Elkin
"The Best Little Town
In North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXVLNo. 32
BOND REFUNDING
PLAN DECLARED
OPERATIVE HERE
90 Per Cent of Bondholders
Sign Agreement
TO EXCHANGE BONDS
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30-Year Bonds, Bearing Low
er Interest, To Be Ex
changed For Old
TO PAY 4% FOR COUPONS
At a special meeting of the El
kin board of commissioners Tues
day night, the refunding plan in
which owners of town bonds
agreed to accept four per cent in
cash for past due coupons and
new bonds to mature in 30 years
bearing interest at four, five and
six per cent respectively for three
successive ten-year periods, was
declared operative.
Town officials have been at
tempting to put this plan through
for the past several years in an
effort to adjust past due obliga
tions and put the town in shape
to meet present and future ex
penses. However, to make the plan
operative it was necessary to have
at least 90 per cent of the bond
holders agree to the proposal.
This has been accomplished, Paul
Gwyn, town clerk, said Wednes
day.
As the matter stood, Elkin was
in debt about $500,000 a debt
that was assumed back when
times were better and money
more plentiful. Then came the
depression, and It was found Im
possible to carry the burden. Five
hundred thousand dollars draw
ing six per cent interest ran into
real money.
However, under the new plan,
bondholders agreed to accept four
per cent in cash for past due
coupons, and new bonds to ma
ture in 30 years for the old six
per cent bearing bonds. The new
bonds will bear 4 per cent the
first 10 years, five per cent the
second 10 years, and 6 per cent ,
the third and last 10 years.
NEW BUILDING TO
BE CONSTRUCTED
White Swan Laundry to Erect
Modern Home on South
Bridge Street
COST IS ABOUT $7,500
Construction was begun Mon
day on a new building to house
the White Swan Laundry, ac
cording to a statement by Wilbur ]
and Roger Carter, operators of the .
laundry. The building, which will
be constructed by the company,
will be located at the corner of
Factory and Bridge streets, just
opposite the Gulf Service Station.
Plans call for a brick and steel
structure, 50 x 70 feet. The build
ing and the new equipment which
will be added when the building
is ready for occupancy is esti
mated to cost about $7,500.
With the new building and
equipment the laundry will be
better qualified to take care of
their business which is constant
ly Increasing.
They hope to be in the new
building not later than August 15.
YADKIN SCHOOL
TEACHERS NAMED
Few Changes Made in Line
up for Next Scholastic
Year
TO OPEN ABOUT SEPT. 13
Principals and teachers for the
Yadkin county schools have been
selected by the Yadkin County
Board of Education for the com
ing school year according to an
nouncement made here yesterday
by Bupt. J. T. Reece. The opening
date for schools will be about
Sept. 13, stated Mr. Reece.
Very few changes have been
K made in teachers of last year. The
list by schools is as follows:
Yadkinville School, R. h. Crat
er, principal, Yadkinville, N. C.;
Miss Mary Harding, Mrs. Ethel
Brumfield, Ouy Angell, Charles
Love, Miss Erlka Marx, Miss Nora
Shore, Miss Mildred Logan, Miss
Lillian Chamberlain, Miss Sara
Holcomb, Mrs. Lucile 6. Simmons,
Mrs. Ruby Davis, Mrs. Edythe
Crater, William Todd.
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IATENEWC
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State and Nation
EUROPE FACING
ANOTHER CRISIS
London, June 22 Four ma
jor powers quit the non-inter
vention council table today
and Europe faced a serious
crisis arising from the Spanish
civil war,
Germany, unsuccessful in
her demand for a naval de
monstration against the Span
ish government, was expected
by authoritative sources to de
cide quickly upon some unila
teral manifestation or action.
The four powers Great
Britain, France, Italy and Ger
many—were unable to agHee,
after three days of negotiations
on a formula to satisfy Ger
many over aUeged Spanish at
tempts to torpedo the German
cruiser Leipzig.
The breakup of the confer
ence was interpreted as imper
illing the structure of the non
intervention plan designed to
keep the Spanish conflict from
embroiling Europe.
RELIEF BILL
PASSES SENATE
Washington, June 22.
Roosevelt forces over-rode all
opposition today to push next
fiscal year's $1,500,000,000 re
lief appropriation through the
senate in substantially the form
wanted by the administration.
After brushing aside an at
tempt by Senator Vandenburg,
Republican, Michigan, to turn
relief administration back to
the states, the chamber ap
proved the big measure on a
voice vote.
It then went back to the
house for consideration of nu
merous senate amendments,-
nearly all secondary.
JOHN AND ELAINE
AGAIN AS ONE
Los Angeles, June 22.— John
Barrymore and his Elaine, the
"Ariel and Caliban" of a long,
hot-and-cold, headline ro
mance, went into a clinch at a
railroad station today, and
then announced that once
again they are as one.
"We're going home to ma
ma," said the dark-eyed New
Yorker, "and I'm going to set
aside my divorce decree."
"I'm just a family man at
heart," said Barrymore, who
has been married and divorced
four times.
NEWSPAPERMEN
ON WAY HOME
Aboard S. S. Reliance, June
22.— North Carolina attorneys :
and newspaper people sailed
from Bermuda at 5 o'clock this
afternoon to continue aboard -
ship the festivities they have
enjoyed on the annual cruise
of the North Carolina Press
and Bar associations.
The Reliance is due to dock
in Norfolk, Va., Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock and will
leave for New York Friday at
7 a. m., with many of the dele
gates aboard for a continuation
of the trip.
Old Dobbin had his faults, but
he didn't change the shape of his
hood every season.
Blanketeers To Enter
Semi-Pro Tournament
The Chatham Blanketeers are
to enter the North Carolina Semi-
Pro Championship tournment to
be held at the World War Memor
ial stadium, Greensboro, July 1 to
13, it was announced here Tues
day.
The winner of the tournament,
in which 16 North Carolina teams
are to participate, will recieve 20
per cent of the gross reciepts of
the tourney and will go to Wich
ita, Kansas, later In the summer
to play in the National Semi-Pro
Baseball tournament.
The Greensboro tournament is
sponsored by the Greensboro
Junior Chamber of Commerce
and is authorized by the National
Semi-Pro Baseball Congress. H. T.
Hambright. of Elkin, is State
Commissioner, and in charge of
the event.
Second, third, fourth and fifth
places in the tournament will pay
10, 5, 2 1-2, and 2 1-2 per cent
respectively. It is believed that
ELKIN IS TO HAVE
ADDITIONAL MAIL
SERVICE JULY IST
Will Leave Elkin Each After
noon at 5 o'Clock
GRAHAM PROPOSED PLAN
Letters Mailed Here in Af
ternoon Will Reach New
York Next Morning
NO DISPATCH SUNDAYS
By PAUL MAY
(Tribune Washington Bureau)
Washington, D. C., June 22.
Officials of the Railway Mail Ser
vice announced today that neces -
sary changes have been ordered
to improve present inadequate
mail service from the Elkin post
office.
The changes, recommended by
Postmaster P. W. Graham in a
letter to W. L. Cornelius, chief
clerk of the Railway Mail Service
at Greensboro, will go into effect
July 1.
Acting on the recommendation
officials at Washington author
ized a return service of the mes
senger route from Brooks Cross
Roads to Elkin, allowing mail to
be dispatched from Elkin as late
as 5 p. m. each weekday.
Present arrangements require
that mail be put in the Elkin
postoffice before 2:30 if it is to be
cleared before 6:30 a. m. the fol
lowing morning. This means that
mail does not leave Greensborc
for points north and south until
11:25 a. m. the morning the dis
patch is made.
The changes also provide that
the! mail will be carried by the
messenger who carries mail each
morning from Brooks Cross Roads
to Elkin. He will connect at 5:30
p. m. with the North Wilkesboro-
Greensboro star route, enabling
the mail to be shipped out of
Greensboro the same evening,
reaching there at 10:32 p. m.
HUNDREDS SEE
SAFETY PARADE
Driverless Car Proves Fea
ture of Event Held Here
Saturday Afternoon
Hundreds of people crowded El
kin's Main street Saturday to
witness a Safety Parade, sponsor
ed here by the Elkin Merchants
association, and which featured a
"magic" driverless car, piloted by
remote control by Captain J. J.
Lynch.
The purpose of the parade was
to impress upon the minds of ev
eryone who saw it the danger and
futility of reckless driving in hopes
that it might have some good ef
fect upon the highway accident
toll.
Many cars and several floats
appeared in the parade in addi
tion to the driverless car, which
performed as if a highly efficient
driver was at the wheel, stopping,
starting, turning and blowing its
horn in a safe and sane manner.
However, due to a defective stor
age battery, used in controlling
the steering mechanism, the drive
of the "magic" car had to be cut
short after the machine had trav
ersed the length of Main street
and was nearly back to its start
ing point.
first place winner will be awarded
SI,OOO.
The probable players list for the
Blanketeers in the tourney is as
follows: Davis 3b, Deal lb, Mackie
rf, P. Money cf, dough 2b, Jones
c, Osborne If, McCoin ss, Stock*
ton, R. Boles, L. Southard, pitch
ers, and Ed Boles, utility.
The double elimination system
will be used, a team losing two
straight games before being elim
inated. Individual awards will be
made for players and group
awards for teams.
Hans Wagner, nationally
known baseball celebrity and
coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates,
will officially open the tourna
ment Thursday, July 1.
Things are better. Boarding
house soup is not so thin nowa
days.
When a person becomes idle
the devil gets tickled. ,
ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY. JUNE 24, 1937
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After a hot, dusty drive in an open car through the Penderlea Resettlement Project, Mrs. Roosevelt
returns to Wallace to be greeted at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Robinson for luncheon. Shown on
the porch of the Robinson home are, left to right, Dr. Robinson, Mrs. Robinson, Senator Robert R.
Reynolds, Mrs. Roosevelt, Governor Hoey, Mrs. Hoey and Mayor Aubrey Harrell of Wallace who ar
ranged the Strawberry Festival and Mrs. Roosevelt's appearance.
YADKIN FARMER
ENDS OWN LIFE
John Cleveland Armstrong
Shoots Self in Heart
With Shotgun
FUNERAL HELD MONDAY
John Cleveland Armstrong, 52,
ended his life at his home about
two miles southwest of Jonesville
Saturday morning about 9 o'clock
by firing a shotgun load into his
heart. Mr. Armstrong was one of
the most highly esteemed men in
his community, and his taking his
own life is attributed to the fact
that for sometime he had suffered
with a severe head ailment.
He was a son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. John Armstrong and
was a farmer. For several years
he had been a member of the
Board of Deacons of the Swan
Creek Baptist church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Jettie Sparks Armstrong; two
sons, Earl and E. B. Armstrong,
and two daughters, Mrs. Worth
Groce and Miss Eva Armstrong,
all of Yadkin county; five grand
children; three brothers, Henry
and Clingman Armstrong, of Cali
fornia, and Charlie Armstrong of
English, Ind., and two sisters, Mrs.
Charlie Myers of Jonesville and
Mrs. Fred Swaim of Cycle.
Funeral services were held Mon
day morning at 11 o'clock from
Swan Creek Baptist church.
CHATHAM WINNER
IN TWO STARTS
To Meet May Hosiery Mill, of
Burlington, in Game
Here Today
SOUTHSIDE SATURDAY
Banging out four home runs
and 15 hits, the Chatham Blank
eteers last Wednesday defeated
the May Hosiery Mill at Burling
ton by the score of 9 to 2, with
Stockton pitching brilliant ball
and allowing only five hits. Hom
ers for Elkin were by Jones, Ham
bright, Davis and Mackie.
Saturday on the home field the
Blanketee'rs played errorless ball
to shut out Walkertown in one of
the best games of the season, the
score standing at 1-0 following a
pitchers' duel between Boles and
Preston. The lone score came in
the eighth.
This afternoon (Thursday), at
4:00 p. m. Chatham is to face the
May Hosiery Mill team here,
which, beaten In two consecutive
games by Chatham, will be out for
blood.
Saturday at 3:45, Southside of
Winston-Salem, will be here to
meet Chatham in a semi-pro lea
gue game. The local team has de
feated Southside once this season
by a 3-2 score. This game is ex
pected to be one of the best to
be yet dished up for fans of this
section.
W. J. Snow spent the week-end
in Statesville with Mr. and Mrs.
C. O. Hadley, the latter his
daughter, and visited Mrs. Snow,
who is taking treatment in a
Statesville hospital. Friends of
Mrs. Snow will be glad to know
that she is making satisfactory
progress.
Mrs. Roosevelt is Visitor to North Carolina
Elkin Postoffice
Project Is On
Market For Bids
It is expected that the $65,-
000 one-story and basement
postoffice building for Elkin
will be under construction not
later than the middle of Sep
tember, the project having al
ready been placed on the mar
ket for bids.
An advertisement, calling for
scaled bids on the structure, is
in this issue of The Tribune.
Bids are expected to be open
ed in Washington July 20, ac
cording to present plans.
PROMINENT YADKIN
MAN PASSES AWAY
A. Dinkins, Farmer and Po
litical Leader, Dies Tues
day Afternoon
FUNERAL RITES TODAY
Yadkinville, June 22. —Special.
—A. "Bud" Dinkins, 77, prominent
farmer and political leader of
Yadkin county, died at his home,
Yadkinville, Route 2, this after
noon at 5:40 o'clock. His death
was due to a complication of di
seases caused by old age.
Mr. Dinkins was born In Yadkin
county and had spent his entire
life here. He was married three
times, the first time to Miss Mary
C. Long of Yadkinville, August
11, 1881. To this union was born
two children, Robert L. Dinkins of
Lewisville, and Mrs. Turner Hob
son of Yadkinville, Route 2. His
secqnd wife was Miss Minnie
Hutchens, and the following chil
dren survive from that marriage:
Marler Dinkins of Winston-Sa
lem; Gray, Neal, Marshall, Bill,
Thomas, Yadkinville, Route 2; and
Mrs. Hobart Todd of Hanes.
His third wife was Miss Myrtle
Williams, who survives him, to
gether with the following chlld-
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Visitor Remembers
"Away Back When--"
T. L. Green, of Statesville, but
at one time associated in the
furniture business here, remem
bers Elkin "away back when—"
he disclosed in a visit to The
Tribune office Wednesday after
noon.
Mr. Green dropped in to re
mark that he saw the old vault
of the Elkin National Bank build
ing constructed back around 1900
and that he had been watching
workmen, busy remodeling the
structure for occupancy by The
Bank of Elkin, tearing it down.
The former Elkin citizen also
recalled many other interesting
facts about Elkin when it was but
a town of a few business build
ings. At the time the Elkin Na
tional Bank building was erected,
he said there were but two other
brick buildings in the business
district, that housing Casstevens
Hardware Co., and the building In
which Sydnor-Spamhour Co., is
now located. Other buildings were
WOMAN IS NAMED
WELFARE OFFICER
Miss Joseline Harding Will
Administer Social Security
in Yadkin
DOBBINS IS CHAIRMAN
The Yadkin county welfare
board and board of county com
missioners met Wednesday at
Yadkinville, and named Miss Jos
eline Harding, of Yadkinville, as
full time welfare officer to take
the place of Carl Shore, elected
recently but not confirmed by the
state authorities at Raleigh. Miss
Harding will administer the new
social security law which becomes
effective July 1.
C. N. Dobins was named a new
member of the welfare board to
replace Mrs. Paul Davis, who has
resigned, and will act as chair
man of the body, while Lon West,
Yadkin county register of deeds,
will act as secretary ex-officlo.
Mr. Shore was one of six appli
cants for the job as welfare offi
cer, being elected by a vote of
four to two. However, he was
turned down on the grounds that
he did not have a bachelor of arts
degree nor the required welfare
work experience.
Miss Harding, it was learned, is
a college graduate and has had
four years experience In welfare
work.
CYCLE MAN SUSTAINS
INJURY WEDNESDAY
W. D. Royall, of the Cycle com
munity, was given first aid treat
ment Wednesday morning at the
local hospital for a compound
fracture of the ankle, which he
received when a huge log which
he was handling rolled down an
incline and broke both bones In
his leg. He was discharged from
the hospital after receiving treat
ment.
Maybe a sick man can find a
remedy over the air, but some
programs are enough to put a
healthy man to bed.
of wood construction and ended
either by being burned or torn
away.
Mr. Green stated that he built'
the building now housing the
Ideal Beauty Shoppe, Hayes
Cash Hardware Co., and the Elkin
Barber Shop—known at the time
as the Myrtle Hotel—at a total
cost of $900.00. Brick at that time
sold for $4.00 per thousand, while
the very best grade of forest pine
lumber could be purchased for
$lO per thousand feet.
The lot upon which the build
ing was constructed cost Mr.
Green a total of $250, and ad
joining property all along Main
street down to where Turner
Drug Co., is now located could be
bought at a figure just as low.
Mr. Green also stated that at
that time he purchased the lot
upon which Hotel Blkin now
stands for the sum of $175.00 —
and he figured at the time that
he had been cheated.
Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ADDITION WILL BE
BUILT TO NURSES'
HOME AT HOSPITAL
Will Provide Room for Six
teen More Nurses
BUILDING BOOM HERE
Work of Remodeling Old El
kin National Bank Build
ing is Under Way
HOUSE BANK OF ELKIN
Adding further to the current
building boom here was the an
nouncement Wednesday of an
eight-room addition to the nurses*
home at Hugh Chatham Memor
ial hospital, which will get under
way as soon as plans and specifi
catins, now being prepared by
John Franklin, local architect,
are completed.
The addition will consist of
eight rooms to house 16 nurses,
and will take care of the larger
staff necessary to care for the in
creased capacity of the hospital
once the 21-room addition to the
main building, now under con
struction, is completed. The
rooms will be built at the rear of
the present structure to form an
ell.
Another building project now
under way here is the extensive
remodeling of the old Elkin Na
tional Bank building, which will
house The Bank of Elkin. This
building, purchased by The Bank
of Elkin some months ago, will
provide banking facilities of the
most modern kind, Including
much more office space, modern
banking fixtures, and new and
larger vaults. The entire first
floor will be used by the bank.
Other buildings under way "are
the three new homes being erect
ed on Elk Spur street by Mrs.
J. P. McNeely, and a modern
building on Bridge street to house
the White Swan Laundry.
INJURIES FATAL
TO YADKIN MAN
A. J. Reinhardt Passes in El
kin Hospital Result of
Accident
FUNERAL RITES SUNDAY
A. Jack Reinhardt, 54, died at
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospi
tal, Elkin, at 6 o'clock Friday
morning as a result of injuries
received when a team of horses
became frightened and threw him
from a mowing machine Monday
afternoon, June 14, at his home
near Brooks Cross Roads. He re
ceived a badly fractured skull
and never regained consciousness.
Mr. Reinhardt was a prosper
ous farmer and well known in the
county. He was born In Yadkin
county at Longtown, September
16, 1882. He was married to
Miss Mattie Royall of Yadklnville,
who survives him, together with
one son, Raymond Reinhardt of
Cycle and the following brothers
and sisters: H. G., C. S., J. B. and
B. B. Reinhardt of Yadklnville;
F. F. Reinhardt of Charlotte; Mrs.
Lydia King, Mrs. Carrie Shore, of
Yadklnville, and Mrs. Ither Shore
of Hamptonvllle. He was a mem
ber of the Junior O. U. A. M. at
Windsor's Cross Roads.
Funeral services were held at
Center M. E. church Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock in charge
of Rev. R. L. Melton and Rev. R.
L. Speer. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
Nephews were pallbearers.
More people are interested in
dodging an emergency than in
meeting one.
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