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FOLK FESTIVAL OWEN HIGH SCHOOL Saturday 7:30 p.m. Weather High Low March 13 51) 35 March 14 51 30 March 15 51 37 March 16 50 30 March 17 55 30 March 18 51 33 March 19 60 33 Pree. I VOL. 17 THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1962, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 8 PAGES TODAY NO. 30 — Single Copy, 10c REFLECTioNS Gordon Greenwood news the EDITOR mttv Mattison,, who was ° editor of the Black Mountain News prior to mov : t0 Charlotte, still keeps '!JL tab on all that’s going on n the journalistic world. Some time ago she ran a cross this essay which a school " had written about the editor, dipped it out and mail ed same to us. . Tt first appeared in the Virginia Free Press of Charles Town in 18J1. It was entitled the editor , It is being reprinted here today without further com ment. Heregoes: • ■The editor is one of the happiest animals in the known world. He can go to the circus afternoon and evenings, with out paying a cent; also to in quests and hangings. He has free tickets to pin nies and strawberry festivals; j,ets wedding cakes sent to him, and sometimes gets a lick ,;ng' but not often, for he can take things back the next is sue, which he generally does. I never knew only one edi tor to get licked. His paper busted that day and he could n't take nothin’ back. While other folks have to go to bed early, the editor can sit up late every night and see all that’s going on. The boys thing it’s a great thing to sit up till 10 o’clock. When I am a man 1 mean to be an editor, so 1 can stay out nights. Then that will be grand. “The editor don’t have to saw wood or do any chopping except with his scissors. “Railroads get excursions for him, knowing if they don’t he'd make 'em git up and git. “In politics he don’t care much who he goes for if they are on his side. If they ain’t, . he goes for ’em anyway, so it amounts to nearly the same thing. “There is a great many peo ple trying to be editors who can't, and some of them haye been in the profession for “They can’t see it, though. “If I was asked if I had rat her have an education or be a circus rider, I would say, let me go and be an editor.” A-men. WASHINGTON I’ve been to Washington so often during recent months that the taxi drivers, the wait resses, and the bell boys are becoming quite friendly, al most chummy. The taxi drivers especially have become helpful and now only drive 60 miles an hour when the streets are crowded, which they always are, in stead of the usual 75 which | they hit, almost, some time ago when Dick Stone and I i first visited the city. And they are chummy and talkative. For instance how many of you knew that the taxi driver in W ashington does not own his cab but leases it for $6.00 per day, his only expense being the gasoline. He pays the $6. M for six days a week but has ..unday free. Thus, many of them get out and try to make t.neir profit on Sunday. The driver who took us from owntown to the airport on ednesday afternoon, came originally from Alabama 20 1'cars ago, grow up in Alex andria. and regards the city I e& as his home. | In hi s words “Just say I’m If, lr£'nian. That softens the I °/ living in this area.” j axi drivers in Washington Le aot Permitted to cruise,but * t° either permanent I non lo which they are assig |n r>r to nearest stand. If l.i are shows up at either I ® m a reasonable length Itn „v,lme’ t*Tey are allowed Ik ui,ange stan(ls- This change L, a’ eauses it to look as if U Ssta'alWWS »" the *> I Other Bit. IdIm aS]''n^0n'ans are not too I their W't^1 l^eir football or I that teams but hope llear tu^ wd* improve this Of 'u , y are still in a state land over the Redskins Cdt?n t feel ™ch better a han l !eir entry the Ameri hver rUeii-You have to fly I North r . ,edmont area of Ireallv ,arjllna at night to I deveLT* how h'Khly it Iia line ulrt ^r°m the Vir^in °ut of ■ •"ar'°tte you are not left ri„L. of towns on the I the Dian ’ aad to the front of Jton at 7 on^6 -left Washing |lott u IA Im 6 at 8-snarri?d in Char‘ Aaheviiie°in 3’ and fl«w on to I any ofn a very short time.. IDla are ^r^^1"3 °f Vir‘ in0w. stlU covered with a Summer visitors mecca VISITOR HERE IN TWENTIES SENDS PHOTOS WHICH RECALL FORMER ERA AND EARLY TIMES i he above pictures were sent to the NEWS along with several others, by N. R. Quint in of 2 Maple Lane,, West Chester, I’a. Mr. Quintin states in a letter which accompanied the snapshots, that he spent several vacations in Black Mountain back in the “Roar ing twenties” and still retains pleasant memories of the “in vigoration climate, beautiful scenery, majestic mountains, and people of sterling quality”. During his visits he stayed at the Cauble House (1) which was located on highway 70 where the Woodcock Motor Company now has a used ear lot. The hotel mentioned was operated them by Mrs. Cauble and her daughter Mrs. Jennie Shuman. According to Mr. Quintin “the clientele was a select character and the cui sine was of excellent quality in the best local tradition.” While vacationing he enjoy ed trips to nearby points of interest, ascended both High Top and Miami Mountains, hiked to Andrews Geyser via the railroad,, scaled Mount Mitchell, and equipped with camera, made the pictures which he has treasured. The route to Mt. Mitchell followed the abandoned route of the old Black Mountain railroad which operated for the purpose of transporting the lumber so plentiful in the mountains. W’hen the timber was exhausted the railroad was abandoned and the road bed became the highway for automobiles to transport tour ists from Black Mountain to Camp Alice (2) .A long sec tion of the road was one way and in order that traffic move properly certain hours were designated for going up only, and afternoon hours for the return trip. Once having reach ed Camp Alice, over an ex tremely rough winding road with many hairpin turns, the hiker then climbed a trail which led through balsam very much as the one does today only it was considerably lon ger. There were a few pas senger cars which were attach ed to the Shay geared locomo tive of the timber train. One of the old cars (3) was shel tered in a shed for several years. The men engaged in getting out the logs for tim ber were housed in the lum ber camp (4) located half way between Black Mountain and Camp Alice. Now the only remnant of this era is the Old Toll Road between Black Mountain and Ridgecrest where there are both summer homes and those for year ‘round dwellers. The visitor to Mt. Mitchell these days may drive on the park way over roads that were un dreamed of in the twenties and arrive at the foot of the grand old mountain. Within a few minutes, from the large mod ern parking lot, the peak is reached and a new tower marks the site of the highest peak east of the Rockies. Pic nic tables and shelters with huge fireplaces are among the balsams that once lined the old trail...but the grave of Elisha Mitchell remains, a perpetual More Pictures On Page 5 —Turn to Page 5 Public Invited To Symphony At Warren Wilson The newly augmented Ashe ville Symphony Orchestra un der the director of M. Thomas Cousins will perform a pro gram of varied Symphonic music at Warren Wilson Col lege on Friday, March 23 at 8:15 p.m. This concert-being presented by the Lyceum Com mittee of Warren Wilson Col lege community and the Swan nanoa Valley, is the first ap pearance of the orchestra out side of its regular season ser ies which conclude on March 20 with a concert in Asheville, The Warren Wilson pro gram will include: Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart, the “Reforma tion” Symphony by Mendels sohn, the Stokwski transcipt ions of two Bach chorale pre ludes,and the stirring Rak oczy March from “The Dam nation of Faust” by Berlioz. Residents of the Swannanoa Valley are invited to be guests of the College for this event and the admission is free. The program will be presented in the Gladfelter Student Center on the campus. Church Group To Hold District Methodist Hour The largest aggregate of Methodists in the Asheville District’s recent history will meet at the City Auditorium on March 25th at 7:30 p.m. for the Asheville District Methodist Hour. Bishop No lan B. Harmon of Charlotte, North Carolina, will deliver the inspirational sermon. A Massed choir of some 200 voices, under the direction of Edwin Easter, Director of Music at Central Methodist Church, Asheville,, will lead the musical portion of the service. The service will launch a week of Evangelistic Visit ation in the area. A large number of young people, seated in a reserved section, will make up this large congregation of 3,000 people. Members of the massed chorus are being drawn from some 94 churches and charges in the District, and an initial rehearsal for the service is being held at Central Meth odist Church, Asheville, on Sunday afternoon, March 18th. at 3 :00 P.M. Ministers making up a special chorus will be featured in the service, and are expected to be present for the rehearsal on March 18th. Mr. Easter directed music for a similar service in June,, 1961 during the Methodist Annual Conference at Lake Junaluska. Much interest and enthusiasm was shown through out the state in this inspira tional type worship service,, and plans have been made for the congregational singing, supported by the large choir, to be one of the main feat ures of the service. Rev. Robert G. Tuttle, Dis trict Spuerintendent of the Asheville District, will be in charge of the service. Ac companists for the Rally will be Mrs. Edwin Easter,, or ganist at Central Methodist Church,, and Mrs. William Peeke, pianist. Camp Alice and Old Passenger Car Folk Festival To Feature Variety Of Valley Talent Featured attraction of the second annual Swannanoa Val ley Folk Festival at 7:30 on Friday night at Owen High School auditorium Mil be square dance competition in three divisions, with six teams entered. In the High school division, Biltmore and Erwin will be trying for the trophy, which will be awarded for the first time this year. (No high school teams were entered in last years Festival.) Black Mountain Junior High school team will compete against Swannanoa’s Junior High, last year’s winner in their division. In the Elemen tary division, the roles will be reversed as Black Mountain, winners last year, will be chal lenged by Swannanoa. The Festival’s talent com mittee has selected a goodly number of individual and group performers of folk sing ing and dancing to comprise a full evening’s entertainment, including favorites from last year’s show, Marcus Martin and Bill McEJrath, and Miss Judy Ritchie of Warren Wil son College. Pete Reynolds and his band will furnish music. The Folk Festival is spon sored by the Swannanoa Wo mans Club for the benefit of its special project, the Swan nanoa Public Library. Last year’s Festival won enthusias tic applause and praise from a capacity crowd and the Club is working hard for an even bet —Turn to Page 3 Office Of Civil Defense Offers New Courses A course in th£ new nation wide Medical Self-Help Pro gram designed to teach fami lies how to meet their health needs in time of national dis aster will be started at the City Hall in, Black Mountain on Tuesday night, March 27th at 7:00 P.M. This class will be limited to 25 persons. This series of courses are a part of a national plan of the Office of Civil Defense and aided by the Department of Health, Education and Wel fare and Public Health Ser vice to train at least one in every family to give the mini mum health care in the ab sence of a doctor. R. T. Greene, local Civil De fense Director, in announcing this class, stated that quali fied instructors are available in first aid, radiation protec tion and sickness, common di seases, and other contingen ses, such as child birth, that might arise in time of emer gency or national disaster. It will consist of a total of 16 hours. Anyone wishing to en roll in these classes are asked to call the City Hall No. 9 3301 or the Red Cross No. 9 9541 to have their names reg istered and scheduled to begin. The classes will last from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. each Tues day night. FLOWER GROWERS ASKED TO TAKE PART IN FLOWER SHOW All flower growers of the community are invited to exhibit specimens in the show sponsored by the Garden di vision of the Senior Woman’s club to be held in the Fellow ship room of the First Baptist church on April 11, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All entries should be brought to the church in bottles or jars before 10:15 on the day of the show. All exhibits will be judged. Anyone wishing to enter arrangements which can be used as decorations for the club meeting at 2:30 on the same day, is asked to call either NO 9-7856 or NO 9 9401 so that tables can be provided. Mrs. W. I. Willis of Ridge crest is chairman of the flower exhibit. CUB SCOUT LEADERS MEETING MON. NIGHT There will be an important meeting on Monday, March 26, 7:30 p.m., at the Metho dist church of all Scout lead ers, den mothers, assistant den mothers, committeemen, and persons interested in the Cub Scout program in this community. This meeting is for the purpose of renewing the charter for Pack 42, Black Mountain. TRY OUTS FOR LOCAL PRODUCTION OF PLAY "SOUTH PACIFIC" Asheville Community The atre is looking for 32 actors who can sing, to appear in the forthcoming production of the fabulous musical play, SOUTH PACIFIC. Eleven women and 21 men will be used in the lavish spectacle of fun and love in the South Seas. Auditions for women will be held at the ACT Workshop at 120 College Street Thursday, March 22, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Men will be heard on Friday, March 23. Applicants will be given two minutes in which to sing a popular song of their choice, not necessarily a song from SOUTH PACIFIC. Candi dates must bring their own music to the tryouts. The show will be given at William Randolph School on May 24, 25 and 26. Tea and Topic Hears Foreign Students Speak Warren Wilson College stu dents, Miss Kim Ying Pang of Hongkong, and Miss Lucy Lo, formerly of Formosa and re cently of Viet Nam, discussed education and other aspects of life in their respective coun tries at the meeting of Tea and Topic club Monday evening at the home of Mrs. A. F. Tyson, Jr. Miss Pang,, who started to school at the age of three, said that one must pay to attend eit her public or private schools in Hongkong. Both English and Chinese schools are available. Part of her family attend Eng lish and part Chinese schools. Miss Lo, who was born in Main China—which is now Red China—moved to Formosa and later to Viet Nam. She came to Warren Wilson after hearing about the college from a friend. A math major, she plans to return to Formosa to teach after graduation. Both girls are here on scho larships. Delicious refreshments were served to Mrs. B. G. Byron, Mrs. S. S. Cooley, Mrs. R. T. Greene, Mrs. Gordon Green wood, Mrs O. E. Leeman, Mrs. Richard Oulahan, Mrs. Allen Perley 111, Mrs. W. W. White, Mrs. Max Woodcock, Mrs. Don Wright, Miss Lo, and Miss Pang. (hristmount Board To Meet Six directors from each of the ten South Eastern states are invited to meet at the Monte Vista hotel in Black Mountain, March 22-23 for their spring business meeting. Meetings will open at 2 P.M. Thursday and close after luncheon on Friday. Presi dent H. H. Strietman of Cin cinnati and Christmount will preside at the business ses sions. Directors will be pri vileged to inspect the two new buildings being transformed from the former use as wards at Moore General Hospital to Assembly use under, the di rection of Walter A. Davis, Chairman of Buildings and Grounds Improvements. Howard Kester, Executive Director of Christmount will reveal the plans for the Con ferences scheduled for this year. Reports from all com mittee chairmen will be heard. The Women for Christmount will also hold their business sessions at the Monte Vista. The meetings are all open to interested parties. TWO OWEN SENIORS WILL RECEIVE HOMEMAKER DEGREES Brnda Vess and Carolyn Moore, seniors at Charles D. Owen High School, have been notified that their applications for FHA State Homemaker De gree were approved by an Evaluation Committee. They are now qualified to receive the certificate of award at the State Convention in Raleigh on March 31. There will be eight Owen members attending the State FHA Convention. They will be accompanied by one of the Chapter sponsors. The Rev. Charles Smith of Swannanoa will talk on Teen Age Problems at the FHA meeting, Wednesday, March21. The chapter will elect their county officer, vice-president, and make plans for attending the County Rally at this meet ing. District Winner Courtesy Ash. Citizen-Times Mrs. John L. McWhor ter, member of the Black Mountain Senior Womans club was judged first place in the district Vogue Sew ing Contest, a feature of the Fine Arts luncheon held last week at the Bat tery Park hotel in Ashe ville Mrs. McWhorter, a tall, striking brunette, was not only an ideal model for her prize winning outfit ,but her tal ent, and imagination combined with her ability as a flawless seamstress brought recogni tion to the local club for the second time within three years. In 1960 Mrs. M. J. Wyrick also won the district contest and went on to com pete in the state wide level as Mrs. McWhorter will do later in the spring when the convention is planned for Win ston Salem. The two piece suit, a two piece dress with box coat in walking length, light weight wool, is of electric blue. The dress consists of a straight slim skirt with an easy fitting over blouse with sloped front edge to show the graduated polka dot detachable belt. The matching coat is lined with white polished cotton with graduated polka dots, coat style is cut-away below the buttoned closing, oval neck line and elbow length sleeves. The dress may be worn through the summer on cool days and cooler evenings. Accessories for the outfit are a matching tall pillbox hat of the polka dot material with trim of electric blue gros grain ribbon looped at the sides, long white gloves and shoes and bag of matching electric blue. One change of accessories was allowed for the contest and for this Mrs. McWhorter chose red shan tung covered shoes with belt of the same material and a red fabric rose making the outfit suitable for evening wear. No hat or coat were worn with this latter ensemble. Competition is always keen for the Vogue contest with best designers and seamstres ses representing the many clubs at the district meeting. Judges were experts in the sewing and designing field. Entries are judged on appro priateness of the outfit for day around wear for the uub woman who may attend meet ings in the morning, afternoon and evening with only one change of accessories. Gar ments are also judged on work manship, selection of mater ials and color combination, choice of accessories and whet her or not the style is attrac tive for the wearer. The McWhorters have two small children for whom she sews beautifully, making the little frothy dresses all little girls love. She also sews for her husband; her first at tempt was a sport coat for his birthday of which he was just ly proud. Mrs. McWhorter’s ability to sew well, her flair for color combinations and her know —Tun ta Page t COMMUNITY URGED TO ATTEND MEETING THURSDAY AT OWEN Parents, teachers, students, and school patrons are expect ed to meet at Owen High school this Thursday night, March 22, for a general meet ing to be held in the school auditorium followed by a viewing of the science pro jects which will be on exhibit in the cafeteria and confer ences with teachers. The Owen chorus of eighty members, directed by Woodfin Rhodes will take part in the program at the general meet ing. Fred H. Martin, Owen principal, will be speaker for the topic “Your Child and College”. College catalogues will be displayed in the lobby and the building will be open at 6:30, an hour previous to the genr eral meeting, for those inter ested in coming early to view the material. Kiwanians Have Busy Week With Two Meetings Members of the Black Moun tain-Swannanoa Kiwanis club, with their wives and visitors, enjoyed a delicious Smorgas bord at the Monte Vista hotel Tuesday, March 13, at 7:30 P.M. Following the meal, president Don Quarles extend ed a cordial welcome to the ladies and visitors. Kiwaniam Hugh White had charge of a fine program of fun and information. Mrs. W. H. McMurray, Sr. directed an old fashioned “Spelling Bee” in which the ladies opposed the men. The unique spelling of some words was enlighten ing and entertaining. The champion speller of the con test was Col. Ray Heath. The motion picture “Meet North Carolina” was shown by Joe Bullock. Every person pre sent felt a great degree of pride as he looked at the won derful scenery of the “Tar Heel” state. The pictured mountains, valleys, plains, rivers, lakes, ocean, highways, towns, cities, villages, homes, farms, beautiful flowers, and mighty forests made us happy to know that we are “Tar Heels.” Truly this was an evening of good fun and en riching fellowship. On Thursday, March 15, members of the club met for a luncheon meeting at the Monte Vista hotel with presi dent Don Quarles presiding. The chairman introduced the visitors who were Sam Leon ard and Porter P. Lamm mem bers of the Asheville Kiwanis club. The program for the meeting was a “Round Table” discussion at ttye luncheon meeting. The members of the club will have boxes of peanut brittle for sale. The profit from the sale will be used in the promotion if the program at the Youth Center. All of our citizens will want to share in this work by buying one or more boxes of the brittle. TABERNACLE MYF TO HOLD BAKE SALE The M.Y.F. of Tabernacle Methodist church will have a bake sale at the Black Moun tain Hardware Saturday, Mar. 24, beginning at 11 a.m. There will be all kinds of home baked items to choose from. “For the best buys, go early”, the committee in charge said. Easter Seals Originate From 1907 Tragedy Window stickers and coin containers appearing in busi ness houses, and the familiar Easter Seals which will be ar riving this week in the mail of Black Mountain and Swan nonoa residents will remind us again of the need of al most one quarter million crip pled children and adults which are being served annual ly through the donations of Americans in every State, the District of Columbia and Puer to Rico. The Buncombe County chap ter of the North Carolina Society, with offices at Chap el Hill, has its headquarters in Asheville, with Mrs. G. L. Bushey as executive secretary. Mrs. C. W. Konrad of Black Mountain is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bun combe Chapter. Throughout —Turn to Page 5 Bishop Harmon To Preside At Church Opening The dream of Black Moun tain Methodists becomes real ity when Bishop Nolan B. Harmon will preside in the formal opening Sunday of the new church . Dr. Robert G. Tuttle, Superintendent of the Asheville District, and Rev. John McWhorter, pastor of the church, will also have part in the service. The structure, completed this week, fulfills the building and expansion program for the local church which began with the Education building in 1955. The new sanctuary seats 400 persons and a chapel, library and office wing are also in cluded in this new structure which is connected to the Ed ucation building. The World Parish Cross, featured in the chancel win dow facing State street, is a Methodist symbol created by the Commission on Promotion and Cultivation in 1957. In August 1960 the Commission granted permission for the use of the Cross in the window, the first use of the World Par ish Cross in this manner any where . The window was de signed by the High Point Glass and Decorative company at a cost of $3,200. The twenty foot wide, twenty four foot high window is of handmade Blenko glass. The design is that of a red globe (polar projection) with the strong lines of the Latin cross in the background. Other stained glass windows were provided by the Jennings Glass company of Henderson ville. The Memorial Chapel locat ed in the southeast corner of the new building with an out side entrance from Church street, is for prayer and med itation. The walls are of birch —Turn to Page 8 Million Dollar Goal Is Set For 4-H Fund Drive The drive to raise Buncombe County’s share of a million dollar goal of the 4-H Develop ment is now in progress, The 4-H development fund is an educational foundation which was established to pro vide needed financial support for phases of the 4-H program not supported by public funds. These include; an expanded camping program, educational scholarships, recognition and awards program for outstand ing 4-H club member's, and participation in International farm youth exchange program. Buncombe County’s share of the total goal is $10,101. One of the four existing4-H camps is located in Swanna noa. Large expenditures have already been made at this camp from this fund. The county goal of $10,101 has been dvided by communi ties according to population and club members. The 4-H club members and community leaders are hard at work to put this drive over the top. Latin Student From Owen Wins Contest Miss Trudy Gilkerson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Gilkerson of Swannanoa, won first place in a contest on derivatives held at the Junior Classical League’s state meeting at Chapel Hill Friday, March 16. She is a student in Mrs. Margaret K. Carr’s first year Latin class at Owen High school. Nineteen Owen students: Trudy Gilkerson, Linda Nes kaug, DeRonda Tubaugh, Kay Patton, Margie Smith, Pat Smith, Anne Stubbs, Janice Wheelon, Ann Maddox, Mon ty Baker, William Henderson, Carolyn Moore, Billy McMur ray, Richard Burnette, Arthur Eliassen, Terry Ledbetter, Karl Snyder, Phillis Owenby, and Linda Titus attended the meeting and took part in the various activities and contests. They were accompanied by Mrs. Karl Snyder, C. A. Stubbs, Mrs. William McMur ray, Jr., Mrs. S. Neskaug, V. H. Eliassen, and Miss Eliza beth Cole. There are 1700 members of the Junior Classical League in North Carolina.
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