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THE MARION PROGRESS A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWfiLL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1896 MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1949 VOLUME 54 No. 6 DRAFT BOARD TO BE MOVED TO ASHEVILLE S. W. Blanton, chairman of local draft board No. 57, McDowell coun ty, has announced that the local board will be moved after the close of business August 26, 1949, to a sub-depot in Asheville. Blanton stated that he was advis ed that the action is part of the re duced program necessitated by the limited appropriation. He explained that the board would continue the function of classification and induc tion, should the latter be resumed. He also pointed out that youths are still required to register when they attain their 18th birthday, and that they should register with Barron P. Caldwell in the court house, who has been appointed the official regis trar for this county. He stated that registrants of McDowell county should address any communications for the local board to 410 County Court House, Asheville. City Schools To Open September 8 Schools in the Marion City Unit will open September 8. Principals will meet at 10 a. m. on August 31 and teachers will meet at 10 a. m., September 7. County Schools In Good Condition For School Opening Funeral Rites For Mrs. Silver Held Wednesday Mrs. Mount Sinnie Silver, 59, died at the Marion General Hos pital early Monday morning. She is a resident of the Curtis Creek sec tion. Funeral services were held at 11 a. m. Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Mash in the Curtis Creek section. Burial was in the Silver Creek cemetery, also on Curtis Creek. Th;i Rev. J} G. Hicks, pastor of the Old Fort Baptist church, will conduct the services. Surviving are her husband, G. H. Silver; eight sons, Roy and Walter, of Detroit; George, Mischer, Wood row, Fred and Johnnie, Old Fort; Robert, Marion; two daughters, Mrs. Jesse Davis of Marion and Mrs. Mash; 24 grandchildren. Mayor's Committee In Raleigh To Study West Marion Problem Eastern Star District Meet Held Friday % Marion Chapter No. 278, North Carolina Order of the Eastern Star was hostess chapter to the 19th District School of Insruction, held Friday in the community building. The school was opened at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. Katherine Laugh ridge, Worthy Matron of the local chapter presiding. Mrs. Laughridge turned the meeting over to Mrs. Daphne Mackey, District Deputy Grand Matron of the 19th district who presided over the school. During the afternoon session of the school various phases of East ern Star works was exemplified by members of the eight chapters of the 19th district. Short reports were heard from each chapter and the afternoon session closed at 5.30 o'clock for a picnic supper, served by the Ways and Means Commit (Continued on last page) Mayor J. W. Streetman, Jr. ap pointed Pat Davis, M. W. Gordon snd Frank Goldsmith as a commit tee to investigate possibilities of ex pending a water line into the West Marion section. Davis and Gordon accompanied by Reece Snyder, town manager, and V. T. Eckerd, an interested cit izen, left yesterday to confer with the local government commission in Raleigh as to the legality of the pro posed plan. A group of citizens from West Marion met with the Board of Al dermen at its August meeting to inquire into the problem of secur ing city water for their communi ty. The community is outside the city limits. Conference At Old Fort Church The fourth quarterly conference for the Old Fort'^ethodist Circuit will be held in Ebenezer church on Tuesday night, August 30, begin ning at 7:30. District Superintend ent John W. Hoyle, Jr., will preach and preside over the business ses sion. Marauders Defeat Shelby; Lose To Lincolnton The Marion Marauders avenged a stinging defeat they received at the hands of the Shelby Farmers the night before when they downed the visiting Farmers Thursday night by the tune of seven to three. Jud Harmon received credit for the win as he went the distance for the Marauders, allowing six hits and six walks as. he struck out six batters. Harmon was a bit wild in spots but his team mates pulled him out of several holes to keep him out of serious difficulty. In the thiiu inning Skipper Walt Dixon's boys put together two hits, the sixth. Bobo Howell started on MARAUDER SCHEDULE j: Thursday: Newton at Marion. Friday: Marion at Henderson-! ville. Saturday: Hendersonville at .; Marion. Monday: Marion with R. C. ! Owls at Rutherfordton. Tuesday: R. C. Owls at Marion. ; I Wednesday: Marion at Lenoir. a double and a triple, which gave them a pair of runs. The other tally was added in the seventh. The Marauders jumped on the ball to begin the game and scored twice early in the first and second frames to gain a lead which was never overcome. Another score was added in the fifth and two more in the hill for Shelby, but was driven to the showers in the seventh as Slates answered the call for relief duty. Ezio Bonnetti was the man with the big stick for the Marauders with three for five including a triple, a double and a single. Jack Triplett and Tom Cumby also took batting honors, each hit two out of four trips to the plate. Phil Fago led the Farmers with two for four. The line score: Shelby 002 000 100—3 6 1 Marion 220 010 02x—7 12 1 Batteries: For Shelby—Howell and Slater (7) to Kennedy and Jubin (8) ; for Marion—Harmon to Bonnetti. Doubles: Fago, Triplett, Campbell,- Cumby and Bonnetti. Triples: Howell, Hulkard and Bon (Continued on last page) Schools in the McDowell County System will open September 1. In making the announcement N. F. Steppe, county superintendent, called attention to various phases of the program for the coming year as follows: To be eligible for enrollment a child must have reached his sixth birthday on or before October 1. The schools will open at 8:30 a. m., September 1. School buses will make their first trip on this date and follow the same routing in force at the close of school last spring. McDowell county operates 35 buses and transports 3,000 chil dren daily. BETTER SCHOOL CONDITIONS School will open under the best conditions since the war. The last published rating of teachers as to qualifications put McDowell coun ty schools in the first rank among all schools in the state. The buildings will be in the best condition since pre-war years. Not only the building structures, but the lighting, and heating facilities, the furniture, etc. Lunch "rooms will open Monday, September 5. Work on the addition at Nebo and Glenwood is going forward at a rapid rate and additions are expect ed to be ready for use within a short time after school opens. Steppe estimated an increase in attendance of two per cent over last year. There will be a marked increase in the number of beginners and also in the high schools. He at tributed the latter to a decrease in demand for teen age workers in in- j dustrial plants. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION Vocational education is being es tablished in the various schools as rapidly as possible. All of the high (Continued on last page) MAN KILLED UNDER TRUCK in Mcdowell Ridgecrest — A Birmingham, Ala., man was crushed to death Sunday when the heavily-laden truck he was driving went out of control on the steep, twisting sec tion of Route 70 about four miles east of Point Lookout. He was identified as Allen C. Bell, 36. Bell had been nursing a tractor trailer down the mountain, hauling a 5,000-gallon steel storage tank consigned to a Winston-Salem firm, when he fell under the wheels. Eyewitnesses said the brakes on the truck apparently had been slip ping. Just before the accident Bell was seen standing on the running board and appeared to be trying to guide the vehicle into an embank ment. Apparently his foot slipped and he fell under the wheels. He was killed almost instantly. After running over Bell, the truck ran into an auto, crushing it but not injuring any of the occupants. WARRANTS ISSUED ON ARSONCHARGES Warrants were issued yesterday for Edward Lee Harrison and Roy j James Owensby on charges of arson, j Sheriff C. M. Pool said. The men have been held since Tuesday for questioning in regard to fires at the Dalton and Summey residences. Harris Arrested For Skipping Bond Willard Harris was arrested Mon day night at his home in Crooked Creek section and turned over to Buncombe county law enforcement officers, Sheriff C. M. Pool said. Harris had been released under bond and was to appear in Bun combe Superior Court to answer charges of driving drunk and no op erator's license. When the case was called he failed to appear. Town Awards Contracts 4 To Purchase New Equipment ■ —...— Funeral Monday For Smith Infant Edward Lester Smith, three month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. Smith, of Old Fort, died Sunday afternoon after a brief illness. Fu neral services were conducted at Old Fort Church of God Monday af ternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. Mainer and buri^L was in the Old Fort cemetery. Other than the parents, he is sur vived by his parental grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith of Old Fort and maternal grandmother Mrs. Kate Walker of Greenlee. I McDowell Students The following McDowell county students will receive bachelor of science degrees from Appalachian State Teachers college on Friday of this week: Dessie M. Lawing and Clara El lis Rayburn, Glenwood; Richard Alexander Shaw, Marion. OH M.C.HIGHWAYS The bloodshed boxscore on North Carolina highways August . 20 through 22 as compiled by the de partment of motor vehicles: Killed August 20 through August 22, 18; Injured August 20 through August 22, 178; Killed through August 22 this year, 507; Killed through August 22, 1948, 425; In jured through August 22 this year, 5,798; Injured through August 22, 1948, 4,515. To Graduate At ASTC •!/, JOuSHED BOXSCORE The Board of Aldermen awarded contracts last Wednesday for the purchase of a street flusher and a pick-up truck, but rejected all bids for extension of sewer lines. The North Carolina Equipment company was awarded the street flusher contract on a low bid of $2,445 for a 1200 gallon capacity flusher to replace! the one now in use. Delivery is expected within about two or three weeks. Ballew Motor company was awarded the contract for a truck to! mount the flusher on at a cost of' $1950.32. | Snipes Motors, Inc. was awarded contract for a three-quarter ton Dodge pick-up truck for the water department, replacing one in use. Cost was $1198.90. Sain-Brooks Motor company was low bidder on the two door V-8 sedan $1353.65. Rejecting all bids on sewage ex tension, the Town of Marion began work Monday of this week. Installa tions of sewerage systems will ex tend from Clinchfield school west to Sunset Restaurant, branching out to include Gilkey and High "streets; another would provide a system for the new Grand View Park subdivi sion and Teal street. The lowest bid of $20,797.20 was rejected because the Aldermen felt the Town could install the systems at a substantial saving. RAINFALL THIS WEEK Rainfall since last Thursday to taled 2.15 inches, figures at the lo cal weather bureau show. The pre vious week 1.63 inches was record ed. Highest temperature reading of the past week was Thursday with a maximum of 90. Low reading of the day was 69. The coolest day was Sunday with 72, high and 56, low. Monday's readings were 73 and 57; Tuesday 81, 61. Kiwanians Will Attend Convention Roy W. Davis, president of the Kiwanis club of Marion, S. R. Per kins and Francis Bradsher will re present the local club at the 1949 convention of the Carolinas Kiwan is District to be held August 28 to 30 at Chapel Hill, Davis announced this week. More than 95 clubs in the dis trict, embracing a membership of 7,000 business and professional leaders, are expected to send dele gates to the three-day meeting. Singing Convention Will Be Held September 4 The McDowell County Singing Convention will hold its annual fall singing September 4 at Marion High School. The convention will begin at 10 a. m. All singers are urged to attend and the public is cordially invited. Officers are: Loyd Bennett, pre sident; Thermal Ross, vice presi dent; Mrs. Loyd Bennett, secretary treasurer. HEALTH OFFICER IS ELECTED FOR THIS COUNTY Dr. S. V. Lewis was unanimously elected health officer of the Mc Dowell County Health Department last week. He will begin his duties here September 1. Dr. Lewis was district health of ficer in the old Burke-Caldwell-Mc Dowell district for a short time, and has been a public health of ficer for a number of years. Following his resignation as a district health officer here he went to eastern North Carolina where he* has been engaged for the past sev eral years. Because of climatic- ... health conditions, he was anxious to return to the western part of the* state. He returns to Marion from, Windsor where he was in charge of health work embracing Chowan and. Bertie counties. No nurse has been secured yet,, but Dr. Lewis hopes to secure oney to begin her duties he;re soon. * Poteat Reunion Set For August 28 The Poteat Reunion will be hekL at the home Posey Poteat on Ruther ford road Sunday, August 28. AIL relatives and friends are invited to attend and bring picnic lunch. Huge Road Building Contracts Approved Raleigh, Aug. 20—The State Board of Award has approved con tracts for a record-breaking $4,453, 446.42 -worth of trucks, tractors and road machinery needed for Governor Scott's expanded high way program. The approval was granted yester day, exactly a week from the day the Carolina Branch of the Asso ciated General Contractors of Amer ica and the Carolina Road Builders association filed a petition protest ing that bond issue money should not be spent for equipment. The contractors and L. P. M"c Lendon of Greensboro, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Jr., of Raleigh and Charles Ross, former highway com mission counsel, claimed in the peti tion that the move would "spell the end of private road contractors." Scott and Highway Chairman Henry Jordan said at a press con ference Tuesday they felt the pro test was groundless. Scott told re porters the contractors were "un duly alarmed." The highway commission will use the machinery to supplement con tractors in work under its $200, 000,000 rural roads program, chief ly on short lengths of road and sim ilar projects for which private con tractors could not afford to move> in machinery and labor. BOND SALE SET The cost of the machinery cover ed by the contracts will be met with a $5,000,000 allocation from a. $-50,000,000 block of road bonda» scheduled for sale next month. At torney General Harry McMullan is sued an opinion nearly a month, ago holding the plans are legal un der the language of the bond act. Revival Services • i At Free Holiness Services at Free Holiness churcht. in East Marion began last Sunday. The morning services start at 11 a~ m. and the evening services at 7:30. Rev. Frank Jones, of Roanoke, Vir ginia, and Rev. Herman Higgins, of Sioux, N. C., are conducting the services. The public is cordially invited. Free Holiness church is located at the intersection of highways 26 and 221. Per capita consumption of eggs in the United States during 1947 was 380, or more than 25 per cent a bove the prewar average. Scout Activities Reviewed At Kiwanis Club Meeting J. L. Gourley was in charge of the program of the Marion Kiwanis club at its meeting held in the Mar ion community building last Tues day evening. . The program centered around scouting activities for McDowell county, and mention was made of the recent Kiwanis project in build ing an over-night or week-end camping ground for the scouts at Lake James. Reverend J. B. McLarty, a scout executive for McDowell county, was the chief speaker of the evening and was presented to the club by program chairman Gourley. The speaker stressed the importance of scout work and the value of spon sorship for this youth activity. He discussed scouting in McDowell county and gave a brief history of the work being done here, and out lined the costs of the program. He expressed his appreciation to the Kiwanis club for its help in estab lishing the week end scouting camp, stating that this was an investment in youth that would pay dividends in the terms of good citizenship. John Snoddy, Kiwanian in charge of scouting activities, also address ed the club as did past president Vernon Eckerd, who is a member oC the street committee. Eckerd points ed out some of the future needs of the scouts for this county and so licited the continued assistance of the club in this undertaking. A delicious pork barbecue dinner was served to the Kiwanians and their guests prior to the program. CIVITAN CLUB PLANS STEAK FRY The Civitan club voted to have a. steak fry August 31 at Lake Refuge,, during the business session last Thursday. The meeting was held at noon in Sunset Restaurant. A din ner preceded the discussion. LEAGUE STANDINGS f W L Pet. 66 —31..680 62 — 36—633 57—40 — 588 50—46—521 51.-49..510 36—57 — 387 38-61.-384 27 — 71 — 276 TEAM Newton Lincolnton Rutherford Morganton Lenoir Marion Shelby Hendersonville
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