ELKIN
The Best Little Town In
North Carolina
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The Elkin Tribune
ELKIN
Gateway to Roaring Gap and
the Blue Ridge
THE TRIBUNE
Serves the Tri-Counties of
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
VOL. No. XXXVII No. 3
PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ELKIN, N. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1949
$3.00 PER YEAR IN NORTH CAROLINA
12 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
SURRY’S GOODS
SHOW INCREASE
SINCE THE WAR
Gain of $15,843,000 Reported
Bv Commerce Department
r —
1917 CENSUS IS SHOWN
Most Surry Branches of Man
ufacturing Show Cor
responding Increases
RAPID STRIDES IN N. C.j
The value added by manufac
ture of goods produced in manu
facturing establishments of Surry
County has increased by approxi
mately $15,843,000 since before the
war, the U. S. Department of
Commerce reported today.
C. Parker Persons, Regional
Director of the Department, re
vealed that a Census Bureau re
port from its 1947 Census of Man
y ufacturers shows that in 1939 the
value added by manufacture of
goods produced by Surry manufac
turers was $5,749,000, and that in
1947 it was $21,592,000. The term
“value added by manufacture’’
means the value of manufactured
goods in excess of the cost of ma
terials and supplies, the official
explained.
Most branches of Surry’s manu
facturing industries have grown
correspondingly in the eight-year
period, it was pointed out. The
number of establishments engaged
in manufacturing operations has
increased from 32 in 1939 to 79 in
1947, the number of employees
from 4,824 to 6,763, and salaries
and wages paid from $3,531,284
to $13,624,000.
j The Census Bureau report also
reflects the rapid strides made;
by North Carolina industrially
since before the war. For example,
the value added by manufacture
of goods produced in the State as
a whole increased by more than a
billion dollars since 1939, going
from a valuation of $544,181,000
in that year to $1,646,673,000 in
1947. Also the number of estab
lishments engaged in manufactur
* ing operations has grown from
3,225 in 1939 to 5,322 in 1947, the
number of employees from 294.314
to 381.480, and salaries and wages
paid from $246,834,306 to $758,
895.000.
BEVERAGE TAX
, SHARES READY
Surry, Yadkin and Wilkes To
Receive Combined Amount
01' $64,176.25
SURRA TO GET $23,689
The tri-counties of Surry, Yad
kin and Wilkes will receive $64,
176.25 in beverage taxes for the
fiscal year ending last September
30.
Allocations totaling $2,167,570.58
to the State, municipalities and
counties were announced Friday
. by the Department of Revenue.
Revenue officials said that 95
counties are participating in the
distribution. Only 74 will share in
the next distribution, they added,
because of dry election victories
since the fiscal year started. Local
unts participate for 60 days after
going dry.
Surry County will receive $23,
689.03; Wilkes. $27,863.61; and
Yadkin, $12,623.61.
Beer taxes for the past fiscal
year totaled $2,909,210.55, and wine
taxes, $77,360,03. The total for the
previous year was $3,046,329.61.
Beer taxes were $2,959,665.86, and
wine, $86,663.75.
This year’s allocation to coun
f ties and municipalities totals $2,
123,296.74, and the State’s share is
$31,477.64. The sum of $12,796.20
was held back. If represents the
shares of dormant and inac
tive municipalities, municipalities
which failed to submit sufficient
information and municipalities in
which no officials were qualified
to receive funds.
Winston-Salem will receive the
second largest sum among the
municipalities. Only Charlotte,
vvith $76,320.30, has a greater al
location.
Mount Airy Market
Closing Set Dee. 2
Marshall C. Fowler, sales super
visor of the Mount Airy Tobacco
Market, announced today that the
market has set December 2 as a
tentative date for closing.
Sales will be held as scheduled
through Wednesday, but the mar
ket will take two days off, Thurs
day and Friday, for Thanksgiving.
The market will resume sales next
Monday.
Mr. Fowler said the local mar
ket through yesterday had sold
l1 1,146,064 pounds of tobacco, the
[growers having received $5,085,
C90.01, for an average of $45.63.
Two Persons Found
Dead In Automobile
Deaths Termed Accidental, Came
From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Two persons were found dead
of carbon monoxide poisoning in
an old model Ford near Ronda
yesterday morning. Wilkes
County Coroner I. M. Myers re
ported that the deaths were con
sidered accidental.
Will Billings of T r a p h i 11
Township and Ruth Baugess of
Thurmond were found overcome
by the poison gas in Billings’
car on a side road about two
miles north of Ronda by two ne
groes at 8:30 Sunday morning.
Billings, married and the fa
ther of three children, and his
companion, who was single, were
first seen Saturday night around
9 parked on a main road leading
out of Ronda. They were warned
by a passerby to move the car,
which they said was out of gas,
to a side road before they were
found by law enforcement offi
cers.
SAFETY PLAN
WORKED OUT
Highway Patrol And School
Officials Plan Solution To
School Bus Safety
SEVEN FACTORS LISTED
Highway patrol and school of
ficials last week worked out a uni
form State-wide plan for inspec
tion of school buses.
The group, meeting in Raleigh,
agreed on a list of seven major
safety factors to be checked. A
bus which fails to meet all of them
will be grounded immediately.
Buses which don't pass in oth
er factors must be repaired with
in 24 hours. The operators will
get equipment check cards which
much be returned within that time
and show that repairs have been
made.
The inspection plan was agreed
on at a conference between Patrol
Commander C. R. Tolar and C. C.
Brown, head of the State Board of
Education’s transportation divis
ion. Commissioned officers of the
patrol also sat in.
Factors which can mean ground
ing of a bus if they are not up to
par, Tolar said, are:
Steering assembly, brakes, stop
signals, exhaust system, door con
trols, proper identification by
lettering (required by law>, and
windshield wipers.
Tolar said that patrolmen also
will take buses out for a run to
deteimine if motor governors are
set to hold buses’ speed to the
maximum of 35 miles an hour.
The 24-hour equipment cards
will be issued if defective gover
nors or defects in any of the fol
lowing factors are found:
Glass, horns, lights, entrance
steps, mirrors, speedometers, and
tires.
Tolar said the buses will be
inspected once a month during the
school year.
“After the first of the year,”
he commented, “we expect to have
these buses built up to the safety
level of commercial buses. And
once we get them all in good
shape, think it will be easy to
keep them safe.”
Farrell Is Speaker
At Kiwanis Meeting
Claude Farrell, member of the
local Kiwanis Club and a member
of the State Board of Education,
was speaker at the meeting of the
club last Thursday evening at the
Gilvin Roth YMCA.
Mr. Farrell, who has long been
interested in school work, and is a
former member of the Elkin school
board, spoke on ••The Value of
Public School Education." During
his interesting talk he paid tribute
to the local school board members,
local civic clubs, and to N. H. Car
penter, superintendent of the Elkin
school, and his teacher staff, and
to school patrons, for the fine
work they are doing.
The Kiwanis Club will not meet
this week due to the regular meet
ing date falling on Thanksgiving.
Patrol Transfers
Cpl. Sam McKinney
Corporal W. S. McKinney of
the state highway patrol has been
transferred from the Elkin office
and will take up duties in Asheboro
as soon as he and his family can
make arrangements to move.
A definite successor to Cpl. Mc
Kinney has not yet been announc
ed by the patrol, but will probably
be named some time this week.
A growing plant requires access
to some 20 chemical elements.
Coroner Myers said they ob
viously had been drinking heavi
ly.
The couple managed to get
the car away from the spot and
they were not seen again until
Sunday morning when the two
negroes found them in the car
with the windows rolled up and
the switch turned on.
Deputy sheriff Jack Hoots was
immediately summoned and he
confirmed the negroes report
that the two were dead.
Billings’ body was taken to the
Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home
in North Wilkesboro and the body
of the girl was removed to Moody
Funeral Home in Mount Airy.
After examining the bodies,
Coroner Myers reported the
deaths as caused by carbon mon
oxide poisoning and termed it
accidental.
Deer Hunting
Opens Today;
Stops Tomorrow
Deer hunting season opens
today in Surry County and
closes Tuesday.
William A. White, game war
den, in making the announce
ment said that only one male
deer with visible antlers may
be taken in a day and only two
per season. White added that
deer arc plentiful in the county
but that a number of them
doubtlessly will be killed by il
legal means.
Farmers of the Lowgap com
munity have served notice that
virtually all the land in the
deer range of Franklin Town
ship is posted against trespass
ing.
MEETING SET
FOR SCOUTERS
Rev. Joe Carter To Address
Dinner of Scouters And
Cubbers Tomorrow Ni$>ht
TO BE LADIES NIGHT
The Rev. Joe Carter of Newton,
formerly of Elkin, will address an
annual Elkin-Yadkin Scouters.'
Cubbers’ dinner here tomorrow
night.
The meeting, which falls on La
dies Night, will open at 6:30 p. m.
Election of officers will be held
following Mr. Carter’s address.
Tickets for the affair, a Dutch
treat, arc available from Linville
Hendren or Ralph Ritchie.
Mr. Carter was formerly pastor
of the Elkin Presbyterian Church
and was at one time co-owner of
the Renfro Record, an Elkin paper.
The event, which will be held at
the Gilvin Roth YMCA, will honor
Den mothers of Elkin's Pack 11.
HERE TOMORROW—Rear Ad- j
miral George Lucius Russell,
who has been confirmed for the
post of Judge Advocate General
eral of the Navy, will speak to
the Elkin Lions Club here Mon- j
day night. The meeting will be
held at 6:45 at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA.
LIONS TO HEAR
NAVAL OFFICER
Rear Admiral George L. Rus
sell, To Speak Here To
morrow At 6:45 I\ M.
AT GILVIN ROTH YMCA
Rear Admiral George L. Russell,
judge advocate general of the U.
S. Navy, will speak at a Lions Club
meeting here tomorrow at 6:45
p. m., in the Gilvin Roth YMCA.
Admiral Russell is making a
speaking tour as guest of the Stat
esville Lions Club throughout
Piedmont North Carolina.
He will address the Thanksgiv
ing banquet of North Carolina
units of the Patriotic Order, Sons
of America in Statesville Wednes
day. Besides his stops in Elkin
and Statesville, Admiral Russell
will speak at Sparta, Salisbury and
Charlotte.
Admiral Russell became judge
I advocate of the navy in June, 1948.
Immediately prior to that he had
been assistant judge advocate and
commander of Submarine Squad
ron 10.
He has had extensive service as
a submarine officer, serving for
three years as executive officer
and navigator of the U.S.S. Bass
and as commanding officer of the
U.S.S. Plunger.
Previously he had been aide and
flag secretary on the staff of the
commander in chief, Atlantic
Fleet, and on the staff of the com
mander in chief, U. S. Fleet.
Mrs. Hu#h Greenwood
Named New Secretary
Mrs. Hugh Greenwood has been
named secretary of the Elkin Mer
chants Association succeeding Mrs.
Bueford Stanley. She began her
duties today.
Mrs. Stanley resigned recently
to accept a full-time position with
the Town of Elkin, for whom she
had done part-time work prior to
this time.
Mrs. Greenwood, who resides in
Elkin, is a graduate of Appalach
ian State Teachers College.
CONSIDERATION
MADE FOR NEW
FLOODCONTROL
Engineers May Start Project’s
Construction In 1951
ON Y A I) K I N, REDDIES
New Plans Call for Two Large
Dams Instead of Four
Small Constructions
HAPPY VALLEY LEFT OUT
Construction work on the long
delayed Yadkin River flood control
pioject may be started by Army
engineers in the coming fiscal year
1951 under a compromise which
calls for two large dams instead
of four small ones, neither of them
backing water into the historic
Happy Valley of Caldwell County.
A report from Washington this
week said that engineers’ three
year-old plan for two dams apiece
on the Yadkin and its nearby tri
butary, the Reddies River, has
been approved by Congress but no
money has been granted for any
thing but planning. Construction
funds have been blocked by the
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TRAILER TRUCK
DRIVER KILLED
Ohio Man Dies Under Wreck
age of Trailer On Roar
ing (lap Highway
SATURDAY AT 9:30 P. M.
Frank J. Ziegler, 29, of Toledo,
Ohio, was instantly killed Satur
day night when a trailer truck he
was driving turned over on the
Roaring Gap Highway about 15
miles from Elkin.
The accident occurred about
9:30 p. m., on a curve which over
looks a wide portion of the Yad
kin Valley. Ziegler died beneath
the trailer which capsized as the
driver leaped from the cab of the
truck.
At the time of the wreck, Zieg
ler was en route to Charlotte from
Toledo, carrying 30.000 batteries
in the trailer weighing 42,000
pounds. His identity was not
learned until yesterday.
Cpl. Sam McKinney, Highway
Patrolman, said it took longer than
an hour and a half to extricate
the body from the wreckage. Re
moving it required cutting a hole
in the side of the trailer at the
point where the body was lying.
The cab itself was only slightly
damaged.
Apparently, officers said, either
the brakes failed or Ziegler was
unable to make the sharp curve at
the overlook. The truck ran
across a deep culvert, which
doubtlessly kept it from plummet
ing over the cliff only a few feet
away.
The truck was owned by Richard
Arna of Toledo, and it had been
leased to Roadway Express Com
pany. Ziegler’s body is being re
turned to Toledo for funeral ser
vices.
EMERALD MAY BRING FARMER $3,000 — A. F. ‘•Bub" Holcomb, 70. {Iredell County farmer and
mineralogist who recently found a 3! 2 karat emerald valued by three et^perts at between $2,400 and
$3,000, examines one of the stones of his collection, above, at his home near Hamptonville. He has
found traces of gold and other valuable minerals in explorations of Iredell, Alexander and Surry I
eounties. He says this is part of a rich streak that produced the Iliddehite mining discoveries of the
1880’s and the first emerald mine in the United States in 1875 at Stony Point where a nine-ounce
emerald was once uncovered. Many museums have specimens' from these old mines and geologists '
maintain this section has “immense underdeveloped mineral wealth.” H'olcomb won’t reveal where he
found his gem which is now in a lock box ready to be cut. (Max Tharpe Photo) j
Yule Shopping Season
Will Open Here Friday
With Santa’s Arrival
CHILD KILLED
IN ACCIDENT
Jerry Anthony Ellis of Mc
Grady Hit Unavoidably
By Auto
HAI) DEFECTIVE VISION
Defective vision apparently cost
a five-year-old McGrady boy his
life Saturday as he darted in front
ot a car driven by Deputy Mar
shall Walter M. Irwin of Wilkes
boro and was killed instantly.
Jerry Anthony Ellis, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Ellis, was the victim
when he ran across the road in
front of the car about 15 miles
north of North Wilkesboro on
highway 18 near McGrady.
According to a witness, Mrs.
Clarence Painter, grandmother of
the boy, Marshal Irwin was en
tirely blameless for the accident
as he did everything in his power
to avoid hitting the small boy. In
his efforts, the car wras turned
over and he and Mrs. Irwin were
bruised and shaken up..
Wilkes Sheriff C. G. Poindexter,
coroner I. M. Myers, and patrol
man Clyde R. Shook agreed that
the accident wJs unavoidable and
preferred no. charges against the
driver of the car.
Relatives said the child had no
vision in one eye and had defec
tive sight in the other. It w?as
theorized that he could not see the
oncoming car when he darted onto
the road.
Funeral servicejvas conducted at
Reins Sturdivant Chapel in North
Wilkesboro today at 10 a. m. with
Father Peter Sheraton in charge.
Burial was in Mount Lawrn Me
morial Park Cemetery, north of
North Wilkesboro.
Marshal Irwin is the father of
Dwayne Irwin of Elkin.
GRA-Y CONTEST
FINALS SLATED
Elkin, North Elkin, Jonesville,
Pleasant Hill Schools
Are Represented
SIX TROPHIES OFFERED
The Gra-Y Thanksgiving con
test program set for the Gilvin
Roth YMCA tonight will have 23
finalists competing for the six
miniature silver Oscars to be
awarded reading and recitation
winners from four schools.
Pleasant Hill, Jonesville, North
Elkin and Elkin are the schools to
be represented in the finals to
night, beginning at 7:30, and the
awards will go to the winners of
each grade group.
Winners and runner-ups for
three of the schools were an
nounced in the Thursday issue of
The Tribune and now the Elkin
contestants and their runner-ups
have been released.
From the fourth grade, Law
ernce Laxton and Nancy Neaves
are the winners and their runner
ups are Robert Tatum and Rosa
Roth. Fifth grade victors are Jay
Braxton and Deanna Marshall
with Billy Eidson and Tommy
Harris, participating as a team,
and Phyllis Aden named second.
Farrell Settle and Deanna Stew
art wll represent the sixth grade
and their alternates are Jim Ed
wards and Louise Laxton. Seventh
srade choices of the judges were
Lyndon DeBorde and Annie Gray
Calhoun with Jimmy Bivins and
Alice Braxton placing second.
An 18-page booklet was issued
oy Elinor Montgomery and Max
Cooke, Gra-Y heads, recently and
students in each grade in Pleasant
Bill, Jonesville, North Elkin, and
Elkin elementary schools have
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Boonville Cannery
To Be Opened Again
The Boonville Community Can
lery will be open again this year
or the butchering of hogs. It will
>e open whenever the weather is
iuitable for butchering and there
n enough business to justify the
:annery being open.
Also, lard may be rendered, meat
nay be ground into sausage and
neat may be canned.
Legion Plans
Turkey Shoot
For Thursday
A turkey shoot will be spon
sored Thursday by the Elkin
American Legion post on the
site of the old shoe factory.
Four turkeys will be given away.
The event will begin at 9 a.
m. and will continue all day.
A square dance at the Legion
Hut will be given Thursday
night under the joint sponsor
ship of the Elkin American Le
gion post and Jonesville’s Boyd
Seagraves Post of Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
STATE VARSITY
STAGES CLINIC
Coach Everett Case Uses
Team To Illustrate Fine
Points of Game
VARSITY TEAM WINS
Coach Everett Case and his
North Carolina State basketballers
put on a show for fans in the Elk
in vicinity at the Gilvin Roth
YMCA Saturday night and the
spectators went away talking of
two great basketball teams and the
finer points of the game.
A clinic was the primary objec
tive of the evening and Coach Case
used a microphone to describe the
drills his players went through.
When that was over, the State
varsity, led by All-American Dick
Dickey, Paul Hovath, and Sam
Ranzino whipped a talented fresh
men team in a scrimmage game,
72 to 51.
The importance of speed and
body control was the main theme
of the clinic as Case put his ath
letes through their paces to dem
onstrate this. The coach said that
being an excellent shot could not
make a star basketball player but
of a man if he could not handle
himself extremely well.
A shifting drill and a pivoting
drill were used as examples of this.
And in these drills, pointers were
given and pivoting on the ball of
the foot was emphasized.
Also, Coach Case gave and illus
trated warmup drills, ways of vari
ations of shooting a crip shot, and
two methods of the fast break.
Ways to work the ball in on a fast
break when the offensive team has
three men on two or four men on
three were explained.
Keeping the feet nimble was an
other subject and the players
showed how they skipped rope,
similar to a boxer in training, to
maintain this feature. Dribbling
and pivoting, the proper way to do
it, was also shown by Coach Case
and his athletes.
Forestry Meetings
Concluded In Wilkes
Between 300 and 400 Wilkes
County farmers and farm boys
participated in the forestry meet
ings which have just been con
cluded in Wilkes County, J. P.
Choplin, Wilkes Farm Agent, said
Saturday.
Five meetings in which demon
strations were held for men and
boys attracted an attendance of
about 200. Three afternoon meet
ings for men alone were attended
by about 150. John Gray and
Walter Keller, extension foresters,
and the county agent and his as
sistant, Howard Colvard, assisted.
The demonstrations featured
timberland improvement, selective
cutting and tree planting. The
series was climaxed with a dem
onstration for sawmill operators.
Several of Area
To Get Diplomas
Twenty-seven students will com
plete requirements for a bachelor
of science degree at Appalachian
State Teachers College Wednes
day.
.Among those from this vicinity
finishing and their fields of spe
cialization are Mrs. Watt Deal,
Jonesville, grammar grade educa
tion; Evelyn Staton, Flat Rock,
Home Economics and science; and
Eleanor Wagoner, Yadkinville,
English and social studies.
An average freight car will
carry 52.26 tons.
Movie Party
Is Planned
For Kiddies
Old Saint Nick himself will
usher in Elkin's Christmas Shop
ping season Friday morning with
an appearance at 10 a. m. here.
Yuletide shopping will be offi
cially opened at that time, follow
ing the turning on of Christmas
lights in the downtown area
Thursday night.
Santa will not come in by train
as in the past but will be taken
by a fire truck directly to the State
Theatre on Church Street where
his hundreds of young admirers
will await him at a blocked off
area.
Here a program will be conduct
ed which will include treats for
the children, movies and cartoons
and a song festival. Santa will
preside.
Christmas lights this year will
bear a different flavor. Brilliant
lights of varied colors will be
strung across the streets with
lighted wreaths adorning the cen
ter. At the intersections brightly
lighted lanterns will trim the pat
tern of the cross-street ropes and
wreaths.
Elkin merchants have worked
extensively for the past several
weeks in order to make the Christ
mas appearance in the downtown
area an attractive and merry one.
The lighting, Santa Claus's ap
pearance and the children’s treats
| are being provided by the mer
I chants as usual.
FARM BUREAU’S
GOAL IS 1,600
| Federation Reports 1,306
Members (mined In 1050
Membership Drive
j LOO MORE EXPECTED
The Surry Farm Bureau Fed
eration today reported that 1,306
members of its 1950 membership
goal of 1,600 had been received.
Pilot Mountain, White Plains
and Franklin are leading in the
membership enlistments as Surry's
number grows to what Farm Bu
reau officers say will make the
group one of the largest in West
ern North Carolina—by far the
largest in Northwestern North
Carolina.
Officers point out that another
100 will be turned in by the time
returns are to be filed with the
state office Wednesday. Members
who have enlisted 10 or more
members may qualify for member
ship in the Edward A. O’Neal
Parity Club.
The campaign will continue un
til November 30 at which time
memberships must be certified
from the North Carolina Farm
Bureau and the American Farm
Bureau Federation.
Enlistments by townships are as
follows:
Bannertown 5, Beulah 70, Cook
School 28, Copeland 89, Dobson
94, Eldora 28, Elkin 98, Flat Rock
50, Franklin 131, Long Hill 21,
Lowgap 12, Marsh 40, Mountain
Park 87, Pilot Mountain 44, Shoals
102, Siloam 101, Westfield 6 and
White Plains 136.
Passenger Train
Resumes Running
Beginning Today
Operations were resumed this
morning on the Southern Rail
way passenger train connecting
Elkin with North Wilkesboro
and Winston-Salem. This train
was discontinued during the re
cent critical coal strike.
The train arrives in Elkin at
10.10 a. m. headed for North
W7i!kesboro and comes back
through at 2:45 p. m. with the
destination of Winston-Salem.
This run was ordered stopped
by the Interstate Commerce
Commission as a fuel-saving
measure while the strike was
on. All of the other 27 trains
operated by the Southern Rail
way Co., which were cut off by
the ICC, are slated to be con
tinued beginning today or to
morrow.