ELKIN
The Best Little Town In '
North Carolina
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ELKIN
Gateway to Roaring Gap and
the Blue Ridge
THE TRIBUNE
Serves the Tri-Counties of
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
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L. No. XXXVI No. 49
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1948
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18 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
Surry County Democrats Win Sweeping Victory
State Posts
Also Awarded
Straight Lead
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W£r Surry county returned its usual
* large democratic majority for all
county and state candidates in
Tuesday’s election, as North Caro
lina remained in the Democratic
column to chalk up a substantial
lead for President Truman, and
gave a sweeping victory in senate,
congressional and state races.
Elkin township turned out a
large vote to give all Democratic
candidates, from President down
to justices of the peace, a heavy
majority.
Returns from 1,668 of the State’s
1959 precincts gave Truman 412,
310; Dewey, 224,348; Wallace,
3,591, and Thurmond 62,995.
In the Senate race, 1,356 pre
cincts gave Broughton 373,610;
" Wilkerson, 149.751; Brown, 2.387.
In the Fifth District Congres
sional race, Thurmond Chatham,
of Elkin and Winston-Salem, poll
ed a large majority for Congress,
taking a 3-to-l lead over his Re
publican and Progressive oppon
ents John Tucker Day and Harvey
A. Cox, Jr. One hundred and seven
teen of the Fifth District’s 141
precincts gave Mr. Chatham 40,
935 votes to 13,922 for his Repub
lican opponent Day. Progressive
Candidate Cox received 728 votes,
^684 of which were polled in For
™syth county.
In Elkin township, Mr. Chat
ham led the ticket with 1,611 votes
as compared to 237 for Day and
only 2 for Cox.
In the district, Mr. Chatham
carried all of the seven counties.
Elkin township also gave over
whelming majorities to other
Democratic candidates, with
Broughton receiving 1,351 for the
regular term in the U. S. Senate
as compared to 314 for Wilkinson
and only one vote for Progressive
Brown.
W. Kerr Scott ran well in both
Elkin township and in the county.
In Elkin township the vote for
governor was as follows:
Scott, 1,467; Prichard, 314; Price
1.
County candidates in Elkin
township received the following
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Pullet Show, Sale
To He tleld Nov. 10
One hundred and twenty pullets
produced by 4-H club members
will be sold in Mount Airy at the
liVe stock auction market, Novem
[b#r 10 at 1 p.m., Ophus M. Ful
cher, assistant county agent an
nounced today.
The pullets are six-months old
and soon will come into produc
tion.
C. F. Parrish, extension poultry
specialist of North Carolina State
College, will judge the pullets just
prior to the sale.
The project is sponsored by the
Sears-Roebuck foundation. Max
imum prize will be $105, minimum
prize, $50 for those members com
peting.
Mr. Fulcher said that every
one is invited to attend the public
auction at which the pullets will
be sold.
Proceeds from the sale will be
used to start 10 other 4-H boys
and girls in poultry production
next year.
Elkin Churches Meet
^Sunday For Welcome
On Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m
four churches will hold an inter
Ademoninational meeting at th<
* First Baptist Church of Elkin t<
welcome to the community thi
Reverend George Farah, new pas
tor of the Pilgrim Church. Thosi
churches taking part in the wel
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tjfri
coming service are Elkin Meth
odist. First Baptist, Presbyteriai
and Pilgrim.
The Rev. Howard Ford, pasto:
of the First Baptist Church, wil
preside over the service and thi
Rev. Ralph Ritchie, president o
the Elkin-Jonesville Ministeria
ssociation and pastor of thi
esbyterian Church, will intro
duce the Reverend Farah. A1
ministers of the d o w n t o w 1
churches will take part in thi
service.
PULL PRESIDENTIAL UPSET — A victory which had months ago been tagged “Republican” was awarded President Harry S. Truman
and his running-mate from Kentucky, Alben W. Barkley, by the voters of the United States Tuesday. The margin was the narrowest
presidential race lead in 32 years. Experts claim the surprise success was caused by Truman's wildcat tour of the country in which he
rapped the 80th Congress and Governor Thomas E. Dewey viciously in spite of the then apparent impending defeat. The victory was
called by political authorities one of the greatest presidential upsets in history.
YADKIN AND
WILKES GOP
Local Offices of Traditional
Republicans Defeat
Democrats
THIRD PARTIES LIGHT
Thomas E. Dewey swept Yadkin
county 3,621 to 2,080 votes over
hs victor Harry S. Truman in
complete returns Tuesday. Repub
licans swept also the local offices
in Yadkin.
Returns from 17 to 27 precincts
out of Wilkes County’s 30 voting
places gave leads to Republican
candidates in all races reported.
In Yadkin, B. C. Brock ol
Mocksville, unopposed Republican
nominee for the State Senate, was
given a vote of 1,327 in five ol
the county’s 13 precincts report
ing.
F. D. B. Harding, Yadkinvillf
attorney and Republican, wa;
leading his Democratic opponent
Grover Williams, in the race foi
the State House of Represent
atives, having received 1,430 t(
Williams’ 883 in five precincts.
Eight out of 13 precincts gav<
John A. Wilkinson 2,427 votes t(
Democrat J. Melville Broughton’:
1,433 for the Senate. Republicar
Gugernatorial Candidate George
M. Pritchard had polled 2,41<
votes to 1,555 for Democrat W
Kerr Scott. In the Ninth Congres
sional District race, LaFayetti
Williams, Republican, racked uj
3,195 votes to 1,731 for C. B. Deane
Democratic incumbent.
At Wilkes county, 17 precinct
gave Governor Thomas E. Dewe:
4,636 votes to 2,844 for Presiden
Truman, 13 for Henry ■ Wallace
and 227 for Governor J. Stron
Thurmond.
Surry Draft Board
Adds Assistant Clerl
Mrs. Pearl P. Pearson has bdei
; appointed assistant clerk of th
1 Surry County draft board, Mrs
■ A. D. Folger, secretary, said thi
week. Mrs. Pearson will serve un
' til the first of the year.
Board 87 will meet toda:
(Thursday) to select registrant
i who will be sent this month fo
pre-induction, and to classif
' more registrants.
I Dr. R. B. C. Franklin, count
! health physician, has held phys
l ical examinations each Wednes
l day afternoon at the count
s health office in Mount Airy, Mr:
■ Folger said.
I Mrs. Folger also announced tha
i the last of the 13 delinquen
5 ansv/ers to draft questionnaire
has been returned to the board.
TO 81ST CONGRESS — J. Melville Broughton, left, and Thurmond
Chatham will go to Washington to serve in a Democratic dominat
ed 81st Congress. Mr. Broughton won over opponents John A. Wilk
inson, Republican, and William T. Brown, Progressive, for a seat in
the United States Senate. Mr. Chatham was victor in the Fifth
District for the United States House of Representatives. He was'
opposed by John Tucker Day, Republican, and Harvey A. Cox, Jr.,
Progressive.
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Dairy Specialist
To Come To Surry
County Next Week
F. R. Farnham, dairy exten
sion specialist of North Caro
lina State College, has been
assigned to Surry County for
several weeks’ work on the
long-time dairy development
program, Neill M. Smith, coun
ty agent, announced yesterday.
Mr. Farnham will be avail
able to assist individual dairy
men and farmers in developing
their dairy plans, Mr. Smith
said.
Mr. Smith was assisted in
getting Mr. Farnham here by
Thurmond Chatham, Elkin
manufacturer and owner of
Klondike Farm.
The county agent said that
more details concerning the
“20,000 dairy cattle” plan will
be announced later.
Mr. Farnham is expected to
arrive in Dobson early next
week.
Lions Present $100
To Hospital Clinii
The Lions club of Elkin thi
week presented $100 to the eyt
ear, nose and throat clinic of th
Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital
Sometime ago the club voted t
raise $500 for the clinic and thi
is the first payment, club offic
ials said.
DOBSON PUPS
INVADE ELKIN
Elkin Suspicious of Dobson
Democrats’ Doggyman
dering Recently
! SOME CUTE CANINES
Merry Democrats of Elkin, who
attended the final party rallies in
Dobson for the past several weeks,
brought back home a little more
than they went to the county seat
to get.
Now, Dobson is a town which
has been blessed with an abun
dance of dogs — big dogs, little
dogs, middle-sized dogs, high dogs,
low do,rs, white dogs, bla^k dogs,
! Democrat dogs and Republican
dogs.
Now, Dobson, too, as election re
turns will show, is a. Democrat’s
town. Republican dogs aren’t too
much at home.
Elkin Democrats are faintly
suspicious that Dobson Democrats
are trying to get rid of some of
the Republican canines to more or
less keep a majority.
I One can’t very we.l call it ger
rymandering — this business of
3 passing party dogs oif on others
, —but it may be tahbed “doggy
3 mandering” came a,nout in the
. last two shuttles tcj the county
) seat. Democrats upon return to
3 their autos (some of them discov
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FARM BUREAU
BEGINS DRIVE
Five Surry Federation Groups
Are To Meet Tonight
And Friday
QUOTA IS SET AT 2200
A concerted drive begins this
week for additional members for
the Surry Farm Bureau Federa
tion.
Five groups plan to hold meet
ings tonight (Thursday) and to
morrow night. Present member
ship stands at 1802, Neill M.
Smith, county agent, said yester
day. The new quota calls for
2200 members.
Tonight, Lewis Alexander, Elk
in attorney, will be a featured
speaker for the Marsh Township
Farm Bureau Community meeting.
The gathering will get underway
at 7 o'clock. The township mem
bership goal is for 100 members.
Seventy-three members were in
the Marsh bureau last year.
Also on the Marsh program will
be Donald A. Halsey, assistant
county agent.
C. C. White, president, and W.
V. Holder, director, urggd mem
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Jonesville’s First
Health Clinic Opens
A health clinic, the first in
Jonesville’s history, will be set up
in the Town Hall tomorrow (Fri
day).
Dr. Eugene Taylor will hold
periodic clinics for Jonesville res
idents to be announced later. A
nurse is assigned to the work.
FIVE CHOSEN.
FOR AIRPORT
COMMISSION
Action In Compliance With
Phillips’ Judgment
PASS TWO ORDINANCES
Provisions Laid Down For
New Body To Control
Municipal Field
APPROVAL UNANIMOUS
In compliance with a judgment
handed down by Judge F. Donald
Phillips in September, the Elkin
town council Monday night passed
an ordinance creating an airport
commission to administer the af
fairs of the Municiapl airport, and
a second ordinance appointing the
commission’s five members.
Commission members named in
Monday’s abbreviated session were
J. W. L. Benson, Dr. Vernon W.
Taylor, Jr., Clyde Cothren, George
Roy all and H. P. Graham, Sr.
The council meeting was con
tinued until last night (Wednes
day). Both ordinances were
passed unanimously Monday.
The first provided that:
. . . The commission be created
of five members to be referred to
as the airport commission.
. . . The commission be ap
pointed for a term of two years
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]onesi)ille’s
Council
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JAMES RANDLEMAN
James Randleman, Jonesville
attorney, turned in a resignation
to the town council Monday of his
position as Mayor of that town.
The resignation, which will be
come effective November 15, was
tendered because of a change in
address which will take him out
of the city limits. Mr. Randleman
has built a home just outside the
town.
Joe Gilliam, mayor pro tern,
will assume the post as the town’s
chief executive. A new commis
sioner, to replace Mr. Gilliam,
will be chosen by the board of
commissioners soon.
Mr. Randleman will be retained
as town attorney.
Owners Of New Lyric
Lease Reeves And State
Blue Ridge Theatres, Inc., owned and operated by
A. Fuller Sams of Statesville, has leased the Reeves and
State Theatres here, according to an announcement by
Dr. W. B. Reeves, owner of the Reeves and State. The
lease will go into effect Nov. 15.
Blue Ridge Theatres are operators of the New Lyric,
which opened here under the management of Charles
Utley a few months ago. It is understood that Mr. Utley
will be manager of the combined theatres.
Dr. Reeves stated Wednesday that he would devote
his time to the practice of optometry.
G.O.P. Hopes Crash
As President Takes
Election In Upset
In one of the most surprising upsets in the political his
tory of the nation, President Harry S. Truman Tuesday com
pletely upset the dope bucket, and on the strength of incom
plete returns as of late Wednesday afternoon, had defeated
Governor Thomas E. Dewey for President.
Governor Dewey, in a message dispatched to President
Truman Wednesday at 11:16 a. m., conceded Mr. Truman’s
election, and extended his congratulations and best wishes.
The outcome of the national election, which prior to the
vote tally which began when the polls closed Tuesday even
ing, caused consternation among Republican supporters and
NEW GOVERNOR — W. Kerr
Scott, retiring Commissioner of
Agriculture, won a Democratic
victory over his Republican and
Progressive opponents to become
the new Governor of North
Carolina. Mr. Scott is a native
of Alamance County.
BSA DISTRICT
MEETS TUESDAY
Dr. Mark Depp To Speak At
Annual Elkin-Yadkin
Conference
TO HE HELD HERE
All is in readiness for the ninth
annual Elkin - Yadkin district
meeting of Boy Scouts of America
which is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Tuesday evening at the Gilvin
Roth Y. M. C. A. at which time
Dr. Mark Depp of Winston-Salem
will be principal speaker.
Dr. Depp, a lecturer and author,
was born in Western Pennsylvania
and attended Alleghany College
and Buston School of Theology.
He served as chaplain with the
U. S. Army in World War I. Prior
to coming to Centenary Methodist
Church, Winston-Salem in 1945,
Dr. Depp has held pastorates at
Christ Methodist Church, Pitts
burgh, Pa., St. Mark’s Church,
Baltimore, Md., and Calvary
Church, Washington, D. C.
Tickets may be secured from
Ab Martin, Boonville; Fred Hob
son, Yadkinville; J. D. Hemmings,
Mountain Park; Worth Folger,
Sparta; Colin Pardue, Ronda;
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 Company and Abernethy’s in
Elkin. Prices will be $1.25 each.
Scout officials are expected from
Winston - Salem, Mount Airy,
North Wilkesboro and West Jef
ferson.
Services For Elkin
Child Held Yesterday
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Funeral service fo^, Jackie
Wayne Hall, 10-year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Powell H. Hall of
this city, was held at 2 p.m. yes
terday, (Wednesday) at the Vol
unteer Primitive Baptist Church.
Elder Ed Priddy was in charge
and burial was in the church cem
etery.
The youth died Monday in the
local hospital of injuries received
several days before when he was
thrown from a bicycle.
He is survived by his parents;
five brothers, J. R., Wilbur, Rich
ard, Gray and Lonnie Hall, all of
this city; four sisters, Mrs. S. M.
Southern Jr., and Misses Helen,
Shirley and Susan Hall, all of
this city; and a grandfather, John
Hall of Pinnacle.
amazement ana pieasea surprise
to the supporters of Mr. Truman.
National public opinion polls
which had predicted an easy win
for the Republican candidate,
were confounded at the error of
their forecasts.
Not only was President Truman
elected, but incomplete returns
also indicate that the Democrats
won a majority in both houses of
Congress, and voted a sufficient
number of governors into office
to break the 24-24 standing prior
to the election.
In North Carolina the Republi
can party came out on the short
end of the count, which was not
unexpected, with large majorities
given Democratic candidates for
State and National offices.
Henry Wallace, presidential
candidate of the Progressive party,
failed, by their vote, to gather
enough strength from Mr. Tru
man to throw the election to Mr.
Dewey. Governor Thurmond car
ried four States, South Carolina,
Alabama, Louisiana and Missis
sippi, to garner 38 electoral votes.
Mr. Wallace, whose vote, it is
thought, will not be as heavy as
was first thought probable, car
ried no states.
Incomplete returns obtained
Wednesday afternoon showed the
presidential vote at that time to
be as follows:
Popular vote: Truman, 19,860,
759; Dewey, 18,488,038; Wallace
1.828,015; Thurmond, 784,246.
When the above figures were
tabulated, Truman was leading in
28 states with 304 electoral votes,
and Dewey ahead in 16 states
with 115 electoral votes. A total
of 266 votes are necessary to elect.
The race was close from the
start, with Truman forging slight
ly ahead as the counting began,
and retained a rather narrow lead
over Dewey. Truman had a popu
lar vote majority of 1,392,721 prior
to Tribune press time.
Wallace strength in New York
lost that state for Truman by a
narrow margin, but at last ac
counts Truman was leading in
California, the home state of
Governor Earl Warren, Mr.
Dewey’s running mate. Bulwark of
Truman’s strength, as the vote
count neared its end, was in
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Elkin Woman
Bags Deer
With New Car
Frequently various and sun
dry Elkin sportsmen rather up
their gear and trek off into the
wilds of Eastern or Western
North Carolina to hunt deer,
frequently returning home with
the bottom part of their shirt
tails missing, which is the pen
alty for shootiiig at—and miss-.,
ing—a buck, but it remained
for Mrs. Herman Guyer, of this
city, to not only bag a deer, but
to do it within 10 miles of Elk
in.
It happened a little more
than a week ago. Mrs. Guyer,
a registered nurse, was en route
to Wilkesboro where she was
to attend a sick relative. After
nightfall, the trip was going
along uneventfully until she
reached a point between Honda
and Roaring River, when, sud
denly, a deer bounded into the
highway right into the path of
Mrs. Guyer’s car. Too late to
brake or avoid it, the impact
fatally injured the animal.
The new 1948 sedan Mrs.
Guyer was driving didn’t come
out unscathed, either, the front
end being pretty well mashed
up. As for the deer, Mrs. Guy
er doesn’t know for sure but
thinks a passing motorist pick
ed it up, put it in his car, and
headed home. He had venison,
Mrs. Guyer had a repair Mil.
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