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 * + * 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