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, NOVEMBER 3, 1949 VOLUME 54 No. 16
Special Contest
To Start Next Week
.. Beginning next week the Marion
Progress in cooperation with the
Marion Theatre will offer free
movie passes to the Marion Theatre
each week from now until Christ
mas.
Anyone is eligible to enter this
contest except members of The
Progress staff and their families.
A knowledge of history is desir
able, but any diligent reader who is
willing to concentrate on the sub
ject for a few moments each week
may win. Promptness will be one of
the essential factors in securing
these passes.
Each week there will be four
adult passes, one pass to a student
over 12 years of age and one to a
student under 12. The four adult
passes will be divided equally be
tween persons residing within the
city limits of Marion and the rural
readers—two passes to Marion res
idents (only one to a contestant)
and two to county Teaders.
Only the first one to present the
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Achievement Day
Will Be Observed
On November 12
McDowell County Home Demon
stration clubs will observe Achieve
ment Day on November 12 with a
program at the community building,
Miss Elsie Garrett, home agent, an
nounced this week. Rev. M. 0.
Owens will be speaker.
Exhibits will be on display from
each of the 13 home demonstra
tion clubs and each of the 4-H
clubs.
Faneral Rites
For Mrs. Turner
Held Saturday
Mrs. Lillie Ann Turner, widow of
Louis E. Turner, died Friday morn
ing at the residence, Marion, route
1. She was 88.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday in Nebo Methodist church
with the pastor, the Rev. H. R. Cor
nelius, assisted by the Rev. Clar
ence Frazier, officiating.
Burial was in the church ceme
tery.
Surviving are four sons, William
H. and John of Marion; Grover C.
and Robert L. of Lenoir; one daugh
ter, Mrs. J. M. Lawson of Lenoir;
14 grandchildren; 26 great-grand
children, and one sister, Mrs. Nan
nie Murphy of Hendersonville.
WOODROW W. JONES announc
ed today he would be a candidate
for Congress to succeed A. L. Bul
winkle'of the 11th District, who has
announced that he will retire. Jon
es, a Rutherfordton attorney, at
tended Mars Hill College and grad
uated with an LLB Degree from
Wake Forest College. He is a form
er solicitor of Rutherfordton coun
ty, was in the Navy two years, serv
ed two terms in the State Legisla
ture, is a past commander 01 the
Fred Williams Post No. 75, Ameri
can Legion of Rutherfordton, past
president of the Rutherfordton Ki
wanis club, and was a deacon of the
First Baptist church of Rutherford
ton three years.
FRANCIS MARION
VOTES TO ASSIST
LOCAL PROJECTS
The Francis Marion club voted to
lend a helping hand to four com
munity projects at its meeting in
the community building Thursday
evening.
A donation of $15 was appro
priated for the commercial depart
ment of Glenwood school to be us
ed for the purchases of typewrit
ers.
A motion was carried to offer aid
in financing free lunches for un
derprivileged children of Marion
High School.
Members voted a contribution of
$100 for the Teen-Age club and
agreed to sponsor an advertisement
in the Hylander, Marion High
School annual.
Jones Pharmacist
At Cut Rate Drug Store
H. F. -Jones began work last
week as pharmacist at the McDow
ell Cut Rate Drug Store. He is a
former employee of the Cut Rate
Store, and returns to Marion from
Columbia where he has been a pa
tient in the hospital there.
Annual Banquet Of Methodist
Women To Be Held Monday
Fire Wednesday
At Stnith Apartments
Firemen were summoned to the
brick apartment house owned by W.
C. Smith, on South Main street yes
terday morning about seven o'clock.
According to a report by firemen,,
fire in the chimney ignited, but was
discovered before the blaze spread
to the interior of the house. The
portion of the chimney which ignit
ed was in the apartment occupied
by Mr. and Mrs. Mays Flack .
Oil Furnace
Exploded
An oil floor furnace exploded
Wednesday morning in the resi
dence occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jo
seph K. Stanley on North Garden
street. No one was injured and fire
damage was confined to a margin
of the floor around the furnace.
Mrs. Charles Wesley Clay, the
wife of a Methodist missionary to
Brazil, will be the principal speaker
at the annual banuet of the Wo
man's Society of Christian Service
and Guild of the First Methodist
church to be held Monday evening:,
November 7 at seven o'clock in the
community building. An attendance
of 125 is anticipated.
Mrs. Clay and her family are
spending a year on furlough with
Mr. Clay's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
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Post Office Receipts
Increased Last Month
Postal receipts last month total
ed $4,756.55, a gain of $52.52 over
October, 1948. Bond sales were list
ed at $6,262.50 and the gain in
postal receipts at $3,357. These fig
ures were released by Postmaster
John Finley yesterday.
Water Shortage
Necessitates
Mill Gosings
Water main on Mackey's Creek
and Clear Creek broke Tuesday im
peding the flow of water into Mar
ion's reservoir and the mills were
forced to close yesterday.
Service stations and other places
of business which use considerable
quantities of water were instruct
ed to cooperate in conserving the
supply while repair crews were at
work repairing the damage.
ATTENDS CONVENTION
R. W. Proctor attended the an
nual convention of the North Caro
lina State Bar Incorporated in Ral
eigh last week-end.
DRIVE WILL BE LAUNCHED
TO BUILD A NEW HOSPITAL
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Funeral Services
For I. W. Saunders
Held Friday
Funeral services for Isaac Walter
Saunders, 69, well-known Marion
barber, who died early Friday in a
Marion hospital were held Sunday
in the First Baptist church here.
The Rev. M. 0. Owens, Jr., pas
tor, officiated and burial was in
Oak Grove cemetery.
Acting pallbearers were Hubert
C. Martin, Milton McMahan, C. Y.
Banning, Charles Poteat, W. C.
Burgin, E. W. Parker, Sr., W. R.
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COUNTY TAX VALUATION
GAINS OVER LAST YEAR
Funeral Rites
For Mrs. Brown
Held Sunday
Mrs. Mary English Brown, 71,
widow of H. Sewell Brown, died at
the residence in Ashford Sunday af
ter a long illness.
Funeral services were conducted
in Concord Methodist church Tues
day at 3 p. m. by the Rev. H. I>.
-Tessup, assisted by the "Rev. Carl
McMurray, and burial was in the
Brown cemetery.
She is survived by two daughters
and five sons, Miss Beatrice Brown
of the home, Mrs. G. C. Moore,
Dewey G., Romulus J., Hudson H.
and Eugene C. Brown of Ashofrd,
and Jack Brown of Marion; nine
grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. c
Edgar R. Stair Elizabethton, Tenn.
County tax books for the year
1949 were turned over to C. M.
Pool, sheriff and tax collector, two
weeks ago.
Figures released from the office
of Mrs. Mary G. Burgin, county ac
countant, this week show that the
total valuation for the year 1949
is $25,676,277, a gain of $3,781,394
over the $21,894,883 listed for the
year 1948.
The tax charge for 1949 was
$266,732.77. The preceding year
the total charge was $228,959.08.
Of that amount $216,034.93 or
94.35 per cent has been collected
to date.
Mrs. Kanipe's
Mother Passes
Old Fort—News of the death this
week of Mrs. W. A. Warren of Rox
boro has been received here. She
was the mother of-Mrs. T. R. Ka
nipe of Old Fort.
Symphony Orchestra Goal
Reached; Concert Scheduled
Leadership Day
To Be Observed
By County Women
Leadership Training Day will be
observed by Home Demonstration
clubs of this county today, (Thurs
day), Miss Elsie Garrett, county ag
ent, announced this week.
Two representatives of each club
in the county (in most cases the
craft leader and her assistant) will
meet at 9 a. m., in Miss Garrett's
office for instruction in etching.
The leaders will later demonstrate
methods of etching to their respec
tive elubs.
Two Prisoners
Escape; One
Returned To Cell
Two prisoners escaped from Mc
Dowell county jail about 10 a. m.
Saturday, and one was recaptured
during the afternoon the same day,
Sheriff C. M. Pool soid.
Crawford Roberts, whose charge
was auto larceny, was arrested in
Spruce Pine by a State Highway
Patrolman after his escape and re
turned to jail here. Delno Pressley,
of Glen Alpine, charged with as
sault with deadly weapon, was the
other prisoner who escaped. It was
stated that the door of the jail was
left open while the cell' was being
cleaned.
Sometime early in March, the
North Carolina Little Symphony
will play two concerts in Marion—
the regular free student concert for
the various schools of the communi
ty and the evening program for lo
cal members of the North Carolina
Symphony Society.
Mrs. E. W. Parker, Jr., announc
ed today that the $750 goal had
been achieved. Mrs. Parker was en
thusiastic in her praise of the ef
forts of the local committee mem
bers, and for the generous response
of local industrial and business
leaders. She also voiced sincere ap
preciation for the fine publicity
given the campaign by radio station
WBRM and the local newspapers.
Local music lovers who have not
yet obtained memberships in the
Symphony Society may do so any
time in the near future by contact
ing any of the local committee
members. Last year the 'North Car
olina Symphony broadcast over
several nation-wide hookups and re
ceived recognition in "Time" mag
azine for the splendid work the or
chestra is doing in the promotion
of fine music throughout the state
of North Carolina.
RAINED OUT GAME
TO BE MADE UP
Marion High Rippers game with
Rutherfordton, scheduled last Fri
day, was rained out and will be
played November 28, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The Rippers will play Lenoir Fri
day of this week at 7:30 o'clock in
Lenoir. The Lenoir team has not
been defeated in a conference game
this season.
Trustees Announce Plans
For A New Building
Of 60-Bed Capacity
S. R. CROSS will head the drive
to raise funds for the new hospital
building. The drive opens Novem
ber 28 to raise $100,000 to be added
to funds already on hand.
Hamrick To Enter 11th
District House Race
J. Nat Hamrick, Rutherfordton
lawyer and businessman, has addec
his name as a Democratic candidatt
for representative from the lltl
North Carolina district in the 195(
spring primaries.
The incumbent, Rep. A. L. Bui
winkle of Gastonia, has announcec
he will not run again.
The district embraces Cleveland
Gaston, McDowell, Madison, Polk
Rutherfordton and Yancey counti
es.
Charles E. Hamilton, Gastonia
lawyer, had announced previously
that he was a candidate.
Quiet Hallowe'en
By Police Chief
Hallowe'en was quiet this year.
Chief of Police D. W. Smith said,
He said he was quite pleased with
the way the public cooperated in
response to his request to refrain
from destroying property.
Smith, who has been Chief oi
Police since January 25, 1947, saic
this Hallowe'en was much quietei
than last year.
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A modern new 60-bed hospital
and nurses home to serve the people
of McDowell county will be built in.
Marion, the trustees of Mariorv
General Hospital announced today.
The $700,000 non-profit institu
tion will cost the county less than,
one-third actual construction costsr
according to W. L. Morris, chair
man of the hospital trustees.
"If $100,000 can be raised by
McDowell county, plus the funds on
hand, the state and federal govern
ments will give us the rest," added
Morris.
The government grants, available
under terms of the Medical Care
Commission's Good Health Program
of Hospital construction, will meet
over two-thirds of the building costr
or about $450,000, if the county's
share can be raised. Approximately
$120,000 of the county's share has
been donated.
S. R. Cross has been named head
of a committee to raise the addi
tional $100,000 needed by the coun
| ty to qualify for the government
aid. Other members of the commit
! tee are Joe Noyes and Otis Broy
hill. The drive will open on Novem
ber 28, and every citizen of Mc
Dowell County is urged to give his
share.
The announcement climaxes ti.
long study of the over-crowded
i Marion General Hospital, which,
i must serve McDowell county's
25,000 people, as well as patients
from surrounding counties without
adequate hospital facilities. Orig
inally built as a 32-bed institution,
the hospital has added 10 more
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Robbery Reported
At 0. K. Station
Frances Dean Ray and Fred Hall
were arrested on charges of break
ing and entering after a robbery
was reported at the O. K. Service
Station, Chief of Police D. W. Smith,
said this week. Smith said both con
fessed to the charges,
He estimated the loss of candy
and cigarettes at "less than $50."
Hall, 13, is a minor and will be un
der the custody of his parents until
he stands trial in juvenile court.
Ray will be given a hearing before
the Mayor and will face trial at the
next term of Superior Court.
The loss was discovered when the
service station was opened Monday
morning.
HALLOWE'EN CARNIVAL
PRONOUNCED A SUCCESS
New Druggist
At Tainter's
Robert Louis Irwin, registered
pharmacist, has accepted a position
with Tainter's Drug Store and will
begin his duties Friday, November
3, D. W. Tainter said yesterday.
He is a native of Alleghany coun
ty, graduate of Sparta High School
and the University of North Caro
lina School of Pharmacy. He was
formerly associated with the Turn
er Drug company in Elkin. He serv
ed in the U. S. Navy 21 months and
was associated with the North Wil
kesboro Drug company three years.
In 1945 he married Miss Sarah
Rutledge of Elkin.
An experiment with the Marion
High School Hallowe'en Carnival
this year proved successful, accord
ing to a statement yesterday by
Mrs. R. R. Cooke.
Eliminating the election of a.
Harvest King and Queen and cake
auction sale, the main emphasis
j this year was directed toward pro
viding entertainment for the stu
dents and allowing the parents to
share in the event by participating.
Mrs. Cooke and Mrs. W. Ray
Smith, Jr., were in charge of ar
rangements. It was estimated that
several hundred persons visited the
school during the evening. A square
dance in the gym furnished enter
tainment for the high school stu
dents although a number of them
also joined with the younger set in
visiting booths at the carnival show.
Net proceeds had reached $368.55
yesterday.