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McDowell County’s Leading Newspaper MARION PROGRESS AHlTertiuiis in the Progress Pays A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 18f6 MARION. N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1940 VOL. XUV—NO. 46 June Term Of Superior Court Opened Monday Judge Frank M. Armstry>ng Presiding; Breaking, Enter ing Cases Feature Docket. CHAMBER SPONSORED TOUR SET FOR TODAY William Poore, tried in Superior Court here Monday on charges of breaking and entering and larceny, was sentenced by presiding Judge Frank M. Armstrong to 18 to 36 months in State prison with la 3or on the roads on the first two charges. On the larceny count Poore was given a five-year prison sentence, suspen ded on the condition that he be on good behavior for five years after the expiration of the first sentence. Homer Banner and Willard Jewell, both charged with breaking and en tering and larceny, were found guilty and given 12 to 36 months prison sentences. On the larceny counts they were given five-year suspended sentences on five years of good behavior. Willie Shehan and James Parker both found guilty of breaking and entering and larceny, were sentenced to four to seven years in State pris on.. They were given five-year sus pended sentences on the larceny counts on three years good behavior. Wallace Hardin and Jess Hardin, found guilty of breaking and enter ing and larceny, were gfiven four to seven years in prison and five-year suspended sentences on three years good behavior. Other cases disposed of this week were as follows: The Marion Chamber of Com merce sponsored tour of the Blue Ridge Parkway gets under way here this morning at 10:00 o’clock with two Queen City buses scheduled to conduct the sightseers over the 150- mile drive', announced Walter J. Car tier yesterday. Plans for the tour include an all day trip over the parts of the Park way now open and a stop for lunch at Blowing Rock. Tourists on the trip are expected to return to Mar ion about 5:30 p. m. According to Mr. Cartier, “The Blue Ridge Parkway is open ever a large part of its length, and not many of us really know much about it. Parkway officials, realizing this, have suggested that we promote a tour for the purpose of giving those folks who direct tourist travel, and others interested, first-hand informa tion on this wonder highway.” The trip will be under the person al direction of Parkway Ranger E M. Dale, who will be assisted by J. P. Dodge, senior location engineer with the Parkway. Residents of many towns in the western part of the state have been invited to take part in the tour. The ilivitations have been accepted by delegations from Asheville, Little Switzerland, Lenoir, Hickory, Hen dersonville and Charlotte. Private cars may be used on the tour by those who desire to do so, said Mr. Cartier. | The proposed itinerary for the tour includes stops at Buck Creek Gap, Victor’s View, Little Switzer land, Gillespie Gap, Bear’s Den, Overlook, Linville Falls, Linville River Bridge, Grandfather Moun Mountain, Blowing Rock, Boone, Dayton Ingra»., violation of pro- Scald Gap Over- hibition law, 12 months in jail andi*""''- labor on the roads and two year sus pended sentences on five years good behaviO-T. Leroy Gallion, violation of prohi bition law, same sentence as Ingram’s Dewey Comer, violation of prohib- Lump Overlook, and Bluif’s Park. HUNT RESIGNS POSITION AS SUPT. OF MILL A. F. Hunt, superintendent of the Baptist Group To Meet June 21 At Glenwood Profl^am Announced For Meeting Of The Woman^s Missionary Society. Milk Collections On County Routes ToBegin Monday Sixty Farmers Signed To Fur nish Product For The New Shelby Plant. M’DOWELL COUNTY RECEIVED $286,915.57 FROM STATE LAST YEAR The annual meeting of the Wom- Milk collections in McDowell coun- an’s Missionary Society of the Blue ty for the Shelby plant of the Carna- Ridge Baptist Association will be tion Milk Company will begin Mon- held at the Baptist church at Glen- day morning, June 17, announced wood on Sunday, June 21. The fol- County Agent S. L. Homewood this lowing program has. been annoi^nced week. 10:00 a. m.—Hymn, “How Firm a Sixty farmers in the county have Foundation,” Devotional, Mrs. J. L, signed to furnish milk along the twoj Morgan. routes, it was said, and these will be 10:20 a. m. — Welcome Address, contacted tomorrow. Farmers who Mrs. Byrd. Response, Mrs. Pearl have not signed to supply milk for Pruitt. Carnation Company and who wish tp 10:30 a. m.—Mission Study. Liter- requested to com- ature. Co-operative Program and f ^^^h Mr. Homewood Hundred Thousand Club—Mrs. Pres- o’* H. Sneed before Saturday af- ton Rabb. ternoon; 10:55 a. m. — Personal Service, The opportunities for the sale of Mrs. J. H. Johnson. offered McDowell county pro- .... rw,.. oLi J ducers by the Carnation Company 11:10 a. m,—Traimng School and , ,, - . , Ci. i i ^ T-i J T 1- T. 1 should prove of great benefit to local Margaret Fund, Mrs. Julius Parker. , uu v j* « 11 \r. 11 o • farmers who have been forced to dis- 11:20 a. m.—Roll Call of Socie- . , n • ^ j* , c . a. J i, T» pose of surplus milk m the form of ties and Superintendent s Report. . , • • J u* sour cream at a low price in the past, 11:45 a. m. — Stewardship, Mrs. -j tt , _ said Mr. Homewood. Greenway. 12:00 m. — Address, Mrs. Wade Two routes for milk collections Bostic, Shelby, N. C. planned for McDowell 12:30 p. m.—Benediction. The first will begin at Lin- Lunch 12:30 to 1:30. continue on highway Youn» People’. Hour ^21 into Rutherford county. Driver Hymn, “My Hope is Built.” Sneed of Devotional—Mrs. W. O. Nichols. Ashford. Special Song—By Glenwood girls.| The second route will begin at “The Hindering Load”—Y. W. A. Marion, follow highway 70 to Bill First Baptist church. j Gibbs’ service station, continue on Message — Our Youth Steadfast; old highway 10 by Greenlee into No. for Christ.—Mrs. B. F. Bray. j 70 at Siloam church, along No. 70 to |01d Fort, from Old Fort along high- I way 64 to B. T. Nichol’s store, on to I the Bethlehem road and back into I highway 221. At some point along MARION TO CHIMNEY ROCK ROAD DISCUSSED Twenty-five North Carolina coun ties, those with large industries, re ceived 60.6 per cent, or $17,659,496- 91 of the approximately $29,143,262 distributed in the 100 counties in aid, assistance, insurance and service provided in the ten divisions of the National Social Security Act, through last year, generally, it is estimated from official sources by Charles G. Powell, chairman of the N. C. Unem ployment Compensation Commission Eighteen counties received more than half, $14,751,181.53, or 50.6% of those funds; 15 counties received $13,356,710.65, or 45.8 per cent; ten counties received $10,697,110.- 20, or 36.7. per oent; and five coun ties received $10,697,110.20, or 36.7 per cent; and five counties received 23.77 per cent or $6,925,893.64. The five counties receiving 23.77 per cent of the total for the state are, in order and amount: Guilford, $1,652,425.64; Mecklenburg, $1,- 485,325.97; Forsyth, $1,438,687.16; Gaston, $1,193,139.30; and Bun combe, $1,158,315.56. The next five added to the first five to receive 36.7 per cent of the total, are Durham, $1,016,881.61; Rockingham, $731,- 320.18; Wake, $696,753.17; David son, $649,109.62; Alamance, $677,- 151.98. The eight other counties, added to the ten above, which receive slightly more than half of the total amount, are: Rutherford, $588,586.- 73; New Hanover, $539,957.27; Ca barrus, $529,203.21; Catawba, $515- 104.26; Rowan, $486,748.98; Ire dell, $471,101.59; Robeson, $468,- 97; Cleveland, $454,497.32. And the other seven counties, added to the 18 listed, making the 25 counties which received more than 60 per cent of the total, are: Wilson, $435,- 177.04; Pitt, $430,594.50; Halifax, $423,249.40; Edgecombe, $420,174,- 02; Surry, $407,063.12; Nash, $405,- 144.14; Richmond,$386,913.16. McDowell county received a total Lutherans Pian Mass Meeting Here June 16tK Get - Together Called To Arouse Interest In Estah* lishment Of Bible Camp. ition law, same sentence as Ingram’s I Marion Manufacturing Company for i officials of ^ke Lure Chimney | second route will be many years, has resigned his position Mr. _ Ma^ Wateon, state with the company and is being sue South Carolina, it was announced this week. Mr. Hunt came to Marion in May Burrel Condrey, driving drunk, six months on the roads, license re voked for 12 months. Tommy Rutherford, to serve 12 months for violation of suspended sentence of September 1938. Arlan Jones and Burdette Jones, breaking and entering and larceny, 12 to 24 months on the roads, four | Manufacturing Company. His first to six year suspended sentences on'job in McDowell county was as three years good behavior. .weaving overseer, in which capacity Henry Deal, manufacturing and i he started the first power loom and transporting, 12 months on roads, i wove the first piece of cloth made in two-year suspended sentence on the county ceeded by Robert Twitty of Laurens, the proposed hard-surfac- A deleiration of some 12 Marionof $286,915.57, divided as^ follows: • J * 4. 1 4. • v* -*1. * iwill be changed to Sneed’s truck Assistance $70 461 50* Old residents met last night with towni , . . Assistance, uia 1 which will continue on to Shelby, ^ge and Survivors Insurance, $2,- 158.50; Unemployment Compensa tion, $155,235.07; Aid to Dependent Children, $19,356.50; Aid to the Blind, $6,404; and five services, $33,- 300.00. highway commissioner, at Lake Lure ing of a road from Marion to Chim ney Rock. The proposed road runs from Ma- 1910, from Pacolet, s. C., where he West Marion, the had been employed by the Pacolet Montford s Cove and Sugar H.ll sections on to Chimney Rock. The (Continued on last page) MASONIC PICNIC AT LAKE JAMES MONDAY A Masonic picnic will be held at the Lake James club house on next Monday afternoon and evening be tween the hours of 5 and 8 o’clock at which time Most Worshipful Grand Master T. J. Harkins of Ashe ville will be present to present the Masons who have been members 25 and 50 years certificates of award for their services during this period of years. Dr. B. A. Dickson, Worshipful Master of Mystic Tie Lodge, an nounces that all Masons who may not have transportation to the club house are requested to meet at the lodge here at 5 o’clock where cars will be provided. The committee on arrangements consisting of B. S. Clark, J. G- Beaman and F. C. Mor ris, have made every eflFort to make this one of the most enjoyable events in the history of the lodge. When the Clinchfield Manufactur- PLANS PROCEED FOR JULY 4TH CELEBRATION Plans for the Chamber of Com merce sponsored July 4 celebration are proceeding, announced Walter road lies in McDowell and Ruther-iJ- Cartier this week, and the events ford counties and its improvement 1 scheduled for the day promise to at- and surfacing would be under the tract large crowds to Marion. direction of the state highway de partment. Rural families living along the ing Company was organized in isujroute have drawn up a petition ask- Mr. Hunt was working on a power loom. He was promoted to assistant, superintendent of the Clinchfield and Marion Manufacturing Compa nies and held this position until July, 1918. At that time he gave up his position as assistant superintendent of the Clinchfield plant and became superintendent of the Marion Manu facturing Company, in which capaci ty he served until his resignation be came effective the first of June this ing that the road be surfaced and Committees have been working on Plans have been completed here for a get-together of Lutherans of the Southeastern Lutheran district at St. Matthew’s church in Marion on Sunday, June 16. The mass meet ing has been called to arouse inter est in the establishment of a Bible Camp or a Lutheran Assembly in this part of the state. The public has been invited to attend the get-to- gether. Approximately 450 people from the various parts of the district are expected to attend the meeting. The states in the Southeastern Lutheran district are North Carolina, South Carolina, Virgihia, Delaware, Mary land, and parts of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Washington also is included. The progn:‘am for the meeting will begin at 9:45 a. m. on June 16 with the Sunday School sessions. Mass meeting Fathers’ Day Bible Camp services will begin at 11:00 a. m. with Rev. J. L. Summers, executive secretary of the newly organized Southeastern Lutheran district, as guest speaker. After the services, a picnic dinner will be held near Lake Tahoma. Fam ilies will provide their own dinners. After lunch three different motor cades have been planned for persons attending the meeting. The tours will cover the Linville Falls section, the Mount Mitchell section, the State Game Refuge, the Fish Hatcheries, Carolina Hemlocks, and parts of the Skyland Drive highway. A special committee will meet all late comers between three and four o’clock at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church to con duct them over the scenic highway. Persons attending the get-togeth er are requested to be the gruests of the ladies in the late evening at the church for a light lunch, after which there will be a general meeting of CONTEST WINNERS STOP Ladies’ Walther Leagues and HERE ON WESTERN TOURj^^™®*^ separately. At 8:00 o’clock p. m. a “special The four young women recently unique” service will be held in selected by the Carolina Motor club 1 the church. from 450 entries in the contest for! The Ladies Mission Society of the the selection of “Miss Carolina Mo-pocal Lutheran church is extending the program for the day which willitorist” paid Marion a brief visit yes-i®" invitation to all Lutheran ladies include a parade in Marion, an old- fashioned picnic at Lake James, out board boat races at the lake, a gener- some 200 names have been attached jal recreation program and a fire works display to end the festivities BEAM GIVES READINGS AT KIWANIS MEETING Hugh F. Beam, superintendent of Marion city schools, presented two readings before the Marion Kiwanis club at its regular weekly meeting Tuesday night. He read the popular radio speech of Dr. Rollo G. Reyn olds and an article by the late Dr. Frank Crane, entitled “The Fiftieth Boy.” Mr. Beam was presented to the club by H. D. Bishop, program chair man for this month. President Cecil Dobson presided at the meeting. Several members of the Marion Chamber of Commerce were guests of the Kiwanians at the meeting. Dinner was served by ladies of the Methodist church. In the near future Mr. Hunt ex pects to move to his farm, “Spring Valley,” near Glenwood. At present he is not making plans for the fu ture, he said. COLLECTIONS IN RED CROSS DRIVE ANNOUNCED A total of $666.23 had been col lected yesterday by the Marion chap ter of the American Red Cross for relief of refugees in France, it was announced. A goal of $600 was originally set for the Marion chapter by the na tional headquarters of the Red Cross but frequent appeals have been re ceived here to raise as much above that amount as possible as needs of the refugees increased daily. The solicitation of funds for the Red Cross has been directed here by Mrs. Fred Streetman, She has been assisted by about 20 Marion ladies. Headquarters for the drive in Marion are in the old Wilson store building on Main street. The booth there has recorded the collection of $62.88 so far during the drive. Mrs. Streetman has requested that persons who have not contributed to the relief fund do so as soon as pos sible at the Red Cross headquarters or at the Marion Industrial bank.- Use of the road by tourists would be heavy, it is said, as it would de crease the distance between Marion and Chimney Rock by about 14 miles. CELEBRATION PLANNED FOR MARION C OF C Directors of the Marion Chamber of Commerce, meeting here Tuesday night, decided to hold the first anni versary celebration of the local or ganization on August 5. Invitations will be extended to officials of the United States Chamber of Commerce to attend the meeting and it is ex pected that one of the officials will be gruest speaker at the local nleeting The board voted to conduct a membership drive, starting July 15. Several of the directors expressed the opinion that the membership of the Chamber of Commerce can and should be increased. A new board of directors for the Chamber will be elected in July, it was decided. BIBLE SCHOOL BEING HELD BY METHODISTS Approximately 60 young people of the Methodist church of Marion are attending a Vacation Bible school being conducted at the church hut this week. Daily classes are being held from 9:00 to 11:30 a. m. Work in the school is under the direction of Mrs. Garland Williams. Superintendent of the school is J. H. Tate. Classes began Monday morning and will continue through Saturday of this week. terday. !to attend the mass meeting. A meet- The four contest winners will tour j of the ladies has been planned the . state and then advertise North i^or one o’clock p. m. President of Carolina’s scenic and 'recreational' the local Ladies Mission Society is advantages on a Maine to Florida: Mrs. V. T. Eckerd. trip. The contest winners in North j Plans for the mass meeting have Carolina were Katherine Meier under the direction of V. T. by the Chamber of Commerce in co-1 Wrightsville Beach and Marian Gal- j Eckerd, president of the Marion Lu- operation with the Francis Marion, j loway of Greensboro. Winners initheran Laymen’s League, and Rev. Rotary, Kiwanis and Junior Wom-j South Carolina were Catherine Rob-jP^’^^ A. Boriack, pastor of St. Mat- an’s clubs of Marion. * - ~ . . - - - ~ t .,4.1 „i u at night. The celebration is being planned Eight committees are directing the many parts of the program. A gener al committee in charge of the cele bration is composed of Walter J. Cartier, chairman, Oliver Cross, Jack James, Eugene Cross, Jr., J. E. Evans, Dan Hitchcock, J. F. Snipes, Alford Morgan, S. L. Homewood, Mrs. Hazel McMahan, Mrs. William O. Gibbs, Mrs. H. C. Mangum, C. E. Bolick, and W. R. Burleson. CENSUS GIVES OLD FORT POPULATION OF 772 Old Fort, McDowell county, has lost 94 persons since the 1930 censue it was announced yesterday by C. Z. Flack, district census supervisor. Old Fort’s 1940 census enumera tion showed a population of 866, and the figure this year is 772. Oc cupied housing’ units total 195. Ten vacant units were listed. DR. J. N. GILL TAKEN BY DEATH AT WEAVERVILLE Dr. .James N. Gill, 78, well-known resident of Weaverville and a pioneer physician of Western North Caroli na, died in an Asheville hospital on Wednesday morning after an illness of two weeks. Dr. Gill is survived by his widow; a son, W. Gill, of Marion; and three grandchildren, Mrs. Charles Greenlee, W. K. Gill, Jr., and James L. Gill, all of Marion. MARION BOYS ENLIST FOR MARINE SERVICE inson of Charleston and Lorayne In- thew’s Lutheran church in Marion, abinet of Orangeburg. The girls are being accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Hal Tribble of Charlotte. Yesterday’s tour of the girl “Mo torists” included Marion, Little Swit zerland, Linville Falls, Linville Cav erns, Banner Elk, Boone, Blowing Rock, Kemersville, Guilford Battle ground and Greensboro. OFFICIALS CHOSEN TO DIRECT REHABILITATION Elmo Arthur Burns, son of Hamp ton B. Burns; William Sherrod Jones, son of W. S. Jones, and Na thaniel Haynes Odom, son of James F. Odom, of Marion, have been ac cepted for service in the United States Marine Corps at the district headquarters recruiting station in Raleigh. They were transferred on June 4th to the Marine Barracks, Paris Island, S. C., for a brief period Hugh F. Beam, superintendent of Marion city schools, has been elec ted temporary chairman of the new-, of training. ly organized McDowell county Pris-j Upon completion of their training on Rehabilitation bureau, it was an-1 they will be assigned to some service nounced this week. Mrs. G. W. Kirk- school, sh^p, foreign station, or ma- patrick, county superintendent of rine barracks, for duty, welfare, has been elected secretary. Mr. Beam and Mrs. Kirkpatrick, in cbmpany with N. F. Steppe, atten ded a meeting at state prison camp No. 910 near Spindale last Tuesday at which the organization of the Prisoner Rehabilitation bureau in this section was begun. Representa tive citizens from Polk, Cleveland, Gaston and Rutherford counties al so attended the meeting. According to Rev. L. A. Watts, of Raleigh, who is directing the rehabil itation movement in this state, the county bureaus #111 work with per sons discharged from prison, helping them to secure work, bettering their home conditions, emphasizing the value of religion, and finding for them a worthy place in society. • SAM HEMPHILL NAMED LIEUTENANT OF O. R. C. Sam Hemphill, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Hemphill, has been ap pointed Second Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps at the Citi zens Military Training Corps Camp at Fort McClellan, Anniston, Ala., where he will serve as instructor. Mr. Hemphill was formerly an em ployee of Dunn and Bradstreet in Winston-Salem, but has accepted a position with the First National Bank of Hickory to become effective July 1. Life is too short to be wasted in trying to please other people.
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