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BMCK .^WKBMRtaBR Dedicated to the growing Swannanoa Vattey W'nni.. 0<*CP*4.*ai97S]979 Pnbiiahed each Thursday at Biack Mountain. N.C. M711 Second ciaas postage paid at Black Mountain. N.C Pub No. USPSO57-M0 Estabiished IMS Cynthia Reimer, Editor Trina O'Donneil, Advertising Coordinator Mary Mauidin, Ciassi/ied & Circulation Manager Dennis Harris. Mechanicai Supervisor Rennold Madrazo, Advertising Manager Cindy A. Miiis, Typesetter & Boohheeper SUBSCRIPTION RATERS: In Buncombe County. 1 year $7.28; Outside Buncombe County, 1 year $14 56; Outside N.C. State. $18.00. This includes N.C. Sales Tax. CLASSIFIED ADS: Straight set, no borders, cuts or large type, 20 words or less $1.75; over 20 words, 08cents per word . Pubiished weekly by Mountain Media, Inc., P.0 Bos S Biack Mountain, N.C. 23711. Phone 7M 669-3727 Letters to the editor To the editor: There was a tetter in the Asheviile Citizen the other day from a fellow complaining about hot dogs (10 dogs, eight buns per package, etc.). This and another casualty with a hamburger prompted me to write this letter. What is a hamburger any way? To me it's a little meai on a bun and I iove them, if they're made right. R's so single, yet so very hard to find a really good one in the Swan nanoa-Black Mountain area, and Tve tried them alL First Til tell you some of the things Tve found, or not found, between the buns. Too much mayonaise, so that it squirts out and drips. Green hard tomatoes and tomato slices stackedupon one side of the bun. Meat too rare. CoM and soggy. Lade of onion after asking for it. The latest "creation" was purchased Friday, 17th, with naif a small onion in one chunk on one side of the bun! Onion lover that I am, I can't eat half an onion in one bite! At home 1 removed it, chopped it, un-stacked the tomatoes, generally over hauled it and what could have been a good burger was now cold. There's really no big mystery about making a good hambur ger. It just takes a little care, as if you planned on eating it yourself! Then why is it so hard to find one made right? Too busy? When 1 bought the "hunk of onion" last Friday it was 4 JO p.m. and only three cars in the lot. Not busy? Just didn't care. Untrained help? Then train them, before you let them mess up my hamburger! It should be served with pride, with the main objective being pleasing the customer (a quaint, oldfashioned idea)-not how fast you can get rid of him! Your reward will come with repeat business. You say you have enough business now? That's because a lot of people must, or want to eat out, and will buy almost anything! For now. But when one of the really big, really good and consistant franchises opens here, watch out! I know wherefore I speak! MarySancrant Swannanoa To the editor: I wouid like to pubiidy com mend Police chief Crait Siagie and OBicer Jerry Keriee for the handgun control course they have made available in basic pistol training, and which I as a handgun owner felt inspired to take. The course consists of 15 hours training, three hours class room and 12 hours on the Bring range. Chief Siagie proved to be excellent in teaching us the legal aspects and responsibilities involved as a handgun owner. He also showed us many kinds of pistols, their make-up, and best uses; also about ammuni tion. Jerry Keriee was simply great on the Bring range as an instructor. He demonstrated all the best qualities of a teacher, helping me to develop skill, and at the same time correcting with patience, firm ness and kindness, any mis takes I made, at all times encouraging and inspiring confidence. 1 only wish that the course could be available to all handgun owners who need it and want it but the town budget, so I am inform ed, does not have the money to offer such a course free to the pubuc. For me this course was invaluable. I have owned a pistol for 25 years and I learned just how much I had not known! I hope that in the near future there will be a self-defense course that will indude physi cal self-defense such as karate, judo or Kung Fu, especially for women. No one could believe more firmly in spiritual protection than I, and I thank God everyday for it, but I also believe in learning to develop all of our intelligent use of our capabilities. In all of my lifetime, and I am a grand mother, I have not lived in an age of such sidespread vio lence. R is a fact we have to face and no one knows it better than our police officers. At this point I wart to also commend Pbhce Detective Dolan of our Black Mountain Police Dept. He just happened to be on hand at a time when I needed counsel about a recent problem. He gave me good practical advice about home security. When I saw my scoring rec ord at the last session I was as proud as a school child with a good report card, which gave me new respect for and confi dence in my ability, but it proved also what a good teacher I had in Officer Jerry Kerlee. And I do want to mention that these two officers are doing this on their own time. Clara L. Crawford BlachMountain To the editor: There have been complaints from citizens before about the city & have traffic lights installed at the intersection of Sutton Ave. and Broad St. I am making a complaint also. This situation is up to the mayor, Mayor Sobol, and the city manager of Black Moun tain. If the State is in any way responsible, then the mayor and city manager should con tact the DOT in Raleigh. This should be done as soon as possible before someone is badly hurt or killed. H something isn't done soon, I shall get a petition signed. C.W. "Bill "Wilson Black Mountain Editor's note: At the July Town Council meeting, Mayor Sobol read a letter from the Department of Transportation stating that no traffic lights could be installed until any dangerous accident patterns are detected. Robert E. Horrto Nothing sinfui in iife is beyond Gods power to change. Fotk Ways and Fotk-Speech Good iuck charms 'in' by Rogers WhMener Expect a rash of good luck charms on the market in the very near future. And aii because of President Reagan. The President, accor ding to a recent report in the Washington Post, has been carrying a small goid horse shoe charm in his left pocket for the last several years and is said to have believed it brought him luck in escaping with his life in the assassina tion attempt several months ago. The President's metal charm has several things go ing for it as a good luck piece. First of all, as a gift (from Florida GOP Chairman Henry Sayier) it embodies a signifi cance not found in a charm purchased or otherwise ac quired—though finding such a good luck token is also consi dered throughout recorded history as a lucky metal. Coins, nuggets, bracelets and various other kinds of gold pieces or ornaments have sup posedly fended off bad luck and prevented illness in those who have carried or worn such precious items. Third, the horseshoe im printed on President Reagan's gold coin offers the ultimate assurance of good luck. Probably the most widely recognized harbinger of good fortune, its shape is purported to symbolize both the heavens and the roof top of a house, thus representing man's spiri tual and secular life. It is said that the horseshoe was created in the sacred fire, and miraculously (to primitive man, at least) could be nailed to a horse's hooves without causing pain. Having served this useful purpose, the horseshoe was believed to retain its magic even though badly worn. Thus, the next natural step was to nail it over the door of a home or other building in need of protection, to the mast of a ship, to the dashboard of a buggy, always with the prongs upward so that the good Inch would not leak out. Even the nails which held the horseshoe to the horse's hoof were considered lucky pieces. Numbering seven (itself a lucky number), they often were fashioned into finger rings or made into pendants to be worn around the neck. Sometimes they were given an additional artistic touch by placing them on the rail in front of an approaching train. One nail placed across ano ther, for instance, helped form a cross when the steel wheels had finished their work; thus adding & the potential hr luck. Mountain folk, of count, chose their good iuck pieces from a number of other sour ces, primarily from the animal and plant worlds. Small bones from the back bone of a black cat, a piece of head bone from a pig, the tip of bull's hom, a fragment & antler from a buck, the inevi table rabbit's foot-all offered promise of good fortune and-or protection from disease. So did such items as a grain of red com carried in the pocket, a heart-shaped leaf or fourleaf dover pressed into a shoe, a bachelor button pinned to the lining of a coat. Most popular overall waa-and is-the buckeye. With its asso ciation with the eye, the buckeye has always been ac corded magical powers, not only to bring good fortune but to ward off or cure numerous physical ailments, including backache, rheumatism and ar thritis. It may never rank with Mr. Reagan's golden horseshoe charm, but it is the mountain eer's make-do answer until he can afford to invest in gold. Apropos Atone by Edwin R. Andrews The young soldier was peel ing potatoes out behind the messhall when my jeep stop ped in the battery area. Since he was the first person I saw, I decided to begin my visits of the day with him. I walked up the hill, found an apple crate, and sat down to make his acquaintance "And when do you rotate back to the States?" This was the "number one" conversa tion starter in Korea, particu larly on a first meeting. I sat back to watch his face light up, Edwin Andrews to hear exdted descriptions of Brooklyn or Texas-and learn ed again the basic lesson: don't ever predict how the American soldier will react. "Don't know," he replied gruffly. "Makes no difference anyhow." His paring knife continued its humble work, now digging viciously into the eyes of the potatoes. I had no answer, but my face asked the obvious question. After an uncomfortable si lence, he answered it. "You see that ruch down there-that mad rush?" I fol lowed his gesture to the order ly room, and saw the begin nings of one of the Army's most cherished formations: mail call. "I never go," he said flatly. "There's no reason to go; tetters never come for me. Nobody to write them. And why hurry bach to the States? There's no place to go. " Nobody...no piaoe... Could it be, I wondered, that when this man heard "Be it ever so humble...," he had nothing to bring before Ms mind but a fotding cot in "B" Battery, 8th FleM ArMBery, 25th Infantry Division? Were there no pic tures in his wallet, no keep sakes in his footlocher? I had heard of the homeless, the completely alone In this life, bat to meet and talk to one. .. I can only hope I contributed something worthwhile that day, but frankly, I doubt it. I was much too busy recogniz ing for the first time how much difference there is between being lonely and being alone. For a long time after that visit, as I read the letters from home telling me to get plenty of sleep and keep my feet dry, recalling to me die house in E3 Paso with the old Chevrolet in the yard, I often see again a tone figure: a soidier with a country to defend and no hearthside to caii his own. Hard as it is to see some times, ioneiiness has its points. Living and Growing Love insteod of onger by Cad Mumpower, M.S.W. Asheville Counseling Center I had seen the couple sitting before me many times. Their complaints about one another were similar to those of others who are having marital pro blems Both claimed that the other was unloving, inconsis tent, manipulative and unco operative. Both used the other as justification for their own poor behavior. Each indicated that if the other changed that he or she would quit arguing, attacking and hurting his or her spouse. When the word responsibilty came up, each pointed the finger away from himself. Car! Mumpower This coupie probably won't make it. That's okay, if a broken marriage is what they want. The problem is that they are going to pay a price once it is all over. You see, both of these people are filled with anger toward one another. The basis of their interest in end ing the marriage is mutual resentment and hostility. In each case, neither spouse is in a position to point a finger at the other. Neither is presently giving the marriage his best shot. Both are guilty of crimes against one another. Although their chosen crimes may be a bit different in character, they! are no different in damaging effect. That anger and resent ment will eventually have harmful consequences for each spouse. I'm not sure why, but most of us seem to believe that separation, divorce, hatred, anger and resentment have to go hand in hand. The founda tion of that assumption is if you can still iove or like your spouse, then why would you want to leave him? It sounds reasonable, but Tm afraid it doesn't work that way. You can love a person at one level, but at another have little respect or appreciation for his ways. You may care greatly for that person, but feel uncom fortable with the way he is choosing to live his life. From your end you may invest a great deal into the marriage, while your spouse chooses to invest little. Under such cir cumstances, it can become hostile to continue staying in a relationship and thus tolera ting mediocrity and stagna (ion. That is definitely not a loving thing to do. Much of the trauma that is associated with divorce and separation is centered not so n nch on the loss of a loved one, but the anger and vindic tiveness that couples so often build into their separation. It's that anger that feeds the hurt, anxiety and conflict that scars parents and children involved in a broken home. What Tm saying is that it's not necessary to hate someone to separate yourself from him or her. Sometimes we see hate and anger as an effective way to distract us from hurt and loneliness. It does so on a short term basis, but charges us a lot on a long-term basis. In tact, anger in many ways is a greater bond than love and over time serves to keep us tied in with the person we resent rather than help us separate ourselves from them. It acts much like glue. So, if separation is your direction, give some serious thought to how you plan to go about it. Td suggest that you take a position of love instead of anger. The first one frees you while the second ties you up. Love them first, then leave. Overcoming the barrier W ritten and illustrated by A. Wayne W Hbehn The cross of Christ opens the way to God for men of every color, nation and tongue. W ithout His sacrificial death there is no freedom from sin and no way back to the Father, for sin is the roadblock that doses off the route to God. No man is sinless. He may be a good man and he may perform many meritorious works, but God sees his sin and condemns him for it. The penalty is everlasting separa tion from God. However, Christ, the sinless Son of God, took the sins of all mankind upon Himself and died on the cross in their place. Now, regardless of past sins, anyone who is truly repentant and accepts Christ as his Savior is freed from the guilt of sin. God, who before would have been his Judge, now merciful ly accepts the death of the Savior as payment in full for him. Because of the cross of Christ, he can communicate with God. (rod, Himself, wants to es tablish this reconciliation with men and He has a plan to bring it about. His Holy Spirit begins the process by planting the fact of Christ's victory over death in the heart of an unbelieving man. Knowing this as a fact is not enough. Each man must realize and acknowledge that he is a sinner, unworthy and unable to come to God through any merit of his own. When he is humble, the Holy Spirit will continue to nourish the seed He planted until the repentant sinner realizes that his only hope of redemption from the curse of sin lies in the cross. Those who have been saved by the power of the cross are C' istian brothers and sisters who are basically unified worldwide. That company of brotherely love & black, brown, red, yellow and white. There are no racial or national barriers, and a sense of one ness in the Holy Spirit prevails as all understand the heaven inspired Word of God and try to live by it. The Crucified One unequivocably accepts them all as equal before Him. As believers, they know Him as their Savior and Master, and present themselves as His love slaves. We are told & Romans 6 that we choose our own master to whom our lives become enslaved. We can choose to be enticed by the thrill of sin, enjoy the temporal satisfaction that it gives, be a slave & selfish desires-and be lost. Or, we can accept salvation, become love slaves to Christ, and live holy lives enjoying God's blessing. Men everywhere are seek ing freedom. Jesus made a statement that is still pertinent for 20th century men: "You are truly my disciples if you live as I tell you to. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 831, 32 MV. BIB ). By choo sing Christ as Master we can be free indeed. XKMgMMOCrTD^MSMMf GOD. /SAJ9;2 I Rejections !nf!uence of ideos by Gretchen Corbitt R was one of those days at the end of summer when the Bowers were losing their luster like one's hopes, the leaves tumbling as one's years, the douds taking flight like illu sions, the light shrinking like the mind, the sun growing cooler like affections, and the streams becoming chilly like lives. The bedridden professor, rob ed in a soft embroidered dressing gown of a rich purpie tint, was propped up with pillows. He looked intently beyond the window at a far stretching scene of woods and cornfields, which glowed in the light of a brilliant sunset. His noble forehead and thin face lit up with cheerfulness as the constant lady visitor enter ed the room. He waved his hand toward the window as he pointed out the gorgeous vista beyond, while in the other hand he held an open Bible, which he was always studying. "What are you reading now?" she asked as she seated herself by his bedside. "Hebrews!" he answered, "Still Hebrews, The Royal Book, I called it" Then, placing his finger on certain passages, he commented on them. "I made some allusions to the strong opinions expressed by many persons on this history of the Creation, its grandeur, and then their treatment of the earliest chapters of the Book of Genesis." The professor seemed greatly distressed, his fingers twitch ed nervously, and a lode of agony came over his face as he made a statement that gener ations upon generations after him did not hear: "I was a young man with unformed Ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas Gretchen Corbitt took like wildfire. People made a religion of them. " Then he paused, looking at the Bible which he was holding tenderly all the time, and suddenly said, "I have a summer house in the garden which holds about 30 people. Tomorrow afternoon 1 should like the servants of the place and a few of the neighbors to gather there and I want the Holy Writ read and then I want some of the old hymns sung." At the sunset of life the very soul of tragedy was exposed! Charles Darwin, the enthusi ast for the Bible, speaking with brilliant enthusiasm about the "grandeur" of its contents, was reminded of the evolutional movement in the ology which linked with skepti cal criticism, and how much damage had been done and now he was deploring it aB and dedaring: "I was a young man with unformed ideas!" Oh, the impact of ideas! Some go roaring throughout the universe louder than a missile. They am be more powerful for good or evil than armies. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet and author, said of the influences of ideas: "Many ideas grow better when trans planted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. Healthy growths may become poison ous by falling upon the wrong mental soil, and what seemed a nightshade in one mind unfolds as a morning glory in the other. " Better to examine ideas than latch them on too quickly. Express yoursetf! ... in a Letter to the Editor State youropinion, sign it and bring or mai! it to the News before 5 p.m. Monday. D?*vHines for Valley Happenings, weddings, letters to the editor, dub news and spedal events is 5 p.m. Monday. We welcome your news items. P!ease type or print clearly, double-spaced. Letters to the editor must be signed. Controversial letters must be signed in person before the editor. The editor reserves the right to determine what will be published. The deadline for classified and display advertising is noon on Tuesday.
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