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VOL. NO. XXXIII No. 7
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1945
$2.00 PER YEAR
12 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
ACCEPTED CHARTER — W. J.
Graham, above, president of the
newly organized Lions Club
here, Tuesday night accepted
the Charter on behalf of the club
at a special Charter Night meet
ing at the Gilvin Roth YMCA.
The Charter was presented fcy
Lions District Governor John H.
Kalte, of High Point.
, CHARTER NIGHT
HELD BY LIONS
Approximately 100 Members
And Guests Attend Gala
U Banquet At YMCA
CHARTER IS PRESENTED
An inspiring address by Judge
G. K. Hastings, of Winston-Sa
lem, a past director of Lions In
ternational and one of the oldest
members of the Lions organization
in North Carolina, featured the
Elkin Lions Club Charter Night
meeting at the Gilvin Roth Y. M.
C. A., here Tuesday evening. Ap
proximately 100 persons attended
t, the meeting, including a large
number of guests from Mt. Airy,
Sparta, North Wilkesboro, Boone,
Kemersville, Winston - Salem,
Statesville, Greensboro and High
Point.
Judge Hastings, in reviewing
the history of, the Lions Clubs,
stated that one club fn the United
States has ojver 800 members,
more members than all the clubs
in the country boasted at the time
the organization came into being
with 25 charter clubs.
Presentation of the Charter was
made by District Governor John
H. Kalte, of High Point, and was
accepted by President W. J. Gra
ham of the local club. Mayor J.
R. Poindexter, who was unable to
be present, sent a letter in which
he welcomed the club to the “Best
Little Town in North Carolina.”
Garland Johnson, past-president
of the Kiwanis Club, and Hubert
Parker, president of the Elkin
(Continued on page eight, 1st. sec.)
ROTH NAMED TO
HEAD Y BOARD
Is Named President At Meet
ing of Directors; Johnson
Is Vice-President
OTHER OFFICERS NAMED
Tom Roth was elected president
of the Board of Directors of the
Oilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. for the
1945 term, at a meeting held re
cently, according to a statement
made by T. C. McKnight, general
secretary of the Y. Other officers
elected were: Garland Johnson,
vice-president; Charles P. Dixon,
recording secretary of the board;
and J. O. Bivins, treasurer. C. C.
Poindexter, Howard Hatch, and
Marion Allen were the new board
members elected.
Other members of the board are
R. W. Harris, J. W. L. Benson, R.
‘ G. Boles, W. E. Burcham, C. H.
’ Leary, J. R. Poindexter and
George Royall.
Dr. J. G. Abemethy retired from
the board due to the expiration of
his term.
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' Jaycees Ship Car
of Salvage Paper
I
The Elkin Junior Chember of
Commerce has announced that a
carload of waste paper weighing
approximately 45,000 pounds, has
been shipped from here. The or
ganization wishes to thank those
citizens who helped in this very
important work.
Waste paper is urgently need
ed arid if everyone would put out
their paper every Monday morn
ing, carefully tied, it would not be
long before another car would be
ready to roll.
It is requested that bundles be
tied, as it helps so much in hand
ling. It required the time of 20
men last Sunday about six hours
to tie the loose papers which had
been collected.
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Exceed All Quotas
In Sixth War Loan
Surry County
Sales Nearly
Three Million
Pinal figures on the Sixth War
Loan drive in Surry county, re
leased Wednesday by J. F. Yokley,
of Mount Airy, Surry chairman,
have disclosed that the county ex
ceeded its over-all quota of $1,
293,000 by $1,675,000.25, and that
it topped its E-Bond quota of
$529,000 by $134,411.25.
These impressive figures are of
ficial, having been reported to
Mr. Yokley by the Federal Reserve
Bank at Richmond.
Total E-Bond sales, Mr. Yokley
said, amounted to $663,411.25.
Sales of Bonds of individuals
amounted to $1,117,811.25, and
the total over-all sales were $2,
968,402.25, or just $31,597.75 shy
of three million dollars.
Both Mr. Yokley and Garland
Johnson, chairman of the local
War Loan drive, expressed them
selves as highly pleased with the
result of the drive, and asked that
their thanks be extended to every
one, workers and Bond purchasers
alike, for making this splendid
record.
FLAN FIRST
ANNUAL SALE
Aberdeen-Angus Breeders To
Consign Cattle Here
For Event
BATE SET FOR MARCH 13
The North Carolina Aberdeen
Angus Cattle Breeders’ Associa
tion, organized here last year, will
hold its first annual consignment
sale March 13, T. F. Cooley, sec
retary of the association, has an
nounced.
A meeting of the directors of
the association which was held
January 8, made tentative ar
rangements for the sale. Catalog
information on the sale will be
available about March 1st, Mr.
Cooley said.
Dr. L. I. Case, head of the de
partment of animal husbandry,
State College, is chairman of
the selection committee and has
announced that about 40 head of
cattle have been accepted, includ
ing some of the best Aberdeen
Angus blood in the South.
About 20 to 25 head of the cat
tle have been selected from North
Carolina herds and the rest from
herds in the vicinity of Warren
ton, Va.
W. A. Neaves, of this city, who
has one of the outstanding Aber
deen-Angus herds in this part of
the South, is State president.
TWO ARE HELD
FOR ASSAULT
Gat Pardue and Jesse Adams
In Yadkin Jail Following
Jonesville Fight
VICTIM IN HOSPITAL
Two Jonesville men, Gat Pardue
and Jessie Adams, are in Yadkin
ville jail and are being held with
out bond on a charge of assault
on one Dock Colbert at the filling
station-store of Mrs. Lila Wood
ruff in Jonesville Saturday night.
Colbert is in the Elkin hispital
where he is suffering from
a blow on the head, said to have
been inflicted by Pardue. Pardue
claims he hit him with his fist and
he is said to have fallen against
a gas pump, striking his head. It
was not learned what the trouble
arose over.
Deputy Sheriff Fred Vestal
brought the two men to jail Sat
urday night. Adams was said to
have been drunk when placed in
jail. One report is that Adams
lives across the river in the edge
of Wilkes.
Hospital attaches said Wednes
day that Pardue’s condition- has
improved.
Sweet potatoes need about 600
to 800 pounds of 3-9-9 fertilizer
per acre, with such spacing in the
row that gives the greatest num
ber of No. 1' potatoes. Small
amounts of boriax will help pre
vent cracking. \
Pvt. Johnson Is
Reported Missing
Since Dec. 21 st
PVT. WORTH M. JOHNSON
Pvt. Worth M. Johnson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Johnson of this
city, and husband of the former
Miss ReElla Bodenheimer of Win
ston-Salem, has been missing in
action in Germany since Decem
be 21, according to an official an
nouncement made by the War De
partment Saturday.
Pvt. Johnson has been in the
service since May 1941, and went
overseas in October 1944. He is a
member of an Infantry Division.
He has two brothers who are
also in the armed service: S7Sgt.'
Roy H. Johnson, who is now in
England: and Pvt. Charles E.
Johnson, who is enroute overseas.
Three of his sisters reside in El
kin: Misses Lula and Eva John
son, and Mrs. Lester Cass.
Mrs. Johnson and their small
son, Anthony Leonard, reside in
Winston-Salem.
MRS. BRYAN TO
HEAD WAR FUND
Will Again Take Charge of
Annual Red Cross Drive
Here In March
ELKIN QUOTA IS $10,000
Mrs. A. O. Bryan, of West Main
street, will again serve as chair
man of the Red Cross War Fund
drive for the Elkin district, when
it is held sometime in March, it
was learned Tuesday from Mrs.
Joe O. Bivins, chairman of the
Elkin Branch.
Mrs. Bivins said that the exact
date for the local drive has not
been decided upon, but that it
will be conducted near the first
of March.
Mrs. Bryan was chairman of
last year’s successful drive and
the acceptance of this year’s
chairmanship should do much to
ward making the drive a success.
The Elkin district includes Devo
tion, Zephyr, State Road, Burch
and Crutchfield.
The Elkin Branch quota for this
year is $10,000, Mrs. Bivins said,
and the Surry County Chapter
quota is $25,000, the same as last
year. The national quota has been
set at $14,000,000.
Selection of workers who will
be needed to aid in the local cam
paign will be announced at an
early date.
In view of the increasing de
mands upon the American Red
Cross for service to the nation’s
fighting men; to the prisoners of
war, and to families of service
men, the Red Cross will need a
generous response in the March
drive. Officials of the Surry coun
ty Chapter are confident that the
people of the county will respond
generously to the drive and will
put it over the top as in all for
mer campaigns conducted by the
Chapter.
Absher Infant
Dies Tuesday
Larry Absher, seventeen months
i old baby, died Tuesday night at
the Hugh Chatham Memorial
[ Hospital Mowing a few hours ill
ness. He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Zeno Absher of Benham.
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BOY PROPERTY
HERE FOR NEW,
LARGER CHURCH
Baptists Hope To Erect New
Structure In Post-War Era
BUY FROM CHATHAMS
Lot Is Located At Corner of
Gwyn Avenue and East
Market Street
EXTENDS TO E. MAIN ST.
The Elkin First Baptist church,
with a view toward erecting a new
church building in the post-war
era, recently purchased the prop
erty of Mrs. Mary Armfield Chat
ham and heirs. The lot is located
at the comer of Gwyn Avenue
and East Market street and ex
tends eastward to East Main
street. It is the site of the home
of the late Hugh Chatham and
was more recently occupied by
Mrs. Mary Armfield Chatham,
widow of the late R. M. Chatham,
and family. The transaction also
included a small adjoining lot
which was the property of Hugh
Chatham, soA of R. M. Chatham,
of Stanleytown, Virginia.
The entire purchase was made
for $26,750, of which $1,750 was
paid Hugh Chatham for his prop
erty. The Chatham Foundation
contributed $10,000 to the church
to aid in the purchase of the lots.
At a meeting of the congrega
tion of the First Baptist church
on Sunday morning, January 7,
it was unamiously voted that the
purchase be made. Serving on
the church committee for the pur
chase of the new property were:
Garland Johnson, chairman; E. C.
James, L. F. Walker, and I. C.
Yates. Rev. Stephen Morrisett is
pastor of the local church.
WOUNDED—Private First Class
M. D. t Dwight) Bailey, son of
M. R. Bailey, of this city, and
husband of the former Miss
Ida Amerson, of St. Charles, S.
C., has been slightly wounded
and awarded the Purple Heart.
Pfo. Bailey has been in the ser
vice for the past two years, and
overseas for the last three
months. He is now somewhere
in France. He is a Ranger with
the Combat Engineers.
ELKIN SQUAD
CLUB GUESTS
Kiwanians Entertain High
School Football Team At
Meeting Last Thursday
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
The Elkin high school football
squad was the guest of the Elkin
Kiwanis club at its meeting at
Gllvin Roth YMCA last Thursday
evening.
A very interesting talk was
made by Dr. V. W. Taylor, a mem
ber of the club and a former col
lege football player.
Committee chairmen for the
year were announced by president
T. C. McKnight, who presided ov
er the meeting. Glenn Peele, man
ager of the Blue Ridge Furniture
Company here, and Dr. C. C.
Weaver, superintendent of Hugh
Chatham Memorial Hospital, were
welcomed as new members by
Membership Chairman C. N.
Myerc.
C. C. Poindexter was program
chairman for the evening, substi
tuting for Kiwanian C. H. Leary,
who was absent due to the illness
and death of his mother.
THEY STILL DIE—WILL YOU
BUY?
MISSING — The former Miss
Helen Hayes of this city has
been notified by the War De
partment that her husband, Pfc.
Clero C. Swaim, has been miss
ing: in action in Germany since
December 16. Pfc. Swaim is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Swaim of Cycle, and entered the
service in 1942. He has been ov
erseas for the past three
months. Mrs. Swaim and their
two children, Claudia and Ron
ald, reside here with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hayes,
968 North Bridge street.
SCOUT OFFICERS
NAMED AT MEET
Tom Roth, J. Mark McAdams
Are Named To Offices In
Elkin*Yadkin District
AWARDS PRESENTED
With but few changes, 1945 of
ficers of the Old Hickory Council,
Boy Scouts of America, were
elected at the annual meeting
held in Winston-Salem at the
Home Moravian Church Educa
tion Building, Monday night, Jan
uary 15. John M. Brown was re
elected president.
Other officers .chosen were R.
E. Lasater, honorary president;
R. W. Harris, J. B. Carter, Levem
Johnson and J. Raymond Smith,
vice-presidents; John M. Brown
and H. Banks Newman, National
Council Represenatives; H. Banks
Newman, Council Commissioner;
and E. C. Goodman, Treasurer.
District chairmen named were
W. N. Vogler, Forsyth; T. M.
Roth, Elkin-Yadkin; R. M. Green,
Stokes; J. F. Yokley, Surry; Clyde
R. Greene, Watauga; Levem
Johnson, Ashe, and J. B. Carter.
Wilkes.
District commissioners are J.
Mark McAdams, Elkin-Yadkin; R.
C. Whitaker, Stokes; W. S. Por
ter, Surry; Dr. R. C. Busteed, Wa
tauga; Gordon Finley, Wilkes,
and Roy Hinshaw, Forsyth. A
commissioner for Ashe will be
named later.
Executive board members elect
ed were Parks D.. Hunter, W. F.
Carter, J. Harry White, A. O.
Bryan, E. T. Mickey, Sr., Dr. S. H.
Temrloman, J. T. Reece, Gordon
Finley and Dr. Robert Busteed.
The Silver Beaver award was
presented to Gordon Finley of
Wilkes, and posthumously to E.
M. “Tom” Holder. H. Banks
Newman, Council Commissioner,
made the presentations of the
highest award a local council may
bestow for "distinguished service
bo boyhood.”
Certificates for bravery were
presented for Mr. Holder, who lost
his life last summer while aiding
in the rescue of a Scout in distress
in the lake at camp, and to Scout
(Continued on page 8. 1st sec.)
Corp. Thos. B. Cooper
Missing In Action
Mr. and Mrs. d. A. Cooper, for
merly of this city, and now of
Burlington, have received notice
from the War Department that
their son, Cpl. Thomas B. Cooper,
has been missing in Belgium since
December 22. He has been in the
service for the past three years,
and overseas for the last six
months. Cpl. Cooper has one
brother, Stone Cooper, who resides
here.
Ration Board’Sets.
New Office Hours
Mrs. Roy H. Kane, clerk of the
local OPA and Rationing board,
has announced new office hours,
which will be as follows:
10 a. m. to 12 p. m. and 1 p. m.
to 4:30 p. m. Monday through
Saturday. The office will be closed
all day the first working day of
each month
ORGANIZATION
FOR PARALYSIS
DRIVE FORMED
Workers Are Announced Who
Will Take Part In Canvas
SEEK CO - OPERATION
Need For Funds With Which
To Combat Dread Disease
Described As Great
SPENT $500,000 IN 1944
Sam A. Neaves, chairman ol
the local drive for funds of th<
National Foundation for Infantil*
Paralysis, which is now under waj
throughout the nation and whicl
will end January 31, Tuesday am
nounced the organizational setuj
for canvassing the various section;
in this district, as follows:
Business district, Junor Cham
ber of Commerce: residential sec
tion, school girl volunteers; Elkir
schools, J. Mark McAdams; Chat
ham Manufacturing Company, T
C. U. Club; Elkin Furniture Com
pany, Glenn Bailey and Ale:
Biggs; East Elkin, Boy Sccu
troop No. 96; North Elkin school
Paul Lewis; Mountain Pari
school, Sam Gentry, Devotion
Mrs. Paul Brown; colored schools
Mrs. Osborne; colored residentia
section, Mrs. Lucy Ford; theatres
Dr. W. B. Reeves.
Garland Johnson, vice-presi
dent of The Bank of Elkin, ha;
been named treasurer.
Mr. Neaves pointed out tha
last year the National Foundatior
and local chapters spent ovei
$500,000 in North Carolina ir
treating over 825 cases of infan
tile paralysis. The death rate o:
3.4 per cent was the lowest on rec
ord, and the rate of complete re
(Continued on page four, 1st sec.:
MISSING—Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Ashley, of Cycle, were notified
by the War Department Thurs
day, January 11th, that their
son, James . Edwin Asfiley,
above, has been missing in
Germany since December 16,
1944. He was a member of an
Infantry unit.
SEVERE BURNS
PROVE FATAL
Mrs. Estelle Sale Pardue
Passes Saturday After De
veloping Pneumonia
RITES HELD TUESDAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Es
telle Sale Pardue, 49, who died
Saturday, were held Tuesday
morning at the Maple Springs
Methodist church, with Rev. I. J.
Terrell, pastor, and Rev. Wood
row Wishon, conducting the servi
ces.
Mrs. Pardue suffered severe
bums five weeks ago when she
fainted and fell in front of an
open fire, igniting her clothing.
She developed pneumonia Satur
day and was taken to a Winston
Salem hospital, where she passed
away.
She was the wife of Everette
Pardue and a daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Sale. She
was,a member of Maple .Springs
church.
Survivors are her husband;
three children, Pvt. Lestser Par
due, stationed at Camp Gordon
Johnson, Florida; Mrs, Fred Har
ris and Mrs. Eugene Triplette of
Ronda, Route 2; two grandsons;
three sisters, Mrs. Cicero Crouch
of Newton; Mrs. Bessie Pardue of
Ronda, and Mrs. Clara Sparks of
Elkin.
Was First National
Capital Engulfed By
Germans In The War
awarded purple heart—
Private Harvey Eugene Hemric,
, (above), whose wife and moth
er, Mrs. H. E. Hemric, Sr., re
, side at State Road, has been
awarded the Purple Heart for
1 wounds received in action in
France. Pvt. Hemric was able
to rejoin the Infantry Division
with which he was stationed.
. He entered the service in 1943,
and went overseas in 1944. Be
fore going to France he served
in Italy.
STATE
RALEIGH, Jan. 16.—Efforts
to amend the state’s tax struc
ture crystallised In the legisla
ture today when Rep. Legrand,
of New Hanover, introduced a
measure to allow credit for
federal income tax payments in
. state income tax returns. (Gov
ernor Cherry said later at his
press conference that the
measure was in opposition to
recommendations which he
made to the legislature in his
inaugural address, in that the
proposal, if adopted, would be
a major change in the state’s
tax structure. He said that it
would mean a great loss in rev
enue to the state.)
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Tan. 16. —
President Roosevelt declined to
be drawn into a foreign affairs
discussion at his news confer
ence today, beyond stating that
he would col suit with Prime
Minister Churchill and Marshal
Stalin. When asked for com
ment on the suggestion of Sen
* ator Connally, Democrat, Tex
as, for an interim council of
i the United Nations, Mr. Roose
velt said there was not any
thing more on that than the
reporters knew already — that
he was going to see anon the
Prime Minister of Britain and
the Marshal of Russia, He said
his recent conference with an
' eight - member senate foreign
relations subcommittee was a
pleasant one, that they were in
agreement and that they also
agreed to say nothing more
about it.
PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 16.—
Adm. William F. Halsey’s free
roving Third fleet wound up a
i week of the most audacious na
val operations of the war by
sending carrier planes Satur
day, Sunday and Monday up
[ and down more than '350 miles
of the China coast, destroying
or damaging more than 100,
000 tons of Japanese shipping
and heavily smashing such
| choice targets as Canton and
Hong Kong. The dektruction
included at least nine ships
sunk or 21 damaged and at
| least 87 enemy planes destroy
ed or riddled. Against amazing
ly puny enemy air opposition—
suggesting Japan’s air force
k has its hands full over the
homeland and the Philippines
(Continued oh page fight, 1st. sec.)
FORMATIONS OF
RED AND POLISH
ARMIESOCCUPY
Two U. S. Columns Join In
Race Toward Manila
ARE 36 MILES INLAND
Believe Japs Might Not Even
Attempt Strong Defense
Of The Capital
NOTE LACK OF BRIDGES
London, Jan. 17.— The Polish
Provisional Government at Lublin
triumphantly announced today the
liberation of Warsaw, the bloody
and ruined city which was the
first national capital engulfed by
the Germans in this war.
The announcement, broadcast
by the Polish regime established
last Dec. 31 at Lublin an imme
diately recognized by Moscow, de
clared :
‘‘Warsaw has been captured.
Formations of the Red Army and
Polish Army have occupied War
saw, the captial of the Polish Re
public.”
The last word from Moscow was
that Warsaw had been out-flank
ed on the southwest by Soviet
Winter offensives. But Moscow
may have designated the Lublin
■ Government to announce libera
tion of Warsaw, scene of an epic'v
bat fruitless uprising by the Polish
underground last Fall.
The broadcast, repeated three
times, was heard by the BBC at
12:30 p.m. (7:30 a.m., e.w.t.) (OWI
also recorded the transmissions.)
The Lublin announcement came
as two mammoth Soviet offensives
below the capital were advancing
through Poland on a virtually un
broken front >f 200 miles, striking
to within 27 miles of the German
Jilesian frontier, and into the de
fense perimeter of Krakow, an
cient capital in southwestern Po
land.
Berlin declared the Soviet blows
in southern and central Poland
had not yet reached a peak.
Warsaw fell to the Germans
Sept. 27, 1939, after a 20-day siege
which left that city of checkered
history in ruins. But despite
crushing Gestapo methods and a
huge ghetto dooming untold thou
sands of Jews, underground re
sistance never flagged through five
years of occupation.
General MacArthur’s Headquar
ters, Luzon, Jan. 17.—Two strong
Sixth Army columns have merged
near Paniqui, 36 miles inland, and
are sweeping south across the Lu
zon Plains toward Tarlac and Ma
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39 Teams Entered
In Cage Tourney
According to an announcement
made by Clyde Carroll, of the El
kin Junior Chember of Com
merce, there are already entered
in the Yadkin Valley Basketball
Tournament, which is being spon
sored by the Jaycess, 39 teams
from 20 schools. Millers Creek
will not enter a g'irls’ team this
year.
The deadline on entry blanks
is midnight, January 20. The
tournament will start on the
night of March 7.
Gift of $5,000
Is Donated To
Local Hospital
Dr. C. C. Weaver, superin
tendent of Hugh Chatham
Hospital here, has announced
that the hospital building fund
has received a gift of $5,000
from a friend pfco wishes to
remain anonymous.
This money, which was re
ceived shortly i before Christ
mas, proved »' \ yeit welcome
Christmas gift! .Dr. Weaver
said, and wil- bp used to aid to
the construction of another
wing to the hospital when the
building materials are again
available, ' /: