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THE MARION PROGRESS ' / A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1896 a * MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1949 VOLUME 53—No. 47 — —— . — —•— :*i. -r BOARD OF HEALTH NAMED for McDowell county I ' A Board of Health for McDowell county was established this week. The move followed McDowell's re cent withdrawal from the District Board of Health, composed of Mc Dowell, Burke and Caldwell counti es. C. A. Workman, chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, J. W. Streetman, Jr., Mayor of Marion (the county seat town), and N. F. Steppe, county superintendent of schools, become ex officio members of the Board as provided by an act the Legislature. The act also pro vides that the chairman of the County Commissioners shall also serve as chairman of the County Health Board. Other members named by the ex officio members are: Dr. B. A. Dick son, Dr. George Rowe, I. L. Caplan and Mrs. Macon Hewitt. Although the work of the County Board does not go into effect until July 1, the new Board will meet Fri day to discuss the budget and make preliminary plans. MRS. WILSON PASSES AT HOME IN MARION Mrs. Gertrude Tate Wilson, 74, widow of T. W. Wilson, died unex pectedly at her home on South Main street here Thursday afternoon, May 26, about 1 o'clock. She had been ill for several weeks, but, having shown signs of improve ment, had returned from an Ashe ville hospital earlier in the day. Death was attributed to a heart at tack. She was a native McDowell county, a daughter of the lAte Mr. and Mrs. Millard Tate. She was a member of the First Methodist church. , Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Roy W. Davis of Marion; three sons, Robert of Marion, Ben of Winston Salem, and Millard Wilson of IJart ford, Conn.; one brother, Johi# M. Tate of Hickory; two sisters Mrs. Van Brown, Sr. of Hickory and Mrs. T. B. Conley of Marion, and four grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at the First Methodist church Satur day morning at 11 o'clock by the pastor, Rev. J. B. McLarty, assist ed by Dr. B. F. Bray. Interment was in Oak Grove cemetery. (Omitted by error in last week's issue.) Rev. Charles Frenzel of St. Mat thew's Lutheran church has recent ly received two appointments for additional church work. Rev. R. S. Ressmeyer 'of Baltimore appointed the local pastor on the committee of Young People's Work at the con vention of the Southeastern District to be held in Hyattsville, Maryland, this summer. The sponsors of the summer camp at Linn Haven, Linville, N. C., have asked Rev. Frenzel to serve as edu cational director from July 9 to July 23, which are the pre-confir mation weeks at the camp. Linn Haven will open its season on Sat urday and will continue through August 27. And there are still some weeks open to any group which would care to use the facilities of i the camp at the elevation of 4,000 feet. County-Wide Baptist Meeting— - i A meeting of county-wide scope ■ is being held at the First Baptist! church this Friday evening at 7:00 ; o'clock. It is being sponsored by thej Baptist State Convention's Program | for Wake Forest. Especially invited j are the pastors, Sunday School su-1 perintendents, treasurers, and dea- i cons of all the Baptist churches in j the county. Horace Easem who is | Secretary and Director of the Wake | Forest Program will, be the host and | speaker. The ladies of the Mission ary Society of the First Baptist church are furnishing the supper, for which there will be no charge. Baptist pastors, deacons and leaders of the county are urged' to attend. Commissioners Approve Road Petitions; Draw Jurors Postal Receipts Show Increase Postal receipts last month totaled $3,814.13, a gain of $419.45 over last May, according to figures leased by Postmaster John Finley. Receipts from January 1 to May 31 of this year were $22,111.37. This is $4,638.39 more than the corresponding period last year. Bond sales for May, 1949, were listed at $4,537.50. Postal savings certificates were issued in the a mount of $64,340 and certificates paid totaled $59,590 or an increase of $4,638.39. I MARAUDER SCHEDULE / (1 All home games will be played ; on' the high school athletic field beginning promptly at 8:00 ; o'clock. Tonight—Lenoir at Marion.- I ; Friday—Marion in Shelby. ! !; Saturday—Shelby at Marion. ; ; Monday—Marion in Morgan ;' ton. ! Tuesday—Morgan ton at Mar-; j ion. ! ; Wednesday—Marion in Lin ! colnton. 'Siursday— June 16, Lincoln ; ton at Marion. I The County Commissioners ap proved eight road petitions and drew a list of jurors for the July term of Superior Court at the June meet ing held Monday. Road Petitions Road petitions approved were as follows: Black top Matilda avenue, run ning from Baldwin avenue to Yan cey street in the East Marion sec tion. Black top East State street (east of Baldwin avenue) about 400 feet. Widen, properly drain and gravel a road from Moody's Store on high way 70 to highway 70 at Mt. Mit chell Tourist Court (about two miles). Repair and make passable a road from Montford's Gove highway to a street leading by the colored school building (Hudgins school). Straighten and pave Carolina ave nue from Stumptown near Brook's Store to a point near Seagle Lum ber company. Ditch and gravel the Old Pike road from highway 70 to Kelly Ay er's—about three tenths of a mile. Grade, gxavel and widen 500 Street and Norton street from the Clinchfield village to Norton prop erty in Marion township—approxi mately % mile. Grade, widen and gravel Forest Park road; from Yancey street to a Dead End'—approximately 900 feet. (Continued from first page) MARION HIGH COMMENCEMENT HELD THIS WEE Rev. C. C. Cross, pastor of the East Marion Baptist church, deliver ed the baccalaureate sermon to the Marion High School graduating class last Sunday evening. The final graduating exercises were held Monday evening with Dean Morgan as master of ceremo nies. H. F. Bean\, superintendent Marion City Schools, introduced the (Continued on last page) Campaign Launched For Band Uniforms Marion, civic club representatives met in the community building Mon day evening to make plans for pur chasing high sohool band uniforms. W. Ray Smith, Jr., chairman, presided. Committees were named to have charge of a solicitation cam paign. The mills and business firms will be canvassed in the hope of raising the $4,000 goal by the end of this week. . Individuals who wish tot contri bute are asked to mail contribu tions to E. P. Dameron, campaign treasurer. McDowell Favors \ Road And School Bonds ROAD AND SCHOOL ISSUES CARRY BY LARGE MAJORITY ROTARIANS ENTERTAIN BOYS AND GIRLS The Marion Rotary club observed Son-and-Daughter night with a ban quet in the community building last Friday evening. Covers were laid for 67, includ ing approximately 40 offspring, places were marked with paper hats and favors. Jack Hewitt directed a program of games. Door prizes were won by Sammy Gray, son of David Gray, and Amanda Allen, guest of How ard Hawkins. <*- —».■ ' in ini'i. ■■ i » * BLOODMOBILE MAKES FIRST VISIT to Mcdowell The bloodmobile, operating out of the Asheville Regional Blood Cen ter, made its first trip to McDowell county yesterday. The bloodmobile was stationed at Carroll Baldwin Hall at East Marion. At noon yesterday, approximate ly 55 donors had been processed and more than 50 pints of blood donat ed. Reverend M. 0. Owens, chairman for McDowell county, R. W. Twitty, county procurement chairman, and Reverend C. C. Cross, procurement chairman for East Marion section, expressed themselves as being well pleased with the response that is being given. If donors continue to come to the center throughout the afternoon in the same proportion as yesterday morning, approximate ly one hundred pints of blood will be made available to doctors and hospitals throughout the Asheville area. Marion and McDowell couhty are included in the Asheville Unit. This program is under the direc tion of the American National Red Cross and is a part of the program that is being carried on throughout the nation; Blood received through this course will be made available to any person needing A in McDow ell county without cost to the pa tient. The bloodmobile will return to Marion in about 30 days and will be stationed at the Marion commu nity building. Those in charge of the program expressed appreciation to the corps (Continued on last page) Sarah's Beauty Nooke To Be Opened Monday Sarah's Beauty Nooke will be spend at 112 State street on Mon day, June 13, according to an nouncement this week. Mrs. Boydston Frisby (Sara Mar garet Williams Frisby), owner, has seen an operator at the Betty Jean Beauty Shoppe for the past ten pears. She received her cosmetolo gist license at Molar College, At anta, Ga., and had three months jost graduate work at the Asheville Beauty Academy. An official tally of the returns from last Saturday's election show ed McDowell county voters were overwhelmingly in favor of the State's proposed issuance of $200 million in road bonds and $2 mil lion in school building bonds. Final tabulation revealed 2,157 voting for road bonds and 737 against. In most of the 17 precincts the vote was decidely in favor of both issues. Bracketts township, how ever, had a tie in the school issue with nine voting for and nine against the bonds. The greatest majorities in the school issue were Glenwood with 115 for and nine against; Buck Cfeek, 153 for, and 26 against, and Nebo, 176 for and 24 against. D^twwtsville led majorities in. the road bond issue. There were 137 votes cast favoring the issue and 4 opposed. Crooked Creek cast 121 for and eight against. Nebo voted 168 for and 34 against. With 1,835 of the state's 1,963 precincts reported, unofficial tabu lations showed 219,169 votes for the road bond issue and 178,681 against. The school bond vote stood at 263,248 for and 120,794 against with the same number of precincts reported. Vote By Precinct The following is the unofficial count by precinct' of McDowell coun ty's voting: Marion No. 1: For roads, 316; against roads, 205; for schools, 407; against schools, 109. Marion No. 2: For roads, 280, against roads, 137; for schools, 306; against schools, 94. Marion No. 3: For roads, 101; against roads, 30; for schools, 99; against schools, 29. Marion No. 4: For roads, 96; against roads, 36; for schools, 101; against schools, 22. Marion No. 5: For roads, 117;! against roads, 27; for schools, 116; against schools, 30. ! Buck Creek: For roads, 138; against roads, 44; for schools, 153; against schools, 26. Old Fort 1: For roads, 102; j (Continued on last page) j Bible School To Open At First Baptist j Vacation Bible School for the children of the church and commu nity will begin at the First Baptist church Friday -afternoon at three o'clock. It will continue for the fol- i lowing two weeks, running from 8:30 to 11:00 in the morning. Rev.1; M. O. Owens, Jr., pastor, will be principal of the school. All children1 ages 4 to 17 are invited to attend. There will be stories, music, games, j handwork for all. Carnes Moving Law Office The offices of E. C. Carnes, at torney, will be moved from the Eck ;nrod building to offices above the McDowell Cut Rate Drug Store,, ac cording to announcement this week. Carnes said he will be moved into lis new quarters by Friday of this .veek. SPECIAL ELECTION ON SUNDAY BASEBALL CALLED BY ALDERMEN CITY MANAGER EMPLOYED FOR TOWN OF MARION SUPERIOR COURT TO CONVENE HERE NEXT MONDAY The June term of Superior Court Will open next Monday with Judge Z. V. Nettles presiding. No murder cases appear on the docket this term, but 17 persons will face charges of assault with deadly weapon. They are: Luther Silvers, W. E. Collins, Bill Beaver, Delno Pressley, Ray W. Epley, Ja mes Clayton, Reggie Payne, Chesley Cannon, Vick Kelly, Jim Marlowe, Dan Mathis, Jr., B. V. Lawing, Don ald Moore, Penny Blair and Grady Lister. Ralph Jamison, a. d. w. and (Continued on last page) ELLEDGE ENTERTAINS KIWANIANS ! Charles C. Elledge, principal of j Marion High School a member of the Rutherfordton Kiwanis club, was guest speaker at the regular weekly meeting of the Marion Ki wanis club held Tuesday evening in the community building. The program given by Elledge was one of entertainment. He pre sented one of his original humorous monologues. Announcement was made that the Kiwanis club would observe its an nual Ladies Night next Tuesday evening. ATTENDS MEETING Miss Jean Steele, county agent, and Miss Ruby Lea Kiser, assistant agent, will attend an annual district meeting of County Home Demonstra tion clubs in Hildebran Friday and will be accompanied by about 40 McDowell women. Marion's new Board of Aldermen, voted to call a special election on. the question of Sunday basebalL and to employ a city manager, ait its first regular meeting held Tues day night in the city hall. Reese Snyder, native of High Point, who has been city manager of Red Springs for about two years, was named to fill the position cre ated by the Board. An ordinance was adopted call ing for a referendum on the ques tion of playing ball on Sunday and a vote was passed to hold an elec tion on June 28. All citizens of the Town now duly registered and who are qualified voters shall be entitled to vote in said referendum and need not re register. The registration books will be opened for the registration of electors not already registered on Saturday, June 11, and will close Saturday, June 25; Monday, June 27 is Challenge Day, The city hall is designated as the polling places and the polls shall opens at 6:30 a. m, and close at 6:30 p. m. Methodist Bible School June 13-24 Vacation Bible School will begin, at the First Methodist church June 13 and continue through June 24 with classes being held Monday through Friday of each week. Class es have been arranged for children from four to fifteen years of age. Morning sessions are scheduled for children ages 4-12 from 9 untiL 11 o'clock. Evening sessions for those in the* 12-15 year age group will be heldl from seven until nine o'clock. Mrs. T. L. Richie and Miss Ruth. Taylor will be directors of the school. Miss Margaret Honeycutt will be in charge of the Nursery depart ment; Mrs. John Gilkey in charge (Continued on last page) AMDS SEAGLE PRESIDENT OF MARION MERCHANTS Nine McDowell Boys To Attend Boys' State Nine McDowell county boys will attend the Ninth Annual Boys' State in Chapel Hill, beginning June 12. They will be sponsored by local organizations. William Gene Watson, of Nebo school, and James Lawton Haney, of Glenwood school, will attend un der the sponsorship of the American Legion; Johnny Burgin, Marion, sponsored by the Kiwanis club of Marion; Willard Charles Huskins, North Cove, Marion Merchants asso ciation. William C. Wiseman, Pleasant Gardens, Broyhill Furniture com pany; James Dennis Ayers, Marion, Cross Cotton Mills; Ray Webster Wilson, Marion, Marion Parent Teachers association; James Arthur Mask, Marion, Marion Manufactur ing company; Kenneth Eugene Can non, Clinchfield, Marion Manufac turing company. COURT OF HONOR The McDowell County Boy Scout Court of Honor will be held at 7:30 o'clock, Friday night, June 10, at the First Methodist church. Amos Seagle was elected presi dent of the Marion Merchants asso ciation last Monday succeeding S. R. Perkins. Carl McCall was elected vice president, and Mrs. Ethel Crispr executive secretary. A new Board of Directors of the association was elected recently. These directors were installed at the regular quarterly meeting held Monday afternoon. They are: S. R. Perkins, retiring president; S. W. Blanton, V. T. Eckerd, John Ray Jimeson, Amos Seagle, Carl McCall, and D. W. Tainter. Following the regular meeting,, the new directors met and elected the new president and vice presi dent. Amos Seagle, Carl McCall and S^ R. Perkins were appointed to servo as an auditing committee. LEAGUE STANDINGS Newton 27__10__730 Lincolnton 24__12__667 Lenoir 22__16__579 Marion 17__18__486 Rutherford 17__20-_462 Morganton 16__20__444 Hendersonville ___ 15__25__375 Shelby 11._26._297
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