ELKIN
\ The Best Little Town
1 In North Carolina
* The Elkin Tribune *
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VOL. NO. XXXIV No. 5
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1946
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16 PAGES—TWO SECTIO
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. -
President Truman started 194<
resolved to put across his legis
lative program in a new yeai
that poses many problems
Aboard the presidential yacht
Williamsburg, Truman wa;
knitting together a speech aim
ed at lining up public backing
behind that program. Thurs
day night, the President goes
on the air to talk directly tc
the people. He has started
too, to draft a “state of the un
ion” message for Congress, tc
L tell it what he wants after il
I goes back to work in January.
li CHICAGO, Jan. 1. — The
Adeath toll of the nation’s
noisiest, most expensive and
most exhuberant New Year’s
celebration in years reached al
least 437 last night and mil
| lions were recuperating. Al
^ least 310 were killed in traffic
l accidents or met death through
k other violent means. Safety
I officials said the toll would be
' higher if the preholiday acci
dental deaths of persons travel
ing to other towns for celebra
tions were counted. They
, counted holiday deaths starting
■ Saturday at midnight. New
^ York led the states with 44
violent deaths. California,
with 30, was second. Illinois
reported 18, Pennsylvania 22,
Indiana 15, Massachusetts 13,
Texas 21, and Connecticut 11.
SOME 382,000 persons were
off the job because of labor
disputes as the new year ar
rived, and President Truman
acted in the steel dispute which
threatens to take another 700,
000 workers out. The C. I. O.
united steel workers have set
January 14 for their strike at
800 metals plants for a $2-a
day wage increase. Last night
Truman named a fact-finding
board to investigate the con
troversy. As a result the steel
industry looked to the White
"House for a new plea that the
strike be postponed while the
investigators delve into issues.
. s Postponement would keep the
* : nation’s basic industry run
ning during the fact-finding
I inquiry and would allow time
for OPA reconsideration of the
industry’s request for a price
hike.
INTERNATIONAL
PARIS, Jan. 1. — A Berlin
dispatch in the Paris evening
paper, France Soir, today quot
ed “reliable” sources that Hit
ler’s body had been discovered
and identified December 19 by
the Russian high command in
Berlin. The dispatch said Hit
ler's charred body had been
identified by means of the jaw
bones which were declared to
be those of Hitler by the nazi
leader’s personal dentist, a
prisoner of the Russians. An
nouncement of the identifica
tion was being delayed because
the body was found in an ar
mored bunker some distance
from the chancellory where
Hitler died, the dispatch said,
adding that the body was be
lieved to have been taken there
and buried by the nazis after
Russian occupancy of the
chancellory ruins.
BERLIN, Jan. 1. — In a
Europe shivering with cold, the
best best dressed and best pro
tected against winter’s frigid
blasts are—the Germans. Proof
of this fact has been found by
this correspondent during a
two-day examination of what
the best—as well as the worst
dressed Berliners are wearing.
There is no use in trying to
find Parisian chic on Berlin’s
streets, though a good many
d'omen may be observed wear
ing charming little hats ob
viously obtained somewhere
around the Rue St. Honore by
German soldiers during Hitler’s
heyday. But it is an undeniable
fact that the average person of
any western European country
if-irf. jtmk envious eyes at the
Closing Date
Is Postponed
Until March 6
Merchants Plan
Wednesday P. M.
Holidays Later
The Elkin Merchants Associa
tion, following a meeting of rep
resentative merchants at the City
Hall here Tuesday afternoon, an
nounced that a change in plans
for Wednesday afternoon closing
had been decided upon.
According to the new plan,
stores will not begin closing regu
larly on each Wednesday after
noon until Wednesday, March 6,
but will continue to close each
Wednesday afternoon from that
date until September 18.
Inasmuch as it had originally
been decided to close starting
Wednesday, January 2, a majority
of local stores closed yesterday
afternoon as advertised. However,
stores will remain open on succes
sive Wednesday afternoons until
March 6.
SURRY SCHOOLS
TO OPEN JAN 7
Condition Of Roads Causes
Delay In Resuming Studies
In Rural Areas
LOCAL SCHOOLS OPEN
The re-opening of the Surry
county schools in the county has
been postponed until next Mon
day, according to an announce
ment by John W. Comer, superin
tendent of the Surry county
school system, due to the extreme
ly bad condition of secondary
highways throughout the county.
"Practically all the secondary
roads of the county are in terrible
shape, and right now it is im
practical to try to operate the
schools,’’ Mr. Comer said. “The
State Highway Commission has
also requested that we not try to
operate the school buses until the
roads are improved.’’
The suspension includes all the
schools of tiie county with the ex
ception of the Mount Airy city
unit and the Elkin schools, which
have resumed work following the
holiday period.
MASONSINSTALL
NEW OFFICERS
O. E. Boles Succeeds C. O.
Garland As Master For
The Coming Year
WAS SUCCESSFUL TERM
Elkin Masons met for their reg
ular monthly meeting on Friday
night of last week at 7:30 in the
Masonic hall in an installation
service at which time officers for
the ensuing years were officially
installed.
C. O. Garland, past master of
the lodge, was succeeded by O. E.
Boles as master the forthcoming
year. Other officers elected for
the current year were: Arthur
Harmon, senior warden; Graham
Green, junior warden; M. C.
Whitener, treasurer; and J. F.
Amburn, secretary.
Those appointed to serve were
W. J. Graham, senior deacon:
Glenn Lewis, junior deacon; and
Ralph Dorsett, tyler.
Mr. Boles, present master, stat
ed that Mr. Garland closed out
the year of 1945 as one of the best
years of the lodge, both in mem
bership and financial status.
The local lodge has a record of
having donated liberal financial
support to the Oxford orphanage,
which belongs to the Grand
Lodges of North Carolina and is
dependent on-the Masons of this
?
Lions To Stage
Waste Fat Drive
Here Sunday P. M.
The Elkin Lions Club will
stage a town-wide fat salvage
collection here Sunday after
noon beginning at 2:00 o’clock,
it has been announced, pro
ceeds of the sale of the waste
fats to go to the Elkin high
school laboratory fund.
All residents of the town are
urged to co-operate in the drive
by placing waste fats in con
tainers cither on the porch of
their homes, or on the walk so
that it may be picked iro con
veniently. The laboratory fund
for the high school is for the
purchase of needed supplies
and equipment.
It was pointed out that al
though the war has ended,
waste fats are still badly need
ed for the manufacture of
soaps and other scarce prod
ucts.
Local Office Is To
Issue No More Books
Mrs. Ralph L. Durham, of the
local ration office, announced
Wednesday that hereafter no
more No. 4 ration books would be
issued from hei office, nor would
sugar rations to soldiers on fur
lough. Mrs. Durham also stated
that the local office will not make
replacements on lost or stolen No.
4 ration books.
This work will be done hereafter
through the district office at Ra
leigh, it was said. However,
necessary applications may be ob
tained from the local office.
CHRISTMAS WAS
REALLY WHITE
Ice And Sleet Storm Threat
ened Communications
Here For While
PREDICT MORE WEATHER
Everyone who spent the weeks
before December 25 dreaming of
a white Christmas, not only saw
their dreams materialized but in
tensified Christmas Eve night by
a combination of snow, sleet and
ice that for a while threatened to
halt all traffic and disrupt pow
er and communication service.
Rain, mixed with sleet, which
began falling early in the evening
froze on wires and streets, but
fortunately the freezing rain
changed to sleet, depositing about
an inch on the ground by daylight
Christmas morning. D. G. Smith,
manager of the Duke Power Com
pany here, said that although
minor power failures were caused
in some instances, no serious
trouble developed. However, east
and south of Elkin the ice storm
was more intense, developing to
major proportions in the southern
part of the state and in a number
of South Carolina localities.
Weather officials at the govern
ment weather bureau at the Smith
Reynolds airport at Winston-Sa
lem, stated that precipiation dur
ing the storm totalled over two
inches.
Following the sleet and ice
storm, King Winter ushered in a
day or so of warmer weather,
throwing in some rain to make
country roads all but impassable,
which was followed with clearing
weather and cold, the mercury
going down to an unofficial 15
here Tuesday night. Weather
forecast for today (Thursday), as
given Wednesday, predicted in
creasing cloudiness and rain
Thursday afternoon, probably pre
ceded by sleet or snow,
PASSES — Franklin Thompson
Llewellyn, of Dobson, a former
clerk of superior court of Surry
county and widely known and
respected throughout this sec
tion, died at his home shortly
after noon, Saturday, December
22. Funeral services were held
December 24.
F. T. LLEWELLYN
PASSES DEC. 22
Former Clerk Of Surry Sup
perior Court, Was Known
Throughout Section
RITES HELD DEC. 24TH
Franklin Thompson Llewellyn
75, former clerk of Superior court
for Surry county and widely
known churchman and civic lead
er, died at his home near Dobson
at 12:45 p. m. Saturday, Decem
ber 22.
He was a native of Surry coun
ty, having been born April 28,
1871, son of the late James Henry
and Sarah Pratt Llewellyn. He
was married December 25, 1893, to
Miss Edna Boyles, who survives.
Mr. Llewellyn served as clerk of
court for about 20 years, having
retired from office two years ago
and was succeeded by his son.
Fred Llewellyn. Since then he
had devoted his time to farming
activities. He was a minister of
the Baptist faith and was instru
mental in building Central View
Baptist church, where the funeral
was conducted Monday, December
24, at 2 p. m. by Revs. Delmar
Hodge, Sampson Collins, and
Silas Smith. Interment was made
in the church cemetery.
Survivors other than those al
ready mentioned are three sons,
Henry, John and James Robert
Llewellyn, all of Dobson, and a
daughter, Mrs. E. B. Fogleman,
Columbia, S. C. There also are
nine grandchildren.
WILKES MAN, 90,
DIES CHRISTMAS
Rev. John Nathaniel Barker
Suffered Pneumonia And
Broken Hip
FUNERAL ON THURSDAY
Funeral services for Rev. John
Nathaniel Barker, 90, a retired
Baptist minister, were held Thurs
day afternoon of last week at 1
o’clock at the Charity Methodist
church with Rev. John Burcham
and Rev. Levi McCann in charge
of the rites. Burial was made in
the church cemetery.
Rev. Barker, an ordained minis
ter of 49 years, died on Christmas
day at the home of a son, J. I.
Barker, of Ronda, after a short
illness of pneumonia and a frac
tured hip.
He was twice married; first to
Miss Sarah Elizabeth Laster, in
1877, who died in 1923. To this
union were born ten children, four
of which ^preceded him in death
several years ago. He was mar
ried the second time to Mrs. Per
lina Wood Hincher, in 1925, who
died seven years ago.
Surviving are two daughters and
four sons, Mrs. Carrie West, of
Roaring River; Mrs. Nancy Smith,
Benham; Rev. W. D. Barker,
Miles; Thomas and Charlie Bark
er, Roaring River; J. I. Barker,
Christmas Kush Her
KIWANIS
OFFICES WILL
be INSTALLED Sets All-Time Recor
Carolinas District Governor
To Be Speaker
AT MEETING THIS P. M.
During Ten-Day Perio
xiuiYC nciiuciauii iu outtccu
T. C. McKnight As Presi
dent Of Club
TO BE LADIES’ NIGHT
Jasper Hicks, of Henderson,
prominent North Carolina lawyer
■ and newly installed governor of
the Carolinas Kiwanis district, is
to be guest speaker and will in
stall new officers at the ladies’
night meeting of the Elkin Ki
wanis club at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA here this evening (Thurs
day), at 7:00 o'clock.
Officers to be installed to serve
the club during 1946 are: Hoke
Henderson, president who suc
ceeds T. C. McKnight; Carl Poin
dexter, vice-president, who will
succeed Mr. Henderson in that
post, and Julius L. Hall, treasurer,
who will succeed himself.
Directors to be installed are W.
M. Allen, Claude Farrell, R. W.
Harris, Garland Johnson, Dr. E. L.
Rice, D. G. Smith and E. S. Spain
hour.
District .Governor Hicks, who
was recently installed at Hender
son by Past Governor Sam Bundy,
is making Elkin one of his first
stops on his rounds of North and
South Carolina Kiwanis clubs. He
is said to be an exceptionally fine
speaker.
RONDA CITIZEN
DIES SUDDENLY
Alton Bruce Pardue, 45, Is
Victim Of Heart At
tack Saturday
FUNERAL HELD’ MONDAY
Alton Bruce Pardue, 45, died
suddenly Saturday morning at 8
o’clock of a heart attack which he
suffered at his home in Ronda.
He had been in ill health for a
number of years and had recent
ly spent a few days in the Wilkes
hospital.
A son of the late John H. and
Adelade Martin Pardue, Mr. Par- 1
due was bom on June 1, 1900, in !
Wilkes county, near Ronda, and 1
has been a resident of Ronda for 1
several years where he was en- '
gaged in the mercantile business. ]
Surviving are the widow, the '
former Miss Marie Wooten, and
one son, Alton, Jr.; four brothers
and three sisters, L. M. Pardue, of '
Johnson City, Tennessee; P. W.
Pardue, of North Wilkesboro; D. '
H. Pardue, and J. M. Pardue of \
Ronda; Mrs. Arthur Gray, Balti- *
more, Md.; Mrs. W. N. Gilbert,
Winston-Salem; and Mrs. T. C.
Calloway, Ronda.
Funeral services were held at £
Pleasant Grove Baptist church on
Monday at 11 a. m„ with Rev. R. (
R. Crater and Rev. I. J. Terrell, (
officiating. Interment was made j
in the church cemetery. J
i
Extend Thanks For
Seal Sale Support
Mrs. E. P. McNeer, local chair
man of the sale of the North
Carolina Tuberculosis Association,
has expressed a desire to thank all
those who bought Christmas seals
this year, with special recognition
to the North Elkin, Elkin high,
and Elementary schools for their
full cooperation and successful ef
forts in boosting the Christmas
seal sale to the final figure of
$343.66.
Mrs. McNeer has pointed out
that $257.73 of this amount will
remain in this city to be used for
the benefit of school lunch rooms
whereby milk, hot lunches, and
vital medical attention will be of
fered to tubercular suspects.
JOtirth of this year’s sseal
proceeds, of $85.S3, will be
national headquarters to
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STOLEN AUTOS
ARE RECOVERED
Driver Of Car Taken Here
Last Friday Is Placed In
Jail To Await Hearing
OTHER CAR ABANDONED
Two stolen automobiles, one
taken from its parking place near
the City Hall last Friday,
and the other stolen while
parked at the Chatham Manu
facturing Company sometime
early Tuesday morning, have been
recovered, it was learned Tuesday
afternoon from police.
The car stolen Tuesday was the
property of Roy Stewart, an em
ployee of the Chatham Company,
who was at work at the time. It
was recovered later, having been
parked on the Elkin-Boonville
highway. Police said it had not
been damaged, nor had anything
been taken from it. Indications
were that it had run out of gas
and was abandoned.
The other car was the property
of James Davis, of Jonesville.
Highway Patrolman W. S. Mc
Kinney said it was recovered near
Valdese, and the driver, Purvis
Clinton Parks, Jr., of Cycle, placed
in jail at Dobson to await hearing
for the theft on January 7. Police
ilso stated that since Parks’ ar
rest they had received a warrant
from Carroll County, Va., charg
ng the man with bigamy.
rAX BOOKS ARE
NOW OPEN HERE
411 Property Owners Of
County Must List Personal
And Real Property
LIST-TAKERS ARE GIVEN
J. Pate Fulk, of Pilot Mountain,
Surry county tax supervisor, has
tnnounced that all property on
land January 1, both real and
>ersonal, is subjected to taxation
ind must be listed, and that all
nale persons between the ages of
!1 and 50 years must list for poll
ax during January.
Tax listers for Elkin township
vill be at the City Hall on Mar
ket street, during the month of
ranuary. Failure to list before
lose of tax-listing period will re
mit in a penalty of 10 per cent of
ax levied, it was said. Mrs. W.
Cox, of Elkin, is the tax lister
or this township.
Listers for other Surry town
hips are as follows:
Bryan, R. E. Snow; Dobson, H.
'■ Lawrence; Eldora, Harvey P.
itewart; Long Hill, Sam Fulk;
’’ranklin, Charlie P. Carson;
flarsh, J. E. Poindexter; Mount
dry, E. L. Patterson and R. L.
Jadgett; Pilot; Paul S. Swanson;
tockford, V. W. Coe; Shoals,
ohn A. Allen; Siloam, C. S. Fulk;
itewart’s Creek, R. Richards;
Vestfield, W. B. Blair.
Urs. Julia Stoker
Is Taken By Death
Mrs. Julia Hampton Stoker, 88,
ied suddenly last Friday evening
t her home near Thurmond while
itting in the living room convers
ig with her family.
She was a daughter of the late
Ir. and Mrs. William Stoker, of
'hurmond community.
Surviving is one daughter, Mrs, 1
lora Smith, of Greensboro.
Funeral services were held Sun- {
ay morning at 11 o'clock at 1
ifhite Rock Methodist church of j
hich she was a member, yvlth
lev. Grady Norman officiating. 1
Interment was made in the
mjauusimuum
DIES FROM BULLET WOUND
— Thomas Garnett Fawcett,
prominent Mount Airy banker,
died last Friday morning of a
self-inflicted bullet wound. Rel
atives sr.id he had been de
spondent over ill health.
MT. AIRY MAN
ENDS OWN LIFE
Thomas G. Fawcett, Bank
President, Said To Have
Been In 111 Health
RITES HELD SATURDAY
Thomas Garnett Fawcett, 62.
president of the First National
Bank of Mount Airy, widely
known and active in business and
civic life of that city, died Friday
morning in the clinic of Dr. R. C.
Mitchell of self-inflicted pistol
wounds when he shot himself in
the head when he stepped into
another clinic room after sitting
in the waiting room only a short
time.
Members of the family said de
spondency over continued ’ ill
health caused Mr. Fawcett to take
his own life. He had been ill for
sometime and had recently been
a patient in a hospital.
Born February 25, 1883, in Lon
don, Ontario, Canada, a son of
Thomas and Mary Lenfesty Faw
cett, he went to Mount Airy about
50 years ago with his parents. He
was educated in the public schools
there and was graduated from the
University of North Carolina.
At the age of 21, Mr. Fawcett
went to work for the First Nation
al Bank of which his father was
president. Later h i s brother,
George Fawcett, became presi
dent. At the death of his brother
about 25 years ago, Mr. Fawcett
became president of the bank.
He was a member of the Ki
wanis club and active in the Trin
ity Episcopal church of which he
was a vestryman.
Surviving are the widow, the
former Miss Katie Lee Mills; four
daughters, Mrs. Fred Folger, Mrs.
Henry Folger, Mrs. R. J. Randolph
and Mrs. Cecil Hennis, Jr.; two
sons, Thomas Garnett Fawcett, Jr.
and George D. Fawcett, all of
Mount Airy.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock
at the home on North Main street,
n Mount Airy, with Rev. Ed Jeff
ress officiating. Interment was
nade in the Oakdale cemetery. j
Ministers Group To
Meet On January 7th
The Elkin-Jonesville Area Min
sterial Association, which was re
iently organized, will meet Mon
lay, January 7, at 12:00 o’clock
loon, at the Gilvin Fvoth Y. M. C.
V., according to an announcement
>y C. Marvin Boggs,
he organization.
All minister
Greeting Cards
Mailed Total
Over 102,010
Outgoing Christmas greeting
letters and cards from the local
post office here reached ai
time high during the past
tide season, according to Post
ter P. W. Graham.
A total of 102,010 locally ml
greetings were cancelled
Elkin post office during the
days immediately prece
Christmas, from December
to the 25th. This figure rd
sents only the outgoing mail|
does not include the incoj
greetings. The largest
day’s business in the post
was that of Monday, Deceij
17, in which a total of l|
greetings passed through the;
office, as recorded by the car
ing machine at the local offi^
This year’s Christmas nyiil,^
Mr. Graham, exceeded that
year’s during the same
by about 10 to 15%, although
parcel post out-go was off
20% due to the large numbe
returned . servicemen, causing
substantial decrease in Christ
packages to be mailed oversea
The prospects for the new
are good, added Mr. Graha
shown by the continuous gauj
receipts, substantiating the
dence of good general bust
conditions.
LEAF FARMER!
TO MEET Iff
Surry Tobacco Growers
vited To Attend Sessic
At Dobson Courthouse
TO DISCUSS DISEAS
Surry tobacco farmers are tn- '
vited to attend a meeting in the
Courthouse in Dobson on Thurs
day, January 10, at 7:30 P. M. to
discuss tobacco diseases with
Howard R. Garris, Extension
Plant Pathologist of State College
as discussion leader according to
an announcement by Neill M.
Smith, County Agent. Tobacco
growers who have experienced dis
ease problems are urged to attend
this meeting which will be supple
mented by colored slides.
Smith stated that the speaker
will discuss diseases recently iden
tified from specimens sent to
State Colege for identifications.
The speaker will give the latest
recommendations made from the
Tobacco Experiment Station on
new disease varieties developed to
resistant disease. Surry farmers
will find this meeting their best
opportunity to obtain the very
best available information on ’to
bacco diseases and known control
measures the County Agent stated
in issuing the invitation to all
growers.
Final Rites Held
For Mrs. Ida Riggs
Funeral services were held
day afternoon at Dobson'
dist church for Mrs. Ida
Riggs, 87, who died MQ»<j
ternoon at 5 o’clock at her home
in Dobson. ,
Born in Surry county, October 1,
1858, daughter of Dr. --
Milton Y. Folger,
made her home in
past
Surviving ;
and “