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 ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1947 $2.00 PER YEAR y VOL. No. XXXV? No. 31 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS 3 WAIVE HEARING AFTER SERIOUS ACCIDENT HERE Collision Takes Place At In tersection On Church St. SURRY MAN BADLY HURT Truck Driver and Companion Attempt To Flee After Hitting Motorcycle BONDS TOTAL $3,000.00 George W. Angel, 41, and Jesse L. Stewart, 19, both of Clover, S. C., waived preliminary hearings and were bound over to superior court on several charges resulting from a collision between a truck and a motorcycle here late Satur day afternoon. The accident occurred at the in tersection of Church and Spring \ Streets, presumably when one of ~ the vehicles ran through the red light there. The truck, driven by Angel, was headed west on Spring Street and crashed into the motorcycle, ridden by Alonzo Lay ell, 47, of State Road, as it was passing the intersection going north. Officers said Angel and Stewart attempted to flee the scene of the accident, leaving Layell lying in the street with a badly mangled right foot. A bottle of liquor was found in the glove compartment of the truck. Both men had been drinking, officers stated. Angel faces charges of operating a vehicle under the influence of liquor, hit and run driving, violat ing the prohibition law. and driv ing without operator’s license. His bond was set at $2,000. Stewart is being held under $1,000 bond on a charge of aiding and abetting in hit and run driving. James Ash ley, Negro, third occupant of the truck, was released after paying costs on a charge of drunkenness. The men were employed by E. H. Moser, of Hickory, Route 3, owner of the truck. Layell is recovering at the Hugh ' Chatham Memorial Hospital. For ra’time it was feared that his foot would have to be amputated, but his condition Wednesday was re ported as improved, and it was thought that his foot would be saved. 1 Elkin Girl Singing L In Famous Pageant Manteo, N. C. — Dorothy Walk er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Walker of Elkin, N. C., is in Man teo this summer with the West minster Choir from the Westmin ster Choir College, Princeton, N. J., to sing in the chorus of The Lost Colony, whose tenth anni rsary season runs from July 1 to teptember 1 in the Waterside Theatre at Fort Raleigh. Miss Walker attended Elkin High School and Flora MacDonald College, and is now a student at Westminster. The choir again this year will use its stay in Manteo as a period of training for its fall and winter concert tours. It has come here each summer since 1937, when The Lost Colony was first produc ed. The play, which dramatizes the earliest English attempts to colonize the New World, will have 49 performances this season. Two Are Bound Over To Court By Justice B. K. Mullis, 35, of Hampton ville, charged with hit and run driving and operating a car under the influence of liquor, was bound over to superior court under bond of $500 by Justice of the Peace J L. Hall in Magistrate’s Court Mon day morning. Windell Roby Wood, 25, oi Boonville, route 1, was bound ovei on a charge of operating a cai under the influence of liquor. H( is scheduled for trial at the Julj term of court in Dobson nexl week. Swimming Pool Schedule Is Changed For 4th The YMCA announces a change in its schedule for Fri day and Saturday, July 4 and 5, for the convenience of pat rons who are spending the hol idays at home and wish to use its facilities. The swimming pool will be ppen for the public from 10 a. i«. to 12:30 p. m.; from 2 p. m. to^ 5:30 p. m.; and from 6:30 ip. m. to 9:30 p. m. on each of kthese days. The game room ill be opened at 10 a. m. rath pr than the usual 11:45 a. m. the two mornings. The regular schedule will be resumed Monday. Dr. Johnson Named Surgeon For Southern Dr. Harry L. Johnson, chief surgeon at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital here, has been appointed local surgeon for the Southern Railway, ac cording to an announcement from Washington. Th° apponitment was made this week. In event any local railway employee, trainman, passenger or any other person should be injured on or by the railway, Dr. Johnson would be author ized to administer treatment. SURRY MEN ON HEALTHBOARD J. F. Yokley, Mt. Airy, And H. F. Laffoon, Elkin, Nam ed To Advisory Group HEALTH ASSOCIATION The appointment of H. F. Laf foon, publisher of The Tribune, and J. F. Yokley, of Mount Airy as members of a newly-formed Advisory Board to the North Caro lina Good Health Association was announced last week by I. G Greer, of Thomasville, president of the association. The Advisory Board, consisting of 94 leading citizens throughout the State, will assist in the cam paign to improve North Carolina health standards by carrying on the fight against disease and pov erty in every county. First meeting of the Advisory Board will be held Friday, July 11 at the O Henry Hotel in Greens boro. Kay Kyser, honorary vice president of the Good Health As sociation, will be present to dis cuss with the Advisory Board the future work of the association Following the opening meeting at 11 a. m., Dr. Thomas Parran Surgeon General of the U. S. Pub lic Health Service, will speak at an informal luncheon at 12:30. Tentative plans have been made to initiate Good Health campaigns on the county level that would be patterned after the state-wide ed ucational and publicity campaign of recent months. The Advisory Board will play a leading role in the effort to improve health con ditions and make the people oi the state more health conscious. Conference Drive Has Goal In Sight The Western North Caroline Conference drive for building anc endowment funds for four Metho dist schools closed last month witl the goal of $1,245,000 in sight, ac cording to a report by Dr. J. S Hiatt, executive secretary of the campaign. A total of $934,130.37 has al ready been collected, Dr. Hiatt re ported, and more than enougl funds have been pledged to ful fill the Remainder of the quota Contributions include a $300,00( gift from James A. Gray and $100 000 from H. A. Dunham. The funds will go to Methodis schools for the construction of ad ditional buildings and to increase endowments. Brevard, Greensbore College, High Point College anc Duke Divinity School will benefi from the campaign, known as the Methodist College Advance. Movies To Be Shown At YMC.A The outdoor movie prograrr scheduled at the YMCA last Fri day evening was postponed be cause the films did not arrive ir time, but the pictures will b< shown this Friday (July 4) at i p. m., it was announced today bj Walter Safrit, director of youns people’s activities. The movies will include a Bibl< story, a comedy and a short fea turing Frank Sinatra. Mr. Safrit said the progran should be of special interest t( young people. The public is in vited to attend. Annual Homecoming: To Be Held Sundaj The annual homecoming will bi held Sunday at Maple Spring Methodist Church, with a picnii dinner served on the lawn at 12:31 o’clock. A circuit-wide singing will be gin at 2 o’clock and other quar tets are invited to participate. A series of revival services wil begin Sunday to continue through out the week with services to be gin each evening at 7:45. A cor dial invitation is extended to thi public to attend. YADKIN VALLEY HAS NEW HOPE FLOOD CONTROL House Committee Recom mends $8,232,000 Fund PART IS FOR THIS AREA Army Engineers Will Deter mine How Much Of Fund To Be Used On Project DEANE SEEKS $2,000,000 New hope for the Yadkin Valley Flood Control Project was born last Friday when the House Ap propriations Committee in Wash ington recommended an expendi ture of $8,232,000 for flood pro jects throughout the nation, in cluding the Yadkin plan. Army engineers will determine how much of the funds are to be used for flood control planning on the Yadkin River, but Represent ative C. B. Deane said, “It is likely that ... we will obtain more than the $75,000 requested in budget estimates to initiate the Yadkin flood control program.” The funds will be used only to finance preliminary engineering and planning work on the project, and actual construction of the four proposed dams may not get under way for some time. But Mr. Deane expressed pleasure that a start has been made in the direc tion of flood control. “ . . . It’s at least an opening wedge in our long fight to end the annual Yadkin flood tragedy,” he declared. Following the recent flood, Mr. Deane had requested a $2,000,000 appropriation for starting con struction work immediately on the project. Hawks Is To Attend Workers Conference S. N. Hawks, Jr., assistant coun ty agent, will attend a three-day conference of tobacco workers next week at Florence, S. C. Tobacco men from Surry, Rock ingham, Guilford, Nash, Johnson, Lenoir, Wilson and Pitt Counties will be represented at the confer ence, which begins Tuesday, July 8 and lasts through July 10. Rep resentatives at the meeting will also visit the South Carolina to baccd experiment station near Florence on their trip. Mr. Hawks has been working with tobacco farmers of Surry County on production and market ing. The trip will be a professional improvement tour, and expenses will not be borne by the county agent’s office. Judge Bivens Named Head Of Surry Bar Judge E. C. Bivens of Mount Airy was elected president of the Surry County Bar Association at a recent meeting in the County Clerk’s office in Dobson. He suc ceeds W. R. Badgett of Pilot Mountain, who did not desire to 1 continue as president due to fail . ing health. D. L. Hiatt of Mount Airy was - elected secretary of the associa ■ tion. ' The new president appointed » Fred Folger of Mount Airy as I chairman of the calendar commit ; tee. Other members appointed to ! the committee were Earl C. James of Elkin and J. H. Blalock of Pilot Mountain. Donkey Baseball Game Here Tonight Outstanding citizens of Jones ville and Elkin are scheduled to ride mounts in a donkey baseball garrfe at the Memorial Park ath letic field tonight (Thursday) at 8:30. The event is sponsored by the William J. Jones VFW Post Num ber 7794. Half the proceeds de rived from the game will be do noted to the Elkin Park Commis i sion, and will be used to help i finance the park program. A small admission fee will be charged. To Hold Conference At Mineral Springs ! Conference will be held Satur > day night at the Mineral Spring : Baptist Church the pastor, Rev, ) Clifford Vestal, has announced Rev. P. C. Parks will deliver the ■ message. » Sunday school will begin at 9:45 and morning worship at 11, with I the pastor in charge of the ser - vice. Rev. Vestal will begin a series ■ of x-evival services at North Cool ! eemee Baptist Church beginning Sunday night. TWO HELD IN TRUCK-MOTORCYCLE COLLISION — George W. Angel, driver of the truck shown above, and his companion, Jesse L. Stewart, are be ing held for trial in the superior court as the result or a collision late Saturday afternoon between the truck and a motorcycle ridden by Alonzo Laycll. The xccident occurred at the intersection of Church and Spring Streets. Layell suffered a severely crush ed right foot. (TRIBUNE PHOTO) Memorial Park Field Is Officially Opened Chatham Blanketeers And McCrary Eagles Play In Exhibition Game Mayor Garland Johnson ’ scheduled to toss out the first in the exhibition contest bet’ the Chatham Blanketeers f Asheboro’s McCrary Eagles a. i official opening of the new Me morial Park Wednesday night. H. F. Laffoon, publisher of The Tribune, was to be the Man Behind the Plate for the first pitch. The four sets of bleachers were expected to be filled with a capa city crowd for the game, which was set for 8 p. m. N. H. Carpenter, superintendent of Elkin city schools, and Bill Lineback were to shaie duties as masters of ceremonies. The game was to be announced over a tern WILKES GIRL SHOT IN LEG Esther Bauguess, 15, Sutlers Broken Bone In Accident Sunday Evening OFFICERS INVESTIGATE Esther Bauguess, 15, daughter of Curtis Bauguess of Thurmond, suffered a broken leg when she was shot Sunday afternoon at the home of her sister, Mrs. Bertha Brown, of the Joynes community. The bullet struck the center of her leg above the knee and broke the bone, it was reported. Miss Bauguess told officers that Ruffian Kennedy, 21, was holding the pistol and that she was scuff ling with him when it was fired accidentally. She was brought to the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital here for treatment. Corporal Sam McKinney of the State Highway Patrol reported the facts to Wilkes County officers, who are investigating the incident. Veterans Office To Close July 4 And 5 Edmund P. Robinson, service of ficer for the Veterans Service of fice, has announced that the of fice will be closed Friday and Sat urday of this week in observance of July 4. He is located on Main Street in the Greenwood building. Mr. Robinson will be in his of fice as usual Monday morning at 8:30 o’clock. Swim Class To Be Held At ‘Y’ Pool A “learn-to-swim” class for boys and girls between the ages of eight and 14 will be conducted at the YMCA pool Monday, July 7. The class will begin at 10 a. m. Young people who are planning to go to camp this summer are urged to take advantage of the instruction. According to the Cigar and To bacco Journal, published in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, the total number of cigarettes smoked in 1900 amounted to 34.9 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Now this figure, according to the same au thority, has increased to 2,000. porary public address system set up for the occasion. Prizes for Chatham players who got the first home run and other “firsts” were contributed by Elkin merchants. Fresh from a 21-8 win over Mayodan Tuesday afternoon, the Blanketeers were given a better than-even chance of taking the Asheboro team, current leaders of the Piedmont Semi-Pro loop. Skipper “Tige” Harris gave the probable starting line-up as fol lows: “Lefty” Parclue (lb), Jimmy Miller (2b), Woody Mayberry (3b), "Sleepy” Vaughn (ss), E. D. Lane (If), Dick Stockton (cf), “Tige” Harris (rf), Jim Mauney or Tom Pardue (c), and "Red” Powers (p). As The Tribune went to press Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Johnson had not disclosed wheth er he would use his special super deluxe speed ball for the first pitch or his tricky curve slow ball. Catcher Laffoon stated that he was slightly rusty at the game and hoped the mayor would perform with his usual expert control. HUGE CROWD TO ATTENDSESSION Farm-Home Week To Feature Talks By Eisenhower, and Dorothy Thompson PLAN DEMONSTRATIONS Designed to be of interest to both men and women, the 1947 Farm and Home Week, to be held at State College August 25-29, will offer the expected record-break ing attendance entertainment as well as many new ideas on farm and home practices. The series of demonstrations which are scheduled on practically every farm enterprize have been arranged to let both men and wo men see and actually take part. It is beleived that through this type of training, the subject mat ter can be better explained and more easily grasped. Several sec tions will be in progress at the same time so the farmers and their wives, can take advantage of the subjects in which they are most interested. Under the guidance of John W. Goodman, assistant director of the North Carolina Extension Service and secretary of the annual event, a series of highly entertaining and educational features have been ar ranged including some the nation’s top personalities who have accept ed invitations to speak at the con vention. Among these are Army Chief-of-Staff, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Miss Dorothy Thompson, noted journalist and world traveler. There will be the usual interest ing farm exhibits and many types of demonstrations on the use of them. Kiwanians Hear Report Thursday .The Elkin Kiwanis Club, meet ing at the Gilvin Roth YMCA last Thursday night, heard detailed re ports of the recent Girls’ State by Libby Royall, Alice Blake Dobson and Doswell Gentry, who attended from Elkin. PIERCE TO BE CHIEF JUDGE Assistant Professor Of Ani mal Husbandry To Take Part In Livestock Show MT. AIRY ON JULY 4TH J. C. Pierce, Jr., assistant pro fessor of animal husbandry at N. C. State College, will be chief judge at the Livestock Show to be staged in the Veterans Memorial Park at Mount Airy July 4. A total of $450 in cash prizes will be awarded the winning en tries. $150 of which will go to 4-H and FFA club members for baby beeves shown in the event. County Agent Neill M. Smith and Frank Jones, Mount Airy VFW Commander, co-managers of the show, announced that about 60 horses and mules, and 25 baby beeves will be shown. Entries are limited to Surry County farmers. The event, sponsored by the VFW and American Legion posts of Mount Airy, in cooperation with the county agent’s office, will get under way at 10 a. m. with a pa rade from South Main Street to the new Veterans Memorial Park north of the city on Highway 52. Fred S. Royster, president of the Tobacco Warehousemen's Associa tion, Congressman John H. Folger and Harvey Dinkins, Winston-Sa lem Journal’s Farm Editor, will speak on the program at the park’s grandstands. A pony race will be held follow ing lunch, and the baby beeves will be shown as the next event. The show of horses and mules will conclude the program. Line-Ups For July 4 Double-Header Listed Line-ups for the Knee-Pants League’s Fourth of July double header at the Memorial Park ath letic field tomorrow afternoon are as follows Nationals — Haynes (p), James