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ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina * The Elkin Tribune * I ELKIN Gateway To Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge VOL. NO. XXXIV No. 38 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1946 $2.00 PER YEAR 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS Spruill Quits As Principal Ronda School Resignation Is Asked Monday By Delegation E. R. Spruill, who for the past nine years has been principal of the Ronda school, last Monday re signed his position there following a protest meeting of a group of citizens of the community. Mr. Spruill, whose home is in Wilkes boro, has been temporarily suc ceeded by R. O. Poplin, Jr., of this city. r it was reported that on Monday morning, the date set for the opening of Wilkes county schools, a delegation numbering about 100 persons assembled at the Ronda school to protest Mr. Spruill’s reassumption of duty as principal. The children were told to leave the school building, and after they had done so, the delegation con fronted Mr. Spruill to demand his resignation. A few words were ex changed, it was said, and the principal agreed to accede to the * group’s demands. Later Superintendent of Wilkes County Schools C. B. Eller, con tacted by The Tribune, stated that Mr. Spruill had deemed it best to resign rather than allow himself to be the cause of dissension and conflict in the community. Efforts to contact Mr. Spruill himself for ijtfR statement proved futile. ' Following the meeting and the resignation of Mr. Spruill. Leet Poplin, chairman of the Ronda school board, announced that he, too, had resigned, effective imme diately. Mr. Poplin declared that he “wished to have nothing more to do with it.” The school board last spring voted to retain the services of Mr. Spruill through the school year of 1946-47. At that time, it was' said, no protests were registered, although some dissension was ap parent. A wide diversity of opinion was $ apparent in the community re garding the resignation of the principal. On one hand there seemed to be a group which de clared itself extremely dissatisfied with the manner in which Mr. Spruill was conducting the school. (Continued on page eight, 1st sec.) V TO SEEK FUNDS FOR THE BLIND First Annual Solicitation Will Begin Here Sunday By Elkin Lions Club DOBSON PLANS DRIVE First annual solicitation of funds for the N. C. State Associa tion for the Blind, created by North Carolina Lions clubs, will begin here Sunday, August 25, ac cording to Dr. James H. Howard, chairman of the local Lions’ White Cane Sale and Membership Enrollment committee. The drive will continue through August 31. J. Sam Gentry, of the Dobson Lions club, has also announced that a similar drive will take place in Dobson, beginning the first of next week. In Elkin, Dr. Howard said, col lection pots will be placed on sev eral downtown street comers late next week, where members of the local club will be stationed to pass out lapel buttons and member ship cards to contributors. The White Cane buttons are to go to each contributor, while membership cards in the associa tion will go to those persons con tributing one dollar or more, Dr. Howard said. Goal set for the lo cal club is slightly more than $300, or three dollars per member. The state goal is $18,000. One-third of all funds derived from the sale of White Cane but tons. here will be retained to use for the Elkin Lions blind benefit program. The rest will go to the state organization. The association expends its funds chiefly in providing eye op erations and hospital care in sight conservation cases; for examin ations and eyeglasses for school children; for supplies and equip ment used in training blind per sons for some useful occupation; d for establishing deserving Hind persons in business enter prises. In North Carolina there are ap proximately 7,000 blind persons for which the association, organiz ed 12 years ago, holds itself re sponsible. *^li Ceiling's To Go Back On Meats And Other Items President Truman’s three man price decontrol board Tuesday ordered price ceilings restored on livestock and meat, soy beans and cottonseed prod ucts. Dairy products and most grains, it ruled, must remain free of price control. At the same time, the board directed immediate resumption of the government’s $684,000, 000 livestock subsidy program to absorb part of the meat pro duction costs which consumers have been paying directly since the expiration of the old price control law on June 30. OPA will reveal on or before Friday whether retail ceiling prices on meat—which repre sents about 19 per cent of the average family budget—and soy bean and cottonseed prod ucts are to be rolled back to their June 30 levels. FOLGER SPEAKS TO DEMOCRATS Executive C o m m i 11 ee Of Young Democratic Club Holds Session LLEWELLYN TO RESIGN The executive committee of the Young Democratic Club of Surry County met Tuesday night at fDobson to set a date for a coun tS^wide rally and to hear a short address by Congressman John H. Folger. Approximately 30 mem bers attended, representing most of the county’s voting districts. Also at the meeting it was an nounced by R. C. Llewellyn, coun ty party leader, that he intends to call a meeting of the Democratic party early next month to step down as party chairman in fav or of a younger and "more physi cally able” man. Congressman Folger told the gathering that the Democratic party was a true party of the peo ple, and was not designed in policy to allow the reins of gov ernment to fall into the hands of a powerful few. Abraham Lin coln's historical phrase, “a gov ernment of the people, by the people, and for the people," the congressman said, was an exceed ingly apt description of the aims and goals of the party. He commended the interest be ing shown in politics by the younger generation, stating that such interest was indicative of a rising desire for a truly democra tic government. He also declared that women of the nation had a definite part in the country’s poli tical destiny and urged that more of them take part in the molding of party policies. At the conclusion of the Con gressman’s talk, Milton Cooper, Elkin attorney active in the cam paign of Thurmond Chatham for nomination to Congress to suc ceed Mr. Folger, pledged party support in the fall general elec tion. "If we fight the party’s oppon ents as rabidly as we fought among ourselves,” Mr. Cooper re marked, "we can be assured of victory in the general election.” His remark drew the applause of the committee. In the absence of Club Presi dent Archie Carter, Attorney Frank Freeman presided, closing the meeting by urging a large turnout for the county rally next month. Members were served a barbe cue supper at the Dobson’s Woman’s Club building. School Principals To Meet At Dobson Principals of all Surry county schools are to meet Monday at 10 a.m. at Dobson to lay plans for the opening of schools on Septem ber 5, Superintendent John W. Comer has announced. The meeting is to be an all day affair, lasting until complete ar rangements have been made to accomodate the influx of students. In addition to general plans, Mr. Comer stated, the principals are to discuss the establishing of work shops for teachers in all of the county schools. This project falls under the direction of C. A. Mc Neil, Elkin member of the school board. MANY CASES ON YADKIN DOCKET GWYN PRESIDES Assault Case Against Dennis Swaim Continued MANY LIQUOR CASES Drunken Drivers And Reck less Driving Charges Are Numerous HALL IS PROSECUTING Yadkin county superior court for the trial of criminal cases con vened at Yadkinville Monday morning with Judge Allen Gwyn of Reidsville presiding, and Soli citor Avalon Hall of Yadkinville prosecuting the docket. Dolphus W. Cheek was selected as foreman of the grand jury and H. T. Cum mings was named secretary. After a brief charge to the grand jury by Judge Gwyn the entire court machinery plunged into the docket of 142 cases, most of them pertaining to violation of the prohibition laws, driving drunk, reckless driving, etc. One of the important cases scheduled for trial was that of the state against Dennis Swaim charged with assaulting J. A. J. Royall when he appeared at Click’s Orchard to attend to his bees. This case was continued for a number of reasons. Another case continued several times was that against Conrad Bell, charged with breaking into the Yadkin Grocery Co., a few days ago. This case was again continued because Bell is in fed eral prison and will not be out until October when he will be taken into custody and required to give $3,000 bond. This robbery is the one in which Henry Newman was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Ed Wishon when they were surprised in the robbery by the sheriff and deputies, and Bell was shot down by officers before being captured. A case of unusual interest in this section was that of Newton Luther Shelton, alias Fred Shel ton, charged with stealing a gun from Dr. H. A. Brandon, another gun from the car of E. H. Bar nard, and some electric drill sets from Loyd Craver of Courtney, making four cases in all. He was sentenced to two years in state prison in each case, but three of them suspended on condition that he pay Barnard, Brandon and Craver for property not recovered, (Continued on page 4, this sec.) ONE VETERAN IS LEFT IN COUNTY Pension List of Confederacy Dwindles To One Name In Surry 15 WIDOWS ARE LEFT Pension list of Surry county Confederate veterans has dwindl ed to one name, Clerk of Court, Fred Llewellyn said this week. Fifteen Confederate widows re main. Alex Cockerham, of Mountain Park, is the sole survivor of the Grand Army of the Confederacy in the county. He, Mr. Lewellyn said, is drawing a pension of $72 every month. Of the 15 widows, only one, Mrs. Fronie Kirkman, remains in a class B. classifica tion. The others are now in class A, indicating total disability un der the pension plan. Class A wid ows that they are now eligible to monthly, while those in class B can draw $18.33. Mr. Llewellyn recently notified several of the Confederate wid ows that thy are now eligible to draw the full allowance, and all of those remaining in the B clas sification, with the exception of Mrs. Kirkman, were changed to the A group. Mtn. Park Scout Troop Has Outing As one of their summer activi ties the Eagle Patrol, of the Boy Scout Troop 85, of Mountain Park, spent the week-end at Blowing Rock, Endless Caverns and Grandfather Mountain. The group left their cars at the highway and then hiked to the top of the peaks which were above the clouds, studying the plant and animal life at high altitudes. Rock and mineral formations were ob served on the mountains and in the caverns. Those enjoying the outing were Claude Harris, Troop chairman; Fred Harris, Patrol Leader; Clif ton Nixon, Ralph Williams, Ed worth Nixon, Howard Calloway, D. C. Cockerham, Jr., and Jack Nix on. RECEIVES MEDALS — Louis Alvarez, of this city, is shown above as he received from Lt. Col. Ralph E. Keys, of the U. S. Army Re cruiting station at Charlotte, the Air Medal for participation in aerial combat over Italy. Alvarez, who holds the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross, was also awarded the Good Con duct medal and the Distinguished Unit badge by Lt. Col. Keys. He served with the 97th bomber group, one of the first units to en gage the enemy in combat after America entered the war against Germany, in Europe and Africa. SCHOOLS WILL DEBATE PEACE Oratorical Contest In N. C. Schools To Be Held This Fall By UNC Extension MERRITT FATHERS PLAN An oratorical contest on world peace for North Carolina high schools this Fall was announced Saturday by the extension division of the University of North Caro lina, which will supervise the pro gram and serve as a clearing house by distributing background material and helping in other ways. The subject will be: “Is World Government the Path to Peace?” Father of the plan is Oscar K. Merritt, hosiery mill president and civic and religious leader of Mt. Aity, who proposed the program in a conference this week with university officials. All high schools in the State will be invited to participate in the program, but there will be no elimination contests except with in the schools themselves and no State title. Schools may, how ever, hold intercity contests if they wish. Sponsors, who will be sought in each county, will be expected to award the winner a gold medal. Mt. Airy Draft Board To Close On Monday ■ Monday, August 26, Surry County Draft Board No. 1 in Mount Airy will be closed, and its files transferred to board No. 2 in Dobson, Mrs. Carl Folger, of the Dobson board, announced Tues day. It was determined a few weeks ago by State headquarters that all counties still maintaining two or more draft boards would this month have them consolidated in to a single unit. Thus, it was said, will office space be conserved and expenses cut down. The volume of the draft, at present, does not necessitate more than one board in each county. Grid Practice To Start Here Monday The Elkin high school football squad will begin fall practice in preparation for a 10-game sched ule, Monday morning at 9:00 o’clock. With eleven lettermen return ing this year, prospects for the season look good. In addition to lettermen, a large number of other boys, many of whom are of promising material, are expected to be on hand for the first prac tice. Contract Is Let For New School Building1 Contract for a new school build ing at Dobson, to replace the structure that was destroyed by fire several years ago, has been let to the Fowler-Jones construc tion Company of Winston-Salem, it has been revealed. The Winston-Salem firm ten dered a bid of $130,700 on the general contract, which bid was accepted by the county board of education and commissioners. Construction is scheduled to begin the first of October. With “good luck’’, Superintendent John W. Comer said, the building should be completed within six months. elkTncitizen DIES SUDDENLY G. H. Cockerham Suffers Heart Attack On Main Street Monday LAST RITES WEDNESDAY Grady Hoke Cockerham, 59, well known and highly esteemed native of Elkin, died suddenly Monday morning at 9:00 o’clock, presumably from a heart attack, when stricken on the sidewalk in front of the Bank of Elkin while conversing with a friend. A member of the United Com mercial Travelers’ Lodge and of the First Baptist Church here, Mr. Cockerham was a son of the late D. J. Cockerham, pioneer Elkin merchant, and Mrs. Cockerham. He was married October 12, 1916 to Miss Bessie Lewis. A former grocery merchant, Mr. Cockerham was a traveling salesman of this city at the time of his death. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Bessie Lewis Cockerham; one son, Grady Hoke Cockerham Jr., now in Chapel Hill; two sisters, Mrs. H. T. Moore, Mount Airy, and Mrs. C. C. Martin of Charlotte; three brothers, Woodson W. and T. Vern Cockerham of Elkin and Charlie Cockerham of Roaring River. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. yesterday at the Hayes-Speas Funeral Home, with Rev. R. G. Tuttle, Rev. L. B. Abernethy, Rev. Howard J. Ford and Rev. Ralph Ritchie in charge of the rites. In terment was made in the Holly wood cemetery. Pallbearers were J. H. Beeson, Carl Boyles, Enoch Harris, Fred York. David Brendle and C. N. Myers. The Mason & Dixon Line is like equality. Everybody talks about it, but nobody knows where to find it. Yadkin Flood Control Faces Postponement; Expenditures Limited BAPTIST ASS’N. TO MEET 25TH Flat Rock Baptist Church Choir Will Provide Special Music For Event PROGRAM IS ARRANGED The Surry Baptist Associational Sunday School meeting is to be held Sunday, August 25, at the Calvary Baptist Church, with ser vices opening at 2:30 p. m. At 2:45 Rev. Edgar Burrus, of the Copeland church, will deliver a message, “Food for Our Bodies”. Harvey C. Baughn. Jr., of Gard ner Webb College, will preach on the subject “Spiritual Food at Our-Home church” at 3:20; and at 3:35 Paul Lovingood, of Mills Home of Thomasville, will speak on “Helping Feed the Starving Abroad.” Special music for the occasion will be offered by the Flat Rock Baptist choir, with worship in song conducted by Chester Thompson of the Flat Rock church. The service will be adjourned at 4 o’clock. Superintendent A. L. Hiatt will preside. The annual meeting of the Sur ry Baptist Association will be held at the Simmons Grove church Thursday, September 26, and at the Gum Orchard church Friday, September 27. W.T.BOVARD DIES MONDAY Manager Of Roaring Gap Re sort, He Was Well Known To Many Elkin People RITES HELD WEDNESDAY Walter T. Bovard, 44, well known to many Elkin citizens, died in a Winston-Salem hospital Monday night where he had been a patient since Friday. Manager of the Greystone Inn at Roaring Gap and the Coquina Hotel in Ormand Beach, Fla., Mr. Bovard was born in Beaver, Penn., on Au gust 23, 1902. Funeral services were conducted at Rock Creek Cemetery, Wash ington, D. C., yesterday afternoon, with Rev. Kelsey Regen, of Dur ham, a friend of Mr. Bovard, of ficiating. Mr. Bovard graduated from Cornell University in 1926, where he took a course in hotel training. He was first president of the Ez ra Cornell organization and was a member of Ye Host Society. Aft er graduation he was connected with the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, the York Beach Hotel at York Beach, Me., and the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sul phur Springs, W. Va. He served as vice-president of the Associated Hotel Company with offices in Richmond, Va., for a time. For nine years he spent the summers as manager of the Esseola Inn at Linville. From 1927-1930 Mr. Bovard was mana ger of the Coquina Hotel and from 1931-1945 he was general mana ger of the Riomar Club, Vero Beach, Fla. In 1945 he bought the Coquina Hotel. In 1937 he accept ed the managership of Graystone Inn. A member of the Community Church of Vero Beach, Mr. Bo vard is survived by his wife, the former Miss Edna Fick Kilpat rick; two daughters, Nancy Tom linson, 11, and Mary Elizabeth Fick, 15; three brothers, Theodore Fleming Bovard, Durham, Alan James Bovard, Lansing, Mich., and Grier Cooper Bovard Jr., of Roaring Gap; and one sister, Mrs. Margaret Bovard Gillette of Kan sas City, Mo. Car Damaged In Crash Into Pole A power pole was broken off and considerable damage done to the front end of an automobile, reportedly operated by Banner Sparks of this city, Tuesday even ing at about 6 o’clock, when the car hit the pole on East Main street. According to Officer T. B. Sams, who investigated, Sparks claimed that his steering gear locked as he was driving by the Chatham ball park, and he was unable to avoid striking the pole. Sparks, who was riding alone, was uninjured. Eastern Belt Leaf Average Listed At $51 North Carolina’s Eastern To bacco belt markets swung into second day sales Tuesday af ter an opening day which saw a turnover of several million pounds. The United States and North Carolina Departments of Agri culture estimated the opening day’s average price at $51 compared with $42.53 a hun dred pounds on opening day last year. Stronger demand was noted for practically all grades, with increases over last year’s prices ranging from $3 to $18 per hundred. ARE TO PLAN FOR CAMPAIGN Surrv Agriculture Workers Council To Seek To Up Food Production SMITH W I L L PRESIDE Men of the Agriculture Workers Council of Surry county will meet Monday at 2 p.m. at the court house in Dobson to lay plans for a feed production campaign, County Agent Neill M. Smith has announced. Mr. Smith, as chairman of the council, will preside. The program is as follows: H. M. Willis, of the Tri-Creek Soil Conservation Department, will discuss feed production as re lated to soil conservation. J. E. Trevathan, of the Dobson soil conservation sector, will discuss feed production as related to crop rotation. Animal and farm feed requirements will be discussed by G. Mark Goforth, Jr., assistant county agent in charge of live stock, and Hugh D. Barden, as sistant county agent, will discuss amounts of permanent and tem porary pasture and hay needed to meet livestock requirements in Surry county. Mr. Smith is to follow a talk on crop varieties and fertilization practices. The group is to begin to lay plans for increased feed produc tion in the county, and seed deal ers are to be invited to attend and take part in the discussions. ANOTHER CAR STOLEN HERE Maphine Owned By Kenneth Kimber Is Recovered Near State Road Thursday WAS SIXTH IN SERIES The recent series of car thefts was continued last week w'hen an automobile owned by Kenneth Kimber was taken from the Chat ham company parking lot Wed nesday night. The car was recov ered about two miles above State Road Thursday morning. Kimber’s machine was the sixth to disappear within the last month from the city streets and parking lots, and the fifth to be found in the State Road-Thur mond area. All of the stolen cars have been recovered. The only thing to have been found missing from many of the "borrowed” automobiles. Chief of Police Corbett Wall said, was the back seat cushion of Kimber’s car. Otherwise all six of t he cars, found abandoned, were undam aged and contained all parts anOi equipment. Chief Wall has expressed the opinion that a group of youngsters who take the cars for “brief joy rides, is responsible for the thefts. Rev. W. E. Burrus To Preach At Mtn. Park Rev. W. E. Burrus of Mount Airy, will preach at Mountain Park Baptist Church, Sunday, September 1, at the 11 o’clock worship service. The public is cordially invited to attend. Steelman Issues Edict Against Such Structures The Yadkin flood control proj ect, authorized by Congress just before the summer recess, faces another postponement, Lieut. Gen. R. A. Wheeler’s office of army en gineers in Washington indicated Tuesday. A curtailment of river and har bor construction programs throughout the country, requested by President Truman, will neces sarily postpone the Yadkin de velopment, the engineer spokes man stated. Congress last June authorized the appropriation of funds for the projects, but the ac tual appropriation will be left up to the next Congress gathering in January. Two recent developments are blamed indirectly for the delay of the North Carolina program; OWMR Director John Steelman’s edict against constructions of this type, and the president’s letter to Secretary of War Patterson limit ing Federal expenditures to $95, 000,000 for flood control and $90, 000,000 for river and harbor proj ects. The chief engineer's office could name no estimate as to the rela tive importance of the Yadkin project in comparison to other projects included in the same bill. It was termed a good project and the office said that it would be defended on a basis of merit. V. F. W. IS FAST GROWING GROUP Commander Hayes States Or ganization Has Shown Rising Membership NOW 132 POSTS IN STATE According to James M. Hayes, Jr., Winston-Salem, attorney and commander of the Department of North Carolina, VFW, the Veter ans of Foreign Wars has become the state's fastest growing or ganization during the past 12 months. The following figures were re leased this week by departmental headquarters located in High Point: On July 1 the department con sisted of 55 posts with 4,838 mem bers. As of August 8 of this year there are 132 posts and 17,640 members, an all time high. This represents a growth of 364 per cent in slightly more than 13 months. In July, 1942, after seven months of war, the depart ment had only 30 posts and 1,086 members. This growth the commander stated, compares favorably with any organization in North Caro lina. It indicates, he said, that the wide variety of sendees offer ed by the VFW is attracting the newly discharged veterans, creat ing an unusual response. The state department seeks a membership of over 50,000, and, Hayes said, has every expectancy of meeting this goal. COURTTCRMTO OPEN SEPT. 23 Week Of Court Scheduled For September 16 Has Been Cancelled MOSTLY CRIMINAL CASES The week of Surry County Su perior Court, scheduled to begin September 16, has been cancelled, Clerk of Court Fred Llewellyn an nounced this week. Court will open September 23. Calendar for the week will be made up mostly of criminal cases, Mr. Llewellyn said, but some ci vil cases will be included, several being uncontested. The bar asso ciation has not yet revealed its in tentions concerning a civil calen der, he stated, but the docket will include mixed cases. A jurors list of persons sched uled to be summoned for a ses sion to begin September 30 has been drawn, but it has not yet/ been determined whether or nyr court will be held that week. / ' //"ill
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