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ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina The Elkin Tribune ELKIN Gateway To Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge =r= VOL. NO. XXXIII No. 52 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1945 T T $2.00 PER YEAR MAiiwuui ■ ■ ■ \t ■ aaaa— 20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS Y. M. C. A. Membership Drive Will Get Under *Wa\ Here December 3 A. Charlotte Man * To Be Speaker At Dinner Meet The Gilvin Roth YMCA annual membership drive will get under way at a meeting at the “Y” Mon day evening, December 3, at 6:30, ^ when workers in the campaign r will meet to hear J. Wilson Smith, of Charlotte, head of the YMCA work in North and South Caro lina. About 150 persons are ex pected to attend the dinner meet ing. T. C. McKnight, general secre ► tary of the YMCA here, has an nounced that there has been no change in the cost of membership. The rates are one dollar yearly 40|tor boys and girls, three dollars a year for men and women, and a sustaining membership of $10 a year. Mr. Smith was present last year at the opening of the membership drive, and will be remembered as an interesting and entertaining speaker. The drive is scheduled to run during the first two weeks of De cember. December 4 and 5 have been designated as the dates for the drive within the Chatham Manufacturing Company. Everyone who is now a member of the “Y” is expected to renew his or her membership, and it is hoped this great insititution will also receive added support from A those citizens who are not now members. * YADKIN MAN IS TAKEN IN RAID Lane Smith Arrested For Having Ample Quantity Of Booze Nearby IN MOUNT AIRY JAIL Lane smith, well known man who formerly lived near Yadkin ville, was arrested Sunday morn ing at his trailer house home on the banks of the Yadkin river at Rockford, and officers found 18 half gallon fruit jars full of whis key 62 steps from the trailer and one pint in Smith’s pocket. The raid grew out of the rob bery of John Hamp Scott, of near East Bend, a week previous when the robbers confessed and told Deputy Sheriff G. F. Williard they secured their drinking whiskey from Smith. Deputy Williard and Deputy R. B. Crissman made ar k rangements with Sheriff Sam Patterson of Surry county, and Deputy Roy Smith of Surry to meet them Sunday morning and make the raid. • Smith was carried to Mt. Airy and placed in jail by Sheriff Pat terson. Lane Smith was tried at the August term of Yadkin criminal court and sentenced to one year on the roads or leave the county for an indefinite period. He was supposed to leave the county. However, he had previously pur chased a ferry at Rockford and was operating it at the time he was tried. He chose to leave the county,: but moved just across the river and continued to operate the ferry. Sheriff Patterson intimated he I would turn the matter over to ’ federal authorities. New State Auto Tags Go On Sale Next Saturday T. Bodie Ward, state com missioner of motor vehicles, announced Monday that new 1946 automobile license plates would go on sale Saturday at the various county disbursing points. The new plates will have a black background with yellow numerals. Ward accompanied his an nouncement with this state ment: “Automobile owners are urged to buy their license plates as soon as possible to avoid the first-of-the-year rush.” The nearest issuing office to Elkin is at North Wilkesboro. MAN INJURED IN ACCIDENT John Marsh Suffers Fractur ed Skull When Motorcycle Hit By Elkin Man CONDITION IS IMPROVED The condition of John Marsh, said to be a former resident of Boonville or vicinity, who was ser iously injured Thursday night of last week about 10:30 o’clock when struck by an automobile operated by I. H. Kolodny, of Elkin, was described as considerably improv ed by hospital authorities Wed nesday afternoon. Marsh, who was unconscious for some time following the accident, was said to have received a frac tured skull. The accident occurred on the Elkin-Boonville highway. It was said that Marsh was standing be hind a motorcycle which was parked in the middle of the high way, without lights of any kind. Mr. Kolodny, who is a technician at the Elkin hospital, failed to see the machine until he was upon it, striking it and knocking it against Marsh who in turn was thrown to the highway. It is understood that no blame in the accident has been attached to the Elkin man. Soldier Package Size Is Changed According to Assistant Post master Sheffie Graham the United States postal authorities have recently changed the limita tion on both the size and weight of packages going to army personnel overseas. Effective immediately the new weight and size limits for parcels going overseas have more than doubled. The new ruling increases the weight limit from five pounds to eleven and states that parcels may measure 42 inches in length or 72 inches in length and girth combined. Previous size of the packages was 17 inches in length or 35 inches in length and girth combined. It was stated, however, that a request from the addressee was still effective and must be pre sented before a package could be mailed to army personnel over seas. SHOULD ATTEND AAA ELECTION Will Be Held In Various Com munities November 30 To Name Committeemen CONFIDENCE DESERVED Every eligible farmer in North Carolina should attend the AAA election meeting in his community on November 30 and take part in naming his AAA community com mitteemen for the coming year, I. O. Schaub, director, State Exten sion Service, said today. One of the most important jobs facing the newly elected commit teemen as they take the oath of office will be to determine best practices to meet the needs of the county and distribute the alloca AAA Convention The Surry County AAA Con vention will be held at Dobson Courthouse on Saturday, De cember 1, 1945 at 2:00 P. M. It is the duty of every eligible voter in the 31 communities in Surry County to help elect a delegate to attend this conven tion. It will be the duty of the del egates to elect the County Committee that will serve you for the 1946 Program Year. tion of funds that has been allot ted to the counties and communi ties so that individual farms will receive conservation assistance based on actual needs. Besides helping farmers select practices that will speed reconversion of North Carolina’s farmland from the strain of wartime production, AAA committeemen will be faced with other postwar problems, such as crop prices, marketing difficul ties, and production adjustment. “Due to the magnitude of these problems,” Schaub said, “the men elected at these meetings should have the confidence and support of every eligible farmer in the community.” Approximately 350,000 Tar Heel farmers are eligible to cast ballots in the 1,733 AAA community elec tions. Eligibility to vote is restrict ed to farmers Who participated in the agricultural conservation and Federal crop insurance programs. Jonesville Play Is Postponed One Week “Aunt Tillie Goes to Town,” a comedy-drama scheduled and ad vertised to be presented in the Jonesville school auditorium by the Jonesville Junior class Friday evening, has been postponed until Thursday evening, December 6, it was learned Tuesday night. Postponement of the play is due to the death of a relative of one of the cast. ' Boxes Are Placed For Gifts For Servicemen Suppose you were a war veteran lying in a hospital bed on Christ mas morning, away from friends and relatives and completely out of the Yuletide festivities taking place everywhere else? Just the thought of contrast would be enough to make you write “nuts” across the plaster cast on your leg, wouldn’t it? But suppose someone walked into your ward and said, “Sur prise! Here’s a Christmas gift from someone I’ll bet you don’t even know!” Chances are you’d perk up in a jiffy. You would wonder who sent you such a nice present. And ^ when you looked at the name, and address and found the sender, it would certainly dawn on you that someone in the U. S. A. was grate ful for the sacrifice you made for your country, it would be almost worth it to be in the hospital to know that people who didn’t know you were betting on you and pray ing you would be out of the hos pital soon. It would change Christmas for y6u from a dreary one to a happy one. it would work the same for the thousands of wounded and ill service men of the hospitals of North Carolina. Boxes have now been placed in Sydnor-Spainhour Company, Belk-Doughton and Turner Drug Company for YOUR donations. Give to those that have been giv ing for you. Make this Christmas one to remember! BROUGHTON FOR STRONG FARM ORGANIZATION On Other Hand Is Against “Pressure” Groups IS SPEAKER AT DOBSON Former Governor Addresses Meeting Of Farm Bureau Federation Friday IS CLIMAX OF DRIVE Approximately 300 persons were present at the meeting of the Surry County Farm Bureau at the courthouse in Dobson Friday night to hear the address of former Governor J. Melville Broag^ton, in which he stated that wiTro he deplored “pressure” in government he was convinced that the hopes of the farmer henceforth lay in having a powerful organization to speak for them. R. Flake Shaw, executive secre tary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, following the former Governor, declared that it was imperative that friends of ag riculture help push the Pace Bill through Congress if tobacco grow ers are to have a living price for their crop in the postwar years. Neill M. Smith, county agent, co-operating in the Farm Bureau program, presided. The two addresses were the climax of an intensive member ship drive in Surry County where the Farm Bureau expects to push its membership to 1,000 by the close of 1945. P. N. Taylor, of White Plains, county secretary of the bureau, reported that 465 new member ships had been dispatched to the State offices and that this put the total over 700. Fifty-six addition al membership applications were turned in last night. R. C. Lewellyn, president of Surry Loan and Trust Company, (Continued On Page Six) R. E. NORMAN FIREWARDEN Suceeds Father, The Late Joe H. Norman, In Important Surry Job SEEDLINGS AVAILABLE Ray E. Norman, of Mountain Park, has recently been named by county and state authorities as Surry county forest fire warden to succeed his father, the late Joe R. Norman, who served eleven years in that capacity. Mr. Norman has announced that, according to A. D. Williams, acting district forester, the two state forest nurseries now have ready for distribution to landown ers in North Carolina a large number of forest seedlings, in cluding white pine, yellow poplar, black locust, loblolly,' shortleaf, slash, and long leaf pines. Orders will not be accepted af ter February 25, and the shipping season from the mountain nur sery, Crab Creek Nursery, near Hendersonville, begins in March, said Mr. Norman. RITES HELD — Funeral ser vices for Rev. William A. Holle man, above, elderly retired Bap tist minister who died Friday of last week at his home near Jonesville, were held Sunday af ternoon at Island Ford Baptist church. DEATH CLAIMS AGED MINISTER Rev. William A. Holleman, 83, Dies Friday At Home Near Jonesville FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Island Ford Baptist church for Rev. William A. Holleman, 83, elderly retired Baptist minister, who died Friday of last week at 8 a. m. at his home near Jonesville, after an illness of six days. He had been in declining health for sometime. Rev. R. P. Pardue, Rev. J. L. Powers, and Rev. Brant ley Wood were in charge of the services. Rev. Holleman, a native of Yad kin county, was a member of the Island Ford Baptist church and had spent most of his life in that community. He had served Bap tist pastorates for many years, and in early life had taught school in Wilkes and Yadkin counties. The deceased was twice married, first to Miss Lucinda Wagoner and after her death to Miss Pearl Smith, who died several years ago. Surviving are four sons, D. A. Holleman, of Cycle; J. Z., S. R., and W. B. Holleman, of Jones ville; three daughters, Mrs. Rus sell Hendren, of New Bern; Mrs. Glenn Adams, of Boonville, and one daughter of the second mar riage, Miss Mary Ellen Holleman, of the home. Burial was made in the Fall Creek church cemetery. P.-T. A. Meeting Is Called For Friday Mrs. J- A. Booher, chairman of the grade department of the Elkin Parent - Teacher Association,^ has announced a meeting of all grade representatives of the P.-T.A. to be held in the Elementary school auditorium on Friday afternoon at 2:30. This meeting, it was said, is to be a very important one, as plans for the Christmas treats for the children will be discussed. If any grade representative can not attend, it was asked that someone attend to vote for the representative. BLANKETEERS TO FACE SPORTS ARENA GIRLS — Pictured above is the strong Sports Arena girls’ team, of Atlanta, Ga., who will battle it out in the Gilvfai Roth YMCA gymnasium here Satur day, December 1, with Chatham's crack girl’s team. The game will begin at 8 o’clock. Those pictured are, clockwise: Betty Martin, Margaret Richardson, Kathryn Williams, Ginny. Hartness, Julie Lancaster, Mildred Wilson, Frances Posey and Dora Castleberry. Two other players, Madge Moon and Cora Hearn, are not pictured. / ■ .-* : \ 4 - • / Victory Bond Figures Show Increase; Drive Nears Closing Period KIWANIS HEAD SPEAKER HERE International President Tells Group Middle Ground Must Be Found TO SOLVE PROBLEMS An interesting and entertaining address was delivered before the Elkin Kiwanis Club and guests Monday evening at the YMCA by Hamilton Holt, of Macon, Ga., president of Kiwanis Internation al. Mr. Holt, who devoted a part of his talk to Kiwanis activities from a standpoint of the international organization, also touched upon world affairs, and expressed the opinion that a middle ground must be found for the settlement of disputes. Discussing the current strike situation throughout the country, the speaker- stated that big cor porations must learn to treat labor as human beings if they wish to avoid future labor trouble. How ever, he held no patience for the activities of some of the unions now holding their members out on strike. Mr. Holt appeared to be im pressed by the record of the Chat ham Manufacturing Company, which throughout its long history has had no serious labor problems, and he held the firm up as an ex ample to other large corporations. President T. C. McKnight pre sided over the meeting, and the program was in charge of Kiwan ian C. C. Poindexter. Among the highlights were several songs by am impromptu group of singers made up of Dr. Eugene Click, Alex Biggs, Rev. Ralph Ritchie, J. H. Beeson, Dr. Vernon Taylor and C. N. Myers, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. J. H. Beeson. The group received several encores for an excellent presentation of barber shop harmony. Mrs. Hugh Royall and Mrs. E. S. Spainhour won the two attend ance prizes presented by the club as a feature of ladies’ night. At the close of Mr. Holt’s ad dress, Kiwanian W. M. Allen pre sented Mrs. Holt, who accom panied her husband here, with a Chatham blanket. Among those attending the meeting were officers and mem bers of a number of Kiwanis clubs of neighboring towns. Dr. Chas. Armstrong, international trustee, of Salisbury, introduced the speaker. R: C. PINNIX PASSES SUNDAY Well-Known Yadkin Farmer Dies Suddenly At His Home At Cycle RITES HELD TUESDAY Funeral services were held on Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock at Swan Creek Baptist church for Russell C. Pinnix, 70, well-known farmer, who died suddenly Sunday at his home at Cycle. Rev. Ferd Mathis and Rev. Clint Swaim were in charge of the rites. Mr. Pinnix was born in Yadkin county on December 2, 1874. He was a son of Martin and Harriett Swaim Pinnix, and spent his en tire life at Cycle. His wife, the former Miss Nancy Sparks, died April 27, 1940. The deceased is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Julia Hudson, of Elk in, and Mrs. Vick Sparks,' of Jonesville, and one half sister, Mrs. H. H. Vestal, of Jonesville. Pallbearers were P. W. Swaim, Miles Dobbins, Edward Dobbins, Richard Swaim, Fred Vestal, and Oeorge Stokes. Burial was made in the church cemetery. Stove Explodes In Wine Store Saturday The Elkin fire deparment an swered an alarm from the wine store in the Greenwood building on East Main street Saturday ev ening about 7 o’clock, caused when an oil stove exploded. Although little damage was done by flames, the fire was hot enough to set off the automatic sprinkler system, and the great est amount of damage was done by water. \ • ;• PASSES — William B. Minick, above, well - known Yadkin county man, died suddenly at his home near Jonesville Mon day afternoon as the result of a heart attack. Funeral rites were conducted Wednesday afternoon from the Jonesville Methodist church. WM. B. MINICK DIES SUDDENLY Prominent Yadkin County Citizen Passes At Home Monday Afternoon FUNERAL YESTERDAY William B. Minick, 72, widely known Yadkin county resident, died suddenly at his home near Jonesville Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock as a result of a heart at tack he suffered while working on the roof of his home. Mr. Minick, an elderly citizen of Arlington, had engaged in the lumber business at Wytheville, Va., and in Elkin for many years, but had retired from active busi ness three years ago due to ill health. A son of Ephraim and Margaret Peterson Minick, Mr. Minick was born in Franklin county, Pa.', and was educated in the Pennsyl vania schools and at Davenport college in Lenoir. He was married to Miss Emma Dodgion in Febru ary, 1901, at Wytheville, Va. Surviving are his widow, one daughter, Mrs. R. G. Boles, of Jonesville, one son, Earl Minick, five grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Ellen Bies Ecker, of Cham bersburg, Pa. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Jonesville Methodist church, with Rev. Marvin C. Boggs in charge of the rites. Burial was made in the Hollywood cemetery here. Call Off Barbecue Planned By Legrion Dixie Graham, adjutant of the local chapter of the American Legion, has announced that the barbecue scheduled to be held on Friday evening at Neaves Park has been called off due to bad weather. Only three ivory-billed wood peckers are known to be alive. E-Bond Sales About Fourth Of Given Quota Good reason for optimism has been shown in the latest figures available on the present Victory bond drive which has been under way locally since the second week in this month. The Elkin district reports a total of $76,507.25 in E Bonds sold up to the present time, according to Miss Mattie Mae Powell, chairman of the Elkin drive. J. F. Yokley, of Mount Airy, Surry county’s bond drive chair man, reports that E bonds in the county, as reported by the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond, Va., on November 26, total $123,168.75, while the overall figure reaches a new high of $970,433.75 on the same date. Surrry’s E bond quota has been set for $454,000 and the overall quota has been named at $1,045, 000. With the opportunity of giv ing bonds for Christmas just around the corner, and in view of the fact that slightly more than one-fourth of the E-Bond quota has already been reached, while more than one-half of the overall quota has been attained, it is be lieved that the assigned quota will be realized by the close of the drive with bonds purchased through December to count on the quota. At a bond selling rally conduct ed at Mountain Park high school on Tuesday night by local offic ials, the sum of $10,000.00 was sold. Much of the success of the Mountain Park rally was contri buted to the cooperation of Principal B. F. McCann and auc tioneer C. N. Myers, of Elkin, who sold single pieces of gum and al most empty pocket books and other articles for large bond de nominations. Other rallies have been set as follows: Flat Rock, November 29; Franklin, November 30; Lowgap, December 4; Siloam, December 5; Copeland, December 6; Dobson, December 7. DEATH CLAIMS H. C. KILBY Widely Known Wilkes County Citizen Passes Away Monday Night LAST RITES WEDNESDAY Funeral services for H. Cleve Kilby, 73, widely known citizen in the public and business life of Wilkes county, who died Monday night at 11:30 at Wilkes hospital, were conducted at Pleasant Home Baptist church near Millers Creek on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. For several years Mr. Kilby, member of one of Wilkes county’s best known families, had been a member of the State Republican Executive committee. He was a son of John and Martha Kilby of the Millers Creek community. In early life he engaged in farming and was in the lumber business with P. E. Brown. Later (Continued On Page Six) Elks Wind Up Season With Win Over Sparta Although there is nothing offi cial about it, the Elks of Elkin high school would appear to be entitled to the mythical champ ionship of the Yadkin Valley school conference by virtue of winning every football game with teams played which live within the conference. Last Thursday the Elks journey ed over to Sparta and pushed across two touchdowns and a safe ty to defeat Sparta Hi by 16 to 7, thus winding up a season which has seen but two defeats marked up against them. That is, if you count the reversed decision of of ficials of the Lexington game, which Lexington claims but which by the officials’ own word was won by Elkin. In the first two games of the season, against Mineral Springs and . Mount Airy, the Elks were beaten. But after the Mount JUry game they refused to be headed. and chalked up wins against North Wilkesboro, Sparta, Boon ville, Mocksville and Lexington Sparta and Mocksville were each defeated twice. In the turkey day game last Thursday, the Elks shoved over touchdowns in the first and sec ond periods and a safety in the final quarter. Sparks scored in the opening period with a two yard buck, and B. Ratledge raced 15 yards for the second tally, A fumbled pass in the end zone re covered by Sparta accounted for the safety. Sparta’s score came in the final period when Adams bucked across the one-yard line, Coach N. H. Carpenter express ed satisfaction with the way his boys Have come through the sea son, and although a modest chAp, appeared to think that mythical championship business a pretty good? idea. r i \ r'-tV-V. '» ■' '• -v >
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