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ELKIN The Best Little Town in North Carolina The Elkin Tribune . ' iii-j- ■■111 ■rar:„v. .yjs.i ■ ■ » ' ■-■-i"- ■■ ■ ■■■■■ ■ - AMERICA First, Last and Always VOL. No. XXXI. No. 18 ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942 PUBLISHED WEEKLY WILL ARRIVE K ELKIN TODAY TC STUDY QUESTION Highway Chairman Prince t( Accompany Broughton KIWANIS TO ENTERTAIN Official Party Will Be Guesl at Noon Luncheon at Hotel Elkin - WILL HOLD CONFERENCE Governor J. Melville Brough ton, accompanied by L. Ben Prince, chairman of the state highway and public works com mission, is coming to Elkin today <Thursday) to make a personal study and survey of the lime quarry situation, and to confer with interested Elkin citizens about the matter. In a letter to The Tribune Fri day, Governor Broughton stated that he had read with much in terest the editorials and com ments which have appeared in this paper, and announced his plans to make the trip here, ac companied by Chairman Prince. Chairman Prince, it will be re called, recently made a report in which it was stated that the cost of opening the lime quarry at * lame Rock, Yadkin county, would be prohibitive. As a result of the Governor’s announcement of his plans to visit Elkin today, the Elkin Ki wanis Club is moving its regular Thursday evening dinner meeting I to noon so that it may be host to the governor and his party. Fol lowing the luncheon at Hotel Elkin, the Governor will then confer with a group of represent ative citizens concerning the lime situation. In commenting on the matter in his letter to The Tribune, Gov ernor Broughton said: “When this matter was first brought to my attention several months ago by interested citizens .in that section I promptly asked the State Highway Commission and the State Geologist to make an early investigation of the whole matter. This was done, and the results of this investiga tion have been printed in the pa pers of that section. “While the investigation was adverse to the proposition, it was not final and irrevocable. The matter is still open for considera tion and we will be very glad to have the benefit of any practical suggestion that may offer a solu tion. I am deeply interested in doing anything that I can that will be beneficial to the farmers ■of that section of the state, and I realize that lime is a very essen tial commodity particularly in an area which is seeking to promote livestock.” Several other citizens here, all interested in the lime quarry matter, also received letters from Governor Broughton Friday ex pressing his intentions to go into the matter in a thorough manner. DOBSON AG AIN SEEKS OFFICE Local Man Announces Candi dacy for House of Rep resentatives Henry Dobson, of Elkin, is to day announcing himself as a •candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives of the .North Carolina General Assembly, subject to the Democratic pri mal y. to be held later this year. Mr. Dobson served as Surry representative during the last General Assembly, and had also ' served as a representative prior to | the last Assembly. Insofar as is known, no candi date for the office on the Repub lican ticket has yet announced. Are Elkin’s Guests Today Governor J. Melville Broughton, left, and L. Ben Prince, chair man of the state highway and public works commission, will arrive in Elkin this morning (Thursday), to make a personal and first hand study of the Lime Rock quarry situation looking toward pos sible action in opening the lime deposit for the benefit of farmers of Surry and other Northwestern North Carolina counties. Will Demonstrate The Action Of Fire Bombs Citizens To Be Shown How To Put Them Out Public demonstrations of the action of incendiary bombs and the means of combatting them have been arranged under the di rection of Fire Chief Ted Brown, J. W. L. Benson, Director of Civ ilian Defense announced Wednes day. The schedule and locations of the demonstrations follow. The public as well as all members of the local defense organization are urged to be present at the demon stration scheduled for their neighborhood: District 1, Pleasant Hill school, Thursday, March 12, 5 p. m. Districts 2, 3, 4 and 5, comer West Main and Elk Spur, Thrus day, March 12, 5:45 p. m. District 6, corner Spring and Church streets, Thursday, March 12, 6:30 p. m. District 10, in front of Elkin Furniture Co., Friday, March 13, 4:45 p. m. Districts 7, 8 and 9, Hospital Road and N. C. 21, Friday, March 13, 5:45 p. m. District 12, behind city hall, Friday, March 13, 6:30 p. m. Districts 13 and 14, Jonesville school, Tuesday, March 17, 5 p. m. District 15, opposite C. G. Mathis store, Jonesville, Tuesday, March 17, 5:45 p. m. District 16 and 18, near Dep uty Sheriff Hanes’ home, Arling ton, Tuesday, March 17, 6:30 p. m. One demonstration has already been staged in the vacant lot be tween Park Place Mercantile Co. and the Cash and Carry Stores, on East Main street, last Sunday afternoon, immediately after the meeting of the denfense organi zation at the Lyric theatre. In spite of a downpour of rain a large crowd witnessed that dem onstration and much interest was evidenced in the proceeding. Defense Director Benson points out that the time to cope with an incendiary bomb is immediately after it falls and if we should be subjected to incendiary raids it will be essential that the popula tion know what to do with them immediately. Poplin Named Clerk To Rationing Board Charles Poplin has been ap pointed clerk-stenographer for the local tire and automobile ra tioning board and is located in an office upstairs at the city hall. The local board is composed of W. W. Whitaker, W. C. Cox and T. W. Ring. LATE NEWS IN BRIEF NATIONAL NEW YORK, March 10—The 6,776-ton tanker Gulftrade of the Gulf Oil corporation was torpedoed and broken in two early today three and one-half miles off the New Jersey coast by a submarine which sailed between the broken halves of the vessel after its attack. Capt. Torger Olsen and 15 crew members brought to New York by rescue vessels said the torpedoing took place about three and one-half miles east of Barnegat lighthouse, which is about 60 miles south of New York City. Olsen said 18 men of the crew were missing and other survivors said they be lieved they were in two life boats which capsized. WASHINGTON, March 10— That familiar line of the gaso line age—“fill her up, bud,”— appeared tonight to be on the way out for the duration, in the east. Secretary of Interior Ickes, the petroleum co-ordina tor, described the oil situation in the nation’s most populous area as “very acute,” and on his desk was a recommenda tion from the oil industry. This recommendation had not been made public but informed sources said it would mean that some 10,000,000 motorists in 17 seaboard states and the District of Columbia would have to get along with less gasoline. WASHINGTON, March 10— Donald M. Nelson declared to night that this country’s out put of military supplies could be doubled if all existing war production machinery were used 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Unless production is brought to victorious levels, the war production board chair man warned in an address broadcast to the nation, nei ther management nor labor “could survive the public wrath should that wrath be turned against them; nor could we here on the war production board.” (Continued from page one) From the State and Nation i SELECTEES MAY B E CANDIDATES FOR COMMISSION Opportunity for Those With Dependents IF THEY CAN QUALIFY Complete Details Will Be Announced at Early Date, Gen. Metts Says APPLY TO DRAFT BOARD The War Department has an nounced that within the near fu ture selective service registrants who have been deferred from army duty solely because of dependents, will be given an opportunity to qualify as officer candidates by volunteering for induction through selective service, it was learned Tuesday from General J. Van Metts, state director of selective service. This policy, it was said, will make it possible for registrants who have dependents to obtain commissions if they can qualify for commission,, and thereby have opportunity to serve in the armed forces in this hour of grave emergency, and at the same time take care of their dependents. Pending the formulation of pro cedure with respect to this matter, registrants desiring further in formation regarding this oppor tunity to volunteer for this pur pose are advised by General Metts to file their names and addresses with their local draft board. Pull information will be furnished them as soon as it becomes available, it was said. PRACTICE AIR RAID IS HELD Mock Attack Sees Smooth Functioning of Local De fense Squads IS SECOND HELD HERE Under simulated air raid con ditions created by a practice air raid Monday evening between 5 and 6 o’clock the various units of the Elkin Civilian Corps went through their paces. Each of the units embodied in the organizations were called up on to combat imaginary emergen cy conditions in many different sections of Elkin and Jonesville. There were imaginary fires, power lines down, water mains bursted, people trapped in burning struc tures or under wreckage, people to be evacuated from a strciken area to a safe area and provided with emergency shelter, seriously injured persons to be transported from first aid posts to the hospi tal, calls for police service to ■handle traffic accidents and tie ups and many other such situa tions that might occur during an attack. The entire personnel was tried and found to function surprising ly well considering the short time it has been organized and the little training there has been time for up to now. It was clearly demonstrated that when and if this community is actually subjected to fire and explosives from the air or visited by any other disaster the people will fare much better as a result of the efforts and splendid co-op eration of the men and women volunteering their services in this essential work. \ The wardens in the various dis tricts reported excellent co-oper ation and good spirit on the part of the public in obeying the di rections of wardens, auxiliary po lice and the auxiliary firemen during the practice period. Live oak timbers seasoned to iron hardness which were stored in the Brooklyn Navy Yard dur ing the Civil War, are being used in building modem war ships. Stuck to Ship Ensign Herbert C. Weart, of 10th naval district, San Juan, Puerto Rico, looks at the Dis tinguished Flying Cross award ed him for his action in saving a navy patrol plane when it ran into a hurricane. Although ordered to bail out when the plane’s ailerons snapped, Weart maneuvered to a safe landing. Tribune Presents New Feature In This Issue The Tribune presents in this issue the first installment of a new weekly column from the Na tion’s capital, “On the Tar Heel Front in Washington,” written by Robert A. Erwin and Frances Mc Kusick. Thousands of North Carolinians live in Washington. Many of them are high Government officials and high-ranking members of Con gress. Who they are, what they do and what they say is news in these critical times. This new feature is not just another Wash ington column, but a resume of new£ and people, sidelights and human interest stories, of direct interest to North Carolina folks. Bob Erwin hardly needs an in troduction. His name has been knov/n to Tar Heel readers for so many years that they hardly know he isn’t a native Tar Heel. Bob, who was born in Evansville, on the banks of the Ohio River in South ern Indiana, terms himself “a Tar Heel by ancestry, adoption and preference.” His people on both sides of the house came from North Carolina, and as Bob puts it, he “had sense enough to go back.” Miss McKusick, who writes un der her maiden name, is a Tar Heel by marriage. A native of South Dakota, daughter of the Dean of the State University Law School, she is a veteran newspaperwoman, graduate of the University of Mis souri School of Journalism and is the wife of Marion J. Shufler, Sec retary to Representative J. Bayard Clark, of Fayetteville, and Chief Page of the House of Representa tives. Equalization Board To Hold Hearings The board of commissioners of Surry county will sit as a board of equalization at the courthouse at Dobson Monday, March 16, at 10 a.m., it has been announced by B. F. Folger, clerk to the board. The board will hear, on request, complaints from any and all tax. payers who own or control proper ty assessed for taxation in respect to the valuation of such property or the property of others. Schools Contribute To Civilian Defense \ Elkin school students have ren dered valuable financial aid to the local Civilian Defense Corps through the collection and sale of scrap metal, it was announced Wednesday. The Elkin public schools have contributed a total of $62.42, and the North Elkin school and 4-H Clubs have contributed $30.00, it was announced. ' Australians Hammer New Guinea Island Invasion Spearhead Merchants to Petition Town To Clean Streets The directors of the Elkin Merchants Association, meet ing in regular session Tuesday, instructed its secretary to peti tion the Elkin board of com missioners to endeavor to have the streets cleaned and wash ed on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 4:00 a.m. The reason for the early hour is due to the fact that the hazards of traffic and parking are at a minimum at this hour of the morning. The association also requests that each place of business sweep from its door and side walk all dirt and trash before leaving the store at the end of each day so that the street cleaners may be able to do a better job of keeping the town clean. TRAINING IS BEING GIVEN Members of Civilian Defense Group Now Studying First Aid OTHER COURSES COMING All members of the Elkin Civil ian Defense Corps must fulfill certain minimum training re quirements before they can be of ficially recognized and designated for their particular service. All assignments that have been made are temporary pending comple tion of the required training courses. After the courses have been completed the members will be issued official insignia to iden tify them as Civilian Defense per sonnel. The first step in the training program is a series of First Aid classes being conducted by Roy Kane and J. Mark McAdams and assistants from the public school teaching staff. The schedule of these classes now going on follows: Chatham Manufacturing Co. (by Mr. Kane), Mondays and Thursdays and Tuesdays and Fri days, 1:45 p. m. to 3:45 p. m., 4:15 p. m. to 6:15 p .m., 9:45 p. m. to 11:45 p. m. Pleasant Hill School (by Mr. Kane), Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7:30 p. m. to 9:30 p. m. Elkin High School (by Mr. Mc Adams and assistants), Mondays and Thursdays, 7:30 p. m. to 9:30 p. m. A minimum of ten hours in struction in elementary First Aid is required of the following serv ices: air raid wardens, auxiliary (Continued on last page) Goss Trial Under Way at Wilkesboro Trial of John Goss, of Dough ton, on a charge of shooting and fatally injuring Paul Wall, of State Road, in Goss’ place of business several weeks ago, was scheduled to begin in Wilkes county superior court at Wilkes boro Wednesday. Wall, who was employed at Hayes & Speas here prior to his death, was said to have been shot by Goss, who is said to be blind, following a dispute over some change. Following the shooting, Goss was arrested by Wilkes county officers, but was later re leased under bond to await trial. ALL-OUT ATTACK IS EXPECTED IN BATAANSECTOR Both Sides Strengthen Lines for Coming Fight TO MAKE INDIA BASE To Be Springboard for Even tual Allied Offensive Against Japs CAREFUL STUDY GIVEN Melbourne, March 11—Austra lian air squadrons hammering at the spearhead of Japanese inva sion on New Guinea Island today were credited with smashing seven to nine enemy vessels in cluding at least one and perhaps two warships. A flaming trail of blazing, beached or sinking Japanese ves sels was left by Australian fliers, including veteran airmen with drawn from other fighting fronts, in the largest raid of the war against the enemy forces headed toward this continent, air com muniques disclosed. (A dozen Japanese bombers raided Port Moresby, on the south coast of New Guinea, this morn ing for the third successive day, the Australian radio, heard by CBS, reported. No damage or casualties were reported.) One large cruiser was attacked at Salamaua, on North New Guinea, and another warship on which several direct hits were scored was described as either a cruiser or a large destroyer. Although the air blows were credited with disrupting the Jap (Continued on last page) ELKIN NATIVE PASSES AWAY Rites Held Sunday for Dr. C. W. Moseley, Greens boro Specialist SERVED AS MAYOR HERE Graveside rites were held here Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock for Dr. Charles West Mosley, 76, well known Greensboro physician and native of this city. Dr. Mosley died Saturday in a Greensboro hospital where he had been a patient for a month. The funeral proper was held at the First Baptist church in Greensboro where Dr. >iMosley was a member and a teacher of the men’s Bible class. He had made his home in Greensboro for the past 35 years and prior to that time practiced his profession here and at Kapps Mills. He served one term as mayor of Elkin during his resi dence here. He was a son of the late James Henry Mosley and Mrs. Thesera Hurt Mosley of Surry county. He studied medicine under the late Dr. J. W. Ring of this city and the late Dr. E. B. Hampton before graduating from Baltimore Med ical College in 1893. He was wide ly known throughout the state as a specialist in diseases of the stomach and internal medicine. He was twice married, first to Miss Fannie Ogbum McKnight of Winston-Salem and after her death to Miss Elizabeth Battle of Greensboro, who survives, together with four children of his first marriage, two sisters and three brothers.
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