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I ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina *. The Elkin Tribune » _ ■■■ — ■ ■■ ■■ .■■■■■■' < - ■- 1 — m 1 1 -1' " : ■ - !-■■■■. 'll ■ !- I" w-—- -■■■-» ELKIN Gateway To Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge * VOL. NO. XXXIV No. 16 PUBLISHED WEEKLY I ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1946 I $2.00 PER YEAR i 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS •Churches Here •Are To Start Home Visiting «V 4 Will Call On Those Not Now <v Church Members \ Beginning Sunday, March 24, with a meeting at the First Bap tist Church, the churches of the Elkin-Jonesville community will conduct a week of intensive Home-Visitation evangelism. The campaign will get underway with an instructional period Sun day afternoon at 2:30 at the First Baptist church. During this hour Dr. F. S. Love, superintendent of Lake Junaluska, will introduce the elements of Home - Visitation evangelism to the law teams. At 6:30 Sunday evening the major emphasis of the campaign ' will open with a supper meeting followed by specific instructions from Dr. Love. After receiving their instructions the lay teams will call on the prospects that were discovered as a result of the religious census which was con ducted earlier. From Sunday through Friday evening the seventy-six lay work ers and ministers will meet at the Y.M.C.A. for supper, instructions, and then depart on their assign ments. For the benefit of those whom the lay teams are seeking to reach through visitation, the purpose of Home-Visitation evangelism is to contact all those who are not ac tively allied with a church or Sun day School in Elkin or Jonesville. The following churches are par ticipating in the campaign: in Elkin, the First Baptist; the Elk in Methodist; the Pilgrim Holi ness; the First Presbyterian; and the East Elkin Baptist. In Jones ville, the First Baptist; the Pente costal Holiness, and the Jonesville Methodist. The period of home-visitation wil be followed by revival meet ings in all the churches. ' SURRY ACREAGE SOLD SATURDAY Public Auction of County Farm Lands Brings Total Of $11,155 BOARD APPROVES SALE Approximately 136 acres of Surry county public lands were sold last Saturday by the county commissioners. The lands were part of the County Farm property near Dobson, and an additional tract of 47.97 acres in Stewart’s Creek township. The property was surveyed and cut into parcels and tracts. Full descriptions of each tract were made available on the day of the sale. All lands were sold, the total amount of sales being $11,155, and the county commissioners have approved all sales. Listed below are the names of the buyers, the amount of land and the price paid for each tract. Frank Moore, 7.2 acers at $500; J. B. Branch, 3.28 acres at $328; Elgin Branch, three tracts, 8.68 acres, .33 acres and 20.8 acres at a total of $2,550; B. F. Folger and Dr. P. B. Folger, 15.93 acres at $600; G. W. Comer, two tracts, 19.76 acres at $1,000 and 9.6 acres at $550; J. R. Stewart, 8.35 acres t $675; D. W. Hemmings, 15.16 cres at $1,000; Frank Moore, ond tract, 8.20 acres at $1,050; C. Branch, two tracts, 6.55 res at $1,000 and 4.90 acres at $600. rother Of Elkin Woman Passes Away * mr1 l Dr. Wallace Headen Strowd, 56, Irother of Mrs. Charles G. Ashby, of this city, died suddenly Thurs day morning of a heart attack in Nashville, Tenn., where he was secretary of the Soft Wheat Mill ers Association. Funeral services were conducted t the grave in the Chapel Hill cemetery Saturday at 2:30 p. m. Church services were held in Nashville Friday. He was born and reared in Chapel Hill and was a graduate of the University with a A. B. degree in 1909 and from the University of Wisconsin with a doctorate in 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Ashby and family returned to their home in this city Sunday after attending the funeral services. PASSES AWAY — Dr. Charles C. Weaver, above, general super intendent of Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital here since 1944, passed away at the hos pital Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 o’clock. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Elkin Methodist , church and interment was in Emory, Va., where Dr. Weaver had served a nu/nber of years as president of Emory and Henry College. --- AIDE TO FARM AGENT ON JOB S. N. Hawks, Jr., Assistant Surry Farm Agent, As sumes His Duties IS TOBACCO SPECIALIST S. N. Hawks, Ji\, native of War ren county and a graduate of North Carolina College, has as sumed his duties as Assistant County Agent for Surry County. Hawks, a veteran of World War II, arrived in Dobson on Monday after completing a special course in tobacco production at State College. His work in Surry will be with tobacco growers, teaching through demonstrations principal ly better, methods of tobacco pro duction so as to hasten the eco nomical production and prepara tion of superior quality of tobacco for marketing. Hawks’ employment and this service to the tobacco growers was arranged last first Monday by an agreement between the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service and the Surry County Commissioners. Supporting the plan was the Surry Farm Bureau organization through its Board of Directors. County Agent Neill M. Smith, stated that a group of leading to bacco growers from each township would soon be invited to a confer ence on tobacco production prob lems. Smith, along with County Agents of Stokes, Rockingham, and Guilford, attended an all day conference in Raleigh on last Thursday with Extension Service officials and tobacoo experts to learn how to coordinate the new tobacco program with other phases of the County Agricultural program. SENIOR PLAY FRIDAY NIGHT Local School To Present “The Groom Said No” At Elementary Building IS THREE-ACT COMEDY The Senior class of Elkin high school will present a play, “The Groom Said No,’’ at the Elemen tary school auditorium Friday night at 7:30 o’clock. A small ad mission fee will be charged. The play, a three-act comedy, is centered around Steve Cameron, played by David Lee Fletcher a returned serviceman who has fallen in love with a nurse Lt. Shirley Anderson, by Vermeil Hen derson, whom he met while in service. Back home, Clara Curtis, by Dot Parks, and her crocheting wait for Steve. Others appearing in the play are as follows: Ellen Cothren, Frances Swaim, Pat Harris, Ket chel Adams, Thelma Gambill, Dick Mayberry, Betty Jean Dar nell, and Bob Ratledge. ELKIN SADDENED BY PASSING OF DR. C.C. WEAVER Hospital Superintendent Dies Tuesday Afternoon WAS WIDELY KNOWN Funeral Rites Held At Elkin Methodist Church Wed nesday At 2 P. M. BURIAL IN VIRGINIA Dr. Charles Clinton Weaver, 70, noted minister, general superin tendent of Hugh Chatham Me morial hospital here since 1944, prominent educator, Southern Methodist leader, highly esteemed and dearly loved citizen of this city, died Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 in the hospital, of which he was the head, where he had been a patient since being taken ill last Friday. With him at the time of his death were his wife, his four sons and daughter. A native of Ashe county, a son of the late Rev. and Mrs. James H. Weaver, he has held prominent positions in Winston-Salem, where he was pastor for nine years at the Centenary church; in Char lotte, where he filled a four-year pastorate at the First Methodist church, and in Asheville where he filled a pastorate position. In 1935 he left that post and spent one year as Methodist District Superintendent of Greensboro dis trict. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the Meth odist church here, with Rev. R. G. Tuttle officiating. Burial was made in Emory, Va., where Dr. Weaver served a number of years as president of Emory and Henry College. Active pallbearers were Ray mond W. Harris, J. G. Abemethy, W. M. Allen, D. G. Smith, Dr. R. B. Harrell and Dr. Vernon W. Taylor, Jr. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Western North Carolina Methodist Conference, t and officials, staff members and Board of Directors of the hospital he directed. Dr. Weaver attended Weaver ville College, Trinity College (Duke University), Vanderbilt Un iversity and Johns Hopkins Uni versity after completing his pri mary education in North Carolina and Tennessee public schools. After leaving Johns Hopkins University, where he received his doctorate in 1900, he became pres ident of Rutherford College. Here he served three years, until he as (Continued on page eight. 1st sec.) BOUND OVER IN ACCIDENT CASE Driver of Truck Is Held For High Court on Charge Of Reckless Driving NO ONE IS INJURED Olin Wishon, driver of a truck involved in an accident at the interesction of North Bridge and Spring streets last Thursday af ternoon, was bound over to Su perior court on charge of reckless driving at a hearing before the magistrate’s court last Monday. Dolphus Stonestreet, also involved in the accident and originally charged with reckless driving, was freed of all charges at the same time. No one was seriously injured in the accident. According to witnesses, an Elkin Lumber Company truck driven by Stonestreet, collided with the truck driven by Wishon just as the traffic light at the intersection was changing. The lumber truck was traveling south on Bridge street, and the other vehicle, carrying as a load a large binder, was proceeding west on Spring. The lumber truck was struck a glancing blow on the left side by Wishon’s machine. Both vehicles swerved in an attempt to avoid the collision. The Elkin Lumber Company truck crashed into and splintered a telephone pole, damaging its right rear wheels and the right side of its bed. The weight of the binder on Wishon’s machine caused it to overturn, twisting off the front wheels and breaking away the front part of the engine. Wishon claimed that his brakes gave way as he was coming down a short incline just before reach ing the intersection. His machine was severely damaged. A passen ger riding with him escaped ser ious injury, but both men requir ed first aid. The accident was investigated by policemen T. B. Sams and Hugh Laffoon. FUTURE HOME MAKERS — Pictured above are representatives of the Future Home Makers of America organization, representing 14 counties in northwestern North Carolina, who were guests of the Elkin and Jonesville Home Economics clubs here Saturday at the YMCA at an all-day rally of Home Economics students. Approximately 250 high school girls attended the annual event. Mi’s. Beryle G. Moser, teacher of home economics in the Jonesville high school, is the district advisor of the or ganization. Dorthea Chappell is president of the Jonesville club and Bcttie Jean Darnell, of the Elkin home economics club. New Candidates Ask Congressional Seat Chatham To Have Opposition As Others Announce A checkup of political candi dates who have filed for various offices since last week has dis closed that in the race for the seat in the House of Representa tives, now held by John H. Folger, of Mount Airy, three more candi dates have filed in addition to Thurmond Chatham, Elkin indus trialist, whose announcement was noted in these columns last week. New candidates who have an nounced are Joe H. Harris, Wins ton-Salem; Lawrence E. Watt, of Reidsville and Raleigh, and John Taylor, sheriff and treasurer of Stokes county. Mr. Folger, who stated that he would not make the race if he had opposition, has failed to clarify his position fur ther, insofar as can be learned here. Mr. Chatham, pushed for the vacant position of Undersecretary of the Navy, stated that he was “interested in Congress and noth ing else,” believing he' can be of more service at home and in the state by going to Congress. In Surry county Sheriff Sam C. Patterson has officially an nounced himself a candidate to succeed himself as sheriff, and Kermit Lawrence, formerly reg ister of deeds before being called into the armed forces during the war, is seeking the office of clerk of Surry county superior court. ARE TO PRESENT FUG AND BIBLE Woodmen Of World To Stage Ceremony At Pleasant Hill School MAGUIRE IS TO SPEAK A Holy Bible and an American Flag will be presented to the Pleas ant Hill school at 2:00 P. M. Sun day, March 24, by the Woodmen of the World, Rosewood Camp number *105, of Elkin. Roger Harp, field man and sec retary of the council, will act as master of ceremonies. An impres sive ceremony is scheduled for the event. Denver Holcomb, council com mander, will present the flag to D. K. Burchette, principal of the Pleasant Hill school, and Rev. R. J. Terrell will present the Bible. Miss Helen Walls will serve as music director, Dallas Newman and Marcus Myers as armor bear ers, and Doyle Newman as color bearer. A talk by S. O. Maguire is sche duled for the program. After the flag has been present ed and raised, it is to be lowered to half-mast in honor of Ameri cans killed in World War II. The donation of the Bible and the flag was made possible by contributions of the Elkin council of the Woodmen of the World. The public is invited to attend. The capitalistic system also de pends upon the willingness of the buyer to pay a profit. Rev. Gwaltney Accepts Call To Elkin Valley REV. J. C. GWALTNEY Rev. J. C. Gwaltney, a native of Alexander county, has accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of the Elkin Valley Baptist church to succeed Rev. G. D. White. Mr. Gwaltney’s first pastoral work began with the three rural churches of New Prospect, Hams Grove, and Grassy Knob Baptist churches. He was pastor of Trout man and Bethel Baptist churches for four years, after which he moved to the Southside church in Concord. Prior to coming to Elkin, Rev. Gwaltney was pastor of the Blackwelder Park Baptist church, in Kannapolis. He received his Junior college diploma last fall and entered Wake Forest college as a Junior this semester. He received theo logical training at Davidson col lege. Mr. Gwaltney, his wife, and two small daughters will move to Elk in the first of April. SEE BETTER MEDICAL CARE Movement Is Launched Throughout North Caro lina This Week BY GOOD HEALTH GROUP A movement to provide for the people of North Carolina more doctors, especially in the smaller communities and rural areas, and better medical care was under way throughout the State this week. A program to achieve this goal was launched at a meeting of more than 200 leaders of various professional, business, industrial and lay groups from all sections of the State who gathered in Thomasvijle last Thursday and organized the North Carolina Good Health Association. The meeting was called by I. G. Greer, (Continued on page 4, this sec.) PLAN SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION New Dobson School To Be Started As Soon After July 1 As Possible MAY ASK TAX BOOST According to John W. Comer, superintendent of schools, plans are under way for a fa\rly large scale school construction program. The new school at Dobson, over which so much controversy has raged regarding the floating of a bond, is to be started as soon after July 1, 1946, as possible. In ad dition the schools at Flat Rock and at Copeland will be enlarged and improved. Some time in the near future a survey is to be conducted among all of the county’s schools. De pending upon the results of the survey* the County Board of Ed ucation will make recommenda tions for additions and improve ments whei’e they are deemed necessary. Also being considered, Mr. Com er has stated, is the calling of an election by the voters to deter mine if they are in favor of levy ing a tax to increase the funds available for school administra tion and operation. Such a tax, he said, will serve to improve con siderably county schools. The 'amount of tax to be voted upon will be determined by the county commissioners. Mount Airy has been collecting a 15c per hundred dollar valua tion tax for several years, and Elkin will vote for a 20c levy on April 16, 1946. Mr. Comer has pointed out that county tax will not be in addition to this. The school tax cannot be raised with out the consent of the voters. Speaking of Elkin’s plan to pro vide a separate administrative unit, Comer said that the plan will require the approval of the State Board of Education and the State Legislature. This approval should be received if the people of Elkin are desirous of the plan. POLICE WORK ON SPEEDERS 21 Are Apprehended During Past Week For Speeding, Reckless Driving POLICE ISSUE WARNING Acording to Chief of Police Cor bett Wall, 21 traffic violators were apprehended during the past week in Elkin. Two were charged with reckless driving and 19 with speeding. The speeders were each fined $10 and the cost by the magis trate's court, and the reckless drivers were bound over to Su perior ccurt. Reckless driving violations carry a maximum pen alty of a $500 fine or six months imprisonment, the sentence de pending on the discretion of the court. Chief Wall stated that an all out effort is being made to curb traffic violations in Elkin. He has warned that drivers must begin to observe more carefully laws prohibiting speeding, double park ing, violations of traffic lights, and other traffic offenses. This is no time to reduce taxes or permit ramshackle automobiles to operate on the public highways. Registration Book Is Open For Election - - New Tobacco Records Are Set During Past Season The state department of ag riculture announced Monday that gro6s sales of tobacco in North Carolina during the sea son just closed totaled 869,430, 973 pounds for $379,730,952, an average of $43.68 per hundred pounds. The department said that while the total tobacco sold and the gross income from the to bacco set all-time records, the average was not as high as in 1919. Producers sold 787,617,355 pounds for $346,668,313, an av erage of $44.91 per hundred pounds. Dealers’ resales were 23,848,229 pounds for $8,860,746, an average of $37.15 per hun dred, and warehouse resales to taled 57,965,389 pounds at $24, 209,893, an average of $41.77 per hundred pounds. YOUNG DEMOS HOLD MEETING All Officers Of Surry Young Democrats To Retain Posts Until Fall HAD NOT BEEN ACTIVE The first meeting of the Surry County Young Democratic club since shortly after the beginning of the war was held Monday night in the courthouse at Dobson. Due to the fact that a large number of the members were serv ing in the armed forces, activities of the club were suspended during the war months. The club is now in the process of reorganizing. At the opening of the meeting nominations were in order for the election of new officers. A motion was made and carried to retain until next Pall the same officers who presided wtlen the club’s activities ceased for the duration. These officers ar^ A. B. Carter, Mount Airy, president; Prank Freeman, Dobson, vice-president; John Llewellyn, Dobson, secretary treasurer. Fred Folger, of Mount Airy, re minded members of the Jackson Day dinner to take place in Ral eigh next Saturday, March 23. Surry county’s quota of the fund soliciting drive, which makes the (Continued on page eight. 1st sec.) ELKIN BASEBALL SEASON TO OPEN Fourteen Games Scheduled To Date With Two More Games Sought FIRST CONTEST APRIL 2 To date 14 games have been scheduled with various teams by the Elkin high school baseball squad, which began spring prac tice a week or more ago. Two dates remain open, with Coach R. H. Abernathy anxious to contact any school desiring to play the Elkin school. The schedule, announced Tues day, is as follows: April 2, Mount Airy there; April 5, Mount Airy here; April 10, Mocksville here; April 12, West Yadkin here; April 16 or 17, open; April 19, Jonesville, there; April 23 or 24, open; April 26, Yadkin ville, there; April 30, Harmony, there. May 3, Boonville there; May 8, Harmony there; May 10, Jones ville here; May 14, West Yadkin there; May 17, Yadkinville here; May 21, Boonville here; May 24* Mocksville there. Any high school with open dates corresponding to the open dates listed above which would like to play the Elkin team should write Coach Abernathy care of Elkin high school, this city. Funeral services for Dr. Thomas Oliver Coppedge, uncle of Edwin Speas and Julius M. Speas, of this city were conducted in Nash ville, N. C., Monday. Dr. Coppedge was a practician in Nashville and vicinity many years and was city health officer. School Issue To Come To Vote On April 16th Registration books for the spe cial school election to be held in the Elkin school district on April 16, were opened Saturday so that all persons qualified may vote in the election to determine whether a local administrative school unit is desired for the children of the district. Books will be at the Elkin Town Hall each Saturday through and including Saturday, March 30. On week days, with the exception of Sundays and holidays, citizens may register by contacting the registrar, Reece Gilliam, at his home. On April 13 the books will be at the Town Hall for the pur pose of challenge. All citizens interested in the creation of a local administrative school unit, who live in the Elkin township school district, have been urged to register for the election, for otherwise they will not be eligible to vote. It was also stress ed that any person who registers and fails to vote automatically casts a vote against the proposal. The question to be decided by the special election is whether or not to levy a supplementary tax, not to exceed 20 cents per $100.00 valuation on all real and personal property within the boundaries of the Elkin school district. The ns tice of the election in the adver tising columns of this issue defines the boundaries of the district. With the additional funds rep resented by the supplementary tax levy, if voted, local schools, in cluding the North Elkin school, and the Elkin schools, will be able to operate oh a higher standard 1 than is now provided by the state, thus giving educational facilities to present and future students not now available, it has been pointed out. FATALLY HURT IN ACCIDENT H. Gavel Stanley, Elkin, Route 1, Falls Against Wood Saw FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY Funeral services for H. Cavel Stanley, 64, of Elkin, Route 1, who ; was fatally injured Saturday while assisting a neighbor to saw wood, were held Sunday afternoon ■ at the Mulberry Primitive Baptist church at 2:30. According to witnesses, Mr! I Stanley accidentally fell against the wood saw, which was powered by an automobile, and received fatal cuts about the head. He died instantly. It is uncertain whether he lost his footing or fell because of a heart attack. Mr. Stanley was bom and lived his entire life in Surry county. He was the son of the late Monroe and Matilda White Stanley. In 1914 he was married to Margaret (Sis) Sprinkle, who survives. Other survivors are one daugh ter, Mrs. Robert Martin, of Elkin, Route 1; three brothers, Emery, Heneson, and Roscoe, all of Elkin, Route 1; three sisters, Mrs. Ella Draughn, Elkin, Route 1, Mrs. Lela Chatelin and Mrs. Fred Gil liam, both of Walla Walla, Wash ington, and one grandchild. Churches On Dobson Circuit Plan Meets Five of the Methodist churches on the Dobson circuit are plan ning simultaneous revival services the week of March 31-April 7. The churches participating are Dobson, Level Cross, Rockford, Si loam and Stony Knoll. Visiting ministers will assist the pastor, the Rev. Wilson Nesbitt. Services will begin Sunday eve ning, March 31, and will continue each evening throughout the week, the concluding service to be Sunday morning, April 7. A portion of each service will be giv en to the children and young people. Details of the total pro gram will appear in next week’s paper. The public is cordially in vited to participate in these re vival services. If he says he can’t get a job, he means the kind of job he likes at the pay he’d like'to have.
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