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ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations y / ELKIN Gateway to Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVI No. 41 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1948 $2.00 PER YEAR 20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS V. POLICE FORCE STRENGTHENED BY NEW MAN Commissioners Add New Of ficer To Night Shift SPARGER IS NOW SGT. Area Near High School Build-; ing Zoned and Caution Signs Authorized --- PARKING METER MOVED > - The Elkin Board of Commis sioners moved Monday night to strengthen the police department and provide additional protection *• for the downtown business area. ^ On the recommendation of Police Chief Corbett Wall, the commissioners authorized one ad ditional policeman and approved the promotion of Nathaniel Spar ger to sergeant. ‘‘An additional officer will en able us to assign two men to each shift.” Wall • said, "which will greatly increase protection in the downtown area between midnight and 8 a. m.” "The promotion of Sparger to sergeant makes it possible to dele gate authority when I am off duty, which, I believe, will enable us to operate a more efficient de partment,” the chief added. Sparger serves only on the sec ond and third shifts when Chief Wall is not on duty. M The promotion, which carries with it a monthly pay raise of $25, is effective immediately, Wall added. Sparger, a member of the Elkin ! force for approximately one year, j has served as a law enforcement j officer for a number of years. Other action by the commis- j sioners included the zoning of the * area near the high school as a school area, .where caution signs will be erected; and the approval of a request by G. H. Yoeman to remove a parking meter in front 4 of the Elkin Parts and Equipment ” Company on Main street. NURSE SCHOOL OPENS TODAY Classes To Begin At 8:00 A. M. With Capacity Enrollment IS 12-MONTH COURSE The newly inaugurated school of practical nursing at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital opens today (Thursday) at 8 a.m. with a capacity enrollment, according j to an announcement made Wed- ! nesday by Mrs. Anne Arnold Cain, school administrator. Students have enrolled from Elkin, New York, Albemarle, Dob son and Mount Airy. The classes are also open to * high school seniors who are 17 years of age and are enrolled in the diversified occupation course at Elkin High School. Both hospital and classroom in struction are included in the \ course of study, which covers a 12-month period. At the end of the 12 months, having satisfactor ily completed the prescribed course of study and duly graduat ed, the student will be eligible to | apply for a license for the prac tice of practical nursing. The nursing program is being sponsored jointly by the hospital and the division of vocational ed- i ucation of the State Department j of Public Instruction. _ Surry Schools To Open September 15 * ► All is in readiness for the open ing of the county schools Septem ber 15, unless infantile paralysis again reaches epidemic stages, Superintendent John W Comer announced this week. New agricultural buildings at Franklin and Pilot Mountain have been accepted and will be put into use for the first time with the opening of the fall term. The agricultural building at Mountain Park is expected to be completed within 30 days. New class room buildings at White Plains, Copeland and Flat Rock will not be ready for oc cupancy for at least 60 days, Comer added. Cannery To Cease Opening At Night * * The Boonville community Can nery will cease opening at night effective this week, J. R. Walker announced. The cannery will be open from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Wednesday and from 1 p.m. until G p.m. on Friday of each week. ACCEPTS PASTORATE — Rev. George Farah, above, of Owasso, Mich., has accepted the pastor ate of the Pilgrim Church, to succeed Rev. Joseph C. Brown who left Wednesday to be pastor of the Troy Pilgrim Church. Rev. Farah received his Bache lor of Theology degree at the Bible Holiness Seminary, Owas so, Mich., and has done work as a song evangelist. His wife is the former Miss Erdeana Saun ders of Hertford. Rev. and Mrs. Farah will move to this city in the near future. THREE MEN ROB VIRGINIA BANK Take More Than $8,000 Cash From Farmers’ Hank Near Elk Creek SAII) HEADED THIS WAY _ Police of two states and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are searching for three men who robbed the Farmers’ Bank of Elk Creek, Va., of between $8,000 and $9,000 shortly before 3 p. m. Tues day. Elkin police officers were asked Tuesday afternoon to be on the lookout for the trio, believed head ed in this direction. Entering the bank, the trio drew guns and ordered Cleve Fthuddy, assistant cashier of the aank, and his son, Grover, to lie face down on the floor. While two securely trussed up Rhudy and his son, a third entered the vault and removed the money. The bandits told them to do what they were told and they wouldn't get hurt. Grover Rhudy reported to police that he had seen the bandit’s car, a black light model 1942 coupe, drive past the bank once before they entered. At the time of the theft, the car was supposed to have West Virginia plates on it. Meanwhile, a youth from Twin Daks, near Sparta, reported to authorities that he was stopped an the road by a trio resembling the bandits and asked to help push their car. It had become Dverheated, he was told. The youth said that the West Virginia plates were removed, leaving Ken tucky tags on the car. This aroused his suspicions. Luther Wingate, Grayson Coun ty revenue commissioner, said last night that authorities were certain that the men reported in North Carolina were the same ones who robbed the Elk Creek bank earlier in the afternoon. FAIR TO OPEN MONDAYNIGHT Commercial Displays To Be One Of Many Features Of Event PLAN SPECIAL DAYS The Elkin-Jonesville Commun ity Fair to be held at the Elkin Jonesville Speedway will open Monday night, September 13 and continue through Saturday, Sep tember 18. There will be many displays featured, including trucks, trac tors, farm machinery, electric ap pliances, etc., housed in a 50 by 100 foot tent. The Jack J. Perry Shows, with 12 riding devices, 10 shows and 50 concessions will furnish the midway amusements. Brownie the :lown will entertain the children with his funny antics. A sensa tional free act will take place on the midway. There will be fire works Saturday night. Monday night, September 13, will be ladies’ night. Any lady will be admitted free on that date if accompanied by one paid admission. Saturday, September 18 will be children’s day from 12 noon until 6:00 p. m. Gate ad mission will be free to the chil dren and all shows and rides will be reduced to the children during the hours. rribune Advertising Gets Results Wednesday P. M. Closing- To End September 15th Wednesday afternoon, Sep tember 15, will mark the last afternoon on which local mer chants and business firms will close each week, it was an nounced Tuesday by George Isenhour, president of the local merchants association. Mr. Isenhour said that be ginning Wednesday, September 22, stores will remain open as usual each W'ednesday after noon. He expressed the ap preciation of the merchants association for the fine cooper ation of the stores and the public during the summer Wednesday closing hours. URGE NUMBER MEN REGISTER Approximately 1,800 Si^n Up In Surry Out of Total Of 3,300 SEPT 1 ST H DEADLINE Approximately 1,800 draft eligibles of an anticipated total of 3,300 have registered in Surry County, officials of draft board 87 indicated this week. Before the end of the week questionnaires are expected to be I mailed single men in the 25-year old group. Mrs. A. D. Folger, board secretary, announced. The questionnaires, similar to those used- by selective service during the war, will be sent to draftees by age groups, in reverse order. These must be returned within ten days. Mrs. Folger estimated that the forms would be mailed at the rate of approximately 100 a day. These forms will not be sent to 18-year-olds until 30 days fol lowing the date of registration. All persons between the ages of 18-25 inclusive, are required to - register on or before September 18. Last week, registration cen ters were opened throughout the county for a three-day period. ‘ Persons who did not register dur- . ing this period are required to { report to the draft board office at the court house in Dobson for registration. Although 18-year-olds are re quired to register, no one will be drafted for service prior to be coming 19. State selective service headquar ters have not yet notified the Suj-ry county board as to date or quota for the first group of in ductees. FOUR RECEIVE COMMISSIONS S Are Members Of The Elkin Unit Of The Civil Air Patrol r a u GROUP IS GROWING FAST Commissions have been granted four members of the Elkin squad ron, Civil Air Patrol, Major Rob ert E. Church, commanding offi cer, announced this week. In a move to complete the or ganization of the unit, Maj. Church announced that David Brown, former major in the U. S. Air Force, has been designated squadron executive with the rank of major. Newly commissioned officers are Robert E. Nicks, first lieutenant; and Charles C. Poplin, Reeves Holder and James Pardue, second ti £ ti t: t: b 1« E S s; v d t] u (Continued on page eight) TOURNEY'S MOST POPULAR, FIND POPULARITY HERE — The town turned out en masse last Friday to welcome home the Chatham Blanketeers from the national baseball tournament. In the upper photo. Thurmond Chatham, left, congratulates Manager Tige Harris as Mayor Garland John son, Albert L. Butler, president of the Chatham Manufacturing Company, and Athletic Director Don Brock look on. The lower photo shows part of* the crowd that gathered in front of the Y for the ceremonies. The Mount Airy high school band is seated in the foreground. (tribune photos by belli ,v [lousing Welcoine Is Given Blanketeers - * Team .Is Met At Statesville By Long' Motorcade A rousing welcome awaited the hatham Blanketeers upon their Turn here from the national rurnament at Wichita last Fri ay. The hometown fans — 10,000 ;rong — turned out to greet the □ys who had been the surprise iuad of the tournament and who Turned as second place winners nd the tournament’s most pop lar team. A caravan of automobiles met le players as they detrained at tatesville and accompanied the ;am to Elkin. A parade in the downtown sec on preceeded a welcoming on ie Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. lawn y Chatham officials and civic aders. Mayor Garland Johnson of lkin told the returning baseball ,ars that Elkin “was with you in Dint’’ at Wichita and cheered for tctories and suffered in the two efeats. Thurmond Chatham welcomed te boys back home and said that | [ am as proud of the most pop lar trophy you won as I would (Continued On Page Eight) No Wrecks Or Violence Mar Labor Day Here Elkin failed to join the rest of the nation in Labor I)ay easualtics, local law enforce ment officers reported. Corbett Wall, Elkin chief of police, reported that his force handled only the usual number of week-end drunks. County and state officers re ported no wrecks or acts of violence. Men Charged Wjth Assault Bound Over Four men, charged with the as sault of Will Owens of the Thur mond section, were bound over to Surry county Superior Court, at a hearing before Magistrate Julius Hall, Monday. Lonnie Billings, Garvin Wil moth, Doughton Wilmoth and Richard Jarvis, all of the Thur mond community will face charges in Superior Court. Owens suffered lacerations and abrasions, examining physicians reported. The incident occurred on the Little Mountain road near Thur mond, July 5. Old Satan Is Loser In Efforts To Tempt Youth Who Found $203 By DAN T. HENDERSON Eleven-year-old Joe Bill Ken nedy is a happy boy. He’s proven his ability and traits of character in several fields and what’s more, there’s a ! ten dollar bill burning his pocket. 1 Wednesday morning dawned as a routine day for Joe Bill, but before the sun was many hours in the sky quite a number of things had happened to the fourth-grade school boy. First off, he proved that at running he was superior to some of the oldsters in the community. Joe Bill was walking along North Bridge Street with Mrs. Betty Brown of Traphill. As they approached the corner of North Bridge and Market Streets, the boy sighted a billfold near the curb on the opposite side of the street. About the same time a man, standing just a few feet a it ri d tl h w d K si P n c] b h f< tl h ti w h si way from the object, also noticed Reactions of both were hur ed. Joe Bill dodged cars and ished across the street to win le race from his opponent who ad only a few feet to cover. That done, the boy investigated hat he had found. Inside he iscovered currency totalling $203. At this point Satan appeared, e didn't just walk out' on the reet, with horns and tail flap mg, to influence Joe Bill. In aking two passes at the boy he lose each time to appear as a ay of similar age. The first time e omitted denials and simply of :red the advice that Joe Bill keep le money. This didn't work, so e tried again. Still keeping his ue identity secret, he strode for ard in another body. This time e offered a fool proof plan. “What you ought to do,” he lid, is to burn everything but the money. Then no one will find DUt.’’ The Devil may have thought that this sounded reasonable, but to Joe Bill it didn’t. He knew that to keep the money wouldn’t be right and he was already on bis way to do something about it. rhe billfold was turned over to Dhief of Police Corbett Wall. Chief Wall quickly located the Dwner, Carl W. Osborne, and re turned the lost property. They were both proud of the ooy and his honesty—law enforce ment officers at the town hall at the time congratulated the boy. Dsborne thought something else should be done too. So without further ado, he gave Joe Bill a ten dollar reward. Although he’s not sure just what the ready cash will be spent for, the young son of Mrs. Vera Burcham, Elkin, is proud and happy and well-to-do. MARTIN HELD IN SAFE PROBE Twice - Paroled Desperadc Arrested Monday By Win ston-Salem Police ARSENAL IS UNCOVEREE Robert Summerfield Martin, 48 twice-paroled desperado, remain ed in jail at Winston - Salon Tuesday while Winston-Salerr police and Sheriff B. B. Brock man of Spartanburg, S. C., con tinued digging up evidence re garding Martin's alleged part ir a safe cracking in Spartanburg last month. Martin and his 31-year-old gir friend, Mrs. Lula Clarice Jolly were arrested along with Ra> Wiley Cummings, 25, and Mrs Dorothy Opal Davis, 32. Mondaj night. Searching the quartet, detec tives found a loaded pistol in Mrs Davis’s pocketbook and in the trunk they found an electric drill numerous hammers of different sizes and shapes, wrecking and crow bars, screw drivers, a flash light, several pocket knives, chisels and other instruments which ap peared to be burglary tools. Officers then went to the place where Martin and Mrs. Jolly lived on Burke Street and confiscated six guns, including various makes of rifles and shotguns, all fully loaded, and approximately 40 pounds of ammunition.. Police questioned the quartet at intervals but said they gained very little information. They term ed Martin a hardened criminal and said he refused to talk until he had seen his lawyer. Meanwhile, Sheriff Brockman arrived late in the afternoon, ac companied by Deputy George P. Pruitt and J. W. Jessup of Con cord, a member of the State Bu reau of Investigation. Sheriff Brockman said all evi dence thus far reveals that Sum merfield Martin had worked for the Inman textile mills in Spart (Continued On Page Eight) Construction Begun On Baptist Building Construction work has been started on a pastorium for the First Baptist Church, on a lot situated on Gwyn Avenue, next to the residence of T. C. MCKnight. The structure will be a nine room brick veneer Colonial type house, and is expected to cost ap proximately $21,000. Plans are to complete it by January 1. The pastorium is part of the Baptist building program, and the construction of a new church is planned as soon as building con ditions improve. Report 4 New Polio Cases In I Surry County ❖ . i Old Belt Leaf Market To Open September 13th The Old Belt Tobacco Mar ket, which includes the Mount Airy and Winston-Salem mar kets, will open Monday, Sep tember 13th. Both the Winston-Salem and Mount Airy markets are in readiness for opening day with complete facilities for handling huge volumes of leaf. Plenty of buyers will be on hand at the various large tobacco ware houses, and sales of tobacco are expected to be heavy from the beginning. INSTRUCTIONS ANNOUNCED _ ! Supt. Carpenter Lays Down Rules For Students On Opening Day SCHOOL TO OPEN 15TH In conjunction with the open ing of Elkin City Schools Wednes day, superintendent N. H. Carpen ter has listed some instructions for the students of Elkin High School, Elkin elementary school. North Elkin elementary school and Oak Grove Negro school to follow in order to avoid confusion i on the first day. Elkin City Schools wilt open 1 Wednesday, September 15, at 8:45 a.m. and will be dismissed at noon. ) The first full days of school will be Thursday and Friday at which time regular scheduled classes will be held. All children who attended elem 1 entary school last year arc re quested to report to their old rooms Wednesday. All children entering elementary school for the first time are asked to report to the auditorium. All students in high school last year are to report to their old home rooms and all new students and those promoted from the eighth grade are to meet in the high school library. High school students wishing to make changes in their schedules are requested to go to the high school building Monday and Tues day between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. School buses will be earlier than usual Wednesday morning in ord er that the drivers may determine the amount of time needed to drive the routes. Students who ride the buses are requested to be at their respective bus stops. Children entering the first grade must be six years of age on or before October 1, and are re (Continued On Page Four) “DUNK” VESTAL GOES ON TRIAL — Yadkin County Superior Court Disposes Of 72 Cases During Three Days VANHOY FOUND GUILTY Yadkin County Superior Court moved rapidly this week to clear up the large number of cases scheduled for trial during the one week session. Judge J. H. Clement had dis posed of a total of 72 cases sched uled on the criminal docket late yesterday afternoon, when solici tor Avalon E. Hall began calling up more involved cases for trial. One of the cases tried yesterday was that of Richard Vanhoy, charged with speeding, reckless driving and violation of the pro hibition law. He was found guil ty on the three counts but had not been sentenced late yesterday. The case of Elmer “Dunk” Ves tal, Paul Flynn, Ernest Ashley and Mrs. Ernest Layman for the alleg ed larceny of $500 from Dale Win ters was still being tried late yes terday. Other cases disposed of were as follows: Ted F. Swaim, reckless driving, fined $50 and costs, not to oper (Continued on page eight) New Outbreak Comes After Ban Is Lifted — Infantile paralysis has again reared its head in Surry county. Within one week after the rais ing of the ban on youth activities in the county, a signal that the current epidemic had subsided, four new cases of polio were diag nosed, health department officials reported yesterday. This brings the year's total in Surry county to 38 cases. The new cases are well scattered throughout the county and none of the new cases are in the Elkin area. Latest victims are: Dale Beck, three-year-old son of Charlie Beck, route 2, Mount Airy; Larry Grant Snow, six-year-old son of Guy E. Snow, route 2, Mount Airy; Darold Sawyer, one-year-old son of Aubry Sawyer, route 1, Ararat; Jean Franklin Flynn, 14 month-old daughter of Annie Flynn, route 2, Pinnacle. The four patients are hospitaliz ed at Baptist Hospital, Winston Salem. The onset of the Beck case was set as September 2. Prior to that time, the last reported onset was August 20. Health department officials de | dined to voice an opinion as to I whether this outbreak constitut | ed another epidemic. The Board of Health is sched uled to meet Monday with school boards of the county to determine . whether to delay the opening of | schools, now planning to open I September 15. ALLEGED KILLER IS BOUND OVER James H. MeNabb Arrested Sunday For Murder Of C. E. Hailey HIM) IKUn AISLE CAUSE James Hugh McNabb, 37, who was arrested Sunday on a charge of murdering 19-year-old Clyde Ernest Hailey Saturday night, was bound over to the September term of Surry County Superior Court Tuesday in a preliminary hearing at Mount Airy Recorder’s Court. Judge Harry Llewellyn found probable cause in the murder charge against McNabb and or dered-the defendant to be return ed to county jail at Dobson. Mc Nabb will be held without privilege of bond. The defense, represented by H. O. Woltz Mount Airy attor ney, offered no testimony or evi dence at the hearing Tuesday. Solicitor R. J. Lovill Jr., called only two witnesses for the prose cution. McNabb will go on trial for his life in Superior Court under a first degree murder charge. He is al leged to have shot and killed young Hailey during a dance Sat urday night at the Virginia-Caro lina Tobacco Warehouse. McNabb confessed to police that he shot Hailey but said he aimed at Hailey’s legs and shot in self defense. The bullet* entered Hailey’s left side, police said. The officers said McNabb (Continued On Page Eight) Barter Theatre Date Is Changed To September 14 Due to the change in itin erary, the Barter Theatre of Virginia will not present “Pur suit of Happiness” on Monday evening, September 13th as previously announced, but will appear one night later, Sep tember 14th at 8 o’clock at the Gilvin Both Y.M.C.A. Tickets may be secured for the production from Mrs. Clyde Cothren at Harris Electric Company or any member of the Junior Woman’s Club.
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