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Vol. 1, No. 17
The Black Mountain News Wishes You j
IILDINGS AT LAKE
URE TO BE SOLI)
ON JANUARY 10th
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1 Rest Camp With Heating
id Plumbing Fixtures Will
}e Sold To Highest Bidder
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ve portable buildings at Lake
AAF Rest Camp with their
ing and plumbing fixtures
be sold to the highest bidder
idders, on January 10, Major
and F. Steele, Moore General
ital post engineer, announced
lay. '
e property will be divided in
ree separate units, and those
ssted may bid on any or all
e units, Major Steele said,
jor Steele, who is in charge
.-ing the camp and disposing
vernment property prior to j
iturn to its owner, said that)
uildings are 20 ft. x 80 ft- in
ision. They were started
summer and were only 90
:ent completed when the end
e war came and with it the
ion to abandon the camp,
msequently the buildings
never been occupied, and the
cal plant and equipment are
cellent condition. This prop
should be a boon for anyone
ing lumber, plumbing fix- 1
i, or heating plants in view i
ie present shortage of build
naterials,” Major Steele as
; bids will be opened" January
id purchasers will have 30
in which to move theri prop
;rom Lake Lure. In addition ■
; buildings, there are heating
!, hot water heaters, sinks, ;
;, bath-tubs, lavatories, etc.;
ding forms may be secured.
directly from Major Steele;
sore General • Hospital or
the guards at Lake Lure,
e latter have been instructed
permit prospective bidders to j
lit the spot for the purpose of
ipecting the property for sale.
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ersonnel At Moore
General Buy Seals
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Moore General Hospital person
i to date have purchased ap
•ximately SSOO worth of Christ
s seals to aid in the fight
linst tuberculosis, Lt. Marvin
Golden, chairman of the seal
ve, announced Saturday.
It was also announced at hos
tel headquarters that Lt- Gola
has been appointed chairman
the March of Dimes campaign
r the National Foundation for
A 1
fantile Paralysis in January. A
ecial dime bearing the likeness
the late President Roosevelt,
ther of the March of Dimes is
s ing minted in honor of Mr. 1
oosevelt.
Lt. Golden also served as chair- *
'an in the recent National War
und drive to which Moore Gen- i
"al Hospital contributed approx- 1
nately $1,750. (
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blood transfusion bottles are i
ball'd with a dark green band '
'ltich becomes orange w'hen the 1
allies are sterilized for use.
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•end in your news
New Firestone Store
To Open Here Soon
The new Firestone Store will
be open soon after the first of the
year.
The store has been held up on
account of fixtures. A meeting
was held this past week in Hend
ersonville and arrangements have
been made to secure the fixtures-
The store will carry a full line
of home and automobile supplies.
The News extends greetings to
the new store.
HOSPITAL EMPLOYES
ENJOY XMAS LEAVE
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Many of The Administrative And
Medical Staffs Were Off
During The Holidays.
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The official Christmas holiday
period got under way .at Moore
General Hospital Saturday as civ
ilian employes, except those need-’
ed for emergency work, began a
four-day holida to extend through
Christmas Day.
In addition, by direction of the
War Department and Office of
the Surgeon General, administra
tive and medical staffs were skel
etonized to assure that all patients
get necessary and complete pr(>
cessing and treatment during the
holidays and Sunday hours will be
maintained Sunday through Tues
day by military personnel. Duty
hours for the three days will be
from 9 to 12 a.m. Many patients
are on Christmas leave.
The same schedule for civilians
and military personnel will be ob
served at the hospital next Sun
day, Monday, and Tuesday
through New Year’s Day.
In the meantime hospital per
sonnel including Red Cross w;ork
ers, patients and duty personnel
completed decorations for the
holiday season- All decorations
have been inspected by the hos
pital Fire Marshall and the Chief
of the Fire Department to safe
guard against the fire hazard.
The Post Engineer has placed
on the square in front of the flag
pole a sleigh and raindeer driven
by Santa Claus. Under the spon
sorship of the Red Cross the va
rious wards are competing for a
suitable prize to be offered the
ward with the most beautifully
dressed Christmas tree. The trees
were judged Saturday and the
prize winner will revealed
Monday. The trees were decorat
ed by patients, nurses, and Red
Cross workers.
A full-dress Christmas dinner
was served by the mess depart
ment no Tuesday, and the Of
ficers’ Club served a Christmas
turkey dinner at noon to duty
officers and their families.
Yuletide religious worship was
included at a midnight mass
Christmas Eve said by Chaplain
Charles Meyer with a second mass
which followed at 9 a.m. Christ
mas Day. Protestant serveies
were conducted at 10:15 a.m.
Christmas by Chaplain Ellis
Youngdahl. His subject will be
“The New Yet, Old Old Story.”
(Continued on page 4)
BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C., DECEMBER 27, 1945
, Three Brothers Together At Home For The First
i Time In Three Years—All Three Served Overseas
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RAY M. STEPHENS JAMES M. STEPHENS HARRY L, STEPHENS
Ensign Ray M. Stephens, James M. Stephens, C. M. M., and Harry L. Stephens, S. 1-c, sons of Rev.
and Mrs. A. L. Stephens of Black Mountain, N. C., spent Thanksgiving Day with their parents. Ensign
Stephens just recently returned from the Philippines where he was Commanding Officer of an L. C. C
in the 7th Amphib Force. He received his discharge in November in Norfork, Va. and returned January
2nd to Park College in Missouri to complete his degree in journalism. He has four campaign bars,
European Theater, Asiatic South Pacific Theater, American Theater and before Pearl Harbor award.
Also three stars.
James M. Stephens, C. M. M., has been home on sixty-four day leave. He came in from the Philip
pines where he was aboard the U- S. S. Oceamur a repair ship. James wears the following ribbons:
American Defense Ribbon, American Area Campaign ribbon, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Ribbon with
the following stars: Western Carolina Islands Operations, Iwo Jima Operations, Okinawa Operation.
Good Conduct Medal, and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon. James has returned to the West Coast as
he plans to stay in the Navy.
Harrp L. Stephens, S. 1-c, is serving aboard the Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Atlantic. He entered
service last March and hopes to get his discharge around the first of the year. He is in the storekeepers
department on the big carrier.
Thirty Radio Sets Given
Moore Hospital Patients
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Funds for thirty radio sets, the
, Christmas gift of Southern Bell
, Telephone employes to patients in
i Moore General Hospital, have
■ been received, hospital officials
! announced Saturday.
With the cooperation of the Red
Cross, the radio sets on arrival
[ will be placed in those words in
which they are most needed.
l Employes of the Asheville dis
■ trict are contributing 18 sets. Ten
■ radios are coming from the Ashe
. ville office, including employes of
i the telephone center at Moore
■ General, two from Lenoir, one
i each from Morganton, Ruther
i fordton, Murphy, Waynesville,
I and Hendersonville; while the of
fices of Spruce Pine, Newland,
1 and Boone are presenting one to
gether-
Twelve other sets are being do
noted by employes of offices
throughout the Carolinas. It was
. revealed that 194 sets are being
’ distributed by Carolina Southern
Bell employes to various govern
ment hospitals in the two states.
; E ac h radio will bear a wooden
plaque carrying the name of the
\ office employes presenting the
radio set.
1 Glass consists primarily of a
I combination of silicic acid with an
’ alkali either potassium or sodium.
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55-Point Veterans
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i The Army hopes to have every
' Eurpoean war veteran with 55
j discharge points back in the Unit
ed States or on the way by Jan
uary 1.
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1,,,,,,,,,-. Limt-fimi • T -inniin nmi-»J
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Bill Hill says
I went through an old grave
yard tuther day, and I seen an
epitaph on an old moss-grown .
tombstone, and it says:
Here lies my wife, Samantha <
Praetor, <
Who 'ketched a cold and wouldn’t i
doctor.
She couldn’t stay, and had to go—
Praise God, from whom all bless
ings flow.
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Butter Famine Blamed
On High Cheese Ceiling
Industry spokesmen said they
saw little hope there would be any
early easing of the near-famine
in butter in this country.
Butter producers claim that the
cause of the shortage is a combi
nation of the usual seasonal slump
in actual cream production by
dairy herds and the fact that ice
cream and cheese makers are per
mitted to pay a higher price for
cream.
While creamery representaitves
asked Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton P. Anderson and OPA Ad
ministrator Chester Bowles to
halt asserted “channeling” of
cream and cheese production,
some grocery representatives in
Washington were making a “close
study” of the situation and “hop
ing” that it would improve.
Up until V-J Day, creamery '
representatives pointed out, a
Federal directive permitted an
equal distribution of available
cream throughout the dairy indus
try, but that order was lifted when
the war with Japan ended.
With distribution of available
cream now principally
on the price it brings, creamery
officials said, the cheese and ice
cream makers get first call on the
supply/
Nineteen of the peaks of the
Andes mountains exceed 20,000
feet in elevation.
Masonic Lodge At
Marion Has Installation
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J. G. Beaman of Marion, was
installed worshipful master of
Mystic *Tie lodge, No. 237 A.F.
and A.M., at a meeting held Fri
day night. He succeeds Fred
Morris,
Other officers installed were:
John T. Jolley, senior warden •
Clarence Wise, junior warden; B.
H. Laughridge, treasurer, and W.
R. Burleson, secretary.
Appointed officers were: P. J.
Story, senior deacon; S. B. Hilde
brand, junior deacon; Ray Brown
and Wayne Suttle, ’stewards; W. j
R. Nesbitt, tyler, and the Rev. T. j
L. Kluttp, chaplain.
CLEARING SKIES
FREE CAROLINAS
FROM ICY NET
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Black Mountain and Surrounding
Community Suffers Heavy
Loss By Broken Trees
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When skies began clearing
Wednesday morning it brought re
lief to this community which was
tied up by icy streets and broken
limbs from trees. It also struck
in a zone south and east of Ashe
ville and extended across several
counties.
In Black Mountain, the rain
which began falling Christmas
Eve" and which continued
throughout the night, froze on
trees and shrubs almost as fast as
it fell. Many trees were bowed
under the terrific weight, some
of them even down on the roads
blocking traffic. Electricity was
off in this area for a time until
Tuesday afternoon, causing inter
ruption in Christmas dinners. Pow
er was still off in some sections
of the town Wednesday morning.
A large tree' which split in half
in the yard of Mrs. Blanche Mor
ris’ home on Ridgeway Avenue.
No apparent damage was caused
to the house although some of the
tree limbs fell on the roof.
Red Cross Help Make
Christmas Merry
The Camp and Hospital Coun
cil of the American Red Cross
compoesd of citizens of Asheville
and surrounding communities,
with the cooperation of other
agencies, has left no stone un
turned to help provide every pa
tient with the best Christmas
possible away from home, Mys
Edna Luther of the hospital chap
iter, reveale’d Saturday.
The organization has provided
hundreds of gifts for Moore Gen
eral patients; Christmas trees
wreaths, and decorations have
been set up to give a completely
holiday air to the Patients Recre
ational Hall and lounge. An ma
ple supply of fruit cakes, candies
and fruits have been provided the [
patients; and the organization I
has made available to -patients”
free Christmas cards and free
gift wrapping service.
A review of the Council’s ac-
SEE VALUABLE COUPON ON PitfE E^GKT
DEC 2? 194
Happy
New Year .
$2.50 Per Year
EICHELBERGER
IS SPEAKER ON
RADIO PROGRAM
Greets Families Os Bth
Army Men Now In
Service
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Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger
was heard over WWNC-CBS Sun
day night on “The World Today”
program in which he sent a
Christmas message to the mem
bers of the families of the men
in his Eighth Army and to Eighth
Army men, now on occupation
duty in Japan. The program was
| broadcast from New York.
Men of the Eighth are for the
j most part not the jungle veterans
of a year or more ago, but are
smartly-dressed youngsters be
tween 18 and 20 years of age, but
these men will have the finest
turkey dinner the government can
buy and will be thinking of you
(members of their families,) he
said.
“Oui 1 hearts go out to the farq
ilies of those who lie beneath the
white crosses on the long, hard
trail from New Guinea to Tffkjro,
and to the wounded, and we offer
their families our sympathy,” the
general added. *
Gen. Eichelberger said at tfie
beginning of his five-minute talk
that he had been enjoying Ijis
Christmas leave ever since his
plane landed in Asheville. »
Maj. Gen. Clovis Byers, now jin
temporary command of the Eighth
sent a Christmas message frem
the men of that army, which was
read to Gen. Eichelberger.
Gen. Eichelberger came 'to
Asheville two weeks ago to -join
his wife. They then went on to
Washington and New York but
expect to return to Asheville be
fore the expiratioq of his leave
on Dec. 31. •
Home On Leave
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A. S. Lincoln Carroll Merrill
is spending his Christmas Holi
days at home. He went in ’eh*
service the 15th of September Ithiß
year and has been stationed in
San Diego, Calif. He finished
his boot training in San Diego.
Welcome home Ijincoln.
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tivities for the fading year snows
that the Council' also has I met
many requests from Moore, fun
eral Hospital for maternity,ward
supplies. The Council has I pro
vided for other hospital activities
furnishings such *s draperies! pic
tures, Venetian . l(linds, vases'! and
a combination radio-record.’play-
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Recreation supplies provided
patients included such iterts as
magazine subscriptions, vfrtrola 4
records, billiard supplies, fridge
tables, and a great many j other
articles. The Council has also re
freshments for sqme of the large
| dances at Moore 'General, ft lias
~atsr> provideitTmany - sere , sight
! seeing trips and has secured for
| patients invitations to be iguests
in private homes in this vicinity.