ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Carolina
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ELKIN
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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 2
PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1949
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^ Seen Along...
The Elk Trail
. . . Carolina backers showing
variance of opinions over Satur
day's game. One asking for three
points, another giving Duke and
six.
. . . Customer in local drug store
dropping cream cup into full cof
fee cup, that expensive stuff
splashing all over the counter.
... Little boy. aged about ten,
▼ gazing interestedly at poster tell
ing of girls football game.
. . . Dr. Jimmy Harrell cancell
ing appointments for Saturday
and making ready to travel to
Duke-Carolina game.
. . . Elinor Montgomery can
celling plans to attend Durham
classic, having to stay in Elkin and
W’ork.
. . . Sam Transou and “Shorty”
Brown calling up Jim Hayworth
at Chapel Hill Tuesday night to
chat about “stuff and things!”
. . . Six Jonesville football play
ers filing into Tribune office Mon
day afternoon for copy of paper
carrying story of their upset over
Elkin.
. . . Mrs. Noah Darnell coming
•*to work Tuesday with blue satin
bedroom slippers on.
. . . Mrs. Fred Colhard, on the
way to drug store for early morn
ing cup of coffee, wondering audi
bly if it had gone up to 10 cents
a cup?
. . . Pedestrian, bucking wind
on shady side of Main Street,
humming to himself, “Honey, It's
r rs ,• Gaye Taylor, refusing to
wear he.VUew glasses out on the
street to ,c*ep from having to
answer silly qC ^tions.
. . . W. J. Snow, turning the cor
ner at the bank, probably dream
ing of his next year's vegetable
garden.
. . . Dr. L. C. Couch, the man
who first introduced “climbing
okra” to Attorney Parks Hamp
ton, inquiring of Tribune reporter
if he has harvested his crop of
wisteria seed.
ild Outside.
. . . Tragic look on lacc oi teen
ager as he fincis juke box in local
cafe is out of order.
. . . Small boy walking along
Main street giving the swinging
tops of the new city trash cans
a vigorous push as he passes.
. . . Motorist double parked in
front of the postoffice with plenty
of available space at the curb.
. . . Smug expression on Ed
Royall’s face as he takes trick at
bridge. His wife, Jean, and Mrs.
Eleanor Hayes Myrick among those
with him.
y ... Max Cooke at the YMCA
entering conversation over Duke
Carolina fracas Saturday, telling
of the catch of a pass he made
against the Blue Devils in 1945.
. . . Clerks at downtown drug
store telling of drop in sales of
Sporting News since the Blanket
eers finished their baseball sea
sen.
. . . N. H. Carpenter, replying
to question, admitting he could
get little work from student stand
ing by him. student grinning.
. . . Elkin girls vowing to avenge
their boys’ loss to Jonesville in
this afternoon’s grid contest with
Jonesville Hi-Y girls.
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Elkin-Dobson Star
Mail Route Begins
The Elkin-Dobson star mail
route began operation yesterday.
G. H. Payne, carrier, is taking
mail from Elkin between 2 and
3 p. m., arriving in Dobson in 45
minutes. Mail is leaving Dobson
at 4:30 p. m., and arriving in El
kin at 5:15 p. m.
Baby Arrives
Before Doc;
Born In Car
The stork won a rare in Yad
kinville yesterday when a young
son arrived ahead of the doctor.
Mrs. Howard Harris of Bethel
Church community gave birth
to the lad in the back seat of a
car . . . just a few feet short of
their goal . . . the doctor’s of
fice.
A physician was summoned
and he made an assist while
still clad in pajamas.
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TWO SENATORIAL POTATO PEELERS — North Carolina’s U. S.
Senators Clyde R. Hoey (left) and Frank P. Graham (right) try
their hands at peeling potatoes in the kitchen of American Legion
quarters at Shelby. They came -early to participate in the dedica
tion of a bronze plaque in memory of Cleveland county’s 192 dead
of World W’ar II. Help was needed in the kitchen, and so the sena
tors pitched in. (AP Photo).
4 GIRL SCOUT
UNITS FORMED
Leaders For New Jonesville
Troops Named; 75 (iirls
In Membership
LIONS CLUB SPONSORS
Organization of four Girl Scout
troops in Jonesville has been
completed and leaders have been
named to head the troops.
The Brownie Troop will be head
ed by Mrs. Coy Myers as leader
and Mrs. J. M. Brandon as as
sistant leader.
Mrs. Gene Macemore is to be
leader of one intermediate troop
with Mrs. Wayne Stroud as as
sistant leader.
The second intermediate trbop
will be in charge of Mrs. Enoch
Templeton as leader and Mrs. Ivry
Johnson, assistant leader.
Mrs. Carter Dickson is leader of
the Senior Girl Scout troop with
Mrs. Lester Haynes as assistant
leader. The troop is being spon
sored by the Jonesville Lions
Club.
The four troops have a mem
bership of approximately 75 girls
from 7 through 18 years of age.
Two Hurt When Car
Runs Off Highway
Two men were injured slightly
Tuesday night when the car in
which they were riding ran off an
embankment on the Dobson road
and was practically demolished.
Robert Allen. 24, the driver and
James 'Buck) Edwards, 19, Ne
groes, both of Elkin, escaped ser
ious injury when Allen’s '33 coach
plunged down an embankment of
approximately 20 feet. The two
were heading west four miles east
of Elkin when their lights went
bad, Allen told patrolmen.
They were brought to Hugh
Chatham Memorial Hospital and
treated for cuts and bruises. Both
were shaken up considerably.
Pupils To Hold
Book Parade
Here Tomorrow
In observance of Book Week,
students of the Elementary
School will present a book par
ade tomorrow at 2 p. m.
Following the parade, the
opening of the school library
will be held. Denver Holcomb,
principal, said that parents are
urged to attend.
CHARGEGROOM
WITH LARCENY
Mother-In-Law Reports New
Son-In-Law Made Away
With Money and Watch
FREI) HILTON IN JAIL
Fred Hilton, Jr., 24, of Thomas
ville, is in jail here on a charge
of stealing a watch and money
from his new mother-in-law.
The groom, who was arrested
yesterday at the bus station with
his wife, had purchased bus tick
ets to Charlotte and was wearing
a watch and new clothes which
the mother-in-law, Mrs. Monroe
Richardson of State Road, said he
was not wearing when he left
the Richardson home yesterday.
Deputy Sheriff G. H. Payne said
that Hilton, who has been married
about three weeks, had left Mrs.
Richardson enough money ($25) to
kill two hogs, a gesture apparently
prompted through a remark about
killing hogs earlier this week.
Mrs. Richardson reported that
when Hilton left he was wearing
overalls. A purchase of new clothes
was traced to an Elkin store where
the old clothes were left along
with two large knives.
Charged with larceny of money
and a watch, Hilton will be tr'cd
Wednesday in Recorder'o court
here.
SURRY'S TAX
VALUES SHOW
3-YEAR GAIN
Ten Million Dollars Increase
Noted Last Three Years
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SURE SIGN OF PROGRESS
—
Construction of New Build
ings, New Auto Prices
Listed As Causes
LAND VALUES JUMP
—
Surry County has had a tax
evaluations increase of approxi
mately 10 million dollars in three
years.
J. Pate Fulk, tax supervisor, re
vealed this fact this week in re
viewing tax levies of Surry Coun
ty. He observed that the climb
was brought about largely through
the construction of new buildings.
While motor vehicles were res
ponsible for much of the increase,
land values had jumped consider
ably. Motor vehicles comparative
ly had the longest rise of all—
from approximately two million
dollars in 1946 to $4,390,000 this
year.
Mr. Fulk pointed out evaluation
figures indicated a definite build
ing progress in Surry County. The ,
total evaluations in 1949 were I
$40,489,000, a gain over 1945‘s $29,- j
817,000. Most of these gains were
in new improvement:
Irr this three-year period land
values rose from $9 million to $11
million; industrial property jump
ed from $9 million to 13 million;
stocks and merchandise more than
doubled—$1,300,000 to $3 million;
automobiles gained from $2 mil
lion to $4,390,000, and the total
value of personal property hiked
from $7 million to 13 million.
Officials Vote
For Same Fees
Members of the Northwest North
Carolina Officials Association
voted to keep the same rate of
fetes charged during the last bas
ketball season at their second
meeting for the coming year at
the Elkin High School last night.
Discussions of rules interpreta
tion and the mechanics of cover
ing the floor occupied most of the
time spent at the meeting, but the
23 members present took time to
settle the fees question. The rates
will again be $15 and travel ex
penses for two officials at each
game.
Neil Melvin, who acted as book
ing agent last year, will serve in
the same capacity for the 1949
50 season.
Officials from North Wilkes
boro, Mount Airy, Elkin, Jones
ville, and Boonville were present
at the meeting last night.
Fertilizer Truck
Driver Arrested
The driver of a truck carrying
20,000 pounds of fertilizer was ar
rested here Monday and charged
with driving while under the in
fluence of alcoholic beverages.
Foster Frank Absher, 30, of
Sparta, was overtaken by Highway
Patrolman D. J. Caudle near Elkin
Valley Church after residents had
reported that the truck had miss
ed the road in places and in one
instance had run across one front
yard.
New Jersey’s manufacturing
plants make practically everything
from pins to battleships.
Gra-Y Thanksgiving Contest
Finals Are Set For Monday
Gra-Y club members from four
schools participating in a Thanks
giving contest program will hold
the finals of reading and recitation
competition at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA Monday night at 7:30.
Six awards, in the form of
miniature silver Oscars will be
awarded the winners of each group
by T. Cuttino McKnight, general
secretary of the YMCA, at the
completion of the evening’s pro
gram.
An 18-page booklet was issued
by Elinor Montgomery and Max
Cooke, Gra-Y heads, recently and
students in each grade in Pleasant
Hill, Jonesville, North Elkin, and
Elkin elementary schools have
memorized a poem or recitation
from this booklet.
Preliminary contests were held
in each school to determine a win
ner and runner-up for each group
for the boys and for the girls. The
winners will represent their club
in the finals Monday night.
Students will be competing with
those in their own age class from
each of the other three schools
and trophies will be given to the
fourth-grade winner, a combined
fifth and sixth grade winners,
and combined seventh and eight
grade winners. There will be a
trophy for the winning boy and
the winning girl in each group.
On the trophies will be engrav
ed Gra-Y Thanksgiving Speaking
Contest 1949.
At press time today, winners
and runner-ups had already been
determined for all of the grades at
Pleasant Hill, Jonesville, North
Elkin, and Mother - Daughter
clubs.
At Pleasant Hill, Sheryl Swain
and Lester Baugess were the win
1 ners for the fourth and fifth
| grades and Willie Mae Hunter and
j Edward Absher were adjudged
runner-ups. In the sixth and sev
enth grade groups, Ancie Lyons
and David Combs took top honors
and their alternates are Sally Ray
and Lee Harpe.
Mary Anne Guyer and Jimmie
Welborn are the representatives
for the fourth and fifth grades at
| North Elkin and their runnerups
are Mary Ruth Gentry and Jimmy
Newman. In the sixth and sev
enth grades, Karen Sprinkle and
Charles Walters were chosen best
and Clara Bell Tucker and Billy
Bruce took second.
From Jonesville, Frances Hamp
ton and Ted Sparks will compete
from the fifth grade and Gerald
ine Lewis and Larry Cheek will
be their alternates. Betty Jane
McBride and Buddy Tempeton arc
the sixth grade victors and then
runner ups are Nancy Masten and j
i Leon Reece. Seventh grade rep- |
| resentatives are Bobby Smith and i
1 Jean Smitherman and L. D. Dud*
! ley and Betty Gay Cook placed
' second.
Mary Lou Meed was named win
ner and Alice Cranford runner-up
in the competition from the
Mother-Daughter club.
Elkin winners will be announced
in the Monday issue of The Tri
bune.
Judges for the finals will be
Lewis Alexaxnder, Mrs. James
Howard, and Mrs. Jim Dan Hem
mings.
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TO GET HONOR—Mrs. Grace
Pope Brown, Surry’s Home
Demonstration Agent, will re
ceive a national honor in Chi
cago, November 30, along with
three others of North Carolina.
Mrs. Brown has served 16 years
as a home demonstration agent.
12 of which have been spent in
Surry County.
H. D. AGENT IS
TO BE HONORED
Mrs. Grace Pope Brown. Surry
Home Ajjent, To Receive
National Award
IN CHICAGO, NOV. 30
Mrs. Grace Pope Brown, home
demonstration agent in Surry
County, has been selected as one
of four agents in North Carolina to
receive national recognition for
distinguished service and will be
so honored at the Blackstone
Hotel in Chicago on November 30.
Each agent is selected by the
state recognition committee and if
their applications meet the stand
ards of the national committee,
they are approved to be awarded
this honor for community and
home service. Only 47 home dem
onstration agents in the United
States will get the award.
Mrs. Browur lias served 16 years
as home demonstration agent,
twelve years of which have been
in Surry County. When she came
to Surry County in January of
1938, there were 16 4-H clubs with
an enrollment of 400 girls. There
are now 23 4-H clubs with an en
rollment of over 900 girls. There
were then 13 home demonstration
clubs with 300 women enrolled.
There are now 21 home demon
stration clubs with an enrollment
of 600 women.
During the past few years with
Mrs. Brown heading the program,
4-H club girls in Surry County
have won many state and national
awards.
Arlene Johnson and Ivylyn
Sparger were both state and na
tional winners in clothing achieve
ment and received an expense paid
trip to Chicago. Ivylyn Sparger,
in addition to being state winner,
received a $200.00 scholarship to
college which she is now using.
She was also state achievement
winner. Bonnie Jean Moore was
state canning winner and attended
the National 4-H Club Congress in
Chicago. She received a scholar
ship on her achievements.
Evelyn Waugh has been select
ed as state clothing achievement
winner this year. She will receive
an expense paid trip to Chicago.
(Continued On Page Five)
Wilkes Man Faces
Income Tax Charge
A North Wilkesboro lumberman
and realtor has been placed under
bond on Federal charges of fail
ing to file income tax Bourns for
1946 and 1947.
T. J. Frazier was indicted by a
Federal grand jury in Winston
Salem last week during the Nov
ember criminal term of U. S. Dis
trict Court.
He was released under a $2,000
bond, according to U. S. Marshall
William D. Kizziah. His trial is
scheduled for the Dec. 5 term of
District Court in Greensboro.
Jonesville Lions
Launch Hut Drive
The Jonesville Lions Club
launched a contest today to obtain
a site for the building of a com
munity hut.
Plans arc now underway to raise
money for the building which will
be used mainly for Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts.
Ivry Johnson, president, said
that the person who advised the
club of the most suitable site
available will be honored at a
meeting of the Lions.
A public talent show, “Laff It
Off,” under the direction of Miss
Chris Longhill of Memphis, Tenn.,
will be given December 2 and 3
for the benefit of the fund drive.
Chatham Names Native
Of Reidsville To Head
District Census-Taking
5,000 GIVEN
YADKIN X-RAY
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Shell Reports That County’s
First X-Ray Campaign Is
Highly Successful
OPERATED FOR 15 DAYS
Carl E. Shell, sanitation officer
for the Stokes - Davie - Yadkin
health district said yesterday that
Yadkin County’s first public X-ray
campaign proved highly successful.
The county-wide program end
ed Tuesday.
Shell said that about 5,000 peo
ple were X-rayed during the 15
days that the units were in opera
tion in the county. Only children
over 15 years of age and adults
were permitted to take advantage
of the service, except in some un
usual cases, such as where a child
was much underweight, had a lin
gering cough, and showed other
symptoms of tuberculosis, or was
from a family that had been af
flicted with the disease in the
past.
It was estimated that about 40
per cent of the Yadkin County
population over age 10 took ad
vantage of the service. Authorities
said this was a good showing for
a county that had never had such
a service before.
The heaviest patronage of the
units was in the Yadkinville,
Boonville, Jonesville and East
Bend areas.
Three units operated in the
county. There were two State
trained staff members for each
unit. In addition, two local help
ers were hired for each unit.
All teachers in the Yadkin
County system were required to
take the X-ray.
The service was sponsored by
the State Health Department, in
conjunction with the Yadkin
County Board of Commissioners,
and the Stokes - Davie - Yadkin
Health Department.
Churches Complete
Thanksgiving Plans
Plans have been completed for
unit Thanksgiving services in El
kin and Jonesville.
Jonesville’s Thanksgiving service
will be held at 7:30 p. m.. Wednes
day night at the Pentecostal Holi
ness church. The Rev. J. Max
Brandon will have charge of the
program.
In Elkin, the services will be
held at 9 a. m., at the First Bap
tist Church with the Rev. Howard
Ford presiding.
Taking part on the Elkin pro
gram will be the Rev. J. L. Pow
ers who will read the scripture,
the Rev. George Farah, who will
lead in prayer, and the Rev. J.
W. Braxton, who will deliver the
Thanksgiving sermon.
LONE BOATMAN SURVIVES THE SEA — Arch Yow, 23, of Hen
derson, arrives at Wilmington, in his homemade sailboat after a
grim five-day battle with the Atlantic ocean. Without a watch, a
compass or a set of charts to guide, the University of North Carolina
student estimated he sailed more than 350 miles in the Gulf Stream
before be finally sighted land. Then he put out for the beach in a
seven-foot skiff which capsized in the surf. Fishermen rescued him
unharmed. (AF Photo)
Neu) Junior Red
Cross Chairman
Named in Yadkin
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MRS. L. G. RICHARDSON
Mrs. L. C. Richardson, super
visor of public sfchool music, has
! been appointed Junior Red Cross
! Chairman in Yadkin County, ac
I cording to Harvey Hinshaw ot
Yadkinvilie.
During the next two weeks, Mrs
Richardson, whose home is in
Boonville, will carry the junior roll
call to each of the schools in
the county. Her program will in
clude the showing of two sound
motion picture films entitled “At
Together” and “Danger Is Youi
Companion.” The first has been
purchased by the local chapter and
the other has been loaned by the
Atlanta headquarters.
Mrs. Richardson has set as hei
! goal a 100 per cent enrollment oi
the schools in the county.
County Red Cross Chairman
Harvey Hinshaw stated yesterday
the chapter was very pleased by
the acceptance of Mrs. Richard
son. “Mrs. Richardson’s enthusi
asm and ability will be a great
boost to the cause of the Red
Cross in the county,” he said.
Miss Wooten Named
East Bend 4-H Head
Reta Wooten has been elected
president of the East Bend Senior
4-H Club.
Other officers include Don Hob
son, vice-president; Gloria Size
more, secretary-treasurer; Kay
Speas, reporter; W. C. Tomlinson,
song leader; and Miss Mary Moore,
club sponsor.
The East Bend Club plans tc
take an active part in all 4-H
Club activities during the year.
T. M. Smith
Is Selected
Supervisor
By ROBERT ERWIN
(Tribune Washington Bureau)
Washington, Nov. 16—The ap
pointment of T. M. (Bill) Smith,
Reidsville business man, as census
supervisor for the Fifth Congress
ional District was announced here
today by the office of Rep. Thur
mond Chatham of Elkin.
At the same time Chatham’s of
fice announced the selection of
John Dyer, Winston-Salem ware
houseman, as assistant supervisor.
Smith and Dyer will have charge
of census activities in Caswell,
Forsyth, Granville, Person, Rock
ingham, Stokes and Surry Coun
ties. District census headquarters
will be established at Reidsville.
Smith served as district census
supervisor for the 1940 census and
Chatham said he was “gratified”
at being able to secure the ser
vices of an experienced man to
head the setup for the 1950 cen
sus. He also pointed out that Dyer,
secretary-treasurer of Taylor’s
Warehouse for some 20 years, is
widely known among business in
terests in the district.
With Dyer’s assistance, Smith
will direct the census count in
! the district from a headquarters
; to be established in Reidsville,
which was chosen because of its
central location.
By the first of the year, Smith
must have a headquarters staff
of 12 to 14 persons selected and
ready to go to work. Acting in co
operation with Chatham and the
Census Bureau, Smith also will
select and supervise the training
of about 332 enumerators, who
will do the actual population
counting during the first two
weeks of April, 1950. The count is
to be based on the situation as of
April l.
The headquarters operation,
including advance work and later
compilation, is expected to last
four to six months. Employment
of the enumerators will last only
an average of three to six weeks.
Pay of the supervisor is set at
$17.22 a working day, or at the
rate of $4,479 a year.
Pay of the assistant supervis
or is set at $14.33 a working day
or at the rate of $3,327 a year.
Pay of the headquarters staff will
range downward from that of a
payroll clerk, with compensation
at the rate of about $3,300 a year,
and there will be provision for
necessary travel expenses and per
diem allowances.
Enumerators will not have a
fixed rate of pay, but they will
be given a per call allowance cal
culated to provide them with a
net profit of about $8 a day after
expenses are deducted. This means
that the allowance will vary ac
cording to the distances to be
traveled and the number of calls
to be made.
The operations of the district
headquarters must be completed
by June 30, 1950.
Deane To Address
Yadkinville Meet
Rep. C. B. Deane of Rocking
ham w'ill address an open meeting
in Yadkinville Tuesday at 7:30
p. m.
The meeting is to be sponsored
by Harvey Gentry and the Yadkin
Grange, Mrs. Margaret Hinshaw
and the Yadkinville Womans Club,
and the Rev. E. W. McMurray of
the Yadkinville P.-T.A.
BOXSCORE
OH N.C.HIGHWAYS
Killed Nov. 12 through
Nov. 14 . 11
Injured Nov. 12 through
Nov. 14 . 86
Killed through Nov. 14
this year . 707
Killed through Nov. 14,
1948 . 620
Injured through Nov. 14
this year . 7,834
Injured through Nov. 14
1948 .6,377