ELKIN \ The Best Little Town 1 In North Carolina * The Elkin Tribune * I ELK Ga VOL. NO. XXXIV No. 5 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1946 $2.00 PER YEAR 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 U8 l 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»