Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. No. XXVIL No. 43
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State and Nation
NO NECESSITY
FOR NEW TAXES
Washington, Sept. 6—No ne
cessity now appears for a new
tax bill, and Congress should
devote Its attention to cutting
down expenses and thus re
duce the tax burden, Repre
sentative Robert L. Doughton,
House ways and means com
mittee chairman, who reached
Washington today, said.
Doughton came here to pro
pose to the REA that rural
electric transmission lines be
extended into Ashe and Alle
ghany counties, in the ninth
district, which Doughton rep
resents in the House. The
line it is proposed to extend is
already in operation in Cald
well county and under con
struction in Watauga county.
ARMY TAKES
OVER PORT
Paris, Sept. 6—The French
government tonight ordered
the army to take over the
great Mediterranean port of
Marseille, control point for
communications with its North
African reservoir of troops and
raw materials for war.
The decree providing for the
move has been drafted almost
since the beginning of the
dockworkers' "week-end" strike
movement early in July.
It was put into effect, how*
ever, only as numbers of re
serves were called to the colors
to strengthen the garrisons of
fortifications on the German
border. s
GOLD COMES
FROM EUROPE
New York, Sept. 6 Uncle
Sam's fabulous store of gold
grew rapidly today as Europe,
In its war (light continued to
transfer funds to this country
for safe-keeping.
The Federal Reserve Bank of
New York reported the arrival
of 125,590.000 of the metal
from England and arrange
ments for shipment of $lO,-
450,009 more from the same
source.
The federal reserve figures
showed more than $100,000,000
had come from England since
the war scare took hold late
In July, not counting $36,000,-
000 engaged for shipment but
not yet received.
APPROVES OF
PARTY PURGE
Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 6
Governor Elmer 1 Benson,
speaking as a member of Min
nesota's Farmer-Labor party,
gave unqualified endorsement
today to President Roosevelt's
drive to elect "liberal" candi
dates to Congress.
Conferring with the Presi
dent at the latter's Hyde Park
home, Governor Benson told
Mr. Roosevelt that citizens of
the whole northwest are behind
the administration effort to rid
•Cpngress of conservative op
ponents of the new deal pro
gram.
(STATE ROAD MAN
TAKES OWN LIFE
Reece Nixon Sends Load from
Shotgun into His Heart
Monday Afternoon
LEAVES SEVERAL NOTES
Nixon, 21, of Btate Road,
ended his life. Monday afternoon
about 2:00 o'clock in the bed
room of his home, while his wife
lay HI in a Statesville hospital.
The discharge from the 16-
gauge shotgun struck him in the
heart, causing instant death.
His sister and a girl who was
staying in the home, yere seated
•on the front porch at the time of
the act. They found the body on
the bed with the gun lying near
by.
Deputy Sheriff W. J. Snow, of
Elkin, was notified, and visited
the scene with Dr. I. s. Gambill.
An investigation disclosed Nixon's
death to /be a clear cut case of
sulfide and an inquest was deem
ed unnecessary.
The young man left several
notes addressed to various mem
bers of his family, including his
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
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Pictured top is D. G. Smith,
new manager of the Duke
Power Company Elkin district,
who will succeed R. M. "Pat"
Hudgins, manager here for the
past three years. Mr. Hudgins
has been moved to Mount Airy
to take charge of the company
offices there, succeeding the
late W. D. Alley. Mr. Smith
comes to Elkin from York, S. C.
HUDGINS TO GO
TO MOUNT AIRY
Manager of Duke Power Co.
Here to Be Succeeded by
D. G. Smith
COMES FROM YORK, S. C.
R. M. Hudgins, who has been
manager of the Elkin district of
the Duke Power company for the
past three years, will succeed the
late W. D. Alley as manager of
the Mount Airy district.
D. G. Smith, who has been
manager of the York, S. C.,
branch for the past several years
has been promoted to manager of
the Elkin district.
J. G. Lynn, who has been sales
man in the Mount Airy branch
for the past few years, goes to
York as manager of that district.
These three promotions that
resulted from the vacancy caused
by the passing of Mr. Alley, are
all exceedingly well merited. Mr.
Hudgins is a native of Hampton,
Va., and is a graduate in electri
cal engineering from V. M. I. He
entered the service of the Duke
Power company in the Winston-
Salem district after taking the
test course in the shops of the
General Electric company. He
served in various capacities at
that branch and acquired a well
rounded experience in the var
ious phases of utility work, serv
ing as groundman, lineman, me
ter tester, in the stockroom. In
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HOLD FUNERAL FOR
MRS. MARY BILLINGS
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Bauguss Billings, 75, were held
Monday morning at 11 o'clock at
Stony Ridge Baptist church In
Wilkes county. Mrs. Billings,
widow of the late William Bill
ings, had been ill for two weeks
at her home Hear Lomax from a
paralytic stroke.
The rites were in charge of
Rev. Mr. Sparks, pastor of the
deceased, assisted by Rev. J. L.
Powers, of this city. Interment
was in the church cemetery.
She is survived by one son,
McKinley Billings, with whom
she had made her home since the
death of her husband, and sev
eral grandchildren.
SURRY DEMOCRATS
NAME CANDIDATES
AT CONVENTIONS
All Incumbent Office Holders
Nominated
WITH TWO EXCEPTIONS
Loviil and Swanson Decline
to Again Serve as County
Commissioners
DELEGATES ARE NAMED
Reports, considered reliable but
not official, reaching The Tribune
from the various townships of
Surry county have disclosed that
all incumbent office holders, with
the exception of two commission
ers who Were not candidates to
succeed themselves, were nomi
nated Saturday at the township
conventions.
The commissioners who de
clined to serve another term were
J. W. Loviil, of Mount Airy, and
W. J. Swanson, of Pilot Moun
tain. P. R. Jones, of Mount
Airy, and Sam Smith, of Pilot
Mountalh, were nominated by the
conventions to succeed them.
With all delegates instructed
to cast their votes as outlined,
the county-wide convention at
Dobson will serve only to make
it official.
Officers nominated were: For
clerk of court, P. T. Lewellyn;
sheriff, Harvey Boyd; represent
ative, Henry Dobson; senate,
Fred Folger; commissioners, M.
Q. Snow, P. R. Jones, Sam Smith;
Coroner, Dr. R. E. Smith; sur
veyor, Golden Baker.
At the Elkin township meeting,
held Saturday afternoon at 2:00
o'clock in the school auditorium
here, 39 delegates were named to
the county meet, and all were in
structed as to the first vote.
In the race for clerk of court
the votes were divided as fol
lows: P. T. Lewellyn, 27; J. C.
Hill, Prank Riggs, J. W. Martin,
and Mr. Lawrence, three votes
each.
For sheriff the delegation was
instructed to give Harvey Boyd
60 per cent, of the total vote, and
Jesse Monday 40 per cent, on the
first ballot. Other candidates,
who are reported to have won,
received the township's full vote.
During the convention the fol
lowing were nominated to the ex
ecutive committee: W. A. Neaves,
W. M. Allen, French Graham, C.
S. Foster and George E. Royall.
Delegates named to the coun
ty-wide convention at Dobson
Saturday, were: W. A. Neaves, F.
W. Graham, W. M. Allen, R. C.
Freeman, Franklin Folger, J. L.
Powers, S. E. Newman, Jim Lil
lard, Fred Neaves, Paul Gwyn,
J. L. Hall, J. W. Brookshire. W.
C. Cox, Vernon Hampton, Brady
Felts, Andrew Hayes, C. H. Brew
er, C. S. Foster, R. G. Hamby, D.
G. Mason, C. C. Poindexter, Dr.
E. G. Click, George E. Royall,
Dr. M. A. Royall, H. P. Graham,
J. F. Miller, Sid Hudspeth, Dr.
Hugh Parks, J. F. Moseley, E. C.
James, Alan Browning, Jr., Alex
Chatham, R. L. Church, W. M.
Gray, J. £>. Bivins, Alex Biggs, C.
A. McNeil, Dixie Graham, Hugh
Royall.
Alternates were also named.
W. M. Allen acted as chairman
of the convention. Alan Brown
ing, Jr., acted as secretary.
HUNDREDS ATTEND
COOKING SCHOOL
."Star in My Kitchen," Pre
sented by Tribune, Shown
Two Afternoons
MANY PRIZES GIVEN
The second annual Elkin Tri
bune motion picture cooking
school, "Star in My Kitchen,"
was shown at the Elk Theatre
Monday and Tuesday afternoons
with hundreds of women from
Elkin, Jonesville and surrounding
communities in attendance.
Thanks to the cooperation of
national manufacturers and local
merchants who provided attrac
tive attendance prizes, given away
at the conclusion of the school
each day, many ladies who at
tended were nicely rewarded for
the interest shown in the event.
National advertisers who, to
gether with local merchants, aid
ed The Tribune in presenting the
school, were Lever Bros., Co.,
Fruit Dispatch Co., Quaker Oats
Co., Pillsbury Flour, Kraft-Phenix
Cheese Corp., Thomas J. Upton,
Inc., and Frigidaire Corp.
Local stores which cooperated
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ELKIN, N. C- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1938
Local Delegation Attends Dedication of Bridge
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Pictured above are members of the Elkin delegation which attended the dedication of the R. A.
Doughton bridge over New River Monday morning, at which Governors Clyde Hoey, of North Caro
lina, James H. Price, of Virginia, and Homer A. Holt, of West Virginia, were speakers. The bridge
forms a link in the recently completed Lakes-to-Florida highway. Those shown in the picture,
snapped shortly before they left Hotel Elkin for the scene of the dedciation, are, front row, left to
right: C. H. Brewer, Worth Graham, H. P. Graham, L. G. Meed and Jack Freeman, Jr. Second row:
C. N.' Bodenheimer, Alex Dorsett, Worth Gray and H. D. Woodruff. Back row: French Graham,
Capt. A. M. Smith, Chief of Police Dixie Graham and Rev. L. B. Abernethy.—(Tribune photo).
REPUBLICANS TO
NAME DELEGATES
Will Hold Township Conven
tion Here Sat. Evening
at 7:30 O'Clock
COUNTY MEET SEPT. 17
The Elkin township Republican
convention will be held here Sat
urday evening, September 10, at
7:30 o'clock in the Junior Order
hall on North Bridge street. All
Republicans of the township are
urged to attend and ladies are
especially invited.
All other townships of the
county will also hold conventions
Saturday, the purpose of which is
I|o name candidates to attend the
county convention to be held at
Dobson Saturday, Spetember 17.
These delegates, it is understood,
will be instructed as to the can
didates to be voted upon at the
county-wide meeting.
The number of delegates as
signed to the various townships
are as follows:
Bryan 8, Dobson 8, Eldora 8,
Elkin 9, Franklin 6. Long Hill 5,
Marsh 3, Mount Airy Number
One 8, Mount Airy Number Two
8, Mount Airy Number Three 9,
Mount Airy Number Four 6,
Mount Airy Number Five 3, Pilot
Mountain 6, Rockford 5, Shoals
3, Siloam 3, Stewarts Creek 6 and
Westfield 10.
A number of leading Surry
Republicans have been talked as
possible candidates this fall,
among them being Cola Fulp, of
Elkin, as representative to the
state legislature. Others men
tioned are J. B. Sparger, of Mt.
Airy, for the state senate; Fred
Riggs, Bob Simmons and Dave
Smith,' of Mount Airy, Luther In
man, of Westfield and Richard
Collins of Elkin, for sheriff; J.
W. Calloway, of Mountain Park,
for Clerk of Court; and Jobe Mc-
Cree and Harvey Hennis, of Mt.
Airy, E. L. Schuyler, of Lowgap,
W. W. W.hitaker of Elkin, and I.
M. Gordon of Pilot Mountain, for
county commissioners.
W. W. Whitaker and Cola Fulp
are both Elkin business men.
FREE MIDWAY ACT
BOOKED FOR FAIR
High-Diving and Educated
Dogs Are to Be Feature
of Annual Event
ENTRY LIST STILL OPEN
A special free midway attrac
tion has been booked 'for the El
kin Fair, to be held here Septem
ber 22, 23, 24, it was announced
Wednesday by Mrs. Alan Brown
ing, Jr., secretary.
The act will feature Col. Harry
Beaty's trained dogs, Including a
high diving dog and an educated
dog. These animals are said to
do. marvelous tricks, and the high
diving canine is guaranteed to
give everyone a thrill.
Free acts by this troupe will be
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Elkin Schools
Are to Open
Monday Morning
The city schools will open
Monday morning, September
12, for the 1938-39 session.
High school students are re
quested to meet at the school
gymnasium at 8:30 Monday
morning for chapel exercises.
It is also requested that they
bring their money, if possible,
for textbook rentals in order
that the books may be issued
Monday and actual classroom
work begun on Tuesday.
Elementary students will go
to the elementary school build
ing. Basal textbooks will be
furnished elementary students
by the state. A small fee for
supplementary books and inci
dentals will be required.
JURORS SEECTED
FOR CIVIL COURT
Two-Week's Session Will Be
gin at Dobsoiuon Monday,
September 26
BEFORE JUDGE CLEMENT
The Surry county board of
commissioners, meeting at Dob
son Tuesday, selected Jurors to
serve at the September term of
civil court, which will convene
September 26 before Judge J. H.
Clement, of Walkertown, for a
two-week's session.
Other business transacted was
of a routine nature.
Jurors selected were, first week:
J. J. Burrus, J. L. Sprinkle, Q. L.
Simmons, J. E. Calloway, I. M.
Masten, J. E. Cockerham, H. C.
Hauser, D. N. Martin, Avery E.
Cox, J. H. Seagraves, E. C. Coe.
Claude W. Hamlin, Early Mays, J.
M. Johnson, J. V. Jones, O. C.
Branch, U. R. Hunter, L. E. Simp
son. Q. C. Harbour, Edgar Smith,
Louis Burton, M. S. Simpson, R.
E. York, Paul Wall.
Second week: D. E. Marion,
Haywood C. Taylor, D* C. Lewis,
L. I. Wade, R. W. Phillips, C. A.
Butner, C. R. Boyles, Lester H.
Brown, John J. Moser, P. H.
Chandler, J. W. Whitaker, U. E.
Phillips, C. M. Nichols, A. S.
Towe, Joe B. Poore, L. M. Free
man, Welch Bowman, Eugene
Cockerham.
JONESVILLE SCHOOL TO
OPEN MONDAY MORNING
Everything is in readiness for
the opening of the Jonesville
school on Monday morning, Sep
tember 12, accordaig to Prof. If.
S. Weaver, principal of the
school. i '
All students are requested to
attend the opening day. Any
child who will have reached the
age of six years by the first of
October will be eligible to enter
at the beginning of school.
Parents are invited to attend
the opening exercises.
COMMISSIONERS
HOLD MEETING
Hear Petition to Install Street
Lights Along North
Bridge Extension
TO MEET AGAIN FRIDAY
The Elkin town comissioners
held their regular monthly meet
ing Tuesday evening in the town
tax office.
Among matters discussed was a
petition signed by citizens living
on North Bridge street extension
which asked that the town install
seven street lights in that vicinity.
The matter of removing the
traffic markers located at down
town intersections was again
brought up for discussion when
the petition signed by the Elkin
Merchants Association was revi
ved. However, no action was taken.
Chief of Police Dixie Graham con
tinuing to be firm in his stand
that the markers are the finest
devices for controlling traffic
here that have ever been tried
out.
Luther Forbs, of Elkin, appeared
before the board and made ap
plication for a job as policeman.
It was decided to hold another
meeting Friday evening to decide
whether or not to make any ad
dition to the police force.
W. M. Allen, town attorney, in
formed the comissioners in the
matter of the attempt being made
to incorporate a new town border
ing Elkin on its northern boundry,
that Thad Eure, secretary of sate,
had informed him that the ad
mendment to the recent petition
filed with the state municipal
board of control to incorporate
*he territory under the name of
North View had been denied, due
to several omissions in the a
mended petition, and that date
for a new hearing, this time tb
incorporate the territory under
the name "North Elkin," had
been set for October 1, at 10:00
a. m., at Raleigh.
WILKES FAIR TO
BEGIN NEXT WEEK
Auto Races Will Feature
Special Attraction Satur
day, Sept. 17
THRILL DRIVERS COMING
The management of the Great
Northwestern Pair, at North
Wilkesboro next week, have an
nounced that Governor Clyde R.
Hoey will review the opening day
parade on Tuesday, Sept. 'l3, at
10 o'clock, and will deliver an ad
dress Immediately after at the
fairgrounds.
It has also been announced
that a special attraction has been
carded In the auto races that will
be offered on Saturday afternoon,
September 17, under the auspices
of the Motor Speedways Associa
tion.
Hie Motor Speedways Associa
tion Is noted for successful auto
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Elkin
The Best Little Tows
In North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
FARM AUTHORITY
ADJUSTS QUOTAS
IN TOBACCO BELT
Larger Amount of Tobacco
Will Be Tax Free
2,156,000 POUNDS IN N. C.
Quotas in Florida, Alabama
and South Carolina Are
Unchanged
ALLOTMENT IS RAISED
Washington, Sept. 6. The
farm adminstration announced to
day adjustments had been made In
the flue-cured tobacco marketing
quotas of Virginia, North Caro
lina and Georgia, adding an aggre
gate of 9,011,000 pounds of tobacco
on which no penalty tax win have
to be paid in those states.
Georgia, where the crop already
has been marketed, received an
adjustment of 3,449,000 pounds;
Virginia, 3,406,000 pounds, and
North Carolina, 2,156,000 pounds.
The adjustments were ordered
by Secretary Wallace because
minimum marketing allotments
for small farms absorbed too great
a portion of the state quota and
caused inequities to some larger
farms.
Quotas in other flue-cured states
—South Carolina, (Florida, and
Alabama—were not changed.
The adjustments in Virginia,
North Carolina, and Georgia raised
the national flue-cured tobacco
marketing allotment, invoked un
der the new farm act, from 739,-
068,00 pounds to 748,079,000
pounds.
All tobacco sold in excess of
quotas is subject to a penalty tax
of 50 per cent.
BOONVILLE FAIR ON
OCTOBER 13,14,15
Premium List Is Now Being
Distributed to All Fair
Exhibitors
ARRANGE NEW CONTEST
The dattr of the Boonville Pair
has been set for October 13, 14,
and 15. The first day will be de
voted to the entering of exhibits
and getting things in order for
the fair.
The premium list has been
completed by the printers and are
being distributed to the fair ex
hibitors.
A pulling contest for teams has
been included in the fair program
this year. This will take place
Saturday afternoon. There will
be two divisions, one for the
teams which weigh over 2,400
pounds, and one for the teams
which weigh under 2,400 pounds.
A track contest for school boys
and girls will be staged again
this year. This will come on Sat
urday afternoon as usuaL
The Sauline Players have been
booked for two plays, one to be
given Friday afternoon and the
other to be given Friday night.
TO HOLD SCOUT COURT
OF HONOR THIS P. M.
The Scout court of honor will be
held this "evening, (Thursday) at
8 o'clock at the Methodist church.
All Boy Scouts are urged to attend.
It's a Potato
Yet It Looks
Like a Turtle
Scott Nixon, of Mountain
Park, brought it in, and ac
cording to him it was a some
thing whose father was a mud
turtle and its mother an Irish
potato.
However, a close inspection
by The Tribune Close Inspec
tion Department No. S-A dis
closed that although It look
ed powerfully like a turtle it
really wasn't anything but an
Irish Potato with new ideas.
The potato, dug up on the
farm of Tom Myers, near
Swan Creek, weighed three
and one-fourth pounds. Its
shape was like that at a turtle
that had gone out for an ev
ening stroll, all feet working
and hesd up.
Mr. Nixon, who said Reed
Hanes, of Yadkin, dug it up.
put it on ditphjr In a down
town show window and plan*
to display it at the EEdn Fair.
foUowmr which it will prob
ably be displayed on someone's
Mninmon table, It is ander
•tooding Department No. i-B.