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FEB 19 1948 black mountain news * ★ A PROGRESSIVE AND GROWING NEWSPAPER IN A PROGRESSIVE AND GROWING COMMUNITY ★ ★ Vol. 3, No. 25. * * ******* * deJ ( lecii(uiA J By JACK GREENWOOD * Sotne kind soul h«s vvritcn to protest that this column is con | cerne d chiefly with sports and to ick that we deal with othei aspects of community life. That's a good suggestion, but I with all the fine cage teams in . c (j o n around here, what :s mor e important or interesting i than our hardwood performers? The Legion team has been rec ognized as one of the best in dependent teams in the western area and has proved the point h bv walking off with the Canton j j' 3. A. A. tournament. These 1 in on the know have penciled the Swannanoa boys and the Black j Mountain girls in among the favorites, and the girls from Morgan’s and the Black Mountain lassies have demonstrated their ! ability to go with the top teams. So if we seem to feature basket-ball during the next few [ weeks, you'll know why. The program at the Lions club Thursday night was well re i ceived. Miss Doris Byrd, Miss Sara McDougle, and Miss Made line Fortune gave a very delight i ful program of classical and pop ular music. They were accom panied by Mrs. A. W. McDougle. The meeting disproved one statement that - come to believe. It was made several months ago by E. N. Howell, Swannanoa High School princi pal, who said that the reason most of the members were Lions was the fact that they were “too old to be wolves.” If Mr. Howell saw the head turning that went on and heard the whistles with which the young girls were greet ed. we are sure he has ncrw changed his opinion. One Lion, not mentioning any names, of course, ran around the vacent seats at his table three times and dusted them off with his napkin, all the time clearing his throat and pushing the chairs up and down like a barber try ing to “attract” a customer. But the girls took one look at i his bulging waist line, the wrink led face, and the head from which the hair has fallen slightly, and raced on to the special seats that had been prepared for them. It was rumored after the meeting that Will Holman and Walter Styles, who made themselves very conspicuous by their pre sence—and the Lions a lot poorer fined each girl a dime for creating a disturbance. Mortified by the turn of events, Ronald Finch, Lion President, is report ed to bo taking up a collection with which to pay back the girls who were fined illegally. Frank Buckner, who is usually one of the quietest men at the meeting, brought down the house by requesting that A. W. Mc- Dougle sing "I Am My Own Grandpa.' But McDougle; who claimed that he had left his read mg glasses at home and couldn't ' st 'e l be words without them, was excused. Anyway, I always "‘ a ' e out one relative that I can t amount for,” McDougle said. When R. t. Green inducted aines H Parks of Swannanoa. A. Huneycutt and Th a d cDonald of Black Mountain, —Cont’d on Page 8 Thursday. February 19, HHS, Black Mountain, N. C. 1948 Red Cross Goa! Announced By Robert Guy The 1948 goal of the Black- Mountain-Swannanou chapter of the American Red Cross is $(1,025 Robert Guy, campaign funds chair r. an announced today. Mr. Guy em phasized that the local chapter is a separate unit, operated entirely by Black Mountain and Swannan on people and that the drive here h:.s no connection wit!; that being conducted in Asheville and other I 1 ;, 't« of the county. Black Moun tain, Swannanoa and Broad River T awnsoips are under the jurisdic t: >n of the local chapter. “Every citizen a contributor” was se'ected as the 1948 slogan as Walter H. Styles, chairman of the business district solicitation campaign, revealed plans for the drive to he held Tuesday', Feb ruary 24. C. S. Porter will act in the same capacity for Swannanoa. The house-to-house canvass will be held early in March which has been set aside as Red Cross month. Several prominent business lead ers have been named to assist Mr. Styles in the solicitation of the business district Tuesday. They are Reed Hill, R. S. Eekles, B. W. Row land, Johnny Rice, Robert Free, and A. F. Tyson, Jr. This commit tee will meet with Mr. Styles and other leaders at the city hall Monday night at which time final plans will be made. Crushed Stone Much In Demand For Roads Although the recent snows and rains have caused many roads and driveways to go to pieces during the past few days and the de mand for materials has been heavy, there is still no shortage of crushed stone for road beds, Grove Stone and Sand company officials told a NEWS reporter today. “We have plenty of materials and trucks to meet the demand, ’ officials said, “and don’t anticipate any great holdup on orders.” Fol lowing the recent rains many roads and driveways became impossible and coal and transfer companies were having difficulty in making delivery. One firm was forced to hire trucks with chains as they had no chains for their trucks. RETURN FROM WASHINGTON Mrs. C. C. Godfrey and her moth er, Mrs. G. H. McElrath of Cand ler have returned from a visit with Mr and Mrs. William Telford, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams} in Washington, D. C. LARGE EGG Mrs. C. W. Riddle of Portman Villa road brought over an egg this week that’ was more than six inches around the middle and eight inches around the other way. VISITS RIDGECREST Robert Pelletier of Lewiston, Maine, and Miami, Florida, was a weekend guest of Miss Eugenia Moore of Ridgecrest. Ml. and Mrs. L. S. Ownby of Black Mountain visited Mrs. Tom my Hall Sunday. Mrs. Hall is a patient at St. Joseph’s hospital. • \ Classified Will Sell It! STATE CHAMPS—MAYBE! . ... i ~ I THE BLACK MOUNTAIN AMERICAN LEGION FIVE which meets the mighty Atlantic All-Stars in the quarterfinals of the state tour at A-heho. a Saturday night. Recognized as one of the smoothest outfits in WNC, the Legion crushed West End in the first game 75 to 52. Left to right they are, first row, Coach C. C. Myers, Pete Earle, Everette Stephenson, Jack Milbee, Jack Edwards, C. Gray, Dr. Brake. Back Row, Paul Harris, Jr., Joe King, Worth Burgess, Bill Rudisill, and Doyle Turner. Hospital Talent Show Proves Huge Success A most interesting and highly successful program was presented at the Swannanoa division of the veterans hospital last Friday even ' ing. An all patient talent show was presented from the stage of the main recreation hall and witness ed by several hundred patients and many officials of the hospital, in cluding manager, John B. Wogan, Mrs. Wogon, clinical director, Dr. Reuben Kaplan, Dr. Robert Schell, , assistant clinical director, assis tant executive officer, Ivor Rich ards and Mrs. Richards, chief of . special services, Walter Snow and Mrs. Snow, and other interested . persons among the medical and • nursing personnel of the hospital. , The play was the outcome of classes in radio script writing and . literary classes which are planned , and conducted by Mrs. Ellen B. . Timmons, chief librarian of the , hospital. Many locally prominent writers and newspaper personal , ities have been guest speakers for recent sessions of these classes, which are enthusiastically attended by a group of patients. With all script written by pat ients and the complete show under , their direcion and production, as [ sisted by the library and recreat i ion department, an hour of fun and good entertainment was en - joyed Capably presented by Pierson L. Gordon as EMCEE, the i show was broadcast over the hos > pital hook-up to all wards. Announcer Eugene Jackson pre -1 sented the individual acts in pro . fessional fashion and contributed some witty take-offs on radio com mercials for a here-to-fore un • heard of brand of cigarette. A 1 “Jam Session Trio” with patients 1 Doris, Murphy, and Knox was tops in the best boogie-woogie manner. ' Impersonations by Robert E. Hol- man were well received. Rendition of piano selections of classical 1 music by Robert Loney was a ' highlight of the evening. William —Cont’d on Page 8 C. I. McDougle May Have Your Pictures Charles I. McDougle has three pictures of World War 1 which he would like very much to get rid of. The owner is more than likely just as eager to get them back. The pictures in question were left in McDougle’s car while it was parked downtown in Black Mountain and depict a sham battle at St. Helena Naval Training Station, Nor folk, Virginia, May 1, 1915. One of the pictures bears the address, “Wallace to Blanche and the baby, 306 10th street, Galveston, Texas.” Bth Graders Will Play Friday Friday afternoon at 3:30 the eighth grade Wildcats will take on the Red Terrors in a double head er at the high school gym. Pro ceeds will be used to help pay expenses on a trip to Washington, D. C., this summer. Admission will be 10 and 25 cents. The Wildcats will feature the following players: girls, Anna Rue Osteen, Norma Justus, Barbara Justus, Wilma Slagle, Jo Ann Nor ton, Eloise Norton. Boys, Richard Ramsey, Lee Poison, Russell Row land, G. Myers, and Jimmy Po teat. Red Terrors: Girls, Jewell Eng lish, Doris Higginbotham, Peggy Gibbs, Elaine Allison, Carolyn Dinwiddie, and Vevlin Edwards. Boys, Norman, Stanley, Gene, Wilford, and Mac. Miss Burleson's Honor Students Are Listed When the honor students were lised from the grade school re cently, those from Miss Nell Burl eson’s fourth grade were omitted by mistake. They are as follows: Bobby Nix, June Bryson, Betty Burnette, Ruth Chambers, Vivian Griffin, and Judy Sawyer. • CLASSIFIEDS Get RESECTS: Pay only 5c C, C. Head Points Out Need For Advertising City Black Mountain and North Car olina face stiff competition in the years ahead in the tourist field as many other states and cities are making efforts to sell their part icular part of the country, Charlie Spencer, president of the Black Mountain chamber of commerce told the 1948 directors at their regular meeting Monday night. Ten members were present. “The only way to keep the folks coming is to keep telling them what we have here to offer,” Mr. Spencer declared. “The time may not be too far in the future when we will be looking for tourists instead of wondering what we are going to do with the crowd.” To stress the point that advertising pays, the president showed a large number of folders and booklets from states and cities scattered across the nation. After much discussion the dir ectors decided to print a booklet this year instead of folders. Five thousand of these booklets, all a bout Black Mountain and its at tractions, will be published and be ready for distribution by April 1. In addition the members several weeks ago voted to sponsor at a cost of $250.00 two pages in a magazine which will be printed within the near future. Managers of rooming hous es, hotels, and tourist courts, may list their facilities in the local booklet which will have a circulation of 5000. Those desiring further information should contact Charlie Spen cer, Reed Hill, or the NEWS. . The committees named were as follows: membership, Ronald Finch,, chairman, Carter Uzzell, and H. W. Sanders; publicity, Reed Hill, chairman, Ray Harrison, and Gordon Greenwood; civic improv ment, M. E. Rondel, chairman, G. L. Kirkpatrick, and W. H. McMur -1 ray; industrial improvement and development, W. C. Honeycutt, chairman, A. F. Tyson, and Ben Hunter; road committee, Roy Tay lor, charman, J. G. Northcott, Dr. • F. H. Richardson, R. E. Finch, Monroe Redden, Clyde Hoey, and Governor Cherry. Mr. Taylor was ' instructed to contact the members ■ of his committee as soon as pos ‘ sible and point out the need for paving the Lakey Gap Road to Bat l Cave. Lions Chib Receives . V. A. Service Award ’ An award for volunteers ser -1 vice rendered to patients in vet • erans administration hospital, O > teen, N. C., Swannanoa Division, has been received by Ronald E. Finch, president of the Black Mountain Lions club. The award will be frame 1 for the club. Signed J. B. Wogan, manat’ _ er, and W. F. Snow, chief of spec ial service t’e r d says: “In I recognition of out-‘ending vol unto< r s-f vices rendered to pat ients and onveying the deep ap ’ predation of patients anil sta’T. this award is presented to the members of the Black Mountain ! Lions club.
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