Thursday, June 17,198J, Volume SO, Number 24 Member ofthe NCPA 25*
Sign issue debaie to continue June 28
by Bill Anthony
The Black Mountain Board of Aider
men June 14 seemed on the verge of
approving a request from Kentucky
Fried Chicken for a business identifica
•tion sign larger than the town’s Plan
ning Board prefers when William Fass,
owner of the restaurant under construc
tion on N.C. 9 near the 1-40 interchange,
withdrew his request.
Fass declared he wished his request
be tabled until a “workshop” scheduled
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between the Aldermen and Planners
June 28. This came after some 45
minutes of discussion between the
Aldermen with Fass who at the Board’s
agenda meeting last week insisted on a
formal vote at the Board’s action
meeting this wek.
Alderman Carl Bartlett had just
moved the request be granted, with the
observation: “The major industry of
Black Mountain is tourism. These
people are willing to invest money in
our community.” Steve King had
seconded.
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Five amendments on
June 29 ballot
by Cynthia Reimer
Democrats will enter the polls Tues
day, June 29, to vote in the Democratic
primary election.
Republicans and non-partisans will
Join Democrats to vote in the same
primary election (or school board offi
cials and for or against five constitu
tional amendments.
Proposed amendments to the Consti
tution indude:
-an amendment making the terms of
members of the General Assembly four
years, beginning with members elected
in 1982.
-an amendment authorizing the Gen
eral Assembly to provide for temporary
recall of retired Supreme Court Justices
or Court of Appeals judges to serve
temporarily on either appellate court.
-an amendment giving the Supreme
Court authority to review, when author
ized by law, direct appeals from the
N.C. Utilities Commission.
-an amendment permitting the Gen
eral Assembly to grant appropriate
public bodies additional powers to
develop new and existing seaports and
airports, induding powers to finance
and refinance seaports, airports and
related faculties and improvements.
—an amendment permitting the General
Assembly to authorize the state, or any
state entity, to issue revenue bonds to
finance the cost of acquiring, construct
ing and financing higher education
facilities for nonprofit private corpora
tions, regardless of religious relation
ships.
Candidates for the Board of Educa
tion are: Qika-Robert E. Greene, Jack
R Hawkins, Terry Eugene Herren and
George A. Patton; &win~Vemon E.
Dover and Bruce Dean Pike; Reynolds
T.G. DeWeese and Jim Lewis.
Democratic candidates for the 11th
Congressional District are James Mc
Clure Clarke and John Garfield Kleibor.
Candidates for judge in the Court of
Appeals are James P. Crews, George
W. Lennon, Bert M. Montague, Eugene
H. Phillips, H. Horton Rountree, Sidney
S. Eagles Jr., Zennie Lawrence Riggs,
Paul Wright, E. Maurice Braswell and
Marvin Schiller.
Vying for District Court judge in the
28th District are James 0. Israel Jr. and
Talmage Penland.
Candidates for the Senate in the 28th
District are Zeb R Sheppard, Robert S.
Swain and Dennis Winner.
Running for the State House of
Representatives are Dan M. Cathey,
Marie W. Colton, Narvel J. Crawford
Jr., Doris P. Giezentanner, Gordon H.
Greenwood and Martin L Nesbitt.
Candidates for Buncombe County
Sheriff are Tench F. Dula and Thomas
H. Morrissey.
The polls will be open from 6:30 a.m.
to 7 JO p.m. June 29.
In Swannanoa voting will take place
at the fire station and the Swannanoa
Middle School.
hi Black Mountain, polling places are
Owen High School, Black Mountain
Middle School, Lake Tomahawk Club
house and Christmount.
Montreat voters are reminded that
their polling place has been changed
from the Assembly hin to Christmount.
Ridgecrest residents also vote at Christ
mount.
Earlier, Gay Fox had argued for an
ordinance that would permit business
signs at the interchange be different
from those downtown.
Only Michael Begley had vocally
opposed the proposed Kentucky Fried
Chicken sign of 84 square feet with a 30
square foot message board, on a 20 foot
pole. According to Begley, “If we
permit Kentucky Fried Chicken to have
a large sign, it would become the
standard. We should take this oppor
tunity to design what this community
should look like.”
The Hanning Board recently approv
ed square footage of free standing
business signs at 50, with message
boards at 25, and 25 feet tall. This
proposal is part of a comprehensive
zoning ordinance to come before the
Aldermen at the workshop.
Alderman Doug Stafford, during the
discussion with Fass, observed, “We
want to get you open and still support
the Hanning Board.”
Fass, who in the discussion had
mentioned the possibility of legal
action, expressed appreciation for the
Aldermen’s comments and asked that
the request be tabled, as it was, with
Bartlett again making the motion and
King the second.
In other business, the Aldermen
resolved to issue $500,000 notes, in
compliance with a 1980 water bond
referendum, toward financing the
town’s water project. Hie Aldeimen
also agreed not to stick landlords with
unpaid water bills of previous tenants,
but to cover the loss through a
non-reimbursible $20 fee for all new
water hookups after July 1.
New garbage pick-up
schedule set
Effective July 1, the following gar
bage pick-up schedule for the town of
Black Mountain (inside the dty limits),
will be followed:
Monday-All residential pick-ups fol
lowing the line north of State Street, east
of Rhododendron Avenue, south of
Ninth Street to Montreat Road, east of
Montreat Road to the town limit line,
and west of Flat Creek to the point that
the creek meets State Street. The
exception is that Beech Street and
Iriquois will be included in the Monday
pick-up.
Tuesday-Commercial pick-up only.
Wednesday-All residential pick-ups
from the dty limits north of State Street,
west of Flhododendron to Ninth Street,
North of Ninth Street to Montreat Road
and west of Montreat Road (with the
exception of Beech Street and Iriquois)
to the town limits.
Thursday-Commercial pick-up only.
Friday-All residential pick-ups south
of State Street (HWY 70) and east of
Flat Creek following Creek to town
limits line.
Garbage must be set out on road by 7
a.m. on the day specified. Any ques
tions regarding the new pickup sche
dule can be direded to City Hall.
The Town of Black Mountain Street
Department will also follow the same
schedule for brush, limbs, leaves, etc. It
will no longer be necessary to contact
City Hall to request pick-ups for these
items.
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Weather
review
June 8--high 85, low 55 degrees.
June 9--high 87, low 54 degrees.
June 10-high 82, low 56; .39 indies
rain.
June ll--high 80, low 53 degrees; .01
indies rain.
June 12-high 81, low 63 degrees; .02
indies rain.
June 13-high 76, low 54 degrees; .94
inches rain.
June 14-high 79, low 52 degrees;
trace rain.
Total rainfall from Jan. 1-June 10 is
25.26 inches.
Weather information courtesy of
WFGW radio station, Blade Mountain.
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They also approved a resolution of
intent to approve new building regula
tions and fees pending clarification
whether a state law requires the seal of
a registered architect or registered
engineer on plans for building or
remodeling structures over $20,000,,
before permits could be issued.
They heard downtown merchant Rick
Spaulding criticize the Board’s proce
dures of announcing its meetings
through notices posted at the Town
Hall. Spaulding suggested they also be
posted at Ingle’s, the Blade Mountain
Drug Co., the Old Depot, the Post
Office, and be offered to radio stations.
He also asserted he was denied the
opportunity to read the Hanning
Board’s draft zoning ordinance.
In response, Mayor Tom Sobol dec
lared the Town was meeting its legal
requirements, but instructed Town
Manager A1 Richardson to investigate
broader means of announcing meetings.
And Hanning Board member Joe
Tyson, in the audienqe, acknowledged
“there have been some problems in
communications with sme merchants.”
But, Tyson added, the draft ordinance
sections have been in various stages of
finality, hence the Banners’ reluctance
to distribute them.
The Aldermen appointed Dr. Tom
Cannon to the Board of Adjustments.
They also approved permitting Kenneth
Burnette to operate a cab service, on
completion of security formalities.
The Board of Aldermen was praised
in a letter from Wayne M. Williams,
director of the Western Carolina Cen
ter, for allowing use of the Town’s pool
for therapeutic purposes by the Cen
ter’s residents. A letter of congratula
tions also was received from Bill White
Jr., president of the Black Mountain
Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce, for
“improvements” being made at the
golf course. Alderman Bartlett reported
that the golf course, previously some
$17,000 in the red, was now in the black
due to a cash flow improvement related
to the purchase of golf carts.
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Wood textures, layers create landscapes
by Cynthia Reimer
Several years ago artist Wayne
Wilhelm of North Fork Road got a load
of scrap wood to use for kindling.
“No two pieces were the same,”
Wilhelm said. “I got intrigued with the
textures.”
From the scraps he constructed four
large, intricate scenes, carving the
figures, layering them into what he calls
“a slice off the three-dimensional,”
coloring them lightly with pastels which
let the grain of the wood dominate.
One of the scenes which hangs in the
Wilhelm living room was done from a
sketch he made 30 years ago of Perkins
Cove at Ogunquit, Maine. Using the
texture of the plywood for the swirl of
the tide, Wilhelm recreated the spit of
land on which lobstermen beach their
boat, the fisherman cleans his catch and
the gulls await the entrails.
Over the edge of the boat, a
fisherman has tossed his jacket. In a
wooden barrel, cod liver oil ferments.
Rocks are created from tree bark,
bushes from lichen and driftwood is a
branch Wilhelm spent hours in the
woods searching for.
“Someone said, time is no object in a
work of art,” Wilhelm said when asked
how long he spent on each. “I couldn’t
sell them. I wouldn’t get 50 cents an
hour.”
Another wood pastel is a fanciful
reproduction of the W ilhelm home and
its setting. In the foreground, a bird
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brings a worm to her children in a bird
house.
The bird house sits atop a cedar pole,
which, according to Mrs. Wilhelm, held
the real bird house in the yard until her
husband appropriated it for the picture.
Wilhelm has designed four scenes
from the wood scraps and says he will
make no more. The work is “too
demanding,” he said. “I wake up at
three o’clock in the morning thinking, I
have to get that right.”
A cartoon, or diagram, is the first
step in the process. This is then traced
to the plywood background and must,
he said, be accurate to one-sixteenth of
an inch or the pieces will not fit
together.
Next he cuts the shapes with a
band-saw and carves each one with
chisel and hammer, making and remak
ing the pieces until they fit and he is
satisfied.
The work is then colored with pastels,
a type of chalk. “The color of the wood
underneath has to be taken into effect,”
Wilhelm said, in mixing the colors.
Last, he applies his signature—also in
wood.
Wilhelm taught art in the New York
City Schools, attending art school at
night. He began showing his own
paintings in one-man shows in the late
1920s, collecting reviews in the New
York Times, Christian Science Monitor,
New York Herald Tribune and other
prestigious publications.
Desire to get their children out of the
New York City schools brought them to
Blade Mountain, and Wilhelm and his
wife retired from teaching. Here, after a
20 year lapse, Wilhelm began to take up
brush, pen and chisel again.
Wilhelm’s creations have spilled over
into the yard, onto the brick walls of his
home. The angel Gabriel, carved of
weathered wood, trumpets into the
wind on a weather vane. Other carvings
and Bible verses in wood mingle with
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Fteridns Cove, Ogunquit, Maine
was the model for this work,
carved from wood scraps and
colored with pastels.
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