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Chris Waters (left) and Seth Adams, both 11, won first and second places,
respectively, in the Junior Golf Tournament at the Asheville Municipal
Golf Course last week. Chris, who had a score of 105, and been playing
golf since he was six years old. Seth, who scored US In the tournament,
has only been playing the game since March.
Motorcydist injured
in acddenton US 70
A motorcyclist was injured on Wednes
day, July 15 in an accident that occured
at the intersection of Cragmont Road
and U.S. 70.
Steve Melin of Azalea Ave., Black
Mountain was traveling west on U S. 70
when a car driven by Larry W ayne Clark
of Newland, N.C. entered the intersec
tion from Cragmont Road without
stopping. Melin's motorcycle struck the
Mt side of the automobile.
Witnesses said Meiin was thrown onto
the car and then into the highway in the
7:10 p.m. accident. He was taken to
Memorial Mission Hospital, where he
remained at press time, in satisfactory
condition.
Town Counci!
Recreation director resigns;
town manager appiicants considered
The Town Board accepted the resigna
tion of Black Mountain Recreation
Director Alice Schweitzer, effective
August 17, at a called meeting Friday,
July 17.
In other action at the meeting, the
board passed a resolution to cancel a
contract with Ferguson Well Drilling
and agreed to sign a contract with
Green Brother for test wells at In-the
Oaks.
Acting Town Clerk Suzanne Turner
said of the previously accepted bid,
"We weren't in a position to let bids
because we hadn't met all the require
ments at that point. "
Bids were advertised again and the
Green Company came in with the lowest
bids.
The board considered changes re
quested by the Episcopal Diocese in the
contract for the weii sites at In-the
Oahs. The changes indudeda limitation
on time laspsed between the date the
wells might be abandoned by the town
before the site returned to the diocese; a
600,000 gallon per year limitation on
free water for In-the-Oahs instead of the
previously agreed on 50,000 gallons per
month: and a clause stating that
construction would not be done on the
site during the summer months.
The board approved the changes,
except to request that drilling be
allowed to take place this summer and
that the six months for abandonment be
changed to one year.
At the Friday meeting, the board
appointed Albert Richardson chairman
of the ABC board.
The meeting was continued on Tues
day, July 21, for the purpose of
considering applications for town man
ager.
The board read applications from the
six men and two women received by the
deadline date, July 13, but decided they
needed more time to review them
before deciding which candidates to
interview.
Next Tuesday, July 28, the board will
reconvene at 7 JO a m. to decide which
of the applicants to interview. Inter
views were tentatively set for August 3,
with a decision to be made at the next
regularly scheduled board meeting on
August 10. September 1 will most likely
be the starting date for a new town
manager, the board decided.
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Thursday, Juiy 2!, M8!, Vo!ume 29, Number 20
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Hendon aidefietdsquestions here
by Cynthia Reimer
Stating that Representative Bili Hen
don "grew up here in the mountains.
He's hiked the mountains, fished the
streams. He understands, " Hendon's
district assistant, Bob Orr, sought to
reassure environmentalists at a Monday
morning meeting at Black Mountain
Town Hail. Other issues of concern
voiced by residents and aidermen
included bureaucratic red tape and
inflexibility of government programs,
New manager appointed for nutrition center
Mae Sawyer has been appointed new
site manager tor the nutrition program
for senior dtizens at the Lake view
Center. Mrs. Sawyer, who has worked
as an assistant for IS months, began her
new duties on July 13th.
The center provides lunch for 50 to 60
senior dtizens a day. A program usually
follows lunch, Mrs. Sawyer said, on
music, legal aid, religion and a variety
of other topics. Mrs. Sawyer is respon
sible for arranging the programs,
planning and serving the food and
keeping records of the program.
"Keep them well-fed and happy
that's the biggest thing," she said of
her job.
Several volunteers assist Mrs. Sawyer,
but a permanent assistant will be
assigned soon by the Council on Aging,
funder of the program.
Banned jointly by Mrs. Sawyer and
Laine Calloway, head of services to
senior citizens at Laheview Center, is a
new diet and exercise dass designed to
help those who are having trouble
losing a little weight.
Fhoebe Putnam, nutritionist for the
North Carolina Agricultural Extension
Office, will provide the expertise on diet
and Ms. Calloway will lead exercises.
Mrs. Sawyer has been a resident of
Buncombe County all her life and moved
to Black Mountain five years ago.
Water situation acute
The water situation in Black Mountain is becoming acute,
according to Water Department liaison A.F.iyson. if we don't
have rain in the next week, he said, water wiii have to be rationed
in Black Mountain.
According to Water Department head A1 White, the ievei of the
Dunsmore Cove Reservoir has dropped almost five feet from the
spillway ieaving only 15 feeg of usabie water remaining in the
reservoir.
That, said White, is about a iO day suppiy for the town.
if water users don't voluntarily cut back drastically in their water
use, and unless the town receives heavy rainfall in the next few
days, Town Council will have no choice but to put mandatory
restrictions on water usage.
Potice and fire report
Rash of smash-ups
Black Mountain
Police Department
Drivers with their cars in reverse are
having problems In town lately-Black
Mountain Mice Department records
ahow a rash of accidents involving one
vehicle baddng into another recently.
On July 11, (950 damage was caused
by a vehicle baddng into another on
Broadway. On July 11, a vehicle
hacking up in a lumber company
parking lot caused $200 damage. On
July 13 a vehide backing out on
Broadway backed into another vehide,
causing $1,000 damage.
Only July 14, $350 damage waa caused
by a vehide in reverse in the library
parking lot. On the same day, a vehide
attempted to turn off U S. 70 east when
a vehide in front of him began baddng
up, striking the first vet. de and causing
$110 damage.
On July 1! the larceny of a mandolin
.was reported from McDibba on Cherry
Street. Someone ran in the door,
grabbed the musical instrument and ran
bade out, an officer said. The mandolin
was valued at $180.
H anyone has property stolen, Mice
Chief Slagle said, it should be reported
to the police department. "B could be at
the police station," Slagle said, "and
we don't have any way of knowing who
it belongs to."
Black Mountain
Fire Department
On July 15, Blade Mountain Bremen
performed a wash-down after a wreck
on U S. 70 in front of Fast Fare that
involved a car and a motorcycle.
On July 19, Bremen extinguished a
mattress on fire at the Alcoholic
Rehabilitation Center. Damage was
confined to the mattress. The fire was
caused by a cigarette, a Bremen said.
Mae Sawyer
the fate of the Soda! Security program
and abortion legislation.
About 13 attended the one-hour meet
ing, one of many On* is conducting
throughout the 11th Congressional Dis
trict to discuss issues and concerns with
dtizens.
Orr said Hendon favors a "balanced
approach'' to the issue of wilderness vs.
economic use for public lands. Hendon,
Orr said, makes decisions on a case-by
case basis, deciding whether economic
considerations are the greater need or if
the environmental impact would be too
great to justify the monetary gain.
' You can t lock the mountains up, "Orr
said. "It's not a good policy not to use
any of the resources."
Alderman A.F. Tyson asked Orr to
relay his belief to Hendon that local
government should be given more
authority and flexibility in administer
ing state and federal grants.
Orr stated that block grants are a step
in this direction because money is
awarded federally and local officials and
townspeople make the decisions about
their use.
"Billy (Hendon) would like to get as
much as possible (power) down to the
local level, " Orr said.
H anyone knows of specific instances of
unreasonable governmental red tape,
Orr said, a complaint should be made in
writing. "If we know exactly where it is
we can make a specific complaint," he
explained. "We have to have the
specific complaint to make any head
way."
On Social Security legislation, Orr
said,' There aren't going to be any easy
Atbum first for dutcimer maker
by BiH Studenc Jr.
Jerry Read Smith. The name itself
seems & possess a magical, iyncal
quality. Whether or not the name has
music in it, the man who claims that
name most certainly does.
Recent sales of his first album, "The
Strayaway Child," a collection of folk
songs performed on the hammered
dulcimer and other similar instruments,
offer proof enough of Smith's musical
ability.
The album, a collaboration between
Smith, owner of Song of the Wood, " a
dulcimer shop In Black Mountain, and
Tom Fellenbaum, owner of a similar
shop right nest door, has sold over
1,500 copies in the two-and-one-half
weeks since its release. ,
Use huge number of copies is especial
ly amazing, Smith point out, because
Smith himself is the sole distributor of
the album.
"I can't believe it, and I can't
understand it, " said Smith. "R's what I
was hoping and looking for, but I can't
believe that it's really happening. "
Smith describes the sales of the album
as "snowballing." For example, one
lady heard the album at a party
attended by seven people. The record
was played nine times in a row. The
iady ordered 10 copies and told Smith
that everyone at the party was planning
to order one.
Because of the success of the album,
orders for dulcimers are also on the rise.
Smith has a waiting list for 25 to 30
dulcimers. He said that he got she
orders on Monday alone, an unprece
dented amount of orders for one day.
Smith attributes the success of the
album to the fact that it has broad
appeal. Since most of the songs on the
album are Irish folk songs, it especially
appeals to lovers of folk music.
"R is also interesting from a mnsim!
perspective because of the way the
hammer dulcimer sounds. It's some
thing different and pretty," said Smith.
Smith and Feiienbaum first decided
they were going to make an aibum
about two years ago. They started
working on it and recorded some basic
tracks in Lancaster, Rennsyhrania.
"We never got together to finish it
because we weren't excited enough
about it to carry it through," Smith
said. "Until iast December, when we
started to really work hard. "
H)e main idea behind "The Strayaway
Child" was to give the two instrument
builders a chance to make an album
with the instruments they were build
ing.
"We wanted to carry it the full way,"
said Smith, "from selecting the wood at
the mill to playing and recording the
album."
Continued on page 8
Weather
revtew
July 14-high 89, iow 71 degrees; trace
precipitation.
July 15-high 88, low 63 degrees.
July 16-high 83, low 66 degrees; .10
inches precipitation.
July 17-high 87, low 63 degrees; .19
inches precipitation.
July 18-high 79, low 68 degrees.
July 19-high 84, low 69 degrees; trace
precipitation.
July 20-high 87, low 66 degrees; .43
inches precipitation.
answers. Billy's going to put a lot of
thought in this.
"Billy feels absolute committment to
citizens who earned Social Security
payments. That's the bottom line.
"They're not going to be let down by
him. He's going to do everything he can
to protect them, keeping in mind Social
Security is in trouble."
Asked by a dtizen to state Hendon's
views on abortion issues, Orr said, Tm
going to dodge that one. Talk to Billy
about specific legislation. "
After the meeting, Orr said he found
North Carolinians concerned about
mostly the same issues-jobs, the
economy, social security, relationships
with federal agencies and road projects.
Environmental concern was much
stronger in this area than in other parts
of the 11th Congressional District, he
said.
Anyone unable to attend the meeting
wishing information or wanting to state
their views on issues to Mr. Hendon can
call him at his Asheville office in The
Mall, 298-9437.
Homemade
boats to race
on !akeAug.8
The Black Mountain Sourwood Festi
val wiil sponsor a homemade boat race
on Lake Tomahawk Saturday, August S.
Prizes will be awarded in bod! the
under-12 and over-13 age divisions for
the race winner, most original boating
attire and most original boat.
No motors will be allowed in the race,
but any other propulsion-including
oars, paddles, sails, hot air, solar power
swim 8ns or galley slaves may be
used-as long as it is homemade.
Styrofoam, milk jugs, tubes and cool
ers are favored building materials of
past Lake Tomahawk champions.
Lifeguards will be on duty and life
jackets will be required. Some life
jackets may be available for use by
contestants. Anyone who could provide
lifejackets for the race should call
Sharon Allison, 669-5008.
Registration will take place Saturday
morning at 10 JO in front of the of Black
Mountain Clubhouse at the lake. The
race itself will begin at 11 JO a m. One
complete circuit of the lake, passing
around a marker near the dam, will
make up the course.