ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Caroline
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ELKIN
Gateway to Roaring Gap and
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Serves the Tri-Counties of
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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 35
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1949
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14 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
KIWANIS CLUB
» REQUESTS NEW
POSTAL ROUTE
From Charlotte By Highway
21 To Wytheville, Virginia
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HIGHWAY POST OFFICE
Resolution Points Out Route
Would Afford Faster Mail
To West, Mid-West
SUBMITTED TO SOLONS
A resolution recommending the
establishment of a highway post
office route between Charlotte and
Wytheville, Va., was submitted
last week to Congressmen and
the two Senators from North Car
olina by the Elkin Kitvanis Club.
The resolution explained that
mails to and from Elkin from
points in the mid-west and west
are routed through Greensboro,
/ which is approximately 70 miles
% east of Elkin, and from Greens
boro the same are routed north
and then west again which gives
a slower service of mails between
Elkin and points in the mid-west
and west due to the necessity of
several transfers.
Also, points south of North Car
olina are likewise routed through
Greensboro and then to points in
southern states, and mails to west
ern points of North Carolina are
routed first through Winston-Sa
lem east of Elkin, and back
through Statesville and points in
the western parts of the state, as
well as mails to such points as
Statesville and Charlotte.
The proposed highway route
would be made on Highway 21
f which would serve such cities as
Wytheville, Sparta, Statesville and
Charlotte. This also would elim
inate several star routes now ex
tending and operating out of the
towns located on the proposed
route, the resolution said.
The resolution also pointed out
that the present highway post of
fice operating between Greens
boro and Boone, through Elkin,
. has proved “exceedingly satisfac
T- tory.”
Copies of the resolution were
sent to Thurmond Chatham, R.
L. Doughton, Hamilton C. Jones
and C. B. Deane, U. S. Congress
men; to Clyde R. Hoey and Frank
P. Graham, U. S. Senators, and
to the U. S. Post Office Depart
ment.
Blanketeers Chase
‘Pistol Pete’ Treece
Elkin’s Blanketeers carved a
nick from the pride of Mount
Airy’s ace pitcher and supported
their own Jerry Marquis to de
sign a 6-2 victory Tuesday night.
Jim Hayworth added to the at
tack with two hits and four stolen
bases as “Pistol Pete” Treece was
put away after seven innings.
Shorty Brown continued his hit
ting spree with a double and a
single and Dick Patterson had a
pair of singles.
The Blanketeers yesterday sign
ed Nixon, a former Mount Airy
pitcher, who is expected to bol
.U ster the Elkin hurling staff.
Date of District 8
Road Meet Changed
The regular District Eight
meeting for Alleghany, Surry,
Wilkes and Yadkin counties which
was scheduled for August 10 will
be held August 9 at the Wilkes
County Courthouse in Wilkesboro,
it was announced yesterday by
Mark Goforth, highway commis
sioner for the district.
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Dollar Buys More
As Prices Drop 2c
Since September
The U. S. Labor Department
said last week that falling
prices have increased the pur
chasing power of the dollar al
most two cents since last Sep
tember.
The department said this is
the most substantial gain for
the consumer since the postwar
price rise began three years
ago, although the dollar buying
power still is 16 cents below
June, 1946, the last month of
wartime price controls.
The department’s computa
tion was made on the basis of
the consumer price index made
public last Friday. It showed
that the dollar in terms of 1939
prices bought 59 cents worth of
goods in June, 1949.
Last September, at the peak
of the rise in living costs the
dollar bought 57.3 cents worth
of goods and services in terms
of 1939 prices. In June, 1948,
the dollar’s purchasing power
wis 58.2 cents.
GOOD TIME, MOUNTAIN PARK STYLE — Approximately 600 fanners of Surry County attended a
meeting at Mountain Park School last Wednesday when leaders of highway systems and farm lead
ers discussed road conditions in the county with improvement under the recent bond issue as their
goal. Similar meetings are planned August 14 at West Yadkin and August 21 at Benham. Here at
Mountain Park a good representation from all corners of Surry came for the afternoon to hear
speeches and eat watermelon (above).
(PHOTO BY BELL)
RESCUE SQUAD
GETS THANKS
Explanation For Removal
From Elkin of Iron Lung
Made In Letter
FROM STATE OFFICE
In answer to the query by Elkin
citizens as to why the iron lung
sent here recently has been re
moved, J. L. Caudill this week sup
plied the following letter from
Mrs. Caroline Caldwell, secretary
of the State branch of the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, Inc.:
“We in the State office of the
Foundation want you to know how
much we appreciate the spirit of
spontaneous cooperation you and
your squad show whenever we call
on you for help.
“It really is a pleasure and
comfort to us to know that we
can always depend on the Elkin
folks to come to our rescue.
“Attached is our new equipment
transfer report. When the lung is
moved to any point, you will re
ceive this report, and you will
know at all times just where the
equipment is located. I am sure
that the people in your town and
county will be interested to hear
what a service your squad is ren
dering, not only to North Carolina,
but to other stricken areas.”
Miss Waugh Selected
Among Best Exhibits
The demonstration of Evelyn
Waugh, of White Plains, on the
wear and care of clothing was se
lected as one of the best six dem
onstrations given in the State this
week, it was announced by Mrs.
Grace Pope Brown, Surry County
Home Demonstration Agent.
Miss Waugh will give her dem
onstration in Raleigh during 4-H
Club Week. The exhibit concerns
the correct way to pack a suit
case. She gave the demonstration
in Winston-Salem recently.
Also, Miss Waugh has been se
lected a district winner of the
floor sanding and refinishing con
test sponsored by the Clarke Sand
ing Machine Company.
BOXSCORE
ON N.C.HIGHWAYS
Killed July 23 through
July 25 . 8
Injured July 23 through
July 25 .-. 86 I
Killed through July 25
this year ...». 424
Killed through July 25, !
1948 . 361 1
Injured through July 25
this year .4,796 (
Injured through July 25, j
1948 ..3,926 (
JULY HIGHWAY !
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‘Speeders Lose’ Is Attitude
Of ‘Deadly, Penny-Wise
Economy’ Drivers I
SPEED BUILDS UP ODDS
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This is what Jeff B. Wilson, di- x
rector of the Division of Highway ^
Safety of the North Carolina De
partment of Motor Vehicles, which £
is sponsoring the Department’s ^
July drive against speed, today c
called the mental attitude of many j
drivers. :
“This attitude,” Wilson said, “is
what makes so many motorists
who would never risk money
gambling go out on the highway
and stake their lives, and other
persons’, against five or ten min
utes of saved time.”
According to the Department, if
the speeding motorist, has an ac
cident at 60 miles an hour while
gambling in this way, the odds
that he will kill or seriously in
jure himself, his passengers,
someone in another car, or per
haps an innocent pedestrian, are
so staggering that few profession
al gamblers would touch them
with a ten-foot pole.
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Yadkin Commissioners •
Figure Final Budget!
The Yadkin County Board of
Commissioners met here Monday
to make final figures on the bud
get for this year, and reduced the
tax rate from $1.05 to $1.00 on
the $100 valuation of property.
This figure was finally arrived
at Monday when it was shown
that there is an additional one
million dollars in property valua
tion on the tax books. The coun
ty property valuation is now $14,
500.000, an increase of one mil
lion dollars over last y:ar. The
beer tax of $14,000 w?s also a big
item in allowing this reduction.
Broken down, these budget fig
ures show an increase in nearly
every department of the county
government. An increase of $1,000
is allowed for listing of property,
making the total for this item
$3,445.00. An increase of $2,140
for the board of elections, bring
ing that total to $3,920. The sher
riff’s office gets an increase of
$250 and $3,600.00 is appropriated
for two full time paid deputy
sheriffs, bringing the increase in
the sheriff’s department to $3,
850.00. The tax collector got an
increase of $745.00, bringing this
office total to $3,335.00. The coun
ty accountant jumped $150 to
$3,050.00. The register of deeds of
fice jumped $1,000 to $4,722.00.
The county jail appropriation was
reduced by $140 to $5,080.00.
One item was cut out of the
budget entirely. This was rebate
on taxes, which last year was
$300. The appropriation for the
County Farm and home agent was
reduced by $5.00, leaving it at
$5,400. The clerks office was given
an increase of $311.00, totaling
$4,331.00 County attorney, veter
ans officer and superior court ex
penses remained the same. Ap
propriation for the county home
was reduced $65.00 and outside
poor support was increased by
$250.
The welfare department was
given an increase of $4,400.00 for
administrative work, bringing this
item to a total of $15,690.00, while
aid to dependent children was re
duced $300. Current expenses of
the school fund was increased
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KING HONORS
PINNACLE MAN
William E. Stuari-Donathan
Made Honorary Captain In
Black Watch Regiment
GOOD WILL PROMOTION
William E. Stuart-Donathan,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Dona
than of Pinnacle, Route 1, a yeo
man in the United States Navy
has been made an honorary cap
tain in the Black Watch Regi
ment of the British Army by King
George VI, it was announced this
week in London.
He is a 21-year-old veteran of
five years’ service in the U. S.
Navy, with the rank of yeoman,
first class. As the result of the
British honor, he is also an hon
orary officer in one of Great
Britain’s most famous and senior
regiments.
According to the British an
nouncement, the honor was con
ferred upon “Captain Stuart
Donathan ... in recognition of
his untiring effort and unselfish
desire to promote and further
Anglo-American good will, par
ticularly through lectures and
various phases of co-operation
with and assistance to the Royal
Army Education Corps.”
Stuart-Donathan was born in
Surry County, and completed his
schooling at Boonville High
School in Yadkin County in 1944.
He immediately enlisted in the
navy, and has since re-enlisted.
His present tour of duty will end
in June, 1950.
Since enlisting in the navy, he
nas been in almost every part of
she world, including a trip to the
South Pole. According to his
nother, he was secretary to Ad
niral Richard E. Byrd on the lat
her’s last polar expedition. He was
n Egypt in May, 1948, his mother
said.
According to the British an
nouncement, the new captain was
i U. S. Navy analyst with the
Arabian-American Oil Company
nf Saudi Arabia before coming to
England.
In England, where he has been
since last December, he has been
icting i secretary to the U. S.
naval chief-of-staff in London,
ind has spent his spare time in
structing British cadets.
His mother said that his hy
nhenated name of Stuart-Dona
shan is a result of his naval war
service. When a close friend of
nis was killed during the war, the
friend’s parents asked that Dona
shan take his friend’s name as
veil as his own.
Hiatt To Speak
At Masonic Picnic
Dr. J. s. Hiatt, general super
ntendent of Hugh Chatham Me
morial Hospital, will be one of the
featured speakers of the annual
Masonic picnic in Mocksville on
August 11.
The main address of the mom
ng -will be made by Judge Hubert
Dlive of Lexington. Dr. Hiatt will
speak in the afternoon at the all
iay event.
George Yarborough’s
Father Dies Suddenly
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Yar
>rough of this city were called to
Vinston-Salem, Monday, due to
he sudden death of the former’s
ather, George C. Yarbrough, Sr.
Funeral service was conducted
'esterday (Wednesday) at 5 p. m.
st the First Baptist Church in
Vinston-Salem and interment was
n the Forsyth Memorial Park.
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YADKIN BOARD
PLANNING FOR
VOTE ON BEER
Canvass of Petitions Request'
ing Election Turned In
CONTAINS 2,153 NAMES
February 25, 1950, Decided
As Date For Election
On Beer Only
PRESENT LAW FORBIDS
Meeting in the Yadkin County
Courthouse last Wednesday after
noon the Yadkin County Board of
Elections completed a canvass of
petitions turned in requesting an
election on the sale of beer in
Yadkin County.
The board after much discus
sion decided on the date February
25, 1950, as the date for the elec
tion, which will be on beer only.
There is a statute which forbids
the sale of wine in Yadkin Coun
ty already and no wine licenses
have been issued there in a num
ber of years.
The Yadkin County Board of
Elections is headed by P. Gray
Shore of Boonville, the chairman.
Members are S. W. Vestal and
Fred J. Brandon of Yadkinville.
Vestal made the suggestion that
the election be held on October
15, and Brandon suggested Feb
ruary 25, 1950. Chairman Shore
and Mr. Brandon voted for the
later date.
Petitions presented to the board
contained some 2,153 names. Of
this number according to infor
mation, less than half were found
to be bonafide voters at the last
election.
Nine hundred and thirty-five
names were required to make 15
per cent of the voters, as required
by law.
Two of the petitions presented
were not considered, having been
received after June 25, one on
July ll) and the other on July 20.
CHATHAMWlNS
MORE AWARDS
Safety Plaque, Scroll Present
ed To Plant For Outstand
ing Achievement
ONE IS FIRST OF KIND
Two more safety awards were
presented to Chatham Manufac
turing Company at a banquet for
executives and heads of depart
ments here Tuesday night.
William Underwood, represent
ing Hartford Accident Insurance
Company, presented the company
an award for outstanding achieve
ment in safety, the first award
ever made for a plant.
A combined State and Federal
Government award was given to
the plant for the second straight
year. John Bullard, of the State
Labor Department, presented the
award to Raymond Harris, who
also accepted the Hartford plaque.
Following the award presenta
tions, a movie, “Miracle of Para
dise Valley,” was shown.
C. J. Hyslup, safety director of
Chatham, presided over the meet
ing.
In ancient Rome, women had
wigs of various colors as part of
their wardrobes, according to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
District Two
Jaycees To Meet
Here August 15
A meeting of District Two of
the North Carolina Junior
Chamber of Commerce will be
held here August 15, it was an
nounced yesterday by Dr. Ver
non Taylor, of Elkin, district
vice-president.
A picnic supper for delegates
will be held at Neaves Park at
7 p. m. for all Jaycees of the
district and their wives. Regis
tration fees of $1.50 each will
be charged.
Herbert Graham, spokesman
for the local Jaycees, said that
the meating would be mostly
for recreation and would in
clude golf and swimming as
part of the entertainment.
TALENT SHOWS
TO BEFEATURE
Prizes Totaling $160 Avail
able For Daily Farm And
Home Week Contests
AT RALEIGH, AUGUST 8-11
One of the many entertainment
features of the 1949 Farm and
Home Week at State College,
August 8 to 11, will be a series of
daily talent contests offering
prizes totaling $160, says John W.
Goodman, assistant director of
the State College Extension Ser
vice.
There will be no limit on the
kind of talent entered, Mr. Good
man said. He suggested such
things as choruses, solos, musical
instruments, ballads, recitations,
folk dancing and stunts. The
North Carolina Farm Bureau Fed
eration is donating the funds for
the talent contest.
Any farm group or individual
may enter. Elimination contests
each day will screen entries down
to four to be heard on the eve
ning programs of August 8, 9 and
10. The winners of each evening
show will compete for final honors
and prizes on the evening of
August 11.
A first prize of $25 and a second
prize of $15 will be at stake each
evening, including the final eve
ning. Entries must be in by
August 1. Persons interested
should notify M. E. Starnes, Ex
tension Division, State College
Station, Raleigh, N. C.
Several other entertainment
features have been planned for
the week. Among these is a quiz
show to be emceed by Bob Hawk,
nationally known quizmaster.
Daytime programs at Farm and
Home Week will be devoted to
talks and demonstrations on all
phases of farming and homemak
ing. Among the featured speakers
are Secretary of Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan and North
Carolina’s own Harold D. Cooley,
chairman of the House Agricul
tural Committee.
Freeman Appointed
To Lions Office
Frank Freeman, Dobson attor
ney, was appointed chairman of
Zone 1, District 31-B of Lions In
ternational at the organization’s
annual convention in New York
City last week.
He succeeds Claude Farrell of
this city.
Mr. Freeman's duties will be to
co-ordinate activities of the Lions
in Winston-Salem, Mount Airy,
King, Elkin, Jonesville and Dob
son.
SLATE PLANNED
FOR GRADE‘A’
Consideration Given For
Schedule of Entire State
On Milk Class
FOR BETTER PRACTICES
Agriculture Comuissioner L. Y.
Ballentine said Tuesday he is con
sidering establishing a grade A
milk classification schedule for the
whole state. Its aim would be to
encourage more orderly market
ing practices and to promote con
tinued expansion of North Caro
lina’s dairy industry, he declared.
Since the announcement 10 days
ago of classification plan for the
14-county milkshed of the Coble
Dairy at Lexington, Ballentine
said, there have been increasing
indications of the need for a state
wide system of classing milk.
Under the classification plans,
processors pay producers on the
basis of the use for which the
milk is bought. The commission
er can set up classifications under
a 1941 law aimed at “upgrading.”
The statute makes it illegal for a
dealer to sell milk in a higher
classification than that in which
he bought it. The matter of prices
for each class is left to processors.
Ballentine said confusion and
possibly inequities can result from
the fact that classifications are
established for some areas and
not for others. In some sections
processors have their own classi
fications, he declared, and others
buy milk on a flat basis regardless
of how they use it.
“Different marketing conditions
in various sections of the state
may justify some variations in
class systems, but I think it would
be desirable to have such classes
as uniform as possible,” he said.
“For this reason, I am consid
ering the advisability of calling a
a series of public hearings with a
view to setting up classification
schedules for the whole state.”
The Coble classification plan,
which may become a pattern for
others, establishes three classes of
milk. Class I includes interplant
sales as well as most fluid milk
and cream ^les. Class II covers
cultured skim or plain buttermilk
when not accounted for as by
product of cream under class I.
Class III includes what is know
as manufacturing milk, such as
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Boonville Negro Is
Raided By Officers
Will Boles, Boonville Negro, was
short one gallon and one pint of
sugarhead liquor Saturday after
four Yadkin County officers paid
him a visit.
Deputy Sheriffs Fred Turner,
C. Russell, Loyd Prim and F. E.
Hurt clamped down on Boles after
receiving a report last week that
be was selling liquor. Placed in
jail Saturday, he made bond Mon
day to the September term of Su
perior Court.
Surry Votes
Heavily For
Leaf Quotas
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WHERE CHILDREN WILL PLAY — This lot, located on the Church-Market Street intersection, is
in* converted into a playground by the Elkin Junior Woman’s Club. It is part of a community
provement project begun recently by the group. Several other similar improvements are now in
making. Here Mrs. Gwyn Franklin, of the club, looks on with interested children who are as follows,
left to right — Bunnie Benson, of Wisconsin (who is visiting Mrs. Franklin), Ricky Morris and
Peggy Jean Darnell. (tribune photo)
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Flue-Cured
Belt Votes
43 To One
Surry, Yadkin and Wilkes coun
ties joined in North Carolina’s
overwhelming vote in favor of ex
tending flue-cured tobacco mar
ket quotas.
Surry’s vote was 5,428 in favor
of three-years extension and 18 in
favor of one year. Only 58 voted
against extension of quotas.
The farmers in the five main
flue-cured states stamped their
approval of a three-year exten
sion almost 43 to 1, Saturday. A
nearly complete count from Vir
ginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and
Florida gave 220,927 votes for the
extension beginning next year.
Only 3,116 voted against quo
tas, while 2,041 asked only a one
year extension.
Adding the ballots for three
year and one-year extensions,
preference for quotas was better
than 71 to 1.
Alabama, the other state in
the referendum, is a minor pro
ducer of tobacco. Its vote was by
mail and has not yet been tabu
lated.
In Saturday’s referendum, Car
olina tobacco farmers also over
whelmingly approved continuation
of a 10-cent-an-acre assessment
to support Tobacco Associates,
Inc. This organization was set up
in the two states in 1947 to stim
ulate export sales.
North Carolina gave 151,691 to
3,522 approval of Tobacco Asso
ciates, South Carolina 30,219 to
473. The two-state total was 171,
910 to 3,995 in the affirmative.
Two Elkin Girls
Attend Girls State
Miss Betty Lineberry and Miss
Anna Jean Holbrook are among
the 266 girls from all over
North Carolina attending the 10th
annual Tar Heel Girls State at
Womans College, Greensboro, this
week. Girls State is sponsored by
the North Carolina American Le
gion Auxiliary.
Miss Lineberry and Miss Hol
brook are delegates to Girls State
from the Elkin chapter of the
American Legion Auxiliary and
the Business and Professional
Womans Club.
The highlight of the week’s pro
gram will be an all day trip to Ra
leigh today (Thursday), where the
girls will visit the State capitol
and various administrative build
ings.
Lexington Man To
Address Kiwanians
Woodrow McKay, manager of
the Lexington Chamber of Com
merce, will be guest speaker at
this evening’s meeting (Thurs
day), of the Elkin Kiwanis Club.
Mr. McKay is said to be a former
friend and confidant of the late
Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and
Thomas A. Edison.
Last Thursday the Elkin club
met at Bluff Park, on the scenic
highway, with the North Wilkes
boro club, a good representation
from both clubs were present.
Beef Producers
To Meet Tonight
At Dobson School
A county-wide meeting, of
beef cattle producers, especially
Hereford Producers and Breed
ers, will be held tonight
(Thursday) in Dobson, it was
announced yesterday by County
Agent Neill M. Smith.
The meeting will begin at 8
p. m. in the Dobson High
School auditorium.
Mr. Smith declared that beef
cattle producers need to become
better acquainted with one an
other and to know each other’s
cattle better. Therefore, he
said, the meeting is being call
! ed for this purpose.
J. H. Crossingham, Mount
Airy breeder, has arranged the
use of a new film of Herefords
which was made by the na
tional organisation.