Happy Birthdays Nov. 1 Marked 177 Years Of Successful ,
"A mere trifle consoles us, for mere trifle distresses us."
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By UVA MIRACLE
Two of Black Mountain’s
most beloved citizens share
the same birthday November
1 and for the past 15 years
have celebrated them
together. They are Mrs.
Mtu'shnll Mott and Mr. M.E.
Head. They were honored at a
join, dinner on Sunday Oc
ober 111 ai ilie Monte Vista
Hotel. Mama Moll’s 87th and
Daddy Head’s 90th. Present
for the occasion wps Mrs.
Head, the Head’s two
daughters, Hose Marian
Andrews of I.aconia, N.H. and
Frances Head Gale ol
Gloucester, Mass, nephew
Uoyd Head of Charlotte and
neice I-auretta and sister-in
law Mrs. Pear! Head ol
Beverly Hills. Mrs. Mott’s
daughter Sanchez Mot
Williamson was present. Her
son Marshall was not able to
be present due to illness.
I.ula Abigail Cole Mott,
daughter of John and Mary
Elizabeth Cole was born Nov,
1, 1889 in Prairie Grove,
Arkansas., the 11th of 12
XYZ Club News
Easier Seal Society
Shows Film
Miss Sheila I-ambert an Associate Director of the Society
showed club members an appealing film on the camp program of
.he Society and discussed some of its other activities. The talk
was proabably something of a revelation to many of the listeners
who tend to receive the literature and talks about the many
similar programs rather casually. Miss Lambert’s film said it all
about the beautiful but poignantly handicapped children. She
t hen referred briefly to the Societies adult services mentioning
’ he availability of financial aid, transportation, braces, artificial
limbs, wheel chairs and hospital beds.
The Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults is the
oldest and largest of national health organizations. The Blue
Hidge Easter Seal Society located in Asheville is the regional
chapter; its address is 1000-C Haywood Road. Hie local Society
co-operates closely with all area agencies and hospitals and 89 per
cent of the contributions made to the Society is spent locally.
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College Student
A
Lynne Blankenship of Black Mountain takes time out for a little
guitar playing at a recent Berea College Student Association
retreat at Feltner4-H camp in London, Ky. The retreat was held
to get interested students organized to help set student govern
ment goals for the school year. Lynne, a junior, is a member of
the Berea College Country Dancers, an active member of the pre
ministerial students' association and works as a teaching
associate in Issues and Values, a required course for freshmen.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Blankenship, Jr. of
Black Mountain.
AARP Meeting November 12
The Swannanoa Chapter of the Americcan Association of
Retired Persons will next meet at the Black Mountain Library
Education Room on Friday, Nove mber 12, beginning at 10:00
a.m. Members and visitors are invited to gather at 9:30 for
refreshments and fellowship, Mrs. Carl Persson in charge.
The most interesting program will center around beautiful slide
pictures of our famous Biltmore House and Gardens. Miss
Susanne Brendel has done much curatorial work and historical
research on Biltmore and will present the program. She earned
her Master’s Degree in such work from Columbia University in
New York.
The business meeting will include the election of officers for
1977. The Nominating Committee report was read at the October
meeting. Other officer nominees may be made from the floor if
desired. The new officers will be duly installed during the annual
Christmas luncheon on Friday, December 10, at the Monte Vista
Hotel. Tickets will be available at the November 12 meeting.
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MRS. MARSHALL MOTT
children. When she was about
12 the family moved to
Stilwater, Okla. During her
late teens she was playing
organ in church and teaching
piano while attending the
University there she met
Marshall Lockhart Mott, Jr.,
also a student, and they were
married in 1909 at Amarillo,
Texas.
She had four children, two of
whem are now living, a son,
Marshall I,. Mott III, now a
retired lA. Col. (USA) lives in
Columbus, Ga. with his wife,
Frances. They have one son,
Jackson Taylor Mott, living in
Atlanta, Ga., daughter,
Sanchez Mott Williamson.
At time of the marriage of
Marshall L Mott and Lula
Cole, he was operating a
business school, later he
became salesman which
brought the family back east.
Following his service in WWI
he attended Wake Forest
University and was licensed to
practice law in N.C. and
practiced in Winston-Salem.
The Motts retired to Black
Mountain about 25 years ago.
“Mamma Mott”, as she is
lovingly called by all her
girls? had taught the Dorcas
Culinary Arts Show
Set For Nov. 5-6
Reproduction of a kitchen of
the type used by early settlers
in the mountains will be part
of a heritage booth at the first
Western North Carolina Food
and Culinary Arts Show
Friday and Saturday at the
Asheville Civic Center.
County Agricultural Ex
tension Service Agents and
Extension Homemakers
leaders in Mitchell, Avery and
Yancey counties have joined
in preparation of the heritage
booth where oldtime methods
of perserving food will be
displayed.
Items to be exhibited in the
pioneer kitchen include a 1919
pressure canner, fireplace,
step stove, crock of brined
vegetables, foods dried on
strings and on hanging dryer
above the stove, plus many
examples of foods as
preserved by other methods
used by early settlers.
A home dryer for
vegetables, fruits and herbs,
built by the Rev. James
Bradley of Spruce Pine will be
on display.
The frame for the kitchen
replica was designed and
made by the Mayland
Technical Institute’s light
construction department.
The show is being sponsored
jointly . by Asheville
Buncombe Technical in
stitute, the Asheville Area
Lnamner oi commerce, me
Asheville Tourist Association
and the North Carolina
Agriculture Extension Ser
vice.
The show will feature
displays and live demon
strations^ in many
categories. There will be
open competitions for
restaurant, hotel and motel
cooks, institutional cooks,
student cooks and retail
bakers. Judging will be
conducted by professional
chefs and prizes and cer
tificates will be awarded.
The following 15 Western
North Carolina counties have
been asked to present the
following exhibits for the
show; Macon, yeast breads;
Mitchell, drying; Cherokee
Indian Reservation and
Jackson, herbs; Henderson,
apples; Madison, food
The bagpipe is not originally
Scottish, but Persian.
storage; Transylvania,
nutrition; Haywood,
tomatoes; Avery and Yancey,
heritage booth; Clay, Graham
and Cherokee, potatoes;
Buncombe, dairying, and
Swain, pumpkins and squash.
There will also be com
petition in canned goods,
including fruits, vegetables,
pickles, jams and jellies.
The decorative aspect of the
show will involve six
categories: sugar with cocoa
painting, marzipan, patillage,
artistic creations with breads,
cake decorating, decorating
with meat, fish and fowl,
tallow and butter sculptures
and table settings. All
creations must be made with
edible foods.
M.E. HEAD
Woman’s School Class of the
First Baptist Church for the
past 25 years until her
retirement this year. She was
honored by the past members
of her classes with a huge
bouquet of red roses, placed iit
the church sanctuary last
Sunday in her honor.
Middleton E. Head was the
Grand Old Man of Operation
Youth. He served Operation
Youth from its beginning,
including helping in its for
mation, as chairman of the
board, consultant and fund
raising chairman, for 12 years
until he retired in 1971.
He retired as administrator
of the Montgomery, Ala.
Veteran’s Hospital 17 years
ago. He came to Oteen in 1953
as a patient and he and Mrs.
Head established a home in
Black Mountain early in 1954.
In 1955 he and a group of
other interested men
organized the local Kiwanis
Club. This group became
interested in reforming and
rechartering Scout Troop 25.
This was done.
In 1957 a wave of vandalism
broke out in Black Mountain.
Awnings were cut and many
other things were destroyed.
At this time, Carl Bowness, Ed
Knight, the Rev. Ken Donald
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and Mr . Head were con
sidering a building for the
Scout Troop. They decided
they should not limit its use to
Scouts but should include all
youth in Black Mountain.
They also felt if the young
people were given something
worthwhile to do it would be a
deterrent to delinquency.
Thus Operation Youth was
bom. A local architect drew
up plans for the building, free
of charge. Tom Brown
brought his grader and crew
and scraped and filled the site
donated by the town.
It was first started as a year
round program but the group
soon realized they could not
finance so large an un
dertaking. So they con
centrated on a summer
program.
Mr. Head is still vitally
interested in the community’s
youth and is still working for
them.
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Next week Mr. and Mrs.
Head will be visiting son
Holman Head and family in
Montgomery, Ala. where they
will be joined by their other
son and his wife Mr. and Mrs.
Middleton E. Head, Jr. of
Westerville, Ohio.
In addition to the two
daughters, two sons and their
husbands and wives, Mr. and
Mrs. Head have fourteen
grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
Mrs. Mott and Mr. and Mrs.
Head are very active mem
bers in the First Baptist
Church.
I read once somewhere -
“The beauty and goodness of a
person, if it is there, is always
revealed in their old age.” It is
all personified in these two
Iteautiful, lovely, people who
'adiate true goodness
wherever they go. Happy,
Happy Birthday Dear Ones
Sfou Are So Loved.
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