DRIVE
■ Jo lkiht field
■goal $3,500.00
H $3,000.00
■ j 2.500.00
I $2,000.00
!)■ $1,500.00
■ $1,000.00
{S(Hi.OO I
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| is the list of those
haV( ' contributed toward the
drive to light the athle
. ■ These donors have signed
SH;, : k Mountain Hardware
Provost
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Hresbyterians
■c Clash With
Baptists Friday
he hottest contests of
expected to take plane
orro'.v) at the gram
in 1040. collide headon
HH) V... and his ndliek
- terians for the leader-
JBK " 1 ii iivh Softball leaem .
;.it won three victories and
'■ H; ■ '.-I for the top spot.
Sen defeated.
one league game
cast two years, and
BBHt ' h\terians, the Hap
. to prove that the
HRh w : !,y Styles and his mates
a fluke and to extend their
streak to straights
the season.
Be. •
■akey Gap Chapel
■e Observe 25th
■Anniversary
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I-ukcy Gap Chapel, an out-
h,. Black Mountain Pres-
church, will observe its
:tth anniversary this
: r Sunday, June 29. The
.people of the chapel Sun
school will present a pro-
which pictures children of
B' l!| lde. The Rev. Walter H.
■k* ■ will speak on “The Christ-
B Family.”
B parents who have had child
attending the chapel at any
i; uring the past twenty-five
are urged to attend. The
will begin at 3:00 p. m.
Bttends toy show
Albert Garland of Garland
111 an( i Auto store has returned
ij) ( harlotte where he attended
show of the Firestone Tire
Rubber company and bought
the coming season. The
was held at the district
Behouse in Charlotte.
■ •according to .Mr. Garland, toys
B 1 ' 1 more plentiful this year
B n at any time since the war,
B 11 * ,e cheaper, and made of
■«tal.
B ()V Ks office
■ 1 inney has moved his
r ' hiiok.ceeping office front R.
"fiis’ real estate office to
B'w'hvay. next door to Goff’s
B dl “ shop.
k W' N( ' K tonight
B lana Jackson and his or-
B esl,il "’ill play for a round
W' U at the clubhouse tonight
to midnight.
Jm '«u Saw It In The NEWS
™ E BLACK MOUNTAIN news
Vol. 2, No. 43.
Richard Albany
Will Offer
Art Classes
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Under sponsorship of the Black
Mountain Arts Club, classes in
painting and ceramics by Richard
Albany will open here July 7, con
tinuing throughout the season.
Blue Ridge Assembly has offered
the use of their kiln and kick
wheels for the ceramics classes.
Sketch classes will meet at Oak
Knoll studios, Black Mountain
Clubhouse, and other scenic points.
Clasess for both children and
adults, beginners and professional
artists will be held in all painting
media. Enrollment is limited so
that all students may have special
assistance and criticism.
Sponsored by the club as a
teacher of painting also is Miss
Sarah Kitchen while Miss Gene
vive Fisher is being sponsored as
a teacher of weaving.
Richard Albany entered Norton
School of Art at West Palm Beach,
Fla., at the age of 13 where he
studied sculpture, painting, and
drawing with Carl Link, J. Clinton
Shepherd, Eliot O’Hara and Frank
Edward Lloyd. His work has been
exhibited in a number of shows in
the Norton Gallery, at Delray
Beach, Miami, and Morrison Field
Air base. He won the youth-group
prize for sculptured head at Nor
ton Gallerp.
Mr. Albany has presented one
man watercolor shows in Black
Mountain, at Moore General hos
pital, Montreat college, and at
Oak Knoll Studios. He will enter
the Stella Elkins school of Fine
Art at Temple university for his
senior year this fall.
For enrollment phone Mrs. Ale
shire at Oak Knoll Studios.
Dr, R. L. Ownbey
Guest Speaker At
Lake Junaluska
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LAKE JUNALUSKA, N. C.—
The Rev. Dr. R. L. Ownbey, of
Black Mountain, N. C., guest
minister for the Lake Junaluska
Assembly, in a sermon given in
the outdoor auditorium deplored
the rising tide of secularism which
he said had invaded every phase
of modern civilization, even the
Ithurch, and had hampered the
work of that organization.
“Spiritual intelligence,” said
the speaker, “is the great lack of
modern civilization. The church’s
duty is to see that men and wo
men come to know the meaning
of life and its spiritual values as
taught by Jesus. There is no hope
! for world peace until that lack is
superseded by spiritual insight
and power.”
Dr. Ownbey based his remarks
on words of Jesus when he re
buked the leadership of the Phari
sees and Sadducees, saying “You
know how t 0 interpret the face of
the heavens but you cannot inter
pret the signs of the times.”
Scientific progress the minister
said, has outstripped ethics and
religious advance. “ The world
goes on wanting peace in its heart
but w e continue to play politics
and have not been able to find
any way to control the most dan
gerous force ever known the
atomic bomb. The church is set
in the world for the purpose or
redeeming people from secularism
and to emphasize the spiritual
more than material values, he
declared.
Charles Foley Manager
Os Ice Cream Shop
Charles Foley, who has just
completed his freshman year at
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, has arrived to as
sume active management of the
| Ice Cream Shop on Cherry street.
I A native of Charlotte, Mr. Foley
! during the past year was president
of the Y. M. C. A. at the Univer
! s j‘y, an honor which is rarely
| given first year students. He
served in the navy during World
War 11.
jf rs . Ann Hodson has return
ed from Spartanburg where she
visited her son.
L. Fortune Leading
Big Ten Hitters
Following is a list of the
leading hitters in the Church
Softball league as compiled by j
league president and official
scorer, Eugene Byrd. This in
cludes games through June 20.
L. Fortune, F. C. .750
Red Gardner, F. C. .700
C. Kerlee, Bap. .700
Pug Morgan, Bap. .582
Doyle Turner, Ridg. .545
Lee Marett, Pres. .500
Styles, Pres. .500
Massey, Hos. M. .461
Green, Pres. .444
Nanney, Bap. .444
Clyde Gray, Pres. .416
Logan Hos. M. .416
Air Force Vet
“Hits The Silk”
Here Sunday
Irvin Davis, believed to be the
only professional parachute jump- '
er in the country who walks with
a cane, will show the folks how
it’s done Sunday when he “hits
the silk” for the thrill seekers at
Nichols’ Flying Field in Black
Mountain. Weather permitting,
Davis will bail out at about 2500
feet above the airport between
3:00 and • 5:00 o’clock Sunday
afternoon.
Davis is probably the only man
to jump with a “lame leg.” The
leg was shattered in a jump last
year at Jacksonville but despite
having to wear a metal brace and
walk with the aid of a cane, Davis
has made many jumps since that
time.
Arrangements for the exhibition
are being worked out with W. C.
Nichols, owner and manager of
the local field. In addition to the
jump, planes will be available to
give rides to anyone who wishes
to see the surrounding country
side from the air.
The public has been invited by
Mr. Nichols to witness the exhibi
tion free of charge. A free will
collection will be taken for Davis,
an army veteran, who served dur
ing the war as a parachute rigger
on Guam.
Plan Celebration
For July 4 At
Recreation Park
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With prizes being offered for
the winners of all events, C. C.
Myers and Frank Myers, co-man
agers of the Black Mountain Rec
reation park, are preparing for a
capacity crowd on July 4. The park
will open at 8:00 a. m.
Contests will be conducted in
swimming- and diving with prizes
being awarded the winner of each.
In addition a first prize of 85.00
will be given to the person, either
man or woman, who catches the
largest fish in Lake Tomahawk
between July 1 and noon of the
fourth. There will be plenty of
space for picnics and the Myers
brothers are inviting the public
to come, bring- the famiy and
spend the entire day.
Beginning promptly at 8:30 p.
m. and lasting- until 12:30 a. nr.
Marett’s Mountaineers .will pro
vide the music for an old time
square dance which should prove
attractive to lovers of folk music
and mountain ballads.
Look Who’s Here!
Mr. and Mrs. James Brittain of
Raleigh are parents of a daugh
ter, Eleanor Leigh, born Sunday
at Mission hospital. Mr. Brittain
the son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Brittain of Black Mountain, is
connected with the Jefferson
Standard Life Insurance com
pany of Raleigh.
Free Swimming Lessons
Given At Park Pool
Edward Vernon, lifeguard at
the swimming pool at the Black
Mountain Recreation Park, gives
free swimming lessons daily
from 10:00 a. m. to 11:00 a. m.
except on Saturday and Sunday.
“YOUR VALLEY NEWSPAPER”
Thursday, June 26,1947., Black Mountain, N. C
Prof. Blomberg
Will Baffle
Lions Tonight
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Members of the Lions Club and
their wives have a rare treat in
store for them Thursday night
at their regular meeting- at Blue
Ridge. Besides the installation of
newly elected officers, the club
will hear and see °ne of the out
standing memory experts perform.
Sigmund Blomberg, who has
amazed Civic clubs throughout
the country with his prodigious
memory feats, will be on hand to !
entertain and mystify.
Professor Blomberg, whose col- I
umn, “Improve your Memory”’ has 1
appeared in many newspapers,
is now vacationing in Asheville
where he is completing his book
which is to be published this Fall.
His repertoire of memory feats
will include the memorization of
a magazine, pages of which are
distributed to members of the au
| dience. Later, he invites them to
\ quiz him as to what appears on
any page number. Then, without .
hesitation, he recalls the chief
highlights of the page called for.
Dollar bills are glanced at quick
ly and later recalled backwards
or forwards. The mental wizard
will attempt to memorize a copy
of The Black Mountain News and
at the same time will glance
through a deck of playing cards
after someone shuffles them, and
later recall in exact sequence the
cards dealt members of the audi
ence. Then, he will recite from
memory the highlights of any
page number called for in the
Black Mountain News.
Seated at the speakers’ table,
the memory expert will get the
names of those present, together
with their respective phone num
bers and other information. Later,
he will call off the member’s
name, occupation, birthdate, wife’s
name etc. „
Calling on members to furnish
him with their marriage date,
Ilrofessor Blomberg will give
from memory the correct day of
the week on which the date fell.
“The ability to remember a
person’s name is a magnet that
few people can resist,” said the
memory expert. “One is not born
with this gift—rather it is an art
which is acquired.” “Sales per
sons, bankers, people from all
walks of life can actually enhance
their income by acquiring the art
of remembering names and faces,”
said the expert, “and it is an art
which will pay handsome divi
dends in the social world as well.”
Ror the benefit of those inter
ested, a class will be held Satur
day evening, June 28 at the Gram
mar school, at 8 p. m. Mr. Blom
berg , will teach his system of
memory training to adults as wc-ll
as school children. Tickets may be
purchased at the door Saturday
evening preceding the lecture and
at the Black Mountain Drug store.
The performance will be open to
the public a demonstration similar
to that of the Lions club perform
ance will be given by Professor
; Blomberg before the class begins
Saturday night.
Methodists Top
Mill For First
Victory, 14-6
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The Black Mountain First Me
thodist church came back strong
; in the late innings Monday to win
‘ over the luckless Hosiery Mill
boys, 14 to 6. It was the first win
of the year for Dr. Brake and his
up and coming State street boys.
After the Hosiery Mill had
grabbed the lead, 2-0 in the first
and 6-5 in the fourth, the Metho
dist boys released the “brake”
and scored five in the fifth, three
in the sixth, and one in the
seventh.
Outstanding- feature of the
game was the fielding of Pence,
Methodist left fielder, who made
three running catches of hard
hit balls.
Score by innings: R
Hosiery Mill 20220 0 0 6
Methodists 002353 1 14
Baptists, Presbyterians J
Tied For Loop Lead j]
The Baptists and Presbyter
ians stand at the top of the
pack at the end of the first two
weeks of play in the Church
Softball league. The standings
include games through June 20.
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Baptists 3 0
Presbyterians 3 0
Friendship Chapel .. .. 2 1
Ridgecrest 1 2
Hosiery Mill 0 3
Methodists 0 3
Kirkpatrick,
Wheelon Buy
Economy Drug
The Economy Drug store, across
from the Southern Railway sta
tion, has been purchased by G. L.
Kirkpatrick and W. L. (Booger)
Wheelon and will open for busi
ness Monday morning. Both men
are well known here.
I A veteran of World War 11, Mr.
Wheelon spent five years in the
army a portion of which was over
seas in the CBI theater with a
medical outfit. He has recently
been employed at Knight’s Phar
macy. Mr. Kirkpatrick is a resi
dent of Black Mountain and has
been a member of the staff at the
Black Mountain Drug store.
BMC To Offer
Concerts Weekly
During Summer
Beginning Saturday, July 5, at
8:30 p. m., a series of regular
weekly concerts will be inaugur
ated, one to be ‘given each Sat
urday night, highlighting the
summer session at Black Moun
tain college June 30-August 23.
A number of distinguished
guest artists will join the regular
faculty in music, for these con
certs. Among them will be Carol
Brice, contralto, who won nation
al fame last year in a coast-to
coast broadcast with her perform
ance of Brahams’ “Rhapsody for
Alto and Orchestra” at the Berk
shire Festival under Serge Kous
sevitsky.
Lino Bartoli, violinist, and his
wife, pianist of Baylor Universi
ty, Texas, will also be present.
Mr. Bartoli, formerly of the Pitts
burgh Symphony orchestra and
concertmaster of the Pittsburgh
String Sinfonietta, now has his
own quartet, and heads the violin
department at the Baylor School
of Music.
Erwin Bodky, of the Longy
School of Music, Cambridge, fa
mous harpsichordist, appeared re
cently in symphony concerts in
Boston under Bruno Walter. Mr.
Bodky will play on a harpsichord
| whicii has been constructed to his
I own specifications after long and
I careful research devoted to this
| instrument. Miss Angelica Bodky,
his daughter, is an accomplished
flutist, and will also appear in
concert.
Mr. Harold Sproul, cellist, of
Columbia university, will join the
ensemble in the performance of
old and new chamber music.
In the past years the summer
concerts have attracted large au
diences from the surrounding
communities. Black Mountain col
lege again extends an invitation to
' all its neighbors to enjoy the sum
j mer concerts in the idyllic moun
| tain setting at Lake Eden. The
1 concerts will be regularly an
nounced in the Black Mountain
NEWS.
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Miniature Golf Course
Wiil Open Friday
| The miniature golf course will
open for business Friday on the
o d Gresham Hotel lot on State
street. Workmen have been busy
for the past few weeks preparing
the grounds. Managed by. Emory
W 1 on, son of Mr. and Mrs, Fred
Wilson of Black Mountain, the
1 course will be open each day and
evening throughout the summer.
• LET'S HAVE LIGHTS! ! !
Montreat May
Become Summer
Musical Center !
Montreat will become a summer
musical center for Western North
Carolina if the plans of the new
president of the Mountain Re
treat Association, Dr. J. Rupert
McGregor, materialize. The initial
planning to this end is to have a
concert of high type presented
each Saturday night during the
current conference season, which
opens this week and will continue
through the last week in August.
Austin C. Lovelace, minister of
music of the First Presbyterian
church of Greensboro, N. C., who
is serving as director of music for
the July conferences, will present
the first concert of the season at
7:30 o’clock Saturday night, giv
ing an organ program. This will
not only open the musical season,
but will at the same time present
the new organ at Anderson audi
(Continued on page four)
Chevrolet Will
Announce New
Designs Saturday
Unprecedented advancements
and features for the comfort and
safety of the driver, as well as
numerous mechanical improve
ments, are incorporated in the
new and Advance-Design line of
trucks and commercial cars to be
announced Saturday (June 28) by
the Chevrolet Motor Division of
General Motors Corporation.
“The comfort, convenience and
safety of owners and drivers who
1 operate the thousands of trucks
r in our vast system of highway
' transportation ar e given first eon
- sideration in the engineering of
- cabs and bodies of the new
• Chevrolet trucks now in product
• ion,” said J. W. Burke, manager
i of the commercial and truck de
r partment.
“Recognizing the physical, as
1 well as mental, demands upon
- those who drive trucks in today’s
- heavy traffic, Chevrolet has pion
- eered development of the design
r and construction features most
• frequently requested in a recent
• nationwide survey of truck users.
The survey, conducted through
s personal interviews in many lines
■ of business, gave Chevrolet en
• gineers first-hand information as
■ to what the users want in trucks,
J (Continued on page four)
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1 City Completes
j Fly Eradication
Campaign
1 Cooperating with county and
’ state health officers, the Town
• of Black Mountain has completed
3 an intensive fly eradication cam
’ paign in the city and surround-
ing territory. The' original' pro
-1 gram was finished some time ago.
During the drive trash cans,
garbage cans, hog pens, and barns
as well as any place which might
become a breeding place for flies
or mosquiotes were sprayed. The
city still has plenty of materials
available, officials said, and will
be glad to aid any one who needs
help.
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New Antique Shop
Opens On Montreat Road
The Acorn Shop, adjoining
Shaw’s Store on Montreat road,
is now open for business. The shop
features hand crafts, mountain
„ made jewelry of metal, wood,
acrons, Pisgah pottery, and other
I articles of native wood and ma
, terials.
' i The shop was decorated under
the supervision of Barrow Hog
r | land of Sweeden who is an authc.r
--’ | it y on antiques and interior decor
j ating. Two chairs were decorated
by Mrs. Hogland in antique Ita -
I ian design.
The owners invite all their
friends to visit and to inspect
their new shop.
5 Cents Per Copy
Ask Permission
To Open Station
Sunday Morning
Whether or not filling stations
should be allowed to open for busi
ness on Sunday morning will be
the topic of discussion at the next
meeting of the city council on
Tuesday, July 8, at the city hall.
All persons interested in this sub
ject either way are asked to at
tend this meeting.
The public discussion of this
problem grew out of a recent in
cident in which the manager of
Moore Brothers Pure Oil Station
was fined $5.00 and costs for open
ing- his place of business before
1:00 p. m. on Sunday. Mr. Moore
appeared before the council Tues
day night at their regular meet
ing and asked permission to oper
ate on Sunday morning. He point
ed out that this would help make
the city more attractive to tourists
and serve as an aid to local resi
dents caught short on gas on Sun
day.
Mr. Moore asked that the full
report of the proceedings to date,
including the fine, be published.
Following a report by Mayor
J. L. Potter that the lighting sur
vey of the city had been completed
by members of the board and Bill
Holcombe, local representative
of the Carolina Power and Light
company, the city fathers ap
* proved 22 additional street lights
5 for the town. These will be instal
led throughout the city. Al
-1 though officials hope to begin
work soon, fixtures are still
e scarce and the speed with which
the project is completed will de
pend on availablity of materials.
Mrs. Thomas Sharp told the
d board of the needs of the child
-0 ren's playground. On motion of
s J. G. Northcott and a second by
Dr. Richardson, W. C. Greene was
appointed building inspector for
* the city.
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- Dr. Ownbey
* Newest Book
■ Is Off Press
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1 “A Christian and His Money”
t is the title of a new books by Dr.,
' Richard L. Ownbey, pastor of the
1 Black Mountain Methodist church,
5 which is just off the Abingdon-
Cokesbury Press, New York and
5 Nashville. This book is to be used
’ in follow-up work in the interest
of the Methodist Stewardship
Emphasis throughout the country,
and also as a textbook for train
ing schools for the course on “The
Stewardship of Money.’'
Dr. Ownbey has published two
books previously both of them by
Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, and
both of them are widely used in
Methodist training schools and al
so by other denominations in study
1 courses. The first was published
1 in 1932, and is entitled, “The
* Christian’s Religion: Its Meaning
■ and Mission,” and the other in
" 1941, “Evangelism in Christian
‘ Education.” For twenty years Dr.
* Ownbey has been a contributor to
, th e Sunday school literature of the
3 Methodist Church, and for some
- years has regularly written the
> “Lesson Notes” for Wesley Quar
■ terly, which has a circulation of a
► I million copies each quarter.
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SOFTBALL SCHEDULE
Friday, June 27
Baptists vs Presbyterians
Monday, June 30
Baptists vs Friendship Chapei
Tuesday, July 1
’ Hosiery Mill vs Ridgecrest
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i CORRECTION
The price on the Goodyear tires,
which were advertised in last,
week’s issue by McMurray Chev
| rolet company, should have read
■ 1 $14.40 instead of $16.10.
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. ; BASEBALL SCHEDULE
. J Saturday, June 28
j ' Legion vs Candler at Candler
_ | Sunday, June 29
Legion vs Avery Creek at Black
r Mountain
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