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A PAGE ABOUT THE AREA DEVOTED TO Information For Visitors Noted Artists To Appear On Brevard Music Program 3 Times During Week End Soprano Eileen Farrell, whose voice is familiar to millions of ra dio listeners across the nation, will highlight the final weekend of the Brevard Music Festival. Miss Farrell joins Beverly Wolff, contralto. Andrew McKinley, tenor and 'Andrew White, baritone, for Friday evening and Sunday after noon concerts of Beethoven's Ninth ("Choral") Symphony with the Brevard Festival Orchestra, James Christian Pfohl conducting. A chorus of 120 trained by Les ter McCoy, associate conductor 4f the University of Michigan Musical Society, will support the four solo ists in the Ninth Symphony, Bee-; thoven's monument to man's free dom. The first complete perform ance in the South of the work was given at the 1949 Brevard Music Festival under Pfohl. On the same porgram, contralto Beverly Wolff will be heard in the Bach Cantata, "Schlage doch, i i Last Field Trips Of This Season Set At Heintooga Only two more Saturdays re gain for the Great Smoky Moun tains nature walks from Hein tooga Overlook, the park natural ist reminds us. Free to the pub lic. the walks are scheduled for 19:30 a.m. and for 1 p.m. and last about one and one-half hours. Walks are planned for August 22 and for August 29. The field trips are in the na ture of informal strolls under the guidance of a park naturalist. The visitor has the opportunity to improve his acquaintance with the plant and bird life of the area. gewunschte Stunde". Miss Wolff, a native of Atlanta, has appeared in oratorio and concert work witji several major orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. Eileen Farrell, according to the New York Herald Tribune, "one of tl\g two_ greatest dramatic sopranos of our time," is featured with the Orchestra Saturday evening at 8:15 o'clock. She will sing the familiar Divinites du Styx from Gluck's "Alceste," and the Prelude and Love Death from "Tristan and Isolde," by Wagner. Miss Farrell was a radio favor ite for a decade before her recital debut in New York in 1950. During the season 1950-51, she appeared 61 times in Ave engagements with the New York Philharmonic, set ting the record for performances and engagements during the 109 years of the orchestra. She is mak ing her third appearance as solo ist at Brevard. Eight large and nearly 100 small er man-made lakes in the Western North Carolina highlands provide water sports to countless thous-. ands. i P^?' ~ * ^ hbhh warn , y wmammmmammm LOCAL KIWANIANS JOIN in presenting a foam rubber pillow to their guest speaker at Tuesday night's meeting. Left to right: Rpbert II. Winchester, president of the local club; Oral Yates, who made the presentation; and Dr. Rembert Burgess, Kiwanis Carollnas district governor and the featured Speaker. (Mountaineer Photo). Kiwanians Hear Dr. Burgess Speak At 'Florida Night' "Florida Night" Tuesday at the regular Kiwanis (Jlub meeting featured a talk by Dr. Rembert Burgess, president of the Spartan burg (S.C.) Junior College and governor of the Carolinas Kiwanis district. Dr. Burgess spoke force fully on the position of leadership in community affairs demanded of Kiwanians. Dr. Burgess was intro duced by J. Westmoreland, lieu tenant governor of the first di vision. The second annual Florida Night brought a total of 46 visiting Ki wanians from five southern states, the majority from Florida. Two members of the local club, A. D. Harrison, Jr.? and Charles Edwards, received tabs for 12 months' perfect attendance. The tabs are to be attached to the Kiwanis pin. A pair of Dayton Koolfoam pil lows was presented to Dr. Burgess by Oral Yates on behalf of the club. Hooper Alexander, a member of the Interclub Relations committee, introduced each of the visiting Ki wanians. Bill Roberts, chairman of the committee, was in charge of the program. , Indian's Gratitude Foils Cherokee Raid The last of many Indian raids in Western North Carolina was in 1776 when the Cherokee Indians were defeated by forces under Gen eral Howard at what Is now How ard Gap. One of the Cherokees, Skyuka. warned the general of the proposed attack because Howard had saved hi* life when the Indian had been bitten by a rattlesnake. There are 14 public recreation areas within the Pisgah division of the National Forest in JVestern North Carolina. Use the Want Ads for results Park Crisscrossed By Roads, Trails There are 66 miles of high stand ard roads in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, includ ing the transmountain highway from Cherokee to Gatlinburg, Tenn. Clingman's Dome Highway reaches an altitude of 6311 feet, the highest highway in the East. Seventy miles of secondary roads and 653 miles of horse and foot trails are open to the public for hiking and riding. There are trails of all types to suit individual requirements of park visitors. Some are 4 fefet wide on easy grades; some are improved footpaths; others merely a track through the forest. All improved trails are marked with directional signs. Hikers using graded trails need not wear any special hiking clothes, since well-traveled trails are maintained dear of brush and are drained. However, stout low heeled shoes are recommended. Kindergarten To Open At Junaluska Mrs. Russell Fultz and Mrs. Fred Harron, who will conduct a kindergarten during the winter months, have announced their opening date as Wednesday, Aug ust 26. Registration will be Tuesday af ternoon, August 25, from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. in the kindergarten , room at the home of Mrs. Fultz at Lake Junaluska. The teachers are asking that parents bring their children to register since they are planning a special treat for the youngsters. The kindergarten will be con ducted from 8:45 a.m. until 12 o'clock noon throughout the reg ular school term. Speeders Learn From Light PITTSBURGH (AP) ? In su burban Mt. Lebanon, Township Manager John Paulus has install ed what he says is the first traf fic light of its type in Pennylvania. Vehicles run over a magnetic detector. If they are traveling more than 35 miles an hour, the traffic light stays red until the detector is activated by another car. However, if motorists are with in the 35-mile an hour limit the signal turns green five seconds af ter activation and stays green for approximately eight seconds. Driv ers who use the road regularly al ready are slowing down for the*ln tersection. They know that this is one traffic light they can't "beat." Pisgah Offers Varied Appeals Recreational opportunities in the j pisgah area of the North Carolina National Forests are many and varied. The Pisgah Forest extends pver an area roughly 100 miles long and 40 miles wide. The moun tain scenery of two main ranges and several subranges, with 20 peaks over 6000 feet high, is out standing in eastern North America. The -forest cover of trees, shrubs and other plants is one of the most varied in the world. The area is made accesible through a network of roads and some 600 miles of trails, including part of the famous Appalachian Trail. Fifteen public recreation areas have been developed with the necessary sanitary facilities, open grates, safe water supply, tables and shelter from rain.' Most of them provide for camping and some have lakes or other facilities for swimming. Fishing is especially good this year, and the managed hunts held every fall for deer, bear and small er game draw large numbers of sportsmen. Linville River Falls Now Easier To Reach The rugged beauty of Linville Falls, with their surounding sheer cliffs and virgin timber, is being preserved and made more acces sible as one of the newest attrac tions along the Blue Ridge Park way. x In January of 1952 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave the Nation al Park Service $100,000 for pur chase of 1,000 acres surrounding and including the falls. The waterfalls, which until re cent years could be seen only by the hardiest explorers, are in two sections, known as the Upper and Lower Falls. Both are included in the acreage purchased with the Rockefeller gift, and either would be an outstanding scenic attraction in its own right. Together they comprise an awesome spectacle of water and shining black rocks framed by thickets of rhododen dron, spruce, fir, balsam, and hard wbods. Boys' Painting Sold BOSTON (AP) ? Most unusual of this year's exhibition at the big Boston Museum of Fine Arts was a set of 200 paintings and draw ings done in the past three years by members of boys' clubs in dif ferent sections of the city. Many of the paintings were said and the museum, itself, bought several. Fifty of the boys' works of art were selected for a traveling show to tour the United States. How Not To Paint ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) ? Judy Dutcher, helping paint the floor in the basement of the Pres byterian Church, was very care ful not to paint herself into a corner. She started her paint job around the edges ? and wound up in the middle, stranded on an island of unpainted floor, surrounded by wet paint. ,-y Wifely Devotion HARTFORD, Conn. (A P) ? Mrs. Joseph Sosinski, or Hartford, figured out an unusual gift for her husband. While he was away on a trip, she had his automobile paint ed and, with her own hands, reup holstered its interior. Sosinski was more than happy. His car is a 1928, air - cooled Franklin, and he wouldn't part with it for anything. While he's been driving it, Mrs. Sisinskl has used up seven new cars. ? - WALTER CARRINGER of New York City, young tenor who is rapidly making a name in musical circles, will give a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in the main auditorium of the Lake Junaluska Methodist Assembly. His program will include classic Italian, German, French, English and American selections, including several popular folksongs. Prof. Cy rus Daniel, director of music at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and summer director of music at the assembly, will be the accompanist. A 1950 graduate of Columbia University. Carrineer has been fea tured as tenor soloist with the ; Robert Shaw Chorale on five na- i tion-wide tours, has appeared in Carnegie Hall and made several re cordings. He has sung with the Transylvania Symphony twice at Brevard, and at the Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee. His selections Saturday night will include: *'Let Me Wander, Not Unseen," by Handel; "Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite," by John Dowland; "Air," from Comus, by Thomas Arne; "Halt," "Trock'ne Blumen," and "Serenade," by Franz Schubert; "A Sa Quitare," by Francis Poulenc; "Fleur Jetee," by Gabriel Faure; "Questa O Quello."" by Giuseppi Verdie, and "To Dai sies," a song cycle by Roger Quil ter. During intermission Prof. Daniel will play three of his own romantic compositions, "Autumn," "April" and "Lora". Want Ads bring quick results I ?I Although It sometimes snows in midsummer around Hudson Bay, summer temperatures in that area sometimes hit 90. The southern part of Canada is farther south than is northern Cali fornia. Large Lakes A Featu Of Nantahala Forest Outstanding attractions a Nantahala division of th? j Carolina National Fori- . ^ Nantahala Gorge th,- lnc.in, means "Where the sun noonday) and th Joyce Kj Memorial Forest. 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