ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations The Elkin Tribune ELKIN Gateway to Roaring Gap and The Blue Ridge THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVII No. 11 PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY ELKIN, N. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1949 i $3.00 PER YEAR IN NORTH CAROLINA 14 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS ■ ■■ 1 1 ' ■" "" 11 - ™ - -'-"-a The Elk Trail . . . Colored boys in bus station jigging to a tune from a radio. . . . College students, return ing home for the holidays, appear ing in church Sunday. . . . Willie Bell reading Thurs day’s issue of The Tribune, think 'HJng it was today's. . . . Charles Neaves returning to town after serving as attorney for a law suit in South Carolina. . . . Downtown department store workers scurrying to try to com plete shopping for Christmas dur ing lunch hours. . . . Dick Stockton in town, re porting he may return to spring training with the Erie, Pa., base ball squad. . . . New mailman getting ac quainted with route, having just been added to the postal staff for the rush season. . . . Little boy asking mother for a dollar to buy himself some shewing gum -and two cents to Daddy a Christmas present. . . . Car with “Just Married” signs adorning it hastening down the road. Followed by another car sounding often with its horn. . . . David Brown speaking with amazement of the conditions he found in some homes in Elkin which will be helped by the VFW ^pharity Fund. . . . Carolyn Fletcher making quick exit when new owner of tur key enters with his prize. Explain ing as she runs, "I'm allergic to feathered animals.” . . . Skinny Hyslup, Harry Hen sel, Dixit1 Graham, E. W. McDan iel, et al, making plans for the 12:01 club’s annual banquet at Hotel Elkin. ... Neil Melvin examining his hair in the mirror, seeing if any new gray ones were added after his basketball team’s overtime thriller with Sparta High Friday night. . . . Overheard on the street: (Young man to hi:, wife) "Did you see Dr. Beale about your cold?" iWife answers) “No, he's on his way to the maternity ward at the hospital.” (Husband) “Anri I didn’t even know he was expecting.” TRAPHILLROAD > BEING PLANNED To Run From End of Pave ment Near Hays By Way Of Traphill To No. 21 JJ1DS ARE ADVERTISER * Construction of a paved high way from tlie end of the preseni pavement near Hays by way oi Traphill to U. S. Highway 21 a Doughton is being planned by th< State Highway Commission. W. J. Bason, roads committee chairman, said that the first sec ^ tion of the highway, 4.4 miles fron the end of the pavement nea Hays to Dockery, is advertiser for bids in the December letting Commenting on the plans fo the project, Mr. Bason pointer out that the people of northwest ern Wilkes were elated over th prospects for getting out of th mud, and pointed out that th commission cannot build all th road at one time and must pro ceed as construction is practica Mr.i Bason explained that no ^ ^ly will the road serve a big arc 5 families in the vicinity of Elkin by the VFW this year as the kind hand of the veterans stretches out as far as Thurmond and Devo tion in the outlying areas. Baskets, bags, and boxes — the baskets containing groceries, the boxes toys and clothes and the bags fruit and candy — will be distributed to the needy families on the list of the Vr W, which totals iam-< ilities today. But chairman of the fund David Brown, expects to add a few more names before distribu tion time Friday and Saturday. Every child in the families on the list, although some of the fam ilies have as many as eight kids, will get a toy, according to Brown. Clothing will be shared with every family getting some and the gro ceries, fruit, and candy has been evenly split between the boxes and baskets. A number of the people to be helped live > in the city limits of (Continued On Page Four) ! Only One Minor Wreck Reported Only one minor wreck was re ! ported by the state highway pa j trol office in Elkin today. A 1941 model Chevrolet oper ated by James Gray Shores, a Navy man from State Road and on duty at San Diego, Calif., ran into the rear of an automobile owned by Marvin Grettis Stone street, of State Road, near Klon dike Farm Saturday evening. Stonestreet's car, a 1938 model Chevrolet, was parked on the highway where his lights had fail ed him, patrolman D. C. Caudle reported. Estimated damages to the two cars totaled $100, accord ing to patrolman Caudle. NOMINATIONS ACCELERATED Elkin Jaycee’s Distinguished Service Award Ballots Needed Immediately TO BE SENT TO BIVINS Nominations for the Elkin Jun ior Chamber of Commerce dis tinguished service award key to the outstanding young man of the year were stepped up last week, but Joe Gwyn Bivins, chairman of the committee, said that more were needed for a true represen tation. Presentation of the key will be made January 23 at a regular meeting of the club. At this time the 29th anniversary of the found ing of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce will be ob served. The Jaycees’ 29th Anniversary Week is January 14-21. During this Jaycee Week, distinguished service award keys will be given tc the ten outstanding young men in America by the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce at a cere mony tp be held in Peoria, 111. Pointing out the significance o 1 (Continued Orr Page Four) Traphill Man Is Charged With Murder Three violent deaths in Wilkes County over the week-end set Sheriff C. G. Poindexter and his force of deputies to work on full scale investigations today. Up to noon the Sheriff reported that investigation was being made into the death of an Elkin Furni ture Company employee, and a 49 year-old-father of nine children, and a third Wilkes resident who appeared to have been bludgeoned to death near the Scenic Highway. Grant (Skinny) Holbrook, 34, of Traphill, was charged with murder in connection with the Saturday afternoon rifle shooting of Paul Hemric, 39, of near Traphill, who worked at the Elkin Furniture Company. An investigation continued in the death of a second man, Felts Curtis, 49-year-old father of nine children, whose body was found early Saturday morning near North Wilkesboro. The third death, believed to be a murder victim, was discovered early this morning about, two miles from the scenic highway between Laurel Springs and the "Jumping Off" place in upper Wilkes. Lloyd Hunt, who found the body, noti fied the sheriff. The dead man was identified as Glenn Farring ton. In the death of Paul Hemric, two Ronda men were held in jail Saturday night as suspects in the shooting, but were released under bond as material witnesses •yester day. They were Grady Moore and James Hall. Sheriff Poindexter said that a hearing was held this morning and that Grant Holbrook was being held without bond on a charge of murder. Sheriff Poindexter gave this ver sion of the shooting: The four men were in Holbrook's store about 2:30 p. m. Holbrook and Hemric started an argument and left the store together. Hol brook suddenly ran back into the store, picked up his 25-32 calibre rifle and ran back outside. A shot was heard, and when the men inside the store ran outside, Hemric was lying on the ground dead. A slug had entered his left ear and emerged through the top of his head. Sheriff Poindexter said that Holbrook sent one of the men aft er Deputy Sheriff Blaine Sparks, who lives in Traphill. Deputy Sparks soon found the rifle under a log approximately 125 feet from the store, and the men in the store were arrested. (Continued On Page Four) POSTAL RUSH CLIMAX AHEAD Local Officials Say Volume May Equal Last Year’s Record-Breaking Total SIX WORK E R S ADDED The climax of the Christmas mail rush will hit sometime later this week, according to postal of ficials in Elkin this morning. Already six men have been add ed to the staff in preparation for the heavy load that always comes with the Yule season. The rush of Christmas cards and gifts has already begun taxing the facilities of the office, but prompt service is still assured the people of this area. Whether or not the load this year will be heavier than the pre ceding years cannot yet be told, officials reported, but it may equal last year’s record-breaking total. Last year’s Yule rush was the largest in history and climaxed the most profitable year in the span of the Elfcin postoffice, ac cording to postmaster J. F. Mose ley. Six extra workers were also added to the staff for the holiday season. During the 1948 Christmas rush, approximately 20,000 pieces of mail were handled daily.