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October 8, 1981, Volume 29, Number 41
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Autumn hues frame Ephrian Baie's cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo by Lewis Hlsworth.
Teenage gir! missing since Sept.l 1
Peggy Sue Loftin, age 16, is missing.
She was last seen at 11 JO p.m. on Sept.
11 when she and her family were
preparing for bed. Anyone having
information concerning the where
abouts of the petite teenager is asked to
call the Buncombe County Sheriffs
Department.
Peggy has run away before, Mrs.
Craig, her mother said, but she has
never been away for more than a day or
two. and she has always let the family
know where she was. There had been no
arguments the evening she disappear
ed, her mother said, but Peggy had not
wanted to return to the group home
where she had been staying.
"She may be travelling with a male
companion," her mother said. "His car
was seen in the vicinity the night she
left." The car is a blue Pontiac station
wagon with imitation wood sides and a
dented right rear fender.
Peggy Sue Loftin
Peggy is four feet 11 inches tali and
weighs 105 pounds. She has iong black
hair, blue eyes, and a scar on the inside
of one wrist. She usually wears jeans
and shirts, and she ieft in biue tennis
shoes.
"I just want to find out if she's okay,"
said her mother.
Firemen wi!! inspect
wood stove instaiiation free
Black Mountain Bremen will inspect
wood stove installations to make sure
they are fireproof, Fire Chief Gary
Bartlett said. "We'll be glad to check
before they spend the time and money
putting it in, " Bartlett said.
So far this fall, firemen have inspect
Warhorses down
Mitche!!, 25-0
Story on page 6
ed 25 wood stoves. "We've saved a tot
of property loss doing these wood stove
inspections," Bartlett said. He said the
most common mistakes were made in
putting the stove pipe through the wall.
The inspections are free.
Weather
review
Sept. 29-high 76, low 35 degrees.
Sept. 30-high 81, iow 39 degrees.
Oct. 1-high 82, iow 44 degrees.
Oct. 2-high 56, iow 49 degrees; .28
inches precipitation.
Oct. 3-high 67, iow 34 degrees.
Oct. 4-high 76, iow 32 degrees.
Oct. 5-high 70, iow 43 degrees; trace
precipitation.
W eather information cour^
tesy of WPGW Radio, Bl** Mountain.
Charter Commission
eiects chairman
by Cynthia Reimer
John Shuford was elected chairman of
the Asheville Buncombe Charter Com
mission last Wednesday afternoon at
the group's first meeting. Elected vice
chairman was former judge, James
Baley, and secretary, Harold Ehloe.
Shuford was not present at the
meeung. In his absence, Baley took the
chair from acting chairman James
McClure Clarke. He opened a dis
cussion on the purpose and duties of the
commission. Acting secretary, Ashe
ville City Manager Ken Michalove
recorded the minutes.
During the discussion, Max Cogbum,
an attorney, stated he feit a secretary
shouid be elected from commission
members. After a long discussion, a
motion made by Cogbum to open
nominations was passed. Ehloe was
elected secretary and appointed Mich
alove his assistant.
After more discussion on the goals of
the commission and how to read! them,
a motion was made and passed to
contact the Institute of Government in
Chapel Hill for assistance.
The next meeting will be held Oct. 13
in the Health and Social Services
Building conference room in Asheville.
The commission will continue to m$et
the second and fourth Tuesday of the
month at 430 p.m. Hie meetings are
open to the public.
Hie Rev. Edgar Ferrell represents
Black Mountain on the commission,
which will draw up a charter for a
combined city-county government to be
voted on next year.
Hunt appoints residents
to transportation counci )s
Governor Jim Hunt today appointed
10 Buncombe County residents to the
county's Transportation Efficiency
Council.
The Governor established the coun
cils in all 100 counties by Executive
Order this spring to help insure wise
and efficient use of the additional
highway dollars provided by legislative
approval of his "Good Roads " program.
"These councils will advise me and
the State Board of Transportation on
how we can improve efficiency and
productivity in our Department of
Transportaion, " Hunt said. "This will
give local people the chance to examine
and review the work of the Department
of Transportation on the roads where
they live.
"Local residents will be able to go to
their county's Efficiency Council when
they have complaints about a mainte
nance crew wasting time, or not doing a
thorough job, or whatever it may be,"
Hunt said.
The Governor's appointees to the
Buncombe County Council are John Q.
Buchanon, Gordon Greenwood Jr.,
Marilyn Hall, Ted Linn, James Rhew
and Jack Woody, all of Asheville; Frank
Hutchinson of Enka, Robert Miller of
Black Mountain, Mrs. Margaret
O'Donnell Shepherd of BamardsviUe
and Mayor Tom Sobol of Black Moun
Josef Aibersexhibitof
sitkscreen prints in Montreat
Twelve siikscreen prints by
Josef Albers will be on exhibit in
Montreat's Convocation Hall from Oct
ober 6-23. A traveling exhibit from the
North Carolina Museum of Art, these
works are from Albers' double port
folio "Formulation: Articulation."
Bom March 19, 1888, in Bottrop,
Germany, Albers taught school for
several years before entering the Royal
Art School in Berlin in 1913.
Albers left Germany in 1933, coming
to the United States with his wife, Anni,
a weaver. He was soon honored with
one-man shows. He had more than 20
one-man shows in a five year period
from 1936 to 1941.
Albers lived in North Carolina from
1933 to 1949, serving on the Black
Mountain College faculty. In 1950 he
became head of the Yale University Art
School, a post he held until 1958.
Albers is best known for his series of
squares within squares, an invest
igation into the interplay of colors. The
12 prints to be shown in Montreat's
Convocation Hall are considered a
technical tour de force, reproducing the
subleties in color that have become
Albers' trademark.
Gallery hours in Montreat are 10 a.m. to
4 p.m.
tain. Members will serve terms of two
years.
The councils will work closely with
the State Board of Transportation.
James W. Daniels of Asheville, the local
member of the State Transportation
Board, will be chairman of the Bun
combe County Transportation Effic
iency Council.
Members of the General Assembly
will serve as ex-officio members of the
councils in their districts. Serving on the
Buncombe County Council will be
Representative Marie Colton (D-Bun
combe), Representative Narvei J. Craw
ford (D-Buncombe), Representative
Gordon Greenwood (D-Buncombe),
Representative Martin Nesbitt, Jr.
(D-Buncombe), Senator James McClure
Clarke (D-Buncombe) and Senator Rob
ert S.Swain (D-Buncombe).
Hie Executive Order says that the
council "will examine the work pro
gram, policies, methods and operations
of each Department of Transportation
county maintenance unit" and make
recommendations to the Governor and
the Board of Transportation on im
proving efficiency and productivity in
those units."
The councils will work with division
and district engineers, as well as with
the maintenance supervisors, to review
the performance of State highway
crews.
The Governor said he particularly
looked for "business people and local
government and dvic leaders to serve
on these councils, people who have a
broad range of contacts and who are
known throughout their county."
"Prefacio," sitkscreen by Josef A!bers