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Land of Waterfalls,
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Man Is Slain During
Frozen Creek Fracas
Fight,
Theft,
Vandals
Reported
A fight, vandalism, and
some breakings and enterings
plagued the Brevard Police
Dept, in recent days, it was
reported Monday by City
Detective Walter “Tink”
Siniard.
On Saturday night, Craig
Woody, 20, received cuts,
bruises, and a possible broken
nose when he was allegedly
assaulted by Randy McCrary,
16, and another boy, a
juvenile, according to the
officer. The younger pair was
charged with assault.
The fight occurred at
Brevard High School, where
“it was apparently an
arranged meeting,” said Mr.
Siniard.
On Wednesday night, the
detective said, 11 cases of beer
were allegedly stolen around
midnight from the Quickway
grocery. Charged in this case,
said Mr. Siniard, are Grover
Mims, and Jerry Sales.
A third man is being sought
in the case, the officer said.
Two wide-track tires and
two mag wheels valued at $250
were stolen over the weekend
from Deputy Sheriff Nick
Sirjpson, he continued.
Stanley Sanders, 22, was
arrested and charged in this
case, he said.
And on Sunday the home of
Ed Madden on Main ; was
entered and checks and food
were stolen. Wade Strickland,
31,. has been arrested and
charged with breaking and
entering, said the officer.
Several instances of van
dalism were reported during
the period, with the most
serious being the entry at the
old Middle School on Broad
Street.
There, Mr. Siniard said,
windows were broken,
equipment destroyed, toilet
paper scattered over the
whole area, and water run
over on the flooring:
“Someone,” he said, “had a
destructive good time. This is
so useless.”
Mr. Siniard also said that an
Asheville woman, Audrey
Letlough, 21, had been
prrested and charged with the
robbery of a number of checks
from First Citizens Bank in
Brevard a short time before
Christmas.
IDEAS PAY OFF — V. F
Duckworth of Brevard, right,
recently received a $375 check for
a suggestion on cutting Navy red
tape, and is awaiting another
$1,000 prize for another suggestion.
Shore Heads
Heart Fund
Campaign
Roby Shore of Safeway
Finance, has been named fund
raising chairman of the
Transylvania Heart
.according to an
announcement made by Jerry
Ptiftfrar,, . president of the
voluntary health organization.
Mr. Shore will have the
responsibility for the Tran
sylvania fund raising cam
paign during 1975. He will
appoint six chairmen who will
organize various drives in
cluding the Heart Fund
Campaign.
This year, emphasis will be
placed on expanding the
campaigns for corporations,
industries and employees;
special events; special gifts;
the college; schools and the
Heart Month campaign during
February, 1975.
In accepting his ap
pointment, Mr. Shore said, “I
am honored to be chosen to
lead this vital campaign.
“Voluntary giving is a part
of our heritage, and heart
disease is the number one
cause of death and disability
in Transylvania County, just
as it is in our state and nation.
“It is essential that we
support the programs of the
Heart Association, if we are to
continue to reduce death and
disability from car
diovascular diseases.”
Other officers for 1975 in
clude: Thelia Queen,
secretary, and Leona Byrd,
treasurer.
Morehead Scholarship
Interviews Thursday
ASHEVILLE — Twenty
four high school seniors from
i 15 counties in this area will be
Interviewed here Thursday,
Jan. 30, by the District X
Morehead Selection Com
mittee.
District X nominees are
Ernest Barnhardt III,
c Jack Cole Jr., Karen
Easter, Darrell Ray
tiberger, Steven Kelly
id, Gregory Dehrmann
and Sharon Denise
Patton Jordan of Rob
bins ville; Paula Sue Edwards
of Marshall; Jamie Lee Fox of
Bryson City; Susan Lee
Lawson of Spruce Pine;
Jeffrey Franklin Price of Mill
Spring; Lacy Eugene Thorn
burg of Webster; Tony Alan
Eubanks of Burnsville; John
Herman Wilson of Brasstown;
Phillip Sheridan Dickey of
Murphy; William Weimar
Sloan Jr. of Franklin; and
Jack Dickens Johnson Jr. and
Debora Lynne Mashburn of
Hendersonville.
District X is composed of
Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay,
Graham, Haywood, Hen
derson, Jackson, McDowell,
Macon, Madison, Mitchell,
Polk, Swain, Transylvania
and Vanoav aaaaMaa.
Brevard Man Finds
Suggestions Pay
Naval Aviation Main
tenance Administration Man.
V.F. Duckworth of Brevard
recently was presented a $375
check for his suggestion for
improving and revising a
monthly flight summary log
sheet.
He was presented the check
by Rear Adm. F. H. Baugh
man, force material officer
for the Pacific Fleet Naval Air
Force.
In addition he is awaiting a
$1,000 award for another
suggestion.
Duckworth said he made his
suggestion which won the $375
prize to ease the paperwork
load on the men in his rate.
“The men have to spend a lot
of time dealing with flight logs
and other paperwork.”
The savings to the govern
ment will be about $6,500 a
year, but thousands of man
hours will be, saved by his
suggestion, Admiral Baugh
man said in presenting him
the award.
Young Duckworth is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Duck
worth of Brevard.
County’s Vets
To Get $29,000
(Special to the Times >
NEW YORK, Jan. 25 — For
some 380 of the war veterans
living in Transylvania County,
Washington is offering
greetings of a pleasant kind.
With the greetings is the
news that they will receive
approximately $29,000 in the
months ahead as their share of
a $335.6 million melon being
cut by the Government.
The money represents
dividends that have fallen due
them under their GI insurance
policies.
Local veterans whose
service was solely in the
Vietnam War will not par
ticipate at this time because of
the type of insurance policies
they hold.
On the other hand, veterans
of the Korean War will be
getting payments for the first
time.
The majority of the
recipients are those who saw
service in World War II. Also
participating are World War I
vets.
According to the Veterans
Administration, the $335.6
million dividend to be
distributed this year breaks
all records. It is $31.8 million
more than ever before.
The bigger payout was
made possible by the fact that
that the interest earned by the
trust funds that govern the
insurance policies has been
higher than usual lately.
The great majority of those
who will be receiving checks
are World War II vets who
hold National Service Life
Insurance policies bearing the
letter V.
World War I vets who hold
U. S. Government Life In
surance policies starting with
the letter K and those who
were in the Korean conflict
and have Veterans Special
Life Insurance will also
participate.
The 380 residents of Tran
sylvania County who will be
benefiting represent only 21
percent of the 1,800 World War
and Korean veterans in the
local area. They are the ones
who kept their policies in
force.
What they will receive will
vary in amount, depending
upon their age and the size and
type of their policies.
For World War I vets the
average will be $169, for those
who were in World War II, $83,
and for Korean vets, $11.
Their checks will arrive
automatically on the an
niversary dates of their
policies. No applications are
necessary.
R. E. Lambert
In Exercise
Navy Airman Robert E.
Lambert, son of Mrs. Louise
Lambert of Route 2, Lake
Sega Road, Brevard, par
ticipated taxational Week,"
an annual naval operational
readiness training exercise
conducted in the Northern
Mediterranean.
Vietnam
Veteran
Victim
A Transylvania veteran of
the Vietnam War was killed
during a fracas by a 30-30 rifle
at a trailer in the Frozen
Creek Section Sunday night,
Asst. Investigator Jim Stroup
of the sheriff’s department
reported Monday morning.
Brent McCall, 25, of Ht. 2,
Brevard, was the dead man.
Mr. Stroup said he was
holding Elzie Lee McCall, 51,
of Rt. 1 Box 182, Lake
Toxaway, in jail, charged with
murder in the connection with
the case.
Investigator Stroup said
that his investigation showed
that the slain man was a
psychologically ill veteran
who had sudden temper
flareups and had an “ex
tremely unstable” per
sonality.
The officer said that Elzie
McCall and Brent’s mother,
Mrs. Viola McCall, had been
going together for some time.
The couple had come to Mrs.
McCall’s trailer in Frozen
Creek to pick up some things
to carry to Elzie McCall’s
home.
“Both Brent and Elzie had
been drinking,” Investigator
Stroup said. “Brent decided
that he didn’t want his mother
to go with Elzie, according to
what his mother told me. So
Elzie and Brent started
arguing, and when Elzie and
Viola started to leave, Brent
started throwing things and
wouldn’t allow Viola to get in
Elzie’s pickup truck.
“According to Viola,” Mr.
Stroup said, “Elzie got his
rifle from the truck, and shot
Brent.”
The shooting occurred about
7 p.m., Mr. Stroup said.
Sheriff’s Deputies Nick
Simpson and Keith Fisher
answered the call to the trailer
in Frozen Creek.
Sanford
Has $70,000
For Race
RALEIGH — Over $70,000
has been contributed from 42
states to the Committee to
Nominate Terry Sanford for
president, according to Hulett
Smith, former governor of
West Virginia.
Smith, chairman of the
committee backing the former
N. C. Governor, said he is
extremely pleased with the
national support the effort has
generated since Sanford
concluded his chairmanship of
the Democratic Party’s
Charter Commission in
December. _ .
“There is a sense of
movement and solid support,”
Smith said. “We are receiving
contributions from a great
range of people and states.
The kind of momentum we
had hoped to find is
established.”
Smith said contributions
range from $2 to $1,000. “We
have been under instructions
from Mr. Sanford to hold 1
contributions to a $1,000 j
ceiling since October,
although legally we could 1
have sought larger amounts
until January 1. We are j
seeking broad-based support, j
and that is what we are get- s
ting, even before we start a <
national financial campaign,” ]
Smith said. '
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The contributors on the ]
Bee Sanford, Page SA <
Mrs. Martha West is shown
being guided onto the hydraulic lift
of the “Ironside” van by Kenneth
McCall of the Recreation
Department.
Renewal Cards
For Cars In
One Envelope
If you own two automobiles,
and think you have received
only one license renewal card
for 1975, look in the envelope
your card came in. There’s
probably another renewal
card right there.
The State Department of
Motor Vehicles, in an effort to
save around $200,000 in
postage this year, sent one,
two, three, or more renewal
cards in one envelope — all of
the cars registered to one
family.
“This has created a lot of
confusion,” says Mrs. Jean
Plemmons of the local license
agency. “Folks come in with
one envelope complaining
about receiving only one
renewal card. Others say
they’ve almost torn their
houses down looking for the
other one. They need only to
look in the same envelope.”
Also, if auto owners have not
received license renewal
cards, Mrs. Plemmons
suggests that they visit her
office on Jordan Street at the
earliest possible moment.
“Time for renewing licenses is
running out.
“Also the 1974 registration
card cannot be used for
renewal. Persons must have a
1975 renewal card to obtain a
new license. They should see
us immediately.”
Agencies Sharing
“Ironside” Van
While a great many regular
television watchers were
probably anxious to see at
close-hand just what an
“Ironside” van looked like,
it’s doubtful that any one
waited with more eagerness
than Mrs. Martha West,
Brevard.
Mrs. West is confined to a
wheelchair, but she is not a
“shut-in”.
She likes to go anytime and
anywhere she can. As a
participant in the Tran
sylvania Recreation
Department’s Day Activity
program, she gets plenty of
opportunity to get out. But
until the arrival of the
“Ironside” van. she had to be
Precinct 3
Meet Jan. 30
All Democrats of Brevard
Precinct No. 3 are urged to
attend an important meeting
on Thursday, January 30 at
Straus School Cafeteria at 7:30
p.m., according to Dr. Marius
Wells, chairman.
“We are interested in
knowing the needs of the
people in this precinct and
county in regard to schools,
roads and taxes. We want to
report to our representatives
in the State Legislature.”
transported by car, which was
painful and uncomfortable.
The van, which is equipped
with a hydraulic lift for
wheelchairs, is actually
assigned to the 4-C program
but is being shared by all the
county agencies in need of the
vehicle’s facility.
Mrs. West is the first person
in the Day Activity program to
use the van.
It is hoped, activity director
Carl Wilson Jr. said, that as
the schedule for use of the
“Ironside” is worked out,
more people who could not get
out any other way will make
use of the van bought by the
county in December.
The Day Activity program
is geared toward older people,
AKA senior citizens, and is
administered by the county
Department of Parks and
Recreation through a grant
secured by Social Services.
The program is currently in
operation at two sites —
Silvermont in Brevard and the
Methodist Church in Rosman
— and is soon to be expanded
into various community
centers so as to reach more
people than are being served
at present.
Two Met Stars lo Make
Joint Visit To Center
Two Metropolitan Opera
stars will appear jointly at
Brevard Music Center on the
1975 Music Festival series.
Bass-baritone Giorgio Tozzi
and soprano IJ'aralin Niska
will sing operatic duets with
the Brevard Music Center
Symphony Orchestra on
Sunday, July 20.
Their performance is in
connection with the annual
meeting of the Federation of
Music Clubs held at the Music
Center.
Tozzi is best known for his
interpretation of Hans Sachs
in the opera, “Die Meister
iinger,” as King Phillip of
Spain in “Don Carlo,” and as
Boris in “Boris Godounov.”
rozzi possesses a roiling bass
jaritone voice schooled for the
Italian roles in which he firfct
>btain«d distinction, and is
blended with fluency in such
German roles as Daland in
“Flying Dutchman.”
A native of Chicago, Tozzi
gained major recognition at
the opening night of La Scala
in 1953 when he sang opposite
Renata Tebaldi and Mario Del
Monaco in a production of “La
Wally.” Bom in a musical
Italian family, Tozzi first
studied singing at age 13 but
wanted to become a biologist.
When jobs were scarce after
World War II, he put his vocal
training to use and began
singing on the radio with small
opera companies in the
Chicago area. This led him to
La Scala and the Met.
Maralin Niska is a born and
trained musician. She gained
national recognition in two
seasonal tours of the
MatrapoHtan National Opera
Company. Her debut was in
the title role of Carlisle
Floyd’s “Susannah.”
She has sung the part of
Violetta in the opera “La
Traviata,” the Countess in
“Figaro,” Marguerite in
“Faust,” Mimi in “La
Boheme," and Emilia Marty
in “The Makropoulos Affair.”
She is currently active on the
concert stage.
Classical pianist Leonard
Pennario will appear at the
Music Center on Sunday, July
27 as part of the Music
Festival series which begins
July 4 and extends through
August 17. Additional in
formation can be obtained by
writing Brevard Music
Center, P. O. Box 592,
Brevard, North Carolina
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