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Commission Chairman Bill Ives, left, discusses legislation with Senator Cecil Hill.
Census:
County’s
Government
Cost Low
(Special to the Times)
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 - For
residents of Transylvania
County, does the cost of local
government run higher or
lower than it does for people in
other communities?
How much is spent locally,
per capita, for all municipal
and county operations and for
all special services? How
large is the local debt com
pared with the average in
other areas?
A voluminous new report,
just released by the Census
Bureau, sheds light on these
matters. It is based upon a
detailed study of local
fimltces, gathered from every
county in the United States.
The study, entitled
Government Finances, is the
first made since fiscal 1967.
They are conducted every five
years.
For people living in Tran
sylvania County, the figures
show, the total cost of local
governmental operations
came to $217 per capita in the
year.
In the rest of the nation the
average was $511 per capita
and, in the State of North
Carolina, $362.
t It took a total of $106.5
billion to operate the various
county, township, municipal
and district governments in
the country and provide the
public with services in the
fields of health, welfare,
roads, sanitation, housing,
police and fire protection,
education and the like.
The $106.5 billion outlay
Represented an increase of $47
billion in a period of five
years.
JL
J In some communities, the
amount spent for local
governmental operations was
Adequately covered by
revenues. In many others,
however, more was spent th^h
Was taken in.
f The figures for Tran
ay' /ania County show that the
direct expenditures, $217 per
Capita, were offset by general
revenue receipts equivalent to
$210 per capita.
Some $77 of this revenue
came from local taxes ahd
pharges and the remainder
from Federal and state
In order to finance their
expenditures for capital
improvements and provide
their residents with necessary
eetvices, many communities
hate been forced to go deeper
Transylvania County’s
i(standing debt is placed at
» per capita in the report.
Hopes For Educational TV
Senator Hill’s Days
Long, Hard, He Says
Contrary to what much of
the general public believes,
serving in the N. C. General
Assembly is a difficult, full
time job, Senator Cecil Hill
said Saturday as he met with
constituents at the Court
House in Brevard.
“You start at breakfast with
study and dictation, rush to
committee meetings, go to the
general session from 1 p.m. to
2 p.m., then grab a bowl of
soup in 15 minutes, and back
to committee, then more
dictation, then out to dinner
appointments. It’s a rough,
rough day.
“And I once thought I’d
never tire of a piece of beef, a
baked potato, and a stem of
broccoli. But I’m sick of all
three. The dinners are always
the same,” the senator
laughed.
He’s been busy working for
his 10-county district and the
state, he said.
His first bill, among the
early ones introduced in the
Senate, would allow members
of the Henderson
Transylvania Drug Squad,
made up of two officers from
each county, to make arrests,
searches, and seizures in all
parts of both counties.
The bill has passed the
Senate, he said, and has gone
to the House of Represen
tatives for action.
And on Friday, Senator Hill
said, he introduced a bill to
completely divorce the
legislative and administrative
branches of the state govern
ment.
This bill would prohibit
members of the General
Assembly from serving on
non-legislative boards and
commissions apponted by the
Governor. The bill has gained
wide-spread approval among
his colleagues, he said.
Hill had pledged during his
campaign that he would file
such a bill and resigned his
own seat on the Governor
Morehead School for the Deaf
board.
“Such service by
legislators, gives the boards
they represent an unfair
advantage in the General
Assembly, especially when
budget time comes,” Mr. Hill
said.
His bill forbids that any
member of the General
Assembly may serve as an
appointed member of any
administrative board, council,
or commission in the
executive departments of the
state government.
It would not limit service by
members of the legislature on
the Advisory Budget Com
mission, which by statute
Reminder
Auto owners have only four
more days in which to obtain
their license tags for 1975.
And the earlier in the week,
the tags are bought, the
shorter the lines are going to
be, says Mrs. Jean Plemmons,
the local dealer.
All tags must be showing on
moving autos at midnight,
Saturday, Feb. 15, according
to David Faircloth, assistant
director of Registration, the
Division of Motor Vehicles.
includes legislators.
Senator Hill said that he now
has high hopes that the ex
pansion of educational
television into Brevard and
Western North Carolina is not
far off, providing costs can be
held within funded limits.
“There are still
technological problems ob
structing the expansion,” he
said. “Television signals go in
a straight line. They do not
follow the curvature of the
earth as radio signals do.”
This makes it difficult to get
educational television into all
the coves and valleys of the
mountains, he explained.
Sen. Hill revealed that since
the opening of this session his
office has been looking into the
status of previously an
nounced plans of the
University of North Carolina’s
educational TV network to
expand its coverage South and
West from Asheville’s
Channel 33, the network’s
westernmost outlet.
Thus far his inquiry has
produced these findings, Sen.
Hill said:
1. It appears there may have
been what Hill terms “some
undue delay” during the past
two years, after the
educational TV network had
put on the air, in February of
1973, the last of its eight
stations, in Winston-Salem.
That event signalled the
switch in network growth
priority from satellite stations
in heavier populated centers
of North Carolina to the long
delayed plan for development
—See Senator, Page 3A
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WHEN YOUNG campers
show up for sessions at Camp
Deerwoode this summer, they’ll
find a set of triplet lambs on the
farm beside the French Broad
River near Brevard. Mrs. Bill
Mayes, who directs the camp with
her husband, holds the trio, as
Mama Ewe shows some concern
for her babies. The lambs were
born last week.
Grand Jury^isks
Jail Renovation
Pressley
Gets Six
To 10 Years
The Transylvania County
Grand Jury, in session last
week, recommended that the
Transylvania County jail be
renovated to meet state
minimum standards to house
men, women, and juveniles.
The jury also recommended
more adequate space for the
sheriff’s department.
A bond issue for the con
struction of a new jail was
defeated in the last general
election.
J. Harold Pressley was
given six to 10 years in
prison in Superior Court
Thursday afternoon by Judge
John R. Friday in connection
with the break-in at Ayers
Store last summer in which
$15,000 worth of guns were
stolen.
Mr. I ressley was sentenced
on breaking and entering
counts. In connection with the
larceny, Judge Friday con
tinued prayer for judgment
on a term to term court basis,
with any judge privileged to
pass sentence at any time if he
were so inclined.
Mr. Pressley’s partner in
the robbery, Jeremiah E.
Owen, was sentenced earlier
to four to seven years in
prison, and given a
probationary sentence of five
to seven years to follow the
active sentence. He was or
dered to report to a
probationary officer within 48
hours of getting out of prison.
Civil cases are being tried
in Superior Court this week.
The grand jury also
returned 24 true bills during
its session, praised the
sheriff’s department and City
of Brevard investigators for
their detailed reports, asked
for a raise for jurors, and
fussed at the court house
custodian for not doing a
better job of keeping the halls
clean.
Here is the complete report:
The Grand Jury of Tran
sylvania County, 29th Judicial
District, convened Feb. 3,
1975, at 10 a.m. in the Tran
sylvania County Courthouse.
The following action was
taken on Bills of Indictment
against:
1. Kent Hadlock - true bill
2. Michael Anderson - true
bill
Julius Warren White - no
true bill
4. Kenneth Dale Queen - true
bill
5. Steve Shipman - true bill
6. Emerson Lee O’Shields -
true bill
7. Terry G. Harvey - true bill
8. Freddie Marion Hen
derson - true bill
9. Dennis Howell - true bill
10. Larry Wiggins - 2 bills,
true bill on each
11. James Mint Barton - true
bill
12. Terry Fugate - true bill
13. Elvin Monroe Reynolds -
2 bills (duplicate) - true bill
14. James Harold Pressley -
2 bills, true bill on each
15. Jeremiah E. Owen - 2
bills, true bill on each
16. Orville Patrick Ryan -
true bill
17. Julius McCall - true bill
18. Juanita McCall - true bill
19. Angelene McCall - true
bill
20. Spurgeon McCall - true
bill
21. Elizia Lee McCall - true
bill
22. James Hinkle - true bill
A total of 26 bills came'
before the Grand Jury this
term. The Jury returned 24
—See Grand, Page 3A
Edwin C. Baker, president of
American Defender Life In
surance Company (L.) presents
Chuck Bradley of Brevard, a
certificate of recognition at the
North Carolina Jaycees Awards
Banquet held in Raleigh Saturday
night as one of North Carolina’s
five outstanding young men.
Charles Bradley
Wins State Honor
Brevard’s Charles L.
(Chuck) Bradley on Saturday
night was named one of five
Outstanding Young Men in
North Carolina at the annual
awards weekend activities of
the N. C. Jaycees in Raleigh.
Bradley is a realtor
associated with the James E.
Gaither Real Estate Company
of Brevard.
He is married and lives with
his wife Brigitte, on Rich
Mountain in Brevard.
Bradley is president of the
Brevard Jaycees. He was
given the Distinguished
Service Award as the Out
standing toung Man of the
year by the Brevard Jaycees
at a meeting on Jan. 3, 1975.
His selection came as part
of the annual Awards
Weekend of the North
Carolina Jaycees held at the
Hilton Inn.
Bradley served as selection
and building committee
chairman for the construction
of a facility by the Tran
sylvania County Association
For Disabled Citizens.
He was instrumental in the
establishment of the First
State Savings and Loan
Association and is a member
of the Board of Directors.
Man, Two Girls Found
On High Mountain Trail
A man and his two small
daughters were located by
sheriff’s deputies and rescue
squad members early Sunday
morning on the rugged Orange
trail between Cove Creek and
Shining Rock, according to
Deputy Sheriff Donald Stroup.
The man, James Murphy of
Arden, and his daughters,
aged 7 and 4, were reported
lost late Saturday afternoon
by Mrs. Murphy who called
local officers when the group
failed to return home by the
expected hour.
Three sheriff’s cars began
an immediate search, finding
the Murphy car parked at
Cove Creek above the fish
rearing station.
It is roughly 15 miles from
that point to Shining Rock by
trail.
At 11:30 p.m. the Rescue
Squad was called into the
search for the trio on the steep
slopes of the mountains near
the parkway.
The trio was found at 1:30
a.m., at Farlow Gap ac
cording to Deputy Stroup.
“Both of the little girls were
mighty cold,” he said. “We
got them to our police cars and
got them warmed. Then we
returned them to their car and
they drive back to Arden. No
one was harmed.”
Mr. Murphy, according to
the deputy, was “an ex
perienced mountain hiker.”
W. N. C. Librarians
Here On Wednesday
Some 50 members of the
Western N. C. Library Assn,
will get their first look at
Transylvania County’s new
library facilities on Wed
nesday, and will hear Noted
Children’s Author Jesse
Jackson speak, Mrs.
Elizabeth Kapp, librarian, has
announced.
With Transylvania County
Library as host, the meeting
will begin with coffee and a
tour at 10:30 a.m., then at 11
Mr. Jackson, who is prac
titoner in residence at Ap
palachian State University,
will talk.
A Dutch luncheon at
Brevard College Cafeteria will
conclude the session.
Officers of the Western N. C.
Library Assn, are John
Heaton, Appalachian State
University president; Richard
Meldron, director Catawba
County library, vice
president; and Ms. Arlene
David, librarian, Haywood
Tech, secretary.
Mr. Jackson’s works include
“Call Me Charley,” “Anchor
Man,” “Room for Randy,”
“Charley Starts From
Scratch.” He also wrote the
biography of Mahalia
Jackson, “I Sing Because I’m
Happy.”
Man Sought
In Theft
Escapes
A man sought in the in
vestigation of three armed
robberies in Asheville escaped
local police by crawling
through a motel window
Thursday night, according to
Brevard Detective Sgt. WaUer
Siniard.
“When we knocked on the
door to apprehend him, he
went out a bathroom window
and escaped,” Sgt. Siniard
said.
“He left clothing and other
personal belongings in the
motel room.”
Sgt. Siniard identified the
man as David Lee Tobe. He
was still free on Monday.
Local Nurses
Participate
In Workshops
Several local professional
nurses attended nursing
workshops in Lake Junaluska,
Sylva and Hendersonville on
Feb. 4 and 5.
The workshops were
sponsored by the Mountain,
Area Health Education
Center. “Problem Oriented
Nursing System” was the
topic under discussion, with
JoanGanong, adjunct
assistant professor of nursing,
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill as faculty
person.
Among those participating
were:
Transylvania Co nmunity
Hospital-Hilda Coli ns, Inez
Grooms, Jimmie Loftis, and
Grace Waldrop.
Dupont-Carol Orr.
Olin Corporation-Margaret
Hall and Frances McCall.
Open House
March 2 At
New Schools
Open house for the citizens
of Transylvania County will be
held at the two new Brevard
schools on March 2, according
to Superintendent of Schools
Harry Corbin.
The new Middle School is
hosting parents this week on
three nights, with sixth
graders’s parents attending
tonight, seventh grade parents
Tuesday night, and Eighth
grade parents on Thursday
night.
Final plans for the public
open house at the new middle
and elementary schools will
be announced soon as they are
completed, Mr. Corbin said.
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