The Elkin Tribune
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VOL. NO. XXXII. No. 27
ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY. JUNE 1, 1944
16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
JUDGE HAYES
COMMENCEMENT
SPEAKERHERE
Seniors Are Presented Diplo
mas Monday Evening
SERMON BY DR. STOKES
Letter Is Read From Former
Member of Class Who Is
Now In Armed Service
CLASS DAY EXERCISES
Commencement exercises in the
city schools came to a close on
Monday evening with the presen
tation of diplomas to the forty
two members of the graduating
class and the commencement ad
dress by Judge Johnson J. Hayes
of the United States court,
Wilkesboro.
Judge Hayes emphasized the
importance of preparation for the
greatest era in American history,
upon which we are now at the
threshold. He outlined improve
ments and changes which we may
expect with the return of peace
and advocated the forming of an
international world court which
would eliminate the danger of
future wars.
Special merit awards went to
Miss Mattie Lee Johnson for citi
zenship; Miss Nancy Harris for
scholastic attainment; Miss Ma
ble Cathey Leeper and Harvey
Baker, for athletic achievement.
An unusual award was that of the
senior class to Mrs. W. W. Whit
aker in recognition to her long
years of service as a grade moth
er in the schools.
During the graduating exercises
J. Mark McAdams, superintendent
of schools, read a letter from
Harold Freeman, who is in the
armed services and who would
have been a member of the grad
uating class had he not been call
ed into service. Other members of
the graduation class who were
called to the armed forces before
graduation were; Ray Royall,
Claude Eldridge, Herman Layne,
Robert McCann, Ralph Laffoon,
Gilmer Phillips, Herbert Transou,
Charlie Settle and Charlie Royall.
Of this group only one, Ralph
Laffoon of the U. S. Marine corps,
was present and graduated with
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WILL COLLECT
PAPER SUNDAY
* Jaycees to Discontinue Col
lection of Tin Cans and
Take Paper Only
HOLD MEETING MONDAY
The Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce will colect salvage pa
per Sunday afternoon from 2 to
5 o’clock, Jaycee Clyde Carroll an
nounced Wednesday afternoon.
The Jaycees will not collect tin
cans, Mr. Carroll said, due to the
fact that in disposing of these
cans they have to ship them di
rect to the government. The gov
ernment will not accept shipment
of cans under, 40,000 pounds, and
due to the fact that since the lat
ter part of last year the Jaycees
have collected only 2,000 pounds,
it was deemed wise to discontinue
collecting them and devote this
time to the collection of waste
paper.
Everyone with waste paper is
urged to place it at a spot easily
available so that it may be pick
ed up without loss of time.
At the meeting of the Jaycees,
held at the Y. M. C. A. Monday
evening, “Jimmy” Kolodny was
formally installed as a new mem
ber. The club also voted to invest
$50 00 for softball equipment. It
was announced that softball
games will be played each Wed
nesday afternoon by teams of the
'club and that games on other
'w dates would be played with out
* side teams.
The program on aviation was
in charge of Charles Poplin.
New officers, recently elected,
will be formally installed June 26.
Clyde R. Hoey, left,, of Shelby, candidate for the Democratic
.* nomination to the U. S. Senate, and R. Gregg Cherry,
of Gastonia, candidate for Governor, were both winners in Saturday’s Democratic primary. Mr. Hoey was given an
overwhelming majority over his nearest opponent, Cameron Morrison, of Charlotte, while incomplete returns from a
majority of precincts throughout the state showed Cherry to be leading Dr. Ralph McDonald by a substantial major
ity. Main interest in the primary centered in the gubernatorial contest.
MANY MEN ARE
SENT TO CAMP
Go To Camp Croft, S. C., Last
Friday For Pre-Induc
tion Examination
ANNOUNCED BY BOARD
A large number of men under
the jurisdiction of the Surry
county draft board, No. 2, were
sent to Camp Croft, S. C., last
Friday morning for pre-induction
examination. The majority of
the men called for examination
were in the under 26 age group.
Those sent by the board have
been announced as follows:
James Wm. Meed, Elkin (trans
ferred from Wheeling, W. Va.);
Claude Wm. Scott, route 2, Pin
nacle (transfer from Maxton
board); Walter Glenn Brown, Pi
lot Mountain; Howard Edd Scott,
route 2, Pinnacle (transferred to
Panama City, Fla.); Jessie Albert
Vernon, route 2, Dobson; Joe
Glenn Sawyer, route 1, Ararat;
Walter Thomas Graybeal, Elkin
(one of leaders); John Atwell
Clanton, Elkin (transferred to
Newport News); Ralph Raymond
O’Neal, route 1, Elkin; Harold
William Cockerham, Elkin (vol
unteer) ; Daniel William Norman,
Thurmond; Conrad Lee Gamble,
State Road; John William Rey
nolds, Pilot Mountain; Lawrence
Hemric, route 1, Elkin; Charlie
Lemmie Owens, Thurmond; Mar
vin Odell Galyean, High Point;
Robert Glenn Stone, Pilot Moun
tain; Willie Worth Wiles, Elkin;
Hiram Alden Harris, route 1,
Thurmond; Alfred Reece South
ard, route 1, Elkin;
Walter Raleigh Stewart, route
1, Pilot Mountain; Paul Spencer
Corder, route 1, Elkin; Fredrick S.
Flood Control On
Yadkin Considered
Army engineers have recom
mended the addition of flood con
trol projects to cost about $130,
000,000 to an $810,000,000 post
war authorization, already passed
by the House, which is now before
a Senate committee in Washing
ton.
Among the projects recommend
ed was the $10,840,000 Wilkesboro
reservoir in the Yadkin-Pee Dee
basin.
Cherry, Hoey, Folger
Nominated In Primary
_ A
Gubernatorial
Race Hottest
Seen In Years
Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, can
didate for the Democratic nom
ination to the seat in the U. S.
Senate being vacated by Robert
R. Reynolds, led the ticket here
Saturday in the Democratic pri
mary. Thad Eure, for Secretary
of State, and Chas. M. Johnson,
for State Treasurer, were number
2 and 3 men respectively, in the
voting.
Gregg Cherry won over Ralph
McDonald in the hotly contested
race for' governor, while John
Polger was winner over J. N.
“Buck” Freeman in the 5th dis
trict Congressional race.
Republicans, faced with but one
primary contest — that for lieu
tenant governor — stayed away
from the polls in droves, casting
only 10 votes here.
The official Elkin township
vote was as follows:
For Congress—Folger 333, Free
man 235; for U. S. Senate: Hoey
445, Morrison 88, Ritch 6, Sim
mons 2, Newton 0; for Governor:
Cherry 361, McDonald 200, Boyd
2; for lieutenant governor (Dem
ocratic) : Halsted 78, Ballentine
335, Lyda 36; (Republican):
Greene 2, Lovelace 6, Morgan 2;
for secretary of state: Eure 415,
Crawford 82; for state auditor:
Pou 391, Hunter 89; for state
treasurer: Johnson 431, Phipps
49, Worth 6, Roberts 1.
Surry county as a whole gave
the most votes to Hoey, Cherry,
Folger, Ballentine, Eure, Pou and
Johnson. A tabulated vote on last
page of this section, gives the vote
by townships for each candidate.
In the state the latest available
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Car Stamps To Go
On Sale June 10th
The $5.00 automobile use tax
stamps for the coming year will
go on sale at the Elkin postoffice,
and in other postoffices and In
ternal Revenue Collectors’ offices,
on Saturday, June 10.
All motorists are required to
purchase these stamps.
Winner
Rep. John H. Folger, of Mt.
Airy, was victorious in the
Democratic primary Saturday
over J. N. “Buck” Freeman, a
native of Surry, in the race for
representative from the Fifth
Congressional District, the seat
which Mr. Folger now holds.
SEEKING WAVE
ENLISTMENTS
Ensign Rama Blackwood To
Be At Local Post Office
All Day June 7th
MORE WOMEN NEEDED
Ensign Rama Blackwood of
Jonesville, in service with the
WAVES, will be at the post office
here all day on Wednesday, June
7, to accept enlistments for the
WAVES, the women’s reserve of
the U. S. Navy, according to an
announcement made by Chief J.
T. ^Stephenson, officer in charge
of the Winston-Salem navy re
cruiting station.
Backed by civic organizations
throughout the state as “a move
ment worthy of the consideration
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LONG AND HOEY
LEAD TICKETS
Yadkin Voters Decide For
Long Over Evans In Pri
mary Held Saturday
CHERRY TOPS McDONALD
R. B. Long, present representa
tive and candidate for re-nomina
tion, was the winner oVer his op
ponent, Hubert Evans of Jones
ville, in the primary in Yadkin
county Saturday, in jone of the
lightest votes ever cast in a Re
publican primary. Mr. Long re
ceived 309 votes to Evans 194,
giving Long a majority of 110.
Evans got his heaviest vote, 62, in
North Knobs, while in North Fall
Creek he drew a blank. Long got
the most in Deep Creek, 35, and a
low of 8 in South Liberty.
In tne Democratic primary,
where interest was at peak, for
mer Governor Clyde R. Hoey of
Shelby, candidate for nomination
for U. S. Senator, received the
highest number of votes of any
Democrat. Mr. Hoey got 921 votes,
while his opponent, former Gov
ernor Cameron Morrison, receiv
ed only 384. For the same office
Marvin Ritch got 20 votes, Arthur
Simmons 10 and Giles Newton 9.
Next highest in the Democrat
voting was Gregg Cherry, of Gas
tonia, candidate for Governor,
with 744 votes and his strongest
opponent, Dr. Ralph McDonald
680, giving Cherry a lead of 64
votes in Yadkin. Ray Boyd, the
hog raiser, and another candidate
for Governor, got 3 votes in Yad
kin.
In a state contest for Lieuten
ant Governor on the Republican
side was three men. Harold Mor
gan, George Green and Bob Love
lace. Green was endorsed by the
state Republican convention in
March, but Lovelace and Morgan
decided to-run. In Yadkin county
Lovelace got 177 votes, Green 157
and Morgan 99. The Republicans
also had a contest for state treas
urer between S. B. Roberts, who
was endorsed by the state con
vention and Hiram Worth Rob
erts got 16 votes and Worth 135.
The voting was quiet and light
throughout the county and cam
paigners said it was hard to in
terest people in going to the pri
mary at all.
Is Within 15 Miles
Of Italian Capital;
Hun Defense Furious
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
STATE
DURHAM, May 30.—An au
topsy has established that the
nude body of an aged woman
found Saturday in Eastwood
lake near here “was beyond
doubt that of Mrs. Edward M.
Jewett,” wealthy 67-year-old
Boonville, Mo., woman whose
24-year-old grandson is charg
ed with her murder, Durham
county Coroner Norman A.
Horton said tonight. Horton
said that death probably was
caused by a fractured skull. In
addition there were 25 or 30
stab wounds in the body which
was recovered from the 80-acre
lake after nearly a week of
grappling and diving opera
tions. The grandson, Edward J.
Martin, 24, of Charlotte, was
charged with the murder of
his grandmother while search
for her body still was being
conducted.
From
the
State
and
Nation
NATIONAL
Deaths from traffic acci
dents, drown ings and other
violent causes climbed to 235
Tuesday night as the four-day
Memorial day holiday, tradi
tional start of the summer va
cation season, approached its
close. Automobile accidents
were the greatest single cause
of death, taking 78 lives.
Drownings mounted to 70 as
warm weather lured thousands
to beaches, fishing grounds and
sailing courses. The toll ap
proximated that of the three
/ day holiday last year but was
far short of the overage peace
time Memorial day count of
400 deaths. The 1943 total of
239 deaths consisted of 104 in
traffic, 59 by drowning and 76
from miscellaneous causes.
WASHINGTON, May 30. —
Long-discussed tax simplifica
tion became a reality today af
ter President Roosevelt signed
into law a streamlined bill
abolishing federal income tax
returns for some 30,000,000
persons and simplifying com
putations for 20,000,000 others.
Drafted after complaints
that the present tax forms de
fy even certified public ac
countants, the certiture alters
individual income tax rates
and revised the withholding
structure to liquidate virtually
all federal income tax liability.
The witholding schedules be
come effective January 1, and
the simplified computation
system will be used for the
first time when final returns
are filed March 15, 1945, cov
ering 1944 income.
INTERNATIONAL
Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark set
a tone of solemn dedication for
wartime Memorial day observ
ances with a call to his Anzio
beachhead troops to accept the
sacrifice of the nation’s war
dead as “an inspiration to spur
us on tG the task which has
been set for us.” Against the
muttering undertone of gunfire
only a few miles away, the
General addressed troops rep
resenting all the units which
set up the beachhead and
helped turn it into a major
front. His setting was an Anzio
cemetery area, with grouped
platoons of white crosses show
ing the lengthening list of
those in whose honor the day
is set aside. Referring to the
Fifth army men who rest be
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FIERCE ATTACK
BY THE ENEMY
PROVES FUTILE
Shells Rain Upon Alban Hills
Strongholds
USE TANK DESTROYERS
Madrid Radio Says Some
German Troops Already
Evacuating Rome
“AT GATES OF THE CITY”
Allied Headquarters, Naples,
May 31.—The Fifth Army smash
ed to within nearly 15 miles of
Rome in an all-out battle for the
Italian capital today, routing the
Germans from trenches and gul
lies with bayonets and raining
shells on their Alban Hills strong
holds.
The Germans counterattacked
with strong tank forces continu
ously, but apparently futilely, as
the Fifth Army shifted the main
weight of its offensive to the
western half of the front in an
attempt to turn the Alban Hills
defenses from the southwest.
The advances carried deep into
the Valmontone - Campo Jemini
Line — the'last defense belt below
Rome — but General Sir Harold
R. L. G. Alexander, Allied com
mander in Italy, warned in his
daily communique:
“It is now evident that the en
emy intends to hold this line at
all cost,”
American tanks and tank de
stroyers made the deepest pene
tration of the enemy line when
they rumbled “right up in front
of Genzano, 15 miles south of
Rome, and Lanuvio, two miles .
farther sputh, and began pouring
shells into the two towns on the
southwest slopes of the Alban
Hills, Reynolds Packard, war cor
respondent, reported from the
front.
American infantry advanced on
both sides of Genzano and Lan
uvio and also imperiled Albano,
only 13 miles from Rome and
probably the key to the Valmon
tone - Campo Jemini Line, Pack
ard said. The Germans answered
the American fire with their own
heaviest bombardment since the
start of the Allied offensive.
Troops and tanks assaulting
Lanuvio entered the outskirts of
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HATCHERY WILL
BE OPENED HERE
Will Have Equipment Suffi
cient to Hatch 12,000 Baby
Chicks Per Month
WILL HANDLE SUPPLIES
,A new firm, the Elkin Hatchery
& Farmers Supply Company, has
been formed here by Claude Far
rell and Edworth Harris, both of
Elkin, and Hort Thompson, of
Zephyr.
The firm will be located on
North Bridge Street in the build
ing formerly occupied by the E.
& D. Metal Company, and should
be ready for business about the
last of June.
Equipment will be installed suf
ficient for a hatch of approxima
tely 12,000 chicks per month, it
was said. In addition to the
hatchery, the firm will also car
ry a complete line of poultry
feeds and supplies, including
brooders, chicken wire, chicken
drinkers, feeders and poultry
remedies.
Mr. Thompson will act as man
ager and operator of the business,
it was said.