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Thursday, July 38. 1983, Volume 31. Number 30
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Saturday, /tag. 5 and 6 are being /ana/ized.
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participating in the parade schedu/ed /or 70 a. m. on Saturday, /lug. 6 he in
Hue no Hater than 9. 45 a. m. The parade ud/ /orm hy entering the south end o/
Church Street, turning /e/'t onto Connai/y and /e/'t again onto Tbugherty.
Festiua/ Chairman Afihe Soho/ ashs that groups prepare /bod to o//er /or
sa/e on both TWday and Saturday.
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Changes to greet
Owen High students
by Tim Riddle
To freshmen, everything at Owen
High School may seem new, but
returning students will also be wit
nessing some unfamiliar sughts when
the doors are open on Monday, August
15
While the Buncombe County Board of
Education struggles for additional fund
ing, present allocations have been put
to work renovating the science depart
ment, buying new supplies, and devel
oping a Junior Army ROTC program.
The single largest project is the
addition of two rooms on the English
wing to house the JROTC unit. Sergeant
Williams Hamrick, who will head the
program along with Colonel Wilmont
Riley, says that 99 students have
enrolled in the course including 20-25
girls.
With a total enrollment of around 970
the JROTC will involve over 10 percent
of the student body.
'Tm very pleased with that (10
percent), but we'd like to have more,"
Hamrick said with a grin. "The 10
percent is outstanding considering the
program has not been publicized that
much."
The program will be built around a
Cadet Corp, but it may take time to
develop without experienced student
leaders. "It's going to be a building
block kind of thing," said Hamrick.
The JROTC is designed to expose
students to some of the advantages of
the military while teaching suds values
as citizenship, ethics, and respect of
authority.
"The function as a military-type
organization," said Hamrick. "But,"
he added, "we don't get into any
military tactics; we'll just basically stick
to function."
Eventually, the unit will have a color
guard, drill team, and rifle team It
costs nothing to participate in JROTC,
and Hamrick stressed, "they will incur
no military obligation whatsoever."
Advantages, however, include college
scholarships, placement out of college
level course in Senior ROTC, and for
those going straight into the service,
and increased pay grade.
Hamrick is a 21 year beteran of the
Army, and spent a majority of the time
in administrative positions although he
served two tours of duty in Viet Nam.
Riley retires from active duty at the
end of July and will leave his post as
Professor of Military Science and head
of the ROTC unit at Western Carolina
University.
The Science Department at Owen has
undergone renovation thanks to a
$24,000 appropriation from the Board of
Education.
The bulk of the money has gone to
increase lab facilities in the chemistry
and physics rooms. According to Sallie
McDuffie, chemistry teacher, the
amount of lab space per student was
about "one third to one half" what it
should be.
McDuffie said that without hands-on
experience and adequate facilities "it
would be like trying to teach someone to
drive without having a car."
Principal Charles Lytle reiterates the
need for updating the science area.
"The biggest problem in science as I
see it is we're trying to teach science for
the 1980's in a !960's facility."
The present renovation should bring
the science department up to a very
basic standard, but an additional
(10,000 tied up in arbitration would,
according to Chris Stroupe, another
Science teacher, "be a giant step
forward."
The school is expanding despite
projections of a stable enrollment and
possibly a declining one in the years to
come. "I think in the next 10 years
people will demand more of their school
and more of their children," comment
ed Lytle. He sees the expansion as
necessary to meet the changing needs
of society.
All projects are due to be completed
by the opening of the '83-'84 school
year.
Governor's Commonly o/ E^ce//ence ^M^ard
iMac% Afoonfam mer:fs specra^ recoin :aon
/or second consecn^ve year
Governor Jim Hunt has announced
that Black Mountain has been named
winner of the Governor's Community of
Excellence Award for the second time.
Governor Hunt will present the award
to an official of Black Mountain at a
statewide economic development con
ference on Wednesday, October 19, in
Raleigh.
Hunt said, "My congratulations to
community leaders for winning the
award. Building an economic develop
ment organization is one of the best
things a community can do to attract
industry or encourage expansions."
The award goes to communities with
under 15,000 people which have met
requirements designed to make them
more attractive to economic develop
ment.
The Communities of Excellence
Award is administered by the North
Carolina Department of Commerce.
Communities must qualify for the award
each year.
Bill White, Jr., Wendell Begley, Bob
Watts and Herb Edwards formed the
committee that worked on the 1983
renewal of the Governor's Community
of Excellence Award. White is associat
ed with the White Insurance Agency;
Begiey with Black Mountain Savings
and Loan; Watts with Nilsson Engineer
ing Company; and Edwards with Buss
man Division, McGraw Edison.
The following are some of the
standards communities must meet to
receive the award: an economic promo
tional organization must exist to
promote the community for industrial
plant location; a development corpora
tion must exist, with the ability to
option, purchase and sell property; and
industrial sites must be available.
Department of Commerce represen
tatives visit each community to assure
the standards have been met. Winning
communities display highway signs
designating them as winners. They are
also given special promotional attention
when working with industries looking
for a plant site in North Carolina.
Planning Hoard delays
sub-division discussion
Re-wording of the town subdivision
regulations was put off by the Town
Planning Board Monday until a check
list of items needed in the ordinance
could be reviewed.
Bill Eaker of the Land-of-Sky Region
al Council recommended that the board
enact on Erosion Control Ordinance to
handle unsightly "cut and fill" areas.
Board members felt that another
ordinance wouid be unnecessary as
present ordinances are not always
enforced. State laws govern oniy areas
of one acre or more that have been
stripped of vegetation.
The board aiso voted to draft a tetter
to the Town Council concerning the
safety hazard of vending machines
located along pubiic streets.
Barry named
to WWC library staff
Jud B. Barry from Chattanooga, Tn.,
has joined the library staff of Warren
Wilson College where he will serve as a
Reader Service Librarian. His duties
will include supervising the circulation,
reserve, and inter-library loan depart
ments. He will also be available to
answer reference questions, and to help
people with their reserach.
Barry is a recent graduate of Rnory
University where he did graduate
coursework in library and information
management-collection development,
database structure, indexing and
abstracting, and microcomputer appli
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cations. The library schooi faculty of
Ehiory University selected him as a
nominee for the Library of Congress
Internship Program, and he also
represented the division in the Gradu
ate Student Council.
In 1975, Barry earned a B.A. degree
in history from the University of
Tennessee at Chattanooga where he
also received the Tennessee Historical
Association Certificate of Merit and the
Culver Smith History Award. In addi
tion, he belonged to the Alpha (academ
ic honor) Society and was a leading
oboist in the college's orchestra and
wind ensemble.
Heat overcomes
Owen workers
by Tim Riddle
Five women were overcome by heat
Friday morning at Charles D. Owen
Manufacturing Company on Old Farm
School Road in Swannanoa.
Plant manager Jim Thomas said the
women began feeling sick and had to be
taken to Memorial Mission Hospital.
Temperatures outside the plant re
mained in the seventies overnight
compounding the heat problem inside
the blanket factory.
The five women were treated for heat
exhaustion and released, said a hospital
spokesman.
Andrews addresses Council
E.A. "Andy" Andrews, Executive
Secretary of the Black Mountain Swan
nanoa Chamber of Commerce, was the
guest speaker for the Land-of-Sky
Regional Council's meeting that was
held on Wednesday, July 27 at 2 p.m.
His topic was "Church Conference
Centers as an Industry."
John Abernathy, Mayor of Montreat,
serves as secretary of the Council.
Members o/ tAe committee wAo worAed /or tAe reaea^a/ o/ tAe Gooeraor's
Commamfy o/Exce77eace award /or 7.9^4 are pictured abooe witA "^ady"
y4rtdrews [at rigAt], Execatioe Secretary /or tAe BiacA MoanRHn-Saannanoa
CAambero/Commerce. 7Aey are. [i-r]Nerb Edwards. Weaded Begiey, Bob
Watts and Bd/ WAite, Jr.
DtrcA Cruser's /ree-/orm sca/pt!^re was /aAn'cated at C and C WeAA'n#
Company tn Candor, N C. A/ere tAe worA w sAown at tAe nn'd-po:nt o/ tAe
prq/ect 7AematprMdascdwasCo^ten, C&Stee/'sArando/weatAenngstee/
tn one quarter and one e:gAtA tAicAnesses.
"H
Swannanoa sculptor
to be honored
Governor Hunt will be on hand at the
opening ceremony, Friday, Juiy 29, of
Asheville's annuai Beie Chere Festival.
T7ie kickoff wiii be held at City-County
Haza at noon, and highlighted by a few I
words from the governor as he unveils a !
new sculpture by Swannanoa sculptor,
^ Dirck Cruser. !
*H)e sculpture, whidi is 12 feet high,
12 feet wide and 17 feet long, is made of !
basic wearing steel (the same used on '
bridge overpasses) and will take 1 to 2 '
years to diange to its permanent color t
of russet-brown. Asked about the theme :
of the untitled sculpture, Cruser
responded "it symbolizes the transitory i
nature of life and its ongoing process. :
Art cannot directly be translated into <
words... (Til be happy) as long as it :
speaks to everyone in some way." f
Cruser, whose background includes 1
commercial art in California, has lived J
Weekly Weather
WeeHy Weather courtesy of WFGW,
Black Mountain:
July 18-High 85, low 62 degrees.
July 19-High 85, low 60 degrees.
Trace precipitation.
July 20--High 89, low 62 degrees.
July 21-High 91, low 60 degrees.
July 22-High 93, low 72 degrees.
July 23-High 92, low 63 degrees.
July 24-High 92, low 66 degrees. .05
in. precipitation.
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tear Warren Wilson College for 11
/ears, and been working on the sculp
ure for a year and a half.
Cruser told the News that support for
tis work has been especially strong
mm people in and around Black
fountain, a fact of which he is deeply
tppreciative.
Competition for Asheville's public
iculpture began in December 1981; the
vinner chosen in 1982.No dty money
vas involved-all money was donated
hmugh government grants, corporate
ind individual gifts.
Accompanying the sculpture unveil
ng is a photo exhibition of other public
culptures in American cities. The
xhibition will be adjacent to the
culpture on Pack Square and on view
rom noon to 6 p.m. Friday; when it will
e moved for three weeks to the
Lsheville Art Museum.
Public Notice
Attention all residents of the Town
of Mon treat: Water service to ALL
sections of Montreat will be cut-off
from 9 p.m. Thursday, July 28, until
5 a m. on Friday, July 29 in order to
make connections with the new
water system.
Thank you for your patience.
Cooper Construction Company
P.O. Box 806
Hendersonville, N.C.