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McDowell County’s Leading Newspaper MARION PROGRESS Advertising in the Progress Pays A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1896 MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1940 VOL. XLV—NO. 1 R. J. NOYES NEW PRESIDENT OF CHAMBER BODY Cartier Is Re>Elected As Sec retary; Annual Meeting On Next Monday Evening. R. J. Noyes, of Marion, has been elected president of the Marion Chamber of Commerce, it was an nounced this week. Serving with him as officers of the organization will be Dean Tainter, first vice-president;, , - . , , • ^ ■nr o ou-fl 4. J • 4. round of singles play in the tourna- W. S. Shiflet, second vice-president;! ^ . T XT 1 T J Tir 1 ment. —u- J_ J. E. Neal, Jr., treasurer; and Wal- MORGAN WINS FRANCIS MARION TOURNAMENT AS HAWKINS SHARES HONOR Alford Morgan, Marion attorney, walked away with honors in the an nual Francis Marion tennis tourna ment here this week, defeating Bar rage Beam of Cherryville, in straight sets to take the singles title and pair ing with Dula Hawkins to defeat S. R. Cross and Eugene Cross, Jr., in straight sets to win the doubles ti tle. Turning the tables on Beam, who last year won the singles title by de feating him in the finals, Morgan sailed through three fast sets in the title match here Sunday afternoon, downing Beam 7-5, 6-3, 6-4. Morgan drew a bye in the first In successive matches he de feated B. Moore, Gene Carrigan and Albert Neal to enter the finals against Beam. J rr. Beam likewise drew a bye in the Mr. Noyes succeeds Vernon T. - ^ round of play and then defeated ter J. Cartier, secretary. The officers were elected at a Chamber of Com merce meeting held Monday morning Eckerd as president. Other officers were re-elected, with the exception of Mr.v Shiflet, who becomes the first second vice-president. The announcement of the board of directors of the different depart ments of the Chamber of Commerce were made this week. The depart ment heads were elected by the bal loting of the entire membership. The directors and the departments they head are as follows: A. S. Bradford, Zeno Martin and W. S. Shiflet, directors at large; J. G. Beaman, Eugene Cross, Jr., and J. S. Livingston, Louis Williams and Dula Hawkins, successively, to enter the finals. Morgan demonstrated his superi ority throughout the finals match by well placed shots and forehand smashes. In the doubles finals the Morgan- Hawkins team downed the Cross- Cross combination 6-1, 6-2, 7-5. Hawkins, a semi-finalist in the singles matches, paired with Morgan to pre sent a team that was superior in all departments of the game. The team of Cross-Cross had pre- SHOWERS BREAK HEAT WAVE IN M’DOWELLCOUNH Residents Relieved After 10- Day Period With Thermom eter In High Nineties. McDowell residents breathed a sigh of relief Monday night as show ers broke a ten-day hot spell during which temperatures ranged in the high nineties. Older residents called the heat wave the longest continued hot spell exp«rienced in this section in many years. The heat wave reached its peak in Marion last Saturday when the high temperature of 98 degrees was officially recorded. Wednesday and Thursday of last week highs of 95 degrees were recorded. Friday of last week heat increased, as the high for the day went to 96 degrees. Offi cial recordings reached their peak Saturday with 98 degrees and fell slightly Sunday to 97. Monday’s reading was 95 degrees. Monday night’s showers broke the spell, as the high reading for Tues day fell to 85 degrees. Continued showers Tuesday kept the thermome ter in the eighties and gave the county fts coolest night in some time, its coolest night in some time. During the 10-day period, heat CLUB BUILDING INCHAPEHILL SECTION IN USE Home Demonstration Women Pay For NYA Construction Of Community Center. A new home demonstration club house has recently been completed in the Chapel Hill community of Mc Dowell county and is now being used by residents of the community for educational and recreational purpo ses, announced Miss Jean Steele, county home demonstration agent, this week. The community center was built through the efforts of Mrs.‘ R. H. Al exander, of Marion, NYA supervisor for this district. The building was constructed by NYA labor on land given to the Chapel Hill club by C. F. James, of Marion. J. H. Barnes was employed by the NYA to super vise the construction. The club house is an attractive one-room structure, said Miss Steele. The one-story building was construc ted of logs and the available floor space in the interior is about 25 by 35 feet. Finishing touches have been added to the building and the grounds around it have been leveled and planted in grass and shrubbery. Money for the construction of the and £. A. Beaman, agricultural and rural; R. L. Conley, R. B. Smith and J. F. Snipes, transportation; and V. T. Eckerd, Dean Tainter and Cato Holler, merchants and credit. Chair men of the boards have not been ele.cted. Following the election of officer^ here Monday morning members of the Chamber voted to make the or ganization more representative of all business and commercial inter ests in the county. The name of the local organization will officially be changed to the McDowell County Chamber of Commerce on August 5. Meanwhile, a membership drive has been begun with new members be ing enrolled from all parts of the county. A meeting of the membership committee, composed of Mayor Zeno Martin, W. S. Shiflet, and Dean Tain ter, was held Tuesday and plans for the membership drive were made. The drive was begun yesterday. In keeping with the plan to make the Chamber of Conunerce more representative of county interests, a delegation from Marion will tonight meet with a group of business and professional men of Old Fort in Old Fort. The aims and accomplishments of the Chamber of Commerce will be discussed and plans for a drive for members in Old Fort will be made. The annual membership meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held here August 5. Guest speaker at the banquet-meeting will be L. P. Dickie, manager of the Southeastern Division of the United States Cham ber of Commerce. New officers will be installed and new members of the Chamber will be welcomed into the organization. The Chamber will of ficially become the McDowell Coun ty Chamber of Commerce. The Duke Power Company is now carrying on work on two rural pow er lines in McDowell county, an nounced J. A. Wier, manager of the Marion branch of the Company, this week. Work on the right of way for a line into Noi^h Cove section is now being done. The Woodlawn, Sevier and Ashford communities will be served by the line and some 101 home owners in that part of the county have signified their inten tion to use the service of the Duke Power Company. According to Mr. Wier, company! linemen are expected to complete a| power line in the Bridgewater sec-; rr I North Carolina was 108 de«-ees I residents of the Chapel Hill commu- ^he ; the team of Morgan-Hawkins was! ^ ^ u J *5^nitv UDon annroval bv the homei^'"® miles in length and presented two silver cups for win-! Lum^rton, Goldsboro, Fayetteville ^ j Meetings of approximately 28 families or custom- ning the doubles matches |“d have «pen.n.ed ^Mons^^t.onjtab.^ Connection i, to bnilding, which is fast becoming thej*>« ^he Marion power lines center of activity in the community.) A rural power extension in the E. Neal, Jr., convention and publici-1 viously defeated Neal and Neal, ty; Barron Caldwell, Dr. B. A. Dick-[Parks and Livingston, and Hudgins son and R. W. Proctor, civic and I and Rabb to go into the finals. The public affairs; S. L. Copeland, R. J. Morgan-Hawkins combination had• „ - Noyes and S. R. Cross, industrial; wins over Moore and Gosorn, and|I^ i b«n t^sored br^e Ctapel Hm S- L. Homewood, W. R. Chambers, Beam and Westmoreland, having] degrees, Raleigh 104, and Hen-i nf onn * T. . , J .1 ^ derson renorted 105 decrees, the ^o help defray the costs of con- records fell throughout the state, i been furnished by the home New highs in temperature were re- d^^'O’^stration club members of the corded in many North Carolina towns co»i™unity. Social events and vari drawn a bye in the first round. Morgan was presented a gold cup I derson reported 105 degrees, the, I highest in the state. Records of the | u » eutu ^ ^ ! At the present time the facilities by the Francis Marion club for his ' oureau snow tnat tne ^ victory in the singles matches and ®®* temperature ever recorded in|>^ *he club house are open to any FEDERATION TO HOLD PICNIC IN M’DOWELLCOUNH McClure And Others To Speak At Celebration To Be Held In Old Fort Wednesday. FEDERATION SPEAKER— Jas. G. K. McClure, above, president of the Farmers Federation, will be one of the speakers at the annual Mc Dowell county farmers picnic at Old j Fort next Wednesday. WORK BEING DONE ON TWO RURAL POWER LINES IN M*DOWELL COUNTY FRIENDSHIP. TOPIC OF M*FALL IN SPEECH HEREj Other highs reported Saturday show 100 degrees for Cincinnati, Friendship between men is a rela tionship that cannot be surpassed in life, stated Dr. Walter T. McFall, of Asheville, at the regular weekly meeting of the Marion Kiwanis club Tuesday night. Dr. McFall was guest speaker at the meeting and gave an address on “Friendship." He defined a friend as the individ ual who shares the joys and sorrows of his fellow man and that friend ship is mutual, being of value both ito the giver and the receiver. Dr. McFall was introduced to the club by Dr. B. A. Dickson, program chairman for the month. W. W. Neal, Jr., program chair man for the month of August, has arranged to have Dr. McFall speak to the club members and their wives on the ladies night program that has been planned for some night in Au gust.. }l01 for Richmond, 100 for Washing The annual Farmers Federation picnic for McDowell county will be held at the high school in Old Fort next Wednesday, August 7, with an interesting program arranged for the entertainment of all attending. Jas. G. K. McClure, president of the Far mers Federation, S. C. Clapp, head of the Federation Feed Department, and other well known persons are expected to be present and will give short talks during the day. The program for the day will open at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning with solo and duet singing and string music. Musicians from all over Mc Dowell county are invited to per form, it was said. The Farmers Fed eration string band will also put on several special acts. Prior to lunch, Mr. McClure, Mr. Clapp, Rev. Dumont Clark, leader of the Lord’s Acre movement, S. L. Homewood, county farm agrent, and Grady Walker, manager of the Fed eration’s Marion warehouse, will speak to the group. At noon, free lemonade and water melons will be supplied by the Fed eration. All persons attending are asked to bring box lunches. Immediately following lunch, re lay races will be held for boys from six to twelve, for gfirls from six to twelve, for young men and young ladies from twelve to eighteen, and for men and women over 21. These will be followed by a tug-of-war be tween two teams of seven men, witii I eachr team to be chosen from the Residents of the community aided I Glenwood section was completed by in many ways in the construction of j the Company last week. The new line ton, and 98 foTSew YoA. ’'"MVami *he club house and the beautification.serves some six families or c^tom- of the grounds, said Miss Steele, but and is about a mile in length, most of the credit for the construc tion of the building goes to Mrs. R. H. Alexander, through whose efforts the work was made an NYA project. was comfortable at 93, Key West at 92, and San Francisco at 67 de grees. APPLICATION OF ROTARY TEACHINGS URGED HEREj There would be no war in the world today if people in the past had KERNS IS SPEAKER AT I MEETING OF FIREMEN Mr. Ed Kerns, assistant chief of OLD FORT MAN LOSES LIFE IN CATAWBA RIVER McDowell county’s second drown ing of the week occurred last Thurs day afternoon when George Walker, 37, of Old Fort, lost his life in the waters of Catawba River about 5 o’ TEN M’DOWELL YOUTHS ARE ACCEPTED BY CCC FURNITURE COMPANY TO BUILD NEW STORE HERE The Smith Furniture Company, of Marion, has purchased the house and lot of Miss Julia Burton on North Main street and plans to erect a furniture store on the site, it was announced this week. The lot is located next door to the Western Union office on Main street. It is understood that the house will be tom down. Plans for the building have not been made and it is not known when work will begin. Ten McDowell boys were accepted by the CCC last week and sent out from the Asheville offices to differ ent camps, Mrs. G. W. Kirkpatrick, county welfare officer, announced this week. The boys were given physical ex- aininations in Asheville last week. The CCC camps to which they were sent have not been announced. The ten McDowell youths accepted by the CCC are Robert Drake, Jr., Cecil Elmer Allison, James Allison, Samuel Herbert Burnett, William Harold Woody, James Asbury Car ver, Elmer Lawrence Going, Lazell Barber Oates, Hugh Alfred Lee and Harvey Moore. TO HOLD REUNION Rutherfordton, July 28.—A reun ion of the students and teachers of the foriper R(^und Hill academy, of Union Mills, will be held in the au ditorium of Alexander Schools, Inc., Union Mills, on Sunday, August 25. SHERIFF AND OFFICERS ATTEND CONVENTIONS Sheriff Grady Nichols, of Marion, attended the two-day session of the North Carolina Sheriff’s association convention in Hickory on Monday and Tuesday of this week and joined several local officers at the conven tion of the Association of Law En forcement Officers of North and South Carolina in Asheville yester day. Marion officers attending the Ashe ville convention yesterday applied the teaching of Rotary to, ^he Morganton fire department, was | dock in the afternoon. Last Wednes- ? I stated, guest speaker at a meeting of thei^ay at noon, twelve-year-old Lucille r.i. di^nct governor. Marion fire department here last j Hill, of East Marion, was drowned of the 180th Rotary district of which | night. He spoke on firejjjj Lake James. tte local clubjs a part^at the week- pr„e„tion and the educational pro-| Catawba gran, the Morganton department | - Burke county schools According to Sheriff Grady - _ M 1 ' Nichols, who investigated the drown- Mr Kerns explained m detail how j ^ the Mor^nton firemen had aided the Mountain, had gone : Marion department in extinguishing | ly meeting of the Marion organiza tion here last Friday. Mr. Timberlake urged local Rota- rians to devote themselves to club, community and international service. In promoting club service he urged members of Rotary to become thor oughly acquainted and friendly with their fellowmen, to attend all Rotary meetings and to serve the club in any way possible. Rotarians should constantly strive to make better citzens of themselves and people about them in promoting the good of the community, he said. In discussing international service he stressed the need for building world fellowship in a time when war is being pursued in many parts of the globe. The advancement of Ro tary’s ideal of fellowship would have prevented war and will lead to peace, he said. Following his talk, Mr. Timberlake met briefly with officers of the local Rotary club to discuss plans and pol ices of Rotary. Guests at the meeting were Mr. Timberlake and his son, Lloyd, of Columbia, S. C., and Mr. John Leake Pastorfield, of New Haven, Conn. conducts in each year. LOVELACE TAKES JOB WITH LOCAL CONCERN J. T. Lovelace, a former resident of Marion, has recently accepted a position as salesman' with the J. F. Snipes Motor Company and will make his home here.. Mr. Lovelace comes to Marion from Asheville. He was formerly employed here ri^eTwalker7ot‘‘in water‘over his head and was not able to reach the the local high school building this spring. Other guests from Morganton at the local dinner meeting were Fire Chief Lane, Mr. Kincaid and Mr. Ward, all members of the Morgan ton fire department. , Mr. Hugh Beam and Joe Tate, both of Marion, spoke briefly to the assembled firemen. Toastmaster at the dinner meeting was Walker Blan ton, of Marion. REV. DAVID PEEPLES TO CONDUCT SERVICES AT ST. JOHN’S SUNDAY Rev. David N. Peeples, of Savan nah, Ga., will arrive here this week to become rector of St. John’s Epis copal church. He will conduct his first service here next Sunday, with celebration of the Holy Communion at 8 and 11 a. m. Church School and Bible Class at 9:45 a. m. and Young Peoples Service League at 7 p. m. In observance of the Feast of the Transfiguration, there will be a cel ebration of the Holy Communion neit Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock. TO ATTEND CONVENTION A delegation of four members of the Marion fire department will at tend the annual North Carolina Fire- by the Cut Rate Drug Storie and men,> Convention in Salisbury, Au- made his residence here for several .years. He is a native of Shelby, were I Mr. Lovelace and his family have Chief R. S. Clay, Gordon C. Page i taken the James apartntent on West and Ralph Penland. Court street. bank, some six feet away. Turner was quoted as saying he was unable to pull Walker from the river. According to Sheriff Nichols, the cries of Turner brought people living nearby to the scene of the drowning, but they arrived too late to save Walker. The body was recovered from the river by divers about an hour after Walker went down. Arti ficial respiration was applied for sev eral hours, but no results were ob tained. Funeral services were conducted for Walker at 11 o’clock last Satur day morning at Salem Baptist church with Rev. R. E. Ward officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Laney Walker; seven small children; his mother, Mrs. Florence Walker; three sisters, Mrs. Effie Jackson, Mra. Annie Marlowe, Mrs. Margie Epley; and two brothers, Walter and Mack Walker, all of Old Fort and vicinity. ! crowd. { One of the big features of the af- I temoon program will be the singing i convention. Choirs and quartets from I various parts of the county will par- I ticipate. Winning choirs will receive a complete new set of song books I and the runner-up choir will get 24 I choir books. Cash prizes will go to I the first and second place quartets. I The picnic program will close In jthe afternoon with the contests for ithe baldest man, largest family, the j shortest married couple, longest mar ried couple, longest beard and larg- I est truckload attending the picnic. Max M. Roberts, head of the Fed- ' eration’s educational department, I will be in charge of the picnic. It is ithe 12th in a series of 15 Federa- i tion picnics which are being held all lover Western North Carolina during jthe months of July and August. The j gatherings will culminate in a big I district picnic at the Mountain Ex- i periment Station in Swannanoa on I Wednesday, August 14th. There the winning choirs and quartets from each of the county picnics will vie for the singing championship of the entire Federation area. NEW REVENUE STAMP gust 26, it was announced this week. The Marion delegation will con sist of Chief C. E. Bolick, J. Fred Morgan, Johnny Sullivan and Leon-j new schedule is to be effective for a ard Suttles. [five-year period. LAW NOW IN EFFECT Register of Deeds R. V. McGimsey announces that the new revenue stamp law on deeds went into effect July 1, 1940, stamps on deeds up to $500 requiring 55 cents instead of 50 cents; and the rate increased from $1 to $1.10 on the $1,000. The FUND CONTRIBUTED TO ORPHANAGE CLASS HERE Approximately $75 was donated to^ the Oxford Orphanage Singing Class by residents of Marion on last Tuesday night when the cla^ pre sented a program in the local high school auditorium. The class, composed of 14 children from the Orphanage, appeared here under the sponsorship of the Masons. No admission was charged for the performance, the donation being a free will offering. The program for the evening con sisted of songs, recitations, pageants and patriotic drills. The group ap peared here on its annual concert tour that each year covers most of North Carolina. PICNIC OF KIWANIS CLUBS WILL BE HELD AUGUST 9TH The annual picnic of Kiwanis clubs in the western section of North and South Carolina will be held at I Camp Greystone, six miles south of j Hendersonville, Friday, August 9th. jDr. Jos. R. Sevier, camp owner and I past governor of the Carolinas Ki- iwanis district, and the Henderson- j ville club will be hosts. Twenty clubs, including the Marion club, will be [represented, it is announced.