ELKIN
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VOL. No. XXXV No. 32
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 10, 1947
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20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
Parking Meters
Authorized For
Elkin By Board
Sewer Project
In East Elkin
Given Go-Ahead
The board of commissioners
voted unanimously to adopt the
use of parking meters in Elkin at
a meeting in the city hall Mon
day night.
The action came after City Ad
ministrator Lewis Alexander had
presented a comprehensive report
on his investigation of parking
» meter operations in various cities
\ throughout the state.
Mr. Alexander's report indicat
ed that meters had solved the
parking problem in towns having
them in use. Revenue from the
meters averaged between $95 and
$100 per year per meter in the
towns contacted by Mr. Alexander.
Representatives of several man
ufacturers of meters will be asked
to come before the board at its
next regular meeting on August
4 and bring samples of the vari
ous types of meters. The City
Administrator’s report showed
i that the cost of parking meters
( ranges from $49.50 to $75 each.
Mr. Alexander also reported on
a number of other municipal
problems, including garbage dis
posal, street paving, and applica
tions for new taxi cabs. Three
alternatives for garbage disposal
were discussed: incineration, bury
ing and dumping. Mr. Alexander
stated that health authorities ad
vocated burying as the mo§t sani
tary method.
Members of the board expressed
the opinion that a bid on as many
street paving projects as possible
should be obtained at the same
time in order to obtain the low
m - est possible prices.
The board voted to endorse the
proposal of Yadkin Auto Sales to
secure a license bureau for Elkin.
At present, North Wilkesboro is
the nearest point at which Elkin
automobile owners may obtain
license.
A delegation of citizens from
v'VNorth Elkin, headed by Livings
”ton Williams, presented a request
that the board continue efforts to
effect the' paving of Oakland
drive through the use of state
funds.
Citizens from East Elkin ap
peared at the meeting in behalf
of the proposed sewer project for
l*. that section of town. Commis
sioner J. W. L. Benson stated that
a survey .and plans for the project
had been completed, and indicat
ed that actual construction would
probably begin within 90 days.
City Clerk Dixie Graham was au
thorized by the board to adver
tise for bids on the project.
I Mayor Garland Johnson and
: Commissioners Russell Burcham,
S r. c. Freeman, J. O. Bivins and
J. W. L. Benson were present at
the meeting.
NEW OFFICERS
ARE INSTALLED
Hoyle Cranford Is New Presi
dent Of Elkin Junior
Chamber Of Commerce
ED ELLIS PRESIDES
Ed Ellis, president of the North
Carolina Junior Chamber of Com
merce, presided at the Elkin Jun
ior Chamber’s installation of new
officers at a meeting in Neavet
Park Monday night.
Hoyle Cranford was installed at
new president at the ceremony
Dr. V. W. Taylor and Sam Atkin
son took offices as first and sec
ond vice-presidents, respectively
Other new officers are Fred Nor
man, treasurer, and Lewis Alex
ander, secretary. Clyde Rudd
Edwin Royall, Kemp Reece anc
Bill Stephenson were installed at
new directors.
Retiring President Bob Lank
ford spoke briefly at the meeting
and Mr. Ellis gave a short talk or
the national convention at Long
Beach, and plans of the organiza
tion for the coming year.
The new president, Hoyle Cran
ford, said he was looking forwarc
to a full year of community ser
vice for the Elkin Junior Chambei
.of Commerce.
Wives and friends of Elkir
r^Jaycees, and former members 01
i the organization weer guests at
i the meeting.
Tribune Advertising Gets Result;
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Ladies’ Night To
Be Observed By
Elkin Kiwanians
Dr. Charles W. Armstrong,
cf Salisbury, newly - elected
president of Kiwanis Interna
tional, will be guest speaker at
the Ladies Night meeting of the
Elkin Kiwanis Club this eve
ning (Thursday) at the Gilvin
Roth YMCA.
President Carl C. Poindexter
urges every member of the club
and his lady to be present. The
meeting will begin at 7 o’clock.
PLEADS GUILTY
MANSLAUGHTER
Foster Martin On Trial In
Surry Court In Death Of
Hawley McMillian
TRUE BILLS RETURNED
Foster Martin pleaded guilty to
a charge of manslaughter in su
perior court Tuesday as he went
on trial for the death of his step
father, Rawley McMillian, Mount
Airy furniture worker whose body
was found in a stream three miles
north of Mount Airy on June 4.
The grand jury returned true
bills against Mrs. Susie McMillian,
wife of the dead man, and James
Goins, another stepson of the late
Mr. McMillian. They were nam
ed as accessories after the fact,
I but their cases were continued to
the next term of court.
Earl Reynolds, principal witness
in the case, testified Wednesday
that the late Mr. McMillian had
come to the home of Mrs. Mc
Millian and got in an argument
with Foster Martin, who was part
ly intoxicated. Reynolds said Mr.
McMillian threatened Martin with
i an axe and Martin got a shotgun,
| but the gun was taken away from
him.
Martin was expected to be sen
| tnced Wednesday afternoon by
Judge W. H. Bobbitt.
CLUB MEMBERS
TO SEE PAGEANT
Twenty-Four 4-H Youngsters
Leave Dobson For Trip
To Manteo
HAVE CHARTERED BUS
Twenty-four 4-H Club members
J of Surry County left Dobson yes
i terday morning for Manteo to see
Paul Green’s famous pageant,
“The Lost Colony.”
In charge of the group were Mrs.
Grace Pope Brown, home demon
stration agent, and Luther G.
Sink, Jr., assistant county agent.
A chartered bus took the group
on the trip and is scheduled to re
turn tonight from the two-day,
overnight journey.
Home Demonstration and i-H
, Club leaders who accompanied
' the group in addition to Mrs.
Brown and Mr. Sink wore Mrs. L.
C. Patterson, Mrs. Madge Bad
’ gett, Mrs. Dewey Sisk and Mrs.
Faye Draughn of White Plains;
; Mrs. Woodie Pruitt of Mount
; Airy; Mrs. Curtis Mann of Cope
| land; Miss Marthalene Davis and
Miss Evelyn Holyfield of Rock
ford; and Mrs. S. N. Hawks, Jr.
of Dobson.
Four-H Club members making
the trip were Rachel Johnson,
Evelyn Waugh, Raedelle Patter
son, Polly Seal, Bobby Marshall
and Sam Taylor of White Plains;
Doris Nichols and Wilma Frances
Broome of Franklin; Mary Fian
ces Goode and Bonnie Lou Liven
good of Flat Rock; Betty Swift,
Dot Harris, Grover Dezern, Bobby
Cockerham, Billy Smith, Arlie
Cockerham and Vance Thompson
of Mountain Park; Bobby Perk
ins, Billy C. Smith and Garrett
Ray Simpson of Copeland; Nor
man Gordon and Curtis Needham
of Pilot Mountain; Aaron Tilley
of Westfield; and Brent Shinault
of Dobson.
What the public thinks of cot
ton products, and the extent to
• which it prefers and buys them,
will be the final measure of how
I much cotton can be produced on
■ I American farms.
FIRST WOMEN GRAND JURORS — Shown here are the first two women ever to serve on a grand
jury in North Carolina. They are Mrs. J. A. Sale of Elkin, left, and Mrs. W'. D. Inman of Mount Airy,
whose names were drawn Monday for duty with the Surry County grand jury at Dobson. The names
of two other women. Miss Effie Crater and Mrs. Neerva Hyatt, were drawn for duty, but they were
excused by Judge William H. Bobbitt. (Another grand jury photo on page 8, this section.)
POLL HOLDERS
ARE NAMED
Twentv-Tvvo Polling Places
Set Up In County For Im
portant Leaf Vote
ON SATURDAY, JULY 12
Claude W. Thore, chairman of
the PMA Committee in Surry
County, has designated 39 poll
holders for the tobacco referendum
to be held Saturday, July 12.
Twenty-two polling places have
been set up in the county for the
referendum, which will determine
whether tobacco growers are will
ing to assess themselves 10 cents
per acre to finance the program of
Tobacco Associates, Inc., in ex
panding and developing export
markets for flue-cured tobacco.
County Agent Neill M. Smith
urging a heavy vote in favor of
the plan, said the program should
result in improvements of markets
in this country as well as export
markets. He predicted a possible
movement among growers of cot
ton, wheat and other crops similar
to the program of Tobacco Associ
ates, Inc., in developing and main
taining world-wide markets.
Poll holders who will be on duty
all day Saturday in the 14 town
ships of the county are as follows:
Elkin—J. W. Gentry, Don W
Cockerham and Wilma W. Thomp
son: Marsh—R. G. White and
Charlie White; Rockford—John
M. Hardy (at Copeland), V. W.
Coe and J. E. Stanley; Siloam—
John H. Hardy and J. E. Poindex
ter; Shoals—Sam W. Scott, R. E
Barber, John Allen and Gray
Lane; Pilot—Bruce Nelson and
John W. Dennis; Eldora—Lacy
Simpson and Hoyt Badgett; Dob
son—Walter Jarvis, Marvin Wil
moth, Ellis Haymore and E. W
Wilson; Bryan—John Nixon and
Bryant Smith; Franklin—I. F
Armfield and Charles J. Carson;
Stewart’s Creek—Walter Edwards
Luther Beamer, Elmer Hodges and
Robert Richards; Mount Airy—
D. C. Haymore, R. S. Johnson, C.
M. Turpin and Robert Jones; Long
Hill—Jesse W. Stewart and Roscoe
L. Chilton; Westfield—Tom An
derson, Glenn Payne and C. E.
Jackson.
2 COMPETE IN
DEMONSTRATE
Surry 4-H Club Girls Take
Part In Dairy Foods
Event At Greensboro
MEMBERS BEULAH CLUB
Ivylyn Sparger, president of the
4-H County Council, and Vernelle
Wood, both of whom are members
of the Beulah 4-H Club, competed
with contestants from five other
counties in a Dairy Foods Demon
stration in Greensboro yesterday
The two 4-H girls gave demon
strations in making cottage cheese
and cottage cheese salads. Mrs
Bess Davenport, assistant home
demonstration agent for Surry
County, instructed the girls in pre
paring for the event.
Miss Sparger won outstanding
honors in clothing achievement
competition last fall when she was
awarded a $200 scholarship at
Chicago in a national contest, and
has been prominent in 4-H Club
w<yk..
Mrs. Betty Mosley, of the P’rank
lm Home Demonstration Club, ac
companied the girls on the trip.
Bobbitts Sentenced
To 5 Years In Pen
Six Are Treated
For Eye Injury
Six persons were released from
the local hospital Tuesday after
receiving treatment for eye in
juries received the same day at
Wood Canning Company, at Cope
land. New ultra violet lights had
recently been installed in the can
nery and maladjustment of the
equipment, it was said, contribut
ed to the cause of the injuries.
Those receiving treatment were
Mrs. Callie Jenkins, Mrs. Cora
Jenkins, Miss Annie Lee Bledsoe,
Mrs. Roxie Spear, Mrs. Ennis
Jenkins, Miss Bessie Jenkins, Miss
Lcssie Jenkins, and Miss Fern Lee
Jenkins, all of Dobson, Rt. 2.
All eight were dismissed shortly
after receiving treatment and no
ill affects are expected to result.
68 ARRESTED
DURING JUNE
Local Police Release Crime
Figures For Month; Is
Decrease From May
DRUNKENNESS IN LEAD
Local police records show that
68 persons were arrested for law
violations during the month of
; June. This figure represents a de
! crease of 13 from the number of
| arrests in May, w'hen 81 violators
: were apprehended.
As in previous months, public
■ drunkenness wras the number one
offense with 36 persons being ar
rested on that count. Operating a
car under the influence of liquor
came second with eight violators.
Five were found guilty of violating
i prohibition laws, and five were
i charged w'ith driving without op
i orator’s license.
1 Other violations were as follows:
j speeding, 4; reckless driving, 3;
j improper lights, 2; violating sus
! pended sentence, 1; immoral con
duct, 1; driving after revocation of
license, 1; larceny, 1; and assault
with a deadly weapon, 1.
Are Convicted
Of Assault With
Deadly Weapon
Ed Bobbitt and his nephew,
Grady Bobbitt, both charged with
assault with a deadly weapon
against John Smith, were sen
tenced Tuesday in superior court
at Dobson to serve five years each
in the state prison after a jury had
returned verdicts of guilty for
both men.
Both men had entered pleas of
not guilty. Mr. Smith testified
that they came to his service sta
tion about three miles east of Elk
in on June 19, and that he was
struck on the head while his back
was turned. The blow failed to
knock him unconscious, and he
called for help. The Bobbitts ran
away but were apprehended later
the same day.
Several stitches were required
to close Mr. Smith’s wound. He
asserted that his hearing and
vision had been impaired by the
blow.
Ed Bobbitt, testifying in his own
behalf, denied striking the 76
year-old man.
Temp Hampton, Harvey H
Golden, V. D. Jessup, Ruby F
Mastin, Curtis A. Fardue, Albert
J. Stanley and Winded R. Wood
were found guilty of operating
automobiles under the influence
of liquor and were fined $50 and
costs each.
Herman A. Simpson and Dencie
Shores were convicted on similai
charges and fined $100 and costs
each.
Bill Holcomb, William Guy Har
ris and John E. Holloway were
found guilty of reckless driving
Holcomb and Harris were each
fined $50 plus costs, and Holloway
was fined $25 and costs.
William (Bill) Fields was given
a 12-months suspended sentence
for non-support of an illegitimate
child and was ordered to pay $350
for the care and support of the
child.
Tribune Advertising Gets Results
REFERENDUM TALK — Young Nancy Bunker, Mt. Airy, is a to
bacco landowner who believes in talking: up the flue-cured refer
endum, Saturday, July 12, to “get out the vote.” Nancy is shown
exchanging views on the referendum — which will decide our fu
ture export program — with Ernest Sauls, (right), owner and H. H.
Pollard, tenant, at \heir Gamer Farm.
Tribune Survey Shows
Majority Of Citizens
Favor Merging Towns
MISSING MAN
IS IDENTIFIED
W. W. Martin, Of Jonesville,
Who Disappeared 20 Years
Ago, Dies In Detroit
FUNERAL HELD MONDAY
William Walter Martin, 56, who
disappeared from his home in
Jonesville 20 years ago without
leaving any message as to his des
tination, died June 25 at a Detroit,
Michigan, hospital, it was learned
here Sunday.
Two brothers of the missing
man, Mayor Z. Bent Martin and
R. L. Martin returned Sunday
from Detroit where they went to
identify the body of their brother,
a former barber at Jonesville.
The body arrived here Monday
and graveside services were con
ducted at 2 p. m. the same day in
the Jonesville cemetery. Rev. Clete
Simmons was in charge of the
rites.
Mr. Martin was married to the
former Miss Stella Roupe of Ashe
County. Periodic searches during
the intervening years since 1927
failed to reveal his whereabouts,
and the missing man never corre
sponded with his wife or any rela
tive.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Martin, assum
ing that her husband was dead,
married a North Wilkesboro man
: and is living there now. She is
now Mrs. Stella Grayson.
A few days ago the family re
ceived the first word of Mr. Mar
tin when a message arrived from
a Detroit hospital stating that a
man had died there unexpectedly
of a heart attack and it was be
lieved he was the missing man.
The hospital said Mr. Martin un
derwent an operation for appen
dicitis there last September and
had been taking treatment peri
odically.
Mayor Martin and his brother
then went to Detroit to identify
the body.
Mr. Martin is also survived by
two daughters, Mrs. Lorene Love
and Mrs. Grace Herring of Wilkes
boro one son, W. W. Martin, Jr., of
the Merchant Marine; three
brothers, Mayor Martin, R. L. and
Evan Martin, all of Jonesville; and
two sisters, Mrs. Ottie Brown of
Yadkinville and Mrs. Pearl Pardue
of Jonesville.
WILKES MAN IS
DEAD OF WOUND
Bob Martin, Negro, Is Charg
ed With Murder As Re
sult Of Shooting
SAYS WIFE WAS STRUCK
Raymond R. Parks, 20, of Ron
da, died at Wilkes Hospital in
North Wilkesboro early Monday
as the result of shot gun wounds
he received Sunday night at the
home of Bob Martin, Negro, who
is charged with murder.
Following his arrest Sunday
night, Martin told officers that
Parks and J. W. Martin came to
his home earlier that night and
asked to spend the night. He said
he told the two men to leave, and
that Parks struck his wife.
Sheriff C. G. Poindexter said
Martin told him he grabbed his
12-gauge shot gun and shot Parks
when he hit her. The shot struck
Parks in the left shoulder.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon at the home.
Parks was the son of Mrs. Fannie
Parks of Ronda.
Youngster Treated
For Copperhead Bite
Jimmie Jones, age 10, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Jones of
Elkin, Route 1, was discharged
Tuesday from the Hugh Chatham
Memorial hospital where he re
ceived treatment for a copper
head snake bite. He was playing
Sunday near a swamp in his
neighborhood when he was bitten
by the poisonous reptile.
Young Jimmie was bitten on the
heel, and he was said by hospital
authorities to have recovered
quickly from the infection due to
the slow circulation in that part
of the body.
Surry Farmers
To Be Shown
State Station
E. G. Moss, director of the
Oxford Experiment Station, will
conduct Surry County tobacco
farmers on a tour of the sta
tion Monday, July 14, it was
announced today by County
Agent Neill M. Smith.
Farmers who plan to make
the tour are asked to be at the
experiment station promptly at
1 p. m. Veterans taking farm
training are especially urged to
make the trip *and see the
latest methods of tobacco cul
tivation, Mr. Smith said.
S. N. Hawks, Jr., assistant
county agent, will assist Mr.
Moss in conducting the tour.
T-MODEIi HEADS
FOR FAR WEST
Jonesville And Richmond,
Va„ Youths Set Out To
See The Country
CAR IS 1926 MODEL FORD
Neal Lineberry and three com
panions passed through Elkin Sun
day in their 1926 Model T Ford on
the second lap of a transcontinen
tal journey that will take them
(they hope) to California and
back.
Neal and his brother, Leonard,
both of Jonesville, and Herbert
Coleman and Edward Patterson
of Richmond, Va., exptet to cover
9,000 miles on their trip. They
left Richmond early Saturday
with full camping regalia and a
complete stock of spare parts for
their 21-year-old “Leapin’ Liz.” .
The Model T was purchased for
$25, and the young adventurers
spent about two months getting
the vehicle ready for the trip.
Neal painted the aged automobile,
and his brother helped Patterson
and Coleman with mechanical rej
pairs.
The boys plan to see Memphis
Albuquerque, the Grand Canyon
San Francisco, British Columbia
Vancouver, Salt Lake City, Chica;
go, Ottawa, Quebec, New York and
Washington on ^he trip. ,
If all goes well, they'll be back
in Richmond within two months
They are sure “Leapin’ Liz” wijl
survive the trip.
Regulations Given On
Seining In Yadkin
All fishing seins in Yadkin
County must be registered and
tagged under a new regulation of
the North Carolina Wildlife Fed
eration, Frank Mackie, district
game warden, announced yester
day.
Other members of a seining
party do not need permits, but the
owner of a sein being used should
register it with Mr. Mackie at
Yadkinville.
Seining became legal in Yadkin
County waters on July 1st, and
persons may take Catfish, Carp
and Suckers from the waters with
out a license or a permit as long
as the sein is tagged. There is
only one restricted stream in the
.'county, and that is the stream
'emptying from Dobbins Mill Pond
’and running into Styers Mill Pond.
‘Elkin Girl Bitten
i By Dog Here Sunday
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( Betty Lou Triplett, nine year old
■ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Trent
(Triplett, was bitten on the hands
by a dog, Sunday morning as she
was returning home from Sunday
School.
The dog of Collie breed, owned
by H. N. Shore of Winston-Salem,
was tied in a jeep parked in front
of Hotel Elkin, when it attacked
the child, according to Police of
ficer, G. J. Payne.
The child was taken to Hugh
Chatham Memorial hospital for
treatment.
Supplemental grain export al
locations totalling 233,350 long
tons of wheat and flour in wheat
equivalent, 160,500 long tons of
corn, and 8,000 long tons of bar
ley, have been made according to
, USDA.
Jonesville And
Elkin Combine
Seen Of Benefit
A survey conducted by The Tri
bune this week indicates that a
large majority of the citizens of
Jonesville and Elkin favor a merg
er of the two towns.
The poll was actuated by the
recent consolidation of Sanford
and Jonesboro, two adjoining
towns in Lee County which merg
ed into one city on July 1. An
effort was made to determine how
citizens of Elkin and Jonesville
feel about a similar merger here.
Representative citizens of both
communities were questioned in
the survey. A number of people
expressed opposition to such a
plan, but most of these refused to
be quoted. Several citizens were
neutral on the question, stating
that they would neither support
nor oppose a merger if a move
ment should be initiated to consol
idate the two towns.
Many of those questioned com
mented on the improvements in
educational facilities that would
presumably result through a link
age of the two school systems.
Better police and fire protection,
and more efficient administration
of town affairs were cited by many
citizens as outstanding advantages
of a merger.
Some citizens felt that the fact
that Jonesville and Elkin are in
separate counties would present a
major obstacle to joining the two
towns. Another objection was bas
ed on the contention that Jones
ville’s property might be re-assess
ed and that taxes might be in
creased as a consequence.
But the majority of those ques
tioned felt that a merger would
result in benefits to both towns,
and stated that they would sup
port such a move.
An attempt was made to obtain
a cross section of opinion in both
towns. Some of the comments on
the question follow:
Mayor Garland Johnson. Elkin:
“Since Jonesville and Elkin have
many common interests, I am of
the opinion that a consolidation
of the two municipalities could be
mutually beneficial. With the air
port and the golf course on the
south side of the Yadkin, and the
hospital, the Memorial Park, the
YMCA, Chatham Manufacturing
Company, Elkin Furniture Com
pany and other enterprises on the
north side, surely our people real
ize the benefits of a closer union
between the citizens of both towns.
I Foremost among the advantages
| are: a large central high school;
adequate police, fire and sanitary
departments; and one governing
body with representatives from
both municipalities.”
Mayor Z. Bent Martin, Jones
ville: No comment.
Thurmond Chatham, chairman
of the board of directors of Chat
(Continued on page eight)
SURRY SCHOOLS
NET $37,890.35
Figure Represents M oney
From Fines, Forfeitures
During Fiscal Year
ELKIN NOT INCLUDED
Surry County schools realized a
total of $37,890.35 from fines, for
feitures and other sums paid into
the county treasury during the
fiscal year which ended June 30,
according to a report compiled by
George E. Welch, county account
ant.
Of this amount, $29,361.23 was
placed to the credit of the county
school system, and $8,529.12 went
to Mount Airy schools. (Elkin
schools were not allotted a share
of the funds as a result of a bill
enacted in March making Elkin
township a separate school ad
ministrative unit.)
The figures show that more
than 50 per cent of the revenue,
$2 f,098.22, was derived from the
Recorder’s Court at Mount Airy.
The clerk of the superior court at
Dobson collected a total of $10,
065.35, and various Justice of the
Peace courts in the county turned
in a total of $5,207.20. Revenue
from the sale of confiscated whis
key totalled $228.08, and $1,291.50
was realized from the sale of a
confiscated automobile.