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ELKIN The Best Little Town In North Carolina THE TRIBUNE Is A Member of the Andit Bureau of Circulations The Elkin Tribune ELKIN Gateway to Roarinr Gap and the Blue Rldfe THE TRIBUNE Serves the Tri-Counties of Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin VOL. No. XXXVII No. 45 PUBLISHED WEEKLY ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6,1949 $2.00 PER YEAR 20 PAGES—THREE SECTIONS * MONDAY IS SET AS7TH ANNUAL KLONDIKE SALE ■4More Than >500 Guernsey Cattle Breeders Expected SALE OPENS AT 12:30 Features Blood Of Lang water Foremost; Expect 38 Animals To Enter YEARLY AVERAGE GIVEN Klondike Farm .will be host Monday to more than 500 Guern sey cattle breeders from eight states at the seventh consecutive annual Klondike Sale. Thirty-eight animals are ex pected to ,go on the block to be auctioned to the leading breeders in the South and East. The sale ISC sponsored' by Klondike Farm, featuring the blood of Langwater Foremost—an animal whose blood has been followed at Klondike for more than 30 years. The sale will get underway at 12:30 p. m.', with Mort Granger of Thompsonville, Conn., as auc tioneer. George B. Salley of the Salley Sales Service, Orangeburg, S. C., will manage and operate the sale. , T. F. Cooley, manager of Klon dike, explained yesterday that breeders who have the Langwater Foremost breeding would be allow ed to consign animals in this sale, but the animals must be approved by the selection committee for both type and production. The herd i£rom which the animal comes must be funy accredited and di sease free, Mr. Cooley emphasiz ed. Since 1943, when Klondike's sales became an annual affair, an average of 40 head of cattle has been put on the block at each sale. Last Tear, McDonald Farms llamae sold at a top price of $5,500. Average per animal of Klondike sales has been as follows: 1943— 1 $1019.45; 1944 --$1076.97; 1945— $1063.67; 1946— $1152.57; 1947— $1133.33; 1948 $1240.62. Mr. Cooley emphasized that Klondike sales are sponsored pure ly for exchange of animals of bleeding value. Interested breeders from North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes see, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Isiand and Vermont ^ire expected to attend and enter animals'iu the sale. SCOUT DRIVE OPENS MONDAY Funds For (»ir 1 Scouting In Elkin Will Continue Through Friday MRS. I*\MS IN CHARGE A drive for funds to finance Girl Scouting fn Elkin and vicinity will begin ^ Monday and continue through Friday, according to an announcement made this week. Mrs. Hubert Parker will be chairman of the campaign in Elk in and Mrs. C. L. (Tat) Davis will be in charge of the drive in Jonesville. » The Girl Scouts program has been expanded considerably over previous years. This year there will be five troops which will consist of two Brownie Troops for girls be tween the ages of seven and nine; two intermediate Girl Scout troops for the girls between the ages of 10 to 15 years; and one Senior “ Girl Scout' Troop designed for girls of High School age. Girls from Elkin and Jonesville have been invited to attend. Girls interested in scouting and their mothers met at the Gilvin Roth YMCA Monday afternoon for an organizational meeting. At that time troop committees were form ed. The meeting places and times for troop meetings will be announ ced at a later date. ^ Breeding Group Plans Statesville Meeting A meeting of the Southeastern Artificial Breeding Association’s Policy Committee will be held Tuesday at 11 a. m. in Statesville’s Town Hall, it was announced this week. A representative of the Surry County Artificial Breeding Asso ciation at Dobson will meet with the group to help formulate mat ters of policy and to vote upon them. ft Invited guests will include I. O Schaub, director of extension at North Carolina State College; Dr D. W. Colvard; Professor J. A Arey and Professor John Browr of the Dairy Extension Depart ment, all of Raleigh. Freedom Goes... ... Where Your Newspaper Goes This is newspaper week ... in Elkin and the nation over. To some persons, newspaper week may be passed with out much thought . . . without regard other than a remark or two that the newspaper is blowing its own horn. But to the real reader, newspaper week will mean some thing more: the observance of freedom of thought among the several liberties that it embraces. In turn, the freedom (Continued On Page Four) I CHATHAM ISON EUROPEAN TRIP — Sails From New« York To Make Three-Weeks Study Of ECA Effectiveness RUBICOFF ACCOMPANIES Representatives Thurmond Chatham of Elkin and Abraham ; A. Rubincoff of Connecticut sailed from New York Friday to make a special three-weeks study of the j effectiveness of the Economic Co | operation Administration and the , military assistance programs in Western Europe. They will report to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, of j which both are members. Mr. Chatham said Wednesday ! that they will visit the Nether lands, Belgium, France, the United ' Kingdom and Germany, j One of their early conferences I will be held with Robert M. Hanes, i Winston-Salem banker and busi i ness executive on leave and serv ! ing as head of the ECA program j in Germany. “Both of us supported the ECA | and the military assistance pro | grams,” Chatham said, "but the ' chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee has asked us to observe j the workings and general plans of I these programs and report back to him. “While I have supported ap propriations for the full amount asked by the ECA, I have always felt that there were probably cer tain economies that could be made in this program. That is something I want to look Into." ! While in the United Kingdom, Chatham said, he will confer with Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of - the Exchanquer, regarding the ad visability of reducing Britain’s drastic import duties on U. S. to bacco. "I believe that they can help themselves enormously and help U. S. leaf growers, too, by cutting their import duty off tfcbacco. which runs to something like $11 on a single pound of leaf,” Chat ; ham said. "And besides, our Gov I ernment is in the process of work ing out a number of reciprocal trade agreements with the United Kingdom. There is no reason why tobacco farmers should not bene fit from these agreements. I’ll certainly work on it.” Alleghany Man Gets Long Term John Frank McMillan, 35, was sentenced in Alleghany County Superior Court Tuesday to 17 to 21 years in prison for the August 5 slaying of his father, former Sheriff Bruce McMillan. Judge Hoyle Sink pronounced sentence after McMillan had en tered a plea of guilty to second degree murder with the provision that the judge hear the evidence and decide whether it should be second degree murder or man slaughter. Judge Sink decided it should be second degree.. Three witnesses were heard by Judge Sink. They included the defendant, his brother, Robert, 23, and his mother, Mrs. Maude Mc Millan. HONORED — Dr. J. S. Hiatt, I above, general superintendent of Hugh Chatham Memorial Hos pital, has been named by the In ternational Methodist Historical Society and the editorial board of ‘‘Who’s Who in America” and the Marquis reference works to j appear in ‘‘Who’s Who In Meth odism,” a biographical reference I work international in scope. Dr. Hiatt was chosen for this honor for outstanding services to his church and country. FASHION SHOW TO BE TONIGHT Elkin Junior Woman’s Club Sponsors Annual Affair In Gilvin Roth YMCA FEATURES FALL STYLES Elkin Junior Woman’s Club will stage its annual Fashion Show to night (Thursday) aat 8 p. m. in the auditorium of the Gilvin Roth YMCA. Entertainment will be furnished during the evening by Miss Joyce Cochrane and Miss Sandra Greg ory, soloists. The Intermediate and Brownie Scout troops, under the direction of Mrs. Seymour (Continued On Page Eight) Mountain Park Community Fair Set For Tomorrow; First In 15 Years Mountain Park will open its first community fair in 15 years tomorrow (Friday) at the Moun tain Park School gymnasium. The event will open with the judging of exhibits at 10 a. m.. and at 12 noon until 3 o’clock the fair will be open to school children. At 2:30, Copeland and Mountain Park High School baseball teams will play to the free admission of visitors. Then, at 6 p. m., the exhibit hall will be thrown open to the public as well as added attrac tions. The fair will remain in progress until 10 p. m. There will be no admission charge. Features of the day include a baby contest, hog calling contest, livestock exhibits, string music, field crop exhibits, live-at-home exhibits and exhibits for young people and school children. Jim Dan Hemmings, vocational agriculture teacher and director of the event, said that all live stock exhibits should be in the exhibit hall by Thursday after noon. Livestock should be in place and ready to judge by 9 a. m., Fri day. Livestock exhibits will be held from 12 noon to 5 p. m. The string music will be fur nished by Ralph Hanes and his Ramblers. Side features will in clude bingo games, baseball throw, baby contests and hog calling con tests. Pop corn, cold drinks and hot dogs will be sold. As the exhibits will be shown in the gymnasium, the event will be held even in the event of bad weather. Farmers, producers of farm crops, F.F.A. members, 4-H club members, Veteran farmer trainees, Home Demonstration club mem bers, Future Homemakers and any interested persons of the Moun tain Park School district will be welcomed to the exhibit, Mr. Hem mings said. Judges will be Mrs. Grace P. Brown, Miss Leslie Johnson, E. N. Meekins, Hubert Willis, D. A. Hal sey, James R. Welborn, Jr„ and Clarence L. Warren. The following committees were named to work with Mr. Hem mings: Live-at-Home exhibits: Don Cochrane, Sr„ Mrs. Folger Cocker ham and Alvin Dockery. Educa tional exhibits: Paul Melton, R. E. Snow and Tom Lewis. Field J. Crop exhibits: Neill J. Cocker ham, C. H. Swift, Pat Nixon and Avery Cockerham. Dairy Cattle exhibits: J. K. Thompson, P. E. Burch, Fred Blackburn and Ray mond Norman. Home Demonstra tion Club exhibits: Mrs. Clint Say lor, Mrs. Joe Norman, Mrs. J. D. Hemmings and Mrs. R. E. Snow. Boy Scout exhibits: Claude Harris, Harold Lewis, Clifton Nix on and Kemp Lewis. Building and Concessions committee: R. J. Atkins, Kent Haynes and H. G. Thompson. Soil Conservation ex hibits: Kermit White, Edgar Car ter and Robert Owens. Poultry exhibits: R. Q. Holder, Ray Nor man, John Nixon and E. B. Thompson and Swine exhibits: Clyde Moore, Sampy Wall, Vance Thompson and Wade Calloway'. 1 YADKIN COUNTY GUERNSEY SALE OPENS AT NOON Twenty-Three Animals En tered In Yadkinville Event CONSIGNER LIST GIVEN Yadkin Guernsey Breeders Association To Sponsor Their First Sale GUERNSEY MEN INVITED The first Yadkin County Guern say Breeders Association sale will open today in Yadkinville. The event wall get underway at 12:30 p. m. at the school bus gar age in Yadkinville. Twenty-three animals have been selected and consigned from breeders in Yad kin County. D. D. Williamson, Yadkin Coun ty farm agent, said this wreek that all persons interested in purchas ing good bred high quality Guern seys is invited to attend the sale and bid on the animals. Five of the animals are open heifers; four of the cows will be fresh just before sale date and 14 of the heifers will freshen dur ing October, November and De cember. Ward Snarr, Siler City, will be auctioneer and R. A. McLaughlin, manager of Mageo Farms, Lex ington, will read pedigrees. All animals are fully negative and will be sold and guaranteed to be breeders, Mr. Williamson de clared. Consigners include J. R. Allred, Allan Brooks, R. D. Campbell, H. W. Doub, Lucy Bell Matthews, Lester Miller, S. G. Miller, Lee Pinnix, Foy Reece, Wilson Reece, Ella Mae Shore. M. F. Shore, T. D. Smitherman, Henry Sofley and J. A. Williams. JAYCEESBACK SPECIAL WEEK Fire Prevention To Be Publi cized Here During Week Of October 9-15 RAY COLLIE CHAIRMAN Elkin will observe National Fire Prevention Week October 9-15, with the Elkin Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsoring observance here under the direction of Ray Collie as chairman. The Jaycees are urging every citizen to cooperate in the event and do all in their power to pre vent fires, both now and in the future. Mr. Collie has pointed out that special attention should be paid to stores, homes and other buildings with an eye to removing hazards which could result in a costly, disastrous blaze. “Too many of us,’’ the Jaycee (Continued On Page Eight) White Cane Sale Nets $200 Here Approximately $200 was raised in Elkin for the White Cane Drive for the blind, according to an an nouncement made by Clyde Car roll, chairman of the drive, at the Lion’s Club meeting Monday eve ning at the Gilvin Roth YMCA. Five new members. Dr. Lin Fin cannon, Brannon Daye, Russell Transou, Vance Byrd and W. L. Elmore were inducted into the club by Claude Farrell, chairman of the education committee. Following the dinner, a movie, “Navy Airmen” was shown. Dr. L. D. Pruette was a visitor at the meeting. Seventh Annual Fat Stock Show, Sale Opens Tuesday SPEARHEAD ANNUAL SHOW AND SALE — Fred York, left, Neill M. Smith, center, and Col. Harry Hamilton, Jr., right, will lead activities of the seventh annual Elkin Fat Stock Show and Sale to be held here Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr York, who is chairman of the Jaycee work in the show, will serve as co-manager with Mr. Smith, Surry County Agent. Colonel Hamilton will be auctioneer for the event. YOUTH CHOIR PLANS MAPPED Object of Jonesville, Elkin Group To Present Program Of Christmas Music OFFICERS ARE LISTED Plans to organize a youth choir, ! composed of young people from I Elkin and Jonesville, to present a program of familiar Christmas : music, were made Monday evening j at the bi-monthly meeting of the | Inter - Denominational Youth j Council which met at the Presby- ' | terian Church. The musical program will be en titled “Joy To The World” and is to be a project entirely for the j youth of the two communities. It ! will be written, conducted and presented by the young people. The Elkin High School will also parti cipate in the yuletide event. The program will be broadcast over ra dio station WIFM. Mrs. Owen Gwyn was elected publicity chairman for the group’s project; Carolyn Freeman, music chairman and the choir commit tee will be composed of Doris Long, Edna Reynolds and Virgin | ia Blackburn. At the meeting Monday evening, i the devotional service was con ducted by Gwen Dickson, presi j dent. A poem, "Youth” was read by Doris Long, delegate from the ! Jonesville Methodist Church. Kiwanians To Elect Officers For 1950 Election of officers for 1950 will feature this evening’s meeting (Thursday), of the Elkin Kiwanis Club. The meeting will be held at the Gilvin Roth YMCA and will begin at 6:30 o’clock. A very interesting and enter taining program was presented at last Thursday’s meeting of the club by Mrs. Joy Miller Kirchner and members of the Varsouviana Club from ASTC at Boone. Mrs. Kirchner made a very excellent talk on folk dancing and the danc ers were perfect in fiancing tech nique. Chintz is a cotton cloth gaily painted with designs of flowers, etc. Sleepwalker Breaks Back, Both Feet Sleep walking proved near fatal for John Wesley Bryan, a prominent citizen of the Trap hill community. Mr. Bryan is a patient at the Wilkes Hospital this week-end, receiving treatment for a brok en back and both feet broken. Last week he took a stroll while asleep. He walked from his bed through a second story window and landed on the lawn. He told his wife he was dreaming that he was going through the front door and that someone was pushing him. It was the first time in his life that he had ever been known to walk while asleep. COURT ENTERS FINAL SESSION Most of 139 Cases On Docket Disposed of By Monday At Dobson UNDER JUDGE CLEMENT Surry County Superior Court entered its final week of session Monday, with most of its 139 cases disposed. Sentences were handed down as follows from last Tuesday through Monday: Amos Potts, reckless driving and improper license, operating car intoxicated: not guilty in each ease. Granville Glenn, assault with deadly weapon: four years county jail. Homer Hawks, violation of pro hibition laws: costs. John Richard Meredith, viola tion of prohibition laws: four months. Dewey Marshall, violation of prohibition law: not guilty. Hubert Payne, operating car in toxicated: not guilty. Willis S. Stewart, reckless driv ing: prayer for judgment contin (Continued On Page Eight) YADKIN MAN SHOOTS SELF A. C. Wood, 28, Dies of Self Inflicted Gunshot Wound Friday Afternoon FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY Alvin C. Wood, 28, died Friday afternoon at the home of Rob Cieed, near Smithtown, East Bend Route 1, as the result of a shot gun blast just under the heart, fired by his own hand, according to a verdict reached by Coroner Jake Brown and county officers who investigated. He used a 12 gauge single barrel shotgun, and pulled the trigger with a small heel of a lady’s slipper. Wood, who lived at Fairview, just north of Crutchfield, had been visiting at the Creed home a few days, since returning from Canada where he went to help cure the tobacco crop. Officers here stated he had apparently been drinking several days. While in a room of the Creed home he told his wife he was go ing to kill himself, and she ran for help. While she was out she heard the gun and found him dead on the floor. He was married to Miss Verna Sizemore, a daugh ter of Rev. Harley Sizemore of that section. Survivors include the widow; his mother, Mrs. J. R. Wood of Dob son; two brothers, Howard of Dob son and Omer of Winston-Salem, and one sister, Mrs. Paul Smith erman of East Bend. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at Fairview Baptist Church with Rev. T. S. Draughan in charge, and burial was in the church cemetery. TREE SEEDLINGS TO BE DONATED 15,000 Plants To Be Distribut ed To 4-H Club Members And F.F.A. Boys FOR MEMBERS OF SURRY Surry County will get about 15, 000 tree seedlings to be distributed to 4-H Club members and F.F.A. boys, it was announced this week by County Agent Neill M. Smith. Mr. Smith explained that the North Carolina Pulp Company of Plymouth and the Champion Paper and Fibre Company of Can ton have made available 1,500,000 tree seedlings to be distributed to members over North Carolina. He pointed out that the distribution was being made with an eye to ward the possible future shortage of timber products and increasing demand for them. It is important that applica tions be filled out with either the county agent or one of his assist ants in case of 4-H members, F.F.A. members should file appli cations with agriculture teachers. Walter R. Parham, assistant county agent in forestry, explain ed yesterday that Surry County will need more seedlings than are now being offered. However, in dustries in Elkin and Mount Airy have come to the rescue on this anticipated shortage, agreeing to provide further funds to buy seed lings for the club members. 62 Animals Expected For Event The seventh annual Elkin Pat Stock Show and Sale will be held at Elkin Memorial Park Tuesday and Wednesday under the spon sorship of the Elkin Junior Cham ber of Commerce. Sixty-two animals will be en tered into the show which will take place Tuesday morning and Tuesday afternoon. The show will be introduced when Richard Atkinson, mayor of Elkin, will deliver an address of welcome to exhibitors and visitors. Recognitions and introductions by County Agent Neill M. Smith will follow. Garland Johnson, chairman of the Elkin Agricultural Council and vice-president of the Bank of Elk in, will officially open the show immediately afterward. Weighing and entering the steers in the show will begin Monday at 10 a. m., and between 4 p. m. and 7 p. m., exhibitors will be placed in homes of Elkin and vicinity. Tuesday’s judging demonstra tion will be conducted by L. I. Case, in charge o Animal Hus bandry Extension, N. C. State Col lege. Roger W. Murdoch and How ard M. Stamey, county agent and assistant county agent of Iredell County, will be judges. Hugh Chatham, vice-president of Chatham Manufacturing Com pany, will open the sale Wednes day at 10 a. m. Introductions and recognitions by Fred York, chair man of the event, will follow. Bill Stevenson, president of the Jaycees will introduce Mr. Chat ham, Mr. York and sale officials. Col. Harry Hamilton, Jr., of Boone, will be auctioneer. Exhibitors of the fat stock show, who will come from several coun ties, will be honored with a ban quet by the Jaycees at 6 p. m. Animals in upper grades will be placed individually by the judge and the first and second will auto matically be awarded the Grand and Reserve Championship rib bons. Prizes will also be awarded for showmanship. CHATHAM FAIR BICJOCCESS Annual Event Ends Friday Following One of Best Ex hibitions In Its History PRIZES ARE AWARDED The ninth annual Chatham Fair ended in a hubbub of enter tainment and bristling activity Friday night with one of the best exhibits in the fair’s history. Climaxing the two-day activi ties was an exhibition of both square dancing and folk dancing by the Varsouvianna Club of Ap palachian State Teachers College. This was followed by a general square dance for everyone. In the exhibit hall, Mrs. Free Pardue collected the most first prizes of any entrant and was awarded the “sweepstakes” prize. Grand prizes were awarded to Mrs. Pardue for canning, Evelyn How ard for cooking, Mrs. Burrus Adam3 for farm and gardening, Maurice Gordon for handiwork and Ruth Haynes for house furn ishings. Departmental winners will be printed in the next issue of The Tribune. Rites Held For Eugene B. Sydnor Funeral service for Eugene B. Sydnor, 80, was conducted Friday at 2 p. m. at the First Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. Mr. Syd nor was president of the Richmond Dry Goods Company. Mr. Sydnor was an uncle of Eugene S. Spainhour of this city. He is survived by his wife, a son, two daughters, two sisters and two grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Spainhour attend ed the funeral Friday. Sydnor Spainhour Department store of this city closed from 2 until 3 o’clock in respect to Mr. Sydnor. . The number of registered voters in New York in 1948 was 7,043,575.