ELKIN
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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 25
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1949
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ELKIN BOY
IS JUNIOR
, HEALTH KING
Paul Lewis Wins For Health
Achievement
1,000 ATTEND MEETING
Evelyn Waugh, George Ven
able Win Senior Queen
and King Title
AT DOBSON COURTHOUSE
Paul Lewis, Elkin Elementary
School, was crowned junior king
of the Surry County 4-H Club
Health Pageant Monday at Dob
son. Evelyn Waugh, White Plains,
and George Venable, Franklin
School, were named Senior queen
and king while Julia Jessup,
^ Westfield, was crowned junior
^ queen.
The coronation of the kings
and queens took place Monday at
the courthouse in Dobson before
approximately 1,000 Surry 4-H
Club members.
The 'Surry County health kings
and queens were picked on the
basis of their club records on
health achievement and other
records over a period of years.
The following attended court:
Mary Faye Jackson of White
Plains and Tommy Creed of Beu
lah; Sara Lou Schuyler of Low
gap and Shirley Blackburn of
Mountain Park; Rachel Miller of
Franklin and John Lee Thompson
of Dobson; Eloise Edmonds of
Mountain Park and J. B. Gentry
. of Copeland; Lolise Hensley of
’ Copeland and Bobby Perkins of
Copeland; Jeannette Priddy of
.Beulah and Billy Whitaker of
Pilot Mountain.
Peggy Marion of Shoals and
Henry Lee Goins of Flat Rock;
Rebecca Luffman of Mountain
Park and Thomas Ray Allen of
Shoals; Mabel Brinegar of Elkin
and Tommy Marshall of White
Plains; Melrose Cooper of Elkin
and Clarence Whitaker of North
I^kir: Della McEuxic of Flat
Hv f Cope
^^«nd; Carlene Hemric of Dobson
||giAcLJjtagQr Reeves of Pilot Moun
"'iiWwT/BrtfV Patterson of Copeland
and Bud Marion of Siloam; Bon
nie Coe of Pilot Mountain and
Robert Joyce of Westfield.
Ruth Berrier of Franklin and
Don Ramsey of Lowgap; Bobbie
Hall of Siloam and Reid Simmons
of White Plains; Peggy Snow of
Beulah and Gray Southern of
t Beulah; Mary Ruth Jackson of
North Elkin and Kay Hiatt of
Franklin; Betty Jean Hemric of
Little Richmond and Allen Lane;
Bonnie Blue of Bannertown and
A. G. Hiatt of Bannertown.
The 4-H health pageant was
written and directed by Miss An
gela Taylor, assistant home dem
onstration agent.
The program also consisted of
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MILK MEETING
TO BE TUESDAY
Dairy Buyers Will Explain
Reasons For Recent
Drop In Prices
AT DOBSON COURTHOUSE
A meeting designed to give buy
ers an opportunity to explain
reasons for the recent drop in
milk prices will be held Tuesday at
8 p. m. at the Surry Court House,
in Dobson.
Neill M. Smith, Surry farm
agent, yesterday extended invita
tions to all milk producers and
prospective producers of grade A
v and grade C milk to attend the
gathering.
Mr. Smith said that representa
tives of Surry Dairies, Mt. Airy;
Coble Dairy Products Company,
Lexington; Carnation Milk Com
pany, Galax; and Southern Dair
. ies of Winston-Salem have ac
cepted invitations to attend the
meet.
P. R. Farnham, extension dairy
specialist of State College will dis
cuss the history and problems of
milk prpducers in North Carolina.
Mr. Smith urged as many pro
ducers as possible to attend and
have questions ready to ask repre
sentatives of companies now pur
chasing their milk.
Surry Singing To Be
Held In Dobson 29th
The annual Surry Singing Con
vention will be held in Dobson,
Sunday, May 29, it wAs announced
this week. Singing will begin at
1 p. m. at the courthouse, ending
at 4 p. m.
The Rev. J. G. Wright, chair
man, said that all groups of sing
ers are especially invited to take
part on the program.
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KINGS AND QUEENS, DAIRY TEAM WINNERS — Evelyn Waugh
and George Venable (center) were crowned 4-II Club king and
queen of Surry County Monday at Dobson. Julia Jessup (left) and
Paul Lewis were crowned junior king and queen. Lower photo, Ruth
Nichols (left) and Shirley Waugh won the dairy team demonstra
tion.
DR. C. A. MILNER
TO BE SPEAKER
Will Deliver Commencement
Address At Dobson High
School Tuesday
28 TO BE GRADUATED
Dr. Clyde A. Milner, president
of Guilford College, will deliver
the commencement address at
Dobson High School Tuesday eve
ning in „ the school auditorium
when 28 seniors will be graduated.
Exercises will begin at 8 p. m.
Commencement will begin Sun
day with a baccalaureate sermon
at 3:30 p. m. by the Rev. Howard
J. Ford, pastor of the First Bap
tist Church of Elkin. This pro
gram will also be held in the
school auditorium.
Senior class night exercises will
be held Monday evening beginning
at 8 o’clock. The program will fea
ture a class night play, "It Hap
pened Yesterday,” presented by
graduating members. *
Those comprising the graduat
ing class are: Hallie Badgett,
Virginia Wright, Stella Key, Hom
er White, Edna Williamson, Jobie
Lee Draughn, Nancy Harrell, Lil
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Parents Night To Be
Held By Girl Scouts'
Girl Scouts and Brownies will
hold Parents Night at 7:30 o’clock
Friday evening, May 27, at the
Gilvin Roth Y. M, C. A., at which
time the Scout investiture and
Court of Awards will be held.
As this will be the last meet
ing of the year, all Scouts will in
vite their parents to the event.
Carol Stuart, Glenda Spicer and
Polly Price have planned the pro
gram.
In conjunction with the pro
gram, the Scouts will do two folk
dances taken from Dutch and Bo
heimian songs and the Brownies
will do the dance, “Ace of Dia
monds.”
The troop committee will decide
on the best Scout work of the
year.
A display of the Scout work
done during the year will be ex
hibited at Parents Night.
VFW Post Receives
Reply From Chatham
The Elkin post of Veterans of
Foreign Wars received Tuesday a
favorable reply from Congress
man Thurmond Chatham to their
resolution proposing a star route
between Elkin and Dobson.
In a letter to Livingston Wil-i
liams, post adjutant, Mr. Chat
ham reported that he had also re
ceived a similar proposal from the
Elkin Kiwanis Club.
‘‘I am pleaded to inform you
that this matter has already been
presented to the Post Office De
partment and is now being in
vestigated by the Field Office," he
continued. ‘‘I am glad a copy of
your resolution was forwarded to
the Post Office Department as it
will strengthen our request for
this additional mail service.”
The local veterans’ group last
week submitted their resolution to
both Mr. Chatham and the Post
Office Department after a meet
ing at which the proposal was
unanimously adopted by the or-,
ganization. The measure would
call for mail delivery between El
kin and Dobson twice each day.
The actress Eleonora Duse play
ed Juliet when she was only 14
years old.
FORD TO SPEAK
SCHOOL FINALS
Local Baptist Minister To De
liver Address At Jones
ville Commencement
WELLS TO GIVE SERMON
The Rev. Howard J. Ford, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church
of Elkin, will deliver the Jones
ville High School commencement
address Thursday,"May 26, in the
school auditorium.
Commencement exercises will
begin at 3 p. m., Sunday when the
Rev. R. J. Wells, pastor of the
Jonesville Pentecostal Holiness
Church, will deliver the baccalau
reate sermon.
Class night will follow, Wednes
day when seniors will present a
class night play, “The Wedding of
Miss Senior Class and Mr. Life
of Service.’’
Senior superlatives for the
Jonesville school were announced
this week as follows:
Most intellectual, Patricia Boles
and Joe Stroud: most athletic,
Pearl Fisher and Jimmy Everidge;
most likely to succeed, Mary El
len Holleman and Bob Hughes;
cutest, Edith Johnson and D. R.
Gilliam; best all around, Sara Lou
Reece and Leonard Lineberry;
most studious, Mary Blevins and
Joe Stroud; most popular, Betty
Price and Delos Martin; most
original, Mary Ellen Holleman and
Bob Hughes; most original, Fran
ces Dowell and Bill Rhyne; best
personality, June Miller and Leon
ard Lineberry; prettiest, best look
ing, Sarah Nell Mathis and David
Mann; friendliest, Helen Black
burn and Ralph Cheek; best
pdressed, Betty Lou Felts and D.
R. Gilliam; wittiest, Ellen Weath
erman and Dexter Rose; most tal
ented, Jeannette Myers and
Charles Martin; quietest, Alta
Chappell and Ralph Cheek; neat
est, Sara Lou Reece and David
Mann; and kindest, Claudine Ves
tal and Delos Martin.
Marriage Permits
Go To 5 Couples
Five couples received marriage
permits last week from the of
fice of the Register of Deeds at
Dobson. They were as follows:
Max Stafford Norris, 32, and Mary
Jo Bledsoe, 26, both of Boone:
William Major Nunn, 60, Claude
ville, Va., and Pauline Whittle, 49,
Charlotte: Archie G. Riggs, 26,
and Haver Towe, 23, both of
Mount Airy; McAdoo White, 26,
Dobson, and Rosa Lee Wall, 22,
Elkin: J. G. Pilson, 54 and Nan
nie Coble 31, both of Kernersville.
Scouts Plan Camporee
Here Saturday, Sunday
Approximately 100 Boy Scouts
in 20 patrols will attend the El
kin-Yadkin Spring Camporee
Saturday and Sunday at Neavcs
Park, it was announced yester
day by Scout Leader Paul Price.
Troop 25, Jonesville; 46 and
48, Elkin; 54, Pleasant Hill; and
91, Ronda, will compete against
attainable standards graded on
points in camping.
Scouts winning blue ribbons
will be eligible to compete in the
Old Hickory Council comporee
to be held later. Last year,
every Scout attending camp
won a blue ribbon.
Boys will begin checking in
at 8 o’clock Saturday morning
and will draw for camp sites.
At 7:30 p. m., a campfire pro
gram will be conducted. The
public has been invited for
camp inspection at all times.
Camp will break Sunday after
a church service conducted by
the Rev. Marvin Boggs. Awards
will be made following the ser
vice.
Simultaneously, with the con
ducting of the Elkin-Yadkin
Camporee, other districts in the
council will be competing.
Mr. Price explained that pro
visions would be made for those
Scouts attending singly, but that
they would not be eligible to
compete for prizes.
Gilbert Meed has taken the
chairmanship of camping and
activities in the place of Davis
Reece, who is leaving Elkin. Mr.
Meed will direct the camporee
along with Mr. Price and other
Scout leaders.
DISTRICT VFW
MEET WILL BE
HERE MAY 21
Delegates of Five Counties
Slated To Come
ELECTION TO BE HELD
Governor Scott, Congressman
Chatham To Be Guests
At Banquet
SATURDAY P. M., SUNDAY
Delegates of five counties will
convene here Saturday and Sun
day in a call meeting of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars District
meeting.
Election of district officers will
be made among the 12 posts com
prising the district at a business
meeting at 9 o'clock Sunday morn
ing. it was announced yesterday
by Livingston Williams, command
er of the district.
Simultaneously, the VFW auxi
liary will hold a district meeting.
Both groups will adjourn in time
Gov. W. Kerr Scott and Con
gressman Thurmond Chatham
will be guests of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars 11th District
meeting banquet to be held at
7 p. m., Saturday night. The
meeting is scheduled to ad
journ before the open meeting
on roads and school bonds.
to attend service at one of the
Elkin churches. The veterans’
meeting will be held in the VFW
clubroom. The auxiliary meeting
will be held at the Gilvin Roth
Y.M.C.A., at which time new of
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Last Rites For
Sgt. Gambill
To Be Sunday
SGT. IRA SAMUEL GAMBILL Jr.
The body of Sgt. Ira S. Gambill,
Jr., who was killed in action on
February 12, 1945, in Luxembourg,
arrived at Hayes & Speas Funeral
Home yesterday (Wednesday)
morning at 10 o’clock. It will be
taken to the home Saturday aft
ernoon, where it will remain un
til the hour- of the funeral ser
vice Sunday.
Graveside military service will
be conducted Sunday afternoon
at Hollywood Cemetery at two
o’clock by the William J. Jones
Post of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. The Reverend Howard J.
Ford will be the officiating min
ister.
Sgt. Gambill, a son of Dr. and
Mrs. Ira S. Gambill, Sr., was mar
ried to the former Miss Edna Hair.
He was a member of a Combat
Engineers Unit of General Pat
ton’s Third Army. He entered the
armed forces May 15, 1943. and
trained at Ft. McClellan, Alabama,
State College, Raleigh, and Fort
Jackson, South Carolina. He was
sent overseas in October of 1944
and served in England and France
before going to Luxembourg.
Sgt. Gambill, a graduate of El
kin High School, and the Univer
sity of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, distinguished himself in
many fields while in school. He
was listed in the 1942-43 edition
of "Who’s Who Among Students
in American Universities and Col
leges;” was a member of the Gol
den Fleece; was Secretary-Treas
urer of the U.N.C. Student Body;
Exchequer of the Order of the
Grail; president of the junior
class and a member of the Uni
versity Club.
Surviving, in addition to his
w'ife and parents, are one sister,
Nancy Carol Gambill of the home,
a brother, John Gambill, student
at the University of North Caro
lina, Chapel Hill and his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gen
try of Thurmond.
Governor To Discuss
Roads Bond Issuance
Here Saturday Night
Surry Farm
Bureau Heads
Denote Favor
The proposed bond issue for
schools and roads was approved
Tuesday night at a meeting of the
board of directors of the Surry
Farm Bureau.
S. H. Atkinson, president of the
group, reported that 27 county
officers took part in the di^us
sion and reached a unanimous de
cision.
“The opinion of the group was
that it would be a step backward
not to approve the issue in the
June 4 election,’’ Mr. Atkinson
said.
A review of the progress of
roads since the first road bond
issue in North Carolina in 1921
was reviewed.
The Surry Farm Bureau had
recommended earlier to Governor
W. Kerr Scott a number of sec
ondary roads in need of paving.
Some of these roads have already
been authorized and now under
construction, including Westfield
to Pilot Mountain; Pipers Gap
Road; Shoals School to True
love's Store; and Prison Camp to
Bottom.
Others still under request by
the group are Mountain Park up
Mitchell’s River; Copeland to
Rockford; Dobson via Ararat to
Pilot Mountain; Cook School to
Highway 89; Salem Fork via Un
ion Cross to Twin Oaks; Zephyr
to Mountain Park to Highway 21,
thus connecting Dobson and Spar
ta with all-weather roads; Pine
Ridge to White Plains; Poplar
Springs Church to Zephyr; Pine
Ridge to Crooked Oak Church;
Cook to Westfield; Skull Camp
Service Station to Lowgap, Blev
ins Store Highway; and Lowgap
Blevins Store-Salcm Fork.
Dr. T. C. Johnson
To Address Farmers
Dr. T. C. Johnson, state paroles
commissioner, will address Cope
land farmers tomorrow (Friday)
at 8 p. m. on the subject of
Schools and Roads bonds for
North Carolina. The meeting will
be held at the school auditorium.
The F. H. A. Girls of Copeland
School will px-esent a style show at
the beginning of the program.
County Agent Neill M. Smith, in
announcing the community meet
ing, reminded members of the
community that the North Caro
lina Farm Bureau Federation re
cently supported the bond issue
and asked for a large audience
Friday night.
EHS Glee Club To
Sing For Kiwanis
The Elkin high school glee club,
under the direction of Miss Mar
garet Cole, will entertain mem
bers of the Elkin Kiwanis Club at
their meeting at the YMCA this
evening (Thursday), at 6:30
o’clock. Kiwanian Bill Mann will
be in charge of the program.
.May 25th, the membej-s will go
to the YMCA camp near Stone
Mountain for an afternoon of re
laxation, and dinner. The meet
ing will be observed as ladies’
night.
GOV. SCOTT TO SPEAK—W.
Kerr Scott, North Carolina gov
ernor, who throughout his cam
paign last year for the election
of chief executive advocated
better roads and schools spend
ing, will address an open meet
ing here Saturday night in ap
peal for support of a proposed
bond issuance for this measure.
ELKIN IS UNDER
MT. AIR Y COURT
Dobson, Bryan and Marsh
Townships Also Included
In Extension Plan
PLANS ARE BEING MADE
Elkin, Dobson, Bryan and
Marsh townships will be included
in the extension of the Mount
Airy recorder’s court in accord
ance to an act of the General
Assembly recently.
At a meeting of the Surry
Board of Commissioners and Bar
Association, it was decided that
additional courts would be set up
at Dobson and Elkin, and tenta
tively decided that could would be
held in each of the additional.
places twice each month.
Judge Harry Llewellyn is in
charge of the Mount Airy court.
E. C. Bivins is assistant judge and
Attorney Robert Lovell is solicitor.
Cases arising in Dobson, Marsh
and Bryan townships will be tried
at Dobson. Cases arising in the El
kin township wiH be tried in El
kin.
Plans for the courts are still
tentative but definite arrange
ments will be made at the next
meeting, M. Q. Snow, chairman of
the board, said this week.
Powers Hurls; Elkin
Wins Over Mt. Airy
Elkin’s Blanketeers tallied five
runs in the first inning to defeat
league-leading Mount Airy Tues
day night here as Red Powers
notched his second victory, 5-2.
Erickson, Brown and Bishop
each collected two hits to lead
the eight-hit Elkin attack.
In other Blue Ridge League
contests, Wytheville and Galax
split a double-header. Wytheville
took the first game, 9-8, and
dropped the nightcap, 18-5. Rad
ford swamped North Wilkesboro
6-1 at Radford behind Pete Bak
aiti's seven-hit pitching.
The Blanketeers meet Radford
in a doubleheader here Friday,
starting at 6:30 p. m.
Vanilla is made from dried
and fermented pods of orchids.
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Open Meeting
Planned At Y
Starting At 8
W. Kerr Scott, governor of
North Carolina, will address an
open meeting here Saturday night
on the proposed $200 million
school and road bond issue which
will be voted on in the State on
June 4.
Congressman Thurmond Chat
man, who will be in North Caro
lina for Mayodan’s 50th anniver
sary celebration, is scheduled to
introduce Governor Scott.
The meeting will begin at 8 p.
m. in the gymnasium of the Gil
vin Roth Y.M.C.A. Garland John
son, who with Claude Farrell, is
co-chairman for Better Roads and
Schools, Inc., for Surry County,
said yesterday that the meeting
would be open to every citizen
who wishes to attend. Members
of the Elkin American Legion and
the Veterans of Foreign Wars will
usher.
Under the road improvement
phase of the proposal, Surry
County would receive $2,424,000.
Wilkes would receive $3,066,000,
and Yadkin, $1,448,000.
A meeting of the Surry branch
of Better Roads and Schools was
held Monday night in Mount Airy
where groundwork for Saturday
night’s meeting was discussed. The
Elkin meeting will be the climax
of the campaign in this section.
Similar meetings are being held
throughout the state until the
June 4 election.
Registration for voting in the
bond election began Wednesday
and will continue through Satur
day. Those whose names are now
on registration books for general
election may vote, Mr. Johnson
pointed out.
Serving with Mr. Johnson and
Mr. Farrell in Surry will be Sam
Patterson, county sheriff, and D.
B. Lawson of Pilot Mountain.
LEGION TALENT
SHOW IS READY
DISTRICT LEADERS — Livingston Williams, Elkin attorney,
(left) and Mrs. Russell Burcham will be official hosts to a district
meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the VFW auxiliary
here Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Williams is oommander of the 11th
district. Mrs. Burcham Is president of the 11th district auxiliary.
“Laff It Off,” To Play Here
Today and Friday At
State Theatre
“Laff It Off,” an Elkin talent
show, will be presented at the
State Theatre tonight (Thursday)
and Friday under the direction of
Mrs. Florence Moor for American
Legion benefit.
Curtain time Thursday night
will be 8:30. The show will open
at 8:15, Friday night.
Members of the cast were an
nounced yesterday by Mrs. Moor
as follows:
John Q. Public, Dr. Vernon Tay
lor, Jr.; Mrs. John Q. Public, Mrs.
G. A. B. Moore; Cousin Katie,
Frances Lovelace; Pappy Chisel
finger, David Brown; Gene Autry,
Clay Watts; Judy Canova, Idelia
Benson; the Inquiring Reporter,
Charles Neaves; Rochester, Gene
Lewis; Blondie Bumstead, Joe
Transou; Popeye, Raymond Ves
tal; Orphan Annie, Joe Harris;
and Daisy Mae, Donnie Harris.
In connection with the show, a
baby contest is being held. The
winner will be announced on the
stage at the show opening. Votes
are one cent each. Voters may
cast as many ballots as they wish.
Legionnaires working with Mrs.
Moor in the show are Herbert
Graham, Jr., Fred Norman, Char
les Utley, Gene Aldridge, Mrs.
Raymond Vestal and Mrs. Roy
Kane.
Admission prices to the show
will be 75 and 35 cents.
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Jonesville Church Is
Assigned New Pastor
Rev. Kenneth Dantzler of Dur
ham was named to succeed Rev.
R. J. Wells, as pastor of the Jones
ville Pentecostal Holiness Church
at a meeting of the Western North
Carolina Conference in Greens
boro Monday.
Rev. Wells was appointed pas
tor of the West Durham charge.
Rev. Noah Holbrook, pastor of
the Longtown Pentecostal Holi
ness church for the past four
years, was transferred to the Bas
sett, Va„ Pentecostal Holiness
Church. Rev. J. R, Hutchins of
Francisco succeeds Mr. Holbrook. .