— " ... ELKIN The Best little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations The Elkin Tribune ELKIN Gateway to Roaring Gap and the Bine Bid*e THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Connties of Sorry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVII No. 27 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 2,1949 $2.00 PER YEAR 20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS ELKIN HIGH’S FINALS BEGIN , SUNDAY NIGHT t _ J. C. Gwaltney To Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon CAST FOR PLAY NAMED Class Day To Follow Tuesday; Graduation To Be Thursday Night GRADUATES ARE LISTED Elkin High School’s commence ment exercises will begin Sunday with the baccalaureate sermon to be held in the Elementary School Auditorium. Class Day exercises and graduation exercises will fol low on Tuesday and Thursday nights. The Rev. J. C. Gwaltney, pastor _yof Elkin Valley Baptist Church, will deliver the baccalaureate ser mon Sunday night. The Rever ends Robert Tuttle and George Farah will take part on the pro gram. Class Day exercises will begin at 5 p. m„ Tuesday with a Class Day play, “A Southern Rosary.” Those taking part in the play will be Danny Travis, Winnie Luffman, Sue Shugart, Oliver Rushing, Jenny Transou, Jean Brown, Jack Pardue, Joan Olsen, Sam Shugart and Louisa Roth. Graduation exercises will be held at the Elementary School au- 1 ditorium at 8 p. m., Thursday, June 9. Dr. Clyyde A. Erwin, state superintendent of public instruc ^ tion, will address the class. The Rev. Ralph Ritchie, Claude Far rell and N. H. Carpenter will take p,art on the program along with Sue Harris Shugart, valedictorian, and Winnie Frances Luffman, salutatorian. Seniors to be graduated, their officers, marshalls and mascots are as follows: Jenny Transou, president: Hal ‘ Stuart, vice-president: Winnie J Luffman, secretary; and Bob Law- , ( rence, treasurer. ( Mascots are DeLaine Utley and . Jerry Carpenter. Marshalls are Myzelle Stanley, chief; Jean Luffman, Eva Brine gar, Nadene Luffman and Anna ( Katharine Dobson. Class members are: ( Virginia Lee Transou, Hal Mar tin Stuart, Winnie Frances Luff man, Robert Samuel Lawrence, ] Evelyn Faye Transou, Sara Lil- ' ( lian Martin; Jerry Ann Wall, ] Vanice Mildred Gentry, Philip Jones Mathis, Dixie Jean Carter, (Continued On Page Eight) Fourteen Permits i Issued At Dobson ! _ ] ^ Saturday was a busy day in the ( Register of Deeds’ office at Dob son. Nine couples applied for li- ] censes to wed. s By Tuesday 14 couples had been issued permits, who were as fol- ; lows: Benjamin Kelly Graves, 26, and Barbara Ami Wrenn, 23. both ' of Mount Airy; Richard Floyd Leach, 22 and Mary Elizabeth 1 Taylor, 20, both of Mount Airy: Roy Webb, Jr., 24, Rutherfordton, and Peggy Lee Walters, 18, State Road; Charles Junior Reece, 21, Elkin, and Josephine Holt, 16, ( Dobson: John L. Mayhcw, 26, Iaeger, Va., and Anita Jean Clif ton, 21, Welsh, W. Va.; Alexander Green, 16, and Tishie Bell Rogers, 19, both of Mount Airy; Edgar D. , Mabe, 22, Ararat, Va., and Virgin ia Tate, 21, Mount Airy; Don Ray Gentry, 21, and Arlene Jolley, 22, Glade Valley; Fred Murphy, 23, J Boonville, and Lois Marsh, 18, 1 Yadkinville; K. N. Askew, 41, ( Louisburg, and Carrye H. Jones. 1 35, Whitehead; Robert Lee Adams, 1 27, Galax, and Ann Beamer, 22, 1 Mount Airy; Jame^ Clyde John- 1 son, 22, and Lola Annie Mayes, ’ 16, both of Mount Airy; Theodore Van Eaton, 22. and Ola Jean i March, 22. both of Elkin (color- 1 ed); and Joe Conrad, 36, and Ella 1 Mae Hairston, 24, both of Mount Airy (colored). 1 Contest Winner To ! | Speak To Kiwanis Walter Stinson, of Boonville, : district winner of the public speaking contest sponsored by the North Carolina Bankers Associa tion, will speak on “Soil Conser vation’’ at this evening’s meeting (Thursday), of the Elkin Kiwanis Club. Young Stinson was also the recent winner of the district award in the Future Farmers of America public speaking contest. The program has been arrang f ed by Hubert Willis, chairman of the Kiwanis agricultural commit tee. Last week a large group of Ki wanians and tlieir wives and guests, met at Camp Albert But ler. i NEW FHA OFFICERS — Elkin High School officers of the Future Homemakers of America were in stalled in an impressive ceremony, Friday evening at the high school gymnasium. They are, left to right, Miss Carlen Wiles, historian; Miss Greta Cheek, vice-president; Miss Lucy Luffman, parlia mentarian; Miss Betty DeBorde. president; Miss Helen Hutchins, treasurer; Miss Jo Barnett, reporter and Miss Loretta Collins, secretary. Prior to the installation of officers, the FHA club entertained the faculty members and student council at a wiener roast. (photo by belli MAN REPORTED ROBBED OF CAR rwin Citian Says Hijackers Forced Him To Drink Intoxicant 2AR SHOVED OFF BANK Armed men took a Winston Salem man's car Sunday morning ifter forcing him to drink an in oxicant. The auto was found la er at the bottom of a 75-foot mbankment between Thurmond nd Doughton. Jerry Floyd, who gave his ad Iress as Polo Road, Winston-Sal m, told the story to Highway Pa rolman D. J. Caudle of Elkin vhen the officer answered his elephone plea for assistance. Floyd said he picked up two nen at a stoplight in Winston Salem about 4 a. m. while en oute to work at the Winston Steam Laundry. After entering the car, the two nen pulled a gun, Floyd related, ind ordered him to drive on. They breed him to drink a liquid vhich tasted like flavoring ex ract, he added, and he remember ed nothing more until he found limself beside the road about two niles from where the car was la er found. Patrolman Caudle brought ;,loyd into Elkin where he caught l ride back to Winston-Salem. The car was believed damaged ibout $400. ROYALL RITES TO BE TODAY Service To Be At Liberty Knob Union Baptist Church At 11 A. M. WAS 75 YEARS OF AGE Funeral services for Francis Marion Royall, 75, of State Road, vill be held this morning (Thurs layl at 11 o’clock at Liberty Knob Jnion Baptist Church. The Rev erends Ford Walker and Guy Cox vill officiate and burial will fol ow in the church cemetery which s known as the Royall Cemetery. Mr. Royall died Tuesday morn ng after a two day illness. He vas a son of the late Thomas and Martha Brooks Royall. Mr. Royall was twice married, irst to Miss Almedia Sidden, who lied. In 1930 he married the for ner Miss Flora Brooks, who sur vives. Other survivors include wo daughters by the first mar iage. Mrs. Hort Brooks of Thur nond and Mrs. Sam Wooten of iVhitehead; four daughters and )ne son by the second marriage, Mrs. Ransome Woodle, Mrs. Her nan Royall and Mrs. Watson Car eer, all of State Road; Mrs. Clar ence Golden of North Wilkesboro md Oscar Royall of Mount Airy; 14 grandchildren; 10 great grand children; two brothers, George "lovall of Floyd, Virginia, and W. Ei- Royall of Blacksburg, Virginia, and three sisters. Mrs. Walter Slusher of Floyd. Virginia. Mrs. Luther Kivett of Graham and Miss Jane Royall of State Road. Except for the 1946 crop, na tional rye acreage this year is the smallest In 75 yearg. GUEST SPEAKER—Dr. J. Lem Stokes III, pastor of St. John’s Methodist Church, Rock Hill, S. C'., formerly of this city, will speak at the Methodist young Adults Annual Fellowship Din ner, Friday evening at 7 p. m. at the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A. YADKIN SCHOOL ERECTION SET Contracts Expected To Be Let Within Next Few Days For Additions TO ;{ COUNTY SCHOOLS Within the next few days con tracts are expected to be let for the erection of an addition to school plants at Yadkinville, Courtney and Boonville. This is a part of the $480,000 building program already under way in Yadkin County, which was made possible by the passage of a bond issue by election last summer. When the present program is completed, Yadkin County schools will be greatly improved in hous ing and teaching equipment. Among the new buildings erect ed will be a cafeteria, science building with laboratories, and li brary study hall at West Yadkin; additional class rooms at Boon ville and Courtney, plus library and science facilities at Courtney, a new gymnasium at Fall Creek, a library and library study hall, science department, four addi tional class rooms, and a gymna sium at Yadkinville, and addi tional facilities at East Bend. Work is already under way on the plant at West Yadkin. A fea ture of this addition will be a cafeteria which will seat 500 stu dents. Mostak Fans 13, Hut Elkin Loses Wytheville’s Pete Zoldak bested Elkin’s John Mostak Tuesday night in a hard-fought battle at Memorial Park, 5-3. Both pitchers fanned 13 men. Wytheville took a lead in the first inning and added one in the second but Elkin evened the count in the same frame. 3-3. The Statesmen pushed across a couple on the sixth, however, and the ball game remained :;o to the end. North Wilkesboro won a 10-inn ing decision over Mount Airy, 8-7, and Radford edged Galax 5-4. A reformed French thief, Eu gen Vidcoq, established the first official detective bureau in 1817. WMU TO MEET HERE FRIDAY Association To Convene At First Baptist Church At 10:00 A. M. MRS. WOOD TO PRESIDE The Elkin W. M. U. Association will meet Friday at the Elkin First Baptist Church beginning at 10 a. m. The theme of the meeting will be “That The World May Know.” Mrs. R. C. Wood, of Route 1, North Wilkesboro, will preside over the session. During the opening worship period, Miss Peggy Nichols of North Wilkesboro, will sing, “God So Loved the World.” A quartette composed of Mrs. G. H. Tatum, Mrs. Howard Ford, George Litt man and J. Fuller Moseley, will sing a selection. Mrs. Florence Lide, a mission ary to China, will speak on “That the World May Know.” Others taking part on the pro gram during the day will be Mrs. Robert Transou, Mrs. Earl James, Mrs. Lottie Burch, Mrs. G. W. Creed, Mrs. J. C. Brown, Mrs. F. M. Norman, Mrs. C. N. Myers, all of this city; Rev. L. M. Cook of Ronda, Mrs. J. D. Wyatt of State Road and Rev. Lester Johnson of North Wilkesboro. Special music for the meeting will be presented by Mrs. G. H. Tatum, Mrs. J. H. Beeson, solo ists and Mrs. J. Livingston Wil liams, violinist. At the noon hour, luncheon will be served by the Womans Mission ary Society of the First Baptist Church. Officers Capture Whiskey Runners Two men, an automobile, and 60 gallons of non-taxpaid liquor were captured in an early-morn ing haul Friday morning east of Yadkinville by Ucal officers. Herman Ray Maxey, of Route 2, Guilford College, ind Paul Willis, of near Greensboro, were the two men caught by Sh Tiff Bill Mox ley, Patrolman J. V/. Williamson, and three deputy sheriffs. The two made bond to the Sep tember term of Yadkin Superior Court. HONOR STUDENTS — Sue Harris Shugart, left, and Winnie Lee Luffman will lead the Elkin High School Class of ’49 at graduation exercises Thursday, June 9. Miss Shugart was named valedictorian and Miss Luffmui, salutatorian. iphoto* it kkomon> ( SERVICE BOARD TAKINC FINAL DRAFT MEASURE Ten Days Notice Given To Delinquent Registrants DRAFT ACTION PLANNED Those Late In Returning Questionnaires Must An swer Immediately DELINQUENTS LISTED The Surry County Draft Board gave notice this week that dras tic action will be taken on regis trants who have not returned questionnaires. Mrs. A. D. Folger, secretary of the board, said yesterday that the list now being published simul taneously over the county would contain names of men who are delinquent in being located by the board or who have failed to re turn questionnaires. If these men do not communi cate with the board within the next 10 days, their names will be turned over to higher authorities immediately for drafting into the service. Names of the delinquents are as follows: Mount Airy—Laurence Henry Bowman, Raymond Anderson, John Jay Nunn, James Oliver Hatcher, Jr., Lewis Edward Smith, Junior Martin Reedy, Sherman Smith, Nathan Wade Shelton, Smith, Pete Scott (two by same name*, Garnett Fonrow Ques inberry, James Jester Tate, Wil liam E. Barber, Herman Shinault, John Ed Clark, Alvin Lee Hiatt, Jr., John Edward Ester, James William Childress, Joseph Reece, Lonnie Otto Jackson, Pete Scott, James Monroe Martin, Robert Ce cil Bowman, William Allen Col lins, and James William Conrad. Elkin—Billy Darel Casey, Roy (Continued On Page Eight) DATE OF NURSE SCHOOL IS SET Second Nursing Class To Be Held At Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital JUNE 20 IS TENTATIVE Monday, June 20, has been set aside as a tentative date for the beginning of the second class in the school of practical nursing at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos pital, according to an announce ment made yesterday by Mrs. Anne Arnold Cain, co-ordinator of the school of practical nursing. In announcing the opening date of the school, Mrs. Cain reviewed the requirements for admission to the class, which are as follows: must be a citizen of the United States: must be in good physical condition, be of good moral char acter, 17 years of age, a high school graduate, and must show ah aptitude for nursing arrived at by certain tests. Students must pay a fee of $15.00 for uniforms and books, but it is possible for them to earn as much as $50. to $75. (includes room, board and laundry) per month while training. A girl may live at home while taking the training, if she is able to provide her own transportation. The practical nursing course should be of special interest to re cent young high school graduates interested in the nursing profes sion. The class is limited to 12 stu dents. Anyone wishing to enter the class should contact Mrs. Cain as soon as possible. Issue Of Road, School Bonds Faces Showdown Saturday At N. C. Polls PLAN EXERCISE FOR STH GRADE T. C. McKnight To Address Commencement At Elkin Elementary School WEDNESDAY AT 8 P. M. T. C. McKnight, general secre tary of the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A. will deliver the address to the eighth grade commencement ex ercises at Elkin Elementary School, next Wednesday at 8 p. m. Joyce Cochran is valedictorian and Sarah Glenn Boyles, saluta torian. Charles Edwards is class poet. Those to be graduated are as follows: David Lee Hayes, Paul Gwyn, Bobby Holloway, Mickey Wagon er, Betty Thomason, Shirley Ann Lawrence, Lu Senia Mounce, Bet ty Ellen Harris, Lucy Ann Ball, Patsy Ann Holcomb. Fiances Ann Russell, Betty June Gentry, Henry Walters, Frank Chatman, Johnny Belle, Parks McBride, William Marion Allen, Jr„ Patsy Ruth Francis, Emaline Hayes, Frances Kay Guyer, Polly Ann Dudley. Patsy Ruth Atkins. Oma Marie Tilley, Edna Mae Guyer, Glenda Spicer, Roger Collins, Jack Gen try, Charles Eldridge, Errol Hall, Gilbert Lowery, Betty Tuttle, Kit ty Cranford, Lafayette Martin, Peggy Jean Adams, Marian Vir ginia Simmons, Kathryn Osborne, Ann Durham, Polly Price, Tommy Spirnkle, C. E. Councilman, Jr., Fred Eidson, Jr. Bobby Reinhardt, Dan Miller, Patricia Anne Hanes, Bonnie Tilley, Dorla Dean Hin son, Betty Jean Holbrook, Betty Jean Felts, Faye Wilmoth. Mary Martin, Janet Walker, Paul Guy Lewis, Buddy Gaither, J. L. Lowe, Jr„ Howard Hayes, Ronald Jen nings, Hilda Hanes, Jacque Miller, Barbara Cane, Jacqueline Darnell, Mabel Brinegar, Shirley Helton, Emaline Mitchell, Thomas Groce, John Eldridge, Carl Benge, Char les Ashby, John D. Haynes, Jean Bowman, Carol Rose Peters, Jerry Ann Felts, Carol Stuart, Wanda Tulbert, Lois Wagoner, Patsy Lou Martin and Angelene Holbrook. LEAF REVENUE RECORD HIGH Tobacco Farmers Get About Half As Much Per Pound As Does Government TAX RECEIPTS GIVEN Washington, May 30—The far mer who grows tobacco is getting only about half as much money out of it as the government's tax collectors, the Agriculture Depart ment reported today. In a review of the tobacco sit uation, the department estimated that combined federal and state tax receipts from tobacco would hit $1,720,000,000 during the fiscal year. This would be a record high. The department said the total received by growers for their to bacco during the same period would be $985,000,000, or more than in any previous year except 1947. Of the total estimated tax "take,” the states probably will get 23 per cent, the department said, compared with a prewar av erage of 8 per cent. Federal taxes on cigarettes and cigars were increased in 1942 and in recent years some states have taxed tobacco for the first time. The department predicted that cigarette consumption this year probably will equal or smash the record last year. Less cigar tobacco may be con sumed, however, since "cigar con sumption is more responsive than cigarette consumption to changes in consumer income,” the depart ment said. Government price supports for tobacco probably will be 4 to 6 per cent lower on the 1949 crops, the department said. The supports will be fixed this year, as last, at 90 per cent of parity. But parity, which reflects farm ing and living costs, has declined and "some further decline by June and September may be in prospect,” the department said. June and September are the months in which the tobacco sup port prices are computed in terms of dollars and cents. Members Elect Alexander New Lions President CHARLES ALEXANDER Charles Alexander was elected president of the Elkin Lions Club Monday night. He succeeds E. E. Shore. Jr., and will serve for the 1949-50 term. C. C. Wright was named 1st vice-president, Lewis Alexander, 2nd vice-president and Tom Par nell, 3rd vice-president. Other officers were, Dwayne Irwin, . treasurer; Glenn Lewis, secretary; Francis Jarvis, Lion tamer; and David Brown, tail twister. Directors named were K. V. Mc Leod, Ted Griffin, Livingston Wil liams and James Burcham. siamsprInce TO SPEAK HERE Wan Waithayakon Will Ad dress Lions At Luncheon At Noon, Tuesday ALSO MORMON SINGERS Prince Wan Waithayakon, Siam ese Ambassador to the United States and Siamese delegate to the United Nations, will speak at a Lions Club luncheon at the Gil vin Roth Y.M.C.A. Tuesday. Prince Wan is a graduate of Kings College, Bangkok, Siam: Marlborough College and Balliol College of Oxford. England. He received a Litt. D. degree from Laureat, Ecole des Sciences Poli tiques of Paris, France. He speaks English fluently. He has recently returned to the Royal Siamese Embassy at Wash ington from a visit to his govern ment in Siam. Also on the same program will be an internationally-known quar tet representing the Mormon Church of Salt Lake City. The group is celebrating the 100th an niversary of the Mormon's West ern movement of pioneers. Members of the Lions and civic leaders will attend the luncheon, but the public is generally invited to the after-dinner speaking and entertainment. Hamptonville Man • Passes Tuesday R. Columbus Royal, 73, of Hamptonville, died at the home of a daughter early Tuesday morning following two years of declining health and one week of serious illness. He was the son of the late Isaac and Eliza Vanhoy Royal, and was married to Elizabeth Vanhoy in 1908, who survives. Othat survivors arc three chil dren, Mrs. Lindsay Long and Carl Royal, both of Hamptonvile, and Mrs. Enoch Cook, of Winston Salem; two brothers, John D. Royal, and Thomas P. Rayol, both of Jonesville; 13 grandchildren. Graveside funeral services were held Wednesday at 3 o’clock at Pinnix Cemetery, with the Rev. F. A. Wright officiating. Members of 4-H Chibs also are achieving unusual success with their swine projects, the county agent said, and all of them are looking forward to the Pat Stock Show to be held at Williamston May 12-13, Usual Polls To Be Open For County Surry County citizens will join the rest of North Carolina Satur day in voting whether or not they approve the proposal for $200, 000,000 for state bonds on roads and schools improvement. Polls will be open at the usual voting precincts in the county, and will be held at the Fire House in Elkin, opening at 6:30 a. m., and closing at 6:30 p. m. Should the measure pass, Sur ry County would be allocated $580,859 for school building and $2,424,000 for road building. School and road bond bills pass ed by the 1949 General Assembly allocate those amounts to be spent in the county, provided that the people authorize the issuance. For school building Surry would get $250,000 as its equal share of a $25,000,000 appropriation by the General Assembly plus $330,859 i as its per-pupil share of the pro ceeds from the school bonds. The per-pupil share established by the General Assembly is determined on the basis of the 1947-48 daily membership. The amount that would be spent in the county for road building, if issuance of the bonds is favor ed, is set forth exactly in the road bond bill. Proponents of the proposal last week pointed out that roughly one- third of the miles traveled by North Carolina school buses are paved. The report shows for Sur ry, 548.9 total road mileage car rying school bus routes, 190.0 to- * tal bus route mileage paved, giv ing 34.6 percent of bus mileage paved. The North Carolina aver age is 33.4 percent. B1BLESCHOOLS WILL BE HELD Both Deep Creek and Pilot Knob Churches To Start Sessions June 6 ARE FOR CHILDREN Vacation Bible Schools are to be conducted at Deep Creek and Pilot View Friends Churches be ginning June 6, and continuing through the week, closing Friday, June 10. The sessions will be held at Pilot View in the morning from 9:00 until 11:30, and at Deep Creek in the afternoon from 2:00 until 4:30. All the children in the Church communities are invited to attend the school whether they are in these Sunday Schools or not, and parents of the children are asked to make it possible for them to be present. The themes for the different departments will be: Beginners, "What God Made For Us.” Pri mary, "God’s Family, How to Be long To It.” Junior, "The Christ ian’s Time and Talent,” and In termediate, "Answering The Why’s of Young People.” The teachers and helpers at Deep Gap will be, Susan Shore, Nancy Reece, Nora Shore, Beatrice Shore, Helen Picket, Vonnie Shore, Anh Shore and Willinea Wooten. Those helping at Pilot View will be, Lawrence Williams, Gertrude Hutchens, Ila Martin, Lura Mae Spear, Jessie Williams, Doris Shore, Betty Sue Zachary, Dovie Rollins. There will be Bible memory work, Bible stories, songs and games. The closing program of the School will be given at Deep Creek on Friday evening and at Pilot View on Saturday evening, at 7:30 at both places. 90 Cases Docketed For Surry Court; j McSwain Presiding Judge Peyton IVfcSwain will preside at the June term of Surry County Superior Court which will begin Monday. More than 90 cases are on docket for trial. %