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The Elkin Tribune
VOL. No. XXXI. No. 36
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Elkin Curb Market To Open Saturday Morning
SPONSORED BY
LOCAL JAYCEE
ORGANIZATION
Is Located on East Main Near
New Bridge
EXPECT 20 SELLERS
Complete List of Regulations
Printed on Page 1,
Second Section
AGENTS TO BE HERE
The Elkin Curb Market, spon
sored by the Elkin Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, and created
through their efforts, plus the co
operation of the Town of Elkin,
who gave financial aid; the Chat
ham Manufacturing Company,
who provided the site, and num
erous other citizens who aided
financially, will formally open its
doors Saturday morning at 8:00
o’clock, according to plans an
nounced Wednesday.
Located on East Main street,
just east of the new Hugh Chat
ham Bridge, the building is of
cinder block and concrete con
struction and its large floor space
is expected to prove ample for
numerous displays of produce,
dairy products and other items
that will be offered for sale there.
It is hoped that there will be a
maximum of sellers on hand on
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GIVEN OKEY ON
SURRY SCHOOLS
Buildings At Dobson and
Lowgap Are to Be
Constructed
PLANS IN READINESS
John W. Comer, Surry county
superintendent of schools, has re
ceived official word from the War
Production Board stating that
Surry county’s request for the
construction of the Lowgap and
Dobson schols had been approved.
Permits are to be issued and sent
to the county at once officially
authorizing the construction.
The two large school buildings
were destroyed by fire during the
past school term, and county
school officials have been hard
pressed to take care of the situa
tion resulting from their loss.
The county already has plans
made for the construction of the
buildings, and was only awaiting
word from Washington.
Elkin Has
i Real War Bond
Goal In Sight
Elkin has a goal in sight that
may turn out to be a record
■ worthy of nation-wide publi
city. figures on the sale of War
Savings Bonds indicate.
X7p until Tuesday of this
week a total of 2,314 War
Bonds have been purchased by
i citizens of the town, which
leaves the sale of only 416 more
bonds to equal in number the
. total population of the town.
This -would mean that a bond
had keen sold for every man,
woman and child within the
/ city limits.
Although similar figures on
bond sales from other towns
throughout the nation are not
! available, it is believed that a
i bond for every citizen would
prove a mark that would take
considerable shooting at on the
pqpt of other towns and cities.
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CURB MARKET
Pictured below is the new Elkin Curb Market building
which will open Saturday morning. Located on East Main
Street, the structure is of cinder block and cement construction, and is large enough to
house a large number of booths for the sale of country dairy products, fresh veget
ables, etc. The Curb Market was sponsored by the Elkin Junior Chamber of Commerce.
—(Tribune Photo).
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
NATIONAL
JERSEY CITY, N. J., July 15
— The diplomatic exchange
ship Drottninghoim will sail
this morning from Jersey City
for Gothenburg, Sweden, with
more than 900 axis nationals
aboard, officials of the Ameri
can Export Lines announced
yesterday. More than 800 had
boarded the vessel by last
night. The axis nationals were
said to be mostly Germans and
Italians, with a sprinkling of
Rumanians, Bulgarians and
Hungarians. They were civil
ians who had been interned at
various centers.
NAVY SECRETARY Frank
Knox announced Tuesday that
a convoy system had been set
up for merchant vessels in the
Caribbean area and will be es
tablished in the Gulf of Mexi
co, after having proved its ef
fectiveness as an anti-subma
rine device along the Atlantic
coasts. Knox, who made the
announcement at New York
during a “routine inspection
tour’’ of Atlantic Coast anti
submarine defenses, said that
the convoy system was the best
protection against submarine
attacks, and that while it had
been found destroyers made
the best convoy vessels, “we
have, unhappily, many, many
uses for destroyers.”
FULL DETAILS of the great
air and sea battle fpught off
Midway Island on June 4, 5,
and 6 have now been revealed
and the action definitely may be
classed as one of the most im
portant in history and possibly
one of the decisive battles of
the world. In all, the enemy
losses were: Four aircraft car
riers, two heavy cruisers, three
destroyers and one transport
sunk. Three battleships, two
heavy cruisers, one light cruis
er and^at least three transports
damaged, many severely. An
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From
the
State
and
Nation
Draftees To Be Guests
At Banquet On July 21
Largest Group of Men Yet Called
To Leave For Fort Bragg July 24
With the largest group of men
yet called from Surry draft area
No. 2 to go to Fort Bragg for in
duction into the army July 24,
the local post of the American
Legion, the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, the Kiwanis Club and
the Merchants Association in co
operation with local citizens and
business firms are planning a
special banquet Tuesday evening,
July 21, for the draftees.
The banquet will be staged at
the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A., and
will be attended by a large num
ber of townspeople in addition to
Legion members and the induct
ees. Unlike other entertainments
held here for departing soldiers,
this meeting will be attended by
ladies as well as men.
A special program is being
planned under the direction of
E. M. Hodel, commander of the
legion, and special gifts will be
presented the army-bound men.
GATHER 500,000
POUNDS RUBBER
Surry People Have Contribut
ed Average of Over 10
Lbs. Per Person
175,000 POUNDS HERE
The people of Surry county
have contributed an average of
more than 10 pounds of scrap
rubber for every person in the
county, the latest reports from D.
C. Lewis, of Mount Airy, chair
man of the rubber salvage cam
paign in Surry, reports, with more
than 500,000 pounds collected to
date.
This per capita average for
Surry is more than twice the na
tional per capita donation of 5.07
pounds per person and is nearly
four times the North Carolina per
capita donation of 2.75 pounds
per person.
Elkin’s contribution will run
over 175,000 pounds, according to
H. P. Graham, local oil distribut
or.
N.'
Red Defenders Hurl
Back Savage Thrust
In Fight Near Don
A,
Rommel Renews
Attack On The
Egyptain Front
Moscow, July 15. — The Ger
mans, stopped by a last ditch de
fense at the outskirts of Vomezh,
have attempted to encircle the
city but were repulsed on the
north and hurled back on the
south to the point where they
crossed the Don River, Russian
dispatches reported today.
The Russians said that a
break-through accomplished by
large numbers of* fresh German
troops and hundreds of tanks
supported by a heavy artillery
barrage had carried the invaders
almost to the edge of the town
befort they were checked by the
spirited Russian stand.
The dispatches did not give the
location of the break-through, but
it was indicated that it occurred
at the western approaches to Vo
ronezh.
The Russians said that in forc
ing the 'Nazis back they recap
tured a small railroad crossing
and in another sector applied
such strong pressure that the
Germans fell back across a small
bridge and destroyed it.
The fighting was described as
reaching the height of its fury
with German losses so terrific
that the third German motorized
infantry division, which appeared
in the battle line only yesterday,
was reported depleted and re
placed by the new 168th motoriz
ed division after a single day of
combat.
Invasion gains in the Voronezh
area were declared to have cost
the Germans more than 35,000
men, killed and wounded, in ten
days, and the Soviet information
bureau tacitly brought up again
the issue of establishment of a
second front in western Europe
by indicating German forces there
are being weakened.
In addition to the draftees, all
men of the army, navy and ma
rine corps who are here on fur
lough on the date of the ban
quet, are invited to be present.
Following is the list of men
who have been ordered to report
for induction on July 24. A few
of these will probably already
have joined the army, navy or
marine corps before that date, it
was said: ,
Evan Romulus Ray, Mount
Airy, (voc.); Robert Dockery
Parks, route 1, Elkin; Loy Price
Easter, now of Cana, Va.; Charles
Walter Eldridge, State Road;
Otis Gray Johnson, route 1, Ar
arat; Dan Buck Hanes, State
Road, route 1; Garlie Lee Hud
son, Elkin; Luther Edgar John
son, route 2, Pilot Mountain;
Fred Faulk Paul, Elkin; Linville
Stuart Norman, Elkin; Lonnie
Gray Whitaker, Siloam; Ralph
Kent Mounce, route 1, Elkin;
Melvin Escar Coe, Siloam; War
ren Calvin Shelton, route 1, Pilot
Mountain; Roger Wm. Bennett,
star route, Dobson; Carl Eugene
Epperson, route 2, Pinnacle; Ev
erette Hardin Coone, Ararat.
Ray Sy Kidd, Dobson; Charles
Howard Swift, State Road; Roby
Nathaniel Marion, Dobson; War
ren Harding Norman, Thurmond;
James Alvin Williamson, route 1,
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To Hold New
Classes For Air
Raid Wardens
A new class for Air Raid
Wardens will begin at the Y.
M. C. A. Monday, July 20, at
7:30 p. m., it has been an
nounced by Roy Kane, of the
local Civilian Defense Corps.
These classes will be held
each Monday, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Friday of the next two
weeks, and will be completed
Friday, July 31.
All persons who wish to take
this important training are
asked to be at the Y. M. C. A.
Monday evening at 7:30.
FUGITIVE IS
JAILED HERE
“Skinny” Holbrooks, Wanted
In Wilkes, Arrested on
Bus Wednesday
WANTED IN TIRE THEFT
“Skinny” Holbrooks, who sev
eral months ago was arrested by
Wilkes county officers on a
charge concerning theft of some
automobile tires, and who short
ly after took French leave before
the officers $ould get him to jail,
was arrested on the EHkin-Boon
ville highway Wednesday while
en route to some place in Mary
land on a bus.
Chief of Police Corbett Wall
recognized Holbrooks as he was
standing around the local bus
station, and called Wilkes high
way patrol headquarters to see if
he wasn’t wanted. Informed that
he was, he started looking for him
but found he had disappeared.
A check with the bus station
disclosed the man had bought a
bus ticket but had not boarded
the bus, and it was later learned
that he had walked over into
Jonesville to catch the bus there.
Accordingly, Patrolman-Lee Phil
lips halted the bus before it had
reached Boonville and the young
man was taken off and brought
here and jailed to await Wilkes
officers.
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Go To Ration
Board 21st For
Special Cards
People who have applied for
truck ration S-books and non
highway users E and R, and
applicants for supplements B
and C for automobiles in the
gasoline rationing program,
are requested to call at the of
fice of the rationing board in
the city hall to receive their
books on Tuesday, July 21.
The board will pass on all
applications and they will be
granted or rejected at the dis
cretion of the board.
MAYBERRY AND
JOLLY INDICTED
Face Counts of Operating
Slot Machines and Sale
Of Whiskey
HEARING ON JULY 28TH
As a result of the alleged rob
bery of Fred’s Place, filling sta
tion located in Wilkes county on
the Elkin-Ronda road, in which
Peewee Pardue and Bill Eldridge,
local young men, were accused of
carrying off several slot machines
at the point of a gun, Theodore
Mayberry and Fred Jolly, the lat
ter operator of the place, have
been arrested on warrants charg
ing violation of the state slot ma
chine laws and possession of li
quor for purpose of sale.
One charge of violating the slot
machine laws was sworn against
the two by Sheriff Doughton, of
Wilkes, and a similar charge and
the liquor charge was sworn by
Bill Eldridge, according to Depu
ty Sheriff Ray Cockerham, who
served the papers. Each was
placed under $500 bond to await
hearing July 28, at 2 p. m. before
Magistrate R. C. Jennings, of
Wilkesboro, Deputy Cockerham
said.
Dan Eldridge, of Elkin, a broth
er of Bill Eldridge, who was cri
tically injured when run over by
a heavy oil truck the day follow
ing the alleged robbery while he
and his brothers were at the ser
vice station, continues critically
ill in the hospital here. Hospital
attaches said Wednesday that no
general improvement had been
noted and his condition continues
about the same.
Dr. Beale Is Not To
Enter Armed Service
Dr. Seth M. Beale, prominent
Elkin physician, who volunteered
for service in the U. S. Army
Medical Corps on April 18, and
was examined at Morris Field,
Charlotte, recveived offical noti
fication from the office- of the
Surgeon General of the War De
partment in Washington, Wed
nesday, that he was disqualified
for military service on account of
physical defects.
Dr. Beale volunteered for army
duty in response to an urgent call
for doctors for, military service.
BELOW
Indications in June were that
total supplies of the four princi
pal feed grains in 1942-43 may be
about 4 percent below the near
record 1941-42 supply.
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IS A PART OF
RETAILERS FOR
VICTORY DRIVE
Merchants to Push Sale of
Stamps, Bonds
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PLAN SPECIAL EVENTS
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Booths to Be Placed At Vari
ous Points in Downtown
Section
PROCLAMATIONS ISSUED
Elkin merchants, as a special
highlight of the nation-wide “Re- 9
tailers for Victory” Drive which
will continue throughout the
month of July, will observe, with
all other retail stores throughout
the country, “American Heroes
Day” Friday, at which time a spe
cial effort will be made to honor
boys in service by an intensified
War stamp and bond selling cam
paign.
“American Heroes Day,” it was
pointed out, is to be a day in
which all citizens should think es
pecially of local boys in the arm
ed services, and remember that
every stamp and bond they buy
will mean that much toward out
fitting them with everything they
need with which to defeat the
axis.
The day has been officially
proclaimed here by J. R. Poindex
ter, mayor of Elkin, who issued
the following proclamation:
American Heroes Day, July
17th, is the Big Day in the great
July Retailers for Victory cam
paign; the all-out drive by 1,000,
000 American merchants, includ
ing the merchants of Elkin, to
help put over the Treasury De
partment’s billion dollar Bond and
Stamp quota for July.
This should be a day when we
think especially of the Elkin boys
in the service and a day that will
stir the patriotic pride of the cit
izens of this town. We are join
ing our forces on Friday, July 17,
to honor the herdes of this war,
the heroes of past wars, the men
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SEVERAL HERE
JOIN THE NAVY
Navy Recruiting Officer to
Again Be in Elkin, Tues
day, July 21
OFFERS OPPORTUNITY
A. Sides, C. G. M., of the tJ. S.
Navy was here Tuesday to recruit
men for naval service. Five men
volunteered and are candidates
for the naval reserve, according
to Mr. Sides.
Those volunteering were: Sam
uel David Collins, son of LeRoy
Collins of this city, who enlisted
for duty with the naval aviation
ground force; Billy Charles Jones,
son of Thomas Wm. Jones of this
city, who volunteered for the
communications and clerical
branch of the navy, and James T.
Eldridge, son of T. M. Eldridge,
Jack Clyde Shore, son of Mrs.
Pauline McSwain, and Linville
Norman, all of Elkin, who volun
teered for general service.
Eldridge, Jones and Collins re
turned with Mr. Sides Tuesday.
Mr. Sides will be here again on
Tuesday of next week, July 21,
and will have an office in the post
office building to receive other re
cruits for naval service.
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Notices Mailed
To Draftees By
Draft Board 2
Notices were mailed Tuesday
from the office of selective
service in Dobson to draftees in
this area who will report for
duty in the U. S. Army on July
24.
The draft board requests
that men who receive these no
tices do not resign their jobs,
but arrange for a two-day
leave of absence as all men who
ire called into military service
will be given a furlough of
two weeks to get their private
affairs into shape before ac
tual induction into service, and
men who are rejected will be
able to resume their usual
work.
This will apply to all selec
tive service registrants in the
future, according to draft
board officials.