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Thursday, Man* 11, 1982, Volume SO, Number 10 Member of the NCPA _251
A/ Richardson
Town Clerk Richardson
will rely on his
business experience
by Cynthia Reimer
“Running a town is like running your
own business, on a bigger scale,” said
new Black Mountain town clerk, Albert
Richardson. Richardson, a Blade Moun
tain native and lifelong resident, has
completed the first week in his new
position, repladng Vinson Miller who
resigned in January.
Richarson said he sees managing the
town as ‘‘a tremendous challenge.”
“We have excellent people working for
the town and an excellent town board,”
he added.
Richardson and his wife Betty own
Richardson’s Appliance and Paint in the
WNC Shopping Center. His wife, he
said, will manage the store in his
absence.
For 10 years Richardson operated a
Sears Catalogue Store in the same
location.
“Being in business for myself for 12
years and handling all phases of the
business would beany biggest asset,”
Richardson said.
Richardson is chairman of the ABC
board here and a member of the First
Baptist Sunday School. He and his wife
have two children, Jeff, 18, and
Melissa, 15. Melissa is a sophomore at
Owen High School. Jeff will attend
Appalachian State in the fall.
Richarson worked forExCello Corpor
ation for seven and a half years as a tool
and gauge inspector, and for C.T.S.
Corporation in Arden as a quality
control supervisor. He has also been an
agent for Allstate Insurance Company.
He is an Owen High School graduate,
and attended Asheville-Buncombe
Technical College, where his major
courses were in human relations and
industrial communications.
Richardson is Black Mountain’s third
town clerk since last July, when Ernest
Hudgins resigned.
Town to enter contract with
Land-of-Sky Council for assistance
by Jim Aycock
Black Mountain aldermen unani
mously passed a resolution to enter into
a contract with Land-Of-Sky Regional
Council for community development
planning at the board’s meeting Mon
day night, March 8 at City Hall. The
move followed a recommendation of the
Chamber of Commerce and its Econo
mic Development Committee.
A ceiling of $2,000 was placed on
town expenditures for the contract.
Blade Mountain’s new town derk A1
Richardson was officially welcomed to
his first board meeting in that capadty,
as was Carol Garland as new senior
dtizens director.
A dean-up campaign involving the
Department of Transportation and the
town’s youth programs was approved
for April 19-24 and Sept. 13-17. The
program will be coordinated through
Department of Transportation district
engineer Bob Crumpler’s office. Details
of the clean-up will be announced later.
The board also announced that the
DOT had requested notice of any
changes in streets in the town limits.
There were none.
Mayor Tom Sobol read a letter from
Nilsson Engineering concerning the
town’s water programs. The water plan
has been approved by Farmers Home
Administration and now awaits appro
val of the North Carolina Department of
Health Services before bids can be
advertised and construction begun.
The mayor reported that Blade Moun
tain will receive some $19,112 from the
Buncombe County sales tax collections
totaling over $2,000,000.
The board restored a $2,500 limit to
expenditures the town manager may
make without board approval. The limit
had been temporarily reduced to $1,000
some time ago.
The aldermen unanimously voted to
renew water bond antidpation notes
that have expired. The amount is
$75,000 at variable interest. The bonds
provide working capital prior to getting
a grant.
A high bid of $8,600 by Joseph M.
Tyson was accepted for a town-owned
lot on the golf course. The bid is subject
Meeting to consider town's future
The Black Mountain-Swannanoa
Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a
dtywide meeting Monday, March 15 at
7:30 p.m. in the Black Mountain
library. Merchants, civic club members
and citizens are invited to attend.
The purpose of the meeting will be to
discuss the future of downtown Blade
Mountain and to determine new goals to
assist Blade Mountain through a diffi
cult economic period.
Those attending will have an oppor
tunity to review such subjects as
business enhancement, enticing new
business to Black Mountain, and park
ing, pedestrian and traffic situations.
The agenda will include a welcoming
statement from Chamber President Bill
White Jr. and Chamber chairman for
the Merchants Promotion Committee
Susan Garland. Kathy Wacaster will
discuss Community Development’s role
in economic development and W endell
Begley, Chamber chairman of the
Economic Development Committee will
discuss the Chamber’s current status in
economic development.
Frances Berry community develop
ment director of the Land-of-Sky Reg
ional Council, will introduce the guest
speaker, John Smalling from the Tenn
essee Valley Authority “Town Lift’?
program. Smalling will speak and show
a slide presentation on the “Town Lift”
program which the town and chamber
are considering participating in.
Susan Garland said, “We encourage
everyone interested to attend. We need
input in order to organize for action.”
IT & C Conpany, one of 27 Junior Achievement companies in Western
North Carolina, silk-screened two of the trays they produce with the
Residential Seal for Representative Bill Hendon to present to President
Reagan. Presenting the trays to Hendon Monday morning were (left) Tim
Middleton, IT & C president^ and Tim Clubb, vice president, both from
Swannanoa. The company is sponsored by Tandy and Chemtronics.
Weather
Review
March l~high 49, low 24 degrees; .02
inches precipitation.
March 2--high 66, low 23 degrees.
March 3--high 60, low 33 degrees.
March 4-high 56, low 33 degrees.
March 5~high 70, low 33 degrees.
March 6~high 50, low 39 degrees; .04
indies predpitation.
March 7-high 44, low 34 degrees; .97
indies predpitation.
March 8-high 47, low 17 degrees.
Total predpitation for February was
5.38 inches; for 1982, 10.13 inches.
to a 10 day upset bid. Any upset bid
must exceed the figure accepted by at
least 10 percent. A second bid of $8,100
was submitted by Robert J. Ballard.
Planning Board Chairman Travis
Childs announced that the first draft of
the proposed zoning ordinance would be
ready for study at his group’s March 22
meeting at 7 p.m. at Town Hall.
Childs said twoplanningboard mem
bers’ terms expire soon. Wendell
Begley was reappointed but Harold
Special meetings
Two important meetings for next Monday, March 15 were announced at
Monday’s Black Mountain Board of Aldermen meeting.
At 5:30 p.m Monday aldermen will meet in special session to discuss two
trailer permits and the town’s recreation program, including the hiring of a
recreation director.
Later in the evening, at 7.30 p.m., the Chamber of Commerce will hold a
citizens’ and merchants’ meeting at the Black Mountain library to discuss
economic development.
Phillip Brown, a Swannanoa wood carver, recently completed this
old-time mountain band carved from basswood. Brown, who learned his
craft from Edsel Martin In Old Fort, said the large piece was designed
on paper, cut out with a band saw, then carved with a pocket knife. The
fiddler, banjo player and bass player took Brown about 45 hours to carve.
Rogers could not continue and was
replaced by Joe Tyson by unanimous
action of the aldermen. There were not
other nominations.
Childs and Bob Fischer, chairman of
the Board of Adjustments, were asked
by the aldermen to meet with Town
Clerk A1 Richardson to prepare a job
description for the position of building
inspector and zoning administrator.
Marion Godfrey, who has resigned the
post, will extend his service through
March. The board will look into the
possibility that Montreat and Black
Mountain may hire one person jointly
for that job.
The aldermen approved issuing a
temporary sign permit to Barclay’s
American Finance Co.
The board unanimously moved to
advertise for bids for the town audit for
fiscal year 1981-82. Mayor Sobol advis
ed the other members that care should
be taken to forestall hidden costs in
accepting a bid from auditors.
The aldermen agreed that no funds
should be spent for a dog warden, that
Street Department personnel could set
out and pick up the cages used to trap
stray animals. Owners of tagged dogs
should be notified before the pets are
delivered to the county animal shelter in
Asheville, the board decided.
The board legalized speed restrict
ions past Blade Mountain Middle
School. The speed limit is set at 25 miles
per hour 30 minutes before and after
school begins and 30 minutes before
and after school ends.
The board appropriated $10,000 from
the contingency fund to partially cover
expenses of the drilling of well number
eight, which was not covered in this
year’s budget. The well cost $26,000, of
which a $16,000 defidt remains.
The board passed tax releases involv
ing properties found not to be in the
town limits.
Bids for garbage pick-up and water
meters that don’t work also were topics
at the meeting.
Members Gay Fox, Doug Stafford,
Mike Begley, Steve King and Carl
Bartlett and Mayor Sobol were all
present.
District 8 champs
Owen rolls over Brevard
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Circus parade Friday
The traditional parade of circus
animals through the streets of Asheville
is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday,
beginning at Depot and Lyman Streets
where the animals will be unloaded for
from the circus train at 10:30.
The Ringling Brothers Bamum &
Bailey Circus animals will walk from
Depot Street north on Clingman to
Patton Avenue, east on Patton to
Haywood Street and north on Haywood
to the Civic Center where they will be
housed during the circus.
With the sharp shooting ability of
Owen’s 6-11 Vi senior center Brad
Daugherty, Owen toppled Brevard with
a 77-69 victory March 3rd, to capture
the 3-A District 8 championship March
3rd.
The game was close throughout die
first half with Owen in the lead at the
half time buzzer, 30-26. The Warhorses
surged ahead in the second half and
spurted to 54-44 lead.
The Brevard Blue Devils, 22-6, the
Big Mac regular season champions,
tried to make their comeback effort in
the final quarter by scoring six unan
swered points past the Owen defense.
The effort came too late and the Blue
Devils could never cut the margin to
less than 6 points.
Owen forward Phil Groce was the
leading scorer for the Warhorses with
20 points. He also pulled dovfrn 10
rebounds before fouling out with just
five seconds remaining on the dock.
Daugherty had 11 assists, 19 re
bounds, two steals and eighth blocked
shots though he finished with only 17
points.
Keith Lanning, Keith Parker and
Mike Gragg, all starters, also scored in
the double figures for the Warhorses,
with 15, 12 and 13 points, respectively.
Mike Gragg also contributed an 8-for-9
performance from the line.
The Warhorses will be traveling to
Hickory Friday, March 12 to go up
against Shelby in the first round of the
regional toumamnet. The game will be
played at Hickory High School at 8:30
p.m.