[ Devoted To
b the Upbuilding
| o f Qur Community
pol. 1. No. 49
, Anderson Continues As Head
Os College And Assembly
JION'TREAT: Stockholders of the
Mountain Retreat association op
erators of Montreat assembly of
■ )le p r esbyterian church, U. S.,
J nd Montreat college, met here
■Thursday to hear reports on the
■raft year and name members of
■he board of directors for the com-
J ljr year. Dr. J. Calvin Wells,
■hairman, presided.
■ Dr. R- C. Anderson was reelect
■ , president and treasurer of the
■Association. Other officers named
■ y the board are: Dr. R. F. Camp-
Jell of Asheville, vice president;
■George Wright of Asheville, sec
jetary; and Greer Johnson of
Jlontreat, assistant to the presi-
J en t and recorder.
| Named To Board
I Named to the board by the
Jtockholders were: Dr. Anderson,
J)r. Campbell, W. H. Belk of Char-
Jotte, Dr. L. Nelson Bell of Mon-
Jreat; Dr. T. S. Spence of Mon-
Jreat,' Dr. C. Darby Fulton of
■Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Homer Mc-
Millan of Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. John
J. Cunningham of Davidson; Carl
■j). Hudson of Raleigh; Htnry
Jvilson of Morganton and Mr.
■Wright.
■ The same program committee
■was reelected. It consists of Dr.
■Anderson, Miss Janie McGaughey
Jf Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. H. Kerr Tay
■lor of Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Ed-
Jvard G. Grant of Richmond, Va.;
■the Rev. S. B. Lapsley of Atlanta,
■Ga.; Dr. Wade H Boggs of Louis-
Jille, Ky.; Dr. J. T. Patton, Jr., of
■Atlanta, Ga; and Dr. H. H.
■Thompson of Jackson, Miss.
I| Dr. J. Gary McAllister, who
■has been platform manager, re-
I signed, and the program com
■mittee was asked to make nomina-
Itions for his successor.
To Strengthen Programs
j The hoard also adopted a res
■ olution requesting that the sum
■ rrter program be strengthened.
Annual reports were made by
■ Dr. Anderson in which he stated
■ that the financial condition of the
■ association is sound. He also re
■ ported on fires which destroyed
■ the Alba hotel and another build
■ ing on the grounds during the
■ past year. He told of progress on
■ the building to replace the Alba
I and approximately half of the
I $250,000 needed to complete the
I building is reported to be in hand.
Montreat college trustees whose
■ terms expired in 1946 were re
lelected. They are: Mrs. R. C. An-
K derson, Dr. Anderson, Dr. Camp-
I bell, Mr. Wright, and Ralph Rob-
I inson.
[Report On Activities
At The Playground
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The children are busy making
I “Nature Scrap Books”, pressing
I «nd naming the flowers,
j This week they studied the
I Milkweeds.
The poem learned was, “All
I Things Beautiful”, by Cecil
I Frances Alexander.
We wish to express our thanks
Ito Mesdames Sam Cooley and
IL. E. Phillips for their contribu-
Mid-Summer Session Os Executive
Committee Meets At Montreat
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montreat, n. c., Aug.—The
nid-summer session of the Execu
tive Committee of Foreign Mis
sions of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church in the
hnited States opened here Tues
day afternoon to continue through
M ednesday afternoon, with Dr.
W. L. Caldwell, Nashville, Tenn.,
chairman, presiding. Routine bus
iness is scheduled with the pos
sible appointment of missionary
applicants.
A conference with the Foreign
mission chairman in synods and
Presbyteries will meet here in
connection with the Foreign Mis
sion conference. This synod and
Presbytery meeting will start
" ednesday night in the Foreign
Mission building and will continue
•is sessions through Thursday
Afternoon, meeting after that with
*he Foreign Mission conference.
n octor Caldwell will preside at
th" meeting.
A class for young people inter
™e BLACK MOUNTAIN news
Presbyterians
Do Not Like
Ga. Lynchings
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The women of Southern Presby
terian churches in Georgia who
are here attending the annual Wo
man’s Auxiliary Training school
of general assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in the United
States, have entered their protest
to the racial tradgedy which re
cently took place in Georgia. The
letter to Governor Ellis Arnall
with its numerous signatures, left
here Wednesday. It is as follows:
“Dear Governor Arnall:
We, whose names are signed
below, are gathered here as repre
sentatives of the women of our
Southern Presbyterian church in
Georgia, for our annual confer
ence.
We are deeply distressed over
the recent racial tradgedy occur
ing in our beloved state.
We wish to assure you individu
ally of our prayerful support in
your efforts as our chief execu
tive to see that speedy justice is
done for all concerned, so that a
righteous peace may prevail. The
letter bore 42 signatures.
“Dark Os The Moon” To
Be Shown In Asheville
August 29 and 30th
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Play By Howard Richardson
And William Burney
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“Dark Os The Moon” a play by
Howard Richardson and William
Bumey has been obtained by the
Asheville Community Theatre,
Inc., with Elwin Dearborn, of
New York City, directing.
“Dark Os The Moon” is a fan
tastic story of a witch boy who—
falls in love with a mountain girl
and is woven around one of the
versions of “Barbara Allen”. It
was produced by the Schuberts in
New York and was one of the hits
of the last season. This is the first
time that it has been released for
production by an amateur com
pany.
Mr. Richardson who is now in
New York, was instrumental in
getting the play released for pro
duction here and he indicated that
the Schuberts are tremendously
interested in the production in the
mountains where the scene of the
play is laid.
Tickets for the production may
be purchased locally at the office
of Mr. Wm. Holcombe through
Mrs. Cunningham anytime before
August 19th at the Black Moun
tain City Hall.
Baby Born To Rev.
And Mrs. Hardin
A daughter weight 7 pounds 9
ounces was born to Rev. and Mrs.
Grady Hardin, at the Biltmore
Hospital yesterday afternoon
August 7th. All are doing fine
including the father.
ested in foreign missions with a
Possibility of preparing for full
time service on the foreign fields,
will begin Friday morning, to con
tinue through the conference
week. This group will be divided
into two classes, one. to be taught
by the Rev. Richard T. Gillespie,
Nashville, candidate secretary on
the foreign mission committee
staff, and the other to be taught
hv Mrs. H. Kerr Taylor, Nashville,
assistant educational secretary on
the same staff. A third class will
v, held daily, beginning Friday,
for adults who will study the
foreign mission study book on
India, and with Mrs. H. D. Ha
beryan, Shreveport, La., member
of the executive committee, as
teacher.
The conference will hear Dr. C.
Darby Fulton, Nashville, execu
tive secretary of foreign missions,
the opening night, when he will
speak on "The New Call From The
(Continued an page eight)
The Resort Town
That War Built
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The August issue of Holiday
Magazine contains an article
written by Clarence Woodbury
that describes a new summer re
sort town in the Smoky Moun
tains. This excellent new maga
zine which is something different
than the publications that have
appeared up to this time is one
which will aquaint the reader
with details of the interesting
and instructive places which
otherwise he might not know ex
isted. The information contained
in this magazine is of such a na
ture that it would he of value to
the school child. Those studying
geography and related subjects
would obtain much valuable in
formation from it’s pages.
The TV A leased the town of
Fontana Village to a private cor
poration which is developing it
as a resort for visitors to the
Great Smoky Mountains. This
town, located near the TVA’s
Fontana Dam was built during the
war.
The country around Fontana is
one of great beauty and has not
been ruined by the modem civili
zation. Just the natural beauty
of the Smoky Mountains.
Holiday Magazine says in part:
M. Sherrill and other Govern
ment Services officials are anxi
ous to have it known that Font
ana Village is not entirely ready
for vacationists this summer.
Much remains to be done, and a
year or more will probably elapse
before the place can realize its
full potentialities. But right now
it has many attractions to offer.
The 457 cottages and trailer
houses which are being remodeled
are very compactly designed and
pleasantly decorated. They are
equipped with shower baths, hot
and cold running water, and elec
tric heaters for use in chilly
weather. Two people can rent one
of these cottages for as little as
five dollars a day, or thirty dol
lars a week, and dormitories will
provide rooms for single persons
at even less. At the cafeteria,
meals planned by a ditician are
equally inexpensive. In addition,
a snack bar is to be opened where
you can buy beer, between-meal
titbits and box lunches to carry
on day-long outings.
And what outings you can have!
The mountain trails which mean
der upward from the village are
ideal for hiking and horseback
riding, and by late July rowboats
probably will be for hire on mag
nificent Fontana Lake. The lake
itself and three crystal streams —
Twenty-Mile Creek, Eagle Creek
and Hazel Creek—are well stocked
with trout, bass and pike.
When the shooting season
comes around, the region will be a
hunters’ paradise. Last autumn
one party took fifteen black bear
out of the mountains. Wild boar,
which were introduced to the
in the 1890’s by an Eng
lish sportsman, are even more
plentiful and the wooded hills
abound in deer, wild turkey, coon,
possum and other game.
We expect to read many more
interesting articles from ‘the
pages of this new and excellent
magazine in the future issues.
Gold was first discovered in
\laska by a Russian soldier in
1850.
In colonial days, the American
Indians dried and smoked oysters.
HOME FROM THE
W. N. C. SANATORIUM
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Mrs. Mack M. Summey went
home Wednesday of last week
after two and one half years of
treatment in the W. N. C. Sana
torium. Before she came to the
Sanatorium she was a student
with her husband the Rev. Mack
M. Summey at the New Orleans
Baptist Theological Seminary in
New Orleans, La.
Mrs. Summey left the sana
torium to go to Oteen where her
husband is pastor. They have one
daughter Margaret Ruth.
TY SON
Black Mountain. N. C.
“KEY CITY IN THE LAND OF THE SKY”
Black Mountain, N. C.. Thursday August 8,1946
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Dr. J. Wash Watts
Revival Begins At
Oteen Baptist
Revival services at the Oteen
Bantist Church will begin August
11th with Dr. J. Wash Watts
professor of Old Testament In
terpretation and Hebrew, of the
New Orleans Baptist Seminary,
doing the preaching.
Dr. Watts has been with the
New Orleans Seminary for fif
teen years. Prior to his work in
New Orleans he was a missionary
to Jews in Palestine.
Dr. Watts stands high in the
minds of Southern Baptist and is
considered one of the best Old
Testament scholars in the south.
The members of the Oteen
church extend to everyone a cor
dial invitation to hear this great
preacher. Sendees will begin at
eight o’clock in the evening. Music
will be led by the pastor the Rev.
Mack M. Summey and Mrs. T.
V. Carter will be the pianist.
HEAR ! !
Dr. Harold Tribble, on the
Baptist Hour. Station WW
NC, 8:30 A. M., Sunday,
August 11, 18 and 25.
Miss Biddle
Begins Duties
In Red Cross
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Miss Anna Mae Biddle o f
Greeneville, Tenn., assumed her
duties as home service secretary
for the Buncombe county chapter
of the American Red Cross last
week, replacing Miss Henrietta
Wilkins.
Miss Biddle last served as home
services secretary in Fayetteville.
She has been in Red Cross work
for about four years, having been
here as a case worker and was at
one time activities secretary of the
YWCA here.
Before going to Fayetteville,
Miss Biddle was doing graduate
work in social sendee at Tulane
university in New Orleans.
The home services unit of the
Buncombe county chapter renders
many and varied services to vet
erans and to those still in service
and to their families.
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BILL HILL SAYS
Some folks is fussin cuz they
can’t get a new house. There are
others ’at wad take any kind «f •
Bhack.
F. M. Future
Was Discussed
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Leonard L. Asch, president of
FM station WBCA, Schenectady,
New York, predicted that in two
years FM will completely replace
standard radio except for rural
areas which will be served by
highpowered standard transmit
ters. He admitted that in New
York City, with its high-powered
stations, FM “can’t do much” for
the present. But, he added, it will
give the country beyond the Hud
son River good reception for the
first time.
Within si x months, h e con
tinued, 25 per cent of the people
outside the New York area will
use FM; in a year it will be “fifty
fifty”, in a year and a half, 75
per cent will have FM, and in two
years you can kiss standard radio
good by.
Frank W. Mansfield, director
of sales research of Sylvania
Electric Products Inc., while con
ceding that a majority of the
public will have FM in two or
three years, said that set pro
duction has been held up to a
“marked degree” by the necessity
of moving to a higher frequency
as required by the Federal Com
munications Commission. He ad
ded that FM had been set back
six years by the war.
He said that 36 per cent of the
users of FM complain of static,
•but added that interference is
“much less” than on standard
broadcasting. However, he went
on, FM sets do not stay in tune
as well as regular receivers with
out an automatic frequency con
trol attachment which adds to the
cost.
From The Sylvania News
Plans Discussed For
The Colored Playground
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The colored officers of the Mills
Chapel play ground met at the
play ground on Church Street,
(White), to discuss plans for the
improvement of their play ground.
Mrs. Sharp director of the com
mittee outlined a number of things
which she had already purchased
for the play ground such as:
Swings, seesaws, horseshoes, tar
polin, etc., she is very interested
in helping us and we feel that she
is best suited for this purpose.
•Since meeting her we have learned
to love her and find she is a real
Christian woman.
The statement, “Whether we
sleep or wake, God watches over
us”, by Mrs. Sharp impressed me
greatly and gave further proof
of the fact that she is one of God’s
chosen ones.
Mrs. Sharp in giving a design
for fruitful living related her
habit of repeating psalms and
poems while lying in bed in the
deep hours of the night.
This work being done by Mrs.
Sharp is highly appreciated. Long
may she live to help others live.
TRAFFIC HAZARDS
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Auto drivers everywhere are
concerned over the great increase
in traffic accidents. With possibly
20 per cent less cars on the streets
than there were in 1941, it is esti
mated that the actual milage
travel is up about 4 per cent.
This means that people are driv
ing farther and in many cases
faster than they were five years
ago. The risk is in direct propor
tion to the miles traveled.
Colored Citizens Exceed
Their Quota In The
Recreation Campaign
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The colored citizens in their
campaign among their own people
exceeded their quota of $500.00 by
over one hundred and thirty dol
lars. With the campaign not yet
completed.
This is a challenge to the white
citizens to contribute liberally
and make possible the success of
the recreation program which will
be of such value to the commun
ity.
A complete report will be given
in a future issue.
SEND IN YOUR NEWS
Baptist Os North Carolina
Respond To Call For Relief
New Radio Tubes
Are Available
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After a delay of several weeks
the OPA released the pricing
order effective May 2nd covering
new maximum dealer cost prices
for radio tubes. Distributor cost
prices were previously increased
in March by 20 per cent. This new
maximum resale schedule provid
ed for approximately 80 per cent
of the increase to be absorbed by
the retailer and the balance of 20
per cent to be absorbed by the
distributor.
During the interim period dis
tributors were unable to deliver
tubes to retailers. As a result,
substantial quantities were ac
cumulated and shipped to retail
ers in May.
Radio Sets
Radio set manufacturers are
experiencing numerous production
difficulties, principally due to
shortages of several Icomponent
narts. While set production in
number of units approaches the
prewar rate, yet current produc
tion is falling far short of earlier
predictions and capacity to pro
duce. The shortage of new sets
coupled with the increased inter
est of the listening public in re
cent events of national impoi-tance
has contributed to maintaining
the high level demand for radio
service and replacement tubes.
Tube Deliveries
Like the set manufacturers, the
tube manufacturers have been ex
periencing production difficulties
due to shortages of materials.
Schedules have been rearranged
where possible to permit use of
available materials, thus throwing
inventories out of balance. As a
consequence, shortages of certain
types will necessarily • continue
just that much longer.
With certain exceptions, the
current shortage in replacement
tubes is not nearly as acute as a
few months ago. However, in view
of the tube production problems
mentioned above, plus increased
demands from set manufacturers
further shortages may develop
over the next few months.
From The Sylvania News
Black Mountain
Singing Convention
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The Black Mountain Singing
Convention which meets every
second Sunday will meet Sunday,
August 11, 1946 at 2:00 P.M., at
Kerlee’s Baptist Church. Several
groups of outstanding singers are
expected to take part. Those ex
pected are the Marion Five from
Marion, the Missions Trio and
the Simmons Trio from Black
Mountain, the Swannanba Trio
and Swannanoa Quartet and the
Aiken from Swknnanoa.
All singers and the public are
invited. Roy Burgin will be in
charge.
“Night Must Fall” Being Presented
At Lake Summit Playhoiase
Josephine Sharkey, who has
spent the past 19 years acting
with the Carolina Playmakers at
the University of North Carolina,
will appear as a guest actress
in the role of Mrs. Bramson, the
fussy, old-fashioned woman, in the
Lake Summit Playhouse’s pro
duction of the Psychological mur
der-mystery, “Night Must Fall,”
now running through Saturday at
8:30.
“Night Must Fall,” which the
New York Sun called “a play with
its full share of shivers—shrewd
ly lightened by comedy—” is di
rected by Robert Dale Martin,
director of the Lake Summit
Playhouse which is located eight
miles south of Hendersonville
just off highway 25.
Leading roles are taken by Vin
cent De Baun of White Plains, N.
Y., as Dan, the young bellhop of
totally disarming good bumor;
Kay Alien of ; Seftrsdal«, N. Y., as
Member
North Carolina
Press Association
5 Cents Per Copy.
The 2,600 churches of the Bap
tist State Convention of North
Carolina are responding to the
worldwide call for relief to the
famine stricken countries of the
world. Every church is working;
toward a goal of twenty per cent
of denominational contributions
during 1946. The total goal sot
the Baptist Churches of North
Carolina is $395,500. The South
ern Baptist Convention which
embraces eighteen states and the
District of Columbia has adopted
a total goal of $3,500,000 to be
reached by September, 30, 1946.
The relief movement began
during the meeting of the South
ern Baptist Convention in Miami,
Fla. The eight thousand messen
gers were stirred by eyewitness
reports of mass starvation and
dislocation in Europe and Asia.
The appeal for help was met
with enthusiasm and the move
ment for relief and rehabilitation
began with a unanimous vote of
the Convention. An initial offer
ing was made in Miami which
amounted to $17,000.
Messengers returning to their
churches with the appeal met
quick responses and sacrificial
giving began immediately. City;
churches with large member!,hips
and rupal churches with smaller
memberships alike began the ris
ing tide of response. Stories are
coming in of churches interrupt
ing building programs and in
dividuals cancelling vacations so
that the money can be used in
meeting the needs of the 800,000,-
000 people who starve in Europe
and Asia.
The Foreign Mission Boar d of
the Southern Baptist Convention
is using its worldwide facilities
for distribution so that the relief
funds will have the most effective
results.
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Announcement From
The Art Club
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Tickets for “Dark of The Moon”
at the Asheville auditorium will
be on sale beginning August 24th
to the public at $2.00, $1.50 and
SI.OO.
Please pay for
with Mr. Wm. Holcomb at Black
Mountain City Hall, by August
13th, and indicate whether
August 29th or 30th is desired.
Plans for exhibit week of
August 22nd to Sept. 2nd will in
clude several programs. Those
having paintings, handicraft or
photographs to exhibit please
contact Dr. Chas. Brabbee Ex
hibit Chairman, by August 10th.
CARD OF THANKS
o
We wish to express our heart
■ felt thanks and appreciation for
the beautiful floral offerings and
for the kindness and sympathy
shown us in the recent berryement
and the loss of our wife and
mother. —Winston Care on and
children.
Olivia, Mrs. Bitamscm’s strange
niece; John Morgan of Durham as
the pompous Hubert Laurie; Vir
ginia Stevens of Hammond, Ittd.,
as the impudent middle-aged
cook; Alice Flory of Columbia,
S. C., as the kindly Nurse Libby;
and Madge Martin of Orlando,
Fla., as the pretty, stupid maid.
Next week the Lake Summit
Playhouse will present Joseph
Kesselring’s rioutously hilarious
“Arsenic and Old Lace,” which
Cue Magazine called “a master
piece—it will scare the whiskers
off you and then blast you with
Ipu-Thter.” “Arsenic and Old Lace”
will run Tuesday, August 13th,
through Saturday at 8:30 with a
3:15 matinee on Wednesday.
Advance ticket sales for Lake
Su m m it Playhouse productions
are held at the Bowen Hotel in
Hendersonville, o r reservations
for seats can be made by writing
Box 66, Flat Rock; N. C.