ELKIN
The Best little Town In
North Carolina
THE TRIBUNE
Is A Member of the Audit
Bureau of Circulations
The Elkin Tribune
I
ELKIN
Gateway to Roaring Gap and
the Blue Ridge
THE TRIBUNE
Serves the Tri-Counties of
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
VOL. No. XXXVII No. 51
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PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY * ELKIN, N. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1949 _S3.00 PER YEAR IN NORTH CAROLINA
12 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
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Seen Along
The Elk Trail
. . . Glenn Lewis greeting
people at the First Baptist Church,
Sunday.
. . . Shorty Brown entertaining
numerous friends at his Jones
ville apartment.
. . . Betty tSjpe advertising for
room mate now that Ruthie Reich
. is leaving. *
' ... A member of The Tribune
staff walking down Main Street
with a lipstick-besmirched grin.
. . . Jimmy Lillard taking mail
from the Chatham Manufacturing
Company to the post office.
. . . University of North Carolina
football enthusiasts making ready
for trip to New York where their
Tar Heels will play Notre Dame.
. . . Farm folks defying the winds
Saturday as they stood in little
groups chatting on street corners
downtown.
. . . Uncle Frank Miller needling
The Tribune staff with the remark
that since the paper’s coming out
twice weekly, he did not have to
read so much “junk" at one time.
' ... Frantic mother making wild
grab for her small son's coattail
as he leaned far out over the
parapet of the Big Elkin Creek
bridge.
. . . Overheard on Church Street
near Main: "Don't say anything
around that woman . . . it'll come
back like a snowball that's been
rolled down a hill.
^ ... A local young lady buying
a suit of long underwear to keep
her warm under lots of other para
phernalia. For the football game,
she declared.
. . . Anna Jean Holbrook, who
was selected State Citizenship win
ner among 4-H members, deliv
ering lecture to 4-H club group
in Avery County recently.
. . . A. C. (Moe) Fuller firing his
coal furnace in Jonesville with a
wary eye on the dwindling coal
pine. Remarking: “Guess I’ll go
choppin’ wood, soon.”
. . . Member of Tribune staff
running out of gas near Dobson,
walking some distance for fuel
and reporting, 'T il look at the
gauge next time.”
. . . Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Spain
hour and Mrs. Barbara Collie
wrapped for the occasion, taking
turns with field glasses while
watching the Elkm-Boonvillc foot
ball game Friday night.
. . . Dog on Elk Spur Street
running after car and barking vic
iously at wheels. Making hasty re
treat when vehicle came to stop.
Making timid growl from behind
a nearby bush.
. . . Julius Hall trying to get his
son. Bud. and Butchic Eller to
come into the house from play
ground where they were playing
baseball, wearing ear muffs and
mittens.
(Editor's Note: This feature
will be published regularly with
everyone as its author and
everyone as its subject. Contri
butions are solicited by the Elk
Trail editor. They may be sub
mitted either by phone, letter or
in person, hut in all cases the
contributor must also supply his
name. The feature is intended to
present little interesting, amus
ing scenes of Elkin and vicinity
and incidents that are worth
while but not ordinarily large
enough for a news story).
Boy Scout Campaign
Continues To Goal
The Boy Scout fund campaign
continuing toward its goal.
To date, the business districts
of JonesviUe, Elkin, Boonville and
Yadkinville have contributed more
than half of the allocated quota
of the Elkin-Yadkin District.
Only Sparta and the Chatham
Manufacturing Company remain
to be heard from.
EHS Glee Club Is
Guest of Kiwanis
The Elkin high school glee club,
uder the direction of Joe Austell.
•flRtertained the Elkin Kiwanians
at, their meeting at the Gilvin Roth
YMCa last Thimsday evening. The
program of songs was greatly en
joyed.
ELKIN’S GREATEST HOMECOMING — Friday was the day of the most gala homecoming ever spon
sored by students of Elkin High School. There was a parade, a football game and a dance ... all of
which went well for Elkin. In top photo, Jim Crater, co-captain for Friday night’s game with Boon
ville crowns the Homecoming Queen who is his wife, Mrs. Jo Ann Darnell Crater. Frances Crowe,
Bonnie Jane Hall and Carolyn Freeman look on. Middle photos show scenes of the parade. At left
is the second-place winner among the 17 floats. Right is the parade spearhead. Bottom photo shows
the winning float and its crew. (Top and bottom photos by Tribune, middle photos by Bell).
50,000 Miles By Thumb
Brooks X-Roads Native
Stops Here On Travels
Roaming Ralph Pinnix paid El
kin a visit Saturday and brought |
those he saw up to date on his
; hitch-hiking travels of 50,000
; miles.
A native of Brooks Cross Roads,
j Pinnix set out in 1942 to declare
i himself somewhat of a intra-state
j citizen. He traveled with little
money, but says he was employed
; the year around.
In the summers he has been
employed as a cherry picker in
Michigan, and perhaps for the
winter, an orange picker in Flori
da.
Pinnix, who has been featured
in articles of several newspapers!
over the United States, employs his
own type of philosophy which he
says includes, “being nice to
others so that the world will get
along better.”
He reports that he's no stranger
anywhere. Letters have been re-;
ceived by him from Mennin Will- |
iams, governor of Michigan, and ’
Fuller Warren, governor of Flori
da in the past year ... in answer j
| to his protest that “brutal treat
ment is made of people in their
states.”
For some time. Pinnix was a
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To Be Wednesday
The regular road conference for ;
N. C. Highway Department’s Dis
trict Eight will be held Wednes
day morning at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA in regular meeting.
Those interested in the road
program, especially farmers, haVe
been urged to attend.
The meetings are held here on
the second Wednesday of each
mouth under Mark Goforth, high
way commissioner.
Mount Airy Man
Steals Kiss;
Now Under Bond
A 22-year-old Mount Airy
man found last week that steal
ing a kiss is a much more ser
ious offense than he, or most
men. imagined.
Lirine Blizzard was sentenced
in Recorder's Court to 18
months on the roads for kissing
16-year-old Maggie Chandler.
Blizzard, who is married, was
charged with kissing the girl
against her will and holding her
arm in the act.
Found guilty of assault on a
woman, he appealed the ease to
Surry County Superior Court
and was released under $800
bond.
LUTLECHANGE
ON LEAF MART
Eighlh Week of Old licit
Hue-Cured Sales Main
tains Fairly Firm Prices
VOLUME BIT HEAVIER
No significant change occurred
in marketing activities on the Old
Belt flue-cured tobacco markets'
during the eighth week of sales
when compared with the previous
week.
According to the United States,
North Carolina and Virginia De
partments of Agriculture cutters
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TWO VEHICLES
STOLEN HERE
Officers Find Missing Stude*
baker In Chatham Parking
Lot Saturday Night
CAR CRASHES INTO YARD!
Two automobiles were reported
stolen to the Elkin police depart
ment Saturday, but one of them
has already been recovered.
A 1946 Studebaker owned by
Tildon Evans, Route 2, Boonville,
was taken frym the parking lot
across from the State Theatre
between 6 and 8 p. m. Saturday,
but was later found in the park
ing lot of Chatham Manufactur
ing Company.
Officer W. N. Sparger found the
car about an hour after the theft
was reported.
But there is still no trace of the
automobile belonging to David
Brown of Masonic Drive, Elkin,
which was stolen from behind
Spainhour's store sometime Satur
day.
Brown parked his car, a 1948
Plymouth, in the rear of the store
at 8 a. m. and did not return for
it until 5.30 p. m. The keys were
not left in the car.
The police are still working on
the case, but report no clues as yet.
A car driven by its owner, Grov
er Ernest Wagoner, ran off the
road on Highway 21 near Arling
ton Thursday and skidded into
the yard of W R Reece.
Wagoner was driving north to
wards Elkm when he lost control
and the car hit a power pole and
smashed into the yard. All of the
tires except the right rear one
were punctured when the car hit
a stone barrier in the yard.
The automobile was severely
damaged, but the driver escaped
unhurt. Wagoner was charged
with reckless driving.
The first pier at. Atlantic City
was opened in July, 1882, and
destroyed by a storm in Septem
ber that same ytai.
ELKIN COFFEE
DRINKERS ACT
WITH REASON
No Concerted Hushes To Laj
Up Stocks Reported Here
NATION IS ALARMEI
One Grocery Contacted Sayi
Customers As Asking For
Two Or Three Pounds
SITUATION TO LAS'
The coffee situation in Elkin i
still not critical and consumer
are being very sensible about th
whole thing, according to report
from local groceries.
In other sections of the stat
and nation, customers are rush
ing to the stores to lay up supplit
of coffee to ward off the so-calle
shortage. But such cases are th
exception rather than the rule i
Surry County.
There is a’ slight increase i
sales, most of the grocers admi
but only one of the grocers cor
tacted reported a rush of any d<
gree.
With a price increase of fro;
six to ten cents on most brant
of coffee which went into effe
last week, talk immediately star
ed of a severe coffee shortag
The price increase resulted froi
South American crop failures.
Consumers in many parts of tl“
country, fearing higher pries
meant shorter supplies, hurried >
buy as much coffee as they coul
But all of the leading grocer
agree that a shortage will occr
only if people necessitate it V j
such actions.
One leading national chain stce
executive warns that coffee turs
rancid in a short time, whh
makes hoarding of it impracticl.
In the Elkin vicinity, sters
contacted in downtown Elio,
Jonesville, Arlington, and in cou
ty areas.
The reports indicated that tire
is no concerted rush and onl; a
few people have asked for th-e
or four pounds of coffee at ie
time. > . . «
In Winston-Salem, consuius!
are frightened more over thfc t
uation and have been induing
in buying up stocks of coffee
One large retail store man:er
reported that people were bung
twice as much as they nee“d.!
A prominent wholesaler said lat
consumers would probably get;
their shelves overstocked in amt
two weeks and that he expeed
sales to slack off then, hower.!
The shortage, has been expin
ed this way:
Most coffee, or roasting <m
panies, say that they will ave
enough coffee to go aroundbut
they are asking their' custaers j
not to buy any more than or
mally. The so-called shortat is i
not a shortage in terms of ar
time shortages. It merely nans
that this is the first year in aong
time that there is not a surlus
of coffee.
The coffee crop which is am
ing on will relieve the situion
somewhat, but not enoug to
cause another surplus, the om
panies explain. Therefore, this
present situation can be exjeted
for another twelve months.
Council Meeting
Date Is Changed
_
The Elkin city council w not
meet tonight as originally hed
uled, but will meet tomorrownght
at 7:30 at the Town Hall.
The meeting was postponi be
cause several of the membeihavc \
to go out of town tonight.
HELD IN PLOT TO KILL HUSBAND — Being booked in Bremer
ton, Wash., by policeman Rulon Head (left) is Mrs. Margaret
Susan Piatt, 31, mother of two children, who is charged with at
tempted murder. According to the authorities. Mrs. Piatt said she
hired two men to kill her husband, Wilford, because she couldn't
stand any more of his ardent love-making after 15 years of marri
age. The husband immediately began to raise $7,500 to bail her
out. In center is Police Lieutenant John Plouf.
(International Soundphoto)
I
DEER HUNTERS
ARE ARRESTED
Three Brothers Are Caught!
Hunting Out-Of-Season
Near Devotion
BOND IS SET AT $300
—
Three hunters were apprehended
and charged with breaking deer
hunting game laws in Surry
County last week and are out un
der bond.
Robert R. Williams, 23, and W.
H. Williams, 41, both of East Bend,
and B. R. Williams of Florida, all
brothers, were caught near Devo- !
tion hunting out-of-season and
using an automobile and flash
light, All three of these are viola
tions of the game laws.
Each of the brothers was re
loaped under $300 bond, but. the
car was held under $1700 bond.
The arrest was made by Game
Warden William White of Mount
Airy and Stokes County Game
Protector George Barr.
According to Warden White, the
three brothers were riding back
and forth along the road using a
flash light to search for the deer.
When arrested the officers found
the men in possession of an auto
matic shot gun.
Warden White said that an in
jured deer was found Wednesday
afternoon near the place where
the three men were hunting.
However, the deer was inside the
Reynolds farm.
Warden White warned hunters
that hunting deer is a serious 1
offense and that violators will be
prosecuted to the full extent of
the law.
Sam Neaves Selected
N. C. Angus Delegate ,
- ,
North Carolina breeders of reg- <
istered Aberdeen-Angus cattle i
have elected Sam Neaves of El
kin as a delegate to the annual ]
convention of the American Aber- ]
deen-Angus Breeders’ Association
to be held at the Palmer House i
in Chicago on November 30.
Mr. Neaves is one of the three I
delegates named to represent 1
North Carolina's Angus breeders ]
at the national meeting where 213
delegates from the United States
and Canada will assemble. i
Sale of Poppies
To He Made Here
Friday, Saturday
Poppies will be sold here Fri
ay and Saturday.
The Elkin Veterans of For
eign Wars auxiliary will begin
Armistice Day (Friday), and
will continue street sales
through Saturday.
Proceeds from the sales will
go to the fund for disabled vet
erans.
Mrs. M a u r i c c Bumgarner,
president of the. auxiliary, will
make a talk over Radio Station
W-IFM at 7:45 p. m., Wednesday
in connection with the sale.
US 421 GROUP
TO BE FORMED
Representatives of Towns In
North Carolina and Three
Other States To Meet
FOR “LAKES - TO - COAST”
Representatives of towns in
North Carolina and three other
States will meet Thursday at Bris
tol, Tenn.-Va., to form the U. S.
Highway 421 Association for the
promotion of the highway as a
'Great Lakes to Coast" road.
Highway 421 now extends from
^ort Fisher (N. C.) on the Atlan
ic coast westward through North
Carolina, the eastern tip of Ten
lessee, southwest Virginia, and
Kentucky to Madison, Ind.
Objectives of the association
vill include: establishment of 421
us ‘a Lakes'-to-Coast highway;
■ompletion of the marking of the
lighway from Madison, Ind., to
Chicago, 111., renovation of all
iarts of the road not now in good
■ondition; and promotion of tour
st travel over the highway.
Invitations to the organizational
neeting have been extended by the
3ristol Chamber of Commerce to
owns in North Carolina, Ten*
lessee, Virginia, and Kentucky.
Governor William Tuck of Vir
;inia and Governor Gordon
3rowning of Tennessee are ex*
lected to attend.
Paper is thought to have been
nventcd in China about 105 A.D.
Soviet’s No. 3 Mail Says War
Would Dig Capitalism’s Grave
George M. Malenkov, arising
star in Soviet inner irdes,
threatened yesterday that new
world war "blood bath" w«.d dig
the grave of capitalism.
From Moscow, the Asciatcd
Press reported Malenkov t say
ing that Russia, though $1 "pos
sesses the atomic weapor docs
not want war and is doingcvery
thing to prevent it."
But the United States, hwarti
ed, has plans for a "worlcvmeri
can empire," which d»f the
shemes of German and *panesc
aggressors together.
Malenkov, who appeart jgnifi
cantly at the immediate 1*, hand
of Prime Minister Stalin i offi
cial photographs of the litburo,
spoke amid the brilliant r velvet
and gilt of the Bolshoi TUtre at
the celebration on the 0f the
23rd anniversary of thd#|shevist
revolution.
As official orator occa
Among his 2,000 audios w
U. S. Ambassador Alan CKirk.
k
sion, he succeeded V. M. Molotov,
former foreign minister, who de
! livered the addresses in 1948 and
' 1947. Molotov, who appeared at
: the right hand of Stalin in offi
! cial Politburo pictures, was suc
! ceeded as foreign minister by An
drei Vishinsky last March?
Molotov was present to hear the
speech and he looked in fine
health and spirits. Other high
ranking Soviet leaders on the
platform included Politburo Mem
bers L. M. Kaganovich, K. E. Voro
i shilov, L. P. Beria, N. A. Bulganin,
A. N. Kosygin, A: A. Andreyev, and
N. M.Shvernik.
(The order in the anniversary
pictures suggested that Malenkov,
at the left hand of Stalin, has re
placed L. P. Beria as No. 3 man
in Russia. Beria had that posi
tion in the May Day pictures this
year. Andrei Zhdanov, whose
death in August, 1948. appears to
have cleared the way for the rise
of Malenkov, delivered the anni
versary oration in 1946. Beria for
i
merly was head of the secret po
lice, but lately has been reported
in charge of Russia’s atomic dev
elopment program).
An order of the day dated Mon
day from Marshal Alexander Vasi
levsky, minister of the armed
forces, declared that Russia fights
for peace but that the Soviet
armed forces "must not forget the
tasks confronting them.”
Vasilevsky called for an artillery
I salute of 20 salvoes for Moscow
and other Soviet cities today to
! usher in the Actual anniversary
j day. i
i He said that Russia's army, air
force, and navy had increased
! their political and military know
ledge in Summer maneuvers and
the three branches of the service
“must continue to perfect their
military and political training.”
Malenkov, who is one of the
best orators in the U. S. S. R.,
spoke in a clear, firm voice in dc
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GOOD NEIGHBOR
TEST GIVEN TO
ELKIN FARMERS
--
CROP Week Observed By En
tire State, Nov. 6-13
FOODSTUFFS SOLICITED
Goal For Rural Collectors In
State Is Set At 150
Railroad Carloads
ALL GIFTS GO OVERSEAS
Elkin and North Carolina farm
ers get an authentic good neigh
bor test this week as the state
observes CROP Week, a time for
sending home-grown food and
farm products to the needy in
Europe.
The Christian Rural Overseas
Project—CROP—is a nation-wide
program through which farmers
can contribute their farm products
for shipment to people abroad.
It piovides, as does no other re
lief agency, a chance for rural
people in this section to make a
contribution in the manner for
which they are best prepared.
And this is the time for Tar
Heels to give. The North Carolina
quota for this drive has been set
at 10 carloads of farm commodi
! ties—commodities which will be
| used to relieve suffering and dis
! tress overseas.
Last year, the state gave but
55 carloads or a total of 1,458,813
pounds of foodstuffs. All of that
came to an estimated value of
$98,170.69.
But this year, the goal has been
almost tripled by the state com
mittee. Cotton, grain, dairy pro
ducts, and peanuts are needed as
well as soybeans, livestock, dried
fruits, nuts and wool. All of these
are grown by North Carolina far
mers.
Yesterday was CROP Sunday
and churches all over the stato
joined in prayer service to launch
a week of canvassing gifts for the
progam.
The donations from farmers in
this area will be shipped along
with those of farmers throughout
the nation to Europe and Asia
with the U. S. State Department
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FARM BUREAU’S
AIM IS 80,000
I Slate President Declares Tar
Heel Farmers Will Go
•Over The Top’
_
IP. N. TAYLOR SPEAKS
A. C. Edwards, Hookcrton, pres
ident of the North Carolina Farm
Bureau, has declared that Tar
Heel farmers will “continue to
strengthen their position by seeing
that each county goes over the
top’’ in the current state-wide
drive for 80,000 members.
The NSFB president told some
' 50 campaign leaders and members
! of the Board of Directors at a
meeting in Raleigh Wednesday,
that "the time is short to finish
! the drive successfully.” He remind
1 ed them that county Farm Bureau
I membership totals for the drive
| must be in the State Farm Bureau
: office at Greensboro before Nov
! ember 30.
Edwards said the only way far
mers can hope to keep the gains
they have made is through strong,
sound organizations. He urged
everyone present to return to
their counties and communities
i and work hard to make sure their
j individual Farm Bureau unit
membership quotas are met well
ahead of November 30.
Others who spoke included
I Vice-President P. N. Taylor, of
White Plains; R. Flake Shaw,
Greensboro, executive vice-presi
dent and secretary; the various
District Chairmen for the cam
paign, and John I. Eagles, Hook
erton; Walter G. Lowry, Pine
ville, and George G. Farthing, of
Asheville, Field Representatives for
the State Farm Bureau.
Cullom To Deliver
Lectures This Week
Dr. W R Cullom, professor
cmiritus of Bible, Wake F’orest
College, will deliver a series of lec
tures at t he First Baptist Church
this week Service will be held
each evening at. 7:30 o’clock, to
night through Friday.
Dr. Cullom was professor of
Bible at Wake Forest for over 40
years and was head of the Depart
ment of Religion for most of that
time. He has been active since re
tiring from his duties at the
college.
The Rev. Howard Ford, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, has
extended a cordial invitalion to
visitors from other churches to
attend these services.
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