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Clifford Longcoy, Jr., extreme right, of Black Mountain, was named to George D. Wetherill's exclusive "$100,000-a-year Club" at a recent dinner meeting in Philadelphia. Here he is shown with four other members of the club receiving an engraved silver plaque from John T. Ash, Jr„ Wetherill sales manager. . Graduate of Black Mountain High school and the University of Tennessee, Mr. Longcoy is a veteran of service with the U. S. Navy. He has been connected with the Wetherill company since his grad uation from OT. He covers North Carolina and several southern states. Hs father, C. R. Longcoy, Sr., was with Wetherill for many years prior to hie retirement two years ago. _ MONTREAT By Min Julia Stokes The Youth Fellowship met in the Rec room in the Assembly Inn at 4:45 p.m. Sunday. Vesper8 was held in Gaither Chapel at 7:15 J>.m. The comrade ship group had the program. The Life Service group was held at 8 p.m. in Gaither with Mrs. J. H. Skelton as guest speaker. Her topic was “The Christian Home.” On Monday at 6:30 p.m. the Men of Montreat had a good at tendance at their supper meeting in Assembly Inn. The executive board of the Wo men of the Church was held on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in the sun parlor of Assembly Inn with the president, Mrs. ^Collins Lee, in charge. The circles of the Women of the Church will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 14 as follows: Circle No. 1, Mrs. A. C. Holt, chairman, will meet in the home of the co-chairman, Mrs. W. J. Gammon, on Mississippi road at 3:30 p.m. Circle No. 2, Miss Elizabeth Woodhouse, chairman, will meet in Harry R. Gasperson AGENT Imperial Life Insurance Co. Montreal M* — Black Mtn. PHONE: 7368 the home of Mrs. Noyes Wilson on Lookout road at 3:30 p.m. The co-chairman, Mrs. J. Rupert Mc Gregor, will preside. The business woman’s circle will meet in the home of Miss Gay Currie with Mrs. J. E. Maddox as co-hostess. They will meet at 7:45 p.m. The prayer meetings are held each Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the sun parlor of the Assembly Inn and at 7:15 p.m. in Gaither Chapel. There will be a school of mis sions during February in Gaither Hall. Mrs. W! J. Gammon is chairman of world missions for the Women of the Church. The meetings will begin on Feb. 10 with a covered dish supper at 6 p.m. in the home economics room, Gaither Hall. Everyone is invited. After the supper the different groups will meet for study. At this meeting I)r. Carlton White will be the speaker for the adult group. Miss Betty Maxwell will have the young people. Miss Gay Currie and Miss Betsy Watling will have the children. The adults will be under the direction of the Men of the Church. On Feb. 17, as this is the World Day of Prayer, Montreat will join with Black Mountain in the ser vices held in Black Mountain. Ser vices will be at noon in the State Street Methodist church, and at '7:30 p.m., in the St. James Epis copal church with the Rev. Bern ard Trexler speaking. The Women of the Church will be in charge on Feb. 24. The meeting on March 2 at 7:30 p.m., will be under the direction of the Young Adults with Miss Virginia Buchanan as speaker. This will be the closing meeting and the World Mission offering will be taken. The Senior Hi-Fellowship of Ab ington Presbytery held a retreat over the week-end. This group had Benjamin Fulton as president and they held their worship ser vice with the Montreat church ser vice. There were some 180 young people and their leaders regis tered. Dr. J. Rupert McGregor is out again aftdr a few days’ illness with an attack of the flu. Miss Annie Webb was honored by a farewell party given by Mrs. C. A. Stubbs in her home on Ten nessee road on Friday before Miss Webb left for Florida. Some for ty friends attended. Games were played and coffee was served bv Mrs. McGregor. The house was decorated in the Florida Beach scene. The guest of honor was mmrn given many attractive farewell C resents. Miss Webb, who has een a teacher in Montreat college and was principal of the Montreat School for Girls for many years, is retiring this year. She will continue to live in her Montreat home in the summer, but will spend her winters in her cottage in Florida. She will spend some time in travel. She has many friends in Rlark Mountain and Montreat who wish nei well. Mr. and Mrs. John Miller are spending the winter in Florida. Mr. Miller, a former teacher in Montreat college, retired last May and is doing special teaching in Florida schools. The Rev. John R. Williams has accepted a call to the Presbyterian church in Johns Island, S. C. He will begin his work there on March 1. Mr. Williams is filling his engagement this week in the Presbyterian church in Pageland, S. C. He will return to his home on Assembly drive for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Williams will move into the manse in Johns Island on Feb. 15. They will be greatly missed here in Montreat, but we hope they will get back to spend their summers here. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cobum are visiting in Florida for a few months. They are touring many of the southern states on behalf of Camp Merri-Mac. Mr. S. L. Woodward is unite ill in Memorial Mission hospital. This clipping will entitle Ruth Silbert and one guest to free ad mission to see "Station West” at :he Pix Theater. —In spite of the millions of dol lars spent by the U. S. in explor ng the Antarctic continent, no move has ever been made to claim fnv nortion of Antarctica. Uiiunu miMi By Mrs. M. M. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Crons! aw and children have been taking thei vacation in Florida, have returned to their home in Forest City. David Nelon of the U. S. Army, stationed in Korea, received his di charge aryl return'd to his ho ,,e on Upper Cedar Creek. Dav id and his wife, Hilda, are having O'dte a bit of work done on their home, underpinned and a new bath r"«m and water put in their home. '!r. and Mrs. Randolph Taylor, who have been taking a month's j v.u-at on in Florida, have returned to their home in this community. Mr and Mrs. McPeters of Green- ' villa, S. C., visited Mrs. McPet- j cm' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis i Mess, recently. < Kenneth Elliott of Raleigh spent ] a few days’ vacation with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Iioyd Elliott last week. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lytle and 1 children of Winston-Salem visited 1 their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. < Ledbetter on Rrond River and Mr. ( and Mrs. V. C. Lytle, on Bald , Mountain week before last. Mr. and Mrs. Carol White of " homasville, spent the week-end f with Mrs. White’s parents, Mr. i and Mrs. Clyde Marlowe, and chil- i cren on Flat Creek and other rela- j tives in this section. Mrs. Pressley Ownbey, who has been very ill in Marion General hospital, is improving and hopes 1 be able to return to her home this week. CP&L Fights Hike lii Freight Rates Carolina Power & Light com pany this week (Feb. 3) protested the proposed seven per cent hike in railroad freight rates. A plea to the Interstate Commerce Com mission asserted the increase would have cost CP&L an extra $384, 329 last year. Production Engineer Raymond S. Talton asserted that 84.5 per cent of CP&L’s power is produced with coal, which is hauled exclu sively by rail. Last year’s freight bill was $5,490,411, or 20.2 per cent of total operating costs, he said. VIUIIVJ fTfribution :>>-ial contribution to the de •eii>p.uent of religious television va made Saturday by members of he Seventh-day Adventist church. The fund will go toward financ ng a new filmed program series ’or the “Faith for Today” telecast teen nationally and sponsored by he church. This month the program is mak ng a switch from a five-year live >rogramming schedule to the use >f film, L. F. Cunningham, pas or, said. The problems of provid ng kinescopes to the 130 stations arrying the program will be eased >y using film, he explained. The denominational program is tesigned especially to reach the inchurehed, Pastor Cunningham minted out. Its format is that if a modern-day parable—every lay problems dramatized and met vith solutions from the Bible. By film too, he said, the pro tram travels as far as North Af rica and Saudi Arabia. Mail to oling 8,500 letters a week flows nto the program headquarters in 'Jew York City. “Faith for Today” is seen here svery Sunday at 11:30 on channel !, Station WBTV. An increase as big as railroads lave proposed would create a “ser ous problem,” he added. The Util ties Commission has protested the increase, declaring that freight •ates have risen 83 per cent since World War II. SELF-SERVICE LAUNDRY Open All Day Mon.; 8-12 Wed.; 8-12 Fri. Free Wash—Bring or send a new customer to the Wash Spot and get 1 wash free. THE WASH SPOT 131 Broadway — Black Mtn. MR. THOMAS S. SHARP HONORED BY GROUP Mrs. Thomas S. Sharp has been awarded an honorable mention in a pen women lecture contest. She is a member of the New Bern Rranch of American Pen Women. Consuls of Mexico, Central Amer ica and South America made the award for lecture series designed to bring "About *n Better Under standing of Our Southern Neigh tors.” Mrs. Sharp gave 16 illus trated lectures on Ancient and Modern Civilization and Culture of Mexicans, Mayans, pre-lucas and Incas before various clubs, col leges and other groups during 1955. She has been asked by the con test committee to speaT biennal convention of Pen men in Washington, D. C., 10. She will receive the award at that time. —The minimum age for retire ment from the Navy is 37’i years and one day. 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Powers been boosted right across the board in modern short-stroke V8’s and efficient, valve-in-head 6’s! . There’s a V8 for every model, either standard or as an extra-cost option. And Chevrolet’s famous truck 6’s have higher than ever com pression ratios! Come on in and see all the new advantages you get in these great new Chevrolet trucks! Anything less is an old-fashioned truck! Fast tracts About New '56 Task-Force Trucks A MODERN, SHORT-STROKE V8 FOR EVERY MODEll* MORE POWERFUL VALVE 1N-HEAD SIXESI AN AUTOMATIC DRIVE FOR EVERY SERIES) GREAT NEW FIVE-SPEED SYNCHROMESH TRANSMISSION If ULTRA-MODERN FEATURES LIKE HIGH-LEVEL VENTI LATION AND CONCEALED SAFETY STEPSI TUBELESS TIRES, STANDARD ON ALL MODELSI FRESH, FUNCTIONAL WORK STYLING THAT FITS THE JOBI *V8 standard in L.C.F. models, an extra-cost option in all other models, tOptional at extra cost in a wide ran^e of models. McMurray Chevrolet Co. SWANNANOA LOT ACROSS FROM POST OFFICE STATE STREET — PHONE 3141 — BLACK MOUNTAIN
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