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hRSDAY, NOVEMBER 6,1969 - VOLUME 25 - NUMBER 8~
DEVOTED 100% TO OUR COMMUNITY-THE GROWING
SWANNANOA VALLEY
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SECQND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AX BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C. 28711
ie For 2nd With 7-3 Record
iwen Stops Enka In
;eason Finale, 20-12
le Owen Warhorses ended
r 1969 season on a high
t, defeating the Enka Jets
2 at Shuford Field. This
their season’s record to 7-3.
loss left Enka with a 4-6
rd.
wen, Enka and Brevard tied
second place in the Ivy
ference.
i the game Friday night,
ing in pouring rain, the
ing Jets drove 76 yards,
i with 7:18 left in the 1st
frter Ronnie Robinson dived
over on a two yard run.
Saunders kick for the extra
point failed.
Owen took the ensuing
kick-off and marched 70 yards.
With 2:42 left in the first
quarter Tommy Hensley took
the ball in from the seven yard
line, off tackle. Tommy
Powlas’ kick was blocked.
On the following kick-off
Calvin Boyd recovered an Enka
fumble at the 10 yard line.
Donnie Haynes took it off
tackle for a 10 yard run and
touchdown. Haynes also ran
the ball in for the two point
conversion. This gave Owen a
14-6 half time lead.
With 3:47 left in the 3rd
quarter Jeff Connor, of Enka,
ran a 10 yard end sweep for a
touchdown but the conversion
attempt by Robinson failed.
Early in the fourth quarter
Osteen passed to Bill Hoffman
for seven yards and the final
touchdown of the game.
Osteen’s run for the extra two
points failed.
wen
rap-Up
tie Warhorses have had a
it outstanding season. The
have played “good ball”
very game, reports a proud
Ch Rucker and his staff.
SEASON WRAP-UP
ven 39 - W. Henderson 6
ven 16 — Brevard 14
ven 0 — Hendersonville 34
ven 28 - Erwin 0
ven 34 — E. Henderson 6
|wen 7 - Spruce Pine 6
ven 25 — T.C. Roberson 0
ven 19 - Reynolds 14
ven 12 - North Buncombe
en 20 - Enka 12
Jed Osteen
Donnie Haynes
Mike Rice
Les Wright
T. Hensley
TCB
4
18
14
2
8
YDS
4
61
77
12
36
AVG
1
4.4
5.5
6.0
4.5
Passes attempted by Osteen
- 2 - one completed 7 yards
for TD.,
Tackles
Bruce Putnam
Mark Fender
Steve Ensley
Mark Vien
Barry Nichols
Calvin Boyd
Gary Massey
David Hensley
A1 Petty
Mike Kitchen
Lester Wright
Mike Coston
Hoffman
Unast. Asst
8 3
3 4
3 4
1 0
1 9
1 1
0 5
0 10
0 2
0 5
0 2
0 3
0 4
I PAUL RICHARDSON
’aul Richardson has been
med executive vice president
the Northwestern Banks in
ick Mountain, Old Fort and
rion.
Richardson has been with
E Northwestern Bank since
ptember, 1944. He was made
tnager of the Old Fort office
1946, assistant cashier in
49 and cashier in 1958. In
ttch, 1968 he became vice
esident and cashier of the
d Fort office as well as vice
esident in charge of the
ack Mountain branch.
He is currently a director of
e McDowell Chamber of
'mmerce and is an honorary
ember and former chief of
d Fort Fire Department,
chardson has served three
rms on the Town of Old Fort
>ard of Aldermen. He is also
former member of the
eDowell Board of County
mimissioners.
Richardson is a charter
e|nber of the Old Fort
ldPter of American Business
ubs. He is also a member of
le Joppa Lodge No. 401 —
f &A.M. Richardson is
csident and director of Old
Urt Golf Course, Inc. He is
Wner of the Old Fort
'surance Agency.
Mr. Richardson is married to
le former Elizabeth J.
fmdstaff. They reside on Golf
UUfse Road in Old Fort.
dward Ronald Richardson,
111 ■ is a senior at University of
°ith Carolina at Asheville:
Paul Richardson, newly
named executive vice president
of The Northwestern Bank in
Black Mountain, Old Fort and
Marion, has announced the
following promotions: Bruce
E. Greene has been named
cashier of the Marion
operation, Jack Dobson has
been promoted from assistant
cashier to vice president of the
Black Mountain Office, Phillip
Lee Clapp has been promoted
from assistant cashier of Black
Mountain to cashier of Old
Fort.
Bruce E. Greene, a native of
Asheville is a graduate of North
Buncombe High School. He
received a B.S. degree in
Business Administration from
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Greene became affiliated
with the Northwestern Bank in
Asheville in 1963. He served as
the installment loan officer
from 1963 to 1964 and was
named assistant cashier and
manager of the Tunnel Road
Office in Asheville in 1966. He
served in this capacity until he
transferred to Marion.
Greene was an active
member of the Asheville
Jaycees and is a former
member of the Board of
Directors of the Tunnel Road
Shopping Center Association.
Greene has been active in
United Fund, Red Cross, Area
Hospital and YMCA
campaigns.
Greene is married to the
former Cynthia Roberts of
Asheville. They reside at 16
Westwood Place in Marion.
Jack Dobson, a native of
McDowell County, attended
Pfeiffer College in Misenheimer
and Berea College, Berea,
Kentucky. He became
affiliated with the
Northwestern Bank in April,
1968 as manager of the
Installment Loan Department.
He was made assistant cashier
of the Black Mountain branch
in October, 1968. Prior to
joining Northwestern, he was
manager of Seaboard Finance
Company.
Dobson is a member ol the
Black Mountain Kiwanis Club.
He is married to the former
Cathryn Mease of Marion.
JACK DOBSON
BRUCE E. GREENE
They have two children,
Jacque Lynn and Jon
Christopher. The Dobsons are
members of the First Baptist
Church in Black Mountain.
Phillip Lee Clapp joined the
staff of the Black Mountain
branch of the Northwestern
Bank in July, 1966. He was
promoted to assistant cashier
in November, 1967. A graduate
of Charles D. Owen High
School in Swannanoa, he
received an A.B. degree in
History from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Clapp is vice president of the
Swannanoa Men’s Club and a
member of the Black Mountain
Jaycees. He is chairman of the
Board of Deacons of the First
Presbyterian Church in
Swannanoa. Clapp is married
to the former Pattie Bird
Talbot of Raphine, Virginia.
BRUCE JONES, Alan Goodson and Miss Joy
Edwards look on as Stanley Willet operates the
Teletrainer to enable Susie Williams and Cheryl
Rudisill to carry on a telephone conversation.
Third Graders Learn Use Of
Telephone And How They Work
By UVA MIRACLE
A coordinated program in
Language Arts, Social Studies
and Science is being used in the
Third Grade classrooms of Miss
Elders, Miss Edwards, Mrs.
Morris, Miss Hawkin, Mrs.
Glenn and Mrs. Hardies, special
education group. This is
centered around the correct
usage of the telephone.
The program, sponsored by
Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph uses many means to
iorthwestern Promotes Men
n Blk.Mtn., Old Fort & Marion
PHILLIP L. CLAPP
They have one daughter,
Alison and reside at 325
Northeast Avenue in
Swannanoa.
teach the children telephones.
A teletrainer is available.
It is an amplifier and control
unit which produces dial tone,
ringing and busy signals and
makes connections between
the two telephones which
accompany the unit. The unit
helps create realistic classroom
situation for developing
conversational skills. (The
children are always specially
intrigued with the chance to
buzz a busy signal to their
friends who are using the
telephones.)
mere is a motion picture,
“We Learn About the
Telephone”, a' 25 minute,'
16mm color film, the central
element of the program. It
teaches proper use of the
telephone, telephone courtesy,
finding a number in the
directory, how the telephone
works, the history of
communication and the
importance of the telephone in
the community.
Four film strips, closely
related to an important
segment of the film with
captions and suggested teacher
narration, encourage class
participation.
The teachers guide is divided
into sections on language arts,
social studies, and science.
Charts of teaching points
covered by each teaching aid,
classroom activities, including
elementary science
experiments.
Resources material on
communications and three
colorful, pictorial wall charts
(1) Telephone Courtesy (2)
How the Telephone Works and
(3) How We Use the Telephone
in an Emergency, are used.
The pupils are given a 24
page booklet which reviews the
principal subjects contained in
Another Group Forms To
Resist Zoning Ordinance
An irate group of citizens
from the Kerlee Heights,
Padgettown Road area met in
Kerlee Church Thursday night,
October 30 to initiate action
designed to halt zoning of the
land east of the present Black
Mountain Township, reports
Mrs. Ernest Slagle, chairman.
An unofficial spokesman for
the group said other officers
are E. V. Gouge, co-chairman,
and Emory Harwood,
treasurer. The spokesman also
reported that petitions are
being prepared for circulation
under the name “Citizens
Committee.”
The group also discussed
procedures aimed at obtaining
revocation of the law allowing
a township to incorporate
adjoining communities without
the consent of the majority of
the residents of the
communities.
Opposition to the zoning
proposal was based largely on
two factors:
(1) Homes presently standing
in areas marked flood zone
could not be rebuilt should
their destruction result through
tire or other means.
(2) Opportunity for
development and/or expansion
of small business would be
virtually impossible in areas
marked residential.
Further opposition was
expressed on the basis that the
necessity of having to obtain a
permit to make repairs or build
additions on private properties
deprives individuals of personal
liberties.
Antipathy toward the
one-mile incorporation of the
area east of Black Mountain
was also apparent among the
speakers. The inability of the
town to meet its present
responsibilities of street
maintenance, garbage and trash
pick-up, and lighting of streets
were cited as examples in
questioning the feasilibity of
the town’s attempts to expand
services to the incorporated
areas.
Several weeks ago residents
of the Blue Ridge Road area
formed a community
association in opposition to
zoning of that area as
industrial. Since then the area
has been rezoned residential.
other parts of the program and
is a reminder of what the child
has learned.
It includes: How man sent
messages before the telephone,
different ways we
communicate today, how Mr.
Bell invented the telephone,
steps in making and receiving
telephone calls, how to get
help in an emergency,
telephone manners, how to use
the telephone book, what Mr.
Bell knew about sound waves,
how the telephone works.
Mrs. Nelle Laetsch, School
Representative for Southern
Bell in the eight county area
around Asheville, reported that
the program was used by
19,000 students in some 225
schools. Approximately 11,800
of these were elementary
students throughout the U.S.
and Canada.
The program is geared to
third and fourth grade level but
is used in some high school
courses.
Mrs. Laetscn said, tne
program was developed at the
request of educators. Teachers
helped develop all phases of
the program and have served as
consultants.”
At the close of the classroom
session a telephone repair truck
is brought to the school and
the telephone service man
explains his job to the children.
Some questions we heard
asked were “Isn’t it dangerous
to climb a pole?” “Do you
have to install colored phones
different from black ones; and
“Why doesn’t your phone have
a bottom?”
Each child is given a private
phone book and encouraged to
write the name and numbers of
friends, relative and especially
those numbers to called in an
emergency.
Mr. Keever said, “the use of
the telephone always increases
among this age group after
participation in the classroom
activities.”
The children draw pictures,
write stories and letters, and
conduct experiments on what
they have learned.
Property Owners Promised Relief
County Gets Sales Tax,
Opinion Close In Valley
Valley voters went along
with the rest of Buncombe
County in approving the local
option one cent sales tax
Tuesday but not so
wholeheartedly.
The county wide vote was
more than 2-1 in favor of the
tax but valley precincts showed
considerably less enthusiasm
for it, despite warm backing by
local officials.
In fact two local precincts
voted against the tax,
Swannanoa No. 1 and Broad
River.
It is now expected that
property taxes will be held in
line, according to promises of
the county commissioners and
MRS. FLORENCE GREENE
Mrs. Greene
Passes Away
Mrs. Florence Ingle Gjgene,
83, of 311 Montreat Road,
mother of R. T. Greene, Black
Mountain, City Manager, died
Sunday afternoon in an
Asheville hospital after a long
illness.
A native of Watauga County,
she had lived in Black
Mountain for 77 years. She was
the widow of W. C. Greene,
former mayor of Black
Mountain, and a member of
the Black Mountain
Presbyterian Church.
Surviving in addition to the
son is a sister, Mrs. Grace
Scruggs of Asheville and two
granddaughters, Mrs. Travis
Bennett of Atlanta, Ga. and
Mrs. Jack Cole of Black
Mountain.
Services were held at 2 p.m.
Tuesday in the Chapel of
Harrison Funeral Home.
The Reverend Richard
Shelor officiated and burial
was in Mountain View
Memorial Park.
Pallbearers were A. F. Tyson
Jr., W. W. White, Johnny Rice,
R. E. and Leon Williams, and
L. B. Whelon.
The family received friends
from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. T.
Greene, 102 Homer Chapel
Road.
the Black Mountain Board of
Aldermen. With sales tax
support, more property tax
money should not be needed.
Citizens will begin paying the
additional one cent sales tax on
March 1, 1970. Fifty per cent
of collections will be returned
to Buncombe County for
distribution among local
governments and taxing
districts. The other half will be
distributed by population.
Buncombe will lose a little of
its collections because smaller
counties which approved the
tax will receive a little more
than they collect. Asheville is
of course western North
Carolina’s central trade area.
In Black Mountain the city
aldermen have already lowered
the tax rate from $1.25 to
$1.10 and refunded money to
persons who paid at the lower
rate. This was done in
anticipation of passage of the
sales tax, which will return
about $13,000 to the town.
Various Black Mountain
organizations had given
support to the tax issue,
including the PTA and the
Chamber of Commerce.
About half of the monies
collected will go to schools,
according to a pledge by the
county commissioners.
Local precincts and their
vote as as follows:
Black Mtn. No. 1
Black Mtn. Primary School
Black Mtn. No. 2
City Hall, Black Mtn.
Black Mtn. No. 3
Club House,
Lake Tomahawk
Broad River
Broad River Corn. Center
Swannanoa No. 1
Swannanoa Vol. Fire Sta.
Swannanoa No. 2
Swannanoa School
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. American Legion Hail
(Francy Post)
for AGAINST
208 188
127 105
403 179
27 40
75 111
265 149
278 126
Owen Student Gets
Scholarship Chance
MICHAEL BEGLEY, state
finalist for the Hearst U. S.
Senate Scholarship, is also a
nominee for the Morehead
Scholarship.
Michael Begley of Owen
High School is among 20 North
Carolina finalists in the running
for a $ 1,000 scholarship to the
college of their choice.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
SEARS OPEN HOUSE last weekend was a huge
success judging from the shoppers that
attended. Shown here is the crowd on
Thursday, opening day. The new Sears catalog
order store has about 1,500 feet of display
space filled with various merchandise available
by order. Quick delivery is promised on any
item in Sears’ famous catalog.
Marcus Begley of Black
Mountain.
A week-long close-up look at
how the U.S. Government
operates will be given next
January to 102 selected high
school student body officers in
Washington, D.C. Each student
will receive a $1,000
scholarship. Two students from
each of the SO states and two
from the District of Columbia
will be chosen by their chief
state school officers to take
part in the eighth annual
United States Senate Youth
Program. The program is made
possible by a grant from the
William Randolph Hearst
Foundation.
Twenty North Carolina high
school student finalists will
visit Raleigh November 10 and
11 to compete for the
program. Each school system
was invited to select two
students — elected student
body representatives who had
successfully completed a
course in United States history..
These students were then
tested locally with objective
examinations supplied by the
Hearst Foundation. Personal
interviews of the 20 finalists,
to be held at the State
Department of Public
Instruction, will be conducted
by a panel of noted North
Carolina educators. Die two
North Carolina winners will be
announced December 16 by
Senators Sam J. Ervin and B.
Everett Jordan.
The winning students will
visit the nation’s capital
January 24 through 31, 1970.
Each will receive a $1,000
scholarship to be held by their
chosen college or university for
up to five years. Credit for two
years of courses in UJS.
Government or related subjects
is required of the delegates
during the five-year period.
Vice President Spiro T.
Agnew is honorary chairman of
the advisory committee
arranging the program.