EVENTS
of the
Past
Week
LOCAL
TRAFFIC FROM ELKIN to
Dobson and Mount Airy is be
ins detoured by the state
highway forces by way of
Boonville while resurfacing of
the Elkin-Dobson highway as
far as Fairview is under way.
Work was started Monday
morning. The highway from
Fairview to Dobson was resur
faced some weeks ago, and
when the present job is com
pleted the road from here to
Dobson will be in excellent
condition.
EVIDENCE IN THE Jones
ville school bond case was fin
ished at Newland Monday be
fore Judge S. J. Ervin, Jr.
with a decision expected to be
rendered within the next few
days. The only question to be
considered by the court, it is
understood, is whether or not
the bill passed by the legisla
ture is in conflict with the
portion of the state constitu
tion which relates to the es
tablishment of such districts
by the legislature. The judge
stated that he would find that
no material irregularities had
been discovered in the school
bond election.
PLANS ARE NOW under
way in Boonville which may
result in the town having a
municipal water and sewerage
system, it has been announced
by Mayor Harvey Gentry, of
Boonville. A scaled map of
the town showing all possible
water connections is this week
being filed with the district
WPA office. It is hoped to put
across the project with a vol
untary sign-up of water cus
tomers rather than by a bond
issue.
THE NORTH CAROLINA
state school commission has
allotted 131 white and 10 col
ored teachers to Yadkin coun
ty, an increase of five white
teachers over last year's allot
ment, and the loss of one col
ored teacher.
STATE
A DYNAMITE explosion
shattered the live stock barn
of the North Carolina School
for the Deaf at Morganton
Monday after it had caught
fire, and flying timber and
shattered glass injured 13 per
sons.
APPLICATION for a bus
franchise to operate between
Mount Airy and Salisbury,
which would pass through
Dobson, Elkln, Boonville and
Yadkinville, by E. O. Woodie,
has brought about a hotly
contested legal battle at Ra
leigh before State Commission
er Stanley Winborne. Woodle's
application provoked a storm
k of protest from the Greyhound
and other bus lines, who claim
that the establishment of the
route would damage their bus
iness and be unprofitable.
NATIONAL
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
disclosed Tuesday that he did
not expect Paul V. McNutt to
' be an active candidate for the
Democratic presidential nom-
I ination while directing the
new federal security adminis
tration. The President sent
McNutt's nomination to the
senate for confirmation at
noon Tuesday.
HOME BUILDING in the
first hiilf of 1939 was the fast
est witnessed in a decade, F.
W. Dodge corporation, of New
/York City, reported Tuesday.
THE FEDERAL government,
sending G-men into an invest
igation of WPA disorders
which led to the death of a
policeman at Minneapolis,
Minn., indicated Tuesday
night that it would invoke
penal provisions of the new re
lief act against WPA strikers
attempting by force or threats
to prevent other work relief
employees from staying on the
job.
INTERNATIONAL
jfc* WITH GREAT BRITAIN
and France firmly stating
their stand on the Danzig sit
uation, and with Hcrr Hitler
saying nothing, affairs in Eu
rope for the past week have
remained fairly quiet. How
ever, continuing to show their
determination that they will
not back down in case Ger
many should attempt to
snatch Danzig, France and
Britain have chosen next Fri
day to show off their joint
|Jf military power in form of a
13 great military demonstration.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
VOL. No. XXVm. No. 35
PLANS ARE NOW
UNDER WAY FOR
THE ELKIN FAIR
Event to Be Held September
13 Through 16
TO FEATURE FIREWORKS
Premium List Will Total Over
$700; Bullock Amuse
ment Company
MANY CASH PREMIUMS
Preparation of the premium
list for the Elkin Fair, to be held
here September 13. 14, 15 and 16,
is under way, and the finished
catalog should be ready for dis
tribution within the near future.
This year's fair will feature a
premium list of over S7OO, much
of it in cash, and plans thus far
call for an event bigger than last
year's fair, in which the exhibi
tions more than doubled that of
1937.
The midway this year will fea
ture the Bullock Amusement com
pany rides and concessions,
which includes four rides and
fifteen concessions, plus fireworks
on three nights. One of the
rides, new here, will be a loop
the-loop, a contrivance which
turns its passengers bottom-side
up. Other rides will be ferris
wheel, merry-go-round and dou
ble swings.
The midway will be ready to
open Tuesday, September 12, it
was said by Mrs. Alan Browning,
Jr., secretary, and the exhibition
building will open Wednesday.
September 13, and continuing
through Saturday, September 16,
or one day longer than last year's
fair.
Live-at-home exhibits this year
will win cash prizes. It was an
nounced that those planning to
enter live-at-home exhibits make
reservations early so that space
would be available.
TLF. Cooley, manager of Klon
dike Farm, has been appointed a
director of the fair association,
succeeding the late Ruohs Pyron.
The fair office this year is lo
cated in The Tribune building.
Hold Meeting
Draw Plans for
Library Ser
A special meeting to draw up
plans for a county-wide library
service was held at the public
library in Mount Airy Tuesday
morning. The meeting was called
by John W. Comer, county super
intendent of schools. The move
ment, which will be sponsored by
the WPA, will be held through
the months of August and Sep
tember as an experiment, and it
is hoped that by that time a def
inite plan will have been perfect
ed in order that the movement
will be a permanent one.
A new truck, equipped with
two thousand new books, will
cover the rural area of the coun
ty at stated intervals throughout
the months designated.
The name chosen for the or
ganization was Surry County Li
brary Extension Association. Mrs.
M. H. Shore of Pilot Mountain,
was named as chairman of the
association and John W. Comer,
secretary-treasurer.
Those attending the meeting
were: Mrs. Paul Gwyn, Mrs. R. C.
Freeman and Miss Mable Sale of
Elkin; John W. Comer and Mrs.
Emma Reece Mock of Dobson;
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Shore of
Pilot Mountain; Mrs. Christine
Robertson, White Plains; Mrs.
Olsa Woltz, Edgar Woodruff and
Mrs. Louise Ball of Mount Airy,
and Mrs. Frank Armfield of Stat
esville, WPA area library super
visor.
TENT REVIVAL UNDER
WAY IN SUNSET PARK
A tent revival is in progress
this week in Sunset Park and the
services will continue through the
evening of July 23. Rev. Herbert
Gwyn, of East Bend, is in charge
of the meetings and he is being
assisted by other Baptist minis
ters of this section.
Services are held each evening
at 7:30. The public is extended a
cordial invitation to attend.
It is the hope of the sponsors
of the meeting that the interest
will justify the organization and
building of a new church in this
section of the town. Building
lots for this purpose have already
been secured.
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Contests At
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ners of the beauty contests held
at the Lyric theatre last Friday
night. Top is Miss Hilda Gae
Renegar, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. V. L. Renegar, of Arling
ton, who captured the crown of
"Miss Elkin, 1939." Lower pho
to is little Miss Wllma Lou
Nichols, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Silas Nichols, of Elk Spur
street, this city, winner in the
Junior division. This attractive
youngster was presented a sil
ver cup. Miss Renegar will leave
today for Blowing Rock, where
she will compete in a state
beauty contest. Winner in the
amateur contest staged as a
part of the show was Miss
Beatrice Burcham, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. El Burcham, of
Jonesville, who also goes to
Blowing Rock to compete in a
state amateur contest. —(Photo
of Miss Nichols by Tribune
photographer.)
OFFICERS NAB
RUM-RUNNER
H. Clay Holland Arrested in
Yadkin After 90-Mile-an-
Hour Chase
HAD 90-GALLON LOAD
H. Clay Holland, of Wilkesboro,
termed a ringleader among
Northwestern North Carolina
bootleggers, was arrested Satur
day by highway patrolmen and
Stokes county officers after-a 90-
mile-an-hour automobile chase in
Yadkin county. The officers also
confiscated 90 gallons of nontax
paid liquor.
Charged with removing, con
cealing and transporting, Hol
land was bound over to the No
vember term of Federal count,
following a hearing before U. S.
Commissioner C. E. Adler, in
Winston-Salem.
Holland was said to have first
been sighted near Brooks Cross
Roads. From there the chase led
to Jonesville and over a dirt road
to Center, where he was cap
tured. Officers said the chase
led over about 15 miles and that
the car speeds ranged from 60 to
90 miles an hour.
Participating in the chase, in
addition to Stokes officers, were
Patrolman Lee Phillips, of Elkin,
and Patrolman Herman Ivey, of
Winston-Salem.
Miss Mary Alice Merritt re
turned Sunday from a visit of a
week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. D. M. Merritt, at White
Lake.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1939
FDR CONTINUES
HIS FIGHT FOR
NEUTRALITY ACT
Will Not Drop Drive Despite
Committee Vote
WOULD PUT OFF ACTION
President Warns Congress If
Action Postponed, War
Would Prove Difficult
HULL IN STATEMENT
Washington, July 11—Relegat
ing to a committee pigeonhole
neutrality legislation deemed of
supreme importance by President
Roosevelt and the state depart
ment, the senate committee on
foreign relations today voted 12
to 11 to postpone until the next
session proposals to repeal or ma
terially alter the present neutral
ity act, with its mandatory em
bargo on the shipment of war
supplies to belligerent nations.
But President Roosevelt was
quick to warn Congress that if it
postponed revising the neutrality
act, the outbreak of a foreign war
would make it extremely difficult
to take such action later.
The chief executive made this
statement in emphatic language
a few hours after the committee
action. Officials quickly made it
plain that they had no intention
of abandoning the drive for ac
tion at this session.
Hull, grim and unsmiling, told
a press conference that as the re
sult of the development, he felt
as he had "felt throughout each
stage of the consideration of
peace and neutrality legislation
during this session of Congress,
that the interests of peace and
security of the United States re
quire that we should continue to
urge adoption of the principles of
the six-point program."
(He referred to the program
which the administration wants
to substitute for the present law.)
And the President, asked later
for his reaction to the commit
tee's vote, said he thought Hull's
statement was very good. How
ever, he said, he thought he
should add that at the p;«esent
time there was no law covering
five of the six points of the ad
ministration neutrality program.
CLEAN-UP WEEK
STARTSMONDAY
Drive to Beautify Elkin to Be
Staged Under Direction
of Civic Clubs
PROCLAMATION ISSUED
With the Elkin Woman's Club,
Elkin Garden Club, the Elkin Ki
wanis Club and the town of Elkin
all cooperating, next week begin
ning Monday, has been designated
as Clean-Up Week in Elkin.
During the week everyone is
asked and urged to clean up their
homes, places of business, their
grounds and vacant lots. The
town will have an extra truck and
extra workmen to collect garbage
and trash.
It is also urged that everyone
provide a garbage can with lid for
their home or place of business.
The object of the drive is to
make Elkin "The Most Beautiful
Little Town in North Carolina."
Backing up the clean-up move
ment here, Mayor J. R. Poindex
ter Wednesday issued the follow
ing proclamation:
Whereas: The Elkin Woman's
Club, the Elkin Garden Club and
the Elkin Kiwanis Club are spon
soring Clean-Up Week here, hav
ing decided upon the week of
July 17 for the drive, and,
Whereas: Such a drive will do
much to beautify our town by the
removal of unsightly rubbish
from the premises of homes, bus
iness houses and vacant lots, and,
Whereas: It is to advantage of
every Elkin citizen to beautify
the town and make it a more de
sirable place in which to live,
Now, there, I, J. R. Poindexter,
by virtue of my office as Mayor,
do hereby officially declare the
week of July 17 to 22 as Clean
up Week.
Signed: J. R. POINDEXTER,
Mayor, Town of Elkin.
Mr. and Mrs. John Prank Kirk
man of Charlotte, were the over
night guests Tuesday of Mr.
Klrkman's mother, Mrs. R. L.
Klrkman, at her home on West
Main street.
DUD AT J7 AT) The two young ladies pictured be
i EJLJ/ILJ l Jti lV low, Miss Mary Ross, 24, and Miss
Charline Peterson, 21, either needed exercise very badly
or wanted to see their relatives an awful lot, or both, for
they recently completed a bicycle ride of 902 miles from
Boston, Mass., to the home of Mary's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Tyre Ross, of State Road. They left Boston on June
13 and arrived at their destination on June 30.
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Make Bicycle Trip Of
902 Miles From Boston
Riding bicycles from Boston,
Mass., to State Road, a distance
of 902 miles, is the feat recently
accomplished by Miss Mary Ross,
24, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tyre
Ross, of State Road, and her com
panion, Miss Charline Peterson, 21.
The two young women left Bos
ton June 13 and arrived at the
home of Miss Ross' parents on
June 30 —both hale and hearty
other than for sunburn.
Enroute, the two girls spent the
Elkin School Is
To Gain Another
Teacher for Term
John W. Comer, superintendent
of Surry County schools, an
nounced Wednesday morning that
Elkin high school would gain an
additional teacher for the coming
school term. A local school offi
cial stated that it was undecided
in what capacity the new
teacher would serve, but that a
meeting of the Elkin board would
be called at an early date, at
which time the teacher will be
named and further plans an
nounced.
Several other additions were
made in schools over the county,
Mr. Comer stating that there was
a net gain of five. One vocation
al home economics teacher was
added at Pilot Mountain, making
a total of seven in the county.
A contract was let Tuesday for
a thousand tons of coal to be
used in heating county schools
during the 1939-40 term, Mr.
Comer said.
HEALTH CENTER IS
OPENED AT TRAPHILL
North Wilkesboro, July 10 —The
Wilkes county health department
has announced the opening of a
health center at Traphill in the
northwestern part of the county.
Finding that many people in
that section of the county find it
difficult to visit the county health
office more than 20 miles distant
at frequent intervals, the health
department has decided to set up
a health center there for Wed
nesday of each week, at which
time a physician or nurse will be
in charge.
The health center will provide
for all people in that section vac
cinations and immunizations
against communicable disease and
perform the other duties of a
health department, which are
without cost to the public.
The center will be maintained
in the Masonic building.
nights In tourist cabins and tour
ist homes, with the exception of
one night when darkness found
them so far into the mountains
they couldn't find a place to stay.
The trip was made via New Ha
ven, Conn., Washington, D. C., and
Natural Bridge, Va. Time was
taken out for sightseeing in the
various towns and cities along the
route.
The girls averaged 55 to 60 miles
daily.
MRS.J.D.DOBSON
DIES SATURDAY
Beloved North Elkin Woman
Passes in Statesville Hos
pital Saturday
FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY
Mrs. Helen Mann Dobson, 39,
wife of Joe D. Dobson, and one
of the most beloved women of the
North Elkin community, where
she had resided for the past sev
eral years, died in a Statesville
hospital early Saturday morn
ing. Shortly after the close of
the North Elkin school, of which
Mrs. Dobson was one of the fac
ulty, she entered the Statesville
hospital for an operation and
about two weeks before her pass
ing she was re-admitted to the
hospital and underwent another
operation of a more serious na
ture.
Mrs. Dobson was a native of
Elk Creek, Va., and a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin Mann, of
Elk Creek. She is survived by
her husband, her parents, two
sisters, Mrs. Arthur Cornett and
Mrs. Everette Cornett, of Comers
Rock, Va., and one brother,
George Mann, of Elk Creek.
Mrs. Dobson was an active
member of the Methodist church
and during her residence here
had been one of the leaders of
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ARE TO MAKE PLEA
FOR HEALTH SERVICE
Dr. R. B. Franklin and John
W. Comer, superintendent of
county schools, will go to Raleigh
today (Thursday) where they
will make a plea to the State
Health Board for an extension in
the health service for Surry coun
ty, especially for additional work
of this type In the schools.
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TWO SECTIONS
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
RECORD CROP
OF TOBACCO
IS FORECAST
Expects Total of 1,654,622,-
000 Pounds for 1939
MUCH CIGARETTE TYPE
Acreage Planted to Flue-
Cured Tobacco Estimated
at 1,103,900 Acres
COMMENT ON ESTIMATE
Washington, July 10—The Ag
riculture Department forecast to
day a record tobacco crop of 1,-
654,622,000 pounds for 1939 with
flue-cured cigarette type leaf ac
counting for the bulk of the in
crease over previous years.
The flue-cured estimate, based
on the July 1 conditions, was for
a crop of 1,022,995,000 pounds,
compared with 785,731,000 har
vested last year and the previous
record crop of 866,302,000 pounds
in 1937.
Acreage planted -to flue-cured
tobacco this year was estimated
at 1,103,900 acres compared with
912,100 acres harvested last year
and 989,500 acres in 1937.
The department predicted a
burley crop of 351,272,000 pounds
this year compared with 338,789,-
000 in 1938; a fire-cured type
production of 92,503,000 pounds
against 84,324,000; a dark-air
cured crop of 36,758,000 pounds
compared with 32,789,000; a
Southern Maryland crop of 26,-
530,00 pounds compared with 29,-
250,000, and cigar types produc
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CIVIL COURT
INSESSION
Surry Superior Term Begins
Monday Before Judge
Zeb V. Nettles
NUMBER CASES HEARD
The July term of Surry county
superior court for the trial of civil
cases, convened at Dobson Mon
day morning, with Judge Zeb V.
Nettles, presiding.
The following cases, of local
interest, had been disposed of up
until Wednesday morning.
Henry M. Luffman vs. Andrew
Greenwood, case dismissed; the
Cooper Corporation vs. Church
Oil company, appeal dismissed,
judgment of lower court affirm
ed; R. K. Simmons vs. H. C.
Lawrence, judgment of $188.80;
O. E. Boles for J. S. Atkinson,
case compromised; Jessie Couch
vs. Marvin Mayberry and John
Mayberry, Couch was awarded a
judgment of $500.00.
The following cases were de
clared non-suited: Cash and Car
ry Stores vs. Statesville Milling
C.; P. A. Brendle & Son vs Inter
state Milling Co.; Swann Chem
ical Co., vs. Elkin Bottling Co.,
and Lawrence Glass Works vs.
Elkin Bottling Co.
Divorces weer granted to the
following: Swanie Burcham
Gregory vs. Page Gregory; How
ard Poindexter vs. Lentie Poin
dexter; Zerah Mae Holder vs. R.
C. Holder; Delia Lou Burch vs.
Grant Burch.
SUIT AGAINST
TOWN SETTLED
Consent Judgment of $733.94
and Title to Strip of Land
Is Granted
WAS HEARD TUESDAY
Trial of the suit brought against
the town of Elkin by H. P. Gra
ham, a member of the board of
commissioners, for $487.50 in al
leged damages to his property,
plus accrued interest since Octo
ber 1, 1924, was heard Tuesday in
Surry county superior court
and resulted in a consent judg
ment in the amount of $733.94 in
favor of the town of Elkln, plus
title to a strip of land 12 feet
wide which now forms a part of
North Bridge street.
The case grew out of an agree
ment between Mr. Graham and a
former town board of commis
sioners of which Mr. Graham was
a member, back in 1924, when
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