55 cents an hour, based upon
length of service, and was to
be followed next September by
a 10 per cent general wage
increase.
The third year wage ad
justment, he said, was left
—See Olin, Page 4
Schools9
Move Now
December
Brevard elementary and
middle school childreh may
not move into their new
buildings until late December.
This was the prediction by
L. C. Case III, assistant
superintendent of schools, at
the Monday night meeting of
the Board of Education.
Previously, the moves had
been planned for the first of
November.
Progress at the middle
school site looks good, he said,
but he would not give a firm
moving date. Carpet is betas
put down, painting is befe|
An Olin spokesman said the
three-year contract proposal
presented to the union
members Saturday, 48 hours
prior to their vote of rejection,
offered improvements in
wages, hospital and
NEW ROSMAN Mayor Bill Cathey was
sworn into office Monday night by Transylvania
Clerk of Court Marian M. McMahon. Looking on
is J. C. Galloway, who took the oath of office as
alderman, succeeding Mr. Cathey in that post.
Mr. Cathey succeeds Rev. J. K. Pressley, who
resigned. Other Rosman aldermen are John C.
Jones and Dorsey Paxton. (Times Staff Photo)
New Library Opens
At 3 p. m. Monday
The Transylvania County
Library officially opens in its
new quarters at the site of the
old Brevard Post Office on
Monday, Nov. 11, Mrs.
Elizabeth Kapp, librarian, has
announced.
A ribbon cutting at 3 p.m. by
Chairman of the County
Commissioners Bill Ives will
be followed by open house
until 6:30 p.m.
On hand for the informal
dedication will be the county
commissioners, Mayor
Charles Campbell of Brevard,
the Brevard City Council, and
board of trustees of the
library.
Tours of the new facilities
will follow and refreshments
will be' served by the Friends
of the Library.
Lauding the cooperation of
the community, Mrs. Kapp
said of the move from the old
library next to the court house
into the fine, remodeled
building at 105 South Broad St :
“We. could not have made
the move so speedy without
the help of the American
Association of Retired People,
the Schenck Job Corps Center,
and the many volunteers who
spent so many hours at the
tasks. They were all just
wonderful.”
BORROWED
Forty-two moving trays
were borrowed from Pack
Library in Asheville, “and
they were kept on the move
between the two buildings
until all 20,000 volumes were
finally on shelves in the new
building.’’
Olin Corp. lent the library
eight dollies, Mrs. Kapp said,
“which helped greatly for
moving the book cases, etc.
We had such wonderful help
and we are most ap
preciative.”
The featured exhibit for the
opening, a traveling show of 18
watercolors by Hobson Pitt
man will remain until
November 29.
Mrs. Kapp singled out for
special mention among the
volunteers who helped in the
moving' Mrs. Denton An
derson, Mrs. Frank Guest,
Mrs. Donald Haehnel, Mrs.
Cecil Hill, Mrs. Robert
Lamotte, Mrs. Betty
McDwain, and Mrs. Preston
Woodruff.
Members of the A.A.R.P.
“spending long hours on the
job,” she said, were Wally
Cates, Dean Damon, Paul
Goeser, Elmer Johnson, Leh
man Kapp, Walter McKelvey,
Robert McMichael, Henry
Pettit, Robert Polk, Stephen
Stark, Webster Temple, and
Ransom Townsend.
“And the help of the Job
Corps was just tremendous.”.
EXHIBIT
About the watercolors to be
exhibited, Mrs. Kapp said:
The North Carolina Museum
—See Watercolor, Page 12
feather
By Fred Reiter
Temperatures in the
Brevard area warmed con
siderably during the past
week, averaging 77 and 45
each day in the period. The
lowest reading was 39 degrees
on Monday morning, while the
week’s high was 82 on
Saturday morning. Nearly a
half-inch rainfall Tuesday
morning broke a long dry spell
in the area.
Brevard weather data was
as follows during the week:
Date High Low Prec.
Oct. 30 78 53 0.00
Oct. 31 77 44 0.00
Nov. 1 80 42 0.00
Nov. 2 82 40 0.00
Nov. 3 79 41 0.00
Nov. 4 70 39 0.00
Nov. 5 71 56 0.49
School Board Told
Teacher Union Here
The Transylvania County
Board of Education was given
notice at its Monday night
meeting that a teachers union
has been organized. At the
meeting, attended by all board
members, the board approved
the by-laws of the newly
organized Rosman High
School Band Boosters and
paid tribute to one of its
members who is stepping
down after 18 years.
Bob Mulkey, vice president
of Local 3308, American
Federation of Teachers, said
that copies of the union ob
jectives had been sent to
board members. “This is so
that we will be officially
known, that we exist. We are
definitely not a radical group
and we will not go out on
strike,” he said.
“We would like to look at
ourselves as a professional
group and hope you will look
at us like one. Whatever we do
will be toward making a better
school system.”
The union was organized, he
said, to add another opinion on
local school matters. “By
looking at more opinions and
vewpoints, we can come up
with the best available.”
has not
Mulkey said.
Ruth Shipman, president of
the Association of Classroom
Teachers, questioned the need
for the union. “What is the
purpose of another
organisation? The objectives
seem to be very similar.”
Mulkey answered, “We are
definitely not here to fight any
other organization or cause
any trouble. Some
organizations in the past have
not been known by everyone.”
“Our question,” Miss
Shipman pointed out, “is why
is there another one
(organization)? Why don’t
they work with us instead?
—See Ed. Page 5
Mayor Named
A Director
Of League
RALEIGH- Mayor Charles
H. Campbell of Brevard was
elected to the Board of
Directors to the North
Carolina League of
Municipalities at the close of
its annual convention held in
Asheville last week.
Mayor Campbell was
elected to the post as director
of the Twelfth District of the
league. The district he will
serve includes 31 towns and
cities in 14 Western North
Carolina counties.
He is one of 12 directors of
the league, a statewide
organization of 414 towns and
cities which represents them
in legislative matters,
research, and provides a wide
range of technical and ad
visory services. The league’s
staff is headquartered in
Raleigh.
Mayor Campbell will serve
for a one-year term. He and
other Brevard city officials
attended the league’s 65th
annual convention in
Asheville. More than 1,200
city officials from across the
state gathered in Asheville for
the convention, representing
most of the state’s municipal
population.
Correction
We’re embarrassed.
Maybe it was the ex
citement of the election. We’re
not certain.
But what we are positive of
is that some gremlins crept
into our shop, causing some
errors, one very serious.
It can be found in Section C,
which went to press on
Tuesday.
In a story on page 6 of that
section, “Hadlock Trial Is
Deferred”, two commas were
omitted which changes the
meaning of one sentence.
Kent Hadlock was charged
with fraud in a warrant signed
by Harold Becker. In the
second paragraph, a sentence
reads: ^Hadlock said Becker
represented the property as
being free of incumbrances ..
etc.” It should read:
“Hadlock, said Becker,
represented the property as
being free of incumbrances ..
. etc.”
Citizens
To Board:
Keep Land
The Transylvania County
and Brevard Planning Boards
Monday night in a joint
resolution recommended that
the County Commissioners
purchase the eight-acre
schools site in the heart of
Brevard and make a study of
the needs of the community
before deciding on its
disposition.
Brevard Planning Board
Chairman Bill Leonard
submitted the resolution after
a joint meeting had heard
dozens of citizens from an
audience of more than 100
persons in the County Court
House call for the soon-to-be
abandoned school property to
be kept public.
There were many different
opinions about what should be
done with the property, but
everyone seemed to agree that
there should be no com
mercial development on the
land soon to be vacated by the
schools system.
Brevard’s Elementary and
Middle Schools are moving to
new quarters in December.
Chairman Bill Huters of the
county’s planning board,
presiding, explained that the
groups could make recom
mendations only to the Board
of County Commissioners, and
that whatever suggestions
were made would not
necessarily be followed.
Dr. John Folger, one of the
commissioners, said that the
land was still in the hands of
the Board of Education, and
that the county could do
nothing with the property and
its several buildings until the
school board gives it up.
Pointing out that the school
board has considerable equity
in the land, Dr. Folger said
that the commissioners had
promised the board funds to
go ahead with planned
projects without a sale of the
property.
At an earlier meeting
between the commissioners
and school board, Dr. Folger
had suggested that perhaps
the school board should just
deed the property over to the
county when it no longer needs
it.
At the Monday hearing, the
Transylvania County
Sheltered Workshop, which
provides employment and
work space for handicapped
persons, and Blue Ridge Tech,
a community college based in
Hendersonville, both put in
strong bids for the use of the
—See Planning, Page 15
Hill Victor, Taylor
Loses In District
Incumbent Sheriff Milford Hubbard, School
Board Chairman Eugene Morris and his
Democrat running mate, Jerry Cabe, swept to
victory in Tuesday’s general election.
A total of 6,229 of 11,444 registered voters went
to the polls.
As the Times went to press the race for Clerk
of Court was undecided because of malfunctions
in two voting machines in the county which
caused 587 votes not to be counted.
Incumbent Republican
Clerk of Court Marian M.
McMahon was leading
Democrat Jean M. Hooper by
2,769 to 2,448 with the two
machines missing.
Eastatoe’s machine did not
record the voting of 319 per
sons. A machine at Brevard
Precinct No. 1 failed to
register the votes of 268
persons. Persons using those
machines were voting again
on Wednesday. Ballots, not
machines, were being used.
Poll workers were at
tempting to contact those
using those machines and
request that they vote again.
Democratic Attorney Cecil
J. Hill and Republican Charles
Taylor, both of Brevard were
leaders in the county for *he
27th District Senate seats,
but Taylor was behind in
the voting of the other nine
counties in the district.
Hill and his Democrat
colleague, Joe Palmer of
Haywood County, were the
winners in this race. Taylor
and Bette Anne Wilkie of
Henderson County were
defeated.
Democarats won all of the
43rd District House seats as
the party made an apparent
clean sweep of General
Assembly posts in the
mountains of N.C.
Claude DeBruhl, Herbert L.
Hyde, Mary C. Nesbitt, and
John S. Stevens, all of Bun
combe County, were elected,
while Daniel J. Gorham,
Marilyn C. Hewitt, Doug
Martin, and Stewart V.
Spragins, all Buncombe
Republicans, saw their bids
defeated.
In the race for U.S. Senate,
Transylvania voted like the
rest of the state, giving
Democrat Robert Morgan a
whopping victory. The vote
was 2,982 for Morgan to 2,068
for William E. Stevens, the
Republican challenger.
—See Hubbard, Page 8
United Fund
Total to date:
$45,656
Percentage of goal:
68.3 percent
Heartbeat' Theater
Is WPNF Feature
A long-standing feature of
WPNF Radio’s weekly
program schedule is
“Heartbeat Theater”,
broadcast each Saturday at
11:05 a.m. as a public service
program. The program
features a dramatic
presentation each week,
presented through
cooperation of the Salvation
Army.
In Saturday morning’s
program, Ernie Loewy writes
about Joe Davis who has
always wanted to own a
sailboat. He finally purchases
one with funds that are ac
tually badly needed for his
family. The added expenses,
putting the boat before other
things, causes almost
irreparable family friction.
The show makes for some
interesting listening.
Another special program
heard over WPNF each
Saturday morning is the Good
Tidings broadcast, which is
presented by the Rev. R. A.
White, pastor of Midway Bible
Baptist Church, Rosman
Highway.
Mr. White has a weekly
message on this popular
program.
Due to an unexpected
change, Sunday morning
worship services are being
broadcast this month from the
First Baptist Church of
Brevard. The Rev. Dr. Russell
Willis is the pastor.
MILFORD HUBBARD
CECIL J. HILL
JERRY CABE
EUGENE M. MORRIS
Court House
Closed Monday
Offices in the county court
house will be closed Monday,
Nov. 11 for Veteran’s Day, it
was announced this week.
City Hall, the U.S. Post
Office, and other agencies will
be doing business as usual.
They observed Veteran’s Day
on Monday, Oct. 28.