THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 71
Court May Adjourn
Friday Afternoon
The crimnal term of Stokes Su
perior Court w'll probably ad
journ tomorrow (Fr.day) after-
It'' noon.
Judge W. H. Bobbitt is presid
ing with Solicitor R. J. Scott pros
it ecuting for the state.
As the Reporter goes to press,
the arson case, State vs. Mrs. \
Clemmie Cromer, is being heard j
and a verd'ct will probably be
i
reached late this afternoon. Cases
disposed of thus far are as fol
lows:
STATE VS.
Garfield Mitchell, o. c. i. NPL.
Rufus Hill, o. c. i., SSO an.l
cost.
Alice M. Hairston, possession of
l'quor. Four months on road. |
Ernest Outing, o. c. i., $50.00
and cost.
Cecil Cook, o. c. j., $50.00 and
cost.
Tom Hayden, o. c. i., 60 days.
Robert Secrest, o. c. i., 60 day 3.
Gilbert Brown, v. p. 1. & o. c. i.,
4 months.
Alonzo Davis, o. c. i., SSO and
cost.
0 Stelton Douglas, transporting
liquor, $25 and cost.
Ike Mabe, o. c. i., .SSO and cost.
Sam Neal, o. c. i., .SSO and cost.
1 T. M. Nunn, a. d. w. Cost.
Buck Stephens, a c. i., $50.00
and cost.
Rumley Carson, a. d. w. Cost.
Roy William Smith, o. c. i„
Death Of Lee Shelton
Former Stokes Man
Lee J. Shelton, aged 72, well
known Leaksville resident, died
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
F. S. Kirks, after an illness of
eight weeks.
Mr. Shelton was a native of
Stokes county, but had resided at
Leaksville for 35 years, fie was a
former magistrate and auctioneer.
Surviving are one son, W. N.
Shelton; two MB.
"M Kirks and Mia. Wilma Robertson
of Draper; two brothers, Samuel
Shelton of Lawionville and James
> Shelton and one sister, Mrs. Cora
Jones of High PoinL
The funeral wa* held at tibe
Leaksville-Spray Funeral Home
Elder David Spangler conducted
the services. Burial was in the
Spray cemetery.
Wild Onions
Hard to Kill
Noticing some wild onions
growing on the court house
0 % grounds Alex Southern stated
that these things are quite
hard to kill. He says he dug up a
quantity of wild onions on his land
some time ago and set fire to them
in a pile, and that a large and
rank growth of them took root in
another field 100 yards away,
catching from the smoke of the
burning pile.
$50.00 and cost.
John Sands, o. c. i., $50.00 anu
cost.
Lester Mabe, manufacturing li
quor, 6 months.
Ruben Joyce, o. c. i: Not guilty:
Russell Watkins, o. c. i. and
driving without license, etc., SSO
and cost.
John Carroll, manufacturing
liquor. Not guilty.
Arthur Lawson, o. c. i., $50.00
and cost.
Ray Preston, b. & e. and 1.
Defendants pay cost.
Wallace Floyd Preston and Ray
Preston, larceny. Cost.
Harry Berkley Carson, posses
sion of liquor, 12 months.
Ed Malone, transporting liquor.
Cost.
Almeta Johnson, v. p. 1., 4
months.
Almeta Johnson, c. c. w., 30
days.
Hubert Hamm, non-support, 6
months.
Raymond Bluford, transporting
liquor, 2 year suspended sentence
Frances Moore, larceny, 3
years suspended sentence.
Lester Pell, non-support, $450
prosecutrix and cost.
Willie Steele, possession of l'-
quor. Discharged.
Oscar Weavil, transporting li
quor, 2 year suspended sentence
Wm. Hall and Oscar WU&OP.
laiceny. Cost.
AAA Office Closed
On Easter Monday
The office of the Stokes county
Agricultural Conservation Asso
ciation will not be open on Easter
Monday, April 6, it was announc
ed here Wednesday by Clerk
A. M Caudle.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I hereby announce myself
a candidate for Constable of Ban
bury township.
T. L. BOOTH
R. Flake Shaw
To Speak Here
Farmers and Farm Bureau
Members of Stokes county will be
addressed by R. Flake Shaw, Guil
fgjd Farmer and State Farm Bu
reau Leader, at Danbury, Monday,
April 6, at 1 p. m. in the court
house. Mr. Shaw will discuss cur
rent day Agricultural Problems
under war time conditions. Stokes,
being purely an agricultural
county, his talk will be very time
ly and helpful to farmers in the
county. Everybody >s invited to
attend the meeting.
The present Farm Bureau Mem
bers will set up a permanent or
ganisation for the county and in
vite other fanners and business
men to become members.
Danbnry, N. C., Thursd ay, April 2, 1942 * * * *
MARRIED MEN
TO BE CALLED
THOSE WITHOUT CHILDREN
WILL BE RECLASSIFIED
Brig. Gen. J. Van B. Metts,
state director of select.ve service,
yesterday notified the local draft
board in a general bulletin which
went out over the state to review
all 111-A classifications prepara
tory to the induction of married
men whose wives are working o; ,
I
could become self - support'ng
through employment and where;
no children are involved.
Officials were instructed that
condit.ons existing now do not.
however, warrant the 1-A class - ■
fication of registrants who have
children dependent upon them,
but it was specifically pointed out ;
that "conditions today will not i
justify deferment of a niarr'ed
man simply because he has a wife. f
The bulletin specified that "eveo ,
l
though they (registrants) hav > j
been married for a number of;
years, if the wife is self-support-
I
j ing now or can become self-sup
| porting within a reasonable time,
j and children are not involved, the
I continued classification of the hus
band in 111-A would not be jus
tified." In determining a status
of dependency, board officials were
instructed to ascertain whether
the w.fe is "self-supporting."
General Metts said that if the
wife does not work and has not
worked for the past several years,
and there is not sufficient income
from sources other than earnings
of her husband for support, a
true case of dependency "would
sem to exist and a classification
in 111-A would be proper."
Lawsonville News
Lawsonvilie. Mrs. Marshall
Nelson, who has been ill for some
time, died at ber home here Tues
day. .
This community is very bu?y
gardening at this time.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Neal arc
the glad parents of a new born
baby boy
Curtis Stevens, young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Wattie Stevens,
spent the week-end at his home
here. He is stationed at Fort
Bragg.
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Smith visit
ed friends at Leaksville Sunday.
The First Aid Class which
being taught Here is getting along
nicely. Those taking the course
are the following: P. H. Robert
son, R. A. Robertson, B. O. Shep
pard, O. E. Smith, H. D. Lassiter,
J. N. Tucker, A. H. Kallam, C. M.
Mabe, F. T. Tilley, Misses Mary
Lawson, Annie Mae Lawson, Lucy
T'lley, and Paul Tilley and Hunt
er Kallam.
Mrs. Earl Smith visited Mrs.
C. M. Mabe Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hammocks
of Walkertown visited here Sun
day.
Mrs. M. O. Stevens went to Win
ston-Salem last week-end.
BUS SERVICE
IS ASSURED
W. F. MARSHALL AND C. E.
DAVIS BEHIND THE MAT
TER—BUS TO RUN FROM
DANBL'RY VIA W A LM'l
COVE AND GERMANTON TO
WINSTON-SALEM.
William Marshall and C. E.
Davis have recently been in con
tact with Winston-Salem >ni2r-
I ests and with the Utilities Com
j mission in Rale.gh seeking t.sti.b-
I
lishment of bus service for P-.n
--|
bury, Walnut Covje and German
ton sections into Winston-Snom.
i They report that assurance lias
been given that th.s service will
be started in the very near future
' with a line beginning at Danbury
j and running via Meadows, Wal
nut Cove, Germanton into Win
sion-Salem. It is highly possible
i
1 that later the start will be from
' Lawsonville or the state line. Cit
| izens from these and adjacent
i sections of the county will appre
ciate this service especially ir»
view of the acute tire and gas sit
uation.
To Revise
Community Boundaries
The following goup of men
gathered 'n the office of the Stokes
County Agricultural Conservation
Association in the courthouse at
Danbury to discuss revising com
munity boundaries and the date
and place of community elections
to be held during the week of
Apr.l 6, to elect additional com
mitteemen required for the bound
ary d'vision: Carl Hunter, West
Big Creek; J. R. Forrest, East
Big Creek; T. D. Preston, South
Beaver Island; A. M. Orrell,
North Meadows; T. R. Nelson,
West Quaker Gap; C. J. Venable,
East Quaker Gap; C. E. DaviS,
North Sauratown; R. R. Mills,
South Sauratown; Fred Smith,
North Snow Creek; C. L. Carroll,
South East Yadkin; R. C. White,
South Yadkin; E. R. Sams, West
Yadkin; H. C. Johnson, North
East Yadkin
In addition Co these m«n the
County Committee, composed of
Jacob Fulton, Chairman; J. Moir
Hawkins, Vice Chairman; and T.
M. Smith, were present at the
The follow, ng men were ap
pointed and invited by the county
committee to attend but did not
appear at the meeting: J. D. Flin
chum, North Beaver Island; I. L
Spencer, South Meadows; J. R.
Lawson, North Peter's Creek J.
N. Lackey, South Peter's CtOuk,
J. A. Wall, South East S>ir,w
Creek; Jesse B. Robertson, South
We3t Snow Creek.
. A. M. CAUDLE,
Chief Clerk. \
Book Club Meets
The Wednesday Evening Book
Club will meet April oth at «
o'clock with Mrs. R. S. Marshall.
The program will be presented by
Mrs. J. S. Taylor.
Published Thursdays ***** Number 3,647
Elkin Smith
GOP Chairman
NOTICE TO
REGISTRANTS
Selective Serv.ce Occupational
Questionnaire (DSS Form 311),
will be mailed by t"ie local board
to the registrants of the third
reg.stration immediately after the
assignment of serial and order
numbers to these registants.
j Eventually registrants of the first
and second registration will re
ceive a selective Service Occupa
tional Questionnaire. It is very
important that each registrant
completely fill out all the quesitons
thereon and return to the local
board w'lhin the time specified on
page 2 of the questionnaire. Each '
registrant is urged to read ani
study the instructions on page 2
of this questionnaire. If you need
help in answer.ng any of the ques
tions on this Occupational Ques
tionnaire, go to a member of thi j
Advisory Board for Reg.stran's!
in Stokes county, to your employ-'
er or your union.
Dependency Deferments
It is felt that the time has now |
come when married men whos;
I
wives are s»lfsupporting will have
to be called to military service.
We do not feel, however, that con
ditions existing today warrant a
1-A classification of registrants
who have children dependent upon
them for support. If the w.fe has
been working but has given up
such eployment within the pas*
| year, the local board will rj,\.pi r!y
j investigate the prospects cf the
w.fe again beginning to woik;
Conditions today will not just.fy
deferment of a married man simp
ly because he has a wife. When a
family in which there are two >r
more sons, one of whom claims
to be the sole support of h>s par
ents or other relatives, whereas
the other son or sons could assume
such support and do share an
equal moral responsibility to pro
vide such support will naturally
be called into service. This local
board will immediately start re
opening 3-A classifications. If you
are classfiied in class 3-A and re
ceive a notice that your case has
been reopened, you are urged to
reply to such notice within the
time specified on the notice and
submit such evidence, if new, to
the local board in writing. If the
local board does not receive auo'i
information within the time speci
fied the information submi'Ufl
will not be given consideratin i.
P. S. All s.ngle registrants who
are now classified in class 3-A will
receive a notice that their cases
are reopened at an early date.
STOKES COUNTY LOCAL
BOARD NO. 1.
Lawyers here from out of town
attending court: Archie Elledge,
Winston - Salem; Reid Johnson,
Winston-Salem; J. Hampton
Price, LeakaVille; P. W. Glidewell,
Reidsville.
• * •« , „
CANDIDATES RECOMMENDED
AND DELEGATES ELECTED
BV REPUBLICAN CONYEN
TION FRIDAV.
At the Republican county con
vention lie-Id in the court house
here Friday, March 27, Elk n
Sm.th of Walnut Cove was unani
mously elected chuiimun 1 f th-.'
next two years, .vim Mrs. M. J.
Fag};, vice thai .aiiii and 'Jdell
Joins, secretary.
The former .•xecutive coinin ttee
was re-elected, as follows: Robert
Carroll, of Yadkin; Cabell Joyce,
of Beaver Island; H. McGce, of
Meadows: n. O. Woods, of Snow
Creek; E- R. Nelson, of Dan bury;
A. B. Simmons, of B.y Creek; K.
C. Smith, of Quaker Gap; C. M.
Jones, of Sauratown.
The convention recommended
, that the county chairman appoint
\ a committee consisting of three
j men and two lad.es each for the
21 precincts.
Delegates to the Republican
state convention were named as
follows: Odell Jones, D. C. Wood.
Grover Hall, O. W. Sisk, Ed Riser.
D. C. Taylor. T. G. New, B. O.
Shelton, W. J. Fagg, Mrs. M. J.
Fagg, E. R. Nelson, J. R. Nunn,
J. W. Priddy, C. M. Jones. Alter
nates Jacob Montgomery, W. M.
Wood, C. A. Hensdale, Luther
Shelton, Bill Fulton, Jacob Tuttle,
Claude Tuttle, 11. McGee, Z. D.
Cov ngton, Will Petree, A. B. Sim
mons, W. D. Rierson, Powell Mabe
and Anthony Gordy.
(The list of county candidates
recommended by the convention
appeared in week's Reporter).
Death Of Robert Pratt
Robert (Bob) Lee Pratt, aged
72, well known Sandy Ridge farm
er, died at his home yesterday af
ternoon. He had been in decl.n'ng
health 11 years and his condition
was serious one week.
Surviving are the Mrs.
Annie Laura Pratt; one daughter,
Mrs. H. C. Ziglar of the home;
three brothers, Jess Pratt of Spen
cer, Va.; Cephus Pratt of Mar
tinsville, Va.; and George Pratt
of Horsepasture, Va.; three sis
ters, Mrs. W. T. Deshazo of Roa
noake, Va., and Mrs. W. C. Clan
ton of Spencer, Va.
The funeral was held at the
home Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock. Rev. T. G. W.l! ams and
Rev. Ralph Buchanan conducted
the services. Burial was in the
church graveyard.
M.ss Ella Downing was hero
awhile Sunday afternoon. Miss
Downing is taking a special course
in social work at the University
of N. C., Chapel Hill. During her
leave of absence from the Wel
fare Office, Miss Downing'B work
is now being carried on by Miss
Christ'ne Anderson, senior case
worker in the department