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VOL. No. XXXV
No. 50
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1947
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18 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
ARE EXPECTING
600 STUDENTS
TO MEET HERE
Future Homemakers Ameri
ca To Gather At YMCA
REPRESENT 40 SCHOOLS
Miss Louise Lowe, Assistant
State Supervisor, Is To
Address Group
PROGRAM ON SATURDAY
Approximately 600 Future
Homemakers of America from 40
high schools in Northwestern
North Carolina are expected to at
tend the annual meeting of the
Seventh FHA District in the Gil
vin Roth Y. M. C. A. here Satur
day. it was announced today by
Miss Mary Holland, Elkin High
School home economics teacher
whose FHA group will be host to
- the visiting club members.
Miss Louise Lowe, assistant
State supervisor of North Caro
lina Future Homemakers, will ad
dress the assembly during the
morning program, which is sched
uled to get under way at 9 a.m.
with registration of club members.
Other features of the meeting
will include reports on the State
organization and individual school
clubs. The club members will also
select an officer for the State or
: ganization at the meeting.
Lunch will be served by the Y.
M. C. A. staff, and the program
will continue until 3 p.m.
* The skating period ordinarily
conducted at the Y. M. C. A. from
11:15 to 12:30 on Saturday morn
ing will be deferred because of the
meeting.
GIRL CHARGES
RAPE ATTEMPT
Yadkinville Man Accused
Of Molesting Girl
Last Saturday
f
Tom Driver, young Yadkinville
man, was placed under arrest Sat
urday night charged with at
tempting to rape Lois Holcomb,
15-year-old schoolgirl, Sheriff Bill
Moxley said this week.
Justice of the Peace Roger Rus
sell of Yadkinville, issued the war
rant in the case after the girl and
her father Raymond Holcomb,
swore in the warrent that the girl
was molested by Driver about dusk
Saturday night near the nort h
edge of the city limits. Magistrate
Russell stated the young girl was
in a highly nervous condition and
was crying when he talked with
her.
Driver, placed in jail Saturday
night, was released Sunday morn
ing under a bond of $500.00, with
a hearing set for Saturday of next
week. He was reported to be in
toxicated at the time of his ar
rest. He is married and is a vet
eran of several months’ fighting
in the Pacific in World War II.
The alleged attack upon the
girl, who is a student in the eighth
grade of Yadkinville school, oc
curred as she w'as on her way to
visit her aunt, and she was ac
companied by her smaller sister.
“We were walking along the
highway near the edge of town
when an automobile drove up be
side us, and someone called to
me to wait,” the girl stated to The
Ripple this week.
“We kept on walking, and the
car stopped. Tom Driver got out
and took me by the arm, and
made me walk with him to the
side of the road. He pulled at my
clothes, and unbuttoned my coat
and blouse, and pulled at my skirt.
He sat down on the ground, and
tried to pull me down writh him,"
she said.
The little girl then stated that
Driver fondled her, and scratched
one of her knees and two places
bn her face. At that time, she
said, three Negroes walked by and
stopped, and she jerked free and
ran.
The warrant drawn in the case
did not list any Negroes but three
other witnesses summoned in the
case are Clifford Winters, Grad>
Royal and Melvin Dudley, all ol
Yadkinville.
Junior Red Cross
Drive Nets $79.21
The Junior Red Cross drive
beginning in the local schools e
week ago, ended Monday with do
nations totaling $79.29.
One hundred percent member
ship in the schools was stressed
with one cent entitling a child t<
become a member of the organi
zation.
Contributions came from thi
Elkin Elementary, High School
and North Elkin schools.
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SURRY COUNTY’S FINEST SCHOOL BUILDING — Above is a view of Dobson’s newly-completed school which Superintendent of Surry
County Schools John W. Comer described as “the finest school building in Surry County.” The old school was burned in January, 1942,
and construction of a new building was delayed as a result of the war. John Franklin, Elkin architect, drew plans for the new school, and
the Fowler-Jones Construction erected the building at a general contract price of $130,900. (tribune photoi
A.
DOBSON SCHOOL
NOW COMPLETE
Classes In Modern New Struc
ture Expected To Be
Started Next Week
IS FINEST IN COUNTY
Work on Dobson's new school
has been completed with the ex
ception of minor adjustments to
the heating system, and classes
are expected to be started in the
new building next week.
Superintendent of Surry Coun
ty Schools John W. Comer has
described the n e w structure as
“the finest school building in Sur
ry County.” Completed after near
ly six years of war-imposed delay,
the building is a modern, two
story, 18-room school with fully
equipped laboratories and other
educational facilities. The ar
rangement and planning of the
building for educational purposes
is superior to that of any other
school building in the county, Mr.
Comer said.
The old Dobson school was de
stroyed by fire in January, 1942,
and plans were made to construct
a new building with WPA funds.
As a result of the war, however,
WPA projects were discontinued,
and the Surry Board of Education
made application for priority and
preference ratings in order to ob
tain materials for the erection of
the building through a private
construction firm. The applica
tion was approved in April, 1942,
and the contract for the building
was let shortly after that time.
Private construction projects were
discouraged, however, since build
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56 ARE TAKEN
INPASTMONTH
Public Drunkenness Resulted
In Half The Total, Lo
cal Records Show
NAH FOUR SPEEDERS
A total of 56 arrests were made
by law enforcement officers in El
kin last month, police records
show. Public drunkenness result
ed in half the total, with 28 vio
j lators apprehended.
| Seven persons were arrested foi
j violating prohibition laws, and
speeding and driving without op
! erator's license accounted for four
j arrests each.
Two offenders were reported in
each of the following cases: dis
orderly conduct, fighting, and
! driving under the influence of li
quor.
Assault, improper license, reck
less driving, warrant, drunken
driving, improper lights, and driv
ing after revocation of license
: each accounted for one arrest.
Elkin Man Injured
When Hit By Auto
Marvin Snow of Elkin. Route 1,
is recovering from injuries, most
serious of which is a broken leg.
at Rowland Memorial Hospital,
I Salisbury, after having been hit
by an automobile Saturday night
at a highway intersection near
China Grove.
Albert Wilhelm of China Grove
is being held without charges
pending further inquiry, according
to China Grove Chief of Police W.
. B. Demarcus, who identified him
1 as driver of the car which struck
Snow.
The victim was said to have
! been walking along the highway
. in company of Gilbert W. Baker of
| Dobson when he was hit.
SURRY HEROES REACH JOURNEY’S END — Private James A.
Stanley, above left, and Sergeant James C. Powers, right, the first
war casualties from this section to be returned home, were buried
this week in the soil of the country they fought and died to defend.
Funeral for Private Stanley was held Sunday afternoon at the Little
Richmond Baptist Church. Last rites for Sergeant Powers were
held Tuesday afternoon, Armistice Day. Full military honors ior
both soldiers were conducted by members of the local American
Legion and VFW posts.
Rites Are Held For
Returned Soldiers
A__—
Private Stanley,
Sergeant Powers
War Casualties
The bodies of Private James A.
Stanley and Sergeant James C.
Powers, the first casualties of
World War II from this section
to be returned home, reached
their final resting places this
week.
Both men met death on Euro
pean battlefields in 1944. They
were among the first U. S. war
dead brought back to this country
at the request of their next-of
kin. Their bodies were returned
here through the Charlotte Quar
termaster Depot under military
escort.
Funeral services for Sergeant
Powers were held at the First
Baptist Church Tuesday after
noon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. How
ard J. Ford, pastor, and Rev. Eph
Whisenhunt of Clayton, former
pastor of the church, officiating.
The rites were conducted with
full military honors by members
of the local VFW post.
Active pallbearers were Joe
Transou, Dwayne Irwin, Edwin
Royall, John Ratledge, Jr., Fred
C. Norman and Clyde Cothren.
Honorary pallbearers included
Dr. Seth M. Beale, Dr. John W.
Jolley, W. M. Wall, John Ken
nedy, Graham Myers, J. I. Cock
erham, George Royall, Ford Coth
ren, James Burcham, Earl C.
James, Ted Brown and Ralph
Triplett.
Interment was in Hollywood
cemetery here.
Sergeant Powers, 28, the oldest
son of of Rev. and Mrs. J. L.
Powers, entered military service
in April, 1942. He went overseas
in 1943 and was stationed in Eng
land for seveial months. He par
ticipated in battles in France,
Germany and Belgium and was
killed at Elsenborn, Belgium on
October 6, 1944.
Surviving are his parents; one
sister, Mrs. Wayne Phillips; and
four brothers, Eugene W., David
L. Jesse, Jr., and Carl Powers, all
of Elkin.
Sergeant Powers was connected
with Elk Pharmacy before he en
tered the army.
Funeral services for Private
Stanley were held at the Little
Richmond Baptist Church Sun
day at 2:30 p. m., with Rev.
Woodrow Wishon and Rev. T. S.
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YMCA Membership
Campaign Is To
Begin Dee. 1st.
The annual YMCA member
ship campaign will get under
way here Monday, December 1,
it was announced this week.
J. Wilson Smith, secretary of
the YMCA’s of North and
South Carolina, will be guest
speaker at a dinner meeting of
all campaign workers in the
Gilvin Roth YMCA at 6:30 on
that date, which will mark the
official opening of the drive.
The campaign will continue
through December 8.
PLAN FATHER
AND SON MEET
Riwanians To He Hosts To
Sons At Annual Session
At YMCA This Evening
SPONSOR GIRL SCOUTS
The Elkin Kiwanis Club will
hold its annual Father and Son
banquet at the Gilvin Roth YMCA
this evening (Thursday), at 6:30
p. m. Dr. I. G. Greer, superin
tendent of the Mills Home, Thom
asville, will be the guest speaker.
All members are urged to bring
their sons. In cases of those who
not have a son, they arc invited to
bring some other boy as their
guest.
Last week the Kiwanis club vot
ed unanimously to sponsor a Girl
Scout organization for this com
munity, and R. W. Harris, chair
man of the Kiwanis boys and
girls committee was instructed to
discuss preliminary details with
Mrs. G. A. B. Moore who has had
a great deal of experience in this
work, and who has kindly offered
her services.
During last Thursday’s program
the club was entertained by Dr,
E. G. Click and his vocal special
ists, who rendered a number of
songs under the leadership of Rev,
Ralph Ritchie. Mrs. J. H. Bee
son accompanied at the piano.
President C. C. Poindexter pre
sided over the meeting.
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PROGRAM WILL
BE EXPLAINED
Civic C'lub Members To Hear
Program of United
World Federalists
SEEK STRONGER U. N.
Approximately 200 members of
Elkin civic clubs are expecting to
attend a meeting at the Gilvin
Roth Y. M. C. A. next Wednesday
night to hear Robert Lee Humber
of Greenville, N. C., world traveler
and lecturer, explain the program
of the United World Federalists
of North Carolina, Inc.
The goal of this organization,
which is a branch of the United
World Federalists, Inc., is world
government with limited powers
adequate to prevent war, and
through its program it hopes to
awaken the American public to the
need of a stronger United Nations.
An active campaign to this effect
is now under way, through films,
radio, press, mass meetings, study
groups and speaking tours.
The advisory board of the North
Carolina branch is headed by Dr.
Frank P. Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina,
and made up of many disting
uished North Carolina citizens.
Clubs expected to be repre
sented for next Wednesday’s
meeting are: Business and Profes
sional Woman’s Club, Junior
Chamber of Commerce, Lions
Club, Kiwanis Club, Veteraiis of
Foreign Wars, American Legion
and the Junior Woman’s Club.
MISS SPARGER
STATE WINNER
! Talented Mt. Airy, Route
Girl Tops State In
4-H Girl’s Contest
HAS A PROUD RECORD
Miss Ivylyn Sparger, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sparger,
Route 3, Mount Airy, has been
named State winner in the 4-H
Girls’ Achievement Contest, it was
announced this week by L. R.
Harrill, State 4-H Club leader.
Her records will be forwarded to
a national 4-H Club committee for
judging in competition with other
State winners throughout the na
tion.
Miss Sparger has a long list of
4-H honors to her credit, includ
ing being chosen as national win
ner of the 4-H Clothing Achieve
ment Contest held in Chicago last
year and being selected recently
to a place on the State 4-H Club
honor roll.
, In a letter to Mrs. Grace Pope
Brown, Surry County home dem
onstration agent. 4-H Leader Har
rill commended her work highly.
"Any county might well be proud
of such a record,” he said. “I
congratulate you and the other
extension workers in helping her
attain this achievement.”
Fiddlers* Meet To
Be Held At Dobson
An old-time Fiddlers’ Conven
tion will be held in the Dobson
school auditorium at 7:30 p.m
Friday, November 21, it was an
nounced today by J. Herman Coe
president of the Dobson Lions
Club, which is sponsoring the
event.
Prizes will be awarded winning
contestants, and a large number
of fiddlers from this section oi
the State are expected to compete
in the event.
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FREE TRIP TO
CHICAGO GIVEN
4-H YOUNGSTERS
Bobby Lee Cockerham And
Bonnie Jean Moore
ARE STATE LEADERS
Surry Boy And (iirl Will At
tend National Club Con
gress In December
HAVE FINE RECORDS
Bobby Lee Cockerham, 15, son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Cockerham,
Route 1, State Road, and Miss
Bonnie Jean Moore, 16, daughter
of Dwight Moore, Route 4, Mount
Airy, have been awarded expense
paid trips to the National 4-H
Club Congress to be held in Chi
cago the first week in December,
it was announced today.
Bobby Lee was selected for the
award on the basis of his 4-H
record in poultry w’ork, which won
first-place honors in the State
recently. Miss Moore was State
winner in the food preservation di
vision, which also received the
Chicago trip award.
State achievement winners in
4-H work are selected each year
to attend the National 4-H Club
Congress. Miss Moore and Bobby
Lee will leave Durham on Friday,
November 28, with approximately
23 other State winners for the
national 4-H meeting.
In his six years as a 4-H mem
ber of the Mountain Park Club,
Bobby Lee completed projects val
ued at $14,170.92. His income from
poultry projects during that peri
od totalled nearly $6,000. He is an
eleventh grade student at Moun
t tain Park High School. Mrs. Henry
i Wall, Route 1, Elkin, is the adult
leader of the Mountain Park clut
ai\d assisted Bobby Lee with his
projects. Luther G. Sink Jr., as
sistant county agent in charge ol
4-H work, supervised the projects
and directed Bobby Lee’s 4-H ac
tivities.
Miss Moore, a twelfth-grade
student at Copeland High School
has been a member of the Cope
land 4-H Club since 1940. She has
carried 36 projects valued at $4,
j 437.65. Her skill in canning wor
I her prizes at the North Carolina
j State Fair this year, as well as the
trip award by the State 4-H or
ganization. She has been socia
editor of her school paper, presi
dent of the Copeland 4-H Club
president of the Copeland Tri-Hi
Y Club, and a member of the stu
dent government honor council ai
Copeland.
In her seven years as a 4-H Clut
member she has preserved a tota
of 3,849 quarts of fruits and vege
tables.
Mrs. Grace Pope Brown anc
Mrs. Bess Davenport, home dem
onstration agent and assistani
agent, respectively, supervisee
Miss Moore’s 4-H projects.
ACHIEVEMENT
PROGRAM 17TH
Annual County-Wide 4-H Clul
Event To He Held At Dob
son Courthouse Monday
TO PRESENT AWARDS
The annual, county-wide 4-F
| Club Achievement Program wil
be lield at the courthouse in Dob'
i son Monday at 10 a.m., it was am
nounced today by Mrs. Grace Pop<
Brown, Surry County home dem
onstration agent.
A highlight of the program wil
be the presentation of the "4-1
Award of the Gold Clover’’ t<
| adult 4-H leaders who have par
ticipated in club work for 10 year:
or more. Leaders with five years ii
4-H w o r 1$ will be awarded t h <
"4-H Award of the Silver Clover.'
Medals will be aw'ardcd count;
winners in various divisions of 4-f
work, and cash prizes donated b;
Sears, Roebuck and Company fo:
outstanding poultry projects wil
also be presented.
The program will feature three
minute talks by achievement win
ners of individual clubs. A first
place prize of $20, given by th<
Surry Farm Bureau, will be pre
sented to the most outstandint
club in the county, and a casl
prize of $10, donated by homi
demonstration clubs, will bi
awarded the runner-up club.
Miss Ivylyn Sparger and Mis:
Vernelle Wood of the Beulah clul
will give their dairy foods tean
demonstration, which won Stati
honors recently.
Miss Sparger, president of tin
4-H County Council, will presidi
at tlie meeting.
Flood Control
Resolution Is
O.K’dBy Group
TO DIE FRIDAY?—Governor R.
Gregg Cherry announced in Ra
leigh Monday that he had be
gun a study of the rape cases
under which Marvin C. Bell, top
I photo, of Roaring River, and
Ralph V. Litteral, of Winston
Salem (lower photo), have been
sentenced to die Friday in the
State’s gas chamber. The two
men were convicted in Wilkes
County in January of criminal
ly attacking a teen-age girl, of
Elkin, during a wild ride into
Tennessee. Originally scheduled
to die in June, their executions
have been held up while State
and Federal appeals were de
nied.
FOUNDATION IS
LAD FOR BLDG.
American Legion To Ercc
New Clubhouse In Me
morial Park Here
SURPLUS ARMY BARRACK
The foundation for the Ameri
can Legion's new clubhouse in
Elkin Memorial Park has been set
up, and members of the post hope
to complete the work of erecting
> (the building within the next week.
The clubhouse is a 20 by 100
foot surplus army barrack which
was shipped here from the army
base at Greensboro. The building
> will be used for club meetings,
dances and other social activities.
; Gwyn Franklin, chairman of
l the building committee, has been
assisted in preliminary founda
tion work by Bill Stephenson,
! Charlie Alexander, Joe Gwyn Biv
■ ins, t’red Norman and Lewis Alex
ander. He requests that other Le
1 gion members who can spare a lit
; tie time come out and help with
, construction on Thursday, Friday
. or Saturday.
; Two Are Injured
In Auto Mishaps
[ Two persons in this vicinity
were injured in traffic mishaps
during the week-end.
1 A. G. Snow, 57, a former merch
ant of Doughton, suffered a frac
tured pelvis bone and bruises
when struck by a car Sunday aft
ernoon. He was brought to Hugh
Chatham Memorial Hospital by a
Mr. Thompson, wrho was driving
around with friends at the time.
Snow's condition is reported as
favorable.
Monroe Raymond Vestal, 20, of
Jonesville was treated at the
> Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospi
> tal for minor injuries, suffered
i when his car overturned in the
: western limits of town, early Sun
day.
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Hold Meet At
N. Wilkesboro
November 6th
At a meeting in North Wilkes
boro last Thursday evening, the
Yadkin Valley Flood Control
Committee unanimously approved
a resolution calling for appropria
tion of funds to carry out the Yad
kin flood control program already
authorized by Congress.
W. M. Allen, Elkin attorney and
co-chairman of the flood control
committee, introduced the resolu
tion before a large delegation of
citizens representing some 12
counties along the Yadkin River.
The resolution scored “the sel
fishness of a small group who are
opposing this great humanitar
ian project of flood control” and
called for increased support of the
committee’s work by offering
membership "to the land owners
and peoples residing or having in
terests in the watershed area of
tiie Yadkin-Pee Dee River.” The
proposal further invited “all peo
ples interested in the welfare of
humanity and the State of North
Carolina ... to join forces with
the Yadkin Valley Flood Control
Committee’’ in its fight for flood
control.
Alan Browning, Jr., of The Tri
bune staff, showed motion pic
tures which he took during the
flood last summer and which de
picted damage resulting from the
flood in the Elkin area.
Other pictures were also shown
which portrayed the need for flood
control measures on the Yadkin.
Among speakers at the meet
ing were Worth Candrick of the
United States Army Engineers Of
fice at Charleston, S. C., Milton
Bryan of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture’s Forestry Division,
and Dr. Charles Hurst of Asheville
head of water research manage
ment for the Southeastern Forest
Experiment Station.
Mr. Candrick told the group that
plans for the first dam had been
completed and that other plan
ning work had progressed as fast
as was possible with the limited
funds made available by Con
gress. He said the first dam pro
ject could be initiated as soon as
Congress appropriates the neces
(Continued On Page Eight)
COURT DENIES
CASE HEARING
U. S. Supreme Court Refuses
To Review Hunt vs. Grey
hound Rus Affair
FAMILY AWARDED $21,000
The United States Supreme
Court this week denied a petition
for a hearing in the case of Walter
Hunt vs. Atlantic Greyhound Bus
Company, thus upholding a Dis
trict Court award of approximate
ly $21,000 to the Hunt family for
damages sustained in a collision
near Ron da in 1945.
The decision ended litigation
covering a 27-months period and
which included legal battles
fought through two lower federal
courts.
Allen and Henderson, attorneys
for the Hunt family, were notified
of the high tribunal’s decision
Monday.
The accident between the bus
and the Hunt automobile occurred
July 31, 1945, at the intersection
of Highway 268 and the Traphill
road near Ronda. Mary Ellen
Hunt, one of the four Hunt chil
dren in the car, was fatally injur
ed in the collision. The car, driv
en by Walter Hunt, had moved
onto the highway from the Trap
hill road and was reportedly
struck qn its own side of the road
by the bus.
Hunt, an employee of Chatham
Manufacturing Company, brought
action against the bus company
and won the decision in District
Court at Wilkesboro last year. The
Fourth District Circuit Court of
Appeals in Asheville sustained the
district court’s judgment in July,
and the Greyhound company pe
titioned the United States Su
preme Court for a hearing.
Attorneys Roy L. Deal and Fred
S. Hutchins of Winston-Salem de
| fended the Greyhound Company.