Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. No. XXVIL No. 15
FURNITURE FIRM
TO DOUBLE SIZE
1 OF LOCAL PLANT
Old Biltrite Property is To Be
Enlarged
I '
CONSTRUCTION STARTED
f National Chair Company Ac
quires Property; Will Make
f Bedroom Suites
V WILL EMPLOY ABOUT 125
The old Biltrite plant here,
which has housed a number of
concerns during the past several
years, the most receht of whic.h
was the Oak Furniture company,
j has been acquired by the Na-
P tional Chair company of Rah
way, N. J., which is planning to
double its present size for the
manufacture of bedroom suites,
it was learned Wednesday after
noon from Jack Miller of Newark,
N. J., who is here to superintend
construction of the new addition
and the installation of machin
ery.
M. Schachter, owner of the
company, is also in Elkin and is
taking an active part in plans
1 which call for a manufacturing
b plant which'will eventually give
' work to from a hundred to one
hundred and twenty-five men.
Concrete forms have already been
/ laid for the new structure, but
- due to bad weather construfetion
has been .held up due to lack of
timber.
Modern machinery for the
manufacture of bedroom suites is
expected to arrive here within
the next thre weeks. Mr. Miller
stated. He also pionted out that
the local plant, when completed
will in addition manufacture
I furniture which will be shipped to
the Rahway plant for assembly.
The new addition that has
been planned will be of two story
and basement type, and will fol
low the same style of structure
as the present plant. Electric
generators will be installed for
the manufacture of the plant's
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The National Chair company
originally manufactured chairs,
but now makes bedroom suites
exclusively. The company had
been on the lookout for a site for
L a southern plant for sometime,
'i Mr. Miller said.
1 THURSTON MOSER
' TAKEN BY DEATH
Level Cross Man, 80 Years Old
Passes Away After Long i
RITES HELD WEDNESDAY
Thurston Moser, 80, died aw
his home at Level Cross, east *
Elkin, Monday morning at ft
o'clock, following a six montft
illness from a serious heart dm
order.
Mr. Moser had been a mem per
of the Level Cross church for yie
past forty years and was also Ac
tive in the Masonic and Junior
fraternities.
His wife, who prior to her mar
riage was Miss Sallie Hamlin,
died about three years ago.
He is survived by the foilow
!ing children: Mrs. Effie Whit
aker, Orover Moser and Marvin
f Moser of Dobson, route 2; Grady
Moser of Newton, and Jasper
Moser of Mocksville. Twenty
_ grandchildren, four great-mand.-
i children and one brother, Less
r Mpser, of White Plains also sur
/ Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at one
o'clock from Level Cross J Metlio
dist church. The rites /were In
charge of Rev. Ellis Norrfean and
Rev. William Crlssman.- Inter
ment was in the church ceme
tery. «
Let's have one more, the S. P.
C. S. B. P. M.—the society for the
prevention of cardboard/subscrip
tion blanks fastened in maga
zines.
To Aid Taxpayers
In Filing Income
1 Tax Returns Here
J. S. Atkinson, deputy col
lector of internal revenue, and
State Deputy Collector L. w.
y. Taylor will be at Hotel
the afternoon of March 4,
and all day March 5, for the
purpose of assisting taxpayers
! ia preparing their Income tax
returns, Mr.- Atkinson an-
WwhMrißv MArnhw
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Southern Home of National Chair Co.
Pictured Above is the plant known as the former home of the old
Biltrite Furniture Company, which has been acquired by the Nation
al Chair Co., of Rahway, N. J., and which will be increased to double
its present size by the construction of a new addition adjoining the
present structure at the end showing: in the photograph. The plant
will be used for the manufacture of bedroom suites, and will employ
about 125 men when ready for production.—Tribune Photo.
CRIMINAL COURT
CASES ARE HEARD
Thomas Madden Given 12 to
25 Years in Prison; Was
Under Death Sentence
LIQUOR CASES TRIED
A summary of cases tried in
last week's criminal court, held
under Hoyle H. Sink, who is also
presiding this week, shows the fol
lowing cases as having been tried
after Wednesday:
Bob Owens, charged with oper
ating a car while intoxicated, was
sent to jail for 30 days.
Lillie Hauser, charged with vi
olating the prohibition laws, was
given a sentence of six months to
the roads, suspended for two years
upon the payment of $50.00 and
the costs.
Thomas Madden, negro of near
Mount Airy, who was brought
back from State PNaem hit a re
trial. entered a plea of guilty to
second degree burglary and was
given a sentence of from 12 to 25
years in State Prison. His sen
tence had formerly carried the
death penalty on a charge of first
degree burglary, but the Supreme
Court ordered a new trial.
Bruce Kennedy, charged with
operating a car while intoxicated,
was given a sentence of six
months to the roads, suspended
upon the payment of $50.00 and
the costs.
Aries Harrell, charged with
rape, was given a sentence of 15
months on the roads, and on a
further charge of larceny and re
ceiving, was given an additional
U5 months to the roads, the two
Sentences not to run concurrent-
John White, charged with reck
less driving, was sentenced to the
roads for 12 months.
J. Will Pruitt, Caleb Eads, Olin
Hardy and Lonnie Whitaker,
charged with forcible trespassing;
Pruitt, Hardy and Eads were de
clared not guilty, while Whitaker
was sent to the roads for three
months.
Joe Mabe, and Fred Pruitt
charged with violating the prohi
bition laws were each given a sen
tence of 12 months to the roads,
each of which was suspended upon
the payment of SIOO.OO and half
the costs by each of them.
CHILD SUSTAINS
SERIOUS INJURY
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Hinshaw Injures Eye
While Playing
RUSHED TO HOSPITAL
Naomi Hinshaw, small daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hin
shaw, sustained a severe eye in
jury late Thursday afternoon
while playing with her little
cousin, Joe Hinshaw, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Hinshaw. The
children were playing new the
Hinshaw home and the boy bar
ricaded himself in the house,
'.he little girl playfully latched
f .he door and then peeped
through the crack at her "pris
-mer." He had a case knife and
n playing stuck it through a
crack in the building and direct
ly into the eyeball of his cousin.
She was immediately rushed
♦o the hospital and at first it
was feared that she would en
tirely lose the sight of her eye,'
but latest reports are that the
vision is slowly returning and it
is believed that the impairment
will be slight.
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1938
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
KAISER LEARNING
tO SPELL
Kingsport, Tenn., Feb. 22.
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the for
mer kaiser of Germany, at last
knows how to spell "Tennes
see."
The authoritv for this is Miss
Dorothy Jane Sullivan, 16-
year-old high school girl who
has been exchanging birthday
greetings with the kaiser for
the past eight years. Both were
born January 27.
"This is the first year that
the card has ever carried the
proper spelling on Tennessee,"
she said. "The spelling hereto
fore has always been 'Zennes
■ee.' * • * - -- J
MANY CHILDREN
UNDER 10 JAILED
Raleigh, Feb. 22. Dr. J.
Wallace Nygard, director of the
division of institutions and cor
rections of the state board of
charities and public welfare, to
day declared that more than 6
per cent, 66 persons to be ac
curate, of the 1,070 children un
der 16 years of age committed
to the 72 county jails in 1937,
are under 10 years of age.
These commitments are in
violation of a North Carolina
statute which Attorney Gener
al A. A. F. Seawell has ruled
valid, according to Dr. Nygard.
SHIPS AND PLANES
IN THRILLING DUEL
Madrid, Feb. 22. lnsurgent
warships and government
planes engaged today in one
of the most thrilling sea and
air battles of the civil war in
which two insurgent warships
were believed to have been dis
abled, the government an
nounced. The coastal cities of
Valencia and • Sagunto were
heavily bombed and shelled
during the engagement in
which a French merchant ves
sel was damaged by a bomb.
GENERAL PERSHING
GRAVELY ILL
Tucson, Ariz. Feb. 22. —Gen.
John J. Pershing, seriously ill
of rheumatism complicated by
a heart condition, rallied to
night several hours after he
was transferred from his hotel
to a sanatorium.
Dr. Roland Davidson, the 77-
year-old warrior's physician,
said Pershing: was "better to
night than he was at noon,"
when he suffered a relapse. He
has been confined to bed for a
week.
The physician indicated,
however, the general's condi
tion still was grave.
SURRY CIVIL COURT
IS NOW IN PROGRESS
The first week of a two weeks
term of civil court convened at
Dobson on Monday at 10:00 a. m.
for the purpose of hearing civil
cases only. Up to Wednesday but
a few cases of any interest to this
section of the comity had been
heard, most of which were for di
vorce.
Those granted divorces were as
follows: ;
Hettie Myers Greene vs. Ken
nith D. Greene, Odell Payne vs.
Maggie wyatt Payne, Vesta Nona
Tate vs. Emmet Tate, and A. R.
Mabe vs. Mary L. Mabe,
150 PRESENT AT
ANNUAL BANQUET
AT HOTEL ELKIN
Employers, Employees Stage
Big Get-Together
BIVINS IS PRESIDENT
Event is Sponsored by Elkin
Merchants Association;
Officers Installed
i
PRESENT GOOD PROGRAM
Approximately 150 people at
tended the annual Employer-Em
ployee banquet, sponsored by the
Elkin Merchants Association, at
Hotel Elkin Tuesday evening.
George Royall, outgoing presi
dent of the Merchants Association,
opened the program, in which he
thanked members of the associa
tion for their cooperation during
the past year, following which he
introduced Joe Bivins the new
president. Mr. Bivins expressed
his appreciation for the honor and
pledged his best efforts in behalf
of the association during the next
year.
Dr. Wm. A. Jenkins was princi
pal speaker of the evening, and
made an interesting talk, stating
among other things, that in his
opinion what this country needs
today is a return to the old-fash
ioned spirit of self reliance. "Or
ganization, cooperation and so
cialization are the three main
words in America today," Dr.
Jenkins also told his audience.
Another interesting feature of
the banquet was the showing of a
moving picture entitled "Main
Street," by Chal McNeill, of the
Coca-Cola Bottling Co., of North
Wilkesboro, the picture having
been made possible through the
courtesy of the Coca-Cola Co., of
Atlanta. The picture showed the
different angles of salesmanship
and what courtesy, personality
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PASTORS' MEETING
ON SATURDAY A. M.
Baptist Pastors' Conference to
Be Held at East Elkin
Baptist Church
PROGRAM IS ARRANGED
Saturday morning, February 26,
at 10 o'clock the Elkin Baptist
Pastors' Conference will meet at
East Elkin Baptist church. All
Baptist pastors in this section are
cordially invited to attend.
Sunday afternoon, February 27,
from 2-4 the inspirational meet
ing of the Surry Baptist Associa
tion will meet with the Fairview
Baptist church. \n interesting
program has been planned for the
meeting and prominent lay-lead
ers and ministers in the associa
tion will have a part on the pro
gram.
Among those who will have a
part in the service are: Rev. O. H.
Hauser, David T. Mashburn, Dr.
W. L. Johnson, Mrs. C. N. Myers,
W. L. Reece, T. A. Leeper, Rev.
T. s. Draughan and Earl C. James.
A. V. West of Mt. Airy is modera
tor of the association.
A cordial invitation is extended
all churches in the association to
have a good representation pres
ent.
BRITiTPREIER
WINS BIG VICTORY
Policy of Effecting Peace
With Dictators Approved
By Legislators
IS BITTERLY ATTACKED
London, Feb. 22. A thunder
ing conservative majority tonight
gave Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain; a house of commons
victory in the wake of a cabinet
crisis that ushered out Anthony
Eden as foreign secretary and
signalled a new British policy of
conciliating dictators.
By a vote of 330 to 168 com
mons rejected a labor motion to
censure the prime minister's ac
tion.
Fighting bitter attacks in the
tumultuous commons, Chamber
lain cried it was his duty to seek
peace in the armed camps of Hit
ler and Mussolini, thus to avoid
"the frightful question" of war.
He rejected as "sham" the league
of nations idea of fighting aggres
sion by force.
Only one conservative, Vyvyan
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Out For The Family Groceries
Fox Lake, 111. . . . Swollen waters have made a rowboat the only
practical vehicle for a shopping tour for Mrs. Frank Meisner., shown
leaving her home to replenish food supplies. Flood waters through
out Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan have made hundreds homeless,
have thrown factory workers out of employment in inundated in
dustrial centers, isolated houses and blocked roads over a wide area.
Elkin 4-County Cage
Tournament Gets Off
To Start Wednesday
Girls' Teams of Ronda and Shoals Are First of Fourteen
Schools to Tangle in Race for Championship. Tourna
ment Will Continue Until Next Wednesday Night
When Both Boys' and Girls' Finals Will Take ,
Place. Handsome Trophies Will Be
Awarded Winners in Each Division.
Everything was in readiness
and a capacity crowd was expect
ed to witness the opening of the
second annual Elkin 4-County
Basketball Tournament at the
Elkin school gymasium last night.
The tournament, in which 14
schools of Yadkin, Wilkes, Alle
ghany arrfh Surry county are par
ticipating, officially opened at
7:00 p.m. with a game between
the girls' teams of Ronda and
Shoals, followed by games between
Ronda and Dobson boys, Copeland
and Piney Creek girls, and Roar
ing River and Shoals boys. Due to
the fact that The Tribune press
deadline fell before the opening
hour of play, it was impossible to
report the outcome of these first
games.
Considerable interest has been
shown in the tournament by the
schools and basketball fans of this
section. Last year's tourney, the
first to be held here, was consid
ered an outstanding success, and
all indications are that the tourn
ament now under way will be an
even greater success.
Due to the large number of
girls' and boys' teams that are
entered, the tournament will last
for seven days, being scheduled to
reach the finals next Wednesday
night. Pairings for Thursday and
Friday have been announced, and
the winners of these games will
BAILEY WORRIED
ABOUT DEMANDS
Rising Relief Problem of Na
tion Results in Sharp
Debate in Senate
INCREASE IS REJECTED
*
Washington, Feb. 22.—Partici
pating in the debate on the $250,-
000,000 emergency relief bill to
day, a measure designed to pro
vide additional funds to carry on
relief activities until the end of
the fiscal year, Senator Bailey
admitted that he was inclined to
face the future with dotibt and
misgivings.
It was not merely a question of
concern for the eight, 10 or 12
million unemployed, as the case
might be, but there was the ur
gent necessity for giving thought
to the entire population of the
United States, whose government,
It sometimes seemed, was break
ing down.
Senator Bailey's proposal that
communities be required to bear
2 per cent of the cost of WPA
work relief and 20 per cent of di
rect relief brought on sharp sen
ate debate and delayed action on
the appropriation, requested by
the President,
The debate consumed so much
time that the senate recessed un
til tomorrow without reaching a
final vote.
Previously the chamber voted
down, 58 to 22, a proposal by
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fight it out through Saturday,
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes
day. Plenty of fast basketball is
sure to be seen each night of play
as the best teams of this section
battle for the championship of the
four counties and the handsome
silver- trophies that the champion
skip -will brittg,—— "fe ■
Games to be played this even
ing at 7:00, 7:50, 8:40, ana 9:30
respectively are: Jonefiville vs.
Low Gap (girls); Elkin vs. Yad
klhvllle (boys); Dobson vs. Yad
kinville (girls); Boonville vs. Beu
lah (boys), Friday's games, to be
played in the order named at
similar hours as listed above, will
be: Elkin vs. Roaring River
(girls); Jonesville vs. Sparta
(boys); Sparta vs. West Yadkin
(girls); West Yadkin vs. Low Gap
(boys).
All of the schools entered in
the tournament, with the excep
tion of Piney Creek and Beulah,
have both a girls' and boys' team.
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BROOKS X ROADS
WOMAN IS DEAD
Mrs. Clyde Prevette Passes
Away Friday Following
An Operation
FUNERAL RITES SUNDAY
Mrs. Georgia Hoots Prevette, 26,
wife of Clyde Prevette of Brooks
Cross Roads, died Friday night in
a Statesville hospital following an
operation performed on Thursday
morning. Mrs. Prevette was a na
tive of Yadkin county and a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Hoots of Yadkinville, route 1. She
was graduated from Yadkinville
high school with the class of 1930.
She is survived by her husband,
to whom she was married in July,
1932, one daughter, Betty Lou, her
parents, three brothers and three
sisters, John Lee and Marvin
Hoots of Durham, Melvin Hoots
of High Point, Mrs. Leslie Shu
gar t and Mrs. Grant Vestal of
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MRS. MOLLIE BURRUS
DIES AT ROCKFORD
Funeral services were held at
Rockford Baptist church at two
o'clock Friday afternoon for Mrs.
Mollie Burrus, 75, who died Wed
nesday night at her home at
Rockford. Burial was in the
church cemetary.
Mrs. Burrus was the widow of
the late Robert Burrus of that
place and had spent most of her
life in that section.
She is survived by two sons,
Romie and Robert Burrus, and
two daughters, Mrs. Hardin Hol
lyfield and Mrs, R. C. Hollyfield,
all of Rockford. One brother,
Jacob Spencer, of Boonville, also
survives.
Elkin
The Bert little Town
In North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
EKIN'S ELECTRIC
BILL26TH LOWEST
IN ENTIRE STATE
Report is Issued by Federal
Power Commission
IS BASED ON SURVEY
Local Bill for 25 Kilowatt«
Hours is Shown to Be
Total of $1.55
! HERTFORD IS HIGHEST
BY PAUL MAY
(Tribune Washington Bureau
Washington, D. C., February 23.
—How Elkin compares with other
North Carolina communities in
cost of electricity is shown by a
report just issued by the Federal
power commission.
The report is based on a survey
of electric light and power rates
in every city and town in the
State. Comparisons are made for
different amounts of electric ser
vice, namely 25 kilowatt-hours.
100 kilowatt-hours, and 250 kilo
watt-hours, to show the trend in
power rates as consumption in
creases. Here is what the report
shows:
Elkin's bill of $1.55 for 25 kilo
watt-hours was the 26th smallest
among North Carolina's 97 com
munities of 1,000 to 2,500 popula
tion, along with twenty-six other
communities reporting the same
charge. Fremont reported the
highest charge for 25 kilowatt
hours in this population group,
with a bill of $3.19.
In this same population group,
Elkin ranked with 31 other com
munities as having the lowest
charge for 100 kilowatt-hours of
electric service, with a bill of
$3.75.
For 250 kilowatt-hours, Elkin's
bill of $7.50 ranked 21st smallest
in it; population group. Lowest
charge, of $7.00 was reported by
19 cities, and the highest charge
was reported by Hertford, with a
bill of $13.88.
Cities of other sizes reported an
average of $1.25 as the lowest bill
Tor 25 kil6watt-hours, while S2.BS"
was the average high charge of
these cities ranging in population
from 2,500 to over 25,000. Average
low for 100 kilowatt-hours was
$3.41, and high was $5.71.
For 250 kilowatt-hours, the aver
age low was reported as $6.72, and
the average high was $9.78.
TWO JOBS TO BE
AWARDED ATP.O.
Applications Being Received
for Jobs as Fireman-La
borer and Charman
MUST BE IN BY MARCH 3
The period in which to make
application for examination for
two jobs with the new postoffice
here closes March 3.
Jobs open are for fireman-la
borer at a salary of $1,260 per
year, and for charman at SO cents
per hour of actual service. Appli
cations must be on file with the*
manager, fourth United States
civil service district, Mather
building, 916 O street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C., not later than
Mar jh 3, and can be filed through
Postmaster p. W. Graham at the
local postoffice.
Duties of the fireman-laborer
will include individual responsi
bility for the cleaning, heating
and ventilating of the new postof
fice building, and the perform
ance, without assistants, of all
manual work incident to the du
ties of the position, etc. Duties of
the charman will be those of com
mon laborer or workman.
USieJfl!!
THINGS V TEST
A MAN'S 10¥E ARE HIS
WIFE'S COLD FEET AN*
KER HOT TEJKPER,