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THE MARION PROGRESS A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1896 MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1942 VOL. XLVI—NO. 44 Light Vote Is Expected In The Democratic Primary Saturday Interest Is Increasing lit The Race For Representative And For Sheriff. Democratic leaders here predict one or the lightest votes in recent years in the primary to be conduct ed next Saturday. Few party lead ers expect the number of votes caat in McDowell county to exceed 2, 500, while some of -them placed the total somewhat' below this figure. Important factors which will bear on the number of votes is gas oline and tire rationing, as well as lack of interest in politics attribut ed to the war. Then, too, the voting period will be shorter than in previous primary election. In the past, the polls have remained open from sunrise to sunset, but this year they will open at 6:30 and close at 6:30, under a primary law passed by the general assembly There are only two local contests, that for the nomination for the leg islature and for sheriff, but as the primary draws nearer, interest in the two races is increasing. Seeking the nomination for rep resentative in the legislature are J. C. Rabb, incumbent, and W. W. Neal, Sr. In the race foi' sheriff are Grady Nichols, incumbent, and Ben E. Hendley. Mr. Kabb, prominent business man and civic leader, represented McDowell in the last session of the legislature, where he was appointed on a number of committees. Mr. Neal, well known business man, has served several terms in i the legislature. He is chairman of the N. C. Park Commission and chairman of the board of the N. C. j School for the Deaf, and has served j as a member of other important: boards, Mr. Nichols is completing his second terms as sheriff, having been elected for a term of two years in j 1936 by a majority of 1,800. In j 1938 he was re-elected for a term! of four years by a majority of 2, 000. Mr. Hendley, a former deputy sheriff, was for ten years a special officer with the State Highway and Public Works Commission. Other McDowell candidates, who are unopposed in the primary and in the general election, are; I. L. Caplan, chairman; C. A. Workman, and Charlie L. Holland, incumbents, for county commissioners; J. F. Moody, incumbent, for Superior court clerk, and Sigrid J. Westmore land for coroner. Judge J. Will Pless, Jr., of Mari on and Solicitor Clarence 0. Rid ings of Forest City, candidates for renomination in the 18th judicial district, are unopposed in the pri mary and the general election. Next Saturday McDowell Demo crats will help ••nominate the first Congressional candidate in the new 11th district, which embraces Mc Dowell, Gaston, Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford, Yancey, and Madison. Seeking the nomination are Ma jor A. L. Bulwinkle of Gastonia, incumbent from the old 10th dis trict, now serving his 20 year in the national house of representatives, and Claude A. Woltz, Bessemer City attorney. J. Herschel Sprinkle, Marshall business man and former Madison county representative in the legis lature, was nominated here as the .Republican candidate, but he failed to file in time to qualify. In the U. S. Senatorial race, local Democrats will vote their preferen ce between Josiah W. Bailey, in cumbent, now completing his second six-year term, and Richard T. Foun tain, former lieutenant governor. The only candidates in the Re publican primary here are Stoner W. Kluttz, of Salisbury, U. S. com missioner, and Sam J. Morris, Ral eigh attorney, who are seeking nom ination to the U. S. senate. McDowell is in the same district with Cleveland and Rutherford counties, and this time the candi dates are to be from Cleveland and Rutherford counties. Buy War Bonds and you will be helping your country, even if you • cannot fight. VACANCIES FILLED IN THE OLD FORT SCHOOL j Mrs. Theodore R. Johnson has J been elected Home Economics [Teacher in the Old Fort School. J Mrs. Johnson succeeds Mrs. Lucille Gray, who has had charge of the Home Economics at the Old Fort School for the past several years. Mrs. Johnson is well equipped for her work by way of training and experience. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, where she is now doing special work in the field of Home Economics and has had a number of years of experien ce. For several years she was Home Economics teacher at the Pleasant Gardens School. Miss Janet Nodine of Campobel la, South Carolina, a recent grad uate of Asheville College, and Miss Margaret Jaynes, of Newland, North Carolina, have been elected to fill I the vacancies in the primary de partment. Both of these teachers! come to McDowell county with j strong recommendations. Miss Jay nes has been connected with the; schools at Newland for a number of years and has the reputation of be-; ing a teacher of efficiency and sue- j cess. j MUST SHOW THAT TIRES ARE USED CAREFULLY Eligible applicants for new or re capped tires will be required after j June 1 to show that they have not been guilty of abusing or neglecting j their tires, it was announced yester day from the local rationing board. Under this latest order, any mis treatment of a tire becomes the con cern of Uncle Sam, and even per-1 sons who are eligible for tires must , convince the board that they have j. given proper care to their old tires, j. Persons not eligible need not apply j anyhow. j The ruling just received from! Washington follows: "Neither new nor recapped cas ings will be released to anyone who, j in the opinion of the local rationing j board has not given proper care to! the tires to be replaced. ! "To give time for widespread j publicity, this part of the amend- j ment does not go into effect until June 1. After that date, anyone^ who presents an inspector's report that a tire cannot be made fit for! l-ecapping or retreading, will be' called upon to show that it did not become unusable through abuse or neglect." VACANCIES FILLED ON THE FACULTY AT PLEASANT GARDENS At a recent meeting of the com mittee, Mrs. George Sandlin of Old Fort was elected for the high school vacancy at Pleasant Gardens school caused by the resignation of John L. Johnson from the high school de partment. Mrs. Glenn Tolliver was elected to fill the vacancy in the Grammar Grade department caused by the resignation of Miss Edna Henderson. Mrs. Sandlin is a teacher of long experience. For several years she was connected with the high school department of the Old Fort School. She resigned this position to com plete her work for the Masters De gree at Columbia University, New York. Upon her return she was of fered a position in the Marshall High School, Marshall, N. C., where she taught for several years. For the past six years she has been a member of the faculty at Glen Al pine High School. Mrs. Sandlin has a .commendable record as teach er and comes back to her home county with the highest recommen dations from the systems at Mar shall and Glen Alpine. She will teach History and English at Pleas ant Gardens High School. Mrs. Tolliver came to Old Fort: from Morganton several years ago. | She is a graduate of the Appalach ian Teachers' College in Boone. She has taught successfully for a number of years and is held in high esteem among the school teachers. She resigned her position at Old Fort to be with her husband, who is ; connected as teacher in the Pleasant I Gardens School. MERCHANTS ELECT OFFICERS; ECKERD NAMED PRESIDENT Officers of the Merchants' Associ ation were elected Tuesday evening at a meeting in the community biulding as follows: V. T. Eckerd president; B. M. Isenhour, vice-pres ident; Miss Earline Brown, secre tary, and J. M. Lancaster, treasurer. A board of governors was appoint ed, but has not yet been approved. A very enlightening discussion of the forty -day credit regulations opened the business session. An nouncement was made that 30 mem bers have been received into the as sociation and an invitation was ex tended to other merchants to join and avail themselves of the credit records now on file in the office. V. T. Eckerd, president, stated that one main purpose of the organi zation would be to make an effort to see that all information regarding government control of credit, prices, buying, inventories, etc., be passed along to the merchants. According to plans made about fifteen merchants were to attend a meeting in Asheville last night. Among those attending were: R. H. Walker, V. T. Eckerd, David Blanton, R. C. Spratt, D. W. Taint er, C. A. Workman, Carl McCall, E. J. Ross, Mike Cowan, Jack Houck, I. J. Londner, Cato Holler and possi bly others. GROUP OF SELECTEES SENT TO FORT JACKSON A group of forty-one young men j were sent from here to Fort Jack-1 son, S. C., Thursday for induction; into the army. Seventeen of the j men were volunteers. The group included thirty-five McDowell men and six volunteers i ivho had been transferred here from | >ther counties. i a Also accredited to McDowell's ] juota was Wilbur J. Rumfelt, who j vas transferred to another county, j irom which he was or will be sent 'or induction. Volunteers transferred to Mc Dowell county were: Issac McKen- ' rie Player, Jesse Coe Bailey, Fred Davis, Fred Johnson Young, Eliza Alford Blankenship and James Guy' Nichols. The McDowell volunteers were: Williams Bruce Laughridge, Tracy Ed Stevens, Jason Shuford McKin ley, William Sherrill Jones, John Bradford Loudermilk, Paul Vincent! Lee, John Clarence Stroud, James' ! Paul Morgan, Joseph Pless Hennes see, Arthur Ray Loudermilk, Reu oen L. Bradley, Arthur Lee Lowery, James William Lamb, Claude How ard Swofford, Robert Clarence Haynes, and Walter Carl Parkins. | The selectees called from McDow- j all were: Todd Aunt Hollifield,! James Franklin Stone, Jason Branch Pitman, Robert William Padgett, Paul Creighton Pennington, Jack Howard Vess, Howard Scott Hend rix, Howard Gildersleeve Gosorn, C. B. Crawley, Lindol Swoford, Troy Lee Cresawn, Fred Avery Gib son, Albert Malone Neal, Jonas Ray Morgan, Emmett Huntley Gray, Walter Barney Mode, Herman Mc Kinley Pyatt, Forest Dean Painter, and George Moore, Jr. DEMOCRATS PUT ON COMMITTEES AT THE STATE CONVENTION McDowell Democrats were elect-! ed to State and district committees at the State Democratic convention in Raleigh last Friday. Robert W. Proctor of Marion waa elected to represent McDowell Dn the State executive committee, from the eleventh district, and Grayson Neal was picked as Mc Dowell's member of the Congres sional executive committee. McDowell county's place on the Judicial executive committee was filled by W. D. Lonon, while 0. F. Adkins was selected as a member of the senatorial executive committee. Delegates from McDowell county attending the convention included W. W. Neal Sr., Grayson Neal, O. F. Adkins and J. C. Bowman. JAMES JOHNSON, JR. MADE SECOND LIEUTENANT James H. Johnson, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Johnson, of Marion, wa3 recently commjissioned Second Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps at Columbus Air Base at Kaye Field, Mississippi. Superior Court Criminal Term Starts June 8 Heavy Docket, Including Four Homicide Cases, Listed On Docket For Trial. The June term of McDowell county superior court will open for a two weeks term here on Monday, June 8. Judge Hoyle Sink of Lex ington will preside. The criminal docket will be taken up the first week, leaving the sec ond week for the civil docket. There is quite a heavy criminal docket. Among the cases scheduled for hearing are four for murder, one for highway robbery, several for assault with deadly weapon, and eight for driving drunk. Delbert Lewis, Marion laborer, will face trial for his life on the cnarge 01 strangling ms wne to j death here on last September 6. Henry (Bud) Fisher, who is charged with the fatal shooting of Vic Rutherford, negro, at the Lit tle Mountain Filling Station on March 9, is also facing trial at this term. The case of Robbie Goode, negro woman, charged with shooting Lu ther Gardner, colored, through the, head last January, is scheduled for! trial at this term. A manslaughter charge against; Vernon Homer Teague, of Forest! City, alleged driver of a car in j which William Moore, of Forest j City, was killed near here last Sep-j tember, is also on the court docket.! Other cases on the docket includ-1 ed are: Victor Robinett, highway rob-1 bery. Charlie Gillespie, assault with | ieadly weapon. W. E. McDaniel, operating motor j vehicle without license and reckless j driving. Jack Godfrey, reckless driving and driving during revocation of ] license. Roy Rice, secret assault. Charlie Yow, seduction. James Branch, assault on female., Elmer Setzer, forgery. (Continued on last page) REPORT 1200 POPPIES SOLD HERE SATURDAY I The American Legion Auxiliary's Poppy Day sales here Saturday ex- j ceeded the highest expectations when the supply of 1200 poppies was sold by 11 o'clock,, Mrs. J. F. Miller chairman stated. Gross sales totaled $163. Laura Crawford received first prize for the greatest sales, Goldie Cooper received second prize and j Clara Justice third prize. Miss Marguerite Wilson, ofj Clinchfield, sold 503 poppies at! Clinchfield Mill, Mrs. B. S. Clark, j secretary stated. GLENWOOD BAPTIST TO HAVE REVIVAL! The Glenwood Baptist church will hold a series of revival services be ginning Sunday, May 31st, and con tinuing through June 14th. Rev. Lawrence V. Bradley, Jr., of Har mony, N. C., son of L. V. Bradley ] of Marion, will preach each evening j at 8:30 o'clock. There will be a; Daily Vacation Bible School held j each day from 8:30 until 11:30 a.; m. Miss Abolene Creson will assist j the pastor, Rev. M. F. Hall in the j Bible School. Everyone is invited; to attend. Special music will be j rendered through the services. CARL GIBSON GRADUATES FROM BREVARD COLLEGE Carl William Gibson, son of Mr. j and Mrs. Carl S. Gibson, of Marion, was one of 99 seniors to graduate | from Brevard College at commence- i ment exercises there Tuesday. j He is a graduate of the Marion j high school with the class of 1939. At Brevard he held membership in the Delphian Literary Society, was a member of the tennis and track teams and took part in the C. P. T. training program given at the col- j lege. He plans to enter the Navy j Air Corps, next summer. MOVEMENT UNDER WAY FOR RECREATIONAL PROGRAM FOR YOUTH Considerable enthusiasm is being veloped for a recreational program for the boys and girls of Marion and for the business and industrial em ployees of our towns. It was point ed out work of this nature is great ly needed because of limited trans portation facilities due to restric tions on travel under war rationing conditions. A group of interested citizens are meeting at the high school auditor ium at 4:00 o'clock this afternoon to study ways and means for de veloping this work. The general thought is that atten tion will be given to the boys an&i girls in the mornings during the summer and that attention will be given to business and industrial em ployes in the afternoons and early evenings. The plan will include recreation in tennis, softball and volly ball. All interested persons are invited to attend the organizational meeting and to offer suggestions for the work at hand. LEGION MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD NEXT SUNDAY •J The annual American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary memori- j al service will be held Sunday morn-j ing at the First Baptist Church at; 11 o'clock. Dr. B. F. Bray will] deliver the memorial sermon and special musical numbers will be given. Members of the Legion and Aux-1 iliary are asked to meet in front of! the community building at 10:30 o'clock and march to the church in a body. They will be accompanied by Boy Scout Troop Number 6. OFFICER CAPTURE BIG STFtL ON TOM'S CREEK A big steam distillery was de stroyed on Tom's Creek last Friday in a raid made by county officers, Sheriff Grady Nichols announced Monday. The officers captured about 200, pounds of sugar and fifty-five gal- j Ions of Karo syrup, and destroyed, a large quantity of whiskey and, mash. ! The still was in operation and Hillman Largin was arrested and j placed in jail. He was given a hearing Tuesday in county court on i a charge of distilling, and sentenced i bo a term of six months on the j roads. FARM WOMEN ATTEND DISTRICT MEET HELD AT MARION FRIDAY An approximate 150 women at-, tended the meeting of the second district of the North Carolina Fed-j eration of Home Demonstration Clubs from seven nearby counties at the Marion high school building Friday. The principal address was given ] by Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, Admin-; istrative Director of the Associated Women, of the American Farm Bu-; reau Federation. Mrs. Sewell stressed the importance of the work j now being done by the farm women i in connection with the war effort and stated that the women have got ten a vision of what they have to do if we were to continue to have the opportunities of this land of ours. She further stated that this land was purchased at great cost and that if necessary sacrifices would be made to keep it. She closed with a toast to the American girl and her mother. . Mrs. J. H. L. Miller, second vice president of the North Carolina Fed-1 eration of Home Demonstration! Clubs, also addressed the group ex-j tending a cordial welcome and ex-, pressing her appreciation of the ef- j forts made to attend the meeting. Speakers were presented by Mrs.; Estelle T. Smith, assistant state, Home Demonstraition Agent. Greetings were also extended byj Mrs. Tom Miller and Mrs. Anna C. Rowe and response made by Mrs. Ralph Abernethy. A short talk was made by Super intendent Hugh Beam compliment-; ing the women on their work and stating that it was worthwhile and constructive particularly under pres en conditions. War Is Theme Of Democratic State Meeting Nine Months School Term For State Endorsed; McLendon Sounds Keynotte. Raleigh, May 22. — War was the theme of the biennial off-year North Carolina Democratic conven tion here today. The speakers based their topics on the war, the attendance was cut by war-restricted transportation fa cilities, and the convention moved with a smoothness and unity of ac tion that only war can bring. The keynote address by Major L. P. McLendon of Greensboro was just what the delegates wanted to near. Major McLendon asserted that the American people had underesti mated the war job, but he promised that the enemies of the country had received only a token of what is to come in this "war to the finish—to the death." Governor Broughton, in a brief talk before the convention, replied to Major McLendon's description of him as a "great war governor," by declaring, "I did not wish to be a war governor, but my ambition is to be a victory governor." Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, for mer United States ambassador to Mexico, who, along with. Don Elia of Asheville read the party plat form, called the delegates to stand in honor of another war president, Woodrow Wilson, 'under whom Dan iels served as secretary" of the navy in the First World war. Not only was the attendance of the average delegate cut, but there were fewer notables in attendance. In its war platform, the party pledged itself against increases in state taxes during the conflict and urged that a nine-month school term be provided for every North Carolina child. It also pledged support to a pro posed constitutional amendment un der which the several agencies charged with administering the state school system would be consolidated under a single state board of educa tion. It urged that the state govern ment be operated in accord with the soundest fiscal practices and vowed that the budget will be kept balanced. At the same time, it promised that all essential state ser vices will be maintained. No extraordinary expansion of the state's normal activities and no substantial increases in the state's appropriations will be made. Full co-operation with the Fed eral government was promised, and the party ruled out politics for the war and invited members of all parties to aid in solving the state and national problems. About the national and state ad ministrations, the platform praised President Roosevelt for "his wise and effective handling of the for eign and defense policies," and termed Governor Broughton as one of the "great governors of North Carolina." PRESBYTERIAN BIBLE SCHOOL COMPLETED The Vacation Bible School of the First Presbyterian School will have commencement exercises Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. This will be a part of the regular evening service. Fifty-six students were enrolled in the school and Mrs. C. A. Harris served as superintendent.. The program for the evening will feature memory work, songs, hand work and other courses that were taught in the school. MERCHANTS WILL JOIN BOND DAY SALE JULY 1' Local retail merchants, along with, those all over the nation, will de vote 15 minutes to the promotion and sale of war stamps and bonds on July 1. Vernon T. Eckerd, president of the Merchants Associa tion, said the government had been assured of the support of the mer chants in the nation-wide tribute to America's war effort.
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