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I; ****** * \lectio-HA I i greenwood * folks should study their iy a little closer, believes Ukins, former all around at Barnardsville High Ukins, who came out of nt late this summer to wo hitter a a Buncombe ■ague rival, was sitting on he mountain astride the ie-Yancey line a few days i his attention was attract squirrel hunter who was ip the Buncombe side as ie could make it. Reaching and leaping happily over > into Yancey county, the inked back down the raoun excitedly explained: hat game warden come ause I’m plumb out of the 1 States! They ain’t no ■ here.” should have directions ■ parking meters. One s couldn’t find the reg in one of the empty so dropped his nickel end of the pipe. Anoth a nickel in the meter s car and three for his lack Mountain man will ■ice before he turns a cat ar a certain house around oaring a commotion out- Sunday morning the own ie house rose up in bed the window saw a gen iump a huge cat out of a i attempt to drive it to ; front yard. ■r been pestered with more share of stray cats, our cached into the drawer of side table, pulled out his took careful aim. With the ng roar which followed, oiled over dead not more step from the feet of the rprised and startled man in take it with you, Buddy, ke it snappy!” was enougn , the quickest bit of action en on or off the screen, paralyzed to speak, the 1 gentleman grabbed the at , threw it into the front i lid with the same motion 'tinder the wheel. Although • was in the car, he forgot the motor on and while • buzzed away he just •ent wild. several attempts he fin nembered that the car t run unless the switch was on. Then as the motor he took off for home, dead id all, leaning down over of the seat like an Indian pony into battle, ord must have spread be -3 more stray cats were loose around that part of there anything signif lbout this. When writing leek for a city bill a nade it payable to the [>f Black Market. Florida is nice, its beau not compare with that of of Western North Carolina, Irs. Ella Ray who has left to ie winter in i e sunshine ’ resting until Sunday n, 1 was driven over to 1.” Mrs. Ray writes. “My, know how to express the )f this place. It s beauti lovely. Nature seemed to lerself when she gave us But after all the North hills and mountains can irpassed.” luck to the Black Mountain and to all my friends here.” 11 world department. Mington of Ellington s might well believe iis old friend Major A. 'uff is following him i. After being stationed er at Fort Benning in they said goodbye and their ways. In 1944 they i Hawaii, in 1946 at a •n Anderson, Alabama, ist Sunday at the air Greenville, S. C. Atkins favorite story con fellow who was present s son let a gun go off ac y and shoot himself (the ough the hand. While the the family were running trying to give first aid king arrangements to gee —Turn to Page 4 THE BLACK MOUNTAIN news Vol. 3, No. 10 Junior Red Cross Begins Drive For Membership o “We are living in a time which demands the best that we have in the way of service to others.” Thus spoke Mrs. E. S. Jackson, Junior Red Cross chairman of th Black Mountain-Swannanoa Red Cross Chapter as she announced that Black Mountain and Swannan oa’s students would be asked to enroll 100 percent of JRC mem bers. The enrollment campaign, to be held from November 15 to Nov ember 30 is being undertaken with the complete cooperation of teach ers and school officials. Founded in 1917 by President Woodrow Wilson, the Junior Red Cross has grown to an organization of 19,000,000 boys and girls. It provides a medium through which they may serve other boys and girls, at home and abroad. In explaining Junior Red Cross services, which include gift boxes for children overseas, correspond ence, forest fire prevention, and others, Mrs. Jackson quoted the JRC “statement of belief”: “We believe in service for oth ers, for our country, our commun ity, and our school, in health of mind and body to fit us for great er service, and for better human relations throughout the world. We have joined the American Jun ior Red Cross, to help achieve its aims by working together with members everywhere in our own and other lands.” McClure Crowned Carnival King o Before a huge crowd who at tended the Halloween carnival at the Swannanoa school last Thurs day night, Gilliard McClure and Jean Ammons were crowned king and queen, Roger White and Max ine Gardner were prince and prin cess, and Alice Stevens and Fred dy Reed were duchess and duke. Features of the carnival were the house of horrors, the fortune teller, fish pond, the cake walk, and the food stand where gallons of cokes and yards of hot dogs were consumed. Prizes for the best costumes were awarded to Phillis Gant, Johnny Foxr Jimmy Pruitt, and Buddy Miller. More than a thousand merry makers filled the corridors of the building, and approximately SSOO was cleared to be used for school supplies and equipment. Darkhorses At Oakley Friday o The Darkhorses will attempt to get back on the victory train Fri day afternoon at Oakley when they play the Oaks in a return game. When the teams met here in the opening game of the 1947 cam paign, they played to a scoreless tie. The defeat suffered at the hands of Sand Hill Hilltoppers Friday all but eliminated the Byrd coached outfit from the county race. The Swannanoa Warriors now are odds on favorites to win the title and can cop the flag by winning from the Darkhorses when they meet later in the sea son. School Lunchrooms to ill Get Tomatoes North Carolina school' lunch rooms, which only a few days ago received a donation of nearly a third of a million pounds of dried eggs to enhance noonday menus, have been notified by the State Department of Agriculture of an -1 other contribution to winter diets j 16 carloads of canned tomatoes. "Sky queen” Shelled After Forced Landing j | ** ...j --. —— ” > ■ ' BOSTON, MASS.—(Soundphoto)—A three picture sequence made from the coast guard cutter Bibbs shows the ill-fated, Bermuda Sky Queen in her last throes. At top, shells from the Bibb kick up spray as they hit the plane’s underbelly. In center, the plane burns fiercely as though reluctant to meet her fate. At the bottom the tail section, , cut away from the fuselage by a shell, sinks to the bottom. — (Coast Guard Pool Photo). Meters Must Be Used Wednesday Afternoon Parking meters are in force on Wednesday afternoon even though all business houses are closed, the NEWS has been asked to explain. The only time when parking is per mitted without use of the meters is on legal holidays, Sundays, and after 6 p. m. The public is asked to observe these rules. Fat Women' This Is Your Opportunity Women of all ages are invited to participate in the calisthenics and basketball practice each Monday night at the high school gym from 7 to 9 p. m. The Women’s athletic group have recently organized for the purpose of having a good time, getting acquainted, and losing pounds. Many play basketball and if enough are interested, a league will eventuallly be formed. Coach Eugene Byrd has agreed to give some time to the organization. However, it is not necessary to play basketball to belong ,as there are other activities. Anyone interested may call Mrs. O. W. Tinney at Dr. Cooley’s of fice. Fire Chief Makes Annual Survey O Making his annual fire inspect ion in Black Mountain early this week, Fire Chief Roy Orr found conditions improved 100 per cent over last year, he informed the NEWS today, “Faulty wiring has been corrected and trash heaps removed from all buildings,” the chief said. “In general things are in very satisfactory condition. The merchants were very cooperative. The main trouble last year was that some places had piles of pap er stacked in the back of the store or in a side room. This has been cleaned up and removed, the in spector found. In the future the inspection will be quarterly instead of yearly. “YOUR VALLEY NEWSPAPER” Thursday, November 6, 1947, Black Mountain, N. C. New Methodist Pastor Assumes Duties Here o The Rev. T. L. McDonald has assumed his new duties as pastor of the First Methodist church in Black Mounain. A native of Ala bama the new minister is a grad uate, of Birmingham Southern col lege and has taken theological work at Duke. He served at Foun tain Place church in Burlington and was assistant pastor of the First Methodist church at Decatur, Alabama. The Rev. Mr. McDonald served several summers as camp counsel or at Camp Crosby near Birming ham and at CampWinnataska. For the last two summers he taught at Camp Carlyle at Montevella, Alabama. He is the son of the Rev. T. L. McDonald, district sup erintendent at Gadsden and Roan oke. He is a member of Kappa Phi Kappa. Mrs. McDonald was formerly Miss Elizabeth Wiggins, daughter of the Rev. L. E. Wiggins, dis trict superintendent at Anderson, South Carolina. She is a graduate of Columbia college, Columbia, S. C., and is a member of Beta Mu Kappa and Alpha Kappa Gamma, national honorary fraternities. She taught math at St. Matthews High school and laer worked as reser vationist with the Eastern Air Lines in Charlotte. ' The McDonalds were married at St. John’s Methodist church at Columbia, S. C„ in June, 1946. New Employees Join Garland’s Mechanic Staff Fate Pitman and his son, Ray, of Marion, N. C., have joined the mechanical staff at the Garland Home and Auto Supply. Both men are well trained mechanics with years of practical experience. A former employee of Rockett Motor company in Old Fort and of 1 Snipes Motor company in Marion, Mr. Pitman has had'factory train ing in hydromatic and fluid drive repairing and overhauling. With ! the installation of new machinery the Garland Home & Auto Supply i is now prepared to offer complete auto service. • RESULTS—CLASSIFIEDS! ! ! Legion Banquet To Be Held November 10 The annual Armistice Day banquet will be held Monday, November 10, 6:45 p. m. at the Monte Vista hotel. Every body come. Get your tickets from any Legionaire or Aux iliary member. A good pro gram has been provided. Mayor J. L. Potter is in charge of the ticket sale. Darkhorses Lose First Game In Fifteen Starts o Coach Bill Morris and his Sand Hill Comets hung a defeat on the Black Mountain Darkhorses last Friday to the tune of 24-0. The injured and hampered Darkhorses never offered a serious threat and Black Mountain lost its first start in 15 games. The Comets, operating from a split T, had the Darkhorses linemen confused, and their backs were finding gaping holes off both tackles time and again. To make matters worse the Darkhorses backs displayed very poor tackling. As a consequence most of the I Sand Hill scores were made on ; long break away runs. Outstanding in defeat was the | punting of co.captain Reese and the defensive work of Clarence Padgett. The crushing defeat makes the Swannanoa Warriors prohibitive favorites to take the annual class ic between Black Mountain and Swannanoa. The Warriors defeat ed Sand Hill early in the season ' by a score of 13.7. Black Mountain Lineup: R. Osteen, LE. M. Morris, LT. C. Padgett, LG. H. Melton, C. C. Stevens, RG. G. Bryson, RT. L. Fortune, RE. J. Gregg, QB. A. Osteen, (C) LH. E. Barnwell, RH. C. Reese, (C) FB. Subs Hughey, Jones, Capps, Saun ooke, Milbee, Henderson and Roy Reed. U.N.C. Professor Montreal College Guest Speaker O Sturgis E. Leavitt, of the Span ish department of the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, will be guest of the Spanish de partment of Montreat College and will give a popular lecture at Gaither Hall, at 7:30 Saturday night, November 8 on “Practical Inter American Relationship.” Editor of several Spanish text books and co-editor of South Am erica bulletin, member of the exec utive council of the American association of teachers of Spanis.i and Portugese, he has traveled and lectured extensively on Spain and Latin America. Mass X-Ray Termed Success o A total of 46,352 chest X-rays were taken in the recent may X ray survey in Asheville and Bun combe county it was revealed t»_ day when the results were made known. Os the more than 22,000 county residents X-rayed, 296 were were asked to report for a larger X-ray, 14 cases of active tubercul osis were found, and 223 cases of suspected were cured ©r ar j rested. Fifty-nine people were re ! ferred to their private physicians. The city and county health dt : ! partment officials expressed ap | predation to the many organiz : e RESULTS—CLASSIFIEUS: ! 1- Sgt. William V. Greene Funeral Services Wifl Be Hdd At The Black | Mountain Presbyteran Church Teen-Age Design 1 M 1 I atJ It’s a morning-to-night answer to “What’ll l urea.r?” and we haven’t enough space to list all the times and places you’ll be seen in this swell sister-version of broth er’s Navy pea-jacket. You can learn the dressmaker tricks that give this jacket and skirt, designed by Ad vance, such a “sharp” look by at tending special classes for teen agers at your local Singer Sewing Center. You’ll find it easy, too, to seam up a score of alternate skirts to team up with the jacket for Fri day night basketball games, those Saturday football frays, chilly evening scavenger hunts or walks or drives. For extra warmth, set aside one sewing session for running up some tricky - looking scarves i« bright colors. Or turn your hand to mak ing one of those light-weight wool jersey blouses which get along so companionably with ar.y one of your skirts. An interchangeable blouse and skirt wardrobe, matclwd or mixed with a pert jacket is a fashion first choice for campus, country or town wear, and a budget-beater in any language. Warriors Handed First Loss By Canton Bears o The Swannanoa Warriors lost their first game of the season at Canton Satcxtay night when the hometeam ground out a 19 toO decision in a Blue Ridge Confer ence fracas. Both teams were un defeated prior to the Saturday meeting, and the win, gives Canton the inside track for the league title. The winners stuck to the groun l and all three touchdowns came as the result of sustained drives. Although final score was made on a 14 yard pass 1 into the end zone, the touchdown was set up by the gain via the ground route. Swan nanoa played a hard defensive game but were outpowered by the Canton eleven and never offered serious threat Linups.: Canton Swannanoa LE—Rhodarmer Burgess LT—D. Stiles Creasman LG—Morgan Dunlap C— Mackey Hnntsinger RG—B. Smathers Waldrop RT—Marby Bobinso i RE—M. Stiles Mayfield QB—Miller Straehla HB—Howard Sides HB—lvester MctSore FB—’T. Stiles Bailey atkuas and inifividuafe who help ed to carry out the program. Many of the acti ,e cases u* Utherculuens were found among p*®phc who «fcd mot suspect they bad the disease. ' A few of these were *hr *** vanced stages., HOW MANY 3JGEK SHOPPING DAYS TB. CHRISTMAS? 5c Per Copy First Returned From Overseas For Burial; KiHed In Battle Os Bulge o Funeral services for 1/Sgt. Wil liam V. Greene, first Black Moun tain man to be returned from over seas for burial, will be held at the Black Mountain Presbyterian church soon. Officiating will be Dr. T. H. Spence. A graduate of the Black Moun tain High school with the class of 1927, Sergeant Greene entered the armed services on March 9, 1944, took basic training at Camp Polk, La., and went overseas in March, 1944. As first sergeant of Co. 8.. 33rd Armored Engineers Battalion, 7th Armored division, Buck was with Patton’s Third army in the dash across France. Later his out fit was transferred to British com mand on the Northern front where he was killed in the battle of the Bulge, December 23, 1944, near St, Vith. The body of the Black Mountain man, along with 6000 others, ar rived in New York Sunday, Oct ober 26, aboard tht U. S. Army transport, Joseph V. Connally. First to be returned from the E.T.0., most were removed from the mili tary cemetery Henri Chapelle near Liege, Belgium. Final shipment for those from this area will be from the Charlotte distribution cen , ter. The remains of North CaroL [ ina, .South Carolina, and Virginia • dead reached Charlotte last Sun i day. i While in high school Buck was a star athelete and later played for Asheville, Macon, and Jersey CSty before being purchased by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Although he made several trips for spring training' he never pitched in the major league. Prior to entering service be was associated with his father m the contracting business. The Rock well-Halle w American legion post of Asheville will con duct military rites with the mem bers of the Black Mountain Way caster-MeAfee post acting as act ive paWteanrwrs. The Tea and Topic dub and friends will have charge 1 of ftewos, and Mrs. S. S. Cooley Uoxnuaxy pallbearers include J.. 1 L Putter, J. G. Northcott, Dr. F. H. Richardson, J. U. Lance, I*. E. W. F. Welts, R. A. Hard wick, Boy Brown, Bascombe Burn ette, L ©. Poteat, R. D. Rogers, Lawton Allen, F. A. Perky, A. P. Periey, John Brittain, K. G. Miller, Ralpf* Brown, Jack Gilbert, Gordon C. R- Longcoy, 11. L. Hrovnuter, Frank Redfern, G. L. 1 Kirkpatrick, J. A. Dougherty, A. > F. Tvs«hi, Jr., Cline Atkins, Har ry Chdand, H. A. Kerlee, T. K. j btotm. C. C. Kiddle, V. Avena I and Paid Harris. Survivors include Mrs. Ainu. 1 Greene, wife, the parents, Mr. anti Ms. W. CL Greene, one sister, Lynctte Greene, and a brother, tt. 1 T. Greene. b'iirial will te in Mt. View Mem i «mta4 Pail*. Cemetery. Harriso* 1 kuneral home of Black Mountain ' wAI have charge of arrangements i Holiday Food To Be Abundant Aflfes five Jean years, Thanks giving ntH uoce again live up tc its of a bohtiful harvest I and bnliday foods in abundance A & P Food Stores reported today « the basis of a nationwide sur- A rejaxled 15 per cent drop il “ the of turkeys will be i ixiiss than offset by a further re UdiCwa ia military demands dur ing the past year, the company catdL raMaag Chat the 1947 pro icliea, aacoiding to the U. S — Tton to Page 4 mi
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