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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1947
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i NEW LEGION COMMANDER—
^ Bill Stevenson, above, will be
installed as the new Command
er of the George Gray American
Legion Post next week. He was
elected at a special meeting of
the Post last Friday night.
STEVENSON IS
LEGION HEAD
Named Commander Of
George Gray Post At Spe
cial Meeting Here Friday
OTHER OFFICERS NAMED
Bill Stevenson was named Com
mander of the George Gray Past
of the American Legion at a spe
cial meeting last Friday night. He
will be installed, with other new
officers, at the next regular meet
ing of the organization next Wed
nesday night in the YMCA.
Other officers elected to serve
one-year terms were Charlie Alex
ander, First Vice-Commander;
1 Fred Norman, Second Vice-Com
” mander; Kemp Reece, Adjutant;
Lewis Alexander, Chaplain; Wal
ter Safrit, Finance Officer; F. W.
Graham, Historian; Henry
Beeson, Service Officer; Harry
Clay Price, Sergeant-at-Arms;
and Joe Transou, Athletic Offi
cer.
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Highway Is To Award
Surfacing Contracts
The North Carolina State High
way Commission is expected to
award contracts for the surfacing
of several roads in Surry and
Wilkes at a meeting in Raleigh
next week.
Bids on 28 road projects were
opened by the Commission Tues
day, and the P. and P. Construc
tion Company, of Concord, was
low bidder on 15.68 miles of road
in the two counties with a bid of
$63,549.20.
The projects will include bitu
minous surfacing of seven-tenths
of a mile of the old Dobson road,
three miles of the Ronda-Cling
man road, a section of the road
from U. S. Highway 21 to the Pop
lar Springs Church, eight-tenths
of a mile of the road by Pleasant
Hill school, three miles of the
North Wilkesboro-Oakwood road,
' and five miles of the Parsonville
road off U. S. Highway 421.
Clarence Weir Dies
At Farmington Home
Clarence M. Weir, 57, died sud
denly at his home in Farmington
about 11 o’clock Monday night
with a heart attack. He was a
traveling salesman for a coffee
company.
Mr. Weir lived in Yadkinville
about 1915 and while here mar
ried Miss Clara Jarvis. She sur
vives him, together with one
daughter, Mrs. Clarence Shore of
•0 Walkertown and one grandchild.
Funeral services were held yes
terday afternoon at Farmington
Methodist church, and burial was
in the Farmington cemetery.
Saturday Is To
Be Observed
As Poppy Day
Saturday, May 24, will be ob
served as Poppy Day through
out the United States, and Elk
in citizens will be asked to hon
or the dead of two World Wars
by wearing one of the flowers
on that day.
Proceeds from the sale of
poppies will be used for the
benefit of disabled veterans,
their families and the families
of the dead.
Mrs. D. C. Martin, Poppy
chairman of the American Le
gion Auxiliary here, will be in
charge of the sale in Elkin.
Volunteers from the Auxiliary
and young women’s groups will
distribute the flowers Saturday,
and everyone will be given an
opportunity to wear a poppy.
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Robbers Enter
Home Here A nd
Clean Out Safe
Yadkinville
Home Is Also
Robbed Sunday
Investigating officers had no
clues up to yesterday as to the
identity of theives who rdbbed
homes in Elkin and Yadkinville
over the week-end.
The home of John S. Mayberry,
on North Bridge Street, was enter
ed and robbed of several thousand
dollars worth of notes, bonds, and
other valuables while the family
was absent on a week-end trip to
the beach. The stolen goods were
recovered Sunday when the loot
was found by four Walkertown
boys in a sack submerged in the
Yadkin river near the bridge on
the Elkin-Winston-Salem high
way.
The contents of the sack in
cluded two notes for $7,500 and
$5,000, several hundred dollars
worth of war bonds, ten automo
bile titles, and other valuables, it
was reported. The Walkertown
youths turned the stolen goods
over to Winston-Salem police, and
Mr. Mayberry was notified and
went to the city to recover the
goods.
The stolen articles had been
taken from a safe in the home,
evidently by someone who had
keys to the house and knew the
combination to the safe. There
was no evidence that a door lock
had been damaged or that the
safe had been broken into.
Mr. Mayberry said yesterday
that police were still working on
the case.
The Yadkinville robbery occur
red Sunday afternoon between 3
and 4 o’clock when thieves enter
ed the home of Ernest Long and
took several hundred dollars
worth of war bonds, about $65 in
cash, several suits of clothing, and
other items. The Long family
was attending the baccalaureate
sermon at Yadkinville high school
when the robbery took place. It
was reported that three men in an
automobile were seen in front of
the Long residence Sunday after
noon and it was believed that they
were the culprits. Statements as
to the description of the car dif
fered, however. No arrests had
been made up to Wednesday af
ternoon.
Ned Hood, agronomist with the
Soil Conservation Service who
roomed with the Longs, was heav
iest hit by the robbery. He lost
four suits of clothing, 15 shirts
and $925 in war bonds, it was re
ported.
Sheriff Bill Moxley said a $50
reward had been offered for in
formation leading to the arrest of
the thieves.
$781.57 NETTED
ON RIDES HERE
Money Applied To Fund Be
ing Raised For Elkin
Exposition Building
WORK TO START SOON
The Exposition Building Com
mittee, which sponsored the Wil
liams Riding Devices here last
week, realized a profit of $781.57
on the devices according to E. W.
McDaniel, chairman of the com
mittee.
The money will be applied to a
fund being raised for the con
struction of an agricultural and
exposition building here that will
cost an estimated $18,000.
Mr. McDaniel expressed his ap
preciation for the cooperation of
the Eastern Star, whose members
sold tickets for the rides, and to
the Masonic Order, which assisted
in bringing the devices here.
Construction on the exposition
building is expected to be started
within the next two weeks, Mr.
McDaniel said. Cinder blocks ha*e
already been purchased and de
livered, and other materials are
expected to arrive shortly.
In addition to the profits from
the riding devices, Mr. McDaniel
reported that Andrew Greenwood
had donated $100 to the fund, and
that $124.27 had been realized
from the sale of a steer contribu
ted by J. R. Poindexter. Out of
this total of $1,005.84, the Prank
L. Blum Company was paid
$920.69 for cinder blocks; C. W.
;Continued on page 8. 1st sec.)
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SPEAKER —- Dr. George Mauze,
above, pastor of First Presbyter
ian Church of Winston-Salem,
will deliver the commencement
address at Jonesville High
School, Friday evening, May 23,
at 8 p. m. Diplomas will be
awarded to 22 graduates.
NOT TO CALL
NEW ELECTION
Alleged Irregularities At
Dobson Do Not Constitute
Sufficient Grounds
HAD WRITTEN ATTORNEY
The reported irregularities in
Dobson’s recent town election do
not constitute sufficient grounds
for calling a new election, ac
cording to North Carolina’s At
torney General Harry McMullan.
The opinion was contained in a
letter this week to Mayor Frank
Freeman, who had requested a
statement relative to procedure
for calling a new election after D.
T. Sparger, a Dobson merchant,
had protested the legality of the
May 5 election. Among other
charges, Mr. Sparger had asserted
that the polls were opened late,
that the registrar was not present
at the polls during the entire day
of election, and that election judge
was not required to take the pre
scribed oath.
Mayor Freeman, conceding that
the charges were technically valid,
had requested an opinion from the
attorney general on the question
of a new election.
According to McMullan’s opin
ion, a new election would be justi
fied only if voters had been de
nied the right to cast ballots to
the extent that the results of the
election had been altered. Such
irregularities as were evident in
the election were not to be con
doned, McMullan asserted in the
opinion, but they did not consti
tute sufficient grounds for vitiat
ing the election.
However, Mayor Freeman has
called a public hearing in the
court house in Dobson tonight
(Thursday) at 7:30 for the pur
pose of airing any protests or com
plaints relative to the election.
Members of the town board, acting
as ex officio members of the board
of elections, will determine wheth
er further action is to be taken in
the matter. Indications arc that,
in view of the attorney general’s
opinion, the results of the election
will stand.
Mayor Freeman stated that a
proposed bond issue for financing
a municipal water system in Dob
son would also be discussed to
night. He indicated that definite
action would be taken either to
set an election date, or to discard
the project.
Elkin P.-T. A. To
Hold Final Meet
The final meeting of the Elkin
Parent-Teachers Association for
the 1946-47 term will be held
Tuesday evening at the Elemen
tary school auditorium at 8
o'clock.
Officers for the coming year will
be installed during ceremonies
which Mrs. Earl C. James will di
rect.
A highlight of the program will
be a talk by N. H. Carpenter, sup
erintendent of Elkin schools, who
will discuss the school bond elec
tion and other topics of interest
to citizens of the community.
An invitation is extended to the
public to attend the Tuesday eve
ning session.
Tribune Advertising Gets Results
NO OPPOSITION
SHOWN TO PLAN
FOR NEW BONDS
County Board To Call Elec
tion On Or About June 28
SURRY SCHOOL PROGRAM
Schools At Elkin, Mount Airy
And Nine Rural Schools
Would Benefit
IS $1,000,000 PROGRAM
The County Board of Commis
sioners will call a bond election
“on or about June 28” to deter
mine whether Surry voters are
willing to authorize the issuance
of $1,000,000 in bonds for a pro
posed county-wide school building
program.
The date was set at a meeting
in the court house in Dobson Mon
day night when a public hearing
on the proposed issue was held,
and no opposition to the plan was
presented. The bond issue is sup
ported by approximately 5,000
qualified voters who signed peti
tions requesting that the election
be called.
City schools at Elkin and Mount
Airy and nine county schools will
receive funds for additional build
ings and improved facilities if the
election carries. A majority of
votes cast in the election, without
regard for the number of register
ed voters, will determine whether
; the bonds will be issued.
TWO HURT IN
AUTO WRECK
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Mr. And Mrs. Joe Price Injur
ed When Car Turns Over
Near Boonville
SMALL SON UNINJURED
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Price, of
Jonesville. suffered serious in
juries when the automobile in
which they were riding overturn
ed on a curve near Boonville Mon
day morning as the result of a tire
blowing out.
Mrs. Price received a severe
laceration of the head that re
quired 16 stitches to close. Mr.
Price suffered a broken ankle, a
bruised knee and lacerated hand.
Their three-year-old son, the only
other occupant of the car, escaped
without injury.
The Prices were returning to
Boonville, where Mr. Price works,
after a visit in Jonesville. The
accident occurred on a curve near
the Island Ford Church.
Tile victims were taken to a
Statesville hospital for treatment,
where their condition was report
ed as improved yesterday.
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Churches To Take Part
In Drive For Clothing
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Seek Help For
Needy Families
In Oversea Area
Elkin and Jonesville churches
will participate in a State-wide
campaign next week to collect
clothing for needy families over
seas through the Drive for Over
seas Relief.
Receptacles for the clothing will
be placed in each of the churches
in the two communities on Sun
day, May 25, and the drive will
continue through June 1.
One pound of clothing per per
son has been set as the goal for
the drive, and generous contribu
tions arc requested. Wearing ap
parel collected in the drive will
go to 28 foreign nations for dis
tribution to those in need.
When the United Nations Re
lief and Rehabilitation program
ended on March 31, foreign na
tions were forced to look to pri
vate agencies for help. Churches
in particular are being called up
on to aid in relief work in coun
tries where post war inflation
makes it impossible for the aver
age working man to provide even
the minimum necessities for his
family. In Poland, for instance, a
pair of shoes costs $50, a suit, $200,
while most workers make less than
$1 per day.
Contributions of clothing will
reduce the suffering resulting
from improperly clothed peoples
in the stricken countries.
Dynamiting fish in North Caro
lina inland waters is subject to a
minimum fine of $100.
HE NEEDS YOIJR HELP —
This small Italian boy maintains
a cheerful outlook although he
and his family are in dire
straits. Your contributions of
clothing, bedding and shoes are
urgently needed for distribution
to such children in 28 foreign
countries. Elkin and Jonesville
Churches are participating in
the state-wide drive for overseas
relief next week, May 25 to June
1, in an effort to provide cloth
ing for needy families overseas.
PRINCIPALS IN YADKIN ML’RDER — Leroy Pardue, above left,
who is charged with the fatal shooting of his uncle, Walter Hol
comb, Saturday afternoon, was released under $5,00b bond Tuesday.
The late Mr. Holcomb is shown at the right in a recent picture with
his wife. The shooting was said to have resulted from an argument
over the tying of a cow.
Supreme Court
Considers Bell
Litteral Case
The State Supreme Court be
gan hearings Tuesday on 24
cases, including the appeal of
Ralph Vernon Litteral and
Marvin Claude Bell from a
death sentence imposed on
them in Wilkes County last
January for the criminal as
sault of Peggy Ruth Shore.
The two men were sentenced
to die in the gas chamber on
March 15, but the case was ap
pealed to the Supreme Court.
A decision on the appeal will
probably require at least two
weeks.
No Bond Is Made
For Buck Nicks
Buck Nicks, 36, who is charged
with shooting Carl Boggs and his
wife in a drunken brawl in a north
Yadkinville section Sunday, May
11, is still in Yadkinville jail in
default of $4,000 bond. Unless he
furnishes the bond he will remain
there until next term of court,
first Monday in September.
Carl Boggs, who received two
charges of number six shot from
a .410 gauge shot gun, allegedly
fired by Nicks, is still in a Win
ston-Salem hospital where they
are still removing shot from his
body, although he is said to be
out of . danger now. Mrs. Boggs
was shot in the arm and received
only first aid treatment.
According to Yadkin officers
who investigated the shooting,
about all parties present were
drinking heavily, and Nicks says
he was so drunk he doesn’t re
member what happened. Mrs.
Buck Nicks had just finished a 30
day jail sentence but was present
when the shooting took place.
SENIORS HEAR
GOOD TALK
Hoy Armstrong, Director Of
Admissions Of UNC, Gives
Them Good Advice
GUEST OF KIWANIANS
Roy Armstrong, director of ad
missions of the University of
North Carolina, was guest speaker
at last Thursday’s meeting of the
Elkin Kiwanis Club, which was
host to the graduating classes of
Elkin and Jonesville high schools.
Mr. Armstrong made an excel
lent talk in which he gave the
seniors worthwhile advice as to
their future. He told them that
unless they sincerely had a desire
to go to college, not to do so, or
the chances are that they would
prove a failure in their college
work. ‘‘College,” he said, ‘‘has
ruined many a good farmer,
mechanic and other tradesmen.”
However, Mr. Armstrong stress
ed the advantages of college edu
cation, but said that unless the
student had finished in the upper
half of his class, as far as grades
are concerned, he would find col
lege tough sledding.
Anyone planning to be a mer
chant, tinsmith or other career
along these lines does not need
tc spend four years in college, he
said. But if a student is plan
ning to enter the medical pro
fession, law or other highly spe
cialized profession, college is a
necessity.
Mr. Armstrong was introduced
to" the seniors by A. O. Bryan,
program chairman for the even
ing. A brief talk was also made
by R. W. Harris, chairman of the
Elkin school board. Seniors from
the two schools were introduced
by their respective school super
intendents, Watt Deal, of Jones
ville, and N. H. Carpenter, of Elk
in.
President Carl C. Poindexter
presided.
The much-talked-of color mo
tion picture of North Carolina, its
various industries and resources,
will be shown at this evening’s
meeting (Thursday) of the club.
ELKS WIN UVEK
N. W1LKESB0R0
Coney Couch Holds Visitors
To Four Hits In Chalk
ing Up 10-3 Score
TO PLAY YADKIN VILLK
Elkin high chalked up another
victory here Monday afternoon by
defeating North Wilkesboro, 10-3.
Coney Couch, Elkin hurler, held
the visiting team to four hits.
The North Wilkesboro nine
mustered only two runs in the
first inning and one in the fourth,
while the Buckin’ Elks tallied
three runs in the third, one in the
fifth, and three in the sixth.
Bob Lawrence led the batting
with one single and a double.
North Wilkesboro had the bases
loaded in the sixth as a result of
Elkin errors, but Couch spiked the
rally by fanning the next two bat
ters. The side was retired when
the third man was thrown out at
first.
The Elks meet Yadkinville on
the latter’s field at 3 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon.
Bill Started To Kill
Rationing: Of Sugar
Washington,. May 20.—A bill to
end sugar rationing without wait
ing for the October 31 deadline
provided under the present law
was introduced in the Senate to
day and its sponsors predicted
Congress would approve it.
Yadkin Youth
Charged With
Killing Uncle
Washington
Column Starts
In Tribune
The Tribune is this week
starting: publication of a Wash
ington Column entitled “North
Carolina in the Nation’s Capi
tol,” by Robert A. Erwin, native
North Carolinian, and his large
staff of reporters.
This column is devoted large
ly to activities of North Caro
lina people in Washington and
the doings of Congress. In ad
dition, Mr. Erwin’s staff will
cover any special stories of
particular interest to Tribune
readers. The Erwin News Ser
vice serves a large number of
daily and weekly newspapers in
North Carolina, and numerous
radio stations.
With our Raleigh column,
conducted by Yadkin’s native
son, Thompson Greenwood, this
gives The* Tribune an excellent
coverage of both Washington
and Raleigh. We bcleive Mr.
Erwin’s reports will be a val
uable addition to our news ser
vice.
DR. FOREMAN
RADIO HOUR
Will Speak On “The God Of
All Comfort” On Radio
Address Sunday
ON THE BAPTIST HOUR
“The God of All Comfort” will
be the subject of Dr. A. D. Fore
man., Jr., next Sunday morning,
May 25, in his last of two mes
sages on the current series of the
Baptist Hour, as announced by
the Radio Commission, S.B.C., S,
F. Lowe director, Atlanta, Georgia,
Dr. Foreman, a native of Houston
and graduate of the Southwestern
Seminary at Fort Worth, is pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
Amarillo, Texas.
Mr. Lowe stated that “since this
message of Dr. Foreman will offer
spiritual help t? all who have
burdens, or blasted hopes, it will
be of interest to every one, old and
young.”
According to the Atlanta an
nouncement, the Baptist Hour,
now in its sixth year, is broadcast
over a network of 59 independent
stations, giving radio coverage to
the territory from Maryland to
Florida and westward to include
Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma
and Missouri, and is heard around
the world by shortwave.
The Baptist Hour may be heard
in North Carolina at 8:30 EST
Sunday morning over the follow
ing radio stations: WWNC, Ashe
ville; WSOC, Charlotte, WGNC,
Gastonia; WPTF, Raleigh; and
WSJS, Winston-Salem.
Delegates Named
By Elkin Lions
Lion Claude Farrell was in
charge of the program at Mon
day evening’s dinner session of
Elkin Lion Club at iGilvin Roth
YMCA. An interesting quiz pro
gram was conducted.
During the business session
Lions Jim Crowe, Jack Caudill and
Claude Farrell were elected as del
egates to the State convention
which will convene in Asheville on
May 25, 26 and 27.
Lion Glenn Lewis, chairman of
the cancer fund drive, reported
that $1,173.19 had been raised in
Elkin and that the quota of $1,000
was exceeded.
The club voted to sponsor a
baseball team in- the knee-pants
league, which is being sponsored
by various civic organizations in
Elkin.
The next meeting of the Lions
will be held on Monday evening,
June 2. at which time new offi
cers will be installed for the com
ing year. This will be a ladies’
night program.
North Carolina farmers produc
ed the largest flue cured tobacco
crop on record in 1946 along with
the highest yield per acre in his
tory.
There were approximately 1,
311,000 people living on farms in
North Carolina on January 1,
1345.
Leroy Pardue
Bound Over On
Murder Count
Leroy Pardue, 19 - year - old
blonde haired youth of the Knobs
Township section of Yadkin Coun
ty, was bound over to the fall
term of Superior Court Tuesday
on a charge of murder for killing
Walter Holcomb after a prelimi
nary trial in Yadkinville.
Pardue furnished the required
bond of $5,000 Tuesday afternoon
and was released from custody.
The bond was signed by his father
and mother, Mr. and Mrs. S. H.
Pardue and his aunt, Miss Lillie
Pardue.
Sheriff A. F. “'Bill” Moxley, Pa
trolmen W. S. McKinney and J.
W. Williamson and a number of
other witnesses testified at a hear
ing in regard to the circumstances
surrounding the fatal shooting of
Holcomb last Saturday afternoon
near his home between Brooks
Cross Roads and Jonesville.
Testimony revealed that the
trouble developed over a cow be
longing to Holcomb which he had
staked out on land belonging to
his sister, Lillie Holcomb, adjoin
ing his land and the land of Hea
ton and Katie Pardue, parents of
Leroy Pardue.
Mrs. Ruby Rycroft, daughter of
the slain man, testified Tuesday
that young Pardue and his moth
er, Mrs. Katie Pardue, went out
to where Mr. Holcomb’s cow was
tied and began moving it to a dif
ferent section of land. At this
point, she related, Mr. Holcomb
asked her and Mrs. Holcomb to
accompany him to the spot where
the two had his cow. They got
into Holcomb’s automobile and
drove out there.
Shooting Related
“My daddy had no sooner put
his feet on the ground near his
side of the car when Leroy shot
him,” she testified. ‘‘Then he bent
over, and when he straightened
up he had something in his hand,
and he threw it at Leroy. He hit
him in the face with it,” she said.
About this time, Mrs. Rycroft
related, her mother and Pardue’s
mother were scuffling with each
other on the scene, and pulled
chunks of hair from each others
head. Testimony revealed that
Mrs. Holcomb hit Mrs. Pardue on
the head with a bottle.
Another witness, Mrs. Mary
Brooks, a neighbor, related a
somewhat different version of the
fight. “I saw the whole thing,”
she related from the witness
stand. “Mrs. Pardue told Mr. Hol
comb to get his cow off her land,”
she said. “Then he picked up
something from the ground, a
rock, I believe, and began throw
ing at Leroy. Leroy backed up,
turned partly around, and a rock
hit him. Then he shot Mr. Hol
comb two times,” she said.
The weapon, a .22 semi-auto
matic rifle, was displayed during
the trial.
Pardue did not testify at the
trial.
runerai services
Funeral services for the slain*
man were held Monday afternoon
at 2:30 o’clock at Swaims Baptist
Church. Rev. Clete Simmons and
Rev. Clifford Vestal officiated.
Burial followed in the church
cemetery.
He was a son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Holcomb, and
was married in 1921 to the former
Jettie Macemore.
Surviving beside the widow are
five children, Mrs. Ruby Rycroft,
Delmet, Earl, Raymond and Glen
da Holcomb, all of the Jonesville
community; one brother, Marion
Holcomb, Jonesville, three sisters,
Mrs. Katie Pardue and Misses
Collie and Lillie Holcomb, Jones
ville community; one grandchild.
Smith To Make
Education Toyr
County Agent Neill Smith and
Assistant Agent Mark Goforth will
join other farm agents of west
ern North Carolina next week on
an educational tour of the Ten
nessee Valley. The county agents
will observe farming methods and
practices of TVA projects, and
visit the TVA fertilizer plant at
Muscle Shoals.
The trip will also include a visit
to the state farm at Morgan ton
for the purpose of observing re
sults of scientific farming prac
tices.
County agents will leave Mon
day, May 26, and return on Sat
urday, May 31.