ELKIN
The Beet little Town In
North Carolina
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ELKIN
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■ VOL. No. XXXVII No. 2
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1948
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AN AMBASSADOR SPEAKS — Hume Wrong, Canada's ambassador to the United States spoke to the
Elkin Lions Club Monday at a noon luncheon. E. E. (Buck) Shore, president, applauds with others of
the club upon an introduction by a member of the Statesville Lions Club with whom the ambassador
was accompanied here. (tribune photo)
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Charity Contributions
Mount In Elkin Drive
Kiwanis Plans
Free Movie For
Charity Donors
A total of $80.50, clothing and.
other articles had been received
at the Tribune office through
yesterday (Wednesday) as con
~ tributions to the Christian Char
ity Committee for help to Elkin’s
needy at the Yule season.
In the interest of a successful
program, the Elkin Kiwanis club
will sponsor a free movie at the
Reeves Theatre, Saturday, Dec. |
18, at 9:30, to help collect food
and clothing for the drive.
Every child or adult will be ad
mitted free by bringing some can
of food or an article of clothing.
Perishable items cannot be used,
because of spoiling before delivery.
The feature will be “Blondie in
the Dough” plus several color
cartoons and comedies.
Meanwhile contributions came
into the reception center as fol
lows:
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Leary, $10.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Darnell,
clothing.
Tribune staff member, $10 and
clothing.
Business and Professional Wo
man’s Club, $20.
Miss Sterling Browning, cloth
ing.
Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Abernethy,
$10.
The previous total, which came
from contributions from the Elkin
Tribune and the Wednesday Study
Club, amounted to $30.50 at the
^ beginning of the week.
' Meanwhile, persons were urged
to contact the committee head
quarters or any member of the
committee if there is anyone
whom they think is in need of
help. The committee wishes to
reach every needy family in this
’ section. This can be done only
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Chief Warns
Against Use
Of Fireworks
Elkin Police Chief Corbett
Wall yesterday warned that an
act by the North Carolina leg
islature last year forbids the
use of fireworks at any time.
‘‘It has come to my atten
tion,” he said, “that fireworks
are being discharged in some
sections of the city.” He
pointed out that a violation of
the act is a misdemeanor and
carries with it fine, imprison
ment, or both, left to the dis
cretion of the court.
The act states in part, “. . .
pyrotechnics cannot be manu
factured, purchased, sold, dealt
in, transported, possessed, re
ceived, advertised or used in
North Carolina . . . any and all
kinds of fireworks and explo
sives, which are used for exhi
bitions or amusements . . . are
classed as pyrotechnics.
JUDGES NAMED
FOR CONTEST
Three To Decide Most Beau
tiful of Christmas Home
Decorations
IN JONESVILLE, ELKIN
The Junior Woman’s Club, who
are responsible for reviving the
old Christmas Decorating contest,
such a popular holiday feature
before the war, nave chosen their
judges. Those who will judge the
homes of the community for the
most beautifully decorated Christ
mas exterior will be Mrs. C. C.
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Rotogravure Section Is
To Feature 3 Counties
Elkin, Surry, Wilkes and Yad
kin counties will be featured in
a pictorial rotogravure edition
to be issued in the near future
by The Elkin Tribune.
This deluxe special number will
embrace every form of activity
^ and development in the town and
area, the dairy and cattle indus
try, scenic views, recreational ad
vantages, and of course, the pro
Ik gressive and prosperous industry
W of this region. Work on this publi
cation is already under way, and
the interest and spirit of cooper
ation of the local public have
been exceedingly gratifying, and
gives assurance of the success of
the undertaking.
This edition, a graphic pictor
ial presentation of the present day
development of one of the coun
try’s famed regions, will be a
new and modern method of sec
tional publicity, of a quality and
character never undertaken local
ly ly before. It will be issued in per-'
manent form so it may be pre
served as a historical record of
this section during this eventful
period, but will be rounded and
made complete by including all
phases of activity, financial, edu
cational, industrial, as well as
the marked civil and social con
sciousness that have been char
acteristic of this region during
the past quarter century, and
which will b£ so greatly accele
rated during the next decade.
This edition will be issued in
the convenient tabloid form, stit
ched to give permanency, for il
is the purpose of the publishers
to have it serve as an attractive
and effective piece of regional
publicity for state and national
distribution for the next several
years. It is projected to tie-ir
with and supplement the valua
ble work along these lines being
done by the authorities of the
state. A large number of extra
copies will be printed for outside
distribution, as well as to provide
increased distribution locally.
No display advertising will be
included, the present day story ol
this section being told in the in
dividual feature representations
of the respective industries, pub
lic utilities, enterprises and in
stitutions, the graphic and inter
esting news pictorial form.
WRONG SPEAKS
TO LIONS CLUB
Ambassador Says Canadian
Economy Needs More
United States Buying
AT MEETING MONDAY
Hump Wrong, Canadian ambas
sador to the United States, told
members of the Elkin Lions In
ternational, here Monday, that
Canada economically needed more
'income from United States pur
lchasing.
“I hope that an awfully lot of
you will come to Canada and
spend an awfully lot of money
and have an awfully good time,”
he said.
A country with 13 million peo
ple and sixth highest in the world
industrially, spends more than 2
billion dollars in the United States,
while less than $10 per capita is
spent by the United States citizens
in Canada.
It is fortunate that the United
States and Canada are neighbors,
Mr. Wrong said, pointing out the
differences that lie in the states
of Europe and Asia. The progress
of one is for the good of the other,
he added.
Hugh Mitchell, of the States
ville Lions Club, introduced Mr.
Wrong. Several Statesville guests
accompanied the party.
The meeting was held at noon
at the Gilvin Roth YMCA.
The Elkin club presented to Mr.
Wrong a Chatham blanket.
FOUR INJURED
IN COLLISION
Two Cars Crash At Intersec
tion of North Bridge
And Spring Streets
EARLY WEDNESDAY A. M.
Four Jonesville people were in
jured here shortly before 9:00
o’clock Wednesday morning when
the car in which they were riding
was struck broadside by another
car at the intersection of North
Bridge and Spring Streets.
Those injured were Mrs. Velda
Holbrook, wife of B. R. "Hooks”
Holbrook: Miss Nettie Holbrook,
Mrs. Ed Reece and Mrs. Hol
brook’s son, Richard, age 2.
The accident occurred as the
Holbrook car, driven by Mrs. Hol
brook, reached the middle of the
intersection, headed west on
Spring. The other car, driven by
Harry Stewart, of Winchester, Ky.,
going north on Bridge, apparently
crashed into the side of the other
machine, throwing it around into
the curb. Mr. Stewart and a
companion, E. L. Grimsley, were
not injured.
Rushed to Hugh Chatham Hos
pital by ambulance, an examina
tion disclosed that Mrs. Holbrook
suffered a broken left collarbone
and a laceration of the scalp. Miss
Holbrook suffered a cut on the
head and a sprained left ankle.
The Holbrook child sustained a
bruise on the back of the head,
and Mrs. Reece suffered a broken
collarbone. The youngster and
Mrs. Reece were discharged after
medical attention. The condition
of Mrs. Holbrook and Miss Hol
brook, although they remained in
the hospital, was reported not to
be serious.
The accident was investigated
by Highway Patrolman D. J.
Caudle, of Elkin. No charges had
been preferred late Wednesday
afternoon.
COUNCIl rules
OUT ADDITIONAL
CABS FOR ELKIN
Local Taxi Dispute Is Settled
By Decision
20 CABS NOW OPERATING
Informal Permission To
Jonesville Operator Re
voked By Action
ATTORNEYS ARE HEARD
The Elkin Town Council ruled
Monday night that no other cabs,
in addition to the 20 now operat
ing in the town, would be issued
certificates of convenience and
necessity.
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In so doing, the dispute of
whether or not Walter (Red) Rose,
Jonesville taxi stand operator,
would be allowed to occupy a
space on the Elkin streets for the
purpose of conducting a business,
was settled.
Permission that had been in
formally granted Mr. Rose to op
erate from a stand on Bridge
Street at the Bank of Elkin was
dissolved and at that space a
parking meter will be replaced.
No other taxi business will be
allowed use of that space, town
officials advised.
The council decided on this
matter after an injunction had
been issued by Judge Allen H.
Gwyn, Reidsville, restraining Rose
from operating from the stand in
question. Judge Gwyn last week
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Malcolm E. Campbell will be the
principal speaker at a meeting
of the Northwest State College
Club here Monday night. He is
head of the Textile School at
North Carolina State and for
merly was connected with the
Textile Research Institute of
New York.
GRADS TO MEET
AT TMONDAY
Northwest State College Club
To Hear Dean Mal
colm Campbell
TO CHOOSE OFFICERS
Dean Malcolm E. Campbell of
the Textile School at N. C. State
College will be the principal
speaker at a meeting of the North
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Rites To Be
Held Sunday
For Lt. Martin
2nd Lt. JOHN V. MARTIN
Funeral service for 2nd Lieuten
ant John V. Martin, 20, of the
Maple Springs Community, who
was killed in action on March 19,
1945, will be held Sunday at 2:30
p.m. at Pleasant Hill Baptist
Church of which he was a mem
ber. The Rev. David W. Day will
officiate, and full military honors
will be given Lt. Martin at the
graveside service by the William
J. Jones Post of the V.F.W.
Lt. Martin, husband of the for
mer Frances Darnell and son of
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn E. Martin of
the Maple Springs Community,
entered service in November, 1943
and through his ability as a lead
er he was given a battlefield com
mission and in his capacity as an
officer and soldier he lived up to
the United States Army traditions.
Lt. Martin was awarded the
Purple Heart and the Bronze Star
posthumously.
Surviving, besides the wife and
parents, are two brothers, Malphus
Martin of Winston-Salem and
Dwight Martin of Ronda and one
sister, Mrs. Vera Hege of the
home.
THREE FARMERS
OFF TO JERSEY
National Farm Bureau Con
vention Begins Sunday
In Atlantic City
SURRY MEN TO ATTEND
Three members of the Surry
County Farm Bureau will attend
the national convention to be held
in Atlantic City, N. J., beginning
Sunday.
P. N. Taylor, White Plains, will
attend with Mrs. Taylor, as one
of the six voting delegates for
North Carolina. S. H. Atkinson,
Siloam, president of the Surry
Farm Bureau, and Early Hutch
inson, White Plains, will attend.
Mr. Atkinson was enabled to
attend through a state-wide draw
ing at Raleigh, and Mr. Hutchins
was selected through a county
wide drawing. He will receive $100
as a result of Surry reaching its
membership goal.
The delegates will leave by train
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CHATHAM SEEKS
SEAT ON ARMED
SERVICE GROUP
New Congressman Had Been
Expected for Banking Body
VETERAN OF TWO WARS
Expected To Draw On A Wide
Background of Experience
In Armed Services
ASSISTANTS ARE NAMED
Thurmond Chatham, Elkin's
contribution to the 81st Congress
from the Fifth District, revealed
late last week that he is seeking a
berth on the House of Represen
tatives’ Armed Services Commit
tee.
The legislator said that he had
indicated to friends his desire to
serve on the important House
committee which has jurisdiction
over proposals affecting the na
tion’s armed forces.
A naval veteran of both World
Wars, Mr. Chatham is expected to
draw on his wide background of
the nation’s armed forces in war
and peacetime if he is appointed
to the committee.
Under House procedure, mem
bers generally choose the commit
tee on which they wish to serve.
As they are re-elected to succes
sive terms, the members move up
on the committees until they be
come chairmen, providing their
party is in power.
Some Washington sources had
earlier speculated that Mr. Chat
ham would land on Banking and
Currency because of his business
connections.
Mr. Chatham, president of the
board of directors of the Chatham
Manufacturing Company, replaces
Rep. John Folger of Mount Airy.
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KIWANIS CLUBS
TO HEAR GREEN
Noted Editor And Lecturer To
He Guest Speaker At
Inter-Club Session
AT YMCA THIS EVENING
Dr. Sylvester Green, editor of
the Durham Herald and a noted
lecturer and traveler, will address
a joint meeting of the Elkin,
Mount Airy and North Wilkesboro
Kiwanis clubs at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA this evening (Thursday),
at 6:30 o’clock.
Dr. Green addressed the local
club recently, and his informa
tive grasp of international affairs
made a lasting impression which
resulted in planning this evening’s
program.
At last week’s meeting, John
Goodman, of N. C. .State Exten
sion Service, made a timely and
interesting talk concerning the
necessity of giving all support pos
sible to the various farm programs
being promoted by State and Fed
eral agencies. He highly compli
mented the local club, Hubert
Willis, chairman of the Kiwanis
committee on agriculture, and
Garland Johnson, past chairman,
on the excellent agricultural pro
gram the club has advanced and
promoted during the past years.
Yadkin Votes
Approval For
Bond Issuance
Prof. Selden
To Read Famed
Y uletide Story
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PROF. SAMUEL SELDEN
Professor Samuel Selden, head
of the Department of Dramatic
Art of the University of North
Carolina and director of the Caro
lina Playmakers, will read Dick
ens’ “Christmas Carol” in the
Elementary School auditorium
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock. No
admission charge will be made and
the public is cordially invited to
attend.
Professor Selden is coming to
Elkin at the request of the Junior
Woman’s Club.
Professor Selden who succeeds
the late Dr. Frederick H. Koch
as head of the Department of
Dramatic Art, was born in Can
ton, China, the son of medical
missionaries. Professor Selden was
educated in this country and re
ceived his A. B. degree from Yale
University. He has done graduate
work in dramatics at Columbia
University and the New York
School of Fine and Applied Arts.
In 1922 following his gradua
tion, Professor Selden began his
stage career in New York where
he was an actor and stage man
ager for a number of shows, and
later traveled with tent repertorial
groups. He was also stage manager
for the Provincetown (Mass.)
Playhouse, Greenwich Village
Theatre and the Intimate Opera
Company.
Since coming to the University
he has directed or supervised
the direction of between 300 and
400 plays presented by the Caro
lina Playmakers, and was right
hand man to Dr. Koch. From 1937
to 1941 he was director of the
Roanoke Island production of Paul
Green’s “The Lost Colony.”
In 1938 he was awarded a Gug
genheim fellowship for a year’s
foreign study of the drama, and
he and Mrs. Selden spent the
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Scouts Granted 500 Acres Of Land For Camp
Mrs. Reynolds
Deeds Part Of
Devotion Estate
The Old Hickory Council, Boy
Scouts of America, was this week
the recipient of 500 acres of land
of the Long Creek Lodge estate
near Devotion.
Mrs. Dillard Reynolds, of Win
ston-Salem. owner of the estate
presented the deed for the pro
perty Monday to John M. Brown,
president of the council.
The land will be made into a
year-round camp for the Boy
Scouts of seven counties covered
by the Old Hickory Council.
Mrs. Reynolds also gave the
Scouts swimming, boating and
fishing privileges in the big lake
on Mill Creek; fishing privileges
in all streams on the 11,000-acre
estate; use of barns near the camp
for stabling horses; use of the
skeet field; and use of the barn
theatre for movies and entertain
ment programs.
This gift of land and privileges
was made by Mrs. Reynolds and
her four young sons, Richard
Joshua Reynolds, HI, John Dillard
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MAKES GIFT TO BOY SCOUTS — Mrs. Dillard Reynolds of Winston-Salem hands John M. Brown,
president of Old Hickory Council, Boy Scouts of America, the deed to 500 acres of land on her Long
Creek Lodge estate near Devotion. J. F. Yokeley of Mount Airy, chairman of the Surry District,
looks on. The property will be used for a council camp.
Calls For Float
Of $80,000 For
County Hospital
Yadkin County voters Tuesday
approved the issuance of up to
$80,000 in bonds to erect the
county’s first hospital, on the
basis of a 250 vote majority.
Totals from 13 of 13 precincts
showed. 796 for the issuance and
546 against.
Attorney General Harry Mc
Mullan said yesterday that all
special elections conducted after
the official canvass of the Nov. 2
elections are under amendment to
the Constitution which provides
for a majority vote. Under the
old law, a vote in a special election
for the issuance of bonds was
against the registration.
In other words, in order for a
voter to cast a ballot against the
proposal, all he had to do was
register and refrain from voting.
F. D. B. Harding, of Yadkinville,
building site chairman, said plans
call for a hospital to cost approx
imately $360,000 or about $12,000
per bed for the 30-bed hospital.
He said the State and Federal
funds available for the hospital
total approximately $300,000, leav
ing $60,000 for Yadkin County to
furnish. However, the proposal
voted upon yesterday provided for
the issuance of up to $80,000 in
bonds. It also provided for a
special tax levy of up to 10 cents
of the $100 valuation to finance
the operation of the hospital.
Proponents of the hospital hope
work can be started on the pro
ject by July 1, 1949. Three sites
are under consideration, all sit
uated near Yadkinville.
William E. Rutledge, publisher
of the Yadkin Ripple, is chairman
of the hospital board of trustees.
SURRY OFFICER
OATH IS GIVEN
Newly - Elected Officials
Sworn In At Dobson Be
fore County Commission
S 0 M E APPOINTMENTS
The Surry County commission
ers administered the oath of office
to newly-elected county officials,
at their first regular meeting of
the new term held in Dobson
Monday.
Those sworn in were Kermit
Lawrence, clerk of court; M. C.
Fowler, S. M. Smith and M. Q.
Snow, commissioners; Bertha M.
Shinault, register of deeds; and
L. I. Wade, magistrate.
J. Pate Fulk was elected tax
supervisor and purchasing agent
and Mrs. Lillian K. Johnson was
elected county accountant and
bookkeeper.
Tax collectors appointed were
Neal Thompson, Mount Airy; Mrs.
Nance, Dobson; Mrs. Thompson,
Pilot Mountain; and W. J. Snow,
Elkin.
The jury for two weeks com
mencing January 10, was drawn.
M. Q. Snow was reelected chair
man of the Board of Commission
ers and S. M. Smith was named
vice-chairman.
John Collins was rc-appointed
jailor.
The present superintendent of
the county farm was re-appointed,
and vital statisticians for each
township was re-appointed.
Jaycees Sponsor
Diabetic Detection
Week For This Area
All persons of Elkin and
vicinity were urged this week to
have free urinalysis done for
the detection of .diabetes.
Diabetic Detection Week is
being observed here in connec
tion with a national observance
designed, to find what is be
lieved to be one million cases
undetected in the United
States.
Under the sponsorship of the
Elkin Junior Chamber of Com
merce public health committee,
all local physicians will conduct
free urine tests for sugar con
tent.
The project will be observed
until Sunday.