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Thursday, September 10, 1981, Volume 29, Number 37 Second CidSS pOStdge P3id 3t B)3Ck M0Unt3)fl, NC 28711
Facuity art exhibit to open Sunday
at Hack Mountain Library
An exhibition of 60 recent art works
by Western Carolina University's art
faculty will open this Sunday in the
Education Room of the Black Mountain
Library with a reception, open to the
public, from 3-5 p.m.
The show, which indudes works in a
wide variety of media, is the Brat on the
department of art's 1M1-2 schedule and
indudes works by all 13 of Western's
art faculty members.
Bis the largest faculty exhibit in
several years with pieces ranging from
small collages to a 12-foot batik.
Faculty members participating in the
show are Joyce Blunk, William Buchan
an, Lee Budahl.Joan Byrd, Judith
Duffey, Evan Firestone, Wade Hob
good, Ptnry KeUy, William Ddh, David
Mchols, Duane Oliver, Jim Smith and
Lori Van Houten. Media represented
will be assemblage, collage, raku
(pottery), oil, mixed media, photo
collage, photography, batik, pastel,
intrglio, woodcut, glass, felt marker,
colored pendl, cut paper multiple,
charooal and conte.
The exhibition will continue through
Sunday, Sept. 26. R wiD be open hum
10 a m. to 5 p.m. Monday -Saturday and
2-4 p m. Sundays. The public is invited
to view the show without charge. Works
may be purchased from the artists.
The exhibit is co-sponsored by The
Swann an oa Valley Art League and The
Old Depot Association.
"ZhocyonLotor, "a rahapoMery a*orh by WiRiam Archanan, a^iR be among
the recent axrrhs by Western CaroRna Zhaoersity's art /acuity to be /eatared in
an exhibition Sept 73-26 at the Rtach Afoantain AibRc library. [ WCt/ Pboto
by Z&rry Zhihe]
Four tnjured tn
one-cor crosh
A one-car accident on Assembly
Drive in Montreat on Sept. 4 resulted in
the injury of four Black Mountain
youths. The driver of the car lost control
of the vehicle about 12 JO a m., police
said. The vehide hit a rock and several
trees and then skidded 135 feet on its
top.
At impact the engihe was thrown out
of the car and stolen from the scene, ft
was recovered Monday, Sept. 7 by
Montreat police.
The injured were treated and releas
ed at Memorial Mission Hospital.
Two citations were issued, one for
reddess driving and another for having
no insurance.
Owen students goto reai-R/e Wesson in noting iast weeA wAen tAey eiected
student councii representatines. CAie/Deputy Supemisor /or tAe Bunco/nAe
County Board o/ BZecdons, RutA Austin, assisted Ratie CAapntan, an Owen
/resAman, in casting Aer Aaiiot in a noting nuwAine.
Owen students e!ect
counci) reps
me vwen rugn muuem wuy etet^eu
new Student Council representatives for
the 1981-82 school year. They are:
David West, president; Amy Venturel
la, vice-president; Paula Wright, secre
tary; and Allen Blizzard, treasurer.
/tiwr apwuica *uc:nmy,
Sept. 1, the officers were elected
Wednesday and Thursday. There were
five candidates for president and two for
vice-president. The offices of secretary
and treasurer were uncontested.
For preschooters
Motes and mice
subject for ptogyam
The first program in a new series at
the Black Mountain Library wili rein
force what every child suspects
"Mole and Mice Are Nice." See a
FUm-Read a Book programs for pre
schooiers have been playing monthly
during the school year in Asheville
libraries for years, but this year the free
programs have been expanded to
indude two county libraries, Black
Mountain and North Buncombe.
"Where possible we wanted to
expand to county libraries who had
facilities," explained Suzanne Wil
liams, Asheville-Buncombe Library Sys
tem Children's Services coordinator.
"The programs feature the best
available films and books," Williams
said. Films for the first programs
indude "Mole and the TV Set," "Mole
and the Christmas Dree," "Mole and
the Rochet," and "Mole as a Painter."
Books will indude "Whose Mouse are
You?" by Robert Kraus with pictures by
Jose Aruego; "Mice Twice" by Joseph
Low; and "Alexander and the Wind-Up
Mouse" by Leo Lionni.
The programs begin at 10:30 a m.
and last 40-45 minutes. They are
designed for preschoolers ages three to
five, and wiii be attended by some
kindergartens, Williams said. They are
narrated by John Bridges.
Weather
# review
/sept. 1-high 82, low 63 degrees; .08
inches precipitation.
Sept. 2-high 84, low 59 degrees; .02
inches precipitation.
Sept. 3-high 80, low 64 degrees; .20
inches precipitation.
Sept. 4-high 76, low 65 degrees; .07
inches precipitation.
Sept. 5-high 78, low 64 degrees;
trace precipitation.
Sept. 8-high 79, low 62 degrees; 1.58
inches precipitation.
Sept. 7-high 80, low 58 degrees; .33
inches precipitation.
Weather courtesy of WPGW
Radio. Black Mountain.
County panning director to speak
by Margaret L Thomson
Charles W. Tessier, director of
planning for the Buncombe County
Hanning Department since 1976, will
be the featured speaker at the Friday,
Sept. 18 meeting of the Black Mountain
Swannanoa Valley Unit of the Asheville
Buncombe County League of Women
Voters (LWV).
Tessier, holder of graduate degrees
in urban design from North Carolina
State and the University of North
Carolina, will discuss the various as
pects involved in prudent planning for
future community development.
Mrs. Kathryn Churchill, chairman of
the Black Mountain unit of LW V, invites
a ?
all interested persons-men as well as
women-to attend the event,which opens
the League's 1981-62 year. Coffee will
served at 9:30 a m. in Lounge Three
Highland Farms Retirement Com
munity on Tabernacle Road in Black
Mountain. Hie meeting will begin at 10
a m. The program is free.
The LW V is a national organization of
concerned citizens that neither supports
nor opposes any poiitica! party or
candidate, Mrs. Churchili said. Its
purpose is to examine and provide
information in the public interest on
governmental measures and policies at
local, state and federal levels.
Poticeand fire report
Four accidents here over hoiiday weekend
mack Mountain
Fire Department
Black Mountain firemen assisted at
the scene of four accidents over the
Labor Day weekend. On Friday, Sept. 4,
four were injured in a 12 31 a m. wreck
on Assembly Drive in Montreat. At 1:13
p.m., a pick-up truck was totally
destroyed by fire on 1-40 East on Old
Fort Mountain. The fire started under
neath the truck, firemen said.
Also on Friday, firemen washed the
street at the intersection of North Blue
Ridge and Old 70 after a 11:43 p.m.
wreck.
On Saturday, Sept. 5, a car accident
occurred at the intersection of U S. 70
and Cragmont. No one was injured.
On Sept. 3, firemen answered a false
alarm at 1039 a m at the Western
Carolina Center and a malfunctioning
alarm at 531 p.m. at Highland Farms.
At 3:13 p.m. a power transformer
behind the Pizza Hut shorted out.
Black Mountain
Police Department
Black Mountain police reported an
other breaking and entering at the Black
Mountain Middle School between Fri
day, Sept. 4 and Sunday, Sept. 6, when
it was discovered. Sports equipment,
including game bails, heimets and
shoulder pads, were stolen.
Larceny of a moped from a home on
Sept. 5 or 6 was reported.
Chief S!ag!e treieased
BLack Mountain Fblice Chief Crait E. Siagie returned home from
the hospital Monday night after a two week stay in which he was
treated for second degree bums. Slagle was fueling a lawnmower at
his home when the fire occurred on Aug. 21.
"He's up and around," said his wife Frances. He is able to use his
hands, and his legs are "healing beautifully," according to his
doctors.
Chief Slagle hopes to be back at work in a few weeks; meanwhile he
is greeting friends at home.
Chu to give Chinese
cooking dosses
A series of six, once-a-week, three
hour classes in Chinese cooking <will be
offered by Peter Chu in Black Moun
tain. The classes will be heid in the
kitchen of the First Baptist Church on
Brandon announces
for counci! seat
Black Mountain Town Coundlwoman
Ruth Brandon announced her candidacy
Tuesday for re-eiection in November.
Mrs. Brandon said she feit the issues
facing the town are the same as those
facing it at the iast eiection: water,
public safety, town services and possi
ble tax increases.
Caiiing the 1981-82 town budget "the
most realistic budget this town has ever
operated under," she reminded voters
she had voted to "cut and cut deeply to
hold the tax increase to the very
minimum."
She said water projects must "receive
top priority and dose scrutiny. It must
have very careful administering of the
available funds."
Brandon is running for her fourth
term on Town Council.
Ruth Brandon
Montreat Road from 6-9 p.m. They will
begin on Thursday, Sept. 17 and run
through Oct. 22. The tuition will be $30
and there will be room for 15-20 people.
Chu is a native of Manchuria, but has
lived in the United States for more than
20 years. He is a social worker by
vocation, but in addition has had
restaurants in Chapel Hill, Raleigh and
Asheville. His avocation is creative
Chinese cooking in several styles, for he
feels that good food is a great way to
bridge cultural differences.
Mr. Chu has taught Chinese cooking
dasses in a number of places, most
recently at Haywood, Blue Ridge and
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Schools.
Because he has had so many requests
from area people to have a class locally,
he has agreed to teach this class in
Blade Mountain.
The Old Depot Association is spon
soring the cooking dass. Come by The
Depot to register and pay tuition before
Sept. 17.
A Black Mountain police officer was
assaulted when a gun was pointed at
him in a driveway on North Fork Road
on Saturday, Sept. 5 at 1120 p.m. An
arrest was made by the Buncombe
County Sheriffs Department. Charged
was Michael Glenn Treadway, 19, of N.
Fork Road, for assault by pointing a
gun.
Larceny of property from a vehicle on
W. College was reported on Sept. 3.
Two citations for drunk and disruptive
conduct were issued on Sept. 2. On
Sept. 1, breaking and entering and
larceny of a bicycle from a home was
reported.
Swannanoa Volunteer
Fire Department
Swannanoa assisted Penland's Am
bulance Service at Fountain Way on
Sept. 1. On Sept. 3, the rescue squad
received a call to Skateland.
Buncombe County
Sheriff's Department
Buncombe County Sheriffs answered
a call on East Street Monday, Sept. 7 for
an assault with a deadly weapon.
Apparently, one woman threw a rock at
another woman during an argument, a
spokesman for the department said.
No one was injured in the incident.
Chamber chatter
Counting cars
by Ed Weber
How many cars was that? A traffic
count in Black Mountain for 365 days,
24 hours per day, revealed the following
averages.
-On 1-40 crossing Highway 9,15,600
cars per day.
-On Highway 9 at the railroad trade
coming into Black Mountain, 4,200 per
day.
-On U S. 70 coming into Black
Mountain, 6,000 cars per day.
Total vehides for a 24-hour period
averages 27,600.
Owen defeates McDowet), 19-0
Story on page 6.