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THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS Publisned Each Thursday at fciactc Mountain, N. C. 28711. Second Class Postage Paid at Black Moun tain, N. C. ESTABLISHED 1945 F. LOUIS GRANT CARL W. BALLARD MRS. ELIZABETH KEITH Mrs. Uva Miracle Miss Mackey Stafford Charles Tayior HI Mrs. Alma Jo Sanders Carrol Marler Miss Betty Ann U>gan EDITOR-PUBLISHER MANAGING EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR Reporter Artwork Camera Bookkeeping Shop Composition Love Solution To Youth Problems Says Minister vie Jacopson, pastor East Hill Baptist Church in the Soho District of London, England, gave the following interview with Southern Baptist minister and writer, James Evans Mc Reynolds, during the 43rd annual Student Conference at Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly, Ridgecrest, North Carolina. McReynolds: Brother Jacop son, we are most appreciative of your visit to the United States. You have spoken on 32 American campuses and numerous churches, would you share with us something of your background? Jacopson-. It was almost ten years ago now, that I was in a prison cell in Winchester, England thinking of my past life and anticipating the trial that was to come up because I had broken into houses and factories. I was to face the penalty prescribed by law in the English court of Justice. I was thinking about the e vents of my life, about my early childhood. My father had died when I was a year old and I was placed in an orphanage in Southampton. So I do not remember my mo ther. I spent the early days of my stay at the orphanage, until I was about eight years old, wondering if my mother was still alive or if she might come to claim me and the rest of my brothers and sisters. I wondered if there was anyone in the world who really cared. Those days were filled with wonder and bitterness. The bitterness turned to rebellion against society, grown-ups and al authority, and because of th it it was very early in my experience that I found myself in .rouble with the police. Twice before I had left school and was up before the Juvenile court. Trouble has always attracted me. At the age of 15 I was back in Southampton, back on the streets by myself won dering if there was any purpose in life. i ineu juineu uie Army, i was told that die Army would make a man out of me. After only nine months of service, I was kicked out, and I was back on the streets. Jacopson; Because I found no purpose, and because of my Army failure, I was frustrated. I found it easy to Join a gang of teddy boys ( you call them hoods ) and to lie and to cheat and to find excitement in many different ways. I was one of hundreds of thousands of street kids. At the age of 18 I was back in front of the courts again. This time there was more serious charges, I was told I would have to wait for three moths for a remand, and it was in those three months that I be gan to think and to read. McReynolds: What kind of material did you read? Do prisons in England have Bibles or tracts? Jacopson: I read a book that was left in my cell by another prisoner. Most prisons in Eng land contain no Bibles, but the book that I read turned out to be a New Testament in a hard back form. Out of boredom, I began to read it. I got as far as chapter five in Matthew before I really got into the spirit of reading the New Testament. I read, "Blessed are the peacemakers . .., ” and I began to question. "Blessed to those who could stay on top, and you can forget this peace making lot" was my response. But then as I read on and read of the life of this man who said those words, I began to see something of the real love of the man called Jesus, and the claim that this man was the Son of God and that he gave his life to be a peace maker impressed me. By the time I got to the end of Matthew’s Gospel, I was down at my knees quietly praying... and crying. Those tears were tears that I sought to fight back all the years before, but now they were flowing because of the realization that somebody cared. And it was because of that experience in prison and my becoming a Christian that I have found my service to be among people on the streets, maple in trouble, and people **•0 are, what we call in Eng and, unattached. McReynolds: Where have yu. een to carry out this ministry? Fell us aDout yourcnurun. types of worship do you have? Can you tell us something about your field of service? Jacopson: I have worked on the streets of Soho, a red light district, and Picadilley London. I have worked with the pro stitutes and homosexuals, with the drug addicts and the bar tenders and the go-go girls. I have worked with these people in great need and young kids, who want love. I now have a church, in the city of London, in the downtown area of Wandsworth, East Hill Baptist Church, we are seeking to minister to the needs of the young people. Jacopson: To minister to young people of this sort we need to abandon some of the tra ditional ways and forms of wor ship. We seek to reach these young people in the church serv ices as well as on the streets where they are and in special activities in which we try to show that we do care about diem as persons. TTie church of which I am now minister has been without apas tor for 13 years and was fairly near bankruptcy and ready to close its doors. But now we have found new life and a min istry to many thousands of people in our area of London. Me Reynolds.- Vic, I think our Southern Baptist people would be interested in the num ber of persons on your church field. Jacopson: There are 500,000 people in a eight block radius from our church. It Is a multi racial area and a high trouble spot. Me Reynolds: What was the purpose of your visit to Southern Baptist churches and student work situations? How long has your tour been? What are some solutions that you see to our youth crisis? Jacopson: I have this last nine months been touring A »~erica observing the kind of work that is being done here to meet the needs of youngpeople. In the inner city I have observed some of the projects of the churches and the government are engaged upon. Seeking to find new ways to reach young people for Christ, I believe that Christ and Christ alone is the answer to the needs of young people who lack love. I personally see no conflict between social action and evangelism. McReyuuius: Tell us, Vic, what briefly is the solution to the problems of our young people, the hippies, the delin quents? Why, our Baptist pas- - tors are honestly wanting to know, do they get off base What will bridge this so-called "generation gap” in °ur country? Jayson: It is a strange thing that in all the years that I have worked with delinquents, I have never yet met a delin quent that came from a good home. I mean in the sense that the home was intact by re lationship, that there was good relationships between mother and father and children. The home is really the answer. The home where love dwells does not produce hippies, de linquents, or the unattached. When the Beatles sing, "All You Need Is Love,” they are ec hoing the cry of the hippie and the cry of the disenchanted of this world. Au you need is love. Yes, that’s all they do need ... and someone to care, someone to guide them, someone to lend a helping hand. I wonder, do you Southern Baptist people love the delin quent, the hippie, the prostitute, the unattached and the drug ad dict. If you do, if you reallj love, then you will lend a hand God bless vou. Peekin’ Through The KEYHOLE .With Lib By E lizabeth Dinwiddle Keith ;.v Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Hall, Blue Ridge Road, were Mrs. Edna W. Pope of Franklin Springs, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. Lewy Morris of Georgetown, S. C., and Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Fulton and son, Al, of Columbia, S. C. Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Pope, and Mrs. Morris are sisters. Mrs. Fulton is their niece. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Miller, Sr., last week were Mrs. Grace Chadwell of Knoxville, and her son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Prof fitt and Linda of Fountain City, Tenn., Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Miller and Lisa of Charleston, S. C., and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Miller of Marion. On Tuesday Mrs. R. V. Horten and Mrs. Tate McCurry of Mar ion were spend-the-day guests. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford R. Lcngcoy, Jr., with friends from Asheville, attended the Kemper Open Golf Tournament in Char lotte, last weekend. Mrs. V. J. Beilis, Jr., and sons, Jerry and Larry of Green ville, N. C„ are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Ham and her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Robin son, Debbie and Gary. Dr. Bei lis will Join his family here this weekend. Both Dr. and Mrs. Beilis teach at East Carolina University, Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Nanney returned last Thursday from hhirray Hill, N. J., where they visited their son and family. Dr. and Mrs. Cecil A. Nanney and children, Lisa, Stephen and Bruce. Stephen returned home with his grandparents for an in definite stay. Mrs. Woodrow Beddingfield and Mrs. A. C. Leonard spent last week with Mrs. Bedding field’s sister, Mrs. J. L Thom as at her cottage at Ocean Isle, N. C. Mrs. Fred Ensley, Jr., and sons, Mark and Jeff of Green ville, S. C., spent last week with her mother, Mrs. J. F. Osteen, Sr., and her husband’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ensley of Swann an oa. Miss Karen Osteen was among the group from this area attend ing the regional rally for the Western North Carolina Pony Club at Spring Dale racing stab les, Camden, S. C., last week. Karen was Stable Master for the winning Cl Team. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wheel on were called to Cong Island, N.Y. Decause of the death of Mrs. Wheelon's eighteen year old nephew, John Clishnam. Fu neral services were held Mon day morning. Mrs. B. A. Moeller had as guests last week her children, Dr. Charles (Mickey) Moeller of Chicago, Dr. Marian Schnepfe and her husband, william of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Sarah Workman of Baltimore, Md. Dr. and Mrs. John Cooley and Mrs. Cooley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Baker of New York City, spent the weekend with John’s mother, Mrs. S. S. Cooley. John has just completed his internship at Philadelphia General Hos pital. Following a visit with his brother, Austin Craig Coo ley and family in Rochester, N. Y. Dr. and Mrs. Cooley will go to Kanakanaka, Alaska, where he will be affiliated with the Public Health Center. Mr. and Mrs. George Joyner and children, Ann, George, Su sie, Nancy, Michael, William, and John of San JUan, Puerto Rico, are spending two months with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Joyner. The Joyner children brought with them as a guest, Peggy McGill, also of San Juan. George is with the Weather Bureau at International Aliport, San Juan. Mrs. M. J. Clarke of Fay etteville spent the weekend at her home on Brierbrook Road. ~ln(!€iam4 sjfunM\afSetorice Inc Formerly DUNN A WILLIAMS 856 Tunnol Road Dial 252-2767 Asheville, N. C. 28805 Lt. Jim Beddingfield and Mrs. Beddingfield are visit ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J, w. Beddingfield. Jim has been stationed at Fort Polk, La., and is scheduled for a tour of duty in Vietnam at the expiration of his leave. Mrs. Thomas Droppers and daughters, Louisa and Meg, have been visiting friends in Columbia, S. C., this week. Dr. James Love and son, James, Jr., spent last week at Hatteras, fishing. From re ports it seems that James, Jr., is the fisherman in the Love family. Mrs. Ruth Thomas left Tues day for an indefinite stay in Jackson, Mich. Charles Ross returned home last Thursday after visiting rel atives and friends in Oregon, and attending the wedding of his grandson, Steven Charles Ross and Miss Meredith Bu holts in Baker, Ore., on June 15. Following their honeymoon the couple will go to Fort Knox, Ky., where Lt. Ross will be stationed. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Lowrie have arrived from St. Peters burg, Fla., to spend the summer at Dougherty Heights Inn. This is the Lowries twenty-third season in Black Mountain. Dr. Paul M. Limbert, Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain, has become pastor of the First Congregational Church (United Church of Christ). He had been serving as interim pastor of the church since January. A native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Limbert held the post of exec utive director of Blue Ridge As sembly from 1963 to 1967. Mrs. Eugene Gilbert has re turned to her home after vis iting relatives and friends in England and Sweden. She made die trip by plane. J. B. Lannlng returned toNorth Lake, El., last Saturday after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nich ols and family of Black Moun tain, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peter son and Mrs. Jack Moyers of Swannanoa. Mrs. W. E. Bumgarner is chaperon for her niece, Miss Denise Anderson of Glen Al pine, who is a queen candidate for the Rhododendron Festival at Roan Mountain, this week. Lakey Gap Homecoming Lakey Gap Presbyterian Church will hold its annual homecoming Sunday, June 29. Following the morning wor ship service a picnic dinner will be served. There will be special music. All members, both old and new, and friends of die Church are extended a most cordial welcome to attend and bring a picnic dinner. Always check lables on clean sers and follow the directions strictly, suggests Liberty Mu tual Insurance Companies, tobe completely safe. Many of these products have ingredients, which could prove harmful if carelessly used. Miss Taylor Engagement Announced Mr. and Mrs. Joseph w. Taylor of Popular Hill Road, Swan.-.reua, N. C., announce the engagement of their daugh ter, Virginia Kay, to Mr. Douglas C. Johnson. Mr. Johnson is a gradin'of Waynesvllle High School and works at Hlgliland Hospital. Virginia is a graduate of Charles D. Ower. high School. A June 26 wedding is planned. Hardins Horwred Hie Rev. and Mrs. Elbert F. Hardin of Ridgecrest, N. C., were honored on the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anni versary with a family dinner at the Monte Vista Hotel, Sat urday evening, June 21. All their children and families were present except their son-in-law Chaplain (LTC.) Louis M. Jack son, who is in Germany. The long tables, in the shape of a horse shoe, were covered with yellow tablecloths with streamers of ivy, interspersed with nosegays ofShastadaisies, die Hard ins wedding flowers, and small gold angels. The head table was decorated with an arrangement of yellow roses, flanked by golden wedding rings and two golden candelabra holding golden candles. After a family prayer and grace was said by Rev. Hard in, a four course dinner was served to the family and guests. Clyde D. Hardin of Rocks ville, Md., the only son, acted as master of ceremonies. He and his uncle, Dr. Wallace C. Clyde gave informal toasts to die honored couple. A skit about the Hardlns fifty years together, written in rhyme by their daughter, Mrs. James H. Sawyer of Nash ville, Tenn., was read by the master of ceremonies and acted out by the children and grand children. One granddaughter wore Mrs. Hardin’s wedding dress and carried a bouquet of Shasta daisies tied with a bow of mallne from the original bridal bouquet. Many songs loved by the Hardlns were sung by Anne Jackson of Stuttgart, Germany and Jim and Susan Holt of Jacksonville, N. C. Many merry incidents were acted out by other grandchil dren. This was the first time, • since the wedding fifty years ago, that Mrs. Hardin, her sister, Mrs. Oliver, and her brother, Dr. Clyde, were all there together at the same time. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Hardin those present were: Mrs. Se ward Oliver ( sister of Mrs. Hardin ) of Columbus, S. C., Mr. and Mrs. William Lubeche 4 and son, Thomas of Charleston, S. C., Dr. and Mrs. Wallace A. Clyde (brother and sister in-law of Mrs.Hardln), Dr.a nd Mrs. Wallace A. Clyde, Jr., and daughters, Beth and Susan, of Chapel Hill, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mercer of Green ville, S. C., and the children of Mr. and Mrs. Hardin and their families, Mr. and Mrs. James Sawyer, Jimmy, Janet, and Ginger of Nashville, Tenn., Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Holt, of GreenviUe, N. C. and their children, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Holt of Jacksonville, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Langley o f Wilson, N. C., Mrs. Louis M. Jackson, Beth, and Ann or Germany, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde D. Hardin and Clyde, Jr., Charles and Clifton of Rock mb Owen Senior Babe Ruth The Owen Senior Babe Ruth League is made up of 16-18 year olds. They play In the South Buncombe league made up of Canton, Enka, Henderson County, Teamsters, 20th Cen tury, and Owen. The games are played on Tuesday and Saturday at the Valley Springs field and Thursday at the Canton Held. Games times are 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. The Owen team is composed of Wessie Rogers, Donnie Haynes, Jed Osteen, Tommy P owl as, Bill Powlas, Larry Burleson, Don CordeU, Bruce Harris, Gene Parker, Mike Bright, Danny Shook, David Hensley, Doug Davis and Phil Reese. Phil has Just Joined the team after a shoulder injury during high school ball this year. Owen won their first game last week with a 4-1 victory over Canton. Jed Osteen had a triple. Donnie Haynes, Wes sie Rogers and Phil Reese had singles to lead the hitting. Phil Reese gave up only two singles in posting his first victory. The Owen team is sponsored by Operation Youth and Beacon Athletic Association. The Penguin Club WNC Shopping Center Dance To Music By THE LOOKING GLASS The N.C. State Champion Band The Next Two Saturday Nights June 28th & July 5th 8:30 Til 12:30 •%< Area Students In Deans List Cuilowhee, N. C. - * Aca demic honors at Western Car olina University have been con ferred upon 357 students from Western North Carolina, ac cording to an announcement by Dr. W. Newton Turner, vice president for academic affairs. Dr. Turner said they are a mong 738 students on the Dean’s List for the spring quarter of the current academic year. Students on the Dean’s List must earn a quality point ratio of 3.0 on a scale of 4.0 for the quarter, and must maintain an overall average of at least 2.0. Only students with at least two quarters of residence at the university are eleigible for the honors list. The students from local com munities are: BLACK MOUNTAIN; Johnny L. Carson of 104 S. Cotton Ave.; Thomas L. Logan, 100 East Blue Ridge Avenue; San ders V. Hudson 111 of 601 N. Fork Road. SWANNANOA: Cynthia G. Cook of Rt. 1, Charlotte J. Ray of 31 6 Wilson Ave., and Linda J. Hudson of Tangle wood Park. Music Varies With Times RIDGECREST, N. C. - - Using illustrations of church music from the Gregorian chants of the Middle Ages to such modern arrangements as “Oh Happy Day,” "Good News,” and “Tell It Like It Is,” Cecil Sherman, pastor, First Baptist Church, Ashe ville, N. C., pointed out that church music can be as varied as church people and that no one form of church music has been canonized as proper. Speaking to 3,000 persons assembled for the 29th annual Church Leadership Conference here, Sherman used Paul’s counsel that he “became all things to all men in the hope of winning some,” to say that there need not be a generation gap in church music.” “The gospel i s changeless,” Sherman said, “but the form or medium used to present that message changes with each gen eration.” “After listening to a variety of church music selections, the Ridgecrest audience was told by Sherman, “And from all these forms of music, from all ages, in the hope of winning some.” Airman Ivey Ivey Completes Basic Training Airman Mark E. Ivey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben U. Ivey, 109 Dogwood Drive, Black Moun tain, N. C., has completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. He is remaining at Lackland for training as a security po liceman. Airman Ivey, a grad uate of Charles D. Owen High School, Swannanoa, N. C., at tended Montreat Anderson Col lege, Montreat, N. C. Church Music Connected Witt] Secular Boom RIDGECREST, N. C. "The general boom In seculaj music and the boom in churcl music are linked together1 Cecil Sherman, pastor, Firs baptist Church, Asheville C., told 3,000 Southern Bap sts attending the 29th annua Church Music Leadership Con. ference at Ridgecrest Baptis Assembly here. "Of all the Southern Baptists programs only the graded choi is growing. Sunday School hai declined for the past sevei years. Training Union ( ttll Southern Baptist training pro, gram ) has declined until i hurts. Everything has decline except church music,” Sher man said. "Church music is carryint many of the programs ofSouth ern Baptist churches today Southern Baptist prosperity j] church music is the coming a the kingdom. Jesus had a wore fo r folk who are having suet success. It was 'Towhommuct is given, much is required ’11 Sherman concluded. Swimming Classes At Christm* ont Instruction in Red Cross be ginning swimming will be of fered at Christmount Assembly on N. C. Highway #9, south of Black Mountain, beginning next week. On Monday morning, June 30, at ten o’clock, regis tration will be held for all persons, school age through a dults, interested in taking be ginning swimming lessons. Lessons will begin on the next day, Tuesday, July 1, and will continue for two to three weeks. Children’s classes will be taught in the mornings and a dults classes in the evenings. Specific times for the lessons will be decided after the num ber and age levels of people interested is determined. Old Fort Golf Tourney Set For July 4 Thru 6 The annual July 4th Golf Tournament at Old Fort Golf Course, will be played July 4th thru July 6th. Players may qualify anytime Friday, July 4th. Starting times will be assigned for Saturday and Sunday. Practice rounds can be played from June 28th thru July 3rd. 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