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Thursday, November 18, 1976, Vol. 32, Number 7
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Carver School
Variety Show
To Star
Billy Edd Wheeler
A Country Variety Show
starring Billy Edd Wheeler,
playwright, poet, songwriter,
singer and musician “who
sings for his supper,” will be
presented at Carver Optional
School on Friday evening
November 19 at 7 p.m. The
show will be emceeded by Bill
Norwood (Mr. Bill) of WLOS
TV.
Wheeler, a graduate of
Warren Wilson College, Berea
College and Yale School of
Drama, is a native of West
Virginia.
He has written four plays
that received national ac
claim: Hatfields and McCoys,
an outdoor drama, still run
ning in Beckley, W. VA.; Fire
On the Mountain, Ode TO A
Critter and The Great John
Brown which premiered this
summer at Harper’s Ferry,
Virginia. He is the author of a
book, Song Of A Wood’s Colt,
has made numerous albums
and has appeared on many
T.V. shows including the
Today Show, The Grand (Me
Opry, and Camegie Hall to
name a few.
He has had many hit songs,
chart songs and popular
songs: Jqckson, High Flyin
Bird, The Coming Of the
Hoads, Th* Rev. Mr. Black.
Desert Pete, Sin, Odd To The
little Brown Shack Out Back,
Coal Tattoo, Blistered, Winter
Sky, I Ain’t Buyin, Baby’s
Smile-Woman Kiss, A Baby
Again, Blue Roses, Ain’t
Going Home Soon, It’s Mid
night and others...(As
recorded by Johnny Cash,
Nancy Sinatra, Judy Collins,
The Kingston Trio, Bobby
Darin, Hank Snow, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Faron Young, Loretta
Lynn, Flatt & Scruggs, The
Association, Ritchie Havens,
Merle Haggard, Hank Snow,
Elvis Presley and others.
Rounding out the Show will
be appearances by the Blue
Shadows Band; a number of
musicians, sing ersand dan
cers from Warren Wilson
College including Reed Smith
who makes and plays Ham
mer Dulcimer and Sam
Scoville, Academic Dean, who
plays a mean banjo.
The entertainment will also
include parents, teachers,
students and community
volunteers doing square
dancing, clogging, singing,
acting and as our informant
stated “Come see your friends
make a fool of themselves.!”
Prior to the show, beginning
at 6 p.m., there will be a Bake
Sale and Baiaar. Tickets will
be available at the door.
Since the Carver Optional
School is our new school they
need many things including
new play ground equipment.
The proceeds from the show
will be used, towards this and
other projects.
The students, teachers and
parents extend a cordial in
vitation to you to visit the
school, see the show and enjoy
the Bazaar. They promise you
great entertainment.
Contract Let To
Complete I - 40 East
To Ridgecrest
The North Carolina Board of
Transportation awarded the
contract for the completion of
construction of 4.2 miles of
paving on Interstate 40 from .3
miles southeast of the
Swannanoa interchange to .3
miles southwest of N.C. 9 at
Black Mountain. The contract
was awarded to Asheville
Paving Co.
The bid was $2,308,937.95,
almost $600,000 below the state
estimate. Seven other firms
bid on the project.
Highway Administrator
Billy Rose said completion
of that project will open 1-40
east to Ridgecrest. All that
will remain, he said, will be
about six miles of upgrading
east to Old Fort.
Valley Happenings.P. 2
Social Happenings.P. 6 & 7
Warhorses - Champs . . . .P. 10 & 11
Classified Ads.P> 13
BLUE RIDGE LAKE serves as a mirror to reflect nature's beauty and wonderland. (A David Peele Photo)
Local Author’s Book On Alcohalism
In Demand fly Executives
Dr. Guy Philip Moore, a
resident of Swannanoa has
recently completed and had
published a book titled
“Managements’.Approach To
Alcoholism.” |(j
Doctoral dissertations are
not normally known for their
appeal to readers outside
academic circles.
That alone makes Dr.
Moore’s work somewhat
unusual since the book is in
growing demand among
company personnel
executives as well as various
governmental agencies. It
already has been made a text
for first and second level
supervisors for the Bureau of
Indian Affairs in the western
part of this country.
Dr. Moore is a 1966 graduate
of the University of North
Carolina at Asheville (then
Asheville-Biltmore College)
who last August received his
Ph. D from the University of
Alabama.
For almost six years, he was
director of psychological
services of the Alcoholic
Rehabilitation Center at Black
Mountain and currently is an
industry consultant both In the
areas of supervisory training
and development and in
alcoholism in indiBtry both in
the Atlanta area and Western
North Carolina. At the outset,
Dr. Moore provides a few
facts about the problem of
alcoholism which are
guaranteed to get the at
tention of many personnel
officers for. industry.
His figures, which may well
be conservative, show nine
million alcoholics in the nation
of which over five million are
employed. Anywhere from
five to eight per cent of the
employes in a representative
work force suffer from the
illness, adding a staggering 25
per cent to payroll costs in
nonproductive expenditures.
Those costs, he feels, show
up in higher absenteeism,
poor performance, lower
production, higher turnover
and training costs and in
creasing accidents and illness.
What’s more, the illness is
spreading, “cutting across
social and economic lines to
affect every stratum of our
society. It imposes costs- both
financial and human- that our
society cannot afford to pay.”
Dr. Moore provides an
“Administrative Model for
Alcoholism Programming
which provides enough
flexibilty to be adapted by any
size industry or government
agency, noting options which
have been used successfully in
various states and even in the
U.S. Navy. The guidelines of
the National Institute of
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
are noted as a basis for
evaluation including
emergency care, both out
patient and inpatient services
and follow up.
One item is of interest.
While nothing the many
governmental programs
aimed at curbing and
rehabilitating the alcoholic,
Dr. Moore notes the
professional consensus in the
field is that “no program in
either the public or the private
sector has a “track record"
for success equalling that of
Alcoholics Anonymous. The
combination of religious force
and peer group pressure it
provides, delivered by
recovered alcoholics who can
empathize with the alcoholic
because they have “been
there” themselves, renders
Alcoholics Anonymous
peculiarly enecuve,
The author feels no program
will reach peak effectiveness
unless there is an opportunity
afforded for involvement in
AA both as part of the treat
ment and as follow-up ac
tivity.
Even before publication,
this work received recognition
from others in the area of
alcoholism rehabilitation.
Ashton Brisolara, executive
director of the Greater New
Orleans Alcoholism & Drug
Program and president of the
Southern Community
Executive Assoc., called Dr.
Moore’s book "A definitive
new work in the field. It offers
something of value to every
program and every ad
ministrator.”
Dr. Moore is married to the
former Joyce Martin of
Swannanoa and they and their
two children Christi and Jeff
reside on Harrison Ave. in
Swannanoa.
He is well known by folks in
the Valley and is a charter
member of the Swannanoa
Valley Lions Club.
Baptist Church Site
Community Thanksgiving Service
The Annual Community
Thanksgiving Service will be
held Wednesday evening
November 24 beginning at 7:30
p.m. at the First Baptist
Church, on Montreat Road, in
Black Mountain.
The Rev. Harwood Myers,
pastor of the Black Mountain
United Methodist Church will
bring the message. Special
music will be rendered by the
First Baptist Church Choir
under the direction of Allen
Cantrell. Other ministers
NOTICE
The Black Mountain News will be
operating on a Holiday Schedule next
week.
All news copy and ads must be in the
office by 12 Noon Monday.
We will be calling on our Advertisers
Friday and Monday.
This is in order that our subscribers
can receive their papers on Wed
nesday prior to Thanksgiving
Thank you,
The News Staff
participating are Frederick
Gordon, M. Elmore Turner,
Richard Shelor, Neils Larsen,
Edgar Ferrell and Neal
Wyndham.
As has been the custom in
the past the offering will go to
support the Churches
Emergency Aid To Tran
sients. This is a needed
ministry and the united effort
of the churches simplifies the
approach to the problem and
makes the ministry more
effective.
Symbolic Tree
Committee Named
The full membership of the
community tree project
committee in charge of the
effort toget everybody to plant
sourwood trees to beautify and
symbolize the town and area
has now been named, it was
reported today.
Albert Garland, Mrs. Ruth
Brandon, Albert Miles, Mrs.
R. T. Greene, Gary Ball and
Perry Stone have accepted
appointments to serve with
Mrs. Harriet Styles, chair
person. The group was to meet
Tuesday night to make plans
and delegate responsibilities.
The committee is expected to
make available for sale small
specimens of sourwoods at a
reasonable price in the early
future.
One civic club anticipates
the delivery of a shipment of
small sourwood trees today. A
part of them will be given to
the town for planting on public
property.
Plane Crash In
Broad River Area
B-tlls Three
A plane crashed in the Broad River
krfi nn" ?Pproximate|y 12 noon Tuesday
killing all three persons aboard.
Special Rescue Search Team
of the Black Mountain Volunteer Rescue
Squad was called and were assembled and
ready for action at 1:46. They had already
moved into the general vicinity. Y
The Civil Air Patrol plane searching in
the area spotted something on the ground at
approximately 2:20. but lost sight of it. It
WaS+Krel°Cc?ed at about 15 minutes later
north of Stone Mountain Church near Old
The Rescue Search Team found three
persons D.O.A. and were standing by at 4- 00
p.m. awaiting arrival of the County Medical
Examiner before the bodies could be
moved.
The names of the victims and the identity
of the plane were with held at press time
until next of kin could be notified.
Yule Parade
Dec. 3rd In
Blach Mountain
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The Hack Mountain annual
Christirtas parade* will march
down UvS. 70 from the 03-.' . ..d
to the west end of the town
beginning 3:30 p.m. on bee. 3
Some of the participants
already signed up include
marching ROTC units from
McDowell High School, the
Enka High School Band, Boy
Scout Troops, children from
Black Mountain Grammar
School impersonating elves
and teachers dressed as
clowns.
Susan Proffitt, a native of
Black Mountain and Miss
North Carolina of 1976, will
also join in the local parade.
A floating Christmas tree on
the town’s Lake Tomahawk
and street <t^po ratios
provided by city mercW$#
will oe displayed on the
parade day.
The Black Mountain
Chamber of Commerce ex
pects more than 300 par
ticipants in this year’s parade.
Anyone desiring to enter
should contact the Black
Mountain Chamber of Com
merce by phoning 669-2300 in
the morning aor 669-8463.
The section of U.S. 70 from
the east end of Black Moun
tain to the city hall will be
closed to traffic from about
3:15 to 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 3.
Chamber Of Commerce
Elects New Directors
The Black Mountain
Swannanoa Chamber of
Commerce elected to the
Board of Directors for 1977 the
following persons: Marcus
Begley, Lee Clapp, Jack
Clevenger, Dr. Bob Dickey,
the Rev. Edgar Ferrell, Harry
Hyder, Ed Miracle, Mayor
Margaret Slagle, C. T. Sobol,
Jr., Congressman Roy Taylor,
A. F. Tyson and John
Woodcock.
Gordon Greenwood and Ken
McAnear were also elected to
the Board but declined to
accept as they felt they could
not faithfully attend the
scheduled meetings. Both
expressed their sincere ap
preciation for the confidence
and support shown them.
The twelve directors will
meet to appoint three ad
ditional directors, the fifteen
will comprise the entire
Chamber Board from which
its officers will be elected.
Congressional
Award Presented
To Taylor
U. S. Rep. Roy A. Taylor has
been presented the 1976
National Congressional
Award by the National
Recreation and Parks
Association (NRPA).
The award was given for his
services while chairman of the
House Subcommittee on
National Parks and
Recreation.
He received it at the opening
general session of the annual
Congress for Recreation and
Parks in Boston, Mass., which
was attended by more than
7,000 delegates involved in
different aspects of parks,
recreation and leisure
management nationwide.
NRPA Award Committee
Chairman Robert Toalson
said. '‘Taylor’s record while
sub-cominitlec chairman will
be a model for years to come.
The personal conviction on the
importance of public park and
recreation programs for all
citizens has and will benefit
the nation in perpetuity.”
As chairman, Taylor
sponsored legislation im
proving and expanding the
nation’s recreation estate.
These programs include
creation of a national wild and
scenic rivers system: creation
of a national trails system;
and numerous individual units
of the national park system.
Taylor also helped sponsor
amendments to the l*and and
Water Conservation Fund Act,
the principal source of federal
revenues used to acquire and
develop Rational, state and
local park and recreation
resources.