North Carolina Newspapers

Thursday, May 11, 1939 Mrs. Paul Edgerton of Greens boro, is the guest this week of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Poindexter, at their home on Gwyn Avenue. Mrs. J. P. Ipock and children, Anne and John, attended the May Day fete at Salem College, Winston-Salem, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Atkins, of Raleigh, and Watson Holyfield, of Duncan, were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jen nings. Ray Ball, of Philadelphia, was the guest Tuesday and Wednes day of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Neaves, at their home on Bridge street. Mrs. W. A. Laxton, of Moravian Falls, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Laxton, the former her son, at their home on West Main street. k Mrs. G. H. Dortch of Raleigh, spent the week-end here with Mr. and Mrs. Gavin Dortch, the form er her son, at their home on West Main Street. Mr. and Mrs. Errol Hayes left Tuesday for Raleigh, where they will spend several days attending to business masters and visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Sullins and Mr. and Mrs. Smith Williamson spent the week-end in Asheville and other places of interest in Western North Carolina. Mrs. Eph Whisenhunt address ed the W. M. U. of the First Bap tist church of Statesville, at a special meeting Monday after noon. Miss Rachael Burch, of Greens boro, spent a day or two the first of the week at Rusk with her mother, Mrs. Ila D. Burch, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Dan E. Barbour spent the week-end the guests of Miss Isobell McCloud at Hemp, and attended the commencement program at Elise Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gwyn and children spent the week-end in Stuart, Va., the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Hopkins, the latter a sister of Mrs. Gwyn. Mrs. W. A. Neaves and Mrs. Franklin Folger spent Sunday at Mouth of Wilson, Va., the guests of Mrs. Neaves' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Cox. Mrs. George Fulton and little daughter, Catherine, of Roanoke, Va., were the week-end guests of her father, W. J. Snow, at his home on Gwyn avenue. Mrs. Elijah Ames and Miss Ro sella Ames, of Marshfield, Mass., arrived Monday to be the guests for several days of Mrs. G. T. Roth at her home on Terrace avenue. NOW... An Even Better Dry Cleaning Service WE HAVE JUST INSTALLED A MODERN NEW BUTLER VACUUM STILL The Finest Solvent Reclamation Equipment to Be Had! THIS NEW EQUIPMENT MEANS WHITER. BRIGHTER. ODORLESS CLEANING! The Public Is Invited to Visit Our Plant and See This Remarkable New Machine and Learn How It Makes Our Service Even Better! Lawrence Cleaners Phone 187 „ Elkin, N. C. Mrs. DeWitt Calloway return ed Wednesday from Oxford, where she was the guest for sev eral days oT her sister-in-law, Mrs. O. W. Dowd. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wall and son, Edwin, spent Sunday in Kingsport, Tenn., the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Stanley, the former.a brother of Mrs. Wall. Mrs. Evelyn Bell Carter, of Winston-Salem, spent the week end here with Mr. and Mrs. George Royall, the latter her sis ter. at their home on Church street. Mrs. J. W. L. Benson and little daughter, Barbara Ann, returned Saturday from Atlanta, where they spent a week the guests of Mrs. Benson's mother, Mrs. Frankie Andrews. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. George and little daughter, Judy, of Orlando, Fla., arrived Saturday for a visit with Mrs. George's brothers, Wil bur, Roger and Jack Carter, and her aunt, Mrs. W. M. Evans. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Carter. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hall, Miss Emmaline Neaves, Miss Anna At kinson and Julius Hall spent the week-end in Badin, the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Fraser Lapsley. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ves'tal announce the birth of a daugh ter, Brenda Ann, at Hugh Chat ham Memorial hospital. May 8, 1939. Mrs. Vestal was before her marriage Miss Beatrice Newman. Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Moose and sons, Hoy, Jr., and William Whita ker, of Mount Pleasant, spent the week-end here with Mrs. Moose's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Whitaker, at their home on Church Street, Mesdames George Royall, Errol Hayes and J. H. Beeson and Misses Eleanor Hayes, Louise Laffoon and Peggy Royall at tended the May Day fete at Sa lem College, Winston-Salem, Sat urday. Fred Shores, of this city, a stu de nt at Fishburne Military school, Waynesboro, Va., was one of the cadets making the honor roll for the month of April, ac cording to an announcement is sued by the headmaster. Miss Ruth Atkinson, who has been a member of the Marion school faculty during the school year, arrived, the latter part of the week to spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Atkinson, on West Main street. Miss Lesbia Graham, a student at W. C. U. N. C., Greensboro, and Miss Jane Streetman, of Marion, also a student at W. C. U. N. C., spent the week-end here with Miss Graham's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Graham, at their home on Gwyn avenue. . THE ELKIN TRIBUNE ELBIN, NORTH CAROLINA Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Putman, Jimmy and Hugh Putman and Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Childs of Lincolnton and Miss Mary Leon ard of Hickory, were the Sunday guests of Rev. and Mrs. Eph Whis enhunt, at their home on Church Street. Miss Oleen Norman, a student at W. C. U. N. C., Greensboro, spent the week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Nor man, on Gwyn avenue. She had as her guest during her visit, Miss Frances Scott Tilley, of Chapel Hill. Rev. and Mrs. Grady Burgiss, of Greensboro, were the guests Monday and Tuesday of Mr. Bur giss' parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Burgiss, at their home on Elk Spur street. Roy Burgiss, of Sparta, also visited his parents on Tuesday. Mrs. W. F. Warren is seriously ill at her home at Roaring River, suffering from a stroke of para lysis suffered Monday morning. Much concern is felt over the con dition of Mrs. Warren, due to her advanced age of 86 years. She is the mother of Mrs. R. L. Church and Mrs. D. H. Morrison of this city. Miss Myrtle Motsinger, of Win ston-Salem, and Miss Hazel Purse, of Atlanta, were the guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Chatham, at their home on East Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Chat ham also had as their guest over the week-end their son, Alex Chatham, ni, a student at Duke University, Durham. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Butner and little daughter, Janice, have moved here from Pinehurst to make their home. At present Mr. and Mrs. Butner are making their home with Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Atkinson on West Main street until they can secure suitable living quar ters. Mr. Butner formerly lived here and he and his family are welcome additions to Elkin. Miss Mary Elizabeth Foster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Foster, of this city, a student at Meredith College, Raleigh, has been elected as parliamentarian for the Gavel Club next year. The speech club is carried on by parliamentary procedure. Miss Foster is also a member of the sophomore baseball team at the college. Joe Gwyn Bivins, a student at Davidson College, spent the week end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bivins, on Gwyn avenue. He brought as his guest l Howard Cheney, of Sarasota, Fla., I also a student at Davidson. Messrs. Bivins and Cheney, ac companied by Mr. Bivins' mother, attended the May Day fete at Sa lem College, Winston-Salem, Sat urday. Mrs. H. O. Graham, Mrs. Thomas Roth and Mrs. W. L. Cawthon, the latter the mother of Mrs. Roth, from Jackson, Tenn., were guests of Mesdames R. H. Jones and Robert Ogburn at a bridge-luncheon Friday at the i country club in Winston-Salem. Mesdames Graham, Roth and Cawthon were also the guests of Mrs. Charles Vance at a luncheon at her home in Winston-Salem on Tuesday. Mrs. E. C. James, of this city, attended the funeral of Mrs. Edna R. Harris, widely known throughout North Carolina as the executive secretary of the Baptist Women's Missionary Union of North Carolina, at Ra leigh on Monday. From Raleigh Mrs. James went to Apex for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sexton Lawrence. Mr. James joined her in Apex on Wednesday and they will return to their home here today. BANG'S DISEASE TO BE UNDER CONTROL Bang's disease, the most.serious economic threat of the state's cattle population will be under control in Surry county within a few months. Work is being started May Ist in which every cow over six months of age will be tested for the disease. Bang's disease, frequently term ed "Contagious Abortion," is a malady of cattle that lowers milk production and interferes with reproduction. It carries a great economic loss in this manner to the cattle owner. Milk from infected animals is dangerous for human uss, caus ing undalant fever and is thought to be the cause of Hodgekins dis ease in man. Infected animals are slaughter ed under the present method of control and the owner receives indemnity according to the value of the animal. The work is being carried on by the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry with the cooperation of the state and local' agricultural departments. His Umps Abbie: "I don't understand baseball at all, do you?" Lou-: "You don't have to under stand it. Everything is decided by a man they call the vampire." to DAY] \TOMcmnom 1 PKdmMPRJUOTI I] | STOCK IP 01 AUTOMOBILES . . . America The ordinary American, accus tomed to seeing a constant pro- j cession of motorcars passing over every highway, seldom stops to realize that this automobile pa rade is one thing we in America have which no other people in the world possess. Out of 43 mil lion cars owned in the whole world, almost 30 million of them are in use in America. In all of Europe there are few er than ten million cars. Asia, with its enormous populations in India, China and a dozen other countries, owns only 666 thousand automobiles, and the whole Afri can continent has still fewer. Canada and the Latin American nations together have but 2 1-4 million cars. Why? The answer is easy. This country is so rich that prac tically everybody can own a car. Gasoline is so cheap that people j can afford to run cars. Euro-1 peans pay from 40 cents to a dol- j lar a gallon for gas, and that alone puts motoring out of the' working man's reach, even if he could afford to buy a car. No wonder other nations envy lis. and want us to mix up in their quarrels so they can get some of our wealth away from us. i RIGHTS .... Connecticut! The most important part of the] Constitution of the United" States, as I understand it, is the "Bill of Rights," which comprises the first ten amendments. That is the part of the Constitution which guarantees freedom of speech, of worship, of assembly! and petition, and other rights we! have enjoyed so long we think; everybody must have them. Several states refused to ratify the Constitution as submitted in] 1787 until they got pledges thatj such a Bill of Rights would be j added to it. Connecticut ratified it, though, j because the Nutmeg State al- j ready had a Bill of Rights in its; own Constitution. Alone among; all the states, however, Connecti- 1 cut never got around to ratifying; , those first ten amendments, until i I just now. A couple of weeks ago Connec ticut acted in accordance with its .own ancient Bill of Rights, adopted in 1650, by ratifying the part of the Constitution to which it had never before pledged ad herence. But since all the other states were so pledged, Connecti cut had been bound by it as well as the others. And that's something else America has that most of the world hasn't —a guarantee of I>ersonal. human rights which no government may infringe. FINGERPRINTS . . voluntary The President asked the mem bers of his White House staff re cently to have the Department qf Justice make a record of all their fingerprints. He said he had been fingerprinted when he was As sistant Secretary of the Navy, and he thought every government employee and everybody else ought to have his fingerprints on lecord. That has started a wave of voluntary fingerprinting all over the country. I think it's a good thing, for many reasons, so long 'as it is voluntary. I would put up an awful holler if Govern ment tried to compel me to be fingerprinted. Persons accused of crime are compelled to record their finger prints. Fingerprint marks on weapons have often aided in identifying criminals, although police officials say that not one pistol in thousands will show fin gerprints. There has been talk of requir ing everybody to be fingerprinted, and the prints filed in Washing ton. It seems to me that the right to maintain one's identity a personal secret is one of the things which the Bill of Rights guarantees. MULES valuable There is something about a mule which has always made that cross between a mare and a jackass rather an interesting an imal to me. I was glad to see by a recent report of the Department of Ag riculture that the number of mules is increasing in the United States. There aren't many of them in New England, where I was born, but I began to get ac quainted with mules when my folks moved to Washington when I was ten. Mules. Secretary Wallace says, are worth more than horses. There are only 4,382,000 mules, but they are worth an average of sllß each, as compared with the average value of SB4 for the ten million work horses, j That makes the mule the most , valuable of all domestic animals. Cows average $56, hogs sll, sheep about $5 and chickens on the farm only about 70 cents a head. One of the reasons why I like mules is that they pull their own weight without complaining, which is a useful trait in animals as well as people. They eat frug ally, live long and earn their way in the world better than horses do. HEIGHTS safety An airplane flying five miles above the earth would be invisi ble from below. Its greatest dif ficulty would be the absence of oxygen in the thin air so high above ground. The engines would not work and pilot and passen gers could not breathe. But if flying could be done at that height it would be free from many of the dangers closer to ground, and probably could make greater speed than anyone has yet flown. It would be high above all weather disturbances. The problem of supplying oxy gen for sub-stratosphere flights has practically been solved. Pas sengers and pilots wear rubber masks connected with an oxygen tank which also supplies oxygen to the engine. So equipped, a plane carrying ten men and a woman recently made a flight from Minneapolis to Boston at a height of 23,000 feet all the way. MISSIONARY UNION TO HOLD MEETING The Woman's Missionary Union, | Auxiliary of the Yadkin Baptist Association, will hold its annual meeting with Flat Rock Baptist church, Hamptonville, on Thurs day, June 1, 1939, according to | announcement by Mrs. D. H. [Craver, of Boonville. I "It is earnestly hoped." Mrs. i Craver states, "that everyone of our W. M. U. organizations will be well represented and that churches not having W. M. U. or ganizations will send delegates." All pastors in the association i are urged to attend. TO SELL JESTER ESTATE JUNE 10 j The M. E. Jester estate, located i in Yadkin county near the Rendez vous, will be subdivided and sold lat public auction Saturday, June i 10 by the England Real Estate Co., I of Greensboro, it has been learned j here. Surveyors are now at work on i the property, which is described ' as one of the most valuable pieces !of land in this section. Bigger and Better GMC (SMC ann / \ \ Greenwood Auto Co. EAST MAIN STREET " ELKIN, N. C. TUw GMC Deafoi CMC's better trucks are now backed driving effort at least 50%! And by bigger and better local sales and GMC alone offers a full line of 10 service! Truck buyers will welcome Diesel models, 3 tons and up! Nu this news—will welcome the oppor- merous other exclusive features tunity to inspect and drive CMC's make GMC the buy this year. And 1939 models. GMC offers for 1939 GMC prices are right down with the all-new trucks and all-new GMC- lowestl Come and see these trucks, built valve-in-head engines! GMC Come, see the new local facilities, offers new, more comfortable cabs! Compare GMC with any trucks on GMC offers the iargest in standard the market. Compare the new* bodies! For'heavy-duty trucking, lower GMC prices. And remember, only GMC offers easy-shifting GMC builds trucks, trailers and SYNCRO-MESH transmission and Diesels in every essential capacity hall-hearing steering, which reduce "from the smallest to the largest!" TO KEEP SHARP EYE ONGEORGE King and Queen to Be Furn ished Ample Protection on Visit to U. S. ARE TO USE SOLDIERS . ■ Washington, iMay 8. Par reaching police precautions to protect King George and Queen Elizabeth of England during their visit here next month will be camouflaged as much as possible. Officials desire to make the po lice arrangements 100 per cent, efficient, but at the same time to avoid giving the impression that the royal pair are visiting a na tion in arms. The last word has yet to be said in the conferences among officials of the State Department, White House, secret service, army, navy It's Time to Come Out from Under That Battered Old Felt and Blossom Out in a New STRAW HAT! We have them in all the m |7Y P* new styles and colors. Sail- % I f\ H|. E llf wrs. Panamas, etc V JL • The Men's Shop Herman Guyer Barrett Lankford and marines and the Department of Justice, but the following be came known today: Prom the border on down, the royal train will be preceded by two trains. The first will be a pilot train, with only a few officals and some expert trainmen aboard. The . trainmen are skilled to detect— just by listening—any defect in the track over which they pass. The second train win carry news papermen. * Thousands of soldiers and police will gaurd the railroad right of way during the night trip from Niagara Falls, N. Y., to Wash ington. NEW GROCERY STORE TO OPEN HERE TODAY A new grocery store, to be known as the J. A. Roberts Gro cery Co., will open here today on North Bridge street. Operated by J. A. Roberts, the store will feature a complete line of staple and fancy groceries, and Ireah meats.