ELKIN
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North Carolina
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ELKIN
Gateway to Roaring: Gap and
the Bine Ridre
THE TRIBUNE
Serves the Tri-Counties of
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
VOL. No. XXXVII No. 15
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 10, 1949
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VIRGINIA BULL
NAMED WINNER
^ OF ANGUS SHOW
Grand Champion Brings $900
At Sale Here Yesterday
FOURTH ANNUAL EVENT
Highlands Farm Animal
Selected Grand Champ
In Cow Division
N. C. BREEDERS’ SHOW
Prince Royal of Red Gate was
today named grand champion of
the fourth annual North Carolina
Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Assoc
iation Show held in Elkin. The
bull, owned by Edward Jenkins,
Red Gate Farm, Milwood, Va.,
was sold at a top price of $900 at
V the sale yesterday afternoon.
j Estonia 6th of Highlands was
»**named grand champion cow. She
was sold for $810 by Walter S.
Fox, Round Hill Farms, Va., to
Mrs. Margaret Woodson, Boxwood
Farms, Mocksville.
Dr. S. A. Alexander, Monroe,
purchased the grand champion
bull.
The winning bull was sired by
what Angus experts claim un
questionably the greatest bull im
ported to this country to date.
The Red Gate winner’s sire was
Imperial Prince of Rowley, an
international champion.
The first five bulls sold for an
average of $535.
The grand champion cow is a
great graddaughter of General
yt 6th of Page, an international
1 champion, and a great grand
daughter of General 2nd of Page,
also an international champion.
The show was declared Tues
day night at the annual banquet
at Hotel Elkin to be the best con
signment of cattle in the history
of the association.
The cattle, eight bulls and 36
females, came from the leading
herds of Virginia and the two
Carolinas. They represented the
4 most popular breeding strains of
J this country and Scotland.
Joe Keefauver, president of the
Southeastern Aberdeen -Angus
Breeders Association, was judge of
the show. Paul Good, Van Wert,
Ohio, was auctioneer.
Animals entered from this area
included those by W. A. Neaves,
owner of Black Gate Farm, Elkin,
and T. F. Cooley, manager of
-r Klondike Farm, Elkin.
HOUSE PASSES
TEACHER RAISE
North Carolina State Em
ployees To Get 20 Per
'% Cent Salary Hike
NOT YET RATIFIED
The North Carolina Legislators
last week rushed through to pas
sage of a bill granting teachers
and state employees a 20 per cent
pay boost for this year.
The increase is retroactive to
last October 1 and will cost the
state approximately $15,000,000.
The measure becomes effective
upon ratification by the speaker of
the house and the president of the
senate, a formality expected to
take place momentarily.
The senate wrangled for a while
ever three proposed amendments
to the measure. Then it killed
the amendments, passed the meas
ure unanimously and rushed it to
the house. There the house sent
it through to final passage with
^ out debate.
To Stage Program
At Pleasant Hill
A two hour program of enter
tainment will be presented at the
Pleasant Hill School Saturday
evening, March 12, at 7 o’clock,
under the sponsorship of the
Pleasant Hill Parent-Teachers
Association.
The program will consist of
ip quartet singing. East Elkin string
™ band and black face comedians.
A small admission charge will
be made. All proceeds will be used
to purchase play ground equip
ment for the school. *
School Annex Bids
To Be Given Friday
Bids will be received tomorrow
(Friday) for alterations and ad
ditions to the Elkin High School.
Offers will be turned in to the
“ trustees of the Elkin City Schools
at the office of the superinten
dent, Elkin High School, at 3:30
p. m.
Proposals for the electrical,
plumbing and heating work will
be received at the same time.
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CONGRESSMAN HERE — Harold D. Cooley, left,,£hairman of the
agricultural committee in the U. S. House of Repre^fentasn„ cs, and
Thurmond Chatham, of Elkin, Congressman of the Fifth Dist let,
will be among the galaxy of farm speakers at the seventh annual
Elkin Farmers’ Day. Mr. Chatham will introduce Mr. Cooley.
A FARM EDITOR, A DAIRYMAN — Harvey Dinkins, farm editor
of the Winston-Salem Journal, left, and George Coble, president of
Coble Dairy Products Company, Lexington, will be supporting
speakers in today’s annual Elkin Farmers' Day program.
WEST YADKIN
BIDS ARE LET
Pilot Mountain Contractors
Low Bidders On Gen
eral Construction
BEGIN BUILDING SOON
Bids were let this week on the
West Yadkin School building pro
ject.
Fulk and Needham, Pilot Moun
tain contractors, were low bid
ders on the general construction
at $63,980. Sam E. Beck, Winston
Salem, was awarded the contract
for plumbing and heating. His bid
was $10,974. Harris Electric Com
pany, Elkin, was low bidder on
electrical construction with a bid
of $2,246.59.
The addition calls for erection
of four class rooms, a science
laboratory and a library study
hall, all of which will be com
plete with heating, plumbing and
wiring. The figures include heat
ing construction for four class
rooms which were erected in 1939,
but have since been heated by
stoves.
Fourteen bid on the general
construction. Fifteen bid for
plumbing and heating, and seven
for wiring.
The board and its architect,
John Franklin, of Elkin, estimated
that a saving of $30,000 had been
effected through the postpone
ment of construction from eai‘ly
last fall until now.
Furniture and fixtures are not
included in these figures, but it
was pointed out that expenses
could be met without going be
yond estimated figures.
Two other projects, Boonville
and Yadkinville, will be ready for
submission to bidders the latter
part of the month.
Home Demonstration
Festival In April
The Home Demonstration
Spring Festival of Surry, Wilkes
and Yadkin counties will be held
at the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A. April
14.
Sponsored by the Elkin Kiwanis
Club, the event will feature the
address of Mrs. Charles Sewell.
Chicago, administrative director
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation.
Stewardship Supper
To Be On Wednesday
The annual Stewardship supper
of the Presbyterian Church will
be held at the Gilvin Roth Y.M.
C.A Wednesday evening, March
16, at 7 o’clock.
Following the dinner, the Rev.
Ralph L. Buchanan, will speak
on “Stewardship.”
After the inspirational portion
of the meeting, the yearly budget
will be presented and pledges fe
ceeived.
Wilkes Men Charged
In Liquor Violation
United States Marshal Fred M.
Lomax, Greensboro, this week re
ported the arrest of iflu Wilkes
bounty men over the w^eek-end
for violation of federal liquor
laws.
The defendants include Ralph
Call, Ina G. McCarter, Jesse Mc
Carter, Norman Williams, George
Hendren, Alfred Shepherd, P. R.
Parker, Dallas Myers, Roy Cham
bers, Will Mastin and Jim Foster.
They were taken before Com
missioner Ralph Davis at Wilkes
boro and released under bond for
trial at the May term of court
in Wilkesboro.
SOIL SPEAKERS
VIE AT DOBSON
Surrv High School Students
Compete Friday In Con
servation Contest
ELIMINATIONS ARE HELD
A soil conservation public
speaking contest will be held at
the Courthouse at Dobson tomor
row (Friday) at 7:30 p.m., Neill
M. Smith, Surry county agent,
announced yesterday.
Judges for the contest, which
is open to all high schools, will
come from Yadkin County. The
judging team will be composed of
W. B. White, teacher of agricul
ture, the Rev. Robert C. Carter,
Dobson, and Ophus M. Fulcher,
assistant county agent.
High school elimination con
tests were held last week. Group
finals will be held Friday, March
18, in Winston-Salem.
Prizes in the Surry contest will
be $75, first prize; $50, second;
and $25, third. Awards to win
ners are offered by the Banks of
Surry County and were announc
ed by Thomas Fawcett, group
chairman of the Agricultural
Committee of North Carolina
Bankers Association.
Group winner prizes will be
$400, first place; $100, second
place; $50, third place.
Five Get Permits
To Wed Last Week
Five marriage licenses were list
ed in the office of the Register
of Deeds at Dobson last week.
They were: Rockford B. Penn
23, and Virginia Mae Rucker, 18
both of Mount Airy; Joffre Bunk
er, 30, White Plains, and Iona
Collins. 19, Mount Airy; Warrer
Hooker, 20^and Florence E. Smith
18, both of Mount Airy; Hugh Ed
ward Sutphin, 22, and Sue Mat
Flinchum, 18, both of Mount Airy;
and Grover Southerland, 53
Mountain Park, and Nancy Cox
34, Sparta.
Elkin’s 1949
Mass Meeting
To Be April 1
Elkin’s 1949 political mass
meeting will be held at 7:30 p.
m., April 1, it was decided at a
meeting of the Town Council
Monday night.
L. I. Wade was named regis
trar and N. J. Blackwood and
Richard Franklin were named
judges.
YEGGS FAIL
AT ENTERING
Burglary Attempt Is One In
Series of Pesky Crimes
In Past Weeks
TIRES SLASHED ON CAR
An unsuccessful attempt to
reach a safe in an Elkin business
office was reported last Thursday.
When employees of the Elkin
Jonesville Building and Loan Off
ice went to work Thursday, they
found someone had tried to get
at their safe during the night.
Miss Mattie Mae Powell, secre
tary, said the burglars broke the
window directly over a heavy safe
in the rear office, but that other
than knocking several articles off
the top of the safe, apparently
molested nothing. There were no
signs of anyone having tampered
with the safe door, nor were any
drawers in the various desks
opened. She expressed the opinion
that the burglars did not actually
enter the office other than lean
ing in over the safe.
The window entered faces on
a narrow alley next to the First
Baptist Church.
As another instance of just plain
meanness, someone a few days
prior to the Building & Loan entry,
slashed two white sidewall tires
on the new car belonging to Mrs.
Paul Gwyn, as it was parked in
the driveway at her home on
Gwyn Avenue. Mrs. Gwyn said the
tires, both on the same side of
the car, were completely ruined.
Another breaking, reported at
State Highway Garage east of
here Wednesday night, netted
thieves an electric drill and other
tools.
The breaking at the building
and loan office was Elkin’s sec
ond recent safe-cracking attempt.
YADKIN VALLEY
TOURNEY ENDS
Yadkinville Boys, Sparta Girls
Take Finals In Week
Long Tournament
ALL-STAR TEAM NAMED
Yadkinville’s boys and Sparta’s
girls emerged the winners of the
Yadkin Valley Conference Tour
nament here Tuesday night after
more than a week of play in which
32 teams participated.
Yadkinville, who came back
after being temporarily elimin
ated by a team that was later
declared ineligible, rolled up the
final contest 34 to 21 over Frank
lin.
Sparta’s girls, led by tall Clarice
Mitchell, eked out an 18-17 victory
over White Plains. Both teams
had lost only one game each when
they went into the contest.
The all-tournament teams cho
sen Tuesday night were:
Girls team: Forwards — Mit
chell, Sparta; R. Nichols, Frank
lin: Fisher, Jonesville; Weather
man, West Yadkin: Ramey, Low
gap; Midkiff, Flat Rock. Guards
— Black, Sparta: L. Venable,
White Plains: Dollyhigh, White
Plains: Reavis, Courtney: Mc
Neal, Millers Creek; Golden,
Franklin.
Boys team: Davis, Yadkinville;
Haire, Yadkinville: Draughn,
Franklin: Jones, Franklin; L.
Pike, Flat Rock. Inman, Pilot
Mountain; Edwards, Sparta; Bill
ings, Traphill; Atkinson, Beulah;
Matthews, East Bend.
East Bend Post To
Sponsor Ball Club
The East Bend Post of The
American Legion will sponsor the
baseball club at East Bend this
year, Lester G. Long, Commander,
announced today.
Work will start on the Legion’s
new ball park there Saturday. Mr.
Long said all members of the post
are urged to meet on the new park
site early on that day, as work
will begin then.
Cigarette smoking reached a
new high in the United States last
year, according to the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture. Produc
tion of 388 billion is reported by
the Bureau of Agricultural Econ
omics, an increase of about 18
billion over 1947.
Elkin Will Open House Today
To Hundreds Of Agricultural
Men At 7th Annual Farm Meet
FARM EDUCATORS AND SOIL SPECIALIST — Dr. J. H. Hilton, left, Dean of Agriculture, N. C. State
College, and Dr. E. R. Collins, in charge of agronomy extension work, will lend educational support to
the Elkin Farmers’ Day today iit their addresses. J. W. Sargent, assistant regional conservator, Spar
tanburg, S. C., will speak on “SoiCConservation.” •
CHATHAM SEES
NAVAL DEFENSE
After Witnessing Caribbean
Maneuvers, Congressman
Says ‘Fine Job’
SAYS COULD AVERT WAR
Elkin's Thurmond Chatham,
representative from the Fifth
Congressional District, declared
last week, after witnessing naval
maneuvers in the Caribbean, that
this country can avoid another
war by staying strong, modern and
alert. Ke sees the United States
Navy as an important element in
the nation’s defense system.
Returning to Washington after
witnessing naval maneuvers in the
Caribbean, Chatham, himself a
naval combat veteran of two wars,
reported that the navy “has done
a fine job in improving its weap
ons both offensively and defen
sively.’’
In addition, he said, the navy
has “done a surprisingly good job
of making good use of the lessons
it learned during the last war.’’
Despite his naval record, Chat
ham has been a frequent critic of
the navy, particularly for failure
to take advantage of lessons learn
ed from experience, and he said
the navy’s “new" attitude impress
ed him particularly in view of
this.
Another thing which impressed
the Elkin blanket manufacturer,
he said, was the “especially fine
sipirit” of crews of ships he visit
ed during the exercises.
“It was almost like college
spirit,’’ he said.
Commenting on an undersea
cruise in a submarine at 400 feet,
Chatham said that in comparison
♦vith his only prior undersea trip,
conditions were amazing. The
representative’s first submarine
jaunt occurred, just for a dive,
during the first World War. But
now, he said, “Improvement of
living conditions is absolutely in
credible and the men of the sub
marine service have far and away
the best spirit in the navy.”
McQUAGE RITES
WILL BE TODAY
Editor and Publisher of
Mocksville Enterprise Is
Known In Elkin
PRESS TO PAY TRIBUTE
Funeral service for O. C. Mc
Quage, 54, of • Mocksville, editor
and publisher of the Mocksville
Enterprise will be held todav
(Thursday) at 2 p.m. in Mocks
ville. Burial will follow in Salis
bury, his former home.
Mr. McQuage, known by many
in this city, was a leading figure
among the State’s small-town
publishers, had been in ill health
since suffering a stroke about a
year ago. He was an active mem
ber of the North Carolina Press
Association and was a past presi
dent of the Midwestern North
Carolina Press Association.
Among those attending the
funeral from this city will be Mr.
and Mrs. H. F. Laffoon and
daughter, Miss Grace Laffoon.
Mr. Laffoon has been appoint
ed by Frank Daniels, president of
the North Carolina Press Assoc
iation, as a member of a group
to represent the association.
DEATH TAKES SENATOR^-J.
Melville .Broughton, former gov
ernor of North Carolina, newly
eleeted U. S. Senator and friend
of many in Elkin, died Sunday
in Washington following a heart
attack. Funeral service was
held Tuesday in Raleigh.
YADKIN MAN
TAKES LIFE
Samuel A. Hutchens, 44, Uses
Shotgun In Shooting
Self To Death
RITES HELD YESTERDAY
Samuel A. Hutchens, 44-year
old father of four children, blew
the top of his head off with a
shotgun in a successful suicide at
tempt early Tuesday morning at
his home three miles east of Yad
kinville.
His wifdt the former Lola
Sprinkle, said that her husband
had spent a sleepless night, rolling
and tossing in bed, and that about
3:30 o’clock he arose and went
outside, where he shot himself.
The shot did not awaken Mrs.
Hutchens, but she awoke at 5
o’clock and went to the back
porch, where she saw the body in
the back yard. She attributed the
act to worry over financial mat
ters.
Coroner Jake Brown, who in
vestigated the matter, said that an
inquest was not necessary and
that it was a plain case of suicide.
A double-barreled 12 gauge shot
gun was used by Mr. Hutchens,
who was dressed only in under
clothes, Mr. Brown said.
Mr. Hutchens was born in Da
vie County June 17, 1904, son of
John and Mary Beck Hutchens.
His mother is still living.
Survivors, besides the widow,
are four sons, Harold, Donald,
Locksley, and Russell Hutchens,
all of the home: four brothers,
Rev. Wade Hutchens, Alfred Hut
chens and Jesse Hutchens, all of
the Courtney section, and Burton
Hutchens, of Yadkinville; a half
brother. John Hutchens, New
Castle, Ind.; four sisters, Mrs.
Emma Peoples, Mrs. Mattie Hut
chens, Mrs. Mae Wallace, and Mrs.
Annie Baity, all of near Courtney,
and a half-sister, Mrs. Sallie
Stone, Greensboro.
Funeral services were held yes
terday morning at 11 o’clock at
the Church of Christ, Shack
town. Rev. Avery Wall and Rev.
Isaac Willard were in charge of
sei vices. Burial followed in the
church cemetery.
Small grains in the State are
growing well and stands are bet
ter than usual.
SENATOR DIES
IN WASHINGTON
J. Melville Broughton Was
Former Governor Of
North Carolina
WELL-KNOWN IN ELKIN
Funeral service was held Tues
day in Raleigh for J. Melville
Broughton, former governor and
recently-elected Senator for North
Carolina.
He died Sunday in Washington
after a heart attack.
Senator Broughton was well
known in Elkin. He visited this
locality frequently. At the last
Elkin Farmers’ Day, he was a
featured speaker. He attended
many other similar events in the
past.
He first became known person
ally here when he visited Elkin
to consider the advisability of
opening the lime mine on the
Yadkin River.
Senator Broughton was serving
his first term in the Senate. It
was his life-long ambition. Only
last week was the honor bestow
ed upon him to preside over the
Senate chamber in the absence
of Vice-President Alben W. Bark
ley.
FOREST CLASS
TO BE TAUGHT
Timber Owners, Wood Man
ufacturers, Vet Farmers
Asked To Attend
A forestry school will be held
at the Courthouse in Dobson be
ginning at 9 a.m., next Wednesday
for all timber owners, wood man
ufacturers and veterans in farm
classes.
Ground demonstrations will be
conducted simultaneously at 2
p.m., Wednesday, by extension
forest specialists on the following
farms: J. W. Jones’s, located be
tween Armstrong Service Station
and Ararat in the Long Hill town
ship; Bryce Johnson’s farm near
the Copeland School; and John
Nixon’s, one-half mile north of
the Mountain Park School on the
Mountain Park-Devotion highway.
Farmers are urged* to bring their
axes to the ground demonstra
tions, Neill M. Smith, Surry agent,
said yesterday.
Subjects to be covered at the
Courthouse meeting include,
“Managing the Woodlands as Part
of the Farming Program,’’ taught
by R. W. Graeber, in charge of
forestry extension; “Timber Thin
ning and Stand Improvement,”
by Walter M. Keller, forestry er
tension specialist; "Scaling and
Marketing Farm Timber,” by John
L. Gray, forestry extension spec
ialist; “Putting Idle Acres to Work
Through Forest Planting,” by
either Mr. Graeber or Mr. Gray.
Ford Believes Quota
Will Be Surmounted
The Elkin Red Cross drive was
proceeding rather slowly this
week, as it did everywhere in the
nation, but local and national
campaign officials believe that
most goals will be reached.
The Rev. Howard Ford, Elkin
chairman, said that full reports
were not available yet, but be
lieved Elkin would surmount its
quota.
Noted Farm
Speakers Will
Attend Event
Elkin will open house today to
approximately 1,500 farmers and
farm enthusiasts in the Seventh
Annual Elkin Farmers’ Day.
The program, under the spon
sorship of the Elkin Kiwanis Club,
will open at 9 a.m., presided over
by L. Y. Ballentine, North Caro
lina Commissioner of Agriculture.
Congressman Harold D. Cooley,
chairman of the House Committee
of Agriculture, and Roger Fleming,
representative of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, will
head a list of speakers which will
include Elkin’s own Thurmond
Chatham, congressman of the
Fifth District.
The feature addjess will climax
the day when Roger Fleming will
speak to the assembly on “Farm
Income and Farm Legislation.”
Thurmond Chatham will intro
duce Harold D. Cooley at the
afternoon meeting after Garland
Johnson, Mayor of Elkin and
chairman of the Agricultural
Council, returns greetings.
Other speakers will include Dr.
E. R. Collins, in charge of agro
nomy extension work at State
College; S. H. Dobson, agronomy
specialist; J. W. Sargent assis
tant regional conservator, soil
conservation service, Spartanburg;
S. C.; George Coble, president,
Coble Dairy Products, Lexington;
arid .Harvey Dinkias,. farm editor,
W instort ' j our nfll.
Neill M. Smith, Surry County
Agent, and Garland Johnson,
Mayor of Elkin, have outlined the
complete program with the assis
tance of Paul Choplin, Wilkes
County Agent, and D. D. William
son, Yadkin County Agent. Farm
ers of the three counties will be
represented.
Following Dr. Hilton’s kickoff
speech in the morning session will
come Dr. E. R. Collins’ talk. At
10:30, S. H. Dobson, extension
agromony specialist, will speak.
At 11 o’clock, J. W. Sargent, soil
conservationist, will make an ad
dress, and George Coble, dairy
man, will speak at 11:30 a.m.
Harvey Dinkins’ humorous angle
to farming will conclude the morn
ing session.
Lunch will be served at the
Y.M.C.A. at 12:10 p.m. and a
radio broadcast will commence at
1 p.m.
In the afternoon program, May
or Johnson will introduce Thur
mond Chatham who will intro
duce Congressman Cooley. R.
Flake Shaw, executive secretary of
the North Carolina Farm Bureau
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EAST BEND IS
HOST TO EVENT
Winston-Salem Student Is
Winner of District Ora
torical Contest
SPONSORED BY LEGION
Kenneth Grigg, 11th grade stu
dent of Gray high school in Win
ston-Salem, was 23i'd district win
ner in the elimination oratorical
contest held at East Bend Thurs
day, it was announced yesterday.
The Joe E. Martin, Jr. Post of
The American Legion acted as
host to the speakers in the East
Bend school auditorium.
The Winston - Salem student
competed with Wilma Hutchens
of Courtney High School to win
the district championship, qual
ifying him to enter the division
contest tomorrow at Kannapolis.
The contestants spoke on some
phase of the American Constitu
tion. The winner at the East Bend
contest spoke on "Our Living
Constitution.”
1949 marks the 12th year the
American Legion has sponsored
the oratorical contests. Winner of
the event tomorrow will partici
pate jn the state contest, the reg
ional contest, and finally in the
national contest at Washington,
D. C. The national prize is a
scholarship to some college or
university.
Miss Hutchens, Courtney stu
dent, lost the contest by only
a few points.