ELKIN
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ELKIN
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THE TRIBUNE
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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 30
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1949
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HEREJN JULY
Courts To Be Held In Mt.
Airy, Dobson, Elkin
RESOLUTION CERTIFIED
Elkin Court Will Be Held
Twice Each Month; Like
ly On Wednesdays
SALARIES STIPULATED
Operation of the new recorder’s
court in Elkin will begin sometime
in July, it was learned here yes
terday.
In a certified resolution of the
Surry County Board of Com
^friissioners, submitted by Mrs.
Bertha M. Shinault, clerk, it was
made known this week that two
terms of court would be held in
the Elkin township each month
under the extension provision of
the Mount Airy recorder’s court.
The resolution was made at
Dobson following an act of the
North Carolina Legislature which
provided that the Mount Airy
court be extended to cover, not
only the Mount Airy township,
but those of Dobson, Bryan,
Marsh and Elkin.
Agreements also stipulated in
the resolution included the per
annum salary of the judge to be
$3600; assistant judge, $800. The
per annum salary of the solicitor,
$2600, with the understanding
^ that any substitute be paid out
of the solicitor’s salary unless by
special act of the commissioners.
One term per month will be
held in Dobson.
The regular dates of both courts
will be determined by the judge
after consultation with the boards
of commissioners of the two towns
in which the courts are to be held.
It is likely that court in Elkin
will be held on Wednesdays, twice
each month.
CRACKUP KILLS
YADKIN PILOT*
Charles H. Vestal, 39, Yad
kinville. Dies In Plane
Crash Friday
AT TWIN CITY AIRPORT
Charles H. Vestal, 39, of Yad
kinville, an employee of Piedmont
Aviation, Incorporated, was killed
instantly Friday afternoon in a
plane crash on the main runway
of Smith Reynolds Airport, Win
ston-Salem.
The accident occurred at ap
proximately 3 p. m., only a few
rninutes after Mr. Vestal had tak
en off alone on a test hop in a
Stearman bi-plane of the type
used by the army and navy in
primary training.
Mr. Vestal received his flight
training at the Winston-Salem
airport and when granted a pilot’s
license by the Civil Aeronautics
Board of Washington in 1941, he
was the first Yadkin County man
to hold such a license.
He was injured once before in
a plane crash near Fort Thomas,
Ky., in 1945. At that time, he was
thrown clear of the plane he was
piloting, along with three passen
gers.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Miss Ruby Williams; one
son, John Vestal, all of Yadkin
ville; two brothers, Dallas Ves
tal of East Bend and Dotson Ves
tal of Yadkinville; five sisters,
Mrs. L. A. Matthews of Pinnacle,
Mrs. H. A. Spear of Yadkinville,
Mrs. D. T. McDonald of Marshall
town, Iowa, and Mrs. W. M. Shore
of New Providence, Iowa.
Mr. Vestal was born September
20, 1910, in Yadkin County, the
son of E. J. and Alice Hobson Ves
tal. He was a member of Yadkin
Lodge No. 162 A.F. and A.M.
Funeral service was held at
4 p. m., Sunday at Union Cross
Friends Church. Graveside rites
were conducted by his Masonic
Lodge at the church cemetery.
Tribune Advertising Gets Results
18 Delinquent
Registrants
Are Classified
The Surry County Draft
Board last week classified 18
delinquent registrants who had
yet to report after their ques
tionnaires were mailed.
Mrs. A. D. Folger, secretary of
the board, said that all were
placed in a classification to be
drafted.
Appeal had been made for
several months to locate some
of these. All but 18 of a much
larger number had reported up
to the deadline two weeks ago.
BOY WITH NINE GRANDPARENTS — Young Ronnie Walls, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walls of Statesville, probably has more grand
parents than anybody. He is pictured above with seven of them, left to right, Marvin Walls, M. H. Walls, A. M. Blackburn, and Mrs. A.
M. Blackburn, all of Ronda; Mrs. T. M. Church of Roaring River, Mrs. Marvin Walls of Ronda, and T. M. Church of Roaring River. In
the inset are two more: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Church of Summit. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Walls and Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Church are grand
parents; the rest are great grandparents. (Photo By D. E. Cockcrham)
Surry’s First
Negro Notary
Public Sworn In
Marking the first time it ever
happened in Surry County, a
Negro was last week sworn in
as a notary public.
Kermit W. Lowjcance, Surry
(lounty clerk of court, reported
that Bernard H. Tucker, Mount
Airy funeral home operator,
took the oath of office in Dob
son last week.
FLASH FLOOD
HITS YADKIN
Thousands of Dollars Damage
Done Friday To Crops,
Unpaved Roads
AFTER STEADY RAINS
Thousands of dollars worth of
damage was done in Yadkin
County Friday by a flash flood
which destroyed crops, ruined un
paved roads and swept away at
least one bridge.
Ned A. Hood, head of the Yad
kin County Soil Conservation
Service, said corn was beaten to
the earth, newly planted tobacco
plants washed away and some sec
ondary roads damaged to such an
extent that several weeks of re
pair work will be necessary.
Also, he said, many fields were
extensively eroded.
The flood came in the morn
ing after a night of steady rain.
Highway Patrolman C. B. Pierce
said a Carolina Motorways trans
port truck was extensively dam
aged when the driver ran into
deep water and misjudged the di
rection of the road. The overturn
ed truck blocked the highway for
three hours before it could be re
moved.
Entire roadbeds were washed
away in the Center and Mitchell’s
Chapel sections of the county.
The highest water mark in the
county’s history was reached at
South Deep Creek Bridge, where
the stream overflowed and reach
ed a depth of 13 inches higher
than normal.
The rushing water carried away
the 40-foot bridge across North
Deep Oeek before 9 a. m. Friday.
Blanketcers Bow
To Galax, 5 to 1
The Blanketeers bowed to Ga
lax, 5-1, Tuesday night at the
Virginian’s home grounds. Bud
Masinick limited the Elkin team
to two hits as his team belted
Jim Fletcher for 10 hits.
Billy Smith, newly-acquired left
hander, allowed one hit in two
and two-thirds innings for the
Blanketeers.
Elsewhere in the Blue Ridge
League, Mount Airy dropped Rad
ford, 9 to 5, and Wytheville nosed
North Wilkesboro 7 to 6.
X-ray pictures to test metals
can be taken at a speed of 100
per second.
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LOCAL BREEDER
TAKES SECOND
Elkin Hatchery Is Runner-Up
In N. C. Chicken-of-To
morrow Contest
MONROE ENTRY IS FIRST
Elkin Hatchery of Elkin took
second place in the 1949 North
Carolina Chicken - of - Tomorrow
contest held at Charlotte Tues
day. The local breeding firm plac
ed with New Hampshire chickens
that averaged 4.42 pounds.
Fifteen White Rock-White Cor
nish cross cockerels entered by
Bernard Helms of Monroe were
named champions of the contest.
The prize chickens, which aver
aged 4.16 pounds at the age of 12
weeks, beat out the entries of sev
en other North Carolina poultry
men to give the Monroe man a
head start in the state section of
the nation-wide contest to devel
op a superior meat-type chicken.
Helms’ entries won half of the
10 places.
C. J. Maupin, North Carolina
State extension poultryman, and
state chairman of the contest, ex
plained in announcing the win
ners that “The goal of the nation
wide, three-year program is dev
elopment of a meatier chicken—a
tastier bird with larger drum
sticks, broader breasts, and extra
layers of white meat. It also
should grow faster on less feed,
so farmers could produce it more
economically.”
The extension poultryman said
the prize birds were judged on
the basis of size, color, confor
mation, weight and uniformity.
M. Q. Snow Is Patient
At Baptist Hospital
M. Q. Snow, local clothing mer
chant, and chairman of the Sur
ry County board of commissioners,
is a patient at the Baptist Hos
pital in Winston-Salem.
Mr. Snow is undergoing treat
ment for a lung infection.
His condition is reported as im
proved.
One Arrested D uring
Week In Speed Drive
One person was arrested for
speeding last week in the third
week of Elkin’s drive against reck
less and speedy driving, bringing
the total to seven arrests since
the drive began.
Three persons were fined earlier
for operating a car under the in
fluence of liquor, two for reckless
driving and one other for speed
ing.
Chief Corbett Wall, of the Elkin
police department, said this week
that a drive also against noisy
driving would be pushed. He cited
the State law dealing with the
regulation of noise, smoke, etc., as
follows:
“No person shall drive a motor
vehicle on a highway unless such
motor vehicle is equipped with
muffler in good working order and
in constant operation to prevent
excessive or unusual noise, an
noying smoke and smoke screen.
Also, it shall be unlawful to use
a ‘muffler cut-out’ on any motor
vehicle upon a highway.”
The Chief expressed thanks for
the cooperation given by the citi
zens of Elkin in making the safety
drive—which was initiated by
Mayor Richard T. Atkinson and
the new board of commissioners—
a success.
51 Civil Cases
Listed On Surry
Court’s Docket
Fifty-one civil cases were
listed on the trial docket of
Surry County Superior Court
which will begin Monday, July
11, Twentywere
scheduled on ^Ktion dock
et.
Judge J. H. Clement, of Wal
kertown, will preside over the
term of court which is slated to
end July 20.
YADKIN NEGRO
FATALLY HURT
William Gray, 19, Jonesville
Dies From Wreck
“ Injuries
COMPANION ALSO HURT
William Gray, 19, Negro, of
Jonesville, who was injured in a
jeep wreck on Wednesday, died
Friday at the Kate Bitting Rey
nolds Memorial Hospital from
skull fracture and brain concus
sion.
His companion in the accident,
and driver of the jeep, Robert
Gray, Negro, also of Jonesville,
is in a serious condition from a
fractured spine and other injuries.
The accident occurred 11 Vi miles
west of Jonesville, when Robert
Gray lost control of the jeep,
borrowed from his employer, Ivry
Johnson of Jonesville, for the
stated purpose of driving to Piney
Grove Negro Church to select a
grave plot for his brother who
had died that day.
William Gray, at first brought
to Hugh Chatham Hospital in El
kin after the accident, was later
transferred to the Winston-Salem
hospital, where he died. Robert
Gray is under treatment at the
Elkin hospital.
Yadkinville patrolman J. W.
(Red) Williamson, who investiga
ted the wreck, said that if Rob
ert Gray recovered, he would be
charged with manslaughter and
reckless driving without a license.
BUSINESS TAB
IS UNDER WAY
Ennumeration For 1948 Cen
sus of Business On In
Surry, Yadkin
COOPERATION IS URGED
Enumeration for the 1948 Cen
sus of Business is now underway
in Yadkin and Surry Counties,
Harry B. Moore, district supervisor
announced this week.
Mr. Moore, whose office is lo
cated in Statesville, urged busi
nessmen to cooperate in every
way possible with the census-tak
ers in order that the difficult task
of securing reports from every re
tail, wholesale and service trade
establishment in the counties can
be completed in a minimum of
time. Indications are that coop
eration in Yadkin and Surry will
be excellent, and rapid progress is
being made, Mr Moore said.
The new Census Law, enacted
by the 80th Congress marks an
important change in frequency
with which the nation’s distribu
tive system is evaluated. It pro
vides for subsequent counts at five
year intervals. The more gener
ally known population census is
not effected under the new law
and will continue to be taken ev
ery 10 years. This operation be
gins in 1950.
The new regulation requires all
business establishments to file re
ports for the 1948 Census of Busi
ness and imposes upon the Census
Bureau the responsibility of
guarding against publications of
data in any form, which would re
veal operations of individual
establishments.
The district office in Statesville
is responsible for work in 12 sur
rounding counties.
CEDARBROOK
HEADS NAMED
Clyde Wright Elected Presi
dent of Country Club;
Succeeds Taylor
COMMITTEES APPOINTED
Clyde Wright was elected last
Wednesday to the post of presi
dent of Cedarbrook Country Club.
He succeeds Dr. Vernon Taylor,
Jr.
Henry Dillon was re-elected
vice-president and W. N. (Bill)
Stevenson was re-elected secretary
and treasurer.
John Sagar, Delos Underwood,
W. O. Absher, Joe Wood, Abe
Harris and Dr. S. A. Bell were
elected directors.
The officers will serve until
next July 1, which will complete
the fiscal year. Before now, the
fiscal year had run from January
to January.
Committees appointed for the
year are as follows:
Grounds and greens —* John
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Representative Groups
Named To Recommend
Needs Of County Roads
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$1,448,000
Available
For Yadkin
Mark Goforth, of Lenoir, state
highway commissioner for the
eighth district, met at Yadkinville
last Wednesday with approximate
ly 30 representative citizens of
Yadkin County to map plans for
starting the road improvement
program in that county.
A total of $1,448,000 will be
available for road work in Yad
kin County during the next four
years.
Traveling with Goforth and
meeting with the representative
citizens in Yadkin Courthouse last
Wednesday were J. H. Council, as
sistant divisional engineer, and Z.
V. Stewart, North Wilkesboro, di
visional engineer. Also meeting
with the groups were C. G. Ash
by, from Elkin, divisional engi
neer; J. F. Bivins, maintenance
supervisor; and Grover Sherman,
supervisor foreman.
Plans were made for the selec
tion of a committee made up of
one person from each voting pre
cinct to be selected by the people
of that precinct. This committee
which will number 13 in Yadkin
County will meet and make rec
ommendations as to w'hich roads
should be improved or built.
A mass meeting is scheduled for
Friday night at 8 p. m. at each
voting precinct in the county to
select committeemen.
SURR Y COURTS
JURY IS DRAWN
Two-Weeks of Civil Court To
Be Held In Dobson,
Starting July 11
UNDER JUDGE CLEMENT
Two weeks of civil court will
be held for Surry County in Dob
son, starting July 11, it was an
nounced this week by Clerk of
Court Kermit Lawrence. Judge J.
H. Clement of Walkertown will
preside.
Jurors drawn at Dobson were
as follows: (Week of July 11)
Elkin — G. E. Franklin.
State Road — D. J. Key and
Gratis Adams.
Mountain Park — Claude N.
Nixon.
Siloam — Mrs. C. C. Matthews.
Dobson — Willie Coe.
Lowgap — Chester Scott and C.
J. Carson.
Pilot Mountain — General H.
Shelton.
Ararat — M. E. Shackleford.
Pinnacle—J. Henry Waller and
S. B. Fulk.
Mount Airy — J. D. Hale, J. E.
Stimpson, D. C. Beamer, H. S.
Boyd, Ellis Beck, A. Z. Phillips,
T. B. Brinkley, H. L. Hennis,
Grover Branch, H. D. Gillispie,
John R. Lowry, Posie Tickle,
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PLEASED OVER VALUE’S PROGRESS — Dr. R. A. Moore, right,
orthopedic surgeon of the Baptist Hospital, is pleased at the progress
of Vallie Johnson, left, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clause Johnson, Route 1, Elkin. Vallie was stricken during the
great North Carolina epidemic of last year and has since made
remarkable progress. Miss Mary C. Singleton, physical therapist,
center, has helped in Vallie’s recovery through supervising exercises
which aid the weakened muscles.
Important Road
Meeting To Be
Held July 20th
An important road meeting
for the farmers of Surry Coun
ty will be held at Mountain
Park Wednesday, July 20th, it
was announced this week.
Mark Goforth, new commis
sioner of the district, and J. C.
Walker, new highway engineer,
are expected to be present. The
farmers of the county are urg
ed to attend, as several import
ant highway projects will be
discussed.
Watermelon will be served by
the business men of Elkin.
OLD HICKORY
CAMPING HELD
279 Scouts And 67 Scouters
Attend First Camporee
At Devotion
SCOUTING AGE LOWERED
Thee Old Hickory Council’s
camporee, held June 11-12 at
Camp Devption, was attended by
279 Scouts and 67 Scouters. Paul
Price, district commissioner, an
nounced this week.
The camp was used for the first
time since Mrs. Dillard Reynolds
donated the plot of land to the
Old Hickory Council of the Boy
Scouts of America.
At the same time, notice was
given by the National Executive
Board of the organization that the
entrance age for the Boy Scouts
three programs—Cub Scouting
Boy Scouting and Senior Scouting
—would be lowered, effective
September 1.
Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, Chief
Scout Executive, said the decision
was reached after a three years
exhaustive study during which op
inions were obtained from exper
ienceed leaders as well as parents
After September 1, boys may be
come Cub Scouts at eight years of
age instead of nine; Boy Scouts
at 11 instead of 12 and Explorers
at 14 instead of 15 years of age.
The program known as Senior
Scouting, Dr. Schuck announced
now becomes “Exploring” with its
scope broad enough to include
land, sea and air activities as well
as life exploration. Units special
izing in seamanship or in aviation
will be known as Explorer Ships
or Explorer Squadrons, respective
ly.
Elkin has two Cub Packs, six
Boy Scout Troops and three Sen
ior Scout units.
Surry BSSA To Meet
Sunday At Pinnacle
The Surry Baptist Sunday
School Association will meet at the
Pinnacle View Baptist Church
Sunday, June 26, at 2:30 p. m.
All Sunday School workers anc
pastors are invited to attend.
Highway List
For Surry
Under Study
A representative group of Surry
County citizens was selected last
week to make recommendations to
the Board of Commissioners con
cerning the needs of paving of
roads in Surry communities.
A group of four representatives
from the towns, four from the
county and one from the school
board to make a nine-man com
mittee, was selected to study the
road situation and to recommend
the roads which need attention
first.
On the board will be P. N. Tay
lor, head of Surry County Board
of Education to represent the
school board; Frank Freeman of
Dobson, Claude H. Farrell of El
kin, Dick Lawson of Pilot Moun
tain, and G. C. Lovill of Mount
Airy. Four members representing
the Surry County Farm Bureau
on the road committee will be se
lected at a later date.
The committee will make rec
ommendations to the county com
missioners who will in turn make
their recommendations to Mark
Goforth, Lenoir, highway com
missioner of the eighth division.
Mr. Goforth met with the group
Wednesday night in Dobson. The
gathering consisted of the Board
of Commissioners, members of the
Surry Farm Bureau, school and
civic leaders of the county.
No definite roads were selected
for work by the group, but a list
of roads in need of repair or con
struction was presented to the
commissioner, who said he was
trying to get a “road picture of
the county as a whole,” and make
plans for spending the $2,424,000
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ANOTHER POLIO
VICTIM WALKS
Vallie Johnson, 9, of Elkin,
Now Able To Walk With
Aid of Braces
PROGRESS STORY TOLD
Vallie Johnson, nine-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clause
Johnson of Route 1, Elkin, is mak
ing progress in recovering from
poliomyelitis, which attacked her
over a year ago. Vallie’s left leg
was weakened but she is able to
walk with the aid of braces.
Vallie stayed in the hospital
from May 14 until August, 29
when her braces came. In Septem
ber she started school with the
rest of the third grade at Dobson
School. Her teacher saw that she
took rest periods each day. Val
Surry County’s first polio
myelitis case of the Summer
was reported this week.
Officials of the Surry Health
Department said yesterday that
Gracie Carol Johnson, 16
month-old daughter of Sanford
Johnson, Dobson, Route 2, had
been stricken.
She is now at the Central
Carolina Hospital in Greens
boro.
lie’s condition is improving due
to her mother’s home care and
medical and nursing supervision.
Mrs. Jonhson followed direc
tions carefully so she could give
Vallie proper home care. Each day
Mrs. Johnson exercised Vallie’s
weak leg. She was instructed in
the proper exercises to use by a
physical therapist.
Each month Mrs. Johnson takes
Vallie to the Orthopedic Clinic
for crippled children at the Sur
ry County Health Department in
Mount Airy. Here, Dr. R. A. Moore,
orthopedic Surgeon from Baptist
hospital, checks Vallie’s progress.
Then Mrs. Johnson and Vallie see
Miss Mary C. Singleton, Physical
Therapist. Miss Singleton demon
strates the exercises for Vallie’s
leg and stands by while Mrs.
Johnson learns them.
Muscle weakness caused by po
liomyelitis may result in crippling
and deformity. Physical therapy
helps to minimize the resulting
disability. Muscle reduction and
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