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MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940
VOL. XLIV—NO. 23
CRIMINAL TERM
SUPERIOR COURT
OPENED TUESDAY
True Bill Found Against Lee!
Flynn; W. H. Hennessee,!
Jr., Foreman Grand Jury.
The January term of '^uperiol^
Court convened Tuesday morni.,^
for a five-day criminal session with
Judge Frank Armstrong, of Troy, j
presiding, and Solicitor Clarence j
Ridings, of Forest City, prosecuting, j
After the Grand Jury was impan-!
eled. Judge Armstrong made a twen-i
HEADS COMMITTEE
STATE ALLOTTED SECURITY BOARD
$3,775,397 BY STARTS PAYING
FWA NEXT YEAR BENEHTS IN ’40
Funds Will Be Used For Im
provement Of Secondary
Roads and Highways.
Washington, Dec. 30. — North
Carolina will have $3,775,397 to
spend on roads and highways for the
fiscal year beginning July 'l, next.
South Carolina was apportioned
$2,172,330 which was allocated as
follows: Regular federal aid, $1,-
Social Insurance to Families
To Mean Payments Up To
$50 or $60 a Month.
Washington, Jan. 2. — The Social
Security board estimated that 900,-
000 men, women and children would
share in the more than $100,000,000
to be disfributed this year under the
revised social security law.
The first checks, Chairman Arthur
Robert — msi' ciiecK,s,
° jW Proctor above attornev of Mar secondary or feeder roads, jj. Altmeyer said, will go out Febru-
ty-minute charge to the members! above, attoiney of Mai-, ^^99 321^ and $444,883 to be spent lary 1, representing payments for
and impressed upon them their the elimination of grade cross-1 j^n.^ry I retired elderly workers
as jurors. He reviewed the steps inaj^^'^^V L»emocratic executive
trial and emphasized that it was the | ^ special meeting held j allotted to the Tari j ■ I ■ ah
a. • 1 • 9 J i.’ . .1^  h6i*G Ssturdav Hp Al- -r-r ^ ^ ^ ^ i ^ rHuio int6rviGw, AltiiiGyGr
trial jury’s duties to pass upon the> jsaturaay. tie succeeds ^ jyj Carmo-1 ^
•li • .? J J 4. ‘ bcrt Blanton who rpsic’tipd bGcausft -w-% i ^ ^ • ssid tnnt the p6W soci£ii insuiuncG
^ruilt or innocence of a defendant i xjidutun, wno lesignea oecause^ head of the new Federal Works* . i
, . .1 JT A^’ his position with the state hisrhwav i • ■ • i ■ Program should make possible
and not the Grand Jury's duties. Af-, ^ pubiuun wiin tne staie ■ administration. Of the s & t'
ter informing them of their duties! requires him to be Carolina, $2,672,689 is regu-i„„.
in the inspection of prison camps,; McDowell county much; , up to $50 or $60.
^ ^ ^ • of the time Mrs John Potpat virp- , , . , , ' with the savings and other small in-
county home, apartments of prison-^; y"® roteai, vice .matched by the state on a 50-50 o
ers, he concluded with the procedure,'=''a'rma" P--fWed at the meeting:,;^ ^he sum of $348,612 is an alio-i^
they should follow in finding true I Wilson acted as secretary.
i cation for secondary or feeder roads, i rmal^^^^kf r^l’d^k^
bills of indictments. W. H. Hennes-|P'“® while 5764,096 is for elimination of jrZ relt^ rl frhl »dded
see, Jr.. is foreman of the Grand: ‘^e Jackson Day dinner crossings.
Siven to: ^lonthly benefits to a family ranging
That, combined
Jury.
The Grand Jury returned a true
i in Raleigh on January 8.
bill against Lee Flynn charged with! NEW OFFICERS KIWANIS
the murder of his wife October 9,; CLUB TAKE OVER DUTIES;
and the case came up for trial Wed-i COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED
Tiesday. Flynn, being without coun-j
sel, the court appointed D. F. Giles; The new officers of the Kiwanis
to defend him. j club took over their new duties on
Minor cases which w’ere tried on j Tuesday night in their first meeting j grade crossings.
The apportionment was authorized
by the act of June 8, 1938, which
provided $113,000,000 for improve
ment of the federal aid system and
Tax Rate Unchanged
To back up its old age pension
checks, the government has $1,400,-
000,000, collected by levies on pay-
its extension through cities, $15,-1 rolls. The original law would have
000,000 for improvement of secon-1 boosted the rate of these taxes from
dary or feeder roads and $30,000,-! one per cent to one and one-half
000 for elimination of hazards at per cent beginning January 1, but
. , , , . ^ tions were underway until
at its last regular session. Congress i- • • v. .c
LOWEST TEMPERATURE
OF WINTER RECORDED
HERE TUESDAY NIGHT
The lowest temperature of
the year was recorded Tuesday
night or Wednesday morning
by C. A. Nichols at the city hall
when the thermometer showed
a low of 8 degrees. Tuesday
was considered one of the cold
est days of the winter.
MARION TO BE ON NEW
ROUTE N. C. 26 FROM
S. C. TO TENN. LINE
The Highway Commission approv
ed December 8 a through route from
the intersection on U. S. 221 near
HOEY ENDORSES
TROGRESS’ PLAN
FOR THE SOUTH
Hoey Asks Tar Heels to Back
Southern Governors* Pro
gram For Decade.
Raleigh, Jan. 1.—Governor Hoey
urged North Carolinians today to
strive to make 1940-1950 a “decade
of progress,” and indorsed a 10-
point program for advancement
Woodlawn to Grover, via ]\^arion ■ which was drafted for the Southern
and Shelby, eliminating route N. C. | Governors’ conference.
190. { In a formal proclamation, Gover-
The through route will come j nor Hoey described the program as
through Marion to Spruce Pine, Ba- j a “great forward movement,'” and
kersville, and Johnson City, Tenn. \ said North Carolina should “take the
N. C. 26 runs from South Carolina j lead of the Southern States in this
to the Tennessee line, and although ■ carefully planned program for a con-
the highway has been in service for, sistent and sustained prosperity.”
some time, the through route has! The proclamation follows:
j'ust been approved and will probab-j “In harmony with the general ap-
ly lead to improvement soon.. j peal of the Southern Governors’
From the office of the Blue Ridge i conference for the adoption by the
Parkway, 1939 statistics indicate * Southern States of a program for a
that a total of 290,000 visitors were' decade of progress from 1940 to
at the Parkway last year and 147,-11950, inclusive, covering the whole
000 visitors in 38,000 cars were'^eld of agricultural achievement, I
counted. 43,000 automobiles carried: wish to call upon the whole people
130,000 persons along the scenic! of North Carolina to join heartily in
drive in North Carolina from the j this great forward movement.
state line south to Boone, while aj “This appeal by the governors and
total of 5,500 more were counted on' agricultural leaders appeared in Sun-
other portions of the Parkway. Isay’s daily papers and it was based
T xr ..1. 1- upon ‘the great traditions of our re
in North Carolina paving opera-1 : i
^•1 T X A gion, the deep needs of our people
ntil late Au-! , , ,
^ .c XV Tj 1 iand the opportunities of our times,
gust, limiting the use of the Park-;
! 17.- ^ X • x- I present herewith with my spi
way. Eight of every ten cars visiting , , , ..
Li- 7 1- -XT. XT XT- I cific approval and recommendation,
Ithe Paikway bore either North Car-; , x v i
. mu a resume of the pl«in to balance:
olina or Virginia license tags. The. • i j- 4?
, . J “1. Money crops, including foi
record traffic for any given day oc-
bation. ; field Beaman, program chairman for j pervision of the public roads admin- > their employers each would have
Henry McClellan was sentenced, the month. Mr. Beaman conducted; ^stration of the federal works agency | subjected to a 50 per cent in
to 12 months on the road for larceny | the program on Kiwanis Education, | and in accordance with the federal grease in old-age payroll taxes,” he
of coal from the Southern Railroad | listing the objectives of Kiwanis and aid plan that has been in operation i asserted.
Company. The court recommended j naming the committee chairmen for j si"ce 1916. The initiative in selec-j
He estimated the workers and em-
curred during the Asheville Rhodo
dendron Festival when 2,400 travel
ed to the Craggy Gardens in the
height of their bloom on June 25.
Satisfactory progress has also
been reported on the 50-mile section
in North Carolina between Grand
father Mountain and Toe River Gap
near Mount Mitchell. The Linville
River bridge is rapidly nearing com
pletion and the tunnel between Lit
tle Switzerland and Buck Creek Gap
is finished so that it will soon be pos
sible to
and
fores-
fertility
Tuesday included the following: lof the New Year. Cecil Dobson pre-| The highway funds were appor-! revised the law to “freeze” the rate, ^ ^ visiting ' present herewith with my spe
Leslie Pressley, charged with vio-i sided. jtioned among states in proportion to | at the one per cent level until 1943.!^^ cific approval
lating the prohibition law was given ' The meeting was well attended i population, area, and mileage of ru- j Senator McNary of Oregon, Re-
10 months on one count and two j and three new members were admit- ral post roads. Grade crossing funds i publican leader in the Senate, said in
years on the second count. ted to the club: Robt. W. Proctor, | were apportioned, one-half on the|a statement tonight that while both
Kenneth Pressley plead guilty tojA. S. Bradford and J. N. Morris. i basis of population, one-fourth on | major parties supported the broad
peeping, transporting liquor and de- | Kiwanian J. G. Beaman presented | the basis of mileage of the federal j social security program the amend-
stroying public property. He was, the new Kiwanians with buttons and | aid system, and one-fourth according | ments to the' financing provisions
given 60 days on the first charge, 30 j extended the right hand of fellow-}to railroad mileage. It is provided; should be credited to the “effort and
days on the second and 12 months jnship' to each individual member as j that no state shall receive less than j agitation by the Republican minori-
on the third charge. j they received the charge of Kiwanis. | one-half of one per cent of an ap-, ty” of Congress.
Carrie McCurry was found guilty} After a short business session,iPortionment. i “Were it not for these amend-
of larceny and will be placed on pro-| the meeting was turned over to Gar-i Expenditure will be .under the su-! some 40,000,000 workers and
Money crops,
try, with food, feed,
crops.
“2. All crops with livestock, con
sistent with sound land use.
“3. Production progress with mar
keting and transportation opportu
nity free of trade barriers.
“4. Farms with factories.
“5. Land, water, and mineral re
sources with population needs.
“6. Work with thrift and local in
vestments.
“7. Owner prosperity with worker
drive through from Grand-1
8. Increasing income with in-
parole after six months serving. .the year. He also pointed out the re-|tion of projects rests with the state ^ would be saved $875,000,000 ^ father Mountain to Toe River Gap
..... i J X X _i r •’ . ^ creasing home ownership.
Wealth with beauty and cul-
I ges overpassing state highways at i t^re.
The board estimated that old-age' linville Falls, Gillespie Gap. and at
K,..* -- j i_.i J U--L1 I wuuiu ue &avcu «pojtJ
‘Toad'’ Murphy pleaded nolo con-; spective duty of each committee, | highway departments which also pre- next three years as
tendere to a charge of assault with a j Committee chairmen appointed i Pare plans, let contracts, and super-j amendments,
deadly weapon and was sentenced;for 1940 are as follows: Publicity,|vise construction, all subject to fed-: ^ Mcnth Pensions
to 90 days on the roads. | Norman Kinzie; House and Recep-|eral approval.
Charles Robinson and James Boze-;tion, S. J. Westmoreland; Agricul-i 9,786 Miles Imoroved
result' on finished parkway grade
i crushed stone base. The three brid-
mane, charged with breaking anditure, S. L. Homewood; Kiwanis Ed-j
entering, were each sentenced to the i ucation, J. G. Beaman; Public Af-'
; pensions for single workers would i
Little Switzerland are
“10. Economic gain With advantes
moral values and human welfare.
North Carolina is a great agri-
These funds, Mr. Carmody said in , to! „ stages of construction and short de-! i x x tx i. j i j _
$26 a month and tor married _ ! cultural state. It has developed rap-
busiest industrial state. There is
announcing the allocations, make
; couples, $39.
tours are necessary.
state prison for not less than 7 nor j fairs, Hugh Beam; Laws and Regu-! possible a continuation of the feder-j ' «"x will i The year 1939 was the ^ _ , , , . „ .
more than 10 years on the first, la tions, H. D. Bishop; Boys and al aid program on substantially the!._^^,^^^ ^ „„^^|construction__year thePar^ay has* Tnd "industry!' We'^now wish
charge and from 4 to 10 years on, Girls Work, Dr. McIntosh; Atten-|same scale as in the past fiscal year..
the second count. idance, J. D. Henry; Standards. B. A..i„ that year the work in cooperation i security. They
Joe Fisher and Eugene Bird,' Dickson; Finance and Classification, | with state highway departments re-1 , , , jxi.cc i •
, , 11- 1 ^ reached and passed the bo mark in
charged with breaking and entering, iJ. B. Laughlin; Inter-club Relations, i suited in the improvement of 9,786 ; , , , , . it
larceny and receiving, were each | Bai^on Caldwell; Membership W^ S. | „,iies on rural portions of the feder-1SntLte^imft^d the ac-
given from one to five years on the | Shifiet; Mus^c, A. S^ Bradford; Pro-, al aid system, 2,971 miles on the sec-1
first count and not less than five gram, Lee Conley; Reception, A. H.
years on the second count.
DISTRICT MEETING OF
OIL MEN HERE JAN. 10
I Mitchem; Underprivileged Children,
I Norman Kinzie; Vocational Guid-
lance. Dr. Carl McMurray.
A district meeting of the North
Carolina Petroleum Industries com
mittee will be held in Marion next
Wednesday. Oil men from McDowell
and thirteen nearby counties will at
tend the meeting.
The meeting, which will be held in
the Community building, includes
the counties of McDowell, Ashe,
Watauga, Avery, Caldwell, Burke,
Cleveland, Mitchell, Yancey, Bun
combe, Henderson, Polk, and Ruth-
FUNERAL HOME DRESSES
UP FOR THE NEW YEAR
Two weeks’ work was necessary
for the interior decorating of the
Westmoreland Funeral Home on
West Court street, costing approxi
mately $300 including the wood
work and painting.
Two display rooms and funeral ;
parlors, both private of the other,
have been arranged. Deep colored
maroon draperies add attraction
ondary or farm-to-market systems, i
and 725 miles were improved in mu
nicipalities.
SOUTHERN FREIGHT DEPOT
DOES A HALF-MILLION
DOLLAR BUSINESS IN
'39
The Southern Railway freight of
fice in Marion did over a half-million
! ers who had not passed 65.
Congress, however, took off the
! limitations against the securing of
wage credits over 65 last summer
and reopened the social security sys
tem to this gioup of oldsters estima
ted at 178,000.
An analysis by the board of the
first 1,948 claims filed showed that
ever had, 275 miles of parkway un
dergoing treatment and 1940 is ex
pected to yield still gieater improve
ment.
dollar business in 1939, a 25% in- workers were too
culture and industry,
to still further balance each with it
self. Our state should take the lead
of the Southern States in this care
fully planned program for a consis-
itent and sustained prosperity over a
MEMORIAL SERVICE IS {period of years.
HELD FOR W. T. MORGAN i “Every citizen should be intensely
DURING SUPERIOR COURT interested in furthering this cause by
giving united and enthusiastic co-op-
The Superior Court paused at 4 j eration, and supporting every prac-
o’clock Tuesday afternoon for a me- i tical effort to accomplish the desired
morial service to William Theodore ! results. '
Morgan, deceased member of thej
Marion Bar Association. Robert W.i DELAY OPENING OF
Proctor presided, and the resolutions! CITY AND COUNTY
SCHOOLS TILL JAN. 8
in a large proportion of cases the If ^^spect were read by Paul Story. {
crease over 1938, according to fig
ures released by G. W. Sandlin, ag-
erford. In addition to oil company land dignity to the parlors which are
agents, distributors and service sta
tion operators, members of allied
organizations interested in highway
transportation will attend and par
ticipate in the program.
A 10:30 a. m. meeting for the
purppse of gen^^al discussions of the
problems of taxation, diversion of
highway funds and other legislative
lighted by large floor lamps. Private
entrance to each funeral parlor will
be another advantage made possible
by the recent work.
In the main living room at one
end of which is located the main of
fice, the door has been cut away
making a spacious and more elabor
ate office. Also the floor was raised
matter affecting highway users, will | to the same level of the living room.
_ - « V  * -I- I TY ^ ^ M .MM M A
T)e followed by a luncheon at which
Mr. Lee will speak.
The Marion meeting is the second
of a series of ten district meetings
1>eing held throughout the state dur
ing January and February.
S. H. YANCEY NAMED
CENSUS ENUMERATOR
Heavy draperies blending with the
maroon paint for the doors, hang
from each side of the entrance to
the office.
Mr. Westmoreland said that fur
ther improvements would be made
in the spring.
A total of $542,912.47 was token
in through the year and $50,000
more represented income from ex
press alone. Mr. Sandlin expressed
his belief that> 1940 would hold a
still greater increase due to the Eu
ropean war situation, since ship
ments of all kinds, including iron,
had increased considerably since the
outbreak of hostilities in the fall.
MRS. W. T. MILLER WINS
FIRST PRIZE IN CONTEST
MASONIC MEETING
There will be a regular communi-
S. H. Yanc^ey has been apjppinted cation of Mystic Tie Lodgre Friday
-enumerator for taking business andjnig^t, Jan. 5, at 7;30 o’clock. New
manufacturing census for McDowell j officers will be installed and refresh-
«ounty. 1 ments will be served.
It was learned here yesterday
that Mrs. W. T. Miller, of Marion,
Route 1, won first prize, $5, for her
exhibit jars in the McDowell county
contest held here in September. The
contest was sponsored by the Ball
Brothers Company of Muncie, Ind.,
of which Miss Gladys Kimbrough
was director. Other prizes won by
McDowell county women were Mrs.
Watson Wilson of fjebo, second
place, $3, and Mrs. O. C. Crawford,
of Pleasant Gardens, won the third
place and received $2.
young to become eligible for bene
fits.
Wives and widows, except young
widows with children, must be 65 or
older to qualify for supplemental
benefits, and in the first batch of
claims, only 185 workers had wives
65 or over. There were 652 wives be
tween 60 and 65 and 500 under 60.
GOLDEN GLOVES FIGHTS
HELD JAN. 18, 19, AND 20
The second annual Golden Gloves
Boxing Tournament, sponsored by
the Francis Marion club, will beheld
in the high school auditorium Janua
ry 18, 19, and 20.
The fights will be conducted under
the sanction of the Carolina Associa-
W. R. Chambers read a paper on Mr.
Morgan, both as a lawyer and as a
man.
Judge Will Pless, Jr., spoke of his
personal association with Mr. Mor
gan, followed by Roy Davis who told
of the high ideals and the zeal pos
sessed by Mr. Morgan and of the
wonderful cpunsel given to the
The opening of schools in Marion
City Unit as well as the county
schools for both white and colored,
will be postponed until January 8.
according to an official announce
ment from N. F. Steppe, Chairman
of the Board of Education, when it
was reported from the Welfare De-
younger members of the McDowell i P»rtment and local physicians that
Ithe flu epidenuc was too widespread
C. C. Lisenbee spoke of his asso- the county,
ciation with the deceased, beginning
Although the influenza situation
! is not considered serious because of
tLVmpioy’of'the'u.l’. Governmentlt''* comparative mildn^ of the at
and of his never failing custom to
serve his fellow man. Mr. Lisenbee
was followed by D. F. Giles who re
viewed the pioneer work for good
roads and all other public causes
which Mr. Morgan represented, and
tion of the A. A. U. and the touma- of the loss the county sustained in
ment will conduct Open Class com
petition for white amateurs, sixteen
years of age or over, in good stand
ing, without restriction and who re
side in this state.
The Hawkins building has been se
cured for a temporary training quar-
his passing.
Fred Washburn spoke of Mr. Mor
gan’s modesty concerning his ability
as one of the outstanding lawyers of
tacks, numerous cases have been re
ported in this county and it was de
cided advisable to postpone the re
opening of the schools as a precau
tionary measure.
It has been estimated that there
are approximately 150 cases of in
fluenza in the corporate limits of
Marion and about 500 cases over the
entire county. However, the schools
will open unless the epidemic spreads
The county schools
the state and Robert Proctor closed i
the service with a tribute to the “P*"
abilitv and many fine aualities of the the city schools January 1.
ters for the entries. Clarence Rabb is j man both as a personal adviser and
in charge of issuing the application j as a trial lawyer who had the cour-
blanks. lage of his convictions.
Seven states have no capital pun^
ishment. ^