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McDowell County’s Leading Newspaper MARION PROGRESS Advertising in the Progress Pays A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1896 MARION. N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940 VOL. XLIV—NO. 40 Finals Prc^rams For Schools Of County Outlined Speaks Here Tonight Commencement Events To Be Completed First Part May; Outstanding Students. Commencement programs for Mc Dowell county schools and outstand ing students receiving awards were announced this week by N. F. Steppe, superintendent. The programs and awards for the schools w'ere announced as fol lows: At Pleasant Gardens there are 15 boys in the graduating class and 10 girls. Valedictorian is Ruth Rabb and salutatorian is Horace Mull. Prizes will be given to honor students, the valedictorian and salutatorian, and for athletics, declaming, reading, music, science, English, dramatics and debating. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered on Sunday, May 12, at 8:00 o’clock p. m. by Dr. Carl W. McMur- ray, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Marion. Dr. B. B. Dougherty, president of Appalachian State Teachers College, in Boone, will be the speaker at the graduation exercises on May 15 at 8:00 o’clock p. m. Diplomas will be awarded by Superintendent N. F. Steppe. Other commencement features are May 3, 8:00 p. m.. Senior class play; May 9, 6:30 p. m., community pic nic and final PTA; May 10, 8:00 p. m., music recital; May 13, 8:00 p. m. class day exercises; and May 14, 8:00 p. m., seventh grade promotion exercises. Glenwood High School J. M. Broughton, gubernatorial candidate in the Democratic primary May 25, will address the voters of McDowell county tonight at 8 o’ clock at the court house. Mrs. Stauffer Resigns As District Supervisor Francis Marion Club To Sponsor Day For Farmers Annual Awards To Be Made For Outstanding Agricultur- . al Work In McDowell Co. Plans for the annual observance of a McDowell, county farmers day were made at the regular meeting of the Francis Marion club last Thurs- Maxwell Gives Six Point Plan For N. C. Program Points To State Needs; Says Changes Possible Without Greater Public Tax Bui^den. A six point program for “building North Carolina” without increasing taxes was outlined here Tuesday by A. J. Maxwell, candidate for gover- day night. The club voted to spon- nor subject to the May Democratic sor the event each year and to award prizes to county farmers who had done outstanding work during the year. According to plans outlined at the meeting, different prizes will annual ly be given to farmers. The awards will be made around the first of March each year. Five entries in each pi-imary, as his platform. Mr. Maxw'ell spoke in the court house in Mai'ion in connection with a tour of the western part of the state. Advocating a “comprehensive program of road building”, he said North Carolina highways were not built to carry the traffic they do to- MARION VISITOR —A. J. Max well, Democratic candidate for Gov ernor, was a visitor here Tuesday. acre, oats per acre, lespedeza seed John A. Lang, state NYA youth i Administrator, today announced the I"* Potatoes per acre, and soybeans per acre. Additional awards will be made to the farmer with the best division of the contest mus. be reg-lday. A North Carolina motor fatality istered for a prize to be given. Reg-1 rate 25 per cent above ^ the national istration will be made in the local average is the result of unsafe high- ofRce of the County Agent, S. L. [ways, he said. Some 70 per cent of Homewood. I the farmers in the state live on dirt Prizes will be awarded to the Me- roads which should be improved, Dowell farmers having the best!along with school bus routes. He es- yields of corn per acre, wheat perjtimated that a sum of $50,000,000 resignation of Mrs. Margaret T. Stauffer as Assistant District Super visor for District No. 3 with head quarters at Asheville. In accepting Mrs. Stauffer’s resig nation, Mr. Lang commented at length on the work of Mrs. Stauffer in hfer many capacities as an NYA Supervisor. He stated that Mrs. Stauffer had received national rec ognition for her work in the field of would be available for road work in the state within the next four years. Primary markets for farm products were advocated as being essential to profitable diversified farming. Too farm records kept, the best record many North Carolina farm products on a single enterprise, the largest j are shipped out of the state to be litter of pigs grown to porkers, the | processed in other places, he said, beat baby beef grown out, and the! in the field of public health he most improvement in permanent j pointed to the need of a more inten- pasture during the year. Prizes will! give health program for schools in be awarded to the three highest pro-[the state, where some 30,000 pupils Iwere found last year to be hindered for j by defective vision. Jenkins Elected To Head Marion Rotary Rev. W. A. Jenkins, pastor of the First Methodist church of Marion, was elected president of the local Rotary club at the regular weekly meeting of the organization on last Friday. He succeeds Dean Tainter as head of the club. Other officers elected by the Ro tary club were: John Ray Jimison, vice-president; Clarence Rabb, sec retary; John Abee, treasurer; and Bob Smith, sergeant-at-arms. John Abee w’as elected a delegate to 'the district Rotary convention, held Monday in Hickory. Albert Hewitt was elected alternate dele gate. Every member of the club sig nified his intention to attend the district convention. L. J. P. Cutlar addressed the club on the needs of the Marion General This District Leads State In WPA Program Congressman Weaver Cites Figures On Amount Allotted To This Section. Washington, April 29. — With an allocation of $13,607,226.84 of WPA funds since the inception of the WPA progi-am through 1939, th« 11th district leads all others in N. C. Representative Weaver (D.,N.C.,) has been informed through a Works Progress Administration tabulation. Representative Weaver (D.,N.C.,) was informed that a total of $13,- 607,226.84 had been allocated to the eleventh district since the inception of the WPA program through De cember 31, 1939. This total, the report reveals, is nearly $4,000,000 greater than the amount expended in the closest rank ing district,, the tenth district; and is nearly $10,000,000 in excess of the second district which received the fewest projects. The report by the WPA ranks the various congressional districts and the amounts they have received as follows: Eleventh district, $13,607,226.84; tenth district, $9,506,301.95; ninth district, $7,585,242.60; fifth district, $7,327,285.02; eighth district, $6,- 714,629.68, sixth district, $6,663,- 645.75; seventh district, $6,081,639- 45; first district, $5,100,419.25; third district, $4,608,221.19; fourth district, $4,504,093.35; and the sec ond district, $3,629,870.64. A grand total of $83,662,564.66 has been earmarked for improve- was accepted as an authority in this ’field. At the Glenwood high school there gtauffer entered NYA service are nme boys and 14 girls m the|,„ S„. graduating class. The valedictorian ducers in each division. Farmers wishing to register , J * * J * I. 1*^® contest must do so with the j For school teachers in the state,'. , • 4.- ... • j i arts and crafts and stated that she^^„„.„ j ... j xv i. 4.- « i hospital, pointing to the inadequacy ^ J it- -.1. • ...u- i County Agent not later than June he advocated the restoration of sal- . i, 15. Airangements for ‘he contest ;aries to the 1930 level, the establish-^8 333 388 wLmorlnd' " j•>' “ retirement fund by the|jj^ presented to the club by Dr.!state wide projects not specificaUy W^t oreland. | state, and provisions for sick leave ^ Hagna, in charge of the pro-i credited to any district. Five prominent county farmers, for teachers such as that now Whet« the ^ 1th liatrict’s r^;;aie M:^nne; and t^^^ the Francis Mario. taining with st.te employe.^. r State Consultant on arts dub at the meeting. They were Ed; Mr. Maxwell outlined as tl , . - , ^ ^ , , « . , sor, and State Jonsultant on arts tonan IS Ivey C. Crawley Jr. Pnzes! and medals will be awarded for at-1 organized county exhib- of the hospital space and facilities jments in North Carolina by the WPA been for , , . .. , 1 , .. Visitors at the Rotary meeting j Priations were expended is shown in club at the meeting. They were Ed, Mr. Mawell outlined as the j, following breakdown by coun- Visitors at appro- ;ties: Buncombe, $4,577,505.87; Morgan of Glenwood tendance records, scholarship in the!r“"'r- ''“""“j Next Friday .the Kotary club will I Cherokee, »818,645.48; Clay, »646,- four high school classes, to the sa- ^ 'Tocy/nd be host to members of the Marion!362.64; Graham, |644,645.98; Hay- T^ti “r;!f'*r'*P“?*‘7!ci;rrle7Mirer, ofTs^^^^^ of Pleasant; of vocational training in the scnools j lutatorian and valediqtorian, and to the best all-round boy and grirl. The baccalaureate sermon will be duced by NYA youths on local and resident projects. In a letter to Mrs. StauflPer today. Marion, and Clyde Gilliam of Old j be given to the great majority of Fort. Walter J. Cartier, secretary of j school students who the local Chamber of Commerce, j college, he said. never attend delivereTby Dr.”w. A7Ayere,^^^^^^^ expressed his sincere re-1 was also a guest. j As the sixth point on his program of the First Baptist church of Forest I s’^ch a faithful andj In a brief business session the; he advocated the teaching of North City on Sunday May 12 at 2 *30^1 history in schools, stating o’clock pm ' j ue to serve on the Advisory commit- j Allen as a member and voted to have: that high school graduates now know ! tee as a consultant for arts and j a skating party for members and: little or nothing about the state in ; crafts. Mrs. Stauffer resigned to 1 their dates on May 2. j which they live, devote her full time to private busi-j i Mr. Maxwell was introduced to p. m. The Hon. W^alter Murphy, at torney, of' Salisbury, will be the speaker at the graduating exercises! . „ . ^ on May 15 at 8:00 o’clock p. m. Di-j"'** "> plomas will be given by C. L. Nor-| Mrs. Frances R. Sisk, NYA Super wood, principal. j visor of Swain county, v^ as named by Other commencement features are | Lang to succeed Mrs. Stauffer May 10, 2:00 p. m., patrons visiting day and seventh grade promotion exercises, and at 8:00 p. m., the glee club recital; May 14, 8:00 p. m., class night exercises. Old Fort High School In the Old Fort school graduating class there are 19 boys and 14 grirls. Marilyn Byrd is valedictorian and Virginia Early Salutatorian. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered on Sunday, May 12, by Rev. W. E. Pettit, of the First Bap tist church in Old Fort. There will be no speaker at the graduation exercises but a special program has been planned. Diplomas will be awarded by S. A. McDuffie, j>rincipal. As a commencement feature, an operetta titled ‘Sunny of Sunnyside’ will be given by the seventh grade on May 16 at 8:00 p. m. North Cove High School Five boys and eight girls are in the graduating class at the North Cove school. Valedictorian is Marlene Mc Gee and salutatorian is Ruth Swaf ford. Prizes and awards will be giv en to the valedictorian and salutato rian; and for scholarship, citizenship and music. Three awards will be made to students with perfect atten dance. They are Marion Good, six years attendance, Jewell McBee seven years, and Billy Brown, eight years. The baccalaureate sermon will be as Assistant District Supervisor for District No^ 3. Mrs. Sisk has been with the NYA since February, 1939, Methodist Conference Will Be In Old Fort the McDowell county audience by j Judge Paul J. Story, of Marion. The annual Methodist district con ference for seven Western North Carolina counties will be held in Old and will begin her new duties May | Fort next Wednesday, May 8. Coun 1. 1940. Broughton To Speak In Courthouse Tonight J. M. Broughton, candidate . for governor of North Carolina subject to the May Democratic primary will speak in the courthouse in Marion tonight at 8:00 o’clock. Mr. Broughton is basing his cam paign on a “Sound Program of Progress for North Carolina.” He visits Marion in connection with a tour of the western part of the state. The Broughton campaign in Mc Dowell is being managed by J. G. Neal, who was recently appointed to that post. elude the senior class play on May 10 at 8:00 p. m. and a music recital on May 13 at 2:00 p. m. Nebo High School In the graduating class at the Ne bo high school there are six boys and 10 girls. Dolores Thomas is valedic torian and Glenn Pyatt salutatorian. Special recognition will be given the valedictorian. The baccalaureate sermon will be and dinner will be served on grounds. The meeting will open at 9:30 a. m. and the Rev. T. R. Wolf, of Cliffside, will preach at 11:00 o’ clock. Representatives from Methodist colleges, children’s homesL and the Mission Board will be present. Ap proximately 400 delegates and preachers from the 35 charges in this Methodist district are expected to attend. Work of the Methodist church dur ing the last six months will be re viewed and a church program will be made for the coming year. [high school band. Entertainment for| wood, $1,273,401.31; Henderson, I the meeting will be planned in cen-i $858,650.52; Jackson, $1,054,887.38 nection with the observance of Boys j McDowell, $786,799.04; Macon, land Girls week, an annual event on j $729,525.62; Polk, $263,915.86; the Rotary progrram. j Rutherford, $1,080,230.39; Swain, j $809,831.72; and TransylArania, Negro Freed Of Blame In Death Case Here Work On City Streets T I? fv, f H f fhJ Is Scheduled To Begin Tom Rutherford, a negro of the: ® Black Bottom section of McDowell | county who has been confined to the i Work on the $50,589 WPA proj- county jail here pending an analysis; ect for the improvement of streets of the stomach contents of Charles i in Marion will begin tomorrow when Dale, was cleared of all charges but approximately 50 men will be em- larceny and robbery this week. {ployed in surfacing and placing gut- A report from Raleigh officials re-1 ters on North Logan street, announ- vealed that the stomach contents of jced Mayor Zeno Martin this week. church here last Sundav Of the 35' showed no sign of poisoning,! The projects as approved by WPA chuich here last bunday. Ot the County, officials calls for curbing and surfac- officials decided to have the stomach ing to be placed on North Logan and contents of Dale analyzed some time j Crawford streets. Avenue A, Morgan ago when it was alleged that anoth-1 terrace, and Crescent Drive. Curbing er negro became ill after having! will be placed on Morgan street and District Meeting Held At Methodist Church Approximately 400 pastors, stew ards and laymen attended a Meth odist meeting held in the Methodist ties to be represented are McDowell, Burke, Rutherford, Polk, Avery, Yancey and Mitchell. An all-day program will be given j charges in this Methodist district 31 the I -yy^ere represented at the assembly. The program was under the direc FOUR APPOINTED TO ASSIST HORTON CAMPAIGN delivered on May 12 at 8:00 p. m. delivered on May 12 at 2:00 p. m.jby.Rev. W. W. Rowe, of the First by Rev. McRae Crawford, of the Reformed church of Lenoir. Methodist church in Ashford. ■ Guest speaker at the graduating exercises on May 14 at 8:00 o’clock p. m. will be Leo K. Pritchett, dean of Lees-Mac|lae College in Banner Elk. Diplomas will be given by E. V. Gouge, principal. Other commencement features in- Rev. W. A. Jenkins, pastor of the First Methodist church of Marion, will be guest speaker at the graduat ing exercises on May 15 at 8:00 p. m. Diplomas will be awfirded by Stanley Livingrston, principal. Other conunencement features in clude a May Day festival on May 1. J. W. Streetman, Jr., manager of the gubernatorial campaign of W. P. Hoi*ton in McDowell county, an nounced this week the appointment of four Marion men who will serve vdth him in promoting the Horton campaign in the county. ♦ To assist* in the McDowell cam paign are W. D. Lonon, R. L. James, Jr., Zeno Martin and E. A. Morgan. Already serving as a member of the headquarters staff of Mr. Hor ton, is R. W. Proctor, Marion attor ney. Announcement was made this week that Lieutenant-Governor Hor ton will make a public address in the courthouse in Marion on May 13. The time for the speech has not been scheduled. ^ tion of D. W. Alexander, district lay leader. Guest speakers were W. B. - , , i • j n -u u ^ a a i d^uuk some of Rutherford’s whiskey I sidewalks will be extended on North Cooper, of Morganton, who discus^d ^ ^ ^ ^ the work of the charge and the value of charge-wide meetingrs; F. C. Kin- zie, of Spindale, who spoke on the “Unified Budget;” and Floyd Todd, lay jLuder of the Gastonia district, who save an inspirational address. represented at the meeting were Burke, McDowell, Rutheii'ord, Polk, Avery, Yancey and Mitchell coun ties, which make up this Methodist district. M’MURRAY NOMINATED PRESBYTERr MODERATOR The Rev. C. W. McMurray, pas tor of the Presbyterian church in Marion, was nominated as modera tor of the Concord Presbytery at a meeting at the Waldensian Presby terian church in Valdese on Tues day, April 23. He will be elected at the next meeting of the Concord Presbytery in July at the Center Presbyterian church at Mt. Mourne. Dr. L. F. Jackson, treasurer of Davidson College and an elder in the Davidson church, was elected mod erator at the meeting. Moderators are elected quarterly. The retiring moderator, the Rev. Neil R. McGeachy, of Spencer, deliv ered a sermon before 100 pastors and elders who attended as dele gates. Precinct Meetings To Be Held Saturday Dale was found dead in a negro j Main and West Court streets, church in the Black Bottom section | Between 25 and 30 per cent of the on April 12. Rutherford is alleged to 1 cost of the project will be borne by have taken about $24 from him. the town of Marion. The remaining cost will be contributed by the Fed eral government under a WPA grant. The application for the project was submitted to WPA officials in February. Approval of the project was granted without changes being made in -the cost and construction plans. It is expected that approximately eight months will be required to com plete the work called for under the project plans. Democratic precinct meetings will be held at the various polling places next Saturday, May 4, at 2 o’clock. At these meetings precinct commit tees will be elected, and delegates chosen to attend the Democratic county convention, which meets in Marion on Saturday, May 11, at 11 o’clock. The new County Democratic Ex- j MARION MERCHANTS TO ecutive Committee will be composed of the chairmen of the seventeen precinct committees. The new exec utive committee will meet May. 11— HAVE MEETING TONIGHT A meeting of the Merchants divis ion of th^ Marion Chamber of Com- same date as the convention—^at 12!merce will be held tonight in the o’clock and elect officers of the com mittee for the next two years. The county convention will elect delegates to the State Convention, which meets in Raleigh at noon. May 17th, and attend to such other busi ness as may come before the con vention. The calls for the meeting were is sued by Robert W. Proctor, present county chairman. Town hall to discuss the credit sys tem now in force in the town and to reorganize the credit bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, announced Walter J. Cartier this week. The advisability of joining state and national credit associations will be discussed. A special invitation to attend the meeting is extended to all credit grocers in McDowell county.