ELKIN
The Best
Little Town In
North Carolina
The Elkin Tribune
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SECTIONS
VOL. No. XXXI. No. 26
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
/^r\n\T'rrhCrm\JT IlAVThe copper box in which will be placed historical data
LOKNtKbl UDIL DUA and other material, including a copy of The Tri
bune’s Y. M. C. A. edition, and sealed in the cornerstone of the “Y” building later this
week is shown being inspected bv Lieutenant-Commander Thurmond Chatham, who
holds it, and Charles M. Norfleet,*left, of Winston-Salem; Mayor J. R. Poindexter, and
R, W. Harris, right. Photo was made shortly after the dedication service last Satur
day afternoon.
Hundreds Attend F orinal
Dedication Of Y.M.C.A.
Impressive Services Conducted In
New Structure Saturday Afternoon
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Approximately 1,200 persons
crowded into the large combina
tion gymnasium-auditorium of
the new Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A.
here Saturday afternoon to wit
ness the dedication of this mod
ern new institution.
Lieutenant-Commander Thur
mond Chatham, of the U. S.
Navy and president of the Chat
ham Manufacturing Company,
whose financial aid made the Y.
M. C. A. possible, attended the
opening, taking part in the dedi
cation service by making a brief
talk and presenting the keys to
the building to Mayor J. R. Poin
dexter of Elkin.
In his address, Mr. Chatham
pointed to the “fine cooperation
of Elkin citizens and voiced the
hope that the institution would,
in all ways, meet the needs of the
community.”
Asserting that the “Y” classi
fied as an industrial Y. M. C. A.,
he said it was built to serve every
Driver Bound Over
In Accident Case
inree cases were uisposea ox ui
Magistrate’s Court here Monday
morning before Justice of the
Peace J. L. Hall.
The most important case to be
tried was that of Fred Barnett,
local young man, who was charg
ed with reckless driving as the
result of a wreck which occurred
here several weeks ago in which
several were injured. Barnett was
bound over to Surry superior
court under $200 bond.
Roger Corder, charged with
speeding, was fined $10.00 and the
costs.
J. R. Gentry, charged with
parking on the sidewalk, was fin
ed $2.00
Plans For New Surry
Schools Are Okeyed
Architects plans for t'he new
school buildings at Dobson anc
Lowgap were approved Mondaj
by the Surry county board o:
commissioners and the counts
board of education in a joint ses
sion at Dobson. Advertisement!
for bids for immediate construe
tion of these buildings was au
thorized by the boards.
Both the Dobson and the Low
gap schools were destroyed b;
fire* during the present schoo
year.
member of the community, men,
women, boys and girls alike. He
termed the opening of the new
building the “beginning and endr
ing of an era” of Elkin commun
ity life.
At the end of his brief address,
Mr. Chatham presented the keys
of the institution to Mayor Poin
dexter, who in a brief talk ex
pressed the appreciation of the
citizens of the town, and called
for a rising vote of thanks for Mr.
Chatham.
R. W. Harris, President of the
“Y,” presided over the ceremon
ies and traced the historical de
velopment of the new “Y,” point
ing out that with the arrival of
the complete Chatham plant in
Elkin, new facilities were needed.
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Two Are Injured
In Auto Accident
Claude Barker, an employee of
the Chatham Manufacturing Co.,
is getting along satisfactorily at
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospi
tal following an automobile acci
dent late Sunday afternoon in
which he, his wife, and a Mr.
Byrd were injured.
The accident occurred near
Ronda when a tire was said to
have bnown out, causing the car
to go over an embankment. Mrs.
Barker was unconscious for sever
al hours after the wreck, but was
recovered sufficiently to be dis
missed from the hosptal Tuesday.
Mr. Byrd was not injured.
Gas Consumption Cut 50
Per Cent Below Normal
Gasoline consumption in the
east — which includes North Car
olina — will be slashed 50 per
cent below normal starting May
1 16, the War Production Board
announced Tuesday night. This
- means that many of the area’s
- ten million motorists probably
, will have to get along with as lit
i tie as five or six gallons a week.
It was indicated that there is
‘increasingly a certainty” that
non-essential drivers will receive
. less than five gallons a week, and
r it appeared that this quota might
1 be as low as three or four gal
lons.
The reduction becomes effec
tive the day the seaboard area be
gins using ration cards.
These cards and application
forms will be distributed to school
registration sites throughout
North Carolina before May 12, ac
cording to State Rationing Ad
ministrator Theodore S. Johnson
Five different ration cards havt
been prepared, and owners of mo
tor vehicles and inboard motor
boats will receive at registration
time the type of card for which
they qualify. They are intendec
to last users until July 1.
FOUR INJURED
IN BIKE CRASH
Three Go to Hospital After
Bicycle Strikes Theatre
Ticket Booth
TWO ARE BADLY CUT
Four persons were injured, two
seriously, last Thursday afternoon
when a bicycle ridden by Sam
Harris, 10, crashed into the tick
et booth of the new Reeves thea
tre here.
Thrown by the force of the im
pact through the heavy plate
glass of the ticket booth, young
Harris received deep cuts on his
arms and legs and minor cuts
about the body. Gale Page Reeves,
3-year-old daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. W. B. Reeves, owner of the
theatre, suffered painful lacera
tions about the face and legs, and
Mrs. Carmel Billings, cashier in
the theatre box office, sustained
minor cuts and bruises. A fourth
person, a woman whose name was
not learned, was also slightly in
jured when struck by the bicycle.
The accident occurred about
3:30 in the afternoon. Young
Harris on his bicycle was coming
down the steep hill on Church
street from the Elkin elementary
school, carrying Sam Shugart, an
other youngster, on the back of
the bike. Traveling at very fast
speed, the boy was unable to slow
his speed, and ran across West
Main street full force into the
ticket office. Shugart jumped
from the bike before the crash oc
curred and was not injured.
Spectators said that force of
collision with the booth threw the
youngster completely through the
glass window. The Reeves child
was sitting on the change count
er of the booth at the time and
in addition to being struck by
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To Make War Bond Drive Today
EVERY CITIZEN
TO BE ASKED TO
BOY SECURITIES
Air Raid Wardens to Canvass
Districts
VOLUNTARY PLEDGE
North Carolina’s Bond Quo
ta for May Is Set At
$5,888,500
JOHNSON IS CHAIRMAN
The local War Bond drive, in
which every citizen with an in
come will be asked to sign a
pledge to buy United States War
Bonds and Stamps as regularly
as possible, will be conducted in
Elkin today (Thursday), by air
raid wardens of the local Civilian
Defense Corps, and their assist
ants.
Each warden will make a
house-to-house canvas of his dis
trict and seek the voluntary
pledge of citizens to spend some
portion of their income for
bonds and stamps.
Every pledge will be condition
al upon the signer’s continued fi
nancial ability to make the pledg
ed purchase, and it will be left to
the signers to decide whether or
not they are able to continue
their purchases.
Garland Johnson is campaign
manager for Elkin, and called the
special meeting of air raid war
dens which was held at the Y.
M. C. A. Wednesday evening to
complete plans for today’s drive,
and to hear a special speaker.
Mr. Johnson also announced,
following a meeting held at The
Bank of Elkin early Tuesday
morning, that a booth will be
erected on Main street for the
sale of stamps and bonds.
All citizens are urged to cooper
ate in today’s drive. Money in
vested in these securities — which
are the safest investments in the
world — will be taken out of com
petition for consumer goods,
thereby preventing inflation and
building up a cushion of savings
for the individual when the war
ends.
North Carolina’s quota of War
Bonds and Stamps for May Has
been set at $5,888,500.
Advisory Council
Holds Meeting Here
An organization meeting of the
Elkin WPA advisory council was
held here Thursday evening at
the public library. Mrs. J. Mark
McAdams was elected chairman
of the council;.Paul Burch, vice
chairman, and Mrs. M. W. Max
wel, secretary. Other council
members are Miss Betty Allen, J.
Mark McAdams, J. G. Wood of
Copeland, Gilmer Corder of Little
Richmond, and Miss Mable Sale.
Miss Euzelia Smart of Winston
Salem, district WPA. director, was
present for the meeting'and ex
plained the redirection program
of WPA activities, which will put
emphasis on health and welfare.
The duties of the local council
will be to assist the WPA in func
tioning in this capacity in this
section.
More Registrants
Are Reclassified
A number of selective service
registrants have been reclassified
by the draft board at Dobson dur
ing the week. Men put in class
1-A include: Carl Wilson Osborne,
Orville Alton Bledsoe, Kelly Ray
Draughn, Wade Gilbert Draughn,
Graham Ernest Newman, Dudley
Simmons,: James Wilkerson Gor
don, Keith Badgett.
Henry Marshall Shelton was
put into class 2-A, as was Char
les William Young and Claude
William Cummings.
Hubbard Garland Spencer was
placed in class 2-B; Samuel Alvin
Setliff and Claude William Cum
mings were classed in class 3-B.
William Sanford Vestal and
Roy T. Stanley were placed in
class 4-F.
Founder
Rev. L. B. Abemethy, whose
vision and hard work resulted
in the founding of the Hugh
Chatham Memorial Hospital,
has joined with the hospital
staff in extending a cordial in
vitation to everyone to visit the
local institution Tuesday, May
12, in observance of National
Hospital Day.
OPEN HOUSE AT
HOSPITAL HERE
Public Invited to Visit Insti
tution on Hospital Day
May 12
ISSUES PROCLAMATION
Open house will be held at
Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital
here on Tuesday, May 12, from
one until 4 o’clock in the after
noon in observance of National
Hospital Day. The observation
marks the birthday anniversary
of Florence Nightingale.
Old and new friends of the hos
pital are invited to call during the
designated hours and visit all de
partments of the hospital. Dur
ing last year one patient entered
an American hospital every 3.2
seconds; more than one million
babies were born in hospitals,
and approximately thirty million
visits were made by sick and in
jured to the out-patient depart
ment of hospitals. This splendid
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Bingo Party For Navy
Relief Is to Be Held
A bingo party, planned in co
operation with a drive locally to
raise funds for the Navy Relief
Society, will be held Thursday
evening, May 14, at 8 o’clock at
the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A., ac
cording to Charlie Hanes, local
chairman. Numerous novelty
prizes will be awarded in the
games and a grand prize will be
given to the player making the
highest number of points.
The general public is invited to
attend the party. Tickets are on
sale at the Jonesville and Elkin
schools and at Surry Hardware
company.
Sugar Registration Is
Extended To Saturday
Due to the tremendous amount
of work involved in registering
and issuing sugar ration books to
every citizen, the time in which
citizens may register has bee^ ex
tended from Thursday, May 7,
through Saturday, May 9, it was
announced Wednesday by W. C.
Cox, chairman of the local ration
ing board.
The local board was authoriz
ed to permit this extension of
time in a telegram from Guy W.
Rawls, adminiatrative assistant
officer of the state rationing ad
ministrator. , . ■
Mr. Cox stated J)|>* a total of
% '
1,280 persons had been registered
through Tuesday, and stressed
the fact that in order to buy su
gar, every person, regardless of
age, must have a rationing book.
Persons registering today
(Thursday), may do so at the lo
cal school between the hours of
9 a. m. and 9 p. m. Friday and
Saturday the hours will be from
4 p. m. to 9 p. m.
As information for those who
do not fully understand the ra
tioning program, the first four
stamps in the war ration book will
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Other Forts Yield
After Heroic Fight
Of U. S. Defenders
FIRING CEASES
AFTER LANDING
MADE ON BEACH
Small Garrisons Were At
End of Resources
6,500 TROOPS TAKEN
Resistance Continues in
Northern Luzon and
Other Islands
CONTROL MANILA BAY
Gen. MacArthur’s Headquarters,
Australia. — Corregidor and its
three sister fortresses America’s
islet bastions in Manila Bay, sur
rendered today with a garrison of
upwards of 6,500 American troops,
sailors, marines and army nurses.
The regular garrisons, number
ing more than 3,000, had been in
i creased by naval men and marines
who had been evacuated to Cor
regidor from Bataan. This total
had been reduced by an unknown
number of casualties.
Firing ceased on Corregidor and
the islands of Caballo, El Fraile
and Carabao this morning after
Japanese shock troops stormed
the north beach of Corregidor,
crossing the Boca Chico Channel
from Bataan in invasion barges.
The little garrison, tired and at
the end of its resources, could not
withstand the attack which was
backed up by a terrific bombard
ment from dive bombing planes
and heavy guns, and Gen. Jona
than M. Wainwright asked for the
Japanese terms of capitulation.
An army spokesman emphasized
that resistance continued i n
northern Luzon, Mindanao, Cebu,
and other islands.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an
nounced the end in a special com
munique at 4:15 p. m., today (2:15
a. m. e. w. t.):
“Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright
has surrendered Corregidor and
the other fortified islands in
Manila harbor.”
There had been a blazing climax
of 27 days and nights in which
the little garrison of American
and Phillippines defenders, in
cluding army nurses, stood up un
flinching to an unceasing attack
by Japanese dive bombing planes
and big guns.
The Japanese now control
Manila Bay and resistance in the
Phillippines except for isolated
units on small islands and guer
rilla bands, was over.
BANK TO BE CLOSED MONDAY
The Bank of Elkin will be
closed Monday, May 11, in obser
vation of Confederate Decoration
Day.
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!
Passes Away
William Barrett Lankford,
above, passed away last Thurs
day in a Winston-Salem hospi
tal following ill health for the
past several months. He was a
well-known business man of
this city.
W. B. LANKFORD
DIES THURSDAY
Well-Known Elkin Business
Man Had Suffered 111
Health
RITES HELD SATURDAY
William Barrett Lankford, 36,
well known Elkin business man,
died Thursday morning at about
12:30 in a Winston-Salem hospi
tal where he had been a patient
for two weeks. Mr. Lankford had
been in ill health for several
months.
A native of Glen Alpine, Mr.
Lankford had made his home here
for several years where he had a
wide circle of friends. He came
here as business manager of Hugh
Chatham Memorial Hospital, a
post which he held four years.
Since that time he had operated
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Tri-County Union
Elects Officers
At a meeting of the Tri-Coun
ty Union, comprised of the young
people of the Methodist churches *
of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
counties, held at North Wilkes
boro Monday evening, officers for
the ensuing year were elected.
Miss Mary Moore (Tudie) Hix of
North Wilkesboro, was elected
president of the union to succeed
Bob Harris of this city, Miss Eliz
abeth Hobson of Boonville was
elected vice-president, and Charles
Marshall Colhard of this city,
secretary-treasurer. Several mem
bers from the local church at
tended the meeting.
Jonesville Town
Election Is Held
The ciitzens of Jonesville Mon
day went to the polls in the regu
lar town election to elect a mayor
and five commissioners. Results
of the election disclosed that Z.
B. Martin, present mayor, was
re-elected without opposition.
Commissioners named were: W.
Bure ham, W. T. Pardue, A. D.