ELKIN
The Best Little Town
In North Carolina
The Elkin Tribune
ELKIN
Gateway To Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. NO. XXXIII No. 49
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1945
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HOW WAR BONDS GROW IN VALUE YEARLY
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. —
Navy demobilization has passed
the half-million mark, it was
revealed tonight, as congres
sional ire over military policy
flared anew in the senate with
demands for suspension of the
draft and for a civilian investi
gation of the court-martial
system. A spokesman said that
through Monday, 505,000 navy
personnel were discharged. The
total included 441,000 male en
listed personnel, 47,900 male
officers and 16,500 Waves. The
navy’s schedule calls for the
release of some 1,200,000 per
sonnel by January 1. Senator
Clyde R. Hocy, Democrat,
North Carolina, chimed in that
“if there ever was a time for a
draft, it is now past.”
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 —
Bushy-browed, ponderous John
L. Lewis kicked up a storm in
the labor-management confer
ence today with a bid to get
representation of his united
mine workers on the important
executive committee — gnd he
won his battle. While man
agement’s delegates looked on
in silence, labor’s top leaders
wrangled heatedly for more
than an hour over the composi
tion of the committee which
will sift all conference business
and have the power to include
new subject matter in the
agenda. As originally planned,
the committee was to have
eight members equally divided
between labor and manage
ment. Labor’s half was to be
divided between the A. F. L.
and C. I. O.
DOWNIEVELLE, Calif., Nov.
6. — A. L. Merritt, maternal
grandfather of missing three
year-old Dickie Turn Suden,
and two other key figures in
the baffling case dashed off by
car this afternoon on a mys
terious errand. Merritt prom
ised he would issue “an import
ant announcement” later in the
afternoon. Seach for the boy,
missing now for six days, was
concentrated in the rushing
waters of the Yuba river, and
already army and civilian
hunters are beginning to aban
don what seemed to be a hope
less hunt through the moun
tains. Whether Merritt’s ex
pected statement might deal
* with the end of the search by
land was not disclosed.
HONOLULU, Nov. 6.—-A C-54
transport plane with 20 per
sons aboard was reported 15
hours overdue today on a flight
between Guam and Manila in
what may be the third Pacific
air tragedy within four days.
The navy announced it had
abandoned its search for 11
persons missing after Satur
day’s crash of a Consairways
plane 450 miles northeast of
Oahu. A four-man air trans
it port command board of inquiry
(Continued on page eight, 1st sec.)
War Fund Campaign
Is Far From jGoal
Only $4,500 Is
Contributed To
Date In Drive
Faced with a quota of $9,500 in
the Elkin district, which includes
Elkin, Bryan and Marsh town
ships, the National War Fund
drive has bogged down with con
tributions to date totaling $4,500,
or less than half, it was learned
Wednesday afternoon from T. C.
McKnight, local chairman.
Mr. McKnight said that the fig
ure released included contribu
tions by employees of the Chat
ham Manufacturing Company,
and that although some reports
were not yet in, it appeared
doubtful that the quota would be
reached unless those who have
not yet given do so.
In event those people who have
not been approached by a War
Fund solicitor wish to make a
contribution to the drive, they
may do so by bringing or mailing
their contribution to Mr. Mc
Knight, it was said.
The chairman pointed out that
this marked the first drive of this
kind that has not gone over the
top, and he expressed the hope
that the citizens of the district
would not fall down this time, in
asmuch as the current campaign
marks the last to be staged.
Invited To Take
Part In Parade
All members of the 13th district
of the American Legion and vet
erans of World War I and II are
invited to take part in the Ar
mistice and Victory parade in
Winston-Salem, on Saturday, No
vember 10, according to an an
nouncement by the chairman of
the membership committee, Grov
er C. Bodenhamer, of Kemers
ville. The parade will begin at
11 o’clock.
Bank To Be Closed
The Bank of Elhin will be closed
all day on Monday, November 12,
to observe Armistice Day.
Junior Woman’s
Club To Seek
Old Clothing
The members of the Junior
Woman's Club are asking citi
zens of Elkin to donate cloth
ing to be sold at a rummage
sale with the proceeds to go
into a benefit welfare fund. Do
nations are to be left at the
front of the homes and mem
bers will pick them up between
2 and 5 o’clock on Sunday aft
ernoon. The date of the sale is
to be announced later.
A square dance will also be
sponsored by the club on Fri
day, November 16, at 8 o’clock
at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A.
A small admission fee will be
charged, with proceeds going
into the welfare fund.
KIWANIS HEAD
TO BE GUEST
President of International Or
ganization Will -Meet
With Elkin Club
AT YMCA NOVEMBER 26
Hamilton Holt, president of Ki
wanis International, of Macon,
Georgia, will be guest speaker at
the meeting of the Elkin Kiwanis
Club, Monday, November 26th, at
the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A., it was
announced Tuesday by President
T. C. McKnight, of the local club.
The meeting will be a ladies’
night affair and numerous guests
including officers and their wives
from the other clubs in this dis
trict will be invited to attend.
This meeting will take the place of
the regular Thursday evening
meeting for that week. It was
also announced that there would
be no meeting of the club on
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday,
November 22, as has been the cus
tom for a number of years.
Elks Take Mocksville
19-0; Boonville Is Next
Held on even terms in the first
half by a fiercely fighting Mocks
ville high school eleven at Mocks
ville last Thursday afternoon, the
Elks of Elkin High School failed
to get their touchdown machinery
going until the third quarter
when B. Ratledge broke away for
a 30-yard run to score. Harris
and Osborne added two more tal
lies in the fourth period to put
the game on ice 19-0 for the Elkin
team.
During the first half the two
rivals, who played here earlier in
the season at which time Mocks
ville was decisively defeated,
pushed each other around a bit
but neither could muster a touch
down punch, although Mocksville
drive to the Elkin 9-yard line in
the second period only to see their
offensive bog down.
Elkin’s last two touchdowns
were scored on passes. The one
extra point after touchdown dur
ing the game was scored by Os
borne from placement.
Tomorrow afternoon the Elks
will play Boonville here, the game
to begin at 3:30 Q’clock at the
school athletic field.', Due to the
strong rivalry between the two
schools, the game is expected to
be one of the best of the season,
I and it is hoped a large crowd of
Elkin fans will be on hand.
COMMISSIONERS
DISCUSS BOOST
IN WATER RATE
Increase In Operating Cost
May Force Move
NO ACTION YET TAKEN
Will Again Consider Reason
able Increase At Next
Meeting Of Board
PUT SIGNAL TO WORK
Due to increased wages and
maintenance costs connected with
the Elkin water and sewer system,
the Elkin Board of commissioners
Monday night discussed a possible
increase of water rates here, it
was learned Tuesday.
Although no definite action was
taken in the matter at Monday’s
meeting, officials stated that it
looked as if they are going to be
forced to increase current rates
by a reasonable amount in face of
increasing operating costs all
along the line. Further discus
sion of the matter will come at a
future meeting, it was said.
The commissioners also ordered
that the warning blinker light at
the intersection of West Main
street and Elk Spur, at the west
end of the creek bridge, be put
into operation, and are consider
ing replacing this blinker signal
later with a stop-and-go traffic
signal such as is used at other
dangerous intersections. It was
pointed out that the traffic signal
at the intersection of Gwyn Ave
nue and North Bridge street is no
longer in use, and it is thought
that this light may be moved to
the creek intersection provided it
proves suitable.
WAR VETERAN
FATALLY HURT
George A. Spainhour Meets
Death Accidentally While
Hunting Sunday
CHATHAM EMPLOYEE
George A. Spainhour, 29, of Elk
in, was accidentally shot to death
by his own gun while out hunting
near Rena, in the Mountain Grove
section of Yadkin county, about
10 o’clock last Sunday morning.
Mr. Spainhour laid his gun
down to remove a squirrel from a
log and as he started to pick up
the gun again it went off acci
dentally, according to Coroner W.
H. Gregory, sending the entire
load throughout his neck and up
ward into the brain.
The victim, a Sergeant of World
War II, had been employed by
Chatham Manufacturing company
for two months since his dis
charge from the U. S. Army. He
was the son of Mrs. Lillie Spain
hour and the late Mr. Spainhour.
The survivors include the widow,
the former Miss Letha Holcomb;
one son, Larry; four brothers, Em
mett and Arthur Spainhour, both
of Mountain Park; Richard
Spainhour, who is in the army,
and Rellus Spainhour, Elkin; four
sisters, Mrs. Jettie Tucker, Mrs.
Annie Mae Hanes and Mrs. Mary
Jane Benton, all of Jonesville, and
Mrs. Stella Money, Burlington;
three half brothers and three half
sisters.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 3 p. m. at Swaim’s
Baptist church with Rev. Wood
row Wishon, Rev. Clifford Vestal,
and Rev. Joe Hogan in charge of
the rites.
SURRY MAN IS
WRECK VICTIM
Funeral Service For Samuel
Taylor Hutchens, of Siloam
Held Monday
HEAD-ON COLLISION
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at
the Siloam Baptist church for
Samuel Taylor Hutchens, 25, of
Siloam, Route 1, who died last
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock
in a Mount Airy hospital of in
juries sustained in a head-on col
lision of two cars at Bannertown
on the same day at 1:15 a. m.
Walter Flynn, of Bast Bend,
driver of the car in which Hut
chens was a passenger and Cas
well Talbert, also a passenger,
were injured and are patients in
a Mount Airy hospital, Sheriff
Sam C. Patterson said. James
Hardy received first aid.
Occupants of the other car, of
which Paul Newman was driver,
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MARINES’ ANNIVERSARY —
On November 10, the U. S. ma
rines celebrate their 170th an
niversary. Photo shows two
marines on Mount Suribachi,
Iwo Jima, guarding flag placed
there, on February 2, under
withering fire.
RATION BOARD
TO CLOSE JAN. 1
Local Office Will Be Merged
With Mount Airy Office
On That Date
ONLY ONE CLERK NOW
The Elkin war price and ration
ing board office here will be closed
on January 1 and merged with
the Mount Airy office, it was
learned this week.
Mrs. Ralph Durham, chief price
clerk, will continue to serve in
the local office until it is moved
to Mount Airy to hold the line on
price control, tire rationing, and
to issue No. . 4 ration books to dis
charged service men as long as
rationing of certain foods is main
tained.
The former chief clerk, Mrs.
Roy H. Kane, resigned her posi
tion the last of October, and Mrs.
Durham is the only person on
duty now in the local office.
Rationing office hours here are
from 10 to 12 o’clock a. m., and
from 1 to 5 o’clock p. m. The of
fice is closed all day on Satur
day and on every first working
day in each month.
LOCATE PLANT
AT BOONVILLE
Work Under Way There On
Building To House
Weaving Company
IS HEADED BY BURCHAM
Construction work has begun in
Boonville for a textile manufac
turing plant to be erected there
by W. E. Burcham, of Elkin.
Mr. Burcham is said to be plan
ning to complete the plant and
start production just as soon as
materials are available.
Connected with the Chatham
Manufacturing here for many
years, the Elkin man is at present
operating a weaving plant, pro
ducing dobby cloth, on Fisher’s
River in this county.
It is understood that the Boon
ville plant, when put into opera
tion, will employ between 50 and
60 people.
It has been said that Boonville
has been seeking a manufacturing
plant for several years, and the
decision of Mr. Burcham to locate
his plant there has met with wide
approval of the citizens of the
community. The recent installa
tion of a water plant and sewer
system has added to the town’s
desirability as a manufacturing
location, plus the fact it is served
by good hard surface highways.
Mrs. R. E. Felts
Passes Saturday
Mrs. Maggie Shore Pelts, 62,
formerly of the Little Elkin com
munity, died Saturday of last
week at her home, which recently
has been at Roaring River.
She was a native of Iredell
county and a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John H. Shore.
Mrs. Pelts is survived be her
husband, R. E. Pelts; four sons,
Otis G. Pelts, Jonesville, Percy
Pelts, Roaring River, Roy Felts,
Ronda, H. Clay Pelts, Charlotte;
two sisters, Mrs. Della Sebastian,
Elkin, Route 1, Mrs. Charles
Blackburn, North Wilkesboro; one
brother, Marvin Shore, Bassett,
Va.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at Little Elkin Bap
tist church, with Rev. W. B. Luff
man in charge.
Civic Organizations
To Take Part In Bond
Drive; Starts Monday
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SEVERE HURT
IN ACCIDENTS
Hamptonville Youth In Local
Hospital Suffering From
Severe Shock
CAR IS DESTROYED
Elbert Swaim, 19, of Hampton
ville, was being treated in the
Hugh Chatham Memorial hospi
tal here the first part of this week
due to shock received when the
car he was driving overturned
near Brooks Cross Roads on Sun
day and was badly damaged. He
was reported to have been in a
semi-conscious condition.
Warren Walker, 22, and Odell
Ireland, 21, both of Ronda, Route
2, riding with Swaim, received
bruises and lacerations.
Two other youths, P. D. Groce,
18, of Cycle, on furlough from the
army, and Elmer Groce, 16, a pas
senger in a second car, were
slightly injured when their car
was said to have wrecked while
following the ambulance taking
the men injured in the first ac
cident to the hospital. All five
were brought to the local hospital
and treated, though none were
seriously hurt, it was reported.
A match which was said to have
been carelessly discarded ignited
the gasoline in the Groce car after
it had been wrecked, and the ma
chine was destroyed by fire.
WRECK HERE
INVESTIGATED
Police Seek Identity of Driver
Who Crashed Into Power
Pole On West Main
CAR SPIRITED AWAY
Chief of Police Corbett Wall
and Highway Patrol Corporal Sam
McKinney were in North Wilkes
boro Wednesday afternoon in an
effort to learn the identity of the
driver of an automobile which
crashed into a Duke Power Com
pany electric pole on the curve at
the Atkinson home about 1:00 a.
m. Wednesday morning, doing
considerable damage to electrical
equipment.
Insofar as has been learned,
no one was seriously injured in the
crash, but the heavy pole was
splintered and the street light
which it contained was damaged
and put out of commission. So
severe was the impact that it was
heard by residents on Elk Spur
street.
It was learned by police that the
damaged car was removed by
wrecker about 4:00 o’clock Wed
nesday morning. A check of local
garages disclosed that a local
wrecker was not used, and an in
vestigation led to the belief that
the car was from North Wilkes
boro. • v
Police are acting on the theory
that the driver of the car may
have been under the influence of
whiskey or that whiskey was be
ing transported, due to the speed
and secrecy with which the
wrecked car was spirited away.
An escape of blood from a blood
vessel is called a hemorrhage.
Architect To
Sketch Park
Plans Here
Claude K. Farrell, chairman
of Memorial Park Committee,
has announced that the park
drive has been completed with
approximately $7,000 donated.
Robert G. Campbell, land
scape architect, Philadelphia,
Pa., will arrive here Friday to
draw the necessary preliminary
sketch plans for the proposed
park of which, according to Mr.
Farrell, actual construction will
begin in early spring.
It is hoped that the prelim
inary plans can be followed
immediately with the General
Development plan whereby de
tail plans, working drawings,
and specifications sufficient to
complete the work covered in
the general development plan
can be completed soon, Mr.
Farrell said.
KIWANIANS TO
SPONSOR HUT
For Benefit of Elkin Scout
Troop Number 46; To
Cost About $1,000
CLUB TO HEAR GARRETT
The Elkin Kiwanis Club, at its
meeting at the Gilvin Roth YMCA
last Thursday evening, voted
unanimously to sponsor the erec
tion of a hut for Elkin Boy Scout
Troop No. 46, the work to begin
as soon as materials can be se
cured, under the direction of the
Boy Scout committee, which is
headed by C. O. Garland as chair
man.
The hut, it was learned, will cost
approximately $1,000 and will be
of substantial construction.
Also of interest at last week’s
meeting was a showing of color
pictures of the Duke-Alabama
football game played in the Sugar
Bowl last New Year’s Day.
E. B. Garrett, state soil conser
vationist, will be guest speaker at
this evening’s meeting (Thurs
day). Other guests will be county
agents and soil conservationists
of this immediate area.
Final Rites Held
For G. D. Wagoner
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock at
Center Methodist church for
George D. Wagoner, 88, who died
Sunday night at his home In
Longtown community, Yadkin
county, following a long illness.
Rev. H. D. Garmon, pastor, assist
ed by Rev. R. L. Speer, was in
charge of the rites. Burial was
made in the church cemetery.
Since the death of his wife
eight years ago, Mr. Wagoner had
made his home with a nephew,
Zeno Wagoner.
Surviving are his only daughter,
Mrs. H. M. Lindhorst, Jonesville,
three nephews and six nieces.
Paul Gentry was dismissed
from the local hospital after
receiving treatment for bruises
and lacerations received when
the car in which he was riding
wrecked on Monday night.
Tribune Is Sponsoring
3-County Essay Contest
High school students or Burry,
Yadkin and Wilkes counties are
invited to participate in a state
wide essay contest which is being
sponsored by The Tribune in co
operation with the North Carolina
Press Association. The contest is
now under way and will continue
through December 1.
Most North Carolina newspap
ers which are sponsoring the con
test are limiting entries to high
school students of their own coun
ties, but inasmuch as The Tri
bune is so located that it equally
serves the three counties listed, it
was thought best not to limit the
contest to Surry alone.
Every high school student in
these three counties is eligible to
enter the contest. The essay topic
is “The Newspaper, Serving the
Community." All essays must be
typed ana must not exceed x.ouo
words.
All essays must be in the hands
of the editor of The Tribune on or
before December 1, and will be
judged by persons outside of the
three counties. The Tribune will
present the winner of first place
with a $25.00 Victory Bond, and
the second place winner with a
prize of $5.00. The winning essay
will be sent to Dr. C. Sylvester
Green, state contest chairman,
Durham, for entry in a state-wide
contest.
Winners in the state contest
will be awarded: first place, a $100
Victory, Bond; second plaoe, a
$50.00 Victory Bond.
Address all entries to “Contest
Editor,” The Elkin Tribune, Elkin,
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E-Bond Sales
Here To Date
Total $25,000
At a dinner meeting of repre
sentatives from the Elkin civic or
ganizations which was held at
noon on Wednesday at the YMCA,
definite plans were made for the
Victory bond drive which is to
begin officially here next Monday.
Monday, Armistice Day, was
chosen as the beginning day for
the local drive by Miss Mattie Mae
Powell, chairman of the Elkin
drive, as, according to Miss Powell,
it seems fitting that this, the last
bond drive of Warld War II
should begin on the very day that
World War I ended, enabling the
officials of the drive to make the
opening day a more colorful one,
with the merchants and Boy
Scouts being responsible for dis
playing posters and stickers in the
store windows and downtown sec
tion.
The Merchants Association has
agreed to concentrate at least a
week in the stores to selling bonds,
with the clerk selling the most
bonds to be given a prize.
Norris Hadaway, vice-chairman
and promotion director of the
war finance committee, Greens
boro, advises that 16mm films for
school or other showings are
available upon request.
It was also learned that on
Thursday of this week a train ex
hibition, on the Southern Railway
siding near the Reynolds Tobacco
company factory, in Winston-Sa
lem, will be available to the pub
lic. The exhibit will include heavy
equipment used in the war, hospi
tal equipment, and many other
items of interest, probably the
most notable of which is the baton
presented by Hitler to Field Mar
shal Goering, which is said to
have originally cost $30,000.
During tiie meeting the town
was divided into sections and or
ganizations assigned to the differ
ent sections as follows:
Kiwanis Club, West Main street
to Elk Spur street; Jaycees, ceme
tery to city limits and hospital
road and territory south of West
Main street; Lions club, Elk Spur
street to city limits and Sunset
Park; Business and Professional
Woman*’s Club, Bridge street and
Gwyn Avenue to cemetery; Junior
Woman’s Club, Church street to
Bridge street and Neaves Park;
Chatham Mill, Hubert Parker;
Elkin Furniture company, Glenn
Bailey; Business section, D. G.
Smith and Claude Farrell.
The house-to-house canvass will
be especially emphasized on Tues
day night of next week by the
above mentioned organizations,
and it is firmly believed that the
residents of Elkin will cooperate
to the fullest when called upon
at that time to buy bonds for
Victory.
The latest figures available
show that Elkin already has sold
$25,000 in E bonds.
SHORTAGE OF
ROTHES ACUTE
Dairies Ask That Housewives
Return All Empty Bottles
To Dairies, Stores
SHORTAGE NATION-WIDE
T. P. Cooley, manager of Klon
dike Farm here, said Monday that
the milk bottle shortage Is critical
all over the nation, and especially
so in Elkin, and asked the cooper
ation of customers of Klondike,
as well as other dairies, in return
ing empties.
Principal reason for the short
age, he said, is that the paper
shortage has caused companies
using paper milk containers to
have to use bottles. Futhermore,
strikes both in the bottle factories
and in the trailer companies that
distribute the bottles have held
up bottle supplies in local com
munities.
Unable to get delivery of new
bottles in sufficient quantities to
take care of existing shortages,
Mr. Cooley said that his firm, and
other local dairies, would appre
ciate it if housewives would look
through their basements and kit
chens and collect all empty bottles
and return either to the dairies
or to the stores.
The extinct dodo, a symbol of
stupidity was a member of the
pigeon family.