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VOL. No. XXXV No. 44
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1947
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SURRY BUREAU
CALLS MEETING
FOR THIS P.M.
Important Session Of Farm
Organization At Dobson
SECOND MEET PLANNED
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Smith Calls On Farmers To
Organize And Plan Program
To Keep Prices Stabilized
SEEKING NEW MEMBERS
A meeting of officers and direc
tors of the Surry County Farm
Bureau has been called for tonight
(Thursday) at 7:30 in the court
house at Dobson, according to an
announcement by S. H. Atkinson,
president, and P. N. Taylor, vice
president and secretary of the or
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ganization.
Purpose of the meeting is to
discuss plans for a county-wide
membership drive scheduled to get
under way immediately. Quotas
for each of the 14 community
farm bureaus in the county have
been set up and will be passed on
at the meeting tonight, and
members will be assigned to con
duct the drive in each community.
Farm Bureau presidents and
directors expected to be present
are: F. E. Layne of Copeland.
Gray Layne and M. H. Needham
of Shoals, H. C. Lawrence and J.
Lee Thompson of Dobson, J. Kyle
Thompson and R. E. Snow of
Mountain Park, Frank Miller and
Orvid Hurt of Elkin, Robert Jones
of Mount Airy, Tom Hall and H.
E. Schaffer of Beulah, L. M. Key
and H. C. Badgett of Eldora, C.
C. White of Marsh, W. J. Davis
and Ernest E. Inman of Long Hill,
E. L. Hunter and A. P. Irwin of
Cook, J. Glenn Hall and Vester
F. Jackson of Westfield, G. W.
Todd and E. C. Schuyler of
Lowgap, and P. Boyd Nelson and
R. C. Boaz of Pilot Mountain.
A second meeting will be held
next Thursday evening, October
9, at which a number of repre
sentatives of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau will be present to
spur the membership drive.
Commending the work of the
farm bureau in its efforts to
maintain high farm incomes,
County Agent Neill M. Smith call
ed on farmers to organize and
plan the type of farm program
that will keep prices stabilized.
“Next year will again be a cru
cial year in agriculture,” Mr.
Smith said. "The transition from
war to peace-time operations is
still incomplete. Many farmers
are still working under a handi
cap of shortages of farm mach
inery, fertilizer and, in some cases,
labor. These difficulties must be
overcome by a peace-time farm
and educational program.”
Mr. smith also pointed out that
many of the present laws dealing
with price stabilization will ex
pire on January 1, 1949, and urged
that farmers have an adequate
farm program prepared by that
time to replace the features of
present legislation.
RALLY DAY IS
HELD SUNDAY
Officers Of Presbyterian Sun
day School Are Installed
For Ensuing Year
OLI) OFFICERS THANKED
Rally day was held at the Elkin
Presbyterian Sunday school Sun
day morning at which time the
following officers were installed
for the coming year: Atty R. Lewis
Alexander, superintendent; D.
Carter Dickson, assistant superin
tendent; Atty. Hoke Henderson,
secretary-treasurer.
The rally day program marked
the beginning of the five-year
^ Presbyterian Program of Progress
in the Presbyterian church.
On behalf of the Sunday school,
T. C. McKnight expressed appre
ciation to outgoing officers for the
splendid work they had accom
plished.
Robbery Of Local
Store Is Attempted
An attempted robbery of
-Smithey's Department Store Sun
day night was reported to police,
but no trace of the would-be burg
lars has been found. Investigating
officers said footprints near the
back door of the building indicat
ed that the attempt to enter the
store was made by one or more
young boys.
Meanwhile, the thief who enter
ed Cash and Carry store through
a skylight last week and stole $14
is still at large.
The word “hiemal” refers tc
winter.
TO ADDRESS KIWANIANS —
E. A. Resch, above, president of
the North Carolina Press Asso
ciation, will be guest speaker at
the Elkin Kiwanis Club meeting
in the YMCA tonight (Thurs
day). Mr. Resch will speak in
connection with the observance
of National Newspaper Week,
October 1-8. The local Kiwanis
Club each year features a spe
cial program honoring newspap
ers as a part of Kiwanis Inter
national’s annual tribute to the
nation's free press.
E. A. RESCH TO
ADDRESSCLUB
Kiwanians To Present Pro
gram In Observance Of Na
tional Newspaper Week
TO STRESS FREE PRESS
E. A. Resch, of Siler City, presi
dent of the North Carolina Press
Association and publisher of The
Chatham News, will be guest
speaker at the Elkin Kiwanis Club
during its meeting at the Gilvin
Roth YMCA this evening (Thurs
day), at 6:30 p. m.
The program, to be observed as
National Newspaper Week, which
began October 1 and will con
tinue through the 8th, will be in
charge of Kiwanian H. P. Laffoon,
publisher of The Tribune, and
will stress the importance of a
free press as one of the nation’s
strongest safeguards of liberty.
Last week’s program, which was
in charge of George E. Royall,
featured talks by charter mem
bers of the club, and proved to be
very entertaining as some of the
members related their experiences
during the early days of the club,
which was organized in 1923.
Present members of the club
who were charter members are as
follows: J. G. Abernethy, W. M.
Allen, J. H. Beeson, A. O. Bryan,
Dr. E. G. Click, H. C. Graham,
H. P. Graham, Dr. R. B. Harrell,
H. F. Laffoon, W. A Neaves, P.
M. Norman, C. C. Poindexter, J.
R. Poindexter, George E. Royall
and R. G. Smith.
BOY INJURED IN
ACCIDENT HERE
Brent Johnson Seriously Hurt
In Bicycle-Automobile
Collision Tuesday
IN WINSTON HOSPITAL
Brent Johnson, 10, youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. Thurman L.
Johnson, of this city, who was
seriously injured early Tuesday
morning when his bicycle was in
collision with an automobile driv
en by Livingston Williams, Elkin
attorney, was reported to be still
unconscious Wednesday morning
in a Winston-Salem hospital
where he was carried shortly after
the accident. However, he was
reported to be “holding his own."
The accident occured at the in
J tersection of Spring Street and
Church as the youth was on his
way to school. Mr. Williams, whe
was accompanied by his wife, said
that he was headed east or
Spring Street and had entered
the intersection on the green light
when the youngster on his bicy
cle suddenly appeared in the path
of his car. Police stated that cht
child was knocked a considerable
distance, and it was thought he
suffered a severe concussion oi
the brain and a possible fracture
of the skull when his head struct
the pavement.
The boy was immediately car
ried to Hugh Chatham hospita
where an x-ray was made, anc
was then rushed to a Winston
Salem hospital for treatment b;
specialists.
Mr. Williams, it was said, car
ried the unconscious boy td the
local hospital and he 1 and Mrs
Williams went with him to Win
stoh-Salem.
Police stated Wednesday tha
no charges had been preferred.
LOCAL DRIVE
AGAINST T. B.
IS UNDER WAY
Every Elkin Citizen Urged To
Take Free X-Ray
HEALTH OFFICE HERE
Three Days Remain In Drive;
Only 222 X-Rays Given
Monday And Tuesday
CLUBS COOPERATING
Local health officials are urg
ing that every citizen participate
in the nation - wide campaign
against tuberculosis by having
their chests x-rayed at the health
office this week.
The local drive got under way
Monday and will be concluded at
2 p. m. Saturday. With only three
days remaining in the campaign,
officials of the health office ex
pressed hope that the response
would increase during the latter
part of the week. Only 222 per
sons took advantage of the free
service Monday and Tuesday.
Last week, more than 2,000 em
ployees of Chatham Manufactur
ing Company were x-rayed in the
drive, and the service is being of
fered this week to citizens in gen
eral.
Miss Louise Bailey, secretary of
the Surry County Health Depart
ment, is in charge of the x-ray
work, and several civic groups are
assisting Miss Mazie Jean Jones,
health educator for the county, in
conducting the campaign.
The Junior Woman's Club,
headed by Miss Erline Mayberry,
has appointed committees to can
vas the town in an effort to con
tact every citizen and urge partic
ipation in the drive. The com
mittee members are Mrs. V. W.
Taylor, Mrs. Earl Day, Mrs. Hugh
Salmons, Mrs. James Atwell, Mrs.
Jack Holcomb, Mrs. Bill Dixon,
Mrs. Fred Eidson, Mrs. Richard
Atkinson, Mrs. T., P. Mayberry,
Mrs. Rich Chatham, Mrs. Dan
Hudspeth, Mrs. T. V. Cockerham
Mrs. R. W. Harris, Mrs. George
Royall, Mrs. Errol Hayes, Mrs.
Harry Hensel, Mrs. Charles Dixon,
Mrs. Joe Bivins, Sr., Miss Mary
Gale Price, Mrs. Winfred Creed,
Mrs. James Booher and Mrs.
Hoyle Cranford.
Also cooperating in the drive
are the Junior Chamber of Com
merce, the Merchants Association,
and the Kiwanis and Lions Clubs.
ASK CLOTHING
FOR RUMMAGE
Children Asked To Take Ar
ticles To School For
I'.-T.A. Sale Oct. 11
BENEFIT OF THE SCHOOL
All children are asked to take
articles of discarded clothing to
school for the P.-T. A. rummage
sale which is to be held Saturday,
October 11 from 9 a. m. to 5 p.
m. at the Elkin Curb Market.
The sale is being held to raise
funds for the improvement of Elk
in Elementary school.
Everyone is urged to clean out
their attic and closets, in order to
send their discarded clothing to
be sold at the rummage sale.
THOUSANDS AT
VFW AIR SHOW
Crowds Are Thrilled As Fly
ers Put Planes Through
Stunt Maneuvers
THANKS ARE EXPRESSED
Several thousand spectators lin
ed the runways at Elkin Municipal
Airport Sunday afternoon to see
Woody Edmondson, Carl Dunn,
Tommy Boyd and other outstand
ing airmen perform in made-to
order weather for the second an
nual VFW-sponsored Air Show.
Climax of the event was a de
layed parachute jump by Boyd,
who leaped from a Cub plane at
about 8,000 feet and plunged
through the sky to a point less
than 1,000 feet from the ground
before opening his parachute.
Wearing a ‘‘bat wing” suit and
trailing flour to mark his descent,
Boyd gave the crowd the biggest
thrill of the afternoon.
Woody Edmondson, flying a
clipped-wing monocoupe with a
“souped-up” engine, put his ship
through every acrobatic maneuver
in the book in an exhibition of
low-level stunt flying.
Herb Page, west coast champion
of low acrobatic precision flying,
piloted a Steerman trainer in a
20-minute stunt performance that
included loops, slow and snap
rolls, Immelmanns and other
maneuvers at low altitudes.
Dunn gave an exhibition of pre
cision flying by picking up a
handkerchief from the ground
with the wing tip of his Cub.
The Air Show was preceded by
a military parade on Main Street
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Chatham Fair
To Open Here
This Afternoon
The seventh annual Chatham
Employees’ Fair is scheduled to
open this afternoon (Thurs
day) at 1 p. m. in the YMCA.
The two-day event this year
will feature a display of all pro
ducts made by Chatham Man
ufacturing Company. An ad
vertising representative of the
company’s New York office will
be in charge of the exhibit.
Highlight of the fair will be
the Chatham Revue of 1947, an
all-star variety show set for 8
o’clock Friday evening in the
YMCA. The Revue, under the
direction of Safety Director C.
J. Hyslup, A. J. Eller and Miss
Erline Mayberry, will feature
Chatham employees in an old
time ninstrel show with a
chorus of 50 voices.
The public is invited to at
tend the show.
Mr. Eller is chairman of the
fair committee, and Miss May
berry is co-chairman.
The event is being conducted
under the joint sponsorship of
the Lucy Hanes Chatham clubs
and the Thurmond Chatham
Unity club.
Elkin Man Is Held
On Assault Charge
Marshall Soots, of Elkin, charg
ed with assault, was bound over
to the superior term of court un
der bond of $1,000 in Magistrate’s
Court Monday morning.
A group of peacocks is known
as a “muster.”
IT DIDN’T HURT A BIT — Although Sam Atkinson, Jaycee vice-president, looks as if his neck is
: being stretched in the above photo, the process of getting a chest x-ray didn’t hurt a bit and required
only a few seconds time. Miss Louise Bailey, secretary of the Surry County Health Department,
makes sure that Sam’s chest is firmly against the machine as she prepares to take the x-ray picture.
. Every citizen is urged to take advantage of the free x-ray service being offered this week by the
health department as part of the nation-wide drive against tuberculosis. uribune photo)
AGENTS MEET i
HERE FRIDAY
Farm And Home Agents To
Plan Agricultural Pro
grams For 1948
I. O. SCHAUB TO SPEAK
Agricultural programs for 1948
will be planned at a quarterly
meeting of farm and home demon
stration agents of the northwest
ern extension district in the
YMCA here Friday. Eighteen
counties are expected to be repre
sented by 69 farm and home
agents in the district.
Among the speakers scheduled
to appear on the morning pro
gram, beginning at 10:30, are:
State Extension Director I. O.
Schaub, Program Planning Spec
ialist Fred Sloan, District Agent O.
F. McCrary, and Assistant Home
Demonsration Agent Miss Verna
Stanton.
Following lunch in the YMCA,
the home demonstration agents
will be conducted on a tour of
Chatham Manufacturing Com
pany. The afternoon program for
farm agents will include an in
spection of supplementary pas
tures at Klondike Farm and a
study of hybrid corn experiments
at Ronda. The latter study will
be conducted by R. W. McMillen
of the North Carolina Crop Im
provement Association.
MEETING TO BE
HED OCTOBER 8
Mrs. Harry Caldwell To Ad
dress Surry County Home
Demonstration Members
ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
Mrs. Harry Caldwell, prominent
farm leader, will address Surry
County Home Demonstration Club
members at the annual Home De
monstration Achievement program
to be held at Long Creek Farm
next Wednesday, October 8, at
2:30 p. m. She will be introduced
by Miss Anamerle Arant, north
western district home agent.
The program, arranged by Mrs.
Grace Pope Brown, Surry County
home agent, will feature an in
spection tour of the Long Creek
dairy and poultry flock and will
be climaxed by a barbecue supper
Wednesday evening.
Reading certificates will be
awarded members who have read
and reported on at least three
pooks approved for Ho\ne Demon
stration women by Miss Marjorie
Deal, state librarian. Attendance
certificates will be awarded mem
bers with perfect attendance rec
ords at club meetings.
Mrs. Brown will present a steam
pressure cooker to the club with
the most outstanding record as
indicated by club scrapbooks en
tered for judging.
Mrs. Paul Brown will supervise
the tour of the farm, which will
include an inspection of the Long
Creek feed mill and observation of
a skeet shoot demonsration.
Walter Redfern, manager of the
farm, will prepare the barbecue
supper for the event.
Choate Found
Guilty, Given
1 To 3 Years
Fall And Winter
Program At YMCA
Begins On Monday
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The fall and winter gymna
sium program will get under
way at the YMCA Monday,
October 6, with the following
scheduled activities:
Boys’ gym cfass — 3:30 p. m.
to 4:30 p. m. on Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday.
Girls’ gym class — 3:30 p.
m. to 4:30 p. m. on Tuesday
and Thursday.
Skating periods will be con
ducted on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday from 7:45 p. m. to
9 p. m. A skating session for
children only will be held Sat
urday mornings from 11:15 to
12:30.
REPORT GIVEN
BY GRAND JURY
Sixty School Buses Now Serv
ing Schools Are Reported
In Good Condition
EVERYTHING SEEMS 0. K.
The following Grand Jury re
port, signed by A. C. Jones, fore
man, was submitted to Judge Wil
liam H. Bobbitt at the September
term of superior court in Dobson
last week:
“We took action on all bills of
indictment presented to us. All
were given careful attention.
Those with sufficient evidence
were sent up as true bills; others
for lack of evidence, not a true
bill. We are returning three bills
to the solicitor for lack of wit
nesses.
“The County garage reports 60
busses on road in good condition
inspected by the State Patrol; five
more to overhaul and get out with
three or four left for extras. Me
chanic reports equipment is in
best condition it has been for the
past few years.
"The County jail has 25 pris
oners: one white woman, two col
ored women, 19 white men and
three colored men.
“The condition of the jail is as
good as could be expected with
the equipment installed. The
prisoners say the food and treat
ment are good, and sanitary con
ditions satisfactory.
“The convict camp was visited
and found in excellent condition
“‘The County Home is in good
condition. Mr. Shelton, the sup
erintendent, is doing a good job.
He reports that there are 20 ini
mates. The Grand Jury as a
whole reports a ladies rest room
is badly needed in the jury room;
we also recommend a new desk
and chair for judge's room. We
understand they are getting bids
for the painting and some repair
on court house now.”
PREVENTION OF
FIRE STRESSED
Mayor Issues Proclamation
Designating October 5-11
As Prevention Week
GROUPS CO-SPONSORING
In conjunction with the nation
wide observance of the week of
October 5-11 as National Fire Pre
vention Week, Mayor Garland
Johnson has signed a proclama
tion designating the period for a
fire safety campaign in Elkin.
The Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce and the local fire de
partment are co-sponsoring the
campaign in an effort to promote
fire safety consciousness and to
reduce the annual property losses
from fire.
Elkin schools will cooperate in
the campaign by participating in
fire drills next Thursday, October
9, according to Superintendent N.
H. Carpenter. Schools through
out the state are expected to hold
drills on that day in connection
with the observance of fire pre
vention week and as a means of
instructing students in fire safety.
Fire Chief Ted Brown and Fire
man Gilbert Meed will assist in
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Seagle Placed
On Probation
In Same Case
Dr. B. O. Choate. Sparta phy
sician, was found guilty of crim
inal abortion by a superior court
jury in Dobson last Thursday and
was sentenced to serve not less
than one and not more than three
years in the state prison by Judge
William H. Bobbitt, presiding at
the September term of court.
The 62-year-old doctor imme
diately filed notice of appeal to
the state supreme court through
his attorneys, Fred Folger, John
H. Folger, Floyd Crouse and Rob
ert Randolph. His appearance
bond was set at $5,000.
Judge Bobbitt said he thought
the evidence presented in the
case justified the verdict return
ed by the jury and added that he
thought the verdict was “soft.”
Dr. Choate was also charged with
manslaughter, and the jury had
been instructed to return one of
three verdicts: guilty of criminal
abortion, guilty of manslaughter,
or not guilty. The doctor had
entered a plea of not guilty.
Clarence O. Seagle, of Char
lotte, also charged with man
slaughter and abortion in the
case, received a suspended sen
tence of from one to three years
and was placed on probation after
beint? found guilty of criminal
abortion. He had entered a plea
of nolo contendere through his
defense counsel, Allen and Hen
derson of Elkin and W. H. Childs
of Charlotte.
Seagle was chief witness for the
state. He testified that he had
taken Mrs. Annie Mae Anderson
to Dr. Choate and that he had
given her medicine, presumably
intended to bring about an abor
tion. Mrs. Anderson died in a
hotel here August 25, 1946, as the
result of hemorrhage following an
abortion.
Dr. Choate had denied any part
in the crime.
Other cases disposed of last
week were:
William L. Fry, charged with
operating a car under the influ
ence of liquor and without opera
tor’s license, was fined $125 and
costs and received a four months
suspended sentence.
Prayer for judgment was con
tinued in the case oi Johnnie Ed
wards, who entered a plea of
guilty to a charge of larceny of a
wrist watch.
Robert Brown was sentenced to
serve two years in the state prison
for larceny of an automobile.
The state took a nol pros with
leave in the case of Hubert Trip
lett, charged with assault.
James Hall, pleading guilty to
a charge of assault with a deadly
weapon, was sentenced to serve
from five to seven years in prison.
John Laws was fined $25 and
costs after being found guilty of
simple assault.
The state took a nol pros with
leave in the case of R. N. Stew
art, charged with murder.
James Tom Swift, Jr., was sen
tenced to serve from four to seven
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