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ELKIN
The Best
Little Town in
North Carolina
The Elkin Tribune
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VOL. No. XXXI. No. 19 ,
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Governor Orders New Survey Of Quarry
/mnDTCCre VTW A AIT A A1Q This photograph was made of Governor J.
AUUt\L,JjrjO I\1 rT /ilyl/ilyj Melville Broughton here last Thursday as
he addressed the Elkin Kiwanis Club and its guests at Hotel Elkin prior to holding a
meeting with interested citizens concerning the lime quarry at Lime Rock, Yadkin
county. Seated at left of Governor Broughton is H. P. Graham, mayor pro-tem, who
welcomed the governor when he arrived in Elkin. On the right is D. G. Smith, president
of the Kiwanis Club, who presided over the meeting.—(Tribune Photo.)
Governor Broughton Is
Guest Of Kiwanis Club
Elkin’s Civil Defense Organization
Lauded By State’s Chief Executive
Speaking before the Elkin Ki
wanis Club as its honored guest
last Thursday. Governor J. Mel
ville Broughton talked of the
state’s participation in the war
effort and paid Elkin’s civil de
fense organization the compli
ment of being the best in the
state.
“The state director of civil de
fense at Raleigh told me that
Elkin has the best home defense
organization in the state,’’ the
governor stated.
Quite a good part of the gov
ernor’s remarks were off the rec
ord, but he did point with pride
to the fact that labor working on
war projects in North Carolina
did not have to pay high fees to
organized gangsters in the guise
of union officials. He also point
ed to the fact that North Caro
lina workmen have shown their
ability to handle big projects in
the form of army camps and
bases.
Governor Broughton was pre
sented by R. C. Lewellyn, presi
dent of The Bank of Elkin. Gar
land Johnson, chairman of the
agricultural committee of the Ki
wanis club, presented other guests
at tlie meting.
The dinner, prepared by Hotel
Number of Men
Reclassified
Several selective service regis
trants have recently been reclassi
fied by the Surry county draft
board No. 2 at Dobson. The reg
istrants reclassified include:
Jefferson E. Poindexter, I-A
from m-A; Fidell Sale, I-A from
III- A; Samuel Felix Johnson, I-A
from III-A; Robert G. Hamby,
I-B from m-A; Garland W. Mor
rison, I-A from m-A; Arthur R.
Plaster, I-A from III-A; Lewis
Fleet Mathis. i-B from m-A;
William R. Ray, IV-F continued
in IV-F; Thedford Sprinkle, I-A
i from m-A; Charles C. Pratt, I-A
| from I-B; Elbert E. Danley, IV-F
continued in IV-F; Connie Lowe,
IV- F from HI-A; Joe C. Bartley,
IV-F from m-A.
Elkin, was served by the Elkin
high school home economifcs class,
the girls of which made such a
hit with the governor that he
posed for his picture with them
following the banquet.
The Kiwanis room, scene of the
meeting, was attractively decor
ated by wives of members of the
Kiwanis club, who used a red,
white and blue color scheme.
WILL TEACH
BUSDRIVERS
Operators of School Buses to
Learn How to Drive
More Safely
School bus drivers of the Surry
county school system will be in
structed in safe driving in a
series of institutes planned by the
Surry county school board in
conjunction with the State High
way Safety Division, according to
an announcement by John W.
Comer, superintendent of Surry
county schools.
The first of the institutes will
be held in Mount Airy on March
31 for the Mount Airy, Beulah.
Franklin and Flat Rock schools.
On Wednesday, April 1, drivers of
Westfield, Pilot Mountain, Shoals
and Eldora schools will be in
structed.
Thursday, April 2, the institute
will be moved to Dobson for Dob
son, Little Richmond, Elkin,
North Elkin and Mountain Park
drivers. The remaining schools
of the county, Low Gap, White
Plains, Copeland and Siloam will
receive their instruction on Fri
day, April 3.
Following these institutes in
dividual instruction at each school
where buses operate will be given
by a member of the state high
way safety division. This plan is
to make preparation for the
school bus driver situation during
the coming year.
MAY VOLUNTEER
F 0 R TCAINING
Men With Dependents Must
Not Waive Permanently
Claim for Dependency
INFORMATION IS GIVEN
Men with dependents who are
between 21 and 36 will be able to
volunteer immediately for officer
training but the 20-year-olds and
i those between 36 and 45 will have
to wait a few weeks it has been
learned here.
Those who did not register until
last month will have to wait until
their order numbers are assigned
which will be around April 1—
because their boards must classify
them before they can be accepted.
Men who volunteer for the train
ing will not have to waive per
manently their claim for depend
ency deferment—-a point which
had worried some men with fami
lies—-it appears from the wording
of the government blanks.
They will have to assure the
board, however, that they have
made provision for supporting
their dependents during the six to
nine months which their officer
training will require and their de
pendents will have to waive their
claim upon them with this under
standing.
Only men will be accepted whom
local draft boards have classified
and found available for service ex
cept for their dependency status.
This classification rule makes it
necessary for boards to send them
questionnaires and study these
questionnaires before they can be
accepted. The recent registrants
will not receive questionnaires un
til after their order numbers are
allotted.
Dr. J. E. Abernethy
Passes Away Sunday
Dr. J. E. Abernethy, 73. of
Rutherford College, prominent
retired minister of the Western
North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist church, died at the lo
cal hospital late Sunday after
noon, following a lengthy illness.
The body was removed to Salis
bury, where funeral services were
held Tuesday afternoon. He is
survived by his wife, three sons
and two daughters.
TO AGAIN PROBE
POSSIBILITIES
OF LIME MINE
State to Pay Disinterested
Mining Engineer
MEETING IS HELD HERE
Broughton and Highway
Chairman Prince Go into
Matter Thursday
LOCAL FOLKS PLEASED
A new survey and study by a
competent and disinterested min
ing engineer of the possibilities of
the lime quarry at Lime Rock,
Yadkin county, was ordered here
Thursday by Governor J. Mel
ville Broughton after a conference
with interested Elkin citizens and
representatives from Surry, Yad
kin, Wilkes, Stokes, Forsyth, Ire
dell and other neighboring coun
ties. All expenses of the survey
will be borne by the state.
The governor’s decision in the
matter came after hearing facts
and figures submitted in the mat
ter by those interested in the op
eration of the lime quarry as a
source of cheap agricultural lime
for farmers of this section, and
by state highway officials, head
ed by L. Ben Prince, chairman of
the state highway and public
works commission, who was look
ing at the matter as a source of
crushed rock for highway use
with lime as a by product.
Mr. Prince, in a statement to
the press several weeks ago, said
that operation of the mine was
not practical on account of the
expense involved, stating that a
total initial outlay of $106,300
would be required before the lime
could be quarried. This amount,
it was said, would include an out
lay of $83,800 for the mining
equipment, $5,000 for a road to
the site of the deposit, and $17,
500 for a bridge across the Yad
kin river, which flows by the de
posit.
It was these figures which re
sulted in the meeting here Thurs
day. The Tribune, which had
previously brought the matter of
the lime quarry into the limelight
through an open letter to Gov
ernor Broughton asking action in
the matter, challenged the figures
in a front page editorial as being
out of reason. The Tribune’s
stand was backed by several daily
newspapers which ran editorials
on the matter, and further inter
est and cooperation in the matter
was forthcoming from the Elkin
Kiwanis Club, the Elkin board of
commissioners, the Surry board of
commissioners, the Elkin Junior
Chamber of Commerce, and the
Yadkin county board of commis
(Continued on last page, 1st sec.)
GIRL SCOUTS
OBSERVE WEEK
National Event Is Being Ob
served by Two Troops
Here
BEING ENTERTAINED
National Girl Scout week is be
ing observed by the two troops
here. A window display has been
arranged in the Spainhour-Syd
nor show window for the event
and the theatre managers of the
town have entertained members
of both troops as their guests.
Girl Scouts also attended ser
vices in a body at the Methodist
church Sunday.
Troop leaders are Miss Mary E.
Poster, captain, and Mrs. Nig
Plaster and Mrs. J. Mark Mc
Adams, lieutenants.
The two troops have a mem
bership of 25, with Martha Har
ris leader of the Mars patrol and
Julie Bryan leader of the Jupiter
patrol. Assistant leaders are Cyn
thia Allen and “Sugar” Haywood.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, March 17.
War Production Chief Donald
M. Nelson revealed tonight
that airplane production has
reached the 3,000 a month
rate, but solemnly warned in
dustry and labor alike to be
ware of axis propagandists en
gaged in a “fiendish” campaign
to bog down America’s war ef
fort. He said in a nationwide
radio address, that the enemy
is aware U. S. production will
bring his ultimate defeat, and
is therefore attempting to di
vide this nation and lead the
fighting factions “into the
same pitfalls he prepared for
the people of France and Nor
way.”
WASHINGTON, March 17.—
President Roosevelt today op
posed precipitate enactment of
restrictive labor legislation fol
lowing a conference with A. F.
L.-C. I. O. leaders at which he
was represented as favoring
retention of the 40-hour week
and time-and-a-half overtime
pay. Striking at a growing
drive in Congress to suspend
the short work week, outlaw
the closed shop, ban strikes and
eliminate overtime pay, he told
a press conference there is
an amazing state of public
misinformation about the gen
eral labor picture.
WASHINGTON, March 17.—
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, hero
of the Philippines and scourge
of the Japanese, arrived in in
vasion-menaced Australia to
day and at once became su
preme commander of all al
lied forces there—a breath
taking move that sent a wave
of new hope surging through
the anti-axis world. He reach
ed his new post with his wife
and child and some of his staff
officers af x a daring and se
cret plane flight from Bataan,
where he and his gallant little
band of American-Filipino de
fenders have fashioned an ev
erlasting epic of courage, de
termination and military bril
liance.
COMMUNITIES in seven
southern and midwestem
states, digging out from under
the wreckage of one of the
most destructive tornadic
storms in recent years, counted
Wednesday at least 153 dead
and more than 1,000 injured.
The swiftly-striking winds left
behind a trail of smashed
homes and buildings that sent
damage estimates into the mil
lions. A large number of the
injured were believed dying.
Mississippi’s heavily-populated
cotton growing belt in the
north-central section bore the
brunt of the terrific winds. At
least 78 were known dead and
some 650 injured in that state
alone. A path of death and
destruction also was left in the
wake of tornadoes in Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Illinois, In
diana, Alabama and Missouri.
None was reported killed or in- :
jured in Missouri, but the J
storm did damage as far as the
west-central section of that
state.
WASHINGTON, March 17.—
President Roosevelt saiid today
he will send to Congress to
morrow a request for a supple
mental war department ap
propriation of $17,579,311,253
to help provide for the army 1
air corps 148,000 of the 185,000 1
warplanes envisaged in his *
1942-43 production goals. The ]
fund will raise America’s stake 1
in the war against the axis to j
a total of almost $164,000,000,- 1
000 which, despite its seeming- 1
ly staggering size, is expected j
to represent only a fraction of i
the total cost of final -victory. I
Operate From Secret
Bases In Australia;
Strike At Nip Bases
Woe for Axis
Ready for shipment to an
ordnance department loading
plant to be filled with explosive,
this 500-pound demolition bomb
is getting a final examination
in a bomb manufacturing plant
at Philadelphia. Fins were at
tached for photographic pur
poses. Ordinarily bomb fins are
attached at air fields.
WARN FARMERS
OF DEADLINE
Must File Application for
Conservation and Parity
Payments
MARCH 31st IS LAST DAY
Farmers who participated in
the 1941 Agricultural Adjustment
Administration program must file
application for conservation and
partity payments by March 31,
according to E. Y. Floyd, state
AAA executive officer.
More than 213,000 farm opera
tors took part in the program last
year, and each of these must file
an application, he said. Pay
ments will not be made on appli
cations filed after the deadline.
Mr. Floyd said applications
should be signed at the Triple A
office in the county in which the
farm is located. It was pointed
out that farmers will not be re
quired to come to the county of
fices to receive their checks this
year. U. S. Department of Agri
culture officials have announced
that checks will be mailed direct
ly to farmers in order to save
time and conserve transportation.
Estimated earnings of* North
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Schools to Continue
On Present Schedule
Elkin city schools will continue
on their present schedule instead
of going on eastern war time on
March 23, as was announced when
the new time was inaugurated,
according to an announcement
Tuesday by J. Mark McAdams,
superintendent of the city schools.
The change is being withheld
for the same reason that war
time was not adopted by the
schools at its inception, since stu
dents trom the rural areas would
have to leave home before day
light in order to get to school on
the bus.
Marriage License
Issued at Dobson
- i
Kermit Lawrence, Surry coun
ty register of deeds, issued mar- i
iage license during the past week 1
;o the following couples: Walter i
[i. Mason, Jr., Mebane, to Mary 1
Margaret Hollingsworth, Mount 1
\iry; George Willey, Rusk, to
1/aura Juanita Gentry, State i
Road; James Rossie Goins, Mount (
Mry, to Louise Galyean, Toast, l
ind Garnet Easter, Mount Airy, i
;o Forrest Cagle, Mount Airy. ]
M E N, SUPPLIES
TOT IN FROM
UNITED STATES
Big Battle Is Expected at
Any Time
MacARTHUR IN CHARGE
Australia Wildly Enthusiastic
Over Appointment of
General
LARGE GROUND FORCES
Canberra, Australia, March 18.—
American fighter and bombing
planes, including giant flying
fortresses, operating from secret
bases along the north Australian
coast, have been battling the
Japanese for weeks while train
loads of troops moved up to pros
pective fighting lines, it was re
vealed today as General Douglas
MacArthur established headquar
ters somewhere in Australia.
Shiploads of American airmen,
pilots and technicians and a
steady stream of war equipment
have been pouring into Australia
for the last two months.
The flying fortresses are strik
ing at the Japanese in their New
Guinea and other invasion bases
off the northeast coast almost
daily.
All along the northern fringe
of this great continent the Amer
ican planes have been flying out
with the Australians from secret
bases to fight the Japanese in the
skirmishes preliminary to the
battle of Australia.
These are but the advanced
units of the United States flying
corps but they offer evidence,
until now kept secret, that the
American forces are already fully
engaged in the first task of se
curing the defense of Australia
(Continued on last page, 1st sec.)
DRAFT LOTTERY
HELD TUESDAY
R. G. Holyfield, Jr., Is First
Man Drawn in This
Draft Area
9,000,000 MEN INVOLVED
No. 3,485 was the first drawn
Tuesday night in the war’s first t
draft lottery which is intended to
add millions of men to the pool
of men who may be called for
military service.
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, se
lective service chief at Washing
ton, stressed that some of the 9,
000,000 men involved in the lot
tery might be drafted to man fac
tories while their comrades man
ned guns.
The first number was drawn by
Secretary of War Stimson.
In Surry draft area No. 2, with
headquarters at Dobson, Raleigh
Silmer Holyfield, Jr., of Rock
ford, became the first man of his
irea to be drawn, his serial num
aer being 441.
Actually, 441 was the fourth
lumber to be drawn at Washing
ton Tuesday, but all three pre
:eding numbers were higher than
the highest of the local board,
thus putting Holyfield in the top
aosition in Surry No. 2 area.
Allen Herman Johnson, of Low
;ap, was the second man to be
Irawn, with serial number 176,
tnd Otis Roscoe Pendry, of Si
oam, was third, with serial num
>er 606.
The complete list of names,
md their order numbers as as
signed by the local board, will
jrobably be published in a later
ssue of The Tribune, when com
pete figures become available.