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.