members attend
Kf meeting
Bennett, Jr. presi
' J ,,.hn Klutz, Mrs. C. E.
l Williams, Mrs.
Tlinii'ps, and Mrs. W L.
lrh ,he Black Mountain
k. club represented
' ' , district presidents
f held at the Manor on
■ , d.ne Powell, president
L,,'. 2! presided at the
f She announced the Gen
deration theme for the
Etvled.se is Power . The
U lU, will be "Knowledge
C, in Word, in Thought, in
(;arv Harthaock,
Dr, ident, reported
Itemembrance project.
district
the
on
UNDER NEW
MANAGEMENT
ASH’N shop
self service
laundry
,st of the traffic
.-lit in Swannanoa.
.8:15 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday until 2 p.m.
All state clubs support this pro
ject by sending birthday gifts to
children in the state correctional
institutions.
Miss Powell announced plans
for the district meeting to be held
in Black Mountain Oct. 24 Mrs
Willard Weeks, president of the
Black Mountain Sr. Woman’s club
said that the meeting will be held
in the Methodist educational build
ing with luncheon served at the
Monte Vista hotel. Mrs. Aubrey
Mauney, state president, Mrs
James Harper, Jr., state 2nd vice
president, and Miss Marjorie Yok
ley, state Junior director, will be
guests of the three federated clubs
in Black Mountain for the meeting
Mrs. James Sprung, state cit
izenship chairman, urged all club
women to support a “Get Out the
Vote” campaign during this elec
tion year,
Mrs. Bennett gave a report of
her club plans for the year. She
announced they would again sup
port all state projects with em
phasis on Caswell Training school.
1-ocal projects of the club will
be the school band, scouts, free
lunch fund, Teen-age canteen,
Christmas and Thanksgiving bask
ets, Ground Observer Corps, and
Finer Carolina projects.
following the business meeting,
luncheon was served and a fashion
show of Town and Country clothes
was presented by Phelps, Ine,
Harry* s
leaning Service\
SUTTON & CHERRY
NEXT TO THE BANK
BLACK MTN.
1 have taken over the business
of the Blue Ridge Cleaners
and solicit your business.
Come in and get acquainted
with our type of service.
HARRY GASPERSON, prop.
Formerly with Quality Dry Cleaners
wveny UUls News
Mrs- Fred Watson
Uox 919L Asneville, N. C.
Thursday, Aug. 23)
i. * ^ • -vl- of Beverly Hills
jpUst cnurch met in the church
uiiuitonuin on Aug. 13 at 8:00
. , CK. Wlth eight members and
"slt01's present. The meeting
as. O'esideu over by the program
chairman, .urs. Herman Turner,
the sunbeam band of the church
nau charge of the devotional, led
oy their director, Mrs. J. D. Bak
er. Janice Davis, a sunbeam mem
ber, led the opening prayer. The
gioup then sang their sunbeam
song, gave then motto and joined
I1-*'- leader in circle prayer. The
U..V1.L. ladies were honored with
the presence of Mrs. Louise Alex
ander, president oi the W.M.U. of
Calvary Baptist church, Asheville,
who gave a very interesting talk
on “he Christian Heralds, Go
Proclaim.”
Two new members were accept
ed. They are Mrs. I.. C. Buckner,
and Mrs. Donald lhomas Stroupe.
l_he meeting closed with prayer by
Mrs. Herman Turner.
Mr, and Mrs. Donahl Thomas
btroupe, Mrs. Fred Watson, and
l.erry Watson, all of Lower Craig
circle, visited Mr. and Mrs, Robert
Garris and children. Janice and
LeBaron, and Mrs, Julia Kent at
the Ganis home last Saturday
night,
A large number of the adult
choir of Beverly Hills Baptist
church attended the baptismal ser
vice in the Black Mountain Bap
tist church on bunday night, Aug
12 when one of the choir members,
T. J. Crofts, was baptised by Rev,
J, N. Binford, Others from our
church also attended this service.
On Sunday morning pur supply
pastor, the Rev, Binford, brought
a wonderful message,
On Thursday night, Aug, 23, the
Homemakers class will meet with
Mrs, Helen Bass in her home at
3<j Overbrook road. All members
are urged to attend this meeting.
We were informed today that
our newly elected pastor, William
Snyder, expects to begin his du
ties w-jth us on the second Sunday
in September.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Heatherly and
sons, Ray Jr., and Marvin of Char
lotte, spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Watson and family
of Craig circle and Mr. and Mrs.
G. W. White, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
White and Ray and Mr. and Mrs.
Donald White, all of Alexander.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald White have
recently returned from Africa
where Donald was stationed with
the air force,
Mrs. Roy Thompson and children
David and Vickey, and Miss Wan
da Neal visited in the home of
Mr, and Mrs. Fred Watson on Sun
day afternoon,
Miss Ruby Long and Mrs, Willie
Boatman of Morristown, Tenn,,
were week-end visitors of Mr. and
Mrs, James Long and family and
Mr. and Mrs, Junior Lyda at their
homes on Tunnel road,
Mr, and Mrs. Robert Sharpe of
Statesville visited Mr. and Mrs.
John W, Shackelford one day last
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Day Phone Nile I’hnii
3141
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Dial 4101_
week at then' home on Lower
Craig circle. Mrs. Azetta Cahoon
of Royal lJines spent the week-end
with the Shackelfords.
Miss Sallie Lynch of Tunnel
Tira • w**° *as been employed in
Washington D. C„ for the past
several weeks, expects to return
to her home within the next few
days Miss Lynch is a member
ol the faculty of Johnson school.
Jr, Home & Civic
Club To Help With
Polio Clinic
The Jr. Home and Civic club
met Thursday, Aug. 17, at 8:00
o’clock at the City Hall. Mrs.
Dempsey Whitaker, president, pre
sided. Plans were made for the
new club year and brief reports
given by committee chairmen.
Miss Sara Rice gave an inter
esting account of her recent trip to
Greensboro to take a two weeks'
old baby hoy to be placed ‘‘or adop
tion in the Children's Home So
ciety of N. C, The baby was sent
from the Children's Home Society
Agency in Asheville,
Mrs. D. C, Hamby, Jr., clothing
closet chairman, reported that 200
articles of clothing had been do
nated by the club members to be
used at school,
Mrs. Whitaker reported that she
and Mrs, T. C. Burnette, Jr., at
tended the President’s Institute
of District 2, N. C, Federation oi
Women's clubs on Aug. 10 at the
Manor in Asheville. A luncheor
and style show followed the busi
ness session, Plans were made a1
this meeting for the district meet
log to be held here on Oct, 24, Hos
tess clubs for this meeting will be
Black Mountain Woman’s club, Jr
Woman’s club and the Jr. Home
and Civic club.
Plans were made to help with
the second polio clinic to be held
Aug. 23 at the Methodist Educa
tional building.
Mrs. G. C. Carson, Mrs. H. L
Lackey, Mrs. William Senn anc
Mrs. Dempsey Whitaker helpec
with the first clinic.
The club members voted to give
$25.00 to the Jaycees to be usee
in setting up the proposed Ground
Observer’s Corps in Black Moun
tain.
The program chairman an
nounced that the first meet ng of
the club will be a picnic at the
Northcett cabin “Holiday-Hide
Away” on Broad River, Tuesday,
Sept. 18, at 0:30 p,m.
Members attending were: Mrs.
Blau Aldridge, Mrs, Dan Epsey,
Mrs, D, C, Hamby, Jr., Mrs. H.
L, Lackey, Mrs, L, E. Phillips, Mrs.
C, C. Rice, Mrs, William Senn,
Miss Sara Rice, Mrs. Harold Bo
ger, and Mrs, Whitaker,
MRS. PERLEY REVIEWS
BOOK FOR T&T CLUB
The Tea & Topic club met at
the home of Mrs. Richard Oulahan
on New Bern avenue, Monday,
Aug. 13. a'. 7:30. The president.
Mrs. Max Woodcock, presided.
Mrs. S S. Cooley reported that
the club's Finer Carolina project
was complete. The Tea & Topic
club built a wading pool at the
clubhouse recreation area for the
very young and paid for a fence
to enclose it. Several members
reported that it had become a
very popular spot.
M'v Allen Perley gave the pro
fram from the book by Rufus
Ja.ni „ -A Bed for (fae Nighr
*ne book tells the story of E. M.
Mailer am| how j)js drcam of
ownin ', ihe largest hotel in the
world came true and evolved into
tnc immense chain of Statler
® Mr. Statler, an efficiency
cMpe t standardized the hotels,
!he best in service and ac
commodations. The headaches of
running a large hotel and the hunv
unccodoles were most in
eics ing as weu as informative,
■o .owin" the program the hostess
served a sweet course.
Hu.se present were Mrs. Wood
coc i\, Mrs. Perley, Mrs. Otty Lee
man. Mrs. Roy a. Taylor. Mrs.
J l- Holman. Jr., Mrs. A. F. Ty
w11- ur Mrs- Cooley, Mrs. Don
Wright and the hostess.
aocwent facts
1955
A driver violation was noted in
57 per cent of the fatal auto smash
ups in North Carolina last year.
It means, according to a Motor
Vehicles Department study, that
well over half of the drivers in
volved in death-dealing accidents
were acting unlawfully, unsafely
and unwisely at the time death
struck.
Road and vehicle defects ac
counted for six per cent of the
fatal crashes.
Good news for the lady drivers.
Of the 1380 drivers involved in
fatal auto wrecks last year only
103 were women, the State De
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partment of Motor Vehicles re
ports.
There were 1251 men involved
and 20 reports came in not listing
the driver’s sex. The 1380 drivers
were involved in 1031 fatal acci
r
dents during 1955. The death toll
1165.
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