Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. No. XXVIII. No. 2
JAMES IS NAMED
KIWANIS HEAD TO
SUCCEED CARTER
L. S. Weaver Is Elected Vice
President
NO MEETING THIS P. M.
Next Thursday's Meeting to
Feature Observance of
Ladies' Night
GREET NEW MEMBERS
Officers for the year 1939 were
elected last Thursday night by
the Elkin Kiwanis club, meeting
in the Kiwanis room at Hotel
Elkin.
E. C. James, Elkin attorney,
was named president of the club
to succeed Wilbur Carter, who
has served during the present
year. L. S. Weaver, superintend
ent of the Jonesville school, was
named vice president, succeeding
E. W. McDaniel. J. L. Hall, local
justice of the peace and registrar
for Elkin township, was reelected
as secretary-treasurer.
It has been a custom of the
club to elect the vice president as
president each year, but E. W.
McDaniel, who has served as vice
president during the present
year, stated before the election he
did not wish to accept the office.
The following members were
elected as directors of the club:
W. M. Allen. Paul Gwyn, Gar
land Johnson, J. R. Poindexter,
George E. Royall and E. S. Spain
hour. These men succeed Earl
James, Dr. R. B. Harrell, ft. P.
Laffoon, Foley Norman, Hugh A.
Royall and L. S. Weaver.
The newly elected officials will
take office shortly after the be
ginning of the new year..
Due to the fact that today is
the club will not
meet this evening. Next Thurs
day's meeting will be observed as
ladies' night.
Two new members have been
welcomed into the club, they be
ing Dr. Seth Beale and D. G.
Smith, manager of the local of
fice of the Duke Power Co.
BAPTISTS PLAN
WEEK OF PRAYER
Services Each Afternoon at
3:30, Except Friday When
at 7:30 P. M.
TO PRESENT PROGRAMS
All Baptist churches in and
around Elkin are cordially invit
ed to attend the services in ob
servation of week of prayer for
foreign missions Monday through
Friday at the First Baptist
church. The services will be held
each afternoon at 3:30 at the
church except on Friday when
the meeting will be held at 7:30
in the evening and the young peo
ple of the church will haye charge
of this program.
A number of out-of-town peo
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On December Ist The Tri
(bune will be forced to discon
tinue all subscriptions not
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1938, or in advance of that
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ber 1, 1938, or in advance of
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tinued, otherwise this will
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a date back of December, 1938,
and you have not made a pay
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the campaign.
Thanks' in advance for your
attention to this matter.
THE PUBLISHERS
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Heads Kiwanis
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E. C. James, Elkin attorney,
who last Thursday evening was
named president of the Elkin
Kiwanis club for the year 1939.
Mr. James succeeds Wilbur
Carter.
DEATH COMES TWO
TIMES TO FAMILY
R. L. Church's Brother and
Sister Pass Away on the
Same Day
RITES ON WEDNESDAY
Death came twice to the fam
ily of R. L. Church, of this city,
Monday. Mr. Church's brother,
Sgt. Jesse M. Church, veteran
Greensboro police officer and
member of the plainclothes divi
sion, died from a sudden heart
attack at his home in Greens
boro about 8:30 Monday evening.
Mr. Church's only sister, Mrs.
Fields McNeill, of Idelwild, Ashe
county, died about 11 o'clock the
same evening following a pro
longed critical illness.
Both of the funerals were held
on Wednesday. Mrs. McNeill's at
11 o'clock in the morning at Idel
wild and Mr. Church's at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon at the First Bap
tist church in Greensboro.
Mr. Church, who is a well
known business man here, has the
sympathy of the entire town in
his double sorrow.
Survivors include the following
brothers: R. L. Church, Elkin; J.
B. Church, Roaring River; Tom
my Church, Millers Creek; Eu
gene, Avery and Fayte Church,
Winston-Salem, and Wiley
Church, of Kernersville.
ARE TO HOLD FARM
MEET AT WINSTON
Farmers and Farm Agents of
District Will Discuss 1939
Farm Program
FRIDAY AT 2:00 P. M.
A district meeting of farmers
and farm agents will be held in
the Reynolds Auditorium in Win
ston-Salem, on Friday at 2:00 p.
m., for the purpose of discussing
the 1939 farm program and also
the referendum which is to be
held on December 10 by the cot
ton and tobacco growers, accord
ing to a statement Wednesday
by J. W. Crawford, county farm
agent. Mr. Crawford urged that
all farmers who possibly could at
tend the meeting. J. B. Hudson,
assistant director of the AAA will
be at the Winston-Salem meeting,
he said.
There is also a state meeting to
be held on December 1, in the
City Auditorium in Raleigh, the
hour for this meeting being 11
a. m. Hon. Henry A. Wallace,
Secretary of Agriculture, will be
the principal speaker for the
meeting in Raleigh, Mr ."Crawford
said.
ARE TO HOLD FIDDLERS
CONVENTION ON NOV. 26
A fiddlers" convention will be
held Saturday, November 26, at
the Benham-Cool Springs school,
beginning at 7:30 p. m. A large
number of amateur and profes
sional artists will be on hand to
entertain.
The program will include string
bands, piano, guitar, violin,
banjo and harmonica solos, also
quaretts and tap dancing.
A nominal admission will be
charged, proceeds to go fov the
benefit of the school.
FLUE-CURED QUOTA
FOR 1939 IS SET
BY SECY WALLACE
National Quota Is Fixed at
754,000,000 Pounds
VOTE MUST BE TAKEN
To Ballot on Approval of Re
strictions on December 10;
Urge All to Vote
NEED 2-3 MAJORITY
Washington, Nov. 22.—Secre
tary Wallace today fixed the 1939
national marketing quota for
flue-cured tobacco —the total
imount producers may sell free
from penalty next year if they
approve its imposition—at 754,-
000,000 pounds.
Growers of this type of tobac
co, produced in Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia, Florida and Alabama, will
vote December 10 on whether
they want the marketing restric
tion in effect next year under
provisions of the 1938 farm law.
A two-thiirds majority in favor
of the quota is required. The
election will be conducted through
secret ballots.
Secretary Wallace pointed out
every farmer who grew flue-cured
tobacco this year was eligible to
vote.
Officials said "every effort is
being made" to break the nation
al figure into state and individual
farm quotas prior to the referen
dum.
"It is not expected that the
quotas will be completely satis
factory to all farmers," Wallace
said in a statement, "because
many growers desire to expand
their production as a result of the
favorable tobacco prices in recent
years.
"However, co-operation by
farmers in the tobacco programs
clearly accounts for a large part
of the difference between favor
able prices for their recent crops
and disastrously low prices such
as those existing prior to the
beginning of the (original AAA)
program in 1933."
The 1939 quota compared with
a national sales allotment of
748,079,000 pounds in effect this
year as a result of a favorable
referendum, when all flue-cured
tobacco sold by farmers in excess
of their individual quotas was
subject to a penalty tax.
PROMINENT ELKIN
WOMAN IS TAKEN
Mrs. Ida Shores Cockerham
Passes Away Monday
Following Illness
RITES HELD TUESDAY
Mrs. Ida Shores Cockerham,
65, widow of Clarence R. Cocker
ham, and one of the most promi
nent and well-known women of
the town, passed away at her
home on West Main street about
10 o'clock Monday morning fol
lowing a lingering critical illness.
Mrs. Cockerham was t h*e
daughter of the late William C.
and Elmira Woodruff Shores, of
Jonesville, and was a grand
daughter of the late Rev. W. B.
Woodruff, founder of the First
Baptist church of Elkin. She
was an active member of the First
Baptist church and of the Wo
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Tribune Will
Present Christmas
Issue Next Week
Next week's issue of The
Tribune will announce the
formal opening of the Christ
mas season here, with the pa
per carrying: Christmas news
and announcements of all
Elkin's progressive stores.
As has been the custom for
several years, The Tribune will
be attractively dressed In four
colors, and with its increased
circulation will offer an effec
tive means of carrying the
messages of Elkin merchants
to pactically everyone in this
trade teritory.
Merchants planning: adver
tisements in the issue will
make The Tribune's task of
getting the' paper to press on
schedule far easier if they will
release ad. copy early. Coop
eration of this nature will be
greatly appreciated.
ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1938
To Greensboro
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Rev. Grady Burgiss, of Elkin,
for the past two years pastor
of the Arlington and Ronda
Baptist churches, has accepted
the pastorate of the Magnolia
Street Baptist church, in
Greensboro. Mr. Burgiss will
take up his work actively in
December.
BURGISS ACCEPTS
GREENSBORO CALL
Pastor Arlington and Ronda
Churches to Go to Mag
nolia Baptist Church
LEAVES A FINE RECORD
Rev. Grady Burgiss, of Elkin,
who for the past two years has
been pastor of the Arlington and
Ronda Baptist churches, has ac
cepted the call to the pastorate
of the Magnolia Street Baptist
church at Greensboro, and will
take up his work actively about
the third Sunday in December.
Mr. Burgiss is a native of Elk
in, the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E.
Burgiss. For the past two years
he has been pastor of the Ar
lington Baptist church, which has
a membership of over 100 mem
bers. During the time a hand
seme new church edifice has been
built and paid for and all lines of
the church activity developed.
A forceful expounder of the
gospel, Rev. Burgiss .has been es
pecially successful in his work of
organizing the members of his
organization, showing particular
interest in the work of the young
people.
He will succeed Rev. W. F.
Hancock as pastor of Magnolia
church, who resigned several
weeks ago to become pastor of a
group of churches at Hemp.
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i Judges' Statement
j NOVEMBER 19, 1938
We, the undersigned, duly appointed to canvass the returns
i of the Elkin Tribune "Cash Offer" Campaign, do hereby certify
I that the Campaign was closed according to the rules governing
I fame, and that we compiled the subscriptions and remittance
( deposited in the Ballot Box, and the Campaign department's
| records of subscriptions turned in during the Campaign by
| various contestants or members, and we find the following
( named persons entitled to the awards according to the rules
| governing their distribution.
I FIRST AW ARB—s6oo.oo IN CASH
!Miss Beatrice Burcham 23,595,884
SECOND AWARD—S4OO.OO IN CASH
i Mrs. Franklin Folger 15,654,078
| THIRD AWARD—SISO.OO IN CASH
i Miss Willie Quyer 12,580,300
i FOURTH AWARD—SIOO.OO IN CASH
j Mrs. Gurney Wagoner 5,692,259
FIFTH AWARD—S7S.OO IN CASH
! Mrs. Elmer Cockerham 4,922,450
J" WINNER OF THE EXTRA SIOO.OO IN CASH AWARDS
Miss Beatrice Burcham
COMMISSION WTNNERS
j Mrs. Ella Mae Mock 4,519,442
[ Mrs. J. B. Church 2,874,225
I Miss Pearl Holbrook 2,554,084
Mrs. C. B. Burrus \ 2,516,025
Miss Thelma Comer 1,486,950
Miss Estelle Cockerham 990,520
I Miss Virginia Price 609,950
Mrs. Bessie Myers : 452,250
Mrs. Annie Pauls 346,650
r Miss Hazel Brandon 259,184
WINNERS OF THE PRIZE VOTE BALLOTS
Ist Miss Beatrice Burcham
2nd Mrs. Franklin Folger
3rd Miss Willie Quyer
(Signed) GEO. E. ROYALL,
T, j. MCNEILL,
J. T. REECE,
Judges
EXTERMINATION OF
JEWS IS PREDICTED
BY GERMAN PAPER
United States, Britain Are
Called Upon
BRITAIN GETS WARNING
U. S.« Note Received in Berlin
Asking Protection for
American Jews
PLAN NEW OUTRAGES
Berlin, Nov. 22.~Das Schwarz
Korps, organ of the elite Nazi
storm troops, tonight predicted
the "actually fatal extermina
tion" of Jews who persist in re
maining in Germany and called
upon the United States and Great
Britain to save them from de
struction.
The storm troop organ, explain
ing that Jews must be driven in
to virtual ghettos "where they
will have the least possible con
tact with Germans," said:
"When this stage is reached we
would be faced with the hard ne
cessity of exterminating the
Jewish underworld by methods
which we, in our orderly state,
always use in dealing with crim
inals, namely, fire and sword."
Das Schwarz Korps urged the
democracies to make a positive
contribution to the solution of
the fate of Germany's 700,000
Jews.
"Only the creation of a Jew
state outside Germany can save
the German Jews from the de
struction otherwise threatening
them," it said.
"The United States and the
British empire are large enough
to give room somewhere to the
20,000,000 Jews said to Acist."
The organ denied that the
Jewish faith had anything to do
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CHATHAM TEAMS TO
PLAY DRAYTON MILLS
The boys and girls basketball
teams of the Chatham Blanket
eers of Winston-Salem, will play
the Drayton Mills of Spartanburg,
S. C., December 2, at 7:30 in the
local gymnasium.
The girls team was eliminated
by the Chatham Blanketeers in
the finals in the Southern Tex
tile tournament in Greenville, S.
C., last year.
The four teams are champions
in the Carolinas and each will
battle for supremacy. Good
games are anticipated and lovers
of basketball are cordially invited
to attend. A nominal admission
fee will be charged.
Beatrice Burcham Is
First Prize Winner
In Tribune Contest
IATENEWC
from the
State and Nation
BRITISH AND
FRENCH CONFER
London, Nov. 22 The
British cabinet today approved
the subject matter of two-day
talks between the head 9 of the
British and French govern
ments which put the accent on
mutual defense and avoided
colonial concessions to Ger
many.
GERMAN AMBASSADOR
IN BRIEF FAREWELL
Washington, Nov. 22—Secre
tary of State Hull and the
German ambassador, Hans
Dieckhoff, said their farewells
so tersely today that they are
believed to have set a record
for diplomatic brevity.
Calling to pay his respects
before departing for Berlin to
tell his superiors about Presi
dent Roosevelt's attitude on
the Nazi campaign against
Jews, Dieckhoff went into
Hull's office smiling.
He came out again in two
minutes, looking serious. Dip
lomatic visits usually last from
10 minutes to an hour.
MANY KILLED IN
MOUNTAIN SLIDE
Castries, St. Lucia, British
West Indies, Nov. 22 Steep
mountainsides of St. Lucia,
among the most beautiful in
the West Indies, cracked open
today in a series of avalanches
which buried an undetermin
ed number of persons estimat
ed as running into the hun
dreds. The government, super
vising rescue work, late today
had accounted for 75 bodies.
Many persons were missing
and one e&timate was that 150
had been killed.
An area of 64 square miles
was ordered evacuated as a
precautionary measure as
slides continued this afternoon.
TOSS CHARGES OF
ILLEGAL VOTING
Raleigh, Nov. 21 Demo
crats and Republicans today
tossed charges of illegal and
fraudulent voting, as the state
board of elections began a
probe of alleged misconduct in
the general election of Novem
ber 8.
The charges revolved main
ly about alleged misuse of ab
sentee ballots, but attorneys
for some of the defeated can
didates asserted that votes
were openly purchased and
that drunkenness, violence and
gunfire on eelction day terri
fied poll holders in some pre
cincts, preventing a true count
' of returns.
TEACHERS MEET
ON DECEMBER 8
Will Be County-Wide Affair
With Clyde A. Erwin As
Principal Speaker
I
j SCHOOL NEAR FINISH
A county-wide teachers meet
ing will be held in the Dobson
school on Thursday, December 8,
at 7:30 p. m., at which time
Clyde A. Erwin will be the prin
cipal speaker. All teachers of
the county are urged to attend,
i according to a statement by John
W. Comer, superintendent of
schools.
Mr. Comer further stated that
the new Beulah school building
is now nearing completion. This
is a 15-room building to replace
the one destroyed by fire less
than a year ago, and is said to be
one of the best buildings in the
county. The addition to the
Shoals school is also nearing
completion, Mr. Comer said.
I A California orange grower
! found a branch with 42 oranges
. on one of his trees.
Elkin
'The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
CAMPAIGN IS BIG
SUCCESS; MANY
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
Second Prize Is Awarded to
Mrs. Franklin Folger
MISS GUYER IS THIRD
All of Candidates Did Excel
lent Work; Circulation
Shows Big Gain
SATURDAY FINAL DAY
The Tribune Cash Offer Cam
paign came to a successful close
last Saturday evening at 7
o'clock. Following a thorough
checking of the final standings of
the various contestants, the
judges awarded first prize of S6OO
to Miss Beatrice Burcham, of
Jonesville. Miss Burcham also
was the winner of an additional
prize of SIOO offered, for special
extra effort during the campaign,
bringing her award to a total of
S7OO.
Mrs. Franklin Folger ran sec
ond to win the S4OO award, her
splendid efforts having amassed a
total of 15,654,078 votes. Third
award went to Miss Willie Guyer,
who with 12,580,300 votes was
winner of $l5O in cash. Miss
Burcham's votes totalled 23,595,-
884.
Other award winners were Mrs.
Gurney Wagoner, of Jonesville,
4th prize of $100; and Mrs. Elmer
Ccckerham, sth prize, $75.00.
In cases where the commission
on the money they had turned in
amounted to more than the an
nounced awards, The Tribune
paid the smaller award winners
the difference over and above the
amount of their prizes.
Commission winners were as
follows: Mrs. Ella Mae Mock, Mrs.
J, B. Church, Miss Pearl Hol
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
GRANTED AT DOBSON
Marriage licenses were granted
to the following couples during
the past three weeks by the reg
ister of deeds, Kermit W. Law
rence, of Surry county:
Clyde Snow, 21, of Elkin, to
Ila Stanley, 19, of Dobson; Carl
L. Simmons, 41, of Mount Airy,
to Faye Hutchens, 28, also of
Mount Airy; Ransom Jennings,
23, of Galax, Va., to Imogene Al
derman, 21, of Hillsboro, Va.:
Preston Sutphin, 38, Hillsville
Va., to Mary Hall, 26, also -of
Hillsville, Va.; Reed Parris, 21,
of Mount Airy, to Marshall Smith,
1 19, also of Mount Airy; John
Sagar, 29, of Elkin, to Thorburn
' Lillard, 22, also of Elkin; and
' Payton Bobbitt, 49, of Toast, to
' Ola Williams, 39, also of Toast.
Everyone Urged
To Buy Christmas
Seals for Health
At the approach of the holi
day season gaily decorated
packages are the rule. Let
every one of these, also cards
ta n d letters, both
business and person
al, be made a mes
senger of your inter
est in public health
with Christmas Seals.
These seals fight tu
berculosis, which is
preventable, and also curable.
ChrisiiuAe. sa! funds are.used
for the education of those who
need it along these lines. They
also pay for the demonstration
of scientific methods which
aim towards eradication of this
dread disease which now may
Invade any home, also for
milk, cod liver oil, etc., for un
dernourished children.
The Christmas seal sale here
this year will be held on De
cember 1, according to Mrs. E.
F. McNeer, who is in charge of
the work which is sponsored
by the Elkin Woman's Club,
through the Garden Depart
ment of the club.
Buy the seals and use them
generously.