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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 Soaring Gap and the Blue Ridge THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVI No. 38 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1948 $2.00 PER YEAR 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS .BOARD MAY GET USED TANK AT N. WILKESBORO Advertise For Bids For Dis mantling and Moving HAVE 2 NEW TANK BIDS Final Action To Be Taken When Cost of Moving Tank Is Ascertained d BENSON IS IN CHARGE The Elkin Board of Commis sioners Monday postponed action on two bids for the construction of of a 100,000 gallon water tank for 'l*wthe West Elkin area in view of ’ the possibility of obtaining such a tank now standing at North Wilkesboro at a greatly reduced price. The board authorized Commis sioner J. W. L. Benson to nego tiate for the tank and ordered ad vertisements for bids on dismant ling and re-erecting the tank here. Final action on the bids for the construction of a new tank will not be taken until that cost can be compared with that of erecting the North Wilkesboro tank. Two Georgia concerns were the only ones bidding on the new tank construction. R. D. Cole Construction Com | pany of Newnan, Ga., submitted the low bid of $22,000 for the construction of a 100.000 gallon tank within 375 days. This com pany was also the low bidder on a 75.000 gallon tank at $19,000 within the same period. ‘Chicago Bridge and Iron Com pany of Atlanta, set the price of construction of a 100,000 gallon tank at $23,500 and that of a 75,000 gallon tank at $20,500. The Atlanta company set a time limit of 360 days. i Bids will be opened at 2 p. m., ^August 26, for the dismantling and re-erection of the North Wil borc? tank. , The Board of Commissioners is expected to take action at that time on the purchase of a tank. Richard H. Moore, Asheboro consulting engineer, who prepar ed plans for the new tank, is ad vising the board on the North Wilkesboro tank and will super vise its transfer should it be pur chased. J. M. Franklin, local en gineer, is associated with Mr. Moore. Schedule Revised Ry Employment Service Beginning the fourth Tuesday in August, the Employment Secur ity Commission will serve Elkin bi-monthly on the second and fourth Tuesdays rather than weekly as heretofore. Carl M. Baber, Manager of the North Carolina State Employment Service Division, explained that this revised schedule was made necessary by reduced operating funds allocated to the states by the federal government and will affect both the Employment Ser vice and the Unemployment Com / pensation Divisions throughout the state. The hours will remain the same —10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. each second and fourth Tuesdays in i the month. Applicants and claim L ants will be governed accordingly. Employers may contact represen tatives of the office at this point or by telephone at 666 in Mount Airy. Welch, Still 111, Returned To Home George E. Welch, Surry County Accountant, has been returned to his home from Mount Airy’s Mar tin Memorial Hospital where he received treatment for a muscular condition, reported to be myase phenia gravis. Mr. Welch was carried to Duke Hospital several weeks ago and as been hospitalized since that me. His condition is reported as unchanged. i Tui Tribune Advertising Gets Results * Legion Members Asked To Meet At Hut Friday Members of the George Gray Post 114, American Legion, have been asked by Post Commander Herbert P. Graham, Jr., to assemble at the Legion Hut by 6:30 Friday night to depart for the district meeting at Kemersvillc. Graham stated that the dis trict meeting would take .the place of the regular post meet ing scheduled for this week. ft THEY REPRESENT NORTH CAROLINA AT WICHITA — The Chatham Blanketeers pose beside the bus which carried them to the Kan sas-bound train at Statesville and the national semipro baseball tournament. State champions by virtue of their win over McCrary last Thursday, the Blanketeers face their first national test tomorrow. In the front row, left to right, are: Tat Davis; Bob Withrow; Sam Crissman. an additional pitcher from Hanes Knitters; Gene Hampton; Buck Hines; Grover Frisbec, Carolina Mills, Maiden, chosen the outstanding pitcher of the state tournament; Billy Smith; Shorty Brown; Hurley Hicks, an additional pitcher from McCrary; Woody Mabry; and Guy Clodfelter. an additional catcher from McCrary. Second row. in the usual order, are: Gregg Collins; Bill Cross; Red Powers; Bobby Harris; Gib Pardue; Jim Phillips; Dick Chatham, personnel manager; Manager Tige Harris; Athletic Director Don Brock; Dick Mackie; and Booster Bill Leinbach. (Story oh page six, this section). (photo by bell) JONESVILLE TO OPEN SEPT. 8TH 1 School Faculty Is Complete With The Exception Of Home Economics — SIX NEW T E A C H E R S Wednesday, September 8, at 9 a.m. has been set for the opening date for the Jonesville schools and teachers for all fac ulty vacancies have been secured with the exception of a Home Economics teacher, according to the school principal, Watt Deal. The opening date of the school was postponed from September 1, to September 8. at a meeting of Yadkin County principals in Yad kinville Wednesday, to enable children to help harvest the to bacco crop. Mr. Deal also stated that the agriculture building, now under i construction, should be ready for occupancy around January 1. Six new teachers joined the | faculty for the 1948-49 school I term. Teaching in the Jonesville | Schools for the first time will be j Mrs. Mildred Harris, Miss Ella Martin, Mrs. Helen Dudley, Aub rey Fuller, Jeesse Hutchinson and Miss Mary Speer. Jonesville Elementary school faculty as announced is as fol lows: Miss Leona Martin and Mrs. Kate Key teaching the first grade; Mrs. Ruby Canipe, combination first and second grade; Mrs. Hazel (Continued On Page Eight) Piedmont Play-Offs Start Sans Chatham The '‘middle” of the Piedmont Semipro League will begin a play off Wednesday to determine own ership of whatever loop laurels the Chatham Blanketeers didn't haul off to Wichita, Kansas, with j ’em. The Shaughnessey-style series will send second-place Hanes Knitters against Hanes Hosiery’s fourth-spot swatters at Hosiery Park Wednesday night in the first , of a three-game series and Mc | Crary’s Eagles, who finished the bob-tailed season in third place, ] will take on Graham’s Hornets. The play-off was arranged after Chatham copped the state semi pro crown and decided to make the Wichita trek. Lucas, which , was resting in sixth place but had a mathematical chance for the play-off circle, elected to bow out. The initial best - two - out - of three must be finished by August I 25, league officials have ruled, and i the survivors square off in a de eding three-game group for the play-off crown. Death Claims Father : Of Mrs. M. O. Fox ■ L. S. Graves, age 67, father of j Mrs. M. O. Fox of this city, died j suddenly Monday at his home in j Ruby, S. C. Funeral service was i conducted Tuesday afternoon at I 5 o’clock in Ruby. ! Mr. Graves was well known in this city, having visited his daugh ter on many occasions. In addition to Mrs. Fox, he is | survived by his wife, three daugh ; ters, two sons and a number of ' grandchildren. I Draft Registration Dates Announced Year Of Birth Determines Date Of Registration; McNeil Is Confirmed C. A. McNeil yesterday was no l tified by J. Van B. Metts, state director of selective service, that his appointment to the Surry county draft board has been made by the President of the United States. McNeil said he expects the board to meet in a few days to organize and to set up the neces I sary draft machinery. He and W. B. White, Dobson, both members of the war-time draft board, will ! serve with Marion Burke, Mount Airy, a veteran of World War II. In a proclamation issued this week, Governor Cherry laid down procedures under which an esti mated 295.000 North Carolina youths will register for selective service. The proclamation, issued in re sponse to a call by the President, said that all youths between the : ages of 18 and 26 should report for registration beginning August | 30. It was reported that 87 of 101 draft boards, which will operate in North Carolina, already have been set up, and that the remain ing 14 boards will be ready to op erate by August 30. T h e Governor’s proclamation ! states that all persons subject to C.A.P. MEMBERS COMMISSIONED Four Hated Pilots Made Sec ond Lieutenants And Given Duty Assignments CHURCH GETS MAJORITY Four members of the Elkin squadron have been commissioned and one officer promoted in the Civil Air Patrol by the Depart | ment of the Air Force, it was an nounced here this week. Robert E. Church, local squad ron commander, has been promot I ed from the rank of captain to major. Commissions as second lieuten ants were awarded to four rated pilots, who have received duty assignments as follows: Joe Bran don, Marine Corps Reserve fighter pilot, squadron operations officer; Jake Brown, training officer; Her bert Brown, personnel officer; and Eugene Aldridge, assistant training officer. Officers report a steady growth in the local group, whichi now has approximately 70 members. V.F.W. Meeting Set At Y.M.C.A. Tonight A regular meeting of the Wil | liam J. Jones Post 7794, V.F.W., i has been announced for tonight j at 7:30. at the Y.M.C.A. by Post I Commander Russell Burcham. Construction of the organiza tion’s hut was listed as the first order of business by the com | mander, who urged all members j to be present. the Selective Service Act are re quired to familiarize themselves with the regulations covering reg istration. Dates for registration were fixed as follows: 1— Persons born in the year j 1922 after August 30, 1922 shall be \ registered on Monday, August 30. j 2— Persons born in the year 1923 shall be registered on Tues day, August 31, or Wednesday, September 1. 3— Persons born in the year 1924 shall be registered on Thurs day, September 2, or Friday, September 3. 4— Persons born in the year 1925 shall be registered on Satur day, September 4, or Tuesday, September 7. 5— Persons born in the year 1926 shall be registered on Wednesday, September 8, or Thursday, September 9. 6— Persons born in the year 1927 shall be registered on Friday September 10, or Saturday, Sep tember 11. 7— Persons born in the year 1928 shall be registered on Mon day, September 13, or Tuesday, September 14. 8— -Persons born in the year 1929 shall be registered on Wednesday, September 15, o r Thursday, September 16. 9— Persons born in the year! 1930 before September 19, 1930, ; shall be registered on Friday, Sep tember 17, or Saturday, Septem ber 18. 10— Persons who were born on or after September 19, 1930, shall be registered on the day they be come 18 or within five days there after. Only those youths in the 18 through-25 age group who are at (Continued On Page Eight) Reece To Join State Health Department Kemp Reece, a member of the faculty of the Jonesville public schools since 1946, has resigned to accept a position with the State Board of Health. A native of Jonesville, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Reece. A 1943 graduate of Wake Forest, he has taught biology, chemistry and physics at the Jonesville high school. His location and duty assign ment with the health department has not yet been announced. Yarbrough Resigns Job With Station George Yarbrough, of this city, who has been associated with Ra dio Station WKBC as manager of its local studio since its opening here, has resigned, effective Aug ust 15 to accept a position with Applied Radio & Electronics, local radio store. Jimmy Childress, formerly of Mount Airy, who has been asso ciated with WKBC at North Wilk esboro, has succeeded Mr. Yar brough as manager of the local j studio. v FIRE AT STATE ROAD IS COSTLY Two Families Made Homeless As Blaze Destroys Fill ing Station Building OCCURRED FRIDAY 1*. M. Two State Road families Friday night watched their living quart ers go up in smoke. A building containing two apartments and a filling station was totally destroyed in the blaze. The filling station was operated by Homer Moody, who with his family occupied a second-floor apartment. A first-floor apart ment was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Flake Hone. The building was owned by E. L. Golden, State Road, who estimat ed the damage at $20,000. He had no insurance on the structure. This w'eek the Moody family is readying its house nearby for early occupancy. A tenant recent ly vacated the house which is located between the homes of two of Mr. Moody’s brothers and near the home of his father. The fire spread so rapidly that nothing was saved from the Moody apartment. Funiture, personal be longings and $1,200 cash, kept on hand for change, W'ere lost. From the Hone apartment several artic les were snatched from the flames. Nine-year-old Carol Moody was visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Ray Shoemaker of Jonesville, at the time of the fire.^ The fire is reported to have started in the rear of the filling station about 8:30 p.m. Miss Whitley Attends Duke Math Institute Miss Ethel J. Whitley, teacher of senior high mathematics at the Elkin High School, is attend ing the Duke University math ematics institute at Durham. Teachers from colleges and high schools representing 30 states are at Duke for the 12aday affair which is the only one of its kind. The nation’s industrial leaders speak to the teachers on the prac tical applications of mathematics and discuss with them means for better preparing students of math ematics for work in industry. The teachers also participate in study groups pursuing specific teaching problems through the use of the laboratory and round table discussion methods. Club Is To Meet At Neaves* Park Mrs. Anne Cain, head of the Training School for Practical Nurses at Hugh Chatham Me morial Hospital, gave the Kiwanis club an interesting outline of the work which is being done there, at its meeting at the Gilvin Roth YMCA last Thursday evening. Mrs. Cain explained the require ments for entering the school, the training given the students, etc. This evening the club will hold an outdoor meeting at Neaves Park at 6:30 o'clock. This will not be a ladies’ night meeting, as this event is being reserved for the trip to Camp Albert Butler early in September, it was an nounced. Tribune Want Ads. Bring Quick EASTERN LEAF BELT TO OPEN WEE EARLIER Prices Are Good On Carolinas Belt Markets UP OYER LAST WEEK Production Of AH Flue-Cured Types Estimated At 1,005.007,000 Lbs. IS LESS THAN IN 1947 I Marketing the 1948 crop of Hue cured tobacco will advance a step this week with opening of auc tions in the Eastern North Caro lina Belt today. This is about a week earlier j than last year, when sales started ! Aug. 26. Meanwhile, the Carolinas Belt ended its second week of sales with price averages slightly high er than the average of the pre ceding week. Some primings aver aged $4 better than the previous week, but most grades were up $1 to $2, the U. S. and N. C. Depart ments of Agriculture reported. Because of a reduction of about 28 per cent in overall flue-cured acreage this year, the Eastern Belt is expected to fall short of last year’s sales, the U. S. and N. C. Departments of Agriculture re ported. The belt last year sold 449,762, 491 pounds at an average price of $43.48 per hundred pounds. The U. S. Crop Reporting Board estimated, as of Aug. 1, that the ! 1948 crop of type 12 tobacco would : be 335,160,000 pounds or about 131,000.000 pounds under the rec ord harvest of 1947 and the smallest crop since 1943. Production of all flue-cured 1 types this year was estimated at 1.005.007.000 pounds—almost 312, 500.000 pounds less than the 1947 output. Loan rates of the Commodity Credit Corporation have been in creased in most instances from $1 to $8 per hundred, the depart- ; ment said. Rates for some grades, mostly lower qualities, are un changed. The grade price loan rates for flue-cured average 43.9 cents per pound, which is 90 per cent of the June 15 parity price. The loan rates for '‘tied" offer 1 ings range from $9 for non-de script to $70 for choice lemon wrappers. Average prices received on the J Carolinas Flue-Cured Belt last I week, and their changes as com j pared with the previous week’s ! averages: Leaf: Good lemon $61, un | changed: low orange $45, up $2. Cutters: Good lemon $66, un changed: low orange $62, up $1. Lugs: Choice lemon $66, up $1: good lemon $62, up $1; good orange $60, up $2; fair orange $52, j up $3; low lemon $46, up $2. Primings: Good lemon $59, up ! $4; low orange $30, up $4. Nondescript; Poorest thin $10, up $2.75. I NAVY OPENS OFFICE HERE Recruiter To Re On Duty At Post Office Three Days Each Week CAROLL ASSIGNED A Navy recruiter will be sta tioned in Elkin three days weekly, the service’s recruiting headquar ters announced this week. Chief Boatswain's Mate G. R. Caroll, who served as a recruiter in this area two years ago, has been assigned to the local office. Caroll said that he will main tain an office at the Post Office building and would be available on Monday. Tuesday and Wednes day of each week from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p!m. On Thursday, Chief Caroll will be at Dobson. The recruiter announced that vacancies still existed for the one year enlistments of 18-year-olds. Also offered to eligible men are educational fields of training and training programs in the air arm. Chief Caroll said that effective September 15, women will again be accepted into the Regular Navy. I Cattle Group Files Incorporation Paper A certificate of incorporation has been filed in the office of Secretary of State Thad Eure for the Surry Breeding Co-opertative, Inc., of Dobson, to deal in live stock and farm products. Authorized capital stock was set at $50,000 with $12 stock sub scribed by R. E. Snow of Elkin, C. L. Perkins and Grady Cooper, both of Dobson. Report Three New Cases Of Disease Here —> 4-H Poultry Sale To Be Conducted Here On August 31 Members of 4-H Clubs in Surry County, who are cooper ating: with the Elkin Hatchery in a 4-H poultry chain, will show and sell 72, six-month old New Hampshire pullets at the Elkin Livestock Market on August 31, D. A. Halsey, Assis tant county agent, announced this week. The pullets will be shown and sold in lots of nine by each individual club member participating. The show will be judged by an Extension Poultry Specialist of State College. The show begins at 12:30 p.m. and the sale at 1:00 p.m. Proceeds from the sale will be used to purchase baby chicks to continue the project next year. Prizes will be furnished by the Elkin Hatehery and every boy and girl in the chain will receive some prize money, Halsey said. SEPT. 9 IS SET AS SCHOOLDATE Elkin Schools Opening May He Delayed, However, By Polio Situation NEW. COURSES ADDED Elkin City Schools tire schedul ed to open Thursday morning, September 9, at 8:45 o'clock, un less health authorities deem it unwise to begin school, according to an announcement made by city school superintendent, N. H. Car penter. The opening date of school is in keeping with the policy recently adopted by the Board of Trustees, that the Elkin City Schools will open each year on the Thursday following Labor Day. Mr. Carpenter wishes to remind parents who have children enter ing school for the first time that they must be six years of age on or before October 1 and must have been vaccinated for diptheria, whooping cough and smallpox. The children are requested to bring their birth certificates on the opening day of school. Two new courses, diversified occupation and drivers training, ; (Continued On Page Eight) Pardue’s Condition Said Satisfactory The condition of David Pardue, age nine, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pardue.of Pleasant Hill community, who was hit by a truck Wednesday, is reported as satisfactory. The boy suffered a severely broken foot and a light concus sion when he was struck and knocked from his bicycle Wed nesday about noon by a Tom's Peanut delivery truck. Investigating officers said that the lad rode into the path of the truck as he entered the highway from the side road. No charges were preferred against the driver. He was transferred from Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital to a Winston-Salem hospital Friday for treatment by a bone specialist. Decrease Expected In Surry Birth Rate The number of live births in Surry county for the first seven months of 1948 total 1,054, of which 1,011 were white and 43 colored. Of this number, there were 210 deaths of white people and fifteen colored deaths. It seems that the number of babies born in Surry county dur ing 1948 will be less than the 1947 total. During last year 1,993 births were reported, with only 317 deaths. Of the number of deaths, forty died under one month, fifty died under one year, and forty were still-born. Last year was a record year in the number of hirths reported in Surry county. Out of approximate ly two thousand births there were only 317 deaths. Polio Flares Up Locally In Past Week A delayed-action blast of the current infantile paralysis ep idemic exploded in Elkin this week with the report of three new f cases. The victims were: Pat Guyer, nine-year-old son of Herman Guyer, hospitalized at Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem; Bobby Harris, five-year-old son of Clyde Harris, hospitalized at Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Edgar Transou, hospital ized at Baptist Hospital, Winston Salem. Mrs. Transou, who works in Elkin but who is a resident of Pleasant Hill, will be counted as a Wilkes County case. Surry county’s total however has been raised to 33 with the re port of a new case in Mount Airy. This victim is Martha Leonard, 19-month-old daughter of Mrs. Thelma Leonard of Mount Airy. Four residents of Elkin have now been reported as victims of polio this year. In addition to the two cases reported this week, Barbara Gwendolyn Felts, ten year-old daughter of Raymond H. Felts, and Mary Ellen Crater, daughter of Ab Crater, were re ported earlier. The report of new cases here delayed indefinitely the hopes of health department officials that the restrictions on the movements of children could be lifted soon. Throughout the earlier months of the epidemic, when the reports of new cases were increasing rap idly in this county and through out the state, Elkin remained a virtual oasis. The current out break here comes as the epidem ic slackens in other parts of the county and state. State health department figures through last week show that 13 cases have been reported in Yad kin county for 1948 and 21 cases during the same period in Wilkes county. Boonville Is Scene Of Auto Accident Several hundred dollars worth of damage was caused to two au tomobiles which collided Monday at the highway crossing in Boon ville. Highway patrolman C. B. Pierce said that an automobile driven by Daniel Harborough, of San Diego, Calif., collided with one driven by Talmadge Blackburn, of Winston Salem. Harborough was driving south on highway 601 and Black burn was driving east on highway 67. Both drivers were placed under a technical charge of reckless driving, and a hearing will be held in Yadkinville this morning on the case. New Accounting Firm Includes Yadkin Man A new firm of Certified Public Accountants has been formed in Winston-Salem which includes A. Blanco Harrell, formerly of East Bend, but now of Winston-Salem. The new firm is composed of Mr. Harrell and William C. Jus tice, and the firm name is Justice & Harrell, with offices in the First National Bank Building. Mr. Harrell is a son of Mr| and Mrs. A. E. Harrell of East Bend and has many friends in Yadkin county who wish him well. Tribune In Error, Y.F.W. Conducted Lawrence Rites In the account of funeral services for Private First Class David W. Lawrence, printed in the August 12 issue of The Tribune, the story was in error in saying that military rites were conducted by George Gray Post 114, American Legion. Military rites for P.F.C. Lawrence were conducted by members of the William J. Jones Post 7794, Veterans of Foreign Wars.