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The Swannanoa Babe Ruth Bambino division
[[stars won the state championship recentiy as
ndefeated winners of a four-game tourney. They
re. standing. Coach Debbie Reese. Tracy Owensby,
K'm Smiiey, Deanna Young. Renee'Sibbitt. snerry
Foster, Sand! Rice, Angie Stroupe and Coach Wanda
Rainwater. Sitting are Cheryie Harwood, Lisa
Hoiderman, Susan Barry, Lori Rauschenberger,
Sherry Wiiiiams and Rita Scott.
Budget cut hurt schools,
Carver to remain onen
by Dun Ward
A cut in the budget sub
ttted by the Buncombe
idfity Board of Education by
e County Commissioners
ight have heavy effects on
; operation of Swannanoa
alley schoois, but in one case
group of parents and
achers are reiieved.
A number of parents, some
t in aii, of Carver
:hoo)chiidren attended a
leeting of the Buncombe
ounty Board of Com
ussioners Juiy 2t expecting
find Carver Optional Schob!
be one of the items the
commissioners found ex
pendable in the budget When
a breakdown of budget cuts
was returned to the com
missioners bv the schoo!
board on Juiy 24 in a special
work session, Carver was not
on the iist.
However, the !647,887 in
cuts wiii resuit in the loss of
teachers, assistant principals
and other empioyees from
iocai schoois uniess the budget
is restructured
As the budget now stands,
Swannanoa Schooi wouid iose
an aid, an assistant principai
and a cierk, according to Biii
Wiiiiams, the principai in
/RScoiwywtffee
/tears jpro&Zewts
Any North Carohna tax
payer who feels that hi*
^eral tax probtems are not
being promptly resolved
hrough normal channels can
appeat directly to a special
committee set up in the
Greensboro office.
Since the Problem
Resolution Committee was
formed in March, 1977, many
'axpayerk problems have
resolved promptly and ap
propriately. Robert A
LeBaube, !RS District
Director, remarked, "We
handle situations that cannot
be resolved through normal
IRS procedures, or within
normal processing times, ff a
taxpayer has been treated
unfairly or discourteously by
an IRS employee, we want to
hear about it.'
The director added that an
argument with the !RS about a
tax bi)) wouid not be handied
by the Committee, but rather
the taxpayer shouid use the
reguiar fRS appeals
procedures, or go to court
Routine requests for biank
forms or an IRS pubiication
shouid be made on the toii-free
teiephone iine to a taxpayer
assistant
Compiaints can best be
handied by letter ft is im
portant that the taxpayer
furnish the name, address and
sociai security number ap
pearing on the tax return, and
his teiephone number so the
!RS can contact him when
necessary The mailing ad
dress for the committee is:
Probiem Resoiution Com
mittee, PO. Box 2054i.
Greensboror, N C. 27420
PoMce Report
A representative of Paving
Enterprises, inc of Arden has
Sported that one of its yeMow
and green dumptrucks, vaiued
at ttooo, was stoien from an
fea near construction of the
M bridge east of Biack
iountain.
Ehe truck, stoien the night of
**uiy iH. has not yet been
Covered,said Jim Wiseman,
assistant Biack Mountian.
Police Chief
Black Mountain Police
issued three speeding
citations and arrested two for
public drunkenness last week
They responded to an accident
on US 70 east, and answered
t06 calls
Officer Randy Halford is
gone to Greenville for a three
week school on traffic ac
cidents
addition, the school would lose
federal funds if these positions
no longer exist, he said
However, he added that he
expects the Board of
Education to revise the
budget so that no existing
positions are dropped or
programs discontinued.
Gene Dellinger, principal of
Black Mountain Grammar
School, said that school stood
to lose a music teacher if the
budget is unrevised.
Melissa Thomas, principal
of Carver Optional School,
said she "wouid not have been
greatly surprised' to find
Carver on the list of
eliminated programs, but that
the school still may lose
teacherk aids and supply
money
Leonard Keever, principal
of Black Mountain Primary
School, said he would not know
how that school would be
effected until an individual
budget for the school came
out
Fred Martin, superin
tendent of schools, said that
the school board was
especially opposed to the
portion of budget cuts they
had drawn up calling for
elimination of employees as
necessary in order to meet the
budget given them and fund a
two per cent pay raise for
school personnel, as granted
by the board of com
missioners
He had been expecting at
that time, on July 25, that the
commissioners would allocate
additional funds to eliminate
the need to fire personnel On
July 26, the commissioners
rejected a request from the
school board for extra funds,
but promised to consider the
schools in the event any
windfaiis from taxes or
revenue sharing came to the
county.
Funding for the new $3.5
million Swannanoa
Elementary School was
provided two weeks ago and is
not affected by the schools
operation budget.
by Dan Ward
Herb Moore, director of the
Aicohoiic Rehabiiitation
Center (ARC) in Mach
Mountain has been fired by
Secretary of the Department
of Human Resources Sarah
Morrow.
Dr. Morrow confirmed from
her Raleigh office that a
decision had been made
between her and Dr N.P.
Zarzar, director of the
Division of Mental Heaith, on
Juiy 22 to fire Moore as of July
31. She said Moore was fired
for "not providing the
leadership we felt was
necessary.'
Specifically, Dr Morrow
said, Moore was terminated
because he called a press
conference to puMicly an
nounce his oppostion to an
amendment to the State
Personnel Act exempting
administrative personnel and
employees with less than five
years state service from
protection of the act.
The termination was no
surprise to Moore, who was
expected to hold another press
conference July 27 to an
nounce receipt of a ter
mination notice, plans to
establish an organization to
fight the constitutionality of
the State Personnel Act
amendment, and the
resignation of Dr. N.A.
Desrosiers, ARC director for
Ciinicai Services
Moored successor will be
William Perry Johnston, who
is a former resident of the
Swannanoa Vaiiey and is
presentiy an assistant to the
Comptroller in Raleigh
Although Moore withheld
comment on Johnston, he said
that the state "cannot hire a
qualified hospital ad
ministrator for this job.'
Morrow said that by an
nouncing his dissent to
department policy publicly,
Moore was "biting the hand
that feeds him' and un
dermining a smooth
relationship within the
department. Morrow said that
criticism is welcome from
state employees, but should
come through the proper
channels.
Moore provided copies of
letters from him and another
administrator to Drs. Morrow
and Zarzar indicating that
they found the lack of job
security created by the new
amendment to be hurting
morale among state em
ployees. Moore cited the
resignation of Geraldine King,
ARC business manager, as an
outgrowth of that ill feeling.
Moore said that receiving no
response from those letters,
and the lack of any com
promise from Gov. Jim Hunt*
office in negotiations with the
North Caroiina State Em
pioyees Association, who were
working to modify the effects
of the amendment, convinced
him that nothing couid be
accompiished through normai
channels.
Another reason Dr. Morrow
gave for MooreA termination
was that he faiied to compiy
with a directive to file a public
personal economic report
Moore showed a letter in
dicating that he filed the
report, but attached a
statement that it was not to be
made public unless he was
accused of a conflict of in
terest The report was
returned as unacceptable.
Moore said he will work to
prove that the economic in
terest report for ad
ministrators is an invasion of
privacy.
Moore said that an
organisation called "Citizens
for Equity in Public Em
ployment'is being formed in
Raleigh for those "who would
like to do what I did, but were
afraid to" to fight the State
Personnel Act amendment in
federal courts. Moore said the
organization would take
anonymous donations from
state employees and publish
advertisements and financial
reports regularly to assure its
credibility
ARC clinical chief,
Desrosiers, resigns
Moore has maintained that
the amendment was created
by Gov. Hunti office as a
means of eiiminating party
hacks from the previous
administration. The effect,
however, has been to cause
professional empioyees and
dedicated empioyees without
party affiliation concern that
they may lose their jobs for
political reasons, Moore said.
He added that he thought the
governor was using tax
dollars to pay political debts
by replacing former ad
ministration appointment!
with his own.
Dr Mc.-row said the intent
of the amendment was not
political, but was only to make
firing of goidbricks in state
jobs as simple as in private
business.
Hie amendment to the State
Personnel Act, in effect,
makes it possibie for ad
ministrators and persons with
iess than five years ex
perience to be fired directiy
from Raieigh without a
hearing before peers.
by Dan Ward
Norman A. Desrosiers,
ciinicai director of the
Aicohoiic Rehabiiitation
Center (ARC) has resigned as
of Juiy 31 as a resuit of what
he described as "patient care
giving way to poiiticsf
Desrosiers, who headed
Ciinieai Services at the ARC
for eight months and has
worked for the state for 20
years, cited the imminent
change in programs designed
by him and Herb Moore,
recentiy fired director of the
ARC; the job insecurity of
being placed on the State
Empioyee Act "exempt list!
"Invasion of privacy'in being
required to make puMic his
persona) finances: and his
oppostion to the
"five-year ruiel which
requires a state empioyee to
work five years before ob
taining protection of the State
Personnei Act, as reasons for
his resignation.
In his tetter of resignation to
Moore, Dr Desrosiers wrote,
"Not oniy I, but the whole
Western Regional Aicohoiism
Program grieves to see a
legitimately evolving treat
ment philosophy go down the
drain. ! grieve the loss of 10
years of professional in
vestment in the field.'
HERB MOORE in the office at the AicohoMc
Rehabiiitation Center that he must ieave Juiy 31.
(Dan Ward)
Project on Aging begins
Family Counseling Service
for Buncombe County has
received state funds to begin a
Project on Aging.
The purpose of the project is
to provide an outreach service
to the aging population of
Buncombe County with focus
Lafe RZoowers c^ay
by Matsu Crawford
Never let it be said that iate
bloomers-both flowers and
persons-cannot put on a
flower show worthy of the
name On Wednesday July 20,
at Highland Farms in the Arts
and Crafts Room they did just
that.
Flower displays for halls,
tea tables and living rooms
were especially lovely, two of
them showing decided
Japanese influence Nelle
9tanger won first prise in this
division: Helen Black,
second; Bessie Zemow, third
In the tea table
arrangements. Natalie
Benjamin won first. Hazel
May Snyder, second; Helen
Day won third
In the living room division,
Nelle Stanger, first; Zillah
White, second; and Bessie
Zemow, third
Annuals, perennials and
buibs were displayed as single
blossoms or in smail con
tainers Bessie Zemow came
first in the buibs display, Anna
Limbert won first in the bottle
display; and Lucy
Willmot won second place
With perennials. Katherine
Huff won first prize, and Hazel
May Snyder, second
In class two, Allen Stanger
and Giadys Ebersole scored.
Class three of perennials,
Mildred Morse, Gladys
Ebersole and Jessie Woodson
won the the three top scores.
Late bloomers - Zennias and
marigolds were chief singles
displayed In this group of
annuals, Allan Stanger and
Mildred and Elsie'scored.
With the hardy and colorful
Zennias, Elsie Hamilton,
first; Allen Stanger second
and third
Mildred Hunter took first
prize with marigolds, Allen
Stanger again came second
and third.
Ellen Penfound won a blue
ribbon for a minature
arrangement of snapdragons.,
Zillah White came second with
an arrangement of candituft
In a fifth class-minature
arrangements-Helen Sechrist
won first prize, Dorothy
Davies second, Gladys
Ebersole third
In the pot plants division,
grouped according to types of
plants, first places were
awarded Harriet Hayn, Jane
Bagley, Margaret Davis, Lucy
Willmott, Jane Armstrong,
Anna Limbert and Mildred
Hunter
Second winners were Edna
Howells, Jesse Woodson,
Pauiine Wyant, Natalie
Benjamin and Pauiine Wyant.
Third winners were Mary
Fry, Jane Bagiey, H Burnam,
Luciiie Forest and Jane Arm
strong.
Competition in the african
vioiet division was keen:
Mabie Aiiem won first, Bob
Hodged second, Hazei May
Snyder won third
Kenneth Owenby won first
in hanging baskets, Jane
Bagiey, second; W H Waiter
won third
For the most beautifui patio
of Brookside apartments the
Cari Hayns won biue ribbon,
the Piumieys, second and the
Piimieys, third
The Rex Davies won biue
ribbon. Kim Bryant, second,
the Wyants, third-in the
patios of the Roadside Apts,
Heien Day won first prize of
the Deck Apts . Katherine
Ward came second, Jane
Whitmire won third
The Flower Show com
mittee. with Ruth Capps, the
experienced chairman did an
expert job The dispiays were
artisticaity arranged about
the room There were many
comments about the ioveiy
paintings of our artists. Angie
Wright, and how much they
enhanced the beauty of the
flowers on display
Judges for the display in
arts and crafts room were
Eileen Moss. Shirley Turner,
and Frances Heath
Judges for patios and decks
were Harriet Styies and Mrs
Ferry Stone
on tow-income individuate and
members of the Mach com
munity, but not timited to
those categories.
The goats of the project are
to provide friendty visiting
services to persons HO or otder
to provide company and hetp
them regain contact with the
outside wortd, arrange for
services such ss tran
sportation and to put them into
contact with helping
organizations.
Referrals may be made by
caiiing the project on Aging
office at the Alien Center in
Asheville, 253-9311.
Family Counseling Service
is a non profit agency.
Black Mountain
police needs
top priorties
Biack Mountain haa been
chosen as the site of two
priorities in Law Enforcement
Administration (LEAA)
funds, as chosen by Land-of
Sky Regional Council.
For the first time since Law
Enforcement Assistance
Administration programs
began in 1970. iocai iaw en
forcement officiate and
eiected officials in Region B
were abie to establish
priorities for use of LEAA
funds The Criminal Justice
Advisory Committee met on
May H and recommended
prioriUea for a projected
$153,385 tn avaiiabte funda.
The priority listing met the
required legislative set aside
for juvenile justice of $38 344
and the minimum for
corrections programs of
$15,339. The Council adopted
the Committee recom
mendations on June 23
Thirteen continuation projects
were given top priority and
seven new projects were
added.
The priority list includes:
Priority
4
17
19
Project
Group Home - Buncombe
County
Investigator Black
Mountain
Dispatch personnel - Black
Mountain
Crime Lab Update Aaheville
Buncombe County
Training Buncombe County
Crimea Against the Elderly -
Land - of Shy Regional
Council