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ELKIN
Gateway to Roaring Gap and
the Blue Ridge
THE TRIBUNE
Serves the Tri-Counties of
Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin
VOL. No. XXXVII No. 5
PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY
$3.00 PER YEAR IN NORTH CAROLINA
ELKIN, N. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1949
12 PAGES—TWO SECTIONS
The Elk Trail
. . . Carolina supporters agree
ing among themselves that Art
Weiner might make the AP All
America team, but that Choo Choo
may be left off. Some disagreeing.
. . . Ray Collie, ardent Carolina
fan, saying that Virginia should
^have won the game with the Tar
•Heels Saturday, but he’s plenty
proud they didn't.
. . , Max Cooke getting chance
to broadcast his wares. He plans
to be narrator for a '48 game of
Wake Forest-Carolina to be shown
to Legionnaires tomorrow night.
. . . Rival basketball captains
Ted Griffin and Bob Isbell vying
for the services of Joe Gwyn
Bivins. Bob sporting his sixth au
tomobile since finishing school
Jess than a year and a half ago.
. . . Harry Hensel and Skinny
Hyslup arguing over who will
write the Elk Trail column for the
next issue. Onlooker repeating,
"Somebody better get a lawyer,
.quick.”
. . . Mrs. Tommy Johnson
breathlessly looking for a live dol
lar bill she lost downtown.
. . . Betty Lineberry rushing
away from a game of Rook to get
back to studies.
. . . Kermit Lawrence and J.
Pate Fulk joining luncheon of
^2:01 Club today. Marveling at
iierriment at table.
. . . Sammy Shore postponing
hunting excursion he had begun
Thanksgiving morning when his
little dog fell into a pond. Sammy
returning home with his coat
wrapped around the pup.
. . . Bulchie Eller. Bobby Lank
ford and Bud Hall decorating
Christmas tree on vacant lot Sun
day.
. . . Mrs. Eugene Motsinger mail
ing Christmas packages to Eng
land.
. . . Little girl saying she likes
new Methodist preacher because
he has “springy” in his sermons.
. . . Jane and Sara Redmon de
claiing they want a television set
from Santa come Christmas.
. . . Joe Hinshaw and Buddy
Welborn admitting that it was
“rather cold” on their Sparta
hunting trip Saturday. Displaying
numb hands.
. . . H. P. Laffoon and family
going "dog shopping” in Winston
Salem, Saturday.
. . . Man explaining to newcomer
to Elkin that there were two David
Browns in town.
. . . Willie Johnson of the Mount
Airy News "casing” The Tribune
office.
. . . Small child in local toy j
department completely ignoring,
electric train to investigate piece
of trash on floor.
. . . Bill Stevenson cleaning
German - make gun containing
three barrels—two .16 gauge shot- |
gun barrels and rifle barrel loca
ted just underneath.
. . . Two young women in local
| furniture store seeking two bed
room suites of identical styling.
. . . Elkin woman telling friend
of her Christmas card procedure.
“I keep all the cards I get at
Christmas and send cards in re
turn the following year,” she said.
. . . Elkin businessman going to
his postoffice box, then to trash
can in lobby to throw in two-thirds
of the letters and pamphlets re
ceived.
. . . Dog howling at lop of its
^ voice as Saturday noon siren
wails.
. . . Santa’s arrival Friday
prompting bystander to remark,
“Don’t know who gets the biggest
kick out of Santa Claus . . . the
grown folks or the kids.”
. . . Bobby Browning and his
guest, Jonas Bridges, entertaining
the Edens family of Dalzell, S. C..
with songs they voiced over a wire
recorder.
. . . N. H. Carpenter saying
best weapon he has to keep
ilittle son, Jerry, under contro
(tailing him "Baby.”
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AMID THE EXCITEMENT — Santa Claus came to town Friday and created a furor of excitement among: the little ones. It was the lat
est turnout the old boy ever drew here as hundreds of young Elkinites cheered his appearance from the time he came into sight at the
Church-Market intersection until he raised his hands for silence on the stage at the State Theatre. Thus Christmas shopping was offi
cially opened in Elkin, and the grown folks and kiddies braved chilling winds to make the opening successful. (tribune photoi
G. V. ALLEN IS
DUKE SPEAKER
Former Secretary Of State
To Make Founder’s Day
Address On Campus
PROGRAM SET DEC. 10
George V. Allen, ambassador to
Yugoslavia, former assistant sec
retary of state, and a Duke alum
nus, will be the featured speaker
on the Founder's Day Program at
Duke University, Saturday, De
cember 10.
Mr. Allen is a brother to Mrs.
Robert Tuttle, formerly of Elkin
who now resides in Statesville.
The exercises, commemorating
the 25th anniversary of the Duke
endowment, will begin in Page
Auditoiium at 10:30 a. m. Dr. Hol
lis Edens, president of the univer
sity, will preside.
Willis Smith, Raleigh, chairman
of the University Board of Trus
tees, will introduce the speaker.
Since Founder’s Day falls on Sun
day, December 11, the observance
is being moved up one day to
Saturday, university officials an
nounced.
Allen, who has risen rapidly in
the diplomatic service, is at 46
one of the nation's youngest am
bassadors. He was appointed to
the Balkan trouble center—"the
hottest spot in the cold war”—fol
lowing the retirement of Ambassa
dor Cavendish Cannon because of
ill health.
A native of Durham and an
alumnus of the class of 1924 at
Duke, he entered the foreign ser
vice at the age of 26. After serving
as vice-consul at Kingston, Jam
aica, his first post, until 1930,
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WILKES CIVIC
LEADER DIES
E. M. Blackburn Is Given
Much Credit For Growth
Of North Wilkesboro
FORMER TOWN MAYOR
E. M. Blackburn, pioneer Wilkes
leader who is given much credit
for the growth of the town of
North Wilkesboro, died yesterday
afternoon in a hospital there. He
had been ill for one week prior
to his death.
Mr. Blackburn, 86, moved to
North Wilkesboro while it was a
village and opened a clothing
store which he operated for 35
years. Then he went into the real
estate business, in which he re
mained until his death.
He was a former mayor of the
city, a former member of the city
board of elections, the city school
board and served several terms 'as
Wilkes county register of deeds.
He was affiliated with various
chuich and civic groups and took
a leading part in activities of the
city. He was, for more than 30
years, Sunday School superinten
dent and a deacon in the First
Baptist Church.
Funeral service was held this
afternoon at the First Baptist
Church of North Wilkesboro, with
burial in Mt. Lawn Memorial
Park, near North Wilkesboro.
Survivors include a daughter,
Miss Ruby M. Blackburn of North
Wilkesboro; two sons. Jeter M.
Blackburn of North Wilkesboro,
and John Blackburn of Waynes
boro, Virginia.
Escaped Convict
Nabbed Visiting
Jonesville Girl
An escaped convict was cap
tured visiting his girl friend in
Jonesville over the Thanksgiv
ing holidays.
James Litt, serving from 3-5
years at Sparta on a charge of
house breaking escaped at 2 p.
in. Wednesday, but was nabbed
by patrolman I). J. Caudle just
11 hours later, at 4 a. m. Thurs
day, Thanksgiving morning.
Prior to his escape, Litt was
listed as a grade A convict.
Patrolman Caudle reported he
had no trouble with the man
after finding him at his girl
friend’s house.
YULE LIGHTING
CONTEST OPENS
Elkin .Junior Woman’s Club
To Sponsor “Town Beauti
ful” Project Here
SENIOR WOMEN ASSIST
A “Town Beautiful’’ project for
the Christmas season will be spon
sored by the Elkin Junior Wom
an’s Club.
Members of the group today re
quested Elkin citizens to cooperate
in decorating their homes both in
side and out. Prizes will be award
ed the winner of the best outside
lighting and for the best decora
tions in the home.
The outside lighting contest will
be in charge of the Junior Wom
an’s Club which will be assisted by
the Senior Woman’s Club which
will be in charge of the inside dec
orating contest.
The date and time of the judg
ing will be announced through The
Tribune as soon as final arrange
ments are completed.
The contest committee is com
posed of Mrs. Hugh Salmons and
Miss Grace Laffoon of the Junior !
Woman's Club and Mrs. Clyde Hall
| and Mrs. Mel McAdams of the
Senior Woman’s Club.
The value of the Arkansas cot
ton crop last year was more than
300 million dollars.
CROP OFFICE
GETS BOXCAR
First Miniature Car Is Re
ceived At State Office
In Durham
GREENE COUNTY LEADS
The first miniature boxcar for
North Carolina's symbolic CROP
Friendship Train has been receiv
ed at the state CROP office, Dur
ham from Greene County, state
CROP Chairman, L. Y. Ballcntine,
announced today.
“To symbolize the concrete
achievements of the people of the
state in contributing farm com
modities to the North Carolina
CROP Friendship Train, we are
setting up a toy train here at the
Department of Agriculture,” Bal
lentine stated." Each county
CROP chairman will have minia
ture trains in his own county for
display, and as real cars are filled,
send a boxcar from the little
train to the state CROP office to
be added to the tiny state train.
We can then see just how we are
progressing in this state-wide
Christian effort,” the state CROP
chairman explained.
“Greene County, first to com
plete its collection this year, will
have its miniature car first in line
behind the engine of the freight
train, followed by cars as they are
received from other counties.”
“Typical of the spirit in which
people throughout the state are
givinging to the CROP Friend
ship Train, is the note enclosed
in the Greene County, miniature
boxcar. The note will go, with the
toy state train, to relief workers
overseas to be used in showing re
cipients abroad just how the CROP
gifts were collected. The message
reads: “The Christian people of
Greene County, North Carolina, U.
S. A., have collected one car load
of corn that was raised on the
farms of Greene County for the
Christian Rural Overseas Program,
CROP, and dedicate it to God to
be used to feed the hungry people
in Europe and Asia with the hope
that this benevolent act on the
part of our people might lead to
a better understanding and co
operation among the people of the
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No Empty Stocking...
Farah Asks Generous
Response To Charity
“We hope that no child in this
area will have an unfilled stock
ing come Christmas morning.”
This declaration was made today
by the Rev. George Farah who is
again leading the Community
Christian Charity drive, as he re
quested generous response to the
drive.
Announcement of the cam
paign's beginning was announced
Thursday and already contribu
tions amounting to $35 and cloth
ing have been received at the re-*
ceiving station at The Tribune of
fice.
Those making contributions
were the Elkin Senior Girl Scouts
who gave clothing. The Elkin
Tribune, which gave $25, and
an anonymous donor who gave $10
in the name of “A Friend.”
This year’s goal has been set at
$1,000 since preliminary surveys by
the Community Christian Charity
Committee have been made. Last
year a goal of $600 was reached,
but committeemen explained that
the need is far greater than last
year.
Mr. Farah emphasized today
that proceeds from the drive will
not be spent for Christmas alone,
but will be spread out through
the year as has been done the past
year. He also declared that the
purpose of the drive is to help
families ‘ get over the hump.”
Those families who are constantly
dependent upon charity will be by
passed.
“Christmas is an important time
of the year to children in all
Christianity," Mr. Farah added. "It
is a responsibility to all fair mind
ed persons to see that no chi’d
suffers the bitter disappointment,
of being left out on Christmas
morning.”
Swan Creek Man
Loses Property
In Tragic Fire
James Caudle, a town em
ployee, lost all of his property
in a fire that destroyed the
house in which he lived in the
Swan Creek section this morn
ing.
The house, of frame con
struction, was rented and none
of the personal effects of
Caudle were insured.
To add to his troubles, one
of the children in the family,
the youngest, is critically ill.
Mrs. Caudle was found with
baby sprawled on the ground
in the woods outside the house
where she had fainted after
getting out of the burning
house.
The fire was started from the
flue about 8:30 this morning.
VFW10 HELP
NEEDY AGAIN
Local I’osl Plans To Sponsor
Drive For Merchandise
For*Deserving Families
NAME BROWN CHAIRMAN
The Elkin VFW chapter will
again sponsor a drive for help for
needy families for Christmas in
this section.
Last year 35 baskets were gath
ered through solicitations from lo
cal merchants and distributed
around town, helping a total of
178 persons, according to post
commander Russell Burcham.
David Brown has been named
chairman of a committee of five in
charge of the project this year
and they are already busy making
plans for the drive.
Merchandise contributed by the
merchants will be picked up by a
truck and will be stored in the
basement of Commander Bur
cham. There, the committee will
work at night dividing the toys,
food, and other gifts, placing
them in baskets.
A list of needy families will be
compiled by members of the VFW
and this will be compared with
those to be helped by the Christ
inas Community Charity drive
headed by the Rev. George Farah.
All of the families on this list,
which will cover a 10-mile radius
area of Elkin, will be helped by
the VFW.
The need for such a project was
surprisingly great last year and
the VFW carried the drive out to
a greater degree of success than
hey first expected.
And they expect to find just as
many families in need of help this
/ear, according to committee
chairman David Brown.
Committeemen: aiong with
Brown, aie Jim Spann, Herbert
Shepherd, Ed Bumgarner, and
Charles Smith.
VFW Hut Should Be
Ready By Christmas
Work on the VFW hut should
>e completed by Christmas, con
ractor Ervie Southard declared
his week.
The foundation has already been
aid and part of the blocks are now
lown. Progress was delayed for
wo or three weeks by failure to
set; power, but work is-now in full
wing.
Work on the hut was begun dur
ng the first week in November.
YMCA TO OPEN
'MEMBER DRIVE
TUESDAY NIGHT
Constituents’ Dinner Meeting
Planned At 6 :.*{() P. M.
TO CONTINUE ONE WEEK
J. Wilson Smith, Interstate
Secretary of Carolina®’
YMCA’s To Speak
•PARTICIPATION IJ R G E I)
An annual Gilvin Roth YMCA |
constituents’ dinner meeting will1
bo hold tomorrow night at 6:30 p.
m. at the Y to launch the 1950
membership campaign.
J. Wilson Smith, interstate sec
retary of the YMCA's of the Car
olinas will be guest speaker.
The drive will continue for one
week under E. S. Spainhour, chair
man of the membership commit
tee.
Membership cards for the year
will be $3 for adults and $1 for
boys and girls.
The YMCA under General Sec
retary T. C. McKnight this year
launched a new extensive program
which includes most of the 24-hour
day.
Participation among both work
ers of Chatham Manufacturing j
Company and outside is being em
phasized in the various programs.
Plans for a lunchroom and re
creation room for Chatham em
ployees of all three shifts are be
I ing completed.
R. G. Chatham, president of the i
YMCA board of directors, in an
' open letter Saturday, urged every j
man and woman who would to
join the Y and encourage their
children to participate.
Said Mr. Chatham. “In joining
the YMCA, we are helping our
boys and girls, as well as ourselves, j
to have advantages we wouldn't
have otherwise.
“You don’t need a high pressure
talk. It’s enough to say that the
Y is a good thing, we need it. Let’s
j support it.”
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Legion To Show
Football Movie
i
The George Gray Post of the
American Legion will sponsor a
movie showing of the 1948 game
between North Carolina and Wake
Forest, Tuesday night at the Le
gion Hut. Max Cooke, who played
in the game, will be narrator.
Gene Aldridge, adjutant of the
post, said today that all veterans j
have been invited to attend.
The Legion’s turkey shoot prov- |
ed highly successful, Mr. Aldridge
said, and plans are being made for
a “bigger and better” turkey i
j shoot during the Christmas holi
i days.
Turkeys were won Thanksgiving
Day by Cecil Crouse of Jonesville,
Graham Myers and Jim Beard of!
Elkin and J. M. Blackburn of j
Traphill.
Benny Friedman, Michigan All
America of 1926 and current ath
letic director at Brandeis Univer
sity, was head football coach at
City College of New York from
1934 to 1941.
WINS ANOTHER—Taking 4-H
Club honors is getting to be. an
old story for Evelyn Waugh of
White Plains. Her latest achieve
ment netted her a $300 college
scholarship awarded in Chicago
yesterday for taking one of the
top 12 spots in the clothing
division.
EVELYN WAUGH
IS 4-H WINNER
White Plains Girl Gets $.’{()()
Scholarship For Clothing
Achievement
HONORED IN CHICAGO
Evelyn Waugh, 17, of White
Plains was awarded a $300 college
scholarship in Chicago yesterday
as one of the top twelve clothing
achievement winners in 4-H work
in the United States.
Miss Waugh, the state winner
in this division, was one of 34
girls presented scholarships yester
day at the Stevens Hotel in Chica
go and the award is good for use
at any accredited college in the
nation.
Previously, she'' had won a $100
scholarship for use at any North
Caiolina college for taking the
FCX state speaking contest.
Miss Waugh, along with the
other winners, is scheduled to be
honored at a supper tomorrow
night to be held at the Sheridan
Hotel in Chicago. She will share
honors with all of the other 33
winners in the various divisions
of awards.
The scholarships and trip ex
penses were presented by the Spool
Cotton Company of Savannah, Ga.
Miss Waugh was accompanied
by Mrs. Grace Pope Brown,.coun
ty demonstration agent, on her
trip.
Wilkes Liquor Cases
Bring Fines, Terms
Prison terms and fines were
meted out to a number of federal
liquor law offenders in the Novem
ber term of United States Court
held in Wilkesboro last week.
Judge Johnson J. Hayes presided.
Robert Glenn Johnson, who
pleaded nolo contendere to a
charge of possessing illicit whis
key. gave notice of appeal from a
sentence of 18 months in Peters
burg, Va., prison and a fine of
$1,000.
Vaughn Blackburn was fined
$3,600 and sentenced to 18 months
suspended and placed on proba
tion. Conrad Eller paid a fine of
$2,500 and his sentence of a year
and a day was suspended.
HIS SUCCESS LEAHS HIM TO TEARS — His eyes filled with tears,
4-H Club member Ray Dreher, 15, of Louisiana, is shown in Chicago
as he bids a tearful farewell to his pal “Jiggs,” a Hereford calf which
was awarded top money by cattle dealers during a Chicago livestock
exposition. Ray, who had raised the calf to mammoth size from a
little dogie, was too good to “Jiggs.” (International)
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BIDS FOR DSA
TO BE OPENED
BY ELKIN J. C.
Joe Gwyn Bivins Chosen
Chairman of Nominations
JUDGES ARE SELECTED
Outstanding Young Man Of
Year To Be Named At Jay
cee Meeting In January
CLIMAX JAYCEE WEEK
Nominations opened today for
the Elkin Junior Chamber of
Commerce’s Distinguished Service
Award to the community's out
standing young man of the year.
Joe Gwyn Bivins, who has been
chosen chairman of nominations,
this week opened nominations
from the public and announced
that every young man between the
ages of 21 and 35 are eligible to
receive the award.
An impartial group of judges
has been selected and will review
all nominations on the basis of
contribution to community, parti
cipation in all-around community
(or state) activities, evidence of
lasting contribution to community
(or state) activities, exhibition of
leadership ability, evidence of per
sonal or business progress and co
operation with individuals and
civic organiation.
Mr. Bivins stressed that the per
son nominated need not be a
member of the Jaycees.
Nominations will be accepted by
Mr. Bivins either in person or
through the mail. January 1 has
been set as the deadline for sub
mitting nominations. The award
winner will be announced January
21.
Presentation will be made sim
ultaneously with the local chap
ter’s observance of the commem
oration of the founding of the
United States Junior Chamber of
Commerce which occurred in St.
Louis, Missouri, January 21, 1920.
January 21 will be the date Jay
cees over the country will climax
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Week. It will begin with obser
vance of Church Day, Sunday;
Emphasis Upon Leadership, Mon
day; A Young Man's Place in
Government, Tuesday; Member
ship, Wednesday; Citizenship,
Thursday; Sports and Recreation,
Friday; Recognition of the Young
Man's Contribution to Community
Welfare, Saturday.
OLD BELT LEAF
PRICES ARE UP
Quality of Offerings Was
Considerably Lower, De
partment Declares
HOLIDAYS CUT SALES
Average prices for most leaf
grades sold on the Old Belt flue
cured tobacco markets during the
eleventh week were $1.00 and $2.00
per hundred above levels of the
previous week. However, the Unit
ed States, North Carolina and Vir
ginia Departments of Agriculture
report the majority of averages in
all other groups declined $1.00 and
$2.00.
Quality of offerings was consid
erably lower. There were more
common and low leaf and nonde
script and less good and fine
qualities. Principal marketings
were common to fair leaf, good
smoking leaf, fair lugs and nonde
script. Proportion of damaged
and unsound tobacco was the larg
est of any previous week.
This week consisted of only
three sale days because of the
Thanksgiving holidays. Gross sales
amounted to only 6,874,500 pounds
for an average of $42.61 per hun
dred. Chiefly because of lower
quality marketings, the weekly av
erage was $1.64 below last week’s
and the lowest of the season. The
previous low average was $43.97
for 33.121,553 pounds set during
the week ending October 15. Sea
son sales have reached 230,508,159
pounds averaging $46.06. Actual
resales for the season through Oc
tober were 9.9 per cent of gross
sales.
Deliveries to the Flue-cured
Stabilization Corporation under
the Government loan program
were also greater last week. Ap
proximately 23 per cent of gross
sales was turned over to the Cor
ooration — around 6 '/a per cent
ibove the season high of n>/2 last
week. Season deliveries were a
ittle over 12*4 per cent of sales.
Eight markets held their final
lales last week. They were Brook
leal, Chase City, Kenbridge, Law
enceville and Petersburg, Virginia
tnd Madison, Mebane and Stone
’ille, North Carolina. Only eight
Did Belt markets will hold auc
ions after Thanksgiving holidays.