EHHCK w* 105 H-br^ry - H. i'cuphar^SWe^^ Laheview senior citizens are hnown /or their hoiiday tabie decorations and Easter wiii be no exception. Eggs are decoupaged with deiicate /iorai designs, and Easter bashets are woven needieworh. S!owdown,havea safe Easter hotiday Twenty North Carolinians may lose their lives on Tar Heei streets and highways over the iong Blaster hoiiday weekend, the N.C. State Motor Club has estimated. The state will count its toll over a 78-hour period from 6 p.m. Friday, April 17, through midnight Monday, April 20. Last year 23 persons lost their lives and 751 were injured during a similar period, while 20 died in 1979. The latest figures show 311 North Carolinians have lost their lives in traffic accidents so far this year. Three factors-speed, safety belts and akohol-cannot be ignored if we are to lessen our chances of becoming a statistic. Speed is still the number one oiler on the highways and voluntary compliance with all speed laws should 1* foremost in the mind of every motorist. Safety belts are the best life-saving devices available to the motoring public, yet a recent survey shows that only one in nine drivers uses a belt. Belt usage is vital to small car occupants in particular because riding in a small car doubles your chances of being killed in a two-car crash. Fatal car crashes are increasing in the nation while most motor vehicle occupants continue to reject the use of safety belts. Studies show that drunk drivers are involved in about 50 percent of all fatal crashes and a large portion of injury producing accidents. Leave the drink ing out of your driving. Get recydames ready for Cash for Trash day This would be a good weekend to spring dean the garage and the basement because next Saturday, April 25, is Cash for Trash Day. Recycling company personnel and volunteers will be at Owen High School, and other locations around the county, to receive dear glass, newspaper, cardboard and aluminum cans and they will pay for them. These are the rules: Clear glass and aluminum cans must be delivered to the site in bags or boxes. Newspapers must be tied in bundles or in paper bags. Cardboard must be tied in bundles. Do not combine newspaper and cardboard; they will not be accepted this way. Bring dear glass only. Remove all metal lids and rings. You do not have to remove paper labels. Bring glass in cardboard boxes or heavy paper bags; do not use plastic bags. Do not crush glass. Separate aluminum cans from steel cans with a magnet. A magnet will not stick to aluminum. Cans can be brought in piastic bags. Rates to be paid are: aluminum cans-32 cents per pound; dear glass m cents per pound; newspapers-75 cents per 100 pounds; and cardboard (1 per hundred pounds* Free pick-up Throughout the week, in cooperation with Clean Sweep Month, Black Moun tain residents will have the oppor tunity to get rid of yard and household trash that would otherwise cost them (10 a truckload to have hauled away. Through Saturday, April IS, resi dents can place any trash with the exception of tires at the curb, call 669-3732, and the trash will be removed free of charge. Small or loose items, such as leaves or papers, should be bagged or placed in containers. Echerd's Manager Ed Carry hands over a new Mach and white teievision set to Edmund Childers o/ Swannanoa. Childers, who won the teievision in a grand opening drawing at the new store iast weeh, said he has never won anything be/ore in his ii/e. He pians to pat it in his bedroom /or iate night viewing. * Town Counci) We!! bid se!ected Teat wells, Lake Tomahawk and the golf course were major items fadng Town Council Monday night. A contract was approved with Fergu son's Well Drilling for the drilling of three test wells. According to Mayor Tom Sobol, engineers have met inform ally with the Episcopal Diocese to discuss placement of the wells on In-the-Oaks property. Drilling and testing wells will be financed with Farmer's Home Admin istration (FtnHA) funds. In an emer gency the Town can then purchase pumps and hook up the wells to function at the Town's expense if necessary. Water department head A1 White stated that the wells could probably be drilled and tested within 60 days. "Kit (the weather) follows the pattern that's going now, by the middle of July we could be in trouble," White said. Alderman Tyson said that as soon as pump size can be determined, he believes equipment should be ordered immediately' even if it must be paid for from regular town water funds, so that this increased supply can be connected to the system before summer." Council also passed a resolution appropriating $3,500 to put a pump and lines in at an unused well located at the golf course. The well produces approx imately 17 gallons per minute. Alderman Begley gave the only dissenting vote, stating, "I think we're a little bit premature to spend money on that well." Lake Tomahawk A proposal for a fence at Lake Tomahawk was "reluctantly with drawn" by Lea Gardner, a member of the committee appointed by the Board to study problems at the lake. Gardner made recommendations in place of the fence, that included designation of an access road limited to emergency vehicle use, construction of a play ground on or near the dam, hiring young people to supervise the area, and establishment of a permanent Lake Tomahawk Committee. The go-ahead for a free study and survey of the area by a playground equipment company was approved by the Board. The Board instructed Town Manager Earnest Hudgins to direct a "police crack-down" on the area, leaving the details of the concentrated effort to the police and town manager. In a community effort to increase use of the park, the chairman of the board of the Oid Depot Association disclosed plans for an experimental June 23 "Sunday in the Ark." Quality For ward, which sponsors a simitar series of monthly summer programs in Ashe ville, will help with experience and funds. The effort will be coordinated by the N.C. Arts Council. The program could become monthly if the June 28 program is successful. Golf Course A letter from the Chamber of Commerce board of directors concern ing the golf course was presented to Town Council by Margaret Slagle. Town Manager Hudgins stated that the golf course is in "better shape now than it has been in quite some time," adding, "It's going to take three years to get it in first class shape." Citing problems of limited budget and manpower, he also said, "People want a country dub for $150 (member ship fees) a year." Hudgins said a three-year program to solve drainage problems is in progress, new ball washers have been ordered, the greens aerated and limed and two workmen added for the summer. Alderman Tyson said that a golf coarse committee, which used to meet regularly, is no ionger functioning. "The littie fine points (of maintenance) for the golf course are not there," he said. Chamber of Commerce secretary, Ed Weber, caiied the goif course "a disgrace, " and enumerated some of the probiems at the course indicated to him by the goifers, including the fact that there is no sign at the entrance to the course. "Deterioration-that is the whole hey to it," Weber said. Weber also listed maintenance prob lems at the tennis courts stating it would only take "two tons of asphalt, wire, two loads of dirt to put them in shape and keep them in shape. " No action was taken by Town Council. Other action In other action, Council moved to accept a $2,970 contract with Don Williams, CPA, for the annual audit. The town manager was granted permission to proceed on having cross walks and parking area lines painted. A loan resolution authorizing the Town to borrow $500,000 from Farmer's Home Administration was passed. Lee and Aiien win honorabie mention in weaving contest Mrs. A.W. AHen weaves piacemats on her ioom at High!and Farms. Earth tremor fetthere Several area residents called the Blade Mountain Police Department last Wednesday morning to report that they felt the earth move about 2:10 a m. Hey weren't dreaming. He National Earthquake Information Service in Denver, Colorado, confirmed an earth tremor with a magnitude of 3.2 on the Richter scale. A spokesman for the National Earth quake Information Service said that a tremor with a magnitude of 3.2 is "large enough to be felt, to rattle windows." He Richter scale is a gauge of the energy released by an earthquake, measured by ground motion recorded on a seismograph. A quake with a magnitude of 2 is the smallest believed to be felt by humans. He April 8 tremor was also reported by residents in Marion and Fairview, as well as Ridgecrest, Swannanoa and Black Mountain. Weather April 7-high 63, low 26 degrees. April 8-high 66, low 34 degrees. April 9-high 67, low 45 degrees; .16 inch precipitation. April 16-high 77, low 44 degrees; trace precipitation. April 11-high 60, low 47 degrees. April 12-high 76, low 47 degrees. April 13-high 60, low 52 degrees. Courtesy of WFGW Radfo Nattonal Weather Serv station, Black Kathenne Lee and Mrs. A.W. Allen, residents of Highland Farms, Blade Mountain, received honorable mention in a national handweaving competition. Their prizes were plaques and boat shuttles. The winning entry is a traditional coverlet, blue verel on a natural cotton background. It was entirely handwoven by Lee who was taught to weave by Allen in response to the first "Hand woven" "Teach a Friend to Weave" contest. The coverlet is featured in the March issue of "Handwoven" magazine. Mrs. Allen said she has taught several others to weave, but Miss Lee is her "star pupil. " Prior to weaving the large, intricate coverlet, Miss Lee had worked only on small placemans. Mm. Allen add she had been weaving for about 25 years. When she moved from Asheville to Highland Farms, she brought her loom with her and continues to weave In the Crafts Room there. Entries In the contest came from 40 states and Canada and involved about 500 people and 250 handwoven projects. The contest Is sponsored by Inter weave REM and is named for the company's leading magazine for hand weavers. The coverlet will be displayed at Highland Farms craft show April 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Craft Room at Highland Farms. The public is invited to view die show. Katherine Lee's winning coveriet wiii he on dispiay Aprii 2^ at Highiand Farms.