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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 1«96 MARION, N. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1940 VOL. XLV—NO. 16 YOiriH CONFESSES TO PART IN HGHT FATAL TO BURGiN Jones Charged With Assault Resulting In Death; Proba ble Cause Found In Court. A confession that he struck the blow which killed Raymond (Sandy) Burgin, Marion man whose lifeless body was found In a box car at Ashe ville last Thursday, was signed here last Saturday night by Charlie Wil liam Jones, 19, of West Marion. Jones was given a preliminary hearing in county court here Tues day. Probable cause was found and he was bound over to the January term of Superior court on a charge of assault resulting in death. He will be held in the county jail here with out bond. In the statement signed by Jones he declared that he and Burgin had a dispute over bootleg liquor. The argument led to the blow which knocked Burgin down, causing his bead to strike the box car floor with such force that it fractured his skull. The altercation between Jones and Burgin was said to have taken place in a box car sidetracked near the Marion depot on the afternoon of election day last week. The two men, with Raymond Bledsoe and oth ers, had gone into the car to take drinks of “popskull” liquor. After Burgin had been struck down, Jones said he and another man picked him up, saw blood M’DOWELL DAIRY PLANT INCORPORATED BY STATE The McDowell Cooperative Dairy, to be established near Marion by dairymen of this county, was in corporated by the state of North Carolina for 50 years on October 26 with capital stock of $75,000, ac cording to information received here this week. A board of directors to serve the first term, or until their successors have l#en chosen, has been elected. The board consists of Zeno Martin, J. R. Jimeson, W. C. Mclver, Frank Goforth, S. M. Curtis, E. S. Frisbee, Jr., and J. H. Greenlee. One thousand shares of preferred stock at $50 par value and 1,000 shares of common stock at $25 par value may be issued «nder the in corporation rules. Common stock holders must be producers of agri cultural products, each such holder having only one vote at meetings of stock holders. Preferred stock hold ers will have no voting rights. The cooperative will have seven directors, six to be elected from the members and the seventh to be ap pointed for one year by the North Carolina Commissioner of Agricul ture. The cooperative will be a milk and dairy product plant, established mainly for the pasteurization of milk. The date when construction of the plant will begin has not been announced. BENEFIT CHECKS ARE GIVEN OUT IN COUNTY A total of $4,226 was distributed through the McDowell welfare office in benefit payments for the month dripping from his j of October, according to an an- head, then dropped the wounded man nouncement made here this week, and fled. Payments amounting to $3,179 Burgin’s body lay in the box car'were distributed to 324 persons in bere for some time and several wit- \ McDowell as old age assistance. A nesses have told of seeing him in the, total of 108 children, representing ^ ^ car, but their suspicion was not 55 families,received aid to dependent; facilities for schools, he said aroused because they thought he was EDUCATION SEEN AS FOUNDATION OF OUR DEFENSE Phillips Points to Schools’ Part In American Program; Says Improvements Needed. “Education is the bed rock foun dation of the defense of democracy in America today,” stated Guy B. Phillips, professor of education at the University of North Carolina, in an address at McDowell county’s Schoolmasteis’ “Public Relations” banquet here Monday night. Teach ers have better opportunities than any other individuals to mold the fu ture of this country by training youth, he said, in appealing to lay men to support teachers and take up the banner of education. Mr. Phillips was introduced by N. F. Steppe, superintendent of Mc Dowell county schools, to approxi mately 225 teachers, principals, oth er school officials, and individuals in terested in education, who attended the banquet. Education in North Carolina is shifting its goal to provide for the 85 out of 100 high school students who do not go to college, said Mr. Phillips. But the state is still far be hind in education. While Washington officials are thinking of providing 14- year secondary education for youth, officials in this state are considering 12-grade schc^Is. The place for lay-^ men in this education for defense progi'am is in supporting teachers who are working for longer school terms, better and less crowded bus transportation for children, better pay and adequate retirement provis ions for teachers and better physical ty amounted month. to $147 HAVE BOOK WEEK passing freight last Wednesday and carried to Asheville where the body was discovered. Investigation of the case A 1)|A]J CPITAAl C started here last Thursday by Sheriff i JflAltlUil UvIlUULiJ Grady Nichols, his deputies, and po- j lice Chief Lee Erwin yrhen they had l^ean notified of the discovery of the "body. The officers had heard of a re ported fight in the railroad yard on the afternoon of election day and and began their investigations on the theory that the fight was connected with the death of Burgin. Last Fri day, S. T. McGaughey, railway po liceman of Asheville, was called into the case. Considerable evidence in the case w»s uncovered last week-end when Bledsoe, 26-year-old East Marion resident, told his version of the fight between Burgin and Jones. Confronted by the evidence of Bledsoe and other witnesses, Jones children checks amounting to $900. Reporting on his investigations of achacHila in ilM sUte, while, secretary diiring the Of the Nortii Carolina State School I Board Association, Mr. Phillips said (he found that federal funds for edu- I cation in the state could not be se- aUBS OF COUNTY CONDUCT ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT DAY State Home Demonstration Agent Guest Speaker On Program Presented Here. McDowell county home demonstra tion clubs held their annual achieve ment day here last Friday with ap proximately 90 members from the 14 clubs in the county present. The group was addressed by Miss Ruth Current, state home demonstration agent. Pointing to the continual growth of demonstration club activity in North Carolina, Miss Current stated that at present 88 counties in the state are oi-ganized for club work. Demonstration club women now have their greatest opportunity to serve and they can aid in the de fense program by helping to build the health and social welfare of the nation. She outlined the aims of demonstration clubs to be: home im provement, the building of friend ship and cooperation, the expansion of health work, and the betterment of social and economic welfare of rural families. The meeting was under the direc tion of Mrs. J. H. L. Miller, president of demonstration clubs in McDowell. The devotion was by Mrs. Greenway. Mrs. Miller gave a report on the year’s work of demonstration clubs in McDowell. Reports on the prepa rations of foods were given by the following: Mrs. W. M. Tisdale, eggs; Mrs. Griswold, meats; Mrs. E. B. Wright, vegetables; Mrs. D. V. Elliott, fruits; Mrs. Crawford, milk PLANS NEAR COMPLETION FOR CHRISTMAS PROGRAM Final plans for Marion’s Christmas sales program are being made here by members of the merchants divis ion of the Chamber of Commerce, announced Secretary Walter J. Car tier, this week. Arrangements have been made for using additional dec orative lights on the streets this year, he said, and a canopy of lights will be used on the square at the court house corner. Decorative lights will be strung on one block each of East and West Court streets, leading from the square, and will be placed on North Main approximately a block above the square. Hemlock rope will be draped over posts in the business dis trict. The Christmas sales program will officially open November 21 with a Santa Claus parade on Marion’s Main street. The committee planning the parade is under the supervision of Ralph Tate. It is expected that decorated cars and other vehicles will be used in the parade and Santa Claus will be conducted to the square in front of the court house where he will distribute gifts to children. All Marion stores are expected to be completely stocked with Christmas goods when the program opens on the 21st. All decorations will be up by that time and the Christmas pro gram will continue here through De cember 25. General chairman of the sales pro- WELFARE BOARDS OF DISTRICT WILL HAVE MEET HERE Chairman Of State Board To Be Speaker At All-Day Ses sion Here Tuesday. Col. William A. Blair of Winston- Salem, chairman of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare for 36 years, will be the luncheon speaker at the Marion meeting of county welfare board members, su perintendents, staff members and county officials from the 19 counties of the western district when they gather here for their annual confer ence next Tuesday, November 19. The conference theme for 1940 is “The Community and Public Wel fare”. James A. Glover, Nash coun ty welfare head, will bring his mes sage as president of the State Asso ciation of County Welfare Superin tendents at the morning session op ening at 10:00 o’clock. Mrs. W. T. Bost, State Welfare commissioner, will talk on “The Pub lic Welfare Program and its Rela tionship to Other Programs in the Community.” Nathan H. Yelton, di rector of the division of public as sistance will discuss community co- gram is J; A. Wier. Members of the 1 operation with administration of the Junior Woman’s club will assist in {public assistance program. Miss Les- arranging the financial part of the sie Toler, social work consultant for the public assistance •division, will talk on public welfare services to the community. Dr. James Watson, director of the mental hygiene division, will preside McDowell county’s commissioners ‘ ™ BOARD APPROVES TWO ROAD WORK REQUESTS approved two requests for road im- giene Services in the Community", provements in the county here lastl^f^ Dr. Frank T de Vyver of Duke and cheese; Mrs. W. B. Gibbs, bever- Thursday. Petitioners living along University. will another forum ages; and Miss Maude Silver, cereals,the routes presented the requests. the merit system Each displayed a prepared food il- A^rds and prizes were presented as follows: Perfect attendance for one year, The board voted to ask the State!'" North Carolina. Dr. d« Vyrer i. Highway and Public Works Colmnis-i** flrrtem snpe^r for tl» Sion* to hard^rfac. about one-half; ™htirted for all mile of Yancey road from the Flem-I^*® “2 worker.. in«r Avenue intersection where the' President of the western district Mrs. G. A. Gregg, Mrs. Evelyn Wil^ concrete now ends. The petitioners’| is Mrs. G. W. Kirkpat- cured because school facilities hereij.^^^ Mrs G B Marlowe Mrs., request for the improvement for i nek, McDowell county welfare sn are not .adequate. The state ranks Bright, Miss Lottie Wilson, 1 public use of a road leading from | Perintendent; Miss Ina Tyler, Polk third in the Union in the training of | teachers and 42nd in teacher sal- Miss Cumile Biddix, Mrs. F. S. Brad- jsher, Mrs. E. G. Dysart, Mrs. L. L. lariea, he said. TOere are not enough j;a„'McKoy,’ Mrs.’ O. Highway 70 south, located near the Clear Creek road, was granted. EXBiBTs i;-i::!Fntsr of draft I should be changed to meet existing, I/IUll I QUESTIONNAIRES Relief Map Prepared By Stu dents On Display With Oth er Works Of Pupils. A complete summary of industrial, agricultural, social and historical highlights of the present day, on the North and South American contin ents has been made available to the needs. mer Ledbetter, Mrs. Marion Wilker- son, Mrs. W. M. Tisdale, Mrs. Mary The duty of schools should be tojporter, Mrs. J. H. Barnes, Mrs. C. teach youth to assume responsibili-1 a. Morris, Mrs. Fred Morris, Miss ties with its rights in a free society, | Elizabeth Poteat. he said. The school should be a com-; Evading certificates: Mrs. J. C. rounity center and should seek theL,^^^^- g b. Wright, Mrs. Ed- proper moral development of youth, j not forgetting the economic back-1 |na Brinkley, Mrs. Avery Washburn, MAILEDBYBOARD county, is secretary. Counties included in the district are: Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cher okee, Clay, Cleveland, Graham, Hay wood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon> Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey. OFFICIAL RETURNS GIVE DEMOCRATS BIG LEAD of the nation, state and jMrs. Roscoe Hoppes, Mrs. G. W. Wilson. ground county. _, . , , , ,, Five-year attendance: Mrs. Don Educahon needs the support of all ^ j LDie Uie school officials and the public in L,, tj T7;«;f;‘:::7~hpre'last P^^ic here tWs week in connection defend democracy,!^' Nan^ey. broke down and confessed here lastj^^j^ observance of Book Week,U_ will fn.l Perfect attendance since club or- 11 e* J* Official election returns for Mc- Thirty McDowell Men, Signed; For Voluntary Induction, Receive Eight-Page Forms. Saturday night to officers after they had worked day and night to clear up the case. Funeral services for Burgin were held at his home in West Marion Sun day afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. Dr. Carl W. McMurray, pastor of the First Presbyterian church here offici ated. Burial was in Oak Grove ceme tery. The deceased was a descendant of the well known Carson and Burgin faniiiies.in this p^ of .Jthe state, but he had no close kinsmen living here at the time of his death other than his wife and two daughters. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cora Davis Burgin; William Burgin, a son of Brooklyn, New York; and Juanita and Mary Burgin, his daugh ters. M’INTOSH IS HONORED BY MEDICAL SOCIETY with the observance of Hook Week, through education will the fu-| ^ertect attendance since ciuD or-^ process of “classification and November 13 through.19. A hup re-1 country be determined, I Mrs. j McDowell county reg- lief map has been placed on display concluded. '^s^ale, Mrs. L. L. Tate, Mrs., military training was in the Comn^unity building here by banauet were intro-1®' Biddix, Miss formally begun here Tuesday when the students of schools of the Marion aATVjrTl«; a . I Cumile Biddix, Mrs. F. S. Bradsher. duced by S. A. McDuffie, president: „ , . . , , !of the Schoolmasters’ club of Me- For completing required home im- Dowell. Brief talks were made by! two-year period: Hugh P. Beam, superintendent of R. V. Horton, Miss Maud^^^^^ Marion city schools; Dr. J. B. John- Dr. D. M. McIntosh, Jr., of Marion, was elected secretary-treasurer of the Tenth District Medical Society at the organization’s fall meeting in Hendersonville Wednesday night of last week. The meeting was attended by Dr. McIntosh, Dr. D. M. McIntosh Sr., Dr. J. F. Jonas and Dr. Paul Mc- Bee, all of Marion. Officers of the society were elected Wednesday morning. Papers were read at the afternoon session and a banquet clo^edjthfv-ineeting Wednes day night. Dr. A. B. Greenwood, of Asheville, was elected president of the society. The map was drawn by Lynn'Har ris, landscape architect for the Na tional Park Service, and different parts of it have been prepared for the display by tbe various schools in the- city unit. Illustrations of in- dustx-ial, agricultural, social and his torical significance on all parts of the t';sro continents outlined by the map have been prepared from articles of every description. There are moun tains made from a mixture of shred ded newspaper, salt, flour and water; orchards made of sticks and clay; factories made of cardboard and many other landmarks made of di vers materials. The huge relief map covers a large I>ar|; of the floor of the banquet hall of the- Community building. Around the walls are displayed notebooks about life and conditions of the North and South American contin ents. Numerous posters, drawing and books are featured in the dis play, all emphasizing the importance of books. The Book Week program is under the direction of Miss Marguerite Mjorris, librarian at the Marion high school. “Good Books Are Good Friends.” is the theme around which Book Week is being conducted, she said* Students have been making studies about people in neighboring countries to have a better under standing of their neighbors, that they week gave Roosevelt 3,074 majority over Willkie with Democratic candi dates for other offices receiving more than double the votes of their Re publican opponents. The highest McDowell vote for any candidate was received by J. C. Rabb, candidate for the state House, fifty questionnaires were mailed by Official totals for McDowell vot- the county draft board to registered; state, county and national order 1 ^andidates are as follows: President—Roosevelt 5,290; Will son, chairman of the McDowell Board of Education; Senator-elect L. J. P. Cutlar, and representative J. C. Rabb. Miss- Louise Poteat presw,t€«dt vocal selection, accompanied by, son Parker and Bernard Hirsch gav^ a saxaphone solo, accompanied by Miss Julia Burton. LODGE MEETS FRIDAY The regrular communication of Mystic Tie Lodge No. 237 A. F. and A. M. will be held at the lodge hall here Friday night at 7:30 o’clock. Each member is requested to be pres ent as business of great importance will*be discussed. ver, Mrs. J. E. Hick&, Mrs. Ernest Dysart, Mrs. W. B. Gibbs, Mrs. A. L. Fletcher, Mrs. L. B. Willis, Mrs. D. V. Elliott, Mrs. J. H. Revis, Mrs. W. M. Mclver. The 14 home demonstration clubs itt McDowell are located at Sugar Hill, W^e Pine, Bethlehem, Dy- sartsville. West Marion, Nebo, Cher ry Springs, Pleasant Gardens, Ebe- nezer, Glenwood, Chapel Hill, North Cove, Turkey Cove, and Greenlee. A report on the work of each club was presented at the Friday meeting here. According to Miss Jean Steele, county home demonstration agent, the 14 clubs in the county now have might be better friends, she stated. The display at the Community building will be judged this week by Mayor Zeno Martin, Will Erwin and Mrs. Jack James. During Book Week high school girls are going to each elementary school to tell stories to the yoonger pupils. The public has been invited to vis it the display at the Community building and to join with the stu dents in the observance of Book Week. men in the county holding numbers one through 50. j The first questionnaires were sent|^^® 2,216. out to some 30 young men in Mc-| Governor- Dowell who have signed at the local Neill, 2,114 draft board office for voluntary in duction. These 30 men, if accepted, will be the first to go to military training camps frpm McDowell coun ty. The quota for the county has been set at 122. This number will be gin training some time between now and June, 1941. The 30 men who have signed for voluntary induction and others who have gone into ser vice since the registration will be counted against this county’s quota. Among the men signing recently for voluntary induction are S. B. -Broughton 5,325; Mc- » -Weaver 5,248; Jar- 5,- Congressman- rett 2,110. Lieutenant-Governor — Harris 242; Leavitt 2,097. Secretary of State— Eure 5,252; Ferree 2,109. Auditor — Pou 5,249; Van Hoy 2,082. Treasurer—Johnson 5,243; Gragg 2,088. Superintendent of Public Instruc tion—Erwin 5,271; Pace 2,090. Attomey-Gteneral— McMullan 5,- 242; Browning 2,090. Commissioner of Agriculture— McFalls, William Norman Harris, ^ a total membership of 303 and the Robert Woody, William' |InTranc Laughridge,, Floyd James Banks,! Commissioner of Insuranc Isaac. Brittain Martin, Sam Frank- ey 5,259; Phelps 2,076. lin Fairchild, Leon Louis Lawson and Calvin David Thomas. Questionnaires will be sent out formation of four new clubs is be ing considered. SCOUTS CLEAR RUNWAY AT MARION AIRPORT Marion Boy Scouts, under direction of Rev. W. A. Jenkins and Walter J. Cartier, cleared undergrowth from around the runway at the Marion airport last Saturday. The landing field was enlarged considerably by the work of the Scouts and was made safer for planes, according to Mr. Cartier. -Bon- Commissioner of Labor—Shuford 5,251; Russell 2,072. SCate Senate—Cutlar 5,300; M*- from the local draft office to regis-!*^®"^’ 5,152. „ .. c trants until enough eligible men to! Stote Representotive — Rabb 6,- fill the quota have been found. Fifty pOlJ Haynes 2,075. of the eight-page forms are being | Regrister of ee ®y » sent out each day. An advisory com- 295; Poe 2,090. mittee to assist registrants in filling out the questionnaires has been ap pointed in Marion and other groups for other parts of the county will be (Continued on last page) County Surveyor — Allanach 5,» 206. County Commissioners—Caplan 5,169, Workman 5,191, Morris 5,- 185; Banning 2,143, Ix>non 2,127^ Nesbitt, 2,151.
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