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ELKIN
The Best
Little Town in
North Carolina
The Elkin Tribune
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Expect To Operate Lime Mine Within Next Two Weeks
Sampling Discloses
Analysis Of 85.31;
Is Said Excellent
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BIG AMOUNT OF
STONE IS NOW
READY FOR MILL
Operation Depends Upon
Good Weather
OFFICIALS CLUB GUESTS
Road Into Limestone Quarry
Completed and Paved With
Crushed Stone
MUCH PROGRESS IS MADE
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With favorable weather, the
lime mine at Lime Rock, Yadkin
county, should be in operation
within two working weeks, Z. V.
Stewart, of Lenoir, division engi
neer of the state highway and
k public works commission, and C.
G. Ashby, district engineer, of this
city, said last Thursday evening at
a meeting of the Elkin Kiwanis
Club.
With approximately $7,000 al
| ready spent by the state in pre
paring the state-owned lime de
posit, prospects appear bright for
its early operation. However, the
highway officals pointed out, ac
tual marketing of the lime may be
delayed due to the difficulty of se
curing necessary scales for weigh
ing the finished lime, due to war
shortages.
A recent sample of the lime
stone now being taken from the
mine following the clearing away
of a large amount of the over
burden, disclosed the following
analysis: calcium, 82.28 per cent,
and magnesium, 3.03 per cent, or
a total of 85.31 per cent, which
is considered excellent.
Since beginning work at the de
posit, statd workmen have made
good progress. In addition to hav
ing removed a large part of the
overburden, an excellent gravel
road has been built to the quarry,
and machinery for crushing and
pulverizing has been installed.
FEDERAL JUDGE
SPEAKER HERE
Johnson J. Hayes Addresses
Parent-Teacher Association
Tuesday Evening
INTRODUCED BY JAMES
Judge Johnson J. Hayes of fed
eral court and a resident of Wilk
esboro, was speaker for the
monthly Parent-Teacher Associa
tion meeting here on Tuesday
evening at the elementary school
auditorium.
Judge Hayes, who is a forceful
speaker, stressed the importance
of training in the school, home
and church as to the right way
of living. His challenge to youth
of today was to be prepared tc
assume their place as community
leaders of tomorrow by taking ad
vantage of opportunities offered
them in the field of education and
training.
The speaker was introduced by
E. C. James of this city. Mr. James
^ also presented Judge Hayes i
W Chatham blanket at the close o;
his talk as a gift of appreiatior
by the association members.
Mrs. M. W. Maxwell, presided
l of the association, presided ove:
session, and J. Mark Me
^^■dams, superintendent of the cit’
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Plan Another
Registration
For Kerosene
Numerous people of this area
served by the local fuel oil ra
tioning board were unable to
register Thursday and Friday
of last week for kerosene oil
due to lack of sufficient regis
tration blanks.
Hubert Parker, of the local
fuel oil committee, said Wed
nesday that as soon as addi
tional blanks were received, an
other registration will be held.
Announcement of the dates
will be made through this
newspaper as soon as possible.
SURRY DIVIDED
INTO BRANCHES
Elkin Branch of Red Cross
Has Own Officers and
Committee Chairmen
OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED
Under plans made at a recent
meeting of the executive board of
the Surry County Chapter, Amer
ican Red Cross, the county was
divided into two distinct branch
es, with Elkin responsible for one
third, and Mount Airy two-thirds,
and the Elkin branch to include
Rockford, Crutchfield, Burch,
Pairview, Zephyr, Devotion,
Mountain Park and State Road.
Under the arrangement, Elkin
is to have its own branch organ
ization, including officers and
committee chairmen. The com
mittee chairmen will be responsi
ble to the branch chairman, who
in turn will be responsible to the
chairman of the Surry County
Chapter. Each chaixman is re
quired to present the branch
chairman with adequate monthly
reports.
The officers and chairmen of
the Elkin branch are:
Mrs. Joe Bivins, chairman; Mrs.
Albert Bryan, vice-chairman; C.
J. Hyslup, vice-chairman, and
Miss Bettie Allen, treasurer.
Committee chairmen are: Mrs.
George Royall, home service; Mrs.
Seth M. Beale, home nursing; Mrs.
H. P. Laffoon, production; Mrs.
W. C. Cox, surgical dressing; Mrs.
A. O. Bryan, roll call; Roy Kane,
first aid; C. J. Hyslup, disaster;
Alan Browning, Jr., publicity;
Mrs. Linville Hendren, nutrition.
SANTA CLAUS TO
BE HERE FRIDAY
Bewhiskered Old Gent to Ar
rive on Train At 2:45
In Afternoon
Santa Claus, the bewhiskered
old gentleman from the North
Pole, is scheduled to pay Elkin a
visit Friday afternoon.
According to announced plans,
Santa will arrive in the afternoon
on the train which reaches here
at 2:45, and is expecting all the
: boys and girls of Elkin, Jones
; ville, Arlington, Pleasant Hill
State Road, Ronda and othei
1 communities for miles around tc
be here and greet him. And sc
> sure is he that a big crowd will be
• on hand that he is bringing e
■ large amount of candy to distrib
r ute among his friends.
Following his arrival, Sants
Claus will visit the local stores.
SHOULDN'T BE LONG.
state highway and public works commi .
last Thursday, that “with favorable weather the lime quarry at Lime Rock should be in
operation within two weeks.” Pictured below are photographs made at the mine last
Thursday afternoon. Top photo shows the white limestone as it is quarried from the de
posit, recent samplings of which have shown an analysis of 85.31. Bottom photo shows
Thad Willard, foreman of the men working at the mine, standing in front of a large
amount of the limestone which has been placed at the crusher, ready for pulverizing.—
Tribune Photos.
AinWJ Z. V. Stewart, of Lenoir, and C. G. Ash
iVL/Fr by, of Elkin, district officials of the
ssion, said at a meeting of the Elkin Kiwanis Club
SEAL SALE WILL
START DEC. 4
Mrs. McNeer Serving as
Chairman Here for 26th
Consecutive Year
ARE TO CANVASS TOWN
The annual Christmas seal
| sale, sponsored by the North Car
j olina Tuberculosis Association,
j will begin here on December 4,
tand continue through
Christmas Eve, ac
cording to Mrs. E. P.
McNeer, who is serv
ing for the twenty
sixth consecutive
year as chairman of
the local sales.
I Money from the sale of seals,
which is nation-wide, is used
throughout the year for the pre
vention of tuberculosis. Three
fourths of all money for seals is
retained in communities where
sales are made.
The November issue of the
North Carolina State Health bul
letin, which was devoted largely
to education of people regarding
the danger of tuberculosis, cites
the fact that Nazi air raids over
England in 1940-41 caused some
36,000 casualties, but in the same
period tuberculosis in the United
States caused nearly 50,000
deaths, or 10,000 more Americans
than were killed in the first
World War.
Mrs. J. Melville Broughton,
honorary state chairman, urges
all people of the state to buy
seals and to guard throughout
the year for the prevention of this
dread disease.
A corps of volunteer workers
will canvass the town on Friday
of next week, the workers to be
announced in the next issue of
The Tribune.
Judge Orders Capias
Issued For Dockery
A capias for Herbert Dockery,
of Elkin, was ordered issued by
the judge of Rowan County Su
perior Court at Salisbury Monday
when Dockery, who is under
$750 bond to face trial on a
charge of issuing a bad check,
failed to appear in court.
Police here were notified Tues
day morning by Sheriff Crowder,
of Rowan, to be on the lookout
for Dockery, Chief of Police Cor
bett Wall said Wednesday.
One Suspect Arrested
In Cycle Robbery Case
Released When
Fingerprints
Fail To Tally
Although one arrest has been
made in the robbery case in
which a masked bandit Wednes
day night of last week held up at
pistol point and x-obbed Mrs. Bes
sie Myers, of Cycle, of approxi
mately $1,500 and her automo
bile, officers are still in the dark
as to the identity of the thief.
A man whose name was not
given was taken into custody by
Sheriff A. L. Inscore shortly after
the robbery, but his fingerprints
failed to tally with known prints
of the thief, and he was released,
it was learned.
The daring holdup took place
at Mrs. Myers’ store around 10
o’clock in the evening. It was
said that she was putting gaso
line into the tank of a car of a
neighbor, Douglas Johnson, when
the robber approached. Described
as a man of medium height and
slightly bald, he thrust his gun
into Johnson’s side and ordered
Mrs. Myers to open her safe and
the cash register in the store.
Following the robbery, the
bandit ordered Mrs. Myers to give
him the keys to her car, and
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MISS POWELL IS
NEW SECRETARY
Is Named By Building and
Loan Board to Succeed
Paul Gwyn
ASS’N IN GOOD SHAPE
The board of directors of the
Elkin-Jonesville Building & Loan
Association have named Miss
Mattie Mae Powell as secretary ol
the association following the
death November 9 of Paul Gwyn.
The directors, who met Monday,
stated that with the appointment
of Miss Powell, who for years has
been Mr. Gwyn’s assistant, the As
sociation will carry on in its usual
manner until such time as condi
tions in building might requirt
other action.
The board also stated that un
der the capable management o1
Mr. Gwyn, who had headed the
Association for years as secretary
the business has shown a healths
growth and is in the best of fi
nancial condition.
The largest cross in the world i;
located at Mt. Davidson, Califor
nia. It is 105 feet high, cost $2,
500 and is visible 50 miles at sea
Huns Retreat Before
Red Drive On Soviet
Front; Losses Heavy
..—A
More Volunteers
Badly Needed to
Make Dressings
Additional volunteer workers
are needed at the Red Cross
room to make surgical dress
ings for the armed forces in
order to complete the present
quota for immediate shipment.
The Red Cross room is open
each afternoon except Satur
day from one until five o’clock,
and each Tuesday and Wed
nesday morning from 9 until
12 o’clock, and each Tuesday
and Wednesday evening from
7 until 10 o’clock.
This work is vitally urgent
and offers an excellent oppor
tunity for each woman in the
town to contribute of her time
to the war effort.
FARMERS ASKED
FOR MORE IRON
Government Wants Remaind
er of Year Devoted to In
tensified Scrap Drive
FACILITIES PLEDGED
The United States government
is asking all farmers to dedicate
the remainder of this year to an
intensified search for scrap metal.
In a telegram received Wednes
day by The Tribune from Donald
M. Nelson, it was stated that:
“Steel mills need more heavy
scrap and the farms are one of
the best sources of this type of
metal. All salvage committees are
being instructed to continue to
make available to the farmers all
their transportation facilities and
manpower, and to cooperate in
every possible way. The Nation is
looking to the American farmer. I
am sure he will come through.”
According to all available in
formation, although the recent
drive resulted in millions of
pounds of scrap, the steel mills
need the heavier types of metal,
much of which is often found on
farms. It has also been pointed
out that while much metal can
be collected in the drives, the pub
lic should not stop but continue
to salvage all metal possible, for
the war continues to go on and
as long as it continues, more and
more scrap metal will be needed.
Farmers who have scrap metal
should use the same facilities for
having it hauled away as they us
ed in the recent scrap drive.
Sunday School Ajss’n
To Meet Sunday P. M
The Surry Baptist Sunday
School Association will hold its
first quarterly meeting on Sunday
afternoon, Noveir ber 29, at 2:30
o’clock with the Haymore Memor
ial Baptist Church of Mt. Airy. At
this meeting plans will be drawn
up for the formation of the group
meetings to be held during next
year. It is, therefore, very neces
sary that every church possible be
represented at this time.
The recently elected Moderator
of the Association, J. W. Hylton,
will make the principal address
of the afternoon. A conference
period will also be arranged to
make plans for the work of the
new year. The Friendly Hour
quartett will furnish special mu
sic.
i A church in Jutland on the coast
■ is gradually being covered bji
• sand. Only the tower now re*
. mains above ground.
HITLER SEEKS
TO GAIN FULL
AIR SUPREMACY
Axis Reinforcements Are
Admitted Heavy By Allies
RUSSIANS CROSS DON
Germans and Rumanians Cut
Off At Many Points North
west of Stalingrad
RETREAT IS DISORDERLY
London, Nov. 25.—Adolf Hitler
Is rushing airplanes from the Rus
sian front to Sardinia and Sicily
in a desperate attempt to get su
premacy of the air and sea in the
Tunisian zone, it was said author
itatively today.
It was admitted that the rein
forcements were heavy and that
the Axis forces were making big
raids on allied ports and shipping.
The informant suggested that
the Italian battle fleet might take
to sea to join in the attack, but
said a strong allied naval covering
force would be waiting for it.
Dispatches from Africa reported
that allied and Axis armies had
clashed in widely separated zones
of Tunisia and that battles on
land and in the air, increasing
steadily in ferocity and size, por
tended an early decisive test of
strength.
Allied headquarters reported
that all was going well as the
main forces moved steadily east
ward toward the Germans mass
ing along the east Tunisian coast.
A communique had reported
the throwing back of German ad
vance units only 24 miles south
west of Tunis by American troops,
supported by French detachments.
Moscow, Nov. 25. — A strong
spearhead of a gigantic Russian
offensive today was disclosed to
have broken across the Don River
directly west of Stalingrad, while
to the northwest terrified Ger
mans and Rumanians retreated in
disorder, offering only a rear
guard defense.
The Russians who surged
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UNION CHURCH
SERVICE HERE
Will Be Held At Methodist
Church in Observance
Of Thanksgiving
STORES TO BE CLOSED
Thanksgiving will be observed
here today with a union service
of all of the churches of the town
at the Methodist church at 10
o’clock in the morning. Rev.
Stephen Morrisett of the First
Baptist church will bring the
Thanksgiving message, using as
his subject, “Giving Thanks in
Everything.”
All people of the town are in
cited to attend the service.
All stores of the town with the
exception of drug stores and cafes
will be closed for the day and
Elkin Furniture company will al
so observe the holiday.
The city schools closed Wednes
day afternoon and will reopen
Monday morning. Many of the
out-of-town faculty members
have gone to their homes for the
holidays.