ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Carolina
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ELKIN
Gateway to Roaring Gap and
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VOL. No. XXXVII No. 52
PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ELKIN, N. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1949
$3.00 PER YEAR IN NORTH CAROLINA
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Seen Along...
vIlFr . ,
The Elk Trail
. . . Edna Dillon riding up Ce
dar Street in a two-horse wagon.
. . . Clay Watts, announcer from
Radio Station WIFM, leaving for
new position with Radio Station
WTYC in Rock, S. C.
. . . Doc Abernethy gazing wist
fully at a 1950 Cadillac parked on
\ Main Street Wednesday afternoon.
* ... Franklin Tobin of Quincy,
Mass, flying to North Carolina
to visit friends in Joncsville, say
ing he missed possible death from
a recent air disaster by suddenly
changing his mind and taking the
afternoon flight from Washington
instead of the morning flight.
. . . Passerby peeking into baby
carriage at squalling infant as
mother hurries from door of near
by store with armful of packares
and worried look.
. . . Noah C. Chappell, local
watch repairman, bragging to
friends about ripe strawberries
plucked from his patch—in Nov
ember.
. . . And Dr. M. O. Fox display
, ing twig of apple tree that bears
^Apples and blossoms, in November
▼still.
. . . Several men stopping in
front of store with Pictorial News
of Day feature in window. The
object—a couple of comely lasses
pictured.
. . . Students hitch-hiking west
ward out Main Street, headed tow
ard the high school.
. . . Man energetically picking
, teeth, leaving local eating place,
k ... Charles Utley relating his
past experiences in automobile
trading which he declares have
been unkind to him at least 25
times.
. . . Ward Adams doing a modern
strip tease in fashion show Tues
day night.
. . . Car owners forced to use
windshield wipers these early
mornings to erase dew.
. . . The Rev. George Farah
working in Pilgrim Church yard
yesterday.
. . . Elkin business man coining
out of down-town store with wild
west magazines. The gaudy covers
torn off to conceal his purchase.
. . . Lady making dash across
Main Street and to the bank door
only to find it closed.
. . . Clerks peering from store
window at beautiful afternoon
skies this week. Sighing, “What
a day for golf."
. . . Big Elkin Creek running
almost clear in the absence of
rainfall recently.
. . . Lady dropping milk bottle,
on Market Street. Grimacing as
glass bounces over sidewalk.
Jaycees V ote Favor
For Hoover Report
The Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce passed a resolution fav
oring the support of the Hoover
Commission's report at their reg
ular meeting Monday night.
The project is part of the Jay
cees' participation nationally. No
tice of the adoption of the reso
lution has been sent to State
headuarters.
Elkin, Jonesville
Plan Unit Services
U
Churches of Elkin and Jonesville
will hold community services
Thanksgiving Day.
Services will open at f) a. m.. at
the First Baptist Church in Elkin,
and at a place to be announced
later for Jonesville.
t
Tile nickname for Texas Chris
tian University varsity athletic
teams is Horned Frogs, and the
freshman squads are called Polli
wogs.
Payne To Carry
Elkin-Dobson
Star Route
The newly-planned Elkin
Dobson star route will begin
operating Wednesday with G.
H. Payne of Elkin carrying the
mail.
Bids were closed October 27
for the route, Roscoe Poplin,
assistant postmaster announ
ced.
Mail will leave Elkin between
2 and 3 p. in., and be in Dobson
in‘45 minutes. Mail will leave
Dobson at 4:30 p. m. and will
be in Elkin at 5:15 p. m.
PRESIDENT, SECRETARY — pictured at the National Airport in
Washington, President Truman shakes hands with Secretary of
, State Dean Aeheson shortly before the latter boarded a plane for
Paris where he will hold conferences with the British and French
Foreign Ministers. (International Soundphoto)
At Recorder’s Court
Assault Cases Feature
Trials Here Yesterday
MOTHER AT 14 — Fourteen
year-old Mrs. Henry Dockery
proudly displays her week-old
daughter, Patricia Ann, in Pis
gah Hospital at Asheville. Her.
husband, 20, is an electrician’s
helper. The family lives at
Mountain Home near Asheville.
(AP Photo)
COFFEE STATUS
ISN’T CRITICAL
U. S. Department of Agricul
ture Issues Statement Re
assuring Consumers
PLENTY TO 00 AROUND
More light was shed on how
much coffee Elkin citizens may be
| drinking this year by the U. S.
Agriculture Department yesterday.
There is no acute shortage of
the bean so precious to American
coffee drinkers and there should
be enough for all. the department
declared in a press release.
Taking note of the hastening of
some consumers to lay up stocks
of coffee because of the so-called
coming shortage, the department
took a hand in the situation and
attempted to put the true facts
before the American people.
“Current stocks in the United
States, together with supplies
available in producing aieas.
should prevent acute shortages at
consumer outlets in the immediate
future,” the depcartmcnt declared,
“The supplies for the next sev
eral years—though short and like
ly relatively high priced—should
be fairly close to requirements,’
the department continued.
The department said at present
there are inadequate supplies to
meet world demands at current
consumption levels. This deficit
was said to reflect largely (1) a
short Brazilian crop coupled with
depletion of stocks accumulated
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ft lee Club Is Formed
At Elementary School
A glee club, composed of 4C
voices, has been organized at the
North Elkin Elementary School
under the direction of Mrs. Gwyr
Franklin.
Officers were elected yesterday
as follows: Clara Bell Tucker
president: Charles Walters, vice
president: Harold Walters, secre
tary and Billy Bruce, treasurer.
Assault cases featured the 25
tried at yesterday's session of Re
corder’s Court here.
Dispensations of the cases are
as follows:
Willis Augustus Phillips, no
driver's license, $25 and costs.
John Parsons, immorality, nol
pros.
Mrs. George Musgrove, immor
ality, nol pros.
Hoyle E. Billings, operating mo
tor vehicle intoxicated, four
months sentence on road suspend
ed on payment of $100 and costs.
Case appealed to Superior Court.
Hoyle E. Billings, no driver’s li
cense, $25 and costs, case appealed
to Superior Court.
DeWitt White, operating motor
vehicle intoxicated, $100 and
costs.
DeWitt White, no driver's li
cense, $25 and costs.
DeWitt White, public drunken
ness, costs.
Junior R. Stanley, no driver's
license, $25 and costs.
Harley Beulin, assault on female,
six months on road, sentence sus
pended on condition defendant
stay sober for two years, costs.
Harley Beulin, public drunken
ness, sentence suspended, costs.
Bert A. McIntyre, larceny, four
months sentence on road, sentence
suspended on payment of $50 and
costs.
Jack Pruitt, larceny, four
months sentence on road suspend
ed on payment of $50 and costs.
Maik M. McIntyre, larceny, four
months on road, sentence suspend
ed on payment of $50 and costs.
Luther Howard Thompson, pub
lic drunkenness, costs.
Luther Howard Thompson, car
rying concealed weapon, four
months on road, sentence, sus
pended on payment of $50 and
condition defendant not indulge in
nor drink intoxicating beverages
for 12 months.
Marshall Soots, possession of
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OFF-YEAR VOTE
AGAIN TOPPLES
GOP’S CHANCES
Smashing Democratic Vic
tories Made Over Nation
REPUBLICANS WIN FEW
Lehman Wins Easily In New
York Over Republican
John Foster Dulles
TRUMAN IS OPTIMISTIC
Smashing Democratic victories
in New York’s U. S. Senate race
and in widespread city elections
set President Truman and the
party high command chortling this
week over the outlook for 1950.
Republicans didn't find much to
crow about in Tuesday’s off-year
elections. They held on to the
New Jersey Governorship they al
ready had and tossed out a Dem
ocratic mayor here and there.
But they took a mauling in the
day’s feature political bout in New
York State. Democrat Herbert H.
Lehman easily knocked Republi
can John Foster Dulles out of the
U. S. Senate seat Dulles has held
down since last July.
There was one big, clear-cut
issue: Lehman campaigned hard
for the Truman home-front pro
gram; Dulles campaigned hard
against it. Returns from 9,479 of
New York’s 9,565 election districts
gave Lehman 2,565,266 to 2,357,
563 votes for Dulles.
The President himself, gleefully
calling out returns at a dinner in
his honor by the Women's Demo
cratic Club of Washington, inter
preted the result as a vote of con
fidence in his “fair deal.”
Mr. Truman said it would have
“a very decided effect on the elcc
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SCHOOL EVENT
CUMAX TODAY
John A. Parris, Former War
time Correspondent, To
Deliver Address
YADKINVILLE, 1:00 P. M.
John A. Parris, former wartime
UP and AP correspondent to the
European theater, will highlight
a week-long observance of Ameri
can Education Week at Yadkin
ville High School today at 1 p. m.
Mr. Parris is a native of Sylva,
now residing at Devotion. He is
now writing a book on the recent
war.
His lecture will climax a se
ries of daily programs in the high
school auditorium. Addresses by
Lafayette Williams and Thad
Reece, both attorneys, opened the
week on Monday. Mr. Williams
spoke on “Making Democracy
i Work,” and Mr. Reece gave a brief
history of the Yadkinville and
Yadkin County schools.
The part of Professor Zeno H.
Dixon of Elkin in development of
the early phases of the county’s
I educational program, Mr. Reece
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WASHINGTON, CHICAGO COAL STRIKE PARLEYS — Federal Mediation Director Cyrus Chine,
(seated, holding pipe) is shown at left conferring in Washington with Joseph Moody, president of the
Southern Coal Operators, in an effort to reach a settlement in the soft coal strike which ended yester
day. Looking 01^ in the rear are, left to right: Peter Seitz, Mediation Service counsel; John Gall, op
erators’ counsel, and William II. Margolis, assistant mediation director. At right, John L. Lewis,
United Mine Workers chief, addresses the UMW Policy Committee in Chicago, just before the strike
ended. (International)
POPPY DAY SET
FOR SATURDAY
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Auxiliary To Sell Poppies
On Street Here
FOR DISARMED BENEFIT
The Veterans ot Foreign Wars
Auxiliary will sell popies here Sat
urday.
Russell Burcham, commander of
the William J. Jones post of VFW
here said yesterday that the ob
servance of Poppy Day would have
added significance in that this is
the 50th anniversary of the or
ganization.
The Buddy Poppies, Burcham
continued, are the handiwork of
veterans who are still confined to
government hospitals. The pro
ceeds of the sale are used entirely
for veteran welfare in the follow
ing manner:
“About two-thirds of the funds
! raised will remain in Elkin to aid
i needy veterans and their depend
| ents.
“A portion will be paid to the
disabled veterans who made the
poppies.
"One cent per poppy sold will
I be used to help maintain the V. P.
W. National Home for war or
phans and widows at Eaton Rap
ids, Mich.
“One and one-half cents per
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Baby Beeves Should
Be Ordered At Once
Boys and girls who want baby
beeves for next year’s Elkin Pat
Stock Show should apply at once
to Donald A. Halsey, assistant
county farm agent.
Halsey said that calves as small
at 300 pounds can still be bought
for entry in next year’s show.
Sm tier calves cost less and pro
vide more experience for the boys
and girls raising them, according
to the county agent's office.
Coal Strike Settlement
Made By John L. Lewis
I
Surprise Move
Directs Miners
To (i0 To Work
Chicago, Nov. !) <AP> John L.
Lewis abruptly ended the 52-day
soft coal strike today, but said it
will start again in three weeks un
less contract settlement is reach
ed.
In a sharp reversal of the tradi
tional “no contract-no work poli
cy," Lewis told his 380,000 strik
ing miners to resume digging coal
immediately under the old con
tract that expired July 1.
Some mines began partial oper
ations at once. Many others plan
ned to reopen the mines to their
midnight crews.
The job of relieving a coal short
age that has hit householders and
small consumers a hard blow in
many parts of the country is ex
pected to be going at a good pace
tomorrow.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission said it is keeping in effect
at least for the present, its order
that brought a 25 percent cut in
some coal burning train passen
ger service.
But many individual railroads
made plans to recall furloughed
workers and get the coal cars
moving again. The Norfolk and
Western Railroad shelved plans to
pull off 23 passenger trains Fri
day. The New York Central, mean
while, said none of its canceled
passenger trains will be restored
immediately because the coal crisis
is merely deferred.
(Officials of Southern Railroad's
divisional headquarters in Greens
boro said the furloughed workers
who have been idle due to the
coal strike, will be put back to
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Chatham Completes Survey In Germany
Study Aspects
Of European
Recovery Plan
Representative Thurmond Chat
ham of Elkin and Abraham A.
Rubicoff, Representative from
Connecticut, have just completed
an inspection trip of German in
dustry and tourist facilities in the
U. S. zone, it was announced by
j the office of the Economic Co
operative Administration <ECA>
| special mission to Western Ger
many in Frankfurt.
The two Congressman were ac
companied by Robert M. Hanes of
Winston-Salem, former chief of
the ECA mission to Belgium and
Luxembourg and special represen
tative for United States Commis
sioner John J. McCloy.
In their survey, the group con
ferred with German and Ameri
can officials, German plant man
agers anti tourist officials. While
in Munich, the Congressmen dis
cussed various aspects of the
European recovery program with
the Finance Minister for Bavaria.
The Congressmen were particular
ly interested in the promotional
efforts being planned by German
tourist associations to attract visit
ors from dollar areas and the
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CHATHAM IN GERMANY — Thurmond Chatham of Elkin, U. S. Representative from the Fifth Dis
trict, has completed an inspection trip of German industry and tourist facilities in the U. S. Zone.
He was accompanied by Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut. Shown here are Rubicoff left, Winston
salem’s Robert M. Hanes, now special economics representative for the U. S. High Commissioner in
Germany, and Representative Chatham.
Coal And Trains
Remain Question
Mark For Elkin
Thr roal situation in Elkin is
still a question mark, but thr
danger point is past.
When new supplies will reach
here isn't definitely known yet,
but it won't be very long.
The trains probably won’t
start running here for a» while
either, according to a Southern
Railway official, who said coal
supplies would have to be ac
cumulated first.
The official did not know just
when the trains would begin
operating again.
In nearby Winston-Salem,
more coal is expected within a
wreek, according to a coal deal
ers association president.
BCONVILLE MAN
AIDS HOMELESS
Family Left Destitute With
Possessions Completely De
stroyed By Fire
—
i HUSBAND IN HOSPITAL
; -
Boonville citizens have been ask
ed to help the family of Max
Woodruff, their fellow townsman,
who is laid up in the hospital and
his possessions destroyed by fire.
Several years ago, Woodruff was
sent to the hospital and has been
I there ever since. Last Friday, his
house caught fire and it and all
j of his belongings in it were com
| pletely destroyed.
All this week, Mrs. Woodruff
and the children have been home
less, taking shelter in a small to
bacco pack house near their home.
But help is on its way now,
thanks to the interest of a man
who was told of their misfortune.
W. S. Church, a Boonville citi
zen who has devoted much of his
life to welfare work, heard of the
situation Sunday. By Monday, let
ters addressed to Boonville citi
zens asking them to help the des
titute family were on their way.
“This nice, friendly family needs
help now, not next month ... Do
not wait. I know you will help, so,
just mail your offering to Mrs.
Max Woodruff, R.F.D. 1, Boon
ville," the letter read.
Woodruff will probably be hos
pitalized for the rest of his life,
but his family may be provided
for in Boonville, after all. And if
so, they can be grateful- to a pub
lic-minded citizen for taking an
interest in their plight.
Agent Has Orders
For 38,000 Trees
Applications for 38,000 trees,
white pine and short straw, have
been received by Walter R. Par
ham, assistant county farm agent,
but orders may still be placed for
more.
Farmers must pay $2.50 per
thousand for the trees and all ap
plications should be made to Mr.
Parham.
After the seedlings are delivered
to the farmer, Parham is availabfc
for assisting in planting them.
All applications for trees should
be filed at once, since the number
of trees available are limited, Par
ham declared this week.
FULL AGENDA
PONDERED BY
TOWN COUNCIL
Fox Street’s Name Changed
To Forest Hill Drive
TRUCK BIDS TO OPEN
Charges For Installing Water
Facilities Hiked Due To
Fast Losses
McCURRY SELLS PLATES
A full agenda faced the Town
Council Monday night, when the
meeting was finished, resolutions
making changes in rates for in
stalling water facilities, changing
a street's name, and directing
that advertising for bids on a
garbage truck, all were made.
Changes in charges for install
ing water facilities were made due
to the losses taken by the Town
in the past on materials and labor
for such services. Rates for mater
ials and installations will be
changed as follows: Water meter
and meter box, $30; sewer tap,
$25: and water tap, $15.
Also, in compliance with a pe
tition signed by property owners,
the name of Fox Street was
changed to Forest Hill Drive
through a resolution passed.
In addition, the board directed
that advertising for bids for the
purchased of a new garbage truck
be taken.
Attention was called to the
change in places of selling town
license plates. In the future, Elkin
license plates will be sold by Er
nest McCurry, who has sold state
lags in the past.
OFFICIALS SEE
LARGER GROUP
Northwest Association May
He Twice As Large For
Coming Year
(’ A R1 ‘ E NTER It F E EEC TEI)
Prospects of doubling in size
confront the Northwest North *
Carolina Officials Association,
which held its first meeting for
the coining basketball year at the
Elkin High School last night.
Twice as many member schools
and officials are expected to be
come part of the association for
its second year of operation.
At the organizational meeting
last night, W. H. Carpenter of El
kin was re-elected president of
the association and Clyde Coth
ren was re-named vice-president.
Those present at the meeting
voted to keep the same rate of fees
this year as were in force last win
ter. Last year the association
charged the schools $4 entrance fee
and $15 and traveling expenses
for the officials for each home
game on the team's schedule.
At the same time, plans were
made for another meeting to be
held at the Elkin High School
next Wednesday night, beginning
at 7:30, and all prospective offi
cials are urged to attend.
A list of the officials available
will be sent to the member schools
Thursday morning and for an of
ficial’s name to be included, he
will have to have his dues paid
by the meeting Wednesday night.
This year, officials will come
from Elkin, Jonesville, Boonville,
and Mount Airy.
Man Struck Down
By Auto Here Today
Columbus (Lum) lagers, oper
ator of Rogers Shoe Shop, was in- _
jured slightly this afternoon when’
struck down by an automobile at
the Main-Bridge intersection.
Preliminary examination a t
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital
showed only minor cuts and
bruises.
Andy Jack Key of Route 1,
Traphill, was the driver of the
vehicle that struck Mr. Rogers.
No charges have been made.
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BOXSCORE
ON N.C.HIGHWAYS
Killed Nov. 5 through
Nov. 7 8
Injured Nov. 5 through
Nov. 7 104
Killed through Nov 7
this year . 693
Killed through Nov. 7
1948 601
Injured through Nov 7
this year .7,680
Injured through Nov. 7
1948 .6,196