THE MARION PROGRESS
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY
ESTABLISHED 1896 MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1949
VOLUME 53—No. 36
Community Council
Elects Officers
Mrs. R. R. Cook Named To Head Group
Constitution And By-Laws Approved
The Marion Community Council
-elected officers, approved a consti
tution and by-laws and voted to
meet quarterly, at the meeting held
Tuesday evening in the community
building.
Mrs. R. R. Cook was elected pre
sident; M. W. Gordon, vice presi
dent, Mrs. P. T. Hollis, secretary
and C. C. Elledge, publicity chair
man.
Beginning with the calendar
year, meetings will be held quarter
ly. The first meeting of each year to
be held in January, the second in
April, the third in July and the
fourth in October.
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The third Monday in each month
was set as the regular meeting
date. The April meeting will be
postponed one week, however, to
avoid meeting on Easter Monday.
PRESBYTERIANS
SCHEDULE
WEEK OF SERVICES
Dr. F. Crosley Morgan will be
speaker at a series of services to be
held at the First Presbyterian
church here beginning Sunday,
March 27.
His sermon sub
jects have been
announced as fol
lows:
Sunday, March
■27, 11 a. w, "The
Central Call of
Chrigt to Man."
Sunday, March
27, 7:30 p. m. "The
Supreme Tragedy
in a Church's Life."
The general
Dr. Morgan theme for the mor
ning services, beginning at ten
o'clock each day throughout the
week, is "A Systematic and Conse
cutive Study of the Book of the
Prophet Habakkuk."
Evening services will begin at
7:30 o'clock. Subjects have been an
nounced as follows:
Monday, March 22, "The Chris
tian Warfare or Fighting the Devil."
Tuesday, March 29, "The Story
of Nicodemus."
Wednesday, March 30, "The Cen
tral Fact of the Christian Faith."
Thursday, March 31, "The Terms
of Christian Discipleship."
Friday, April 1, "The Call of
Christ to Courage."
Rev. M. O. Owens, pastor of the
First Baptist church, will lead the
singing.
MARION ALL-STARS
WIN TOURNAMENT
Marion All-Stars won over Coble
Dairies 43-27 in finals of the invi
tational basketball tournament at
Morganton Monday night. The team
was presented a bronze trophy and
team members were each recipients
of tie clasps.
The Marion team won over Na
tional Guard last Friday 34-21 and
Saturday's game with State Hos
pital ended in a 27-23 victory for
Marion.
HEERS ADDRESSES
KIWANIS CLUB
TUESDAY NIGHT
James B.Laughlin, in charge of
the program at the Kiwanis meeting
held, in the Marion Community
building Tuesday evening, present
ed E. L. Heers, U. S. Forester for
the Mt. Mitchell district.
The guest speaker outlined brief
ly the duties performed by the
forester and his staff of assistants.
One of the chief responsibilities of
this governmental agency is that of
prevention of forest fires and in
combating the fires after they are
underway. It was pointed out that
in order to render this service that
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Baptists Complete
Building Program
At East Marion
The East Marion Baptist church
has practically completed a $34,000
building and remodeling program to
provide additional Sunday School
School rooms and accomodate a larg
er attendance.
The original frame building has
been covered with brick-veneer and
a new three story brick veneer
structure containing 43x70 feet on
the first floor has been adde^.
Rearranging the auditorium with
the entrance door at the north end
of the building adds to the beauty
and convenience of the interior.
Bulldozers have been at work for
some t^ime grading a lot near the
new entrance for parking cars. Prior
to that time members of the congre
gation parked cars in the school lot
across the street. Seating capacity
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ROTARY LADIES' NIGHT
TO BE "LAUGH FIESTA"
Marion Rotary club members are
receiving novel invitations to a
Ladies' Night to held on March 25 at
the Community building. Stellar at
traction is an altogether-different
entertainment, a humor-p a c k e d
"Laugh Fiesta". Program Chairman
promises something doing every
minute, leading up to feature acts
that will score new highs in fun
making.
Prince Nur-Al-Din, Oriental My
stic, with powers of divining the fu
ture, is the guest of honor. Mem
bers and their wives will be per
mitted to lift the curtain to see what
the tomorrows have in store for
them. Eight novelty acts and fea
tures will display the well known
comic talents of the membership in
a wide variety of surprise events.
President D. Pat Davis of the Ma
rion Rotary club issues a friendly
warning to all members not to miss
this funfeast, of there will b# war
when the missus hears other mem
bers tell what a frolicsome evening
everyone had.
Hillbilly Jamborees
March 26 And April 2
Boh Carter and his Tuxedo Hill
billies of Radio Station WBBO, The
Little Boone Trio of Marion and
Ernest Harwood and his Carolina
Show Boys from Radio Station
WIRC, Hickory, will be featured in
a "Lake City Hillbilly Jamboree Sat
urday night, March 26, and Satur
day night, April 6, at the Marion
Community building. Further de
tails are contained in an advertise
ment in this issue of The Progress.
NEBO PTA TO MEET
The Nebo Parent-Teachers asso
ciation will meet Thursday night,
March 24, at 7:30 o'clock in the
school auditorium, it is announced
this week.
Miss Nina Greenlefe will present
colored movie slides of McDowell
county
Frank Graham
Named Senator
Chapel.Hill, March 22—Dr. Frank
P. Graham, famed liberal president
of the University of North Carolina,
was named tonight a U. S. Senator.
Gov. Kerr Scott announced the
surprise appointment at a campus
dinner. Dr. Graham, strong civil
rights advocate, educator and scien
tist, succeeds the late J. Melville
Broughton who died March 6 in
Washington.
The new Democratic senator has
tendered his resignation from the
univex-sity, but it has not yet been
accepted. He will serve until the
1950 general election when a suc
cessor will be picked for the bal
ance of Broughton's six-year term
which began in January.
BOY SCOUT DRIVE
WEARING QUOTA
Contributions to ' the current Boy
Scout drive totaled $1500 this week,
Rev. J. B. McLarty, county chair
man, said.
The Chairman said he hopes the
drive will be closed not later than
April 1. The quota set for this coun
ty is $1905.58.
NOMINATED
JACOB C. BOWMAN was nominat
ed by President Truman Tuesday to
be a U. S. marshall of the Western
district of North Carolina. He would
succeed Charles R. Price of Ashe
ville whose term has expired.
Bowman, an instructor for the
North Carolina Utilities Commis
sion, will maintain offices at Ashe
ville. He has been secretary of the
McDowell County Democratic Com
mittee for 20 years. He will be 61
on April 1, is married and has five
children.
Bowman is a native of Bakers
ville, but has made his home in Ma
rion for several years.
Clean-lp Campaign
For Town Of Marion
TO THE CITIZENS OF MARION:
The City Council and the Health Department are cooperating in a
clean-up campaign to eliminate insanitary and unsightly conditions in
our city. We all realize that due to the past warm winter it is entirely
possible there will be an increase of flies and mosquitoes this year. Since
the fly and mosquito season is almost upon us we again ask your co
operation to aid us in a general clean-up campaign.
If each and everyone will clean-up around his premises, clean out
gullies, ditches and streams on his property, refrain from dumping rub
bish in streams, and remove all vegetation in and around our streams
then we will be more able to combat flies, mosquitoes and rodents. When
all rubbish is removed it may be placed in a convenient location and the
city will be glad to remove it.
Let us go forward in the clean-up campaign and remove all unsightly
and unsanitary conditions to protect the health of our people.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Jack D. Cobb, Sanitarian
CITY OF MARION
J. W. Streetman, Jr., Mayor
Marion, North Carolina
March 22, 1949.
Pre-School Clinics
The McDowell County Health De
partment has announced a schedule
of pre-school clinics to continue
through May 2. The schedule fol
lows:
Old Fort School, Thursday, March
24.
West Marion, Monday, March 28.
East Marion: Thursday, March
31,
Pleasant Gardens, Monday, April
4.
Clinchfield, Thursday, April 7.
North Cove, Monday, April 11.
Glenwood, Monday, April 18.
Marion Central, Thursday, April
21.
Dysartsville, Monday, April 25.
Nebo, Monday, May 2.
Preslfey Bound Over
To Superior Court
Delno Presley was arrested Sat
urday evening on charges of assault
and battery with attempt to kill and
Kermit Presley and Dewey Pcteat
were also arrested on charges of
drunkenness and fighting on the
public highway.
Given a hearing before Justice
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Special Services
At Pleasant Hill
Special services will begin next
Sunday evening, M&rch 27, at Pleas
ant Hill Methodist Church, near the
Prison Camp. Rev. Grady Burgin,
a native of East Marion, will be
the guest preacher. The public is
most cordially invited to these ser
vices which will be held every even
ing at 7:30 throughout the week.
Dr. W. S. Moody
Opens Offices
In Morganton
Dr. W. S. (Bill) Moody, son of
Mrs. Moody and the late Mr. J. F.
Moody of Marion, opened offices
for the practice of optometry in
Morganton recently.
Prior to opening his Morganton
offices, Dr. tyloody Tgas associated
with Dr. K. W. Ramsey since gradu
ation from the Northern Illinois
Collej^ Optometry. He is a native
of McDowell county.
During his studies at the North
ern Illinois College of Optometry
Dr. Moody was a member of the
Tomb Key honorary fraternity and
received the service award as the
most outstanding member of his
graduating class. During the war he
was an Air Force pilot with the
rank of first lieutenant. He enter
ed military service in October,
1942 and has a number of flight
missions to his credit in the Euro
pean theater of war.
Dr. and Mrs. Moody have one
daughter, two-and-a-half years old.
They will move to Morganton as
soon as living quarters are avail
able.
ROTARY MEETING
The Rev. Albert P. Mack spoke on
"The Life of St. Patrick," at the
regular meeting of the Marion Ro
tary club last Friday.
Afterwards a short business ses
sion was held.
PLEASANT GARDENS TEAM?
WIN COUNTY TOURNAMENT
Red Cross Drive
Increases $1,013
Daring Past Week
Stepping up $1,013.57 since last
Wednesday, the Red Cross now has
$3,100 toward the $4,389 goal,. E.
C. Carnes, county chairman, said
yesterday.
The only division whose canvass
is complete is the residential divis
ion. Contributions from industrial
plants totaled $1,087 yesterday.
Of the 18 industrial plants solic
ited, only five have completed the
canvass. They are: Marion Manu
facturing company, Cross Cotton
Mills, Otis L. Broyhill Furniture
company, Hewitt Hosiery Mills and
Clinchfield Manufacturing com
pany.
SPRING TRAINING
FOR BASEBALL
TO START MONDAY
Spring training for the 1949 base
ball season will get under way Mon
day afternoon, March 28, at 2:00
p. m. when manager Johnny Lan
ning and an expected squad of some
thirty odd players report for the
first tryout. Baseball activities dur
ing the training season will be held
at the Cross Mill baseball park.
Among those to report are the fol
lowing: John Y. Lanriing, W. T.
Wt>oten, -Higgins J. Duncan, Jr.
John D. Beam, Paul B. Moore, Sam
uel J. Redfck, Nathan Yablon, S. R.
(Jack) Triplett, Arthur J. Bi-ickner,
Odell Griffin, Harold Holt and Ray
Yow.
A schedule of exhibition games
has been arranged by local baseball
officials. The first home exhibition
game will be played in the high
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I
The Pleasant Gardens girls be
came champs of the county Satur
day night in the Marion high gym
nasium by defeating the Glenwood
high girls 25 to 15.
The boys breezed by Nebo with,
the greatest of ease with the score
of 31 to 15, and became the county
champions.
Both teams have had a successful
season under the coaching of Coach
Lawrence Atchley, the girls win
ning 24 of the 28 games played and
the boys winning 20 of 28 games.
The cheering squad composed of
Marie Elliott, Julia Ann Fleming,
Lois Ann Young, Carrie Burnette,
Lucille Vess and Doris Vess has
been under the direction of Pete
Clark.
The girls entered the Valdese
tournament and advanced to the
quarter finals, being defeated by
North Brook 34 to 32. North Brook
won the tournament.
In the same tournament the boy^
advanced to the quarter finals be
ing defeated by Maiden who played
in the finals.
Following the Valdese tourna
ment, Coach Atchley entered his
teams fri the Mars Hill tournament.
The boys played in the semi-finals
against Mars Hill. They were de
feated 34-38 by the champions of
the tournament. The girls played
their best brand of ball during the
entire season in this tournament.
When the tournament started there
were four seeded teams: No. 1 Mi
caville; No. 2 Mars Hill; No. 3 In
dians; No. 4 Pleasant Gardens. The
Pleasant Gardens girls fought their
way to the finals where they met
Fines Cr$ek and defeated them
39-21:
Several awards were won in th&
Valdese and Mars Hill tounranrents:
In the Valdese tournament Inez
Morgan and Ted Guy made all
tournament guards.
In the Mars Hill tournament
Gretchen Heers was awarded a lov
ing cup for the most outstanding
player of the tournament. Inez Mor
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PLEASANT GARDENS CHAMPIONS
The winners in the McDowell County Basketball Tournament are the
Pleasant Gardens teams shown above. In the top photo the girls are:
Front Row: (Left to right) Misses Inez Morgan, Rettia Gardner, Joyce
Ann Moody, Barbara Nelle Staton, Allene Wheeler, Gretchen Heers.
Back Row: Coach Atchley, Patsy Setzer, Beulah Kaylor, Vangie Chil
ders, Bobby Jean Conley, Annette McGinnis, Betty Ann Burnette.
The lower photo shows the boys team.
Front Row: (Left to right) Justice, Pittman, Captain Guy, Stroud, Mc
Daniels.
Back Row: McNeill, McGinnis, Mackey McNeill and Coach Atchley.