DEVOTED 100% TO OUR COMMUNITY-THE GROWING SWANNANOA VALLEY Volume 23 No. 26 Thursday, February 27 1969 Second Class Postage Paid At Black Mountain, N.C. 28711 Established 1945 8 Pages Today 10 Cents Per Copy Peekin’ Through § The I KEYHOLE I :!i .With Lib i:i By E lizabeth Dtnwiddie Keith Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Moss a‘,e returned to their home on t,e old Toll Road after spend ng three months in Miami, 'la. Steven D. Pope, U. S, Navy, ileridan, Miss., spent last ,eekend with his parents, Mr. nd Mrs. Kenneth Pope, Old oil Road, Black Mountain. Miss Carolyn Hudson, bride lect of Michael Curtis was onored last Saturday after oon> when Mrs. T. W. Nesbitt nd her daughter, Mrs. C. E. raddy of Salisbury entertain d with a lovely tea at the Nes itt home, Montreat Road. The hostesses presented iss Hudson with a white pom ,m corsage and a serving tray, pproximately thirty guests ere included in the courtesy. Miss Cheri Cates of West rn Carolina University, Cull uhee, spent the weekend with ;r parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Cates, 1118 Montreat Road. Gary Allen Shell, son of Mr. id Mrs. Sherman Shell of lack Mountain, was named to e Dean's list at Texas A&M Diversity, College Station, ;xas, for the first semester, iry is a freshman and is ajoring in geology. Billy juniiwi lias leiumuu his home in Columbia, S.C. lei spending two weeks with s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. yde Jumper, who drove to ilumbia to bring him back for visit. Enroute home they upped in Greenville to attend mgling Brothers Circus, lly’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. . A. Jumper and sister, Anna anita name up and spent the lekend here. Saturday, Billy lebrated his fifth birthday .. lift a pal ty at ills andparent’s home. Mrs.Guy Pressley will leave turday, March 1, to join her sband, Spec. 4 Guy E. Pres sy, serving with the Army in unster, Germany. Mrs. Pres !y is the former Miss Jean shaw, daughter of Mr. and rs. Kenneth Bashaw, Taber cle Road. Mrs. s. S. Cooley returned st Thursday after attending ? wedding of her daughter, ss Margaret Ann (Peggy), 'Oley and Dr. Cliing-fen Hsiao Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the 11*1 of Tainan Theological llefep, Tainan, Taiwan. Mrs. oley's cousin, Mrs. Eugene n igan of Narberth, Pa., also ended the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wans 1, stopped enroute from a •nth’s vacation in Florida to dr home in Hartsdale, N. Y., spend several days this week hi Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Field, ue Ridge Road. Mrs. Wans 1 is Mr. Field’s sister. MC Jerry E. Atkins, has 311 recognized lor helping his it earn the Air Force Out ing Unit Award. He is a PPlv inventory specialist in roum Gets UrpleHeart LrmV Snaninu.i a _ . . _ '.r'‘y,Sfjec'alist 4 Bobby Joe ’ 1hust)and of Donna Wil . son of Mr. and Mrs. lte • ®rown. of Old Fort, •n. has been awarded the I® ’l6art and Army Corn ed"011 Medal for wounds while engaged In hos lrdfCtlHn m Vietnam. a Wn was flown to a hos re f n Japan end remained tie tllree weeks before jhlpped back to Fort C " December- He is a ool at416 °f°ld Fort High nd was sent to Viet Tr " c°ntpletion of Spec Decemtng at FortKnox, Ky. ertlber of 1967. the 437 Military Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB, S. C. A/lC Atkins is a graduate of Charles D. Owen High School, and at tended Asheville - Buncombe Technical Institute. He is the son of Mrs. Inez Atkins, 307 Vance Avenue, Black Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Nesbitt had as their guests last week end Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Braddy of Salisbury. Miss Kathleen Nesbitt of Raleigh, and Reid Mathews of Hertford. Carroll Russell, E03, who returned to the states Feb. 15, after a tour of duty in Viet nam is now spending a 10-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Russell, before going to Gulfport SeabeesBase, Gulfport, Miss, where he will be in school for six months. Carroll is scheduled for an other tour of duty in Vietnam following his six month’s schooling. The Management of Excel sior Finishing plant, a mens wear Division of Deering Mil liken, has announced the pro motion of Woodrow W. Leo pard, Jr., from assistant over seer of Dying to process Engi neer. Mr. Leopard, a graduate of the University of Georgia, was formerly employedby Bea con Manufacturing Company, Swannanoa. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Leopard Sr., of Westminister, S. C. Mrs. Leopard is the former Sandra Marie Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence J. Wilson of Black Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Leopard reside at 405 Skyview Drive, Clemson, S. C. “Dear Friends” To Play At Brandywine On February 27,28 and March 1st, and again on March 7,8, and 9, Reginald Rose’s drama “Dear Friends” will play at the Brandywine Theatre on the grounds of the Manor Retire ment Home, 269 Charlotte St. “Dear Friends” was first pre sented by the CBS Television Network, CBS Playhouse, on December 6, 1967. The story revolves around three seem ingly happily married couples trying desperately to reunite “Dear Friends” a fourth couple bordering on the brink of di vorce. In flashbacks, the audi ence sees how each of the couples arrived at its present condition. The stage production is the first in this part of the country. Barbara Friedman and Lou Ronder, who worked together in Brandywine’s production of “Laura” a few years ago, will be the hostess and host for the peculiar party. Lou Ron der is also directing the pro duction. Gene Connor and Sue Connor will play man and wife, a sit uation that rarely occurs in local theatre. Jim Hughes who lias appear ed in several Brandywine pro ductions and also several re cent ACT presentations will play opposite Sami Felmet, who is making her local debut. Gus Heydt, who has been in two re cent ACT plays, will play op posite Marlene Smith who is also a Brandywine and ACT regular performer. Curtain time for all performances is 8:30 p.m. Admission is $1.50 and tickets will be available at the door. Women's Club Hears Dr. Lipsey Dr. James H. Lipsey, an or thopaedic surgeon from Ashe ville, was the guest speaker at the Black Mountain Jr. Women’s Club meeting February 11. Dr. Lipsey completed his or thopaedics training at Campbell Foundation in Memphis in 1963, and then spent 13 months in the service of Project Hope in a landed based program in Sai gon, Viet Nam. Since enter ing private practice in Ashe ville, Dr. Lipsey has spent 2 months on another tour of duty In Viet Nam, sponsored by the AMA. Dr. Lipsey supplemented his talk to the club with interest ing slides. Miss Sherry Strickland Miss Ruth Robinson Owen Girls Entered In Scholarship Contest Miss Ruth Robinson and Miss Sherry Strickland, seniors from Charles D, Owen High School, have been entered in the Sallie Southall Cotten Scholarship Contest by the Black Mountain Women's Clubs. The contest, sponsored by the North Caro lina Federation of Women’s Clubs, offers a 4 year scholar ship of $750 a year to any state college or university, to the girl judged the outstand ing girl graduate in North Car olina. Each girl must be spon sored by a Women’s Club. Ruth Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H. Rob inson of Swannanoa, is being entered by the Black Moun tain Jr. Women’s Club. Ruth has maintained a high scho lastic average at Owen besides participating in school activi ties and working after school. She belongs to the Future Home makers of America, and the Beta Club, an honor society that promotes leadership. Ruth has also been a member of the girls basketball team, the Health Careers Club, and the Fellowship of Christian Ath letes. The Women's Club of Black Mountain is sponsoring Sherry Strickland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Strickland of Swan nanoa. For the past several years, Sherry has been a vol unteer at the V.A. Hospital. She, too, is a member of the Beta Club, and also the Annual Staff, the French Club, and is secretary of the Health Careers Club. Sherry’s scholastic aver age at Owen has been outstand ing also. On march 1, the two Owen girls will compete in the Dis trict #2 Contest at the Brevard Methodist Church. A winner from each of the 15 districts in North Carolina will enter the finals at the University of North Carolina at Greens boro, on March 22. The girls will talk with the judges and their scholastic re cords reviewed. The judging will be based upon Character, Scholarship, Intellectual prom ise and potential, Ability and Leadership, and Desire and A bility to go to college. B&PW Club To Sponsor Essay Writing Contest The Business and Profess ional Women’s Club of Black Mountain during the month of February, will sponsor a con test at the Juvenile Evaluation. Center for students who wish to write essays of Patriotism. The month of February is Pa triotism Month for all Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, nationally and inter nationally. There is no age limit for the contest, any student at the cen ter may enter. The essay A rea Men In Service Sergeant Robert M. Conner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Swinfield W. Conner of 110 Edwards Ave., Swannanoa, N. C,, has been re cognized for helping his unit earn the U, S. Air Force Out standing Unit Award. Sergeant Conner, an aircraft equipment repairman in the 437th Military Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB, S, C., will wear the Distinctive Service ribbon as a permanent decora tion. The 437th was cited for ex ceptionally meritorious ser vice during its combat and re supply airlift operations around the world from July 1967 to July 1968. This marks the third time in four years the wing has been honored as an outstanding air lift unit. The sergeant is a graduate of Charles D. Owen High Scho ol. His wife, Becky , is the daughter of Frank Hudson of 202 Mountain St., Black Moun tain. Master Sergeant Benjamin F. Melton, son of Mrs. William F. Melton, 301 Sutton Ave., Black Mountain, N. C., is on duty at Da Nang AB, Vietnam. Sergeant Melton, an aircraft maintenance technician, is in a unit of the Pacific Air Forces. Before his arrival in Southeast Asia, he was assigned to the 9th Strategic Reconnissance Wing at Beale AFB, Calif. The sergeant is a veteran of the Korean War. A 1950 graduate of Black Mountain High School, he at tended Warren Wilson Junior College in Swannanoa, N. C. His wife, Estelle, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Davis, 623 Forrest Drive, Pascagoula, Miss. Army Private William G. Ray, 20, whose mother, Mrs. Viola M. Ray, lives at 225 21st St., Hickory, N. C., com pleted a field communications crewman course January 17 at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. During the eight-week course he was trained to string wire from the field to the communi cations center. Instruction was also given in basic electricity, switch board installation and operation and pole climbing. His wife, Pauline, lives in Black Mountain. Marine Lance Corporal Jack G. Bradley, son ofMr. and Mrs. Claude A. Bradley of Paddset town Road , Black Mountain, is serving with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 333 at the Mar ine Corps Air Station, Beau fort, S. C. His squadron is a unit of Marine Aircraft Group 31 of the Second Marine Aircraft Wing. Master Sergeant Henry M. Slade, son of Mrs. Blanche Slade, Rt. 1, Swannanoa, N,C. has been awarded the Strategic Air Command Certificate of Distinguished Educational A chievement atVandenbergAFB, Calif. Sergeant Slade was selected for the award for his accomp lishments in the U. S. Air Force off-duty education pro gram. The sergeant is a manpower management superintendent. He served during the Korean War. A 1950 graduate of Stephens Lee High School, Asheville, N, C,, he earned his A. A. degree at Allan Hancock Jun ior College, Santa Maria, Calif., and also studied at Chap man College, Orange, Calif. His wife is the former Helga Mueller from Germany. Kiwanis News The Black Mountain- Swan nanoa Kiwanis Club heard Dr. Samuel Gleason describe some of the scenes of his recent Holy Land tour. Dr. Gleason, of Danville, Viriginla, was in troduced by Rev. C. W. Solo mon, guest of the club for last Thursday’s noon luncheon. Oth er guests attending were Sam Leonard of the Asheville Ki wanis and Rev. James Smith, First Christian Church of Ashe ville. Baptist Children’s Home To Become Reality A home for dependent, ne glected and homeless children in Western North Carolina will soon be a reality because of the manner in whicn tne resi dents of Buncombe County are supporting the efforts of the Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina to raise money to establish this much needed facility. More than $321,000 has been pledged or received for this home with Buncombe County contributing $18,266.83. Seven teen Western counties are in volved in this program with additional contributions coming from persons in other locations throughout North Carolina. The proposed home, named The Broyhill Home, in honor of the J. E. Broyhill family of Lenoir, will be located on a 96 acre tract between Waynes ville and Clyde. It will pro vide group care for about 50 boys and girls from West ern part of the state and will serve as the hub from which will radiate all the various child care services and ministries of the Children’s Home. “Preparation of the campus site will begin this Spring and will involve considerable grad ing, building of a road, making provisions for necessary utili ties and water control”, ac cording to Dr. W. R. Wagoner, president of the Children’s Home. “When this has been completed, plans call for the construction of two cottages. must be between 500 and 1,000 words and be the orglnal thought of the student. There will be a five man com mittee to jud^ufthe essays and to decide the three winners. The judges will be J. Louis Parrish, James L. McLemore, Gene V. Cantrell, Joe Peoples and R. L. Clark. The awards will be presented in an assembly program March 18. There will be a $10 first prize and two $5 second prizes awarded. Mr. Parrish, director of the Juvenile Evaluation Center stated that he was very pleased with the project and that it was a worthwhile contribution to motivate the students to do some positive thinking. Mrs. Susie McDonald, Pres ident of the Club is in charge of the contest. She stated that the students were interested and she felt that the response would be good. Limberts Make Florida Visit Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. Lim bert of 201 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain, have just re-; turned from a week’s trip tqf St. Petersburg, Florida, when* Dr. Limbert gave the main ad* dress at the annual meeting of the Willis Chapter of ref tired YMCA Secretaries. This is the largest chapter in tl* country, including both perman ent and winter residents frdm all of northern Florida. Abiut 100 persons'attendedthis lunfh eon meeting. The Limbajrts took this opportunity to visit with former Black Mountain residents now living at Maase Manor in Dunedin: Dr. land Mrs. Gilbert Willey and j.Mr. and Mrs. Lester McKee. Tfiese two couples are comfortably settled in their new quarters. Mrs. McKee is recoveringrrom a serious operation sh« had at Christmas time in Arjfeona. They continue to receivfe the Black Mountain News and are interested in keeping in touch with their many friends in this community. It is hoped that contracts to build the cottages can be a warded by mid-summer.” Total campus development will Include four family style cottages, a campus center which will provide administration, recreation, and educational fa cilities, and a superintendent’s home. These six buildings will surround a seven to ten acre lake. Fund raising program, named the Founders andBuildersPro gram, is still underway in all Western counties with more than 700 volunteers involved in the various activities of the campaign. Estimated cost for building the Broyhill Home is $634,000 according to W. Isaac Terrell, director of development for the Children’s Home, who is di recting the program. “If gifts continue to be received as they have in the past few days from residents of Buncombe County, we hope that construction will begin soon.” Carter Preslar, Asheville and Nane Starnes, West Ashe ville are co-chairmen for the Founders and Builders Pro gram in Buncombe County. Swannanoa Valley Folk Festival Is Scheduled Plans are under way for the ninth annual Swannanoa Folk Festival to be held at the Charles D. Owen High School in Swannanoa, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 21. The Festival, sponsored by the Woman’s Club, has gained in popularity each year since it was first launched in 1961. The Festival has a three-fold purpose: to encourage the pre servation of authentic folk music and dances; to give stu dent participants stage exper ience and the opportunity to perform before the “Home town” audience prior to the Mountain Youth Jamboree; and to secure funds for the support of the Swannanoa Public Li brary. Teams of both clog and smooth style square dancing will compete for trophies, which are awarded on a point basis by qualified judges. Solo and group perforate -s will enter tain with folk and traditional singing, dancing and instru mental music. Patrol Applications Being Accepted Highway Patrol Applications W ill be accepted. The North Carolina State f ighway Patrol announced to ay that applications are being ccepted for its basic training |school which will begin at the University of North Carolina’s Institute of Government in April. Major E. W. Jones, head of the Patrol’s Training and In spection Division, said there are openings for 40 men in the 14-week school. The school, according to the Patrol officer, is ‘‘an inten sive college-level course of study covering all aspects of traffic control and law enforce ment. Instructors are experts in all pertinent fields from pur suit driving to marksmanship.” Applicants must be 21 to 30 years of age, 5 feet, 9 1/2 Inches tall, and weigh a mini mym of 160 pounds. They must be U, S. citizens and a resi dent of North Carolina for one year immediate prior to em ployment, with a high school diploma or the equivalent and must be able to pass rigid phusicaf and mental tests. Vi sion requirements of 20-20 are standare, but 20-40 is accepted if corrected to 20-20 by glasses or contact lenses. According to Jones, only per sons measuring up to these minimum standards will be con sidered. Applicants should contact the first sergeant at their nearest Highway Patrol Station as soon as possible. Opportunity Corporation Needs Residents9 Help The Opportunity Corporation as part of its Urban Renewal Program is helping disadvan taged families o t Buncombe and Madison Counties to re locate to better housing. The Corporation has been able to help some families find better homes, but is in des perate need of furniture, blan kets, sheets, pillows, any household items. If the Op portunity Corporation is to help these families find a better way of life, they must be able to help furnish these people with necessary household supplies. With the supplies, the corpora tion can begin its programs on home management, home health and general homemaking skills. If you have blankets, sheets, furniture, etc. that you would like t o donate, or if you would like to volunteer to help these families with everyday home making, call Mrs. Gladys Brown at the Old Stephens Lee Building inAshevllle, 252-2495. Anything you can donate will be greatly appreciated. Mrs. J. C. Coston, Jr., chair man of the Festival, requests that any talented student or group of students, interested in auditioning for the Festival con tact either Mrs. D. Hussey at 686-3345 or Mrs. T. G. Sawyer at 686-3608. An auditioning date and time at the Swannanoa Elementary School will be an nounced later. Adult tickets at $1 and stu dent tickets at 50 cents may be purchased from any club member, or at the door. Southern Bell Adds New Service Southern Bell is adding another service to those currently handled by the female operating staff at the O. Henry Avenue center inAsheville. The additional assignment will serve the long distance infor mation calling of the nation to area "704” points. Speci fically, this is customers cal ling the universal information number, 555-1212. Local oper ators will not have information for all cities in Western North Carolina, but will switch cus tomers to desired information centers as part of their new assignment. This service has been offered by the Charlotte center since it’s conception. However, the corporation has been unable to recruit adequate manpower to provide for an accelerated growth in long distance calling there, So, in mid-December it was decided by traffic network managers that these 7500-a day calls could be routed to Asheville to be further opera tor-switched to their final des tination from there. So, engineers, planners, in stallation and network mana gers went into an emergency effort to shift this calling from Charlotte to Asheville. 30 cir cuits were available on the high-usuage Charlotte to Ashe ville microwave system. Ade quate switchboard space was available for terminating these trunks and for the additional 15 operators required to process the new calling. Spe cial positions were set up to create a unique ten-women di rectory assistance unit. This unit will provide the “ 55-1212” callers with information on Charlotte numbers. Almost a third of the 7500 daily calls request Charlotte information. To help the overload existing there and to avoid the need for circuits to return these re quests to Charlotte, the unusual unit of women will provide the desired Charlotte numbers from Asheville. George M. Tisdale, Asheville District Manager, says that the new service is similar to anew industry coming to town, starting with around25 employ ees and an annual payroll ap proaching $100 thousand. The prompt transfer of this service from Charlotte points out the flexibility of the national switching network and is pro bably indicative of things to come, Tisdale said. Smaller cities are able to hire and re tain employees better than the large metropolitan areas and consequently, telephone plan ners will move more and more calling away from these areas in order to maintain excellent telephone service for the network users. Play Readings For Friends Of Library Dramatic readings of two one-act plays will be presented on Wednesday March the fifth at the monthly program of the Friends of the Library in the handsome new Black Mountain Public Library Education Room. This is the fifth play reading program presented by members of the Black Moun tain community, each play hav ing been chosen not just for entertainment but for literary value as well, and to bring the joy of the written word, well spoken, to the interested local public. The first of the plays, Over tones, by Alice Gerstenberg will be read by arrangement with David McKay Company, Inc. of New York City, who not only granted permission for use of the play, but has courteously expressed a warm interest in this reading production. “Overtones,” first appeared in 1913 and may be considered a forerunner of Eugene O’Neill’s “Strange Interlude.” This play employs a technique which presents the characters’ public faces and also the hid den selves (or the primitive, violent ids). The audience , consequently, will see two charming, sophisticated women at tea and will hear also what these women are actually feel ing and thinking as the plot develops. “Overtones” is a difficult play which presents a real chal lenge to the four women invol ved. The capable cast is as follows: Harriet-Betty Tyson (Hostess at tea) Hetty Jean Abbott (her primitive self) Margaret—Martha McMillian (guest at tea) Maggie-Judy Capps (her primitive self) The second play will be the Russian comic classic, “The Boar“, by Anton Chekov, known to all college and university groups as a plum of a little play dramatically expressing a wide range of emotions. “The Boor,” like last year’s play, Christopher Fry’s “A Phoenix Too Frequent,” is based on the short story by Petronius, “The Virtuous Widow ofEphesus”in which a young and beautiful widow has withdrawn into her country estate to mourn her husband’s death, proving that she can be faithful. Then a young man from a neighboring estate appears to collect a sum of money owed to him by her late husband—and the plot thickens! This exciting play has the fol lowing fine cast: Helena Ivanova Popov Libby Olofson (a young widow, mistress of a country estate) Grigori Stepanovitch Smirnov Sefton Abbott ( proprietor of a country estate) Luka Culver Allan Smith (servant of Mrs. Popov) “The Boor”, will be read by arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. of New York City. Director for both plays has been Mary Beth Underwood. These monthly programs are open to the public and free of charge. A social hour will precede the play readings at 10:00 o’clock. Valley Medical Center Progress Being Made On February 10, forty local citizens met at the Monte Vista Hotel to consider a proposal to develop a medical center in the Swannanoa Valley. The Kiwanis Club served as the convener, with the understand ing that the project will be com munity-wide in its plans, re sources and leadership. The meeting was attended by representatives from ser vice clubs and organizations interested in, and willing to support a medical center. It is proposed that a list of inter ested persons be compiled from which a steering committee and a subsequent Board of Direct ors will be selected. The proposed medical center would be located strategically to serve the whole valley. It would contain three or four offices for medical doctors, also offices for a dentist and oculist. Plans include an X ray, Emergency Aid, Oxygen supply, laboratory, comfort able waiting rooms, three or four beds so as to stabilize accident or otner emergency cases in preparation for remov al to a hospital. It is understood that neither a clinic or a hospital are en visioned. This will be a facil ity for providing service which is neither practical or pos sible with present facilities, but we do need that local service. There are many problems to be solved-legal, financial, loca tion, construction and general management. However, inas much as this is a community project we will have good sources to draw upon. Arrange ments are under way to acti vate the Steering Committee. Advice, assistance and con structive criticism are invited. Send communications toKiwan is Club, Box 224, Black Moun tain. Soon plans will be announced for the “Swannanoa Valley Med ical Center Boosters” an or ganization of youth who will promote and support the center. The Black Mountain Baptist Church has generously offered their educational building and grounds for a two-day Fair, July 4-5. This "fair” will be the occasion for raising ini tial funds for the Medical Cen ter construction. A committee headed by Ernest DeWick, will plan, promote an