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[Thursday, October 13, 1977. Vol. 33. No. 52
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^ Black Mountain
* Swannanoa
* Montreat
* Ridgecrest
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Arp Truck rides were the high tight of the Biack
Huntain Fire Department Open House on Sunday.
Emergency equipment was on dispiay for the
parents to observe. (Dan Ward)
] Open house draws 200
total of 378 persons at
}d an open house held at
Black Mountain Fire
R October 9 in honor of
Prevention Week,
reman Steve King
ribed it as "one of the
Mi crowds we've ever had
i open house' included in
the festivities were rides on a
fire truck hr almost 200
children. Hors d oeurves of
cookies and soda were served
to visitors in the upstairs
living quarters
The Fire Department pians
to continue in observing Fire
Prevention Week by holding
fireman Gary Barttett checks the rear-view
f or as he pniis out with a truckioad of kids. (Dan
frd)
fire drills at schools and
plants around Black Moun
tain.
The department was called
out four times last week.
On Octoh— 6. one truck and
17 men were called to check
out and stand by an oil leak
from a furnace at a residence
on Mecklenburg Circle in
Montreat. No damage was
reported.
On October 7 morning, one
truck and 10 men took part in a
search for missing person in
the Dogwood Manor area.
That person was found.
Also on that day, two trucks
and 17 men stood by at a
controlled burning on NC 9
and one truck and 17 men
answered a report, an
overheated stove at luO
Walker St No damage was
reported.
The fire department am
bulance made two routine and
two emergency runs. Bun
combe County Ambuiance
made 21 routine, 6 emergency
and was not needed on two
runs.
Swannanoa Fire
Swannanoa Volunteer nre
Department personnel and 22
citizens completed a 45-hour
advanced first aid class
taught by Asheviiie
Buncombe Technical Institute
on October 5.
On October 6, rescue squad
personnel responded to the
Abby Scott residence to assist
a person who had failen. No
injuries were reported.
The Fire Department Board
of Directors will meet at 7:30
pm. on October 13.
Barry Roberts has been
named Fireman of the Month.
He lives with his wife, Debbie,
and daughter, Stephanie, at
737 E. Hospital Rd. on the JEC
campus.
The department urges
everyone to begin fire
prevention habits during Fire
Prevention Week. (See page
2)
CoMitts robbed
of $915 cosh
An unidentified thief took
!913 out of an unlocked cash
drawer during Collins
Department Store' s sale
October !, police reported.
No store employees have
been able to identify the
person who entered the store
around 5:30 p.m. by the back
door and took the cash.
Black Mountain Poiice took
77 calls last week, issued 11
traffic citations and
responded to a traffic accident
in which there were no in
juries.
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Moaatab).
RaaaTaytor, manager at tne
Black Mountain Goil Courae,
haaMeilfor the office <*
alderman In Black Mountain
Bent!ey Leonard, an
attorney, has fiied for the
office of aider man in
Biack Mountain.
John AbMsethy h*< Med for
the office of aMermaa ia
Moa treat
[ !%fer pro6Ze7ws
E hvTt— tn?—t
& The Black Mountain Town
* Board was expected to meet
* October 12 at 7 p.m. to hold a
workshop on the some im
mediate proposals to make
the water department more
efficient.
Included in those proposals,
„ introduced by Aid. John
Mundy, were those to bill
water users bimonthly, read
) meters bimonthly, charge
' seasonal users a minimum
charge and charge an average
for users with broken meters.
The board was also ex
pected to discuss whether
town water hookup is implied
when granting building
permits or whether building
permits should not be issued
until the town' s water
problems are solved. The
board voted to grant taps to
those builders now having
permits and to bill them from
the day the tap is connected.
Various decisions to be
made by the board Wednesday
were to hinge on a meeting
with Asheville water officials
on the possibility of Biach
Mountain purchasing
Asheviile water an on a
regular basis. Plans for the
workshop were made at the
regular meeting of the Town
Board on October 10.
Street Cbsiags
At the board meeting, the
board also voted to close Lake
Avenue, and Fifth Street in
places petitioned by residents.
The board also agreed to hold
a public hearing on November
9 on a petition to close an
alleyway off of West View
Street.
Pollution program
A slide presentation was
given by a representative of
the League of Women Voters
on the need for citizens to help
avoid non-point pollution or
littering, pesticide run off and
soil erosion.
Water petitien
The board heard a petition
from about 15 persons to
supply adequate and clean
water. Mayor Margaret
Slagle pointed out that the
current water crisis is a
priority for the board. Water
Supervisor A! White said that,
unless it rains heavily soon,
the town has only three weeks
of usabie water left in its
reservoir.
Extraterritorial niBe
The board voted to go ahead
with a recommendation from
the Planning Board to im
plement the town's Sub
division Ordinance. A copy of
the ordinance will be filed with
the Registrar of Deeds for the
county and a map of the town's
jurisdiction wiU be drawn.
Track bid accepted
The board accepted low bid
from Matthews Ford for a
truck hr the town Street
Department.
jRarff/tree;
Long range goals
by Dm Ward
Ed. Nete-TMs article la the
hath a aerie* os Stack
Mountain' a water problems
and suggested aoiutioaa. This
article wtB deal with tong
range ptanning for the town.
With the passage of the
Clean Water Act. one of the
three tong-term aitemativea
suggested to the town haa been
all but ruled out. The Clean
Water Act requires that all
municipal water be filtered.
Town Manager Jon Creighton
has estimated that the cost of
constructing a water filtration
plant in Black Mountain would
cost (1.5 million.
In 1975, before passage of
the act, Cummings
Engineering suggested three
alternatives in bringing water
supply for the town up to
health and fire protection
safety levela-as well as meet
future demand.
Those alternatives were (1)
buy water from Asheville, at
no initial construction cost
since the town already is
connected to that system in
two places, (2) use water
taken from the Swannanoa
River, at an ititial con
struction cost Of (1.53 million
for filtration and rhlm-in«ti<n,
facilities, and (3) drill 30 wells
at a cost of (552,000. The third
alternative does not include
the cost of building filtration
facilities, which would bring
its Construction COSt to (2
million. Pumping charges for
ground water would also be
considerably higher than from
the Swannanoa River.
Creighton said that.
following recent recom
mendations from Cummings
Engineering, the town will
probably pursue an
agreement with the City of
Asheville to buy water that is
already treated and filtered.
Negotiations are already
under way as to wholesale cost
to the town of Black Mountain.
Whatever water source is
chosen, either aspects of the
town's system need
upgrading.
Cummings recommended
construction of an a<M(tinn.)
500,000 gallon reservoir for the
town. The engineers a!*"
suggested purchasing an
additional site to build another
large reservoir in the future to
accommodate growing water
needs. Since those recom
mendations have been made,
the town's only large storge
reservoir, holding 165,000
gallons, has been closed by I
40 construction. Creighton
said long-term plans now rat!
for construction of a 1 miiiinn
gallon reservoir. Cummings
suggested building the
reservoir either next to the
existing Jeanie Avenue.
Reservoir on the the north side
of town or on the south side
near Dalton Street.
Cummings suggested in
stalling a 10-inch "backbone*
line up NC 9 and Montreat
Road and on up North Fork
Road to connect with the
Asheville water system at
Oconeechee Street. Such a
line would generally improve
water pressure throughout
town, connect the two
proposed reservoir sites, and
orovide a higher pressure
Steve Aceto he* (Bed for the
office of eidemmn ha Moa
treet.
Andy Andrew! hn< entered the
mce ter nMermnn tn Men
trent.
hookup with the Asheviiie
water system.
Part of the "backbone* was
instated by the Department of
Transportation when NC 9 was
John Bradley
.Strays; %?etrare of yuan
by Dan Ward
John Bradley has what ]
many people consider the t
least enviable job in the world. 1
He is Animal Control Officer (
for the town of Black Moun- 1
tain, or more aimply-the
dogcatcher. (
Until Bradley was hired t
three months ago, the strays (
problem In Black Mountain s
was one of the most emotional 1
and long-lived crises in the a
town' s history. An an- 1
ticlimactic calm prevails now i
that Bradley is on the job.
Compliments have hardly t
been heaped on Bradley for a
having removed about 00 dogs c
and 30 cats from the streets of
Black Mountain.
"I've had a few,*he said. "I'
ve also had a few that weren't
compliments, too. One fella
told me he'd put ME in the
cage.'
"A tot of people cetl with
dogs, cats I pick up-but there'
s a lot I catch, too,*he said. T
ve gotten as high as sis in one
day, and 30 in a week.'
Bradley cruises the streets
in an oid Water Department
pickup truck, varying his
hours so that owners won't
think they can tet their
animals romp when he is off
duty. His uniform is simply a
set of workman's khakis,
which created a problem when
one woman thought that he
was trying to steal, not im
pound. her neighbor's dog.
The main tool of Bradley's
trade Is a choke stick, a five
foot pole with a cable noose at
the end. As cruel as it looks, it
is usually used to guide a dog
into a cage. Bradley said he
has only once tightened the
cable enough to hurt a dog-a
particularly mean one
"I'm no villain, he said. "I
like dogs. I had one until I
moved here, but I had to give
it up because 1 didn't have a
fence and I didnt want to chain
it.'
By far, most of the animals
Bradley catches are
ownerless strays. Only five
animals he has caught have
t/F0?
News staff member Charlie Tayior was surprised to
fmd an airborne object other than a free-floating
weather baiioon was captured by his camera last
week. He said he did not see anything other than
die baiioon through his iens when he took the pic
ture. but what could either be a diving bird or a
Hying saucer aiso got in the act.
tom up to build 1-40. Com
pletion of the south segment to
State Street is now one of the
highest priority water
projects for the town.
Creighton said.
Cummings also suggested
Continued on page 12
*en claimed at the antm.)
heiter in Asheville. He said
ie has occasionally chased a
bg home and told its owners
o keep it fenced in.
Many of the animals he
ransports to the Asheville
heiter are wild cats and dogs
aught by citizens in traps
upplied by the town. On
riday, Bradley had two very
cruffy wild cats in the back of
is truck that had been caught
t such a trap.
Those animals Bradley
atches are kept at the animal
heiter for seven days. If
wners do not claim them by
then, the animals are either
killed or kept a abort time
longer, depending upon their
edoptabllity. Owners may
pick up their animals after
paying a fine of (19, a 91 or (9
license fee, and a $1 per per
day boarding fee.
Not only have pickin' a
gotten slimmer for Bradiey
since he became animal
control officer, but those
strays that are left are star
ting to recognize him.
"One fella told me, they're
getingtoknowyounow. Look
at that one hiding behind the
tree over there,'he said.