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Buy Tickets to Jaycee's Dance - Sal., April 2 - 9 to 1 BENEFIT OWEN HIGH SCHOOL BAND DEVOTED 100% TO OUR COMMUNITY — THE GROWING SWANNANOA VALLEY Weather High Low Pr*c. March 22_33_21 March 23_47_27 March 24_55_21 March 25_57_25 March 26_50_20 March 27_57_28 March 28^ _57_27 I960, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 8 PAGES TODAY NO. 31 Single Copy, 10c deflections Gordon Greenwood c;.,,e grade school days 1 Y „ ,1 and heard about the K). x Klan and their ex Lite during and after the vil War hut had never seer Ijye or dead one. If I re Lmbcr correctly, they were n<A\-n ■ ^ andsome for some years. weeks ago on the high . between Marietta and Santa, Ga., I came over s i there on the right ’hod out for what scem jj e an endless distance 1< road were dozens ol |,e Klan with their loose fit ;uits fanning in the Kh the mountain area the White Calipers. Any ‘ hey rode high, wide and mg’ Those 1 had a good look at f, d to he young boys ir heir teens. But there were j -iz,'-- and shapes farther along the road and it j;l, aid to tell their ages, i ... -itched the Atlanta pap rP to see what they (the ;]a, were up to but didn’t e,. it mentioned. —R— ‘ItIT. STATEMENT ‘There were just as many reckless drivers 50 years ago." says a judge, “but in the good old days they drove something that had more sense than they.” —R— 1001) NEIGHBOR The following letter is typ cal of how many people have elt in regard to those whe ffered help to their neigh ors during heavy snows that laralyzed the community for everal days during February nd March. "The papers are full of the leroic relief of the snow ound in northwestern North ’arolina, so I want to give a ittle cheer for our good leighbor, Howard Willet, Twice during our snow block Toward has borrowed his mother's tractor and blade ind plowed out two roads off If NVi'th Fork, of approxi liately half a mile each. Not inly that, he has cleaned out 'our driveways so the occu iant of those houses could jet to town for supplies. “All of this has been done n a idition to a heavy sched ule at the Veterans hospital, n fact, Howard is one of hose fellows who has cast sc nuch bread on the waters of irotherhood, it seems almost time for some cake of appre ciation to return to him. With gratitude for our v-hhurs, I am, 11a B. Brown. —R— 'TilHRS HELPED, TOO! Other citizens of the com munity helped to relieve •hat could have been a ser ious situation by taking their tractors and bulldoz ers and clearing the side roads and parking lots. Don liurgin of North Fork mad and Finley Stepp had their machines working ov ertime pushing the snow a side so that cars with chains —Turn to Page 8 Electricity To Bp Off 1-3 P.M. Were April 1 N' The electricity will be off j1 ai (-:.s oi the Black Moun Jnirnunity between the of 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Fn,-ay, April 1. T'' rical service interrup (.‘ affect Carolina Pow 4 eight customers in Lake and Spring Hills from C ien<3ron avenue and ln ’ treet thru North Fork, t interruption is neces r. ‘ 1,1 <J1'der to make im f. .:“"rUs t0 *-he company’s Th! . *n *he affected area. r' indicated were chos it is felt less in fo?wiU result dur st,,. 11 "ours selected than at - , "-er similar period. The it '. ltlt‘ work to be done for th,t. il tannot he per pur. ‘ ’’ely without a tem Vb.,. ■' niterruption of ser In Cj old . ra‘n or extreme vi “ "er this interruptior d»n, " ' heduled at a latei 6«ND wu pLAY P'A MEETING win high School B the regular m Black Mount :? hi p.m., Thurs tar 'enight) at the raar, ^ at tl hool building. ten,.-. ""nts and others vite,] . the schools art to attend. Among local residents feeding birds during the heavy snows of February and March were Mr. and Mrs. James C. Bartholomew who took the above pic tures to prove their point. From the list of birds visiting them at Tall Oaks you gain the impression that the small feathered animals knew a good thing when they found it and passed the word along. How else do you account for the growing list of “vistors” that came their way? Mr. Bartholomew calls his article “Snow Blues and Birds”. Snow Blues and Birds Civil Service Certificates Are Awarded Monday evening’, March 21, marked the close of a second class under direction of the Buncombe office of Civil De fense in radiology and the use of radiological instruments. Roger Stuck, professor of physics at Warren Wilson col lege, was instructor for the two ten-hour courses. He was assisted by Alan Taylor, dep uty dire<cor of Civil Defen.-e for Buncombe county. Classes were held in the Black Moun tain Primary lunchroom. General John C. Arrow smith, director of Civil De fense for Buncombe county, attended the closing sessions of both classes and present ed certificates to the follow ing: Guy Burchfiel, Mrs. Harrie Danenhower, Miss Ruth Gil bert, Mrs. Josephine Hickey, James O. Coleman and James E. Boone from Marshall High scfiool, Mrs. Claire B. Kelly, Mrs. Madelon Parks, Miss Pauline Tipton, Mrs. Dorothy Whitaker, James Helgreen, Leonard Keever, Miss San chez Mott. Miss Lillian Rus sell, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Nan ney, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hig ginbotham. and Miss Janice Higginbotham. A number of other- attend ing some of the classes will be eligible for certificates up on completion of ten hours required for the course. These classes were spon sored by the Black Mountain Business and Professional Women's club. Community Holy Week Services Set April 11-15 The Community Holy Week services will be held at the Black Mountain First Baptist .diurch Monday through Fri day, April 11-15. 12:05-12:30, with the Rev. Robert G 1 lit tle, superintendent Asheville District of the Methodist ihurch. The Baptist, Christian, Episcopal, Methodist, a n Presbyterian churches of BiacK Mountain will join in the ser vices. Merchants are being invit ed to attend each day and to encourage their customers to attend by closing thel'bu“' nesses from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. each day during the week. —Turn to Page 4 By James C. Bartholomew “It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good’’. This Sun day morning, March 20, at 9:43 o’clock, ushers in the first day of spring, yet we still have with us a light blanket of snow. In a way we at “Tall Oaks’’ shall be rather sorry to see the snow go, because with it will probably go many extra and colorful birds that Mrs. Bartholomew and I have fed now for six weeks, along with our usual year-round fam ily of 50 birds or more, who have been coming twice daily to our three feeders. The ad ditional birds this past five or six weeks include some 24 evening grosbeaks and 12 purple finches, native to Can ada who regularly feed high —Photo by Gragg Miss Joan n Bidclix, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Biddix of Black Mountain, and Billy Ray Plemmons, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Plemmons of Asheville, were married Saturday, March 19, in Greenville, S. C. Mrs. Plemmons is a grad uate of Charles D. Owen High school and is employed at Kearfott company, Inc. Mr. Plemmons is a gradu ate of Lee II. Edwards High school, Asheville. He attend ed Asheville-Biltmore college and the University of Tennes see. He is presently serving in the U. S. Army stationed at Fort Jackson. Cecil Nanney Is Awarded Scholarship Cecil A. Nanney, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Nanney of 20-1 Midland avenue, has been awarded a scholarship to con tinue his study of physics at the University of Chicago for the year 1900-61. The award was made by the National Science Foundation which selected 1200 awardees from among 4690 applicants. up in the mountains and make their winter home thefe, but heavy recent snows forced them down to humans and their kindness to acquire their sustenance. Every morning of the year I have been out at 7 a.m. and again about 4 p.m. to replenish our three bird feeders, and get great joy watching the birds stream in from the adjacent woods when I whistle them. Some titmice have even brush ed my ear with their wings before 1 got away from plac ing their food in feeders. Birds eating with us this winter include four wood peckers, four redbirds, about 16 towhees, 12 purple finches, two Carolina wrens, one or two mockingbirds, a dozen chickadees, some snowbirds (Juncos), several nuthatches, two dozen tufted titmice, a large brown thrasher that flew inside the screened porch door one day, quite a few water thrushes, two robins, a couple of red-winged black birds, not to mention the usual —Turn to Page 4 Mrs. Barnhill Will Feature College Chapel As part of the observance of National Library Week at Montreat - Anderson college, Mrs. Louise Barnhill of Black Mountain will be the guest for chapel on Tuesday, April 5. During the chapel period, which begins at 10 a.m., Mrs. Barnhill will read some of her works and make comments on them; several of her ballads will also be sung. Mrs. Barnhill’s talents as a writer of prose articles, poems and songs are already known to Montreat - Anderson stu dents as the Montreat-Ander son singers included on their tour program this year a pul pit drama for which she wrote the lyrics. In addition to this special chapel program during Na tional Library Week, which is A pril 3-9, the college library bulletin board displays and special book displays will call attention to the theme for this week: “Open Wonderful New Worlds—Wake Up and Read!” LAKEY GAP CHAPEL HYMN-SING SUNDAY At Lakey Gap Presbyterian church 5 p.m. Sunday the monthly hymn-sing will be held. Some 15 churches, schools and different groups in Black Mountain and Ashe ville will be participating with vocal and instrumental numbers. There will be solos, duets, trios and quartets. The public is most cordially invited to attend. Many From Area On Dean's List At Berea Coll. Among those making the Dean’s Honor List at Berea college, Berea, Ky., the first semester were the following students from Buncombe county: Lynda Claudia McGraw, sophomore, daughter of Mr. and Mre. Gary McGraw, and Sarah Louise Gouge, senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Gouge, Black Mountain; Katha Sue Reagan, senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mil lard Lee Reagan, Candler; Gerald Dean Roberts, sopho more, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Roberts, Weaverville; Betty Jean Robinson, January, 1060 graduate, wife of Carson N. Robinson, Black Mountain; Bette Florence Wilson, sopho more, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wilson. Asheville. Wanda Parham Bays, sen ior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Parham, Asheville; Linda Gayle Hall, freshman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hall, Asheville, and Elizabeth Victoria Haynes, senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Haynes, Barnardsville. Attaining the Dean’s Honor List denotes excellence or near - excellence in studies, with at least a B average. Berea college is a liberal arts college with a Foundation High school, the college and high school both serving the Southern Appalachians. The combined enrollment of the two schools is about 1,500. Band To Receive Proceeds From Jaycee Dance The Maxine Cauble, Grove Park Inn orchestra, will pro vide music for dancing at the Black Mountain club house Saturday night from 9 to 1. This dance is being spon sored by the Black Mountain Jaycees and all money will go to the band uniform fund. Admission tickets are $1.00 per person and will be on sale at the door. The following is a list of contributors to the band uni form fund thus far: Jr. Woman’s club, $65.00; American Legion, Waycaster McFee Post, $65.00; Tea and Topic club, $65.00; Mary Louise H. Cooley, $20.00; H. B. Teague, $12.00; C. E. Spen cer, $65.00; Swannanoa PTA, $150.00; Black Mountain Swannanoa Kiwanis club, $160.00; Black Mountain Lions club, $650.00. The above contributions will provide approximately 20 new uniforms. Leaders in the ef fort to outfit the band in time for the opening of the foot ball season this fall hope that other individuals and groups will come forward with enough support to buy the other 30 uniforms that are needed. Dr. Mary Bunch In Who’s Who! L)i\ Mary Bunch will be list ed in “Who's Who of Ameri ca Women” that will be out in about two months. This book is published in Chicago and is the second edition. In private life Dr. Bunch is Mrs. James H. Love, wife of Dr. Love, a Black Mountain dent ist. Pfc. R. Hutchins Participates In Army Drill FORT CAMPBELL, KY. (AHTNC) Army Pfc. Rob ert T. Hutchins. 19, whose wife, Wanda, lives in Swan nanoa, N. C., participated with other personnel from the 101st Airborne Division’s 327th In fantry in Exercise Colorado Eagle 1, an air mobility man euver at Fort Carson, Colo., Feb. 15-19. The exercise, designed to determine unit effectiveness under realistic combat condi tions, included an air move ment from Fort Campbell, Ky., to Fort ( arson, where a mock war was staged against a simulated enemy force. The 101st Airborne Divis ion, a major STRAC (Strate gic Army Command) unit, constantly maintains an im mediate readiness force for —Turn to Page 4 Irvin Bryan Willis Irvin Willis Named Agent For Allstate Irvin Bryan Willis of 617 Broad street, Shelby, has been appointed an agent for Allstate Insurance com panies in the Shelby area, Charles J. Amis, Carolinas’ regional sales manager, has announced. Willis has recently com pleted an intensive training course in the company’s Roa noke, Va., regional office. A native of Ridgecrest, he is a graduate of Black Moun tain High school, Gardner Webb Junior college, Boiling Springs (N. C.) and Lenoir Rhyne college, Hickory (N. C.) He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Willis of Ridge crest. Willis is a member of the Cleveland County Boy Scout Commission and the Shelby Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mr. and Mrs. Willis have two children. Rotary Club Sees Film On Nova Scotia President Ross Taylor showed a colored film of the scenic land of Nova Scotia at the regular meeting of the Rotary club Monday, March 28, at the Monte Vista hotel. A country where the tourist is becoming more and more important, Nova Scotia has much to offer visitors for re laxation and fun. Guests who attended the meeting were Rotarians Jay Gernert, Andrews, N. C.; John B. Veach, Jr., and Marshall M. Abell, Asheville; and R. H. Morgenstern, Westfield, N. J. Lions Realize $54.00 From Annual Sale The Black Mountain Lions club met for its regular meet ing at the Monte Vista hotel on Thursday evening, March 24, with Lion President Jim Skelton presiding. A “White Elephant” sale was held as the program for the evening. Program Chair man Lion Bill White made an impressive master of cere monies as he led the members into buying ‘pigs in the poke” during the heated bidding. Some small parcels sold at least three or four times. Lion Buckner took enough ties home to last for at least ten years, it is believed. The proceeds realized by the club amounted to at least $54. Ev eryone enjoyed this annual event. It was announced that the nominations committee would make its recommendations in April and the new officers would be elected in May to serve during the new year be ginning in July. Lions Bed dingfield, Wallin, and Taylor are members of the nomina tions committee. A board of directors meet ing followed the regular pro gram. MRS. RHODES MAKES ALPHA HONOR ROLL Mrs. Woodfin C. Rhodes has been named to the Alpha hon or roll for the winter quarter at Western Carolina college at Cullowhee. Mrs. Rhodes is now doing student teaching at Oakley school. —India produced 100 mil lion pounds of flue-cured to bacco in 1959. Dr. Behre Tells Of Work Along Gulf (oast By I)r. E. H. Behre My interest in the winter condition of backboneless an imals recently took me. for a month’s stay, to my old stamping-ground, the Gulf coast of Louisiana, to study winter condition and behavior of four crabs whose summer characteristics I already knew. The precise site was a new laboratory on an other wise entirely uninhabited small island, Grand Terre, separated by a narrow but deep pass from Grand Isle, which was for neaidy 20 years the summer home of the now discontinued Louisiana State University Marine Labora tory. Roth of these islands are sandy fringe islands lying between the open Gulf and a large bay; Grand Isle is con nected to the mainland by a single road along Bayou La Fourche, with a terminal bridge, and was traditionally the hide-out of the pirate Lafitte’s men. Grand Isle is an old community, originally French but not “Cajun” (as most of southwest Louisiana is) in origin. Recently, how ever, the older inhabitants, many of whom spoke no Eng lish, have been pushed around by the activities of the oil and sulphur interests, who have huge platforms off-shore and a large force of laborers and administrative staff on the is land. The new laboratory on Grand Terre is a research sta tion of the Shellfish Division of the State Conservation De partment, whose main func tion is protection and devel opment of the oyster indus try; and, to further this, an extensive research program is under way. But other marine researchers are graciously ac cepted as temporary workers. However, the ambitious new building is not yet completed. At present the work is done out of doors and in two small two-room hutments on a plat form built over the water of the turn-about basin where the working boats are anch ored. The huts were fishing camps brought in from a dis tance on a big barge. In these two huts all indoor work is at present done, all of us “on top of each other” as it were; here we studied our animals under microscopes, operated typewriters, ran calculating machines, collected and or ganized (and consulted) a li brary, filed records, stored and when necessary repaired the elaborate out-door equip ment such as salinity meters, fathometers, rain gauges and the like, examined charts and maps of oyster reefs, and carried on endless discussions as to the mechanics and the theoretical aspects of our var —Turn to Page 8 Beddingfield Is Home From Buying Trip Woodrow B. Bedding-field, president of Reddingfield Konrad, soon-to-open men's clothing store, returned Sat urday from Augusta, Ga., where he purchased the latest in fixtures for the store which is planned to open around May 1 at 103-5 Broadway, Black Mountain. The fixtures ar rived by motor freight Mon day morning and were placed in the newly redecorated store, with the help of the lo cal sidewalk superintendents. At the same time, shipments of merchandise began arriving and Mr. ‘ B.”, the story goes, was as busy as the proverbial bee. “We are hoping,” said Woody, “to open on Friday, April 29. We will have a week-long opening, with a drawing for items from the stock of quality merchandise which we will carry. Our Ar row and Manhattan line is ar riving daily, as well as our full line of famous Griffon suits, slacks, and sport coats. We expect our stock of Crosby Square shoes and Resistol hats to be in shortly, and all our lines to be here in time for our opening,” the presi dent concluded. MASONS WILL MEET FRIDAY NIGHT Black Mountain Lodge No. f,63 AF & AM will hold a stated communication Friday, April 1, at 8:00 p.m. All Mas ter Masons cordially invited. L. T. Keever is Master. Miss Joan Moser Miss Joan Moser Will Study For Year In Europe Miss Joan Moser, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Artus Moser, of Buckeye Cove road, Svvannanoa, has re cently been awarded the National Fulbright Schol arship for a year’s study in Europe. She is scheduled to sail on July 1 for Oslo, Norway. Upon arrival she will register as a graduate student at the University of Oslo, where she will be engaged in a research pro ject in Ethnic Musicology. During the past year while completing her Master’s De gree in Musicology at the Un iversity of North Carolina, Miss Moser has been em ployed as a research assist ant in the music department. As one phase of her work she was consultant for “Songs Out of the South,” a series of TV shows produced by the Com munication Center of the Uni versity of North Carolina. This series will be broadcast i.n the near future by Nation al Educational Television. Miss Moser is a graduate of Lee Edwards High School and of Woman’s college of the University of North Car olina. She taught for a year in the Gompers Junior High school, San Diego, Calif., be fore beginning her graduate studies. During high school and in college she performed on many folk festivals and music programs, and in 1957 she sang on Dave Garroway’s program “Wide, Wide World.” She plans to continue her ac tivities and research in the field of folk music. Auxiliary To Sponsor Girl For Meeting Waycaster-McFee A merican Legion Auxiliary met Monday night, March 21, at the home of Mrs. A. R. Rudisill, with Mrs. C. M. Ledbetter, presi dent, presiding. Members vot ed to sponsor a girl at Girl State, to be held in June at Greensboro. A rising senior at Owen High school meeting specified qualifications, will be selected. It was reported that Mi's. C. M. Ledbetter, Mrs. H. E. Stinchcomb, Mrs. Arnold Jones, and Mrs. Clara Snyder, representing the local unit, gave a bingo party for 50 patients at Moore VA hospit al Tuesday night, March 22. One hundred seventy-eight gifts and five cartons of cig arettes were given away dur ing the party. Mrs. Arnold Jones will serve as poppy chairman. During the social hour re freshments were serve d. Those present were Mrs. J. I. Cook, Mrs. Dan Guess, Mrs. Ledbetter, Mrs. Stinchcomb, Mrs. Jones, and the hostess. LIVELY SESSION IS REPORTED IN B. M. BRIDGE CLUB Last week’s winners in the duplicate division of the Black Mountain Bridge club held at the Monte Vista hotel were: North-South, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. White; second, Mrs. R. T. Greene and Wood row Beddingfield; third, Mrs. Claudia McGraw and Mrs. Fred Dawson. East-West, Mrs. Douglas Jones and Mrs. Max Woodcock; second, Miss Peg gy Dennis and Miss Mazie Buie; third, Mrs. Harry Clarke and Mrs. Robert L. Crawley. —Canada produced about 156 million pounds of flue cured tobacco in 1959. Deplore Ads Of Vandalism At Blue Ridge After reading the front page article about “Vandals” and descriptions of someone having burned certain papers and the door at the front gate at Blue Ridge Assembly sled run, I feel constrained to speak. I have been very pleased as I made pictures and have wit nessed the great fun and de light which so many people— young, old, and those of us pretending youth, have had in enjoying sledding at this re markable run at Blue Ridge Assembly. It is obviously a great asset to this entire val ley community and is a shin ing example of another type of facility to which our young people need access in order to enjoy diversity and good clean fun. My reaction, as well as that of many other persons, to this work of vandals is not one in which it is urged that we seek out the alleged culprit and punish him. It is rather one of regret and a distressing fear thtit perhaps Dr. Spiro and other Blue Ridge Assem bly officials may have been presented an opportunity to presume this destructive ac tion on the part of one or a few persons is typical behav ior of all of us who have been sledding there and that all of us do not appreciate the use of the grounds for this sport. —Turn to Page 4 BO Young People Hear Speaker At Banquet Saturday evening at 6:30 some 80 young people and counselors gathered at the Presbyterian Fellowship Hall on Montreat road across from the A & P food store. After enjoying a tasty meal, the group sang under the encour agement of Ero Moore of Morganton. The featured speaker, Dr. Frank H. Rich ardson, quickly established rapport and retained the at tention of his audience as he comically, yet skillfully, fol lowed the theme of the eve ning, “Poppa Question.” From a rich background of research, pragmatic experi ence, and faithful Christian living, the doctor did most superbly what he insists he cannot do; namely, impart the most informative answers to the out-of-the-heart questions that the teen-agers ‘popped” to him by the way of slips of paper. Since the question answer method is one of Dr. Richardson’s favorite ways of communication, he receiv ed the nickname, “Poppa Question,” at least for the evening. The speaker did not seem to object to his new “pen name” except to suggest that perhaps it should be “Grand Poppa Question.” Two of Dr. Richardson’s currently popular books, For Girls Only, presented to Car olyn McDonald, Black Moun tain, and For Boys Only, pre sented to Kenneth Townsend, Hickory, N. C., for writing the best answer to the ques tion, “Why the theme Poppa Question.” Honored guests for‘the oc casion were Mrs. Frank H. Richardson and Mr. and Mrs. —Turn to Page 5 Alas, Babylon Will Be On TV Sunday, April 3 “Alas, Babylon,” the dram atic story of survival in a small Florida town isolated after a fictionized H-bomb at tack on the United States, will be televised on the “Playhouse 90” program by the Columbia Broadcasting System on Sun day, April 3, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. “Alas, Babylon” by novel ist Pat Frank was published in 1959. The locale is a town in central Florida named Fort Repose. When the H-bombs hit, Miami and the Tampa St. Petersburg area are the first to be wiped out, followed by Jacksonville and Orlando. Fort Repose is not hit but is isolated from the rest of the country, in which “millions have died.” The town carries on, but its people are thrown back on their own primitive ingenuity for survival.
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