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ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Caroline THE TRIBUNE . Is A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations ELKIN Gatevay to Route* Gap and the Bine Ridge THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVII No. 29 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1949 $2.00 PER YEAR T 16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS YMCA GETS BIRD COLLECTION — Dr. J. S. Hiatt last week presented a collection of native birds to the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A. He began gathering the assortment in 1926. Here, Dr. Hiatt, left, identifies a pair of stuffed birds for T. C. McKnight, general secretary of the Y, who accepts the col lection on the organization’s behalf. < photo by red mom > FARMWORKERS PLAN PROGRAM Every Road In County To Be Covered In Permanent Pasture Exhibits LIST PLACES, WORKERS Agriculture workers, of Surry County agreed last week to cover every road in the county in the interest of establishing permanent pasture demonstrations on road sides. During a meeting of the USDA conference, each agriculture work . er agreed to work a certain road * thus accepting an assignment. A list of roads to be covered in permanent pasture demonstra tions by workers council are as follows: Elkin—H. M. Willis, Elkin to Mitchell River; Kermit White, El kin to State Road. Mountain Park—Jim Dan Ham mings, Union Hill Road, also State Road to Mountain Park; Neill K Cockerham, Mountain Park to Mulberry; Paul Melton. Mountain Park to Devotion; and Don Cock erham, Mountain Park to High way 21. Copeland—C. E. Mauney, Fisher to Quaker Church; George Snow, Copeland via Double Creek to Rockford; H. W. Miller, Union Cross to Siloam; C. D. Smith, Copeland to Rockford. ■jju Pilot Mountain—Pilot Mountain agriculture teacher, Pilot to Line (Pinnacle) to Shoals; W. J. Lovill, Pilot to Shoals via hardsurface Road; E. F. Arnold, Level Cross to Shoals Road; Codell Reeves, Pilot to Armstrong Station; W. B. Blair, Chilton Station to Cook School to Westfield; and Gordon Denny, New Highway to West field. Westfield—Westfield agriculture teacher, Sheltontown to West Y field; Glenn Payne, Wood’s Store to Flat Rock Road; John Tilley, Woodvillc to Joel Jessup's, back to Jessup’s Station. Flat Rock—James Davis. Mount Airy to i Brim; Morgan Stanley, Mount Airy to Line via Sulphur Springs; and Robert Brim, Mount Airy to Virginia Line via Route 52 Stokes County line via home to Wood Road. ^ Franklin—Franklin agriculture teacher, No. 601 truckline to High way 52; Bill Lowe, Pine Ridge Lowgap School near Round Peak; Frank Beamer, Mount Airy to Beulah line; C. L. Smith, Toast to county line on New Lamsburg Road; and W. R. Locklear, Knit ting Mill to Snow’s Station; Paul’s Creek to Virginia line via C. L. Smith’s. Beulah—Terry Beamer, Frank (Continued on page eight) £ Presbyterian Bible School Being Held The Daily Vacation Bible School of the Presbyterian Church is be ing held during this week. Ir charge of the school is Miss Doro thy McCorkle of Lenoir. In the beginner department Mrs. Guy Snow is teacher, witf Miss Jean Combs as assistant Primaries, Miss McCorkle; Jun iors, Mrs. Charles Calhoun, Mis: > Betty Lou Wall, assistant t pioneers, Mrs. W. E. Davis, teach er; Pianists, Miss Edna Dillor and Mrs. O. T. Blackburn. Re creation is under the supervisor of Miss Polly Plfice. The school will end on Satur day, June 18. Sessions are helc daily from 9 a. m. to 11:30 a. m Two Boonville Council Members Resign Board Foster Matthews, Frank Steelman Quit Board Over Budget Adoption & Two members of Boonville’s board of aldermen resigned last week in protest over the adop tion of a new town budget and the reduction of the tax rate from 70 to 50 cents on the $100 valuation. Aldermen Foster Matthews, funeral director and furniture dealer and Frank Steelman, garage operator, said this week they would not continue to serve because of the procedure follow ed by other board members, Wade Shore, banker, and Mayor Carl Bovender, at last Tuesday’s meeting. Matthews said he was on a business trip to Georgia and Florida at the time of the meet ing and that a new budget and JAYCEES TAKE THIRD HONORS Elkin Junior Chamber Wins In National Competition In Agriculture FOR FAT STOCK SHOWING The Elkin Junior Chamber of Commerce placed third in nation al competition at the Colorado Springs, Col., National Jaycee Convention last week for their agriculture work. The Elkin club took the honor through the work it did in stag ing a fat stock show and sale, the most profitable show of its kind ever held in the State. More than 1,200 civic action programs of Junior Chambers over the nation were entered in the 29th Annual Convention awards. Presentation of the awards was made before 5,000 delegates in Municipal Auditorium in Colorado Springs. STILL WARM FROM STILL — Policeman Ralph East, left, and Patrolman D. J. Caudle look over [ 90 gallons of sugar liquor, still warm from the still, and a 1934 Ford coach, which they bagged last week near Dobson. The driver, escaped into an undergrowth. (tribune photo tm tax rate was passed in his ab sence. Matthews said he resign ed because he did not have a vote in the matter. Steelman, who voted against the lowering of the tax rate, resigned because his request that the vote be held until Mat thew's returned was not allowed. The business completed includ ed the fixing of next year’s bud get. Town Clerk T. S. Hobson said the budget for 1949-50 lists i expenditures of $6,995 and anti cipated revenue as $6,995. Mayor Bovcnder is reported to have said he “tried to co operate with all the boys—but they couldn't agree, and I voted and broke the tie.*'’ State Workers Help With Baptist School JVIr. and Mrs. Ivory Couch, working as representatives for the State Baptist Board, are helping to conduct Vacation Bible Schools in several of the churches of the Elkin Baptist Association. Bible Schools scheduled thus far for the summer months are as follows: week of June 13, Elkin First Baptist (Mrs. Couch) and Mineral Springs (Mr. Couch); week of June 20, Mt. Pleasant (Mrs. Couch) and East Elkin (Mr. Couch); week of June 27, Elkin Valley (both Mr. and Mrs. Couch) ; week of July 4, West Elkin (morn ing—Mr. and Mrs. Couch) and Macedonia (night—Mr. and Mrs. Couch); week of July 11, West Elkin (morning—Mr. and Mrs. Couch) and Cool Springs (night— Mr. and Mrs. Couch). If any other churches in the El kin Association are interested in forming Vacation Bible Schools, they are asked to contact either Rev. J. L. Powers or Mr. Couch. Tribune Advertising Gets Results Girls Leave Saturday For YMCA Camping The Tribune-Y.M.C.A. camp fund was increased this week by $13 on the eve of the first outing. Campers for the girls division will leave at 9 a. m. Saturday from the Y.M.C.A. This period will last until June 28. The second girls’ camping period will be held June 28 to July 8. Boys’ camp will begin July 8, ending July 18. The sec ond boys’ camping period will be held July 18-28. Contributions this week were: George E. Royall, $10. Dr. J. S. Hiatt, $3.00. COURT FREES WILKES MAN Former Drug Store Clerk Acquitted On Abortion Manslaughter Charge •LONG DELAYED TRIAL A Wilkes County Superior Court jury acquitted Hugh West, former North Wilkesboro drug store clerk, of abortion and manslaughter, Tuesday, in the July 31, 1947, death of Miss Pearl Jenkins, 21, of Winston-Salem. West, whose case was continued from term to term since August, 1947, because of injuries he re ceived in a motorcycle accident near Southern Pines, was ac quitted on both counts, abortion and manslaughter. The trial began Monday morn ing before Judge J. Will Pless, Jr. The principal witness was Grov er F. Fields of Winston-Salem. He testified that he brought Miss Jenkins from Winston-Salem late in the evening of July 31, 1947, and that when they arrived here he telephoned West at the re quest of Miss Jenkins. As a result of the call, he said, West met them at the drug store, where he was employed, but the store had closed for the night. West, he said, ushered him out and told him to wait. Later he and Miss Jenkins came out of the store. Miss Jenkins got back into the car, he said, and, with Fields, started back toward Winston Salem. About seven miles out on High way 421, Miss Jenkins told him she was feeling faint and needed air, the witness said. She got out of the car and collapsed at the side of the road. Fields said he went for help and after some difficulty located some people and went back to the scene to find the young woman, dead. Dr. W. C. Thomas, former pro fessor of pathology at Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Win ston-Salem and now a professor at Temple University in Philadel phia, and who conducted the au topsy, testified that Miss Jenkins’ death was caused by air embolism, which he attributed to attempted abortion. West did not testify. Oak Grove Women To Sponsor Sale The Woman’s Club of Oak Grove Baptist Church will spon sor a sale of hand-made articles at the Eagle Furniture Store here Saturday. The proceeds will go to the church building fund. BONDED LIQUOR HAULER FINED Wilkes Negro Gets Suspended Sentence In Surry Su perior Court OTHER CASES LISTED Elbert Whittington, Wilkes County negro,, was given 18 months suspended sentence on condition of $500 and cost last week in Surry County Superior Court, on charges of transport ing and possessing liquor. The vehicle which Whitting ton was driving at the time of his arrest, a 1949 Dodge truck, was turned over to an auto sales company on payment of the dif ference between amount due on the truck and $2,000. The proceeds will go to the Surry Board of Ed ucation. Whittington was overtaken Ap ril 23 near Zephyr by Cpl. Sam McKinney and D. J. Caudle and Deputy Sheriff Robert Thompson. His haul, billed as roofing, con tained 269 cases of bonded liquor. Two civil cases of interest in this section were disposed. David Pardue was awarded $3,012.35 as a result of a collision between a motor vehicle operated by Ralph T. Ogles and a bicycle operated by Pardue, August 11, 1948. A suit against John S. May berry and George A. Hart, trad ing as City Cab Company, Elkin, was compromised with $615 going to the plaintiff Billy Ray Stan ley. Other cases included, Otis Reece, acquitted cn carnal know ledge charge, and Oscar Davis, ac quitted on an o.c.i. charge. Paul and William K. Mangum were sentenced six months' each in the Surry Jail for violation of the narcotic law. E. Thomas, larceny, sentenced to 12 months in the State Prison camp for youthful offenders. Dew ey Sechrist, larceny, on probation, and Connie Sechrist, receiving stolen goods, on probation. Elmer S. Tate, a.w.d.w., was giv en an eight month suspended sen tence. Clarence Stewart, a.w.d.w., <Continued On Page Eight) Gwyn Poindexter Is Division Engineer In an announcement made Monday, Gwyn Poindexter, of Asheboro, Elkin native, was nam ed highway division engineer of District Six, with headquarters in Asheboro. The appointment is effective July 1. Mr. Poindexter is the son of Mrs. Van Poindexter of this city and brother to Mrs. J. O. Bivins. Z. V. Stewart of the Eighth division which includes Elkin, was transferred to Asheviile which is in the 10th district. Marriage Permits Listed For Surry Four marriage licenses were is sued this week by the Surry County Register of Deeds. Those getting permits were Deward Scott, 18, Brim, Va., and Carrie Mae Stanley, 19, Elkin; 3ack W. Blackmon. 21, and Betty Ruth Bunker, 18, both of Mount Airy! James Simmons, 26, Thurmond, and Pauline Lyon, 16, Traphill; and Burnett Wilson, 25, and Vir gania Brooks, 18, both of Thur mond. k THIS IS BIG BUSINESS — One of the several front yard conces sion stands along West Main Street which have blossomed forth following the recession of school for the Summer has five proprie tors. Four are shown in the group above. The fifth, Sandy Biggs, was taking his afternoon nap at the time. Customers, left to right, are Mike Carpenter, Joe Bivins, and Robert Dillon. Proprietors are Richard Royall, Jimmie Shore, Buddy Farrell and Tommy Roth. (TRIBUNE PHOTO) 50 Cub Scouts Go On Train, Car Trip Approximately 50 Cub Scouts of the five dens went on an excursion Tuesday to North Wilkesboro by car, and returning home on the train. Upon arrival in North Wilkes boro, the cubs were given a treat at a local drug store, before board ing the train. The group was accompanied by the den mothers, Mrs. Robert Hartness, Mrs. Ralph Triplett, Mrs. N. H. Carpenter, Mrs. Bal tus Holbrook and Mrs. H. A. Es sick, and den chiefs, Larry James, Fred Green Eidson and Charles Fletcher. Yadkin Home Entered $250 Goods Stolen The home of Paul Hemric, Swan Creek Road, was entered into last Wednesday and intrud ers made way with approximately $250 in clothes, a radio and a guitar. Deputy Sheriff W. J. Ingram said yesterday that part of the loot had been recovered but the intruders had not been caught. Yadkin Missionary Lands In Honolulu Miss Ruby Dean Myers has ar rived in Honolulu where she was sent by the Baptist students of North Carolina to participate in a 60 day missionary service in Hawaii. Miss Myers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Myers, of upper Yadkin County, is an active mem ber of Zion Baptist Church near Union Grove. Funds for the trip were provid ed by the Baptist Students of North Carolina, Zion Baptist Church, Shiloh, Union, Swan Creek, Pleasant Grove, Flat Rock churches and friends. Police Begin t Push Against Fast Driving Elkin To Play Two Contests Here Tonight The Elkin Blanketeers will tangle with Wytheville twice tonight (Thursday) at Me morial Park. First game will begin at 6:30 p. m. Two games scheduled earlier this week were postponed be cause of rain. The Blanketeers go to Rad ford Friday night and return here Saturday for an encoun ter with high-riding Mount Airy. COUNTY GRAND JURY REPORTS Twenty-Three True Bills Returned; Five Not True Bills REPAIRS BEING MADE The Surry County grand jury, June term Superior Court, re turned 23 true bills and five not true bills during the term of court ending last week. The report continues as follows: “We have made an investiga tion of the reports of prior grahd juries and our investigation re veals that the recommendations of those grand juries have been and are being complied with. The necessary repairs at the jail, coun ty home and prison camp all have been made. “We find the county institu tions are well kept and in a sani tary condition. “We have checked the guardian accounts in the office of the Clerk of Superior Court and find them in good shape, to our best know ledge and belief. “Respectfully submitted, C. M. Ball, foreman.’’ Youth Escapes Injury When Car Clips Pole Benny Jolly, 17, of Roaring River, escaped injury Saturday morning when the car he was driving skidded into a telephone pole on Elk Spuh Street, breaking it in two. Damage to the vehicle was es timated at more than $100. No charges were made against the driver, Police Chief Corbett Wall said. Witnesses said the vehicle was not traveling more than 20 or 25 miles an hour at the time of the accident. Nearly 1,000,000 housing units were turned out in 1948. Arrest Three In Campaign’s Initial Week Three persons were arrested during the week in Elkin’s new campaign against reckless and speedy driving. Chief of Police Corbett Wall gave notice yesterday that the order of the Mayor, Richard T. Atkinson and the town board of commissioners that reckless driv ing be reduced immediately would be carried out to the fullest. “As soon as the new patrol car arrives,” the Chief said, “we will enforce speeding and other traffic laws stringently.” Mr. Wall ex plained that the car would be out cruising most of the time in watch against violators. Two reckless drivers were charged in last week’s initial drive and one driver was arrested for speeding. The chief added that closer watch would be kept on stop lights and other traffic signs. “People in different sections of town have been complaining of reckless driv ing and speeding and it is our aim to curb this,” he continued. Mr. Wall reviewed the police record over a number of months, calling attention to the fact that petty crimes and misdemeanors had been reduced greatly in the past several years. “Reckless driv ing is our only problem at this time.” It was revealed that oniy 22 ar rests were made during the month of April. This included those ar rests ihade * by local, state and county officers—not necessarily confined to Elkin’s town limits. Chief Wall asked the coopera tion of the citizens of Elkin in making the safety campaign a permanent success. Kiwanians To Hear Of War Experiences The playing of the special re cording, “I Can Hear It Now,” which is made up of a series of major broadcast sequences of his torical events ranging from 1933 until the end of the war, featured last week’s meeting of the Elkin Kiwanis Club. At this evening’s meeting (Thursday), John Parris, of Sylva will give a talk on his ex periences as a United I*ress for eign correspondent during World War II. Mr. Parris covered the African invasion and later was stationed in London. Since the war he has had one book on his war experiences published and is now writing a novel which is to be published this fall. wnraexeMerc'Tm-HQt-: .wwwimnmw BROKEN BACK DOESN’T STOP STATE ROAD MAN — Raymond, Douglas, 39, of the State Road community five miles north of Elkin who hasn’t taken a step since he broke his back (n an automobile accident 20 years ago is now getting around at 20 miles an hour in this motor chair he invented and built with the help of a brother, H. V. Douglas.* Now a busy magazine subscription salesman he cov ers the Elkin section getting 40 miles to a gallon of gas. His mother, Mrs. Ella Douglas, is shown above with him as he prepares to leave for business in Elkin. Anyone interested is invited to contact Douglas for assistance in building a similar motor chair. (Max Tharpe Photo.) ft -