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I,' <""• Family ■ • • , f<w to Oive Blood On May 6. Sponsored by th. J.yc.es MAYR- 1 954 Weather Date April 27 April 28 April 29 April 30 May 1 iAn High Low Prec. 82 56 81 58 63 56 66 58 77 55 .09 82 57 78 i 38 .60 i. J O ** THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1954, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 10 PAGES TODAY 5c PER COPY EFLECTIONS Gordon Greenwood By deb,ed to Miss Sallie »ri '.. „f Swannanoa for pa'' ~ — , ,orv Reflections f friends for help ■ml4 ' . .rics and bits of SupP1 !\ IIT m! II! our favorite story lo in the town of •' .'-’the children had Mona‘1,n „„ play but on the p,acP i ^uess y°u roads, as they id ‘f dSr and mud. as the fj -night happen to be. Main Street was the presen v if, < 01 ’s store, and store or two |C i ,i,e creek and some , Tiii. frontier on llin\. K Brown and his fam !‘,fl he,T and there were sev 1 tl bovs m this family. ; U:- very early some 1 ", t0 MCov s store to get Tore matches or something Sed for breakfast. Upon anTup the -tore, the person .0 found underneath the lt , little boy fast asleep. :L<e he was shocked, but examination found it was nt the Brown boys. This man Lund him Picked him up and hun a few yards down the , t0 his mother and she not understand what had merer it turned out that Brown in checking her boys not missed this one. Now. unt' Mrs Brown as 1 did and i wonderful mother she was. not understand how she led him We could in this day lime perhaps understand the ition as children may be left babysitters, etc. ie little boy had gone there his father the evening be Mr. Brown and Mr. Jim Mc met very often to play tkirs They spent many hours thi. their favorite pastime ie. The boy went to sleep Ie they were playing checkers slept there all night, ie boy that spent the night te was the present Sheriff’s [her. Tor..1 Brown, who still in the Black Mountain Town R— Professor, to whom we ard the Bafflegab champion lip upon being asked the Imjla for success in public (taking, replied: "... in jtmulgating your esoteric cog jtions and articulating super jial, sentimental, and psycho lical observations, beware of ptitudinous ponderosity and jlundancy in elucidations. Let extemporaneous decanta ns and unpremeditated ex piations have intelligibility and jsuous vivacity without rodo ntade and thrasonical bom ph Sedulously avoid all Bysyllabic profundity, pusil limous vacuity, pestiferous pfanity and similar transgres ns." r, in plain langauge, just simply, and naturally, and ve all, don't use any big jrds. In -'R>uh* a motorist cam< s a lonely hut and was inter the proprietor with : P to w ritin” up the locality. I*“os house is this’'” Poggs." 1'hat m the world is it buil Ij,',, nimals natural to th Frogs." Pha’ 'ort of soil have you'7” pogs p°'*- abou' the climate?” Jogs. I'-1'1' 1° you live on chiefly? '' 1 hny friends?” IvSp°cn wo°dcraft 1,1 1uccessful I'VE ON CANCER It, u'r " ' aft Swannanoa t- " a v«-ry success (/,w , ■of < 1 ■ ar*d covered i ‘ immunity for s, ' , 1 ;•'•>• were able to lli; ’ one of !i' from any l» f: u 't ' ^ community. b;. were assist t • ’!■" supervisors and |i ■■ of the World V ; a providing ^ After the cam |h. Vi. Walden show l ' !l™-s Which were ■'iich all enjoyed. I1 H Ira •v’ nchcomb is re Fating at |lv home, "Gre; ergoing surger; ••!• ;a! see f af **n w much im and the honv M. Goodman. Parent Says Patience Thin As School Problem Continues In Muddle In the following letter received by the News this week One Par ent brings up some of the ques tions which have been troubling most citizens for the past few months. The News has no answer to give. , No representative of this organi zation nor of any other local body was asked to accompany the sur- ' vey group. We’ll have something to say about that later editorially, but here’s the letter. The writer, ' of course, is known to the editor. Safely Problems Are Discussed Al First Meeting The Black Mountain Safety Council held its first meeting last Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. James A. Crawford on North Fork road. The subject of the much needed and proposed sidewalk at the High School was brought up and R. T Greene, city manager, gave both sides of the problem, the division of responsibility between the state and the town Several suggestions were made as to a practical solu tion. and Sgt. Edward W Jones of the highway patrol made a practical suggestion as an altern ative in the event that paving should prove impractical or im possible. Mr. Greene was elected chairman of that project, to choose his own committee and work it out as satisfactorily as possible. The most important subject for discussion was driver training for high school students. An exchange of ideas was made and all mem bers were enthusiastic It was 1 reported that M. J. Woodcock would donate a car for use in this program. A committee head ed by the Rev. W. Scott Root as < chairman and Sgt. Jones as co chairman was elected to investi gate plans and materials for this project and it was decided that they would visit Lee Edwards High school to observe their driver • training course in action. Pedestrian Safety in the com- . munity was discussed. The Town , Council was commended for its , action on recommendations pre- j viously made by the Woman’s club , Ways of solving the pedestrian , safety problem at the dangerous intersection of Montreat road. State Street, and Broadway were | discussed and suggestions offered by various members. Mr. Greene, ■ as city manager, said he would ' take the matter under advisement, discuss it with the mayor, and j see what could be done in the most practical way. A safety patrol for the schools '• was discussed and a committee 1 elected to work on that project, i headed by Mrs. Robert McDougle and Mrs. James A. Crawford. Law ton Allen of the police department < has been selected by Mayor Kirk- i Patrick and R. T. Greene to work with this committee as the school safety patrols in other towns are headed by the police departments and sponsored by them. Dick Stone, Jaycee president, has appointed Sherman Schell to serve as safety chairman of the Jaycees because of their interest in driver training for high schools —Turn to Page 10 Fred A. Duckett Awarded Degree Fred A. Duckett, .-on of Mr. and , Mrs. William E. Duckett of Bee ( Tree road, Swannanoa, was one of ^ the t!2 men who received a I,aclu- ( lor of Divinity diploma from the Southeastern Baptist Theological ] Seminary at Wake Forest on April 30. , Duckett, president of the stu- ( dent body for 1953-1054, was the first applicant to the Southern , Seminary. i This class will have the unique ( distinction of beinK the first e\ei , to receive a degree from Southern | Baptist’s youngest seminary. Dr. W. Perry Crouch of Ashe- , ville, president of the board ot trustees, presided at the com mencement sermon and exercises, recognizing the first faculty, Thursday, April 29, at 8:00 P- n) Dr. J. W. Store!-, president of the Southern Baptist convention, i and pastor of the First Baptist church, Tulsa, Okla., brought the commencement address. Mr. Duckett’s four sisters, Mrs. Jack Edwards and Mrs. Jack Ad ams of Swannanoa, Mrs. Ed Lentz of Marion, and Mrs. James Elliott of Winston-Salem attended the graduation exercises. "hat And When? Hear K.ditor: I understand that more than a year ago a request was made of the County Board of Education of Buncombe County that a survey be made of the Black Mountain school to ascertain what was need ed to bring this school up to the " -tandard” as set forth by N. C. State requirements for a standard accredited school. So far as I can learn this very modest request was conveniently lost. On November 17, 1953, repre sentatives of the combined Black Mountain High school, Black Mountain Elementary school and Swannanoa School P.T.A.’s did, after some rather persuasive urg ing, get representatives of the county board of commissioners, the county school board and the local school ^committees to meet in a joint meeting at Swannanoa School auditorium with D. Hiden Ramsey as moderator, to discuss our com mon school needs arid problems. At this time another request for a survey of the three present schools were requested along with the needs of the new high school now under construction. .no reply to this request, or any action taken, so far as we know. Some weeks ago, as a result of the necessity of some kind of plan for allocating the much talked of “Second Twenty Five Million” of the school bond money, I under stand an “Outstanding Group of Educators” visited the schools for the purpose of making a “Survey” to determine the “Needs.” The Black Mountain “Needs” must have been very obvious, for 1 was reliably informed that more time was spent waiting to be served luncheon in a local restaurant than was spent in the elementary school on the “Survey.” We yet do not know the results of the findings of the surveyors, neither do we know what or when the school authorities, both county and state, are going to do about it. Just before the group making the survey were due to come here, I did hear of one proposal that was made to correct one of our most “Smelly” problems. That was to take two of our present classrooms and make them into rest rooms and toilets. Well, since we have such a “Plentiful” supply of class rooms, (at Ridgecrest) that might have been a splendid idea. You see we have seven rooms rented from the Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly at Ridgecrest now. I understand that next year we will rent not seven, eight or nine, but 11. These are very nice rooms for what they were intended, summer conference meetings. There is no central heat and no heat of any kind in the toilets. Why a proposal such as this was made immediately be fore a known survey was to be made, is beyond me. We hope to get what we are justly entitled to out of the “Sec ond Twenty-five Million,” BUT don’t let our portion of that sum —Turn to Page 10 Nurses' District Meeting Is Set Reports will be given on the American Nurses Association con vention at the next meeting of the North Carolina State Nurses association, District 1, Wednesday, May 12, at 4 p. m., in the Court House, Asheville. Mrs. Katherine Craig will preside. Those who attended the April meeting in Chicago from the dis trict were: Sister Xavier, direc tress of nurses, St. Joseph’s hos pital; Sister Evangelist, supervis or of obstetrics, St. Joseph’s hos pital; Mrs. Elizabeth Parsons, di rector of nursing, Memorial Mis sion hospital; Miss Barbara Lan dauer, chief nurse, Veterans Ad ministration hospital, Oteen; Miss Ruth Bunker, assistant chief nurse, Nursing Education, Veterans Ad ministration hospital, Oteen; Miss Christine Irving, general duty nurse, Veterans Administration hospital, Oteen. All interested nurses are cor dially invited to attend. TWO DAYS OF BARGAINS AT ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE FRIDAY, SATURDAY The Tea and Topic club will hold its semi-annual rummage sale Friday and Saturday in the build ing on Cherry street, formerly oc cupied by Tyson's used furniture store. The sale will start at 9:30 a. m and end at 5:30 p. m. There will be bargains in clothes for the whole family. Come early for the best buys. May Queen and Her Court At Montreat College! SMPM .-C Managers Elect Myers President Carl C. Myers has been elected president of the Black Mountain Softball league by the managers and team sponsors. Date for the opening of the* fbur team league has been set for 7:15 p. m., June 1, with McMurray Chevrolet company, A&l’ Tea com pany, Woodmen of the World, Swannanoa, and l’aul Harris store, Ridgecrest, as participants. The schedule will run through June and July with a double elim ination play-off in August. Regu lar games will be played on Tues day and Friday nights with Sat urday held open for rained out games and exhibitions. Team managers who have been driving their charges hard in pre paration for the opening game are: M. C. Dickens, McMurray, 1 Jim Shirlin, W.O.W., Bud Norton, A&P, and Wilborn Waters, Harris store. The entrance fee of $25.00 will be required by each team which | will not be refunded. The money will be applied to equipment and general expenses. Also, the man agers will supply the secretary 1 treasurer with a signed roster of . not more than 15 players. The I roster and entrance fee shall be in the hands of the treasurer not , later than May 24. ■ A meeting of all managers will , be held on May 17 to set up the 1 rules and regulations, i Kenneth McCurry is secretary i treasurer. District Women Will Meet Here The Women’s Auxiliary of the second district, Diocese of West ern North Carolina, will hold a general district meeting at the new 1'arish House, St. James Episcopal church, Black Mountain, Thurs day, May 6, at 10:00 a. m. In addition to Bishop George Henry of the WNC Diocese, those present will include leaders from the various parishes and missions throughout this district who will give their annual reports. A cele bration of Holy Communion will be held in the church prior to the meeting. Thousands Have Used FHA Loans To Improve Homes The current Congressional in vestigation of the Federal Hous ing Administration’s Title I repair and modernization program will show that many thousands of home owners in Black Mountain and other communities have used that program to help improve their properties at a reasonable cost with the aid of low, convenient monthly payments, according to J. [ Cook, Sr., local lumber and building materials dealer and mem ber of the public affairs commit tee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers association. “FHA’s self-supporting 1 itle 1 program serves the needs of home owners well, at no expense to the taxpayers, except where it has been abused by a small numbei of irresponsible individuals who have sought exhorbitant profits and have made false and mislcau —Turn to Page 5 Pictured above is the May court of Montreat college. May Day ceremonies were held May 1 on the lawn of Anderson auditorium. Pictured left to right are: Lanette Barnes. Charleston, S. C.; Jewell Neil, York, S. C.; Marolyn Funk, Winston-Salem; Ann Meeks, German town, Tenn.; Helen McCranie, Hahira, Ga., maid of honor; Ellinore Kreiger, Portsmouth, Va., Queen; Ruth Bell Graham, Montreat, crown bearer; Jo Ella Dunaway, Princeton, W. Va.; Sarah Huckaby, Ashe ville; Penelope Hunt, Seneca, S. C.; Ann Broom, Dalton, Ga. (Photo by Montreat College Publicity Dept.) Junior Women Win Mrs. C. T. Sobol, president of the Black Mountain Junior Woman’s club for the past year, is shown with the Preyer trophy which the organization was awarded at the state convention in Asheville last u'eek for outstanding work for the Children’s Home in Greensboro. The club also won a blue ribbon for the best scrap book in (tie state. Junior Woman's Club Wins Two Stale Titles The Black Mountain Junior Wo man’s club won the first place awards at the state convention in Asheville. Mrs. C. T. Sobol, club president, accepted the Preyer trophy which was awarded the club for outstanding' work for the Chil dren’s Home Society in Greens boro. A blue ribbon for the best scrap book was awarded the club also. The Children’s Home is a state project and all North Carolina Junior clubs complete for the Prey er trophy. The trophy is engraved with the club’s name and awarded the club earning the most points. The Black Mountain Juniors earn ed their points by visiting the Children’s Home, conducting a three day study course on the home, publishing articles about the home in the paper, supporting the United Appeal, and urging the support of the home at various club meetings. The club especial ly wishes to thank Mrs. Dempsey Whitaker, chairman of the Chil dren’s Home committee, whose work made earning the award pos sible. The scrap books are Judged for durability, theme, number of news articles and pictures, amount of handwork, and neatness. The Jun ior Woman’s club used building a house as their theme. All pages were blue with white ink and the cover was made of blue print pa per. Using the General Federa tion as the foundation, the differ ent steps of building a house were shown over the year of club work. The scrap book committee was Mrs. Leon Williams, chairman, Mrs. W. T. Brown, Mrs. J. C. Ben nett, Jr., and Mrs. Harold Patton. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hughes of Swannanoa RFD 1, in St. Joseph’s hospital Saturday, May 1. Spring Concert Friday By H. S., Junior Bands One project of the Swannanoa Valley Music club each year is sponsorship of the Black Moun tain High School Band and the Junior Band for young grammar school musicians—in an effort to help their growth. This article is a call to the Valley Music club members and to all valley residents interested in young people. What is needed for the concert they will give on Friday, May 7 at the Grammar school auditorium is the personal attendance of all those who are interested in the development of the Black Moun tain High School Band and its background units of the Junior Band. Come in person, rather than simply to purchase a ticket at fifty cents each. Playing in a band is something thtat appeals to young people—is needed for giving the finishing dramatic touch to their ball games, and may lead to skill in solo work on some instrument, or even to the forming of a concert-band— a special group of finished play ers. Let’s be at the band concert Friday night, May 7, and see the High School Band, the Junior Band, and also the beginners, in operation. Let’s know the players by sight. Let’s sense what instru ments need to be added to their three groups. Music is tun. Let s keep up in music with the growing fame of our local athletic teams. Black Mountain is yet to go all out for worthwhile activities for teen-agers. Here is an activity al ready started needing our backing. Yourself in person, Friday night. May 7, at eight o’clock — Grammar school auditorium! The ushers for the concert will be beginners and band members, Barbara Page, Betty Ann Douthitt, Brenda Cordell, June Boone, and Toni Rowland. Numbers will be given by the combined high school and junior bands and awards made for the best all-round s'uden's and most progress in instrument to both bands. As part of the Finer Carolina program the Alumni association and Woman’s club bought chairs for the junior band room and re plastered and painted the room. Proceeds from the Friday con cert will be divided between the bands for their instrument funds. FHA Style Show Will Feature HS PTA Meeting The Black Mountain High school PTA will meet at 8 o’clock Thurs day night, May ti, in the gram mar school auditorium. The devo tion and style show will be pre sented by the FHA girls, under the direction of Mrs. T. W. Nesbitt. Ten girte wearing the best cos tumes will be chosen to participate in the fashion show at the Grove Park Inn on May 14. Everyone is invited to attend this meeting and see the fine work the FHA girls have done this year. FAMILY BLOOD POLICY TO BE FREE THURSDAY Want to insure your family’s blood needs for the year? If you do, call any member of the Junior Chamber of Com merce or the American Red Cross office and make a date to donate blood when the unit from the Asheville Regional Center comes here for a split operation today (Thursday). The units will be set up at the Carver school from 1 to 5 p.m. and at the Black Mountain Presbyterian church from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m., according to Dick Stone, who was installed as president of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce at the high school lunchroom Friday even ing. AH & Civic Club Wins Second For Scrap Book The American Home and Civic club was awarded second place for the year’s scrap book at the convention of the North Carolina Federated Women’s clubs in Ashe ville last week. More than 1,000 clubwomen attended. Theme of the book which won in competition with clubs from all over the state was “Mighty Oaks From Little Acorns Grow.” The club also placed third in the slate for its Children’s Home work. Every Junior Woman’s club in the state participated in fund raising and other projects for the Children’s Home Society this past year when 320 babies and 99 school age children were helped and placed in happy homes. The American Home and Civic club and the Junior Woman’s club expressed thanks to Mrs. W. B. Burgess, district vice president, for her faithful service during the year. Three members of the AH&C attended. They were Mrs. E. N. Crumpler, voting delegate, Mrs. Charles W Stepp, representative, nd Mrs. Kermit Allison presi dent. The Junior Woman’s club was represented by Mrs. W. B. Burg ess, vice president of district 2, Mrs. Chester Sobol, president, Mrs. William Brown, voting delegate ■ Mrs. E. K. Brake, and Mrs. M. L. Williams. Mrs. Sobol and Mrs. Allison served as hostesses, along with club presidents in district 2 at a formal reception at the Battery 1’ark hotel. The group enjoyed the junior luncheon at the Battery Park on Thursday at which ttime Mrs. Al lison was chosen to act as one of three tellers during the bus iness voting. Men's Club Will Promote Play The Swannanoa Men’s club voted to promote a production by the Swannanoa Little Theatre group at their regular meeting Monday evening at the community building. Alter hearing Jug Walden, group representative, explain that his organization was not asking fin ancial help but for some civic group to take over the responsi bility for promoting and adverttis ing the play, the club voted to accept the responsibility. Tenta tive date has been set for June 25. It was voted to have a joint meeting in July at the commun ity building for the installation of new officers which will be elected at the June meetting. Dr. C. W. Bates, Finer Carolina program chairman, reported that good progress has been made. Four me nanswered his call for volunteers to help clean up the picnic area on highway 70 west of the bridge Saturday afternoon. Program chairman for the even ing was W. H. Noah who intro duced W. F. Culp, district manager of Metropolitan Life Insurance company as speaker of the even ing. Mr. Culp discussed the danger of heart disease and told some of the things that could be done to prevent it. He stated overweight as one of the chief trouble makers. President Jack Smith presided. KERLEE CHURCH WILL OBSERVE FAMILY DAY Kerlee Baptist church will ob serve family day at the 11 o’clock hour Sunday, May 9. Families will be seated together and public recognition will be given to the largest group. A special invita tion is given to all families in the community to be present. Brother Binford’s message will be on the essential elements nec essary to a happy home life. Eve ning worship, “Facing Heavy Tid ings With a Burning Conscience.” Dr. Perry Crouch Will Be Speaker At Revival Here The Rev. W. Perry Crouch will conduct a series of revival ser vices at the Black Mountain Bap tist church May 9-16. Dr. Crouch is pastor of the Asheville First Baptist church. Dr. Crouch Director of the program of music for the services will be Carl Perry, graduate of the Uni versity of North Carolina and pasi professor at Coker college. While serving as minister o music •'* the First Baptist church \shc ville, for the pas: two years, Mr. Perry has developed nine choirs. ~ - .jt Carl Perry Mr. Perry will direct special music each evening during the re vival at 7:45. Services will start at 8:00. Born near Hickory, Dr. Crouch attended Lenoir Rhyne college and Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary at Fort Worth. He was graduated in 1932 with the degree of Master of Theology. The hon orary degree of Doctor of Divin ity was conferred on him by Lenoir Rhyne in 1948. He is widely known for his work in the Baptist church in the south, has served on the Bib lical Recorder board, the general board of the Baptist convention, and the board of trustees of Wake Forest college. He is often called upon to lead conferences in the field of family life. The Rev. Wilbur A. Huneycutt, pastor of the Black Mountain Bap tist church, has invited the citizens of the Swannanoa Valley to at b nd these services. $50 OFFERED POETS IN SIDNEY LANIER CONTEST A prize of $50 "for a single poem is offered North Carolina poets in the Sidney Lanier contest, which closes July 31. Please observe the following rules: send only one poem, 3 type written copies and no carbons; send name and address on a sep arate sheet, not on poem sheets; limit, 32 lines or less plus title; a registration fee of $1.00 is re quired, attach to submitted sheet; mail entry to the Poet’s Council of N. C„ P. O. Box 0259, West Ashe ville, N. C. Prize will be awarded on Poetry Day, Oct. 15. Edward Cordells Buy BR Cleaners Sale of The Blue Ridge Cleaners to Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Cor dell has been announced by W. W. (Pug) Morgan who purchased the business more than two years ago by Robert S. Ecldes, 111.' Natives of Black Mountain, Mr. and Mrs. Cordell assumed manage ment on May 1. Mr. Cordell has had more than 20 years’ exper ience in the dry cleaning business. For the past four years Mrs. Cor dell has been employed in the of fice of Dr. James II. Love. They have one daughter Brenda, 9. Employees will be Mitchell Am mons and Clyde Pucy. Mr. and Mrs. Cordell invite their friends to visit them and to look over their new plant.
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