ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Carolina
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The Elkin Tribune
ELKIN
Gateway to Roarinf Gap and
the Blue Ridfe
THE TRIBUNE
Serves the Tri-Counties of
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
L. No. XXXVI No. 47
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1948
$2.00 PER YEAR
20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
m scon TO
BE SPEAKER AT
RALLY FRIDAY
Is Democratic Nominee For
Governor Of N. C.
CHATHAM ON PROGRAM
Dinner Session To Be Held At
The YMCA Promptly
At 6:00 P. M.
DOBSON RALLY AT 7:30
Kerr Scott, Democratic nominee
for the governorship of North
Carolina, will be the featured
sneaker at a Democratic rally to
held at the Gilvin Roth YMCA
tomorrow night.
Claude Farrell, co-manager for
Scott in this area, said yesterday
that all who plan to attend should
be there early, because the rally
must begin promptly at 6 o’clock
so that the candidates may be
on time for the Dobson rally
which will be held at 7:30. Tickets
will be available until noon today
(Thursday) and may be obtained
by contacting Claude Farrell at
telephone 50.
Also on the program will be
Thurmond Chatham, Democratic
nominee for Congress from the
Fifth district.
At Dobson, dancing and string
band contests will follow the pro
grtim on which all candidates on
the Democratic ticket in the
November 2 election will be pres
ent.
At the rally last Thursday night
at Dobson, Thurmond Chatham
was principal speaker. He was in
troduced by Congressman John H.
Folger.
AUTOS COLLIDE
FRIDAY NIGHT
^,Two Injured Slightly As Cars
Are lJadlv Damaged
On Highway 268
HEARING SET SATURDAY
Arville Dewey Sturgill, of Spar
ta, and Hubert Finney, of Route 1,
Jonesville, were treated at the
Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital
here Friday night following a col
lision of their automobiles on
Highway 268, at an intersection
just west of Elkin.
Both men suffered multiple
bruises and cuts.
Corporal Sam McKinney, of the
State Highway department, said
that Sturgill was traveling west on
the highway and the Finney car
was coming out of the West End
service station down Elk Spur
Street. The Sturgill automobile
crashed into the other vehicle,
damaging it badly. The grill of
Sturgill’s car was smashed.
A hearing on the case will be
conducted at North Wilkesboro
Saturday, highway patrolmen said.
Methodist Children’s
Workshop To Be Held
I ^ A workshop on the use of Meth
odist materials in the children’s
division of the church school will
be held at the Elkin Methodist
Church at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
October 28.
The leaders for the workshop
will be: Mrs. J. C. Mason, Win
ston-Salem, district director of
the children’s division: Mrs. Del
bert Byrum, Mrs. H. B. Simpson
and Mrs. Earle Stanley of Win
ston-Salem.
All children’s workers and in
terested parents in this area are
cordially invited to attend.
Methodist Choir
To Broadcast
Concert Sunday
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The senior choir of the Elkin
Methodist Church will present
a 30-minute sacrei concert over
Radio Station WKBC Sunday
afternoon beginning at 2:30
o’clock.
The program, to consist of
selected numbers from a con
cert recently given by the choir,
will be broadcast from the
church, and anyone desiring to
attend the broadcast at the
church is cordially invited.
However, those who do attend
are requested to be in their
seats by 2:15 p. m.
The concert will be directed
by Mrs. Dwayne Irwin, with
Miss Mamie Blackwood as or
ganist and Mrs. Van Dillon, Jr.,
pianist. The program will be
announced by Jimmy Childress,
manager of the local studios of
WKBC.
ON RALLY PROGRAM — W. Kerr Scott, left, Democratic nominee
for governor, and Thurmond Chatham, nominee for Congress from
the Fifth District, will appear at two rallies tomorrow night. The
first will be held at 6 p. m„ here, and another at 7:30 p. m., at Dob
son. Mr. Scott will be the featured speaker at both events. He will
be introduced by Mr. Chatham.
YOUTH DIES
FROM WRECK
Billie Collins Claimed By
Death Resulting From
Auto Wreck
FUNERAL ON SATURDAY
Billie Gray Collins, 19, of Yad
kinville Route 1, lost his life when
his automobile overturned and
knocked down two apple trees a
few miles east of Yadkinville
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock.
The accident happened in the
Union Grove section of the county.
Young Collins, driving a 1940 Ford
coach apparently at a fast rate
of speed, left the highway, the
automobile striking and uproot
ing two apple trees beside the
road. He was thrown out of the
car and died within a short time.
He was born September 26, 1929
in Yadkin County, spn of John W.
and Eula Wishon Collins. Surviv
ing, besides the parents, is a
grandmother, Mrs. Amelia Collins
Brown.
Funeral services were held at
Union Cross Frlehds church Sat
urday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev.
Mrs. E. G. Key, Rev. C. H. Hutch- 1
ens and Rev. Claude Hobson were
in charge. Interment followed in
the church cemetery.
JC AND KIWANIS
GOLFERS MEET
Losers To Treat Victors To
Banquet According To
Challenge Rules
WILL BEGIN TODAY
The Elkin Kiwanis club and
the Junior Chamber of Commerce ,
will meet today in a golf match ‘
which will continue through Sun
day at the Cedarbrook Country
club.
The Jaycees took up the Kiwan
lan challenge this week. Losers
will treat the winners to a banquet
according to the rules of the ;
challenge. 1
Parings are listed as follows,
the Jaycee players named first:
Henry Dillon and E. T. Shamel;
Van Dillon and A. O. Bryan; Fred
Norman and Harry Hensel; H. P. 1
Graham, Jr., and Rich Atkinson;
Bill Stevenson and Skinny Car
penter; Ed Royal and Chick
Thompson; Joe Wood and Dr.
Vernon Taylor; Joe Transou and
Judge Julius Hall; John May
berry and Dr. Harry Johnson; (
Keith Mayberry and Dr. John
Jolley; Charlie Armstrong and H.
C. Graham; Dr. Claude McNeill
and Abe Harris; Harvey Baker
and Sam Boose; Dr. Spencer Bell ]
and Dr. J. H. Howard; Tat Davis
and George E. Roy all; Loman
Richardson and Carl Boyles; Sam
Neaves and the Rev. Howard \
Ford; Alex Chatham III, and'the ,
Rev. R. G. Tuttle; Bill Freeman ' (
and Alex Biggs; and Joe Brandon
and Sig Holcomb.
Hardy Graham will carry the
most experience with which Ki
wanians believe will be hard to
overcome by the Jaycee links- (
men.
Elkin Band Elects
Officers For Year|
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The Elkin High School Band
elected officers recently to serve j
for the 1948-49 school year.
Garth Payne was named presi
dent; A. C. Cockerham, vice-presi- [
dent; Bonnie Bowman, secretary
and treasurer, and Nathan Love
lace, librarian.
The Band will make its first 1
appearance on Thanksgiving Day
at the football game between Elk- *
in High School and Mount Airy. ]
California produces more grapes i
than all other 47 states combined, i
Scout District
Representatives
Meet Here Nov. 2
The ninth annual meeting of
the Elkin-Yadkin district. Boy
Scouts of America, will be held
Tuesday night, November 2, at
the Gilvin Both YMCA.
Dr. Mark Depp, pastor of the
Centenary Methodist Church at
Winston-Salem, w'ill be the
featured speaker.
Officers for the coming year
will b<j elected at the meeting.
All representatives from
sponsoring institutions have
been urged to be present at the
meeting along with all troop
committeemen.
MARTINS PLACE
AT STATE FAIR
Live At Home’ Exhibit Wins
Third Place Among North
Carolina Entries
WON AT MT. AIRY FAIR
iSpecial to The Tribune!
Raleigh, October 20,— :A “Life
it Home” individual farm display
oy Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Martin of
Flockford, won third place honors
md a prize of $300 at the North
Carolina State Pair here today,
rhe Martins, who also placed high
ast year, presented an exhibit of
he numerous products grown on
heir 70 acre farm, which contains
24 acres of cropland and seven
icres of pasture.
Nine crops, beef and dairy cattle,
md poultry were listed as sources
if income. The exhibit placed
special emphasis on growing a
fear-round garden and on proper
nanagement of timber.
Helpful sources of information
such as newspapers, magazines,
md bulletins were also displayed.
The center of the exhibit con
sisted of a model layout of the
juildings, fields, and pasture on
he farm. ,
Mr. Martin also won several
irizes with exhibits in the field
:rops division of the fair.
The Martin’s same exhibit won
'irst place recently at the Mount
\iry Agricultural Fair.
HACKERS’ ART
CLASSES HRD
Certificates Awarded By
Commercial Firm For
Completing Course
EMPHASIZE SCHOOL ART
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Teachers of the Elkin city
schools this week completed a 15
lour workshop course. Certificates
vere awarded those who complet
ed the course without absence.
Working during extra hours, the
eachers were taught by Miss
Liilian V. Nunn, art consultant of
Binney and Smith company, who
'epresented the company without
:ost to the school or faculty.
Projects- included animal draw
ngs, potato prints, mural paint
ngs, block printing, portrait
aainting, decorating paper plates
ind vases, puppet making, clay
nodeling, finger painting, paper
naches of dogs, camels, dolls,
sheep and goats.
N. H. Carpenter, superintendent
>f city schools, explained that the
purpose of the art program was to
’amiliarize and emphasize art
vork in the regular school pro
gram.
“Every child has a natural de
sire and need to create,” Mr. Car
penter said, explaining that an
irt program would give the child
m opportunity to fulfill such a
leed. /
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TRUMAN GETS
WELCOME AT
RALEIGH STOP
Asks For Democratic Party
Unity On Southern Tour
HEARD BY THOUSANDS
Recalls Days of fiight-Cent
Tobacco And The
‘Hoover Cart’
UNVEILS MONUMENT
More than 25,000 North Caro
linians assembled in Raleigh Tues
day to hear President Harry S.
Truman speak twice while on his
brief campaign tour of the South.
Amid the friendly crowds, picket
signs read? “North Carolina may
be cloudy but it sho’ ain’t Dewey.”
Truman, appearing pleased and
healthy, then lambasted Dewey,
the Republicans and the days of
the “Hoover Cart,” and pleaded
with the people to stick by the
Democratic party. A vote for the
States Rights party is one for
Dewey, he said.
Referring to the days when
tobacco sold for eight cents a
pound, the president said: “You
remember the Hoover cart — the
remains of the old tin lizzie being
pulled by a mule because you
couldn’t afford to buy a new car
or gas for the old one. You re
member. First you had the Hoover
carts. One always follows the
other. Bear that in mind now,
carefully. . .
"I hope that somewhere in
North Carolina you have a Hoover
cart on display — lest you for
get that the Republicans want you
to take another ride in the same
old wagon.”
An improvised cart was brought
to the scene.
The president unveiled a mon- '
ument of three former presidents, j
Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk
and Samuel Johnson, all North
Carolina sons, and told the throng
that the monument “has a mes
sage that is not only true as to
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WOMAN KILLER
PLEADS INSANE
Mauris J. Holshouser, Arrest
ed In Yadkinville, Is
Arraigned In N. Y.
HAD MADE CONFESSION
Charged with first degree mur
der in the September slaying of
an elderly widow of Scio, N. Y„
Mauris J. Holshouser, 26, ex-car- j
nival worker who was arrested
several weeks ago at Yadkinville, 1
has entered a plea of not guilty
“because of insanity.” He was ar
raigned Monday in New York
state before Supreme Court Jus
tice Raymond A. Knowles.
Holshouser was taken from an
Elkin taxi four weeks ago at the
home of his wife at Yadkinville ,
and was charged with the mur- j
der of the New York woman. Prior (
to hiring the taxi here, which was (
driven by Kim Vestal, the man (
had visited a carnival which was ,
playing at the speedway in Jones
ville.
New York State Police Inspector
Harold L. Kemp said that Hoi- 1
shouser, after being returned to 1
New York state, “admitted in a 1
signed statement that' he killed 1
Mrs. Lena G. M. Robinson with his *
fists” after having been employed
to do some painting at her home.
OWNERS AND CHAMPIONS — Jack Weaver of Olin, left, stands beside his grand champion, a white
faced Hereford which was selected best at the Sixth Elkin Fat Stock Show Tuesday. Marie Moore of
Statesville, whose calf last year was grand champion, exhibits her reserve champion Hereford. Mr.
Weaver’s 1,000-pound animal sold for $1 per pound at the sale Friday to Thurmond Chatham, owner
of the Klondike Farms.
(TRIBUNE PHOTO BY BELLI
CHOICE CATTLE IN REVIEW — Throngs of young farmers and agriculture enthusiasts poured into
Elkin last week for the Sixth Annual Fat Stock Show which was regarded by cattle authorities as the
highest percentage of choice cattle ever shown in a North Carolina district contest. Here cattle are
lined for inspection as many of the visitors look on from the sidelines on Memorial Field.
(TRIBUNE PHOTO)
WEED PRICES
CONTINUE DROP
Quality and Volume In Old
Belt Also Show Decline
In Fifth Week
fOP QUALITY STRONG
The majority of average prices,
juality and volume declined dur
ng the fifth week of sales on the
Did Belt flue-cured tobacco mark
:ts. The demand for top quality
jfferings, however, continue
itrong.
According to the United States,
'forth Carolina and Virginia De
sartments of Agriculture, the de
:reases ranged from 50c to $7.00
>er hundred but the majority j
vere from $1.00 to $3.00. Red leaf
trades, in most instances, suffered
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Inspection Lane
To Operate Here
Until Saturday
Inspection of motor vehicles
at the lane here on Surry Ave
nue has returned this week and
will continue operation through
Saturday.
Highway officers urged yes
terday that all* vehicles due and
overdue for mechanical inspec- j
tion be sent through imme
diately so that it will not be
necessary to issue fines to those
without stickers.
All motor vehicles up to the I
year models 1945 arc required
by law to be inspected on or
before October 31.
Motor vehicles of the year
model 1940 and 1942 shall be
inspected on or before Novem
ber 30, the law declares.
The 1948 Tar Heel cotton crop
s now estimated at 690,000 bales.
TWO ARE HURT IN ACCIDENT — Simon O. Bohannon, 25, and hfs wife, Mrs. Mabel Bohannon,
were treated for minor injuries at Hugh Chatham hospital last Friday afternoon after Bohannon’s car,
pictured above, went out of control on highway 21 near'the home of Dr. I. S. Gambill to plunge partly
down a steep embankment. The car, a .maroon convertible, was extensively damaged, itruuni photo
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ROBBERS BEAT,
ROB ELKIN MAN
A. H. Davis Held Up And ]
Slugged By Two Men <
In North Elkin i
NO CLUES A R E
LEFT
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A. H. Davis, store and service s
station operator in North Elkin, ]
was beaten and robbed of approx- j
imately $1700 and a .45 automatic t
pistol about 10 p.m., Friday when j
he was returning to his home near ^
his place of business. i
Davis related his story to high
way patrol officers who reported I
that two men attacked him as i
he came through the driveway and g
one sprang upon Davis with a
gun in his face exclaiming, “I’ve t
got you covered.” I
While Davis’s attention was a
focused on the first assailent, the 1
other attacked him from the rear. ~
The two robbers beat him about r
the head with an apparently jag
ged instrument, officers said. He
suffered six gashes in the head.
Davis said that the men led
him to a road which is now un
der construction and forced him
to cross a barbed wire fence,
facing him in an opposite direc
tion from which they made their
getaway.
Davis could not identify the
men. His eyes were blinded by
the blood streaming from his
head. The robbers fled in an auto
mobile, leaving no clue.
During the shuffle one of the
attackers reportedly pleaded with
the victim, “Ain’t you ever going
to give up.”
When Davis reached his auto
mobile, he found that the valve
cap had been removed from his
tires probably to delay him from
getting in touch with the police.
Patrolmen said that Davis made
no flinch of pain upon being
stitched at the hospital where the
six gashes were treated. ,
• He was at work at his store
the next morning.
Meat animals are selling at
prices well above the support
ievel.
CHOICE CALVES
FEATURESHOW
AND SALE HERE
Quality Sets Record For Any
Show Held In State
PRICE TREND IS DOWN
Average Sale Price Per Pound
For 84 Calves 30.08;
Last Year 31.07
CHATHAM BUYS CHAMP
For the largest number of grad
ed choice animals ever recorded
\t any of the larger district shows
n the state, baby beef prices con
tinued the downward trend for
mtrants of the annual Elkin Fat
Stock Show last week.
A sale price of 30.08 cents per
pound was averaged from 84
young bulls in this year’s entry
is compared to 31.07 average last
year and 31.86 in 1946.
A total of $25,468.78 was paid
put to 4-H club and F.F.A. mem
bers whose animals were auction
id Friday following the opening
day show. Total weight of the
animals sold was 82,609 pounds.
The 1,000-pound Hereford grand
Champion, owned by Jack Weaver
pf Iredell County, brought $1 per
pound from purchaser Thurmond
Chatham, Democratic Congres
sional nominee, local manufactur
ir and owner of Klondike Farm.
Mr. Chatham announced immed
iately after buying the animal
that it would be donated to the
Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital
bere.
Marie Moore, of Iredell, sold her
345-pound reserve champion to
Hort Doughton of Statesville for
75 cents per pound.
Other animals graded choice
■anged in price from 30 to 45
:ents, while those graded good
wrought from 26 to 31 cents and
medium from 25 to 29 cents.
Buyers from several counties
participated in the sale, the heav
est bidders being Colonial Stores,
ifadkin Valley Packers, the Elkin
Junior Chamber of Commerce
md the Mt. Airy Paper Box Com
pany.
Besides the grand champion
ind reserve champion, others of
he top six of 93 animals entered
rhursday were those entered by
Sdward Shepard of Wilkes, Byron
Campbell of Yadkin, Martha Mc
Cain of Iredell and Carolina Fer
luson of Wilkes.
Bobby Lee Cockerham, of Surry,
von the showmanship contest,
vith second and third place hon
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Rites For Corporal
Miller To Be Today
Military rites for Cpl. Paul Mil
er, who was killed in action
October 13, 1944, while serving
vith the U. S. Marine Corps in
he Palaos Islands, will be held
oday (Thursday) at 2 p.m. Rev.
’ommie Luffman and Rev. Elmer
Sldridge will be in charge of the
ervices at the home on North
Iridge Street. Burial will follow
n Hollywood cemetery. Pull mili
ary honors will be given Cpl.
filler at the graveside by the
Villiam J. Jones post of the
r.F.W.
Cpl. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs.
'rank Miller, took his basic train
ng at Parris Island, S. C., before
oing to the South Pacific.
He is survived by his parents;
wo brothers, Boyce and Edward
liller; and two sisters, Mrs. Hill
ry Spann and Miss Maude Mil
;r, all of this city.
Ministers Make
Appeal Regarding
Mid-Week Worship
The ministers of Elkin and
Jonesville, through their duly
organized Ministerial Associa
tion, make the following re
quest:
That, since our mid-week
worship and so many of our
church organizations, upon
which the more complete min
istries of our churches depend,
meet on Wednesday evenings,
we request that all organiza
tions and groups within our
two communities, wherever pos
sible, reserve Wednesday even
ings for these essential church
Interests.
We make this request be
cause we believe that the citiz
ens of Elkin and Jonesville de
sire the best programs and the
most complete ministry that
our churches can render, and
because such ministries are de
pendent upon the sufficient
lime necessary for their prep
iration and promotion.
Sincerely are ask your coop
eration in this matter.