Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. No. XXVII. No. 39
ELECTION BOARD
DECLARES DEANE
NOMINEE IN BTH
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Official Tabulation Reverses
Standing
BURGIN MAY APPEAL
State Board Also Canvasses
All Other Run-off Con
tested Returns
DEANE 23-VOTE MARGIN
C. B. Deane, of Rockingham,
today was designated as the Dem
ocratic party's nominee for the
U. S. house of representatives
from the eighth congressional
district'.
The state board of elections, in
an order believed to be unprece
dented, reversed earlier results
which had given W. O. Burgin, of
l>exington, an unofficial lead of
approximately 100 votes over
Deane in the run-off primary of
July 2. The revised returns gave
Deane a 23-vote majority.
The board also canvassed all
other -run-off primary and con
tested first-primary returns, end
ing a lenghty investigation which
included examination of hundreds
of absentee ballots.
Former Gov. J. C. B. Ehring
haus, counsel for Burgin, imme
diately lodged protests of the
board's findings in Richmond and
Union counties. He said, howev
er, that he did not know wheth
er Burgin would appeal to the
courts.
The board instructed its secre
tary, Raymond C. Maxwell, to
withhold the filing of formal cer
tificates of nomination until 10
o'clock Friday morning, to give
Burgin and other losing candi
dates an opportunity to take
court action.
TO LET CONTRACT
FOR HIGHWAY 268
Last Link of Elkin-N. Wilkes
boro Road Is to Be Let
on August 30
WILL LESSEN DISTANCE
Engineers plan to have the
project calling for construction
of highway 268 between Roaring
River and 'iJorth Wilkesboro in
readiness for the next highway
letting on August 30, J. Gordon
Hackett, eighth division highway
engineer, has announced.
The project will complete high
way 268 between Elkin and North
Wilkesboro, the road having al
ready been graded and surfaced
from Elkin to Roaring Rtyer, by
way of Ronda.
In addition to providing a
shorter route between Elkin and
North JVilkesboro and points
west, the new highway will serve
a number of communities along
the route.
LUCKY BREAK TO
HAVE NEW HOME
Will Be Moved into Quarters
Vacated Tuesday by A & Z
Store; Close City Club
The A & Z Store building, va
cated here Tuesday by that firm,
'terhich has gone out of business
following a year and a half here,
has been subleased by the Lucky
Break Pool Room, owned by John
Hudspeth.
Mr. Hudspeth is remodeling the
place and will move the Lucky
Break from its quarters in the
Greenwood building on East Main
street. The new quarters will
provide space for nine modern
pool tables.
In moving the Lucky Break up
town, the owner purchased the
City Club, owned and operated
by Emmett Smith and Cola Fulp,
which will be closed. Gene Eller
and Cola Fulp will manage the
Lucky Break.
Andrew Greenwood, who form
erly operated a pool room in the
building now occupied by the
Men's Shop, is opening a new
pool room in the Greenwood
building next door to the old site
of the Lucky Break.
EPWORTH LEAGUE TO
PRESENT PLAY ON 20th
A play, "The Path Across the
3 Hill," will be given by the Ep
worth League of , the Grassy
f Creek Methodist church, Satur
day, August 20. The proceeds of
the play will be used to buy pews
L for the church.
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St. Louis, Mo.—Complete with cash register is the lemonade
stand opened up on a street corner here by Dickie Bradley (left),
12 years old. His customer, six years old, is handing over "wun
cent" (or a glass after a sample sip. Dickie says business has been
booming, receipts already showing twelve cents before noon on
his first day.
IATENEWC
from the
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State and Nation
TO ADJUST
LEAF QUOTAS
Washington, Aug. 9—Secre
tary Wallace, seeking to erase
resentment of Georgia growers
over the state's flue-cured to
bac c o marketing allotment,
announced today adjustments
would be made in the "inequit
able quotas" of some pro
ducers.
He said a study of the
Georgia allotment disclosed
some adjustments were neces
sary, particularly for growers
operating large farms and
those who did not receive
proper allotments because of
errors.
Wallace advised growers to
withold from the market any
tobacco in excess of their
quotas until adjustments and
corrections could be completed,
possibly before the end of this
week.
BEGIN UNHERALDED
OFFENSIVE
* Hendaye, France, Aug. 9—A
government army began an
other unheralded offensive on
the Catalan front in North
eastern Spain today when
troops crossed the Segre river
between Lerida and Balaguer
and advanced "deep" into in
surgent territory.
Dispatches reaching the bor
der said militiamen crossed the
river by pontoon bridges about
sundown, surprising insurgent
General Franco's forces north
of Lerida and south of the
bridgehead which they held at
Balaguer.
The drive apparently was
over a front of about 14 miles.
SOVIETS BEGIN
ARTILLERY ATTACK
Yuki, Korea, Aug. 9—Soviet
heavy artiUery pounded the
whole four-mile Japanese front
today.
This correspondent watched
the bombardment—the most
intensive since the current
border trouble started July 11
—from a ringside seat. It was
warfare in dead earnest.
. It seemed unlikely that men
could remain alive under such
shelling. Six-inch projectiles
came over at the rate of at
least six a minute. %
EYES BRING
PARTIAL SIGHT
San Francisco, Aug. 9—Eyes
that for 80 years served their
original owner today brought
partial sight to a middle-aged
man and a youth, and the sur
geon said complete vision
might be theirs.
The eyes were those of Mrs.
Margaret Carr, who died at
Berkeley at the age of 80 last
July 31 after murmuring;
"This is heaven—how beauti
ful!"
School children should be per
mitted to learn some things that
are in books as well as some
things that are out of them.
One match will start a fire that
barrels of water may not quench.
PART-TIME FARMER
MAY OBTAIN LOANS
Funds Available Through
FHA for Remodeling or
New Building
LENDER TAKES NO RISK
(Tribune Washington News
Bureau)
Washington, D. C., August 10
—Through the aid of the Fed
eral Housing Administration,
which is now ready to enter the
farm iportgage field, part-time
farmers of Surry county, who
comprise 22 per cent, of the total
number of farmers, will be able
to build a new home, or improve
the old home, or build any other
building they desire.
According to the recent farm
census, there are about 1,000
part-time farmers in Surry coun
ty; and many of these, accord
ing to the Federal Housing Ad
ministration, want new construc
tion work on their farms but
have been unable to obtain funds
to finance it through private
lending sources, who have not
considered the part-time farmer
as good a risk as the full-time
farmer.
Now the FHA, by virtue of
amendments to the National
Housing Act, is authorized to in
sure loans on farms, provided
that 15 per cent, of those loans
is used for labor and materials
on buildings. These loans, the
FHA believes, may now be ob
tained through private lending
agencies, at 5 per cent, interest,
plus 1-4 to 1-2 per cent, for in
surance, with 20 to 25 years for
repayments, and totaling 80 to 90
per cent, of the valuation of the
farm.
The lender cannot lose under
this plan, for, in case of default,
he can foreclose on the property
and turn it over to the FHA for
the unpaid principal of the loan,
eliminating the objections to the
part-time farmer as a debtor. In
turn, the FHA protects the bor
rower by specifying a maximum
rate of interest and guaranteeing
that the construction work done
will be grade A. No shoddy
buildings will be erected under
this plan, the FHA contends.
COUNTY TEACHERS
MEETING SEPT. 9th
The first county-wide teachers
meeting of Surry county for this
school year will be held at the
Dobson school at' 10:00 a.m. on
Friday, September 9. All teach
ers and principals of the county
are expected to be in attendance.
According to a statement Wed
nesday by John W. Comer, coun
ty superintendent of schools,
work was begun on the Pilot
Mountain school on Monday of
this week. A new brick high
school building is being erected
there, which will have six rooms
and other facilities when com
pleted.
TWO WEDDING PERMITS
ARE ISSUED PAST WEEK
Marriage licenses were granted
to two couples to be married In
Surry county during the past
week. They were to; Grady Wilson,
of Marvel, to wed Viola Draughn,
of Dobson; and Alver V. Dahlen.
of New York to wed T. Empress
Snow, of Dobson.
ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, I*3B
COMMITTEEMEN TO
MEET IN DOBSON
TO DISCUSS PLAN
Democrats Would Hold
Towrtship Conventions
AVOID MASS MEETINGS
Would Have Delegates to
County Convention Named
at Township Meetings
TWO OFFICES SOUGHT
The Surry county Democratic
executive committee is scheduled
to meet in Dobsoxv this afternoon
(Thursday), at 2:00 o'clock to
discuss plans for the selection of
a Democratic ticket. The call to
members of the committee was
sent out by Chairman A. D. Fol
ger, and went to the 14 town
ships of the county.
Mr. Folger has made it known
that h§ does not favor holding a
mass convention such as was held
amid much confusion and dissat
isfaction two years ago. He be
lieves, along with many other
prominent Surry county Demo
crats that the party should have
township primary gatherings and
there cast their vote for their
choice of candidate.
Delegates would also be named
at the township meetings and
these delegates would go to Dob
son and there transact the busi
ness of the party, settle all dis
putes and make a nomination
where the township gatherings
failed to give any one man a
majority sufficient to declare him
the nominee.
Thus far there are only two
contests for office, that of Clerk
of Superior Court, and for Sher
iff. Clerk of Court P. T. Lewellyn
has three opponents, J. C. Hill,
Frank Riggs and John W. Mar
tin. Sheriff Boyd is being op
posed by. J. E. Monday.
The members of the county ex
ecutive committee called to meet
at Dobson this afternoon are as
follows:
Elkin township: W. M. Allen,
F. W. Graham.
Bryan township: W. L. Haynes,
Morgan Cockerham, J. R. Nor
man, Autv Norman.
Dobson township, E. W. Holt,
P. B. Woltz, B. F. Folger, N. J.
Martin, J, H. Jones.
Eldora township, Jasper Key,
G. T. Jones, S. J. Jones, M. C.
Shackleford.
Franklin township, Porter Lowe,
John Ramey, T. N. Woodruff,
Chas. Atkins.
Long Hill township, D. B.
Needham, Silas Stone, G. J. Key.
Marsh township, W. H. Chand
ler, Joe Lane, Mrs. Alice Martin,
Bausie Marion.
Mount Airy township, C. F.
Melton, J. B. Haynes, E. C. Viv
ens, W. I. Monday, H. H. Lew
ellyn.
Pilot township, O. E. Snow,
Charles Hiatt, M. R. Smith, O. T.
Fowler, Mrs. R. L. Flippin.
Rockford township, J. G. Wood,
J. G. Key, Robert Burrus.
Shoals township, P. G. Scott,
Oliver N. Hauser, J. G. Scott, R.
E. Truelove.
Siloam township, Mrs. S. R.
Reeves, Hugh Atkinson, A. C.
Snow.
Stewarts Creek township, Will
Lovill, J. C. Richards, C. L. Beam
er, Sam Cook, P. H. Snow.
Westfield township, Dr. J. T.
Smith, Reid Snoddy, R. K. Sim
mons.
4-H CLUB MEMBERS TO
GIVE RADIO PROGRAM
A. P. Cobb, and a number of
4-H club boys and girls, of Surry
county will put on a fifteen min
ute radio program over station
WAIR, of Winston-Salem, at
12:15, on Saturday, August 13.
The topic for the progam will be
Summer Activities, and will be in
charge of Mr. Cobb, who is As
sistant County Fam agent in Sur
ry county. He will be assisted
by Miss Ruth Morris, of the
Franklin 4-H club, Miss Mary
Frances Carson and Codell
Reeves, of the Pilot Mountain
club, and Ralph Stanley, of the
Dobson club.
KIWANIANS MEET AT
HOME OF W. E. SALE
The Elkin Kiwanis club met last
Thursday eveni- r at the home of
W. E. Sale, oi.. Ma Ronda road.
The Missionary oociety of the
Ronda Methodist church acted
as hpst and prepared and served
an excellent meal, which was
thoroughly enjoyed by everyone
present.
N. C. King and Queen of Health
The healthiest boy and girl among North Carolina's 45,000
4-H Club members are pictured above. They are Clifford Ousley,
Harnett county, and Ruth King Mason, Iredell county. These two
16-year-old youngsters were crowned King' and Queen of Health
in an elaborate coronation ceremony held as a part of the recent
4-H Short Course at Raleigh.
FSA MAKES ABOUT
200 LOANS IN CO.
The Farm Security Administra
tion has made a total of approx
imately 200 loans to 112 people in
Surry county since its beginning
in 1936, at an estimated average
of $150.00 per loan over that
period of time according to a
statement Wednesday bty T. D.
Anderson, district supervisor of
the Winston-Salem district, with
headquarters at Winston-Salem.
Loans are granted for periods of
one to five years, ana payments
have been satisfactory, Mr. Ander
son said.
C. O. Pickle is assistant farm
supervisor for Suny and Yadkin
counties, while Miss Linda Bailey
is home supervisor for the two
counties.
DULA COCKERHAM
HAS A CLOSE CALL
Duke Power Company Line
man Comes in Contact
* with 2,300-Volt Wire
FALLS TWENTY FEET
Dula Cocker ham, Duke Power
company lineman who narrowly
escaped electrocution Monday af
ternoon while at work in the
Pleasant Hill section, was dis
missed from Hugh Chatham hos
pital Wednesday.
Knocked unconscious when his
back accidentally came in con
tact with a live wire carrying
2,300 volts of electricity. Cocker
ham dropped 20 feet to the
ground. His life was probably
saved when a fellow lineman,
working on a nearby pole, knock
ed the hot wire loose from his
flesh.
Quick action by the crew of
linemen in using artificial respir
ation partially revived the uncon
scious man while waiting for the
ambulance which carried him to
the local hospital. In addition to
a burn on the back, the young
man suffered • bruises and lacera
tions as a result of the fall.
An examination at the hospital
disclosed that he was not danger
ously injured.
HONOR MR. BARKER
ON 44th BIRTHDAY
A number of relatives and
friends of Haywood Barker gath
ered at his home near Mt. Her
mon church Sunday to honor
him on his forty-fourth birthday
anniversary. Mr. Barker, who is
a World war veteran, is a well
known man in the county.
J. F. Moselgy, of this city, act
ed as master of ceremonies. A
number of talks were made dur
ing the day. Among the speak
ers were Rev. L. W. Burrus, Rev.
R. H. Stanley, James Barker, of
Mt. Airy, George E. Royall, of
Elkin, and J. W. Martin.
A bountiful dinner was enjoy
ed and the afternoon was spent
in good fellowship.
INSTALLING NEW PEWS
PRJ2SBYTERIAN CHURCH
The finishing touches are being
added to the newly constructed
Presbyterian ctiurch here this
week, , with the installation of new
pews/'Slnce the completion of the
church temporary pews have been
in use.
SCHOOL TO OPEN
ON SEPTEMBER 12
List of Teachers for Jones
ville School Is Announced
By Supt. Weaver
IMPROVING GROUNDS
September 12 has been set as a
tentative date for the opening of
the Jonesville school, according to
L. S. Weaver, superintendent of
the school.
The following faculty has been
elected to serve for the school
term: First grade, Mrs. W. V.
Holcomb, Mrs. Fred Key, Miss
Ruby Bray; second grade. Miss
Laura Joyner, Miss Iris Minish,
Miss Hazel Phillips; third grade.
Miss Beulah Fleming, Miss Cath
erine Boles, Mrs. Frank Pickett;
fourth grade, Mrs. Odell Holcomb.
Mrs. L. K. Keever, Mrs. Lee
Neaves; fifth grade, Miss Thelma
Shore, Mrs. Ruth Roland: sixth
grade, T. S. Hobson, J. C. Folger;
seventh grade, Harvey Madison,
C. J. Rash.
The high school faculty will
be composed of L. S. Weaver, J.
H. Swaringen, Mrs. A. B. Scroggs
and A. B. Scroggs.
Much needed improvement is
being made on the school grounds.
They are being regraded and di
vided into sections for the chil
dren of different ages. The work
is being done through a WPA!
project.
FAIR CATALOG
NOW OFF PRESS
Booklet Will Be Distributed
Immediately; Fair, to Be
Sept. 22-23-24
PLAN MANY FEATURES
The catalog and premium list
of the Elkin Fair is off the press
and will he distributed to farmers
and ether interested persons at
once. The premium list, as ap
pearing in the catalog, is also be
ing published in this issue of The
Tribune.
Plans for the fair this year call
for the biggest and best yet. The
date has been set for September
22, 23 and 24. The school gym
nasium will' house all exhibits
with the exception of the poultry
department, which will be housed
outside in special sheds which are
to be constructed.
The fair this year will feature
riding devices and a well-lighted
midway.
One of the chief features will
be the horse show and parade. In
this year's horse show, farmers
will compete among themselves
for cash prizes. Other horses, en
tered by commercial firms, county
operated institutions,etc., will com
pete in a class to themselves for
first and second prize ribbons. The
parade, which will be staged prior
to the horse show, will form at
Chatham Athletic Field and march
to the fair grounds.
Another feature this year will
be a field day open to schools in
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin coun
ties. Complete plans .have not yet
been worked out, but the various
schools will be notified in plenty
of time. v
The fair will come to end Sat
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Elkin
"The Best Little Town
In North Carolina"
, PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ACTION SPEEDED
BY LEGISLATURE
ON SPEND PLANS
Passes Major Bill to Spend
Huge Sum
FAIR MONEY PROVIDED
State Will Spend $75,000 for
Exhibit at New York's
World's Fair
ARE SPEEDING PROCESS
Raleigh, Aug. 9.—Still without
change, the bill authorizing an
$8,240,510 federal-state building
program was passed on its second
reading today by the house of rep
resentatives. The 98 to 0 vote
came after Representative Giles of
McDowell tried unsuccessfully to '
obtain an admendment to the
measure to reduce all listed ap
propriations 5 per cent and apply
the funds to rural farm-to-market
roads.
The house and senate suspended
their rules to enact into law a bill
authorizing the state to spend
$75,000 for an exhibit at the New
York world's fair next year.
Just 55 minutes after its intro
duction in the house, this bill be
came law upon its third reading
in the senate.
The house also passed on second
reading, 90 to 1, the measure em
powering municipalities, counties
and sanitary districts to partici
pate in the PWA building pro
gram.
Consideration of both this meas
ure and the state bond bill was
postponed until tomorrow by the
senate. Indications were that the
senate would disregard the two
similar measures passed on first
readings yesterday and await the
house bills.
TEACHERS ELECTED
NEXT SCHOOL TERM
Sept. 12 Set As Tentative
Opening Date, But Not
Certain
3 FARMING TEACHERS
School teachers for Yadkin
county schools have been select
ed and it is expected the school
year will begin on September 12.
Supt. J. T. Reece states this is
not certain but likely.
Yadkin county now has three
agricultural teachers, who are
not included in the list below.
They are as follows: Boonville, J.
R. Walker; West Yadkin, C. R.
Wright; Courtney, P. L, Smith.
The teacher list for Jonesville
is published elsewhere in this is
sue and is therefore not included
hete.
All other schools are as follows:
YadkteviUe
R. H. Crater, principal, Edith
Crater, Lillian Chamberlain, Eva
Cranfill, Helen Potts, Nora Shore,
Annie Blanche Long, Sara L.
Holcomb, Ruby Myers Davis, Lu
cille C. Simmons, .R. Mildred Lo
gan, William Todd, Mrs. Ethel
Brumfield, Mary Virginia Hard
ing, ' Mildred Mackie, William
Guy Angell, Leßoy Penn Spell,
Jane Harris.
West Yadkin
William Nelson Ireland, Jr.,
principal, Luther Todd, William
Alden Hunt, Elva Shermer Hoots,
Caroline H. Bell, music, Madolin
J. Bell, Gertrude Todd, Mamie C.
Gough, Sallie Thomasson, Ila B.
Pendergrass, Beulah
Mary Melton, Collie J. Hinson,
Lucy Parks, Mrs. W. A. Hunt,
Flossie B. Joyner, Erie P. Miller,
Mabel H. Wagoner. H. C. Nicks,
(Continued on page four)
N. B. SMITHEY BUYS
ELKIN ROLLER MILLS
N. B. Smithey, of North Wilkes
boro, owner of Smithey's Depart
ment store here as well as other
Smithey stores in various towns,
has bought the Elkin Roller Mills,
for a number of yfears owned and '
operated by J. H. Guyer, it was
learned Wednesday.
The mill will continue to op
erate under the present manage
ment, it was said.
JUNIORS ARE URGED
TO ATTEND MEETING
Ml members of the Elkin
Council, Jr., O. U. A. M., are re
quested to be present at a meet
ing Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
Important business matters are
to be discussed.