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ELKIN Gate way To Roaring Gap And The Blue Ridge ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina The Elkin Tribune NORTH CAROLINA’S NO. 1 NEED GOOD HEALTH VOL. No. XXXV No. 7 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1947 $2.00 PER YEAR 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS SURRY COURT , DISPOSES OF * MANY CASES In Second Week Before Judge Frank M. Armstrong GRAND JURY REPORTS Report That Nine Condemned School Buses Have Been Repaired, Replaced SWEAR DEPUTY CLERK ■ Surry County Superior Court ' convened Monday after having been recessed since Wednesday of last week, and Judge Frank M. Armstrong began proceedings to clear a crowded docket. V % ~ Tuesday Mrs. Martha O. Comer of Dobson was sworn in as deputy clerk to clerk of court, Kermit Lawrence. The grand jury reported that it had inspected the State school garage and found that all nine of the school buses condemned last fall have been satisfactorily re paired or replaced. The grand jury also reported that it had visited the county jail and the county courthouse. The jail and the State prison camp were found in excellent condition, as was the courthouse with the exception of needed plumbing re pairs in the basement. The county home was said to be in good condition and under able supervision. It at present contains 19 inmates. The jury, however, recommended that the building be painted inside and that a refrigerator unit be added. It was also suggested'that two large doors be placed at either end of the Dobson high school gymnasium, since the present doors are said to be too small to permit safe exit in case of fire. During the court session, Myra Gentry and Gladys Harris, Elkin Negroes charged with shoplifting, plead nolo contendere. The case was continued. Other cases were: Oscar Long warrant, reckless driving, placed on inactive docket. H. L. Taylor, Jr., same as above, marked off docket. Ellis and Odell Cassell, robbery, continued. Claude W. Jones, warrant, abandonment and non-support, placed on inactive docket. Hubert Williams, warrant, re* sisting arrest, assault, etc., placed on inactive docket. Edgar Jones, violating suspend ed sentence, marked off docket. (Continued On Page Four) FORMER ELKIN MAN IS KILLED James G. Hanks Dies Instant ly When Truck Is Struck By Train Sunday FUNERAL HELD MONDAY James Garfield Hanks, 28, a former employee of Chatham Manufacturing Company, in this city, but more recently of Wins ton-Salem, was killed instantly early Sunday morning when the Southern Dairies milk truck which he was driving was hit by a train five miles north of Winston Salem. Information received stated that Mr. Hanks was substituting on the milk route for the regular driver. He, with his 14-year-old assistant, son of the regular driver, had just delivered milk to Rev. J. H. Kapp, pastor of Oak Grove Church, lo cated just across the tracks, when the accident occurred in front of the church, just off the Walker town Highway. They were re turning to the highway in the trirck when their vehicle was struck by a northbound Norfolk and Western passenger train. Definite circumstances leading to th<Jause of the accident were unkn®n, but it was stated that at thBime of the accident, about 8:55 aEn-, there was a heavy fog in thawvicinity. Mr. tHanks, an employee of Southern Dairies, Inc., for four years, vlbs a native of Alleghany County,^, son of James S. and Cora Bell Burgess Hanks. Surviving are his widow, the former lAss Dora Alexander; two daughters) Joan and Frances Hanks; arid one son, Johnny, all of Winston’■Salem; the father and step-mother1; one brother, Lonnie Hanks, of Elkin, two sisters, Mrs. Thomas Sidden and Mrs. Ulysess Marshall, both of State Road. Funeral seryices were conducted at Volger’s Chapel Monday morn ing and at thl Mountain View Baptist Churdeh in Alleghany County Monday'afternoon. Inter ment was njadel in the church cemetery. \ NO MAN’S LAND — Fast, reckless drivers and a general disregard for traffic regulations have made North Bridge Street between the Spring Street and Gwyn Avenue intersections, and Church Street between the Spring Street intersection and the North Bridge intersection the outstanding traffic haz ard area of the city. Police records show that the great majority of all accidents occurring in the city take place within this area. Top photo above was taken, looking south, from the scene of two traffic fatalities in recent years. It shows Church Street where it enters North Bridge (from the right) and a portion of the sharp curve leading toward the Gwyn Avenue intersection. Lower photo shows Spring Street, looking east, crossing Church, at second power pole, and North Bridge, just in front of curve in background. Traffic lights hang at each of these crossings, but have proven in effectual because many motorists ignore them. —Tribune Photos. Criss-Cross Streets, Reckless Driving Cause Of Death, Injury A Small Area Is Scene Of Many Bad Accidents By ROGER MARSHALL Wednesday night of last week, when weather conditions were bad and visibility poor, a car carrying a young sailor, home on furlough, and his girl friend attempted to round a sharp curve on North Bridge Street. The sailor lost con trol of the machine. It swerved to the left and crashed into a stone wall bordering the sidewalk.! When an ambulance arrived both occupants, who had been thrown through the lefthand door of the car, were lying on the side walk unconscious. The pavement was covered with blood. Tuesday morning, nearly a week after the accident, the girl died. The boy remains in the hospital in a serious condition. Investigating police officers, who charged the driver with reck less driving, attribute the accident to the fact that the car was traveling at an unnecessarily high rate of speed. Miss Dorothy Mac Cave, 20, the girl who sustained fatal injuries, became the second victim of this North Bridge Street curve, one of several danger spots in a criss cross network of streets in the area. The first death occurred in Au gust, 1941, when Mrs. Dixie Gra ham. wife of City Clerk Dixie Graham, received fatal injuries in a similar accident. Mr. Graham had just backed out of his drive way, was on his right side of the street, when another fast driver crashed into his machine and. Wilson Succeeds Marshall On Tribune Staff Thomas W. Wilson, of Laur inburg, has accepted a position on the news staff of The Tri bune, succeeding Roger Mar shall, who has resigned to ac cept a similar position with the Winston-Salem Journal. Mr. W'ilson is a veteran of the last war, having served 40 months in the army air corps, from which he was honorably discharged with the rank of second lieutenant. He is a grad uate of the University of North Carolina with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism. He arrived in Elkin Tuesday to assume his new duties. Mr. Marshall, who has been with The Tribune since March 3, 1946, will go to Winston Salem in about two weeks to assume his duties there. threw his wife out of the car into the same stone wall. ’ And these arc but two of many accidents, others less serious, which have taken place within the area; Two cars abreast, racing at break-neck speed around a blind, dangerous curve. A car containing a man, his wife, and perhaps one or two small children driving casually through a red light at one in tersection, proceeding a block, and just as casually crashing a second red light. A car-load of teen-age youngs ters swerving madly around halt ed cars to speed through a red (Continued On Page Five) COUNCIL IS TO MEET JAN. 2C Agricultural Workers Grouj To Discuss Farm And Home Sanitation CRUSE TO BE SPEAKEF The Surry County Agricultun Workers Council will meet Mon day, January 20, at 3 p. m„ at th< office of Mrs. Grace P. Brown home demonstration agent, ii Dobson. Farm and home sanita tion and nutrition will be topic; for discussion. This meeting, according t< County Agent Neill M. Smith chairman of the council, has beer called as a result of a recent con ference between Dr. Carl V. Reyn olds, state health officer, and Dr I. O. Schaub, director of extensior service from Raleigh. Featured speaker will be Johr R. Cruse, Surry sanitation officer who will discuss the county health program. Ladies of the organization art to map plans for a county-wid< nutrition program, Mrs. Brown in dicated. Surveys in schools an already underway to determine what school children are catint and whether or not their diet i; adequately balanced. It is expected that a call will be made for action on the con struction of sanitary toilets or farms, screening and fly control and general farm and home sani tation. Mr. Smith stated that there is a strong likelihood of s future rat-control campaign. Tribune Advertising Gets Result* GIRL IS DEAD AFTER WRECK ON BRIDGE ST. Dorothy Mae Cave, 20, Of Boonville, Is Victim COMPANION BADLY HURT Car Strikes Stone Wall In Front Of Poindexter Home; Occupants Thrown Out RITES ON WEDNESDAY Miss Dorothy Mae Cave, 20, of Boonville, died early Tuesday morning at the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, this city, as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident on North Bridge Street Wednesday night of last week. Miss Cave, according to Police Officer T. B. Sams, who investi gated the accident, was riding as a passenger in a car driven by Hanford Odell Wilhelm, 19, a sailor home on furlough. The ac cident happened at the sharp curve on North Bridge Street just above the Church Street intersec tion, when the car, traveling North, failed to make the turn and crashed into a stone wall bor dering the sidewalk on the left hand side of the street. Both occupants were thrown through the left door of the ve hicle. Miss Cave's head, it was conjectured, struck the stone wall causing a critical skull fracture. She remained unconscious until the time of her death. Wilhelm, who Officer Sams said has been charged with reckless driving, also sustained serious in juries. Until yesterday, hospital officials said, he had only partly regained consciousness. Funeral for Miss Cace was held at 2 p. m. yesterday at the Boon ville Baptist Church. Burial fol lowed in the Boonville cemetery. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brady Cave, Boon ville; three brothers, Hubert B,. John L„ and J. D. Cave, all of the home; six sisters, Mrs. Nettie Donathan of Elkin, Misses Ver nell, Barbara Jean, Jessie Lee, Judy Carol and Rita Sue Cave, all of the home. COUNTY-WIDE MEETING 18TH Farm Bureau To Review To bacco Price Situation, And Name Delegates TO NAME COMMITTEES A county-wide Farm Bureau meeting will be held in the court house in Dobson on Saturday, January 18, at 2 p. m., according to S. H. Atkinson, president of the Surry County Farm Bureau. The tobacco price situation will be re viewed at the meeting, and 12 of ficial delegates to the North Caro lina Farm Bureau Federation’s convention will be elected. The delegates will attend the Federa tion convention to be held at the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Winston | Salem on February 2, 3, 4, and 5. Eleven committees will be se lected as follows: poultry, tobacco, burley tobacco, cotton, peanuts, fruits and vegetables, general crops, dairy and livestock, Edward O’Neal club, agriculture, business and industrial relations, and nom inations. The meeting is expected to cov er the question of whether to re duce next year’s tobacco acreage and the tobacco quota penalty. New provisions of the penalty pro vide that tax on over-planting shall be increased from 10 cents per pound to 40 per cent of the 1947 selling price. A resolution will be presented to ask for meas urement of the 1947 tobacco acres. The Stabilization Corporation*pro gram will also be explained at the meeting. A large attendance is expected. At the Farm Bureau meeting last week, the proceedings of the Winston-Salem meeting were dis cussed. Lions Club Holds Regular Meeting The regular dinner meeting of Elkin Lion’s Club was held Mon day evening at Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. Jack Caudill, president, was in the chair. A program of interest featured the session. Films of the horse show and air show, recent projects of the club, were presented by Fred Eidson. Pictures of local football games were also shown. About fifty members attended the meeting. The sun travels 175 to 185 miles a second in its orbit. Star Witness Tells A Shocking Story As Assault Case Opens ON TRIAL FOR LIFE — Marvin C. Bell, left, of Roaring River, Route 2, and Ralph Vernon Litteral, of Winston-Salem, went on trial for their lives in Wilkes county superior court at Wilkcsboro Wednesday morning on a charge of criminal assault upon Peggy Shore, ’teen age daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Shore, of the Pleasant Hill section. Growers May Have Seed Cleaned Free Tobacco growers desiring to have their seed cleaned before sowing it in beds may have the job done free of charge at the county agent's office in Dob son, S. N. Hawks, assistant county agent, announced this week. Mr. Hawks said that seed will be cleaned between the hours of 8 and 10 each week day morning, Monday through Saturday. He explains that the office is equipped to clean any amount of seed, from one ounce up to several pounds, and that the process will take but a few minutes. Advantages of clean seed, experts say, is that it rids seed of trash and weak, unhealthy seed and enables farmers to be assured of even distribution in plant beds. ELKS DROP TWO TO JONESVILLE Both Boys’ And Girls’ Team Lose In Contest To Yad kin Rivals Friday TO PLAY WEST YADKIN Jonesville took both ends of a twin bill from Elkin high school there last Friday night, the Jonesville girls winning a 26-24 victory and the boys capturing the nightcap with a 30-22 score. Both teams played well with P. Vestal, Fisher and Owens out standing for Jonesville, while Royall and Holcomb led the at tack for Elkin. Dick Vestal and Bob Vestal were the big threats for Jonesville in the boys’ game. These games were said to be the cleanest and best games ever played between the two rivals. Jonesville plays West Yadkin in a double header Friday night at the Jonesville gym. The West Yadkin girls have an undefeated team and the boys are expected to give the Jonesville lads a tough battle. The girls’ game will begin at 7:30 p. m. News Photographer To Speak To Club Frank Jones, chief staff photo grapher of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, will speak to the Elkin Camera Club at the Gilvin Roth YMCA here Tuesday night at 7:30, according to an an nouncement by W. L. Bell, presi dent of the club. Mr. Jones is expected to show a series of moving pictures made during a recent trip to South America. He will also lecture on flash photography. The program was originally scheduled for Tuesday of this week, but due to the fact that Mr. Jones was unable to attend that night, it was postponed one week. The 1946 corn crop of the U. S. is 12 per cent larger than last year and is of better quality. POLIO FUNDS BADLY NEEDED Appeal Is Made To Double Contributions Of Drive During Past Year USED IN EPIDEMICS An appeal to the community to double contributions to the 1947 March of Dimes — annual fund raising drive of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis — so the $24,000,000 national goal will be met, was made today by Sam Neaves, chairman of the local campaign committee here. Mr. Neaves urged everyone to redouble efforts following receipt of a letter from Basil O’Connor, president of the National Founda tion, stressing the crucial impor tance of the 1947 March of Dimes. The need to replenish funds drained in fighting last summer’s epidemic which affected more than 25,000 persons and was the worst in the Foundation’s history is more urgent than ever before, according to Mr. O’Connor. To assure continuing care of patients and build up adequate chapter reserves for future epi demics, $12,000,000 is needed, Mr. O’Connor said. The other half of the $24,000,000 minimum is re quired on the national level as follows: Epidemic aid reserve fund, $5,000,000; Research and educa tion, $5,000,000; General Working Fund, $2,000,000. “During the 1946 epidemic,” Mr. Neaves said, “the $4,000,000 epi demic reserve fund of the National Foundation, previously considered adequate, was wiped out complete ly by November in aiding chap ters. By the end of the year ap proximately an additional $1,500, 000 earmarked for research had to be diverted for emergency aid to fulfill the pledge that “no one stricken by polio need go without care for lack of funds.” Pointing out that this commun ity as every other in the nation must be adequately prepared for any emergency the future may bring, Mr. Neaves concluded: “Let us double our contributions now so we can be prepared. We cannot gamble with the safety of our children. By giving generous ly now we will avoid future seif reproach that we gave too little and too late when next summer’s epidemics strike.” Melvin Resigns Position At Y Neil Melvin, physical director of the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. since 1944, has recently accepted a position in a supervisory capacity in the shipping room of Chatham Manufacturing Company, under the supervision of C. H. Leary, T. C. McKnight, general manager of the local organization, has an nounced. Prior to coming to Elkin, Mr. Melvin, of Jacsson Springs, was physical director of the YMCA in Corbin, Kentucky. Boys’ Work Secretary, Walter M. Safrit, will assume additional duties as program secretary and director of physical training. Americans call alfalfa a rela tively new crop but it was used in Asia long before the Christian era. Bell, Litteral On Trial For Life In Wilkes Peggy Shore, 16-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Shore of the Pleasant Hill community, yesterday morning took the stand as star witness for the State against Ralph Vernon Litteral, 34, of Winston-Salem, and Marvin Claude Bell, 23, of Roaring River, Route 2. The two men are being tried for their lives in Wilkes County Superior Court, charged with the rape of Miss Shore last August. During her testimony the young girl showed frequent signs of great emotional stress. At one point Judge Hoyle Sink asked Mrs. Shore to stand beside her daugh ter in the witness box, and some time later her testimony was broken when she broke down com pletely, necessitating her removal from the court room until she had regained composure. Direct questioning of the wit ness was conducted by Solicitor Avalon E. Hall. Miss Shore was the onjy witness to take the stand during the morning session, being placed in the box when court con vened at 9:30 a. m. The girl said that she became 16 years old October 20 of last year, making her age 15 at the time the crime was allegedly com mitted. She is a 10th grade stu dent at the Ronda school. She testified that on August 23, 1946, she attended a watermelon feast at the home of Grady Har ris in Elkin. At the conclusion of the party, she said, she and two other young girls, Jo Ann Johnson and Patsy Ruth Myers, attempted to catch the 9:30 p. m. bus for Pleasant Hill, but arriving at the bus stop too late, missed it. They attended a movie at the Reeves Theater while waiting for the next bus. At 11:05, she told the jury, selected from a venire of 150 Caldwell county men, all three girls got on a bus and started home. During the ride, she said, they noticed a car without lights following the bus. Jo Ann and (Continued On Page Four) CIVIC CLUBS HEAR JONAS Prominent Attorney Points Out Need Of Better Health For Stale GIVES FACTS, FIGURES Col. Charles R. Jonas, of Lin coln ton, an official of the North Carolina Good Health Committee discussed the Good Health pro gram which is to be placed before the General Assembly at its cur rent session, at a joint meeting of the Elkin Kiwanis club. Lions club and Junior Chamber of Commerce last Thursday evening at the YMCA. Col. Jonas, presented to the group by Hoke Henderson, went into the need for better health in North Carolina in a thorough manner, pointing out many facts and figures which has placed this state practically at the bottom of the list of all the 48 states in health matters. The speaker pointed out, among other things, that in 1943, over a period of eight months in this state, 49 per cent of the white men and 71 per cent of the color ed men who were given a pre induction medical examination for the armed services, were re jected because of physical defects. However, during this same period, 1,860 boys from five North Caro lina orphanages were examined and only 16 rejected. He stated that these boys were subjected to periodic checks by physicians and given any medical care needed. Such medical care would be avail able to other North Carolina youth under an adequate medical program as is now proposed. The speaker also pointed out that now, while the General As sembly is in session, the citizens of this state should use their in fluence to see that immediate ac tion is taken on this outstanding issue. The Federal government, through the Hill-Burton Act, has (Continued On Page Four)
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