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ELKIN
Gateway To Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
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ELKIN
The Beet Little Town
In North Carolina
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN. N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 12 1945
$2.00 PER YEAR
14 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
VOL. NO. XXXIII No. 19
STATE
► CHARLOTTE, April 10.—
Disturbed over the announce
ment pf a reduction in ceiiinf
prices of one cent- a pound on ,
print cloth, textile men of '
this group will meet shortly to
consider steps to protect the
interests of mills concerned, El
lison A Smyth, of Henderson- '
ville, said today. Smyth, presl
dent of the Balfour mUls, and
chairman of the OPA advisory
committee on print cloths,
said he was informed, today* J
by C. E. Hatch of Greenville,
S. C., president of the Brandon
corporation, and chairman of
the print cloth group, that a 1
meeting is being called and j
action designed to solve the
problem developed by the roll
back.
INTERNATIONAL
WASHINGTON, April 10.— ,
The soft coal operators and ^
united mine workers reached j
agreement on a new wage-hour (
contract tonight after a five- .
If weeks-old dispute which cul- J
minuted in government seizure
of 235 strike-bound “captive”
mines in seven states. Terms of (
the agreement will be announc- ;
ed tomorrow morning. It is be- ,
lieved to provide an average
daily increase of about $1.15
per miner, and an average of
21 cents a ton. It must be ap
proved by the war labor board,
the office of price administra
tion and Economic Stabiliza
tion Director William H. Davis.
NEW ORLEANS, April 10.—
Levees literally went to pieces
at spots today in Natchitoches
and Grant parishes, above
Alexandria, under an avalanche
of water from the record Red ,
river flood, forcing the coast
guard and other relief agencies
into hurried evacuation of re
fugees. An estimated 45,000
persons were homeless and
nearly 100,000 acres were being
flooded by new breaks in ad
dition to the more than a mil
lion acres already inundated in
the vast central Louisiana
flood. So far only five deaths
have been reported, three in
Arkansas and two in Louisiana.
ROME, April 10.—The vete
ran British Eighth army, open
ing what probably will be the
last major battle in Italy,
crossed the Senio river today
on a wide front in a campaign
to annihilate the German 10th
and 14th armies before they
can retreat into the mountain
fortress of southern Germany.
The Eighth, with a brilliant
record reaching back to El
4 Alamein, moved into action
* last night aftfer a six months’
lull, behind a murderous artil
lery barrage and the greatest
co-ordinated aerial assault
ever carried out in Italy.
NATIONAL
GUAM, Wednesday, April il.
t —United States marines driv
ing: northward on Okinawa
captured Unten harbor and its
network of Japanese submarine
pens and naval installations
Wednesday, it was announced
today, as enemy dead mounted
to at least 5,009. Marines of
the Third amphibious corps re
pulsed two small Japanese
counterattacks on Motobu pe
ninsula Tuesday night and the
next morning: smashed forward
some 2,500 yards to capture
Unten bay. In the southern
front, the Pacific war’s great
est artillery barrage continued
against Japanese positions
around the capital city of Na
ha. Massed army and marine
J& artillery, carrier planes and the
FT1 guns of United States battle
ships, cruisers, and destroyers
pounded the enemy defense
line which was holding Ameri
can troops to a standstill.
LONDON, April 10. —The
* onee-mighty German air force
suffered its worst losses in his
tory today at the hands of
American fighter pilots who
destroyed 397 nazi planes and
set three new records for aerial
destruction. Today’s crippling
air blows on the luftwaffe’s
striking force, most of which
was grounded for lack of fuel,
shattered the previous overall
fighter and bomber score of
enemy planes knocked out in
a single day, 352 planes de
stroyed July 17, 1943, in the
Schweinfurt and Regensburg
area. It also beat the old re
cord of 177 enemy planes de
stroyed in a single day by
fighter pilots, set last Septem
tber 5, and upset the mark of
79 enemy planes destroyed on
the ground, also; set hud Sep
tember 5. t_
LIST RECEPTION
CENTERS IN OLD
CLOTHES DRIVE
Campaign For Used Gar
ments Is Now Under Way
NICKS’ BUILDING HERE
Douglas Darnell’s Store Will
Receive Clothing At
State Road
SCHOOLS ARE TO AID
Hie following places have been
selected for the reception of spare
clothing for the United National
Clothing Collection campaign
that is now underway: in the
town of Tgifcin leave bundles at
the Nicks building, next to the
post office any afternoon except
Wednesday, between 2:00 and
8:00 o’clock. The Junior Woman’s
Club will have one or more rep
resentatives there to receive bun
dles. Everyone is requested to wrap
the bundles, and label them with
the number and type of garments
in the bundle. This will aid
greatly in sorting and packing the
clothing to be shipped.
Douglas Darnell’s store at State
Road will be the receiving depot
for that area, and citizens of the
Pleasant Kill community will be
called upon by the Pleasant Hill
Boy Scouts and representatives of
the Pleasant HiU Baptist Church.
In Jonesville Mayor Z. B. Mar
tin and Watt Deal, superinten
dent of the Jonesville schools, are
arranging to conduct their cam
paign through the schools, and
possibly the churches.
At Mountain Park Professor
Sam Gentry will announce
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POLICE PLAN
BRAKE CHECK
Campaign To Ferret Out
Faulty Auto Brakes To
Be Nation-Wide
IN INTEREST OF SAFETY
To help make cars last longer
and to reduce accidents, Elkin
police will cooperate with high
’ way patrolmen and other law en
forcement officers in a nation
wide brake check program which
will begin April 15 and continue
through May 31, it was learned
Wednesday from Chief of Elkin
' Police Corbett Wall and High
' way Patrolman W. S. McKinney.
During this six week program,
police will check the brakes of
; all cars involved in moving traffic
violations, and in accidents. Cars
1 will also be checked which are
; operated in a manner indicating
’ that brakes are not safe, and in
1 addition highway checking sta
[ ttons will be operated both in this
area and throughout the state.
' Motorists stopped for brake checks
’ will also have their cars in
k spec ted for other defects that
might make driving hazardous, it
was said.
A simple brake check has been
• devised which will take a police
' officer only a minute to make,
1 it was said. It is hoped that all
j motorists will cooperate in this
! wartime program by having their
| brakes checked voluntarily at re
pair shops and by making sure
| the entire car is in safe operat
r ing condition, local police stated.
Brakes which do not grip until
1 the pedal is within one inch or
■ less of the floorboard require up
* to 60 feet to stop at 20 miles per
l hour. The legal stopping dis
5 tance is approximately 30 feet at
1 20 miles per hour. Pew people
■ realize, it was pointed out, that
l a car traveling at 20 miles per
i hour is moving at a rate of 18
■ feet per second.
: OFFICERS NAB
1 FLETCHER BOY
! __
5 Young Man Who Wrecked
r Boonville Drug Store
» Arrested Near Elkin
f IS NOT FIRST OFFENSE
i —:
i R. P. “Red” Fletcher, 18, of
, Boonville, was taken into custody
1 in the woods near the Greenwood
P pond, about three miles east ol
i Elkin Surry county, last Saturday
- by State Highway Patrolman W
i S. McKinney, of Elkin; Sheriff A
s L. Inscore, of Yadkin county;
- Deputy Sheriff Ed Wishon, ol
- Yadkin, and A. C. Bovender, fol
t lowing a week of intensive search
The young man’s arrest occur
f red when Patrolman McKinney
i apd Deputy Wishon spotted the
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iilkin Jaycees
Win Two State
Awards For ’44
A,
Announcement
Is Made Sunday
At State Meet
The Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce was announced as the
winner of two state awards at the
: meeting of the state organiza
tion’s executive board at Wins
ton-Salem Sunday, but saw its
candidate for the state presidency,
Claude Farrell, defeated by a total
of nine votes by W. Clayton Frost,
of Winston-Salem.
The awards won by the local
Jaycees were the George Lentz
award for the best project of the
year, and the quarterly award for
the fourth quarter for the stag
ing of the invitational basketball
torunament only recently held
here. The Jaycees’ part in thfe
Fikin Fat Stock and Wool Show
arid Sale last fall won them the
Lentz trophy.
The board meeting was held in
lieu of the regularly scheduled
convention which was cancelled
this year due to wartime restric
tions. It is hoped to hold next
year’s convention at Rocky Mount.
During the session, Clyde Car
roll, member of the local organi
zation, was made a member of the
awards committee. Mr. Carroll
stated that the basketball tourn
ament project is to be entered in
the national sports award con
test in June.
Jaycees from Elkin attending
the Greensboro meeting were
Claude Farrell, Alex Biggs, W. H.
Thompson and Van Dillon, Jr.
Sale At County Farm
Nets Total Of $4,643
Sale of livestock owned by the
Surry County Farm which was
held Monday at auction, netted a
total of $4,643, it was learned
Tuesday.
Offered for sale were a number
of dairy cattle, mules, hogs and a
quantity of farm machinery. All
sales were for cash, and county
officials expressed themselves as
being well pleased at the prices
paid.
The livestock was sold because
of the shortage of labor which
prohibited their use.
Elkin Stores
Close Each
Wednesday P. M.
Starting Wednesday, Elkin
stores and other business firms
closed for a half day in keep
ing with a custom inaugurated
here for the summer. months
several yearn ago.
Business houses will con
tinue to close eaoh Wednes
day at 12 noon for the re
mainder of the summer, with
the exception of drug stores,
which will take turn about In
closing at 1:00 p. m. each
Wednesday.
Patrons of Elkin stores are
urged to remember the sum
mer afternoon closing hour on
Wednesdays and plan their
shopping accordingly.
LIONS TO HEAD
CANCERDRIVE
Support For Campaign Here
Is Pledged By Jaycees
And Kiwanis Club
HEAR MRS. MARSHALL
The Elkin Lions Club, which
with the support of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce and the
Elkin Kiwanis Club, will sponsor
the observance in Elkin of April
as Cancer Control Month, dis
cussed plans for the local cam
paign at their dinner meeting at
the YMCA here Tuesday evening.
Jack Caudill, a member of the
Lions Club, was appointed last
week as county chairman for the
drive. Jake Jones, also an Elkin
Lion, has been named secretary
treasurer for the county.
Principal speaker at the meet
ing was Mrs. George E. Marshall,
of the cancer control organization.
A motion, picture on cancer con
trol was shown.
According to present plans, in
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Yadkin Man Attempts
To Cut Elkin Officer
Is At Liberty Under $1,000 Bond
To Await Hearing On Grave Charge
Guy Cockerham, 36, Yadkin
county farmer, was released from
jail here Tuesday under $1,000
bond to await trial on charges of
being drunk and disorderly, resist
ing arrest, and assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to
kill following his arrest Monday
night sometime between 9:00 and
10:00 o’clock by Elkin Policeman,
T. B. Sams.
Cockerham, who is described as
being a large, husky man, was
said to have been in a local cafe
in a drunken condition. Officers
stated that when he walked out
of the cafe, Policeman Sams at
tempted to take him into custody,
only to have him jerk away and
pull a knife with which he slash
ed at the officer, cutting a gash
in his coat from a point near the
throat ranging downward toward
the shoulder. Only the fact that
the officer had jumped backward
prevented the blade from enter
ing the flesh.
Following the attempt to knife
the policeman, Sams pulled his
gun and proceeded to subdue
Cockerham by beating him about
the head with the weapon, strik
Negro Is Arrested
Following Shooting
Bud Howard, Jonesville negro,
is at liberty under bond to await
trial in Yadkin superior court on
a charge of shooting Cletus
Foster, another negro, following
an argument in Jonesville Mon
day night.
Part of the load from a shot-,
gun struck Foster about the
head, but the wounds while paitf*
ful, were said not to be of a voty
serious nature. /
Howard waived a preliminary
hearing. Hie nature oy the
trouble between the two mpn was
not learned. f
.': m.: di. .
ing him so hard that the barrel
of the revolver was, bent. He then
carried him to Hugh Chatham
hospital for medical attention
and later placed him in jail.
It is said that Cockerham is
under parole from prison for
another cutting affray for which
he was sentenced some time ago.
In the opinion of those who
witnessed the arrest. Cockerham's
knife would have entered Officer
Sam’s throat or neck had he not
jumped out of the way.
STRIKES AUTO
MAKES ESCAPE
Police Fail To Locate Hit
And-Run Driver After
Crash Here Monday
WAS BLACK FORD COACH
Search for a hit-and-run driver
who crashed into a car at an in
tersection here Monday afternoon
shortly after 1:00 o’clock and then
sped away' without stopping, has
proven futile to date, Highway
Patrolman W. S. McKinney, of
Elkin, said Wednesday morning.
The crash took place near the
intersection of North Bridge street
and 0wyn avenue, in front of the
filling station located on the curve
ge. It was said the hit-and
car,‘ thought to be a black
1 coach of 1934 or ’35 model,
ck the side of a car being op
erated by Archie L. Thorpe, of
Bel Air, Md., knocking it into a
telephone pole and damaging it
considerably.
Officers received reports ‘that
the hit-and-run car was seen to
tUm east on the dirt road at Elk
in Valley Church, but an intensive
search failed to locate it _
' *, y „,Y
NEW INSURANCE
PLAN FOR LEAF
CROP OPERATED
Farmers Of Surry Urged To
Apply For Protection
IS NOW ON TRIAL BASIS
Offers Protection Against
Drought, Hail, Wind,
Frost, Fire, Etc.
MEETING PLACES NAMED
The new all-risk federal crop
insurance program recently en
acted by Congress and being op
erated on a trial basis on the 1945
flue-cured tobacco crop in Surry
county, is now in full swing, J. A.
Tilley, chairman of the Surry
county AAA committee has an
nounced.
The federal crop Insurance Pro
gram Is sponsored by the United
States Department of Agriculture
and the War Pood Administra
tion. It Is a sound non-profit,
easy to understand program. The
results of many years of study
and experimentation by both gov
ernment - operated and private
concerns have gone into the devel
opment of this program. It offers
lots of protection at a low cost.
It offers every tobacco farmer in
Surry county an opportunity to
plan and plant with the hope of
harvesting a bumper crop and
with the comforting knowledge,
that from the standpoint of loss
he cannot have a real failure. The
tobacco farmers can’t lose money.
It pays if he needs it and when he
don’t need it he can afford it.
Eleven hundred Surry county
fanners have signed applications
for tobacco crop insurance to
date, Mr. Tilley said. Tobacco
farmers who have not signed ap
plications for all risks insurance
coverage of thier 1945 tobacco
crop should contact their local
AAA community committeemen at
once and they will be glad to ex
plain how this program works and
how it applies to each individual
farm in Surry county. If he can’t
see his local AAA committeeman, j
then he should go to the AAA of
fice in Dobson.
Individual farm yields and
premium rates have been comput
ed for 3200 tobacco farms in Surry
county. Every owner, tenant, and
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MEN ARE SENT
FOR PRE-EXAM
Large Number Go To Fort
Bragg Tuesday From
Surry Board No. 2
LEAVE FROM DOBSON
The following men under the
jurisdiction of Surry county draft
board No. 2, at Dobson, were sent
to Fort Bragg for pre-induction
examination Tuesday:
Walter Clark Beshears, High
Point; Fred Wilson Melton, Jack
sonville, Fla; William Gratsie
Kidd, Dobson; Garvey Braxton
Southard, Elkin; Neal Hampton
Scott, Winston-Salem; Paul Mack
Anthony, Rockford; James Cal
vin Branch, Dobson; Benjamin
Riggan, Dobson; Edward Lewis
Wood, Rt. 2, Dobson; Jerry Ray
Hutson, Dobson; Willie Eugene
Moser, Pinnacle.
Greer Oliver Atkins, Rt. 1,
Ararat; Calvin Edward Wagoner,
Rt. 1, Pilot Mountain; Raymond
Major Sloan, Rockford; Joe Tay
lor Pike, Rt. 1, Siloam; William
Gaston Brinkley, Rt. 1, Pilot
Mountain; Joseph Howard Owens,
Elkin; Finley Byrd Money, Rt 1,
Dobson; Joseph Solomon Jenkins,
Rt. 2, Dobson; Oliver Key, Jr.,
Rt. 1, Ararat; Charles Ulysses
Kenny, N, Bridge St. Elkin; Gai
ther Ledford Tucker, State Road;
Walter Hugh Nations, Dobson;
Wade Hampton, Rt. 1,. Elkin;
Malory Jackson Whitaker, Siloam;
Reuben Roy Whitaker, Rt. 1,
Siloam; Dotty Roger Thompson,
Winston-Salem; Willie Oldmon
Caudle, Rt. 1, Elkin.
Evan Troy Sparks, Thomasville;
Lincoln Tate, Rt. 1, Asheboro;
Boyd Alden Shores, Rt. 1, Thur
mond; Walter Edgar Welbom,
Charlotte; T a 1 m a g e DeWhitt
Burchett, Elkin; Phillip Claude
Southard, Rt. 1, Elkin; Frederick
Carlisle Page, Jr„ Elkin; Broxter
William Owens, Elkin; William
Andrew Swift, Rt. 1, Elkin; Ernest
William Holcomb, Elkin; Coney
Carlyle Couch, Elkin; (transferred
to L. B. No. 13, Fulton County);
Hugh York Nelson, Elkin; Emmett
Ivan Woodle, Lexington; Lester
Wilson Cass, Elkin; Lesley Wood
row Carrico, Elkin; Ray Russell
Lawrence, Elkin; James Preston
Southard, Elkin; Culmer Hersal
Wood, Mountain Park; Daniel
Smith Cotyins, Jonesville; Leo
nard Montgomery Nixon, Oak
Ridge, Tenn.
Johnson Is INommated
For Mayor At Meeting
Of Elkin Voters Here
A
Nominated For Town Offices
Elkin citizens, in mass meeting at the Elkin elementary school
auditorium last Friday evening, nominated the men pictured above
to fill local town offices for the next two years, beginning in May.
They are, top row, left, Garland Johnson, nominee for mayor and
C. C. Myers, renominated for commissioner. Center row, left, J. W. L.
Benson, and R. C. Freeman, renominated for commissioner. Bottom
row, left, Joe O. Bivins, and C. N. Myers, nominees for commissioners.
Benson, Bivins and C. N. Myers will be new in office. Mr. Johnson
will succeed J. R. Poindexier as mayor. None of the group faces any
announced opposition at this time, and will be voted on in the town
election to be held May 7.
Ninth Army Is On Open
Road To Nazi Capital
Reported Within 99 Miles Of Berlin
After Speeding Beyond Brunswick
Paris, April 11.—Three Ameri
can Armies bore down' on the Elbe
River and Berlin along a front of
almost 100 miles today, paced by
a speeding U. S. Ninth Army col
umn that drove five miles beyond
Brunswick to within 99 miles of
Hitler’s dying capital.
The great supply build-up was
over and miles-long columns of
American tanks and truck-riding
doughboys were streaming east
ward along the wide-open roads to
Berlin, sparked by Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower’s electrifying an
nouncement that German resist
ance in the west had collapsed.
The Elbe River, , Berlin’s stand
or-die defense line, lay only 40
miles beyond the > Ninth Army’s
flying tank columns, and only 156
miles separated them from the
Red Army on the Oder.
First Army troops were 114
miles or less from Berlin, barely
50 miles from the Elbe and 158
miles from a juncture with the
Red Army.
Lieut. Gen. George 8. Patton’s
veteran Third Army* marking time
for almost a week after its spec
tacular dash across central Ger
many, was on the move again,
shoving eastward within 130 miles
of Berlin and south for Nuern
berg.
American fliers who criss
crossed above the Berlin roof-tops
yesterday in a day of record aerial
slaughter thgt saw almost 400
German planes destroyed aground
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THREE NEW MEN
ARE NAMED FOR
COMMISSIONERS
C. C. Poindexter And H. P.
Graham Decline
MEET HELD AT SCHOOL
Mayor J. R. Poindexter Was
Not Candidate For '
Re-Nomination
ELECTION ON MAY 7TH
At a mass meeting of Elkin
citizens held in the auditorium of
the Elkin elementary school last
Friday evening, Garland Johnson,
local banker, was nominated as
mayor, and the following five
men were named as commission
ers: C. C. Myers and K. C. Free
man, who will succeed themselves,
and C. N. Myers, J. W. L. Benson
and Joe O. Bivins. All were nomi
nated by acclamation.
Retiring from office are Mayor
J. R. Poindexter, who has served
in that capacity for the past
10 years; H. P. Graham, who has
been a commissioner for approxi
mately 20 years, part of which
time he served as mayor- pro-tem;
C. C. Poindexter and C. C. Fulp,
both of whom have been on the
board for 10 years. Mayor Poin
dexter and Commissioners Poin
dexter and Graham declined to
be candidates for re-nomination.
During the meeting, which was
opened by Mayor Poindexter fol
JfcWing a prayer by Dr. J.. Lem._4
Stokes, pastor of the Elkin Metho
dist Church, the names of Claude
Farrell, Hugh A. Royall, H. P.
Graham and J. L. Hall, Jr., were
put in nomination for commis
sioners, but each of these gentle
men asked that their nomination
be withdrawn. The name of R. L.
Church, who was also placed in
nomination, was later withdrawn.
Earl C. James acted as chair
man of the meeting, and Hubert
Parker and Alan Browning, Jr.,
as secretaries.
During the session, Mayor
Poindexter expressed his thanks
to the voters of Elkin and to the
members of the board who have
served with him for their co
operation during his term of
office. Toward the close of the
meeting a rising vote of thanks
was given to the mayor and the
retiring board.
The election to be held on May
7, will be a, formality as there is
no announced opposition to the
ticket named.
Corp. T. H. Sams
Missing: In Action
Corporal Thomas H. Sams (has
been reported missing in action
in Germany, according to an of
ficial War Department telegram
to his parents Saturday. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bryant
Sams of this city. Mr. Sams has
been a member of the police force
here for the past seven months.
Corporal Sams entered service
in December, 1942. He received
his training at Camp Campbell,
Ky., Port Jackson, S. C., and
Camp Barkeley, Texas. He went
overseas in September, 1944, and
served in England and Prance
prior to going to Germany.
Tribune Is 31st
In Nation In
Bond Advertising:
Due to the patriotism' of El
kin business firms who spon
sored a total of 33,306 lines of
War Bond advertising in The
Tribune during the Sixth War
Loan drive, Elkin is among the
top 100 towns in the nation
(served by a weekly newt
paper) , in War Bond advertis
ing.!
The Tribune was informed
Monday that it stood in 31st
place throughout the entire
United States in volume of War
Bond advertising carried.
' During the Sixth War Loan
drive, weekly newspapers show
ed an increase in amount of
sponsored War Bond advertis
ing carried, while daily news