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THE MARION PROGRESS A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1«96 MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943 VOL. XLVII—NO. 50 S. L. Copeland, Mill Official, Is Taken By Death . Died At Home Monday After Brief Illness; Funeral "Ser vices Tuesday Afternoon. Samuel L. Copeland, 74, first vice president and treasurer of the Ma rion Manufacturing company and an outstanding church and civic leader here, died at his home Moriday of a heart attack. He had been ill for one week. Mr. Copeland was a native of L&urens, S. C., and came to Marion in 1908 in connection with the es tablishment of the cotton manufac- j turing concern in East Marion, | which he served until the time of j his death. r or many years ne xook a promi nent part in the church arid civic life of Marion. He was a member of the board of stewards of the First Methodist church of Marion, a Ki wanian, member of the board of di rectors of 'the Marion General hos pital, member of the city school board, vice-president and director of the Home Building association, a director of Baldwin hall, was treas urer of the East Marion cemetery, j and was an original member of the county rationing board. He had a wide acquaintance in the textile industry and was asso ciated with the Cotton Textile in- j stitute, was a member of the Ameri-1 can Cotton Manufacturers associa- J tion, and of the North Carolina j Manufacturers association. He was married to Miss Ethel j Reese Waitt, who survives him, in | 1914. Also surviving are two daugh ters, Dr. Mary Virginia Rowe of Marion and Mrs. Tom R. Builta of Evanston, 111.; five brothers, W. O. | and D. E. Copeland of New York city, R. J. Copeland of Clinton, S. C., L. O. Copeland of Savannah, Ga., and C. R. Copeland of Cocoa, j Fla.; and two sisters, Misses Sara and Mary Copeland of West Palm j Beach, Fla. Funeral services were held at 4 j o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the First Methodist church here, with the pastor, the Rev. D. E. Camak, ■ and the Rev. Carl W. McMurray,! pastor of the First Presbyterian church, officiating. Burial followed in Oak Grove cemetery. Active pallbearers were J. F. Parker, W. A. McCall, Robert Lan dis, T. A. Moore, Robert W. Twitty, Charles A. Harris, C. A. Workman, and John A. Poteat. Honorary pallbearers: S. M. Beattie, Hugh F. Beam, Garfield Beaman, H. D. Bishop, Walker Blan ton, J. D. Blanton, A. S. Bradford, C. P. Mathewes, Barron Caldwell, W. R. Chambers, S. R. Cross, Eu gene Cross, Jr., L. J. P. Cu'tlar, Roy W. Davis, Dr. B. A. Dickson, T. V. Ellis, G. W. Giles, W. K. M. Gilkey, J. L. Gourlev, W. F. Grant, Dr. Wm. L. Hagna, T. H. Henderson, Carter Hudgins, C. Jack James, Dr. J. F. Jonas, W. S. Jones, Dr. G. B. Justice, Dr. G. S..Kirby, W. W. Neal, Sr. Robert J. Noyes, Zeno Martin, J. H. L. Miller, Archie Mitchem, Neal Morris, W. L. Morris, R. E. McCall, W. C. McCall, E. W. Parker, J. W. Pless, Jr., B. F. Pollard, R. W. Proctor, J. C. Rabb, G. P. Seagle, W. S. Shiflet, J. F. Snipes, J. M. Snoddy, J. W. Streetman, Sr., Wayne Suttles, J. H. Tate, W. J. Toney, J. W. Winborne, Sam Yan cey, C. O. Smith, H. D. Broome, A. F. Hunt, Dr. J. F. Miller, Dr. R. B. Butt, R. Lee Conley and W. C. Smith. MERCHANTS MEETING THURSDAY EVENING The regular monthly meeting of the Marion Merchants Association will be held Thursday evening, July 8, promptly at quarter of eight, in the Fireman's room, City Hall. All food dealers are invited to at tend, as the Price Panel of Local Rationing Board will be present to discus9 OPA problems. It is hoped that all members be present, as officers for the ensuing year will be elected. Members of, the board are strongly urged to be present. Other routine matters will be dis cussed and acted upon. Guest Speaker Robt. L. Patton of Morganton who will speak at the First Metho dist church here next Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock. PATTON TO SPEAK AT THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH HERE SUNDAY Robt. L. (Bob) Patton of Mor ganton, superintendent of Burke county schools, will speak at the First Methodist church here next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in the absence of the pastor, Dr. D. E. Ca mak, who is attending the assembly at Junaluska. Mr. Patton is an interesting speaker and is well known in this county. I For the past two years, Mr. Pat- j ton has spoken to various groups not only in North Carolina but in other states as well. Here's what! the Charlotte Observer had to say about one of hi9 talks recently: "Friend R. L. Patton, school man of Morganton, must have done something bordering on the oratori cal scandalous to our Charlotte Lions when he regaled them with a speech. "The reporters say that when he finished flooding them with his wit j and wisdom, fun and philosophy,: they gave him an ovation, standing to cheer for minutes. "That, of course, being interpret ed means that figuratively the speak er laid them out in astonishment and excited reactions, stood them on their ears and tore them apart at the seams of their normalcy. "Mr. Patton is, manifestly, an in novation, what you might call a wow of one." J. H. Beaman, the lay leader, will preside at the services. Due to the absence of Dr. Oamak there will be no evening service next Sunday. FARMERS FEDERATION PICNIC AT PLEASANT GARDENS AUGUST 4TH The annual Farmers Federation picnic for McDowell county will be held at Pleasant Gardens on August 4. This year an effort will be made to concentrate on the war food pro duction program and the war bond sales, it is stated. Max Roberts and A. C. Reynolds, Jr., will be in charge of the picnic. A new feature of the picnic this year will be a food canning and dry ing demonstration. SOFTBALL SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR THE END OF THE FIRST HALF The remaining games of the first half of the softball schedule will be played as follows: Thursday: Cross Mill vs Broyhill and East Marion vs Firemen. Friday: Broyhill vs Firemen and East Marion vs Merchants. Saturday at 3 p. m.: Broyhill vs Clinchfield and East Marion vs Fire men. Monday: Clinchfield vs East Ma rion and Merchants vs Firemen. The play-off was scheduled to start on Tuesday. Broyhill holds first p^ce, Cross Mill, second, East Marion, third, Clinchfield, fourth, Merchants, fifth, and Firemen, sixth. D. E. Poole, director, announced that the girls will play on the field from 10 to 12 a. m. and the boys 2 to 4:30 p. m. It i9 less than 22 hours from Washington to Tokyo by air. Price Ceilings Will Be Set Up In This County Prices Will Be Established On Many Staple Foods Offered To The Public. Monday night L. R. Hamilton, Field Price Officer, of the Asheville OPA, met with the Price Panel of Marion for the purpose of establish ing fixed prices for Marion and Mc Dowell County. Mr. Hamilton said that within the next week or ten days prices would be established on many of the staple foods offered to the public. He left a number of price questionnaires with the local board and requested that necessary information be obtained from a number of representative merchants in Marion and vicinity. J. N. Morris is head of the Marion Price Panel and is anxious to assist merchants and patrons in the matter of price ceilings. It is felt that much of the red tape and misunder standing will be discarded with the coming of fixed prices. After fixed prices are set up the merchants will display fixed prices in the same manner as ration point values are now displayed. With this practice it will be an easy matter to determine the price on any commodi ty for sale. Fixed prices will enable the buying public to budget food buying as well as assisting mer chants to establish retail prices with a minimum of red tape. MARION SCOUT TROOP WINS FIRST PLACE IN CAMPOREE AT TRYON The following Boy Scouts of Troop 3 of Marion under the leader ship of Weldon Willis spent the week of June 21 at the Piedmont Boy Scout Camp on Lake Lanier at Tryon: Wayne Willis, Carroll Willis, How ard Biggerstaff, Franklin Pace, Max Hemphill and Paul Jones. The troop 3 boys won first place in the Camporee which is held at the camp each Friday morning through the camping season. Troop 3 of Morganton won second place. The Camporee consists of con tests held in the following crafts: Knot tying, fire by flint and steel, fire by friction, tent pitching, water boiling and canoe races. Troop 3 received for the first time the of ficial scout ax which is presented to the winning troop by Mr. Schiele at the court of honor each Friday night. Four Scouts from troop 1 of Glen wood and three Scouts of troop 1, Nebo, under the leadership of Fred Abernathy and fourteen Scouts from troop 6 of Marion under the leadership of J. H. Beaman also spent the week of June 21 at the Piedmont Scout Camp. All Scouts and leaders reported a good time and many of the boys are looking forward to another week in camp be fore the season is over. GIBSON PROMOTED Bryan Gibson, army air corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Gibson, has been promoted to Corporal, word received this week stated. Cpl. Gib son entered the service about four months ago and is now at Capitol University, Columbus, Ohio. He was also made band leader of the Fifth Flying unit. Civil Term Of Superior Court Begins Monday Judge Zeb V. Nettles To Pre side; Sixteen Cases Listed On Docket For Trial. Judge Zeb V. Nettles, of Ashe ville, will convene the July term of Superior court here next Monday morning. The session will be for the trial of civil actions only. A total of 16 cases have been list ed on the calendar for trial at this term. The jury list drawn for this term of court is as follows: First week—L. J. Reel, Albert Jaynes, E. 0. Crawley, Vernon L. Bradley, W. S. Burgin, Charlie Bid dix, Floyd Young, T. G. Rhinehardt, I. H. Allison, Glen E. Pyatt, J. D. Wilkerson, H. R. Wilson, Tate Mc Curry, N. A. Revis, Dewey Hoyle, J. J. Parks, Geo. R. Bryson, Thomas W. Carswell, Bulo HolHfield, James L. Arrowood, A. E. Neal, Z. V. j Hemphill, Hall Lawing, Guy Steppe, Mills Y. Hoyle, Dock Avers, Belvin Moore, Robert Shuford, Clyde Rhom and Raymond Allison. Second week—J. D. Blanton, D. F. Woody, W. W. Neal, Sr., H. C. I Worley, D. T. Harris, A. A. Padgett, j H. C. Hawkins, J. Edgar Hicks, O, i S. Franklin, Theo. Brown, Josepher' C. Christopher, James Bradley,: Frank Glenn, Albert Elliott, Till-: man W. Randolph, C. Guy Rabb, W. B. Pyatt, E. C. Jaynes, C. M. Hemp-! hill, C. R. Hester, A. C. Walker, j Ralph Fortune, Lee Bruner, Geo. W. j Chapman, Lawrence Adkins, A. A. Halford, S. L. Simmons, R. L. Brooks, R. B. Byrd and Garfield Turner. i COUNTY SCHOOLS TO OPEN ON AUGUST 9 i The opening date of the McDowell i county schools will be August 9th,' it was announced this week by N. F. j Steppe, county superintendent. Thanksgiving holidays will be ob-! served November 25 and 26. The Christmas holidays, ending with the ! fall term, will begin Tuesday, De- , cember 21, closing for a two weeks vacation. The Spring term will open January 3rd and close on April 28. I The county unit includes Old Fort, Pleasant Gardens, Nebo, North | Cove and Glenwood high schools, Sugar Hill and Dysartsville elemen tary schools, and the Old Fort, Dy- j sartsville, Bridgewater and Vein ' Mountain colored schools. CHURCH DEDICATION DATE SET FOR SEPT. 5 The First Presbyterian church of Marion is now free of debt and plans are being made for the dedication services to be held on Sunday, Sept. 5, it was announced this week by the pastor, Dr. Carl W. McMurray. The dedicatory sermon will be de livered by Rev. A. R. Batchelor, only surviving former pastor of the church. Extensive improvements ha,re re cently been made on the building, including repainting outside, and re painting interior with complete re decorating. The complete program for the ser vices will be announced later. Buy war bonds and Stamps. County Budget Estimate For New Fiscal Year Asks For $234,531.01 A budget estimate asking for | $234,531.01 for operation of the | county and schools during the fiscal' year 1943-44 was proposed before the County Commissioners in session Monday. The commissioners will meet again later in the month to | adopt the budget. j The budget estimate for the com ing year is $17,012.34 less than last! year's budget. An outlay of $42,606.50 is sought in the new budget estimate for the general county fund. The sum of $128,216.87 has been requested for the funding, highway, court house and school debt fund. For the year 1943-44 the county schools ask for $12,826.00 for cur rent expense and $1,200 for capital outlay. The city schools ask for $9,584. 44 for current expense and $7,000 for capital outlay. Other items requested in the bud get are $5,775 for the health fund. $23,727.20 for the county poor fund and $3,595.00 for special' expense fund. PVT. THOMAS DUNCAN FOUND DEAD BY TRACK NEAR MARION SUNDAY Pfc. Thomas F. Duncan, of Clear Creek community, was found dead beside the Southern Railway track, three miles west of Marion last Sun day morning by the engineer of a west bound freight train. The en gineer, who noticed the body by the track, stopped the train, notified the sheriff and coroner and waited until they had arrived to investigate the accident. After an autopsy performed by officers from the Moore General hos pital staff, it was announced that there was no evidence found that Pfc. Duncan had been drinking. His commanding officer, Lt. John S. Mil ligan, who investigated the death said that details concerning the man ner in which the soldier was struck by the train could not be determin ed. Coroner S. J. Westmorland re turned a verdict of accidental death and said that no inquest will be nec essary. Pfc. Duncan was home for a week-end visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Skyler S. Duncan at the time he was killed. Funeral services were conducted at the Clear Creek Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Waters and Rev. J. J. Justice, U. S. army chaplain. The soldier was given a full mili tary burial with rites conducted by the McDowell post, No. 56, of the American Legion and an escort of honor with bugler from Moore Gen eral hospital participating. Mem bers of the Moore hospital contin gent were pallbearers. The chaplain referred to Pfc. Duncan as a first class soldier with an A-l record. NYA OFFICIALS BEGIN LIQUIDATING CENTER The first of 292 boys and girls, between the ages of 16 and 24, at the Asheville National Youth ad ministration war production train ing project at Newbridgt were sent home Sunday as officials planned immediate stoppage of the training program. The action followed congressional action on Saturday ordering liquida tion of NYA. All of the government owned equipment, materials, buildings, and supplies at the Asheville project will be turned over immediately to the Property Utilization branch, Procur ment office of the Treasury Depart ment, it was stated by Leo H. Man ley, project manager. This ia ex pected to be accomplished by the end of the week. The remainder of the trainees will be returned to their homes this week, Mr. Manley said. Those qual ified for war jobs will be placed as soon as possible. Twenty-five boys and girls originally notified to report to the Asheville project today were notified Saturday night not to come. In the past 12 months, approxi mately 1,400 youths have been plac ed in war plants as a result of their training at the Asheville war pro duction training project. MAY REDUCE TAX RATE FROM $1.60 TO $1.50 The city tax rate for the next fis cal year may be reduced 10c making the rate $1.50 on each $100 assessed valuation. The Board of Aldermen in session Tuesday night tentatively set the rate at $1.50 and authorized the tax collector to accept payments of 1943 taxes on that figure. The board will formally adopt the tax rate and budget at a meeting some time this month. W. S. Shiflet was appointed trus tee of the fireman's relief fund to succeed Robert B. Smith. LEGION AND AUXILIARY TO INSTALL OFFICERS The American Legion and the Le gion Auxiliary will hold a joint meeting Tuesday evening at*' 8 o'clock in the Legion room of the community building to install offi cers of both organizations for the coming year. L. L, Fonerberger, of Asheville, commander of the 18th district, will be in charge of the installation ser vice. All ex-soldiers and their wives are invited to attend whether members of the Legion or not. Fried chicken will be served free to all who attend. Music will furnished by a string band. Points On Beef, • Other Cuts Of Meat Increased Raised 1 To 2 Points; Four Vegetables And Five Fruits Increased In Point Values. Higher point values went into ef fect Sunday for beef, some cuts of veal, lamb and mutton, canned fish, catsup, chile-sauce, four vegetables and five fruits. The few reductions that were made included canned green beans, tomato paste, small sizes of juices, margarine and cream cheese. The changes effective Sunday, were announced by the OPA in Washington Friday. Increases of 1 to 2 points were or dered for al beef cuts including hamburger, veal and lamb chops and veal lamb legs. | Beef is the scarcest since ration j ing began, the office of price admin* | istration said in announcing the new j point values. While it is hoped that [the supply will improve some time i this month, it added, rationing has S been based on the present low sup ply situation which is almost nine per cent below that available last month. I While changes in ration values are usually announced at the end of the month, a spectacular increase in the meat supply might permit low ered points before August, OPA men said. Pork supplies while down also are almost double those of beef and the OPA is "encouraging consumption" by raising the point "prices" of oth i er meats. This forces the house wife to buy less-expensive (from the 'viewpoint of ration value) meats or else take a cut in the purchasing ; power of her red stamps. ! Point values of canned fish were boosted 50 per cent. The jump is necessary, OPA said, because de mand has been so high that supplies are being used up too rapidly. Dur ing the summer months, the OPA added, more fresh fish is available. Officials said advance announce ment of the changes might permit a "run" on such things as tomato cat sup or chili sauce (which will go up 7 points in the pint size) or on can ned fish (up 4 points). But they de clared the problems of distributing the new charts and tables to the na tion's grocers and butchers made in evitable a time-lag of a day or two between the announcement and the effective date. Here are the major changes over last month's ration tables: Beef—up 1 point in all cuts ex cept standing 7-inch and 10-inch blade ribs which are up 2 points. ; Veal-—up 1 point in loin, rib chops, and leg roasts; round steak up 2 points. Lamb and mutton—up 1 point in loin chops, leg chops and steaks, leg and sirloin roasts. Pork — unchanged except fat I meats used as substitute for lard : which are down 1 point. Lard and margarine—down 1 j point. i "Process" butter—(A new item isold mainly in the South) set at 4 | points a pound. Cheese—group I and group II, I such as cream cheese, swiss edam, cottage, etc.—Down 1 point. Ched dar remains unchanged. Canned fish—up 4 points a pound, including tuna, sardines, salmon, Shrimp. Oysters up 2 points. Vegetables—(No. 2 can) lima beans, up 1 point; whole kernel corn up 1 point, other corn, up 2 points; 'peas, and tomatoes, up 2 points; to | mato catsup and chili sauce (pint |size), up 7 points. Down are fresh I shelled beans (8 points), green and wax beans (3 points) and certain of : tomato paste, puree and sauces. Fruits—(No. 2 can) apples, up 2; ! apricots, and fruit" cocktail, up 4; j peaches and pears (No. 2% can) j UP 2. Vegetable and fruit juices in the : 7-10 ounce size were cut in half to one point a can. Pineapple juice is excepted. FIGHTING Saving food is one of the most ef fective ways for the average citizen [to help win the war.
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