ELKIN
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C, THURSDAY. AUGUST 14, 1947
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“MISS ELKIN" AND RI’NNERS-UP — Carrying the hopes of the Elkin Junior Chamber of Com
merce in the State Beauty Pageant at Wrighlsville Beach this week-end will be Miss Helen Tomlin
son, above, who was crowned as Elkin’s beauty queen in the beauty show here last week. Standing
behind “Miss Elkin” are Miss Betty Cope, left, third-place winner in the event, and Miss Lucille Hall,
second-place contestant. (photo by belli
k METHODISTS TO
STAGE OUTING
Plans Completed For Event
By Young Adults Of Win
ston-Salem District
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EXPECT 350 TO ATTEND
Plans have been completed for
1 the annual outing, sponsored each
year by the Methodist young
adults of the Winston-Salem dis
trict. This event will be held at
i Camp Eetty Hastings (YWCA
Camp) near Walkertown, Satur
day, August 23. beginning at 3:30
p. m.
More than 350 young adults and
their children, representing more
than 100 Methodist churches of
the Winston-Salem district are
expected to attend this annual
event. Dr. H. G. Allen, the dis
trict superintendent, along with
all the ministers of the district
will be in attendance.
B. C. Troxler of Winston-Salem
is in charge of arrangements, and
varied recreational activities in
the form of a “carnival” will be
provided for adults and children.
Pood will be provided for every
one at a minimum cost. In the
event of inclement weather, there
are ample facilities indoors for the
entire group.
A concluding leature of this an
nual gathering is the election of
district officers for the ensuing
year. This part of the program
will be presided over by Harold
Garner, the present president of
the Methodist Young Adult Fel
lowship of the Winston-Salem
District.
All 'Methodist churches in the
district are urged to be represent
( ed at this annual outing.
Jaycees To Meet
{ About Stock Show
A second planning session for
the Jaycee-sonsored Fat Stock
Show and Sale to be staged here
next month will be held in the
YMCA tonight (Thursday) at 8
p. m.
Committees for the annual
event are expected to be named by
Jaycee President Hoyle Cranford
and a complete program for the
two-day show and sale will be out
lined.
County Agent Neill M. Smith
and Assistant Agents Mark Go
forth, Jr„ S. N. Hawks, Jr., and
Luther G. Sink, Jr„ will be present
to aid in planning for the event.
Mr. Goforth will be ring master
at the stock show, and L. I. Case,
of the North Carolina State Col
lege animal husbandry depart
ment, has been invited to serve as
master of ceremonies.
Miss Elkin’ To Take
Part In State Contest
Miss Helen Tomlinson Wins Title
In Jaycee Beauty Pageant Here
Miss Helen Tomlinson, who was
crowned “Miss Elkin of 1947” at
the Jaycee Beauty Pageant in the
YMCA last week, is scheduled to
leave today (Thursday) for
Wrightsville Beach where she will
represent the local Junior Cham
' her in the annual State Jaycee
Beauty Pageant to be held Sat
urday.
For the statistical-minded, Miss
Tomlinson's measurements are:
bust, 36 inches; hips, 36 inches,
w#iist, 25 inches. She is five feet,
eight inches tall, 21 years of age,
ROYALLTOBE
GUEST SPEAKER
Secretary Of War Accepts In
vitation To Appear At
4th Club Meet
RALEIGH AUGUST 18-23
Secretary of War Kenneth C
Royall, has accepted an invitation
i to appear on the program of the
Fifteenth Annual State 4-H Club
Week at State College. August 18
23, according to an announcement
this week from L. R. Harrill.
I State Club Leader for the State
College Extension Service.
The first Tar Heel member of
the Cabinet since Josephus
Daniels, Editor of the Raleigh
News and Observer, was Secretary
of Navy in World War I, Secretary
Royall is scheduled to address the
more than 1,400 4-H Club boys
and girls who are expected to at
tend their special week.
Present arrangements call for
; the distinguished North Carolin
; ian to speak at the evening ses
sion, Fnday, August 22, in Rid
dick Stadium. Time has been set
j at 8:00 o’clock, and radio station
j WPTF will broadcast the speech
| on a state-wide network of pnnci
i pal stations.
Delegates from the state’s 1,955
4-H Clubs will spend five days and
nights on the State College camp
us, participating in conferences,
study, Semonstrations, recreation
contests, and special events. Fri
day night’s, program will be built
around Secretary Royall’s address,
singing, recreation, evening ves
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weighs 132 pounds and hails from
East Bend. Her telephone num
ber was not available.
Six judges selected Miss Tom
linson as Elkin’s beauty queen
from a field of 19 contestants in
the Jaycee event last Wednesday.
Miss Lucille Hall won second
place in the contest, and Miss
Bettv Cope was selected for third
place honors.
Mayor Garland Johnson crown
ed the winner following a talent
show in which each of the con
testants participated. Miss Tom
linson, who was enthusiastically
received by the audience, played
two piano solos.
Dr. V. W. Taylor, Jaycee vice
president, acted as master of
ceremonies at the pageant and
introduced the contestants. Miss
Maxine Aldridge, winner of the
1946 beauty show, was presented
at the crowning of the new
queen.
"The Rebels,” a 10-piece orch
estra led by Gene Aldridge, pro
vided music for the event.
Prior to the evening show, a
water carnival was staged at the
YMCA pool with Earl Queen as
master of ceremonies. The after
noon event featured a parade of
the contestants in bathing attire
in addition to diving exhibitions,
comedy acts and a swimming con
test.
Contestants in the event were
guests of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce at a ladies’ night din
ner session in the YMCA follow
ing the water show. A trio con
sisting of Edith Johnson, Dixie
Rose, and Jeanette Myers pre
sented several numbers on the
program.
Judges for the beauty show
were Ralph Garner, Jay Bruner
and Bill Tudor of the Winston
Salem Junior Chamber of Com
merce, Aubrey Faircloth of
Greensboro, and Jerry Derr and
Fred Hubbard of the North Wilk
esboro Junior Chamber.
The Elkin J’mior Woman’s
Club, headed by Miss Erline May
berry, co-operated with the Jay
cees in staging the event.
Clyde Carroll, Dr. V. W. Tay
lor and Kemp Reece, who was
chairman of the Jaycee Beauty
Pageant committee, are also
scheduled to leave today for
Wrightsville Beach where they
will attend the quarterly meeting
of the State Jaycee directors’
meeting as official delegates.
Other Jaycees expected to attend
the event are Clyyde Rudd, "Tat”
Davis, Ed Royall and Van Dillon.
License Plate
Branch To Be
Opened Here
A branch office of the Caro
lina Motor Club will be opened
in the offices of the Butner
McLeod Motor Company, on
North Bridge street, about
September 1, it was learned
Tuesday.
This office will provide auto
license service for motorists of
Elkin and this area, and will
make it unnecessary for motor
ists to have to go or send to
North Wilkesboro, Mount Airy
or Winston-Salem for auto li
cense plates. The office will
also take care of auto title
transfers.
E. L. McCurry, of the office
staff of Butner-McLcod Motor
Co., will be in charge of the
branch office.
WILL BE GIVEN
HOME SERVICE
Former Servicemen, Enlist
ing In Army, Will Have
Year In 3rd Area
ENLIST FOR 3 YEARS
Former servicemen may soor
enlist in the Regular Army and b€
assured of an initial assignment
of at least one year’s duratior
within the limits of the Thirc
Army Area, which includes the
states of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Tennessee
according to Capt. W. E. Cooper
of the Army Recruiting Service.
The r.ew directive authorizes
the enlistment of former members
of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps
and Coast Guard, who were hon
orably discharged on or after Maj
12, 1945, for specific assignments
in the Third Army Area where
vacancies exist.
Capt. Cooper stated that en
listees under this directive wil
not be eligible for overseas ser
vice for a minimum period of one
year, unless his entire outfit i:
transferred overseas. If this
should occur, he will accompany
his unit.
All enlistments under this nev
authorization will be in the Regu
lar Army unassigned for a perioc
of at least three years.
Many former servicemen have
intimated that they would like t<
return to the Army if they coulc
be assured of staying near hom<
for a specified period. Thej
should contact the local recruit
ing sub-station so that they maj
be informed of openings in near
by installations as they occur.
IS CONSIDERED
FOR HONOR
Miss Ivylvn Sparger Has
Shown Outstanding Record
In 4-H Club Work
WINS MANY CONTESTS
Miss Ivylyn Sparger, 16-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Sparger, Route 3, Mount Airy, has
won the distinction of being con
sidered for membership in the
state 4-H Honor Club.
A limited number of 4-H Club
members in the state are selected
for the Honor Club each year on
the basis of individual records,
and Miss Sparger’s outstanding
achievements in seven years of 4-H
work are expected to win her a
place on the coveted roll.
Miss Sparger was winner of the
4-H Clothing Achievement contest
in Chicago last year and was
awarded a $200 college scholar
ship as first prize. She is a five
time winner of the county 4-H
Dress Revue, and was runner-up
in the county health contest this
year.
Forty-two 4-H projects, with an
estimated value of $24,745.58, have
been completed by Miss Sparger.
She has been president of the
county 4-H Council and a consis
tent leader in 4-H work.
At the 4-H Short Course in Ral
eigh next week, she will give a
team demonstration of dairy foods
preparation with Miss Vernelle
Wood, with whbm she was district
co-winner in a recent contest.
Mrs. Grace Pope Brown, Surry’s
home demonstration agent, and
Mrs. Bess G. Davenport, assistant
agent, have coached Miss Sparger
in her outstanding 4-H career, and
submitted her records for consid
eration to state 4-H officials
Members selected for the honor
will be announced during the
Short Course at State College next
week.
We must cut our coat according
to our cloth, and adapt ourselves!
'to changing circumstances.—Inge.,
HEALTH CHAMPS
TO COMPETE IN
STATE CONTEST
Named King And Queen Of
Health Last Month
NORTHWEST DISTRICT
Lorene Snow And Sam Taylor
To Take Part In Con
test At Raleigh
WILL TAKE COURSE
Miss Lorene Snow of Dobson
and Mr. Sam Taylor of White
Plains, who were selected as
health queen and king of the
Northwestern Extension District
last month, will leave Monday for
Raleigh where they will attend the
annual 4-H Short Course at North
Carolina State College. They will
compete with health winners from
four other districts for the titles
of state health champions during
the event.
Other Surry County 4-H Club
members planning to attend the
Short Course are Bonnie Holder,
Route 1, Elkin; Bobby Lee Cock
erham, State Road; Evelyn
Waugh, White Plains; Wilma
Frances Broome, White Plains;
Bobbie Burge, Pilot Mountain;
Ivylyn Sparger, Route 3, Mount
Airy; and Vernelle Wood, Route 3,
Mount Airy.
Members of the delegation were
selected on the basis of outstand
ing records in 4-H Club work dur
ing the past year.
Miss Sparger and Miss Wood
will give a team demonstration in
the preparation of dairy foods in
competition with other district
contestants.
Miss Waugh, who was named
county winner of the 4-H Dress
Revue recently, will compete in
the state dress contest to be held
during the Short Course.
Mrs. Bess G. Davenport, assist
ant home demonstration agent,
[ and Luther G. Sink, Jr., assistant
. county agent, will be in charge of
. the group.
; The 4-H Short Course week will
; be climaxed with an address by
. Secretary of War Kenneth Royall
next Friday, August 22. Specialists
r in 4-H Club and extension service
. work will lecture and give demon
[ strations during the course.
' Civilian meat supplies this year
1 promise to be fully as large as in
1 1946 and well above most of the
! war years. Civilian meat supplies
per person in 1946 averaged 153
pounds compared with 134 pounds
in 1937-41, according to BAE.
4-H LEADER — Miss Ivylyn
Sparger, above, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Sparger, Route
3, Mount Airy, may be among
the few 4-H Club members of
North Carolina to be selected
for the state 4-H Honor Club
at State College’s 4-H Short
Course next week. Her records
have been submitted to state of
ficials for consideration by
Surry County’s Home Demon
stration office. Members are
selected for the Honor Club on
the basis of outstanding
RUSK GIRL CROWNED “MISS’DURHAM” — The Durham Junior
Chamber of Commerce will be represented in the State Jaycee
Beauty Pageant at Wrightsville Beach this week-end by Miss Hal
lic Mac Dockery, above, daughter of Mrs. Alvin Dockery of Rusk.
Miss Dockery has been employed by Radio Station WTIK in Dur
ham since early summer, and was selected for the honor at the
local Jaycee beauty show in that city last Friday. She will be ac
companied to Wrightsville Beach by her mother, who ieft today to
join the beauty winner in Durham. Last year Miss Dockery was a
student at the University of North Carolina, where she was named
“Dream Girl” of Pi Kappa Alpha at the fraternity’s annual Dream
Girl dance.
Lions Horse Show To
Be Held Here 22-23
Judges And Ring Officials Are
Announced For Big Annual Event
Judges and ring officials for the
annual Elkin Lions Club Horse
Show have been announced by
Lion President H. Glenn York.
The two-day event will be held
August 22 and 23 in the new ex
position building at Memorial
Park with night shows on Friday
and Saturday, and an afternoon
1 show Saturday.
■ Management of the show is
I again in the hands of John L.
Bowers, of Black Mountain, who
managed the show last season for
the Elkin Lions, and who has just
completed a number of highly
1 successful horse show in the two
I Carolinas and Georgia,
j To judge the gaited horses, the
Lions have secured the services of
Miss Nola E. Minton, noted breed
! er, trainer, manager, and owner of.
4 PRISONERS
MAKE ESCAPE
Take French Leave Of Yad
kin Camp, But All Are Re
captured After Thefts
TWO SENT TO RALEIGH
Two long term white prisoners
escaped from the Yadkinville pri
son camp Saturday and made a
successful hideout, of it until Mon
day night when they were found
in the edge of Greensboro and
taken into custody. They werel
Woodrow Stanley, an Indian, and
Ray Hegler, alias Black Jack.
Sunday night two more prison
ers of C grade, escaped from the
camp. They were Clyde Harris,
who has several escapes to his
credit, and Jerry Tolbert.
Monday morning Frances Mar
tin reported to Sheriff Moxley
that some one had broken into his
automobile parked in his yard,
and had stolen a number of arti
cles, including some food, a wrist
watch, a razor and some smaller
items. Sheriff Moxley figured it
was the escaped convicts, but
nothing was heard of them until
Monday night, when they were
reported arrested in Statesville by
the Highway Patrol.
It seems they made their way to
Mocksville where they took a car
and drove it away, but woke the
owner in the time of it. He notifi
ed the law that they went to
ward Statesville and the patrol
there was alerted and nabbed
them as they went into town.
They still had Martin’s watch,
razor, etc.
State prison authorities ordered
these two sent to Central prison
in Raleigh where they can be
i kept.
fine show horses, who maintains
one of the nation’s finest horse
farms, Minton Hickory Farm, at
Barbourville, Ky. Miss Minton has,
with her associates, owned and
trained many of the nation’s top
flight show horses.
Judging the walking horses will
be X. B. (Jack) Haynie, of Knox
ville, Tennessee, who was reared
in the heart of the Tennessee
walking horse country, and who
has trained some of the best walk
ing horses now living.
Hunters and jumpers will be
judged by Delmar Twyman, from
Quail Roost Farm at Rougemenot,
who judged in the Carolinas for
a number of years, and who is
well-known and respected among
horse showmen. An expert horse
man in his own right, and a high
ly-rated exhibitor of hunters and
jumpers, Mr. Twyman enjoys a
wide following in these divisions
of show horses.
The new show grounds now
nearing completion here comprise
more than 75 box stalls with tail
boards, a standard ring, modern
lighting equipment and ample
room to park hundreds of auto
mobiles. Funds were raised by
popular subscription among
prominent business men of Elkin
to build the new plant.
Entries received indicate that
stalls will be filled to capacity.
Among prominent stables which
have expressed their intention to
exhibit at the Elkin show are
Rainbow Farms, Charlotte; Dav
anna tables, Lumberton; Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Shuford, Hickory;
Lindsay Holcombe, Mt. Airy; Beck
Moehlman, Newton; Wade Moody,
Mt. Airy; W. L. Bagwell, Raleigh;
Wade Stepp, Winston - Salem;
Zaachary - Lanning stables,
Greenville, S. C.; Meaaowbrook
Stables, Salisbury; Charles Mit
chell, Jr., Leaksville; E. E. Chap
man, Greenville, S. C.; C. V. Hen
kel, Jr., Statesville; and others.
Information, entry forms, and
prize lists, may be secured by
writing John L. Bowers, at P. O.
Box 1,000, Elkin, N. C., or by con
tacting H. Glenn York, president
Elkin Lions Club.
Stock Car Races At
Mount Airy Sunday
A large selection of the South’s
top drivers will be on hand for
the stock car races at the Mount
Airy Speedway Sunday after
noon.
Bill Blair of High Point, who
broke all previous records at the
Tri-City Speedway last week, will
head the list of racers in the 50
lap feature event.
Time trials are set for one
o’clock, and the races will begin
at 2 p. m.
WILKES MAN IS
UNDER BOND ON
SERIOUS COUNT
Hugh West, of N. Wilkesboro,
Faces Two Charges
IN DEATH OF WOMAN
G. F. Fields, Who Was With
Girl On Night She Died,
Is Released From Jail
MAY CALL EXTRA TERM
Hugh West, 31, was released
from Wilkes County jail Monday
night under bond of $10,000 on a
charge of abortion and man
slaughter, following the death of
Miss Pearl Jenkins, 24, who was
found dead beside highway 421
six miles east of Wilkesboro on the
night of July 31. West is well
known in Yadkinville, where he
lived with his parents, Rev. and
Mrs. R. L. West, pastor of Yad
kinville Baptist church, before go
ing to Winston-Salem where he
has been employed in various drug
stores during the past five years.
He is married and has two chil
dren.
West was indicted by a Wilkes
County grand jury last week, but
when officers went to look for him
at a North Wilkesboro drug store
where he has been working for
about six months, they said he left
last Wednesday. He was located
Saturday near Asheville where he
was attending a motorcycle con
vention, and returned to Wilkes
boro Saturday night.
G. P. Fields of Winston-Salem,
who was with the girl on the night
she died, told officers Miss Jenk
ins asked him to carry her to
North Wilkesboro. When they
reached a point six miles east of
Wilkesboro Miss Jenkins said she
had to have air. He let her out of
the car where she fell in a faint.
According to Field’s story he
started for help and when he re
turned she was dead. The girl
would have become a mother in
two or three months according to
doctors who examined her.
Another story is that Fields and
the girl had been to North Wilkes
boro, where they saw West and
started back to Winston-Salem
when the girl left the car and
died. Two kinds of medicine found
in the girl’s pocketbook caused
suspicion and led to the arrest of
Fields and later to West.
Solicitor Avalon E. Hall of Yad
kinville stated yesterday that West
might be tried at the term of court
now going on at Wilkesboro, but
most likely at a later term, and
that there might be a special term
of court to try West and another
case.
WILKES MEN TO
BE TRIED 18TH
Percy And Taft Johnson
Charged With Fatal Shoot
ing Of Lloyd Mayberry
FACE MURDER CHARGE
Trial for Percy and Taft John
son, Wilkes County men charged
with the fatal shooting on June
14 of Lloyd Mayberry, of the Win
dy Gap community, has been set
for Monday in Wilkes superior
court.
The Johnson men, who are
cousins, reportedly went to the
home of a third cousin, Shirley
Johnson, looking for Mayberry,
whom they accused of running
whiskey off their still and stealing
it. Percy was said to have
fired the fatal shot with a .45 au
tomatic pistol, while Taft stood
by with a shotgun.
Solicitor Avalon Hall said he
would seek a first degree murder
conviction for both men.
Percy was convicted of second
degree murder in a similar case
some 20 years ago. Solicitor Hall
said, and was sentenced to serve
25 to 30 years in prison. He was
paroled after serving only a brief
part of the sentence, according to
the solicitor.
Charlie Cook Hurt
In Auto Accident
Charlie Cook, employee of Mar
lin’s Service Station, suffered
minor injuries when his car over
turned at the intersection of Elk
Spur and West Main Street early
last Thursday morning.
Cook was alone in the automo
bile and reportedly traveling at an
excessive rate of speed. Heading
west, the car turned over and
crashed into the stone wall in
front of the Episcopal Church at
the intersection. Cook was treat
ed for cuts on his face and head
at the Hugh Chatham Memorial
Hospital. His car was almost
completely demolished.