Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. ,ffo. XXVII. No. 18
HIGHWAY ENGINEER
TELLS KIWANIANS
OF ACCIDENT TOLL
I
Leeper Talks on "Safety of
Highways"
STATISTICS ARE GIVEN
Faulty Brakes Are Said to Be
One of the Main Causes
of Wrecks
THOUSANDS DIE YEARLY
A talk on! "Safety on the High
ways," by T. A. Leeper, of Elkln,
highway district engineer, was a
feature of the weekly meeting of
the Elkin Klwanis club at Hotel
Elkln last Thursday evening.'
Mr. Leeper, who has' much first
hand information on the trage
dies of the highway, gave a num
ber of appalling statistics tending]
to show that in comparison with
the automobile and man's care
lessness, the World War was
child's play compared with the
rate of killing that goes on over
the state and nation daily and
which is apparently taken as a
matter of course.
More people were killed on
North Carolina highways during
the past year than there were
North Carolinians killed during
the entire World War, Mr Leeper
pointed out. Of the accidents
responsible for this dreadful loss
of life, 75 per cent happened out
side city limits of towns.
Faulty brakes, the highway of
ficial said* are the chief cause of
a large part of highway acci
dents, whereas only 10 per cent
of the accidents are caused by
condition of the roads. Pedes
trians are responsible for 27 per
cent, he said, with 75 per cent of
the pedestrians meeting death
just because they failed to watch
out for cars while crossing inter
sections.
Statistics also show, Mr. Leep
er stated, that only 4.7 per cent
of the past year's accidents oc
curred during wet weather, while
80 per cent took place diving
good weather. Drivers were tfee
real cause of 72 per cent of the
accidents, bearing out the truth
of the statement that "It takes
1,000 nuts to hold an automobile
together and only one nut to
wreck it."
L. Q. Meed was program chair
man of the evening.
COUPLE CELEBRATE
55TH ANNIVERSARY
ft
Hundreds Extend Congratu
lations to Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Greenwood
DINNER ON THE LAWN
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Greenwood
celebrated their fifty-fifth wed
ding anniversary Sunday at their
home east of Elkin. Approxi
mately 300 guests called during
the day to felicitate this respect
ed and honored couple and the
most of them were present for
the sumptous wedding dinner
which was served at noon.
Prior to the dinner brief talks
were made by Dr. M. A. Royall
and W. S. Reich, both of Elkin.
The dinner was spread on spac
ious tables arranged on the lawn.
The table arranged for Mr. and
Mrs. Greenwood was centered
with a huge three-tier wedding
cake, inscribed with the dates
1883-1938.
Mr. and Mrs. Greenwood were
married on March 14, 1883, and
the', year following their marriage
mo«|ed to their present home,
where they have lived contin
uously since that time. They have
four sons and four daughters.
One aon died early in childhood.
Sons and daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Greenwood are: Mrs. Lee
Layne, Ramsuer; Mrs. Carl Chap
pell, Elkin; Miss Jennie Green
wood at home, Mrs. Amos Shep
pard, Dover Delaware; Irvy, John,
Banner and Jim Greenwood, all
of Elkin. They also have twenty
grandchildren and four great
grandchildren. All of the children
except Mrs. Sheppard were pres
ent Sunday. Mr. Greenwood is 77
years old and Mrs. Greenwood is
89.
They are both active, although
Mrs. Greenwood has not been
quite as well as usual for some
time. Mr. Greenwood attends to
duties of his farm dally and is a
familiar figure on the streets of
Elkin.'
When a motor car splashes mud
on a pedestrian In England, the
driver Is arrested and fined.
M Cactus plants for use in moving
picture scenes are made of plas
ter with toothpick spikes.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
SPAIN APPEALS
TO FRENCH FOR AID
Paris, March 15, Premier
Joan Negrin, .of Spain, was
learned tonight to have told
France in a flying visit the
Spanish government was un
■ able to hold out against the
insurgent drive unless immedi
ate aid was forthcoming.
The Spanish premier's hur
ried visit to Paris was kept se
cret until he had returned by
plane to Barcelona, Spanish
government capital now threat
ened by advancing insurgents.
NEWELL MAY
HEAD STATE G. O. P.
Charlotte, March 15. Jake
F. Newell, Charlotte attorney,
will be the next state chairman
of the Republican party, unless
all signs of an eventful eve of
a convention fall.
He will lead a party dedicat
ed in North Carolina to a
statewide referendum on the
liquor question and in the na
tion at large to the combating
of what Col. Frank Knox, pub
lisher of the Chicago Daily
News, called in an interview
given to newspapermen imme
diately after his arrival in
Charlotte this afternoon, as
"new deal extravagances."
TVA INVESTIGATION
APPEARS LIKELY
Washington, March 15.
An investigation of TVA by a
joint congressional committee,
including representatives of
both house and senate, seemed
today to be the most likely
product of the current agitation
about the ageney.
Such action had the approval
of Democratic leaders of both
branches and of Republican
and Democratic critics of TVA
as well. Only Senator Norris,
Independent, Nebraska, the
principal defender of the au
thority and author of the law
which established it, had yet
to express approval. He was not
expected to stand in the way.
NO LIMIT TO
STEEL MARKET
Cleveland, March 15.-—There
Is "almost literally no limit" to
steel's future markets, Tom
Gordler, Republic Steel corpor
ation chairman, said tonight.
"Entirely aside from the au
tomobile field," he declared,
"there is the potential demand
for strip steel for products such
as refrigerators, containers, air
conditioning and building—just
to mention a few major mar
kets.
"Not a day passes but what
steel is being adapted to some
new use."
FIND BODY - "
OF STUDENT
Baltimore, March 15. The
body of Thomas Burke Gray,
University of Maryland medi
cal student missing for seven
weeks, was found floating in
the harbor today.
Gray's roommate, Thomas L.
Worley, identified the body as
that of Gray, son of J. Burke
Gray, mayor of Murphy, N. Cr
There were no marks of vio
lence on the body.
HOME DEMONSTRATORS
ARE TO HOLD MEETING
According to a statement Wed
nesday by Mrs. Orace P. Brown,
county home demonstration agent,
a meeting of officers and home
demonstration agents will be held
in Winston-Salem Saturday,
March 19. for the purpose of
planning the district federation
meeting, which will be held at
Dobson on May 26.
-Mrs. Brown also said the fol
lowing meetings will be held dur
ing the coming week:
The Siloam home demonstra
tion club will meet at the home of
Mrs. J. s. Marlon on Tuesday,
March 22, at 3:00 p. m.
The Beulah club will meet with
Mrs. Luther Beamer on Wednes
day, March 23.
The Pilot Mountain 4-H club
will meet at 12:50 Thursday,
March 24.
A meeting will be held with
Mrs. W. V. Burch, in the Little
Richmond community, on Friday
March 25, for the purpose of or
ganizing a home demonstration
club in that community.
A cat fish 10 feet loi?g was
caught in the Mekong river, Siam,
recently.
SURRY VOTES FOR
CROP CONTROL IN
COUNTY ELECTION
Only 211 Votes Are Cast
Against Program
TOTAL OF 5,596 VOTE
North Carolina Returns Over
whelming Majority As Do
Other States
TOWNSHIP VOTE GIVEN
Surry county joined in with
other tobacco and cotton grow
ing counties Saturday to vote ov
erwhelmingly in favor of crop
quotas.
Incomplete returns from 59 of
66 counties showed 123,248 grow
ers favoring control of production
of flue-cured tobacco, and 13,534
against. In each of the counties
reporting, control forces obtained
a better than two-thirds major
ity.
In Surry there was a total of
5,596 votes cast, with a total of
5,373 for crop control and with
only 211 votes cast against it,
this being 96 per cent for crop
control and only a bare 4 per cent
against control. Only 11 votes
were challenged, and two were
mutilated.
The voting by townships was
as follows, with every township
giving a large majority for con
trol:
Township For Against
Bryan 176 6
Dobson 969 19
Elkin * 110 4
Eldora 491 * 34
Franklin 57 3
Long Hill 185 16
Marsh 266 1
Mount Airy 517 30
Pilot Mountain ........ 341 6
Rockford 381 11^
Siloam , 301  5
Shoals 424 17
Stewart's Creek 390 18
Westfield 781 41
Farmers of other Southern
states also voted in favor of crop
control.
YADKIN GIVES LARGE
MAJORITY FOR CONTROL
Yadkin county farmers voting
in the county Saturday cast an
overwhelming vote in favor to
bacco control, under t.he 1938 act.
A total of 2969 votes were cast.
The vote for control was 2524 and
against control 445, leaving a ma
jority for control of 2079. Every
township in the county except
Buck Shoals voted a majority for
the measure, that township vot
ing 214 for and 221 against.
The vote in the county, by
townships, was as follows:
For Against
Boonville Township . ..556 28
Knobs Township 289 49
Buck Shoals 214 221
Deep Creek 328 72
Liberty 303 24
Forbush 109 1
East Bend 274 10
Fall Creek 451 40
A small vote was cast on the
cotton control measure, 143 votes
being cast. For control of cotton
108 and against 35.
SELECTED DAIRIES
TO OPEN MARCH 22
%
Elkin People Are Invited to
Attend Formal Opening
and Inspect Plant
MODERN IN EVERY WAY
A cordial invitation has been
extended the people of Elkin to
attend the formal opening of Se
lected Dairies, located on South
Stratford Road, Winston-Salem,
Tuesday, March 22.
Selected Dairies is one of the
most modern dairy plants in the
United States and is distributor
in Winston-Salem of Klondike
Golden Guernsey milk, as well
as the products of other selected
dairies.
The plant is modernistic in de
sign and so constructed as to al
low fresh air and sunshine into
almost every nook and corner.
All machinery is new and of the
mpst advanced type.
In addition to handling dairy
products, Selected Dairies will
also manufacture ice cream. The
building houses a thoroughly
modern soda fountain. Byron
Bryan, formerly with Abernethy's
here, is a member of the foun
tain staff.
Ruohs Pyron, manager of
Klondike Farm here, is general
manager of Selected Dairies.
Another of life's mysteries is
the way the poor keep getting
along when their loafing sons
bring home loafing wives.
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The first year home economics class of Elkin high school last Thursday entertained several of the
officials of local civic organizations at a luncheon at the high school building, as one of a series of
luncheons by the home economics department. Pictured above are, left to right, front row: Mrs.
Beatrice Phillips, vice-president of the American Legion auxiliary; Mrs. Paul Gwyn, president of the
Elkln Woman's Club, and Mrs. C. H. Brewer, vice-president of the Parent-Teacher association. Back
row: Wilbur Carter, president of the Elkln Klwanis'club; Miss Louise Laffoon, class hostess; Miss
Frances Alexander, class waitress, and J. R. Poindexter, mayor of Elkin and president of the Elkin Fair.
—Tribune Photo.
TWO MAY SEEK
SEAT IN SENATE
Fred A. Kirkman and R. P.
Jones, Both of Surry, May
Announce Candidacy
BOTH ARE CAPABLE MEN
Fred A. Kirkman, of Mount
Airy, stated while visiting The
Tribune office a few days ago that
he may be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination lor state
senator from the Surry-Stokes
district, thus a candi
dacy that was denied him in 1936
by the state board of elections
due to the fact of an "agreement"
between Surry and Stokes that
the two counties alternate in put
ting up candidates for the office.
1936 was Stokes' years for the
candidacy and S. Oilmer Sparger,
her candidate, eventually won the
nomination.
Although not stating definitely
that he will make the race this
year, Mr. Kirkman stated that he
was seriously thinking of doing so
and that an announcement to
this effect may be forthcoming
within the near future.
Also of interest to voters of this
county is the news that R. Posey
Jones, also of Mount Airy, may
be a candidate for the state sen
ate. Although he has made no an
nouncement to this effect, his
friends an said to be urging him
to throw his hat into the political
ring and rvn for the office.
MRS. J. H. PARDUE
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Wilkes County Woman Dies
at Her Home Near Ronda
Last Wednesday
FUNERAL HELD FRIDAY
Mrs. Adelaide Martin Pardue,
70, widow of John H. pardue. died
at her home near Ronda Wednes
day night. She had been in de
clining health for the pa,st nine
years and her condition had been
critical for three days before her
passing. Her illness was attributed
to a heart ailment.
She is survived by eight chil
dren, Luther Pardue, Johnson
City. Tenn., Mrs. Arthur Gray,
Baltimore, Md.. Mrs. Tom Callo
way,, Durham: Duran, Bruce, Fred
and James Pardue, all of Ronda
and Alta Pardue of Winston-Sa
lem.
She was the eldest daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Oliver Martin and a descendant
of Col. James Martin. Early in
life she joined the Brier Creek
Baptist church, where she was a
faithful member until her death.
Funeral services were held Fri
day afternoon from Pleasant
Grove Baptist church. The rites
were in charge of Rev. N. T. Jar
vis, pastor of the church.
The Acacia has its own stand
ing army of ants to protect it
from other ants.
A family in Boswell, Indiana
has ten sons. Each name in the
family begins with the letter O.
Home Economics Class Entertains Civic Heads
MRS. MARY E. SPENCER
PASSES ON WEDNESDAY
Mrs. Mary E. Spencer, 43, wife
of M. P. Spencer, died at her
home Wednesday.
The deceased was a devoted
member of the Primitive Bapt
ist church.
She is survived by her husband,
one son, Garland Spencer of
Traphill, her parents, one sister
and two brothers, all of Brim. V*.
Funeral services were held Fri
day at Roaring River. The rites
were in charge of Elder J. M.
Crouse.
JAMESGRAY BADLY
HURT BY BASEBALL
Local High School Student in
Hospital as Result of
Blow in Temple
HURT MONDAY P. M.
James Gray, popular high
school student and a son of Mrs.
Annie Gray, of Elkin, was ser
iously injured here Monday af
ternoon while practicing baseball
with other members of the high
school baseball squad.
Young Gray was struck on the
temple by a baseball while pitch
ing for batters' practice. It was
said he had pitched a ball apd
was turning to ask that another
ball be thrown him when a "line
drive" from the bat of one of his
team-mates struck him full in the
temple.
Knocked unconscious, he was
rushed to the local hospital where
he remained unconscious for sev
eral hours. Hospital attaches
stated Wednesday afternoon that
his condition was satisfactory and
that barring complications' he
should soon be out again.
REPUBLICANS HAVE
HARMONIOUS MEET
In Convention at Yadkinville
Saturday, They Endorse
Hall for Solicitor
PERFECT ORGANIZATION
Yadkinville, N. C., March 16.
—Yadkin county republicans in
bi-ennial session here Saturday
gave their solid endorsement to
Attorney Avalon E. Hall, for the
nomination for solicitor of the
17th judicial district and instruct
ed their 22 delegates to vote for
him in the convention to be held
at Wilkesboro next Saturday as
long as his name was before the
convention. 1
The convention was harmon
ious throughout. Register of
Deeds Lon H. West was called in
as temporary chairman and Wal
ter Zachary, Bill Rutledge and
Harrell Haynes as secretaries. Mr.
West made a short talk.
The convention re-elected Da
vid L. Kelly as county chairman
and Walter Zachary as secretary.
Mrs. C. G. Reavis was elected as
vice-chairman.
Delegates were elected to the
various conventions and the
county precinct , organizations
perfected.
TWO BADLY HURT
IN ACCIDENT HERE
R. L. Jones and W. B. Blalock
Injured When Car
Jumps Track
ARE IN LOCAL HOSPITAL'
Although his condition remains
critical. R. L. Jones, 35, of Ro.ida,
injured here Monday afternoon
when a railroad motor car
jumped the track, was said to
have spent a more comfortable
night Tuesday, and has shown
some slight improvement.
Jones and W. B. Blalock, 41,
section foreman of the Southern
Railway here, were both badly
injured as they were returning to
Elkin. The motor car jumped
the track near the Federal Furn
iture Co. plant, formerly known
as the 'Biltrite plant.
Jones suffered a three-incli
skull fracture, a crushed temple,
and a practically severed right
ear when the heavy machine
passed over his head. Blalock
sustained a compound fracture of
the right leg and a fractured col
larbone. Both were rushed to
Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital
in the Hayes & Speas ambulance.
It was said the accident was
caused by a large tool falling off
of the car onto the track, caus
ing the machine to jump the
rails.
MANY LOCAL MEN
ATTEND MEETING
Republican State Convention
at Charlotte; County Meet
Held Saturday
COL. KNOX IS SPEAKER
Practically all Elkin Republi
cans were in Charlotte Wednesday
attending the Republican State
Convention at which Col. Frank
Knox, former candidate for the
vice presidency of the United
States, was scheduled to make the
kenynote address. v
Surry Republicans met at the
courthouse In Dobson Saturday in
county convention to name dele
gates to the convention and to
perfect a county organization.
Worth Henderson, of Greens
boro, prominent North Carolina
Republican, and a candidate for
state chairman, dropped out of
the race Tuesday afternoon, as
did several other candidates who
had the support of the younger
element of the party. Older heads
it was learned, had their hearts
set on Jake Newell for chairman,
and with harmony growing It
seemed probable that Mr. Newell
would gain that honor.
ELKIN IS ELIMINATED
FROM CAGE TOURNEY
Winner over Hanes Hi, of .Win
ston-Salem, in their first game in
the Journal and Sentinel basket
ball tournament at Winston-Sa
lem, the Elkln high school boys'
cage team was eliminated Satur
day afternoon when they played
Welcome. The score was 38-2®.
Elkin
"The Best Little Town
In North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
HITLER RATIFIES
SUDDEN CONQUEST
OF NATIVE LAND
Austria Becomes Province of
Germany
NEW GOVERNOR NAMED
Claims Creation of an Extend
ed Germany His Greatest
Achievement
DEPRIVE JEWS OF VOTE
Vienna, March 15.—Adolf Hit
ler today personally ratified his
bloodless conquest of his native
land which formally became a
German province under a govern
or.
The new governor, Arthur
Seysz-Inquart, announced legal
completion of Austria's union
with the German fatherland as
the reichsfuehrer faced frenzied
thousands in the Heroes' square
outside the imperial palace of the
Hapsburg's.
Hitler proclaimed the creation
of an expanded Germany as "the
greatest acheivement of my life"
and ended his four days of tri
umph in Austria by flying back to
Munich.
But he will be back soon—to
carry on the campaign for the
public's ratification of union with
Germany in the plebiscite called
for April 10.
Germany took over the Aus
train government, lock, stock and
barrel even as Hitler announced
"the entrance of my native land
into the German reich."
The German treasury absorbed
the Austrian treasury. Hitler's
foreign minister, Joachim von
Ribbentrop, took over direction of
Austria's foreign affairs. The
war department, the interior min
isary and other parts of the Aus
trian government were placed in
charge of German officials.
The new government announc
ed the jews no longer could vote.
OFFICERS LOCATE
MUCH GOOD LIQUOR
Two Raids Saturday Net
Several Pints of Tax
Paid Fluid
TWO MEN ARE ARRESTED
Yadkin county sheriff's officers
took a swing around Saturday
and scooped up about all the tax
paid liquor in the county, it is be
lieved.
Beginning at Yadkinville Sat
urday afternoon after the sheriff
had received reports the officers
visited C. O. Pardue's place on
Main street, Yadkinville, where
they found a few pints of bottled
and bond whiskey. Going to his
home on the Shacktown road they
added 29 more pints to their find.
Pardue gave bond and a hearing
will be held March 23, before Joe
Williams.
Officers participating in the
first rafd were deputies Jake
Brown, R. M. Haynes and F. E.
Hurt.
Later Saturday 'afternoon offi
cers Brown. Hurt, Haynes, F. M.
Haire and R. B. Crissman, visited
the Rendezvous, popular dance
hall near Elkin, making a search
of the place and found a quantity
of tax paid liquor, including one
case of Four Roses. Ed Church,
operator of the place, waived a
hearing and gave bond to" the
next term of court at Yadkinville.
All the liquor seized was stored
in the Yadkin county Jail.
Usually silos are made round
because the silage may spoil in
the corners.
,
$0 MAH IS FREE
WHO CANNOT
COMMAND MI^SELF.