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ELKIN
The Beet Little Town la
North Carolina
THE TRIBUNE
Is A Member of the Audit
Bureau of Circulations
The Elkin Tribune
VOL. No. XXXVII No. 32
PUBLISHED V^EEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1949
$2.00 PER YEAR
16 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
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JUDGING TEAM
NAMED WINNER
-H Dairy Club Team Adjudg
ed First In State
AT MORROCROFT FARM
Clifton, Creed, York, Snow—
All of Beulah — Take
Top Honors
AWARDED FREE TRAVEL
The Surry County 4-H dairy
club team was adjudged first
place winner Friday in the annual
North Carolina Jersey cattle judg
ing contest held at Morrocroft
farm, home of Mr. and Mrs. Cam
eron Morrison, with nearly 100
youthful cattle enthusiasts par
ticipating.
The winning team, composed of
Edward Lee Clifton, Tommy Creed,
rj. W. York, and Jack Snow of
the Beulah School, will receive as
first place award a free trip to
the All-America Jersey Show and
Mid-South fair at Memphis,
Tenn., September 30-October 3,
where they will represent North
Carolina in the national Jersey
cattle judging contest.
The individual high scorer Fri
day, however, was not a member
of the Surry team. He was Bob
Furches of the Davie county 4-H
club, who scored 709 of a possible
800 points. Other top scorers were
Frank Winchester of Union, sec
ond place, with 694 points; Boyd
Bowman of Alexander county,
tnird; with 690 points; and Tom
my Creed of the Surry team,
V'fourth, with 689 points. The high
average of the Surry team mem
bers, however, gave them the first
place.
The Surry team scored 2,041
points out of a possible total of
2,100; Davie’s team was second,!
with 1,980 points; Henderson
county won third place, with 1,974
points; and Iredell county was
fourth, with 1,966 points. Catawba
county, which had two girls on its
team—Frances Bowman and Jean
Lytton—was high in the ranking.
Forrest Fancher of the Biltmore
Farms placed the classes official
ly, and Professor R. H. Ruffner
of North Carolina State College
judged the contestants’ reasons
for placing classes.
A. H. Morrow, manager of Mor
rocroft, was host to the group, and
among those attending were Mel
j»vin Cordling of Wallace, secre
f^kry, and R. R. Cowles of States
ville, president, respectively, of
the North Carolina Jersey Cattle
club, V. O. Sipe of Conover, Rus
sell Oxford of Taylorsville; Wil
liam Pressly of Stony Point, and
George Hoover of Charlotte, direc
tors of the club.
Three classes of cows and two of
heifers were judged.
OVER 100 MEET
FOR Y-V EVENT
adkin Valley Parish Field
Day Held At Farm Of
P. E. Burch
DEMONSTRATIONS GIVEN
More than 100 persons attended
a Yadkin Valley Parish field day
and picnic at the farm of P. E.
Burch, Monday.
The feature of the day-long pro
gram was a demonstration of
classification of dairy cows by
Curtis Hobson, field man for the
American Jersey Club.
John D. Mackie, field worker for
4k the North and South Carolina
^ Jersey Cattle Club, gave a dem
onstration of sitting a dairy heifer.
In the judging contest held in
the morning, Mrs. Bertha Shin
ault, register of deeds for Surry
County, took high honors. A five
way tie occurred in the men’s
judging class, with Bobbie Stin
son, Roy Reece, Alvis L. Hobson,
all of Yadkin County, Frank
Smith of Stokes County and C.
' W. Allen of Surry County sharing
the honors.
The afternoon program included
l a tour of native pastures prepared
to improve Ladino clover and or
chard grass pastures.
G. W. Masten Hurt
In Fall From Ladder
G. W. Masten, Elkin building
contractor, suffered three broken
ribs and bruises Saturday when
he fell from a 20 foot ladder.
Mr. Masten was working on a
house in jonesville at the time. He
jas standing on the ladder when
rung broke.
Te was taken to Hugh Chatham
emorial Hospital.
As_ much as 300,000 miles of
•Id thread is produced annually
Delhi alone.
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CHARTER MEMBERS CHAT WITH COLONEL—Four members of Troop C, District six were honored
Friday night at Neaves Park here on the occasion of their 20th anniversary with the State Highway
Department which also was observing its 20th anniversary as a law body in North Carolina. Col. C. R.
Tolar, (center) Raleigh, who was appointed head of the department this year, chats with the four
members, who are, left to right — Sgt. W. W. Stone, Greensboro; Capt. D. T. Lambert, Greensboro;
Major J. R. Smith, Raleigh; and Sgt. S. H. Mitchell, WTinston-Salem, who has been head of the Elkin
district for a number of years. Approximately 50 persons, patrolmen and their wives, attended the
affair. . (tribune photo)
STATE SQUADS
TO MEET HERE
Rescue Teams To Be Elkin
Squad’s Guest At Devo
tion, Saturday, Sunday
75 TO 100 ARE EXPECTED
The annual meeting of North
Carolina emergency squads will
convene at the estate’of Mrs. Dil- J
lard Reynolds at Devotion, Satur
day and Sunday, as guests of the
Elkin rescue squad.
All squads in the state and sev- '
eral visiting squads from Virginia
will meet at noon Saturday, re- ,
maining until noon Sunday, local
rescue squad members have an
nounced.
Between 75 and 100 members
are expected to attend the dem
onstrations which will consist of
life saving, boating ' drills and ; ]
equipment demonstrations. Differ- i
ent squads will put on the dem- !
onstrations.
Jim Roseberry, of the local,
squad, said yesterday that the ]
Emergency Rescue program is a j
strict voluntary organization and
was sponsored by no organizations (
other than the members of that
group.
Members of the Elkin squad are i
headed by Jack Caudle, captain;
Graham Greene, lieutenant; Jim r
Roseberry, Charles Alexander, (
Henry Clay Bowman, Carter Dick
son, Bill Freeman, Jim Uldrick, j
Fred Masten, Fred Eidson and
Paul Price.
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Youth Event Planned !
At Jonesville Church 1
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The First Baptist Church of c
Jonesville will have a B. T. U. \
Study Course and Youth Week c
Combined, July 10, through the v
15.
Two state workers will conduct t
the course. i
The meetings will start at 7:30 r
o’clock each evening and all in- I
terested persons are invited to at
tend. li
Native flowering plants of the
United States number from 12,
000 to 15,000.
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Boles, Brown, Collins
To Play With All-Stars
Three Elkin Blanketeers were
selected to perform in the Blue
Ridge League All-Star game to be
played Tuesday in Mount Airy.
Mount Airy's league-leaders will
be host to a selection from the
other five teams of the loop.
The league’s ace performers in
cluded Elkin's Roy Boles, pitcher.
Shorty Brown, outfielder, and
Gregg Collins, catcher. The team
was chosen by managers of Blue
Ridge clubs.
Players composing the all-star
team will be as follows: Pitchers
— Chester Zoltak, Wytheville;
John D. Moore, Radford; Sidney
Weinback, Galax; Bob Thompson,
North Wilkesboro; Julius Masi
nick, Galax; Roy Boles, Elkin;
catchers — Robert Thompson,
Radford; Gregg Collins, Elkin;
first base — Latchaw, Galax; sec
ond base, Pescitelli, North Wilk
esboro; shortstop — Winklespect,
North Wilkesboro and Tagliarino,
Galax; third ^ase — Shores, North
Wilkesboro; outfield, Horan,
Galax; Brown, Elkin; Brelich,
Wytheville; utility outfielder, Wil
cox, Radford.
In case of rain, the all-star
contest will be played on July 13.
The Blanketeers were dropped |
11-8 by Wytheville Tuesday night
in Wytheville.
Jack Bishop, Elkin second base
man slammed a home run for the
Blanketeers while Sal Valvano
and Tommy Bass collected circuit
blows for the Statesmen.
Kinder went the route for
Wytheville, Jerry Marquis, start
ing pitcher for Elkin, was credited
with the loss. He was relieved by
Johnny Hicks in the sixth.
The Blanketeers hit safely 12
times while Wytheville made 14
safeties.
More Arrests
Made As Police
Continue Safety
The Elkin Police Department
and the State Highway De
partment continued to press the
Elkin Safety Drive last week.
In the town, seven speeders
were nabbed and fined and one
driver was arrested for driving
with an improper muffler. The
highway patrol reported the
arrest of two drunk drivers,
one reckless driver, one speed
er and one person for auto lar
ceny.
GIRLS TO END
CAMPING TRIP
Urs. Henimings To Return
Thursday To Present Pro
gram To Kiwanis
JOYS GROUP TO LEAVE
The girls’ division of the Y.M.
'.A. at Camp Albert Butler will
nd its Summer camping Friday,
inder the direction of Mrs. Jim
)an Hemmings.
Mrs. Hemmings will return here
Thursday night, and with a group
f girl campers will present a pro
ram on camp activities for the
llkin Kiwanis Club.
Assisting Mrs. Hemmings at the
amp wore Libby Ann Ro.vall and
tuth Masten of Elkin. Betty Beck,
’dot. Mountain, and Florence
loward, Durham.
The first boys' catnp will begin
’riday when N. H. Carpenter,
amp director, will leave the Gil
in Roth Y.M.C.A. with a group
f campers for the first period,
?hic.h will last 10 days.
Assisting Mr. Carpenter will be
iilly Fesperman, of Kannapolis,
'eyton Smith, Bobby James, Tom
ay James and Tom Cooley, all of
llkin.
A second group of boys will
save July 18 for a 10-day camp
lg period.
The surface of the Everglades
less than 20 feet above sea level.
TO HOLD FARM,
HOME PROGRAM
More Than 5,000 Tar Heel
Farmers And Homemakers
Expected At Raleigh
STATE COLLEGE CAMPUS
More than 5,000 Tar Heel farm
ers and homemakers are expected
to gather on the State College
campus in Raleigh early next
month for what promises to be
the most outstanding Farm and
Home Week program ever held in
North Carolina, John W. Good
man, assistant director of the
State College Extension Service,
said this week.
The four-day annual event, not
held last year because of a polio
epidemic, will begin with registra
tion on Monday, August 8, and
continue until Thursday night,
August 11, when Bob Hawk, na
tional radio show quiz-master,
will preside over a grand-finale
contest during which more than
$5,000 worth of farm machinery
and equipment will be given away.
Secretary of Agriculture Char
les F. Brannan, author of the
much-discussed Brannan farm
program, will headline a list of
notable speakers for the occasion.
He will address a joint session of
men and women on Tuesday night.
Other featured speakers will be
Governor Scott, himself a farmer
and former county agent; Rep.
Harold D. Cooley of Nashville,
chairman of the House Agriculture
Committee; Mrs. Camille McGhee
Kelly of Memphis, Tenn., one of
the best-known juvenile court
judges in the nation; and Mrs.
Raymond Sayre, president of As
sociated Country Women of the
World.
Congressman Cooley will speak 1
on proposed national farm legis
lation and will then participate in
a round-table discussion on the
same subject with Dr. J. H. Hilton,
dean of the State College School 1
of Agriculture; L. Y. Ballentine, ;
State agx-iculture commissioner; R.
Flake Shaw, executive secretary of
the North Carolina Farm Bureau;
Harry B. Caldwell, master of the
State Grange; G. T. Scott. State ]
director of Production and Mar- 1
keting Administration, E. B. Gar- 1
rett, State soil conservationist; ]
and Dr. I. o. Schaub, director of 1
the State College Extension Ser- 1
vice.
This One Tried
The Wrong Car
For Hitch-Hiking
In the future Luther Newton
Shelton, Yadkin County native,
will be more careful who he
hitch-hikes a ride with.
Walking South on. the Yad
kinville - Boonville highway
Thursday night, Shelton threw
up a thumb at a passing auto
mobile, and when it stopped
he opened the door and got in.
The driver of the car was
Sheriff Bill Moxiey, who recog
nized the hitch-hiker as a con
vict who escaped from the
Rockingham prison camp at
Reidsville in April, 1947, and
had never been apprehended.
- He carried him on to the
Yadkin County jail where
prison officials returned him
to the camp next day.
ON N.C.HIGHWA.YS
Killed July 1 through
July 4 . 13
Injured July 1 through
July 4 . 173
Killed through July
4 this year . 369
Killed through July 4,
1948 ..1 323
Injured through July 4
this year .4,202
Injured through July 4
1948 . 3,477
From midnight Friday
through midnight Monday 12
persons were killed in highway
accidents and 163 were injured,
the Highway Patrol reported.
MINISTER DIES
INJONESVULE
The Rev. F. W. Frye, 64, Dies
Wednesday; In 111 Health
For Two Years
RITES TO BE FRIDAY
Rev. F. W. Frye, 64, of Jones
ville, died at his honge in Jones
ville at 12:15 a. m. Wednesday.
He had been in ill health for two
years and seriously ill for two
weeks.
He was born in Davie County
on April 27, 1885 and is the son
of the late James and Fonzy Bar
xicjuttoi/ie riye.
He was first married to Emma
Couch in 1904 who died in 1920,
and was married !o Linnie Cook in
1922 who survives.
In addition to his wife, surviv
ing are five sons, Gurney Frye of
Salisbury; Reath Frye of Balti
more, Md., Conrad Frye of Con
cord, James Frye of Jonesville
and Floyd Frye of Chicago, HI.,
two daughters, Mrs. Ada Poaz of
China Grove and Mrs. Mary Sea
balt of Madison, Ga.; two broth
ers, R. L. and Joe, both of Mocfcs
ville.
Rev. Frye had served in 27 Bap
tist churches in this vicinity. He
was a member of the East Elkin
Baptist Church.
The funeral will be held Friday
at 3 p. m. at Mountain View Bap
tist Church. The body will remain
at Mackie-Hinshaw Funeral Home
in Yadkinville until 3 p. m. Thurs
day.
The funeral service will be con
ducted by Rev. J. L. Powers, Rev.
B. F. Rollins and Rev. T. W.
Hearn.
Elkin Masonic Lodge No. 454
will have charge of the graveside
service.
Surry Demonstration
Team Enters Contest
Shirley Waugh and Ruth Nich
ols, both of White Plains, will re
present Surry County today
(Thursday) at a district dairy
:eam demonstration at Winston
Salem. **
The two girls won out in intra- '
munty competition earlier this ■
/ear. ;
Surry Civil Court
To Begin Monday
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A civil term of Surry Superior 1
2ourt will begin Monday at Dob- 1
>on under Judge J. H. Clement of «
Valkertown. Court will continue ]
through July 20. 1
The average price paid to local ]
>roducers for hatching eggs in I
he Chatham area last week was l
10.2 cents per dozen. Hatcheries
eceived an average price of ap
proximately $14.40 per hundred <
or straight-run chicks. t
YOU SHOULD SEE HIS WIFE — Upon consultation with Bug Specialist LinviUe Henob
name of this monster was applied and then it was asphyxiated and mounted for the
coUection. It’s a genuine Arthropod* (phylum); Hexapoda (class); Coleoptera (er4<
dae (family); Dynaates (genus); and Tityrus (species). Coincidentally, * female of th*
found by a Y.M.C.A. camper at Camp Albert Butler and was also turned over to Mr. J
male insect known commonly as "Rhinoceros Beetle,” was captured at the ;
Oa. by Bert Phillips and was later turned oyer to the Tribune.
Elkin Observes Quiet
Fourth; Chatham Gives
Large Mid-Year Bonus
CONVICT FLEES
YADKIN PRISON
One Injured In Attempted
Escape; Second Breaker
Still At Large
BREAK MADE SUNDAY
Two white convicts attempted
an escape from the State prison
camp near Yadkinville Sunday
afternoon. One of them, Bill
Odum, was shot by Paul Hardy, a
guard at the prison comp, using
a 30-30 rifle. He is in Davis hos
pital, Statesville, where his con
dition is regarded as serious.
The other escapee was Prank
Jones, who was sent up from
Asheville for three to five years
for larceny and breaking, and
nine to 10 years for attempted
rape. He was still missing yester
day. Monday night someone,stole
the Plymouth automobile of N. L.
Hudspeth and it is believed
the convict did the job. The car,
which was insured, had enough
gasoline in it to go 200 miles.
Bill Odum, who "was shot, re
ceived a bullet wound in the right
side, which entered the back as
he was running, and ranged down
ward and out through the leg. He
has received several blood trans
fusions from fellow prisoners at
the hospital.
Odum’s home is in Martinsville,
Va., and he was sent up for a
term of not less than four years
nor more than 10 years, and has
escaped three or four times prior
to this. Due to previous escapes
he now has more time than when
he began his sentence. He was
convicted of beating and robbing
an old man in Mount Airy.
NEW ALDERMEN
AT BOONVILLE
Phillips, Williams Appointed
By Lone Councilman,
Wade Shore
REPLACE RESIGNATIONS
The Boonville Board of Alder
nen was completed Tuesday night
with the election of Grady Phil
ips, employee of the State High
way and Public Works Commis
sion, to replace one of the two
Mdermen who resigned recently.
He was elected by Alderman
iVade Shore, lone member of the
joard after the two resignations,
ind George Williams, whom Mr.
5hore appointed several days ago. ,
Mr. Williams was fourth high man
n the aldermanic election early
n May. ’
Prank Steelman and Poster (
Matthews, who were elected at
hat time, resigned in protest ]
>ver the lowering of the town’s
ro-cent tax rate to 50 cents, which
hey said would not support a
treet improvement program. Mr.
Matthews was absent when the
ax was lowered and the budget {
vas adopted, and Mayor Carl ■
3ovender broke the tie vote be- 1
ween Mr. Steelman and Mr. ^
Jhore, siding with the latter. ?
Argentina produces 24 per cent
if all electrical power used
hroughout Latin America.
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Parham to Assist
County Agent In
Forestry Work
WALTER R. PARHAM •
Walter R. Parham, a State
College graduate in the School of
Forestry, has been appointed as
sistant county agent in Surry.
County to develop a forestry pro-"
gram designed to increase forest
ry income and stabilize and ex
pand industry, Neill M. Smith,
county agent, said this week.
Mr. Parham will be available to
assist timber owners, farm youth,
and wood using industries on their
problems of production and mar
keting. He has had considerable
experience with wood using indus
tries before and while attending
college, Mr. Smith added.
The employment of a forester
by the Extension Service and the
Surry Board of Commissioners is
in response to the request of an
organized effort by farmers and
leading citizens who appeared re
cently bofore the Board of Com
missioners in support of the pro
ject, Smith said.
Mr. Parham is now attending
community meetings to become
acquainted with Surry farmers
and to learn extension methods.
W.O.W. Memorial
Rites To Be Sunday
The memorial service of Wood
nen of the World, Cycle Camp No.
106, will be held at Union Baptist
Church in Yadkin county, Sunday,
luly 10, at 2:30 o’clock in the
ifternoon.
The main speaker for the oc
:asion will be Sovereign Short of
iickory.
The service is held in honor and
n memory of the deceased sover
eigns.
Underwood Wins
Flag Tournament;
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Delos Underwood took first
ilace in the Fourth of July Flag i
rournament held on the Cedar- i
rook Country Club golf course,
ipproximately 45 persons braved
he broiling sun to make up a i
irge field of golfers.
Mrs. Bob Lankford placed sec- 1
nd; Dick Mayberry, third; and -
’at Davis, fourth. 1
Three Drown
Sunday At
Mount Airy
It was hot, dreadfully so, but
quiet in Elkin for the Fourth of
July.
Tourists filed through the town
in the early morning hours
through noon on their way to the
mountains, many stopping for
snacks at eating places and ser
vice stations.
Elkin residents generally obser
ved the day working in their
yards, attending baseball games,
fishing, playing golf or attending
movies.
Elsewhere in the state, 23
sons lost their lives in the 1
humid Independence Day.
Three persons were drown
Hodges Pond at Mount
where three young men dro
Sunday when their boat overt
ed. They were James Mo
Puckett, 22, his brother,
Puckett. 18, and their co
Arlys Puckett, 24, all of M
Airy.
5 The most spectacular acci
in the skate was a collision
tween an Atlantic Greyhound
and a milk truck near Smith
in which three persons were b
ed to death.
Then, over the nation, a re
accidental death toll was ma
for the Fourth. Figures by
day afternoon had
tal of 666 ki
dents.
In this section,
remained in the 90’s
break was in sight for
mer’s hottest session.
Ip Yadkin County, a
Fourth was enjoyed at East
The army came to town,
were bands and a parade,
colonel read a portion of the
laration of Independence.
It was the American
sponsored second annual
of July celebration. The
gan with the parade at
m. and ended with a
game between East Bend
Boonville.
Here in Elkin, Blanketeer base
ball fans were made happy when
their team won a double-header at
Memorial Park.
And, it was bonus time again
for employees of Chatham Manu
facturing Company. One of the
largest mid-year bonuses in the
:ompany’s history was received by
Chatham workers.
Hugh G. Chatham, vice-presi
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Boger Gets Manager
Job At Statesville
Clifton Boger, 1949 Elkin High
School graduate who has been
jonnected with the Blue Ridge
rheatres here for the past nine
nonths, was last week transferred
0 Statesville where he received
1 promotion as manager of the
Crescent Theatre there.
Charles Utley, city manager for
;he Blue Ridge theatres, made the
mnouncement this week.
Boger, a member of the Divers!
led Occupation class at Elkin
ligh, was an assistant to Mr.
Jtley.
Callers Asked
To Allow Time
To Be Answered
Persons making calls to the
Elkin Police Department were
asked yesterday to allow the
telephone to ring long enough
that patrolmen on the streets
will have time to answer.
Chief Corbett Wall explained
that the phones at different
stations (which are extensions
of the telephone number 500)
eould not be reached by police-,
men on the streets in time to
make an answer before the
caller hangs ty*.
Patrolmen s*« often