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ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations i i t ELKIN Gateway to Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVI No. 48 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1948 I $2.00 PER YEAR 22 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS ♦BROUGHTON TO SPEAK FRIDAY IN FINAL MEET Pre-Election Rally To Be Held At Dobson Courthouse KERR SCOTT IS HEARD Democratic Nominee For Gov ernor Plugs Rural Pro gram At Dinner Here “HEARS PEOPLE’S VOICE’ The last Democratic rally in Surry county before the November 2 elections will be held at the courthouse in Dobson Friday night jftt 7:30, when J. Melville Brough ton, former governor of North Carolina and Democratic nominee to tiie U. S. Senate, will make the feature address. All candidates on the Surry Democratic ticket are scheduled to attend the rally. As Tuesday, the day of election draws near, party candidates go into the home stretch in then campaigns. Virtually every com munity in the state has been vis ited by party nominees from their particular counties and districts. Friday night, W. Kerr Scott, nominee for governor, and Thur mond Chatham, nominee for Con gress from the Fifth District, were on Democratic rally programs held at Elkin and Dobson. While here, Mr. Scott told Elkin Democrats that the Democratic party held the only middle of the road course in the present polit ical offensive. Mr. Scott outlined a plan which, if elected, he said" could be put into effect toward a definite ad vancement of industry, agricul ture and general welfare of the state, with the cooperation of other state agencies. “One of the greatest needs in the aiding of the progress of North Carolina is a complete system of all-weather roads,” he said, ex plaining that industry had settled in neighboring states rather than North Carolina because they could draw labor from rural areas with the presence of hard-sur faced roads. In connection with the road building plan. Mr. Scott said that school children were being de prived of a better education be cause of the present conditions of many rural roads. “Too many children must be taken from school too often each year because of colds, influenza and other diseases brought about through exposure.” Much of this is caused from wait ing long periods for school buses which are delayed through bad roads, he explained. Of the other points in his pro gram, Mr. Scott told the rally guests that he did not originate the plans, but simply gathered the sentiment of the people in his tours of the state. He said that he had visited every county, every county seat in North Carolina; not once, but many times, and had studied the wants and needs of the people in their welfare pro gress. "I have traced the under lying sentiments of all the people of the state,” he said, “and I feel that the program which I intend to exercise during my governor ship is in consistency with that of the people.” Mr. Scott was introduced by Thurmond Chatham, who also recognized Congressman John Fol ger. Claude Farrell, co-manager for Mr. Scott in the Elkin area, was master of ceremonies. Marriage Register Lists Eight Permits Eight marriage licenses were issued last week by the register of deeds of Surry County. They were to Charles Edgar Lawrence, Mount Airy, 30, and Elsie Rebecca Norman, Mount Airy, 21; Frede rick Ooode Tucker, Jr., Winston Salem, 23, and Marianne Mock, Dobson, 20; Cecil Riddle, Mount ^Airy, 33, and Ella Collins, Mount F^iry, 20; Dewitt Crabb, Traphill, 39, and Margaret Shaw, Traphill, 19; Sammie Lowe, Mount Airy, 29, and Evelyn Bird, Mount Airy, '1% 29; Chester Raymond Aruder, Mount Airy, 21, and Nannie Bow man, Mount Airy, 23, James Brintle, —M o u ft t Airy, 22, and Rausie Hall, Mount Airy, 19; and Tommie C. Sechrist, Pilot Moun tain, 2JL and Virginia Bennett, Baptismal Service At Pleasant Hill A baptismal service will be held at the Pleasant Hill Baptist Ithurch, Sunday evening at 7 o’clock. Special music has been arranged by the choir. The public is cordially invited to attend. BALLY SPEAKER — J. Melville Broughton, nominee for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina, will be featured speaker at the final Surry county Democratic rally before November 2 elec tions, to be held at the court house in Dobson, 7:30 p. m. Friday. OLD BELT WEED PRICES LOWER Drops From Previous Losses Range From 50 Cents To $9 Per Hundred SALES VOLUME LIGHTER During the sixth week of sales on the Old Belt flue-cured tobacco markets most grade averages and the general average declined, re port the United States, North Car olina and Virginia Departments of Agriculture. Compared with the previous week losses ranged from 5c to $9.00 per hundred with the ma jority down $1.00 and $3.00. The greatest decreases were for red smoking leaf grades. A few green leaf grades and some nondescript showed slight gains. Cutters con tinued in good demand and held firm. Volume of sales was much light er, amounting to only 21,383,323 pounds and averaging $48.73. This average was 23c below the week before and the lowest weekly av erage of the season. Through October 22 gross sales have total ed 177,711,794 pounds and aver aged $51.35. Gross sales through October 22 last year were 114, 454.038 pounds at an average of $41.00. Receipts of the Flue-cured Stabilization Corporation for the week are estimated to be around 17% of sales and for the season about 13%. As was the case last week, com mon to good leaf and smoking leaf were sold in heaviest volume. Less nondescript and tobacco in unsafe keeping order appeared on the floors, otherwise the quality of the offerings changed very little. I YADKIN HOME GROUPMEETS Annual Home Demonstration Achievement Day To Be Held Saturday AT COURTNEY SCHOOL The Annual Home Demonstra tion Achievement Day tor Yadkin County, will be held Saturday, October 30, at 10:30 a. m. at the Courtney High School, it was an nounced yesterday. Around 350 club women and visitors are expected to attend this ! event. A program consisting of five minute skits each will be present ed by the fifteen clubs in the county. Mrs. Poy Norman, Presi dent; and Mrs. Arlie Steelman, Secretary, will preside. The devo tional will be given by Mrs. P. E. Hurt of the Boonville Club. Spe cial music will be furnished by the West Yadkin Club with Mrs. Charles Gough and Mrs. Jack Brown in charge. Mrs. T. H. Poindexter and Donald Craver, president of Courtney, Jr. Club, will give the address of Welcome. Mrs. Nelson Dobbins will respond. The women that have perfect attendance records for 1948 will be recognized. A gavel will be presented to the club having highest attendance this year. The East Bend Club now holds the gavel. 4-H Club members with Mrs. Minnie Hinshaw and Mrs. Homer Wagoner will assist the hostess clubs, South Oak Ridge and Huntsville. The new officers will be install ed as follows: President, Mrs. Charlie Gough; Vice-president, Mrs. Tony Parker; Secretary, Mrs. Hubert Logan, Jr.; Assistant Sec retary, Mrs. Bill Moxley; Treas (Continued on page eight) 1 Scout District Meeting’ Set For Tuesday, Nov. 9 Dr. Mark Depp, pastor of the Centenary Methodist church, Winston-Salem, will be guest speaker Tuesday night, Novem ber 9, at the ninth annual Elkin-Yadkin district meeting, Boy Scouts of America. The dinner meeting will be gin at 7 p.m., at the Gilvin j Roth YMCA. Representatives from the fol- I lowing places will sell tickets: Ab Martin, Boonville; Fred Hobson, Yadkinville; J. D. Hemmings, Mountain Park; Worth Folger, Sparta; Colin Pardue, Ronfla; Watt Deal and Johnny Sears, Jonesville; H. C. Hatch, F. C. Page, Jr., T. M. Rose, Russell Burcham and Paul Price, Elkin. Tickets may be bought at Turner Drug store and Abernethy’s Pharmacy in Elkin. Prices will be $1.25 each. Special out-of-town guests include Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. Ned Vaughn-Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. John Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hill, all of Winston-Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Yokley, of Mount Airy, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Nelson, of North Wilkesboro, and Mr. and Mrs. Millard Graybeal, of West Jefferson. SMOKIES, BLUE RIDGEPOPULAR Nearly 3,000,000 Visitors Drawn During 19 4 8 Travel Year RANK NATION S FOURTH Washington, Oct. 25. — The na tion’s most popular park — Great Smoky Mountains National Park — and Blue Ridge Parkway, with nearly 3,000,000 visitors between them, were the fourth and fifth greatest tourist attractions in the country during the record-break ing 1948 travel year, the National Park Service disclosed today. In the visitation the park and parkway were outstripped only by two huge recreational areas in the Far West and the Lincoln Me morial here in the nation’s capi tal. The recreational areas, for which visitor records were kept the first time in 1948, accounted for most of the 17 per cent increase in over - all visitation, which reached a total of 29,608,318. According to year-end park ! service tabulations, 1,468,636 per 1 sons visited Great Smokies Park last year, compared with 1,186,748 in 1947. Trailing only slightly j was Blue Ridge Parkway, in North ■ Carolina and Virginia, with 1,433, 290, against 1,314,353 in 1947. In first place, the Lake Tekoma re | creation area had 2,397,508 visit j ors, followed by Lake Meade re creational area, with 1,607,422. Taking third, Lincoln Memorial | registered 1,504,677 this year, com pared with 1,360,770 in 1947. | The increased visitation to Great Smokies Park and Blue j Ridge Parkway — 400,825 more than 1947—accounts for nearly one fourth of the over-all travel year increase when attendance figures for the recreational areas are subtracted. In sixth place in the final standings is Rocky Mountain Na tional Park, with 1,032,755 visitors this year, against 898,097 last year. Standing seventh, and the only other park service unit to reach the 1,000,000 mark, is Yel lowstone Park with l,0i3,531, com pared to 930,441 in 1947. Methodists Thank People For Gifts The Methodist Youth Fellowship wishes to thank the people for their splendid cooperation in the Scavenger Hunt staged Monday night. Results were excellent, with many warm winter clothes being contributed, along with canned milH and food, money and many other necessities. A number of residents have stated that they were not called upon, and had bundles ready. If these people will call the Meth odist church office (304) someone will pick the bundles up, or bun dles may be left at the Methodist Church. Hamptonville Law Student Is Honored Bill Wood of Hamptonville, was selected from the first year law class of Wake Forest College to serve as treasurer of the Law School Bar Association. Also in the first year class elections of the Wake Forest Law School, Dan Lovelace of Raleigh, was named president. Other offic ers are Claude Hamrick of Shelby, vice-president; and Jack White of Wilson, secretary-treasurer. All the officers elected attended Wake Forest as undergraduates. C. H. Leary Is Named To Head Kiwanis Group C; H. LEARY Clifton H. Leary was elected president of the Elkin Kiwanis Club to serve during the year 1949. at the regulkr meeting of the club last Thursday evening at the Gilvin Roth YMCA. He will suc ceed Linville Hendren, who has served since January of this year. Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor of the Elkin First Baptist Church, was elected vice-president. Julius L. Hall was, for the 13th succes sive year, elected secretary-treas urer of the club. All officers were elected by acclamation. Four new directors were also named during the election, and frill serve for a period of two years. They are: Charles W. Aim strong, Jr., Harry H. Hensel, Rev. Ralph Ritchie and Hubert M. Wil lis. Other members of the board of directors whose terms do not expire until the close of 1949, are: T. C. McKnight, R. W. Harris, E. S. Spainhour, and C. J. Hyslup. The new officers and directors will be formally installed in office ot a special ladies’ night meeting to be held at the YMCA the first Thursday evening in January. Mr. Leary is now serving as vice-president of the club. yadkinfMly TO BE HONORED “Master Farm Family” Pro gram To Be Held For Mr. And Mrs. A. A. Doub FRIDAY AT 2:00 O’CLOCK Yadkin County’s “Master Farm Family” will be honored this week by a program to be held at their home Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock, sponsored by the North Carolina Extension Service. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Doub and family, of near East Bend, had the honor conferred upon them in a recent contest held by the Pro gressive Farmer, southern mag azine. D. D. Williamson, County Agent, will open the program at the Doub home. Invocation will be said by Rev. W. C. Eastridge, East Bend minister. Mrs. Wade Cornelius will be in charge of group singing. W. C. LaRue, Associatiate Editor of the Progressive Farmer, will be in charge of explaining the Master Farm Family program. The fol lowing persons will be present, representing various groups in which the Doub family partici pated : Frank Wooten, church activi ties; Miss Josephine Phillips, Home Demonstration; E. R. Crat er, Farm Bureau; Henry Speas, Grange; O. G. Griffin, Commun ity and school; Miss Irene Brown, Home Agent. The group will make a tour of the farm and home following the special program, after which re freshments will be served. The public is invited to attend the pro gram. Pleasant Hill Plans Hallowe’en Carnival A Halloween carnival will be held at the Pleasant Hill school Friday evening at 7 p.m. under the auspices of the Parent-Teach er Association. Prior to the carnival, chicken stew will be served in the school lunch room beginning at 4:30 p.m. Proceeds from the carnival and the chicken stew will be used to purchase equipment for the lunch room and school. During the carnival a Halloween king and queen will be named and crowned. For entertainment, cake walks, games and contests have been planned. Th&public is cordially invited to attend. Record Vote Is Predicted As Nation Prepares To Go To The Polls Next Tuesday CHURCHES PLAN YOUTH COUNCIL Members of Seven Churches j To Discuss Inter-Denom inational Group MEET TUESDAY NIGHT Representatives of seven church es of Elkin and Jonesville were in vited to the Elkin Presbyterian Church, Tuesday evening to dis cuss the possibilities of forming an inter-denominational youth council. Those present represented the First Baptist Church of Jonesville, First Baptist Church of Elkin, Jonesville Methodist Church, First Methodist Church of Elkin, Elkin Pilgrim Church and Elkin Pres byterian Church. The Jonesville Holiness Church was invited, but not represented. Attending were the pastors of the above churches, the presidents of the youth groups of these churches and the adult advisor of each of the groups. After a buffet supper, Gwyn Dickson, president of the Presby terian Youth Fellowship, led a discussion by those present, con cerning the purpose and work of an inter-church youth council. After a fruitful discusion the fol lowing were set up as aims of such a council: (1) An emphasis on spiritual values for all of the Christian young people of the community, (2) a fellowship be- I tween young people of different denominations, and (3) united action by all of the young people along Christian lines. It was decided that each church should consider their joining such a council, and a meeting of this same group was scheduled for | Thursday, November 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Jonesville Methodist Church. At this time, the repre sentatives are to report upon the decision of their several youth groups. The meeting will draft a short constitution for the youth council, if the way be clear. At the November meeting the question of including a larger group of churches will be discuss ed, and it is hoped that many more than this organizational group will join in the council. All of those attending the meet ing Tuesday spoke in favor of the formation of such a group in the community. Elkin Teachers Go To NCEA Conference Teachers of the Elkin city schools last Friday attended a meeting of the Northwest district NCEA at High Point. School class es here were suspended for a half day. A. C. Dawson, Jr., NCEA presi dent, addressed the conference. He told the group that “every effort had been used to scuttle the work of the state education com mission from the point of appoint ment of commission members to forcing the governor to release the commission’s final report.” He urged “every advocate of good schools” to ask the governor to have printed in full the 500-page report which he claimed was not provided in full to the press. Dawson charged further that certain interests in the state are conducting campaigns to cast misunderstandings on the provis ions of the commission report. “These interests are not telling the full truth as to the $150,000,000 suggested building program,” he declared. Four of 13 Surry Draftees Accepted Four of the 13 Surry county youths who were examined for pre-induction last week will be called into service, for the present time, Mrs. A. D. Folger, secretary of board 87, announced yester day. The others may be subject to call later, she said. Of the 13 men who had prev iously been reported delinquent in returning questionnaires, only two remain. They are Claude Guy Atkinson and Kyle Lewis Belton, both of whom are listed from Mount Airy. Investigation as to their whereabouts is underway. TUESDAY WILL TELL THE STORY — Next Tuesday the voters of the nation will go to the polls to decide who will be president of the United States for the next four years. The odds are that one of the two men pictured above, Thomas E. Dewey, left. Republican, and Harry S. Truman, right, Democrat, will get the nod, despite the presence in the field of Henry A. Wallace, Progressive, and Gov. Strom Thurmond, States’ Rights candidate. Mounce, Et Al, Crash Social Affair Here “Now playing cards isn’t so bad,” Patrolman Dwight Caudle said as Deputy Sheriff Hcber Mounce related his story, “but when one player has a ‘P-38’ under his leg, I don’t want to be holding the cards.” “And especially if there’s a j couple of pints of moonshine in the party,” another chimed in. But that’s just the kind of social gambling party that Sheriff Mounce, Chief Corbett Wall and Policeman Carl Wood ran into while browsing around the back of Hensel Lumber Company Saturday afternoon. “No, they didn’t run,” Mounce said, “They remained seated while we frisked them of the equipment—namely, the pistol, a pack of cards and two pints of white liquor.” The three men involved were brought in, tried and fin ed at the city hall. One is to return for trial for carrying a concealed weapon. “Loaded dice and loaded pis tol?” Mounce was asked. “No —loaded bottles and unloaded pistol,” he replied. SURRYSCHOOLS GET ADDITIONS Comer Announces Construc tion of Seven Agricul tural Buildings EXPAND THREE SCHOOLS Additions to three Surry county schools, White Plains, Plat Rock and Copeland, are now nearing completion. Total cost of con structing is $258,170. The addition at White Plains will enable care for 150 more pupils. This structure, which is being built of brick, will cost $66, 060. Construction was begun on the addition at Flat Rock school in May, at about the same time as the White Plains building. The brick structure is being built at a cost of $88,460 and will,accomo date approximately 300 pupils. A $103,650 addition is under construction at Copeland school. Seven agricultural buildings in the county have been constructed, according to John Comer, super intendent of Surry county schools. The structures are located at Copeland, White Plains, Franklin, Pilot Mountain, Flat Rock, Beu lah and Mountain Park. The buildings, 81 by 34 feet, cost $18,000 each and are design ed to fit the needs of modern ag riculture. Oliver Car Wrecked, Burned At Arlington An automobile, driven by a per son whom officers identified as a “Mr. Oliver,” was turned over and burned on Highway 21, near Arlington, early, Monday morning. The occupant was taken to the Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital where he was treated for minor injuries and released. World supply of rice is likely to continue short in 1949. VETS HOUSING TO BE PROBED Hickory Man To Assist In Violations Hunt; Local Advisor Named VFW AIDS IN PROJECT W. H. VanderLinden, Jr., of Hickory, has been appointed a member of the Veterans’ Advisory committee to the regional hous ing expediter to assist in the nation-wide investigation into vi olations of the Veterans’ Emer gency Housing program. The announcement came from Kenneth A. Campbell, Southeast ern Regional Housing expediter, in Atlanta. Mr. VanderLinden is department commander, V. F. W., at HiQkory. Commander VanderLinden and other members of the committee will assist the program by advis ing the regional expediter of sug gestions or criticisms originating from veterans organizations in this state, reporting areas or in dividual cases where known flag rent violations call for immediate investigation. He will also aid and encourage dissemination of infor mation on the investigation through the post housing chair man and the V. F. W. leader. Post Commander Russell Burcham, of the William J. Jones Post 7794, has appointed J. Livingston Will iams, local attorney and a member of the local post to advise veterans on filing complaints. Every veteran who, prior to January 1, 1948, purchased a home built under VEHP and has reason to believe he was charged more than the legal price or that speci fications were violated or inferior materials or equipment substitut ed, is urged to file a complaint with the nearest OHE rent office. In general, all houses built in 1946 after January 15, fall within the category of priority built houses. Also included are houses started or completed in 1947 which were built under priority authorization or assistance. IS GIVEN FINE FOR FAST RIDE -*— Wilkes County Man Takes j Winston-Salem Police And Patrolmen On Chase SENTENCE IS SUSPENDED Clarence Southern of Wilkes; County, driver of a liquor car which was the object of a two county chase last week, was sen tenced Tuesday to two years for reckless driving and fined $100 and costs and given an additional 24-month sentence suspended five years for violating the prohibition law. His car, specially equipped for fast getaways, was confiscated. Southern was tried before Mu nicipal Court Judge Leroy Sams in Winston-Salem; who declared that the man’s conduct had been a menace. Southern appealed immediate ly to Superior Court and his bond was fixed at $5,000. Judge Sams, in response to an appeal from Southern’s attorneys, said that if Southern wanted to pay approxi (Continued on page eight) * Presidential Candidates Numerous Voters of the town of Elkin, Surry county and all the nation will go Tuesday to select a chief executive of the United States for the next four years. The election is predicted to bring to the polls more people than any previous national election. Lesser offices will be determined along with some state constitutional amend ments. The people’s choice lies between two major parties, two lesser parties and among numerous minor ones. On the Democratic presidential ticket will be the names of Harry S. Truman, president, and Alben W. Barkley, candidate for vice president. For the Republicans, Thomas E. Dewey will be seeking the presidency with his running mate, Earl Warren. On the Pro gressive party ticket will be the names of challengers Henry A. Wallace and Glen H. Taylor. For the States’ Rights Democrats, the names of J. Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright will appear. Of most interest in state elect ion for North Carolina is the race for senator and governor. J. Mel ville Broughton, Democrat, John A. Wilkinson, Republican, and William T. Brown, Progressive, will be entered on the ballot for the senatorial race. W. Kerr Scott, Democrat, George M. Pritchard, Republican, and Mary Price, Pro gressive, will appear on the ballot in the gubernatorial race. For Congress in the Fifth dis trict, Thurmond Chatham, the Democratic nominee, will be op posed by John Tucker Day, Re publican, and Harvey A. Cox, Jr., Progressive. In the Eighth Con gressional district, C. B. Deane, Democrat, will run against LaFay ette Williams, Republican. In Surry county, W. F. Mar shall, Democrat, will oppose Re publican, J. Ellis Coon, for sen ator from the 23rd senatorial district. George K. Snow, Demo crat, will run against S. O. Maguire, Republican. Other officers include register of deeds, in which Bertha M. Shinault, Democrat, will be oppos ed by E. S. Redman, Republican. Democrat Curtis Harbour will be unopposed for surveyor. In the county commissioners’ race, Democrats will vote for M. C. Fowler, S. M. Smith and M. Q. Snow. Republican nominees are Henry C. Hampton, John A. Sim mons and J. B. Mathis. Constitutional amendments to be voted on are (1) whether or not to fix salaries of members of the general assembly at $1,200 and presiding officers at $1,500, and fixing salaries of extra sessions at $250 and $300 respectively. (2) (Continued On Page Eight) Couple Weds Here In Local Hardware Store Hinshaw Hardware Com pany, of this city, doesn’t keep weddings in stock as a regular item, but if anyone wants to get married among the plow points and barbed wire, they’ll cheerfully arise to the occasion, even supplying a preacher. A couple dropped in the store the other day with matri mony in mind, and asked if anyone knew where they could find a preacher? It seems as how the store not only knew where a preacher could be found, but also offered the privacy of the stock room for the ceremony. And no sooner said than done, the store pro duced Rev. O. C. Rushing, pas tor of the Nazarene Church here, who officiated at a cere mony held against a backdrop of plow points, barbed wire, stove pipe, nails and hoe handles. But the knot was none the less binding, and shortly thereafter the happy couple left the store to embark upon a honeymoon. Those witnessing the marri age were customers who hap pened to be present.
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