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Gateway To Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
The Elkin Tribune
ELKIN
The Best Little Town
In North Carolina
VOL. NO. XXXIV No. 46
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1946
$2.00 PER YEAR
18 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
MEAT CONTROL
IS ENDED BY
PRES. TRUMAN
Slaughter Controls Are Also
Ended In Nation
PRODUCERS JUBI L A N T
Chief Executive Places Blame
For Nation-Wide Shortage
In Radio Talk
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Washington, Oct. 15.—Govern
ment formalities ending price con
trols of meats went forward swift
ly today in the wake of President
Truman’s decision that decontrol
is the “only remedy” for the na
tion-wide shortage.
First to act were OPA Admini
strator Paul Porter and Secretary
of Agriculture Clinton P. Ander
son.
Porter drafted an order lifting
price controls from livestock, meat
and other livestock products.
Anderson promptly approved it.
A formal proclamation ending
the controls was to be issued by
Porter later in the day.
Along with the passing of price
ceilings on meats, OPA said to
day that slaughter controls also
expire immediately.
Arval Erikson, director of meat
enforcement for the pricing agen
cy, told a reporter that the entire
slaughter control program had
been ended by President Truman.
Under this program the Gov
ernment controlled the number of
live animals that could be con
verted into meat by any packer
or other slaughterer.
The Chief Executive — to the
tune of Democrats’ applause and
criticism, Republican taunts and
industry jubilation — also sig
nalled an earlier end to virtually
the whole series of wartime re
strictions, except those over rents.
Mr. Truman said the removal of
ceilings on items other than meat
will be speeded up and this will
hasten the end of wage controls.
Sharply reversing his previous
stand, the President told the na
tion the "real blame” for his ac
tion "lies at the door of the reck
less group of selfish men who, in
the hope of gaining political ad
vantage, have encouraged sellers
to gamble on the destruction of
price control.”
Speaking in a nation-wide
broadcast last night, three weeks
before the Congressional elections,
Mr. Truman said that OPA and
the Agriculture Department would
formally scrap the meat price lids
today. Their action was all that
was required to make the elimina
tion of controls legally effective.
However, no great quantity of
meat is expected to begin appear
ing in butcher shops for perhaps
10 days — the time usually requir
ed to get livestock from the farms
to meat counters.
Mr. Truman’s dramatic decision,
climaxing a mounting furore over
meatless menus, drew immediate
Republican cries of "death bed
repentance,” “confession of fail
ure,” and “too late.”
In the Administration camp the
reaction was generally favorably,
but Rep. De Lacy (D-Wash), indi
cated disapproval by calling for a
"national buyers strike” to hold
down prices of meat and other
items.
ELKS TO MEET
JONESVILLE HI
Outplay Gray Eleven In First
Half Friday But Lose By
Score Of 33 To 0
FRIDAY’S GAME HERE
Elkin high school lost a hard
fought game to Gray High, at
Winston-Salem last Friday night
33 to 0 after outplaying the Gray
team in the first half.
The Elks, hampered by injuries
and lack of reserves, held the
Winston-Salem team scoreless un
til the last minute of the first
half when J. R. Jones pushed
over a touchdown to make the
|K score 6-0. Try for extra point
apparently failed, but at the be
ginning of the second half the of
ficials announced that the point
was good for some reason not yet
clear to spectators.
In the second half the ample
reserve power of the Gray eleven
was too much for the locals, and
they pushed over sufficient scores
to boost the final count to 33.
Elkin threatened several times
in the first half after having held
Gray on downs deep in Elkin ter
* ritory. In one drive the Elks
chalked up four or five successive
first downs, but lost the ball in
mid-field to halt a drive that
might have gone on to pay dirt.
The Elks will meet Jojjeaville
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here Friday afternoon at 3
TWO PRIZE ANIMALS GO TO CHATHAM — Thurmond Chatham, local industrialist and cattle
breeder, on two consecutive weeks purchased top animals in stock shows held here and at Mr. Chat
ham’s Klondike Farm. Pictured above is “Clear Springs’ Prediction Dora,” consigned in the Klon
dike sale by A. L. Brown of Concord. The two-year old heifer sired by “McDonald Farms Prediction”
out of "McDonald. Farms Delora” brought $5,100. Left to right In the picture are T. F. Cooley, man
ager of Klondike Farm; S. H. Cartner, manager of Clear Springs Farm; Mr. Brown, consignor; Thur
mond Chatham, purchaser; and Vernon Sumbe, herdsman at Clear Springs. Pictured below is first
place steer in the Elkin Fat Stock Show and Sale held here last week, also purchased by Mr. Chatham
for a total of $689.50, and contributed to the local hospital. With the steer is 16-year-old Bobby Black,
of Alleghany county, who raised and showed the animal. Bobby is a 4-H Club member.
BROCKWELL IS
GUEST SPEAKER
National Fire Prevention
Week Is Observed By Elkin
Kiwanis Club Thursday
ARE TO ELECT OFFICERS
Sherwood Brockwell, Jr., of Ra
leigh, was guest speaker at the
regular meeting of the Elkin Ki
wanis Club at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA Thursday night. National
Fire Prevention Week was being
observed and members of the Elk
in Fire Department were guests
of the club.
The speaker stated that the
danger of fire today was far great
er than the atomic bomb, and that
a fire today was a tragedy, due
to the housing situation, and the
fact that thousands of persons
arc hunting for a place to live. Mr.
Brockwell stated that North Caro
lina suffered a fire loss of eight
million dollars during the past
year. He stated, however, that
the Elkin Fire Department, under
the able leadership of Fire Chief
Ted Brown, had established an
enviable record in fire losses and
congratulated the members on
their achievement. H. P. Graham,
former Mayor-Protem of Elkin,
and a member of the Kiwanis
Club, also expressed the apprecia
tion of tire club and the city as a
whole for the fine work done by
the Elkin firemen.
Mr. Brockwell was introduced
by Chief Brown. President Hoke
Henderson presided.
The meeting this evening
(Thursday) will be devoted to the
election of officers for the com
ing 5Tear, and all members are
urgently requested to be present.
Of the 34 counties in North
Carolina without hospitals, at
least 20 are large enough to re
quire a 50 bed hospital and all of
the others are large enough for
health clinics having from 10 to
25 beds.
Old Belt Prices
Show Big Rise;
Growers Pleased
Danville, Va., Oct. 15 — Old
Belt growers are jubilant with
much of their current leaf of
ferings selling for 66 cents a
pound. The average here is 56
cents, the highest since 1919.
The price is generally attribut
ed here and elsewhere in the
belt to the gradual disappear
ance of poor tobacco and the
arrival of the better to choice
grades.
FOLGER TO BE
RALLY SPEAKER
Fifth Congressional District
Get-Together Of Demo
crats Oct. 18
REIDSVILLE IS SITE
A Fifth Congressional District
Democratic rally, with Congress
man John H. Folger as principal
speaker, will be held Friday, Oct.
18, at Reidsville. Delegates will
assemble in the city court room at
2:30 pf. m.
The purpose of the meeting will
be to plan and prepare for the
November general elections, and
John Llewellyn, chairman of the
Surry County Democratic execu
tive committee, is urging that a
large delegation attend from Sur
ry county.
Many prominent party leaders
and state officials are expected to
attend the convention, among
them being William B. Umstead,
chairman of the State Democra
tic executive committee; Secretary
of State Thad Eure, George Ross
Pou, State Treasurer Charles M.
Johnson, and Insurance Commis
sioner William Hodges.
Governor Gregg Cherry and
Senator Clyde R. Hoey are also
expected to be on hand.
MAKE ARREST
ROBBERY CASE
Ross Keatpn, Of Greensboro,
Charged With Implication
In $28,000 Theft
POKER GAME IN WILKES
Ross Keaton, 32, of Greensboro,
was arrested last Saturday in Fay
etteville and charged with impli
cation in the $28,000 armed rob
bery of a poker game at the home
of Jim Forester near North Wilk
esboro last July 6. According to
Sheriff C. G. Poindexter, Keaton
has been returned to Wilkes
county to face the charges.
Sheriff Poindexter said that
Keaton, the third man to be ar
rested in the case, will be charged
with robbery with firearms and
will be required to post bond of
$15,000.
The other two men being held
in connection with the robbery
are Keaton’s brother. Cola Keat
on, who is at present in the North
Wilkesboro jail unable to raise a
$15,000 bond, and Calvin Stillman,
who is free under bond. The trio
is expected to appear for trial at
the December term of Wilkes
County Superior Court.
The three men are allegedly im
plicated in the holdup which oc
curred early on the morning of
July 6. Forester and some friends
were playing poker at his home
when two men entered and. at
the point of a submachine gun,
took $28,000 from the playing
table and a safe in the room.
Fayetteville * police said that
Keaton was arrested with $1,410
in his possession and with two
foreign-made .32 calibre pistols, a
pocket watch and a wrist watch.
Keaton told officers that since
leaving Wilkes county he had been
in Florida, Cuba, California and
Hawaii. He has a wife and child
living near Greensboro.
There are 1000 Smith rivers,
5000 Elk Creek, and 10,000 Mud
Lakes in the U. S.
GOERING TAKES
POISON, CHEATS
EXECUTIONERS
Other 10 Nazi War Criminals
End Life On Gallows
EXECUTED TUESDAY
Go To Their Death For
Launching Conflict Which
Caused World War
CLIMAX OF LONG TRIAL
Reports from Nuernburg, Ger
many, yesterday stated that 10 of
the 11 top Nazi leaders sentenced
to die for helping launch the
world into a bloody and disastrous
conflict marched to the gallows
shortly before dawn. Reichmar
shal Hermann Goering, one time
chief of Germany's vaunted air
force and crown-prince of Nazi
dom, was reported to have taken
poison shortly before the death
sentence was to be put into ef
fect, thus cheating the gallows of
its legal prey.
Goering committed suicide in
his cell by swallowing a potion of
cyanide of potassium, which he
had apparently carried on his
person in a small brass container
made from a cartridge case.
The 10 Nazis whose careers in
international crime ended
dangling from a gallows rope were
Fritz Saukel, forced labor direc
tor; Joachim Von Ribbentrop,
foreign minister; Ernest Kalten
brunner, head of secret police;
Gen. W. Von Keitel, one time
chief of high command; Hans
Frank, governor of Poland; Gen.
Alfred Jodi, army chief of staff;
Alfred Rosenberg, occupied terri
tory chief; Julius Streicher, anti
Jewish editor; Wilhelm Frick,
“protector;” and Arthur Seyss
Inquart, chancellor of Australia.
In the meantime Justice Rob
ert H. Jackson, U. S. chief prose
cutor in the War Crimes Commis
sion, said that “the Nuernburg
trials may constitute the most im
portant advance to grow out of
this war.”
In a report to President Tru
man, Justice Jackson stated that
the trial and decision condemning
the Nazi leaders to death did more
than anything else to give to in
ternational law what Woodrow
Wilson described as "the kind of
vitality it can only have if it is
a real expression of our moral
judgment.”
REPORTS TO BE
MADE ON DRIVE
Farm Bureau Membership
Workers Invited To Attend
Meeting October 28
SURRY GOAL IS 1,200
With the goal set at 1,200 mem
bers within the county, Surry
Farm Bureau membership work
ers from each of the county’s
townships have been invited by
Hugh Atkinson of Siloam, bureau
president, and P. N. Taylor of
White Plains, secretary, to attend
a meeting to take place at the
courthouse in Dobson at 7:30 p.
m., Monday, Oct. 28th to make
reports on progress of the mem
bership drive now underway.
Last Friday night 95 member
ship workers attended a rally
held in Dobson for the purpose
of mapping out a membership
campaign. According- to C. D.
Smith of Dobson, Route 2, mem
berships, both active and as
sociate, are coming in daily, and
Surry Farm Bureau members are
hoping to reach as early as pos
sible the established quota of
1,200 persons.
County Agent Neill M. Smith
has stated that any member of
the bureau, whether designated as
a worker or not by the county or
ganization, is authorized to solicit
memberships, thus becoming
eligible to take part in the an
nual contest sponsored by the
North Carolina Farm Bureau.
The winner of this contest, Mr.
Smith said, will be given an op
portunity to attend the 1946
American Farm Bureau conven
tion, to be held in San Francisco
early in December.
To Collect Rummage
Sale Items Oct. 21
Articles to be sold at the Farent
Teacher association rummage sale
on Saturday, October 26 will be
collected by school children on
Monday, October 21. All persons
having articles to contribute are
requested to send them to the
schools by children in the com
munity.
The sale will be held at the
Elkin Curb Market building. Mrs.
Hubert Parker is chairman of the
project.
Guernsey Cattle Sell
At Good Prices; Top
Cow Brings $5,100.00
PLEASE PARDON
HIS RED FACE
Yadkin Man Takes Out After
Hit-And-Run Truck To
Find It Is His Own
DAMAGED INSCORE CAR
A car driven by Miss Nellie Gray
Inscore, was considerably damag
ed Saturday afternoon when
struck by a large tt-uck, at Farm
ington, where Miss Inscore, her
mother, Mrs. A. L. Inscore and
Miss Nellie Gray Rutledge, had
gone to a wedding.
The truck had stopped at a
crossing and the Inscore car
stopped behind it. The truck
suddenly started, backward and
crashed the front of the Inscore
machine. The truck took off to
ward Mocksville at high speed and
was wrecked a mile away. It was
driven by Carl Keaton and occu
pied by himself and a young
Gunter boy. The truck belonged
to Will H. Gregory and the Yad
kin Basket Co., of Yadkinville.
Pretty soon after the accident
Will Gregory passed the scene and
noted it was Sheriff Inscore’s car
and people and immediately took
an interest in everything. When
told the truck got away Mr.
Gregory told Miss Inscore what
he thought. “They just can't do
this to you and get away with it,”
he said and took off in his car
after the truck. Soon he return
ed with the truck license number
and announced he had ’em cor
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HOME CLUBS IN
MEET TUESDAY
Receive Instructions In Mak
ing Braided Rugs; Are To
Conduct Classes
RUGS ARE EXHIBITED
House furnishing leaders from
14 of Surry county’s 21 Home
Demonstration Clubs met Tuesday
in Dobson to receive instructions
in making braided rugs. The
leaders who attended the meeting
will conduct similar classes in
each of their home communities
next month.
Attractive crocheted rugs were
exhibitied by Mrs. R. G. Beamer
of the Beulah club and by Mrs.
W. B. Williams of the Mountain
Park club.
Those leaders who attended and
who will be offering instruction
throughout the county during
November are:
Mrs. W. R. Kiger of the Banner
town Club, Mrs. Lonnie Barker of
Bannertown; Mrs. Ruby Lambert
of White Sulphur Springs Club;
Mrs. N. J. Martin, Miss Maude
Haymore, Mrs. Raymond Brown,
and Mrs. James Dobbins of the
Salem Fork Club; Mrs. Joe Nor
man of Mountain Park Club; Mrs.
H. E. Haymore and Mrs. Roscoe
Inman of the Shelton town Club;
Mrs. Stevens of Greenhill, Mrs.
John Simmons of Pilot View; Mrs.
George Beamer and Mrs. R. C.
Beamer of Beulah; Mrs. W. E.
Williams of Highland Park; Mrs.
Graham and Mrs. Davis Lawrence
of New Hope; Mrs. Claude Gold
ing of Franklin; Mrs. Arthur Fulk
and Mrs. Grady Nichols of Pilot
Mountain. Mrs. Hobcrt Simpson
and Mrs. L. E. Simpson of Eldora;
and Mrs. C. E. Mauney and Mrs.
Taylor of the Copeland Home
Demonstration Club.
Dr. Poteat Is To
Hold Music Clinic
Dr. Hubert M. Poteat, of Wake
Forest College, will conduct a
music clinic, consisting of organ
selections and a lecture or. better
church music at the First Baptist
Church on Sunday evening at
7:30. A union meeting of all the
churches-will feature the occasion,
and there will be no sendee at the
other churches.
A teache? at Wake Forest Col
lege for several years and at Col
umbia University summer school
for the past 20 years, Dr. Poteat is
at present the fourth ranking
Shriner in the United States, and
in 1950 will have the leading posi
tion among Shriners in all North
Carolina.
He is considered an outstanding
authority in the field of church
music.
CHAMP HOG RAISER — Adel
bcrt Hayer, 11, Seneca, 111., sec
ond youngest exhibitor at the
Chicago Junior Market Hog
Show, the seventh annual event,
is shown riding proudly on the
back of his Hampshire hog,
which won the highest honor of
the show when it was adjudged
the grand champion single hog.
JOB SITUATION
IS CLARIFIED
Responsibilities of Veterans
Of This Area Are Ex
plained By Yount/
HAVE MONTHLY REPORT
Responsibilities of veterans in
this vicinity taking institutional
on-the-job training, in so far as
reporting wages is concerned, have
been somew'hat clarified by L.
Harold Yountz, local Veterans
Administration contact represent
ative.
Reports on wages made thus
far by veterans receiving subsis
tence allowance checks from the
government have demonstrated
that there is a wide-spread mis
understanding of the law, VA rep
resentatives have indicated.
Veterans receiving subsistence
allowances during the months of
August, September and October
have received notices asking that
wages for those months be re
ported. Mr. Yountz said. A law
recently enacted by Congress de
signed to limit on-the-job trainees
to an income of $200 a month
makes these reports necessary.
According to E. C. Hemming
way, regional VA chief of voca
tional rehabilitation and educa
tion: "The monthly report should
show all wages, commissions and
bonuses received by a veteran as
a result of productive labor dur
ing that month. It must show the
wages received both within the
training establishment and from
other employment.”
The report, however, Mr. Hem
mingway stated, should not in
clude the subsistence allowance
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JAMES L: DAY
PASSES AWAY
Pleasant Hill Man Dies Tues
day Morning At Hugh
Chatham Hospital
FUNERAL RITES TODAY
James Luther Day, 37, of the
Pleasant Hill community, died
Tuesday morning at 5:20 o’clock
in the local hospital.
A retired employee of the Chat
ham Manufacturing Company,
Mr. Day had been with the com
pany for 21 years. He was retired
due to ill health.
He was married to the former
Miss Annie Ruth Burcham,
daughter of H. C. Burcham. local
contractor, who survives.
In addition to the wife, five
children survive; two sons, Albert
and Lloyd Day; three daughters.
Sheldon. Brenda and Joyce Ann
Day, all of the home. His father,
C. H. Day; two brothers, Rev. Da
vid W. Day. pastor of the Pleas
ant Hill Baptist Church; and
Branam Day; a half brother, J. R.
Day, and two sisters, Mrs. Mon
roe Collins, Mrs. Milas Couch, all
of Pleasant Hill, also survive.
Funeral services will be held to
day (Thursday) at 11:00 o’clock
at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
with Rev. J. L. Powers in charge
of the rites. He will be assisted
by Rev. C. W. Simmons and Rev.
Grant Cothren. Interment will be
made in the church cemetery.
Chatham Pays
$5,100.00 For
Top Animal
Thirty-five Guernsey cattle
from farms of cattle breeders of
five states sold Monday at the
fourth Klondike sale at Thur
mond Chatham’s Klondike Farm
for a total of $40,340. Average
price paid was $1,152 per head.
The dairy animals were con
signed by 17 breeders from North
and South Carolina, Virginia,
Florida and New York. Cows, bulls
and heifers sold at the auction
went to 21 buyers from as many
different states.
Highest price paid for a single
animal was $5,100. It was a two
year old heifer, Clear Springs’
Prediction Dora, consigned by A.
L. Brown of Concord. Mr. Chat
ham made the purchase.
Second highest priced animal
was Mr. Chatham's seven-year-old
Klondike Hollikum, which went to
Mr. Brown for an even $3,000. Mr.
Brown also bought the third place
animal, a cow nearly six years old,
consigned by J. M. McDonald of
Cortland. N. Y. Purchase price
was $2,800.
The six bulls included in the
sale sold for an average of $747 a
head. Highest price bull was
Klondike Philmost, which went to
John D. Dunlop of Petersburg, Va.,
for $900.
Mr. Chatham himself grossed
the highest of any breeder in the
sale, his nine Klondike Farm ani
mals going for a total of $10,925.
George B. Salley, proprietor of
| the Salley Sale Agency of Orange
I burg, S. C., was sales manager,
and Tom McCord of Montgomery,
Ala., was auctioneer.
Sunday afternoon a showing of
the animals was held at Klondike
Farm. Interested breeders from
all over the South and East and
some from the West were on hand
for the show and sale and partici
pated in the bidding.
Dinner was served to a large
crowd at Klondike Farm just pro
ceeding the sale on Monday.
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. McKNIGHT
Mother Of YMCA Secretary
Here Passes Suddenly At
Her Home Tuesday
FUNERAL RITES TODAY
Mrs. Lula Cuttino McKnight,
79. a resident of this city for the
past three years, died suddenly
Tuesday morning at 5:00 o’clock
at the home of her daughter, Miss
Lois McKnight, on North Bridge
street, following a heart attack.
A native of South Carolina, she
was married to C. P. McKnight in
1883, who preceded her in death
about 25 years ago. “Big Mama,”
as she was familiarly known to
her many friends here and else
where, came to this city in 1943
from Denver, Colorado. She was
a devout Christian and an active
member of the Elkin First Baptist
Church.
Surviving are three sons and
five daughters: John A. Mc
Knight, of Sumter, S. C.; Dr. J. H.
McKnight. of Sterling, Colorado:
T. C. McKnight, general secretary
of the Y. M. C. A., of this city;
Mrs. H. L. Timmons, Columbia, S.
C.; Dr. Portia M. Lubchenco,
Sterling, Colorado; Mrs. H. M.
Parker, Boulder, Colorado; Mrs. R.
L. Stokely, Devotion, and Miss
Lois McKnight, of this city; 17
grandchildren and 14 great
grandchildren, One brother,
James Cuttino, of Sumter, S. C.,
also survives.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Thursday morning at 11
o’clock at Sands’ Level Baptist
Church at Blythewood, S. C., with
Rev. Simpson, pastor of Grace
Baptist Church, of Sumter, and
Rev. Ray Riddle, pastor of the
Shandon Presbyterian Church, of
Columbia, officiating. The body
lay in state at the Hayes-Speas
Funeral home here Wednesday
afternoon from 2:00 to 4:00 when
it was removed to Columbia. In
terment Hras made in the church
cemetery.
People forget that brotherhood
requires two — a top dog to be
tolerant and kind, and an under
dog who can forget his envy and
group hate.