ELKIN
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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 42
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1949
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20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
ELKIN AIRPORT
IS LEASED TO
EAST BEND MAN
Grey M. Brown To Operate
0 Field, Board Announces
IN INTEREST OF TOWN
Paving Begun On Reeves
Lane and Spring Streets;
Repair Work Under Way
PLAN CLEAN-UP DRIVE
Announcement was made in the
Town Council meeting Monday
night of the lease of Airport Elkin
to Grey M. Brown of East Bend,
who, according to agreement, will
operate the field in the interest
of the Town of Elkin.
The airport commission, com
posed of J. W. L. Benson, Dr.
Vernon W. Taylor, H. P. Graham,
Clyde Cothren and George Royall
reported after an extensive inves
tigation that Mr. Brown was
found to be in good character and
of dependable responsibility. Rec
ommendations were presented
from prominent Elkin and Yad
kin county citizens.
Provisions of the lease make it
clear that Airport Elkin will be
operated so as the public will have
access to the field without charge
and so that planes may land and
take off without charge.
Mr. Brown has agreed to pay
$40 monthly to the Town of Elkin
and two and one-half cents per
gallon of gasoline sold by him in
a month over and above the first
1,000 gallons sold in each month.
He will assume full control of the
•premises and full responsibility of
maintenance and upkeep of the
field.
Town Attorney Lewis Alexander
pointed out yesterday that the
town will be held harmless of any
claim or demand growing out of
negligence of the part of anyone
at the airport. Mr. Brown has
agreed to pay all taxes.
Other provisions include:
. Mr. Brown has an option to
^ terminate the lease at the end
of each year, but the town does
not have the option to terminate
the lease.
The airport will be kept open
and available for the public with
out discrimination and without
charge of landing or taking off
on the field.
Mr. Brown is to establish rea
sonable regulations compliable
^with the Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration. He is to sell petroleum
products sold at reasonable prices
not inconsistent with other air
ports in North Carolina.
He has agreed to charge no
excessive fees, but to operate the
field in the interest of the public's
use.
Also, at Monday night’s meeting
it was announced that paving had
begun on Reeves Lane and Spring
Streets and repair work is being
done on Westover Heights and
other streets.
Mayor Richard T. Atkinson re
emphasized his drive on speeding
and reckless driving and placed
special attention to school zones.
W Signs will be placed around schools
soon and careful check on speed
ers around these areas will be
made, it was declared.
Also, the town will undergo
an immediate clean-up campaign.
All trash cans will be painted,
considerable mowing of unsightly
growth will be made and street
washing will be emphasized.
BAPTIST PLAN
MEET FRIDAY
f Seventy-First Annual Session
To He Held At Mineral
Springs Baptist
WYATT TO BE SPEAKER
The seventy-first annual session
of the Elkin Baptist Association
will meet Friday, September 30 at
10 a. m. at the Mineral Springs
Baptist Church in Jonesville.
The all day event will be open
ed with a devotional led by Rev.
Clifford Vestal, followed by a bus
iness session.
Rev. J. C. Gwaltney will speak
on "Christian Education” follow
ed by the association sermon to
be delivered by Rev. J. C. Wyatt,
In the afternoon reports will be
heard from various committees
Those making reports and com
mittees are Rev. David W. Day
temperance; Mrs. L. H. Petree
hospital; Mrs. Earl C. James, or
phanage; Mrs. Eugene Pettyjohn
minister’s relief; Mrs. C. N. My
ers, periodicals; Rev. Howard J
Ford, American Bible Society;
,± Mrs. J. D. Wyatt, W.M.U.; Rev
* Clifford Vestal, Missions and L
F. Walker, Sunday School.
Rev. J. L. Powers is moderatoi
of the Association and Atty. Liv
ingston Williams is clerk.
DIGNITARIES AT MOUNT AIRY FARMERS DAY — Pictued above are leading dignitaries who took part in the program at the Mount
Airy Farmers Meeting held last week. They are, left to ript: Mark Goforth, district highway commissioner, of Lenoir; Mayor Frank
Carter, of Mount Airy; Former Congressman John H. Folgerof Mount Airy; Governor Kerr Scott, Senator Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, Con
gressman Thurmond Chatham, of Elkin and Winston-Salem;3rady Cole, of Radio Station WBT, Charlotte, and Dr. Henry Jordan, Chair
(PHOTO BY REDMON)
man of the State Highway Commission.
X-RAY SLATE
IS RELEASED
To lie At Dobson Sepl. 19-23;
At Chatham Manufacturing
Plant Sept. 26-30
OCTOBER 3-8 IN ELKIN
The Surry County Health De- !
partment states that chest X-rays.
will be available at the Court
house in Dobson from September
19 through September 23. The
X-raying will be done between the
hours of 9:30 a. m. and 4:00 p. m.
The X-ray survey will be car
ried on at the Chatham Manu
facturing Co. from September 26
1 through September 30. The week
following, from October- 3 through
October 8. X-rays will be available
at the Health Department in Elk
in.
Dr. Franklin, Health Officer,
advises a chest X-ray once a year
for persons over fifteen years of
age. Early tuberculosis may be
discovered by chest X-ray before
any symptoms appear.
Dr. Franklin states that sixty
new cases of tuberculosis have
been reported in the county from
January to September 1. Eight
new cases of tuberculosis were dis
covered when twenty-five hundred
employees in the Mount Airy in
i dustries were X-rayed during the
summer.
Chest X-rays will not be avail
able at th# Mount Airy Health Of
fice until October 14.
Original McCoin
Reunion $ept. 25
, The original McCoin reunion
will be held September 25 at the
Grassy Creek Methodist Church.
R. R. McCoin and S. M. Bur
, cham are chairmen for the event.
All relatives and friends are in
vited and requested to bring a
picnic basket.
CONFERENCE SPEAKHt
William J. Bird of Washiiton,
D. C., will be the feaired
speaker at an area confence
on national affairs to be hd at
Hotel Hickory, Hickory, ext
Wednesday at 6:30 p. m.VIr.
Bird is national affairs adsor
of the Chamber of Comnrce
of the United States.
ARE TO SMS!
ECONOMY NED
Local Delegation Will Abnd
Regional Conference
At Hickory
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1st
The need for economy inov
ernment spending will be ain at
a regional conference on nathal
affairs to be held in Hickoron
Wednesday. September 21. '.e
ports of the Hoover Commuon
recommending these econoVs
will be the basis for discussiopf
this subject, C. V. Cline, cf
man of the Hickory Chaml *s
national affairs committee start.
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35 Counts Tried Her*
W ednesday By Record ei
Thirty-five cases went on trial
' here Wednesday before Judge H.
H. Llewellyn in the Recorder’s
£ Court.
Among the heavier sentences,
0 Robert Sprinkle, Jr., was sentenced
" to 12 months on the roads for
e entering and stealing. The case
’■ arose from an entrance into Bren
" die’s grocery recently.
Other cases ranged from non- j
support, public drunkenness to!
t traffic violations, including opcra
ting a car under the influence of
1 intoxicants.
; Robert Dale Carter, public
I. drunkenness, cost,
j. James Clyde Harrell, o.c.i., four
months on roads, sentence sus
r pended if defendant surrender his
- license.
James Clyde Harrell, operating
vehicle without license, $25 a;
costs.
James Clyde Harrell, hit a:
run, not guilty.
Harold Mickle Shores, affri
costs.
Grable Prevette, public drunke
ness, costs.
Granville Everett, speeding, 5
and costs.
Edgar Barker, possession of no
tax paid liquor, $25 and costs
Marshall Dean Woodring,
operator’s license, $25 and cos
Charles Vester Durham, o.c
confined four months in cour
jail to work on public highwa
suspended on payment of $100 fi
and costs and surrender opei
tor’s license.
(Continued on page eight)
STATE LEAF
CROP HIGHER
1949 Flue-Cured Tobacco Es
timated At 747,000,000
By Field Reports
SLIGHTLY ABOVE 1948
North Carolina’s 1949 flue-cured
tobacco crop was estimated at
747,000,000 pounds based on Sep
tember 1 field reports.
The forecast is slightly higher
than the 739.000,000 pounds pro
duced last year and about 11 per
cent above the 1938-47 average.
However, it is considerably lower
than a forecast made a month
previously.
Unfavorable weather conditions
during August caused a sharp de
cline in the crop’s prospects, ac
cording to a federal crop report
released today.
On the Old and Middle Belts,
where harvesting is in full swing,
prospective production as of Sep
tember 1 dropped 17,000,000
pounds below the forecast a month
earlier. The 1949 crop on these
belts had been put at 269,000,000
pounds.
On the Eastern Belt, prospec
tive yields declined 50 pounds per
acre under the August 1 forecast
of 1,290 pounds. As of September
1, production on this belt was es
timated at 384,400,000 pounds.
This is three per cent above last
year's production and 11 per cent
above the 10-year average.
On the Border Belt, the forecast
of 93,000,000 pounds was the same
as the estimate a month earlier.
This indication is four per cent
above production last year and 16
per cent above average.
The total indicated acreage for
all flue-cured tobacco is placed
at 630,000 acres—Six per cent
above the 594,000 acres harvested
last year. It is about four per
cent under the 10-year average.
Prospects for the burley crop
declined from 17,100,000 pounds
as of August 1 to 16,500.000 pounds
as of September 1. Wet weather
was blamed for the decline in pro
spective yields. «
Patrolmen Seeking
Hit-and-Run Driver
Highway patrolmen were on the
lookout today for a hit-and-run
driver who struck an automobile
: driven by Glenn Thomas Click of
Jonesville on the Swan Creek
t Highway.
Patrolman D. J. Caudle said that
the accident occurred about 11:30
rp. m., Tuesday on a curve just
outside Jonesville. Click was pro
ceeding toward town. The other
car was going in the opposite di
rection.
Patrolman Caudle said informa
tion leading to the apprehension
fcrf the hit-and-run driver would
Ce appreciated,
it: -.
y* When you save and turn back
%> the channels of trade your
avaste paper, your copper waste
nd your scrap iron in small or
irge quantities you are helping
our country.
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Wednesday P. M.
Closing- Ended
By Elkin Firms
Elkin stores will remain open
on Wednesday afternoons be
ginning next week, it was an
nounced yesterday by Mrs. Wil
lie Mae Stanley, secretary of
the Merchants Association.
Since January, stores have
closed here on Wednesday aft
ernoons. No future date for re
suming the half-holiday has yet
been determined.
P.-T. A. MEETING
WILL BE HELD
Elkin Elementary Parent
Teachers Now In Process
Of 1949-50 Organizing
SOME GROUPS NAMEE
The Elkin Elementary School
Parent-Teachers Associatio.r
which began this week to organize
for the coming year, will hold e
social meeting at 7:30 p. m., Sept
27, at the Elementary School.
Claude Farrell, president of the
group, explained that the firsl
meeting is designed to acquaint
the parents and teachers. Teach
ers will hold open house in theii
various rooms, Mr. Farrell added
Organization is not yet com
plete, Mr. Farrell said, but will be
finished in the near future.
Meetings will be held the fourth
Tuesday evening in each month
So far, various committee chair
men have been selected as follows:
Budget - finance, Mr. and Mrs
James Boolier; program, Mr. anc
Mrs. Van Dillon, Jr.; membership
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dixon; pub
licity and attendance, Mr. and
Mrs. T. A. Redmon; hospitality
Mr. and Mrs. Jphn Sagar; health
and safety, Mr. and Mrs. Denvei
Holcomb.
Tri-County Leaf Growers Receive
About Same Prices As Last Year
Tobacco growers of the Tri
County section of Surry, Yadkin
and Wilkes this week received the
same to slightly higher prices for
their leaf at Mount Airy and Win
ston-Salem markets.
The Mount Airy mart sold 109,
540 pounds Tuesday at an average
price of $50.25 per hundred. The
offex-ings consisted principally of
tips and non-descript tobacco,
Marshall C. Fowler, sales super
visor, said yesterday.
At the end of its first two days
of the current selling season, the
Winston-Salem Tobacco Market
still boasted a slightly higher av
erage price than for its first two i
days last year.
Sales were off in both quality :
and quantity of tobacco offered :
Tuesday, however. Total figures i
for the day were 655,136 pounds
pf tobacco sold for $317,146.29, or
i day’s average of $48.41.
This brought the total for the
first two selling days to 2,082,300
pounds for $1,086,875.17, or a two
lay average of $52.19. The average
for the same period last year was
$51.21.
Sales Supervisor Joe R. Williams
said prices remained firm on the
pasis of the quality of tobacco
Drought to market Tuesday. Far
ners, he said, were generally well
pleased and the floors were clear
'd. Approximately 100 baskets
vere left over after Monday’s
sales.
Meanwhile, reports from other
parts of the Old Belt showed a
strengthening of prices for most
jrades Tuesday. Most increases
were only $1 and $2 per hundredi
pounds, the Federal-State Market
News Service reported, but a few
scattered grades rose as much as
$3 to $6. The only decline re
corded was for best thin nonde
script, off $3.75.
Volume at Monday’s opening
sales on the Old Belt was report
ed as 7,632,366 pounds averaging
$49.46. Last year’s opening sales
were 9,141,907 pounds averaging
$54.28.
Quality of offerings declined
Tuesday. There were more low
to fair qualities and nondescript
and less good and fine. Volume of
sales was reported light. Most
floors were cleared by noon.
Auction bid averages per hun
.(Continued on page eight)
Monthly Road Meetings
To Be Moved To Elkin;
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Benham Event Planned
Road Leader
To Speak At
Wilkes Meet
A meeting to discuss rural roads
will be held next Wednesday at
Benham school for farmers of the
Traphill area, it was announced
here yesterday by Claude Farrell.
The event will be sponsored by the
Elkin Merchants Association.
William Snider, of the State
Highway department publicity
service, will attend with Mark
Goforth, Eighth District highway j
commissioner, who will speak.
The speaking, which will begin
at 2:30 p. m., will be followed by
audience participation. Refresh
ments will be served on the
grounds.
The meeting is another in a
series of meetings designed to ac
quaint rural residents of the re
cently-launched $200,000,000 road
improvement for rural areas ini
tiated by Governor W. Kerr Scott
and approved by a vote of North
Carolina voters.
Similar meetings have already
been held in Mountain Park,
West Yadkin and other sections of
Surry, Yadkin and Wilkes coun
| ties.
LIONS PLAN
CANE SALES
While Cane Canvass of Sales
Start Here Monday For
Blind Benefit
The Elkin Lions Club will con
duct a white cane sale beginning
Monday in support of the North
Carolina Association of the Blind
. which will attempt to raise $25,
^ 000 for needy blind in the State.
Clyde Carroll has been named
| chairman of the drive which will
continue until Saturday.
For several years Lions of North
Carolina have endorsed the activi
ties of the Association for the
Blind. The organization has for
its main purpose, aid to the blind
in those areas where there is no
organized work for them, co-op
1 eration with existing organizations
in the State working for the blind,
and conservation of eyesight and
prevention of blindness.
The association conducts its
white cane sale annually. Buttons
or bangles on which appears a
white cane are sold. Blind per
sons carry such canes to warn
motorists that they are blind. A
membership enrollment campaign
also is conducted every year in
conjunction with Lions clubs of
the State. The major activity of
Lions is work for the blind.
Truck Turns Over,
Driver Is Unhurt
Lawrence Gene Carroll of Dry
Branch, W. Va., escaped injury
Monday when a 2-ton truck he
was driving overturned on High
way 268.
Patrolman D. J. Caudle, who in
vestigated the accident, said little
damage was done to the vehicle
but that lumber was broken and
scatterred, probably amounting to
sizable damage.
NEW ASSISTANT — Henry O.
Dunbar has been named an as
sistant County Agent for Surry
County under Neill M. Smith.
He succeeds Ophus M. Fulcher,
who is entering the University
of Georgia Veterinarian School.
He assumes duties tomorrow.
DUNBAR NAMED
TO AID SMITH
Veteran Is Appointed Assist
ant County Agent To
Succeed Fulcher
IS GRADUATE OF STATE
Henry O. Dunbar, veteran of
World War II of the Army Air
Forces, 1949 State College gradu
ate in animal husbandry, and a
native of Wenona, has been ap
pointed assistant county agent in
Surry County to replace Ophus M.
Fulcher, resigning assistant coun
ty agent, Neill M. Smith, Surry
County Agent, announced today.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar and their
two children, arrived in Dobson on
August 15, and he has been in
training since that time, prepar
ing to assume his duties Friday,
the effective resignation date of
Mr. Fulcher.
Mr. Dunbar has had practical
farm experience on his father’s
farm in Eastern North Carolina
before and while attending State
College. He also attended McCook
Junior College, McCook, Neb., for
two years and observed livestock
and dairy production in that area.
(Continued on page eight)
To Begin Two New
Rural Routes Here
Effective tomorrow (Friday),
RFD routes will be extended by
the Elkin Postoffice to include
two new sections of RFD routes
1 and 2.
On RFD 1, extension will include
Hawthorne Road to Highway 268
and will circle the last block on
the East side of Hawthorne Road.
RFD 2 will be extended to serve
31 Hill section, consisting of Oak
land Drive and Neaves Lane and
also to serve Westover Heights.
To obtain the RFD service, post
affice officials explain that boxes
must be installed on the highway
and a list furnished the postoffice
Df all persons who are to be served
through that box.
Gatherings
Moved From
Wilkesboro
Elkin will be the new meeting
place for District Eight’s highway
road conferences beginning next
month, it was announced yester
day by Commissioner Mark Go
forth of Lenoir.
Meetings, which were formerly
held at Wilkesboro, will be moved
to Elkin because it is believed
that here will be a more central
point for rural people to attend
and voice their desires as to im
proved roads.
Representatives of counties
making up the Eighth District of
Surry, Yadkin, Alleghany and
Wilkes counties, have held meet
ings monthly since last May.
Meetings will open around 9 a.
m. each second Wednesday of
each month at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA, Mr. Goforth said.
Arrangements for the Elkin
meeting have been brought about
largely through the efforts of
Garland Johnson, Elkin banker
and former mayor, and Claude
Farrell, Elkin businessman and
member of the State Board of
Education.
Mr. Goforth pointed out that
meetings will be open to the public
and he urged that farmers from
every section of the counties com
prising District Eight attend the
meetings. Petitions and road im
provement discussions will be con
ducted at each session.
Speaking with Mr. Goforth at
the meetings will be Division En
gineer J. C. Walker, District En
gineer C. G. Ashby and Assistant
District Engineer J. H. Council.
DEBT ON HUT IS
PAID BY LEGION
Local Post Retires Obligation
And Continues Drive
For New Members
CHANGE MEETING DATES
The Elkin American Legion Post
last week cleared their debt on
the Legion Hut and continued
their drive for new members, Sec
retary Gene Aldridge, announced
yesterday.
Meeting dates of the post were
changed to the first and third
Tuesdays of each month. The first
Tuesday of each month will be a
business meeting and the third
will be ladies night. Socials will
be held at each gathering.
A winter square dancing pro
gram will begin September 24, Mr.
Aldridge said. Jack Robinson will
be in charge.
Mr. Aldridge also pointed out
that those members and new
members getting their dues in be
fore the first of October will save
50 cents as Legion dues all over
the country will go to $3.50 after
that time.
Surry Court Is To
Convene Next Week
A two-week criminal session of
Surry County Criminal Court,
with 139 cases on the docket, will
oegin Monday under Judge J. H.
Element.
Several cases of interest in the
Elkin community will be tried, but
the bulk of trials will come from
Mount Airy.
ON N.C.HIGHWAYS
Killed Sept. 10 through
Sept. 12. 7
Injured Sept. 10 through
Sept. 12 .. 79
Killed through Sept.
12 this year . '560
Killed through Sept.
12, 1948 . 473
^Injured through Sept.
12 this year ..6,318
Injured through Sept.
12, 1948 .4*979