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MARION. N. C.. THURSDAY. BARCH 14. 1940
VOL. XLIV. NO. 33
Buying Of Lake
Tahoma Estate
Discussed Here
Committee Formed to Orga
nize Interested Men To
Consider Buying Land.
Plans for the possible purchase of
Lake Tahonia and surrounding prop
erty from the Kistler estate were dis
cussed at a meeting of interested
persons here last Friday night. A
committee of four persons was ap
pointed to contact men who might be
interested in the purchase and to
form an organization for the pur
chase and development of the prop
erty.
Vernon T. Eckerd, president of
the Marion Chamber of Commerce,
Walter J. Cartier, secretary of the
Marion Chamber of Commerce, K.
W. Broome, president of the Hickory
Chamber of Commerce, and J. E.
Coad, secretary of the Hickory
Chamber of Commerce, were appoint
ted to the committee to formulate
plans of the organization.
Plans were discussed at the meet
ing for the formation of a stock
company which would sell shares in
the property to raise the $100,000
needed for the purchase. Discussion
was based on the assumption that, if
purchased, the property would be op
en to the public and the number of
stockholders would be limited to
from 50 to 100.
The opportunities offered by the
property were outlined by J. E. Coad,
who said it could be used for hunt
ing, fishing, boating, a scenic spot,
swimming, the selective cutting of
timber, a resort hotel site, and a pub
lic park. He pointed to the develop
ment of similar sites in other parts
of the United States and urged peo
ple of this section to take advantage
of the opjrerttmity before it was pur
chased by an outsider.
Rev. Paul A Boriack stated that
he believed the Lutheran church
would be interested in purchasing a
part of the property for an assembly
grounds.
J. P. Dodge,’ senior claims agent|
of the State Highway and Public
Works Commission, pointed to the
-favorable location of the property
and its nearness to the Parkway
drive. Some 4o,000 cars and 195,000
MARION CHORAL CLUB
TO PRESENT ORATORIO
AT CHURCH SUNDAY
The Marion Choral Club will pre
sent an oratorio, “The Holy City,”
by A. R. Gaul at the First Presbyte
rian church on Sunday evening,
March 17, at 7:30 o’clock. The pro
gram will be under the direction of
Albert Hewitt, Jr., with Miss Vir
ginia Mae McCall as organist. The
program follows:
PART I
Contemplation, organ. Miss Vir
ginia Mae McCall.
No Shadows Yonder, chorus,
quartet, solo by Nelson Parker.
My Soul Is Athirst For God, solo
by Albert Hewitt, Jr.
At Eventide It Shall Be Light,
trio. Misses Rebekah Lowe, Louise
Poteat and Margaret Gilkey.
They That Sow in Teai-s, chorus.
Eye Hath Not Seen, solo. Miss
Louise Poteat.
For Thee, O Dear, Dear Country,
chorus.
Thine Is The Kingdom, chorus.
PART II
Intermezzo (Adoration), organ.
Miss Virginia Mae McCall.
A New Heaven and A New Earth,
solo, W. H. Wolfe, Choral Sanctus,
Holy, Holy, Holy, chorus.
To The Lord Our God, solo, Albert
Hewitt, Jr.
The Fining Pot Is For Silver, cho
rus (unaccompanied).
These Are They Which Came Out
Of Great Tribulation, solo. Miss Re
bekah Lowe.
List! The Cherubic Host, quartet
and chorus, And I Heard The Voice
of Harpers, solo, Bernard Hirsch, j
Obligato, Mrs. Carl McMurray. j
Scouts Advanced
At Honor Court
Held In Marion
Awards Made To Large Num>
her Of Boys In All Ranks
Of Scouting.
Robert Proctor
Is Appointed To
Horton’s Staff
Prominent Marion Attorney
To Spend Much Of Time At
Headquarters In Raleigh.
The Boy Scout Court of Honor
held in the Methodist church in Mar
ion Friday night was attended by a
large crowd of Scouts.
The meeting opened with prayer
by Rev. Mr. Jenkins, followed with
the repeating of the Scout oath led
by R. M. Schiele, scout executive of j nor, was announced today by Mr.
the Piedmont Council, B.S.A. i Horton, effective immediately. He
After words of welcome and an- j will spend much time in the head
quarters office in Raleigh and also
will be active in organization work
over the state.
Appointment of Robert W. Proc
tor, of Marion, prominent attorney
and Democratic leader, as a member
of the headquarters staff of Lieuten
ant-Governor Wilkins P. Horton, of
Pittsboro in bis campaign for the
Democratic nomination for Gover-
nouncements, the following Scouts
were advanced in rank:
Tenderfoot Rank-^ Herbert Page,
Sanford Yates and Rinaldo Pascal
of Troop 1, Valdese; Howard Bar-
lowe, Troop 1, Rutherford College;
John Lee Tate, Troop 1, Marion, and
Ralph H. Alexander, Jr., Evander M.
Britt, Jr., and Pete Gibbs, of Troop
6, Marion; Va-nce Holland, Troop 1,
Morganton; Eli Costner, James
Kyles, Rassie Peterson, Melvin Ellis
and Carroll Davis, Troop 3. Morgan-
itoh; Manly Denton, Robert Shuford,
i Henry Denton and Morris Cope,
Troop 6, Morganton.
Tenderfoot — Irving McNeely,
Dermont Berry, James Abee, Paul
Roland and Vernon Williams of
Troop 6, Morganton; Max Calloway,
Allie Steppe, Wm. D. Burnette and
o 4. J T»/r 1 A rnu I Edgar L. Burnette, of Troop 1, Old
Great and Marvelous Are Thy „
T T A. w J A J ■ aIk n-Mav « A H I *
Second Class — Walter Church,
j Troop 1, Valdese; Shelton Cart-
M’Dowell G.O.P.
Favors Pritchard
In State Primary
Asheville Man Endorsed At
County Convention; Attacks
Roosevelt Administration.
George M. Pritchard, of Asheville,
was endorsed for the Republican
nomination for Governor of North
Carolina by the McDowell County
' Republican convention in session last
; Saturday aftemoon at the court
j house here.
i Dr. Dean H. Crawford, Marion
— ; dentist, was re-elected chairman of
DIRECTORS ELECTED AT jthe McDowell County Republican ex-
FEDERATION MEET HERE [ ecutive committee, and Mrs. Fred G.
i Washburn was named co-chairman.
W. S. Burgin, of Old Fort, and J.; W. H. Hawkins, Marion real estate
ROBERT W. PROCTOR
Lieutenant-Governor Horton and \ H. Greenlee, of Marion, were nom-1 man, was named vice-chairman]
Judge Daniel L. Bell, his stete cam-jinated as directors of the Farmers j Sebastian was chosen secre-
paign manager, dedared themselves! Federation at the annual meeting of j convention and Mrs.
highly pleased with Bob Proctor s, McDowell county stockholders inthejp^^j., jjall Queen, assistant secreta-
acceptance of this very important j cooperative’s Marion warehouse Sat-! g ^ Parker hosiery manufac
appointment,” a position like those lu^day afternoon. About 160 farmers | ' treasurer of the
of Senator W^illiam B. Rodman, Jr.. I from all sections of the county at-i
Lord God; chorus andj
W^orks,
(Juartet,
Mixed Quartet, Mrs. Carl McMur
ray, Mrs. Charles Harris,
Parker and Bernard Hirsch.
Nelson
wright, Harold Whisnant, Billy Cros-
of Washington, N. C., and Senator
James A. Bell of Charlotte.
Mr. Proctor, a son of the late E.
K. Proctor, Jr., and Elizabeth Dick
Proctor, has been practicing law in
Marion since 1926. In the primaries
of 1936, he was one of the principal
supporters of Governor Clyde R.
Hoey. For some years, he has been
Democratic chairman in McDowell
county. He was a law partner of
former Democratic State Chairman
Wallace Winborne up to the time of
the appointment of the latter as an
associate justice of the North Caro
lina Supreme Court. For some time
county committee. Acting chairman
tended, heard music by the feder-i^j convention was C. F.
ation's string band and brief address-1 manufacturer, of
es by James G. K. McClure, president; jyjarion
of the farm cooperative, and S. C. I .
Clapp, head of its seed department. ! endorsed as one of
the ex
the delegates to the National Repub
lican convention from the 11th con-
Mr. McClure pointed to
pansion of the Farmers’ Federation! . , ^
this year with the establishment name of Mr.
warehouses in Bryson City in Febru-! ^ prominent Republican lead-
ary in February and in Burnsvitte]^ Dr. Crawford,
on March 4. The federation did aj ® coun y c airman.
$1,077,991.58 business in 1939 and] Former Congressman Pritchard,
showed a net profit of $17,754.00, he | keynote speaker of the convention,
said. This profit enabled the direc-1 f^sailed the record of the Democrat-
tors to declare a three per cent pat-! party in local as well as state and
ronage dividend. A business of $58,-’^^^*®*'^^ affairs. He condemned the
„ , . . -.f. D t. 1 v .lowe of Troop 3, Morganton; Jeter iPless Winborne and Pless.
ema e quar e , ® ® ^ | J. Harris, C. Allen Grady, Rondell In Masonry and Kiwanis activities
Baird. Christopher Lingerfelt. A. P. j Mr. Proctor is prominent. He is a
and Margaret Gilkey.
jLii^erfelt, Jack Powell, A. S. M.,
- Und Bobby K. Hagatiir^robp^, Mor-
TWO SCHOOLS SHARE IN iganton; Dean Justice and Bobby
COUNTY CONTEST AWARDS j Morris, Troop 1, Old Port; Henry
! Stauffer and Emory Wilson, Troop
Winners in the annual grammar|i, Marion; Walter Reel, Troop 3.
grades recitation-declamation con-1 Marion; B. H. Laughridge and
tests for McDowell county were an-[Murray Craven, Tjroop 6, Marion;
nounced this week with entries from jw. R. Williams, Billy Lewis and Da-
the Old Fort and Pleasant Gardens I vid Spainhour, Troop 1, Oak Hill
schools sharing honors. The meeting! School.
was held in the Glenwood highj (Continued on page 6)
school auditorium last Friday night, j
In the recitation contests judges
and
persons traveled over the parkway I declared a tie between Gladys Walk-
last summer, he said, and that num-jer of Old Fort and Alice Houck of
ber is expected to increase ten times i Pleasant Gardens. Miss Walker pre-j
this summer, many of them coming | sented “Ferdinand the Bull
through this section. jMiss Houck’s recitation was
Others speaking in favor of the “Wednesday Madness.”
development of the property were C.
F. James, J. Q. Gilkey, Zeno Martin,
J. F. Snipes, W. W. Neal, Sr., W. J.
Cartier, and Eugene* Ci'oss, Jr.
by, John Weaver, and Claude Bar-1 he was a member of the law firm of 1188. 99 was done by the Marion®f the absentee ballot in politics
warehouse last vear, he said. ; declared that the law permitting
Stating that the federation hatch-jits use should bfe wiped off the statute
ery was the only one east of the Mis-1 books.
sissippi Rowing four or more differ-j Attacking the Roosevelt adminis-
ent breeds of chickens that had a U.' tration, Mr. Pritchard stated that the
S. certified grading, he urged that' president wanted to be the head of a
McDowell farmers expand their poul-1 one-man government. The actions of
try business. i Roosevelt and James Farley have all
Mr. Burgin was nominated to sue-; been planned to build up their po-
ceed himself for a two-year term as, litical prestige, he said, and the New
a director and J. H. Greenlee was! Deal has been a “miserable failure."
nominated to fill put the unexpired; jje was introduced by J.Lee Lav-
term of the late W. H. Greenlee. Di-'ender of Old Fort,
rectors are ■ nominated at county j Resolutions, assertii^ the belief
meetings of stockholders and come i of the Republican organization in
up for election at the annual meet-,the Constitution, were presented by
ing of the entire organization. Nom-1 the resolutions committee composed
ination is tantamount to election. j of G. F. Washburn, William C.
A McDowell county advisory com- chambers, J. Lee Lavender, and C.
mittee was elected as follows: W. S. ^ McCall.
Burgrin, W. Hfi Greenlee, Charles W. Tijg resolutions condemned politi-
Davis, North Cove; J. H. Morris, ;cal racketeering, the exploitation of
i Glenwood; James McCall, Marion;i the spoils system, the taking away of
member of Marion’s First Baptist
church, in which he has taught the
Baraca class several years, and he is
a past commander of the Marion
American Legion.
Mr. Proctor is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina and re
ceived his high school education in
Lumbei-ton. His mother was a grrand-
daughter of Superior Court Judge
John M. Dick and a niece of State
Supreme Court Justice Robert P.
Dick.
! DRIVE FOR FUNDS FOR
SCOUTS TO BE MADE j^^^eS CHOSEN DELEGATE
! TO NATIONAL CONVENTION
Civic clubs of Marion will take
titled in a drive to raise the sum of i Crawford F. James, Marion hosie-
j$800 or more for summer camp ex-iyy manufacturer, was elected a del-
penses for Boy Scouts, it was decid-! oo-att.
Winner in the declamation con-|P®"^®^ decid-; egate to the Republican national j ^ Can- {ocaFTightr from local' agencies,'the
ted
test was Montford Haire of thei"'^;''** convention in Philadelphia in Junej^^^^ Marion; Dr. E. P. Crawford, increasing tax burden and the pre
Pleasant Gardens school. He presen-1, Manon Kiwanis club|at the convention of the Republicans 1 g Landis, Dysartsville vailing system of tax collections and
piece titled “Unknown.” | last Tuesday night. ^ the eleventh Congressional dis-1 d. Holland, Marion. foreclosure procedure. Repeal of the
I of the
All three winners were presented : The need for funds for the Scouts trict. The convention was held in | McClure introduced Mr. and absentee ballot law was advocated
FORMFR MAPION RFSIDEiMT medals, the award for Mont- was explained by J. D. Laughhn, who; Brevard, Monday. | Mrs. E. W. Davis, who claimed the and the right of persons holding pub-
RETURNS TO WORK HERE i Haire being given by the Fin-1 stated that summer camp expenses, Mr. James was also elected a ^^ique record of having traded atijjc offices to intimidate and coerce
KtiiuKwa Robinson Motor Company] for each Scout amounted to about | member of the Republican state ex
Ti’ A o l Marfon. Presentations were madejfive dollars. In previous campaigns, j ecutive committee.
F. A. Sloan, a fo mei es dent j, ^ . . • . ^ hg said, smaller sums have beenj Mr. James was endorsed by Me-
Marion, has returned here to take a
position as druggist at Tainter’s
Pharmacy.
Mr. Sloan comes to Marion from
Miami, Florida, where he was lately
connected with one of the city’s
largest drug firms.
' He is a native of North Carolina.
His home is in Wadesboro, where he
received his early education. After
^aduation from the University of
jby N. F. Steppe, superintendent of
McDowell county schools, who spoke
briefly to the assembly.
Represented in the contest were
participants from Glenwood, Old
Fort, North Cove, Nebo, Pleasant
Gardens, Sugar Hill, and Dysarts-
ville.
' Judges were William Lonon, Mc
Dowell county solicitor, and Mrs. A.
P. Honeycutt and Miss Katherine
North Carolina he was employed in ^inn, both of the Marion high school
Tainter’s Drug Store in Marion for
some time.
Leaving Marion some ten years
ago he was connected with Bobbitt’s
Ph^macy in Winston-Salem as man
ager.
Mrs. Sloan is expected to come to
Marion to make her home in the near
future.
METHODIST CHURCH IS
TO OBSERVE HOLY WEEK
Holy Week w'ill be observed at
the First Methodist church in Marion
all next week with services to be con
ducted ev6ry night.
Rev. W. A. Jenkins, pastor of the
church, will be in charge of the ser
vices. The theme for the week will
be “What Is There in Religion?”
The observance of holy week will
begrin with Sunday services. Meet
ings will be held every night, March
17-24. Each is scheduled to start at
7:30 p.\m.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the services.
faculty.
BISHOP PURCELL GUEST
SPEAKER AT MEET HERE
Bishop Clare Purcell, of Charlotte,
was the guest speaker at a Method
ist district rally held in the First
Methodist church in Mai'ion yester
day afternoon and night.
At one o’clock yesterday after
noon a missionai’y institute was con
ducted. Bishop Purcell was principal
speaker -at the meeting. L. B. Aber-
nethy, director of the Golden Cross
in Elkin and conference secretary of
the Methodist Board of Missions^ al
so addressed the assembly.
At 7:30 the district rally for
young people was conducted with
Bishop Purcell being the principal
speaker. Also taking part in the pro
gram were Mrs. Connie Cope, direc
tor of young people’s work in this
district, and Miss Lillian Ross, of
Morganton.
Representatives of the seven coun
ties in the district attended the rally.
the Marion warehouse every Satur-• relief and other public workers was
day since it opened three years ago. i challenged.
Coffee and cakes were served at
meeting by 1
raised but funds had been found in-1 Dowell Republicans last week as a conclusion of the
sufficient to keep local troops in the j candidate to the national convention Grady Walker, wife of the man-' LAKE TAHOMA PURCHASE
same class as others of the council. I He has long been active in affairs ' — — —
Marion troops have been rather near j of the Republican party, ha\ing ser-
the bottom, he said. ved as chairman of the McDowell
Attending the Kiwanis meeting county executive committee for some
were representatives of all civic
clubs in Marion. At a dii-ectors meet
ing held after the banquet, March 21
was s^t as the date for the drive
for funds for the Scouts and all
clubs were asked to appoint six mem
bers from their organizations to take
part in the work.
Chairman of the drive for funds
is S. J. Westmoreland.
Walter J. Cartier, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce and gueSt
speaker at the inieeting, addressed Ki-
wanians and guests on the value of
scouting. Contributions to the scouts
are not donations, he said, they are
investments in good citizenship. He
stressed the value of scouting in
making boys familiar with nature, in
taking them off the streets, and in
building character.
Paying for juvenile courts is short
sighted business when crime among
boys can be prevented by Scouting,
he said. Around Marion 1,200 boys
are available to Scout influence and
an $800 investment in these youths J
will be repaid many times, he said.
Six representatives from each civ
ic club in Marion will meet at the
Westmoreland Funeral Home Wed
nesday night, March 20, to work out
details of the drive for funds.
time and having entered the race for
Congress in this district in 1932.
Attending the convention from
Marion were: C. F. James, Dr. Dean
Crawford, county chairman, E. W.
Parker, E. P. Crawford, W\ R. Cham
bers, W. H. Hawkins, Claude For
tune, R. A. Poe, Mr. Black, and T.
L, Klutz.
FIRE RUINS FURNITURE
IN LOCAL DWELLING
Fire broke out in the house of
Paul Simmons on Railroad street in
Marion last Thursday afternoon and
destroyed much furniture in the
building before it was extinguished.
According to Mr. Simmons, the
blaze is thought to have started from
a small coal stove in a back bedroom.
Practically all the furniture in the
room was destroyed and a hole was
burned in the ceiling. Furniture in
other parts of the house was dama
ged by fire and water.
The blaze was discovered about
5 o’clock Thursday afternooon and
was extinguished by the local fire
department before much damage
was done to the house. The house
belonged to H. F. Little, of Spartan
burg, South Carolina.
ager of the Marion warehouse.
TO BE PLANNED FRIDAY
HIGH SCHOOL CONTESTS 1 developments in the re-
TO BE held at nebo announced plan to purchaM
■the Lake Tahoma property from the
be
The annual recitation-declamation
contests for the high schools in Mc
Dowell county will be held in the Ne
bo high school building on Monday
night, March 18, at 7:30 o’clock.
Participants in the contests will
be representatives of the various
high schools in the county who have
won in elimination contests that have
already been conducted in the differ
ent schools.
In the county contests Monday,
awards of gold medals will be made
i Kistler estate are expected to
I made tomorrow night when a dele
gation from Marion will meet with
Chamber of Commerce members and
interested persons from Morganton,
Hickory, and Valdese, in Morganton.
A conference, at which plans for
the Friday meeting were made, was
held in Morganton, Tuesday. Attend
ing the Tuesday meeting were a del
egation from Marion composed of
Walter J. Cartier, Eugene Cross. Jr.,
and J. F. Snipes, and members of the
Morganton Chamber of Commerce
to individual winners. The Grayson, ,
, J , i J X and other interested persons.
Neal medal will be presented to the * w t
. , i. J i.1. ! According to Walter J. Cartier,
winner in the boys contests and the , „ .
_ ^ , J- • ■ 11 u secretary of the Marion Chamber oi
finalist in the girls’ division will be
awarded the Robert Smith medal
To the school having the winning
representative in ^he reading contest
a silver loving cup will be awarded.
According to the rules of the contest,
the school winning the cup for two
successive years is allowed to keep it
permanently. Pleasant Gardens was
awarded a silver cup last year for
having won two years in succession.
A new cup, to be given for one year
to the winning school entry in Mon
day’s contest, is now on display in
the office of N. F. Steppe, superin
tendent of McDowell county schools.
Commerce, it is hoped that commit
ments on the stock proposition for
the purchase of the Lake Tahoma
property will be obtained at the Fri
day night meeting, most of the men
planning to attend the meeting hav
ing expressed their intention to put
the plan in operation.
NEW POSTMASTER
The Post Office department has
announced the appointment of Clyde
W. Rayburn as postmaster at
Nealsville. succeeding Lee A. Ray-
buiTi. retired.