ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Carolina
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ELKIN
Gateway to Roarlnr Gap and
the Blue Ridxe
THE TRIBUNE
Serves the Tri-Counties of '
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
VOL. No. XXXVII No. 20
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1949
$2.00 PER YEAR
22 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
ELKIN TO HOLD
CLEAN-UP WEEK
>UNDER JAYCEES
Extermination of Flies Will
Be Emphasized
HEADED BY JIM SHORE
Mayor Garland Johnson Is
sues Proclamation In
Town’s Cooperation
FROM APRIL 18TH-23RD
Clean-up week in Elkin has
been proclaimed for next week by
Mayor Garland Johnson. The
campaign, under the sponsorship
of the Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce will emphasize the ex
termination of flies and ridding
the town of fly breeding places.
T James Shore, chairman of the
' drive, urged Elkin residents to
commence early to kill flies and
clean garbage traps where flies
most likely will breed. He explain
ed that one fly killed now may
mean the riddance of thousands
later in the year.
Mr. Shore said residents would
have the cooperation of both the
town and the Jaycees in making
the week successful.
Mayor Johnson’s proclamation
is as follows:
“The Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce is sponsoring clean-up
week in Elkin from April 18
through April 23.
“When spring comes, we all
have spring house cleaning—
K washing windows, cleaning our
yards, cutting our grass, doing a
little painting, and trying to give
everything around our homes a
fresh, clean appearance. It is so
fitting that at this time our city
should be given this same fresh,
clean appearance.
“The Junior Chamber of Com
merce has always encouraged
civic programs to help our city.
It has taken the initiative and we
L should all give its clean-up week
A program our whole-hearted sup
^ port.
“The officials and employees of
the Town of Elkin are going to
support this program in every
possible respect. When the Jay
cees call, we will respond and do
everything we can to make this
campaign a success.
“Therefore, as Mayor of The
Town of Elkin, it is with great
v, pleasure that I proclaim the week
T of April 18th-23rd clean-up week
in The Town of Elkin.”
—Garland Johnson, Mayor
‘Womanless Wedding’
Tonight In Yadkin
A repeat performance of the
“Womanless Wedding,” featuring
^Luke Mason as the “bride" will
be presented in the Yadkinville
High School auditorium at 7:30
p.m„ tonight (Thursday). Pro
ceeds will be applied to the Meth
odist Church program. The play is
sponsored by members of the
church.
Mrs. Walter Zachary, in charge
of the performance, said the sup
porting cast would consist of about
20 characters. Lon H. West, Yad
kin County Clerk of Court, will
^ play the part of the minister.
Bobby Castevens. ninth grade stu
dent at Yadkinville will play the
part of the jilted lover.
The secret Chinese Hung So
ciety is sixteen centuries old, ac
cording to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica.
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Tardy Surry
Registrants
Showing Up
About one-third of the Surry
County draft registrants re
ported tardy in returning
questionnaires or unable to be
reached by the board, reported
their changes of addresses last
week after an attempt was
made by county newspapers to
locate them.
Mrs. A. D. Folger, secretary
of the board, said yesterday she
expected others to follow soon
and believed it would not be
necessary to take further ac
tion in the matter if the regis
trants were prompt in report
ing.
However, during the classifi
cation of registrants born in
1927, Mrs. Folger listed five
who could not be reached.
They were as follows: Turner
Lee Durham and William Kyle
March, Elkin and Paul G. Bar
ber, Fonzo Lee Boyd and Gid
eon Franklin Simmons, Mount
Airy.
She urged that should friends
or relatives know the where
abouts of these men to report it
to the draft board immediately
in the interest of the registrant.
Bill Stevenson
Named To Head
Elkin Jaycees
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BILL STEVENSON
Bill Stevenson was elected Mon
day night to head the Elkin Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce for
the following year.
Active in the veteran organiza
tions of Elkin. Mr. Stevenson has
also been an officer and director
in the Jaycees for several years.
He succeeds Dr. Vernon Taylor,
Jr., as president.
Mr. Stevenson's election came
in a regular meeting of the Jay
cees at the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A.
in which a list of new officers and
directors was decided in a two
hour program.
Herbert Graham was elected
first vice-president and Clyde
Cothren, second vice-president.
John Cloninger was elected sec
retary and Ed Royall was chosen
treasurer.
Directors named were Joe Gwyn
Bivins, Bill Cox, Walter Jones,
Charles Neaves and Fred Norman.
With the exception of Mr. Nor
man, the directors will serve for
two years.
Herbert Graham was named
state representative and Bill 'Cox
and Bob Isbell were named to edit
the Jaycee bulletin.
CANTATA TOBE
GIVEN SUNDAY
—
Choir of First Baptist
Church, Jonesville, Sings
At 11 o’clock Service
PUBLIC IS INVITED
The choir of the First Baptist
Church in Jonesville will present
an Easter cantata, "Memories of
Easter Morn” by Ellen Jane Lor
enz, at the 11 o’clock service Sun
day morning.
Those participating are as fol
lows: Bertha Adams, Peggy Byrd,
Evelyn Brown, Ellen Casstevens,
Lilah Casstevens, Ethel Deal,
Margie Finney, Pearl Finney, Lois
Harris. Gerry Hanes, Pernie Hol
comb, Myrtle Mayberry, Sarah
Lou Reece, Virginia Sprinkle,
Dorothy Wagoner, Sue Walters,
Coy S. Brown, Elton Casstevens,
Baltus Holbrook, Leonard Line
berry, Bill McBride, Arthur Mar
tin, DeLos Martin, Corbett Wal
ters. Mrs. R. J. Hogan is director
and Mrs. Ivry Johnson is organist.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
lUNItsMjtlS
GOOD RESPONSE
Nominations For Elkin’s
‘Mother of Year* Must Be
In By April 20
ONE WEEK REMAINING
A good response was reported
this week to Elkin's “Mother of
the Year” contest, being sponsor
ed by the Junior Woman’s Club.
However, only one week remains
in the contest. All nominations
must be received by the commit
tee on or before midnight, April
20.
Those wishing to submit nom
inations need not sign their names
—only the name of the nominee.
Ballots may be mailed to “Mother
of the Year” Box 666, Elkin.
Mrs. Ed Snyder, chairman of
the committee, said that the more
nominations one mother gets, the
more consideration in the judging
will be given.
The mother chosen by local
judges will be presented an orchid
on Mothers’ Day by the Junior
-Woman’s Club.
Some persons can speak, see
and hear while sleep-walking, ac
cording to the Encyclopaedia Bri
tannica.
PLAN SUNRISE
SERVICES FOR
EASTER SUNDAY
Elkin, Jonesville Plan Early
Morning Worship
AT 5:50 EASTER MORNING
Elkin Service At Hollywood
Cemetery; Another At
Jonesville Cemetery
COMBINED CHOIRS SING
Easter sunrise services for El
kin churches will be held in Holly
wood Cemetery Sunday morning
at ten minutes before six o’clock.
The combined choirs of the var
ious churches, will furnish the
musical portion of the services.
The Jonesville sunrise service
will be held in the Jonesville Cem
etery at ten minutes before six
o’clock Sunday morning.
These Easter services are under
the auspices of the Elkin-Jones
ville Ministerial Association.
Opening the Elkin service will
be an instrumental prelude by
members of the Elkin High School
band. The invocation will be pro
nounced by the Rev. Howard Ford,
pastor of the First Baptist Church.
Following the invocation will be
the singing of “Christ Arose” by
the choir and the congregation.
The Easter Scripture will be read
by the Rev. J. L. Powers of the
East Elkin Baptist Church, and
the Easter prayer will be led by
the Rev. Robert Tuttle of the First
Methodist Church. Following the
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FEATURED SPEAKER — Mrs.
Charles Sewell, Otterbein, Ind.,
will be the featured speaker at
today’s Home Demonstration
Spring Festival to be held at
the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A. Mrs.
Sewell is the administrative di
rector of the American Farm
Bureau Federation.
MRS. SEWELL’S
HONORS LISTED
Indiana Woman Will Be Fea
tured Speaker At Elkin’s
Spring Festival
FARM WOMEN OF AREA
Many unusual honors have come
to Mrs. Charles Sewell, Otterbein,
Ind., who will be the featured
speaker at the annual Surry, Yad
kin, Wilkes Spring Festival for
farm women here today.
In 1921, she was the only woman
delegate to address the National
Agricultural Conference called by
President Harding. That year she
was appointed state chairman of
the Home and Community de
partment of the Indiana Farm
Bureau Federation. In 1827, she
was elected second vice-president
and a member of the board of
directors of that organization.
In 1934, the American Farm
Bureau Federation organized its
women’s affiliate, The Associated
Women of the American p'arm
Bureau Federation, which num
bers in its membership not only
the wives of Farm Bureau mem
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Six Couples Receive
Marriage Licenses
Six couples received marriage
permits last week from the Surrj
County register of deeds’ offic§
They were as follows:
Ernest Ray Wilson, 26, and Nora
Davis, 27, both of Lowgap; Paul
A. Snider, 22, Bethlehem, Pa., anc
Mildred Pruett, 19, Mount Airy
Leonard G. Vair, 53, and Lillie
Martin, 53, both of Mount Airy;
Hubert Johnson, 18, and Pauline
Seal, 18, both of Mount Airy; Ed
gar Lee Lowe, 17, Elkin and Loi:
Rame>y, 17, Lowgap; and Harvej
Kidd, 19, Dobson, and Ruby Har
dy, 18, Siloam.
T-5 R. B. Sale
Rites To Be
Held Saturday
T/5 ROBERT B. SALE
The body of T/5 Robert B. Sale,
son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Sale of Ronda will arrive
at Hayes-Speas Funeral Home
Friday. He was killed in action
in Europe in World War II.
Sale entered service in Novem
ber of 1942 and went overseas in
1944 with the famed Tenth Ar
mored Division of General Pat
ton’s army. He was killed in Bel
gium in December, 1944.
Funeral service will be held
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock at
Maple Springs Methodist Church.
The Reverend Dewey Smith will
officiate and burial will be in
the church cemetery.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs.
Billy Sparks of Ronda and two
brothers, Eugene and Howard
Sale of Ronda.
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The body will remain at Hayes
Speas Funeral Home until the
hour of the funeral. ,
NETHERLANDS
CUT OPPOSED
Chatham, Elkin Congress
man, Voices Against Ex
cluding Dutch Aid
Joining in a successful floor
fight against an amendment that
would have eliminated the Nether
lands from further aid in the
Marshall plan continuation bill.
Representative Thurmond Chat
ham of Elkin, said Monday that
the Dutch simply blocked a Russ
ian fifth-column attempt to take
over the Indonesian Republic.
“If Indonesia should be con
quered by Communist fifth col
umns,’’ Chatham warned, “the
balance of power in the world
wide struggle might tip to the
Russian side.”
The anti- Dutch amendment
was, in general, similar to a Sen
ate amendment (to the Economic
Co - operation Administration ex
tension bill), which was defeated
largely because of the strong op
position voiced in a report bj
Senator Frank P. Graham ol
North Caholina.
Pointing out that Minister ol
War Sjarifudin of the Indonesian
Republic admitted he was a Com
munist—after he had signed the
Renville agreement in the Dutch
Indonesian dispute, Chatham
asked:
“Do you blame the Dutch foi
resisting them, for trying to cleai
them out of the so-called Repub
lic?”
The anti-Dutch amendment was
defeated by an overwhelming
vote, without a roll call.
Cancer Leaders Think
Town To Go Over Quota
About $300 had been collected
on the cincer Drive in Elkin up
to yesterday morning, David
Brown, local chairman, reported.
However. Mr. Brown announced
that the town would probably go
over its $1200 unofficial quota be
fore the campaign ends April 30.
A broadcast was made last night
(Wednesday) on Radio Station
WKBC here by Dr. Vernon Taylor,
Jr., E. E. Shore, Jr., and David
Brown appealing to those in this
section to contribute to the fund.
Girl Scouts made the greatest
single contribution Saturday
when they canvassed the down
town area in a “tag day” cam
paign. They netted $100.96.
Mr. Brown said that solicitors
in the drive had not yet turned in
their proceeds and that he ex
pected this amount to increase the
total considerably.
Meanwhile, publicity work and
further canvassing continues. Miss
Mary Ellen Harrell and a group
of the Tri-Hi-Y clubs will take
contributions in the theatre lob
bies on April 18, 19, 21 and 22. at
which time a Bing Crosby short
will feature the Drive.
Mr. Brown requested that con
tributions be mailed to him in
care of the Lions Club or to Lewis
Alexander, chairman of the coun
ty drive, at Elkin.
An interesting fact about can
cer was pointed out by Mr. Brown:
One-half of those who develop
cancer can be cured by knowledge
doctors have now. In the early
stages, doctors can cure 95 per
cent of skin cancer, 95 per cent of
lip cancer, 75 per cent of cancer
of the breast and 75 percent of
cancer of the uterus.
Then, too, an alarming note in
the facts is the rising death rate
in North Carolina due to cancer.
Mr. Brown said that in 1935 there
were 1780 (Heaths; 1940 there were
2078; 1945 there were 2504; and
in 1947 there were 2759.
700 Farm Women To Assemble
Here Today For Third Annual
Home Demonstration Festival
SCOUT COURSE
IS COMPLETED
Ten Students Finish First
Phase of Scoutmaster’s
Training
ADVANCE COURSE LATER
The first phase of a basic scout
master’s training course was com
pleted last week in which 10
students participated. Courses
were given by Jim Crowe, Odell
Couch, Tom Roth, Guy Fisher and
Paul Price.
The second portion of the course
will be an outdoor session which
will consist of two hikes by one
party under Tom Roth and an
overnight camp May 21 and 22.
Advance courses will be given
later. The one just completed was
the first in this area in three
years.
Those completing the first ses
sion were Herman Burcham, Fred
Harris, Claude Harris. Lin Hen
dren, Jesse Hutchinson, Fred
Davis, Clifton Nixon, Davis Reece,
Wayne Phillips and Fred Norman.
TO PRESIDE—Mis. P. N. Tay
lor, White Pfains, who for the
past two years has served as
president of the 11th District
of the North Carolina Feder
ation of Home Demonstration
Clubs, will preside at the third
annual Spring Festival in Elkin
today. Mrs. Taylor is one of the
five directors of the Associated
Women of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau and wife of P. N.
Taylor, vice - president of the
North Carolina Farm Bureau.
Bank, Merchants
To Close Monday
Elkin merchants, the Bank of
Elkin and Elkin schools will be
closed Easter Monday.
Stores will be closed as usual
Wednesday Mrs. Willie Mae Stan
ley, secretary of the Merchants’
Association, said yesterday.
Elkin schools will close at noon
tomorrow (Friday) and classes
will be resumed Tuesday morn
ing.
The “ink-sacs” of cuttlefish
yield sepia pigment used by art
ists, according to the Encyclo
paedia Britannica.
GUEST SPEAKERS — Each playing a prominent part in their own
fields toward helping the farm women of North Carolina, the two
persons above will speak to women of three counties here today in
the third annual Spring Festival. Left is Dr. Ellen Winston, com
missioner of the State Board of Public Welfare. Right is John H.
Harris, horticultural extension specialist.
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Permit Granted
For FM Radio
Station Here
The Communications Com
mission at Washington has is
sued a construction permit here
to Albert Ilinshaw, of Elkin, for
an FM broadcasting station,
under the company name of
Yadkin Valley Broadcasting
Co.
Mr. Ilinshaw said yesterday
that plans arc now being made
for the building and equipment
of the FM station, which will
be located at West End, In
West Elkin, and that he hopes
to have Elkin’s first radio sta
tion on the air within three or
four months from the present
date.
The station will operate on a
frequency of 100.9 me., channel
265.
Under present plans, both the
studio, transmitter and anten
na will be 'located at the same
spot.
The firm is individually own
ed by Mr. Hinshaw, who is also
the owner cf Ilinshaw Radio
Sales & Service, on West Main
Street here.
WILKES CANCER
CLINIC MAPPED
Center Would Serve As Can
cer Detection Only; Free
To General Public
AT NORTH WILKESBORO
Plans for a cancer detection
clinic for northwestern North
Carolina were made last week in
North Wilkesboro.
The Wilkes Medical Society at
its April meeting formulated a
plan whereby four doctors will de
vote two hours weekly to the clinic,
which will be open free to all. The
clinic will confine its effores to the
detection and diagnosis of cancer
and will offer no treatment. Those
found to have cancer will be re
ferred to the family physicians.
Those who have no family physi
cians will be referred to the diag
nostic and treatment center at
the Baptist hospital in Winston
Salem.
Dates for the hours of the
clinic will be set later.
Friendship To Give
Easter Play Sunday
An Easter pageant, “The Risen
Lord,’’ will be presented at the
Friendship Baptist Church, lo
cated east of Elkin, Sunday eve
ning.
The public is cordially invited
to attend. ,
Boonville Legion
Plans Square Dance
The Joe E. Martin Post of the
Ainericah Legion will give a square
dance in the Boonville High
School Gymnasium Saturday
night. Proceeds will be applied to
the post building fund.
The average under-water en
durance of pearl divers is from
50 to 80 seconds.
AREA OBSERVES
CONCERT WEEK
Purpose Is To Accept Renewal
Memberships From Past
Subscribers
ENROLL NEW MEMBERS
Community Concert Week, is
being observed in Elkin and the
surrounding area, according to an
announcement made this week by
Mrs. Robert L. Kirkman, Jr., pres
ident of the Surry-Yadkin Com
munity Concert Association. The
purpose of the week is to accept
renewal memberships from past
subscribers and to enroll new
members.
Last season the Surry-Yadkin
Concert Association presented such
attractions as Carolyn Long, lyric
soprano, the Columbia Concert
Trio and Zadel Skolovsky, pianist
Attendance to the concert is
by membership only. While a can
vass will be made both in Elkin
and in the surrounding area, a
representative of the association
will be at Hayes and Spe'as Furni
ture Company to accept member
ship on Tuesday, April 19.
Interest m the concert has been
widespread throughout Surry and
Yadkin counties and has insured
in the past season, a near capac
ity audience.
The drive will be launched
Monday evening at a meeting at
the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A. to which
a group of volunteer workers if
invited. A representative of the
nationwide Community Concerl
Service will be guest speaker. In
addition, a twenty-minute sound
film, “A Carnegie Hall In Ever>
Town,” will be shown.
The campaign will close on Sat
urday, April 23, after which nc
new memberships can be accept
ed until next season. The artistf
to appear in the Coming seasor
will be chosen at the close of the
drive.
CHATHAM GIVEN
HOUSE HONOR
Presides Over House 45 Min
utes Saturday In Ab
sence of Rayburn
FIRST 81 ST FRESHMAP*
Elkin's Thurmond Chatham
Congressional representative of the
Fifth District, presided over th<
House for 45 minutes Saturdaj
afternoon during the debate or
the European Co-operation Ad
ministration bill.
He was tapped for this signa:
honor by Speaker Sam Rayburn
who, following tradition, present
ed Chatham with the gavel usee
while the Tar Heel was in the
chair.
Rayburn often calls upon his
colleagues to take oyer the chaii
while he goes out to conduct bus
iness in the cloakrooms or in hif
special speaker’s office nearby. H
is not frequent, however, that h«
motions to a House newcomer tc
take the gavel.
Representative Chatham w a i
the first new member of the 81s1
Congress to be called upon to pre
side over the House and this
recognition was regarded as s
distinct honor.
Spring Fest
To Feature
Home Experts
Approximately 700 members of
Home Demonstration clubs, of
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin coun
ties will assemble in Elkin today
for the third annual Spring Fest
ival. *
Mi-s. Charles Sewell, Otterbein,
Ind., who is administrative direc
tor of the women’s affiliate, Amer
ican Farm Bureau Federation, will
be the featured speaker. Others
include Dr. Ellen Winston, com
ihissioner of the State Board of
Public Welfare, and John H. Har
ris, horticultural extension spec
ialist.
Mrs. P. N. Taylor, White Plains,
chairman, will preside over the
program which will begin at 10
a.m., at the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A.
Clifton Leary, president of the
Elkin Kiwanis Club, sponsors of
the event, will call the meeting
to order. Garland Johnson, Elkin
mayor, will also take part in the
event.
The Festival is made possible
by contributions from Elkin busi
ness and professional men.
The program, under the joint
planning of home demonstration
agents of three counties, was map
ped by Mrs. Grace Pope Brown,
Surry; Mrs. Annie H. Greene,
Wilkes; and Miss Irene Brown,
Yadkin.
The program will follow this
order:
Call to order by Clifton Leary,
president of Kiwanis; song,
“America the Beautiful”; devo
tions, Mrs. E. G. Key; welcome,
Garland Johnson, mayor; song,
“We Believe in Our State”; dis
trict report, Mrs. Irvin Key; in
troduction of speaker, Mrs. Irby
Sewell,; appointment of commit
tees; invocation, Clifton Leary.
The luncheon session will be
held from 12 noon to 1 p.m.
The afternoon program will
continue: Song, “Smiles”; intro
duction of speaker, Hubert Willis;
address, Dr. Ellen Winston; song,
“Easter Parade”; landscaping,
John H. Harris; song, “John
Brown’s Baby”; minutes, Mrs. N.
D. White; song, “Boola Song.”
Mrs. Gaston Christian will be
the song director.
Raven Knob Park
Is Incorporated
Certificate of incorporation of
Raven Knob Park was awarded
this week with capital stock at
$100,000, Secretary of State Thad
Eure reported yesterday.
The certificate was awarded J.
Herman Coe and Charlotte F. Coe,
Dobson, and Sherman D. Simpson
and Ethel M. Simpson, Mount
Airy
Sound waves have been per
ceived at a distance of 3,000 miles.
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Hen Obliges
Easter Season
With Egg Oddity
Fitting enough, a freak egg—
which some hen tried very ad
mirably to make into an Easter
egg—made its appearance last
week on the farm of Clyde
Lyon, Traphill.
Friday morning, Mr. Lyon
stepped into his chicken shel
ter and beheld the peculiar oval
lying in a corner of the shed.
He picked it up, shook his
head and stuffed it into his
pocket. “Nobody will believe it
isn’t a frame-up,” he thought.
Then, on second thought, he
decided to confide in someone.
He hopped into his car and
brought the funny creation to
Elkin and to the office of the
Tribune’s freak editor. Here’s
how the freak editor described
it:
“A perfectly normal egg in
shape and size, but the color
only two-thirds normal. At the
larger end of the shell a brown
coloring extends evenly up one
third the oval and stops
abruptly. At the point where
the brown ends and the egg
shell coloring takes over is even
as though it were encircled by
a compass line.”
The egg is still on display in
the freak editor’s office.