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ELKIN
Gateway To Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
* VOL. NO. XXXIV No. 16
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1946
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16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
•Churches Here
•Are To Start
Home Visiting
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Will Call On
Those Not Now
<v Church Members
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.