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VOL. XLIX
YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C„ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1941
No. 6
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
STATE
RALEIGH. Feb. 1—The joint
finance committee debated in
a brisk, three-hour session
yesterday the tax issues pre
sented by wines and mules, de
termining: only, in the words of
Representative Bryant of Dur
ham, that “they both have a
kick.” The committee, upon
motion of Repreesntative Wil
liams of Pasquotank, referred
to a 19-man subcommittee all
bills and related amendments
which would regulate the sale
of wine in the state.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 —
Republican minority members
of the House ways and means
committee last night urged
that the proposed increase of
the national debt limit be held
to $11,000,000,000, and offered
a five-point program to “pro
mote sound fiscal policy.” Any
increase of more than $11,000,
000,000 at this time, they ar
gued, is “unnecessary” and
“dangerous.” All Republican
members of the committee
signed the report which urged
that the total debt ceiling be
held at $60,000,000,000 instead
of $65,000,000,000 as proposed
in the bill approved Monday
by the majority.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—In
a renewal of one of the bitter
est feuds In the capital’s his
tory, Senator Wheeler (D),
Mont., yesterday accused the
Roosevelt administration o f
denuding the nation’s aerial
defenses to aid Britain, and
President Roosevelt rapped
back with a virtual charge that
Wheeler was giving comfort to
Adolf* Hitler. On hearing: of
the President’s remarks, the
Montana senator then issued a
statement saying:: “I’m per
fectly willing to compare my
patriotism with that of his
closest advisers. I have no in
terest, financially or other
wise, in Germany or England.”
INTERNATIONAL
HAVANA. Feb. 4—The arrest
and subsequent flight to the
United States of four deposed
Cuban army, navy and police
officials left President Ful
gencio Batista firmly in com
mand of his government yes
terday after nipping a revolt
plot In which his life report
edly was threatened. The offi
cials and their families flew to
Miami, Fla., in a chartered
Pan-American Airways Clipper
plane. There were Col. Jose E.
Pedraza, former chief of the
army; Col. Bernardo Garcia,
former chief of police; Capt.
Owen Parr. Pedraza’s aide;
and Maj. Juan Serra, former
assistant police chief.
LONDON, Feb. 4 — German
bombers struck at England’s
eastern coast last night in the
most widespread attack in
about two weeks but nowhere
was the attack described as
“really heavy.” They flew
through bitter weather that
blanketed part of France with
snow and concentrated on an
east coast port for several
hours. One hotel was partly
destroyed in a southeast coast
al town, and among the bodies
recovered from the debris was
that of Jim McMurray, a
former heavyweight boxing
champion in (the India army.
LONDON, Feb. 4—Wendell
L. Willkie left London early
today on the first stage of his
journey home, after a day in
which he visited both the
prime minister of Ireland and
the king and queen of Eng
land. It was an unprecedent
ed conclusion to an unprece
dented visit to these islands.
Now Willkie will fly home, via
Lisbon. Before he flew to Ire
land for a surprise audience
with Eamon de Valera, Willkie
said he would ask him about
the controversial subject of
British use of Irish ports and
bases, which De Valera has
flatly refused. When he flew
back to London this evening,
Willkie said: “I got the in
formation I wanted.**
First 1941 Victim
J. F. (Bud) Fields, of Cool
Springs, Surry county, is the
first victim of an auto wreck in
Yadkin county this year. He
died from injuries received at
Jonesville Wednesday, Jan. 29.
He was a son of the late Rev.
Columbus Fields, well known
Baptist minister.
HIGH POINT IS
AGAIN STOPPED
High Court Rules Certificate
Is Needed to Build $6.
000,000 Project
APPEAL IS DISMISSED
Raleigh, Jan. 31—High Point’s
proposed $6,000,000 hydroelectric
power project on the Yadkin riv
er, which has been in and out of
the courts almost continually
since it was conceived in 1936,
must be authorized by a certifi
cate of convenience and necessity
from the state utilities commis
sion, the supreme court held yes
terday.
The ruling was contained in a
decision which remanded to the
Guilford county superior court a
judgment voiding an injunction
which the supreme court had
previously upheld.
The case came to the court in
this manner:
High Point, by resolution, had
attempted to place itself under
the 1935 revenue bond act (which
did not require the utilities com
mission certificate) and remove
itself from the jurisdiction of the
1938 bond act (which did require
such a certificate). This result
ed in the superior court order
voiding the injunction. An ap
peal was noted by the plaintiffs
—certain High Point taxpayers
and the Duke Power Company.
The decision placed another j
legal barrier in High Point’s path.
The court also dismissed an ap
peal in a similar Yadkin county
case as “premature.” pending
final settlement of the Guilford
county litigation. In the Yadkin
case, the superior court had void
ed an injunction when High
Point and Yadkin county had
eliminated differences growing
out of the proposed project.
Stacy Comments
“To say that the defendants
may avail themselves of the ben
efits of the several enactments
and at the same time repudiate
their limitations and conditions,”
Chief Justice W. P. Stacy wrote
in the opinion on the Guilford
case, “or to hold that the court
is without jurisdiction in the
premises, would be to announce a
doctrine at once novel and con
fused.”
“Much or what is said . . .
seems ... to proceed upon the
assumption,” he said, “that the
board of power commissioners (of
High Point) can pull itself up by
I its own boot straps into a field of
I municipal activity broader than
the one established by the act of
its reaction—a premise not here
tofore regarded as sound.”
Associate Justices Heriot Clark
son and A. A. F. Sewell dissent
ed in the Yadkin case, and Asso
ciate Justice M. V. Barnhill filed
a concurring opinion in the Guil
ford case, in which Seawell dis
sented and Clarkson concurred
and dissented in part.
High Point—There was little
jubilation at city hall here Friday
on receipt of the news that the
North Carolina supreme court
had remanded to the Guilford su
perior court High Point’s much
argued hydroelectric case.
To say that city officials in
terested in the hydro project
were disappointed in the court’s
ruling would be to put it mildly,
although they had little to say
COMMISSIONERS
OF YADKIN SEEK
BRIDGE REPAIR
Request Made of N. C. High
way Body
DAMAGED IN FLOOD
Aware of the real need of the
upper bridge across the Yadkin
river between Jonesville and Elk
in, the approach of which was
washed out during the August 14,
1940 flood, the Board of Com
missioners of Yadkin county has
petitioned the State Highway and
Public Works Commission to re
build the approach on the Surry
side. 0
This action on the part of the
Yadkin board followed close upon
a simliar request made by the
Elkin Kiwanis Club, pointing out
the real inconvenience caused by
the lack of the bridge.
The request as made by the
Yadkin board, signed by R. T.
Moore, chairman, follows:
To The State Highway and Public
Works Commission:
“At a meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners of Yadkin
County, held on February 5, 1941,
it was unanimously recommended
that the State Highway and Pub
lic Works Commission of North
Carolina make the necessary re
pairs on the old Jonesville-Elkin
Bridge which was damaged by the
flood on the Yadkin River in the
summer of 1940. This bridge
serves the greater part of the town
of Jonesville in going to the Town
of Elkin to work, and the damage
to the said bridge is causing great
inconvenience, both to the people
of Yadkin and Surry counties.
The said bridge is in good shape,
with the exception of the approach
to the bridge from the Surry
County side which was -washed
away by the flood.
“The Board of County Com
missioners of Yadkin County re
spectfully request that said bridge
be repaired as soon as possible.”
Norman Bill Will
Allow County Vote
On Commissioners
Hovey Norman. Yadkin county
representative in the general as
sembly, introduced a bill in the
house Tuesday, to allow the vot
ers of Yadkin county to vote for
all five county commissioners by j
a county-wide vote instead of j
electing them in the various dis
tricts.
The districts are not changed
by the bill, and neither is the
method of nominating them in
their respective districts, but the
voters may vote for five candi
dates instead of one, as in tJie
last election.
“It is unfair” said Mr. Norman,
“to allow a voter to vote for only
one man, when as a matter of
fact each one has the same power
over the county’s business af
fairs.’”
The bill was referred to a com
mitte for action.
Two Men Caught
And Still Destroyed
Two young men, Foster Allgood
and Alford Shore, ^ere caught by
Deputy Sheriffs as they prepared
to make a “run” at a blockade
distillery plant near Huntsville.
Brought to Yadkinville they both
gave bond of $300 each for their
appearance at Yadkin county
criminal court Feb. 11th.
At the same time the deputies,
W. E. Wishon and N. J. Adams,
destroyed about 400 gallons of
beer at the steam outfit which
used a steel drum for a boiler, a
long with 15 5-gallon canp and
one keg. One man escaped from
the place by running through the
woods. The officers have his hat
which .he can have by applying
at the sheriff’s office here.
for publication until after they
have had an opportunity to study
the decision more closely. .
Attorney Harding
Has No Opinion
The Ripple interviewed Attor
ney F. D. B. Harding, Yadkin
representative of the city of High
Point, yesterday, and Mr. Hard
ing stated he had not read the
decision or talked with any mem
ber of the legal staff, and there
fore had no opinion to give in the
matter, although he did think the
dam would be built in some man
ner.
CRASHES INTO HOUSE £?<£££18 ,he auton,obUe in whith
- , . _ -- — — — -„—, of North Elkin, was seriously
injured Tuesday afternoon when it left the highway and crashed with terrific force
into the side of the home of Noah Ford, North Elkin colored man. Force of the impact
demolished a side porch and the car buried its front several feet beneath the struc
ture.—(Tribune Photo by Browning.)
Funeral Held For
C. E. Craver on
Sunday Afternoon
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at Cross Roads
(Courtney) Baptist church for
Charles E. Craver, 85. widely
known citizen, who died at his
home at Courtney early Thurs
day morning after an illness of
several weeks. His condition had
been serious for several days and
death not unexpected.
The pastor, Rev. R. L. West, v/as
in charge of the funeral, assisted
by Rev. J. G. Allgood. Members
of the Masonic order were pall
bearers and conducted the grave
side services over their deceased
brother, who had been a Mason
for 60 years. Burial was in the
church graveyard.
Mr. Craver was born in David
son county, near Clemmons, Au
gust 28, 1855, and moved to Yad
kin county when a young man.
He had lived at Courtney since
1904. He was married to Miss
Bettie Gough 57 years ago. He
was first engaged in the manufac
ture of wagons and buggies, but
the firm of C. E. Craver and Son
had been manufacturing truck
bodies and cotton mill supplies for
the past several years, the fac
tory being in Courtney.
Mr. Craver built the first self
cleaning wheat threshing machine
ever used in Yadkin county and
it was used in the community for
several years.
He was a member of Courtney
Baptist church and of the Har
mon Lodge No. 420 A. F. and A.
M.
Survivors include the widow,
one son, Loyd F. Craver; six
daughters. Mrs. Alonzo Bagby and
Mrs. A. C. Brann of Winston
Salem; Mrs. T. A. Holton, of
Miami, Fla.; Mrs. Lora E. Bickel
and Mrs. Price Hughes, of Jack
son, Mich.; and Mrs. #Ray T.
Moore of Courtney; 11 grand
children and three great-grand
children, two of them in Chile,
South America.
Marriage License
Of 1811 Is Found
Back in the old days 130 years
ago they made a marriage license
short and the marriage long
(compared to 1941) and just to
prove it we produce a complete
marriage license below, which was
found by Mr. T. S. Hobson, of
Boonville, in the drawer of some
antique furniture he bought. He
also states that any relative of
the contracting parties now living
may have the aged script. The
license, written in long hand, the
Yadkin territory then all being
Surry, is as follows:
“North Carolina
Surry County
To any regular Minister of the
Gospel of • whatever denomina
tion or any justice of said coun
ty.
You or either of you are here
by authorized and empowered to
solemnize and celebrate the rites
of matrimony between Larkin
Jacks and Dolly (or Polly) Wea
therman and join them together
as man and wife. Witness Joseph
Williams, Clerk of Surry County,
this 12th November 1811.
Jo Williams
by
Thomas Wright
NURSING GROUP
IS ORGANIZED
i
As Part of National Defense,
Will Take Inventory of
Resources •
DISTRIBUTE SCHEDULES
A nursing council on National
Defense has been organized
through the efforts of Julia C.
Stimson, president of the Ameri
can Association of Nurses. The
purpose of the organization is a
national inventory of the nursing
resources of the country; to pro
vide the necessary increases; to
set up machinery which will in
sure the quickest possible func
tioning in case of need, and to
insure the continuance of the
high quality of nursing schools in
order that effective nursing may
be maintained in case of emer
gency.
Through state associations,
schedules will be distributed to
all registered nurses, including
those actively employed, and
those who are married or retired,
these to be collected and returned
to the national association for
tabulation and analysis. Upon
completion of this survey it is
hoped that there will be available
a complete roster of registered
nurses in the United States, with
information regarding the avail
ability for military or civilian
duty.
Questionnaires will be used to
get this information for a perma
nent record, but filling out the
questionnaire does not obligate
any nurse.
All graduate nurses now living
in North Carolina who have ever
been registered in any state are
urged to send Bess E. Dalton,
County Health Dept., Winston
Salem, N. C., their names and
correct addresses. Later they will
receive a questionnaire from Edna
L. Heinzerling, 415 Commercial
Building, Raleigh, N. C., and will
be asked to fill out and return
promptly.
State’s Third Draft
Set at 1,300 Boys;
Yadkin to Send 12
Raleigh.—Quotas'* under which
1,300 white North Carolinans will
be summoned to the colors under
the third draft call were announc
ed yesterday by state selective
service .headquarters.
The third call will become ef
fective February 17, when 102 men
will be inducted into the service.
The following day 210 men will be
called; 201 will be called February
19, 190 February 20; 198 February
21; 196 February 24; and 203 Feb
ruary 25,
Quotas from the various draft
boards, listed by the dates when
the drafted men must report fol
low:
On Feb. 20, Yadkin county will
furnish 12 men. In reality they
will have to furnish 18 boys, for
the reason that one of the last
quota was sick and three were
turned down at camp. However
the board now has five volunteers,
four to take up the shortage and
one to apply on the 12 to be sent
Feb. 20.
Last Rites Held
For Ed Dobbins,
Yadkinville Man
Last rites were conducted Sat
urday morning at 11 o’clock at
Mackie & Hinshaw Funei'al
chapel for Daniel Edward Dob
bins, 81, who died late Thursday
afternoon at his home in Yadkin
ville, after only a few daystillness
of pneumonia. Rev. R. L. West,
pastor of the Baptist church, and
Rev. O. V. Caudill, pastor of the
Presbyterian church, conducted
the rites. Burial followed in the
Yadkinville cemetery.
Mr. Dobbins was a retired farm
er and had lived in Yadkinville
for 30 years. He was a son of
t.he late Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dob
bins, pioneer citizens of this sec
tion. He was married to Miss
Mary A. Shermer, Dec. 22, 1881.
Survivors include the widow,
four sons, Willie, Frank, John and
Wiley E. Dobbins, of Yadkinville;
five daughters, Mrs. T. H. Reyn
olds and Mrs. W. H. Hutchens,
route 2; Mrs. Sarah Gentry of
Winston-Salem; Misses Phiza and
Ida Dobbins of the home; 23
grandchildren and four great
grandchildren; two brothers, John
H. Dobbins, Yadkinville; Wiley
Dobbins. White Plains; three sis
ters. Mrs. Mary J. Bryaht and
Mrs. Amelia Long, Yadkinville,
route 1; Mrs. Ed Huff Winston
Salem.
Mr. Dobbins was a familiar fig
ure on our streets and will be
missed.
Active pallbearers were Tommie
Douglass. T. R. Eaton, Frank
Driver, C. N. Dobbins, R. V. Long,
Ernest Long. Honorary pallbear
ers were: C. R. Groce, John D.
Holcomb, M. W. Mackie, W. A.
Hall. Clinton Hall, E. H. Barnard,
W. E. Rutledge, Walter Zachary,
A. L. Inscore, N. L. Hudspeth, Dr.
J. G. Merler and C. G. Reavis, and
all members of the Masonic Or
der.
Two Auto Salesmen
Get Signal Honor—
And a Nice Check
An organization within the
ranks of the Chevrolet Motor Co.
known as the “100 Car Members’’
consists of salesmen who have
no financial interest in the com
pany, but who gain a 200 unit
mark by selling cars during the
calendar year—the unit being at
tained by adding two points for
each new car and one point for
each used car.
And here is where two sales
men of the Pioneer Chevrolet Co.
come in for nice doings and a
good check. The two, C. R.
Groce and Henry Adams, were
invited to attend a Chevrolet
meeting and luncheon in Char
lotte Tuesday where they were
treated to many nice things and
each given a check for $75.00 by
the Chevrolet Motor Co., in De
troit.
The Ripple learns that only
218 salesmen in the Charlotte
zone, consisting of 800 dealers,
and employing probably 4,000
salesmen, reached this prize mon
ey. But Mr. Groce and Mr.
Adams know their way around
when it comes to selling automo
biles and their friends hope they
do the same in 1941.
COMMISSIONERS
CHANGE WAY OF
LAND VALUING
Each Township Has Set-up
for Real Estate Valua
tions in Yadkin
HELPERS APPOINTED
The Yadkin county Commis
sioners in special session here
yesterday made an order changing
the method of revaluing the real
estate in Yadkin county from a
three man board to a townshop
board for each township of the
county.
The change was made, it was
stated, because it was feared the
work of the three men could not
be finished in time for making
up the budget about the middle
of the year. The three men who
have been at work since Jan.l, are
W. T. Fletcher. T, L. Harding and
Will Holcomb. It was stated that
they will be retained as an ad
visory board and will aid the
township workers.
Township Assessors
Assessors in Buck Shoals town
ship have not been named. Other
township men named by the board
are: Boonville, John E. Moxley and
W. R. Frye; Knobs, Dan Vestal
and Hubert Evans; Deep Creek,
A. M. Reavis and R. B. Long; Lib
erty, Grady W. Miller and Colum
bus Williams; Forbush, ' P a u 1
Brewbaker and Marshall Phillips;
East Bend, C. V. Kirk and Ed
Martin; Fall Creek, Frank Wishon
and Folger Mathews.
These new appointees have
been called to meet at the court
house here next Friday to receive
instructions.
Confusion Caused
By Tax Notices;
Sheriff Explains
There has been considerable
confusion among some taxpayers
of Yadkin county during the past
week, and Sheriff A, L. Inscore
yesterday stated that he wanted
to explain why notices of taxes
due had been received by dozens
of people after they had paid
their taxes.
It happened like this, according
to Sheriff Inscore; A girl was em
ployed to send out notices to all
persons w.ho had not paid their
1940 taxes in order that they be
reminded to pay before the pen
alty went on Tuesday. The girl
took the notices, addressed the
envelopes and when the job was
completed mailed them* out. This
took several days. In the mean
time a number of people had come
to the sheriff’s office and paid
their 1940 taxes. Thus when the
notices were mailed dozens of
people got them who had paid
their taxes in the meantime,
which was not intended to be
done, but just one of those things
that happen.
To these people Sheriff Inscore
asks them to disregard the state
ments as they have their recipts
and need not worry further.
Miss Haire Wins
State Scholarship
Miss Florence Haire, who re
cently passed the state nursing
board at Raleigh, has been noti
fied that she was winner of a
state scholarship at William and
Mary College, Richmond, Va., for
her extra grades she made in ex
amination. At this college she
will take training for public
health nursing.
Miss Haire is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Marion Haire, of Cen
ter, and is one of only two out of
a large group of nurses from
Winston-Salem who received this
award.
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One person was killed in
Yadkin county before the first
month .of the year was gone.
He was John F. Fields, and
was killed last Wednesday,
Jan. 29, in an accident at
Jonesville.
Every year the casualty rate
increases in Yadkin. Drivers
and pedestrians alike must co
operate in being careful if this
toll is to be lowered.
DRIVE CAREFULLY—SAVE
A LIFE