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Shop Your HOME Stores FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS! VOL. 13. _ Weather Date High Low Pree. Dec. 10_50_24 Dec. 11_25_12 .03 1 in. snow Dec. 12_21_ 1 below » zero Dec. 13_46_3 Dec. 14_57_27 Dec. 15_62_36 8 PAGES TODAY NO. 16. REFLEullUNd By Gordon Greenwood . \Y. Inabinett family , street. Black Mountain, Unusual experience of eat Dec -melon from their garden ! They found the melon ,i ,. iast week of October, j j.'and placed it in the dining . , ipen. It did and they . ias delicious when ent repot n IP11 [room I e R lf someone were to pay you tent- for every kind word v‘ml ,.,er spoke about people. and collect five cents for every ‘unkind «ord. would you be rich or poor? , . , some folks don t have much t0\.o but you have to listen ,hcm a long time to find out. \ friend is a person who knocks before he enters, not alter he has taken leave. phe , ec i liest way to kill time t0 tret busy and work it to death. . I hr bov »ho continues to pull nn the oars doesn’t have much time to rock the boat. \ shallow thinker seldom make- a deep impression. Canadian War Cry. —R— the last few months— I.;r Autrust and my short stay [in--,, h-spital- I’ve read two ex 1,.. 1;.ks. One was a gift and |,l, I natched from a sick If, .Ut-r-tion while he wasn’t ], :.g. Hut his wife caught me [and r;; have to take it back. The.':.- both Civil War books, I, . different fields, if you [wan: broader view, read Bruce [(y- This Hallowed Ground,” [the of the Union side of the I v. A former newspaperman 1 turn-1 author, Mr. Catton covers I(-vei angle of the conflict, from »K Sumter to the final surrender I of Johnson in North Carolina. He brings to light many little |p.:' a.--; facts and quotes freely [fror-. of the common sol id;, n who did the fighting. Odd' • .-ugh when men of a di |\l • up a town in northern IA'athe army regarded that li 1 high morale. (The [ i • r' ion of high morale hasn’t |c,-d from the Civil War to [World War II.) take much reading [1. lines to see that I^ee, [Js I.ongstreet, and many I'"- th-rn generals, most of ■ lutes of West Point, outh the advantage in 1' In fact it is amazing Union Army was able , all. Until the coming <: the Northern generals [had nied content to come out fight with Lee and not lose jt '. entire army. They never |l advantage which they [' ye,i in men and materials. u like history-, you’ll like [ r<-a:inu' the Union’s side of the [Civil War. Book number 2 was JKB Stuart, [the last Cavalier. B .fKi- Davis, also author of Gray El' and They Called Him Stone 's. ha ompiled a very inter |*M-lr!” """Is on the life and ex ' ' t a man described as ‘‘A soldier, without par la :' . cavalry leader.” stuart met and defeated some of his day, and his o " md the Federal armies r to all. 'b. lulled Lee at Gettysburg. , !' - mound the Union Army, Washington, and then <■ nth into Pennsylvania, arrive at Gettysburg ' ittle was all hut over. ■ , " :uart was killed near the war at Yellow Tav |! n day. 18(>4, the war still * ' a year to run, but the already been decided. i!iy others knew it but —Turn to Page 8 111 ;;'H, has a few sugges hoice of gift books. L ' bresentative titles were L. Anna Angel,” Saw for Peter,” Seredy; ( ' ivstal,” Stifter; "Birds’ k 1 ;t r o 1,” W i g g i n; sol. ’ Dickens; ‘ Why the j, haini", Alden; ‘‘Christmas hike a Star,” Frost; y the Other Wise Man,” two collections of stor 1 nder the Christmas Told Under the Stars 'Little Shepherd”, it from St. Nicholas,” | two poetry collections, ; "ng of Seasons,” and ; Bed Letter Days.” | It’. , 1 of them suitable foi ! - trades or to be read to I c '!len. “There are many < Hall added. < Mrs. Nina Wilson’s grand son, Dale Brent Wilson (above right), of Anchorage, Alaska, where she recently visited. He is in the arms of a Matanuska maid at a summer festival parade. Portage Glacier, left above, which Mrs. Wilson visited. She made the trip of about 40 miles from Anchorage over a narrow gravelled road, soon to be replaced by a modern thoroughfare. Interior of a native church at Eklutna, Alaska, left, below, among points of interest visited when she went to see her son and wife, both practicing attorneys in Anchorage. Local Visitor Finds Alaska Land of Color, Contrasts and High Prices By Dorothy Mnttison Mrs. Nina Wilson, back in her Black Mountain home after a fly ng visit to her son, T. Stanton Wilson, and his family of Anchor age, Alaska, is glad she isn’t do ng her Christmas shopping there nstead of here at home. Prices she repotted, are about double there on many items, although, she concedes, wages, too, are high er than in the States. How would you like to pay 45 tents a quart for milk? Or 45 rents for an ordinary loaf of bread rhat's what her son’s family has to pay, although Mrs. Wilson re ported some “items are about the same as at home men’s clothing, for instance.” Mrs. Wilson visited in the late summer and fall, helping to cele brate while she was there the first birthday of her red-headed grand son, Dale Brent Wilson. It was the season when, the nights were almost as light as day, with the sun remaining visible almost the entire night. She found it strange indeed to see Anchor age, with a population of about 50, ()()•>, “quiet and asleep, with not a sound audible’ in the mid lie of a night that was as bright as day.” Now the seasons are re versed. and it is the daylight hours which are at a minimum oi about four hours. \utility Scone Is Project ot Jr. \\ oman s ( Inb The Junior Woman's club held ts regular monthly dinner meet ng Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the Monte i'ista hotel. In keeping with the season, Mis. faro Id Coburn very beautifully ■ ave a Christmas story. W oodfn. \ Rhodes added much to festive itmosphere when he presented .us X-tette in a program of Christmas ■arols. , . Members voted to give basket ,f food to four needy lanuhes u his vicinity at Christmas. Mis. 'Hester Sobol reported that tin ,|ub’s Thanksgiving baskets weie .uite successful. tprn Gifts for patients at W < forth Carolina siuiatonim weie the meeting. rted on the clubs project, “A N li the lawn of the ought t illianis repoi^ I'iner Carolina" dty Scene,” on ethodist church. Others present weie Mi heelon, president, w » ,-s Gregory Fox, Mi ' Mrs K. H. Heisei, Miss on ’ ' \. m,.< Howerton Price, ice Turnei, Mi • • \ed Simons, -ui'- • John Bennett, M>' Rhodes, and Mrs. W. I presided; Richard ss Marion •aehla, Mi~ jodfin C. •hard Putnam. *NOA FREE WILL PLAY SUNDAY ual Christmas l la> ''‘/I :"LL Free » gf h- <>n Tuesday nr a Dim entiUed. jg 111 be a Sseries of films SZ Christ”. Visitors 11 v welcomed Mrs. Wilson’s son is an attorney. His wife is the former Juliana Davis of Jacksonville, Fla. Fie prepared for his profession at the University of North Carolina, and, during the war, worked in Alaska, liking it so well that he returned after concluding his law studies. Hi wife studied raw at (."nap el Hill and is now also a prac ticing attorney in Anchorage where their law firm bears the insignia of "Wilson and Wilson.” The senior Mrs. Wilson spent two months in Anchorage. She said the ‘‘summer climate is won derful, the flowers numerous and intense in color.” The junior Wilsons are building' a new home which they hope to occupy soon. Already they have a week-end and recreational cabin at Kanai, about 120 miles distant hospital gift shop ENABLES PATIENTS TO REMEMBER FAMILIES Families of every patient at U. S. Veterans’ hospitals here will have a merrier Christmas because of the holiday project of the Department American Legion auxiliary. Sponsored by the department, with volunteers from various units serving as •‘shoppers", a Christmas gift shop is being conducted at the Swannanoa hospital division. On record are the numbers, ages and sizes of the members of all patients’ families. It is for them the volunteers choose gifts, without charge to the pa tients. These are dispatched to each home in time for Christ mas. No charge is made, either for gift or its wrapping in gay holiday papers and ribbons. The gilt shop was previously located at the Oteen division, hut was moved to the Swan nanoa hospital, and serves pa tients of both institutions. from Anchorage, where they have "‘taken up a homestead” which has become theirs after seven months’ occupancy. Their new home is eight miles outside of Anchorage. Mrs. Wilson, reporting the rich ness of land in that area, spoke of seeing “cabbage that weighed . 50 pounds a head” in the southern ' area, and related ‘‘fine herds on the ample grazing lands.” Dress of the people, she said, “is as mod ern as in' the States, though, of course, in the winter fur parkas and coats are in order.” One of the biggest events in Anchorage is January’s Fur Festival exhibi tion. On a temperature chart which she brought back with her, Mrs. Wilson pointed out the maximum temperature for last December and January as 20.4 degrees. The high was recorded in July, at 65.4 de grees—and this, she noted, is not too far from the average recorded —Turn to Page 8 Girl Scouts’ Living Yule Tree Lor hurch Lawn A gaily lighted Christmas tree was the center of attraction at the meeting of Girl Scout Troop 98 on Tuesday, Dec. 10. All of the attractive Christmas ornaments were made by members of the troop. On Wednesday the tree was used at the Woman’s club’s annual Christmas tea and work shop. After Christmas the tree will be planted on the lawn of the Meth odist church to replace a diseased one which has been cut down. Troop 98 is sponsored by the Methodist church and the living tree is a token of appreciation from the troop. Mrs. William Styles and Mrs. Arthur Hemphill, Sr. are leaders of this group. Reporters are Lynn Hemphill and Becky Burgess. I a week ahead of schedule to be present for pre-holiday exercises at Black Mountain Primary school. Pupils Santa Claus arriveu a■ w carols and reCeive gifts of stockings prepared by the grade mothers for Santa’s distribution o-ithered ill the school auclltoiiuni . « .. M_ Thn mfin ponHv rmvvlpc a \xrhictlp anH nthpr rmvpltipQ just prior to ^fsmissaf orShool1 until the day after New Year’s. The gifts contained candy, puzzles, a whistle and other novelties. Legion Invites Community To Dec, 20 Jamboree Plans for the American Legion pre-Christmas jamboree tomorrow Friday, Dec. 20) at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Mountain Community clubhouse have been completed, according to Mrs. Joe Bullock, chairman of the arrangements com mittee. The public is invited to partici pate with the Legion and the aux iliary by bringing a covered-dish. The sum of $1 per person will be contributed for the building fund. Drinks will be furnished by the post. There will be a draw ing for the steer which is to be given away that evening. Mrs. Bullock asks that each lady bring a home-baked cake to be auctioned off to the highest bid der. She states that there will be games with “white elephants” for prizes. “This is to be a community-wide rally in support of the Legion’s building program”, Mrs. Bullock said, “and we wish everyone in terested in this program to come and participate. Just remember the time: 6:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 20, at the Community clubhouse. Bring a covered-dish item and that white elephant you wish to dispose of”. Oteen Resident Buys Former Wright Store The store at 103 Cherry street, operated for about 30 years by J. N'. Wright, has been purchased by W. If. Spann, formerly of Oteen and Raleigh, and is open for busi ness with an expanded line of feed, fertilizers and groceries. A Christmas line of plants, flow ers and dried and other arrange ments is also offered. Mr. and Mrs. Spann are making their home on Oakland drive in Black Mountain at present. They formerly lived in Asheville. Mrs. Spann was before her marriage Julia Jackson of Asheville. Mr. Spann, who was schooled in Ashe ville, served in the Air Force dur ing World War It and was for 22 months stationed in the Pacific. He was a warrant officer with the 5th Air Force. Until coming to Black Mountain to engage in busi ness here, he was manager of the Howard Johnson Motor lodge in Raleigh. SUNSHINE SCHOOL HOLIDAY PARTY IS PLANNED FOR FRIDAY The Sunshine school will hold its annual Christmas program Fri day, Dee. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Monte Vista hotel. All friends and relatives are cordially invited to attend. BANKS WILL CLOSE FOR 2-DAY HOLIDAY The Northwestern Bank, Black Mountain, and the Swannanoa Bank & Trust Co. will close on Dec. 26, as well as on Christmas day, i.n order that all employees may have a two-day holiday. The closing- follows the proclamation of Governor Hodges designating the 26th as a banking holiday in North Carolina. The action was request ed by the State Bankers’ associa tion. SERVICE CHRISTMAS EVE' AT ST. JAMES' The midnight Eucharist will be observed at Saint James’ Episco pal church Christmas Eve’ at 11:30 p.m. The public is cordially in vited to attend. Art Exhibit Displays Fatuity Talent New Mercury Several members of the Mon treat college faculty exhibited oil painting's in the faculty art exhib it which opened last Wednesday afternoon in the library in Gaither hall to continue through Monday of this week. None of the six artists contrib uting to the show are profession als. Some have had not instruc tion in painting, but began paint ing just for enjoyment. Mrs. Katherine Anderson, wife of George A. Anderson, vice pres ident of the college, started draw ing with pencil as a girl. She re ceived a box of oils from her fath er when she was 14. After carry ing the oils around for several years in the hope of finding some one who might instruct her, she •simply started painting. Her favorite medium is oils, with portraits as a specialty. After her seven children are older, she hopes to study art. She paints at least one picture a year to stay in prac tice, but has let Bible study and writing poetry become her major hobbies at present. Mrs. R. C. Anderson, honorary member of the board of trustees, studied art. Her home on Florida terrace is filled with many paint ings, some too large to move. For the exhibit, she loaned “Under the Umbrella” and “Charlotte Cor day” (1768-1793), French revolu tionary heroine. Mrs. Benjamin Dunford, a mem ber of the music department fac ulty, studied art for a year while a student at Salem college. Only last year, Mrs. Dunford did her .first painting. It was then she realized her hidden talent. Another member of the music faculty, Allan Guy, started paint ing while in the army. He says, “One day while out walking in Denver, I saw a box of oils in a show window and decided to try painting to pass away some of the time on my hands in a boring sit uation—the army! I shellaced a piece of cardboard and painted one of the boys in the barracks. It was fun, so I continued. I sup pose I would be classed as a prim itive, since I have had no instruc tion in drawing or painting.” Another example of how art and music go hand in hand is the work Cantata and Program Sunday At First Baptist At the 11 a.m. service the past or, Rev. W. A. Huneyeutt, will present the Christmas message, “What Child Is This?” at the First Baptist church, Sunday, Dec. 22. On Sunday evening at 7:30 the church choir will present a can tata, “Love Transcending”, by John W. I'eterson. The choir is under the direction of Woodfin C. Rhodes. The accompanist is Mrs. E. V. Gouge. Soloists will be Mrs. Charles Smith, soprano; Mrs. W. A. Huneyeutt, alto; Raymond K. Rhodes, tenor, and Charles S. Smith, bass. The public is cor dially invited. On Monday, Dec. 23, at 7:30 p.m. there will be a children’s pro gram presented in the recreation hall of the Baptist church. All departments through intermediate age are invited. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM AT FREE WILL CHURCH SCHEDULED DEC. 21 Hudgins Chapel Free Will Bap tist church will hold its annual Christmas program on Saturday, Dec. 21, at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Homer Atkins and Mrs. James Byrd are in charge. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. of Clair F. Hardenstine, organ teacher. Last spring in an art exhibit held by students of the college art class, under the lead ership of Miss Sue Day Holmes, Mr. Hardenstine took first prize. Heading the art exhibit was Dr. Karl D. Snyder, head of the science department. Dr. Snyder attended Occidental college, California, with the intention of becoming a com mercial artist, but he later shifted his major to biology. He contrib uted snowflakes, silhouettes of his children, a mosaic of over 50,000 pieces of colored plastic and scien tific illustrations to the exhibit. A woven basket by Mrs. Dun ford and tie clasps, etc., by Mr. Hardenstine are also on exhibit. Mr. and Mrs. Grover K. Barnhill of Norfolk, Va., form erly of Black Mountain an nounce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret Elizabeth Barnhill, to Cadet Richard Newland Groves, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Newland Groves of Syracuse. N. Y. Miss Barnhill was graduated in 1955 from Maury High school in Norfolk, and then attended the College of William and Mary in Norfolk, where she was a member of Gamma Gamma social sorority. Cadet Groves was graduated in 1954 from Nottingham High school in Syracuse, and is now a member of the class of 1958 at the United States Military Academy. West Point. The wedding will take place June d in the Cadet chapel, at the Military academy. Turkey Shoot To Benefit A. L. Building Fund The Wayeaster McFee Post of the American Legion will sponsoi another turkey shoot Saturday Dec. 21. The shoot will start at Id a.m. at the site of the proposed clubhouse and any profits will gc into the Legion building fund. The committee in charge is: Ar nold Jones, Sherman Shell and W R. Copeland. The site is on the Blue Ridge road on the ole Dougherty property. JUNIOR ORDER'S PARTY ON DEC. 23 The Junior Order will hold a Christmas party, with an exchange of gifts by members, and a supper meeting on Monday, Dec. 23, at 7:00 p.m. at Junior Order hall M. G. Morgan is councilor of the group. Lights To Go On Christmas Eve' Black Mountain’s new. Mercury vapor lights in the downtown busi ness section are due to be turned on at dusk on Christmas eve’, if weather permits the completion of the work of installation, it was an nounced this week. Mayor Richard B. Stone and the Town Board said in announcing the inception of the new system, “We feel that the new lighting system throughout the business district is a definite benefit to the merchants and citizens of the community.” Carolina Light & Power company is installing the lights. The new system will be perma nently in use here, but at this par ticular season it will add to the holiday atmosphere provided by the Jayeees and Chamber of Com merce in erecting illuminated “Merry Christmas” signs at the entrances to the town on High way 70, and red ribboned wreaths of greenery on light poles in the business section. No Christmas For Some If U.A. Gifts Short Unless some additional United Appeal gifts are received immed iately, prospects are that some families in this area will be with out food and gifts for the holi day. Seventy-five dollars are still missing' from Black Mountains Christmas Cheer Fund because of the failure, thus far, of enough United Appeal gifts to make the full allotment of $300 needed for filling- baskets for the holiday for needy families in this area. The United Appeal of Buncombe county hopes to allot the full $300 needed for the project, but to date has been able to furnish only $225 of the needed amount. Consequent ly a special request has been is sued asking that “everyone who has not yet given, please try to do so as soon as possible.” Because of the illness of Charles E. Spencer, co-chairman with May or Richard B. Stone of the Black Mountain United Appeal cam paign, a request is made that all United Appeal gifts be turned in as soon as possible to Mr. Stone’s office, 120 State street. Turning in funds immediately is desirable, the announcement said, in order that the campaign for benefit of the Cheer Fund and oth ers of the 32 agencies serving this area and sharing in the Appeal, may be brought to a close. Per sons who have not yet made their contributions may do so at Mr. Stone’s office and any volunteer campaigners who served as solic itors in the drive are urged to turn in their collections at once, if they have not previously done so. Pix Theater Closes Until Next Spring For the first time in many years, the Black Mountain motion pic ture house, the Pix theater, has closed for the winter. It will re open next spring. Manager Albert J. Terrell said that this is the first time the theater has closed since before World War II. Five Rules For Happiness Given To Kiwanians A. Fred Stimson, formerly of Southern Pines and now of Ridge crest, addressed the last meeting of the Black Mountain-Swannanoa Kiwanis club on “How to Attain Real Happiness”. Mr. Stimson is a past lieutenant governor of Ki wanis for the fourth district. His formula for happiness was expressed as: learning to do some thing while you are young which you can do as long as you live; always doing something worth while, not just for material gain; evaluating what you really have and being thankful for it. for there are many who have less; being sure that you have a clear conscience in everything you do. for happiness comes only when there is peace within your own soul: one must have an abiding faith in a higher power—God. Mr. Stimson gave several ap propriate examples to show that financial security alone had failed to bring true happiness to older people with whom he had contact when he was a minister in a wealthy resort community.