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THE MARION PROGRESS • y~ * A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY . % ESTABLISHED 1896 MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1949 VOLUME S3—No. 50» Marion Voters Oppose Sunday Baseball Games Marion opposed Sunday baseball in an election here Tuesday. There were 822 ballots cast, in cluding four spoiled. The count was 312 in favor of Sunday games and 506 against. The referendum was called by -the Board of Aldermen after peti tions had been presented propos ing that Sunday games be allowed and others opposing the games. All ordinances prohibiting public baseball games in the Town of Ma rion will remain in effect. YOUTH-FOR-CHRIST RALLY SCHEDULED AT CROSS MILL A Youth-For-Christ Rally will be held at Cross Mill Baptist church at 8 p. m., Saturday, July 2, accord ing to announcement this week by Earl Rayburn, publicity chairman for the Rally. An invitation is extended to all - churches in or near Marion to have representatives present. E r n e st of Greensboro, student of the Bob Jones University, will bring the message. The Melodeers will render sev eral numbers, special music will be presented by the trio of the First Baptist church, and Miss Doris ' Gouge will give a vocal solo. Many choruses used in Youth-For-Christ rallies will be included in the pro gram. Rayburn said similar rallies have been held over the nation and many foreign countries in an effort to help make young people better • church citizens. Regular Meeting ■ Of ^Education Board To Be Postponed The regular meeting of the (County Board of Education has been postponed. N. F. Steppe, county superintend ent, said the meeting date occurs on Monday, July 4, and will be post poned in observance of the national ' holiday. The meeting will be held Thursday, July 7. Steppe said, ■ "parties having matters to present to the Board should appear before the Board on July 7." All county offices will be closed Monday, July 4. Double-Header Game On The Fourth Marion will play a double header baseball game with Morganton on July 4. The afternoon game will be played at Morganton and the night game at Marion. BUILDING PERMIT The Town of Marion issued a per mit to Mrs. Frank Anderson Mon day to build a frame dwelling be tween State and Miller streets. Es timated cost of $1,600. MARION TO BE FOGGED WITH DDT The Town of Marion will be fog ged with DDT Thursday of this week, Reece Snyder, town manager, said yesterday. The Orkin Exterminating com pany of Asheville has been employ ed to fog Marion and the operation is expected to be completed in a bout 20 hours. Parents are urged to protect children from the fog by keeping them out of the streets. Residents are also cautioned with regard to tender shrubbery near the street. Protection may be afforded by cov ering the shrubbery or by washing after the fog is completed. Bee keepers should make some provision for protecting their bees, Snyder said. Automobile* should not be left on streets during the spraying because the paint will be discolor ed until they are washed. SHERIFF AND MAYOR DENY "REIGN OF TERROR" EXISTS IN MARION J 4-H Camp Will Be Held At Swannanoa McDowell county 4-H club boys and girls who wish to attend the 4-H camp at Swannanoa, July 15-19 should make application between now and July 8. Girls planning to attend should see Miss Jean Steele, county home demonstration club agent, or Miss Ruby Lea Kiser, assistant agent. Miss Steele said letters have been mailed explaining the plans fully, but any 4-H girl who wishes to at tend is eligible whether or not she received a copy of the letter. She urged applicants to see her or Miss Kiser as soon as possible. Boys who wish to attend are ask ed to notify C. H. Lockhart, assist ant farm agent. The Swannanoa camp will be open to boys and girls from Mc Dowell, Polk and Henderson coun ties during the period July 15-19. ■Community Improvement Project ^Launched At Nebo This Week ' Coroner's Jury Terms Fatal Accident Unavoidable C. G. Grindstaff, who was driv i ing the cab in which Arcemus Chandler of Mars Hill was killed, was given a hearing before a cor ! oner's jury here Monday and the accident termed "unavoidable." The incident occurred June 21 i near Old Fort. Grindstaff, owner and driver of the cab, had brought Chandler to Marion and was return ing to Mars Hill. He said a passing car crowded him off the pavement and the cab overturned when he tried to steer it back onto the pave ment. | MARAUDER SCHEDULE \ ■]! Thursday: Lincolnton at Ma-! Irion. ; Friday: Marion at Newton. Saturday: Newton at Marion. ; Monday: Double header. Mar-;! lion at Morgan ton in the after-; ; noon and Morganton at Marion ; at night. Tuesday: Open date. Wednesday: Marion at Hend ;! ersonville. The Nebo Home Demonstration club is sponsoring a Community Improvement Project, according to announcement this week. There will be a contest for the most improved home, church, store or other place of business and cash prizes will be awarded winners. The contest will run until October 1, 1950, allowing entrants ample time to take a picture before start ing any improvements, then plan and work to the best of his or her ability. When the work is finished, the club asks that another picture be made showing improvements as the winners will be judged by the before and after pictures. Residents of the community are asked to clean up, paint up and fix-up property. The club urges that : grass be sown and shrubbery and j trees planted to add to the attract iveness of each home, store, church, .1 service station, etc. Each person is 1 asked to plant at least one white 1 or pink dogwood' tree on his prop- 1 erty because dogwood has been ] chosen the club flower, 1 The major project of the Dem^ onstration club will be the construc- 1 tion of a community building with i a recreation ground surrounding it. ,1 This building to be for the use of i (Continued on last poise) 1 Replying to a statement from the Washington office of the Uphol sterers International Union (AFL), local law enforcement officers have issued statements denying that a reign of terror exists here. According to the statement of the Union issued last Sunday the following message was wired to Governor Kerr Scott: "Urgently request investigation at your direction of virtual reign of terror against our union's organiz ers at Drexel furniture plant in City of Marion and in McDowell county. "Two successive brutal beatings of organizers Charles Brown and Theodore Freeman, of Asheville, on June 10 and 17, the last in actual presence of city police officers, in dicates cynicarl complicity of city and county law enforcement offi cers in aid of anti-union company's attempt to frustrate rights of labor for free choice of collective bar gaining agency." Sheriff Pool said S. B. Hoffman, president of the Upholsterers In ternational Union, had mme to his office with the request that he send deputies to the Drexel Furniture Company's plant here to protect his union's organizers. "I told him that my office would gladly furnish deputies if the Ma rion police requested them," Pool said. "He then asked me to let him pick members of his union and have me deputize them. Naturally I couldn't do that, no more than I could deputize officials of the Drexel plant. I also told Ml*. Hoff man that my office would -serve any warrants he wanted served." Mayor J. W. Streetman, Jr. made the following statement: "The charges made by the Up holsterers International union and published in the newspapers of the state today that there is a 'reign' of terror' in Marion, are' absolute ly false and without any founda tion of fact. "There have been a' few fist fights between employes of thfe^ Drexel Furniture company tod un on organizers. All persons involv-, }d have been arrested, tried, and jonvicted of an affray and all— anion and non-union men alike—' lave fully complied with the judg- i nent pronounced in my court and 10 appeals have been taken. "I welcome any investigation by he State Bureau of Investigation, ibe Attorney General, or the Gov ;rnor, for I know that such inves igation will clearly reveal that the j aw is being impartially administer- i id and enforced in Marion." An SBI agent made an investiga-, ion' here' Tuesday and gathered in brmationi which- he' will submit to Severn or Seott when he returns rom Colorado- where he attended he National Governor's conference. HOUDAY CLOSINGS ANNOUNCED FOR MARION STORES AND PLANTS SUNDAY HOTTEST DAY OF THE WEE The highest temperaiare reading since last Thursday was on Sunday when the mercury hit &3. Minimum the same day was 68, according to figures recorded at the local weath er bureau. Monday tacked one half degree of being as warm with a maximum of 92Mi, but the mini mum was one degree higher than the previous day. Other readings for the week were as follows: Thursday 91 high, 67 low; Fri day 91, 68; Saturday 86, 71, and Tuesday of this week 90, 68. The Bureau also recorded .30 in ches of rainfall last Friday and .24 i on Sunday. ! SUICIDE ATNEBO MONDAY The death of Gordon Bailey, 69, of Nebo, Monday was pronounced suicide by S. J. Westmoreland, cor oner. Sheriff C. M. Pool gave the fol lowing account of the story as told to him: Loyd Cuthbertson, a neighbor, said | Bailey came into Marion with him for a few hours last Saturday. He said he spoke only once during the time they left until their re turn. When leaving Cuthbertson he walked into a pine grove near the home where he lived with his wife, jhis daughter and son-in-law, Mr.* and Mrs. Clyde Fender. I Later he returned to his home, ' but was missing the next morning, j His body was found in the same | pine grove he had entered during ,the afternoon, before a 12-gauge 'shotgun and shot had entered his ! chest. The handle of the gun was propped between the limbs of maple j trees and the barrel supported by | forked sticks driven into the ground. His position indicated he had stood facing the gun and used a stick to pull the trigger. A neighbor report ! ed hearing a shot about 4 a. m. Pool said relatives informed him | Bailey had been in ill health. I Funeral services were conducted in the residence at 4 p. m. Monday afternoon by the Rev. Dewey Hod jges, assisted by the Rev. Milton Duncan and the Rev. Judd Bowers. (Continued on last page) FUNERAL RITES FOR M. J. HOOVER HELD SATURDAY Marcus J. (Mike) Hoover, 77, prominent retired business man Of Marion, died Thursday afternoon in Marion General Hospital aftef a short illness. Reared in Randolph county. Hoover moved to Marion in 1897, entering the furniture and lumber business. He was engaged later in the coal and wood business until his health failed several years ago. Hoover was a charter member of the Marion Volunteer Fire De partment, serving continuously with it from its organization in 1907 until 1943. Funeral services were held in McCall's Funeral Home Saturday at 11 a. mT with the Rev. James B. McLarty' officiating. Burial was in the family plot in Oak Grove cemetery. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Benedict Bristol, Jr. of Morganton; two sons, Howard D. Hoover of Or lando, Fla., and C. Kirby Hooyer of Anderson, S. C.; three grand children, and a brother, J. M. Hoover of High Point. McDowell County Bond Sales Total In Current Drive With just a few more weeks to go in the current U. S. Savings Bonds Opportunity Drive, cumulative sales of Service E Bonds in McDowell county amount to $55,406.25 for the period April 1 through June 18. All sales made through July 16 will be included in the final Drive fig ures. The county quota is $7,000.00. This information was contained in a weekly sales report issued by Allison James of Greensboro, State Director of the U. S. Savings Bonds Division for North Carolina, and re ceived today by J. F. Snipes, Sav ings Bonds Committee chairman for McDowell county, "With seventy-three per cent of the Drive time elapsed our county has achieved 82.6 per cent of its quota," the county chairman stated. "Cumulative Series E Bond sales for all 100 North Carolina counties for the period April 1 through June 18 total $8,894,644.25, or 74 per cent of the $12,000,000 state quota," he said. Other Opportunity Bond Drive statistics for the state are as fol (Continued on last page) Marion Marauders Defeat Lenoir Lose To Shelby Johnny Lanning's Marion Ma rauders pulled a game out of the fire Friday night when Tom Cum by blasted a ball out of the park in the twelfth inning to defeat the Lenoir Red Sox eight to six. The game went to twelve frames after the Marauders staged a rally during the last half of the eighth to tie the score at six-all. Going to bat, trailing one to six, it looked as if the game was about over, but the Marauders dug in and were able to score a run and fill the bases with only one man away. At this point skinper Gonnard pulled the ace pitcher, Walter Lentz, who had pitched masterful ball up until this point. Wiederman went to the mound and was faced by Long John Beam who promptly connect (Continued on last page) Some Plants T« Close All Week; Some Bonuses Will Be Paid Practically all Marion stores will >e closed Monday hi observance of ruly 4. North Carolina Employment Ser vice office, Draft Board office, :ourt house offices and city hall will be closwJ for the day. The Post Office wiW be closed and no de iveries roads! Box mail will be dis tributed* Holiday and vacation periods for iocali industrial plants have been anftoftnced as follows: Textile Mills The Marion Manufacturing com pany will observe Monday as a holi day. The Clinchfield Manufacturing company will be closed all next week. Employees will be given a week's vacation with pay. Cross Cotton Mills, Inc. will be closed all week and employees will receive bonuses Friday of thia week. The bonuses will be four per cent of the employees' earnings for the first half of this year. Furniture Company Drexel furniture company will be closed Monday through Satur day. Employees who have been with the company for a year will be giv en a week's vacation with pay. Those who have been on the pay roll five years or longer will be given two weeks vacation with pay. Bonuses will also be paid those who have been employed a year or long er on the basis of earnings. Box Factory The Etta Paper Box factory will be closed the entire week, Hosiery Mill* Overlook Knitting Mills, McPar Hosiery Mill, Josephine Mills and! Elizabeth James Knitting Milla will be closed the entire week. Marion Knitting Mills, Hewitt Hosiery Mills, R. L. James and Son. Mill will close Monday only. JAMES MOORE PAROLED State Paroles Commissioner T. C. Johnson has announced the parole of 19 convicts from North Carolina prisons. The parolees include James Moore of McDowell county, sen tenced in September, 1947, to 2% to three years for assault with a deadly weapon. KIWANIS DELEGATES REPORT ON CONVENTION Funeral Services For Mrs. Willis Held Last Friday Mrs. Callie Watson Willis, 81, died last Friday night at the home of her son, Fred Conley, in Clear Creek section. She had been ill only a few days. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at three o'clock at Clear Creek Baptist church. Rev. Carson Brittain officiated. She is survived by five sons, two daughters, a number of grandchild ren and great-grandchildren; two brothers, Tom Watson of Minnea polis, N. C.; and Will Watson of Spear; one sister, Mrs. Annie Bu chanan of Bakersville. Jackie Houck In U. 3. Navy Jackie Houck, son of Mr. and VIrs. Jack Houck, Sr. of Marion, en ured service in the U. S. Navy a >out two weeks ago and is now sta ;ioned at San Diego, California. Be fore entering service he was in iharge of the supply room at the Vlarion Manufacturing company. I The Marion Kiwanis club hold its regular weekly meeting Tuesday" evening at the Marion community building. Roy W. Davis, president, presided during the meeting. W. G. Wiatt was in charge of the program. The program was in the form of a report on the Kiwanis Internation al Convention which was held at Atlantic City, June 19 through June 2A. Immediate past-president, V. T. Eckerd and Renn Honeycutt were the Marion delegates attending the convention. Eckerd and Honeycutt each made a report on the activities during the convention. Kiwanian^R. W. Twitty gave a. report on the organization of a jun (Continued on last page) LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Pet Newton 40_. 13- -.755 Lincolnton 33__20 623 Lenoir 31._24--.546 Morganton 27._26__.509 Rutherford 24--31 436 Marion 21__29__.420 Hendersonville __ 19__33 .365 Shelby 17-.35-_.327
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