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Land of Waterfalls,
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Foreets, Brevard College,
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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
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Vol. 87—No.54
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PAID AT BREVARD, N. C. ZIP CODE M7U
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1974
15c COPY PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY
32 PAGES TODAY
WHO IS SHE?— This has
been cleanup week at The Times,
and in moving files out of the back
shop to make room for equipment,
this 11 by 14 picture of a cutie was
found—much too cute to throw out.
The picture was made in 1941, we
believe. And the owner can claim
the picture and a pretty frame by
coming by The Times.
Noted Speaker Addresses
Jaycee Banquet January 3
The Brevard Jaycees today
announced that the featured
speaker of this years
Distinguished Service Award
banquet will be one of the
nation’s most sought after
public speakers.
Dr. Tom Haggai of High
Point, N. C. has been a
minister since age 12. His
message is timeless, but his
language is flavored with
contemporary phrases, his
warmth, humor and un
derstanding indicate a very
human guy.
And so he is. He com
municates with both
teenagers and conservative
gray-suited businessmen.
For the last decade he has
averaged speaking once a
day, logging more than 250,000
miles each year. Dr. Haggai is
at home in all 50 states but is
also recognized in the 21
foreign countries where he has
spoken. A typical audience
would be a Rotary Conclave in
Singapore where people of
four different languages
united in a standing ovation.
By Fred Reiter
Temperature averages for
the past week were 48 and 22
for each day at the Brevard
weather station. Highest
reading during the week was
56 degrees on Sunday af
ternoon, while Tuesday
morning’s low reading of 14
degrees was the week’s
minimum.
Extended forecast for North
Carolina: Thursday through
Saturday, scattered
precipitation Thursday and
Friday, clear by Sunday.
Highs should average in the
50s, while the low will be in
the 20s.
Brevard weather data was
as follows during the past
Date High Low Prec.
Dec. 5 52 15 0.00
Dec. • 54 ' 18 0.00
Dec. 7 38 20 0.70
DR. HAGGAI
Aside from speaking, Dr.
Haggai has a daily five
minute radio show, “Values
for Better Living,” sponsored
throughout the nation. He also
contributes to several
business periodicals and
recently finished a book titled,
“Chrissie, I Never Had It So
Bad,” dealing with the
problems of youth.
He serves as the only non
food member on the In
dependent Grocers’ Alliance
International Board and is on
the board of Super Foods.
A college athlete and orator,
Dr. Haggai has been the
constant recipient of honors.
Among the honors received
are honorary degrees from
High Point and Salem
Colleges; DSA winner at age
23; Chauncey Rose Award for
Free Enterprise from
Rose-Hulman Polytechni',
North Carolina Distinguished
Citizens Award; North
Greenville College
Distinguished Alumnus
Award; American Humanics
Life Membership and dozens
of honorary state, city,
fraternal and military
citizenships.
“We are extremely pleased
that Dr. Haggai will be able to
attend the banquet and deliver
the main address,” said
Jaycee Scott Peterson, who is
chairman of this years award
banquet.
“Several Jaycees had the
opportunity to hear Dr.
Haggai speak in High Point
last summer, and it was a
most unforgettable ex
perience. I feel that Dr.
Haggai’s presence will make
this awards banquet the most
memorable one that the
Jaycees have ever presented.
“This years banquet will
also have a special meaning to
the citizens of our community.
This year’s Distinguished
Service Award will be given in
memory of the late John I.
—See Jaycees, Page 2A
Pet Department
WPNF Feature
WPNF-Radio 1240 broad
casts twice each day, as a
public service to residents of
the area, the “Pet Depart
ment” programs.
Animals which have been
lost or found are listed on this
program, which is heard at
11:15 each weekday morning
and every weekday afternoon
at 3:15 pjn.
Listeners are invited to call'
the station to list pets which
may be lost or found, or they
can write to the radio station.
Eric London is the popular
voice being heard evenings on
WPNF-Radio, and he’s quite a
hit with the stations listeners,
according to all reports.
Eric is happy to play the
music the people want to hear,
and requests should be ad
dressed to him at WPNF in
Brevard. He also is heard
weekday afternoons and
weekends on WPNF.
Favorite Christmas music
will be presented nearly all
day, on Christmas eve and
Christmas day. This as an
annual presentation by the
station, featuring greetings
from local merchants to the
residents of the area. Be sure
to listen for beautiful music of
the season.
County Commissioners
Seek Managerial Audit
Would Be
First Such
N. C. Study
The Board of Com
missioners heard a very in
teresting proposal by Barry
Mundt of Pete, Marwick &
Mitchell and Company at their
meeting on Monday night. Mr.
Mundt proposed a
management audit for
Transylvania County
government.
He said he believed this
would be a first for a North
Carolina county and one of the
few ever held in the United
States.
Commissioner John Folger
asked Mundt why a
management audit is so rare
in government and he replied
that apparently most political
leaders do not want their
mistakes being uncovered.
Commission Chairman Bill
Ives said that he had been
talking with Mr. Mundt
throughout the day and had
called Harlan Boyles of the
Local Government Com
mission in Raleigh.
Mr. Boyles was very en
thusiastic about Transylvania
County having a management
audit and suggested that Mr.
Ives call J. D. Foust from the
Department 1 of Ad
ministration. Mr. Foust
shared Boyles’ interest in
having a management audit
and suggested that the State
could help fund such a study.
After the discussion, the
Commissioners voted to have
the Chairman proceed to ask
for a grant through Region B.
Council to pay for this study.
Another item of importance
was an agreement to enter
into an agreement of con
sortium with the City of
Brevard and the Town of
Rosman so as to be in a better
position to secure funds from
the newly passed Community
Development Act.
POOL
The Commissioners are
especially interested in trying
to develop a recreational
complex in the upper end of
the county which would in
clude a pool. There is a
possibility that this present
law combined with the Bureau
of Outdoor Recreation monies
could provide a park almost
totally free of local monies.
Mr. Ives relayed to the other
Commissioners and the
audience the plans he and
County Planner Mike Epley
have devised to improve the
maintenance of the buildings
and grounds now owned by the
county.
Ray Hooper will be asked to
supervise this department and
two new people will be em
ployed with the use of Em
ployment Security funds. Not
only will this give jobs to out of
work people, but it will im
prove the maintenance of
Silvermont, the Courthouse,
and other county buildings.
t
Bids were opened to pur
chase two powder magazines.
This is necessary because the
state stores dynamite where
the new landfill will be at
Calvert and the com
missioners were obligated to
provide replacement equip
ment.
BANK BIDS
After a short discussion, the
commissioners decided, “in
the interest of fairness,’’ to
ask each of the three banks to
submit a proposal for the
General Fund. The bank of
fering the best proposal will
—See Commissloaera. Pg. 2A
McGough
Chamber
Speaker
The Brevard Chamber of
Commerce held its regular
monthly meeting Tuesday
night in the council room of
the Brevard Municipal
Building, with a large number
of directors and members in
attendance.
Morris L. McGough,
executive secretary of the
Western North Carolina
Development Association,
was in attendance and ad
dressed the Chamber con
cerning Transylvania’s
outstanding record in the
WNC Community Develop
ment program over the years,
and he thanked the Chamber
for its support of the program.
Transylvania’s latest first
place winner in the contest
was See Off Community, who
was honored as winner in
Division A just last Saturday
at the annual awards luncheon
at the WNC Development
Association at the Asheville
Civic Center.
Mr. McGough also told of his
trip to New York last week to
receive a first place award for
the WNCDA from the “Keep
America Beautiful” Foun
dation. The high honor was
presented to the WNCDA for
that organization’s out
standing efforts in
beautification and “clean-up”
programs throughout Western
North Carolina.
Jimmie C. Hocker, the
newly appointed ad
ministrator at the Tran
sylvania Community Hospital
here, was also introduced to
the Chamber, at Tuesday
night’s meeting. Mr. Hocker
expressed his pleasure at
being associated with the
hospital and with becoming a
part of the Brevard com
munity.
Monday, Dec. 16, has been
set as the deadline for
Chamber dues to be paid for
this year. The names of
Chamber members who have
not paid their dues by that
time will not appear on the
ballot for the election of
Chamber directors for 1975.
The Chamber’s executive
secretary, Mrs. Thelma
Glazener, stated that the
ballots would be mailed out by
December 31st and would be
tabulated after the next
Chamber meeting on
Tuesday, January 14th.
Several of the directors
—See McGough, Page 2A
$41,298 Worth of Front-End Loader At Work
Front-End Loader
Here, Park Begun
Work began Tuesday on
Transylvania’s newest park
unit on the Old Tannery
property in property in nor
thwestern Brevard as the
county’s new front-end
loading machine began
moving dirt, rocks, and
cement to level a ball field.
The front-end loader was
delivered around noon
Tuesday by the E.F. Craven
Co.’s Asheville branch. In
tended for use at the new land
fill in the Selica section,
scheduled to begin operation
soon, the new machine cost
$41,298, according to Walter
M. Lee Jr., Craven salesman.
The property for the new
park was leased from State
Senator Charles Taylor for $1
a year, according to Director
of Parks and Recreation Craig
Freas.
The county obtained a grant
of $5,000 from the Low Income
Housing Development Corp. to
be used for equipping the new
park which will be made into
baseball and football fields
and a minipark for tots of the
area.
R.H. Moretz is the operator
of the new front-end loader
which was moving tons of
material on Tuesday af
ternoon.
Notice
The Transylvania Times will publish once only
during Christmas week to allow its employes a
couple of days off for enjoyment of the holiday.
The Monday, Dec. 23 edition will run as usual
but the .Thursday edition has been canceled.
Publication will resume twice weekly with the
Dec. 30 and the Jan. 2 papers.
Q SHOPPING )
DAYS TILL {
CHRISTMAS J
and on the streets of Brevard
at the following times:
Friday, Dec. 13, 2 to 4 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 14,10 a.m. to
4 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 19, 2 to 4
p.m.
Friday, Dec. 20, 2 to 4 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 21,10 a.m. to
4 p.m.
>•: Santa Claus will be visiting Monday, Dec. 23,10a.m. to 4 :■
:-ihis little friends in the stores p.m. •:
Lost A Bike? Police
Have Dozen On Hand
Lost or had stolen a bicycle
which hasn’t been reported to
the police?
Chief Jimmy Rowe says
that the Brevard Police
Department currently has on
hand a dozen bicycles which it
has recovered in recent
weeks.
"And none of these which we
have answers the descriptions
of those reported lost,” the
chief said.
“If anyone i.as lost a bike
and hasn’t repor ed it tu us. he
can claim it by coming to the
police station and giving us a
description.
“But let me make this clear.
If anyone has already
reported a stole bike, he need
not come. We do not have any
on hand which have been
reported. But if he has lost a
bicycle and has not reported
it, we may have the bike right
here.”
OPERATOR MORETZ
River
Cleanup
Planned
The Transylvania County
Water Resources Board on
Tuesday morning began plans
for cleaning out the French
Broad River all of the way
from Rosman to the Hen
derson County line.
Board Chairman Carr
Purser told the full board
present that “we are here to
find the means of developing a
program to clean up the
French Broad River. We are
looking for money, for
technical skills and the plans
for getting this big job done.”
Commissioner Chairman
Bill Ives calling the river,
“one of the finest assets of
Transylvania County,” said
that the river has been
misused and abused over the
last 40 years. “We want to
return it, as nearly as
possible; to its original state.”
It was pointed out that the
stream in many areas is
choked with logs, trees,
abandoned cars, and with an
assortment of garbage and
other debris.
Craig Freas, director of the
Parks and Recreation Dept,
said that in at least one place
it was necessary for canoeists
to drag their craft out of the
river and drag them down
stream on the bank and put
them back in. The river is
—See River, Page 2A
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