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ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations he 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. 35 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1948 $2.00 PER YEAR 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS THE ARRIVAL DIDN'T BRING SMILES — Miss Frances Leonard and her mother. Mrs. M. J. Leon ard. of Eddington, Pa., stand near their two-place Taylorcraft. just before taking off for their home from the Elkin airport. Miss Leonard, who came here to visit Miss Mattie Osborne, faced a dwindling fuel supply and no landing field upon her arrival. (PHOTO BY BELLI This Young Lady Was All Up In The Air! i Lack Of Gas Didn’t Prove Much Comfort Several thousand feet in the air with a dwindling fuel supply is no j place for a lady. Especially when darkness is '••falling rapidly and no landing field is visible in unfamiliar ter ritory. But those are the circumstances that surrounded the arrival of Miss Frances Leonard, of Edding ton. Pa., who flew down to Elkin to visit Miss Mattie Osborne, an old chum from war-time WAC days. Last Thursday, Frances, ac companied by her mother, Mrs. M. J. Leonard, took off from their home airport near Philadelphia in Frances’ two-place Taylorcraft. Their destination was Elkin. It was after 8 p. m. when Frances realized that they should have reached their goal but no land marks were in sight. What she saw and what she couldn’t see were equally distress ing. She couldn’t see the land marks, neither could she see a landing field. She could see how ever that it would soon be dark and that the gauge was indicat ing that her planes tank would soon be dry. While there was still time to avoid drastic action, the young pilot spotted another plane in the sky. It would have to land even tually, so Frances decided to tag , along. % Within minutes the pilofr of the guide plane set his craft down on a narrow landing strip that could easily pass unnoticed. Frances followed suit. She had followed Victor Crosby, j who landed at his private strip on (Continued on page eight) Polio Ban Stops Youth Revival — Due to the ban prohibiting all children under the age of 16 gathering in public places, the ! Youth Revival scheduled at the First Baptist Church this week j was called off. J. C. Mitchell of Morganton, i and Neil Ellis of Roanoke, Va., who were secured as speakers for the week arrived during the week end and did bring messages at = the 11 o'clock hour of worship *mand evening worship hour, Sun day. The revival will not be held this year, upon advice of the health authorities. Jonesville Water To Be Off Friday For One Hour Water in the Town of Joncs ville will be cut off Friday af ternoon from 2 to 3 p. m., to make some necessary repairs to the water line, according to a statement by Mayor James Randleman. This applies to Jonesville only. Elkin will not be affect ed. Health Department Places Han On All Youth Activities Mayor Garland Johnson this work relayed to the-citizens of Elkin the ban imposed by the Surry County Health Depart ment on all children 16 years of age and under atttcnding any public gathering or ap pearing on the streets. Dr. R. M. Caldwell, acting county health officer, imposed the ban at the request of the state health department when the total number of cases of polio in the county reached 27, the highest in the county’s his tory. Children in the age group are banned from Sunday school, church, theaters, swim ming pools, lakes and appear ing on the streets. F'ull cooperation of all citiz ens was urged by the mayor in order that drastic steps to en force the ban would not be needed. REPORT MADE ON HOSPITAL Statistics Show Busy Six Months For Personnel Of Hutfh Chatham Memorial 378 BABIES DELIVERED During the first six months of 1948, 378 babies were born at the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos pital, statistics released this week by Louis Swanson, hospital admin istrator, revealed. The figures give this quick glimpse of hospital activities for the same period: 1,779 patients were admitted for an average stay of 5.4 days; the daily patient ave rage was 42.5; 172 major oper ations and 310 minor operations, exclusive of deliveries were per formed in the operating rooms; and to care for these patients it required 1.5 employees for each patient each day. Also during this period, 1,085 X-ray pictures and 8,608 labor atory tests were marie. The total of out-patient visits amounted to 3,266. Of the 1,779 patients, 39 were completely charity and 77 were classified as part pay, meaning that they were financially unable to pay a minimum of four dollars for each day they were in the hos pital. These patients were in the hospital for a total of 635 days of free care, except for the dollar per day ($635) contributed by the Duke Endowment, and the dollar per day from the State Medical Care Commission for those pa tients sent to the hospital by the several county welfare depart ments. In commenting on the hospital, Swanson said: "The hospital belongs to the community and stands ready to serve it every hour and every day to insure better health for the people. Skilled doctors and nurses, t (Continued On Page Eight) REPORT THREE POLIO CASES One At Hoonville, Yadkinville, And Haniptonville Dur ing This Week ¥ _ I TOTAL NOW TEN CASES i - Three new case of polio have ! developed in Yadkin County this i week, it has been learned from the , county health department. Fred Vestal, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Vestal of Boon ville, was carried to the Baptist Hospital Monday after becoming ill late last week with the disease. Elvy McCann, 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. Zola McCann of Hamptonville, was carried to a Greensboro hospital this week when her case was diagnosed as polio. Francis Casstevens, four-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Casstevens, of Yadkin ville Route 1, was reported as having a mild case of the disease, but she has not boon hospitalized. These three cases bring the total in Yadkin County to ten, with one more having been claim ea dv cieam. Reports state that nearly all of the children from the county who have contacted the disease are re covering very well and are expect ed to retain the use of their limbs in the majority of the cases. An exception to this are the cases of Ruth Ann York and Tom my Honeycutt, both of East Bend, each of whom has a paralyzed leg. Kenneth Sizemore, of' Boonville, has been removed from the Bap tist Hospital to Camp Sutton, a polio convalescent hospital. Mil dred Felts, of Boonville, has been returned home. Wanda Noble, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Noble, of Yadkin ville, was returned home yester day from the hospital and is al most completely recovered, while Freddie Hobson, son of Mr. and j Mrs. Fred C. Hobson, of Yadkin ville, is expected to be returned home today. He is also well re covered. County Accountant At Duke Hospital George E. Welch, county ac countant, is undergoing treatment at Duke University Hospital for myasephenia gravis, a muscular condition. ' Mr. Welch, who became ill early last week, was carried to the hos pital on Friday. Reports from Durham indicate that although responding to treat ment his condition is unchanged. POLIO CASES IN SURRY CO. NOW TOTAL 27 No New Cases Are Reported Since Saturday ELKIN REMAINS OASIS Four New Victims Listed Are In Mount Airy And Ararat Sections WILKES TOTAL IS TEN Elkin continued to be the oasis in a desert of an epidemic of in fantile paralysis as reports of four new cases pushed the total in Surry county in 1948 to an all time high of 27. The new cases reported were from the Mount Airy and Ararat sections of the county. Yadkin county, one polio death already reported, saw the total number of cases climb this week. In Wilkes the total reached ten. No new cases have been report ed in this county since Saturday. New cases reported during the week were: Bernard Wallace Belton, Jr., three-year-old son of B. W. Bel ton. Sr., Mount Airy, hospitalized at Grace Hospital, Morganton; James Lowery, four-year-old son of John W. Lowery, Route 1, Ararat, hospitalized at Baptist Hospital; Geneva Irene Hicks, 15 years old, c/o H. Y. Peele, Route 4, Mount Airy, hospitalized at Camp Sutton; W. C. Fulk, four-year-old son of Willie^ Fulk, Route 1, Ararat hospitalized at Baptist Hospital. Surry county’s total exceeds the total of the ten-year-period, 1938 1947, by six. In 1938 two cases were reported; in 1940, one; two in 1941; two in 1942; 13 in 1944; and one in 1945. Through Tuesday, 960 cases had been reported this year in North Carolina for an all-time high. The following figures on polio in the state have been released by the Surry County Health Depart ment: Total cases reported January 1 through June 26 — 262; cases re ported week ending July 3 — 91; cases reported week ending July 10 — 131; cases reported week ending July 17 — 195; and cases reported week ending July 24 — 206. Rural areas continue to lead Surry county in reported cases. Eight cases have been reported from municipalities and 19 from rural areas. The Mount Airy area has been hardest hit, report ing three cases within the town, one from Route 3, and four from Route 4. Wall Warns Against Excessive Noises Chief of Police Corbett Wall this week issued a warning to motorists that he has instructed his officers to enforce the North Carolina statute for the preven tion of automotive noise. Chief Wall quoted the statute as follows: General Statutes 20-128, Pre vention of Noise, Smoke, etc; Muf fler Cut-Outs Regulated— (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a highway unless such motor vehicle is equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant operation to pre vent excessive or unusual noise, annoying smoke and smoke screens. <b> It shall be unlawful to use a “muffler cut-out” on any motor vehicle upon a highway. Dr. Click To Be In Charge of Program Dr. E. G. Click, veteran member of the Elkin Kiwanis Club, will be in charge of the program at the regular Kiwanis meeting this evening (Thursday), at the Gilvin Roth YMCA, Last week a large delegation of local Kiwanians attended the inter-club meeting with Winston Salem and Lexington at Reynolds Park, Winston-Salem. Dollar Days To Be Held In Elkin August 5-6-7 Next Thursday, Friday and Sat urday, August 5-6-7, will be Dol lar Days in Elkin. This big merchandising event used to be staged here annually, but due to the war and the scar cities of merchandise, has not been held in the past several years. However, now that merchandise is again plentiful, Dollar Days with their big values, are to be resumed. Practically all Elkin merchants are planning to take part in the event, and next week’s Tribune will contain value news of where the biggest savings may be found. Due to the great amount of work involved in getting out a special Dollar Days issue of The Tribune, all merchants planning to cooperate in the event are urged to prepare their advertising copy early. Mayor Appeals For Funds To Be Used In Battle Against Polio; Drive Is Announced DDT USED IN FIGHT AGAINST POLIO — C. M. Saylor, left, an employee of the town of Elkin, anil John R. Cruse, Surry sanitation officer, are pictured above as they sprayed with DDT one of the spots in the downtown area last week where flies and other disease carrying insects breed. Since the be ginning of the program of spraying here, alleys, garbage cans, pig pens, barns and other places have been given the DDT treatment, with the work still underway by James Caudle. Residents have been asked to cooperate in the drive against polio by keeping garbage cans tightly closed and by keeping their premises in a sanitary condition. (tribune photo) Municipal Budget For 1948-49 Shown In Full The budget for the fiscal year July 1, 1918, ending June 30, 1949, as approved by the Elkin Board of Commissioners is printed in full in this issue of The Tribune as publie infor mation. It will be found on page six, section two. The budget, with last year’s budget and a breakdown of ex penses for the first six months of this calendar year, is print ed exactly as it was furnished The Tribune by the Town Clerk. The budget was approved by a vote of 3-0, the clerk report ed, listing the vote as follows: Mayor Garland Johnson, not required to vote; Commission er Russell Burcham, not vot ing; Commissioner C. N. Myers, absent; Commissioners R. C. Freeman, J. VV. L. Benson and .!. (). Bivins voting in favor of adoption. In last week’s issue of The Tribune, the story concerning the budget was incorrect in listing the salary of the regu lar policemen at $175 monthly. Two of the police officers do receive this salary but the other two have been raised to $1100 monthly. Raises, munici pal officials explained, are bas ed on seniority and are given by the board at the discretion of the board. AIR SHOW SET FOR SUNDAY Joe Myers Expected To Be One Of Top Features In C.A.P. Demonstration PARDUE GETS W I N G S Joe Myers, 17-year-old son of Carl Myers, will be one of the feature attractions of the amateur air show to be staged Sunday at Rendezvous Airpark when he puts his plane through a series of dif ficult maneuvers. Several visiting pilots have in dicated that they will join local pilots in the contests sponsored by the Elkin squadron. Civil Air Patrol, Capt. R. E. Church, squad ron commander, has announced. An L4 type aircraft has been received here from the Air Force to be used in the CAP cadet train ing program and to enable pilots to maintain efficiency. The process of qualifying pilots is now going on and the cadets are building up time in order to qualify for observer ratings. Committees have been appoint ed to various duties in connection with the show, Capt. Church said. He pointed out that this was not to be a killer-diller hell diving type show but rather a display of skills of safe flying. A number of new types of planes will be on display and flown during the show, he added. At the meeting this week, at which time several new members were received, George Pardue re ceived his pilot rating and was advanced to the grade of staff sergeant. Tribune Advertising Gets Results Dobson Streets Get Surface Treatment Street paving is the order of the day at Dobson. The state highway department this week applied surface treat ment to approximately 200 yards of Turkey Port road from the traffic signal to the Hemmings Lewelyn Trading Barn. Last week local merchants on the right hand side of the high way entering Dobson from Elkin had S. D. Simpson, White Plains contractor, to apply surface treat ment to approximately 100 yards of shoulder, 14 feet in width, be tween the highway and the side walk. NURSES’SCHOOL WELL RECEIVED Some Vacancies Still Exist For Local Girls Re siding At Home APPLICANT FROM N. Y. With approximately one month left to enroll in the training course for practical nursing at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospi tal, applications are now being re ceived and many requests for ad mission have already arrived from all sections of North Carolina and the first out-of-state applicant came from New York, according to an announcement made today by Mrs. Anne A. Cain, co-ordinator of the newly created school. With so many individuals com ing from long distances it is evi (Continued on page eight) DRAFT PLANS MADE PUBLIC Men In 25-22-Year Old Group To Provide Hulk During First Six Months DRAFT DATE NOT SET Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey said this week men will be drafted by age groups, with men 25 down through 22 taken first in the initial six months of the program. It was indicated clearly that although men of this age bracket would be drafted first, the bulk of draftees would come eventual ly from the 19 through 21 age groups. Hershey said approximately 5.000,000 men 22 through 25 would be processed during the first six months, but only about 70,000 actually would be subject to the peacetime service of 21 months. And he said he believes that no more than 8,000 would come from the 25-year-old group, first to be drafted. The army expects to take around 225,000 men in the first year. Later, the total will be up around 900,000. It is up to the army to say when it needs men, and how many. The draft service then will provide them. Hershey said this week if the army asks for as many as 30.000 in its first call, the draft may have to dip down into the 23 year-olds right at the start. Later the army plans to take about that many each month. Hershey said that deferments will be liberal, but added that selective service has not yet writ ten regulations governing them. The date for beginning of the draft has not been set, either, but Hershey said last week it probably wil be shortly after Oc tober l Registration of all men 18 through 25 begins August 30 and continues through Sept. 18. This will be done by age group, too, (Continued On Page Eight) East Elkin Sewerage Lines Being Laid The construction of a sewerage system for East Elkin was started this week by the Gilbert Engineer ing Company of Statesville, muni cipal officials reported yesterday. Plans call for eventually extend ing the line to the Elkin Furni ture Company factory. The pre sent construction will benefit many homes in the East Elkin area. Ask Generous Donations From Public Citizens of Elkin will be given i an opportunity this week to join citizens of this section of North Carolina in contributing to the Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital for polio patients which is now under construction at Greensboro. Mayor Garland Johnson has issued a personal appeal and George Yarborough, who has been appointed drive chairman, has an nounced that the facilities of station WKBC will be made avail able to the drive. Yarborough has announced a special musical request program will be presented from 1 p.m. un til 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon over WKBC. Listeners are to call the local studio, phone number 510, that they wish to make a contri bution and to request the song they would like to have played on the air. Members of local civic clubs will call for the donations and studio personnel will play the request. Contributions received from Jonesville and Arlington will be submitted separately to the hos pital committee in order that those might receive full credit. Others desiring to make con tributions to this cause are in vited to send them to The Elkin Tribune to be forwarded to Greens boro. Mayor Johnson’s statement fol lows: “There is an insidious enemy moving around in Surrry County. Nobody seems to know his hide out. Yet he moves, he attacks, and he deforms. Already 27 little boys and girls in Surry county are victims of his fury. His name is Polio. If our boys and girls are to be unmolested, this terrible enemy must be subdued. “There is a responsibility—yes, a great responsibility, on every citizen of Surry county to care for our people who have been or may be attached by this dreadful disease. Certainly, we can do no (Continued On Page Eight) ESCAPE MADE~ BY PRISONER Jonesville Man Saws Way Out Of Yadkinville Jail Tuesday Afternoon WAS HELD FOR ROBBERY Elmer “Dunk” Vestal, 32, Jones ville man being held for robbery, saw'ed his way out of the Yadkin ville jail to freedom Tuesday aft ernoon and had not been found up to last night. Vestal was being held in jail in default of a $2,000 bond charged with the robbery of Dale Winters, xaumn man, oi ?>ouu in may, to gether with Ernest Ashley and Paul Flynn, who are on bond on the same charge. Vestal had never been found following the robbery until the first of this month, when he was discovered in Cedartown, Ga., to gether with Mrs. Ernest Leyman, also wanted on the robbery charge, and returned to Yadkin (Continued From Page One) ville by the sheriff’s department. Sheriff Moxley said Vestal se cured two hacksaw blades in some manner, although he had had no (Continued on page eight) Blanketeers Play Hanes Knitters In State Tourney Chatham’s Blanketeers play Hanes Knitters tonight at 8:30 at Asheboro in their second game of the state semipro base ball tournament. Monday night the Blanke teers defated Albemarle, final ist last year, 7-2. The Knitters defeated the Durham Bees, 7-3, in their frist tournament game.
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