A Welcome Visitor
On Sunday Mrs. Mary Nesbitt
of Asheville, one of the four 47th
District representatives who
speak for Transylvania in the
General Assembly paid a visit to
the county for a look at some of
the hazards facing school bus
riders and other citizens as well.
She took a look at the two
narrow bridges which cross the
French Broad River in Rosman
Which citizens of the town use,
then looked in wonder at the fine
new bridge which crosses the
West Fork of the river above
Rosman which serves very few
people.
; “Why in the world was this
Abridge put here?” she asked.
: “Who had anything to do with
this?”
■ Then she moved on to see the
Cantrell Bridge over the West
Fork in Gloucester, and visibly
shuddered as she saw the
narrowness of this bridge which
sits in an S-curve.
As the auto maneuvered the
narrow State Road 1309 above
West Fork gorge without a sign
of a guard rail, she marveled
that the school bus driver, a girl,
would drive a vehicle with 70
children aboard on such a route.
“I’d be scared to death,”’ she
said. “I’m really sorry for that
girl.”
She promised to do all possible
to improve Transylvania’s poor
road situation. “You have
certainly been left out,” Mrs.
Nesbitt said.
Hers is one more voice on our
side. It is good to have her. She
is an influential person in the
House.
But we’ll need many more
voices before we begin to get
real action on our roads.
But it will help if the county
will speak with one voice. We
need to decide what we want
done with our primary and
secondary roads and then exert
pressure to get it done. As long
as John Doe wants a road
located here, or improved there,
and John Henry William Brown
wants things done in other
areas, then the Department of
Transportation is going to do
nothing. It won’t know what to
do.
And let’s lure some more of
the state’s political leaders into
Transylvania and point out
some of the hazards which face
us and our school children daily.
It’s the way we’ll finally get
action.
Flying Danger Growing?
We often hear the statement
that travel by airline is much
safer than travel by auto. And
factual data available shows
this to be true.
While in 1974, automobile
deaths took close to 50,000 lives,
air crashes in the U.S. claimed
only 467 lives.
Still there’s something to think
about in some recent statistics.
? Auto deaths, based on 100
million miles traveled, is
decreasing.
| But the airline death rate of
.94 per million flying hours in
1971, has increased to 1.49 per
million hours in 1974. Small as
these figures are, they represent
an increase of 58 per cent.
Two of the major airline
crashes of 1974 were attributed
to pilot errors, including the one
which killed more than 70
persons near Charlotte in
September.
As more and more automatic
devices are added to airplanes,
it seems, some pilots are
becoming less attentive on the
job.
Swinging Church?
■: In Dallas, Texas there’s a
Lover’s Lane United Methodist
•Church.
■: The name is for real, honest.
•: And it has a minister of music
-named Lovelace — Dr. Austin C.
Lovelace, who incidentally is
a noted composer of church
music.
We thought you’d like to know.
Dr. Lovelace is a native of
Rutherford County.
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I Report To Hill Country
BY CECIL HILL
State Senator
North Carolina has a Home
Rule Bill which grants to
counties and towns the
general rights of self
government; however, many
county commissioners and
elected town officials are
refusing to accept their rights
under this very fine law.
We are spending a great
deal of time in the legislature
dealing with matters that
ought to be handled by local
officials.
For example: We have had
several bills extending the city
limits of cities and towns.
Personally, I do not favor this
plan of extending city limits
except in rare cases. The law
provides that the city officials
may extend the city limits in
some cases even without a
vote of the people. In other
cases, a vote is required.
Nevertheless, town officials
do not want to accept the
criticism involved in such an
issue.
Another section of the law
provides for the organization
of new towns; however, we
have had charters for several
towns granted by the General
Assembly.
I think such matters as I
have set out above ought to be
exercised locally. The best
government is the govern
ment closest to the people.
My bill prohibiting mem
bers of the General Assembly
from sitting on boards and
commissions in the executive
Department was tabled in
committee this week. In my
opinion, the practice of
members of the General
Assembly who accept ap
pointments by the Governor to
sit on legislative boards
violates two basic safeguards
in our government.
In the first place, it violates
the premise of the separation
of the Executive and
Legislative Branches — or the
separation of power. In the
next place, it makes a lobbyist
on the floor of the General
Assembly of any person
serving on such a board or
commission.
The Governor appoints
about 5,000 people to assist in
the administration of the state
affairs, and this is good.
However, when I learned
that 40 out of 170 members in
the General Assembly held
such positions of respon
sibility by appointment, I
knew the bill would never
become the law of the state.
Another bill introduced in
die Senate provides up to $100
per month as a deduction on
income taxes for child care or
the care of a dependent
disabled spouse.
The right of the various
state departments to continue
to regulate personal ap
pearance was maintained
when a bill prohibiting the
firing of a persons wearing
unreasonably long hair or
beards, mustaches, etc., was
defeated in committee.
Although the bill did not
specifically say so, it was
directed at the Highway
Patrol.
I co-sponsored a bill
providing $84,000 for
Christmas tree research in
North Carolina. This has
become big business in our
area, as you know, and the
future of the industry offers
great potential.
Another bill introduced in
both bouses would move the
primary date to the first
Tuesday after the first
Monday in August. This
makes sense to me. A long
campaign not only wears oul
the candidate, but I am sure
the public is sick of politician:
before the campaign is over.
The District Court of th<
United States recently
overturned the law providing
for foreclosures of deeds o
trust in North Carolina an<
this decision may raise a clow
on the title of much rea
estate. Title insurance
companies have stoppe<
issuing title insurance on titles
having a foreclosure
proceeding in the chain o
title. We lawyers have moves
with haste to introduce <
curative statute to take care o
this situation.
At the request of the Boars
of Aldermen and the ABC
Board, I introduced a bil
permitting sale of native ant
unfortified wines in the loca
ABC store. This store had sole
such wines until recently whet
it was discovered that th<
charter for the ABC Board die
not permit such sale. As yot
know, wine can be bought ii
practically every grocer]
store in town, and I think th<
local citizens should get ths
profits from such sale and not
the stockholders of sucl
companies.
H; Ntighbori
EDITORIAL PAGE
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES f
THE EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
BY
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
Those who through the
courts have brought about the
removal of Bible reading and
devotions from the public
schools have done this country
a tremendous disservice.
Indeed they are biting the
hand of God that feeds them.
There is no question about
the historical, Biblical
foundation of this govern
ment. It is written into the
Great Seal of the United States
as seen on the back of a dollar
bill. It was involved in the
adoption of the Constitution.
When the delegates of the
Constitution had spent weeks
bickering over details, the
venerable Benjamin Franklin
rose to his feet, was granted
the privilege of the floor and
said that the delegates had
been seeking and arguing for
days comparing governments
hither and yon, but had
forgotten to seek the guidance
and direction of Almighty God
from whom all blessings
come.
He then moved that the
convention pause and have
prayer for guidance. This was
done and soon the convention
commenced to make orderly
progress.
Here is a case where the
country is being ruled by the
determined opinions of a
atheistic and irreligious, but
vocal minority.
More than ten years ago in
1962, the Supreme Court held
that a New York program of
daily classroom prayer, using
a non-denominational prayer
composed by the State Board
of Regents, was un
constitutional.
From then on, it has been a
constant erosion of efforts to
inculcate religious principles
in the schools. An amoral
school system without
religious teachings is
spawning a whole generation
in which crime is growing at
an unprecented rate. In
many cities, it is not safe for a
man or woman to walk the
streets after dark. House!
have to be locked up an!
burglary alarm systems in
stalled to protect property, j
• *
We have sown to the wind
and are reaping the
whirlwind.
I was in a position to see this
at work, having served 27
years on the Board of
Education of Charlotte. I saw
this minority tear the religious
heart out of the schools,
demonish baccalaureate
services and even question
prayer at commencement
exercises.
In Charlotte in order to try
to preserve some semblance
of baccalaureate unity, a
single service was projected
sponsored by different
religious groups. Attendance
at this has consistently
dwindled.
Slowly, but surely, we are
eroding the moral and spritual
foundations of this nation. No
wonder we have moved from
amorality (without morals) to
immorality (bad morals). The
Ten Commandments receive
scant attention. It is unusual
to find them read in churches
today. There is an old ex
pression, “Every man for
himself and the devil take the
hind most.” This seems to be
taking place today.
Sadly to relate it is hap
pening in the courts. The
rights of the criminal are
receiving more attention from
the courts than the rights of
the one against whom the
crime has been committed. If
enough bite the hand that
feeds us, the future our
country is bleak.
If we don’t have revival, we
are going to have revolution.
It has already commenced.
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Counselor in care of this
newspaper for a copy of “Can
We Wave the Flag Too Much,’’
enclosing 25 cents. Also write
for Dr. Spaugh’s biography,
“The Boy, The Man, The
Bishop,” $3 postpaid.
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1 Mr. C. K. Osborne,
1 Editor, Transylvania Times
| Brevard, North Carolina
1 Dear Mr. Osborne
I would appreciate it very
I much if you would print this,
| as an open letter to the
■ directors of our local Hospital.
I would rather stay home,
than go to the Hospital as a
Pastor to visit and have a fight
instead.
Twice in one week I have
been given what amounts in
my mind as harrassment at
the front desk of our hospital.
The first time I waited after
hearing, that I as a Pastor had
to have a visitors card to visit
the sick. Finally, I walked
past the lady at the desk
without her permission. This
does no 'one any good. The
person that you visit, wants
| someone to visit them to
comfort them, not someone
who needs comforting after
fighting out front.
Today I went to visit at the
hour of 1 p.m. and was told
that visiting hours were at
2:00 p.m. Never, no never
have I been told when as a
Pastor that 1 could or could
not visit my people. I could
have done as before, but why
visit under those cir
cumstances. I will tell my
people on Sunday, that IF they
want me to visit them in the
Hospital, to go elsewhere to
with their people, or get
permission from the office
that I can visit at any time.
The Pastors of the area are
busy people also. One day I
started at 9:00 a.m. at our
Hospital, went to Mission in
Asheville, on to St. Joseph’s,
Then to Oteen where a map
was being operated on, then
finished up at Margaret
Pardee in Hendersonville at
9:30 p.m. Started on home,
had a mechnical break down,
and had to catch to Olin Bus as
11:30 p.m. back to Brevard. A
very long day, which would
not have been possible if I had
had to observe visiting hours,
or wait for the family to return
the few visiting cards to the
front desk before going in.
I was told that I should have
been notified of this action by
the Ministers Union. Union, or
Association, NO PASTOR,
should have to belong to a
union to get into see his flock.
If this is to be true the LORD
JESUS HIMSELF, could not
make it into our local hospital.
Especially after April the
first.
I ha VP viftitari mar hnenitnl at
all hours of the night, the same
is true at the Hendersonville,
and Asheville Hospitals. I
have never been detained
before, and do not intend to be
detained in the local Hospital
here. THIS POLICY MUST
BE CHANGED. Tell <frour
doctors how you feel. Send and
go where visiting Is controlled,
but not chained.
Thanks for printing this, and
thanks to you readers for
putting up with one put out
Preacher.
Rev. Kenneth E. Bragg
Creek Baptist