The Elkin Tribune
VOL. NO. XXXII. No. 32
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1944
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16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
Bond Sales To
Date Here Are
Only $127,000
TOTAL FIGURES
FOR SURRY ARE
NOT AVAILABLE
Overall Quota For County Is
Over Million and Half
FINAL DATE IS JULY 8TH
Period For Sale of “E’ Bonds
To Be Extended Several
More Weeks
RALLIES CALLED OFF
Sale of Fifth War Loan Bonds
in Elkin up until July 4 amounted
to approximately $127,000, The
Tribune learned Wednesday fol
lowing a check of issuing agencies
bere.
Due to the fact that J. F. Yok
ley, of Mount Airy, chairman of
the war loan drive for Surry, was
in Chicago, The Tribune was un
able to obtain figures for the
county as a whole. ,
The Fifth War Loan is sche
duled to come to an end July 8,
but it is understood the drive, as
concerns “E” Bonds, will be con
tinued for several weeks. The
government is stressing the sale
of this type of bond, which is the
kind usually purchased by the
rank and file of citizens.
Surry county’s overall all quota
is $1,581,000, of which the “E”
Bond quota is $607,000.
All Bond rallies, it is under
stood, have been called off until
July 11 due to the outbreak of
infantile paralysis. In event con
ditions will permit it, rallies will
be resumed after that date, it
was said.
SURRY WOMAN
DIES MONDAY
Mrs. Emma White Whitaker
Passes At The Home of
Daughter East of Elkir.
RITES HELD WEDNESDAY
Mrs. Emma White Whitaker, 78,
widow of Andy Whitaker, died on
Monday night at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. I. N. Greenwood,
^ east of Elkin, with whom she
made her home. Mrs. Whitaker
had been ill for several weeks.
She was a native of the Little
Richmond community and a
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel White, and was a member
of the Little Richmond Baptist
church.
She is survived by five daugh
ters, Mrs. I. N. Greenwood, Elkin;
Mrs. Edgar J. Burch, Asheville;
Mrs. D. J. Melton, Ronda, Route;
Mrs. Henry C. Groce, Cycle; one
son, Daniel • Whitaker, Greens
boro; 24 grandchildren, 14 great
grandchildren and two sisters,
Mrs. L. G. Hurt, Ronda, and Mrs.
H. O. Wellborn, State Road.
Funeral rites were held Wed
nesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at
Little Richmond Baptist church,
in charge of Rev. T. S. Draughn
and Rev. Clete Simmons. Inter
ment was in the family plot in
the church cemetery.
Jaycees Are To
Collect Waste
Paper Sunday
The Elkin Junior Chamber
of Commerce will again collect
scrap paper here Sunday after
noon from 2 to 5 p. m., it was
announced Wednesday after
noon.
All persons having scrap pa
per on hand are asked to tie
it in as neat bundles as pos
sible and place in a convenient
spot so that it may be picked
up as quickly as possible.
IS HONOREB — T. C. Mc
Knight, above, was honored last
Thursday evening by the Elkin
Kiwanis Club as the “Kiwanis
Father of 1943,” when a certi
ficate of award was presented
him on behalf of his fellow club
members by Dr. E. G. Click.
Mr. McKnight was the first
Elkin Kiwanian father to lose a
son in battle during this war.
His son, Lieut. Ben McKnight,
died of wounds received in New
Guinea.
Met NIGHT IS
HONORED HERE
Presented Certificate of
Award As ‘‘Kiwanis Fath
er Of 1943” By Club
TO MEET AT Y TONIGHT
T. C. McKnight, first Kiwanis
father of Elkin to have a son die
in action in the present war, was
honored by fellow members of the
Elkin Kiwanis Club last Thursday
evening when he was presented a
certificate of award as “Kiwanis
Father of 1943.” Dr. E. G. Click,
also a member of the club, pre
sented the certificate to Mr. Mc
Knight.
Lieut. Daily Gambill, of Alle
ghany county, who was in New
Guinea with Mr. McKnight’s son,
Lieut. Ben McKnight, and En
sign Joseph H. Wolfe, of Jones
ville, now stationed in Norfolk,
Va., made brief talks at the meet
ing. E. F. C. Metz, of Greenville,
N. C., played a series of violin
solos, accompanied by Mrs.
Franklin Folger at the piano. Mrs.
John C. McPhail was also a guest
of the club.
This evening’s meeting (Thurs
day), originally scheduled to have
been held at Neaves’ Park Tues
day, but called off when the ap
pearance here of a military or
chestra for a Fourth of July Bond
Rally was cancelled due to the
outbreak of infantile paralysis in
the section will be held as usual
at the Y. M. C. A. Dr. V. W. Tay
lor, Jr., of the staff of Hugh
Chatham Memorial Hospital, will
talk in which he will discuss in
fantile paralysis. Following his
talk a round table discussion of
the disease will be held.
Lowrance To Go To
Mocksville School
J. F. Lowrance, who recently
resigned as principal of the
Jonesville schools, has accepted a
position as superintendent of the
Mocksville city schools, and will
leave about the first of August to
assume his new duties.
Watt Deal of Boonville, for
several years principal of the Fall
Creek school in Yadkin county,
has been elected to succeed Mr.
Lowrance.
Pvt. R. E. Spainhour
Wounded In Action
Private Richard E. Spainhour
son of Mrs. Lillie M. Spainhour
who lives near Jonesville, has beer
reported wounded in action ir
the Mediterrenean area.
No details of the extent of his
wounds or in what engagement
they were received were available
BONUS IS PAD)
BY CHATHAM TO
ALL EMPLOYEES
Follows Custom Inaugurated
Four Years Ago
AMOUNT NOT STATED
Checks Go To Over 400 For
mer Employees Now In
Armed Forces
LETTER WITH CHECK
The Chatham Manufacturing
Company, following a custom in
augurated four years ago, last
Friday paid an annual mid-year
bonus to all of its employees, and
in addition mailed bonus checks
to the more than 400 former em
ployees who are now members of
the armed forces.
Bonus checks for those in the
armed forces were figured on the
same basis as if they were still
employed at the mill, it is under
stood. Total amount of the bonus
was not announced.
With each check went a letter
from A. L. Butler, vice-president
of the company. The letter fol
lows:
To Our Fellow Workers:
Due to the fine effort of every
employee, the Mill has operated
efficiently during the first half
of this year. The Management of
our Company appreciates your
splendid cooperation and is pleas
ed to present you with another
July Bonus.
We are sure that everyone will
be glad to know that our fellow
workers in the Armed Services
are receiving checks just as if
they were working with us at the
Mill. Letters already received
from some of them express their
thanks to the Mill and its em
ployees for our support in the
persecution of the war.
The Fourth of July should
mean more to us this year than
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65 YADKIfTMEN
ARE JNDUCTED
Leave Yadkinville Last
Thursday To Enter The
Armed Forces •
SOME ARE IN THE NAVY
Yadkin county selective service
clerk, T. W. Martin, said Monday
that 65 Yadkin youths left last
Thursday for induction to the
armed forces at Camp Croft, S.
C. A few of these boys entered
the navy.
The complete list is as follows:
Joseph Albert Draughn, James
Gray Mackie, Ralph Alexander
Poindexter, Leroy Alexander Da
vis, John Henry Haynes, James
Elvert Neal, Joseph Hutchens,
Andrew Clingman Phillips, Har
vey Lee Wooten, James Hobert
Lineberry, Eli Benjamin Mills, Jr.,
Marvin Monroe Vestal, Joe Glenn
Weatherman, Fred Leroy Pinnix,
Francis Henry Martin, Roy Lee
Prevette, Paul Wilmer Pinnix,
Tom Flake Gough, Earl Adams,
Charlie Sizemore, Howard Brown,
Olin Leo Groce, Roy Junior Crews,
Paul Anderson Blakeley, Vertle
Jones Vestal, John Wesley Chop
lin, Garvey Lee Swaim, Charles T.
Speer, Raymond Clarence Weath
erman, John Leonard Bray, Jr.,
Charlie Gorrell Poindexter, Ken
neth Marion Martin, Charles Lew
is Fleming, Audry Glenn Mat
thews, William Myers Allen.
William James Shore, Richard
Earl Taylor, William Kermit Van
hoy, Robert Clifton Gaither, C/
Roger Boles, Alvis Turner Wind
sor, John Phillip Haire, Gray
Monroe Hinshaw, Leonard Guy
Barber, Fred Earl Hicks, Richard
Wilborn Wood, Harvey Lee Hem
ric, Arthur Lee Holcomb, Earl'
King, Oscar Edward Holder, Hen
ry Arthur Boose, Jr., Floyd Hamp
ton Pettit, Thomas Howard Dor
sett, Roger Warren Sizemore,
George Wesley Smith, Jr., Gilbert
Scott Doub, Orrin Dale Shaw,
Maxton Ezekial Gamer, 1 Odel
Harding Grose, John Harold
King, Dale Wetzel Thomassen,
John Ralph Spencer, Hubert Mar
tin Shaffrier, James Vanhoy, and
Herbert Clarence Mayberry.
Leroy Alexander Davis was
transferred to Yadkin from Max
don, and John Henry Haynes was
transferred Tfrom Dobson. One
Yadkin county registrant, Fred
Ernest Parker, was transferred to
North Wilkesboro.
KILLED IN ACTION — Corp.
James Russell Hampton, 29,
above, was killed in action in
Italy on January 26, his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Gurney L.
Hampton, of Elk Spur street,
this city, have been notified by
the War Department. Corp.
Hampton had first been listed
as missing in action.
ELKIN MANIS
WAR CASUALTY
Cpl. James Russell Hampton
Killed In Action In
Italy January 26
PARENTS ARE NOTIFIED
Corporal James Russell Hamp
ton, 29, only son of Mr. and Mrs.
Gurney L. Hampton of this city,
was killed in action in Italy on
January 26, according to an offi
cial message received from the
War Department by Mr. and Mrs.
Hampton Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Hampton had pre
viously been notified that their
son was missing in action and had
received letters from his com
manding officer and chaplain to
that effect.
He reported for active duty at
Camp Gordon, Ga., on October 5,
1942, and went overseas in May
1943. He was a veteran of the
North African and Sicilian cam
paigns and participated in the in
vasion at Salenro, Italy. He was
wounded in action in Italy and
received the Purple Heart.
Corp. Hampton was a member
of the First Baptist church in this
city.
Survivors include his parents
and one sister, Mrs. Reginald
Gambill, all of Elkin. ,
BIG MAN-HUNT
COMES TO END
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Two Escaped Convicts Are
Captured In Wilkes Coun
ty After Search
RETURNED T O PRISON
With the capture Saturday of
Talmadge Parsons, 31, one-hand
ed convict who, with Robert Pow
ers, 18, escaped from a Yadkin
county prison- force Monday of
last week while working near
Rockford, one of the biggest and
most extended man-hunts this
section has seen in years came to
an end.
Powers was captured in Wilkes
county last Friday, but the search
went on for Parsons until blood
hounds finally caught up with
him near Clingman Saturday.
Parsons was serving a term of
from 25 to 30 years for armed
robbery, and the prospects of this
long term ahead of him prompt
ed his attempt for liberty, he said.
However, relentless pursuit and
lack of food and sleep soon cooled
his resolve never to be taken alive.
Search for the two men swept
close by Elkin, with both of the
men being seen in North Elkin.
Officers, summoned to the scene,
thought they had them cornered
in some dense woods there, but
they made their getaway.
Both of the men were carrying
gunshot wounds when captured.
Powers, a blonde young man, was
wounded in the scalp, while Par
sons had 15 gunshot wounds in
his body. He and his companion,
prior to Power’s capture, had been
living on blackberries and fruits,
with the exception of an occa
sional meal at a remote farm
house at night, it was said.
The two men are now back in
Yadkin prison camp.
Precautions To Halt
Spread Of Polio Are
Announced By Board
SEVEN HURT IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
Car Leaves Pavement On
Boonville Highway T o
Crash Into Tobacco Field
SPEED BELIEVED CAUSE
Seven young men were injured
Tuesday afternoon on the Boon
ville highway about three miles
from Elkin when the car in which
they were riding left the highway
and landed bottom-side up in a
tobacco field adjoining the road.
Those hurt, all of whom were
brought to the Elkin hospital for
treatment, were Claude Wood, 30,
of Winston - Salem, lacerations
and bruises; Walter Jenkins, 23,
Jonesville, lacerations of the head
and arms; Homer Vestal, 23,
Boonville, injured shoulder and
ribs; William Cooper, 31, Elkin,
head laceration above eye; Claude
Bates, 18, ElKin, head and leg
lacerations; and Guy Bauguess,
16, Elkin, broken left arm.
Jenkins was said to have been
driving the car which was report
ed to have been the property of
his brother, Wavel Jenkins, of
Jonesville. The machine wats
totally wrecked.
Although cause of the accident
was not learned, tire marks on
the highway indicated that it was
traveling at high speed when it
left the highway, and that it
turned over several times before
coming to a stop in the nearby
field. Tracks on the pavement
showed that it had been zigzaging
prior to turning over.
yadkIboard
CLASSIFIES 29
Seventeen of Men Whose
Draft Status Is Review
ed Put In Class 1-A
NAMES ARE RELEASED
Twenty-nine men were reclas
sified by the Yadkin county se
lective service board at a recent
meeting. Seventeen of these men
were placed in 1-A. The list fol
lows,
1- A—Crawford Lee Pardue, Rt.
1, Yadkinville; Richard Turner
Osborne, Jonesville; Thurmond
Othel Osborne, Jonesville; Alvis
Odell Swaim, Cycle; Ralph Dob
bins Eaton, Box 206, Yadkinville;
Johnnie Mack Groce, Rt. 1, East
Bend; William Paul Marion, Rt.
1, Yadkinvillp; Sam Edgar Love
lace, Jonesville; James Delmer
Holcomb, Rt. 1, Jonesville; Rob
ert Lee Smith, Rt. 1, Yadkinville;
Harold Cloyce Chappell, Cycle;
Roby Vonzo Parks, Rt. 1, Boon
ville; Eugene Price Howell, Box
134, Yadkinville; Everett Lockett
Howell, Box 134, Yadkinville;
L. C. Jester, Jr., Rt. 1, East Bend;
William Fred Shore, Cycle; Char
lie Ireland Brooks, Boonville.
2- A—Albert Jennings Martin,
Boonville; Richard Allan Jessup,
Box 102, Boonville; Luther Stan
ley Todd, Yadkinville; Watt Asa
Deal, Boonville; Johnson Howell
Steelman, Rt. 2, Yadkinville;
George Frank Moore, Yadkinville;
Grover Franklin Brown, Boon
ville; Vander Foster Pinnix, 325
Franklin street, Richmond, Va.
2-B—Joseph Richard Thomas
son, Hamptonville; Dewey Wil
liam Pinnix, 39 Langley Road,
Baltimore 20, Md.
1—James Robert Snow, Dob
son; George Wesley Cleary, Yad
kinville.
Fred Pinnix Dies
In Action June 16
Fred Pinnix, 25, brother of
Mrs. Archie Shore and Mrs. Bill
Eldridge of Jonesville, and nephew
of Mrs. Jack Ray, was killed in
action in the European theatre on
June 16, according to a message
received from the War Depart
ment.
He was in a paratroop unit.
Mr. Pinnix was a son of Sher
man Pinnix of Winston-Salem.
Elkin Youth Is
Killed In South
Pacific Fighting
PVT. SAMUEL LUFFMAN
Private Samuel Luffman, 19, of
the U. S. Marine Corps, has been
killed in action in the South Pa
cific, according to a message re
ceived by his mother, Mrs. Bracie
Luffman of this city, on Friday.
Details of the death of the young
man were not given, neither was
the date nor location of the ac
tion divulged in which the Elkin
man lost his life.
He entered the service on Sep
tember 30, 1943, and trained at
San Diego, California, and landed
at a South Pacific base on Jan
uary 31 of this year. Prior to go
ing into service he was employed
in a local cafe.
The last letter received by Mrs.
Luffman from her son was dated
June 7.
He is survived by his mother,
three sisters, Mrs. Charlie Day,
Mrs. Lloyd Bottomley and Miss
Beulah Luffman; one brother, B.
J. Luffman and his maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Martha Couch,
all of this city.
CHANGES MADE
IN PRINCIPALS
All Vacancies In Surry High
Schools Filled With But
One Exception
WHITE PLAINS VACANT
A number of changes have been
made in principals of the Surry
county high schools for the com
ing school term of 1944-45, it has
been announced by County Super
intendents of Schools John W.
Comer, of Dobson, who also stat
ed that all principals have been
named with the exception of
White Plains
Among the changes in the
county’s school leadership was
that made when H. C. Gaddy,
principal at Franklin school for
the past two years, resigned to
accept a position at Dunn. He will
be succeeded, by H. S. Broome,
who goes to Franklin after serv
ing as principal at White Plains
for the past seven years. No suc
cessor has as yet been named for
White Plains.
M. C. Minor, who has been
principal of the Westfield high
school for the past six years, has
given up this post to accept the
position as principal of the Low
gap high school. He is to be suc
ceeded at Westfield by B. F. Mc
Cann, who for several years has
been a member of the faculty at
Sparta. ® '
The other Surry principals will
return to their old posts, includ
ing A. P. Phillips, at Flat Rock
Arthur F. Graham, at Copeland;
Glenn Robertson, at Beulah; J.
Mark McAdams, at Elkin; George
Fulk, at Shoals; J. Sam Gentry,
at Mountain Park; L. H. Koon, at
Dobson; and G. R. Motsinger, at
Pilot Mountain.
CHILDREN ARE
BANNED FROM
PUBLIC PLACES
Three Cases Reported In
Surry As of Wednesday
CHILD DIES IN WILKES
Total of 179 Cases Now On
Record In Entire State,
' Report Shows
14 CASES IN WILKES
Due to the increase in the num
ber of infantile paralysis cases
which have occurred in this sec
tion during the past several
weeks, the Surry county board of
health, in a meeting held Mon
day, ordered the following pre
ventative measures, effective im
mediately, for all areas of Surry
county:
“All children of 15 years of age
and under are hereby prohibited
from attending the following pub
lic places theatres and amuse
ment centers, swimming pools,
business houses, churches and
other religious gatherings or any
other public gathering, buses and
all public conveyances.
“It is also recommended that
children of such ages should con
fine their activities to their own
k mediate neighborhoods. It is
urgently recommended that all
children showing signs of illness
be confined to their sick rooms
and should not have contact with
other children until a physician
has been consulted. It is also ad
vised that all adults refrain from
bus travel unless absolutely neces
sary.
“These recommendations shall
remain in effect until the Surry
County Board of Health consid
ers it adviseable to suspend
them.”
A check with the health de
partment Wednesday morning
disclosed that to that date only
three cases of the disease have
been reported in this county, two
being in the vicinity of Mount
Airy, and the third at Pilot
Mountain. It was stated, how
ever, that there are several sus
pected cases both in Elkin and
Mount Airy, and rigid observance
of the health department rules is
urged.
Local physicians have met with
the Elkin board of commissioners
concerning the disease, and all
are in fulltaccord with the regula
tions made by the county board,
it was said. Dr. J. W. Jolley, of
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OPPOSITION IS
SHOWN TO DAM
Farmers of Upper Yadkin
Claim Project Would In
undate Rich Farmland
MEETINGS. ARE HELD
Farmers and other residents of
Wilkes county wnose homes and
property would be inundated in
event a flood control dam was
constructed on the Yadkin river
three miles west of Wilkesboro,
are holding meetings to protest
such projects, it has been learned.
The first meeting was sponsor
ed by the Happy Valley and Fer
guson granges on July 4, while a
second meeting was scheduled at
Lenoir Wednesday when Colonel
Patton of the War Department
was to be present to meet the res
idents of the Yadkin valley and
discuss the project.
' A measure is now before Con
gress to appropriate funds for the
project on the Yadkin.
Arrangements for the meeting
at Lenoir was requested in a tele
phone call to V. D. Guire, high
way commissioner, from Col. Pat
terson, an official of the War De
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