EVEN IS
of the
Past
Week
LOCAL
THE BOARD OF commis
sioners, of Jonesville, meeting
in monthly session Monday ev
ening:, named Hoke F. Hender
son, of Elkin, as Jonesville at
torney. Other business dis
patched was largely of a rou
tine nature.
AN EPIDEMIC of street
fights took place here during
the latter part of last week,
which resulted in the arrest of
Dencie Shore and Gilmer Ev
ridge, both of Jonesville,
charged with an affray; Jesse
Couch, charged with being
drunk and disorderly in a pub
lic place and engaging in an
affray on the streets, \nd re
sisting an officer (by running
away); and Ernest Bates and
another young man whose
name could not be learned.
Shore and Evridge were fined
SIO.OO and the costs each by
Magistrate Hall, and placed
under 30-day suspended sen
tences; Couch's trial is pend
ing, and Bates and his oppon
ent are to be tried Friday.
CLEAT WILLIAMS, of
Wilkes county, near Elkin, has
been released from the local
hospital where he was taken
following injuries sustained
when a mule he was leading
became frightened by a car,
causing the man to fall in the
policeman, stated that Wil
car's path. Corbitt Wall, local
Hams was alleged to have
stolen the mule from Charlie
Carter, and was taking him
away when the accident oc
curred. A warrant sworn out
for Williams had not been
served early Wednesday morn
ing, Officer Wall said.
J. A. EADS, Surry rabies in
spector, will be at the follow
ing places on Saturday, July 8
and Saturday, July 15. to vac
cinate dogs: Kapp's Mill, 7 to
8 a.m.; Bryan, 8:30 to 9 a.m.;
Mountain Park postoffice, 10
a.m. to 12 noon; Zephyr store
12:30 to 1:30 pan.; Thomp
son's store 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
STATE
THE THREE-CENT stamp
must be retained if the United
States postoffice department
is to continue as a self-sus
taining agency, M. F. Fltzpat
rick, president of the National
Association of Postal Supervi
sors, told postal workers in
convention at Raleigh Tuesday.
The convention of 500 postal
workers closed with a banquet
Tuesday afternoon and accept
ed an invitation to meet at
Chapel Hill next year.
PARAMOUNT NEWS cam
eramen photographed a series
of scenes during; the week-end
opening of the third summer
season of Paul Green's histor
ical drama, "The Lost Colony,"
at the Waterside theatre at
Manteo. A series of shots was
taken of the colonists in the
new world and their struggle
in attempting to win the wil
derness. The scenes were to
be released to first run
theatres this week.
NATIONAL
RISING BUSINESS trends
in the United States during
the next three months, barring
a European war, were fore
cast in Wall Street circles
Tuesday as factories and trade
rested in observance of the
Fourth of July. Some trend
watchers predicted industrial
activity for the third quarter
might average as much as 15
per cent, higher than in the
like period last year.
THE LIST of those who t'ied
violently over the long holiday
week-end had passed 500 Tues
night, despite widespread cam
paigning for a safe and sane
Fourth of July celebration. As
millions still were returning
from vacation resorts, the to
tal had mounted to at least
520, as compared with the 517
reported -for the shorter,
three-day week-end last July.
Automobiles, as usual, claimed
the greatest number of dead.
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS FROM EUROPE dur
ing the past week-end was as
usual featured by war talk,
plus an' expected crisis over
Danzig, which failed to devel
op over the week-end, as fear
ed by Poland, France and Bri
tain. With Europe still jittery
as it awaits Adolf Hitler's next
move, word comes that Britain,
France and Soviet Russia had
reached agreement on all malr.
points of a proposed mutual
assistance pact, but that some
minor questions remained to
.be settled.
Tim ELK IN TRIBUNE
VOlbwNo. XXVm.No. 34
MeCann's Body Is
Fished From Lake;
Shoulder Injured
To Hear School
Bond Issue at
Newland Today
The Jonesville school bond
issue, involving issuance of
$40,000 for enlarging the
Jonesville school, will be heard
this afternoon at 1 o'clock be
fore Judge S. J. Ervin, at New
land.
The plaintiffs, J. S. Hinson,
H. L. Evans. Carl Rose, John
Colbert, R. S. Walters and J.
A. Lyons, filed a complaint de
claring the election illegal im
mediately following the elec
tion June 13 in which the
bond issue carried by a large
majority.
CHECKS ARRIVE
FOR VETERANS
Distribution Began Saturday;
Now Received First of
Each Month
ARE 36 CHECKS IN ALL
First monthly checks which go
to 36 aged residents of Surry
county each month under the
new North Carolina pension law,
have been received for distribu
tion by Clerk of Superior Court
P. T. Lewellyn at Dobson. Here
tofore all pension payments to
Confederate veterans and widows
of veterans have been made semi
annually.
Mr. Lewellyn started dispens
ing the checks l&st Saturday.
They included eight for Confed
erate veterans, in amount of
$31.41 each; 19 for class A wid
ows for $25.00 each; and nine for
class B widows, for $8.33 each.
The widows are rated "A" or "B"
according to their physical con
ditions and needs.
Checks for veterans go to the
following: Squire J. Odell, of Mt.
Airy; John W. Phillips, Mt. Airy;
W. H. Hall, Zephyr; M. A. South
ard, Zephyr; Squire Byrd Snow,
Mountain Park; G. C. Marshall,
White Plains; A. S. Cockerham,
Thurmond; and E. M. Hemrick,
State Road. One veteran, L. F.
Wall, of State Road, has died
since the December checks were
distributed.
The nineteen class "A" widows
include Mrs. Mary E. Hodges,
(Continued on last page;
B. T. U.
Close Exc
Meet In
Boonville, July 4.—Twenty
three State Baptist Training Un
ion workers left Yadkin county
last Saturday morning after
bringing to a close the first
county-wide B. T. U. revival ever
held in the county. They went
from Yadkin county to Ridge
crest, where they will spend a
week attending the Southern
Baptist Training Union Conven
tion.
When these workers came they
found only seven Baptist Train
ing Unions functioning. They
left behind them 18 organized
unions in the Yadkin association
and one in the Surry association
at Elkin Valley. The organiza
tion work of the new unions? were
directed by the workers, while
the old unions were enlarged and
strengthened.
Every community in which
there was a worker expressed
satisfaction with the work that
was accomplished. It is closely
estimated that well over 4,000
people attended the revivals in
the various churches for the five
nights.
Churches participating in the
revival were Arlington, Boonville,
Charity, Cross Roads, Deep Creek,
East Bend, Enon, Flat Rock,
Forbush, Friendship, Jonesvttle,
Mountain View, Oak Ridge,
Richmond Hill, Rock Springs,
Sandy Springs, Union Grove and
Yadkinville in the Yadkin Asso
ciation and Slkin Valley in the
Surry Association.
HOWARD M'CANN
DROWNED WHEN
BOAT CAPSIZED
Wife and Friends Rescued
from Water .
HAPPENED SUNDAY P. M.
Young Man Believed Injured
L When Boat Overturned;
Said Good Swimmer
RITES ON WEDNESDAY
The cold blue water of Roaring
Gap lake late Tuesday afternoon
gave up the body of Howard Mc-
Cann, 23. who drowned Sunday
night when an electric power
boat in which he, his wife, and
friends were riding, overturned.
An examination of the body
disclosed the young man to have
suffered a badly dislocated shoul
der, probably having been struck
by the boat or its propeller when
it overturned. This injury is be
lieved to have been responsible
for his death, as he was said to
have been a good swimmer.
Search for young McCann went
forward from the time he was
first missed. When the boat
overturned, in about 40 feet of
water, his wife, the former Miss
Irene Dickson, df Grassy Creek,
and friends, J. T. Inskeep and
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Crouse, held
on to the capsized boat and were
rescued. It was at first believed
McCann had swum ashore, but
when he didn't appear, search of
the lake followed.
The search was directed by a
Winston-Salem rescue squad,
which, with the assistance of
Roaring Gap residents, dragged
the deep stump-infested waters
without avail until Tuesday af
ternoon about 5 o'clock when the
body was caught by grappling
hooks about 150 yards from the
place he went down. The body
was said to have been in a good
state of .preservation, and in
r.ddition to the dislocated shoul
der, one of the legs was said to
have been drawn up as if by
cramps. The water was said to
have been about 35 feet deep at
the point the body was recovered.
A member of the Mountain
Park school faculty last term,
McCann is survived by his wife;
two brothers, Burton and Guy; a
sister, Ethel, and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Coy McCann, of Roar
ing Gap.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at Wood
ruff Primitive Baptist church,
near Sparta.
SEEKING BIDS ON COAL
FOR SURRY SCHOOL USE
John W. Comer, Surj-y county
superintendent of education, has
asked for bids for furnishing
nearly 1,000 tons of coal to 28
school units in the county educa
tional system. Mr. Comer stated
that he planned to award the
contract to some local coal deal
er, the bids being requested for
the delivery of the -coal and
placing it in the bins at the
schools in various parts of the
county. The bids are due in %Ir;
Comer's office on July 7.
Ninety tons of coal will be
needed for Elkin's schools, 40
tons for the high school and 50
tons for the elementary school.
NICKS VICE PRESIDENT
OF VETERINARY ASS'N
Dr. C. E. Nicks of this city was
re-elected first vice-president of
the North Carolina State Vet
erinary Medical Association at
the state convention in Charlotte
last week. Dr. A. A. Hussman, of
Raleigh, was re-named president
of the group.
TUBERCULOSIS CLINIC
HERE FRIDAY, JULY 14
Dr. John A. Denholm, i n
charge of the Surry county Tu
bercular Clinic, will be in Rlkin
all day Friday, July 14. Appoint
ments can be made by calling the
health office here Thursday af
ternoon.
ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939
Is To
Trip Abroad
For Research
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Dr. Ethel Abernethy, daugh
ter of Rev. and Mrs. L. B. Ab
ernethy, of this city, is here on
a visit to her parents. She will
leave Eikin the first of next
week to spend a week in Can
ada, planning: to sail from
Quebec on the Empress of Brit
ain for England, where she will
do research work for a month
at several English universities.
She expects to spend August
touring Europe. Dr. Abernethy
is head of the department of
Psychology at Queens-Chicora
College.
TAKING STEPS
AGAINST FEVER
Yadkin County Experiencing
Worst Typhoid Epidemic
Scare in Years
FOUR CASES REPORTED
Boonville, July 3 —A few sec
tions of Yadkin county are real
izing one of the worst typhoid ep
idemic scaras at the present time
that has been experienced in the
county in many years. The rea
son for this scare has been the
development in recent weeks of
four typhoid cases in widely scat
tered parts of the county. Two
cases of the disease were found
in the Hamptonville section of
the county near the Iredell coun
ty line; the other two cases re
ported are in the Dobbins school
settlement about three miles west
of Boonville in the northwest sec
tion of the county. These two
communities are about 18 miles
apart. Out of the four cases, the
disease was fatal to one. the
Johnson youth of Hamptonville
having succumbed to the disease.
Although this is an off year for
typhoid vaccine clinics in the
county. Mrs. Jamie Leake Mes
fick and Miss Laura Niblock have
expressed a desire to give vaccina
tion to every person desiring the
precautionary measure against
the disease. Many have taken
advantage of the opportunity to
protect themselves. At the Boon
ville clinic Monday morning more
than 200 were given the vaccina
tion while there are more than
300 taking the vaccination in the
Dobbins school settlement where
two of the cases were found.
Dr. E. S. Grady is also holding
a similar clinic at Hamptonville
and he announced this morning
that this clinic would close next
Monday. The hour for this clinic
is 2 p.m.
Dr. Warwick, of Winston-Sa
lem, head of the sanitary depart
ment of the 4-County Health De
partment, said that the disease
probably came from carelessness
on the part of the people in
choosing their drinking water. It
was found that some people in
these communities had been
drinking branch wkter while in
remote fields at work, rather
than making trips farther away
to get their supply from wells or
springs. No pollution was found
in any wells or springs, *and for
that reason it is thought that the
branch water might have caused
the diseases. The health depart
ment warns strictly against the
usage of branch water for drink
ing purposes.
No new cases of the disease
have been reported in the county.
Charles Neaves, of this city, ac
companied by Bert Bennett at
Winston-Salem, spent the week
end in Roxboro, the guests of Mat
Long.
PRESIDENT IS
INSISTING ON
QUIOACTION
Demands Law to Keep Na
tion Out of War
WOULD SCRAP EMBARGO
Roosevelt Says Modification
of Bill Is Welcomed by
Europe's Dictators
SUPPORTS HULL'S STAND
Hyde Park, N. Y., July 4.
President Roosevelt said at a
press conference toady he wanted
action on neutrality legislation
at this session of Congress with
the objective of preventing war.
The policy of the administra
tion—the first policy—Mr. Roos
evelt said, is to prevent any war
in any part of the world because
anything that can be done to
stop war is good.
He made it clear he still was
supporting Secretary Hull's posi
tion that the arms embargo sec
tion of the) present neutrality law
should be scrapped.
Hull's proposals, including abol
ition of the arms embargo, were
incorporated in the Bloom bill in
the house, but a coalition of Re
publicans and Democrats over
rode administration leaders last
Friday and wrote in a modified
arms embargo provision before
passing the measure.
Mr. Roosevelt asserted that
press dispatches from four major
capitals stating that the house
action had been welcomed in fas
cist and nazi nations were sub
stantiated by reports to the state
department.
And he indicated that he be
lieved it was true that action had
an unfavorable effect' on the cur
rent European crisis, might bring
war closer and would make it
more difficult for this country to
keep from being embroiled.
LOCAL YOUTH
BADLY HURT
Jim Transou Receives Serious
Injuries When Car Over
turns Saturday
IS IN LOCAL HOSPITAL
Jim Transou, about 23, is in
Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital
with severe injuries as the result
cf an automobile accident which
occurred Saturday night on the
Swan Creek road.
The young man, a son of Mr.
and the late Mrs. Mont Transou,
of Elkin, was returning to Elkin
when it was thought the right
rear tire of his machine, a sedan,
blew out. The car turned over
several times, pinning Transou
beneath it.
Released by passersby, he was
hurried to the hospital here,
where he was found to have suf
fered severe bruises, lacerations
and possible internal injuries.
However, his condition was de
scribed Wednesday as being satis
factory.
The automobile was completely
demolished.
TUBERCULOSIS
CLINIC STARTS
Dr. John S. Denholm, of N.
C. Tubercular Sanatorium,
Is in Charge
DR. FRANKLIN ASSISTS
Scheduled originally to start
Monday, the semi-annual tuber
culosis clinic of the Surry county
health department was postponed
until yesterday (Wednesday),
due to the holiday.
This clinic, the second to be
held in Surry county this year, is
being conducted by Dr. John S.
Denholm, staff clinician for the
North Carolina Tubercular San
atorium. He is being assisted by
Dr. R. B. Franklin, Surry health
officer, and by the regular staff
of nurses of the Surry health de
partment.
In the first clinic held for two
weeks during February, of which
Dr. Denholm was also in charge,
285 persons were examined and
27 new cases of the disease dis
covered. Eight of these were rec
ommended for sanatorium treat
ment.
fi AIR rs * *' o ' in J° nes » widow of
V 11 J1 1 J i xi I l\ Casey Jones, hero of song and
poem, who was killed in a train wreck on April 30, 1900, is
pictured shaking hands with engineer Herbert Nicholson,
who is in the cab of the William Mason of 1870, one of the
many locomotives and trains on exhibit at the New York
World's Fair.
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Are To D
North Oak
Baptist C
North Oak Ridge Baptist
church, which has been complet
ed debt free at a cost of more
than $5,000 since the first of the
year, will be dedicated at a spe
cial service Sunday, July 16. The
celebration will be doubly signifi
cant as it will also be a home
coming service.
An interesting all-day program
has been arranged by Rev. Clete
Simmons, pastor, and members
of the church. At the Sunday
school hour Garland Johnson,
vice-president of the Bank of
Elkin, is expected to make a talk.
At 11 o'clock Rev. Grant Cothren,
of Lomax, will preach the dedica
tory sermon.
A basket dinner will be served
on the grounds at the noon hour.
In the afternoon the congrega
tion will assemble to the church
for a quartette singing in which
all gospel quartette singers are
invited to participate.
The public is extended a cor
dial invitation to attend the ser
vice.
RULING HALTS
DAM PROJECT
Judge Sink Signs Restraining
Order in Case Against
City of High Point
ALL WORK IS HALTED
Encountering many difficulties
in its efforts to manufacture its
own electric power, the city of
High Point Friday ran into an
other stumbling block when Resi
dent Judge H. Hoyle Sink, of su
perior court, signed an order re
straining the municipality "from
any further activities, operation,
development, advancement or
continuation of the proposed hy
droelectric project." Judge Sink's
ruling came after two months of
special hearings.
Council for the city of High
Point gave notice of appeal to the
state Supreme court.
The order was granted plain
tiffs in the two suits against the
city after the court had found as
a fact that the Yadkin is not now
and never has been navigable.
Following the ruling, all work
on the project was stopped. Over
a hundred men had been employ
ed on the project, which was to
cost $6,500,000.
DOBSON MAN PASSES
AWAY ON JULY 4th
Gilmer Nichols, about 35, of
Dobson, died at his home last
Tuesday evening. Mr. Nichols
received injuries while working on
the Beulah school building dur
ing October of 1938 and had never
regained his health. Funeral
services will be held at Dobson to
day (Thursday) at 2 o'clock.
He is survived by his wife and
two children.
MRS. LUKE SIMPSON,
OF DOBSON, PASSES
Dobson was saddened Tuesday
evening by the passing of Mrs.
Luke Simpson, who had suffered
sometime with a lung disease.
Mrs. Simpson Is survived by her
husband and several small chil
dren. Funeral services and burial
will take place this afternoon
(Thursday) at Piney Grove.
Elkin /
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
OLD BELT TO
OPEN SEPT. 14
Weed Market to Swing into
Action Two Weeks Earlier
Than Last Year
OFFICIALS ARE NAMED
The Old Belt tobacco market,
which includes Winston-Salem
and Mount Airy, will open Sep
tember 14, two weeks earlier than
in 1938, and one week after the
Middle Belt market opens instead
of two weeks as has been the rule
for the past several years.
Opening dates and other im
portant matters pertaining to the
auction leaf markets were an
nounced about noon Friday from
the White Sulphur Springs, W.
Va„ meeting of the United States
Tobacco Association.
Officers were re-elected by the
association; the sale of not more
than 360 piles of tobacco an hour
was retained; the same working
hours per day as previously was
decided on .and November 11 was
declared a holiday when all mar
kets will close.
C. T. Joyce, of Winston-Salem,
was elected one of two new men
on the board of governors, the
other being W. H. Hatcher, of
Richmond, Va. Winston-Salem
already has two men on the
board of governors, T. W. Black
well and W. A. Goodson.
J. S. Ficklen was re-elected
president of the association.
A resolution offered by Black
well was adopted by the associa
tion, authorizing President Fick
len to urge all warehousemen to
have uniform grading of leaf to
bacco and to have uniform piles,
with no piles over 500 pounds.
RIDING DEVICES
HERE JULY 7-15
Sponsored by Local Masons;
Proceeds to go to Oxford
Orphanage
AT USUAL LOCATION
The R. C. Lee, Inc., riding de
vices, will be here July 7 to 15.
under the auspices of the local
Masonic Order.
The rides this year will total
five in number, Mr. Lee having
added a loop-the-loop to his
equipment. They will be located
aF usual on South Bridge street
near the end of the old Yadkin
river bridge.
Proceeds of the rides will be
turned over to the Oxford Or
phanage.
The annual Surry-Yadkin-
Wilkes Masonic picnic, in connec
tion with which the Lee riding
devices used to come here, has
been discontinued, perhaps per
manently.
BOONVILLE FAIR TO BE
HELD ON OCT. 12-13-14
The Boonvllle Agricultural Fair
Committee set the date of the
Boonvllle Fair for October 12, 13.
and 14. This will be the' same
week the fair was held last year.
It is planned by the fair com
mittee to make the horse show
the big event of the fair again
this year. The horse show will
include draft horses, mules and
sad He horses. Along with the
horse show a pulling contest will
be held for both light and jieavy
teams. f