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Devoted To The Upbuilding of Our Community Vol. 1> No. 52. FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF NEWS Black Mountain News Celebrates First Birthday One Year Agu Today News Started Publication 0 We are celebrating the first anniversary of the News today with Vol. 1., No. 52. While we look back over the past twelve months, and review the earlier numbers of the News, we too, wondered if it would ever become a newspaper. While many people of our com munity thought that Black Moun tain was not large enough to sup port a newspaper, we had the faith that it was, and it has proven to be so. You merchants through out the whole valley have support ed the News to the fullest extent and we want you to know that it has been appreciated by us. We have striven to keep our newspaper clean and above re proach, and hope that all can see the characteristics we have tried to set forth to make our news paper a faithful servant to all. And to the many subscribers, and correspondents we want to pive you thanks for your coopera tion in sending us your news items from the various communities surrounding our city. You too have helped us make a success. To the many boys and gilds in the service that have been re ceiving the News, we wish you the best of good luck and hope you will continue to feel like the News is a letter from home as many of you have already written us to that effect. We will state in conclusion that we believe that in the near future, that we can have one of the best weekly newspapers in the State but we can not do this alone it takes your help, and with your help and our faith in God we are is ever your faithful servants. Jim Cornelius, Editor and John Ealy, Associate Editor. Mrs. Garrison Died At Her Home Saturday Following Long Illness o Mrs. Rebecca Eliza Garrison, 86, died at her home near Black Mountain, Saturday afternoon fol lowing a long illness. Funeral services were held at Willey Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock, the Rev. E. 0. Vess officiated. Burial fol lowed in the Garrison cemetery at the church. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Daisy Murphy, Mrs. Harriet Kirstein of Black Mountain, Star Route, Mrs. Lydia Richards of Tampa, Fla., and Mrs. Katie Kir stein of Fairview; two sons, Geo. A. and E. H. Garrison. Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly Ends Most Successful Season More Than Thirty Thousand In Meetings At Ridgecrest This Summer o The Ridge crest Baptist Assem bly ends a most successful season Friday at noon. Acting manager T N. Barnette, Nashville, Tenn., states that more than thirty thou sand people have been in the meet big there this summer. Twenty three conferences have been held since June fifth when the 1946 season opened with the Baptist Student Retreat attended by 2,- 900 college and university stu dent from twenty southern states a nd the District of Columbia. Following this meeting came in succession the Young Woman’s Auxiliary Camp, North Carolina ! raining IJmion Assembly, two " eeks rsf South-wide Sunday School Conferences, three weeks "°r’ llow e Missions, Raptist "f Southwide Training Union brotherhood conference, Editorial Woman’s Missionary Un ion, Business Women’s Missionary toe BLACK MOUNTAIN news “KEY CITY IN THE LAND OF THE SKY” Mr. B. N. Allen Died Tuesday o Funeral Service To Be Held Friday At First Baptist Church Black Mtn. o Bascombe N. Allen, age 58 who died from injuries at an Asheville hospital Tuesday at 8:00 P.M. Funeral service will be held at 2:00 P.M. Friday, at the First Baptist Church in Black Mountain, N. C. The Rev. H. W. Baucom and the Rev. W. H. Styles will offici ate. Burial will he in the Mountain View Memorial Park. Pallbears will be J. H. Stepp, R. R. Viverette, Theodore Dreier, H. W. Sanders, Clyde Watkins and Lewis Harris. Survived by his wife Mrs. Fan nie Riddle Allen, four foster child ren Mrs. Chas. Stepp and Mrs. Frank Harris of Black Mountain, Lt. Albert J. Lambert, Greenville, S. C., and Mrs. Martin Wifholm, Milton, Mass. One brother Lawton Allen, of Black Mountain. Three sisters Mrs. Mary Carroll and Mrs. Joe Carver of Black Mountain and Mrs. Lillie Fprtner, Misaville, N. C. Junior Order Black Mountain Council No. 145 have charge of rites at grave. The body will re main at the Harrison Funeral Home until 1:00 P.M. when it will he taken to the church and lie in state from 1:00 to 2:00 P.M. Mr. Allen was post master at Blue Ridge during the summer months and had been employed by the Blue Ridge Association for the past eighteen summers and was employed by Black Mountain Col lege during the winter months for the past thirteen winters. Schools Have Largest Enrollment This Year o The largest enrollment ever had in the history of the Black Moun tain, schools, registered this sea son. There has been 901 children registered in the elementary school and 200 in the High school. All teaching places have been filled, and if the average attend ance holds up good for two weeks there is a chance ot the State Board of Education alloting an ex tra teacher in both the elementary and high school. Bus transportation seems to be the critical holdback at present. Three out of every five busses are practically worn out, and some of these busses have to make four round trips per day. The county board and local (Continued on page twelve) I -onference, Foreign Missions Con i ference. Young Men’s Missionary Conference. The concluding week of the season was featured by the Ridgecreset Bible Conference, Southwide Church Music Empha sis, Relief and Annuity Board, Christian Education Conference and Association of Southern Bap tist Teachers of Bible and Religi ous Education, Church Library School. Religious Radio Confer ence and a meeting of the South ern Baptist Historical Society. Friday night the Church Music will reader a samed concert The Messiah by Handel, with Dr. Warren Angel’. Head of the De nartment of Music. Oklahoma Pant.ist Un'versitv, Shawnee, Oklahoma directing. The public is invited. Admission i s without charge. During the summer about five hundred people have appeared on the season’s program. Dr. T. L. Holcomb, Executive Secretary of the Southern Baptist Sunday 1 (Continued on page twelve) Correction, Messiah tonight Progress Being Made In I Community Playground The weekly meeting of commit tees for the colored playground was held at the Baptist church plans were made for the opening of a play school in the Masonic Hall, Monday September 2nd at 9:00 A.M. With Mrs Arcie Brown as supervisor. Mrs. Sharp will be there to assist. Money has been donated to pay the supervisor for the first month. Other donations are: Two swings and two rockinghorses blankets. Mrs. Estella Harper finance. Vistor Prof, and Mrs. J. T. Shappe of Swannanoa, N. C. Mary Hooper, Reporter. Dr. M’Pheeters Heard In Talk At Junaluska Detroit Minister Will Speak Each Evening Through Friday o Lake Junaluska—The Rev. Dr. C. A. McPheeters, pastor of Metro politan Methodist church in De troit, a congregation of 6,000 members, believed to be the larg est in the Methodist connection, in the first of a series of addresses from the Lake Junaluska platform stressed the primary mission of the church to be remembrance of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, so long as any man is in sin, Christ is being crucified again, he de clared, “and every instance of of hatred, killings, lynchings, race tensions, drunkenness and other forms of sin ought to remind Christian people of the slow and merciless torture of Jesus on the Cross.” Dr. McPheeters will be heard each evening through Friday and Saturday morning, as the featured speaker o f the conference o f Young Ministers and Chaplains, Aug. 25-3 J, which will climax the 1946 season. Other speakers pro grammed for Tuesday as platform speakers and discussion leaders are: Dr. J. Henry Chitwood of Birmingham,. Ala.; Rear Adm W. N. Thomas, chief of chaplains, United States navy; and Rev. Waights Henry, Jr., of Atlanta. Words of the Apostle Paul, “I am determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified,” formed the background for Dr. McPheeters evening message in which he pointed to the example of Paul as a preacher of the first century as a pattern for 20th century ministers. “Our world,” said the speaker, does not like Jesus Christ any more than Paul’s world did. We have practically ruled him out of public education and to a large extent out of our church-controlled schools. We’ve ruled him out of business and we’ve largely put him out of our modern American homes where children are growing up in semi-pagan environment; we’ve put Jesus out of our social life and even in some of our churches he "would not be at home. “The ministry of the church is to preach Christ and him crucified. Our message is Christ, no matter what else we talk about. We must step into the chaos of a day like this, and the Christian church, with its great organization and message, must say with Paul in our day what he did in his. Say what you will about what we need it is the business of the Christian church to preach and live the gospel centered in Jesus Christ and him crucified. “Paul reincarnated the nanr* of Christ in bis '’cart and life. He knew the secret of the crucifixion and sensed the meaning of the Cross as an event in eternity. That is the secret we Christians ought to know. Wherever Paul saw evil in any form he thought of the crucifixion of Jesus. We must do that too.” Thursday, August 29,1946,, Black Mountain, N. C. FSr 4*l f -Jragl 98k' mim ■ JhBShB Jiik PERRY MORGAN Leaves post as Business Manager of Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly, Takes lesser duties on account of health. Black Mountain Arts Club Highlights Os The Black Mountain Arts And Hobby Exhibition o “The world of Art is an ideal world, The world I love, and that I fain would live in: So speak to me of artists and of art.” Longfellow. “Art is life”. Art is not just fancy work as many think, a fad for the wealthy. We are pictures and paintings the work of “just geniuses” who can do nothing else Dr. Ross Crane, Extension Direc tor of the Art Institute of Chicago in one of his lectures, said that, “whenever men express them selves they are artists.” This is the broad basic idea of the Arts Club. The Black Mountain Arts Club Exhibit has included every form of self-expression. The Club de sires to inspire and to foster the “art instinct” the “soul-expres sion”, in each person in our com munity. “Out of the life of the peo ple only can true art spring.” The club wishes to have more art in struction in our public schools, from kindergarten to high school, because art is life. We want to learn to express ourselves, to speak with our fingers, hands, or tongues, and so to make our lives serve beautiful ends. We can be true artists in our love for and appreciation of the beautiful, even though we may never be able to draw, paint, or work in any other form of art. “Never lose an op portunity to see anything beau tiful.” Beauty is God’s handwrit (Continued on page twelve) ' - ; - I, . —l-—« j BILL HILL SAYS A feller slightly under . . . ast Carl Moore tuther day, where the other side of the street wuz. and Carl sez —why right over there and the feller sez —can’t be, I wuz jist over there, and a feller by the name us Harrison said, thet this wuz the other side. SOSSAMON - TYSON Black Mountain, N. C. Livesay—McCool o Elsie Ruth Livesay and James Clarence McCool were married Saturday August 17 in the Pres byterian chapel at Spartanburg, S. C. Miss Livesay is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Livesay of Black Mountain, but formerly of Spartanburg. The bride is a grad uate of Spartanburg High school and of Maryville college of Tenn. The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Ann Hodson of this city. He graduated from Black Mountain High school and attended Blan ton’s Business College at Asheville and at present is in charge of painting at the Morgan Manu facturing Co. The couple will make their home in Black Mountain. Rev. Summey Resigns Oteen Church Pastorate Rev. Mack Summey pastor of the Oteen Baptist Church has re signed his pastorate in order to continue his studies at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Sem inary. He will leave North Caro lina on September 2nd. Rev Sum mey attended the Seminary at New Orleans for two years pre vious to his service at the Oteen Church. He left school to come to North Carolina on account of his wife’s illness. He was pastor at Oteen Church for about a year and a half. Now that Mra. £|ummey has been released from the Western North Carolina Sanitorium, Rev. Summey is returning to school and his wife will live with Mr. R. G. Summey. Rev. Summey was student pas tor of the First Baptist Church at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, when he received his call to the Oteen Baptist Church. COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND o The Children Have Studied Mushrooms, Drew Pictures And Made Flowers o In. the window of the Black Mountain Drug Co., may be seen the different kinds of mushrooms that the children have studied. Thev drew pictures on some and made flowers of others. They are learning to observe nature very carefully to know and appreciate the lowly “weed”, to develop their artistic talents by using the gifts that God has so freely scattered throughout the wonderlands and to realize that these gifts make one rich indeed by filling their minds with beautiful thoughts and ideas, and thus broadening and deepening their lives. They have been told about the “shooting stars,” of what they are made, whence they come, and why they can see the streak of light, told in illustrative language that a child can understand. On any clear dark night go out with your child to watch for these meteors, small bits of “cosmic dust” that enter the earth’s at mosphere. and on account of fric tion with the atmosphere are burned un and vanish in a flash children may see, for after mid vileged to see many more than the of light. We older people are pri night we are in the Dart of the earth that meets the meteor “head on”. Those before midnight have *n catch up with us. It a little late to eniov the “ T> ' lr °eid shower” which seems to fro.m the constellation Perseus, in the northeast near midnight, about the middle of August when the earth enters a “"’ err-,” these bodies. The nie teorfj aro moving through space in parallel paths, but seem, to con verge in the distance like the par allel lines of a railroad track. Monthly Meeting Os Legion Held Monday Night At The City Hall Stamp 49 To Be Good For Month o Sugar Stamp No. 49 Will Not Expire August 31 o Washington, Aug. 27 —OPA an nounced today that spare ration stamp 49 will be good for five pounds of sugar through Sept. 30, instead of expiring Aug. 31 as or iginally scheduled. The extension was granted, O. P. A. said, because of local short ages which have prevented house wives in some areas from using the stamp. The agency said spare stamp 51 will be good for five pounds of sugar during the Octo ber-December quarter. The sugar stamp announcements came as the administration’s eco nomic high command sought to reconcile differences between O. P. A. and the agriculture depart ment on the level of ceilings to be reestablished on meat animals. The agency announced that a processor ceiling on all canned to matoes have been increased 14 cents a dozen on number 2 cans, effective immediately. This will eventually boost consumer prices in grocery stores two cents a can in addition to a 2-cent in crease previously granted. In a third move the OPA re moved price ceilings from baby foods and junior foods, including pre-cooked dry cereals. Other “showers” will come later The nature Study article will men tion them in time for observation. “Night unto night showeth knowledge.” Ps. 19:2. “Love the beautiful, Seek out the true, Wish for the good, And the best do.” Mendelssohn. Anderson Property Burns To Ground o A small house owned by Dr. R. C. Anderson of Montreat and oc cupied by Mrs. Belle Quinn and Mrs. Cody caught fire last Friday and was completely destroyed. The cause of the fire was the explosion of an oil stove. The entire furnishings were destroyed. The estimated loss was approx imately SIOOO.OO according to the report from the city fire depart ment. Preheat Stuffing Try heating the stuffing in a pan before it is put into a chicken, duck or turkey. You’ll find it cuts the roasting time. N. C, Press Association To Meet In Asheville September 12—14 The North Carolina Press asso ciation ivill meet in Asheville I September 12-14 for its 74th an nual convention, with Ernest E. Norris, president of the Southern Railway system, as the principal speaker for the opening session. | The convention, which will bring representatives o f newspapers from all over the state to Ashe ville, will have its headquarters for the three-day meeting in the Langren hotel. Trips to Brevard j fer an inspection of the Ecusta Paoer corporation plant and to Wavnesville, for a barbecue souare dance, and musical pro gram have been scheduled to ac rompanv the business sessions. Banquet Is Scheduled Registration will begin on the afternoon of Sepember 12, and the first meeting will be in the rimm of a banouet in the Langren hotel that night. After the address by Mr. Norris, cqminittees will be appointed and other business tran sacted. The program for September 13- Member North Carolina Press Association 5 Cents Per Copy. Way caster McAfee Post 129, Douglas Jones Com mander, Presiding 0 Waycaster McAfee Post 129 met Monday night in the regular monthly meeting at the city hall. Douglas Jones Commander pre siding. It was decided at this “ meeting to start a membership drive for new members. There will be a smoker and ref. at a special meeting to be held Monday night September 16 at 8:00 P.M. in the Junior Order Hall to launch the membership campaign with the outstanding legioners, outlining the work being done by the American Legion for the benefit of veterans of World War I and World War 11. W. H. Reinhart, chairman of the membership drive invites all ex service men of World War l and World War II to be present at this meeting. This is your organization for the aid and benefit of all service men of Black Mountain township. Join your local post of Ameri can Legion and help your town and community and give to your ex-service men a real live organ ization that we can be proud of in Black Mountain. The campaign will close Nov. 11, Armistice Day night for all Leg ionairs and ladies of the Auxiliary and friends of the ex-service men. i Rev. Hardin To Preach In Texas o Rev. H. Grady Hardin wi 11 preach in the First Methodist Church in Huston Texas at youth rally on September sth and 6th. He will preach at the Huston Texas church at the evening ser vice on September Bth. The regular pastor of the First Methodist Church in Huston is Dr. Paul Quillian who spent va cation in Black Mountain this summer. Rev. Hardin is leaving Black Mountain on Tuesday and v/ill be back in time to preach at his reg ular service on September 15. Miss Rudisill To Be Married o Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Rudisill of Black Mountain have an nounced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mary Frances Rudisill to Kermit D. Allison, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Allison of Black Mountain. The wedding will take place September 7 at the Holy Com - munion Lutheran church in Dallas. includes a breakfast meeting of executive ‘committees and presi dents of affiliated groups, group meetings of associated dailies and non-dailies, a trip to Biltmore | House for ladies at the meet, and the trip to Brevard and Wayncs ville in the afternoon. Miss Cooke On Program Miss Addie Mae Cooke of Mur phy, president of the W. N. C. | Weekly Press association, and Leslie Thompson of Wbitovillc, will preside jointly at the non dailies proun meeting, and W. Randall Harris of Asheville, chair man of the Associated Dailies, wi’l be in charge of the group meeting of the representatives of the dailv papers. The final session of the con vention will be held on Saturday morning, with reports being hoe - l from various committees and an address by Harvey Laffoon of Elkin, president of the assoein'ion. Election of officers will conclude - the program.