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MAY 20-25 IS W. PA WEEK Open House to Be Held on All WPA Professional and Service Projects PROCLAMATION ISSUED The Works Projects Adminis tration has set aside May 20-25 as "This Work Pays Your Com munity" Week. Open house will be held on all WPA professional and service projects throughout the county. You are cordially and urgently invited, by the sponsors of the Surry county pro jects Mid the WPA personnel to visit and inspect every profes sional and service project in op • eration to Surry county. This week is to be a report to taxpayers so that they may see how their money is being used. It will give committees a chance to offer constructive suggestions; it will also acquaint committees with projects whose facilities they can take fuller advantage. Cooperating are the mayors of Surry county towns, who jointly issued the following proclama tion: We proclaim that the week of May 20-25 will be set aside as "This Work Pays Your Commun ity" Week. This week is to acquaint all the people of Surry county with the facts and accomplishments of the Professional and Service Pro jects of the Works Projects Ad ministration. We urge each and everyone of you to visit these projects and see that they are paying your community and county. JOHN D. THOMPSON. Mayor of Mount Airy J. R. POINDEXTER, Mayor of Elkin PRANK SWANSON. Mayor of Pilot Mountain R. L. FOLGER, # Mayor of Dobson In Surry county projects will be operating during the week at Mount Airy, Dobson, Pilot Moun tain, Elkin, and at various schools throughout the county. Diplomas Awarded To 30 Elkin Seniors (Continued from Page One) is the first year such awards have been made in the local school. The commencement sermon on Sunday evening at the Methodist church, by Rev. J. S. Hiatt, was well attended, as were the Class Day exercises on Monday after noon on the high school campus and the seventh grade promotion exercises at the First Baptist church on Tuesday morning. John W. Comer, superintendent of Surry schools, presented cer tificates of promotion to 42 sev enth graders. At the Tuesday morning pro gram letters, service bars and stars were awarded to members of the basketball teams by Miss Lena Lewis, coach of the girls' team, and J. S. Bumgarner, coach of the boys' team. Perfect at tendance awards were also made. Fifteen students of the commer cial class received certificates to bookkeeping and 28 awards were made to students of typing; ten members of the typing class also received special awards for mak ing more than 40 words per min ute to a speed test. SURRY HARDWARE COMPANY Is the Best Place to Buy LAWNMOWERS GARDEN HOSE RAKES HOES HEDGE SHEARS And All Other Lawn and Garden Needs! SURRY HARDWARE CO. Elkin, N. C. To Stage War On "Screwdrivers" Here Tuesday The Eakin police department has announced that plans have been completed here for a war on screwdrivers and' screwjays, to be conducted next Tuesday. A brand new puppet show, which shows the hazards of screwjay-walking and screwdriv ing, is scheduled to put on its first performance on Main street at 9 o'clock sharp Tuesday morn ing. During the afternoon the puppets will move to a new loca tion at the Double Eagle Com pany, on South Bridge street, where they will perform until 5 p.m. There will be sufficient room for 300 people to view each per formance, and there will be no admission charge. At the same time a new cream colored safety squad car will start to patrol Elkin's streets at 9 in the morning, looking for screwdrivers and screwjays. A member of the police department will be seated behind the micro phone, commenting upon every screwy example of car driving or jay walxing he sees, it was an nounced, the voice to be broad cast through two loudspeakers built into the car. Fenton A. Adkins, safety director of the Shell Oil Company, whose local distributors, the Quality North western Oil Company, are assist ing the Elkin police in putting on the crusade, will be behind the wheel of the crusader. Between performances of the puppett show, a novel safety meter will be set up in a special booth near the downtown puppet locations. Several hundred auto mobile drivers are expected to test their braking reaction time at the reflex-measuring mechan ism built into the booth. Anyone producing his own driving license is invited to take the test. The machine will be open to the pub lic all day Tuesday at all times except when the puppet show performances are going on. The purpose of the campaign is to "kid" motorists into remem bering their manners, and to teach pedestrians not to jay walk. Surrender of Dutch Proves Severe Blow (Continued from Page One) steel to that section were west of the Meuse River. In any event, the fortifications around Sedan constitute a weak link of the Magtoot line, consist tog of fortified positions rather than deep underground forts.) The advance across the Meuse River, the Germans said, was made against the French counter attack of tanks—weapons un known 70 years ago when another German army overwhelmed the French and broke Emperor Na poleon m as a power to the coun cils of Europe. The Germans claim of a victory on the Meuse River was a phase of the battle that has been raging along that stream for two days. It may develop into one of the de cisive battles of history. (In London the air ministry an nounced that royal air force bombers and fighters co-operated with the French forces to the bat tle which developed when the Germans stormed the Meuse.) London, May 15. —"Highly suc cessful" British air attacks behind the German lines were reported today as the Nazi conquest of Holland hammered home to Brit ain her own exposure to areial raiders. Machine-gun fire sounded this morning near the mouth of the Humber River, along the English east coast. Berlin broadcast heard here sharpened Britain's anxiety and spurred recruiting of a new home front army to fight a possible in vasion by Nazi parachute troops. "German planes already are within easy reach of the impor tant English Port of Harwich," a German announcer warned. "More than that, they have bases for direct attack against the whole of England. ... In this age of modern warfare, the insularity of the British Isles has ended." Harwich is less than 125 miles from Dutch mainland. The air ministry said British fliers had given the French "val uable assistance" in the great bat tle which developed at Sedan and the crossings of the Meuse yester day. Britain's air . force, it said, "de stroyed permanent bridges and two pontoon bridges and with anti-aircraft guns brought down 15 German planes to a terrific battle near Sedan. . . . "Repeated low-flying attacks on enemy troops and tank concentra tions were made." It acknowledged loss of 35 Brit ish planes. It's dangerous to lose your pa tience or your temper when you are behind a steering wheel. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA LATE NEWS IN BRIEF (Continued from Page One) ey, but must be undertaken In any event. He said that whether the money was raised by borrowing, increasing the $45,000,004 legal limit on the national debt or by taxation was a minor detail. INTERNATIONAL LONDON, May 15 While Germany threatened early to day to send waves of airplanes against the British Isles in the "nearest future," thousands of Britons responded to a govern ment mobilization of 100,000 voluntary "minute men" to re sist such aerial bombardments or parachute invasions. War Ministry Anthony Eden, in a radio broadcast, appealed for volunteers to form his home defense corps. Hardly had his voice died on the radio when thousands of men besieged po lice stations throughout the nation, offering their services in the newest defense measure against the Nazi blitzkrieg. STOCKHOLM, May 15—The sighting of numerous German transports moving both north and south in the Kattegat led to reports last night that the Germans are reinforcing their low country drive with their forces from Norway. Seven large transports, escorted by warships, were seen moving south. But observers were un able to tell whether they were loaded with troops, leaving the possibility they were strength ening their Norwegian force instead. FALL CREEK SCHOOL FACULTY RE-NAMED The entire faculty of Fall Creek school, Yadkin county, was renamed for another year at a meeting of the local committee men last week. The teaching per sonnel for another year was re vealed recently by Principal Dwight Martin, who will head the school again. Other teachers are W. M. Col lins, seventh grade; R, A. Jessup, sixth grade; R. D. Wall, fifth grade; Miss Lucy Bell Matthews, fourth grade; Miss Laura Corne lius and Mrs. Maude Hobson, third grade; Misses Edith Jester and Irene Hall, second grade, and Mrs. C. D. Angell and Mrs. Beat rice Shore, first grade. The local committeemen for Fall Creek are D. W. Hobson, chairman; Oliver Hobson, and E. P. Cornelius, secretary. BAPTIST PASTOR GOES TO CHURCH IN NORTON Rev. and Mrs. Eph Whisen .hunt and little daughter, Edith Adair, left Tuesday for Norton, Va., where Rev. Whisenhunt, who has been pastor of the First Bap tist church here for the past twelve years, will serve as pastor of the first church. During the residence of the family here they have made a host of friends, not only in Elkin but throughout this section, who re gret to see them go elsewhere to reside. Rev. Whisenhunt preached his final sermon here Sunday morn ing and the congregation taxed the capacity of the church, many of them being former members of the church who are at present re siding elsewhere. MAYOR TOM COOPER IS TO VISIT ELKIN Mayor Tom Cooper, of Wilming ton, Democratic candidate for the nomination for governor, will visit this section Monday May 20, when he comes to Elkin, Jonesville, Mt. Airy and North Wilkesboro, ac cording to a tentative itinerary just annouced. Mayor Cooper claims that the opposition is spending plenty to defeat him, and that he is the candidate who is free to serve the people—not obligated by "slick tongued, high-powered, lawyer lobbyist-politicians." "THE NIGHT SPOT" OPENS IN JONESVILLE The Texaco station and lunch room to Jonesville formerly known as Max's Place, is now open under new management and under the new name of "The Night Spot." "The Night Spot" will feature famous toasted hot dogs, sand wiches, lunches, short orders, beers, ales and wines as well as icrf cream and soft drinks, and will remain open all night. It will be under the personal mangement of Walt "Bo" Bohannon, assisted by Byron Bryan. BIRTHDAY DINNER (N HONOR JOHN G. COOKE A birthday dinner, to honor of John O. Cooke, will be bold at his home at Cycle Sunday, May 19. The public is invited to attend and bring a basket dinner. WITH THE SICK The following patients have been admitted to the local hos pital during the past week: Mrs. Ida Johnson, Elkin; Pauline Stanley, Mtn. Park; Tom Stanley, Rusk; Mrs. Fred Hobson. Yadkin ville; Kenneth Freeman, Elkin; Mrs. Zelma Snow, Dobson; Ruby Carolyn Stokes, Cycle; Virginia Walker, State Road; Tom Greene, Glade Valley; Mrs. Edna Hayes, State Road; Hazel Mar tin, Roaring River; Paul Owyn, Jr., Elkin; Bill Poindexter, Dob son; Mrs. Myrtle Johnson, Roar ing River; Mrs. Myrtle Moser, Elkin; Mollie Hampton, Sparta Roy Hendrix, Dobson; Mrs. Ola Jean Prevette, Jonesville; Roby Mitchell, Elkin; Mrs. Nora North, East Bend; Mrs. Lula Mae Nor man, State Road; Mrs. Mazie Davis, Boon ville. Patients dismissed during the week were: Mrs. Ella Couch, Elk in; Margaret Fain, Mt. Airy; Jes-l sie Draughn, Dobson; Clarence Jones, Mt. Airy; J. T. Inskeep, Roaring Gap; Viola Meritt, Wel come; Mrs. Sallie Money, Elkin; Betty Rogers Pennell, Elkin; Mrs. Sadie Colbert, East Bend; Mrs. Rosa Wright, East Bend; Mrs. Ada Willard, Mt. Airy; Kenneth Brown, Yadkinville; Bertice Lou Nance, Jonesville; T. Z. Shugart, Yadkinville; Mrs. Vermelle Col lins, Elkin; Charles Edward Macemore, Jonesville; Pauline Stanley, Elkin; Kenneth Free man, Elkin; Ruby Carolyn Stokes, Cycle; Hazel Masten, Roaring River; Paul Gwyn, Jr., Elkin; Bill Poindexter, Dobson; Mollie Hampton, Sparta. SCHOOLS IN SURRY COUNTY NOW CLOSED John W. Comer, superintendent of county schools, announced Wednesday morning that all Sur ry schools were closed for the year 1939-40. Elkin was the last to close. All school buses have been re turned to the county garage in Dobson and will be repaired be fore time for school re-opening. Mr. Comer said that few changes had been made in the schools in regard to teachers. Several vacancies have occurred but the majority of these have been filled. Liberal Allowance For Your Old Stove! tJ P I \> 1 Sn t t BiB H 1 1 Come in today and let us show you its de luxe fea- I I tures. You've wanted a new range—now's the time I *•"• burn *"' Mid pot- 1 a(K * roomy and can turn out a perfect cake or roast 1 •££ V \ ever y time - Five powerful wickless kerosene burners FLORENCE 1 • r^porco l * l " ** hk * e#lll jta - Bi 1 There's a Florence for every cooking need. Let m $29.50 1 »»•». "H" ,i * m ' prom I EAGLE FURNITURE CO. LA" ' - Everything: for the Home Elkin, N. C. WANTS For Expert Radio Service, Phone 57-J. ltp For rent, six room cottage in North Elkin. Reich & Hunt Real Estate Co. ltc For sale: Delco light plant, in good condition. Will sell at a sacrifice on account of power now being available. Avery White, Dobson, N. C., Rt. 2. 5-23p Bronze turkey eggs for sale at 10 cents each. See Paul Woodruff, Boonville, N. C. ltp For rent: three and four room apartments. Newly finished. Private bath. Carl Chappell. Telephone 126-M. tfc Modern Beauty Shop will award a free three-day trip to the New York World's Fair on Mon day, June 10. Nothing to buy. No strings attached. Visit our shop and register and we will give you complete details. 6-5 c We buy scrap iron and metals. Double Eagle Service Co., Elk in, N. C.- tfc Special this week on linoleum rugs, 27"x46" @ 25c; 30!*x54" @ 35c; 36"x72" @ 49c. Graham & Click's 5c & 10c Store. Farm Labor. Experienced, white, married or single, man for gen eral farm work on a large grain and livestock farm located 35 miles north of Washington, D. C. Must have good written ref erences and ability to operate modern farm machinery. Wages for married man, $36.75 per month, house, and allowances. Single man $30.00 per month, room and board. No drinking at any time and no smoking during working hours. Write Oak Hill Farms, Aldie, Loudoun County, Virginia. 5-16p Established Rawleigh Route available in Alleghany county. Has betfn worked for over 7 years by the same Dealer. Good opportunity for a hustler with car. Write Rawleigh's, Dept. NCE-64-204, Richmond, Va. 6- 13p Special this week, white caps and saucers @ 8c; large white plate @ 8c each, also large white bowls @> 3 for 9c. Graham & Click's 5c & 10c Store. Wanted! Refined girls for Beauty Culture Training. A complete course for only $50.00. State accredited. Mae's School of Beauty Culture, North Wilkes boro, N. C. Mrs. Jake Church, Prop. tfc Extra Special! This week only: Children's, ladies', men's tennis shoes and oxfords at 47c pair. Buy now, our supply is limited. Graham & Click's 5c & 10c Store. When selling or buying produce see Early Combs, in the old city jail building. Telephone 308. tfc - y ■ Grain and dairy farm containing 180 acres, located Farmington school. Mail, dairy route, elec tricity, good road. Address Box 575, Winston-Salem, N. C. 5-15p Wanted to repair radios. Oui expert thoroughly knows hit business. Prices right. Harri* Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc WHEN YOU BUILD You Want THE BEST MATERIALS PROMPT SERVICE You'll Find Just That When » You Buy From Elkin Lumber & Mfg. Co. "Everything to Build Anything" Phone 68 Elkin, N. C. Thursday. May 16, 1940 Just arrived, a large selection of children's sun suits @ 10c, 15c, 25c; a complete new line of In - fants' and children's dresses, rompers, overalls, at attractive prices. Graham «fe Click's 5c & ' 10c Store. For Sale: 1936 Chevrolet 4-door standard sedan. Driven less than 16,000 miles. See Mrs. J. W. Wlllard, Gwyn avenue. 5-15c For sale— J. C. Triplett farm lo cated 1 mile from nflMn on Elkin-Wins ton-Salem highway No. 67. Contains 100 acres—so acres bottom land, 50 acres up land. Seven-room dwelling, large barn and other outbuildings. Suitable for farming or for sub division. See R. R. Triplett at Bon-Ton Grill, Elkin, N. C. tfc Servel Electrolux (kerosene burn er) brings modern city refrig eration to farm homes without electricity. Write for free lit erature today. Box 333, Mount Airy, N. C. tfc Do you want plenty of eggs from strong, fast growing young chicks? If so feed Panamin. We have it. Abernethy's, A Good Drug Store, Elkin, N. C. tfn
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