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Vol. 88 — No. 5
SECOND CLASS POSTAGE
PAID AT BREVARD, N. C. ZIP CODE 2(719
BREVARD, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1975
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PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY
24 PAGES TODAY
County
Gets 8
Workers
Transylvania County has
received eight workers under
the Public Service Em
ployment Act, it has been
announced by Commission
Chairman Bill Ives.
This act is the federal
government’s emergency
employment project to assist
persons who have been out of
work for at least 30 days,
according to Mr. Ives. All
salaries are paid by the
Federal government.
Two of the persons will be
assigned to the sheriff’s
department which the com
missioners gave top priority.
These deputies, who will be
hired immediately will be paid
at the rate of $7,000 a year.
Six more workers, also to be
hired immediately, will be
paid at the rate of $2.40 an
hour, the chairman continued.
PRIORITIES
Chairman Ives and Mayor
Charles Campbell talked over
priorities for these workers,
and the first job to be ac
complished will be the con
struction of sidewalks to the
new Brevard Elementary
School and the new Brevard
Middle School.
The public service workers
will perform the labor, the city
will provide the forms for
pouring concrete, and the
county will pay for materials,
Mr. Ives said.
“This is a must project. It
has to be done immediately
for the safety of the children
attending those schools.”
After the sidewalks are
built, Mr. Ives said, he, Mayor
Campbell, and Mayor Bill
Cathey of Rosman will get
together to discuss the next
priory.
“That’s the way we’re going
to handle it — get together and
discuss priorities after each
project.”
The county received a total
of $22,684 to fund the program
during the next six months.
Unless economic conditions
take an upswing in the nation
during that time, the program
is expected to be continued.
All eight positions must be
filled by January 30, the
chairman said, or the county
will lose the funding.
Hopeful Sign
Commission Chairman Bill
Ives and Brevard Mayor
Charles Campbell forgot their
differences Tuesday night at
the Chamber of Commerce
meeting.
They teamed up in friendly
fashion to count ballots which
decided the new board of
directors.
Tie-Down
Law To Be
Enforced
Following last week’s
tornado which totally
destroyed the mobile home of
Rev. Troy Stamey on Ross Rd.
in Transylvania, County
Planner Mike Epley says
there’ll be strict enforcement
of the county ordinance
requiring that all trailer
homes be tied down.
Mr. Epley said that the
Stamey home was not tied
down.
The storm lifted it off ib>
foundation, an experienced
meteorologist says, perhaps
as much as 30 feet before the
trailer exploded into
GETTING SETTLED —
Board of Commissioners Clerk
Judy Mathews and County Planner
Mike Epley enjoy a joke during the
hectic period of moving from the
Court House into the renovated old
library building.
Administrative
Offices In Use
The new county offices
opened in the newly-renovated
old library building this week,
according to Transylvania
County Planner Mike Epley.
Carpeted and colorful, the
remodeled structure houses
the office of Commission
Chairman Bill Ives, Com
mission Clerk Judy Mathews,
County Planner Epley, County
Accountant Carl Bryson, the
Board of Eelections, and the
county inspections division.
The move empties the up
stairs of the court house of all
except court offices which are
used mainly while court is in
session, and will relieve the
crowding in that area.
Renovation has already
begun on the old Morgan
Street Elementary School
building into Human
Resources Building for county
use.
This building will house the
county’s welfare and in
formation agencies: the Social
Service Department, Mental
Health Clinic, N. C. Forestry
Service, Extension Service,
Employment Security
Commission, Social Security
office, armed service
enlistment offices, and other
such agencies.
The new office building just
placed in use might be called
an administrative office
building for the county.
UNC-State Game
WPNF Highlight
A big basketball game
highlights the weekend sports
schedule on WPNF-Radio.
The N. C. State - U.N.C.
Tarheels game will be played
at State home court in Raleigh
on Saturday afternoon.
Broadcast time over the
Tarheel sports network and
WPNF will be 12:45 p.m.
Saturday.
WPNF salutes another
sponsor on the Tarheel games,
helping make the broadcasts
possible over your local
station. That sponsor is
Eldiidge Motors, “where they
sell to sell again.”
Rosman-Lake Toxaway
Jaycee Chapter Eyed
The possibility of organizing
a Jaycee chapter in the
Rosman - Lake Toxaway Area
will be discussed at an open
meeting which has been
scheduled by the Brevard
Jayceesfor 7 p.m. on Monday,
Jan. 27, at T. C. Henderson
School.
According to the Brevard
Jaycees, the meeting was set
as a result of an earlier
meeting at the request of
many young men who are
interested in forming a Jaycee
chapter in Upper Tran
sylvania County.
George Bradshaw and
Gilbert Peel, extension
chairmen of the Brevard
Jaycees, have reported that
many young men, already
contacted, will be present for
the meeting. They urge all
young men in Upper Tran
sylvania area between the
ages of 18 to 36 to attend the
meeting. .
The last meeting was held
on Monday, Jan. 13 with the
following young men in at
tendance; Jimmy Barton,
Gary Gillespie, Jack Hall, Jim
Lloyd McJupkin,
Snipes, Jr., B. J.
Larry Welyczko,
Whitmire, and
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Carolina Jaycees; William
White, president of the
recently chartered Cashiers
Glenville Jaycees; Gilbert
Peel of the Brevard Jaycees,
and Brevard Jaycee President
Chuck Bradley.
The Jaycees is an
organization whose raem
— See Bosnian, Page 3A
Job Corps
Has Jobs
For 20
The Schenck Job Crops
Center has jobs for 20 persons
who are 55 years of age or
older, the acting director of
the facility located in the
Pisgah National Forest said
Wednesday.
R. K. Ricketts said the jobs
were available under a federal
program in which the U. S.
Forest Service has contracted
with the Department of Labor
to hire retired persons.
The jobs, he said, pay $2.10
an hour, and the workers may
stay on the job for a maximum
of 24 hours weekly.
“This is a tremendous op
portunity for older citizens
who have time on their hands
and it gives them a chance
also to feel that they are
contributing something to the
community,” Mr. Ricketts
said.
Those wishing to seek this
employment should apply at
the Employment Security
Service office, he said. “We
have to hire persons who are
first recommended by this
agency.”
District Ranger Jim Reid
said that the Forest Service is
currently employing eight
persons under this contract,
“and we can certain use a few
Man Held
In Larceny
Nolan Bradley McJunkin,
23, was arrested by sheriff’s
officers Wednesday afternoon
and charged with felonious
larceny and breaking and
entering the home of R. V.
Blythe in Turkey Creek on
Jan. 1, Investigator Hubert
Brown said Thursday. Asst.
Investigator Jim Stroup
handled the case, Mr. Brown
said.
Count^jWill Replace
Four Sheriff’s Cars
Meteorite
Is Sought
In County
Did anyone see a meteorite
early in the evening on
Teusday? A Western Carolina
University astronomy
professor and some of the
students saw one going down
in the direction of Tran
sylvania County, according to
two students who visited The
Times Wednesday afternoon.
Robert McCollum, an
astronomy major, and Larry
Bradshaw, a geography major
at the institution, said they
had been to various areas of
the county, but could find no
one who had seen it.
“We were at our ob
servation point in Cullowhee
studying galaxies when we
spotted this meteorite,” said
young McCollum. “It was
leaving a blue flame so we’re
certain it was copper based,
and this means a portion of it
could have made it through
the atmosphere to the earth
without burning up. And it was
in a trajectory which would
have made it land somewhere
in Transylvania.”
Mr. McCollum said that his
professor told him the object
could have been in size
anything from a basketball to
a small table.
“If it hit, it may have left a
charred place where leaves
were ignited by the heat, or if
the ground was soft it could
have dug a sizeable hold. Also
it may have broken some trees
or parts of them.
“We think it buried itself
somewhere in this county. If
anyone saw this meteor and
we could get another fix on its
trajectory, then we’d have a
pretty good chance of finding
it.”
If any person in the county
did see it, the university
requests that he call the Earth
Science Dept, in Cullowhee.
Club Raid
Trial Is
Postponed
The trial of three persons
charged in an ABC crackdown
on three Transylvania clubs in
November was continued to
February 27 in Transylvania
court Thursday morning.
Linton “Red” Manning,
manager of the VFW Club,
Buddy Hutchins, of the
American Legion, and Max
McCracken of the Elks Club
were charged following raids
— See Raid, Page 3A
Brevard, Rosman High
Football Games Slated
Brevard and Rosman High
Schools’ football teams will
play each other in varsity
games in 1975 and 1976 at the
Brevard stadium, according
to the action of the Tran
sylvania Board of Education
a; its January meeting.
On the motion of Board
Member Robert Merrill,
seconded by Dr. Jerry Cabe,
the board voted to stage the
contests between the two
county’s high schools.
In other actions the board
voted to rent the Rosman City
Hall for $15 a month, and a
building owned by Mrs. D. H.
Winchester for $40 a month for
use as emergency classrooms
while construction is
proceeding on the new
Rosman High School.
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The board also applied for a
Title III elementary physical
education grant.
Should the application be
honored and the project
funded by the N. C. State
Board of Education for a two
year period, four additional
physical education teachers
and six teacher aides would be
employed to work in the
elementary schools, it was
announced.
The board also approved the
Dept. of
t to use the
gymnasium at tne old Brevard
School for church
games on
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the
be
•ary
heat and maintenance.
Granted maternity leave for
the rest of the 1974-1975 school
term were Mrs. Victoria Hall,
Mrs. Christine Gentry, and
Mrs. Bev. Goins.
Probationary contracts
were approved tor the
following teachers:
Mrs. Polly Averette, interim
teacher in language arts and
social studies at Brevard
Middle School.1
Mrs. Sharon Bentley, in
terim teacher in speech at
Brevard Elementary School.
Mrs. Reba Bush, interim
fifth grade teacher at Penrose
Elementary School.
Chamber Picks
40 Directors
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Commerce elected a new 40
person board of directors at its
regular meeting Tuesday
night in the council room of
the Brevard Municipal
Building.
The board was elected from
a ballot containing 243 names
representing a total Chamber
membership for 1974 of 215
members, which was just
slightly less than the record
Chamber membership of 1973.
Included 'n the membership
were a total of 19 new mem
bers that had not previously
belonged to the Chamber.
Among the 40 elected to
serve on the board for '975
was Mrs. Katherine Anderson
representing radio station
WPNF here, who becomes the
first woman in the Chamber’s
history who will be serving in
that capacity.
The high man in the
balloting Tuesday night was
Gil Coan, Sr., local insurance
and real estate executive, who
received 73 votes. Bill Norris,
advertising manager and
associate editor of the
Transylvania Tinjes, was
second high with 72 votes.
OFFICERS
New officers for 1975 will be
elected from the 40-person
board at a meeting next
Tuesday night, since this
week’s meeting was recessed
until that time. That meeting
will also be held in the council
room and will start promptly
at 7 p.m.
Chamber President Charles
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the new board to make every
effort to attend next Tuesday
night’s meeting, which
promises to be of brief
duration.
Members of the 1975 Board,
in alphabetical order, are as
follows:
Mrs. Katherine Anderson
J. I. Ayers
Raymond F. Bennett
Don R. Blankinship
Charles H. Campbell
Walter Cantrell
Lloyd F. Cash
Gil Coan, Sr.
Harry Corbin
Robert L. Daniels
Dr. Robert A. Davis
Dr. W. A. Davis
James M. Felty
Vernon Fullbright
Robert T. Gash
Dr. Carol Grahl
Cecil J. Hill
Charles F. Himes
Fred H. Israel
William M. Ives
Jerry Hart Jerome
Chester Kilpatrick
C. Few Lyda
Dr. Milton V. Massey
Robert W. Melton
John R. Mitchell
Eugene Morris
Bill Norris
C. K. Osborne
Paul Owenby
J. Mallory Pate
Ben Patterson
Charles W. Pickelsimer, Jr.
Jerry Purser
Charles L. Russell
Ray N. Simmons
John K. Smart, Jr.
George Turner
Larry Turner
Robert Whatley.
Brevard Federal
Assets $33 Million
Assets of Brevard Federal
Savings and Loan Association
stood at $33,165,800.40, at year
end 1974. This was a 6.25 per
cent increase over a year ago,
it wa reported by Jerry H.
Jerome, managing officer.
During the past year
Brevard Federal paid a
record $1,666,708.76 in interest
to its savings depositors and
added $247,483.89 to its
reserves. Total reserves are
now $2,554,106.97.
“We are glad to report that
1974 was a year of progress for
Brevard Federal”, Mr.
Jerome said, “despite the
continuation of very serious
inflation, a decline in savings
deposits and general tight
money.”
Mr. Jerome said that the
key factors during 1974 were
the unabated inflation,
competition from the private
money market instruments,
and high rate government
securities and the general
uncertainty on the part of the
American public.
“The year 1975 is probably
going to get off to a slow start.
However, hopefully as the
months go by we will see some
concrete improvement in the
economy”, Mr. Jerome said.
“Here again the key to the
whole situation is how much of
a dent we are going to put in
the inflation. Hopefully, if the
public is serious in its desire to
stop inflation, we may see
some good results.”
Mr. Jerome said that during
1974 Brevard Federal
financed 270 homes in and
around Transylvania County.
In, total the association made
more than $5,943,000.00 in
mortgages loans.
The rates we are paying
now on our savings accounts
and Certificates of Deposit are
the highest on record and the
highest allowed by law”, Mr.
Jerome said.
“While we saw many
Americans seeking higher
rate investments during 1974,
all the evidence points to the
fact that they are coming
home to the solid,
unglamorous, but completely
dependable passbook account.
This was evidenced by the fact
that during the last quarter of
1974 savings deposits
definitely began to improve”.
“I predict that 1975 will see
a definite improvement.”
ifi Weatfer
Nearly three inches of rain
fell in the Brevard area during
the past week, with a total
accumulation of 2.83 inches.
The rain fell each day except
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Temperature averages for
the period were 50 and 30 at
Brevard. The week’s highest
reading was 64 degrees on
Thursday, while the low was a
chilly 12 degrees Tuesday.
Extended outlook for Friday
through Sunday: Chance of
rain with a slow warming
trend. Highs to 60s Sunday.
Lows in lower 20s mountains
to low 30s coast Friday,
warming to upper 30s and low
40s Sunday morning.
Brevard weather data for
the period was as follows:
Date High Low Prec.
Jan. 9 64 32 0.04
Jan. 10 52 41
Jan. 11 61 45
Jan. 12 49 32
Jan. 13 37 31
Jan. 14 32 12
Jan. u 32 16
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0.85
1.64
0.01
0.00
0.00
Services
To Elderly
Plan Passes
The Transylvania County
Commissioners Monday night
agreed to replace four of
Sheriff Milford Hubbard’s
police cars, and to appropriate
$6,000 to hire persons to help
elderly citizens who are living
alone.
Sheriff Hubbard appeared
before the commissioners
with records showing that the
maintenance cost of his
vehicles since they were aging
had more than doubled during
the last year.
The July 1 through
December 31 cost in 1973 was
$1,326.42, the sheriff said. And
from Jan. 1 through June 30 of
1974, the cost was $3,088.81.
But from July 1 through Dec.
31, of 1974 the cost of main
tenance had jumped to
$4,539.81.
The commissioners decided
to replace four of the sheriff’s
seven cars for used State
Highway Patrol cars.
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The persons hired to help
the elderly under the Chore
Service Program will work
mainly to keep these persons
who aren’t able to do for
themselves, but who do not
require hospitalization, out of
nursing homes.
The employes will help in
cooking, cleaning, running
errands, carrying the elderly
to the doctor, and in other
ways.
The program will be under
the Social Services Dept, of
the county.
The commissioners, after
hearing bank representatives
tell of their various services,
decided to put the county’s
General Fund monies in First
Union National Bank. The
bank’s services will require an
average of $80,000 on deposit,
it was announced.
The commissioners voted to
sell the final $750,000 in school
bonds which have been ap
proved by the voters. This sale
will give the Board of
Education funds to get on with
the Rosman and Brevard High
School projects currently
underway.
BUS
In another action the
commissioners signed a Rural
Transportation agreement
with the government. The
county will get 100 per cent of
funding for a period of two
years for rural bus tran
sportation service. This is an
experimental program, with
the particulars still to be
worked out.
Paving of the Harry Blake
Road was taken off the
priority list after three of the
road’s 28 residents refused to
sign right of way agreements.
The board approved making
the Riverside Estates Road a
secondary road to be cared for
by the state.
And the Dunn’s Rock
Community Club was given
$1,000 to finish work on its
community center. The center
is used as a voting place at
election time. The county had
previously given $1,500 to the
community, and leaders
returned Monday night to
request the additional $1,000
bringing the club up to the
$2,500 limit allowed.
A number of Brevard
College students attended the
session, and asked questions
following the official business
about the working of the
commission.