Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 11

1 PY4 1-0" mtrrrtl THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN FEB. 4, 1969 SECTION TWO Threat Of Bootlegging In Tax Rlflh Bureau cmttn-Ttnwi RALEIGH Ssn. Hargrove "Anything this board does," Talman said, "which the association doesn't like, they take exception to it. Any brand we put on, they boycott if they don't like it." The ABC system allows the local boards to decide which brands of liquor and whai sizes they will stock. Talman hinted He suggested that the associ-that the association uses (halation members "set themselves to threaten boycott jup as czars" and tell whisky against whisky salesmen.

salesmen where to advertise it's a dark day for the and what to advertise, whisky business when it's be- And this practice, he said, ing operated in these back "has got to go." rooms with no respect for the No action was taken by the state board," Talman said. board on Talman's charges. I (Skipper) Bowles of Grsenslio-'ro disagreed Monday night with ja member of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board who i said his bill to hike the tax on whisky in North Carolina would invite' bootlegging from Virgin ia. W. Fleming Talman of Ashe-fviile made the observation at! a meeting of the ABC Board here earlier in the dav that the Model City Vote Machinery Set JIMMY REED AND MRS, CARL SANDBURG discuss filming.

Sandburg Documentary Film Is Previewed ipropossd tax increase would JOHN PHAUP "bring in the biggest concen- citizen Staff Writer ration of bootlegging from Eection machinery for the Virginia. selection of model neighborhood Bowles, whose bi seeks residents to represent Ashe-10 per cent hike in the present :ville.s Model city target area tax, said the price of whisky 'was set up Monday night by in Virginia is now about 5 per tne Model Neighborhood Selec- th higher than Nnrlh Tarn- i The election da(e of March 29; be one half of the Model Neigh's an extension of about a month I bor Commission, from the stipulated 60 days set1 T))e ot))cr six SjaSISS ths "TV0 Asheville was approved for a represent the c.ty Specifically planning grant. An extension momlees shall represent was cbiained to allow the timei industry or large employers, for volunteers to be trained in or'c Eha11 represent business, doing canvassing. represent education. The brochure on the program! one l' Pent housing and Ka Ju represent the health or uuu ouaru.

lina ABC stores charge. Tne meetire? was held in the The difference, he said, annex to Mt. Zion Baptist wouldn't be enough to make church, Eagle which will hnitlefrgins attractive. But even lu vv nlef)icai profession. if it did, it would be better to 'teadquarters until the election wi" be ready Wednesday The combined commission.

working with the monies of the planning grant, will lay the groundwork of Asheville's Model City program. go to luxuries sucn as Honor iis held. -en canvassing begins, for additional revenue than to Canvassing of the residents; resident-representatives, enact a tax measure which will begin Wednesday and run when elected and formally ao-would increase the price of through the election date, March I nnjnfpd by the City Council will such necessities as bread, 29. Lonnie Burton, director of' Bowles said. 'Urban Development for the Od- FLAT ROCK-Mrs.

Carl Sandburg go! an editorial preview Sunday of a documentary film of the late poet-biographer's life. The film was shown in the dining room of Connemara, the house where the poet lived out the last years of his life with his wife and two of his daughters. Entitled "Carl Sandburg-Man of the World, Poet of the People," the 28-minute film was produced by Pisgah Productions. Directed and narrated by Lee Kanipe of Charlotte, a WBTV newsman, the filming was done by Jimmy Reed of Waynesville add Jim Burns. Although only three months were used in actual filming, the nature of the work required about 15 months.

The film features both still and movie shots of Sandburg, and includes a running commentary by Mrs. Sandburg. She pictures her late husband as a simple man, concerned with the needs of the people. In the early days of their courtship, she said she read some of his poetry and felt he was a coming poet. She said above all else, Sandburg wanted his long biography of Lincoln to be appreciated.

"He started it as a book for young people," she said, "because when he was young he needed a good book on Lincoln." She said Sandburg considered his volume, "The People, Yes," his best and most effective work. Kanipe and Reed said Sunday that when the final editing is done, they hope to make the film to educational markets, and to other groups which will need a short but comprehensive film on the poet's life. City Board Eyes Federal Funds At the state ABC board meet- portunity Corporation, will be ing Monday. Talmsn also 'in char of the volunteers who charged that Charles Roarh of will call on families to explain president of the the election. About 11 streets N.

C. Association rf ABC will be handled by each Boards, had asked the 'oca1 Candidates for one reoresenta-out'ets to refrain from stocking live from of the model bottles of whiskv au- cities precincts and for two I thorized for sale by the board, candidates at large will come' from ceople living in Ihe area. according to the Jan. 27 minutes of the selection board. By MARY COWLES i The board also authorized de-Citizen Staff Writer daring the old Queen Carson Th nnihiiit that Miutpl Street surplus and advertising Bad Weather Hampers Trip By Officials By JAY HENSLEV Citizen Staff Writer RALEIGH A transportation-minded delegation of city officials from Asheville ran into travel problems here Monday morning which were somewhat outside the municipal jurisdiction.

A nine-member group, headed by Earl W. Eller, made two trips to Raleigh before taking off on the final leg of a journey to the nation's capital. There was no political conspiracy it was simply a whim of the weather that kept the United Airlines jet in which they were traveling circling overhead here for half an hour on its first pass over Raleigh. Raleigh was the first scheduled stop for United's Flight 662 out of Asheville and the weather was so bad the plane couldn't land. Eller and the other local leaders, including four members of the Asheville Transit Authority, were on their way to Washington for a luncheon meeting with Rep.

Roy A. Taylor of Black Mountain and Senators Sam J. Ervin Jr. and B. Everett Jordan.

Also scheduled was a session on specifications for equipment for Asheville's new bus system with officials of the Department of Transportation. For awhile it looked as if some of the appointments might be cancelled because the Asheville people couldn't get there. And at the verv best, when the group did leave here, the luncheon with the Congressional delegation was going to be later than the planned noontime meetine. After holding over the Raleigh-Durham Airport for some 30 minutes with no sign of a break in the soupy the captain took the jet to Charlotte for refueling and another wait on the weather. And he wasn't sure when he wheeled about that he wouldn't have to go on back to Asheville.

But weather at the Queen City was more friendlv, and the plane later took off at 10:30 a.m. for another try at Raleigh. More than two hours late and profusely apoloeetic, the crew brought the craft through the overcast and made the scheduled stop here. Later it was learned that the group arrived in Washington in time for a 1:30 luncheon with the senators and representative and completed their mission. Traveling with Eller were City Manaeer Phin.

Horton. J. Nick Davis, chairman of the Ashevile Transit Authority: Norman Sultan, vice chairman: Allan Patterson and Hal Starnes, ATA members; William C. Moore, attorney for the authority: James Toland. project accountant; and Fred Pearl-man, co-chairman of the bond drive endorsed 6,063 to 1,398 by the voters in the Jan.

7 referendum. Richard Taylor, another ATA member; and W. Fleming Ta'-man, on the team with Pearl-man; were unable to make the trip because of conflicting engagements. Purpose of the meetins was to express to Ervin, Jordan and Taylor, appreciation for their assistnce in securing an $877,733 federal grant toward a new bus system for Asheville. "And we want to assure them that the money will be well spent on behalf of the citizens of Asheville, and further acquaint them with the Asheville Transit Authority and what it is trying to do," Horton said.

The group carried the contract for new buses along, and Davis, Moore and Toland were to go over specifications for the equipment with Department of Transportation officials. Toland said the contract calls for delivery of the buses by Oct. 15. Wometco Will Sell Qualifications for candidates are that he or she "be a resi- cities planning will include newi'1 fr aa'e contingent upon a the city which has six dent ot tne same Model Neigh- c.instructkn. makin? 'ease to A-B Tech Trustees Endorse UNC Designation For A-B College federal funds available for fraVmontns t0 run.

borhcod precinct for the previous three years and that he or she be 17 years of ase or over." All candidates should write a letter to the model purpose, was suggested at the; A report from Z. B. Robin-Asheville Board of Education son, general contractor on the meeting Monday night. Vocational Education Building Dr. John Holt, a member of at Lee H.

Edwards High School, nt neighborhood selection board. By MARY COWLES demonstrated loyalty and pride oiina, the State Board of Educa ji viic ividl dlliuuill 1 the board, said government rep-was received by the board. The resentatives meeting with Mod-; report indicated that the con- Citizen Staff Writer in accomplishments of each Trustees of Asheville-Bun-' stitution, the statement said. tion, the State Board of Higher Education, the Trustees of the vviiiL-iii win ac: as we cenitvirg mended by the state board, body. Filing date is from now $31,147 had been recommended to March 20.

for A-B Tech in its A budget as; Registration will open on Sat- el Cities planners here had in- tractor expects no aitticuity in dicated Asheville might receive completing the building on combe Technical Institute Mon of North Carolina University An enviable relationship and news exists between the students, media serving the facultieand trustees of the two the amount required to main-i urday, Feb. 22 and will be held tain operations at the present-jon-; the Saturday's of level, and the board had rec-i March 1, 8, awl 15th, from 2 area. -Thomas W. Simpson, presi day gave their support to conversion of Asheville-Biltmore College into a campus of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. educatidnal units, and, with no as much as $80 million for its.scneuuie, wnicn wouia auow tor overall program.

He said theirs use next year, government authorities also had I Tentative plans were made said it would be "entirely teas-1 for an open house to be held ible" for school sites to be pur-1 in April for parents of all cur-chased with Model Cities funds! rent eighth grade students in and the amount of money in- the city's junior high schools dent of A-B Tech, called the conflict of interest, the combina ommended $669,693 in the to 8 p.m. Registration and poll board's attention to recommen tion has rendered outstanding budget as the estimated amount ing places will be the same. Bv precinct' they are EAST dations of the State's Advisory the in a siaiemem issuea Dy uiei service to the region required for expansion of the present level of services and to Budget Commission sharply re vested in schools by the Board! at the South French Broad Doara ot trustees, it was voted; statement continued. that both Asheville-Buncombei The trustees said it was their ASHEVILLE Porter Store, First Baptist Church and East ducing budget requests for com of Education would serve asSchool which the board plans provide for new activities. Similar reductions were made conviction that "the economic credits on the city's share convert into a ninth grade Asheville Opportunity Center; EAST RIVERSIDE AREA munity colleges as recommend' ed by the State Board of Technical Institute and of Ashe-ville-Biltmore College are situated within the City of Asheville school next year.

matching funds in the project. educational and cultural welfare of the area would be greatly en- Lee Walker Heights Apartments The federal funds also could and East Riverside Community Simoson pointed out that the by the Advisory Budget Commission in recommendations for salary increases for community college employees and for funds required to support three new The Doard approved a policy statement regarding determination of eligibility for free and reduced-price lunches at the Center; NORTH RIVERSIDE state board had requested be available, Dr. Holt said, for broadening school curriculums. He pointed out that the four 250.247 to provide equipment for Bartlett Street Fire Station, Haywood St. Methodist Church, city schools.

areas designated tor Model and that each receives its major I hanced by making A-B College support from the State of North 'into a campus of the University." Carolina, and that at times each' The board adopted a resolu-has received generous suoport, tion calling. for a copy of the from the taxpayers of the city; statement to be forwarded to and county. i Governor Bob Scott, President Citizens of Western North! William C. Friday of the Uni-Carolina. which includes much versity of North Carolina, legis-of Southern Appalachia, have! litors from Western North Car- Cities planning represent the Resignations of three Olivia L.

Evans. Jessie R. major portion of the city. comwinitv college institutions in its recommendations to the Mvisory Budget Commission, hut the commi'ision had recommended only for this niroose. Cannon's Store and Brown Temple AME Church; EXPRESSWAY NORTH Hillcrest Apartments and Randolph Elementary School.

The board agreed to give tne extension units. Simpson reported to the board that full funding of a new administration building and a para-medical facility, totaling a cost of $1,390,000 is anticioated matter study, with a view to coordinating school plans with those of the Model Cities Busick and Peggy T. Crouch, were accepted and the election of four new teachers was approved. They are Mary L. Pen-land, Susan G.

Cable, Peggy H. Ramsey and Henrietta Y. Goodwin. Meanwhile, the board voted Tax Board Frowns to make an inspection of the i by earlv spring, part of the monev to come from the Ap-! palachian Regional Commission and part from the Higher Edu-' cation Facilities Commission. The new projects were made mil street scnooi wan a view A report of tuition paid by to determining its stmamiity as a site for a junior high school, out-of-district students showed a total of 298 students and to if remodeled and enlarged.

tal collections amounting to possible, Simpson said, by the Buncombe County Board of Members of the board will visit $18,662, with a balance of $8,580 remaining due. Supt. W. P. Commissioners in agreeing to the school at 4 p.m.

Wednesday and also will inspect a possible Griffin explained that payments On Time Payments The Buncombe County Board! anybody should have any right cases that are ready to be filed, of Tax Supervision took a tough to make anv deal other than1 The board gave the go-ahead, stand Monday on time payment this board." lit also agreed that Garrison and of back tax obligations. He raferred to the fact that IMcElrath will work up a policy Zoning Board Denies Request The Zoning Board of Adjustment Monday denied a request of the Humble Oil and Refining Co. to erect an eight-by-19-foot sign with no setback from the property line of a service station at 1378 Patton Ave. The zoning regulations require a 35-foot setback for signs larger than 50 square feet. A representative of the oil company had argued that a sign set 35 feel back from the property line of the Patton Avenue station could not be seen by motorists approaching the station.

pay $250,000 toward the cost over a period of four years as local matching funds. Simoson also submitted a qrwh showing that local support of A-B Tech has increased recommendation on the time- junior high school site in North Asheville. Supt. W. P.

Griffin was authorized to investigate whether the Asheville city school system has a sufficient enrollment of childi en whose parents are employed or housed on untaxed federal property to qualify for a grant under the "Impacted Area" evi. were $1,000 in excess of last year's tuition. Collections shown, he said, were for the first semester and, in general, are paid in advance. He indicated that most of the balance would have been paid since the report was prepared. The board's next regular meeting will be held March 3 in Livingston Street School.

After hearing from two law- installment arrangements have yers on the legal problems in-1 been made by attorneys han-volved, the board ordered its fling the cases and by the tax from S32.625 in 1962-63 to $92,000 in 1968-69. while the state bud payment situation for action at the March meeting of the board. Meantime, the 12-month limitation will be in effect on all arrangements for paying off in collector's office. get has grown from $177,484 six vears ago to $855,681 during the current year. installments.

attorneys to proceed wun lax foreclosure suits. County Attorney Tom S. Garrison and Peter L. Roda, attorney, detailed some of the problems for the board. The main problem seemed to stem from agreements which permit delinquent taxpayers to pay off Board member Joe G.

Adams asked, "Would it be more in line for the board to set policy and for the tax collector to carry out the policy?" "Yes," Irvin said. "We set the policy and if the collector (R. Dixon Eskridge) wants io deviate from that policy, ne should come back to this board." in installments. Some don't keep up the payments and in some cases legal complications have come up in court because of the agreements. Also, the fees going to private attorneys who handle the cases including Roda Irvin said that if exceptions are to be made to the time payment limitation, the property owners should appear before the board, after submitting a are being delayed until tne tax written record of the case, to make their appeal.

obligations are paid tun. Sometimes this takes several years. "Too manv people are maning too manv aereements and we don't think that's right," board Garrison said, "If the board wants all these people to come in, well and good, but you had better plan to stay for a pretty full day." The board meets on the first Monday of each month. Board chairman Ed McElrath WLOS-AM Wometco Enterprises Inc Monday announced that its sub sidiary, Wometco Skyway Broad casting Company, will sell its Asheville radio station, WLOS-AM. The sale is subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission.

Wometco Skyway Broadcasting Company will continue to operate WLOS-FM radio and WLOS-TV. The nurchaser nf WLOS-AM is member Sam L. Irvin said. "This board takes the position that the property owner should owe someone else otner man the county He said a delinauent taxpay said there has been a lack of coordination between the tax collector and attorneys on the er should borrow from a bank or some other lending source and pav off the county obliga foreclosure suits. The board began filing the real estate foreclosures more than a year ago as part of a campaign to wipe tion.

There could be exceptions, Greater Asheville Broadcasting he said, but they should be rare. Merchants Install Officers And Directors more than $4 million in overdue Corporation whose principals are John E. Jenkins Jr. and O. W.

Myers, both of Hunting, W. Va and Fiem J. Evans and ad valorem taxes off the books. "The only arrangement this board feels should be made is that no more than a year should The foreclosure process is complicated one and in view of be allowed on any installment arrangements. If the property Self, Charles R.

Kern, Frank F. Brown, Harry Winner, Dr. John R. Hoskins, W. T.

Duckworth George Bryan and William C. Burt, all directors. (Staff Photo by June Glenn Jr. Robert M. Hauck of Ocala, Florida.

If and when the sale of WLOS- AM io snm-nvsri hv the FCC. Heet, second vice president; S. E. Golson, president: Crystal S. Strom, secretary; William F.

Hackney, treasurer, and J. W. Byers and T. A. Groce directors.

From left to right, standing are L. Roy Philips, B. B. Lewis, Frank T. Leppert, C.

Glenn The Asheville Merchants Association installed 1969 officers and directors Monday at the organization's annual meeting in Battery Park Hotel. They are, seated from left to right, Walter A. Deal, director; Karl R. Lehman, first vice president; Donald G. the problems that have come up over the past year, the attorneys asked the board for its advice on whether to proceed with a large number of other owner cannot ao it witnin a year, he should borrow the money and pay the county off.

And, he added, "I don't think 1 -J 'J" II WLOS-FM will be programmed as a Quality music service..