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OWEN HIGH — BLACK MOUNTAIN AND SWANNANOA SCHOOLS' SPRING CONCERT Friday, April 24, at 8 p.m. at Owen High YOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER Weather High Low Proc. April 14_.--54_ 32 .01 April 15_67_30 April 16_73_38 April 17_77_35 April 18_58_49 .32 April 19_72_53 1 in. April 20_78_55 .41 THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1959, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 8 PAGES TODAY NO. 34. REFLECTIONS Gordon Warned I Greenwood |tand han raS t Finch and Roy Taylor P"ropared me to some extent rish and confusion which tn< , have become a part of the l'n’l ' 'pent by the lawmakers the Capitol each biennium L no one can give any idea Tbp feeling of frustration and orildcrment which one gets confronted for the first ijm, «ith the pressure of argu P“N used t0 sway °Pinio,1s on ’ i0r and minor issues. You ’ hilVe to be there to under why few can survive more a session or two without ■osjno their “nerve.” for instance, last week I had to L consistently against some of 'v?t friends and those I admire in the House. The voice are okay but when a member k for division” or ‘‘the Ayes L \;0’s on the second or third Bdingr,” the pressure is on. That is the time one has to Lnd Up and be counted and that not always easy, as much as ome of us would like to pretend taking a stand is the sim iles) thing imaginable, following several such votes last jek, one veteran member rose to lserVe: "I have never seen such •ange bedfellows as this bill has sluced.” He was right. One ,ds himself lining up against lends and with former opponents. [Which leads me to warn: Don’t .,e to support any “harmless Me bill that does exactly as it lys and no more.” You may be tomising to vote to abolish the iblic schools or the highway sys I tarns Lesson Mara >> ay . ■ In committee last week I tangled Ir the first time with a veteran [many sessions of the legislature, i beat my ears down and I came It second best but much wiser. Jfter I had had my say, the vet fan rose, patted me on the back td argued in a very persuasive (net “I’m sure my distinguished |c able friend from Buncombe is best in his opposition, and I am as sure he wouldn’t oppose it I he understood the merits of this pasure.” After this flattering speech, I lat up a lot straighten- and was Ifmptrti to vote for it myself. I felt better when four of us voted —Turn to Page 5 [/ . JJ Oman’s Club *l(tns May Events The Junior Woman’s club, meet 1? April 14 at the.Monte Vista pt*:. heard an interesting pro ps. given by Miss Ann Sher loo'l. supervisor of elementary ed '"•i for Buncombe county. She on “Getting Heady for Ihool.’’ i 'Tub made plans for the an ra‘ banquet and installation of H - r .. algo the spring dance at Black Mountain Community lubhouse on May lf>. TM" present were Alice Tur T Ml. W. L. Wheelon, Mrs. Bill J ips. Mrs. Howerton Price, Mrs. p bennett, Jr., Mrs. M. L. Wil . Mr . Frances Pearson, Mrs. boss, Mrs. Taylor Martin, hod Straehla and Mrs. Bill Inyan. '’hull There Re ‘I'lnl ( '.up Sale? [ •'-•fiiif t ■ have been received by I"'' ‘ i dina legislators asking legalize the sale of toy caPS in Buncombe county. I - 1 'presentatives would like to r11 !run> you as to your attitude L artl Mlt'h legislation. % 4«ii'W *. '..tier*. a Our Town Greets the Spring Nancy Jane Watson amid Woman's club plantings. (Photos by Gragg) ' Black Mountain was in full flow er this week and readying a sinn ing face to greet summer visitors’ arrival as scenes like these con tributed to the just-announced third-time win of this community as “Town of the Month” in the “Finer Carolina” program spon sored by CP & L in the two Caro linas. FC Chairman Max Woodcock and W. S. Holcombe, local power com pany manager, receiving word of the award here for the month of March, had words of high com mendation for community-wide par 4 ticipation in the four projects of jj the program. The town now has | permanent possession of the bronze ? plaque previously won here for January and February. The plaque is pictured, right below, as it was shown recently centering a hand 1 craft display by pupils in the 8th ] grade class sponsored by the Busi f ness and Professional Women’s j club in the FC program. Combined Schools' Bands and Chorus In Concert Friday The Swannanoa Valley schools’ bands and chorus, appearing in a spring concert Friday, April 24, at 8 p.m. in the Owen High School auditorium, will present the larg est group in its history, 275 stu dents. The combined Elementary schools’ bands' program will consist of the “Carnival King Overture,” “Swiss Navy March,” and “An American Air.” The Black Mountain Ele mentary school chorus, organized and accompanied by Mrs. Charles C. Meyer, will sing “0, Morn of Beauty,” Sibelius, “Kerry Dance,” Molloy, and “Minka,” a Russian folk song. T h e Swannanoa Elementary school chorus, under direction of Mrs. William J. Faueette, will sing three numbers, for one of which Jimmie Morgan will be soloist and play guitar accompaniment. The Owen High band will present “The Darian Overature,” “The Courtiers” “Little Classic Suite,” “Sousa Marches” and novelty numbers. The High school chorus selections will be “Hallelujah Amen,” Handel, “Salvation is Created,” and moun tain folk songs and spirituals. The Owen band and chorus are under direction of Woodfin C. Rhodes, with Betty Patton as ac companist. The Owen High Ma jorettes headed by Mary Banner man and the Little Majorettes will also be featured. The grand finale, ‘uod ol Our Fathers,” by Joseph E. Maddy, will feature the combined band and chorus of Owen High. This selec tion was especially written in 187(1 for the centennial celebration of the singing of the Declaration of Independence. Against the main theme are heard melodic sugges tions of American history such as "Rule, Brittania,” “Yankee Doo dle,” “Dixie” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” These will be climaxed by the “Prayer for Peace.” The program will benefit the Valley schools' music program. Tickets, which may be purchased through your PTA, are priced at $1 for adults; 50 cents for stu dents. Tickets will also be sold at the door on the night of the con cert. Going up is the new Youth Center near Cragmont Road. 8 More BB Games For Gwen High Owen’s High School’s baseball schedule, announced this week ■schedules the following contests: April 24, Biltmore at Owen; April 28, Erwin at Owen; May 1, Reynolds there; May 5, Biltmore at Owen; May 8, Valley Springs at home; May 12, Erwin there; May 15, open, and May 19, open. United Church Women to Meet The local unit of the United Council of Church Women will ob serve “May Fellowship Day” Fri day, May 1 at “Intheoaks.” At 10:30 a.m. a business session, devotions and a program will be held. Luncheon will be served at 12. All church women are invited to attend. Reservations must be made by Tuesday, April 28. Call Mrs. Max Woodcock, NO 9-7101. —Paint-Up, Clean-Up, Fix-Up for a 'Beautiful Black Mountain in a Finer Carolina”. u h<litonal 3-Lane Highways Must Go dtis is the time of year when the grim P^Ur' ol the year’s total of traffic deaths, f'jurit- and accidents is received from the : 1‘ department of Motor Vehicles. This p'uinent is of top importance here in the i !nanoa Valley, where we know all too r ! T' lust now the real tragedy of death on - a v> ay—death for well-loved human be r‘^ ! ; our own home town—death for the 11 families who are a part of the every f;' l( °f our community. The statistics at make compulsive reading, indeed, |0r ' v one of us ' ore we go into the details of that re '>vant to make one thing clear at the i We are committed, from this moment ■ to doing everything in our power from the face of North Carolina all •j. highways such as are constituted by r'n<‘y 70 from the eastern outskirts of Black I JUntaih to Asheville’s Beaucatcher tunnel. Such a highway is a constant menace to all who travel thereon. We can find no words strong enough with which to deplore the evei present threat to life and limb offered by such a thoroughfare — and no words sad enough to express a community s sonow and a family’s grief over such fatal accidents as those in which death has struck here in re cent weeks. In four fatal accidents occurring since January 1, in a little more than three months’ time, six persons have been killed on this stretch of a three-lane highway. Forty nine accidents have taken place in that per iod on the three-lane roadway between Black Mountain and the Asheville tunnel. These six fatalities already, thus early in the year, comprise almost a fifth of last year’s entire total of such fatalities throughout the whole four-county area served by our District 3 of the State Highway Patrol. More accidents — and more fatal acci —Turn to Page 4 More Industrial Automation Requires Well Educated Workers, Chamber of Commerce Told Belief in the need of higher education—particularly vo cational education—for “young people in this age of automa tion in industry,” was expressed by C. E. Ford, manager of Ex-Cell-0 corporation, in speaking at Monday’s luncheon meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce at the Monte Vista hotel. His topic was “Requirements for Skilled People in the Field of Industry.” “Education has become some thing beyond a cultural thing,” he maintained, adding, “today it is an economic necessity. High school graduation today is as necessary to success in industry as was an eighth-grade diploma 15 or 20 years ago,” he said. “College training is vitally necessary in such fields as engineering, which, is, of course, vital in industry to day,” he added. Mr. Ford contradicted “a widely held belief that automation today has created unemployment. On the contrary,” he said, “this is not the case. If anything, automation has created additional employment. When one man can supervise one machine which does the work for merly handled by 10 persons, ad ditional opening's for employment have been created by the accom panying need for processing, for maintenance and for design and assembly of these machines,” he declared. “But those workers must be highly skilled—and therefore they need study and training to qualify to fill these new jobs,” he explained, adding, “It was a dif ferent picture 20 years ago. In dustry today needs people who know how to think and who have an education. It is, we think, up to industry to show young people how important education is in to day’s world; to bring them in and show them the kind of skills they will need. Somehow, we must get their attention and get this mes sage across to them.” Mr. Ford expressed his com pany’s “hope that our Black Moun tain plant may, in co-operation with the universities, one day soon take students into industry for six weeks’ periods of training which —Turn to Page 8 CARD OF APPRECIATION To our many friends and neigh bors, we would like to express our deepest, appreciation for their many acts of love and kindness during our recent bereavement. We especially appreciate the beautiful floral offerings. The family of Harvey D. Melton. New evergreen plantings at town's highway approaches. Representing “Finer Carolina” projects is the scene in top photo, with Nancy Jane Watson, 14 months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Watson, inspecting the first blossoms in the Woman’s club planting at the intersection of Highway 70 and Cragmont road. Another shows one of the town’s highway markers at east and west entrances (third photo) which have been landscaped in the club’s “Beautification” program, now combined with the “Clean-Up and Paint-Up” drive of the Chamber of Commerce and the Lions club, as merchants and householders put their property in top condition, and the town refurbished street mark ings for convenience and safety of motorists and pedestrians (photo below) and (right) George Moray, C. of C. secretary, prepared to greet and aid visitors in the new ly redecorated C. of C. office at City hall. Meanwhile, the biggest FC pro ject of all, the building of a per manent Youth Center by “Opera tion Youth” got underway (photo second from top) and made good progress with the aid of, left to right: Bill Burnett, H. McGuire Wood, volunteer supervisor, Theo dore Williams and Sherman Bur nett. The fourth project of the FC pro gram is school improvement, spon sored by the Black Mountain PTA. GHAMMCft • mr ♦ Tivo Programs Are On Woman’s Club’s Schedule The Rlack Mountain Woman’s club will meet at the Monte Vista hotel on Wednesday, April 29, for a prala spring breakfast at 10 o’clock. Mrs. H. R. Miller is in charge of preparations. All mem bers are urged to be present. All who plan to attend are asked to notify Mrs. W. A. Allison, chair man of reservations, giving not only their own names, but names of guests they plan to have. A brief and interesting program planned to follow the breakfast will include a vocal solo by Mrs. Barbara Guy, accompanied by Clair Hardenstine of Montreat college music faculty. This is not the final meeting of the year, as there will be a meet ing on May 13 at the home of Mrs. Thomas Sharp, whose daughter, Mrs. Anne Sharp Harrison, will be co-hostess with her mother. P.O. AND CITY HALL MAPS OUTLINE MAIL DELIVERY TIPS TO LOCAL RESIDENTS Are you puzzled about how to make preparations to receive mail delivery which is scheduled to be gin in the Black Mountain area at any early date? If so, you'll want to take a good look at the maps and directions posted in the Post office'lobby and at City Hall. These give house numbers for local prop erty, as well as an outline of thor oughfares which will be served by delivery of mail at the door and of those which will require RFD type of mailbox placed on the road which serves your household. Ef forts Being Made to Bring About Silo Circle’s Return Hopes were growing here this week that the Silo Circle Players, who established a summer theater here last year, would be able to play a return engagement during the coming summer. The Chamber of Commerce on Monday unanimously voted “to co operate with the Silo Players “as individual members, giving co-op eration through advertising and help with ticket sales” in order to make possible their return. This followed a movement earlier in the week by a number of local citizens to aid the company’s return by means of forming a local volun teer committee to “handle business and all finances” and “wipe out last year’s deficit of about $2000.” Miss Tinka Crawford, one of the founders of the company here, was in Black Mountain early this week at the invitation of the group. Re-decorated Chamber of Commerce office at City Hall. ■ i f Alert Exercise Co-operation Here Reported as Good RED CROSS AND OCD PLAN TO SPONSOR FIRST AID COURSE Civil Defense leaders here this week pronounced Black Mountain’s co-operation as “good” in last week’s nation-wide OCD alert ex ercise on Friday. OCD Director Bill Costner said, "The operation was a success here and in the sur rounding area, with excellent co operation being given by the peo ple and by local industries.” Streets were completely cleared. The Po lice department stopped traffic at east and west approaches and aux iliary police halted traffic on oth er approaches to the community. Mr. Costner expressed the OCD’s “thanks to the people and to such industries as Beacon Manufactur ing Co., Kearfott, Ex-Cell-o, Mor —Turn to Page 4 Volunteers Are Nceded Saturday at Youth Center For the third time, sponsors of building; operations at the new Youth Center will attempt to hold a Community Workers’ day at the building site between Highway 70 and Cragmont road on the coming Saturday, April 25, beginning at 9 a.m. Rain on the past two Sat urdays meant cancellation of such volunteer activities—but volunteers are being sought for Saturday of this week. Hammers and shovels should be brought by the workers. Meanwhile, this “Finer Caro lina” project has been aided, daily by five young volunteers working during after-school hours: William and Thomas Copeland, and Danny, Freddy, Timmy and Tony Curtis. They have been distributing sand and gravel contributed by J. G. Northcott. NANCY KESTER WEDS CHARLES NEALE, JR. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Anderson Kester of Eureka, 111., announce the marriage of their daughter, Nancy Alice, to Charles Russell Neale, Jr., on Saturday, March 21, in the First Congregational church at Boulder, Colo. The Kesters are former resi dents of Black Mountain. They return each summer to spend some time at their home on High Top Colony road. Neiv ‘Pre-Pay’ Coin Phones Are Slated Announcement here this week that the !)7 coin telephone instru ments in Black Mountain and Swannanoa will be converted to the pre-pay type of equipment was made by J. L. Smith, district man ager of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. Cost of this new equipment was estimated as approximately $20,000. These plans drew commendation from the president of Black Moun tain’s Chamber of Commerce, Wil liam Hickey, who stated that ad dition of this type of equipment marks an excellent step in the Tele phone company’s handling of ser vice in this exchange area. Mr. Smith said, “with this equip ment you remove the receiver, de posit a dime, listen for dial tone, and then dial the telephone num ber. If you get no answer or a busy signal you hang up the re ceiver, and your dime will he re turned. This is the same way the coin telephones operate in the Asheville exchange.” All local coin telephone instru ments will be changed. The com pany will start changing the equip ment about the middle of May and will complete the work by early June. Mi'. Smith stated it would also be necessary to change the telephone numbers, and the com pany has made arrangements for these numbers to be in the new telephone directory which will be published in July. Spring paint-up of street markings. Finer Carolina plaque stays here.
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