Jutie Barttett
Meredith Begtey
Miss Sourwood
to be crowned
Eight adorable young ladies will vie
for the title of "Miss Sourwood Sprig"
in this year's Sourwood Festival. First,
second and third places will be deter
mined by vote.
Anybody and everybody is invited to
vote as many times as they would like.
"One vote for every penny," explained
contest chairman Alice Schweitzer.
"Proceeds will go to help meet ex
penses of the festival." Voting will be
held at the Community Development
Office on State Street from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. through Friday.
The three and four-year old girls will
participate in the parade, will hand out
winning ribbons at the swim meet and
appear at other festival functions.
Winners wili be announced at the
street dance on Saturday night.
Participants are: JuMe Bartiett, 3,
daughter of Marcia and Randy Bartiett;
Meredith Begiey, 4 daughter of Wen
deil and Vicky Begiey; Vaierie Eubanks,
3, daughter of Bili and Judy Eubanks,
Amanda (Mandy) Jones, 4, daughter of
Tim and Gaii Rayburn; Kristei Rae
Jones (last year's Miss Sourwood
Sprig), 4, daughter of Betty Parvis Jones
and Larry Michaei Jones; Laura
McMurray, 3, daughter of Bobby and
Pam McMurray; Becky Mundy, 3,
daughter of Rick and Lena Mundy; and
Susan Snyder, 3, daughter of Dean and
Joyce Snyder.
Becky Mundy
Susan Snyder
3f*'
Vaterie Eubanks
Amanda Jones
Kriste! Roe Jones
Laura McMurray
Sourwood Festiva!
is under way
The Fourth Annual Sourwood Festival
is under way and win continue through
Saturday in downtown Black Mountain.
Wednesday afternoon activities, a 4 JO
p.m. parade from the Family Dollar
Store along State Street and the donkey
softbaU game at 6 p.m., open this year's
festivities.
Broadway Street sidewalk sales, Old
Depot Association arts and crafts activi
ties and special booths on Cheny Street
will be open throughout the four days.
A carnival will be held from 4-10 p.m
daily at the Black Mountain Grammar
School athletic field.
Golf and tennis tournaments began at
8 o'clock Wednesday morning.
Thursday's events will include a
swimming and diving tournament at 2
p.m. at the pool and horseshoe pitching
at 5:30 p.m. on Cherry Street. Sidewalk
artists will do pencil portraits, silhou
ettes and pastels throughout the day on
Cherry and State Streets. Jaycee craft
booths will be open on Cherry Street
throughout the festival.
A street dance will be held at Ingles
Shopping Center in Swannanoa begin
ning at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Friday events will begin with one of
the zaniest of the festival, the Slow Poke
Bicycle Race to be held on Cherry Street
at 10 a m. Events at the Depot and
exhibits and booths on Cherry Street, as
well as sidewalk sales on Broadway, will
continue. A street dance will begin at
7:30 Friday night on Sutton Avenue in
Black Mountain.
Contestants in the Sourwood Run will
take their positions at the starting line
at 8:30 a.m Saturday to begin the 5,000
and 10,000 meter runs from the club
house through downtown and around
the countryside. A one-mile fun run will
be held for youngsters.
Mr. Bill's hot air balloon will provide
rides from the Ingles Shopping Center
beginning at 8:30 a.m Saturday.
The Ugly Dog Contest will begin at
10:30 a.m on Cherry St., followed by
the homemade boat race on Lake
Tomahawk at 11:30 a.m A Jeep
caravan will provide wilderness rides in
four-wheel drive vehicles, leaving from
Cherry Street at 11 a m.
Kids' horseshoe pitching will begin at
9 am., followed by adults' in the
afternoon.
A bluegrass band will play from
1:30-4:30 p.m. on the west side of
Broadway.
Another street dance on Sutton
Avenue from 8-11 p.m. will conclude
the day.
On Sunday, a gospel sing will begin
at 7 p.m. at the Cantrell Meadowbrook
Free Will Baptist Church.
Throughout the festival,horse
drawn wagons and surries will provide
free old-fashioned transportation.
Food poisoning
cause
determined
to be ham
Staphylococcus bacteria from a bum
on the arm of a kitchen worker was to
blame in the food poisoning that sent
hundreds to the hospital last week.
Bacteria infecting some of the ham
served at dinner at the Ridgecrest
Baptist Conference Center was discov
ered by Buncombe County Health
Department investigators. All foods
served, as well as pot and pans used to
cook the food, were tested to find the
cause of the food poisoning.
Count;/ officials have waived chafes
for ambulances that transported pa
tients to Memorial Mission. St. Jos
eph's, Marion General and the Ameri
can Enka infirmary. Medical bills will
be paid by Ridgecrest or the food
service.
BNCK
Thursday, August 6, lMl, Volume 29, Number 32
Second ciass postage paid at Btack Mountain, NC 28711
$100,000 price
Montreat water-sewer purchase signed
Last Friday afternoon Monjieat com
missioners approved and signed, along
with the Mountain Retreat Association,
an agreement to purchase the water
sewer system from the Association. The
purchase price of (100,000 indudes
maintenance equipment and a storage
and repair building, along with the
distribution system and rights-of-way.
Transfer of ownership must be within
six months, when grant monies and
(650,000 in bonds become avaiiabie to
commence extensive replacement of
mains, drilling of wells, installation of
two water storage tanks and placing of
water meters at residences and all other
usens' lines. Butler Associates of Ashe
ville is consulting and planning engi
neer for the improvements.
Negotiations preliminary to the sign
mg have gained momentum over the
past three years. It was expected that
when the Town of Montreat was
chartered in 1967 the system would be
transferred to the Town, but the
proposal was rejected by the Associa
tion's trustees and water-sewer owner
ship remained with them. The water
system will be repaired first to meet
federal and state standards. In the "ear
future the Metropolitan Sewer District
will include repairs in Montreat as a
part of its over-all improvement sche
dule.
The Association and the town officials
were in complete agreement over
terms. Attorneys for both parties drew
up the agreement when negotiations
were completed about a month ago.
New Owen High Schoot footbatt coach
oversees fieid house renovation
by Bill Studenc Jr.
"Humble" is the word to describe
Bob Carlton, the new head football
coach at Charles D. Owen High School
in Swannanoa.
Carlton is the man mainly responsible
for the recent renovation of the field
house, but, as Owen Principal Charles
Lytle points out, he refuses to acknow
ledge his important role in the under
taking.
"Bob has been out here 15 hours a
day, seven days a week, for the past five
weeks," said Lytle. "We could never
have gotten it finished without him."
"The credit goes to the people of the
community," said Carlton, a native of
Newberry, South Carolina. "The co
operation from the administration, the
Booster Club and the community is
overwhelming. There are so many that
helped that it's impossible to name
them all, but I'd like to give them my
personal thanks."
Nearly all of the materials, labor and
time that went into the construction
were donated by people from the
Swannanoa Valley, Carlton said.
The renovation, which includes the
construction of 1600 additional square
feet, new carpeting and paint, a new
whirlpool and many other improve
ments, would have cost over $50,000
without the donations from the com
munity, said the 15 year coaching
veteran. The total actual cash input has
been about $5,000.
The fieldhouse, which is scheduled to
be completed this week, had always
been a sore spot in the Owen football
program.
' This was our number one priority,''
said Carlton. "To give the kids a place
to be proud of. Now we can turn our
thoughts to coaching football."
Carlton says that despite the loss of
many key players due to graduation, he
is quite optimistic about the upcoming
season.
"I'm a very positive thinker, but it
would be stupid of me to promise to win
'x' number of games," he said. "But I
do promise it to be very exciting football
and a very disciplined team"
Carlton's whole philosophy of life is
one of a positive attitude, as proven by
his positive attitude when many doubt
ed that the field house would be com
pleted by the start of the season.
"There are two things you can do
with a negative," he said. "You can
take a negative and complain, or you
can take a negative and turn it into a
positive."
But while he is a positive thinker,
Cariton aiso admits that he is an
outspoken person.
"I've been both good and bad in
pubiic relations. I'm not a politician,"
he said. "I could not care less who
someone's daddy is or what color they
are. All our kids start out equal. Then
we work to get the good players into the
good spots. "
"If I worry about people who don't
like me, Til neglect the more important
things," Carlton said. "Sure, I'm
sensitive like everybody else. But if you
make a decision, you make it with your
heart. That's all that I've got to satisfy.
I'm making decisions for the whole
program, not one or two individuals. "
Carlton said that he despised the
word "1" in athletics, which is a "we"
operation. "I've never won a football
game There are 50 players and many
coaches who have something to say
about how a game turns out," he said.
Carlton will be joined on the varsity
coaching staff by J D. Hinson, Ralph
Singleton and Jimmy Bell. Bill Mott and
Bill Rucker will coach the junior varsty
squad, while Dean McElrath and Leith
Pope man the helm on the seventh and
eighth grade level.
An open house will be held sometime
Weather
review ^
July 28 - high 88, low 63 degrees.
July 29-high 84, low 67; .10 inches
precipitation.
July 30-high 70, low 58 degrees.
July 31--weather statistics not re
corded.
Aug. 1-high 68, low 59 degrees; .41
inches precipitation.
Aug. 2-high 72, low 59 degrees; .06
inches precipitation.
Aug. 3-high 83, low 60 degrees.
in mid-August to allow people to meet
Coach Carlton and his staff and to see
the newly-renovated field house.
"Hopefully they will see the cost and
time involved in a successful fcctbat!
program and contribute what they
can," Carlton said.
Owen opens its season on the road at
Ekwin High School August 28.
New head footbali coach Bob Cadton was joined by Ms i 0-year o!d son Cody
at the Held house construction site.
Ordinance restricts water use
If you washed your car last week or watered your
garden, you were breaking the taw. Because the
water supply is criticatty tow, the Town Board dusted
off a 1977 ordinance at an emergency meeting
restricting use of water in Black Mountain.
The ordinance makes it untawfut to Wash motor
vehicles, water yard or shrubs or gardens, fitt poots
or operate fountains.In fact, water is onty to be used
for fire protection and human consumption.
Water in the Duns more Cove Reservoir is down a
total of seven feet. Over the weekend, the level fetl
another four inches, leaving, according to acting
Town Clerk Suzanne Turner, about a nine-day
supply.
The new well at the golf course awaits an okay
from the State Department of Health and Natural
Resources. Fhpers were sent off Monday with a plea
for haste from Mayor Tom Sobol.
The well could save the Town from having to
purchase water from the City of Asheville, as was
the case in the summer of 1977. The result then,
according to Turner, was a "very big cost to the
Town."