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Weather TO DO FRIDAY SiDEWALK ART SHOW, 10-4 WILD FLOWERS OF WNC 7:30 P. M. DEVOTED 100% TO OUR COMMUNITY — THE GROWING SWANNANOA VALLEY High Low Prec Aug 4 . 87 63 .28 Aug. 5 . 82 61 Aug. 6 . 83 63 Aug. 7 . 81 63 Aug. 8 . 86 65 1.25 Aug. 9 . 85 61 Aug. 10 . 81 63 .30 Vol. 19 THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1964. BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 10 PAGES TODAY No. 50 — Single Copy 10c Swannanoa Class Of 1934 To Hold Reunion This Week Church Women Asked To Save Green Stamps United Church Women all over the state came through in living colors when asked for books of green stamps with which to purchase a Har vester bus for migrant work ers. The request was sent out for 886 books, parts of books, or loose stamps to make up the required books which were sent in until the needed number was reached The bus was then purchased and is now equipped with needed articles for use. On July 5 the bus was used for the first time in Henderson ville for the Child Care cent er. Black Mountain women responded with the donation of 22 books. Now this has been such a satisfactory project that the same thing is to be done again. By January 1965 the United Church Women hope [to have collected another 886 books for the purchase of another Harvester for use for the same purpose. Advance notice is being given so that women may save a book or po for the project. Bobby Moore Completes Arms Course Specialist Four Bobby L. JUore. 24, whose wife. Mary, ! <- at 110 B. Baker Village, tCiimbiis. Ga.. completed an <--ir week small arms repair ("ur - at the Army Ordance Ccir.-j- and School, Aberdeen living Ground, Mr., July 31. ' re alist Moore was train f|l to repair hand, shoulder. ! " crew-served firearms. V. i.i, entered the Army in >«nuary 1959. The son of Mrs. Myrtle M '“"tv 6134 Vance avenue, ^,;,lk Mountain, he attended -'v,n High school and was '"■ployed by Cody Milling Black Mountain, before Altering the Army. Owen H. Band ‘ractta Will S’arf Monday Monday. Aug. 24 at 8 a.m . £ first rehearsal of the , Owen High Marching ,and will be held. All mem tr'> who expect to partici '6 marching band should Present at this time. np band will participate iii'iny activities this year, ;t'Uf,lng the Southeastern ^ Marching Contest at ,rist°l. Tenn. yi students should check ‘-'ruments and have all « the' repairs made so instruments are ready Playing at the first re ursal. A second rehearsal !rne —‘id at 6 p.m. on the be held emainSr A schedule for the trie of the week will ; en the students at this 'W'W The class of 1934 of the Swannanoa High school will hold their first reunion at the Swannanoa Elementary school on Aug. 15 with dinner for teachers of the class, clads members and their wives or husbands. Rev. J. Lloyd Wolfe and Chap lain Fred A. Duckett will speak briefly. A reception will be held at the Swannanoa Clubhouse from 2:30-5 which will include the class of 1936, also holding a reunion this year, friends and other family members. Members of the class shown above are: Mascot. Mary Morgan McMahan; front row (L to R), Marietta McFalls Hinkle, George K. Morgan, Helen Branch Roberts, Blanche Cole Ledbetter, Marie Cole Hemphill, Doris Gant Jolly .Gladys Dillingham, Ganier Shope Dillingham, Katherine Shuford Dea word; second row: Frieda Harper Williams, Annabelle Ballard Davis, Eulala Brooks Smith, James H. Parks, Sue Pat ton Buchanan, Delos J. Aldrige, Irene Vess Silvers, Rev. J. Lloyd Wolfe, Signa McCall Marno. Third row: Beulah Creas man Gilliam, Helen Reeves Nix, Annise Fortune Richardson, John P. Jones, Thurman B. McPherson. Fourth row: Ethel King, Paul E. Patton, Earl Jolly, Lester Ballard, Sr., Arthur M. Brown, Charles B. Connelly. Absent when the picture was made were Mary Bradley Burleson, Rosa Ida Buchanan Pick ens, Vivoleen Ray Patton, William Barnwell, Robert B. Bartlett, and William Perry Glass. Class officers were: Arthur bve out of the state. Brown, president; vice presi- Those who wish to do so dent, Irene C Vess; secretary, be given a short sight George McElrath, Jr.; and . treasurer, James Parks. tour between the re Only seven from the class ception and dinner. To Give Patron's Concert Jan Peerce of the Metropolitan Opera will give the Patron's concert in Anderson auditorium. Montreat, Aug. 15 at 8 p.m. , , „ SIDEWALK ART ON EXHIBIT ; THIS FRIDAY j Artists will exhibit their work at the sidewalk show which will be presented this Friday, hours from 10 am to 4 p.m. instead of those oiven last week. " Any artist in the area may niece work for viewing pro vided he furnishes his own easel or other support and remains with his woik at al times. No fee will be chain ed for entries but all work must be original and no craft work will be shown. Sidewalk space from the Rug and Jug shop on State street around the corner to Collins Dept, store, and from the Town Hardware on State around the drug store comer to the parking lot on Broad way is expected to be oc cupied during the above hours. in an agt? uuicu irevity of the careers of its op singers, Jan Peerce is in Iced remarkable for, as the ntics and international aud ences are well aware, the anious Metropolitan tenor ias moved from strength to trength, singing with greater assion, greater vibrancy, and reater freedom each year ince his first performance •ith Toscanini in 1938 and j< history-making Metropoli an Opera debut as Alfredo n "La Traviata” in November P41. Few artists in any per od have earned such universal aspect, affection, and admira ion from his fellow musi ians, the critics of six conti icnts and an enormous and iovoted public. Born in New York City and ntirely American trained, an F'eeree reached the top hrough the unlikely route of he Radio City Music Hall. : here he sang everything rom popular ballads to Wag —Turn to Page 4 Coin Shortage Explained By Local Banker Explaining further about the shortage of coins this summer, Bill Hickey, cashier of the Northwestern Bank here, urged further patience, stating that coins are simply not available. Locally the lack of coins may be due to several factors; the conferences drain the supply for one thing, although Mr. Hickey said management had been very cooperative by securing their necessary change from the vending ma chine suppliers. The vending machines themselves contri bute toward the shortage. The expanding economy furthers the shortage because the mints cannot produce coins rapidly enough to meet the demand, particularly since the San Francisco mint has been closed and the new Philadelphia plant is not yet completed. A third contributing factor is not the coin collectors but the coin dealers. Of the 60 million Kennedy halves coin ed, only a few are in circula tion. Although the Treasury De partment has promised to double the nation’s coin pro duction in the next year, it will take time before relief can be felt all over the United States. EVEN CHAMPIONS DON'T WIN THEM ALL! The youthful Black Moun tain Square Dance team did veil to make the Saturday night finals in the recent Mountain Folk Festival as they were dancing two couples short in their lineup. Even when they realized their com petition would be the senior high two-time winner of that i big, beautiful trophy, along with a more experienced adult ; team, it didn’t deter their 1 will to win. Mrs. Miller and - Mrs. Biddix, handling the team in the absence of the coach, t Mrs. Brown, went to publicly i hank the group and express 1 'heir pride in the team for executing a perfect routine, i Fheir performance was well •eceived and appreciated by he large audience in which ;here were many familiar laces. Such support from lo ■al friends is gratifying to hese youngsters in any com petition. To pay their way to High- | ands (S65) where they will igain try in open competition which means they may have ;o dance against sr. high or adult teams, this Saturday. \ug. 15, there will be a Bake sale at the Northwestern Bank. They promise lots of ; arownies, homemade cakes. ; *nd pies. fHRIFT SHOP EXTENDS HOURS FOR SALES Mrs. J. W. Bergthold an nounces that the hours of the 1'hrift Shop will be extended [or Saturdays so that the weekly schedule of open hours will be as follows: Thursdays 10-1, Fridays 2:30-5, Saturdays 10-5. >1800 Donated Locally To fouth Program At the last meeting of the ward of directors of" Opera ion Youth, Inc. M. E. Head, ihairman of the finance com nittee, reported that dona ions in the amount of $1800 lad been received, several of vhich came from summer esidents. The board is very ippreciative of the coopera ion of persons who are wili ng to invest in our local fouth. Head also stated contribu ions have not! as yet been •eceived from spveral of our ocal people who have the nost to gain from a project >f this nature and expressed he hope that they would be ;oon forthcoming in order hat the books may be bal anced by the close of this summer season. Of course, ’hecks made payable to Oper ation Youth, Inc., Black VIountain, are tax deductible. The chairman mentioned ane check for $100 from a lady in Pennsylvania who wrote that her husband was ill and would not be able to come to Montreat this summer but that she knew he would wish her to send the check anyway. BAKE SALE Bake Sale Saturday, Aug. 15 at Northwestern Bank. Benefit Square Dance team. STYLES SAYS AREA MEETS BASIC NEEDS The Rev. Walter Styles, native of Burnsville and former pastor of the Black Mountain Presbyterian church, was speaker for Black Moun tain - Swannanoa Rotarians on Monday of this week. Speaking on a subject which was very close to his heart, Mr. Styles told mem bers and guest-niembers why he had chosen this locality in which to retire. His associa tion with this community be gan when he was pastor here from 1945-50 when he real ied his love for and enjoy ment of fellowship with the local people. The pastor believes that everyone must work in order to be happy and even his summer hours are spent in work on his home here which is also recreation and relaxa tion. He believes also that everyone must worship some thing, that man is not happy without worship, either. He ended his remarks by stating that he had found all the basic needs could be met in this location. Mr. Styles was introduced by John Benedict, program diairman. Twenty - three guests were present. MASONS MEET Black Mountain Lodge 663. \F & AM, will meet Friday light, Aug. 14, at 7:30 to con 'er the third degree. All Waster Masons are urged to ittend. NOTICE ! Mimeographed lists pre pared by Dr. George M. Stephens, Sr. for his appear ince before the local Friends >f the Library are available ii the Black Mountain library. These lists contain sugges ions about books, maps, and tuides about our mountain egion. Married 50 Years Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Cook of Black Mountain celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Sunday, Aug. 2 at their home on Charlotte street. The Cooks were married at her home on Midland ave. They have lived at their present home all of their married life. There are three children: Nell (Mrs. T. V. Hall of Spruce Pine), J. I. Jr., of Nebo, and Clarence of Black Mountain. There are 11 grandchildren. Before his retirement Mr. Cook was owner and operator of Broadway Builders and Supplies. Schedule For School Year Is Announced The following announcement has been made concerning the schedule of Buncombe County schools for the year, 1964-65: Teacher's Day, Monday, Aug, 24; Student Registration Day, Tuesday, Aug. 25 (school buses will run at regular time —school will dismiss before lunch); Second Teacher's Day, Wednesday, Aug. 26; School Thursday, Aug. 27, on full day schedule; Labor Day (hol iday), Monday, Sept. 7; West ern District Teacher's Meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 29; Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3; Thanks giving Holiday, Thursday and Friday. Nov. 26-27; Christmas Holiday, close after lunch Tuesday, Dec. 22 and reopen Monday, Jan. 4, 1965; and Easter Holiday, Good Friday, April 16, and Easter Monday, April 19 in case of inclement weather, only Good Friday will be observed. Look Who’s Here! Mr. and Mrs. Marvin W. Nelon, a daughter, born Aug. 8 in St. Joseph’s Hospital. LEGION AND AUXILIARY TO HAVE ANNUAL SUPPER All members of Waycaster McFee American Legion and their wives and members of the Auxiliary and their hus bands are cordially invited to the annual covered dish pic nic supper to be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bullock Monday night, Aug. 17, at 7 o'clock. "Bring any dish of your choice", the com mittee in charge said Larry Barrett Assigned To Naval Air Sta. Larry L. Bartlett, airman apprentice. USN, grandson of Mrs. Bertha S. Bartlett of 912 Montreat road, Black Moun tain, has reported for duty to the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J. The station serves as the main support facility for eight units based there, Ihey in clude the Naval Air Technical Training Unit, the Navy’s only Parachute Rigger school and Aerographer’s Mate school, Naval Air Reserve Training Unit, Naval Air Test Facility, Marine Barracks, and two helicopter utility squadrons. TROOP 25 WILL RAISE FLAG OVER NEW POST OFFICE AT MONTREAT Members of Boy Scout Troop 25 of Black Mountain will ■aise the flag over the new post office building at Montreat it dedication ceremonies to be held at 4:00 p.m. Saturday, !Vug. 15. Walter Styles is Scoutmaster. ml_ n.. .....i._1 ... . . __ , _ . , . tt J 1U. HClf-,, vovii ivu IU Cixv, ilontreat Postmaster Mrs. Sue iolomon by President Lyndon 3. Johnson, has flown over he U. S. Post Office Depart ment in Washington and the A’hite House. The new post office build ng is located on Texas road n Montreat, near the new •ommercial center. Mrs. Sol >mon has issued a special in vitation to all citizens of the rea to attend. Speakers for the occasion will be Congressman Roy A. layior ui dicilis. iviuuuicuu, u. v Senator B. Everett Jordan, ind R. L. Thompson, director if local services division of ;he Atlanta Regional Post Of 'ice Department. , Dr. C. Grier Davis, pres dent of the Mountain Retreat Association, will give a brief talk on the new post office and the commercial center. The invocation will be by Dr. Lawrence L. Stell and the prayer of dedication by Dr. Billy Graham. The benedic tion will be by Dr. Davis. NEW POSITION Buck Lyda, former assist ant footbal coach at Owen and Enka High schools, has resigned to accept a position with the State of North Car olina Probation Department, Charlie Cohoon, director, an nounced in Raleigh. Mr. Lyda spent last week in Chapel Hill undergoing basic training for the position which will include the Swan nanoa Valley and East Bun combe county. He will be stationed in Asheville. Bertis H. Sellers is supervisor of this division. A former football star at Mars Hill college and Wake Forest, Buck coached at Owen prior to joining the Enka staff at the start of the 1963 season. He also coached JV basketball. Those close to the teach ing situation in Buncombe county and the state were sorry to see Mr. Lyda leave this profession. He was an excellent coach and teacher, got along well with the boys, Esnd liked by his associates. Library Passes (2nd Birthday The Black Mountain Public library celebrated its 42nd birthday last month with the argest book circulation in its listory, 3,666 volumes for the nonth of July; 1.420 of these looks were for adults and 1,038 were borrowed by young people and children. New books were added to he library during the year n the amount of 914, report id Mrs. McGraw, librarian, at he Aug. 3 meeting of the poard. Volumes now in the ibrary total 10,868 and the ■irculation for the fiscal year inding July 1 was 25.536. T h e library’s financial statement for the year pre pared by Donald Livingston, ’PA. showed the operation lost to be $3,411 for the year Hie county furnished $1,200 of his money. The town’s 6<i ibrary tax provided $1,800 md the remaining cash was Torn fines, rentals and club md individual gifts. The own also furnished the 1,600 scjuare feet of library space ogether with the heat and ights for this space. This inancial summary was pre sented at the board meeting py B. G. Byron, treasurer for he board. Seventy-five per cent of the ibrary’s circulation goes to -ounty people outside the own limits and the county ;ontributes only 33% of the .-ash operating budget, ex plained H. McGuire Wood, ?ounty member of the library poard. That is why every ef ’ort is being made by county nember of the board to have he counly’s contribution to pperating expenses increased. VIr. Wood stated further that —Turn to Page 4 Flowers of WNC Topic For Club Benefit Meet The Rlack Mountain Garden club 'will sponsor a benefit program on Friday. Aug. 14 at 7:30 p.m., in the First Bap tist church in Black Mountain. Dr. William S. Justice, practicing surgeon from Ashe ville, will present a colored slide program illustrating “Na tive Wild Flowers of Western North Carolina”. The study of wild flowers, which has been a hobby of Dr. Justice since 1955, led to his interest in color photography. Since lhat time he has deveoped a large collection of kodachrome slides. He has furnished color slides of wold flowers to the botany departments at Ihe University of North Car olina and at Harvard univer sity. Dr. Justice is in great de mand as a speaker because of the growing interest locally in native wild flowers and be cause of the excellent quality ot his photography. He ap peared recently before an Asheville group for the bene fit of the Asheville-Biltmore Botanical Gardens. Early this spring he presented his slides before a wild flower pilgrim age at Gatlinburg, a group of seme 400 persons. He has also contributed many arti cles on wild flowers to var ious nature magazines. The public is cordially in vited to attend the meeting. The program will provide lo cal residents and summer visitors an excellent oppor tunity to identify many of the wild flowers which abound in Western North Carolina. The offering taken will be distrib uted to various worthy com munity activities. French and Art Classes End Successful Term The over 40 youngsters who have attended the Swannanoa Valley classes in French and Creative Art, sang a final “Au Revoir Mes Amis” last Tuesday when they and their parents gathered in Fellow ship hall of the Black Moun tain Presbyterian church. There were other favorites too, like “Frere Jaques” and “Sur Le Pont”, sung to the spirited accompaniment of Woodfin Rhodes’ silver-toned guitar. Under direction of Mrs. Helen Soos, this demon stration class for parents also included simple dramatic se quences in French. In one, James Robson played the role oi' a sick boy supported by Susan Sobol as his mother and Sam Thielman as the doctor. In others the children re sponded to such directions as “Alez vers le tableau noir”. The children’s art work (some of which will be shown in Friday’s Sidewalk Art show) was exhibited. These —Turn to Page 4 Kiwanians Are Entertained By Mrs. Rhodes At their Aug. 6 meeting at !he Monte Vista, the local Kiwanians were entertained by piano selections played by Back Mountain’s own Jane Bowness Rhodes. Mrs. Rhodes played two De bussy numbers: “Clair De Lune” and “La Cathedrale engloutie”, preceded by ap propriate remarks outlining the contempory historical background of the composer’s aia as related to his work. The program was spon sored by Carl Bowness, father jf Mrs. Rhodes. Pres. Roy Travener presided. Nine quests were present. COMPOSITION OF LOCAL MAN TO BE PERFORMED The Brevard Music Center will hold a Composer’s Sym posium this week. Thursday evening at 8:15, as a part of this symposium, a special concert of American music will be presented. Among ather works to be performed will be “Four Movements for Chamber Orchestra” b y Phillip Rhodes, who is living in Black Mountain for the summer. Mr. Rhodes is the son-in law of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bowness of Allen Mountain drive, Black Mountain. Board Speaker Mrs. Catherine Craig, Di rector of Nursing Services at Western North Carolina San atorium since 1952. was feat ured speaker to the regular meeting of the Board of the North Carolina Sanatorium System when they met here in July. She was the first nurse to ever be asked to speak to the board. Mrs. Craig is a native of Ellerbee, where she complet ed high school. She received her nurses’ training at Roan oke Rapids General Hospital School of Nursing from which she graduated after three years. She went directly to McCain, another of the state hospitals similar to the WNC sanatorium, where she re mained from 1940-44. Out of the profession from 1944-48, —Turn to Page 4 Contract Given ForNewP.O. At Swannanoa Postmaster General John A. Gronouski announced that a contract has been awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Lee, Jr., Asheville, to build the new post office in Swannanoa and to lease it to the Post Office Department. The new building on Whit son street at North avenue will represent an estimated total investment of $50,615.00 by the successful bidder. It will be leased to the Depart ment for 10 years with four five-year renewal options at an annual rental of $4,790.00 for the basic term. This represents the lowest bid of 11 received by the Department on a competitive basis and reflects what De partmental studies have deter mined to be a reasonable and economical rental for leased space in this area. The new one-story building will be air conditioned. It will have an interior space of 1.589 square feet and an area [or parking and movement of postal vehicles of 14,663 square feet. lire new post office is ex pected to be completed by Feb. 1, 1965. Present quart ers will be abandoned upon eompletion of the new i'a :ility. Patron's Day To Be Saturday The Patrons of Montreat oil call includes 330 names is of this date with additions laily, announced Dr. Ivan 3. Stafford, vice-president of he Mountain Retreat asso •iatin today. Preparations are leing made for the annual Patron’s Day at Montreat on Saturday, Aug. 15 which will include the dedication of the lew shopping center, a ban luet for patrons and guests and a concert at 8 p.m. in Anderson Auditorium featur ng Metropolitan Opera star Tan Peerce. The public is in cited to attend the concert and general admission tickets nay be purchased at Belk’s and John Carroll’s in Ashe i'ille. at Beddingfield-Konrad in Black Mountain, and at the Vlontreat Information Service and Gift Shop. The annual drive to inter est patrons in Montreat’s fa cilities and Montreat-Ander ron college is directed this rear by Thomas M. Belk, chairman, of Charlotte. Other committee members include Tones Y. Pharr, Jr. of Char lotte; Tully D. Blair, Winston Salem; and Dr. O. C. Car michael and Reuben B. Rob ertson of Asheville. All of the patrons, who are from 17 states, have contri buted $100 or more and serve as a source of communication between their home churches and Montreat.
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