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Vol. 87 — No. 52
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Brevard High School’s Band Thrills Throngs At Yule Parade
Ill
Kim Brotherton is a serious Madonna in parade
Rosman High’s Band Begins Long March
Young Man Of Year
Nominations Sought
The Brevard Jaycees are
now seeking nominations for
Transylvania County’s out
standing young man of the
year, according to Chuck
Bradley, Jaycee president.
The Distinguished Service
Award, presented annually
since 1947 by the Jaycees, is
given to that young man in the
community who has con
tributed most to the welfare of
the community and who has
given evidence of outstanding
leadership ability and
business or professional
growth.
President Bradley em
phasizes that the young man
does not have to be a member
of the Jaycees in order to be
eligible for the award.
He points out that the rally
limitations are that he be
a resident of Transylvania
County, be at least 21 years of
age and have not reached the
age of 36 before Jan. 1, 1975.
All nominations must be
Secondary
Roads Meet
h Called
The County Commii
made on the forms provided
and should be delivered or
sent by mail to Scott Peterson,
this year’s project chairman.
P. O Box 427 is the mailing
address for nominations, and
these must be turned in no
later than 5 p.m., Monday,
Dec. 23, 1974.
Nomination forms are
available at the Chamber of
Commerce, or by calling Mr.
Peterson at 884-4128.
This year’s recipient of the
Distinguished Service Award,
along with this year’s Out
standing Young Educator,
Outstanding Young Law
Enforcement Officer and thig
year’s Jaycee “Boss of the
Year” will be honored at, the
annual Awards Banquet to be
held on Jan. 3, 1975 in the
Brevard College Cafeteria.
This Awards Banquet will
be open to the public and
tickets for the meal can be
purchased at the Nationwide
Insurance Office on South
Broad Street or at Gaither’s
Restaurant.
The price for the banquet
ticket is $5 per plate. Also,
advance tickets may be ob
tained by calling Tinker
Siniard, banquet chairman, at
883-3311.
Special Christmas
Vignettes On WPNF
During the upcoming
Christmas season, WPNF
listeners can hear a series of
special Christmas vignettes
TROOPE* Earl D.
Marmie began duties as a
highway patrolman in
Brevard on Monday. For
merly of West Jefferson, he
was assigned to this area
following completing of the
Basic Highway Patrol School
the latter part of November.
'
prepared for the station by the
Associated Press. A total of 72
programs will be presented in
this special series.
They are being presented
locally over WPNF through
the courtesy and sponsorship
of Varner’s Drug Store.
Special Santa Claus
programs are now being
prepared by the local station,
and details of these will be
announced in The Times next
WPNF Radio is now
presenting special programs
each weekday relating
progress of the U. S. mail
during the Christmas season.
The update on U. S. mail
service will be heard several
times daily through Christmas
on the Ideal station, and it
should prove to be an in
teresting though brief
program each day, 1
Cecil Hill
At School
For Solons
Senator-Elect Cecil Hill of
Brevard was in Chapel Hill
today attending a school for
legislators at the Institute of
Government.
Govenor James Holshouser
was to have addressed a
luncheon session and the
senators were caucusing in
the General Assembly
building in Raleigh tonight to
elect a president protem, a
senate majority leader, and a
sergeant-at-arms, Mr. Hill
said.
The two-day institute for the
assemblymen will end Friday,
Mr. Hill added.
By Fred Reiter
Temperatures took a dip in
the Brevard area during the
past week as the area ex
perienced its first significant
snowfall in nearly two years.
Temperature averages
were 48 and 24 for the week
with the highest reading
coming on Friday when the
mercury reached 57 degrees.
The period’s lowest tem
perature came on Friday
morning with a reading of 18
degrees. Approximately two
inches of snow fell Saturday
afternoon and night.
Extended outlook for North
Carolina for Friday through
Sunday: Partly cloudy with a
gradual warming trend
through Sunday. Highs in the
lower 50s Friday, rising to the
upper SOs to the low 60s
Sunday. Lows around 30
Friday to the upper 30s and
low 40s Sunday.
Date High Low Prec.
Nov. 27 47 17 0.00
Nov. 28 56 27 0.00
Nov. 29 57 18 6.00
Nov. 30 38 29 1.50
Thousands Line Streets
For Annual Yule Parade
Weather
Shortens
Spectacle
Thousands of persons stood
in chill winds on snow-lined
streets late Monday and were
warmed by the sights in a
weather-shortened Christmas
parade.
A holiday atmosphere
gripped the throngs viewing
the procession which annually
ushers in the Yule season.
Floats, two bands, high
stepping majorettes, beauty
queens, clowns, nativity
scenes, public officials and
Santa Claus himself delighted
the crowds as they made their
long trek meandering through
the downtown area and ending
up at Brevard College.
Two bands and the Shriner’s
motorcycle unit from
Asheville were unable to
appear because of the
weather, but everyone called
the parade a success anyway.
The Mayor’s trophy, top
place award for floats, went to
the Vocation Industrial Club of
America unit from Brevard
High School.
Winning second place — the
Chamber of Commerce
Trophy — was Brevard
Elementary School with a
float cleverly constructed of
collected issues of The
Transylvania Times and some
other newspapers.
The Merchants Division
Trophy, third place, was won
by the Transylvania Parks
and Recreation Department.
Mayor Charles Campbell,
lauding the parade, said it was
one of the best yet. “I really
like our home-made floats.
They are so much prettier
than those custom-made jobs
that often fill parades.”
The Brevard Junior
Cloggers made a big hit with
the parade fans as they
clogged their way through
town.
And someone called at
tention to the fact that Santa
Claus really must know a lot of
people in Brevard. He spoke to
many along the route, calling
them by name.
The real Christmas theme
was in the parade along with
the fun, with nativity and
manger scenes depicting the
birth of Christ.
Chairman of this year's
Christmas Parade committee
was Larry Prince, the
manager of Community Cash.
A
Santa Claus Made Hit With The Little Ones.
School Board Seeks
Lower Bids On Work
The Transylvania Board of
Education is meeting tohight
with bidders on the new phase
of school construction planned
at both Rosman and Brevard
Highs “to see if we can get
them to come down some —
make some adjustments in
their bids,” Chairman Eugene
Morris said.
The bids were opened at the
regular meeting of the board
Monday night, the first at
tended by the newest member,
Dr. Jerry Cabe, who got a real
baptism in the fires of what
education from one of the
Board's main points of view is
— money.
No action was taken on the
bids, Mr. Morris said.
“because they were higher
than anticipated. We are
meeting with the low bidders
tonight to see if we can work
out a course of action.”
Also invited to the tonight’s
meeting are the county
commissioners. “They were
invited for information,” Mr.
Morris said. The school board
wants to sell the eight-acre
school site it is abandoning in
mid-Brevard to the county.
The school board wants an
appraisal of the property
made by a certified property
appraiser, and wants to talk
with the commissioners
before the appraised value is
made public.
On Monday just prior to
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Modern Job Printing
Equipment At Times
The Transylvania Times
has just completed the in
stallation of the latest in offset
printing equipment for rapid
and high quality job printing.
Heart of the new equipment
is a new offset press capable
of printing thousands of copies
an hour, according to Gordon
Byrd, The Times’ production
foreman.
There’s an amusing story
about this press—or maybe it
isn’t so funny. The Times
bought it from a firm in
Spartanburg, S. C. The last job
the press had run was
reported to be $400,000 in
counterfeit $20 bills. The firm
which sold the press to The
Times had nothing to do with
these bills. The persons who
did are now in prison.
The press will run copy in
one or two colors, and will
handle any job-printing
assignment except on card
board or other stiff materials
which will still have to be
printed on The Times’ let
terprint equipment.
A darkroom, a giant
camera, plate-burning
equipment and other devices
give The Times a thoroughly
modern job-printing plant for
the public.
Doug Stenstrom, who has
wide experience in offset
printing has joined The Times
staff and is getting high
quality work from the
equipment. *
The Times can now handle
all job-printing assignments,
Mr. Byrd says.
But, please, The Times
refuses to print money, even
though the press has proved
that it's capable.
R. L. Daniels,
Replaces Hill
On Authority
Brevard Architect Robert L.
Daniels Monday night was
appointed by the Board of
Aldermen to replace Senator
Elect Cecil Hill on the Brevard
Housing Authority.
Mr. Hill has resigned his
post as chairman of the
authority, effective Dec. 16, to
devote his full duties to the
position of N. C. senator, the
job to which he was elected on
Nov. 5.
The Housing Authority
currently has 92 units of
housing for low income
families in the City.
The Board named Frank
Ferrell, an Olin employe, to
fill a vacancy on the City
Planning and Zoning Board.
Brevard officials also ap
plied for a grant from the
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
for expansion of the facilities
at Franklin Park.
According to Mayor Charles
Campbell, a new bath house,
improved parking and
playground facilities, a
wading pool, park
beautification, a diving well
near the present swimming
pool, and soir.. projects
are planned if the fiaids are
granted by BOR.
The funds are doled out by
BOR on a matching basis, the
mayor said. Since the total
projects would cost some
$80,000, the BOR grant
would be $40,000-plus, Mr.
Campbell said.
United Fund
This Week:
$50,670 Collected
$66,883 Goal
76 Per cent.