ELKIN
The Best Little Town la
. North Carolina
THE TRIBUNE
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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. 26
asm 1 ."a1 as
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949
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SERVICE PENDS
TOWN’S ACTION
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Postal Delivery For Elkin
Would Be Expanded
TOWN TO ACT, JUNE 6
Naming Streets, Placards,
Numbers Needed To Put
Plan Into Effect
LIST AREAS INCLUDED
Plans have been completed by
local Postoffice officials to extend
Elkin’s postal service, pending ac
tion by the Town Commissioners
which would provide for naming
of streets and placarding them,
numbering houses and providing
a map of the town with these
changes recorded.
As soon as the council provides
* such action, mail service will ex
pand to cover 25 houses in North
Elkin, about 25 houses on West
Spring Street by the water works
through Schoolhouse Hill; West
Elkin, from Sunset Park, running
west up to Elmore’s Grocery,
w’hich would include about 40
houses and eight or 10 business
houses; Masonic Drive and Vic
toria Avenue, about 25 homes.
The service extension has al
ready been approved by the Post
office Department and Poetoffice
inspectors and will be in effect
as soon as proper action is taken
by the council.
Mayor Richard T. Atkinson said
yesterday that the matter would
be brought before the council at
^ the next regular meeting, June 6.
JULY23DATE
FOR LEAF VOTE
—
Tobacco Growers To Ballot On
Production Controls Be
yond This Year
* TO HAVE THREE CHOICES
Growers of flue-cured tobacco
will vote July 23 on a govern
ment proposal to keep productiop
controls beyond this year.
The proposal was made by Sec
retary of Agriculture Brannan to
day in a move aimed at keeping
supplies from getting out of hand.
Quotas on this type tobacco have
y been in effect since 1938, with
the exception of 1939 when grow
ers voted them down.
Specifically, growers will have
• three choices of their referendum
ballots: 1—Marketing quotas for
the 1949 crops; 2—Quotas for the
1950, 1951 and 1952 crops and 3—
A “no” vote on all quotas.
A grower may vote for only one
of the three choices. Either quota
* proposal must receive a two-thirds
majority to become effective.
In the last referendum, held in
1946, growers voted 97.1 per cent
in favor of quotas for the 1947,
1948 and 1949 crops.
If growers approve quotas for
next year, the national marketing
quota will be announced in the
Fall. The quota will be divided
among growers on the basis of a
formula in crop control legisla
m tion.
Sales from acreages in excess of
allotments would be subject to a
penalty tax equal to half the mar
ket value of the tobacco.
The department has set the
1949 national marketing quota at
1,030,000,000 pounds and the na
tional planting allotment at 960,
000 acres.
y Fire Destroys Home
In West Jonesville
Fire destroyed a frame bunga
low Saturday night in West Jones
ville while the occupants were
away.
Will Anderson, owner of the
house, this week reported that he
had only a small amount of in
surance on the dwelling which
was occupied by Mrs. Fannie
Couch with her grandchildren at
the time.
—> All the furniture and 'clothing
* were destroyed in the! house
which had recently been remodel
ed.
Loss was estimated at about
$5,000.
McKinney Assigned
To Take Instruction
Corporal J. S. McKinney of Elk
in has been assigned by Com
mander C. R. Tolar of the State
y Highway Patrol to attend a spe
cial two-weeks course in traffic
instruction to be held in Baton
Rouge. La.
Only two members of the State
Highway Patrol’s 413 were assign
ed to attend.
I
A CHAT WITH THE GOVERNOR — Gov. W. Kerr Scott, left fore
ground, chats informally with a group of Elkinites during his visit
here Saturday night. Talking with the governor, reading clockwise,
are Miss Mattie Mae Powell, Mrs. Garland Johnson, Mrs. Seth Beale,
Mrs. Livingston Williams and Major Edmund Robinson.
(PHOTO BY BELL)
‘Loosen Bottleneck,’
Scott Tells Audience
Governor Speaks
To Open Meeting
Of Voters Here
Gov. Kerr Scott told a three
county audience here Saturday i
light that the voters in North
Carolina must “loosen the bottle
leck to progress” in this state by
noting for his Better Roads and
Schools proposal June 4.
In outlining the advantages of
.he program both industrially and
agriculturally, the governor chided !
Northern oil interests for their
part against the roads program,
idding that some in the furniture
industry in the State had voiced
disapproval. He said the latter
owed the presence of the furniture
industry in North Carolina to the
road building advancement made
in this state in the early twen
ties. Such industries as textile
md furniture were taken away
from the North and placed here
oecause of the program, he said.
Reiterating a familiar campaign
cry, Governor Scott said, “I want
to help you get out of the mud.”
He emphasized again that Better
Roads and Schools, Inc., is in
tended to pave the dirt roads of
the rural sections where the far
mer and the school student will
fare better. “The money will not
be spent for boulevards to be used
in luxury, but in the rural sec
tions wherein the progress and
advancement of both farming and
industry lie,” he added.
"We were greatly alarmed and
concerned with the polio epidemic
of last year and other years in
this State, he continued, "but we
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SURRY COURT
BEGINS JUNE 6
—
Judge Peyton McSwain To
Preside Over One-Week
Session At Dobson
JURORS ARE ANNOUNCED
Surry County Superior Court
will open at Dobson for one week
beginning June 6, and will be held
under Judge Peyton McSwain. it
was announced yesterday by Ker
mit W. Lawrence, clerk of court.
The jury for the June term were
listed as follows:
Elkin—W. E. Eldndge, S. C.
Bohannon, Bob Douglas, Clinton
White and O. C. Nance.
Dobson—Ellis Moncus, John
Wright, J. R. Hutchens and John
W. Hardy.
State Road—Ike R. Cummings
and Mrs. Mamie Beane.
Mountain Park—W. P. Thomp
son, Will R. Stanley, Charles Wal
lace and J. P. Thompson.
Pilot Mountain—Aldie Jessup.
Edgar D. Simmons, Paul S. Swan
son and Lester D. Hill.
Crutchfield -r- Thurmond W.
Cockerham.
Mount Airy—Levie Starr, Wade
H. Davis, Willie McHone, Edmond
S. Burke, R. L. Arrington, Grover
Holder and L. J. Badgett.
Pinnacle—Dallas F. Dezern.
Family Left
Destitute After
Home Is Destroyed
The home and sole belongings
of Radford Cook and family
were destroyed Monday after
noon in West Jonesville near
Cedarbrook Country Club.
Residents of Elkin, alarmed
at the plight of the Cooks, is
sued a plea for help for the
■family who had only $92 left
for subsistence after the loan
on the house had been paid off.
The Cooks operate a small
store near the turnoff to Ce
darbrook Club. They have two
children. 7 and 10, who arc in
need of medical attention.
6 PERSONS HURT
IN AUTO CRASH
Are Carried To Elkin Hospital
Following Collision
Sunday P. M.
BENHAM - AUSTIN ROAD
Six persons were treated at
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospi
tal Sunday afternoon following a
two-ear accident on the Benham
Austin highway eight miles north
west of Elkin.
Bratt Holbrook, 23. suffered a
serious head injury. He was* a
passenger in the vehicle driven by
Sebon Smoot, 23. J. W. Smoot,
another passenger, suffered deep
cuts about the body.
Paul Norman Howard, 27. op
erator of the second car, suffered
bruises.
Miss Bonnie Ruth Crabb, 18, of
Traphill. passenger in Howard’s
car, suffered an ankle injury and
cuts; Clyde Brown, 18, of Trap
hill, suffered a shoulder injury;
Miss Verna Lee Byrd of Benham
escaped injury. Holbrook was the
only one of the injured to remain
at the hospital.
Sebon Smoot was charged with
reckless driving and operating a
vehicle without license.
E. E. Hayes, Jr. Is
Awarded ROTC Medal
Errol Edwin Hayes. Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hayes of this
city, was awarded a silver medal
Friday for being an outstanding
Ordnance ROTC student at N. C.
State College, Raleigh, during for
mal military exercises at the col
lege.
Hayes, who is a captain in the
ROTC, was also selected as a hon
or cadet.
In the communication to Cadet
Hayes’ parents, from Samuel A.
Gibson, Colonel of the Depart
ment of Military Science and Tac
tics at N. C. State College, stated
that the commendation was well
deserved by their son for his
‘leadership, initiative and dili
gence” in the ROTC during the
year.
FARMERS PLAN
THURSDAY MEET
AT COURT HOUSE
Dobson Farmers To Discuss
Roads, Federal Proposals
BENHAM MEET FRIDAY
R. Flake Shaw Will Address
Surry Farm Bureau Mem
bers and Others
INVITE GENERAL PUBLIC
Dobson farmers will meet to
night (Thursday) at the Court
house in Dobson to hear a dis
cussion on the proposed school
and road bond issue in North Car
olina and various proposals for
farmers now before Congress.
R. Flake Shaw, executive sec
retary of the North Carolina Farm
Bureau and a director of the
American Bureau Federation will
address the group on farm pro
grams now being considered in
Washington and will discuss the
road and school issue.
In connection with the promo
tion of Better Schools and Roads,
Inc., in Wilkes County, another
rally will be held at Benham
school, 8 p. m., Friday.
Co-managers of Better Schools
and Roads, Inc., of Elkin, Garland
Johnson and Claude Farrell, will
attend the Dobson meeting.
In the bulletin sent out this
week by J. Lee Thompson, presi
dent, and H. C. Lawrence, director
of the Dobson Community Farm
Bureau, urged all farmers of that
section to attend. The meeting
will begin at 8 p. m. Not only far
mers, but the general public has
been invited, the bulletin read.
At the Benham rally, ex-Sheriff
Pressley Brown of North Wilkes
boro will be the speaker. Also
attending will be C. C. Faw of
North Wilkesboro and Mark Go
forth of Lenoir, district highway
commissioner. The public has
been invited to attend this meet
ing, also.
Two Face Trial
After Shooting
Harley Davis and Earl Ward,
Negroes of West Jonesville, will be
tried by Magistrate Z. B. Martin
Saturday as a result of an alter
cation Sunday morning.
Davis is alleged to have shot
Ward with a 12 guage shotgun
Sunday afternoon in West Jones
ville. Ward is reported to have hit
Davis with a bottle. Neither were
seriously injured. Davis suffered
cuts about the head and Ward
was slightly wounded about the
neck and shoulder.
Both men were arrested and
are now out on $300 bond each.
Trophy To Be Given
At Yadkin Exercise
David F. Gough of this city, will
present the A. J. Martin trophy
at the Commencement exercise
at West Yadkin High School to
night (Thursday).
The trophy is given each year
by Leroy Martin. Raleigh banker,
in memory of his father, to the
Senior who shows the most out
standing ability.
DISTRICT. COMMANDER —
Carl Hinson of Elkin was elect
ed commander of the 11th Dis
trict Veterans of Foreign Wars
at a meeting here over the past
week-end. Two other Elkin vet
erans, Lewis Alexander and Liv
ingston Williams, were named
to district posts also. Hinson fc
the retiring adjutant of the Wil
liam J. Jones post, Elkin.
(TRIBUNE PHOTO)
HINSON NAMED
DISTRICT HEAD
Local Man Elected Command
er of Veterans of Foreign
Wars At Meet Here
BURCHAM IS INSTALLED
Carl Hinson of Elkin, was elect
ed commander of the 11th district
Veterans of Foreign Wars at a
district meeting here during the
past week-end. Livingston Wil
liams and Lewis Alexander, El
kin attorneys, were also elected
to district posts.
Russell Burcham, commander of
the William J. Jones post of El
kin, who was recently re-elected
head of the Elkin veterans, was
installed Sunday morning along
with other newly-elected officers
by William Humphreys, senior
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DEANE HOPEFUL
EARLY ACTION
Believes Chances Good For
“Springing” Soil Conser
vaation Report
DURING THIS SESSION
Immediately following the last
of a series of conferences with
Agriculture Secretary Charles F.
Brannon, Representative C. B.
Deane of Rockingham said this
week in Washington that he be
lieved chances were greatly im
proved for “springing” a long sur
passed soil conservation report
affecting the Yadkin River Valley
in time for congressional action
at this session.
Deane said that he was still
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DAIRYMEN HEAR
BUYERS’ POINT
ON PRICE DROP
Surry Farmers Told Constant
Expansion Is Sought
NO SURPLUS OF C MILK
Methods of Increasing Milk
Profits Discussed At
Gathering
DAIRY PRODUCTION UP
Explanation for reasons in the
recent drop in milk prices and
methods of 'increasing milk pro
fits were/discussed by buyers and
dairymen at a meeting Tuesday
night in Dobson.
Dairymen were told that milk
buyers are constantly seeking to
expand the milk market and were
told that there is no surplus of
“C” milk, particularly in the man
ufacturing field.
Improvements in milk produc
tion for this year as compared to
others were cited and discussion
was made on ways to continue
higher production on sales.
‘Neill M. Smith, county agent,
reviewed other conclusions at the
meeting as follows: That it is im
portant that the distribution of
milk be regulated so to meet the
demand during fall, winter and
early spring, and that it is impor
tant that breeding of dairy cows
be done in December and Jan
uary so calves will be foaled in the
early fall.
Mr. Smith said it was pointed
out that production for 1949 has
been running 12 to 20 percent
higher than one year ago, even
though the number of dairy cows
is actually lower.
The production per cow per day,
he said, is up about 1.1 pounds
per day per cow, according to
figures from the North Carolina
Milk Producers Federation. This
likely will mean that we will reach
the peak of production this year
much earlier, he said.
A committee was named to meet
in Dobson Saturday at 11 a. m.,
to work out plans to help Surry
dairymen to work out solutions to
their dairying problems.
Boonville’s Stinson
Hurls No-Hit Game
Bobby Stinson, right-handed ace
of the Boonville staff, missed a
perfect seven-inning game by vir
tue of Woodruff’s error Tuesday
when he blanked Yadkin County’s
Champion Yadkinville hitless
while his njates were pounding
away for 10 hits and a 12-0 vic
tory.
Stinson fanned eight men and
walked none while Jim Stinson
homered with a man aboard in
the fifth to lead the attack to de
feat the champs who had not lost
a county battle all season.
Reported cases of rabies last
year totaled 9,475 in 38 states. In
fected dogs accounted for 7,331
cases, with 628 in cattle, 38 in
horses, 45 in swine, 16 in sheep,
1538 in cats, 5 in goats, 857 in
I wild species—plus 17 reported
rabies cases in man.
TO RECEIVE DIPLOMAS — Members of th^ Jonesville High School graduating class are, first row,
left to fight, Helen Blackburn, Mary Ellen Hollemau, Claudine Vestal, Alta Chappell, Janet Myers,
Betty Price. Second row, Edith Johnson, Betty Lou Felts, Frances Dowell, Marx Blevins. Third row,
F»t Boles, Sarah Lou Reece, Ellen Weatherman, Sarah Nell Mathis, Pearl Fisher. Fourth row, June
Miller, Leonard Lineberry, Joe Stroud, Bob Hughes, James Rose. Fifth row, Ralph Cheek, Delos Mar
tin, D. R. Gilliam, Charles Martin, Jimmy Everidge. Sixth row, Wade Swaim, Wesley Wright, David
Mann, Bill Rhyne and Dexter Rose. Mascots are Johnnie Kay Myers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Myers, and Stanley Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin. Rev. Howard J. Ford will make
the Josesville commencement address tonight (Thursday) at 8 p. m. ‘ (photo by belu
Railway Plans
To Stop Mail,
Coach Service
4
3,725 Registered
By Surry Board
Under New Draft
Board has registered 3,725 men
in the new draft. Of these, 3,
285 have been classified, it was
reported yesterday.
Those yet to be classified are
youths who have not yet turned
19 years old and the delin
quents who have yet to return
their questionnaires.
Mrs. A. D. Folger, board sec
retary, explained that names of
all delinquents will be released
next week. Within 10 days from
the date of the release of the
names all those listed must
have reported to the board or
proceedings will begin to draft
them.
MANY PATROLS
AT CAMPOREE
The
County Draft
Eighty-Eight Youngsters At
tend Annual Event At
N eaves Park Here
AWARD BLUE RIBBONS
Seventeen patrols consisting of
88 Scouts attended the Elkin
Yadkin Camporee held at Neaves
Park Saturday and Sunday. Elev
en blue ribbons and four red rib
bons were awarded.
Paul Price, district commission
er, reported this week that an in
crease in the number of tenderfoot
class scouts was evidenced, thus
making partly responsible the de
crease in the number of blue rib
bons won as compared to last year.
Last year, the Camporee had 100
per cent blue ribbons in competing
against attainable standards.
Visitors attended the event
throughout the week-end. Satur
day night’s program included a
campfire, songs and skits by the
seven units represented.
Mr. Pr ice said that out of a pos
sible 820 points which could be
attained, the group averaged 747.
Two patrols missed blue ribbons
by one point.
Troop patrols and their leaders
were:
Troop 25, Flying Eagle, Johnny
Davis: 25, Bob White, K. Free
man; Explorer Post 25, Explorer
number one, D. Temple: Explorer
Post 25. Flaming Arrow, David
Dickson; 46. Bob White, J. H.
Steele; 46, Panther, Sam Mar
shall; 47, Mohawk, Jimmy Dar
nell; 46, Apachie, Paul Gwyn, Jr.;
48, Fox, Fred Eidson. Jr.; 48.
Tiger, David Causey; 54, Crow, B.
Reinhardt; 54, Eagle, A. P. Alex
ander; Outfit 54, B. Welborn;
Troop 85. Bob White, Ralph Wil
liams; 85, Beaver, E. Nixon; 91,
Bob White, D. Jones; Outfit 11,
provisional, Sam Marshall.
CAMPFUND IS
NOW AT $150
Fund Is Created To Enable
Deserving Boys and Girls
To Attend Camp
MORE MONEY IS NEEDED
Contributions to the Kiwanis
Tribune Camp Fund mounted to
$150 in the first week of the drive,
it was announced yesterday by T.
C. McKnight. general secretary of
the Gilvin Roth Y. M. C. A.
The fund was created to enable
deserving boys and girls who could
not afford any or part of the cost
of attending Camp Albert Butler
which is directed by the Y.M.C.A.
Camp Butler, located four miles
above Roaring Gap, will open
June 18.
Contributions received thus far
are as follows:
A friend, $125.
Dr. Olivia Abernethy, $10. ,
Harry Hensel, $5.
T. C. McKnight, $J0\
Mr. McKnight has indicated
that far more funds, ire needed
to take care of a number of cimp
ers deserving the vacation. Do
nations may be turned in either
by mail or by person to The Tri
bune or to the Y.M.C.A. Names of
all contributors will be published
in the Tribune.
Road Delivery
May Replace
Rail Medium
Plans for the discontinuance of
Southern Railway passenger ser
vice and the transfer of express
and mail service to a highway
medium were made public to a
representative group of Elkin citi
zens at a meeting here yesterday
(Wednesday).
Herbert W. Bondurant of At
lanta, vice-president of the South
ern Railway System, C. W. Adams
of Charlotte, general manager of
lines east, and B. L. Stanftel of
Winston-Salem, superintendent of
the Winston-Salem division, ap
peared before the Elkin group to
indicate their intentions. No op
position was voiced by the group.
Earlier proposals had been
made to combine passenger and
freight service, leaving off the
passenger service alone. However,
the company has not indicated
plans to discontinue all rail pas
senger and mail service and will
apply to the State Utilities Com
mission for such permission.
Opposition has not been ex
pressed in the Elkin area, but a
group at North Wilkesboro pass
ed a resolution opposed to the
combining of the freight and pas
senger service.
Those represented at yester
day’s meeting were, J. F. Moseley,
J. S. Atkinson, C. H. Leary, H.
B. Cranford, Richard Atkinson,
Hugh Royall, R. C. Freeman,
George Isenhour, David Brendle
and Dixie Graham.
POPPiESGOON
SALE SATURDAY
Sponsored By The American
Legion and Legion
Auxiliary
PROCLAMATION ISSUED
Saturday will be set aside as
Poppy Day in Elkin in a proclam
ation issued today by Mayor R. J.
Atkinson. The proclamation urg
ed all citizens to observe the day
by wearing memorial poppies in
honor of those who gave their
lives in the two World Wars. It
stated:
“Whereas, men of Elkin gave
their lives m defense of the Unit
ed States of America in World
War I and World War It; and
“Whereas, Memory of their ser
vice and sacrifice is a source of
great inspiration to all citizens as
our nation faces new difficulties
and dangers; and
“Whereas, This memory is kept
bright by the annual wearing of
memorial poppies in their honor
and in honor of all other Ameri
cans who died in world war ser
vice;
"Now, therefore, I, R. J. Atkin
son, Mayor of the Town of Elkin,
N. C., do hereby proclaim Satur
day, May 28, to be Poppy Day in
the Town of Elkin, and urge that
all citizens observe the day by
wearing the memorial poppy of
The American Legion and Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary.”
Blanketeers Win,
Evacuate 2-Week
Tenure In Cellar
Elkin capitalized on Mount
Airy’s errors Tuesday night to
wrest their way from a two
week stay in the Blue Ridge
League cellar and to break the
Graniteers’ streak of nine
straight home victories. Score:
4 to 3.
Shortstop M. A. Davis of Mt.
.Airy, contributed heavily to the
Blanketeer cause when he com
mitted five errors, two in each
of the innings that Elkin scor
ed.
Marquis was credited with
the Elkin victory. He relieved
Bademacher in the fifth inn
ing, Shorty Brown paced the
Blanketeers with a double
single in four trips.
In other Blue Ridge games.
Wytheville took Galax, 5-3, and
Radford downed North Wilkes
boro, 4-2.