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frOL. NO. XXXIII No. 31
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1945
$2.00 PER YEAR
14 PAGES—.TWO SE(
PENETRATE TO
OINT DEEP IN
IEMY WATERS
rks Boldest Penetration
Yet,\Iaps State
RElORT NOT CONFIRMED
Tokyo, -SuffA-ing From In
vasion Jitters, Fears At
tack Frtm North
FLEET OF FIVE SHIPS
San Frantisco, July 4.—Five
•American warships shelled Kar
*adtuto Island yesterday in their
deepest penetration of Japanese
waters, Tok;o radio reported to
day. "
Karafuto s the Japanese-held
half of Saklalin Island, just off
the Asiatic ontinent north of
Japan. The northern half is
held by Sovte Russia.
Warships eportedly trained
their guns on war installations
off Shikuka, aport in the Bay of
Tarika near tie Soviet-Japanese
border.
There was h confirmation of
the broadcast hich was beamed
to America anepicked up by the
Federal Commnications Com
mission.
Karafuto-Sakklin divides the
Sea of Japan ten the Sea of
Okhotsk. Only (ice have Ameri
can warships paetrated these
waters,- when a t?k force of the
U. S. North Pacif Fleet recently
steamed through he Kurile Is
lands and knocketout an enemy
convoy.
Bhikuka is on t!h east coast of
Karafuto, nearly 4t miles north
of Hokkaido, northmmost of the
main islands of Japn.
To reach Karafutia task force
from Vice-Admiral ?rank Jack
Fletcher's Ninth Flee would have
had to steam out ofdaskan wa
ters, slip through thtoft-bombed
Kurile Islands am penetrate
roughly 500 miles t Nippon’s
most distant seas.
Tokyo, which has ong been
worrying about an in>gion from
the south, became Mrehensive
last week about an afcck from
the north. These broatasts said
the Ninth Fleet was ling in
creased, and paratroopiand Al
pine units added to merican
ground forces stationed ^ Alas
ka.
I. Wade Na
Special
L. I. Wade, of Elkin, has
been a postal clerk at th^sikm
post office for the past 18 naims,
has been appointed a tda{
Surry county deputy by Ariff
Sam Patterson, it was annofced
Monday. Appointment of jjfo.
Wade, who will devote most t^is
time to this end of the co^y,
was approved by the county b^^
of commissioners Monday, Mq,
Snow, chairman of the bo^
stated.
Mr. Wade will continue
the post office for a short wlv
until someone is obtained to v
place him there, F. W. Graha
postmaster, said.
Prior to going to work at tt
post office, Mr. Wade served, <tj
a deputy for a brief time.
AAA Office Is Now
Ready With Pay men
The AAA office in Dobson i
now ready to make a subsidy pas
xnent on milk and butterfat fc
April, May, and June. Milk prc
ducers are asked to make applies
tion the same as in the past wit
their sales records. The rate <
payment is 90 cents per hundre
pounds on milk, and 17 cents p<
pound on butterfat sold in Apr]
For May and June the rate (
payment is 55 cents per hundre
pounds on milk and 10 cents pe
"'pound on butterfat.. The paj
pent is available for produce]
|ust starting as well as for daii
producers with past productic
records. *
>$f| This payment is a part of tl
Commodity Credit Corporation
program to stimulate milk ar
putter production to 'meet w*
needs.
Of the 489 prisoners of war i
North Carolina, 189 are.harves
> tog food and feed crops, 30 are :
dairy work, and 270 are enga*
:ral farm work.
LATE
NEWS
IN
BRIEF
From
the
State
and
Nation
STATE
BURGAW, July 3. — State
Whitley, first on the scene of a
navy plane crash one mile east
of Burgaw, said tonight that he
counted nine bodies in the
strewn wreckage of the de
molished plane. Whitley said
the plane, which was com
pletely destroyed, fell in a
small clearing in a wooded
area. He said it fell as heavy
thunderstorms reached the
area. Capt. M. H. Roblin, pub
lic relations officer at Blue
thenthal army air base, Wil
mington, N. C., 24 miles from
here, said the plane was “shat
tered beyond recognition,”
making the task of identifica
tion all but impossible. It was
not known immediately where
the plane had been based.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, July 3.—
Harry L. Hopkins, Iowa har
ness maker’s son who became
one of the world’s most power
ful behind-the-scenes figures,
resigned from government ser
vice today to “take a rest.”
Thus ended 12 turbulent years
during which the ailing Hop
kins rose from obscurity as a
social worker to a position of
eminence as No. 1 adviser to
the late President Roosevelt
and confidant of Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill and
Russian Premier Josef Stalin.
“The time has come when I
must take a rest,” he said in
his letter of resignation to
President Truman.
WASHINGTON, July 3.—
Squinting into the sunshine on
a White House terrace, James
F. Byrnes took the oath as sec
retary of state today and then
made a plea for world-wide
tolerance. “Today there can be
no doubt that the peoples of
this war-ravaged earth want to
live in a peaceful world,” he
said. “But the supreme task
of statesmanship the world
over is to help them under
stand that theycan have peace
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OLD BET WILL
OPEN SEPT. 18
Mount Airy and Winston
Salem Markets Are
Included In Area
OTHER OPENING DATES
Opening of the Old Belt tobacco
markets, which include Mount
Airy and Winston-Salem, appear
ed assured for Tuesday, Septem
ber 18, when it was reported
Wednesday night of last week
that the Board of Governors of
the Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco
Warehousemen’s Association vot
<4. unanimously for the date. It
i
vas also understood that the sales
sommittee of the Tobacco Asso
ciation voted for the same date.
With September 18 Eyccepted for
te old Belt, other belts would
ten their markets as follows:
Ghporgia and Florida, July 24,
tli Carolina and Border Belt,
18; Eastern North Caro
Belt, August 21; Middle Belt,
her 11. The Old Belt
be only a week behind the
Belt, Sept. 18.
Wist
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^Release Odd
Lot Shoes July 9
‘.'ration holiday” extending
Ally 9 through July 28 will
trmt the public to buy certain
*oml
d Poes
f*A
l-mv
i-free. This release by
?s dealers to sell odds
and broken sizes
,'rwhich accumulate after
season,*, without re
ation stamp. Such’odd
mst be sold at prices at
under the **»,
VmM
YOUTH CARAVAN AT METHODIST CHURCH—Five members of
a youth caravan team that has been touring: various sections of
North Carolina will arrive Saturday for a week’s visit to the Elkin
Methodist Church. Members of the team, headed by Miss Mable
Nance, Jonesboro, Ark., a graduate of Arkansas State College, fol
low: front row, left to right: Miss Wylna Adkins, of Lynnville,
Tenn., and Martin Junior College; Miss Sara Clair Robertson, of
New Albany, Miss., and Mississippi State College. Back row, left
to right: E. H. Nease, Jr., Greensboro and Duke University; Miss
Nance, and Gilreath G. Adams, Jr., Charlotte and Duke Divinity
School. These youth leaders will conduct classes, direct a daily
workshop and lead in a worship and recreational program that will
extend through Friday of next week. Highlighting the program
will be the attendance on Monday night, July 9, of all members of
the Elkin-Yadkin youth fellowship sub-district. A picnic supper
at the church will follow this meeting. The caravan program is
designed for all young people 12 years of age and above, and for
all adult leaders of youth. The first session will be held at the
church on Sunday, July 8, at 7:00 p. m. Registration will continue
through this week.
July Bonus Is Paid
Chatham Workers
Checks Handed
To Employees
Here Tuesday
The Chatham Manufacturing
Company Tuesday paid all em
ployees an annual mid-year
bonus, as has been the custom
during the past five years.
Bonus checks to the 478 Chat
ham men and women in the arm
ed services were mailed some time
ago.
A special message from A. L.
Butler, president of the company,
accompanied all checks to the
men and women in service, and a
message from Mr. Butler was also
included in*the checks paid Tues
day.
The letters were as follows:
To Our Fellow Workers:
Because of the successful con
clusion of the European war,
which was brought about by the
bravery of oyr soldiers in the
field and the full cooperation of
the people at home, this year we
have reason to celebrate the
Fourth of July with joy in our
hearts. Let us all hope that dur
ing the year we will also have
occasion to celebrate victory over
Japan.
We are proud of the 478 Chat
ham men and women in the
Armed Services, and we also
have just pride in the job we
have done at the mill in supply
ing in the past few years over
ten million blankets to the var
ious branches of the service.
It is hoped that you will use
your this year’s July bonus check
in such way that will give you a
maximum of pleasure. Let us
continue to work hard and save
something as we go along, and
have the satisfaction of knowing
that we have done our job well.
To OUr Employees in the Armed
Forces:
Your July Bonus check is en
closed. It expresses in- a small
way our. gratitude for the excel
lent job you have done, and the
hope that it will bring pleasure
to you wherever you may be.
With, peace in Europe, and
with the war progressing favor
ably in the Pacific, July 4th has
an added meaning to all of us
this year. The valor of our fight
ing men, and women has kept oyr
Independence secure, apd fc$J5
same desire to be free people
must and will end in complete
victory in the Pacifjc.
All of us at the mill are con
tributing to the war effort as
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Reo. Caudill
Resigns To Take
New Position
REV. O. V. CAUDILL
Rev. O. V. Caudill, of this city,
who has served as superinten
dent of Home Missions in the
Winston-Salem Presbytery since
1939, has resigned to take a new
ly authorized Synod position, it
has been announced.
Rev. Mr. Caudill will head a
new office set up by the home
mission and religious education
committees of the Synod of
North Carolina, which will plan
and superintend manse erection
and building and remodeling of
churches, such work has been a
hobby with him for the past 15
years, and during that time he
collected a large number of plans
and pictures, he said Tuesday
morning.
Although to leave Elkin Sep
tember l, Mr. Caudill stated he
has not yet definitely decided in
what town he will make his head
quarters and home.
The news that Rev. and Mrs.
Caudill are to leave Elkin is
learned with deep regret by all
who know them.
Jr. O. U. A. M. Is To
Place New Officers
Paul Newman. Councilor, ?e
mk JMfj- «
Surry Trailing E
By 28 Per Cent;
Noon Final Day For
RONDA MAN IS
SHOT SUNDAY
Condition of Pressley Hig
gins, in Hospital Here,
Described As Fair
FATHER-IN-LAW HELD
The condition of Pressley Hig
gins, of Ronda, who is in Hugh
Chatham Memorial Hospital here
with a bullet wound in the ab
domen, was described by hospital
attaches Wednesday morning as
fair.
Higgins was carried to the hos
pital Sunday morning about 11:00
o’clock following a shooting which
occurred at the home of Marshall
Childress, his father-in-law. His
condition was described as criti
cal at the time.
The shooting occurred, Child
ress told officers, after his daugh
ter, who is the wife of Higgins,
came to his home for protection
after she had been abused by her
husband. Higgins, he said, came
after her, armed with a gun, and
threatened to “kill the whole
family.” He attempted to force
his way into the house, it was
said, whereupon Childress said he
got his own gun and shot Higr ins,
the bullet taking effect in his .b
domen. He described the shoot
ing as self-defense.
Immediately after the shoot
ing, Childress called officers and
reported the occurrence. Sheriff
C. G. Poindexter, of Wilkes, and
Deputies Blaine Sparks and S. U.
Reynolds made the investigation.
Childress was required to give a
small bond pending the outcome
of Higgins’ injuries.
Higgins formerly was a driver
of a Parkway passenger bus op
erating between Elkin and North
Wilkesboro.
JOS. J. REAVIS
FUNERAL HELD
Yadkinville Man Passed
Away At Hugh Chatham
Hospital Thursday
GARMON, SPEER PRESIDE
Joseph J. Reavis, 60, who lived
two miles west' of Yadkinville,
died late Thursday at Hugh Chat
ham Memorial hospital where he
had been a patient about a week.
Mr. Reavis was a well known
farmer until his health failed a
few years ago. He was called
“Joda” Reavis for short by his
friends.
Funeral services were held at
Center Methodist church Satur
day afternoon with the pastor,
Rev. D. H. Garmon and Rev. R.
L. Speer in charge of the ser
vices. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Mr. Reavis was a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Reavis of near Yadkinville. He
was married to Miss Mary Helton
September 28, 1913. He had spent
fiis life in the ‘section where he
died.
Survivors include the widow,
four daughters, Mrs. Clara Reavis
of Winston-Salem; Mrs. Hugh
Benge' and Mrs. Kenneth Steel
man of Yadkinville; and Miss
Edith Reavis of the home; three
sons. Corporal David Reavis of
the U. S. Army in the Pacific;
and Sherrill and Herbert Reavis
of Yadkinville; two brothers, ex
Sheriff Charlie G, Reavis, and
Julian W. Reavis of Yadkinville;
three sisters, Mrs. L. R. Steelman,
Mrs. Frank Davis, o'f Yadkinville;
and Mrs. Willis Holcomb, Yadkin
ville, Route 1; one grandchild.
Surry Tax Rate Is
Set At $1 By Board
The Surry county board of
commissioners, Monday set the
county tax rate at $1.00 per hun
dred dollar valuation, which
marks no change from last year.
The commissioners also in
creased the appropriation to the
county health department tor the
purpose of providing additional
County nurses, -.' .
The jury he* ww purged and a
new list of names for jury service
Morrisett To
Leaoe Elkin
About Sept. 1
REV. STEPHEN MORRISETT
Rev. Stephen Morrisett, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, of
this city, for the past five years,
has resigned his pastorate to ac
cept a position as head of the De
partment of Religion of Gardner
Webb College at Boiling Springs.
He said Monday that he would
leave Elkin about September 1.
Rev. Mr. Morrisett came to El
kin from the Southern Baptist
Seminary at Louisville, Ky., and
during his stay here both he and
his family have endeared them
selves not only to the members of
his church, but to the entire com
munity. News of his leaving has
come as an unwelcome shock to
the entire community. -
Rev. Mr. Morrisett, who in ad
dition to being an outstanding
pastor, is also an accomplished
musician. He succeeded Rev.
Eph. Whisenhunt here.
HENDERSONIS
CITY ATTORNEY
Is Named By Commissioners
Here At Meeting Monday
To Succeed Allen
AGREE TO PAVE ALLEY
At a meeting of the Elkin board
of commissioneys, held at the city
hall Monday evening, Hoke Hen
derson, member of the law firm
of Allen & Henderson, was ap
pointed town attorney.
Mr. Henderson succeeds W. M.
Allen, who has held that post
here for many years.
The commissioners also author
ized police to turn on the traffic
signal at the intersection of
Owyn Avenue and Spring streets.
This light has not been operating
since all traffic lights were turn
ed off shortly after the outbreak
of the war.
It was also decdied to surface
the alley which runs back of
stores on the south side of West
Main street provided the owners
of the buildings and the firms
leasing them would agree to pay
one-third each of the costs, the
town to pay* the other one-third.
New Superintendent
Of Nurses Secured
Dr. E. L. Rice has announced
that the services of Miss Virginia
Qreenwaldt of Texas as superin
tendent of nurses have been se
cured for Hugh Chatham Memor
ial Hospital.
Miss Qreenwaldt has studied
the past year at Scarratt College
and in the Vanderbilt School of
Nursing in Nashville, Tenn. She
will take up her duties in Elkin
on July 16.
in County
Deputies Everetfce Hurt, of
Bponville, and Walter Welborn,
of Cycle, Monday captured and
destroyed a J]
Knob’s section
1-Hour Parking
Law Is To Be
Enforced Here
Effective Monday, July 9,
local police will enforce the
one-hour parkins law on El
kin business streets, Corbett
Wall, chief of police, said
Tuesday.
Chief Wall said there would
be no restriction as to parkins
by out-of-town motorists, but
merchants and their em
ployees, and other citizens of
Elkin would be expected to
abide by the one-hour limit,
effective from 7:00 a. m. to
6:00 p. m. daily.
It was also stated that a spe
cial effort is to be made to
curb the practice of motorists
in runnins through the red
lights here, with court action
the penalty for violations.
NURSES’ AIDES
GRADUATE HERE
Ten Members of Third Red
Cross Class Receive Caps
At Exercise Friday
TO START NEW CLASS
Members of the third Red Cross
Nurses’ Aide class to be trained
at the Hugh Chatham Memorial
Hospital, were graduated last Fri
day evening at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA following a banquet given
by the hospital for the graduates
and members of preceding classes.
Following the banquet gradu
ation exercises were held in the
YMCA parlor, with the address to
the class being made by Dr. C. C.
Weaver, superintendent of the
hospital. The capping ceremony
was in charge of Mrs. Seth Beale,
instructor of the class.
Presentation of certificates was
by Miss Roxie Bowen, chairman
of the Nurses’ Aide committee,
and acceptance of the class was
by Dr. E. L. Rice, hospital sur
geon.
Members of the class are: Mrs.
Louise R. Bryan, Mrs. Bessie S.
Williams, Mrs. Effie Hanks, Mrs.
Jennie D. Hanks, Mrs. Elizabeth
H. Harris, Mrs. Virginia S. Lewis,
Mrs. Ruth J. Martin, Mrs. Ruth
Poston, Mrs. Carolyn C. Roth and
Mrs. Olivia Royall.
A new class will begin at the
hospital on July 10 at the request
of Dr. Weaver and Dr. Rice, who
point out the urgent need of more
nurses’s aides due to the shortage
of trained nurses caused by war
time conditions, and who urge as
many women as possibly can to
join the class. Classes will be
held each Tuesday and Friday
afternoon from 1:00 to 4:00
o’clock, with Mrs. Beale to again
act as instructor.
Boonville Community Can
nery Will This Year Serve
Yadkin and Neighbors
SCARCITY OF FOODS
WILL BE OPEN
2 DAYS WEEKLY
The Boonville community Can
nery announces it will be open on
Tuesday and Friday mornings of
each week until there is a need for
more time. Should a need devel
op for full days on the aboye
days or for more days per week
arrangements will be made for
the cannery to be open.
Due to the scarcity of canned
food the cannery will not be lim
ited to the Boonville Community
but will be open to Yadkin and
adjoining bounties.
A cannery operator will be in the
cannery to assist in the operation
of the equipment but patrons will
do their own canning.
Glass or tin cans may be used.
Tin cans in NO. 3 and No. 2 will
be available at the cannery fqjf
those who desire them. If patrons .
buy their tin cans from some*
Other
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SALES AMOUNT
TO $545,209
gigi
Yadkin County Over Top By
More Than $20,000
SURRY QUOTA $756,000.00
Yokley Expresses Fear Coun
ty Will Fail Unless Last
Minute Spurt Develops
SOLDIERS BUYING BONDS
With the time to buy E-Bonds
and have them count on the E
Bond quota in the Seventh War
Loan drive limited to noon Satur
day, all Surry citizens are urged
to buy as heavily as possible to
day, Friday and Saturday morn
ing if the county is to reach its
quota, War Bond officials said
Wednesday.
As of last Saturday, sale of E
Bonds in Surry totalled only
$545,209, or only 72 per cent of
the quota of $756,000. Elkin sales
of E-Bonds, a majority of which
are included in the figure above,
now total approximately $274,000.
All Bonds purchased up to noon
Saturday will count in the quota,
inasmuch as issuing agencies will
have time to get their reports in
to the federal reserve bank by
Monday, July 9, the date on
which all reports must be in. This
date had at first been set at July
7, but was extended.
J. F. Yokley, chairman of the
Seventh War Loan in Surry, said
that a considerable increase in E»
Bond purchases must be made
quickly if the county is to reach
its quota, but on the basis of buy
ing in recent weeks expressed
fear that Surry would fall down
as far as the E-Bonds are con
cerned. He expressed no fear as
to the other Bond series.
Mr. Yokley also stated that
Surry ccunty men in the armed
forces, considering that they are.
risking their lives fighting for
their country, are setting a better
record in E-Bond buying than the
folks safe at home. He express
ed the opinion that Surry citizens
should feel ashamed to let the
men who are doing the fighting
also make a better showing in
Bond purchases than they.
Yadkin county, with an E-Bond
quota of $221,000 has exceeded its
quota by over $20,000, having sold
E-Bonds in the amount of $241,
286.25, according to figures re
leased by Chairman Fred C.
Hobson.
Complete figures on Bonds of
all denominations sold during the
Seventh War Loan in Surry are ,
expected to be forthcoming for
publication in The Tribune next
week.
Kiwanians Hear
Report On Camps
The program of the Elkin Ki
wanis Club, which met at the
YMCA Thursday evehing of last
week, was under the direction of
Miss Margaret Abernethy, and
was devoted to reports by .several
youngsters who took part in the
recent YMCA-Kiwanis camps at
Silver Pines near Roaring Oap/
Reports were made by Abie
Harris and Edna Dillon White for
the junior camps, an<l by Betty
Jean Pardue apd Jack Parks for
the senior camps. ■ . * v
Miss Mary Ellen Han-ell and N,
H. carpenter, leaders of their re
spective classes, rep<
an the activities of
groups.
Chatham Defe*
. Independe:
The Chatham.. base'
Saturday defeated Ind
Vi.', 7 to 4. in a ga
Winging their taUjr
luring the season to IQ
Played.
Wednesday afterriooa
was scheduled to fPlety '