ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Carolina
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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.
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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
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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.
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