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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY
ESTABLISHED 1896
MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1940
VOL. XLV—NO. 17
Christmas Sales Program
To Open Today With
Parade And Santa Claus
Marion Merchants Join In
Sponsoring Event To Usher
In Yule Season Here.
Santa Claus will make his first ap-
I>earance in Marion Thursday night,
November 21, at 7:00 o’clock when
he will be escorted through the town
by city and county officials. The
Christmas sales program, sponsored
by the merchants division of the
Chamber of Commerce, will officially
open with the Santa Claus parade.
Beginning at the Community
building the Santa Claus parade will
traverse Main, Garden, State, Hen
derson, Logan and. ,Court streets.
Santa will leave the para3e at the
court house steps, where he will dis
tribute gifts. Children will greet him
on the steps, proceed through the
building and come out on the south
entrance*
The parade will be led by the
Marion high school band, which will
be followed by the police and fire
departments, and city and county
officials. f
After greeting children here on
Thursday night Santa will leave Ma
rion and will not appear here again
until after Thanksgiving wken he
DAIRY PLANT PROJECT
TEMPORARILY HALTED
Final plans for the construction
of a plant for the McDowell Cooper
ative Dairy on Highway 70 between
Marion and the Clinchfield Mill vil
lage have been completed and work
on the project will be started as
soon as adequate sewage disposal
facilities have been provided, it was
announced here this week.
The town of Marion now has a
WPA project waiting approval
which will provide a separate sewage
disposal plant for the area in which
the proposed building site of the dai
ry plant is located. Approval of the
WPA project and the time required
for its completion determine the date
on which construction of the dairy
plant will be started.
The dairy plant, on completion,
will provide facilities for pasteuriz
ing and retailing milk. Approxi
mately $15,000 will be spent on the
I plant and equipment before opera
tion is begun.
The building will measure 50 by
60 feet and will be a one-story brick
structure. It will house a refrigera
tion plant, a pasteurization plant,
bottle cleaning equipment, office and
storage space.
The cooperative has been incorpo
rated by the state and authorized to
will visit local stores until Christmas
Elaborate plans for the ChrisEtmas issue up to $75,000 worth of capital
sales program are. being made here, stock. The financing of the local
Street decorations are being comple-• plant will be by local subscription to
ted and merchants are arranging stock and a loan from the Federal
their stores and putting their Christ-j Land Bank in Columbia, S. C.
mas stocks on display. j Tentative directors of the co-oper-
Strings of lights and hemlock j ative are: Mayor Zeno Martin, J. R.
rope have been hung on Main street Jimeson, W. C. Mclver, Frank Go
and workmen are preparing a canopy
of lights to decorate the square in
front of the court house. Lights will
be strung on parts of East and West
Court streets. West Henderson
street and North Main street, it is
expected.
Marion merchants voted last week
to keep their stores open on the
night of the
M’DOWELL MAN SHOT IN
FACE AFTER ARGUMENT
B. V. Lawing of the Glenwood
section of McDowell county was re
leased from the county jail here ear
ly this week under $1,000 bond for
appearance at a hearing November
26 in county court on a charge of
assault with intent to kill, resulting
in serious injury. Lawing is charged
with shooting Howard Robinson of
the Glenwood section in the face
with a shotgun last Saturday night.
According to Sheriff Grady Nich
ols, the two men were said to have
had an argument over a dog, fol
lowing a long period of ill will be
tween the two neighboring farmers.
When the two “fell out” Lawing
was said to have grabbed a shotgun
and fired at Robinson, several pel
lets from the gun lodging in the left
side of Robinson’s face.
The wounded man was taken to
the Marion General Hospital here
where his condition was that night
described as not critical. His condi
tion has been reported improving.
Lawing was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff W. C. Gibbs and placed in
the county jail here until bond was
arranged. The warrant for his ar
rest was sworn out by Robinson.
THREE-DAY COLD WAVE
STRIKES THIS SECTION
WORK ON LOCAL
PLAYGROUND IS
TO BEGIN SOON
Town WPA Project Is To Pro
vide Recreation Facilities
Of Many Kinds.
Work on a $24,362 WPA play
ground project for Marion will be
started on December 2, Mayor Zeno
Martin announced this week.
The recreation center is to be
constructed on the vacant lot just
northwest of the Community build
ing, and present plans are to have it
ready for use next spring.
Wading pools, tennis courts,
landscaping projects, picnic grounds
and attractive walks winding along
the hillside will be outstanding fea
tures of the playground, Mr. Martin
stated.
The WPA project with a federal
appropriation of $16,564 supplemen
ted by $7,808 put up by the town of
Marion as sponsor, also calls for the
construction of a sewage pumping
station that will enable a number of
houses to connect with the main city
disposal system.
Workmen who are now being em-
A three-day cold wave that held
temperatures below freezing through
out the south and brought snow to Played in cooperation with the WPA
several parts of Western North Car- street projects, which include the
construction of a number of retain
ing walls, will suspend activities on
those on November 28, the mayor
olina gave way to warmer weather
Monday of this week after an official
low of 18 degrees above zero had
been recorded in Marion.
The cold wave followed three
days of intermittent rain here last
week. Last Thursday the high tenv-
perature of the day was 47 degrees
and low was 39 degrees. The daily
low temperature dropped below
freezing Friday to 23 degrees and
went to the record low for the week
of 18 degrees >n Saturday. The high
readings last iWday and Satujniay
were 45 and 46, degrees, reispectJve-
forth S. M. Curtis,'E. S, Frisbee, Jr.,
and J. H. Greenlee.
In cooperation with S. L. Home
wood, county farm agent, Mayor jy *
Martin and other business men and j ^ of 19 degrees above zero was
McDowell dairymen have planned ! here Sunday but as the cold
the project to boost the dairy indus-|^^^g sections the
try in this section. | reading for the day rose to 64.
I j Monday^s reidir^ gave a high of 60
Santa Claus parade.| GIRLS ARE HURT WHEN " ’degrees and » of 24.
RAT CONTROL PROGRAM
TO BE HELD IN COUNTY
A four-day rat eradiction cam
paign will be conducted in Marion
and McDowell county November 27,
29 and 30 and December 2 by L. C.
Whitehead, district agent of the di
vision of predator and rodent con
trol, it was announced here this
week.
The rat control program will be
conducted here through the efforts
of S. L. Homewood. Rats and mice
every year cost McDowell residents
great sums of money, said Mr. Home
wood and there is a great need for
rodent control in the county.
Bait to be used during the rat
WELFARE GROUPS
OFTHISDISIIiia
HAVE MEET HERE
State Chairman Blair Is Speak*
er At Banquet Held in The
Community Building.
The Western District Welfare
Conference was concluded here on
Tuesday afternoon with representa-
tives of the 19 counties in the dis-
eradication campaign may be secur- trict attending a banquet at which
ed at the local office of the county
agent. McDowell county residents
wishing to secure the bait have been
requested to notify Mr. Homewood
or some one in the office not later
than Saturday afternoon, Novem
ber 23. There will be a small charge
for the bait to Ipover cost of prepara
tion.
The control progrram will not be
effective if it does not receive the
full cooperation of the residents of
McDowell, said Mr. Homewood, and
all property owners should take this
opportunity to free their homes,
mills, barns and other buildings of
rats and mice.
Mr. Whitehead has already been
pledged the support of Marion town
Col. W. A. Blair, chairman of the
State Board of Charities and Public
Welfare was the guest speaker.
Col. Blair made a direct appeal to
welfare workers to build themselves
as individuals that they might be
better fitted to contribute to the de
velopment of people who come un
der their care. America is one of the
few remaining lands in which people
enjoy freedom, he said, and its citi
zens should, by bettering themselves
contribute to its advancement. He
urged all welfare workers to us*
tact, politeness and consideration in
dealing with their clients.
The conference was attended by
approximately ^00 welfare workers,
county officials and their guests. The
officials and mill owners in carrying j banquet concluded a program that
out the control program. began here at 10:00 o’clock Tues-
The campaign will be conducted: day morning iji the First Bapitst
in Old Fort on December 2 and all i church.
residents of that section have been | Opening the morning session,
stated, so they will be kvailable for I cooperate fully to make | Mayor Zeno Martin gave the address
work on the recreation park. • rodents county- of welcome. The response was by
^ jwide. IE. E, Connor, superintendent of
■ I1UIV17R«ITV Rir m I Marion Kiwanis club voted!public welfare of Asheville.
CRE^E^N APPROPRIATIONS The annual message from the
CREASE IN appropriations, eradication andap-ig^,^ Association of County Super-
Ipointed Bill Shifiet as chairi^n of a Welfare was
Raleigh, Nov. 14.—A boost of al- finance committee to raise funds ^ Glover, of Nash
most 50 per cent in the appropria-; put the campaign across. The Ki-i president
tions for the Greater University of'wanis committee will assist in Provid- i^j^^
North Carolina was requested by 1 ing for the distribution of bait to ^
university ofUciiils today as the advi- iali imrts of the county
of the organiza-
sory budget comnu^on concluded-.!^
Chri^mlas goods will be on display
in all stores and early shoppers will
find Christmas values in all of them.
AUTOMOBILE OVERTURNS j During the ttiree-day cold period,
A discussion on “Mental Hyteiene
Services in the Community” was le4
by Dr. James Watson, director of
the Division of Mental Hjrgiene of
I the State Board of Charities
'aeries of hearings which will form the MARION HIGH ELEVEN
basis of the state’s spending pro- TO PLAY MORGANTON
gram for the next biennium. THERE FRIDAY NIGHT j p"
Dr. Frank P. Graham, president of. itroduced by Dr. G. S. Kirby of Mar-
the greater university told the budget I Needing a win over Marion to | jQ„
makers that the increased appropria-1 complete its season with no defeats j Nathan H. Yelton, director of
tions were necessary if North Caro ' ' ‘ ’ ■’ j---i
lina were to take its place as one
Nathan H. Yelton, director oi
ro- and no tied games, the Morganton |
of; high school eleven prepares to tangle' ^ Charities and Public Welfare, led
ennw -foil in narts of We.stem ' x'--r—-—- “■’iof Charities and Public Welfare, led
leading educational centers m with the local squad on the Morgan-^ discussion among county commis-
Margie Lewis and Mary Lou Lew-: Nortii Carolina, a light fall having
special stocks having been ordered ^ is, of Old Fort, suffered bruises and i been recorded at Linville Falls. Snow
^ larlion PAT* 111 > ^11 4*Via
for the sales prog^m.
The Santa Claus program is un
der the direction of Ralph Tate, who
is being assisted by Bill Shiflet, Hy-
mie Winner, and M. C. Wingate.
General chairman of the Christmas
Bales program is J. A. Wier. Walter
J. Cartier is assisting in all parts of
the program.
RURAL CARRIERS HAVE
HOLIDAY NOVEMBER 21
cuts Sunday night when the car in ifgU in Asheville during the period,
which they were riding overturned j xhe heaviest snow in this section ap-
about one-quarter mile east of Old j peared to be around Boone.
Fort on Highway 70.' The two girls j The cold wave extended through-
were brought to the Marion General i out the south into Florida, where con-
Hospital here, where their condition
was reported not serious. The acci
dent occurred about 8:30 o’clock.
Roy Lee Bailey of Old Fort, driv
er of the car^at the time that it ov
erturned, told Sheriff Grady Nichols
the car brakes locked as he was
about to turn from the highway and
caused the car to turn over. Bailey
suffered no injuries.
r
No delivery of mail by rural car
riers will be made from the local
T>ost office on Thursday, November
21, Postmaster Barron Caldwell an-^ MARION CLUB
nounced this week. The regular cityj HAS TWO NEW MEMBERS
carrier service will be in operation as
usual and windows at the post office Buster Miller and William Horace
will be open the usual hours, he said,! Neal were welcomed as new mem-
only the rural carriers observing thejbers of the Francis Marion club at
Thanksgiving Day set by President | its meeting here last Thursday night
Roosevelt. voted to contribute to
Mr. Caldwell said regular rural the Red Cross roll call which is be-
aervice will be afforded on Thurday, ing conducted here this week.
November 28, the Thanksgiving Day
set by Governor Hoey, but city car
rier service and window service
be suspended for the day.
RESULTS OF POULTRY
TESTS ARE ANNOUNCED
Records kept on three poultry
flocks in McDowell county for one
year show that the average clear
profit realized for each bird of the
flock was $1*;17, stated S.' L. Home-
wod, county farm agent,: this week.
According to Mr. Homewood the
average feeding cost for each bird
for the year was $1.96 and the aver
age return on each bird was $3.13.
During the year eggs sold at an av-
Albert Neal and Red Green were
appointed a committee of two to in
vestigate the possibility of having a
professional wrestling match in Mar
ion in the near future. The social
committee of the club was instructed
to make arrangements for Thanks
giving and Christmas dances to be
sponsored by the organization.
E. P. Dameron was a guest at the
meeting.
MYSTIC TIE LODGE WILL
HAVE MOTION |»ICTURE
The Mystic Tie Lodge A. F. and
A. M. will sponsor a motion picture
of Masonic activities of North Car
olina in the lodge hall this evening
at'^7:30 o’clock. T. J. Harkins, band
J. B. Laughlin of Marion will en
tertain principals and superinten
dents of McDowell city and county
^ schools at a dinner at the Clinchfield
erage of 26 cents a dozen, he said, j Asheville, will be present | Methodist church building tonight,
siderable damage to crops has been
reported in the northern sections.
NORTH COVE GIRL TO
“the whole world.” i ton field Friday night at 8:00 o’clock,
He asked that the appropriations; The game will close the season for; Community Coop-
for the three units of the greater: both teams. j gration ”
university be increased by $625,3841 Morganton, led by “Smoky” Mac-; ’
onrr • iaAi AO x j j-j i. ^ 4.1. n 4- A discussion on “Public Welfare
to $1,941,397, in 1941-42, and by Leonard, candidate for the all-state. ^ ^ i j
J697.196 in 1943. jhigh eleven, will enter the game Pri- ^ Commun.ty was led
I day in the role of the favorite. The|!>y consultant of
Propose* New Building Program
In addition Dr. Graham requested; Wildcats have defeated Hickory, For-
that a $ 3,351,652 building program, jest City, Shelby, Lenoir and Cherry-
probably financed by state bonds, be ville and need only to down Marion
!the Division of Public Assistance of
the State Board of Charities and
Public Welfare.
i undertaken at the units—N. C. State , to capture their second conference i ^
RECEIVE DRESS AWARD Raleigh, the Woman’s College in i championship in a row. Marion has' 1^*”. ^he Merit
I Greensboro, and the university in I been defeated by Forest City and |
Cherryville, the locals going down •
Recognition for clothing i Chapel Hill,
work in McDowell county has come. proposed building or perman-1 before Cherryville here last Friday j
with tile receipt by County Agent improvement, program calls for j 13 to 6.
Jean Steele of an award for paritci-$661,390 at the! Coach Art Ditt of Marion has seen i j- * t
pation in the 4-H dress revue. The,^j^j^,g college; $1,621,026 at the i all home games of the Morganton i j.
Presiding at the banquet program
was Robert W. Proctor, Marion at-
jtomey. Special guests and county
delegations were introduced by Mrs.
award is a silver medal bearing the
words “County Dress Revue,” a
graceful figure in a flowing costume
and the 4-H insignia in bold relie. It
is thumbnail size and worn with a
clasp.
The award will be presented
Marjorie Hoppes of North Cove at
the next 4-H club meeting at North
Cove school on December 6. Some 10
girls took part in the county revue.
The state will be represented .iA
the national revue at the time
the 19th National Club Congress in;
Chicago in December by a girl chos-"
en from county winners. The trip
and all other awards are given by the
Chicago Mail Order Company for the
twelfth season to develop the skills
and knowledge necessary to plan and
construct suitable costumes and
wear them becomingly.
SCHOOL OFFICIALS TO
DISCUSS SCOUT WORK
and each bird produced an average,meeting.
«>f 143 eggs. Records during the year; pi^.
were kept on 231 birds. . [ture has been shown here and will
jbe a most interesting entertainment
BANKS OBSERVE NOV. 28 for all citizens of the community as
Marion banks will observe Novem-iwell as members of the lodge,
ber 28 as Thanksgiving Day, it was’ Members of the lodge and their
announced here this week, and will | families are especially invited to at-
be open for business on Thursday, | tend and the show is open to the
November 21. ‘public. No admission will be charged.
November 20, at 7:00 o’clock. Boy
Scout work in McDowell will be dis
cussed.
Mr. Laughlin has long been active
in Boy Scout work in this section
and is now directing Scout activities
in this area,
Subscribe for tiie MarioB Progresi
—^the home town paper.
N. C. State, and $1,069,136 at the; Wildcats and occupies a position to
university.
Principal items are:
organizations of the State Board of
' rr T T n K r7 Charities and Public Welfare. Mrs.
I upset the dope-bucket by leadmg hisl^, Kirkpatrick, McDowell super-
•Marion club to victory.
Woman’s college—Laundry, repair! A news release from Morganton
lintendent of public welfare, intro-
shop and storage building, $117,990; I states: “Coach Reinhardt and his j _
J ^ . f cnArtA u TTr-ij ^ J ! The mvocation was by Dr. B. F.
student union building, $150,000; 11- Wildcats are leaving nothing undone; \ .
Al ' Albert Hewitt of Manon pre-
N. C. State—Agricultural building, ] though favorites to i/^/.oio 1 ®®”ted two solos, accompanied by
[in preparation for the game.
win, the locals
$139,995; assembly hall, $ 541,450;[read the papers before and after the
general engineering laboratory build
ing $1,621,026.
SJiiiversity— Library wing, $345,-
761; commerce building, $335,000;
Ifm^age building, $196,000; laun
dry alterations, $56,000; departmen
tal equipment, $94,875.
I Miss Julia Burton,
i
TWO SPEAKERS HEARD
Duke-Carolina game and even recall 1
that Coach Arthur Ditt was a star RITES HELD TUESDAY
back on past Carolina teams. One of
the largest crowds of the season is
expected and a host of fans, includ-
FOR MRS. MITTIE STACY
Final rites for Mrs. Mittie Hill
ing the crack high school band, will ; Stacy, 49, who died at her home in
come from Marion to pull for their j the Sugar Hill section last Saturday
favorites.” Iwere conducted at the Clinchfield
I Methodist church at 1:00 o’clock
HERE AT ROTARY MEET j BLUE RIDGE CHURCHES {Tuesday afternoon with Rev. W. H.
ARE TO MAKE OFFERING Wellman officiating. Burial was in
jEast Marion cemetery.
She is survived by her husband,
Miss Mary Rose Badgett, home
economist with the Farm Security
Administration here,
speaker at the regular weekly meet
ing of the Marion Rotary club last
Friday. She spoke on the FSA pro
gram, how it operates and its bene
fits.
Larry C. Whitehead, Rotarian of
San Antonio, Texas, spoke briefly on
1 Members of Baptist churches in.. tt «
1 T>, T> j X- -n 1 j;Mike E. Stacy; three sons, Howard
the g^uest the Blue Ridge association will load a+i n
^ . J i. 4.1. o 4.1. Stacy, of Atlanta, Ga., and James
a car of produce at the Southern . ox ^ 4.u ^ .
X • rp and Edward Stacy, of the home;
station in Marion on Tuesday and ^ r> i- at
, XT ^^A 0-7 two daughters, Pauline and Lillie
Wednesday November 26 sod 21^. ^
for the Baptist Orphanage mThom-^jj^ g ^
1. • J- J 1 • *„’and Mrs. Goldie Ashworth, of Eller-
Churches or individuals wishing to . v ii. iri
^ ^ ^ .. be Springs; and one brother, Elzie
contribute to the worthy cause ^ Atlanta G»
a proposed rodent eradicatoin project j been requested to bring their offer- ’ ’
Mr. Whitehead is associated with a
biological survey being made by the
government.
The program for the meeting was
under the direction of Bob Smith.
Rev. W. A. Jenkins, president of the
dub, presided.
ELECT NEW DEACONS
for Marion and McDowell county, {ings to Marion next Tuesday win
which he declared to be much needed Wednesday. The car of produce is i
an annual Thanksgiving offering j
made by member churches of the j
Blue Ridge association. The full co-j The First Presbyterian
churclt
operation of the public has been re-! will elect three new deacons next
quested. Sunday morning to succeed David
jHervey, C. A. Harris and W. L.Mor-
Don’t forget. Trade in Marion, jris, retiring deacons.
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