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McDowell County’s Leading Newspaper MARION PROGRESS Adrertisinf in the Progress Pays A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEEESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1896 MARION, N. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1940 f VOL, XLV—NO. 5 ALL M’DOWELL SCHOOLS LAUNCH OPENING TODAY List Of Principals And Teach ers For 1940-41 Term Re leased By Supt. Steppe. Mcl)owell county schools opened today with enrollments expected to be larger than last year. Registration is being held at the different schools today and students and teachers are arranging classes for regular school work. According to County Superinten dent N. F. Steppe, some difficulty may be experienced by children in meeting school buses because of the flood damaged roads, but in general transportation conditions are in good order. Teachers in county schools held their first meeting of the year at the Pleasant Gardens school. They were addressed by Superintendent Steppe, who spoke on the school program for the year. Officers of the McDowell unit of the North Carolina Education Asso elation were elected with Thomas W. Stacy of the Nebo School being chos en president, and Mrs. Gladys W. Eanipe of the Old Fort school, vice- president. Following the general meeting, teachers of the different departments FACULTIES OF SCHOOLS OF MARION ANNOUNCED of the school met. Mr. Stanley Liv-.Mrs. Margaret B. Purser, Miss An The complete teaching staffs of Marion city schools were announced this week by Superintendent Hugh F. Beam, as preparations were being made for the opening of the schools on September 12. The first meeting of city teachers will be held in the high school build ing on September 11 at 10 a. m. The complete teaching staffs for the city schools are as follows: Marion High School: Howard C. Holland, Principal, Mathematics; Mrs. Kate Allmond, English and History; E. E. Davis, Science; Ar thur H. Ditt, History and Athletics; Miss Onyce Hewell, French and Lat in; Bernard Hirsch, Band and Glee Club; Mrs. Flora S. Homewood, Home Economics; Mrs. Ruth Ball Honeycutt, Mathematics; Miss Alba Padgatt, English; Miss Dorothy‘Mor rell, Science and English; Miss Alice Moretz, Civics; Miss Eleanor Russ, English and French; Miss Marguerite Morris, Librarian; Miss Lyda Turby- fill. Mathematics; William D. Tuttle, Conunercial. Marion Elementary School: Mrs. Mary Finley, Miss Bonnie Burgin, Miss Fannie Lou Sauls, Mrs. Ethel C. Giles, Miss Janie Tucker, Mrs. Effie G. Morris, Miss Mae Ross, Mrs. Alma Crawford, Miss Annie Lattle, Mrs. Pauline M. Neal. Clinchfield Elementary School: Miss Ruth Greenlee, principal; Miss Nina Greenlee, Miss Rebekah Lowe Miss Mamie Goforth, Miss Elizabeth Wylie, Miss Bonnie Padgett, Miss ^Louise Wilkie, Miss Hazel Browne, ingston, principal of Nebo school, was elected chairman of the high school department, which chose health and education for its topic for the year. The department will hold one meeting at each of the five coun ty schools during the year. The teaching staffs for the various Bchools in the county for the coming year are as follows: Pleasant Gardens school—W. A. Young, principal; Carroll D. Miller, Mrs. Theodora R. Johnson, Miss Car oline Gray, Mrs. Nell W. Young, Mrs. Minnie C. Hinshaw, W. J. Wat ers, Mrs. Mabel M. Haire, Miss Edna M. Henderson, Miss Zelma Atwell, Mrs. Mary H. Hendrix, Miss Geneva Link, Mrs. Carl S. Gibson, Mrs. Sal- lie P. Willis, Miss Elsie H. House Miss Lula Hicks, Miss Ola Wall. Old Fort school—S. A. McDuffie, principal; E. W. S. Cobb, Harry Swofford, Miss Louise Frazier, W. J. Gotten, Miss Hazel C. Herring, Mrs. Lucile Clark Gray, Glenn Tolliver, Mrs. Margaret K. Greenlee, Mrs. Gladys W. Kanipe, Mrs. Margaret L. Harris, Mrs. Emily H. Bradley, Miss Florence Hughes, Miss Margaret Wilson, Miss Laura Hicks, Miss Mar- /jorie M. Hinsdale, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Gibbs,'Miss Esther Beam, Miss Char- line Hemphill, Miss Mary G. Burgin, Mrs. Beulah C. Nichols, Miss Della Williams, Miss Mary K. Wise. North Cove school—B. C. Wilson, principal; J. M. Tyler, Miss Ruebelle Anderson, W. C. Twiddy, Mrs. Kath leen J. McMahan, Mrs. Ethel B. Waters, Mrs. Gay M. Grant, Miss Locky Hennessee, Miss Stella Tate, Mrs. Grace M. Steppe, Mrs. Laura H. Brown, Miss Harriet Wilson.. Nebo school— Stanley Livingston, principal; Miss Rose L. Stacy, Miss Dorothy Rhlnehardt, Ralph A. Aber- nethy, Ralph H. Beam, Thomas W. Stacy, Miss Gaynelle Butt, Miss Lot tie H. Wilson, Mrs. Georgia S. Corp- ening. Miss Maggie S. Taylor, Mrs. Mabel G. Hemphill. Glenwood school—C. L. Norwood, principal; A. L. Eggers, Miss Marie Fitzgerald, Miss Hazel Bolick, Mrs. Thelma Poteat King, Miss Mary Frances Harrlll, Mrs. Lola A. Lon- on, Mrs. Faye L. Wells, Miss Lillie Pyatt, Miss Ruth Gibson, Miss Iris Landis, Mrs. Lois E. Shaw, Miss Evelyn Tanner, Miss Barbara Wag ner. Dysartsville school — George T. Greenway, principal; Miss Inez Daves, Miss Jennie Lee Laughridge, Miss Glossie Pyatt. Sugar Hill school — Richard A. Shaw, principal; Miss Lucille Hol land, Mrs. Foy Tate Hensley. Old Fort colored school — Oliver W. Fleming, Mjniile G. Hemphill Mary B. Muldrow, Fannie H. Rhufin Bridgewater colored school—Rose C. Greenlee.. DysaritdvUle colored school—Bes sie C. Woodland, Vein Mountain colored school— Giry F. Peade. nie Spratt, Mrs. J. B. Laughlln, Mrs. Lona G. Laughridge, Mrs. Augusta Morris. East Marion Elementary School: Miss Mamie Stacy, principal; Miss Elsie Stacy, Miss Sara Browne, Mrs. Sara Margaret Giles, Miss Louise Poteat, Miss Wilma Snoddy, Mrs. Lula S. McCurry, Mrs. W. A. Mc- Call, Miss. Millie Kanipe, Miss I^u- Eugene Cross Elementary School Mrs. Garland Williams, principal Miss Clara Freeman, Miss Hattie Taylor, Mrs, Blanche Holland, Miss Gladys Smith, Mrs. Johnnie E. Hitchcock, Miss Margaret Patton. West Marlon Elementary School: Miss Pauline Tipton, principal; Miss ! Freda Cuthbertson, Miss Emily Blan ton, Miss Lace McLean, Mrs. James Morgan, Miss Elizabeth Conley. Colored School Hudgins High and Elementary School; F. M. Beaver, principal; Mrs. VICTIM OF AUTO ACCDENTDIES; THREE INJURED Warrant Charging Murder is Sworn Out Against Roy Cline, Driver Of Car. Mrs. Eula Wallace, of Charlotte, was fatally injured and three others were injured seriously when their car hit a bridge abutment on U. S. Highway .No. 70 about three miles west of Old, Fort about midnight last Saturday. Mrs. Wallace died shortly after reaching the hospital here, where she was rushed for treatment. Sheriff Grady Nichols, who inves tigated the accident, quoted Roy Cline of Marion as saying he was trying to pass another car when his auto hit the bridge abutment. The auto was badly damaged. Miss Emma Taylor, sister of Mrs. Wallace, is in Marion General Hos pital with a severe scalp wound and Roy Cline of Marlon also is in the hospital with a dlsolcated hip and cuts about the head. Easley Cline, brother of Roy, suf fered a crushed left arm. He was taken to Asheville Sunday for treat ment by a bone specialist. The four had been on a visit to Buncombe county and were return ing to Marion at the time of the accident. Mrs. Wallace, formerly of Marion, was the wife of Roland Wallace, a Charlotte mill worker. CONVENTION OF SINGERS TO BE HED IN MARION Semi-Annual Meeting To Be gin Here Saturday Night; Radio Broadcast Scheduled. The McDowell county semi-annual singing convention will begin here Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock in the high school auditorium and will con tinue through Sunday afternoon. The convention is expected to at tract the largest crowd in its history, according to A. H. Mitchem, presi dent of the organization. A half- hour broadcast over Radio Station WWNC of Asheville direct from the school auditorium will be held Sun day afternoon from 1:30 to 2:00 o’clock. Musicians from western and cen tral North Carolina, Kentucky, Ten- nesseee and South Carolina are scheduled to appear on the program. Highlights of the convention will include the Stamps-Baxter quartette from Asheville, religious music; the Melody Boys from Hickory, spirit uals; a Cherokee Indian quartet from Jackson county, to sing' in their native dialect and in the white man’s tongue; and the Rangers from Charlotte, new and popular songs. Soloists and group singers, led by professionals, are also expected to be present and Mayor Zeno Martin of Marion will be invited to deliver an address of welcome. The convention is being held in NEW ATTORNEY—E. P. Dame- ron of Greensboro who will be as sociated with Robert W. Proctor here after September 1st. GREENSBORO LAWYER COMES TO MARION; TO BE WITH R. W. PROCTOR E. P. (Sandy) Dameron, popular young Greensboro attorney and civic leader, who has been connected with the law firm of Smith, Wharton and Hudgins in Greensboro for the past six years, has resigned his position there to become associated with Robert W. Proctor, prominent law yer of Marion. He expects to assume his new duties here September 1st. Mr. Dameron has beeti outstand ing in Greensboro’s civic and social life during his residence there, being Two funefal services were held ■ the high school because the court | a former president of the American for Mrs. Wallace. A short service was held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Taylor of Clinch field at 11 a. m. Tuesday and' a lon ger service at Montford’s Cove Bap tist church at 1 p. m. Tuesday.. Bur- 4iai wa& in. 4;he churefa cemetery;. Survivors in addition to the par ents, the injured sister and the hus band are two small children, Robert and Ronald Wallace; five brothers, Reid, Harrison, Itews and Calvin Taylor of Clinchfield, and William Taylor of Panama Canal Zone; and two sisters, Mrs. Marlon Fox and Miss Annie Taylor of Marion. Wamiii.t Issued. A murder warrant was issued Tuesday against Roy Cline, driver of the car in which Mrs. Wallace was killed. He is still in the Marion Gen eral hospital and Sheriff Grady Nich- Bernice Holly Crisp, Kermit Martin,. B. G. Corpening, Margaret Green-®aid he may not serve the war house was found too small this spring | Business club and at present secreta- to care for the crowds. Loudspeak- ry of the Barrister’s club. He is also ers will be placed outside the school building to carry music to those who cannot get inside. NEW € OF € MEMBERS IN COUNTY ANNOUNCED A total of 29 new members have joined the McDowell county Cham ber of Commerce since the annual drive of the organization was begrun during the first part of August, ac cording to an announcement made this week by Secretary Walter J. Cartier. Most of the new members are firms and business concerns in and near Marion, said Mr. Cartier, the drive not having yet been worked thoroughly in other sections of the county. MIXED TERM OF COURT CONVENES HERE NEXT WEEK Murder Case Set For Term Be ginning On Monday; Judge Bobbitt To Preside. lyn. P. Brown. Glades Elementary School: Louise Bynum. Sara lee, Mrs. Hazel Barber, Mrs. Prank- ^line for another day or-j a goal of 325 memberships has two. j been set for the drive. Last year the The warrant charges that Roy | total membership of the Chamber of Cline “did with malicious afore- Commerce was 128. This month the thought” kill Mrs. Eula Wallace |0].gQ]^}2ation became the McDowell "with a deadly weapon, to wit, an'county Chamber of Commerce and automobile.” residents of all parts of the county were made eligible for membership. VALENTINE IS NAMED {in some cases firms are taking out chairman of Greensboro Children’s clinic. He is a member of the Episcopal church and last year was married to Miss Nancy Gordon, daughter of the Episcopal rector at Leaksville. Mr. Dameron secured his A. B. and LL. B. degrees at the University of North Carolina where he was a stellar athlete, being at one time all- southern basketball center. He held the southern record for discus- throwing and coached freshman ath letics while in law school at Chapel Hill. He was a member of Sigma Nu social fraternity and the Golden Fleece, membership to the latter be ing the highest student honor on the campus. Mr. Dameron is a native of Clin ton, Sampson county. Charles T. Williams, of Grassy Creek is scheduled to be tried here next week in the McDowell Superior court for murder, a charge resulting from an automobile wreck near Mar ion on July 7 in which Charles Mc Kinney, of Little Switzerland, was killed. The September two - weeks criminal-civil term of Superior court convenes here Monday with Judgre William H. Bobbitt, of Charlotte, presiding. Soon after the automobile acci dent Williams was released from the county jail under $1,500 bond. He was said to have been driving the car in which McKinney was killed. Lloyd Henry, charged with assault with a deadly weapon with Intent to kill, is scheduled to be tried. Henry is charged with assaulting Sheriff Grady Nichols and Deputies W. O. Gibbs and Jim Roland with a shot gun in Marion township on June 22. Three other assault with intent to kill cases have been scheduled for trial next week. They are: State vs. Ed Suttles, charged with assaulting Bill Bryant with a shotgun, result ing in serious injury; State vs. Ed ward Hoyle, charged with assaulting Clarence Burgin with a knife, inflict ing serious body injury; and State vs. Frank Womlck, charged with as saulting Boyd Turner with a knife, inflicting serious body injury. The civil calendar contains nine teen cases set for trial at this term, five of which are scheduled for Thursday, September &th. WORK IS STARTED ON LOCAL FAIR GROUNDS Preparation of the recently pur chased fair grounds, just off Ruther ford Road at the foot of Mt. Ida, was begun this week for the annual horse and cattle show to be held Oc tober 4. A motor grader was yester day used at the grounds to level ground for a track on which horses will be paraded during the show. The fair grounds site was recent- lypurchased by 12 men who put up approximately $2,750 and are now selling stock in the association at $20 per share to civic-minded per sons who wish to help sponsor the project. The grounds are known as the old Kanipe property and there are about 75 acres in the tract purchased by the association. Members of the association plan to develop the property as a fair grounds site where an annual agri cultural and industrial exposition will be held. No development of the property, except the preparation of the horse track, has been planned for this year. Plans for the horse and cattle show are under the direction of S. J. Westmoreland, who is supervising the work at the fair grounds. Other members of the cotnmittee arranging the show for the Marion Kiwanis club sponsor of the event, are S. L. Homewood, J. C. Rabb, J. R. Jinve- son, W. C. Mclver and Frank Go forth. DISTRICT BAR HEAD George H. Valentine of Hender sonville was elected president of the 18th District Bar Association at a meeting at Hendersonville last Sat urday. Other officers elected are; Frank Huskins, of Burnsville, vice president; Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., re elected secretary-treasurer; and the executive committeemen; Arthur B. Shepard, Henderson county, Fred Washburn, McDowell, Charles C. Gold, Rutherford, Lewis F. Hamlin, Transylvania, J. T. Arledge, Polk, and W. E. Anglin, of Yancey. Brief addresses by Judge J. Will Pless, of Marion, and Dover R. Fouts of Burnsville, councilor o(f the dis trict group, were heard. The Marion bar was represented at the meeting by Judge J. Will Pless and R. W. Proctor. OPERATIONS AT FURNITURE PLANT TO BE CONTINUED California has discovered that it can produce most of the plants which yield essential oils for perfumes, dru^, and flavorings. The McDowell Furniture company of Marion, which has been operating for some time under receivership management, will continue to oper ate under this plan until disposition of the receivership. Judge E. Yates Webb of Shelby, who has been conducting a civil term of U. S. district court in Asheville Tuesday authorized the continued operation of tiie plant which em ploys about 250 workmen. Papers in the case are on file in the Statesville office of the court. SCHOOL PROJECT GETS APPROVAL OF PRESIDENT RELIEF NEEDS IN NORTH COVE AREA NOT ACUTE several member^ips for their em ployees this year, stated Mr. Cartier, The drive will end on Satuprday, August 31. Before that time all parts of the county will be covered New Marion members of the Chamber are: Home Security Life Insurance Co., Finley-Robinson Mo tor Co., Cecil B. Dobson, Drexel Furniture Co., Hotel James, Pleasant Gardens Cottages, Marion Steam Laundry, Forest Service, Saunders and Blalock Barber Shop, Wolfe Ra dio Service, Joe L. Noyes, City Bar ber Shop, Lake City Farms, Marion knitting Mills and Anthony’s Cash Store. N«W Old Fort members are: Old Fort Telephone Co., Mt. Mitch ell Oil Co., Point Lookout, Harris’ Market, Bradley Drug Co., Old Fort Branch of Bank of Black Mountain, Hughes’ Cash Store, Old Fort Tour ist Camp, Red Star Service Station, Arrowhead Tea Room, Old Fort Inn. Members from other towns are: Wildacres Hotel of Little Switzer land, Biltmore Dairy Farms of Hick ory, and Broadway Motors of Clinch field Station. DIXON-POTEAT REUNION TO BE HELD SEPT. The annual Dixon-Poteat reunion will be held at the old Dixon home- place on the road between Vein Mountain and Dysartsville, Sunday, September 1. An interesting program has been arranged for the day, in cluding talks and good singing. All relatives and friends are invited to attend and bring lunch. Presidential approval was given to Marion’s $100,000 WPA project, for repairing the Marion high school and for the construction of a class room and gymnasium building, last Saturday and work on the buildings is expected to start soon. Hugh F. Beam, superintendent of city schools, was notified by Repre sentative Zeb Weaver Saturday that the project had been approved by President Roosevelt. This was the final step necessary before construc tion could begin. Architect Lindsey Gudger of Asheville, who will supervise the project, was in Marion yesterday listing the specifications of materi als and arranging to have them de livered to the high school grounds as soon as possible. The assignment of labor to the project, being handled through the Charlotte office of the WPA, is at present the only hold up in the con/- struction work. As soon as labor has been provided the actual work will begin. Plans of the WPA project call for the repairing of the west wing of the high school building that was dam aged by fire this spring. About eight classrooms and the library will be repaired and the library will be en larged. A new building on the school grounds will house approximately four classrooms, a music room and a gymnasium with a seating capacity of about 500. Relief needs in the North Cove section of McDowell county are re ported not to be very great at this time. Persons in actual need in the area are being supplied with surplus comnvodities, distributed through the county offices of the WPA. Miss Dell Bremmer, home service representative of the Red Cross, made an investigation of relief needs in that section last week and has re ported that food and farm supplies will be scarce in the area later on, as crops in several places were de stroyed by flood waters. Many residents of the North Cove section have been employed recentiy by the C. C. & 0. Railroad in repair ing flood damaged sections of road bed. Several workers have been em ployed at the Marion Good Hosiery mill repairing damages caused there by flood waters. Applications for relief for resi dents of the North Cove section are being handled by Miss Mary Yancey, case worker of the county welfare office. Roads into the North Cove area are now passable, but workmen are still employed in replacing many sec tions of the roadway that were car ried away by the flood. PUBLIC SHOULD REQUIRE PERMITS OF SALESMEN BANKS TO OBSERVE MONDAY AS HOUDAY The First National Bank and the Marion Industrial Bank will be closed all day next Monday, Sept. 2, in observance of Labor Day. Marion residents were this week warned by Chamber of Commerce Secretary Walter Cartier to inves tigate the permits of house-to-house salesmen. Canvassers have victimized several local persons this summer, he said. According to Mr. Cartier, a great number of canvassers have worked Marlon recently. Some of these have been crippled salesmen who used their physical handicap with a hard- luck story to sell their goods. Many of them have been employed for this reason. Several Marionites have made down payments to these salesmen for goods and have not received their purchases, said Mr. Cartier. As a protection to consumers Marion peo ple are urged to require salesmen to present permits issued by the town of'Marion. Applications for permits will be examined by the town and the Chamber of Commerce.