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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 Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVI No. 17 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1948 $2.00 PER YEAR 20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS Dobson Lions ►To Entertain Weed Growers Tobacco Experts To Speak Before Meeting Tuesday A three-point tobacco program ▼ _covering production, prices, and exports — designed to give the grower an over-all picture of the tobacco industry and its problems, will be presented to the tobacco farmers of the Dobson area by a group of experts at the Dobson Farmers’ Day, March 30. Invitations to the closed session during the afternoon have been extended to 200 growers and indi cations point to a full attendance. This session will stress the im portance of a balanced program for the farmer. John W. Goodman, assistant director, N. C. Extension Service, will open the 3:30 p. m. meeting with a talk on "Keeping a Pro duction Program in Balance on a Tobacco Farm." O. F. McCrary, district Extension Agent, will be the next speaker. His topic is "Building a Foundation for a Livestock Industry in Surry Coun ty.” “Keeping Tobacco Growers Informed on Tobacco Associates Program Through Field Service,” will be discussed by M. A. Mor gan, field service director for To bacco Associates, Inc. L. T. Weeks, secretary of the Flue-Cured To bacco Stabilization Corporation, will be the final speaker on the afternoon program, discussing the problems of that organization. Those attending the afternoon meeting will be the guests of the Dobson Lions club at a fish fry in the gymnasium of the Dobson school at 5:30 p. m. A night meeting, open to the general public, will start at 7 ^o'clock with J. Herman Coe, president of the Dobson Lions, speaking on "Lions at Work in the Community.” Roy R. Bennett, Extension tobacco specialist, will discuss "How to Produce Cigar ette tobacco in the Old Belt.” The final speaker for the evening will be J. B. Hutson, president, Tobac co Associates, Inc. He will dis cuss foreign markets for flue-cur ed tobacco. This is the first farmers day to be held in Dobson and is being given this year under the sponsor ship of the Dobson Lions Club. "This program has been de signed to teach farmers the im portance of improving the quality of tobacco produced in the Old Belt,” Neill M. Smith, Surry county agent and chairman of the Lions Club program committee, said. Assisting Mr. Smith on the pro gram committee are S. N. Hawks, Jr., assistant county agent, Frank Freeman, and J. Lee Thompson. * Return To Raleigh After Session Here Mrs. Annie Gray Moore, State Health educator, and Miss Ruth Moore, Physical educational ad visor, both of the State depart ment in Ralefgh, returned yester day (Wednesday) after a three day session of discussion and ac tivities with the teachers of the Elkin city schools. The gymnasium lecture sessions, headed by the state educators, are designed for the purpose of im proving the present physical and health program in the schools here, N. H. Carpenter, superin tendent of city schools, said, and a return visit from them next fall w is anticipated. Monday’s session was in the form of a general teachers meet ing, and on Tuesday both discus sion and gymnasium activity groups were observed. Air Patrol Group To Organize Wednesday The organizational meeting of the Elkin squadron of the Civil Air Patrol will be attended by Col. Robert L. Scott, author of “God Is My Co-Pilot,” Capt. Robert E. Church of the local squadron was assured yesterday in a telephone conversation with Air Force offi cers in Washington. The meeting will be held at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A., March 31, A at 8 p. m. The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars posts along with other local civic clubs will participate in this meet ing to which the public is invited. Ranking officers of the North Carolina Wing of the C. A. P. will be on hand to explain the pur poses and needs of this organiza tion. All Mixed Up, He Tried To Get Into Jail Some people just can’t be satisfied. Take the case of Ralph Coalson. Jailer Johnny Collins ar rested him as he attempted to break into the Surry county jail at Dobson last week, charged him with drunken ness, and gave Coalson what he seemed to want—a nice cell. The jailer didn’t even require him to use the ladder which Coalson had raised to a second floor window. Coalson was ad mitted through the front door. He still wasn’t satisfied. By noon the following day Coalson was begging Jailer Collins to let him out. When Coalson appeared be fore Magistrate Frank Collins, who is an accommodating gentleman, he paid *the costs on the charge of drunkenness instead of taking 30 days in the Surry Jail, offered by the magistrate as a substitute. STUDENTS WILL USE LEGION HUT — To Be Opened Tomorrow Night To Youngsters Of Elkin and Jonesville H. S. IS PART OF PROGRAM The American Legion hut will be opened tomorrow night to the students of Elkin and Jonesville high schools. The Jonesville stu dents are in charge of the pro gram which will include dancing and other entertainement. This program was inaugurated March 13 as a part of tlie Le gion’s teen-age program and plans call for the gathering every other Friday night. At the initial program more than 65 students gathered to dance to music from the Legion's collection of records. The snack bar was open to offer refresh ments. Bill Stevenson, Legion com mander, welcomed the guests and extended the use of the hut to the students. “As long as things are kept on the up and up, Uie hut is yours to do anything you want with it” I he said. Libby Royall, speaking for the students, thanked the command er and assured him that the stu dents would cooperate to the fullest. i ELIMINATIONS WILL BE HELD Preliminary To Soil Conserva tion Speaking Contest For Students AT DOBSON APRIL 2ND County eliminations in the Soil Conservation speaking contest for high school students will be held in the court house at Dob son, April 2, at 7:30 p. m. Participants for this contest will be selected by schools throughout the county in con tests to be held March 24-26. Prizes will be awarded to the three top speakers. The first prize of $25.00 has been offered by the Elkin Kiwanis Club, the second prize of $15.00 by the Mount Airy Kiwanis Club and a third prize of $10.00 by the Dobson Lions Club. The contest, sponsored by the Surry U. S. Department of Agri culture Council, will be judged by members of the Yadkin Council. The Surry county winner will compete in a 12 county district contest to be held in Lenoir, April 9. District winners will enter the contest in Raleigh, April 16. The state contest is sponsored by the N. C. Bankers Association in cooperation with the state U. S. D. A. Council. The Council hopes that through this program the high school stu dent will become conscious of the importance of soil conservation. MONUMENT TO A HOUSE — This monument has been erected to the house which stands in the background by the owner. Miss Roxie Clark, of the Benham community of Wilkes county. Miss Clark has admitted burning a thousand dollars in currency nearby. (tribune photo) - A Woman Burns $1,000 In Mother’s Memory - A Will Determine If Roxie ("lark Needs Guardian Roxic Clark, 70-year-old white woman of the Benham community of Wilkes county, who last week freely admitted burning ten $100 bills, is scheduled to appear be fore C. C. Hayes, clerk of court of Wilkes county, Friday, for a hearing to determine whether or not a guardian should be appoint ed to handle her financial affairs. The hearing was called at the re quest of the county welfare board. This is the way she tells the story: Drawing approximately $1900 from her account at The Bank of Elkin, she first purchased two monuments costing $450.00 each. These have since been erected, one marking the grave of her mother, Mrs. Ollie Mastin Clark, in the Cool Springs cemetery, and the other, identical in size and de sign, standing in front of her home. One side of the monument at her home bears the two words— “Mastin-Clark.” The inscription on the other side reads: "THIS MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF THIS HOME AS RECORDED IN WILKESBORO COURT HOUSE FORBIDDEN TO BE SOLD OR IN USE OTHERWISE THROUGH TIME MARCH 5, 1948 OLLIE CLARK ROXIE CLARK” She then destroyed the money. Miss Clark said that she had intended burning the money at the spot where she was to later place the monument, but finding nothing there on which to strike a match, moved to the base of a maple tree, a few feet from her house, where rocks were plentiful, and set fire to ten 100 bills which she had dipped into a bucket of oil. "I burned it in memory of my mother—it was her money any way,” Miss Clark explained, as she scraped the earth with a short stick where the ashes of the money lay. Dairymen To Hear Program Discussed The operation of an artificial insemination program for dairy cattle will be explained to dairy men and others interested in dairy cattle improvement at an open meeting to be held at the court house at Dobson, March 31. F. R. Farnham, Dairy Exten sion Specialist, will participate in the discussion. This meeting will give dairy men an opportunity to determine the need for and the desire to enter such a program. A com mittee will be appointed to in vestigate the possibility of de veloping this program. A similar program was recent ly organized in Yadkin. Fifteen N. C. counties adopted the ser vice in 1947. The U. S. leather industry uses 50 million goat skins—most of them are imported. Elkin Stores To Close On Easter Monday Elkin stores and business firms will observe Easter Mon day as a holiday, George W. Iscnhour, president of the Elk in Merchants association an nounced Tuesday. Mr. Isenhour also stated that the Wednesday afternoon clos ing would also be obseved as usual next week, thus giving store and office employees a total of a day and one-half holiday for the week. YADKIN FINALS FRIDAY, APR: 2 Soil Conservation Speaking Contest To He Held In Yadkin Courthouse FIRST PRIZE IS $50.00 County finals for the Soil Con servation speaking contest for high school students will be held at the courthouse in Yadkinville on Friday evening, April 2, at 7:30 p. m., it was announced to day. Representing various schools in the county will be the following students: Ed Hobson, East Bend; Walter Stinson, Boonville; Marie Reavis, Courtney, and Thomas Lee Miller, West Yadkin. ' First place winner will receive a prize of $50.00, with the others receiving $30.00, $20.00 and $15.00 resepctively. Judges for the contest will be Mrs. Grace Pope Brown, Surry Home Agent, S. N. Hawks, Assist ant County Agent, Dobson, and Hubert Willis, Soil Conservation ist of Elkin. Winner of the county contest next week will represent Yad kin county in the district contest to be held at Lenoir, April 9. Winner of the district’contest will compete in the state finals at Ra leigh, April 16. Prize money for the county contest has been donated by the following organizations within the county: Boonville Grange, $15.00; Bank of Yadkin, $15.00; Commer cial and Savings Bank of Boon ville, $15.00; Courtney Grange, $10.00; East Bend Grange, $15.00; Forbush Grange, $15.00; Pomona Grange, $20.00; Yadkin Valley Bank, East Bend, $10.00. Yadkin Sends 2,136 Pounds of Clothing j_ 2,136, pounds of desperately needed clothing, shoes, bedding and other supplies, gathered in the "Fill a Ship With Friendship” drive in Yadkin County, arrived last week at the Church World Service Center, New Windsor, Md., according to word just re ceived from Center officials. The contribution was shipped by the Rev. C. Marvin Boggs of Jones ville, county chairman. The re port states that it has already been placed for overseas shipment. EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE SUNDAY All Churches Of Elkin To Take Part In Rites In Hollywood Cemetery TO* START AT (i:05 A. IVI. Easter sunrise service for Elkin churches will be held in Holly wood cemetery Sunday morning at 6:15 o’clock. Combined choirs j of the various churches will lead the musical portion of the service.! The Jonesville sunrise service | will be held in the Jonesville cem etery at 6:15 o’clock Sunday morning. The Easter services are under | the auspices of the Elkin-Jones- : ville Ministerial Association. Opening the Elkin service will be the singing of “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today” by the choir and congregation, followed by the in vocation by Rev. J. L. Powers, pastor of the East Elkin Baptist Church. “Up From the Grave He Arose” will be the second hymn and is to be followed by the read ing of the Easter scripture by Rev. R. G. Tuttle, pastor of the First Methodist Church, and pas toral prayer by Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Rev. R. V. C. Ritchie, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, will bring the Easter meditation. The choir and congregation will close the services by singing "Crown Him With Many Crowns.” Rev. Powers will pronounce the bene diction. Those taking part in the ser vice are asked to meet at the cemetery at 6:05 o’clock Sunday morning. The public is extended a cor dial invitation to attend. Local Men To Speak To Bankers, Farmers Garland Johnson, executive vice-president of the Bank of Elk in, and Neyi M. Smith, Surry county agent, will appear on the program of the Virginia Banker Farmer Meeting in April. "A Country Banker Speaks,” will be the subject of Mr. Johnson’s address. Mr. Smith’s topic will be “A County Farm Agent Speaks.” Both men are scheduled to appear during the morning of the first day, April 8. The three-day meeting is being sponsored by the Virginia Bank ers Association, Virginia Poly technic Institute, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. It will be held at the Natural Bridge Hotel, Natural Bridge, Va., April 8 through 10. Mother Of L. G. Meed Is Taken By Death Mrs. Laura E. Meed, 87, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, and mother of L. G. Meed of this city, died at 11 p. m. Saturday in a Parkersburg hospital, where she had been a patient for two weeks, following a stroke of paralysis. She had been in declining health for several years. Survivors' include in addition to Mr. Meed, of this city, twb other sons of Parkersburg; and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Funeral was held Tuesday at 4 p. m. in Parkersburg, and inter ment was made in the city ceme tery. Flood Control Plan Is Endorsed At Meet By Important Group POLITICAL POT REACHING BOIL Deadline For The Filing Of Entries Nearing As Interest Rises NUMEROUS CANDIDATES As the dead-line for the filing of entries draws near, political in terest is rising. George K. Snow, Surry county representative in the State House of Representatives, is expected to seek re-election to this post. Henry Dobson, Elkin, a former represen tative, is understood to be inter ested in the race although he de clined to comment on his possible candidacy. The three county commission ers — Marshall C. Fowler, Sam M. Smith, and M. Quillar Snow — have indicated that they will be [ candidates for re-election. The next state senator for this , district will come from Stokes and | it is not known at this time who will be in the race. Two candidates have announced for Register of Deeds — Mrs. Ber tha M. Shinault, incumbent, and Merlin Robertson. H. O. Woltz, Surry county cam paign manager for J. M. Brough ton, candidate for the Democra tic nomination for the U. S. Sen ate. has announced the following staff to assist him: Frank Free man, Dobson; Joe Pell, Pilot Mountain; and Marion W. Allen,! Elkin. In the fifth district, the race for the Democratic nomination for the congressional seat now held by John H. Folger will be limited to two candidates, Thur mond Chatham, chairman of the board of the Chatham Manufac turing Company and a candidate (Continued on page eight) YADKIN DRIVE IN FINAL WEEK Hod Cross Campaign Nearing $1,000 Mark This Week; Success Reported FINAL REPORT MARCH 31 The Red Cross fund drive now in progress in Yadkin County is nearing the $1,000 mark this week, with Yadkinville, West Yadkin, and Courtney having over-subscribed their quotas county chairman Nelson Ireland said yesterday. Yadkinville, under Prof. R. P. Buchanan, and Forbush, under Woodrow Jennings, have raised $375.00. West Yadkin, under Prof. C. C. Wright, has reported collections totaling $370.00. New contribu tions have been Longtown Holi ness Church, $15.00, and Hanes Grove Church, $9.11. Courtney, under Prof. Bruce Matthews, Charlie Groce, and a few community workers have raised $203.00. Miss Irene Brown, club chair man for the drive, has reported contributions from the North Oak Ridge club of $3.00 and from the Charity club of $2.00. D. D. Williamson, Grange chairman, reports contributions of $4.65 from the Forbush Grange and $10.00 from the Boonville Grange. J. E. Shew, manager of the Yadkin Theatre, has promised to donate the proceeds from one of his motion pictures to the fund drive. Mr. Ireland said marvelous co operation has been given by the school principals, their teachers, community workers, and churches during the drive. It is expected, Chairman Ireland said, that the p^rt of the school districts of Yadkinville West Yadkin, Court ney and Forbush will reach the $1,000 mark when the final count is made. The other section of the county composed of the school districts of Jonesville, Boonville, East Bend and Fall Creek have not re ported, but everything is progres sing, Mr. Ireland said. It is planned to make a final report on all districts by the end of March, Local Passenger Train Is Victim Of Coal Strike 'Elkin’s lone passenger train —which runs between Win ston-Salem and North Wllkes boro one train in each direc tion daily—has fallen victim of the coal strike. The train made its final run Sunday. It has been discon tinued in a move by the na tion's railroads to conserve coal. This will in no way effect mail service. A star route has been established between the two railroad terminals which runs on the same schedule as the trains did. A postal clerk handles the mail en route. MT. AIRY MAN FACES MURDER Lonnie A. Jordan To Be Charged With Killing Of Two Women FAILED IN SUICIDE TRY Lonnie A. Jordan, 50-year-old Mount Airy barber, will face two charges of murder in Recorder’s court on Monday. Jordan is charged with first de gree murder in the fatal shootings of Mrs. Blanche Roupe and her 18-year-old daughter, Arleda, at Mount Airy Sunday night. He has been released from the hospital where he was admitted after suf fering facial wounds in a suicide attempt. Jordan will be given a prelim inary hearing Monday morning in Mount Airy Recorder’s Court on two charges of first degree mur der. In a statement given police Monday, Mrs. Roupe’s 15-year-old daughter, Margaret, said that Jor dan shot her mother three times in the chest with a 45 automatic pistol, then shot Arleda in the back as she tried to escape from the Roupe home. Mrs. Roupe, estranged from her husband, Archie—a broom factory employee at Asheboro—and Jor dan reportedly had been seeing each other for about a year. Mr. Roupe went to Mount Airy Tuesday to arrange for the burial of his wife and daughter. Double funeral services were held Tues day afternoon at Thome Springs Methodist Church, near Pulaski, Va., with burial in the church cemetery. DRIVE HERE IS SHORT OF GOAL Approximately $2,000 Con tributed Thus Far In Red Cross Campaign LOCAL QUOTA IS $2,900 Elkin was almost $1,000 short of the quota; of $2,900.00 in the an nual fund-raising campaign of the Red Cross, tabulation of the committee reports showed yester day. Rev. Howard J. Ford, general chairman of the campaign, re ported that a total of $1,994.66 had been received with a few committees yet to report. C. J. Hyslup, Red Cross chair man for the Elkin area, said that I in past campaigns Elkin has nev ' er come short of the quota. “Indications are that the peo ple are not giving as freely as they did during the war years,” Mr. Hyslup said. “If everyone took the same attitude towards this campaign as the boys who were in combat and concentration camps we would have no trouble going over,” he added. Mr. Ford expressed the opinion that the goal could be reached with full cooperation and called on the citizens of Elkin to join the committees in the hard work that reaching the set quota will demand. Prices of all important dairy items at the beginning of 1948 were higher than a year earlier. Delegation Is Present From This Section The Yadkin-Pee Dee river basin flood control program was en dorsed by the 38th annual con vention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in Wash ington last week as part of the over-all planning program of this non-federal group. This endorsement—which had been backed by a delegation of a dozen men from Surry, Yadkin, Wilkes and Forsyth counties— means that the Congress believes that prompt construction of the enterprise is in the public interest. This was the only North Carolina project endorsed at the meeting which approved 12 projects in the nation. H. H. Hensel, Elkin business man and member of the Yadkin Valley Flood Control Committee, who attended the Washington meeting was highly pleased over the outcome and labeled the ap proval a “step forward.” "We hope that this approval will result in the immediate ap propriation of more funds by the national Congress,” Mr. Hensel said. This project calls for the con struction of four dams in Wilkes county, two on the Upper Yadkin and two on the Reddies river. The plans as drawn call for an expenditure of seven million dol lars, of which $75,000 was ap priated last year to cover the cost of plans for one of the dams. Permanent lakes would not be created under the plan, but it would be possible to close the dams in case of a threatened flood and release the water gradually to prevent flash floods. Under the present plan, the fed eral government would purchase the land required for the lake beds and in turn lease it for grazing lands and similar pur poses. Rep. C. B. Deane, Rockingham, 3th district representative, was (Continued On Page Eight) Members of Election Boards Re-appointed The State Board of Elections Saturday re-appointed members of election boards in North Car olina’s 100 counties. In only one county, Johnston, was there a controversy. After hearing speak ers representing two groups, the board unanimously refused to make any change. Renamed in this area were: Surry—A. P. Fulk, Pilot Moun tain; R. C. Freeman, Elkin, and Warren F. Alberty, Dobson. Yadkin—J,. S. Reavis, Hamp tonville; Fred J. Brandon and S. W. Vestal, Yadkinville. Wilkes—C. J. Jones, Millers Creek; M. B. McNeil, North Wilkesboro; and P. E. Brown, Wilkesboro. Air Meet To Be Held At Rendezvous Field The Elkin Flying Club is spon soring an air meet at Rendezvous Airpark Monday to which more than 100 flyers from the western section of the state have been in vited. A barbecue dinner will be served from 10:30 a. m. This is the first in a planned series of air meets to be held at the local field. The local flying group was chartered March 19 and has 12 members. Marriage License Issued At Dobson Five marriage licenses were is sued during the week yiding March 22, according to Mrs. Ber tha M. Shinault, Register of Deeds for Surry county. March 18—Jonas G. Slate, 37, and Nannie V. Gunter, 33; Ber nie Stephens 21, and Ellen Law son, 18, and Thomas Davis, 21, and Elizabeth Dearmin, 20, all of Mount Airy. March 20—Glenn Kirkman, 22, and Treva A. Riddle, 21, both of Mount Airy. March 22—C. L. Murphy, 28, Thomasville, and Lois L. Kipley, 21, Lexington.
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