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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 11
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N/C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1949
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CASES FEATURE
y YADKINCOURT
Judge J. Will Pless Presiding
Over Docket
MANY TRAFFIC CASES
Session Is Expected To Con
tinue For The Remainder
Of This Week
FINE DRUNK DRIVERS
Yadkin County Superior Court,
which convened in Yadkinville
Monday morning, ground out jus
tice in large and small doses to a
long list of defendants this week.
Judge J. Will Pless, of Marion,
presided over the docket which is
being prosecuted by Yadkinville
Solicitor Avalon E. Hall. The
number of cases up for trial fall
about two score short of the re
cord-breaking docket which came
before the September session.
All evidence pointed to the
court continuing for the remaind
er of this week.
Cases disposed of to date are as
follows:
Edgar Smith, speeding, fined
$25 and costs.
Everett Mathis, V.P.L., fined $25
and costs.
Joseph H. Adams, reckless driv
ing, fined $25 and costs.
Curtis Morton Turner, speeding,
fined $25 and costs.
James Hazel Knight, speeding,
costs.
■ I^Wocdrow W. Windsor, speeding,
fined $25 and costs, licenses sus
pended for 90 days.
Woodrow W. Windsor, no driv
ers license, fined $25 and costs.
Dock Mann, assault, fined $10
and costs, and to pay $12 doctor
bill of prosecuting witness.
Clyde E. Austin, speeding, fined
$35 and costs.
William G. Long, speeding, fined
$25 and costs.
Laverne S. Fox, speeding, fined
^V5 and costs.
" Dave H. Swaim, speeding, fined
$25 and costs, license revoked 90
days.
Charlie H. Williams, O.C.I., fin
ed $100 and costs, license suspend
ed one year, to be of good behavior
three years.
Thomas C. Watkins, speeding,
fined $60.00.
Howard Harris, V.P.L., judg
ment continued to September term
W,oS court*
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PIPING BOUGHT
FOR USE HERE
l^ithorization Given For Pur
chase of 3,100 Feet Asbes
tos Cement Pipe
AT COUNCIL MEETING
Authorization was given Monday
night for the purchase by the
Town of Elkin of 3,100 feet of as
bestos cement pipe for use in the
outlying sections of town. The
flaying of the new pipe will ex
tend fire-protection coverage, it
was pointed out.
Johns-Manville Company, At
lanta, was lowest bidder and
promised delivery at an early date.
The meeting of commissioners
Monday also authorized the im
provement of a parking lot across
from the State Theatre of Church
Street to be given over for use of
the public. Crushed rock will be
spread by town employees on the
tract and it will be open for use
soon.
Expense incurred in the spread
ing of rock will be taken from
parking meter proceeds as is al
lowed by a state statute. The
town has secured permission for
use by owners of the property for
the tract which has not been used
for building purposes prior to this.
Want To Get
ir Dime’s Worth
Of Parking?
Want to get your money’s
worth on the two-hour parking
meters? According to Police
Chief Corbett Wall, here’s how:
Don’t try to use ten pennies.
Insert five pennies first, then
a nickle. Don’t use the nickle
first.
If the five-cent piece is used
first, the best you can get is
m seventy minutes worth of park
ing for your extra pennies. But
'if the pennies are inserted be
fore the nickle, then you’re in.
Forty-one new two-hour me
ters have been installed on
Market street replacing one
hour ones.
QUEEN IS CROWNED — Miss Mary Mitchell, Elkin High School
junior, is crowned “Miss Elkin High’’ by N. H. Carpenter, superin
tendent of the Elkin Schools, at a ceremony sponsored by the Junior
class Thursday evening at the Reeves Theatre. Dale Aldridge pre
sented Miss Mitchell a gift from the Juniors, (photo by tows studio,
SURRY COURT
JURORSDRAWN
Second Term of Criminal
Court This Year Begins At
Dobson, February 21
FOR TWO WEEK SESSION
Jurors were drawn last week
for Surry County Superior Court
term beginning February 21. They
are:
Ralph Shav., Vance Draughn,
Haywood Childress, I. W. Barber,
Irvin Everhart, Dewey Inman, Joe
D. Carson, Marvin Guyer, Jesse M.
Banner, Marshall Phillips. C. C.
Cockerham, Hugh L. Merritt. Wes
ley Gillespie, Margarette Barker,
Claude S. Bryant, J. W. Brock,
Oliver L. Moorefield, E. M. Bow
man, A. J. Coleman, Vander Cave,
E. S. Redman,
Marvin Brown, S. H. Dickerson,
P. L. Wright, Ovid T. Blackburn,
Odell Lawrence, R. L. Thore, Lu
ther W. Bullin, James L. Byrd,
Walter F. Rogers, J. Manley Snow,
Ralph Bunker, Arthur Cook, Clin
ton I. Tesh, Mose Nichols, J. Carl
Clifton, W. B. Deatherage, Avery
E. Cox, C. M. Beamer, Joe Hamlin,
and Jesse Atkins.
The list of jurors drawn for
the February 28 term of court in
cludes the following: T. F. Butner,
C. B. Harris, Taylor Creed, Walter
Atkins, E. L. Wood, Cletus Moser,
J. Van Byrd, Robert D. Salley
William Tilley, W. Oliver Bryant,
L. W. Tickle, P. D. Webster, Jr.,
Jacob Draughn, Claude Barker, J,
N. Greenwood, Henry Wagoner,
Kelly Cockerham, James Snow,
Leonard Draughn, Howard Reeves
Arthur W. Calloway, Richard
Isaac, Early W. Tate, Robert Dar
nell, Sam Ashburn, F. B. Quesin
berry, V. R. Hunter, Ed Chaney,
D. Everett Cockerham, and Jack
Bryant.
Wilkes Polio Fund
Reaches $7,00(
The Polio fund in Wilkes Countj
totals $7,000 but $5,000 is needec
to reach the goal of $12,000, San
Ogilvie campaign and chaptei
chairman, reported this week.
The campaign, orginally sched
uled to end February 1, was con
tinued through this week ir
Wilkes.
Mr. Ogilvie said reports hav<
been received from a majority o:
the schools and others are expect
ed this week. Mulberry elementarj
school, Mr. Ogilvie said, did ar
exceptional job in raising $376.25
Radio station WKBC raisec
about $425 with a polio program
A report from the bingo part;
held Saturday night showed i
profit of $175 after prizes hac
been paid.
Tobacco Men Plan
Annual Conventior
Tobacco Associates, Inc., Ral
eigh, announced through Count:
Agent Neill M. Smith this weel
that the group's annual member
ship meeting will be held in Ral
eigh, Tuesday, March 1.
Surry farmers who are interest
ed were invited to attend.
J. B. Hutson, president of th<
organization will give his yearl:
report at the meeting. J. Henr:
Vaughn, Elm City, chairman o
the board of directors, will pre
side.
CHOSEN MISS APPALACHIAN
—Miss Pauline Wagoner, above,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hay
wood Wagoner of Elkin, has
been chosen as Miss Appalach
ian by the students of Appalach
ian State Teachers college,
where she is now a senior. Miss
Wagoner is a leader in the stu
dent body, as well as an excell
ent student. John Caskey of
Mooresville, was chosen as Mr.
Appalachian; R. L. Pardue of
Winston-Salem, most popular;
and II. G. Jones of Pelham, most
: valuable.
YADKIN SOLON
WANTS CHANGE
Harding Introduces Bill De
signed To Remove Techni
calities For Bond Issue
WOULD VALIDATE VOTE
Removal of technicalities in the
path of an $80,000 hospital bond
issue in Yadkin County-^-and per
haps other similar bond issues in
other counties was the object of
a bill introduced in the house by
Representative F. D. B. Harding
of Yadkinville, last week.
Harding said last December in
a bond issue election, a majority
of those voting favored the bond
issue, but it failed to carry “against
the registration.”
Prior to the election, the people
of the state in a referendum voter
to change the method of bond is
: sue elections to make them carry
when a majority of those voting
favor the issue. But the constitu
’ tional change had not been carried
i through into amendments of other
. sections of the state law. Hard
I ing’s bill would make those chang
. es.
' He said the bond issue was part
1 of the financial plan for a $360,000
l hospital to be built under the
state medical care program.
E-J Building-Loan
1 Re-elects Directors
r The Elkin-Jonesvile Building
; and Loan Association ,held an an
. nual stock holders meeting Tues
. day night here and re-elected
present officers:
Officers are J. R. Poindexter,
president, F. M. Norman, vice
; president, H. P. Graham, vice
r president, and Mattie Mae Powell,
r secretary-treasurer. Other direc
l tors are E. F. McNeer, S. G. Hol
■ comb, C. S. Foster, W. C. Cox, J.
L. Hall and George E. Royall.
TO ASK BOOKS
FOR YOUTH OF
WAR AREAS
Drive To Be Held Here Next
Monday Through Friday
CARPENTER CHAIRMAN
Project Planned At Sugges
tion of Editor John Park
Of Raleigh Times
VISITED GERMANY IN ’47
A drive for gathering books for
the youth of war devastated coun
tries will be held Monday through
Friday next week, N. H. Carpenter,
chairman of the campaign, said
yesterday.
The project was begun at the
suggestion of John A. Park, edi
tor of the Raleigh Times, who ini
tiated the campaign after a trip
to Germany in the summer of
1947.
Mr. Park spoke to the Elkin Ki
wanis Club last week, urging the
broad-scale book gathering plan.
Elkin school children will take
part in the collection. The Ki
wanis Club members will pack and
ship the books received and the
Junior Woman’s Club will screen
material contributed.
Desirable selections will include
picture books for young ages,
readers, story books, histories and
social science for all ages, good
literature, art and music books,
classics, general science, books on
algebra, geometry, encyclopaedias,
Bibles, dictionaries, reference
books, good wholesome magazines
since the fighting ended in May,
1945, and college textbooks since
1938. The emphasis is on whole
some grammar grade materials.
Added to this initial list should be
reading material in English that
adult foreigners will want. High
class magazines also are wanted.
Undesirable selections include
newspapers, strictly news maga
zines, light or sensational fiction,
arithmetic in English measures,
foreign language books, shorthand
and high science, purely war-time
subjects, unfair pictures of U. S.,
out-dated science books, political
and denominational texts, "pulp”
magazines, comic books, "true
story” magazines. Low class and
trashy materials may be sold as
scrap.
Books may be left at local thea
tres. Clifton Leary, president of
the Kiwanis Club, and Mrs. Robert
Kirkman, president of the Junior
Woman’s Club, will also lead in
the collection of books.
SCOUTS TAKE
OVER EKIN
Town Mayor, Commissioners,
Other Officials To Be Nam
ed At Friday Luncheon
FOR BOY SCOUT WEEK
Boy Scouts will rule the Town
of Elkin Friday when a mayor and
a board of commissioners and
other town officials will be select
ed in cooperation with Boy Scout
Week.
Officials will be announced at
a luncheon given by the Bon Ton
Grill following a parade in which
the Scouts will march. Formation
at the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A., 1:30
p.m., will be made and members of
the Boy Scoifts, Girl Scouts,
Brownies and Cubs will march
in the procession which also will
feature the Elkin High School
Band.
The luncheon will be attended
by Boy Scouts and leaders only.
Saturday morning a theatre
party will be given at the State
Theatre for Boy Scouts and Cub
Scouts, sCouters and their wives.
A court of honor will be held and
presentation of prizes for a Scout
contest will be made by the Rev.
Marvin Boggs. Buck Hines is
chairman of the advancement
committee in charge of the con
test.
Prizes for the contest will be
furnished by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars and the Elkin Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
Scout Week was begun with a
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Elkin, Jonesville
Win Tuesday Games
Elkin High School took a
double-header from North Wilkes
boro Tuesday night. The girls won
a 37-18 victory in the opening
game, while the boys went on a
scoring spree to rack up a 50-29
contest.
Jonesville downed Franklin in
a pair of games, meanwhile. The
Blue Jays took the girls game
33-25, and the boys won the sec
ond game 42-34.
Wave Of Thefts, Burglaries
Plague Elkin, Surry County;
Police Ask More Precaution
PAINTER GETS
PRISON TERM
Maurice Holshouser, Captured
In Elkin Taxi, Sentenced
In New York Court
FOR KILLING WIDOW
Maurice Junior Holshouser, who
was captured last September in
an Elkin taxi after an evasion of
the law, was last week sentenced
to 10 to 20 years in the New York
State Prison, convicted of first
degree manslaughter in the death
of an elderly farm woman.
Holshouser, 26-year-old former
carnival worker from North Caro
lina, was accused of beating Mrs.
Lena G. M. Robinson, 73, to death
with his fists last September 10
in her bedroom near Scio, N. Y.
The State also alleged he raped
and robbed the widow, whose
barns he had been employed to
paint.
Justice Ward sentenced Hols
houser as a first felony offender,
despite a prosecution argument
that Holshouser had been convict
ed previously of a felony in con
nection with transportation of a
stolen automobile from Tennessee
to Flintstone, Ga.
District Attorney E. Allen Mapes
said further investigation of the
automobile case might result in
Holshouser’s return to New York
for re-sentencing as a second
felony offender. That would en
tail a maximum sentence of 20
to 40 years.
R. G. Chatham
Named Head
Of Y. M. C. A.
R. G. CHATHAM
R. G. Chatham, personnel man
ager of Chatham Manufacturing
Company, was recently elected
president -of the Gilvin Roth
Y.M.CA., T. C. McKnight, general
secretary, announced this week.
George Royal was named vice
president and C. F. Dixon was
elected recording secretary. Hu
bert Parker was re-elected treas
urer.
Directors named were W. M.
Allen, J. W. L. Benson, James
Burcham, Hugh G. Chatham,
Hoyle Cranford, R. A. Harris, W.
R. Hartness, Fred Neaves, E. T.
Shamel, E. S. Spainhour and D.
G. Smith.
Sweetheart Ball
To Be Held At Y
The Inter-club council of the
Jonesville-Elkin schools will hold
a Sweetheart Ball Saturday night
at the banquet room of the Gil
vin Roth Y.M.C.A. The event, a
formal affair, will begin at 8
p. 01.
Meanwhile, the Jonesville Teen
Y and Junior Hi-Y Club will have
a square dance at the Youth Cen
ter at the Y.
Man Suffers Head
Injury From Saw
Tom Mann, negro, of Jonesville,
was recuperating this week from
a deep gash on the head suffered
in a lumber saw accident at Hen
sel Lumber Company last week.
He was treated at the Hugh
Chatham Memorial Hospital.
$
CONGRATULATIONS! — James Webb, of Oxford, sworn in last
week as Undersecretary of State, receives congratulations from three
U. S. officials all from the Fifth Congressional District. Left to
right are John S. Graham, Undersecretary of the Treasury; Webb;
Thurmond Chatham, Representative from the Fifth District; and
Gordon Gray, Assistant Secretary of Army. (Photo by Seth Muse)
NAME BOARD
AT CHATHAM
R. G. Chatham, T. M. Roth,
Fred L. Neaves Named
As New Directors
OTHERS ARE REELECTED
Three new directors of the
Chatham Manufacturing Com
pany were elected last week at
the firm’s annual meeting.
They were Richard G. Chatham,
personnel director of the com
pany; Thomas M. Roth, assistant
superintendent; and Fred L.
Neaves, superintendent, all of El
kin.
A. L. Butler, president, presided
over the meeting in the absence
of Congressman Thurmond Chat
ham, chairman of the board, who
is now in Washington.
Mr. Butler told the company
officials, that in his opinion, op
erations for the past year were
satisfactory.
Officers elected for the coming
year were Thurmond Chatham,
chairman of the board; Mr. But
ler, president; J. Harrison Lass
iter, assistant to the president;
Hugh G. Chatham, Thomas J.
Sheehe, J. W. L. Benson and
Eleanor S. Taylor, all vice-presi
dents; W. R. Hartness, Jr., treas
urer; James A. Booher, secretary;
N. J. Blackwood, assistant treas
urer; C. F. Dixon, assistant sec
retary; R. W. Harris, general sup
erintendent; Fred L. Neaves, sup
erintendent; Earl M. Hodel, as
sistant superintendent; Thomas
M. Roth, assistant superintendent;
and Howard Hatch, assistant sup
erintendant.
Directors elected, in addition to
the three new ones named, were
Thurmond Chatham, Albert L.
Butler, Hugh G. Chatham, Thom
as J. Sheehe,, W. A. Neaves, R. W.
Harris, C. W. Poor, J. W. L. Ben
son, John D. Eller, R. M. Hanes,
R. P. Hanes, William M. Butler,
J. Harrison Lassiter arid Earl M.
Hodel.
Irrigation Course To
Be Held Wednesday
Farmers and gardeners inter
ested in irrigation were invited
yesterday to attend a course on
irrigation next Wednesday at the
Courthouse in Dobson.
Neill M. Smith, Surry farm
agent, announced that H. M. Ellis,
agriculture engineer, State Col
lege extension service, will dis
cuss problems in irrigation of
gardens.
“Many city residents will find
that they may increase garden
production with the water supply
they have on hand,” Mr. Smith
added. “We invite all to attend
who are interested in knowing
more about irrigation.”
Two Elkinites Get
Appalachian Scrolls
Appalachian State Teachers
College, Boone, will award diplo
mas to 23 students, two of them
are from this city, on February
25 at the end of the Winter quar
ters. They represent eight fields
of certification.
Max Sparks will receive a diplo
ma in the field of physical edu
cation and social studies and
Donald Littman in Grammar Grad
education.
Utley, Neaves
Thank Elkinites
For March Success
Charles Utley and Charles
Neaves, co-chairmen of the
March of Dimes campaign in
Elkin this week praised the
work of all those who contrib
uted and helped with the drive
in this vicinity.
“The campaign was up to ex
pectations as is usual with the
people of Elkin,” Utley said
yesterday. “I hesitate to men
tion the organizations which
were so instrumental in put
ting the project across, because
there were so many that made
it possible.”
The merchants of the town,
though at first contributing
slowly had heaped up an ap
preciable amount when final
proceeds were counted. The
Scouts, the Elkin Junior Wom
an’s Club, the Jaycees, the
American Legion and numerous
other civic interests contributed
to the success w’hich netted
about $4500 from the vicinity.
KIWANIS HEARS
RALEIGH EDITOR
John A. Park Tells Local Club
Of Observations While
In Europe
PREPAREDNESS U R G E D
An attitude of tension will pre
vail throughout the entire world
for some years to come, John A.
Park, editor-publisher of The Ral
eigh Times, told the Elkin Kiwan
is Club at its Thursday night
meeting. “It will be a very long
time, if ever, for the United
States of America to recover from
serious errors just before the end
of World War II, in which Soviet
influences had already been work
ing against our country and for
their own selfish benefits,” the
editor stated.
Drawing on his own observa
tions in Europe, including visits
inside the Russian zones of Ger
many and Austria, the speaker
deplored circumstances that have
permitted Russian Occupation
Forces to enter Europe with the
evident intention of staying there
indefinitely, it was pointed out.
As to what may be done for the
assurance of America’s envied po
sition in the world today, the
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Employers To Fete
Employees, Feb. 22
The. annual Employee-Employer
dinner of Elkin Merchants Assoc
iation wll be given Tuesday night,
Feb. 22, at 7 p.m., at the Gilvin
Roth Y.M.O.A., it was announced
this week.
George Penney, humorist of
Greensboro, will be the featured
speaker. He is a past state legis
lator and a member of the Penney
Brothers auctioneers.
George Royall will serve as
master of ceremonies. Joe Bivins
will call the square dance to fol
low the dinner and speaking.
Tickets are available at the
Merchants Association office at
the Town Hall until February
19.
Thugs Enter
Five Places
Monday Night
A new wave of thefts and break
ins occurred over Surry County
during the past week and law
officers yesterday asked the pub
lic to help thwart the series of
acts by exercising care for money,
valuables and other property.
Five buglaries were reported in
the Elkin vicinity Monday night.
Other places included Maunt Airy,
Mountain Park, Flat Rock and
Dobson.
The buglaries were centered
mostly around schools. Sheriff
Sam Patterson, Dobson, and Police
Chief Corbett Wall, Elkin, asked
cooperation with school officials
in not leaving money and other
properties in the buildings.
A breaking-in occurred at the
Elkin Elementary school Tuesday
night, but no valuables were re
ported stolen. The thugs, how
ever helped themselves to a snack
of milk and other food from the
school lunchroom.
At the Elkin High School Fri
day night, thugs entered the rear
of the building, bored holes in
the office door and entered the
office safe, making way with a
sum of $117.23, $81.23 of which
was in cash. The contents of the
safe had been accumulated
through student projects since a
bank deposit Thursday morning.
A school at Dobson was entered
Monday night, causing $100 dam
age to the building but netting
the thieves only 80 cents.
The Mountain Park school was
entered and more than $100 was
taken.
Davis’ place in North Elkin was
also broken into and an undeter
mined amount was taken. Yad
kin Auto Sales was entered and
$10.19 in cash taken. Dan Huds
peth’s Service Station was enter
ed and between $25 and $75
taken.
Sheriff Patterson reported also
a theft. in Mount Airy Monday
night and one at Flat Rock. No
details were learned.
Chief Wall reported the theft
of a ’39 Ford coupe belonging to
Gilmer Dunn. The vehicle was
stolen from a parking lot by the
Chatham Manufacturing C o m
pany Tuesday morning between
12 p.m., and 8 a.m. It bore the
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Two Hurt In Auto
Accident Sunday
Two men were slightly injured
in an accident near Klondike
Farm Sunday night.
Sam Blackburn, 24, of Thur
mond, and Fred Cooper, 28, of
Traphill community, were treated
at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos
pital for injuries received when
a sedan operated by Raymond
Arthur Newman, 21, of Galax, Va„
reportedly went out of control.
Jersey Parish Meets
Here February 19th
The Yadkin Valley Jersey Cat
tle Parish will meet in the Gilvin
Roth Y.M.C.A., here at 1 p.m.,
Saturday, Feb. 19, Paul Buich,
chairman of the Parish said this
week.
Counties included in the parish
are Surry, Yadkin, Wilkes, Ashe,
Alleghany, Stokes and Forsyth.
Yadkin County
Produces 8,542,000'
Feet of Lumber, ’47
Yadkin county in 1947 pro
i tinted 8,542,000 feet of timber,
: including 6,517,000 feet of soft
wood and 2,025,000 feet of
i hardwood, according to C.
| Parker Persons, regional direc
tor of the United States De
partment of Commerce in At
lanta.
A total of 48 mills of Yadkin
county reported in the census.
Their production was part of a
total of 1,539,656,000 feet of
lumber produced by 4,588 mills
in the state as a whole, includ
ing 1,173,562,000 feet of soft
wood and 366,094,000 feet of
hardwood lumber.