Gates County In
Volume XI. No. 21.
The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County
Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, March 3, 1943
(One Week Nearer Victc
12 Pages This Week
A trend of sacrifice that bids
fair to revolutionize the war sav
ings stamp and bond era is de
veloping in Gates county. It fol
lows the theme established sev
eral weeks ago by 9-year-old
- Rufus Duck who sold his mar
* bles to buy a 10-cent war stamp
•$.. and reaped national recognition
(and a number of dollars) for
his act of patriotism.
Accounting in a savings con
test at Eure school recently
brought to light the fact that
7-year-old Sonny Doughtie, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Dough
tie of Eure, had sold his pet goat
during the contest and bought
war stamps with the funds thus
acquired.
The goat, which had been Son
ny’s pride and joy and constant
companion after school hours,
brought $6 to further the Allied
war effort.
Principal Raleigh King’s sixth
and seventh grade classes won
the savings contest sponsored at
Eure school during February by
the Bank of Gates. The school’s
116 pupils participated 100 per
cent, buying $1,338.25 worth of
war savings. According to Robin
Hood, cashier of the bank, this
represents a pre-student average
investment of $11.44. The original
• goal at Eure school was $500.
Members of King’s class invested
$429, a per student average of
• Helen Eure's class ran a
£cond, a total of $410.45,
.ng a per student average
(Continued on page 10)
Miss Parker Goes
To Northampton
'Miss Pauline Parker, public
- health nurse in Gates county
since July 3, 1940, left this week
for Jackson to become associated
with the Northampton county
public health department.
Miss Ethel Eichelberger, for
merly of Jackson, was expected
to arrive early this week to as
sume the duties carried on by
Miss Parker.
GATESVILLE MEETS
GATES IN TWIN BILL
Gates and Gatesville basket
ball teams will clash in a double
header bill Thursday night at 8
o’clock in the Gatesville gym
nasium, according to a press-time
announcement.
Low Flying Blimp
Frightens Fowls
Luther Smith has a
to pick with the navy. A
.lying navy patrol blimp
rising over Gatesville short
ly before noon Monday nearly
scared her chickens to death,
she said: “I know they won’t
lay another egg for a month”.
As the big motored bag roar
ed over Gatesville rooftops, the
chickens sought safety in wild
confusion. The yard was a mass
of flying feathers and loud
squawks as the chickens dove
for cover under the dwelling
and under the smokehouse.
They still had not recovered
from their fright at 1:30, Mrs.
Smith said.
War Makes It Difficult to Draw
Jury List; Many in Army and Navy
Gates county commissioners
ran into a condition that grows
increasingly difficult as the war
progresses when on Monday they
began drawing jurors for duty at
the spring term of Superior
court which convenes March 22
for the trial of both criminal
cases and civil actions.
They learned that the armed
forces and war works around
Norfolk have called a large num
ber of Gates county men who in
normal times would be available
for jury duty.
Name' after name was drawn
from the box by little Frederick
Smith only to bring from Com
missioner Carter, Russell or As
kew the statement: “He’s in the
army’’, or “he’s in the navy”, or
“he’s working in Norfolk”.
No less than 150 names were
drawn before it was ascertained
that the 36 men selected are in
the county and have not served
on a jury in the past two years.
Those who will be summoned
are: G. C. Worrell, Lyman How
ell, W. O. Byrum, Irving Tayloe,
G. R. Lassiter and C. W. Eason
of Gatesville township; M. W.
Smith, R. L. Brown, L. O. Stall
ings, Fletcher Corbett and B. H.
Ward of Hunters Mill.
Roy F. Eure, W. Roy Harrell,
H. L. Eure and R. G. Cowper of
Halls township; S. F. Vaughan,
L. G. Parker, M. P. Gatling, E.
C. Tyler and John W. Eure of
Reynoldson township.
E. B. Horton, J. E. Lilley, May
wood Taylor and Paul Greene of
Hasletts township; Hugh L. Rice,
Elton D. Taylor, Emmett E. Par
ker, R. P. White, G. R. Roun
tree and John T. Smith of Holly
Grove.
G. W. Hollowell, J. W. Rid
dick, Jr., B. V. Brown, P. D.
Hobbs, W. E. Holloman and A.
E. Blanchard of Mintonville
township.
Junior Red Cross
In Fund Drive; To
Get Coathangers
Junior Red Cross members
will stage a separate drive for
War Funds during the month of
March together with a drive- k>
j collect metal coathangers for
soldiers. “Help a boy pass in
spection,” is the campaign slo
gan in the coat hanger campaign,
according to Mrs. W. Henry
Overman, chairman of the Junior
Red Cross who says that coat
hangers of the cardboard vai'iety
now being used by cleaning es
tablishments is not durable
enough to hold a Uniform in
shape.
Members of the Junior Red
Cross in Gates county are all
school children. This is not a
membership drive; it is for the
War Fund alone and each child
is simply asked to make a con
tribution of any size. The drive
will be held in the schools dur
ing the week of March 8-12, Mrs.
Overman said.
The coat hanger drive will be
held on Thursday, March 11; the
goal is 1,000 hangers in Gates
county, since the Army wishes
them in that size shipments.
Children will ask for the hang
ers at home and parents are
asked to give one if they can
give no more. Mrs. Overman
emphasized that they will be
used by soldiers, not civilians.
In Hobbsville and Sunbury
Boy Scouts will make a house
to-house canvass for coathang
ers. School children will can
vass Gatesville, Gates and Eure.
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MISS SIMPSON IN FARM
SECURITY OFFICE
Miss Dorothy Simpson, for
merly of Plymouth, has arrived
in Gatesville as secretary in the
Farm Security Administration
office. She is 18 or 19 years old
and is red-headed.
I
Tag Day In
Gates County
Huge Success
j Gates county has not forgotten
the unfortunates who have be
come victims of infantile para
lysis, or the great need to give
generously to the scientists who
work diligently to find a way of
freeing our people from that ene
my which strikes down so many
persons each year.
“Tag Day” returns are not ail
in; only about one half of the
community leaders have sent in
their amounts from the sale of
tags, but judging wrom the re
turns so far, Gates county ap
parently will exceed its quota
of $108 for this year.
The following is a list of com
munity leaders who have made
their returns to the county treas
urer for the infantile paralysis
fund, and the amounts from
each:
Mrs. W. O. Crump, Sunbury,
$37; Mrs. J. L. Sawyer, Gates
ville, $12; Mrs. C. R. Eure, Ro
duco, $11.25; Mrs. E. P. Story,
(Continued on page 10)
At Middle Rive
I
Pvt. John R. Eason, who re
ceived his diploma from the
Goldsboro technical school at
Seymour Johnson Field on Jan
uary 24, 1943. has been sent to
A. A. F. T. T., C. D. Barracks 21,
Flight 1, Class 20, Middle River,
Md., where he is now taking spe
cial aerial engineer training.
Pregnancy of Wife
Does Not Entitle
Man to Deferment
Registrants whose wives have
become pregnant since December
7 1941, are no longer entitled
to deferment on the grounds of
dependency, it was announced
by the State Director of Selec
tive Service. He stated that
this revised policy has been made
necessary because present regu
lations provide that no status
which acquired on or after De
cember 8, 1941, may be consider
ed when deciding questions of
dependency.
The Director further announ
ced that all local boards in the
State have been directed to re
open and reconsider for classi
fication the cases of all regis
trants heretofore deferred on the
grounds of dependency because
Hieir wives have become preg
nant since December 7, 1941.
The fact that a registrant is a
parent shall not be considered
in determining the class in which
he should be placed unless the
child was conceived prior to De
cember 8, 1941, the Director said.
He further stated that this ruling
applied to all cases, regardless
of the date of marriage, and is to
be applied both in considering
the classification of a registrant
and in determining his category.
Benny Owens Champion Hog-Caller
At Gates F.F.A. Banquet for Fathers
Benny Owens was acclaimed
the champion in a hog-calling
contest staged as part of the pror
gram when the F.'F.A. boys of
Gates high school entertained
their fathers at a banquet in the
school lunchroom Thursday
night.
J. W. Sumner, teacher of voca
tional agriculture, conducted the
hog-calling contest which follow
ed songs by the F.F.A. boys.
Tazewell D. Eure, Gates coun
ty register of deeds, was the prin
ciple speaker of the evening, dis
cussing “Food Production and the
American Red Cross”.
Special guests included War
ren C. Shaw, principal of Gates
ville school; County Supt. W.
Henry Overman, the Rev. J. T.
Whitehead and A. J. Braswell of
Gates.
The banquet room was deco
rated with F.F.A. colors, blue and
gold, and was lighted with can
dles. The menu featured bruns
wick stew, corn bread, pie and
coffee.
Sue Owens, Mildred Umph
lette, Roma Lee Cross, Billie
Greene and Anita Freeman, girls
of Gates high school, served the
meal.
Uipment of Red
Cross Garments
From Gatesville
A shipment of Red Cross gar
ments consisting’ of the follow
ing items was made from Gates
ville recently, according to Miss
Ona Patterson, county demon
stration agent, in her report to
Gates county commissioners at
their meeting Monday:
36 sweaters, 14 mufflers, nine
pairs of wristlets, two helmets,
16 boys’ shirts, 28 gowns, and
34 slips.
The knitted garments for ser
vice men were sent in answer to
urgent requests that as many®
woolen garments as possible be
shipped at once, according to
Mi^s Patterson.
; Gatesville Part
jin Air-Raid Alert
Mot Satisfactory
i Gatesville’s participation in
j Thursday night’s air raid prac
j tice was described as “not satis
! factory” by GatesvilJe people
who remained out of doors dur
ing the period the alarm was in
effect. Several residents o f
I Gatesville claimed they did not
hear the air-raid signal nor ihe
all-clear. The courthouse bell is
used in Gatesville to spread the
alarm, and many lights came on
j before ''the all-clear sounded.
Cars continued to pass through
! the streets with headlights lull
! on. Some of the confusion ac
l companying the practice alert is
j contributed to the fact that
j prangsters ring the bell at the
j courthouse whenever the urge
J strikes them. Consequently, since
j the Thursday night alert came
'more or less unannounced, the
Gatesville citizens did not know
whether the ringing was another
prank or a genuine alarm.
97 Percent of ’39
Levy Collected
Repot ting on collection of ^939
taxes, A. P. Godwin, delinquent
tax ..attorney for Gates county,
indicated to Gates county com
missioners at their meeting Mon
day that 97 percent of all taxes
levied in 1939 had been collected.
He reported $424.76 collected
on delinquent accounts, and
while a number of suits were
started no deeds were given for
property sold for taxes.
Donating Fats
;.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Harrell,
of Drum Hill neighborhood,
have donated eight pounds of
fat to the war effort. The fat
was saved in coffee cans.
Since collections starts d
several months ago 350 pounds
of waste fats have been brought
to the various stores designated
to collect the material. It is
now at the agricultural build
ing in Gatesville awaiting ship
ment to the Norfolk tallow
company.
Gates county has a monthly
quota of 324 pounds which
I should be met but so far the
I drive for waste fats has not
j been taken very seriously.