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VOL. No. XXXV No. 47
MINISTERS HERE
OPPOSE SUNDAY
AMUSEMENTS
Score Commercialization Of
Sabbath Day
RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED
Elkin - Jonesville Ministerial
Association Lists Opposition
To Sunday Activities
TOWN BOARDS GET COPY
At its regular monthly meeting
last Friday, the Elkin-Jonesville
Ministerial Association adopted a
resolution proclaiming itself “ir
revocably opposed to the principle
of commercialized entertainment
on the Sabbath.”
The document was signed by
members of the association’s reso
lutions committee, including Rev.
Howard J. Ford, chairman; Rev.
C. Marvin Boggs, secretary; Rev.
Robert G. Tuttle and Rev. Ralph
V. C. Ritchie. Copies of the paper
were submitted to the Elkin and
Jonesville town boards of com
missioners.
The resolution follows:
“Whereas, There has been an
ever-increasing commercialization
of the Sabbath recently, particu
larly in the field of entertainment,
in the Elkin-Jonesville area; and
“Whereas, The moral and spirit
ual life of America is nurtured
each Sunday through the Church
School and services of worship
throughout our nation; and
“Whereas, The increasing com
mercialization of the Sabbath
steadily turns the minds of our
people from spiritual development
into other channels of interest;
therefore, be it,
“Resolved, That the members of
this Association stand irrevocably
opposed to the principle of com
mercialized entertainment on the
Sabbath.
“In the certainty that we speak
for many of our laymen, we sub
mit this resolution to the Town
Commissioners of Elkin and Jones
ville and to The Elkin Tribune for
publication.’* ‘ ' ~'
TEACHERS TO
ATTEND MEET
Annual Convention Of North
western District Of Edu
cational Ass’n.
GREENSBORO, OCT. 24TH
“From Yesterday to Tomorrow’’
will be the theme of the twenty
fifth annual convention of the
Northwestern District of the North
Carolina Education Association be
ginning with a general session at
10:00 a.m., Friday, October 24, in
Aycock Auditorium, Woman's Col
lege, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro. Four thousand
teachers are expected to attend.
The program, designed to last
throughout the day, will include
two general sessions, twenty de
partmental and four divisional
meetings, all of which will be ad
dressed by outstanding leaders in
education from throughout the
vstate as well as from Washing
ton, D. C.
f One of the outstanding speak
ers of the occasion will be Dr. Wal
ter Flick of Washington and Lee
University, Lexington, Virginia,
who will address the second gen
eral session to be held beginning
at 2:00 p.m. in Aycock auditorium.
Speakers at the first general ses
sion will include: C. Reid Ross,
president of the State Division of
Superintendents, Lillington; E. M.
Thompson, president of the State
Division of Principals, Burgaw;
Mrs. Luojlle Allen, president of the
State Division of Classroom
Teachers, Raleigh; Mozelle Cau
sey, delegate to the NEA Assem
bly, Greensboro, and Lucille Brown
director from the Northwestern
District, Greensboro.
Lon Folg-er, Jr. Is
Head of Law Class
Lon Folger, Jr., son of the late
Congressman A. D. Folger, was
elected to the Presidency of the
first year class of the Wake Forest
College School of Law this week.
He attended the University of
North Carolina where he was a
member of the Kappa Sigma Fra
ternity, prior to the war.
During the war, he served as an
83rd Division Field Artillery Ser
geant, receiving the Purple Heart
medal for wounds received in ac
tion near Carentan, France on
July 2. 1944.
After being discharged from
i service Mr. Folger entered Wake
* Forest College where he is a mem
ber of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fra
ternity, which is the largest legal
fraternity in the United States
having membership in Class “A’
law schools only.
TO HEAD LAW GROUP —
Members of the twenty-first
judicial district of the North
Carolina Bar Association elect
ed W. M. Allen, above, as presi
dent of the law group at their
eleventh annual meeting in
Yanceyville Saturday. He suc
ceeds Frank Hobgood of Reids
viUe
W. M. ALLEN TO
HEAD DISTRICT
Elkin Attorney Is Elected
President of 21st Judi
cial Area
INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES
Attorney W. M. Allen was elect
ed president of the twenty-first
judicial district of the North Car
olina Bar Association at the or
ganization’s eleventh annual
meeting in Yanceyville Saturday.
He succeeds Frank Hobgood of
Reidsville.
Miss Susie Sharpe of Reidsville
was named as the new vice presi
dent of the group, and Leonard
Van Noppen of Danbury was elect
ed as secretary and treasurer.
The twenty-first judicial dis
trict includes Surry, Stokes, Rock
ingham and Caswell Counties.
Mayor Frank Freeman of Dob
son was elected to serve on the
executive committee as Surry’s
representative. Other members
are Dallas Kirby of Danbury, Hun
ter Penn of Reidsville and Robert
Wilson of Yanceyville, represent
ing Stokes, Rockingham and Cas
well Counties, respectively.
NAB “VAMPIRE”
IN ROBESON CO.
Indian Slashes Victims And
Drinks Blood While Hold
ing Knife At Neck
STORY UNPARALLELED
L u in b e r t o n, Oct. 20 — Two
acts of vampirism believed to be
without parallel in Robeson Coun
ty police annals were reported to
county officers Sunday night and
James Bledsoe, 33-year-old Indian
was lodged in jail here on charges
of assault with a knife on two
other Indians who said he drank
their blood.
Bledsoe was arrested at his
home about three miles from Pem
broke by Rural Policeman D. J.
Jones, who said he found the
man lying on a bed with a knife
in his hand and handcuffed him
before Bledsoe waked and “came
up like a panther.”
Lemar Locklear, 25, who was
treated in Pembroke for knife
slashes in the back requiring 75
stitches to close and James Jacobs,
the other victim with 51 stitches
closing wounds across his chest,
were in Lumberton today able to
talk about their experiences, but
without an explanation for Bled
soe’s reported bloodlust.
Jacobs said Bledsoe slashed him
across the chest and held the knife
against the side of his neck as
he drank blood from the wounds.
Jacobs made his escape when
Bledsoe left the house to overtake
Locklear as the latter walked past
on a road. Locklear said Bledsoe
came up behind him and cut him
in the back and on one arm then
held the knife against his neck
and said “I want some of your
blood.”
Officer Jones, said that a case
charging manufacture of liquor is
pending against Bledsoe and that
the man had served a term for as
sault with a shotgun.
During the year ending June 30,
1947, the Farmers Home Adminis
tration loaned 28,297 new borrow
ers a total of $33,699,372 for ad
justment loans. In addition, 70,
940 borrowers already on the pro
gram were provided additional ad
justment loans to continue or ex
pand their farming operations.
These subsequent loans were for
$36,263,829.
Fund Drive For
Boy Scout Work
Under Way Here
Although no reports have
been submitted on the current
fund-raising drive for Boy
Scout work in this area, Russell
Burcham, chairman of the
campaign, expressed confidence
today that the goal of $2,500
would be reached.
Originally scheduled to be
concluded this week, the drive
will be extended through Oc
tober 31 in order to give every
citizen a chance to contribute,
Mr. Burcham said.
A. O. Bryan is heading sev
eral teams of workers In Elkin,
and Guy Fisher is directing ef
forts to raise funds in Jones
ville. C. J. Hyslup, treasurer of
the campaign, is in charge of
the drive at Chatham Manu
facturing Company.
PRESBYTERIAN
SCHOOL 25-26
Leadership Training of Youth
Fellowship To Meet
In Winston-Scilem
PRITCHETT IS TO SPEAK
The 1947 Leadership Training
School of the Presbyterian Youth
Fellowship of Winston - Salem
Presbytery will be held at the
First Presbyterian church of Wins
ton-Salem Saturday and Sunday.
Dr. Carl Pritchett, pastor of the
Davidson Presbyterian Church,
will be the principal speaker.
Charles Turner, one of the four
young people from the Southern
Presbyterian Church who attended
the conference of Christian Youth
of the World at Oslo, Norway, last
summer will speak on his exper
iences at the conference. Rev.
Bill Smith, pastor of the Yadkin
ville Presbyterian Church, will be
in charge of the recreation for the
school.
Approximately one hundred
young people from nine counties
are expected to attend the school.
Delegates from the Elkin Presby
terian church include Virginia
Blackburn, David J. Causey, Jean
Combs, David C. Dickson, Gwen
Dickson, Edna Dillon, Polly Price,
Mary Sue Wagoner, Betty Lou
Wall, Polly Wiles; also the adult
advisors, Mrs. D. Carter Dickson
and Rev. Ralph Ritchie.
The young people will be en
l tertained in the homes of the con
gregation of the Winston-Salem
church.
Cock fights take the place of
movies for Cuban country folk.
The cocks are purchased in Spain.
STUDENT LEADERS AT ELKIN HIGH — Shown above are student body and class leaders who were
elected recently at Elkin High School to serve for the 1947-48 term. From left to right, front row,
are Hal Stuart, student council vice-president; John Cockerham, senior class president; Libby Royall,
student council president; Jean Adams, freshman class president; and Henry Freeman, junior class
vice-president. Second row: Sam Transou, freshman class vice-president; Doswell Gentry, senior class
vice-president; Bob James, Sophomore class vice-president; Alvin Eldridgc, Sophomore class presi
dent; and Jenny Transou, junior class president. (tribune photo)
R. FLAKE SHAW
TO BE SPEAKER
Will Address Farmer Veter
ans In Meeting At Dobson
» School Friday P. M.
FARM TRAINING GROUP
R. Flake Shaw, executive secre
tary and vice president of the
North Carolina Farm Bureau, will
he guest speaker at a meeting of
farmer veterans in the Dobson
school Friday evening at 7:30.
The program is especially de
signed for veterans who are en
gaged in the farm training pro
gram under provisions of the “GI
Bill.”
S. H. Atkinson, president of the
Surry Farm Bureau, will introduce
the speaker, who is scheduled to
discuss the organization and pro
gram aims of the Farm Bureau.
County agriculture teachers and
instructors in the farm training
program are invited to bring as
many members of their classes as
possible.
Surry Youth Has Hope
Of Complete Recovery
Ted Ring Home
After Siege
In Hospital
Nine-year-old Ted Ring came
home Monday from the Baptist
Hospital in Winston-Salem minus
a spleen but with the hope of com
plete recovery from a rare type
of anemia that kept him hos
pitalized for seven weeks.
Ted is the young son of Mr. and
Mrs. Irvin S. Ring of Siloam
whose illness led to the formation
of a Ted Ring Club to finance
hospital treatment. Nearly
$1,300 was contributed by people
of northwestern North Carolina
who heard of the case through
newspaper stories.
The lad was stricken with the
rare ailment last April following
an attack of pneumonia. He was
treated at the Hugh Chatham Me
morial Hospital here and was
taken later to Winston-Salem.
Blood transfusions, administered
almost daily, failed to remedy the
boy’s condition, and specialists de
cided to remove Ted’s spleen,
which was apparently destroying
red blood cells faster than his body
could manufacture them. The op
eration has been performed on
only a few persons, and doctors
were not sure removal of the
spleen would be effective.
But Ted responded to the op
eration and is evidently well on
the way to recovery. His red
blood count has been high enough
that he no longer needs trans
fusions, although doctors say that
it will be some time before they
will know whether he is complete
ly well.
County and school officials led
in raising funds for the boy’s med
ical expenses through the Ted
Ring Club. Mr. Ring, who has
been maintenance chief for Surry
TED RING COMES HOME—
After a seven-weeks stay in the
Baptist Hospital in Winston
Salem where he was treated for
a rare type of anemia, Ted Ring,
above, nine-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Irvin S. Ring: of Si
loam, was brought home Mon
day to convalesce. The lad’s ill
ness resulted in the formation
of the Ted Ring Club, which
raised nearly §1,300 to finance
his medical expenses.
County schools for more than 30
years, and Mrs. Ring expressed
their gratitude to the many per
sons who contributed to the fund
for Ted.
“If it hadn’t been for them, he
might not have recovered to this
extent,” Mr. Ring said.
Every two weeks Ted will go
back to the Baptist Hospital for
a check up, and he’ll have to take
things easy for a while in order
to regain .his strength. But he’s
happy to be back at his home in
Siloam, and his parents are grate
ful that he is on the way back to
a healthy, normal life.
Huge Crowd Attends
Yadkin Man’s Sale
President Is
Invited Here
For Farm Meet
President Truman will be ex
tended an invitation to attend
Elkin’s sixth annual Farmers’
Day Program next March as
guest and speaker, it was learn
ed here today.
The invitation will be pre
sented to the President by
North Carolina’s two senators
on behalf of Mayor Garland
Johnson, who has played a
leading role in developing the
annual farmers’ prQgram into a
widely - recognized event.
Mayor Johnson pointed out
in his letter requesting that the
invitation be extended that the
President could fly to Winston
Salem, where he would be met
by Elkin officials, and make the
remainder of the trip by auto
mobile. The return trip could
be effected in the same man
ner, and the President’s attend
ance would not necessitate a
long absence from Washington.
BELL MAY DIE
ON NOV. 14TH
State Supreme Court Has Re
ceived Notice Of Refusal
To Review
TWO MAY DIE TOGETHER
The execution date for Marvin
Claude Bell, convicted rapist of
Roaring River, may be set for No
vember 14.
The North Carolina Supreme
Court has received notice that the
U. S. Supreme Court has refused
to review the case, and if the re
fusal to review is entered at the
State Court’s meeting Tuesday, the
execution date will automatically
be set for the third Friday follow
ing the meeting.
Ralph Vernon Litteral of Wins
ton-Salem, who was convicted
with Bell for criminally assault
ing Peggy Ruth Shore of Pleasant
Hill, may also die in the State’s
gas chamber on that date. Gov
ernor R. Gregg Cherry* has in
dicated that if the two men are
executed they will die together.
The Governor stayed Littoral's ex
ecution, scheduled last June, pend
ing the outcome of Bell’s appeal
to the nation’s highest tribunal.
Efforts reportedly have been
made to postpone Litteral’s execu
tion for further psychiatric exam
inations. Fred Hutchins, attorney
for Litteral, has announced that
several psychiatrists have volun
tarily expressed the desire to ex
amine the condemned man.
St. Louis, Missouri, was founded
by the French in 1794, and was
named after Louis IX of France.
It came under American control
in 1804.
2,000 Attend
Combination
Funeral, Sale
A Yadkin County fanner, pro
jecting his personal troubles into a
unique advertising campaign,
pyramided an auction sale of
property into one of the biggest
sales events ever held in the coun
ty last Saturday,
Henry H. Brooks, who lives
three miles west of Brooks Cross
Roads at Mailer, has been alleged
ly having his troubles since he
"got religion’’ earlier this year at
a revival meeting held in the Mar
ler community by Dr. Luther
Horn, traveling evangelist.
Since that time, Mr. Brooks
stated, everything has gone wrong
in his personal life — his wife
and family will have little to do
with him, his friends turned their
backs, and he has been unable to
carry on friendly relations with
his church, he said a few days ago.
So, distributing a circular
throughout the county recently,
Mr. Brooks proclaimed that he
was intending to hold a sale of
his personal property on October
18th.
"The reason for this sale and
service is because my wife and
family have turned hatred against
me and destroyed the only home
I have on earth,” Mr. Brooks stat
ed in his circular.
“I was head of my home so long
as I drank, cursed and raised hell
and did everything else the devil
wanted me to do — then when I
tried to turn my back to the devil
and K'/erything he stands for, and
to do the will of God, my wife and
children decided to take over and
tell me what I could do. But, bless
God, I'll have a home in the
clouds one day. If you have any
l flowers for my grave, please drop
| them in my path now,” the state
ment continued.
After the circular was issued,
Mr. Brooks advertised the sale
widely in newspapers, stating that
"Funeral services would be con
ducted at 9 o’clock,” an hour be
fore the sale.
Saturday morning by sale time
saw the largest crowd ever as
sembled in the county for a simi
lar event, estimated to total
around two thousand persons,
with more than five hundred au
tomobiles parked a distance of
five and six city blocks from Mr.
Brooks’ place.
The funeral services, which Mr.
Brooks said he thought his wife
was going to preach, were never
delivered, but after a talk made by
the owner was over, a large
amount of farming tools and shop
tools were delivered to a ready
market of buyers who paid well
over the new market prices for the
second-hand equipment they pur
chased.
Which just goes to show that it
pays to advertise, whether you
have troubles like Mr. Brooks or
not.
One pair of eagles have been
known to use the same nest year
after year for 75 years.
$10,000 Set As
Goal For Elkin
Baptist Group
Local Golf Club
To Be Ready For
Play Saturday
Harry Hensel, chairman of
the Greens Committee of the
Cedarbrook Country Club, an
nounces that cups and tee
markers are being installed to
day (Thursday), and the golf
course will be open for play
Saturday.
James Amburn, secretary and
treasurer of the club states
that dues are now payable, and
members are requested to sign
a book at the club house be
fore playing.
BOND SALES
ARE$116,349
Glancy Announces E-Iiond
Sales In Surrv Amount To
Total Of $56,131
WILKES SALES $10,829
W. L. Glancy, chairman of the
Surry County U. S. Savings Bonds
Committee, announced today that,
according to the monthly report
from State Director Allison James
in Greensboro, total E, F, and G
Savings Bonds sales in September
for Surry County amounted to
$116,349.50. Of this total $56,131.00
was in Series E Bonds; $18.50 in
Series F Bonds, and $60,200.00 in
Series G Bonds.
Total sales for the month in
Yadkin County amounted to $10.
829.00, and Wilkes County citizens
purchased a total of $12,292.50 in
bonds during the period.
The total September state sales
in North Carolina’s 100 counties
were as follows: Series E Bonds
$3,404,900; Series F Bonds $255,
022.75; Series G Bonds $1,430,400;
total E, F, and G sales $5,090,
322.75.
In announcing the figures, Mr.
Glancy stated that “there is now
underway a campaign in North
Carolina to promote savings
through the sale of U. S. Savings
Bonds, particularly aimed to
reach our farmers who are in the
process of marketing tobacco and
other fall crops, as well as at bus
iness and professional men and
women through the Bond-A
Month Plan, which is in operation
at banks, and at industrial em
ployees, through the Payroll Sav
ings Plan which is available to
them where they work.”
Mr. Glancy continued “that
thousands of North Carolinians
have found U. S. Savings Bonds
the safest, surest way to put extra
dollars aside for the future, which
is substantiated by the fact that
they have thus far in 1947 in
vested $65,664,495 in U. S. Savings
Bonds, and that North Carolin
ians are now holding over $800,
000,000 in the combined Series E,
F, and G Savings Bonds.”
CARL T. HICKS
FARM SPEAKER
President Of Flue-Cured To
bacco Group To Speak
At Dobson
TONIGHT AT 7:30 P. M.
Carl T. Hicks, president of the
Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative
Stabilization Corporation, will ad
dress members of the Surry Farm
Bureau at a meeting in the court
house in Dobson tonight (Thurs
day) at 7:30. He is expected to
discuss plans for a long - range
stabilization program for growers
of flue-cured tobacco.
The Stabilization Corporation
was organized in North Carolina
last year to assist in making gov
ernment loans available to grow
ers of tobacco. Mr. Hicks has been
active in the organization’s ef
forts to aid tobacco-growers.
Reports on the current farm
bureau membership drive will also
be made at the meeting. The goal
of the Surry Farm Bureau is to
increase its total membership to
1,500.
The national lunch program 1
served more than 8 million chil
dren daily in the 1946-47 term. ['
Seek Million
And Half To
Move College
A goal of $10,000 has been set
for Elkin Association in the State
Baptist Convention’s program to
raise $1,500,000 for moving Wake
Forest College to Winston-Salem,
according to Horace Eascom, di
rector of the drive.
Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Elk
in, is chairman of the Association
al Committee which will direct the
fund-raising campaign in this
area. Other members of the com
mittee are Rev. Clarence Gwalt
ney, Rev. David Day, Rev. Jesse
L. Powers, Rev. L. W. Cook, Earl
James, all of Elkin, and Walter
Combs, of State Road.
Cooperating with the Associa
tional Committee is a committee
in each church in the association
which will head the efforts of in
dividual churches in raising funds.
The following committees in 12
churches have been named to
date:
Elkin First Baptist—I. C. Yates,
chairman: Earl James, David
Brendle, L. F. Walker, James
Randleman, and Dr. V. W. Taylor.
Bessies Chapel — Talmadge
Southard, Elkin, chairman; Gaith
er Walls, Elkin.
Cool Springs — Paul Newman,
Elkin, chairman; Paul Walters,
Star Route, Elkin, C. C. Walls,
Ronda.
East Elkin — L. H. Henderson,
chairman; E. W. Eldridge, Elkin;
Burris Gray, Elkin.
Elkin Valley — George Walters,
chairman; Mrs. Emily Holloway,
Lester Cass, Elkin.
Macedonia — Luther Byrd,
chairman; L. C. Anthony, Mrs.
Sue Church, Mrs. Irvin Key, all of
Ronda.
Maple Springs—Glenn Burchett,
Elkin, chairman; Luther Holbrook,
Arthur Luffman, Ronda.
Mount Pleasant — W. A. Wal
ters, State Road, chairman; W. O.
Key, Route 1, Elkin, L. M. Eld
ridge, State Road: Ralph Gentry,
Fred Burcham, James Irvin, all of
State Road.
Pleasant Hill — L. H. Peatree,
Ronda, chairman; Oscar Gentry,
Joe Cockerham, Elkin.
Rock Creek — Mrs. R o s c o e
Wood, chairman; Eugene Sebas
tian, Leray Porter, Hoke Wiles,
Clarence Sebastian, Mrs. Loy
Wood, all of Route 2, North
Wilkesboro.
West Elkin — G. E. Stinson,
chairman; Cecil Cooper, Glenn
Stimpson, Elkin.
Oak Grove — Grover Tharpe,
chairman; DeWitt Wiles, Charles
Dancy, all of North Wilkesboro.
All churches are asked to mail
their checks to M. A. Huggins,
Treasurer, Recorder Building, Ral
eigh, N. C., and to write on each
check, "For Convention’s Pro
gram for Wake Forest.”
Farm Membership
Drive Ends Nov. 15
The deadline for the Surry Farm
Bureau’s membership campaign
has been set for November 15, and
workers are urged to secure as
many new members as possible by
that date.
Meetings in connection with the
membership drive are being held
in each of the county’s 14 town
ships in an effort to increase the
number of members to at least
1,500.
Some 90 workers are directing
the drive throughout the county.
Representatives to the American
Farm Bureau Federation’s annual
convention in Chicago December
14-19 will be selected from lead
ing workers in the drive.
Wildlife Club Opens
Membership Drive
The Elkin Wildlife Club opened
its membership drive for 1948 at
i dinner meeting in Neaves Park
ruesday evening. President Fred
‘Bugs” Page, Sam Atkinson, Alex
Chatham and Sam Neaves were
elected to serve as a committee to
lead the membership campaign.
Three Field and Stream movies
vere featured on the program. The
group also discussed plans for a
rurkey Shoot in November.
About 150 members and guests
vere present at the meeting.