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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 I VQL- No< XXXVI1 No. 5 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1948 $2.00 PER YEAR 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS HRS. AB BROWN RECEIVES CHECK FOR $10,000.00 Is Bequeated To Jonesville Woman By New Yorker NOTIFIED RECENTLY Was Patient of Mrs. Brown’s In Florida Hospital Back In Year 1926 OTHER BEQUESTS Ab Brown, of Jonesville, who prior to her marriage was Miss Julia Abrams, registered purse, little thought, as she nurs 1$ a pneumonia victim to health back in 1926 in a St. Peterburg, Fla., hospital, that her attentive care would, like bread on the water, return to her manyfold, but that’s just what happened Thursday of last week. The patient in the Florida hos pital was George W. Hough, of Courtland, N. Y., and Miss Abrams was with him on special duty. When he had recovered, he went back north and Miss Abrams continued her nursing career, fin ally coming to Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital here where she was employed until her marriage to Mr. Brown. Mrs. Brown had not forgotten her former Florida patient, be cause each year she received a "Christmas card from him. But this year, no Christmas card ar rived. This year came a message from a New York law firm in forming Mrs. Brown that Mr. Hough had passed away and had bequeathed to her the sum of $10,000 in cash. That was the day after Thanks giving. Following the message was a certain amount of legal red tape, and then, last Thursday, the check for $10,000 arrived. * Mrs. Brown said she never Steamed her former patient was r wealthy, and the inheritance came as a complete surprise. Nine other bequests, in addition to a bequest to a daughter of the de ceased, were also made, she said. NAME WILKES CORN WINNER ield Checked By Contest Committee Shows 124.2 Bushels Per Acre SPONSORED BY C. OF C. Odell Whittington of Reddies River is the winner of the 1948 Wilkes County Corn growing con t e s t. Mr. Whittington planted white hybrid corn Tenn. 10 on four acres of land with the rows spaced 38 inches apart, 12 inches apart in row. His yield as checked by the farm agents and other members of the contest commit tee was 124.2 bushels per acre. The corn contest was sponsored by the Agricultural Committee of the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce w h i c li W. K. Sturdivant is chairman. Realizing that the ave rage corn yield in Wilkes County is less than 30 bushels per acre, the Chamber of Commerce saw the value of encouraging the farm ers to plant the 28 thousand acres corn land in improved varieties to fertilize and cultivate ac cording to the most advanced methods. The Chamber of Commerce is giving the following prizes total ing $105.00. 1st Prize $35.00; 2nd Prize $25.00; 3rd Prize $20.00; 4th Prize $15.00 and 5th Prize $10.00. Fifteen farmers who entered this contest produced 100 bushels per acre or more, thirteen farmers produceed 75 bushels per acre or more. All but two of these con testants planted hybrid corn. Other winners in the contest are as follows: 2nd Prize — Daniel Luther, Wilbar, on H. C. Colvard’s farm, 118.2 bushels, planted Dixie 17; 3rd Prize — Theodore Fair Wfcilds, Purlear, 113.2 bushels, planted N. C. 26; 4th Prize—John W. Hurt, Ronda, 109.5 bushels, Dixie 17; 5th Prize — A. tt, owner, Arvil Johnson, /Rt. 1, North Wilkesboro, bushels, planted U. S. 282. Reckless Driving Charge Is Lodged One motorist is charged with reckless driving as a result of an automobile wreck at Lightning Cross, near Boonville, last Satur day. Sheriff Bill Moxley said William gffiatnn. Negro, former Jonesville man now living in Washington, D. C., collided with an automobile driven by Clinton Poindexter, of Iwinston-Salem. \ A hearing on the accident has *en set for January 17. Town License Plates Now On Sale In Elkin The 1949 Elkin town automo bile license plates arrived here this week at the office of Dixie Graham, city clerk, and are now on sale at $1 each. The tags, orange with black numerals, are of the same de sign as state license tags which are on sale at the Butner McLeod Motor Company. Dead line for the purchase of state licenses is February 1. PLANS FOR CUB PACK ARE TOLD Class For Mothers of Prospec tive Cubs To Be Taught January 3, 4 and 5 SPONSORED BY CHURCH A Cub Scout pack, Pack number 1, will be sponsored early in the year by the Elkin Presbyterian Church for all boys in Elkin and Jonesville from the ages of 9 through 11. Since a training course for mothers of prospective Cubs is required, such a class will be taught by James Crow, January 3, 4 and 5 at 7 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Harry H. Hensel, 335 North Bridge Street, who will be host to the group. The course is designed to pre pare mothers to work with the boys in their weekly meetings ac cording to the National Cub Scout program. Joe Gwyn Bivins will serve as cub master for the Pack number 1. The troop committee is com posed of Linville Hendren, chair man, T. C. McKnight, Hoke F. Henderson, and the Rev. Ralph Ritchie. “It is hoped that because of this type of sponsoring, that the cubs will enjoy a year - round program,’’ Mr. Ritchie said. All mothers who would like for their boys to be Cubs have been re quested to get in touch with Mr. Ritchie at Elkin telephone 464 in order that an estimate of the number of dens to make up a pack can be made. This course will not be taught again by Mr. Crow for several months. “Therefore,” Mr. Ritchie said, “parents who intend for their boys to join Pack number 1, are urged to attend these brief train ing meetings.” ELKIN ON NEW HIGHWAY MAIL Operation Of Two New Road Post Offices Go Into Ef fect February 4 and 5 GREENSBORO TERMINAL Elkin will be included on the operation of one of the two high way postoffices which will use Greensboro as a terminus, J. B. McGee, district superintendent for the Railway Mail Service, an nounced this week. The two routes, the Greensboro Boone route and the Greensboro Warsaw route, will begin oper ations February 4 and 5. Elkin will be on the Boone route. The highway post office run from Greensboro to Boone will in clude stops at Guilford, Kerners ville, Winston-Salem, Yadkinville, Boonville, Elkin, Ronda, Roaring River, North Wilkesboro, Halls Mills, McGrady, Laurel Springs, rransou, Wagoner, Jefferson, West Jefferson and Todd. The motorized post office will begin its run at 3:30 a.m. each day except Sunday. The convey ance will arrive in Boone at 10:45 a.m. It will leave Boone at 1:45 p.m., and arrive in Greensboro at 9 p.m. WAC Recruiter To Be Here Jan. 3 and 4 Cpl. Hazel Conrad, WAC, non commissioned recruiting officer for the High Point District, will be at the Elkin Post Office from 1 p.m., January 3, to 12 noon, January 4 to interview women for the Army or Aix- Forces. Corporal Conrad will explain the advantages offered to women by the Army and Air Forces, and the technical schools available, which include dental technician, labor atory technician, control tower operator, administrative and others. Women must be a high school graduate or its equivalent, betweeii the ageS of 18 and 35, single and vith no dependents ELKIN CHARITY DRIVETOTALS $449.50 CASH Few Volunteers Help As Citizens Give Generously MUCH CLOTHING, FOOD George F a r a h , Committee Chairman Takes Lead In Work For Ministers RECIPIENTS THANKFUL Donations in Elkin’s Commun ity Christian Charity drive mount ed to a total of $449.50, much clothing and food as the needy in this area were helped to a joyful Christmas. Tribune staff members express ed thanks to volunteer workers who helped Mr. Farah in the rush period of distribution. The few who helped abandoned shopping and other usual pre - Christmas I tasks to spend much of their day in the basement of the Tribune building assorting the material. It is commendable that Elkin’s response to the drive amounted to a value of more than 20 cents per person for the town’s popu lation when clothing and food donations are estimated with cash contributions. Funds received were not ex hausted during the Yule season but will be used for the continued aid of needy throughout the com ing year. The Rev. George Farah, chair man of the Charity Committee, took the lead among the group of pastors selected by the ministerial association to handle the work. The Rev. R. G. Wells, Jonesville, helped in the assorting and distribution of food baskets along with other volunteers, Mrs. Joe Gwyn Bivins, Mrs. William T. Roth, secretary and treasurer of the committee, Grace Laffoon, of the Tribune, and Mrs. Charles Dixon. Recipients of the charity aid appeared grateful for the gifts Some thanked the distributors profusely. Said one, “God sends good things by good people.” The Cash and Carry Grocery sold food wholesale as did the (Continued on page eight) CHATHAM ASKS FOR HOUSE JOB New Congressman Says He Has No Plans For Origin ating Legislation Yet GOES TO CAPITOL SOON Thurmond Chatham, the Fifth District’s new congressman, said last week he had requested mem bership on the House Armed Ser vices Committee during the session beginning next month. Mr. Chatham, who is chairman of the board of the Chatham Man ufacturing Company, has main tained a continuing interest in the nation’s armed services since he joined the navy in World War I. During World War II, he served in the navy again, being released to inactive duty as a commander after a long tour of duty in the Pacific. He said he has no plans yet for originating legislation. ‘‘I’ll be a freshman up there,” he said, “learning my way around.” Representative Chatham said he and Mrs. Chatham and their son, Dick Chatham, a recent graduate of the University of North Caro lina, would take an apartment in Washington. They will go to the nation’s capital after the holiday season. Gwyn Service Held At North Wilkesboro Funeral service for R. W. Gwyn, of North Wilkesboro, was held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the First Meth odist Church of North Wilkesboro. Dr. Gilbert Combs, pastor, offic iated. Burial was in Mount Lawn Memorial Park. Mr. Gwyn local industrial and civic leader, died at his home Christmas Eve. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage December 10, from which he never regained conciousness. He had been connected with the North Wilkesboro bank for more than 50 years. He was born in this city, a son of Richard R. and Molly Dicker son Gwyn. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Kate Blair Gwyn; two daughters, : Mrs. Margaret Coffey and Mrs. Robert M. Brame Jr., both of North Wilkesboro, and two- sons, ; Dick and Blair Gwyn, both of North Wilkesboro. THURMOND CHATHAM WINS PORKER AT CHRISTMAS PARTY — Each year the Chatham Man ufacturing Company entertains its 2,500 employees at a Christmas party staged in the gymnasium of the YMCA, and this year was no exception as bonus checks were distributed to workers and a fine little pig to Thurmond Chatham, chairman of the board of directors of the company, and congressman elect from the 5th district, (top photo), who is pictured above turning the custody of the little critter over to T. C. McKnight (back to camera). Others shown in photo are, sitting, left to right, Mrs. Chatham, President Albert L. Butler, and General Superintendent R. W. Harris. Interested spectators peep from behind the stage curtains. Bottom photo is a partial view of the huge throng which crowd ed the auditorium to be entertained by the Briarhoppers, of WBT, Charlotte, and the Chatham Ramb lers. One of the many huge table of fruit is pictured in foreground. —Top Photo by Bell, Lower Photo by Tribune. LEAF PER ACRE RECORD IS SET Volume Actually Smaller But Cut In Acreage Makes Way For New Mark EXPECT EQUAL TO LINT Raleigh, — North Carolina pro duced more flue-cured tobacco per icre this year than at any prev ious time in its history and is ex pected to equal the all-time record n cotton production, the Federal State Crop Reporting Service said ;oday. The flue-cured tobacco crop to talled 746,300,000 pounds, actually 17.8 per cent below 1947, but the jovernment had reduced acreage by 27.52 per cent. So the crop iveraged 1,236 pounds, bettering oy 91 pounds the previous record 3f 1,145 pounds set in 1947. This was the final report for the tobacco crop, but complete figures are not yet available on the cotton crop. The crop report ing service forecast, however, that production will total 680,000 bales Df 500 pounds each, an average pf 454 pounds per acre, which jquals the record set in 1944. This s 10,000 bales below the November forecast. The service also reported that peanut production this year hit 150,000,000 pound's in North Caro ina, averaging 1,225 pounds to the icre, or 195 pounds better than ast year. The corn crop fell below jarlier estimates and averaged pnly 31 bushels to the acre, failing o reach an expected 33 bushels or ;o equal the record of 31.5 bushels set last year. In all, the corn crop amounted to 69,006,000 bushels. Irish potato production amount ed to 10,508,000 bushels, the fourth lighest production on record; the sweet potato crop of 5,635,000 pushels is up 2 per cent over last rear; and the small grain crop s down 28.6 per cent, the crop reporting service said. Year’s Receipts, Yule Rush Set Post Office Mark The heaviest Christmas mail ever in Elkin climaxed what Postmaster J. F. Moseley des cribed as the “biggest year in history” for the local post office. Approximately 20,000 pieces of mail per day were estimated for the volume during the Christmas season. Postal receipts for 1948 were between $45,000 and $50,000, Mr. Moseley declared. “We are looking to an even greater year in 1949,” he added. Six carriers and clerks were taken on to the post office staff for the rush which includ ed a big parcel post increase, making it also the largest on record for the post office. “To the contrary of popular belief, our task during the Yule season was enjoyable,” he con cluded. “We were glad to have been able to play a part in spreading the Christmas joy.” ’Still And Two Men Taken By Officers Two Yadkin men, Clyde and Clarence Robbins, of Buck Shoals Township, were arrested Thurs day when they were caught at a still raided by the sheriff’s office. About one hundred gallons of beer was destroyed, along with the still. Officers C. Russell, F. E. Hurt, Loyd Prim and Fred Turner participated. New Deputy Named For Knobs Section A new Deputy Sheriff has been appointed to serve in Knobs Township, Sheriff Bill Moxley said yesterday. He is W. P. Ingram, who was sworn in as a Deputy about twp weeks ago. PROPERTYUST MUST BE MADE Tax Supervisor Names Hold ings Subject To Taxation Beginning January 1 PENALTY FOR FAILING Real and personal property list ings of possessions held January 1, must be listed during the coming month for the purpose of taxation, J. Pate Fulk, tax supervisor for Surry County, said yesterday. Returns of all real estate, build ings, and improvements, machin ery, fixtures, merchandise in stocks, and goods in process of manufacture are required, Mr. Fulk said. Also such items as farm mach inery, household furniture, office furniture, office equipment, jew elry, automobiles, aeroplanes and livestock, should be listed along with all dogs for special as well as ad valorem taxation. Penalty for failure to list be fore the tax-listing period ends shall be 10 per cent of tax levied, Mr. Fulk declared. Failure to list is a misdemeanor by law. Tax listers and places of listings may be found in an ad on page two, section two of this newspaper. Surry Man Posts Bond In Criminal Assault William J. Thomas, 33, was re leased from the Mount Airy jail this week after posting a $300 bond on a charge of criminally assaulting a 12-year-old Surry County girl. The alleged assault against Mary Ruth Chappel occurred Sun day, November 28. Local power systems financed by REA added between 475,000 and 495,000 new consumers dur ing 1948. This is by far the lar gest total ever connected in any one year by REA borrowers. Yule Seaso Is Observe Quietly Here CL £3 Elkin Livestock Market Reopens Thursday, Jan. 6 The Elkin Livestock Market, now under new management, will have its formal opening, Thursday, Jan. 6, at 3 p.m. Sales will be held each Thursday at 3 p.m., thereafter, under Bub Price, ykrd manager, and Paul J. Brown, office man ager. YOUTH CENTER TO OPEN SOON Jonesville And Elkin Hi-Y And Tri-Hi-\r Clubs Spon sor Recreation Room AT GILVIN ROTH YMCA The Youth Center being com pleted downstairs at the Gilvin Roth YMCA will be open soon and a definite schedule will be assign ed for those eligible to use the room. The Center is sponsored by the Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs of Jonesville and Elkin for members of the high schools of each town. Different groups will be assign ed nights for participation in re creation and the Center will be open every week-day night. Mary Ellen Harrell, director of girls work at the ‘Y’ said yester day that a record player and a piano is being sought by the YMCA for use in the Center and if anyone is interested in donating or lending either to the project, the service would be appreciated. If anyone is interested in giv ing either or permitting the use of either, they should get in touch with T. C. McKnight, gen eral secretary of the YMCA, she said. BODIES OF 75 COMING HOME Remains of North Carolina’s Heroes Reing Returned Aboard Transport SIX FROM THIS AREA Remains of 74 North Carolina World War II dead, who were originally interred in temporary military cemeteries in France, Bel gium, Holland, and Luxembourg, are being returned to the United States aboard the U. S. Army transport “Barney Kirschbaum.” After arrival of the “Barney Kirschbaum’’ at the New York Port of Embarkation, from two to five weeks will elapse before the Atlanta distribution center will be able to advise the next of kin when they may expect to re ceive the remains of their loved ones. Each next of kin will be notified in advance of the arrival of the “Barney Kirschbaum” in New York, and again after arrival of the remains at the Atlanta distri bution center of the American Graves Registration Service. Six, whose next of kin live in Surry, Yadkin and Wilkes coun ties, will be brought home on the transport. They are as follows: Pvt. Isaac L. Edwards, Mount Airy; Pfc. Ira A. Nelson, Jones ville; T/Sgt. James R. Church, North Wilkesboro; Pvt. Fred O. Davis, Nofth Wilkesboro; Pvt. Aubrey C. Diamond, Wilkesboro; and Pfc. Roy F. McCollum, Yad kinville. T. B. Fund Drive Still Continuing Dr. William Wood of Yadkin ville said yesterday he was still seeking contributions for the Yadkin County Tuberculosis fund. Response to the annual drive which includes the sale of Christ mas Seals has been good, Dr. Wood stated, but has not yet reached the goal set for the coun ty. The drive will close next week. Fresh vegetables contain many necessary vitamins and mineral elements so important to good health during the winter months. Town Renews Work In Hum Of Industry Christmas was observed quietly in Elkin. The rush of pre-Christmas set tled down this week to the blue aftermath which usually follows the Yule season. Stock inventories began and post-Christmas sales went on in many of the downtown stores. The hum of industry resumed and Chatham’s 2,500 employees return ed to work today (Thursday). Elkin Furniture Company, the town’s second largest industry, will resume operations Monday. The Elkin Merchants Assoc iation announced yesterday that stores here would commence closing January 5 on Wednes day afternoons and would con tinue closing the same time each week until September 4. The Bank of Elkin will be closed all day Saturday, New Year’s Day. All other business firms, State offices, and the Bank of Elkin went back into business Tuesday. Traffic during the few shopping days left before Christmas was probably the heaviest ever here for any extended period, but Police Chief Corbett Wall said yesterday, “It was the quietest season I’ve seen in 11 years here.” Snow pelted down during Christmas eve and Christmas, but not to the extent that one could term a “White Christmas.” Some snow and sleet began fall ing about the time most Elkin ites were having their coffee on the morning of the 24th. Contin ued light downfall remained until early afternoon, followed by cold rains and more sleet during the night. On Christmas morning a heavy snowfall visited the section, followed by a clearing which then turned into extreme coldness. Chatham entertained its em ployees with an annual Christmas party Thursday and paid the highest bonus in the history of the company. And children celebrated the sea son in Elkin as all over the United States in much the same spirit as is depicted in books and movies. With an exceptional good wage earning year, parents were able to afford a better Santa Claus than usual. And speaking of Santa, the old boy had a rough time here and everywhere. In Seattle, a little boy who wanted to make sure he would get the things he so desired, scolded Santa for not bringing his scratch pad along. “I won’t forget,” the (Continued On Page Eight) WEDDING TRIP ENDS IN DEATH Miss Betiic Sue Hall, 16, Dies of Injuries Received In Auto Wreck ON WAY TO RE MARRIED The holiday wedding trip of Miss Bettie Sue Hall, 16, of Halls Mills, Wilkes County, ended in death Saturday night at Staunton, Va., from injuries received in an auto accident near there Christ mas morning. Her fiancee, Burton Edwards of Whitehead, Alleghany County, was. critically hurt and in the hospital at Staunton. Ernest Cleary of Sparta, driver of the car which carried the wed ding party, was slightly injured. The car skidded on icy pavement, hit another car and overturned. Others in the car were Cleary’s wife, her twin sister, Miss Elsie Edwards of Whitehead, who was also critically hurt and is in a Staunton hospital, J. W. Hall, father of the acci dent victim, said that they had with them a marriage license for the State of Maryland. They had. intended to be married in Mary land and visit relatives in Wash” ington, D. C., it was said.
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