ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Carolina
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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. 12
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949
$2.00 PER YEAR
18 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
TWO ARE GIVEN
LONG TERMS IN
YADKIN COURT
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Charged With Housebreaking,
Larceny and Receiving
OTHER CASES ARE TRIED
Sentences Meted Out In
Steady Stream As Court
Sits For Second Week
DRUNK DRIVING CASES
Yadkin County Superior Court
continued to mete out sentences
in a steady stream as the docket
went into its second week under
Presiding Judge J. Will Pless.
The largest sentence given out
by the court was in the case of
Jesse Garfield Patton and Ernest
Brown, charged with house-break
Wng, larceny and receiving.
Judge Pless sentenced Brown to
the State Penitentiary for not less
than five years, nor more than
seven years, at hard labor. He re
ceived the same sentence for an
other case, to take effect at the
expiration of the first sentence,
capias to put the sentence into ef
fect to be withheld at the pleasure
of the court. In a third case judg
ment was continued for a period
of ten years.
Patton was sentenced to serve
not less than four, nor more than
seven, years in the state peniten
tiary, in one case. In a second
case he was sentenced to 5 to 7
years, the court reserving the au
thority to put the sentence into
[ect at any term of court within
l?ars. In a third case, judg
ment was continued for ten years.
Cases against Everette Brown
and Hickman Norman, charged
with the same offense, were nol
prossed with leave.
Some of the major sentences
were given by the court Tuesday
when three Yadkin County youths
were sentenced for larceny. Shan
non Brown, of near Boonville, and
Brady and Roy Marsh, of Yad
kinville, were each charged with
^six cases of breaking and enter
Yadkinville business firms and
^roaling merchandise and money.
Brown was sentenced to not
less than 12 months and not more
than 24 months on the roads in
one judgment. In a second judg
ment, he was sentenced to the
state penitentiary for seven to ten
years, suspended for five years on
condition of good behavior.
The two Marsh brothers were
^serlenced to not less than 18
Vmomhs and not more than 24
months, with the same suspended
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HEALTH LAWS
ARE VIOLATED
County Sanitation Reports
Unauthorized Milk Sales
Made, Dumping Violations
CLOSE WATCH IS ON
Warning was given this week
against two specific violations of
the health code in Surry County.
John Cruse, county sanitarian
*m. with the Surry Health Depart
ment, Mount Airy, said that milk
was being sold by persons who
had surplus — a strict violation
unless the seller is approved by
the Health Department.
Mr. Cruse listed the following
as approved retail milk dealers:
Klondike Farms, Grassy Creek,
Surry Dairies, Dan Valley Farms,
Aldridge, McKinney’s, C o b 1 e’s
- f (Lexington), and Southern (Win
^ ston-Salem).
Those caught selling retail milk
outside the approved list will be
prosecuted, Mr. Cruse said. He
pointed out that a standard milk
ordinance designed from the
standards of the U. S. Public Milk
Service and the State Board of
Health prohibited unapproved sell
ing. Those making violation of
the ordinance will be penalized
$50 plus the prohibiting further
milk sales by them. Permits must
be obtained from the Surry Health
Department.
Another violation, dumping gar
bage and trash in unauthorized
places—has been detected frequ
ently on the outskirts of Elkin,
Mr. Cruse continued.
Anyone caught disposing refuse
by the side of the road will be
indicted. Close watch will be kept
in the future, the sanitarian
added.
He cited one place just north
of Elkin where dumping had
> been practiced heavily. Some per
^^•ns have removed the “no dump
ng” signs placed along the road
side and thrown them with the
refuse, he said.
A new daily cash hog-buying
station has been organized at Ken
ly, Johnston County.
BOY SCOUT WEEK — Mayor Garland Johnson, top photo, speaks to Scouts of Elkin just prior to his
relinquishing: his place temporarily to the new mayor and councilmen. Left to right, facing the
camera are Linville Ilendrcn, Mr. Johnson, Tom Roth, Davis Reece and Fred Eidson. Bottom photo,
the Scouts go into action in council while policemen and other honorary officers take over outside
civic duties. Reading clockwise around the table are Bill Woodruff, Paul Gywn, Jr., Abie Harris,
Charles Fletcher, Jim Woodruff and Joe Salmons. Paul Price, district'commissioner, acts as private
citizen making .an appeal to the council. (tribune photoi
LIQUOR CHARGE
JAILS COUPLE
Alcohol Tax Unit Agents
Charge Negroes With Al
leged Illicit Conspiracy
TO GET HEARING SOON
Two Yadkin County Negroes
were arrested last week by Fed
eral Alcohol Tax Unit agents
charged with an alleged illicit
liquor conspiracy in Winston
Salem.
Harold B. Blackburn and Rob
ert Victor Carson, of Hampton
ville, were taken into custody on
the charges and held after a hear
ing before U. S. Commissioner C.
E. Ader.
Officers said that Carson was
driving an automobile which con
tained nine cases of liquor at the
time of his arrest. Blackburn was
a passenger in another automobile
driven by William G. Dunn, of
Elkin, said to be accompanying the
liquor car.
The two Negroes turned Gov
ernment witnesses and told the
commissioner of an alleged agree
ment they had with Dunn and
another man, Henry Swaim, Jr.,
also of Elkin, that they would put
up part of the liquor money and
that he would put up part. They
were to split the profits.
Carson has been arraigned be
fore Yadkin Court previously on
liquor charges.
Only Three Marriage
Permits During Week
Only three marriage licenses
were issued last week by the
Surry County register of deeds.
They were Haywood Lankford, 21,
and Laura Sykes, 16, both of
Mount Airy; Elbert Lawson, 21,
and Jane Hawks, 20, both of
Mount Airy; and Joseph R. Har
rell, 27, and Eva King, 29, (color
ed), both of Mount Airy.
Fire Destroys Home
At Pleasant Hill
Fire destroyed the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Newman in the
Pleasant Hill section Sunday
night.
The Newmans were attending
services at a church nearby when
the blaze was discovered by a
small boy from the neighborhood.
Nothing was saved. The home had
just been redecorated and re
furnished.
Boy Scouts Rule Elkin,
Jonesville Last Week
Charles Fletcher Is Elkin Mayor;
Benny Triplett Rules Jonesville
Scouts of Elkin and Jonesville
took over their respective towns
Friday afternoon after a morning
of festivities.
Charles Fletcher was named
mayor of Elkin for the day and
Benny Triplett headed the Jones
ville government.
Commissioners for Elkin were B.
Woodruff. J. Woodruff, A. Harris,
J. Salmons, P. Gwyn and L.
James, town clerk. Fred Eidson
was police chief and Ralph Wil
liams headed the fire department.
Jonesville councilmen were Da
vis Reece, Kenneth Freeman,
Johnny Davis and Charles Scott.
Pack 11, Cub Scouts, will
meet at 6:30 p.m., Monday at
the Presbyterian Church, Joe
Gwyn Bivins, Cubmaster said
yesterday.
Charles Holcomb was town clerk,
Charles Mattison, police chief, and
Monroe Spainhour was mainten
ance foreman.
The Elkin council passed the
following ordinances: “That the
merchants of Elkin put all trash
in suitable containers. That all
people shovel snow off sidewalks
in front of their public buildings
when it snows.”
The honorary policemen had a
hey-day with parking violators.
More than 30 parking tickets were
meted out as the Scouts scoured
the business area.
The Jonesville honorary govern
ment spent the afternoon painting
fire hydrants.
They passed the following or
Taylor Nominated
For State JC Post
The candidacy of Dr. Vernon
Taylor for the position of vice
president of the Western District
of the Junior Chamber of Com
merce was announced at a meet
ing in Durham during the past
week-end.
More than 250 delegates from
over the state attended the con
vention.
Included were Dr. Taylor,
Charlie Sasher, Joe Transou, Keith
Mayberry, James Shore, John
Cloninger, £ob Chatham, and
Herbert Graham, Jr.
dinances while in session: “That
garbage be collected every two
weeks. That street lights be put
in Jonesville. That sidewalks be
cleaned periodically. That a cau
tion light be placed at the inter
section of U. S. Highway 21 and
Main Street. That the repairing
of roads at the new city water
works be made. That completion
be made of the sidewalk between
Mrs. Lila Swaim’s Service Station
and the Jonesville School be done
for safety of school children.”
Eighty boys participated in a
window observation contest Sat
urday and later enjoyed a wiener
roast at Neaves Park. Benny
Triplett, of the Flying Eagle
Patrol of Troop 25, took first
place in the contest. Jack Nixon,
of the same patrol, took second
and D. C. Cockerham, also of that
patrcl, was third place winner.
At a court of honor, Johnnie
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Edwin Jones To Speak
To Methodists Sunday
^Edwin L. Jones, president of
the J. A. Jones Construction Com
pany of Charlotte, will be guest
speaker for the annual Layman’s
Day Program to be observed at
the Methodist Church Sunday
morning at 11 o’clock, the Rev.
Robert G. Tuttle, pastor announc
ed this week. Mr. Jones is one of
the nation’s leading businessmen
and will bring a vital and inspir
ing message to the men of the
church.
Surry Court Dockets
More Than 135 Cases
Approximately 135 cases are
docketed for trial at the second
criminal term of Surry County
Superior Court beginning Monday
at Dobson. Judge H. Hoyle Sink
will preside.
Probably of most interest in
the northern section of the coun
ty will be the trial of El wood J.
Chaney, 23, of Mount Airy, who
will be tried on a charge of as
saulting Beasley Chandler with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill.
Chaney is at liberty now under a
(4,000 bond.
SECOND ANNUAL
FARMERS’ MEET
AT DOBSON 25TH
Event Will Be Staged In
School Auditorium
IS SPONSORED BY LIONS
McCrary and Ballentine To
Be Featured Speakers
Of Evening Meeting
FISH FRY IS PLANNED
The second annual Dobson
Farmers’ Day will be held Friday,
Feb. 25 at the Dobson School
Auditorium under the sponsorship
of the Dobson Lions Club.
The program will consist of an
afternoon meeting, beginning at
2:30, and an evening meeting,
beginning at 7 o’clock.
O. F. McCrary, of the district
agent extension service, and L.
Y. Ballentine, commissioner of
agriculture, Raleigh, will be the
featured speakers of the evening.
A fish fry will be held at 5:30
p.m., limited to thfe farmers of
Dobson township. The general
public is invited to the night
meeting.
Neill M. Smith, Surry County
agent, chairman of the agriculture
committee in charge of the pro
gram, announced the agenda as
following:
Introduction of speaker by W.
B. White, member of the agricul
ture committee of the Lions Club.
M. S. Williams, extension farm
management specialist, State Col
lege Station, will address the group
on “What Type of Farming Offers
More Income and Better Living
In the Future in Surry County?”
J. S. Gently, chairman of the
Lions Club program committee,
will introduce S. N. Hawks, Jr.,
extension tobacco specialist, who
will talk on “How to Produce More
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HOSPITAL GETS
THIRD OF WILL
Gift of $2,034.58 Left To
Hugh Chatham Memorial
By Mrs. Livvie II. Sparger
WAS FORMER PATIENT
A gift of $2,034.54 was received
last week by the Hugh Chatham
Memorial Hospital as a gift of
the late Mrs. Livvie Richards
Sparger, Mount Airy.
An equal amount was willed to
Methodist Home for Aged and the
Methodist Children’s Home.
A letter to Dr. J. S. Hiatt,
superintendent of the hospital,
said that the gift represented the
life savings of Mrs. Sparger.
Mrs. Sparger died December 3,
1947 and the delivery of the check
to the institutions was delayed due
to legal complications brought
about by the lack of proper exe
cution of a will prior to Mrs.
Sparger’s death.
Mrs. Sparger had incurable
cancer and felt that death was im
pending, the letter from Howard
O. Woltz, Jr., attorney, stated.
“She had her brother, J. C. Rich
ards of Mount Airy, co-owner in
the two savings accounts ... at
Mount Airy. Mrs. Sparger had ex
pressed to her brother that she
would like for all her estate to
be divided among the three fore
going institutions. There remain
ed, however, the problem of doing
this properly, in order that no
dispute could arise in such a
transaction,” the letter conclud
ed.
Dr. Hiatt said this week, “we
are truly grateful for her remem
brance.” Mrs. Sparger was once
a patient at the hospital here.
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Employer - Employees
Plan Banquet Tuesday1
Sale of tickets to the annual
Elkin Employer-Employee banquet
will continue until Saturday at
the Merchants Association office
in the Town Hall.
Program arrangements for the
event which will be held Tuesday
night have been completed and a
menu has been prepared.
George Penny, humorist and
State senator from Greensboro,
will deliver the feature address.
George Royall will act as master
of ceremonies.
The program will begin at 7 p.
m„ with the banquet and a square
dance will follow the speaking at
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Confession Of Boy, 16,
Clears Eight Of Nine
Recent Breakings Here
P-T. A. MEET TO
FEATURE MUSIC
School Band And High School
Glee Club To Enter
. tain At Session
INVITATION TO PUBLIC
Featuring the Elkin School Band
and Elkin High School Glee Club,
tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 o’clock
in the Elementary School auditor
ium, a large attendance is expect
ed to the February meeting of
the Elementary School Parent
Teachers Association, to which
the public is invited.
The band is under the direc
tion of J. C. Mason Emde who
started the work last year. The
membership, which is composed of
Elkin and Jonesville students, has
grown to it’s present number of
25 members and has a varied
number of instruments. The
maintenance of the band is due
largely to a generous donation
from the Kiwanis Club who felt
that with leadership and encour
agement a band could be formed.
Band members and instruments
they play are as follows: Clari
nets—Sara Boyles, Kitty Cranford,
Jimmy Darnell, Greta Wooten;
Cornet—Jim Booher, Sonnie Bow
man, Larry James, Frankie Mor
rison, David Myers, Harry Smith,
Carol Stuart, Buddy Vestal, Wayne
Wallace, Kay Wells, Charles Scott;
Saxaphone—A. C. Cockerham, Jr.;
Flutes—Daniel Cockerham, Betty
Tuttle; Trombones—Jerry James,
Nathan Lovelace, Garth Payne;
Snare Drums—Fred Eidson, Jr.,
Buddy Farrell, Chris Glenn, Tom
my Holcomb; Bass Drum—B i 11
Roth; Majorettes — Anna Lee
Haynes, Anna Jean Holbrook,
Ruth Cheek, Donna Jean Long
worth, Carol Rose Peters and
Peggy Gross.
The Glee Club which is under
the direction of Miss Margaret
Cole, music teacher of the Elkin
City Schools, will render several
numbers. The members of the
glee club are Eva Brinegar, Fran
ces Crowe, Tommy Jo Darnell,
Kathryn Gross, Katherine Lyons,
Betty McBride, Betty Lou Mickle,
Mary Mitchell, Edna Smoot, Fran
ces Sprinkle, Frances Stroud,
Jenny Transou, Jerry Wall, Tip
Freeman, Charles Hanks, J i m
Harris, Bob Lawrence, Parks Rob
erts, Sam Shugart, Junior Tul
bert, Jean Luffman is accompan
ist. ,
Car Hits Wagon; Man
Hurt, Horse Killed
A smash-up involving an auto
mobile and a two-horse wagon
Friday resulted in the injury of
the wagon driver and the death
of one of his horses on Ronda
highway three miles west of Elkin.
Beamer Boyd, 45, farmer of
Maples Springs community, was
taken to the Hugh Chatham Mem
orial Hospital after being hurled
from the wagon when it was hit
by a car driven by I. H. Kolodny
of North Wilkesboro.
Mr. Kolodny reported to Patrol
men that he was blinded by the
sun when he came upon the wag
on. The crash splintered the
wagon and the corn which it
hauled was strewn over a wide 1
area.
Mr. Boyd was reported to have ,
received injuries on the spine and <
is now in a cast.
which Joe Bivins, Homer Edwards
and Ovid Wilcox will lead. <
The dinner program will pro- l
ceed as follows: Singing of l
“America,” invocation by Walter i
Combs, remarks by President E. S. i
Spainhour, solo by Mis. Roscoe 1
Poplin, presentation of prizes, the
guest speech, conclusion by Mr. t
Spainhour, and' the song, "Blest t
Be the Tie That Binds.”
Mrs. H. B. Cranford will be the c
pianist and T.. C. McKnight will i
lead the songs. 1
A menu was listed as follows: £
Fried chicken, potato salad on let
tuce, Boston baked beans, peach
pickle, mixed pickles, rolls, coffee, t
cherry tart and salted nuts. t
Teen-Y €lub
To Hold Talent .
Show Here Monday
The Elkin Teen-Y Club will
present a talent show Monday
evening at 7:30 at the Elemen
tary School Auditorium, Miss
Mary Ellen Harrell, girls work
secretary at the Gilvin Roth
Y.M.C.A., said yesterday.
Talent will be taken from the
fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
grades at the Elkin Elementary
School.
Those participating in the
show will be Sandra Gregory,
Patsy Martin, Vonne Gwaltney,
Sandra Pennel, Kitty Cranford,
Betty Tuttle, Emaline Hayes,
Janet Walker, Melinda Melton,
Joyce Cochrane, Kaye Blevins,
Polly Price, Carol Stuart, Mary
Frances Hart and Shirley Law
rence.
Margaret Cole is the club ad
visor.
BOOZE HAN
GETS AWAY
Nervous Bootlegger Takes
Wrong Turn In Highway,
Wrecks Automobile
IS STILL ON LOOSE
Officers are still searching for a
bottlegger who became rattled,
took a wrong turn of the highway,
and wrecked his automobile in
Yadkinville last Thursday night.
Sheriff Bill Moxley said the
rum-runner, driving a 1941 Buick
automobile, became confused one
block west of the Yadkinville
courthouse where Mr. and Mrs.
John Crater sat in their automo
bile on a side-street waiting for
him to pass.
The rum-runner tried to go to
the right of the Crater automobile
instead of following highway 421
around a slight curve, and side
swiped the Crater automobile,
coming to a stop at the end of
the short street.
Leaving his automobile and
eight cases of whiskey, he ran
from the scene, down the block as
far as the residence of Howard
Logan. There, he got in the sta
tion wagon belonging to Mr. Lo
gan and drove off, heading in the
direction of Boonville.
Luck was against him, however,
for the Logan automobile ran out
of gasoline within a few miles.
Angered at this, the rum-runner
kicked and shattered the right
windshield and smashed the dash
ooard contx-ols with his foot, aban
doning the station wagon.
J. W. Williamson of the High
way Patrol, recovered the station
ivagon Friday morning and pushed
it back to Yadkinville.
4-H County Council
To Meet Tomorrow
A 4-H Club county council
neeting will be held at 3 o’clock
■Friday afternoon at the court
house in Dobson.
Club officers and project lead
:rs from all clubs in the county
ire expected to attend, Mrs.
3race Pope Brown, home demon
itration agent, said this week,
rhe meeting will be a business
lession.
Miss Eleanor Barber, assistant
itate 4-H Club leader, will be in
Dobson Tuesday to hold a meet
ng with extension workers in
i-H club work, Mrs. Brown said.
Surry 4-H Clubbers
Given Travel Chance
Boys and girls in Surry County
-H Clubs are being sought to
nake application for a chance to
ie sent to a foreign country dur
ng the coming year in the Inter
national Farm Youth Exchange
‘roject.
North Carolina has been alloted
he privelege of sending two del
gates.
The program is designed to
lemonstrate to the farm youth
a other countries the method of
arming and life in the United
•tates.
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The first importation of ba- ,
4n&s into the U. B. occurred ip. '
he late 1860’s.
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Continue Hunt
In Several
Other Cases
A 16-year-old boy’s confession
to police this week helped to clear
the picture of numerous break-ins
and buglaries over the area with
in the past two weeks.
Bobby Groce, of Oakland Drive,
Elkin, was apprehended last week
in Dobson and admitted to offi
cers the breaking of five places.
This week he was reported to
have told police that, with the
assistance of two others on one
occasion and one on another, he
broke into three more.
Should young Groce be convict
ed in this term of Surry Court,
only one of the recent burglaries
in this area—the break-in at El
kin High School—would remain
unsolved. Police Chief Corbett
Wall reported earlier that the
automobile owned by Gilmer Dunn,
which was stolen here Tuesday
night, had been recovered at Win
ston-Salem.
Last week the youth reportedly
confessed to the breaking of Huds
peth’s Service Station, taking $4
on one occasion and $25 on an
other; Ode Travis’ Service Sta
tion, taking $10; Yadkin Auto
Sales, $10.19; and Davis’ Store,
North Elkin, where several small
items were missing.
This week, young Groce added
the confession of entering Elkin
Elementary School, where he said
he took three bottles of milk. He
then told officers of breakings
that had not been detected until
that time—the breaking of a con
cession at the Elkin ball park and
the entering of G. and B. Oil Com
pany, where he said he and an
other unidentified person took $4,
splitting the take. Two persons
were with him, he said, in the
entering of the concession stand
where candy was taken.
The boy is being held in the
county jail at Dobson in default
of bond.
Meanwhile county officers are
still searching for the person or
persons who entered several school
buildings, including Dobson,
Mountain Park and Elkin High
School.
PARENTS NIGHT
TO BE MONDAY
Mothers and Fathers of High
School Students Are In
vited To Attend
FARRELL WILL PRESIDE
Parents Night will be held at
Elkin High School Monday eve
ning at 7:30 o’clock. All mothers
and fathers of high school stu
dents are invited to attend.
An interesting program has
been planned. Claude Farrell,
president of the Parent-Teachers
Association will preside.
Following the program a social
hour will be held during which
refreshments will be served.
The primary purpose of the
meeting if for the parents to be
come better acquainted among
themselves, the teachers, and the
activities of the school. It is hoped
that all parents will make a spec
ial effort to attend the program
on Monday evening.
Leaf Farmers Meet
At Marsh, Copeland
Tobacco producers of Marsh
township will attend a community
meeting tomorrow (Friday) at 7
p.m., at the Little Richmond
School where charts showing the
latest results on tobacco experi
mental work will be shown, Donald
A. Halsey, assistant county agent,
announced yesterday.
Meanwhile : at the Copeland
School, County Agent Neill M.
3mith will bring a representative
jf a telephone company to dis
cuss the telephone system in the
areas of Siloam and Rockford
townships.
Both meetings will hear dis
cussions on telephones and will
>ee charts to cover varieties, fer
tilisers, spacing, topping a±d side
iressing in tobeceo experiment*