EVENTS
of the
Past
Week
LOCAL
BAUSIE MARION, who suc
ceeds himself as county welfare
officer, has announced that he
and his staff will continue the
same schedule for conference in
different towns of the county as
have been in effect during: his
previous terms in office This
schedule brings Mr. Marion to
Elkin on Thursday of each week;
to Mount Airy on Tuesdays and
Fridays, and he remains at his
Dobson office the other days of
the week.
JOHN HUDSPETH, of Elkin,
suffered minor injuries last
Thursday night in a wreck of his
automobile as he was en route to
his home in North Elkin. Hud
speth's car crashed into an elec
tric line pole near the intersec
tion of Hospital Road and high
way 21. The car was badly dam
aged.
THE UNITED STATES Civil
Service commission lias an
nounced open competitive exam
inations for the following posi
tions: public health nurse, $2,000
per year, graduate nurse, general
staff duty, SI,BOO a year, Indian
Field Service (including Alaska),
department of interior; junior
graduate nurse, $1,620 a year, U.
S. public health service and Vet
erans' administration. Applicants
must have passed their 35th
birthday. Full details may be ob
tained at the Elkin postoffice.
DEWEY CHURCII. a former
Elkin boy, but now an aviator of
Fayetteville, suffered slight in
juries Saturday evening at a
landing field on the W. M. Dick
crson farm, six miles north of
here. Church was attempting a
flight when a control wire of his
small two-passenger plane caught
on a stump in the field. The
plane was damaged.
STATE
ADEQUATE STATE facilities for
the care of mentally diseased
persons would eliminate the
state-wide practice of holding
mental cases in county jails, ac
cording to W. C. Ezell, of the
state board of charities and pub
lic welfare. "However," he points
out, "state facilities are strictly
limited." North Carolina county
jails held 995 insane persons in
1938, which was 55 less than the
number confined in the county
institutions in 1937.
WILLIAM T. LONG has been
elected as superintendent of the
Wilkes bo ro school by the Wilkes
boro district school board. The
new superintendent succeeds Prof.
T. E. Story, who after 15 years
with the school, was ousted by
the board. He is recognized as
an outstanding school man.
THE STATE banking depart
ment Monday completed the job
of liquidating the 185 banks
which closed between 1927 and
the bank holiday of 1933.
NATIONAL
KING GEORGE of England
told President Roosevelt in a
telegram Monday that the kind
ness and cordiality shown him
self and his queen in the United
States "has stirred our hearts."
The message, signed "George VI,"
reached the President at Phila
delphia, where his special train
paused on the way back to Wash
ington. "To you our host," it
concluded, "and to the many
thousands of American citizens
who also showed us such true
hospitality and such spontaneous
courtesy, we send our heartfelt
thanks and best wishes."
TOO MUCH RAIN in some sec- !
tions of the country' and not
enough in others has cost the na
tion's farmers millions of dollars
in crop losses, a survey has re
vealed. While the deep south
hoped for cessation of heavy
spring- rains that threatened to
ruin thousands of acres of cot
ton, farmers in the east, south
west and Pacific northwest sought
relief from arid weather that al
ready has wrought permanent in
jury to millions of bushels of
grain.
INTERNATIONAL
THE NEWS from Europe dur
ing the past week has shown
growing unrest with Great Bri
tain answering opposition accu
sations of new "appeasemen" in
clinations with a firm declaration
that it 'was prepared to meet
force with force. Meanwhile, in
What was once Czechoslovakia,
the killing of two Nazi police
men resulted in wholesale arrests
by the Germans. To complicate
matters 18.000 young Czechs were
said in reports from Warsaw and
Prague to have organized a new
legion in Poland designed to re
gain their country's independ
ence. .
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
VOL. No. XXVIII. No. 31
JAPS BEGIN
BLOCKADE OF
CONCESSIONS
110,000 Persons Isolated from
Outer World
TROUBLE IS FEARED
Move Made in Reprisal for
British Refusal to Give
Up Chinese
POSITION IS DIFFICULT
Tientsin, China, June 14 (Wed
nesday).—Japanese troops began
an armed blockade of the British
and French concessions here at 6
a.m. today, isolating more than
110.000 persons several thou
sands cf them occidentals —from
Tientsin proper and the outer
world.
The Japanese action, risking se
rious trouble with the western
powers, was taken in reprisal for
the refusal of British authorities
to surrender four Chinese whom
the Japanese suspect of killing a
pro-Japanese Chinese customs of
ficial.
In a last minute effort at some
scrt of comprise arrangement to
prevent the blockade British
authorities proposed that a special
conciliatory court be formed, in
cluding one Briton, one Japanese
and one neutral, to decide wheth
er the Chinese should be delivered.
These efforts failed, placing Brit
ain in the most difficult position
she has faced during the two
years of the Sino-Japanese con
flict. In recent months Japanese-
British relations have worsened
rapidly.
(In Tokyo the newspaper Yomi
uri asserted editorially what for
eigners had suspected for a long
time, namely: "Japan is aiming
not only at Tientsin's concessions
but at foreign concessions in China
generally, and also against the
far-eastern policies of Britain and
France.")
BAPTISTS TO
HOLD REVIVAL
Dr. J. R. Jester, of Winston-
Salem, to Conduct Series
of Meetings
PLAN SPECIAL MUSIC
Beginning' Sunday, June 18, Dr.
J. R. Jester, well known evange
list and for 13 years pastor of the
First Baptist church in Winston-
Salem, will come to the First Bap
tist' church here for a revival
meeting. The meeting will con
tinue through June 30, and two
services will be held daily, at 9:30
in tjje morning and 7:30 in the
evening. Dr. Jester is favorably
known throughout this section for
his forceful and earnest sermons
and his friends here are legion.
A special nursery has been pro
vided at the church for the care
of small children whose parents
want to attend the services. This
service will be offered at each of
the meetings.
Special music will be a feature
of the daily sessions in addition to
helpful and inspiring sermons.
Rev. Eph Whisenhunt, pastor of
the church, and the church mem
bership extends a cordial invita
tion to the town to attend the
services.
PLAY HOUR IS
WELL ATTENDED
The Play Hour, in progress at
the Methodist church, is being
well attended by children of the
community. The hour is spon
sored by the Epworth League of
the church* and the program is
varied with art, music, stories,
Bible verses and games. The
children are divided into age
groups with instruction for each
group suitable for children of
that particular age.
Miss Lena Sale directs the pro
gram; Miss Peggy Royall, music,
and Miss Louise Laffoon the art
groups and the enrollment of the
children.
A small fee is charged for each
child attending, the proceeds to
be used for the Lake Junaluska
fund.
Programs begin promptly at 2
o'clock each afternoon and close
at 5 o'clock.
During the years 1935 and 1936
there were only 257 persons in
prisdb in North Carolina who had
had a college education. ;
Is to Conduct
Revival at
Baptist Church
-
9r JHHj
■
Dr. J. R. Jester, evangelist,
who will conduct a revival at
the First Baptist church here
beginning June 18. Dr. Jester
was for 13 years pastor of the
First Baptist church of Win
ston-Salem.
BUDGET SET UP
BY CO. BOARD
County Tax Rate Has Not
Been Definitely Decided
by Commissioners
TO MEET NEXT MONDAY
An annual budget of $174,702
has been set up for Surry county
for the fiscal year of 1939-40, al
though the county tax rate has
not been definitely decided.
The budget as worked out and
submitted to the county commis
sioners by County Treasurer B.
F. Folger provides S7OO for the
county commissioners service;
$12,000 for the tax department;
$4,500 for the sheriff's office;
SI,OOO for the elections board;
$2,000 for the county accountant;
$325 for the county treasurer;
$3,000 for the courthouse and
grounds maintenance; $4,250 for
the register of deeds; S3OO for the
attorney and S6OO for the forest
warden.
It also provides $3,000 for the
maintenance and operation of
the county jail; SIOO for the
county coroner; $2,000 for opera
tion of the county farm; $7,000
for the administration and sup
plies for the county welfare de
partment; SB,IOO for the outside
poor; $3,700 fos the home dem
onstration and county farm
agents; 4,350 for the county
health department; $4,200 for the
recorder's court; SIOO for the
pension board; SSOO for vital sta
tistics; $16,307 for the old age,
dependent children and blind;
$80,070 for debt service, and $2,-
000 for miscellaneous purposes.
Yadkin Couple
Celebrate
Anniversary
More than 300 people gathered
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Ray in the Shady Grove com
munity of Yadkin county Sun
day to celebrate with them their
sixty-fifth wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Ray was before her mar
riage Miss Elizabeth Swaim,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Swaim. Five years after their
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ray unit
ed with  Swaim's Baptist church
and during that time have been
two of the most active members
of that group. They have three
children: A. M. Ray, Milas Ray
and Mrs. J. Free Brown. In addi
tion to this they have 18 grand
children and 45 great-grand
children. This couple has spent
their entire life at their present
home.
They are. so far as is known,
the oldest married couple in Yad
kin county and in this 1 vicinity.
They are both in unusually good
health and are mentally alert.
During the day addresses were
made by Rev. W. V. Brown, Rev.
E. C. Norman, Rev. Clete Sim
mons and Rev. Brady Mathis, all
former pastors of Swaim's church
and all close friends of the fam
.iiy. . '
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1939
NEW ACT GIVEN
8 TO 12 VOTE
BY THE HOUSE
Foreign Affairs Bqdy Acts
Favorably
EARLY ACTION SOUGHT
Would Change Neutrality Bill
to Make Resources Avail
able to Britain
WOULD HELP FRANCE
Washington, June 13.—8y a
strictly party vote, 12 to 8, the
house foreign affairs committee
today approved the new admini
stration neutrality bill, a measure
so drawn that if war should come
to Europe, America's vast re
sources would concededly be a
vailable to Great Britain, France
and their allies.
The legislation, denounced by
'its foes as "unneutral" and likely
to drag the United States into the
first foreign conflict that comes
along, goes next to the house
proper. Action there is planned
for late next week, or early in the
.veek following.
Leaders were confident that the
house would approve the bill, but
readily conceded that its chances
in the senate were of a different
sort. There the old isolationist
bloc, augmented by some new re
cruits, was waiting to fight the
measure to the end, and a fili
buster against it was considered
much more than a possibility.
The senate foreign relations
ccmmittee was scheduled to meet
tomoiTow to decide when it would
begin consideration of specific
neutrality legislation. Some looked
for a test vote on an effort to post
pone the date. With adjournment
dependent upon disposition of the
controversy it was regarded as
axiomatic that any delay would
favor the opposition.
N. C. EXHIBIT
DRAWS PRAISE
Noted Artist Classes It
"Strongest, Most Modern
and Most Graphic"
TAR HEELS GRATIFIED
New York, N. Y.—"Strongest,
most modern and most graphic"
of any of the exhibits at New
York World's Pair is the praise
heaped upon North Carolina's ex
hibit by Boris Margo, noted ar
tist, who visited the st&te build
ing this week.
Margo dropped in at the North
Carolina space and immediately
called it "wonderful," and ex
pressed his appreciation that
such a "modest and simple" ex
hibit could convey so much in
formation and so many impres
sions of a state.
The artist designed the Time
and Space building at the fair.
For five years he has been in
structor in modern art at the
Rorech Museum. Many of his
pieces are on display in the Art
Gallery at 36 West Eighth Ave
nue.
The Tar Heel staff was so
gratified by the enthusiasm of
their visitor that they insisted he
make another inspection of the
exhibit, this time with the ser
vices of an attendant who ex
plained each piece and answered
all the guest's questions. They
were especially pleased that the
artist insisted on judging the ex
hibits by the skill and impressive
ness of idea-presentation, rather
than luxury of material or size of
space.
TO PRESENT PUPILS
IN SONG RECITAL
R. Gratz Cox will present his
vocal pupils of Elkin and North
Wilkesboro in a song recital this
evening (Thursday) at 8:15 in
the elementary school auditorium
here.
Local people appearing on the
program are: Miss Lena Sale,
Mrs. Fletcher Harris, Van Dillon,
Miss Josephine Paul, Mrs. Hugh
Chatham, John Sagar, Miss Car
oline Lillard and Mrs. Franklin
Folger, the latter to play accom
paniments. Those from North'
Wilkesboro will be: Louis Vickery,
Miss Ruth Halfacre, Richard
Johnson, Mrs. Richard Finley,
John Blackburn, Mrs. Andrew F.
Kilby, Mrs. W. K. Sturdivant,
Forest Church and Mrs. Frank
Johnson.
The public is extended a cor
dial Invitation to attend.
AJO P' c t ure d below are some of the 200
*» v/ OLnUUL children, between the ages of 6 and
11, who escaped to safety when their two-story frame
school house ws destroyed after a gas explosion at Bar
berton, Ohio. Forty-two children were injured, three
critically.
SURRY COURT
ENDS FRIDAY
Numerous Whisky Cases Re
sult in Fines and Sus
pended Sentences
ONE DIVORCE GRANTED
The criminal session of Surry
county superior court adjourned
Friday with the following cases
being among those having been
disposed of:
Elbert Watson, Ellard Adams,
G. L. Golding, Dan Edwards and
William O'Neal, operating a car
while intoxicated, SSO fine and
driving license revoked for a period
of one year, plus suspended sen
tence each.
Coy Todd, assault with a deadly
weapon, SSO and costs.
Lillie Hauser Dean and Price
Dean, violating prohibition laws,
SSO and costs, plus suspended
sentence. ,
P. A. Hill, violation of prohibi
tion law, SSO and costs, plus sus
pended sentence.
Seymore Norman, assault with
a deadly weapon, S2O and costs.
Robert Glass, Charlie Mills, Cal
vin Mills, Robert Mills and Fred
Mills, assault with a deadly weap
on, fines of $25 to SSO each, plus
suspended sentences.
A divorce was granted to Mar
garet Grogan and John Grogan.
Judge Felix Alley presided over
the session.
AGED VETERAN PLANS
94th ANNIVERSARY
Ed Hemric, a Confederate vet
eran, will celebrate his 94th
birthday at the home of his son,
Harrison Hemric, near Yadkin
ville, Sunday, June 25, at which
time his six children, 54 grand
children and 47 great-grandchil
dren, expect to attend. This is
a total of 107 descendants with
out a death in the family.
Mr. Hemric was born at Swan
Creek. Yadkin county, and has
spent his life in Yadkin and Sur
ry counties except the time spent
in the Civil War. Mr. Hemric is
spry for his age and spent the
past week-end with relatives in
Elkin. He drinks black coffee
three times daily and eats heart
ily.
Present plans call for all the
descendants to be present, as well
as other relatives and neighbors,
all invited to attend and bring
baskets for dinner in picnic style.
The children consist of five boys
and a daughter. They are Har
rison Hemric, with whom he
lives, George, Clay and Wade
Hemric, of Elkin, and Robert
Hemric, of the West Virginia coal
fields, orje daughter, Mrs. Fannie
Couch, of Jonesville.
LOCAL YOUTH AWARDED
DIPLOMA AT TULANE
New Orleans, La., June 13—
William Revere Wellborn, Jr., of
Elkin, was awarded the degree of
bachelor of science at Tulane
University's commencement exer
cises Wednesday night in the
New Orleans municipal auditor
ium.
Mr. Wellborn completed the
regular course of the college of
arts and sciences and was pre
sented for the degree by Dean
Marten ten Hoor.
Out of the total of 37,887 North
Carolina prisoners in 1937 and
1938, only 313, or less than one
out of every hundred, had been
to college.
Bond Issue
Approved by
Jonesville
Jnnesville voters went to the
polls Tuesday and gave their
approval to a $40,000 bond is
sue to be used to finance a
school building program, the
vote being approximately 2 to
1 in favor of the bond issue,
despite intense opposition from
the opposing side.
The vote was: for 635,
against 355. Out of a total
registration of 1,078, the total
vote was 993.
Both proponents and oppon
ents had waged an active cam
paign during the past several
weeks. Although the report
was not verified, it was said
Wednesday afternoon that op
ponents of the bond issue were
planning to contest the elec
tiOn.
JURY LIST
IS DRAWN
Surry Civil Court to Get Un
der Way at Dobson on
Monday, July l()th
NETTLES TO PRESIDE
Surry county superior court for
the trial of civil cases will con
vene Monday, July 10, at Dobson,
before Judge Nettles. Jurors se
lected by the county commission
ers to serve during the session are
as follows:
First week: J. B. Jarrell, John
Nixon, A. J. Vestal, J. C. Vestal,
J. C. Harris, Dan Cockerham, S.
P. Shelton, E. W. Badgett, Bryon
Johnson. Davis G. Smith, A. S.
Allred, Chester C. Fulp, E. F.
Jackson, D. T. Sparger, John
Jackson, John Tucker, Calvin
Norris, Charles B. Shelton, T. C.
Cockerham, Elmer Key, Clyde
Eller, C. H. Cheek, J. W. Allen
and E. B. Spainhour.
Second week: E. W. Draughn,
C. R. Smith, James W. Lowell,
A. Dawens, J. D. Davis, -Willie
Gammons, T. C. Alberty, Sam In
man, R. F. Haymore, Fred Pruitt,
Jesse M. Banner, T. V. Bass, J.
W. Shore, Fred Hill, Walter F.
Scott, Marion Perry, S. S. Lam
bert, J. B. McKinney.
YVILKINS INFANT
PASSES MONDAY
Ann Lee Wilkins, almost five
months old, and daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Gurney Wilkins of
Brooks Cross Roads, died in the
local hospital Monday morning
from colitis.
She is survived by her parents
and two brothers, James and Page
Wilkins.
Funeral services were .held Wed
nesday morning at 11 o'clock
from the Pentecostal Holiness
church at Longtown. The rites
were in charge of Rev. Sam Jones,
pastor of the church.
BAPTIST CHURCH
BEING RENOVATED
The interior of the First Bap
tist church is being renovated
and redecorated and the wood
work on the exterior of the build
ing is being painted. This adds
greatly to the appearance of the
church The work will be com
pleted this week.
Elkm
"The Best Little Tovi
in North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
TOWN BOARD TO
COT TAX RATE;
PASS NEW LAWS
Tentative Rate Is Set at
$1.35
PRESENT RATE IS $1.50
City Bus Franchise Is Grant
ed to Marvin Mayberry;
to Start by Dec. 1
PUT BAN ON DEVICES
The Elkin tax rate has been re
duced from $1.50 to $1.35 accord
ing to a proposed budget tenta
tively adopted by the Elkin board
of commissioners at their meeting
last Thursday evening. This
makes a tax reduction of 15 cents
on the hundred dollar valuation
and brings Elkin's tax rate below
many towns of the state. The
budget and tax rate are expected
to be officially approved at the
commissioners' next meeting in
July.
In addition to working on the
budget the city officials outlawed
slot machines here after four cafe
operators had requested license to
oper ite such machines. An ordi
nance was passed which prohibits
possession, use and operation of
the machines, or any other gam
bling apparatus and device of any
kind which "pays off." Violation
carries a minimum fine of $50.00
or 30 days imprisonment.
With several applications before
them for a city bus franchise, the
board awarded a five-year fran
chise to Marvin Mayberry, local
taxi operator, with the provision
that the service start on or before
December 1 and that all equip
ment be new and modern, with
adequate insurance provided.
The commissioners also passed
an ordinance regulating the hours
for opening and closing barber
shops, limiting the hours from
6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., with the
exception of Saturday evenings
when the closing hour was set for
midnight. Violation will result in
a $25 fine.
A schedule of priviledge taxes
was completed (printed elsewhere
in this issue), and an offer of a
plat of land in Westover Terrace
by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Neaves to
the town of Elkin to be developed
into a public park was accepted.
LOCAL TEAM DEFEATS
GREENSBORO 15 TO 1
The Elkin Furniture baseball
nine invaded Greensboro Sunday
to take a game from the Car-Cal
Winery by a score of 15-1. Red
Powers pitching for the local team
added to his pitching honors with
a home run. Smith also hit a
homer while Gene Hampton got
three for four.
The furniture team will tackle
the strong team from North
Wilkesboro Saturday, June 17, at
Chatham Park. The game will be
called at 3:30.
Goodness! The
Hens Around Here
Are Acting Up!
Although they are both pro
ducing eggs, there are two
hens around this neck of the
woods who are not acting egg
zactly according to Hoyle, if
one would judge by their eggs.
First there is the pullet be
longing to Mrs. A. M. Black
burn, of Ronda. This pullet,
age four and one-half months,
lays an egg every day, but in
stead of the customary one
yolk, the eggs have two. It
may be the pullet is trying to
make a good impression, what
with so many Methodist
preachers around, or else just
doesn't know any better.
' Hen No. 2, whose identity is
unknown, but who is owned'by
C. S. Lyons, of near Austin,
has gone in for brick-red eggs.
v Such an egg was found in the
nest and no doubt was laid by
a Rhode Island Red hen. This
egg is being saved at The Tri
bune office for its owner, much
against the will of the man
ager of The Tribune freak de
partment, whose custom it is
to eat all the freaks.
If you hear your hen recit
ing Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad
dress sometime, be sure to
phone The Tribune right
away. One never knows what
a hen will do these days.