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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 VOL. No. XXXV No. 34 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. G, THURSDAY. JULY 24, 1947 $2.00 PER YEAR 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS ■ 1 ■ ■■■■'■ '*■1 ■ " . " SEPT; 16 -17 NAMED ASDATE OFSTOCK SHOW Fifth Annunal Event To Be Held In New Memorial Park SPONSORED BY JAYCEES Event To Be Staged Three Weeks Earlier Than Usual To Avoid Conflict EXPECTING 170 ENTRIES Elkin’s fifth annual Fat Stock Show and Sale, sponsored by the Elkin Junior Chamber of Com merce, will be staged in the new Memorial Park on September 16 and 17, it was announced today. The dates were set at a recent [ meeting of Jaycee officials and County Agents, who will cooperate in arranging entries for the event. I It was decided to hold the show and sale three weeks earlier this year in order to avoid competition from stock shows featuring pas ture-fattened cattle. Last year’s event was held in October. It is expected that the new ex position building, now under con struction, will be completed in time for use by exhibitors in the show. A preliminary survey completed by County Agent Neill M. Smith indicates that approximately 170 baby beeves will be entered in the show, an increase of 60 over the number entered in the event last year. The champion calf in the 1946 show, a 985-pound Hereford steer, brought $689.50 for an average of 70 cents per pound. JAYCEES NAME COMMITTEEMEN President Hoyle Cranford Appoints Special Groups To Serve For Coming Year ^ AT MEETING FRIDAY / Jaycee committees appointed by | President Hoyle Cranford for the coming year were approved at a meeting of officers and directors of the organization in the YMCA ! Friday night. rfc Sixteen committees were named as follows: Agriculture — Clyde W. Rudd and Sam Neaves, co-chairmen Herman H. Holcomb, J. Harold Brendle, Eugene Jones; American ism — Walter M. Safrit, chairman, Jim Harrell, Hugh Salmons; Avia tion — John Mayberry, chairman a Graham Myers; Awards and ^Scrapbooks — Clyde H. Carroll and Kemp Reece, co-chairmen, Van Dillon, Jr.; Fire Prevention— Gilbert Meed, chairman, Joe K. Wood; Governmental Affairs — Lewis Alexander, chairman, Eu gene Aldridge, James H. Shore; House Affairs — Van Dillon, Jr. chairman. Bud Barker; Projects— Edwin Royall and Walter C. Metz co-chairmen, Bill Stephenson, Dick Smith; Public Health and Youth Welfare — Dr. Moir Hall, chair man, Dr. M. O. Fox, Dr. Seth Beale; Publicity and Public Rela tions — Tom Wilson, chairman, i Eugene Jones; Public Safety — Fred York, chairman, Bill Free 1 man, Neil Melvin, J. W. William : son; Sports and Recreation — Clyde E. Cothren, chairman. Dr Seth Beale, Ab Crater, C. L. “Tat” I Davis, Kemp Reece, “Buck” Hines; [ Membership and Attendance — Fred Norman, chairman, Joe Gwyn Bivins, “Buck” Hines Charles G. Sasher; City Beautifi cation — Joe Gwyn Bivins and Dick Smith, co-chairmen, Graham Myers, Gilbert Meed; Entertain ment — Haddon S. Kirk, Jr., chairman, Alex Chatham, Jr.; Fi nance — Fred Norman, chairman Paul Royall. Let us be thankful for the fools 3ut for them the rest of fits could lot succeed.—Mark Twain. Are To Conduct Rat Elimination Drive Next Week A rat-elimination campaign, |\sponsored by the Surry County Farm Bureau in cooperation with the County Agent’s office, will. be conducted throughout 1 Elkin, Bryan and Marsh town ships next week, it was an nounced today. Farmers in the three town ships will be notified by letter where poison bait may be se hcured, and will be given in structions on its use. The campaign will be ex panded over other areas of the county at a later date. 4 No Parking- Ban Placed On Part Market Street Effective immediately, no parking will be permitted on the north side of East Market Street from the intersection at Gwyn Avenue to the railway crossing at the entrance to Chatham Manufacturing Com pany’s new finishing plant. The town’s parking ordinan ces were amended recently to prohibit parking in this area so that an additional lane could be opened for traffic. “No Parking At Any Time” signs have been erected at in tervals of 75 feet along the street, and white lines are be ing painted on the pavement to indicate three traffic lanes The south side of the street will continue to be used for parking. It is felt that the additional traffic lane will facilitate the flow of traffic, especially in the afternoon when Chatham Man ufacturing Company employees complete their shifts and start home. JAIL TWO MEN AFTERROBBERY Huev Pinnix And Worth Ball Charged With Breaking Into Swaim Home STILL INVESTIGATING Two Yadkin County men arc re posing in the local jail this week charged with breaking and enter ing, stealing, and carrying off materials as a result of robbing a Mitchell’s Chappel home Sat urday night. The two are Huey Pinnix and Worth Ball, both of the Boonville section, who are charged with breaking into the home of Ralph Swaim while the family was ab sent. Sheriff A. F. “Bill” Moxley said yesterday that the Sheriff’s office had recovered a number of ob jects from near Ball’s home Mon day, including an alarm clock, knives and spoons, a radio and battery, and a ham and part of a shoulder taken from the Swaim smokehouse. The two men were traced through tire tracks discovered near the Swaim home and it was found that the Pinnix car had been used in the robbery. Sheriff Moxley said yesterday that the robbery was still under investigation as it was believed that a third man was involved. OFFICIALS OF CHURCH NAMED Board of Stewards And Other Officers of Methodist Church Are Selected CONFERENCE MEETING Stewards and other officers to serve the Elkin Methodist Church for the new church year, which begins October 1. were selected at the Fourth Quarterly Conference held last Sunday morning. The board of stewards, as an nounced by Rev. Robert G. Tuttle, pastor of the church, are: J. G. Abernethy, W. B. Adair, Richard Atkinson, Alex Biggs, J. O. Bivins, S. A. Boose, Carl Boyles, A. O. Bryan, Van Dillon, Jr., Claude Farrell, H. C. Graham, Clyde Hall, Dr. R. B. Harrell, Abe Har ris, R. W. Harris, Robert Hart ness, H. B. Holcomb, Jones Hol comb, Dr. H. L. Johnson, Roy H. Kane, C. H. Leary, H. F. Laffoon, E. F. McNeer, S. O. Maguire, C. C. Poindexter, T. A. Redmon, George Royall, Hugh Royal], E. S. Spainhour, D. G. Smith, R. G. Smith, H. W. Thompson, H. M. Willis. Junior Board of Stewards: Gene Aldridge, James Amburn, Alex Chatham, Rich Chatham, Dr. Moil- Hall, Garvey Haynes, M. A. Hines, Dwayne Irwin, Jim Lil lard, W. O. Mann, Sam Neaves, Paul Royall, Charles Sasher, Fidel Sale, Dick Smith, Jr., Ovid Wil cox, C. C. Wolfe, Fred York. Trustees: J. S. Atkinson, R. G. Smith, Dr. E. G. Click, Alex Chat ham, George Royall, W. M. Allen. Building Fund Committee: George E. Royall, chairman; J. G. Abernethy, Miss Betty Allen, A. O. Bryan, Alex Chatham, Jr., H. P. Graham, Dr. E. G. Click, Dr. R. B. Harrell, R. W. Harris, Mrs. H. L. Johnson, Mrs. Mason Lillard, Mrs. E. F. McNeer, Mrs. Fred Neaves, C. C. Poindexter, Mrs. W. R. Poplin, Mrs. Hugh Royall, D. G. Smith, R. G. Smith, E. S. Spainhour. SEEN ANY FLYING SAUCERS YET? — There’s still some talk of the mysterious flying saucers that were so much in the news recently, but thus far no one seems to know any more about them than does United Air Lines Captain E. J. Smith, pictured above, as he holds a plate as an illustration for stewardess Toni Carter, of Chicago. Captain Smith reported spotting the “flying discs” while on a flight near Boise, Idaho. SURRY SALE OF BONDS $62,705 Figure Is For Period From June 1 Through June 30, Glancy Announces E-BONDS TOTAL $53,705 W. L. Glancy, County Chair man of the U. S. Savings Bonds Division for Surry County, an nounced today that, according to information received from Allison James, State Director of the U. S. Savings Bonds office in Greens boro, sales of U. S. Savings Bonds for the period June 1 through June 30, for Surry County totaled £62,705.25. Broken down into three available series the sales were: E Bonds $53,705.25; G Bonds $9,000.00. Yadkin County sales totaled $9,205.25, and $5,995 in bonds were sold in Wilkes County dur ing June. Sales of Savings Bonds for the State of North Carolina for the same period were: E Bonds $3, 634,895.25; F Bonds $289,950.50 and G Bonds $2,059,200.00. Total state sales of the three series were $5,984,045.75. Mr. Glancy stated that the to tal 1947 state Savings Bonds sales quota for North Carolina is $94,000,000. “The Treasury Department is depending upon us to broaden the wide-spread holding of the na tional debt,” Mr. Glancy said. The spread of the public debt is an important contributing factor to intelligent management of our public debt—$258,376,000,000 as of June 30. The national debt today is more than a quarter of a trillion dol lars—over $1,840 for each man woman and child in the land. For years to come the management of this debt will affect the life of every American. We know we can count on our people in North Car olina to continue to do the out standing job of supporting the program of national debt man agement that they did in the war and during the first era of peace.” The man who hesitates is lost; so is the woman who doesn’t. TO BE AT METHODIST CHURCH — A Youth Caravan, sponsored by the Board of Education of the Methodist Church, will arrive Saturday to begin a week of services at the First Methodist Church. The first service will be held Sunday evening and will conclude on Friday. Young people from Elkin and vicinity are invited to attend. Comprising the group are, left to right, Miss Anne Jones, Barnville, S. C.: Miss Virginia Smith, Charlotte, counselor; Miss Jacquelyn Saferite, Spokane, Wash.; second row, Raymond P. Carson, Bel mont and Jerry D. Murray, Cramerton. , , Jonesville Man, 78, Takes Plane To Visit Brother D. B. Holcomb, of Jonesville, although 78 years of age, still feels young enough to journey to Ohio to visit his brother. Dr. J. H. Holcomb, who is 81 years old. The Jonesville man is not only making the trip to Ohio, he is making it by plane rather than bv the slower, more old fashioned methods of travel. Dr. Holcomb, who is well known to many of the older residents of this section, studied medicine under Dr. M. A. Royall, of Elkin, in those years when Dr. Royall was lo cated at Hamptonville. ELDERLY GROOM SHOOTS BRIDE John Williams, 76, Of Near Mocksville, Kills Wife And Commits Suicide JEALOUSY SAID MOTIVE Motivated by what officers de scribed as “apparently unfound ed” jealousy, John Williams, 76, of the Smith Grove community near Mocksville, killed his 50-year-old bride of four months Tuesday morning with a shotgun blast and then committed suicide with the same gun. According to investigating offi cers, Mrs. Williams was sweeping the back part of her home about 8 a. m. Tuesday when a blast from the .12-gauge gun tore the right side of her head off. Moments later, Mr. Williams shot off the top of his own head. Davie County Coroner G. V Green said it was a clear case of murder and suicide, and no in quest would be held. Neighbors said Mr. and Mrs. Williams had a family quarrel Monday. Mr. Williams, who had been married once before, was de scribed as “jealous-natured.’’ Mrs Williams had been married twice previously. SEEK MEMBERS FOR GU ARD UNIT Eleven New Recruits Enlist ed From Mount Airy In National Outfit A I) V A N T AGES GIVEN The Surry County National Guard Unit, Headquarters Com pany, 1st Battalion, 120th Infan try Regiment of the 30th Division, has enlisted 11 recruits, it was an nounced today by unit headquar ters in Mount Airy. With nine additional enlistments, the unit will have the required strength to pass federal inspection, which is scheduled to be held the latter part of August. Since most of the volunteers now enlisted have come from the Mount Airy area, a special ap peal is being made for members from Elkin and vicinity, according to Captain James Bray, Jr., Com mander of the unit. Pointing out the advantages of being a Guardsman, Captain Bray stated that the pay scale for volunteers ranges from $2.50 to $5.50 for only two hours of drill each week. Present plans call for drill ses sions to be held at Veteran's Me morial Park in Mount Airy, which has been selected as the site for a temporary Armory. All uniforms and equipment will be furnished by the government. Non-veterans who wish to be come guardsmen must enlist in the Unit for three years. Veter ans may enlist for a one-year period. The age requirement for non-veterans is 17 to 35,inclusive. The age limit for veterans varies according to length of service. DOBSON GIVEN S. S. SERVICE Residents Of That Area May Obtain Information Con cerning Social Security 4TH MON. EACH MONTH Residents of Dobson and vicin ity who wish information on the Federal old-age and survivors in surance system have access to a local social security office in Dob son, Mrs. Ruth Duffy, manager of the Winston-Salem office of the Social Security Administration, said today. Mrs. Duffy will be at the court house, first floor, in Dobson at 11 a. m. on the fourth Monday of every month. The service is to give persons of this area an opportunity to file benefit claims, obtain new and duplicate social security cards and make inquidies concerning the old-age and survivors insur ance program. Federal family insurance, which covers employees in industry and commerce, provides for the pay ment of monthly retirement and survivors’ benefits to qualified workers and their families. Re tirement benefits are payable to the employee and eligible mem bers of his family when the work er reaches 65 and retires. Sur vivors’ benefits are payable to eligible members of the insured person’s family on his death at any age. Applications must be filed for all benefits paid under the program. -* CLUBS TO HOLD JOINT SESSION Elkin Kiwanians To Go To N. Wilkesboro Friday To Meet With Wilkes Group JETER TO BE SPEAKER The Elkin Kiwanis Club will go to North Wilkesboro Friday even ing for an inter-club meeting with the North Wilkesboro club, the meeting to be held at 6:30 o’clock at Hotel Wilkes. Frank H. Jeter, of the North Carolina Extension Service, will be the speaker of the evening, and his address will be broadcast by WKBC, North Wilkesboro radio station. All Elkin Kiwanians planning to attend the meeting are re quested to meet at Hotel Elkin Friday afternoon at 5:30, from which the group will leave in cars for the Wilkes city. At last week’s meeting of the club, Linville Hendren and Hu bert Willis, delegates to the Ki wanis International convention at Chicago recently, reported on their trip. RIVER REFUSES TO YIELD BODY Efforts To Recover Remains Of Youth Who Drowned Saturday Unsuccessful IS SWEPT DOWNSTREAM Efforts to recover the body of Billie Miller, eight-year-old son of Mrs. Nora Miller Parsons of Cricket, who drowned while swim ming in the Yadkin River near North Wilkesboro Saturday, . had been unsuccessful up to Wednes day afternoon. Young Billie, with two compan ions, Bryce Carlton, 13, and Don ald Vannoy, 13, left his home about 9 o’clock Saturday morning to go swimming. The three boys went to a swimming area near Curtis Bridge, two miles west of North Wilkesboro, and Billie reportedly fell into the stream while testing to see how cold the water was. The Carlton boy said Billie was swept downstream and that he jumped in to the river and helped him onto some driftwood, while Donald ran to a farm house some distance away for help. Bryce said he told Billie to hang on until he could go for aid, but that after he left he looked back and saw Billie being swept downstream in the swift current. He said his efforts to reach the boy again failed and he sunk in the river a short distance above the bridge. Help was summoned and a large group of volunteers searched the river until late Saturday night. Members of the Elkin Emergency Squad aided in the search, which was resumed Sunday morning without success. T. R. Parsons, stepfather of the missing child, has offered a re ward of $100 for recovery of the body. Cranford To Head State Jaycee Group Hoyle Cranford, president of the Elkin Junior Chamber of Com merce, has been appointed as state chairman of the North Caro lina Jaycee Agriculture Committee, it has been announced by State Jaycee President Ed Ellis. Clyde Carroll, director in the local Jaycee organization, was named chairman of the State Awards Committee for the West ern District. Mr. Cranford and Mr. Carroll Will serve with other committee chairmen in the state organization for the ensuing year. To Hold Revival At Grassy Creek A series of revival services will begin at Grassy Creek Methodist Church, Monday, July 28, to con tinue through August 6. Rev. J. W. Groce, western North Carolina conference evangelist, radio speaker and lecturer, will de liver the messages each evening at 8 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. SPEAKER — Frank H. Jeter, above, of the North Carolina Extension Service, will be guest speaker at the joint meeting of the Elkin and North Wilkesboro Kiwanis Clubs at Hotel Wilkes, North Wilkesboro, Friday even ing at 6:80 o’clock. Mr. Jeter’s address will be broadcast by WKBC. Rind Over Four On Drunk Driving- Count Vernel Nance, C. K. Johnson, Tom Bill Stanley and Clifton Bailey, charged with operating cars under the influence of liquor, were bound over to the superior term of court under bond of $500 each following hearings in Magis trate's Court Monday morning. Ed Wagoner, charged with driv ing after revocation of license, was also bound over under $500 bond Herbert Winters was bound over on a charge of reckless driving. RAPE SUSPECT TRIES SUICIDE Andrew B. Burton, of White Plains, Tries Own Destruc tion Three Times SLAS H E S HIS WRIST •Andrew B. Burton, 26-year-old Negro of White Plains, charged with statutory'rape against an 11 year-old Negro girl, made three attempts to commit suicide Mon day after probable cause was found against him at-a preliminary hear ing i n Mount Airy Recorder’s Court. ’ • He first tried to slash his wrists with a razor blade, but officers took the blade away from him. His next attempt consisted of tak ing the wooden seat from the toilet in his cell and beating him self over the head. Officers heard the crash when he fell and found him lying unconscious. They removfed the toilet seat. When Burton came to, he made a final bid to end it all by ramming his head against the cell wall. That failed!too. Officers hand cuffed him td the cell, and Bur ton gave up. ' He and James Thomas Smith. Jr., 19-year-old Negro also of the Whits Plains section, were arrest ed last week and charged with having carnal knowledge of Peggy Lee Snow of the same section. At Monday’s preliminary hearing Judge H. H. Llewellyn amended the charge to one of statutory rape, since the girl was under 14 years of age. The Snow girl testified at the hearing Monday that she had had sexual relations with the two men on two occasions. Burton and Smith are being held without bond in the Dobson jail. They will face trial at the September term of court. •Burton is married and has two children. Smith is single. Advises All Dogs Be Gjven Rabies Serum Dr. C. E. Nicks, veterinarian, strongly advises all dog owners in this section to take their dogs to some veterinarian and have them immunized against rabies. This should be done once each year for protection of your dogs, your live stock and most of all, your family and neighbors. One of the hardest ways to make a livrng is to work for it. Plan Sewers, Street Paving; To Buy New Car The town tax rate for 1947-48 was increased to $i.40 per M.00 valuation at a called meeting! of the board of commissioners in the City Hall Tuesday afternoon. The new levy marks an increase of 20 cents over the previous rate of $1.20. Based on the town’s total prop erty valuation of $4,516,909. the increase will produce $9,033.82 in additional revenue. Officials pointed out that the tax increase was necessary be cause of the increasingly high costs of labor and materials for town projects. The increase is in line with a general trend of cities throughout the country in seek ing additional income to meet the mounting costs of municipal func tions. Mayor Garland Johnson stated that the governing body planned to authorize the expenditure of approximately $20,000 for sewer projects, street paving and other permanent improvements during the year. Revenue from the in creased rate will pay for less than one-half of the costs of the pro jects, and the remainder will come from surplus funds and income derived from the proposed park ing meters. The shortage of materials and labor during the war forced post ponement of many needed town projects, and a tremendous back log of demands for street paving and other permanent improve ments has built up as a conse quence. In order to meet these demands and pay for rising costs of regular town functions the board voted for the higher rate. It was decided that an increase in the tax rate was the most practi cal and equitable means of in creasing the town’s income. The water rate of $2 for a minimum of 3,000 gallons (for consumers with sewer connections) was not in creased. The town’s new $1.40 rate is 10 cents lower than the average for North Carolina towns. North Wilkesboro recently increased its rate from $1.50 to $1.85. Mount Airy’s rate is $1.50, the average. Last year, the town spent $2, 575.88 more than its total revenue of $99,874.21. However, the year was ended with a surplus of $55, 399.24. Total bonded indebted ness of the town as of June 30, 1947 was $412,000.00. The town board also authorized the purchase of a new police car at its meeting Tuesday. City Ad ministrator Lewis Alexander has contacted all local automobile dealers, and a purchase contract is expected to be signed within the next few days. Delivery date was specified as not later than September 15. JAYCEES WILL STAGE CONTEST Annual Beauty Pageant Is Slated To Be Held At YMCA On August 6 WATER SHOW PLANNED The annual Beauty Pageant sponsored by the Elkin Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Gilvin Roth YMCA on Wednesday, August 6, it was an nounced today by Kemp Reece, chairman of the Jaycee beauty contest committee. Winner of the event will be crowned “Miss Elkin — 1947’’ and will represent the Junior Cham ber of Commerce in a state-wide contest to be held at Wrightsville Beach August 16. The state win ner will compete for the title of “Miss America’’ in a national con test. A water show, featuring exhibi tion diving and swimming, will be held at the YMCA pool in con junction with the ,beauty contest. The afternoon water event is sche duled to begin at 3 o’clock, and the evening beauty show is set for 8 p. m. Elkin merchants are being ask ed to sponsor entrants for the show, and all contestants will be awarded prizes. Single girls between the ages of 18 and 25 who live within a 25 mile radius of Elkin are eligible to compete in the contest.