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Gel Your Name On The Lions Club Calendar! COUNTY NEWSPAPER $Ef*2M*** -SECrfr&8Efr— Date Sept. 15 Sept. 16 Sept. 1? Sept. 18 Sept. 19 Sept. 20 High Low Pror. 80 54 52 55 54 60 56 82 88 90 89 82 05 .42 PG3 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1954, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA TO PAGES TODAY 5c PER COPY reflections By Gordon Greenwood , do read (he paper. If believe it, ask the folks I‘ , nanaa who last week V , man the hundred made in the date their c was established. said plan as day 1818, . ,,But due to a typo V i mistake, common around I1‘p.n„.r office, the story said T Vl nor W. B. Stone and I a most of the close readers J. one still believes it f, „T case of sabotage. * —R— {•range but true. A man strong local connections rhis wife were swimming at -le Beach this past summer L, a heavy wave caught them dumped the pair hard, the , sans his teeth. L the next hour or so the [jest couple on the beach was man and his wife as they everything but turn the Inside inside out to find the Ejng molars which were in demand for ornamental oses as well as for eating, darkness fell and so did |r spirits as they made their sorrowfully to their tent. I reported on good authority the wife was almost in i as they gave up the falsies I|ost forever. tit during the night they re *d their faith that all was [lost and the first crack of found them on their way (the hunting ground to have iher look before the crowds (, the way they were sud ||y attracted to two small who had been out looking : shells, also ahead of the ■d One of the girls held (something and the man and an almost shouted for joy young lady said: “Look we found this morning on j beach." ■hat they had found w*s the [of missing teeth which had lost quite a distance from V fcho said he didn't believe prayers were antv/ere*d? —R— can lake a mountaineer out mountains but you can’t the mountains out of the tlaineer. ny of us who were born here Blue Ridge range know how [that is No matter where or how long you stay there |wa\■ something that is not until "Those days I’m in' till I climb that moun in the Blue Ridge far away.” is week from far out at Route irlington. Washington, comes pi- written by Mrs. Annie r Hemphill, former resident SDowell county. Mrs. llemp tia- those Blue Ridge Moun Blues Read her poem and | you don’t agree. ODE TO BUCK CREEK |up in the Blue Ridge Moun |ins. there rises a bubbling Ipring. h leaps down the hill-side. ik|j ;i bird of fleetest wing. Buie the big poplars tower, Fr the whispering pine trees, e no voice is heard, save the of a bird, or the low pm of honey bees. hhnmgh the shadowy forest, Per rock cliffs, tuft and sod, phis beautiful rippling glist ph - stream, a testimony to |0(! k' i he Buck Eye ripens, up P(r> the hawthorns bloom; [ r' :,lt' soul communes with ltM midst the honeysuckles' prfume. . tgh the misty valley, pkerc the sunbeams play hide pel seek, "here streams are ribbons, Vs !h>s beautiful stream link i reek. the waters strengthen, hadows begin to lengthen, is decked with meadows ■bln and gay, and the win hills so entrancing, send our thoughts to unseen land far. far B" ay Bn c i to Bla Bala ,l' \ cloud besmirches my W- tor the has dammed up Benin hand of this B th< \ build a dam that f11 1 ach to the sky, "Buck 1 Wl11 go on forever.” | \nnie Burgin Hemphill, Burlington, Wash NlA "kkkend ■' Percy Justus and Pinner of Asheville ' '■'I with Mr. and 1 uteri son in Atlanta. Norma Justus ■ . sity school of Xur L following her vaca |J jti. |1 jdiuv V 1 orate vice President O. M. Alexander 0. M. Alexander of Swan nanoa was elected vice-presi dent ot the 6,000 members of the North Carolina State Em ployees association at the an nual meeting held in High Point. President is Phillip B, Pollock of Pollocksville. Graduate of Swannanoa High school, Mr. Alexander attended the University of North Carolina for two years and was graduated from Cecil's Business college. He was associated with his mother, Mrs. R. D. Alexander, in the operation of Alexander Inn for several years. For the past six years he has been connected with the State Highway Patrol with the Depart ment of Motor Vehicles, stationed in Asheville. Active in civic and church af fairs of the community, the new state vice-president was for two years president of the Swannanoa PTA. secret aiy. of the Swaunanoa Men’s club, and a member of the board of directors. Member of the board of deacons of the Swan nanoa Presbyterian church, he has served as superintendent of the Sunday school for the past eight years. Will Graduate Miss Ruth Watkins, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Watkins of Black Mountain, will be graduated from Watts Hospital School of Nursing, Durham, on Thursday, Sept. 30. Miss Watkins was grad uated from Black Mountain High school in 1951. Power Will Be Interrupted On (ragmont Road In keeping with its policy of rendering dependable electric ser vice, the Carolina Power and Light company is making repairs to a section of the feeder Une seiv ing Cragmont road. All work possible has been completed while the lines w'ere energized: how'ever, in order to complete the mainten ance work safely, it will be neces sary to temporarily interrupt sct vice Thursday. Sept 23. from LtW to 3:00 p.m. Electric service to all customeis on Cragmont road, Rhododendron avenue, and in the general vicin ity of Tomahawk lake will be af fected. Officials of the Carolina Power and Light company stated tha these hours were selected in order to render the least inconvenience to its customers in these areas Bell's Radio Relay Will Be Demonstrated •low telephone calls and tele Uslon Programs speed through ^Pace along the Bell Telephone ^••S‘ems Radio-Relay route will bo demonstrated to the Lions club beic Sept. 23 by Charles McCuis on 01 the Southern Bell Telephone company. Miniature radio-relay apparatus, i('presenting the equipment used to connect Atlanta and Charlotte, to the coast-to-coast chain of tow ers at Washington, D. C., will be used to explain the principles of the new development in the field of communications. I he Southern Bell representative "ill explain that hundreds of tele phone calls and television pro grams can now be transmitted simultaneously without the use of wire or cable by means of high frequency radio beams called microwaves. This new skyway communications route permits static-free transmission from tow ers which are about 30 miles and range up to 290 feet in height. The microwaves travel at the rate ot four billion past a given point each second before they are placed on regular wire circuits and car ried to telephone sets or receivers in the home. Radio-relay was described as one of many new advances that have resulted from research done at the Bell Telephone laboratories in the past years. Model equipment will be used to show how metal lenses focus the radio beam from horizon to horizon along the chain of towers. These lenses are so ef fective that only five watts of power—the amount in a normal flash light—is needed to relay the signals along their way. A question and answer period wi;! follow the demonstration. Get Your Name On Lions Club Calendar Now Last chance to sign up for the Lions club birthday calendar and get in line for a year of fun in watching your neighbors' birth days roll around is fast approaching. A. M. McCoy, chairman, said at the regular meeting of the board of directors. It costs 25 cents to list a birth day date and calendars are 50 cents each. All money above cost of printing goes for the aid to the blind program which the local Lions club sponsors. Call any member of the Lions club or drop by the Black Moun tain News in order to be listed. It was announced that the white cane drive will be held in Black Mountain starting Sept. 23. Again this year the clubs of the district will compete in a contest. Last year Haw Creek raised $14 per member during the drive. Dinsmore Crawford is chairman and will ex plain the campaign at the Lions club meeting at the Monte Vista tonight. In other action the directors voted to reinstate Frank Buckner, who has been ill. and accepted Dr. J. Robeson of the Western North Carolina Sanatorium as a regular member. The club will support Lawrence Laatherwood of Waynes ville, superintendent of Haywood county schools, for district gov ernor and Herbert W. Sanders was instructed to write the Waynes ville club a letter to that effect. The club will meet at the Monte Vista throughout the winter. Musk Club Will Meet Sept. 30 On Thursday, Sept. 30. at 8:15 p m. the Swannanoa Valley Music club will hold its opening meet ing of the year at the home of Dr. and Mrs. S. S. Cooley. 221 Niw Bern avenue. Black Moun tain. Members are asked to note the date and to invite musicians or music lovers who should be en rolled in the club. Come pre pared to suggest new types ot programs for the year or worth while projects. An unusually interesting and fruitful year seems to be opening, with a community Christmas pro gram by combined choirs as the first project. This meeting is for planning and for fellowship. Grove Stone President, Mrs. B. V. Hedrick, Signs Deed For Kearfott Plant Site! k Architect's Drawing Of Kearfott Company's New $1,000,000 Plant mrnMm Request Funds For 6 New Classrooms, 4 Toilets Budget Of $4000 Adopted By PIA What the PTA means to the school was told by three speak ers at the regular meeting of the elementary group at the school last Thursday evening. Speaking for the parents, Mrs. Frank Watkins pointed out that it was a privilege as well as an obligation to belong to the PTA. Tt gives a chance to know the progress and to work for the bet terment of the children,” she stated. Mrs. W. W. White, teacher, said it was a grand feeling to know that an organization was working for the improvement of the school, that underprivileged children would be provided with food and do tting, and that the welfare of the teachers as well as the pupils was considered. She said that the PTA gives the teachers an op portunity to know the parents. Leon Gregory, representing the students, said it made him feel good to know that mother and dad were working with the teachers. He stressed the enjoyment of en tertainment at the parties—and the value of the Halloween carn ival which helps to keep many boys and girls out of trouble on that night. A budget of $4,000. based on ; be maximum need, was adopted tor the year. Teachers and PTA officers were introduced. The Kev. Ihad McDonald gave the devotions and President F. P. Higginbotham presided. Mrs. William Styles was in charge of the program. SWANNANOA OES 132 SETS INITIATION Swannanoa Chapter 132 OES will have an initiation ceremony Thursday. Sept. 23, at 8:00 p.m.. in the Masonic hall. Pave West, worthy matron, and Gun B West, worthy patron, will preside. All Eastern Star mem bcrs are invited to attend. Addition of four toilets in the elementary school and six class rooms to the present high school building will be requested in an application to be sent immediately to the state board of education in Raleigh. This action was de cided upon by the county board of education in the regular month ly session Monday morning at the county courthouse. Cost of the toilets will be $10,000 to $12,000 and of the new' classrooms $50,000 to $60,000, T. C. Roberson, county superintend ent of schools, said. "But the situation at Black Mountain requires speedy action. This is definitely an emergency,” Mr. Roberson pointed out in ex plaining that practically the same situation exists in many schools all over the county—more children than classroom space. The county board of education signed the applications for the toilets, six classrooms and other county school improvements after the close of the session. These applications will be forwarded im mediately to Raleigh for consider ation of the review panel which w'ill pass them on to the state board with its recommendation. The four new toilets at the ele mentary school will be built back to back, one each for the boys and girls, on the second and third floors. The present toilets will be left intact for use of the base ment and first floor. The six classrooms, officials be lieve, will be built at the back of the present high school plant, although it was explained that the panel favored a separate building. The superintendent pointed out that requests w'ere coming in thick and fast for new classrooms from every section of the county. “Many of our elementary schools are s'ill over-crowded and are likely to be for some time to come,” he said. The board was very optimistic that the requests would be grant ed by the state board, and that the wmrk would begin soon after the October meeting of the state board in Raleigh. Six Associates of Asheville have prepared the plans for the new plant which Kearfott Company, a division of the General Precision Corp. of Little Falls, New Jersey, will build on the property pur chased Tuesday from Grove Stone and Sand company. The site is approximately two miles west of Black Mountain on a part of the Old Hampton tract which Grove • Stone bought some years ago. Warhorses Play First Home Contest Friday Bil'.more’s Yellow Jackets will be here Friday afternoon at 3:30 to help the combined Swannanoa Black Mountain High school foot ball team open the home season. Although the boys from Bilt more have lost two games this year, in the opinion of Coach Buf falo Humphries of the Warhorses they have a much better team than the record indicates. “They’re much better than they’ve shown so far and have one of the best tailbacks in the county. They’ll bear watching,” Humphries said. "We can’t afford to let up against hem because they have backs that can go all the way from any place on the field,” he observed. Except for Don Wilson who will miss the game because of an injured side which has bothered him all year, the team will be ready for action. Last Friday night at Oakley the Warhorses turned back the Wood fin gridders, 21-6. in a Buncombe County league contest. As the game opened clouds of dust cov ered the players following each play but this was "settled” to some extent by rain which fell throughout the final three quart ers. The Warhorses uncovered a passing attack which brought two scores and broke the otherwise close contest wide open. After Patton, who scored all three touchdowns, had plunged over for a TD in the first quarter, Greene ran for the extra point. It was 7-0 in the second quarter —Turn to Page 10 —Photo by Edward DuPuy While company officials and Chamber of Commerce repre sentatives look on, Mrs. B. V. Hedrick, Salisbury, president of Grove Stone and Sand Com pany, signs the deed which transfers approximately 22 acres of the Old Hampton property to the Kearfott com pany of Little Falls, N. J., for their new million dollar plant. The site is two miles west of Black Mountain, facing U.S. No. 70. In the picture, left to right, first row, all representatives of Grove Stone, Frank Dunn, Salisbury; Charles G. Lee, Jr., Asheville, company at torney; Mrs. Hedrick, and J. G. Northcott. Black Mountain, manager and secretary Back row, left to right, Waiter Burgess, president, Chamber of Commerce; Will iam Hickey, C of C treasurer; R. T. Greene, business man ager of Town of Black Moun tain, and Gordon Greenwood, C of C Industrial Council. S.'JTTLE TWINS ASSIGNED TO AMARILLO AIR BASE Ray and Roy Suttle, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Suttle, who enlisted in the air force in June, completed their basic train ing together and after a few days in Swannanoa have returned to Amarillo Air Force Base, Amar illo, Texas. The twin brothers are scheduled to work side by side as medium jet bomber mechanics on their new assignment. Council Adopts $65,818 Budget For Coming Year A budget of $65,818 for the fiscal year has been adopted by the Black Mountain town board, but the tax rate will, remain at SI.75 per $100 valuation, the same as for the past few years. The budget, largest in the hist ory of the town government, pro vides $7,000 for labor for the water department and $8,000 for supplies, the largest single items. For other departments the fire department receives $4,000, police $4,500, sanitary $5,200, streets $3,000, street lights $2,100, and sewers $100. Interest on bonds will total $4,907.50, while $4,000 will be used on the bonds principal. Officials pointed out that there has been an increase of $100,000 valuation for town property for this year over last, despite the fact that the valuation of auto mobiles dropped due to deprecia tion. Major portion of the revenue for the year will come from taxes. $28,000. and the water depart —Turn to Page 10 Kearfoft Co. lo Have Payroll Of $12,000 Weekly Construction of a new $1,000,000 electronics manufacturing plant on the Old Hampton property, two miles west of Black Mountain, facing U.S. Highway 70. was an nounced Wednesday by Fred D. Herbert, president of the Kear fott Company of Little Falls. N. J. Employing approximately 275, the new plant will have a weekly payroll of $12,000. Plans are to use local labor, except for a min imum of technicians who will be brought from the New Jersey plant. More than one-half of the employees will be women. A small electric motor will be the principal product manufactured here. The 22 acre site was purchased from Grove Stone and Sand com pany and is part of what is known as the Old Hampton property. ONE OF OLDEST “We are happy to announce our intention of building a new man ufacturing unit here and are look ing forward to becoming a con structive' part of the economy of Western North Carolina,” Fred D. Herbert, Jr., company vice presi dent, said in a statement released, Wednesday. “The Kearfott company is one of the oldest of our American Electronics manufacturers, dating back to 1917, and is a major sub sidiary of General Precision Equip ment Corporation. “This section was selected alter many months of searching through New England and the south and we feel confident that we have made the correct choice.” THANKS C OF C FOR HELP Frank Coxe. executive vice pres ident of the Asheville Industrial council, expressed gratitude to the Black Mountain Chamber of Com merce for the offer of help and cooperation. He also pointed out the tre mendous aid supplied by the State Department of Conservation and Development in Raleigh whose of ficials, Mr. Coxe explained, went all out to supply information and do what they could to help bring this new plant to North Carolina. CONTRACT AWARDED The grading contract for the land was awarded Tuesday to the Perry Alexander company. The building, which will contain 30.000 square feet of floor space, will be a one story structure with air conditioning in one-third. Plans were prepared by Six Associates of Asheville. Construction is ex pected to start in October and pro duction of electronic components within six months. Grading will start at once. Founded in 1916 in New York the Kearfott company made mar.ne equipment and instruments. The founder died in 1917 and the com pany was taken over by F. D. Herbert, who is now president. F. D., Jr., is vice president, and a second son, Sidney Herbert, secretary and director of pur chases. Manager of the Black Mountain plant will be a native Tar Heel who is “glad” to be returning home. He is Frank Waldhost. formerly of Wilmington and a 1925 graduate of the University of North Carolina with a degree in electrical engineering. He moved north shortly thereafter and has been away since. He and Mrs. Waldhost expect to move here soon. LET'S BE FRIENDS Walter Burgess, president of the Black Mountain Chamber of Com merce, said Wednesday “we are pleased that the Kearfott company has selected our community for the site of the new plant. We would have them know that they are welcome and that all of us here stand ready to offer any as sistance possible. We hope that they will consider themselves a part of our community and will consider all of us friends upon whom they may feel free to call if and when we are needed.” MRS. SARTI ENTERTAINS FOR SALISBURY VISITOR The home of Mrs. George Sarti was the scene of a lovely informal tea last Friday afternoon when Mrs. Sarti entertained in honor of Mrs. George Weant of Salis bury, who is visiting Mrs. Ernest Hilfiker. Arrangements of mixed fall flowers were used in the home to decorate. Guests included Mrs. Fred Perley, Mrs. A. P. Perley. Mrs. B. A. Moeller, Mrs. Fred Dawson, Mrs. Lee Hiltz. Mrs. John McGraw, Sr., Mrs. Benjamin Hunt er, Mrs. John Reading, and Mrs. Ernest Hilfiker.
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