ELKIN
The Beat little Town 1b
North Carolina
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ELKIN
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THE TRIBUNE
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Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1949
YOL. No. XXXVII No. 31
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
$2.00 PER YEAR
20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
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COMER REPORTS
SURRY SCHOOLS
IN GOOD ORDER
Shoals High School To Be
Continued On Funds
NO TEACHER VACANCIES
Spending of Money Received
Through Bond Issue Will
Be State Approved
$589,000 ALLOTMENT
The state of the Surry County
School system was reported by Su
perintendent John W. Comer to
be in good order for the 1949-50
school year.
Virtually no vacancies are to be
filled among the teachers of the
county; extra State aid is ex
pected; and the schools’ accounts
4)Jhave been placed in a satisfactory
condition, the superintendent
pointed out.
Also, he added, Shoals High
School has been continued on the
State’s allotments for high schools
upon appeal. The school had ear
lier been cut off the State’s main
tenance funds because the regu
lar daily attendance of the school
had fallen below the minimum 60
students required under the rul
ing for allocations. Reconsidera
tion, however, upon appeal
has made it possible to continue
the school on a trial basis. It will
be continued, Mr. Comer said, if
the average can be maintained.
The superintendent said that
Surry County would get $589,000
from the State under the issue of
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WRECK FATAL
TO YADKIN MAN
Roger B. Matthews, 31, of
Yadkinville. Dies From
Injuries of Crash
FIVE OTHERS IN WRECK
Roger B. Matthews, 31, of Yad
kinville, Route 1. died Sunday
morning at Hugh Chatham Mem
orial Hospital of injuries received
in an auto accident Saturday
night.
Matthews was injured along
with five other Yadkin County
men when the car in which they
were riding went out of control
and turned over several times
three miles east of Boonville on
Highway 67.
Jack Webb of East Bend, Route
1, was in serious condition Mon
day at the hospital, as was Billie
Miller of near Mocksville; Allen
Wooten of East Bend, not so ser
^>usly injured was still a patient :
^it the hospital; Thermond Davis
of Boonville and Billie Hutchens
of East Bend were released after ;
treatment.
Mr. Matthews was born ’‘June
18, 1918 in Yadkin County, a son
of Joe T. and Sarah Wooten Mat- i
thews, who survives. Also sur- :
viving are his wife, the former
Miss Georgia Collins, to whom
♦ he was married on Oct. 23, 1935; ,
V a son, Jimmy Roger Matthews; a ,
* daughter, Libby Ann Matthews, ]
all of the home; eight brothers, i
Arnie P.. Rubin, Foy, Morris, Gil- ,
bert, Jimmy, Elbert and Leonard ;
Matthews, all of East Bend; one
sister, Mrs. Rosa A. Chappell of i
Cycle; and one grandparent, Mrs.
Florence Wooten of East Bend.
Funeral services were held \
Tuesday at 3 p. m„ from Union
Cross Friends Church. Burial fol
^ lowed at the church cemetery.
isoonvine cnurcn
Adds Cooling Aids
The Young Men's class of the
Boonville Baptist church installed
two large exhaust fans to provide
air conditioning in the church au
ditorium last week.
Several of the members dona
ted their services in the installa
tion for a number of days. As- (
sisting were Walter Holt. Arlis
If' Steelman, Fred and Ralph Coram,
Paul Mathis. Troy Dinkins!
Charles Craver, J. J. Coram, Troy
Martin, Albert Martin, Frank
Steelman, Carlisle Day, Howard 1
Dorsett and Porter Bryant.
Game At Radford
Rained Out 0-0
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The Blanketeers were rained
out after four and one-half inn
ings of play at Radford Tuesday
night. The score was tied 0-0 at
the time.
Elsewhere in the Blue Ridge
League, Mount Airy shaded North
Wilkesboro, 1-0, behind Pitcher
Flowers. Wytheville whipped Ga
lax, 5-1.
CRASH AT INTERSECTION — James A. Sprinkle, 20, Fairview community, and Linville Wilmouth,
21, Elkin, were charged with reckless driving Monday following a smash-up at the Spring-Bridge
street intersection. Jack Cockerham, 25, who was riding in the Wilmouth car, received lacerations
of the. head as a result of UrtN«0llision. Top photo shows the Wilmouth car; lower photo, the Sprinkle
aUtO, ' (TRIBUNE PHOTOS)
JERSEY FIELD
DAY PLANNED
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Cattle Fans Invited To P. E.
Burch Farm For Jersey
Demonstration
MONDAY, THE FOURTH
A Jersey Cattle Field Day will 1
je held Monday on the P. E. Burch
Dairy Farm on Mitchell River
rear Mountain Park, Roger Cov
ngton, president of the Yadkin
Galley Jersey Parish, announced
yesterday.
Leading North Carolina cattle
nen will conduct a program of
nstruction for all • Jersey Cattle
mthusiasts. Mr. and Mrs. P. E.
3urch will be host and hostess to
die grdup.
The program will include in-1
itruction by Ray Morrow, mana
;er of Morrocroft Farm, Char
otte; Curtis Hobson, field man in
he Southern States of American
Fersey Cattle Club, and John D.
Macey, field representative of the
'Forth and South Carolina Jersey
Jattle Club.
The program will open at 10:30
i. m., with Neill M. Smith, Surry
bounty Agent, welcoming the
;roup. At 10:45 the judging con
gest will get under way with Ray
Morrow in charge. At 11:30 a
dassification demonstration by
Jurtis Hobson will be held; and
it 11:45 a demonstration on fit
ting the dairy calf for a show will
se conducted by John D. Macky.
A picnic lunch will be served
it 12:45. Every family is expected
;o bring a lunch. The afternoon
program will consist of a pasture
tour to observe pasture develop
ment on the Burch Farm.
Census of Business
Begun In Elkin Area
Enumerators for the 1948 Cen
sus of Business arrived here yes
serday (Wednesday) to make tab
llation on retail, wholesale and
service trade in this area.
Harry B. Moore, district super
visor, this week urged the cooper
ition of the town and the county
n the enumeration which will
continue through this week.
A new government regulation
requires all business establish
ments to file reports for the 1948
Census of Business and imposes
tpon the Census Bureau the res
Donsibility of guarding against
sublications of data in any form,
vhich would reveal operations of
ndividual establishments.
Council To Accept
Bids July 11 Qn
Gas, Oil Contracts
The Elkin Town Council will
accept bids at its meeting July
11 on the sale of gasoline and
oil to the Town of Elkin, it was
announced this week.
Bids will be taken for con
tracts of one year or less.
Until this time, the town has
alternated its purchases of
petroleum products, with the
various service stations over the
town.
Marriage License
Issued At Dobson
Six marriage licenses were is
sued last week at the office of the
Surry County Register of Deeds.
They were as follows:
Nathaniel Boyd White, 29, Rae
fard, and Nellie Frances Jarvis,
21. Dobson; Paul Settle, 21, Ron
da, and Dixie Wiles, 17, Elkin;
Homer E. Hawks, 21, and Kate
McKinney, 37, both of Mt. Airy;
Luther Taylor McMillan, 40. and
Leola Slate, 31, both of Mount
Airy; Clinton Marshall, 27, Ara
rat, and Collie Marion, 17, Mount
Airy; and Joel Dehart, 26, and
Iris Beasley, 18, both of Mount
Airy.
TV RECEPTION
NOW IN ELKIN
Reception Reported From
Richmond Station On
Cloudy Nights
TWO SETS NOW IN AREA
Television—that mysterious new
medium in which actual pictures
of living persons and events are
materialized from the air—is mak
ing its bid for recognition in Elkin
and in State Road.
Already two television sets have
been installed, the first by the
Wolfe Bros. Store at State Road,
on which pictures from the Rich
mond, Va., station have been re
ceived, and the second by Home
Appliance & Metal Company, of
this city.
At this writing the process of
installing a 40-foot television an
tenna is in progress at the Elkin
firm, atop their two story build
ing, which will feed both sound
and pictures to the viewing screen
in their show room—-they hope.
And inasmuch as Charlotte is to
be on the air with test runs July
1, and will go on a regular pro
gram schedule July 15, it will be
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Hilkin lo Join INation
In Observance Of 4th
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Elkin’s merchants and the Bank
of Elkin will be closed Monday,
the Fourth of July, as residents
plan to join the nation in the
celebration of Independence Day.
The regular meeting of the town
commissioners, which was sched
uled for Monday, will be held the
following Monday (July ID in
stead, it was announced yesterday
by Town Attorney Lewis Alex
ander.
Elkinites indicated this week a
varied choice spending “The
Fourth.” Many planned to picnic
on the Blue Ridge Parkway, others
to the movies or to the double
header baseball game scheduled
here for that day, and still others
co stay home for a quiet holiday.
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce, whose .regular meeting
night, falls on the coming Monday
night, will not meet until the fol
lowing regular meeting night, July
1U.
Flag Tourney
Planned Monday
At Cedarbrook
A flag tournament for both
ladies and men will be held at
Cedarbrook Country Club, on
Monday the Fourth.
Mel McAdams, club pro, said
yesterday that all members and
guests are invited to partici
pate.
The tournament will be con
ducted by giving every player
a certain number of strokes be
fore teeing off. When the
strokes are used up, a flag is
placed at the point where the
ball from the last stroke lies.
The contestant with a flag
placed at the fartherest point
of the entire field of players
is the winner. ,
The tourney will begin at 1
p. m.
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TO HOLD MILK
HEARING HERE
ON WEDNESDAY
To Establish Classafication
For ‘A’ Milk
AT GILVIN ROTH YMCA
Ballentine Says Hearing Call
ed In Response To
Producers’ Requests
NAME AREAS AFFECTED
A public hearing will be held
next Wednesday to establish an
official classification plan for
grade A milk sold to Coble Dairy
Products, Inc., of Lexington, it
was announced this week in Ra
leigh.
Agriculture Commissioner L. Y.
Ballentine said that the hearing
was called in reponse to requests
from milk producers. It will be
held at 10:30 a. m. in the Gilvin
Roth Y.M.C.A.
The hearing will concern the
following milk market areas: Lex
ington, Ramseur, Yancey ville,
Walnut Cove, Wilkesboro, Lenoir,
Sparta, Lincolnton, Lansing and
Sugar Grove.
The State Milk Audit Law au
thorizes the commissioner of agri
culture to “designate any area of
the state as a natural marketing
area for the sale of milk" and, “to
set up, after a public hearing,
classifications of milk that may
be necessary to properly carry out
and enforce the provisions of the
law for each marketing area.”
The milk law also makes it un
lawful for a milk processing plant
or distributor to sell milk in a
classification higher than that in
which it was purchased, except in
an emergency approved by local
health authorities.
SURRY GIRL
WINS PRIZE
Evelyn Waugh, 16, White
Plains, Takes Co-Operative
Essay Contest
TUESDAY AT RALEIGH
Evelyn Waugh, 16, of White
Plains, won the 19th annual Co
operative Essay Contest for North
Carolina in Raleigh, Tuesday.
She spoke, as did three other
finalists, on “Farsighted Farm
Program.’’ In coming out on top
in a field of more than 1,600 con
testants, Miss Waugh won a one
year college scholarship and $100.
Second place and $50 went to
Esther Sharpe of Graham, Route
1; third prize of $25 to Laura
Frances Pope of Coats, Route 1;
and Bobby Cooper of Elizabeth
City, Route 2, won fourth place
and $15.
The four finalists won district
titles before competing for the
grand championship. Each won in
his high school and again in coun
ty-wide contests before entering
the district runoffs.
The contest is sponsored by the
Farmers Co-operative Exchange
and the N. C. Cotton Growers As
sociation.
FORESTRY WINNERS AND PROMOTERS — Presentation of prizes for the best entries of the second
annual Forestry contest in Surry were made at a meeting of the Kiwanis Club Thursday night. Left
to right are, Donald A. Halsey, assistant Surry farm agent; Jack Bowman, first prize winner, Cope
land; Royce Wall, Dobson; John L. Gray, assistant forestry extension specialist, who spoke at the
meeting; Jimmy Davis, Copeland; and C. H. Leary, president of the Kiwanis Club, which with Coun
ty Agent Neill M. Smith, promoted the event. Joe Frank Key of Mountain Park and John Reynolds of
Devotion, prize winners, were absent when the picture was made. (Photo by C. C. Poindexter)
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Campaign On Traffic
Safety Continues As
Police Arrest Eight
YADKIN DRYS
ASK ELECTION
Petition Received Asking For
Vote On Sale of Wine
And Beer
BOGGS MAKES REQUEST
The Yadkin County Board of
Elections met in Yadkinville Sat
urday afternoon and formally re
ceived a petition asking for an
election in Yadkin county on the
sale of wine and beer. The petition
was presented by Rev. Marvin
Bog^s of Jonesville.
Chairman of the elections board
Gray Shore of Boonville, told the
petitioners the board would take
the matter under advisement. He
also said the names on the peti
tion would have to be checked
with the records to determine if
the signers are qualified voters.
The petition contained about
2,200 names.
Under the law all signers must
be qualified voters who voted for
the Governor in the last general
election, and they must consti
tute 15 per cent of all the voters
in the county. The board will al
so determine who is to pay for
checking the names, which will
take some time.
No intimation as to what the
board will do regarding the pe
tition was given out. The board
has 30 days or more to check the
names and consider the course to
pursue. No election can be held
within 60 days of any other pri
mary, or election, thus no election
can be held earlier than August
4, and can be ordered anytime
within a year.
Nitc Spot Closed
In the meantime Beer Inspector
J. F. Brown of the State ABC
board who has charge of half a
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EIGHT CHARGED
FOR TAXES DUE
Claims of Approximately
$293,000 Filed Against
Wilkes Persons
MADE IN WILKES COURT
Tax claims totaling approxi
mately $293,000 were filed against
eight persons in Wilkes Superior
Court Tuesday, the Department of
Revenue reported.
The State claimed the taxes
were due on alleged illegal liquor
sales. Two of the claims were lar
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D. C. Lambeth
Named Elkin
High’s Coach
(PHOTO BY REDMOMI
DONALD C. LAMBETH
Donald C. Lambeth of Lexing
ton will assume duties here in
September as football coach of El
kin High School, it was announ
ced yesterday by N. H. Carpenter,
superintendent of Elkin schools.
Mr. Lambeth, who was gradu
ated this year from Catawba Col
lege in Physical Education, will
also coach the baseball team and
will direct boys’ physical educa
tion at the high school.
He succeeds George (Fluffy)
Watts who resigned at the end
of the past school year to accept
a position on the Appalachian
State Teachers College football
coaching staff. Mr. Watts is study
ing this summer at George Pea
body College in Nashville, Tenn.
Neill Melvin, who assisted Watts
last year with the football squad
and who was coach of the baseball
team, will take over as head coach
of the basketball team.
To Discuss Needs
Of Rural Highways
Residents of Surry, Yadkin,
Wilkes and Alleghany counties
will be afforded the opportunity to
discuss needs of rural roads at
meetings at the Wilkes County
Courthouse at Wilkesboro, on the
second Wednesday of each month,
beginning July 13.
Mark Goforth, highway com
missioner for the eighth district,
will attend the meetings to help
determine the roads to be con
structed and maintained under
the new School and Road pro
gram for North Carolina.
Similar meetings are planned in
other sections of the state.
New Police
Car Arrives;
Start Patrol
Elkin’s safety campaign was ac
celerated during the week.
Four speeders were nabbed in
the past seven days along with two
reckless drivers and one or two
drivers overrunning stop lights.
Immediately following the arri
val of the new patrol car Tuesday,
three speeders were caught and
fined. One speeder was arrested
Tuesday afternoon.
Police Chief Corbett Wall indi
cated yesterday that with the aid
of the patrol car, the police force
is expecting to patrol thoroughly
the streets of the town for viola
tions.
With the opening of the new
recorder’s court here in July,
names of all violators will be run
in The Tribune in cooperation
with police to minimize traffic
violations.
Among those charged for reck
less driving last week were two
who were involved in an acci
dent on the corner of Cfyirch and
Bridge streets. They are both un
der $500 bond.
Jack Cockerham, 25, received
lacerations of the head in the ac
cident in which Linville Wilmouth,
21, Elkin, and James A. Sprinkle,
20, Fairview community, were
charged. Wilmouth, in addition to
the reckless driving charge, was
fined $25 and cost for driving a
vehicle without operator’s license.
The two cars crashed at the in
tersection early Monday morning.
T CAMPING
IN PROGRESS
Second Group of Girls Leave;
Few Vacancies In
Boys’ Camp Left
LIST NEW SWIM CLASS
A few vacancies were left for
the boys’ division of the Y.M.CA.
camp which will begin July 8. The
second group of girl campers left
Tuesday for a 10-day stay.
Meanwhile, $25 more was re
ceived in the Tribune-Y.M.C.A.
camp fund, designed to help
worthy boys and girls who could
not afford partly or wholly ex
penses to the camp.
Those donating to the fund
this week were:
Dr. James A. Harrell, $10.
Dr. R. B. Harrell, $15.
T. C. McKnight, general secre
tary of the Y.M.C.A., said this
week that another girls’ “Learn
To Swim” class will be held Mon
day through Thursday next week,
at 11 a. m. each day. This is the
second in a series of swimming
classes. A boys’ class series is be
ing held each day this week at
11 a. m. The second girls’ class
is being repeated by request.
Mr. McKnight said that approx
imately 35 girls left from the Gil
vin Roth Y.M.C.A, by bus Tues
day morning for Camp Butler.
They were Barbara Jean Sale,
Watona Owen, Helen Chatham,
Anne Hines, Faye Lawrence, La
fayette Martin, Helen Graham,
Nancy Neaves, Patsy Neaves, Su
san Richardson, Peggy Butner
Betsy Ross Ashby, Barbara Mc
Leod, Vickie Mayberry, Mary
Frances Hart; Carol Brown, Nancy
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Elkin Woman’s Son
To Head Pharmacists
Wade A. Gilliam of Winston
Salem, son of Mrs. John G. Gil
liam of this city, was elected
president of the North Carolina
Board of Pharmacy at the group’s
semi-annual meeting at the Uni
ersity of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, this week.
Mr. Gilliam is married to the
former Miss Grace Cockerham of
the Little Richmond community.
Gilliam is a past president of
the North Carolina Pharmaceuti
cal Association. He graduated
from the School of Pharmacy,
University of North Carolina, in
1925. For the past 21 years he
has operated the Summit Street
Pharmacy in Winston-Salem.