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Thursday, June 22, 1978, Vol. 24, No. 35 1
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1-40 to open
by Friday
Secretary of the NC
Apartment of Transportation
DOT) has notified Ed Weber,
nanager of the Swannanoa
falley Chamber of Com
nerce, that the section of 1-40
lypassing Swannanoa and
Hack Mountain will be open to
nterstate traffic on June 30.
According to Weber, the
taleigh office said that the
ection would be opened
lefore the July 4 holiday, even
hough some guardrails may
lot yet be installed.
iFred Pennell, assistant
lesident engineer in
Uevillle, said that the DOT
pd been planning to open the
Ection June 30, but that the
opening hinged on whether the
contractor, Asheville Paving,
had completed repairing
fencing, putting up signs, and
installing guardrails. A
representative of Asheville
Paving said that the work
should be done by June 30 if
the weather permits.
According to Weber, who
has been urging the DOT to
have work completed by the
holidays, the new section of
interstate highway will be
formally dedicated a week
after it is open to traffic.
Last July 4, traffic was
backed up several miles in
each direction of Black
Mountain.
Sourwood fest
set for
August 9-12
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> subcommittee of the
innanoa Valley Chamber
Commerce last week
ilized more plans and st*. a
e for the Swannanoa Valley
irwood Festival, to be held
gust 9 - 12.
ncluded in the four-day
ent will be a parade, arts
d crafts fair, booths for
'ic organizations and ad
rtisers, a softball game
tween civic organizations,
uare dancing nightly
rluding a dance in Swan
noa, a golf tournament, a
rimming and diving meet, a
rseshoe pitching com
tition, and an ice cream
wn party sponsored by local
isinesses.
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According to subcommittee
chairman Carl Bartlett, the
Chamber is considering
holding a marathon run from
Swannanoa to Black Mountain
and a bar-b-que supper as part
of the festivities.
Bartlett also said that if the
event is a success, the
Chamber hopes to hold a
formal dress ball next year.
The Black Mountain
Swannanoa Jaycees will be
setting up booths used
previously for the Medical
Center Fair and will rent them
to interested parties for the
second two days of the
Sourwood Days Festival.
Proceeds from the Jaycee
booths will go to Muscular
Dystrophy.
Residents of the JEC scoured Old US 70 for litter
during Valley Cleanup Day June 17. (More photos
inside) (Dan Ward)
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Cleanup Day draws
large turnout
by Dan Ward
Civic groups, businessmen
and a detail of volunteer
residents of the Juvenile
Evaluation Center turned out
for an intensive one-day
cleanup of the Valley June 17.
While results seemed to
have little effect on the overall
appearance of the Valley,
brigades of volunteers ap
parently made an impact on
some individuals who took
part in home or roadside
cleanups of their own.
A handfull of Veterans of
Foreign Wars picked up a
number of bags of trash
around Lake Tomahawk and
along Craigmont Road in
Black Mountain. About 16
residents of the Juvenile
Evaluation Center, motivated
in part by the prospect of a
burger and soda each, picked
up trash along Old US 70 from
the Swannanoa bridge to
Black Mountain. Cottage
parent Ronnie Crane
organized the group.
Residents of Highland
Board wavers on mixed drinks here
by Clint Williams
One of the two methods of
calling for a referendum to
decide whether mixed
beverages will be allowed
within a local ABC district is
for the governing body of that
district (the Town Council in
the case of Black Mountain) to
make a request to the Board of
Elections. A recent poll of the
Black Mountain Board of
Alderman, including the
mayor, would seem to indicate
that a different route to the
referendum may have to be
taken, if Black Mountain is to
have mixed beverages.
Mayor Tom Sobol said that
he had heard a “rumor” that
the town council would be
receiving a petition requesting
a referendum to decide the
mixed beverage question. “If
Vfc feel'a petition. 'Sdfeol said,
“we’re obligated to give the
people an opportunity to
decide.” Sobol went on to say,
however, that if there was no
request, there would be no
action.
Aid. Jim Norton declined to
comment, saying that he
would like “a little more
knowledge on the subject’ ’
before making a statement.
Aid. John Kluttz took a
similar stance saying that it
was “too early to have any
idea on the thing .”
"The only wise way to ad
dress the issue would be
through the voters,"said Aid.
Mike Begley. He also said
that he would wait to be ap
proached by the people on the
issue “rather than have the
Council soear-heading it.”
Black Mountain Boy Scouts make the best of their port of beautification. (Dan Ward)
Avondale plant here closes
°y uan win
Avondale Mills Black
"wintain plant will discon
“lu* operation in mid-July,
'wording to a memo sent to
“J11 employees in late May
111(1 confirmed only last week
>y Avondale management.
. Chairman and Chief
;*eeutive Officer Donald
*mer of Avondale’s Alabama
:llce> via a memo to
'•visional President Greg
the Asheville office,
tinned that the plant, now
employing 33 persons, would
be dosed within a month.
The Avondale Outlet Store will
continue to operate, Mullins
said.
Black Mountain Office
Manager Kenneth McMahan
said last week that he had not
received confirmation of the
plant closing, and that the
decision was to be made last
weekend in Alabama.
Mullins, however, said that
the decision to close the plant
had been made earlier and
employees were notified in
May.
Prior to announcement of
the dosing, the plant had
employed approximately 45
persons. Prior to closing of
anotner department ui March
1977, the plant employed 130.
According to Comer’ s
memo, issued to employees,
some employees will be ab
sorbed immediately into the
Asheville knitting plant. The
memo also notes that Avon
dale plans to employ more at
that plant in the future as it
places additional emphasis on
growth of the knit_ business.
Additional persons now
employed by the Black
Mountain plant will be offered
an opportunity to work at
other Avondale plants or will
receive assistance in ob
taining other work; the memo
states.
The Black Mountain plant
building will be used as a
warehouse for Avondale Mills,
Mullins said.
Ruth Brandon, the only
board member completely
opposed to holding a
referendum, said that she
“would not be in favor of a
referendum that would make
alcohol more readily
available.” She went on to say
that she would rather do
without the revenues
proponents of mixed
beverages say the new law
would bring than contribute to
the ‘downfall of her fellow
man.”
A.F. Tyson was the only
alderman who was in favor of
the board asking for a
referendum. “I'd be willing to
ask the board for a referen
dum,’'Tyson said. “I think it
(liquor-by-the-drink) is better
than brown-bagging.”
If the Black Mountain Town
Board declines to make a
request to the Board of
Elections to hold a referen
dum, a petition signed by 20
per cent of the registered
voters within the local ABC
district will have \i ye
presented to the Board of
Elections in order for a
r ferendum, allowing the
residents of Black
Mountain the opportunity
to decide whether mixed
beverages can be served in
restaurants and social es
tablishments to be held.
Calculations based on Board
of Elections statistics indicate
that 404 names would be be
necessary on such a petition.
Farms once again collected
trash along Tabernacle Road.
The group, led by Bill Pen
found, intends to keep
collecting trash there as an
ongoing project, according to
Highland Farms Council
President Katherine Ward.
Members of the Moose
Lodge continued putting in
hard labor in cleaning out
brush and leveling grave sites
at a neglected cemetery near
Tabernacle Church. Neil
Bartlett of the Moose said that
some persons have yet to
identify graves of relatives so
that the Moose can place new
markers on them. Trucklohds
of brush have been removed
from the overgrown
cemetery, he said.
Black Mountain Boy Scouts
collected litter along North
Fork Road and from
Christmont to Black Mountain
on NC 9. They have also set up
an aluminum recycling
collection center at Bi-Lo
Food Store.
Staff and employees of
Executive Plaza cleaned up
the area around their business
and planted sourwood trees on
Saturday. The Nostalgia
Store and Cherry Street
Framery planted flowers,
repainted and cleaned up
rubble in that business
district.
Some persons brought paper
to Slagle Union 76 on State
Street for recycling. The
Order of the Eastern Star has
established a permanent
recycling collection station
there.
The congregation of
Macedonia AME Zion Church
in Swan nan oa was expected to
pick up litter in Swan nan oa
Saturday, but could not be
reached by the News.
Bags for roadside litter
pickup were donated by
Quality Forward in Asheville,
which provides programs for
the Clean Community System,
an ongoing cleanup
beautification program.
The Town of Black Moun
tain removed bagged trash
collected Saturday.
Rhododendron
peaks this week
Rhododendron blossoms
along the higher elevations of
the Blue Ridge Parkway
should be at their peak this
week, according to
Superintendent Gary
Everhardt.
“Although there were areas
of brilliant color last weekend,
we expect the really spec
tacular displays to develop
between June 20 and 25,’ ’the
superintendent said.
Catawba rhododendron, with
its purple blossoms, long has
been one of the major spring
attractions along the Park
way. The Craggy aniens area
north of Asheville is perhaps
the prime viewing area for
this species.
Everhardt urged as many
visitors as possible to travel
the Parkway on weekdays
during the peak bloom period.
Weekends, he said, usually
are crowded and detract from
the overall Parkway ex
perience.
AR C: new methods, new results
by CUnt Williams
The halls are busy with the
activity of class changes. Men
and women mingle and
socialize as they walk from
one lecture to another, or from
a session in the arts and crafts
center to a group seminar.
In the modern gym there is
a pick up half-court basketball
game at one end and a
volleyball game at the other.
In such a scene one would
expect to see young college
men and women buzzing in the
halls and sweating in the gym.
Instead, the characters are
mostly in their 30’s and up and
wearing large colored buttons.
The set is not a college
campus but the Alcoholic
Rehabilitation Center (ARC)
just outside of Black Moun
tain.
The days of the clients here
are filled with a range of
activities-educational lec
tures, group therapy, in
dividual counseling,
vocational counseling,
exercise periods, and arts and
crafts.
According to Opal Grove,
the program becomes "more
intense as the badge changes
color.” (The color of the badge
indicates the week, 1-4, in the
program.)
Each patient or client at the
Center is refered to the Center
through the Mental Health
Department of one of the 38
western counties that the
Center serves.
All the clients enter the
program of their own free will,
although they may be under
considerable pressure from
their probation officer or
spouse. No one, however, is
“committed’! The authorities
at the center cant stop a client
from leaving against clinical
advice before the 2Way
program is completed, either.
With permission, clients are
allowed a four hour weekend
pass when accompanied by a
family member.
The program, with an
Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.)
philosophy orientation, is
designed to “treat alcoholism
as an illness- a physical,
emotional, spiritual illness.
We treat it as a family illness,”
said Family Program
Supervisor Ingrid Adelsbach.
During the first week of the
treatment program, the
emphasis is on the physical
rehabilitation of the client.
Upon admission, the client
will spend one to three days in
the infirmary to be sure that
he or she has been detoxified .
Antabuse, a drug that has no
side effects unless ad
ministered with concurrent
use of alcohol, is prescribed to
each patient. Each client also
goes on a a vitamin program.
Alcohol flushes vitamin B out
of the system and many of the
clients who come to the center
have beriberi, a disease
caused by a a deficiency of
vitamin B. Adelsbach
said.
Although an exercise
program continues throughout
the 28 days, for the second,
third and fourth weeks, the
emphasis is on the emotional
and spiritual healing of the
alcoholic, she added.
The program attempts to
deal with the human ecology”
of each client and not just deal
with the patients isolated
needs. The concept of family
counseling to aid treatment of
the alcoholic is relatively new
at the ARC. When the Center
abandoned it’ s psychiatric
approach last August to adopt
the A.A. concept of treatment
it concerned itself with
treatment of the family as
victims of the alcoholic and as
a means of helping the client.
“Helping the family recover
is helping the patient in the
long run,"said Ms. Adelsbach.
The “after-care’ ’ program
at the ARC includes referrals
to the clients local mental
health department, referals to
continuing education
programs and referals to the
local A.A. chapter. A
prescription for antabuse is
also given each client to
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discourage consumption of
alcohol after the patient
leaves the center.
The center also holds
reunions in the spring and fall
of every year. “Ap
proximately 300 former
clients attend the reunions,’ ’
said Mrs. Grove,
treatment by the center seems
to have brought about a
change in effectiveness.
“The clients that come in
here now, if they can’t make it
theyfe not going to make it at
all,’' said a departing client
who had been in alcoholic
rehabilitation centers five
times before. “The way they’
ve got the program set up now,
you can learn something.’
“When I left here in 73, "he
continued, "the, way they
explained it to me all they
were doing was making you
feel good for 28 days. So, I got
drunk before I left here,
waiting for the bus. That’s
how much I got out of it.”
The client went on to say
that with the new approach, he
“learned more in the first two
days that all the previous
times I came.’ ’
“If anybody leaves out of
here now without the right
intentions, it’s not the center’s
fault,” he said.
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center staff meet for programming. (Clint
Williams)