ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Carolina
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ELKIN
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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 41
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1949
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20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
MOUNT AIRY
FARMERS DAY
OPENS TODAY
^ Senator Clyde R. Hoey / Will
Be Principal Speaker
PLAN LARGE PARADE
Event Sponsored By Rotary
Club, Merchants Associa
tion and Tobacco Houses
CHATHAM IS ON EVENT
Thousands are expected to at
tend “Farmer’s Day” in Mount
Airy today.
The event, sponsored by the
Mount Airy Rotary Club with the
cooperation of the Mount Airy
Merchants Association and Tobac
co Warehouses, will feature Sen
ator Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby as
principal speaker.
Other notables on the program
will be Governor Kerr Scott, Dr.
Henry Jordan and Thurmond
Chatham, Fifth District Congress
man.
A parade of 30 to 40 floats will
start at Rockford Street at 2 p.
m. today and proceed to Veterans
Memorial Park by way of Main
Street and Lebanon Street.
The Second Marine Air Wing
band from Cherry Point, the
Shriners’ Oriental band from
Greensboro and the Mount Airy
High School band will accompany
the parade.
Mayor W. F. Carter, Jr., will
make the welcoming address at 3
p. m., setting off a chain of events
which will include a beauty con
V test and a street dance.
DRAW JURORS
FOR 2 TERMS
Surry Superior Court Crim
inal Sessions Set For
Sept. 26 and Oct. 3
FIVE NAMED OF ELKIN
Jurors were drawn Monday
night for criminal sessions ol
Surry County Superior Court
terms of September 26 and Oc
terms ui ocpicmuci auu w
tober 3.
Those drawn for the September
A 26 term were as follows:
^ Dobson — Roy Haymore, Jesse
R. Davis, Berry Linville, J. D.
Wilmoth and Jacob Draughn.
Pilot Mountain — J. Porter
Smith, Jason A. Hiatt and Aldine
Smith. j
Mount Airy — Albert C. Lee, J. j,
D. McMillian, J. H. Hudson, R. C. ,
Huffman, S. A. Hennis, Jr., Miss t
Margaret Graves, Newell Johnson, j
Jim Raleigh, Jack Marion, Floyd £
Marion, Edward T. Clark, Hadley ^
Harrell, Huler B. Branch, E. L.
Wood, G. W. Smith, H. W. Bad- t
gett, Claude Flippin, Dixie John- <
son and Harvey Felts. I
White Plains — E. Fox Law- j
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Pinnacle — Curtis E. Marion. ]
Toast — Cullen Odell. I
Those drawn for the October 3
term were as follows: (
Elkin — Huston Wood, Conrad .
Atkins, Eugene W. Powers, E. R. i
Andrews and E. M. Moser. ,
Mountain Park — Ronnie S.
Norman. i
Dobson — T. M. Riggs.
Siloam — John H. Hardy and
Hubert Boyles.
Pilot Mountain — Fred Martin,
Sr.
Pinnacle — Mrs. J. L. Whitaker
and Ray Moore.
Mount Airy — George Wilson,
Mrs. Josephine Hadley, Carl W.
" Edwards, L. W. Anderson, D. Ken
neth Cook, Jordon Perkins, Alton
H. Hughes, William Marshall, Em
ma Galloway Edwards, Otto
Moody, C. S. Barker, Howard Tay
lor, C. C. Holder, W. Claude Ar
rington, John S. Key, James May
berry and Calvin Woltz Atkins.
Car Reported Stolen
From Pleasant Hill
A 1941 maroon Chevrolet club
coupe was stolen* early Wednes
day morning from the garage of
Arvil Alexander in Pleasant Hill.
It bore a North Carolina license
number “248401.”
Policeman Robert Thompson,
who investigated, said the vehicle
had not been recovered as yet.
Town Council Meet
To Be Held Monday
The monthly meeting of the
Town Council, postponed Monday
,m because of Labor Day, will be held
next Monday at the Town Hall,
Mayor Richard Atkinson remind
ed today.
The meeting will be the fourth
session of the board since taking
office.
MISS MARY JOHNSON
Girl Scout leaders from Mount
dry, North Wilkesboro and El
in will meet at the Gilvin Roth
"MCA on September 20-23 for a
raining course to be taught by
Jiss Mary Johnson, community
dvisor from the Girl Scout Re
;ional office in Atlanta, Ga.
Sessions will be held on each of
he four days from 10:30 a. m. to
::30 p. m. Among those expected
o attend will be council com
nittee members, adult leaders, as
;istant leaders and troop com
nittee members from the three
owns.
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“Understanding the Job of a '
Jirl Scout Council” will be the
,opic of the first class which will :
;et underway at 10:30 a. m. Tues
Xli UAAV UA tv.
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ioon the topic for discussion will
je “How A Council Makes a Plan.”
On Wednesday, September 21, 1
;he themes for the day’s meeting
will be “How Committees Work
rogether In A Girl Scout Council”
ind "How To Find Adult Per
sonnel To Do The Job.”
Scheduled for Thursday is train
ing dealing with methods of shar
ing responsibility for good troop
program entitled, "Partnership for
Better Troop Program in Girl
Scouting.”
The final topic for study will
be “How Leaders and Girls Plan
and Carry Out A Good Troop
Program,” which will be held Fri
day.
A registration fee of $1.’00 per
person will be charged. One half
of the fee will go to the Regional
Training Fund to be used for pro
moting and training and the other
h&lf is used for purchasing train
ing materials.
Each person attending the ses
sions of the Girl Scout Training
course, is expected to furnish her
own lunch.
Anyone desiring any informa
tion concerning the Girl Scout
Training course is requested to
contact Mrs. Seymour Meisler by
calling 118.
YMCA Pool Closes;
Gym Class To Open
The swimming pool at Gilvin
Roth YMCA was closed Tuesday
for the season.
Skating and gym classes will be
gin immediately after the close of
the Chatham Fair which will be
held September 29 and 30.
Sales—Jim Shore, chairman;
aham Myers, John Mayberry
d Charlie Neaves.
deception and Hospitality —
ne Aldridge, chairman; Eugene
les, Dr. James A. Harrell, Har
r Baker, Jr., Fidel Sale, Robert
atham, Ed Royall and Clyde
thren.
Show and Sale Equipment —
nes Roseberry, chairman; Sam
cinson, Henry Dillon, Dr. M. O.
x, William Cox, Robert Isbell
d Clyde Cothren.
3anquet—Joe Harris, chairman;
. Claude McNeill, Ed Royall,
d Joe Gwyn Bivins.
Publicity—Robert Isbell, chair
in; William Cox, Hugh Salmons
d Charles Neaves.
.load Out — Keith Mayberry,
airman; W. N. Stevenson, Joe
Lnsou, Joe Wood, Ab Crater,
>lle Seymour, Eugene Jones and
d-vey Baker, Jr.
inance and Records — Fred
toan, chairman; Walter Jones,
R Collie, Dr. V. W. Taylor, Jr.,
Jis Alexander, Paul Royall and
3bert Graham, Jr.
oncessions — John Cloninger,
;lrman; Herbert Graham, Jr.,
Jc Gwyn Bivins, David Clark,
Rert Chatham, Ward Kennedy
ir. Fidel Sale.
FVler Elected Head
f Young Democrats
o Fowler of Mount Airy was
ele-d president of the Surry
Coty Young Democrats at a
tneng held Friday in conjunc
tiowith the county-wide Demo
cra Rally.
Colyn Cooper of Dobson,
Pol Sargent of Mount Airy, Ray
Noun of Mountain Park and
Rolt Folger of Dobson were
nani co-vice-presidents, and
Liviston Williams of Elkin was
eled secretary and treasurer.
Anotion was made that all
mefcrs of the Surry County
You Democrats who attend the
NeyJern convention, September
15-lvote on issues as a block.
Hoe Demonstration
Herts To Meet Here
Aseting of Home Demonstra
tiongents, assistants and club
lead of Surry, Yadkin and
Will counties will be held at
11:4l. m. tomorrow (Friday) at
the Ivin Roth YMCA here to
disci plans for 1950 in both the
Hon Demonstration and 4-H
clubictivities.
M Anamerle Arant, North
west District Agent, will meet
witbie group to advise in the
FAREWELL TO
pole and the ole’
— It’s back to readin’, ritin’ and rithmetic and good-bye to the fishing
hole for school boys in this section this week. School opened this morn
ing in Elkin and opened Tuesday morning in Jonesville. Here K. M. Vestal of Jonesville, left, Jim Ed
wards of Elkin, center aid Brent Johnson of Elkin, kneeling, look on morosely at Raymond Felts
(“Those lucky adults") iho’s angling for a bite in Big Elkin Creek. (photo by belli
Leaders In Gut
Scouting to Meet
Here Sept. 20-13
GROUPS NAMED
FOR FAT STOCK
Show Begins 10 A. M., Oc
tober 11; Sale Commences
10 A. M., October 12
BANQUET TO BE HELD
Committees were named this
week for the Elkin Fat Stock
Show and Sale to be held October
11 and 12 under the sponsorship
of the Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
The show will be held at 10 a.
m., October 11, followed that
night by an outdoor banquet. The
sale will be conducted the next
day. Both events will be held at
Elkin Memorial Park.
Committees were named by Fred
York, chairman of the show and
sale, as follows:
Caleb Haynes,
Civic Leader,
Dies On Friday
CALEB H. HAYNES
Funeral service for Caleb H.
Haynes, 86, of Mount Airy, was
held Sunday afternoon at three
o’clock at the First Baptist Church
in Mount Airy. The pastor, the
Reverend R. Carrington Paulette,
assisted by Rev. Delmer Hodges,
conducted the service. Burial
was in the family plot in Oak
dale Cemeterv.
Mr. Haynes died Friday morn
ing at Martin Memorial Hospital
following a. long illness. He was
born in Surry County April 16,
1863, a son of Caleb and Margar
et Davis Haynes.
During his long period of public
service, Mr. Haynes had held
many public offices. Numbered
among them are sheriff of Surry
County, a term as Clerk of Court,
another as Register of Deeds, two
terms as a member of the North
Carolina Legislature representing
Surry County, and service with
the Federal Internal Revenue
Bureau for several years.
On January 10, 1899, he was
married to Miss Margaret Eliza
beth Bunker, who survives. Other
survivors include nine children,
Lester Y. Haynes and Joe B.
Haynes, both of Mount Airy;
Major General Caleb Vance
Haynes of the Army Air Forces,
stationed at Andrews Field, Wash
ington; Charles D. Haynes of
Crescent City, Florida; Mrs. J.
Carrol Hill and Mrs. Thomas B.
Ashby, both of Mount Airy; Mrs.
Sargent Duffield of East Orange,
N. J.; Mrs. J. Riley McMaster of
Winnsboro, S. C., and Miss Lucille
Haynes of Washington.
Little Theatre Holds
Organizing Meeting
The Little Theatre group held
their second meeting last night
(Wednesday) at the YMCA at
8:30 o'clock.
Persons interested in all phases
of dramatics met to discuss plans,
but even more are needed to make
the theatre a success, organizers
declared yesterday.
Labor Day Week-End
Passes Quietly Here
Labor Day week-end was obser
ved “rather quiet” in Elkin, Chief
of Police Corbett Wall announced
yesterday. Arrest records showed
only the average arrests consist
ing of public drunkenness and al
[ tercations.
YADKIN COURT
BEGINS; 100
CASES CALLED
September Session Gets Uk
der Way; Rousseau Judge
WILL FINISH ON FRIDAY
Stiff Sentence Handed Out In
Case of Larceny of
An Automobile
SESSION RENEWS TODAY
Yadkin County Superior Court
ground out justice in big parcels
after the September term opened
in Yadkinville Monday morning
under Judge J. A. Rousseau.
Approximately 100 cases had
been called by Solicitor A. E. Hall
by the time court recessed yester
day afternoon. It will begin again
at 9:30 this morning and continue
through Friday afternoon, when
it is set to adjourn. Only a few
cases, which are expected to take
considerable time, are on the dock
et for today and tomorrow.
One of the stiffest sentences
handed out by the court went to
Frank Jones, who pled guilty to
a charge of larceny and receiving.
Judge Rousseau sentenced him to
State Prison for not less than sev
en years and not more than ten
years. The case grew out of the
theft of an automobile belonging
to N. L. Hudspeth, Jr., of Yadkin
ville.
James Pardue, Yadkinville man,
received a road sentence and a
handful of provisions when he
faced a charge of drunken driving
and violating the prohibition
laws, when the court discovered
he had been convicted twice be
fore for drunken driving. On the
OCI charge, he was sentenced to
four months on the roads and had
his drivers licenses revoked for
four years. On the VPL charge, he
was sentenced to 12 months on the
roads, suspended for four years on
condition that he not possess any
alcohol whatsoever; that he pay
a fine of $200 and costs; and that
he is not to operate his place of
business, Jim's Grill, for 18
months, and that he tease the
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R. H. LANKFORD
FUNERAL TODAY
Well-Known Educator Passes
Away Tuesday Night
In Hospital Here
FATHER OF ELKIN MAN
Funeral service for Robert H.
Lankford, 81, of Harmony, will be
held this afternoon (Thursday)
at two o’clock at Harmony High
School Auditorium. Dr. C. C.
Rhyne will officiate and burial
will be in the family plot in Oak
wood Cemetery in Statesville.
Mr. Lankford di£d Tuesday
night at Hugh Chatham Memorial
Hospital following an illness of
three weeks.
He was born in Henry County,
Tennessee, on April 19, 1868. He
was a graduate of Bethel College
in Tennessee and attended various
summer sessions at N. C. State
College and Appalachian State
Teachers College.
Mr. Lankford was widely known
throughout the state as an educa
tor, having been Superintendent
of Iredell County Farm Life School
for 17 years; superintendent of
Mountain Park Institute for five
years. He also taught in West
Buncombe School, Buncombe
County, for ten years and more
recently had been instructor in
the Veteran’s Farm Program in
Iredell County.
He was a member of the Ma
sonic Order and the Christian
Church.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Ocia Barrett; a daughter,
Mrs. J. C. Holmes of Statesville;
a son, Robert Lankford, Jr., of El
kin. He was the father of the
late Barrett Lankford, also of this
city.
Jonesville Opens
With 887 Students
Jonesville school opened Tues
day with 887 students enrolling in
both the Elementary School and
High School, Watt Deal, principal,
reported today.
The High School, with 225, had
an increase of 22 over last year.
The Elementary School, however,
Inr./] n OA TV /T
Classes are being dismissed at
noon through this week and next.
A regular class schedule, from
8:30 a. m. to 3:15 p. m., will be
observed following this period
which is conducted in cooperation
with children needed to help in
priming tobacco. *
GIVEN PROMOTION — Robert
M. Hanes of Winston-Salem
now chief of the Marshal pan
mission to Begium, was designa
ted Tuesday director of econom
ic affairs for Germany and chief
of the Economic Co-Operation
Administration mission at
Frankfurt.
HANES HEADS
EGA AGENCY
Winston-Salem Man Desig
nated As Director of Ger
many’s Economic Affairs
ALSO EC A, FRANKFURT
Robert M. Hanes, now chief of
the Marshall Plan mission to Bel
gium, was designated Tuesday as
director of economic affairs for
Germany and chief of the Eco
nomic Co-operation Administra
tion mission at Frankfurt.
Hanes will take over those posts
from Norman H. Collisson. He will
do so upon completion of the re
organization of the office of the
uintcu ousted ui^ii unuunoiMunui,
He will work with Collisson until
the transition is completed.
The ECA announced these other
mission shifts:
John Nuveen, Jr., now head of
the ECA mission to Greece, will
succeed Hanes in the Bclgium
Luxembourg post.
Paul R. Porter, chief of the U
S. permanent delegation to the
Economic Commission for Europe
at Geneva, was named chief oi
the mission to Greece. He former
ly was chief of the mission for
economic affairs at London.
ECA said the Hanes appoint
ment was made with the concur
rence of John J. McCloy, high
commissioner for Germany.
Hanes is a North Carolina busi
ness executive, a director of sev
eral corporations, and president oi
the Wachovia Bank and Trust
Company, Winston-Salem.
Porter, 41, was chairman of the
shipbuilding stabilization commit
tee of the War Production Board
and in 1945 became the U. S
member of the European Coal Or
ganization. He has been alternate
to W. Averell Harriman as U. S
representative to the Economic
Commission for Europe. His home
is a Kenosha, Wis.
Nuveen has been head of the
Athens mission for a year. He waf
a Chicago investment banker anc
a corporation director.
Collisson, who has been direct
ing Marshall plan activities in
Western Germany for 13 months
became chief of the Frankfurt
mission in June.
GRADUATING CLASS—Members of the graduating class of the
School of Practical Nursing of the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos
pital, pictured above, are left to right, first row, Betty Joe Daye,
Pat Young; second row, Mary Alexander, Frances Steveng; third
row, 'Mary Williams and Doris Blackburn. The graduates received
their certificates and pins in a ceremony held last night (Wednes
day) at 8 p. m. at the First Methodist Church. Rev. L. B. Abernethy,
of Charlotte, formerly of this city, and chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, delivered the
commencement address. (photo sv redmqn)
Elkin, Surry
Schools Open
Classes Today
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Honeymoon Groom
Given Lodging
By Elkin Deputy
“Thisli is a fine way to spend
a honeymoon,” the groom said
to his bride, “ . . . Me behind
thesh barsh and you outshidc.”
Deputy S'h e r i f f Heber
Mounce looked on as the lovers
brooded over the catastrophe
on the first day of their honey
moon.
“I suppose it was too much
for the groom . . . this getting
married,” the sheriff said after
he had released the man, “so
he got drunk|”
Mounce arrested the in
ebriated groom on Main Street
Monday and lodged him in the
Town Jail where he spent half
the day.
“Ishn’t thish a dishgrash,”
said the groom.
CLUB TO HEAR
HOME SPEAKER
Representative From Chil
dren’s Home Society To
Lecture Here Tuesday
TO JR. WOMAN’S GROUP
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A representative from the Chil
dren’s Home Society of North
Carolina will speak at the Gilvin
Roth YMCA Tuesday evening at
7:30 o’clock. In conjunction with
the talk, a colored film on the
home will be shown.
The Junior Womans Club of El
kin along with all other Junior
Women’s clubs of North Carolina
have taken over the sponsorship
of the Children’s Home Society of
North Carolina.
The meeting Tuesday evening
will be sponsored by the local
club, and is to acquaint the public
with the work of the home.
The Children’s Home Society of
North Carolina is an agency, with
headquarters in Greensboro, which
for nearly 45 years has been car
ing for babies and very young chil
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To Hold Rummage
Sale At Oak Grove
The Junior Woman’s Club will
hold a rummage sale at the Oak
Grove School in North Elkin, Sat
urday afternoon at 4 p. m.
The proceeds from the sale will
be used to buy playground equip
ment for the playground at the
Oak Grove School.
Roster Lists
Only Three
New Teachers
Classes opened this morning
(Thursday) in Elkin and Surry
County for the 1949-50 school
year.
With Elkin's schools reported to
be in the best physical shape ever,
only three new teachers had been
added to the staff. Most all last
year’s teachers were on the roster.
Early registration and schedule
corrections for high school stu
dents was held Monday and Tues
day. Students who attended high
school last year were directed to
report to their last year’s home
room. Those entering high school
and the eighth grade for the first
time were asked to report to the
gymnasium.
Students entering elementary
schools for the first time, either
as beginners or as transfer stu
dents, were asked to report to the
auditoriums of their respective
schools. This applies to Elkin
Elementary, North Elkin Elemen
tary and Oak Grove Colored
‘School.
N. H. Carpenter, superintendent
of the Elkin School System, yes
terday reminded all parents that
they were urged to send their chil
dren to the first day's session even
if it means keeping them out for
tobacco priming later.
Elkin schools are scheduled to
open at 8:45 a. m. Surry County
schools will begin at 9 a. m.
BASEBALL ENDS
PRO YEAR HERE
Blanketeers End Season With
Comic Demonstration At
Memorial Park
LOOP PLAYOFFS BEGIN
Elkin’s Blanketeers ended their
first season in professional base
ball Tuesday night with a 9 to 2
victory. The last half of the game
was a comic demonstration in
which outfielders and infielders
played the battery positions and
every player played almost every
other position on the team. Their
opponents, pennant-winning Mt,
Airy, joined in the fun after El
kin had seriously piled a 4-0 lead
in the second inning.
Elsewhere in the Blue Ridge
League, Galax shaded North
Wilkesboro while Wytheville lost
to Radford. This enabled the
Leafs to gain a second-place
standing by one-half game.
Playoffs were tentatively sched
uled to begin tonight (Thursday)
with Mount Airy playing at Galax.
This depends, however, on wheth
er or not a protest on a Wythe
ville-Radford game is upheld. If
so, Wytheville would be thrown in
to a tie with Galax for second
place. North Wilkesboro is the
fourth team in the playoffs.
Dr. Hiatt Appointed
Head of District
Dr. J. S. Hiatt, superintendent
of Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos
pital, has been appointed super
intendent of the Greensboro
Methodist Church district by Bish
op Costen Harrell.
Dr. Hiatt will serve the unex
pired term caused bv the resicna
tion of Rev. W. A. Lambeth of
Greensboro. Rev. Lambeth resign
ed his position due to ill health.
Dr. Hiatt will serve in the
Bishop’s cabinet in making the
pastoral appointments at the
Western North Carolina confer
ence.
Cheek Clan Reunion
To Be Held Sunday
The Cheek family reunion will
be held at the home of Eli Cheek,
near Pleasant Home Church,
Wilkes County, Sunday.
Preaching and quartet singing
will be a feature of the day. A pic
nic lunch will be spread at the
noon hour.
All relatives and friends are in
vited to attend and to bring a
well filled basket.