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r ATTEND ! THE CHURCH OF ; YOUR CHOICE SUNDAY Baptist—11 a.m. Be 7:30 pm. Methodist — 11 a.m. Presbyterian — 9 and 11 a m. Episcopal — 8. 9:30, 11 a.m. Catholic — 11 am. Christian Science — 11 a.m. J The ONLY Newspaper in This Wide Deviated Exclusively to Promoting Highlands Area Published in the Highest Elevated and Most Hospitable Town in Eastern America Highlands, N. C., Friday, Jbly 19, 1963 Hi# Weather 'Ssv* July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 High Low 72 44 74 42 80 44 80 48 72 54 84 54 74 52 Air Conditioned bv Nature Vnl. 6 Number 29 Ten Cents Per Codv Highlands Community Theatre Proudly Presents Collin Wilcox HOSPITAL BAZAAR NEXT WEEK IS ANNUAL COMMUNITY EVENT The Hospital Bazatar, Bet for next Friday and Satur day (July 26-27) in the Brown Store Building, is a onoe-a-year occasion made possible by the cooperative participation of moat all of the community’s organiza tions. Under the sponsorship of the Woman’s Hospital Auxil iary, churches, civic groups, merchants, and individuals have lent their combined ef forts in this particular fund raising project for the hosp ital over a period of several years. Bach church or other group selects the type of contribution It wishes to make. Consequently there is offered, during bazaar days, anything from a lemon mer ingue pie to a potted pe tunia, and ranging in be tween Is a wide variety of articles that are practical and pretty, decorative and unique, and some whose imaginative originality im mediately catches the chop per’s fancy. This year, one of the “fancy-oatctarng” articles is hand-painted toilet soap. Bre-bazaar orders have kept Hospital Auxiliary “artists” wafting overtime to have i enough left ter display at _make a contribution of money this year, raided by the Women of the Church Wildfkrwer Lecture Scheduled •Mr. Charles Moore, of Brevard will present a koda chrome - illustrated lecture on the vegetation of the es carpment gorges on July 25 ait 6 p.m., in the Highlands Museum. Mr. Moore is with the Duke Power Company, which owns most of the area containing the Toacaway and HontopaSture river gorges. Os position, with the com pany has afforded him the opportunity of studying the plants of (he gorges. According to Dr. Thelma Howell who made the an nouncement, one of (he rar est finds made by Mr. Moore la a location ter the filmy tem, Trichomonas PetersU. The lecture is open to the pUbUc. Tar non-members of ttw fekflogtoal station a small mdtmimArm fee Is charged. This lecture Is the third in ite»fa summer’s aeries of lec tures presented each year fay the Highlands Biological Station. Dr. Howell also announced that recant arrivals at the bic0og4oal Station include Dr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Pet and Mr. , Jr., Cor , last Auxiliary Food Sale Nets $111 The food sale held Saturday by the i Auxiliary netted the s $m for the hospital | fund, according to an nouncement this week V Mrs. W. C. Caye, who had ’i charge of the sale. *T want to thank ah of those who contributed food tor toe the Hott family tor (W-use at the Sg wdfe It was he£" Oaiye said. “It was the jostty Of enemy people —***** 01 by several food sales. The Catholic Church will also make a contribution of money. The Baptist, Methodist, and Episcopal churches will each have booths at the ba zaar. Bautista will offer home-made foods for sale, Methodists will have a mis cellaneous table, and Episco palians will offer various hand-made and other arti cles. including a beautiful afghan. The Satulah dub will have a “white elephant” booth (they can still use more donations of articles in this category) the Eastern Star, flood. Although the Home Demonstration dub will not have a booth, the stunning dresses, coats, blouses, and skirts which will be available at the ba zaar are the products of the Home Demonstration wom en’s busy fingers last winter. The Garden Club will have pCbted plants and cut flowers for sale, and the merchants booth will offer various types of Items. The Shortoff Women hove contributed two twin-size hand-made quilts, that will be won bv a “lucky number” holder. Chances on the two jjuUbs. as well as on an Im pound ham contributed by Potts Super Market are being sold outside Iheapiper mar ket each day. Another beau tiful quilt, made by Mrs. Robert Ramsey, is on dis play at Highlands Furniture Shop. Chances may be pur chased there, and are going in a hurry. There will be a special “Connie Hirsig” booth, be cause of the large number of attractive articles Mrs. H&raig has made for the bazaar. Mr. Richard Harrison has made bis contribution to the bazaar to the form of a hand-carved wooden bread tray and a magazine table, products of his well-known talents with wood. Betty Holt, as she has done for the past few years, will sdll tinned confections, with profits going to the ba zaar. The Auxiliary itself will have a variety of hand made articles, including baby pillows, hot pad coven, felt school satchels and oth er items. Dr. O. C. Skinner of Hone Cove has ktodiy made the posters for the bazaar this year. Preparations for the event ace already being made to the Brown Store Building. Show windows now offer a preview of some of the thtaos to be offered for sale. Fund Drive Letters Out Several hundred Hospital Fund Drive totters went Into the matt .this week for eott c&tatkm of funds to assure the continued operation of Highlands Community Hos pital. This will be the only ap peal this year, as the cus tomary person to person canvass of the HJgfMands Oashtors area will not be mode. The Board of Trustees asks tble cooperation of the communities with the hos pital afforV '«nd to hopeful that an equally pood re sponse win be made as has been mode In the past by a personal campaign. Those who would like to contribute but hove not re ceived totters may make checks payable to Highlands Community Hospital and di rect to the bnpktal. Drawer 392, Highlands, N. C. SYMPHONY CONCERT HERE JULY 29 The Brevard Music Center Symphony and artists hold the first of two concerts scheduled here this summer j an July 29th In the High- | lands School auditorium. Coming here under the auspices of the Highlands Chamber of Commerce, the well-known orchestra, under , the direction of Dr. James C. Pfohil, will be a special treat to music lovers of the area. Performances by soprano Jeanette Peearetlo, tenor Eugen TaBey-Schmidt, and harpist Edward, Vito will highlight the edhcert. Tickets are $2 each, and are now an sale a the Chamber of Commerce of fice across tram the bank, at the Stone Lantern Gift Shop, Thle Highlander news paper office, and at other places In town. The concert begins at 8:30 pm. | Preaching Mission In Cashiers .The summer preaching ’ mission at Cashiers - Meth odist Church will begin on Monday evening, July 29,' and continue through Aug ust 1. Services will be at 7:45 each evening, and will fea ture Informal singing of the favorite hymns of the faith. Special music also will be provided. The guest preacher win be Dr. Cecil Myers, pastor of Atlanta’s Grace Methodist Church. Dr. Myers’ sermons were warmly received last year, and the congregation feels fortunate to have him as guest preacher. Each evening after the service there will be an in formal hour of fellowship in the educational buSdlng. All Who will are invited to at tend these services. Summer Tournament Scheduled Jim Charleaworth, Duke divinity Student tn oh surge of a college-youth recreation program in this area this summer, announced Tuesday that four basketball teams, composed of SO boys in the Highlands - OaShiers - Sap phire area will stage a tour nament with games begin ning Tuesday night, July 23, at GlenytUe High School gym. Games will be played each Tuesday night through Aug ust 13th, with final play on August 14. The SMt two games, one ait 9 o’clock and one at 10:15 on the 23rd will match Highlands against the “Tourists" and Cashiers against Sapphire. Line-ups for the parttoi paitlng teams that night are: Highlands John Norton 6’, 180 lbs. F Jack Calloway, 6’ W 100 lbs. G Bill Lowe, 5. 10” 180 lbs, F Ronnie Reese, 6. 6” 205 lbs. C Thomas "Reese, 6’ 160 lbs. G. Tourists Paul Melvin, 5’ 11” 155 lbs. o ILeu Cook S’ 4” 118 lbs. G Jim Charlesworth 6’ 1” 170 tbs. F Richard Melvin 5’ 10” 155 lbs. F Hal BurchaU 5’ 9” 150 Hm. g Bill Melvin 5’ 11” 145 lbs. SES NO. 3, PAG* 4 "Period Of Adjustment" Next Week To Feature • ; ♦ • I _ Famed Local Actress And Film Star Geoffery Horne Collin Atfllcox has return ed to her native Highlands, N. C., end will appear an the stage where She began her career at the age of nine, the Highlands Community Theatre, in “Period Of Ad justment” which will open July 23. i Miss Wilcox did the Wil liams’ play in London to rave reviews in the London Times which called her “the funniest American export since Judy Holliday.” She will be appearing with hear Collin Wilcox i m Geoffery Home Aichel Suggests Projects Mr. Louis Aichel of Jack sonville, Fla., and Highlands, suggested six projects as op portunities of community sendee in his talk to Rotar ians Tuesday nigh t As program speaker at the regular meeting of the Ro tary dub in Hotel Edwards, Mr. Aichel listed a school band, a swimming pool, a play ground, a bonding alley, a town ctean-up, and a hos pital-add project as a num ber of worthwhile things, any of which might be se lected as an undertaking for Rotartam. r "The only way to accom plish anything fat to get up an your feet and get going,” Mr. Adchel advised. Following the meeting, which was attended by 14 regular members and 18 vis iting Rotardans, a dub As sembly was held for officers and directors to discuss plans for the Rotary year now beginning. Next week the program will be given by Mr. Buzz Tennant of the Asheville Rotary dub who is a past president of Rotary Inter national. and who organized the Highlands dub. Announcement was made that on August ftth the lo cal dub will be visited by the District Governor, Mir. 'Arthur Shuford, of Hock oiy, N. C. Meth. Supper Super-Success Bunsfry Highlanders- turn ed out to. droves last Thurs day night' to enjoy turkey ’n’ dressing or southern baked ham preoared by la dies at the Methodist Church to raise money for their careenage fund. In fact, attendance ait the supper exceeded expecta tions to the extent that an xkma moments were exper 8B MO. 9. ran 9 Dr. Harmon Urges Pre-School Treatment At Childrens Clinic The free children’s clinic, held on the second and fourth Thursday of each month at Highlands Com munity Hospital has provid ed the examination and 'treatment of around 65 chil dren of the area since It was 'begun early this spring. Children are reported to be responding well to treat ment. Dr. Doralea Harmon, who ttevotes it pant erf her “day oft" to the c ltaic in her concern for children who would ordinarily not receive 'treatment is especially an xious that mothers who have children entering school this fall, and who have not been previously examined, bring their children in during the few remaining weeks before school starts. Through the facilities of •he clinic, Dr. Hannon has found a high Incidence of vnemia and parasites in the Children examined, and oth sr disorders, all of which can only be discovered by and examinations. Faulty vision has also been found in a number of the •shlldren. The clinic provides polio shots and other Inocula tions, free vitamins and bV^d building medicines, and treatment for various other diseases. But it goes "ten further than that. The GHnlc Council, made up of Dr. Harmon, Mrs. Ella B. Carter, Miss Ann Huston, and various members of the Hospital Auxiliary who are active in the clinic, are ean ■'tantly seeking ways and means to ensure treatment for those children who re ouire specialised care which •the clinic la not able to pro vide. Mrs. Henry Whitmire, Mrs. Jack Wilcox, Mrs. John Bur nette, Mrs. Prank Gardner, Miss DoHy Haxtoison, Mrs. Thomas Robinson, Mrs. E. E. linn. Mis. W. H. Cobb, Mis. Dvda Haroamhe, Mrs. Roy PhCaps^Mm^tmjgd Hag Atan Brown, Mrs. James HOwe, sod ftCra Irvtag Gum bed are among those who | have taken a special interest I in the clinic, and their ser vice has played an impor tant aprt in mtnkimg t^e di_ nic possible. Generous friends who re cognize (he worth at the project have thus far pro vided (he financial support required for necessary ex penses. The next clinic is sched uled for Thursday, July 29th from 0 am. to 12 noon. Those who have no trans portation may cadi Mrs. Jack Wilcox, telephone 4146, and a way will be provided. Car Wreck Injures 2 Mrs. Hester Keener and her three-months-old dau ghter, Renee, sustained se vere cuts and bruises in an automobile accident on North Fourth Street Tuas day afternoon. According to Police Chief Joe Baity, Mrs. Keener was going in the dUrecttom of Shortofif just past the High lands Laundry when a oar driven by Neddy Bryson entered a side street on her left. The car’s front bumper hit the rear fender of Mrs. Keener’s Volkswagen, throw ing It out of control. It swerved to the left, went over an embankment and hit a light pale. Mrs. Keener and her Child were hospi talized at Highlands Com nrntfty Hospital. Neddy Bryson, driving a Oorvuir, was uninjured. He was charged with failure to yield right-of-way. Notice To Baptist Women On the lint day of the Hospital Bazaar, July 2flth, the women of the Hghtois Baptist Church will ham a food booth whan they will SB NO. % PAGE 5 Square Dance Festival Shaping Up Dick Lee, heading the Chamber of Commerce com mittee In charge off square dance festival arrangements, announced this week that preparations are shaping up far tl^e Chamber’s biggest fund-raising event of . the season. The square dance festival this year is scheduled for the night of August 15 In the Highlands School gym auditorium. There on the stage, before a seated audi ence, some off the best re cognized square dance teams in the Southern Appala chians will compete for prizes. Judges far the contest will be well-known names In Carolina areas Including “Roaming the Mountains” John Parris, AshevUle-Cltl zen staff writer; Dave Cool ey, executive secretary off the Greenville (S.C.) Cham ber off Commerce; Reid Wil son whose voice is a fami liar one on Station WWNC, Asheville; Harold Cooledge, long-time summer resident of Highlands from Atlanta, Qa., and others. Other entertainers will atao be engaged for per formances. Proceeds from the Festival iwlll go to help finance a new brochure depicting in natural color acme of the outstanding attractions of the Highlands area, to con tinue t<o interest new peo ple in the “highest incorpor ated town east off the Heck les.”- xf Sun Eclipse Due Saturday A total ecttpee of the sun, wMch 'will be only a partial eclipse 'viewed from Worth Organa, Is due to take the hours of 3:47 p.m. and 5:55 pjn., on Saturday, July watch lor hi •ted hoe Stare 1#3».” Her Puente, Mr. and Mrs. Jade 9 Wilcox, founded the Highlands theatre. Geoffrey Horne added that ttve theatre doesn't come solely out of New York. created by the people aba Work with it and the people •ho attend.” Mte WUcwx grew up in [Highlands and attended was a professor of econo mics. She worked with the I Carousel Theatre these and tfam went to Goodman Me morial School rtf the Theatre in Chicago and Actor’s Stu dio in New York and began appearing on tetovidan. She Played In Member of The Wedding on televMkon and continued to win recognition for her work on such pro grams as Dr. Kildare and The Eleventh Hour. Her first starring role on Broadway was appropriately enough. Look We’ve Dome Through, directed by Jose Quintero of the Adtor’s studio. She has appeared tn several plays on and off Broadway: Grazy October with Tallulah Bank head, Tha, Day The Money Stopped, Season Off Choice, The Dragon Slayer, and two other Williams plays, Oam ino Real and Suddenly Last Summer. Acclaim In the Mg lights came after her role of MayeUa in To Kill A Mock ing Bird which ran alt the Highlands movie theatre the week end she arrived In. town. When she appeared on the stage to greet the movie audience she admitted die suffered stage fright die had seldom felt as she ad dressed her home town peo ple. Studio tinait she came to meet bar actor husband Geoffrey Horae. They were married on the stage of the Martin Beck Theatre in New York after the final per formance of Strange Inter lude. Coffin replaced Jane Fonda in the play tatter she finished the Award winning To KU1 A Mocking Bird in Bollywood. The Eugene O’Neil play closed on Broad way a few weeks after a highly successful run and the co-stars came to North Carolina on yacartion. The oast of Interlude n»> star red Geraldine Page, Fran-, chot Tone, Betty Field and* Rip Torn. Geoffrey, bora to Aigen
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