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VOL. NO* XXXIII No. 13
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N, C., THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1945
$2.00 PER YEAR
16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
Sgt. Sam Gambill
Killed In Action
At Luxembourg
SGT. I. S. GAMBILL, Jr.
Sergeant Ira Samuel Gambill,
■Bjjr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Ira Sam
Kiel Gambill, Sr., >of this city, was
WkiUed in action in Luxembourg on
j£J>ruary 12, according to an offi
war Department telegram to
H wife, the former Miss Edna
O’Hair.
^ ^ftifeeant Gambill was a mem
of a Combat Engineers Unit
of General Patton’s Third Army.
He entered service May 15, 1943
^MwHtf&ined at Ft. McClellan, Ala.,
J0lssTP at State College, Raleigh,
and at Ft. Jackson,* S. C. He went
overseas in October, 1944, and
served in England and France be
fore going to Luxembourg.
Sergeant Gambill was a gradu
ate of Elkin high school and of
the University of North Carolina,
class of 1943. While a student at
the University he distinguished
thimself, in many fields of activity.
He is listed in “Who’s Who Among
Students in American Universities
and Colleges,” 1942-43 edition, as
a member of the Golden Fleece,
secretary and treasurer of the
student body, exchequer of the
Order of the Grail, president of
the junior class, member of the
University Club, secretary of the
dance committee, member of the
.Board of Directors of Graham
|r Memorial, and a member of the
1 inter dormitory council.
Surviving are: his wife, who is
at present making her home in
Greensboro; his parents, Dr. and
Mrs. Ira Samuel Gambill of this
city; one sister, Nancy Carroll, of
the home; two brothers, Corporal
William G. Gambill, who is sta
tioned with the Army Air Force in
England; John M. Gambill, who
is now aboard the U. S. S. Blount;
and his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Gentry, of Thurmond.
YADKIN FARMER
•DIES TUESDAY
T. L. Mendenhall, W e 11*
Known Citizen, Suffer
ed Brief Illness
gjRITES
ARE INCOMPLETE
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T. L. Mendenhall, 62, passed
away at the Elkin Hospital Tues
day evening following an illness
of several days.
Mr. Mendenhall, a well-known
farmer, was a native of Yadkin
county and spent his entire life in
the Boonville community.
Survivors are the wife, the
former Miss Rhoda Mathis; six
sons, Dallas, Boonville; Harvey,
Leasbury; David, U. S. Army;
Glenn, Jonesville; James, of this
city; Charlie, U. S. Army; three
daughters, Mrs. Sadie Long,
Jonesville; Mrs. Gladys Ray,
Roaring River, and Miss Ruby
Mendenhall, of the home.
Funeral arrangements are in
implete.
Mayor, Board
Frown On Ride
Thumbing Here
J. R. Poindexter, mayor of
Elkin, and members of the Elk
in school board have asked The
Tribune to call attention to
the practice of thumbing rides
by thigh school students to and
from school.
It war. also asked that this
matter be called to the atten
tion of the parent's for the pro
tection of both the childfen
and motorists.
This habit of standing in the
street and thumbing rides fa a
dangerous practice, it was said,
and could cause a child to be
injured and a resultant / law
suit against the motorist in
volved in case of injury while
riding or getting in or put of
the vehicle.
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Invite 600 To Annual Farmers Meeting
WILL BE HELD
AT YMCA HERE
ON MARCH 15
c. W. Bailey, Prominent
Banker, To Be Speaker
GOVERNOR IS INVITED
Former Governor J. Melville
Broughton Also Expect
ed To Be Here
JOHNSON IS CHAIRMAN
Six hundred farmers from Slur
ry, Yadkin and Wilkes counties
have been invited to Elkin for the
Third Annual Farmers Day Pro
gram and Farmers Night Dinner,
according to an announcement by
Garland Johnson, Elkin banker
and chairman of the Elkin Agri
cultural Council.
The program will be conducted
in the YMCA on March 15. The
address, climaxing the program
for the day, will be made by C. W.
Bailey, chairman of the Food for
Freedom Committee of the Ameri
can Banker’s Association. Gov
ernor R. Gregg Cherry and former
Governor, J. Melville Broughton
are expected to attend and both
are scheduled to speak at the ban
quet.
The afternoon program, start
ing at 3 p. m., will bring many
outstanding leaders in Agriculture
of North Carolina to Elkin. The
first program will give farmers
who received and accepted invita
tions, an opportunity to hear Dr.
I. O. Schaub, Director of the Ex
tension Service open the meeting.
Greetings will be given from the
North Carolina Banker’s Associa
tion Secretary, Fred Greene.
J. H. Hilton, head of Animal
Husbandry Department of State
College, will speak on “The Im
portance of Pastures in a Live
stock Program.”
“Establishing and Maintaining
Permanent Pastures” will be dis
cussed by Dr. J. P. LaMaster,
Dairy Department of Clemson
College. \
The first program will end with
a discussion on “Annual Pastures”
by John A. Arey, Dairy Extension
Specialist of State College.
The second program will get
under way at 4:30 in the YMCA,
when farmers will have a chance
to discuss beef cattle problems
with L. I. Case, Animal Husbandry
Specialist; soil conservation prob
lems with E. B. Garrett, State
Conservationist; farm manage
ment problems with R. W. Shaff
ner, head of Extension Farm
Management. These discussions
will run simultaneously and farm
ers may have their choice of sub
jects. This section will run for 30
minutes with 10 minutes inter
mission to change speakers.
The next part of the second
program will be discussions on
dairying by J. A. Arey; Hybrid
corn production by Dr. G. K. Mid
dleton, and frozen fruits by Dr,
D. E. Jones. These speakers are
top ranking leaders in each ol
their subjects.
The closing discussions or lec
tures on the second program will
offer poultry production by C. F.
Parrish in charge of Poultry Ex
tension at State College. Hay and
forage crops will be discussed by
E. C. Blair, Extension Agronomist
—small grains by Dr. G. K. Mid
dleton, Plant Breeder of the Ex
periment Station.
The banquet starting at 7:00
o’clock is sponsored by the Civic
Clubs of Elkin and presented by
the Agricultural Council compos
ed of the Agricultural Committees
of the Civic Clubs and the Mer
chants Association. Seven to eight
hundred men are expected to at
tend this, the Third Annual Ban
quet.
No One Badly Hurt
In Auto Collision
Gene Hall, of Elkin, received
bruises about the fa,ce last Satur
day, when the car in which he was
riding, driven by Harold Brendle,
also of this city, was struck by a
car said to have been operated by
Paul Moxley, of near Boonville.
The' accident occurred on the
Boonville highway.
Brendle and Moxley were not
hurt, although both cars were
pretty badly damaged. Moxley, it
was said, was arrested following
the accident on a charge of
drunkenness.
Yanks Cross River And
Press Toward Cologne
STATE
RALEIGH, Feb. 27. — Gov
ernor Cherry went personally
before the legislature today and
supported the general princi
ples of the hospital and medi
cal care bill, but reminded that
teachers had a priority on any
surplus. Too, he said, many of
the incorporated proposals
“must be postponed until some
future date.” Pursuing his oft
voiced advocacy of conservative
spending and a balanced bud
get, the Governor said that “we
cannot safely and securely
build and expand our state ser
vices on a wartime prosperity.”
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, .Feb. 27. —
Fuel Administrator Harold L.
Ickes stepped into the growing
coal-wage dispute ’today with a
blunt warning that the nation
cannot afford a work stoppage,
however brief. Declaring that
the time has come to “trim our
sails and get down to realities,”
he reported that consumer
stocks are dwindling rapidly
and that many industrial uses
must be slowed down. His
lengthy report to the war pro
duction board said a national
fuel crisis can be expected by
next winter if the European
war lasts that long. This will
be true even with continued
full coal production which is
expected to fall 50,000,000 tons
short of needs.
INTERNATIONAL
ROME, Feb. 27. — In their
first major counterthrust at
the allies.’ newly-won positions
on the left flank of the Fifth
army front, German troops’at
tacked savagely in the Mt, Bel
vedere sector, it was disclosed
today. The thrust, launched on
Monday, followed an artillery
barrage designed to dislodge
the Tenth United States moun
tain division and a unit of
Brazilian troops from their
commanding positions atop the
lofty heights of Belvedere and
the lesser peaks of Mt. Della
(Continued on page 4, 1st sec.)
Repulse Banzai
Charge Of Japs
In Philippines
American infantrymen broke
across the Erft River line at two
or more points Wednesday, and
rammed eastward through deep
minefields over the last seven
miles to Cologne and the Rhine
River. *
Front dispatches said the bulk
of the German forces were believ
ed to have fled over the Rhine,
leaving the remnants of seven di
visions to be cut to pieces by Am
erican armored columns fanning
out over the Cologne Plain.
Panic and confusion were
spreading swiftly through the
ranks of the remaining Nazi
troops scattered over a front of
more than 100 miles bn the west
side of the Rhine from the Cal
car- Uedem sector, down to the
headwaters of the Roer River be
low Dueren.
While powerful infantry col
umns of the American First Army
hurdled the Erft and struck for
Cologne in the area directly east
of Dureren, armored divisions of
the U. S. Ninth Army were racing
northward into the rim of the
Ruhr Valley, driving full-tilt for
the great arsenal city of Duessel
dbrf.
At the same time, the Canadian
First Army to the north won a
major break-through in the Sieg
freid Line defenses guarding the
upper roads to the Ruhr and
slammed ahead to within about 25
miles of a junction with the Am
erican Ninth Army.
In the Philippines screaming
Japanese, attacking behind the
heaviest artillery barrage in the
growing battle for the Marikina
watershed east of Manila, launch
ed a large-scale banzai charge
(Continued on page 4, 1st sec.)
Pfc. J. H. Hemric
Slightly Wounded
Mrs. Verna Haynes of State
Road has been notified by the
War Department that her son,
Pfc. Joseph H. Hemric was slight
ly wounded in Germany on Feb
ruary 9.
Pfc. M. R. Underwood
Wounded In Germany
Pfc. Miles R. Underwood was
slightly wounded in Germany on
February 9, according to a War
Department telegram to his wife,
Mrs. Hazel Underwood, of Hamp
ton ville.
WINS TWO AWARDS — Pfc.
Elliot Dale Walters, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. G. Walters of Hon
da, has been awarded the Purple
Heart for wounds received in
action in Belgium on January
15. He has also won the Good
Conduct Medal. Pfc. Walters
is serving with the 6th Armored
Division of General Patton’s
Third Army. He entered service
in February, 1943, and received
his training at Camp Cooke,
California. He went overseas in
February, 1944.
FFA MEMBERS
HOLD MEETING
Representatives From Four
Counties Gather At Boon
ville On Thursday
The Federation of Future
Farmers of four counties, Surry,
Stokes, Davie and Yadkin, met at
Boonville in the Agricultural
Building, Thursday, February 22,
at 3:00 o’clock with around 60
members present for the annual
Ritual and Parliamentary Proce
dure Contest.
The schools competing were the
King and Walnut Cove from
Stokes County, Pilot Mountain,
Copeland and White Plains from
Surry County, Mocksville from
Davie County and Yadkinville,
Boonville, West Yadkin and
Courtney .from Yadkin County.
West Yadkin won first place
with sixty-four points while King
and Pilot Mountain tied for second
with fifty - eight points each.
Boonville won fourth place.
The officers competing from
West Yadkin were Bobby Mar
shall, president; J. D. Mason, vice
president; Gray Bell, treasurer;
Lester Miller, secretary; Thomas
Miller, Jr., reporter; C. R. Wright,
advisor.
The next Federation meeting
will be the seed judging contest
which will be held at West Yadkin
on March 23, with two representa
tives present from each school.
LIONS CLUB TO
COLLECT WASTE
GREASE SUNDAY
Will Cover Town Regardless
Of Weather
COOPERATION IS ASKED
Citizens Requested To Place
Fats Near Curb Or In Oth
er Convenient Spot
DO NOT STORE IN GLASS
The Elkin. Lions Club will make
a town-wide collection of waste
fats here Sunday, beginning at 2
p. m., rain or shine, it has been
announced by club officers.
Due to the bad weather on the
date of the last collection, many
people failed to put their waste
fats out, although a city-wide col
lection was made as planned.
W. J. (Bill) Graham, president
of the club, urged Wednesday
that every Elkin resident save fats
and remember to put it in a con
venient place for collection Sun
day afternoon. Needed for the
manufacture of medicines and ex
plosives, if just one person falls
down on the job of saving waste
fats it could possibly cost the life
of some fighting man.
“The Lions Club appreciates
the manner in which Elkin people
have cooperated in helping to
send our fats off to war,” Mr.
Graham said. “It shows that we
are doing our bit to help bn the
home front. As a public service as
well as a patriotic duty, the Elk
in Lion’s Club will collect this
waste fat on the first Sunday of
each month as long as th^ people
will cooperate.”
Citizens putting out fats are
urged to store it in containers
other than glass, and to place it
where it will be in plain view.
Miss Brodie
Joins Staff
Of Tribune
Miss Paige Brodie, of Ra
leigh, a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina,
where she majored in journ
alism, has joined The Tribune
reportorial staff.
Prior to entering the Uni
versity, she attended Flora
Macdonald College at Red
Springs.
During her college work at
Chapel Hill, Miss Brodie was
a feature writer for The News
of Orange County, weekly
newspaper published at Hills
boro. She is a member of the
Episcopal Church, and is
making her home at the resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. Grady
Cockerham, on West Main
street.
Jaycee Cage Tournament Off To Flying Start
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EAST BEND-MOUNTAIN PARK OPEN TOURNAMENT—The first play of the Elkin Junior Chamber
of Commerce Invitational Basketball Tournament had just gotten under way at the GUvln Roth Y. M.
C. A. gymnasium when the picture above was taken, showing an exciting moment of the contest be
tween East Bend and Mountain Park girls which was won by East Bend. Note ball near basket. Play
ers. shown are, left to right, Jaunlta Davis, East Bend; Lorene Brown, Mountain Park; Eva Moody,
shooting, Mountain Park; Ab Crater, partly hidden, referee; Margaret Horn, East Bend; Dot Pardue,
Mountain Park, and Patsy Smltherman, Boat Bend.—Photo by T. A. Bcdmon.
The Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce Invitational Basketball
Tournament got under way here
Monday evening at the Gilvin
Roth YMCA auditorium with an
excellent brand of basketball that
featured exciting contests and
large crowds.
Jaycees were definitely pleased
with the manner in which the
tournament, which they hope to
make an annual event, opened.
Games scheduled for Wednes
day evening were announced as
follows: girls — Jonesville vs. Elk
in, and Pilot Mountain vs. Har
mony. Boys—Jonesville vs. Har
mony and Pilot Mountain vs.
Franklin. Inasmuch as these
games were to be played after The
Tribune press time, winners can
not be listed.
Games this evening (Thurs
day) : girls—West Yadkin vs. Dob
son, and Beulah vs. Yadkinville.
Boys—Mountain Park vs. Shoals
and Union Grove vs. Courtney.
In the first round of play Mon
day evening, the East Bend girls
defeated Mountain Park; Boon
ville boys defeated Sparta; and
Flat Rock girls defeated Sparta
girls. Tuesday evening, Lowgap
girls defeated Shoals; Union
Grove boys defeated Lowgap,
Beulah girls defeated Courtney
23 to 22 in an exciting extra per
iod game, and Courtney boys de
feated Dobson.
Finals of the. tournament will
be played on March 8.
Charles L. Skarren
To Speak At Special
Organizational Meet
WOUNDED — Corporal Charles
B, Stanley, son of Mr. and Mrs.
T. A. Stanley, of Zephyr, has
been awarded the Purple Heart
for wounds received in Luxem
bourg' on December 17. He is a
member of the Third Army, and
has been overseas since August
of last year. He trained at Ft.
Riley, Kansas, and Camp Hope,
La., before going overseas. He
has now returned to France and
has recovered sufficiently to re
join his outfit. Corporal Stan
ley is a brother of Mrs. W. M.
Wall, of this city.
YADKIN MEN GO
FOR INDUCTION
Two of Group Scheduled To
Enter Armed Forces Mon
day Failed To Appear
WENT TO FORT BRAGG
Twenty-seven young Yadkin
county men left Monday
morning for Fort Bragg, where
they were to be inducted into the
armed forces of the nation. The
local draft board intended to call
30 men to go, but one of them fail
ed to get his notice properly and
two failed to show up. The 27
who were sent were:
Willie Gray Hunter, Rt. 2, East
Bend: Brice Richard Williams, Rt;.
2, Yadkinville; Wilbert Free Har
rison, Rt. 1, Yadkinville; Everette
Dalton Jester, Rt. 1, East Bend:
Garl Edward Hinshaw, Boonville;
Harold Alonzo Renegar, Hamp
tonville; Thomas Howard Gough,
Rt. 2, East Bend; Grady Junior
Hunter, Rt. 1, Boonville: Jether
Ward Smitherman, Rt. 2, East
Bend: Lynn Aaron Holcomb,
Jonesville; Julius Monroe Miller,
Jr., Rt. 1, Boonville; Graham
Davis Haga, Rt. 2, East Bend;
Santford Columbus Swaim, Rt. 1,
Yadkinville; Clark Obin Hoots,
Rt. 2, Yadkinville; Billy Wade
Hobson, Rt. 2, East Bend; Arvil
Lloyd Pardue, Yadkinville; Earle
Ring, East Bend; Lee Roy Turner,
Rt. 1, Hamptdnville; Hobert Cool
idge Var*hoy, Hamptonville; Ear
nest Gladis Shaffner, Jonesville;
P. D. Groce, Rt. 1, Cycle; William
James Willard, Rt. 1, Boonville;
Howard Goodin, Rt. 1, Yadkin
ville; Granville Vestal, Jonesville;
David William Lovelace, Jones
ville; Troy Lee Branon, Rt. 1,
Yadkinville; Otis Gordon Trexler,
Rt. 1, Jonesville.
The two who failed to show up
Monday morning were John Henry
Brown, Jonesville; and Joseph
Kenneth Cheek, Jonesville. Ac
cording to the local board Cheek
has not co-operated with the
board as other draftees have. In
the first place he failed to regis
ter and the local board had to
send him a message to report.
Several months after registration
day, when called for his physical
examination he appeared prompt
ly and went for the physical.
However when called for induc
tion Monday he failed to report.
John P. Burch Is
Prisoner of War
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John P. Burch, who was report
ed missing on January 12, is now
a prisoner of the Germans, ac
cording to a message received on
Thursday by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul E. Burch of Devotion.
HAS RETURNED
RECENTLY FROM i
WAR THEATRES "
Civic Club Members and Oth
er Workers Are To Attend
ANNOUNCE COMMITTEES
Final Detailed Instruction To
Be Given Workers At
Special Session
NEED FOR FUNDS GREAT
Charles L. Skarren,' who has
just returned from seventeen
months overseas service with the
American Red Cross, will address
a joint dinner meeting of the Ki
wanis Club, the Junior Chamber
of Commerce, the lions Club and
other Red Cross workers at a fin
al organization dinner meeting at
the YMCA Monday evening,
March 5, at 7:00 o’clock, C. C.
Poindexter, publicity chairman of
the Red Cross War Fund Drive,
announced Tuesday.
"Mr. Skarren will be introduced
by G. Kellock Hale, Jr„ of Mount
Airy, chairman of the Surry coun
ty chapter of the Red Cross. Mrs.
Joe Bivins, chairman of the Elkin
branch; Mrs. George Royall, vice
chairman; Mrs. A. O. Bryan, cam
paign chairman; Miss Bettie Al
len, treasurer of the Elkin branch;
Miss Ophelia Paul, War Fund
treasurer; J. H. Beeson, Home
Service chairman; and C. J. Hy
slup, County controller and local
secretary, have completed ap
pointments of the various workers
committee, and final detailed in
structions will be outlined at this
meeting.
The workers have responded
cheerfully to this call, and the
committees are as follows:
Rural Districts; Mrs. Paul
Brown, chairman; Mrs. C. B. Bur
rus, Mrs. W. V. Burch, Mrs. C. C.
Thompson, Mrs. Raymond Brown,
Mrs. Ernest Smith and Mrs. J. D.
Hemmings.
North Elkin: Mrs. J. Walter
Darnell, Chairman; Mrs. T. F.
Cooley, Mrs. C. S. Foster, Mrs.
Paul Smith, Mrs. J. L. Darnell,
Mrs. Marie Smith, Mrs. Oscar
Darnell, Mrs. Raymond Johnson,
Mrs. Noah Darnell and George
Walters. North Elkin School, Paul
G. Lewis. Elkin Negro School, Mrs.
Mary Osborne.
East Elkin: Mrs. Earl M. Hodel,
chairman; Mrs. C. C. Myers, Mrs.
Clyde Long, Mrs. E. W. McDaniel,
Mrs. John Sagar, Mrs. N. J.
Blackwood, Mrs. Lee Neaves, Mrs.
Hunter McGuire, Mrs. James
Shore, Mrs. Harry Hensel, Mrs.
June Robertson, Mrs. I. C. Yates
and Mrs. Rosamond N. Smoot.
West Elkin: Mrs. Eugene
Spainhour, chairman; Mrs. Tom
(Continued on page 4, 1st sec.)
Need Here For
Blood Plasma
Is Said Acute
The Hugh Chatham Memor
ial hospital is once more in
urgent need for blood donors to
make blood plasma, it has been
announced.
Due to the poor response of
the town! people to this call, it
is felt that they do not realize
the importance of plasma, it
was said, although everyone
reads practically every day of
the wonders it works on the
battlefields. Its need at home
is just as important to the pa
tient as to the wounded soldier.
“In case of a large fire or ac
cident in town we would need
numerous pints of plasma for
the Joe Doakes that would be
hurt,” it was pointed out, “but
if the Joe Doakes are not in
terested in donating blood now
the plasma will not be available
if and wheq needed.”
Citizens interested in giving
of their blood for use as plasma
are urged to either rail the
hospital or Jack CaudiH, cap
tain of the, emergency wjuad.
Cftofllll will provide tnuis