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■ Devoted To ■ r^ e Upbuilding M. our Community K, * KuNo. 35 fc A. COGGINS, 71, OF BEE TREE, I dies suddenly at his home ■fell.'Known Resident and I Familiarly Known As ffl “Mayor of Bee Tree” H _—o ■ floury Allen Coggins, 71, lum n farmer, and mine opera ■ ant i familiarly known as the Buinvnr of Bee Tree,” died sud at his home in the Ree Tree K ct ion of Buncombe County Bhursday afternoon about 5:30 ■clock. ■ na tive of the Bee Tree section, B[r. Coggins spent practically his Ktire life as a resident of that and owned land which K me to his family as a state ■rant. ■f n his early manhood, he was M o n known as a baseball player. Hp joined the Asheville proses- K o club in 1897, and in 1898 en- Kiied at Wake Forest college ■]•,,, re he was a pitching star for Hk Deacons. While playing there, EL W as offered a contract with the Bhiladolphia Nationals, but an in ■ prevented his playing in the Hajor leagues. m He returned from Wake Forest ■nd for a number of years played Hith outstanding teams in the ■Astern North Carolina area, and year while playing with the ■teen club turned in a batting ■verage of .470. For a number ■f years he had his own team at ■ee Tree. ■ In addition to attending Wake ■orest College, he also attended Beaver and Milligan colleges ■ Mr. Coggins took an active part B> church, civic, and political as- B He was a member of Bee ■ree Christian church, was an ■der in the church and for many Bears had taught a Bible class in Be Sunday School. B was a 33rd degree Mason and Banner and was one of the pro- B>otors °f the annual Bee Tree ■icnic. He was a member of the board of directors of the Banners’ federation and was a Briber of the executive board of federation. B Funeral services for Mr. Cog ■ were conducted in the Bee B rpf ' Christian Church Sunday as- B rnoon at 3 o’clock. ■ The Rev. Harold Tyer and the ■ev. R. S Creasman officiated, ■iterment was in Pine Grove B The body remained at Harrison B ineral Home, Black Mountain, taken to the church at 2 B Sunday. B h f, tive pallbearers were officers the Bee Tree church. B Honorary pallbaerers were D. B Harrison, H. R. Harrison, Roy ■lraander, Fred Pavidosn, E. N. Con Cordell, Dr. Hubert Dr - J- M. Buckner, Dr. Ted B°' som > Frank Roberts, J. C- Belton, S. C. Clapp, J. G. K. Mc- B ure ’ Guy Sales, L. A. Owen, Dr. R urr Allen, John W. Neely, B i:1 'am M. Redwood, D. Hiden ■amsey, James M. Coleman, Al- B Riddick, Charles A. Webb, B'dge J- Frazier Glenn, Pat Bur- B 6 Vonno Gudger, J. Ed Swain B d dl r ectors of the Farmers Fed ■ation. is survived by the widow, a ' ra Keen Coggins; three B’o*. Eldridge A. Coggins of Bee Bj'ee, George B. Coggins of Tig- S. C., and John W. Cog- B ns of Washington, D- C.; six K (Continued on page 8) M. Morgan I To Speak Here ■ 0 B Secretary of The Fam j ily Life Council of I Asheville ■ b. Mildred Morgan of Ashe- B le > W 'H speak on ‘‘Children And B| e Heace” to the Wesleyan Serv ■' Guild and the Woman’s So °f Christian Service of the B HCk fountain Methodist Church ■onday, M ay 6at 8;00 pm at B r " f ■ E. Keith’s home, Brier- Bjj ° n the Blue Ridge Road. I' Morgan is secretary of ■ID . n . y Life Cou ncil of Ashe ■ dlK * * s well known as a coun- Bv r .° n marr iage and the family, ■i,' nn Plyler will be in ■ ‘ aigu °f the devotions. ™e BLACK MOUNTAIN news All Voters Must Register To Vote In May Primary O New Registration May Cause Small Election Returns This is election year. On May 25th, Democratic voters will se lect candidates for County and some State and Federal offices, and that, in the past has been tantamount to election in this Qounty. It is feared that returns this year will be small because the Buncombe County Board of Elec tions has called a new registra tion. This means that every man and woman in every precinct in Buncombe County must register or re-register, in order to vote in the May 25th primary. Registrars appointed by the Board of Elec tions were that most voters as yet are unregistered. Registrars will be present at poling places on Sat urday, May 4th, and again May 11th from 9 a.m. until sunset for the registration of voters. Those citizens of Black Moun tain Township, who live south of the U. S. Highway No. 70 reg ister and vote in precinct No. 2, which is at the City Hall. In gen eral, citizens living north of State Highway 70 will register and vote at the Grammer School building. However, one section in the center of Town, bounded by Montreat Road, Dennis Ave., Connelly Street, Rhododendron Ave., and Craigmont Road is part of pre cinct No. 2. This paper reminds you that it is your duty and privilege as a citizen to register and vote. Let us defend the freedom we have won by such strenuous effort by exercising free ballot for the elec tion of free public officials. Softball Team Is Organized 0 Bill Rudisill, Outstanding Softball and Baseball Player, Is Manager 0 A group of local talent met re cently and organized a softball team to represent Black Moun tain in the Moore General Soft ball League. Bill Rudisill, outstanding soft ball and baseball pldyer, was elect ed to serve as manager of the team. Everyone places great con fidence in Bill’s leadership and feel that he will pilot the team to a successful season. Manager Rudisill announces that no position on the team is clinched, and that anyone in this area who wishes to try out for the team may arrange a workout by con tacting him. He is especially anx ious to secure an effective pitch er. The following fellows have shown promise and while Manager Rudisill has not announced a starting lineup it will likely be selected from the following: Woodside, Willis, Turner, Reese, Rudisill, Burgess, J. Brittain, P. Brittain, Beddingfield, Brown, Stevens, Ramsey, Poison, Waters, McCool and possibly others. Final Meeting of Woman’s Club To Be Held May 8 o The Black Mountain Woman’s Club will hold the last regular meeting of the year next Wed nesday at 3:30 p.m., at the home of Mrs. H. A. Kerlee. The* pro gram is in charge of the Home and Garden committee, Mrs. C. E. Spencer, chairman. The speaker will be Mrs. George Pennell, pres ident of the Asheville Garden Club, whose topic will be “The Perennial Border” Mrs. Roy Alexnader will sing. A feature of the meeting will be the award of prizes by, the judges who are to inspect local gardens this week. BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 2,1946 TRUMAN TELLS PREACHERS HE NEEDS THEIR PRAYERS AND CO-OPERATION President Truman told 300 Washington clergymen Monday that this country is “having a lot of unnecessary troubles, brought about by selfish men who are thinking only of their individual wel fare.” The churchmen met with the President in the Rose Garden of the White House to extend their greeting to him, just as they had done on a similar visit six years ago with President Roosevelt. “The world is at the cross roads,” the President said. “Either we are facing, as I have said time and again, the greatest age in history or we are facing absolute destruction of things as we know them now.” Mr. Truman said the United States came out of the war as a leader but expressed fear that since V-J Day it has been losing sight of its responsibilities. “God intended us to assume them some 25 or 30 years ago,” the President continued, “and we shirked them. We can’t shirk them now. “One of the immediate things which we are faced with is feeding the starving . . . you can help in that. You can make the people reailze their responsibility. You can awaken in them the moral responsibility that goes with leadership. Right here at home now we are having a lot of unnec essary troubles, brought about by selfish, men who are thinking only of their individual welfare.” Mr. Truman expressed his appreciation for the clergymen’s visit and they in tarn pledged their co-operation in behalf of the famine emergency program. In welcoming the churchmen, the Pres ident advised them: “I need your prayers. No one ever needed them more.’ 16,236 Telephone Directory Have Been Distributed O Mr. Smith Requests Tele phone Users To Help Conserve Equipment 0 A total of 16,236 copies of the new telephone directory, com pleting the distribution, have been delivered, it was announced Mon day by J. L. Smith, district man ager for the Southern Bell Tele phone and Telegraph company. The new directory has a gray cover, making it distinguishable from the old green-covered book, Mr. Smith requests telephone us ers to help conserve busy tele phone equipmnet by referring to the new directory when there is any doubt about the desired num ber, and by consulting the direc tory before calling “Information” for a number, calling ’’lnforma tion” only if the number is not listed. If the old directory was not taken up at the time the new one was delivered, the telephone com pany suggests that it be turned over to the scrap paper collection along with other waste paper at the first opportunity. Southern Buys Two Thousand New Freight Cars O Construction of New Cars Will Begin This Fall, Norris Said o The Southern Railway has placed orders for 2,000 new freight cars at a cost of about $8,000,000, rail way President Ernest E. Norris said Monday. Construction of the new cars will begin this fall, Norris said. They will consist of 1,000 50-ton steel-sheathed box cars to be built by Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing company in Bes semer, Ala.; 600 50-ton steel low side gondolas to be built by the Mt. Vernon, 111., plant of the' Pressed Steel Car Co.; 257 70-ton all steel ballast cars to be built by the Amercian Car & Foundry Co., at Madison, 111., and 100 57- ton lal-steel covered hopper cars to be built by Harlan & Hollings worth Corp-, Wilmington Del. Other new rolling stock on or der, Norris said, included 1,000 50- ton steel automobile box cars now under construction at the Bessem er plant to Pullman-Standard. De livery of these cars was expected early this summer. In addition, Norris said South ern Railway had 40,000 tons of new rails on order and contem plated buying additional passeng er equipment of modern construc tion and design. WOMAN’S SOCIETY TO MEET The Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service of the Methodist Church, Black Mountain, will meet Tuesday evening at 8:00 o’clock in the Fellowship Room. Colorado’s lowest point lies at an elevation of 3,350 feet. “KEY CITY IN THE LAND OF THE SKY” 14 Months Old Child Dies o Harry Lee Atkins, 14 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Atkins, died Wednesday morning at the Mission Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Friday May 3, 2:00 p.m. at the Church of God on Lakey St., in Black Mountain. Burial in Tabernacle Cemetery, Black Mountain. The Rev. D. E. Kilby and Rev. Mrs. Dixie Chambers will officiate at the service. He is survived by his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Atkins, one sister, Levon Atkins, one brother, James Atkins, the grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Smith and the Rev. and Mrs. L. A. At kins of Barnardsville, N. C- May Fellowship Day Tomorrow Will Be Held The Black Mtn. Baptsit Church At 3:30 P. M. o May Fellowship Day, one of the three meetings each year spon sored by the United Council so Church Women, will be held at the Baptist Church Friday afternoon at 3:30. Mrs. Wade Reinhardt will be the leader, and Mrs. Mary Ailshere will speak, and special music will be given by a chorus from the colored Baptist Church. Rev. Grady Hardin will give a re port on the convocation meeting in Charlotte recently. The offering will be divided between the Local, State and Na tional Council. All women of the churches in our community are urged to attend. The Girl Scouts will care for children, so any mother may bring her children and attend the meet ing. M. J. Baer Dies in Ashevlile Hospital o Mr. M. J. Baer of New York and Black Mountain died after a short illness in an Asheville hospital April 25, 1946. Mrs. Baer, form erly Mrs. Bossie O’Brian Hund ley, is now with her daughter, Mrs. Thomas M. Farr in Had donfield, N. J. »IHI 1111 - I HIM Bill Hill Says: I ast a feller tuther day if he thought Hitler wuz dead, and he says yes sir, cause he saw a tomb stone in Germany thet says, “This j is my last Territorial demand. ’ I The Arts Club Pr esents Literary and Musical Program O—— Mrs. Clark Presented An Unforgettable Picture of Sidney Porter o The April meeting of the Black Mountain Arts Club was held at the home of Mrs. S. S. Cooley on Friday evening, April 26th. After a brief business meeting, the progarm chairman, Miss Mary W. Young, presented Mrs. John Clarke, president of the Tuesday Night Literary Culb. Mrs. Clarke, well known as a designer and ex pert craftsman in silver and cop per, is certainly a thorough-going and most interesting speaker. Mrs. Clarke presented a well rounded, reliable, and unforget able picture of Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry. In carefully selected facts and incidents and anecdotes she presented his life and the background it furnished for the human-interest stories that he wrote. Mrs. Clarke brought out little known facts in O- Henry’s life, such as his family life, his vary ing jobs, and the circumstances which landed him in prison, where he wrote many of his most vivid tales. His later life in New York City furnished material for the story Mrs. Clark read—The Slick Penny Lover, one of many he wrote about the underdog. Her reading so dramatized the vivid story that the audience could al most feel they were seeing it en acted before them. As the concluding part of the program Mrs. A. W. McDougle, music chairman of the Arts Club, introduced Mrs. Richard Lock wood, a student at Black Moun tain College. Mrs. Lockwood played three cello solos- Her piano accompaniments were play ed by her husband? The careful artistry of Mrs. Lockwood was admirably supplemented by the sensitive performance of Mr. Lockwood. The audience was en thusiastic in appreciation of their work, and joined with Mrs. Mc- Dougle in wishing the Lockwoods the happy life of Robert and Clara Schumann as they continue their musical /careers. In spite of the conflict of three other local events on that eve ning, there were 40 present, and several new members joined the organization, as well as renewals by former members. Tar Heel Riding Club Elects Officers Tuesday 0 The Tar Heel Riding Club held a meeting at the City Hall Tues day evening and had election of officers. Mrs. L. E. Brown and Mrs. John L. Bowers, foremen of the Range, Miss Dorothy Wil liams and Mr. John L. Bowers as helpers. There will be a ranch '•i<!e, leaving Black Mountain Riding Stables at 2:30 Sunday af ternoon- Anyone desiring to go along will be welcome. Many ballet dancers adopt Rus sian names; Alicia Markova was born Lillian Marks, Anton Dolin was Patrick Healy-Kay. Commencement Recital Montreat CollegeMusicClub O Students Were Selected From The High Scfy>ol Personnel o Montreat College presented fourteen members of the Music Department’s students in recital Saturday evening at eight o’clock in Gaither Chapel. These students were selected from the High School personnel and were out standing students of each of the five teachers. Mrs. Randle and Miss Woodhouse accompanied the voice students, while Mrs. John son assisted with a duo and the duets. Miss Mary Lord is the head of the music department. The date was unique in that it was the anniversary of the Sen ior Recital of the youngest mem ber of the music staff, Miss Fran ces Corry, who graduated at Limestone College last spring. The program was as follows: Creole Folk Song—Arr. Thomp son, Mary Anne Phillips; By a Roadside Fire, Rodgers—Mattie Lee Ladd; Caprise, Besthoff—Nell Fender; A Robin Song in the Elm wood Tree, Kountz—Dorothy Ad ams; Because, D’Hardelot—Emily Mical; Twinkle Toes, Eckstein— Betty Jo . Williams; Fireflies, Schaeffer—Rose Melody Pylant; Duo, Parade of the Wooden Sold iers, Jessel—Anna Maude Hoop er; When I Was Seventeen, Swed ish Folk Song—Nina Kennedy; A Brown Bird Singing, Wood— Doris Ann Zirkle. The British Children’s Prayer, Wolfe—Patsy Casteen; The But terfly, Merkel—John Robertson; Duets: To a Wild Rose, MacDow ell; An Old Trysting Place, Mac- Dowell—Lily Starling and Mrs. Johnson; Duet: In a Persian Mar ket, Ketelbey. Synopsis: “The camel drivers gradually approach the market, the cries of beggars are heard amid the bustle- The beautiful princess enters (she is represented by a languorous theme) —she stays to watch the jugglers and snake charmer. The Caliph passes through the mark et; the beggars are heard again; the princess departs, and the car avan resumes its journey; the theme of the princess and camel drivers are heard faintly in the distance and the market place be comes deserted.”—Emily Mical and Nancy Allison. Girl Scout Troop 1 Met Tuesday O Semi - annual Court of Awards Presented By Mrs. Keith 0 The Black Mountain Girl Scout Troop 1, held their semi-annual Court of Awards on Tuesday, April 30. Mrs. Keith, a member of the Girl Scout Council, gave the awards. A flag ceremony opened the program. Anne Marie Molloy was flag bearer, Peggy Williams and Ann Sawyer the color guards. The following sixteen girls be came second class Scouts, receiv ing their Clover Leaf Badge: Wilma Justus, Norma Justus, Bar bara Justus, Thelma Brookes, Sybil Joyner, Anne Marie Molloy, Rita Gasperson, Joan Norton, Eloise Norton, Peggy Williams, Eva Smith, Katherine Padgett, Nancy Padgett, Nora Lee Burgess, Madge Wilhide and Mary Ann An derson. Eighteen girls earned their First Aid Badge in the Health and Safe ty Field. Five girls received badges in these four fields of homemaking, nature, sports and games, and arts and crafts. After the awards Madge Wil hide and Sybil Joyner told about *he Juliette Lowe World Friend hip Fund. Each Scout contribut ed as many pennies as they were ild to the fund, in this way the Scouts are helping the Girl Scouts all over the world- With the singing of Day Is Done in the friendship circle, the' program was ended. Go to Church Sunday. Member North Carolina Press Association $2.00 Per Year Miss Cordell’s Engagement To Romeo Revealed O Romance Blossoms I n Tokyo For Black Mtn. Girl and Captain 0 Romance has blossomed in the land of the cherry trees for Miss Evelyn Cordell, of Black Mountain and Asheville, and Capt. Bruno J. Romeo, of Jackson Heights, IPMBBI iT' VfrMrr- • i|| MISS EVELYN CORDELL Long Island, N. Y-, who are at tached to the American staffs at the Tokyo, Japan, war criminals trials. A United Press dispatch from Tokyo revealed recently the an nouncement of the engagement of Miss Cordell to Capt. Romeo. Miss Cordell is a member of the staff of the chief war crimes prosecu tor, Joseph B. Keenan, and Capt. Romeo is stationed at the head quarters dispensary. Miss Cordell and Capt. Romeo met when she went to the dis pensary to request treatment for* a cold. Their engagement was announced at a dinner party in Tokyo’s Imperial hotel and they plan to be married when Capt. Romeo returns to the States this summer. Miss Cordell left Asheville by plane at the same time Assistant U. S. District Attorney Worth Mc- Kinney left here for Tokyo to take part in trials of Japanese war criminals. She has been serving as assistant to John Darsey, form er chief of the war frauds section of the criminal division of the ~ department of justice. A pretty and dynamic brunette;. Miss Cordell in 1940 was reporter for the Buncombe County Court. She is a graduate of Brevard Col lege and when she left for Japan was confidential secretary to T. Lamar Caudle, former U. S. dis trict attorney in Asheville and?, now assistant attorney general!.- She is on leave to serve as a mem- - ber of the war criminals trial: staff. Miss Cordell served for some time as secretary to former Sena tor Robert R. Reynolds, in Wash ington. In 1941, she was secretary to the late A. C. Reynolds, Jr., at. the state legislature, and last year she was secretary to State Sena tor Brandon P. Hodges, chairman of the senate appropriation com mittee, in the state legislature. Just before leaving here for Tokyo by plane, Miss Cordell vis ited her father, Edward Cordell, at the Cordell home at Black Moun tain. Miss Cordell was enter tained by a number of her friends at a luncheon in Asheville at the Langren hotel last Nov. 19, just before she left for Washington en route to Tokyo. Swannanoa Y. W. A. Met Monday, April 29 o The Y. W. A. organization of the First Baptist Church of Swan nanoa, met Monday evening, April 29th, in the home of Mrs. Chas. Jollay. The mission study chair man, Marjorie Eller, led in a. study of the Indian work at Cher okee. Nine Y. W. A. members were present. Plans were made to observe Y. W. A. Focur Week, May 12-17th. The late E. Phillips Oppenheim wrote more than 150 novels of de tection and intrigue.
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