Dedicated to the growing Swannanoa Va!!ey
Thursday, April 2, 1981, Volume 29, Number 14
Second ctass postage paid at Btack Mountain, NC 28711
B!ack Mountain gets
^ new shopping center
Randy "Baddy" Worth made
his /irst purchase at Rose's
Tuesday. Buddy's mother
bvorhs at the new store.
The grand opening of the new Ingles
Black Mountain Shopping Center on
Highway 9 was held Wednesday morn
ing. Rose's, Eckerd Drugs and Ingle's
stores all opened for business this week
with special sales and give-aways for
customers.
The new Ingle's features an "expand
ed variety" and "eye appeal" accord
ing to the Logie's district manager, C.R.
Lowe. At 37,000 square feet, the store
is one of Ingle's largest and indudes an
in-store bakery, delicatessen and dining
area
Hie store employs about 65 people. K
jis open from 8 a m. to 9 p.m., seven
days a week. Local manager is W ayne
MiDer.
Eckerd Drugs is managed by Ed
Curry. Besides a well-stocked phar
macy, the store indudes a greeting card
section, small appliances, sporting
goods, furniture, picnic equipment and
much more.
Eckerd's is open from 9 a m. to 9:30
p.m. Monday through Saturday and
12-7 p.m. Sunday and holidays. The
store is holding a grand opening
drawing for a television set.
Rost's, open from 9 a m. to 10 p.m.
this week and 9 a m. to 9 p.m. after this
week, is managed by Mike Kraycsik.
Store departments indude automo
tive, gardening, home furnishings,
jewelry, cosmetics and many others.
Janet W ard Black, Miss North Caro
lina 1980, will autograph pictures on
April 1 at Rose's grand opening. Rose's
will also hold a drawing for prizes.
Aprit Ciean Sweep Month
Time to get out the rakes and the
gioves and the extra heavy duty
trash bags-Apri! is Clean Sweep Month
in Buncombe County. Activities are
scheduled all month that will make
Buncombe County a cleaner and more
beautiful place to live. Coordination of
the activities will be handled by Quality
Forward.
Twenty-five area businesses have
purchased 31,000 car litter bags to
distribute during Clean Sweep.
The Buncombe County public and
private elementary schools will partici
pate in a poster contest titled, "Me and
What ICan Do About Utter." Winning
posters in four geographic districts will
be displayed in McDonalds at several
locations. Prizes will be $50 toward an
environmental field trip, a classroom
McDonalds party and $15 for a school
beautification project.
During the week of April 11-17, the
North Carolina Department of Trans
portation (DOT) will participate in a
roadside clean up. Volunteer fire
departments and the Union 76 station in
Blade Mountain will distribute trash
bags to groups or individuals wishing to
help. Bags placed on the right-of-way
of roads will be picked up by the DOT if
they are notified at 253-4501 where and
when the bags will be there.
April 25 is Cash for Trash Day.
Industries will collect and recyde and
pay for dean glass, aluminum and
newsprint at six locations in the county.
The closest recycling location for Valley
residents is at Owen High School.
Although general litter in the county
has shown improvement, Quality For
ward has found that commercial dump
sters have shown only a small percent
age of reduction of litter. On April 13,
problem dumpsters will be identified, a
picture taken and sent with a letter from
Quality Forward asking for cooperation
from the individual responsible for the
dumpster in cleaning it up. On April 30,
if no progress has been made, an
enforcement agency will be notified of
the c ndition of the dumpster.
Quality Forward brochures listing
organizations that accept recyclable
materials year around are available at
the News office on Sutton Street.
Scottish'Ceitidh'to feature
songs and dance
Ceilidh (pronounced KAY-LEE) is a
Gaelic word meaning "to visit" and
denotes an evening of traditional Scot
tish music, dancing and story-sharing at
Warren Wilson College on Saturday,
April 4th.
The celebration will begin at 2 p m. in
the Formal Gardens at Warren Wilson
with Jane George of West Virginia
leading a workshop on Scottish country
dance in preparation for the evening
festivities. The workshop is free and
open to the public.
The Ceilidh begins at 7 JO in the
Formal Gardens and will be the site of
traditional Scottish dancing, balladeer
ing and bag piping. Featured perform
ers indude Rank and Jane George with
Highland dancing, Mora MacDonald
Gammon m singing traditional Scottish
love-songs and Dan Gammon fiddling
Scottish jigs. The Strays way Band, a
local Celtic group induding Jerry Read
Smith, Chris Abell, Tom Fellenbaum
and Don Jackson, will perform Scottish
tunes on hammered dulcimer, tin
whistle, fiddle and guitar. Warren
Wilson's own Little Dariin's and
College Choir will also perform.
The public is invited. Admission to
the Ceilidh is free to Warren Wilson
students, faculty and staff, (2 for other
adults and (1 for children.
Frank and Jane George wiH demonstrate Scottish Highiand
dancing at an evening o/ music, dance and storyteiiing Aprii
New
postage
rates
First class postage rates went up on
March 21 from 15 to 18 cents. The
purple "B" stamps are already fam
iliar, but some of the other postage
rate increases are not.
After the first ounce at 18 cents,
each added ounce for first class mail
costs the sender 17 cents.
Second class mail is now 15 cents for
the first ounce, 33 cents for the second
ounce and 49 cents for the third ounce.
Hurd class mail is 18 cents for 0-1
ounces, 35 cents for 1-2 ounces and 52
cents for 2-3 ounces.
Fourth class (books-spedal) is 63
cents for the first pound, and 23 cents
a pound after the first up to seven
pounds.
Postcards are 12 cents; double
postcards 24 cents.
Money orders are 75 cents up to
$25, $1.10 for $25.01-$50, and $1.55
from $50.01 to $500.
Parcel post and international rates
have not changed. International
envelopes are 22 cents.
tnside
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Julius D. Heldman, /ormer
vice-president o/ Shell Oii
Company and nationai
authority on aiternative energy
will speah Thursday evening.
Story on page 12.
Board upho!ds
book po!icy
in schoois
The Buncombe County Board of
Education voted last Thursday to adopt
a statement supporting the current
county schools book selection policy
adopted in 1973.
Controversy over the book selection
policy arose earlier this year when a
group opposed obscenities in library
books and books used in some high
school classes at Owen High School.
The matter was brought before the
school board at a public hearing on Feb.
19.
The adopted board statement says,
"This Board has carefully reviewed its
written policy regarding the selection of
school instructional materials and finds
that the existing policy is sound,
provides adequate safeguards when
followed, and consequently should not
be altered.
"We emphasize that the existing
policy is not inconsistent with the
selection of morally sound books.
"This Board has delegated to the
professionally trained personnel of this
school system, many of whom are
parents of school children, the respon
sibility for the actual selection of
instructional materials and this Board
reaffirms that commitment."
Stating that the Board recognizes the
value of experience, insight and ideas
which parents have, the Board recom
mended to school principals that each
appoint a parent, preferably a member
of the school's advisory committee, to
the school media committee.
The board also recommended that
guidelines for teachers to use in making
reading assignments indude the follow
ing:
That no book should be made
available to students until the complete
selection process set forth in the official
policy has been completed.
. That so long as there is a reasonable
alternative, no student shall be required
to read materials objected to by a parent
or guardian.
. That at the beginning of a course
the teacher send home a list of materials
expected to be assigned so that' timely
objections" can be made.
. That the objection by a parent to
any material will not be reflected in the
teacher's evaluation of the student's
progress.
Hecith Fair
to provide
free tests here
In 1900, the leading causes of death
were influenza and pneumonia among
other communicable diseases. Today,
the leading causes of death are cancer,
heart disease and accidents. These
more recent causes are directly related
to how we live with regard to our
everyday, individual health habits, not
to something we "catch " Health Flair
'01 is designed to make individuals
aware of these habits and their own
responsibility.
The combination of health screening
tests for early detection of disease along
with ideas about how everyday habits
affect your health is what Health Fair
'SI is all about. The screenings are
more than just a physical test; they also
indude information about disease, why
the tests are given and what the results
mean to the partidpant.
The goodwill and hard work of
hundreds of area volunteers will cul
minate in the most comprehensive
health screening project ever held in
Western North Carolina and upper
South Carolina. Health professionals
from virtually every field of medidne
have teamed up to provide Health Fair
'81 visitors with the finest comprehen
sive health screening and medical
consultation to be found in one location.
Health Fair '81 in this area will be
held at the W arren W ilson College gym
April 7, from 1-7 p.m. and at the
Asheville Mall, April 3, 2-8 p.m. and
April 4,12-6 p.m. It is free to the public
except for a 26-function optional blood
chemistry test which will be given for
the nominal fee of (7. Health related
agencies and organizations are donating
the equipment needed f<r all of the tests
at 60 screening sites in 24 counties.
The basic screenings offered are
height, weight, blood pressure, apemia,
vision, optional blood chemistries and
counseling and referral. Other screen
ings available at some sites are glau
coma, oral, hearing, breast, pap tests
and health risk appraisals among
others. At the end of the fair,
participants will go to a counseling and
referral station to talk with a health
professional about not only the results
of the tests that day, but also to help set
health goals. If further evaluation is
needed, the participants are referred to
the local health system, either their own
physician, the medical society or other
community health programs.
Health Fair voiunteers/or Buncombe County are pictured at
a recent Heaith Fair in Asheviiie. They are (L to R) Eveiyn
Jones, Pauiine Fitton and Ruth Woods.
Weather
review
March 24-high 52, low 25 degrees.
March 25-high 59, low 21 degrees.
March 26-high 64, iow 26 degrees.
March 27-high 68, iow 37 degrees.
March 28-high 66, iow 31 degrees.
March 29-high 56, iow 35 degrees.
March 30-high 69, low 53 degrees;
1.35 inches precipitation.
Courtesy of WPGW Radio National
Weather Service station, Black Moun
tain.