ELKIN
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VOL. No. XXXVI No. 40
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1948
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18 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
•Tank Obtained
For Erection
In West Elkin
A
Four Months
Required For
Installation
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A 100,000 gallon water tank will
go into use in the West Elkin
area within four months as a re
sult of action last week by the
Elkin board of commissioners.
The tank will be erected at a
total cost to the town of $15,450,
a savings of more than $6,000 in
comparison with the low bid re
ceived earlier this month for a
tank of similar size.
Bids were received last week
for the dismantling and re-erec
tion of a 100,000 gallon tank now
standing in North Wilkcsboro.
The low bid of $9,750 was entered
by the Whitmire Tank Company
of Jacksonville, Fla. The Florida
company indicated that three to
P four months would be required
for the project, alowing 20 work
ing days to dismantle the tank
and 30 working days to re-erect
it here.
Commissioner J. W. L. Benson
headed the four-man committee
which arranged for the purchase
of the tank for a price of $5,700.
The low bid for the erettion of
a new tank, submitted earlier by
the R D. Cole Construction Com- j
pany, Newman. Ga., was $22,000,
allowing 375 working days,
i The accepted plan in addition
* to saving the town $6,550 will give
the West Elkin area improved
water service approximately one
year sooner than had the new
tank been purchased.
R. E. McClain, Gastonia, sub
mitted the only other bid for the
removal of the tank at North
Wilkcsboro. His bid was $11,200.
Richard H. Moore, Asheboro
consulting engineer, will super
vise the installation of the tank.
J. M. Franklin, local engineer, is
associated with him.
FAIR STARTS
SETEMPBER13
Week-Long Community!
Event To He Held At Elkin
Jonesville Speedway
V. F. W. TO SPONSOR
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The first Elkin-Jonesville com- \
munity fair is being planned for
September 13-18. under the spon
sorship of the William J. Jones
Post 7794, Veterans of Foreign
^ Wars. The fair is to be held at
the Elkin-Jonesville Speedway,
Jonesville.
A tent will be erected to house
the displays of automobiles, farm
machinery, trucks, furniture, au
tomatic washers and other mach
inery.
The Jack J. Perry Greater
Shows have been engaged to fur- j
nish amusements on the midway.
Among the attractions will be an
all star colored minstrel revue
with singing, dancing and comedy,
a circus side show, wild animal
show’, Chez-Parce follies, a reptile
exhibit and a fun house. The fair
will include the latest riding de
vices. A free act will be presented
in the center of the midway each
night.
The fair w’ill begin on Monday
night and continue until Saturday
night.
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Big Acts Planned
For Mount Airy Fair
The Fair Board has gone to
great length to bring to Mount
Airy this year, one of the best set
of acts ever to be shown in front
of the grandstand with high,
thrilling death-defying acts, dogs,
ponies, and a hillbilly jamboree.
These acts will please both young
and old and will be topped off
each night with a display of fire
works in the “Fairy Land of the
Air’’ — a display running about
forty minutes with a beautiful
array of color. This in itself will
be well worth a visit to the Great
er Mount Airy Fair beginning
Monday, September 20 through
Saturday, September 25 at the
Veterans’ Memorial Park.
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Smut continues to be a major
wheat disease even though ade
quate control measures are known.
ASSUMES DUTIES—Miss Mary
Alice Bowers of Morganton,
above, assumes her duties today
(Thursday) as director of relig
ious education and church sec
retary at the First Methodist
Church. Miss Bowers is a grad
uate of Pfieffer Junior College.
Misenheimer. She is a member
of the First Methodist Church
in Morganton and has been very
active in the youth work of her
church, the Sub-District and
was a member of the Youth for
Christ Council of Burke County.
4-H MEMBERS
SELL PULLETS
Auction Here Tuesday Brings
Average Price of $2.!S0
Per Bird
EIGHT LOTS ENTERED
Pullets sold at auction Tuesday
in the 4-H Club sale brought an
average price of $2.80 per bird,
Donald Halsey, assistant county
agent announced.
The pullets were shown and
sold by 4-H members participat
ing in the Elkin Hatchery poultry
chain. Proceeds of the sale will
be used to purchase additional
chickens next spring.
Members who received 100
chicks entered lots of nine each
for the show. The Elkin Hatchery
donated prizes totalling $35.
Lots entered by the following
participants received blue ribbons:
Doris Lee Thore, route 3, Mount
Airy, selling for $2.60; Garner
Smith, route 1, Mount Airy, sell
ing for $2.75; and Lois Cocker
ham, route 1, Elkin, selling for
$2.95.
Red ribbons went to Sammy
Cockerham, State Road, whose
birds brought $2.80 each; to John
nie Mae Badgct, who received $3
per bird; and to Sally Corder,
route 1. Elkin, who received $3
per bird.
Lots entered by Billy Smith,
route 2, Pilot Mountain, and Jun
ior Marion, route 2, Dobson, re
ceived white ribbons and sold for
$2.60 and $2.70 respectively.
County Agent Neill M. Smith
and his assistants, Halsey and O.
M. Fulcher, and Home Demon
stration Agent Mrs. Grace Pope
Brown and her assistant, Miss
Angela Taylor, advised the club
members in raising the pullets.
Judges were C. F. Parrish and
C. J. Maupin, poultry extension
specialists.
The use of the Elkin Livestock
Market was donated for the show
j and sale.
Lions To Observe
Ladies Night Monday
The Elkin Lions Club will ob
serve ladies night Monday dur
ing their regular bi-weekly meet
ing which will be held at Neaves
Park at 6:30.
Lions are promising their ladies
an ample amount of good food
and a program filled with enter
tainment and fun. *
On September 17, the club will
give a fish-fry. K. V. McLeod has
been named chief fish-fryer.
David Brown is in charge of
ticket sales for the occasion. An
invitation has been extended to
the public.
Sourwood honey will not be as
plentiful this year as last, reports
W. A. Stephen, Extension bee
keeper at State College.
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BAN LIFTED;
CHILDREN GET
GREEN LIGHT
Franklin Acts 18 Days After
Report of Last Case
AUGUST EXPENSE $4,475
Some New Cases Possible But
Epidemic Appears To
Have Broken
ANOTHER LOAN NEEDED
The ban on youth activities in
Surry county was lifted this week.
Dr. R. B. C. Franklin gave the
green light to children Tuesday, 18
days after the last reported date
of onset of a case of infantile
paralysis.
Health department officials ex
plained that this does not indicate
that no new cases are expected. It
does indicate however that the
epidemic has broken.
Health department records show
that intermittent cases of polio
are to be expected. During this
year in Surry county, only one
case was reported in April. The
rate of increase in May jumped
as four cases were reported. In
June five new cases occured. The
epidemic flared during July and
early August when the total hit a
new all-time high of 33 cases.
Only four of these cases were re
ported in Elkin.
Bausie Marion, treasurer of the
Surry county chapter of the Na
tional Infantile Paralysis Founda
tion. reported Tuesday that $4,
475.04 were expended during Aug
ust for the medical treatment for
county polio patients. This prac
tically exhausted the $7,600 bor
rowed early this month from the
national foundation. Marion in
dicated that an additional loan
will be necessary to cover addi
tional bills for August and treat
ment which will be rendered dur
ing September.
STOCK SHOW TO
BE OCT. 12-13
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Is Again Sponsoring
The Event
; ENTRY LIST INCOMPLETE
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Elkin’s sixth annual fat stock
show will be held October 12 and
| 13, officials of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce, sponsoring organ
ization, announced this week.
The Kiwanis and Lions Clubs
are cooperating in the two-day
program which will provide a pro
gram of interest for all farm
groups.
F.F.A. and 4-H members from
1 several northwestern North Caro
' lina counties are expected to par
ticipate in the show and sale of
stock. Neill M, Smith, Surry coun
ty Agent, in charge of the entry
list, has not yet announced de
tails concerning stock to be shown.
The Jaycees will entertain the
participating club members dur
ing the program.
Details of the various phases
of the event are expected to be
future.
Tobacco Exports To
Exceed Last Year
Leaf tobacco exports during the
| current fiscal year may exceed
; those of last year by as much as
j 100 million pounds, largely be
I cause of the Marshall Plan for aid
to European countries, according
to T. K. Jones, farm management
analyst at State College.
Exports from July, 1947, through
June, 1948, reached about 400 mil
lion pounds, approximately two
thirds of the amount exported
during the 1946-47 fiscal year. It
has been estimated, Mr. Jones
said, that exports might exceed
500 million pounds in 1948-49 and
600 million pounds in 1949-50,
assuming that funds are still
available under the European Re
covery Program for the payment
of leaf exports and that there is
some increase in available dollar
exchange for cash purchases.
“There seems to be little doubt
of the increasing preference of
importing countries for tobacco
grown in the United States,’’ the
analyst asserted. “In 1946, four
teen Western European countries
obtained about 69 per cent of their
import requirements of leaf from
the United States in comparison
with 43 per cent in the pre-war
years of 1935 to 1939.”
Data obtained from manufac
turers in these countries, Mr.
Jones said, indicate that if ade
quate dollar exchange can be ob
tained, approximately 62 per cent
of leaf import requirements for
the next few years will be obtain
ed from this country.
Health Officials
Remind Parents Of
Vaccination Law
Health department officials
this week issued a reminder to
parents of children who will
enter school in September for
the first time that children are
required by law to have receiv
ed vaccinations for small pox,
whooping cough and diphtheria
before entering school.
The local health department
office in the city hall will be
open Thursday, from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m., and Saturday, from 9
a.m. until 12 noon, to provide
without charge the necessary
vaccines.
Parents who so desire may
obtain these vaccines from
private physicians.
It is mandatory that children
bring to school a certificate
from either the health depart
ment or a private physician
showing that the necessary
vaccines have been received.
CASE AGAINST
TOWN LISTED
Greenwood Vs. Town of Elkin
On Docket For Septem
ber Term of Court
MANY SEEK DIVORCE
The case of Andrew Greenwood
vs. (he Town of Elkin is scheduled
to be heard during the September
term of Surry county civil court,
according to the calendar releas
ed this week by Kermit Lawrence,
clerk of court.
Thirty uncontested divorce act
ions head the docket for the court
term which convenes September
20.
Judge F. Donald Phillips will
preside.
MOTION DOCKET — (To be
heard at the convenience of the
Court) — J. A. Whitaker vs. The
Town of Mount Airy, Will R.
Merritt and G. L. Utt. A. Gold
smith vs. J, Q. Wood,. Rachel
Wall Kidd vs. J. B. Kidd. Martha
M. Stone, Exrx. vs. J. Sanford
Chilton. Grover Holloway vs.
Wade Holloway, et al. Henry
Hodges vs. A. C. Lowe, et al. Hugh
W. Folger vs. Charles W. Fowler.
Millie Mae Edmonds vs. Austin
Edmonds. Andrew Greenwood, et
al vs. Town of Elkin, et al. Thom
as Oscar Melton vs. Marie Scott
Melton. G. J. Key vs. R. D. Wall.
UNCONTESTED DIVORCE
ACTIONS — (To be called Sep
tember 20) — Nellie Hurst vs.
Marion Hurst. Martin C. Bur
chett vs. Attic B. Burchett. C. W.
Simmons vs. Samantha E. Sim
mons. James J. Brintle vs.
Blanche H. Brintle. Mallie B.
Prine vs. Glenn H. Prine. Doris
King, vs. Wesley C. King. Roose
velt Gunnell vs. Emma M. Gun
nell. George Harris vs. Alma M.
; Harris. Mecie M. Ashburn vs.
i Caleb H. Ashburn. William H.
Johnson vs. Rhoda P. Johnson. L.
B. Dunbar vs. Lillie G. Dunbar.
Mallie Prine vs. Glenn Prine. Elec
ta S. Cockerham vs. U. Houston
Cockerham. Bernice A. Kirkman
vs. Percy A. Kirkman. Jim Bow
man vs. Avor Bowman. Nine
Boyd vs. Woodson Boyd. E. R.
Woodruff vs. Fannie R. Woodruff.
Mary E. Ostwalt vs. Howard C.
Ostwalt. Barney E. Rhodes vs.
Rosa F. Rhodes. Kathryn God
frey vs. Huston Godfrey.
Also: Phebe S. Harris vs. Wil
liam G. Harris. Grover C. Lowe,
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ALL SCHOOLS
IN SURRY TO
OPEN SEPT. 15
Departure From Thursday
Opening Made
COUNTY UNITS JOIN
Postponement In Date Made
As Precaution Against
Spread of Polio
DANGER AT MINIMUM
All schools in Surry county will
open September 15, officials indi
cated this week.
N. H. Carpenter, superintendent
of the Elkin schools, said that the
date of the opening here had been
changed from September 9 to 15
to coincide with the opening day
of other schools throughout the
county. He pointed out this will
throw opening day on Wednesday,
instead of Thursday as usual, and
urged parents of school children
to cooperate in order that no ad
ditional time will be lost.
Although the ban on youth ac
tivities was lifted Tuesday by Dr.
R. B. C. Franklin, Surry county
health officer, school officials felt
that the additional postponement
would reassure parents that the
danger from polio was at a mini
mum.
John W. Comer, superintendent
of the Surry county school sys
tem, said that the 23 units in that
system, all schools in the county
except those at Elkin and Mount
Airy, would also open on Septem
ber 15. This includes six colored
schools and 17 white schools. The
white schools contain 11 high
school units. All county negro
students attend high school at
i Mount Airy.
Wreck Hospitalizes
Two; Driver Charged
One man was bound over to
| Superior Court on charges of
reckless driving in an accident
Sunday afternoon which hos- j
pitalized two.
Burton Brown, 28, Traphill, was J
admitted to the Hugh Chatham
Memorial Hospital for treatment.
He will be charged with reckless
driving, authorities indicated.
Larah Proffitt, of Walkertown,
passenger in the other car, was
also hospitalized.
Patrolman D. J. Caudle, who in
vestigated, estimated damage to
the two cars at $800.
McAllister To Speak
At Kiwanis Meeting
A. W. McAllister of Spartan
burg, S. C., zone conservationist
for the Soil Conservation Service
of the United States Department
of Agriculture, will be the speaker
at the Kiwanis Club tonight
(Thursday) at 6:30 p.m. at the
Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A.
Mr. McAllister will speak to the
group on the vital necessity of
conserving water. H. M. Willis is
in charge of the program.
At last Thursday’s meeting a
railroad movie in technicolor was
shown the Kiwanians with H. W.
Thompson in charge of the pro
gram.
Washington Visit
Made For Schools
John W. Comer, superintent of
Surry county schools, spent four
days in Washington, D. C., last
week in the interest of the county
school system.
Chatham Takes Second
P
Place, Many Honors In
National Diamond Play
FOR THE SECOND TIME, HE ANSWERS HIS COUNTRY'S CALL
— Woody Van Buren, standing:, registers under the Selective Ser
vice Act for the second time. When his country was at war, Van
Buren was called into service and spent 19 months in the European
Theater of Operations with an anti-aircraft unit. Now' 25 years
old, he again places his name on the draft lists. Married, Van
Buren can count on deferments. He is employed at the Elkin Fur
niture Company and was the eighth man to register with Verlin
Hutchinson, principal of the Elkin high school, Monday morning.
-(TRIBUNE PHOTO)
Eligibles Register
For Draft Program
100-Gallon Capacity
Still Is Destroyed
Sheriff’s deputies Heber Mounce,
Elkin, and F. C. Sprinkle, Moun
tain Park, Sunday destroyed a
100-gallon still on Butler's Creek
near Devotion.
Mounce reported that a tip
from a resident led to the find
ing of the still, located under a
large rock which rendered it in
visible from the air.
It had been in operation a few
hours earlier, Mounce said. An
estimated 100 gallons of mash
were destroyed.
Cpl. W. S. McKinney
Returns To Elkin
Cpl. W. S. McKinney, who has
served during the past six weeks
as an instructor at a highway
patrol school at Chapel Hil, re
sumed his duties in Elkin yester
day.
Snow Blasts Inspection Program;
Rosser Places Blame On Public
Surry county’s state represen
tative, George K. Snow of Mount
Airy, last week leveled a blast at
the mechanical inspection pro
gram in a series of communica
tions to Col. L. C. Rosser, state
commissioner of vehicles.
“Our people are throughly dis
gusted in view of the very poor
and inefficient manner in which
it has been carried *out,” Snow
said. “The convenience and rights
: of our citizens have been ignored
i in an arbitrary and high-handed
; manner. I shall again oppose the
extension of this program,” he
added.
Rosser in his reply defended the
record of lane eight and said:
“I do not feel that the Depart
ment should be blamed for the
non-cooperation of the public.”
Highway department records
were quoted to show that less
than one third of the possible
number of vehicles had been in
spected during the working days
in which the lane had been locat
ed in Surry county.
Snow’s protest followed the
failure of lane eight, the lane
here last week, to be put in oper
ation at Mount Airy August 26
as scheduled.
This lane was closed here at
five p.m. August 23, and on Aug
ust 24 was moved to Dobson. A
schedule released by the depart
ment of motor vehicles lists Aug
ust 24 as the last day for the
lane at Elkin and shows August
26-September 7 as the dates for
the inspection service at Mount
Airy.
Snow's letter to Col. Rosser,
dated August 27, follows:
“I have just returned to my
office after visiting the location
of the Auto Inspection Lane in
Mount Airy. It is now 9:30 a.m.,
and at least 200 automobiles and
trucks are lined up waiting for an
inspection crew which is not there.
In this line are business men,
orchardists, farmers, merchants,
and others. Many of them have
been there since 8:00 o‘clock. I
am informed that the crew which
was supposed to be here this
morning was in operation at Dob
son, twelve miles from here, last
week inspecting school busses and
county vehicles. Why it could not
move 12 miles over the week end
and be ready on time here this j
morning, I cannot understand. An
Attorney from this city who was
in Dobson last week states that
he drove to the Inspection Lane
there when it was not busy and
asked if they would inspect his
car. He says that the man in
charge asked him if he was a j
county official. He told them he j
was not and he was advised that
they could not inspect his car.
Ever since this program was in
augurated, lines of vehicles have
waited patiently for hours, and on
several occasions, with from one
to one-half dozen vehicles left in
line at 5:00 p.m., Inspection crews
have closed down for the day and
caused these people to have to re
turn and wait another half day
for Inspection. This waiting and
delay is especially hard on farmers
and orchardists, who now have
crops in the field subject to dam
age by delay in harvesting, and
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Local Centers
Sign 290 Men
In Three Days
The pages of history were turn
ed back this week as males of
Elkin in the 18-25 age group reg
istered in the nation’s second
peace-time draft.
No information has been receiv
ed by the Surry county draft
board as to quotas or date on
which the first group from this
county will be inducted, officials
said. ,
At noon yesterday, approxi
mately 200 had registered at the
Elkin high school and 90 em
ployees of the Chatham Manufac
turing Company had registered at
the plant personnel office.
More than 3,300 are expected to
register in this county before the
deadline, September 18. During a
three-day period ending yesterday,
registration centers were operated
throughout the county for the
convenience of draft eligibles. All
those who failed to take advan
tage of these community registra
tion centers will be required to
register with the draft board of
fice, located in the court house at
Dobson, on or before September
18. Persons born on or after Sep
tember 19, 1930, will be required
to register within five days after
their 18th birthday.
Jaycees Hear Smith
On Dairy Program
The proposed program of 20,000
dairy cows for Surry county was
explained to members of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Monday night by Neill M. Smith,
county agent.
Assistant County Agent Donald
Halsey explained the operation of
the artificial breeding program
recently inaugurated in Surry
county.
Philippine Worker
Joins Health Staff
Miss Rosario Aquino, an em
ployee of the Department of
Health and Public Welfare in the
Philippine Islands, is working for
three weeks with the Surry coun
ty health department.
Final Standing
Qualifies T earn
For Next Year
The National Sernipro Baseball
Congress tournament was over
Tuesday night and the Chatham
Blanketeers made ready to leave
Wichita, Kan., as the nation’s
number two team, as the most
popular team in the tournament,
with the tournament’s most val
uable player, two positions on the
all-tournament team, and an in
vitation to participate in the 1949
national tournament.
Veo Story, Chatham third base
man, took honors as the most
valuable player and was selected
for his infield position on the all
tournament squad. Hurler Grover
Frisbec was also named to the
all-tournament team.
Ft. Wayne’s defending National
sernipro champions retained their
crown by defeating Chatham, 2 to
1 in the finals.
Thus, (he Indiana General Elec
tric team marched through the
1948 tournament undefeated. The
loss was the second for Elkin,
both defeats having come at the
hands of the Ft. Wayne nine. If
Elkin had won the teams would
have settled the championship in
another game.
The game was one of the best
played of the tournament. The
champs scored a run in the first
inning off Bobby Harris and then
another in the fourth off Sam
Crissman who had relieved Harris.
Chatham got its run in the
eighth. Elkin entered the finals
by defeating the Mt. Vernon
Washington Milkmaids 9 to 7
Monday night.
Ft. Wayne got its first run when
Bob Winters singled in Hardy who
had walked with one out and stole
second. The final run came in the
fourth when John Corriden Walk
ed with one out, Olin Smith
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REPUBLICANS
TO HOLD MEET
John Tucker Day To Address
Dobson Convention
On Friday
CANDIDATE FOR HOUSE
Surry county Republicans will
meet in Convention Friday night
at Dobson to hear John Tucker
Day, fifth district candidate for
Congress.
Last Saturday, local Republi
cans held a township convention
at the Elkin city hall to elect of
ficers and delegates to the county
convention.
The executive committee for the
township organization will be
headed by Worth Collins as chair
man, and will include Henry
Wolfe and C. B. Franklin. R. L.
Lovelace, who did not seek re
election as precinct chairman, will
serve as secretary.
Lovelace announced that any
party member from this section
who desired to attend the county
convention would be recognized as
a delegate.
Day, Walkertown lawyer and
farmer, will address the meeting
which is scheduled to start at 7:30.
He is opposing Thurmond Chat
ham, Democratic nominee, in the
November election.
Lovelace presided at the meet
ing here which was attended by
approximately 25 members.
Child Is Injured
By Fall From Car
Dickie Yarbrough, two year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. George Yar
brough, sustained painful bruises
and scratches when he fell from
his father’s car while on a moun
tain trip, Sunday.
The parents believe the child
tumbled out when he grabbed hold
of the handle causing the door to
come open. Mr. Yarbrough esti
mated that he was driving about
35 miles per hour.
After a medical examination
and first aid at a nearby hospital,
the child was released.