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ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is a Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations The Elkin Tribune ELKIN Gateway to Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge THE TRIBUNE Is Read By 14,000 People In Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin PUBLISHED WEEKLY VOL. No. XXXV No. 22 ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1947 $2.00 PER YEAR 20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS Murder Cases Continued At Surry Session April Term Ends At Dobson Last * Week; Try Many The April term of Surry super ior court was concluded last week with three murder cases being continued to later terms. Trial for Robert L. Jessup, Mount Airy man charged with the fatal shoot ing of Roy Towe on March 15, was continued until the June term of court. The cases of Mrs. La vora Wood, Crutchfield woman who allegedly shot and killed her husband in January, and James E. Edwards, Jr., of Mount Airy, were also continued. Fred Murphy, 45-year-old prison escapee, was sentenced to serve seven years in the state prison on charges of breaking and entering and larceny. Murphy also faces trial in Alleghany and Yadkin counties on similar charges. He allegedly robbed the F. W. Day store in Boonville, and will be turned over to the Yadkin coun ty sheriff following disposition of his case in Alleghany county. Murphy escaped from the Alle ghany prison camp at Sparta last December and eluded officers un til a few weeks ago when he was arrested in South Dakota and , brought back by plane by Sheriff Sam Patterson of Surry and Sheriff D. C. Richardson of Alle ghany. Albert Fletcher was sentenced to 30 days in jail after he was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon. ^ William Henry Odum and Arlis Harrell were each sentenced to four years in the state prison up on conviction oh robbery charges. James Clarence Wheeling, Carl J. Davis and Walter Troyak, charged with larceny, were given suspended sentences of eight months, 12 months and 18 months, respectively. Dennis Peele was convicted of operating a vehicle under the in fluence of intoxicating liquor and was fined $50 and costs. He was given a six months sentence which was suspended on good behavior. Roy L. Lawson was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and received a four month suspended sentence. Burdette Woodruff, charged with violating the prohibition law, was given an 18-months suspend ed sentence and a suspended fine of $300. Prayer for judgment in the case of Grady W. Collins, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, was continued. Arthur Vipperman was convict ed of forgery and received an eight months suspended sentence. Hasten Bowman, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, was ordered to pay $87 to the court for the use and benefit of Jim Langford. The case of Oscar B. Starling, (Continued on page eight, 1st sec.) LEAGUE WILL OPEN MAY 3 ^ Four Games To Officially Launch Yadkin Valley Baseball Association PLAY TWICE WEEKLY » _ Four games scheduled for Sat urday, May 3, will officially open the 1947 season for the Yadkin Valley Baseball League, according to an announcement today by Jim Hemmings, secretary of the new ly-formed league. Elkin meets Hamptonvillc on the latter’s field; Jonesville and Shady Grove will play an opener in Jonesville: Clingman meets Rockford at Rockford: and Boon -Aville clashes with North Wilkes ^boro in the latter town. All games start at 4 p. m. Eight teams from Surry, Yadkin and Wilkes counties are entered in the league, which was organized here recently at a meeting of a managers in the YMCA. Two ^games per week are being sched uled for each team, Mr. Hemmings said, and play will continue through the summer months. The folowing games are sched uled for Wednesday, May 7: -Aciingman at Shady Grove, Elkin at Jonesville, North Wilkesboro at Rockford, and HamptouvijUe at Roonvllle. if FUNERAL TODAY — Final rites for Charles Ivy Roger, above, will be held this after noon at 2 o'clock at the First Baptist Church here. A former resident of Elkin, Mr. Boger passed away shortly after noon Tuesday at the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital in this city. CHAS.I. BOGER DIES TUESDAY Former Resident Of Elkin Passes Away Following Long Illness FUNERAL RITES TODAY Charles Ivy Boger, 48, former resident of this ci£y but more re cently of Sparta, died Tuesday shortly after noop at the Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital in Elkin where he had been a pa tient for seven weeks. A son of the late Thomas Boger and Mrs. J. S. Graves, who now resides at Danville, Va„ he came to Elkin from Kernersville in 1931 and was engaged in the in surance business. He served with the United States Marine Corps during both world wars. After his discharge in October, Mr. Boger resumed work with the Metropolitan Insurance company with headquarters in Winston Salem. Surviving arc the widow, Mrs. Berta Kirkman Boger, two daugh ters, Mrs. S. G. Goldman of Spar ta and Miss Laura E. Boger of Washington, D. C.; one son, Clif ton Boger of Sparta; the mother; one brother, W. M. Boger of Greensboro; one half brother, C. S. Graves of Danville, Va.; and two half sisters, Mrs. Willard Tra vis and Mrs. Ruby Poore, both of Danville. Funeral will be held today (Thursday) at 2 p. m. at Elkin First Baptist Church. Rev. How ard J. Ford, pastor and Rev. Eph Whisenhunt will officiate. Full military honors will be accorded by members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Le gion. Interment will be in the Forest Lawn cemetery. License Issued To Native Of Alaska Mrs. Bertha M. Shinault, Surry County Register of Deeds, had the unusual experience last week of issuing a marriage license to a native of Alaska and his North Carolina fiancee. The couple, George H. Gilson, 30, of Valdez, Alaska, and Julia Mayfield Ireland, 32, of Alliance, N. C., were married in Dobson Saturday, and plan to go to Alaska to make their home. They met while the former Miss Ireland was working in Alaska some time ago, and Mr. Gilson made the trip to North Carolina after she consent ed to be his bride. Other license were issued during the week to the following couples: April 21 — Carl Delp, 26, and Virginia Chappell, 21, both of Woodlawn, Va. April 22 — Paul Gray. 33. of Elkin, and Clyde Tommie Transou, 24, of Wilkesboro. April 23 — Thomas East, 24, and Stella France, 23, (colored), both of Pinnacle; Gray R. Fulk, 26, and Doris Imogene Sparger, 25, both of Pilot Mountain. April 24 — Robert M. Neal, 37, and Eva Simmons, 23, both of Mount Airy. April 25 — Ellard Jarrell, 22, of Mount Airy, and Imogene Dezern, 17, of fcowgap. ELKIN JAYCEES WIN 3 HONORS AT CONVENTION Win First Award For Second Year In Agriculture IS SECOND IN SPORTS Over Fifty Jaycee Clubs En tered 139 Projects In The Competition ELKIN MEN ATTEND The Elkin Junior Chamber of Commerce won honors in three fields of competition at the tenth annual North Carolina Jaycee Convention held at Morehead City, last week-end. The local club was represented by President Robert Lankford, Vice-President V. W. Taylor, Jr., State Director Clyde Carroll, and Delegates Kemp Reece and Hoyle Cranford. Mr. Carroll served on the Awards Committee, and Mr. Cranford was elected to the Reso lutions Committee of the State organization. For the second consecutive year, the Elkin club won first award in the popular and highly competi tive field of agriculture. The an nual Fat Stock Show and Sale sponsored by Elkin Jaycees has won national as well as state ac claim since it won first award at the national convention last year. The local club placed second in the field of sports and recreation. Winston-Salem won top honors with its Piedmont Bowl football game, and Greensboro’s open golf tournament took third place. The fourth quarterly award was won by the Elkin club for its an nual invitational basketball tour nament. The Elkin chamber also won consideration in the Lent.* Memorial Award given for the most outstanding project by a North Carolina Jaycee club. Over 50 Jaycee clubs entered 139 projects in the 12 divisions of competition. Ed Ellis, of Charlotte, was elect ed president of the state organi zation over candidates Bob Wil liams, of Asheville, and Hal Love, of Wilmington. Retiring Presi dent Odell Lambeth, of Greens boro, presided at the banquet and business sessions of the conven tion. Over 500 delegates attended the convention as guests of the More head City Junior Chamber of Commerce. 3,500 NAMES ON PETITION Request County Board To Call Bond Election For School Program IS PRESENTED MONDAY More than 3,500 Surry County voters have signed a petition re questing the county commissioners to call a bond election for a mil lion-dollar school building pro gram in Surry County, according to Superintendent of Schools John W. Comer. The petitions will be presented to the commissioners at a meeting Monday night, and it is expected that a date for the election will be set for the latter part of May or early June. * The Elkin school system would get $200,000 of the $1,000,000 in bonds for expansion of local edu cation facilities. Mount Airy is scheduled to receive $400,000 and the remainder would be appor tion to schools at Dobson, Moun tain Park, Beulah, White Plains, Franklin, Flat Rock, Pilot Moun tain, Copeland, and Westfield. “The proposed million-dollar issue does not provide for the complete school building program as planned,” Mr. Comer said, “but it will place the county in a fav orable position to complete the job in the near future through the issuance of further bonds on the basis of amount of indebtedness reduced the preceding year.” He stated that a survey of the county indicated that $1,600,000 would be required to provide fully for all school needs at the present time. Report On Jaycee Convention Given Reports on the tenth annual Jaycee Convention held in More head City last week-end were pre sented at the regular dinner meet ing of Elkin Jaycees in the YMCA Monday night. Dr. V. W. Taylor, Jr., Hoyle Cranford, Kemp Reece, Clyde Car roll and President Bob Lankford, who attended the convention, gave interesting accounts of var ious phases of the meeting. The local club won honors in three fields of competition at the convention. TOOK PART IN SEARCH — Members of the Elkin Emergency Squad spent many hours searching the muddy waters of the Yadkin river in search of the body of D. W. Ireland, who drowned Monday afternoon of last week, and whose body was recovered late last Sunday afternoon by another group of searchers. The photo above, was made last Saturday afternoon as the Elkin crew, assisted by a crew from Roanoke, Va., dragged the river about two miles below the spot in which Mr. Ireland dis appeared in the water. Those shown are, left to right, Fred Eidson, H. W. (Chick) Thompson, Roland Lancaster, D. C. Dixon and H. C. Bowman. The body, when found, was floating on the surface of the water. —Tribune Photo. Body Of D. W. Ireland Is Recovered Sunday Yadkin Farmer Found Afloat By Searchers The body of D. Webster (Webb) Ireland, 44, of Hamptonville, who was drowned in the Yadkin river just below Huntsville bridge late Monday afternoon of last week, was recovered Sunday afternoon six days almost to the minute af ter he disappeared in the swirling waters of the Yadkin. The body apparently had just floated to the surface of the water about three fourths of a mile below where it disappeared, when it was seen by searchers who were close by. When he disappeared Ireland had about 20 pounds of fish in a bag swinging around him and had on heavy rubber hip boots and it was feared these might hold him under the water indefinitely. (Continued on page 8, 1st sec.) above, will direct the Jonesville Elkin Civic Music Program to be presented in the YMCA here Tuesday night. May 6, at 8:30. Mr. Miller is minister of music at the First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, and holds a master of arts degree in music from Columbia University. He is widely known for his work in directing various choral groups in the Twin City. MUSIC EVENT PLANS READY Joncsvillc-Elkin Civic Pro gram To Be Held At YMCA Tuesday P. M. MAY BE ANNUAL AFFAIR Plans arc being completed for the Jonesville-Elkin Civic Music Program to be held in the Gilvin Roth YMCA here Tuesday night, May 6, at 8:30. In addition to the “Maids of Melody,” a 40-voice woman’s chor us, and the “Forsyth Singers,” a similar male group, the program will feature Allen Stanley, soloist, a girls’ trio, and a barber shop quartet. The program will be concluded with a rendition of Romberg’s “Your Land and My Land” by the entire company. The “Forsyth Singers,” an all male chorus which was organized (Continued On Page Four) Town Election To Be Held Next Monday Polling booths in the fire sta tion will be open next Monday, May 5, from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. for the biennial election of town officers. Mayor Garland Johnson and the five candidates for the board of commissioners arc un opposed. Mayor Johnson, Com missioners J. O. Bivins, J. \V. L. L. Benson, R. C. Freeman and Charlie N. Myers were nomi nated to suceed themselves in office at a mass meeting here April 4, and Russell Burcham was nominated to succeed Commissioner Carl C. Myers, who did not seek renomination. Election judges are N. J. Blackwood and R. G. Franklin, and J. L. Lillard and S. O. Ma guire arc altcVnate judges. ASK FOR BIDS ON BUILDINGS Surry Board Of Education To Construct 7 Agricultural Shop Buildings HAVE UNTIL MAY 9TH The Surry County Board of Ed ucation has issued a call for bids for the construction of seven agri cultural shop buildings at Flat Rock, Beulah, Copeland, Pilot Mountain, Franklin, Mountain Park and White Plains. Bids will be received until 3 p. m. on May 9, and must be accom panied by a certified check,,in the amount of not less than five per cent of the base bid. The shop buildings will consti tute part of a proposed million dollar school building program in Surry county. A bond election date is expected to be set next Monday at a meeting of the Coun ty Commissioners and the Board of Education. Four Men Jailed On Charges Of Robbery Four men have been jailed on charges of highway robbery with firearms and impersonating an officer in three separate cases, two in Yadkin county and one in : Wilkes county. Burton Key of Brooks Cross Roads and Glenn and Millard Bell of Wilkes county were still in jail last night, being held on bonds of $10,000.00 each. Gaither Key of Brooks Cross Roads, who was placed in jail Sunday, was re leased Tuesday night after officers had checked his alibis and other ’ circumstances which pointed to his innocence. ' First arrested Sunday were ' Gaither Key and Glen Bell. On : Tuesday Bell gave bond of $5,000, < but was arrested again yesterday on an additional charge. Burton 1 Key was arrested Tuesday after- i noon and Millard Bell yesterday, after Burton Key confessed his i part of the holdups and implicated < Millard Bell. Burton Key also < said that his brother, Gaither Key, had no part in the crimes. GOES TO BIGGER JOB — L. S. Weaver, above, has resigned his post as head of the States ville city schools to accept a position as superintendent of the city school system of Durham. Mr. Weaver is a former princi pal of the Joncsville school, and has made an enviable record in his six years as head of the Statesville schools. Dobson Student Is Selected For Honor Gray Bolick, Jr., Dobson high school student, has been selected oy the Dobson American Legion Post 320 to attend a citizenship training course at the University 3f North Carolina during the week af June 5-12. The course is sponsored by the University’s Institute of Govern ment in the interest of better citizenship. Participants are se lected by Legion Posts in various sections of the state on the basis Df scholastic standing and other lualifications. Persons desiring to enter new jusinesses that require the use of sugar may make initial applica tion in writing immediately to Sugar Rationing Administration 3ranch Offices, the USDA has an lounced. The crimes were enacted Thurs day and Friday nights of last yeek. The first one wras when ;liey held up a Mr. Mcllwaine of Lenoir and relieved him of $25.00 it the point of a gun. After ob taining tne money they told Mc [lwaine they were officers and -he money was a bond for speed ng. He asked for a receipt and ,hey gave him one. signing the lame of A- L. Inscore, former ifadkin Sheriff, to the receipt. The next holdup was just over he line In Wilkes county where hey stopped a car occupied by ,wo brothers named Fox from Maryland. From them they took >45.00 and a pistol, according to ifficers. These two men reported ,he incident to the Highway Pa rol, which was the first informa tion reaching officers. The next holdup was two legroes, Vander Horton of Wilkes :ounty, and Randolph Patterson >f' Caldwell county. From these (Continued On Page Four) Seagle-Choate Case Is To Be Tried In Surry Cancer Drive To Continue Until End This Week Glenn Lewis, chairman of the local cancer dirve, stated yes terday that the campaign would be continued through the end of the week and urged those who have not yet contri buted to do so as soon as pos sible. The drive is being sponsored in Elkin by the Lions Club, and a goal of $1,000 has been set as a minimum quota. Funds con tributed in the campaign will be used by the American Can cer Society in a research pro gram to determine the cause and cure of the deadly disease. WEAVER WILL GO TO DURHAM Former Jonesville School Sup erintendent To Take Over City School System NOW IN STATESVILLE L. S. Weaver, former Jonesville school principal and a past presi dent of the Elkin Kiwanis Club, resigned his position as superin tendent of the Statesville schools Monday to accept a similar posi tion as head of the Durham city school system. His resignation becomes effective July 1. Mr. Weaver left Jonesville in 1941 to accept the superintenden cy of the Statesville schools, and has made an enviable record dur ing his six years there. He in troduced vocational and trade classes to the Statesville schools and saw a new Senior high school and a new high school for Negroes built during his period of service. Under Mr. Weaver’s guidance the Statesville school term was increased from eight to nine months and a twelfth grade was added. Health and physical edu cation classes were begun in the Statesville Junior high school un der Mr. Weaver, and the high school commercial course was ex panded. Mr. Weaver has been active in education circles in North Caro lina for many years and at one time was president of the South Piedmont district of the North Carolina Education association. His new position as superinten dent of the Durham schools will provide him with greater oppor tunity to utilize his talents and experience in the field of educa tion. Mr. Weaver is a son of the late C. C. Weaver, Sr., of this city, and a brother of Charles C. Weaver, also of Elkin. WILLH0LD4H EVENT MAY 4 Annual Health Pageant And Style Revue To Be Staged At Dobson Courthouse CROWN HEALTH CHAMPS The annual Health Pageant and Style Revue for 4-H Club mem bers of Surry county will be held at the court house in Dobson Monday, May 5, according to an announcement by Luther G. Sink, assistant county agent in charge of 4-H work. Highlight of the program will be the crowning of kings and queens of health, who were select ed recently by Dr. R. B. C. Frank lin, county health officer. Lorine Snow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevc'lt Snow of Dobson, and Sam Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Taylor of White Plains, will be crowned queen and king of the Senior Clubs. Darrol Simpson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Simpson of Copeland, and Marie Hunter, daughter of Mrs. A. H. Hunter of North Elkin, have been selected as the Junior king and queen. Neill M. Smith, Surry county agent, will welcome the club mem bers to the event, which is sched uled to begin at 10 a. m. Following the opening song and (Continue^ On Page Pour) Alleghany Jury Returns True Bill At Sparta Dr. B. O. Choate, Sparta physic ian, and C. W. Seagle, of Char lotte, both of whom face man slaughter and abortion charges in connection with the death of Mrs. Annie Mae Anderson in a local hotel here last sumnjer, are sche duled to be tried in Surry County as the result of an order issued by Judge J. H. Clement in Alleghany superior court Tuesday afternoon. The cases were originally trans ferred to Alleghany County last October on the basis of a ruling by Judge Wilson Warlick to the effect that Alleghany was the proper county for trial of the two men because the alleged abortion was committed there, and evi dence had failed to show any of fense committed in Surry County. However, Judge Clement order ed the cases again transferred to Surry County after Solicitor Wal ter E. Johnson moved that the transfer be made on the grounds that Dr. Choate's wide practice and acquaintance in Alleghany County might prove a hindrance to a fair trial. Both men entered pleas of not guilty through their counsel after an Alleghany grand jury returned true bills of indictment w'hich found cause for action against the defendants on charges of man slaughter and abortion. Judge Clement overruled a mo tion to dismiss the bills on the basis of “irregularities and errors,” which was presented by Allen and Henderson, of Elkin, and W. H. Childs, of Lincolnton, attorneys for Seagle. Appearing for Dr. Choate were Attorneys R. F. Crouse, R. J. Ran dolph, and Folger and Folger, of Mount Airy. Seagle and Dr. Choate will probably face trial at the Septem ber term of Surry superior court in Dobson. Dr. Choate is under a $15,000 bond and Seagle is at lib erty under bond totaling $8,000. Mrs. Anderson was found dead in a hotel room here on Sunday morning, August 25, 1946, presum ably from loss of blood resulting from the alleged abortion. Seagle t was said to have brought the wo man here from Charlotte and reg istered at the hotel with her un der the names of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Webster. He allegedly carried Mrs. Anderson to Sparta for treat ment by Dr. Choate, on August 23, returned to Elkin to spend the night, and made another trip to Sparta the next day when he be came worried about the woman’s condition. He is reported to have said that the woman was bleeding on the trip back to Elkin and dur ing the night. Seagle, who oc cupied a room adjoining Mrs. Anderson’s said he had gone to find a doctor Sunday morning and found Mrs. Anderson dead when he returned about 8 o’clock. LKS WINNER OF 3 GAMES Defeat Flat Rock Twice And Yadkinville Once During Week’s Period Elkin High chalked up three victories on the diamond during the week — two over Plat Rock and one over Yadkinville. The Elks defeated Plat Rock 15-4 on Wednesday of last week, scoring seven runs in the third inning. Bill Jurney pitched a three-hit ball game, while Sam Adams performed well behind the plate. On Thursday of last week, the Elks battered two Yadkinville hurlers for 16 hits in racking up a 11-7 victory. Plat Rock lost a return match to the local team on Monday, 11 22. Couch slugged out two home runs and a triple in four times at the plate to lead the Elks. Park er brought in three runs on a triple and then came home to score on an error. Bob Lawrence was also credited with a triple that brought in three men; Sam Adams clouted a homer in the fourth inning; and Jack Park slugged another homer in the sev enth. Elkin plays North Wilkesboro tomorrow, May 2, in North Wilk esboro. ’L.