ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Carolina
THE TRIBUNE
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The Elkin Tribune
ELKIN
Gateway to Roaring Gap and
the Blue, Ridge
THE TRIBUNE
Serves the Tri-Counties of
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 50
published MONDAY and Thursday ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1949
S3.00 PER YEAR IN NORTH CAROLINA
18 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
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Seen Along...
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The Elk Trail
. . . Ted Griffin, clad in rain
coat and hat, vigorously scrubbing
away the marks of Hallowc'eners
from his store window.
. . . Local photography studio
crowded with pulchritude as high
school girls wait their turn to
have pictures taken for the high
"r school annual.
. . . Jonesville business man
opening statement which bore on
ly the notation: “You owe us noth
ing. We wish you did.”
. . . Postoffice visitors making
way for lady who is oblivious of
others as she descends steps,
smiling over some lines of letter,
knitting eyebrows at others.
. . . Tots having frightful time
in their Hallowe'en attire on down
town streets Monday.
. . . An article in a nearby daily
paper informing readers that Yad
kin River displayed “one of worst
days in a long time" during Mon- !
day’s rainfall.
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. . . Betsy Ross Ashby taking i
in Mrs. W. W. Whitaker’s porch
chairs to keep the Hallowe’en j
spooks from taking them, as she
delivered The Tribune Monday
night.
. . . Mrs. E. W. Hicks and Mrs.
Thurmond Harris of Jonesville
taking homemade mints and
clothing to the Yadkin County
ft home in a downpour of rain Tues
day.
. . . Youngsters coming out of i
local theatre swinging fists and1
shadow boxing. The current at
triction being one of Ring Lard
ncr’s famed fight stories.
. . . Miss Elinor Montgomery
teaching little girls to skate in
gymnasium at Y. Beginners
pounding floor regularly.
. . . George Chatham picking
turnip greens in his garden.
. . . Dr. J. S. Hiatt making his
rounds in the hospital visiting the
sick.
. . . Mrs. Charles Utley and her
Brownie Scouts selling homemade
candy at the local theatres.
. . . Little girl remarking to
grown-up, “You may like to go to
school . . . but not me!"
. . . Miss Mamie Blackwood hur
rying to First Methodist Church
to get in a few minutes organ
practice during lunch hour.
^ ... Pat Graham and Elizabeth
Ann Harris sighing that "We'll
be glad when this homecoming !
business is over. You just don’t :
know!”
(Editor's Note: This feature
will be published regularly with
everyone as its author and
everyone as its subject. Contri
butions are solicited by the Elk
Trail editor. They may be sub
mitted either by phone, letter or
in person, but in all cases the
contributor must also supply his
name. The feature is intended to
present little interesting, amus
ing scenes of Elkin and vicinity !
and incidents that are worth- .
while but not ordinarily large
chough for a news story).
October Passes
Without Frost
The month of October passed
without a single frost in Elkin and
vicinity, but made its appearance
early in November.
The initial visit of frost came
yesterday morning when Elkinites
found their automobiles more dif
ficult to . crank and found, too,
that additional clothing was need
ed to drive off the chill of the
early morn.
VFW Hut Building Is
Slated To Start Today
Work was slated to begin today
on the VFW hut, according to post
commander Russell Bufcham. and
the job was scheduled to be fin
ished in 30 working days.
The grading was finished on the
site yesterday afternoon and the
staking off for the building was
. to be done today.
Bad weather had postponed the
completion of the excavation un
L til yesterday. But with good
■ weather, the hut should be finish
ed in'five weeks time.
COAL STATUS
AROUND EKIN
REMAINS SAME
Stockpiles Are Exhausted But
Most Citizens Prepared
SCOTT WRITES TRUMAN
Situation Is Called Worst In
20 Years Around Raleigh
By Leading Merchant
PRICES ARE GOING UP
The coal situation in Elkin and
North Carolina is still in the hang
on stage.
Residents are having to make
out with what they have on hand
. . . for there will be no more coal
in these parts until the strike is
ended.
So far, the matter has not
reached the critical point. Only
a few calls have been placed with
coal dealers in town, whose stock
piles have long since been exhaust
ed.
Elkin townsmen, for the great
er part, have enough coal in their
bins to bring them through the
current chills and the supplies are
expected to hold up until Decem
ber.
Then, if the strike is not settled,
discomfort is expected to set in
along with the real cold weather,
which is sure to come.
Governor Kerr Scott of North
Carolina has written President
Truman in regards to the situa
tion. reminding him that the coal
shortage is acute and almost des
perate in some parts of North
Carolina. The Governor expressed
hope that the coal miners’ strike
would end soon.
Among the dealers throughout
the state, most of them have had
their supplies exhausted complete
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Army Reserve Units
Hold Meets Tonight
Two army reserve units, now in
operation in Elkin, will hold meet
ings tonight and will receive in
struction from Major Oscar T.
Nations of Winston-Salem.
The two units, finance and
quartermaster, still have quotas to
be filled in their outfits and the
commanding officers, Capt. George
Yarbrough and Est. Lt. Frank Tul
bert have urged those men in
terested in the reserves to be pres
ent at the meetings.
The meetings will be held above
the Quality Food Store in Joncs
villc.
90 Gallons Liquor
And Still Seized
Sheriff Bill Moxley, and Depu
ties Prim and Russell destroyed a
still near Mountain Grove church,
in a community known as Stokes
town, in upper Yadkin county
Thursday, and found at the place
90 gallons of white liquor which
had been made but not moved
away.
All mash and beer had been
madeup into whiskey, the sheriff
said, and everything left just as it
was finished, including the pro
duct of the still. No was at the
place, and no arrests have been
made.
BETHLEHEM SETTLEMENT — Announced in Cleveland, the Beth
lehem steel strike settlement, sending 80,000 back to work with
company-financed pensions, is hailed by CIO leaders as the break
pointing toward an end of the month-long strike by 558,000 union
steelworkers. Joe Larkin, left, vice-president in charge of labor
relations for Bethlehem, and Philip Murray, right, CIO and United
Steelworkers’ president, announce the agreement at a press con
ference. (International)
HOLIDAYS SET
FOR CHATHAM
Annual Vacation To Be Given
From December 22 Until
Midnight December 29
BONUS CHECKS DEC. 23
Chatham Manufacturing em
ployees will be given annual va
cation from midnight Thursday,
Dec. 22, until midnight, Thursday,
Dec. 29, it was announced today
by R. W. Harris, general super
intendent.
Bonus and vacation checks will
be distributed Friday morning,
December 23.
A bulletin posted over the plant
departments today made the an
nouncement from Mr. Harris as
follows:
“The management of the com
pany has definitely decided that
the mill will be shut down for
annual vacation and Christmas
holidays from midnight, Thurs
day, Dec. 22, until midnight,
Thursday, Dec. 29. Bonus and va
cation checks will be distributed
Friday morning, Dec. 23.
“The management would like to
take this opportunity to thank
every person in the mill for the
fine spirit of cooperation in the
postponement of the vacation per
iod until the above date."
West Yadkin P.-T. A.
Meet Date Changed
The date of the monthly meet
ing of the West Yadkin Parent
Teachers Association has been
changed from Wednesday, Nov
ember 16 to Wednesday, Novem
ber 30 according to Mrs. Joe
| Paris, publicity chairman of the
I organization.
The meeting will be held in the
1 school auditorium. Floyd Davis,
! president, today urged all parents
I to attend. A report on the Hallo
; we’en Carnival will be given and
| other important, business matters
will be discussed.
Tribune Makes Change
With Friends’ Support
The Tribune made its entrance
this week into the semi-weekly
field with the support of a num
ber of friends, some of whom sent
notes and words of congratula
tions.
Received here Tuesday and
Wednesday were the following
messages:
From Miss Beatrice Cobb, secre
tary of the North Carolina Press
Association and publisher of the
Morganton News-Herald:
“Your first semi-weekly issue is
a knock-out, maintaining the
worth of high journalistic stand
ards The Tribune has long main
tained. Congratulations and best
wishes to you and all your helpers
with a share of the congratula
tions to Elkin in having such au
excellent local newspaper.’’
From E. A. Resch, publisher of
The Chatham News at Siler City:
"I believe that the city of Elkin
and the other communities you
will serve should be exceedingly
proud of your decision to go semi
weekly.
“The longer I hang around this
business the more I am convinced
that a newspaper is jmerely what
the community makes of it.
“One look at the pages of The
Elkin Tribune gives even the re
mote stranger a quick picture of
the area you serve—and the fact
that it will uovv be published
semi-weekly should make you feel
proud—proud that the community
will back your efforts to give it a
good newspaper ... in fact twice
as good since it will come out more
often.
"Good luck and kindest re
gards.”
From Harvey Dinkins, farm edi
tor of the Winston-Salem Jour
nal:
"L<;t me be one among the many
who, ,1 am sure, will congratulate
you on Changing The Tribune to
a semi-weekly.
"The Tribune has long been one
of the really good newspapers of
this part of the country. It serves
what I regard some of the best
people in our northwest. I wish
for you and all your working force
the greatest success and many
more years of the pleasant associa
tion that always has been ours.”
From Mrs. Walter Bell, formerly
Mrs. Ruth Byrd Crater, of Win
ston-Salem, who for 15 years was
society editor of The Tribune:
"At last you have realized one
of your dreams and I know it
does make you happy. Your first
issue was good.
"The surprising thing is how
your staff has grown, but of course
you have to have more people for
more work. You truly are ‘growing
up,’ and may you grow bigger and
bigger.”
Glee Club To Be
Guest of Kiwanis
The Elkin high school glee club,
under the direction of Joe Austell,
will be the featured guests of the
Elkin Kiwanis Club at its weekly
meeting this evening at 6:30
o’clock. The meeting w’ill be held
at the Gilvin Roth YMCA.
DOBSONffiS
PLAN PROGRAM
Fiddlers Convention To He
Held November 12 In Dob
son School Auditorium
ANNOUNCE COMMITTEES
A fiddlers convention will be
held in the Dobson School Audi
torium Saturday, November 12,
under the sponsorship of the Dob
son Lions Club.
Bausie Marion, president of the
club, announced today the ap
pointment of committees to carry
out the program which will fea
ture entrants from every part of
Northwest North Carolina who
wish to participate.
Committees were listed as fol
lows:
Program — Frank Comer,
chairman: J. S. Gentry, D. A.
Halsey and Bausie Marion.
Advertising — Neill M. Smith,
chairman: Hort Thompson, John
W. Comer, J. E. Eades and C. W.
Allen, Jr.
Ticket — Aubrey Moore, chair
man: Walter Blevens, J. E. Eades,
F. V. Crissman, W. B. Coleman,
R. L. Folger and W. B. White.
Judges, prizes and awards —
Frank Freeman, chairman: E. M.
Bryan, J. E. Trcvathan and Sam
Austin.
Prizes for the first place will
be $10; second band, $5; and third,
$2.95. First fiddler, $3; first ban
jo, $3; miscellaneous instrument,
$3. Best dancers, (women), $2.50;
(men), $2.50.
Advance Gifts Total
$900.50 For Scouts
Advance gifts for the Boy Scout
finance drive totaled $900.50 this
week from the Elkin business dis
trict.
General solicitations in the bus
iness district are continuing
through this week. Early reports
indicate that this part of tire drive
is going along in a satisfactory
manner, it was noted by Ralph
Ritchie, co-chairman of the El
kin-Yadkin district campaign.
The drive, as previously noted,
is going forward throughout Chat
ham Manufacturing Company this
week under the chairmanship of
Hubert Parker.
United Mechanics
To Meet At Purlear
The New Hope Council Number
278 of Purlear will be host to
members of the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics of the
Seventh District at their council
hall 7:30 p. m. Tuesday.
A. Z. Goforth of Statesville,
newly-elected state councilor, will
be principal speaker. The meet
ing will be presided over by Brad
ley E. Dancey of North Wilkes
boro.
Mr. Dancey is extending an in
vitation to all members of the
order, especially those in the Sev
enth District to attend the meet
ing.
There are at least 365 breeds of
dogs.
OFFICIALS SET
FIRST MEETING
FOR NEXT WEEK
Five More Schools Expected
To Enter Northwest Asso.
PLAN FOR COMING YEAR
Member High Schools Are
Provided Officials For Ev
ery Scheduled Game
COACHES USE RATINGS
The Northwest North Carolina
Officials’ Association will hold its
first meeting prior to the 1949-50
basketball season Wednesday
night with prospects of five more
schools joining.
Two schools in Yadkin County
and three from Wilkes have ex-i
pressed interest in entering the
association, which will swell the
membership ranks to 11 for the
coming year.
The association’s principal du
ties are to provide officials at all
scheduled games at a low cost,
relieving the small schools of hav
ing to contend with this problem
for every game.
Last year, the association was.
organized and operated with sue-1
cess. Officials were provided for
all of the games played by mem
ber schools and these officials
were rated by the coaches of the
teams involved.
All of the schools that received !
this service last year are expected
to belong again this season, as the
coaches’ reports were good and,
the schools appeared enthusiastic
over the arrangement, according
to Neil Melvin, booking agent for
the association.
The meeting Wednesday night is
slated for the organization of the
association and the completion of
plans for the coming basketball
campaign. It is scheduled for the
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CONCERT OPENS
EIGHT TONIGHT
Michael Rhoades, American
Baritone, Will Open
Surry-Yadkin Series
GIRL SCOUTS TO USHER
The Surry-Yadkin Community
Concert Association will present
Michael Rhoades, young American
baritone, in concert tonight at 8
p. m., at the State Theatre.
The appearance of Rhoades will
mark the opening of the 1949-50
concert season.
Rhoades has been soloist with
the New York Philharmonic Sym
phony Orchestra under the direc
tion of Stokowski and has sung
operatic roles.
During World War II, he was
a member of a Special Service
Unit in the Army Air Corps.
Ushers for the concert tonight
will be the members of the Elkin
Senior Girl Scout troop.
Elkin High’s Largest
Homecoming Program
Is Slated Tomorrow
HALLOWE’EN IS
KIND TO ELKIN
Masqueraders Are Pesky, But
Do Little Property Dam
age Around Town
BREAK 27 STREET LAMPS
Hallowe’en passed kindly over !
Elkin Monday night without ser
ious property damage or personal
injury, but the pranks of mas
queraders proved harassing to pol
ice and pesky to residents.
Twenty-seven street lamps —
mostly in the West Elkin area —
were smashed in a night’s prowl of
vandals . . . masked and otherwise.
A fence was torn down, a lady’s
pumpkins were stolen and traffic
downtown for two hours was des
cribed by police as “terrible.”
As usual, windows of few stores
were by-passed by youngsters who
used soap and wax as drawing
instruments.
Downtown’s sidewalks were
teeming with masked pedestrians
from tots to twenty who kept
their horns and whistles blowing
well into the night. Police kept
to a minimum the sounding of
automobile horns.
Only one arrest was made, and
Hallowe’en was not the contribu
tor.
Jack L. Pruitt, 28, of Ontario,
Calif., and Mack M. McIntyre, 26,
and Burt A. McIntyre, 27, both
of Alameda, Calif., were arrested
by Elkin patrolmen Carl Wood
and Robert Thompson when the
trio attempted to siphon gasoline
from a tank. They will be tried
Wednesday at Recorder’s Court
here on a charge of larceny of
gasoline.
Weather was clear and the
quieter youngsters rang doorbells
and theatened “trick or treat” to ;
housewives.
Most parties . . . the most civil
part of the Hallowe'en celebration
. . . were held Saturday night, but
the Elkin Police Department “suf
fered” the largest party of the
year in holding down the town
Monday night.
Officers Arrest Man
Who Carried Pistol
Howard Thompson was arrested
Tuesday night near State Road
and charged with carrying a con
cealed weapon.
Highway Patrolman D. J. Caudle
and Deputy Sheriff Gold Payne
said that Thompson w'ould be
tried Wednesday in Recorder’s
Court. He was carrying a pistol
when picked up on the roadside,
the officers said.
Winston Police
Hold Suspect
In Baity Case
A suspert has been arrested
in the killing of Ike Baity,
Huntsville man, it was stated
yesterday by the Winston-Sal
em police department.
Officers said that Lyman Ed
ward Allen, 28, of Forsyth coun
ty was being held for investiga
tion in the murder, and that
Allen had been with the Yadkin
County man about a half-hour
before the shooting.
The two had been drinking,
according to Allen, who report
edly left the scene when Baity
was shot.
OLD BET LEAF
LITTLE HIGHER
Most Medium, Top Grades
Steady To Slightly Stronger
On Tuesday’s Sales
POOR QUALITY LOWER
Most medium and top grades of
flue-cured tobacco were steady to!
slightly stronger on the Old Belt
yesterday, but most lower quality
offerings tended to weaken.
The Federal-State Market News
Service reported the bulk of offer
ings was chiefly common to fair
leaf, low to good smoking leaf,
fair cutters, fair lugs and nonde
script.
Sales on the belt Tuesday were
4,086.756 pounds avering $45.51
per hundred. Season sales rose to
180,219,438 pounds averaging
$46.46.
Demand continued to weaken
slightly on the Middle Belt. Most
average prices declined $1 to $3
per hundred. Most cutter grades,
however, remained fairly steady.
The belt Tuesday sold 87(J,338 ;
pounds averaging $46.83. Season
sales reached 123,439,970 pounds
averaging $48.07.
Sales on the Eastern North Car- j
olina Bolt were 306,518 pounds!
Tuesday averaging $40.12. Sea
son’s poundage climbed to 398,
465,405 averaging $48.75.
The Mount Airy Tobacco market
sold 115.372 pounds of tobacco
Wednesday for $95,905.78, an aver
age of $44.52. Average wrappers
on the Mount Airy floor sold as
high as $1.05 per pound. Good
smoking tobacco brought 65 and
66 cents, Marshall C. Fowler, sales
supervisor, said.
The Winston-Salem market
sold 1,070,450 pounds for a total
of $485,983.59, an average of $45.40
for a hundred pounds.
AT THE CURB MARKET — Members of the Fellowship and the Junior Woman's Clubs sold hand
made gifts and baby clothes at the Elkin Curb Market on Friday. Shown looking at the handiwork of
the Fellowship Club are, left to right, Miss Pauline Reavis of Pleasant Hill, Miss Sue Anna Crouse of
this city and Miss Carrie Hinsliaw of Arlington. Behind the display of the Junior Woman’s Club- is
M,rs. M. H. Terrell of this city, Mrs. Folger Cockerham of Mountain Park and Mrs. Eugene Motsinger,
president of the Junior Woman’s Club, (back to camera). The Elkin Curb Market is open each Friday1
from 9:30 until noon, and in addition to the baked goods and produce brought to the market, hand*
made articles will be sold by persons who wish to profits by their leisure time handiwork.
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Parade, Game
Of Festivities
Are Features
Elkin High’s Homecoming Day
celebration, the largest in its his
tory, is all set for tomorrow with
a football game, parade, and coro
nation of the Homecoming queen
sharing the spotlight.
The Elkin Buckin’ Elks will meet
the Boonville eleven in a high
school football game at Memorial
Park tomorrow night and Mrs.
Jo Anne Crater, wife of center Jim
Crater of the Elks, will be crown
ed queen during halftime cere
monies.
Floats entered by 16 organiza
tions from the high school and
the Elkin High band will highlight
the parade, which is slated to start
at the high school gym at 4:30.
The queen also will be featured
in the parade riding in a con
vertible furnished by the Tri-Hi
Y. organization.
The parade will proceed from
the high scheol to the YMCA
while three judges, Max Cooke of
the YMCA staff, the Rev. R. V. C.
Ritchie, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, and a represen
tative of The Tribune select the
best float.
The winning float will be pre
sented at the halftime of the
game along with the queen, who
will be crowned by the co-captains
of the 1949 Elkin team.
Following the game, the stu
dents of Elkin High, all alumni,
and guests from Boonville are in
vited to a dance at the Elkin High
School featuring the music of Red
Emde and his orchestra.
This event is being sponsored
by the student council at the high
school and will become a regular
feature of the fall semester and
football season.
The band will lead the parade
followed in order by floats spon
sored by the student council, the
home rooms of Miss Emma Cooke,
Mrs. A. F. Miles, Donald Lam
beth, Neill Melvin, Miss Mary
Holland, Miss Ethel Whitley, Miss
Helen Guthrie, the 4-H Club,
Miss Viiginia Royall's home room,
the Tri-Hi-Y club, Joseph Aus
tell’s home room, the Beta Club,
and the home rooms of Miss Doris
Cline, Mrs. Thelma Nixon and
J. G. Hollingsworth.
SHERIFF NABS
LIQUOR LOAD
Two Men Caught Carrying
Thirty-Six Gallons of
White Whiskey
TRAVELING IN PACKARD
Sheriff Bill Moxley seized a 1941
Packard five passenger coupe Sat
urday afternoon five miles east of
Yadkinville on highway 421, which
was carrying 36 gallons of white
liquor and two white men, Har
vey N. Creed and Thomas J. Mus
tcn.
The car came through Yadkin
ville at break-neck speed, blowing
all other cars out of their paths,
cutting corners, and what-not.
Sheriff Moxley spotted them by
their hurried actions and gave
chase. When overtaken they stop
ped nicely, and the sheriff asked
them why their big hurry.
“We have a schedule to make,”
the driver replied.
“Well," said the sheriff, “this
is one time you are going to bo
late.” '
They landed in Russell's cool
er, the liquor poured out, and the
car confiscated. Later the two
men gave $500 bond each by a
bonding company, and were re
leased until next term of Yadkin
court in February.
Musten was driving the car
which belonged to him. He is from
3reensboro. Creed was the pas
senger, and is a native of East
Bend. He had been tried in Win
ston-Salem city court only that
morning for violation of the pro
hibition law, fined $10 and costs
ind given a 30 day suspended
sentence.
At the age of sixteen years
John D. Rockefeller became a
clerk in a mercantile, establish
ment. * i