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WE'RE SORRY! MUCH news had to be omitted FROM THIS ISSUE. YOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1957, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 8 PAGES TODAY Weather Date High Low Pree. Sept. 4 84. 61 .12 Sept. 5 87 52 Sept. 6 85 57 Sept. 7 85 57 60 Sept. 8 70 59 04 Sept. 9 76 61 99 NO. 2. N AUXILIARY meet MONDAY McFoe American Leg xiliary wl 11 hold its first . t|u, new year Monday V1"lt 16, at 7:30 at the M:, Clarence Joyner. l)(,rs are urged to at 3 Will Meet in tn First e Game Fri. t,cl by their excellent 'attains! a heavier and . ,,‘nonccd Lee Edwards u, Owen High Warhorses : working the kinks out k in preparation for the battle Friday evening on h0„w field against the Erwin Game time is 8:00 o’clock. ,viU be the first opportun , local fans have had to ,, w lights, sod. seats, fence, ther improvements made by all, v Booster club. b known of Erwin except th, ■ are said to be greatly over the team of last always reach their ainst Owen. came Friday evening will Bum mbe County league con inst tin Asheville High team Ihe Warhorses lost 14-0 not before they had made a game of it and given the Ma Dovil fans several uneasy winners scored in the first on a series of line plays a second touchdown in fourth on a sustained drive their own 18. Warhorses lost several op ities to score. At the open of the second half Arthur lucked the ball in and 42 yards to the enemy he was tripped up by a who was in the act of two would-be tacklers the war A fumble killed chance but as the fourth opened they were back in Leslie Haynes and hii/Ke tinuugli and blocked and Owen was on the five line This drive was stop the one foot line, line play of the Owen team especially good for a first |&/,W Searching lor H oman of Year lave von written your letter? to you know some business nan of the community that uld be recognized for her out lding work? lif Business and Professional man s club of Black Mountain 1 present an award to some such nan on Monday night. Sept. 23. frite your letter for the woman jour choice to Mrs. Pauline ton chairman of public affairs Sept. 20. price Heights tiptist Church To (ive Homecoming erlcc Heights Baptist church hold its annual home-coming '“a- Sept. 15- Sunday school hecin at 10 a.m. The 11 Dt'k message will be delivered 1 harles Jollay of Ridge ,!e will use as his subject c leaning of Home Coming.’ dinner will be served 31 12 ‘o 1:30 p.m. Program of singing will be “ ln the afternoon. All sing i(aad the public are cordially |!eci to attend. e' 1 de H. Parham is pastor th<-' church. ponlreaf's New Willy Posh N Announced F* appointments to the ft [ ’' tor the opening o ke hMon on Saturday, Sep I * ,<n anr><»unced by G |r;r'Sgevice preside Pj- Anderson and Dr. W: I de-m "honIS joining the ft f ad- have resPonsi F JJnnmstering the colleg I'upper ".areP°r,ed 0n SeI |da\ ‘ ussmen will regist | ,, , lasses will start S fWm ::a,1uns are that th F. 1 the year will be ; (Speaker 10 ,1956'67 term. K 0I1 o1‘ ,h* opening c I Dr , Saturday mornint fst . [)avis, pastor o L . > terian church of j&rd member of the c< puli.’ ‘I’ose joining the c< I be T. w. N« -Turn to Pag L Black Mountain Receives $6,435 From Powell Bill Black Mountain will receive $6, 435.34 and Old Fort $3,734.76 in Powell Kill funds, according to W. F. Babcock, director of highway' for the North Carolina State High way commission. More than 400 municipalities will share in the dis tribution this year. Since this bill was passed by the state legislature, all paving within thp town limits has been completed with funds received. Streets paved include West street. Midland avenue, Ridgew'ay avenue, Center street, Scotland, Second street, Louisa street, Border street, part of Third street, View street, Mountain street, South, Center, and North Park La‘ne, Blue Ridge avenue, and parts of Disoway and Ridge street. In addition to this the town has paid each year $1,000.00 as its share of the cost of the right-a way at the east edge of the city limits. Checks for their proportionate shares will be mailed to 405 mu nicipalities which qualify under the 1951 statute setting aside *2 cent of the six cent per gallon net state gasoline tax for the use of municipalities in maintaining and improving their non-highway sys tem streets. The net revenue from the tax amounted to $77,755,027.98 for the fiscal year 1957. Powell Bill Funds have shown a 42 per cent increase in seven years, rising from $4,543,096.20 in 1951 to the 1957 figure of nearly six and one-half million dollars. A total of $38,536,207.29 will have been distributed with the issuance of this year’s checks. The fund has shown an annual increase due to the ever-growing volumes of traffic using highways, roads, and streets. Half of the total Powell Bill —Turn to Page 4 Recommendation Made That Legion Post Build Home The building committee of the Waycaster-McFee Post of the Amer ican Legion at its last meeting re commended that the post proceed to purchase a plot of ground and erect thereon the first unit of a Legion home. The recommenda tion was approved unamimously by those present. Commander Wiltshire then appointed another committee to recommend ways and means for financing the project and instructed the building com mittee to continue its studies. The general plan is to purchase the ground large enough to pro vide adequate parking, buy mater ial for the first unit, the work to be done by the men of the post. This reporter was impressed by the interest shown by V W. II veterans, who must soon take full responsibility for the organization. Younger Teen-Age Program Resumes Its Activities The younger teen-age program has resumed its activities, but it is now meeting on the first and third Saturday nights from 7:30 to 9:30 instead of Tuesdays as in the past. This program, which is provided by funds from United Appeal, is designed for the young high school students who do not attend Ken McCurry’s Thursday night pro gram. , W. P. McAlister. English teacher at Owen High school, and Mrs. McAlister will have the leadership of this group which was organized and ably led by Vernon Johnson. Mr. Johnson plans to organize and lead a younger group composed ot seventh and eighth graders. It is hoped that the parents ot all girls and boys who attend this teen-age program will show an in terest by coming to see what it is like and by offering to take their turn in chaperoning. It is also hoped that the parents, both mothers and fathers, will come and look on at any and all times and offer their suggestions for anv improvements, but it is especially the wish of the program committee that they wi a £ some responsibility in the program if their youngsters attend.__ RDEN CLUB WILL HEAR LK ON WILD FLOWERS lack Mountain Garden club ibers will hear a talk on Wild vers of Colorado” following a :red dish supper Friday at p.m. at the Community house, presentation, illustrated y r pictures made on a recent item trip, will be made by ses Edna J Bowles and Natalie te, Asheville members ot tne 1 club. A/'2C Norman L. Dougherty is spending a 30-day leave at home after completing a 30 weeks’ course in ground electronic counter measures at Keesler A.F.B., Biloxi, Miss. His next assignment will be a two year tour of duty in Japan. He will leave Satur day. Com in issioners Praise Work of Billy G rob a m The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners passed two resolu tions at their regular weekly meet ing in the courthouse. They declared the week of Sept. 15 through 21 Civil Defense Week in Buncombe county and express ed thanks to Billy Graham for the "wonderful compliments that he paid Western North Carolina in his last Saturday night television ap pearance as he closed his New York Crusade”. The Black Mountain and Marion Jaycees co-sponsored the charter for the Spruce Pine Junior Chamber of Com merce which was presented on Monday evening, Aug. 26, in the Lions clubhouse at Spruce Pine. A large delegation from here and Marion attended the ceremony. Those in the picture, left to right, Aaron F. Belt, presi dent of the Black Mountain Jaycees; Bill Norris, first district vice president of Brevard; Don Carpenter, president of the newly organized club at Spruce Pine; Jack Sharpe, state Jaycee president, presenting the charter, and Durwood Walker, Marion president. The new organization has 32 members. Estimate CC Campaign Adds $100,000 Annual Income to Black Mtn. Student Total Tops Previous Valley Records Enrollments at Owen High school and at Black Mountain and Swannanoa Grade schools have risen to a new high this year, due in large measure to entrance of a large number of students from families newly resident in these two communities. Registered at Owen High school in this second week of the new school year was a total of 740 stu dents, an increase of 25 over last —Turn to Page 8 Dr. Robert H. Spiro, Jr. Pays Tribute To Blue Ridge, Western North Carolina As He Assumes New Duties Here Concluding the first week of his new duties as executive secretary of Blue Ridge Assembly, Inc., Dr. Robert H. Spiro, Jr., paid tribute to“wonderful Western North Carol ina” and expressed pleasure in "My association with Blue Ridge and' its many friends in and around Black Mountain”. Dr. Spiro, suc cessor to Henry T. Ware who re cently resigned the secretaryship, is a native of Asheville. He assumed his new post on Sept ember 3. Dr. Spiro is ‘strongly convinced Educator, lay speaker, and U. Commander, Dr. Dr. Robert H. Spiro, Jr. preacher, writer, S. Naval Reserve Robert H. Spiro, J (above), and his family are making their home at 20 Normandy Road, Kenilworth, since his re cent arrival to assume new duties as executive secretary of lilue Ridge Assembly, Inc. that Blue Ridge Assembly and this part of the state have a great future,” he said, adding- “It is with sincere confidence that 1 cast my lot here”. The new secretary was born in Biltmore, began his schooling at Hall Feltcher, and went on to Du Bose Academy, Orlando, Fla., graduating as valedictorian of the class of -936. His wife was, be fore their marriage, the former Suenell Burnett of Orlando. Dr. and Mrs. Spiro are the parents ot three children: Timothy, 14; Eliz abeth Susan, 10, and James Mon roe, 17 months. He is widely experienced in the fields of education, teaching, public speaking and writing. Dr. Spiro describes writing- as his major hobby and is interested in a var iety of sports—adding, in recent years, golf and tennis to the list of sports in which he was active in student years at Wheaton College, from which he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1941. He took college athletic honors in wrestling, football, and haseball. He also served as president of the Student Chi.stian Council He is a Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve, and was on active duty from 1941 to ‘45, serving for two years in the Pacific and taking part in 16 oper ations in that theater of World War II. Dr. Spiro was for a year a graduate student at Harvard School of Business Administration and in 1945-46 did graduate study in history at the University of North Carolina. He was associate professor of history at King Col lege Bristol, Va., 1946-48, and two years later took a Ph. D. degree at the University of Edinburgh, Scot land. Since that time he has been —Turn to Page 4 A more than $100,000 share of annual income was added to the Black Mountain trading area as a result of the Cham ber of Commerce campaign to spread the word of advantages of year-round living in this area, according to an estimate issued today by the Chamber through its president, H. Mc Guire Wood. Principal feat ure of the campaign has been re-publication and distribution of a booklet featuring all-year living in this community. The most active season in the history of the Black Mountain Chamber of Commerce was record ed in the Summer period .just con cluded, according to the report. Nearly 500 persons called at the Chamber of Commerce office to obtain assistance in finding ac commodations, locating friends in this area, or for help in planning trips while visiting this area. Services rendered by the Cham ber are “so varied that it is im possible to list all of them, but letters of thanks from the vacation ing public speak well for the type of service given,” the report re minded. adding, “The co-operation of the people of Black Mountain, who had accommodations to rent for a day or a week, made it possible for us to find comfortable lodging for everyone requiring this service,” the report showed. More than 1000 copies of the Black Mountain picture booklet have been distributed since it was enlarged and re-issued last Janu ary. Booklets are mailed to each of 30 to 40 names which appear on the bi-monthly lists forwarded to the local Chamber by the State Department of Development as a result of its national advertising program. Picture booklets are available free of charge to anyone who would like to send them to friends or other persons who might be interested in coming here for a vacation or to settle permanent ly, today’s report reminded. This —Turn to Page 8 Lions Will Hear World Traveler Heinz W. Rollman, head and majority owner of Wellco Shoe Corporation and Research. Inc., of Waynesville. will speak to the Black Mountain Lions club, to night, Thursday, Sept. 12, at the Monte Vista hotel. Born 1911 in Cologne, Germany, he came to the United States in 1939, penniless. Mr. Rollman has been a business world-traveler for many years, and is vitally interest ed in acquainting people with con ditions all over the world, pointing out how and what this country can do to fight communism. He has written a book called World Construction and is writing a week ly column about world conditions for various newspapers. Walter Raleigh Coppedge COPPEDGE BELIEVES Youth Festival Grist For Soviet Propaganda Mil! "Perhaps it would be worthwhile for the State Department to con sider having a festival in the United States during which we could sell the American system to the peoples of the world.” Walter Raleigh Coppedge, son of Dr. L. J. Coppedge of Montreat said Monday. The Montreat resident arrived home late Sunday night from Mos cow where he attended the Youth Festival. He recently completed research at Oxford university for an advanced degree in English Literature. From July 22 to August 19 Mr. Coppedge attended the Moscow Youth Festival and traveled in the Soviet Union. He left London with 1600 British delegates to the fest ival and joined the 160 American participants in Moscow. They made the trip by train, crossing Belgium, Germany, East Germany, and Poland, a journey comprising four days. Although Mr. Coppedge was of fered an expense-paid tour of China, he refused on the grounds that an American citizen is not entitled to flaunt wilfully the con sidered policy of the State Depart ment. though the policy, he feels, is wrong. Forty-one of the American dele gates defied a State Department ban on gong into China and have been touring cities and districts behind the Bamboo Curtain as —Turn to Page 3 Grant Ballard Reelected By Valley B. Club Officers for the 1957-58 club year were elected by the Valley Boosters club at a meeting Tues day, Sept. 3, with Grant Ballard being elected president; Fred Ens ley, vice president; Maurice Jones, secretary, and Roy Alexander, treasurer. Directors also chosen at this time comprise: Grady Luck adoo, John Jones, George Penley, Latt McMahon, Leonard Ballard, and Richard B. Stone. Tickets whose purchase will aid the club in underwriting the cost payment on seats recently installed at the new athletic field at Owen High school, are “still on sale”, a club announcement stated, urg ing “all residents and friends of the community to purchase one or more such tickets as their own down payment on this fine addi tion to the community.” Clothing Rooms A! Swannanoa Heed Clothes Good used clothing in all sizes is desperately needed to stock the two clothing rooms in Swannanoa, it was announced this week by Mrs. S. R. Neskaug, Welfare Re presentative of the Swannanoa Community Council. With the opening of school and approach of cold weather, many requests are being made for clothes, but sup plies are so depleted at present that many real needs are having to go unfilled. Mrs. Neskaug is appealing to the people of the community to gather up articles of clothing and donate them for their less fortunate neighbors; one article, or a boxfull—all donations will be appreciated. Clothing may be left at any one of several collection points — Swannanoa school office,- Harri son's Hardware store, Swannanoa bank, or under the carport at Mrs. Neskaug’s home on Stonewall avenue, Grovemont. The Swannanoa school clothing room, sponsored by the PTA, sup- i plies children of school age, six ' through 14, who need clothes in order to be able to attend school. It will be operated this year by '■ Mrs. Ralph Robinson, and will be 1 open one day a week, schedule to be announced by Mrs. Robinson. Donations for this clothing room may be sent by school children or taken to the school office. The Community clothing room is located over the old Swannanoa : post office, and is sponsored by the Woman’s club. Mrs. Neskaug is in charge, and will open the community room once a month, on the third Thursday morning. This clothing room is maintained to meet the needs of adults and pre school children. In making her appeal for cloth ing, Mrs. Neskaug emphasized that garments need not necessarily be sorted as to size—bundles of mixed sizes will be distributed to the appropriate clothing centers. “Many people will be checking and sorting out their clothes for Fall right away,” Mrs. Neskaug com mented, “and we sincerely hope they will keep in mind the real needs of our two clothing rooms when they get ready to dispose of unused and outgrown garments.” Members of the Swannanoa Woman's club are asked to bring any donations of clothing they may have to their next depart mental meetings. Dickens-Putney Wedding Voivs Exchanged Sept. 8 Miss Joyce Anne Putney of Jacksonville. Fla., daughter of Mrs. B. A. Putney of Grand Rap ids, Mich., and A. C. Putney of Miami, Fla., and Robert Maynard Dickens, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Dickens of Black Mountain, were married Sunday afternoon, Sept. 8. at 4 p.m. in the Asbury Memorial Methodist church, Ashe ville, with the Rev. Thad McDonald, pestor, officiating. Miss Marie Benge of Black Mountain presented a program of wedding music. The bride wore a two piece beige knit suit with brown ac cessories. Miss Lois Isham of Jacksonville, Fla., was maid of honor. Ben Tubb of Little Rock, Ark., served as best man. The couple will make their home in Raleigh, where he is a student at North Carolina State college. Those present for the wedding were Mahlon B. Dickens and daughter. Pam, of Raleigh; Shar on Lyons of Washington. D. C.; members of the groom’s family of Black Mountain, and local friends of the couple. Jaycees Helping In Search For Nation’s Best The Black Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce is helping in the search for the 10 outstand ing young men of 1957 in Amer ica. Does Black Mountain have a candidate? Aaron F. Belt an nounced today that the search in this area is on for a nominee. If you have a candidate in your neighborhood, contact the Black Mountain Junior Chamber of Com merce at once, or write directly to: TOYM Nominations, U. S. Jay cees, Box 7, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Deadline for receipt of nominations is Sept. 22, 1957. This clipping will entitle Claude T. Swann and one guest to free admission to see “Three Violent People” at the Pix Theater. —The first dairy processing plant in North Carolina was built just 50 years ago. Dr. F. Crossley Morgan Dr, Morgan Will Conduct Bible Conference A Bible conference starting Sunday morning. Sept. 15. and con tinuing through Sept. 20 will be held at the Swannanoa Presbyter ian church with two services daily. It will be conducted by Dr. F. Crossley Morgan, son of the late Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, one of the world’s most famous Bible scholars and authors. Born in London, Dr. Morgan is famed for his scholarly and vivid analysis of the Bible as well as inspirational sermons. He received his training for the ministry under the supervision of his illustrious father and had served a number of Presbyterian pastorates in Amer ica before deciding to devote full time to Bible conference work. A veteran of the British Expedi tionary Force during World War I, Dr. Morgan was decorated by King George V with the Military Cross for “Gallantry in Action” at Ledegham, Belgium, October 1917. He was a second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers and was gass ed in the forest of Nieppe. He received his secular educa tion at the Holm School, London, and the Douglas Collegiate School, Cheltenham, England. Dr. Morgan came to the United States in 1919, and after complet ing studies under his father for the ministry, was ordained by Presby tery Dec. 21, 1920 in the Fort Wayne Presbyterian church, Al bion. Indiana. He has served pastorates of Presbyterian church at Sparta, Ga., Augusta, Ga., and Concord, North Carolina. He was granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Di vinity by the University of Georgia in 1927. Dr. Morgan resigned his pastorate in Concord in 1944 in order to devote his full time to Bible conference work. In addition to his already famil iar British mustache. Dr. Morgan now wears a beard. The humor loving minister explains his patri archal appearance by saying, “f promised my children if they ever presented me with a grandchild I would look the role by growing a beard.” There will be a nursery' for both morning and evening services daily for small children. The public is cordially invited to attend these meetings. Lf. Governor Will Address Kiwanis Club Here Today Lieutenant Governor Fred W. Alexander of Shelby will be guest speaker at the Black Mountain Swannanoa Kiwanis club meeting Thursday (today) at the Monte Vista hotel. Immediately follow ing the luncheon the board of di rectors will hold a meeting. All Kiwanians are invited to attend. The program for the last lunch eon meeting of the Kiwanis club was in the form of a round table discussion of prospects for the winter months with Bill McMurray acting as M. C. Out of town guests were Bob Ingalls, Miami, Fla., Tom Goddard, Miami, Earl Cobb, Asheville, and Bob Spiro, former president of the Clinton, Miss., club and now of Blue Ridge assembly. Vice Pres ident Chet Sobol was in charge in the absence of the president. masons will have SUPPER 6:30 FRIDAY There will be an emergent com munication of Black Mountain Masonic Lodge 663 AF & AM on Friday, Sept. 13, at 7:30, at Lodge hall. The supper meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. The third degree will be conferred. All Master Masons are invited to attend.
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