ELKIN
The Beet Little Town In
North Carolina
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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 28
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1949
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18 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
SURRY POLLS
HEAVILY FOR
BONDS ISSUE
More Vote On Roads Question
Than On Schools
CITY TABULATION HIGH
N. C. Rural Returns Sweep
By Early Urban Lead
Against Measure
OFFICIAL VOTE LISTED
(Official Vote Page 6, Sec. Two)
Surry County polled overwhel
mingly for the Schools and Roads
bond issuance as North Carolina
voted in Gov. Kerr Scott’s propo
sal Saturday.
Voters of Surry favored the
roads program by 5,479 to 965.
For the schools, slightly less bal
lots were cast but an even better
majority was granted. Official
tV tabulations show 5,312 for the
schools and 714 against.
North Carolina’s rural vote was
generally reported after the city
votes had been tabulated. The
construction and improvement
program forged ahead in drama
tic fashion as returns were report
ed from the country precincts.
The metropolitan vote—chiefly
that in Charlotte and other large
cities—had put the road bond is
sue behind in the early counting
hours.
Then the rural precincts assert
ed themselves and the picture
changed quickly.
While Governor Scott had
stumped the State in behalf of
the precedent-setting road bond
proposal, an association of big oil
companies had been active against
it.
The governor—known for his
whirlwind campaigns, one of
which sent him to the capital—
appealed to “the little man” to
gft the country folk “out of the
nud.” He told the city folk, too,
mat they would gain should the
:oad program pass.
The ballot carried two ques
tions for the voters:
1. For or against a $200,000,000
bond issue for secondary roads.
2. For or against a $25,000,000
bond issue to help counties build
schools.
Also at stake was a onc-cent
increase in the state’s gasoline
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90 GALLONS
BOOZE TAKEN
—
Patrolman D. J. Caudle Nabs
Car and Sugarhead Near
Dobson Tuesday A. M.
j DRIVER MAKES ESCAPE
Ninety gallons of sugar liquor,
still warm from the still, and a
1934 model Ford coach, were
bagged about 4 a. m. Tuesday
morning five miles southeast of
Dobson by Highway Patrolman D.
J. Caudle, following a chase over
dirt roads which began at the
county seat. The driver of the
liquor car, a white man, made his
getaway.
Fatrolman Caudle, accompanied
by Elkin Policeman Ralph East,
was patroling through Dobson
when the liquor car was spotted.
Giving chase, the haul was made
when the driver of the liquor car
stopped and jumped out at the
edge of a thickly wooded section,
disappearing into the undergrowth
to make his escape.
The liquor was contained in
half gallon fruit jars, neatly pack
aged in 15 c&ses, which were in
the back of the car, the seat hav
ing been removed.
The officers said they got a
good look at the liquor runner,
who appeared to be about 35 years
of -age. Neither recognized him.
The liquor was brought to Elk
in and poured out at the Elkin
jail.
Surry Agents Will
Be Away Next Week
None of Surry County’s farm
or home demonstration agents will
be in their offices next week un
til Saturday, it was announced
yesterday.
Neill M. Smith, county agent,
and Mrs. Grace Pope Brown, home
demonstration agent, will attend
a state-wide meeting of extension
agents at Raleigh from Monday
through Friday.
. In the meantime, assistant
agents, Miss Angela Taylor of the
home demonstration office, and
Donald M. Halsey and Ophus M.
Fulcher of the farm office, will
attend camp with members of the
4-H club at Camp Butner.
CLASS OF 1949 — Members of the graduating class of Elkin High School are, left to right, Vanice Gentry, Ruth Reece Phillips, Dixie
Carter, Kay Cheek, Jenny Transou, Ethel Milan, Gilda Money, Barbara Phillips, Colleen Darnell, Sara Martin, Ruby Flinchum, Joan
Olsen, Sally Transou. Second Row, Oliver Rushing, Donald White, Rufus Sneed, Jean Brown, Eva Lou Couch, Roberta Woodruff, Anne
Elmore, Winnie Luffman, Norma Sue Hayes, Hal Stuart, Garth Payne, Henry (“Tip”) Freeman. Third row, Phillip Mathis, Joseph Pin
nix, Sonny Blackburn, Jim Deliorde, Louisa Roth, Sam Shugart, Kathryn Gross, Jean Eidson Lawrence, Jerry Wall, Sue Shugart, Sadie
Park, Conrad Tharpe, Bob Johnson. Fourth row, Riley Mickle, Nathan Lovelace, Jack Pardue, Clifton Roger, Buddy Wclborn, Bill Jur
ney, Bob Lawrence Jim King, Ervin Guyer, C. B. Reavis and Jim Chipman. Mascots are Delaine lltley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Utley, and Jerry Carpenter, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. II. Carpenter. Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state superintendent of public instruction, will
make the commencement address tonight (Thursday) at 8 p. m. in the Elementary School Auditorium. N. H. Carpenter, superintendent
of Elkin City Schools, will award the diplomas.
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(PHOTO BY REDMON)
3-4 OF SURRY
LEAF PLANTED
County Agent Reports Plant
Supply Delay Because
Of Dry Weather
‘STICK TO BROAD LEAF’
Approximately three-fourths of
Surry County’s tobacco crop has
been planted to date, Neill M.
Smith, county agent, said yester
day.
Supply of plants has been de
layed recently due to the dry
weather, but a good rain should
tremendously increase the plants
available from local plant seeds,
Mr. Smith added.
He advised growers not to go as
far east as Fayetteville, Clinton,
Mount Olive, Goldsboro and Wil
son after plants, because they are
too large for transplanting into
the fields.
“Recent rains have improved
plant supplies in the Sanford,
Lillington, Benson and Smithfield
areas,” Mr. Smith continued.
“Growers are advised to begin
making inquiries after they pass
Greensboro in going East for
plants.”
Growers should stick by the
broad leaf type of tobacco, the
county agent advised. “We will
lose thousands of dollars if plant
ing of broad leaf type of tobacco
is abandoned,” he said.
300 Gallons Bootleg
Whiskey Is Captured
Two Yadkinville state highway
patrolmen, assisted by Yadkin
County officers, captured 300 gal
lons of bootleg whiskey last week.
Last Thursday night State
Highway Patrolman J. W. Wil
liamson captured a 1937 Plymouth
along with 132 gallons of corn
whiskey near Brooks Cross Roads.
The driver of the car escaped.
James Miller, Winston-Salem
Negro, was captured on Highway
67 near Boonville last Friday
night, driving a Buick loaded with
126 gallons of whiskey. Miller was
also charged with carrying a .45
caliber automatic pistol.
A 1939 Ford loaded with 44 gal
lons of whiskey, which also con
tained a German Luger pistol, was
captured. The driver escaped.
The potential water power of
Africa is nearly equal to that of
any other three continents com
bined.
Gordon Gray
Named See’y
Of The Army
Gordon Grav, publisher of
the Winston-Salem Journal
Sentinel, was nominated by
President Truman Tuesday as
Secretary of the Army.
The nomination immediately
was referred to the Senate
Armed Services Committee,
which is scheduled to meet to
day (Thursday). This com
mittee, which less than three
weeks ago approved Gray’s
nomination as Undersecretary
of the Army, doubtless will
speedily endorse Mr. Truman’s
promotion of the Tar Heel.
Elkin High To Graduate
49 In Thursday Finals
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(PHOTO BY REDMON)
HEADS JONESVILLE LIONS—
Ivry Johnson, Jonesville meat
packing company operator, was
elected Friday night as presi
dent of the Jonesville Lions
Club.
IVRY JOHNSON
TO HEAD LIONS
Jonesville Lions Club Elects
Officers At Friday
Night Meeting
SUCCEEDS WATT DEAL
Ivry Johnson was elected presi
dent of the Jonesville Lions Club
Friday night. He succeeds A.
Watt Deal, and will serve for the
1949-1950 term.
Sanford “Penny” Brown was
named 1st vice-president, Tur
ner Blackwood, 2nd vice-presi
dent, and Wayne Stroud, 3rd vice
president.
Other officers were: Charles
Cheek, secretary-treasurer; Ar
thur Hutchins, Tail Twister; and
Dewey Mayberry, Lion Tamer.
Directors named were: two-year
term, Lindbergh Swaim and Jack
Ghantt; one year, Wayne Byrd
and C. Marvin Boggs.
Dr, Clyde Erwin
To Speak; Week's
Activity To End
Elkin High School will graduate
49 seniors at commencement finals
here tonight (Thursday). Dr.
Clyde A. Erwin, state superinten
dent of public instruction, will ad
dress the class.
Exercises will begin at 8 p. m. in
the Elkin Elementary School au
ditorium. The Rev. Ralph Ritchie,
Claude Farrell and N. H. Carpen
ter will take part on the program
along with Sue Harris Shugart,
valedictorian, and Willie Frances
Luffman, salutatorian.
Tonight’s program will climax a
week of commencement activities
which included a baccalaureate
sermon Sunday by the Rev.
George Farah, and Class Day ex
ercises Tuesday afternoon at
Memorial Park.
Kiwanians Hear
Contest Winner
Walter Stinson, of Boonville,
district winner of the public
speaking contest sponsored by the
North Carolina Bankers Associa
tion, spoke on “Soil Conservation”
at last week’s meeting of the Elk
in Kiwanis Club, the program hav
ing been arranged by Chairman
of the Agricultural Committee
Hubert Willis.
During the meeting Robert H.
Lankford, Jr., was welcomed into
the club as a new member.
PRINCE HOPES
U. S. WILL HELP
Thailand’s Wan VVaithayakon
Speaks At Luncheon Of
Elkin Lions Club
SPEAKS ON COMMUNISM
“I am hopeful that assistance
(from the U. S.) will be forth
coming to achieve progress and
prosperity especially against Ccrtn
munism in Thailand.”
These were the words of Prince
Wan Waithayakon, Thailand’s
(Siam) ambassador to the United
States and Thailand delegate to
the United Nations, as he spoke
at a luncheon of the Elkin Lions
Club here Tuesday.
Prince Wan told the group that
his country is the only one of
those in Southeast Asia now free
of Communism, but that it was
not free from Communistic danger
especially in view of an impend
ing thrust on Canton by the Reds.
“We are endeavoring to secure
the help of the United States in
keeping that danger away,” he
said, declaiing that America's
remedy against Communism—
higher standards of living through
free enterprise—is the most ef
fective.
The prince reviewed the des
truction which World War II had
caused economically in liis coun
try whose chief exports arc rice,
tin and rubber. Railroads and
other means of transportation
were crippled by the war, he said,
pointing out the need for help
from this country to supply as
sistance to this etnd. "We also are
in need of modern arms to ward
off forces if Chinese Communists
threaten our borders,” he said.
He explained that even though
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Marriage Permits
Issued At Dobson
Six marriage licenses were is
sued last week at the office of
the Surry County Register of
Deeds. Those getting permits were
as follows:
John W Wells, 21, High Point,
and Alice Jean Parnell, 22, Win
ston-Salem; James JSgerton My
rick, 24, Newport, R. I., and Elea
nor Hayes, 24, ElKin; Paul Cas
stevens, 20, and Nancy Monday,
20, both of Mount Airy; Homer
White, 18. Elkin, and Virginia
Freeman, 16, Dobson: Edward
Farresh, Jr., 22, and Marilyn Wil
liams, 19, (colored!, both of Mt.
Airy; and Brooks Ferrell, 35, and
Eessie Hauser, 45, both of Mount
Airy.
Half of the vegetables consum
ed in the United States are grown
in family gardens.
PLAN TO BEGIN
ROAD BUILDING
12,000 Miles Paving and 35,
000 All Weathering Starts
About January 1
GUILFORD GETS LARGEST
Paving of 12,000 miles and all
weathering surfacing of 35,000
miles of roads will begin in North
Carolina about January 1, 1950,
Governor W. Kerr Scott said in
the wake of Saturday’s vote which
approved his $200,000,000 rural
road bond program.
Also approved was a $25,000,000
school building bond issue, which,
unlike the road program, faced no
organized opposition.
Governor Scott, the Haw River
dairy farmer, once again demon
strated his vote-getting power by
going to his “little people,” the
rural Tar Heels, who voted his
program to victory over the oppo
sition of the city vote and that of
big conservative interests.
In voting in the road bond is
sue, Tar Heels alvo voted in a
one-cent increase in the State’s
gasoline tax. The tax increase was
contingent upon approval of the
road bond.
It was the first time the voters
were asked to pass upo.n a tax
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donations™"
FUND INCREASE
! Still Room Remaining For
Boys’ Camp of July
8-18 and 18-28
Elkin Council Starts
Drive Against Reckless
Driving In Town Limits
GIRLS’ CAMP ON JUNE 18
An increase was noted this
week in the donations for the
Tribune-YMCA camp.
T. C. McKnight, general secre
tary of the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A.,
reported yesterday that room re
mains for the boys’ camp of July
8-18 and 18-28, and that several
needy and deserving youths had
been reommended for trips to
camp by schools and churches of
Elkin.
Girls camp will be held June
18-28. Second period, June 28 to
July 8.
This week the camp is being at
tended by 4-H clubbers of Alle
ghany County. Next week, 4-H
members of Surry will attend be
fore the Tribune-YMCA camp be
gins.
Donations to the camp last week
were as follows:
A friend—$100.
A friend—$50.
The Elkin Tribune—$10.
Rich Atkinson—$5.
4-H DRESS REVUE PARTICIPANTS — Members of the Surry County 4-II clubs competed in Dob
son Saturday in an annual dress revue. Anna Jean Holbrook of Elkin won first place for a dress she
designed and made. Evelyn Waugh of White Plains took second place. Pictured here are a part of the
Revue, left to right, Miss Waugh, Betty Johnson, Copeland; Levie Venable, Copeland; Dorothy Bad
gett, Copeland; Dorothy Cross, White Plains; Glendora Nichols, White Plains; Miss Holbrook; Alma
Marion, Dobson and Fayrene Coe, Copeland. (photo by bell)
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Burcham Gets
Second Highest
State VBW Post
RUSSELL BURCHAM
Russell Burcham of Elkin was
elected Saturday to the office of
senior vice-commander of the
North Carolina Veterans of For
eign Wars.
Mr. Burcham, commander of the
Elkin post, was elected at a state
convention of VFW members at
Carolina Beach. He will serve a
two-year term in this second
highest of the state offices. He
was junior vice-commander dur
ing the past two years.
William S. Humphries of Ra
leigh was elected commander of
the department. He is assistant
editor of the North Carolina Agri
culture Extension Service and
served as senior vice-commander
last year. He succeeds Harry
Vander Linden of Hickory. Mr.
Humphries is known in Elkin
where he often makes visits in
behalf of the extension service.
The convention adopted resolu
tions to put the VFW on record as
opposed to any change in the
present immigration quota and
against the Hoover Commission
recommendation that veterans be
given no preference in civil ser
vice jobs.
Fifteen hundred persons attend
ed the sessions.
Other officers elected at the
closing session of the four-day
convention were:
Earl D. Knauff, Jacksonville,
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SURRY’S DRESS
REVUE IS HELD
Elkin Girl Named Winner Of
County 4-H Club Event
At Dobson
MISS WAUGH IS SECOND
Anna Jean Holbrook, 16, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hol
brook of Elkin, won first, place at
the annual Surry County 4-H
Dress Revue held at Dobson Sat
urday.
Evelyn Waugh, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Waugh of White
Plains, placed second and Sabiilla
Dobbins, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. Dobbins, Rusk, placed
third. Jeanette Priddy won first
on 4-H uniforms, fifteen senior
girls modeled dresses
Miss Holbrook took first honors
modeling a gray and white stone
cutter cotton with a matching
handbag and a white pique hat
w’hich she designed and made.
She will represent Surry County
in the State-wide 4-H Dress Re
vue which will be held in Raleigh
during the week of 4-H Short
Course,
Eight junior girls modeled ap
rons. Gail Dobson of Bannertown,
won first place in this division.
Mary Faye Jackson of White
Plains won first place among the
20 junior girls modeling school
dresses. Peggy Harmon of Elkm
won second place, and Betty Nunn,
Westfield, took third.
Judges for the senior girls were:
Mrs. Chester Mays, Mrs. Joe Ros
enstock and Miss Myrtle Gray
beal. Judges for the junior group
were, Miss Marilyn Welch, Mrs.
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Bid On Car
For Patrol
Use Approved
A drive against speedy and
reckless driving in the Town of
Elkin was launched Monday night
by Mayor Richard Atkinson and
the board of commissioners with
a promise to clamp down heavily
on violations.
In connection with the cam
paign—which will be permanent—
the council authorized the pur
chase, received bids and accepted
a bid for a new patrol car. The
car will be delivered on or before
July 4, but action against traffic
violators will begin immediately in
private cars of Elkin police.
Cpl. Sam McKinney, state high
way patrolman, appeared before
the board and at the request of
the council promised the help of
the state highway personnel until
the patrol car arrives.
“It is the intention of the Town
of Elkin to eliminate the growing
traffic problem created by reck
less driving which certainly in
cludes excessive speed,’’ Mayor
Atkinson said.
The mayor said that mothers
had appealed to him to attend to
the matter which endangers the
safety of their small children.
“Speed limits in the residential
districts are 35 miles per hour,
and in the business district, 20
miles per hour,” the mayor point
ed out. “Strict lookout will be kept
to catch and punish violators,”
he added.
He asked the cooperation of the
citizens of Elkin in making the
campaign a success.
Also on the council’s business
Monday night was a committee
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MOXLEY TAKES
WHISKEY LOAD
Nabs Herman Ray Maxey,
Of Guilford College,
With 60 Gallons
OTHER HAULS ARE MADE
A “detective” who strayed out
of his field of operations ended
up behind the bars of the Yadkin
ville jail recently when he came
in contact with Sheriff Bill Mox
ley.
Herman Ray Maxey, of Route
2, Guilford College, connected
with the Home Detective Agency,
of Greensboro, was captured driv
ing an automobile loaded with 60
gallons of liquor in Forbush town
ship by Sheriff Moxley.
With Maxey was Paul Willis, of
Greensboro, Route 5, who was al
so arrested. The two made bond
to the September 5 term of Su
perior Court here, and the auto
mobile was confiscated. Deputy
Sheriff’s Fred Turner, C. Russell
and W. P. Ingram assisted in the
arrest.
A second automobile loaded
with 102 gallons of liquor fell in
to Sheriff Moxley’s hands early
Sunday morning around 7 o’clock.
A 1936 Ford, loaded with the
contraband, turned over at Bran
an’s Creek, about four miles west
of Yadkinville on 421, when the
driver attempted to pass a truck
and lost control of the speeding
car. When the Sheriff and Deputy
C. Russell arrived on the scene
the driver had disappeared.
Elkin Explodes To
Whomp Radford 16-9
Elkin's Blanketeers sprang from
a 10-game losing streak Tuesday
night to wallop Radford, 16-9, on
the Virginian’s home field:
Jim Hayworth, newly-acquired
third baseman, blasted a home run
in the first inning. Gregg Col
lins and Shorty Brown led the 20
liit attack. Collins got 3 for 6,
Brown got 1 for 6.
Mount Airy went on a hitting
rampage in another Blue Ridge
contest to paste a 15-b licking on
Wytheville.
The Blanketeers will meet Rad
ford here Friday night and will
take on Galax Saturday night.
Games will begin at 8 p. m., at
Memorial Park.