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ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations The Elkin Tribune ELKIN Gateway to Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVI No. 23 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1948 $2.00 PER YEAR 20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS Press Group To Be Guests Here On Tour All Sections + Of U. S. To Be! - Represented Approximately 400 representa tives of the non-metropolitan press of America will visit Elkin Wednesday in their tour of North Carolina following the 63rd an nual convention of the National Editorial Association which will open in Pinehurst today. The group is expected to arrive here at 11 a. m. and will be con ducted on a tour of the Chatham Manufacturing Company. The Kiwanis Club will entertain the association at a luncheon to be given at the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A., to which other Elkin civic clubs have been invited. Highlights of the luncheon pro "V gram will be broadcast by WSJS, Winston-Salem, from 1:15 to 1:45 p. m. The convention proper will be held May 6 through May 8, open ing on Thursday evening and ad journing at noon Saturday. Leav ing Pinehurst on Sunday after noon a caravan of busses will carry the group on a tour of the state which was planned with the idea of giving the guests, who will likely represent every state in the Union, a good cross-section view of North Carolina. For the opening night, Governor Cherry* is scheduled to make an address and to extend an official , welcome on behalf of the state and IE. A. Resch, of Siler City, presi dent of the North Carolina Press Association, will act as toast master. W. Verne McKinney of Hillsboro, Oregon, a former presi dent of the national organization, will respond. William Lawrence, international correspondent of the New York Times, will speak on the subject "Coming Out Into the Open" and Joseph H. Short. Jr., president of the National Press Club. Washing ton, will address the group on "As We See It In Washington.” On the Weekly Newspaper Bu reau program Friday morning, with Ed M. Anderson, Western North Carolina publisher, presid ing, the principals will be Charles C. Carr, of the Aluminum Corpor ation of America, on the subject of "Value of Authenticated Re search" and A1 W. Lehman, of the Advertising Research Foundation, who will lead a discussion on "Do People Read Weekly Newspapers?” The readership survey recently . conducted for The Elkin Tribune f will be featured in the “shop” dis cussions Friday morning and chairmen of various committees will give reports at the business sessions Friday morning and after noon and Saturday afternoon. The annual banquet Friday (Continued On Page Eight) CO. CONVENTION TO BE MAY 15TH Democrats Will Meet At Dob son Courthouse; Precinct Meetings May 8th ' STATE MEETING MAY 20 Democratic preceinct meetings have been ordered for Saturday. May 8, by the state executive com mittee, John Lewellyn of Dobson, Surry county Democratic chair man, announced this week. At the same time it was an nounced that the county conven tion would be held at Dobson May 15 and the state convention would convene at Raleigh May 20. Precinct meetings will name township executive committees of not less than five members. From each committee will be nam ed a chairman, a vice-chairman, and a secretary. Either the chair man or vice-chairman must be a ^ woman. The county chairman urged that all party members attending the precinct meetings be named delegates to the county conven tion. The primary business of the county convention will be to name delegates to the state convention Party leaders predicted that the T county meeting would be harmoni ous. SiL Tribune To Be Issued Earlier Next Week As announced in last week’s paper. The Tribune will go to press on Tuesday evening: of next week, rather than the reg ular Wednesday printing time, in order that the paper will be available for members of the National Editorial Association who will visit Elkin as guests of the Elkin Kiwanis Club and the Chatham Manufacturing ! Company on Wednesday, May 12 th. It will be appreciated if ad vertisers, correspondents, and those desiring news items in the paper will get them in not later than Monday of next week. The Tribune office will be closed from 12 noon until 2 p. m., Wednesday, May 12tli, in order that the staff may at tend the meeting. BOND ISSUE IS SOLD TUESDAY County School Unit’s Share Of Million Dollar Program Is $400,000 RATE IS 2.775 PER CENT A $400,0C bond issue, the coun ty unit’s share of a million dollar school expansion program, was sold Tuesday at a rate of 2.775 per cent by the Local Government Commission in Raleigh. The bonds, with an average ma turity of 18.9 years, were sold to R. S. Dickson and Company of Raleigh and Charlotte, Vance Se curities Corporation of Greens boro, and J. Lee Peeler and Com pany of Durham. In Dobson, John W. Comer, sup erintendent of county schools, an nounced that work had already started on the four additions to the county system which a part of these funds will provide, and that the units should be available for use by the opening of the fall term in September. The vocational building, under construction at Mountain Park by Fulk and Needham, Pilot Moun tain contractors, is being con structed at a cost of $16,000. The same construction company is building the Flat Rock building at a cost of $89,000. Fowler - Jones Construction Company of Winston-Salem holds the contracts for the White Plains and Copeland buildings which will cost $157,000. At the time of the contract let ting. the Winston-Salem concern bid $246,000 for the construction of the three school buildings but later gave the Flat Rock contract to the Pilot Mountain concern. Jonesville Man Is Hurt In Accident Roscoe Morrison, 32, of Jones ville is in the Hugh Chatham Me morial Hospital recovering from injuries received in an automobile accident on Swan Creek Road in Jonesville Sunday. Lester Martin, Jonesville negro, driver of the car which hit Mor rison, posted $500 bond with Justice of the Peace Roger Russell of Yadkinville, waived preliminary hearing, and was bound over to Superior Court on a charge of reckless driving. Martin was driving a 1940 Ford. Morrison, who was walking, suffered a fractuie of his right leg. Kiwanians Attend Lexington Meeting The Elkin Kiwanis Club was host last Thursday at noon to the 450 ladies of Surry, Yadkin and Wilkes counties who were in Elkin for the Spring Festival of Home : Demonstration Clubs. 1 Tuesday evening the local Ki • wanis went to Lexington to attend the Carolinas Third Division meet ! ing at the Municipal country club, ! making the trip in a chartered • bus which left Hotel Elkin at 5:00 ; p. m. This meeting took the place • of the regularly scheduled Thurs day evening meeting. "WORK AS THOUGH YOU WERE GOING TO LIVE FOREVER" — Miss Iris Davenport, editor of the Woman’s Department, Southern Agriculturist, is shown at the speakers stand at the Spring Festival of Home Demonstration Clubs held Thursday at the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C'.A. Miss Davenport told her listeners to "work as though you were going to live forever live as though you were going to die tomorrow." In the background at the left, is Linville Hendren, president of the Elkin Kiwanis Club, sponsor oi the iestival. Mrs. (.race Pope Brown, Surry County Home Demonstration Agent, is at the extreme right. i tribune PH010’ A FORSYTH YOUTH WINS CONTEST Delford Richey Out-Spells All Opponents; Surry Entry Misses “Domination” GOES TO ROUND 12 “Domination”, in the second half of Round 12 eliminated Sur ry county’s champion, Carleen Hemric, in the Journal and Sen tinel Spelling Bee held last week in Winston-Salem. Delford Richey, an eighth grade student at Mineral Springs, repre senting Forsyth county, spelled down the last of 26 county winners in the 20th round to win the con i test. He was a finalist last year. Joan Smitherman, representing ! Yadkin county, was eliminated in ! Round 12 on “eccentric”. William 1 Harrold from Wilkes county mis I spelled “contemptible” in Round 13. Carleen is the 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Hemric of route 2, Dobson. She is in the seventh grade at Little Richmond school. Joan is in the seventh grade at Jonesville. Wil liam Harrold, 14. whose downfall ’: was the same word that eliminat II od this year’s champion in the I 1947 bee, is a resident of Hays. i White Plains Play To He Held Friday r The Senior class of White Plains - High School will present a three > act play, “Bashful Bobby,” Friday i evening at 7 o’clock. I Taking part will be Oliver Draughon, Gray Dollyliigh, George i Waugh, Sam Taylor, Clate Huff 5 man, Margie Jones, Mary Sue s Simmons, Daisy Nichols, Mary Nell 1 Newman, Virginia Marsh, Thelma Hawks and Rachel Johnson. Home Demonstration Meeting Draws 400 Farm Leaders Are Hit'll In Praise Of Festival; Several Experts Speak More than 400 farm women at tended tire second annual Spring Festival of Home Demonstration Clubs at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. last week. Farm leaders were high in their praise of the meet ing at which several agricultural and domestic leaders spoke. The key to future progress of the Piedmont section of the state lies in its women, experts told the group from the tri-county area of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin. Thurmond Chatham, chairman of the board of the Chatham Manufacturing Company, in an address of welcome, praised the part that women have played in the progress of the community. Greater service and results are now expected from club members, Miss Ruth Current, state home demonstration agent, said, in de claring that home demonstration work had come of age. Declaring that the condition of the world and nation resulted from the condition of the home, Mrs. Virginia Sloan Swain, ex tension specialist in family rela tions, placed the responsibility for important jobs of tomorrow on the mothers of today. “The important jobs which lie ahead require us to instill in our children courage, stamini and the traits of good character.” Scoring prejudice and naming as its breeding place a feeling of insecurity, Mrs. Swain labeled a happy home as the best preven tive for an insecure feeling. Mrs. Swain urged happy rela tionships between parents and in the family group between parents i and children. Miss lifts Davenport, editor of the woman’s department, South ern Agriculturist, speaking on the subject, ‘'“better Things Can Be Ours,” listed eight steps in gain ing a fuller, more satisfactory life. She called for worthy goals which challenge the individual and allow for long-time gains; a desire to render unselfish service; the collecting of unbiased facts; a desire to share in community planning and work; a constant re-evaluation of goals; sufficient realism to know that all things can not be accomplished imme diately; courage, promising that an individual w o u 1 d receive more than was given; and lastly, urged her listeners to live boldly and adventurously. "Work as though you are going to live forever; live as though you are going to die tomorrow” she | concluded. James T. Conner Jr.. Extension I Entomologist, the concluding speaker, reviewed the history of ! DDT and commented on other in secticudes. He pointed out that new insecticides upset the bal ! ance of nature and created new problems. He urged his listeners j to be sure of material to control 1 insects. The program was arranged by 1 the home demonstration a cents of the three participating counties, Mrs. Grace Pope Brown, Surry, I Miss Irene Biown, Yadkin, and . Mrs. Annie H. Greene, Wilkes. The | Elkin Kiwanis Club sponsored the j festival. Others participating in the pro , - (Continued On Page Eight) JORDAN GIVEN LONG SENTENCE Mount Airy Man Must Serve From 25 To 28 Years For Second Degree Murder CHOATE CASE IN JUNE Saturday, Lonnie A. Jordan en tered the state prison at Raleigh to serve a sentence of from 25 to 28 years, having been found guil ty by a Surry county jury of sec ond degree murder in the twin slayings of Mrs. Blanche Roupe and her daughter, Arleda, at their Mount Airy home, March 21. Judge Allen H. Gwyn sentenced the 50-year-old Mount Airy bar ber last week, after the jury, which deliberated for only an hour and a half, announced its verdict. Upon completion of the Jordan case, the April term of Surry county superior court was ad journed. Court officials predicted that the case of Dr. B. O. Choate, Sparta physician, charging crim j inal abortion, and the case charg ! ing Jack Cantrell with the rape | of his ten-year-old daughter, j which ended in a mistrial last : week, will be called during the j June term of court. ___ Farmers To Meet At North Elkin A community meeting will be held Friday night at 7:45 at the North Elkin school, Neill M, Smith, county agent, announced this week. Attendance prizes are being of fered by the president, Frank Mil ler, who has planned an additional program to the educational talks. Smith and Assistant County Agent D. A. Halsey will discuss the building of permanent pastures and the artificial breeding pro gram. I Likin Girl Is JNamed Health yueen White Plains Youth Is Also Health Winner Sam Taylor of White Plains and Wilma Lou Nichols of Elkin were crowned 4-H Club king and queen of Surry County before some 1,000 other 4-H clubbers at Dobson Monday. They and the junior king and queen, Norman Barlow of Mount Airy, Route 3, and Jo Ann Holder of Elkin, Route 1, also crowned Monday, will compete for the State title in Raleigh in late Au gust. At the same meeting, Shirley Waugh and Ruth Nichols, both of White Plains, won first prize in the dairy products food prepara tion contest. They will enter dis trict competition at Greensboro July 7, the winners there entering the State contest in August. The Surry County health kings and queens were picked on the basis of their health, and after a month of checking every club winners were named because their scores were perfect. The court that attended the royal couples was made up of boys and girls who scored 95 or more in the contest. These in cluded Charles Fowler and Bar (Continued On Page Eight) SURRY’S HEALTHIEST — Junior and Senior health royalty preside at the 4-H Clubs Health Pageani held last Friday at Dobson. They are, left to right: Jo Ann Holder, Route 1, Elkin, junior queen; Sam Taylor of White Plains, senior king; Wilma Lou Nichols of Elkin, senior queen; and Norman Barlow ol Mount Airy, junior king. These winners will compete in the state contest to be held at Raleigh in August. (Another picture on page 8, this section). Barbers Here Ask Town To Adjust Hours _A Registration Books Open At The City Hall All persons not now register ed who wish to vote in the May primary may register at the of fice of Dixie Graham in the City Hall. Mr. Graham is registrar for Elkin precinct, and has an nounced that the books will be open until May 15. It was pointed out that all persons who will become 21 years of age anytime between the present date and the Nov ember general election, may register and vote in the May primary. Bank To Observe Declaration Day The Bank of Elkin will be closed “ Monday, May 10, in observance of Southern Declaration Day. accord ing to an announcement made by bank officials. The Bank will resume their ' regular operations Tuesday morn ing. DEMOCRATS TO MEET SATURDAY Several Local Men To Attend S t a t e YDC Executive Committee Session CHARLOTTE IS HOST Several prominent Surry county Democrats will attend a meeting of the executive committee of the State Young Democratic Clubs in Charlotte Saturday. Lewis Alexander of Elkin, chair j man of the Fifth District Young 1; Democrats, John Lewellyn of Dob I son, chairman of the Surry county •1 Democratic executive committee, ' and Frank Freeman of Dobson, immediate past president of the Surry County Young Democratic Club, are among those planning to attend. Paul Aiken, second assistant postmaster general, will speak at . a banquet Saturday night follow . ing an afternoon session of the Eexecutive Committee. I All of the gubernatorial, con gressional, and senatorial candi . dates have been invited to attend . the meeting. David H. Henderson, 1 State public relations director for the Young Democrats, said yes r terday that among those attend . ing the State wide rally will be ; Senator William B. Umstead and . his opponent, J. Melville Brough ton; Charles M. Johnson, Kerr Scott, Mayne Albright, and Oscar Barker, candidates for Governor; H. P. Taylor, candidate for Lieut enant Governor; and Commis sioner of Labor Forrest Shuford. Hoover Taft of Greenville, State Y. D. C. president, will preside at the executive committee meeting at 3 p. m. and take a leading part at the banquet at 7 p. m. Wagoner Is Named Rabies Inspector For Yadkin County J. T. Wagoner of Jonesville has been officially appointed Rabies Inspector for Yadkin county. It is his duty to schedule clinics at one or more places in each town ship for the purpose of vaccinating dogs against rabies. The law requires any person who owns a dog or has a dog in his possession to have same vac cinated before July 1 of each year. The vaccination is for the protec tion of the dog as well for human beings or other animals exposed to rabid dogs. Vaccinations are not perfect. They will not prevent rabies if a dog has been exposed within 30 days, nor will they offer 100% protection; but the percent age of protection is adequate enough that dog owners consider it well worth the effort. These vaccination are in a sense free to the public since the vac cination fee will be deducted from the dog tax when the certificate is presented. ' All dog owners are urgently re quested to cooperate in this pro gram by taking their dogs to a li censed veterinarian or to one of the announced clinics. 15 Petition Board Monday To Enact Law The Elkin Board of Commis sioners Monday were asked by representatives of three Elkin bar ber shops to pass necessary or dinances to regulate the opening and closing hours of the town’s barber shops. In an otherwise routine meeting which saw only the handling of monthly municipal business prob lems, the commission was peti tioned by a delegation of 15 bar bers to regulate opening and clos ing hours of barber shops as fol lows: week days — opening hour: 7:30 a. m„ closing hour: 6 p. m.; Saturdays — opening hour: 7:30 a. m., closing hour: 8 p. m. Under the statutes of North Carolina, GS 160-200, sub-section 39, “the governing authorities of all cities and towns of North Car olina shall have the power to pass, alter, amend and repeal ordin ances regulating the opening and closing hours of barbel- shops.” Managers of the three petition ing shops presented affidavits as to present working hours and to the effect that they had attempt I ed to work out reasonable closing hours among the city shops but had failed. The Commission postponed ac tion on the matter until such time as all barbers concerned could be heard. Town Administrator Lewis Alexander was instructed to re view the present ordinances rela tive to this matter. Identical affidavits were sub mitted by E. J. Reece, manager of Reece’s Barber Shop, J. H. Knight, manager of the Elkin Barber Shop, and S. P. Taylor and Ray Norman j of the Downtown Barber Shop. According to the affidavits, lo ; cal barber shops are remaining I open 12 to 14 hours a clay. The opinion stated in the affidavits ; was that the same amount of bar ber work and possibly better work could be completed in a shorter | time. The petitioners stated further in their sworn affidavits that J. I. Cockerham had failed to agree with them on opening and clos ing hours and that since competi tion had to be met they were all forced to remain open over a longer period than they desired. One signer of the petition ask ing for the regulating ordinance (Continued On Page Eight) TOWN OFFICIALS NAMED MONDAY Jonesville Elects Randleman Mayor; Five Commis sioners Elected GILLIAM IS RE-ELECTED Jonesville Monday elected a new mayor without opposition and chose five commissioners from a field of ten, renaming one of the present commissioners. James J. Randleman, former town attorney, received 213 votes for mayor, and succeeds Z. Bent Martin. Randleman was nomin ated at the mass meeting April 19 and was the only candidate for that post. Joe Gilliam, the only hold-over r member of the Board of Commis sioners, led the ticket. Others i named to the board were Dwight i Williams, Glenn Mendenhall, . Wiley Segraves, and Burris Gray. Turner Blackwood, seeking re . election, ran sixth and the two i candidates who were not nomin 1 ated at the mass meeting, V. L. > Renegar and T. R. Groce, trailed t the ticket. 1 The new officers, with the ex • ception of Burris Gray, were sworn - in Monday night. Gray is expect > ed to take office May 10. Turner Pardue, Denver Cocker ham and Davis Reece joined Mar ; tin in not seeking re-election. Leon . Martin who was nominated at the i mass meeting for a seat on the 3 commission did not file. The results of the voting was . Williams 136, Mendenhall 167, Se . graves 149, Gilliam 226, Gray 121, - Blackwood 101, B. R. Holbrook 73, f penny Brown 78, Renegar 54, and Groce 25.
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