36
YEARS
BOOSTING
Mcdowell
MARION PROGRESS
WORK
TOGETHER
FOR GOOD
. TIMES
A WWRin .V WC.WQ'P A 'DlT'D "nu,T7p/^nrm'n th tdttcti TXTrntri DTT^OnnD r\T* rTTTn ■nn/^r^T -r-i
ESTABLISHED 1896
SCHOOL BOARD IS
ASKED TO ERECT
ADDED BUILDINGS
Glenwood and Pleasant Gard
ens Claim Style Cramped by
Present Inadequate Facilities
Delegations from Pleasant Gar
dens and Glenwood schools appeared
before the board of education Mon
day with petitions for improved and
enlarged school buildings. Separate
hearings were held for each school,
W. B. Harrill presenting the matter
for Glenwood while R. B. Phillips
and J. C. Rabb spoke for Pleasant
Gardens. The petitions were suppor
ted by representative citizens from
the communities interested.
Glenwood, according to the peti
tioners, needs an auditorium, two
class rooms, new toilet facilities,
and other improvements. Re-estab
lishment of the course in agriculture
and employment of an agronomy
teacher were also asked for. The
Pleasant Gardens petition set forth
the need of four additional rooms
for high school classes, a science lab
oratory, two rooms for home eco
nomics, a music room, study hall,
lunch room and an additional room
for increased enrollment, and a sep
arate office. x
Mr. Harrill said the Glenwood
building is now filled to capacity and
overflowing Present enrollment, he
said, points to the need of an addi
tional teacher for 1933-34, and with
all available space now occupied,
work in that school makes additional
room an absolute necessity with the
increased enrollment expected next
year. Pleasant Gardens, it was poin
ted out, will also need an extra
teacher next year and will require
all rooms in the proposed building,
which are in fact needed now, it was
said.
The matter had been discussed at
length in the two communities inter
ested, it was said, the sentiment of
the taxpayers in each case being in
favor of the proposed building pro
gram. The petitioners suggested
borrowing the needed money from
the state literary fund, the county to
assume the obligation.
It was the contention of the peti
tioners that their schools are not
sharing equally with some other
schools in the county since the school
debt service was taken over by the
county. Better facilities are enjoyed
by other school districts, it was
claimed, while the districts represen
ted by the petitioners pay a greater
proportion of taxes and had incurred
less bonded indebtedness prior to the
assumption by the county of the to
tal school obligations, it was further
claimed. To provide the- increased
and much needed buildings will be
putting the schools on a more equit
able basis in the matter of taxation
and benefits.
The members of the board of edu
cation, after hearing the petitions,
took the matter under consideration,
fixing next Monday, January 9, as
the date on which it will render a
decision, if the full membership of
the board can be present, and if not,
then at some later date.
TOM MIX IN FREE SHOW
FOR CHARITY AT MARION
THEATRE ON SATURDAY
Tom Mix, that popular screen hero
who has thrilled so many of the
younger generation—and their dad
dies—stars at the next free show
for children at the Marion Theatre
Saturday morning, 10:30. Mix will
do his stuff in "My Pal, the King"
and will have Charlie Chase, also, to
help while the time away.
This is another of the free shows
Mr. House offers the youngsters of
Marion, a good show that the boys
and girls can see simply by making
a little donation ior the Wayside Re
lief people, drop in the basket a gift
of food, or clothes, or anything use
ful, which Mrs. Harbin will carry to
some other little boys or girls who
need such things. There is really no
charge; Mr. House simply asks the
children to give a little something if
they have it. If they do not have
anything, he wants them to come
anyhow. Grown people, too, may
come by making a donation.
Free show at the Marion, 10:30
Saturday morning; drop something
in the basket, go in and enjoy the
fun. ^
DICKSON BECOMES HEAD
OF MARION KIWANIANS
COMMITTEES APPOINTED
In simple ceremony at the regular
meeting Tuesday, President J. C.
Rabb turned over the headship of
the Marion Kiwanis Club to Dr. B.
A. Dickson, who, with a complete
list of officers and directors, took ov
er club affairs for the year.
Other officers installed with Presi
dent Dickson are D. S. Gardner, vice
president; M. W. Gordon,.Jr., secre
tary and treasurer. Directors are
Zeno Martin, W. T. Morgan, C. F.
James, J. D. Henry, H. D. Bishop, J.
W. Pleas, Jr., Dr. J. F. Miller, R. L.
Greenlee.
Standing committees include the
following: Public affairs, J. W. Win
borne; underprivileged child, H. D.
Bishop; vocational guidance, H. F.
Beam; club meetings, J. D. Henry;
house and reception, J. G. Beaman;
attendance, J. F. Snipes; classifica
tion and membership, M. W. Gordon
Jr., W. T. Morgan, J. F. Wilkinson;
music, Zeno Martin, A. S. Bradford,
W. G. Ballew, J. W. Pless, Jr.; agri
culture, Gordon Blake, J. C. Rabb,
R. L. Greenlee; publicity, W. G.
Ballew, D. Coxe, C. A. Workman;
inter-club relations, R. C. McNairy,
A. F. Wagner, R. D. Bird; Kiwanis
education, J. C. Rabb, A. V. Nolan,
E. A. Beaman; special committee on
community welfare and hospital, L.
J. P. Cutlar, C. F. James, Dr. G. S.
Kirby, J. G. Beaman, Dr. J. F. Mil
ler, J. C. Rabb, C. A. Workman, J.
F. Snipes, E. A. Beaman, S. L. Cope
land, 0. F. Adkins, Dr. J. F. Jonas.
Program chairmen are the follow
ing: Zeno Martin, Dr. J. F. Miller,
first quarter; L. J. P. Cutlar, S. L.
Copeland, second quarter; J. W.
Pless, Jr., A. S. Bradford, third
quarter; C. F. James, Dr. Frank
Wood, fourth quarter.
FRED BOWMAN, STRUCK
BY SIGNBOARD, BETTER
AT MARION HOSPITAL
Badly hurt in a very unusual mis
hap,"Fred Bowman, ten-year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bowman, 19 re
ported to be doing very well at the
Marion Hospital, where he was car
ried Saturday night in a very serious
condition.
The lad was knocked down and
pinned to the earth when a large
signboard was blown down by a high
wind, falling across his body. Help
came quickly and the boy was car
ried to the hospital. It was at first
feared that he was fatally hurt, but
hospital authorities said yesterday
that he will recover. It had not been
determined whether permanent inju
ry will result or to what extent.
Young Bowman, who carries an
evening paper route, was returning
from his work late Saturday evening.
Passing along near the end of West
Court, the signboard fell just as he
was opposite the middle of it.
GARDNER IS SPEAKER
AT MINISTERS MEETING
Rev. H. P. Powell presided at the
monthly meeting of the McDowell
Ministers Association held in the
Methodist hut Monday. Rev. T. A.
Melton is secretary.
D. S. Gardner was on the program
for a speech. Following immediately
after the Christmas season,, he chose
goodwill as the appropriate subject
of bis remarks. This goodwill, he
said, should prevail in all the rela
tions of mankind, and should extend
to the nations as well as individuals,
by which many vexatious problems
could be settled amicably and ad
vantageously to all. The spirit of
charity should be a moving fo^ce in
all lives, Mr. Gardner; said, and
should be practiced by the individual
as a personal responsibility. While
there are many organized bodies dis
pensing charity, the individual
should seek opportunities to render
aid directly, one man to another,
with the personal touch which alone
brings a feeling of duty well done
and reacts upon the giver beneficial
ly as well as the one who is helped,
the speaker said.
COURT OF HONOR JAN. 13
A boy scout court of honor will
be held at the high school auditori
um here January 13, scout officials
announced. Troops of East Marion,
Cross Mill, Morganton and Valdese
will participate.
AT MARION HOSPITAL
New patients in the hospital since
Thursday: Mrs. Laura Bartlett, Fred
Bowman, Mrs. C. C. Russell, John C.
Gardin, Mrs. Harry McCall and baby
ECONOMY TO RULE
COMMISSIONS ACTS
THROUGHOUT YEAR
Chairman Snipes and Col
leagues Will Work on Sav
ing Rather Than Spending.
"Pay as you go, or don't go," is
the watchword of the board of
county commissioners as announced
Monday by J. Fleming Snipes, chair
man of the board. With other mem
bers of the county governing body,
Mr. Snipes made it clear that econ
omy will rule in all the proceedings
of the board during the current year
"We intend to practice economy
wherever it can be applied without
crippling any necessary work in
which the county is at present en
gaged," Mr. Snipes said. "Wherever
expenses can be reduced, we shall
take measures to bring about a re
duction. We certainly do not intend
to create any new indebtedness, but
will operate on what we have as
provided in the budget, as we feel
that provision has been made for all
necessary work of the county, so
that our efforts will be directed to
ward saving rather than spending.
"As every one knows, debt service
is a fixed charge and cannot be re
duced so long as our bonds are out
standing. We already have taken up
some bonds with sinking funds,
which operates to cut down expenses
somewhat in the saving of interest
charges. This will help some, and
this policy will be followed in every
way that we can find to reduce op
erating expenses. Our credit is good
and must be kept good.
"The present board has at this
time only one fixed policy, to work
toward lower cost of gevernment.
We hope to develop our work this
year in such a way that the tax levy
for the next fiscal year can be lower
ed. If we do that, and at the same
time carry on necessary county af
fairs without injuring any depart
ments of the county, we shall feel
that we have accomplished some
thing. And to that end, we ask the
full support and cooperation of the
people of the county."
JOSEPH WHITENER, 59,
VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA
Funeral services were held at the
home of Lee Whitener Saturday
morning at 11 o'clock for his son,
Joseph Whitener, 59, who passed
away Thursday night. The services
were conducted by Rev. J. S. Pyatt.
Interment was made at the Henley
cemetery.
Mr. Whitener was* a member of
one of the large and well known
families of the Dysartville section
of McDowell county. At the time of
his death he was a member of the
Macedonia Baptist church. He was
known by many and possessed the
art of winning the affections of
those who knew him. His passing
leaves a vacancy in the hearts and
homes of his relatives and friends
who trust he is abiding in a sweeter
refuge.
He is survived by nine children,
bis father and mother, five brothers,
three sisters and several grandchil
dren.
LAVITT CLOSES BARGAIN
STORE TO CONCENTRATE
ALL ON THE SQUARE
H. B. Lavitt has closed up the bus
iness formerly operated as the Mar
ion Bargain Store and will devote all
his business efforts here to the store
on the square, North Main. Mr. Lav
itt had .done business at the old
stand, 38 South Main, for several
years until starting in a bigger stand
on the square, where he has been lo
cated more than a year. He contin
ued to operate the old stand until his
lease expired.
Mr. Lavitt is still in business at
Rutherfordton, where he has opera
ted a clothing and furnishing store
several years. He will continue that
business also.
But hereafter he will confine his
business activities in Marion to the
upper Main street store in which he
has done well since its opening.
LEGION MEETING
McDowell Post of the American
Legion will meet Tuesday night,
January 10.
TWO AUTOS 6 MEN
91 GALLONS ROOZE
SIX STILLS SEIZED
Sheriff Adkins and Enforce
ment Officers Report Good
Work During December.
Although a goodnatured man who
loves to spread joy among the breth
ren, Sheriff 0. F. Adkins was forced
to break up a little party in the mak
ing, last Thursday. Duty is duty, the;
sheriff said, this belief of his making
it particularly hard on the bootleg-!
ging fraternity in the month of De- j
cember.
The affair of Thursday happened
something like this: Sheriff Adkins
and some of his lieutenants were j
i driving blithely down highway 19,,
j south of town, when they came upon'
j a motorist making good time in a
j Chevrolet coupe, which, upon closer!
inspection and examination, was
! found to be loaded with forbidden
spirits, to wit, six gallons of prewar
bottled in bond hard liquor. The
; liquor was confiscated along with the
car and the driver arrested.
i The day before this seizure, Wed
nesday of last week, sheriff's officers
discovered and destroyed a copper
' still north of town, in the vicinity of
the airport, with 500 gallons of
beer ready to run.
feneriiT AciKins saia jjecemoer ac
tivities of his force resulted in the
capture of six stills, 91 gallons of
j bojDze, seizure of two automobiles ,
and arrest of six men.
Altogether last month was a good
one in. the accomplishment of the
i sheriff's objective, to make the coun
ty dry in fact as well as in name.
Arrests and seizures exceeded the
work done in previous months, as
, the facts enumerated show, and Mr.
Adkins thinks the alert attitude of
his deputies and the highway patrol
helped keep down 'bootlegging activ
, ities considerably, as much more of
that kind of work might have been
carried on but for the fact that the
officers were constantly on the look
out, which jnade the law violators
careful and somewhat wary.
JUDGE DYSART IMPOSES
* $250 FINE ON DRIVER
HOLIDAY LIQUOR CAR
Attempts of bootleggers to supply
the thirsty with holiday liquor resul
ted in a number of cases of prohibi
1 tion law violation being heard be
I
fore Judge Dysart in county court
Tuesday. The heaviest sentence im
, posed was upon G. W. McBrayer,
who was picked i\p by the sheriff last
week with six gallons of booze in his
possession, in transit. Judge Dysart'
sentenced him to six months on the
roads, suspended on payment of a
fine of $250. Notice of appeal to su
perior court was given.
There were three cases for driving
| while intoxicated, in which the usual
three months sentence or $50 fine
; was handed the defendants. One was
charged with assault with a deadly |
weapon, drawing a sentence of four
months; appealed. One defendant
charged with possessing and trans
porting failed to appear. Two joint
ly charged with transporting, were
lucky to have the case nol prossed.
In a bad check case, the defendant
was remanded to jail to be lodged by
; the sheriff until the amount o fthe j
check and costs was paid, or until
discharged by law. Another, charged
with transporting, was also placed in
! jail until the fine and costs were paid
or the defendant is discharged by.
lav/. Such defendants may remain in
jail twenty days, and upon making
oath that he or she does not have j
the necessary funds to settle the
debt, is discharged after another ten
i davs the court said.
| ' • !
SUPERIOR COURT MONDAY
A session of McDowell Superior
court will convene next Monday,
Januaz'y 9, for the trial of criminal
cases. The jury was drawn on the
first Monday in December and the
list published " in this paper Decem
ber 8.
"HANDLE WITH CARE" is one
of the most entertaining pictures
you'd want to see. JAMES DUNN,
BOOTS MALLORY and EL BREN
DLE are the stars. It's at the Marion
Theatre on Saturday, with a good
I program of shorts.
MRS. KIRKPATRICK WILL
DISTRIBUTE R. F. C. FUNDS
THREE DAYS IN THE WEEK
Dr. Fred Morrison, state director
of federal relief at Raleigh, has
named Mrs. G. W. Kirkpatrick as his
representative for McDowell county
She will have charge of all work in
connection with the distribution of
funds for relief in the county,which
work has heretofore been done by S.
F. Mauney, county welfare officer
Mr. Mauney continues to discharge
the duties of his office in connection
with county poor and health work.
Federal relief funds are used to
provide work for unemployed men
of the county, to purchase food and
clothing in emergency caseg, and
otherwise to furnish relief to the un
employed under the act creating the
relief fund. All cases in which re
lief is furnished, Mrs. Kirkpatrick
said, are carefully investigated be
fore aid is. given.
Hereafter there will be certain
days on which application for aid
may be made. Flour will be given
out on Friday afternoons and Satur
days, she said, while food and cloth
ing may be applied for only on Tues
days and Fridays. No applications
will be considered on other days ex
cept in dire emergency.
MEN OF ELEVEN COUNTIES
ASSEMBLE IN BOYS BEHALF
AT ANNUAL SCOUT COUNCIL
Local officials of the Boy Scouts
of America are making the an
nouncement that all men who are in
terested in boys work and the char
acter building and citizenship train
ing program of the Boy Scouts are
invited to attend the Annual Meet
ing of the Piedmont Council which
will be held at Mosonic Temple din
ing room, Gastonia, on Tuesday
night, January 10, at 7 o'clock. Res
ervations should be mailed to the
Council Headquarters at Gastonia,
the cost of the banquet will be only
fifty cents.
The Annual Meeting of the Pied
mont Council of the Boy Scouts of
America brings together each year
the outstanding citizens of the elev
en counties which make up the Coun
cil and is recognized as one of the
most inspiring meetings held in this
section of the state. Reports of the
work of this organization in which
more than 1,600 boys are being
trained for citizenship will be recei
ved and officers for the year elected.
Dr. Willis A. Sutton, Superintend
ent of Schools of Atlanta and for
mer president of the National Educa
tion Association and one of the
South's outstanding educational lead
ers and speakers, will make the ad
dress of the occasion. /
Hundreds of volunteer workers of
the Scout movement plan to be in
attendance at this meeting and local
officials are especially anxious that
ministers, educational leaders and
interested citizens will attend this
meeting which is being held in the
interest of boys. Reservations must
be made in advance of the meeting
through local officials or direct with
the headquarters at Gastonia in or
der that accommodations may be
provided for all who wish to attend.
JOHN C. GARDIN, AGE 80,
HIT BY TRAIN TUESDAY
RECOVERING AT HOSPITAL
The condition of John C. Gardin,
80-year old resident of the Glen
wood section, was reported satisfac
tory at the Marion Hospital, where
he was taken after being struck by a
Southern Railway train Tuesday.
Mr. Gardin is very deaf, it was
said, and therefore did not hear a
train approaching as he walked
iilong thetrack. The speed of the
train was considerably checked when
it was seen that the man took no
notice of his danger. It could not be
brought to a standstill before he was
hit.
A broken arm and bruises resul
ted, hospital attaches said yesterday.
HOSPITAL NEEDS
The hospital needs substantial
waste baskets for each room, Miss
Carson said yesterday. Attractive tin
ones can be bought cheaply—twenty
are needed—but any will be appreci
ated. Who'll come across? Pumpkins
were asked for, they came; a turkey
was wanted for Christmas—Dr. and
Mrs. Jonas sent it. Wastebaskets
next.
MASONIC MEETING
Mystic Tie Lodge of Masons will
hold the regular communication Fri
day night, January 6.
SUBMITS FOUR
POINT PLAN ON
STATE BUDGET
Commission Would Raise The
Rates in Many of Present
Schedules—Urges Economy
Raleigh, Dec. 31.— A four-point
program for balancing North Caro
lina's budget without resorting to
tiny form of sales tax but increasing
the rates of many schedules now in
the revenue act was proposed by the
state tax commission in its report
to the 1933 General Assembly, made
public today.
The legislature will convene here
January 4 faced with the problem of
balancing the budget and a deficit
estimated by the commission to to
tal approximately $12,500,000 by
the end of the 1931-33 biennium on
June 30, which it proposed the gov
ernor and state treasurer be empow
ered to fund.
Recommendations of the commis
sion to balance the budget for the
1933-35 biennium follow:
1. A $3,000,000 annual decrease
in general fund expenditures, in
cluding a graduated salary reduction
2. A temporary diversion of $2,
000,000 a year from the highway
fund to the general fund with road
construction abandoned during the
biennium.
3. Refunding of all general fund
bond maturities during the biennium
amounting to $2,888,000. It is sound
business sense to pay off as little as
possible xxx when the present val
ue of the dollar is extremely high."
4. No new taxes, but increases in
many present schedules to absorb
the loss in revenue from removal of
the 15-cent ad valorem tax on prop
erty which the ^commission said the
legislature was pledged to accom
plish.
"The program proposed would
rot levy any more taxes than are
levied at the present time," said the
report, signed by Chairman A. J.
Maxwell, L. A. Bethune of Clinton
and Robert Lassiter of Charlotte.
t
"It would absorb the prospective
deficit by reduced spending in both
general and the highway fund, by
refunding general fund bonds ma
turing within the next two years and
by shifting the present yield of the
15 cents property tax to other meth
ods of collecting the same amount of
revenue and in collecting a large
part of it in other forms from the
same group who now pay it.
The report, offering increased
rates in present schedules as a sub
stitute for a sales tax to raise $3,
850,000 a year the 15-cent ad valo
rem has been producing, declared:
"In the opinion of the commission
it is now just as unsound, unfair, and
unwise to adopt this form of tax
(the sales tax) as one of the state's
major sources of revenue as it was
at the time the report of the commis
sion to the 1931 General Assembly
was written."
Reference is made'to the 1931 re
port's arguments against either "a
general or a so-called luxury sales
tax."
"With a revenue-system adequate
under normal conditions for our ac
tual necessities, we should go no fur
ther into the sales tax field than the
necessities of our immediate condi
tion may temporarily compel us,"
the report added.
The commission pointed out its
four-point program for balancing
the budget recognized present condi
tions as "temporary."
With the 15 cent tax the operat
ing deficit for 1931-32 approximated
$4,320,000 and this year's deficit
probably ^vill reach $5,800,000 the
report said.
"Assuming that .we have reached
the bottom of the depression and
that revenue yields of the present
fiscal year may be expected to con
tinue, we have substantially a $10,
000,000 problem to solve—to be ex
act, $9,650,000," it added.
"It is unthinkable that we should
undertake to place a $10,000,000 ad
ditional tax burden upon the people
of this state to carry through this
depression."
Would Trim General Fund
Trimming the general fund expen
ditures by $3,000,000 a year and the
$2,000,000 diversion from highway
receipts would solve the problem
t (Please turn to last page)