ELKIN
Gateway To Roaring Gap
and the Bine Ridge
ELKIN
The Best Little Town
In North Carolina
VOL. NO. XX^III No. 6
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1945
$2.00 PER YEAR
12 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
P. O. Receipts
Set All-Time
* Record In ’'44
A
f ELKIN OFFICE
SHOULD REACH
< FIRST CLASS
End of Current Year Should
See Advancement
TOTAL RECEIPTS $41,377
Largest Increase During Past
Year Was In Months of
April, May, June
EACH QUARTER GAINS
Postal receipts here for 1944
set an all-time record with an
annual increase of 21.5 per cent
over the year 1943, P. W. Graham,
postmaster, said Wednesday.
The largest increase during the
past year was during the months
of April, May and June, which
showed a 33 per cent gain over the
corresponding period in 1943, Mr.
Graham said.
The maintenance of the nor
mal percentage of increase in
postal receipts, which the local
office has consistently shown each
year for the past 10 years will re
sult in the advancement to first
class at the end of the current
year, he pointed out.
Total postal receipts for 1944
amounted to $41,377.77, as com
pared with $34,051.48 in 1943, an
increase of $7,326.29.
Each quarter of 1944 showed a
gain over the corresponding quota
of 1943.
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¥n JANUARY 16
Lions Complete Plans For
Meet ; Judge H. G. Hast
ings To Be Speaker
TO BE LADIES’ NIGHT
Completion of plans for the
Elkin Lions Club Charter night,
which will be held next Tuesday
evening, January 16, was made at
the regular meeting held Tuesday
evening, according to an an
nouncement made by T. L. Par
nell, club secretary.
The highlight of the program
will be an address by Judge H. G.
Hastings of Winston-Salem, who
is active in the state-wide Lions
organization and well known
throughout this section.
Invitations have been issued to
clubs in nearby cities to join the
Elkin Lions and their ladies for
the Tuesday program. Delegations
are expected from Mt. Airy, Spar
ta, Boone, North Wilkesboro,
Statesville, Winston-Salem, High
Point, and Lenoir.
W. Ji Graham is president of
the newly organized club.
BANQUET DATE
IS ANNOUNCED
Annual Employer - Employee
Meeting: To Be Held At
YMCA February 13
SPEAKER IS SECURED
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Plans for the annual Employer
Employee Banquet here at which
Elkin merchants and other em
ployers are hosts to their em
ployees, were announced by G. L.
lill Tuesday, following a meeting
of the board of directors of the
Elkin Merchants Association.
Mr. Hill, who is president of the
association, stated that the ban
quet will be held at the Gilvin
Both -YMCA Tuesday night, Feb
ruary 13, at 7:00 o’clock, and that
a speaker had already been se
cured, for the occasion. Hq did
not announce the name of the
speaker.
A new feature of t$e . banquet
this year, provided it proves pos
sible, will be the marriage at the
banquet of any chuple of this
community who wishes to get
married. In event some couple
should wish to marry during the
banquet, the Merchants Associa
tion will provide both the license
and the preacher, Mr Hill said. ’
TOUR COUNTRY IS STILL AT
WA&--AS2 YOU?
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Jar. 9.—
Thunderous new B-29 smashes
at Tokyo itself and the great
Japanese base on the island of
Formosa were announced to
day. The aim apparently was
to keep Nippon busy elsewhere
while the American forces
made their historic return to
Luzon in the Philippines. The
big bombers thus lent their
support to Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur’s amphibious operations,
timing their assaults in whip
lash fashion from bases in the
Marianas islands and the main
land of China.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. —
President Roosevelt today sent
Congress a “play-safe” budget
of $83,760,000,000 for fiscal
1946 — a $17,802,000,000 drop
from current estimated ex
penditures—but he made it
sufficiently flexible so it can be
reduced or expanded by $10,
OOO.OOf "00, depending upon
battlefrdht developments which
he refused to predict. He esti
mated that the total war pro
gram for the fiscal years 1941
through 1946 would amount to
$450,000,000,000 in cumulative
authorizations. Unlike last
year, he did ijot propose new
taxes. But he served blunt
■ i that neither te there
hope for relief from taxes, ra
tioning or price and material
controls so long as there is a
war to be fought.
INTERNATIONAL
PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 9.—
United States naval fliers,
slashed at Japan’s sea - air
strength within the Luzon de
fense orbit, sank or damaged 73
ships and destroyed or damaged
262 planes in a three day sweep
over the Luzon-Formosa-Okin
awa area. A navy communique
today listed additional damage
to the enemy on Luzon in the
carrier based strikes of January
5 and 6 and ship-plane casual
ties in the far ranging raids
January 8 on Formosa, Owin
awa and other islands in the
Formosa area. Hellcat fighters
shot down a total of 18 Nippo
nese planes and joined dive
bombers and torpedo planes in
destroying 74 more aircraft
and damaging 103 on the
ground at Luzon in heavy pre
invasion attacks by the Third
fleet’s carrier forces.
PEARL HABBOR, Jan. 9.—
Japan may risk her remaining
first line warships in another
sea action with the Pacific fleet,
now that General Mac Arthur's
invasion of Luzon has opened
the Pacific war’s most critical
campaign. Luzon is more vital
to Japan’s defense of her em
pire than was Guadalcanal,
Saipan, or Leyte. Every time
American amphibious forces
have assaulted objectives of key
importance to Japan her fleet
has joined in major seta action
—the second battle of the Phil
ippines after the Leyte landing;
first battle of the Philippine
seas after Saipan landing in
the Marianas; the Solomons
surface battles after the Guad
alcanal landing. It is not log
ical to expect that Japanese
navy commanders will lie
around in empire ports while
MacArthur’s troops are taking
Luzon from Japan’s grasp, cut
ting in two her % greater co
prosperity sphere.
WITH THE 12TH ARMY
GROUP, Jan. 9. — Lfc. Gen.
Omah N. Bradley, breaking his
silence regarding the German
counteroffensive which was
aimed at splitting the allied
. line in, his 12th Army group see*
tor, said today that the now
thwarted enemy move "may
materially affect the Germans’
ability to resist.” General Brad
ley, who was awarded the
Bronze Star ay General Eisen
hower today lor his part in
halting the Germans, stated at
».press conference that Ger
many’s ability to prolong the
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PASSES — Arthur B. Scroggs,
above, well-known Jonesville ed
ucator and church leader, pass
ed away Thursday of last week
at the Elkin hospital following
several years’ period of declin
ing health. Funeral rites were
held Saturday afternoon.
DEATH TAKES
A. B. SCROGGS
Well - Known Educator and
Church Leader Dies On
Thursday Afternoon
RITES HELD SATURDAY
Arthur B. Scroggs, of Jonesville,
well known educator and church
leader, passed away last Thursday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospi
tal here. Mr. Scroggs had been
in declining health for several
years and had been seriously ill
for sometime.
Born on March 26, 1901, he was
the son of Mrs. Margaret Lance
Scroggs and the late Oscar L.
Scroggs, of Hayesville. Mr.
Scroggs was a graduate of the
University of North Carolina and
had taught in various schools for
the past 21 years. He had been
a science teacher in the Jonesville
High School for the past six years.
The deceased was a member of
the Methodist church, the Mason
ic Order and the Elkin Kiwanis
Club.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mamie Yarbrough Scroggs, who is.
also a teacher in the Jonesville
schools; one son, B. Pratt Scroggs;
his mother; four sisters, Mrs.
Alma Moore, Mrs. Henry Martin,
and Mrs. Robert Penland of Hay
esville; and Mrs. Ernest Boyles of
Canton.
Funeral rites were conducted
from the Mount Tabor Methodist
church, near Winston-Salem, at
2 o’clock Saturday afternoon, in
charge of* Rev. A. J. Cox, Rev. G.
C. Graham and Dr. C. C. Weaver,
Sr.
Pallbearers weffe O. E. Boles,
R. W. Boles, E. J. Reece, Watt
Deal, Fletcher McBride, and Fred
C. Hobson. The beautiful floral
tribute was in charge of Jones
ville students and teachers.
Interment was in the Mount
Tabor cemetery.
CHURCH IS HOST
TO PRESBYTERY
Ministers and Ruling Elders
Representing 43 Churches
Attend Session
CAUDILL ON COMMITTEE
The Elkin Presbyterian church
was host to the Presbytery of
Winston-Salem at a meeting held
Tuesday. Nineteen minsters and
12 ruling elders were present,, rep
resenting the 43 churches of the
Presbytery. Rev. Sidney D. Crane,
moderator, of North Wilkesboro
presided over the meeting.
Rev. O. V. Caudill of the local
church was appointed to the com
mittee of nominations. Included
in the many business matters dis
cussed was the appointment of
Mrs. W. C. Grier of North Wilkes
boro as a trustee of Glade Valley
high school in place of E. G. Fin
ley.
Several stewardship rallies were
planned for the New Tear, the
first of which will he held in Elk
in on February 12.
The Elkin Church entertained
those attending the conference
with a luncheon at the noon houf
at tlie Gilvin Roth V. M. c. A.
Christmas Seal
Sale /Nets $274
Mrs. E. F. McNeer, chairman ol
the Elkin Tuberculous Seal Sale,
has announced that the 1944 sale
netted $274.17. A fourth of the
proceeds was salt into headquar
ters and a portion .of the amount
was kept lor use . in Elkin and its
surrounding area..
Mrs. MpNeer wishes to express
sincere appreciation to all persons
assisting or contributing in am
way to the sale.
POLIO APPEAL
TO GET UNDER
WAY JAN. 14TH
County Chairman Simmons
Stresses Vital Needs
NEAVES IS CHAIRMAN u
1944 Epidemic of Disease -
Was Second Worst In His
tory of United States
DRIVE TO END JAN. 31ST
R. P. Simmons, Dobson attorn
ey, -who has been named county
chairman of the annual fund ap
peal and March of Dimes to be
conducted January 14-31 in cele
bration of the President’s Birth
day by the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, has stress
ed the need to reinforce lines of
defense against this insidious en
emy of childhood.
In discussing the drive, which
will begin Sunday, Mr. Simmons
said:
“The 1944 epidemic of infantile
paralysis was uhe second worst
outbreak of the disease in its his
tory in the United States. Fortun
ately, we were on the alert and
well prepared to meet that attack
in all parts of the nation. More
than a million dollars — or ten
million dimes — contributed by
the American people were spent
by your National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis to provide the
best of modem care and treat
ment for all victims of the epi
demic. Since no one knows where,
or how hard, polio may strike in |
1945, we must again be ready to .
meet the attack wherever it may
come. Participation in the annual •
March of Dimes appeal is our as
surance that no victim of infantile -
paralysis will go uncared for, re
gardless of age, race, creed or col
or.”
Sam Neaves, of El; in, has been
named local chairman in the drive
here.
ai)B OFFICERS ;
ARE INDUCTED,;
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T. C. McKnight Succeeds GarT
land Johnson As Presi- i
dent of Kiwanis 1
BUNDY CHIEF SPEAKER
In a ladies’ night program >eldll
at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C>A.|!J
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last Thursday evening, T.v
Knight was installed as
of the Elkin Kiwanis dub for
1945, succeeding Garland John
son, the retiring president.
Other Kiwanis officials were al
so installed, with Sam D. Bundy,
of Tarboro, governor of the Caro
linas District, officiating. New of
ficials are: Hoke Henderson, vice
president; J. L. Hall, treasurer for
his eighth consecutive year, and
the following directors: C. C.
Poindexter, R. W. Harris, W. M.
Allen, c. N. Myers, C. H. Leary, D.
G. smith, arid Dr. E. L. Rice.
Governor Bundy was the prinqjt- ,
pal speaker, but brief talks weft,
made by other prominent out-of
town Kiwanians, including Dr,
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E. ELKIN WOMAN
PASSES MONDAY
Mrs. Ada McCoin Burcham,
74, Dies Suddenly . At Her
Home TuesdkY Warning
FUNERAL RITES TODAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Ada
McCoin Burcham* about 74, who
died suddenly at her home in East
Elkin Tuesday morning will be
conducted this afternoon (Thurs
day)•.-*!. two O’clock jkt the Pleas
ant HiB Church, with Rev. J. L.
Powers, Rev. B. F. Rollins, and
Rev. L. J. Pardue in charge of the
rites, interment will he made in
the family plot. •/
Mrs. Burcham was bom Feb
ruary 2, 1871, She was preceeded
in death hir her husband, the late
8. J. Burchain.
Surviving t we the following
children: Mrs. Glenn Cooke and
Mrs. Philip Mauldin of this city;
and Mack Burcham of Radford,
Virginia; seven sisters and one
brother, Mrs. Vallle Hayes, Mrs.
Celia Adams, Miss MWy McCoin,
Mrs. Esta lewis, and Jessie Mc
Coin, all of State Road; Mrs.
Pearl Simmons of Elkin; Mrs.
Bessie Crlisman <# Vass; and Mrs.
Elizabeth wticojcSon of Mount
Airy. .»v$ step-ehildren survive:
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Huge American Army Pushes On
Toward Manila; Nazis Retreat
At fT^est End Of Ardennes Line
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AJTKjr cwrr J Dr A cn TUC Pictured below are nine swell reasons for the
IVliyju *^rr lLLL iXLu/iuUll U March of Dimes, which will be a part of the
fund-raising appeal January 14-31 of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
These youngsters walking out of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, won their battle
over infantile paralysis last year, thanks to dollars and dimes contributed during: pre
vious appeals. R. F. Simmons, Dobson attorney, is Surry chairman for the drive this
month. Sam Neaves, of Elkin, is local chairman.
Sixteen Graduate Here
[n Nurses’ Aide Class
Dinner And Graduating Exercises
Held At Y.M.GA. Friday Evening
The second class of Red Cross
furses’ Aides to be graduated fol
ding training at Hugh Chatham
Memorial Hospital here, received
heir caps at impressive gradua
wr exercises held at the Gilvin
loth YMCA Friday evening.
The class, which contained 16
lembers, was instructed by Mrs.
l. R. Plaster, who also was in
trttctor for the first class of 16
lembers which graduated in Sep -
ember, 1943.
er f in honor of both
as given by Hugh Chat
ital the evening of the
Taduatifin exercises, with Dr. and
rffs. C. C. Weaver, the former
uperintendent of the hospital, as
Losts, and was attended by a
lumber of invited guests in addi
ion to the graduates.
The graduation address was by
)r. Weaver, with the presentation
f caps by Mrs. Plaster. Presenta
ion of certificates was by Miss
toxie Bowen, chairman of the
ted Cross Nurses’ Aid committee.
Mrs. Joe Bivins presented the
lass to Hugh Chatham Hospital,
idth acceptance by Dr. E. L. Rice,
irho expressed his appreciation for
he very fine service all of the
^MftfPross Nurds’ Aides have giv
ato the hospital. ‘‘At times it
vould have been impossible to
tay open without their help,” Dr.
lice stated. He also thanked Mrs.
faster for giving so generously of
ter time and energy to instruct
he classes, and thanked the Red
Tross for the assistance given the
lospital.
Dr. Weaver spoke to the class
»n the opportunity for service,
itating that the training they
JAYCEES PLAN
FOR JOURNEY
3roup Volunteers To Assist
At Local Hospital Begin
ning Monday
CONTEST IS PLANNED
The Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce met Monday evening
it the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A.,
vitlh President Hubert Parker pre
iiding.
Plans were discussed in regard
o the basketball tourament which
he Jayeees plan to sponsor here
n cooperation with the Yadkin
/alley High School conference,
fhe tournament is scheduled to
>egin on February 26. Tentative
dans tor the games axe printed
ilserwhere in The Tribune.
Due to the shortage of help, the
troup volunteered to assist at
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospi
«!, beginning next Monday, in
my way possible. Four men will
erve at the hospital daily, two
luring the day and two at night.
The Jayeees plan to hold an
attendance contest within the
learfutux*.
have received is something to be
proud of.
Members of the graduating
class are: Miss Viola Pinnix, Mrs.
Fred Colhard, Mrs. Carlyle Sum
mey, Mrs. Bessie Blackburn, Mrs.
Ralph Cockerham, Mrs. Marcus
Myers, Miss Virginia Walker, Mrs.
Clyde Transou, Miss Mary Jumey,
Miss Agnes Gray, Miss Mary Hol
land, Mrs. Fred Harris, Miss Em
ma Cook, Mrs. Margie Meisler,
Mrs. Opal Osborne, Mrs. Bernice
Ingram.
SURRY WOMAN
PASSES AWAY
Mrs, Patty McCann Shore, of
Mountain Park Section,
Dies Wednesday
RITES THIS AFTERNOON
Mrs. Patty McCann Shore, of
the Mountain Park section of Sur
ry county, died Wednesday morn
ing. Mrs. Shore was bom in Wilk
es county on August 22, 1868. She
was the widow of the late John
Shore.
Funeral services will be held at
the Union Grove Baptist church
this afternoon (Thursday) at 4
o’clock. Rev. Joe Wright and Rev.
Grady Norman will conduct the
services.
Survivors include two sons and
two daughters: Mrs. Dollie Cock
erham, Mountain Park; Mrs. Ina
Martin, Greensboro; Walter
Shore, Thurmond, and Bonner
Shore of Aiken, South Carolina.
jTwo brothers and one sister:
Charles McCann, Thurmond; N.
P. McCann, Bondy, Virginia; and
Mrs. Jake Easter of Mount Airy.
In addition several grandchildren
and great-grandchildren survive.
Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
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Masonic Officials
Here Announced
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Newly elected officers of the
Elkin Masonic Lodge No. 454, A.
F. «Si A. M. were installed at the
regular meeting held Tuesday
evening.
Officers for the coming term
are as follows: C. O. Garland,
Worshipful Master; O. E. Boles,
Senior Warden; E. R. Carter,
Junior Warden. M. C. Whitener,
Treasurer, and J. F. Amburn, Sec
retary.
R. L. "Reinhardt is the retiring
Worshipful Master of the local
Lodge.
Of the 116 men who have serv
ed as goyemor of Virginia, 59 were
bom within the State, 46 were
bom in England, one was bom
at sea, one in Africa, four In
Scotland, three in New York
State, three in West Virginia, and
one each in Kansas and Pena.
LIONS COLLECT
300 POUNDS FAT
Amount Collected On Sunday,
However, Failed To Colne
Up To Expectation
NEXT DRIVE FEBRUARY 4
The Lions Club sponsored the
first of a series of drives for the
collection of salvage fats liere last
Sunday afternoon.
It has been announced that be
tween 300 and 400 pounds of fat
was collected during the past
week’s drive, but that the response
by the citizens of Elkin was not
as wholehearted as anticipated.
The need for the waste fat is urg
ent in the war effort, but despite
this fact, only about 50 per cent
of the Elkin homes responded to
the request to place the containers
of fat on the front walks for col
lection by the Lions members.
The Club wishes to express its
appreciation to those who did co
operate and to remind the public
that the next drive is scheduled
for Sunday, February 4. Not only
is the salvage fat going for a pa
triotic cause, but the money ob
tained from the sale of it goes in
to the Lions Club Fund for the aid
of blind children.
BUDGET FIGURE
IS $220,081,434
North Carolina Advisory Bud
get Commission Recom
mends Huge Figure
INCREASE FOR HIGHWAY
Raleigh, Jan. 10,—The Advisory
Budget Commission recommended
today that the record sum of
$220,081,434 be appropriated for
the next biennium, and broke tra
dition by directing that teacher
salary schedules be euiovuied in
tlhe general appropriations bill.
The recommened appropriation,
which is exclusive of $51,585,079
to be set aside for retirement of
the State’s general indebtedness,
was greatly in excess of the $178,
505,823 in actual and estimated
expenditures for 1943-45. A large
part of the recommended increase
would go for highways.'
Here, briefly, are the compara
tive figures, with the 1943-45 bi*
ennium first and recommended
appropriations for 1945-47 second:
General fund: $121,02O,16G and
$128,407,908; agriculture fund:
$1,271,593 and $1,462,269; high
way fund; $564iH,070 and $90,
211,257.
Teachers’ and State employees’
bonuses were incoporated into
the salary figures. •
The commission generally fol
lowed Governor Cherry’s teacher
salary recommendations, among
others, but took an unusual step
of placing it in the bill, thus re
moving it from the. hands of the
State Superintendent of Public In
struction and the State Board of
Education. It provided a starting
salary for A-grade certificate
holders of
ers would!
months.
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JAP RESISTANCE
FEEBLE; REPORT
FEW CASUALTIES
Fall Back Under Impact of
Invasion Blows
100,000 MEN IN FORCE
German Panzer Divisions
Break Off Contact With
British and Flee
DEFENSES SHOWr CRACK
With General Mac Arthur on
Luzon, Jan. 10.—An American in
vasion army — 100,000 strong—
today drove down the highway
toward Manila, 100 miles away,
overrunning San Fabian and oth
er Lingayen Gulf towns against
feeble Japanese resistance which
cost our forces virtually no beach
head casualties.
Light Japanese forces fell back
under the impact of the American
blow. So far there,has been little
Japanese air reaction and advanc
ing American vanguards found
the Japanese had only made half
hearted efforts to wreck bridges
as they fell back in confusion.
From an 1,000-ship armada —
800 of them transports — stand
ing along the curving Lingayen
Gulf coast American troops, artil
lery, tanks, transports and mun
itions poured ashore in a continu
ous stream.
By this morning one thing was
apparent — we have come to Lu
zon to stay.
Protected by a screen
naval artillery fire which fingere£P
inland as far as the line of the
Agno River, roughly 19 miles in
land and only 88 miles from Man
ila, American trpops were advanc
ing rapidly.
They (had firm ground to ad
vance across at the northern end
of the curving beachhead which
is already 15 miles long between
San Fabian and Lingayen.
j At the southern end of the
beachhead the initial obstacle was
the sluggish Calmay River, con
necting the Agno and Dagupan
rivers, running parallel to the -
beachhead about two miles inland.
But there were no appreciable
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OKEY HEALTH
SURVEY HERE
Town Commissioners Name
Committee To Arrange
Cheek of Elkin's Needs •
BOTH NOW AND FUTURE
At the meeting of the Elkin
board of commissioners at the
City Hall here Monday evening.
Dr. E. Li. Rice, representing the
Elkin Post-War Planning commit
tee, appeared before the board
and. recommended that a survey
be made to ascertain the sanita
tion and health needs of the com
munity.
The commissioners, in agree
ment with Dr. Rice’s recom
mendation, appointed a commit
tee made up of Dr. Rice, Com
missioner H. P. Graham, and Dr.
H. G. Baity, professor of engineer
ing at Chapel Hill, and authorized
the committee to employ a sani
tation engineer to make such a
survey to ascertain needs of the
town both now and in the future.
Other important business was
taken up by the board, the na
ture of which was not announced.
Routine business was also tran
sacted.
Harold H. Couch Is
In Belgium Hospital