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‘'Vol. 88 — No. 25 "
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
A State And National Prize- Winning Home Town Newspaper
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BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1975
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY
★ BICENTENNIAL “GOLDEN OLDIES” ★
THE McMINN HOUSE: This was the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Van Buren Mc
Minn. On Main Street, it was located where
Plummer’s Store was later built. The portion of
the home closer to the sidewalk was formerly a
store, but in 1885 or 1886, the L was added. It is
thought that the occasion for this picture was
probably the completion of the construction work
in 1886. Mr. and Mrs. McMinn ran the house for
businessmen and “summer boarders” until the
“Athelwold” (to be featured later) and the
“Hunt Cottages” opened. Shortly, many other
tourist homes and cottages began to operate
during the summer months. (Photo: M. J.
McCrary, given to her by Beulah Zachary)
First Union National's
Earnings Set Record
First Union National Bank
had the finest earnings year in
its history in 1974, according to
the annual report released by
Cameron Fiancia! Cor
poration, the bank’s parent
conjpany.
In summarizing the report,
Ray N. Simmons, First
Union’s city executive here,
said the bank contributed $17.8
million, or $2.93 a share, to
corporate earnings before
security transactions in 1974.
This was an increase of 62.6
per cent over 1973 earnings
when the bank contributed $11
[million, or $1.80 a share,
i before security transactions.
< Mr. Simmons said that since
; 1972 First Union’s earnings
[have increased by ap
proximately 123 per cent.
j While the bank’s per
formance was strong, Mr.
Simmons said, the overall
earnings of Cameron
financial Corporation
Reclined in 1974 as the result of
josses sustained by Cameron
Brown Company, the corp
poration’s mortgage banking
subsidiary headquartered in
Raleigh.
According to the report,
Cameron-Brown Company
was severely impacted by the
depression in the housing
industry and lost money for
3 County
Students
Win Honors
.j Three Transylvania County
Students placed in the state
Fine Arts Festival Saturday,
Iponsored by the N. C.
Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Connie Crowl was first
runner-up in the piano
category. She was sponsored
by the Brevard Book and
plate Club.
Bill Dechant Was second
runner-up in the drama
competition with his dramatic
reading. Cynthia Rahn won a
second place award for her
decorative painting on wood.
TJjfe latter two were spon
sored by the Brevard Junior
Woman’s Club.
Tha Brevard High School
Students earlier had placed
first in their categories in
district competition, earning
them places hi the state
competition, which was held
at Salem College in Winston
Salem.
RAY SIMMONS
the first time in its 28-year
history.
The company’s net loss
after tax in 1974 was
$7,457,000, or $1.23 a share, in
1974, compared to net ear
nings of $2,452,000, or 40 cents
a share in 1973.
The overall earnings per
formance of Cameron
Financial in 1974 resulted in
income before security
transactions of $11.5 million,
or $1.88 a share, compared to
$13.7 million, or $2.24 a share
earned in 1973, according to
the report.
Simmons said that First
Union earnings were achieved
in a year when inflation,
historically high cost of funds
and other economic factors
caused acute concern in all
sectors of the economy.
“These pressures were
keenly felt in the banking
industry,” he said.
“First Union’s earnings
achievement in the 1974 en
vironment primarily reflects
the successful im
plementations of management
programs adopted to improve
results in three strategic
areas: increase in net interest
margin and non-interest in
come, and control of non
interest expenses,” Simmons
concluded.
In his letter to shareholders
in the report, C. C. Cameron,
chairman and president of
Cameron Financial, said that
“a specific forecast of cor
porate performance for 1975
would be unwise in view of the
economic uncertanties
presently confronting us.”
Candy Stripers Help
To Fill Lonely Hours
BY DOROTHY OSBORNE
Times Staff Writer
Every Saturday morning,
Kim Palmer and Diane Aiken,
dressed in perky red and white
striped pinafores and white
blouses, report for duty in the
Skilled Nursing Facility at the
Transylvania Community
Hospital.
The two girls work four
hours each with the patients
there, making beds, getting
ice water, assisting with
baths, helping them from the
bed to a favorite chair, feeding
them and just visiting.
“I think they like for us to
visit with them best,
especially when there’s only
one patient in a room,” Kim
said.
As she went from room to
room, smoothing the covers,
or patting a shoulder, the
patients, some of whom
cannot speak, held Kim and
Diane with their eyes.
One of them, Mrs. Mary
Peterson, obviously a
favorite, held Kim’s hand and
wouldn’t let go.
The two girls stopped to see
Mrs. Emma Gillespie, who
said she was the first patient
in the Skilled Nursing Facility
at the hospital.
“I am cleaning house this
morning,” she said. Mrs.
Gillespie still sews and does
other things to fill the long
hours of the day.
“They do a good job at any
thing they do,” Mrs. Gillespie
said, praising the girls. “They
are always on hand when I
call. They are always nice and
kind and sweet to me.”
She pointed out a bowl of
flowers that a son, Arthur
Gillespie, had brought earlier
that morning. The daffodils,
forsythia, grape hyacinths
and other spring flowers were
grown at-her home, Mrs.
Gillespie said.
“I’m real proud of (skilled
nursing facility,)” she said. “I
think its a wonderful thing for
Transylvania County.”
Later the two girls talked
about being Candy Stripers
and their training for it. They
are two of 24 who completed
their orientation recently.
Diane, age 16, is a quiet girl
who is thinking about nursing
as a career. Kim, with a big
grin, is quick to speak up.
“We learned to be nice to the
people,” Diane said. “When
you go into a room, smile.
That makes them feel better.”
Noted Methodist Speaker
At Brevard Convocation
Dr. Daniel W. Wynn,
director of the Office of
College Support, Section of
Schools, Colleges and
Universities of the Board of
Higher Education and
Ministry of The United
Methodist Church, will be
guest speaker at the Brevard
College Convocation on
Wednesday, April 2, at 10 a.m.
in Dunham Auditorium.
Dr. Wynn is a native of
Wewoka, Oklahoma. He holds
five earned degrees including
the Ph. D. and the honorary D.
D., and has done post
graduate work at Harvard
University, Hebrew
University in Jerusalem,
Israel, and the University of
Oklahoma.
For 12 years, he served as
professor and chaplain at
Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama. He has also served
in the capacity of Dean of
Religion at Bishop College,
Marshall, Texas and Dean of
Students at Langston
University. He has held his
present position wun tne
United Methodist Board of
Higher Education since 1965.
Dr. Wynn was awarded the
Distinguished Alumnus
Award by Langston
University, Langston,
Oklahoma in 1964, and the
Man of the Year in Oklahoma
DR. DANIEL W. WYNN
Award Dy me musnogee
Service League, Muskogee,
Oklahoma in 1969.
He is included in Who’s Who
in American Education, Who’s
Who in the South and South
west, Directory of American
Scholars, volume IV, 1964,
1969, and 1974, Contemporary
American Authors, Per
sonalities of the South, Dic
tionary of International
Biography and Two Thousand
Men of Achievement.
He is author of NAACP
Versus Negro Revolutionary
Protest, The Chaplain Speaks,
Moral Behavior and the
Christian Ideal, Timeless
Issues, and The Black Protest
Movement. He has also
contributed articles to many
professional and scholarly
journals and magazines.
Dr. Wynn is a 33 degree
Mason, a Shriner, a life
member of the National
Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
a life member of the Tuskegee
Civic Association, and a life
member of Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity, sk
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DIANE AIKEN
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KIM PALMER
The girls, she said, learned
to make a bed and roll it down,
learned the rules of the
hospital, and how to feed the
patients who need help.
“The main thing is to feed
them slowly so that they won’t
get choked.”
While Diane and Kim work
with the long term patients,
other Candy Stripers work in
the wing for the acute
patients.
Diane chose the skilled
nursing facility “because I
like working with older
people,” she said.
Rene Smith, who has been
a Candy Striper just longer
than a year, said, “When I
first started, the skilled unit
wasn’t open.”
She and Tonita Owen, who
usually works with Kim and
Diane, had just finished
delivering the lunch trays on
the acute wing and came over
to the skilled nursing unit.
Currently, there are 42
Candy Stripers who work on a
regular basis, according to
Mrs. Ro Ann Balding, R. N.,
instructor, and Mrs. Jean
Lafean, hospital auxiliary,
who co-ordinate the program.
The girls who work in the
Skilled Nursing Facility, Mrs.
Balding said, received speeial
training in geriatrics for that
purpose.
Each girl works at least four
hours each week. Since
December 1973, some 64 girls
in four orientation classes,
have worked a total of 1,955
hours.
Girls receive caps after
50 hours of service, and pins
after 100 hours.
These who recently com
pleted training to work in the
Skilled Nursing Facility, in
addition to Diane, Kim and
Tonita, include Denise Owen,
Patty Donaldson, Robbie
Davenport, Brenda Mull, Ruth
Osteen, Kathy Miller, Cindy
Rigsby, Cindy Huters, Connie
Cope, Cindy Howell, Darlene
Lovely, Becky Whitener, Pam
Grant, Sue Lankford,
Margaret Miller, Mary Ellen
Wilson, Debbie Brown, Debbie
Burgess and Sherry Lowery.
Other active Candy Stripers
include JoAnn Spanbauer,
Karen Phillips, Kathy Bed
dingfield, Teresa Baker, Pam
McCall, Teresa Butler, An
nette Reiter, Robbie Whitlock,
Lynnette Sellers, Derene
Netherton, Laurie Talley,
Mildred McKinney, Charlene
Smith, Gwendy Waser, Joyce
Pressley, Vickie Howard, Joy
Becker, Lynn McGee and
Renee Smith.
Two ‘America9
Series Films
To Be Viewed
Two films in the “America”
series will be shown at
Brevard College the week of
March 30. “Money on the
Land” will be shown Tuesday,
April 1, and “Inventing a
Nation” will be shown
Thursday, April 3.
In “Money on the Land”
modern Chicago is shown
dissolving into the countryside
it grew from: a “gorgeous
deposit of raw material ready
for mass cultivation and
shipping and processing,”
ready for exploitation by
opportunistic turn-of-the
century industrialists.
It takes a decade in “In
venting a Nation” to hammer
out a constitution based on
what Cooke calls our three
great principles: “com
promise, compromise,
compromise”.
The secret Independence
Hall debates involving
Hamilton, Mason and
Madison set precedence
for modern politics, while a
visit to Jefferson’s Virginia
home, Monticello, gives in
sight into the mind which
created our Bill of Rights.
Then a westward surge
follows Daniel Boone across
the Appalachians, expanding
the character of the new
republic “beyond the
imagining of the learned and
graceful men of the 18th
century”.
“Money on the Land” will
be at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 1
and “Inventing a Nation” will
be at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 3.
Residents of Transylvania
County, faculty, staff, and
students of Brevard College
are invited to this series.
There is no admission charge.
DR. ROBERT BLOCKER
Robert Blocker
In Concert Monday
Robert Blocker, concert
pianist, will appear at
Dunham Music Center,
Brevard College, on March 31,
at 8:15 p.m. Admission is free,
and the publi is invited The
program will include the
Fantastic Pieces, Opus 12, by
Robert Schumann, three
Etudes by Russell Wragg, and
the F minor Sonata, Opus 5, by '
Johannes Brahms.
At the age of five, Mr.
Blocker began his musical
studies with Louise Mathis in
Charleston, S.C. His debut
came ten years later with the
Charleston Symphony Or
chestra in historic Dock Street
Theatre.
Attending Furman
University on scholarship, Mr.
Blocker studied with
Professor David Gibson and
earned his Bachelor of Arts in
Music degree.
Graduate piano studies
were pursued at North Texas
State University under the
tutelage of Richard Cass,
eminent American concert
pianist. After earning the
Master of Music and Doctor of
Musical Arts degrees in piano
performance, Mr. Blocker has
made a career as an artist
teacher.
Currently Dr. Blocker
serves as chairman of the
Fine Arts Division at Brevard
College. Recently he was
elected as an outstanding
Educator of America, 1975.
This summer Mr. Blocker will
serve on the artist faculty of
Brevard Music Center.
Recent music activities
include a tour for the South
Carolina Tricentennial
Commission, a tour as piano
soloist with the Ft. Worth
(Texas) Symphony, and an
appearance with the Hen
dersonville Symphony.
Frequently^ sought as a
recitalist and clinician, critics
hail Blocker's playing as
‘imaginative and sensitive”.
A prodigious technique,
combined with power and
unlimited tonal control,
makes Mr. Blocker one of
today ’s most exciting pianists.
BHS Student Elected
To Head N. C. Group
Lynne McGee, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer McGee,
Box 249 Rosman Highway,
was elected to the office of
president-elect of N. C. Health
Careers Club on March 15.
She had previously been to
Raleigh and was interviewed
as a candidate to run for state
office.
From there she went to
Greensboro where she
campaigned for 2 days prior to
being elected.
Lynne is presently involved
in the HCC of Brevard High
School. She is also active in
the H. S. Chorus, Acteens, and
is a candy striper at the
hospital.
She is interested in a Health
Field for her future. She has
been on the honor roll six out
of seven times while in High
School.
Lynne was heard to remark
KIM PALMER makes Mrs. as Diane Aiken stands by.
Mary Patterson more comfortable
after she was elected "I can’t
believe that I’ve really been
elected. 1 feel very honored to
have been chosen for this high
honor.”
Blantyre
Residents
BY MRS. ADA REED
Mrs. Edith Smith of Lin
colnton has returned to her
home after visiting with her
son and daughter-in-law Mr.
and Mrs. John Smith.
Mrs. Howard Setzer of
Candler visited with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Reed last Thursday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Heffner
and son, Cris, of Hickory
spent last Thursday and
Friday as guests of Mr. and
Mrs. James R. Owens.
Mrs. Lester Brown and
children, Rosemary, Barbara,
Carl, and Doug, visited with
relatives in the Leicester
section last Sunday.
Donnie Grover and
daughters, Denise and Paula,
of Hendersonville visited with
Mr. and Mrs. James Owen last
Thursday.
Earl Gray of Etowah visited
in this section recently.
Those on the sick list are
Mrs. Weaver Brown, Miss
Linda Austin, Mrs. Jame
Owen, and J. B. Norton Jr.
Mrs. John Reed and J. B.
Norton Sr. are now'home from
the hospital.