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ELKIN The Beet Little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations The Elkin Tribune ELKIN Gateway to Roaring Gap and the Blue Ridge THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVI No. 50 ELKIN, N. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1948 PUBLISHED WEEKLY $2.00 PER YEAR 22 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS r FIVE ARRESTED NEAR LOWGAP ON DEER COUNT Two Parties Apprehended Near Ramey Creek HEARING SET TUESDAY Each Being Held Under $500 Bond For Using Artificial Hunting Aids *1 CONFISCATE EQUIPMENT 1 M Two parties of hunters were apprended Monday by State game wardens and each are being held under $500 bond for “attempting to take deer with the aid of arti ficial light, fire arms and an auto mobile.” Equipment also was con fiscated and is being held under bond. A hearing will be held at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday by W. D. Inman, justice of the peace, at Mount Airy. The first party was caught about 8 p.m., Monday, on Ramey Creek in the Lowgap section. Those apprehended were John M. Shores, of Thurmond, Forest B. Presnell, Mountain Park, and Tommy Calloway, of Mountain Park. The automobile they were using was released under $1400 bond. A high-powered rifle and lights were confiscated also. The second party consisted of Edward Mayes and George W. Hayes, both of Route 3, Mount Airy. A shot gun and light were confiscated and a 1949 Dodge ton and half truck is being held under a $4000 bond. Game Wardens William A. White, Frank W. Mackie and George A. Barr made the arrests. Mr. White said yesterday that there is no open season in this county whatsoever. “Strict watch is being kept on deer at all times,” he said. EAST BEND BOY DIES IN WRECK Two Brothers Injured As Car Crashes Into Tree Sat urday Morning KITES H E LI) MONDAY Edgar Dalton Davis, 13, was killed about nine o’clock last Sat urday morning near the home of Mrs. Ella Doub, close by Balti more Methodist church when the car his brother was driving blew a tire and crashed into a tree. He was a son of E. D. <Gyenie> Davis well known farmer who lives just west of East Bend. Alvin Davis, driver of the car only required first aid, but Jackie Davis, 10, a passenger, received head injuries and was carried to Baptist hospital by ambulance and was reported in serious con dition. Young Edgar Dalton Davis was born near East Bend and was a i student at East Bend High school. He was a member of Forbush Friends church, where the funeral was held Monday afternoon, with Rev. C. H. Hutchens and Rev. E. C. Norman in charge. Burial was in the church cemetery. * Survivors include the parents, E. D. and Etta Mathews Davis; three brothers, Alvin, Jackie and Arzie Davis, all of the home, two sisters, June and Peggy Davis, of the home; two grandmothers, Mrs. Dora Mathews and Mrs. Mary Mathews, both of East Bend, Route 1. Thurmond Soldier’s Body To Arrive Here The body of T/4 Raymond Thompcon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Thompson of Thurmond, who was killed in action, will arrive at Hayes & Speas Funeral Home here Friday. Funeral ar rangements are incomplete. A « Toy Collecting Drive Begun By Chatham Clubs Members of the Lucy Hanes Chatham club this week began a project to collect discarded toys to be distributed among needy children at Christmas. Miss Lois McKnight, club member, said that persons wishing to contribute may do so by calling Mrs. James Young, 116-J, president of club number 1, Mrs. Byrd Sprinkle, 354, president of club number 1, or Miss McKnight at 400. She explained that the club wanted only toys that had been discarded and not worn out ar ticles, because members have no way of repairing them. Wake-Clemson Game Sponsor Is Named by Mayor (PHOTO BY REDMONI MISS PEGGY LINEBERRY Mayor Garland C. Johnson has named Miss Peggy Lineberry as sponsor to represent Elkin at the Wake-Forest C 1 e m s o n football game to be played in Bowman Gray Stadium, in Winston-Salem. Saturday, upon invitation from Winston-Salem's mayor, George D. Lentz. Miss Lineberry, escorted by Graham Johnson of this city, will ride in a parade at 11 a.m. Satur day, and will be introduced at the game half. Saturday is being observed in Winston-Salem as “Wake Forest Day.” The parade at 11 a.m., in addition to being made up of sponsors and their escorts from neighboring towns, will feature a number of high school and col lege bands, an Army unit from Fort Bragg, the Clemson R.O.T.C. drill team, and veteran’s organ izations. A buffet luncheon will be held at noon at the Y.M.C.A. in Win- I ston-Salem for alumni and their j guests. Luncheon reservations may j be made by writing the Y.M.C.A. ELKIN STUDENT HURTIN WRECK Max Sparks, Appalachian Wrestling Team Member Has Broken Vertebra LENOIR YOUTH INJURED Max Sparks of this city, a stud ent at Appalachian State Teach ers College, sustained a broken vertebra in a wreck Saturday morning and is a patient at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. Sparks and Jimmie Lackey of Lenoir, both Appalachian State College students and members of the wrestling team, received in juries when the car in which they were riding skidded and overturn ed on a slick road near Vilas. Lackey was taken to a Charlotte hospital and Sparks to Winston Salem and later moved to the local hospital. Lackey suffered a skull injury. Four other college students riding in the car had cuts and bruises but were not seriously in jured. They were John Farthing of Bobne, Bill Smith of Boone, Blackie Williams, an Appalachian freshman, and Hubert Dancy of North Wilkesboro. The car was owned by Lackey. Car Inspection Lane Will Return Tuesday The State Highway Depart ment’s motor vehicle inspection lane will be in operation here next Tuesday through Saturday, local officers announced this week. The final visit of the year will be December 16 through 21. GARDEN CLUB WILL SPONSOR CLEANUP WEE Elkin Residents Urged To Help In Campaign TOWN COUNCIL TO HELP Garbage Trucks To Be Avail able To Those Calling Town Clerk WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY Clean-up week will be observed next Week under the sponsorship of the Yadkin Valley Garden Club. Mayor Garland Johnson and the Elkin town council announced this week that the town is in whole-hearted cooperation with the program and will help to make it a success. Club officials said that extra emphasis should be placed in cleaning the yards of leaves, clear ing alleys and roads of rubbish and removing any possible fire hazard or objects which detract from the beauty of the town. Garbage trucks will be available to pick up refuse during the week. Access to garbage pick up may be had by calling the town clerk, Dixie Graham, who will in turn schedule a trip to any particular section of the community. LEAF PRICES SEASON’S LOW Eighth Week of Sales On Old Belt Recorded As Light In Volume DROP IN SMOKING LEAF The lowest average prices of the ! season for the majority of grades, plus lower quality and continued light volume, highlighted the eighth week of sales on the Old Belt flue-cured tobacco markets. The United States, North Caro lina, and Virginia Departments of Agriculture, report the declines ranged from 50c to $9.00 per hun dred below last week. Most de creases, however, were from $1.00 to $4.00. The greatest losses were for smoking leaf, medium and low lugs, and primings. Quality of offerings followed the price trend and was considerably lower. There were more common and low leaf nondescript and less good and fine qualities. The per centage of wet and damaged tobacco was also greater. Volume of sales was extremely light, especially during the middle of the week. Only 15,658,545 pounds were marketed for a sea son low average of $45.57 per hun dred. This average was $3.20 be low last week and $8.43 per (Continued on page eight) ,c C. C. Martin Gets J Railroad Promotion > C. C. Martin, formerly of this * city, who has served as Norfolk ( Southern agent in Charlotte since 1941, will become the railway com- ( pany’s division freight agent) November 1. Martin was born in Wilkes ' county in 1893, Mr. Martin enter ed railroad work in 1911 with the Southern railway on its Winston Salem division as telegraph oper- k ator, and became connected with the Norfolk Southern in Decern- ] ber, 1913, shortly after that com pany built its line into Charlotte. He has served in various positions, including rate clerk, cashier, chief clerk and assistant agent, and was appointed agent on July 1, 1941. Martin is a member of the board of deacons of The First Baptist Church in Charlotte and active in civic affairs. Mrs. Martin is the former Miss Ruby Cockerham of this city. IN CONCERT HERE — Miss Carolyn Long and her accompanist, Kenneth Zimmerii, above, were apparently more interested in re freshments than in concert work last Friday afternoon when this photograph was made in the main office of the Chatham Manufac turing Company here, just prior to a look-see into the mysteries of blanket manufacture. Later, in the evening, Miss long proved to an enthusiastic audience which attended her concert at the State theatre, that she not only can look pretty, but sing beautifully. * —Photo by C. C. Poindexter. Traveler Is To Be Guest Speaker Here JOHN W. CLAY John Wesley Clay, of Winston 5alem, author, traveler, lecturer md explorer, will be the guest peaker at this evening’s Armis ice Day meeting of the Elkin Ki vanis Club at the YMCA at 6:30 >. m. Immediately following his talk o Kiwanians, Mr. Clay will ad Iress a meeting of the Elkin and Fonesville Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y :lubs on his travels. At last week’s meeting of the Ciwanis club, Miss Helen Guth irie, director of religious educa ion in the Jonesville and Elkin ligh schools, made an interesting alk concerning her work with the ;tudents of the two schools. Surry Youths To Go For Pre-Induction The Surry County Draft Board, number 87, will send 23 youths for pre-induction examinations rhursday, November 18, Mrs. A. D. Folger, secretary of the board, announced this week. The board met November 4. at which time classifications were made. It Was The Chicago Tribune With The Red Face, Not This Newspaper Up in Chicago, a paper called the Tribune, a staunch Republi can supporter, got on the ball be fore Mr. Dewey’s chickens were hatched (they never were) and burst forth on the Loop with a banner “Dewey Defeats Truman.” But down in Elkin, North Caro lina, another Tribune (no rela tion, mind you), a rather conser vative newspaper when it comes to counting a brood which is still wrapped in egg shells, waited until the votes were counted before , crowing. Fact is, they waited un til a complete county return came in before going to press. But on the busy streets of Elkin and throughout the community, busy minds got to working and hatched up and incubated a tale that the Tribune, of the Elkin Tribune family, had been caught with their chickens down, and had . . . .yes, you guessed it, run a banner, “Dewey Defeats Truman.” “That’s gratitude for you,” a Tribune man would tell you. The entire Tribune staff worked over time two consecutive nights so that readers would get complete returns of the county and state, and a reasonable result of the na tional outcome. They succeeded, even though a little late, in getting out such an edition. And the first and only front page which the Tribune ran off, led with bold words, “Truman Victory is Conceded By Dewey.” Now the bigger but less accur ate Tribune might have got its wires crossed when it made its mistake, and caused people tb think we made the error, but the Elkin version of the Tribune doesn’t appreciate such unkind rumors. Our eggs are not cold storage. i ELKIN HEARS CAROLYN LONG Surry - Yadkin Community Concert Association Pleas ed With Singer CONCERT HELD FRIDAY Members of the Surry Yadkin Community Concert Association were well pleased with the per formance of Miss Carolyn Long, lyric soprano, Friday evening at the State Theatre. The gracious young singer op ened her program with "Nymphs and Shepherds” (Purcell), "The Heavy Hours” (Endicott), “Hist, Hist! My Mother Calls" (Arnold) and "Alleluia” < O’Connor -Morris), the latter being a seventh century Easter hymn. Miss Long used great variety in her program and included in the second portion of the program were “O Thou Billowy Harvest Field” (Rachmaninoff), “The Sta tue at Czarskoe-Selo (Cui), "The Clock” (Sachnowsky) and “The Sleigh” (Kountz). With unusual expressiveness (Continued on page eight) WILKES MAN IS FATALLY HURT Louis P. Shealy, of N. Wilkes boro, Dies Following Roar ing River Wreck ELKIN TRUCK INVOLVED Louis P. Shealy, 29, manager of Cress store, North Wilkesboro, died Sunday night of injuries re ceived in an automobile accident on Highway 268, near Roaring River. The crash occurred about 7:30 p.m. State Highway Patrolmen Sid ney Carter and Clyde Shook said the driver of the truck, William C. Jacobs, of Elkin, reported that Mr. Shealy’s car was apparently out of control and that the truck had almost stopped on the right side of the road when it was struck by the car. Mr. Sealy was thrown through a door glass and down an em bankment. It was approximately 20 minutes before he was found at the foot of the dropoff by T. J. McNeill, a nearby resident. Be cause of the darkness and the dis tance that Mr. Sealy was thrown from the wreckage, it was diffi cult to find him, Mr. McNeill said. Mr. Jacobs and his passengers, Mr. and Mrs. William Richard Byrd, their daughter, Rebecca, 6, and Miss Rosemary Wishnieff, all of Elkin, escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Mr. Sealy, a native of Spartan burg, S. S., came to North Wilkes boro from Darlington, S. C. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning from the Reins Sturdivant Chapel. The body was taken to Spartanburg for burial. YADKIN PLANS SPECIAL VOTE FOR HOSPITAL Registration Is Underway For Bond Election 3 SATURDAYS REMAIN Voters Must Decide Whether To Furnish Funds For Hospital In County LIST POLLING PLACES Registration began last Satur day in all Yadkin County pre cincts for all qualified voters in readiness for the special election to be held next month on the question o{ whether a bond issue shall be passed to furnish funds j for a hospital in the county. Three more Saturdays remain j for voters to register in their re spective precincts in order to cast their vote on December 7 on the bond issue. After Saturday, Nov ember 18, the registration books will be closed. It is a new regis tration, and voters will not be al lowed to vote unless they have registered sometime this month. The books for registering will remain open in each precinct from 9 a. m. until 6 p. m. at the polling places, and voters may contact registrars on other days than Saturday at their homes. The polling places and names of election officers are as follows: Boonville — School — G. H. Hudler, registrar; E. F. Gough, Hobert Moxley, judges. North Knobs — City Hall — J. C. Gilliam, registrar; B. E. Fer guson, R. C. Minish, judges. South Knobs — Spann’s Store — Mrs. Shelby B. Calloway, regis trar; Henry C. Shore, Odell Groce, judges. N. Buck Shoals — School — Stantford Cass, registrar; Walter Johnson, B. C. Shore, judges. S. Buck Shoals — Old School — j H. A, Jurney, registrar; Jack I Allred, James M. Parks, judges. Deep Creek — Old School — D. B. Steelman, registrar; Ralph (Continued On Page Eight) LOCAL VETERAN PICKED BY VFW Alex Chatham, Jr., Appointed District Eleven Deputy Inspector PLAN DISTRICT CHANGE Alex Chatham, Jr., of Elkin, has been appointed District 11 deputy inspector, Veterans of Foreign Wars, by order of W. H. VanderLinden, Jr., North Carolina department commander. His duties will be to inspect books and records of all posts in District 11. He is instructed to make reports to the department inspector. District 11 includes Surry, Yad kin, Stokes, Forsyth and Davie counties, and the posts of Pilot Mountain, Mount Airy, Elkin, Yadkinville, Francisco, Pinnacle, Danbury, Winston-Salem, Ker nersville and Mocksville. Commander VanderLinden also appointed Russell Burcham, com mander of the local post, as an official representative for organ izing the Eleventh District. Re section is being made of the VFW districts in North Carolina due to the expansion of the organiza tion’s membership, Mr. Burcham said. Mr. Burcham will go to Wins ton-Salem this week-end witli Carl Hinson, senior vice - com mander of the local post, John Foster, junior vice-commander, Clyde Cothren and Woodrow Windsor, among others. Each post is allotted one rep resentative for each 15 members of the club strength. Surry Is To Have Part In Giving Food Scout District Elects Hendren Aleu) Chairman LENVILLE HENDREN Linville Hendren, of Elkin, was elected district chairman of the Elkin-Yadkin district, Old Hickory council of the Boy Scouts of America, at a district meeting Tuesday night at the Gilvin Roth YMCA. Eighty-five members of the dis trict and guests attended the din ner party at which Dr. Mark Depp, pastor of the Centenary Method ist Church, Winston-Salem, de livered the feature address. Dr. James Harrell was elected vice-chairman of the district, Paul Price and the Rev. Ralph Ritchie were nominated commis sioner and board member at large, respectively, by the convention. These nominations must be rati fied at an Old Hickory council meeting to be held in Winston Salem in December. The former two officers were elected by the meeting and ratification is not necessary. Dr. Depp, in the address, asked for the increased support and in terest on the part of all citizens of the Elkin-Yadkin district. His talk was based on the topic, “Character Building.” The meeting began at 7 p. m„ and was opened with the singing of “America.” The Rev. Marvin Boggs delivered the invocation. R. W. Harris introduced out-of town guests. The Rev. R. G. Tuttle introduced Dr. Depp. SIXAREHURT IN COLLISION Automobiles Crash Three Miles East of Boonville On Highway 67 INJURIES ARE SEVERE Severe injuries were sustained by a group of motorist in two au tomobiles Saturday night at Lightning Cross, three miles east of Boonville on highway 67. Benbow Allen, 21, of Boonville, Richmond Hill community, was driving east on the highway in a 1941 Oldsmobile sedan when he collided with a 1936 model Ford automobile driven by A. D. Rom inger, of Clemmons. The acci dent happened in front of Valley View Service Station. Traveling with Allen were Eu (Continued on page eight) Stokes Mule Wants To Lead Inaugural Parade Walnut Cove.—A big, black Stokes County mule named Moby Dick may lead President Truman’s inaugural parade. Bob Duncan, editor of the Stokes Record, and Leonard Van Noppen, who was elected to the State Legislature, went to Washington this week to see what they could do about arranging this bit of symbol ism for the day the Demo cratic President takes over for his four-year term. They reported yesterday that the people in charge wer6 interested—just write a letter to J. Howard McGrath, Na tional Democratic Chairman, they said, and it might be arranged. The mule has now been taken over by Willis Vernon, Walnut Cove restaurant oper ator, who was perhaps the only man in North Carolina to predict a Truman victory. At the Stokes County rally be fore the election—for which he made the brunswick stew — Mr. Vernon told anybody interested (as who wasn’t?) (Continued On Page Eight) County-Wide Meet Will Be Held Monday A county-wide meeting will be held Monday, Nov. 15, at the courthouse in Dobson, for the pur pose of setting up a county or ganization to collect farin foods which will be loaded on a boxcar and become a part of the North Carolina Friendship Train. The train is to leave Salisbury the first week in December, picking up freight cars loaded with farm foods. The Surry County meeting will choose a county chairman and other officers to set up the or ganization necessary for the col lection, decide dates for canvass ing and collection, and the types of food to be sought in the county. Among those invited are leading farmers, rural and urban minis ters, leaders of the Grange and Farm Bureau, representatives from civic organizations, the ra dio and press, school principals, the county school superintendent, agricultural teachers, home dem onstration club leaders, and coun (Continued On Page Eight) JAYCEES HEAR MISS DOBSON Four New Members Taken Into Organization As Bowl Plans Underway SHORE NAMED DIRECTOR Miss Anna Catherine Dobson, Elkin High School senior, spoke on the “History of the Constitution” at Monday’s meeting of the Elkin Junior Chamber of Commerce, held at the Gilvin Roth YMCA. The oration was the same one which Miss Dobson delivered in winning first place in the Ameri can Legion “Americanism” con test sponsored earlier this year. She also won last year’s Legion oratical event. Monday night’s address was given in connection with the local Jaycee Americanism program. New members accepted into the organization Monday were Harvey Baker, Jr., Albert Hinshaw, Char les Neaves and Gene Aldridge. Guests were Henry Dobson, fath er of Anna Catherine, and Gilbert Burnette. Plans for a Thanksgiving bowl game to be staged here were dis cussed. Tentative plans call for a game Saturday following Thanks giving. At a Directors’ meeting follow ing the regular session, James Shore was named a new director, filling an expired term. Plans also were completed for the an nual Jaycee Bowery Brawl to be held on the night of the 26th. John Mayberry, Herbert Gra ham, and Dr. Vernon Taylor will attend a state convention of Jay cees Saturday night. Mayor Issues Proclamation For Poppy Day A proclamation was issued this week authorizing the El kin Post 7794, Veterans of For eign Wars to sell buddy poppies here Saturday. VFW auxiliary members and Girl Scouts will Canvass the sales. The proclamation stated in part: "... I earnestly urge that each and every one of our citizens take advantage of the opportunity to contribute gen erously to the VFW Buddy Poppy sale, and by so doing, ‘to honor the dead by helping the living.’ ” The document was signed by Mayor Garland Johnson and attested by Dixie Graham, city clerk. This will be the 27th annual campaign conducted through out the nation. It is expected that 19 million Buddy Poppies will be sold — one for each of our living veterans, Comman der Russell Burcham, of the local post said.
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