BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS
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Vol. 3, No. 44
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The junior chamber of com
merce has received a check for
« P i, from Mrs. E. K. Knight, sec
retary and treasurer of the Activ
tiA club, to be used toward in
stalling seats at the softball field,
jhis is the first contribution on
this project.
Mondpv night at the chamber
of commerce meeting the di
rectors were telling of unusual
things which had happened to
them. Mr. and Mrs. R. S.
Inkles returned home not long
aS „ to find that a full grown
tree which stood in their yard
had been cut during their ab
sence. Although they have kept
rlose watch, the woodman has
not returned for the wood.
Why or how it was cut remains
a mystery.
J L. Potter came home one
day to find that a light or
telephone post had been install
ed so close to his woodhouse
door that he was unable to open
the door for wood or coal. It
was removed on short order.
The May meeting of the
chamber of commerce was the
first missed by R. S. Eckles
since he became a member.
A. F. Tyson, Sr., Dougherty
Heights Inn, has installed the new
type fire escape which is recom
mended by the state fire law, ac
cording to Roy Orr, local fire
chief.
Someone suggested that this
week's editorial be composed of
only two words. The suggestion
was that we should take half
a page and fill it with the
words: “(irtat Scott.”
In this column last week we told
of the exploits of our former
teammate, Mike Wyly,' Black
Mountain high school graduate
who recently returned to Mon
treat after several years spent in
the Middle West and with Uncle
Sam’s army. Was our face red
when Miss Marietta Yarnell called
Saturday morning to say that we
had mispelled his name.
Well, anyway the wrong spell
ing didn’t fool Gene Byrd and
several others who remembered
WYLY, not Wiley.
When a resident of an eastern
city stepped off the bus recently
and asked where she could find
some mountaineers, the one to
whom the question was directed
replied: “Just look around.
Were all mountaineers.”
"Hut I mean some real ones,”
the poor uninformed soul pro
tested. "I want to see some hill
billies like I saw in lobacco
Road.”
Although she was too polite to
sa y so, the native might have
suggested Maxwell street in
thicago or the East Side of
jWw York. Some folks are too
hard headed to learn that they
have moved Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
WRONG price
In the Jones Food Store ad last
hursday the price of Vienna
sausage was listed at 20 cents per
Pound. The price should have been
one-fourth pound for 20 cents. We
this error.
Sports Schedule
SOFTBALL SCHEDULE
Church League
Jl LY 2
Friendship vs. Ridgecrest
j Methodists vs. Baptists
Ridgecrest vs. Hosiery Mill
jl Ly n ‘g vs - Baptists
Jfethodiju vs. Presbyterians
flee rest vs. Baptists
f u ! ,ior Legion
July '’ Asheville here.
R «herfordton ßlaCk Mountain at
here.
Ph on'e your news to 4101
Metropolitan
Tenor In Concert
At Montreat
El wood Gary, tenor of the
Metropolitan Opera company, will
be presented in concert at 8 o’-
clock Saturday night in the Mon
treat auditorium as the first of the
summer concert series scheduled
for each Saturday night through
out July and August.
' When Gary won the Metropol
itan auditions of the air in 1942,
he was at that time on his way
to fame as a welter-weight boxing
champion. However, his musical
training had been started in his
early childhood under his mother’s
impetus, and he began his musical
career as a singer in Baltimore.
At the same time he continued to
develop a commanding physique
by maintaining his skill in boxing.
He caught the eyes and the ear
of Eugene Martinet, director of
the Baltimore Civic Opera com
pany, and was engaged by that
organization to sing leading roles
in “Cavalleria Rusticana,” “Pag
lacci,” ••Rigoletto,” “Traviata,”
John Charles Thomas heard
him and invited him to sing tenor
in a production of “Pinafore” at
Florida’s Palm Beach. Thomas has
been a constant advisor since that
event in Gary's musical career.
His Metropolitan Opera debut was
in “Die Rosenkavalier,” and this
was preceded by a heavy concert
season in New York, Baltimore
and Washington, D. C., the radio
and his large teaching class. He
was studying with Romano Ro
mani, teacher of Rosa Ponselle.
From early 1943 through 1945,
Gary supplemented his military
career by giving concerts for bond
rallies, U. S. O. shows and other
organizations.
He annually sings at the Balti
more Sunrise Easter service.
The summer concert series will
be under the management of the
Mountain Retreat Association, of
which Dr. J. Rupert McGregor is
president.
McDougles Hold
Family Reunion
With the exeception of Lt. and
Mrs. Robert C. McDougle all the
children and grandchildren of W.
E. McDougle were present for the
family reunion held Sunday, June
27, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
A. W. McDougle on Montreat
road. A member of the armed
forces, Lt. McDougle is on duty
in Berlin. This was the first time
that the group had been together.
Those present included Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. McDougle and Ruth,
Mr. and Mrs. Dwain 0. McDougle,
Pat and Don, Mr. and Mrs. C. I.
McDougle, Shirley and John, and
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W. McDougle,
and Sara, all of Black Mountain,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. McDougle
of Apopka, Fla., Mr. and Mrs. H.
Irwin McDougle, Ann, Jean, and
Dorothy of Charlotte, Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin A. McDougle, Ray,
Tommy, and Edwin, Jr. of Eliz
abethton, Tenn., and Mr. and Mrs.
Willard S. Farrow, Stephen and
Phillip of Biltmore.
OPEN BRANCH OFFICE
The Blue Ridge cleaners have
opened a branch office at the
corner of Main (State and Cherry
streets next door to the R. S.
Eckles’ real estate office. They
will offer the same service from
this office that is available at the
main plant on Sutton avenue.
POWER WAS OFF
A car which failed to make the
curve at the west edge of town
cut off a pole and caused dis
ruption of power service in the
Black Mountain area Tuesday
morning. The car was badly
smashed and the driver hos
pitalized.
DATE CHANGED
The Business Women’s circle of
the Swannanoa Presbyterian
church will meet on Monday, July
12, at 8:00 p. m., at the home of
Miss Frank Davidson instead of
Monday July 5, as previously an
nounced.
Thursday, .Inly ?, 19IS, Biack Mounain, N. C.
The News Will Close
During Fourth Holidays
The business office and mechan
ical department of the NEWS
will close at noon on Saturday of
this week aivl remain closed-until
Tuesday morning, July 6, in ob
servance of Independence Day. In
case of emereney dial 4503.
Correspondents are requested to
place news copy for the July 8
edition in the mail not later than
Monday.
Ready Plans For
Arts Classes
Registrations are being receiv
ed this week for the summer arts
classes at Blue Ridge assembly
gymnasium sponsored by the
Black Mountain Arts club.
Instructions will be given in
water color painting and in pot
tery making by Richard Albany,
graduate of the Tyler School of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Mr. Al
bany, who taught here last sum
mer, has brought an electric kiln
to expedite firing.
Mr. Levitt, a scholarship stu
dent at Tyler School, Temple uni
versity, has also studied at Syra
cuse university and has exhibited
at Carnegie institute, Chicago Art
Institute, the Art Alliance in
Philadelphia, and has won numer
ous prizes. Both Mr. Levitt and
Mr. Albany do outstanding work.
Classes start next Monday.
There will be two four-week
courses given by each: July 5-31
inclusive, and August 2-30 in
clusive. The cost will be $30.00
per course. Individual lessons will
cost SI.OO per hour.
Plans are being made by the
Arts club for group instruction
to young people at the youth activ
ities center at the high school
gym. Definite notice will be post
ed there this week stating hour,
days, and rates for the courses
offered.
Mrs. Tom Sharp, former chair
man of the art appreciation group,
will meet those interested in an
informal discussion of modern art
on the second and fourth weeks of
July and August. For details see
or write Mrs. Sharp this week.
Coffee will be furnished those
attending but table service must
be brought by each individual.
Arts Club Social
Set For July 7
The Arts club get-acquainted
meeting and covered dish supper
scheduled for Wednesday, July
7, at the community house, Lake
Tomahawk, promises to be full of
interest.
At 2 p. m. several artists of the
Asheville Art guild will arrive for
an afternoon of sketching the
beautiful surroundings at the lake.
Visiting or local Black Mountain
artists and school students in
terested in painting are invited to
come join in the sketching, or ob
serve it.
Following the covered dish
supper at 5 p. m., Richard Albany
will give a demonstration of the
molding stage of pottery making,
and Martin Levitt will demon
strate tooling leather.
The supper will be held out-of
doors if the weather permits and
its purpose is a social where the
members and their families can
get acquainted with our summer’s
art teachers at Blue Ridge and
the new club members.
PLAYGROUND OPEN
The community playground on
Church street is now open from 2
m m. to 6 p. m. daily. The play
ground is free to all children be
tween the ages of three and nine
inclusive. Mrs. Oliver McMahan
is supervisor. Provisions are be
ing made to shelter the children
in case of a shower.
NEW SOCIETY EDITOR
Mrs. Dorris McCall, Jr., who was
graduated from the Black Moun
tain high school with the class of
1948, is now employed in the
office of the Black Mountain
NEWS as society editor and as
sistant bookkeeper.
Smokey Says:
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from pi action will prevent low ol
valuable timber
Second Sunday
School Group
At Ridgecrest
Dr. J. N. Barnette, secretary,
Sunday school department, Bap
tist Sunday School board, is in
charge of the second Sunday
School conference which opens at
Ridgecrest Thursday and closes
Wednesday, July 8. This confer
ence is expected to draw some
2,500 teachers, pastors, and other
workers from Sunday schools
throughout South n Baptists ter
ritory. A great • ,-hber of the dele
gates will come from western
states. The conference concerns
receiving at Ridgecrest infor
mation, inspiration, and God’s
message to use in the home fields
of the delegates. Each morning,
there will be simultaneous con
ferences for the nine departments
of the Sunday school; special
sessions will convene at 7:00 each
evening.
The Rev. W. E. Young, associate
pastor, Temple Baptist church,
ivlempnis, tenn., will lead music
for the conference. Mrs. Robert
Guy, Ridgecrest is pianist.
At 12:20 daily, Dr. R. Paul
Caudill will speak. Dr. Caudill
is pastor of First Baptist church,
Memphis, Tenn. The sermon at
8:35 each night is to be delivered
by Dr. W. Marshall Craig, pastor,
Gaston Avenue Baptist church,
Dallas, Texas.
Following each evening service,
Mr. Sibley C. Burnett, associate
secretary, Vacation Bible school
work, Baptist Sunday School
board, will direct a fellowship
hour for all who desire to attend.
Artists Plan
For Exhibition
Mrs. Mary Aleshire of Oak
Knoll Studio, Richard Albany, and
Martin Levitt, who have just ar
rived from Temple university to
teach the art classes sponsored by
the Black Mountain Arts club at
Blue Ridge this summer, attended
the meeting of the Asheville Ar
tists Guild, Sunday afternoon,
June 27.
Plans were made for the annual
street art exhibition to be held in
Asheville on Wall street on July
8,9, 10.
These exhibitions have been
well patronized in the past, re
sulting in many sales and a gala
time for the artists. A new fea
ture will be employed this year
through co-operation of the Ashe
ville merchants in adjacent parts
of the city. This group will dis
play and offer for sale larger and
more valuable paintings and ob
jects of art than could be well dis
played in the street fair and ex
hibitions.
Several members of the Black
Mountain Arts club are members
of the Asheville Guild and will
participate in the exhibitions.
Membership in both art organi
zations is open to all residents
and visiting artists.
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Directors Told
Os Airport’s
Importance
The importance of the Nichol's
Flying service and the airport to
the Town of Black Mountain and
the community was one of the
chief topics discussed at the regu
lar chamber of commerce meeting
held at the city hall Monday night.
The meeting was presided over by
Charlie Spencer, president.
The Nichol’s Flying service has
tried for more than a year to get
a telephone installed, R. S. Eckles,
chamber secretary pointed out,
hut the efforts have failed be
cause of the great shortage of
materials. But during the past
few weeks a line has been estab
lished on the Blue Ridge road
which would remove a part of the
difficulty, it was explained. The
group voted to write a letter ask
ing that the telephone company
hook the airport on to this line
which would remove the necessity
of crossing the railroad with a
single cable.
The importance of the field as
an emergency station and as a
field for private planes was dis
cussed by W. C. Honeycutt who
traced the history of the local
field from its beginning in 1932
down to the present time. “The
field is very useful for private
planes and will help greatly in
advertising the town and com
munity,” Mr. Honeycutt said. ‘‘Al
though privately owned it is
definitely an asset. What it
amounts to is that Mr. Nichols is
furnishing the flyers of the com
munity with an airport free.”
M. E. Rondel, as chairman of
the improvement group was in
structed to erec;. a welcome sign
at the eastern and western en
trances to the city. He will be as
sisted by Luther Kirkpatrick and
W. H. McMurray. Secretary
Eckles was asked to write a letter
to the Southern railway in regard
to the blowing of whistles near
Grandview court, and plans for
a cleanup membership drive were
discussed. The chamber will not
meet during July and August un
less a special meeting is called by
the president.
All-Stars Clip
Champions, 8-7
In a game marked by smooth
fielding, hard hitting and effective
pitching, a team of all-stars were
hard put to defeat the champion
ship Friendship team Friday
night. Lee Marett’s homer in the
top half of the seventh was the
decisive blow. Friendship outhit
the All-Stars, but the home run
punch of D. Turner and Marett
turned the tide in favor of the
All-Stars. The game, one of the
very best of the season, was mar
red by one uncalled for argument.
Friendship:
Rudisill, ss, 4 3 2
Stephenson, p, 3 11
H. Gray, cf, 5 0 1
Gardner, lb, 3 1 2
Myers, 3b, 3 11
Hoschar, c, 3 0 1
L. Fortune, rs, 4 0 2
Carpenter, 2b, 3 0 1
Russell, If, -_4 11
7 12
All-Stars
Burnett, 3b, 3 0 0
Johnson, ss, 4 2 1
Stevens, p, 3 2 3
Turner, lb, 4 2 3
B. Marett, 2b, 4 0 0
Medford, c 3 0 0
L. Marett, If, 4 1 2
Nordhielm, cf, 4 0 0
Morgan, rs, 3 1 0
8 9
All Stars —0 2 2 3 0 0 1-8 9
Friendship ..1 0 2 0 2 2 o—7 12
Sacrifices, Stevens, Hoschar.
2b, Marett. 3b, Rudisill. Home
runs, L. Marett, Turner (2).
Officials, Barkley, Burgess, and
McDonald.
x—Two out when winning run
was scored.