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iiTofitFirtiEy map changes recommended;
Planning Board cfimitTirnEHr! f isntt(E!ir!<5
by Cynthia Reimer
The Black Mountain Hanning Board
voted Monday night to recommend a
change in the zoning map to the Town
Board. Hie change involves an area off
Highway 9 zoned R-20 which would be
rezoned C-2. a one-biock R-10 area
across from the oid Ingles on Montreat
Road which would be rezoned C-2, and
an area from the Monte Vista Hotel out
U S. 70 just past the motels, where C-2
commercial zoning would be extended.
The earliest opportunity the Town
Board will have to act on the recom
mendation is the January meeting.
Three public hearings will precede the
Aldermen's decisions.
Planning Board members were divid
ed into committees to study the areas of
zoning within the town. "Hie commit
tees physically looked at these areas
and used the new zoning ordinance to
determine what each zoned area should
be using the definition of purpose, lot
area requirements, permitted use, etc."
said Chairman Travis Childs.
In other action, the Hanning Board
agreed to uphold the recommendation
of Bobby McMurray to fill a vacancy on
the board.
Hanning Board members must own
property within the city limits, and show
Santa wiff
answer
fetters
What communication is smudged and
grubby, contains maximum spelling
errors, and is probably the most
important letter a kid sends out all year?
Give up?
It's the annual letter to that jolly old
gentleman, Santa Claus, lovingly
adressed to the North Pole and signed
with Xs and Os and promises of milk
and Christmas cookies, with several
assurances of good behavior sown about
for good measure.
This year, Buncombe County young
sters who remember to add their return
address will get a reply from Santa
himself.
Beckye Hammond of the Asheville
Buncombe Youth Council announced
recently that the council has made
arrangements to pick up letters from the
U S. Postal Service and deliver them to
the North Pole.
The letters should be addressed to
SantaClaus, North Pole. No Zip Code is
necessary. All letters to Santa should be
mailed by Dec. 13 to give him time to
reply before Christmas.
This annual project of ABCYC
handled 2,500 letters last Christmas.
A whole lemonade stand in one lemon was recently purchased by J.C. I,aws
of Swannanoa. The almost four-pound lemon (right) has a circumference of
21M: inches. laws bought it at Roberson's Orchard in Lutz. Fla., 20 miles
north of Tampa, while he vacationed there recently. The orchard has one tree
of Ponderosa lemons and one of Pink Shadock grapefruit, which he holds in
his other hand The grapefruit weighed in at four and a quarter pounds.
interest in the planning and zoning of
the town and willingness to accept the
responsibilities of a board member.
Board members urged anyone meeting
those requirements to express their
willingness to serve to the Planning
Board or Board of Aldermen.
The Planning Board heard the resig
nation of their chairman, Travis Childs.
Childs has served on the board for four
Steve Roberts, right, assists Bob McMeans in stamping the elevation on the
bench mark on Black Mountain Drug Co.,
Eievation inscribed
after 53 years
The official elevation of Black Moun
tain is 2400.038 feet, a fact that
remained unrecorded on the geological
survey marker on the wall of the Black
Mountain Drug Company. The marker
was placed there in 1929; last week, 53
years later, Bob McMeans of Town
Hardware added the elevation num
bers.
"A lot of times they just didn't have
the man on hand to do the stamping." is
how Black Mountain Chamber of Com
merce Executive Secretary Andy
Andrews explains the oversight.
Andrews thought the elevation
should be recorded on the bronze disk
but admits to being slightly intimi
dated by the words "$250 for molesting
this disk" printed there.
While he was in Raleigh recently he
got permission from Larry Akers, head
of the U S. Geological Survey Depart
ment, to have the disk stamped.
Directors to meet
The regular Board of Directors meeting for the Swannanoa Volunteer Fire
Department will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the fire department. All taxpayers
are invited to attend.
Owen takes top drama
awards at UNC-A
On Saturday, Nov. 13, Thespian
Troupe 2294 members Kim Decker,
Tina Rogers, Mike Cobum and Jodi
Steucher attended the North Carolina
Theatre Conference One-Act Play re
gional competition at UNCA. They
performed a 30-minute one-act play
titled "Families" by Conrad Bishop.
Kim Decker won best actress, Mike
Cobum took best actor, with Tina
Rogers winning honorable mention for
acting. Peggie Boring, Owen's drama
director, won excellence in directing.
The ensemble will compete on the state
level at UNGG. Owen Thespians have
won best actress at this conference for
three consecutive years.
Bob Warren opens newlawofffce on Cherry Street
by Cynthia Reimer
A small-town lawyer's day is made up
of "every type of case you can imagine,
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from kidnapping of a teenage wife by
her parents to robbery in criminai
court," Black Mountain's newest law
yer reports. Bob Warren, lawyer, hung
his shingle at 117D Chery Street this
week.
W arren came to the area from South
Carolina two years ago. Until recently
he was project director for Pisgah Legal
Services of Asheville, providing free
legal aid to low income people in six
counties. He lives in Montreat, where
he spent his childhood summers.
Although he'll take on any case, he
specializes in Constitutional law, and
has had extensive experience as a trial
lawyer in federal court and with
worker's compensation cases.
Warren was recently involved in a
zoning ordinance case in Black Moun
tain when a resident sought permission
to put a recreational vehicle park inside
the city. The dispute was settled outside
of court.
"Getting the two sides talking and
willing to compromise is the major
function of a lawyer," Warren said.
"You don't want to go to court every
time you have a disagreement. The
trend now is to find alternative ways to
solving disputes."
A dispute settlement center in Bun
combe County is in the planning stages,
Warren said. Trained mediators will
help both sides of a dispute explore
settlement possibilities. The settlement
center will help relieve crowded court
dockets and also save all concerned a
significant amount of money.
Although court litigation is expensive
for all concerned, Warren calls the legal
field more of a "consumer's market"
now that lawyers are allowed to
advertise. "You can call any lawyer and
ask what they would charge," he said.
I^egal fees will also be held down in
the future by the use of computers and
paralegal assistance, "lawyers are
becoming more efficient through com
puters and word processing. Therefore
they can charge less," he said.
Warren predicts that in the next 10
years every lawyer will have access to a
national computer data bank holding
information on every case ever decided
in a U S. court. "It will improve the
quality of iegai services because you
have more information," he said.
FoUowing his interest in Constitu
tional law, Warren is assisting Ameri
can Indians in Craggy and Marion
prisons who are not aliowed to practice
their religion. The Indians want to use
sacred bundles, headbands and sweat
lodges for their religious rituals. They
also want a medicine man or woman to be
allowed to visit them in prison.
The response of the Department of
Corrections has been to offer to send
all incarcerated American Indians to a
prison in South Dakota.
litigation could go on six or seven
years and cost $100,000, Warren said,
"just to get the religious freedom
guaranteed by the Constitution."
Warren's office is located upstairs
between Seven Sisters and Gray Eagle
Gift Shop on Cherry Street.
years. He said he would resign Dec. 31
in order to spend more time with his
family and to pursue other inter jrs.
Childs expressed his gratitude to the
Board of Aldermen for their support.
"During the last year the Town has
accomplished a number of major objec
tives in the area of planning and zoning
and I am proud to have played a part in
these endeavors," he concluded.
Until a replacement is voted on by the
Hanning Board, Vice Chairman George
Venturella will preside.
Planning Board members received
copies of the old town subdivision
ordinance for study. TT)ey will begin
review of the ordinance soon and urged
real estate agents, contractors, build
ers, bankers and others who would be
affected by changes to get involved in
the process. Copies of the old ordinance
are available at Town Hall
At its next meeting the Planning
Board will begin examination of the
Permitted Uses Table for the zoning
districts. If they find inconsistencies
there, they will recommend amend
ments to the zoning ordinance.
Final reading of the proposed new
zoning ordinance will be Dec. 13 at the
Town Board meeting. Copies are avail
able for study at Town Hall
Bring food for
needy fo
porode
Black Mountain's Christmas parade,
to begin at 10:30 a m. this Saturday,
will include a float to collect food for the
needy families in the community.
The float is sponsored by the Commit
tee for Better Sports and the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. Food may be
placed on the float during the parade, or
call 669-7465 to have the donation
picked up.
The parade will form on North
Dougherty and start at the comer of
Dougherty and State. It will travel down
State, Broadway, across Sutton and up
Richardson.
Several floats are expected, as well as
bellringers, clowns, horses, and of
course, Santa Claus. The Owen High
School band and chorus, cheerleaders
and distributive education students will
participate. -__
Vocal concert
by Briggs
Elizabeth Tolar Briggs, a Chnsttan
artist well-known in Columbia, S.C. will
appear in concert at Black Mountain,
First Baptist Church, on W ednesday,
Dec. 8. at 7 p.m.
Ms. Briggs is the daughter of Mrs.
W. Carson Tolar, and the late Mr.
Tolar, of Black Mountain. She made her
operatic debut in 1968 with the Colum
bia Lyric Theatre. A member of the
National Association of Teachers of
Singing, she teaches in her own studio.
Her appearance here will include
secular as well as sacred selections.
The public is invited to attend the free
concert