Black Hova-talr* Lj-brary^
105 U. l*curhart>or SjWt
Black Mountain, *<«c«
Thursday. May 20. 1982. Volume 30, Number 20 Member of the NCPA 25*
Mom and Pop and the kids . . .
... — ' - . . . * .-V-.,'-.' . •: • ■■ ■ ..... .
Nothing to brood about—on sparkling Lake Tomahawk last week as Mama Duck and her
fledgling crew patrolled the waters. They shared their afternoon on the lake with a couple of
fishermen, joggers, cyclists, picknickers and a crackercrumb-equlpped photographer. [Photo by
Trina O’Donnell]
Community Development
Program receives award
The Black Mountain Community
Development Program received the
Griffin Award in recognition! of
outstanding contributions to historic
preservation bythe Preservation Society
of Asheville and Buncombe County.
The award was presented at the
annual ball held Saturday night at the
Federal Building.
Many homes have been rehabili
tated in the Black Mountain
Community Development Program.
Black Mountain Community Devel
opment Program received the award
for the rehabilitation of the 19th
century home owned by Juanita
Bishop in the Flat Creek area.
The preservation of the Bishop
house began when the North Carolina
Department of Archives and History
indicated the characteristics of the
house that were to be preserved.
wmm . ~ , m
Julie Woodcock
John Templeton graduation
speaker at Warren Wilson
John Marks Templeton, successful
manager of three mutual funds with
assets of $1.4 billion and organizer of
the $200,000 Templeton Prize for
Progress in Religion, will give the
commencement address at the Warren
Wilson College graduation, set for
Saturday, May 22, at 10 a.m. in the
college chapel.
Over the past 25 years, his
Templeton Growth Fund has outgained
every other mutual fund in the U.S.
and abroad. An investment of $10,000
in this fund in 1954 would have been
| worth $374,000 in 1981, assuming
I reinvestment of all dividends and
distributions. This increase far
outstrips the 23 percent increase in the
cost of living during the same period.
As a first-year student at Yale,
Templeton saw the Great Depression
erode his family’s assets, which forced
him to take jobs and work hard
academically to qualify for scholar
ships. Templeton looks at that
experience as having caused him “to
develop God-given talents that I might
otherwise have neglected." Templeton
earned a degree in law as a Rhodes
scholar at Oxford.
The 1982 Templeton Prize for
Progress in Religion winner is Dr.
Billy Graham. Sister Teresa of
Calcutta was the first winner of the
award in 1973. Six years later she won
the Nobel Peace Prize.
He currently resides in Nassau in
the Bahamas in a neoclassical villa,
which he and his wife styled after the
southern mansions he recalls from his
boyhood in Tennessee.
His latest book. “The Humble
Approach,” challenges the view that
religion has been outmoded by the
scientific age or that natural science is
closed to theological possibilities.
Academic
honors for
7th grader
Julie Kearns Woodcock of Black
Mountain was one of 605 North
Carolina seventh graders who obtained
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores
equal to those of college bound high
school seniors. Julie was honored in a
May 16 ceremony at Duke University.
The students took the college-level
SAT last January as participants in
Duke’s Talent Identification Program
(TIP), which seeks to identify bright
seventh-graders or 12-year-olds and
direct them toward programs for the
gifted and talented.
The talent search involved over
18,000 students and covered 16
southern and midwestem states this
year, said Dr. Robert N. Sawyer, TIP
director. The students had to score at
least 500 out of 800 points on the
mathematics portion of the SAT (450
for girls), or 430 out of 800 points on
the verbal portion or 52 out of 60
points on the Test of Standard Written
English.
All participants received certificates
of recognition for their achievement,
Sawyer said. Several participants also
received scholarship and book awards.
Julie is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Woodcock. She is a
student at Black Mountain Middle
School.
Hiker headed for Pacific Trail
by Cynthia Reimer
Some people retire to putter around
the garden and take life easy. Some
leave the rat race to play golf.
Julian Maddox of Old Lakey Gap
Road retired to walk.
The tall, trim septuagenerian took a
leave of absence from his job as a real
estate broker in Asheville in 1973 to
hike to 2,035 mile Appalachian Trail.
“When 1 got back, 1 had changed,”
Maddox said. Instead of returning to
his desk, he opted for early
retirement.
In the years since then, Maddox has
traveled many miles on shorter trails
and has completed more than half of
the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,550 path
from British Columbia to Mexico.
Maddox took his first overnight
backpacking trip 15 or 16 years ago
with an army duffle bag swung over
his back, and his World War II
Army-issue sleeping bag, accompanied
by veteran hiker Art Loeb of the
Carolina Mountain Club. The pair
walked from Turkey Pin Gap to the
Pisgah Lodge on the Parkway, down to
Pink Beds.
It was only a two-day trip, but
Maddox was sold.
He read a book by long-time friend
Ed Garvey, “Appalachian Hiker,
Experience of a Lifetime," which
planted the seed of a long-distance
hike.
“By 1973, I was ready to go. I was
going to give it a try," Maddox said.
“I didn’t know if I could do it or not."
He could, and he did.
"It is one of the most gratifying
things I’ve done in my life," he said.
With grades up to 35 and 40
percent, Maddox found the going
difficult at times. He began April 14 in
Georgia and finished in Maine on Oct.
18, averaging just over 14 miles a day
in the 140 days he walked.
“1 can’t put into words what
happened to me,” Maddox said. "The
people you meet, you’re in accord with
each other, you’re in accord with
nature. You forget the economics of
life and enjoy the esthetic.”
Maddox has three grown children.
Although he took them on hikes when
■■■■■■■■■
This pho.o of Julian Maddox was
taken by fie Siskiyou Dally News In
Yreka, Calif, when he passed through
on the Pacific Crest Trail. v
they were children, “none of them got
the bug like me,” he said. “They put
up with it, but they do I’m sure
wonder why sometimes.”
Maddox plans to return in July to
the Pacific Crest Trail where he left it
last September at Donner Pass, Calif,
in the Sierra Mountains, hiking toward
Mexico. He has, been walking the trail
for the past three years and believes
he can complete it in the next two.
Less steep grades make this trail a
little easier hiking, he said, but other
hazards exist. On Sept. 15, 1978 in
Washington at 7,600 feet, Maddox had
an experience that nearly ended in
tragedy.
To avoid wind gusts up to 45 miles
per hour, Maddox left the exposed
ridge trail for a lesser trail which
seemed to offer more protection. After
walking less than a mile, he found
himself faced with crossing a 250-foot
glacier.
"I had no crampons, no ice ax,"
Maddox said, "so I sat down, facing
downhill. I’d dig in with my heels and
scoot a few inches sideways.” He also
used his metal packframe to dig into .
the ice behind him.
Within 50 feet of the far side, he hit
a slick spot and found himself sliding
down the glacier on his stomach,
rapidly picking up speed.
“I thought, this is the end of the
line for you, Mr. Maddox,” he said.
He doesn’t know how fast or how far
he went, but a rock imbedded in the
ice offered him a handhold and finally
saved him.
Usin£ other rocks as handholds, he
Continued on page 2
Serious deterioration of the chimney
roof and windows necessitated new
construction, done by C & D
Construction Company. The basic form
of the home and its porches was
preserved.
Community Development Director
Kathy Wacaster said owners of older
homes in the community arc urged to
contact the Community Development
office at 669-6437 or Doug Swain at
the Division of Archives and History
for technical assistance in restoration.
- ..."""""".
Before and after...Black Mountain Community Development received the
Griffin Award for restoration of the Bishop home in Flat Creek. |More photos on
page 2.]
Division President
Brett visits Kearfott
John J. Brett, division president of
Singer-Kearfott, and his staff toured
the newly expanded and refurbished
plant on U.S. 70 in Black Mountain
Monday.
The tour was part of a staff and
planning meeting for the Kearfott
Division of the Singer Company. The
Black Mountain plant, headed by
Walter Mead, plant director, was host
for the meeting held Monday through
Thursday in Asheville.
Mr. Brett and his staff will spend
several days in in-depth discussion on
the division's health and growth and
will plan business strategy for
handling it.
The Black Mountain plant supplies
products which go into military
navigation equipment and secure
communications terminals.
The plant was originally built in
1955. During the past eight years, it^
has had a sustained growth period.
The Black Mountain plant employs
over 700 people.
The Singer Company is a world-wide
corporation providing sewing machine
products for the consumer and sewing
industry, consumer products in
automobiles, appliances, and furni
ture, as well as systems and
components for the military.
John O’Connor, Singer-Kearfott Manufacturing manager, led President John
Brett and others on a tour of the Black Mountain plant Monday.