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ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 1994 3B WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WNC CALENDAR Send in your calendar items to WNC CALENDAR, Asheville Citizen-Times, P.O. Box 2090, Asheville, AT.C, 28802 or FAX to 701-251-0585. Please postmark It days prior to event, Lauterer says she's more moderate alternative to Rep. Taylor at forum RUMMAGE SALE The annual "Fall Rummage Sale," sponsored by the women of Grace Episcopal Church, will be held in the parish house at 871 Merrimon from 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. THRIFT STORE OPENING: Asheville Mayor Russ Martin will cut the ribbon for the grand opening at the new Salvation Army Thrift Store at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, 45 Rankin Ave. in Asheville. TWILIGHT EXPRESS: The Great Smoky Mountain Railway win offer a night ride along the Tuckaseegee River beginning with a reception at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Floyd McEachem Historical Train Museum at the Dillsboro Depot The Twilight Express will depart at 6 p.m. and return at 8:30 p.m.

Seats are $12 each. For more Information call 586-881 1 or 1-800-872-4681 ARTS Rose Maree Myers will present a talk titled "ArtCore Curriculum Fusion" from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Nov. 1 1 at Claxton Elementary.

The program is free and open to the public. For more Information call 253-6303. TODDLER ACTIVITIES: Terrific Tuesday Toddlers will be from 10 a.m. to 1 1 a.m. Tuesdays starting Nov.

15 at the Montford Recreation Center. The program features simple arts and crafts and playtime in the gym. Pre-reglstration Is required and the program is free. For more information call 253-3714. FUND RAISER: Rape Crisis Center, will conduct its annual student alliance fund raiser Nov.

18-20 at the intersection In front of Beaucatcher Cinema on Tunnel Road. Students from UNCA, Mars Hill and Warren Wilson will accept driver's donations to benefit victims of rape, incest and sexual assault The goal is to raise $2,800. Fundralsing hours are Nov. 18, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.; Nov. 19, 10 a.m.

to 7 p.m.; and Nov. 20, 11 am. to 6 p.m. a bipartisan group championing deficit reduction, and that some Social Security benefits paid due to alleged psychiatric problems need to be examined. On other issues, Lauterer said she thinks the national parks system is in need of more funds, and criticized Taylor for "dropping the ball" during his first term by delaying continuing the work of former U.S.

Rep. James McClure Clarke to get a permanent headquarters for the Blue Ridge Parkway built near Asheville. Congress approved funds to grade the site this year. Taylor had agreed months ago to attend a meeting of the Asheville Rifle and Pistol Club Tuesday night, said campaign spokesman Roger France. Dorothy Murphree, president of the local League chapter, said the League contacted the Taylor campaign in August to ask what dates might be convenient for Taylor but never got a firm answer.

By Mart Barrett 8TAFF WRITER Democratic challenger Maggie Lauterer portrayed herself as a more moderate alternative to Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor during a candidates' forum Tuesday. Lauterer told about 110 people at a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Asheville-Buncombe County that her opponent in the 11th District congressional race has gone to extremes on some issues like education and the environment Taylor did not attend the event at the Radisson Hotel. A campaign spokesman said he had a previous commitment Lauterer said at the outset that her campaign is built around the issues of improving education, helping business and controlling crime.

She said later that Taylor "has voted against every single education bill that comes down the pike." In addition, Taylor "has not Taylor did not attend the event at the Radisson Hotel. A campaign spokesman said he had a previous commitment. left us any reason to believe he wants to the protect the environment," Lauterer said. She quoted him as saying during a joint radio appearance that he wants to make Western North Carolina "the timber bin of the world." In response to a question on the federal deficit, Lauterer criticized Taylor for voting against bills that would raise the rates ranchers pay to graze cattle on federal land and the fees to mining companies to extract minerals on federal property closer to market rates. Lauterer did not offer other specifics on how the deficit could be attacked other than to say she supports some of the proposals made by the Concord Coalition, Missing Continued from page IB athletic woman who jogged five miles about three times a week and was an avid biker.

Her high level of fitness has given her family and friends hope she will be found OK. "We're optimistic she will be found," said the Rev. Charles Shel-ton, the family's pastor. "We feel she may have twisted an ankle, or got disoriented." Lifelong friend Sharon Rhodes, 25, said Styles' personality will also help her through this ordeal "She is constantly going," Rhodes said. "She never gets down." Styles left her Candler home Monday morning to jog the trails on the U.S.

Forest Service land about 12 miles southwest of Asheville. She was supposed to go to her part-time job at Maurice's at the Asheville Mall at 2 p.m. after her jog. When Styles never arrived home Monday night, her parents called the Sheriffs Department Tuesday morning. Her white, four-door Plymouth Reliant was found in a parking lot at Lake Powhatan.

While searchers combed the woods and trails on a blustery fall day, the parents and five to six friends waited solemnly outside a search command post. Many of the woman's friends held on to Styrofoam cups of coffee to keep warm while they tried to lend moral support to her parents. "You feel hopeless in a situation like this," Shelton said. "You don't know what to do." The missing woman's parents put out a plea to the public for help in finding their only child. "If anybody saw her or anything please call the Sheriffs Department," Katherine said.

Styles is a white female, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 117 pounds, with brown eyes and long brown hair. Anyone with information can call the Sheriffs Department at 277-3131. SENIOR LINE DANCING: Senior fine dancing classes will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Fridays starting Nov.

18 at the East Asheville Community Center. Cost is $15 for the five week session. For more information call 298-4990. UNE DANCING: Line dancing classes will be from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Wednesdays starting Nov. 9 at the East Asheville Community Center. Cost Is $20 for the five week session. For more Information call 298-4990. TEXAS TWO-STEP: Texas two-step classes will be from 7:30 p.m.

to 9 p.m. starting Monday at the East Asheville Community Center. Cost is $20 for singles, $35 for couples for the five week session. Fore more information call 298-4990. KINDER GYMNASTICS CLASS: Kinder Gymnastics will be taught from 12:30 p.m.

to 1 p.m. Tuesdays starting Nov. 8 at the Montford Recreation Center. The class is for children ages four and five. The fee is $25 for the four-week class.

For more Information call 253-3714. VEGETARIAN COOKING: Vegetarian cookery will be taught from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays starting Nov. 10 at the Montford Recreation Center.

The fee Is $35 for the eight-week class. For more information call 253-3714. ESTATE PLANNING SEMINAR: There will be a free seminar titled "Living Trusts: Loving Family Estate at 10 a.m. Nov. 16 at the Holiday Inn Central on Tunnel Road.

The presentation will be made by Andrew Strauss of Strauss Jones, PA of Asheville. Reservations may be made at 274-7655 or 1-800-373639. COMMISSION MEETING Gore Buncombe County commissioners met Tuesday and took several actions. The actions Included: UninhMutljr approving a motion allowing County ManagerBIII McElrath to create a new county Job. The person hired to the Job will work with county departments on Improving productivity.

The job will pay about $46,000 a year. Unanimously pn final approval to a new ordinance banningthe use of county rivers during flood conditions. Continued from page IB for Lauterer. Bill Sabo, associate professor of political science at UNCA, said the strategy can work for candidates. "There are three purposes for bringing in 'celebrity' candidates.

The first is to get the party faithful revved up and to bring those generally committed to a candidate up to the next level of involvement; to work, to campaign a little and most importantly, to contribute money. "The second reason is (to attract) marginal voters that don't pay much attention to the campaign or might not vote. A big name comes in and maybe breaks through the barrier that keeps marginal voters from paying attention." "The third is to try to lend some of the 'celebrity's' aura to a candidate," Sabo said. DUcutsIng renovations to the county Health Department The renovations will cost about $456,000 -up from $282,000 commissioners had earmarked to spend on the project. Commissioners took no action and said they will talk about the renovations again during their next meeting Nov.

15. Maklnf plea for residents to apply to the countsNursing Home Advisory Committee. The committee, which visits local nursing homes and reports what they find to the state, has eight open seats on the 20-member board. STAFF REPORTS NATURE CENTER TOURS: There will be a meeting for volunteers Interested in leading groups of school children on tours through the Western North Carolina Nature Center at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the center on Gashes Creek Road.

For more Information call 298-5600. IBM PC USERS MEETING: The Asheville Buncombe IBM PC Users group will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Senior Citizens Opportunity Center, 36 Grove St For more Information call 274-5331. CIVIL WAR MEETING: The Civil War Round Table of Buncombe County will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday In Lord Auditorium at Pack Library in downtown Asheville.

For more information call 689-4971. FIRE DEPARTMENT MEETING: Broad River Volunteer Fire Department will have a public meeting at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Broad River Community Center. MINERAL SOCIETY MEETS: The Southern Appalachian Mineral Society win meet Nov.

7 at 7 p. m. at the Murphy-Oakley Community Center, Fairview Road. George Grow will speak on "Fossils of the Southwest" Visitors welcome. Can 252-3050.

UNC-TV documentary recalls life of Frank Porter Graham Franklin Roosevelt, Graham served on the council that helped formulate the Social Security Act of 1935 and on the Advisory Commission on Economic Conditions in the South, which brought to light the state of the South's wage Frank Graham FROM STAFF REPORTS Frank Porter Graham, North Carolina's most visible liberal for more than two generations, is the subject of a new University of North Carolina Television documentary, airing Sunday at 8 p.m. and repeating Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. Graham, who died in 1972 at the age of 85, was president of the University of North Carolina, a VS. Senator and United Nations mediator and served on several special presidential commissions.

"Dr. Frank: The Life and Times of Frank Porter Graham," will be narrated by Charles Kuralt and features recollections from those who knew and worked with Graham former Sen. Terry San-ford, Ed Yoder, Tom Wicker, John Hope Franklin, John Sanders, William Friday and Helen Edmonds. The film also features archival photographs and film footage and a 1962 interview with Graham. As president of UNC in the 1930s, Graham set a progressive agenda that helped move the state away from its 19th-century image as a backward, rural state.

Under "Dr. Frank: The Life and Times of Frank Porter Graham," will be narrated by Charles Kuralt and features recollections from those who knew and worked with Graham -former Sen. Terry Sanford, Ed Yoder, Tom Wicker, John Hope Franklin, John Sanders, William Friday and Helen Edmonds. The film also features archival photographs and film footage and a 1962 Interview with Graham. Helms is credited with devising the strategy that showed heavy support for Graham in the first primary from the black community.

A radio editorialist at the time, he also published and distributed literature with election returns showing black voters supported Graham. Such support at the time was considered damning to a candidate, who lost votes from whites because of it The UNC-TV film was produced by Chapel Hill graduates John Wilson and Martin Clark and also covers Graham's early years, education and evolution from history professor to university president The film was co-sponsored by the Arts and Sciences Foundation of UNC-Chapcl Hill. levels and standard of living. Harry Truman asked him to sit on the Commission on Civil Rights, where he Btated his belief in desegregation. Gov.

Kerr Scott appointed Graham in 1949 to the U.S. Senate to fill the unexpired term of J. Melville Broughton. The following year, he ran for the Senate seat and became embroiled in one of the bitterest campaigns in the state's history. He lost by 20,000 votes in a runoff to Willis Smith, whose supporters included a young Jesse Helms.

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One later became a war correspondent, the other a flyer with the famous Lafayette Escadrille. an independent operation. In response, the Friends appointed a long range planning committee to come up with a draft management proposal in the event that the rumor was valid. "We found that the present county commissioners had no intention of excluding the Nature Center from its umbrella of services to the people of Buncombe County," said Vollmerhausen. The board accepted the proposal by the planning committee but directed that no further action be taken." The Nature Center's board of directors will hold their next meeting at 6:30 p.m.

Nov. 21 at the Nature Center. The public is invited. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Board of Directors of the Friends of the Western North Carolina Nature Center voted to tinue to accept financial and management support by Buncombe County Commissioners to the Nature Center at a meeting on Oct 17. The county appropriates about $280,000 annually to the Nature Center.

Additional funds to run the facility are acquired through entrance fees, private donations and on-site services like the gift shop. There had been rumors, according to board director Bob Vollmerhausen, that the county was thinking of relinquishing financial support to the Nature Center and putting it in the hands of the Friends as YOUR MOUNTAIN TRIVIA ANSWER Today's answer may be found in the News Updates section of Infophone, your 24 hour News Information source. (long distance rates apply outside Buncombe County) Rape Crisis Center fundraiser Nov. 18-20 gunfe WorlJ News 6700 Headline News. 6702 National News 6705 Business Update 6710 Current Events Hotline 5463 Rane Crisis Center.

will 0 ioii jil Li' Phone. Name. -City. Address. BRIEFS MEMORIAL MISSION HOSPITAL A daughter to: Davis, Scott and Hannah of Leicester, Oct 30.

PAKK R1DCC HOSPITAL A daughter to: Hickey, Tina and Jason of Hender-sonville, Oct 23. conduct its annual student alliance fund raiser Nov. 18-20 at the intersection in front of Beaucatcher Cinema on Tunnel Road. The goal is to raise $2300. Fundralsing hours are Nov.

18, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.; Nov. 19, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Nov. 20, 1 1 a.m.

to 6 p.m. Mineral Society meets The Southern Appalachian I subscribe to the Citiicn-Timcs I do not subscribe I buy from newsracks 1 To Subscribe Call 252-5622 or 1.800-800.4204 Mineral Society will meet Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Murphy-Oakley Community Center, Fairview Road. George Grow will speak.

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