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, AUGUST 12, 1948 VOL. 53—No. 4
Shelby Farmers
Win Over Marion
Shelby.—Despite Chuek Ferguson
and Johnny Gold's homers which
scored Marion's four runs, Walter
Alexander's superb fielding and hit
ting sparked the Shelby Farmers to
a 5-4 verdict over the Marauders
here Tuesday night in a Western
Carolina league game.
Walter Alexander was the big gun
for the Shelby attack, hitting three
for four, while Johnny Gold led the
losers with two for four including
a homer in the 9th with one on.
Summary R H E
Marion 4 7 1
Shelby 5 7 1
Manager Wes Ferrell's Marion
Marauders swept both ends of a
doubleheader from Morganton^ here
Thursday night, winning the first
tilt by a 3-1 edge and taking the
second game 9-5, both of which were
Western Carolina league clash.
Big Lawson Brown pitching four
hit ball was the fairheaded boy for
the Marauders in the first victory
as his mates got to Kish for six scor
ing hits.
In the second game Marion rallied
in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings
to overhaul the Morganton lead and
go out front by a 7-5 score. They
added two more runs in the eighth.
FIRST GAME
Summary
Morganton
Marion
R H E
1 4 0
3 6 1
SECOND GAME
Summary
R H E
5 12 0
9 11 1
Marion
Caskey, taking the mound in the
third inning after Marion had pulled
ahead 8 to 7, spaced out two hits
and allowed no runs the remaining
six and one-half stanzas to give Hen
dersonville a 12-8 Western Carolina
league vistory here Friday night.
The Skylarks pulled back into the
lead by scoring two off a pair of hits,
a hit batter and fielding error in the
fourth, and were never headed.
Summary R H E
Hendersonville 12 15 1
Marion 8 10 6
It took the Marion Marauders 13
innings to defeat the Shelby Farmers
5 to 3 here Monday night in a West
ern Carolina league clash.
Shelby took on a first inning lead
with three runs. Marion tied the
ball game up in the seventh and then
tallied 2 more runs in the 13th for
the win.
ECKENROD STUDIO
HAS MOVED INTO
NEW BUILDING
Eckenrod's Studio and Camera
Shop has been moved into the new
building recently erected by W. B.
Eckenrod on East Court street, be
low the Hotel James.
Eckenrod came to Marion from
Canton 12 years ago. Before occupy
ing his new building his studio was
located over Roses Store.
The studio and camera shop oc
cupies the entire first floor and is
equipped with the most modern
photographic equipment.
Old Fort Men Plan
Chamber Of Commerce
A group of Old Fort citizens and
business men met at the Ragle Hotel
in Old Fox-t Monday to discuss possi
bilities of organizing a Chamber of
Commerce.
Although no definite steps were
taken at the meeting, members of
the group expressed an interest in
rthe establishment of an organization
of that type in Old Fort.
Tentative plans were made to meet
again in the near future and make
further plans.
Auto Accident
S. E. Whitten, who wa3 treated at
the Marion General Hospital for in
juries received in an automobile ac
cident Sunday afternoon, returned to
his home on North Main street Mon
day night.
Mrs. S. E. Whitten and Miss Eliza
beth Whitten, who were also in the
car, received minor injuries.
Women To Discuss
Referendum On Sale
Of Beer And Wine
A mass meeting for women will
be held at the First Baptist church
here at eight o'clock on the evening
of August 18 in the interest of the
approaching referendum on the sale
of beer and wine, it is announced
this week.
The meeting will be interdenomi
national. Women have been appoint
ed in a number of churches through
out the county to arouse interest in
the approaching election.
The program has been announced
as follows:
"Facts We Need to Know About
Beer in McDowell County," Rev. M.
0. Owens, Jr.
"Why I Want to See Beer Voted
Out of McDowell County," B. F.
Pollard, president of the Allied
Church League.
"Why Beer is a Hazard to Youth,"
Larry Gibson, representative of the
young people.
"A Woman's View Point," Mrs.
John Hoyle, wife of the Marion dis
trict superintendent.
"How Women Can Help in the
Approaching Election," Rev. R. I.
Corbett.
Lutheran Movie
Is Postponed
"Reaching from Heaven" — an
other of the films produced by the
Lutheran Church — was scheduled
for showing in Marion next week in
connection with the ending of the
Vacation Bible School.
The Bible School was dropped im
mediately when the ban on the con
gregating of children went into ef
fect. Last Sunday the congregation
at St. Matthew's decided to postpone
the showing of the film until the
children of the community can also
attend the showing of it.
FUNERALRITEjf
FOR MRS. PARKER
TO BE HELD TODAY ,
Mrs. Marjorie McClung Parker,
39, daughter of Rev. George Harlan
McClung, D. D., and Mrs. McClung
of Watertown, New York, died Tues
noon in Grace Hospital, Morganton.
Funeral services will be conducted
at four o'clock, Thursday, at the
First Methodist church, Marion.
Mrs. Parker graduated from high
school at Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and also from the University of Mich
igan in 1932. She received her mas
ter's degree in music from the Uni
versity of Michigan, 1933.
In the fall of 1933 she sailed for
Europe where she studied for two
years in Vienna. Upon her return
she filled concert engagements
throughout eastern United States
and sang soprano roles with leading
symphony orchestras of this country.
She was invited to return to
Europe in 1938 where she was so
prano soloist for the Bach program
in the Salzberg Festival. Upon her
return she became soprano soloist at
Riverside church, New York City,
for eight years and was also assist
ant professor of voice at Vassar col
lege the year prior to coming to
Marion.
Since coming to Marion she has
sung throughout the state having
been soloist at the First Presbyterian
church in Morganton, guest soloist
at Myers Park Presbyterian church,
Charlotte, and at Vesper Services at
Davidson college.
She sang soprano in Handel's
Messiah under the direction of James
Christian Pfohl at Charlotte, and Da
vidson college last December. At
Easter she sang a soprano solo role
in the oratorio, "The Seven Last
Words," at the Home Moravian
church in Winston-Salem.
For the past year she has been a
member of the faculty in the music
department of Montreat college,
Montreat.
She was a member of the following
fraternities: Delta Gamma, Mu Phi,
Iota Kappa Alpha.
She was married July 24, 1943 to
David Nelson Parker in Riverside
chapel, New York City.
She is survived by her husband;
infant daughter, Marjorie Harlan; a
brother, George Harlan McClung,
Jr.; her parents and her grandmoth
er, Mrs. J. Brooks Davis of Paxton,
Illinois.
Receives Honor
E. H. McMAHAN, Brevard attor
ney - at - law, former resident of
Marion, was elected to the post of
International Director of the world
wide Lions organization at the an
nual convention in New York City
last week end. More than 800 Lions
from North Carolina attended the
event and paid McMahan high honors
following the election. He is the son
of Mrs. Eva McMahan.
POLIO COMMITTEE
NAMES COMMITTEES
TO MEET TUESDAY
The McDowell County Infantile
Paralysis committee named an exec
utive committee, a medical advisory
committee and a woman's activities
committee at a meeting held Tuesday
in the office of Mrs. D. N. Lonon,
county welfare superintendent.
The executive committee was nam
ed as follows: R. W. Twitty. W. W.
Neal, Jr., Horace Early, S. R. Cross,
T. W. Gowan, J. N. Morris and N. F.
Steppe. S. J. Westmoreland, chair
man; H. F. Beam, vice chairman;
Mrs. D. N. Lonon, secretary, and M.
W. Gordon, treasurer, are exofficio
members of the board.
Dr. J. F. Jonas, former chairman
of the Infantile Paralysis, was elect
ed chairman of the medical advisory
committee; Dr. Lloyd Miller and Miss
Irene Clark, county health nurse,
are also members of the committee.
Mrs. John A. Poteat and Mrs.
Glenn Morris were named as a wo
man's activities committee.
John W. Setzer and Miss Elizabeth
Whitten were appointed members of
a public information committee.
Mark Sumner, state representative
of the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis, discussed the work
of Infantile Paralysis committees in
North Carolina and the current polio
epidemic. He said 1,478 cases of
polio had been reported in North
Carolina, exceeding' the number re
ported in either California and Tex
as. He pointed out that 51 per cent
returned home after the period of
isolation with no permanent defects.
Forty-six per cent of the patients in
the current epidemic are children
born after the 1944 epidemic, he
said.
American Legion
Membership Drive
To Start Wednesday
The American Legion made plans
to launch a membership drive next
Wednesday, at its meeting- here
Tuesday night.
Hubert Brown and Glenn Norman
were appointed co-chairmen heading
the following membership commit
tee: Ben Hendley, Ray Minish, W.
E. Carter, Stoney Brooks, Paul Hol
combe, Edward Rowe, Glenn Early,
Eddie Stewart, Sam Proctor, Fred
Willis, Arnold Morgan, John Melton,
Claude Revis, Clyde Revis, Watson
Wilson, Ray Brown, Guy Lonon, Otis
Lonon and Lloyd Foster.
Rev. John Hoyle, Jr.
To Preach At Bethel
The Rev. John Hoyle, Jr., Marion
District superintendent, will preach
at Bethel Methodist church next
Sunday night, August 15, service to
begin at 7:30. Following the ser
mon, he will conduct the business
session for the fourth quarterly con
ference for the Old Fort Circuit.
Charge officials for 1949 will be
nominated and elected.
HOMECOMING
AT SILOAM
WELL ATTENDED
Despite the threatening weather
and the current polio crisis and re
strictions which kept children from
attending, the thirteenth annual
homecoming at Siloam Presbyterian
church was well attended.
Arrangements for the day were
planned and directed by Mrs. Lester
Dawkins of Hickory, president of the
homecoming association, and mem
bers of her committee. The celebra
tion this year marked the one hun
dredth sixtieth year of continuous
history of the church since the estab
lishment of Pleasant Gardens Mis
sion in 1778, which became Siloam
church.
Miss Mary Jo Greenlee of Mor
ganton responded for the visitors to
a welcome by Murray Mackey. Rev.
Walter H. Goodman, a former pas
tor, made the principal talk of the
day. His theme was, "Love One An
other,"—"the closer we are together
the closer we are to God." The music
was lovely. A beautiful violin solo
was rendered by Miss Nancy Green
lee of Charlotte, and a piano duet
by Misses Margaret Ledbetter and
Mary Jo Greenlee.
Miss Ledbetter and Miss Nancy
Greenlee gave a brief music program
preceding the afternoon session. Mrs.
Francis Bradsher conducted a mem
orial service for those former mem
bers of the church and Sunday
School who had been claimed by
death duijjng the past year. Miss
Mary Greenlee gave interesting bits
of history of the church that she and
others had unearthed since last
homecoming.
The matter of the old church
graveyard, the upkeep, the location
of graves on a map, the division into
lots, was discussed and committees
were asked to make necessary in
vestigations and formulate plans for
actipn. Ancestors of many promin
ent McDowell county families are
buried in the old cemetery and a
number of individuals who were
widely known, including Jack Pence,
the famous driver of the stage caoch
from Old Fort across the mountain
to Asheville when Old Fort was the
terminal of the Western North Car
olina railroad.
THIRD ANNUAL
COUNTY CORN TOUR
TO STARTTODAY
McDowell county's third annual
corn tour will be conducted on
Thursday and Friday, August 12 and
lo, Carl Whiteside, assistant county
agent, announced this week. "M'uch
interest has been shown for the past
two years in this tour, and it is antic
ipated that there will be more inter
est this year than ever before," he
said.
Dr. E. R. Collins, in charge of
Agronomy Extension for the State
of North Carolina, will attend this
tour and will discuss the proper
methods of growing corn ^s the tour
progresses. He will also bring out
the advantages of growing hybrid
corn over growing open pollinated
varieties. On this trip the following
things will be observed: the selection
of adapted hybrid seed corn, crop
rotation, seed bed preparation, the
use of commercial fertilizers, the ad
vantages of growing cover crops,
proper cultivation, the use of Nitro
gen as a side dressing, and the proper
spacing of corn both in the row and
between the rows.
During this tour hybrid coi*n vari
ety tests here in the county will be
observed and comments will be made
in regard to the merits of each of
the hybrids and their advantages
over open pollinated corn.
The tours will start from in front
of the courthouse at 9:00 o'clock
each morning. Here is the general
outline of the route that will be fol
lowed for the two days. On Thurs
day morning August 12, leave the
courthouse a id go to Guy Little's
place on Goose Creek, then to Sugar
Hill, from there to Glenwood. How
ard Lawing's farm at Glenwood will
be visited and everyone attending
will be able to see exactly how hy
brid corn is produced.
From there to Dysartsville and
visit the farms of the following
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Rippers To Start Practice Monday;
Season Opens September 10th
Fire Department
Meets Competition
The Marion Fire Department met
competition here this morning.
Workmen were operating a kero
sene fire pot in front of the new
building now under construction on
South Main street to prepare roof
ing for the new building. A breeze
fanned the flames in the direction
of the guage which controls the heat
and the workmen could not lower
the temperature.
The blaze rose about ten feet in
the air just as S. C. Stimson, Jr., of
Charlotte, representative of the An
sul Dry Chemical Fire Extinguishers,
rode by. Hastening to the firepot
with the extinguisher spraying the
flame, Stimson had put the fire out
just as firemen arrived on the scene.
"Water won't put that kind of fire
out anyway," the workmen said con
solingly.
"That's right," Stimson added,
"this powder generates a water va
por and C02," passing the powder
around so spectators could feel the
soft powder.
Richard Van Dyke and J. M. Col
lins, representatives of Mill Mutual
of Nashville, were also near the
scene of the fire with J. H. Tate, a
local fire insurance agent, just as
the blaze ignited.
The building is being erected by
W. H. Norris and Mrs. Lottie Wise
and is located next door to McDowell
Cleaners.
PRESBYTERIAN SPEAKER
Rev. B. F. Livingston will be guest
speaker at the First Presbyterian
church next Sunday morning in the
absence of Dr. Carl McMurray, pas
tor, who is on vacation.
ALLIED CHURCH
LEAGUE HOLDS
FIVE RALLIES
Last Sunday afternoon the Allied
Church League of McDowell county
held five rallies in the interest of the
coming refei;endum to abolish the
sale of beer and wine in the county.
These rallies were held in various
sections of the county.
One was held in the upper end of
the county in the North Cove High
School auditorium, attended by resi
dents of the Ashford, Sevier, Wood
lawn, Pepper's Creek, Coxes Creek,
Turkey Cove and North Cove com
munities. Principal speaker was the
Rev. Frank Robinson, associational
missionary for the Baptists of Mc
Dowell county. Other speakers were
B. F. Pollard, Charlie McCall and
Rev. Hogan Justice.
The western section of the county
met in the Old Fort Baptist church.
Speakers were Dr. H. E. Walden,
Rev. N. S. Og'burn and others.
The southern end of the county
met in the Glenwood Baptist church.
Rev. C. C. Cross, pastor of the East
Marion Baptist church, was the
principal speaker.
The fourth rally was held in the
Clear Creek Baptist church with the
Rev. M. 0. Owens, Jr. as the speaker.
The largest rally was held at the
Cross Mill Baptist church. This meet
ing was presided over by Rev. P. L.
Smith, pastor of the Cross Mill Meth
odist church. The principal speaker
was Audrey Hern, associate editorial
secretary of the Baptist Sunday
School Board, Nashville, Tenn., and
the author of "Alcohol, the Destroy
er." Virgil Bradburn also spoke.
The Allied Church League is plan
ning a large Mass Meeting to be
held in Marion on Sunday, August
29. Outside speakers have been in
vited.
Dr. D. M. Nelson, Jr., pastor of
the Calvary Baptist church, Kansas
City Missouri, is to be the preacher
at the First Baptist church on next
Sunday. He is a Ph D graduate of
the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. He
is pastor of one of the largest Bap
tist churches in Missouri. His church
is the second largest in Kansas City.
Rev. M. O. Owens, Jr., pastor of the
First Baptist church is away on va
cation.
Football practice will begin Mon
day for players over 15 years of age,
Coach Art Ditt said yesterday. Those
15 years of age and younger are
prohibited from attending by an or- -
dinance passed recently in view of
the polio epidemic in the state.
Former players are asked to re
port to the school gymnasium at 9:30
Monday morning for equipment.
Practice will begin at three o'clock
Monday afternoon.
The orange and black team will
meet Olympia High School on the
Olympia, S. C. field September 10
for the opening game of the season.
First home game will be played
with Lenoir on Friday, September 26.
Revival Services
At East Marion
Well Attended
The revival services which opened
at the East Marion Methodist church
last Sunday have been well attend
ed, Rev. T. G. Smith, pastor, said
this week.
"Rev. Paul R. Taylor, of Burns
ville, who has been preaching' for
the services, is a young man with a
sound gospel message which has been,
highly successful with young peo
ple," he said.
The sermon for Thursday night
will be delivered in answer to the
question, "Can A Man Once Saved
Be Eternally Lost?" and will be
preached in response to a request
for information on this subject.
Sermon topics for the week will
be:
"The Way of Transgressors," Fri
day night.
"Absalom's Mule," Saturday
night.
"The Truth About Eternity," Sun
| day night.
| "Seek God First,u Sunday nights
Services are being held each week "
day morning at 10 o'clock, except
Saturday, and on Sunday at 11 a. m.
Night services begin at 7:45. Ser
vices will be continued through Au
gust 15.
N. C. School Building
Plan Mapped Out
Raleigh, Aug. 6.—A six to 10-year
school building program has been,
mapped out by a committee of the
State Education commission to meet
North Carolina's school building
needs.
The commission's plant committee
points out that most of the school
buildings of the state were erected
prior to the development of modern
ideas of educational procedures.
Such buildings are lacking ade
quate space for libraries, lunch
rooms, health clinics, recreational
facilities and rooms for music ami
dramatic arts, as well as for science
and vocational courses.
The plant committee, headed by
M. T. Lambeth of Statesville, says
the administration of the long-rangi
program should be a joint responsi
bility of the state and local govern
ments.
"In many of the schools," the re
port states, "there are rvo provisions
for washing hands. It is rather
meaningless to teach health and at
the same time make no provision for
practicing the fundamental health,
habits."
The committee states that during
the next 10 years the state's white
children will need 250 new school
buildings and 650 additions including
3,500 elementary classrooms, 2,500
high school classrooms, 2,500 special
instruction rooms and 1,500 large*
general rooms. The program also*
would result in the abandoning of -
320 schools now in operation.
Negro students will need 3,500'
elementary classrooms and 1,000
general rooms, 1,500 special instruc
tion rooms and 1,500 high school
classrooms, plus the • accessory ad
ministrative and service facilities.
Attends Meeting
Miss Louise Patton, chief clerk,
attended a meeting of chief clerks,
and county AAA chairmen in Shelby
last Friday.
The purpose of the meeting was
to discuss the AAA program for
1940.