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NOV 28 I^^ GIRL SCOUT NEWS The regular Girl Scout meeting was held Monday, November 25, at 3:15 p. m. at the home of Mrs. .Fred L. Wilson on Vance Avenue. Mrs. Wilson served refreshments •as popcorn, cookies, and punch. . Madge Wilhide, i Ann Sawyer, Pteggy Williams, and Yvonne Nan ney presented the puppet show "“Jack and the Bean Stalk.” o Miss Jackson and Miss Irwin, students at Black Mountain col were present at the meeting. They plan to assist with Girl Scout ing in Black Mountain, and will have charge of the outdoor activi ties. o The Scouts plan a Christmas Play', “Unto Others” and have Started rehearsals under the dir ection of Miss Jane Callison. Two new members, Doris Hig ginbotham and Barbara Allred, were added to the “Little Pies” patrol. Janet Ryan is a new mem ber of the “Playhouse Favorities” and Peggy Williams is the new one of the “Wild Flower Life” patrol. o Saturday at 10:00 a. m. all the Girl Scouts are to meet at the hame of Mrs. Marvin Wolf. They will hike into the woods to look for wild flowers and study nature. —William E. Lindau is visiting his wife at Blue Ridge. betty . fgE^^ —V «4« UltRI /OH MOMMV HOwNj I'M Aii PorcloVn/ / ( UNROHANOC YOU/ V NOT FRtCKLEQ There’s something old-fashioned and romantic about Thanksgiving. May the day be a joyous one. When you begin thinking of those Xmas gifts, think of SOSSAMON-TYSON FURNITURE CO. We are just loaded down with the grandest selection of gifts you can imagine. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. ; " EVERYTH ING FOR YOUR HOME" BLJOC MOUNTAIN NORTH CAROL //VA WE NOW HAVE THE FOLLOWING ITEMS IN STOCK Du Pont Paint—Duco—Porch and Deck Enamel Screen Enamel—Supremis Floor Varnish—All Purpose Varnish—Navalite Spar—lnsta Seal No. 1 and No. 2 Floor Finisher—lnsta—Sol floor cleaner (removes grease). BUILDING MATERIALS Cinder Block—Brixment—Cement—Aluminum Wall Ventilators. Carpenter tools (Stanley & Disston) No. 8 and No. 10 point Disston hand saws, Stanley Bench and jointer planes—Hand Drills—Bit Braces — Chisels—Files, flat and round—Key hole saws —Mitre squares—Screw Drivers—Floor Scrap ers—Chromlet Cabinet Hardware—Dull Brass Butt hinges—Push Pull rules—Emery Wheel Grinders. Ready made carpenter work benches. MISCELLANEOUS A fair supply of dressed framing and boards. Glass, Linseed Oil v Creosote, Brush Cleaner, Johnsons Glocote Wax, Old English No Rub Wax—Cascamite and Casco glue. Complete Floor sanding and polishing equipment for rent. Please do not blame us for not having coal— Blame John L. Lewis and the mine owners and the Federal Government. Black Mountain Lumber Co., Inc PHONE 3231 Mrs. Phillips Flies To Nashville o Mrs. L. E. Phillips, operator of the Monte Vista Hotel will fly to Nashville, Tennessee, today to spend Thanksgiving with her son in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Q. M. Kipp. From there she plans to fly to Lufkin, Texas, to spend Christmas with her other daughter, Mrs. Charles Carpenter. ATTEND GAME Paul Harris, Pugh Morgan, Bob Eckles, Carl Kerlee, and Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Eckles, attended the Carolina-Duke football game at Chapel Hill last week-end. They spent Friday pight in High Point, and returned to Black Mountain Saturday night. THE BAUCOMS HAVE GUESTS Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Baucom will have their daughter and son in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Bodkin, and sons Frankie and Tommy, of Greenville, N. C., as their guests on Thanksgiving clay. P. T. A. MEETING THURSDAY The regular meeting of the P. T. A.‘will be held at the elementary school building at 3:15 p. m., Thursday, December 12. MONTREAT GUESTS Miss Audra Frasher and Mary Beth Perry from Anderson college, Anderson, S. C., visited Nina Stauffer and Betty Ann Allen of Montreat last week-end. SEES CAROLINA-DUKE Woodrow Morgan, Black Moun tain High school line coach, was in Chapel Hill over the week-end to see the Carolina Tar Heels whip Duke for the conference lead. "With the Sick Miss Hazel Martin has returned recently from St. Joseph's hospi tal, where she underwent a minor operation. She has recovered but will be unable to attend school un til the biginning of the second semester in January'. Mrs. W. J. Kent is ill at her home on Ruby Ave., Kerlee sec tion, Black Mountain. Mrs. Kent has been confined to her bed since last Saturday. Mrs. W. B. Gragg has been moved from the Mission hospital to the Florence Nightingale nurs ing home in Asheville. She is progressing nicely. Betty Ann Martin has been ab sent from school for three weeks with chronic rheumatic fever. She is recuperating at her home. The children of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Moore, Lloyd and Charles, are recovering from the small pox. Mrs. W. H. Holman has return ed from the Aston Park hospital and is convalescing at her home. Mary Sue Mason is ill with the measles. MISS SIMMONS IN LYNCHBURG, VA. Miss Louise Simmons of New Bern Avenue is spending several days in Lynchburg, Va., with friends at Randolph-Macon, where she was registrar for a number of years before coming to Black Mountain. DOUGHERTYS AWAY Mr. and Mrs. James Dougherty and daughter Nancy, accompanied by Mr. C. C. Dougherty, left Wed nesday for Williamsburg, Ken tucky to spend Thanksgiving and a few days with relatives. They will return Sunday. JACKSONS RETURN Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Jackson have returned to Blue Ridge from Jackson, Tennessee. Mrs. Jackson and her daughters, Martha Lynn and Susan, visited Mrs. Jackson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Me Cutcheon. WILSONS IN CHARLOTTE Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilson and daughter, Nancy, are spending the Thanksgiving holiday and week-end in Charlotte as guests of L. M. Craig on Forest Drive and with the Blaine Kelleys on Hertford; Avenue. RETURN FROM TEXAS Mr: and Mrs. J. T. Simpson have returned from a two-weeks’ va cation at Anson, Texas, where they visited their son, and daugh ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sim pson. WORK PROGRESSING Work on Chapel, Me thodist church at Broadriver, is pro gressing nicely, according to latest reports. The foundation is almost finished. POTTERS EXPECT GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Clarke and son Billie of Fayetteville, N. C., are expected to spend Thanks giving with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Potter. VISITS HUSBAND AT HOSPITAL Mrs. Earl Adams, of Addison, Alabama, is visiting her hosband, Earl Adams, who is a patient at Oteen Annex Hospital. SPEND THANKSGIVING IN GREENSBORO Miss Helen Heatherly will spend Thanksgiving in Greensboro with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Heatherly. LOOK WHO’S HERE Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hall of Swannanoa are parents of a daughter born Sunday in Mission hospital. Ray’s Case Swannanoa, N. C. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT HALL SMITH—RAY BALLARD —We Specialize In— * Fried Chicken * Country Fried Steak * Roast Pork Our Motto —“Quick Service” Meat Cooked on a Hot Grill- We Appreciate Your Patronage Open 5:00 A. M. to 12:00 Midnight Phone 3676 uliavk nuuniAin ARTS CLUB Weaving “Go to the .ant, thou sluggard” was King Solomon’s advice. But men of energy and foresight have gone to other insects and animals for suggestions and for help in their extremity or need. The paper wasps were the first paper-manu facturers and the mud-dauber was the original pottery-maker. One of the earliest needs of the savage was cord for his bow, net, or sling, so making cord was one of the first arts of the women—it was usually her work. Some have suggested that the spider weaving its silken threads, or the birds in terlacing grass and twigs into nests, inspired early man and gave him a model for weaving. When an unusually hot season lowered the level of Lake Zurich in Switzerland, in 1853, in the mud were found fragments of black or jirown linen, with a variety of designs and techniques, examples of weaving dating from the new stone age, about 4000 years be fore. The Director of the king’s flax was a most important official in the administration of the Phar aohs. The Egyptian looms were very primitive, but the weavers made a very fine fabric—the best linen of ancient times. Wonder fully preserved Egyptian linens may be seen in the different mus eums of art Egyptian sections, especially in mummy cases. Ancient peoples skillfully ap plied the laws of physics and chemistry. They discovered methods of bleaching linen, tan ning leather, the chemical secret of fusing sand into glass, and many other secrets for art pur poses. Thebes, Egypt, was the center of'trade in linens as they had a secret for bleaching the material. This trade was with all the Med iterranean countries. This myster ious “secret” was dried and pow dered camel’s dung—a “potent, magic powder” made by the priests in the Temple of Ammon-Ra. We now call the “salts,” “ammonia,” for the god Ammon-Ra, as this was the salts in the magic powder! with which the linens were treated before being spread out in the sun! In the Coventry sections of Eng land and of Ireland, even today this old out-door method of bleach ing is adhered to with pride. Bark from trees, fibers from plants (especially the milkweed), feathers from birds, gold and sil ver, silk from insects, wool and hair from animals, were used for weaving. We moderns have added metals from the earth, and syn thetic materials—fiber glass, shin ing cellophane, dull acetate. For the earliest spinning, a bunch of fibers was held under the left arm. Later, a stick called a distaff, was used for the fibers to be wound on. The word “spin ster” was given the.woman who spun, she worked on a single thread! For weaving, the separate threads are interlaced and uni fied. The word wife is related to weaver! the duty of the wife being to unify the separate members of the family into one harmonious whole. Those who are familiar with the Odyssey, or The Wanderings of Ulysses, can recall how Pene lope, wife of Ulysses, waited faithfully for him after the Tro jan War. When suitors would press their attentions upon her, she would tell them that they would have to wait for an answer until she might finish the weaving that she had begun on her loom. So faithful and so patient was she that every night she unraveled the work of that day! You recall the happy ending of this famous “loom story”—Ulysses did return. We call treasures of the past heirlooms, showing the great value placed upon the arts of the loom. Last week we spoke of Peruvian textiles, as the finest examples of North Carolina State of Varied Resources O North Carolina is a state of varied resources, which affect the everyday life and well-being of most of the people. No single re source is a separate entity in the economic structure of the state, because the development and use of one inevitably affects the others. This is particularly true of the forest resource, which has a significant influence upon agri culture, industry, employment, fin ance, transportation, public water supplies, and electric power pro duction. The forest resource should be recognized as an integral part of ancient textiles, come from Peru, where they produce practically every kind of weave and textile decorations that we produce at this late date. They possessed the knowledge of certain principles that we have not discovered. Their yarns are considered per fect in strength and fitness, and in evenness of size. In 2,000 years, by threatening to behead any one who disclosed the secret of the origin of silk, the Chinese were able to “control the market,” for they alone knew about the silk worm. There are many interesting legends of how the knowledge gradually “leaked out.” One is that missionaries con cealed silkworm eggs in the hol low of their staffs. It seems to he authentic, though, that Queen Elizabeth was the first person in England to wear silk hose. If the thousands of mulberry trees that James I imported in order to establish the silk culture in Eng land, one was planted by Shake speare in Stratford, and it is claim ed that the great actor, Garrick, W'as given a chair made from that very tree! In the 15 century in Venice, Florence, and Genoa, the greatest artists created designs for silk, damask, and velvet. Velvet (French, velours) is a woven silk fabric having a short nap of erect loops, either cut or uncut. Designs were formed by leaving uncut areas against the cut ones. People of long, long ago, upon returning from travels in Asia, told of wool growing upon trees in fleeces more beautiful than those of sheep. This was the cotton plant, called “vegetable lamb.” We know of the progress in weaving cotton after the “spin ning jenny” w'as invented. Har greaves named it for his wife. Poor illiterate weaver that he was, an accident resulted in the dis covery. Jenny’s w'heel overturned one day, and Hargreaves noticed that it kept on spinning. The thought occurred to him. “Why can’t a number of spindles be made to stand upright and be spun all at once?” He made a successful machine. For awhile the device was kept as a family secret. Cotton is simple and un assuming compared to the fleecy softness of wool or the lustrous brilliance of silk, yet it has been so much sought after for the brilliant dyes it will hold. Chintz is a Sanskrit word meaning bright or potted. Indian cretonne was originally from Creton, a village of Normandy. Synthetic dyes have been known for less than a century. The anci ents used rich ccilors obtained from plant, animal, and mineral sources: Cochineal from the dried bodies of red female insects, a garlic-ordered, thick, white liquid form the mixture a seasnail off the coast of Lyre, and so on— Lydia was a seller of “purple” in Tyre. Linen treated with the mur ex dye cost S6OO a pound! Only the rich could afford to wear it, hence the terms, “born to the purple,” and “royal purple.” This wonderful substance was coaxed drop by drop from the two tiny sacs of the murex. When spread upon a cloth in the sun and air, it turned green, then blue, then purple. When the cloth was washed with soap (“set” with the alkali) it became a fast “cardinal red.” How the German obtained the infant “aniline dyeing methods, so crippling England’s and America’s textile industry during World War I, and for awhile afterwards, is an interesting story. “Necessity (being) the mother of invention,” we now make hundreds of distinct coal tar dyes, “fast colors.” Syn thetic coloring materials are high ly specialized. Textile harmony exists as truly as color harmony. Silk mellows light and gives softness, luster, luxuriance. Velvet adds warmth and richness, and gives off soft, rich colors. Say You Saw It In The NEWS the whole social and economic structure of the state. Because it contributes so vitally to the wel fare of the people and industry of North Carolina, it is well that our citizentry is awaking to the need for a more conservative and lar reaching plan of forest use. At the present rate of cutting the en tire forest land area will on the average be cut over once every 40 years. Young second growth is constantly adding to the supply of merchantable timber, but because of some prevailing methods of cut ting. and inadequate fire control, the forest is being reduced in quantity, quality, and effective usefulness. To remedy this situa tion, sustained-yield forest man agement should be practiced on a large proportion of the forest land. The following summary of factual data emphasizes the im portance of the forest resource. Firests occupy over 18 million acres, 59 per cent of the total area of the state. One half of this forest land is in farms and in 1937 this farm forest yielded 20 different forest products with a value of $24,000,- 000. accounting for about 7 per cent of the value of all farm pro duction and equaling four-fifths of the value of the com crop. Forests help to protect the watersheds of over 100 hydroelec tric developments and many muni cipal water-supply systems. Nearly 3,000 industrial plants depend directly upon the forest for raw material. The wood-products industries rank next to textiles as a source of employment in manufacturing. In 1938 woods and mill employ ment in the primary forest-pro ducts industries amounted to 59,- 00?) man-years, and the strictly commercial forest-industrial work was enough to have kept 33,000 employees occupied full time. In 1938 the lumber cut was 1.4 billion board feet, placing North Carolina tourth among the states in lumber production. Average an nual production for the past 35 years has been 1.2 billion feet. Four pulp and paper companies operate in North Carolina. In 1938, 406,000 cords of pulpwood were used. Total plant capacity in 1941 was 1, 055 tons of pulp in 24 hours. About 5 3-4 million cords of fuel wood was used from our forests in 1938. The Division of Forestry and Parks offers to forest land owners in North Carolina technical forest ry assistance, through its Man agement Foresters, District For esters, and Assistnat District For esters These Foresters are qualified to give land owners and industry assistance in keeping their lands productvie. Good cutting practices will produce high quality timber in abundance, and the land will al ways have crops of trees coming on. Such practices are often re ferred to as sustained-yield man agement, and must be carried on to remedy the over-all forest sit uation as it now exists. Advice and help have been given 1 on 671 000 acres of forest land in the State since the inauguration of this work by the Division of Forestry and Parks. The above land acreage represents 302 co operators, some of whom have been visited several times since com pleting the initial work. The tracts range from fifty acres up to sev eral thousand acres in extent. The present authorized strength of the Division of Forestry and Parks is only 21 technical forest ers, who handle both the forest fire control and the forest man agement advice program on the Savings Accounts.. ARE THE BEST PROTECTION AGAINST A RAINY DAY Qfc/' Savings are the backbone of our nation. The success of any business depends upon its spend" ing less than its income. —And that’s a good policy for an indi' idunl to follow, too. Begin today to set aside a lht e each pay day—then wateh it grow. You can open a savings account for as as one dollar. THE NORTHWESTERN BANK Member F. D. I. C. BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C. 17 million acres 0 f n - « forest land in the St a t„ ° n ' Vf ‘ Consequently. the forest management advi^ 18 { ° sistance far exceed the h-*" 4 35 current resources aiv ‘sion’ Forst Tree Nursed Two forest tree nur<! operated by the Division near Hendersonville v ne h other near Clayton N r C ’’ ‘H< ston County. The ’ maximum output of the* tota ies is estimated to be n . UrSef ly 15 million trees. LobloT?* longleaf pine, white pi'* ** poplar, black locust. red *s* and black walnut are the - Cedai species raised. With th„ t Pr !'" ifia far available, the peak nlUj’ reocM. Four „ iilio „ k« the maximum produced to H a ' ° ne L e l r \l hedemand has g lj exceeded the suppiy, the * e * being sold by the State J " S nominal cost. Tei With approximately one millifl acres of forest land needing p , ° “jf it Z take 6, years to do this pl anti job. running our nurseries at t capacity of 15 million trees 2 r*o ly ’ a ". d for abo 1,000 seedlings per acre. Needle, to say if North Carolina i s hold only its present Industrie idle land which is only suitabl to grow trees must be put irt production, and capacity of 0 » nurseries increased. In addition to trees raised b this Division, the Tennessee Valle Authority has distributed 13 839 000 forest tree seedlings in j mountain counties. A stronger es fort should be made by the Stat to complete the reforestation jo and to meet the demand for plant ing stock on our forest area. B. W. C. TO HAVE COVERED DISH SUPPER The Business Women’s Circle o the Baptist Church will have covered dish supper at 6:30 p. m Tuesday, December 3. at the horn of Mrs. J. L. Potter. Mrs. W. B. Kyles, Mrs. Georg Storpe, and Mrs. A. C. Lovelac will each give a chapter of th study book course, which the; expect to finish at this meeting All members are urged to attend TO VISIT PARENTS Miss Doris Whitesides will spem Thanksgiving vacation with he parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. White sides, of Canton, N. C. HOLD BANQUET Students and faculty of Mon treat college will hold a Thanks giving banquet at Assembly Ira Thursday at 6 p. m. Fair Prices We reset precious gems in more modern settings, and do every type of watch repair. Our workmanship is dependable, and our prices are as reasonable as the best materials permit. C. I. McDOUGLE Watchmaker—Jeweler Jumper Bldg.—Black Mountain “Yo.ur watch repaired the factory way.”
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