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||( lll||„HIIIIIII|l,,,»l,,,IBI1111.11.Il,,,l,,,,ll,"llll,|lllllllllllllli||||||„|||||||||||||||||||||,1!j SWANNANOA NEWS > pv JIM BURLESON . . . Phone NO 9-8180 | ..... R. C. BOWNESS, BUILDER 0. Box 1068—Black Mtn lint . week's coluumn, we ,,f the very low pressure that was tj‘ with the intense ,t kiich dumped the lank- t of snow on us .mentioned the fact |i:„| been late sum v fall, the presence v/ane would have nent. 'V,' thought bad weather and it. what happens? Old • Nature uncorks a real nnrter" of a storm and • howling through here p,,\ flakes as large as The barometric registered an even reading than the previ The wind was so it could just as easily been a hurricane. It pned a large metal porch O completely off of a trailer just up the , The wind also played ,c‘ with television anten and either broke-off or about a dozen big trees in the neighbor 1 The trees probably ldn't have blown over so iv jf it had not been for unusually high moisture ent of the ground around „ I certainly hope that e we have already had so h precipitation this year, von't be deluged with rain n garden planting time around, as was the case year. ter Olympics ,-er since the snow made f known around here, ev hill and slick spot in the ' een occupied by grown-ups alike. ..."•■■•"■"Hiiimiimimmuilllllijs It looks as if the “have fun in general competition of the Winter Olympics had been moved to Swannanoa. Kave f"'. nf5tfPatt°j' Uvin daugh P. f ,Mr' and Mrs. Huber t atton, Jr., were anions: those fun seekers. Up until now. or rather last week, it was very difficult to distinguish one girl from the other. But last week while riding a sled down a steep hill. Faye came in contact with an immovable object; result—a black eye that was a real beaut. Now the only good thing that re sulted from this little accident was that you were able to re cognize which twin had the shiner.” Better luck next time, Faye—don’t zag when you should zig. Speaking of the Winter Olympics, we watched them on television over the week end. The events were fairly exciting to watch, but the per formances of the United States entries were rather disheartening to say the least. Looks as if the Russians will walk off with just about ev erything—which is not sur prising; since they apparently train constantly for such events. Quite amusing to see them get beaten at a game, which at their insistance was included in this year’s Olym pics. The event was the Bia thalon, which is a combina tion cross country ski and target shooting race. Just Couldn't Wait A couple of this areas most ardent fishermen just could n’t resist going down to Lake James one day last week (I think it was the day we had sunshine) and trying their luck. The fellows who went were Horace Reed, who by the way can move more dirt with a bulldozer than a hound-dog after a mole, and Norman Ay ers, genial operator of Ayers Gulf Station, who in his younger days threw the wiek edist knuckle-ball this side of Hoyt Wilhelm. Their luck wasn’t so good however; the lake was muddy, the fish weren’t biting, and they will have to eat store-bought fish for a while yet. Welcome Home Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Ed monds and Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Imbt of Grovemont return BLACK MOUNTAIN INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL INSURANCE AND BONDS Representing Leading Stock Companies GREENE BUILDING BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C. e(! last week from a week's vacation in Miami, Fla. Thev report a very enjoyable trip down through the citrus belt and the return trip up the east coast of the state. They were <|Uite surprised to learn iiat we poor souls up here in the mountains were freezing to death while they were swimming under warm sun shine, but were more sur t’n®ed to see so much snow still on the ground when they returned. A lot of snow is probably old hat to Bob Imbt, tor he hails from up in the 1 ennsylvania Dutch country where it snows “knee-high to a giraffe,” and man, that’s deep! The annual banquet for the Swannanoa Cub Scouts was held Monday night, Feb. 22, at the Community Clubhouse in Grovemont. American Home Club The American Home depart ment of the Swannanoa Wo man s club held their monthly meeting Tuesday night, Feb. 23- Mrs. Fred Tron and Mrs. Thad Burnette, Jr., were co hostesses. The ladies viewed a special film at Skyland Mo tors in Asheville, and then went to Reaver Lake to see the beautiful new home of Mr. and Mrs. Thad Burnette, Jr., where they were served refreshments. Mr. and Mrs. Burnette are former residents of Grovemont. Sick List viucifcf Ltuniap nas retum Pd to St. Joseph’s hospital for more treatment. Miss Ruby Penland has al so been in St. Joseph’s. Mrs. George Penley is re cuperating at home following a stay in Memorial Mission hospital. Mrs. Leroy Thomas is a patient at Baptist hospital in Winston-Salem. Mrs. Thom as suffered a broken hip from a fall on ice. First Presbyterian News A joint covered dish supper meeting of the Men and Wo men of the Church was held Monday evening, Feb. 22. Dr. W. W. Pharr led a study of Genesis, chapters 3 and 4. First Baptist News A workshop for Sunbeam leaders of southwide and state Baptist Associations was held in High Point February 11 and 12. Mrs. Abbie Louise Green, who is the Southwide Sunbeam leader, was in charge of the workshop. FMve ladies from the Buncombe County Baptist association attended the meetings. They were Miss Vonnie Lance, president of Buncombe County W. M. U.; Mrs. L. M. Becton, Buncombe Sunbeam director; Mrs. Chas. W. Smith, representing Swan nanoa church; Mrs. Dennis Melton, representing Merri mon Ave. Baptist church; and Mrs. A. T. Usher, who repre sented Black Mountain First Baptist church. The ladies reported the session very in teresting and informative. Al so, they deemed it a great privilege to be able to attend such a worthwhile meeting. Monday, Feb. 29, marks the beginning of the Central Training school, which will be held at the First Baptist church in Asheville and will run through March 4. Nightly study session will last from 7:00 until 8:45 p.m. Wednes day and Friday nights, spec ial 15 minute assemblies will GARDEN TIME by M. E. Gardner “Please distinguish be tween variety, strain and hy brid. I am particularly in terested in the term strain because I have frequently heard that certain strains are better than some varieties that are grown. Is this true?” Perhaps a good beginning would be to define variety, strain and hybrid. A varie ty is a group of closely relat ed plants, of common origin, having similar characteristics —Homestead tomatoes, Gold en Delicious apples, Japanese Convex leaf holly, etc. A hybrid is the first gener ation progency (family) re sulting from the crossing, in the flower, of different varie ties or strains. To produce a hybrid, the parents are care fully selected with a definite objective in mind such as dis ease resistance, color and size of flower in plants grown for their bloom- and many other factors. When seed is pro duced, the progenies must be grown, selected and tested be fore they are released as named varieties. A strain is a special type which has been selected from a variety. These types, or strains, must be superior in one respect or another to the variety. Some good examples occur in the apple and are called color strains or bud sports. Starking and Rich ard are strains originating from the (Red) Delicious. Blaxtayman and Staymared originated from the Staymen Winesap. Red Rome from Rome Beauty and many oth ers. Many of you are familiar with the Louisiana strain of the Porto Rico sweet potato which was selected from Porto Rico. More recently a newr variety was developed which was named Goldrush. Now we have Copperskin Goldrush which is a strain selected from Goldrush. The skin col or is better and the C. U. Goldrush will outyield Gold rush under certain conditions of environment. Perhaps you have observed sweet potatoes which have “two-tone” skin color. These skin color differences are called chimeras and the strains originate from them. be held with Dr. Herber P. Peacock and Dr. W. H. Wil liams as speakers. The Rev. John Bowden, pas tor of Enka Baptist church, delivered the message to the Swannanoa First Baptist church Sunday, Feb. 21, while Rev. Charles W. Smith was at Enka giving a special talk on the Forward Program to the Enka Baptist church congre gation. The monthly meeting of the Brotherhood was held Tues day, Feb. 23- at the church. 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