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MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1933 VOL XXXVII NO 23
EDUCATION BOARD
POSTPONES ACTION
SCHOOL BUILDING
Will Make Decision On En
largement Of County Units
Some Time in Near Future.
County schools will have to wait a
while longer for additional class
rooms, auditoriums, and other facil
ities said to be needed in all the high
schools.
Monday a called meeting of the
board of education was held to dis
cuss the proposition. The county
commissioners were invited to sit
with the members of the education
board, in oi'der that they might be
come informed of the progress of
the discussions. After, a lengthy
hearing, the board of education de
cided to postpone the question until
some date in the near future, when
H: decision will be made.
Strong delegations from Pleasant j
Gardens, Nebo, North Cove and
Glenwood appeared at the meeting
to urge the building program. The
need of additional room is already.
felt at both the schools, increased
enrollment expected next year mak
ing the added facilities imperative,
the petitioners said. Additional
teachers are expected to be employ
ed when the new school year comes.
Besides other reasons mentioned, it
was claimed that the present is the
best time to build. Materials are,
very cheap, it was pointed out, mak
ing the cost of the required building
program much lower than it would
have been previously. Then, as an
additional argument in favor of
building at once, the petitioners call
ed attention to the number of men
out of work who would be given em
ployment on an extensive working
program ; their families aided, and
the money spent in the county would
help business all aong the line.
Those who presented the program
said the money could be borrowed
from the state literary fund and
and payed back over a period of
years, the additional tax levy re
quired being very small and falling
on each taxpayer in amounts so light
that it would add little to the tax
load. „
_ This matter was brought up at a
meeting of the board of education
January 2, when it was discussed at
some length. The board was unable
to reach a decision at that time,
partly due to the fact that the full
membership was not present. At that
time the question was postponed un
til last Monday.
FIFTH SUNDAY MEETINGS
WILL BE HELD JANUARY
29, NEBO AND SUNNYVALE
The second quarterly meeting of
the executive committee of theBlue
Ridge Association was held Thurs
day, Jan. 5th, in the pastor's study
of the First Baptist church here. The
problems of the churches in the rur
al districts were discussed at length
by members present. A number of
good suggestions were offered for
improvement.
It was voted to have a fifth Sun
day meeting in January at Sunny
Vale and Nebo Baptist churches, at
2:30 p. m. Dr. B. F. Bray will speak
at Sunny Vale and Mr. W. T. Mor
gan at Nebo. Rev. G. A. Condrey
and Rev. W. F. McMahan were ap
pointed as program committee for
these meetings. Special music will
be furnished by the Price Quartet at
Nebo and the Clear Creek Quartet
will render special music at Sunny
Vale.
A finance committee to the execu
tive committee was elected as fol
lows: J. H. Hensley, chairman; Rev.
E. J. Ingle, Rev. G. A. Condrey
The meeting adjourned until the
first Thursday in April.
MOTORISTS WARNED TO
PURCHASE CITY AUTO TAGS
Marion auto license tags are re- j
quired to be displayed on all cars!
within the city limits. The same pol- j
icy is in force this year that was es
tablished in 1932. The tags cost one
dollar each and are for the calendar
year, from January 1 to Decem
ber 31.
Motorists have been warned to
purchase the tags at the mayor's of
fice and display them on all cars kept
within the city limits of Marion, ;
thousand dollars in
needed improvements
MARION CITY SCHOOLS
Marion city schools recently re
ceived an allotment of one thousand
dollars to be spent on the buildings
and grounds through the office of
the local director of relief. The al
lotment was made direct to the local
director, Mra. George Kirkpatrick,
who is following the same rule with
this work aa with all other similar
projects conducted in the county by
the relief organization and is em
ploying only those who apply for re
lief.
According to Superintendent Zeno
Martin, the greater part of these
funds will be used for making need
ed improvements on the grounds and
for painting the buildings. The most
important of the improvements to be
made on the grounds will be the fill
ing in of the roadway that now leads
up to the athletic field and grading
the grounds in the rear of the ele
mentary building. This will mean
that the athletic field will be consid
erably enlarged on the side next to
the buildings both on the lower and
upper sides.
As-ide from the extension of the
athletic field other changes that will
be effected on the grounds will be
the complete closing of the entrance
to the football field from Court street
and a wider roadway into the school
grounds by the Presbyterian church.
This will be the only driveway into
the school grounds when the im
provements are completed. The
grounds immediately back of the el
ementary building will be graded
down for a playground for the small
er children in that building.
A complete renovation of the high
school building is now underway
with painters and laborers removing
the dirt and soot that have accumu
lated on the walls and in most in
stances applying a new coat of paint.
OLD LICENSE TAGS
GONE OUT OF STYLE
DRIVERS CARRY CARDS
The old yellow tags North Caro
lina cars wore in 1932 have been su
perseded by a prettier one in blue
and white. Highway authorities are
insisting that everyone operating a
motor vehicle in this state comply
with legal requirements and get the
blue tag.
Motor cars owners were allowed
the first five days to buy new license
tags. In the next five, they were po
litely warned of the law requiring
purchase of new tags. This polite
ness and patient forbearance ceased
on the tenth, and it now is strictly
required that the tags be displayed
on all cars, trucks and motorcycles.
Lieutenant Beck of the highway
patrol, informs this paper that after
Tuesday cases are being made
against all who have failed to buy
tags and drive cars on the highways
without them. This me^ns that the
car owner will be carried into court
and there fined according to law and
required to purchase the tags also.
Lieutenant Beck says that in the
first ten days they were warned to
buy the tags; now it n)eans a fine as
well as buying tags if motorists are
caught out on the limb without 1933
tags.
Lieutenant Beck also calls atten
tion to the law requiring operators
of cars to carry the license card;
owners or others driving cars must
have the card, or cases will be made
against those not complying. If a car
is driven by another than the owner,
the driver must carry the card, Lieu
tenant Beck said.
DECISION UPHOLDS BOARD
IN SCHOOL TAX CASE
In a decision rendered in Superior
court late yesterday afternoon,
Judge McElroy dismissed the com
plaint brought by taxpayers of three
McDowell townships against the
board of education and tax authori
ties of the county after the county
had assumed the debt service of
certain other townships and school
districts, which action Judge McEl
roy held to be valid and according to
law. Attorneys Washburn and Story
gave notice of appeal to the Su
preme court.
NEW CHIROPROACTOR IS
HERE FROM CHARLOTTE
Dr. W. P. Love, recently of Char
lotte, has arrived in Marion and op
ened offices in the Blanton building
to practice his profession as a chiro
practor.
Dr. Love said he will be joined by
his family as soon as he can make
suitable arrangements for them here
PRISON SENTENCES
FOR MEN WHO TOOK
SAFE AT ASHFORD
Boxcar Bandits Caught With
Shoes on. Feel Heavy Hand
Of The Law.
When Ike and Theron McGet, B.
Blankenahip and Lee Roe Byrd were
arrested in connection with the rob
bery of J. B. Lonon's store at Ash
ford, la9t fall, they admitted their
guilt and said they had put in a good
bit of time planning the affair. The
boys now have a chance to devote a
good deal more time to regret and
remorse, since their plea in Superior
court Monday, of guilty of breaking
and entering, and larceny. Judge P.
A. McElroy accepted their plea and
sentenced Blankenship to serve from
two to three years in the state peni
tentiary; Theron McGee will doi
three to five years; Byrd got two to
three years. Ike McGee got off with
a sentence of four months on the .
roads.
The men broke in the Lonon store j
and carried away an iron safe, which
was removed several miles before it
was opened and a small amount of j
loot taken. The store also housed the
local postoffice. Some of the money
in the safe being postal funds, a fed
eral charge also hangs over the men j
George and Arthur Hudgins come
time before Christmas, engaged in j
the cattle business on a small scale,
taking a cow here and selling it yon
der, then about face to be caught
red handed making a sale heure.
There were two cases against the
men. Consolidated, their plea of j
guilty was accepted and the judge j
sentenced George to serve six
months, while Arthur got off with
twelve months.
In the shoe cases, Kelton and Case
Smith, charged with breaking and
entei'ing box cars and larceny, after
wholesale stealing of shoes from the
Southern Railway, the men plead
guilty and were sentenced to serve
from three to five years in the peni
tntiary.
1 Frank Duncan plead guilty to a
charge of forcible tresspass and was
sentenced to four months.
The following were found not
guilty: Ed. Baker, charged with
breaking and entering house; Geo.
Taylor and Grover Williams, charg
ed with breaking and entering box
cars and larceny. Taylor was arres
ted at about the same time as the
: Smiths and charged with taking
socks from the cars, but upon trial
I was found not guilty.
Eighteen cases, called at the op
ening of court, were continued, nol
prossed, or otherwise passed over,
j capiases being issued for some de
fendants who failed to answer.
RETURNING FROM MART
FURNITURE MAN SAYS
DEPRESSION IS OVER
"Furniture men are facing the
brightest day that has dawned in
several years," Albert Blanton of
the McDowell Furniture Company
said Monday. He and R. B. Crisp had
just returned from Chicago and the
i western furniture mart where they
met manufacturers and buyers from
jail parts of the country. "Business
in sight now is twice as good as it
was a year ago and much better than
in midsummer last year when we
were busy filling orders coming in
at that time. From what we learned
at Chicago it looks now as if our
plant will operate under forced
draught continuously throughout
' the year."
Extensive additions were made
| to the McDowell plant in the last
j year. Some new machinery was in
j stalled. The plant is being operated
in every department, employing 185
( men. Some crews are on night shifts
The gentlemen returning from
Chicago were very much pleased
with the outlook. Reports from retail
markets indicated small stocks on
hand, which will have to be supplied
very quickly if demand is picking up
as reports indicated at the Chicago
meeting.
MORE RAT POISON
Poisonous bait to kill more of the
destructive rats in the county will
be available in about ten days, J.
Gordon Blake, county agent, said
yesterday. See Mr. Blake for partic
le ulars.
ECONOMY AND
DENIAL URGED
BY EHRINGHAUS
New Governor Proposes Dras
tic Changes In State Set-up.
Declares State at Crossroads
Raleigh, Jan. 5.—John ChristpheiV
Blucher Ehringhaus today became
the 54th governor of North Carolina
The inaugural exercises were the
most sober and serious since the
days of reconstruction.
The famous Ehringhaus smile sel
dom flashed today. The new governor
frankly painted an "ugly picture" of
the financial difficulties that beset
the state. "In such an hour," he de
J. C. B. EHRINGHAUS
North Carolina's New Governor
clared, "the plain unvarnished truth
is best."
Thousands were on hand to greet
the popular son of the Albemarle
but they too were serious in demean
or. Frequently they clapped their
hands but never did they cheer. It
was a quiet, stern, inauguration.
"The state which we love has
reached the crossroads of its finan
cial destiny," declared the governor
in his inaugural address. "The way
out is plain but pleasureless; it in
volves the eating, for a season at
least, of the herbs and dry bread of
self denial."
His audience responded with a
clatter of hands. The applause was
short but not perfunctory. Rather
did it seem to accept the challenge
thrown down by its new chief execu
tive.
Draws Applause
Grouped at the front of the new
memorial auditorium, in which the
governor took the oath of office,
were the members of the senate and
house of represntatives. They gave
rapt attention to the inaugural ad
dress.
"A substantial, even drastic cur
tailment of our spending is impera
tive," declared Governor Ehringhaus
The law makers applauded.
"Proud as we are of our social
progress," continued the governor,
"we must remember that not even
social progress can, for any great
time, go ahead faster than material
progress. To the suggestion that a
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KIRBY AND BUTT NAMED
COUNTY HEALTH OFFICERS
At a meeting of the county board
of health, held last Monday, Dr. G.
S. Kirby was elected county physi
cian and Dr. R. B. Butt was elected
county quarantine officer.
The board of health is composed
of J. Fleming Snipes, A. V. Nolan,
and H. H. Tate, by virtue of their
offices as chairman of the board of
county commissioners, superintend
ent of education and mayor of the
courthouse town, respectively, and
the following members of the medi
cal and dental professions: Dr. D. M.
Mcintosh, Dr. J. F. Miller and Dr.
P. D. Sinclair.
INSURANCE MEETING
Ged W. Giles, J. Y. Lonon, L. J.
P. Cutlar, and other members of the
Marion Insurance Exchange held a
meeting at the Hotel James yester
day. A talk was made by J. D. Saint,
manager o fthe North Cai'olina Asso
ciation of insurance agents, of Ral
eigh, looking to improvement of con
ditions.
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MRS. CHAMBERS LOOKS
FOR A LARGE ATTENDANCE
AT PARENT-TEACHERS MEET
The regular monthly meeting of
the Parent-Teacher association which
will be held in the high school audi
torium Monday afternoon, January
16, is expected to be well attended
due to the fact that this is the first
meeting to be held in the new year.
Also this meeting will be the first at
tended by the president, Mrs. W. R.
Chambers, since her illness that
caused her to miss both the Novem
ber and December meetings in addi
tion to the district meeting that was
held here during the fall.
It is expected that the various ac
tive committees will have some in
teresting topics for discussion as
well as important announcements
concerning the plans for the organi
zation during the remainder of the
school year.
While the meeting will only extend
through the customary hour in
length and there will be no guest
speaker for the occasion, the presi
dent is urging every member of the
association to be present as there
will be several short talks by mem
bers of the organization on subjects
that are of vital importance to every
patron of the school in this commu
nity. One^ of these talks will be de
livered by Mrs. Kirkpatrick, who is
now the director of the federal relief
work for McDowell county, and will
be along the line of relief work as it
pertains to the underprivileged
school pupil.
Mrs. Chambers, whose work as
head of the local association is ex
tending the accomplishments of Par
ent-Teacher work here beyond the
usual welfare work brought the local
association and its officers into state
wide prominence last year, is expect
ing the greatest number of parents
present that has attended a meeting
of the association since school open
ed last fall.
THE WAYSIDE RELIEF
REPORTS BUSY MONTH
S. S. ON SOUTH MAIN
A report of the Wayside Relief
disbursements for December, pre
pared by the financial agent, J. C.
Bowman, indicates a period of in
creased activity by that agency in
assistance given- the unemployed in
Marion. Cash contributions, clothing
and food furnished those in need
amounted to a total of $406.57, ac
cording to Mr. Bowman's figures.
All money received is recorded on
Mr. Bowman's books and disburse
ments noted, while clothing and food
is accounted for in the same way,
estimates of the value being made
and recorded.
Cash disbursements amounted to
$181.74. Clothing given had a value
of $47.13, and other donations were
$177.70, Mr. Bowman said.
Mrs. Harbin's report of December
activities showed 65 investigations;
30 visits to the sick; 50 transients
cared for; 10 women and 8 men
given employment through her as
sistance.
Religious services are now being
held in the Wrenn building, the old
bakery stand, instead of the court
house as formerly. Its use was given
by E. J. House. Around 150 chairs
v-cre provided by Rev. T. A. Melton,
of East Marion, secretary of the
county ministers association. Sun
day school is held at 2:30 Sunday
afternoons. Weekly prayer meetings
are Thursday evenings at 7:30.
Preaching Sunday evenings at 7:30.
LUTHERAN CHOIR WILL
PRESENT CANTATA HERE
Next Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock
the Concordia Lutheran choir of
Conover will render a religious
Cantata in the courthouse. The choir
has presented this game cantata be
fore a number of congregations in
North and South Carolina and thus
comes very highly recommended.
The choir is composed of some forty
people, including a young girls' cho
rus. The soloists are Mrs. George
Smith, soprano; Miss Marie Hemme
ter, alto; Mr. Walter Brady, bass;
and Mr. Donald Pomeroy, tenor.
The Rev. G. E. Mennen, pastor of
Concordia Church, which has the
largest Lutheran congregation of
Catawba county, and visitor of the
Southeastern Conference, will bring
a brief message since there will be
no regular service. The public is
heartily invited.
Be sure not to miss seeing the
special featur "BPJNG 'EM BACK
ALIVE" at Marion Theatre next
Monday and Tuesday.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
DIES SUDDENLY AT
NORTHAMPTON HOME
Heart Attack Fatal To Former
President. Body Now Rests
In Vermont Churchyard
Northampton, Mass., Jan. 5.—
Calvin Coolidge, president of the
United States for five and a half
years, died of a heart attack which,
struck him with startling suddenness
today.
The only living former president,
who was 60 years old last July 4,
died alone as he was preparing to
shave in a dressing room of his soi
buz'ban home, "The Beeches."
A few minutes later, Mrs. Cool
idge, returning from a shopping
tour, found his body lying on the
floor.
His face was calm and bore no
sign of pain.
When Mrs. Coolidge found him,
it was 12:15 p. m. A physician, Dr.
E. W. Brown, a friend of years, was
summoned immediately. Dr. Brown
said death had occurred about 15
minutes before.
Burial Saturday
Plymouth, Vt., Jan. J. — Calvin
Coolidge sleeps tonight in a bleak
hillside graveyard where village
neighbors bore his coffin through
hail and bitter wind from the north.
; High in the granite hills of Ver
I mont and under a cnopy of the dark
clouds, there was no pomp and pow
[ er, no echo of the years which the
: son of a New England landsman
spent in the White House.
The body of the 30th president
was lowered to the grave as the hail
| storm reached its brief climax and
burst on the knot of mourners gath
j ered within sight of his birthplace.
The final resting place of Calvin
| Coolidge was beside his father and
his son in the country plot where lie
: members of the family for genera
tions back.
Services Brief and Simole
The services were brief and sim
pie. The dignitaries who attended
funeral services at Northampton—
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MOTION TO TRANSFER
CHIAPETTA CASE IS
DENIED; APPEALED
I Judge McElroy denied a motion
' of defendants to transfer to United
States court the suit of J. H. Tate,
administrator of Louis Chiapetta,
against the Southern Railway. At
; torneys Winborne and Proctor ap
pealed to the Supreme court.
Chiapetta, it will be recalled, was
killed on a freight train near here
I last year while the bonus marchers
: were attracting public attention. He
with others was found on a train by
W. A. Banks, a railroad special of
ficer; in a mixup of some kind Chia
petta was killed. Banks was tried
for murder, convicted in McDowell
' Superior court and sentenced to a
1 term in prison. The case was ap
pealed, which appeal is pending.
Mr. Tate as administrator is suing
Banks and the railroad company for
$50,000 actual and $50,000 punitive
damages.
START NEW SERIAL
LAST OF MOHICANS
! On next Wednesday the Marion
Theatre will start a Serial Story
made from James Fenimore Coop
er's historical novel, The Last of the
Mohicans. This story is one of the
American Classics, and has been
finely produced with a cast of talen
ted stars, including Harry Carey
(star of Trader Horn) as Natty
Bumpo the "Pathfinder", Hobart
Bosworth, one of the finest inter
preters of character parts on stage
or screen, as Chingachcook the Indi
an Chieftain, and Junior Coghlan as
Uncas the young chief.
The Theatre is anxious to have as
many of the school children as pos
sible see this splendid story and for
that reason is making special reduc
ed prices on each Wednesday while
this serial runs of five cents for
children under twelve, ami ten cents
for all others of school age, and
twenty cents only for adults.
The nejv library of the British
Museum at Hendon, England, has
j 14 miles of bookshelves.