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ELKIN
' The Best
Little Town in
North Carolina
The Elkin Tribune
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THREE
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VOL. No. XXXI. No. 39
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1942
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
. Elkin Claims Record In Sale Of War Bonds For July
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CHATHAM TO RECEIVE AWARD MOHDAY
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Vital War Salvage Drive Is To Begin Here Thursday
BOND SOLD FOR
EVERY PERSON
IN CITY LIMITS
Purchase Value of Bonds
Amounts to $67,931.25
RANGE FROM $25 TO $1000
Wires Are Sent to President
Roosevelt and Secretary
Morgenthau
GOVERNOR WIRES MAYOR
Sale of United States War
Bonds in Elkin for the month of
July reached a figure that is be
lieved to have set a national re
cord for cities of over 2,500 pop
ulation.
During July a bond was sold
for every man, woman and child
in the city of Elkin, with several
hundred bonds to spare.
According to the 1940 census,
Elkin’s population stands at 2,730
people. A total of 2,978 bonds,
ranging in denomination from
$25.00 to $1,000, were sold. Total
purchase value of the war securi
ties amounted to $67,931.25.
Maturity value amounted to $90,
574.00.
It has been pointed out that if
the total purchase value of the
bonds was divided by $18.75, the
purchase price of a $25.00
bond, it would show a total of
3,623 twenty-five dollar bonds
purchased during the month, or
893 twenty-five dollar bonds in
excess of the town’s population.
Following the successful con
clusion of the bond drive Friday
evening, Mayor J. R. Poindexter
sent the following wire to Presi
dent Roosevelt:
“Elkin challenges nation on sale
of War Savings Bonds for cities
of over 2,500 population. City has
just completed drive which shows
that one bond has been sold dur
ing July for every man, woman
and child within the city limits,
with bonds to spare. Bonds range
from $25.00 to $1,000.”
Mayor Poindexter also dis
patched a similar wire to Govern
or J. M. Broughton, which
brought the following reply:
“I have received your telegram
and wish to congratulate you and
the citizens of Elkin on the won
derful record that has been made
in the war bond campaign for
July. I doubt irany city in the
nation can equal this record and
I have been glad to make a state
ment to the press about this re
markable record.”
A wire was also sent to Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of the
treasury at Washington by Post
master French w. Graham. How
ever, no reply had been received
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New Bomb Sight
Recently promoted from a
master sergeant to a captain,
Donald Herb, of Mitchel Field,
N. Y., works at his hobby shop
where he built a low-level bomb
sight which has proven itself in
action. The invention cost but
ten cents and some scrap metal.
Captain Herb has been in the
air corps 24 years and in the
army 26.
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. —
The possibility of limitations
on petroleum deliveries in
areas now unrestricted was in
dicated by the office of the
petroleum co-ordinator today
in calling upon the oil industry
and tank car companies to
make 5,000 more tank cars
available for service into the
shortage-stricken east. Deputy
Co-ordinator Ralph K. Davies
told the industry it was OPC’s
policy to withdraw from un
rationed areas any transport
facilities “which can be effec
tively used in relieving the area
of shortage.”
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Si
mon Lake, 76-year-old invent
or of the modern submarine,
told Congress today the best
way to beat the submarine
menace is with submarines — a
fleet of huge submersibles built
to carry 2,500 men and weap
ons to the various world fronts.
He proposed to a senate mili
tary affairs committee that
the nation’s shipyards begin
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Elkin School Faculty
For 1942-43 Announced
A complete list of the faculty
of the city schools, which will
open on September 7, for the
1942-43 session was announced
Tuesday morning. J. Mark Mc
Adams will again serve as super
intendent of schools.
In the high school Miss Alice
Dixon will teach French and Lat
in; Miss Rebecca Williams, Eng
lish and history; Miss Faye Ov
ercash, commercial classes; Milss
Carrie Donnell of Winston-Sa
lem, English and music. Miss
Donnell, who is a graduate of
Salem College, will succeed Miss
Evon Eldridge. Miss Mary E.
Holland will again teach home
economics. Miss Ethel Whitley
of Marshville, a former member
of the Bladenboro school faculty,
will succeed Miss Mary Virginia
Barker as teacher of mathemat
ics. J. S. Bumgarner will contin
ue as athletic coach and teacher
of history, and Miss Rebecca Fulk
of Pilot Mountain, will teach so
cial studies and history, succeed
ing Miss Prances Lowe. Miss
Fulk is a graduate of the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
The elemantary school faculty
will be composed of Miss Emma
Cooke and Miss Mary Elizabeth
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COMMITTEEIS
APPOINTED TO
PUSH CAMPAIGN
Governor Is to Make Radio
Address
TO MEET AT CITY HALL
Mayor Poindexter Urges
That Every Citizen Co
operate to Fullest
FULL SUPPORT PLEDGED
The new drive for the collection
of scrap metals of all types in
Surry county will be launched
Thursday evening at community
meetings to be held in various
parts of the county, according to
an announcement by A. P. Cobb,
county chairman.
The meeting in Elkin will be
held at the City Hall ati 8:15 p.
m., according to A. O. Bryan,
chairman of the local salvage
committee. Governor Broughton
is to speak over a state-wide ra
dio hookup at 8:30, and a radio
will be provided upon which to
receive his message. The meet
ing, in addition to being attended
by the Elkin salvage committee,
made up of Mr. Bryan, J. R.
Poindexter, W. N. Stevenson, J.
Mark McAdams, J. W. L. Benson,
M. R. Bailey and H. F. Laffoon,
will also be open to all interested
citizens.
Following the governor’s talk,
local plans for a successful scrap
drive will be worked out.
In the county similar meetings
will be held at Mount Airy, Pilot
Mountain and Dobson.
The state quota of scrap metal
has been set at 392,000,000
pounds for the next six months,
according to information from
Raleigh. No county quota for
Surry has been announced, but
large quantities were gathered in
the county last spring when the
various schools held drives, and
it is not known just how much
more scrap remains in the rural
sections.
Pledging full support to the lo
cal salvage drive, Mayor J. R.
Poindexter Tuesday urged every
man, woman and child in Elkin to
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FACULTY IS
ANNOUNCED
Only One Vacancy to Be Fill
ed on Jonesville Teacher
List
LOWRANCE IS PRINCIPAL
J. P. Lowrance, principal of the
Jonesville school, Tuesday releas
ed-the faculty members for the
school for the 1942-43 term, which
will open on Septeihber 3. Ac
cording to Mr. Lowrance there is
still one vacancy to be filled.
Teachers who will return this
year are: Mrs. Kate Tharp, Mrs.
Kate Key, Mrs. Ruby Canipe, Mrs.
Margaret Pickett, Mrs. Catherine
Wilkins, Mrs. Iris Canipe, Mrs.
John Kelly, Mrs. Odell Holcomb,
Miss Thelma Shore, Mrs. Kate
Brown, Miss Virginia Lawrence,
Mrs. Geneva Wilson, Mrs. Eva
Hine, T. S. Hobson, C. J. Rash,
Harvey Madison, Mrs. A. B.
Scroggs, Mrs. Linville Hendren,
A. B. Scroggs and Graham Som
ers.
New teachers elected to fill va
cancies caused by the resignation
of former faculty members in
clude: *Mrs. Laura J. Hemric,
Jonesville; Mrs. Van W. Dillon,
Sr., Elkin; Mrs. E. E. Shore, Jr.,
Elkin; and Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Warden, Laurel Springs.
AWARD OFFICIALS S/'S'S:
ford Lee Corbin, of the Army Quartermaster Division,
Washington, who will make the presentation address at
exercises to be held at the Y. M. C. A. Monday in which the
Chatham Manufacturing Company will receive the Army
Navy Award of Excellence of War Production, and bottom,
Former Governor Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, who will act
as master of ceremonies during the program.
SURRY JURY IS
DRAWNMONDAY
Surry Criminal Court to
Convene At Dobson on
September 21
JUDGE GWYN PRESIDES
The jury list for the next term
of Surry Criminal Court, to be
held at Dobson, starting Septem
ber 21, before Judge Allen Gwyn,
of Reidsville, was drawn by the
Surry board of commissioners at
their meeting Monday.
The list follows:
Loyd W. Chappell, J. H. Mitch
ell, J. R. Coe, W. M. Calloway, W.
Ed Haymore, M. P. Eldridge, Roy
Critz, J. Sherman Freeman, J.
E. Monday, Dallas M. Owens,
Henry Portis, Garland B. Denny,
C. S. Anthony, L. F. O’Neal,
Luther Johnson, Emory Nixon,
Harvey Baker, W. A. Snow, Duke
Wall, Arthur Cook, Corbit Ramey,
S. E. Hodges, Raymond Vestal, A.
F. Yarborough, J. W. Wells, D. W.
Gentry, J. C. Lowe, John Allen
Snow, John T. Matthews, J. R.
Marion, R. C. Simmons, Burlie
Lowe, G. H. Collins, Taylor Creed,
F. M. Terry and R. G. Caudle.
Defense Corps Meet
To Be Held At “Y”
An open forum meeting of all
members of the Elkin Citizens
Defense Corps has been sche
duled for Thursday, August 13,
at the Y. M. C. A., to begin at 8
p. m., it was announced Tuesday
by Roy Kane, of the local defense
office.
Every member of every depart
ment is urged to be present.
Questions concerning duties and
activities of the corps members
will be asked and answered, he
said.
Further details of the meeting
will be announced in next weeks’
Tribune.
TOWN OFFICERS
LAUD CHATHAM
Merchants Association Also
Sends Company Con
gratulations
LETTERS ARE WRITTEN
Messages of congratulations
have been extended the Chatham
Manufacturing Company by the
officials of the Town of Elkin, and
by officials of the Elkin Mer
chants Association upon the high
honor bestowed upon the Chat
ham Company by the government
in awarding it the Army-Navy
Award of Merit.
Tire message'by th& town offi
cials was as follows:
To the Officials and Employees
Of Chatham Manufacturing Co.,
Elkin, North Carolina.
The Town of Elkin took official
cognizance of its meeting last
night of the distinguished and
signal honor merited and won by
the Chatham Manufacturing
Company, being the Army and
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Army-Navy Pennant
To Be Presented By
High Army Official
Lieutenant-Commander Thurmond Chatham, President of
Company, to Accept in Behalf of Firm; Many Well
Known Officials to Be Here; Exercises to Be *
Broadcast Over State-wide Network
Next Monday is going to be an important day in the his
tory of Elkin.
It is the day on which the “E” pennant, for high achieve
ment in the production of war equipment, is to be awarded
the Chatham Manufacturing Company. It is the day which
will bring to town Brigadier General Clifford Lee Corbin and
other army officials; former Governor Clyde R. Hoey; former
Governor O. Max Gardner; Lieutenant-Governor Reginald L.
Harris, Secretary of State Thad Eure, State Auditpr George
Ross Pou, State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson and a number
of other persons of prominence.
It is the day which will see Elkin hooked up with a net
work of radio stations throughout North Carolina, including
GERMANS PUSH
RED ARMY BACK
U. S. Planes Aid Chinese in
Storming Gates of
Linchwan
BOMB HEADQUARTERS
Moscow, Aug. 4—A great weight
of German tanks and reserve
troops, actively supported by
clouds of dive-bombers, pressed
heavily on the entire Soviet
southern front today, and a Rus
sian communique acknowledged
that Red army forces had fallen
back to new positions in the Salsk
region 100 miles southeast of Ros
tov “after repusing fierce enemy
attacks.”
(The Germans claimed they
had captured the town of Voro
shilovsk, 100 miles south of Salsk
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Commissioners Want
The Town Cleaned Up
At the meeting of the Elkin
board of commissioners held
Monday evening at the City Hall,
next week was designated as
Clean-Up Week for Elkin.
It was asked that alleys in the
business section, vacant lots and
premises be cleaned so that the
town as a whole would present a
more sightly appearance.
The board also passed a resolu
tion congratulating the Chatham
Manufacturing Company upon
the honor which has been be
stowed upon it by. the Army
Navy Award of Excellence in War
Production.
'Raleigh, Asheville, Salisbury,
Hickory, Winston-Salem and oth
ers. WBT, in Charlotte, will make
a recording of the award-presen
tation exercises and will broad
cast later in the day.
In the meantime, practically
every daily and weekly newspaper
in the state has made mention of
the honor that has been conferred
upon the Chatham Manufactur
ing Company. Not only that, but
almost every radio station has
done the same. Papers outside
the state—New York, Richmond,
Columbia, etc.—have carried feat
ure stories about the award.
The exercises will be held in
the gymnasium of the Gilvin
Roth Y. M. C. A., starting prompt
ly at 2 o’clock. Here is the way
the program will be carried out:
National Anthem, by American
Legion band.
Former Governor Hoey, master
of ceremonies.
Introduction of honor guests.
Introduction of Brigadier Gen
eral Corbin, who will present the
“E” pennant to Lieutenant-Com
mander Thurmond Chatham.
Acceptance by Mr. Chatham.
Raising of the pennant, to the
accompaniment of a selection by
the band.
“Token” presentation of “E”
pins to employees of the plant.
General Corbin will present a pin
to, Dave 'Woodruff, retired em
ployee of the Company, who has
a record of 48 years of service,
who will receive it in behalf of the
employees.
Later on, every one of the 2,50Q
men and women who work for the
Chatham Manufacturing Com
pany, will be given one of the
sterling silver pins.
“America,” by the band.
Since the announcement of the
award was first made two weeks
ago, telegrams of congratulations
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Merchants To Observe
Dollar Days Aug. 7-8
Friday and Saturday — this
week-end — will again mark the
arrival of Elkin’s semi-annual
Dollar Days.
Practically all Elkin stores are
cooperating in the event — an
event designed to offer special
values — that will save everyone
really worthwhile amounts. And
all stores report that everything
will be in readiness when doors
swing open Friday morning at
9:00 o’clock.
Local stores have been prepar
ing for dollar days for some time,
even in the face of shortages in
many lines of goods caused by the
war. Special buys have been made
at prices which will enable the
merchants to pass along the sav
ings to their customers. Extra
salespeople have been employed
so that the throngs of value seek
ers expected will be put to no in
convenience or delay in getting
served.
The Tribune, cooperating with
the merchants whose advertising
appears in this issue, is mailing
5,000 additional copies of this is
sue, which is appearing one day
earlier than usual so that the pa
per may be widely distributed
prior to the beginning of the sales
event.