Published in Qnd fo? Hates County
ISfumbei
Gatesville, N. G.; Wednesday, November 11
(One Week Nearer Victory)
t6 Pages This Week
Carlyle G. Eure, son of Mrs. John. C. Eure, Gatesville
fiiraud Joins
ricans To
■th Axis
With Algiers in Allied hands,
Oran surrounded and two key
towns north and south of Casa
blanca, ' center of American
landing in Africa, captured,
General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
commander of U. S. forces, an
nounced that Gen. Henri Girsiud
had arrived in Algeria to “or
ganize a French North African
my and again take up arms
by side with forces of the
U ed Nations for defeat of
-cjrmany and Italy.”
Arrival of the famous French
general, who escaped from Ger
man prison camps in bath the
last war and this bne, was ex
pected to “bring, about cessa
tion of the scattered resistance,”
the Allied supreme commander
said.
An American blitzkrieg of un
precedented speed across north
Africa appeared imminent as
RAF and American flyers oc
cupied important African land
ing fields and the Mediterranean
attack swept forward at un
precedented pace.
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Yum! Yum!
s natural to eat when you
are hungry. It is also natural
lor those seeking a home to
read the Wants Ads in this
$Hper first! To get quick re
sults,v>£ent your house or
>f^rtmem the natural way—
with a Want Ad — where
nearly every prospective ten
ant in tra* section shops first.
It’s your move—just phone
toe surprised at the tenant
selection from which you will
have to choose.
Gatesville Boy
Ghost Fighter
Least known fighters of Uncle
Sam’s Army Medical Depart
ment are a group of men who
fight ghosts. Ghosts they fight
are grim specters of plague and
disease; they find their enemy
in a thousand different places
from malaria-ridden jungle
swamps to snow clad outposts
of arctic armies. These men Who
wage unceasing war on enemies
more deadly than the most in
sidious fifth column are the
Medical Department’s sanitary
technicians.
As their job is a fascinating
one, so does their training hold
more than usual interest, as men
attending the Sanitary Tech
nicians’ school at Caihp Picket,
Va., will tell you—men like Pfc.
Carlyle G. Eure, son of Mrs. John
C. Eure, of Gatesville, now in
training there to join ranks of
these unsung plague fighters.
To begin with, men chosen to
attend Sanitary Technicians’
school must have thorough qual
ifications to fit them for train
ing to accomplish the precise
task their duties will 'impose.'
First stage is standard basic
training that all medical depart
ment soldiers receive—drill, first
aid, evacuation of wounded and
other military-medical subjects.
At the school they find two
expert teachers and skilled in-,
structors who lecture on purely
medical subjects. Their routine
starts off early in the morning
with a series of classroom talks.
Afternoon sessions are usually
spent in the field, where trainees
learn by actual construction
building of standard field sanita
tion installations such as latrines,
garbage disposal pits, incinera
tors, and other measures that
are used to protect the health
ot troops operating under cam
(Continued on page 3)
Kerosene ,Fuel
Oil Quota Cards.
Still Not Here
Supplies for rationing of ker
osene and fuel oil are being re
ceived in driblets only, at the
local ration board office, it was
said yesterday. As soon as ade
quate supplies have been receiv
ed here, these will be issued.
Meantime, users of these oils
are urged to keep careful record
of thA amounts, used, as these
will have to be shown on occa
sion of issuing allowances.
Peanut Prices Remain High
As Gates Gets Good Harvest
Gates Goes Up
To $35,000 For
War Bond Mark
Something to shoot at is Gat
es’ war bond sales quota for
November—$35,500, or approxi
mately $12,000 beyond what it
has been for several months
past. To date, $27,140.65 has
been registered as O c t o ber
sales, tho Roduco and Corapeake
post offices have not reported
their sales totals.
“I most earnestly wish every
farmer and business man would
invest some of the money he re
ceives for crops during the next
two months, in war bonds,”
.urged Robin Hood, county war
bond sales chairman, pointing
out investment and savings val
ues of treasury certificated.
“It would be to the advantage
of people who have large savings
to invest part of this in war
bonds.
“Farmers of our county are
going to get a good price lor
their peanuts and I know that
they will have a nice sum ffit
after paying their fertilizer and
labor bills. By all means they
should invest this as quickly as
possible in war bonds,” he con
cluded.
Commercial Car
Owners Must Get
Register Number
Owners of commercial cars,
trucks and busses were this
week warned by the local ration
board that if they have not re
ceived blanks from the Office of
Defense Transportation in De
troit, on which to apply for re
gistration numbers, they should
immediately write the OiDT re
questing such bla'nks.
Unless registration numbers
from the ODT office have been
received by commercial owners,
no gas can be allowed by the
local board after November 22.
HOFLER’S INDEX
TRAVELS AIRMAIL
Sgt. R. H. Hofler, somewhere
in Ragland, gets the Index
weekly by air mail.
W. Hance Hofler of Raleigh
OPA office, recently ordered
the paper for Sgt. Hofler, his
cousin, requesting that each
copy be dispatched via air
mail for surer and speedier de
livery. Both are natives of
GatesvfUe. '
Sgt. Hofler, son of Mr. and
Mrs. I, H. Hofler, graduated
from Gatesville school, later
attending Wake Forest College.
He was employed with the
Belhaven bank prior to his in
duction into the army.
Martial Music
On Legionnaires
Program Tonight
County-wide Armistice Day
celebration and annual meeting
of Legion and Auxiliary, which
will be held in the American
Legion hut this evening, (Wed
nesday) will be an affair of col
or and martial music. Address
of the evening will be given by
the Rev. J. L. White, of Black
well Memorial Baptist church,
Elizabeth City.
Dinner will be served at 7:30
this evening. Honor guests of
the occasion will include all
men now members of the na
tion’s armed services, as well as
mothers and widows of veterans.
P. L. Hofler, post commander,
will preside.
Gates Women Give
Radio Program
“Gates Women In Defense”,
was subject of a radio broadcast
gi'ven over WCNC, Elizabeth
City, on Thursday, in which
Mrs. B. L. White, and Mrs. J.
B. Hofler, of Sunbury; Miss
Lizzie Franklin of Gatesville
and Ona Patterson, Gates home
demonstration agent, took part.
The broadcast was given at
1:15 in the afternoon.
HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUBS’
ACHIEVEMENT DAY AT GATES
Annual Achievement day of
Home Demonstration clubs will
be celebrated Thursday of next
week at Gates school, when
Ralph C. Deal of E. C. T. C.,
Greenville, will deliver the ad
dress.
Mrs. T. C. Lawrence of Eure
will preside at the session, for
Which an exceptionally interest
ing. program has been arranged.
Mrs. B. L. White, of Smnbury,
secretary of the Federation of
Home Demonstration clubs,
assist Mrs. Lawrence.
Members of Gates, Ariel and
Hazelton clubs will serve as
hostesses for the occasion, and
have extended special invitation
to all club members and their
friends. Husbands of club mem
bers have been invited as honor
guests.
How’s This For .
County Record
'When Hattie Savage, 24-year
old colored woman, picked 302
pounds of cotton in one day, she
established something o>f a re
cord.
Hattie started at 7:30 in the
morning, took half an hour off
for lunch and stopped at 6:00
o’clock in the evening. All this
was on October 16, on the farm
ot Walter Rountree near Hobbs
ville.
If any other cotton picker in
this county has a better record,
the Index would like to hear of
it. *
• Though first reports of , Gates
county’s peanut yield were pes
simistic, sunshine has bright
ened the outlook to an unanti
cipated degree., Reports this
week from various sections of
the county indicate total re
turns on the crop will be high
ly satisfactory.
Many farmers are gathering
heavy harvests, after being dis
appointed by indications from
earlier trial harvesting. Pre
dominant dry weather of past
two weeks has permitted clean
er and more thorough removal
of the nuts; and prevalent high
prices are making the county as
a whole feel good.
“It really does look fine,” de
clared John Artz, county agent.
“We were pretty blue for a
while, but if this keeps up, Gat
es has a real Thanksgiving to
' celebrate.”
During this week and next, *
greater part of the crop will
move to market; quantities have
been limited yp to now. Prices
of seven to seven and three
quarters cents per pound are
being paid at mills; and are as
| surance of good profit.
Though it is less true now than
of first gatherings, kernels are
still running fairly high on
moisture content. Hulls in many
instances have been badly dis
colored, but kernels were not
greatly damaged, when examin
ed at mills. First gatherings
from wet soil left many nuts in
the ground, but with dryer
weather, this is alleviated.
Caution concerning pickups is
made by W. S. Hines, secretary
of New Peanut Growers corpor
ation, Suffolk. “Do not mix
them tvith good peanuts,” he
'«ays. “They should be kept
separate, as a few bags of pick
ups in a load of peanuts may
prevent sale of the entire load
and cause heavy loss. Pickups
are suitable only for oil.”
44 Negroes Leave
For Army Camp
Gates county draft board re
cently sent the following color
ed selectees to an induction sta
tion for their army examination:
Isaiah Goodman (volunteer);
Arthur R. Baker, Herbert Leo
Cullins, Maywood Beamon, Mar
vin Blanchard, Joe W. Kellogg,
Henry W. Norman, Dempsey
| Hall, Otis Parker, Nelson Lee
Winborne, Charlie Rolick, John
nie M. Ferguson, Hood D. Jones,
John Knight, George Savage,
Robert Beamon, Leno Hall, Ed
ward B. Riddick, Lonnie Hinton,
Aubrey Morris, George Wash
ington Harrell, Jr., Peter Fu
ture Cross, Crevassir C. Fergu
son, Albert. F. Lewis, James R.
Burk, James- Smith, Lycurgus
Brothers, James R, Figgs, John
Eason, Harry R. Kellogg, George
Smith, Williafh H. Costen, Wil
liam E. Beamon, Johnny Hofler,
Charlie fife Bond, Whit L. Knight,
Miles L. Swain, Andrew Morris,
Charlie C. Harvey, Lorenza
Hobbs ( Rolden Savage, Willis
Balard, and James Elliott Ar
I line.
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