>|(iyhouse lurnrnerSeason 0pens Tuesday Vagabond Players have 1 revive their most 1 , and successful play, i HoW They Run,” by for opening their mon on Tuesday even. : . tne Flat Rock Play ... ..agon will find many 1 i faces in the casts of "eleven plays to he pre The Vagabonds will 'welcome several newcorn .„ the Flat Rock stage. ‘ , jta Grannis has return , -taire the Vagabond pro for her twelfth con season. A New ,lr;.er she had her early ?inin(C directing for the Repertory Players and ff.Broadway companies. For *,!V years an actress in New TV and in stock on the ;prn seaboard, she came ■'! t0 direct the Macon, Tampa, Fla., and Nash i|0 Tenn., community thea . for the past ten years. T;;,. east includes veteran j, p, _-ers who has returned r |,is seventh season, tiordon Elliott, returning r his fifth season, has had kiiar appearances, both as [actor and a vocalist, on ,t, ,j- radio and television beratns. y try Frances Watson, of L-h, is a popular ninth ,..,n Vagabond. She has uni three seasons on the j- h Circuit, toured with » Vagabond Touring Thea , :l!- i national companies of [: Roberts,” “Lo and Be |d," and “Jenny Kissed > She holds three awards r "Best Actress” from the ji.isjh Little Theatre. Xe MacMillan, a veteran of te(, seasons, came to the n • after two years with . Silo Circle Theatre in ) Mountain. He has done t : :.e theatre work in Con [tieut and Florida. Helen Bragdon returns for r fourth season with the gabonds. A an Sader hails from Bre td and is a graduate of ke University. A a comer, Caryn Murp u-lees cafeteria Free Oinntr for R. C. Bowness BRING THIS AD Before July 2, 1964 h.V» has had experience Off Broad wav and in »>»u in summer stock in New Jersey and Cal lforma. Steve Dawson received his training at the Royal Aca demy of Dramatic Arts in Dondan and the Neighborhood 1 layhouse in New York Sam Garner of Wilmington N. C rounds out the cast.’ fie a so serves as director of the Vagabond Children’s Theatre. Other Vagabond veterans returning for subseguent pro ductions include Ann Driscoll Dorothy Masterson, Patricia Moore. Pat Orr, James Mur phy. W C “Mutt" Burton and Edward H. Wilkinson. "See How They Run” will Play nightly through Satur day at 8:JO with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at F’>at Rock Playhouse is located three miles south of Hendersonville on highway No. 25. Singleton Is Well Pleased With Clinic The Warriors downed the Takers, 49 to 38, and the k nicks took a close one from the ( eltics, 54 to 45, as play continued in the senior divi sion of the Owen High School Basketball clinic at the gym Monday evening. f or the Warriors Ronnie McNary and Joe Brooks paced the winners with 21 and 20 points respectively. For the losing Lakers Lewis had 15 points and Plummer and Co man 8 each. Jake Hardin with 25 points was high scorer for the Knicks while Ricky Reed had 14. Jim Hardin with 16 and Franklin with 13 led the Cel Lies. Clinic Director Ralph Single ton has been well pleased with the response and with the treat number of boys who have reported for the clinic "ssions. Junior Division In the junior division Les Ler Ballard poured in 21 points to lead the Cobras to i close 29 to 27 victory over he Pythons. Byrd scored 12 for the losers. In other action the Rat Llers handed the Copperheads a 42 to 21 defeat as T. Suttles hit 20 points and J. Hill 10. For the Copperheads Lindsey had 16. BLACK MOUNTAIN DRUG CD. UZZELLS :j?yr-vn**i STOWE _ Hi mEnamummmi* Bn ' Phoni 669*4121 Black Mountain, N. C. B No. Dr. HAVE YOUR NEXT PRESCRIPTION BEAR THIS LABEL. m/fdew-free closets... (with new deluxe electric DAMPP-CHASER* Closet Dehumidifier • Saves clothing from ruin by mildew ® Keeps mold off shoes and luggage. • Saves cleaning bills—stops rust. 9 Ends musty odors permanently. • Nothing to install, simply plug in 10ft. 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They even 1 lowered one of their men over the cliff, and contact with the t gas was almost too much for £ him. It has never been de- ( termined what sort of gases . they are, although it is evi dent they come from inside the | mountain. Following a suggestion we J packed up last Saturday to go within sight of the moun tain. The camp site was at ^ Wiseman's View, one of the | beautiful overlooks prepared : by the Department of Inter- ' ior and the Park Service, over- * looking Linville Gorge and so 1 near to Hawkbill (mountain) and Table Rock (also a moun- c tain) that it seemed as though * one could reach a hand across 1 the gorge and touch them. ! The view of the river which 1 flows through the gorge makes 1 it appear to be quite rocky, ‘ and in truth it is. Fishermen * claim it is fine, unexplored > territory for trout fishing, £ and one can see why even < the most enthusiastic of fish- * ermen would find the going < so rough that it would dampen his enthusiasm. This is wild > country and because of the 1 large number of rocks it is * snake heaven; a neighbor of f ours killed a copperhead with- s in sight of the camp and had t previously killed a rattler and : two other copperheads while ! fishing with his son in the riv- > er. But it is beautiful coun- 1 try too, the grasses grow 1 around the rocky surface of the mountain top as they do 1 at our high altitudes and the 1 breezes blow constantly, first * one direction, then reversing * and blowing back in the op- * posite direction. ‘ Now to retrace to the first statement—we were not dis- < appointed in the lights—they were even more fantastic than | we had imagined. I had sup posed that they moved as the gases burst into flame, but ' instead, they were stationary, I gradually fading until they were no more. Their color varied, too, some were yellow j and there was one with a ( green tinge while occasionally i one would glow redder than ^ the others. It was most in- , teresting. There must have ^ been from 50-75 persons who ( ViUUULfiJUULfiJLfiJLflJL8JLflJLfi_a.fi drove in, sat anu waiuicu a time, and left, with others , coming. It was well after ^ midnight before the last ones , left and we had the moun- , tain top to ourselves. Some of us slipped back during the night and since the weather was clear, the lights were there all night. At daybreak John and I watched the sun come over Hawkbill and the night’s display gradually fad ed with the darkness. The stillness was about us in those early hours. 1 he first sound to start the early morning symphony was a lone cricket, playing his “fiddle legs”; he was joined a few minutes later by a whip-poor will which sang a few warm up notes before his full toned melody filled the air. His call touched off the other birds. From ’way across the gorge we heard a thrush, then others joined in until it was diffi cult to distinguish one from the other. All this time the red sky was changing to gold and ol’ Hawkbill had emerg ed from a black silhouette in to her daylight dress of green trees and gray rocks and another day was born on the windswept mountain top. Down With the Old The old rambling two-story house which has stood many years at the corner of Vance and Black Mountain Ave. (Highway 9) will soon be gone Notice was given to the owner that the building would be razed if repairs were not made in a given length of time Evidently the time has lapsed, for the windows are already gone and it appears that the framework will be 1 r'e When Jack Leatherwood I went to tell the family living | upstairs that they must find omewhere else to live, chick ns were already roosting in he first floor rooms. This is list another example of non esidents who own property in ur town and appear to be :egligent about its upkeep, ’erhaps they reason that as eng- as there is any income rom its rental it must be in sable condition. How long low before these two old hosts across the tracks from he NEWS will meet with the ame fate? :un Acres The Farm Bureau Federa ion came up this month with bit of interesting info., call d Federal Fun Acres: here .re a few paragraphs: “We’re really in for one ig, whooping time, if we all .ist live long enough.” “N o w, you’ve probably eard the old saying that goes imething like this: ‘Since wo-thirds of the Earth’s sur ace is in water, any idiot nows the Lord means for us o fish two-thirds of the ime.’ ” “Well, as far as we’re con erned, that ought to hold true or the land, too. What (lakes us so happy is that ■ocle Sam has set aside 234 aillions of purchased acres ist for us to make merry in! tnd with the national popula ion now at about 191 million oiks, this means that every ingle citizen now has a Fed ral Fun Acre to himself, with Imost 50 million acres left ver just for spare.” “At the rate things are go ng, it won’t be too many ears before Uncle Sam owns he whole works, from coast o coast. And, since he has et aside about one-third of lis present holdings for sport md amusement, it stands to eason that he will keep this atio constant, and eventually eserve one-third of the en ire nation just for frolic!” “Just think what this (leans! When it comes to rater, we fish two-thirds of he time. And when it comes o land, we play one-third of he time. And that ads up to 11 of our time!” “If we only live long nough, we’ll all die laughing.” Record Number At Lakey Gap Bible School Mrs. Shirley Morris and Irs. Judy Morris were co irectors of one of the finest !ibl<> Schools ever held in the j a k e y Gap Presbyterian Ihurch. The school opened vith 02 present and increas d daily, leaching an atten dance of 78. The cooperation ,nd harmony among the eachers and workers as well ,s the young people and child en, was of the finest. Black Mountain Office Making Plant for Building or Buying? Ask Us About A Home Loan! We art always glad to axplaia tha monay-saving features you can have in a modern A-F Homo Loan Want to Add to Your Home's Value, Comfort? Use An Asheville Federal Home Improvement Loan! The low-cost financing—easy to arrange, up to 60 months to repay. No mortgage is required. Black Mountain Office tMmnlk^ed&ud SAVINGS * LOAN ASSOCIATION ASHEVILLE BLACK MOUNTAIN Church Street West State Street OBITUARIES G. Brandon Last rites for George W. Brandon, 70, of Padgettown road, Black Mountain, were held Wednesday afternoon, June 17, at Kerlee Heights Baptist Church . The Rev. Thomas Gant and the Rev. George Reynolds officiated. Mr. Brandon died early Tues day morning in an Asheville hospital after a long illness. He was a native of Greene County, Tenn., and had lived in Black Mountain for the past 50 years. He was an em ploye of Grove Stone and Sand Co., wher- he retired in 1953 after 30 years service. Active pallbearers were Arvy Simmons, Horace Self, Cline Jordan, Robert Greg ory, .John P. Jones and Plant Poteat. Honorary pallbearers were Dr. James Littlejohn, Dr. T. W. Folsom, J. W. Clark, J. G. Northcott, L. M. Morgan, R. P. Abernathy and Poly Sparks, Sr. Flowerbearers were wo nen of the church. Surviving are four daugh ers, Mrs. C. A. Burnette of Black Mountain, the Misses Beulah and Betty Brandon, ,oth of the home, and Mrs. Melson W. Monteith of Hyatts ille, Md.; three sons, Orville if Fort Worth, Tex., and Hugh uid Laurence Brandon, both if Black Mountain; a sister, Mrs. H. A. Self of Del Rio, renn.; a half-sister, Mrs. Let la Ingle of Miami. Fla.; a ialf-brother. Hurley Brandon if Black Mountain; 12 grand ihildren, and six great-grand ihildren. H. Johnson 1 Funeral services for How- I ird D. Johnson, 50 ,of 613 I Rhododendron Ave., Black I Mountain, were held Thursday I ifternoon. June 13, in the I Chapel of Harrison Funeral I tome. The Rev. Robert Gray, I 'astor of Black Mountain I Presbyterian Church officiat- I ad. Burial was in Mountain I Fiew Memorial Park. 1 Mr. Johnson died Monday | it, his home, after a long ill ness. He was a native of Lan sing:, Mich., and had lived in Black Mountain for the past seven years. He was employ ;d at Beacon Manufacturing 3o. Pallbearers were James Uz ?ell, Morris Hogan, Jr.. John Vaillancourt, Roger Hester, lack Hudson, Jesse Ross and Bi" Pinyan. Surviving ave the widow, Mrs. Roberta P. Johnson: two sisters, Mrs. E. Burch of Okla homa City, Okla., and Mrs. J. Tulloch of Buchanan, Mich., and a brother, Richard, of Sonoma, Calif. UPPER CEDAR CREEK COMMUNITY Bessie Elliott Davis mmm mmm The scattered showers are sure good for our gardens. Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Walker, Jimmy and I went to Asheville. Friday morning we went back to Black Mountain and down to Marion. This round of con tacting office girls and wo men shows me that we have some pretty nice and clever Fo’ks in the Official and busi ness Offices of our country. .Sunday we had as visiting "inister af Stone Mountain, Rev. Everette Sprinkle of Mar ion. The message had as xt, “The Christian serving :he Lord.” Nehemiah starr ed rebuilding the walls round T ’ruaalem. The Devil tried every plan to stop the work. Nehemiah always said, “No.” DEL MONICO Steaks -69c BONELESS POT ROAST - 49c GOLDEN BANTAM Corn 10 59c BIG BUY BACON - 39c FRESH GROUND LBS. 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