fn The March Of Dimes! YOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER 1 Weather Date Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. High Low Prec 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 05 66 59 43 44 42 55 t W 46 51 40 29 21 25 32 i X 2.00 2.41 1.51 0 54 9, NO. 21. THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 10 PAGES TODAY 5c PER COPY LECTIONS Greenwood for the week: A man up his sleeves seldom -li ned in high school, and last brush with the school election I as to run tor the school mayor. While the votes to be stood around and stories—anything to Came the hour when gathered in the aud the election results, rman began to read, best "friends", who me a few minutes they had voted a , looked my way reliability of their borne out by returns. There were of sheepish looking school for a few the two had assurance of sup have been able out how it happened only one vote. The teacher told one makes three, have been my tally, time I have steered There is al ending—come what —R— Black Mountair a red face. Some she invited a ven newcomer to her home When the visitoi that the cold wind: her face raw, the host to be helpful, sen the bath room to use excellent healinf was sitting, sh< the shelf, is exactly what yoi gave her assurance all the time.” the guest gave hei strange look when re the bathroom bm about it until tha! she went to get the herself. Then th< was explained fully the shelf in the spol for the powdei red, yellow, and black Pulvex flea and louse —R— one female citizen should be a masters degree in a friend who was sick sat down to the table husband and children, to the patient, who groaning in bed, and just go ahead and you like. Because the children and I without any troub In fact, I doubt if you. to all reports the one of the quick on record and must have surprised medical men. Right is sound as a dollar —R— were discussing ; one, “You know then smartest individual: He can give you th< any and all question: time without battinj giving time for tl soak in he went 01 enough about S the time he's right —R— why folks worry only two reason: ither you are sue you are not. are successful, ther« ♦o worry about. It failure, there are only ♦o worry about — is good or you are is good, there is worry about. If yoi there are only twt worry about—You are 9*t well or you are pass on. are going to get well to worry about going to pass on only two things te You are eithei Heaven or you are not are going to Heaven ng to worry about , you'll be so busy with old friends have time to worry. boys will RALLY from Bob Jones attend the wee at the American 1 Saturday evening at 7 it is not definite, ii they will be accomj Korean boy, Billy h tell his life story, in charge invite the r Youth Week Will Be Observed At Christian Church The annual observance of youth week will be held at First Christ ian church, Jan 31. - Feb. 7. The young people will have charge of the morning worship service on Jan. 31 at 9:45 o'clock, scripture reading, David DuPuv; Prayer, Myron Nichols; solo, David Marett, accompanied by Nancy DuPuy. Acting as ushers will be I!..\ Davis and Tommie Marett. Mrs. George Maddox, youth lead er. will present the idea of Youth Week. The Rev. W. T. Nichols, pastor, will give a special message to youth and friends. Youth Week, which has been observed for more than a decade bv Christian young people through out the United States, has come to be an event of national signifi cance. It provides both young people and adults who are inter ested in youth with unique op portunities; to dramatically re emphasize the importance of young people in the program of the church and the community; to strengthen the growing bond of fellowship between adults and youth in the church; to bring more young people into a full fellowship with Christ and the Church. Further announcements will be made later concerning the activ ities of the local youth for the following week. Jimmie Buckner Buys Market Jimmie Buckner has purchased Stepp’s market which is operated in the same building on State street with the Black Mountain Grocery company, which is owned and operated by his father-in-law, Lucius Blair. Native of Black Mountain Mr. Buckner attended Tech High in Atlanta but returned here each summer. After graduation in 1948 he spent more than two years in the navy before return ing to become associated with the Klectrolux Corporation of Ashe ville in late 1950. He resigned his position there in January of this year to take over active man agement of the market. Mr. Buckner and Betty Blair were married in April 1949 and have three daughters: Sandra, Terry, and Beverly. Personnel of the store and market include Mr. Buckner and R. G. Summey, who helps out on Friday and Saturday, and Mr. Blair, Bobby Blair, and Conrad Leonard in the self-service grocery store. Swannanoa School Boys Join Junior Deputy Sheriff's League! Buckner, Smith Honored By BOW The Boys of Woodcraft met Monday evening at the Swannanoa Presbyterian church to honor their members that have gone beyond the forest. They planted a mountain spruce tree at the grave of Dr. J. M. Buckner, who was an honorary member and beloved friend of the camp. They also planted a moun tain spruce at the grave of John A. Smith, a charter member and one of the outstanding citizens of Swannanoa. After this the B.O.W. boys made their annual drive for March of Dimes Monday evening in the Swannanoa Valley. Most of the homes called on were very gener ous. They collected a total of $71.00 which was turned over to the March of Dimes office on Tuesday, Jan. 26. Recreation Will Be PTA Subject The Rev. W. Scott Root, pastoi of ;he St? James' Episcopal church and Eugene Byrd, director of the Black Mountain Recreation pro gram, will be the featured speak ers at the meeting of the high school PTA Thursday evening Feb. 4. The Rev. Mr. Root will discuss "Recreation in Our Community’ while Mr. Byrd will explain the year around program of which he is director and which is sponsored by the United Fund, formerly the community chest. Mrs. A. F. Tyson, Jr., PTA pres ident, will preside. This group of boj^s from Swan nanoa schools took the oath of the Buncombe County Junior Deputy Sheriff’s league in the county courtroom on Tuesday, Jan. 19. The oath was administered by Judge Burgin Pennell. This makes a total of approxi mately 1000 boys in the county who have become members of this organization since it was estab lished in the county. Director is Leonard Keever of Black Moun tain. Those from Swannanoa who have joined include: Johnny Adams, David Alexander, Bobby Allen, Donald Allison, Harry Allison, Thedora Ballard, Larry Banks, Richard Bell, Jackie Bennett, Henry Benton, Jerry Bridges, Ken neth Bridges, Gary Brooks, Rob ert Brown, Edwin Brudlove, David Burnette, Roger Camby, Claude Capps, Arthur Clayton, Donald Cook, Albert Davis, Cecil Davis, David Dillingham, Bobby Earley, Hugh Gary Edwards, Melvin Farr, Bobby Fendus, Aaron Gallion, Teddy Gill, Dennis Glass, Anthony Good, Dallas Gragg, Jessie Gragg, Harrison Gudger, Teddy Hall, Robert Haynes, DavidHensley, Wil liam Howie, John Kilby, Larry Kil by, Robert Kilby, Charles King, Jerry King, Bobby Ledbetter, Ger ald Lewis, Robert Lewis, David Ixivelace, Arthur Lunsford, Vance Lunsford, Vance Martin, Kenneth McEIrath, Micky Miller, Chris Nimidis, Clay McKensey, Cecil Mc Mahan. Grady McMahan, Shelby McMahan, Thomas McPeters, Dex ter Morgan, Kenneth Morgan, James Moyers, Howard McKinsey. Charles Mumpowtr, Fred New ton. Tommy Nix, Howard Ogle, Robert Penley, David Pruett, Carl Pullium, Jackie Rhymer, Jerry Rhymer, Floyd Richard, Jimmy Robertson, Buddy Rogers, Charles Rowland, Gerald Roper, Bobby Smith, Benny Shope, J. D. Spillars, David Spivey, Donald Surrett, Lawrence Suttle, George Talbot, Ronald Thomas, Jerry Tomlinson, James West, Billy Wimberly, Luke Wood, Boyce Wright, Marvin Wright, Bill Alexander, Bobby Al len, James Andrews, Donald Bal lard, Johnny Ballew, Dean Banks, Kenneth Banks, Harold Bell, Fer ry Buckner, David Burgess, Harold Byas, Ted Camby, Jack Clark, Charles Craig, Clyde Davis, Jerry Dodd, Jackie Gregg, Steve Lucka doo, David McCuen, Charles Mc Peters, Frank Owenby, Pat Peter son, Arman Ponder, Earl Pullium, Thomas Saunooke, Stephen Smith, John Strickland, J. T. Woody, David Young, Gerald Burrell, Tom my Clark, Robert Duncan, Verlon Hall, Ernest McKinney, Bobby Pinkerton, and Buster Robinson. Students Fill In For Teachers At Swannanoa School When it was necessary for sev eral members of the Swannanoa school faculty to attend the county teachers meetings last week, some of the student teachers of the Archibald Murphey club, Future Teachers of America, had a firsl hand opportunity to go into the classroom and look across the other side of the desk. On Tuesday, when Miss Jody Atkins and Mrs. Penland attended the meeting at Haw Creek school Laura Smith and Ann Walker took over those sections of the first and third grades. And Wednesday the following members filled in after lunch when the high school, science and social studies teachers and the grammar grade representatives attended the —Turn to Page 5 Humane Society In Annual Meeting Leonard Keever Speaker Tonight Guest speaker tor the Lions club at the grammar school to night (Thursday) will be Leonard Keever, former faculty member here who is now director of the Junior Deputy Sheriff's league of Buncombe county. Mr. Keever, who under super vision of Sheriff Laurence E. Brown, set up in Buncombe county one of the first organizations of this kind in the state, is greatly interested in youth recreation. He will tell the Lions of his work in crime prevention and youth activities. Last week 17 Lions and Lion nesses were in Marion lor the chartering of a new Lions club H. \V'. Sanders, international counselor, was toastmaster for the occasion. Roy A. Taylor was speaker and Dr. S. S. Cooley pre sented the Marion club a new gong and gavel. The Black Mountain Lions club was sponsor of the new organ ization. W. K. Brown is a patient at Victoria hospital. J. B. Casey continues to be ill at his home. Head Wilson spoke of the super iority of education in overcoming neglect and inhumane treatment of animals over legal action. En tertaining his audience with many amusing stories delivered with gestures in the well known Read Wilson manner, his talk highlight ed the annual meeting of the May Faircloth Dixon Humane Society at Sarg’s restaurant Friday even ing, Jan. 22. A summary of the year’s activ ities of the humane society was shown by the treasurer’s, secre taries and investigating commit tee’s year-end reports. These showed the many cases handled, new homes found for cats and dogs, inspections of the county shelter and its methods, of an imal exhibits and investigations and corrections of inhumane live stock handling in the valley area. The educational work carried on in the schools was summarized by Miss Sarah Kitchen and Mrs. H. M. Wood. Officers elected for the new year were: F. W. Dixon, presi dent; Clyde Watkins, first vice president; Mrs. E. L. DuPuy, Jr., second vice-president; Miss Sarah Kitchen, third vice-president: Will iam Hinkle, treasurer; Mrs. Henry Pittman. recording secretary; .Mrs. H. W Wood, secretary; Doug Hamby, ass’t secretary. Mrs. E. L. DuPuy, Jr., and H. W. Wood re-elected to the executive board. President Dixon opened the ai nual membership campaign b distribution of cards to workei and introduced guests from th Asheville S.P.C.A., Mrs. J. Liv< say. Bentley Mulford, and Mr: Floy Roberts, who all spok briefly of activities in the Ash< ville society. The fine service rendered thi area by the new county dog an cat shelter and pick up servic tor unwanted animals was stresse by President Dixon who anticipate that the removing of Ashevill phone tolls will greatly facilitat the calling of the county do warden from this area. The e: tablishment of this shelter an sti vice was a project of the Ma l'aircloth Dixon Humane society whose members may look wit pride on its accomplishment, sai Dixon. Those attending the meetin were: Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, Rea Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Williai Hinkle, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Wooc Clyde Watkins and son Bobby, Mi and Mrs. Ronald Finch, Mr. an Mrs. Ross Taylor, Miss Sara Kitchen, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Di Puy and children, David an Nancy, Mr. and Mrs. Doug Han by. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pittma and son Kenneth, Col. and Mr Wilbur Simons, Miss Edna Zicl ler. Miss Gaines, Mr. and Mrs. 1 '1. New, Dr. and Mrs. Homer Ha slip, Mrs. J. Livesay, Bentley Mu ford, and Mrs. Floy Roberts. y s Q Photo by Edward L. DuPuy Kesfer To Speak At Union Service The Rev. Howard Kester, ex ecutive secretary of the Fellow I ship of Southern Churchmen, will preach at the union service, Sun L clay evening, 7:30, First Baptist J church. ^ The union service, sponsored by the Black Mountain Ministerial * association, provides opportunity 5 for members of all denominations ' to worship together each fifth Sunday evening throughout the ■ year. ’ The offerings received at these I services are given to the program for teaching Bible in the public schools. ij A cordial invitation is extended to the entire community. JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB I SAYS, THANK YOU! 1 The Junior Woman’s club wish _l es to thank all the organizations that have been helping with the safety program for this month. ; Last week a picture “A Day In ;. Court” was shown at the elemen tary school. Anyone wishing in - formation pertaining to this pro - gram please contact Mrs. W. T. Brown, phone 7382. Council Passes Cab Resolution The town board passed a reso lution at the last meeting not to issue any more permits for new taxis. At the same time a permit was granted to Nelson Massey to operate a taxi eab which he had purchased from McDonald Cab company. It was explained that granting the permit to Mr. Massey would not violate the resolution regard ing the issuing of new permits, in asmuch as he had purchased a cab which was already in opera tion, and the number of taxis here would not be increased. In further consideration of the taxi situation Captain Earl De weese, chief of the city-county identification bureau, and Sheriff L. E. Brown met with the town board to give advice on an ord inance regulating cab drivers of the town. Capt. Deweese explained the Asheville code and he and Sheriff Brown offered their full coopera tion in checking the records of those applying for license to drive a cab in Black Mountain. The council passed the ordin ance on its first reading. Contract for the new super four lane highway from the grammar school entrance to Ridgecrest will be let in March, _• highway of ficials have informed the mayor and members of the board. The road will run from the west entrance of the grammar school grounds, directly to the curve at Rumple’s store. Each two lanes of the four-lane road will be 24 feet wide with a 30 foot island between and 10 foot should ers on each side, making a total of 98 feet. A bill for $125 was approved lor auditing the library books, and the possibility of using the club house for the youth program in the Finer Carolina contest was considered. Rising Tide Brings News To News Door Some of the older residents say that the rain which struck here lest Thursday night and Friday morning was the heaviest since the flood of 1916. Be that as it may the town was swimming in more ways than one before the storm subsided, the community was without water for several hours, even though there was plenty to be had just outside the windows, and many citizens had a nice time dipping water out of flooded basements. The mystery of the missing water, missing from kitchen fau cets, that is, was a mystery no longer when R. T. Greene, bus iness manager of the town, ex plained that the low pressure was caused when the fire hydrants were opened as a measure to pro tect the auxiliary dam which has been under construction for some time. The danger occurred when the water rose rapidly in the aux iliary dam and started running over the clay spillway. Fearing that the water would soon ruin the spillway and the dam, officials ordered hydrants opened to re lieve the pressure in the main lake. A truck was rushed to the scene and pumped steadily for several hours in an effort to hold back the surplus water. As a final measure a ditch was cut to divert the surface water from the auxiliary dam. Water pouring down the hill be hind the town hall rushed into the 30 feet or so of real estate behind I he News office and caused a flood in the building itself when the drain was overloaded. When Roy Russell opened the door of the News office early Fri day morning, he found a bit of dampness on the floor. Quickly opening the back door he found the water pouring onto News property from every direction and the tide rising and falling at the ' —Turn to Page 10 Charles Spencer Named Finer Carolina Chairman Woodard, Civic, Church Leader Dies Suddenly Funeral services for Robert Lee Woodard, 87, were conducted Fri day at 2 p.m. at the State Street Methodist church with the Rev. Thad McDonald, pastor, and the Rev. W. A. Huneycutt officiating. Burial was in Mountain View Memorial Park. The retired civic and church leader died January 20 at 2:30 p.m. at his home on Church street. Pallbearers were W. C. Honey cutt, R. E. Finch, B. W. Rowland. W. I. Willis, Clyde Watkins and Leroy Mashburn. Honorary pallbearers were offi cers of the State Street church. After coming here from Greens boro in 1911, Mr. Woodard organ ized the Black Mountain Hardware in 1914 and operated this business until 1930 when he sold out to J. P. Ashley and .1. E. Sylvester. He soon joined the Standard Oil company as a commission agent and was an active agent here for the company until his death. His success in business and his interest in the community in which he lived were responsible for his being elected to serve as mayor of the town in the 1920s and in other capacities. He played a large part in the completion ol the watershed, and is credited with securing a Negro school for Black Mountain. He was one of the original organizers of the Black Mountain Hosiery Mill and served as a director from 1929 until his death. Elected superintendent of the State Street Methodist church Sun day school two weeks after arriv ing in the community, he held this office until forced to resign be cause of ill health. He was active in the work of the Methodist church an