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Volume XI, Number 18 Gates County In' The Only Neus paper Published in and for Gates County Gatesville N. C., Wednesday, February 10, 1943. (One Week Nearer Victory) 8 Pages This Week Fight’s Over for These Sullen Japs This official navy photo shows a group of Japanese prisoners with their belongings in hand, lined up by U. S. naval officers for trans fer to another prison camp. The picture was made at a South Pacific island. Changes In Health Office Personnel - - . Dr. John S. Chamblee, health officer for Bertie-Chowan-Gates | district health department, an nounces the following changes in personnel in the 'department: William H. Powell has started work in the district as venereal d;—>ce follow-up worker. It is T to see that all venereal patients take treatment * *ly whether treated by health department or private physicians. It is also his duty to see that all draftees who have been rejected because of vener eal disease are placed under treatment, so they may be cured arid eventually go to the army. The health officer has been in structed by the Gates county board of health to use stern > measures in placing draftees un | der treatment who fail to report ;; for treatment voluntarily and I also those who are under treat ment as required by law. Charles A. Leonard, sanitary officer of Bertie and Chowan counties will also act as sani i tary officer for Gates county. I This- work has formerly been carried on 'by Walter C. Lackey, sanitary officer of Northampton and Hertford counties. Officers Told To Enforce Drive Ban State highway patrolmen and officers in Gates county have re r ‘ -»d instructions to bear down af enforcement of the ban pleasure driving, the In ,vas informed Tuesday License numbers of people suspected to be pleasure driving will be turned in to the Gates county war price and rationing board. Board members asserted, “People should be ready to give reasons for their driving. We will rnot hesitate in enforcing the regulations.” The new instructions were said to be aimed at stopping Sunday driving—the time when most of the pleasure driving appears to be going on. PLEASE When writing to the f^.-es county—draft board concerning their stalls or classification, regis trants are requested by Mrs. Willie Overman, draft board clerk, to please mention their or der numbers. “We have—oh, several thou sand names,” Mrs. Overman said, “and at least six of them are probably ‘Jim Joneses’ or ‘John nie Browns’. It^ is almost impos sible for us to know which ‘Jim Jones’ is being inquired about unless we know him personally or unless he furnishes his order number.” 17 on Semester List at Hobbsville Hobbsville’s first semester honor roll: First grade, Carolyn Hollowell, Nancy Carol Rountree; second grade, Rich Hofler, Linda Eure, Robert Spivey, Jackie Blanchard; third grade, Reba Hobbs, J. Rob ert Riddick, Janie Riddick; fourth garde, Norma Riddick; fifth grade, no names reported; sixth grade, no names reported; seventh grade, Billy Collins; eighth grade, Gladys Riddick, Juanita Hendrix, Annie Frances Riddick, 'Ninth grade, Irma Hudgins; tenth grade, June Hathaway, Margaret Rountree; eleventh grade, no names reported. Louise Baines Is Cited at College Louisburg, Feb. 9 — Louise Baines, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Baines, Gatesville, with a 2.46 average, ranked first on the honorable mention list for the first semester at Louisburg col lege. For her outstanding work Louise has also received and ac cepted a bid to Alpha Phi Ep silon, national honorary secre tarial fraternity. Boys’ Club Being Organized; Scout Charter Expired A boys’ club for which a name and motto will he selected later this week is being organized in Gatesville. Claude Willie Hin ton, Jr., was elected president at an initial meeting held in the Bank of Gates Sunday afternoon. Robin Hood will serve as coun selor or advisor. John Wilson Sawyer was named to serve as vice-president and Brown Hoff ler as secretary-treasurer. Members of the inactive Gates ville Boy Scout troop and other boys over ten years of age form the charter members and all other boys over ten years of age will be admitted as members. According to Bob Eason, who gave this story to the Index, the club will interest itself in sports and community service as well as auxiliary to civic endeavors. They may build a cabin in the woods near Chowan River, he added. All plarts at present are in the tentative stage, but the charter members are convinced that they want a boys’ club. Gatesville’s Scout charter ex pired last November and has not been renewed and the troop had been more or less inactive since last spring. The forming of a boys’ club has the endorsement of all Scouts, Eason said. Members at the organization meeting besides . Hinton, Sawyer, Hoffler and Eason, were Bill Jones, Robert Lee Wolfley, Glenn Lilley, Jr., Fred Starling, Bill Wolfley, Ethwell Perry, Bill Baines, Charlie Perry, Ray Gor don Beamon and Donnie Star ling. Commissioned As 2nd Lieutenant John F. Willey, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Willey, received his commission as second lieutenant on January 20 at the Army Air Force officers candidate school, Miami Beach, Fla. Lieutenant Willey is a gradu ate of Gates high school and State college, Raleigh. He is now stationed at Kearns, Utah. Mrs. W. A. Willey of Gates, and Mrs. John F. Willey of Ra leigh, attended the graduating exercises. Infantile IjBalysis Tag Day Fetouary 12 "Help Me*Win MY Victory" 1 ags for.a tag day in Gates county for the benefit of the infantile para lysis campaign have been received from State headquarters by the county chairman. The tags have been de livered into the hands of community leaders and Gates county is hoping to raise its quota of $108 in contri butions on “Tag Day,” Friday, Feb ruary 12. Since there will be such a small local expense connected with the method of raising runds, every penny realized will go to the relief of paralysis sufferers and into research work for the time when vaccine will be discovered to prevent this scourge of little children. Rufus Duck Now National Figure Last week's Index story of 9 year-old Rufus Duck who sacri ficed his marbles in order to buy a 10-cent War Stamp has made the rounds of daily newspapers and radio. It appeared late last week in the News and Observer and was heard still later over a Chicago radio station by Mrs. John Glenn Friday night in an 11:30 broad cast by a news commentator narned^ “Reed” whose home sta tion is WRBM, Chicago. Rufus' unselfish act evidently had the theme that appeals to editors and news 'casters. It prompted Reed to comment: “How can we lose,when we have people like Rufus Duck on our side.” Marvis G. Jones Gets Promotion Marvis G. Jones was promoted from corporal to the rank of ser geant January 25 at Camp Shel by, Miss. Sergeant Jones has been with the armed forces since last May. He is the husband of Mrs. Louise B. Jones of Gatesville, and the son of Mrs. Amanda Jones and the late Gatling Jones of Drum Hill. Gates People Not Alarmed by New Warnings of East Coast Air Raids Gates county people, regard less of their proximity to vast war activities around Norfolk and along the Carolina seaboard, are not in the least disturbed by new peports proclaiming the pos sibility of air raids on the United States East Coast as “greater now than ever before as a re sult of recent German military reverses.” The only comment here fol lowing publicity given George S. Van Schaick’s assertion that “the danger of enemy air attack on our home front increases as the situation becomes desperate for our neemies abroad,” is summed up as follows: “For a long time we have been vicinities nearby. We are sur preparing for air raids in the prised only that they have not materialized.” Gates county people agree with Van Schaick, director of the Office of Civilian Defehse, Second District, that: “The lift in morale that the Germans need to check the deterioration of spirits that has set in in Hitler’s unhappy land would, uite logi cally, be a raid on New York or Washington.” Gates people, many of whom work in the active areas of Tidewater Virginia, read “Hampton Roads” between the lines. Recalling the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, Van Schaick declared itwould be utter Jolly for Americans ... to relapse once again into the easy com placent attitude of ‘it can’t hap pen here.’ ” Gates people are not compla cent; they agree with military and defense authorities that “it can happen- here, and this is certainly no time to discount such possibilities.” They are not resigned, but they are pre pared ... at least spiritually, if not with bomb shelters. 'ine county chairman urges everyone to give generously when approached by some one selling tags. “The welfare of the future depends on the health of the children,” the chairman, said. This story is making the rounds in connection with the drive: One of the volunteers in the annual fund-raising drive— a Viennese refugee who was slightly afflicted with the dis ease herself — had an unforget table question tossed at her on a Detroit street last year and gave a probably unforgettable reply. When she asked a woman for a coin-box donation, the latter replied, "Well, I gave a dime yesterday. Am I supposed to give again today?” The victim-volunteer hesitated a moment, then said, “Did you ever stop to think that the child stricken with infantile paralysis cannot say, ‘Well, I was paraly zed yesterday. Am I supposed to be paralyzed again today?’ ” The donation was not a dime; it was a dollar, the story goes. Ground Observers Trying to Build Own Watch Tower Following meetings of ground observers last week, those who man the post now located in the Legion Hut, are being asked to contribute two dollars each to ward the building of a regula tion ground observation post on a site as yet unselected. It is estimated by members of the building committee—Taze well Eure, Jet Sawyer, Hubert Eason and S. C. Baines—that a post of the type desired for Gatesville will cost about $110. The building committee has set a goal of $155, the surplus to pay for expenses already accumu lated and to carry the observer post through the winter. About seventy rollars has already been pledged, according to Mr. Baines. Mr. Baines said that the com mittee for the Legion has re fused to accept rental fees for the use of the hut as an observer post but added that the Legion building has been somewhat dam aged by the observers. “You can .can hardly use a building 24 hours a day without inflicting some damage,” Mr. Baines said. He added that the building com mittee is considering the ad visability of depositing $100 to the account of the Legion for repairs for the building but that all plans at the present are in a tentative stage.
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