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. XXXVII No. 9 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1949 $2.00 PER YEAR 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS ELKIN POLIO CAMPAIGN IN * FINISH WEEK Utley Reports Solicitations Received Fairly Well SEVERAL GROUPS HELP Auction At Reeves Theatre Wednesday 8:30 Expected To Net Profits FEW RECEIPTS GIVEN Elkin’s March of Dimes was in high gear this week, the final one of the drive against poliomyelitis. Charles Utley, co-chairman, re ported yesterday that solicitations were fairly-well received but the outcome of the committee’s efforts was not definite. .lfft An auction which was to be held Wednesday night at 8:30 at the Reeves Theatre is expected to net several hundred dollars for the campaign. Members of the Junior Woman’s Club, along with other groups appointed by the committee, solicited prizes to be sold. Mr. Utley said that the mer chants fell short of expected con tributions, but a total of approx imately $600 was netted for solic itations there. Brownie Girl Scouts sold candy at a theatre lobby last week and gained $25: Girl Scouts on the streets receiv ed $60; and the Junior Woman’s , Club reached a total of more than J^0 from boxes in the bank. 'j^WRn 'American Legion square ' -fiance netted $50 and a radio broadcast music request drive Sunday afternoon, gained $100. Collections in local theatre lobbies netted $40. The amount collected by Boy Scouts was unavailable. Miscel laneous sources netted more than $100. The Elkin High School’s newly organized band made a march through town Saturday morning, P^along with Boy Scouts and Cub ~ Scouts, in support of the drive. A banner rtading, “Join Now! March of Dimes,” was carried by Scouts. Elkin High drum major ettes led the parade. Members of the Junior Woman’s Club are making their contribu tions along with their families through the club. An estimate on the receipts thus far was un l| ^piilable. Holshouser Goes On Trial In New York Clothing found on the beaten body of a 73-year-old widow was admitted in evidence last week at Belmont, N. Y., in the first degree murder trial of Mauris ^Junior Holshouser, who was cap tured at Yadkinville last summer in an Elkin cab. Frederick C. Mulholland, Wells ville mortician, said he removed the body of the victim, Mrs. Lena G. M. Robinson, from her farm home last September 10. Joseph M. Cesaro, an analytical chemist employed by State police, said bed clothing and wearing apparel tak en from the house were stained ^ by human blood. When the material was offered in evidence, Robert L. Fleisher, who is defending the 26-year-old Holshouser, objected. He said the exhibits were “inflammatory, and unduly so.” Holshouser, who had been hired • to do some painting at Mrs. Rob inson’s home, was captured by State Highway patrolmen at Yad | kinville four days after the kill * ing. A simple plea of innocent and another plea of innocent “be cause of insanity” have been en tered in his behalf. Gwen Dickson Heads E-J Youth Council Miss Gwen Dickson of the Elkin Presbyterian Church was named president of the Inter-Denomina tional Youth Council of Elkin and Jonesville at a meeting held at the Elkin First Methodist Church, Monday evening. Other officers elected to serve with Miss Dickson were Miss Pearl Fisher o f Jonesville Methodist Church, as vice-president, and Miss Betty Price of the Jonesville First Baptist Church as secretary treasurer. Plans were made for an inspir ational program for the youth of all the churches in the two com munities. The program is planned to take place before Easter and r the Ministerial Association will select the speaker. The council urges all churches included in the Jonesville-Elkin Ministerial Association to elect their delegates for the council and to have their church" represented at each of the meetings. “I THINK I’LL BE A NURSE” — Barbara Felts, 11 years old, was Elkin’s first victim of infantile paralysis in last year’s disaster epidemic. Here she tells the Tribune reporter about her stay at a con valescent hospital at Camp Sutton. “I think I’ll be a nurse,” she revealed after recalling the atten tion and kindness given her there. (tribune photoi Elkinites Full Aware Of Polio Fight Value Barbara Felts Was First Victim Here In 1948 Paralysis Epidemic As Elkinites turn in their con tributions to the March of Dimes this year, they do so full-knowing of what this insurance payment; can mean. Because neither Elkin nor Surry County was by-passed in last year’s poliomyelitis epidemic which swept over the state of North Carolina taking a vast toll of vic tims. Elkinites know too that the disease knows no class, race or financial barrier. Here they know that the March of Dimes, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, has a sell ing point—one which may insure your child and your neighbor’s child. Among those who can give tes timony as to the promptness of attention, the thorough care and help which the March of Dimes LIONS HEAR SCHOOL TALK Hollingsworth, Holcomb Present Slide Lecture On Findings of Group AT MONDAY MEETING An interpretive lecture, “Edu cation in North Carolina, Today and Tomorrow,” was presented to members of the Elkin Lions Club Monday night by Jesse Hollings worth, instructor of history at Elkin High School, and Denver Holcomb, principal of the Ele mentary School. The talk and slide projection lecture was based on a survey by the State Education Commission made recently and distributed over the state. Mr. Hollingsworth told the Lions that the children of the state are paying because of crowded class rooms, unsafe buildings, classes in basements, attics and hallways, lack of trained teachers, lack of equipment, buses and instruction al materials and double shift classes. “Yes, our children, yours and mine are paying today,” he said. “Children who are too young to speak for themselves, and they will continue to pay tomorrow, to morrow and tomorrow. What can we do? “We can remedy this situation by urging our legislators to sup port the recommendations of the State Education Commission, a modern Bill of Rights for North Carolina children and a blue print for that progress which will pro vide better teachers for our schools and better schools for our chil dren.” The Lions were honored by the presence of more members than in any meeting in several months. Car Owners Told To Get Town Tags Automobile owners of Jonesville were given last-minute warning yesterday to obtain their town license plates before the January 31 deadline. Price of tags are $1 each. makes possible, is little Barbara Felts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Felts of Elkin. In August last year, little Bar bara, then 10 years old, was stricken by infantile paralysis and was taken directly to a Winston Salem hospital. She was the first Elkin victim. Her case, its stage and designation of treatment was quickly prescribed and Barbara was on her way to a convalescent hospital at Camp Sutton. And all this was done without regard, without question as to the financial standing of Barbara’s parents. Barbara, an intelligent, alert child, said this week, “I’ve almost forgotten that I ever had it.” She spoke in glowing terms of the treatment she received at the hospital. “And those colored peo ple who worked in the kitchen,” she smiled, “were always laugh ing and telling us that we must eat every bite of food on our plates or they’d keep us from go ing home when we got well.” “I think I’ll be a nurse,” Bar bara said, flashing her metalic blue eyes, “They were kind at the hospital.” She said that 11 other children were in the same ward with her. She was the least affected of them. After Barbara came back to El kin, she resumed her normal life as nearly as possible. She is now back in school and she says doc tors predict that she will someday be completely recovered. No, the Infantile Paralysis foun dation did not question the fi nancial status of Barbara’s family, nor request that they pay, nor even hint* as much. Their interest is in stopping the disease where it stands and thus preventing its spread. Here is the value of the March of Dimes. Without regard to fi nances when the disease is to be fought in the hot summer months, the Foundation can work (Continued on page eight) Pack 11 Scouts Receive Badges Twenty-six members of Pack 11, Cub Scouts, B. S. A., were awarded Bobcat badges at a meet ing Thursday night at the First Presbyterian Church here. Two movies on Cub Scouting were shown before the awarding began. Four dens along with den mothers and den dads were pres ent. Joe Gwyn Bivins, Cubmaster, spoke to the group on plans of the pack. Those receiving badges were Billy Davis, Sammy Elmore, Harry Hensel, Jr., Charles Johnson, Ar thur Glenn, Kedron Norman, Joe Price and Ralph Triplett, all of Den 1. From Den 2 were Mike Carpen ter, Billy Eidson, Jerry and Buddy Farrell. All boys of Den 3 passed re quirements but must wait until they are old enough to receive badges. Donald Byrd, Jimmy Gray, Wal ly Holcomb and David Myers re ceived awards from Den 4. Two-Hour Meters Now Operating On Market Street Two -hour parking: meters have been installed oh Market Street by the Town of Elkin. Police Chief Corbett Wall said yesterday that the meters would not take a dime but two nickles will furnish two hours parking time as will 10 pennies. RAMEY WINS CORN AWARD Hybrid Yield Checked At 136.7 Bushels Per Acre; Fulk Takes Second SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR D. C. Ramey, farmer of Lowgap, has been announced the winner of the 1948 Surry Hybrid Corn Growing Contest with a yield of 136.7 bushels of corn per acre. Mr. Ramey also won the 1947 award. A prize of $25 was awarded him by the Surry Farm Bureau, which in cooperation with county exten sion agents and other agricultural agencies, sponsored the contest. Second prize winner was Lonnie Gray Fulk, 4-H Clubber, of Route 1, Dobson. His yield was 136.2 bushels per acre. He was awarded a prize of $15. Guy McCann, of Elkin, Route 1, was awarded $10 as third place winner, with a corn yield of 127.4 bushels per acre. The contest closed last October 1. Measuring was done by as sistants to the county agent Don ald Halsey and Ophus M. Fulcher, Jr., who were on the committee designated by the Farm Bureau and the Surry Extension Service to determine the winner. Dr. E. R. Collins, agronomist of State College, spent one day in the county last fall checking the yield of Mr. Ramey’s crop with Assistant Agent Fulcher. The winner’s yield was higher than the one which placed him first in 1947. The yields of the next 10 win ners who received $5 each for awards were Garner Ramey, Low gap, 125.4; Edwin Atkinson, Siloaan, 124.7; Will Yates, Route 2, Pilot Mountain, 121.4; Billy Scott, Siloam, 120.8; R. W. Shin ault, Elkin, 120.7; C. H. Swift, State Road, 117.2; Brent Shinault, Dobson, Route 1, 113.8; R. J. Jef ferson, Mount Airy, Route 3; 105.48; Fred Yates, Pilot Moun tain, Route 2, 92.8; and Curtiss Needham, Pilot Mountain, 88.8. Childress Resigns WKBC Position Here Jimmie Childress, manager of the Elkin studio of Radio Station WKBC, North Wilkesboro, has re signed his position here effective Friday. He will be succeeded by Clay Watts, of Furlear. who prior to accepting the local job was as sistant program manager of WKBC’s main stud, os at North Wilkesboro. Mr. Childress said he would re main in the radio business, but at the present time his plans were indefinite. Charles E. Wilfong, of Elkin and Raleifeh, has been named as announcer at the station. He is a graduate from Mars Hill College and attended Kosloff Radio School, Los Angeles, Cal. He attended high school it Need ham Broughton, Raleigh. ft, SAFETY HEADS. TO COME HERE FOR MEETING Convene This Morning In Business Meeting HOLD 2-DAY SESSION 40 Executives Of National Safety Council Section To Tour Plant EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chatham Manufacturing Com pany will be host today (Thurs day) and Friday to a winter bus iness meeting of the executive committee of the textile section of National Safety Council. Fourteen members of the Com mittee from over the nation will attend. C. J. Hyslup, safety direc tor at Chatham, said yesterday. Business sessions will get under way at 10 a.m., Thursday. A ban quet will be given by Chatham Thursday night honoring the guests who are as follows: Charles L. Trommer, Mohawk Carpet Mills, Amsterdam, N. Y.; R. I. Barr, Industrial Rayon Cor poration, Painesville, Ohio: Neil Nelson, American Mutual Liabil ity Insurance Company, Manches ter, N. H.; Ray Ketchmark, Dan River Mills, Danville, Va.; T. A. Wilson, N. C. Industrial Commis sion, Raleigh: Robert M. Murray, State Department of Labor, Prov idence, R. I.; T. B. Ipok, Jr., Fire stone Textiles, Gastonia; Mrs. Sarah C. Van Sant, Graniteville Company, Graniteville, S. C.; Robert Saltonstall, William Whit man Company, Lawrence, Mass.; E. G. Padgett, Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company, Charlotte; Guy C. Collier, Apon aug Manufacturing Company, Jackson, Miss.; Thomas R. Self, American Mutual Liability In surance Company, Atlanta, Ga.; Lewis P. Sorrell, State Depart ment of Labor, Raleigh; and H. E. Williams, Fieldcrest Mills, Spray. Guests will be taken on a tour of the Chatham plant Friday morning. This is the first semi annual meeting of the committee during 1949. RESERVE UNIT IS MOVED HERE 443rd Finance Disbursing Section Transferred From Durham To Elkin YARBOROUGH IS HEAD The 443rd Finance Disbursing Section of the army reserves has been moved from Durham to El kin, Captain Richard J. Mclnerny, unit instructor at Winston-Salem, announced Monday. Also the 367th Finance Disburs ing Section has been transferred from Raleigh to Pilot Mountain. Captain George C. Yarbrough of Elkin will command the 443rd. Captain James H. Hampton of Pilot Mountain, formerly attach ed to the 315th OR Composite Group in Winston - Salem, has been named commanding officer of the 367th. “More frequent training assem blies have been planned to enable reservists to meet retirement credit requirements,” Captain Mc lnerny said. He reminded reservists in this area that Feb. 1, 1949, is the dead line for reserve officers to notify headquarters of a desire to re main in active service. A recent bulletin issued by the office of the army instructor in Raleigh in answer to criticism of the army reserve training program shows that a complete program has been set up in four phases— promotion, pay, active reserve and retirement, he added. IV. C. Delegates Boom Chatham For Democrat Party Treasurer Post JUDGE ORDERS ACCOUNT AUDIT Decision To Check Books Of 20 Surry Magistrates Made After Charge ONE OFFICIAL INDICTED Audit of the accounts of some 20 Surry County magistrates was ordered last week after the Surry grand jury had returned six true bills against Magistrate Weldon D. Inman, of Mount Airy, charging him with keeping a total of $50 in fines supposed to be delivered to the county auditor for transfer to the county school fund. Superior Court Judge Hoyle Sink ordered the audits made by J. Pate Fulk, Surry tax supervisor, by February 21, when another ses sion of the Surry Superior Court begins. The order provides that Mr. Fulp is not authorized to require Inman to submit “records, data, or other substances that he may elect to withhold, either upon his own motion or upon advice of counsel.” John W. Comer, superintendent of Surry County schools, who is authorized to inspect magistrates’ reports to protect the school funds, said that Inman was the only one of the group delinquent, though a large number of them was late with reports each month and some magistrates were inactive. One bill of indictment charges that Inman on last March 1 failed to itemize and report all cases tried and fines and court costs collected, and failed to pay to the county treasury all fines and court costs collected. Another indictment charges him with “unlawfullly and willingly” failing to report the names and offenses of defendants tried and the cases disposed of since the last term of Superior Court in Sep tember. GRANGE NAMES COMMISSIONER East Bend Organization Wants J. H. Speas For Road Commissioner RESIDENT OF EAST BEND The East Bend Community Grange held its legal-: meeting last Wednesday at which several business matters were discussed by members, the secretary of the organization announced yestar day. The Grange went on record to help sponsor the building of a cattle shed which was advocated at the last meeting of the county wide Grange organization. It is to be located on the Fair Grounds in East Bend for use of the cattle show each year. During the business session, members voted to work for the appointment of J. H. Speas, East Bend businessman, as District Road Commissioner. It also went on record to have the Legislative Committee contact the Utilities Commission to at tempt to secure telephones out side the city limits of East Bend. Rev. W. C. Eastridge, pastor of the East Bend Methodist Charge, was received into the Grange as a new member at the meeting. Dollar Days To Be Held In Elkin February 3-4-5: Next Thursday, Friday and Sat urday, February 3-4-5, will be Dol lar Days in Elkin. Value seekers will be glad to learn that Dollar Days have be come a semi-annual event in Elkin, now that scarcities in merchan dise, caused by the war, have been overcome, and they will be especi ally pleased with the large number of special bargains which will be offered by cooperating Elkin mer chants in next week’s event. Practically all Elkin merchants are planning tb take part in the Dollar Days event, and next week’s Tribune, which will be published one day earlier than 1 usual, going to press on Tuesday afternoon, will contain news of - where the biggest values may be 1 found. 1 Due to the great amount of work involved in getting out a ’ Dollar Days edition, plus the fact 1 that the paper will appear one day earlier than customary, all s merchants planning advertising < are urged to prepare their ad copy c early. Correspondents are also < asked to send in their news not e later than Monday, or it will be \ impossible to handle it. i r.w.wnw.'Q BOOMED FOR POST — Thur mond Chatham, Fifth District Congressman and Elkin man ufacturer is being talked by the North Carolina Congressional delegation as a possible succes sor to Joe L. Blythe, Charlotte, Democratic National Treasurer, who died Sunday. Chatham was in New York at the time of the discussion and was not aware of the booming. Jonathan Dan iels, Raleigh editor, is also be ing considered. MAYOR ISSUES PROCLAMATION Urges Town Of Elkin To Cooperate Wholeheartedly In March Of Dimes CITES PRESSING NEED The following proclamation was handed down yesterday by Gar land Johnson, mayor of the Town of Elkin: WHEREAS, infantile paralysis last year struck our nation, state and county with intense fury, tak ing savage toll of thousands of little children over the country and many in our own neighbor hood, and, WHEREAS, during the past six polio seasons more than 100,000 Americans have been stricken by this crippling disease, and, WHEREAS, the services of the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis and its 2,819 chap ters were at hand to aid those stricken, and, WHEREAS, in so doing last sum mer the National Foundation ex hausted its epidemic emergency aid fund, and, WHERIEAS, the 1949 March of Dimes, ending January 31, pro vides the only means by which the National Foundation and its chapters may continue to fight infantile paralysis, by aiding those stricken, while financing research to find a preventive or cure, and, WHEREAS, infantile paralysis is certain to strike again next summer, and adequate resources must be available to meet its menace, THEREFORE, I, Garland John son, Mayor of the Town of Elkin, io urgently appeal to each and ;very resident of Elkin and vicin ity to join zealously during the oeribd remaining until January 11, in making the 1949 March of Dimes the most successful in local history. Signed, GARLAND JOHNSON. Surry Officers Raid Gambling Machines Three slot machines and a “race horse” table were confis iated by Surry County officers ast week in a raid at Thurmond, rwo men, Tommy Callo\yay and Dlin Kennedy were under $1000 )ond for appearance at the next erm of court. Sheriff Sam Patterson, Deputies ieber Mounce of Elkin, J. E. Sades, Dobson; and F. C. Sprinkle nade the arrests. Operators of the gambling de 'ices were taken in the raid and mmediately brought to jail. Deputy Mounce said that the lot machines, five, ten and 25 ents coin consumers, were in losed in a built-in desk or table, he top of which was covered by - removable lid so that the de ices could be hidden when not n use. Congressman Knows Little Of Movement By ROBERT A. ERWIN (Tribune Washington Bureau) Washington, Jan. 26,—If plans of some members of the North Carolina Congressional delegation bear fruit, Rep. Thurmond Chat ham of Elkin may be the new treasurer of the democratic Na tional committee—but Chatham himself says he knows nothing about the movement in his be half. A group of Chatham's congres sional colleagues believe he would be an ideal successor to Nation al Treasurer Joe L. Blythe of Charlotte, who died suddenly Sun day, and they already are plan ning to put pressure on Senator J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island, Democratic National Chairman, to make the appoint ment. The pressure would be applied through Senator Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby. A close friend of Mc Grath, if Hoey proves agreeable, Chatham’s House colleagues have been unable to take the matter up with the senator thus far, be cause Hoey was in North Carolina to attend Blythe’s funeral. The wealthy blanket manufacturer is regarded by those pushing him as an ideal choice for the spot because of his widespread business connections, which give him “purse -tapping” connections, throughout the country, because of his party loyalty, and because of the fact he worked closely with Blythe during the Charlotte man’s term as treasurer and, in fact, raised thousands of dollars for the Democratic campaign fund. There is only one major ob stacle to the appointment, but this is not (insurmountable. The national treasurer of the party generally is a member of the national committee, and it is un derstood here that Jonathan Dan iels, Raleigh editor is in line for appointment to succeed Blythe on the committee. But it is not an inflexible rule that the treasurer must be a committeeman. Chatham, however was in New York when the boom was launch ed for him, and his sponsors have had no opportunity to talk to him about the matter. As a result, Chatham is sincere when he says he knows nothing about the boom. As to whether he would accept the post if it were offered him, the Elkin man hasn’t said. But his sponsors, at least, think he would, partly because of party loyalty, and partly because of a desire to use his talents more fully than a freshman member generally is able to in the House. Mt. Airy Farmer Asks Court For New Trial Jack Cantrell, Mount Airy far mer, who was sentenced in Sep tember to the State Prison for assault and attempted rape on his nine-year-old daughter, asked State Supreme Court Friday for a new trial. In an appeal docketed for hear ing at the court’s coming Spring berm, Cantrell claimed the ver dict against him was reached on evidence that should not have been admitted to the record. The appeal held also that the lower eourt erred in overruling defense attorney’s objections. Tribune To Be Published Day Early Next Week The Tribune, cooperating with Elkin merchants who are planning Dollar Days next Thursday, Friday and Satur day, will be issued one day ear lier next week. Instead of go ing to press on Wednesday aft ernoon, The Tribune will go to press Tuesday afternoon. As a result of this earlier publishing date, all country correspondents must have their news in to reach The Tribune office not later than Monday p. m. Advertisers planning ads in the Dollar Days issue are also urged to release their copy early so that this newspaper may meet its Tuesday deadline. k