p: ■■ tin’s Oldest and Best fewspaper: Devoted to the Upbuilding and Best In terests of Yadkin County. VOL. XUX YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941 -_^ix—i_a--:— M*. i l r-- ... ■- - j The Ripple Covers a Count) of 20,728 of the Best People in the World fcM-.iT.-,,- ,a -. No. 3 LATE NEWS IN BRIEF From the State and Nation STATE RALEIGH, Jan. 14 —Trans mitting a proposed budget call ing for the expenditure of $163,635,?82 in state money in the next biennium, Governor Broughton today urged the general assembly to maintain a balanced budget, lengthen the list of sales tax exemptions, and increase no taxes. The record expenditure, contained in the unanimous report of the ad visory budget commission and former Governor Hoey, goes as far “as prudence would dic tate**, Governor Broughton said. The budget would be balanced and practically every state agency and institution would receive increased funds. NATIONAL TBS GOVERNMENT stepped into a labor dispute involving a defense industry Tuesday and demanded that strike-closed plants In Ohio and Michigan be re-opened. The government’s position in the strikes, involving five units and about 3,500 em ployees of the Eaton Manufac turing company, was stated by James F. Dewey, a labor de partment conciliator. Dewey said in Detroit that he would insist as a “defense measure** that the plants be re-opened and that differences be ad justed after the plants were running. Dewey added that this was the first time such a “drastic step’* had been taken by the government under the defense program. WASHINGTON, Jan, 14.— Glenn L. Martin, pioneer air plane builder, told Congress to day it should keep in mind a “bigger show” than the current arms program and delegate emergency authority to draft labor as well as industry for de fense production. Testifying before the house naval commit tee, Martin also said he thought a six-day week was “by all means necessary” in all defense plants. He added that the gov ernment should have immediate power to “draft” idle machine tools whenever they could be utilized for armament wort:. * WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.— Displaying more anger than he has shown in many days, Pres ident Roosevelt today declared that critics of his aid-to-Britain : plan were guilty of the “rotten- I est” and “most dastardly” un truths when they charged that the plan would result in “plow ing under every fourth Ameri can child.” The President named no names at a press conference, but it was imme diately recalled that Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, embattled opponent of the Roosevelt plan, had said in a speech Sunday night that “the lend-lease-give program is the new deal's triple A foreign policy—plow under every fourth American boy.” INTERNATIONAL LONDON, Jan. 14.—An air ministry statement that R. A. F. night fighters are “beginning to show results” against noctur nal raiders and the admiralitys announcement of one of the smallest week’s shipping losses of the war bolstered hopes of Britons tonight of overcoming cventaully the two chief men aces to their embattled island. Last night’s massive fire-bomb raid on the southwest port of Plymouth, the target of If,000 incendiaries and “many tons” of high explosives, showed, however, that Britain has far to go in coping with the night raiders—-and the air ministry admitted as much. LONDON, Jan. 14.—Britain’s 23,000-ton aircraft carrier Il lustrious and the 9,100-ton crusier Southampton were dam aged January 10, the admiralty announced tonight, in the first reported use of German dive bombers in the Mediterranean area. Italian and German planes cooperated in the attack on the warships, which were convoying merchant vessels to Greece with “material assis tance” for the Albanian ^eaan jHdga. ITALIAN DRIVE IS CRUSHED BY GREEK FORCES Attempt to Counter Attack Proves Failure RAIDERS OVER NORWAY Bad Weather Causes Lull in the Air Siege of Great Britain LONDON ENJOYS QUIET Greece’s mountain fighters re ported Wednesday they smashed two Italian counterattacks in the drive north from Klisura, in cen tral Albania, compelling the Fascists to retire in such haste they left dead and wounded on the battlefield. Thai, the Greeks said, they re sumed their advance toward Be rati. Bad weather caused a lull in the air siege of Britain during the night, but R. A, F. bombers flew through “dirty” skies to pound Nazi air bases, shipping and a railroad bridge in German occupied Norway. Two direct hits were reported on a motorship in Stavanger roads, on the West Coast. London’s millions enjoying an other night of quiet, wondering at the continued absence of Ger man raiders since Sunday night. With the arrival of daylight, however, Nazi bombers returned to the assault. A lone raider ma chine-gunned a village in north ern Scotland and dropped a single bomb. Planes were also re ported over East Anglia. Reports reaching struga, Yugo slavia, said Albanian guerrillas were raiding Fascist lines of com munication and ammunition de pots, thus complicating the Ital ian efforts to stem the Greek ad vance. Two Albanian battalions organ ized by Italians, were said to have been disbanded because they refused to fight the Greeks. Plans Complete For Annual Dances In Yadkin Harold Gale and his Society Club Orchestra will play for the two President’s Birthday dances to be held in Yadkinville and East Bend this year. The East Bend dance will be held Friday night, January 31, and the Yad kinville dance will be Saturday night, February 1. The Society Club orchestra, of Winston-Salem, is a well-known and popular dance band, and is in demand by many organiza tions. They have appeared from time to time on the Marine Roof of the-Robert E. Lee Hotel. Pat terson’s string band will also ap pear at both balls for square dancing. Both dances will begin at 8 o’clock, and end at 12 o’clock, in the two school gym nasiums. Square dancing, the committee announces, will in all probability take place from 8 to 9 o’clock, at which time round dancing will begin. More square dancing will take place later in the evening. Admission for either event is $1.00 per couple. The public is urged to attend and support these worthwhile functions. Half of the money taken in will be re-. tained in the county, the other half going to the national fund to combat infantile paralysis. In Yadkinville, tickets may be secur ed from both drug stores, or from Hugh West, Miss Mary Kelly and Mrs. Ray Graham; in Boonville, from Boonville Drug Co. and Miss Grace Hayes; and in East Bend, from East Bend Drug Co., Mrs. Blanco Harrell and Mrs. Jamie Leak Messick. Civitan Club Hears Dr. I. G. Greer ' The Yadkinville Civitan Club met in the club rooms Tuesday evening with Dr. I. G. Greer, of j the Mills Home, Thomasville or phanage, as guest speaker. Mrs. j Greer was also present. After an opening song o f “America,” Rev. R. L. West in I troduced the speaker to the 'group. Dr. Greer first interpret ed and sang a number of ballads and folk songs, accompanied by Mrs. Greer at the piano, and later made a short address. The session closed with a song. The Woman’s Missionary Soci ety served dinner to the club and its guests. AWARD WINNERS Pictured below are offi cers of the Copeland 4-H Club, winner of $100 as the best club in North Carolina, taking the honor from 1,500 other 4-H clubs. The officers are, left to right, top row: Louise Banner, president; Hugh Snow, viee-president. Bottom, left to right: Ruth Wood, secretary, and Jessie Snow, recreational director. The club has made an enviable record in both Surry coun ty $nd in the state during recent years, but this is the first time it has won first prize. Yadkin County Woman Passes Away At Home Mrs. Viola Hampton Lineberry, 61, died Wednesday afternoon of last week at her home near Boon ville, following a critical illness of one week . A native of Hamptonville, Mrs. Lineberry was the daughter of the late Dr. Lee Hampton and Mrs. Hampton. She is survived by her husband, T. L. Lineberry, three sons, Fred and William Lineberry of Jones ville and Wade Lineberry of Elk in. One brother and one sister, W. N. Hampton of Duncan, Okla homa, and Mrs. W. A. Hendrix of Ronda, also survive. Funeral services were conducted Friday morning from Shady Grove Baptist church. The rites were in charge of Rev. Cleat Simmons, Rev. R. E. Connell and Rev. D. G. Reece. Interment was in the church cemetery. Funeral Held for Vaughan Shugart Funeral services were held Sun- I day afternoon at Boonville Bap tist church,, for Vaughan O. Shu gart, 46, who died Friday after noon at a Winston-Salem hospi tal after a few hours illness. Rev. J. P. Davis and Rev. J. H. Green conducted the services and burial followed in the Boonville ceme tery. Mr. Shugart was a native of Boonville, a son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. (Bahnson) Shugart. He spent several years in New York and New Jersey with General Outdoor Advertising Co., return ing to Boonville a few years ago* For the past several months he had operated Boone Castle ser vice station and eating place two miles east of Boonville. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Gertrude Shugart; one. daughter, Mrs. Earl Jones, of Charleston, W. Va.; his parents; three brothers, Z. A. and F. Y. Shugart, of Boonville, and O. K. Shugart, of Pisgah, Md., and one sister, Mrs. A. L. Wall, of Walkertown. Meeting Scheduled For Pork Handling A pork cutting and curing demonstration will be held at the home of R. A. McLaughlin, coun ty agent, Wednesday, Jan. 22, at 9 o’clock. Mr. McLaughlin lives in the second house on the right West of the Yadkinville city limits. Mr. E. V. Vestal, Extension swine specialist, will be in charge of this demonstration and will explain and demonstrate the var ious processes of handling farm meats. All interested persons are invited to attend. Do You Believe In Ghosts? Whether you believe i n ghosts or not, don’t fail to read “Through The Keyhole” on the Editorial page of the Ripple this week. For the first time, the con ductor of this popular column has found what is believed to be true evidence concerning the oft-repeated legend of the woman who “comes back” oc casionally on the road between High Point and Stoneville. It has been the object of much controversy for many years between those who have tried to find definite information on the matter. This is the first time the gentlemen’s story, told in the column, has appeared in print. Soil Conservation Meetings Planned Three educational meetings will be held in Yadkin county to ex plain the local district program, according to an announcement by the Tri-Creek Soil Conservation office. The meetings will be un der the supervision of Earl H. Meacham, of Raleigh. He will illustrate his talks with slides showing the different types of soil conservation control. Meetings have been scheduled at the following places: This af ternoon (Thursday), Fall Creek school, 2:30 o’clock: at 7:30, Courtney school; and Friday, East Bend school, 2:30 o’clock. Previously the district has worked with individual farmers scattered throughout the county, but in the future will work in groups in order to reach more farms. Plans have been made so each community will be reached approximately once a year. Farmers are urged to attend one of the above scheduled meet ings, as it will likely be a year before this opportunity will be offered again. Little Adams Girl Claimed by Death Mary Catherine Adams, 8-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Agbert Adams, of near Union Cross, died Saturday morning at Elkin hospital, after an illness of a few days with diphtheria. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the home of the parents, with Rev. and Mrs. E. Q. Key in charge. Burial was in Union Cross church cem etery. , Survivors include the parents; one brother, Oben Adams; four sisters, Mrs. Annie Pearl Wil liams, Doris Marie, Pattie Sue, of Union Cross; Mrs. Araie Brown, Union Cross* and Laura Adams, Winston-Salem. BANK OF YADION HAS GOOD YEAR Stockholders Annual Meeting Is Held Friday at Bank 4 PER CENT. DIVIDEND The Bank of Yadkin stockhold ers held their annual meeting in the bank Friday and went over the work of the past year which showed increased business over the preceding year. They declared and paid a cash dividend of 4 per cent, to stock holders as they have done in the past few years. All the old officers and direc tors of the bank were re-elected, and in addition Clinton W. Hall was elected assistant cashier. He has been with the bank for the past several months. The offi cers of the bank now are as fol lows: President, W. A. Hall; vice president and cashier, E. H. Bar nard; assistant cashiers, A. E. Holton and Clinton W. Hall; di rectors, W. A. Hall, T. R. Eaton, Avalon E. Hall, E. H. Barnard, T. H. Chamberlain and R. B. Long. Increased business in all de partments was shown for the past year. Total resources of the bank as shown Jan. 1 were $405, 914.58. Every department of the bank reflects the sound condi tion in which this bank stands. The capital of the bank is $20, 000.00, with a surplus of $18, 000.00, an increase of $3,000 over last year’s statement, and undi vided profits of $3,401.23. Dr. Spencer Bell New Health Officer For Yadkin County Dr. Spencer Bell, of Brooks Cross Roads, was last Monday elected county health officer for Yadkin county, succeeding Dr. Allen Brandon who has served for the past two years. Dr. Bell was the unanimous; choice of the county board of health which met Monday morn ing in the court hourse. The only other business coming before the board of health was the discussion of the advisability of having a whole time health officer for the county. The pro posal met with favorable com ment among the members of the board and it is to be taken up at i a later meeting. Yadkin Girl Wins Verdict of Acquittal Red-headed Mary Lou Taylor, 28-year-old white woman of i Hamptonville, wiped tears of re- j lief from her eyes Monday after noon in the Forsyth county j court house when she was ac quitted of a charge of lifting a1 74-y e a r-old man’s pocketbook ! while she kissed him. E. A. Terrell, elderly Forsyth county citizen, said he missed his pocketbook, containing $142, af ter the young woman had given him a long and earnest kiss sev eral days ago. The jury, after hearing Miss Taylor testify that; she did not take the money from Mr. Terrell, returned a verdict of not guilty. Money Appropriated For School Building John A. Lang, NYA state ad ministrator, announced this week that a total of $12,023.40 had been approved for the construc tion of a colored high school building one mile northeast of Boonville. Guy Angell, local NYA director, states that the construction of the four-room building will prob ably begin next week. The labor will be furnished by boys under the NYA program. Salvage lunger and other ma terial will be secured from the old Hamptonville school for use in the structure, it was an nounced. HIGHER Greater industrial activity, at tributable in part to the defense program, is likely to result in higher average prices for farm products and in higher incomes for farmers in 1941. MACHINERY Some agricultural experts be lieve that with farm labor costs going up just as farmers are sending their sons into the draft army, there will be an increasing need for farm machinery. Boonville Woman Shot By Estranged Husband Saturday « President W. A. Hall, above, one of the most widely known and highly respected citizens of Yadkin county, has been connected with the Bank of Yadkin since its organization in 1905, and has successfully piloted the bank through many stormy seasons without the loss of one cent to any stockholder. He has served as president of the bank since 1932, and was again elected to that position at the bank’s annual meeting Friday. — (Ripple Photo.) Yadkin Members Get Appointments On Committees Representative Hevey Norman and Senator Miles F. Shore of Yadkin county fared nicely in the appointment of the various house and senate committees of the gen eral assembly, which appoint ments were made public Tuesday morning. Senator Shore was placed on the appropriations committee, the committee of counties, cities and towns, election laws, enrolled bills, insurance, pensions and soldiers home and the committee for sena torial districts. Mr. Norman was appointed on the committee of banks and bank ing. salaries and fees, unemploy ment commission, enrolled bills and the committee on printing. Lieutanant Governor R. L. Har ris, presiding officer of the senate, made the Shore appointments and Speaker of the House O. M. Mull appointed Norman on the various committees. Influenza Cases Light in County Yadkin county has very little flu among its inhabitants, ac cording to local physicians. Doc tors L. S. Hall and H. A. Bran don report that they have only about a half-dozen cases each. These are remarkably few, con sidering the wide extent of the epidemic in other sections of the state. The flu epidemic, moving southward, struck Greensboro so severely that all public schools were closed Monday of this week, and other counties were described as being hard hit. Local residents are urged to get in touch with their family physician at the first sign of the sickness to prevent any wide spreading of the disease. Native of Yadkin Claimed by Death Mrs. Callie Lee Kiger, 53, wife of J. I. Kiger, of Tobaccoville, and daughter of Mrs. C. J. Draughan, of Yadkinville, died at a Winston-Salem hospital Sun day night. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at Mizpah Moravian church, near the home, with in terment in Wolfs cemetery. Survivors include the mother, her husband, six sons, two daugh ters, three grandchildren, two brothers, Albert and Caleb Draughan, of Yadkin ville; four sisters, Mrs. E. R. Doheny, Win ston-Salem; Mrs. Charles Spease, Tobaccoville; Mrs. Clyde Hauser and Miss Virginia Draughan, of Yadkin ville. p BULLET PASSES THROUGH BODY; ANOTHERHURT Condition of Victim, Mrs. Viola Norman, Serious HUSBAND HELD IN JAIL Shooting Takes Place Follow ing Fuss Over Custody of Small Child NORMAN SAID DRINKING Mrs. Viola Norman, 19, of Boonville, is in Hugh Chatham hospital critically ill from a pistol wound through the body allegedly inflicted by her estranged hus band, Hickman Norman, 24, about 8:00 o’clock Saturday evening. Norman is being held without bond in the Yadkin county jail pending the outcome of his wife’s injuries. The shooting was said to have occurred in front of the home of George Brown, Mrs. Norman’s father, where the injured woman had been making her home for the past six weeks following sep aration from her husband. It was stated that Norman, accom panied by his brother, Curtis Norman, went to the Brown home on pretense of getting his son, who had been living with his mother. Following his arrival, Mrs. Norman was said to have gotten into her husband’s car, and a fuss between the two re sulted. A few moments later Norman was said to have pulled pocket and fired at his wife. When Curtis Norman saw his brother draw the pistol, he was said to have made an attempt to prevent him from shooting Mrs. Norman. As a result, the bullet passed through his hand and completely through the body of the woman, piercing the stomach. Dr. J. R. Finney, a physician, was called to treat the injured woman, and he sent her immed iately to the Elkin hospital. Later the husband went with his broth er to Dr. Finney’s home to have the wounded hand dressed, and Dr. Finney called Deputy Sheriff F. E. Hurt, who arrested the man and placed him in jail at Yadkin ville. According to information furn ished the officers Norman made some threats against his wife be fore he left Jonesville Saturday afternoon. Norman is a son of Rufus Nor man and Bessie Matthews Nor man, members of good families, and was bom near,Union Cross. He married Viola Brown about two years ago. Norman was said to have been drinking at the time of the shooting. Elkin hospital attaches Wed nesday afternoon described Mrs. Norman's condition as serious. WINSTON-SALEM LEAF AVERAGES ARE HIGH Winston-Salem, Jan. 13—The Winston-Salem old belt tobacco market, reopening today after a long Christmas holiday, disposed of 406,172 pounds of the golden weed at an average of $13.26 per hundred pounds, a level better than many marketers expected. Tobacco from eastern North Carolina and the middle belt sec tions was sold here today and the growers appeared pleased with their prices. 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