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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<bs. RESCUE SQUAD MEETS HERE — Members of rescue squads, who met at Devotion over the week-end in a state-wide convention, are shown here during a class in boating. Members are, standing, left to right — Jim Uldrick, Carter Dicksoh and Bill Freeman, Elkin; Carl Crache and Casper Conrad, Lex ington; Henry Horton and D. F. Farrell, Charlotte; Henry Faught, Greensboro; and J. T. Reynolds, High Point. In boats, are, left to right — Francis Jarvis and Fred Masten, Elkin; John Surbright, Jr., Charlotte; H. G. Enoch, Greensboro; J. L. Caudill and Graham Greene, Elkin; Robert S. Matchke, Roy D. Kimmel and William K. Wilson, Charlotte; and H. V. Grubbs, Greensboro. (photo by belli MILK GROUPS GATHER HERE Approximately 500 Milk Pro ducers, Distributors Con vene In Hearing NO DECISION REACHED Approximately 500 milk produc ers, distributors, and representa tives of agricultural agencies met here last week to hear discussions j on a possible classification plan! for Grade A milk sold to Coble Dairy Products, Inc., of Lexington. After four and one half hours of continuous discussion Commis sioner of Agriculture L. Y. Ballen tine adjourned the meeting to ponder what distributors request ed to be an “early decision.” The meeting was brought about at the request of milk producers who point out the state milk audit law authorizing the commissioner of agriculture to “designate any area of the state as a natural mar keting 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 pro visions of the law for each mar keting area.” Milk producers were represented by R. G. Lytle, secretary of the Milk Producers Federation Co -operative, while one producer from each county was allowed speaking time. Counties represented were Ashe, Alleghany, Watauga, Caldwell, Wilkes, Surry, Yadkin, Stokes, Davie, Rowan, Iredell, Rocking ham, Caswell, and Forsyth. Neill M. Smith, Surry farm agent, spoke for Surry County. L. L. Ray represented the dairy products manufacturers. The Grange was represented by Miss Pearl Thompson of Rowan Coun ty. John A. Arey, Raleigh, who is in charge of dairy extension work at State College, represented the extension division. George Far thing, Asheville, field representa tive, of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, spoke for that group. ONE KILLED IN ACCIDENT Several Others Injured When Truck Overturns Near Moravian Falls FROM SURRY COUNTY One person was killed and sev eral injured Sunday in a truck ac cident near Moravian Falls. Mary Stanley, 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earley Stanley, Stony Knoll community near Dobson, was killed when the truck skidded on the wet pave ment, hit a bank and turned over. Five of the group of 16 who were riding in the truck were still in the Wilkes Hospital Tuesday morning. Two others were admit ed to Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. The group of young people had been to Blowing Rock on a Sun day School picnic. Those still in the Wilkes Hos pital Tuesday morning were Stacy Doss; her brother, Howard Doss, who suffered a broken arm; Mary Doss, who was reported to be im proving; Odessa Childress, believ ed to be in a serious condition, and her sister, Sadie Childress. Joe Bill Nichols, 17, received fractured ribs and a broken verte brae, and is still in Hugh Chat ham Memorial Hospital. H i s brother, Walter Gray Nichols, 14, was treated for a broken arm. Wilbur Doss, a recent graduate of Copeland High School, was re ported to have been driving the truck at the time of the acci dent. BOXSCORE ON N.C.HIGHWAYS Killed July 9 through July 11 . 6 Injured July 9 through July 11 . 116 Killed through July 11 this year . 391 Killed through July 11, 1948 . 332 Injured through July 11 this year . 4,449 Injured through July 11 1948 . 3,621 JUNIOR WOMEN BEGIN PROJECT Town Beautification Drive Will Clear Vacant Lots For Playgrounds APPEAL FOR EQUIPMENT { As part of a town beautifica tion project, the Junior Womans Club is starting this week to clear vacant lots for playgrounds at various points throughout the town. An urgent appeal is being made foi* playground equipment, metal pipe and chains, to be used in con structing swings, etc. Anyone having such material they wish to contribute are requested to con tact Mrs. Robert Kirkman, Jr., Mrs. W. O. Mann and Mrs. Eu gene Motsinger, immediately. The first lot to be cleaned off for a playground will be the one at the corner of West Market and Church Street, adjacent to the State Theatre building. The Board of Commissioners agreed at their meeting Monday evening to clear the lot in cooperation with the club. Henderson To Be Kiwanis Speaker An interesting program pre sented by a group of counselors and campers from Camp Butler, atop the Blue Ridge, featured last week’s meeting of the Elkin Ki wanis Club. At this evening’s meeting (Thurday), Kiwanian Hoke Hen derson, local attorney, will make a talk featuring pointers on how to prepare a last will and testa ment. League Seeks Decision In Mt. Airy Club Case ‘An appeal by the Blue Ridge League for a decision from George Trautman, head of minor league baseball, was made Tuesday fol lowing a hearing under Judge E. C. Bivens concerning a report that the Mount Airy " club is carrying too many class men on its roster. While Judge Bivens emphasized that no club has formally filed a protest, some 15 games are in volved and, should the eventual ruling be adverse to Mount Airy, the Graniteers could slide all the way from top place to the bottom of the league. Th incident revolves around Jack Wray, a hard-hitting out fielder. On the Graniteer roster Wray has been carried as a limit ed service man. The contention is that he should be a class man, and if he is ruled such, then Mt.. TOBACCO VOTE SET JULY 23 National Referendum On Leaf Quotas To Take Place At Community Polls FARM BALLOTS URGED Voting in the national referen dum on tobacco quotas for the 1950, 1951 and 1952 crops will take place at community polling places Saturday, July 23, Neill M. Smith, farm agent for the State College Extension Service, said this week. Mr. Smith urged all tobacco far mers to cast their ballots. Marketing quotas furnish grow ers with a method of adjusting supply to demand and help them obtain fair prices for the tobacco they produce. The referendum is being held in accordance with the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, which di rects the Secretary of Agriculture to call for a referendum to ■ deter* mine whether growers want quotas continued. Growers may vote for quotas for three years beginning with the 1950 crop; may vote for quotas for 1950 only; or may vote against quotas. Marketing quotas will be in ef fect if approved by at least two thirds of the growers voting in the referendum. A grower is any person who has an interest as owner, tenant, or share cropper in the 1949 crop of flue-cured to bacco. No producer, however, is entitled to more than one vote, even though he may have been engaged in production of flue cured tobacco in two or more communities, counties or states. Under the law, price support loans at 90 per cent of parity will be available on the 1950 crop of flue-cured tobacco if producers approve quotas in this referen dum. Regardless of the outcome of this referendum, price support loans at 90 per cent of parity will be available on the 1949 crop as protection to farmers. Room For Several More Boys At Camp Room for several more boys re mains for the second period of camping at Camp Albert Butler, T. C. McKnight, general secretary of the Gilvin Roth Y.M.C.A., said yesterday. Those boys desiring to attend camp were asked to get in touch with Mr. McKnight immediately. The second group will assemble at the Y.M.C.A. Monday at 9 a. m., where they will leave for camp. Airy would have been one over the limit since adding another 15 games ago. According to the league presi dent, Wray played with Moores ville, New Bern and Utica before the war. Upon his release from service in 1946, he was classified as a rookie by the minor league office. Now comes the ruling from the same office under George Traut man that Wray is a class man. However, it will be up to the league directors to decide whether or not Mt. Airy would forfeit the games. As it stands now. the matter has been referred to Trautman’s of fice along with correspondence. Another league meeting is expect ed to be called when a decision is received. ELKIN COUNCIL HAS ANOTHER FULL SESSION One Way Parking On Two Streets To Be Effected SEWER FOR VICTORIA Bids To Be Taken At Next Council Meeting On Spring, Reeves Paving OIL CONTRACT AWARDED The Elkin Board of Commis sioners met for their second time since the election and were faced with a full agenda which was dis posed at a single meeting Monday night. At the recommendation of the State Highway Department Mon day night, the board approved an ordinance making one way park ing on parts of two streets. Going into effect August 1, no parking will be allowed on the east side of Gwyn Avenue from Market Street to North Bridge Street, and no parking on the east side of North Bridge Street from Gwyn Avenue to the town limits. Also Monday night, the council took further steps toward paving Reeves Street and Spring Street. Bids will be taken at the first board meeting in August. Upon appeal from Victoria Ave nue residents, the board passed a resolution to construct a sewer on that street. Work will begin Sep tember 1. Sealed bids were opened and a contract was awarded to the G and B Oil Company, of Elkin, for gas and oil purchases for a period of three months. The Junior Woman’s Club was represented at the meeting, re quested and was granted permis sion and cooperation of the coun cil to clean off lots for play grounds in the town. Sr* Quantity of Cigarettes, Cig ars And Chewing Gum Taken From Building TWO ARRESTED IN CASE A quantity of cigarettes, cigars and chewing gum, taken from Maseley and Reece store here Thursday night, was recovered early Friday morning by police in North Wilkesboro. Entrance to the store building was gained through the rear, local police report, and seven cases of cigarettes, 16 boxes of cigars and one case of chewing gum were recovered by Wilkes police. Charged in connection with the case were Ray Shores and D. L. Whittington. Trial was waived until September term of Surry Su perior Court. It was contended by Whitting ton that on his way to Elkin from North Wilkesboro where he had been visiting until about 11:30 p. m., he picked up Shores, who was hitch-hiking. They stopped at an eating place near Roaring River where they met a group of men from whom Shores purchased merchandise, according to Whittington. Shores hired Whittington to carry the merchandise back to North Wilkesboro where he at tempted to sell the goods and where the two were later arrested, Whittington said. Guilford Teacher Is To Speak Here Professor Floyd Moore, assistant professor of religion at Guilford College, will speak at the Sunday School hour at the First Methodist Church Sunday morning on his experiences in Palestine during the war. Mr. and Mrs. Moore were sent to teach in the Friends School un der the American Friends Board of Missions at Ramallah, Pales tine, near Jerusalem during a leave of absence from Guilford in the Fall of 1946 to the Spring of 1948. After the war became openly worse in December, 1947, Mrs. Moore returned home and Mr. Moore did Quaker relief in Kob lenz in the French zone of Ger many from February 1947 to August 1948. The public is cordially invited to hear Mr. Moore. The U. S. Department of Agri culture has announced that it will continue during July and August to support egg prices in the Mid west at levels reflecting an aver age price to producers of at least 35 cents a dozen—the same as the January-June price. Community Meetings For Road And School Discussion To Begin LARGEST TAX CLAIM FILED Is One of Many In Which Government Seeks Reve nue On Whiskey Sales N. WILKESBORO MAN One of the largest in its series of claims in a current drive to collect the revenue from alleged illegal liquor sales in North Caro lina’s dry counties was filed Mon day in Wilkes County, the office of Commissioner of Revenue Eu gene Shaw announced yesterday in Raleigh. The department filed a certifi cate of tax liability against Roy Chambers of North Wilkesboro, setting out that Chambers owes the state $50,346.66 for liquor sales during the period from June, 1948, through August, 1948, and Janu ary, 1949, through April, 1949. Of this $44,457 was the amount allegedly due from the state’s 8.5 per cent retail liquor tax. The re mainder was interest and penalty said to be due on the tax. The $44,457 represents the tax on liquor with a retail sales value of $533,484. Several other claims for taxes on liquor valued at about $500,000 are included in the 40 certificates the department has filed. A second certificate filed Mon day was against E. W. Cline of Hickory, alleging taxes, interest and penalties totaling $3,990 are owed by Cline for sales during the period January 1, 1949, through April 30, 1949. The claim against Cline was in addition to another filed earlier against him, and covei'ing a later period than the first. PLAN 4-H CLUB STATE MEETING Fortv-Two Members Will Be Allowed To Attend From Surry County URGED TO APPLY SOON Four-H Club members of Surry County, who plan to attend State 4-H Club Week, August 1-6, were urged this week to make applica tion and to send $5 immediately to the County Agent’s office. D. A. Halsey and O. M. Fulcher, assistant agents, announced yes terday that 42 members—21 boys, 21 girls—will be allowed to take the trip. The cost will be $10 per person to cover room and board for the week. First named received at the County Agent’s office will l’eceive first considex-ation, it was point ed out. Therefore, Halsey and Ful cher urged prompt attention. Surry will be represented by George Venable and Evelyn Waugh as king and queen of the county to sit in the state health court. Glendora Nichols and brother, Marion Nichols, both of White Plains, will l-epresent the county in a state-wide 4-H dairy produc tion demonstration. Southern Drops Effort To Stop Coach Service The Southern Railway System this week dropped its efforts to discontinue passenger service be tween Winston-Salem and North Wilkesboro. After vigorous protests from points along the line, the railroad asked the North Carolina Utilities Commission to dismiss the petition without prejudice. The request was contained in a letter from William T. Joyner of Raleigh, division counsel for the railroad, to the commission. A meeting of Elkin citizens was held here May 25, but no oppo sition to the move was expressed among the entire group. The railroad also had previous ly asked that mixed service be inaugurated from Winston-Salem to North Wilkesboro, instead of the present straight passenger Surry Farmers Urged To Attend Leaf Field Day A Tobacco Field Day will be held Monday at the Upper Piedmont Tobacco Research Farm at Rural Hall, Neill M. Smith, Surry Farm Agent, an nounced yesterday. Experiment work will be car ried on there of vital impor tance to the tobacco growers of this area, Mr. Smith said, and urged all interested to attend. Everyone must furnish his own transportation, he said. Those attending will meet at the Rural Hall Experiment Station at 9 a. m RETURN BODY OF SOLDIER Cpl. William Harvey Money, Ronda, Was Killed In Ac tion In Holland RITES TO BE SUNDAY The body of Cpl. William Har vey Money, 35, who was killed in action in Holland in September, 1944, will arrive in Elkin this morning (Thursday) at *10:10 o’clock. Cpl. Money, the son of Willie M. Money and the late Mrs. Ada Money of Ronda, served with the Second Armored Division. The body will be taken to Hayes-Speas Funeral Home until the hour of the funeral. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at two o’clock at Little Elkin Baptist Church, conducted by the Reverends Roy Franklin, pastor, and Johnny Luffman. Full military honors will be given Cpl. Money, conducted by the William J. Jones Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Burial will be in the church ceme tery. He is survived by his father; one son, William Money of the U. S. Marine Corps, destination unknown at present; four broth ers, Howard, Arlon and Willie Money, Jr., all of Ronda, and Parks Money, stationed with the U. S. Armed Forces in Italy; four sisters, Mrs. Richard Finney of Jonesville, Mrs. Thurmond Luff man, Mrs. Noah Luffman and Mrs.' Clarence Boles, all of the Pleasant Hill community. Columbus Woman Is Hurt In Accident Mrs. Norma Hummel of Colum bus, Ohio, is a patient at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, re ceiving treatment for injuries sus tained in an automobile accident Saturday morning on the Roaring Gap highway near Sparta. The car, in which Mrs. Hum mel, her husband and daughter were riding, collided with another car which was making a turn. The driver of the Hummel vehicle did not see the other car due to the poor visibility caused by fog. Mrs. Hummel’s daughter receiv ed minor injuries and was releas ed after first aid treatment at the hospital. service. This request, too, has been dropped, it was said. Since the filing of the discon tinuance request, protests flowed into the commission in Raleigh from points including Siloam, Rockford, Winston-Salem, Crutch field and Dobson. W. W. Hardy of Siloam wrote the commission that “we agree perhaps the passenger service has not been profitable, but mail and express service does pay good rev enue nd in the past, passenger service has been profitable.” Nine Korean agricultural spe cialists have recently arrived in the United States to observe tech niques developed or endorsed by the U. S. Department of Agricul ture.' Series Starts At Mountain Park School A Better Schools and Roads meeting will be held at Mountain Park next Wednesday, at which hundreds of farmers are expected to voice their opinions as to the needs of roads in Surry County. The meeting, which will begin at 3 p. m., will feature speaking by Mark Goforth, commissioner of the eighth district of the North Carolina State Highway Depart ment, and J. C. Walker, division engineer. A discussion among the audi ence will follow. Iced watermelons will be served in the grove at the Mountain Park School building following the meeting at which the community Home Demonstration Club and Farm Bureau will provide enter tainment. Garland Johnson, who has been active in the promotion of Better Schools and Roads, Inc., announ ced this week that the meeting would be the first of a series of similar conventions in the rural areas of Surry County. Mr. Go forth had earlier authorized the organization of such meetings in order to learn the needs of the communities. Mr. Johnson urged the complete cooperation and full attendance of every farmer concerned. Said Mr. Johnson, “This is an opportunity for Surry people to let Mr. Goforth and Mr. Walker know what we want in regard to better roads in the county. “I was active in the election for good roads and now I’m interested in seeing the program, which we voted in favor, go into effect where the best use may be had. “Through it, the standards of living in Surry County and North Carolina will be raised substan tially, I am convinced,” Mr. John son continued. “And we can’t let them down now. We must let responsible authorities know why we voted for the measure.” Everyone, and especially farm people, are expected to attend the Mountain Park gathering, Mr. Johnson added. SOMERS SITE IS ^SELECTED Wilkes County To Accept Bids For Construction Of New School PROCEED IMMEDIATELY The Wilkes County Board of Education and Board of Commis sioners in a joint session last week selected a site for the Somers township school and ordered that advertisement for bids for con struction of a new school proceed immediately. The Somers township unit will have seven classrooms, office and toilet rooms. It will be construct ed on a plan similar to the new Cricket School. The Somers project was slated for construction last year but was deferred when a dispute arose over a site for the school. The new school will house the pupils who formerly attended Windy Gap, Shady Grove, Os bornville, Lovelace and Pisgah schools. Some students from that area have been attending Union Grove School in Iredell County. N. C. Rescue Squads Meet At Devotion * Rescue squads from all over North Carolina met Saturday and Sunday as guests of the Elkin Emergency Squad at Devotion in a conveAtion. Squads attended from Lexing ton, High Point, Greensboro, Charlotte and Elkin to participate in boat drills, life' saving and demonstrations on different types of equipment. Sunday’s schedule included a business meeting, which was con ducted by Henry Horton, Char lotte, president of the state or ganization. Recommendation was made for the state to have an inspection for automobiles to reduce accidents. The meeting adjourned after lunch Sunday. i*' Vf