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W OFFICERS FOR KIVVANIS. The Black
untain-Swannanoa Kiwanis Club inducted
i officers for 1971 at a Ladies Night dinner
ireday, Oct. 1, in the Monte Vista Hotel,
m left to right: Joe Bullock,
new
secretary-treasurer; Brooks Reid, past president;
Cliff Scott, new president; and Frank Foster,
new vice president. The Kiwanis Club meets
(veekly, at noon, on Thursday at the Monte
Vista Hotel.
Hew Kiwanis Officers
he Black Mountain
innanoa Kiwanis Club
icted new officers at a
ial dinner meeting, which
featured Ladies Night, at
Monte Vista Hotel on
rsday evening, Oct. 1, at
) p.m.
rooks Reid, outgoing
ident, presided at the
ting and welcomed the
ts.
fter the dinner a program
lusic was presented by Phil
Edna Edwards of station
]W. They sang several
bers and conducted a
g-a-Long.”
:id re seven dub projects
mpliiets on Drug Alert
passed out to various dub
ps and a number were
:nted to students at Owen
School. He reported the
chain is going slowly,
e are now four calves in
F.A. Club at Owen,
e club gave S500 to
ation Youth. Reid also
rted the dub buys stones
e National Cathedral, with
lames of each service man
the Valley, killed in
ce, engraved there.
also announced the
ial Pancake Jamboree will
eld at Owen High School
light of Oct. 30, the last
i football game this
n.
e club has been one of the
sors of the Medical Center
for two years. Reid
Hized Ernest DeWick,
has been instrumental in
°ting the Fair, for the
anding Kiwanian Service
d.
E Bullock, secretary
irer of the club awarded
e bars to the following
Harry Hyder-13 years,
a charter member; Joe
10 yeafs; James
Bartholomew, 7 years;
Raymond Heath, 6 years;
Brooks Reid, 4 years; and Roy
Ololson, one year.
Lt. Gov. Carolinas District
Jack Garner of Asheville
recognized the new Board of
Directors and charged them
with their responsibilities.
T hey are James C.
Bartholomew, Peter Bolkan,
Ernest DeWick, Jack Dobson,
Raymond Heath, Roy Olofson,
and Culver Smith.
Garner then inducted the
new officers for the coming
year, president, Cliff Scott;
vice president, Frank Foster;
secretary-treasurer, Joe Bullock
Warren Wilson
Homecoming
More than 200 alumni of
Warren Wilson and members of
their families attended the
annual Homecoming at the
college Saturday.
Warren Wilson defeated
Furman University 1-0 in the
Homecoming soccer game.
President Arthur M.
Bannerman reported on the
completion of most of the
college’s major building
program and pointed out that
work on the new physical
education building is well
under way. He said that the
alumni can be very helpful to
Warren Wilson by finding good
students in their respective
areas. With assistance from the
United Presbyterian Board of
Missions in 1973 the college
will be on its own, Dr.
Bannerman added, and greatly
increased alumni support will
be required if the institution is
to move forward.
During the halves of the
soccer game between Warren
Wilson and Furman University
Dr. Bannerman crowned a
senior, Becky Ferguson of
Oxford, Pa., as Homecoming
queen. Juniors Chris Johnson
of West Palm Beach, Fla., and
Gwen Johnson of Jamesburg,
N. J. were chosen as
runners-up.
Harold Aycock ’23 of West
Palm Beach, Fla. received the
award for the alumnus who
traveled the longest distance to
the Homecoming event. Henry
Kent ’08 of Asheville was the
oldest alumnus present.
Center forward Khalil Shair,
on a kick from 30 yards out,
scored the only goal cF the
game.
Despite the low score Ihe
Owls peppered Furman’s goal
with 57 shots while Furman
was held to 18.
Now 3-1, the Owls face
Emory University in Atlanta
Friday in the start of the
Emory University Invitational
Soccer Tournament.
Need A Job ?
People who have trouble
finding jobs-youths, blacks,
the elderly, the handicapped,
and persons with prison
reeords—now have a new
coordinating agency to help
them into the employment
mainstream.
The agency, a joint
city-county venture, is called
the Asheville Area Council on
Employment (ACE).
Asheville Vice Mayor
Webster Anderson is its
chairman, Vice chairmen are
Roy Trantham, a Buncombe
County commissioner, and
John Davis, acting executive
director of the Community
Relations Council.
Ken Michalove, director of
the Buncombe County
Planning Board, is
secretary-treasurer.
The mission of the new
agency, Anderson said, is to
direct job-hunters who need
specialized help to the existing
agencies best designed to help
them, and to avoid duplication
of effort among the action
agencies.
The organizations to be
coordinated by ACE include
the Mayor’s Committee for the
Handicapped, the Mayor’s
Committee for Veterans,
Youth Employment Service
(YES), Elderly Workers, the
Model Cities Employment
Program and Rehabilitated
Offenders. Other agencies will
be added as the need for them
arises, Anderson said.
Chairmen of the various
speciality elements of ACE
include: Employer
Contact-Harry Clarke,
president of Western Carolina
Industries; Employe Research
and placement, Jack Edwards,
Employment Security
Commission; Speakers and
Public Relations—Col. Harry
Hewitt, finance director of the
Pisgah Girl Scout Council;
Awards-Dr. J. M. Powell, East
Chestnut Church of Christ;
Labor Contact-Ray Stepp,
Central Labor Union;
Education, Training and
Rehabilitation-R. L. Clark, N.
C. Commission for the Blind.
BEAUTIFUL VIEWS IN ALL DIRECTIONS can be seen now in
the mountains. This photo won’t show the lovely colors of fall
of course, it isn’t in color. It will indicate how a little drive in
any direction can bring you to breathtaking scenery. This photo
was shot from the highway on North Fork Road, going from
Black Mountain toward the reservoir dam.
Industry Works For
Ecology, Rotary Told
“The furor over the threat to
our environment is long
overdue,” declared Joe
Holmes, retired oil man, in an
address to the Black
Mountain-Swannanoa Rotary
Club Tuesday, Sept. 29, on
“Oil Men and Problems in
Ecology.”
He continued, “Public
apathy had permitted smog,
stream and lake pollution and
the encroachment of
civilization in the wilderness.
“The present furor came
about when smog deaths in
London, Los Angeles and New
York proved the danger of air
pollution. Discovery of the
terrible condition of Lake Erie
and the Mississippi River, the
English tanker wreck and the
Santa Barbara channel leak has
caused sudden realization by
the news media, academic
world and the politicans that
here is a new, serious but
neglected problem, with
sensational overtones. The
Power Loss
On Sunday
Was Accident
While doing emergency work
Sunday morning for the state
near the new highway at
Azalea, the Carolina Power and
Light Co. suffered a power
load loss which resulted in a
temporary blackout in areas of
Black Mountain, William
Holcombe, manager of the
Black Mountain office reported
Tuesday. This was a totally
unexpected interruption.
and past president, Brooks
Reid.
Cliff Scott, new president,
then outlined the club’s plans
for the new year.
They will have a joint theme
“Operation Drug Alert” from
last year and the new theme,
“Improve the Quality of Life.”
Scott said, “The Medical
Center will be our number one
project locally.” He pledged his
and the club’s resources to help
get it underway.
A gift certificate for a
Beacon blanket was presented
by Scott to Mr. and Mrs.
Garner on behalf of the
Kiwanis Club.
FOOD AND FELLOWSHIP were the order of the
1 Hally Day at First Baptist Church, Montreat Road, Black
Mountain, Sunday, Oct. 4. The line was beginning to form on
the right for food.
public is the victim, industry is
the culprit and everyone
rushed to get on the band
wagon.”
Practically all industry is
guilty in one way or another
but the prime target, favorite
whipping boy of aspiring
politicans, well known villian
in the oil industry, and it was
definitely guilty, declared
Holmes.
In spite of adverse publicity
the oil industry is devising
methods to cut down on all
types of pollution, said
Holmes.
Oil is not the only major
offender but still has plenty of
house cleaning to do.
RONALD TURNER
Two At Owen
Letters of Commendation
honoring them for their high
performance on the 1970
National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test (NMSQT) have
been awarded to two students
at Owen High School.
Named are Ann L. Davidson
and Ronald M. Turner.
They are among 35,000
students in the United States
who scored in the upper two
percent of those who are
expected to graduate from high
school in 1971. They rank just
below the 14,750 Semifinalists
announced in September by
the National Merit Scholarship
Corporation (NMSC).
toward C. Smith, president
of NMSC, said: “Although
commended students advance
no further in the Merit
Scholarship competition, their
standing in this nationwide
31 Degrees
But Lovely
During Day
The Black Mountain
Swannanoa area recorded a low
of 31 degrees Sunday night,
Oct. 4, the first frost was also
noted Sunday. It was fall’s first
below freezing temperature
recording.
Sunny skies were much in
evidence most of the week, and
weather was perfect for
outdoor activities. Highs in the
low 80s were recorded.
Clouds moved in on
Wednesday.
They have found new ways
to clean tankers, to cut down
on water pollution, of capping
and controlling oil wells to cut
down on land and stream
pollution and controlling oil
fires.
They are also improving their
products to cut down air
pollution, he claimed. Some of
these are devices to neutralize
exhaust fumes by cutting down
on lead in gasoline.
He concluded, "I hope
collective effort will save both
environment and industry.”
Vice president Dr. Howard
Thomas presided at the
meeting.
ANN DAVIDSON
Commended
program deserves public
recognition. Their high
performance on the NMSQT
gives promise of continued
success in college.
The commended students’
names are reported to certain
scholarship-granting agencies
and to the colleges they named
as their first and second
choices when they took the
NMSQT in February 1970. The
reports include home
addresses, test scores, and
anticipated college major and
career intentions of the
commended students. NMSC
encourages these students to
make every effort to continue
their education.
Old Motors
Needed By
High School
The Owen High School
Agricultural Department has
issued a plea for dead or alive
motors.
They need old lawn mowers
and roto tillers or any small
engines to be used in an
agriculture machinery class for
demonstrating disassembly and
reassembly to the boys.
Anyone having a small motor
they will donate, whether it
will run or not, is asked to call
the numbers below after 5 p.nt.
Mr. Carson at 669-746c), Mr.
Goodsin at 669-8 \' i Mr.
Davidson at 298-5034.
These men are the
agriculture teachers. They will
arrange to pick up your motor.
Leaves Changing,
Other Signs of Fall
By UVA MIRACLE
October has dipped her paint
brush into autumn and is
beginning to spread its color
over the mountainsides.
The brilliant yellow of the
poplar, the scarlet and gold of
the maple, the red violet of the
sourwood, the deep red of the
dogwood with the brighter red
of its clustered berries are
aglow in the land.
Sunday night we had our
first frost of the season, and
now the brilliance of a
maharajah’s jewels will really
begin to show.
Pumpkins are piled in great
golden hordes. The fodder is
shocked and looks like
miniature teepees in otherwise
bare fields. The last cutting of
hay has been baled. Corn cribs
bulge with their stored harvest.
Apples have been picked and
roadside stands blossom forth a
fragrant delicious flood. Cider
presses are working full time to
provide that nectar of the gods,
fresh mountain apple cider.
Nothing is quite so good to
quench a thirst.
October is a strange
mistress-while she seems to
welcome fall with one hand, in
early morning and late
eventide, she clings tenaciously
to her old lover, summer, in
the middle of the day.
This is a lusty, vibrant time
of year...a time of plenty.
Farmer’s wives work diligently
to place the last fruits and
vegetables in jars and freezers
to sustain their families
through the winter months
ahead. On the shelves, glowing
like jewels, are their treasures.
The cane has been pressed
and the juice boiled into
molasses or sorghum.
The bee is sated as he goes
from flower to flower. He too
seems to feel the lazy, hazy
days. Although he knows the
need of urgency he is inclined
to daudle.
Autumn flowers are
seemingly trying to rival their
summer sisters. Golden rod are
drooping beneath their weight
of flowerlets. The blue fringed
gentian and wild aster flaunt
their beauty. The hearty bloom
of artichoke makes one think
of black-eyed Susans. In
gardens the tame
chrysanthemum raise proud
heads of white, pink, yellow,
bronze and gold, a salute to
fall.
Skies are the bluest blue, so
clear you cannot believe in
pollution. Here and there a
puffy white cloud floats lazily
by.
Yes, autumn is in the land.
We know winter cannot be far
behind. Soon will come the
gray rains of November and the
snows of Decembrr, but for a
little while let’s clutch to our
hearts the beauty of October’s
bright blue weather.
College Profs Honored
Four members of the
Montreat-Anderson College
faculty have been selected to
appear in the 1970 edition of
OUTSTANDING
EDUCATORS OF AMERICA.
Nominated earlier this year,
they were chosen for this
honor on the basis of their
talents in the classroom,
contributions to research,
administrative abilities and any
civic and professional
recognition previously
received.
Included in the publication
are Miss Elizabeth Hoyt,
professor of history and
sociology and head of the
Social Science Division;
Howard Kester, professor of
sociology, economics and
geography and recently retired
Dean of Students; Miss
Elizabeth Maxwell, professor
Petition For
School Prayer
Going Around
A petition to endorse the
proposed clarifying
amendment, S. J. Res. 6 is
being circulated in the Black
Mountain area.
This bill, to restore the
reading of the Bible and prayer
to the public schools, was
introduced by the late Sen.
Everett M. Dirkson with 45
other consignees.
The notitii'H claims the bill
ask.-. tin. leturn of the First
Amendment of the U. S.
Constitution to its original and
common sense meaning.
of French and Head of the
Humanities Division; and Miss
Elizabeth Wilson, professor of
Bible and former Dean of
Women.
The Outstanding Educators
of America is an annual
program adesigned to recognize
and honor those men and
women who have distinguished
themselves by exceptional
service, achievements and
leadership in education. Each
year 5,000 of the foremost
educators from across the
country are featured in this
national volume.
Former Vice President
Hubert Humphrey, who wrote
ELIZABETH MAXWELL
ELIZABETH WILSON
the introductory message in
the 1970 edition, says of the
men and women included,
“The greatest strength of any
nation is its human resources.
These are the men and women
who by their actions in the
classroom today mold the
course of history. Our
hope-the nation’s youth—is in
their hands. As we honor these
teachers, we are reminded of
their awesome duty. As they
have our confidence, we must
give them tools to wage
Jefferson’s “crusade against
ignorance’. With men and
women like these we know
that our faith in education has
not been misplaced.”
HOWARD KESTER
ELIZABETH HOYT