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ELKIN
The Best Little Town
In North Carolina
* The Elkin Tribune *
ELKIN
Gateway To Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. NO. XXXIII No. 48
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1945
$2.00 PER YEAR
SECTION TWO—8 PAGES
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Police Report
No Headway In
Theft Of Cars
Believe Theft
Ring Operating
In This Area
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No trace has been found of
three automobiles which have
been stolen here during recent
weeks, leading local police to be
lieve that the thefts were the work
of an organized ring of car
thieves, it was learned Wednesday
from Chief of Police Corbett Wall.
The first automobile to be
stolen was taken on the night of
October 18 from a parking place
on West Main street near the
Lawrence Cleaners buulding. The
car, a black Ford tudor, the prop
erty of Walter C. Metz, of Elkin,
was spirited away while Mrs.
Metz was attending a movie
theatre.
Wednesday night of last week
two other automobiles were
stolen. One, a 1941 Ford Coupe
belonging to G. E. Twinning, of
South Carolina, was taken from
its parking place in front of Ho
tel Elkin. The other, a black 1940
Ford, property of Mrs. Bertha
Call, of Ronda, was taken from
its parking place near the Chat
ham Manufacturing Company,
where Mrs. Call is employed.
One thing which leads police to
suspect the thieves of being con
nected with an organized gang
was the manner in which the
Twinning car was taken. It was
said that the owner, who had had
his car stolen once before in
Richmond, Va., had locked the
steering wheel and all the doors
to his car, and had then discon
nected some wires to the motor.
However, all these precautions
were of no avail.
V
MASONS STAGE
_ LADIES’ NIGHT
Local Lodge Entertains At
Banquet Meeting Tuesday
Night At YMCA
J. S. HIATT SPEAKER
The wives of Ellon Masons were
delightfuflly entertained by their
husbands at a banquet at the Y.
M. C. A. Tuesday evening when
more than fifty couples met to
observe ladies’ night.
The ladies, before joining the
gentlemen who were entering the
dining halL from an opposite di
rection, were presented red and
white carnations by Glenn York
and Jack Caudell, members of
the program committee.
The dinner session was featured
with an interesting and humorous
address by Rev. J. S. Hiatt, form
er presiding elder of the Metho
dist church in this district, who
used as his topic, “Taffy and
Epitaphy.”
W. J. Graham, chairman of the
program committee, presided over
the meeting and gave a hearty
welcome to the Masons and their
wives attending.
C. O. Garland, present Master
of the local lodge, was introduced
by Mr. Graham, who, in turn,
introduced the speaker.
A highlight of the program was
a duet by Mrs. Ben Adair and
Mrs. Maurice Bumgarner, accom
panied at the piano by Mrs.
Dwayne Irwin.
Bingo was enjoyed by the la
dies, with Mrs. James Amburn
and Mrs. E. E. Shore, Jr., winning
prizes.
Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Weaver, of
Elkin, were honor quests.
Past Masters of the Elkin
Lodge who were present and rec
ognized were: M. C. Whitener,
Glenn York, Roy Barker, A. D.
Harmon, A. O. Bryan, Hugh Roy
all, Abe Harris, O. E. Boles, H. D.
Woodruff, R. L. Reinhardt, and
Louis Weatherman.
Winners Named In
Popularity Contest
Rosette Boles of Route 1, Elkin,
and Joe Golden, of State Road
were declared winners in the re
cent popularity contest held at
Mountain Park school recently.
The winners, both ninth grade
students in the Mountain Park
school, were awarded gifts by that
school honoring their popularity
Others competing in the contest
were Nancy Wall, Bettie Jo Dar
nell, Bettie Jean Walker, Ales
Wall, Howard Burchett, and Ales
Carter.
STATE
RALEIGH. Oct. 30. — North
Carolina’s highway speed limit
will become 50 miles per hour
beginning tomorrow. The coun
cil of state recently adopted
the new speed limit to replace
the old wartime limit of 35
miles per hour.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. —
President Truman tonight an
nounced a new government
wage-price policy and stated
that industry as a whole can
afford to pay higher wages
within the present price struc
ture. At the same time he
warned labor to be “reason
able" in its demands. He told
the nation in a radio broadcast
that labor “has a stern respon
sibility to see that demands for
wage increases arc reasonable.”
At the same time he issued an
executive order authorizing
Judge John C. Collet, stabiliza
tion administrator, to put into
effect a basically changed gov
ernment wage policy liberaliz
ing provisions governing wage
increases which previously re
quired government approval.
Mr. Truman outlined several
reasons for his belief “that in
dustry as a whole can affofft
substantial wage increases
without price increases.”
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. —
Congressional concern over na
tion-wide strikes took positive
form today when the house
military affairs committee ap
proved a bill to repeal the
strike vote and plant seizure
provisions of the Smith-Con
nally law and tighten the sta
tutory ban against union poli
tical activity. The measure also
would impose stiff penalties
against a union which struck
while, it had a contract con
taining a no-strike agreement.
The union would be liable for
damages in
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court and also would lose its
rights as bargaining agent for
one year. An employer would
be relieved of his obligations
under the contract.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. —
Amid praise from sympathetic
senators, the army today un
veiled its detailed charts for a
single cabinet department with
authority over land, sea and
air forces. Sensitive to strong
navy opposition to any “mer
ger” of the navy and war de
partments, the army spokes
man quickly assured legislators
“this is not a proposal to merge
the army, navy, and air force
into a single service.” Instead,
Lt. Gen. J. Lawton Collins de
scribed the proposal as one
that would “guarantee ade
quate autonomy" for the navy,
the marines and navy air units,
las well as the air forces and
the army. All would be placed
under a single civilian “secre
tary of the armed forces.”
INTERNATIONAL
CHUNGKING, Oct. 30. —
Gunfire rattled on in 11 pro
vinces of disjointed China to
day, while central government
and. Chinese., communist
spokesmen in Chungking con
ceded that tb3 violence-pro
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Ritchie Is Named
Chaplain of Squad
The Elkin Emergency Squad
met last Thursday night at the
City Hall.
Due to the fact that the organi
zation’s chaplain, Dr. J. Lem
Stokes, II, has been transferred
by the Methodist conference to
another field, Rev. Ralph Ritchie,
pastor of the Elkin Presbyterian
Church was elected to succeed Dr,
Stokes.
During the meeting an interest
ing talk was made to the mem
bers by Rev. Mr. Richie.
SIGN HERE, PLEASE
Post Office Thief
Is Nabbed Quickly
Robbery Here
Nets Culprit
Total of $140
Henry Louis Denney, 15-year
old negro boy, was arrested here
last Thursday by Chief of Police
Corbett Wall on a charge of
breaking into the Elkin post of
fice and stealing cash in the
amount of $140.20.
Denney, said to have been on
parole for a similar offense at
Mooresville, his home, after hav
ing served 14 months of his sen
tence, was carried to Albemarle
by Federal officers, where he will
face trial in juvenile court.
The youth entered the post of
fice here, according to Postmaster
F. W. Graham, by breaking a hole
in a pane of glass in a rear win
dow, through which he reached to
unlock the window. The money,
which represented box rents and
key deposits, was in a lock box
which was prized open.
The negro was arrested after he
had taken a large amount of
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RATION BOARD
GUEST OF CLUB
Kiwanians Hosts To Mem
bers of Wartime Agency
And Their Helpers
PLAN FOOTBALL MOVIE
Members of the Elkin ration
board and local price panels were
guests of the Elkin Kiwanis Club
at its meeting at the YMCA last
Thursday evening.
T. C. McKnight, president of
the club; G. L. Hill, C. N. Myers,
W. M. Allen and several other Ki
wanians assured the ration board
members that the community as
a whole appreciated their efforts
to serve on the board in a fair
and impartial manner. Short
talks were made by Chairman of
the Board W. C. Cox, W. W.
Whitaker and Thomas Ring, on
behalf of the board.
Miss Grace Davis, guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Clifton Leary, enter
tained the meeting with several
solos, accompanied by Mrs. Ben
Adair. Rev. Ralph Ritchie led the
club in a lively group singing.
At the meeting this evening
(Thursday), Kiwanians will see
color movies of the Duke-Ala
bama “Sugar Bowl” game of last
New Year’s Day.
Tribune One Of
25 Papers In
Nation Selected
The Tribune has been noti
fied by William J. Oertel, act
ing director of the Weekly
Newspaper Bureau, of Syra
cuse, N. Y., that it has been
selected as one of 25 weekly
papers in the United States for
study and analysis as a basis
of a series of readership sur
veys now being planned.
This honor was conferred
upon The Tribune by virtue of
the fact it was prize-winner in
a recent contest of the Nation
al Editorial Association, at
which time it was selected as
winner of second prize for gen
eral excellence throughout the
nation.
Red Cross Room Is
Now At City Hall
The Red Cross Sewing Room
has moved from its location at the
corner of Market and Bridge
street, to the offices formerly oc
cupied by the Rationing Board on
the second floor of the City Hall.
SHOE RATIONINC
BROUGHTTOENE
No Longer Necessary T<
Have Ration Stamp; Was
Begun February 8, 1943
OUTPUT IS INCREASIN(
The end of another wartim
emergency measure—rationing o
shoes—came Tuesday night a
12:01 a. m.
Wednesday morning it wa
okey to walk into any store am
purchase a pair of shoes withou
worrying about a shoe stamp
provided, of course, one couli
find the shoe he or she wanted.
Local merchants, while havini
a fair stock of shoes as a whole
have felt the pinch of wartim
shortages and cannot supply thei
customers in all cases with th
style and size shoe desired. How
ever, due to substantial increas
in shoe production since V-J Daj
it is hoped that shoe stocks wii
soon return to normal.
Shoe rationing began on Feb
ruary 8, 1943, when civilians wer
limited to three pairs each pe
year. This quota was later re
duced.
Chester Bowles, OPA adminis
trator, has announced that th
outlook for November and De
cember is for 29 million pairs o
shoes each month. This, he saic
would be equal to the pre-wa
demand.
FLY STEAKS TO GOVERNOR — Graham Myers, left, a member
of the Elkin Junior Chamber of Commerce, and Henry Dobson,
Surry county representative to the General Assembly, are pictured
just before taking off for Raleigh from the Elkin airport with sev
eral choice steaks for Governor R. Gregg Cherry. The steaks were
taken from the grand champ of the recent fat stock show and sale
here at which Mr. Myers was the purchaser of the prize animal for
the stores he heads. —Photo by Henry Woodruff.
Plans Mapped Tuesday
For Victory War Loan
Drive In Elkin Area
STUDENTS WILL
CANVASS TOWN
Results Thus Far of Sale of
Athletic Season Tickets
Are Disappointing
URGED TO BACK TEAM
Students of the Elkin high
school will'canvass the town on
Friday of this week to sell season
tickets for this year’s school ath
letic program, according to Dr. V.
W. Taylor, chairman of the Jaycee
Athletic Committee.
One ticket entitles the bearer to
see all games played by the local
team, including all sports.
Sales so far this year have been
disappointing, Dr. Taylor states,
and due to the fine spirit of
sportsmanship and excellent
showing of the football team dis
played thus far in the the Elkin
sports world, better support
should be forthcoming.
Dr. Taylor, therefore, asks that
citizens of Elkin back the team to
the fullest extent by buying a
season ticket when called on by
the pupils Friday.
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CHATHAM OUT
OF THE NAVY
| Local Industrilist Is Released
To Inactive Duty After
i Over Three Years
TO DIVIDE TIME
Commander Thurmond Chat
ham has been released to inactive
duty from the Naval Reserve and
, has returned to his home in Win
' ston-Salem after three and a half
years of service, including combat
2 in the Pacific.
^ Mr. Chatham’s first assignment
t was in the Bureau of Ordnance,
Navy Department, Washington,
3 and his last under the office of
1 the Secretary of the Navy. In
t between these assignments he saw
. service aboard the cruiser Phoe
1 nix in the Southwest Pacific. It
was for his service on the Phoenix
1 that he was awarded the Bronze
, Star.
3 Concerning his plans for the
f future, Mr. Chatham was quoted
2 as saying that he would spend
■ part of his time in Washington as
2 president and publisher of the
. Army and Navy Bulletin, new na
1 tion-wide weekly journal for the
armed forces, particularly for
■ non-regular officers of the Army,
2 Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast
r Guard. He will also be active as
■ a leader in the Rons, a new or
ganization for reserve officers in
• Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast
2 Guard.
This announcement manifests
f an earlier expressed interest Mr.
. Chatham has in the cause of na
r tional defense and perpetual pre
paredness, causes that he believes
‘ were “sold short” after the first
World War by lapsing interest.
ELKIN DEFEATS
N. WILKESBORO
Will Go To Mocksville Today
For Return Game After
Winning Friday 31-0
RATLEDGE TOP SCORER
The Elkin high school Buckin’
Elks will go to Mocksville today
(Thursday), for a return game
with Mocksville after staging a
strong offensive attack here last
Friday afternoon to whitewash
North Wilkesboro 31 to 0. The
Mocksville game will begin at
3:30 p. m., and a large number of
the high school student body is
expected to attend.
In the game with North Wilkes
boro, Bob Ratledge toted leather
to chalk up four of his team’s
touchdowns. Two tallies were
pushed over in the second period
with three more coming in the
final period. B. Harris accounted
for one touchdown.
Outstanding for Elkin were K.
Adams, B. Harris, Bob Ratledge,
Shugart, Osborne and York. For
North Wilkesboro, Turner, Par
due, Ballard, Rosseau, Winters
and Stokes.
AWARDED BRONZE STAR —
Major James R. Burcham, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Bur
cham, 831 West Main street, has
been awarded the Bronze Star
Medal, according to an an
nouncement made by Major
General Thomas A. Terry, com
mander of. the India-Burma
Theatre. Burcham was cited for
his work as assistant command
ant at the India-Burma head
quarters in New Delhi, India.
His citation read ip part: “He
established an efficient organi
zation and maintained a high
standard of discipline and mor
ale among its personnel. In ad
dition to his other duties, Ma
jor Burcham has been housing
officer, billeting office;* and
transportation officer of the
Delhi area. He has worked
many hours of his own volition
far beyond those normally ex
pected in order that his head
quarters might function
smoothly.”
CHATHAM GIVEN
SECOND AWARD
Safety Award Is Presented
Monday Night At Dinner
Meeting of Council
IS SECOND FOR YEAR
The Chatham Manufacturing
company was presented its second
safety award of the year from the
United States Department of La
bor for outstanding safety achieve
ment, on Monday night of this
week at a dinner meeting of the
Plant Saftey Council.
This award, presented by E. G
Padgett, Safety Director of the
North Carolina Industrial Com
mission, Raleigh, to R. W. Harris
Superintendent of the company
was given as a high commenda
tion for the outstanding safetj
record obtained by the plant foi
the first six months of this year
as compared with the same period
of last year, which showed a 65.1
deduction in loss time accidents
over last year’s record for the firsl
six months. The first award
which was presented in January
covered the last six-months period
of 1944.
C. J. Hyslup, director of the
Safety Council, presided over the
meeting and introduced the
speaker.
Is He Coming?
We Don’t Know
The great mystery, “is he is ox
is he ain’t” coming to Statesville
Friday, in which President Tru
man is playing the star role, was
still a great mystery as far as The
Tribune was concerned at press
time Wednesday evening.
Although announcements have
been issued from Washington
stating the President has cancell
ed all trips, stories in the daily
press with Statesville datelines
have continued to say that he is
still expected, and hope hasn’t
been abandoned.
Last reports were that States
ville will have a celebration re*
gardless, with War Secretary Rob
ert Patterson, and Secretary ol
the Treasury Fred Vinson, plus
assorted governors, as guests of
honor if Mr. Truman doesn’t show
Many North Carolina farmers
are reporting about 30 per cent
increases in yields of com from
the use of hybrid seed. The cost
of the extra com in running from
4 to 6 cents a bushel.
Miss Powell Is
Named To Head
Local Campaign
J. F. Yokley, Surry county
chairman of the Victory bond
drive, and W. L. Glancy, per
manent chairman for the drive,
both of Mount Airy, met with the
local committee on Tuesday of
this week at the Y. M. C. A. for
the purpose of organizing Elkin
and its district, which includes
Mountain Park, North Elkin, and
Little Richmond.
The overall quota for Surry
county in this, the last bond drive,
has been set at $1,045,000, with
the E Bond quota being $454,000,
Mr. Yokley said.
Miss Mattie Mae Powell, of the
Building and Loan Association,
was named as chairman to head
the local drive, which, according
to Miss Powell, will get under
way locally about the twelfth of
November.
Raymond Harris, Hubert Park
er, and D. G. Smith, members of
the local committee who attended
the meeting, expressed their be
liefs that Elkin would reach its
quota this time as it has always
done in the past drives.
Neill M. Smith, Surry county
farm agent, was named to head
the rural areas in the county.
Other chairmen named were Her
man Coe, Dobson; W. M. Mat
thews and J. W. Gordon, co
chairmen for the Pilot Mountain
district.
CHERRY ENJOYS
TASTY STEAKS
Choice Cuts From Grand
Champ of Fat Stock Show
Presented Governor
WRITES HIS THANKS
Governor R. Gregg Cherry, who
was a guest of Elkin during the
recent fat stock show and sale
here, is fully convinced that the
finest meat in the world can be
raised and is raised, in North Car
olina, after being made a gift of
several choice steaks taken from
the grand champion of the show.
Graham Myers, whose Cash &
Carry Stores, purchased the
grand champion calf at 62 cents
per pound, flew to Raleigh after
the animal was butchered, with
the steaks for Governor Cherry,
accompanied by Henry Dobson, of
Elkin, Surry County representa
tive to the General Assembly.
In a letter to Mr. Myers, the
Governor said: ‘‘I never had a
finer steak than the one I had for
supper Monday night of this week,
for which I want to thank you all
over again. Your gift convinced
me all the more that the finest
meat in the world can be raised,
and is raised, here in North Car
olina. I do appreciate your
thoughtfulness and wanted you
to know how keenly I enjoyed the
meat.”
The governor didn’t forget the
little girl, Nancy Gambill, 9, of
Sparta, who raised the grand
champ. In a letter to her he
said: Dear Nancy: Thanks to Mr.
Graham Myers, who was the lucky
purchaser of your champion calf,
I have just had the opportunity
of discovering just how fine a fine
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Electric Power
To Be Off An
Hour Sunday
Electric power in Elkin,
Boonville, East Bend and Yad
kinviile areas will be off Sun
day afternoon in order that a
number of necessary repairs
may be made, it was announc
ed Wednesday by D. G. Smith,
manager of the local office.
Mr. Smith said the power
would be' off locally and in the
Boonville and East Bend areas
from 2:30 p. m. to 3:30 P. m.
In the Yadkinville area it will
be off from 2:30 p. M. until
4:00 p. m.
These hours were chosen in
the hopes that customers serv
ed by the company would suf
fer a minimum of inconven
ience, it was said.