ELKIN Gateway To Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridgo VOL. NO. XXXIII No. 51 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1945 =F . $2.00 PER YEAR = 22 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS ■ ■1 ■ ■ ui n n ■■■ jl..l:iu.aBHaaga«aeanaeaBa E-Bond Sales [ Here Lagging; Only $63,151 A_ Sales In County * Total Only Small Part Of Quota The Victory bond drive which has been in progress locally for a little less than two weeks has net ted so far $63,151 of Surry’s E » Bond quota of $454,000, according to Miss Mattie Mae Powell, chair man of the Elkin drive. Miss Powell expressed some dis appointment in the speed with which Elkin is reaching its quota, although it is beleived that with l the opportunity of giving bonds for Christmas just around the corner, the sales figures will at tain new heights in a short while. ■ The present drive is the last one. Officials urge every titizen to buy just as many Victory bonds as they possibly can, as the money is needed to help carry out the program for which the boys have sa gallantly and sacrifically given their best. It has been pointed out that your largest possible, loan will be small in comparison to their services. According to J. F. Yokley, of Mount Airy, Surry county’s chair man, a radio controlled target plane will be demonstrated at the Mount Airy airport on Sunday, December 2, at 2:00 o’clock. It was also learned from Mr. Yokley that E-Bond sales in the county, through November 19, totaled $82,968.75, while the over 1 all total, on the same date, was $483,433.75. At a dinner meeting of all the school principals in the county, l held at the Blue Ridge hotel last Wednesday, the following rallies and bond sale schedules were set up: Westfield, November 20: Shoals, November 281 White Plains, November 28; Flat Rock, November 29; Franklin, November 30; Lowgap, December 4; Siloam, December 5; Copeland, December 6; Dobson, December 7. There will be a bond selling rally at Mountain Park school on Tuesday night of next week, Miss Powell said, and rallies for other schools in the county will be an nounced later. EAST BEND MAN ROBBED OF $700 Three Are Held In Jail After Confessing To Relieving Friend of Money WHISKEY IS INVOLVED John Hamp Scott, who lives near East Bend, was short $700.00 in cash when he woke up Monday morning from a Sunday jag with three companions, all of whom have been arrested, and all con fessed to getting his money. Deputy Sheriffs G. P. Williard and J. H. Johnson went to work on the case as soon as it was re ported and learned that three •men were with Scott on Sunday. Dallas Dayis and Curtis Lineberry, both of near East Bend and “Cebe” Chandler, 51, with no home address were arrested and the three of them told this story: All three, in Scott’s pickup Sun day morning, secured half a gal lon of liquor and proceeded to drink it. At Davis’ home Scott passed out, and while he and Chandler were in a room alone Chandler removed the money from his pocket. He then gave Davis and Lineberry $12.00 each not to tell. They all got in Scott’s pickup, Scott lying down, and while going through East Bend wrecked the truck in the yard of W. A. Martin. Davis, Lineberry and Chandler ran. Pretty soon Scott’s daughter passed the scene and recognized the truck. Mr. Scott did not wake up sufficient to talk until Monday morning. Deputies Williard and Johnson took off on the trail of the three men. Davis was soon in custody. Lineberry was trailed to Winston Salem where he was arrested. Chandler was arrested in High Point Monday night after Williard and Johnson made a trip there and reported the theft. All were placed in jail. Davis gave bond Tuesday. The others are still confined. When arrested Davis had $68.81; Lineberry had most of the $120.00 and raised the remainder and gave it to the officers for ! i 1 1 l ( ( > i i 1 1 1 \ t s i \ t 1 \ c c € s 0 I t t a o c e t S' t b Si V C (Continued on page eight, 1st sec.) tl j Police Warn Against Use Of Fireworks Corbett Wall, Elkin’s chief of police, states that charges will be imposed upon those who dis obey the law in regard to the use of fireworks in the city limits during the approaching Christmas season. “According to the city ord inance,” said Chief Wall, “no person shall fire, explode, or in any manner set off any dyna mite, fire crackers, cannon crackers, powder fire crackers, sky rockets, roman candles, or any other fireworks novelties.” The penalty clause states that anyone violating this ord inance shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, with each violation to be deemed a separate offense, said Mr. Wall. It was added that a desper ate effort would be made by the police force of Elkin to en force this law, and warnings are being advanced to anyone who might be tempted to ex plode fireworks within the city limits. BANKERS PLAN SOILJONTEST Offer Prize To Student Writ ing And Delivering Best Talk On Conservation ELKIN IS AREA CENTER A soil conservation contest, sponsored by the North Carolina Bankers’ Association, has been an lounced by Garland Johnson, of Elkin, following a meeting of the issociation executive committee at Ftaleigh recently. The contest is to be open to ligh school students of the 12 :ounty area which annually par ticipates in the Elkin Fat Stock Show and Sale. Students will vrite and deliver a speech on “soil :anservation,” and the winner will >e the guest of the Bankers Asso :iation with all expenses paid, in iddition to being awarded a $50 Victory bond, at the annual con 'ention at Pinehurst. , Mr. Johnson, who is chairman )f the association’s agricultural ommittee, stated that this area was chosen as a trial ground to ee how the contest works out be ore deciding to make it a state wide event later. He said that >reliminary contests wpuld be held it the county seats of the various ounties participating, and that he winners of these contests would then come to Elkin for the inals. The winner here, as a uest of the association at Pine lurst, would be asked to deliver iis prize-winning speech there. The contest will be supervised »y soil conservation men of the arious counties. Counties eligible o take part include Surry, Alle hany, Iredell, Wilkes, Stokes, ishe, Yadkin, Alexander, Cald well, Davie, Catawba and Forsyth. \ _ Only 10 Days Remain In Which To Enter Contest Only about ten'days remain in /hich the high school students f Surry, Yadkin and Wilkes ounties may enter the state-wide ssay contest which is being ponsored by The Tribune in co peration with the North Carofina tess Association. It will continue hrough December 1. This contest is designed to focus he interest of the present gener tion on the place and importance f newspapers in our modem so iety. Most North Carolina newspap rs which are sponsoring the con ;st are limiting entries to high :hool students of their own coun ts, but inasmuch as The Tri une is so located that it equally jrves the three counties listed, it as thought best not to limit the intest to Surry alone. Every high school student in lese three counties is eligible to International Kiwanis Leader Is ToBeGi^est HAMILTON HOLT Hamilton Holt, of Macon, Qa., president of Kiwanis Interna tional, will be the guest of the Elkin Kiwanis Club in a gala ladies’ night meeting to be held at the Gilvin Roth YMCA here Mon day evening, beginning at 7:00 o’clock. To make the event more im portant, presidents of Kiwanis clubs throughout the third Ki wanis division, and other Kiwanis notables, are expected to be pres ent with their wives or other guests. Mr. Holt, who is a nationally known marble and granite manu facturer, was elected president of Kiwanis International at the 1945 International Council meeting in Chicago. He is also president of the Associated Industries of Georgia. Although Mr. Holt has been in the forefront of Kiwanis Admini stration for 14 years, serving as president of the Macon, Ga., club, governor of the Georgia district and treasurer of Kiwanis Inter national, he has also been very active in civic duties at Macon. There he is chairman of the De fense Recreation Center | is a for mer director of the chamber of commerce, and past chairman of the Bibb county Red Cross. He is also a Life Deacon of the First Baptist church of Macon. Due to the fact that today’s meeting date (Thursday), falls on' Thanksgiving, no meeting will be observed as is an annual custom. At last week’s meeting, Paul Reid, comptroller of the state board of education, was guest speaker, and made an interesting talk on the subject of school fi nancing. Also present as guests of the club were members of the Elk in school board,- and John W. Comer, Surry superintendent of educalion. Lieut. Bill Pardue, of the army, and Lieut. Earl Pardue, of the navy, were also guests. The latter, who was on the USS Missouri at the signing of the Japanese sur render terms, gave an account of the historic occasion. Ask For Bids For New Surry Bridge The state highway commission has called for bids for the con struction of a new bridge across Lovill’s Creek on the Dobson Mount Airy highway at Mount Airy as one of its first steps in a program of road construction dur ing the post-war era. The old bridge has been in bad condition for some years. The state, in planning for a new struc ture, will make considerable im provements in the highway from the Mount Airy city limits to Stewart’s Creek on the Dobson road. Bad curves will be elimin ated and the road made almost perfectly straight. enter the contest. The essay topic is “The Newspaper, Serving the Community. All essays must be typed and must not exceed 1,500 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. • i Winners in the state contest will be awarded: first place, a $100 Victory Bond; second place, a $50.00 Victory Bond. Address all entries to “Contest 1 Editor,” The Elkin Tribune, Elkin, ; ARE TO LIGHT ELKIN STREETS FOR CHRISTMAS Merchants Vote To Close Half-Day Each Week STARTING JANUARY 2ND Wednesday Half-Holiday De signed To Give Employees Time For Recreation TO END IN SEPTEMBER Blacked out by war during the past four .Christmases, Elkin streets will again sparkle with the cheery glow of colored lights some time before the end of this month, it has been announced by the Elk in Merchants Association. Process of installing the outdoor lighting is expected to begin around the first of next week, and both Main street and North Bridge street will be decorated in the business section. Elkin merchants, following a meeting,at the City Hall Tuesday morning, have also announced that beginning with the first week in January, 1946, stores will close each Wednesday afternoon until September 15. In deciding upon the closing plans, merchants pointed out that store employees 'have less time off for rest and recreation than any other type of worker, and that it was felt that they are entitled to a hhlf-day holiday each week. According to announced plans, the Wednesday closing hour will be at 12 noon. It was also announced that Elkin stores will observe Tuesday and Wednesday, December 25 and 26, as Christmas holidays, and that stores would remain open Christmas week on their regular schedule rather than to stay open later in the evening as was once the custom. FARMERS WILL NAME LEADERS Community And County Com mitteemen To Be Elected On November 30th FULL VOTE IS SOUGHT Surry county farmers will take time out from seasonal work on November 30th, to elect AAa com munity and county committeemen for the coming year. Three community committee men and two alternates, as well as a delegate to the county con vention, will be chosen in each of the county’s 31 farming communi ties. Hie delegates will later elect the threeman committee which will administer AAA activities, within the county. Chairman J. A. Tilley of the county AAA committee, said today that dates, hours, and places for holding the annual election are how being determined. Announce ment will be mailed to all eligible voters. In Surry county, Mr. Tilley said, approximately 6,000 farmers are eligible to vote for committeemen this year. “Eligible” farmers are those who participate in the 1945 agricultural conservation or crop insurance program. The county AAA chairman, in reminding Surry county farmers of the forthcoming ballot, appeal- , ed for full participation. "Solution of the postwar prob- : lems ahead of us is the vital con cern of every farmer. Consequent ly, it is to his own best interest to ( vote in the coming elections — to make sure that the men admini stering AAA programs in the , county are the ones he wants to . represent him.” Two Are Injured In Auto Accident Sam Price, of Jonesville, and Alex Hudspeth, of Elkin, were in jured Monday afternoon on the Elkin - Winston - Salem highway | near Wilhelm’s Riling Station, a ] short distance from East Bend, j when the car in which they were j riding went out of control and < turned over. < E. L. Swainv of Jonesville, a , third occupant of the car, was not j Injured. 1 Of the two, Price, the son of - Mag B'ice, of Jonesville, was said ] to be the most badly hurt and nay have sustained internal in- j juries. Hudspeth sustained a j Broken arm and broken collar- i jone. They were carried to a z iVinston-Salem hospital. t Deep rooted plants are impor- t .ant in enriching the surface soil. \ rheir roots draw from the deeper f ayers of the .soil various plant s Aitrients, particularly minerals, t TO SPEAK — Former Governor J. Melville Broughton, above, will address a county-wide meeting of the Surry Farm Bu reau Federation in the court house at Dobson Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. A capacity crowd of Surry farmers is ex pected to be present to hear him. ALLEGHANY MAN TO QUIZJOJO Carlisle Higgins In All Prob ability To Prosecute Former Warlord TRIAL TO BE IN JAPAN U. S. District Attorney Carlisle Higgins, of Sparta, in all proba bility will prosecute Japanese General Hideki Tojo, who as pre mier, directed the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Jo seph B. £eenan, chief prosecu tor of Jap war criminals under General MacArthur and former assistant attorney general, has an nounced from Washington* Keenan was head of the De partment of Justice criminal di vision in the early days of the Roosevelt Administration when Higgins first became District At torney after having been Superior Court Solicitor. “I regard Mr. Higgins as one of the outstanding U. S. district at torneys of our country," said*Kee nan. “He rates very highly. He is efficient and experienced, and we need him for his resourcefulness and ingenuity, too, because in these trials in Japan we will be sailing on uncharted legal seas. I consider him one of the outstand ing legal minds of the country. He is fair and dependable, nothing bombastic about him, just solid and steady.” Higgins, with Keenan and a staff of 25 other lawyers and about 15 other assistants, will leave Washington by plane De cember 2 for Japan via San Fran cisco and Pearl Harbor, but prob ably not via Manila as previously announced, Keenan said. The Sparta man will be in Japan several months. How many, remains to be seen, Keenan con tinued. Higgins will be given a leave of absence and his chief as sistant will take over in his stead, rrial of the Japanese war crim inals could easily take more than six months. Keenan and Higgins will be serving not the Department of Justice, but the army and Gen eral Douglas MacArthur, whose prosecution staff Keenan heads. Lions To Sponsor Dance Here Friday The Elkin Lions club, according ;o an announcement at the club’s iinner session of last week, will sponsor a benefit dance Friday light in the school gymnasium, asting from 9:00 to 1:00 o’clock. \ good orchestra has been obtain ;d to furnish the music. Proceeds from the dance will go -oward the purchase of equipment )f a laboratory at the Elkin high ichool. Officials Reverse Decision On Play In Elkin-Lexington Game Because of a wrong decision on he part of officials in the Elkin jexington football game at Lex ngton last Friday night which uled a touchback a safety gave he game to Lexington by the core of 8-7, a reversal of the de cision on the part of the game of icials Monday has given the game >ack to Elkin at least unofficially, -6, N. H. carpenter, coach of the ocal team, said Wednesday. According to Mr. Carpenter, a jexington player tackled on the Slkin two-yard line, fumbled the ►all which rolled into the end one. Whereupon Grady Osborne, or Elkin, picked up the ball and ttempted to run it out, but was ackled behind, his own goal. It ms this play the referee mistook or an intercepted pass and ruled safety, thus giving the Lexing on team 2 points. > Although the ruling should have been reversed at the time, the game officials did not do so until Monday, which was too late to change the official record of the game. The Lexington team, which was expected to defeat Elkin decisive ly, rolled up and down the fi?ld, but not until the final period were they able to muster the necessary strength to put over their lone touchdown. Try for extra point failed. Elkin scored in the second period on an exciting play when Park intercepted a pass and raced 60 yards for the touchdown. Os borne place-kicked the extra point. During the game Lexington reached Elkin’s one-yard line on two occasions, but ran into a stone wall when they tried to reach pay dirt. This afternoon at 2:30. the Elks j will wind up the season with a game with Sparta High school at j Sparta in a Turkey Day event. In ( a previous game with Sparta here j the Elks romped away with a 26-6 j score, but Coach Carpenter said i Wednesday he was fearful over- j confidence of his boys might tell i a different story this afternoon. Rummage Sale To ' Be Held 23 And 24 Officials of the Junior Woman’s Club have announced that all is in r readiness for the rummage sale to z be held on Friday and Saturday 1 in the building formerly occupied t by the Music Box, next door to the State Theatre. ^ . c Broughton To /Speak At County-Wide Meet Of Farm Federation SEAL SALE TO OPENTUESDAY All Business Houses, Homes, . - Schools And Factories To Be Canvassed MRS. McNEER IS HEAD Mrs. E. P. McNeer, Elkin chair man of the Christmas Seal Sale | of the North Carolina Tubercu losis Association, has announced that the local sale of seals will open here next Tuesday to last until Christmas. On the opening day all business houses, homes, schools, and fac ttories will be canvassed ^ by workers and asked to buy. After that day * Christmas seals may be purchased from the three local drug stores, , the hotel, or Mrs. Mc Neer. It was learned that last year’s sales amounted to $300, with sev enty-five per cent of this amount having been used to buy milk, lunches, and to provide for X-rays for children who were tubercular suspects and who could not, otherwise, have received this help whereby the health standard of our city has been raised. It has been pointed out that it is very vital for Elkin citizens to buy Christmas seals this year in order that money will be available to help blitz this disease among the children and adults who, of ten times do not show the usual symptoms of fatigue, chronic cough, fever, chest pains, or loss of weight apd who, therefore, without the tests given in the schools and elsewhere would not know of this public enemy until too late. According to a proclamation is sued by Governor R. Gregg Cherry (Continued on page eight, 1st sec.) SURRY COUNTY MEN ARE NAMED Thurmond Chatham And George K. Snow Are On Legion Committee ANNUAL CONVENTION Two Surry county men, Thur mond Chatham, of Elkin, and George K. Snow, of Mount Airy, were among the twenty rone North Carolina delegates named to convention committees for the national convention of the Amer ican Legion which met in Chicago the early part of this week. The appointments were an nounced by Victor N. Johnson, of Pittsboro, North Carolina Depart ment commander, that named Mr. Chatham to the Navy committee and Mr. Snow to the Rules com mittee. 4 The North Carolina delegation was headed by the Legionnaire Governor, Gregg Cherry. John Stelle, former Illinois Governor, was slated to be elected national commander. At a meeting of the Tar Heel delegation last Sunday, it was decided that their 37 votes should be cast for Stelle. Elkin Stores Will Observe Thanksgiving Elkin stores will observe to day, Thanksgiving, as a holi day, it has been announced by the Elkin Merchants Associa tion. Drug stores, it was learned, wil( also remain closed all day instead of observing a half holiday as in the past. BOND CONTEST STARTS FRIDAY Prize Is Offered To Employee Of Business Firms Who Sells The Most STORES CO-OPERATING The Victory bond selling cam paign, which is being sponsored by the Elkin Merchants’ Association, will start on Friday of this week and will last through the follow ing Friday, ending on November 30. Employees of all the business firms here cooperating in the drive are eligible to participate, and a prize of one twenty-five dollar Victory bond will be award ed by the Merchants’ Association to the sales person selling the greatest volume of bonds. In this contest only the sale of E bonds will be included in the count, this being the type that can be purchased only by individuals. A bond receipt book will be pro vided for each business firm. The bond purchaser will get a receipt and the original will be turned over to the Building and Loan As sociation, the issuing agent for the campaign. The winner of the contest will be judged by a committee of three, and in the case of a tie, the win ner will be determined by a draw ing. For further information regard ing this contest, Hoyle B. Cran ford, at Belk’s Department store, or Claude H. Farrell, at Graham and Click, will be able to assist. AUXILIARY TO SPONSOR DRIVE Seek Gifts For Servicemen In Hospitals; Public Is Asked To Give DRIVE STARTS MONDAY Another drive to provide Christ mas gifts for all servicemen in hospitals will be held this year when the American Legion Auxi liary, the Red Cross, and all other civic clubs seek co-operation of the public as part of a national program. North Carolina has been asked to donate 20,000 gifts for sick and injured servicemen who will spend Christmas in hospitals throughout the country. Eddie Cantor, who originated the idea last year, has provided 'Continued on page 8, 1st sec.) To Be Held At Courthouse In Dobson Friday Former Governor of North Car olina, Hon. J. Melville Broughton will address a county-wide meet ing of the Surry Farm Bureau Federation in the Court House in Dobson on Friday evening, No vember 23, at 7:30. The popularity of the “Governor,” as he is known to Surry Farmers, is expected to draw a packed Court House of to bacco growers and citizens. The announcement of this meeting was made today by officers of the Farm Bureau. President and secretary of the Surry Farm Bureau, S. H. Atkin son, of Siloam, and P. N. Taylor, of White Plains, jointly extend the invitation to all farmers of the county as well as to business men who are interested in keeping up tobacco prices in the postwar period. Bureau leaders are espec ially urging tobacco warehouse men, bankers, and members of the press to attend. Recently Mr. Broughton has been in close contact with all phases of the flue-cured tobacco industry in his capacity as attor ney for the Flue-cured Tobacco Warehousemen’s Association of the United States and Surry farmers and business men* are fortunate in securing his services to discuss the tobacco situation and prospective legislation, de clared R. Flake Shaw, executive secretary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation. 'Shaw cooperated with County Bureau officials in inviting Broughton to the Surry meeting. Atkinson and Taylor emphasize that farm women as well as men have an invitation to attend this meeting. The whole family is in cluded in the Farm Bureau mem bership. The Friday evening meeting is the climax to the Farm Bureau’s activities for membership on a county-wide basis. Surry has been assigned a membership goal of 701 in the 1,000,000 membership drive of the Farm Bureau. Consider able progress has been made in this drive and the goal should be reached before November 30 when the state-wide membership cam paign ends preceeding selection of delegates to the Chicago conven tion of the American Farm Bu reau Federation. County officers of the organiza tion are: S. H. Atkinson, presi (Continued on page eight, 1st sec.) DUKE POWER IS HOST AT MEET Farm Officials, Demonstra tion Agents And Others Guests At Dinner WILL BUILD NEW LINES Farm officials, including county i g e n t s, home demonstration agents, agricultural teachers and sthers from Surry and Yadkin counties were guests of the Duke Power Company at a dinner meet ing at the Gilvin Roth YMCA Monday evening, at which D. G. 3mith, local manager of the com pany, presided. The purpose of the meeting was io acquaint the rural people with he services available through the /arious departments of the Duke Power Company. Short talks vere made by Miss Addie Malone, >f the home service department; Paul Tysinger of the engineering iepartment; Joe Howard, agricul tural engineer for North Carolina, ind John Paul Lucas, public rela tions director of the compand, rom the home office in Charlotte. - It was brought out during the neeting that the Duke Power :ompany would build a large lumber of new lines just as soon is materials are available and hat numerous new electrical ap iliances would soon b£ on the narket. ' Revival To Come To End Saturday Night Evangelist U. C. Bell has an tounced that the revival meeting iow in progress at the East taptist church will hrough Saturday night. Services are held at ’clock a.