Elkin
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. No. xxvm. No. 10
SCOn IS SEEKING
FUNDS EXPANDING
FARM PROGRAM
Commissioner of Agriculture
Seeks $230,000
WOULD INCREASE TAXES
•v,
y
Tax on Feed and Fertilizer
Would Be Upped from 20
to 30 Cents per Ton
BIG AID TO FARMERS
Raleigh. Jan. 17. W. Ken-
Scott, commissioner of agriculture,
today asked the joint appropria
tions committee to increase his
funds $230,000 to provide for ex
panded marketing and live stock
disease control programs, and a
closer check on weights and mea
* surers.
By raising the tax on fertilizer
and feed from 20 to 30 cents a
ton, the assembly could enable
his department to help farmers
market crops at better prices, to
make improvements at test farms
and to fight the spread of hog
cholera, saia Commissioner Scott.
The increase levy he estimated
would yield an additional $115,-
000 to the agricultural fund.
He described the proposed feed
and fertilizer tax as one per cent,
of the purchase price, "as com
pared with the three per cent,
sales tax."
Scott predicted an expanded
marketing program would make
" North Carolina "the California
of the East."
To obtain the remaining $115,-
000, the commissioner of agricul
ture avocated transferring to the
general fund of these three items
s26,3so for the experiment sta
tions, $4,500 for seed inspection
and $4,500 for the credit unions.
The budget placed all these items
in the agricultural fund.
Scott also advocated that $40,-
000 be appropriated from the gen
eral fund for a drive to extermi
nate Bangs disease and that an
increase of $40,000 be granted
from the general fund to provide
more frequent inspections by the
divisions of weights and measures.
NEW SCOUT TROOP
IS ORGANIZED HERE
Girl Group Is Sponsored by
First Baptist Church;
Officers Are Elected
MRS. LEWIS IS CAPTAIN
At a masting Friday afternoon
at the Girl Scout room on Main
street, a new troop of Oirl Scouts
was organized here. The group
is sponsored by the First Bap
tist church, with Mrs. Glenn
Lewis as captain.
Officers elected were: Scribe,
Mary Crater; treasurer, Edna
Pulp, and patrol leaders, Clyde
Myers, Sarah Rutledge and Mad
eline Myers.
Mrs. J. Mark McAdams, cap
tain of the group sponosored by
the Methodist church, was pres
* ent for the organization, and as
sisted in the meeting. She also
gave an outline of the duties and
privileges of Scout membership.
At a meeting at the Scout
room Friday afternoon at 4
o'clock a name for the troop will
be selected and other routine
matters transacted. The group
will meet each week.
CRIPPLE CLINIC TO BE
HELD ON JANUARY 27
_ The Cripple Clinic, held at the
~ Surry Health department office
in Mount Airy by Dr. R. A. Moore,
of Winston-Salem, will be held
January 27 from 9 a.m. until 12
noon, It has been announced.
Must Have An
Appointment
For Clinic
Persons desiring examination
in the adult tuberculosis clinic
to be held in Sorry county
February 6 through February
17, should consult their fam
ily physician about miking an
appointment for examination,
or call at the Surry health de
partir— -*• nu tauUdlnathm will
be made without appointment.
The schedule for the clinic
Trill be m follows: Elkin, Feb
ruary 18; Dobwm, February 17;
Mount Airy. February 6
through 15.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
New Attorney General of U. S.
Washington, D. C.—Former Governor Frank Murphy of
Michigan after taking the oath of office aa new Attorney General
of the United States, succeeding Homer S. Cummings, who re
cently resigned. Mr. Murphy is accompanied by his sister, Mrs.
Marguerite Teahan.
IATENEWC
from the
%
State and Nation
SURRY MAN
IS PARDONED
Raleigh, Jan. 17 —Wes New
man, serving an aggregate of
from 25 years and five months
to 60 years for incest, on four
counts, received a parole to
day. He was sentenced in
Sorry county in October, 1919.
Governor Hoey also paroled
two other prisoners.
The prison division, Paroles
Commissioner Edwin Gill said,
reports Newman, now nearly
80 years old, has almost serv
ed hi* minimum sentence. The
former sheriff and present
• sheriff recommended parole as
do other county officials, Gill
said.
Newman's release will "be
aceptable to a substantial
number of good citizens of
Surry county."
SQUABBLE OVER
PEDDLERS' TAX
Raleigh, Jan. 17—The Gen
eral Assembly's joint finance
committee had a minor squab
ble over peddlers' taxes today
and prepared for major squab
bles tomorrow on the sales and
intangible property taxes.
After debating for more
than an hour, the committee
voted down a proposal by Rep
resentative Vogler of Mecklen
burg to give cities free rein in
taxing farm produce peddlers
and then voted down an
amendment by Representative
Taylor of Wayne which would
more than double licenses paid
by peddlers of merchandise.
STUDENTS PETITION
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Greensboro, Jan. 17—More
than 2,000 students at the Wo
man's College of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, during
a mass meeting tonight, pass
ed a resolution requesting the
legislature not to increase tui
tion fees at the college.
The women students, repre
senting practically every coun
ty in North Carolina, also ask
ed the General Assembly to
make adequate appropriations
to give young women of this
state a university education
equivalent to that offered wo
men of other states.
YOUTH GIVEN
LIFE SENTENCE
Milwaukee, Jan. 17—Ernest
John Mahr, 24, was sentenced
to life imprisonment today, 36
hours after he entered the
home of 16-year-old Ruth
Scott and beat her to death
with a hatchet.
Mahr pleaded guilty to first
degree murder. Asked by
Municipal Judge Max W. Nohl
if he had anything to say, the
prisoner hung his head and
answered, "Nothing, except
that I'm sorry." Previously he
had confessed the crime and
expressed a desire to get legal
formalities "over with as soon
as possible."
There are in the United States
more than 1500 industrial and
consulting laboratories, employ
ing some 23,000 workers, expend
ing In excess of $250,000,000 an
nually in research.
THARPE ABSOLVED
OF NEGRO'S DEATH
Is Accidentally Killed When
Wilkes Deputies Rush Still
in Newcastle Township
FIGHT AT GRAVESIDE
Funeral services were held Sat
urday at Piney Grove colored
church, four miles from here, for
Harvey Hague, 20-year-old negro
who was shot to death last
Thursday when surprised at a
still by Wilkes county officers in
New Castle township.
The negro died to the local
hospital. He was wounded when
a gun, in the hands of Nate
Tharpe, a deputy, was said to
have accidentally discharged
when the oficer slipped and fell
while running to on the still.
Tharpe was accompanied on the
raid by Deputies R. C. Jerraihgs
and R. L. Spencer. •
Neither of the officers knew
that the bullet from Tharpe's
gun had found a mark until they
heard a slight noise nearby and
went to investigate. They found
the negro lying on his face about
75 yards from the place where
the deputy had fallen and where
his gun had discharged.
Following a hearing before a
coroner's Jury, it was held that
Hague's death was accidental and
that Tharpe was not to face
charges to connection with it.
A white man by the name of
Pardue was arrested during the
raid, and was later released under
bond.
During Hague's funeral, while
Rev. Henry Jones, of Elkin, was
delivering a eulogy over the bier,
someone was said to have broken
up the congregation with the cry
that "Millard Kelly has been kill
ed by Wade Hampton. He bust
ed his head with a shovel at the
grave!"
Investigation disclosed that be
fore the grave for Hague ' had
been completed, a negro woman
of the community had died and
work of digging her grave in the
same cemetery had begun. A
quarrel was said to have devel
oped and the Hampton negro is
alleged to have struck the Kelly
negro with a shovel.
Kelly, thought to be dying, was
rushed to a North WJlkesboro
hospital, where he is reported to
have rallied. Hampton is being
held pending the outcome of his
condition.
HONOR ROLL AT
N. ELKIN SCHOOL
Below is listed names of honor
students at North Elkin school
for the fourth month. An av
erage of 95 or more and perfect
attendance are required to make
the honor roll.
First grade: Annice Collins,
Melrose Cooper. Loretha Dula,
Parks A. Roberts.
Second grade: Norma Sue
Hayes, Jimmie Irvin, Kathleen
Rose, Helen Simmons, Juanita
Steele.
Third grade: Anelta Ball, Mar
tha Hayes, Roy Smith.
Fourth grade: Alex Carter,
Katie Lou Childress. O. C. Coop
er, Betty Lou Steelman.
Fifth grade: Sylvia Ball. Fred
Hemric, Viola Roberts.
Sixth grade: Helen Carter.
Seventh grade: Kathleen Coch
rane, Maude Hudspeth. ReElia
Miller, Louise Simmons, Homer
Thompson.
Time marches on through
memory's battlefield and
poppies bloom on naked graves.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 19, 1939
TO HOLD BIRTHDAY
BALL AT GYM HERE
MONDAY,JAN. 30 th
Sam Atkinson Is Named
Chairman
COMMITTEES NAMED
Julius Hall Is Appointed As
County Chairman for Sur
ry; Name Committees
ADMISSION SI.OO COUPLE
Plans for the annual Birthday
Ball for the President, proceeds
of which will go to fight infantile
paralysis, are under way here
under the guidance of Sam At
kinson, who has been named
chairman of the event. The ball
will be held Monday, January 30.
Julius Hall, also of Elkin, has
accepted the chairmanship of the
celebration of the President's
birthday for Surry county, under
whose direction Mr. Atkinson and
-other community chairmen in the
county will work.
Mr. Atkinson announced Mon
day morning the following com
mittees which will work with him
in staging the ball: Ticket com
mittee, Gene Hall, Mrs. Gilbert
Meed, Ruth Mayberry, Hugh Sal
mons, Nan Johnson, Bernard
Hall, Mrs. Hugh Parks, Dorothy
Colhard and Louise Laffoon.
Advertising committee: Alan
Browning, Jr., chairman: Hugh
Royall, Gene Hall, E. W. McDan
iel.
Decorations committee: Mrs.
John Sagar, Mrs. R. B. Harrell
and Mrs. Claude Farrell.
The ball will be staged in the
Elkin gymnasium, and will fea
ture round and square dancing,
square dancing will begin at 8
p.m. and continue until 10 p.m.,
at which time round dancing will
begin and continue until 2 a.m.
A good string band will be pres
ent for the square dancing, Joe
Bivins to look after booking this
band. John Peddicord and his
Orchestra, of Winston-Salem, will
provide music for the round
dance. Peddicord has an excel
lent band and is popular here,
having played for a number of
dances.
Admission to the ball will be
SI.OO per couple, and 50 cents for
ladies' without escort.
Half of the funds collected by
the ball will be used for the local
fight of infantile paralysis. The
other half will go to the National
Foundation.
Objectors to any part of the
plan have been specifically in
formed that this is a non-parti
san campaign. President Roose
velt's part in it is strictly on the
humanitarian side. He has no
voice in determining how funds
will be administered. The drive
has no bearing on his political
prestige, one way or the other.
This has been emphasized by
General Hugh S. Johnson, who
has been unsparing in what he
regards as errors of the Roosevelt
administration, but who has ac
cepted the chairmanship for New
York City in this year's "Fight
Infantile Paralysis" drive and
probably will make one of the
best campaigns of any commun
ity.
MRS. S. G. WALKER
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Passes Away Tuesday Morn
ing: Following Brief Ill
ness from Pneumonia
RITES HELD LAST WED.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Gentry
Walker. 72, wife of S. Q. Walker,
died at her home near here Tues
day morning, following a brief
illness from pneumonia.
She was a daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Gentry and
a member of the Pleasant Hill
Baptist church.
Surviving are her husband,
three children. E. W. Walker,
Jonesville; Mrs. B. W. Crabb,
Elkin, R. P. D.; B. B. Walker, of
Bassett, Va„ nine grandchildren
and one brother, John Andrew
Gentry, of Lomax.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock
from Round Hill Baptist church.
The rites were in charge of Rev.
Is oVmesatlCf hradr ansn andra
Isom Vestal and Rev. Grant
Cothren. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
American parents of low in
come sacrifice to send their chil
dren to college so that the chil
dren can prepare to take low
salaried Jobs.
Addresses Nation
'
mr.
Washington, D. C.—President
Roosevelt as he delivered his
annual message on the state of
the Union to a joint session of
the Seventy-sixth Congress in
the House of Representatives.
DRUNKEN DRIVING,
DIVORCES FEATURE
Surry County Superior Court
Now in Second Week Be
fore Judge Felix Alley
DRIVERS SENTENCED
Surry county's second, week of
superior court at Dobson is now
being presided over by Judge
Felix Alley, with divorces coming
in for considerable attention.
Seventeen divorce cases had been
disposed of during this term up
until Wednesday.
Those granted divorces were:
W. A. Gentry vs. Cora Gentry;
Kate Lawson vs. Elmer Lawson;
H. Prank Wood vs. Lula May
Wood; Leona Woody vs. Dennis
Woody; Hattie Pruett vs. Prank
Priiett; .lamps TV .Tarvis vs. TLi
lian Jarvis; Stella Secrest Snow
vs. John Snow; Macy Shinault
vs. Tommie Shinault; A. M. Jones
vs. Bessie Jones; Helen Monday
Bailey vs. G. R. Bailey; Annie
Cook Sechrist vs. Paul Sechrist;
Lucy Coe McGee vs. Melvin Mc-
Gee; Lillie Mathis vs. Willie
Mathis; Daniel P. Dalton vs. Lila
M. Dalton; Evelyn Tilley vs.
Howard Tilley; Kathryn Brown
Wells vs. Robert L. Wells, and
Kate Mitchel Barringer vs. W.
Van Barringer.
The following driving while in
toxicated cases were disposed of
the latter part of last week by
Judge N. A. Sinclair. In each
case the defendant was fined
$50.00 and costs and saw his
driver's license revoked for one
year. Those sentenced were:
Robert Johnson, Grover Glenn,
Robie Eaton, Dan Paul, R. J.
Pruitt, George Smith, Ray
Mathis, (Matthews), Eldon Phil
lips, Hilary Key.
OPTIMISTIC OVER
TOURNEY PLANS
Officials Believe 4-County
Basketball Event Will Be
Best in History
STRONG YADKIN TEAMS
School officials here are opti
mistic over prospects for the
third annual 4-County Basket
ball tournament, sponsored by
the local high school, which will
get under way at the gymnasium
February 22. Teams, both boys
and girls, will participate from
Surry, Yadkin, Wilkes and Alle
ghany.
Plans are going steadily for
ward to make this year's event
the most successful yet. Last
year's tourney set a new high in
interest and attendance, and It is
believed the great showing made
will add to the success of this
year's event.
Tournament officials state that
they expect to have 24 teams, 12
girls' and 12 boys' teams, to par
ticipate in the tournament. These
teams will represent the cream of
the four counties mentioned, and
should show a fast, snappy brand
of basketball. Plans, based upon
present expectations, call for four
games nightly, two girls' and two
boys', for six nights. On the
seventh night will come the big
thrill of the tournament when
the championship of eaijh divi
sion will be decided in ths finals.
Yadkin county is expected to
show real talent this year. Boon
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Jury Finds Evidence
D£ Drinking On Part
Of Assistant Jailers
Bivins Succeeds
Self as Head of
Merchants Here
At a meeting of the newly
elected board of directors of
the Elkin Merchants Associa
tion Wednesday afternoon, Joe
Bivins was re-elected president
for the coming year, George
Royall succeeds E. S. Spain
hour as vice-president. Mrs.
Franklin Folger will continue
to serve as secretary.
The board of directors in
cludes the following business
men; E. S. Spainhour, E. W.
McDanlel, Joe Bivins, E. F.
Harris, C. N. Myers, J. R.
Poindexter, E. F. McNeer,
George Royall and R. L. Mills.
Directors are elected by a
private ballot of the member
ship of the association and
the president and vice-presi
dent are elected by the direc
tors.
KIWANIS OFFICERS
TAKE OFFICE HERE
Earl C. James Is Installed as
President of Club, Suc
ceeding Carter
THIGPEN IS SPEAKER
Installation of officers, a ladies'
night banquet and an address by
Richard E. Thigpen, of Charlotte,
Carolinas governor, featured the
weekly meeting of the Elkin Ki
wanis Club Thursday evening at
Hotel Elkin.
A. H. Casey, of North Wilkes
boro, lieutenant-governor of the
Carolinas district, installed Earl
C. James as president of the club.
Other club officers were also in
stalled.
Kiwanian Ira Yates offered the
invocation which was followed by
group singing of familiar songs.
Wilbur Carter, retiring presi
dent, made a brief report of the
club activities during the past
year, which was one of the most
successful in the history of the
club,
Kwianian E. C. James intro
duced Mr. Casey, who presented
the guest speaker, Mr. Thigpen.
The speaker discussed the work
of the Carolinas district.
The meeting was declared one
of the most enjoyable ever held
by the club.
Representatives of the Kiwanis
Clubs at North Wilkesboro and
Mount Airy were also guests of
the club, t
"UNCLE BILLY" GOUGH
IS CRITICALLY SICK
W. S. Gough, 88, Elkin's oldest
citizen, is critically ill in the City
Memorial Hospital in Winston-
Salem. Mr. Gough, who is vice
president of the Bank of Elkin,
and has long been a leader in the
business and religious life of Elk
in, is suffering from a complica
tion of troubles due to his ad
vanced age. He has been a pa
tient at the hospital for several
days.
BASKETBALL TOURNEY
AT RONDA JANUARY 23
- A basketball tournament will
begin Monday, January 23, at the
Ron d a gymnasium. Approxi
mately 30 schools, both boys and
girls teams, have been invited to
participate in the play.
A cup will be presented the
winners and runners-up of both
the boys' and girls' teams.
Many improvements have been
made in the Ronda gym within
the past few months, including a
new lighting system and more
spectators' seats.
Winners in the tournament
played at Ronda last year were
the Mountain Park boys and
Ronda girls.
A cordial invitation is extended
basketball fans to attend the
games.
It's the human thing to do to
forget the disagreeable and mean
things of life; and it's charitable
to forgive. Your reward: your
own health and happiness.
_____________
Elkin
"The Brat Little Town
in North Carolina** J
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
COMPLETE CHANGE
OF PERSONNEL IS
ORDERED BY BODY
Commissioners Are to Make
Investigation
GILLISPIE NOT BLAMED
Gillispie Had Been in Office
Only Few Days, Jones
Tells Tribune Reporter
RETURN 47 TRUE BILLS
The Surry county grand jury,
investigating the county jail at
Dobson upon orders of Judge N.
A. Sinclair, following a recent
jail break and a more recent
robbery in which a thief entered
the jail and stole the jailor's gun
and S3O in cash, the latter part
of last week issued an order to
the county board of commission
ers that a complete change In
the personnel of the county jail
be made.
During the last day of its ses
sion the grand jury had before
it a number of witnesses who
were said to have been summon
ed to give evidence in regards to
the situation at the jail. It was
the evidence brought before the
grand jury which is supposed to
have been responsible for the ac
tion they took. One of the most
serious charges made was that
the condition of the jail was
found to be deplorable: that it
was found that the assistant jail
ers, and also prisoners, had been
drinking while on duty.
R. P. Jones, a member of the
board of commissioners, said
Wednesday that the public should
not be too quick to blame the
present jailer, Emmett Gillispie,
who was Installed the first Mon
day in January, just two days
before five prisoners sawed their
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Longest Taxi Trip
Made by Elkin
Folks to California
"Taxi? Taxi, Mister?" said a
young man on the streets of
Elkin standing by his taxicab.
"Yes, we want a taxi," stated
a group as they climbed into one
of Elkin's cabs with a lot of bag
gage.
"Where to?" politely inquired
the driver.
"Los Angeles and the Rose
Bowl," announced the speaker as
the driver eyed his passengers to
see if they had numbers on them.
They looked O. K. and "We are
off" he replied.
Thus started one of the long
est taxicab drives on record, when
these young men chartered the
taxi for the Rose Bowl game. The
driver was John Mayberry, and
those who climbed into his cab
for a ride across the continent
were his brother, Odell Mayberry,
of Pulaski, Va., Tom Phillips and
Ed Church, of Elkin, Jimmle
Hudle. of V. M. 1., and "Kinky"
Darnell, of Mount Airy, whose
brother, Leonard, was on the
Duke foptball team.
In 68 hours they were in sunny
California, seeing what they
could see and they. had driven a
distance of 2,707 miles through
nine states. But they saw much
of the west coast while out there
and when they reached home ten
days and nights later their car
registered 7,680 miles, which cost
the riders well over S2OO and
made one of the longest taxicab
trips on record.
Among the sites they witnessed
were the fine homes in Holly
wood, where they saw Shirley
Temple, Joe E. Brown and many
other stars of the screen. Fifteen
miles out in the bay off Long
Beach they visited the largest
luxury liner in the world, now
used as a pleasure palace only.
They witnessed the season's
ppenl&g of the Santa Anita race
track, and of course the Rose
Bowl game. They state that tne
is one entirely Efsyond
roses, beautiful floats, etc. §g|