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ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1945 $2.00 PER YEAR 22 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS ..—— . ELKIN Gateway To Roaring'Gap and the Blue Ridge YWCA DRIVE IS PLANNED HERE MONDAYNIGHT Workers Meet To Hear Ad dress By J. Wilson Smith jANS are outlined lults And Business Men By Mayor To Take lining Membership .. IRE ATE R SERVICE Workers for the Y. M. C. A. membership drive, which is in progress this week, met Monday night in a dinner session at the Y, preparatory to launching the drive which will end Tuesday of next week. Fred Neaves, chairman of the membership campaign, welcomed the large group of enthusiastic workers present and urged that a sincere effort be made to secure YMCA memberships for the en suing year of 1946. * General Secretary of Elkin’s YMCA, T. C. McKnight, outlined briefly the forthcoming program of the local organization by say ^ ing that the very best program possible — one that was well rounded and well supervised — would be offered to the youth of this city through the membership plan. Mr. McKnight added that, according to the present plans, groups would be allowed to use the club rooms as in the past and would be, privileged to use the small kitchenettes, although meals would not be prepared by the Y staff as has been done in the past. Mr. McKnight added that all local men in service would be sent a complimentary member ship card, equivalent to one year, as well as the former service men who are now discharged. Adults and business men of ^ Elkin were urged by Garland Johnson, Mayor, to become mem bers of the Y and especially point . ed out the significance of the sus taining membership plan whereby a larger number of the boys and girls can be benefitted by this Christian organization. A main feature of the program was an address by J. Wilson Smith, of Charlotte, secretary of the Inner-State committee of Y. (Continued on page four, 1st sec.) ASSIST’NT FARM AGENT ARRIVES Hugh D. Barton Arrives In Dobson As Aide To Neill M. Smith IS EXPERIENCED MAN I Hugh D. Barden, of Henderson, has arrived in Dobson to assume rhis duties as assistant agent of Surry county, according to an an nouncement by Neill M. Smith, a. county agent. ’ Mr. Barden has had successful experience in extension work in Vance county where he served two years as assistant county agent before receiving the Surry ap pointment by the extension ser vice officials in Raleigh, with the approval and co-operation of the Surry board of county commis sioners. O. P. McCrary, district agent of extension service, states that Mr. Barden’s work in Vance county has been excellent in 4-H club activities, including projects in dairying, swine, and corn pro duction. His experiences in other lines of public service have been that of teacher of vocational ag riculture for two years in Gran ville county, immediately follow ing his graduation from N. C. 1 State college in 1938, with a B. S. ; degree in Vocational Agriculture, and serving as Farm Security sup i ervisor in Vance and Granville counties. Mr. and Mrs. Barden and their young son are making their home in Dobson. Majority Will Close Half-Day Starting: Jan. 2 A majority of Elkin stores and business firms will close each Wednesday afternoon at 12:00 o’clock beginning Wed nesday, January 2, 1945. This decision was reached at* a recent meeting of the Elkin Merchants Association. Em ployers stated they were of the opinion that a half holiday each week would be beneficial for their employees by giving them time for needed rest and recreation. Landcape Architect’s Sketch of Memorial Park tx H Vb VTV ON OjP.OUNt> atwj_et\c r\ri.x> fcASEBAUV. WVTH EIGHT V HG TO pcovvtvt ros, NIGHT GAMES PERMANENT GbANbSTAND root t>MA w vt n sat ach tab moved ovEt. Krtta, bASEBAOX SEASON. PVCNVC GE.OUNT>S t Abacs, biNcncs, r va.t PUkCE.5 >ND SPRUNG. ■ PaATGfcOVMilS WITH P a AT GU.OUN D EGU IP MENT. rop. eat' stock, snows ANT> TH t» U KE . : AUSO TO be USES TOO. CAP. PAS.KVNG TOP. BAStbAtU AHt> rooTbAva games NATURAL HTSTOaV bUI USVNG EY.H\SVTS ANb MCtTVNGS PM£K- CAPETAKETL wvth other. cwvc wock PltMC GCOUNSS rAbats, BENCHES. ETC. TOOT btUSGE fetTWEEH ECEMEHT APT SCWOi. NHD ATHEET1C. r\ t as ahs man sewooa PRELIMINARY ' V DEVELOPMENT PLAN ^ MEMORIAL PARR ELKIN NORTH CAROLINA se«,r in rerr pvcnvc gpounss ANb PAPVCVNa SPACE TOP. OUT - or - TOWN VIS \ TOPS mm 4>I HP * s&r; \ § L~k Above is a reproduction of the sketch of Elkin’s proposed Memorial Park, which was made recently by Robert G. Campbell, landscape architect, of Philadelphia. Mr. Campbell, who has returned to Philadelphia, is expected to arrive in Elkin early this month and will bring with him Mr. Shoe maker, also of Philadelphia, who will superintend the work on the park when it begins in January. Claude H. Farrell, chairman of the park commit tee, has asked that any citizen who might have been overlooked in the recent park solicitation campaign who would like to contribute to the fund, do so with the assurance that his donation will be sincerely appreciated as sufficient money has not yet been raised to complete the entire project. Yadkin Youth Killed In Crash On Bridge Dies Instantly As Car Strikes Steel Girder Homer Castevens, 20, was in stantly killed Tuesday night shortly after midnight when the car in which he was riding crash ed at high speed into a steel gird er on the Hugh Chatham Bridge. Grady Hunter, 19, of Boonville, also in the car, was only slightly injured in the accident. Castevens, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Castevens, of near Oak Grove in Yadkin county, was evidently thrown from the car with terrific force. Although no one witnessed the crash, it is be lieved his head struck a girder, crushing it horribly. His body was lying with the lower part in the street and the upper portion across the curb on the sidewalk when found. Corporal Pat McKinney, of the Highway Patrol, who is making an investigation of the accident, said Wednesday that the car belonged to Hunter, but that Hunter claim ed Castevens was driving at the time of the accident. Hunter claimed, the patrolman said, that he had had several drinks and was not under the wheel. The two young men had stopped by a filling station several hun dred yards south of the bridge just prior to the accident. Spec tators said they left the station and that the car was traveling at fast speed as it disappeared down the road. The badly warped gird er on the bridge was mute evi dence that it had been struck with terrific force, the impact tearing the motor from the chassis and hurling it 30 yaiyis from the car. Small fragments of the battery case were strewn for fifty feet along the bridge, as were several other parts. The front end of the car, a 1941 Ford V-8, was com pletely demolished. Hunter was carried to the Elkin hospital following the accident, but he was expecting to be re leased sometime Wednesday aft ernoon. Castevens’ body was tak en by ambulance to the Hayes & Speas funeral home. No charge has been preferred in the accident awaiting outcome of the investigation as to who was driving. . Elkin Has First Snow Of Winter: Inch Falls Here King Winter rode into Elkin Tuesday in the teeth of a storm whicli brought high winds, rain, sleet and snow. Wednesday morning Elkin residents awoke to find the ground covered with an inch of snow which began to fall some time after midnight as the rain which had fallen all day Tues day first turned to sleet and then to fast-falling flakes. Although local streets were slippery, especially during the early morning hours, no acci dents of any consequence were reported as caused by the snow. By afternoon Wednesday .most of the snow in the streets had melted or had changed into slush. ARE TO HOLD BINGOPARTY Chatham Unity Club Will Stage Annual Event At YMCA Next Tuesday FOR WELFARE FUND The fifth annual Christmas bin go party of the Thurmond Chat ham Unity club will be held on Tuesday night of next week at 8:00 o’clock in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. Tickets are now on sale and can be secured from members of the 'll C. U. club or can be bought in the gym on Tuesday night. The proceeds will go into the welfare fund. According to C. J. Hyslup, ad visor for the club, many useful and attractive prizes have been donated by the local merchants, and due to the large space avail able in the gymnasium, profitable fun is assured for the big crowd that is expected to attend. Montreal, with a population gf 903,307 Is the largest city In the Dominion of Canada. I LATE BRIEF NATIONAL A HOWLING winter storm that brought snow as far south as the Mississippi delta swept across the deep south yesterday and moved northeastward up the south Atlantic seaboard. The weather bureau at Atlan ta forecast the disturbance would head seaward off tho North Carolina coast early Wednesday. Storm warnings were raised from Cape Hat teras, to Eastport, Me. The wstorm brought snow to Ten nessee, Mississippi and Louis iana, but only a deluge of rain as it moved eastward. Snow, wind and cold were forecast for N6w England Thursday. The New England area as well as western New York is already (Continued on page 4, first sec.) I From the State and Nation ARE URGED TO SELECT GIFTS Will Go To Servicemen In North Carolina Hospitals This Christmas BOXES ARE IN STORES Don’t stop Christmas shopping now. You’ve forgotten someone! That someone is a serviceman in a North Carolina hospital and he needs your gift to make his first peacetime Christmas in many years, a really merry one. The camp and hospital commit tee of the American Red Cross, under the direction of Mrs. George Royall is collecting these gifts for distribution in the .hospital at Camp Butner, Durham, on Christ mas Day. You can do your part by buying a gift that costs not less than fifty cents nor more than a dollar. Don’t buy food of any kind, razor blades, needles, knives or matches. All of these are prohibited. Buy your gift today! The dead line is Monday. Presents should be wrapped* in Christmas paper and taken to boxes provided for gifts at Belk-Doughton Company, Syd nor-Spainhour Company and Turner Drug Company. Elkin Senior Winner Of Newspaper Contest Miss Maxine Ludwig, of this city, a senior at Elkin high school, has been selected by judges in The Tribune essay contest as first prize winner, and will be awarded a $25.00 Victory Bond. Miss Winnie Luffman, member of the 9th grade of Elkin high school was winner of second prize, $5.00 in cash.' Miss Ludwig’s prize-winning es say will be forwarded to Dr. C. Sylvester Green, chairman of the state-wide newspaper essay con test, at Durham, to compete for state honors. First prize in the state contest will be a hundred dollar Victory Bond. Second prize will be a fifty dollar Victory Bond. The state-wide contest is spon sored by the North Carolina Press Association, on the subject: “The Newspaper — Serving the Com munity.’’ The contest was judged by out of-county judges. The Tribune wishes to t^hank all who entered the contest for their interest and regrets that it was not possible to award more than two prizes. The winning essay follows: THE NEWSPAPER SERVING THE COMMUNITY Many exciting dramas and stories have been written about big city newspapers arid the heroic struggles of their reporters, photo graphers, and managing editors.® What about the facts and con ditions making such stories pos sible and believable? What about the small-town newspapers?' Stories have been written about these, too, but they usually seem a little “far-fetched” to most of us because we think to ourselves as we read, “This could never happen in our town to our paper!” Actually, few really exciting events ever take place in a small town. Oi^ly an occasional fire or acci (Continued on page eight, 1st sec.) Farrell Named Head Of Elkin Merchants Ass’n T CLAUDE H. FARRELL At a meeting of the directors of the Elkin Merchants Association, held in the City Hall on Tuesday, Claude H. Farrell was elected president for 1946, to succeed Gaston L. Hill who served two years in that capacity. Other officers of the association who were named are: H. B. Cran ford, vice-president: L. F. Walk er, treasurer; and Mrs. Beauford Stanley, secretary. Directors of the association for the ensuing year are: David Bren dle, Garland Johnson, L. F. Walk er, Glenn Peele, H. B. Cranford, George Royall, Abe Harris, and George Isenhour. A committee was appointed at this meeting to make plans for the annual employer - employee ban quet which is held each year at the Y. M. C. A. Date Won’t Read That Way Again For A Century Don’t wait up for the next time; it won’t happen again for 100 years. Write out the date for this past Monday and it reads: 12-3-45—A straight numerical progression. It happened once before this year: 1-23-45. The next time will be Janu ary 23, 2045. T E-Bonds Slow As Drive Hits Final Period Lions Planning Fats Drive On January 6th At the meeting Tuesday ev ening of the Elkin Lions Club, plans were worked out for a town-wide fats drive on Sun day, January 6, 1946, with pro ceeds from the sale of the fats to go to the laboratory fund of Elkin High School. It was pointed cut that al though the war is over, waste fats are still badly needed for the manufacture of many es sential items. All citizens were asked to save waste fats and greases during the remainder of this month and have it ready for collection on the day of the drive. Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor of the First Baptist Church, was guest speaker at the meet ing. President W. J. Graham presided. SEVERAL HURT IN CAR CRASH Four Automobiles Pile Up In Accident Near Elkin City Limits TAKEN TO HOSPITAL An ex-serviceman, of Elkin, Buck Lyons, 25, suffered a broken leg and'severe lacerations of the face in. a four-car crash in the western part of Elkin late Satur day night when an automobile operated by Mickey Miller, in which he was riding, crashed headon into a car operated by William Fenton Myers, 22, of Ben ham. Cyde Brown, 22, of Benham, who was riding with Mr. Myers, suffered flesh lacerations. Brown, member of the U. S. Navy, is at home on leave. * Before the two cars were moved, a taxicab operated by Leo Money ran into the wrecked automobiles, and a fourth car operated by Wayne Sprinkle, crashed into the taxicab. Due to the scrambled condition of the four cars, officers were unable to attribute the blame. A. R. Adams, of Boonville, ear lier in the afternoon, sustained cuts and bruises, and Mi’s. Adams received a broken arm when their car was sideswiped and forced off the highway near Boonville. Wal ter Shoaf, 47, of Winston-Salem, was arrested later by Corporal W. S. McKinney, of the State High way Patrol, and was charged with hit-and-run, reckless driving. He furnished bond and denied having figured in the wreck. ELKIN CITIZEN PASSES TIES. W. Walker Byrd Dies At Local Hospital Following Brief Illness William Walker Byrd, 66, prom inent and esteemed Elkin mer chant died Tuesday at noon in the Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital. Mr. Byrd was stricken suddenly ill while serving customers in his West Elkin store, and had been critically ill for two weeks. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and his condition had continued! grave since his removal to the hospital. Mr. Byrd, a native of Wilkes county and a son of Thaddeus Clingman and S^llie Sale Byrd, had resided in Elkin forty years, and had successfully engaged in the grocery business here. He was a member of the First Baptist church. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Nannie Haire Byrd, to whom he was married in 1906; two daugh ters, Mrs. Zeno Dobbins and Miss Hazel Byrd, of Elkin; three broth ers, Luther Byrd, of Ronda, H. F. Byrd, of Benham, and Sanford S. Byrd, of Orchard, Iowa; one sis ter, Mrs. C. D. Holcomb, of Yad kinville. Funeral services will be held this afternoon (Thursday) at 2:30 o’clock at the home, 441 Elk Spur street, witli Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor of First Baptist church, of ficiating. Burial will be in Holly wood cemetery here. Overall Quota In County Has Been Topped With the Victory bond drive in its final stages, the “E” bond pur chase is lagging, although the over-all sales for Surry county have exceeded its assigned quota. Miss Mattie Mae Powell, chair man of the local drive, reports a total of $104,119.75 “E" bonds having been sold in the Elkin dis trict since the beginning of the drive on November 12. The Merchants Association, working with the officials of the drive by offering a prize of a $25 bond to the clerk selling the most bonds, has announced that Mkr low C. Gentry, of Mountain Park, employee of F. A. Brendle’s, was awarded the prize. According' to J. F. Yokley, of Mount Airy, Surry county’s chair man, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond reports bond sales for Surry county, as of December 1, as follows: Overall sales, $1,055, 796.25, which over subscribes our qucta of $1,045,000.00. “E” Bond sales, for the county, are reported at $159,731.25. This total of “E” Bonds is short approximately $300,000.00 of the quota of $454, 000.00, or a little more than 35%, according to the sales to date. It was also learned from Mr. Yokley that the radio controlled target plane was demonstrated at the Mount Airy airport last Sun day at 2:00 p. m. with approxi mately 4,000 spectators on the field. In order to encourage the sale of “E” Bonds, the type that is lagging and the kind that is usually ‘ purchased by the average citizen, it has been announced that everyone buying a war bond today, (Thursday) or Friday, will be given free tickets to see any motion picture in town on Friday (Pearl Harbor Day), through the courtesy of the management. Tickets will be available at the post office, the bank, and the Building and Loan Association, the three principal bond selling agencies in Elkin. The tickets will be given when the bond is purchased. L. O. Yandell, manager of the Reeves theatres, said that over (Continued on page 4, first sec.) $12,000 in bonds were sold by School children in order to see the (Continued on page 4, first sec.) PARKED CARS ARE DAMAGED Hit-And-Run Driver Crashes Into Two Machines On N. Bridge Street HELD FOR HEARING Two parked automobiles, the property of Miss Lois McKnight and Mrs. Myrtle Patterson, respec tively, were extensively damaged about 1:15 a. m. last Friday morning when a hit-and-run driv er crashed into them as they stood by the curb at the Handy Apart ments, home of the owners, on North Bridge street. Miss McKnight’s car appeared to have been hit head-on, while the Patterson car bore evidence of having been sideswiped. As a result of a witness to the crash taking the license number of the guilty car, Grady Lee Mace more and Weldon Swaim, both of Yadkin county, await hearing here Monday morning on a charge of hit-and-run driving. Chief of police Corbett Wall said that Swaim was driving, and that both men denied knowledge of the crash when first questioned, but later confessed and put up money to pay for the damages. They said they lost control of their car on the eurve above the Apartment building. , )
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