I BC Selectjt Lights As First Project!
Lighting the football field has been select
ed as the first project of the newly formed
Valley Boster-elub which was organized to
promote athletics at the three schools here.
Black Mountain and Swannanoa Elementary,
and Owen High.
As its first promotion effort the club will
sponsor a doubleheader basketball game on
Friday evening, Nov. 25. to dedicate the new
Owen gymnasium which has been equipped
with the latest type roll-away seats. Leaders
of the club hope to pack the gym at the dedi
cation with 1500 fans who are interested
in helping to establish the best high school
athletic plant and program in the area.
At every meeting and before any civic
group which they have been asked to tell the
story of the YBC, the officers and directors
have emphasized that the organization ex
pects to work for what it gets. “We do not
seek nor do we expect any special favor from
any individual or organization. We believe
that we have something to offer the Swan
nanoa Valley and that by hard work, honest
effort, and a planned program we can gain
the support of the citizens of the community
in building a football field and establishing
an athletic program of which we can all be
proud,” officials said.
It will take more than the efforts of one
or two indidivuals or of one or two groups to
fence the field, install lights, and build the
stadium. The cooperation of every citizen
interested in sports, the school, or the com
munity will be sought by those who have
taken upon themselves this important task
We can have the best in North Carolina.
We should not be satisfied with anything less.
1 Swannanoa News
MRS. B. B. HENSLEY
1 Route 1 Phone 7537 1
''YOU MAKE THE NEWS''
E=.. ..ilium..
Garden Club.
Seventeen members of the Swan
nanoa Garden club were present
at the November meeting: which
was held at the home of Mrs. J.
M Buckner Thursday afternoon,
Nov. 3. Mrs. C. W. Bates was
associate hostess.
A most interesting display^ was
shown by the guest speaker Stew
art Miller,. He spoke on ways
to “Garden Under Glass,” explain
ing various ways of forced bloom
ing, providing artificial sunlight
for the plants and many other in
teresting facts pertinent to house
gardening.
Following the program a re
freshment course was served by
the hostesses.
Home Demonstration
The Home Demonstration club
met Monday afternoon at the Com
munity Club House in Grove
mont. Seventeen members attend
ed.
Mrs. Mamie Sue Evans, home
demonstration agent, displayed
various Christmas decorations and
gave directions for making them.
Various members had made can
dles and were shown how to dec
orate them. It proved to be a
most interesting program.
Mrs. C. S. Porter. Mrs. J. B.
Nichols, and Mrs. A. B. Whitt,
hostesses, served a salad course to
the group.
Methodist Annual Supper.
The annual Thanksgiving sup
per will be held Thursday evening
at 6:30 in the Fellowship Hall of
the Swannanoa Methodist church.
Everyone is cordially invited to at
tend.
Quarterly Conference.
aiuv. iu tut: uuic »t*L i<»i me
first quarterly conference of the
Methodist church. The meeting,
which will be held at the church,
will be presided over by the Rev.
J. H. Fitzgerald, district superin
tendent.
Youth Attend Rally.
Eight young people of the Youth
Fellowship group of the Swan
nanoa Presbyterian church attend
ed a rally at Oak Forest Presby
terian church, Sunday afternoon.
Their pastor, Rev. G. B. Talbot,
and James Davidson, adult advisor,
accompanied them.
w. s. C. 8.
The Woman’s Society of Chris
tian Service met Tuesday evening,
Nov. 1, at the Methodist parson
age. Mrs. C. W. Bates, president,
began the meeting by relating a
true story of a family she knows,
which should be a challenge to any
body to overcome untold difficul
ties, and an inspiration to every
one to do more work for the
church. With the Thanksgiving and
Christmas seasons approaching,
this story was especially fitting!
During the business session plans
were made for the November and
December activities of the society.
Mrs. Betty Holbert gave an in
teresting discussion of the Novem
ber topic for study, “Women and
the Church—Through the Centur
ies.”
Mrs. C. C. Allen, Mrs. Lynn Gill,
and Miss Betty Tipton, hostesses
served apple pie, ice cream, and
coffee to the following members:
Mrs. J. V. Brigman, Mrs. Mildred
Scott, Mrs. Ted Smith, Mrs. Louise
Warlick, Mrs. C. W. Bates, Mrs.
Elmer DeBruhl, Mrs. Betty Hol
bert, Mrs. Whitt Gibson, Mrs. El
mer Griffin, Mrs. G. H. Farr, Mrs.
Nellie Wilkins, Mrs. Pearl Jarrett,
Mrs. W. G. Harrison, Mrs. Alfred
Astley, and Miss Laura Shuford,
and to a guest, Mrs. Kate Shuford
Seaward, who lives at Long Island,
N. Y.
Emma Baker Circle.
The Emma Baker circle met
'"v evening at the home of
>• Ensley with seven
n ■me visitor present.
Black i^iiiifain
NEWS
One of Buncombe County's fore
most weekly newspapers published
every Thursday at Black Mountain,
N. C., in the heart of the prosper
ous Swannanoa Valley, great re
ligious and resort center and
growing industrial area.
Gordon H. Greenwood
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second class matter
September 13, 1945, at the Post
Office in Black Mountain, N. C.,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription Rates
Buncombe and
McDowell counties $2.50 per year
Outside Buncombe and
McDowell $3.00 per year
Awarded A rating by Commun
ity Research Bureau.
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The meeting was opened with
prayer by Mrs. W. C. Shope fol
lowed by the hymn "The Great
Physician.”
The business session followed
after which a program was pre
sented with Mrs. J. P. Bennett in
charge. Topic of the program was
"Medical Missions in Mexico.”
Those takins? part in the program
in addition to Mrs. Bennett were
Mrs. Ila Eller, Mrs. Waco Carrol,
Mrs. Joe Rector, Mrs. Ensley and
Mrs. Shope.
Mrs. Brooks gave the devotion
als, prayer was by Mrs. Vincent
Gragg.
The meeting was dismissed in
prayer by Mrs. Vida Brook-.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess and enjoyed by every
one.
School Menu.
Monday, Nov. 14—Barbecue in
buns, buttered potatoes, cabbage
and carrot slaw, blackberry pie.
Tuesday, Nov. 15— Meat loaf,
rice, buttered green peas, oranges,
Wednesday, Nov. 16—Roast pork,
grav", mashed potatoes, eollard
greens, hot biscuits, applesauce.
Thursday, Nov. IT Macaroni
and cheese, buttered green beans,
slaw with pimentos, chocolate
pudding with whipped cream.
Friday, Nov. 18--Soup beans,
French fried potatoes, rutabagas,
corn bread, cookies.
Bread, butter and milk are serv
ed in addition each day.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. John Parker and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roberts and
son recently returned from a four
day vacation to Washington, I). C.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Whitt drove
to Hendersonville Sunday to visit
Mr. Whitt’s neice, Miss Margaret
Whitt, who is taking nurses train
ing at Mountain hospital.
Miss Bessie Bradley is recover
ing very nicely from a major op
eration she underwent last week
at St. Joseph’s hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Baker and
daughter. Georgia Ann of Char
lotte, visited Mrs. Ross’ parents,
Rev. and Mrs. Stanley over the
week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Bennett spent
a most enjoyable day last Sunday
visiting in Rutherford county.
They attended morning services in
the Mt. Creek church and lunched
with Mr. Bennett’s niece, Mrs. Dix
ie Henson in the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen McCall and
daughter Joan, visited Sunday eve
ning at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
B. B. Hensley.
Mrs. T. C. McPeters is improv
ing slowly from a bad case of
jaundice.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles English,
and Mr. and Mrs. Burgess Hensley
drove up the parkway Sunday af
ternoon. The ice clinging to the
rocks and the cold penetrating
wind surely made us realize how
near winter is.
SSRL SCOUT
NEWS
TROOP 89
Last Monday we started work
on some baskets and then had
our patrol meetings. After our
patrol meetings, we dismissed.
This Monday we also began with
our baskets. After working on
the baskets for awhile, those who
chose to work on the Cook’s Badge
went in one room, and those who
chose to work on the Adventurer’s
Badge went in another. The cooks
planned our menu for a cookout
we plan to have. The Adventur
ers discussed the safety precau
tions in building fires, three games
that we can play while on the
cookout, and “good manners” in
the out-of-doors.
After our patrol meetings, we
dismissed.
—Ann Beddingfield, reporter.
TROOP 89
We met at the First Baptist
church on Nov. 7. After our pa
trol meetings we discussed the re
sults of the cookout we had Sat
urday. After working on our
baskets, we dismissed.
We are glad to have Eleanor
Sexton and Nana Beha as new
members to our troop.
Next Monday we will have our
first meeting in the elementary
building.
Ann Beddingfield, reporter.
O’NEALS HAVE TWINS
Mr and Mrs. G. C. O’Neal Jr.,
of Chattanooga, Tenn., announce
the birth of twin daughters on
Nov. 5. Mrs.. O’Neal is the former
Miss Louise Carver of Black
Mountain.
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LETTERS
GREAT COMMUNITY EFFORT
October 26, 1955.
The Editor,
The Black Mountain News,
Black Mountain, N. C.
Dear Mr. Greenwood:
I have just returned from Chi
cago and Baltimore as the guest
of the Shell Oil company and have
had a perfectly wonderful trip.
In Chicago I received the Carol
Lane award made to our club for
its traffic safety program. When
I accepted the award I was think
ing of the many civic groups and
the many interested individuals
who made it possible for our club
to receive this honor. I feel that
they, through the Black Mountain
Safety Council, deserve a great, I
should say, major portion of the
credit. The Woman’s club could
not have accomplished anything
without the real cooperation of
such groups as the P.T.A.’s, the
B. & P. W., the Jaycees, the Lions
club, the Chamber of Commerce,
Town Council, the other women’s
clubs, our police department, our
school principals, our mayor, and
our State Highway Patrol. These
have united throught the Black
Mountain Safety Council and
through their representatives we
have all worked together to make
our community a safer and there
fore happier place to live.
While in Chicago T told Carol
Lane about this fine group and
asked if next year we might enter
it in the national awards. She is
to let me know but she believes
we can. You see the Carol Lane
Awards arc given in the interest
of women’s activities in safety but
of course in most cases men share
the responsibilities.
How i wish all of these people i
who participated in our community <
safety program could have been
present at the National Safety i
Congress. It was inspiring to see c
twelve thousand people all gath
ered together from over the na- I
tion. in the cause of safety. The £
speakers were inspiring because \
of their enthusiasm and their sin- -
cerity. They were top people,
both men and women, who had
accomplished something in the
field of safety on state and na
tional levels. But more about this
in another story.
With your permission I should
like to do a series of sketches
about, the individuals in our com
munity, members of the Safety
Council and others, who have par
ticipated and are continuing to do
so, in community safety. 1 believe
that the people of our community
would enjoy knowing more about
them, who they are and what they *
do. All of them have given of
their time and intelligence and en
thusiasm motivated by a sincere
desire to serve others.
Sincerely,
Clara L. Crawford,
Black Mtn. Woman’s Club,
The Black Mtn. Safety
Council.
—It is widely accepted that
looking back before opening the
driver’s door is a sound procedure
after parking parellel but what
can be done with the driver who
looks back, sees a car 50 feet away
coming 25 mph and then opens the
door and steps out into the path
of the car ?
—Average production of honey
per colony in North Carolina this
year is estimated at only 19
pounds’ seven pounds below last
year’s average yield, according to
the Crop Reporting Service.
—Production of flue-cured to
bacco for the state, as of October,
is estimated at 1,020,775,000 lbs,
up 18>o million from the Sept
ember 1 forcast.
A child’s appeal for help is
graphically represented in this
reproduction of campaign canis
ter, being displayed nationally
as part of the 1955 Thanksgiv-j
ing March for Muscular Dys-'
trophy, Nov. 21-25, sponsored by
Muscular Dystrophy Associa
tions of America, Inc. In chil
dren, the disease is always fatalj
Your contributions for research!
spell hope for 200,000 victims^
most of them children.
Mrs. H. B. Kerlee, left, and Mrs.
Addie Brittain, both charter mem
bers of the State Street Methodist
church, hold the keys to the new
educational, building;, which was
opened with proper ceremony on
Oct. 31. The two charter members
cut the ribbon at the opening ex
ercise>.
Church officials in the picture
include the Kev. Robert Wallers,
pastor. Mrs. Gordon Greenwood
president Woman's Societ> of
Christian Service. J Huger
aid. district superintendent. I>r. K.
h. Hrake. Thomas Nesbitt, build
ing committee chairman "ho pre
sented the building to the trustees.
\\ |t. Pollard, chairman of the of
ficial board. N. C’. Shuford. J. (i.
Northcott, K. I). Kogers. William
Hickey, Dcmpwy Whitaketr, and
H. W. Sanders, chairman of the
building funds committee. A rec
ord crowd attended Sunday school
following the service.
Photo by Gragg
Life In The
Mountains
By Artus Moser
(Mr. Moser, who is regarded as
an authority on the folklore and
history of Western North Caro
lina. will give further information
regarding Michaux and other
early explorers in this region in
future articles.)
On Highway 70 as you enter
Black Mountain you see a marker
which reads: “Andre Michaux
(pronounced Micho)—French bot
anist. pioneer in studying flora
of Western North Carolina, visit
ed Black Mountain in August,
1794.’’ That was while George
Washington was president; and
Black Mountain, if there were any
dwellings here then, was known
as Gray Eagle. This name was
given to the village as it grew,
by the first adventurous pioneers
who braved the wilderness and
the Indians to settle in this de
sirable location in the valley.
But Michaux, the man who dis
covered the mystery flower of the
Carolina mountains, was one of
the very first to find this region
so desirable. As a matter of fact,
he made a number of trips into
this region in search of the wond
ers to be found here. He kept a
diary, published in London in
1805, which still makes exceed
ingly interesting reading. I shall
riuote from it later.
In 1785 the Government of
France sent him to the United
States to collect samples of the
'•ast and strange variety of plants
and flowers to be found in this
country Soon after reaching
New York, on November 13. ana
acting under the direction of his
sponsor, he established a nursery
in Bergen County. New Jersey, for
the cultivation of American trees
and shrubs, and from there he
planned to ship them to France
to be replanted at Rambouillet.
At first, he began the botanical
exploration of New Jersey. Penn
sylvania, and Maryland. It was
not long until he was sending ship
ments of unusual trees and shrubs
from his garden to France.
In 1787 he founded another
nurserv of like character near
Charleston. S. C. There he re
sumed his botannical researches,
and began to extend them far
and wide. He collected informa
tion from the Cherokee Indians
and the “long" hunters about
strange and unusual plants to be
found in the vicinity of Western
North Carolina, although this part
of the country was not near as
well known as at present.
There was the legend of the
great curing powers of many of
these herbs. The men and worn
en who lived in the foothills and
in the deep mountain valleys
would tell how a good dose of
cherry bark bitters and whiskey
in the spring of the year always
improved the blood and gave new
resilience to life. It was said to
be good for the system in general.
Yellowroot also was made into
another tonic "guaranteed to pick
anybody up u'ho wasn’t much’
and put them on their feet again.
There was she-balsam along with
i
Auto Club Members!
Experienced operators will fill your tank, change your
oil, grease your car and check your tires.
A. A. A. ROAD SERVICE
MOUNTAIN VIEW TEXACO
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U. S. 70 BLACK MOUNTAIN PHONE 9254
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Swannanoa, N. C. Phone 7283
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Come in and ask for your free entry blank. Some
one has to win. We hope you do!
UZZEU’S MX ALL DRUG STORE
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Phone 4121 — PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS — We Deliver
a hunk of balsam bark boiled in
to a brew for kidney trouble.
Some people used ivey tea instead.
Sage was the cure for common
colds in those days. If the cold
was too severe, they made tea
from pennyroyal. This was also
recommended for neuralgia
Many a mountain man or wom
an with the "nervous" headache
treated it with cold or hot packs
of catnip and dock leaves. It was
found that a poultice of dock leaves
could draw the soreness out of
boils. And. strange to say. the
scientists have found only recent
ly that underneath these same
dock leaves penicillin is to be
found And. the herb business is
still a big business, and many a
fine medicine is still concocted
from these mountain herbs Let
those who want to, laugh at the
old-fashioned herb doctors and the
mountain remedies—I'm not one
of them.
The mountain women and child
ren and many of the men have
been gathering and marketing the
mountain herbs and roots whose
medicinal qualities have been
known and talked about around
the firesides for generations As
the present-day supplies of herbs
are being cut off or depleted in
amount, the drug markets are be
ing harder put to it to find arti
ficial and synthetic remedies to
i. “i
A Note to
Good Health
. . . Prescribed by
your physician . . .
filled by us . . .
promptly, accurately.
Key City
Pharmacy
Next Door to Bank — Opposite
Depot — Phone 5231
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
Black Mountain, N. C
take their place.
Andre Michaux. who made his
famous tour of the southern
mountains in 1802 introduced the
idea that ginseng, which was so
common in the rich mountain
coves at that time, was a highly
marketable herb. From that time
on ginseng digging became a pro
fession in the mountains, and
there are still a few who hold
on to the profession.
HOME FROM VACATION
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Pearce have
returned after a month’s absence.
Mr. Pearce tayed in Alexandria,
Vn., with their son Chester Pearce
and family, while Mrs. Pearce flew
from Washington by American
Airlines on a non-stop flight to
Dallas, Tex . to visit her two broth
ers, Dr. J. B. Chester who has
a clinic, ar-d A. K. Chester, vice
president of a petroleum company.
Pros pc ' for sweet potato
production in North Carolina de
clined during September. As of
October 1, the crop is estimated
at 4,276,000 bushels.
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Durinp the f
of <>»»■ major m " r
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north and east £ * ^
r'Kht arm of n . I!,‘tp
characterized }iv , p
streaks.
On November ii
famous ami rich .h 1 ' »
n,d*. reache 'ho"'"r- the ,
> s*nt men.,r, *nej
fhe sickle of I ,ra,i|ate ;
their orbit coin ; th" '
Temple’s comet ' at.
■ ■ provei • hj
that comet.
Between the i-,u
November anothe,' 1*' ;
Ury or . --
covers by Rich, :n ,4'V H
to have a p,
around the gun f . . . .'i]
wa- found f, have '...V.
At its next return the ,. H
were more widely ' :'"H
was never seen ' agamT?*
year we are visited
shower known a* the ! m -
which are a j
debris left ,n the orhi- b- ,h K
ct. In contrast to the (t
and the Leonids, these a,
slow-moving meteor
leave a train.
Church Officers
Are Elected
Black' M.iunta^e'u'!;1',
janun Marrett, treasure, of
congregation, Her.:. >. .
chairman of the board, . A]J
Perkins, vice chairman ... the nj
ular session last Sun ,n 1
A church mei
at the home of Mr. an ] y’„ j.J
ins. e*
Sherman s;, ;
plans for the building
the new church home <:nd“
broken recently for t . n,..v';mj
in* at the chut • i nJ
street and Church.
CHAPEL HILL WEEK-KM >
Mr. and Mrs. R. \y. ,, . ; y
Toni spent the week-.-n.i 'i
Hill with their <.>n, Hu... \y|
is a medical stu let t at t) ■
ity.
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
Elaine Bastara hr . „p
her birthday anniveru.-v a \0
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