DEVOTED 100% TO OUR COMMUNITY-THE GROWING SWANNANOA VALLEY VOLUME 23 BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 28711 THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1969 8 PAGES TODAY NO. 22 10 CENTS PER COPY Peekin’ Through The KEYHOLE • • • . R7ith Lib By E lizabeth Dinwiddie Keith Col. and Mrs. Robert A. Ben nett and children, Bob Jr., and Lee, left Monday after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pegg, North Fork Road, for ten days. Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. Pegg are sisters. Col. Bennett was previously assigned to Strategic Air Com mand Headquarters, Omaha, Neb. The Bennett’s with their son are enroute to England, where Col. Bennett will assume command of Upper Heyford Air Force Base, and two satellite bases. Lee returned to the University of Missouri to re sume her studies. She will join her family in England in June. J. Worth Burgess and H. B. Robinson attended a sales meeting of Phillips 66, in Char lotte, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Watson, who have lived in the Black Mountain - Swannanoa area since 1925 and have been spend ing part of the winter season in Florida far the past 14 years celebrated their Golden wed ding anniversary last Sunday at the home of a son, William Wat son, Orlando, Fla. Other sons and their families serving as hosts were Delr"‘>" Ernest and Robert of the BiacK Mountain Swannanoa area, and Roy, Jr., also of Orlando, F'la. Mr. Watson was formerly em ployeed with Morgan Manufact uring Co. Mrs. W, M. Pate, 207Church Street, dislocated her shoulder in a fall at her home Monday. She was taken to an Asheville Hospital, but her injuries did not require hospitalization. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Bencienga ind eleven year old daughL . o! Jaytona Beach, Fla., are noving Saturday to one of Mrs. Jerry’s duplex apartments in lidgeerest. Mr. Bencienga is 3urchasing agent for J, B. Clare ind Company. He has been lere since last October. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ham lion and small daughter, Joann of Charlotte spent last weekend with his mother, Mrs. Bell Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ward and children, Ron and Keita of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., spent last week with their parents, Mrs. J. F. ~teen, Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. James Ward of Swan nanoa. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Farr and son, Mack of Taylor, S. C. spent last weekend with his parents Mr. and Mrs . T. M. Farr, 125 Montreat Road. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. McCall Mrs. W. T. Rhodes, and Mrs. J, L. Stepp went to Spartanburg, S, C, last Sunday to visit their uncle, Weldon Moore, who is quite ill in a Spartanburg Nursing Home. Sp. 4, Melvin S, Warren, a 1966 graduate of Charles D. Owen High School, and who also attended Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute, is schedul ed for a tour of duty in Viet nam. He was trained at Ft. Bragg, after joining the Army in 1967. Melvin is the son of Mrs. Beulah Warren of Black Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harper of Jim’s Branch Road,Swannanoa, celebrated their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, Sunday, January 26, from two to five o’clock in the afternoon at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James Pruitt, also of Jim’s Branch Road. A beautiful miscellaneous bridal shower was given for Mrs. Fred W. Averett, Sunday, Jan. 11, in the Club Room of the Asheville Federal Savings and Loan, Black Mountain. Mi s. Jack Milton ana Miss Sherlene Dalton were hostesses and approximately thirty guests were present. Miss Becky Burgess, a senior at Duke University, Durham, is spending a semester break with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Worth Burgess. Drawing For Grand Prizes Dinky and Tump Clements had the honor of drawing for « Grand Prizes given away January 10, at the new Black ■Mounlain Savings and Loan Association. The winners were: 1st prize Mrs. Claudia McGraw, arge television; 2nd prize Mrs. Polly McIntyre, small 6 evisi°n; 3rd prize, Mrs. H. Merrill Kleeman, clock radio. The prizes were awarded in celebrating the moving the Black Mountain Savings and Loan Association to ieii new building at the corner of State Street and Richard Son Boulevard. kiw>anis Hear Of Farm Co-Op At Kiwanis last Thui&uay, narcl Larson, retired Staff ™ er of Warren Wilson eSe, described his recent home to his native •nark. Mr. Larson was manager for the college’s CnrTUSand acre farm- He mends that American an Ulture adopt the co-op eac/,IeValent *n Ltenmark. In jI lLe farmer’s individual efforts to get better prices, the co-op members combine to get the most attractive prices possible in the market place. The co-op plan inDenmarkalso includes quality control checks. Eggs sometimes are numbered and dated along with records of each hen’s performance. The local Kiwanis meets Thursday noon at the Monte Vista Hotel. Attend Furniture Market Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Tyson Jr. of Tyson Furniture Com pany, Inc. recently attended the Southern Furniture Market in High Point, N. C. Home furnishings buyers,re presenting the leading furniture stores, department stores and speciality shops from through out the Southeast were in High Point last week for the Furniture Market. The event was billed as the Winter Fur niture Fashion Festival. The advance styles from the mammoth Southern Furniture Exposition Building, the heart of the Market in downtown High Point, forecasts a continuing fashion interest in the popular Mediterranean influences of I taly andSpain, along with Early American and Colonial designs, the Contemporaries and both Provincial and Court styles of Italy and France. The industry thrives on the interest and stimulation found at the Markets. Stores owners and buyers select from the rieh variety of merchandise to suit the needs of their customers back home. According to Leo J. Heer, managing director of theSouthern Furniture Exposi tion Building Complex, nowhere else in the world can a re tailer find the breadth and depth of home furnishings as are right here in the backyard of the Southeastern buyers. Warlassies Defeat Enka The JVs and War Horses lost and the Warlassies took the measure of the Enka Sugar Jets 27 to 21 to defeat the team that broke their winning streak of 90. Coach Rucker said “The Owen girls played very well, -waving balanced team work against an Enka team that was fired up.” Of the JVs Coach Banner said they played well, and if Luckadoo andWrightplay as good as they did in this game in following games, it won’t belong before they are on the varsity.” Ofthe Warhorses, Coach Banner remarked that “The boys played a hard game and as good as they can ap parently it wasn’t just enough.” Rozzell with 11 and Harris with 9 were high for the girls; while McElhany with 19 was high for the Varsity; and L. Wright with 17 the high scorer for J V’s. Owen JV’s Wright , L., 17; Osteen, J., 6; Luckadoo, F., 9; Lemieux, P., 3; Reese, M., 3; Dougherty, 0; Holcombe, 0; Snipes, 0; for a total of 38 points. Enka JV’s Miller, B., 13; Lovingood, 7; Ingle, 0; Miller, B,, 2; Smith, 18; Brookshire, 8; Brock, 7; Guffie, 15; Moore, 2; for a total of 73 points. Warlassies Harris, V., 9; Hunnicut, S,, 6; Rozzell, P., 11; Turner, T., 1; Ivey, K., 0; Holeman, V., 0; Brown, M., 0; for a total of 27 points. Enka Sugar Jets Brooks, 6; Ellington,5;Nether ston, 2; Hinson, 5; Trull, 3; Stamey, 0; for a total of 21 points. Warhorses MeElhaney, B., 19; Putnam, B., 7; Conan, J., 5; Watkins, M., 2; Osteen, K., 7; Smith, R.,0; Jones, R., 0; Miller, A., 0; Hoffman, B., 0; Turner, T. 0; for a total of 40 points. Enka Jets. Brown, J., 3; Saunders, B., 15; Leatherwood, T., 2;Rogers, T. , 11; Connor, J., 18; Allen J., 6; Ellington., 0; Morgan, M., 6; Tweed, 0; Morgan, B., 0; McClure, D. 0; for a total of 61 points. Horse Show Committee To Meet The Black Mountain Charity Horse Show will hold its regular meeting at the Monte Vista Hotel, Feb. 3. If for any reason the meeting cannot be held Mon. it will be held Tuesday, Feb. 4. This is an Important meeting as the officers for '69 and the planning schedule and use of the facilities will be discussed. The Black Mountain Horse Show Committee feels the whole community profits from tne activity and therefore invites all clubs in the valley to attend. Members of the music faculty at Mars Hill College;(.l. to r. ) Sam Driggers, Mrs. Donna Robertson, Miss Joan Groom, Mrs. Agnes Whitman, Dale Roberts, and Mrs. May Jo Ford. The group will present, a concert Sunday, February 2, in the "Sunday At The Inn." The concert will begin at 3:30 P. M.. The admission is free and the public is cordially invited to attend. "Sunday At The Inn” To Feature M-H Ensemble Montreat - Anderson College will present the Mars Hill Chamber Music Ensemble in concert Sunday,February 2.The concert is the fourth in the "Sunday At the Inn’’ series and will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the Convocation-Recital Hall of the Assembly Inn. The Ensemble features six members of the Music Depart ment of Mars Hill College. Miss Joan Groom is instructor in theory and will play flute. She received a B,M. in piano at Oberlin Conservatory and a M.M, in Composition from the Eastman School of Music. Dale Roberts received his BA in music at Furman University and a M.M. from East Carolina University. Roberts is an in structor in Theory and Music Literature and has played oboe with various orchestras in the Carolinas and Tennessee. Mrs.Donna Nagey Robertson is assistant professor in organ at Mars Hill and will play harpischord with the Ensemble. serviceman Has Best Christinas Ai” nan Roberts, stationed with the 421st Munitions Main tenance Squadron at PhuCatAB Vietnam, didn’t know it at the time, but one of his letters to his parents was due to bring a deluge of gifts to orphans in the city of Qui Nhon, near Phu Cat. Writing to his father, he re lated conditions at the Buddhist Orphanage of Binh Dinh. He asked that his parents send clo thes for the children instead of Christmas gifts for himself. Airman Robert’s father wwn’t satisfied to act upon the letter himself. He took it to a local newspaper where it was prompt ly published. Reaction to the article has been “tremendous, ’’according to Airman Roberts. Individ uals, churches and businesses in Asheville, Swannanoa and the surrounding area began sending packages immediately and have continued to do so, some gifts coming from as far away as the state of Georgia. To date, he has received about 75 boxes and they’re still pour ing in. Most of the items received were children’s cloth ing. Along with the clothing, 15 boxes of blankets were donated by a Swannanoa blanket manu facturer and vitamins were provided by another business establishment. The response has been so great that not all items could be used by the one orphanage. However, Airman Roberts has found two other institutions where the largess is being put to good use. According to him, “Christ mas wasn’t the same, being away from the family, but these are the greatest gifts I could ever hope to receive. Thank you, one and all, for your help.” bne nas a b.S. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a M.M. from Eastman School of Music. Violinist Anges Whitman is an instructor of music. She has studied at Brenau College. Conservatory of Curtis Institute and master classes under Pablo Cassals at Marl boro, Vermont. Miss May Jo Ford, violinist, is an instructor in piano and violin. She has lB A. from the University of NortTi Carolina at Chapel Hill. Miss Ford has served as con certmaster and piano soloist with the North Carolina Sym phony. She has studied violin with Hans Letz, Dr. Benjamin Swalin, Jerrie Lucktenberg of Converse College. Miss Ford expects to receive her M. M. in piano and violin from Con verse College in June. Pianist for the Ensemble, Samuel Driggers in an instructor in piano and music history. He has a B.M. from Mississippi College and a M.M. in Theory from North Texas State. Driggers has studied un der Stefan Bardas, Bomar Cra mer and Robert Ottman. The Faculty Ensemble will play Telemann’s Triosonata in A minor, Sonata No. 9 - “The Golden” by Purcell, Pastorale, Aria and Scherzo on a Row, for oboe and piano by Donna Ro bertson and Sonata No. 1, op. 75 by Saint-Saens. The “Sunday at the Inn” con cert is open to the public free of charge, with the hope that many residents of the area will spend the afternoon with the student body and faculty of Montreat - Anderson College. Coronary And Intensive Care Unit Available The Coronary and Intensive Care Unit which is a new ser vice at St. Joseph’s Hospital was officially opened on Mon day, January 27, 1969. Sister Mary Tomlinson, Admini strator. announced. This is an especially designed area equipped and staffed to enable patients to receive the most up to date medical care available anywhere. Constant electronic monitoring coupled with constant nursing observation and care is the key to the use of this area. The unit is directed to prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients suf fering from heart disease and to intensive care of patients who are critically ill due to acute surgical or medical problems. The capacity of the new unit, which is located on the fourth floor of the main building, is five beds. Three beds are “allocated” for coronary care and two beds for intensive care. However, all beds are equipped to handle either type of case. The cost of newquipmentand changes to convert existing facilities to meet the needs of the Cornonary Care and Inten sive patient was$50,000.00. All equipment puchased for the unit can be transferred when the addition to St. Joseph’s Hospital is build in the 70’s. Coronary care and intensive care are essentially advanced systems of nursing. The suc cessful use of the unit depends on the competence of nurses acting under authorization of the patient’s private physician. The nurses have been taught to recognize the major complica tions, such as acute myocardial infarction; they because of special training are able to initiate immediate corrective measures as the situation demands. Other aspects of coronary and intensive care are dependent on the advanced equipment which is imme diately available to each patient. The Coronary and Intensive Care Unit is part of the Nur sing Service Department which is under Mrs. Marjorie Burge, Director of Nursing Service. Sister Mary Adrian, B. S., R, N., Supervisor of the new unit, recently completed an eight-weeks training course sponsored by the Southern Regional Program for the Pre paration of Supervisory Nurses to Function in the Coronary Care Unit held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Additional staff will consist of six registered nurses and three licensed practical nurses who have attended special courses, seminars and workshops to qua lify them for this type of duty. At least two nurses are on duty in the units at all times. An intensive in-service training program on coronary care and intensive care for all nursing personnel has just been completed. Cost of education for nursing personnel alone has exceeded $4,000.00. E. R, S. Witten, M. D., is Chairman of the CoronaryCare and Intensive Care Unit Com mittee which is responsible for the overall planning and policy governing use of the unit. William Fowler, M. D., and James Littlejohn, M. D., are Co-directors of Coronary Care and Charles Keller, M. D., is Director of Intensive Care. The Governing Board of St. Joseph’s is pleased that the discussions which began in early 1967, followed by a deci s i o n in January 1968, to establish the unit have come to fruition and this recent inno vation in medical and nursing care is now available to those whom we at St. Joseph’s Hos pital are privileged to serve. On Monday afternoon, Jan uary 20, the unit was blessed by Father James Kennedy, Chaplain at the hospital. The ceremony, attended by mem bers of the Board of Directors, Medical Staff, hospital Admin istrative Staff, and Department Heads, was to ask God’s blessings on those patients who would receive care in the unit and God’s guidance on those whose privilege it is to serve the sick. Committee Begins Plans For Area Recreation In 1967 the Attractions Com mittee began a simplified re search program to ascertain the availability of recreational or leisure time activities in the Black Mountain area. Let ters and facilities data sheets were prepared and sent to di rectors of camps, conference centers, special groups and others. The actual tabulation of recreational facilities is still going on, but the obvious fact emerges all too clear: there are almost no recreational faci lities for residential public or the tourist to enjoy. Most all our facilities, pools, tennis courts, and the like are pri vate—for a specified use. of course, scattered public use of a few facilities is in evidence, but golf is the only major sport. Considering these facts, the chairman outlined a possible recreational complex for con sideration by the Attractions Committee. This was done in view of the information that government matching funds could be made available for out door aspects of a municipal recreation complex. A special “co - opted” committee was called together to consider the complex idea. The committee had representatives from the local high school, both colleges, the business community, the negro community, the clergy, and the retired community. One basic reason for gathering this group was to follow the sug gestion of our Mayor, Richard Stone, that the town’s existing facilities be inspected and eval uated as a first responsible step in developing a recrea tion complex. With a brief introductory session to present the overall progress of the Attractions Committee, this, enlarged special group visited the Club House, lake, golf course, operation youth area, and property across the high way from the Travel-Eze Mo tel. The particular property noted here is in the TV A flood plane and could possibly be used Miss ISorth Awarded Scholarship Mary North of 18 Brookwood Rd., Asheville, and currently a resident of Deerfield Beach, Florida, has been awarded a scholarship to the John Robert Powers Finishing School, 1237 E, Las Olas Blvd., Ft. Lauder dale, Florida, for her academic achievement during the first quarter of her studies at the Art Institute of Ft, Lauderdale, 300C E, Las Olas Blvd., Ft. Lauder dale, Florida. Mrs. Dawn Brickley, di rector of the Powers School, announced that Miss North will be enrolled in the Power’s Thursday evening class beginning February 3rd. Miss North attends the Commercial Art classes at the Art Institute during the daytime. Powers programs which will be given Miss North cover Fi gure Control, Voice and Diction, Visual Poise, Hair Styling, Wardrobe and Styling, Person ality Development, Social Graces and Modeling Tech niques. Miss North is a graduate of Lee Edward High School in Asheville. She also attended Athens College in Athens, Ala bama for three years before en tering the Art Institute. as a park attraction. A questionnaire was given to each person for the pur pose of obtaining opinions about the facilities we visited and the recreational complex idea. Final tabulation of these ques tionnaires continues. The major opinion at this point is definitely high excitement, sound thinking regarding the re novation of present facilities and continued progress in going after the larger concept of a municipal recreation complex. It was on the basis of this in formation and the response of the co-opted committee mem bers that Gordon Greenwood advised that the North Caro lina Recreation Commission be brought into the picture. Our complex idea was sent to Raleigh through their Asheville office. The Commission Chair man, Ralph Andrews and one of his associates, Jim Stevens and Jack Frauson, the Asheville area representative came to Black Mountain to discuss ideas and plans with the Attractions Committee on Jan. 8, 1969. The results of this three hour meet ing brought to us the reali zation that we indeed had be fore us opportunities that would significantly affect the economy, the pleasurable activities of children, young people, and adults alike. Indeed, it would affect the attitude of business and industry in our area. Ten basic statements resulted from this meeting with the gentlemer from the Recreation Commis sion: 1. The North Carolina Re creation Commission serves as a counseling and advisory group and offers professional help in the preparatory work of locat ing, designing a'nd managing recreational facilities. 2. The Raleigh men spoke of the long-term interest for recreation in Black Mountain and the keen desire to support a program using existing facil ities and building new facil ities. 3. Records show that recre ational programs tend to keep people and businesses In a town. Recreation has a magnetic pulling power. 4. Phase development, on the basis of an overall master plan, including the unification of all current recreational pro grams is seen as one of the best and most practical ways to begin. 5. To assist in a master plan, the work currently being done by the Attractions Com mittee can be submitted to the Chamber of Commerce, or the Town Council as a starting poing, with the recommendation that the overall recreational complex be planned ffy profes sional planners at a stated fee dependent upon the extent of the complex. 6. The Chamber in turn could request the County Com missioners to initiate a study of recreational facilities in the County. Such a study would enable us to ascertain an over all picture of recreational de velopment possibilities in our area. 7. In our Committee presen tation, the importance of the Highway #9 extension to Mt. Mitchell is seen as a most necessary mo ve to increase the recreational value of the area. 8. Black Mountain is one of the fourteen (14) “terminal areas” in the state in which a recreational complex is a “natural” and should be im plemented. 9. Black Mountain does not at this time have a broad enough tax base The enlargement of the town limits may improve this position. 10. The RecreationCommis sion can help obtain funds (50% matching funds) for land, util ities, shelters, and all outdoor reere Black Mountain Library Offers Monthly Programs Besides providing the community with an access to written information and enter tainment, the Black Mountain Library offers a monthly adult film series and a monthly pro gram presented by Friends of the Library. The Adult Film Series Is presented on the second Thurs day of each month until May. The films are shown twice, in the afternoon at 3:30 and in the evening at 8:00 p.m. in the Education Room of the library. The films for February will be shown on February 13. Four movies are planned; THE OLYMPICS (CBS/TV, 27 min., b&w). A television docu mentary, one of the CBS Twen tieth Century Reports, illustra ting the history of the modern Olympics from the first, in Paris at the end of the Nineteenth Century, to the 1958 Olympics in Helsinki. This is an older Olympics film, but the personalities are the only old or outdated facets involved. There is emotion and excite ment for all sports lovers; SPORTS GOLDEN AGE (RKO/ Pathe, 16 min., b&w). Presents a long parade of sports’ heroes and heroines from those of a generation ago, including Helen Wills, Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, and others like Joe Louis, Bod Feller and Joe Dimaggio; SAILING (Neth/gov’t., 13 min. color). An international prize winning film. Uses music and ^natural sounds, with no nara tion, as an accompaniment to outstanding photography in showing the beauty and art of sailing. Amateur sailors might get some tips by watching these Dutchmen sail their boats, and any audiece can enjoy the thrill of sailing through the beautiful photography; PRAISE THE SEA (VanderHorst, 21 min., b&w), Through use of scenery, and natural sounds, a mooed is pro jected that is descriptive of the Netherlands. This successfu and beautiful film has no narra tlon»and needs none; the viewei feels as if he knows the Netherlands much better whei the ftlm ends. This flln received the IFDA Best Shor of the Year Award. These showing^ are free to the public, and also the films are obtainable for use in community churches, clubs and other organizations. They can be obtained through Mrs. Dorothy McGraw, the librarian, at no cost except for the return postage to the State Library Film Collection. The next Friends of the Library Program, “T h e American Negor in History,” will be Monday, February 3, at 8:00 p.m. Mrs. David Hemple m a n, Asst. Professor of History at Warren Wilson College and several students, Charlotte Ingram, John Felmuth, and Ben Ridgeway, will explain the part the Amer ican Negro has contributed to our society and to the world, and will Introduce current literature on this subject. Miss Ann MacKey, soloist for the Warren Wilson College Choir, will sign several Negro Spirituals. Everyone is invited to attend the monthly meetings of the Friends of the Library, held In the Education Room. Those who wish may become supporting members. Annual dues are from $1.00 minimum, to $5.00. The activities of the library will increase only by Increased Interest - express your interest by attending. Calendar The Friends of the Black Mountain Library will present Mrs. David Hempleman and students from Warren Wilson College, Feb. 3rd., at 8:00 in a special Negro History program. Since the 14th Century, Americans of African descent have made numerour contribu tions to our way of life and to America's prograss as a nation. But to our shame, many of these have not re 1 ceived proper attention. If you are one of many who’re deslreous of such enlightment, plan to attend this Informative 1 but informal presentation in the Educational Room of the new ■ library Monday night.