Second ctass postage paid
at Btack Mountain, NC 28711
Thursday, November 2. 1978, Vo!. 24, No. 54
Serving
i*r Black Mountain
*Swannanoa
* Mon treat
^Ridgecrest
15cents per copy
Reservoir
funding
discussed
Biacts Mountain Mayor Tom
Sobol met with the iocat
Government Commission
officials in what he termed a
very encouraging'discussion
on alternative funding of a
one-miition-gaHon water
storage reservoir for the town,
should a pair of grant ap
ihcations now pending fail.
State and federal health
mthorities have warned that
he town will have to build the
eservoir within the next few
ears or face penalties. The
own has applied for an Ap
lalachian Regional Com
rossion f ARC) grant of up to
(460,000 to build the reservoir.
That grant is hinged to the
passage of a grant from the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) to
install new water mains in the
Cragmont Community. That
grant was rejected once, but is
up for re-evaluation in
December.
Sobol said it is still early to
discuss the particulars of the
alternate funding, but said the
possibilities include obtaining
state Clean Water Bonds or
selling municipal bonds at a
reduced rate to the Farmer's
Home Administration.
Last sMspecf
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Sheriff's Police were ex
pected to arrest this week the
!ast of four persons suspected
of participating in the armed
robbery of Ward's Drug Store
at WNC Shopping Center
October 24.
One person, Warren Lioyd
Phillips, 21, of Swannanoa
remained at iarge Tuesday.
Arrested to date are Lonnie
Howard Fox, 27, of Black
Mountain, charged with ar
med robbery; Debra Gragg
Effler, ia, of Swannanoa,
charged with accessory after
the fact; and Carmie Hensley,
B, of Asheville, charged with
armed robbery, and other
counts of armed robbery and
breaking and entering
stemming from eariier in-,
cidents. x
According to a sheriff a
spokesman, "a large quantity
of hard drugs and severai
hundred doiiars in cash "were
taken in the hoidup Tuesday
by two men wearing ski masks
and carrying semi-automatic
rifles. Although no rifles have
been recovered, cartridges for
an M-l rifle were confiscated
in the arrests, he said.
Hensley has been released
from jail on $53,000 bond.
For and Effler are still being
held, he said.
A November trial is ex
pected.
Comment* by the achooi board that water damage
°t Biach Mountain Primary Schoo! haa not cauaed
M/ety haaarda were chaiienged iaat weeh when a
fifing tiie/eii in a downataira ciaaaroom. Student*
were at the other end o/ the room at the time. fDan
Ward)
Ward)^ bus^t finds a beaut(/u! bacMrop at Labe Tomahawk. CDan
Burning ban in effect
A burning ban is in effect
for the Swan nan oa Vailey
until a significant amount of
rain fails, according to a fire
department spokesman.
in spite of tinder-dry con
ditions in the forests around
the vaiiey, Biack Mountain
Firemen had oniy two brush
fire to put out iast week.
Two engines and 12 men
were called to put out a brush
fire October 23 on 1-40 west.
On October 26, one engine and
16 men put out a second brush
fire behind Hardee's on Oid US
70.
Minor damage was reported
from a car fire on Craigmont
Road October 24, and again
from a car fire on Broadway
October 23 One engine and 10
Locaf wan
cAtargredf tutfA
A Black Mountain man has
been arrested and charged
with breaking and entering
and larceny in connection with
two burglaries of the Epicure
Restaurant last month
Gregory Paul Blanchard.
20, has been charged with
entering the restaurant
through a rear door October 9
and again on October 20 and
t
taking an undetermined
amount of food and some
cash.
Biack Mountain Police
investigated three accidents
iast week, including one in
which Gary Dean Messer. 20,
of Black Mountain suffered a
broken arm Police received
370 calls last week.
ComiM# next wee&
30 years ago...
H^atc^ /or it/
men ana one engine and 16
men responded, respectively.
Minor damage was reported
after a grease fire at the Gary
Propst residence on Portman
Viila Road October 27. One
engine and 19 men responded.
The Black Mountain Fire
Department ambulance made
one emergency run iast week.
The county ambulance made
eight routine, two emergency
and one unneeded run last
Med Cenferapp/yes
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by Dan Ward
Because of a recent study by
the National Health Service
Corps, the Swannanoa Valley
Medical Center may soon
have two or three new doctors,
and be on its way to providing
around the clock medical
service, according to Tom
Hildebrand, chairman of the
center's Board of Directors.
According to Hildebrand, a
recent study by the corps
resulted in Black Mountain
and Swannanoa Townships
being classified medical
services "manpower shortage
areas''
What this means is that
they wili heip reiocate young
doctors here as a way to iet
them work off student loans,"
Hildebrand said. Under the
program, two or three new
doctors would be established
at the medical center, and will
work under the guidelines set
by the board of directors.
Salaries for the doctors would
be set by the National Health
Services Corps, and would be
paid through the corps by the
medical center, who would bill
the patients.
Hildebrand said an offshoot
of the program would be
controlled by the board of
directors of when the doctors
take vacations, the type of
services they perform, and a
requirement that the doctors
agree to be on cal! for night
emergencies.
With the medical center
retaining control of the office
space, rather than renting it to
private practices, the op
portunity will arise to institute
various community health
service programs in
cooperation with state and
county departments,
Hildebrand said.
He said that under the
program, the recent medical
school graduates would work
for two or three years on
salary, and then be free to set
up private practice
preferabiy within the com
munity designated as a
manpower shortage area.
"I'm toid that there is no
hang-up "on the medical center'
s application for doctors,
Hildebrand said. "We should
hear something in 30 to 60
days."
The board of directors were
scheduled to meet November 2
at the center at 4 p.m.
Cutbacks asked, but water holding
Despite water shortages
from lack of rain throughout
the mountains, Black
Mountain's reservoir has been
holding steady at just over
eight feet beiow capacity,
according to Town Manager
Mack Kirkpatrick.
"Last weekend and the one
before, it reaily puiied on it,
with everyone hare to see the
ieaves ' Kirkpatrick :
said. "ButitwasheMatSfeof
2, 8 foot 3 beiow the top since
then."
Kirkpatrick said that there
are no plans to invoke man
datory cutbacks in water use,
as happened this time iast
year.
"I wish peopie would con
serve, but I don't want to in
voke the ordinance. Of
course, if we had a pipe burst
and had to use AsheviUe
water, we'd h have to use the
ordinance "passed by the Town
Board last year to regulate
what water could be used for
in event of a shortage.
Kirkpatrick did ask that
Black Mountain residents cut
back on water use voluntarily
in case of such an emergency,
in view in a recent cutback
appeal to users of Asheville
water.
One reason that the town
has kept up with demand is
that the pump installed on a
new well at the golf course
has been in operation since
last week, Kirkpatrick said.
That weU has been producing
57,000 gallons per day, with
the exception of three times
when electrical problems
caused the pump to be shut
down. The house for that
pump was completed iast
week.
Leaves
Kirkpatrick noted that the
town is now collecting leaves
from those who call Town Hall
for pickup. He said that
persons who wish to have
leaves picked up should pile
them on the edge of the lawn
and remove all brush, which
will not go through the vac
cuum. He said persons should
not put leaves in the ditches.
When the leaf fail becomes
heavier, the town will
establish a pickup schedule,
Kirkpatrick said.
It
A B!ach Mountain emp!oyee checha the preaaure on the new pump at the go!/
courae. ^Dan Ward)
City cow queen of the fair
by Dan Ward
Kiwanis Lisa Queen, better
known as Ciarisse the Cow, is
an individual Vally residents
can be proud of - a local cow
that won a first place in
statewide 4-H competition, a
fifth overaii in state and
sported the second best
costume.
What makes Ciarisse all the
more special is that she was
raised in town.
Although her owner and
trainer, Lisa Bishop, an Owen
senior, lives with her family
on a small farm that straddles
the Black Mountain To*vn
Limits, country ways are not
new to her. Having grown up
on a farm in Tennessee, and
having shown horses since she
began riding at 13, Lisa is not
new to raising farm animals.
But Ciarisse is her first cow -
and a champion at that.
"We got her through 4-H
from a farm in Leicester. She
has Biltmore bloodlines,"Lisa
said of the hefty Jersey heifer.
Through a program at the
Black Mountain 4-H Club, Lga
received the Jersey as a calf
free of charge, with the
provision that when Ciarisse
gives birth, one heifer calf or
two bull calves be given to the
4-H for other young farmers
to raise. Lisa plans to have
the 16 month-old heifer bred
soon for her first calf
Ciarisse's showing at the
State Fair recently surprised
even Lisa, whom the heifer
abeys and follows like a
puppy.
"! was competing against
ali these handlers from the big
farms and all. 1 couldn' t
believe it,"she said. Lisa and
Clarisse came bach from a
first place in the 4-H senior
heifer class to take a fifth
state-wide in the senior calf
class for Jerseys.
In between, Clarisse
charmed the judges in a
harem outfit made by Lisa's
mother, but took a second
piace to a swaggering calf
dressed as the town drunk that
bribed the judges with
moonshme in the costume
competition - a contest that
only Western North Carolina
4-H members entered.
Lisa said she feels that her
experience in showing horses
helped her face the pressure of
state competition. Her family
owns eight horses, all of which
graze with Clarisse on the
farm on High School Road.
Horses, in fact, are the main
interest of the Black Mountain
4-H Club, better known as the
Mountaineer Horse Club,
which meets at the Bishop
home the first Tuesday of each
month
But Clarisse isn't worried
about taking a back seat to the
horses. She knows that even
though a city-slicker, she's
queen of the Jerseys.