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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 OL. No. XXXV No. 42 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1947 $2.00 PER YEAR 20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS OLD BELT LEAF MARKETS WILL OPEN TUESDAY | Both Mount Airy, Winston Salem, In Readiness Twin-City To Operate 15 Houses, Mount Airy Total Of Seven Houses TO BROADCAST OPENING The Old Belt Tobacco Market will open Tuesday morning, Sep tember 23. Both Mount Airy and Winston-Salem markets will be all set to go as the first leaf is offered for sale. The Mount Airy Market has an nounced a complete set of buyers representing all domestic and for eign companies, and with seven warehousese fully equipped and lighted to take care of the crop. Mount Airy is recognized as one of the leading markets of the . bright flue-cured tobacco belt, and following the opening will broadcast tobacco news over WSJS, Winston - Salem. week days from 1:00 to 1:15 and on Sundays from 12:15 to 12:45. The Winston-Salem market, the largest in the Old Belt and one of the largest in the world, has set its sights to exceed last year’s all time record of more than 75,000, 000 pounds. Fifteen warehouses, with four full sets of buyers will be in operation. Formal exercises at this year’s opening will include brief talks by Mayor George D. Lentz, State f Senator Gordon Gray, B. D. Mor I ton. president of Winston Tobacco Board of Trade, Thomas Pepper, president Winston Warehouse As sociation, and Robert Day, presi dent of Winston-Salem Retail Merchants Association. J. R. Morrill, Jr., chairman of the Tobacco Market Committee of Winston-Salem Chamber of Com merce, will be master of cere monies. Harry Krusz, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, will auction the first pile of tobacco. The formal opening, through an arrangement among the Winston Salem warehousemen, will be held this year at Liberty Warehouse, ■ on North Liberty Street, and will itart at 8:45 o’clock. ' Arrangements have been made to broadcast the opening over Station WSJS. YADKIN FAIR WENS MONDAY Shows, Rides, Exhibits And Fireworks To Feature Second Annual Event TO CONTINUE ONE WEEK The Great Yadkin Fair will op en its gates to the public next Monday to run through Saturday night for the second season of the event in Yadkinville, J. E. Shew, manager, stated yesterday. Arrangements for shows, rides, fireworks and a farm exhibits have been completed, Mr. Shew said, and an exhibit tent will be ready to receive farm products by Friday of this week. All exhibits must be in by Monday at noon. A variety of cash prizes are be ing offered as premiums for farm products, including tobacco, fruits and canned goods, and five $25 prizes are being offered for school exhibits. Tuesday will be school day for the fair, with all school children and teachers admitted free of charge from 12:30 until 6 o’clock in the evening. At all other times, admission will be 25c for children and 50c for adults. Fireworks will be presented each evening during the week be ginning Tuesday evening, with a variety of styles and types of ex plosives being used. According to advance publicity, the A.M.P. Shows, which made up the midway last year, will be present again for the fair and will have the latest modern riding de vices, ten in all, plus six shows and 40 fun booths on the mid way. The organization is billed as one of the largest traveling amusement enterprises on the Eastern Seaboard. AT^ariety of prizes will be given away during the week. Each night a new table model radio will be given away, and on Saturday night a refrigerator or electric range will be given away. Dupli cate tickets will be given at the entrance to the fairgrounds for the purpose of awarding these prizes, the tickets to be good for the nightly prize plus the main prize on the last night of the fair. Due to a mistake in the pre mium catalog which has been is sued, an additional prize of two wrist watches are listed to be given as prizes. However, the watches will not be given, but the other prizes mentioned here will be given away, Mr. Shew said. TOP WINNERS IN ELKIN FAT STOCK SHOW — The grand champ of the Elkin Fat Stock Show and Sale, which sold Wednesday after noon to Thurmond Chatham for SI.05 per pound, and his owner, Marie Moore, Route 1, Stony Point, Iredell county, are pictured at left, with Congressman C. B. Deane, main speaker on Tuesday’s program, in background. The reserve champ, which brought 50 cents per pound, and his owner, Ida Maude Black, of Sparta, Alleghany county, is shown at right. Hoyle Cranford, president of the sponsoring Elk in Junior Chamber of Commerce, which bid in the reserve champ, is pictured in right background. The grand champ brought a total of $1,044.75, the reserve champ $525.00. — tribune photo by bell— --:--- .V Grand Champ Calf Of Elkin Fat Stock Show Sells For *1,044.75 - A Reserve Champ Is Auctioned For Total Of $525.00; Sold To Jaycees A 995-pound Hereford calf be- ’ longing to Marie Moore of Iredell County, which was named grand champion of the Jaycee-sponsored Pat Stock Show Tuesday, brought $1,044.75 at the auction sale in Memorial Park Wednesday after noon. The top animal was pur chased by Thurmond Chatham. The 123 entries in Elkin’s fifth annual Fat Stock Show and Sale brought an average of $31.07 per hundred pounds, falling short of last year’s average of $31.86 by 79 cents. The reserve champion steer, en tered by Ida Maude Black of Alle ghany County, was sold to the Elkin Junior Chamber of Com merce, sponsor of the event, for 50 cents per pound. Weighing 1,050 pounds, the runner-up baby beef brought a total of $525. Ten northwestern North Caro lina counties were represented in the event by 4-H and FFA mem-' bers who exhibited steers they : owned and raised as club proj HURRICANE IS OVER FLORIDA Mighty Storm Strikes South ern Part Wednesday; Miami Is In Path IS ONE OF THE WORST Miami, Sept. 17.—A screaming tropical hurricane, with winds ranging upwards of 100 miles per hour, lashed Florida’s East Coast early today and moved slowly to bring its crushing center across the coast between Miami and Palm Beach shortly afternoon. Many thousands fled the ap palling power of the blow, seeking refuge in public buildings, schools and hotels. At 8:45 a. m. the storm was placed "close to the coast and still moving in a westerly direc tion.” It appeared to be centered 60 miles east of Delray Beach. The great blow, possibly the worst since 1928 when 2,500 per ished and $75,000,000 damage was inflicted, piled up the waters of Lake Okeechobee behind Palm Beach, and Sheriff John Kirk said: "I hope to God the dikes hold.” The rich, populous lower East Coast was battened down for the full force of the hurricane, but the State’s $100,000,000 citrus crop was in incalculable danger. The barometer plummeted in Miami, and weather-wise resi dents in the target area huddled in public shelters and in reinforced buildings. Heaviest force was ex pected near Palm Beach, where cyclonic winds up to 160 miles per hour may lash in from the sea. Before the mighty winds wheel around their center to strike Miami, they will pass over land. Their force drops off sharply un der these circumstances, but they still contain a mighty wallop. Miami is in for no picnic. ects. The animals were judged; by weight classes and designated ; as choice, good, commercial and utility grades. Both the grand champion and the reserve champ ion of the show were selected from the heavy class (900 pounds and up). Third and fourth places in the heavy class went to Ruby Hutchinson of Wilkes County, and Dwight Brown of Alleghany County, respectively. Grand champion honors in the medium class (820 to 895 pounds) went to the entry of Tommy Bar lowe of Ashe County, and a baby beef owned by Anna Jean Hol brook of Surry County was select ed as reserve champion in the medium class. In the light weight class (815 pounds and under), top honors were awarded the entry of Johnny Teague of Alleghany County, and second place went to a steer be longing to Fed Mills of Iredell County. Of the 123 entries, 37 animals were placed in the choice, or blue ribbon class. These top steers brought an average of $35.68 per hundred pounds. Prices ranged from the high of $1.05 per pound paid for the grand champion to 27 cents. Thurmond Chatham, chairman of the board of directors of Chat ham Manufacturing Company officially opened the auction sale which was attended by approxi mately 400 buyers and spectators. Surry County had 35 entries in the show and sale, and Yadkin County ranked second with 22. Five counties competed in group exhibits at the show Tuesday, each county entering its five top animals. Alleghany placed first in the county group showing, with Iredell, Wilkes, Surry and Forsyth following in that order. Judges of the show were D. B Brower and Jack Copenhaver, of VPI’s animal husbandry depart ment. L. I. Case, of the animal husbandry department of N. C. State College, was master of cere monies, and G. Mark Goforth, Jr., assistant Surry County agent served as ring master. Congressman Charles B. Deane addressed the youthful exhibitors at a program in the Gilvin Roth YMCA Tuesday morning. Speak ing on the “serious problems” that (Continued on page 4, first sec.) “The Twelfth Night” To Be First To Play _1_ Elkin Junior Woman’s club has annnounced that “The Twelfth Night” will be the first of two plays to be presented here by Robert Porterfield’s famous Barter Theatre of Virginia. The perfor mance, sponsored by the Junior Woman’s club, will be staged at the Elkin Elementary auditorium November 20. Tickets will be on sale next week. The second play, The Barrets of Wimpole Street, will be presented here by the Barter Theatre April 8. Glade Valley School Given Big- Donation _ * The Winston -Salem and Orange Presbyteries today had a new impetus to raise the re maining $100,000 needed to re build a school for mountain children of Northwestern North Carolina after an unnamed Winston-Salem business said he would contribute $100,000 if the Presbyteries could match it. Buildings of the Glade Valley School between Roaring Gap and Sparta have been con demned by the state board of education, and the Presby teries, which support the insti tution. arc campaigning for $300,000 for new structures. More than $100,000 has already been raised and a redoubled campaign will start this week for the remaining $100,000 needed to secure a similar amount from the benefactor. The school has operated for 37 years. DELEGATES ARE NAMED TO MEET State Convention of Young Democrats Club To Be At tended From Surry County ELECTION IS POSTPONED Surry County delegates to the state convention of Young Dem ocrat Clubs, to be held in Raleigt this week-end, were elected at a meeting of county YDC members in Dobson Saturday evening. Basil L. Whitener, state ssolici tor and president of the state YDC organization, was the featur ed speaker at the meeting. He pre dicted that the state convention this year would be the largest in history. The election of county YDC of ficers was postponed until after the state meeting. Delegates to the convention from Surry County will include Lewis Alexander, Claude Farrell Frank Freeman, John Llewellyn Archie Carter, Willie Johnson, Os car Smith, Tommy Hall, Jimmie Hadley, Carolyn Cooper, Frank Comer and Lula Betsy Folger. Child Loses Left Leg In Accident Edwin Reid Nixon, four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Reid Nixon of Thurmond, lost his left leg, when he was caught in a mowing ma chine Monday afternoon. The child was playing in the field where his parents were work ing and apparently fell in front of the machine. He was brought to Hugh Chat ham Memorial Hospital for treat ment where his condition is re ported as satisfactory. FAIR AT EAST BEND SEPT. 29 Will Stress Agricultural And Farm Produce Exhibits; Offer Many Premiums * WILL ENI) ON OCTOBER 4 A meeting of the stockholders of the Yadkin County Fair Asso ciation has been called to meet at the fair grounds at East Bend this afternoon, at which time the com ing fair, which begins September 29 and runs through October 4th. will be discussed. N. G. Hutchens who was killed last week had charge of certain parts of the fair and Gurney Hob son, who was superintendent, is confined to his bed with illness and may not be able to take any part in the conduct of the fair. Their successors will be discussed at the meeting. Both have been valuable assets to the fair and their presence there this year will be missed, although it is hoped Mr. Hobson can be there, some at least. The fair this year, as before, is stressing the agricultural and farm products exhibits, and valuable premiums are being offered in this line. Cash prizes totaling $28.00 are being offered for four grades of the best tobacco. Livestock will also come in for its share of prizes. This department includes horses mules, cows, hogs, etc., and the prizes are attractive. As usual the fruits, canned goods, bread and rolls, pies, cakes, will come in for their share of attention, with many prizes offered for various kinds of .flowers. Grange Display Among the largest prizes offered by the fair will go to the Grange Display. This feature is expected to attract much attention. The first prize for a Grange display will be $30.00 cash, the second prize $20.00 cash and the third (Continued On Page Eight) Average of $46.16 Paid At Middle Belt Opening Sales continued heavy Tuesday on markets of the Middle Belt following Monday’s opening at which 3,662,060 pounds of tobacco brought an average price of $46.16 per 100 pounds. Price trends Tuesday were ir regular. Several of the lower qual ity leaf grades increased from $1 to $4.50, and cutters and lemon lugs were slightly higher. However, orange lugs and most primings fell from $2 to $3. Meanwhile, on the Eastern North Carolina Belt prices recov ered from Monday’s slump and in some cases were higher than they were last Friday. But on the Bor der markets, a downward price spiral partially or completely elim inated gains recorded Monday. Border Belt sales Monday total ed 9,719,928 pounds at an average price of $41.78, and on the Eastern Belt 11,047,687 pounds avereaged $39.55. The opening sales on the Middle Belt brought out large quantities of good quality tobacco, aud offer ings were about the same in qual ity. The opening day average was $2.82 below the $48.98 opening average of last year and the poundage was about 1,000,000 be low last year's opening. Opening day averages for the nine Middle Belt markets ranged from a low of $44.12 to a high of $49.54. Average prices for a limited number of grades on the Middle Belt follow Leaf—Good orange $47, down $1; fair orange $42, up $1; low orange $34, up $3; common orange $28, up $4.50. Smoking leaf—Pine orange $53, down $1; good orange $53, up $1; fair orange $46, down $2. Cutters — Pair lemon $57, un changed;- low lemon $56, up $1. Lugs—Choice lemon $58, up $1; fine lemon $57, unchanged; good orange $51, down $2; fair orange, $44, unchanged. Primings—Fair lemon $41, down $2; fair orange $35, down $2. Nondescript—Best thin $13, up $1.75. Crutchfield Woman Is Given Suspended Term In Killing Of Husband INCREASE IN LAND PRICES Have Shot Upward 139 Per Cent Over The 1935-39 Av erage In North Carolina KENTUCKY IS UP 170'{ North Carolina land prices have increased 139 per cent over the 1935-39 average, according to C. B. Ratchford, in charge of Exten sion Farm Management at State College. This increase is exceeded ohly by Kentucky with 170 per cent, Colorado with 156 per cent, and Tennessee with 140 per cent, the specialist said. A large number of persons buy ing farms at present high prices believe they can pay for the farms in a few years at present prices, Mr. Ratchford declared; however, in view of high production costs and possible declines in farm prices and incomes, some farmers will again have difficulty in meet ing mortgage payments and other fixed debts. Not predicting what is going to happen to farm prices other than saying it seems reasonable that they will drop from present high levels, the specialist said that prices farmers are having to pay will increase if prices they receive remain high. If prices farmers receive, drop, prices paid will still remain high, he said, but the profit the farmer makes will prob ably decrease in either case. The farmers have been in ^ very favorable position since the beginning of the war as prices re ceived have increased faster than prices paid, thus, leaving a high I profit. Now, this is correcting it self as prices paid are increasing faster than prices received, he said. If the farmer pays half the present price for a farm in cash, he still owes as much or more than he would have in the late thirties had be bought the entire farm on credit—that is how seri ous the situation is, Mr. Ratchford said. Teachers Are To Be Guests of Kiwanians Teaching staffs of Elkin and Jonesville schools will be the guests of the Elkin Kiwanis Club at its meeting at the YMCA this evening (Thursday), at 6:30 o’clock. T. C. McKnight, who is in charge of the program, has se cured Dr. Mark Deppe, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, as guest speaker. At last week's meeting Miss Virginia Smith, new Bible teacher in the Elkin and Jonesville schools, was guest speaker, mak ing an interesting and instructive talk about her classes. Grooming workstock with a rubber curry comb and bristle brush to take out surface dirt and stimulate skin circulation is de sirable. 20 Cents Buys Lunch At Elkin Grammar School In these times of sky-rocket ing food prices you can still get a full course meal for 20 cents. That is, if you happen to be a student at Elkin Elementary School. Approximately 400 lunches are being served daily in the school cafeteria in conjunction with the national school lunch program sponsored by the De partment of Agriculture, ac cording to N. H. Carpenter, sup erintendent of Elkin City Schools. The cafeteria receives 25 cents for each meal it serves— 20 cents from the student and five cents from the federal government subsidy. Last week the Agriculture Department al located $48,750,000 for this year's national school lunch program, and North Carolina schools will get $2,241,509 of this amount. If food prices continue their upward spiral, Mr. Carpenter won’t be surprised to find in creasingly large numbers of adults enrolled in the elemen tary grades. MT. AIRY MAN DIES SATURDAY Joseph Bingham Sparger, 80, Passes Away Following Long Illness FUNERAL HELD MCVNDAY I Funeral services for Joseph i Bingham Sparger, 82, one of Mount Airy’s best known citizens who died Saturday night at a Winston-Salem hospital after a long illness, were held Monday morning at the home of a son, Randall W. Sparger, 201 Cherry Street. Dr. Charlie N. Clark conducted the services. Burial was in Oak dale Cemetery Mr. Sparger was born in Surry County, November 22, 1864, son of William S. and Sarah Witcher Sparger. He spent his entire life in Surry County and was one of the pioneers in the development of the widespread Sparger or chards that cover hundreds of acres of mountainside near Mount Airy. Mr. Sparger was graduated from Oak Ridge Military Institute and then taught school at Westfield and Mount Airy before entering the real estate and hardware busi ness. Later he was associated with the Banner Manufacturing Com pany, which for many years oper ated a chair factory in the Gran ite City. He served as postmaster at Mount Airy from 1924 to 1936. During this time the office was built into first class rating, and the present granite post office building was constructed. For several years he was a member of the Surry County Board of Commissioners and later was chairman of the Surry County Highway Commission. During his regime he supervised the building of a network of roads throughout the county and directed the con struction of 40 bridges in one year. He was also a leader in the building of the first improved road from Mount Airy to Galax, Va., by way of Lowgap. Mr. Sparger also served sev eral terms on the City School Board and City Light and Water Board. He was married to Miss Bettie Case, daughter of the late,Mr. and Mrs. Charles Case of Oak Ridge. She, died in 1918. Surviving are three sons, W. E and Randall W. Sparger, both of Mount Airy, and Collier B. Spar ger of Scarsdale, N. Y.; three daughters, Mrs. Conrad Siceloff of Mount Airy. Mrs/ H. W. Richard son of Durham and Mrs. Lillian Jarvis of Washington, D. C.; one brother, Allen L. Sparger of Lex ington; one sister, Mrs. iW. D. Wall of Winston-Salem; and five grandchildren. A good dairy cow requires a large quantity of water, and the milking cow needs considerably more than the dry cow. Lavora Wood Enters Plea Self Defense Mrs. Lavora Wood of Crutch field, charged with manslaughter for the fatal shooting of her hus band last January, was given a suspended sentence of one year and placed on three year's proba tion by Judge William H. Bobbitt in superior court at Dobson Tues day. Mrs. Wood had entered a plea of nolo contendere through her attorneys, Allen and Hender son of Elkin, and Woltz and Bar ber of Mount Airy. The Crutchfield woman had been at liberty under $2,000 bond since January 5 when she killed her estranged husband, Harvey Wood, as he attempted to enter her home. Testimony offered in the case supported Mrs. Wood’s claim that she had fired in self defense. Evidence indicated that she had been separated from her husband for some time and, on the day of the shooting, the late Harvey Wood had gone to her home and threatened her. Among other cases disposed of during the first week of court were: Thomas Moore, charged with forgery and bigamy, sentenced to one year on the roads. Jesse W. Hall, charged with breaking and entering, pleaded guilty, sentenced to serve two years in the State prison. Fred L. Berrier, charged with operating a car under the influ ence of liquor and reckless driv ing, pleaded guilty, sentenced to eight months on the roads. Folger' Draughn, charged with operating a car under the influ ence of liquor, pleaded guilty, fined $75 and costs and given a 90-day suspended sentence. Garfield Patton, charged with reckless driving, pleaded guilty, fined $10 and costs. James H. Tuttle, charged with operating a car under the in fluence of liquor, pleaded guilty, fined $100 and costs and given a suspended sentence of 90 days. R. L. Hemric, Jr., charged with operating a car under the influ ence of liquor, pleaded guilty, fin ed $50 and costs and sentenced to serve 90 days on the roads. Dotson Vestal and Leslie W, Carrico, both of whom were charg ed with operating cars under the influence of liquor, were given 90 day suspended sentences and each was fined $100 and costs. Charlie Turpin, charged with reckless driving, pleaded guilty, fined $25 and costs. Hobert Hiatt, charged with op erating a car under the influence (Continued on page eight) TOP FLYERS TO BEATAIRSHOW Parade And Retreat Cere mony To Be Staged On Day Prior To Event MILITARY BAND COMING Some of the world’s top flyers will be present for the VFW-spon sored Air Show scheduled to be held at Elkin Municipal Airport Sunday afternoon, September 28. Among the performers will be Woody Edmonson of Lynchburg, Va., who is rated as the world’s number two stunt pilot, and Carl Dunn, famous stunt flyer from Wilmington. N. C., it was an nounced today by Russell Bur cham, VFW Commander. Invitations have been extended to a number of prominent North Carolina political and military leaders, including Governor Gregg Cherry, Senators William B. Um stead and Clyde R. Hoey, Repre sentative John H. Folger, Ed Snead, commander of the North Carolina Department of the VFW, and Colonel Norman McNeill, sen ior instructor, ORC, North Caro lina Military District. A parade and retreat ceremony will be staged on the afternoon preceding the show with the as sistance of a 50-piece military band and honor guard. The La dies Auxiliary to the local post will hold an Air Show Dance Sat urday, September 27. A record attendance is expected for the event. In the event of rain the show will be held October 5.