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Chamber Chatter
ED WEBER
I. DIRECTORS MEETING:
Breakfast Meeting 0745
hours Wednesday, April 14th
Highland Farms.
II. REGULAR LUNCHEON
MEETING:
Everyone is invited to at
tend a luncheon meeting at
Montreat Anderson College on
Tuesday, April 20th. A great
opportunity to learn more
about one of our fine local
colleges. Call 669-2300 for
reservations.
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AVONDALE'S
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Clvondale ^Knitting TTlills
OPEN MON.-SAT. 9 to 5:30; SUN. 1:00 to 5:30
You Will Find Them At These Locations:
Block Mountain, N.C. 1000 Craigmont Road
Ashavilla. N.C. 19-23 Wost Turn at K-Mart
hollow Signs at Binghr.n Road
8711
Report From
The Office Of
Town Manager
This week I would like to ask the citizens of Black Mountain to
cooperate with the Town Management in making suggestions
and-or expressing opinions about the Town’s new swimming pool
and how you feel it should be managed. We are still planning that
the pool be open in June, and are in the process of making out a
schedule for the pool that will be as beneficial to the greatest
number of our citizens as possible.
We would appreciate some public opinion in the following
areas . What do you expect the admission price to be for children
or adults? What should a family and a single membership cost?
What hours would you like the pool to be open?
Not only would we be open to consider your suggestions, but this
is your chance as a citizen of your Town to express your opinion
and be heard. Just drop your comments by the Town Hall between
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or send us a card with your suggestions in the
mail. Our mailing address is: 225 West State Street, Black
Mountain. „
Any person who is interested in applying for lifeguard this
summer at the pool, please stop by Town Hall and pick up an
application form. All persons who will be considered are required
to have an up-to-date Water Safety Instructor’s certification.
This Week In The Valley
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
12:30 - Kiwanis at Monte Vista Hotel
6:30-Black Mountain Lions Club at Monte Vista Hotel
FRIDAY, APRIL 9
10 a.m. - A.A.R.P. at Black Mountain Library
7:30 p.m. - Gospel Sing, I.akewood Baptist
SATURDAY, APRIL 10
2 - 4 p.m. Potpourri, Black Mountain Ubrary '
1 - 3 p.m. Registration Summer league Ball Grammar School
SUNDAY: APRIL 11
Attend the church of your choise.
MONDAY, APRIL 12
7:30 p.m. - Town Board Meeting, City Hall
2 p.m. - Black Mountain Woman's Club Board Meeting, Black
Mountain Savings & lean
1 p.m. - Great Balloon Ascension, Black Mountain Grammar
School
TUESDAY. APRIL 13
12:30 - Rotary Club, Highland Farms
7 p.m. - Swannanoa Valley Lions Club, Holiday Inn East
7:30 p.m. - Lioness Club, B & J Drug Swannanoa
10 a.m. - league Women Voters, Shepherd House, W-W College
7:30 p.m. - Bicentennial Celebration, Owen High School
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14
2:30 p.m. - Black Mountain Woman's Club, Black Mountain
library
7:45 a.m. - Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Highland
Farms
THURSDAY, APRIL 15
12:30 p.m. - Kiwanis, Monte Vista
All clubs and organizations are urged to please get their
schedule of meetings so we can perfect a permanent calendar for
each week.
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DAM SAFETY Coordinator J. C. Bumgarner probes
into what went wrong with the dam that failed in
February near Canton. At left is consulting engineer
Charles Gardner of Law Engineering, the firm hired
recently by the owner of the dam to destroy it. J. C.
is a former resident of Black Mountain.
Bumgarner Named
Dam Safety Coordinator
The loss of four lives during
the early morning failure of an
earthen dam in western North
Carolina during February has
focused attention on the
state's dam safety program.
legislation established the
program in 1967, but it wasn’t
until 1971 that funding was
provided for one full-time
employee. His chief task was
to review an comment on
proposals for new dams.
During the past year two new
positions have been added. J.
C. Bumgarner has been
named Dam Safety Coor
dinator.
But inventories and
estimates indicate that as
many as 2000 existing dams in
North Carolina fall under the
scope of the program. In
general any dam higher than
15 feet can be regulated by the
state, however, the Dam
Safety Act of 1967 does not
require owners to register
existing dams with the state -
only proposed dams must be
examined.
With part-time help from
state sedimentation control
and mine reclamation
engineers the three dam
safety inspectors will be able
to examine approximately 400
existing and proposed dams
each year out of the total of
2000 or more eligible for in
spection.
The N. C. General Assembly
may be asked to deal with the
program in their upcoming
session.
J. C. is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Bumgarner of
Black Mountain.
Revival Calvary
Free Will Baptist
The Calvary Free Will
Baptist Church, on U.S. 70,
West, Swannanoa, will begin a
series of Revival Services on
April 11 at 7:30 p.m. Services
will continue through April 17
at the same hour.
The visiting evangieisi wiii
be the Rev. I,arry Hughes,
pastor of First Free Will
Baptist Church in Canton.
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Special music will be
provided by the church choir
and visiting soloist and vocal
groups
The Rev. Frank Cantrell,
pastor, and the congregation
request your presence at these
services to worship with them.
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MISS LOUISE HARRIS was the First Place winner
in the Adv ertising Division of the Buncombe County
School’s Art Festival held recently in Asheville. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Harris, Jr. of
Ridgecrest and a student at Charles D. Owen High
School. Miss Ann Knight is her Art Instructor. Miss
Harris’ winning entry was a formal invitation in
black decal letters on white.
HERPES VIRUS NOW A
COMMON VENEREAL
DISEASE
little known ten years ago it has become almost as
common as syphillis and gonnorrhea. And, genital
herpes can have serious consequences. Children born
Jo^mothers suffering from this type of herpes can
develop Neo Natal herpes which is most often fatal.
Also, there appears to be evidence that women with
herpes run a greater risk of developing cervical cancer.
Right now there is neither a certain treatment or
cure for genital herpes. Although researchers feel that
eventually a vaccine may be the answer, none is close
to development.
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A Man Who Loved
Black Mountain
By ALFRED “Bub" TYSON
Betty and I recently visitec
our son and his wife in Tuscon
Arizona. While there, I went tc
see a man who lived here ir
the late 1920's - His name is
George Bideaux.
George was in World War 1
About 1923, he was trying tc
regain his health and decided
to go to Florida. On his way,
he stopped off in Black
Mountain to see a friend he
had been in the army with,
Mr. Fitzgerald.
Mr. Fitzgerald had
organized a Chamber of
Commerce here and George
happened in just as a meeting
was in progress. I^ter, Mr.
Fitzgerald told George that he
also was planning a trip to
Florida in a few days, so they
could go down together and
suggested that George stay at
the Monte Vista a few days.
Neither of them ever went to
Florida and George stayed
here for the next 5 or 6 years,
and made a host of friends.
About 1929 George was
offered a position with the
Associated Press in San
Bernadino, Ca. The job was to
Common
Cause Annual
Meeting
The annual meeting for
Common Cause's 11th
Congressional District will be
held on Sunday, April 11, 1976
at 3 p.m. at Humanities
lecture Hall on the UNC
Asheville campus.
Principal speaker will be
George M. Jensen, WNC
activist recently profiled in
the Asheville Citizen. Major
topic for discussion will be
"Campaign ’76” with a
briefing on what local Com
mon Cause members have
done thus far to make the
presidential candidates listen
and respond to the real needs
and questions of North
Carolina residents.
Common cause is a non
partisan citizens lobby
dedicated to good government
at the federal, state, and local
levels. Members, and non
members are invited.
Refreshments will be served.
begin about April 1 of the next
year. So George decided to go
out early and take his time
going across the country. He
bought a ticket to El Paso,
Texas. On the way, he met a
man from Tuscon, Arizona
who extolled the virtues of
Arizona to him. When they
reached El Paso, there was a
raging blizzard, so George
just bought a ticket on to
Tuscon. He has been there
ever since. He never got to San
Bemadino.
George homesteaded 40
acres of land at the foot of the
mountains, just west of
Tuscon, but never could get
sufficient water and let Uncle
Sam have the land back.
When I went by George’s
Rock Collection Shop, I only
meant to stop for just a few
minutes, but he would have
none of that. He wanted to
know about his old friends. So
he took me to lunch in the
swanky Pueblo Club atop one
of Tuscon’s tallest buildings.
At his questioning, I
proceeded to tell him about
almost everyone who lived in
our little town in the late 20’s.
You would be amazed at his
memory.
He asked me about the
Garlands, The Browns, Tbe'i
Simpsons Ike Cook, Cecil'
Nanney, Ben Hunter, jlm
Dougherty, Clyde Jumper.
The Phillips family, xjm
Hardwicks, my sister Martha •
The Carlands - just to mention
a few who are still with us and
gosh knows how many of his.:
old friends like Mike Miller "•
Herman Saunders, Bob Hines''
Adrian Hardwick, Ronald
Finch, Tom Pierce, Bilp
Cooper, N. C. Shuford, Pernfi l
Priest, The Sanfords, Thd'-|
Morgan s and many more whip
are not here now.
I know I have left out
of his friends that he asked i
about.
George has seen Tuseof'
grow from a raw little town to
a big city. In his time there, he'
has owned the Bisbepi,
Newspaper and an interest ip*:
the famous “Tombstone'"
Epitath.”
He told me that he had not
planned to come back to Black*
Mountain again because he ;
felt he would know no one. But
after he found out he still had,
many old friends here, I would;
not be surprised to see Georgfe;
walking the streets of BljJ*
Mtn. once again. - I hope he
does.
Valley
Happenings
RUMMAGE SALE
A rummage sale will be held by the Mountain Triangle Temple
at 209Lakey Street from 9:00 til 5:00 Saturday, April 10.
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BENEFIT GOSPEL SINGING
The lake wood Baptist Church is sponsoring a Benefit Gospel
Singing, Friday April 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Church Sancturary >
Among those on the program is the Fellowship Quartet and tki
Davis Trio. There will not be an admission charge but a free will
offering will be taken for the Building Fund.
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BICENTENNIAL PROGRAM
A Bicentennial Program “The First White Settler West Of The
French Broad river, Captain William Moore and The First White
Settler West Of The Blue Ridge Samuel Davidson.”
April 13, 1976, Swannanoa Valley Lions Club, Meeting 7 p.rt
Holiday Inn, East, program chairman is club president Wyjis
Com.
F. Jack Cole, president of Carolina Federal Savings & Loan
Association, Asheville wilj present these programs. The slide
presentation includes Captain Moore’s storj^ of the General |
Griffith Rutherford Expedition against the Cherokee in 1776 and
Moore’s return to settle in Hominy Valley, the first white settler
West of the French Broad River. Included in the program is the
story of Samuel Davidson, killed in 1784 by the Cherokee on ttp
ridge line of Jones Mountain. Davmson was me first white settle
in Buncombe County, West of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in
Swannanoa
All children wishing to play Summer league Ball must register ■
for teams, Wednesday, April 7th, at 4:30 thru 6:30 p.m. and on B
Saturday, April 10th, at 1:00 thru 3:00 p.m. at the Grammar B
School Field. ' B
Children that will start First Grade in August 1976 will be E-'
eligible to play. £
All children MUST present Proof of Age, (Not to be taken up'. B
No registration fees at this time. if
“T” League 6-8 Yrs. i
little league 9-12 Yrs. I
Girls’ Softball 6-15 B '
Swannanoa Valley Unit of the League will meet on Tuesday,
April 13, 10 a.m., at Shepard House, Warren Wilson College.
Representatives of the Tax Committee, of which Sybil Thompson
is chairman, will be present to help the group delve further into
questions raised in the general meeting held on the preceding
Thursday in Asheville.
“Man in the Wilderness” will be shown in Warren Wilson
College’s Bannerman Hall this Saturday, April 10 and Sunday,
April 11 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $.75.
"Man in the Wilderness” stars Richard Harris as Zack Bass, •>
man left to die in {he Northwest Wilderness after being mauled by
a bear. It’s the stirring story of one man’s courage, determination
and will to live.
The public is invited to attend.
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SUMMER LEAGUE
BALL REGISTRATION
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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
THIS WEEK’S MOVIE
MAN IN THE WILDERNESS
MASONS
Masonic Lodge 663 will meet in Emergent Communication Lor I
conferring the Master Mason’s Degree, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday |
April 8 at the Lodge Hall. All members are urged to attend.
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A.A.R.P. MEETS FRIDAY
The Swannanoa Valley Chapter 225 of A.A.R.P. will meet at 101
a.m. on Friday, April 9, in the education room of the Black I
Mountain Libra# Bob Terrell of the Asheville Citizen will show
slides of The Holy Land. Members and friends are invited to the |
social hour at 9:30.
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