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ELKIN The Best 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. 51 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ! ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1948 $2.00 PER YEAR 18 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS 4 PIN LAWYER TO HEAD 11TH DISTRICT VFW Mrs. Russell Burcham Chosen Auxiliary President POPLIN IS ADJUTANT Livingston Williams Elected At Meeting of Newly Formed District MORE OF AREA ELECTED i * Livingston Williams, Elkin at torney, was elected Saturday to command the newly - formed Eleventh District of the North Carolina Department of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars. W. Odel Coleman of Winston Salem, was elected senior vice commander and Vance Hallman of Mount Airy, junior vice-com mander. Immediately after Commander Williams’ election, he appointed R. O. Poplin, of Elkin, principal of Ronda High School, as adju tant. J. D. Francis of Francisco, Americanism officer, J. M. Hayes, Jr., of Winston-Salem, legislative officer, Ben Smajjt, Mount Airy, athletic and recreational head, and Fred Leagans, of Mocksville, quartermaster. Commander Williams returned from the service in 1945 to his p. native Surry County where he is now engaged in the practice of law for the law firm of Allen Henderson in Elkin. He served during the war in the adjuant general’s office in the Persian Gulf command. The district, which embraces five counties with 10 posts, was organized at a meeting at the Frank Perryman Post Home in Winston-Salem. It was organized to replace the fifth district when the state was divided into 20 dis tricts instead of 14, as formerly, "it includes Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie counties. At a concurrent meeting, also in Winston-Salem, the auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars elected Mrs. Russell Burcham president of the 11th district. Mrs. Grady Harris, also of Elkin, was named chaplain, and Mrs. Jim Dobbins, of Elkin, was chosen trustee. PRAYER WEEK IN PROGRESS Week Observed In Conjunc tion With International Prayer Observance SCHOOLS H E A R FORD Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor of the First Baptist Church, opened the Week of Prayer being observ ed this week by the Jonesville and Elkin Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y clubs, by speaking to the assem blies of the respective schools. The j theme of the week is “That They P All, May Be One.” The week is being observed as a week of prayer in conjunction with the international week of prayer sponsored by the Y.M.C.A. organization of the world. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings the Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y members will be respon sible for the devotionals in each of the homerooms of the Elkin High School. In Jonesville at 8:15 each of these mornings, a worship service will be held in the school auditorium with the Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y members participating. Rev. George Farah, pastor of the Elkin Pilgrim church, will close the week of prayer by ad1 dressing the student bodies of El kin and Jonesville High School, respectively, on Friday morning. Cage Game Instead v. Of Skating Friday ■ i - Skating will not be held at the Gilvin Roth YMCA Friday night * due to a conflict in recreational ^ schedules. The Chatham Blank eteers will play the Peerless Wool en Mills team at that time. Stores, Postoffice And Bank To Close Thanksgiving Day All Elkin merchants will close their businesses for Thanks giving Day, Thursday, Nov. 25, George W. Iscnhour, president of the Elkin Merchants Assoc iation, said yesterday. The bank and postoffice will also be closed. H * (PHOTO BY REDMON) COMMANDER — Livingston Williams, attorney in the firm of Allen-Henderson, was last week elected commander of the newly - formed 11th District VFW, at a meeting in Winston Salem. M$. Williams served in the Persian Gulf command dur ing the war. * EKIN MAN HAS FREAK MISHAP J. I. Wagoner Badly Hurt In South Carolina Acci dent Last Week BOTH LEGS ARE BROKEN J. I. Wagoner, 41, of this city, was injured in a freak automobile accident early Thursday morning in Myrtle Beach. S. C., where he was visiting his sister, Mrs. Jack Smith. Wagoner is in a Conway, S. C., hospital in serious condition, with both legs broken, with a com pound fracture of one leg. Ampu tation of one foot which was bad ly mangled and torn may be nec essary. He also received head in juries and possible internal in juries. He has been in Myrtle Beach recuperating from a recent heart ailment. According to a report received here, Wagoner and Guy Myers, also of this city, were returning from uptown Myrtle Beach when they saw a Chrysler car parked horizontally across the street. Thinking that someone was stall ed, they went up to the car and, finding no ofte in the vehicle, decided to push it to the curb in order to avoid a possible collison with passing cars. The two men hailed a passing truck driver to help them in moving the car out of the street. Wagoner climbed into the Chrysler to try to release the brakes so as to facilitate moving of the automobile. After the car started moving another car came along and seeing the truck and car, put on brakes, skidded for some distance, crashing into the Chrysler, the two cars coming to gether broadside. Wagoner seeing the other car heading toward the Chrysler, tried to get out of the car, but was un able to do so. As a result of the impact, he was apparently knock ed out onto the running board, or pinned between -the car and the door, or hurled against the col liding vehicle. Wagoner, still conscious follow ing the accident, said in Conway that one of the vehicles had pass ed over his body after the collis ion. Thieves Enter Into Brown Machine Firm Thieves entered into Brown Machine Company, Jonesville, sometime Sunday night, but were unable to break into the office safe. They did, however, succeed in prying open a drink vending ma chine, taking away the change. The only clue left was a finger print trace which Yadkin county officers took samples to be used in the investigation. Ted Brown, manager of the firm, said that the intruders en tered the building through a side window. Traveler Speaker At Kiwanis Meet John W. Clay, columnist, lec turer and traveler, of Winston Salem, was guest speaker at last week’s meeting of the Elkin Ki wanis Club, and made an inter esting talk concerning his experi ences in Brazil as he&d of a church publishing firm engaged in translating and printing reli gious literature. Sunday the club will attend in a body the services at the First Presbyterian Church, of which the pastor is Kiwanian Ralph Ritchie. The 1948 cotton crop will be the largest in 11 years. SMITH ELECTED HEAD FOR CROP IN SURRY AREA John W. Comer Elected Sec retary At County Meeting ELKIN CHAIRMEN NAMED Plans Completed For Chris tian Rural Overseas Pro gram For Surry MRS. SCOTT TREASURER Neill M. Smith, Surry County farm agent, was named chairman of CROP, Christian Rural Over seas Program, for the county at a meeting in Dobson Monday night. John W. Comer, superintendent of the county schools, was elected secretary, and Mrs. Clifford Scott, of Dobson, was chosen treasurer. All townships of the county with the exception of Pilot was represented at the meeting and chairman and sectional workers in the drive were named. For the Elkin area, which in cludes Elkin, Bryan and Marsh townships, Mayor Garland John son, George E. Isenhour, president of the Merchant’s Association, and the Rev. Ralph Ritchie, president of the Ministerial Association, were named co-chairmen of the campaign. The Rev. Wilson Nesbitt, Route 2, Dobson, will head the drive for the Rockford, Siloam and Shoals townships. The Rev. Roy Carter will lead (Continued On Page Six) TOBACCO STILL ON PRICE DROP Old Belt Also Has Slightly Lower Quality, But Vol ume Is Heavier NEAR SUPPORT PRICE For the sixth consecutive week average prices for the majority of Old Belt flue cured tobacco has declined, report the United States, North Carolina, and Vir ginia Departments of Agriculture. Quality was also slightly lower, but the volume was a little heav ier. The decreases this week were mostly from $1.00 to $4.00 per hundred below last week, but a few grades with limited volume dropped as much as $5.00 to $7.00. Although grade averages were well above the Commodity Credit sup port price, the declines, especially for the past two weeks, have low ered most averages to right around the support price. Volume this week was consid erably heavier than was antici pated. Block sales were reported on some of the larger markets Monday. During the four sale days 18,219.960 pounds were marketed for an average of $41.66 per hun dred. This average was $3.91 under last week’s season low average of $45.57. The volume was around 2Vz million pounds more than was sold during the five sale days last week. Receipts of the Flue-cured Tobacco Stabilization Corporation took another sharp climb this week because of continued low prices. Estimated receipts were raised to around 35 per cent of sales against 23 per cent last week. Season receipts were placed at 16 per cent. The general quality of offerings was lowered because of a slight increase in common leaf and non descript and less fine and choice qualities. The percentage of leaf continued to increase with a cor responding decrease in cutters. Three Bound Over In Deer Violation One of the two parties appre hended last week in connection with illegally hunting deer in Surry County, was released after a hearing before W. D. Inman, justice of the peace, Mount Airy. Another party, consisting of John M. Shores, of Thurmond, Forest B. Presnell, Mountain Park, and Tommy Calloway, of Moun tain Park, were bound over to Surry County Superior Court for the session in January. Bonds of the latter party, how ever, was reduced from $500 to $200 each. Bond on an automobile they were using remained the same, $1400. The vehicle was bonded out last week. Attorney Marion Allen and Liv ingston Williams represented the first party which consisted of Edward Mayes and George W. Hayes, both of Route 3, Mount Airy. Surry County Accountant Dies; Rites Sunday GEORGE EDGAR WELCH George Edgar Welch, 57, Surry County Accountant, died at his home in Mount Airy, Friday night following an illness of several months. Funeral service was held at the First Presbyterian Church of Mount Airy at 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon. The Rev. Reuben Payne, pastor of the Friends Church, of which Mr. Welch was a member, was in charge of the service, assisted by the Rev. D. S. McCarty, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial was in Oakdale cemetery. Mr. Welch was born in Surry County a son of G. Calvin and Della Hutchens Welch. Before be coming county accountant four years ago, he was treasurer for the City of Mount Airy. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Sudie Lee Fulcher Welch; his stepmother, Mrs. G. C. Welch; one brother, Walter P. Welch; four sisters, Mrs. W. R. Bowman, Mrs. Robert Jones, Mrs. J. M. Folger and Mrs. W. L. Dunman, all of Mount Airy, and one niece, Miss Nancy Jane Adams of the home. 4-H CLUB SHOW TO BE TUESDAY Surrv County Members To Participate In Home Dem onstration Achievement TO BEGIN AT 10 A. M. 4-H Club Achievement Day will be observed in Surry County Tuesday at 10 a.m., in the court house at Dobson, Mrs. Grace P. Brown, county home demonstra tion agent, announced this week. Medals, prizes and certificates to the County 4-H club winners in the various projects will be awarded. The meeting will last about an hour and a half, Mrs. Brown said. She asked cooperatioh in helping club members who do not have transportation. Assisting Mrs. Brown with the program will be Ophus M. Ful cher, and D. A. Halsey, assistant county agents, and Miss Angela Taylor, assistant home demon stration agent. Sweet potato losses from rot can be reduced by careful curing and storing of the crop. SALE OF SEALS WILL START IN SURRY NOV. 20 Gay Christmas Stamps To Be Mailed To Citizens FUNDS FOR T. B. FIGHT Surry X-Ray Program Is Car ried On By Money Raised From Yearly Drive QUOTA SET AT $6,000.00 Three thousand, five hundred Christmas Seal letters will go out in the mail Saturday to Surry county citizens as the annual drive for funds with which to combat tuberculosis gets under way in the county. The goal this year has been set at $6,000, an increase of $500 over last year’s goal, which amounted to 13 cents per capita. All citizens who received the seals are urged to mail their checks promptly in the amount of seals inclosed so that the drive may be completed as quickly as possible. Seventy-five cents of each dol lar raised in the Christmas seal drive will stay in Surry county, with the remaining 25 cents going to the State and National pro gram for research and education. The money which remains at home helps provide the County Health Department with funds to carry on its X-ray program, in cluding the maintenance and operation of the X-ray equipment, film, processing, etc. This . year, from January through October, a total of 11,210 chest X-rays have been made, with 6,956 having been made in the two surveys in the county. The others were made in the Mount Airy office of the health department. The X-ray drive made this year have disclosed a total of 63 cases of various degrees of activity. There ar$ now 400 known cases of the disease in the county, in cluding active and inactive cases. The problem facing the health department, it was said, is to locate the unknown cases now in existence if the disease is to be brought under complete control. The drive against tuberculosis, it has been pointed out, can never (Continued On Page Six) Youth Night Program To Be Held Saturday The first Youth night program, of the present school year, being sponsored by the Elkin and Jones ville Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y clubs will be held Saturday at 8 p. m. at the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A. The student bodies of Elkin and Jones ville high schools are invited to attend. The Youth nights will be under the same plan as they were last year. On Saturday evening a Thanksgiving motif will be used and dancing will be enjoyed dur ing the evening. A special enter tainment feature has been plan ned for the intermission with club members taking part. Youth nights are to be held twice monthly but will be arrang ed as not to come in the same week as the American Legion ac tivities for the young people. In this way, special entertainment will be provided for youth ench week. iiilifllllllll ANOTHER SMASHUP — Another in the epidemic of wrecks oc curring in Elkin and outlying areas recently resulted in the smash ing of the front of this automobile plus partially wrecking the front end of a truck. No one, however, was hurt. The automobile was driven by William Woodle, of State Road, who was traveling alone away from Elkin. The truck, which was proceeding toward Elkin, was driven by J. P. Brown, who was hauling a load of lumber. The radiator, axle, fender and running board of the vehicle were dam aged. (TRIBUNE PHOTO BY BELL) Inspection Lane Returns; 1940, 1942 Models Due The State Highway Inspec tion lane returned here this week and is in operation on SUrry Avenue. It will remain open until Saturday afternoon. This will be the last inspection before the final one, December 16 through 21. Highway officials advised this week that all automobiles and other motor vehicles of the year models 1940 and 1942 must be inspected on or before November 30. Models of 1941 and 1949 shall be inspected on or before December 31, they said. FARM BUREAU NOW AT 1,000 Minimum Coal of 1600 Mem bers Hoped To Be Reached Before Nov. 19 176 WORKERS SOLICIT Approximately 1000 of the max imum goal of 2275 membership quota set by officers of the Surry County Farm Bureau have been turned in to Miss Esther N. Will iams, assistant secretary of the Farm Bureau. "Workers have at least 300 members not turned in of the membership drive as of Tuesday,” Neill M. Smith, county agent, said. "We hope that the 176 Workers on the drive throughout the county will reach the mininum member ship of 1600 by the closing date, November 19,” he added. In order to be eligible to par ticipate in the Edward A. O’Neal contest, every worker who has secured 10 or more members must turn them in at the county agent’s office by 3 p.m., Nov. 19. Names of these workers and the members they secured must be in the State Bureau’s office, Greensboro, by midnight, Novem ber 20. AT 92 PACES — Fred Shore holds a hawk, measuring a wing spread of 52 inches. Mr. Shore killed the bird with a Winchester .22 rifle at a distance which he measured at 92 steps. The bullet pierced the hawk’s head. He was killed in the Brooks Cross Road section. (tribune photo by bel.d WRECK INJURES TWO IN ELKIN Ralph E. Rice, 38, Seriously Hurt In North Bridge Street Crash TWO POLES CLIPPED Two persons were injured, one seriously, Thursday night when an automobile driven by James Ellis Harpe, 43, Elkin, went out of con trol crashing through two tele phone poles on North Bridge street. Ralph E. Rice, 38, of Spring field, 111., an employee of a com tracting firm, installing a new switchboard for Central Telephone company here, who was riding with Harpe, was badly hurt in the accident. He was taken to the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos pital where he remained until Tuesday afternoon. He is now in the Veterans Hospital at John son City, Tenn. His condition was reported as improved. Mr. Rice received numerous head and face injuries, including a broken jawbone,' deep chin lacerations and the loss of sever al teeth, when he was hurled through the windshield. Mr. Harpe, who was released after being treated for minor in juries at the local hospital, is be ing held under bond, charged with reckless driving. Patrolman D. J. Caudle and Policemen Wood and Sparger, who investigated the crash, reported that the car apparently went out of control, cutting down two tele phone poles, tangling wires and wrecking the vehicle to the amount of approximately $350. Payne Service To Be Sunday In Jonesville Funeral service for Charles Odell Payne, U. S. Army, who died of a heart attack in Germany in May, 1946, will be held Sunday, November 21 at the Pentecostal Holiness Church of Jonesville. The Rev. Noah Holbrook will be in charge of the service, assisted by the Revs. R. G. Wells and J. L. Powers. Graveside service with full military honors will be con ducted by the William J. Jones post of the V.F.W. Payne, son of Mrs. Zada Payne of Arlington, entered service April 27, 1945 and received his training at Camp Clyborne, Louisiana and Fort Jackson, S. C., and went overseas October 25, of the same year. Surviving him are his mother; wife, the former Cora Lee Pruitt; two sons, Charles Odell Payne, Jr., and Curley Llewellyn Payne, both of the home and one son by a previous marriage, Lee Verne Payne. Gardner-Webb School Honors 3 From Elkin Three Elkin students last week were chosen for honors at Gard ner-Webb Junior College, Shelby. Miss Ruth Masten, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Weaver Masten, and Joe Whittington, son ox Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Whittington, were named among the six outstanding sophomores of the school. Bob Browning, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Browning, Jr., was selected to the post of co-news editor of the school’s newspaper publication. Total cotton ginnings in the United States up to November 1 amounted to 10,433,000 bales or about 69 per cent of the expected harvest. INJUNCTION IS ISSUED AGAINST RED ROSE CABS Temporary Restraining Order Signed By Judge Clement _fc.. ■ OPERATING IN ELKIN Action Is Brought By Local Cab Operators Who Have Elkin Franchise HEARING DECEMBER 4TH A temporary injunction was is sued this week restraining the Red Rose Cab Company, of Jonesville, from operating a taxi service from the stand at the rear of the Bank of Elkin on Bridge Street. The order was handed down by J. H. Clement, Judge of the Super ior Court of North Carolina, up on a complaint and affidavit of plaintiffs John S. Mayberry, George A. Hart, D. L. Mayberry and Emmette Smith, operators of three taxi businesses in Elkin. The restraint will remain in effect until December 4, when Walter (Red) Rose, defendant, must appear before Allen H. Gwyn, Superior Court Judge of the 21st Judicial District, at Reids ville. The order declared, . . that the said Walter (Red) Rose, doing business as Red Rose Cabs, and his agents, servants, and employ ees be, and they are hereby, re strained and enjoined from oper ating a taxicab in specified and designated spaces in the Town of Elkin, and from the maintenance of a taxicab stand within the cor porate limits of the Town of El kin.” The plaintiffs in the complaint contend that no franchise was granted the defendant for the Town of Elkin while the defendant contends that application of license was denied, but instead, permission was given by the Elkin town council for use of the stand which the order enjoins them from using. UNION WORSHIP NEXT THURSDAY Thanksgiving Services Planned For Jonesville And Elkin TO BEGIN AT 8 A. M. Union Thanksgiving services will be held in Jonesville and El kin at 8 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, according to an announce ment made by Rev. Ralph V. C. Ritchie, president of the Elkin Jonesville Ministerial Association. In Jonesville the service will be held at the Jonesville Methodist Church with Rev. Marvin C. Boggs, pastor, in charge. Rev. R. G. Wells will read the scripture and Rev. Joe Hogan is to bring Thanks giving message. The Thanksgiving service far Elkin churches will be held at the Presbyterian Church with Rev. Ritchie, pastor of the host church, presiding. Rev. George Farah will offer the invocation and Rev. R. G. Tuttle will read the scripture. Rev. Howard J. Ford is to lead the congregation in prayer and Rev. R. L. Buchanan, Executive Secretary of the Winston-Salem Presbytery, will bring the mes sage. All citizens of Elkin and Jones ville are urged to attend these ser vices. Boy Scout Campaign Nets $1400 To Date The annual campaign to raise funds for the Boy Scouts of the Elkin-Yadkin district has until this week netted approximately $1400, Hubert barker, finance committeeman, said yesterday. The drive will continue for 60 or 90 days, he said, and it is ex pected that the goal of $2000 will be reached before completion of the campaign. Extension Agents May Do Vanishing Act During Week “County extension agents may have to disappear fqr sev eral days to make up a plan of work for 1949,” Neill M. Smith, county agent, said yesterday. The plan work is annual scramble in the county agent’s office, Mr. Smith added. He said that the plan was required by Raleigh and Wash ington offices of the agricul ture extension service.
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