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Pause in Prayer for "World Day of Prayer" • FRIDAY NOON • 12:05 -- Methodist Church YOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER Weather High Low Prec. Fob. 3_45_28 .18 Feb. 4.. _45_37 Feb. 5...56_27 Feb. 6_43_25 Feb. 7_ . 52_27 Feb. 8_55_28 Feb. 9_52...43 .08 .07 VOL. 14. f! THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1959, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 8 PAGES TODAY NO. 24. REFLECTIONS Gordon Greenwood Thanks to the thoughtful man or Lan who mailed me “The Green f dipped from the “Saturday Ining Post” with these com fils: Victorious Candidate! Keep your 0n the ground.” The cartoon lived Papa Greenwood taking a |ty spill as he tried to show how |] he could ski. ' hope my feet are close enough Itho ground so that further in ctions will be necessary. I!ut _ never can tell. fhe opening of the State General _embiy is something everyone Juki see at least once. The trip down to Raleigh on piinv was without incident, but Liter almost struck before I was |Ied down for the night. The . for speaker was still going on i fast clip and the Venters-Hew forces were out in full force | in full cry when Senator Em Ross of McDowell county, a rming gentleman, I discovered | our ride to the Capitol City, I arrived in the lobby of the el Sir Walter at 4:30 p.m. je made it in all right but be could make my way to the ; to register, so many had shak [ my hand that I became sep |ted from my suitcase and Ihes which I had been carrying my arm. As a result, I ar I in my room but nothing else And then the search was on. e was a happy ending when clothes were discovered three brs below hanging quietly in | closet of a man who could not worn them in his “biggest” I, and the suitcase appeared out Bowhere. ^slators Friendly he veteran members of the Leg Iture recognize a greenhorn and |out of their way to help. I h’t feel entirely alone. Four pie asked about Bill Hickey several about Roy Taylor, aid Pinch, and Laurence Brown, felt right at home, too, talk [to L. Penn Hunter, representa | from McDowell county, former Mountain florist, and Rep. Palmer, Jr., from Cleveland —Turn to Page 8 - Biltmore Here Friday wen basketball teams are meet two opponents this week, play Knka last Tuesday night and scheduled to meet Biltmore on Friday night. The girls’ will be the opener at 7:30. boys’ contest will follow. -en High teams took a double from Brevard there Tues night, Feb. 3, with the girls 45-24 and the boys taking 1-69 victory. McAfee scored 21 points the Owen girls and Pris David scored 11 for Brevard. Sparks and Tony Gard scored 28 and 26 points re to spearhead the Owen Girls Game (45) F—Reed 2, Shurlin 2, McAfee 21, Shook 2, 9; G—Jolly, Goode, Livens Hall, White, Cooper, Norman. ARD (24) F—Gillespie 4, 4, Suttles, Peterson 3, Tins Anderson 2, David 11; G— [esdale, McCrary, Lambert, ides, Turner, taiftime: 25-14, Owen. :■» ix>ys (.ame (81)-—Bennett 7, Sparks ■ Gardner 26; Bridges 8, Horne H KEVARD (69) — McGaha 9, 9 t, Ewbanks, Dehone 2, T. Tuck I G. Tucker 6, Winchester 14, I ikworth, Rogers 6, Bradburn 26, «i mt 6. halftime: 27-23, Owen. liddle East Talks iened by WSCS J* interested women are invited Participate in a mission study ^ l‘Ued, “Middle East Pil ^f8re, to be conducted under *■ 1 ■ S. auspices at the Black h -aii: Methodist church by Miss B'" Hall, retired missionary who ted in India. Dur sessions are slated m the m the Seawright Memorial m the educational building ' hurch. These began last *;!iy night. • • " meetings in the series are (®“u “d trom 7 to 9 p.m., tonight I : '■'day), next Monday night, and Thursday, Feto. 19. Hall is a resident of the Howell home, Spears ave ’heville. She has been teach P • other churches in this area, chairmen for the local Stanley Garland and •' orge E. Moray, said she is , ' rtPared to bring us a most • r‘g and instructing study.” Legislators In State Capitol Prior to the swearing-in cere mony at the State Capitol in Ra leigh last week, these two legisla tors visited the office of J. Wallace Winbome of Marion, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Left to right, L. Penn Hunter, McDowell representative, former Black Mountain florist; Mr. Winbome, and Gordon H. Green wood, Black Mountain, a member of the Buncombe county delegation. Buncombe county fared exceed ingly well when committee assign ments were announced last Friday morning by the new speaker of the house, Addison Hewlett of Wilm ington. Greenwood, the freshman mem ber of the Buncombe county trio, was assigned to the appropriations committee, conservation and de velopment, education, employment security, higher education, local government, mental institutions, penal institutions, public welfare, state government, teachers and state employment retirement, trus tees of the university, veterans’ legislation committees. J. Y. Jordan was named to banks and banking, constitutional amend ments, corporations, courts and judicial districts, elections and election laws, finance, institutions for the deaf, insurance, judiciary No. 2 committees. I. C. Crawford is on these com mittees: Congressional districts, corporations, finance, journal, judi ciary No. 2, Penal institutions, propositions and grievances teach ers’ and state employment retire ment. L. Penn Hunter of McDowell is to serve on appropriations, coun ties, cities and towns, health, in surance, mental institutions, penal institutions, public welfare, roads and highway safety, state govern ment, senatorial districts, trustees of the university, wildlife re sources committees. EASTER MARCH 29 HERALDS 4-DAY SCHOOL VACATION Counting the days until Spring? So are local school children— who expect to hav£> their annual spring vacation during Easter week-end. Easter this year falls on Mar. 29, and school classes will be dismissed for Good Friday, through Easter Monday, March .‘10. That is, they will unless exceptionally bad weather should intervene between now and March 27. Any more days lost probably would result in cancellation of some of this scheduled holiday period. So far, only three days have been lost from the school curriculum in this area thus far in in the school year. School Bands to Entertain (or Swan. PTA Feb. 19 Swan nano a PTA will meet Thurs day evening', Feb. 19, at 7:30 in the school auditorium. Bill Wright, president, will preside. Devotions will be led by Rev. G. B. Talbot, pastor of the Presbyter ian church, Swannanoa. A concert by the combined bands of Swannanoa and Black Mountain Elementary schools will be given under direction of Woodfin C. Rhodes. All parents and friends are extended a cordial invitation to attend. Woman's Club’s Favorite Dishes at Wed. Lunch Members of the Woman’s club are cooking up plans for their own annual “Gourmet Luncheon’’ for members next Wednesday, Feb. 18, Mrs. Douglas Jones, program chair man for the event, reminds. They’ll bring a dish containing the results of a favorite recipe— to be served to fellow members— plus a written version of the re cipes for exchange purposes, and 25 cents to help defray other ex penses of the affair. Miss Christine Herring, head of the school lunch room program in Buncombe county, will speak on “Culinary Art.” Mrs. R. W. Sea wright is in charge of decorations. Recipes turned in at the meet ing will be used in a featuie in a future edition of the Black Moun tain News. BETHEL CHURCH IS HOST FOR 'DAY OF PRAYER'' SERVICE Five churches will jointly spon- , sor “World Day of Prayer*’ ser- . vices Friday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. , at Bethel Methodist church. An invitation to attend is extended > to all in the Swannanoa valley. ■ Sponsoring churches for the pro- : gram are Bee Tree Christian, i Swannanoa, Riceville and Warren i Wilson Presbyterian and Bethel ] Methodist. 98 Attend Meet Of Presbyterian Women Here District 2 of the Women of the Church of Asheville Presbytery met Feb. 5 at the Black Mountain Presbyterian church with a record number of 98 in attendance. A buffet supper was followed by the meeting conducted by Mrs. A. F. Tyson, Jr. Mrs. Allen Perley, 111, welcomed guests. Mrs. W. H. Goodman re viewed the Bible study on Revela tions. The main program was a question-and-answer period con ducted by Mrs. Tyson with Mrs. R. E. McClure, synodical president, and Mrs. L. H. McKay, Presbyter ial president. Other Presbyterial officers participating were Mrs. H. N. Clark of Mills river; Mrs. F. A. Plummer, Asheville; Mrs. Lacy Thornberg, Sylva; Mrs. C. M. For tune, Asheville; Mrs. Joe Reese, Montreat; Mrs. P. N. Gresham, Asheville; Mrs. Eugene Lovin, Swannanoa; and Mrs. M. L. Wil liams, Black Mountain. Dr. R. E. McClure, executive secretary of Ashevlile Presbytery, gave a brief report on church ex tension. Mrs. W. J. Gammon of Montreat, was elected chairman of District 2 succeeding Mrs. Tyson, Friendship Presbyterian church was an nounced as the place of meeting for 1960. Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Astley of Swannanoa, a son, Feb. 4, in Memorial Mission hospital. REPORTERS NEEDED IN RIDGECREST, OTEEN AND AT BEE TREE Like to be a reporter for the Black Mountain News? Three openings currently need to be filled for weekly corre spondence on activities in Ridge crest, Bee Tree, Oteen communi ties. 1’ersons interested in tak ing up such reporting duties may write the Black Mountain News or phone NO 9-4101. Kiivanis Gifts Benefit Youth The Black Mountain-Swannanoa Kiwanis club met at the Monte Vista hotel last Thursday. Don J. Charles of the X Cell-o Corpora tion, and Marcus Begley were in ducted as new members. John Bennett, program chair man, speaking on “Civic Clubs’ Responsibility to a Community,’’ said, “a strong civic club will help the community to grow in every direction.” It was announced that the club had donated enough paint to paint the entire enterior of the Moun tain orphanage, and that $24 had been donated by the club toward 8th grade vocational classes’ work at the Elementary school. The classes were begun this year as a "Finer Carolina” project sponsor ed by the B&PW club. Forty pounds of candy were given to the children at the orphanage. B. C. Wilson, of the State Em ployment office, Asheville, was a guest. Lenten Season Begins Tomorrow At 'Day of Prayer' Tomorrow (Friday) ushers in the Lenten calendar in Black Moun tain, where a “World Day of Pray er’* will be held at 12:05 at the Methodist church, and the season will be climaxed here on Good Fri day, March 27, with union church services at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist church. Tomorrow’s will be the 73rd ob servance of the “World Day of Prayer” which began in 1887. An nually on the first Friday in Lent, thousands of Christians around the world will unite in a service of prayer and thanksgiving. Services begin on the Tonga Islands, west of the International Date line, where Queen Salote leads her sub jects in prayer. Throughout the day, observances are held in 144 countries, ending with the setting sun on St. Lawrence Island, Alas ka. The purpose of this day is to unite all Christians in a bond of prayer, to pray for all the peoples of the world, and to make an offer ing for Christian missions at home and abroad. In the United States, the day is sponsored by the general depart ment of United Church Women of the National Council of the Churchy es of Christ. The local Council of Church Women has assumed re sponsibility for promotion of “World Day of Prayer” here. Joining with Christians in 139 countries, people of all races, creeds and beliefs will pause on that day for united, fervent pray ers for world peace and brother hood to prevail. Following declarations by Pres ident Eisenhower and Governor Hodges, Black Mountain’s Mayor Richard B. Stone has requested all persons to join in this world-wide observance. As in former years, the mei'chants are requested to close their businesses and all join in prayer and worship from 12:05 to 12:35 in the State Street Meth odist church. —Turn to Page 8 LENTEN SERVICES OPEN ON ASH WEDNESDAY AT ST. JAMES' CHURCH Lenfien services at St. James Episcopal church were announced this week by the rector, Rev. Ken neth Bonald. Ash ^Wednesday activities were slated To open with Holy Commun ion at*-10:30 a.m., evening prayer and Lenten address, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. On Wednesday, Feb. 18, Holy Communion will be offered at 10 a.m.; evening prayer, litany and sermon at 7:30 p.m. For the lat ter, the guest speaker will be Rev. I’. W. Lambert, O. G. S., rector and headmaster of Appalachian school, Penland. The public is in vited to attend. On Shrove Tuesday this week, a pancake supper was held. AIDS PHARMACEUTICAL FOUNDATION W. A. Ward of Swannanoa, is a director of the N. C. Pharmaceuti cal Research foundation, which re cently reported that the founda tion has raised over a quarter of a million dollars for the aid of the School of Pharmacy of the Uni versity of North Carolina. This was done over a 12-year period. New Residents and Old Invited To Community Party Febiuary 25 With Womans Club Hostess Group A growing Black Mountain pop ulation which has brought people here from all walks of life, occu pations and interests, and from nearly every state in the country —has prompted the Woman's club to initiate during coming weeks a move to bring together such new comers—as well as previous resi dents who are also interested in widening and broadening theiw ac quaintance in the community. For this purpose, members of the community, “especially those over 40, including men as well as women,” are invited to attend an informal party at 3 p.m. on Wed nesday, Feb. 25, at the Methodist church. The sponsors hope the movement will grow into a com munity-wide effort “to help new comers realize that Black Moun tain is a friendly place in which to live and enable all of us to know the number of very interest ing people who live here.” Chairman of the hostess group is Mrs. Edna Johnson, who with her committee, will welcome guests. The local project is in line with a growing movement in various communities which attract senior residents. Many towns regularly welcome newcomers and help them in making interesting contacts and finding new friendships and com mon interests to be shared in their new home community. The pro posed movement is not envisioned as “the organization of another club here where we already have numerous and varied club groups in action and whose memberships are always open to newcomers,” but as “more of a clearinghouse for making new acquaintances, a means for finding out who our neighbors are and for discovering congenial common hobbies and in terests which we may explore to gether further if we desire.” In recent years, the club pointed out, the community has grown so fast that it has become increas ingly “difficult to meet one an other.” The party has been sched uled in order to provide such an opportunity, and “does not mean another club; it will have no regu lar meeting dates; no president; no formal organization — but will constitute just a chance for us to mix and know one another.” It was pointed out that new resi dents have behind them an accum ulation of varied backgrounds, wide geographical, cultural, voca tional and recreational experience. Other community members, it was pointed out, can be greatly enriched by making such new contacts, the while the newcomers themselves are given an excellent opportunity to “become, quickly and happily, a real asset to our growing com munity.” Those attending the party on the 25th are invited to come pre pared to share in expression of ideas which they may have of the form which future activities of this local “senior citizens” group might take, as well as to present their own ideas as to what such a program might mean in the pres ent and future of Black Mountain. Brevard President Here at Methodist Church Sunday Dr. Emmett K. McLarty, Jr., of Rrevarel college, will be visiting' minister speaking at next Sunday’s service at the Black Mountain Methodist church. He is one of two visiting ministers conducting services at the church here during several weeks’ absence of Rev. John L. McWhorter. Rev. Mr. McWhorter and his wife and children left last Thursday for Greenbelt, Md., where he will be preaching for the next two weeks at the National Capitol Area Meth odist Evangelistic mission. Conducting services here last Sunday was Rev. Robert G. Tuttle, district superintendent of the Ashe ville Methodist district. Montreal Soon Slated to Become Junior College Montreat college’s plans for the future include conversion into a two-year junior college, instead of the present four-year curriculum. This announcement made by Rev. Grier Davis in addressing a facul ty session, followed a recent meet ing of the board of trustees of the college, of which Rev. John E. Richards, of the First Presbyter ian church, Macon, Ga., is presi dent. No details of plans for the change-over were immediately available. But the change “will be gradual and the present senior class will be graduated on the pres ent four-year degree plan,” it was stated. Leaves for a Publicity Chairman's Notebook ANSWERS "WHO? WHEN? WHAT? WHY? WHERE? HOW?" TELL THE STORY by Dorothy Mattison (Now and again a local pub licity chairman of some organ ization, newly charged with re sponsibility for news coverage of club or other group, visits the Black Mountain News to voice puzzlement about how to go about these duties. In the hope that the following sug guestions may be of help to such chairmen, this feature is presented by the News.) What is news? How do you gather new's? How do you report news? How do you get newspap ers to publish the news you are interested in seeing in print? Every organization—every pub licity committee (all of them eager lo have the reading public be come acquainted with the activ ities of their particular groups, and ill of them eager to secure for Iheir own organizations the benefit if increased reputation and mem Dership which follow in the wake if the proper kind of publicity)—, ire constantly puzzling over those questions. Most newspapers do place high /alue on local news. Yet so great ire the demands upon newspaper space today, so significant and impelling are happenings all over the world, so highly geared is the production of a modern newspap er, that the local news you may be interested in getting into print often has small chance of seeing the light of day unless you are able to recognize news when you do come upon it, and unless, hav ing recognized a piece of informa tion as news, you are able to pass it along to your newspaper at the proper time and in the proper form to insure its publication. Monday or early Tuesday morn ing comprise the “deadline”, or last opportunity for getting news into the current edition of the Black Mountain News each week. The chances are 10 to one that lots of news is constantly happen ing in your own club or organiza tion. The purpose of this column is present for your guidance the rules wheih govern the recogni tion, assembly and communication of news in order that your own organization may take full advant age of its activities for publicity purposes. What's News? Let us go back a moment to that original question: “What is news?” For our purposes, a simple def inition of the word may be ob tained by imagining we are look ing at a compass. On top it has the letter N, then comes E, then across the compass is W, and be low comes S. Which spells NEWS —a word we have come to apply to information that comes from every direction—from everywhere. But news isn’t news until you tell someone about it, or write about it to someone else. Remember the honest servants of the old couplet? Let’s para phrase it a bit in order to give you an easy-to-remember rhyme that will tell you the things you need to find out about an event in order to report it to your news paper: I have six honest serving men, They taught me all I knew. Their names are WHAT and WHY and WHEN, And HOW and WHERE and WHO. Whatever the event you wish to report to your newspaper, those six points must be covered before your report is complete. More specifically, you can put these honest serving men to work help ing you report your news if, in reporting news of an event, you will remember to state: 1. WHAT the event is (a lecture, a business meeting, a party, a dra matic program, or what?) . 2. WHO held it? (This may mean reporting only the name of the club or other group). But if the event was conducted by an individ ual, get his or her full name, in cluding the first name, middle in itial and last name, and make sure that all are spelled correctly. Ac curacy is the watchword of any good newspaper, and a newspaper soon learns which organizations may be depended upon to submit accurate reports and, on the other hand, which organizations submit TIPS ON HOW TO KEEP YOUR CLUB ACTIVITIES IN THE NEWS material that must be checked carefully on every point. It will, of course, be apparent that if space happens to be at a premium when publicity material is submit ted, the space available will very likely be accorded to the organiza tion whose news can most easily be adapted for publication with out lengthy checking of material. 3. WHEN did the event happen? If the event is to take place in the future, indicate the day of the month, day of the week and hour of the day. If the event has already happened, communi cate immediately with your news paper. Do not expect that a paper will print your news after it has grown stale and old. 4. WHY was the event held? (That is, what was the particular purpose of the meeting: To hear an address, to plan some special event lor the future, to honor some member, etc?) 5. WHERE did the event happen —or where will it happen? (If at a private home, include the full name and address of the person at whose home it was held.) 6. HOW was the event held? (That is, if it was a Christmas party, what was it about the party that made it “Christmassy” — Christmas program or decorations or what?) (Continued next week) WINTER LIBRARY HOURS Readers may visit the Black Mountain library on the second floor of City hall to borrow books on the following days of the week: Mondays: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays: 3 to 6 p.m. Fridays: 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Saturdays: 3 to 6 p.m. Books may be returned at any time by placing them in the return book-box .installed this season on the first floor at City ' hall. i Lions Candidate J. U. Crumm of Cullovvhee, is a candidate for district gov ernor of Lions of 31-A for 1959-60. lie is a native of Tennessee and holds academic degrees from East Tennessee State college and George Peabody College for Teachers. He engaged in public school work in Tennessee for a number of years before teaching at Milligan college near Johnson City, Tenn. In 1945 he came to Western Carolina col lege at Cullowhee to teach mathe matics. Among his duties here at Western Carolina is chairmanship of athletics. He is immediate past president of the North State Inter Collegiate Athletic conference; a charter member of the Cullowhee Lions club and served the club in an official capacity since its or ganization. He also has been an official of the district for the past three years. Mr. Crumm is a stew ard of Cullowhee Methodist church. Lion F. E. Shull, present district governor, will address this week’s regular meeting of the Black Moun tain Lions club at 6:30 p.m. today (Thursday) at the Monte Vista hotel. He will talk on “Lionism.” HEART FUND DRIVE WILL BE HELD HERE Mrs. B. C. Burnette, who will serve as local chairman of the com ing campaign of the North Caro lina Heart Fund association, an nounces that a residential and bus iness drive will be conducted here. “Heart. Sunday” will be observed Feb. 22. NLRB GRANTS WITHDRAWAL OF EX-CELLO ELECTION A communication from the Wash ington office of the National La bor Relations board to the Black Mountain division of the Ex-Cell O Corporation last week stated that it had “granted with prejudice” the petition of United Auto, Air craft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, AF of L-CIO, to withdraw a previous petition for a representation election at the Ex-Cell-0 plant here. Before the petition for withdrawal was en tered with the NLRB, the election had been scheduled for Jan. 30. Committee Plans To be Heard at C. of C. Heeling William Hickey, newly-elected president, will preside at a lunch eon round table discussion meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday noon».,atthe Monte Vista hotel. Recently®^l{ppointed chair men of the C. of C.’s various com mittees for the year will outline their plans and general discussion will follow. Operation Youth Meets Tonight Important decisions for the pro posed youth center, for which grad ing of the site has just been com pleted, will be made at a meeting of “Operation Youth,” tonight (Thursday) at City hall at 7:30, Carl Bowness, chairman, announc es. “Building plans should go for ward without delay, now that the grounds for the permanent build ing have been cleared and put into shape,” he said. The proposed center is under “Finer Carolina” auspices. PVT. J. G. WARREN ENDS ARMOR COURSE FORT KNOX, KY.—Army Pvt. Jasper G. Warren, son of Mrs. Beu lah Warren, Rt. 1, Black Moun tain, completed eight weeks of ad vanced individual armor training Jan. 31 at Fort Knox, Ky. During this phase of training, Warren qualified as a driver of the Army’s medium tank, passed proficiency tests with the .30 and .50 caliber machine guns and qual ified as a gunner with the 90 mil limeter tank gun. The 18-year-old soldier complet ed basic training at Fort Jackson, S. C. He attended Stephens Lee High school, Asheville. ROTARIANS HEAR TALK BY DR. BELL The topic, “China, Russia — and Communism,” was discussed by Dr. L. Nelson Bell at last Monday’s meeting of the Rotary club at the Monte Vista hotel. Dr. Bell spent a period of service in the Chinese mission field. A meeting of Rotary’s board of directors is scheduled tomorrow (Friday) night, and a regular luncheon session of the club at 12:15 Monday, Feb. 16. GARDEN CLUB LOOKS FORWARD TO SPRING Members of the Black Mountain Garden club will meet Friday eve ning, Feb. 13, at 7:30 at the Public library in City hall. The topic of discussion will be “New Things in the Catalogues.” MASONS TO MEET FEB. 13 Black Mountain Masonic Lodge No. 063, will hold an emergent com munication for rehearsal Friday, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. All members urged to attend. C. L. Gwaltney, master, announced. TEEN-AGERS’ DANCE MONDAY Chaperones for the weekly Teen agers party at the Community clubhouse next Monday night, Feb. 16, will be furnished by the Tea and Topic club. The program is scheduled from 7:00 to 10 p.m. with Ossie Osteen as director.
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