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VOL. No. XXXVI No. 33
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 15,1948
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18 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
^Confer Here
On Plans For
Nurse Course
Hugh Chatham Hospital Is Third In
State To Inaugurate Such Training
Mrs. Prances Dawson, from the
vocational division of the De
partment of Public Instruction,
Raleigh, was in this city Tuesday
to confer with hospital and school
officials on the opening of the
school of practical nursing which
is scheduled to begin September 1,
at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos
pital.
Meeting with Mrs. Dawson were
N. H. Carpenter, superintendent of
city schools, Louis Swanson, hos
pital administrator; Mrs. Anne
Arnold Cain, co-ordinator of the
school; and J. W. L. Benson,
STATE BEAUTY
PAGEANT SET
Miss Marjorie Shamel Elkin’s
Representative In Event
At Wrightsville
TO CHOOSE “MISS N. C.”
Miss Marjorie Shamel. the East
Bend girl who invaded Elkin long
enough recently to carry off the
title of “Miss Elkin of 1948.” will
compete with 25 other North
Carolina beauties Saturday for the
state crown and chance to repre
sent this state in the Miss Amer
ica contest at Atlantic City.
Accompanying Miss Shamel as
i,her chaperone will be Miss Mary
WLea Linville, of Winston-Salem.
Dr.'v. W. Taylor, Jr., president
of the local Jaycee organization,
will serve as master of ceremonies
of the pageant w'hich will be
staged at Wrightsville Beach.
Other Elkin Jaycees planning
to attend the pageant are Fred
Norman. John Mayberry, H. P.
Graham, Jr., and Bill Steven
son.
The shapely misses will hold
the center of the stage but shar
ing the floodlights will be the
"most distinguished set of judges
ever named to select a Miss North
Carolina," Tom James, of Wilm
ington, chairman of the pageant,
said. Included on the panel on
pulchritude will be Norman Gor
don, Metropolitan opera star and
director of the N. C. Music found
ation; Carl Goerch, radio com
mentator and editor and publisher
of The State mag ine; Charlie
(Choo Choo) Justice, U. N. C.
football star; Smith Barrier,
Greensboro Daily News Sports
Editor; Eric Palmer, tobacco pub
licist; John A. Wilkinson, Repub
lican candidate for the U. S. Sen
ate, and Miss Patsy Parrish, of
Rocky Mount, runner-up for the
ttitle of Miss North Carolina last
year.
The competition will get under
way at 3 o'clock Saturday after
noon when the young women dis
play the talents of their choice at
Lumina. Six hours later, on the
same stage, they will be judged on
beauty, first in evening dress and
then in bathing suits. Following
an hour of dancing by the crow'd,
the girls will return and at 11
o'clock the winner will be an
nounced and crowned by Mayne
Albright, candidate for Governor
in the recent Democratic primary.
Following the brief ceremony
dancing to the music of Lopez
and his orchestra will continue
to 1 o'clock.
BOONVILLE HAS
MOVIE THEATRE
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Is Now In Operation With
Four Changes of Pro
gram Each Week
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IS LOCALLY OWNED
The new Boonville motion pic
ture theatre, owned by Foster R.
Matthews, Charles Craver and
•Foy Hemric, of Boonville, has op
ened to the public.
Completely modern, the new
theatre is located on Boonville’s
Main street, and will feature the
best in motion picture entertain
ment. Programs change four
times weekly, with shows begin
. ning at 7:15 o’clock each evening.
Peanut production has increas
ed six-fold in the last 35 years.
member of the hospital board of ,
trustees.
Mrs. Dawson was here to ad
vise the committee on setting up
the school program and to en
courage the cooperation of the
community and city schools with
the hospital in sponsoring the
nursing school.
The program for practical
nurses, as it is set up. is similar
to the training required to be
come a registered nurse, except
that it is on an accelerated basis
taking only a 12 months period to
complete the course which con
sists of both hospital experience
and classroom instruction. The
course should be of special inter
est to recent young high school
graduates who are interested in
the nursing profession.
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos
pital is the third hospital in
North Carolina to start a program
for the training of practical
nurses. Two others are already in
operation, one for white students
at Alamance General Hospital,
Burlington, and one for Negro
students at Duke University
! School of Nursing, Durham.
LIONS NAME
COMMITTEES
Reports Show Recent Horse
Show To Re Successful
Financially
MONEY TO GO TO BLIND
Appointment of committees for
the coming year and reports on
the Horse Show and State Con
vention were the main topics of
discussion at tire regular meeting
of the Lions Club Monday night.
Claude Farrell reported that
the Horse Show, was successful
as a civic event as well as show
ing a profit for the club. Money
realized from the Horse Show will
be used for Lions projects, in
cluding the Blind Fund.
President E. E. Shore, Jr., an
nounced the following committee
appointments (chairmen listed
immediately following committee
names):
Attendance: Bill Harris, Tom
Parnell and Clyde Grigg; consti
tution and by laws: Livingston
Williams, chairman, John Kelly
and Phil Poats; convention: Glenn
Lewis and George Yarboro;
finance: Davis Reece, Claude Far
rell and Clyde Walker.
Also Lions education: Claude
Farrell, David Brown and Jim
Eurcham; membership: Lewis
Alexander, Dwayne Irwin, and
Russell Burcham; program and
entertainment: Jim Crowe, Liv
ingston Williams, and Lewis Alex
ander; publicity: George Yarboro,
Herman Guyer, Ted Griffin, and
Claude Farrell, Bulletin Editor:
boys and girls work: Paul Lewis,
Francis Jarvis, Woodrow Holcomb,
and Floyd Roberts: citizenship
and patriotism: Frank Tulbert,
Bob Kirkman, and Gene Lewis;
civic improvement: Hoyle Cran
ford, Graham Myers, and K. V.
McLeod: community betterment:
Joe Saylor, W. M. Wall, Clint
Saylor, and Charles Plogger.
Also education: C. C. Wright,
Charles Alexander, and Claude
Farrell: health and welfare: James
Atwell, Fiank Miller, and Dr. C. E.
Nicks; safety: Fred Eidson, Fran
cis Jarvis, and Charles Alexander;
sight conservation and blind: L.
M. Lathan, Jim Crowe, and Lin
ville Norman; horse show: Glenn
York, Harvey Baker, and Jim
Burcham; house committee: Glenn
Lewis, Fred Edison, Louis Mitch
ell, and Joe Saylor.
Three Escape Injury
In Jeep Wreck Here
The driver of a jeep and his
two passengers escaped injury
Tuesday when the brakes failed
to hold and the jeep turned over
as it approached the old Elkin -
Jonesville bridge from Jonesville.
Patrolman J. W. Williamson, of
Yadkinville, who investigated list
ed Page Graham as the driver.
No charges were filed.
Hay crops are reported in fair
to good condition in the Coastal
and Piedmont areas of the State.
GIVER OF HIGHEST MILITARY AWARD HOPES FOR HIGHEST CIVILIAN POST — President
Harry S. Truman, in the picture above, decorated three heroes of World War II with the Congressional
Medal of Honor. The president expected to go to Philadelphia sometime last night to accept the Dem
ocratic nomination for president. With the president in the rose garden of the W'hite House, left to
right, are Lt. Commdr. Jackson C. Pharris, Columbus, Ga., Francis J. Pierce, former pharmacist's mate
of Earlville, Iowa, and Staff Sgt. John L. Koos, of Golden, Okla.
LAYNE PIT ON
FARM BOARD
Succeeds Collins On Commit
tee Which Approves Fed
eral Agricultural Loans
(JETS THREE YEAR TERM
Appointment of Fesus E. Layne.
route 2, Dobson, to a three-year
term on the Farmers Home Ad
ministration Committee for Surry
County was announcel today by
J. B. Slack, State Director. Mr.
Layne succeeds Eli Collins, whose
term expired June 30.
Also on the committee are Rob
ert L. Brown, route 1, Mount Airy,
and Edgar J. Smith, route 3, Mt.
Airy.
A committee of three serves in
each agricultural county through
out the nation in which the ag
ency makes farm ownership and
operating loans. Appointments
arc scheduled so that a commit
tee always has two experienced
members.
The Surry County committee
has an important place in making
supervised credit available to lo
cal farmers, according to Ernest
F. Arnold, County Supervisor. Be
fore any money can be borrowed
through the agency an applicant
must have the approval of the
county committee. In the case of
farm ownership loans, the farm to
be purchased, enlarged or improv
ed must also be approved by the
conjmittee.
“The members know agricul
tural conditions in the county,
are often familiar w'ith the farm
the applicant plans to operate,”
Arnold explained.
In addition to approving loans
the committee cooperates with the
County Supervisor in overall ad
ministration of the program in
the county. Periodically they re
view' the progress of borrowers to
determine whether they have
reached a financial position that
would enable them to refinance
their loans through private lend
ers. A farmer w'ho is eligible for
credit from regular lending
sources is not eligible for a loan
from the Farmers Home Admin
istration.
Camp Butler To Be
Scene of Meeting's
Three local groups are plan
ning to utilize the new Camp
Albert L. Butler for meetings in
the near future, Y.M.C.A. officials '
announced this week.
On August 4 the K’lwanis Club
will hold a Ladies Night meeting
at the camp. The following day
the Thurmond Chatham Unity
Club will hold a supper meeting
there.
The Lucy Hanes Chatham Club
will hold a three day meeting at
the camp, August 6-8.
Miss Petrea To Be
Guest of Kiwanians
Miss Eyra Dell Petrea, choir
director and. assistant to the
pastor of the First Baptist Church
here, will conduct the program at
the Kiwanis meeting here this ev
ening (Thursday), at the Gilvin
Roth- YMCA. Miss Petrea is a
talented musician and all mem
bers of the club are urged to be
present to hear her.
Last week’s meeting was held
at Bluff Park on the scenic high
way on Wednesday afternoon,
with an enjoyable picnic dinner
being served.
Mac. J. Williams, son of Rcver
i end Mack Williams of Route 1,
i Elkin North Carolina, who has
been serving with the U. S. Army
Transportation Service at Head
quarters, Ryukyus Command on
Okinawa, was recently promoted
to technician fifth grade.
A foward student at Boon
; ville High School, T/5 Williams
I entered active duty in March 1946
! and departed for assignment in
the Far East the following Sep
tember.
S R John Dennis Elliott, of the
United States Navy, has returned
to his post after spending a
twelve-day leave with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Avery Elliott, of
Millbrook, New York, former resi
dents of State Road. He received
his training at Great Lakes, Ill
inois.
DOUBLE RITES
AT BOONVILLE
Rites To Re Conducted For
Father And Son At
3:00 o’clock
WERE SOLDIER, CIVILIAN
Double funeral services will be
held this 'Thursday) afternoon
at Boonville Baptist Church at 3
o’clock for Zet Shugart, 58, who
died Monday and for his son Pfc.
Guy Shugart, 30, who was killed
in action in France in 1944.
Mr. Shugart, who lives on
Boonville. Route 1, died suddenly
of a heart attack while working
on his farm. He was the son of
Bonson and Lillie York Shugart,
and was married to the former
Pearl Shore in 1910, who survives,
together with children:
Mrs. Epsie Caudle and Mrs. Iris
Prim, both of Boonville, and Mrs.
Vivian Taylor of East Bend; two
brothers, O. K. Shugart, of In
dian Head, Md., and Foy Shug
| art of Boonville; one sister, Mrs.
A. L. Wall, of Walkertown; and
ten grandchildren.
The funeral services will be
conducted today for both father
and son. Rev. J. P. Davis and
Rev. R. E. Adams will officiate.
The body of Pfc. Shugart arriv
ed yesterday from Charlotte
Quartermaster Depot to where it
had been sent from France. Both
caskets will be closed at the
church.
Served In Army
Pfc. Shugart was born January
20, 1914, in Boonville. He re
ceived his army training at Camp
Hulen, Texas, and Camp Pickett,
Va., and went overseas August 7,
1944.
*He was killed in action Septem
ber 19. 1944, in France, at the
age of 30.
Jonesville Man Is
Held For Assault
Charlie Gray, Jonesville, was
arrested in Greensboro Monday
and is being held in the Yadkin
county jail on a charge of assault
with a deadly weapon.
Gray allegedly cut Willia Mae
Granton, also of Jonesville, Sat
urday night, according to Sheriff
A. F. Moxley.
DROPS IN HOOK,
CATCHES SNAKE
East Rend Youth Pulls Three
Foot Cotton Mouth Moc
casin From Pond
FIRST. LAST. HE HOPES
Fishing is fun for most people,
but there are times when even a
fisherman is surprised at what
he catches on his hook.
This is what happened to Ray
Spillman, 14 year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Spillman, East j
Bend Route 2, last Friday.
Young Spillman went fishing j
with his father and two other
friends, S. A. Binkley and Herman
Spillman, to the old Steelman!
Mill Pond below East Bend.
After fishing for a while with !
no results, he felt a tug on his
line, which he pulled in. There
was no bait left on the hook.
He rebaited the hook, and toss
ed it back into the water. In a
few seconds he felt another tug,
and drew his line out of the
water. The bait was gone again.
He went through the process
again and placed the baited hook
back into the water. This time
he got results. When he felt a
nibble he jerked his pole hard,
up and over his shoulder, and got
a glimpse of a long, coiled body in
the air.
When it had landed on tlfe
bank, the group of fishermen saw
with astonishment that the boy
had landed a three-foot, cotton
mouth water moccasin on his fish
hook. Upon examination, it was
found the snake had been hooked
similar to the way a fish is
caught.
Once on the bank, the snake
put on a demonstration of coil
ing and striking before it was
finally subdued, but did no dam
age with the hook firmly in its
mouth.
Upon first glance the fishermen
' thought an eel had been caught.
I but when they examined it the
critter turned out to be a water
; moccasin, and the first one the
group had ever heard of being
caught like a fish.
And they hope, the last one.
Speedway Sanctioned
By Stock Car Group
Stock car races at the Elkin
Speedway will be sanctioned by
the National Association for Stock
Car Auto Racing for the remain
der of this season, according to an
agreement reached last week-end
by Bill France, Daytona Beach
race director, and Ruby McCor
mick of the Elkin Speedway.
France handled the stock car
events at the Elkin Speedway last
season and is well known thru
out this section.
Under the NASCAR organiza
tion, the leading stock car drivers
not only compete for the indi
vidual race purses, but also for
a jackpot to be awarded the point
leaders at the end of the season,
this probably amounting to ap
proximately $12,000 for 1948.
At present, Fonty Flock, the
1947 national champion, is pacing
the field in the point standings
with 1959 points, trailed by Rob
ert (Red) Byron of Atlanta, with
1748 points.
Steps leading to an improved
agricultural extension system in
Japan are now under way.
Elkin To Be Sprayed
With DDT; Polio In
Surry Sets New Mark
Three Cases
Push Total
To Sixteen
An all-time high in reported
cases of infantile paralysis in j
Surry county was reached this1
week when health department of
ficials announced three new cases j
which raised the total for 1948 to
16.
One of the three reported cases
is unusual in the annals of medi
cine in that the victim was treat
ed for the disease during the epi
demic of 1944.
Meanwhile, officials of the
Surry county chapter of the Na
tional Foundation of Infantile
Paralysis heartily endorsed the
movement at Greensboro for the
construction of a 100-bed polio
hospital and reminded the citizens
of this county that the local chap
ter is prepared to pay all medi
cal fees resulting from polio.
In Yadkin county, health de
partment officials announced the
report of the first case of polio
I there this year.
Mary Katherine Swaim, 17
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hasting Swaim of Route 1,
Elkin, has been hospitalized at the I
i Baptist Hospital at Winston
Salem. She suffered polio during
j the 1944 epidemic.
Her physician, Dr. S. M. Beale,
i called the recurrence extremely
unusual. This dispels the popular
j belief that once stricken, a pa
! tient is thereafter immune.
Other cases reported during the
week were:
, Mary Lynn Sheppard, six-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
1 W. Sheppard of State Road. She
[ is hospitalized at the Baptist
Hospital.
Reported Tuesday was the case
of Calvin Bennett, ten-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bennett
of Westfield. He is also being
treated at the Baptist Hospital.
C. O. Jcffress, chairman of the
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YADKIN TAKES
BLUE RIBBONS
Boonville Boys And (iirls
Highly Successful In Ml.
Airy Jersey Show
17 ANIMALS ENTERED
The Yadkin Valley Jersey Par- *
rish held its annual show at
Mount Airy on July 5, with Yad- |
kin, Surry and Stokes counties
competing for prizes. Yadkin
County had thirty-one entries in
the show by 4-H, FFA and indi- j
viduals. Of these entries there j
were ten blue ribbons, twenty red
ribbons and one white ribbon.
4-H members entered seventeen
animals winning six blue ribbons
and eleven red ribbons. Pleasant
Hills Farm of Boonville had the
Grand Champion cow of the show.
Ann Hobson, 4-H Member of
Boonville, had the Grand Champ
ion heifer and Billy Reece, also of
Boonville, had the second place
heifer. 4-H Club Blue Ribbon en
tries were: Ann Hobson, Billy
Reece (2), Aaron Brown, Phyllis
Ann Fleming, and Edward Hob
son. 4-H Red Ribbon entries were:
Phyllis Ann Fleming, Ina Sue
Fleming, Bill Poindexter, Tina
Brown and Keith Johnson.
Other entries in the show were
Pleasant Hill Farm, Malcolm
Hicks, Walter Stinson and C. Tom
Murphy.
Walter Stinson, F.F.A. member
from Boonville won first place in
showmanship.
Curtis Hobson, representing the
N. C. Jersey Cattle Club, had the
second place float in the parade.
Ann Hobson and Walter Stinson
were on the float with two blue
ribbon heifers. Dean Colvard of
North Carolina State College was
horse and mule judge and judge
of showmanship of 4-H and F.F.A.
members.
Paul Burch, President of
the Yadkin Valley Jersey Parrish,
awarded all 4-H and F.F.A. mem
bers who showed a Jersey, one
year’s membership in the Parrish,
' and one Year’s subscription to the
| Jersey bulletin.
QUEEN — Ruler of the 1948
National Cherry Festival held at
Traverse City, Michigan, July
8th and 9th was blonde, blue
eyed Vonny Ann Verno, 18
year-old beauty from the village
of Empire, Michigan.
TOBACCO LOAN
RATES TOLD
Average Will Exceed 1947
Rates By Almost Four
Cents I’er Found
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| UNTIED TOBACCO LESS
Loan rates on all grades of 1948
tied flue-cured tobacco, ranging
from nine to 70 cents a pound,
were announced Monday at Wash
ington by the Agriculture Depart
ment.
The loans—available to all co
operating growers on a grade basis
—will average 43.9 cents per
pound in line with provisions
calling for price support at 90 per
cent of parity.
The 1947 loan rate average was
40 cents per pound.
Loan rates for 1948 untied
tobacco, marketed in Georgia and
Florida, will be four cents a pound
less than for tied tobacco mark
eted in the other flue-cured pro
ducing states. This is the same
differential that prevailed last
year.
Markets in southern Georgia
and northern Florida will open
July 22. Marketing will move
j northward as the crop matures.
The loans will be available to
those producers who have not
grown in excess of individual mar
keting quotas through the Flue
Cured Tobacco Co-Operative Sta
bilization Corporation of Raleigh,
N. C.
The corporation will open an
office again at Valdosta, Ga., to
serve growers in the Georgia
Florida producing area.
Under the 1947 loan program,
232.000,000 pound of flue-cured
tobacco were placed under loan.
This was equal to about 17 per
cent of the crop. This year, offic
ials expect a smaller amount will
be placed under loan.
Seven Marriage
Permits Issued
Marriage licenses were issued
to seven couples during the week
ending July 11, by the Surry
County Register of Deeds, records
in that office revealed this week.
July 7—Jerry Hutson, 21, and
Mildred McCraw, 23. both of Dob
son; Hubert Lee Barton, 24, and
Emogene Rose Hudson, 22, both
of Radford, Va.
July 8—Fred M. Siddin, 20,
Thurmond, and Mary Lou Miller,
16, Elkin.
July 9—Vance C. Holland, 22,
Marshall, and Mary Lucile Felts,
23, Elkin; Grady W. Hager, 26,
Ronda, and Margie Lee Cocker
ham, 21, State Road.
July 10—Haywood Bilting, 35,
and Lois Banks, 28, both of Mount
Airy, (colored); Roy J. Martin,
25. and Mary Ethel Reynolds, 23,
both of Mount Airy, (colored).
Traphill Man Is
Stabbed Sunday
The condition of Fred Cooper
was reported as good by officials
of the Hugh Chatham Memorial
Hospital yesterday.
Cooper was admitted to the
hospital Sunday after having been
stabbed. He is a resident of the
Traphill section of Wilkes County.
Youth Events
Curtaiied To
Meet Threat
The application of DDT and the
curtailing of numerous youth
activities were announced this
week as officials sought to head
off the threat of an epidemic of
infantile paralysis in Elkin.
Mayor Garland Johnson an
nounced plans to systematically
spray every area within the town
that might breed or harbor flies
and other gei-m-carrying insects.
This work will start today under
the direction of Surry County
Sanitation Officer Jchn R. Cruse.
Hugh Chatham, president of the
Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A., announc
ed the closing of the Y. M. C. A.
swimming pool, the curtailment of
the summer recreational program,
and the postponement of the
opening of Camp Albert L. Butler,
newly-constructed Y. M. C. A.
mountain resort.
Purchased from the health de
partment for cost, the DDT, dead
ly to insects, will be sprayed by
town employees in barns, pigpens,
stables, garbage cans and outdoor
privies. Stagnant water pools and
similar areas will be sprayed.
R. Lewis Alexander, town ad
ministrator, under whose direction
the plans were drawn, estimated
that it would require one week to
adequately spray the trouble spots.
Citizens of Elkin have been re
quested to report such areas im
mediately in order that proper
treatment might be applied.
For the privies, a seven per cent
solution with water will be used,
and for the other areas, a three
and a half per cent solution with
oil will be applied.
Dr. Moir Hall, in commenting
on the use of DDT, said that it
was very effective in the control
of flies and that ill effects were
almost nil.
Experts say that the DDT spray
is deadly to flies, mosquitoes and
similar small insect pests, but will
not harm people, animals,plants,
fish, birds and the like.
Although the part played by
flies in spreading the disease lias
not been established, they are
known carriers of the virus.
Charlotte, Shelby and other
cities in this area are planning
similar spraying programs.
Although medical authorities
are not yet convinced that swim
ming pools and other types of
activity which are included in the
Y.M.C.A. program help spread
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CAP MEMBERS
PROMOTED
Duty Assignments For Staff
Positions Announced By
Capt. R. E. Church
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RADIO CLASSES START
Three members of the Elktn
squadron oif the Civil Air Patrol
have been promoted to the grade
of 'sergeant to fill position vacan
cies of commissioned officers,
Capt. R. E. Church, squadron
commander, announced this week.
Personnel involved and duty
assignments are: Herbert Brown,
personnel officer; Burley E. Criss
man, supply officer; and Dallas
S. Ingram, engineering officer in
charge of field maintenance and
safety.
Master Sergeant Thomas Ruth
has been assigned as communi
cations officer and will begin
classes of instruction in radio and
related subjects at the next squad
ron meeting. Church said.
At the regular weekly meeting
of the squadron on Monday, mem
bers approved an amateur air
show to be staged at Rendezvous
Airpark, August 1. Local and visit
ing pilots will be invited to com
pete in the various contests to be
put on throughout the day. Pro
ceeds of the show will be used to
carry on the training program of
the local squadron.
The Elkin squadron now has
approximately sixty members who
have completed 100 hours of
training.