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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. 21 r PUBLISHED WEEKLY i ELKIN, N. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 22, 1948 i ! $2.00 PER YEAR 20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS FARM WOMEN ARE 10 MEET HERE THURSDAY Home Demonstration Agents Plan Program KIWANIS CLUB IS HOST Second Annual Spring Festi val To Be Held At Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. EXPERTS ON PROGRAM 4 Farm women from the tri county area of Surry, Yadkin, and Wilkes will be guests of the Elkin Kiwanis Club at the second an nual Spring Festival of Home Demonstration Clubs to be held at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A., April 29. The program for the occasion has been arranged by the Home Demonstration agents of the three counties and will feature two speakers from the State Ex tension Service and the women’s editor of Southern Agriculturist. Mrs. Grace Pope Brown, Surry county, Miss Irene Brown, Yadkin county, and Mrs. Annie H. Greene, Wilkes county, Home Demonstra tion Agents, are co-operating in planning the day’s activities. Featured speakers will include Mrs. Virginia Sloan Swain, Ex 4 tension Specialist in Family Re lations, who will speak on “The Importance of the Family in the World Today;’’ James T. Conner, Jr., Extension Entomologist, who will discuss insect control; and Miss Iris Davenport, editor of the women’s department of Southern Agriculturist, whose subject will be “Bigger Things Can Be Ours.” Miss Davenport was heard on the program presented last year. Miss Ruth Current, State Home Demonstration Agent, will extend greetings to the audience. Mrs. P. N. Taylor, president of the Surry County Home Demon stration Council, will preside at 4 the meeting. On behalf of the 'Kiwanis club and the merchants of Elkin, who are sponsoring the program, Linville Hendren, club (Continued On Page Eight) COURT ACTS ON DIVORCE CASES Judge Gwyn Grants IS Ab solute Decrees In Non contested Suits NO PETITIONS DENI E 1) Eighteen divorce decrees were granted in Superior Court Monday and Tuesday at Dobson. Judge Allen H. Gwyn. presiding over the April term, granted the absolute j divorces in the cases, none of which were contested. In the following s u m m a r y, plaintiffs are named first: Edith Mae Freeman vs. Harvey Spencer Freeman; Grady Haynes vs. Annie Mae Haynes; Burlen E.! Lawson vs. Eva M. Lawson; Gar- j net Golding vs. Lois Booker Gold- j ing; Barbara Jean Brown vs. Al bert Tjre Brown; Virginia J. i White vs. Arthur White; and Lois Hall Smith vs. Sherman Smith. Also Posey Lee Matthews vs. Nancy Mace Matthews; Johnnie Carolyn Joyce vs. William Preston Joyce; Alice SUvasi vs. Emri Sil vasi; Clifford Doss vs. Beatrice Doss; Ernest Littman vs. Ethel Littman; Nancy Fulton Byrum vs. Leo E. Byrum, Jr.; Bettie Puck ett Beck vs. Howard Amos Beck; Lula Putnam vs. R. W. Putnam; i J. Daniel Tolbert vs. Florence ** Ayers Tolbert; Gillie Thomas Westmoreland vs. Will D. West moreland; and Sam K. Price vs. Joan H. Price. On petition of Mrs. Smith’s attorneys. Judge Gwyn ordered her original name restored. Saturday Is Deadline For Crop Insurancev Tobacco farmers of Surry coun ty were urged this week by Federal Crop insurance Corporation offi cials to take advantage, of this year’s insurance program before the deadline Saturday. The A.A.A. office, located in the . court house at Dobson, will be ^open all day Saturday to enable farmers of this county to apply for the insurance. Authorized agents throughout the county are also taking crop insurance appli cation. Premium rates for 1948 have been set at $9.60 per acre. Officials pointed out that last year $24,000 was paid to Surry % county farmers for tobacco crop r losses. i SURRY COUNTY MANAGER — Johnson For Governor Head quarters announced from Ra leigh Tuesday the appointment of R. Cleve Lewellyn, above, prominent Surry County Bank er, as manager for Mr. Johnson in Surry County. Mr. Lewellyn is a leader in political activities in the county. Serving on the committee with him are Fred Folger, Mount Airy; Hugh At kinson. Siloam and Wick Gor don, Pilot Mountain. REMOVES NAME AS CANDIDATE If. I*. Graham Withdraws From State House Race After Filing Saturday STATEMENT 1SISSUE1) Herbert P. Graham, well-known Elkin business man, who last week filed for the Democratic nomina tion to the State House of Repre sentatives, withdrew yesterday and pledged his support to the Demo cratic nominee of the May 29 pri mary. His withdrawal, Mr. Graham said, was prompted by the indica tion that his candidacy “at this time might adversely affect the interests of other candidates from this end of the county.’’ Mr. Graham's complete state ment follows: “At the solicitation of a large number of my friends in Elkin and throughout the county I filed my candidacy for the N. C. House of Representatives. No one could • Continued On Page Six) New Health Officer Joins Surry Staff Dr. E. E. McTyre, a native of Savannah, Ga., and for the past two years assistant health officer of Forsyth County Health De partment, this week assumed du ties as full time director of the Surry County Health Department. Dr. McTyre attended premedi cal school at Emory University and graduated from the School of Medicine of the University of Georgia with the class of 1934. He attended the Public Health School of the University of North Caro lina in 1937. Aside from five years and seven months which he spent with the Army Medical Corps during World War II, Dr. McTyre has been en gaged in internship, resident prac tice and public health 'work since his graduation from college. Jones ville To Increase Facilities Of Abattoir Plans calling for the expendi ture of between $75,000 and $90, 000 to increase the facilities of the Jonesville abattoir and to pro vide freezer locker space were an nounced this week by officials of the Yadkin Valley Packers, Inc., newly organized concern which will operate the new plant. Ivry N. Johnson, president of the concern, stated that he ex pects construction work to start within two weeks and that the new plant should be ready to serve the public by September 1. The new plant which will have over-all dimension of 179 feet by 80 feet will be equipped to enable the concern to offer freezer lock er service to the public. The present building, which will be utilized in the new plant, is lo cated to the rear of the Pepsi-Cola plant just off highway 67 in Jonesville. The remodeling calls for an ad (Continued On Page Eight) SAFETY BOARD OPENS TWO-DAY SESSION HERE Local Company To Receive Safety Award C. J. HYSLUP ON BOARD Labor Commissioner Forrest Shuford And Staff To Be Present CARROLL IS TO SPEAK Members of the Industrial Safe ty Advisory Board of the State De partment of Labor, Forrest Shu ford, state commissioner of Labor, and the commission staff will hold a semi-annual meeting in Elkin Thursday and Friday as guests of the Chatham Manufacturing Company. During this meeting the Chat ham Manufacturing Company will receive a certificate of safety achievement from the state com missioner. To qualify for this cer tificate a firm must reduce the accident frequency rate by 40 per cent or more over the previous year, or maintain accident rates 75 per cent below the state aver age for their industry. In making the announcement of the meeting, C. J. Hyslup, safety director of the Chatham Manu facturing Company, said that he and other officials here were high ly pleased that the board had selected Elkin for this meeting. More than 40 representatives of the state department of Labor and representatives of North Car olina industry are expected to at tend. A banquet to be given on Thurs day night will open the meeting. At this time Thomas Carroll, per sonnel director of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, will de- I (Continued On Page Six) SCOTT’S MANAGER — Dr. Seth M. Beale, above, has been appointed by Kerr Scott, former North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, as Elkin manager for his campaign for Governor. Dr. Beale is a very prominent Elkin physician and farmer, and is a native of Mr. Scott’s home county of Alamance. HINNANT LIONS SPEAKER HERE General Secretary Of YMCA Of Jacksonville, Fla., Makes Fine Talk RELATES EXPERIENCES! Otis Hinnant, General Secre tary of the Y. M. C. A. of Jack sonville, Florida spoke Monday night at the regular meeting of the Lions Club of Elkin in the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. Mr. Hin nant has been associated with the Young Men’s Christian Asso ciation for several years, having served in Wilmington, and for the • Continued On Page Eight) Elkin Emergency Squad Asking Financial Aid New Equipment Is Needed To Carry On Work Elkin’s Emergency Rescue Squad is issuing its first call for public financial support since voluntary contributions provid ed an iron lung in 1944. New equipment is needed at this time to be used in water rescue work. During the sum mer months the squad receives numerous calls for assistance to those involved in water acci dents. Four water rescues undertak en last summer proved hard on the equipment and several new items of equipment are needed now. This includes boats, mot ors, grappling irons, rope, and life jackets. The latest piece of equipment to be added by the rescue squad is a portable lighting plant with a 1,500 watt capacity. This is operated by a generator powered by a gasoline engine and can be set up in any location. This (Continued On Page Eight) > to r .. i FOR BROUGHTON — Mrs. E. F. McNeer, above, prominent Elkin lady, has accepted the ap pointment as local chairman of the Women’s Division for the campaign of former Governor J. Melville Broughton for the Unit ed States Senate. Mayor Gar land Johnson, local manager for Broughton, announced the ap pointment last week. MANY HATS FLY INTO POLITICAL RING SATURDAY Numerious Surprise Candi dates Heat Filing Deadline S E V E R A L ELKIN MEN S. O. Maguire Enters Contest For Republican Nomina tion To House NO CONTEST FOR BOARD Many surprise candidates, in cluding several Elkin men, beat last Saturday's deadline and filed for the primaries to be held May 29. Herbert P. Graham, who filed for the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives, has since withdrawn. S. O. Maguire, Elkin travelling man, who represented this county in the House of Representatives in 1919 and 1921 and served in the state senate in 1927, filed for the Republican House nomination. In the race for the County Board of Commissioners the three Democratic incumbents are unop posed in the primary. J. P. Fulk, Pilot Mountain, chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections, announced the complete list of candidates as fol lows: For the House of Representa tives — Democratic: George K. Snow, Mount Airy, incumbent, and Noah E. Hayes, Elkin; Republican: S. O. Maguire, Elkin. For the Board of Commissioners — Democratic: M. C. Fowler, (Continued On Page Six) SURRY GRAND JURY REPORTS Completes Work In Two Days And Is Dismissed By Judge Allen Gwyn JAIL IS IN POOR SHAPE The Surry County Grand Jury completed its work in two days and was excused Tuesday after noon by Judge Allen H. Gwyn after returning two true bills in all but five cases presented and submitting a report of conditions of several public-owned institu tions. Five bills were returned to the solicitor because of a lack of wit nesses and were continued. Included in the true bills were those charging Lonnie A. Jordan with the murder of a 33-year-old Mount Airy woman and her 18 year-old daughter and charging Jack Cantrell with the assault of his ten-year-old daughter. The Grand Jury in reporting that the county jail building was in poor condition, pointed out several needed repairs and recom mended that steps be taken to de crease the possibility of fire dam age. It was noted that 16 prison ers were lodged in the jail includ ing two colored males, 1 colored female, and 13 white males. Although extensive repairs are now in progress at the County Home, the Grand Jury brought several other needed repairs to Judge Gwyn’s attention. It was noted in the report that although (Continued On Page Eight) -x^wa<Svggapww<wJwOJCOoooooo»:- •*«—m*. -to. wwwwwwoskpkk NEW HOSPITAL OFFICIALS — Dr. Frank R. Fleming, left, a na tive of Yadkin county, and Louis E. Swanson have joined the staff of the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. Dr. Fleming will head the ear, eye, nose and throat clinic and Mr. Swanson will fill the newly-created post of administrator. Add 2 New Members To Hospital Staff Hospital Administrator And Ear Eye, Nose And Throat Specialist Two new staff members have been added to the personnel of the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospi tal, hospital officials announced this week. Dr. Frank R. Fleming joins the hospital staff as car, eye, nose and throat specialist and Louis E. Swanson has been secured to fill the newly-created position of hos pital administrator, j Equipment for the ear, eye, nose J and throat clinic is now being in- j j stalled. This service will be made j available to the public in the near future. The position of administrator i has been created to co-ordinate the various phases of hospital ac tivity. Dr. Fleming, a native of Hamp tonville in Yadkin county, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Fleming. He studied medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, re I ceiving his degree in 1935. He spent one year as an intern at I the Atlantic City Hospital, Atlan j tic City, N. J., and served a one year residency in eye, ear, nose : and throat at Duke Hospital and Stolen Automobile Recovered Sunday An automobile belonging to Bob I Lankford was recovered in Wilkes county Sunday which had been j stolen here Saturday night. Children found the car in some woods, partially covered with grass. Except for a few dents, the car was in good condition when it was returned to Mr. Lankford. Found nearby was the frame of a late pre-war model car which had been stolen some months ago from Walter Metz. Officers be lieved that the thieves had stripped the car and sold the parts. Last Thursday night Patrolman D. J. Caudle arrested Ransom Es sick, 17-year-old boy of Lexing ton, and recovered an automobile which the youth had allegedly stolen from R. C. Canady of Lex ington. Essick, who admitted the auto mobile theft, was lodged in the Dobson jail. the Newark, N. J., Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Fleming spent four years in the general practice of medicine at Statesville before entering the Army Air Force as a flight sur geon. He held the rank of lieu tenant colonel at the time of his release. Prior to accepting his present position, Dr. Fleming completed a graduate course in ophthalmology at Harvard University School of Medicine. Louis E. Swanson, a native of St. Paul. Minn., recently completed a two and one-half year course in hospital administration at Duke University Hospital. Prior to his training period at Duke, Mr. Swanson was business manager of the Highland Hospital in Ashe ville. Mr. Swanson, with his wife and one child, is making his home temporarily at the hospital. HOUSE CANDIDATE — S. O. Maguire, salesman for the Elkin Tanning Co., is unopposed for the Republican nomination for the state House of Representa tives from Surry county. Mr. Maguire represented this county in the House in 1919 and 1921. In 1927 he represented the 23rd Senatorial District in the State Senate. Freezer Locker Plant To Cost Close To $90,000 i g...ah...g„~pyA> ta,,6*-».-y>&>^.g, f* »<?« »^IUa p» lr« ^»5^,».M,...-V^.W^IrV. ..IVftfei^. yfr *-?- .ra.ffi ^CJutUBKkj F'«*e>«as‘>~> Lfl<-W«»4,:'yft, KaWHuSa, *-* < CL. 'RICHARD L RICE ARCHITECT ftaitigk N C ti. C Vftti/luu Mu S43 /A*«eM, IT, ( «**^ JONESVILLE’S NEW FREEZER LOCKER PLANT — An Architect’s drawing shows the proposed additions to the Jonesville abattoir which will allow the necessary space to furnish freezer locker service to the public. Ivry N. Johnson, president of Yadkin Valley Packers, Inc., operators of the new concern, states that work will start on the project within two weeks and that it will open about September 1. The project calls for expenditures of between $75,000 and $90,000. L JORDAN TO GO ON TRIAL FOR LIFE APRIL 29 Is Arraigned M onday In Surry Superior Court MANY CASES ARE TRIED Predict New Hearing For Dr. B. 0. Choate Will Be Put Off Until September HEAR TRAFFIC CASES Lonnie A. Jordan, 50-year-old Mount Airy barber, will go on trial for his life next Thursday, in connection with the fatal shooting March 21st of Mrs. Blanche Roupe and her 18-year old daughter. Jordan was arraigned Monday before Judge Allen H. Gwyn, pre siding at the April term of Surry County Superior Court in Dob son, after the Grand Jury had returned a true bill charging him with the capital felony. He en tered a plea of not guilty. A true bill was returned against Jack Cantrell, charging him with the rape of his ten-year-old daughter and is expected to be heard by the court next Monday. Court officials predicted that the new trial for Dr. B. O. Choate, in which the prominent Sparta physician will for the second time face charges of criminal abortion, will not be called until the Sep tember term of court. On Monday Judge Gwyn ad mitted to the bar Howard 0.‘ Woltz, Jr., who at 23 is the young est member of the Surry county bar. He was presented by his father, H. O. Woltz, prominent (Continued On Page Eight) TEN SEEK JOBS ONTOWN BOARD Are Nominated At Jonesville Convention Monday; Ran dleman For Mayor ELECTION TO HE MAY ,‘{ Ten candidates for the five man Board of Commissioners and one candidate for mayor wore placed in nomination for the election of new town officials for Joncsville, set for May 3, at a nominating convention held Mon day night. Of the nominees, the candidate for mayor and five of the com mission candidates had filed yes terday. James Randleman, town attor ney. was nominated to succeed Z. Bent Martin as mayor. Mr. Mar tin had asked earlier that his name not be placed in nomina tion. He has served in that ca pacity for ten years. Joe Gilliam, Turner Pardue and Turner Blackwood, present mem bers of the board, were nominated to succeed themselves. Others nominated were Glenn Menden hall, Wiley Segraves, Dwight Wil liams, Burris Gray, Leon Martin, Tenny Brown and Hooks Hol brook. Denver Cockerham and Davis Reece, present coynmissioners, aro not seeking re-election. Candidates for the Board of Commissioners who have filed are Gilliam, Mendenhall, Segraves, Williams and Gray. The other nominees and any other persons who desire one of the posts have until six days prior to the day of election in which to file. Cancer Drive For Funds Is Now Under Way Committees this week are soliciting funds to be used in the fight against cancer, E. E. Shore, Jr., announced. Mr. Shore is serving as chairman of the drive for the Elkin Lions Club. The. drive started Monday and will continue through the month of April. The goal is $1,100, the amount raised here last year. Clyde Gregg, David Brown, Herman Guyer, and Joe Saylor are canvassing the business district in the interest of the campaign. The Lucy Hanes Chatham Club, with Mrs. Dot Sprinkle serving as chairman, is can vassing the Chatham Manu facturing Company. Mr. Shore asked those who were not personally approach ed, to mail contributions to the American Cancer Society, Box 843, Elkin.
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