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Thursday, December 24, 1984, Volume 29, Number 52
Mem ber of the NCPA
'Ye shaM find the babe. Jymg /n a manger'
Area churches pooled their talents In a pageant depicting the birth of the
baby Jesus In Bethlehem. Over two weeks, the characters were depicted by
different actors. Here Bryan fblton Is Joseph, Jan Post Is Mary, William
Stafford is a shepherd, Margit Brem is an angei and Mark Hopkins and A!
Wilson are kings.
Ji!! Hamiiton studying
under prestigious
program
Jill B. Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John B. Hamilton, Old U S. 70,
Black Mountain, is one of the outstand
ing scholars at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill studying this
year under the prestigious James M.
Johnston Scholarship program.
"The Johnston awards program is
intended to open wide doors of the
University to the ablest young people
who apply and who need financial
assistance," said Eleanor S. Morris,
UNC-CH director of student aid and
program administrator.
The James M. Johnston Scholarship
program is the largest in the University
of North Carolina system in the amount
of money awarded and number of
students enrolled. It provides over
(500,000 each year for students.
The program has 383 students enroll
ed at the three participating campuses.
In the program's 12 years of existence,
1,752 students have received Johnston
scholarships.
James M. Johnston, who provided
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Weather
revtew
Dec. 14-high 38, low 31 degrees; .51
/ inches precipitation.
Dec. 15-high 41, low 34 degrees; .58
indies predpitation.
Dec. 16--high 41, low 25 degrees; .02
inches predpitation.
Dec. 17-high 51, low 22 degrees; .02
inches precipitation.
Dec 18--high 28, low 21 degrees;
trace predpitation!
Ded 19-high 22, low 10 degrees.
Weather courtesy of WPGW radio
station, Black Mountain.
the funds for the program, was bom and
raised on a farm just north of Chapel
Hill. He moved away to become an
influential figure in the field of invest
ment banking in Washington, D.C.
Jill Hamilton is a graduate of Charles
D. Owen High School. She will graduate
from Chapel Hill in 1982.
Jitt Hamiiton
"Chitdhood knows the hu
man heart." Edgar AHen Poe
inside
Today's
Edition. . .
Greetings
from Area
Merchants
Hie Black Mountain News office wiii be ciosed Friday,
Jan. i for the New Year hoiiday. Deadiines wiii be as
usuai, 5 p.m. Monday for news and noon on Tuesday for
advertising.
N.Y. po!ice seek he!p
in iocating iostpiane
A $1,000 reward is being offered for
information concerning the where
abouts of a downed airplane, the search
committee of the South Jefferson Res
cue Squad in New York announced this
week.
On Dec. 1, Kenneth E. Wade and
Mrs. Frederick (Doris) VanWaldick, left
the Jacksonville, Fla. airport enroute to
Adams, N.Y. They had been at the
VanW aldick home in Jacksonville, where
Wade had flown Mrs. VanWaldick's
father-in-law, and were returning to
New York. They have not been heard
from since.
The single engine Beech craft Siera
24-N8019 Romeo was apparently lost
between Jacksonville, Fla., and Virgi
nia. The plane had fuel for about this
distance, officials said, and there is no
record of a refueling along the way.
Owen High School has Its first
computer class for juniors and
seniors this year. The computer
used Is an Apple H Hus with disk
drive. Students are tearing BASfC
program writing.
A new Computer Club, sponsor^
ed by Ms. May Matthews, who
also teaches the computer classes,
has about 30 members. Their
activities include learning pro
gramming, playing computer
games and discussing careers In
computers and computer applica
tions to science, engineering,
drafting and music.
A second computer will be
obtained second semester.
Mike Plem.nons and Nathan
Thielman, two members of the
computer class, enter program
Information on Owen's Apple I!
computer. —
The plane may have iced up and
crashed in swamp, forest or other
remote areas of the Appalachians, along
the coast or on the middle course,
authorities speculate.
Their families and citizens of their
community are offering the reward for
information leading to their recovery.
Anyone with information about the
plane should contact the Watertown,
N.Y., police (315) 782-2112.
Swannanoa has its
hoiiday decorations
by Ed Weber
With the approval of the Chamber of
Commerce Board of Directors and
through hard, fast and concerted efforts
of President Bill White, George Venture
eHa, Charles Royston, the Valley's
Jaycees and the town of Bladr Moun
tain, Christmas street decorations were
erected in Swannanoa for the holiday
season.
These decorations are expensive and
many !oca! merchants have contributed
to heip defray the cost involved. Those
who haven't and wish to do so should
call Charles Royston at 686-3801. He
wiH pick up your contributions, or send
a check to him made out to the
"Chamber of Commerce."
Swannanoa got Christmas street decorations a few days ago. Charles
Roys ton, manager of NCNB in Swannanoa, checks them out. Contributions
to pay for the decorations are being soiidted.
High death forecast
wi!! bring out patro!
The N.C. State Motor Ciub estimates
28 people may die in traffic accidents on
North Carolina streets and highways
over the upcoming Christmas and New
Year's holidays, two of the most
meaningful holidays of the year.
The state will count its toll from 6
p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 24 through
midnight Sunday, Dec. 27 for Christ
mas; and from6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31
through midnight Sunday, Jan. 3 for
New Years.
Last year 19 were killed and 1,015
injured over Christmas holidays, while
17 were killed and 826 injured over the
New Year holiday.
"This prediction, as well as every
other holiday prediction, is always an
unpleasant job, and we are always
hopeful that our predictions will far
exceed the actual loss of life at the end
of the holidays," stated Dr. John G.
Frazier, president of the statewide
motor club. "However, statistics cannot
be ignored, and with each hoiiday we
are hopefui that our message will read!
more and more motorists, making them
aware of the dangers and the fact that
only the drivers themseives can heip
reduce the needless number of deaths
that occur on our streets and high
* ways," Frazier added.
The problem strikes at all segments
of the population-infants, the elderly,
drivers, riders and pedestrians. The
facts show the tremendous loss of young
people in their most vibrant and
productive years. Approximately half of
all highway fatalities an' under 30 years
of age.
Local and State Highway Patrol
officers will be out in full force during
the holiday period, concentrating on the
speeding and drinking driver.
"Have a safe holiday," Frazier
stated, "and help keep you and your
loved ones out of the collision statis
tics."