ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is A Menjber of the Audit Bureau of Circulations ELKIN Gateway to Roarlny Gap and the Blue Ridye THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVII No. 34 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1949 $2.00 PER YEAR 20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS PAULBURCH " IS HEAD OF DAIRY GROUP Surry Milk Producers Form ^ Organization At Dobson PURPOSE IS EXPLAINED Ballentine Rules Classifica tion Plan Must Be Set Up For Coble FOLLOWS ELKIN MEET Paul E. Burch, of Mountain Park, was elected president of a milk producers group in Surry County at an organizational meeting held last week in Dobson. Neill M. Smith, Surry County farm agent, said this week that the purpose of the organization is to “obtain fair price to producers, guarantee market the year around, fair treatment at the market j>lace and to make every grade •A’ producer a member of the co operative marketing organiza tion.” Also, he said, a voice in each market was an aim of the organization. Glenn Parker, Route 1, Mount Airy, was elected vice-president of the group, and Grady Cooper, Dobson, was named secretary. Other directors are S. L. Ander scyti, Mount Airy; Paul Wall, Route 2, Pinnacle; and Don Ram ey, Lowgap. Organization of the group came in the middle of a fight for new milk classification by 700 produ cers who deal with Coble Dairy of Lexington. A decision, handed down by ■ *lAgriculture Commissioner L. Y. ' Ballentine, was made following a meeting at Elkin which was at tended by 500 producers from this area. In effect, the ruling set up an official classification plan for grade “A” milk produced by Coble. The schedule, effective immed iately, affects dairy farmers in 14 Piedmont and Northwestern coun ties. The Coble milkshed is one of the State’s largest. Under the classification law, the utilization of milk becomes the basis upon whch producers are paid by processors and distribu tors. The latter, however, are free to name their own prices for the var ious classification groupings, as the law gives the commission no authority in this respect. Briefly, the schedule announ ^ ced establishes three classes of p milk based on ultimate use. Class I included inter-plant sales, or “transfer milk,” as well as most fluid milk and cream sales. Class n covers cultured skim milk or plain buttermilk when not accounted for as a cream by-pro duct under Class I. Class III includes all grade A milk not accounted for in the other two classes, or what is known in the trade as “manufac turing milk.” Commissioner Ballentine acted under provision of the State Milk Audit Law enacted in 1941 in set ting up the classification plan. [ Under the law, it is illegal for a S processor or distributor to sell milk ' in a higher classification than that in whch it was purchased, except in emergencies with the ap proval of local health authorities. Hiatt Certified As Medical Specialist Dr. J. S. Hatt, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Hiatt, Sr., of this city, has recently been certified by the American Board of Inter nal Medicine as a specialist in In ternal Medicine. Dr. Hiatt was also appointed as a visiting instructor in Medicine at Duke University School of Med icine. Dr. Hiatt has been . Associate Superintendent and Associate Medical Director of the North , Carolina State Tuberculosis Sana torium at McCain, since 1946. He is president of the North Carolina Trudeau Society, secretary-treas urer of the 5th district Medical Society, and chairman of the Committee on Tuberculosis for the Medical Society of North Car olina. Marriage Permits Issued At Dobson Five marriage permits were ob tained last week at the office of the Surry County Register of Deeds. Those getting permits were: Thomas E. Johnson, 21, Boon ville, and Mary Jo Hudspeth, 16, Elkin; Foy Noonkester, 20, and Myrtle Fulk, 21, both o^ Mount Airy; James Smies, 27, Mounboro, Va„ and L&ckie D. Lawson, 21, [ Lowgap; J. W. Amburn, 63, and Callie E. Hardy, 39, both of Mount Airy; Fred Roberts, 24, and Eula Ray Sparks, 18, both of Sparta. REFERENDUM REMINDER—“I’m no tobacco farmer,” says young Larry Allen of Wake County, “but Saturday, July 23 is the day every flue-cured grower—landowner, tenant and sharecropper—should go to his community polling place to vote on Tobacco Associates and Marketing Quotas. VET HOSPITAL TO BE ERECTED $17,000,000 Neurophychiatric Hospital Awarded To Salisbury TO HAVE 1,000 BEDS A $17,000,000 neuropsychiatric Veterans Administration hospital for North Carolina Tuesday was awarded to Salisbury. It will have 1,000 beds. Representative Doughton of North Carolina made the an nouncement. The Veterans Administration acquired 411 acres of land in Salisbury, in March, 1945. Selection of the site was made after Administrator Carl Gray, Jr., personally inspected sites at Win ston-Salem, Greensboro, Char lotte, Salisbury, and in the neigh borhood of Durham. His observa tions supplemented previously made engineering surveys. Gray said that all the sites were so well adapted that he could not make a decision on the basis of mere personal observation. After he returned to Washington, Gray said a mathematical formula was devised by which sites would be compared with each element of importance in locating a hospital weighed. In that way, selection was made on a strictly mathemat ical basis. Gray said the use of the formula was so successful that it would be used in all future selections. Gray said that the Salisbury location was not so favorable as some others from the standpoint of distance from medical schools. However, he said, Salisbury had already spent $304,000 and the federal government $1,030,000 on the site there, and this more than outweighed the other considera tions. Design and supervision of con struction of the hospital will be handled by the Veterans Admin istration construction service. Tribune Advertising Gets Results Baptist Plan Open House At New Parsonage Open house will be held in the new Baptist parsonage Fri day night, to which everyone has been invited. Arrangements have been made so that all visitors may be accommodated by alphabe tical visits. Those names in the ABCD category are invited to attend at 7:30; EFGH, 8 o’clock; IJKL, 8:30; MNOPR, 9 o’clock; and STUVWXYZ, 9:30. Building of the parsonage, which is located on the lot overlooking the intersection of Market Street and Gwyn Ave nue, began in October of last ytfar. It was completed in May at a cost of between $25,000 to $30,000. It contains eight rooms, two tile baths and oil heat. The building committee was headed by Or. M. O. Fox, who worked with the following in laying financing and building plans: I. C. Yates, Tt. L. Rein hardt, Glenn Lewis, Miss Lois McKnight, Mrs. F. M. Norman and Miss Mattie Mae Powell. Flashers Win 6-5 Over Blanketeers North Wilkesboro’s Flashers edged Elkin’s Blanketeers, 6-5, Tuesday night in a 13-inning con test at North Wilkesboro. Although the Elkin team mus tered 13 hits in the loss, they were unable to push across another run after their ninth-inning rally which caused the tilt to go into extra innings. Lou Hayworth, brother of Jim Hayworth, entered the Elkin line up at second base and had a flaw less night at field. He collected two hits in five times at bat. Jerry Marquis started the game and was relieved in the seventh because of wildness. Gordon Smith continued and was relieved in the tenth by Red Powers, who was charged with the loss. Elsewhere the in Blue Ridge League, Galax replaced Radford in fourth place with a twin vic tory over the Rockets. Mount Airy eked out a 7-6 decision over Wytlieville to build their lead in the race. MORE NEEDED FOR 4-H TRIP Bus Load From Surry County Will Attend 4-H Club Week In Raleigh APPLY TO COUNTY AGT. A few more applications were needed yesterday to complete a bus load of Surry County 4-H members who will attend North Carolina 4-H Club Week in Ra leigh, August 1-6. D. A. Halsey, who will attend the event for the entire week, will be in charge of the delegation. Glendora Nichols and her broth er, Marion Nichols, both of the White Plains community will rep resent the Surry County 4-H Clubs in the dairy production demonstration held in connection with 4-H Club Week Program. Glendora and Marion have been showing their pure-bred Jerseys for the past three years. Last year, Glendora showed the only blue ribbon cow in the class of three-year-old Jerseys at the Lex ington Junior Dairy Show. Complaints Made On Loose Livestock Complaints registered with Chief Corbett Wall in the past few weeks prompted a warning from the police department that live stock and other animals offensive to the property of others be kept on the owner’s premises. During the damp period of the past two weeks, Chief Wall point ed out, such animals and fowls are especially offensive and care should be taken to confine them to their pens. R. W. Stewart Now On Police Force R. W. Stewart was this week sworn in as a member of the El kin police force. Chief Corbett Wall announced yesterday, Stewart’s appointment brings the police department strength to seven. To Represent Surry County In State Finals • Shirley Waugh and Ruth Nichols, both 14, were notified yesterday that they would represent Surry County and the Northwestern District in the State finals of Dairy Food Demonstration at 4-H Short Course. - The two girls will attend North Carolina 4-H Club Week in Raleigh where they will par ticipate for the State cham pionship. They will demon strate a convalescent diet which they prepared. Miss Waugh in the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Waugh of White Plains. Miss Nichols is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Nichols, Route 4, Mount Airy. CIVIL COURT IS UNDER WAY Full Docket of Cases Con tinues Under Presiding Judge J. H. Clement i TWO DIVORCE TRIALS Civil term of Surry Superior Court continued this week with a full docket of cases under Judge J. H. Clement. Two divorce cases were record ed. Divorces were received in the case of Almeda Mitchell Scott vs. Eugene P. Scott, and Lois Bolen Smith vs. J. K. Smith, Jr. Cases and amounts of recovery by the plaintiffs are listed as fol lows: Buck White vs. General Foun dry and Machine Company, con sent judgment, $472.15. W. E. Bunker vs. H. E. Mc Craw, $100. Atteree Thompson, administra tor of the estate of L. A. Norman, vs. Ted Hayes, consent judgment, $175. Mrs. Stella C. Snow vs. Pete An tonakos, $858. James Wayne Wilson by J. Ray mond Wilson, next friend, vs. Tott Carter, $2,500. William Smith by Pearl Smith vs. Henry Garl Brown, $300. Mount Airy Livestock Market vs. M. N. Beasley, $606.29 and in terest. Winfred Stanley vs. Isom M. Adams, $1,000. Ralph Edward Stanley vs. Isom M. Adams, $500. John L. Perkins and Charles D. Perkins vs. The Insurance Com pany of the State of Pennsyl vania, $875. Mrs. Leota Hawks, administra trix of Dean Hawks, vs. Roy Reid Combs, $3,250. Lee Snow vs. W. E. Wilmoth, no recovery. Velda H. Holbrook vs. Harvey Roscoe Stewart and L. M. Berry and Company, consent judgment, $1,225. Richard Holbrook vs. Harry Roscoe Stewart and L. M. Betty and Company, $275. TRY IS MADE AT SUICIDE James W. Davis, 29, of Elkin, Slashes Own Wrists In Bir mingham, Alabama CONDITION FAIRLY GOOD Police in Birmingham, Ala., re ported Monday that James W. Davis, 29, of Elkin, slashed his wrists with a razor blade Sunday as he sat in a phone booth in a down-town hotel. Davis was taken to Jefferson Hillman Hospital where his con dition was reported as fairly good. Attendants at the hospital said he had been a patient at the Veter ans Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Major H. C. West, United States Air Force, of Piedmont, Aik., said he saw Davis fall from the phone booth to the floor. Officers said the man’s wrists had been slashed about 30 times with a razor blade. They said Davis had placed a call to a broth er, Bill Davis, who lives in Elkin, while he was in the phone booth. Club To Meet With North Wilkesboro An interesting talk by Kiwanian Hoke Henderson on how to pre pare a last will and testament, featured last week’s meeting of the Elkin Kiwanis Club. This week’s meeting will be held this evening (Thursday), at Bluff Park on the Scenic Highway, at 6:30 o’clock, where the local club will meet with the North Wilkes boro Club. DIES AT 72—James Daniel Woodruff, former Chatham em ployee, died Wednesday at his home in East Elkin. He was the first worker in the United States to receive the Safety Award of Merit by the National Safety Council. The award was made because of 50 years without a lost time accident while em ployed by Chatham. J. D. WOODRUFF DIES IN ELKIN Was First Textile Worker In U. S. To Get Safety Award of Merit RITES TO BE FRIDAY James Daniel Woodruff, age 72, passed away Wednesday at 9 a. m., at his home in East Elkin follow ing an illness of two years, crit ically ill for three days. ‘‘Uncle Dan” as he was affec tionally called by all who knew him. is the son of the late Brax ton and Lodema Woodruff. He was an active member of the Friendship Baptist Church, serv ing as Sunday School superinten dent up until his health failed him two years ago. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge and Junior Order. Mr. Woodruff worked at Chat ham Manufacturing Company for 51 years and was retired March 1, 1947. While in the employ of that company he was presented the Safety Award of Merit by the National Safety Council on July 9, 1946, for having worked 50 years without a lost time acci dent. He was the first textile employee in the United States to receive this honor. He was again honored by the North Caro lina State-wide Industrial Safety Conference on September 13, 1946, when he was presented to the con ference, where he made a talk. While working for the Chatham Company he was an active mem ber of the Thurmond Chatham Unity Club. He was a highly es teemed man of excellent Christian character. He was married to the former Miss Coetta Gentry in 1899, who survives. Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. W. L. Bostic of this city; two sons, Marshall and Brady Woodruff, of this city; two brothers, H. D. Woodruff of this city and W. C. Woodruff of Jones ville; one sister, Mrs. B. F. Rol lins of Elizabethtown; six grand children and one great grandchild. Funeral service will be conduct ed Friday at 3 p. m. at the Friend ship Baptist Church near Elkin. Officiating ministers Will be Rev. Scales Draughn, Rev. J. L. Pow ers and Rev. B. F. Rollins. Inter ment will be in the church ceme tery. The commercial early Irish po tato crop harvested in North Car olina this year totaled approxi mately 24,000 acres. County Polls To Open Saturday Morning For v Leaf Referendum Vote - 6-A $3,405,000 Is At Stake For Surry Surry County flue-cured tobac co farmers have a $3,405,000 stake in the Tobacco Associates' refer endum Saturday, July 23 for that’s the amount they received on the exported portion of their 1948 crop. S. H. Atkinson, Siloam, county Farm Bureau President, this week pointed out the vital interest local farmers have in the export .pro gram. He urged every grower who will share the proceeds of the 1949 crop to “get out and vote” for the 10-cent an acre self-assess ment to support Tobacco Associ ates, and for Marketing Quotas. The Marketing Quotas referendum will be held at the same time and in the same polling places. “Every flue-cured grower de pends on exports for the sale of about 40 percent of their crop,” the president said. “In our county last year we produced 17,027,468 pounds of tobacco on about 13, 000.5 acres, with an average per acre yield of 1,310 pounds. “Our county’s flue-cured crop in 1948 was worth approximately $8,513,000, but if it had not been for our foreign market we would have suffered plenty. There would have been no place for that 40 percent we usually export, and the resulting depressed prices would surely have placed our loss far above the $3,405,000 we received for our exported tobacco. "There's no doubt that two thirds of the farmers voting in North and South Carolina in the Tobacco Associates referendum will approve the continuation of the program. However, we must register an overwhelming vote— just as we did in 1947 when more than 125,000 voted fbr the pro gram and less than 2,000 against it. A big vote will show everyone tobacco farmers are eager to do something to help themselves. Let’s get out that big vote Satur day, July 23 for Tobacco Asso ciates and Marketing Quotas, two vital parts of our broad tobacco program. Baptist S. S. Group Is To Meet Sunday The Surry Baptist Sunday School Association will meet on Sunday, July 24, at 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon. The meeting will be held at White Plains Baptist Church. The program will be opened with Worship in song, followed by Devotional, being conducted by the Rev. Mr. Lackey. At 2:40 o’clock, Mrs. W. H. Poindexter will present a talk on “The Value of a Training Union,” after which a business session is scheduled at 2:55 o’clock. Special music will be presented from 3:05 p. m. until 3:15 o’clock at which time there will be a special message by either a visit ing Japanese girl, or in her ab sence, the moderator. Everyone is invited to attend this meeting. JAYCEE APPOINTEES — W. N. (Bill) Stevenson, left, and H. P. Graham, Jr., were this week appointed to offices on the North Car olina Junior Chamber of Commerce. Both were chosen as State committee chairmen and will head the State standing committees. Mr. Stevenson, who is president of the Elkin Jaycees, was assigned to the sports and recreation committee, and Mr. Graham was chosen to head the distinguished service award. They were chosen for the posts by State President Con Brown at an executive board meeting in High Point, Surry Farmers Paid $8,513,000 For Leaf Crop Surry County farmers realiz ed $8,513,000 from their 1948 flue-cured tobacco crop, top ping the 11 Northwestern North Carolina counties in which to bacco figures largely in farm ing economy, according to of ficial data released in connec tion with the tobacco referen dum Saturday. This sum was gained off a crop of 13,000 acres in the county. Yadkin County farmers re ceived $6,276,000 from an ac reage of 9,454 acres. Wilkes County growers received $978, 000 from 1,585 acres. LEGISLATION IS APPROVED N. C. Farm Bureau’s Board Of Directors Vote To Con tinue Measures ‘ECONOMICALLY SOUND’ Raleigh—North Carolina Farm Bureau’s Board of Directors has voted unanimously to urge contin uation of present national farm legislation because ‘‘it is sound and defensible from an economic point of view” and has benefited agriculture of the state and help ed to stabilize business and pro fessional life. At a regular quarterly meeting, presided over by A. C. Edwards, Hookertown, NSFB president, in Raleigh, July 8, the Board took its stand on the national farm program after a report by Exe cutive Vice-President R. Flake Shaw, Greensboro, on the status of agricultural legislation in Washington. The Board also went on record unanimously- to “support to the fullest” the Saturday, July 23 referendum on Marketing Quotas and the Tobacco Associates refer endum. It was voted to “do every thing possible to get cut a large vote for the protection of our whole tobacco program.” Alluding to the proposed Bran nan program and the Pace-Bran (Continued On Page Eight) WILKES MAN FATALLY SHOT Inquest Slated Friday For Death of Claude Bell, 54, Roaring River SPARKS HELD ON BOND A coroner’s inquest in the slay ing of Claude Bell, 54, who was fatally shot last Wednesday night, will be held at the Wilkes County Courthouse tomorrow