ELKIN
The Best
Little Town
In North
Carolina
ELKIN
Gateway To
Roaring Gap
And The Blue
Ridge
GOOD
HEALTH
NORTH
CAROLINA’S
NO. 1 NEED
VOL. No. XXXV No. 17
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1947
$2.00 PER YEAR
18 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
PRESENT MAYOR
AND BOARD TO
ASK REELECTION
With Exception Of Commis
sioner Carl Myers
BURCHAM IS PROPOSED
Veterans Of Foreign Wars
Back Commander To
Fill Vacated Post
MASS MEETING APR. 4TH
Mayor Garland Johnson and all
^ except one of the present town
x commissioners have evidenced a
willingness to succeed themselves
in the town election on May 5, The
Tribune learned yesterday.
C. C. Myers, who has served as
town commissioner for 14 years,
stated that he had decided not to
seek re-election.
"In view of my length of service,
I feel that someone else should
accept the responsibility of the of
fice',” he said.
Russell Burcham has been pro
posed by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars as a candidate to fill the
vacancy created by Mr. Myers’ de
M cision, and has consented to ac
cept the office if nominated and
elected.
R. C. Freeman, Charlie N. My
ers, J. W. L. Benson and J. O.
Bivins are the four other com
missioners who will seek election
with Mr. Burcham and Mayor
Johnson.
The mass meeting for nominat
. ing candidates will be held in the
elementary school Friday night,
April 4. at 7:30. The election is
scheduled for May 4.
WOULD WATCH
' FOR NOTICES
Veterans Receiving “Lapse
Notice” Should Con
tact Representative
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DISCREPANCIES OCCUR
Veterans who receive “lapse no
tices” of their National Service
Life Insurance when they have
made all of their premium pay
? ments, should immediately bring
a any evidence of payment to the
■ attention of the nearest Veterans
Administration contact Represen
tative, the North Wilkesboro VA
office said today.
Delay in crediting of payments
with premium accounts occurred
in some cases because of the
heavy volume of work at VA’s
Richmond Branch Office. As a
result, some veterans have receiv
ed lapsed notices although they
have made their payments on
time. The Richmond branch of
fice serves NSLI policyholders ill
North Carolina.
When a discrepancy appears be
tween a veteran’s personal records
of his payments and VA accounts,
the veteran should visit his near
est VA office at once and list
.dates, amounts and methods of
Vpayment, in addition to all num
bers appearing on cancelled
checks or money order receipts. If
payment was made by cash, dates
and receipt numbers should be
furnished.
In all correspondence with the
Veterans Administration relative
to NSLI policies, veterans should
always include their “N” or “V”
numbers, and if they have more
than one policy, their “FN” or
“FV” numbers. These are NSLI
policy or certificate numbers, not
service seriaLnumbcrs.
iXECUTIONOF
TWO POSTPONED
Fate Of Ralph Vernon Lit*
teral And Marvin Claude
Bel! Awaits Appeal
TO SUPREME COURT
The execution of Ralph Vernon
Litteral and Marvin Claude Bell,
who were scheduled to die in the
gas chamber at Raleigh March 15
for the rape of Peggy Ruth Shore,
has been postponed pending the
outcome of their appeal to the
#tate Supreme Court.
Because of the length of the
case, extra time was allowed for
preparing the appeal, thus staying
the execution.
The death sentence for Litteral
and Bell was passed by Judge
rjjavlfi sink in a special term of
c^urt in North Wilkesboro in Jan
uary after a jury took only 15
minutes to return a verdict of
guilty for the two men.
d
;n the course of a year the aver
adult drinks a ton of water.
PROPOSE-D
EXPOSITION BUILDING
FOR TOWN OP ELKIN
® TO BE USED FOR
HORSE- AND CATTLE SHOWS, ETC.
SIZE 60 X 128 FT,
PROPOSED EXPOSITION BUILDING — The drawing above, made from plans of a proposed exposition building to be erected here as a
part of a three-phase Memorial Park program, shows the structure as it will appear when completed. The structure was discussed at a
meeting of civic clubs, held at the YMCA Monday night, and over 816,000 of the estimated cost of $18,000 had been raised up until Wed
nesday noon. The building will be of cinder block and steel construction and will be equipped with removable box stalls for horse shows,
cattle shows, etc. A steel fence around the grounds, which are adjacent to the athletic field, and a track, plus lights, are included in the
project.
Three Men Are Arrested
For Robbery, Assault
Two Released
Under $6,000
Bond; One Held
-;
Charges of larceny, receMngj
stolen goods and store breaking!
were filed against Ralph and |
Thurmond Stanley, Route 1, Elk
in, and Edward Wood, Route 2,
Dobson, following their arrest
Monday afternoon near Crutch- |
field where they reportedly at
tempted to sell stolen goods to
the Stokes filling station.
Wood is also charged with as
saulf with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill and is being held in
the Dobson jail after failing to
post $8,000 bond on the several
counts. The Stanley brothers
were released after posting $6,000
bond each.
Hearing for the three men is
scheduled to be held in the city
hall here Saturday morning at 10
o’clock.
Investigating officers said the
men broke into the Twin Oaks
store, near Crutchfield, and took
110 pounds of sugar, 300 pennies,
75 pounds of flour, 12 pairs socks,
19 boxes of candy and a penny
coin machine. They were trying
to sell the stolen goods to the
Stokes station when officers ar
rived on the scene and arrested
the men.
BOARD IS TO
SUBMIT PLAN
County School Officials To;
Meet With Commission- j
ers To Consider Needs
_
$1,250,000.00 PROGRAM
Members of the Surry county
board of education will present
their recommendations on build
ing needs of county schools at a
meeting with the county commis
sioners in the court house in Dob
son Monday night.
A school building program in
volving an expenditure of $1,250,
000 has been proposed for Surry
county, but the question of the
amount of funds to be alloted to
each school has not been fully de
termined.
John W. Comer, superintendent
of Surry county schools, stated
that only the immediate building
needs of county schools could be
met under the proposed bond is
sue, and that long-range plans
would have to be deferred until
more funds are available.
The Elkin school board 'has re
quested funds for several addition
al class rooms and other improve
ments in the local school system.
Schools at Mount Airy, Flat Rock,
Copeland, Franklin, White Plains,
Westfield and Mountain Park will
also he included in the building
and expansion program if the
bond issue is approved.
April 1 Set As
Clean-tJp Day
For Jonesville
Mayor Z. B. Martin has
designated Tuesday, April 1, as
official clcan-up day for Jones
viile. A11 citizens are urged to
cooperate by collecting all gar
bage and rubbish which should
be disposed of, and place it in
a container in front of the
home. The garbage truck will
come by sometime during the
day to pick this up.
Co-operation will make it a
successful clean-up day, Mayor
Martin said.
BAPTIST CHOIR
EASTER MUSIC
To Present Good Friday Can
dlelight Service April
1 At 8 P. M.
MRS FRANKLIN LEADER
First Baptist Church choirs will
present a Good Friday Candle
light Service on the evening of
April 4 at 8 p. m. in the Church
auditorium, under the direction of
Mrs. Gwyn Franklin.
Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor,
will give the invocation and Miss
Effie Crater will be organist for
the service.
Solos will be sung by Dr. V. W.
Taylor, Silas Nichols, Mrs. Sam
Marshall, and Miss Peggy Line
berry of the adult choir. Charles
Johnson, Chris Glenn, and Ann
Carol Carter of the children’s
choir will present solos.
The adult choir will give several
numbers. Highlights of the eve
ning’s program will be the singing
of "Allelujah” (Mozart) by a sex
tette composed of Patsy Martin,
Jacqueline Brown, Dorothy
Hodges, Ann Carter, Annie Lee Os
borne and Janet Walker and
“Grant Us To Do With Zeal”
(Bach) by a men’s chorus com
posed by Dr. Taylor, J. F. Moseley,
Cortez Lowery, W. S. Beddingfield,
Lewell Gentry and Jack Walker.
A cordial invitation is extended
to the pubiic to attend the musical
program given in observance of
Good Friday.
Juniors To Hold
Special Meeting
A special meeting of the Junior
Order will be held here Friday
evening at 7:30 o’clock for the in
duction of a number of new mem
bers, it was announced Wednes
day.
All members of the Order are
urged to attend this session.
The largest pipe organ in the
world is in the Royal Albert Hall,
London. It weighs 175 tons and
contains 10,491 pipes.
MAY RE-FORM
OLD LEAGUE
Meeting To lie Held At
YMCA April 1 To Diseuss
Yadkin Valley Baseball
MAY CHOOSE NEW NAME
Jim Hemmings, former secre
tary of the Yadkin Valley All-Star
Baseball League, has called a
meeting of managers and others
interested in reorganizing the
league for Tuesday night, April 1,
at 7:30, in the YMCA.
Representatives from Elkin,
Joncsville, Boonville, Yadkinville,
Mountain View. Clingman, Hamp
tonville and Mountain Park have
indicated a desire to re-form the
old league and are expected to at
tend the meeting Tuesday night to
formulate plans for reorganization.
The league will be composed of
about 10 teams from Suny, Yad
kin and Wilkes counties, and the
players will be non-professional.
Organization is expected to follow
the same lines as the old Yadkin
Valley League, which was disband
ed during the war when most of
the players were called for mili
tary service. A new name — prob
ably the Tri-County League — will
be chosen for the organization.
Mr. Hemmings urged all persons
interested in helping reorganize
the league, or who desire to spon
sor or enter teams, to attend the
meeting.
All crows are not black. The
hooded crow of Europe is gray.
40,000 POUNDS
OF SUGAR TAKEN
Confiscated In Roaring River
Saturday By ATU And
OPA Agents
BLACK MARKET CASE
Forty thousand pounds of sugar
were confiscated, in Roaring River
Saturday by Alcohol Tax Unit
and OPA agents in what was de
scribed as a “black market” case.
T. E. Patton of Charlotte,
head of the North Carolina office
of the Alcoholic Tax Unit, said the
sugar was taken from a store
owned by Lester Prevette about
noon Saturday, but that officers
had not yet determined who own
ed the sugar. The person, or per
sons, involved obtained “illegal
possession of the sugar,” according
to Mr. Patton, but no arrests have
been made.
Investigation of the case is be
ing continued. No evidence that
would connect the sugar with any
non-taxpaid liquor law violation
has been uncovered, Mr. Patton
said.
Mr. Prevette claimed that a
supply of sugar was stolen in re
cent months and that the sugar
seized was a replacement, accord
ing to unofficial reports. He op
erates an auto supply and repair
business and a hardware store in
Roaring River, and formerly man
aged a grocery store, it was re
ported.
Elkin Tops
Red Cross Fund
By Over $900
Rev. Howard J. Ford, chair
man of the local Red Cross
campaign, stated yesterday that
a total of S3.606.13 had been
contributed in the annual fund
raising drive, with several com
munities still unreported.
According to this figure, Elk
in citizens have oversubscribed
their quota of $2,700 by more
than $900.
Mr. Ford requests that work
ers who have not turned in
their reports to do so as soon as
possible in order that, the drive
may be concluded.
YADKIN GIRL
WINS CONTEST
Helen Margaret Wishon To
Represent 4-County Dis
trict In Finals
DIVISIONAL DISTRICT
Helen Margaret Wishon, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wishor
of Yadkinville, will represent the
four-county district composed ol
Surry, Yadkin, Forsyth and Davie
counties in the divisional finale
of the American Legion-sponsorec
oratorical contest in Hickory to
morrow.
Miss Wishon, representing Yad
kin county, was judged winner ol
the district finals held in the ele
mentary school here last Friday
and will compete with contest
ants from other districts for the
right to enter the State finals ir
Statesville on March 31.
Second place in the district con
test here went to Ann Harris
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abe
Harris of Elkm, who represented
Surry county. Douglas Carter ol
Winston-Salem, representing For
syth county, was third place win
ner, and Nancy Durham of Mocks
ville, representing Davie county
won fourth place.
Each contestant gave a pre
pared speech on some phase of the
American Constitution and an ex
temporaneous talk on one of the
first 10 amendments.
J. Milton Cooper, commander ol
the George Gray American Legior
Post here, introduced the speak
ers and presented Miss Wishor
with a Chatham blanket as firsi
prize. Judges were Rev. Ralplr
Ritchie and Mrs. Gwyn B. Frank
lin of Elkin, and Rev. C. Marvir
Boggs of Jonesvillc.
The contest is sponsored an
nually by the American Legion t(
promote interest in the Constitu
tion and public speaking amont
high school students of the na
tion. The national winner wil
receive a $4,000 scholarship to th<
college of his choice.
If the earth were entirely levc
it is estimated that the entire sur
face of the globe would be coverec
with water to the depth of ovei
two miles.
Banana oil is the by-product ol
coal tar, not bananas.
SPECIAL MEET
CALLEDFRIDAY
To Determine What Progress
Made In Fund Raising
For Tobacco">Program
SURRY QUOTA IS $1,400
S. H. Atkinson, president of the
Surry County Farm Bureau, has
called a meeting for tomorrow
night at 7:30 in the court house
in Dobson to determine what
progress has been made in rais
ing funds for the program spon
sored by Tobacco Associates, Inc.
Approximately $1,400 has been
assigned as the quota for Surry
county farmers in the organiza
tion’s program to expand and im
prove export markets for flue
cured tobacco.
C. D. Smith, treasurer of the
drive for Surry county, stated at
a meeting last week that about
one half the quota had been
reached.
The drive to raise funds in the
Elkin area will be launched at a
meeting in the North Elkin school
Friday night, April 4.
Voluntary leaders who are
heading the drive in their respec
tive communities are Claude W.
Thore, Spoffard Cave and J. A.
Long, of Dobson: R. E. Snow,
Route 1, Elkin; J. Kyle Thomp
son, Mountain Park; A. K. Scott,
Route 1, Elkin; S. H. Atkinson,
Siloam; F. E. Layne, Copeland;
Gray Layne, Shoals; Garland
Denny, Pilot Mountain; P. N.
Taylor, White Plains; S. A. Hold
er, Beulah; and Glenn Payne,
Westfield.
TO HOLD MASS
MEEIfG 28TH
Dobson Citizens To Decide
About Funds For Sewage
Disposal Facilities
i
ALL URGED TO ATTEND
To Erect Exposition
Building As Part Of
Local Park Project
A mass meeting of Dobson citi
zens has been called for tomorrow
, night at 7:30 in the court house to
determine whether taxpayers wish
to include funds for sewage dis
posal facilities in the proposed
bond issue to finance a municipal
' water system in Dobson.
Mayor Frank Freeman stated
that he had received numerous re
quests to have the proposed pro
! ject include a sewage system,
; which would involve an expendi
ture of approximately $50,000 in
’ addition to the $70,000 required
’ for the water system.
It was pointed out that private
septic tanks constituted a health
hazard in some cases, and that in
; dividual facilities for disposing of
: sewage were inadequate and over
' taxed.
■ Mayor Freeman urged all in
' terested citizens to attend the
- meeting and express their opin
1 ions and desires relative to the
proposed bond issue.
ELKSTO OPEN
SEASON FRIDAY
, Will Play First Baseball
Game Of Year With Gray
j High At Winston-Salem
! 20 ARE OUT FOR TEAM
f Elkin High’s Bucking Elks will
open their season against Gray
High at Winston-Salem Friday
afternoon at 4 p. m.
This year’s Bucking Elk team
will be centered around nine re
turning lettermen, including four
veterans from the armed forces —
X- M. Eldridge, Claude Eldridge,
Fred Hcmric, Coney Couch.
There arc some 20 boys out for
baseball this year. Pitchers — Bill
; Jurney, Coney Couch, Jim Chip
• man, Bob Lawrence.
I Catchers — Sam Adams and
: Jim Parker.
Infielders — Kctchel Adams,
Bob Harris, Bradie Osborne, T. M.
1 Eldridge, J^ck Pardue, Bob James.
Outfielders — Rufus Sneed, Jim
1 Chipman, R. E. Wilmoth, Robert
• McCann, Jack Park, Ivan Byrd,
Alvin Eldridge.
Elkin High will meet Moynt
: Airy here on their own soil April
2, at 4 p. m.
Henderson Is
Named To Post
/ n Presbytery
HOKE F. HENDERSON
Hoke F. Henderson local attor-!
ney and superintendent of the
Presbyterian Sunday school, was
elected chairman of the Sunday
school superintendents of Wins
ton-Salem Presbytery at an or
ganizational meeting in Winston
Salem last Friday.
Blair Gwyn of North Wilkesboro
was named vice-chairman of the
group. Rev. Hardin A. King of
Lexington presided at the meeting,
which was held in the George W.
Lee Memorial Presbyterian
Church.
Rev. Alex Batchelor of Rich
mond, Va., director of Sunday
school administration in the Gen
eral Assembly, addressed the sup
erintendents of the Presbytery,
which includes Surry, Wilkes,
Stokes, Davie, Forsyth and David
son counties.
The delegation attending the
meeting from the Elkin Presby
terian Church included Rev. Ralph
Ritchie, pastor; R. Lewis Alexan
der, assistant Sunday school sup
erintendent; and Rev. R. L. Buch
anan, superintendent of home
missions for the Presbytery.
ELKIN SCHOOL
BILL RATIFIED
Separate City School Admin
istration Unit Approved
By Assembly
TRUSTEES ARE NAMED
A bill to give Elkin a separate
city school administrative unit was
ratified in the General Assembly
Tuesday.
Ft. W. Harris and Claude Farrell
were named in the bill as members
of the city school board of trustees
for four years; C. S. Foster and
Hugh A. Royall were listed for
three-year terms; and Everett
Holbrook for one year.
The bill, recently passed by the
House and Senate, declared Elkin
to be a city school administrative
unit with the same boundaries as
the Elkin school district. Any
change of boundaries will be made
through recommendations of thtj
Surry county school board and the
Elkin city school board to the
State Board of Education, the
final approving body.
Successors to the present trus
tees, to be named by the govern
ing body of Elkin, will serve four
year terms.
According to the bill, any special
tax already approved for the Elk
in school district is to remain in
force.
Truck And School
Bus In Collision
Damage estimated at $2,000 re
sulted from a collision between a
school bus and a lumber truck on
the old State Road highway near
Mountain Park Tuesday morning.
No injuries were reported.
The vehicles crashed as they
were meeting on a sharp curve.
Pied Carter, Mountain Park
school student, was the driver and
only occupant of the bus. The
lumber truck was driven by Cicero
Murphy. The bus was assigned
to Mountain Park school.
Three-Phase
Program Will
Take $40,000
Plans for the development of a
three-phase park program that
will involve an estimated expendi
ture of nearly $40,000 were dis
cussed at a joint dinner meeting
of Elkin civic clubs in the YMCA
Monday night.
Claude H. Farrell, chairman of
the Park Commission, gave a de
tailed report on the status of the
program, which includes construc
ion of an agricultural exposition
building costing approximately
)18,C00; development of the high
school athletic field with night
lighting facilities; and improve
ments and additions to the ele
mentary school playground.
Funds for the athletic field and
playground are already available,
and Elkin business men are sign
ing promissory notes in $100 de
nominations to back the exposi
tion building. The notes will be
used as collateral for a bank loan
to finance the building. Income
from horse and cattle shows and
other expositions are expected to
make the project self-liquidating.
A total of $24,000 in promissory
notes is required to back the esti
mated $18,000 loan. E. W. Mc
Daniel, chairman of the committee
in charge of the exposition build
ing and grounds, stated yesterday
that $16,200 of this amount had
already been subscribed. Business
men not yet contacted are expect
ed to sign the remaining notes
necessary for the loan within a
short time. Russell Burcham and
T. F. Cooley are assisting Mr. Mc
Daniel on the exposition commit
tee.
No work was attempted on the
elementary school area during
1946 because of the acute material
and labor shortages. Mr. Farrell
reported that funds amounting to
$5,565.49 were turned over to the
Park Commission for the project
by the Memorial Park Committee,
and that this amount was on de
posit in The Bank of Elkin. The
funds are earmarked for construc
tion of a foot bridge across Elkin
Creek to join the two schools, a
foot path from the elementary
school to the bridge, and improve
ments on the elementary school
grounds. Engineering work on the
bridge and path projects are un
der the direction of J. M. Frank
lin, and work is expected to be
completed in about 90 days, or at
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WOULD REDUCE
FIRE HAZARDS
Jones Introduces Bill To Have
Tobacco Curers Bear
Label Of Approval
IS BEFORE COMMITTEE
By MARJORIE RAGAN
Raleigh Tribune Bureau
A bill to provide for the reduc
tion of fire hazard in tobacco cur
ing barns has been introduced in
the legislatator by Senator R.
Posey Jones.
The bill provides that all heat
ing units and curing assemblies
offered for sale or sold in this
state, intended for use in curing
flue-cured tobacco shall bear a
label or seal of approval authoriz
ed by the national underwriters
laboratory or some other authority
acceptable to the board of agricul
ture.
It also makes mandatory that
these units shall be accompanied
by a statement, including drawings
and instructions and signed by the
manufacturer specifying how the
heating units shall be "installed,
operated and used, so as to reduce
to a minimum the fire hazard in
volved.
The expense would be borne by
the manufacturer or distributor.
In introducing the bill, Jones
points out that 1412 tobacco barns
were destroyed by fire in North
Carolina during the past curing
season, at a loss of two million
dollars. He says the “economic
welfare of the farmer is being
jeopardized, which definitely af
fects the financial interest of the
state. This is unreasonable, and
can be greatly reduced.”
The bill has been referred to the
agriculture committee for approv
al.