ELKIN
The Best
Little Town in
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The Elkin Tribune
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VOL. No. XXXI. No. 29
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
USO Drive To Get Under Way Saturday
ELKIN’S QUOTA
SET AT $1,250;
MEETING^HELD
Soldiers Speak Highly of
Organization
IS HOME FOR THE MEN
Many Letters From Boys in
Service Tell of
Benefits
McDANIEL CHAIRMAN
The USO drive, to raise a quo
ta of $1,250. will get underway
here Saturday morning, it has
been announced by E. W. McDan
iel, chairman of the local organi
zation.
Mr. McDaniel’s announcement
following a general meeting last
Friday nigl^.t at Mount Airy with
J. F. Yokely, of that city, and oth
er members of USO campaign or
ganization, at which Congressman
John H. Folger and W. E. Wood
ruff, both of Mount Airy, made
talks in which they stressed the
great work being done by the USO
for the men of the armed forces.
Elkin’s quota of $1,250 will be
sought by members of an organ
ization formed here last week.
The county quota is $4,000, $3,500
which will be in the state and the
remainder in the county for the
f benefit of traveling soldiers, sail
ors and marines.
What the USO means to the
men in service is well expressed in
letters received here by relatives
of men in the service. One letter,
received by Mrs. Fred Colhard
from Oliver D. Coble, U. S. Army
Chaplain, says in part:
“I am personally happy to en
dorse the USO. It’s the cleanest
and nearest thing to home which
the boys of our camp enjoy. The
public at large may not fully ap
preciate the fine wholesome ef
forts made in behalf of their sons
in the USO. Furthermore, the
staff and personnel of the USO
consists of the best. I have in
mind especially a unit near our
location. The chairman of the
USO council is active in the Bap
tist church, the club director is
also active in the church and has
spent many years in social work,
and the hostess has spent almost
10 years as a missionary in the
Philippines, and is well qualified
for the work. The USO is the
kind of a place I’d like my son to
visit if the future finds him in
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F. B. I. MAN IS
SPEAKER HERE
. -
Makes Talk Tuesday to Aux
iliary Police and Others
At YMCA
SCHEDULE IS CHANGED
Eugene Pender, member of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
was speaker at a meeting of local
auxiliary police, women assistant
air raid wardens, and watchmen
and guards of the Chatham Man
ufacturing Company at the Y. M.
C. A. Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Fender spoke on the activ
ities of enemy agents in this coun
try and warned everyone to be on
the lookout for them.
Roy Kane, of the Elkin Civilian
Defense Corps, announced Tues
day that a change in the sche
dule of first aid classes to be con
ducted for those wjio desire to
take the course, and for those
who have had 10 hours and desire
to finish the full 20-hour course,
has been changed. Originally an
r nounced to start on May 28, the
date has been changed to June 4.
Two motion pictures, “Air Raid
Warden” and “Tanks” will be
shown here sometime during next
4 week, it was announced.
Classes for women assistant
air raid wardens are now under
way at the Y.
Honored
Gayle Graham, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. W. Graham, of
West Main street, will represent
the Elkin Hi-Y Club at the
fourth National Hi-Y conven
tion to be held June 25-29 at
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Other delegates will attend
from the U. S., Canada and Ha
waii. Highlights of the conven
tion will be splendid fellowship,
good singing, outstanding
speakers, intelligent discussion,
inspiring worship and whole
some recreation. — (Tribune
Photo).
PUT CURB ON
POLLHAULING
Users of B or X Ration Cards
Cannot Haul Voters to
Polls
STATEMENT IS MADE
With the Surry county primary
to be held Saturday, the follow
ing statement concerning the use
of automobiles under war restric
tions was made Wednesday by O.
K. Merritt and W. M. Johnson,
Surry rationing administrators:
“The practice of hauling vot
ers to the polls on primary and
election days has raised the
question as to the legality of such
practice under the present ra
tioning rules governing new au
tomobiles, tires and gasoline
cards issued by rationing boards.
“Class A gasoline rationing
cards were issued without any
affidavit on the part of the hold
| er and can be used in any way
desired, provided the holder has
not obtained tires or recaps from
the board.
“Holders of B and X cards were
issued their cards on the defin
ite statement of the applicant
that the gasoline needed would
be used for necessary work, offi
cial or professional service, or
medical aid.
“Anyone using automobiles,
tires and recaps obtained from a
rationing board, or using B or X
cards would be violating the
agreement under which they
were obtained if used for hauling
voters to the polls.
“Taxies and other vehicles li-#
censed to perform transportation
service to the public would be
eligible for hauling people to the
polls, since providing transporta
tion to the public is their regular
business.
“Voters are privileged to use
their vehicles to go to the polls,
and should make every effort to
carry their neighbors with them,
but they would not be justified in
making other trips for vote-haul
ing."
Mrs. Brown To Teach
A Refresher Course
Mrs. Grace Pope Brown, Surry
county home demonstration
agent, will teach a refresher
course for all women of the coun
ty who plan to teach Red Cross
nutrition classes. It is important
that all women planning to teach
nutrition classes attend.
The class by Mrs. Brown will
meet for an all-day session on
Tuesday of next week at 9 o’clock
at the court house in Dobson.
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES TO
START SUNDAY
Rev. H. F. Duncan to Preach
Sermon
CLASS DAY ON MONDAY
Forty-two Graduates Will Be
Awarded Diplomas
Tuesday
Mcknight is speaker
Plans are complete for the
commencement exercises of the
city schools. The commencement
sermon will be Sunday evening at
8 o’clock with Rev. Herman F.
Duncan, pastor of the Methodist
church, bringing the message.
Music for the program will be in
charge of the high school glee
club.
Monday evening at 8 o’clock,
the Class Day exercises will be
held. Bob Harris is class saluta
torian and Miss Mary Frances
Combs, valedictorian. The class
prophecy will be read by Worth
Graham, Jr., and gifts to class
members will be presented by
Miss Maxine Aldridge and Joe
Harris. Miss Beatrice Money will
read the class will.
Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock
certificates of promotion will be
awarded to approximately fifty
seventh grade students.
The final program will be Tues
day evening, June 2, at 8 o’clock
when diplomas will be presented
to tne torty-two members of the
graduating class. The literary ad
dress will be by T. C. McKnight
of this city, general secretary of
the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A.
Also in connection with the
commencement program, the an
nual readers and declaimers con
tests for both the elementary
school and the high school have
been held. These contests are
sponsored by the Elkin Kiwanis
Club, with the club presenting
medals to each winner.
The elementary contest was
held Friday afternoon with Cyn
thia Allen, Betty Hayes, Frances
Swaim and Josephine Laffoon
competing for the readers, and
Sam Shugart, Nathan Lovelace,
Bobby Browning and Kitchell
Adams for the declaimers. Fran
ces Swaim and Bobby Browning,
both students of the seventh
grade, were winners.
In the high school readers and
declaimers contests, which was
held Tuesday evening, Martha
Neal won the readers medal and
the declaimers medal went to
Dusty Rhodes. Girls who com
peted for the medal in addition
to the winner were: Lucy Wolfe,
Betty Ann Combs, Louvene Jor
dan, Juanita Tharpe and Jane
Anne Collins. In the boys’ di
vision were Harold Hayes, Coney
Couch and Windell Martin. Hon
orable mention went to Lucy
Wolfe and Windell Martin.
Medals will be presented the
winners of both groups at the fi
nal commencement program
Tuesday evening.
Also at the program Tuesday
thirteen high school students who
have been elected into member
ship in the National Beta Club
will take the membership pledge.
Requirements for Beta Club
membership include an average
of 90 for a two-year period, and
a unanimous vote of approval of
all local club members and of the
faculty.
The new members are Mabel
Leeper, Frances Barnette, Mattie
Lee Johnson, Dessie Auton, Bet
ty Anne Combs, Mildred Free
man, Wilda Owens, Nancy Har
ris, Virginia Graham, Mary
Vance McAdams, Doro \y Layell,
John Moseley and Sidney Fletch
er.
Commencement marshals are
Anne Ipock, chief; Tommy Bry
an, Dessie Auton, Lucy Wolfe,
Sarah Eidson and Harold Hayes.
Senior class mascots are Julia
Ann Leary, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Clifton H. Leary, and David
Myers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gra
ham Myers. „
Candidate
John H. Folger, representa
tive to Congress from the fifth
district, will face two opponents
for the nomination in Satur
day’s Democratic primary. Jul
ian H. Wulbem and D. C.
Speas, both of Forsyth county,
are seeking the nomination.
TWO NABBED BY
STATE POUCE
Police Investigate Huge
Theft Ring in Wilkes
County
SEEK “GEORGIA BOY”
Rockford Bauguess, 23, and a
man named Crabb, 21, were ar
rested Monday morning by state
highway patrolmen and S. B. I.
officers on charges of breaking,
entering and receiving stolen
goods as police pushed an inves
tigation of what they believed to
be a large liquor and theft ring
operating in Wilkes county.
Police were really on the track
of a young man known to them
as “Georgia Boy” when they ar
rested the two men in an old
abandoned store building in the
Traphill section. This young man
was chased from Mocksville to
Winston-Salem Sunday night by
highway patrolmen, but fled when
they cornered him on a Winston
Salem street. His girl friend, 15
year-old Elizabeth Brown, of
Ronda, Route 1, was caught and
is being held for investigation.
Officers believe “Georgia Boy”
is connected with a gang which
“makes over” its automobiles to
elude the law after making hauls
of gasoline and other goods, most
ly sugar, with which to make
blockade whisky.
In the arrest Monday the offi
cers found 1,000 pounds of sugar,
150 gallons of gasoline, hundreds
of empty sugar sacks, and a great
quantity of canned goods, cigars
and cigarettes. The men were
jailed at Statesville.
CALLED
The small operator will be call
ed upon to provide a good por
tion of the increased harvest of
hay crop seed needed this year,
says the U. S. Department of Ag
riculture.
Tribune Want
Ad Recovers
Lost Money
Probably the most profitable
investment of twenty - five
cents to be made locally for
sometime was the quarter
spent by Cordon Billings of
Traphill last week, when he in
serted a want ad in the Trib
une for $132.00 in cash lost on
the Traphill road.
Shortly after Mr. Billings in
serted his ad Lon Casey report
ed that he had found a sum of
money on the Traphill road,
and ran an ad to that effect in
The Tribune.
Result: Mr. Billings has his
money, Mr. Casey has a good
conscience, and both are run
ning a joint ad this week that
the money has been safely re
turned to its owner.
VOTERS TO GO
TO POLLS TO
MAKE CHOICE
Primary to Be Held in State
Saturday
ONLY FEW CANDIDATES
Contest in Race for Congress,
U. S. Senate and for
Sheriff
REPUBLICANS TO VOTE
Surry county voters will go to
the polls Saturday to vote on can
didates for county, state and one
national office in a state-wide
primary.
With county Republicans fac
ing no contests among themselves
in the primary, the Democrats are
most concerned in the race for
sheriff, which has four candidates
in the field, and in the contest
for representative from the Fifth
Congressional district, which sees
Rep. John Folger faced with op
position from two Forsyth can
didates.
A new problem facing Demo
cratic leaders this year is that of
getting the voters to the polls,
what with tire shortages and
gasoline rationing. An appeal has
been made to Democratic voters
to go to the polls and carry as
many others as possible.
On the county ticket the four
cornered race for sheriff will cen
ter around Sheriff Harvey Boyd,
Sam Patterson, Jesse Monday and
Guy Sparger, all residents of
Mount Airy and vicinity.
Other county candidates are
unopposed, among them being J.
Raymond Smith, of Mount Airy,
candidate for the state senate
from Surry and Stokes; Henry C.
Dobson, of Elkin, for the state
house of representatives; Curtis
Harbour, of Eldora, for county
surveyor; M. Q. Snow, of Elkin,
R. P. Jones, of Mount Airy, and
S. M. Smith, of Pilot Mountain,
for county commissioners, and
Fred Lewellyn, for clerk of sup
erior court.
Surry Republicans have one
contest in Saturday’s primary,
Stoner W. Klutz and Sam J. Mor
ris opposing . each other for the
state senate.
For the United States Senate,
Democratic voters will choose be
tween Josiah W. Bailey and Rich
ard T. Fountain.
SOIL CHECKS
AREONMOVE
Have Been Delayed For
Some Time Due to Work
On Cotton
TO PAY TOTAL OF 1,500
Soil conservation checks are
beginning to move again after a
delay of from six to eight weeks
due to the necessity of working
on cotton and wheat insurance in
the State office in Raleigh, ac
cording to A. P. Cobb, Surry
county farm agent.
Many farmers have inquired
about these checks and all kinds
of reasons have been given by
persons who knew nothing about
the cause of the delay or why the
cheeky have not been received.
All checks will be received as
soon as they can be cleared In
the state office. Practically all
applications were cleared in the
county office by December 31,
1941, and all farmers who have
not received their checks will pos
sibly do so in the near future,
however, the county office will
have no way of knowing just
when any individual check will
be paid.
So far there have Been pay
ments made on 1904 applications
amounting to $102,656.12. This
leaves approximately 1500 appli
cations yet to be paid. All per
sons who have not received then
checks are urged to be patient.
Expect Formidable
Land, Naval Move
In Mediterranean
President
Charles C. Weaver was elect
ed to succeed himself in office
at a meeting of the Elkin Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce, held
Monday evening at Hotel Elkin.
Claude H. Farrell was named
first vice-president.
WEAVER AGAIN
HEADS JAYCEES
I
Other Officials of Local
Chamber of Commerce
Named At Meeting
FARRELL IS VICE-PRES.
Election of officers featured
the meeting of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce at Hotel Elkin
Monday evening. Charles C.
Weaver, Jr., was re-lected presi
dent; Claude H. Farrell, first
vice-president, succeeding Dr.
Seth M. Beale; Hoyle Cranford
was elected second vice-president,
succeeding Milton Cooper; Hu
bert Parker was re-elcted as
treasurer and James Booher was
elected secretary, succeeding
Franklin Folger.
Four members were elected to’
the board of directors, the new
members to serve for a term of
two years. Those elected were
Ted Brown, Hugh Salmons, Alex
Biggs and Dr. M. O. Fox. The
club officers will also serve on the
board of directors, together with
Milton Cooper and Sam Neaves,
who have served one year of a
two-year term.
During the meeting plans were
completed for a drive to secure
books for the public library,
which will get underway next
week. Complete details of the
drive, which will be in charge of
the Jaycees, will be announced
in next week’s Tribune.
Theatres To Observe
War Bond, Stamp Day
Saturday, May 30, will be ob
served by Elkin theatres as Bond
and Stamp day as theatres here
cooperate with all other theatres
throughout the nation in selling
War Stamps and Bonds.
Local theatres have just com
pleted cooperating with the thea
tre division of the War Activities
Committee by devoting a short
time during each show for a vol
unteer contribution by patrons
for the Army and Navy Relief
Funds. During the ome-week
period, the Reeves theatre collect
ed $100 and the Lyric theatre
$123.80, it has been announced by
the respective managers.
PLAN
The Office of Price Administra
tion and the U. S. Department
of Agriculture have jointly an
nounced a plan for price-regula
tion and price-support program
for canned vegetables of the 1942
pack.
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!
REDS STOP ONE
NAZI DRIVE ON
RUSSIAN FRONT
Recapture Strategic Heights
And a Village
COLUMNS PUSH EAST
Discount Possibility of Ital
ian Invasion of French
Soil
SEE GERMAN PRESSURE
London, May 27.—Diplomatic
sources said today there were
gathering signs that the Axis
was preparing a formidable land
and naval move in the Mediter
ranean.
Tightly wound in Nazi plans,
they said, were the massing of
300,000 Italian troops along the
French border, Vichy chief of
government Pierre Laval’s discus
sions with his naval chieftains
and a steady flow of supplies to
German Marshal Erwin Rommel
in North Africa as a result of
Malta’s decreased usefulness as
an air base in the past three
months.
At the same time, the British
communique in Cairo reported
today that axis columns in North
Africa, including tanks, had
pushed eastward toward the Brit
ish main positions. This was the
first mention of any movement
in strength after a lull on the
desert from restricted to minor
artillery and patrol activities.
The Italian demands on France
for Corsica, Nice and Tunisia
were described by these diplomat
ic sources as based either on Mus
solini’s desire to pluck a plum
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MORE SUGAR
FOR CANNING
Sugar Rationing for Home
Canning Liberalized By
The OPA
WILL JUDGE BY PAST
The Office of Price Adminis
tration has liberalized sugar ra
tioning for home canning, Miss
Ruth Current, state home dem
onstration agent,, reminded North
Carolina housewives Tuesday.
She said the amended regula
tion will permit home canners to
obtain sugar in proportion to the
amount of fruit canned, with ra
tioning based largely on the
amount of home canning done
by a family or individual in the
past.
Miss Current pointed out that
previously a person could obtain
only five pounds of sugar an
nually for home canning. Under
the amendment, a home canner
now may obtain one pound of su
gar for every four quarts of fin
ished canned fruit. An addi
tional pound of sugar for each
person in the family will be al
lowed annually for making jams,
jellies, preserves and fruit but
ters.
Baptist Revival
Closes Wednesday
The revival services which have
been in progress at the First Bap
tist church for the past ten days
came to a close Wednesday even
ing. All of the services were well
attended. Rev. Hampton Hopkins
of Elizabethton, Tenn., assisted
the pastor, Rev. Stephen Morri
sett, in the services, and Rev.
Hopkins brought inspiring mes
sages at each of the two daily
meetings.