ELKIN
The Best Little Town
In North Carolina
The Elkin Tribune
ELKIN
Gateway To Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
VOL. NO. XXXIV No. 11
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1946
$2.00 PER YEAR
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RALEIGH, Feb. 12. — The
Cape Fear, Neusc, and Roanoke
rivers, overflowing their banks
at several points as a result of
heavy rains centered over their
upper watersheds during the
past week-end, may reach crest
stages tomorrow following con
siderable rises today, C. E. La
moureux, director of thp Unit
ed States weather bureau at
State college said. As the low
land areas bordering the rivers
lay inundated in the wake of
the week-end deluge, another
storm developed over New
Mexico this morning and
threatened to bring more rain
over the area tomorrow night
and Thursday. The weather
bureau chief predicted rain in
most sections of the state to
morrow night.
NATIONAL
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WASHINGTN Feb. 12. — A
high official said tonight that
a steel price increase had been
fixed but was being delayed by
Stabilizer John C. Collet’s in
sistence that the government
insure its legality by first re
vising the general wage-price
policy. However, United States
Steel corporation should have
word of the price increase —
reportedly around $5 a ton—by
tomorrow, it was stated. The
administration is convinced the
price is high enough to permit
settlement of the strike of 750,
000 C.I.O. united steel workers,
said this official, who may not
be named but who has figured
in the month-old wage-price
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. —
The army drive for volunteers
has passed the half million
mark, the war department an
nounced today. Maj. Gen.
Harold N. Gilbert, head of the
intensive campaign, said in a
statement that its success thus
far is “unequalled in the his
tory of the country.” He added
that the rate must be main
tained to meet the need for
replacements of soldiers who
are being released. About 55
per cent of the volunteers sign
ed up for three years. The
Pacific theater has supplied
51,365 and the European area,
42,768. In the United States,
the largest number of recruits
came from the 4th service com
mand at Atlanta where 83,316
were reported up to February 1.
DETROIT, Feb. 12. — The
C.I.O. united auto workers to
day scorned an 18' i> cents an
hour wage increase offer from
General Motors and union Vice
President Walter P. Reuther
said the long strike could last
“another two months” if G.M.
does not meet U.A.W. demands.
Even if General Motors offers
the 19'i-cent increase recom
mended by President Truman's
fact-finding committee, Reuth
er said, the strikers will not re
turn to work unless General
Motors agrees to reinstate the
union contract which it ter
minated in December.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12. — New
York City’s 7,454,995 men,
women, and children were un
der disaster rule for 18 hours
)t' T today due* to an almost total
strike paralysis enforced by 3,
500 tugboat operators. But at
5:30 p. m. Health Commis
sioner Ernest L. Stebbins re
scinded, effective at 6 p. m., a
drastic edict which had halted
every activity in the nation's
largest city not directly con
cerned with the maintenance
of human life since last mid
night. The fuel supply situ
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Deputy Collector
To Aid Taxpayers
£
With Income tax returns for the
balendar year 1945 to be filed not
later than March 15, assistance
will be given local taxpayers who
desire it by a deputy collector of
internal revenue who will be at
the City Hall here February 18, 19,
20 and 21, from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00
. m. on each day. No charge will
be made for this seiwice.
Although most taxpayers have
already made substantial pay
ents on their 1945 federal tax
rough withholding from their
ages or direct payments to the
collector, all taxpayers must nev
ertheless file annual returns, it
was pointed out, in event then
total income in 1945 was $500 or
Lore.
NEW STAFF MEMBER — Sam
G. Austin, of Boone, has been
assigned to the Soil Conserva
tion Service staff here. After
graduating from Appalachian
State Teachers College he taught
nine years in the Watauga
county schools. He then worked
with the AAA in W'atauga and
Surry counites. Since coming
with the Soil Conservation Ser
vice he has worked in Ashe and
Yadkin Counties coming from
Yadkin to the Elkin office. He
is married to the former Kath
leen Mast of Watauga county
and they have no children. He
belongs to the Baptist church
and is a member of the Masonic
Lodge.
YADKIN YOUTH
IS WAR VICTIM
Sergt. Enoch K. Wooten, List
ed As Missing, Is Declar
ed Killed In Action
NEAR NIEVRES, FRANCE
Staff Sergeant Enoch K. Woot
en, Jr., 21, son of Mr. and Mrs,
E. K. Wooten, of Yadkinville,
Route 2, who has been missing in
action since July 18, 1944, was
killed ill action on that date, the
War Department has notified the
parents.
The War Department stated
that Sergeant Wooten was killed
in action near Nievres, France
and is buried at the American
Cemetery at Marigny La Eglise
(Nievres) France.
Sergeant Wooten entered the
army in February, 1942 and went
overseas in March, 1944. He was
based in England with the Eighth
Air Force and was assistant en
gineer and gunner on a B-24
Liberator.
Surviving are the parents;
three brothers, Harvey Lee Woot
en, who has just been discharged
from the Marines; Hubert and
Clay Wooten, of the home; and
four sisters, Mrs. Orville Swisher
of Yadkinville, Route 3, Miss Anna
Lee Wooten, of this city and
Misses Helen and Hazel Wooten
of the home.
CIVIL SERVICE
TO SEE CHANGE
Will Return From A Wartime
To A Peacetime Basis,
Officials Say
ANNOUNCEMENT MADE
Of vital interest to the Federal
employees who are working in
this Civil Service region under
what have been known as War
Service appointments, is the recent
government release concerning
the reverting of the commission
from a wrar time to a peace time
basis, which is to become effective
within a short time, according tc
information received from the
local post office authorities.
The release will assist those af
fected to understand their status
as well as the procedures that will
be 'followed hereafter in 'filling
vacancies and replacing War Ser
vice and temporory appointees
who do not take the examination
or who fail to obtain eligible rat
ings, or are otherwise not suffici
ently high on the register to be
retained.
In announcing examinations for
regular civil service appointments,
the commission will select certain
positions from each one of the
major occupational classifications,
In determining just what exami
nations to announce, the commis
sion will be guided by the demo
bilization of the armed forces, and
at the outset examinations for the
filling of positions for which there
is a greater demand for personnel
through the demobilization period,
The commission, in summariz
ing the significant portions of its
regulatons, explained that tempo
rary appointments would be made
pending the establishment of reg
ular civil service lists.
SCOUTS ARE TO
MAKE SPECIAL
CLOTHING DRIVE
Taking: Part In “Shirts-Off
Our-Back” Campaign
TO ASSIST WAR VICTIMS
Seek Only Scout Clothing
And Equipment To Send
To Foreign Lands
WILL END MARCH 14
The Boy Scouts of the Elkin -
Yadkin district, Old Hickory
Council, are joining with Scouts
all over the nation in a “Shirts
Off-Our-Backs” campaign design
ed to colect Scout clothing and .
equipment to be sent to less for
tunate Scouts in war-torn coun
tries abroad.
This drive, which is now under
way and which will continue un
til March 15, is not a regular old
clothing campaign, and seeks only
Scout clothing and Scout Equip
ment. Only serviceable garments
are desired from Scouts and form
er Scouts who might have it avail
able.
Among the equipment sought
are the following items: tents,
sleeping bags, cooking kits and
mess kits, compasses, first aid kits,
signal flags, whistles, fire-making
sets, axes, knives, haversacks,
Scout and Cub books, Scout and
Cub shirts, breeches and shorts,
neckerchiefs, slides, lanyards, hats
and caps, belts, stockings and
shoes.
Scouts and former Scouts wish
ing to take part in this drive may
leave clothing and equipment at
Hayes & Speas Furniture Co., it
was announced. Later in the
drive a canvass will probably be
made.
TEAMS REPEAT
IN TOURNAMENT
i-usi lears Gnamps, riioi
Mountain And Flat Rock,
Are Surry Victors
ELKIN IS ELIMINATED
The annual county-wide basket
ball tournament which began at
Pilot Mountain last Wednesday
night ended Tuesday night of this
week with Flat Rock girls and
Pilot Mountain boys capturing
the Surry county high school
basketball championships with
victories in the finals. Both win
ning teams were the defending
champions from last year’s tourn
ament.
Pilot Mountain girls gained a
9-8 lead in the first period of the
opener, but Flat Rock, with Rey
nolds leading the way, pushed
back to lead, 17-12, at half time.
Reynolds paced the victory attack
I for Flat Rock with 19 points, while
B. Key was the top threat for Pilot
Mountain.
The victorious Pilot Mountain
boys ran a 17-8 lead at the half to
win the second game. Simmons
and Gordon topped the attack for
Pilot Mountain, while Martin was
the chief threat for Franklin.
In Monday night’s semifinals,
Flat Rock girls defeated Elkin, 25
to 12, and Pilot Mountain boys de
feated Elkin 27 to 16, eliminating
the local team.
A capacity crowd witnessed all
the games played during the
tournament.
LIONS CLUB TO
SP0NS0RTR00P
Hold Regular Meeting At
Gilvin Roth YMCA Here
Tuesday Evening
DISCUSS WASTE FATS
The Elkin Lions club met Tues
day night in regular session at
6:15 o’clock at the YMCA for a
dinner meeting. President W. J.
Graham, presided over the meet
ing.
During the business session,
plans for Boy Scout troop No. 96,
formerly sponsored by the East
Elkin Baptist church, of which
the Lions club is now taking over
the sponsorship, were discussed.
It was decided that the collection
of waste fats would be turned
over to this troop with the sche
dule for collection to be worked ■
out later.
Heber Mounce and E. E. Shore,
Jr., are scout master and assist
ant scout master, respectively, of !
scout troop No. 96.
The club will hold its next reg
ular meeting at the Y on Friday
night, February 22, at 6:30.
LEADERS FOR BROTHERHOOD WEEK — Two American lead
ers, President Harry S. Truman and Harold Stasscn, former gov
ernor of Minnesota, have joined in calling upon the nation’s citizens
to observe the 13th annual Brotherhood Week, February 17 to 24.
President Truman is honorary chairman of the observance and
Stassen is general chairman for Brotherhood Week.
ALUMNI GROUP
MEETS AT YMCA
Enjoyable Program Is Pre
sented As Old Grads
Get Together
NEXT MEETING IN APRIL
The Northwest State College
Alumni Club consisting of Ashe,
Alleghany, Wilkes, Surry, and
Sfadkin counties met at the Gilvin
Roth YMCA Tuesday evening of
ast week. During the dinner
lumerous humorous stories and
ncidents were related including a
few about the president, Neill M.
Smith, having trouble finding the
ast meeting which was held on
Bluff Park.
President Smith introduced
3arland Johnson, mayor of Elk
n. Curtis Hobson of Yadkin,
L,ouis Trevathan of Surry, Frank
Csbome and Chap Hampton of
Alleghany returned war veterans
vere introduced as was Jim Gra
lam manager of the Mountain
rest Farm at Transou.
H. W. “Pop” Taylor, alumni
secretary, brought the club up to
late on the happenings at State
College. He spoke of the tremen
lous increase in enrollment say
ng that over 1300 veterans enroll
ed this term and that plans had
jeen made to construct new dor
nitories.
R. D. Beam, director of the
State College foundations, spoke of
she progress the college had made
aaving the best textile school in
she world and the best dairy lab
iratory in the southeast. He spoke
if the part that the foundations
lad in this work, and that plans
vere on foot to build a splendidly
equipped alumni memorial build
ing.
The next State College alumni
neeting will be held in Elkin on
she first Monday night in April.
ELKIN DEFEATS
N. WILKESBORO
Both Boys And Girls Are
Winners; Honda Also Is
Victim Of Locals
MEET MT. AIRY FRIDAY
Eliminated from the Surry
County Basketball Tournament
Monday night at Pilot Mountain
after reaching the semi-finals, the
boys’ and girls’ teams of Elkin
High School bounced back Tues
day night in a double header with
North Wilkesboro here to defeat
the Wilkes teams 56-6 (girls), and
29-12 (boys).
The locals were defeated in thd
tournament play when the Pilots
Mountain boys chalked up a 27
16 score, and the Flat Rock girls
i 25-15 win. Elkin had previous
ly defeated Mountain Park girls
34-33, and the White Plains boys
21-20 in tournament games last
Saturday night.
In Tuesday’s girls’ game here
tvith North Wilkesboro, the locals
were paced by Steelman, who
scored 16 points; Hanes with 12
and Parker with 18. The score
stood Elkin 30, N. Wilkesboro 0
it the half.
The boys’ game was more thrill
ng, with B. Osborne and B. Har
ris pacing Elkin’s attack, scoring
10 and 6 points respectively. Bal
ard was top for the visitors.
Another Wilkes team, Ronda,
ilso fell before Elkin in a double
leader last week, when the girls
von 29-17, with the first team
seeing no action. In the boys'
jame the locals were winners 30 to
).
The last home game of the sea
son will be played at the school
;ym Friday night, beginning at
1:30, when the boys and girls
seams of Mount Airy will play
lere.
The last battle of the Revolu
tionary War was fought near Blue
jicks, Kentucky.
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TO SPEAK — Rev. Joe S. Hiatt,
formerly superintendent of the
Elkin district of the Methodist
Conference, but now of States
ville, will be guest speaker at
the meeting of the Elkin Ki
wanis Club this evening (Thurs
day). Mr. Hiatt is a humorist
of outstanding ability. Last
week’s meeting of the club fea
tured a program under the di
rection of Kiwanian Dr. Vernon
Taylor.
JC TOURNAMENT
BEGINS FEB. 22
Forty-Two Teams Are To En
ter; Promises To Be Better
Than Last Year
TICKETS NOW ON SALE
The Yadkin Valley Conference
Basketball Tournament, sponsor
ed by the Elkin Junior Chamber
of Commerce will be held at the
Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A. February
22nd through March 5th. There
will be 42 teams entering, 21 boys
teams and 21 girls teams. Pair
ing and schedules are now being
worked out.
There will be five games on
each of the first two nights then
four games each night through
the semi-finals, and two games
the final night to determine the
champions.
This tournament promises to be
even better than last year. Re
cord attendance is expected and
bleachers are being added to the
gymnasium to more than double
the seating capacity, it was said.
The tournament is being put on
a non-profit basis with all net
proceeds to be divided equally
among the competing teams.
Tickets are now on sale and can
be purchased from all members of
the Junior Chamber of Com
merce or the school coaches.
I NEW FIRM IS
FORMED HERE
Winston-S a 1 e m Men Buy
Hensel Lumber Company,
Form New Corporation
WILL RETAIL LUMBER
Martin C. Goodman and L. M.
Ernest, both of Winston-Salem,
have purchased the Hensel Lum
ber Company here and formed a
new corporation which will be
known as the Goodman & Ernest
Lumber Company, Inc., it has
been announced.
Harry H. Hensel, who has op
erated the Hensel Lumber Com
pany during the past several
years, is now with the W. M.
Storey Lumber Co., of Winston
Salem. However, he said he
would remain here until school is
out this spring.
The new firm, it was said, will
handle a complete line of retail
building lumber and building
supplies. Both Mr. Goodman and
Mr. Ernest will probably move to
Elkin whenever housing facilities
are available.
Old silver kept in a box of flour
should not tarnish.
300 PRESENT AT
ANNUAL DINNER
TUESDAY NIGHT
Employers - Employees Gave
Gala Program At YMCA
ORMSBY IS* SPEAKER
Prizes Are Awarded Numer
ous Guests By Master of
Ceremonies Myers
ENJOY SQUARE DANCE
Approximately 300 persons, rep
resenting employers and em
ployees of Elkin stores and other
business firms, attended the an
nual Employer-Employee banquet
at the Gilvin Roth YMCA here
Tuesday evening to hear a hum
orous address by Robert Ormsby,
well-known Winston-Salem hum
orist, and to enjoy square dancing
at the conclusion of the program.
The banquet, staged in the large
gymnasium of the YMCA, was a
prelude to a program of fun and
entertainment presided over by C.
N. Myers as master of ceremonies.
Preliminaries included the award
ing of a number of prizes which
went to the following persons:
Edworth Harris, as oldest em
ployee in number of years work
ed; Ralph Jennings, as the fath
er of the largest number of chil
dren (seven); Mrs. Betty Jo
Chambers, smallest foot; E. F.
McNeer, merchant in business the
longest (43 years), and H. F.
Laffoon, heaviest man.
The program was opened by
Claude Farrell, president of the
merchants association, who pre
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WESTINGHOUSE
TO PLAY HERE
Chatham Blanketeers Will
Meet Western Pennsyl
vania Champs
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Basketball fans in Elkin and
vicinity have a treat in store for
Monday and Tuesday nights
when the Chatham Blanketeers
meet the Westinghouse AA Girls’
basketball team at 8 o’clock in the
Y gym.
The Westinghouse team, eight
time Wester n Pennsylvania
champs, is one of the top women’s
basketball teams in Pennsylvania,
and is one of the outstanding
teams of the nation. The girls
are coached by Leo Schultz who
coached two National AAU
champion teams at Davenport,
Iowa, in 1942 and 1943. This is
his third season at Westinghouse.
In a series of games February 1
and 2 in Pittsburgh the Chat
ham girls won from Westinghouse
— the first game by a score of 24
to 15, and the second 36 to 25.
Top scorers in the contests were
Leas, Beiswenger and Wilson for
Westinghouse, and Lineback,
Shugart and Smith for the home
team.
W. W. ASHBURN
PASSES SUNDAY
Dobson Resident For Many
Years Dies At Home Of
Son In Winston-Salem
FUNERAL HELD TUESDAY
Wesley Winfield Ashbum, 51, a
native of Surry county and a resi
dent of Dobson for many years
where he was connected with the
North Carolina Department of
Revenue, died Sunday afternoon
in Winston-Salem at the home of
his son, Hassel Ashbum. Mr.
Ashbum had been in declining
health for five years but had been
considered ill for only ten days.
Born June 15, 1894, in Surry
county, a son of J. Henry and
Sarah Bruner Ashburn, he had
lived in Winston-Salem since 1933
and was in the grocery business
there.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Flossie Shackelford Ashburn; his
mother, of Carthage; one daugh
ter, Mrs. Horace M. Kimel, Wins
ton-Salem; the son; five grand
children, and one brother, Wal
ter G. Ashburn, Carthage.
Funeral services were conducted
at noon Tuesday at the home of
Mrs. Horace M. Kimel, of Wins
ton-Salem, and at 2 p. m. at Pine
Hill Freinds church, in Surry
county, of which he was a birth
right member. Rev. Egbert L.
Lineback, Rev. Perchie Key, Rev.
Manuel Key, and Rev. Tob Pres
tonel were in charge of the rites.
Interment was made in the church
cemetery.
Drunk Drivers
Feature Surry
Court Session
Report Of Grand
Jury Submitted
Wednesday A. M.
Dencie B. Shore, of Jonesville,
tried Monday in Surry county su
perior court at Dobson on a
charge of operating an automo
bile while under the influence of
whiskey, learned Wednesday that
Presiding Judge J. A. Rosseau, of
North Wilkesboro, meant exactly
what he said when he gave Shore
a 60-day sentence, suspended for
two years upon condition the de
fendant not drink any kind of
liquid containing alcohol. This
sentence was in addition to the
usual $50 fine and costs, plus re
voking of drivers license for one
year.
Monday night local police ar
rested Shore on a charge of
drunkenness, and taken back to
Dobson before Judge Rousseau, he
was ordered to serve the 60-day
suspended sentence imposed Mon
day morning.
Other defendants charged with
operating a car while under the
influence of whiskey and given
sentences of $50 and the costs,
plus loss of drivers license for one
year, plus a suspended sentence
in event they drink any alcoholic
beverage over a period of two
years, were Garvey Benton, Al
bert Wiles and Harry Jackson.
Robert F. (Red) Fletcher, of
Boonville, facing charges of op
erating a car without a drivers li
cense and reckless driving, and
Everett Lee Brown, also of Boon
ville, charged with aiding and
abetting in reckless driving, were
called out when they failed to ap
pear in court. Both young men,
it is understood, are in the army.
Capias for their arrest was order
ed.
The grand jury report was sub
mitted to Judge Rousseau Wed
nesday morning. It stated that a
survey had been made of the var
ious county institutions and that
everything was found to be in sat
isfactory condition.
A civil session of court is sched
uled to follow next week at the
conclusion of the present criminal
term.
AWARDED BRONZE STAR —
Corporal Dett Martin, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Martin, of
Jonesville, has just been noti
fied by the Commanding Offi
cer of the 7th Infantry Division
of which he was a member prior
to his recent honorable dis
charge, that he has been award
ed the Bronze Star award for
“Valorous * conduct in action
against the enemy in June,
1944.” The citation accompany
ing the award read as follows:
“In June, 1944, Corporal Martin
left the cover of a foxhole and
took the place of a mortar am
munition bearer, who was
wounded by the shellfire of a
hostile tank, 600 yards distant
near Palestrina, Italy. Ignor
ing the bursts of shells churning
the ground on every side of him,
Corporal Martin worked swiftly
and stacked ample supplies of
ammunition at each mortar.
After about fifteen minutes, the
tank directed another concen
tration at the gun position, and
Corporal Martin’s arm was
nearly tom off by a shell that
hit five yards from him. But
the work he had already com
pleted enabled his mortar pla
toon to render effective support
to attacking riflemen.”
SNOW RETIRES
AS DIRECTOR
Prominent Mount Airy Man
Has Had Good Record of
Public Service
TO RESUME PRACTICE
George K. Snow, Mount Airy
citizen, announced Tuesday that
he had submitted his resignation
as director of the Winston-Salem
Area Rent Control office, effective
March 1. Mr. Snow will re-enter
the private practice of law in
Mount Airy, where he has practic
ed 20 years.
In leaving the rent control of
fice, Mr. Snow will round out
nearly four years of service in
various wartime and Government
agencies. In April, 1942, he be
came assistant State director of
civilian defense, serving 19 North
western North Carolina counties
in their job of organizing a civ
ilian defense setup.
He served in that capacity until
April, 1944, when he was appoint
ed by Governor J. Melville
Broughton as director of the
North Carolina salvage program,
a post which he held until Oct. 1,
1945. Prom June, 1944, to June,
1945, he also held the post of De
partment Commander of the
American Legion.
Mr. Snow planned to retire to
private law practice after his sal
vage work ended but was per
suaded to take over the area rent
director’s position.
Jayeee Directors
Hold Meeting* Here
Directors of the Elkin Junior
Chamber of Commerce met Tues
day night at 7:30 at the YMCA.
Plans for the basketball tourna
ment to begin here on February
22 to last ten days, sponsored by
the Jaycees, were thoroughly dis
cussed in addition to other im
portant plans of the club.
The list of directors of the Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce in
cludes Dr. Seth M. Beale, Ted
Brown, H. B. Cranford, Claude
Farrell, Dr. V. W. Taylor, John
Kennedy, Graham Myers, Hubert
Parker and Charles Poplin. Alex
Biggs is president of the organi
sation.
NEED PERMIT
FORBURNING
County Fire Warden Points
Out Law Covering- Brush
And Trash Fires
PRECAUTION IS URGED
County fire warden, Ray E. Nor
man, of Mountain Park, reminds
all persons wishing to burn brush
or other materials to first obtain
from the county warden or one of
the district wardens, a burning
permit.
According to a recent release
from the district office, in Lenoir,
said Mr. Norman, the law requires
all persons who burn brush or
other materials within 500 feet of
woodlands or over 500 feet from a
dwelling to first obtain a burning
permit. This is effective between
the dates of February 1 and May
30, inclusive, and between Octob
er 1 and November 30. These per
mits are, of course, issued free of
charge, it was said.
It was pointed out how very im
portant it is that full cooperation
of all persons be given regarding
this matter so as to prevent forest
fires, the occurance of which de
stroys thousands of dollars worth
of timber every year, and timber
is vitally needed now all over the
county with which to build homes
or industrial building.
During this period in which
many farmers ■ will be burning
brush and other material, certain
precautions have been suggested
such as to never burn when there
is a high wind blowing and to
plow a break between the area to
be burned and a nearby wooded
area and to burn late in the even
ing.
Every citizen, it was said, has a
definite responsibility in helping
to stamp out the forest fire me
nace in Surry county.
The frigate “Constitution” got
her nick-name during her victor
ious battle with the English
frigate “Guerniere” in the war of
1812. American sailors seeing shot
bounding off her solid oak sides
3ubbed her “Old Ironsides.”