ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Caroline
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ELKIN
Gateway to Roaring Gap and
the Bine Ridge
THE TRIBUNE
Serves the Tri-Counties of
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
VOL. No. XXXVII No. 37
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11,1949
$2.00 PER YEAR
22 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS
MRS. CHATHAM
BEQUEATHS SUM
TO ORPHANAGE
Will of Late Wife of Thur
mond Chatham Revealed
ONE - TENTH TO HOME
Methodist Children’s Home
May Get Sum As Much
As $75,000
TO BE PAID QUARTERLY
Mrs. Lucy Hanes Chatham, late
wife of Thurmond Chatham—El
kin manufacturer and Congress
man for the Fifth District—left*
a sum of money which might be
as much as $75,000 for the use and
benefit of the Methodist Children’s
Home of Winston-Salem.
According to the terms of her
will, which was filed for probate
, Tuesday with the clerk of For
ffsyth Superior Court, Mrs. Chat
ham, who died July 13, left one
tenth of her estate to the Win
ston-Salem Foundation for use at
the Children’s Home.
The total value of Mrs. Chat
ham’s estate was not known Tues
day as an inventory had not been
completed.
The will stated, however, that if
the value of the assets constituting
the bequest to the Foundation
should amount to $100,000 or more
the Children’s Home will get $75,
000. If the figure is less than
$100,000, the home will get three
fourths of the amount.
Mrs. Chatham directed that the
bequest to the home be paid quar
terly to the trustees for use for
^general purposes until such time
as the trustees determine the need
for a new dormitory at the home.
The money shall then be used
in payment for a new dormitory,
its furnishings and equipment and
the dormitory shall be dedicated
to John W. Hanes and Anna Hod
gin Hanes, parents of Mrs. Chat
ham, the will states.
The remainder of the money
given the Winston-Salem Founda
tion can be used for the general
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SERVICE FILMS
ARE AVAILABLE
"^Army And Air Force Recruit
ing Makes Possible Se
curing Bulletins
FOR PUBLIC FEATURES
The U. S. Army and U. S. Air
Force Recruiting service has made
available a limited number' of
films and combat bulletins as a
public service feature, S/Sgt. Wil
liam F. Davenport, the local USA
and USAF Recruiting representa
tive said yesterday.
These films are suitable and
available for showing without cost
to any veteran group or civic club
™ desiring to schedule movies as a
part of a program. Running time
of the available firms varies from
approximately 10 to 45 minutes,
Sergeant Davenport said.
Complete information and ar
rangement for showing can be
made by contacting Sergeant
Davenport on Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday at the Elkin
Post Office building. Representa
tives of any group desiring to
make use of -this special public
service feature were asked to con
tact the sergeant as far in advance
of showing date as possible, as a
minimum of seven days is requir
ed to secure film and projection
^ equipment which has been made
available through the Recruiting
Operation Section of the North
Carolina Military District.
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Wilkes County
Places Ban
Upon Circuses
Wilkes County Board of
Commissioners in August ses
sion passed a resolution ban
ning carnivals and circuses in
Wilkes County.
The resolution passed by the
board said the action was tak
en following requests by many
church and civic organizations
in and around North Wilkes
boro. Recently the board of
directors of the Wilkes Cham
ber of Commerce passed a
resolution asking the commis
sioners to ban carnivals and
shows with gambling devices.
The resolution pointed out
that carnivals are not in keep
ing with the best morals of the
people, have gambling devices,
offer nothing of educational
value and little of wholesome
recreation.
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EXTENDED MAIL SERVICE — The Elkin Post Office department
was last week authorized to extend city delivery service by foot
carrier to the 1100 block of Elk Spur Street (West End), Reeves
Lane, Newman Street, Victoria Avenue, Masonic Drive, Virginia
Road and West Spring Street (loop), Chatham Drive to Hendrix
Street, and Woodruff development, consisting of one block on Ridge
Avenue, one block on East Avenue and two blocks on Woodruff
Street. This is, however, contingent on provision of suitable mail
receptacles (see above) and easily identified house numbers (also
above). Cortez Lowery is shown here exhibiting a proper recep
tacle and number. (tribune photo)
BOXSCORE
oa a. c. ill envoi
Killed August 6 through
August 8 . 9
Injured August 6 through
August 8 . 96
Killed through August 8
this year . 460
Killed through August 8,
1948 .. 389
Injured through August 8
this year .5,320
Injured through August
8, 1948 . 4,24“
CASTING SHOW*
PLANNED SOON
Elkin Wildlife Club To Bring
Art Nuss, Casting Champ,
Here August 25
MEET AT BEALES LAKE
Art Nuss, nationally known bait
and fly casting champion, will
come to Elkin August 25 for an
exhibition. He will appear on a
program of the Elkin Wildlife
Club to be held at Dr. Seth Beale’s
lake on the Ronda Highway.
Rich M. Chatham, of the local
club, said this week that fishing
for everyone will be open at 4 p.
m., on that date. Following this
period, Mr. Nuss will give his ex
hibition at 6 p. m. Refreshments
and chicken stew will be available
at $1 per person for those who
wish to remain, Mr. Chatham said.
A fishing contest will be held
and prizes will be awarded. Mr.
Chatham asked that those wishing
to -fish bring their own equip
ment. The lake is stocked with
bass, crappie, perch and catfish,
he said.
Efforts will be made during this
time to secure memberships to the
local club. “We especially welcome
farmers of Surry County, who
have been cooperative with the
work of the club in the past,”
Mr. Chatham said.
Mr. Nusss exhibition will in
clude three phases: A short talk,
“Fishing — the All-American
Sport,” the science of bait casting
and fly casting, and a sound mov
ie, “Sport Fishing.”
Rummage Sale To Be
Held Here This Week
A rummage sale will be held in
the building next door to Peele
and Thompson radio shop on Fri
day and Saturday, August 12 and
13.
The sale is being sponsored by
the Woman’s Club of Oak Grove
Baptist Church for the benefit of
the church building fund.
LEAF MARKET
AVERAGE $50
Border B£tt Tobacco Has
Lower Prices, Heavier Vol
ume Than Last Year
SALES AVERAGE $50.20
Lower prices and heavier volume
than at the opening last year
marked the first week of 1949
sales on Carolinas Border Belt
flue-cured tobacco markets.
Sales for the week ended Fri
day totaled 35,133,306 pounds at
average of $50.20 per hundred
,,ds, the United States and
Carolina Departments of
Vnlture reported Saturday,
pis average was $4.24 below
the record high of $54.44 for
28,448,000 pounds sold in the first
week of last year, the report said.
Individual market averages the
past week ranged from $46.75 to
$54.65. Averages decreased for all
grades. Drops from last year’s
first-week prices ranged from $2
to $14 per hundred, with the ma
jority at $2 to $7. As a whole,
lower qualities of green and
orange color showed the greatest
decline.
The bulk of offerings during the
week was low to choice lugs, low
to good leaf and cutters, and low
and fair primings. Lugs, predom
inated, making up about half the
offerings. The ratio of lemon
colored tobacco was greater this
year. • .
Most markets were blocked for
the entire four days of the past
sales week. Volume is expected
to decline about the middle of this
week.
Receipts of the Stabilization
Corporation under the government
loan program were reported at
about 22 per cent of gross sales.
Declines in last week’s auction
bid averages per hundred pounds,
compared with last year’s open
ing-week averages, for a limited
number of representative United
States grades were:
Leaf—Fair lemon $6, low orange
$14.
Cutters—Good lemon $2, low
lemon $5, low orange $11.
Lugs—Choice lemon $2, good
lemon $4, fair orange $6, low
lemon, $12.
Primings—Good lemon $2, low
lemon $7.
Nondescript—Best thin $5.50.
Hay nes-W agoner
Reunion Aug. 14
A reunion of the Haynes and
Wagoner families will be held on
Sunday, August 14, at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Haynes.
Relatives and close friends are
invited to attend and bring a pic
nic basket.
Both marriage and divorce
rates declined throughout the
world in 1948.
SURVEY SHOWS •
DISEASELOSS
IN SURRY LEAF
More Than 25 Farms Visited
Diagnosing Plant Sickness
BLACK SHANK LEADING
Assistant County Agent Al
len Says Growers Suffer
Considerable Loss
COMPLETE RECORD KEPT
A survey conducted by Claude
W. Allen, Jr., assistant Surry
County Farm Agent in tobacco
work, shows that many leaf grow
ers are suffering considerable
losses as a result of diseases.
“We have visited more than 25
individual farms diagnosing such
diseases as black shank, granville
wilt, root knot, sore shin and
meadow nematode,” Mr. Allen
said.
“Black shank is leading the list
in destructiveness so far,” Mr. Al
len continued. “There is little
granville wilt in the Southeastern
part of Surry County, and there
are some isolated cases of root in
fection, such as root knot and
meadow nematode. The root di
seases do not kill the plants as do
the stem diseases, such as black
shank and granville wilt, but they
cause a stunting and loss of vigor.
For this reason many tobacco
growers often attribute the small,
starved-looking tobacco to weath
er conditions, ndt realizing that
they have a disease infection,” he
continued.
Complete records on farms visit
ed and samples brought in con
cerning tobacco diseases are being
kept, Mr. Allen said, adding that it
will be necessary to have such a
set of records in order to make
recommendations for resistant
varieties next year.
Tobacco growers who are not
sure what disease infects their
plants were urged to bring a
sample by the county agent’s of
fice to have it identified.
NEW BUILDINGS
AT B00NV1LLE
Three New Structures Now
Under Way In Block East
Of Intersection
TO HOUSE BUSINESSES
Construction began on three
new business buildings in Boon
ville late last week and Monday
of this week, in the block east of
the main intersection of the town.
Workers began laying blocks
Monday for a 36 x 60 foot building
for Paul Mathis and Walter Holt,
who will be co-owners, on the lo
cation near Crissman Clothiers.
The building will be two stories
with a basement, constructed with
Veterans blocks. It will have a
brick and glass front. Walls will
be 12 inches thick with a built
up roof.
The building will be for rent
when finished, it was stated.
Grading has been completed on
the east side of the building site
for another building which will be
built for Bryant Radio & Appli
ance Co.
Porter Bryant, owner, said con
struction would probably begin
this week on the building, which
will be 20 x 60 feet and built with
cinder blocks.
Another building is underway
on the same street, adjoining
Boonville Cleaners & Laundry,
which is being built by R. M.
Fletcher. Measurements are 29 x
48 feet, and it is of masonry con
struction. There will be two stor
ies, with the bottom section used
as a business building, and the
upstairs section being made into
an apartment.
Swings Are Placed
On New Playground
The Junior Woman’s Club has
placed two swings on the play
ground on the corner of West
Market and Church Streets. Other
equipment will be plac.ed on the
ground as soon as possible.
The playground is open to all
children. However, the Junior
Woman’s Club will not be respon
sible for any accidents.
Plans are being made to con-*
struct more playgrounds at var
ious points throughout the town.
Hanks Reunion To
Be Held Sept. 4th
The Hanks Family Reunion will
be held Sunday, September 4 at
the home of T. B. Hanks, near
Benhqm School.
The public is extended a cordial
invitation to attend and bring
well filled picnic baskets.
ASSISTANT HD AGENT—Miss
Leslie Johnson began duties
August 1 as assistant Home
Demonstration Agent in Surry
County. She succeeds Miss An
gela Taylor, of Danbury. Miss
Johnson is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. H. Johnson of Nes
mith, S. C. She was graduated
from Meredith College in June.
PLANE CRAZES
CAR NEAR HERE
Low-Flying Machine Strikes
Radio Aerial of Convert
ible Sunday
PILOTED BY JOE MYERS
A convertible automobile in
which four persons were riding
Sunday was struck on the radio
aerial and windshield by the
wheel of a low-flying plane piloted
by Joe Myers, 19, of Elkin, it was
reported to highway officers.
The accident occurred on the
Sparta Highway, north of Elkin,
in the section between Elkin Val
ley Church and the Texaco Inn, it
was reported.
Officers reported that Edward
Chappell, driver of the car, was
riding with Miss Betsy Richardson
and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lane,
all of Elkin, at the time.
Occupants of the car reported
seeing the plane flying low sev
eral miles north of the accident
while they were riding South on
the highway. Near Elkin, on the
new stretch of highway, the plane
was said to have struck the aerial
about two inches below the wind
shield, skimming across the wind
shield as it passed over.
One passenger, C. J. Holcomb,
Jr., accompanied Myers, it was
said.
Officers reported no formal
charges have been made.
GOFORTH CLUB
SPEAKER HERE
Highway Commissioner Tells
Kiwanians of Plans For
Road Building
TO START NEXT SPRING
Mark Goforth, of Lenoir, state
highway commissioner for this
district, told Elkin Kiwanians at
their meeting at the YMCA here
last Thursday something of the
plans of the highway department
in putting into effect Governor
Kerr Scott’s 200 million dollar
rural roads program.
Mr. Goforth gave an outline of
highway projects and problems
with which the average person is
unfamiliar, and also pointed out
that the program will not get un
der way until next spring. He told
the club members that with fall
and winter approaching it would
not be wise to start new projects
now and take a chance of getting
caught by bad weather with roads
under construction. By next
spring, he said, more adequate
personnel and equipment will be
available for road building work.
Yadkin Man Injured
In Auto Collision
Ulysses Poindexter of East Bend,
Route 2, was injured near Elkin
Thursday in an automobile collis
ion.
He was a passenger in an auto
mobile driven by Weldon Poindex
ter, who, officers .reported, pulled
from a side Toad into the path of
a car driven by U. K. Butler of
820 Hawthorne Road, Winston
Salem. Both cars were badly dam
aged.
Ulysses Poindexter was brought
to Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos
pital. He was reported not to have
been seriously injured.
Officers said they would charge
Weldon Poindexter' with reckless
driving. There were three passen
gers in each of the cars.
District Two
Jaycees To Meet
Monday In Elkin
A meeting: of District Two,
North Carolina Jaycees will be
held here Monday, according to
Dr. Vernon Taylor, district
vice-president.
A picnic supper for Jaycees
and their wives or girl friends
will be held at Neaves Park
Monday night. Registration fee
will be $1.50 each.
Recreation proceeding the
evening gathering will consist
mainly of golf and swimming.
ALLEGHA’Y MAN
HELD IN KILLING
Charges Pending For John
Frank McMillan, 36, In
Death of Father
IN ALLEGHANY JAIL
John Frank McMillan, 36, of the
Mouth of Wilson community, is
being held in the Alleghany Jail
in Sparta pending charges in the
fatal shooting Friday afternoon of
his father, Bruce McMillan, 66, at
the father’s home.
Sheriff G. D. Richardson said
Saturday morning he would
charge the son with murder.
He said John Frank shot his
father four times with a .22 cali
bre rifle in the front yard of the
father’s home while his mother
and brother, Robert, 22, looked
on.
According to reports John Frank
and Robert had engaged in a fight
or argument earlier in the day and
the father, a former Alleghany
sheriff, had stopped it. John
Frank then went back to his home
and returned about 20 minutes
later with a rifle.
The father reportedly was mov
ing toward his son or was at
tempting to take the gun from
him when -he was shot. Three of
the bullets entered near the heart
and one just above the belt-line
on the left side.
Mr. McMillan died before reach
ing the hospital, the sheriff said.
John Frank, after his arrest
was taken to a hospital in Galax,
Va., for treatment of injuries re
ceived in the affray with his
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ELKIN GIRL IS
TO EXTEND STAY
Phyllis Johnson To Remain In
France Until October
As Camp Nurse
AT COLLEGE CEVENOL
Miss Phyllis Johnson, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Harry L. Johnson,
of this city, who with Miss Mary
Ellen Harrell, also of Elkin, went
to Europe in June to participate
in a work camp for the World
Council of Churches, has notified
her parents that she will remain
for a second period, which ends
in October, due to the lack of a
nurse in the camp to which she
has been assigned.
The camp is located at College
Cevenol, France, and during her
stay there Miss Johnson has dug
ditches, pitched hay, done road
repair work and engaged in other
forms of activity of this nature.
A registered nurse, she has also
assisted with nursing in the camp,
and when it was learned a nurse
was not available for the second
period, she volunteered to stay
over until October as camp nurse.
Miss Harrell, who has been lo
cated in a camp in Italy, is ex
pected to return home the latter
part , of this month.
Worthless Checks
Land Man In Jail
W. R. Mackie of Winston-Salem,
is being held in the Surry County
jail at Dobson on a charge of is
suing worthless checks in Elkin.
Elkin Patrolman W. M. Spar
ger reported that Mackie had
cashed three worthless checks
amounting to $14 at the K and B
Service Station here. He attempted
to cash others, it was said.
Mackie was arrested Saturday
night in Elkin.
Stolen Car Found
In Traphill Area
A car, shorn of its motor, radia
tor and wheels, was recovered
Tuesday by Highway Patrolman
D. J. Caudle assisted by Wilkes
County officers.
The auto, stolen from ,Price
Todd, was found on a creek some
distance from a road between
Traphill and Doughton.
West Yadkin’s
Road Meeting
Set Wednesday
Senior Womans
Club To Be
Organized Here
MRS. ED M. ANDERSON
All women of Elkin who are in
terested in organizing a Senior
Woman’s Club are invited to meet
at the Gilvin Roth YMCA at 8 p.
m. tonight (Thursday) for the
purpose of organizing such a club.
Mrs. Ed M. Anderson of West
Jefferson, president of the North
Carolina Federation of Woman’s
Clubs will meet with the group.
The meeting is being called by
a committee of the Junior Wom
an’s Club composed of Mrs. Hugh
Salmons, vice-president of the
sixth district of the N. C. Federa
tion of Women’s Clubs, Mrs. James
Booher, sponsor of the Junior
Woman’s Club and Mrs. Eugene
Motsinger, Jr., president of the
Junior Woman’s Club.
A move to organize a Senior
Woman’s Club was started whefi
several members of the Junior
Woman’s Club who have been
trained are having to leave the
Junior club because of age limita
tions, and by requests of many
members of the previous Senior
Woman’s Club of Elkin.
Mrs. Anderson will be accom
panied to Elkin by Mrs. J. Henry
Highsmith of Raleigh who is ac
tive in the N. C. Federation of
Women’s Clubs and is chairman of
the Youth Conservation committee
and the chairman of the nominat
ing committee of the Federation.
It is hoped a representative
group of women will be at the
meeting tonight, and they are in
vited to bring their friends and
neighbors. The members of the
Junior Woman’s Club are also in
vited to attend.
YADKIN GIRL
MAKES RECORD
Betty Jean Davis Has Never
Been Absent Or Tardy
From School
GOOD CHURCH WORKER
When Miss Betty Jean Davis
starts in to do a job she does it
well, whether it be education, re
ligion or sports. Miss Davis is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff
Davis of Yadkinville, Route 2, and
is a popular member of the young
er set.
She was a member of the gradu
ating class of Yadkinville high
school last May, which complet
ed 12 years of school work. Dur
ing that time she was never ab
sent from school a single day and
was never tardy at school or
classes. She is one of few stud
ents to hold such a record in Yad
kin county, and along with all
this she made splendid grades all
the time.
Miss Davis is a member of For
bush Baptist church where she
takes a great interest in her
church and Sunday school work.
For the past 13 years she has
not missed a single Sunday school
service at the church. This is also
quite a record for any young girl.
She was an outstanding mem
ber of the basketball team of Yad
kinville high school for four years.
She will be a member of the Hanes
Hosiery Mill team this coming
Fall and Winter.
Statistics for 1948 . show only
two unmistakable cases of lynch
ing.
To Be Held
At Home Of
Miles Shore
The second in a series of meet
ings, designed to acquaint rural
residents of this area with the
Better Roads and Schools, Inc.,
movement, will be held Wednes
day afternoon at the home of
Miles Shores in West Yadkin.
Mark Goforth, highway com
missioner of the Eighth District
will lead a discussion of the road
building program. J. C. Walker,
division engineer, also will appear
on the program. The meeting will
begin at 3 p. m.
• This meeting, as was the recent
Mountain Park meeting will be
sponsored by the Elkin Merchants
Association. Following the speak
ing, watermelons will be served on
the grounds.
Other members scheduled on
the program are Fred Hobson,
superintendent of Yadkin County
schools, who will be master of
ceremonies. Claude Farrell of El
kin, will introduce Mr. Goforth.
James Parks will serve as chair
man of arrangements.
Mr. Farrell urged yesterday that
everyone living in the West Yad
kin area attended the meeting,
especially farmers. He added that
this would be an excellent oppor
tunity for people of the rural sec
tion to let the commissioner and
the engineer know their needs in
the impending road construction
project for North Carolina.
Another meeting scheduled for
Wilkes County farmers, to be held
at Benham, August 21, has been
postponed, it was announced yes
terday by Mr. Goforth. The meet
ing date will be announced later.
ELKIN CLIMBS
IN BLUE RIDGE
Jimmy Jones Pitches Four
Hit Shutout Over League
Leaders Tuesday
BLANKETEERS IN FIFTH
Jimmy Jones, newly-acquired
left-hander for Elkin, hurled a
brilliant four-hit shutout over
league-leading Mount Airy Tues
day night, putting the Blanketeers
10 games behind the Graniteers
and one game up on bottom-place
Radford.
Jones fire-balled his way to an
easy 7-0 victory, fanning 16
Graniteers in the process.
Shorty Brown, Elkin left field
er, smacked a home run in the
third inning with one aboard to
put the Blanketeers in the lead.
He had a perfect two-for-two
night at scoring, tallying three
times.
Elkin routed Sam Crissman for
10 hits and played flawless ball
afield.
The victory put the Blanketeers
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Motor Shovel
Recovered;
Fouls Scramble
The recovery of a motor
shovel and the arrest of the
man who stole it was reported
this week by Highway Patrol
man D. J. Caudle.
Four frying-size chickens
made a getaway, however.
Roland W. Barker, 28, of
Traphill, was arrested in an El
kin poolroom after it had been
reported that a “road grader”
was wrecked and abandoned
near Ronda. Information from
witnesses led to the arrest here.
The motor shovel was stolen
Friday. Patrolman Caudle made
the arrest Saturday morning.
Barker- will be tried on char
ges of auto larceny in the
Wilkes County Superior Court;
Patrolman Caudle reported
that four fryer chickens were
found in the truck, but that
when found the fowls made an
immediate exit from, the cab.
Failing to answer to the com
mand of halt, the chicks were
granted a free getaway by the
patrolman.