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 13, 1944
VOL. XLVIIi— NO. 51
McDowell Goes
Over The Top
In Bond Drive
Report Shows Sales Of $54,
000. In Excess Of County
"Qu°ta Of $446,000.
Unprecedented response to the
appeal to buy War Bonds has swell
«d the total of bonds purchased in
McDowell County during the Fifth
"War Loan to $500,000.
The impressive total as reported
by the Federal Reserve Bank to the
local chairman exceeds the quota of
$446,000 by $54,000. This repre
sents the high mark for bond cam
paigns in this county.
The total sales of "E" bonds, as
reported by the Federal Reserve
Bank yesterday, was short of the
quota of $182,000 by about $10,
000. Reports this week, however,
indicate that the amount of "E"
bonds sold is substantially larger
and that the quota will be exceeded
when final reports are made.
Any "E" bonds sold during the
month of July will apply on this
quota because all are dated July 1.
The people of the county are urged
to continue their patriotic backing
of the war effort during the month
with their dollars that McDowell
County can have an unparalleled
record for the Fifth War Loan.
The bond sale conducted by the
local druggists last Friday afternoon j
resulted in sales amounting to $64,- j
762.50, cash value, or $86,350 at
maturity v&lue.
The total figures in the druggists
campaign had not been tabulated at
the time of going to press yesterday.
TWO CASES OF POLIO
REPORTED IN COUNTY;
ODINANCE ADOPTED
The McDowell County Board of
■Health at a meeting here last Fri
day afternoon reported that up to
July 7 two cases of infantile para
lysis had developed in McDowell
county.
In or'der to prevent the spread of
the disease and to protect the public
so far as it can, the board adopted
•ain odinance prohibiting all children
under 15 years of age from visiting1
all places where people congregate,
such as swimming beaches, wading
pools, shows, carnivals, schools,
churches, picnics, summer camps,
■etc.
The board also requested that the
public cooperate with the board and
^follow these recommendations:
1. Avoid public places, especial
ly picnics, swimming pools, public
grounds, and all public gatherings
■ of every nature. Parents are re
quested to keep their children off tre
public streets and from congregat- j
ing in groups at any place what
s«ever.
2. Do not visit sick children un- j
^til a doctor has been seen and a
^diagnosis of the case has been
made.
6. neep cnnaren at nome, ex
cept when necessary to go to a doc
tor's office for treatment. If pos
sible, call the doctor first or see a
nurse before taking a child to the
doctor's offiffice.
4. Keep trash receptacles cover
ed until trash is removed and burn
ed.
5. People having cows or horses
should keep the manure in a pile
and sprinkled once a week with
lime or borax to keep down flies.
6. The room in which there is
a Infantile Paralysis victim should
be screened and all flies that get |
into such room should be killed in
such room. Use a disinfectant for j
nasal secretion and expectoration,
burn the cleansing tissue after
using and wash hands immediately
after handling such tissue.
No new cases have been reported
ithis week.
-CAMAK TO PREACH AT
UNION SERVICE SUNDAY
Dr. D. E. Camak will be speaker
at the union service of the Metho
dist, Baptist and Presbyterian
churches to be held on the lawn be
tween the Methodist and Baptist
churches Sunday evening at 8
o'clock.
LEGION AND AUXILIARY
INSTALL NEW OFFICERS
AT MEET TUESDAY NIGHT
Officers of the American Legion
Post 56 and the Legion Auxiliary
were installed at a joint meeting of
those organizations held Tuesday
evening at the community building.
After a picnic supper the meeting
was called to order by Ben Hendley,
commander, and Howard Hoover, a
former district commander, intro
duced J. E. Melton, new district
commander, who presided over the
meeting.
J. E. Melton installed legion of
ficers as follows:
Carr Bell, commander, succeeding
Ben Hendley; George C. Crawford,
first vice-commander; William M.
Gladden, second vice-commander;
George W. Wilson, adjutant; J. H.
Beaman, finance officer; John S. j
Wilson, service officer; W. R. Cham-j
bers, guardianship; Dr. Carl Mc
Murray, chaplain; W. Ed Conley,
sergeant-at-arms; W. R. Burleson,
historian; Morris Carter, athletics;
Dr. D. M. Mcintosh, Sr., child wel
fare officer; Howard Hoover, Ameri-1
canism; Cecil B. Dobson, national
defense officer; John E. Melton,
grave registration officer; Barron j
Caldwell, employment officer; Ern
est F. Haire, boys' state officer; B.
H. Laughridge, Boy Scout officer; S.
E. Proqtor, membership; J. Grayson
Neal, publicity; sons of legion, J. C.J
Bowman.
Mrs. Oscar Miller, of Caldwell!
county, past vice department presi- j
dent of the Auxiliary, installed the i
following officers of the local aux-1
iliary:
Mrs. Ueorgia Nichols, president, j
succeeding Mrs. H. C. Mangum; Mrs.!
G. W. Kirkpatrick, vice-president;
Mrs. C. A. Workman, chaplain; Mrs. j
Ben Hendley, sergeant-at-arms; Mrs.
H. C. Mangum, historian. Mrs. j
Julia Stanley was recently re-elect-!
ed secretary-treasurer.
J. A. Bush, commander of the j
Kindle-Dysart Post at Lenoir, was J
?uest speaker for the evening. He j
;old of the progress that had been
nade by that post stating that two
pears ago there were about 100 j
members and no money. At the!
present time, Mr. Bush stated, the
post has bought a Legion home for j
$11,000 and that amount has been j
fully paid. He also said that there \
is $400 in the treasury and the mem- j
bership has increased to 400. He
said that the Legion is the outstand
ing organization of Caldwell county.
Mr. Bush urged that all posts of
the American Legion begin plans to :
provide employment for veterans of j
World War II when they return and !
to extend to them a hearty welcome
into civilian life.
C. S. Gibson, local legionaire, pre
sented certificates for 25 years con- i
tinuous service in the legion to flow- j
ard Hoover and Ben Hendley in rec- j
ognition of their service.
Frank White, past district com-!
mander of the 7th district, made a!
few brief remarks. j
Mrs. C. A. Workman presented a j
gift to Mrs. H. C. Mangum, who has |
served as auxiliary president for the
past six years, on behalf of the aux
iliary in recognition of her service, j
GRANT SIX DIVORCES
IN SUPERIOR COURT
j
The July civil term of McDowell
county superior court convened here
Monday with Judge J. A. Rousseau
of North Wilkesboro presiding.
Six divorce cases were granted
Monday after which the case of
Juanita Gray versus the Western
Carolina Power company was taken
up and is now under way.
Divorces were granted in the fol
lowing cases: Ray Cooper Tate
versus Charles Russell Tate, Andrew
James Austin versus Melda Edwards
Austin, Virginia Gray Lewis versus1
James Lona Lewis, Thomas Walter j
Anderson versus Letha Belle Hutch
ins Anderson, S. E. Harrill, Sr., ver
sus Mae Harrill, Elsie Mae Ruff ver
sus Paul Ruff. The last two cases!
were removed from Rutherford
county to this county.
HAWKINS ASSIGNED TO
UNIT AT UNIVERSITY
Cameron Wilton Hawkins of Mar-:
ion has been assigned to the Navy's
V-12 unit at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill for the new
term beginning July 1. He is one
of 1,330 apprentice seamen of the
Navy and privates of the Marine
Corps who will study there during
the next four months as members of
the Navy's officer training program.
Sharp Increase
Is Reported In
Postal Receipts
Gain For First Six Months Of
This Year Is $2,252.81 Over
Same Period Last Year.
Receipts at the Marion postoffice
for the month of June were $4,
282.32, as compared with $3,782.46
for June, 1943, representing a gain
of $499.86 last month over the
same month of the previous year.
The report, filed by Postmaster
Barron Caldwell, shows that for the
June quarter, 1944, the receipts at
the local postoffice were $11,912.53,
as compared with $10,836.82 for
the quarter ending June 30, 1943,
showing a gain of $1,075.71 for the
quarter ending June 30, 1944, over
the same quarter of the previous
year.
The receipts for the quarter end
ing March 31, 1944, were $11,
163.30, compared with $9,986.20
for the quarter ending March 31,
1943, showing an increase of $1,
177.30 over the first quarter of last
year.
The total receipts for the first
six months of 1944 were $23,075.83,
compared with $20,823.02 for the
six month period ending June 30,
1943, showing a gain of $2,252.81,
or 18% for the six months period
ending June 30, 1944, over the same
period of the previous year.
FRANKLIN RESIDENCE
DESTROYED BY FIRE
THURSDAY EVENING
The residence of 0. S. Franklin,
a nine-room two-story structure, lo
cated on the Airport road north of
Marion, was destroyed by fire last
Thursday evening about 7:30
o'clock. The fire started in the
second story of the building and
the roof was in flames when discov
ered by Mr. Franklin while at work
in the garden. The fire depart
ment promptly responded to the
alarm, but being out of reach of
the water line the firemen were un
able to extinguish the blaze.
The entire contents of the build
ing, including clothing and all per
sonal belongings of the family, were
also destroyed.
The loss of the building is esti
mated at about $6,000 with $2,000
insurance. There was no insurance
on the household goods and furni
ture. !
SHOULD APPLY FOR GAS
RATION LONG BEFORE
OLD RATION EXPIRES
The local office of the War Price
and Rationing board is making ev
ery effort to serve the public ef
ficiently, with as little inconvenience
as is possible to those making appli
cations for the various rationed
commodities.
At the present time the large vol
ume of applications for "B" and
"C" gasoline rations makes it im
possible to process the application
while the applicant waits. With
this thought in mind local rationing
officials are making an appeal to
holders of "B" and "C" gasoline ra
tions to apply for renewal of their
ration a week or ten days before the
old ration expires. The practice of
processing the applications "while
you wait" will be discontinued and
the new ration will be mailed as
soon as possible after application for
renewal has been received by the
local board.
The applicant should mail in his
request for renewal of gasoline "B"
or "C" rations, rather than apply in
person.
PVT. POTEAT REPORTED
KILLED IN ACTION
Pvt. Bruce Brown Poteat, prev
iously listed as missing in action,
was killed May 27 in Italy, accord
ing to a recent casualty list.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Poteat of Marion and had
served overseas since September,
1943. He received his basic train
ing at Camp Rucker, Alabama. He
was a student of Glenwood high
school. His brother, Cpl. Milo
French Poteat, is now stationed in
Nevada.
Grady Nichols
Is New Head Of
N. C. Sheriffs
Gregg Cherry And Edward
Scheidt Of The FBI Speak
At Annual Meeting.
Grady Nichols of Marion, sheriff
of McDowell county, was named
president of the Sheriff's Associa
tion of North Carolina at the annual
meeting in Hendersonville last
Thursday. Sheriff Nichols succeeds
Sheriff C. V. Faulkner of Nash
county.
S. R. Churchill, sheriff of Lenoir
county, was named first vice-presi
dent, and Ray E. Pitts of Newton,
sheriff of Catawba county, second
vice-president. John R. Morris, ex
sheriff of New Hanover county, was
reelected as secretary and treasurer,
and L. P. McNicholl, deputy sheriff
of New Hanover county, will con
tinue as field representative.
Winston-Salem was selected as
the site of next year's convention.
At the afternoon session of the
convention, Edward Scheidt, agent
in charge of the Charlotte office of
the FBI, spoke briefly to the con
vention, commending the sheriffs on
their fine cooperation with the FBI j
and their work in aiding the war
effort of the state.
Also introduced at the session
were Thomas Creekmore, head of
the state bureau of investigation;
Captain C. D. Farmer of the state :
highway patrol; W. E. Alexander!
and J. Scroop Styles of the parole |
department.
The present world conflict has
brought increased burdens to the j
law enforcement officers of the
state, and the years that follow the
war will bring mpre and more bur
dens, but the sheriffs of this state
will meet the challenge of the peace
as they have met the challenge of
the war, R. Gregg Cherry, Demo
cratic nominee for governor, told
the sheriffs at their banquet meet-i
ing Thursday night.
MERCHANTS WILL MEET
THURSDAY EVENING
The regular monthly meeting of
the Marion Merchants Association
will be held Thursday evening, July
13 in the Firemen's Room, City Hall;
at 8 o'clock.
David S. Gray, Interviewer of the ;
United States Employment Service,'
will be present to explain the new i
War Manpower Commission's regu
lations as they pertain to hiring pro- >
cedures in non - essential employ- j
ment.
Other matters of importance will 1
be discussed. J
Officers to serve during the ensu
ing year will be elected.
Each member is urged to be pres
ent. j
BALDWIN COMMISSIONED I
SECOND LIEUTENANT
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Herman Baldwin received his j
silver pilot's wings in a ceremony!
at Moore Field, Mission, Texas in j
June and was commissioned a Sec-'
ond Lieutenant in the army air j
corps.
Baldwin volunteered for service
in the air corps in the fall of 1942
and was called into active duty
February, 1943. He began his
training at the induction center at
Miami, Florida and was given furth
er training at Memphis State Col
lege, Memphis, Tenn. and the clas
sification center at San Antonio,
Texas.
He completed his primary train-:
ing at Uvalde, Texas, basic flying
training at Waco, Texas, and ad
vanced training at Moore Field,
Mission, Texas.
Lt. Baldwin is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh A. Baldwin of Clinch-1
field. He is a graduate of the Mar- j
,ion high school.
schools of Mcdowell
COUNTY OPEN AUGUST 7
; The McDowell County schools will j
open the fall term on Monday, Au
gust 7, it was announced this week
by county superintendent N. F.
Steppe.
j Buy More War Bonds,
I
HEADS N. C. SHERIFFS — i
Grady Nichols named president of j
State association at annual meeting |
last week.
EIGHTEEN McDOWELL
MEN LEAVE FOR CAMP
CROFT FOR INDUCTION
Eighteen McDowell county men ■
who had already passed examination '
left here last Thursday for Camp j
Croft for induction and assignment ,
to duty with the armed forces. The
group was composed of the follow-j
ing:
James Clarence Rabb, Daniel Eu-i
gene Hitchcock, Glenn Grayson!
Early, Paul Wilson Lavender, The
ron Franklin McCanty, Ernest Earl
Franklin, James Wesley Moore,
Homer Lawing, Kenneth Whitley
Rabb, Wade Burleson Rumfelt.j
Homer Emerson Robertson, Arthur i
I
Raymond Jones, Carroll Benjamin j
Beck, William Clyde Revis, John!
Ben Lawing, Ervin Washington
Max-tin, Woodrow Wilson Byrd and
Roy Lawing. j
EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
MUST BE INFORMED AS
TO JOBS EMPLOYER HAS
- ' '
The United States Employment
Service of the War Manpower Com- j
mission, with offices on the third
floor of the court house, has issued I
the following statements concerning
the hiring of employees: j
All male workers must be hired
through or by arrangement with the
United States Employment Service.!
Women who have never worked
or who have been unemployed for
the past 60 days may be hired by
filling out a Certificate of Prior Em
ployment. Women who have been
working in non-essential work may
be hired by this same procedure.
All women whose last employ
ment, within the past 60 days, was
in essential work will be hired
through or by arrangement with the
U. S. Employment Service.
It is very necessary that the Unit
ed States Employment Service be
kept fully informed as to the jobs
each employer in this county' has as
the Employment Service will not be
permitted to issue referral cards or
statements of availability to people j
for jobs which are not on file in the
local U. S. Employment Service of
fice. Each employer is required to;
report to the U. S. Employment Ser-;
vice each week the number of people
that have been hired for work and
the number of separations.
CAPT. BYRD AWARDED
OAK LEAF CLUSTER
Captain Bacchus B. Byrd, Jr. has
been awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster
"for meritorious achivement" while i
participating in operational flight j
missions in the Southwest Pacific
during which hostile contact was
probable and expected.
The Cluster is in addition to a1
previous award of the Air Medal
and is equivalent to having won that
decoration a second time.
These flight missions included es
corting bombers and transport plan
es, interception and attack missions,
and patrol and reconnaissance
flights as part of the co-ordainated
air, land and sea offensive General
McArthur is making against the
Japanese in the South and South
west Pacific. In the course of the
operations, strafing and bombing at
tacks were made from dangerously
low altitudes; destroying and dam
agin enemy installations and equip
ment."
He is with a fighter squadron of
the Fifth Air Force.
Capt. Byrd is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. B. Byrd, Sr. of 343 State
street, Marion.
Wilkinson To
Head War Fund
Drive This Fall
District Meeting To Be Held
In Asheville Friday To Or
ganize For October Drive.
Successful local leadership in the
>even county area included in Dist
rict Two of the United War Fund
}f North Carolina was assured with
the announcement Saturday of the
ippointment of county chairmen by
lames G. K. McClure, chairman of
District Two.
Counties included in the district
ire Buncombe, Henderson, Madison,
Mitchell, McDowell, Transylvania
ind Yancey.
Mayor J. F. Wilkinson of Marion
ivill head the drive in McDowell
:ounty, succeeding W. W. Neal, Jr.,
.vho has led past successful War
F\ind and USO campaigns in Mc
Dowell; J. S. Silversteen of Brevard
s chairman of Transylvania county,
ind Guss Peterson of Burnsville will
ead the volunteer workers of Yan
:ey county.
An organizational luncheon meet
ng of county chairmen and mem
bers of their executive committees
vill be held in Asheville Friday, July
L4, at the George Vanderbilt Hotel,
t was announced by District Chair
nan James G. K. McClure.
County quotas will be discussed
md plans initiated for organization,
publicity and methods of solicita
tion. Each county committee will
include representative citizens of
each township or large section.
A. G. Glenn, Winston-Salem, field
representative of the United War
Fund of North Carolina, in charge
of Western North Carolina, will at
tend the luncheon and will assist
county leaders in organizational
work.
The nation-wide solicitation cam
paign to finance the 17 war emer
gency relief agencies of the Nation
al War Fund will be held simul
taneously in all states and counties
in October.
ROOSEVELT TO ACCEPT
4TH TERM NOMINATION
IF IT IS TENDERED HIM
Washington, July 11.—President
Roosevelt announced today that he
.vill accept a fourth term if tendered
;o him by the Democratic conven
;ion.
Replying to a letter from Demo
iratic National Chairman Robert E.
ETannegan, who told the president
lis nomination was assured, Mr.
Roosevelt said:
"If the convention should carry
;his out, and nominate me for the
presidency, I shall accept. If the
people elect me, I will serve."
"I would accept and serve," Mr.
Roosevelt said in his letter, "but I
ivould not run, in the usual partisan,
political sense.
"But if the people command me
bo continue in this office and in thi3
war, I have as little right to with
draw as the soldier has to leave his
post in the line."
Mr. Roosevelt told Hannegan his
decision was reached "reluctantly"
because "all that is within me cries
jut to go back to my home on the
Hudson river, to avoid public re
sponsibilities, and to avoid also the
publicity which in our democracy
follows every step of the nation's
:hief executive."
l)OBSON transferred to
NAVY PRE-FL1GH.T SCHOOL
Naval Aviation Cadet Charles W
Dobson, of Nebo, has reported to
:he U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School in
Athens, Ga., for intensive physical
training and ground school study.
The course, of at least three months
juration, is a preliminiary step in
;he progressive stages of flight
training for future Navy, Coast
Guard, and Marine combat pilots.
Dobson, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.
B. Dobson, of Marion, graduated
from Nebo High School in 1942 and
attended Wake Forest College for
two years. He completed Naval
Flight Preparatory School at Colum
bia, S. C., and was transferred to
Athens, Ga., from the CCA Train
ing Service School, Athens.