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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.