ELKIN
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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 16
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1949
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B AND HUNDREDS CHEERED — Elkin’s seventh annual Farmers’ Day, held here Thursday, drew the
largest attendance ever. Part of the throng is shown in top photo as Congressman Harold D. Cooley
addressed them in one of the feature speeches at the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A. gymnasium. Bottom photo
shows three of the top-flight participants in the program as they took time out to take part in a
broadcast. Left to right they arc L. Y. Ballentine, State Commissioner of Agriculture, Davis Weaver,
assistant director of extension service, and Neill M. Smith, Surry Farm Agent, who was a chief
coordinator of the event.
rVOTE ASKED
FOR FORSYTH
Officials Want Bill Introduced
Asking For City-County
Liquor Referendum
WOULD PROVIDE A. B. C.
The Winston-Salem Board of
Aldermen and the Forsyth Coun
ty commissioners voted Tuesday
to request their legislative dele
gates to introduce a bill in ,thc
General Assembly calling for a
vote in the Twin City on A. B. C.
stores.
The commissioners and aider
men approved a bill drawn by the
committee of 100, composed of
business and professional men
^ formed to advise Winston-Salem
governmental bodies. The bill
would provide for a referendum
on A. B. C. stores.
At the request of the commis
sioners, the bill will provide that
if only the city establishes liquor
stores, 25 per cent of the profits
will be given to the county for
use in retiring its school debt.
Indications were that only the
city would vote on the issue. A
county-wide vote will not be call
ed except upon petition of the
people, two commissioners, Chair
may Roy W. Craft and William B.
Simpson, said in a statement. The
third commissioner, James G.
Hanes, was absent.
Sheep numbers in the United
States are at an all-time low.
Hey, Hay, What
V Will They Next
Try To Take Away?
Fred Berrier, Mount Airy, is
charged w i t h the theft of
(you’d never guess it) a load
of hay.
The load—60 bales worth—
was taken from the farm of
D. C. Martin, near Mountain
Park, Sunday, Sheriff Sam
Patterson, reported yesterday.
Berrier, hay and all were re
covered soon after by Sheriff
* Tattersoii and his deputies, one
of whom was Ileber Mounce
of Elkin.
Berrier had solicited the sale
of his haul on the day before
making the hay rain. He is
out on a bond of $500.
$1323.27 Netted
To Date In Elkin
Red Cross Drive
Elkin’s Red Cross drive had
netted $1323.37 up to yester
day (Wednesday) morning,
Chairman Howard J. Ford re
ported.
Quite a few sources have not
turned in receipts, Mr. Ford
added, and the total of Elkin’s
contributions are expected to
be somewhat higher than the
present sum.
The quota set for Elkin was
$2,250.
LIONS TO GIVE
1949 MINSTREL
New Version of Blind Benefit
Show Opens Here To
night (Thursday)
8:00 P. M. AT THE STATE
“Jubilee Time,” the 1949 ver
sion of the Elkin Lions Club min
strel, will be presented’at the State
Theatre tonight (Thursday) at 8
o’clock. Proceeds will go to the
Lions Club blind fund.
The minstrel was presented last
week at the Mountain Park School
auditorium. This will be the first
showing in Elkin.
Charles Wiltong, radio an
nouncer, will act as interlocutor.
Miss Mildred Freeman, who also
will present a solo in the show, is
music director. s
The cast is made up of four end
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Four In Surry Get
Marriage Licenses
Only four marriage licenses
were issued during the past week,
Mrs. Bertha M. Shinault, Surry
County register of deeds, reported
Tuesday.
They were as follows: James E.
Wolfe, 19. and Iris Marie Jessup,
19, both of Mount Airy; Richard
Dobson, 22, and Mildred Gentry,
15, bo tih of Dobson (colored)!
Jonus Slaydon, 21, Mount Airy,
j and Creola Jones, 20, Dobson:
, and Robert T. Bryant, 22, Dob
son, and Iris Haynes, 19, Mount
' Airy. .
SCHOOL BILL
STRIKES SNAG
Senate Education Group Give^
Unfavorable Report To
“Minimum Foundation”
SCOTT FAVORS MEASURE
A proposed “Minimum Founda
tion’’ program for support of the
public schools was given an un
favorable report by the Senate Ed
ucation Committee Tuesday.
The vote constituted a serious
setback for legislative supporters
of the program.
Under the Minimum Foundation
program, the state would assume
85 per cent of total schools costs,
and the counties would raise the
remaining 15 per cent on an abil
ity-to-pay basis.
Three members of the senate
committee served notice they
would take their fight in behalf
of the Minimum Foundation pro
gram to the senate floor. They
signed minority asking a favorable
report for the measure.
The Senate Education Commit
tee gave its unfavorable report to
the Minimum Foundation school
program after a subcommittee
recommended the action. Repre
sentative O. L. Richardson of Un
ion, chairman of the sub-commit
tee, asserted the foundation pro
gram “might do less for education
in North Carolina than the pres
: ent plan,” and Senator R. Grady
Rankan, another member, said
"We objected to the new plan be
cause we have in this state a plan
that kept schools open during the
depression and has also served
well during the prosperous years."
Governor Scott, however, told
his news conference shortly after
the committee action that he fa
vored the foundation plan “until
something better" is proposed.
Byrum Addresses
Methodist Group
Rev. Delbert Byrum of Winston
Salem was guest speaker at a din
ner meeting of the Sunday School
teachers of the First Methodist
Church Tuesday evening at the
church.
Introduced by Rev. R. G. Tuttle,
! Mr. Byrum used as his topic,
j "Teaching the Christian Religion.”
I Mrs. Harry L. Johnson presided
I over the meeting.
1,200 FARMERS
ATTEND ELKIN
FARM MEETING
Cheer Plan For Government
Sponsored Rural Phones
COOLEY CHIEF SPEAKER
Tells Listeners He Is For
One Hundred Per Cent
Of Parity
REP. CHATHAM ATTENDS
The hearts of 1,200 farmers
were warmed at Elkin’s seventh
annual Farmers’ Day Thursday
when Representative Harold D.
Cooley, chairman of the House
Agriculture Committee, disclosed
a plan for government-sponsored
rural telephones which extended
to the remotest of areas.
Congressman Cooley also told
his cheering audience that they
were not entitled to 90 per cent
of parity, but 100 per cent of
parity.
Cooley spoke on a program with
a galaxy of farm experts, David
S. Weaver, assistant director of
agricultural extension, George
Coble, president of Coble Dairies,
Dr.,E. R. Collins, agronomy spec
ialist of State College, Garland
Johnson, mayor of Elkin, who ex
tended greetings; Representative
Thurmond Chatham, of Elkin; R.
Flake Shaw of Greensboro, State
Farm Bureau secretary; and Roger
Fleming, American Farm Bureau
official from Washington.
Elkin hummed for six hours
Thursday as farmers from the
Elkin vicinity of Yadkin, Wilkes
and Surry counties gathered here
for what Kiwanis leaders, spon
sors of the affair, said was the
largest in the seven-year history
of the program.
L. Y. Ballentine, North Caro
lina’s commissioner of agricul
ture, presided over the program.
While farmers partook the oc
casion with much relish, guest
speakers found things also pleas
ing. They joined the crowd at
the feast and talked informally
with individuals about farm prob
lems.
David S. Weaver, assistant di
rector of agricultural extension,
keynoted the morning meeting
with an address on “The Man, the
Machine, and the Mule.”
Another speaker, George Coble
of Lexington, president of Coble
Dairies, Lexington, showed farm
ers facts and figures on how to
earn a year-round income from
sale of dairy products.
The day’s program offered
farmers gala welcomes, food
aplenty, more speeches, and a
musical program Qf string tunes
by the Chatham Ramblers. The
Chatham champion square danc
ers performed in the recreation
period following the speeches.
The noon lunch included ham
burger sandwiches made from
prize-winning 4-H cattle in North
Carolina. Surry County Agent
Neill Smith made this point of
pride in sounding the call to eat,
“These are champion hamburg
ers.”
SCOTT LISTS
POSSIBILITIES
Forty-Eight Names Consider
ed So Far For U. S.
Senate Vacancy
THOUSANDS TELEGRAPH
Governor W. Kerr Scott was
still silent this week on whom he
would appoint as North Carolina’s
next junior U. S. Senator.
When asked whom he would
name to the vacancy caused by
the death of Senator J. Melville
Broughton, Governor Scott mere
ly handed out a typewritten list
of 48 names explaining that the
successor would not necessarily
come from the list.
Scott said that he had received
thousands of telegrams and letters
but that he had not been able to
get around to reading all of them.
He said he felt he should read all
the requests before considering the
appointment finally.
One of the many telegrams’
Scott has received in the way of
endorsement really gave the Gov
ernor a kick. He said it read in
part, ‘‘just appoint whoever you
damn please.”
The list of those mentioned for
Senator:
R. Mayne Albright, Raleigh; T.
Clyde Auman, West End; L. Y.
Ballentine. Raleigh; Wade Barber,
Pittsboro; A. L. Brooks, Greens
boro; Mrs. J- M. Broughton, Ra
leigh; Harry Caldwell, Greens
boro; Dr. George Carrington, Bur
lington; Hardy A. Carrol, Ashe
ville; D. S. Coltrane, Raleigh; Rep
resentative Harold Cooley, Nasli
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KIWANIS SPEAKER — John
W. Hanes, former under-secre
tary of the U. S. Treasury, will
be guest speaker tonight (Thurs
day) at a meeting of the Elkin
Kiwanis Club. Mr. Hanes is well
known in Elkin. He is the broth
er-in-law of Thurmond Chat
ham and resides part-time near
Klondike Farm.
KIWANIS CLUB
TO HEAR HANES
Former Under-Secretary Of
Treasury Holds Numer
ous Positions
AT THURSDAY MEETING
John W. Hanes, former under
secretary of the United States
Treasury, will be guest speaker
tonight (Thursday) of the Elkin
Kiwanis Club at the Gilvin Roth
Y.M.C.A. here.
Mr. Hanes resides part time at
Hanes Lodge, near Klondike Farm,
three miles north of Elkin. He is
a brother-in-law to Thurmond
Chatham, Elkin blanket manu
facturer and congressman from
the Fifth District.
A graduate of Yale University,
Mr. Hanes is a director and chair
man of the U. S. Steamship Lines
finance committee; a director of
Pan American Airways; a director
of J o h n s - Manville Company;
chaifman of the finance commit
tee, Hearst Corporation; a direc
tor of the Thomas Young Orchids
Company; a trustee of Hampton
Institute; and a director of the
Bankers Trust Company, New
York City.
He is a former senior partner
in the Investment Banking Firm
of Smith-Barney and Company:
an original member of the Secur
ities of Exchange Commission;
governor of Stock Exchange; and
assistant secretary of the U. S
Treasury.
FASHION SHOW
WILL BE GIVEN
Co-Ed, Teen-Agers To Model
Fashions From Leading
Elkin Stores
PARENTS ARE INVITED
A co-ed, teen-age fashion show,
to which parents of Elkin and
Jonesville youngsters are invited,
will be held at 8 p.m., Tuesday at
the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A.
Clothes, modeled from Elkin’s
leading department stores, will be
shown. Boys and girls of the spon
soring Elkin and Jonesville Hi-Y
and Tri-Hi-Y clubs will model an
array of spring fashions.
Tickets will be on sale at the
Y.M.C.A. and will be circulated
throughout Elkin by members of
the clubs. Admission price will be
25 cents.
Miss Gwen Dickson, president
of the Jonesville Tri-Hi-Y club
is in charge of the program.
Appeal is being issued espec
ially to parents, Miss Mary Ellen
Harrell, girl’s work secretary, said
yesterday. The idea is to show
parents what will be stylish for
teen-agers this spring, she added.
Evelyn Waugh Wins
Soil Speaking Prize
Miss Evelyn Waugh, White
Plains high school student, will
enter group finals tomorrow < Fri
day) at Winston-Salem in the
soil conservation speaking con
test.
Miss Waugh last week won the
Surry County oratorical contest
and the right to participate in the
group elimination. Miss Frances
Patterson, of Copeland, took sec
ond place.
Walter Stinson of Boonville,
was named winner of the Yadkin
County eliminations held at Yad
kinville last week.
Commentators should be re
quired by law to give the names
of those “authoritative sources.”
Then there would be less irre
sponsible talk.
SPRING CHEST
X-RAY SURVEY
TO BEGIN 23RD
To Get Under Way At Pilot
Mountain Wednesday
IN ELKIN APRIL 4 TO 8
Service Is Free To All Resi
dents of Surry County
Each Year
SEALS DEFRAY EXPENSE
The Spring X-ray survey of the
Surry County Health Department
will begin next week at the Pilot
Mountain Health Office. The unit
will come to Elkin April 4, 5, 6,
7 and 8.
The Pilot Mountain clinic will
be opened Wednesday through
Saturday next week, and will move
from there to Copeland School,
agriculture building, March 29,
30 and 31.
X-rays will be taken from 9:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. No undressing
will be required, health officials
say.
Last year,, the Health Depart
ment X-rayed 6956 persons in
the spring and fall surveys. All
high school students were exam
ined during the year and three
active cases of tuberculosis were
diagnosed among the high school
group.
Department officials pointed
out this week that the service is
free to residents of Surry County.
Those from other counties will
be expected to pay a small fee
for their films.
The service was paid almost
entirely through contributions re
ceived from Christmas Seals.
Results of an X-ray survey in
10 Surry County high schools
show 1836 students were examin
ed. There were 1807 negative
films, 16 primary latent, four
pneumonitis, three active pul
monary tuberculosis, two heart
examinations advised, two pleur
isy and two not reported as yet.
Schools in the Elkin area are
not included in this group as they
were X-rayed last fall.
Are To Hold
Final Rites
For Lt. Sale
LIEUT. HERMAN G. SALE
Graveside service for Lieutenant
Herman Graham Sale, 26, who
was killed in a plane crash in the
Pacific on September 12, 1945,
will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in
Hollywood Cemetery- The service
will be conducted with full mili
tary honors by the William J.
Jones post of the V.F.W.
His body will arrive at Hayes
Speas Funeral Home at 10 o’clock
Saturday morning and remain
there until the hour of the fun
eral.
Lieutenant Sale, son of Mrs. W.
S. Sale of 281 North Bridge Street,
was born here on December 1,
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Neaves’s Black Angus
Cattle Take Honors
Four black angus cattle belong
ing to W. A. Neaves, owner of
Black Gate Farm, Elkin, took hon
ors at the annual North Carolina
Aberdeen-Angus, show and sale
here.
The junior champion bull, own
ed by Mr. Neaves, was purchased
by H. A. Arnold, of Monroe, Ga.
The junior champion female, also
bred and owned by Mr. Neaves,
was bought by the judge of the
show, Joe Kefauver, of Jonesboro,
Tenn.
In the two-year old class, Mr.
Neaves’ entry took second place.
This was one of the larger classes.
Finally, among the year-olds,
Mr. Neaves’ entry took second
place.
Elkin Lawyer
To Head Surry
Cancer Drive
LEWIS ALEXANDER
Lewis Alexander was yesterday
appointed chairman of the Surry
County campaign committee of
the American Cancer Society to
direct the annual fund-raising
drive which will open April 1.
The announcement was made
by E. Y. Floyd, chairman of the
North Carolina division of ACS.
Said Mr. Floyd, “In asking Mr.
Alexander to head the drive in
Surry County we have attempted
to select a person whose leader
ship will inspire others to join this
crusade against cancer.
"I take this opportunity of call
ing upon every person in Surry
County to support the drive in
your community. This is a fight
that concerns everyone. Cancer
is no respector of individuals. It
doesn't pick and choose. Cancer
can strike anyone.”
In accepting the local appoint
ment, Mr. Alexander said, “It is
a distinct honor to have the priv
ilege of serving my fellow man in
this great cause.
“I know that cancer is one of
the most terrible threats to hu
man life today but, because we
can do something about it, I have
accepted the job of directing the
fund-raising campaign in this
county.”
TO HOLD EGG
SHOW MONDAY
Poultry School and Egg
Event To Be Staged In
Mount Airy
WILL AWARD PRIZES
A Surry County poultry school
and egg show will be held Monday
at the Rockford Street School
auditorium, Mount Airy, Neill M.
Smith, county agent, announced
yesterday.
Many farmers of the Elkin area
are expected to enter, Mr. Smith
said, and any desiring to do so
may enter.
The school begins at 9 a.m„
when eggs will be entered for
judging. Prizes will be awarded by
the Mount Airy Merchants Assoc
iation and hatchers of Surry
County.
Each person, which includes
several from each family if they
so wish, may enter two dozen eggs
each. Mr. Smith declared that
civic representatives are endeaver
ing to make this the largest egg
show in North Carolina.
Prizes also will be awarded for
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Lentz Rites Held
In Winston-Salem
Funeral service for James M.
Lentz, Forsyth County Register of
Deeds, were held at 11 a m. Wed
nesday in Winston-Salem. Mr.
Lentz was the father of Mrs.
Clyde Long, a former resident of
this city, who is now living in
Winston-Salem.
Mr. Lentz, who was 81 years of
age, died at his home in Winston
Salem Tuesday following an ill
ness of five months. He has been
Register of Deeds of Forsyth coun
ty for the past 37 years.
Survivors in addition to Mrs.
Long, are one grandson, Clyde
Long, Jr., and one sister, Mrs.
Lela Ivey of Norwood, and a num
ber of nieces and nephews.
The green peach asphid (plant
louse) was not regarded as a
tobacco pest until 1946, when it
caused severe losfc to shade-growm
tobacco in Florida, southern
Georgia, and one field in South
Carolina. Bj) the next year it had
spread to both the Carolinas,
Maryland, and Connecticut, and
in 1948 damage was extensive
throughout the tobacco-producing
area.
SURRY CO. HAS
NEVER RECEIVED
LIBRARY FUNDS
Is One of Nine Counties In
State In Same Situation
$14,808 PAID TO OTHERS
State Funds Are Available
For County Wide Library
Service In Surry
MISS REX IS VISITOR
“Surry County is one of nine
counties in North Carolina, which
has never received state funds for
county service. Counties which
qualified for State Aid to Public
Libraries in 1941, when the first
state appropriation was made,
will have received a total of $14,
808.27 up to July 1, 1949.”
These are a few of the facts
which have been brought to the
attention of Surry County resi
dents by Miss Helen Rex of the
North Carolina Library Commis
sion, who called on some Surry
County people Tuesday and Wed
nesday of this week.
“We want Surry County people
to know that state funds are
available for county-wide library
service in this county. Surry Coun
ty is one of nine counties which
have no county library. The pur
pose of my visit is to let citizens
of the county know how they can
qualify for an anticipated State
Aid grant of $3600 per county be
ginning July 1, 1949.” said Miss
Rex.
In order to qualify, a county
must appropriate money for a
county library. The county com
missioners then appoint a county
library board of six residents of
the county. State Aid funds may
be used to pay the salary of a
certified librarian, the purchase
and operation of a book-mobile,
and the purchase of books. The
Library Commission recommends
a minimum appropriation of $5000
from Surry County funds. This
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LAY MEMBERS
TO ASSEMBLE
Surry Methodists Will Con
vene At Pilot Mountain
Church March 25
FOR SUPPER MEETING
Laymen and laywomen of the
Methodist Churches in Surry
County and surrounding areas
will meet at the Pilot Mountain
Methodist Church at 7 p.m. on
March 25th for a supper meeting.
This laymen’s rally is being
sponsored by the Surry Board of
Missions and Church Extension.
Ove:r one hundred men and wo
men are expected to attend.
Hale Yokley, president of the
Surry Board, will preside during
the evening. The main speaker
will be the Rev. Mr. Clyde E.
Lundy of Bristol, Virginia. Mr.
Lundy is in charge of the Inter
board work of the Holston Con
ference.
Body of Jonesville
Soldier on Way Home
The body of Pvt. Gayther O.
Adams, of Jonesville, is being re
turned to the United States from
Europe aboard the United States
Army Transport Barney Kirsch
baum, the Department of the
Army announced last week.
The report stated that 170 of
North Carolinas dead were being
returned on this ship.
Water To Be Cut
Off In Jonesville
Twice; Elkin Once
Water will be cut off twice
during: the next four days in
Jonesville and once in a por
tion of Elkin.
While water mains arc being
cleaned out, connections will
be cut off in Jonesville today
(Thursday) beginning at 1 p.
m., for approximately four
hours. Again Sunday all Jones
ville mains will be shut off and
all connections leading away
from Main Street, Elkin, from
Church Street south to Elkin
Furniture Company, will be
out of operation. The shutoff
Sunday will last from 8 a.m.,
until the- job is completed at
approximately 5 p.m..
Joe Saylor, superintendent of
the Elkin waterworks, said yes
terday that the mains in Elkin
had been in operation for about
30 years and it has become nec
essary to have them cleaned.