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BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS I* ★ A I>ROGRESSIVE AND GROWING NEWSPAPER IN A PROGRESSIVE AND GROWING COMMUNITY * ★ 22 ******* I * UeJ/ectoutd. * L jack greenwood * I When the council met in special ■session at the city hall Thursday r lfrht to consider raising the water | rate< for commercal users, , Ross ■ Taylor had an answer for the lituation. "It won’t bother me if lihey raise the rates," cracked ■ Tavlor. oldest member of the ■ Black Mountain famous big Ts, |. fm drinking sulphur water over la: my place.” Taylor, who is, more |than proud of being a member of |the hip dind’t even ask for a |tractor for the golf course. ■You’re slipping, Ross. I The meeting was enlivened by Ipeveral exchanges between Dr. ■Richardson and members of the Industrial group that attended. ■Shortly after Dean Willis, the ■efficient city clerk, had drawn a ■char* to show the citizens just ■hov the new rate would affect (their hills. Dr. Richardson turned (•■ R \V Rowland of the Kev Citv ■Landrv and exclaimed: “With ■a Witer hill l : 'e t.h»*, Mr. Roland, I] (j ( n't see h v yu can wash my (shir s as cheaply as you do.” I “i don't either,’’ Roland ca-ne ■he . "and you can be S're it’ll ■cos: you more from now on.’ ■ "i ?h :’d l ave kept still," said ■t-r doc: a*. "That’s what I'm do- Ijrx M. rir. Lance explained, "it's ■fair r t. cost me c ither way this ■thin: i ecided.’’ I J. i,. N'orthcott took the oppor- Btunr.y m treat the house to cokes, (and the "embers never got start led <n the same theme again. ( A* one point early in the meet ■ir.c. while those late were still (coming in, Sheriff Laurence ■Brown broke the silence to point Bout that the 13 men and one wo (:■:■.■ nt the room was entire (ly silent. "If there were 13 women (and one man present, I wonder (if it would He this quiet,” the (sherff asked Mrs. Edith Hol (convie assistant city clerk. H M Holcombe had no answer. ■ Don’t Let A Final ■ Notice Offend You II TL- NEWS has this week begun (a new system of notifying sub- ( scribers >.f the expiration date of llthei subscriptions. The first no (tice i of the new type were mailed ■ out th:s ~t; anc j the same system ■ wi! be followed i n the future. I f e NEWS wishes to make it ■‘l ar that no paper will be cut I "• is? until the subscriber ■ - 1 ' '"'''ii given every opportunity I the time extended. But I 'notions: remaining unpaid as- I '' customary ‘‘grace period" I *• removed from our lists ■. . " to government regu ( ] a,lnnk ' 'hi* is not our rule but a I applies to all news ■ par < and magazines sent I tnail under second ■ t ' ‘mit. And it was designed I a! employees and ■ a -01 elders. Otherwise the ( a ,.| ' ,f ' so full of circulars ( ploy. ,. 1 iS that t * le Postal em (inj,’ | ‘i'i !lav c time for noth ( that a ' clearly understood I 'paper does not depend ( 1,1 fact revenue t 0 operate. I for th» \i'u a " ‘ imount you pay I ' would hardly pay Softball Teams To Compete Here In County Meet Invitations have been placed in the mail for the; strongest high school teams in Buncombe county to compete in the first annual Black Mountain NEWS softball tournament to be held at the grammar school field. May 11, 12, 13, 14. Proceeds will be used by the high school “B” club to help pay for the erection of an all weather basketball court near the gym. The entries will be limited this year to eight teams. With two five-inning games scheduled for each afternoon of the first three days, the finals will be played at 7:30, Friday evening, May 14. Suitable trophies will be awarded the first and second place teams. Starting time for the pre liminary games will be 2 p. m. As all schools invited have not been heard from, pairings will not be announced until later in the month. Co-sponsor of the event with the NEWS is the high school "L ’ club. Eugene Byrd wili serve "•> t-c-sur'r. Committee Will Meet Friday Heibert \Y. Sanders, chairman of the Committee of the Welfare "h nnintr Bureau, has called a meeting for tomorrow (Friday) night r.t the city hall. The time is 8 o’clock. “I am very anxious to have a meeting of the full committee so that we may review* our work to date, and to make plans for the next few months,” Mr. Sanders said. “Have had several sug gestions as to how we may expand our services to the community and want to get these into concrete form so that we may act wisely on them." L. L. Orgera will he present along with local members who are: R. E. Finch, Roy Taylor, Mrs. J. L. Holman, Jr., Mrs. A. F. Ty son, Jr., Mrs. A. J. Anthony, A. W. McDougle, C. E. Spencer, Walter Styles, J. L. Potter, Gordon Green wood, Mrs. Bessie Carr, and Mrs. Roy Taylor. Mr. Sanders will pre side. for the blank paper you get if nothing were printed on it. A weekly paper, as we have stated before, depends on job printing to make ends meet. We sincerely hope that there will be no misunderstanding in re gard to these notices. The greatly increased cost of paper and other operational expenses, plus the strief government regulations which forbid the extension of sub scriptions beyond the ordinary “grace period”,make it necessary that we follow this rule. There are comparatively few who have not paid and we are sure ; hat they will understand our position. The Management. NEW PAINT JOB The Woodcock Motor company have been busy the past weDk paint ing the building inside and out and installing new machinery. The out side has been painted cream, and the floors dark gray. About four feet of the lower walls have been painted green and the upper part white. Ihursday, April 8, 1948, Hlack Mountain, N. C. Half Million Trees Distributed To WNC Farmers A half million forest tree seed lings were distributed today to more than 250 farmers and other landowners in the fifteen Tennes see Valley counties of Western North Carolina. State District Forester B. H. Corpening, who is in charge of the distribution, stat ed that "the trees were produced by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Under a cooperative agreement, the North Carolina Division of Forestry and Parks is distribut ing them through the Agricultural Extension Service, free of charge, to farmers for erosion control and reforestation purposes. Some of the trees are being distributed to lumber companies and munic ipalities for forest planting and watershed protection”. The first truck load of seedlings arrived at the state forestry ware house from TVA’s forest nursery at Clinton, Tenn. Within two hours, the 160,000 white pine. 48,- 000 shortleaf pine, 28,000 yellow poplar, and 6,000 black locust seedlings had been transferred tc other trucks, and were on their way to the landowners in Hay wool, Btincombe, Henderson, Madi on, Mitchell, Yancey, Avery and Wattauga counties. About 50,000 o’ - the trees will be planted in Buncombe county. Farm management Supervisor W. B. Collins, who was also on hand to help with the tree distri bution, stated that “there are about 25,000 acres of idle and eroded land on farms in western North Carolina that should plant ed to trees, and I don't doubt that there’s three times that much cut over woodland area that needs to he under-planted in order to make it produce what it should produce. We’ve got a big job ahead of us. We’re making a small start now*, but next year we hope we can get two million trees for the farmers to plant”. In discussing how the land owners can obtain the tree seed lings’ Mr. Corpening said “anyone who is interested in planting trees on his property should get in touch with the county farm agent or any member of the North Carolina division of forestry and parks”. He said “there is no charge for the trees, but they are not to be used for ornamental or landscap ing purposes. The landowner must agree to plant the trees promptly and protect them from fire and grazing”. Mr. Corpening empha sized the importaance of fire pro tection by saying that fires will re tard growth and damage large trees, but small trees are killed outright by fire”. • Don’t miss your newspaper— Be sure to pay >our subscription. NOTICE ! For sometime the dog situ ation in Black Mountain has been of a serious nature. But with the coming of summer and the threat of rabies, the matter is becoming more critical. Town officials are asking full cooperation of dog owners. Please keep your dogs tied. Those found running loose and causing a public nuisance will be disposed of by the police de partment immediately. Appoint Committee To Study Commercial Rates Notice ! Tickets for the Black Moun tain Woman’s club annual birth day banquet to be held Thurs day, April 15, at 7 p. m. at the Monte Vista hotel may be ob tained from Mrs. E. J. Anthony, Rice’s Quality store, Mrs. Paul Harris at Ridgecrest, Mrs. George Stone at Montreat, and the NEWS office. All members and their hus bands are urged to be present. Nancy R. Poteat On Dean’s List Stillwater, Okla., (Special)— Nancy Ruth, Poteat, A & S who was graduaated from Black Moun tain high school, was one of the 1721 Oklahoma A and M. college students whose names appeared on the deans’ list of distinguished students for the first semester, H. H. Flinn, assistant registar, announced. To be eligible for this high honor, a student must be aggre gating not less than 15 semester hours with an average , rade of “B” or higher and w«;h n</grades below “C”. Only a small percent age of A. and M. students’ names appear on the list. Woodcock Motor Co. To Sponsor Junior Team There will be a meeting Friday, April 0, at the city hall of all those interested in a Junior American Legion base ball team for Black Mountain. The time is 7:30 p. m. and both players and the parents of boys who wish to try out for the team are invited to be present. Sponsored annually by the Ford .Motor company, the Junior Ameri can Legion program calls for district, state, and national tourn aments. Many professional players have used the junior team as a stepping stone to the major leagues. Max Woodcock of the Woodcock Motor company has offered to outfit the local nine with Carl Myers, former college player and athletic director at North Dakota State college, to serve as coach. Games are played on Saturday morning. All those interested are request ed to be present tomorrow (Fri day) evening. Ideal Beauty Shop Closed For Moving The Ideal Beauty Shop will be closed until further notice while moving to the new location at the intersection of North Fork and Montreat road, Mrs. O. F. Blankin ship, owner and manager, an nounced today. The shop was formerly located in the Reed building on East State street. When the place reopens for business it will be in the building recently constructed on the east side of Montreat road, just north of the intersection of North Fork. Watch the NEWS for the date. SELL IT WITH A CLASSIFIED Pay only 5c Council Will Decide Water Question Tuesday A committee from the Black Mountain industrial group met with city officials early this week to work out plans for increasing the water rate to industrial users of the town. B. W. Roland and Ben Hunter represented the citi zens’ committee while City Clerk Dean Willis and Thad Burnette took part for the city. The decision to appoint a com mittee to study the situation de veloped from the special session held by the city council at the city hell Thursday night and at tended by a representative group of men and women from the in dustries which would he affected by the new rates. In the absence of Mayor J. L. Potter, J. G. North eott, member of the city council, presided. The members of the com mittee will make their report i at the regular meeting of the council which will be held at the city hall, Tuesday, April [ 13, at 7:30 p. m. At this time final disposition is expected to be made of the water question. The public is cordially invited to he present. The water rates for industrial users were raised in 1944 at the same time that the domestic rates 1 were increased, it was learned from an ordinance read by Dean Willis. , For some unknown reason the new i rates to commercial users were never increased. At the request of Acting Mayor Northcott, Mr. ; Willis drew a chart showing just ■ how the new increase would affect . the large users and what the rate I would be compared with that of Asheville and of other cities. Pointing out the need for the town to develop new sources of ; water and revenue to meet the ris ing cost of labor and materials, ■ Thad Burnette, who serves the ■ town board in an advisory ca ; pacity, explained that the Black Mountain rate was the same as that which was formerly used by the city of Asheville but was much 1 lower than that which they now have in force. “To insure an ade quate supply of water it is abso lutely essential that the board find new sources of revenue,” Mr. Bur nette said. “And Black Mountain is in the same situation as other towns all over the country. All of them have been hard hit by the rising costs from water and other • sources of revenue.” ■ Ben Hunter of the Black Moun tain Hosiery Mill Suggested that l a plan be worked out which would • make the raise in cost be the same to domestic and commercial users. i “If the domestic users have been 1 increased 25 per cent, then we should be charged the same in crease,” Mr. Hunter maintained. ; “And we would be perfectly will ; ing to be increased on that basis.” 1 After Mrs. Francis Fitzgerald • of the Fleetwood apartments, Mrs. Lee Seagle of the Black Mountain > —Continued on Page 1, Sec. 2
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