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A Good Job We think that every citizen of I revard and even Transylvania C ounty would have felt pride V rednesday night as Mayor C harles Campbell retired as c lairman of Region B, the Land o -Sky Regional Council. This is an organization of r layors, county commissioners, and elected officials of every government in the four-county region of Transylvania, Bun combe, Madison, and Hen derson, and a tool for developing solutions to problems counties and communities face. Mr. Campbell worked diligently and in a statesmanlike and intelligent manner to weld this council together, at times overcoming tremendous odds. As he turned the chair manship over to E. Curtis Ratcliff, chairman of the Buncombe County Com missioners, he was surprised with the gift of a large plaque which states: “In recognition of this leadership in planning the program of Region B as chairman of the Land-of-Sky Regional Council for 1973 and 1974. His leadership brought new recognition from state and federal levels and gained the respect of the council mem bers.” Mayor Campbell will remain as At-Large Member of the Executive Board of the organization. Congratulations, and thanks, Your Honor. Two New Wildernesses North Carolina is now the site f >r portions of two more I ational Wilderness areas: the 1 llicott Rock near Cashiers \ here N.C., S.C., and Georgia i 1 come together, and the Joyce 1 ilmer-Slickrock Creek region ( n the border of N.C and Ten 1 essee. There’ll be no logging, no c instruction, no roads or other < ncroachment by man in these i reas which will be preserved in t leir natural state for posterity, {iving present and future f enerations at least a glance of \ hat America was like when the > hite man first came here < enturies ago. This is good. We’re not acquainted with llicott Rock Wilderness, but we 5 >on will be. 2 We know Kilmer-Slickrock in Graham County pretty well. The Kilmer portion is all virgin timber, a primeval forest of giant tulip trees, conifers, beeches, oaks, and other dominant trees. Thousands of acres of Slickrock also is still virgin forest. The other portions of this wilderness have not been logged in the 20th Century. It has returned to nature, a vast region of forest giants teeming with Wildlife. | And biologists from Ap palachian State say Slickrock Creek is the purest stream left in either N.C. or Tennessee. One can drink from it safely at any point from its mile-high origin on the steep slopes of Shannon Bald to its terminus in the Little Tennessee River. It is filled with brown and rainbow trout, and dashing and splashing against and over huge rocks which give it its name, the creek, when the sun is right, appears to be filled with hun dreds of rainbows. When Congress declared this paradise a wilderness, it ended a long fight which began a decade ago, at the time a road was planned from Tellico Plains, Tenn. to Robinsville, which would have split Joyce Kilmer Forest, and subjected it and Slickrock Creek to pollution and siltation. Court battles and injunctions stopped this road on the edges of Kilmer, one prong from Ten nessee, the other from Rob binsville, now two paved roads with nowhere to go. It will be remembered that Shining Rock and Linville Gorge were made wilderness with hardly a murmur of disagreement. Shining Rock was the victim of a fire around the turn of the century which literally burned the ground, and the organic matter within it. Linville Gorge’s sides are so steep that lumbering would be virtually impossible there. No argument. But the lumber industry tried every weapon available to prevent Slickrock from becoming a wilderness: lob bying, letter-writing campaigns, speeches, and heated arguments. The people who want to save a little of what we have now for future generations to enjoy were the winners at last. The Transylvania Times 100 Broad Street Brevard, N. C. 28712 The Transylvania Pioneer, established 1867; The French Broad Voice, established 1888; The Brevard Hustler, established 1891; The Sylvan Valley News (later Brevard News), established 1896; The Times, established 1931; Consolidated 1932. A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED MONDAY, THURSDAY ED M. ANDERSON—Publisher—1941-1958 JOHN I. ANDERSON-Editor-Gen. Mgr .-1941-1974 MRS. ED M. ANDERSON, Publisher CLYDE K. OSBORNE-Editor BILL NORRIS, Assoc. Ed. and Adv. Mgr. MRS. MARTHA STAMEY Office Mgr. DOROTHY W. OSBORNE, Women’s Ed. ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept. Head GORDON BYRD, Prod. Foreman D. C. WILSON. Printer , DAVID METCALF, Compositor PAM OWEN, Teletype Setter CINDY BYRD, Teletype Setter JULIE LINDGREN, Clerk-Typist SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR Inside the County—$12 year Outside the County $15.00 $8 Six Months $9.00 Six Months v. MEMBER OF National Editorial Association North Carolina Press Association New York—Chicago—Detroit—Atlanta NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE Ame m m• when Capt Joseph Jordan q rew up his bill for the. county seat" ofitransyl vania, he, avoided the hassle. *>£ . clnoosing amonj) the five Set+led communities by Calling for <3 new Tbwnio b&setup.lhe bill specified that- the si te, be located close 7b Prob&rt Poor's stbre. in the Red House. The. date the ~fown site was Beledtect, May 38, 1261, cams ei^htr days after fdorth Carolina Seceded-Prom the Union. The lOar stopped* ^revard in i"fe tracks. Hot unti l l$6>8 was itr incorporated and.sot its pe*l arfrce — I ocataJ )r\1~hes i RcJi Ho use l 2L7,Z belted CM** is NORTHS// AG&KBSSiOfj, 32 Eminent Scientists View Energy Problems EDITOR’S NOTE - The following statment on energy problems was issued January 16 in Washington by a group of 32 of the country’s most eminent scientists, 11 of them Novel Prize winners. We consider it essential for the public to recognize and un derstand some of the points being made here. “We, as scientists and citizens of the United States, believe that the Republic is in the most serious situation since World War II. Today’s energy crisis is not a matter of just a few years but of decades. It is the new and predominant fact of life in industrialized societies. "The high price of oil which we must now import in order to keep Americans at their jobs threatens our economic structure — indeed, that of the Western World. Energy is the lifeblood of all modern societies and they are currently held hostage by a price structure that they are powerless to influence. “In the next three to five years conservation is essentially the only energy option. We can and we must use energy and existing energy sources more in telligently. But there must also be long range realistic plans and we deplore the fact that they are developing so slowly. We also deplore the fact that the public is given unrealistic assurances that there are easy solutions. desirable, also has its price. One man’s conservation may be another man’s loss of job. Conservation, the first time around, can trim off fat, but the second time will cut deeply. “When we search for domestic energy sources to substitute for imported oil, we must look at the whole picture. If we look at each possible energy source separately, we can easily find fault with each of them, and rule out each one. Clearly, this would mean the end of our civilization as we know it. “Our domestic oil reserves are running down and the deficit can only partially be replaced by the new sources in Alaska; we must, in addition, permit off-shore exploration. Natural gas is in a similar critical condition; in the last seven years new discoveries have run far below our level of gas consumption. Only with strong measures could we hope to reverse this trend. “We shall have to make much greater use of solid fuels. Here coal and uranium are the most important op tions. This represents a profound change in the character of the American fuel economy. The nation has truly great reserves of these solid fuels in the earth. “Our economically recoverable coal reserves are estimated to be 250 billion tons and exceed the energy of the world’s total oil reserves. Our known uranium ores potentially equal the energy of 6,000 billion tons of coal ; lower an engineered reality generating electricity today. Nuclear power has its critics, but we believe they lack perspective as to the feasibility of non-nuclear power sources and the gravity of the fuel crisis. “All energy release in volves risks and nuclear power is certainly no ex ception. The safety of civilian nuclear power has been under public surveillance without parallel in the history of technology. As in any new technology there is a learning period. “Contrary to the scare publicity given to some mistakes that have occurred, no appreciable amount of radioactive material has escaped from any commercial U. S. power reactor. We have confidence that technical ingenuity and care in operation can continue to improve the safety in all phases of the nuclear power program, including the dif ficult areas of transportation and nuclear waste disposal. “The separation of the Atomic Energy Commission into the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission provides added reassurance for realistic management) and benefits, i benefits of pensive, inexhaustible replace oil and natural gas. “However, we see the primary use of solid fuels, especially of uranium, as a source of electricity. Uranium power, the culmination of basic discoveries in physics, is EDITORIAL PAGE THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES (Editor’s Note: Letters most be brief, signed typed or written legibly on one side of paper. We reserve the right to reject, edit, or condense. Letters should be received by The limes by Monday mornings.) January 15,1975 Mr. C. K. Osborne, Editor Transylvania Times Brevard, North Carolina 28712 Re: Letter to the Editor Dear C. K.: I have recently been in formed of one of the more shocking news items I have heard in quite some time, and it has encouraged me to send the first “Letter to the Editor” I have ever written. This shocking news of course is the dismissal of Brevard’s Chief of Police, Jimmy Rowe, by the Town Board of Aldermen. I have been in formed that this dismissal was made without even extending to him the courtesy of an appearance before them by Jimmy Rowe to at least discuss the particular allegations. I know this really is not my problem directly; however, I feel very closely associated with many fine people in Brevard and the needs which so ntany of them have, as well as to the needs of my family. Jimmy Rowe over the years has been a man who has been responsible for making Brevard’s Police Department one of the best Police Departments in the southeast, especially for a town Brevard’s size. He has also been one of the individuals responsible for making the rescue squad one of the best rescue squads in the State of North Carolina. There is really no need for me to cite the fact that he has always conducted himself with thorough loyalty and devotion to his duty and to tasks of safeguarding the safety and welfare of Brevard’s citizens. For a small group of in dividuals to be responsible for dismissing this man from his duty as Brevard’s Chief of Police without so much as a fair and impartial hearing, is to me atrocious and possibly a denial of due process. He may be a most demanding man, he may be a most impartial man and he may step on some toes, but the job has been done and Brevard has greatly benefitted from his per formance. I don’t believe any amount of public support, no matter how great, would encourage Jimmy Rowe to return to the job he has performed so well, even if he is requested to do so by the Board of Aldermen; however, I know it is a great compliment to him and to Katie to know that so many people are greatly distressed by the actions of few. As many people of Brevard know, my father and Jimmy Rowe were close friends, socially as well as professionally. Over the years, I have heard my father comment about Jimmy Rowe. He felt that there was no better man suited for his job than Jimmy Rowe was for his. I greatly loved, admired, and respected my father, and I feel that a letter similar to this in support of Jimmy Rowe would have been at the least, what he would have done. C. K., as a final comment, I know Jimmy and Katie will greatly miss Brevard and its to take a position elsewhere. But worst of all, the people of Brevard will greatly miss Jimmy Rowe. In regard to the recent changes within the Dept, of Parks and Recreation, we would like to express our concern over the arbitrary county, we feel the time has come for the county to adopt a policy for the protection of it’s employees. One particular area in need of evaluation is that of a county firing policy. At present there are no criteria for the dismissal of county employees. Reasons for dismissal seem to be restricted to the whims of those in power. Neither is any warning of dismissal given, except at the discretion of the county chairman. Employees are also denied the right to hear accusations against themselves and are further denied the right to defend themselves against their accusers. Lastly, employees are denied the right of any type of recourse when ter minated. Transylvania County is in need of a firing policy which should include: 1. Standards set for reason for dismissal. 2. Proper warning period. 3. The right to hear and defend accusations. 4. The right to recourse. What caliber of employee does this county expect to retain without job security? Sincerely Jimmy & Judy Dexter P. O. Box 786 Brevard, North Carolina 28712 January 2, 1975 TO: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLUB SPONSORS On behalf of the Community Development Clubs of Transylvania County, we would like to thank you for supporting their program in 1974. Although it has been sometime since making your 1974 contribution to the program, we waited until the Area Awards Program was held in order to give you the results of area competition. As in years past, 1974 was a good year for Transylvania County communities in the Area Program. See-Off was declared the first place winner in Division A (Communities with less than 75 families). Little River (over 150 families) and Dunn’s Rock (75-150 families) both received honorable mention in their respective divisions. Dunn’s Rock, a reorganized community competing for the first time in several years, won a special merit youth award for their community sponsored recreation program. Mrs. Melvin Dann from Sapphire-Whitewater,and Mr. Otis Merrill from Little River were recognized for their leadership and received; certificates of appreciation. Your sponsorship of the local program provides an incentive for Transylvania County communities.
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