ELKIN The Beat Little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations The Elkin Tribune ELKIN Gateway to Roarinr Gap and the Blue Bldye THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVII No. 33 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1949 ■■ -jm. i- — ■■ ■ MB ■■ ■ ■■— ECBSSSSSaSBXBSSX — $2.00 PER YEAR 22 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS , DEATH CLAIMS r MRS. CHATHAM AT TWIN CITY Wife of Thurmond Chatham ^ Dies After Brief Illness ELKIN MOURNS PASSING Operations At Chatham Plant Will Close Today (Thurs day) For One Hour PLANS YET INCOMPLETE Elkin was saddned Wednesday to learn of the death of Mrs. Lucy Hanes Chatham of Winston-Sa lem, wife of Representative Thur mond Chatham and mother of Hugh Gwyn Chatham of this city. She died Wednesday morning at the Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem following an illness of sev »eral days. J i She was born in Winston-Sa JRm, a daughter of John Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes and had lived there all her life. She was an active member of the Centen ary Methodist Church. In 1919 she married Mr. Chat ham who is chairman of the board of directors of Chatham Manufac turing Company. Mrs. Chatham had always tak en a personal and active inter est in the girls’ clubs of Chatham Manufacturing Company which were organized in 1930 to promote friendliness among the girls, and which bears her name. Soon after the clubs were organized she do nated a club house for (heir use. Surviving are two sons, Hugh G’yyn Chatham of this city, Rich ard Thurmond Chatham, Jr., of ^Winston-Salem; one sister, Mrs. Robert Lassiter of Charlotte; four brothers, James G. Hanes, Robert M. Hanes and Ralph P. Hanes, all of Winston-Salem, and John W. Hanes of New York. Chatham Manufacturing Com pany will suspend all operations during the funeral hour, 3 p. m. to 4 p. m. today (Thursday) in res „ pect to the memory of Mrs. Chat t ham. Other funeral arrangements are incomplete. FARM MEMBER QUOTAIS SET Directors Approve Minimum k Of 80,000 And Maxi ( mum of 99,000 TAYLOR IS CO-CHAIRMAN The North Carolina Farm Bu reau Board of Directors has voted full approval of a minimum quota of 80,000 and a maximum of 99, 000 members for the 1949 Fall campaign through the State. Pres ident A. C. Edwards, Hookerton, and P. N. Taylor, White Plains, vice-president, will serve as state wide co-chairman of the member ship committee for the drive. A series of district meetings will precede the campaign. The follow ing will serve as District Member ship Chairmen: District 1, Gordon Maddrey, Ahoskie; District 2, Hay wood Dail, Greenville, and Guy Matthes, New Bern, co-chairman: District 3, Adam Whitley, Wen dell: District 4, T. C. Auman, West End, and B. I. Satterfield, Tim berlake, co-chairmen: District 5, Joe R. Williams, Winston-Salem: District 6, H. B. Holmes, Monroe; District 7, Clyde Greene, Boone, and E. R. Crater, Hamptonville, co-chairmen, and District 8, Zeno Ponder, Route 1, Marshall. Civil Term of Surry ^ Court Gets Underway Three civil cases and two di vorce cases had been completed Tuesday at noon in the current civil term of Surry County Super ior Court. Hugh W. P o 1 g e r recovered $1068.75 from defendant Charles W. Fowler in one judgment. In another, a suit of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company versus Robert Burrus and wife Ora Lee Burrus, the plaintiff—acting un der the will of Mary Belle Bur rus—was barred from all claim of title which they had thereto! In the suit of H. H. Lleyellyn vs. Ralph Moser, Llewellyn, the plaintiff, recovered $270. Divorces were granted in the cases of Clarence Edison Butcher vs. Tilda Ann Butcher, and Ila Nichols vs. Alex Nichols. r . ' v The price support level for the A1949 crop of peanuts will be 90 pej; cent of parity as of August 1, 1949, for farmers’ stock peanuts *4 eligible- for price support under \ the lS*9-crop marketing quota system, thie U. S* Department of Agriculture's announced. Prices will be estamshed on base grade peanuts, with aretyums and dis counts for Other gjvi