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GIVE GENEROUSLY TO OPERATION YOUTH, Inc. For a Permanent Black Mountain Youth Center. "A Finer Carolina Project" VOL. 13. YOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1958, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA Weather Aug. 19 Aug. 20 Aug. 21 Aug. 22 Aug. 23 Aug. 24 Aug. 25 High Low Prec. 82 52 83 57 85 58 86 63 80 65 79 65 77 63 10 29 31 8 PAGES TODAY NO. 52. REFLECTIONS by Gordon Greenwood y Mason has created a 1for the attorneys of the T Dick Stone, Black Moun fl avor, complains that most r ‘now expect all lawyers to I , Perry’s example and come ,.vith evidence enough to win Bei cases. f] -Mentally, if the prosecuting ■(irllt,y doesn’t soon win a convic IL heads may roll and we are » l'v to see a new man in office lei the fall elections. iTt as a small world even befoK 1 advent of the missiles and ■itniks. n week, while on the way Li, from graduation exercises at em Carolina college, where I! .,-d Keever, primary school tj, , ipal here, and Guy Wheeler, Bnoipal of the Hayesville High ■L,l, received their MA’s in ed |a- I happened to mention that Ifiierui of mine was in an artil |v group with the Third Army (Europe and that they had fired L the Moselle River on one a?lon in support of units of p .kith Infantry Division that 1 Germans had . permitted to . and then had cut off by de ving the bridge, ij -aid the 45tb, but this drew a *ck correction from the Black iju 'ain mayor who pointed out It it was the 35th. “And I sure |Lht to know/’ he explained, “be |u I was one of the guys cut and got back' by swimming ■id river with my boots on.” ■According to several eye wit accounts, this was a particu |ly tough situation. After the ,f the war in Europe, my |nd, the artilleryman, and 1 met Trial of the 35th men who bad E]: aptured “across the river” * who had just been released |n German ' prison camps. The artillery group was rushed try to hold the enemy back Ilf the GI’s, trapped across the L , made their way back. But ■ some of the released prisoners plained: lYou fellows laid down a beau |] ring of fire but the trouble —Turn to Page 4 Northcolt [lies Wednesday Asheville rites for J. C. Northcott, :• Ambler road, Asheville, held Wednesday morning in Methodist church. . Northcott a retired engineer former supervisor for the Stt Highway and Public Works ■mission, (lied in an Asheville f) Monday following an ill several months, hr Rev. Jerry Murray and the |. Thud L. McDonald officiated, lial was in Lewis Memorial Ik. p. arers were Wilbert Bur M. Blake, J. R. Eludson, Jkri Kanipe, Jack Baber and prt Johnson. [0. ■ n-ary pallbearers were J. C. jlk-:. 1)]-. J, F. B. Cambios, Dr. Icnsley, Hugh Stevens, T. jP.u.ieison, Charles D. Parker, |k Diekerson, Jr., R. W. Parks, (Old Shirley, Bill Howerton, A. jf sett, S. E. Holland, W. T. W. W. Shupe, Mac Brown, II: Martin, Hugh Abee, M. J. I'd', R. E. Grice, Jr., Tom K. f1'' . C. W. Lee, L. S. Fanning, —Turn to Page 4 Dallas Nanney Graduates In Recruit School SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Dallas E. Nanney, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Nanney of Black Mountain, was scheduled to graduate from recruit training Aug. 25 at the Naval Training Center, San Diego, Calif. The graduation exercises, mark ing the end of nine weeks of “boot camp,” included a full dress parade and review before military officials and civilian dignitaries. In nine weeks of instruction, the “raw recruit” is developed into a Navy Bluejacket, ready for duty with the fleet. AF & AM LODGE TO MEET Black Mountain Lodge No. 663, A.F. & A.M., will hold an emergent communication Friday evening, Aug. 29, at 8 o’clock to confer the Master Mason’s degree. All Master Masons are cordially invited, Carl O., Crisp, Master, announced. Rev. C. C. Lynn Announcement is made by Rev. Wayne Smith, pastor of Swannanoa Free Will Baptist church, of a revival to be con ducted by Rev. C. C. Lynn of Ayden, at the Swannanoa church Sept. 1-12. Rev. Mr. Lynn will speak each evenme at 7:45. Silo Players' Last 1958 Week Brings Plans for Next Year By DOROTHY MATTISON There’s a touch of sadness hovering over the Silo Circle playhouse this week—not because of any dearth of entertain ment and hilarity attendant upon the season’s final offering by the Silo Circle playhouse, “The Male Animal”. It’s simp ly because is IS the wind-up of the season for the company which has won wide plaudits since its debut here in June. Swannanoa Lodge To Observe Past Masters' Night l’ast Master’s night will be ob served on Thursday, Sept. 4, by Swannanoa Lodge 561, AF & AM, in a ceremony starting with sup per in the hall at 6:00 o’clock. This is a stated communication. , Filling the stations will be: Jack Smith, master; Bill Metcalf, sen ior warden; Kdgar Teems, junior warden; Roy Clark, secretary; Sid ney Croy, treasurer; George Net therton, senior deacon; Ted Smith, junior deacon; Arthur Ray Can non, senior steward; Harold Col lins, junior steward; Jennings Free man, tyler, and Fred Davidson, chaplain. Swannanoa "Finer Carolina" Group Meets The “Finer Carolina” group of Swannanoa met in the Swannanoa library Monday night, Aug. 25, with the executive board from last year’s committee as special guests. Projects for the coming year were planned and discussed. They are: Swimming pool and youth re creation facilities; first aid and clothing room at Elementary school; improvement of walking across bridge in front of school. Charles Crawford, Jr., is chair man of this project; to continue support for the library, Mrs. Mar garet Kelley is chairman. It was announced that the “Vic tory Celebration” of last year’s grand prize of $1000 would be held sometime after Sept. 20. Electrical Contractors Meet Here Electrical contractors of Bun combe county, comprising the Bun combe County Electrical league, met August 20 at the Monte Vista hotel, with Worth Cook, president, presiding.. Other officers are J. E. Keenan, vice president, and Jen nings Featherstone, secretary. Members held discussion of the proposed county ordinance which, if enacted, would transfer duties of the City Inspection department to the county, a measure reported ly proposed because the service as now conducted “goes into the red,” it was stated. A city ordinance now in effect, it was stated, “now prevents anyone from inspecting city electrical work except the city inspector. The proposed ordinance would cost the county taxpayer for this service,” it was reported at the meeting. A committee report proposed that the League defer action re garding the ordinance, and a mo tion was made to appoint a com mittee to contact all electrical con tractors in city and county and to ask that they go before the City Council of Asheville to oppose “change-over in inspecting service from city to county.” It was also suggested that in the event the or dinance is adopted, that “the Coun ty adopt the Asheville code which is higher than that of the county, which used the ‘National code’.” —Turn to Page 5 GUESTS OF MRS. PARKS Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Knight of West Orange, N. J., are guests of Mrs. Madelon Parks at her home, 114 Connally street. Leonard Keever Principal of Black Moun tain Primary school, Leonard Keever received his Master’s degree from Western Carolina college, Cullowhee, at Com mencement exercises conclud ing the college’s summer ses sion Aug. 22. Mr. Keever re ceived his Bachelor’s degree from Catawba college. Attending the Aug. 22 exercises from Black Mountain were Ronald Finch, Mayor Richard B. Stone and Gordon H. Greenwood. CIRCLE SALE BRINGS $84.50 IN PROCEEDS Proceeds of $84.50 raised in a “Parcel Post Sale” conducted by Circle 1 of the Methodist church last Friday night will be contrib uted to the church building' fund. Sponsors of the sale expressed ap preciation to the sponsoring com mittee and to the auctioneer, H. W. (Pappy) Morrow. Successful Summer Season Concluding as Labor Day On Monday Approaches The annual exodus of summer guests is scheduled for the week end at the conclusion of the 1958 summer season, which numerous local merchants described as “the most successful in many years af ter getting off to a slow start in June.” However, an increasing number of visitors each year are here for the fall season. Services In Va. For Miss Helen Wicker Funeral services were held in Farrriville, Va., for Miss Helen M. Wicker, 81, who died Tuesday, Aug. 19, in an Asheville hospital fol lowing a long illness. She was a veteran of the Army Nursing Corps and saw . " ice in World War I. Miss Wicker was a native of Farmville, Va., and was the daugh ter of Oscar Wicker, who served in the Civil War and was wounded during Pickett’s charge at Gettys burg. Miss Wicker is survived by four sisters, Miss Isabelle Wicker, Mrs. Lee W. Ki.nard and Miss Katherine Wicker, all of Black Mountain, and Mrs. F. W. McIntosh, of Farmvdle, and several nieces and nephews. The public had opportunity at open house Monday to inspect improvements made recently in quarters and equip ment of the Black Mountain Fire department, manned principally by volunteers who supplement staff members in main taining 24-hour protection for the community. In these photos, made at a meeting of the Fire Association last .week, members get a preview of the results of improvement efforts, including (top photo) the new door of the truck shelter made possible by gifts from local merchants. In this photo, left to right, are Buck Bradford, Johnny Rice, Jack Leatherwood, J. A. DQUgherty, A. J. Hemphill, Jr., R. W. Cook, W. A. Allison, Woodrow Morgan, Horace Brackett and R. S. Eckles, Jr. The door was the gift of Black Mountain Lumber Co., Williams Brothers Gulf Service, Key City Pharmacy, Mc Murray’s Chevrolet, Stepp’s Gulf Service, Northwestern Bank, Key City Laundry, Tyson Furniture Co., Western Auto Supply, Broadway Builders Supply, Viverette Oil Service, Knight’s Pharmacy, Valley Real Estate Co., Valley Insur ance Co., Richard B. Stone, Earley’s Cleaners, Woodcock Motor Co., Black Mountain Building & Loan Assn., R. S. Eckles Realty Co., Lance’s Esso, Burgess’ Phillips 66 Service, Black Mountain Hardware Co., Black Mountain Drug Store, Black Mountain Hosiery Mills, Potter Feed & Fertilizer Co. and the Black Mountain News. Close of local schools, after Wed nesday’s opening this week, and close of numerous business houses were scheduled for Labor Day, the coming Monday. More than 100,000 visitors to this area were reported to have visited the community during the sum mer, thousands of them comprising the large registrations at the var ious religious assemblies and Blue Ridge, summer conference site of the Y. M. C. A.’s of the Southeast. By auto, railroad, bus and plane thousands have visited the area— and the statistics for visitor's in cluded many hundreds of campers, including more than 400 who be gan to arrive here in June and this week and last made their depar ture via the Southern Railway to various points, most of them to homes in the southeastern section of the country. Others are travel ling by bus and car. Opening of local schools on Wed nesday of this week was slated as community youth programs and activities at the Black Mountain clubhouse municipal pool were slated to be brought to a close for the season. Activities at the lat ter were marked by award exercis es last Friday night at the pool when’ recognition was made of those who completed training in aquatic courses conducted under Red Cross auspices. —Turn to Page 5 B. & P. W. AND LIONS BACK YOUTH CENTER Two more clubs this week an nounced pledges of co-operation with Operation Youth, Inc., in efforts to establish a perma nent youth center here. They are the Business and Profes sional Women’s club, whose de cision was announced in a Ut ter written on behalf of the club by the recording secretary, Mrs. W. F. Wells, and the Black Mountain Lions club, which took action on the project at a meet ing’ of the board of directors last Thursday. Announcement was also made this week that incorporation papers, filed for the purpose of fund-raising' by this non-profit organization, have been receiv ed from the office of the N. C. Secretary of State. Operation Youth is a “Finer Carolina ’ project. O.E.S. "NEXT TO NEW" SALE SEPT. 26 AND 27 Members of the Black Mountain OES will sponsor a “Next to New and rummage sale on Sept. 26 and 27 in the building formerly occu pied by the Varsity Grill, State street. Practically new fall and winter clothes for children and grown-ups will be on sale at a very reason able price, the sponsoring commit tee stated. The committee in - charge sug gests that you keep these dates in mind. SWANNANOA WOMAN'S CLUB MEETS SEPT. 2 The Swannanoa Woman's club will meet Tuesday night, Sept. 2, at 8 o’clock at the Swannanoa clubhouse. Members of the Art and Craft group will serve as hos tesses. MISSES BOWNESS AND COOLEY IN RECITAL The Misses Jane Bowness and Peggy Cooley, students of Mrs. Robert Carroll of Asheville, will present a piano recital Saturday, Aug. 30, at 3:30 p.m. at Mrs. Car roll’s home, 40(1 Midland drive, Asheville. The program will include two duo-piano numbers, as well as solo selections. Accountant's Office Opened In Black Mountain Robert Lynn Crawley of Black Mouritain, announces establishment of an office in this community, in the Green Building on Broadway, for the practice of business ac counting'. Mr. Crawley, has had wide ex perience in his field. After at tending city schools in Marion, he attended Davidson college and there received his B.S. degree in business administration in 1951, and took his MA in accounting at the University of North Carolina. He then accepted employment with the Greensboro office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., certified public accountants, until entry into the Navy in May, 1953. After completion of Navy Supply Corps Officers’ School in Bayonne, N. he was assigned to the Navy Area Audit office, Chicago, and fbr some 20 months was resident auditor at the U. S. Navy Ord nance plant, Decatur, 111. After release from active duty, he re turned to the staff of Peat, Mar wick, Mitchell & Col, received a C. P. A. certificate from the State of North Carolina in .May, 195f>. He came to Black Mountain in November, 1957, as office manag er-accountant for American Par board corporation. He is a mem ber of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the N. C. Association of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Craw ley married the former Nancy Mor rison of Hammond, 111. They have one son, David, and reside on Mountain street. U. S. Air Force Conference at Ridgecrest “If Christ Had His Way” will be the theme for the LL S. Air Force Spiritual Life Conference which meets at Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly for the sixth year be ginning Friday evening. The con —Turn to Page 4 P ** ™L ,jeft above) moves on 10 10UK. over me new ecus, mam esses, I The Fire Department association inspection « Llv-painted walls of the quarters where volunteer and staff fire r rvice answering system equipment and tne ne >y p (,hjef AUen is behind him) Pres. Dougherty Frank E on duty at all times. Pictured are Woodrow moig , Hemphillj Jr.; Horace Brackett, Jack Leatherwood, Johnny I11311* W. A Allison R. W. Cook, R. S. Bckies, ji , ■ ial unlisted number and receive instructions as to the :,n(l Jake Robertson. Volunteers may phone m e ,f a reported fire. . f;rst-floor equipment quarters. This has been equipped with h ln the top photo a glimpse is Swashed here. fdl" in order that the fire trucks may —Photos by Ed DuPuy In photo at right, Fire Association members are shown in their recent meeting session in the newly re-decorated upstairs quarters. Walls have been refinished, and furnishings, including pool table, have been refurbished. Left to right, R. S. Eckles, Jr., Frank Williams, Association “president J. A. Dougherty, Chief L. A. Allen, R. S. Brackett (standing), R. W. Cook, W. A. Allison, Johnny Rice, A. J. Hemphill, Jr., Jack Leatherwood, Jake Robertson and Wood row Morgan. l>ut cheer up! Producer Imka Crawford promises that the Silo players will be back next year, —Turn to Page 4
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