ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Carolina
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ELKIN
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THE TRIBUNE
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VOL. No. XXXV No. 52
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1947
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24 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
Santa To Open
Yule Shopping
jSeason Friday
Jolly Saint Is
To Arrive On
Train At 2:45
The Christmas shopping season
in Elkin will officially open to
morrow afternoon (Friday) at
2:45 when Santa Claus will arrive
at the depot on Southern Rail
,y's east-bound freight train.
Mayor Garland Johnson and
Hoyle Cranford, president of the
Elkin Merchants Association, will
be on hand to greet Santa, who is
scheduled to give a party for all
children up to 10 years of age.
The town’s fire truck will
carry the bewhiskered gentleman
from the North Pole to the the
ater for the party. No admission
will be charged, and Santa will
have gifts for all children attend
ing.
The Christmas lights in the
business district are to be turned
for the first time Friday even
ing as a feature of the official
opening of the season.
Merchants arc displaying large
stocks of Christmas merchandise
for shoppers this year. Larger as
sortments of gift and toy items
are available, and the quality of
goods is much improved over last
season, merchants report.
Increased production since
war’s end has brought many
items back to display counters
that have been missing for the
past few years. The only critically
short items are in decoration
goods, especially Christmas tree
jj^ght sets.
Many shoppers have already
begun making their Christmas
purchases, according to reports
from local stores, with “layaway”
items heading the list.
Merchants urge that shoppers
do their buying as early as pos
sible in order to avoid the rush
T&ter in the season when gift
selections will not be as good.
MEETING SET
FOR DEC. 9TH
Y
Extension Service Specialists
To Discuss Tobacco Acre
age Reduction
TO PLAN BEST LAND USE
Five specialists from the State
College Extension Service will
meet with the county farm agent’s
staff in the court house at Dobson
on Tuesday. December 9. at 7 p.
m. to discuss plans for making
the best use of surplus farm lands
resulting from the recent reduc
tion in tobacco acreage.
* Farm and business leaders, fer
tilizer representatives, implement
dealers and members of the vari
ous farm organizations arc urged
to attend the meeting.
Surry County will have from
four to five thousand acres of land
available for other crops as a re
sult of the tobacco cut, County
Agent Neill M. Smith said. It is
expected that some of this former
tobacco acreage will be planted in
oats and lespedeza.
Similar meetings will be held in
each of the counties in the state
which were affected by tobacco
fd peanut acreage reductions,
rording to Director I. o. Schaub
the Extension Service. Farm
groups of Yadkin and Rocking
ham Counties are scheduled to
meet December 8. and a meeting
is scheduled for Wilkes and
Stokes farmers on the afternoon
of December 9.
Will Name Delegate
To Farm Convention
A delegate to the North Car
olina Farm Bureau convention t<
pc held in Asheville in Januar;
^1 be elected at a meeting of tin
M^rsh Township Farm Bureau ii
the Little Richmond school Frida;
evening at 7 o’clock, it was an
nounced yesterday by Charles C
White, bureau president.
§ie organization will also elec
rector to represent Marsh oi
county Farm Bureau’s boari
of directors. Mr. White stated.
All members of the farm grou]
are urged to attend the meeting
7 Community Farm
Bureaus Over Top
Seven of Surry County's 14
community Farm Bureaus have
gone over the top in the Farm
Bureau drive scheduled to end
Friday, it was announced yester
day.
Organizations which reached
their quotas were Elkin, Marsh.
Copeland, Westfield, Shoals, El
dora and Lowgap.
The county’s goal is 1830 mem
bers. A total of 1723 members
have been secured to date.
C. F. LINEBERRY
DIES SUDDENLY
Prominent Elkin Businessman
Is Victim Of Heart At
tack Monday P. M.
RITES HELD WEDNESDAY
Funeral for Charles Francis
Lineberry, one of Elkin’s most
prominent citizens and business
men, who died unexpectedly of a
heart attack at the office of his
oil distributing plant late Monday
afternoon, was held yesterday
(Wednesday) morning at 11
o'clock in the parlor of Hayes and
Speas Funeral Home, West Main
Street. Rev. Robert G. Tuttle,
pastor of the First Methodist
Church, this city, and Rev. L. B.
Abernethy, formerly of this city
but currently of Charlotte, were
in charge of the rites.
Mr. Lineberry, with his family,
had been a resident of this city
for the past 21 years, having been
local distributor for Pure Oil Com
pany for about 14 years. For sev
eral years following his coming
here from North Wilkesboro, he
operated an ice and fuel business.
In North Wilkesboro he operat
ed Lineberry Foundry for a num
ber of years. He was a native of
Randolph County.
Surviving are the wife, Mrs. Zil
phia Holden Lineberry; a daugh
ter, Mrs. Fred Neaves, of Elkin; a
son, G. H. Lineberry, Philadelphia,
Pa.; two brothers, J. H. Lineberry
of Winston-Salem and Joseph
Lineberry of Franklinville; four
sisters, Mrs. J. M. Aldridge of
Millboro, Mrs. Marvin Spencer of
Waycross, Ga„ Mrs. Willis Booth
of Greensboro, and Mrs. Frank
Minor of Charlottesville, Va; and
five grandchildren.
Interment was made in the
Hollywood Cemetery.
Kiwanis Club Will
Not Meet This Week
Due to the fact that the regular
meeting night of the Kiwanis Club
falls on Thursday, the club will
not meet this week due ^o the
Thanksgiving holiday.
WORLD UNION
IS ANSWER TO
ATOMIC BOMB
Lecturer Says Civilization
Might Not Stand War
SPEAKS TO CIVIC CLUBS
Robert Lee Humber Favors
World Government With
Powers To Prevent War
U. S. A. MUST LEAD WAY
Robert Lee Humber of Green
ville. N C.. Rhodes scholar, lectur
er, attorney and a leading propon
ent of world government, declared
at a dinner meeting in the YMCA
on Wednesday night of last week
that civilization might not be able
to survive an atomic world war
and that the only way to peace
lies in the establishment of world
government.
Speaking before some 200 civic
and veterans’ club members, Mr.
Humber asserted that “treaties
and diplomacy" as a means of se
curing the peace have failed, and
that nations must now turn to
world government if they are to
avoid a third and catastrophic
conflict.
He declared that America must
lead the way in forming a gov
ernment with jurisdiction over all
countries, and called on citizens to
urge their representatives in Con
gress to take steps in that direc
tion.
Mr. Humber said that 16 state
legislatures, including North Car- :
olina's, have already adopted re- i
solutions in support of world gov- |
ernment, and that other states
have shown an interest in the!
plan.
He compared the development
of atomic energy and its effect
upon present-day military strat- j
egy with the crifcis resulting from
the adoptation of gunpowder for
use in warfare in the era of feu
dalism, except that the potential I
consequences today are much j
more far-reaching.
Under the plan of world gov
ernment, every nation would con
tribute to a world police force to
maintain order, Mr. Humber said.
The plan would also include a
world court and laws which would
be binding on every citizen of
every country.
Mr. Humber practised interna
tional law in Paris for five years
preceding Germany’s invasion of
France. Since that time he has
devoted major efforts toward
stimulating sentiment for world
government as an alternative to
another disastrous war.
C. C. Poindexter, president of
the Kiwanis Club, presided at the
dinner session. Mr. Humber was
introduced by Oscar K. Merritt of
Mount Airy, a member of the exe
cutive council of United World
Feredalists of North Carolina.
Following tile dinner session,
Lewis Alexander presented Mr.
and Mrs. Humber with two Chat
ham blankets as a token of ap
preciation from the civic and vet
erans’ clubs for the address on
world government. Mr. Humber's
views brought favorable comment
from many citizens.
The YMCA program provides
wholesome recreation and Chris
tian guidance for youth. Join the
“Y” today.
Committeemen Are To
Be Elected In Surry
-.— A-I
County Wide
Vote Planned
In December
A county-wide election will be!
held during the first week in De
cember to elect three Soil Conser- 1
vation Committeemen for Surry
County, it was announced here
this week.
Nominating petitions have been
received and forwarded to Raleigh
qualifying the following five men
as nominees from which voters
will select three who will begin
terms January l, 1948: Ralph
Beane, State Road; Robert S.
Burras, Rockford: W. H. Hardy,
Siloam; D. C. Haymore, Route 1,
Mount Airy: and Claude W.
Thorc, Route 3, Mount Airy.
The nominee receiving the
highest number of votes will
serve three years, and the next
two highest nominees will serve
two years and one year, respec
tively. The committee will select
its own chairman, vice-chairman
and secretary. The group will
serve without pay, except that the
chairman will receive compensa
tion when attending official
meetings outside the county. The
chairman of the committee will
succeed Robef-t S. Burrus as the
Surry County representative on
the Tri-Creek District Board of
Supervisors.
All qualified voters in regular
elections will be eligible to vote
in the election. Each voter may
vote for three candidates.
The polls will be open all day
during the entire week from De
cember 1 to December 6.
Votes may be cast at. the fol
lowing places: R. C. Boaz Filling
Station in Pilot Mountain, Wood's
Store in Westfield Township,
Hauser’s Store in Mount Airy,
Norman's Store at Ararat, Spar
ger’s Store at Beulah, Ramsey’s
Service Station at Lowgap, E. B.
Thompson’s Store at Mountain
Park, Brendlc's Feed and Seed
Store at Elkin, Twin Oak Service
Station in Marsh township, AAA
Office in Dobson, J. e. Stanley's
Store in Rockford Township,
Key's Service Station at Siloam,
and Scott’s Store at Shoals.
The election committee which
will receive the ballots and count
the votes is composed of Hal Col
lins of Dobson, chairman, J. E.
Stanley of Rockford, Elmer
Hodges of Route 3. Mount Airy,
Bryant Smith of Rusk, and Gray
Layne of Pinnacle, RFD.
LEAVE FRIDAY
FOR CHICAGO
Hobby Lee Cockerham And
Bonnie Jean Moore To At
tend National 4-H Meet
ARE PROJECT WINNERS
Two Surry County 4-H mem
bers, Bobby Lee Cockerham of
State Road and Bonnie Jean
Moore of Copeland, will leave
Friday with 22 other North Caro
lina delegates for the National
4-H Club Congress which con
venes in Chicago Sunday.
Also making the trip will be
Mrs. Grace Pope Brown, Surry
home demonstration agent, who
was invited by the state 4-H or
ganization to attend the event on
the basis of her outstanding work
with 4-H groups in the county.
Mrs. Brown’s expenses are being
met by civic clubs of Elkm, Dob
son and Mount Airy.
The Extension Service awarded
expense-paid trips to the event to
the 24 delegates from North Caro
lina on the basis of their achieve
ments in 4-H work. Each 4-H
member selected for the trip won
first-place honors in the state for
4-H projects. Records from more
than 1,200 county champions were
reviewed to determine the win
ners.
Bobby Lee won first place hon
ors for his poultry project, and
Bounic Jean was the state winner
in food preservation.
RNES IMPOSED
ON VIOLATORS
George Brown And Alonzo
Johnson Pay $25 And Costs
For Illegal Trapping
EVIDENCE IS FOUND
At a hearing before Magistrate
W. D. Inman in Mount Airy Sat
urday, George W. Brown, 68, was
fined $25 and costs for trapping
fur-bearing animals out of season.
His hides and traps wore confis
cated and sold, and his hunting
license revoked for the remainder
of the 1947-48 season.
Brown and his son, Marshall
Brown, 18, were caught between
Copeland and Fairview last week
by Surry County Game Warden
W. A. White, who stated that he
found a number of musk rats and
traps at Brown's house after he
bad come upon Brown with his
traps in Double Creek.
In the case of the younger
Brown, prayer for judgment was
continued upon payment of costs.
Alonzo Johnson, of Elkin Town
ship, was also found guilty of
trapping out of season and fined
£25 and costs.
Warden White warned that
trapping is still out of season and
will not be legal until December 1.
Hunters in this section will be
permitted to hunt rabbit, squirrel
ind quail starting Thanksgiving
5ay, providing they secure license.
TO CHICAGO — Bonnie Jean
Moore and Bobby Lee Cocker
ham, top photo, have a reason
for their big smiles. They were
among the 24 4-II club members
of North Carolina who were
awarded expense-paid trips to
the National 4-II Club Congress
in Chicago. Mrs. Grace Pope
Brown, bottom photo, Surry
home demonstration agent, was
invited to make the trip by
State 4-H leaders. The three
will leave Friday for the 4-H
Congress, which begins Sunday.
—TRIBUNE PHOTOS
GRANGE ELECTS
NEW OFFICERS
Harvey Gentry Re-Elected To
Head Boonville Agricul
tural Organization
PLAN CHRISTMAS PARTY
The Boonville Grange met in
regular session Friday night in
the agriculture building. During I
a short business period, the
Grange decided to have a Christ
mas party for the Grange mem
bers and their families. Harvey
Gentry, Master, gave a brief re
port on the State Grange Conven
tion recently held in Greensboro.
The entire literary program was
given over to the election of of
ficers for the coming year. Hilton
Jones, Herbert Hudler and Mis.
Hilton Jones declined re-election
as officers. The following offi
cers were elected: Master, Har
vey Gentry; Overseer, Henry
Fleming; Chaplain, Jack Gentry;
Lecturer, E. E. Hood; Steward,
Charles Spainhour; Assistant
Steward; Bruce Stinson, Gate-1
keeper, Kent Brendle; Treasurer, i
O. C. Motsinger; Lady Assistant
StewaTd; Mrs. Gene Crissman;
Ceres, Mrs. p. M. Brendle; Pom
ona, Mrs. E. E. Hood; Flora, Mrs.
Harvey Gentry; Executive Com
mittee, Albert Speer; Home Econ- j
omics Committee Chairman, Mrs.!
Thad Reece; Youth Committee
Chairman, Mrs. Herbert Fleming;
Pianist, Edward Hood; Song lead
er, Herbert Hudler.
After the meeting refreshments |
were served.
Tribune Advertising Gets Results j
SURRY FARMERS
ARE TO ATTEND
FARM MEETING
Seven Farm Bureau Leaders
Go To Chicago Dec. 14-18
COUNTY AGENT TO GO
County Has Increased Farm
Bureau Membership To
Total of 1,723 Members
AWARDED 3 DELEGATES
_.
Seven prominent farm leaders
of Surry County will be among the
approximately 300 Farm Bureau
members from North Carolina
who will attend the national Farm
Bureau Convention in Chicago
December 14-18.
The Surry delegation will in
clude S. H. Atkinson of Siloam,
president of the Surry Farm
Bureau; P. N. Taylor of White
Plains, secretary of the bureau; C.
E. Marion of Shoals; County
Agent Neill M. Smith; J. Lee
Thompson of Dobson; C. D. Smith
of Copeland; and J. Glenn Hall
of Route 2, Mount Airy.
Mr. Taylor will be one of five
voting delegates from the state
who will represent the North Car
olina Farm Bureau at the con
vention.
Mr. Marion was selected by the
state organiation to attend the
event on the basis of his work in
the Farm Bureau membership
campaign. He signed 90 members.
Mr. Thompson was awarded the
trip by the district Farm Bureau
organization for a similar achieve
ment.
The state Farm Bureau awarded
the county one delegate for hav
ing reached its quota in the mem
bership drive and one delegate for
each 200 members secured above
the quota. Surry County, with a
quota of 1315 assigned by the
State Farm Bureau, increased its
Farm Bureau membership to 1723
and thus w;as awarded three dele
gates.
County Agent Smith was in
vited to make the trip by the
Surry Farm Bureau board of di
rectors.
A special train, the “Farm
Bureau Special," will carry the
jMorth Carolina delegation to the
convention. Starting at Golds
boro on the morning of December
12, the train will proceed west- j
ward across the state, making 18
stops to pick up Farm Bureau
members.
Headquarters for the North
Carolina group attending the con
vention will be the Congress
Hotel.
Jonesville Man Is
Hurt In Accident
Lonnie Macemore, 48, of Jones
ville suffered a broken pelvis bone
Saturday when he was struck by a
car reportedly driven by Wayne
Byrd, Route 2, North Wilkesboro.
He was taken to the Hugh Chat
ham Memorial Hospital where his
condition Wednesday was report
ed as satisfactory.
Another week end mishap oc
curred Sunday evening when Ed
Wagoner crashed into a bridge
under construction near Mountain
Park. He was not seriously in
jured.
$20,000 Judgment Is
Awarded In Wreck Case
Suit Outcome
Of Collision
In Yadkin Co.
Administrators for the late Miss
Ruth Beamon of Yadkinville and
Alva D. Reynolds of Huntington,
W. Va., sweethearts who were kill
ed in a tragic automobile-truck
collision near Yadkinville in
January. 1946. won a judgment in
Yadkin Superior Court Tuesday.
The defendant, Bessie R. Dun
can. trading as the Carolina
China Market, whose truck col
lided with the automobile in
which Miss Beamon and Reynolds
were riding, was ordered to pay
$10,000 in each of the deaths.
The accident occurred near the
Beamon home south of Yadkin
ville less than 30 minutes after
Reynolds had arrived in Yadkin
ville to marry his financee.
Their romance had begun on a
battlefield in Europe during World
War II when Miss Beamon's
brother, a soldier buddy of Rey
nolds’ had shown him a picture of
his sister. Reynolds began corres
ponding with Miss Beamon, and a
romance-by-mail resulted.
They planned to be married
when Reynolds returned from
overseas duty with the army.
Reynolds arrived in Yadkinville
on the morning of January 5,
1946, with a diamond ring and a
wedding band in his pocket. Miss
Beamon met him and they were
being taken home by Miss Bea
mon's brother when the tragedy
occurred.
Testimony at the trial indicated
that the car carrying Miss Bea
mon and Reynolds was turning off
the right side of the highway in
front of the Beamon home when a
truck loaded with chinaware
crashed into the automobile and
fatally injured the two sweet
hearts. Henry Beamon, driver of
the car, said on the witness stand
that he had started to turn into
the drive leading up to the Bea
mon home when the truck hit the
vehicle from behind. He said he
was knocked unconscious and re
membered nothing more until he
awoke later in the hospital.
Officers testified that the car
was knocked 90 feet down the
road. The truck had continued on
for about 175 feet before over
turning.
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Annual YMCA
Campaign To
Begin Monday
New Auto Plates
To Go On Sale
Here December 1
Automobile license plates
for 1948 will go on sale at
Butner-McLeod Motor Com
pany here Monday, December
1, it was announced yesterday.
The new plates may be ob
tained from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Monday through Friday, and
from 9 a. m. to 12 o’clock noon
on Saturday. Car owners are
required to present their regis
tration cards when purchas
ing license.
Each vehicle next year will
have two plates, except motor
cycles. Prices will be $10, $12 or
$15, depending upon the size of
the vehicle. Plates for Fords,
Chevrolets, Dodges, Stude
bakers, Plymouths and other
light oars will cost $10; Buicks,
Chryslers, Packards, Oldsmo
biles and Lincoln-Zcphyrs will
require $12 tags; and buses,
hearses, ambulances, Lincolns,
Cadillacs and other heavy ve
hicles will require $15 plates.
Plates may be purchased in
North Wilkesboro at the Car
olina Motor Club office, and in
Winston-Salem at the Robert
E. Lee Hotel building.
AGAIN HEADS
WILDLIFE CLUB
Hugh ('hat ham Re-Elected
Head of District Federa
tion At Meeting Monday
SPEAKERS ARE HEARD
Hugh Chatham was re-elected
chairman of the seventh district
of the North Carolina Wildlife
Federation at a meeting in the
YMCA Monday evening. James
Shore was named vice-president,
and Wendell Tesh of Winston
Salem was elected secretary and
treasurer.
Ross Stevens of Raleigh, execu
tive secretary of the federation,
and Floyd Crouse of Sparta, a
member of the federation commis
sion, were the principal speakers
at the meeting. They emphasized
the need of expanding the work
of wildlife clubs throughout the
state and urged stricter conserva
tion measures governing lake and
stream fishing.
Attending the meeting were a
number of game protectors and
club officers of the district.
Mr, Chatham presided.
The YMCA program provides
wholesome recreation and Chris
tian guidance for youth. Join the
“Y” today.
200 Workers
Make Canvass
For Members
The annual YMCA membership
campaign will be launched here
Monday, December 1, with some
200 workers scheduled to canvass
Elkin and surrounding communi
ties in the week-long drive for new
members.
J. Wilson Smith, head of YMCA
work in North and South Caro
lina, will address the campaign
workers at a banquet session in
the YMCA Monday evening at
6:30. when plans will be discussed
for the drive.
Fred Neaves is general chair
man of the YMCA membership
and will direct efforts to increase
the membership at Chatham
Manufacturing Company. The
business district will be canvassed
by a committee composed of
George Royall, Mayor Garland
Johnson, D. G. Smith and Eugene
Spainhour. N. H. Carpenter will
have a committee to work in the
Elkin schools* and Watt Deal will
head the canvass in the Jonesville
schools. The campaign in the resi
dential areas will be under the
direction of the Junior Woman’s
Club. Alex Biggs and Glenn
Bailey will be asked to conduct
the drive at Elkin Furniture Com
pany.
The YMCA operates a well
rounded program for the young
people of this area. Under the
leadership of Walter Safrit, Boys’
Work Secretary, and Mary Ellen
Harrell. Girls’ Work Secretary,
nearly 1,000 boys and girls are
organized into Character Building
Clubs. In the summer, young
people are provided an extensive
recreation program, including
baseball leagues for boys, girls’
playground activities, and begin
ners and advanced swimming
classes in the modern YMCA pool.
The program is financed by the
annual membership drive and
other income received by the
YMCA. With an expanding pro
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PARADE PLANS
AREANNOUNCED
Students of Jonesville and
Elkin Schools Asked To
Meet In Jonesville
WILL MARCH TO PARK
Students of Jonesville and El
kin High Schools are requested to
assemble at the Jonesville High
School this evening (Thursday) at
6:30 for the torchlight, parade
through the two towns to Elkin
Memorial Park where the com
bined teams of Jonesville and
Elkm will clash with Granite Falls
at 8 p. m. in the first Jaycec Bowl
game.
lnc Appalachian High School
band, originally scheduled to be
here for the parade and game, was
unable to make the trip, and ef
forts were being made Wednesday
afternoon to obtain another band
for the event.
The student bodies of Jonesville
and Elkin and a delegation from
Granite Falls will march in the
parade with burning pine torches
to the athletic field. Elkin's fire
truck, the Emergency Squad
truck, and a number of floats en
tered by merchants are scheduled
to participate in the parade.
Squads from the VFW and Amer
ican Legion posts will lead the
march from Jonesville, across the
old bridge, through Elkin, and out
to the park.
Football queens from Jonesville,
Elkin and Granite Falls will ride
together on a float in the parade
and reign at the bowl contest.
Sara Lou Reece was elected to
represent Jonesville High and
Kay Check was elected as Elkin’s
queen.
Officials of the three towns
have accepted invitations to parti
cipate in the pre-game cere
monies.
The Jonesville-Elkin forces will
taka tile field against Granite
Falls in gold jerseys (Elkin’s
color) and blue pants and helmets'
< Jonesvillc’s color).
A record attendance is antici
pated for the contest.