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The Elkin Tribune
VOL. NO. XXXII. No. 12
ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1944
16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
County Is Over
t Top In Fourth
War Loan Drive
E BOND SALES
BELOW QUOTA,
FIGURES SHOW
^ All E Bond Sales During This
Month To Count On Quota
BOND TOTAL $1,645,607
This Figure Is Expected To
Grow When Complete
Figures Are In
ANNOUNCE NEXT WEEK
Surry county, with a Fourth
War Loan quota of $1,261,000, has
gone over the top in its over-all
a drive by selling a total of $1,645,
r 607, it was learned Wednesday
morning.
These figures, it was said,
while the latest available, do not
represent sales up until the final
day of the campaign, which was
Tuesday.
While the results of the drive
as a whole has proven a great
success, the sale of E bonds is
still below the assigned quota of
$648,900, current figures showing
that only $457,575 in E bonds
have been sold in Surry. How
ever, it was pointed out that sale
I of E bonds throughout the re
mainder of February will apply
on this quota, and it is hoped that
the figure will more nearly ap
proach the E quota by the end
of the month.
Officials stated that is was im
possible to release complete fig
rues up through Tuesday on the
drive this tfeek. However, final
figures were promised for next
week when a full count has been
taken.
All persons planning to pur
j chase E bonds in the near fu
t ture are urged to do so during
February if possible, so that the
sales may apply on the Surry
quota.
BLANKETEERS
TO GO NORTH
To Meet Gruen Watch Com
pany and Westinghouse
Teams During Trip
ARE TO GO ON TRAIN
Chatham’s girls’ basketball
team will head north this week
end for games with the Gruen
Watch Company and Westing
house, returning to Elkin Monday,
February 28, A. R. Plaster, Blank
eteer coach, said Wednesday af
ternoon.
The girls, accompanied by Ab
Crater and Miss Lois. McKnight,
will go by train to Cincinnati,
where they will arrive Sunday af
ternoon, meeting the Gruen team
Sunday night. From Cincinnati
they will go to Pittsburgh, where
they will play a three-game series
f with Westinghouse. Mr. Plaster
said the team might possibly play
a fourth game while there, al
though it has not as yet been
scheduled.
In a three-game series played
at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium
here on January 5-6-7, the
Blanketeers defeated the West
inghouse girls in each game, and
hope to duplicate that perform
ance in the return series at Pitts
burgh.
Ronda Man Slightly
Hurt In Car Wreck
Charlie Combs of Ronda, suf
fered minor injuries in an auto
mobile accident Sunday evening
cn the Elkin-Ronda highway
when his car went out of control,
smashed into a stone wall and
turned over.
He was kept overnight at the
local hospital for observation but
was released the following day.
Bonds or Bondage—It’s Up to You
Heads Association
T. F. Cooley, of Elkin, super
intendent of Klondike Farm
near here, was elected president
of the North Carolina Guernsey
Breeders Association at their
meeting held in Winston-Salem
last week. During the session,
the problems of feed, and the
presentation of the Klondike
Trophy, were centers of inter
est. The Klondike Trophy, pre
sented annually for the cow
with the best miik and butter
fat production record, was pre
sented by Prof. R. H. Ruffner
of State College, Raleigh, to A.
L. Brown, owner, and G. H.
Cartner, manager of the Clear
Springs Farm, Kannapolis, for
the production record of “Clear
Springs’ Elizabeth.” During the
session Frank Johnson, of the
American Guernsey Club, spoke
on “Golden Guernsey Milk,”
urging the association to take
into its membership the distri
butors of Guernsey milk.
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
STATE
RALEIGH, FEB. 15.—North
Carolina’s traffic in black
market gasoline operations was
shown today in a report re
leased by James S. Burch, sta
tistical engineer for 'the state
highway department. Burch
said that traffic over North
Carolina’s highway system in
January, 1944, as compared
with the same month in 1941,
the most recent normal year
used as a basis for compilation
of figures, showed only a 31
per cent reduction as compar
ed with January, 1941. He said
the OPA had informed him
that “black market operations
in gasoline were the cause for
the steady flow of automobiles
over the highways.”
From
the
State
and
Nation
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. —
Acting Secretary of the Treas
ury Daniel W. Bell announced
tonight that the United States
has gone o’ er the top in its
fourth loan drive, purchases
totalling 14,191,000,000. Pur
chases of the bonds leaped
over the $14,000,000,000 goal
today, last day officially in the
two months of intensive sales
effort. All bonds purchases
during the remainder of Feb
ruary are to be counted in the
total, which Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau
has indicated he will announce
on March 2.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. —
President Roosevelt told a
press-radio conference today
that he would no't be a bit sur
prised if the United States was
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LARGE NUMBER
OF MEN SENT
TO CAMPCROFT
Leave Tuesday To Take Pre
Induction Examination
FROM DRAFT BOARD 2
Those Who Pass Are Subject
To Call At Any Time
Within 9Q Days
NAMES ARE ANNOUNCED
A large number of selective ser
vice registrants left Tuesday
morning for Camp Croft for a
pre-induction physical examina
tion. Those who pass the exam
ination and are accepted for ser
vice are liable for call any time
within ninety days and not less
than twenty-one days, under the
new selective service ruling. Those
who pass the test who are not
called within ninety days will be
summoned for another pre-in
duction examination, subject to
further call.
Those reporting on Tuesday
were: «
Roy Reece Bates, Elkin; Pholie
Fred Renegar, Elkin; William
Howard Windsor, Elkin; James
Ruby McCormick, Rockford;
Martin Elmer Jones, Pilot Moun
tain; Roy Webster Myers, Elkin;
Theodore Franklin Turpin, route
2, Pilot Mountain; Jiles Henry
Cave, State Road; Claude Hard
ing Jennings, Burlington; Ira
Fred Jessup, route 1, Pinnacle;
Connie William Jenkins, route 2,
Dobson; Paul Kermit Lowe, Low
gap; Fred Andrew Collins, route
1, Elkin; James Martin Cave,
route 1, Dobson; DeWitt White,
route 1, Elkin; Herman James
Martin, Greensboro.
Jack Simmons, Pilot Mountain;
Lee Thomas Tilley, route 1, Elk
in; Claude Henry Davis, Pilot
Mountain; Hugh Glenn Creed,
Elkin; John Henry Summit, Elk
in; Wilbert Edward McHone, Pi
lot Mountain; Paul Odell Wilson,
Pilot Mountain; O. D. Gray, Dur
ham; Thad A. Stanley, Rusk;
Thomas Glenn Barker, Dobson;
Cola Croom Fulp, Wilmington;
George McKinley Gentry, Elkin;
Benford Blain Baugus, Elkin;
Clyde Taft Overby, Pilot Moun
tain; Leon Franklin Stewart,
route 1, Rural Hall; Lynwood
Galyean, Lowgap; Oliver Nathan
iel Swansoh, Pilot Mountain; Sam
Brooks, Mountain Park.
Claude Clyde Stewart, Elkin;
Fredrick Eugene Chappell, route
1, State Road; Tom Benbow
Scott, Bennetssville, S. C.; Her
man Sebron Atkins, Elkin; El
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LOCKER PLANT
SEEMS ASSURED
However, Over 40 More Lock
ers Must Be Rented Be
fore Installation
ASKED TO RENT NOW
Success of the freezer locker
plant proposed for Elkin was
nearing success Wednesday when
it was announced that only be
tween 40 and 50 lockers needed
to be rented in order to obtain
government priority to install the
plant.
Dave Brendle, of P. A. Brendle
& Sqp, the firm interested in put
ting in the modern freezer lock
er facilities, said that his firm
planned to start with 300 lockers,
and of this number it is neces
sary to rent in advance a total of
60 per cent, or 180 lockers, in
order to obtain the necessary
equipment. It is hoped that the
remaining number of lockers nec
essary to assure the success of the
project will be rented within a
short while so that the plant may
be installed and ready for opera
tion at an early date.
Those wishing to rent lockers
should make their check payable
to Garland Johnson, vice-presi
dent of The Bank of Elkin. These
checks, which should be for
$12.50 for regular size locker, or
$15.00 for large locker, are for a
year’s rent, and will be held un
cashed until the plant is install
ed and ready to operate and the
keys turned over to the renters.
Checks may be given or mailed to
Mr. Johnson or to P. A. Brendle
& Son. In event something should
occur which prevented the in
stallation of tiie plant, all checks
would be returned.
President of American Bankers
Association To Be Speaker At
Farmers Meet; Governor Coming
TO ATTEND FARMERS MEETING StSXlaS
the annual Farmers’ Night banquet to be held here at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. on
Thursday, March 16, under sponsorship of the Elkin Agricultural Council. They are,
left to right, A. L. M. Wiggins, of Hartsville, S. C., president of the American Bankers
Association, who will be principal speaker; Word H. Wood, of Charlotte, chairman of
the board of the American Trust Company, and Governor J. M. Broughton. Mr. Wood,
a native of Elkin, will be honored during the meeting. Governor Broughton will intro
duce both Mr. Wiggins and Mr. Wood.
Berlin Staggers Under
Nearly 3000Tons Bombs
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New Pastor
Dr. J. L. Stokes, II, who has
been appointed as pastor of the
Elkin Methodist Church to suc
ceed Rev. Herman F. Duncan,
who has been transferred to
Ashe boro to succeed the late
Dr. M. T. Smathers. Pastor of
the Franklin Methodist church
for the past three and one-half
years, Dr. Stokes will preach his
first sermon here on February
27. He said Tuesday that he
planned to move his wife and
family here within the very near
future.
KIWANIS WINS
OVER TCU CLUB
Chalk Up Score of 6-2 In
Bond Selling Game At
YMCA Friday
SALES TOTAL $ 1 0,0 0 0
The Elkin Kiwanis Club, in
basketball suits that reminded of
the gay nineties and must have
put a strain upon the purveyors
of long handled underwear, stum
bled to a 6-2 victory over the
T. C. U. Club here last Friday
evening at the Y. M. C. A. gym
nasium in a contest risked for
promotion of War Bond sales.
The Kiwanians, known as the
“Kroakers,” chalked up an earlv
lead in the first quarter when
Clyde Long’s toss neatly split the
basket, a feat which proved as
surprising to Mr. Long as it did
to his opponents and to the as
sembled audience. ,
The only score for the T. C. U.
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German Capital
Feels Greatest
Raid In History
London, Feb. 16.—A mighty ar
mada of British bombers—com
prising the bulk of the night’s
raiding fleet of some 1,200 planes
—sent nearly 3,000 tons of ex
plosives crashing down on devas
tated Berlin last night in the
heaviest aerial assault ever made
on a single target.
While the main force of 1,000
planes rained block-busters and
incendiaries on Berlin at the rate
of 140 tons a minute, another 200
Lancasters feinted 50 miles to the
east and dropped 300 tons of
bombs on railway yards at Frank
furt-on-Oder.
Only 45 planes — less than 4
per cent of the raiding fleet —
were lost in all operations last
night. All but 200 of the parti
cipating bombers were four-en
gined aircraft.
The Air Ministry announced
that crews of twin-engined Mos
quito bombers that roared over
Berlin after the R. A. F.’s heavy
weights had dropped their car
goes of nearly 6,000,000 pounds of
steel and explosives found “a very
large area of fire with smoke ris
ing to a height of 2,000 feet.”
Mosquitos also bombed objec
tives in Western Germany and
Holland to round out the night’s
offensive.
The night’s raiding fl^et was
the greatest ever sent out by the
R. A. F. and brought the pre-in
vasion aerial offensive against
Germany to its highest pitch at
a time when Allied daylight raid
ers, including American Flying
Fortresses and Liberators, were
smashing daily at the “Western
Front” coast of Northern France.
Jaycees To Conduct
Scrap Drive Sunday
Jaycees will conduct another
scrap drive to cdllect waste pa
per and tin cans on Sunday af
ternoon, February 20, from 2 un
til 5 p. m., if the weather permits.
In event the weather is bad the
collection will be the following
Sunday at the same hours.
In the past collections a very
small amount has been gathered
in the Jonesville and Arlington
sections and citizens of these
towns, as well as Elkin, are asked
to cooperate in the salvage of
these vital war materials.
If the paper is tied into bundles
it will make the collection easier.
Cans are wanted that are clean
and have been flattened.
POSTPONE DEAN
MURDER TRIAL
State Asks Continuance To
Analyze Blood Said
Found At Home
MARCH 27TH DATE SET
Due to the fact the state need
ed additional time in which to
analyze blood found in the home
following the alleged murder of
William Everett Dean last De
cember 18 near East Bend, a con
tinuance was granted by Judge
Rousseau in Yadkin county su
perior court last week until March
27 when Governor Broughton is
expected to call a special term in
which to try the three defendants
held in the case—Dean’s wife,
Woodrow Lane and Early Vernon
Sears.
In explaining to the court that
time will be needed to analyze
the blood, Solicitor Avalon E. Hall
also told the court that the state
could show that when Dean’s
body was found shortly after
midnight it was clad in clothes
different from those Dean was
wearing at 5:30 p. m., the pre
ceding afternoon.
Although Mr. Hall didn’t say
so in so many words, it was im
plied that the murder might have
been committed at the Dean
home and that the clothing was
changed there in order to give
the perpetrators of the crime op
portunity to dispose of the bloody
garments. Little blood was found
on the clothes Dean was wearing
when his body was found in a
pickup truck about a mile from
the home.
Following the granting of a
continuance, Judge Rousseau al
lowed all three defendants privi
lege of bond in the sum of $5,000.
Although Solicitor Hall did not
state where the blood was found,
he did say that it was in suffi
cient quantity to be of great im
portance. He said it was not dif
ficult to determine that the sub
stance found at the home was
blood, but that it took some time
to determine whether or not it
was human blood. Three or four
weeks will be necessary to finish
the investigation, 'he intimated.
CATTLE
Farmers turning cattle into
com fields this fall are warned to
take special precautions against
losses from “cornstalk disease,”
says Dr. C. D. Grinnells, livestock
specialist.
WORD H. WOOD
OF CHARLOTTE
HONOR GUEST
Is Native of Elkin and Na
tionally Known Banker
MEETING ON MARCH 16
Approximately 500 Farmers
of Section Will Be Guests
At Annual Event
PLAN GOOD PROGRAM
A. L. M. Wiggins, of Hartsville,
S. C., president of the American
Bankers Association, has been an
nounced as the principal speaker
for the Elkin Annual Farmers
Night program to be held at the
Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. Thursday,
March 16, in which Word H.
Wood, of Charlotte, chairman of
the board of the American Trust
Company, will be honored, and
at which Governor J. M. Brough
ton will be a guest.
Present at the banquet will be
approximately 500 farmers of
Surry, Yadkin and Wilkes coun
ties, in addition to prominent
North Carolina agricultural lead
ers, and business professional
men of Elkin.
Garland Johnson, chairman of
the Elkin Agricultural Council,
which is sponsoring the event,
said Wednesday morning that a
comprehensive program is being
arranged for visiting farmers,
who will attend various group
meetings to be held at the Y. M.
C. A. in the afternoon of the day
of the banquet. These meetings
will be presided over by members
of the State College Farm Exten
sion Service.
The Agriculture Council is
made up of representatives of the
Elkin Junior Chamber of Com
merce, Elkin Kiwanis Club, and
the Elkin Merchants Association.
The guest of honor, Mr. Wood,
is himself a native of Elkin, hav
ing been bom here April 28, 1873,
(Continued on page four, 1st. Sec.)
Alleged Crap Game
Leads To Shooting
Oscar Phillips, 32, of the Little
Richmond section of Surry, is
reported as getting along satis
factorily at Hugh Chatham hos
pital following bullet wounds re
ceived Saturday night which were
said to have been inflicted by
Rastus Stanley, of the same com
munity, in an alleged fight over
a crap game.
It was reported that Stanley
fired five shots from a .32 calibre
revolver, one of the bullets pass
ing almost through Phillips’
body.
At last reports officers were
still looking for Stanley.
Use of Tokens
Explained In
OPA Bulletin
To eliminate apparent exist
ing confusion, the local ration
office has been informed by
the OPA that between Febru
ary 27 and March 20, inclu
sive, blue tokens, as well as
green one-point stamps may
be used in making change for
valid green and blue stamps
which are surrendered upon a
purchase of processed foods.
It was also pointed out that
during the same dates, red
tokens, as well as brown one
point stamps may be used in
making change for valid green
and blue stamps. Red tokens,
as well as brown one-point
stamps, may be used in mak
ing change for valid red and
brown stamps. However, after
March 20, red tokens and blue
tokens only may be given as
change against red or blue
stamps.
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