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WORK OF LAYING a new asphalt surface on
East Main street here from the main square to the
intersection of East Main street and East Market
street extension, was begun Monday morning by
the state highway forces and was scheduled to be
completed Wednesday afternoon. However, traffic
will be kept off the street for two or three days,
T. A. Leeper, district engineer, said, in order to
give the new surface time to set. Similar work on
West Main street to the Big Elkin creek bridge
will be done sometime during the next fiscal year,
which begins July 1. However, it may possibly be
next summer before it is actually under way.
IT IS ESTIMATED that families in Surry
county pay a total of $93,210 annually in hidden
taxes through their purchases of food, according
to a national consumers tax commission survey.
Nearly eight per cent, of the total food bill repre
sents shifted taxes buried in the price of every
purchase, the report states.
SEVEN MORE Elkin residents filed individual
income tax returns last year than the year before,
according to the internal revenue bureau report.
The number of returns filed from Elkin last year,
covering the year 1937, was 113. The year before
106 Elkin residents filed individual tax returns.
Surry residents filed 344 returns last year as com
pared with 339 the year before.
BUILDING ACTIVITY continues here as work
men are completing the task of tearing down the
old building on East Main street known as Mc-
Neer's warehouse. Rumor has it that in the two
buildings expected to be erected there will house
at least four or five different concerns, with no
one knowing, apparently, just exactly what they
are talking about.
SURRY COUNTY was one of the two counties
in the entire state singled out for high honors in
the home improvement drive in and around rural
and urban homes, by the national better homes
committee. North Carolina was one of six states
in the nation to win merit badges for special beau
tification efforts. The drive was aimed at a state
wide clean-up of home grounds, farmsteads, back
yards, vacant lots, alleys, park and city ap
proaches, etc. The work done in North Carolina
was described as "outstanding."
State
NATIONAL PARK service officials have an
nounced a new time will probably be set for ded
ication of the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park in this state and Tennessee as a result of
President Roosevelt's decision not to start his
western trip during June. "We can dedicate the
park any time the President can go," was the com
ment of officials.
A STATE-WIDE soil testing program for
farmers, designed to furnish information to be
used in more intelligent selection of fertilizer for
the individual farm, will be launched by the North
Carolina department of agriculture within the
next 90 days. The soil analysis program will be
financed with funds obtained from the increased
revenue provided by the 1939 general assembly.
THE COST OF instructing the average North
Carolina public school child in 1936-37 was $26, the
state department of public instruction has an
nounced. The entire cost for the year—latest for
which figures are available—was given as $19,-
812, 991.39.
THE 1939 CASH income from North Carolina
farm marketing dropped 15 per cent, below 1937
to $221,103,000. Total cash income including gov
ernment payments dropped from $273,601,000 in
1937 to $237,627,000 in 1938.
National
AFTER FALLING SHORT of his asserted
destination —the planet Mars—Cheston L. Eshel
man, 22, Carlisle, Pa., student flier, was fished
from the water of the Atlantic Tuesday. The
young man hopped off in a plane, and when forced
down, told his rescuers he had been headed for
Mars.
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A 81-PARTISAN DRIVE in Congress to make
it easier for states to get federal assistance for the
aged met a warning from Republican Leader
Treadway (Mass.) Tuesday, who said: "If we go
too fast the whole system may collapse and we'll
have no social security at all."
ALSO FEATURED in the news was the crack
ing down of the Supreme Court on a Jersey City
ordinance which prevented C.1.0. mass meetings;
the halting of a refugee steamship near Florida
with 907 German Jews aboard who were denied
entry into Cuba, but was later granted permission
to land its cargo on the Isle of Pines.
International
THE INTERNATIONAL news front of the
past week has disclosed renewed action on the part
of Adolf Hitler in attacking England and France
with the statement that these nations are reviving
practices which led to the conflict in 1914. Most
tragic of the week's new was the sinking of the
British submarine Thetis in the Irish Sea with loss
of life of 99. Attempts to salvage the vessel are
now going on. Also of major importance to the
British Was the attempt to kill the Duchess of
Kent in London with a sawed-off shotgun.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
VOL. No. XXVUI.No. 30
Graduates
Womatbs College
Of University
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Miss Nancy Click, above,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. G.
Click, of Elkin, was among the
382 graduates of Woman's
College of the University of
North Carolina at the 47th an
nual commencement held June
2 to 5. Miss Click has been a
member of the Dikean Society,
Education Club, Home Econo
mics Club, and Playlikers. She
received a Bachelor of Science
degree in Home Economics.
JONESVILLE TO
VOTEJUNE 13
To Decide Issue of Local
Bonds to Provide More
Adequate Schools
OPPOSITION IS HEARD
A total of 1,078 persons are on
the Jonesville registration books
for the special school election for
the issuing of $40,000 in bonds
for the purpose of new construc
tion of school buildings, according
to Dan Vestal, of Jonesville. Reg
istration ended last Saturday.
Mayor Z. Bent Martin has urged
the voters to support the issue and
give the children of the district
adequate school facilities. He
pointed out that Jonesville could
secure a home economics and ag
ricultural department next year
if it could provide space for these
departments, pointing out the
present crowded condition of the
school,
Mr. Martin was also quoted as
saying that the issue can be float
ed with a very small increase in
taxes.
Opposition to the proposal as
sert that the school buildings
should be built by bonds issued by
the county as a whole and not by
a special district. They claim that
just because they are unfortunate
in the fact that the area is crowded
they should not be forced to pay
additional taxes to secure for their
children the same opportunity that
other children of the county are
having for nothing.
The election is set for next
Tuesday, June 13.
W. K. JOHNSON
PAS® AWAY
Weil-Known Elkin, Route 1,
Farmer Dies After Long
Illness
FUNERAL HELD FRIDAY
William Kirklin Johnson, 69,
well known farmer of Elkin, route
1, died Wednesday night at his
home, following a lengthy illness.
Mr. Johnson was a native of Vir
ginia but had been making his
home in this section for the past
six years. He was a member of
Snow Hill Baptist church.
He was twice married, first to
Miss Ida Bates and after her
death to Miss Emma Bates, who
survives. He is also survived by
three children Mrs. Curtis Key
and J. C. Johnson of Elkin, and
Miss Viola Johnson of Winston-
Salem: four brothers, Levi, Greene
and Frank Johnson of West Vir
ginia and Holliday Johnson of
Winston-Salem; two sisters, Mrs.
Charlie Bolt of Winston-Salem,
and Mrs. Walter Goad of Buena
Vista, Va., and six grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Snow Hill church, Th# rites were
in charge of Rev. Ford Walker.
Burial was in Snow Hill cemetery.
FDR POSTPONES
TRIP TO STATE
DOE TOWJTIES
Legislative Program Too Un
certain at Present
WAS TO DEDICATE PARK
Denies Responsibility for 3rd
Term Boosts by Various
Politicians
TURNS AWAY QUESTIONS
Washington, June 6.—At his
regular press conference this af
ternoon President Roosevelt re
vealed that owing to the uncertain
outlook for the legislative pro
gram especially with relation to
taxes and relief, his trip to Ashe
ville, N. C., for the ceremonies in
connection with the formal open
ing of the Great Smoky Mountain
national park, and the trip he had
tentatively planned which would
have taken him to the Pacific
coast, had been postponed.
The western trip, which was ex
pected to have great political
significance, and perhaps a direct
bearing on the third term move
ment, will doubtless be abandoned
for the duration of the present
session, which may or may not ad
journ around the middle of July.
At the same time the President
deftly parried questions concern
ing his long-rumored aspirations
for a third term nomination. Main
taining a careful silence about his
intentions, he disclaimed responsi
bility for interviews on the White
House doorsteps in which various
political figures have announced
they would support him for a
third term.
Several figures of importance to
local Democratic organizations
have visited the President in re
cent weeks, conferred with him
and then emerged from his office
to say they were ready to back a
third term effort.
COMISSIONERS
HOLD MEETING
Bausie Marion Is Re-Elected
to Serve Another Term
As Welfare Officer
WORK DONE ON BUDGET
In a joint sesion of the Surry
county board of commissioners
and the county welfare board,
meeting in Dobson Monday, Bausie
Marion was unanimously elected
to succeed himself as county wel
fare officer for another term,
having alread served two succes
sive terms in this capacity.
The commissioners, after purg
ing the jury box, drew a jury list
to serve for the coming civil term
to be held in July.
Much of the session was given to
preparation of the annual budget.
In discussing the budget, the board
voted to appropriate the same a
mount as of last year to the coun
ty health work which will enable
Dr. R. B. Franklin, county health
officer, and his staff to continue
the health work of the county on
the same schedule as of the past
year.
The county tax rate has not
yet been decided upon, but will be
fixed at a latter meeting.
The commissioners also an
nounced that they will sit as a
board of equalization on Monday,
June 19, beginning at 10 a.m., to
review the report of the list-takers
and to hear complaints of sug
gestions which may be presented.
GRADING ABOUT DONE
ON LINK OF HIGHWAY
Grading work on the 2.7 mile
highway link between Boonville,
in Yadkin county, and Crutch
field in Surry will be completed
by Wednesday or Thursday of
this week.
Surfacing work will begin by
the second week in June. Gravel
for surfacing will be taken from
the Dobbins farm beside the
highway. State officials have al
ready passed on the quality of
the gravel. After the gravel coat
has been applied the final top
surface will be delayed for 30
days while the gravel coat is al
lowed to thoroughly settle and
bond. It is expected that work
will be completed by the middle
of July..
This is the last stretch of dirt
road on U. S. highway 601 to be
found between Akron, Ohio, and
Florida, and when completed will
greatly increase traffic through
Yadkin county.
ELKIN, N. C. f THURSDAY. JUNE 8, 1939
WUH'Q WfTin Two Elkin college students, Miss
rr lit' O TJIIU Margaret Regina Meed and J. Rus
sell Burcham, have been chosen as outstanding students
of America and listed in the publication "Who's Who
Among Students in American Universities and Colleges."
Miss Meed is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Meed;
Mr. Burcham is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Burcham.
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HITLER THROWS
THEFT CHARGE
German Dictator Accuses
France and England of
Stealing Colonies
TROOPS COME HOME
German and Italian legionnaires
who had fought for the victorious
nationalists in Spain's civil war
received triumphant welcomes in
their ■ respective home-lands yes
terday.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler himself
welcomed the Germans, 18,000 of
them in an address from a tribunal
in Berlin's lustgarten in which he
spoke freely for the first time of
Germany's part in the Spanish
conflict.
The fuehrer said that Generalis
simo Franco in July, 1936, the
month the revolt broke out, "was
facing a conspiracy which was
fed from all parts of the world",
and that "I decided immediately
to fulfill an appeal for help which
this man addressed to me."
"I ordered this in the belief that
not only Europe but also our own
fatherland would be spared a sim
ilar catastrophe later. On the
other hand, however, I did it out
of deep sympathy for the suffer
ings of a country which, despite
all racketeering attempts on Eng
land's part, remained neutral and
friendly toward us in the world
war. Herewith I rendered the
thanks of the German people."
He added:
"For years British and French
newspapers disseminated the lie
among their readers that Germany
and Italy had the intention to
conquer and divide up Spain and,
first of all, to rob her colonies.
(Spain has African colonial pos
sessions of 128,696 square miles
and 934,686 population.)
"This trend of thought appeared
less improbable to the representa
tives of these countries than to us,
because the robbery of foreign
colonies has always belonged to
the tried and approved methods
of these democracies."
Hitler's branding of England as
a colony robber drew from former
first lord of the admiralty Alfred
Duff Cooper the retort that Brit
ain should answer with the sign
ing of 100,000 army volunteers in
24 hours.
MAYBERRY REUNION
HELD LAST SUNDAY
The annual reunion of the
Mayberry family was held Sun
day at Holly Springs church. The
event is held at the same place
each year and is held at the same
time the church celebrates Mem
orial Day.
Those of the family from this
vicinity attending were: Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Mayberry and Mr.
and Mrs. Dewey MaybGrry, of
Jonesville.
JONESVILLE MAYOR IS
GIVEN SURPRISE PARTY
Z. Bent Martin, mayor of
Jonesville, was honored with a
surprise birthday dinner at his
home Sunday in celebration of
his fifty-third birthday anniver
sary.
Members of the board of town
commissioners consisting of Lon
Vestal, Willie Gregory, Fletcher
Mcßride, L. Bui chain and Turner
Pardue, were special guests.
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Elkin Studen
Are Declared
Outstanding
Miss Margaret Reginia Meed,
of Elkin, a graduate of Western
College, Oxford, Ohio, and J. Rus
sel Burcham, also of Elkin and a
graduate of North Carolina State
College, have been honored as
outstanding students of America
and their names included in the
publication "Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities
and Colleges."
This publication is published
through the cooperation of 521 in
stitutions of higher learning for
the express purpose of bringing
America's finest material before
the business world, and will be
placed before 500 personnel man
agers of leading U. S. corpora
tions, to be considered for key po
sitions.
Miss Meed, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. G. Meed, majored in
Biology and plans to be a labora
tory technician. Mr. Burcham,
tlje son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Burcham, majored in textile man
ufacturing and plans to be a tex
tile engineer.
ELKIN TO SEE
NEW INDUSTRY
To Install Plant to Produce
Concrete and Cinder
Building Units
FIRE AND WATER-PROOF
A new industry is slated to
make its appearance in Elkin
within the next few weeks in the
form of a modern concrete pro
ducts plant to be operated by L.
G. Meed in connection with the
Carolina Ice & Fuel Co.
This plant will produce concrete
and cinder building units, now
being used in all modpm build
ings including stores, homes, foun
dations, etc. These units are fire
and water-proof and are being
recommended by all leading arch
itects, Mr. Meed said.
Machinery for the production
of the cement-cinder units will be
installed in an addition to be built
to the present ice plant.
Price of the units is said to be
less expensive than other fire
proof materials, and they should
be in big demand locally.
POPPY DAY HERE GOES
OVER IN A BIG WAY
Mrs. Fred Colhard. chairman of
the Memorial Poppy Sale,, spon
sored May 27, by the Woman's
Auxiliary of the George Gray
Post of, the American Legion, and
other members of the auxiliary,
wish to thank each person who
in any way contributed to the
success of the sale. With more
poppies for sale this year than
ever before in the history of the
local unit, every poppy was sold.
The money received will be
used for the rehabilitation pro
gram of the auxiliary.
LIBRARY HOURS HERE
ARE TO BE CHANGED
Beginning Monday. June 12,
the library hours here will be
changed to 9-12 am. and 4-6 pjn.
Patrons of the library are re
quested to note the change of
hours. Heretofore the library has
been open only in the afternoons.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TRIAL OF "NUDE
RIDER" PUT OFF
TO NEXT COURT
Criminal Session Begins Be
fore Judge Alley
NUMBER OF CASES TRIED
Several Are Fined and Their
Driver's License Revoked
for Drunk Driving
DIVORCES ARE GRANTED
The regular term of Surry coun
ty superior court for the trial of
criminal cases began Monday at
Dobson before Presiding Judge
Felix Alley.
Trial of N. B. Spainhour, alleged
"Nude Rider" who was arrested
in Mount Airy several weeks ago
on charges of frightening women
and indecent exposure of his per
son, was continued until next
term of court. Young Spainhour
was found guilty when tried in
Mount Airy recorder's court, but
appealed to superior court.
Among cases disposed of up un
til Wednesday morning were the
following:
Granville Glenn, violating pro
hibition law, four months; W. P.
Wagoner, driving auto intoxicated,
$50.00 fine and driving license re
voked; Clyde Hatcher, driving
auto intoxicated, $50.00 fine ,and
driving license revoked; Ed Danley,
driving auto intoxicated, $50.00
fine and driving license revoked.
The following couples were
granted divorces: William Baird
vs. Caroline Master Baird; Gay
Shore Ramsey vs. Edward Burke
Ramsey; Erma M. Toms vs. C. W.
Toms.
DEATH CLAIMS
REV. WELLBORN
Cycle Preacher Passes Away
as Result of Injury Sus
tained in Fall
RITES HELD THURSDAY
Rev. Fulton McNeill Wellborn.
83, of the Cycle community, died
at his home late Wednesday of
last week from a fractured hip
sustained in a fall several weeks
ago. The deceased was a well
known and highly respected citi
zen.
Funeral services were held
Thursday morning at 11 o'clock
from Temple Hill Baptist church.
The rites were in charge of Rev.
Marcus Walker, life long friend
of the deceased, assisted by Rev.
L. C. Stevens, pastor of the church,
Rev. N. T. Jarvis, Rev. J. L. A.
Bumgarner and Rev. J. D. White.
Many years ago the two mini
sters, Rev. Walker and Wellborn,
made a promise one to the other,
that the one who lived longer
would preach his friend's funeral.
Hie men were near the same age
and had lived in the same com
munity and had been closely
bound by the ties of friendship
and of the ministry throughout
their lives.
Surviving Rev. Wellborn are
four children, C. N. and T. I.
Wellborn and Mrs. Miles Johnson
of Cycle and Mrs. C. S. Cass of
Elkin; two brothers, James F.
Wellborn of Greensboro and M.
A. Wellborn of Cycle, and a num
ber of grandchildren.
Faculty Nam
For Mountain
Park Schools
The following faculty has been
announced for Mountain Park
high and elementary schools for
the 1939-40 term:
Elementary school: Mrs. Thom
as Houck, Miss Gladys Thomp
son, Miss Mary Betty Norman,
Miss Elizabeth Joyce, Miss Thel
ma Cockerham, Mrs. H. T. Mc*
Cann, J. W. Calloway and Mrs.
Henry Wolf.
High school: English and dra
matics, Miss Hilda Heatwole:
science and history, H. T. Mc-
Cann; math and French, Mrs.
Gertrude Whitehead: home ec
onomics, Mrs. Conrad Gentry;
vocational agriculture, A. F. Kin
zie; with J. Sam Gentry again
serving as principal.
Miss Esther Mae Lanier will
teach public school music and
the commercial teacher has not
been selected as yet.