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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<8«6 MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1944 VOL. XLVIII—NO. 36 Change Is Made In J. F. Snipes Motor Company R. J. Morris Enters Into Part nership With J. F. Snipes In Automobile Business. An important announcement af fecting the motor business in Mar ion and McDowell county and sur rounding territory was made by J. P. Snipes yesterday. The announce ment released by Mr. Snipes is to the effect that the J. F. Snipes Motor Company, on and after April 3rd, will be known as Snipes Motor Com pany, a partnership, with R. J. (Jack) Morris as general partner arid manager, and J. F. Snipes, part ner. Jack Morris is well known to the citizens of Marion and McDowell county. He is a native of McDowell county, a son of the late R. P. Mor ris, and was connected with the J. F. Snipes Motor Company several years prior to 1934 at which time he went to Morganton as secretary, treasurer and general manager of Morris Motors, Inc. During the ten years he was connected with Morris Motors, Inc., in Morganton he main tained a home in Marion, having re sided with his mother on South Main street since the death of his father. Mr. Morris is well equipped as an automobile man, having been in this business since about 1930 with the exception of four months, during the latter part of 1942 and the early part of 1943, which time was spent in the U. S. Army Ordnance Corps. At the present time Mr. Morris is a director of the North Caolina Deal ers Association. The announcement released by j Mr. Snipes definitely stated that he ! is not retiring from active partici- i pation in the automobbile business I as he plans to keep an active part nership association under the new business management of Snipes Mot or Company. Mr. Snipes is one of the oldest active Dodge dealers in the Atlanta area which serves this territory. He cast his lot with the automobile business in 1915 and delivered the first Dodge automobile to come into McDowell county that year. Mr. Snipes has a long list of friends and customers whom he has served since first establishing his Dodge dealer hip here.. He states that he is grate ful to his many patrons and desires to continue serving them un<Jer the •new management. Under the new set-up both Mr. Morris and Mr. Snipes plan to give bigger and better service to the au tomotive needs of Dodge and Ply mouth passenger car and truck own < ers. RUFUS WOODY REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION Pfc. Rufus F. Woody, of Marion, has been reported missing in action in the European area, it was an nounced last Saturday. Pfc. Woody has been reported missing in action in Italy since Feb ruary 1, according to word received from the War department by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil E. Woody, of Marion, R. F. D. No. 4. Receiving his training at Fort Mc Clellan and Camp Buckner, Pfc. Woody went overseas in September, 1943. He is a graduate of Pleasant Gardens high school, near Marion, and was employed by the Pepsi-Cola Bottling company prior to entering service. TOPICS ANNOUNCED FOR THE LUTHERAN CHURCH "A Word of Triumph as Death Approached" will be the subject of the special Lenten Devotion which will be held at St. Matthew's Luth eran Church next Sunday night at 7:30. A 9x6 reproduction of the familiar painting' "Christ Entering Jerusalem," from the oi'iginal by Plockhoerst, will be given to those who attend. Divine service will be conducted next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The pastor will speak on the topic: "Christian Loyalty." Sunday school and Bible class will be held at 10 a. on. NUMBER OF RATION COUPONS TO EXPIRE AFTER MARCH 31 ST A number of ration coupons which will be invalid after March 31 were listed yesterday from the OPA dist rict office where it was explained that every effort should be made to void confusion about old coupons. The old type B and B-l, and C and C-l gasoline coupons which have not been issued since November 30 will no longer be negotiable. The old type E and R coupons which have not been issued since October 1, 1943 also lapse. All strip T coupons which do not bear a quarterly designation and which ex pire March 31 are listed. Most of fthe old type B. C., and E, and R coupons still in circulation represent expired rations, it was ex plained. In the few cases in which they are part of currently valid ra tions with the expiration date later than March 31, ration holders may exchange them at thei local ration boards for coupons of types now valid. All gasoline dealers having these invalidated stamps on hand April 1, must turn them in by April 10 to get credit for them. METHODISTS WILL HAVE MEMBERSHIP DAY SUNDAY Sunday will be "Membership Day" fat First Methodist Church. As a re sult of last week's visitation evan gelism campaign there are quite a number of applicants for member ship. The list includes grand pa rents, fathers and mothers, young people, and children—all joining by profession of faith. In addition, there are quite a number of grown people who will join by letter. The children's class in member ship preparation will meet the pastor j as usual during the Church school j hour. No n^w child applicants can ! be received at this late date, except j such as may have attended the pas- j tor's class in membership last spring, j The children will enter the auditor- j ium with the pastor at the beginning of the eleven o'clock service. Grown people, including youths, who are candidates for membership,' either on profession of faith or by j letter, will enter the church as they : please and occupy seats near the i front. The topic of the evening sermon by the pastor will be, "Love and The Cross," and the service will begin at 8:00. OFFICERS ELECTED BY EAST MARION CLUB - The East Marion Home Economics class elected officers this week as j follows: Doris Lawing, president; Dorothy I Norton, vice president; Mary Mc | Curr^, secretary; Kathleen Beam, jteasurer; Jay Fender, news report er; Joyce Finley, histoian; Thelma jStugen, pianist; Lucille Vess, song I leader, and Doris Vess and Ruth ! Twigg, program chairman. The following social committee was also appointed: Aileen Jones, Eldoria Sullen, Doris White, Doris Jones, Pauline Rumfelt, Hilda White and Faye Hall. During the meeting a musical pro gram was presented. PARISH MEETING AT ST. JOHN'S SUNDAY There will be a parish meeting at St. John's Episcopal church next Sunday morning, April 2, at 10:30 | o'clock. All members of the congre gation are urged to attend. Communion service Thursday morning at 10:30. Services will be conducted on Easter Sunday at 11 'o'clock by the Rev. Peter Lambert of Penland. PVT. WARREN GREGORY ARRIVES IN ENGLAND Pvt. Warren Gregory, son of W. G. Gregory of Marion, has arrived in England, according to word re ceived by his father. Pvt. Gregory entered the army in November, 1942, and received basic training at Camp Bowie and Camp Swift, 'both in Texas. MINISTERS TO MEET MONDAY, APRIL 3RD i The monthly meeting of the Mc Dowell County Ministerial Associa tion will be held at the Methodist church in Marion next Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Ceiling Prices Well Observed Report Shows Merchants Cooperating With Office Of OPA And Custo mers To High Degree. Officials of the local War Price and Rationing board were highly pleased with the results of the check and survey of all food dealers in McDowell county. This check was made during the week of March 13, as a part of the nation wide survey ordered by the office of Price Ad ministration. The price panel was in charge of this work and valuable assistance was given by voluntary helpers and price panel aides. Individuals tak ing an active part in the survey re ported that the merchants were helpful and cooperative in the work. A result of the survey shows that 79 stores in Marion and McDowell county were visited and that only 40 violations were noted. Of this number of violations eighteen were related to posting ceiling prices and were not actual price violations. The remaining 22 violations related to price, but in most instances the mer chants were over the ceiling prices by only a fraction of a cent, and in other instances were over tc the ex tent of only a cent or two. When considering the fact that each of the 79 merchants handle several hundred items, and that out of the whole number there was a total of only forty violations, one can readily see that the merchants are cooperating with the office of Price Administration and with their customers to a high degree. D. C. Goff, of the district office in Charlotte, having charge of the sur vey in this area, complimented local food merchants highly by saying that the survey for this territory was most excellent. DANIEL TRINKS DIES AT PLEASANT GARDENS Daniel Edwin Trinks, 60, well known citizen of this community, died at his residence at Pleasant Gardens Saturday evening after a lingering illness. Funeral services were conducted at 4:30 o'clock at the First Methodist church Monday afternoon by the pastor, Dr. D. E. Camak, assisted by R. J. Barnwell, a former pastor at Cross Mill. Interment was made in Oak Grove cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Charlotte Myrtle Curtis Trinks; one daughter, Miss Gerald Dear) Trinks; one son, Harry Thinks; two broth ers, John Trinks of Marion, R.F.D. No. 2, and Thomas Trinks of Okla homa, and one half brother, Chief Petty Officer Albert Bond, U. S. navy. Active pallbearers were Thomas Gowan, Henry Stauffer, Zeb V. Dav es, W. A. Young, M. P. Young, Ken neth Young, Bill Gibbs, Bruce Gibbs, J. C. Rabb, and Melvin Patton. Members of his Sunday school class were honorary pallbearers. Mr. Trinks was employed in the train service of the Southern rail way for about 35 years, retiring on account of physical disability about two years ago. WILSON AGAIN IS NAMED MEMBER WELFARE BOARD R. Vance Wilson of Nebo has been reappointed as a member of the Mc Dowell County Public Welfare board to serve another two-year term be ginning April 1, it was announced Monday. Other members of the board here are Mrs. J. H. L. Miller and J. F. Harmon. One member of the board is ap pointed by the state board, one by county commissioners, and the third by the two board members. GOWAN NAMED DIRECTOR OF FARMERS FEDERATION At the annual stockholders' meet ing of the Farmers Federation held in Asheville last Saturday T. W. Gowan of Marion was elected a di rector from McDowell county for a period of two years. Proctor Speaker At Kiwanis Club Meeting Tuesday Defined Democracy As Good Government; Individual Re sponsibility. The regular weekly meeting of the Marion Kiwanis 61ub was held in the Community building last Tuesday evening with a large attendance present, despite unfavorable weather conditions. R. W. Twitty, president, presided, and requested A. S. Bradford to in stall the baby Kiwanian, Dr. E. A. Tennent. President Twitty also an nounced to the club that Kiwanis governor Jeff Bates, of Columbia, S. C., had proclaimed the month of April as 100% attendance month,! and asked the cooperation of each j Kiwanian in helping to make Marion ! a 100% club. Dr. B. A. Dickson was in charge of the program and requested Judge Paul J. Story to introduce the speak er. Judge Story presented Kiwanian Robert W. Proctor who gave a most j interesting and informative address on Democracy. Mr. Proctor defined democracy in j the terms of good government and! stressed the point that every citizen I was charged with the responsibility j of taking a part in government | through his suffrage rights. "Too j many individuals scorn 'politics,'" stated the speaker, "and yet com plain that various governmental ac tivities do not suit them." In con- j eluding his address Mr. Proctor said, i "The way to get good government—; the kind of government every one ] wants—is for every citizen to ex- i press himself through the ballot, re- j gardless of his party affiliation, and 1 regardless of the candidates for j whom he votes." During the course of his address Mr. Proctor discussed in detail the j two-party system of government and explained thoroughly the machinery! of voting. He also reviewed the fi- j nancial condition of McDowell coun-j ty, showing that during the past ten years McDowell county had reduced I its bonded indebtedness by almost; one-half, and that during the same : time made permanent improvements by erecting several additional public buildings valued at more than $200,- i 000. AAA ISSUES PAYMENTS TO DAIRY FARMERS j The AAA office here will issue this! month subsidy payments to dairy j farmers in McDowell County for milk produced during the month of February in the amount of eighty cents per hundred pounds of milk, it was announced by the AAA office last week. The dairy program is a supple mentary payment for the producers of whole milk, butter and cream to offset the increased cost of feed since September 1942, the payments are in the form of sight drafts | drawn on the Commodity Credit | Corporation, it was explained. Pay ments have been made in the amount of $1663 for milk produced in Mc Dwell County during the period from October, 1943 through Febru ary, 1944. j BEAM WILL ADDRESS P. T. A. AT MEET MONDAY i The Marion Parent-Teacher Asso ciation will meet Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the high school auditorium, Mrs. W. Ray Smith, Jr., publicity chairman, announced yes terday. Supt. H. F. Beam will address the ' group on the subject "How Safe Are Our Children in Youth?" Special attention was called to the change in the time of meeting. PLEASANT GARDENS TO HAVE CARNIVAL The Parent-Teacher Association of Pleasant Gardens school will sponsor recreation night Friday at the community building of Pleasant Gardens and proceeds will be con tributed to the community cannery, it was announced yesterday. The evenings entertainment will include bingo, cake walk and an auc-! tion sale of pies. DEMOCRATS WILL HOLD CONVENTION HERE APRIL 29TH County Democratic Chairman Robt. W. Proctor announces the Democratic convention for Mc Dowell county will be held at the court house in Marion on Saturday, April 29, at 11 o'clock for the pur pose of electing delegates to the State convention to be held in Ra leigh on May 4. The county executive committee has also been called to meet at 12 o'clock on the same date for the purpose of electing a chairman and vice-chairman. Precinct meetings will be held at the voting places in the several pre cincts at 2. o'clock on Saturday, April 22, to elect a precinct commit tee, composed of five active Demo crats, and to elect delegates to the county convention. Each precinct may elect as many delegates to the county convention as it may see fit not exceeding three delegates and three alternates for each vote to which the precinct may be entitled in the county convention. MR. AND MRS. HOUCK HAVE 14 GRANDSONS IN THE ARMED FORCES! Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Houck, who reside on the Airport road, holds the record in McDowell County, in so far as information has been obtain ed, for the number of grandsons now serving in the U. S. armed forces. They have fourteen grandsons in service, he stated last week. One of the grandsons is flying a bomber and is stationed somewhere j in England, one is serving in Porto ! Rico, two are somewhere in the vi- i cinity of Alaska, one is in Scotland j and the remaining nine are still1 training in the states. The first of the fourteen boys en tered service early in the year of 1942 and the last in October, 1943. Three of the boys serve in the army air corps, four in the navy and the remainder are in the army. Mr. and Mrs. Houck are the pa rents of 12 sons and daughters, and the grandparents of 30 boys and girls. JUNIOR CLASS HIGH I SCHOOL TO PRESENT 3 ACT MYSTERY COMEDY j The Junior Class of Marion High ' School will present a mystery com-; edy in 3 acts Friday night, March 31, at 8 o'clock in the high school auditorium. The cast is as follows: Nell Tra vis, housekeeper at View Crest, Wilma Fowler! Gilbert Wright, at-: torney for the late Maxwell Marvin,j Bill Roland; Alice Perkins, Mildred's chum, Florence Buckner; Mildred Marvin, who has inherited Viewcrest from her uncle, Jeanette Rader; Hazel Wayne, Mildred's cousin, ; Mary Catherine Sebastian; Jed Tra vs, who appears to believe in "Gill eyloo birds" and is irrational at tim es, Carl Pemberton, Jr.; Herbert Marvin, he has lived in Singapore, Barry Buchanan; Sheriff Macklin, he has taken a "deteckative" course, Carl Ballew; J. Steel, the coroner, Elizabeth Ann Stepp; Wrong Song, his past is unknown, Gorman Led better. The direction will be presented under the direction of Miss Alice Bryan and Mrs. Zelda Pemberton. RED CROSS TO HAVE MEET TUESDAY NIGHT A meeting of the chairman, com mittees, and all members of the McDowell County Chapter of the American Red Cross will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the community building, Dr. C. W. McMurray, county chairman, has an nounced. The purpose of the meeting will be to present all regular and all special reports of the organization. MARION BAND TO PLAY AT MOORE HOSPITAL The Marion High School band will present a program at Moore General Hospital Sunday, Glenn i Palmer, director, announced this week. The band, consisting of 60 pieces,, will leave Sunday afternoon and re turn in the evening. Invitation was issued by Miss Marguerite Parish, field director of the American Red Cross. County Board Places 78 Men In 1-A Bracket Fifty-Eight Others Are As signed Draft Status On List Posted Recently. One hundred and thirty-six men were reclassified by the McDowell draft board during the past week with seventy-eight placed in class 1-A. A large percent of the group are married men and many of them fathers. Placed in 1-A were: Clarence E. Finley, Lester H. Hensley, George A. Effler, Thomas R. Carswell, Elmer L. McGinnis, Roy D. Owenby, Rassie I. Swink, James T. Williams, Colin Wall, Wil liam L. Snypes, Perry L. Tilley, George M. Wiggins, J. R. Harris, Jr., Rans M. Vess, Clyde G. Rabb, William L. Early, Paul E. Hendley. Jonas C. McCraw, Charlie M. Wright, Paul S. Mai*tin, Mack A. Massey, Narl C. Smith, Clarence W. Buckner, Claud E. Morgan, Fred C. Hensley, Eugene D. Hitchcock, Glenn T. Tolliver, Dolph A. Walker, James R. Blackwell, Lee F. Parker, Fred R. Smith, Willie R. Bowman, Paul Flynn, Clarence Y. Moore, Vance Cox, Claude F. Lonon. Pless P. Jones, Joseph E. Cuth rell, Clarence W. Patterson, Tim J. Morgan, Ed. Moore, Paul Frady, Roscoe Mace, James H. Finley, Ad die Y. Causby, William B. Sowers, Bracher Heniine, Roy P. Rabb, Jesse J. Owensby, Alvin W. Rader, Ross Lewis, David E. Burnette, Lat E. Robinson, Herman J. Pitman, Lewis B. Johnson, Arthur E. Hol land. Jay Crawley, Hicks H. Hill, Kins ley E. Giles, Benjamin F. Walker, Clyde G. Hensley, Samuel R. Dun can, Ervin W. Martin, Ruben H. Mc Kinney, James A. Carswell, Ray mond C. Dennie, Charles H. Trinks. Homer Lawing, Donald J. Evans, Ira F. Knupp, Paul V. Lusk, James R. Ward, Roy Woody. Colored—Willie A. Jenkins, Jam es F. Twitty, John E. Wallace, Wil lie A. Fullwood, and Hyam F. Smith. ANNUAL SALE EASTER SEALS NOW UNDER WAY The McDowell County Society for Crippled Children urges full support to the annual sale of Easter seals to> finance the program for crippled children. The seal sale, which is sponsored nationally by the National Society for Crippled Children and participat ed in by over 2,000 county and local units, will close on Easter Sunday. "During these weeks before East er the annual sale of Easter seals calls our attention to the many prob lems occasioned not only by the growing up of crippled children, but to the problem of those young adult* who have been injured either in bat tle or in the stepped-up tempo of wartime industrial life." Last year approximately 225,000. civilian workers in the United Stated suffered permanent physical dissa~ bilities of such a nature as to make their re-employment a special prob lem. One of the most acute wartime needs is that of readjusting disabled youth to the world in which they live so that they can become normal pro ducing members of society. "Because crippled children grow up and because they want to become contributing members of society, the program of correcting physical de fects through medical care and sur gery assumes unusual significance this year. We can all do our part to support this splendid movement in buying Easter seals. Half of the amount realized from the sale of these seals is sent to the State De partment through which the terat ment and rehabilitation of crippled, children is carried on; the other half is kept in the county where it is used to purchase artificial limbs, special built shoes, braces and many other services for local crippled children. A clinic for the crippled is held twice a month at the- Asheville Or thopedic Home at Biltmore, N. C* where examinations are given with out cost and hospitalization provid-, ed when needed. The Welfare De partment urges the public to report to them any child in need of such services.
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