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Jf&t h jfl jBifek ml MM J Nw. Jb B fPKSr I aw #V Jf n 0 M |m B S M n. 0 . fm B gmU a K JH Jr Wb, J V. ' J| JP .^EL" Thursday, January 7, 1982, Volume 30, Number 1 Member of the N CPA 25 Mrs. Junle Callison trims stamps from envelopes which will help feed hungry children. Licking hunger with cancelled stamps by Cynthia Reimer Stamp collecting is not unusual, but Mrs. Junie Callison’s version of the popular hobby is. Once a month, Mrs. Callison walks to Black Mountain from her home on Sunset Drive with a tote bag on her arm to make her rounds. Stopping at CP&L, City Hall, Burnette’s Appliances, the Black Mountain News, Black Mountain Hardware and the Baptist Church, she fills her bag with envelopes the busi nesses have saved for her. Back at home, Mrs. Callison spends many hours trimming off the postage stamps which she boxes and sends to “Stamps for Food” in Indianapolis, Indiana. “I read about it in the (Asheville) paper,” Mrs. Callison said. “I started sending my own stamps in two or three years ago.” The stamps are sold for stamp collectors to purchase and the money is used to feed and clothe children in destitute areas of the world. When Mrs. Callison first began sending the stamps, the funds were used to aid the children of Bangaladesh. Recently Mrs. Callison got a letter from Linda Collins, program director for Stamps for Food. “Thank you for your efforts,” Collins wrote. “We appreciate the time you have spent saving stamps. “If at all possible, please help by showing this form to churches, dubs, schools, banks, utility companies, nei ghbors and friends. “Please continue to save your post age stamps. We can use many more stamps for this worthy cause.” Anyone who wishes to send stamps to Stamps for Food may do so. The address is 5134 E. 65th Street, Indiana polis, Indiana 46220. A printing unit (left) and the top half of the folder of the new Solna King offset press were unloaded last Thursday. Charlie Taylor prepares to uncrate It (Photo by Dennis Harris) Inside... Mountain Living Magazine featuring Swannanoa's songwriter, BILL Y EDD WHEELER ' House fire starts in firepiace Fire destroyed the upper floor of a two story home on Old US 70 Saturday evening. The Mark Brook family was not at home when the fire broke out. A neighbor reported the blaze to Blade Mountain firemen at 6:49 p.m. The fire apparently started when embers fell into the ash box of a fireplace, igniting combustible mater ials nearby, Fire Chief Gary Bartlett said. The fire spread through the wall of the house before breaking through the roof. Hie downstairs room where the fire started was also destroyed. Swannanoa Volunteer Fire Depart ment assisted Black Mountain. Twenty four Black Mountain firemen were at the scene three hours and 14 minutes. Swannanoa council allocated $18,500 Two Valley organizations were among the 32 member agencies of the United Way of Asheville-Buncombe County to be assigned allocations last week, according to Resident Karie Lehman. Hie Swannanoa Community Council will receive $18,500. The Black Moun tain Christmas Cheer Fund will receive $480. Hie allocations were based on $1.33 Christmas gifts stolen A little of the “merry” went out of Christmas this year for a young Swan nanoa man when his Christmas pre sents were stolen on Dec. 20. J. McDowell’s gifts were taken from behind Bi-Lo by a person in a pick-up truck between 3 and 4 p.m., McDowell reported. Hie box contained a blue coat, binoculars and other items valued flt $80. Included were my Christmas gifts I dn t get to open,” McDowell said. Since this happened it looks like my Christmas is going to be sad.” McDowell is unemployed and lives with his father in Swannanoa. Anyone with information about the incident should contact the police. million pledged during the United Way fund-raising campaign. Windows destroyed by vandals Vandals with BB guns put holes through school bus windows and the windows of a home and garage in Black Mountain last week. An Asheville Christian Academy bus, parked at the driver’s home on Crag mont Road, was damaged on Dec. 28. Two windows in a garage and one window of a home on Chapel Road in Black Mountain were broken on Dec. 30. “It was apparently done by the same people,” a spokesman for the Black Mountain Police Department said. No arrests have been made. Black Mountain police also reported an assault resulting in one injury at the Hop-In store on Jan. 1. Three women in two cars began fighting over alleged tailgating, police said. Fblice issued four traffic citations and made two arrests for driving while intoxicated in the past seven days. Police also reported “45 or 50 assists to motorists" in the inclement weather in December. Hie second story of a Black Mountain home was destroyed by fire Saturday night. (Photo by Charies Taylor) Weather review Dec. 30--high 42, low 14 degrees. Dec. 31--high 34, low 27 degrees; 1.45 inches precipitation. Jan. l--high 48, low 33 degrees; .05 indies predpitation. Jan. 2-high 48, low 22 degrees; .01 inches predpitation. Jan. 3-high 47, low 32 degrees; 1.03 indies predpitation. Jan. 4-high 55, low 38 degrees; 1.19 ip inches precipitation. Total precipitation for December: 4.70. inches. Total for 1981: 36.13 inches. Weather courtesy of WFGW radio, Black Mountain. News gets new offset press 10 unit offset capable of producing 20,000 copies an hour by Cynthia Reimer The Black Mountain News received a 70,000 pound package on the last day of 1981-a shiny new Solna King offset press. Delivered to the old Big Buy building on Montreat Road from Joplin, Mis souri, on two transfer trucks, the units were winched out and carried into the building with an eight-ton hyster. The press will be the biggest of its kind in the Southeast, according to Solna King salesman Bill Rudders. The new press will take about two months to set up, said productiun manager Charles Taylor. With the press came an expert erector, Johnny Eckerd, who will install it. Erecting the press is a delicate and exacting operation, Taylor said. Once set up, it will be leveled, realigned, straightened and readjusted to an accuracy of one 1000th of an inch, not an easy feat on an uneven floor. Hie 10-unit press is 13% feet high and 81 feet long. It has a capacity of 32 full black and white pages or 64 tabloid pages. Two of the units are color units, enabling the press to run three colors plus black ink simultaneously. The press is driven by a 100 horsepower motor. Capable of produc ing 20,000 copies an hour, it will print newspapers and circulars only. Hie webs, or rolls of newsprint, will run underneath the press beneath uitwalks, Taylor said. Hie printing division of The Blade Mountain News, Mountain Media, cur rently prints 11 newspapers. “Hiis new press should bring color print work to Blade Mountain," publisher Aycock said, "ft could eventually mean some jobs for Black Mountain." "Hie press will very likely mean more color in The Blade vw^untain News, and also in Mountain living Magazine," Aycock said. Over the next months, the Big Buy building will become the new home of Hie Black Mountain News. Production manager Chariie Taylor (right) observes as Johmy Ecfcerd adjusts the IS ft foot folder on the new Sotna King offaet press. (Phot© by Dennis Harris)
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