ELKIN
Gateway To Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
* The Elkin Tribone *
ELKIN
The Best Little Town
In North Carolina
VOL. NO. XXXIV No. 51
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1946
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All Is Ready
For Air Show
Here Sunday
Many Thrills Expected As Famous
Fliers Put Planes Through Paces
Unless rain, sleet, or snow forces
a cancellation, the Veterans of
Foreign Wars — Lions Club co
sponsored air show will take place
Sunday afternoon at the Elkin air
port. In event of inclement
weather the show will be postpon
ed to Sunday, December 1.
Earl Day, VFW commander, has
announced that all of the aerial
performers originally invited to
K participate will be on hand. The
list includes Bevefrely Howard,
famous stunt flyer, Charles W.
Bing, another stunt specialist, and
Jimmy Greenwood, parachute
jumper. Other prominent fliers,
straight, stunt, and comedy speci
alists, will attend.
Jimmy Greenwood, 26, has been
barnstorming since 1939. He has
logged 237 jumps, including de
layed drops and spot-jump exhi
bitions. For four years and nine
months he served in the U. S.
► Navy as a parachute instructor
and test jumper of new equip
ment. Greenwood's narrowest
escape came at Manassas, Va.,
July 14 of this year. The ripcord
of his main chute fouled on a
jump, and he was a bare 200 feet
above the ground when the emer
gency 'chute was finally cracked.
\ Ticket sales for the show arc
said to be good, with a rush ex
pected between now and show
B00NV1LLE IS
NEXT FOR ELKS
Ganre To Be Played There
Friday; Sparta Is Defeated
Last Week 31 To 7
^THIRD YEAR IN A ROW
Elkin high school, fresh from a
31-7 win over Sparta at Sparta
last Friday, will go to Bocnville
tomorrow afternoon (Friday), for
a game with Boonville High. The
game is scheduled to begin at 3:15.
In the Sparta game, Harris
passed to Hemric for 12 yards in
the first quarter to put the ball on
f. Sparta’s three-yard line, from
v where C. Eldridge plunged over to
score.
Sparta, receiving, failed to make
a first down and the Elks took
over on the 33. where B. Harris
ran for a touchdown.
Sparta’s only touchdown came
when an incomplete forward pass
was recovered on the Elkin 19
yard. line. Reeves’ pass to Caudill
in the end zone resulted in a score.
In the third period B. Ratledge
t thi*ew a pass 31 yards to T. M.
Eldridge who put- it down on the
eight yard line, and Harris took it
over from there for the score.
Again, with the ball on the Sparta
1-yard line, B. Ratledge passed to
T. M. Eldridge in the end zone
for a touchdown. Harris made the
extra point from placement.
Sparta kicked from their 31
yard line on fourth down but the
kick was blocked by R. McCann
who carried it back to the Sparta
six-yard line, where B. Ratledge
passed to T. M. Eldridge for an
other score.
\ The game marked the third year
that the Elks have defeated
Sparta.
P. M. Warns Against
Fradulent Mailing
F. W. Graham. Elkin post
master, has asked that the public
be warned concerning the mailing
of certain items, the inclusion of
which in U. S. mails is prohibit
ed by Post Office Department
. regulations.
P Eight classes of matter specifi
cally prohibited from the mails arc
as follows:
Intoxicating beverages, inflam
mable matter such as matches and
lighter fluids, ammunition and ex
plosives of any sort, firearms such
as revolvers, obscene or libelous
matter, poisons and narcotics, let
ters of extortion, and lottery and
fraudulent matter.
Mr. Graham indicates that
many persons, particularly young
sters, have not been made fami
* liar with these rules. He warns
severe penalties are provided by
law for violators.
The present U. S. Turkey crop
will furnish a record 4*/a pounds
of turkey for every person in the
t nation.
time. At the show a 1946 Ford
automobile is to be given away
free.
Proceeds from the event are to
go into a fund for the construction
of a hut for the local VFW post.
The post, meeting Tuesday
night, discussed final plans for the
show and heard a talk on VFW
activities and aims by Jimmy
Davis, deputy of the state organi
zation.
N. WILKESBORO
CITIZEN DEAD
S. V. Tomlinson, Widely
Known W'ilkes Business
Leader Dies Tuesday
HAD SUFFERED ILLNESS
S. V. Tomlinson, prominent
business leader of North Wilkes
boro, died at 5 p. m. Tuesday at
his home following a brief illness.
Mr. Tomlinson had been in de
clining health for the past few
years, but had been confined to
his home only a few days. Death
was attributed to a heart attack.
He was born and reared in the
East Bend community of Yadkin
County, a son of the late W. V.
and Sarah Benbow Tomlinson.
Mr. Tomlinson was married to
Miss Annie Rousseau in early life
and entered business in North
Wilkesboro. His business interests
have included a large wholesale
firm, a department store, a num
ber of grocery stores, brick manu
facturing, textile and furniture
manufacturing, bakery, oil distri
butor, insurance, hotel, produce,
poultry dealer, and numerous
other business enterprises. He
was also a farmer on a large scale,
operating a number of farms in
Wilkes County.
For many years Mr. Tomlinson
was a member of the Board of
Stewards and Bible Class presi
dent in the First Methodist
Church. He was a member of the
North Wilkesboro Kiwanis Club,
and the Board of Commissioners
for several years. He was a di
rector and vice-president of the
Bank of North Wilkesboro and
the North Wilkesboro Building
and Loan Association.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Annie Rousseau Tomlinson; two
daughters, Mrs. A. M. Gregory of
Salisbury and Mrs. Carlyle Ingle
of North Wilkesboro; three sons,
James, William and Worth Tom
linson, North Wilkesboro; five
brothers, Walter and Jesse Tom
linson of East Bend; Dr. F. N.
Tomlinson of Winston-Salem;
Fiank and John Tomlinson of
North Wilkesboro; and two sis
ters, Miss Maggie Tomlinson and
Miss Myrt Tomlinson of East
Bend.
WINNERS NAMED
IN COMPETITION
I Gav Taylor, Of Copeland,
Takes First Prize In
Canning Contest
PILOT MOUNTAIN 2ND
Winners in the Sears-Rocbuck
canning contest for 4-H club girls
for 1946 were announced this
week by Mrs. Grace P. Brown,
home demonstration agent. First
prize went to Gay Taylor of the
Copeland 4-H club.
Gay canned 268 quarts of food
from her own garden during the
past summer and early fall. She
was awarded a prize of seven dol
lars.
Second .prize of five dollars
went to Lois Simmons of Pilot
Mountain, who canned 253 quarts.
Mary Bet Simpson of the Cope
land club gained third place with
a total of 250 quarts of food.
Twenty-four girls were entered
in the contest, the rules of which
provided that they must can food
grown m gardens which they
themselves tended, exclusive of
family gardens.
Other prize winners were Arlene
Marion, White Plains, with 237
quarts; Louise Snow, Dobson,
with 225 quarts; Geneva Hicks,
White Plains, 203 quarts; Betty
Swift, Mountain Park, with 192
quarts; and Iris Miller, Franklin,
190 quarts.
ARMY COTS IN HOSPITAL CORRIDORS — The young patient
shown above, with his mother sitting by his side, had recently come
from the operating room. There was no room for him in the regu
lar wards, so he was placed in the open corridor on a canvas army
cot. The picture, made in the Columbus County hospital in White
ville, is representative of the conditions to be found in hospitals
throughout the state. Hospitals everywhere are filled to overflow
ing and hundreds in need of medical attention are being turned
away due to lack of room. (Photo by Baldwin-Gillespie Studio.)
Fire Chief Warns Of
Oil Burning Gadgets
Attachments For Changing Stoves
To Oil Described As Dangerous
Attachment,s for converting coal
and wood burning stoves into oil
burners, many of which have re
cently been installed in homes in
and around Elkin, are proving to
be fire ' azards, according to
Chief rr^-d Brown of the Elkin Fire
department.
Many recent fires, Chief Brown
said, have been traced directly to
the installation of these burners.
Many persons, anxious but unable
to obtain heating units manufac
tured to use fuel oil or kerosene,
have purchased these attach
ments for prices ranging between
$15 and $30 and have themselves
installed them in stoves made for
different type fuel.
The attachments, Brown said,
are not approved by the Under
writers laboratory, which exam
ines such equipment for efficiency
and safety of operation, and are
regarded with disfavor by major
insurance companies.
The device is described as being
a fuel bowl into which oil is con
ducted through a feeding tube
ARE IN FAVOR
OF INCREASE
North Carolina Merchants To
Ask Pay Boost For Teach
ers, State Employees
20 PER CENT OR MORE
The hoard of directors of the
North Carolina Merchants Asso
ciation, meeting in Raleigh Mon
day, endorsed a proposal, to ask
the next General Assembly for a
20 per cent pay boost—more if
needed—not only for teachers, but
also for all State employees.
The directors also endorsed, in
principle, the program of the
North Carolina Good Health As
sociation.
The board said "in view of the
limitation on time for discussion
and the complexity of questions"
that it would take no position on
matters suggesting appropriations
for a veterans’ bonus or for re
quested appropriations for the
State’s educational, eleemosynary,
and penal institutions.
The directors again reiterated
opposition to the sales tax. and
directed that a copy of resolution
adopted on the tax at this year’s
annual convention of the associa
tion be mailed every member of
the next General Assembly.
Other stands taken by the
board:
1. Opposition to extension of the
coverage of the Unemployment
Compensation Act.
2. That the position of the
association on any wage and
House bill that might be introduc
ed at, the next Legislature be de
termined by the association‘s spe
cial legislative committee.
3. That the position of the asso
ciation on any bill that might be
introduced concerning the regula
tion of motor freight carriers also
be left to the legislative commit
tee.
4. Opposition to any increase in
privilege and license taxes on re
tail merchants.
5. That due to diversity of opin
ions, the association refuse to take
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from the storage tank. Unlike
regular oil burning stoves, they
have no carbureto.’to regulate the
flow of oil into the bowl. Venti
lation holes, according to Brown,
arc located below place where the
fuel enters the burner.
The chief danger, he said, lies
in the fact that it is possible for
more oil to run into the tank than
can be speedily consumed, because
of the absence of a carburetor.
When the fuel reaches a certain
level, it can overflow through the
air holes, run from the stove, and
ignite the surrounding floors or
walls.
Neither are they economical to
operate, the chief adds. In cold
weather such attachments require
as much as 25 gallons of oil a day
to provide sufficient heat, as com
pared to the five to ten gallons
used by the regular and approved
burners.
North Carolina State laws do
not make it explicitly clear as to
whether such attachments can be
legally operated. Many restric
tions governing similar devices
were relaxed during the war when
equipment of all kinds was scarce.
It is definite, however, the chief
declared, that the oil burning at
tachments are not approved by
fire prevention and insurance au
thorities.
Chief Brown urges that burners
of this type already installed be
removed as quickly as possible for
the sake of safety, and that no
others be installed. He also re
quests that anyone in doubt as to
the safety of home heating units
contact him and nave an inspec
tion made.
Stolen Auto Found
Wrecked, Deserted
An automobile stolen last Satur
day night was found Monday
just east of the city, wrecked and
abandoned, local police report.
The car was said to belong to
Grady Lee Clore of Belews Creek,
near Winston-Salem. It was stol
en from a parking place on East
Market Street some time between
8 and 8:30 Saturday night. Early
Monday morning the machine was
found bottom-side-up in a ditch
east of the Chatham Manufactur
ing Company plant.
CONSERVATION
CONTEST RULES
ARE ANNOUNCED
Speaking Event Is Enlarged
To Include 45 Counties
TO HOLD FINALS HERE
Prizes Will Be Awarded To
The Winners By The State
Bankers Association
GRADES NINE - TWELVE
Rules for the Soil Conservation
Speaking contest, which this year
has been enlarged to include 45
North Carolina counties, have re
cently been announced. Contest
finals, as was the case last year,
will be held here.
County Agent Neill M. Smith
the first part of this week has
been making the rounds of county
high schools explaining rules and
lining up contestants. Mr. Smith
reports that a great deal of inter
est is being shown by high school
students eligible for the contest.
The 45 counties are to be divid
ed into nine groups. Group 1 will
be composed of Surry, Wilkes,
Yadkin, Alleghany, and Ashe
counties. Winners from each are
to meet at North Wilkesboro Feb
ruary 13, 1947, where the group
winner will be selected.
In the meantime, Surry schools
will hold elimination contests, the
winners of which are to compete
February 6, 1947, at Dobson. Three
prizes, $25, $15, and $10 will be
awarded to the three first place
contestants in the county.
The final contest, which will
include nine boys and girls, one
from each group, will be held in
Elkin at the Gilvin Roth YMCA
February 20. 1947. The North
Carolina Bankers Association will
give prizes to boys and girls ex
hibiting the best speaking ability
and most thorough knowledge of
the subject.
Speeches must be prepared by
students in grades 9 to 12 inclu
sive, although help may be obtain
ed from any source. The speech,
covering any phase of soil conser
vation, should not exceed 12
minutes in length.
Judges will include four men
and one woman. Dr. J. Henry
Highsmith, director of division of
instructional service, will serve as
i chairman of the judges.
PLAN DANCE
AND DINNER
American Legion Event Is
Designated As Ladies’
Night; To Be At YMCA
DINNER AT G:;H) 1\ M.
The George Gray post of the
American Legion will hold a din
ner meeting followed by a dance
at the Gilvin Roth YMCA Wed
nesday night, November 27.
The occasion has been designat
ed as "Ladies Night" by Past. Com
mander Milton Cooper. Wives and
girl friends of the legionnaires
will be guests at the diner meet
ing and at the dance which fol
lows.
Dinner will be served at 6:30
p. m. A guest speaker, as yet un
announced, will address the group.
The dance will begin at 9
o’clock. Music will be by Wiley
Kiser and his orchestra, a well
known Winston - Salem dance
band.
Featured with the Kiser orches
tra will be Cornelia Lineberry,
popular Winston-Salem vocalist
who is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Lineberry of Janesville.
Reg Marshall will share the sing
ing assignment with Miss Line
berry.
Only 8-Day Supply Of
Coal On Hand Here
At Local Fuel Yards
Mine Walkout Spreads
As Lewis Remains Mum
Ready Call To
Governors For
Conservation
Washington, Nov. 20.—The coal
miners walkout spread today as
John L. Lewis let the eleventh
hour arrive still silent on wheth
er he will recall his midnight con
tract "termination” or defy a Fed
eral Court order and risk jail.
Approximately 89,000 miners —
more than one-fifth of the na
tion's coal-producing ranks — had
already laid down their tools.
1. The army announced that
troops will be ready, if needed to
maintain order.
2. The Government readied a
call to Governors of all states east
of the Mississippi for "brown
outs” and rationing of electricity
and manufactured gas—a move
affecting millions. Iowa. Wiscon
sin, Missouri and Minnesota may
also be included.
3. Republican and Democratic
lawmakers joined in a rising
chorus of demands for labor-man
agement legislation when the new
Congress meets Jan. 3. There
were some scattered demands
from lawmakers for an immediate
special session.
Under Lewis’ own formula, the
present Government-union con
tract which went into effect when
the Administration seized the pits
last May becomes “void” at one
minute past midnight tonight.
Presumably, Lewis has until that
hour to withdraw his cancellation
of the pact—or risk punishment
for contempt of court.
He was ordered to withdraw it
in an order issued by Federal
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough on
Monday.
Labor attorneys said that unless
the United Mine Workers’ boss
elects simply to ignore the courts
they see only two apparent alter
natives for him:
1. Go into court today and ask
Judge Goldsborough to vacate the
order on the ground that it vio
lates the Norris-LaGuardia Anti
Injunction Act, or that it requires
Lewis to do something rather than
restraining him from doing some
thing. This is the usual procedure
in seeking to block an injunction.
2. Rescind the notice of con
tract tennination — the notice
which in the past has always
served as a tacit but automatic
strike call.
Local Couple To Be
Heard Over W.S.J.S,
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Evans, who
recently celebrated their 55 th
wedding anniversary by appearing
as guests on an NBC program
originating in New York, will be
heard on the Carolina Reveille
program over station WSJS, Win
ston-Salem, Saturday, November
23, at 9 a. m.
The WSJS program will be a
partial rebroadcast of “Honey
moon in New York," of which Mr.
and Mrs. Evans were guests. The
Winston-Salem station, an NBC
affiliate, was unable to broadcast
the original program due to a con
flict in schedule.
Tribune Advertising Gets Results
“MUSIC BY KISER” FOR LEGION DANCE — A dance sponsored by the George Gray Post of the
American Legion for its members, wives, and girl friends, will feature the music of Wiley Kiser and his
popular dance band from Winston-Salem. Pictures above show Kiser, left, Reg Marshall, singer of
old and new songs, and Cornelia Lineberry, vocalist. Miss Lincbcrry is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Pled Lineberry of Janesville.
ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY —
Charles M. Johnson, treasurer
of the State, of North Carolina,
has announced that he will be
a candidate for governor for the
term beginning January, 1948.
Mr. Johnson will run on the
Democratic ticket. The popular
State Treasurer recently spoke
here before members of the Elk
in, Mount Airy, and North
Wilkesboro Lions clubs. For the
past several months he has been
repeatedly mentioned as a pos
sible candidate for the governor
ship.
URGE OWNERS
TO LOCK CARS
Chief Of Police Wall Issues
Reports Showing Number
Of Arrests In City
DRUNKENNESS IN LEAD
Police Chief Corbett Wall, who
yesterday released a report show
ing the number of arrests made
in the city during the month of
October, has issued a warning to
all motorists and car owners, who
park their machines on city
streets, to securely lock the ve
hicles before leaving them.
The most serious wave of auto
thefts in recent years has plagued
the city for the past several
months, the chief said. Most of
the cars stolen are later recovered,
but few arrests have as yet been
made. Cars taken. Chief Wall
stated, are usually old models. All
of them have been left either with
keys left in the ignition lock or in
such a condition that no key is re
quired to start the engine. There
is not a single case on record of
a machine taken when the owner
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2 ARE INJURED
IN AUTO WRECK
Car Is Said To Have Collided
With Truck Near State
Road Wednesday
ROTH ARE IN HOSPITAL
Two persons, identified as Mr.
and Mrs. Harold R. Chappell, of
Detroit, Mich., were injured about
10:35 yesterday morning (Wed
nesday! when their car reported
ly collided with a truck just above
State Road in Wilkes county.
Mr. Chappell, said to be the
most seriously injured of the two,
sustained lacerations of the fore
head, an injured left shoulder,
left elbow, and right ankle, and a
fractured collar bone. In addition
he received numerous bruises.
Mrs. Chappell’s most serious in
jury was described as a severely
bruised forehead. She also suf
fered minor bruises.
The accident reportedly oc
curred when the Chappell car col
lided with a truck, travelling in
the opposite direction, when it at
tempted to make a turn. The
driver of the truck was not identi
fied. I
Hospital Has
About 3-Weeks
Supply On Hand
Except for what is now stored
in basements of houses through
out Elkin, a scant eight-day sup
ply of coal remains on hand in
dealers’ yards in the city, a
Tribune survey made yesterday
indicates. All of the coal now
available is either nut and slag or
stoker variety, and consumers who
customarily use egg and lump
coal will either have to convert to
one of these two types or be con
tent to go cold, in case the
threatened soft-coal strike ma
terializes and is prolonged.
Both L. G. Meed, of the Caro
lina Ice and Fuel Company, and
Mrs. J. P. Ipock, of the Ipock
company, report that they have
as yet received no official com
munication regarding rationing
and distribution. In abidance
with a governmental order, how
ever, no deliveries are to be made
to any persons with a ten-day
supply of coal on hand.
Julius Hall, business manager
of the Hugh Chatham Memorial
Hospital, said that the hospital
now has on hand only enough coal
for about two or three weeks. Mr.
Hall, however, did not appear too
pessimistic about the situation,
expressing the opinion that the
hospital will be granted top prior
ity on coal delivery in case of
eventual stringent restrictions.
N. H. Carpenter, superintendent
of Elkin schools, said that neither
high school nor-elemenfary stud
ents were in any danger of freez
ing during class hours. Both
school buildings, he said, had
enough coal to last into February
or possibly March.
While Mrs. Ipock reports that
bins in her company’s yard are
completely empty, Mr. Meed esti
mates that he has 70 tons of nut
and slag coal and about 80 tons
of stoker coal. Nut and slag, ac
cording to his sons, Gilbert and
Jimmy, is ordinarily used for
heating purposes only in emergen
cies. About 10 per cent of the
company’s customers use stoker
type coal, but both types can be
consumed by ordinary furnaces
and stoves.
Mr. Meed says that bins in
homes here seem to be unusually
well filled for this time of year,
and that is expected to help some.
‘•If people would learn to fill
bins during the summer,” Mr.
Meed said, ‘‘emergencies like this
would not be near so serious. With
every bin in the city filled to ca
pacity, we would have more room
in the yards to stock a winter
supply.”
The eight day supply on hand,
all three Meeds agreed, may prove
to be even less when the demand
becomes greater due to scarcity of
coal in other yards.
D. G. Smith, head of the Duke
Power Company here, also reveal
ed that he had received no official
word, either from the government
or company officials, concerning
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Monday Night Wreck
Injures Yadkin Men
Three Yadkin County men were
injured in an automobile accident
about ten miles west of Winston
Salem Monday night around 9:30
o’clock.
Bcnbow Allen and his brother,
Eugene, of Boonvillc, and Earl
Rachaels of Hamptonvillc were
taken to Baptist Hospital after
their car went out of control near
Vienna.
Attendants at Baptist Hospital
said Benbow Allcm suffered a
broken right arm and other in
juries. while Eugene Allen and
Rachaels received minor cuts and
bruises.
Wilkes Man Fails
In Suicide Attempt
The condition of Walter Dur
ham, 52. farmer who resides just
west of Elkin in Wilkes county,
was reported satisfactory by Elkin
hospital authorities following a
reported suicide attempt which
occurred early Monday morning.
Members of the family, who
were unable to give any x'eason for
Mr. Durham's attempt, said that
he fired a .22 calibre bullet into
his body just below the heart,
and that he suffered a consider
able loss of blood before being re
moved to the hospital.