Elkin
'The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIX. No. 25
MANSLAUGHTER
CASE IS TRIED IN
COUNTY COURT
Session Is Adjourned Last
Friday Afternoon
CIVIL TERM POSTPONED
Driver of Hit-and-Run Car
Placed on Five Years'
Probation
OTHER CASES HEARD
Surry county criminal court
ended last Friday after a busy
week in which numerous cases
were tried.
The civil session, scheduled to
have been held this week, was
postponed. It was said a special
term would probably be held in
June.
Among the cases disposed of be
fore Presiding Judge Q. V. Nim
ocks were the following:
Sam Heath, charged with man
slaughter hit-and-run driv
ing growing out of the death of
Reece Sprinkle, of Pinnacle, on
March 16, and Kyle Taylor and
Burgle Arrington, each charged
with accessory after the fact in
the same case, were all found
guilty and placed on five years
probation. It was ordered that
the defendants pay the sum of
SI,OOO to the parents of the de
ceased.
Willie Pack, rape, 20 to 25 years
in state prison.
Murphy Doss, operating a car
while intoxicated, nol pros with
leave.
Wilbur Hicks, house breaking,
sentenced to Eastern Carolina
Training School.
John W. Tipton, forgery, six
months.
J. D. Smith, carrying a con
cealed weapon, defendant taxed
with the costs.
Cecil Rose, reckless driving and
hit-and-rup, defendant's drivers'
license revoked and ordered to
pay damages in the sum of SIOO.
COMMENCEMENT
PLANS GIVEN
Finals Will Get Under Way
at West Yadkin School
Friday, May 10
CLASS DAY MAY 13th
Commencement exercises will
get under way at West Yadkin
school on Friday evening, May 10,
with the seventh grade gradua
tion exercises to be held at 8:00
o'clock. The exercise will be in
the form of "Jerry's Woodshed
Amateur Hour."
Sunday afternoon. May 12, at
2:30, Rev. C. C. Holland, of Tay
lorsville, will preach the com
mencement sermon. This will be
followed by the Class Day exer
cises on Monday evening, May 13,
at 8:00 o'clock.
High school graduating exer
cises will be held Tuesday morn
ing, May 14, at 11 o'clock, with
Dr. Ray Jordon, pastor of the
Centenary Methodist church in
Winston-Salem, delivering the
address to the graduates.
Two other features are sched
uled for Tuesday, a baseball game
between West Yadkin and Yad
kinville at 3:00 o'clock in the af
ternoon, and a play, "Aunt Susie
Shoots the Works," at 8 o'clock
in the evening.
A cordial invitation is extended
the public to attend the com
mencement exercises.
ARE SEEKING BIDS ON
POSTOFFICE ROUTES
Washington, D. C., May I—The
Postoffipe Department will make
permanent star mail routes be
tween Winston-Salem and
Wilkesboro, N. C., including
Elkin as a stop, and between
Elk in and Winston-Salem.
Bids on these routes will be ac
cepted until May 14, for con
tracts extending from July 1,
1940, to June 30,. 1944.
The W inst on - Salem - Wilkesboro
route includes Elkin, Ronda,
Roaring Riveiv and North
Wilkesboro as stops, is 60 miles
long, and musybe carried seven
times and bacjf a week.
The E1 k i ifrW ins to n-Salem
route is 39 mles long and must
be carried sif times and back a
week. |
The mail/between Winston-
Salem and Skin, both outgoing
and incominM is now being car
ried by the fckin-Jonesville Mo
tor Express JThe proposed route
.to North v?Wesbon> is new.
THE ELKIN TRIBUSE
7YI n L 1 n/pr AQ Pictured below is the graduating- class of Jonesville high school, members
I\J I\LJ\SLJI VML ULL Ll/irl/ij of which will receive their diplomas May 7 during graduation exercises to
be featured by an address by Lieutenant-Governor W. P. Horton. The seniors are, front row, left to right: Audria
Finney, Evelyn Swaim, Nannie Burcham, Carmel Finney, Eloise Cummings, Ruth Browne, Edwina Hemric, Grace
Myers, Sally Reece, Polly Vestal, Opal Ingool, Pansy Burcham and Mozelle Kimmer. Back row, left to right: Eugene
Martin, Reece Shugart, Ralph Swaim, Thad Martin, Wayne Byrd, Joe Brandon, Turman Reece, Thomas Reece, Junior
Pardue, James Mathis and Howard Macemore.—(Photo by Jake Brown.)
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YOUTH INJURED
IN CYCLE CRASH
James Kingsbury, of Mount
Airy, in Local Hospital
With Broken Leg
COMPANION ALSO HURT
James Kingsbury, 18, of Mount
Airy, is in the Hugh Chatham hos
pital suffering a broken leg as a
result of a motorcycle accident in
Arlington about noon last Thurs
day in which a companion, Gayle
Spann, 16, also of Mount Airy,
was also hurt. Spann's injuries,
however, were slight.
The accident occurred when the
motorcycle upon which both were
riding went out of control on a
curve, struck a telephone pole,
jumped a ditch, and crashed a
gainst a gasoline pump in front of
Swaim's Service Station.
Kingsbury received his injuries
when the machine struck the pole.
Both boys were rushed to the hos
pital by ambulance. They ihad
been visiting Spann's grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Spann, in
Arlington, and were on their way
back to Mount Airy when the ac
cident occurred.
The motorcycle was not badly
damaged.
Annual Meeting
Is Held By
School Folks
Surry and Yadkin school of
ficals and teachers staged their
annual get-together meetings on
Thursday of last week.
The Surry group met in a pic
nic session at Norvale Crags, near
Low Gap, where they enjoyed a
program arranged by E. P. Mc-
Cloud of the Franklin school, in
cluding a concert by the Mountain
Park high school band and a num
ber of impromptu speeches. The
event was climaxed with a chick
en stew.
The Yadkin dinner, which was
served at the Jonesville school, by
the P.-T. A., was attended by ap
proximately 200. L. H. Todd,
principal of East Bend high school
and president of the Yadkin
County Schoolmasters, presided
over the evening's entertainment,
which was climaxed with a public
address in the school auditorium
by Mrs. Ruth Vick Everette, field
secrtary of the North Carolina
education association.
LOCAL HOSPITAL
RECEIVES FUNDS
The trustees of the Duke En
downment at a meeting in Char
lotte Tuesday appropriated slOl,-
402 to nine hospitals, including
the Hugh Chatham Memorial
hospital here, for assistance in
the care of free patients during
1939.
Of this amount, the local hos
pital received a total of $3,438.00.
PIANO RECITAL AT
WEST YADKIN SCHOOL
Miss Caroline Bell will present
: her piano pupils in a recital at
West Yadkin high school on the
evening of May 7, at 8 o'clock.
> The public is cordially invited to
attend.
Hen Lays Big
Egg Every
Other Day
Hold everything! The Tri
bune freak editor—er—the ed
itor of, The Tribune's freak de
partment is at bat again.
This time he is all excited
over an old hen belonging to
L. B. Snow, of Thurmond,
which loafs on the job every
other day, but always makes
up for it by producing an egg
with a double yellow on the
day she does work.
Mr. Snow exhibited one of
the eggs at The Tribune, but
when he saw the hungry gleam
in the eye of the freak depart
ment editor, he hastily carried
it out again. Anyway, he stay
ed long enough to announce
that the egg weighed four
ounces, and that the hen de
posited one in the nest every
other day. No doubt on be
tween days she sits and sips
vitamins.
RUSK WOMAN
PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Lenora Humphries Dies
at Her Home Tuesday
Afternoon
TO HOLD RITES TODAY
Mrs. Lenora Layne Humphries,
48, wife of Charles C. Humphries
of Rusk, passed away at her home
about 1 o'clock Tuesday after
noon. She had been in declining
health for the past five years and
her condition had been critical
for the past week.
Mrs. Humphries was a native of
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Winners in School Contest
M Ifehk
Jimmie Irvin, son of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Irvln, of Joneaville,
and Betty Price, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mac Price, aim of Jonea
ville, were winners in the Yadkin county recitation and declama
tion contest, held recently. Each won in the primary dlvhiwt Both
are members of the third grade, Jonesrille school. (Tribune
Photo.)
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940
Are To Hold
Union Service
Sunday Evening
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock
the regular services will ,be held
at the First Baptist, Methodist
and Presbyterian churches, with
the pastor of each church bring
ing a message to his congrega
tion.
In the evening at 8 o'clock a
union service of the three
churches will be held at the First
Baptist church as a farewell trib
ute to Rev. Eph Whisenhunt,
pastor of the church, who has re
signed to take up a pastorate at
Norton, Va. The service will
honor Mr. Whisenhunt and his
outstanding work as a minister in
the community.
A cordial invitation is extend
ed the public to attend the morn
ing hour of worship at the church
of their choice and the union ser
vice on Sunday evening.
Beginning with Sunday, May
5, the evening service at all of the
churches will be held during the
remainder of the summer at 8:00
o'clock instead of 7:30.
GRADUATION AT NORTH
ELKIN SCHOOL MAY Bth
The graduating exercises at
North Elkin school will be held in
the school auditorium Wednes
day, May 8, at 8 p.m. Rev. J. S.
Hiatt, superintendent of the Elk
in district of the Methodist
church, will deliver an address.
Supt. John W. Comer will pre
sent the certificates of promotion
to the seventh grade graduates.
After the presentation of the di
plomas perfect attendance certif
icates and an award, given by Mr.
Joe D. Dobson to the best all
around student in the sixth
gpade, will be presented by Paul
G. Lewis, principal of the school.
The salutatorian is Mattie Lee
Johnson, and the valedictorian is
Maretha Ball. -
NAME WINNERS
IN CONTESTS
Betty Price, of Jonesville,
Winner in Girls' Primary
Division
JONESVILLE BOY WINS
Three boys and three girls won
out in the annual county-wide
speaking contests at Boonville
and Yadkinville Friday night and
Thursday night, respectively.
Previously these boys and girls
had won in the preliminary con
tests that were staged at Jones
ville and East Bend in the North
ern division of the county, and
at West Yadkin and Courtney in
the southern division.
In the primary girls' division
Betty Price, of Jonesville, won
the championship. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mag
Price, of Jonesville. In the gram
mar grade girls' division, Olivia
Martin, of East Bend, was select
ed. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Edd Martin. In the high
school girls' division. Marie Long,
of Yadkinville, was the winner.
In the boys' division Jimmie
Irvin, of Jonesville school, won
the primary contest. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Ir
vin. Wade Hobson, of Boonville,
son of Mrs. A. B. Hobson, was the
grammar grade winner, and Bill
Wood, of West Yadkin, won in
the high school department.
The 1940 contests were among
the best ever held in the county.
Competition all the way through
was very keen.
At the end of the final contests
held at Boonville and Yadkinville,
Fred C. Hobson, county superin
tendent, presented each winner
with a silver trophy.
CAFE RATINGS OF
COUNTY ANNOUNCED
Ratings for Surry county eating
establishments have been announ
ced by Charles A. Butler, inspect
or for the Surry county health
department.
Ratings in the order in which
they appear in the report for Elk
in, Dobson and State Road, follow:
Elkin: Atlantic (formerly
Greenwood), 71.5, grade C; Aber
nethy's, 81, grade B; Big Nickel
Lunch, 85.5, grade B; Bon-Ton
Grill, 93, grade A; Hotel Elkin,
91, grade A; Monticello, 78.5,
grade C; Palace, 91, grade A;
Riverside, 80, grade B; Smithey's,
85, grade B.
State Road: Mountain View
Service Station,, 85.5, grade B;
Golden's Lunch, 86, grade B.
Dobson: Capital Cafe, 78, grade
C; Hotel Kenlin, 88.5, grade B.
GARDEN CLUB IS TO
SPONSOR FLOWER SHOW
On Wednesday, May 8, mem
bers of the Yadkin Valley Garden
Club will sponsor a flower show
to be held In the city hall. Floral
arrangements, niches, rock gar
dens and tables will be arranged
and any one interested in flowers
and their arrangement is urged to
have a display. There will be no
prizes awarded nor admission fee
charged.
The public is cordially invited
to attend. The show will open at
one o'clock In the afternoon and
remain open until eleven o'clock
in the evening.
Nazis Win Smashing
Victory In Norway;
In Control Rail Line
LATE / I
From
NEWS *
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BRIEF T n
LOCAL
A HEN, owned by Haywood
Wagoner, Wilkes county man
who is night manager of a lo
cal filling station, went to bed
Tuesday evening at dusk and
awoke in Elkin, just 12 miles
away. When Mr. Wagoner
drove up to the filling station
to go to work, he found the
hen perched on the front
bumper of his car, none the
worse for wear. He said she
had gone into the garage to
roost, and had selected the
bumper as a perch. He didn't
know she was there until he
found her when he got out of
his car in Elkin.
STATE
RALEIGH, April 30 Be
cause of soaring tax returns,
North Carolina may not need
to divert money from the
highway to the general fund
in the 1940-41 fiscal year,
Governor Hoey said tonight.
He commented on the April
revenue report, showing re
ceipts from all sources except
one running ahead of returns
by the same time last fiscal
year. Income tax returns al
ready have set a new all-time
record, and sales tax collec
tions are nearing the previous
high. Collections swelled state
revenues to $66,038.88 for the
10 months of the fiscal year
ending today, an increase of
10.89 per cent, over the $59,-
525,799.90 realized during the
same period "in 1938-39.
NEW «ERN, April 30—For
mer Senator Furnifold Mc-
Lendon Simmons, 86, succumb
ed this afternoon shortly after
3 o'clock to an illness that
grew critical Sunday following
his return Friday from a
month's stay at a Durham
hospital. His health had been
failing for some time. Death
came at the home of a daugh
ter, Mrs. Wade Meadows, near
New Bern, with whom he had
resided since the death of his
second wife two years ago.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON—Attacks on
President Roosevelt's order
placing the Civil Aeronautics
Authority under the Com
merce Department and abol
ishing the Air Safety Board
were answered by the Chief
Executive yesterday with a
biting: statement in which he
said firmly that the order will
stand. He issued the state
ment at his semi weekly press
conference after charging
verbally that opposition to the
reorganization plan is based on
either ignorance, gullibility or
politics. There are five good
reasons why the C.A.A. should
be under the Commerce De
partment, he said, chiefly to
give the civil air arm repre
sentation in the cabinet and
to eliminate friction between
the five-man C. A. A., the ad
ministrator, and the Air Safe
ty Board.
INTERNATIONAL
BERLIN Chancellor Adolf
Hitler, In a jubilant proclama
tion to his soldiers last night,
boasted that German victories
in Norway have "conclusively
nullified" the Allies' efforts to
beat Germany to her knees on
the Scandinavian battlefront.
Hitler's boast, in an order of
the day to his Norwegian
forces, capped Nazi claims that
the Allied foroes in central
Norway have been driven into
an "absolutely hopeless" trap
by German columns which
seized the key town of Dombas
and stretched an iron barrier
all the way from Oslo to
Trondheim. With their south
ern zone of conquest linked to
Nad-held Trondheim, the
Germans said they would be
able to pour a steady stream
of troops and supplies north of
Trondheim.
Ellon
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
HITLER PRAISES
QUICK WORK OF
NAZI SOLDIERS
Success Said to Have Ex
ceeded Expectations
ALLIES HARD PRESSED
Germans No Longer Are De
pendent on Supplies from
the Sea and Air
DRIVE IS CONTINUED
Berlin, April 30.—The German
high command tonight stamped
the nazi conquest of Norway as
virtually won with the linking of
Oslo and Trondheim by green
grey columns, the capture of
strategic Dombas in between, and
control of the main rail line from
the Norwegian capital to the
great west coast port.
Adolf Hitler, himself, sent a
special order of the day to the
German troops in Norway, prais
ing them for their tremendous
20-day campaign and its result-
The smashing of an allied pincers
movement aimed at cutting off
Trondheim by threats from south
and north.
The achievements announced
today by the high command here
said in authorized quarters to
have exceeded the fondest ex
pectations of German military
authorities in view of the diffi
culties of the campaign.
Now that Trondheim is secured
and the German troops there no
longer are-dependent of supplies
from sea and air, inspired sources
say no time will be lost in starting
a concentric attack to sweep the
allied troops from their foothold
on the stony midriff of Norway.
With the announced capture of
Dombas, railway junction which
connects with the allied landing
point of Andalsnes, south of
Trondheim, the allied-Norwegian
forces in that sector are being
"pursued", it was stated. For sev
eral days there has been heavy
fighting between allies and Ger
mans at the gates of Dombas.
First of all today the high com
mand disclosed that a motorized
German force which climbed over
3,000-foot mountain trails, north
ward from Tynset, had reached
the Trondheim-Dombas-Hamar-
Oslo railway, southwest of Storen,
and there met a southbound force
from Trondheim.
The officers of these two forces
shook hands solemnly. (Presum
ably the southbound force had
fought Its way through allied units
at Storen, 35 miles south of
Trondheim.)
Then came word that the main
German column, fighting its way
through the Gubrands valley from
the south, had occupied Dombas,
which is 100 miles south of Trond
heim.
Meeting Of Surry
Red Cross Is Held
Here Thursday
A meeting of the Surry county
board of the American Red Cross
was held Thursday evening at the
Methodist church here with G. K.
Hale of Mount Airy, county chair
man, presiding over the meeting.
Mrs. T. W. Sprinkle of High
Point, field representative was
present, and spoke briefly to the
group.
During the business meeting
Mrs. Paul Brown of Devotion was
named Surry county chairman of
Home Hygine; Mrs. P. M. Greene
of this city was named chairman
of war relief work for the local
branch and Hugh Salmons chair
man for the local branch of first
aid and life saving*.
The meeting was arranged by
Mrs. Joe Blvins and Miss Betty
Allen. A social hour was enjoyed
at the conclusion of the business
session. Doughnuts and coffee
were served the 19 members,
representing the various branches
of the county, attending.
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