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Vol. 87 — No. 46
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BREVARD. N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1974 32 PAGES TODAY
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Six- Week Olin Strike Is Settled
Commission Chairman Bill Ives cuts ribbon
opening Transylvania County Public Library in
new facilities as looking on, from left, are Kevin
Culin, County Commissioners Clinton Owen and
Dr. John Folger, and Mrs. Cecil Hill, vice
president of the library’s Board of Trustees.
(Times Staff Photo).
Times Will
Go Twice
Weekly
Beginning next week The
Transylvania Times will be
published twice weekly—each
Monday and Thursday
evening—according to Clyde
K. Osborne, editor.
The move comes at the
request of advertisers and
subscribers and has been in
the planning stages for
several weeks. It is felt that
the semi-weekly publication
schedule will benefit both
subscribers and advertisers,
and will stimulate reader
interest and business in the
Brevard area.
Ail subscriptions received
through Wednesday, Nov. 13.
will be honored for the full
term. Increased rates for new
subscriptions or renewals go
into effect today.
Advertising deadlines will
be noon Saturday for Mon
day’s paper and Wednesday
afternoon for the Thursday
edition.
We at far
By Fred Reiter
During the past week,
Brevard temperatures
averaged 65 and 31 each day,
with the week’s highest
reading being 70 degrees on
Sunday afternoon. Low
reading for the week was
Monday morning’s reading of
23 degrees. Snow was reported
in at least one area of the
county on Tuesday afternoon.
Extended outlook for
Thursday through Saturday;
chance of rain west Thursday
and across the state Friday
and Saturday. Cool daytime
temperatures with highs
around 50 mountains, ranging
to mid 60s southeast.
Moderating night time tem
peratures with lows from the
20s mountains to near 40 coast
Thursday, warming to 30s
mountains and 40s elsewhere
Saturday.
Brevard weather data for
the week was as follows:
Date High
Nov. 6
Low Prec
67 33 0.00
62 37 0.00
66 37 0.00
68 24 0.00
70 25 0.00
66 28 0.00
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Library Dedicated\
Open For Business
The new home of the
Transylvania County Public
Library was dedicated
Monday afternoon as more
than 200 men, women, and
children gathered for the
ceremony and ribbon cutting
which officially opened the
new facilitiy.
Commission Chairman Bill
Ives snipped the ribbon after a
Ives Says He Has
No More Jail Plans
County Commission
Chairman Bill Ives Tuesday
expressed his disappointment
that the jail bond issue did not
pass in the recent election.
When asked what the
commissioners would now do
about a new jail, he said, “I
will follow the mandate of the
people and do absolutely
nothing about constructing a
new jail. I feel very strongly
about the democratic process
and since the people have
voted not to have a jail built,
no effort will be made to
construct one.”
In response to the question
“what if the jail is now con
demned and padlocked by the
State?”, Chairman Ives said,
“This will throw a different
light on the subject.
“We will, of course, tem
porarily have to provide
transportation to house the
prisoners in nearby jail
facilities. It would then be our
duty to restudy the question
and most probably resubmit a
bond issue to the people.”
He was also asked why the
commissioners had not built a
jail when they found funds to
buy a 1949 elementary school
building and the old post office
and were providing funds to
renovate both structures.
To this, he said, “We have,
as Commissioners, been
provided with unique op
portunities. The old post office
suddenly came up for sale. If
we had not bought it and used
it as a library, it would have
been sold for some non-public
purpose and we felt it was too
valuable to slip from public
use.
“At nearly the same time,
we were asked to help the
school board by purchasing
the elementary building from
See Jail. Page 3
Arson And Burglary
Charges Face Man
A young Sapphire man is
being held in' Transylvania
County jail in lieu of $11,900
bond on charges of burglary
and arson, Sheriff’s In
vestigator James Stroup said
Tuesday.
The officer said that James
Jackson Fisher was arrested
late Friday and charged with
tafeing $400 from the wallet of
Clifford Reid while the man
slept in his home at Sapphire.
The arson charges, In
vestigator Stroup said,
resulted from three woods
United Fund
To date: $48,500.
er cent of goal.
fires set between noon and
dark near the Jelly House at
Sapphire.
Mr. Stroup said that another
suspect is being sought in
connection with the fires.
Mr. Fisher also faces
charges of assault on a
female, the officer told The
Times.
Concerning the woods fires,
Investigator Stroup said, “We
have had such incidents
running out our ears for
several weeks. It has been a
bad year for woods fires,
because it has been so dry.”
He appealed to the public to
report such fires immediately
to proper authorities, and to
report possible arson in such
cases also.
f '
few brief speeches.
Said Ives: “This may well
be the first of a number of
buildings within a new
governmental center.” He
referred to the possibility of
the school buildings across
Morgan Street from the
library being used by various
agencies after they are
vacated in December.
Mrs. Cecil Hill, vice
president of the library’s
Board of Trustees, told Mr.
Ives, and Mayor Charles
Campbell of Brevard:
“We are deeply grateful to
you for providing the money
and the furnishings for this
fine facility. You proved
yourselves responsive to the
needs of the citizens of this
See Mrs., Page 8
1974 Yule
Parade Set
December 2
Plans for the annual
Chamber of Commerce
banquet here were announced
at the Chamber’s regular
monthly meeting Tuesday
night in the council room of
the Brevard Municipal
Building.
Dr. Wilburn Davis, chair
man of the upcoming event,
announced that the banquet
will be held on Friday, Feb. 21,
at the Brevard College
cafeteria.
It will start at 7 p.m.,
featuring outstanding
speaker-entertainer John Ed
Davis of Shelby as the prin
cipal speaker.
Dr. Davis stated that Mr.
■Davis was outstanding in his
field, and that the ChamSer
was most fortunate to secure
his talents for the banquet.
It was also announced that
Brevard’s annual Christmas
parade, sponsored by the
Merchants Division of the
Chamber, will be held on
Monday, Dec. 2, beginning at
4:30 p.m.
The parade theme this year
will be “Good Will Toward
Men", and all clubs and
organizations are urged to
participate by entering a float
See Yule, Page 3
Operation
Resumes
At Plant
Wheels, idled fjor six
weeks, began turning
again Monday at the
giant Olin industrial
complex at Pisgah
Forest as the strike of
Local 1971 United
Paperworkers In
ternational Union
came to an end.
The workers voted
overwhelmingly
Sunday afternoon in
favor of accepting a
contract worked out by
company represen-,
tatives and agents of
Union Local 1971. More
than 1,800 hourly
workers had been out
on strike.
The vote in favor of
ratifying the new proposal
was 1,117 to 377. The em
ployees of Ecusta Paper
Division reported on their
regular shifts beginning at 8
a.m. Monday. Film Division
employees were contacted by
their supervisors as to star
ting time.
Federal Mediator Eugene
Garrety of Charlotte had
called the committee back
into session at the Holiday Inn
in Hendersonville last Wed
nesday at 3 p.m. The proposal
hammered out at the meeting
was presented to the union
members on Friday.
Settlement of the strike was
announced jointly by the
chairman of the bargaining
committees: Paul D. Seagle,
president of Local 1971; and
Arthur Beddoe, Director of
Industrial Relations at Olin’s
Ecusta Paper and Film
division plants.
Joining Seagle in presenting
details of the proposal to
Union members at two
meetings were other officers
and members of the
bargaining committee:
Arnold E. Brown, vice
president and area director;
Stanley R. Woodfin , in
ternational representative;
and Fred W. Bumgarner, W.
Marvin Gaddy, Charles W.
Galloway, Nancy L. Logan,
James E. Reese, Jr., Earl A.
Sumner, Edna L. Thomas and
Richard S. Tinsley.
Serving with Beddoe on
Olin’s bargaining committee
were Robert G. Cunningham,
Jr., Robert H. Dowis, Jr.,
William F. Huffman, C.
Cleaves Johnson, James G.
Strong and J. Robert
Robinson.
Promptly after result of
the vote was announced
Sunday, pickets were with
drawn from the plant en
See Olin, Page 8
Turn Lanes
At Schools
Approved
N.C. Secondary Roads
Councilman Charles Taylor
announced Wednesday that
his office has obtained ap
proval from the Department
of Transportation for con
struction of both east and west
turn lanes for the new Brevard
schools located on U.S. 276.
Mr. Taylor said that he had
been working for the lanes to
get traffic coming to and from
schools out of the main flow of
traffic and thereby reduce the
possibility of accidents at the
school entrance.
Construction for the turn
lanes should begin as soon as
rights-of-way are obtained.
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Precinct No. 1 election Judge
Lela Price points to zeroes on
Voting Machine tabulator at end of
first day of voting. (Times Staff
Photo).
Mrs. McMahon Winner
In Complete Vote Count
Final and official returns
from Transylvania County’s
unique two-day election last
week show Mrs. Marian M.
McMahon, the incumbent
Republican as winner in the
race for Clerk of Court.
Her total vote was 3,070, two
short of a 400 majority over
her Democratic opponent,
Mrs. Jean Hooper, who
garnered 2,672 votes.
The Clerk of Court race was
the only one left in doubt after
the first day of voting when
The Times went to press last
week.
The second day of voting
was necessitated when one
voting machine at Brevard
No. 1 precinct, and the voting
machine at Eastatoe
malfunctioned.
An all-out drive was made
by the Elections Board,
workers in the precincts,
party workers, and the
sheriff’s department to notify 1
Brevard Professor
Heads Action Group
group they represent include:
Sam Milla and H. M. Pullin,
Jr., City of Hendersonville,
Mrs. Thomas T. Mitchell, Jr.
and Peter P. D’Angona, Jr.
Transylvania County Com
missioners, William Collins,
Brickton Community; Mrs.
Melissa Hill, East Side
Community, Bill Justice,
Edneyville Community; H.E.
Pryor, Gerton-Bat Cave
Community.
Also Donald McCall,
Balsam Grove; James
Parker, Calvert; Mrs. Mary
Jane Beese, East Fork; Mrs.
Vernice Coleman, Glade
Creek; Eugene King, Sr.,
Lake Toxaway; Mrs. Della
Aiken, Middle Fork; Mrs.
Jimell Hall, Rosenwald; Mrs.
Judith Orr, Rosman. Also
Mrs. Violet Brooks, Whitmire
Community; Harrison E.
Tawney, Brevard College,
Maurice Flynn, E. I. du Pont
de Nemours & Company;
Joseph P. Williams, Olin
Corporation; and the Rev.
Walter Roberts, migrant
council of Henderson County.
Harrison E. Tawney,
associate professor of
psychology and director of
counseling at Brevard College
was elected Monday evening,
Nov. 11, to serve as chairman
of the Board of Directors of
Western Carolina Community
Action, Inc.
Mr. Tawney has served as
board member of W.C.C.A. for
three years and as a member
of Transylvania County
Community Action Committee
for two years. He succeeds H.
M. Pullin, Jr. who has served
as chairman for the last two
years.
Other officers for W.C.C.A.,
Inc. are H. M. Pullin Jr., vice
chairman, Mrs. Thomas T.
Mitchell, Jr., Secretary, and
the Rev. Walter D. Roberts!
treasurer. Mrs. Melissa Hill
was elected to serve on the
executive committee with the
officers listed above.
Board members for the 1974
75 Program Year and the
agency, community or private
Devotional Period
On WPNF Each Day
Each weekday morning,
WPNF-Radio devotes a 15
minute period to churches of f
the county, as members of the
Ministerial Association
present Morning Devotions on
the station.
The devotional period is
presented each morning at
S:45 a.m. Listerners are en
couraged to hear an in
spirational message and
music at this hour each
morning.
The Trading Post, heard
;ach weekday at 12:30 p.m.,
>n WPNF-Radio 1240, con
inues to be one of the station’s
nost popular daily features.
Area residents are invited to
mail in their items to be ad
vertised on the Trading Post,
items for sale, lost and found,
wanted to buy, etc. should be
sent to the Trading Post, in
:are of WPNF Radio,
Brevard.
;he persons who had used
:hose machines to return to
.'Ote again on Wednesday.
At Brevard Precinct No. 1,
officials said, 268 persons had
used the malfi’ zoning
machine on T- jUay. Of this
lumber came back
Wednesday and voted by
marking ballots.
At Eastatoe, 319 persons
,’oted Tuesday, and 304 were
:ontacted to return to the polls
>n Wednesday.
PROBE
William Leonard, secretary
)f the Board of Elections, said
igents of the State Bureau of
Investigation were in Tran
sylvania following the
nachines’ malfunction to
:heck on the incident.
They found nothing except
nachines which would not
ally votes, Mr. Leonard said,
rhe occurrence was believed
o be unique in N.C. voting
listory.
Milford Hubbard, the In
cumbent and Democratic
sheriff, proved to be the high
/ote getter in Transylvania’s
election, polling 4,098 in the
official count. John J. Brown,
Republican who opposed him,
*ot 1,631.
Democrats claimed both
seats on the School Board also,
vith Dr. Jerry Cabe the high
nan with 3,831 votes, followed
jy Board Chairman Eugene
VI. Morris who claimed 3,222
n the final count. They
lefeated Republicans Gerald
S. Deaver with 2,199 votes and
Mrs. Betty A. McGuire who
See Final, Page 8
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MRS. MARIAN McMAHON
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